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Speaker 1: text time. It's a new day here at one Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Orchard Park, Welcome to UH one Bill's Drive,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to a new airfield. Is that a shadow? What

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Speaker 1: like Cape Canaveral with those shadows. Like if you're watching

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Speaker 1: the stadium right next door. Yeah, those are the shadows

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Speaker 1: from the scoreboard said, that's amazing. I've never noticed that before. Hey,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the show. We got a good one. What

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Speaker 1: are we looking at? We're looking at Steve Tasker, our

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Speaker 1: call host is back after an extended vacation. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: Steven from Chris Brown. Great work from Joebiscallia. But there

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Speaker 1: is no Steve Tasker's Jeremiah or there is no replacement.

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Speaker 1: Jeremiah Ortiz with a cryptic tweet, talking this this, this

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Speaker 1: is amazing. I'm not quite sure how to interpret this.

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Speaker 1: Jeremiah Ortiz tweets in this morning, Chris Brown is really great,

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Speaker 1: but the show wasn't quite the same with you, Steve Tasker.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what that means. He's talking to me

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Speaker 1: or Chris, I don't know, but I think he's trying

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Speaker 1: to ask some beauty. That's the world we live in.

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Speaker 1: You just got to take it and just I know,

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Speaker 1: even were the nicest way possible. Right, Yeah, it's good

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Speaker 1: to have you back. Did great work, but it's really

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Speaker 1: good to have you back. Yeah, it's nice to be here.

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Speaker 1: I had. It was a great trip we were. We

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Speaker 1: were gone a family wedding, right yep. And h for

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Speaker 1: any of those who don't know, it was a long trip,

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Speaker 1: it was. It was not a destination wedding. We went

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Speaker 1: to the the home of my my son's wife, Noella,

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Speaker 1: who is from Rwanda, Africa, So we were down below

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Speaker 1: the equator in East Africa. Uh. And it was I've

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Speaker 1: been telling you about it all. They's trip of a lifetime. Yeah, fantastic.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the our family and all all of our

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Speaker 1: you know, and um, we are no match for their family.

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Speaker 1: They are. It's enormous and they came from literally all

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Speaker 1: as a diplomat. Um. It's just it was. It was amazing.

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Speaker 1: It was an inner, completely planet Earth wedding um in

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Speaker 1: the traditional African mode. It was. It was unbelieved. It

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Speaker 1: because there's so much you don't know. We got over there,

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Speaker 1: of guys, man, they go into the fetal position. I've

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Speaker 1: seen guys like just drop the football they were carrying it,

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Speaker 1: you know, they just and you You're like, it's like

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Speaker 1: you got you know, don't you know, like you took

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Speaker 1: a bullet. You know, you're trying to still make the play.

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Speaker 1: Money used to tell me all the time, I just

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Speaker 1: have a knack, you know, for the football. He s

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Speaker 1: I was young, and I'll still do, you know. I

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Speaker 1: try to go at the football anytime I can. And

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Speaker 1: that's that was what Kach McDermott was teaching. Also, you know,

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Speaker 1: we practiced that every day and practice punched the ball out,

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Speaker 1: get the ball out. You know, it's just kind of

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Speaker 1: stuck with me since EJ. Gaines, our guests just signed

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Speaker 1: resigned with the Buffalo Bills after spending a year with

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns last year. EJ. Gaines signed to free

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Speaker 1: agent Katrack and you signed with the team that got

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Speaker 1: in a bit of trouble last year at corner when

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Speaker 1: when Vont Davis decided he'd had enough um and the

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Speaker 1: Bills were kind of desperate, they found uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: they found Levi Walla so rookie, undrafted rookie, but clearly

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Speaker 1: they didn't want to be in that position they were

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Speaker 1: in a year ago. As far as not having even

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Speaker 1: enough bodies around the play corner, that's got to be

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Speaker 1: part of it. Yeah, you know, it's tough, you know,

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Speaker 1: cornerback it's hard. You know, it's hard to play. It's

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Speaker 1: hard to find you know, a lot of depth at

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Speaker 1: the position, you know. So I'm just excited to be back,

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Speaker 1: really to be back and be able to show what

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Speaker 1: I can do in this defense. But I'm just excited

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Speaker 1: for the people that are still here, the new people

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Speaker 1: that they brought in and the coaching staff, man, I excited.

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Speaker 1: What was it like when McDermott and those guys you

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Speaker 1: got reacquainted came back in the room and saw him

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Speaker 1: for the first time. What were there? What were their

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Speaker 1: words to you after? I actually've only talked about most

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Speaker 1: of the coaches and everything on the phone because of

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Speaker 1: the meetings in the days. Yeah, you know, a lot

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Speaker 1: of you know a lot of things going on right now.

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Speaker 1: So I've talked to most of them and being on

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Speaker 1: the on the phone and everything, and and you know

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Speaker 1: they're excited as I am. And they're just working on

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Speaker 1: me staying healthy. You know me too, you know, that's

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Speaker 1: all I've been working on as healthy, healthy, healthy, And

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Speaker 1: I know if I stay healthy get on the field,

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Speaker 1: I can definitely make it a difference, you know for

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Speaker 1: US football team. It was a concussion last year the

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Speaker 1: n Yeah, yeah, it was a concussion. It was late

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Speaker 1: in the year so they could put me on IR

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Speaker 1: at the end of the year and I went on.

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Speaker 1: But I'm cleared. I went and seeing all the specialists,

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Speaker 1: and I went and seen everybody never had concussion problems

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Speaker 1: or anything. So it's pretty quick and smooth, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm ready to get back to it. It's likely to

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Speaker 1: be it was a send a minute ago with the bodies.

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Speaker 1: Now it's likely to be a pretty good competition for

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Speaker 1: playing time at corner, right, you're probably ready for that everything.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, definitely, I hope there is, you know, a

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Speaker 1: lot of depth and a lot of competition at the

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Speaker 1: cornerback position. You know, because from what I've learned, teams

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Speaker 1: is better. You know, the better the more competition, you know,

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Speaker 1: the higher the level rises for everyone. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm all, I'm all for the competition, all for coming

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Speaker 1: in and you know, let the best man win and

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Speaker 1: it's all fun in the competition also, and this time

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Speaker 1: you get, dude started in the off season. Last time

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Speaker 1: you came here, it was the middle of August, right

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Speaker 1: when they trade it for you. Yeah, gotta be different thing.

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Speaker 1: Oh it's a hundred percent difference. You know. I know

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Speaker 1: that I know the team, I know the defense, I

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Speaker 1: know who's who's gonna be where, I know what I'm

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Speaker 1: supposed to do, I know what I should be watching

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Speaker 1: in the off season and before I get there. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot that goes into it. But I'm so

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Speaker 1: excited to get back to it, and I think the

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Speaker 1: sky's the limit for myself and really this defense. What's

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Speaker 1: next on the schedule for you. You're gonna go back Phoenix,

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Speaker 1: start working out. Then when you have to be back

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Speaker 1: here for OTAs. Yeah, I'm gonna head back, you know,

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Speaker 1: get everything together. But I'll probably come back a week early,

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Speaker 1: probably around April ninth or tenth before. Yeah, so in

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, I'll be right back out here,

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Speaker 1: back in the facility, you know, training, working out. Everybody

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00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:11,960
Speaker 1: seems like nothing change. Here you are again. Yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: hopefully I'm gonna hear a lot more this year. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I always have fun on the show. Always away. Thanks

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Speaker 1: J J. Gaines. Bill's cornerback. I'd say new, but he's

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Speaker 1: not new. He was here a couple of years ago.

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Speaker 1: Coming up in the next segment, we're gonna talk with

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Speaker 1: Brian David, the Bill's offensive Coordinator're gonna talk with him

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Speaker 1: about Rob Gronkowski, who he coached for a while in

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Speaker 1: New England. That's coming up next. One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalada Health from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Welcome back. You're listening to One Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. I'm John Murphy. Steve Tasker is back.

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Speaker 1: That's news around here. Jay Gaines is back. I don't

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Speaker 1: know who. I'm happier to have back. I like you

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Speaker 1: J a lot. No, No, I'm not. I'm just unbelievable

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Speaker 1: what no I am. Look, he's a great guest because

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Speaker 1: he taughts, he thinks, and that's the first time I

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Speaker 1: met him. He's great dude. And the Bill for eight

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Speaker 1: and three when he played, I mean he was a

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Speaker 1: big contributor that year, A couple of years ago. I'd

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Speaker 1: all allow it, you can. I do like EJ happier

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Speaker 1: that he's here. Brian dave Alway is coming back to

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Speaker 1: the show in a couple of minutes. The Bill's offensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator talk to him about Gronkowski. Rob Gronkowski announces his

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Speaker 1: retirement and a post on Instagram yesterday. Grock the uh,

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Speaker 1: the Williamsville East product, the Amherst East Amherst native who

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Speaker 1: finished his high school career in Pittsburgh and then went

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Speaker 1: on out west to play college football. Second round pick

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Speaker 1: of the Patriots, had a wonderful career in the National

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Speaker 1: Football League and really um nine seasons in the league

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Speaker 1: three Super Bowl championships. It got us thinking about is

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Speaker 1: he among the greatest athletes ever from Western New York?

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Speaker 1: I think he is. What do you think? That's our

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll? Who's the best athlete from Western New York

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Speaker 1: any sport? Let us know what you think. We got

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Speaker 1: a Twitter poll up. You can vote on that at

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Speaker 1: one Bills Live. You can give us a call eight

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

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. The yearly returns from the

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll with about five hundred and fifty votes in

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Speaker 1: forty six percent of the respondent say Patrick Kane is

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Speaker 1: the best athlete ever from Western New York, A certain

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Speaker 1: future Hall of Famer Hockey Hall of Famer. Twenty seven

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Speaker 1: percent say it's Grenkowski, thirteen percent say Rob Bob Lanier,

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Speaker 1: and thirteen percent say Warren spont And I think you're

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Speaker 1: right about the Twitter postive that would attract the younger demographic.

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Speaker 1: I think they say, right, yeah, absolutely. And here's here's

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Speaker 1: a brief And I always like this because you can

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Speaker 1: kind of sum up what the percentages say. And this

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Speaker 1: was from Robert Chase. He says, Patrick Kane he had

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Speaker 1: two game winning goals in a couple of club cup

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Speaker 1: clinching games. Plus hockey is a tough sport and wandering jack.

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Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, some football and basketball and baseball and

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Speaker 1: that Hey he put it in there. I had to

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Speaker 1: read it wandering jack. From a pure athlete perspective, it

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Speaker 1: pains me to say, but it's gronk not to mention

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Speaker 1: he plays the biggest sport. Though he does have number

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Speaker 1: twelve Tom Brady and the hoodie that's may account for

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Speaker 1: a lot of his success. I think Kine is the

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Speaker 1: best American hockey player maybe ever, which that says a lot.

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Speaker 1: But the NHL is not as big as the NFL,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know that NHL is big. I think

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Speaker 1: it's hard. And this is the problem he faced whenever

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Speaker 1: you start comparing these athletes from hockey, like a guy

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Speaker 1: like Pat Kane to Rob Gronkowski. Pat Kane is what

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Speaker 1: a five ten guy? Rob Gronkowski's six six, two fifty.

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Speaker 1: Pat Kine's on skates with five guys aside. You know,

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Speaker 1: Gronkowski's in football, where there's twenty two guys on the field,

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Speaker 1: eleven on a side. It's a different. It's hard to

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Speaker 1: compare those two and see which one is better, sir An.

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Speaker 1: Plus the fact, and this was brought up as well

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Speaker 1: by some of the people on Twitter, being the most

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Speaker 1: successful doesn't necessarily mean they're a better athlete. And I

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Speaker 1: you know, you always always bust your chops about baseball.

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Speaker 1: Warren spons a left handed pitcher, and I've always said, listen,

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Speaker 1: you can be thirty pounds overweight and play be a

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Speaker 1: great baseball player. That's not athletic to me. It's it's difficult,

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Speaker 1: and it's and it's something, and it's very you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a great thing to do. I mean, it's whatever.

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Speaker 1: Being a great baseball player in and of itself is difficult.

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Speaker 1: But you're when you're talking about best athlete or most

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Speaker 1: successful athlete. If you say most successful, it's between Pat

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Speaker 1: Kane and Rob Gronkowski. Pat Kane a couple of Cups

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Speaker 1: or three Cups with Chicago and Gronkowski with the Super Bowls.

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Speaker 1: Those are championships. How many times it Warren spots because

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Speaker 1: I can't even know it is that that long ago

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Speaker 1: Cy Young Award winner, seventeen time All Star Hall of Fame. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know the championships off hand. I can look

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Speaker 1: that up. Warren Spone deserves consideration here absolutely, but certainly

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Speaker 1: as the most successful, maybe not the best athlete. Well,

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Speaker 1: don't step mind now, don't get us down that road.

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Speaker 1: I know I don't want to. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: argue about. We have a nuts and bolts. We have

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Speaker 1: a caller on the line who can answer this question.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he's more qualified to answer than anybody. He's a

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Speaker 1: Western New York native, a Western New York sports fan,

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Speaker 1: and he's been working in the NFL and in football

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Speaker 1: for years. He actually coached Rob Gronkowski for a while

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Speaker 1: in New England. Happy to have Bill's offensive coordinator Brian

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Speaker 1: Dabele on the line with us from Florida. Hello, Coach Dabel,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve up here in Buffalo. How are you.

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Speaker 1: How are you guys doing up there? Yeah, well I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to compare weather with you. Thanks man, I

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. I congratulations there. Thank you very much. We're

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Speaker 1: really excited about appreciate it. Hey, coach, let's get you.

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Speaker 1: You can vote on our Twitter poll. We'll ask you

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Speaker 1: right now who who's the best athlete from Western New York?

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Speaker 1: Did you hear your choices? Grenkowski you know very well

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Speaker 1: Patrick Kane, the hockey player Warren Spahn, who probably was

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Speaker 1: a little bit older for you to remember, but all

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Speaker 1: time winning this left hander. That has to mean something

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Speaker 1: than Bob Lanier, who you may or may not remember,

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Speaker 1: former Bennett High School star. If you had to vote

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Speaker 1: for one, who's the best athlete from Western New York? Coach? Well, well, Rob,

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Speaker 1: Rob helped me get a ring. Uh so I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: have to go with Rob. That's yeah, you know, I

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Speaker 1: have to say anything more than that that's great would

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Speaker 1: tell us what strikes you and everybody's you know, automatically,

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Speaker 1: when a player of Rob Gronkowski's stature retires, the automatic

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Speaker 1: question is is he a Hall of Fame worthy guy?

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Speaker 1: Is he like a first ballot Hall of Famer? Certainly?

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Speaker 1: I think in my estimation, I haven't said it, but

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Speaker 1: I think he is. I think there's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 1: He was dominant for a decade. Um. What is your

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Speaker 1: thought about his place in NFL history? Well, I think

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Speaker 1: you know, he was a privilege to coach. He's you know,

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Speaker 1: he was an outstanding competitor and you know for the

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Speaker 1: nine years that he played, UM, he gave it everything.

632
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 1: He got so anything that he gets uh post playing time,

633
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: you know, I think would be well deserved. Um. Just

634
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: it was just a fun guy to coach, you know,

635
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 1: he was you know, he was notable a coach for

636
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 1: a variety of reasons. Is played primarily but also because

637
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 1: of his personality. And I think sometimes it gets lost

638
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 1: how how serious he was about the game and about

639
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 1: getting better. You had a front row seat for that.

640
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: Tell us about Gronkowski's practice habits and how he got

641
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 1: ready for games, that sort of thing. Sure, Murph, I

642
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,520
Speaker 1: think that's that's a really good assessment of the guy.

643
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: He was a competitor. You know, he got to the building,

644
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: he was you know, serious and meetings, took his craft,

645
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 1: serious to practice, did whatever he could do in terms of,

646
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: you know, eating the right thing, working out, being on

647
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 1: top of his body. You know, had a have some

648
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 1: injuries there throughout the career. Some of those are flute

649
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: things and other things he battled through, but he did

650
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: everything he could do to help his team be successful.

651
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: And that's what you appreciate about Rob. I think one

652
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: of the things that strikes a lot of people, certainly

653
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,720
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski is one of these guys that's really physically gifted,

654
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: and and automatically the average fan thinks, well, he's you know,

655
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 1: he's so physically gifted, how hard does he have to work?

656
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,600
Speaker 1: But explain to the fans and and just give us

657
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: some insight as to how hard you see, not just

658
00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: like Rob Gronkowski, but all these guys who are physically gifted.

659
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: How much of a difference it has made for guys

660
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: like that, even the great ones who are physically gifted, Uh,

661
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: the atmosphere is and the really great ones, the legendary ones,

662
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: also couple that with the work with a work ethic

663
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: that is in some cases legendary. Sure, yeah, you know

664
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 1: that's and and you know goes back a while. You know,

665
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: since you've been been playing, you really appreciate the guys

666
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: that that put in the effort and put in the

667
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 1: time required to you know, most of the most of

668
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: the guys in this league are are very successful. And

669
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: you know, you can go back to the ninety three

670
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: seasons if you guys, you know the things that you

671
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,880
Speaker 1: put into to get to where you needed to get

672
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: to year in and year out. Um, you know, teams

673
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: all have talent, but to have mental toughness to have

674
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: physical toughness, to have a work ethic, to have a

675
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: bunch of guys that can perform under pressure when they're

676
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: called upon. You know, that's what you know. It's hard

677
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: to build the team. You can collect all the talent

678
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:14,760
Speaker 1: in the world, but in order to be really successful,

679
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:16,680
Speaker 1: you got to have a group of group of people

680
00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 1: that are willing to put the time in and give

681
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 1: you everything you got to the good of the team,

682
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: and be as selfless as you can be. Right the

683
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: line with Bill's offense coordinator Brian Dable. He was Rob

684
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: Gronkowski's tight ends coach in New England for three seasons

685
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen through twenty sixteen. I was thinking today, coach,

686
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: about this past year with Rob Gronkowski obviously slowing down

687
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 1: a little bit, and I remember I'd watch the Patriots

688
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: this year and think to myself, man, Gronkowski has become

689
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: a really good blocker. And then I was thinking even

690
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: deeper into an I thought, wait a minute, he always

691
00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:48,959
Speaker 1: was a good blocker. He just noticed it more as

692
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: he got older, right, was that what you saw from him? Yeah?

693
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 1: I mean, look at the tight end position is a

694
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 1: tough position in this league. You're you're going against you know,

695
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:01,880
Speaker 1: big six techniques or outside linebackers down in and down out,

696
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,960
Speaker 1: and whether it required to run block them or pass

697
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 1: block them. And then you're going against athletic safety sometimes

698
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: corners that have good length. It's a tough position to play.

699
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 1: You've got to be required to be good at both.

700
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: And you know nowadays it's tough to find those guys

701
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 1: that are they can handle at the line of scrimmage

702
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: and out there on a perimeter. So you know, he

703
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: was asked to do a bunch, whether it's at the

704
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, which she was a very good blocker,

705
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 1: or you know, split them out wide and basically play

706
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:36,560
Speaker 1: the exposition and work some one on one matchups. He

707
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,320
Speaker 1: had a unique skill set. Coaches, as this offseason has

708
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: taken shape, and I was going to ask you about

709
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 1: your philosophy moving forward, you're gonna have a lot of

710
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: new faces. I mean, everybody's been on going. I'm not

711
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: going to ask you to evaluate all these new faces

712
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,400
Speaker 1: that are on the Bill's offensive line and wide receiver

713
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 1: and all that, But I was just gonna ask you,

714
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:55,880
Speaker 1: as an offensive coordinator, does that change anything for you

715
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: having a lot of new guys that you're gonna have

716
00:32:57,920 --> 00:32:59,920
Speaker 1: to coach up. I know it makes a big deal

717
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: that your quarterback is going to be the same from

718
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 1: one year to the next, But does it change anything

719
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:05,920
Speaker 1: for you? All these new faces that are gonna be

720
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,360
Speaker 1: on your offensive side of the ball, for sure. You

721
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: really got to get them and doctorated into the system

722
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: and get them out there on a practice field and

723
00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: see what they you know, in terms of your philosophy

724
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: and your structure, what they do really well. And then

725
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: you got to sit down and you got to move

726
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:25,440
Speaker 1: the chess pieces around and do the things necessary to

727
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 1: help them be as good as they can be with

728
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: the skill sets they have. Again, you know, it's great

729
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 1: to collect down. I think Brandon and Joe and their staff,

730
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: UM get a really good job up to this point. Um,

731
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:38,920
Speaker 1: and I know are working really hard on the draft.

732
00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 1: But you know, and you know this better than anybody, Steve,

733
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 1: how you how you form a team. You know, it's

734
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: it's just not about collecting talent, it's about building team

735
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: and making sure you got the right guys. And you

736
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: know it'll be good when they get back in April

737
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 1: fifteenth to start working with them and see where you

738
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: go from there. You go Ja have one more Gronkowski

739
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: question for you, and it's it's maybe an impression that

740
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 1: he leaves Gronkowski leaves on on Buffalo Bills fans. I

741
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: believe you were in Alabama this year, a couple of

742
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: years ago when when Rob got the one game suspension

743
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 1: for a late hit on Tradevious White. Um that that

744
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: didn't fit in with The thing that was so puzzling

745
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: about that with me was that didn't really fit with

746
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,160
Speaker 1: the rest of his career. You know what I mean,

747
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,040
Speaker 1: he did he hadn't done things like that, and that

748
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: was that kind of jumped out at me. It was

749
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 1: a little bit funny, didn't fit with what I thought

750
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 1: I knew about Rob Gunkowski. Yeah, you know, I can

751
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:29,959
Speaker 1: only speak one of the times when I was with Rob,

752
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 1: which that year I wasn't right. You know, he's he

753
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,759
Speaker 1: was a tough worker and I try to do the

754
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,879
Speaker 1: right thing. And you know, I think that that case

755
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: right there, you'd have to you'd have to talk to

756
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: Rob about that. Um. Not the type of player that's

757
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 1: that's uh. But I remember coaching. Yeah, No, that was weird.

758
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,320
Speaker 1: That was an odd thing. Hey, coach, thanks for this,

759
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 1: Thanks for taking time out of your downtime to spend

760
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 1: a few minutes with us and reminisce about Rob Gronkowski.

761
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 1: We appreciate it, no problem, guys, have a good day. Okay,

762
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 1: you too, Thanks for bold as the Bill's offensive coordinator.

763
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:03,600
Speaker 1: A little bit of a break to coaching staff. With

764
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:05,440
Speaker 1: a little bit of a break is e. J. Gaines

765
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 1: pointed out, Steve, there, what two weeks away now from

766
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 1: reporting for Let me look at the calendar. It's at

767
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:12,719
Speaker 1: least two and a half weeks away from reporting for

768
00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:16,960
Speaker 1: the OTA is amazing. Yeah, today's twenty third, today's twenty five,

769
00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:19,279
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, and so you got the rest of the

770
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: Yeah you got like that's two and a half weeks. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

771
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: three weeks from almost three weeks. Yeah, three weeks from today. Yeah,

772
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: they'll be back. Um, Rob Gronkowski. Brian Gable's memories of

773
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 1: coaching him for three years with the Patriots, and it's

774
00:35:34,960 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: it's not funny, but it's real. When and you ask

775
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,839
Speaker 1: him what does he think of Rob Gronkowski, and he says, well,

776
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: he helped get me a ring right now, Hey, first

777
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: in his mind, right, I think it would be for

778
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 1: me as well. I mean, there's a lot, so much

779
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: goes into those teams that go that far, go deep,

780
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: and even with the Patriots who have done it, you

781
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 1: know so many times over the last twenty years, every

782
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: one of those things, teams was different, and every one

783
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,439
Speaker 1: of them was special in its own way. And there's

784
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 1: going to be a handful, if not way more than

785
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 1: a handful in New England's case, of different guys on

786
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:08,360
Speaker 1: each team, which makes it unique. All four of the

787
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: Super Bowl teams that I was on were all unique

788
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: in their own way. Certainly, there was some a lot

789
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: of crucial pieces in place throughout those that the stretch

790
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 1: of playoff years that we went to in the early

791
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,919
Speaker 1: nineties or late eighties, early nineties, mid nineties, all those

792
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,400
Speaker 1: playoff runs that you have, each one of those teams

793
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:29,440
Speaker 1: had some similar things going for it, but the different

794
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: players made each team different. The locker room was different,

795
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:34,840
Speaker 1: the vibe was a little different. There were prominent players

796
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:38,160
Speaker 1: who were there and gone or not there and then arrived.

797
00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: So every one of those teams is unique. And when

798
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: Brian Dable says, listen, the guy got me a ring,

799
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 1: he remembers that team and that specific team and hard.

800
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 1: You know, people here in Western here, which which brings

801
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 1: he talking about? Which one of those guys? You know?

802
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, there's so many of it.

803
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 1: We're like, we're like, lad because which ring was he

804
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 1: talking about? Which one did he get? So? But for

805
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 1: him it's really special. So it doesn't surprise me that

806
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,279
Speaker 1: he equates his time there in New England with Rob

807
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 1: Gronkowski is one of those times where he got that

808
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:06,640
Speaker 1: ring and Rob helped him do it. Is this a

809
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:08,320
Speaker 1: bad thought? I had this thought this morning when I

810
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 1: read about Nay, yes, you know me, No, But I'm thinking, Okay,

811
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: one down, let's have the rest of them Mexican right?

812
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: How could you not think that it's it's one of

813
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: the pillars of the Patriots great string of success. Rob

814
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 1: Gronkowski decides that he's had enough. He had physical issues, obviously.

815
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 1: Can the can the others? Yes, I'm talking about you

816
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:30,520
Speaker 1: number twelve? Can they be that far behind? What do

817
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: you think? I don't know? Come on, they may leave. Listen.

818
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 1: The whole thing for me centers around the head coach.

819
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:43,000
Speaker 1: He's the He's the crucible that make that fires that

820
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:48,879
Speaker 1: whole engine over there. Um they replaced Wes Welker, Well,

821
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: they had Danny Woodhead and Julian Edelman and then they've

822
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:57,000
Speaker 1: got Rob Grinkowski, you know, And so they they have

823
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 1: washed through some very crucial pieces of that of that

824
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 1: machine and not missed a beat. Um, Randy Moss was

825
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,399
Speaker 1: there and gone. There's that lead. That year they went

826
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,800
Speaker 1: nineteen and one or eighteen and one, Yeah, with with

827
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: Randy Moss. Uh and you think as well, Uh, the

828
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: great cornerback they had not Steph Gilmore, but the Mercenary

829
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: before him, Darrell Reeves. They had him there, they got

830
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 1: they got there, got a ring with him. So so

831
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: they've they've plugged some pieces in. They went eleven and

832
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:38,480
Speaker 1: five with Matt Castle. Um they went three and one

833
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 1: with a with a mix between Jacobe Brissette and Jimmy Garoppolo,

834
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: and nobody knew who Jimmy Garoppolo was. Um. So I

835
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: even when Tom Brady decides to go away, I don't

836
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: think that that New England Patris would fall off the

837
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:56,840
Speaker 1: face of the earth. They certainly they're gonna have a

838
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: hard time replacing a guy like Tom Brady, particularly Tom

839
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,759
Speaker 1: Brady and in his prime. But Tom Brady's not that

840
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 1: in his prime anymore. Jimmy Garoppolo or they're gonna have something.

841
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,359
Speaker 1: They're gonna have a plan to continue to win games

842
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 1: with him. So to give your your black hearted thought

843
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Speaker 1: about having having that happened when Tom Brady retires, I

844
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna miss a beat. When Bill Belichick goes,

845
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:22,919
Speaker 1: they'll never be the same. You kind of leave us, no, hope, Steve,

846
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 1: what's the point then? Really? If Brady goes and there're

847
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: still well Belichick has said, he goes, I don't want

848
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Speaker 1: to be doing this when I'm seventy. Yeah, I don't

849
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: want him to be doing it when he's seven. I

850
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:33,960
Speaker 1: don't either, But he's sixty seven. This year Grock retires.

851
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: But did he really his agent Drew Rosenhouse, did you

852
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 1: see his statement, Drew Rosenhouse. We're gonna talk with Matt

853
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: Chatham coming up next. But Drew Rosenhouse on a potential

854
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: return for Grock on the ESPN show Get Up. He says,

855
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,600
Speaker 1: if the team was struggling, or if they needed him

856
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 1: at some point next year, let's just say, hypothetically, Tom

857
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: Brady gave mccollin said hey, Rob, I need you. I

858
00:39:57,280 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: wouldn't be shocked if he came back to play a

859
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 1: few games. We don't do that the day after he retires.

860
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:04,320
Speaker 1: You don't throw that out there. Come on to a Rosenhouse.

861
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: Drew Rosenhouse does that. That's crazy. I don't want to

862
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 1: hear that. We're saluting. Look, we're giving Rob Gronkowski his

863
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: just desserts today, his due. He's earned the kind of

864
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,400
Speaker 1: praise that was being lavished on him last night and today,

865
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 1: even on this show in Buffalo, New York. But if

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Speaker 1: you start throwing out the fact that he might come back,

867
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: then I'll pull the plug on this show immediately. We'll

868
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,320
Speaker 1: move on. Here's two. I don't know what it is,

869
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: but I have a hard time thinking that with all

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00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,440
Speaker 1: his you know, the reason. I think the reason Rob

871
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: stepped away in the game was a physical toll. It

872
00:40:39,200 --> 00:40:42,400
Speaker 1: was taken given that, and I can relate to that

873
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: because that's why I left. I have a hard time

874
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 1: thinking Rob Gronkowski is gonna be in razor sharp physical

875
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 1: condition in week ten of the NFL season. I think

876
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: he's gonna take a deep breath. I don't think he's

877
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Speaker 1: gonna go to the gym every morning in his retirement,

878
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 1: So I don't think he's going to be ready to

879
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: play at games like he would be if he was

880
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:09,839
Speaker 1: not retired, you know what I'm saying. So they may

881
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 1: want him to come back, but I don't think he'll

882
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,800
Speaker 1: be able to stay in this physical condition once the

883
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 1: season starts and he's let it go and turns and

884
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 1: shuts it down. I don't think he's going to be

885
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 1: able to be in physical enough condition to come back

886
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,120
Speaker 1: and play in one or two or any games, let

887
00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:26,200
Speaker 1: alone get ready to play. Man. I could be wrong

888
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 1: about that, but I know what it was like when

889
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: I quit for that reason, and man, oh man, did

890
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: I ever? I have shut it down and I have

891
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: never turned it back on ever, not even for a minute,

892
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 1: and proud of it and proud of it. Hey, Grock,

893
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:42,920
Speaker 1: how does he rate among the all time athletes produced

894
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:45,319
Speaker 1: born and bred in Western New York? Who's the best

895
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:47,560
Speaker 1: athlete from Western New York? That's our Twitter poll that's

896
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 1: been interesting getting a lot of response. Forty six percent

897
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: of you say it is Patrick Kane Chicago Blackhawks forward,

898
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: twenty eight percent say it is Rob Gronkowski, thirteen percent

899
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: say Bob Lanier, thirteen percent say the great Leftander Warren spot.

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Speaker 1: What do you think give us a column will discuss

901
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 1: eight oh three oh five fifty or toll free one

902
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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Sending a tweet,

903
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:09,879
Speaker 1: we make read it on the tweet sheet. We're gonna

904
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:11,720
Speaker 1: come back and do some of that when we return.

905
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: One Bill's Lide presented by Klata Health from One Bill's Drive.

906
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:30,359
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. One Bill's Lide from One

907
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: Bills Drive. John Murphy Seed Tasker, Steve's back after a

908
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,400
Speaker 1: long How about coach David knew you were out? Somebody

909
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: else was asking where they were. I'm thinking Jay Harris

910
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:42,839
Speaker 1: headed it. That's his jobs. Make surebody over the last

911
00:42:42,840 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 1: two weeks said somebody. Somebody makes sure I feel good about.

912
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 1: Somebody in the building said, where the heck is Tasker?

913
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:49,839
Speaker 1: I don't know. I covered for you as well as

914
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: I could. Yeah. I didn't put in for the time off.

915
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: I just left right. Yeah, somebody asked you. People missed you. Hey.

916
00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:00,040
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski's leaving the NFL retiring, which leads us of

917
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 1: the question, who's the best athlete from Western New York

918
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 1: all time? Any sport. We'll take calls on it eight

919
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 1: O three five fifty, and we'll read tweets on it.

920
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:10,760
Speaker 1: At one Bill's Live, Jim and Sandborne has a suggestion,

921
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 1: Jim go ahead, you're on the air. Yeah, this is

922
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: Jim from Sandborne. Yes, Jim go ahead, you're on the air. Yeah.

923
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: I'd like to say that I'm going to put a

924
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 1: plug in for my friend. I don't know if you

925
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:30,280
Speaker 1: know him, Murph, but he's from Riverside and he actually

926
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: played in Buffalo Riverside High School and he went to

927
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Colts. And his name is Joey rman Ermine.

928
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:40,799
Speaker 1: I got you. Yeah, I've heard of him, I've met him,

929
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 1: I've interviewed him. Yeah, you think he's the greatest athlete

930
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,840
Speaker 1: ever from Western New York. Yeah, he was All American

931
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 1: for the Baltimore Colts. And he actually lived in Buffalo

932
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: in Riverside, so I would say that, you know, you

933
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: got to give him kudos. He wasn't outside Buffalo, he

934
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 1: was actually inside the Buffalo area. You mean the city limits?

935
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:03,760
Speaker 1: Is that where we're defining it too? Yeah? I got you, Okay, okay,

936
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: all right. We also got a lot of people calling

937
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 1: in and talking about John Jones, who's the UFC fighter.

938
00:44:10,239 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, MMA, guy who is maybe one of the

939
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:15,719
Speaker 1: greatest MMA athletes of all time. He's in there. Also

940
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Speaker 1: Abby Wambach, who is probably the greatest female soccer player

941
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: on the women's national team of all time, also up

942
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:28,320
Speaker 1: there with Mia Hamm. I mean, Abby Wambach played a

943
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,320
Speaker 1: long he had a long, illustrious career. She could be

944
00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: on the list as well. She's from Rochester. A ton

945
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 1: of other people chiming in, of course. Warren Spawn, who

946
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: you know, you forget, the winningest left handed pitcher in

947
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:46,840
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball history, played twenty one years, had seventeen

948
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 1: he was seventeen time All Star. It was the All

949
00:44:49,719 --> 00:44:53,440
Speaker 1: Century team from nineteen oh one to two thousand and

950
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:55,279
Speaker 1: he's also he got I mean, he's got a Major

951
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:58,320
Speaker 1: League award named after the Warren Spawn Award for the

952
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:02,359
Speaker 1: most wins by a lefty pitcher every year. So that's

953
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: a guy that may be as successful as anybody you

954
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 1: can name. Pat Kane is also up there. I mean

955
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 1: he's and he's being called of course by people here

956
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: in Buffalo mostly, but he may be the greatest American

957
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: hockey player of all time and he's still playing. That's

958
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: big and he can. Yeah, he's not his resume is

959
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:24,839
Speaker 1: doing nothing but getting bigger and bigger. So um, there's

960
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: some obviously there was. There's a lot to choose from. Yeah,

961
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: it's been a long and illustrious history for for Western

962
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,560
Speaker 1: New York athletes around the world. Stand in north Town,

963
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: I wanna wants to throw a name in the mix.

964
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:37,919
Speaker 1: One that we discussed a little bit. Stan. Go ahead,

965
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 1: you're on the air. Okay, I stand, you're on the air.

966
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Stan, turn your radio down please? All right?

967
00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,400
Speaker 1: Never mind? Stand. I wanted to recommend Christian Leetner, who

968
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,760
Speaker 1: we talked about. I was stunted today Wan I actually

969
00:45:53,840 --> 00:45:56,320
Speaker 1: did a little research and realized Leetner's not in the

970
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:58,359
Speaker 1: Basketball Hall of Fame. He's in the college Basketball Hall

971
00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 1: of Fame. Uh And you know he didn't have a

972
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: great NBA career, clearly, but he had one of the

973
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 1: all time great college careers. I don't it's going to

974
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:08,839
Speaker 1: force me at some point, not today during the show,

975
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: to go back and look at the qualifications for inclusion

976
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: to the Basketball Hall of Fame? Can you not just

977
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:16,279
Speaker 1: have a great college career and merit consideration for the

978
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 1: basketball Hall of Fame? In Springfield, Boy, I would think so.

979
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: I was stunned that Latner's note in the Basketball Hall

980
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,200
Speaker 1: of Fame. Dave Cody on the tweet cheat says, wow,

981
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:27,240
Speaker 1: spawn getting no love. Career three hundred sixty three hundred

982
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: and sixty three wins, sixth all time, three point zero

983
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: nine earn run average twenty seventh and strikeouts went to

984
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,759
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame in the nineteen seventy three. Won

985
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,919
Speaker 1: the Cy Young Award in nineteen fifty seven, seventeen time

986
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 1: All Star. Amazing numbers for Warren Spahn. Amazing numbers and

987
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 1: an era that was a long time ago, and as

988
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,320
Speaker 1: Steve mentioned, the all time winning this left handed pitcher.

989
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: The Buffalo News did a piece, look I found it today.

990
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: They did it a couple of years ago. I think

991
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:58,439
Speaker 1: it was twenty eighteen, listing the top athletes from seven

992
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 1: one six. Maybe that's how we should have put a too.

993
00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 1: Warrenspaonn was number one on their list. South Park High

994
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: School product won one World Series in nineteen fifty seven,

995
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:10,640
Speaker 1: won the first Cy Young Award with the twenty one

996
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:13,759
Speaker 1: wins eighteen complete games at forty years old. He won

997
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:17,840
Speaker 1: his thirtieth game in the nineteen sixty one season. The

998
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 1: Mets the Giants. The Braves obviously went to a Cooperstown

999
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy three, Warrenspon was number one on the

1000
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:28,399
Speaker 1: Buffalo News list. In twenty eighteen, Gronkowski was number four,

1001
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: Latner was number three, and Bob Lanier was number two.

1002
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: So it's a pretty good list. Yeah, all right, Well

1003
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 1: take a break and we come back more on Rob Gronkowski.

1004
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk with Matt Chatham, who played with the

1005
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,000
Speaker 1: Patriots now rights for the Athletic dot Com. He's got

1006
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: some thoughts on why Gronkowski should be a shoein no

1007
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,720
Speaker 1: question pro Football Hall of Famer. That's when we returned.

1008
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,239
Speaker 1: John Murphy was Steve Tasker back in the saddle. Here

1009
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: it's One Bill's Live presented by Kalada Health from One

1010
00:47:53,640 --> 00:48:08,400
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radiolo Hills Radio Network.

1011
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: Sports top date update from One Bills Drive. Little news

1012
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 1: from the Bills today, more player acquisitions. They've signed cornerback EJ. Gaines,

1013
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: a free agent to a one year contract. Played last

1014
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,560
Speaker 1: year with the Cleveland Browns. Gaines back for a second

1015
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 1: stint with the Bills, played for Buffalo two years ago

1016
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: under Sean McDermott. He was acquired in a trade in

1017
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 1: the summer of twenty seventeen, the Sammy Watkins deal. Played

1018
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:31,359
Speaker 1: eleven games for the Bills that year. The Bills won

1019
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,919
Speaker 1: eight of them. EJ. Gaines signed as a free agent

1020
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: with Cleveland last season and returns to the Bills. EJ.

1021
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:39,960
Speaker 1: Gaines returns to the Buffalo Bills back up cornerback for

1022
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 1: the Bills. The Bills over the weekend signed a couple

1023
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: of new players as well, tight end Jake Fisher making

1024
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 1: the transition from offensive tackle former Cincinnati Bengal, and they

1025
00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 1: signed free agent linebacker Maurice Alexander, a special teamer who

1026
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 1: played last year with Seattle. Rob Gronkowski announced his retirement

1027
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: from the National Football yesterday, but his agent, Drew Rosenhaus,

1028
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: told esp Today that he wouldn't be surprised if reconsiders

1029
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 1: in the future. He says if he gets a call

1030
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: from Tom Brady who says Rob, I need you, says

1031
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: he wouldn't be surprised if Gronkowski came back to play

1032
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 1: a few games. Johnny Manzel made his debut in the

1033
00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:16,480
Speaker 1: Alliance of American Football yesterday in the Memphis Express overtime

1034
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: win over the Birmingham iron Menzel signed with the Express

1035
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 1: last week, entered the game in the second quarter with

1036
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 1: his team losing sixteen to eight, and they won at

1037
00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 1: thirty one to twenty five. College basketball, the historic season

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00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 1: for the UB men's team came to an end last

1039
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: night with a seventy eight fifty eight loss to Texas

1040
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:35,960
Speaker 1: Tech second round of the NCAA Tournament in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

1041
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:38,719
Speaker 1: The Bulls finished the season with thirty two wins and

1042
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: four losses. The UB women's team also ended their season

1043
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 1: last night. They gave second seeded Connecticut a great game

1044
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:47,359
Speaker 1: and eighty four seventy two loss for You'd be at

1045
00:49:47,440 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: Gampel Pavilion, Connecticut's home court. Senior Sierra Dillerer finished the

1046
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:55,280
Speaker 1: game with twenty nine points for UB, adding seven rebounds,

1047
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:58,879
Speaker 1: seven assists, and three steals. And the Savers in action

1048
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:00,759
Speaker 1: tonight their road trip can ten us with the game

1049
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:03,600
Speaker 1: in New Jersey based off seven o'clock tonight in New

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Speaker 1: Jersey Savers and the Devil. That's the update from One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. John Murphy Steve Tasker is back. A lot

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Speaker 1: of news today. The Bill signed E J. Gaines. We

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Speaker 1: had him on the show Talk with Brian Dabole a

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Speaker 1: minute ago about Rob Gronkowski. Another person to weigh in

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Speaker 1: on Rob gronkowski retirement. Happy to have a frequent guest

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Speaker 1: on the show. On the line with us right now.

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Speaker 1: Former Patriots linebacker for six season, Matt Chatham, a three

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Speaker 1: time Super Bowl champion, played with Rob Gronkowski in the

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Speaker 1: New England Patriots. He's a contributor for the Athletic dot

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Speaker 1: Com in Boston these days. Matt, John Murphy, and Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker in Buffalo, thank you for coming on. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: What guys, thanks for having me on. I was motivated

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Speaker 1: by reading your piece in The Athletic this morning in

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Speaker 1: which you said it's a no brainer. There should be

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Speaker 1: no real discussion. Rob Gronkowski is a Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 1: Can you make that case for us please? Matt. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think, guys the most important here, and I really

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Speaker 1: kind of enjoy these conversations because it's not to win

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Speaker 1: some sort of Pelts argument or watercourse on who's best

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Speaker 1: this out or the other, but it's an opportunity to

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Speaker 1: open eyes to the other part of the game, the

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Speaker 1: rest of the game. And I think tight end is

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Speaker 1: really one of the most physically demanding positions in football.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I have a bias stairs an outside linebacker.

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Speaker 1: You're across from that guy, you kind of get a

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Speaker 1: sense of how hard his job is, how hard our

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Speaker 1: job was against guys like that. But really, there's what's

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Speaker 1: unique about that particular position relative to all the other

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Speaker 1: stuff going on the field. And in one moment, you

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Speaker 1: can be blocking a two hundred and eighty maybe even

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Speaker 1: two hundred and ninety pound guy at defensive end in

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Speaker 1: line if you're that kind of tight end, if you're

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Speaker 1: that good where a team is willing to let you

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Speaker 1: be the point of attack, and minutes later you're out

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Speaker 1: in space trying to block a safety or a linebacker

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Speaker 1: is much faster and smaller, maybe another kind of defensive back.

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Speaker 1: And then another down you're you're running vertical routes and

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Speaker 1: you're catching balls down the field. It's just such an

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Speaker 1: unusually diverse job, and in moments like this, we kind

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Speaker 1: of have to do this kind of how the Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame works. You pull off the spreadsheet, you look

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Speaker 1: at the box score, you talk about catches and touchdown

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Speaker 1: saying well, yeah, that's nice, that's part of it. It's

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Speaker 1: pretty cool men literally has the stats to back up

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Speaker 1: in sort of his place in this league's history. But

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Speaker 1: that's just part of the story. Let's talk about the

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Speaker 1: other part. Generally speaking, most top tight ends throughout history,

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Speaker 1: but I've seen are willing to put them at the

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Speaker 1: point of attack or run play. They're on the backside,

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Speaker 1: maybe they're the wing with the down guy being the

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Speaker 1: more you six six to seventy five tight into the

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Speaker 1: carry as their in line guy. So uniqueness of Rob

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Speaker 1: Gronkowski is he was both of those things in one body,

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Speaker 1: and we just haven't seen that before and it's pretty

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Speaker 1: unlikely we'll see it again after. Do you think he

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Speaker 1: played long enough? Nine years? It seems like a long

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Speaker 1: enough career, But then you look at a guy like

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Speaker 1: Tony Gonzalez, who got in on his first attempt this

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Speaker 1: year is going to go in. Gonzalez had seventeen seasons

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Speaker 1: and two hundred and seventy games. Gronkowski nine seasons, only

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen games. Tony Gonzalez had thirteen hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty five receptions. Gronkowski had less than five hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty catches. You know, Tony Gonzalez fifteen thousand yards

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Speaker 1: Gronkowski not even eight thousand yards. Did he play long enough?

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Speaker 1: Did he dominate long enough? Was he good that long enough?

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Speaker 1: Did you know, given the injury riddled career that he

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Speaker 1: hadn't I'm just trying to play Devil's Avcate. I'm kind

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Speaker 1: of with you on this. I know how good Gronkowski was,

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Speaker 1: But did he put enough of a career out there

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Speaker 1: longevity wise, to warrant being in like just a rubber stamp? Yeah? See,

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Speaker 1: I certainly think. I think nine's a long time. I think,

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Speaker 1: especially when you're throwing sixteen playoff games that's essentially another

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Speaker 1: NFL off season, and most people don't play because it's

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Speaker 1: pretty rare often they get to play in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: So he played ten years of games. He did miss

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Speaker 1: a few a season, but he was still at an

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Speaker 1: over eighty percent clip. I think sometimes the injury thing

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Speaker 1: with him is hammered upon thing that he played through

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Speaker 1: as much as anything. I think it's more of a

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Speaker 1: credit to some of the level of play he was

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Speaker 1: able to maintain even when he did play shirt with

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Speaker 1: the back stuff with a broken arm. Within these things,

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Speaker 1: So the thing with the statu sort of accumulation thing

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Speaker 1: I'm not a big fan of using that paticual position

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Speaker 1: to judges that way, I think in part, and I

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Speaker 1: say that in no disrespect. Obviously the guys like Tony.

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Speaker 1: Tony was incredible. You know, it's a basketball player body

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Speaker 1: that was able to do things that wide receivers do

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Speaker 1: with a little more meat on his bones. But Tony

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Speaker 1: Gonzalez played alongside Jason Dunn. You know, that was a

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Speaker 1: guy that when we played against those guys for years.

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Speaker 1: That's a two tight end system. Jason Dunne six six

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Speaker 1: two seventy five. He's the why he's in line. He's

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Speaker 1: playing tight end. In the rarer occasions where they're willing

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Speaker 1: to run to Tony's side, it's in a widlife situation

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Speaker 1: behind both of those guys. It's really the strength of

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Speaker 1: Jason Dunne allows them to be part of that. But

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Speaker 1: typically that pass catching off the line guy, he's not

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Speaker 1: the point of attack. So one of the things that

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Speaker 1: you know, go back and look at the staff if

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Speaker 1: that's your thing. And most of these tight ends as accomplishes,

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Speaker 1: they are the gates the wittens. I mean, at least

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Speaker 1: from this area. The Tony Gonzale stuff like that, they're

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Speaker 1: only catching short of five balls a game, so we're

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Speaker 1: talking about the high force for these really really good guys,

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Speaker 1: but they're on the field for sixty five snacks. What

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Speaker 1: they do for the rest of the game, to me,

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Speaker 1: that's much more relevant. And I I think if you're

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Speaker 1: going to compare them to those other guys, yeah, they

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Speaker 1: played seventeen years, I would it would be interesting to

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Speaker 1: see what kind of career link Gronk could have if

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Speaker 1: he would just flex from the formation on the backside

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Speaker 1: of block teach time, not being asked to block Terrell

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Speaker 1: Suggs or Althoady not or any of that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: So I just think they're two different things. And you know,

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Speaker 1: it's unfair a little bit tony because he wasn't going

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Speaker 1: to be quote in that position. He's not gonna have

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Speaker 1: his hand down on the ground. Being asked to block

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Speaker 1: a guy bigger than that wasn't a skill set. But

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Speaker 1: that is what Gronk did, and I think that's what

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Speaker 1: makes him so great. The one last thing I say,

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Speaker 1: it's the longevity issue, is he is walking away of

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Speaker 1: his own position here. It's just in a Terrell David

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Speaker 1: situation where body just wore down and had to walk away.

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Speaker 1: Just wasn't there anymore. Gronk is still played, he could

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Speaker 1: play a couple more years, but I think he's making

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Speaker 1: a decision and much like Barry Sanders, it's his choice.

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Speaker 1: The game hasn't walked away from him, and he's doing

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Speaker 1: it the other way. He's the best of what he did,

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Speaker 1: doing the entire job, and I think that's something that

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Speaker 1: you know, he gets his own choice here to put

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Speaker 1: the lid on that thing on the line with Matt Chattam,

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Speaker 1: former Patriots linebacker, contributor for the Athletic dot Com and

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Speaker 1: block man, I've I've read over the last twenty four

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Speaker 1: hours people say Gronkowski kind of changed the game for

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Speaker 1: tight ends. He was kind of a different prototype at

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Speaker 1: tight end in the NFL. Do you see that? Do

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Speaker 1: you agree with that? Yeah, just because I think it's

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Speaker 1: the combining of the two skill sets. I mean again

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Speaker 1: back to sort of are the guys that through the

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Speaker 1: two thousands that were really dominant blockers, A guy like

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Speaker 1: Kyle Brady. I mean, you look at you're watching end

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Speaker 1: zone copy each week and you're preparing for a team

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Speaker 1: with Brady. If he was on the jet at the

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Speaker 1: time or maybe the Jaguars. And from the end zone,

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Speaker 1: the end zone copy, the tight end looks like the tackle.

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Speaker 1: Look at Kyle. Kyle's hipster is wide and he looks

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Speaker 1: like a three hundred pounder. He's a two hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty pound tighten. Just absolutely dominant at that part of it.

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Speaker 1: But you know, Kyle wasn't the kind of receiver that

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Speaker 1: a Roberncoster would be, or Tony or Antoni or Nioliscount.

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Speaker 1: The guy you had Aaron Kinney at Tennessee. Another big

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Speaker 1: maller Jason dunhoe I mentioned before, these are going to

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Speaker 1: be a little more obscure names because kind of not

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Speaker 1: the part that we highlight so much way frankly, because

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Speaker 1: it doesn't show up in the box scorts, not in

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Speaker 1: the game notes afterwards. But what's different about Rob, it's

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Speaker 1: different than any of those other guys is they're willing

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Speaker 1: to use them at the point of attack. It was

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Speaker 1: a really nice quote here from in the pressure release

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Speaker 1: from Josh mccaniel. It's a coordinator there for the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: and he talked about how Rob was as dominant as

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Speaker 1: any player and he could have affect the game both

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Speaker 1: in me and the running pass game and what that

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Speaker 1: means to me, It's not just that he's a good blocker,

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Speaker 1: but that also he's getting accounted for as a down

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Speaker 1: guy with this hand down rolling coverage to him, that

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Speaker 1: also becomes run course and that matters because if you're

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Speaker 1: willing to run a guy behind a guy like that,

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Speaker 1: where you know he's taking on a guy that's often

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Speaker 1: bigger than him, that really says something about that player.

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Speaker 1: And again, you can go up and down to thirty

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Speaker 1: thirty one other rosters and even watch the last decade

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Speaker 1: of football, that guy doesn't exist. Where down and down

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Speaker 1: out that guy is also the point of attack in

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Speaker 1: the passing game and running game. It's just it's just

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Speaker 1: not out there. It's just now your original question, does

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Speaker 1: that change football? I don't know, because there isn't another

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Speaker 1: they Rob Grenkowski. It's almost unfair to compare that to

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Speaker 1: some of the other guys, those other guys that have

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Speaker 1: those big list athletic bodies like a Jimmy Graham, that's

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Speaker 1: not their game. Teams aren't running behind that kind of guy.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know if it's changed unless you can

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Speaker 1: find another guy like Rob. Yeah, let's do that. Let's

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Speaker 1: compare Rob Gronkowski to history. I mean, we talked about

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Speaker 1: Tony Gonzalez a minute. Certainly, Gonzalez after playing seventeen seasons,

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Speaker 1: he's got astronomical numbers. But you've also got guys even

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Speaker 1: in the league now, Jimmy Graham, other tight ends around

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Speaker 1: the league that you know. Where does he rank in

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Speaker 1: history with the guys that we all have known, Kellen

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Speaker 1: Winslow's of the world that you know, the past great

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Speaker 1: players who have played the position. Where's Gronkowski rank with

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Speaker 1: all of those guys? Well, I think from another er,

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Speaker 1: and it's a guy that we hear about a lot

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Speaker 1: and a friend, a guy that I've gotten to be

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Speaker 1: around a little bit in post career stuff. Mark Bavarrow.

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Speaker 1: He was one of the better blocking tight ends of

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Speaker 1: all time. He does certainly doesn't have the stat accumulation,

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Speaker 1: and the passing game is a lot, but Mark was

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Speaker 1: sort of that previous era guy that could absolutely maul you.

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Speaker 1: His technique was perfect with his hand. He was just

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Speaker 1: really really good at that skill. And Belichick is effusive

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Speaker 1: with his prices. Mark Market did a season here I

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Speaker 1: believe it was where he was sort of doing consulting

1255
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Speaker 1: type stuff. In the off season and looking at the

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Speaker 1: tight ends and helping them working with guys like that.

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Speaker 1: But I think the rarity here is just the really

1258
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:20,400
Speaker 1: diverse set of skills to usually find in tight end,

1259
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 1: and a lot of it comes out of college at

1260
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:24,440
Speaker 1: work ESPN doing coast football games in the fall, and

1261
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:27,360
Speaker 1: we know it's very rare now in these days where

1262
00:59:27,360 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 1: you find a tight end, it's a high end college

1263
00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:32,560
Speaker 1: guy that as the blocking skill a lot of times.

1264
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 1: And you guys Knowice, you're up from Buffalo man. He

1265
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:37,080
Speaker 1: was a beast those first few years. But Jason Peterson,

1266
00:59:38,000 --> 00:59:40,280
Speaker 1: it was playing tight end. Good grief. You'd come out

1267
00:59:40,280 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: of the huddle of the what is this guy doing?

1268
00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:45,920
Speaker 1: We're at an eighties number, But you know that body

1269
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 1: type transitions over and now he's gonna end up being

1270
00:59:49,120 --> 00:59:51,280
Speaker 1: in a Hall of Famer himself in a tackle position.

1271
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:54,440
Speaker 1: But the ability to really do vote it doesn't exist

1272
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:57,280
Speaker 1: in any other body, Tye. Jimmy Graham is an extremely

1273
00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 1: athletic guy that caught a tunnel of balls, but le's

1274
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:01,720
Speaker 1: away from the formation. I would have I agreed with

1275
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:04,480
Speaker 1: busi old arguments that he should have considered a wide receiver.

1276
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 1: It was a position he was playing. Hey, Matt, as

1277
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 1: we said, you played with Gronkowski for what five or

1278
01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 1: six years in New England? What's sort of a what

1279
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:14,560
Speaker 1: sort of a teammate? Was he both practice field and

1280
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:17,000
Speaker 1: in the locker room? Yeah? I actually actually did not

1281
01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:18,760
Speaker 1: play with Rob. I played six years in New England

1282
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:21,000
Speaker 1: in my last three in New York. Just I came

1283
01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 1: out of the league on nine and Gronk came in

1284
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:26,120
Speaker 1: in ten. So yeah, but I've just more been around

1285
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 1: with him. I can say this. You know, we're taking

1286
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 1: the team and calling the preseason games, and we do

1287
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:32,400
Speaker 1: it in how show called Patriots just leaked there with

1288
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:34,640
Speaker 1: Patriots dot Com and the Craft Sports production people, So

1289
01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:36,120
Speaker 1: you get to be around the guys a lot and

1290
01:00:36,200 --> 01:00:38,080
Speaker 1: get to know these guys. I think one of the

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01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:41,240
Speaker 1: things that's that's really helped Gronk have the kind of

1292
01:00:41,320 --> 01:00:44,200
Speaker 1: career he had is his attitude. He's such an unusual dude,

1293
01:00:44,200 --> 01:00:45,920
Speaker 1: and I think there's obviously a lot of bec has

1294
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:47,520
Speaker 1: been spilled on this and a lot of people talking

1295
01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:50,720
Speaker 1: about it over the years. So unique and unusual this

1296
01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:53,680
Speaker 1: guy is. But I think you need that if you

1297
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:55,480
Speaker 1: get banged up a little bit, because you have to

1298
01:00:55,560 --> 01:00:57,560
Speaker 1: be a great teammate, you have to be selfless to

1299
01:00:57,640 --> 01:00:59,520
Speaker 1: keep putting yourself out there, and you have to really

1300
01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:02,200
Speaker 1: really love football to endure that kind of pain and

1301
01:01:02,280 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 1: keep putting yourself out there. You watch some of the

1302
01:01:04,160 --> 01:01:06,919
Speaker 1: hits this guy takes um. You know, I think his body,

1303
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:08,560
Speaker 1: his body had been through as much as anyone in

1304
01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:11,440
Speaker 1: the league in these last ten years, and you have

1305
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:14,280
Speaker 1: to really have a love and a selflessness to come back.

1306
01:01:14,320 --> 01:01:16,200
Speaker 1: I mean, he's certainly a guy. Had he wanted to

1307
01:01:16,280 --> 01:01:17,840
Speaker 1: take this another way, it could have held out for

1308
01:01:17,920 --> 01:01:20,720
Speaker 1: more money, could have done contracts with more guaranteed stuff,

1309
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:23,680
Speaker 1: could have you know, could have taken something to the

1310
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:26,360
Speaker 1: wire like maybe the Antonio Brown did. But that's that's

1311
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:28,320
Speaker 1: not who he is. I mean he is. And again

1312
01:01:28,320 --> 01:01:30,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use this race and I'm not calling Antonio

1313
01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:32,800
Speaker 1: Brown a bad teammate, but I think in house they

1314
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:36,280
Speaker 1: consider him the pre eminent sort of figure as far

1315
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 1: as a teammate. They want more people like Rob, a

1316
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:42,040
Speaker 1: guy that sells out his body, gives everything he got

1317
01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 1: and he's just great both on the field and all.

1318
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:46,120
Speaker 1: Who's the best tight end in the NFL. Now that

1319
01:01:46,160 --> 01:01:50,080
Speaker 1: Grinkowski's gone Ooh, that's a great question. I think he

1320
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:52,920
Speaker 1: got a lot of competitors there. I mean, oddly enough, well,

1321
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:55,240
Speaker 1: the Iowa tightening Greg Kittle is moving up that list

1322
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: pretty rapidly out there in San Francisco. But again, I

1323
01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:01,680
Speaker 1: think we're I'm getting I'm probably doing what what I'm

1324
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:04,200
Speaker 1: accusing a lot of people of doing, and concentrating a

1325
01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:05,920
Speaker 1: little more heavily on the Pascat. I know that he

1326
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:10,200
Speaker 1: gets the combined sort of the job thing. It's I

1327
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:12,080
Speaker 1: don't know if there's like a be interesting what Hunter

1328
01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:14,440
Speaker 1: Henry does now with another healthy seam and after missing

1329
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:17,040
Speaker 1: most of last year. Um, you know, there's there's some

1330
01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:19,760
Speaker 1: young guys up and coming. Tyler Eifert was was an

1331
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:22,440
Speaker 1: intriguing guy, but he's gotten banged up so much, and

1332
01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:25,280
Speaker 1: that kind of happens at that position sometimes. Eventually you

1333
01:02:25,320 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 1: watch this year in draft as well. I was iwa

1334
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:30,680
Speaker 1: Hawk Eyes that's home for me. Has has a two

1335
01:02:30,760 --> 01:02:33,280
Speaker 1: guys that are potentially first round grade. So you have

1336
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:36,439
Speaker 1: some up and comers. But that's that's the difficult part.

1337
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:38,880
Speaker 1: Some of those guys body types are more like big

1338
01:02:38,960 --> 01:02:40,840
Speaker 1: running backs, you know, sixty three, two hundred and thirty

1339
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:42,840
Speaker 1: five pounds kind of guys that are a little bit

1340
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:45,880
Speaker 1: different than Rob. Rob is just different. So that one

1341
01:02:46,000 --> 01:02:48,320
Speaker 1: what do you think sniff next for Rob Gunkowski? Man,

1342
01:02:48,440 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 1: he could do movies, TV, wrestling, right, right, seriously? Right?

1343
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 1: I mean all we have to go off at this

1344
01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:57,680
Speaker 1: point is is most recent comments and he says he

1345
01:02:57,800 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 1: just wants to do a whole lot of nothing. And

1346
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:01,080
Speaker 1: I think, what, I don't know how you took it

1347
01:03:01,120 --> 01:03:03,080
Speaker 1: to see, but that was my first time, the first

1348
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:05,520
Speaker 1: thing I did. Those first six months out, I think

1349
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:08,640
Speaker 1: I've played I joined a local country club and I've

1350
01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:10,959
Speaker 1: probably played seven or eighty rounds that summer. I didn't

1351
01:03:10,960 --> 01:03:13,800
Speaker 1: do anything. You just kind of disappear. So yeah, I

1352
01:03:13,920 --> 01:03:16,720
Speaker 1: certainly think the movie thing is an option for him.

1353
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 1: The wrestling thing is part of it too, because he

1354
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 1: has such close ties with some of the people that

1355
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:23,000
Speaker 1: are heavily involved in Matt. He's done, He's dipped his

1356
01:03:23,040 --> 01:03:24,840
Speaker 1: tone in the water with that as well. But I

1357
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:27,400
Speaker 1: think there is a temptation to just step away, you know,

1358
01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:29,720
Speaker 1: maybe just not be around the game for a year.

1359
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:32,200
Speaker 1: And this is a little bit hot taky, and it's

1360
01:03:32,240 --> 01:03:33,840
Speaker 1: not something that we know if we're certain now, but

1361
01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:36,120
Speaker 1: it will continue to be at the talking point down

1362
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 1: here until he files his papers and officially walks away.

1363
01:03:39,360 --> 01:03:42,280
Speaker 1: And you know has been contacted in November and said

1364
01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:44,520
Speaker 1: no to hey, would you like to come back? I

1365
01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:46,880
Speaker 1: imagine they'll still we talk about that throughout the rest

1366
01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:49,360
Speaker 1: of this upcoming season. Yeah, that's what I was going

1367
01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 1: to ask you about next. How likely is it is

1368
01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:56,360
Speaker 1: it that Rob Gronkowski gets into October November and gets

1369
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:59,480
Speaker 1: a call from the Patriots or from somebody else who

1370
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:00,960
Speaker 1: wants to play. Do you think he's going to be

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01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 1: in good enough shape to come back and play in

1372
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:06,680
Speaker 1: that after He may feel good, but I don't know

1373
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:09,680
Speaker 1: how how prepared he'll be to play if that happens.

1374
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:12,560
Speaker 1: Do you think that's I mean, his agent Drew Rosenhouse said,

1375
01:04:12,600 --> 01:04:14,440
Speaker 1: you know, he could see it happening, maybe coming back

1376
01:04:14,440 --> 01:04:16,080
Speaker 1: and playing a few games late in the season for

1377
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:20,080
Speaker 1: somebody if Tom Brady called him. But how likely do

1378
01:04:20,120 --> 01:04:22,560
Speaker 1: you think it is he'll be capable of that? Well?

1379
01:04:22,600 --> 01:04:25,560
Speaker 1: The one thing it's a little bit unique about Rob

1380
01:04:25,640 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 1: is because he's had some of the multiple surgeries and

1381
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 1: the offseason stuff over the course of these nine years,

1382
01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:34,520
Speaker 1: He's had a really light off season. You know, it's

1383
01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:38,240
Speaker 1: more training building the body back up, but largely not

1384
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:41,320
Speaker 1: involved in many camps, largely not involved in the passing camps,

1385
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 1: even training camp incredibly light. I don't think he's play

1386
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:45,919
Speaker 1: in a preseason game, and I don't know what there's

1387
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 1: four or five years. We usually don't see him at

1388
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:50,720
Speaker 1: that time. So I think he's a guy that is

1389
01:04:50,800 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 1: kind of a fitness not anyway. I mean it's his

1390
01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:55,040
Speaker 1: father owned those those series of gems up there in

1391
01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:57,440
Speaker 1: the Buffalo area. I mean, he's a workout people. So

1392
01:04:57,840 --> 01:04:59,440
Speaker 1: I don't get the sense that you just take him

1393
01:04:59,440 --> 01:05:01,320
Speaker 1: away from an the locker room he stops working on

1394
01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:03,960
Speaker 1: a Granted that's not football, I get that, but he

1395
01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:06,600
Speaker 1: seems like the kind of guy that his body will

1396
01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:09,400
Speaker 1: be in general shape and maybe that'll help some of

1397
01:05:09,440 --> 01:05:13,040
Speaker 1: the healing happen. But then if he has and it's

1398
01:05:13,080 --> 01:05:15,560
Speaker 1: just sort of an outside possibility, you know, you get

1399
01:05:15,600 --> 01:05:17,920
Speaker 1: to November, they're tight ends, get banged up to whomever

1400
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 1: it is they're using at the time, and they say, hey, man,

1401
01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:22,600
Speaker 1: can you make a six game run. I don't think

1402
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:25,560
Speaker 1: it's outside the renal possibility. And because we've seen his

1403
01:05:25,640 --> 01:05:28,280
Speaker 1: ability to kind of with out live reps, get himself

1404
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:30,240
Speaker 1: up to speed quickly and play the super high level.

1405
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:32,400
Speaker 1: He's probably the one guy out there could pull that off.

1406
01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:34,040
Speaker 1: He may want to come back and just play the Bills.

1407
01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:38,400
Speaker 1: A couple of times he's made a limit Buffalo weeks. Yeah, yeah, Matt,

1408
01:05:38,440 --> 01:05:39,800
Speaker 1: thanks for that. It's good to talk with you. Thank

1409
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:41,680
Speaker 1: you very much. All right, guys, up a great week.

1410
01:05:41,760 --> 01:05:44,160
Speaker 1: That Chataman does a great job as a contributor writing

1411
01:05:44,240 --> 01:05:47,600
Speaker 1: for the Athletic Boston. Athletic dot Com in Boston wrote

1412
01:05:47,600 --> 01:05:50,400
Speaker 1: a really good piece today about Grenkowski and his Hall

1413
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:53,200
Speaker 1: of Fame status. He thinks it's a shoeing. Matt played

1414
01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:55,680
Speaker 1: linebacker for the Patriots for six seasons, won three Super

1415
01:05:55,720 --> 01:05:57,680
Speaker 1: Bowls there, and we thank you for joining us on

1416
01:05:57,760 --> 01:05:59,920
Speaker 1: the line. What do you think? How does Grenkowski ran

1417
01:06:00,160 --> 01:06:02,280
Speaker 1: am on tight ends all time? Steve mentioned a few

1418
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:04,400
Speaker 1: of them. I was thinking about John Mackie. I was

1419
01:06:04,440 --> 01:06:08,280
Speaker 1: thinking about Kellen Winslow, whom you mentioned. Mike did get different,

1420
01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:12,280
Speaker 1: totally different type of tight end, but very good. Yeah,

1421
01:06:12,680 --> 01:06:18,960
Speaker 1: different era for sure, um Tony Gonzalez, s Antonio Gates,

1422
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:23,240
Speaker 1: the Shannon Sharp. Shannon Sharp was a great pass catcher.

1423
01:06:23,320 --> 01:06:28,080
Speaker 1: Kelen Winslow, Ozzie Knewsom of course, and uh the tight End,

1424
01:06:28,440 --> 01:06:31,840
Speaker 1: the tight End Award every year, John Mackie, Uh, don't

1425
01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:35,200
Speaker 1: forget Jason Witten just retired, and Dave Casper, the great

1426
01:06:35,240 --> 01:06:39,400
Speaker 1: Oakland Raider, Greg Olsen, who's uh uh was, and then

1427
01:06:39,560 --> 01:06:41,439
Speaker 1: you know guy go back so far as into into

1428
01:06:41,480 --> 01:06:44,840
Speaker 1: the seventies of Jackie Smith. And then of course Jimmy Graham,

1429
01:06:45,440 --> 01:06:48,000
Speaker 1: h Ben Coates, the guy who's one of my contemporaries,

1430
01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:53,280
Speaker 1: as Charlie Sanders from Detroit, Todd Christiansen, Keith Jackson, you know,

1431
01:06:53,520 --> 01:06:56,440
Speaker 1: Dallas Clark. You got all these guys that are you know,

1432
01:06:57,200 --> 01:07:00,000
Speaker 1: they are really Jay Novaceeck. I mean all these guy

1433
01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 1: went to a bunch of bunch of Pro Bowls and

1434
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:05,240
Speaker 1: a bunch of all pros. Brent Jones a friend of mine.

1435
01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:07,920
Speaker 1: I know him, and don't forget crazy he's like Jeremy

1436
01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:09,600
Speaker 1: Shocky who played for the Giant. I mean, there's a

1437
01:07:09,600 --> 01:07:11,320
Speaker 1: whole list of guys. You go down the list. They

1438
01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:13,240
Speaker 1: were all great athletes. And that's one of the things.

1439
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:16,840
Speaker 1: And that's why Gronkowski jumps out Murph. And this is

1440
01:07:16,880 --> 01:07:18,080
Speaker 1: what I used to say in the booth when I

1441
01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:21,240
Speaker 1: was covering games with CBS and we do games, and

1442
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:23,520
Speaker 1: I'd watch these guys run and play, and guys like

1443
01:07:23,600 --> 01:07:27,000
Speaker 1: Tony Gonzalez and Grinkowski. If you're small enough and quick

1444
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:29,360
Speaker 1: enough and fast enough to cover these guys and to

1445
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:32,000
Speaker 1: run with them, you're not big enough to tackle them.

1446
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:34,919
Speaker 1: And if you get big enough guy who can really

1447
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:37,960
Speaker 1: tackle them, they're not fast enough to cover them. It's

1448
01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:40,560
Speaker 1: a matchup in possibility. So you end up having two

1449
01:07:40,680 --> 01:07:45,280
Speaker 1: guys on him, and a lot of times they're either

1450
01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:47,880
Speaker 1: one or the other, you think. And if they don't

1451
01:07:47,920 --> 01:07:50,560
Speaker 1: match up, well, even if you double them, because you

1452
01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:52,160
Speaker 1: get a guy who can tackle him, but he can't

1453
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:53,960
Speaker 1: keep up to make the tackle when he catches it,

1454
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:57,120
Speaker 1: and the guy who can cover him isn't big enough

1455
01:07:57,160 --> 01:07:59,120
Speaker 1: to cover his catch radius. You know, you get a

1456
01:07:59,120 --> 01:08:01,720
Speaker 1: guy like Tradevious why he can't cover the catch radius

1457
01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:04,320
Speaker 1: even if he's bodied up on him. And then if

1458
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:07,560
Speaker 1: Gronkowski does catch it, you know you're a bug on

1459
01:08:07,600 --> 01:08:09,920
Speaker 1: a windshield. You know the guy he throws you off

1460
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:12,280
Speaker 1: into the third row and he's down the sideline. It's

1461
01:08:12,320 --> 01:08:15,960
Speaker 1: just a matchup nightmare for defensive coordinators. And the more

1462
01:08:16,080 --> 01:08:18,880
Speaker 1: assets you put towards a guy like Gronkowski. Then you've

1463
01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:22,479
Speaker 1: got a guy like Julian Edelman, and you know Kevin Hogan,

1464
01:08:23,040 --> 01:08:27,360
Speaker 1: and you know Danny Woodhead, Wes Welker, guys like that

1465
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:31,000
Speaker 1: who make a living off a defense that is built

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Speaker 1: to stop somebody else. And it's just and you got

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01:08:33,840 --> 01:08:36,680
Speaker 1: a quarterback obviously who can actually see the difference, you know.

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01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:40,080
Speaker 1: So yeah, so it's a huge, huge asset. But it

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01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:44,839
Speaker 1: is too. Through several coaching changes and defensive coordinating changes

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01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:48,920
Speaker 1: and several groups over the nine years, Bills never solved

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01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:51,559
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski. Right, They never really had the answer. They're

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01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:53,559
Speaker 1: not alone. They had something. No, I know they played

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01:08:53,640 --> 01:08:55,640
Speaker 1: on twice a year, which made it particularly acute for

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01:08:55,720 --> 01:08:58,559
Speaker 1: the Bills. But right, different strategies from time to time

1475
01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:00,320
Speaker 1: put a line back around and put a line American

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01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 1: run on him. You know, Brian Scott did a good

1477
01:09:02,360 --> 01:09:06,559
Speaker 1: job on Gronkowski once or twice. Tredevious had him right

1478
01:09:06,600 --> 01:09:09,000
Speaker 1: in the game a couple of years ago when Gronkowski

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01:09:09,040 --> 01:09:11,280
Speaker 1: took the cheap shot on him. But they never found

1480
01:09:11,640 --> 01:09:14,200
Speaker 1: one answer through all these coaches and regimes here, which

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01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:16,840
Speaker 1: kind of made it tough to watch. Yeah, it was

1482
01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:21,519
Speaker 1: and it was. And you know that coaching staffs a

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01:09:21,600 --> 01:09:24,200
Speaker 1: couple of here, two or three, four, I don't know

1484
01:09:24,200 --> 01:09:27,200
Speaker 1: how many coaching staffs here in Buffalo face Grinkowski has

1485
01:09:27,200 --> 01:09:29,519
Speaker 1: Buffalo head coach or whatever. But they're all sitting there

1486
01:09:29,560 --> 01:09:31,320
Speaker 1: looking around the table watching film, like what are we

1487
01:09:31,320 --> 01:09:33,240
Speaker 1: gonna do with this? Yeah, because you can see it

1488
01:09:33,320 --> 01:09:35,160
Speaker 1: on film. You get guys on film and they'll be

1489
01:09:35,200 --> 01:09:38,479
Speaker 1: watching this guy like they're playing the Jets or the Dolphins,

1490
01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:41,120
Speaker 1: other teams that you know really well. They're going, yeah,

1491
01:09:41,160 --> 01:09:43,360
Speaker 1: this guy can really cover. They're saying, you know, he

1492
01:09:43,479 --> 01:09:46,160
Speaker 1: can't get it done. He's better. This guy's better than

1493
01:09:46,240 --> 01:09:49,519
Speaker 1: our guy. He can't get it done. Yeah, well, what

1494
01:09:49,600 --> 01:09:53,479
Speaker 1: are we gonna do? Right, that's the question. And it's

1495
01:09:53,560 --> 01:09:57,600
Speaker 1: really it's really and and Rob Grenkowski aside, that's the

1496
01:09:57,680 --> 01:09:59,080
Speaker 1: way the game has. It's what you signed up for

1497
01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:00,800
Speaker 1: as a coach. There's kind of be guys who are

1498
01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:03,040
Speaker 1: good that you gotta play against and find a way.

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01:10:03,120 --> 01:10:05,360
Speaker 1: He's not the only guy they would like that, right.

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01:10:07,760 --> 01:10:10,160
Speaker 1: Twice a year, that's it's like, okay, what are we

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01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:11,920
Speaker 1: gonna try this time? You know, because we tried this,

1502
01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:14,160
Speaker 1: and not only that, you try and do it, and

1503
01:10:14,360 --> 01:10:15,519
Speaker 1: you got to do it in such a way that

1504
01:10:17,000 --> 01:10:20,240
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, Bill Belichick and all those guy and Josh

1505
01:10:20,360 --> 01:10:22,479
Speaker 1: McDaniel don't figure out what you're trying to do. All

1506
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:26,160
Speaker 1: the time, you try and find and you break down film.

1507
01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:29,720
Speaker 1: He said, Okay, when he's in this spot here, in

1508
01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:32,640
Speaker 1: this formation, this down and distance, they go to him

1509
01:10:32,720 --> 01:10:34,920
Speaker 1: this percentage of the time. So we're gonna handle that

1510
01:10:35,080 --> 01:10:37,519
Speaker 1: like this. But then when he's in a different spot

1511
01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:39,280
Speaker 1: and he's over here, we're gonna do it a different way.

1512
01:10:39,560 --> 01:10:41,559
Speaker 1: And then he's here in this spot down and distance,

1513
01:10:41,640 --> 01:10:43,439
Speaker 1: maybe the same thing as we talked about, they do

1514
01:10:43,520 --> 01:10:45,000
Speaker 1: it different. You know, they gotta be on top of

1515
01:10:45,080 --> 01:10:47,960
Speaker 1: all of that. It's it's it's all kinds of percentages

1516
01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:50,000
Speaker 1: and being ready and being on top of it, and

1517
01:10:50,080 --> 01:10:52,160
Speaker 1: you got your whole crew is pointed towards it. But

1518
01:10:52,240 --> 01:10:53,720
Speaker 1: then you sit here and like you and I have,

1519
01:10:53,800 --> 01:10:56,240
Speaker 1: we start talking about this guy. All of a sudden,

1520
01:10:56,360 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 1: Brady kills you by throwing a Chris Hogan for ten

1521
01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:01,760
Speaker 1: catches and two touchdowns. James, Well, now what do you

1522
01:11:01,840 --> 01:11:04,639
Speaker 1: do with everybody? Yeah, you know it's a crusher. Hey,

1523
01:11:04,680 --> 01:11:07,400
Speaker 1: what do you think we're talking about? Rob Gronkowski. Obviously,

1524
01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:09,160
Speaker 1: we'd like to get you involved a Twitter pool today,

1525
01:11:09,200 --> 01:11:11,280
Speaker 1: who was the best athlete from Western New York. We're

1526
01:11:11,320 --> 01:11:13,920
Speaker 1: getting all kinds of submissions on that, and we've kind

1527
01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:16,160
Speaker 1: of for our choices and we can only put four up.

1528
01:11:16,200 --> 01:11:18,560
Speaker 1: We put these four, which people find fault with. But

1529
01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:21,360
Speaker 1: forty five percent of you say Patrick Kane, twenty eight

1530
01:11:21,439 --> 01:11:23,880
Speaker 1: percent of you say Rob Gronkowski is the best all

1531
01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:27,320
Speaker 1: time athlete from Western New York. Fourteen percent say Warren Spahn,

1532
01:11:27,720 --> 01:11:30,040
Speaker 1: thirteen percent say Bob Lanier. We know that's not all.

1533
01:11:30,080 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 1: Give us your thoughts, give us a call. Let's discuss

1534
01:11:32,360 --> 01:11:34,720
Speaker 1: eight oh three oh five fifty and toll free one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five. Are we taking

1536
01:11:37,120 --> 01:11:39,240
Speaker 1: a break? Yeah? Yeah, this one last thing, I got it.

1537
01:11:39,439 --> 01:11:42,559
Speaker 1: Everybody's chiming out on John Jones, the MMA guy. Um,

1538
01:11:42,640 --> 01:11:45,120
Speaker 1: I even know who that is. I didn't either, And

1539
01:11:45,439 --> 01:11:48,360
Speaker 1: I know that's bad because we're big, we're big sports.

1540
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:51,559
Speaker 1: We're sports guys. I'm not an MMA guy and I'm

1541
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:53,760
Speaker 1: not gonna I'm not disrespecting the sport at all. Those

1542
01:11:53,800 --> 01:11:56,120
Speaker 1: guys are as as bad as it gets. They are.

1543
01:11:56,439 --> 01:11:59,240
Speaker 1: They are unbelievable they're they're finally training a life. But

1544
01:11:59,360 --> 01:12:02,920
Speaker 1: that's sports doesn't resonate with most of our listeners, which

1545
01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:05,320
Speaker 1: is why it doesn't resonate with you and me. That's

1546
01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:07,439
Speaker 1: why he's not on the list. Now if he and

1547
01:12:08,080 --> 01:12:09,560
Speaker 1: there's no reason to think he's not one of the

1548
01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:13,760
Speaker 1: best athletes ever in that sport, I get it, But

1549
01:12:14,439 --> 01:12:19,320
Speaker 1: that sports doesn't resonate with as many people as football, basketball, NHL,

1550
01:12:20,000 --> 01:12:22,760
Speaker 1: uh and major you know all that stuff. So apologiz well,

1551
01:12:22,760 --> 01:12:24,360
Speaker 1: I just kind of let people know. I know John

1552
01:12:24,439 --> 01:12:27,400
Speaker 1: Jones has been chimed in. You can, you can let

1553
01:12:27,479 --> 01:12:29,960
Speaker 1: us have. But if you've got more people like uh,

1554
01:12:30,520 --> 01:12:34,120
Speaker 1: Brian Gionta, those kind of guys, you can you can

1555
01:12:34,240 --> 01:12:36,120
Speaker 1: keep those to yourself too. I mean, we're talking about

1556
01:12:36,120 --> 01:12:39,720
Speaker 1: the best athlete, uh and and if you want, you

1557
01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:42,840
Speaker 1: can say most successful athlete. Walter Hagan's been mentioned. He

1558
01:12:42,880 --> 01:12:45,679
Speaker 1: won eleven majors. He's second behind Jack Nicholson Tiger Woods,

1559
01:12:45,720 --> 01:12:48,360
Speaker 1: an amount of majors he won in the PGA Tour. Now,

1560
01:12:48,400 --> 01:12:51,200
Speaker 1: I get it. Walter Hagen, Um, if you want to

1561
01:12:51,240 --> 01:12:53,200
Speaker 1: throw him in, that's a I can understand. He's a

1562
01:12:53,280 --> 01:12:56,600
Speaker 1: Rochester guy. So there's some other names out there. We

1563
01:12:56,760 --> 01:12:58,760
Speaker 1: put the four down that we thought because really they're

1564
01:12:58,800 --> 01:13:01,320
Speaker 1: the four major sports. Confess to this too. I put

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01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:04,400
Speaker 1: down seven one six ers Buffalo, just because that was

1566
01:13:04,439 --> 01:13:07,240
Speaker 1: our frame of restaurant, right right. John Jones Rochester, Guy

1567
01:13:07,320 --> 01:13:12,320
Speaker 1: Abby Wombat Rochester, Um Walter Hagen Rochester, Brian Gionta Rochester. Yeah,

1568
01:13:12,320 --> 01:13:15,000
Speaker 1: we love Rochester. But I wasn't like Brian Johnson too.

1569
01:13:15,040 --> 01:13:18,040
Speaker 1: But he come on, yeah, you can't whatever, And I

1570
01:13:18,120 --> 01:13:21,320
Speaker 1: get it. Everybody wants to chile apologize, right. Everybody wants

1571
01:13:21,320 --> 01:13:23,280
Speaker 1: to chime and say, hey, you forgot this guy's from it. Well,

1572
01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:25,320
Speaker 1: I didn't forget about him. I just don't think he

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01:13:25,400 --> 01:13:27,600
Speaker 1: belongs on the list, right, Like it's the same as me.

1574
01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:29,439
Speaker 1: I don't belong on the list. And how about this

1575
01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:32,439
Speaker 1: Khalil Max. Somebody's chiming and telling Khalil mac he is

1576
01:13:32,479 --> 01:13:36,880
Speaker 1: from Florida, right, he played four years you be he's

1577
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:39,160
Speaker 1: not a Western New York guy. He went to school here.

1578
01:13:39,240 --> 01:13:42,400
Speaker 1: I get it. He wasn't born here. Same thing with

1579
01:13:42,560 --> 01:13:48,320
Speaker 1: like Ernie d. Gregorio. I mean, please, that's that's kind

1580
01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:51,120
Speaker 1: of funny. Somebody really say you're Anie D. No good

1581
01:13:51,240 --> 01:13:53,040
Speaker 1: that was coming off me. We'll take a break. We're

1582
01:13:53,040 --> 01:13:57,960
Speaker 1: coming back, Mike Mamula, We're coming back. He's from Mike,

1583
01:13:58,880 --> 01:14:03,160
Speaker 1: Shane Cushan Conlin, Come on all time, Come on all time.

1584
01:14:03,400 --> 01:14:05,519
Speaker 1: And this is great. I mean he's like six. I mean,

1585
01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:07,640
Speaker 1: Shane had a nice career. Come on, it's not like

1586
01:14:07,760 --> 01:14:10,599
Speaker 1: a scavenger list fight. Find as many of these as

1587
01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:13,000
Speaker 1: cure guys as you can. I mean, go down the list, right,

1588
01:14:13,160 --> 01:14:14,600
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, come on back, give us a

1589
01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:17,600
Speaker 1: call eight three five fifty toll free one eight eight

1590
01:14:17,720 --> 01:14:20,439
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. Good to have you back, Steve.

1591
01:14:21,000 --> 01:14:24,559
Speaker 1: It is no you bring a certain something tennis. Yeah,

1592
01:14:24,880 --> 01:14:27,400
Speaker 1: we're back before One Bills Live from One Bills Drive

1593
01:14:27,479 --> 01:14:43,719
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back, John Murphy and Steve Tasker,

1594
01:14:44,360 --> 01:14:46,280
Speaker 1: coming to you from one Bills Drive. Steve, it's great

1595
01:14:46,280 --> 01:14:47,479
Speaker 1: to have you back. If I said that a couple

1596
01:14:47,479 --> 01:14:49,680
Speaker 1: of times, Yeah, it's good to be back up. And

1597
01:14:49,720 --> 01:14:51,040
Speaker 1: I was telling you that it seemed like I was

1598
01:14:51,080 --> 01:14:54,160
Speaker 1: gone for like six months, and because so much happened

1599
01:14:54,160 --> 01:14:56,320
Speaker 1: to me on this on this huge epic journey that

1600
01:14:56,400 --> 01:15:00,960
Speaker 1: we took him, and being back it's kind of like,

1601
01:15:01,120 --> 01:15:02,880
Speaker 1: you know, slipping into a nice pair of slippers, you

1602
01:15:02,960 --> 01:15:04,519
Speaker 1: know where he kind of feels. Oh yeah there, I

1603
01:15:04,560 --> 01:15:07,080
Speaker 1: am right, yeah, you know it feels comfortable. You have back. Yeah,

1604
01:15:07,080 --> 01:15:08,800
Speaker 1: it's good. Hey, this just came in. I wanted to

1605
01:15:08,920 --> 01:15:11,680
Speaker 1: before you get back to calls and tweet sheet. So

1606
01:15:11,880 --> 01:15:14,560
Speaker 1: you know you went last year every week. Yeah, the

1607
01:15:14,600 --> 01:15:17,479
Speaker 1: Frank great called the Courage Awards breakfast coming up this

1608
01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:20,400
Speaker 1: year in May. It's the eighteenth Danuel coming up Saturday,

1609
01:15:20,439 --> 01:15:22,960
Speaker 1: May eighteens w DMC. The news part of this, Steven,

1610
01:15:23,000 --> 01:15:24,439
Speaker 1: this is great and Frank told me this when we

1611
01:15:24,520 --> 01:15:27,920
Speaker 1: were out in at the Combine. This year's honoree for

1612
01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:31,519
Speaker 1: the Call to Courage Award. It's a great one. It's

1613
01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:33,960
Speaker 1: a great one. Andy Dalton gonna get the Call the

1614
01:15:34,000 --> 01:15:37,400
Speaker 1: Courage Award. What a great call by Frank. The Bengals quarterback.

1615
01:15:38,040 --> 01:15:40,519
Speaker 1: You know the story right, he leads his Bengals to

1616
01:15:40,680 --> 01:15:42,920
Speaker 1: victory a couple of years ago over the Baltimore Ravens

1617
01:15:43,240 --> 01:15:46,439
Speaker 1: Bills get in the playoffs. Andy Dalton will be the

1618
01:15:46,520 --> 01:15:49,000
Speaker 1: second Bengals quarterback to get this award. The other one

1619
01:15:49,080 --> 01:15:51,759
Speaker 1: was John Kittna, who actually I met at the Combine

1620
01:15:51,840 --> 01:15:53,479
Speaker 1: this year, I believe it or not. He's a quarterback

1621
01:15:53,520 --> 01:15:55,760
Speaker 1: coaching Dallas. Yeah. Yeah, he was with son Jay Lyle.

1622
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:57,920
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but this is cool. I think this will

1623
01:15:57,960 --> 01:16:00,560
Speaker 1: be a big, big deal. All them money raised in

1624
01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:02,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo for Andy Dalton Foundation, A couple of well, it

1625
01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:04,080
Speaker 1: was just about a year ago, right, year and a

1626
01:16:04,080 --> 01:16:07,240
Speaker 1: half ago, So that's great. It's coming up on May eighteenth,

1627
01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:10,160
Speaker 1: the Call to Courage Awards Breakfast. If you are interested

1628
01:16:10,200 --> 01:16:13,280
Speaker 1: in tickets, called five five eighteen hundred or look on

1629
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:17,400
Speaker 1: Facebook at AIA Buffalo. So I get a good friend

1630
01:16:17,439 --> 01:16:21,639
Speaker 1: of mine, and Frank's was Fred Rains who Yeah, Fred,

1631
01:16:22,040 --> 01:16:24,280
Speaker 1: he emailed me and as he's been hounding me to

1632
01:16:24,520 --> 01:16:27,080
Speaker 1: RSVP say if I'm gonna be around for that, I

1633
01:16:27,720 --> 01:16:29,880
Speaker 1: haven't gotten back to him yet. I would like to

1634
01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:32,360
Speaker 1: do it on the air here, like The Bachelor became

1635
01:16:32,400 --> 01:16:35,120
Speaker 1: the Bachelor. I think I am gonna have to. I

1636
01:16:35,240 --> 01:16:37,160
Speaker 1: am gonna go. Fred would like you to join us

1637
01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:40,000
Speaker 1: at the right I gotta I gotta tell him. And

1638
01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:41,800
Speaker 1: I think my wife might have done that for me.

1639
01:16:41,880 --> 01:16:44,160
Speaker 1: She might have come to my rescue. It's like The Bachelor.

1640
01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:47,559
Speaker 1: So I'm still socially awkward. I just say that. Yeah,

1641
01:16:47,680 --> 01:16:50,400
Speaker 1: so seeing that, yeah, so I gotta get I gotta

1642
01:16:50,640 --> 01:16:52,360
Speaker 1: take care of that. I don't get shut out of that.

1643
01:16:52,560 --> 01:16:54,040
Speaker 1: Put it in your phone right now and you're good

1644
01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:55,639
Speaker 1: to go. I got now. I'm gonna get my phone

1645
01:16:55,640 --> 01:16:56,960
Speaker 1: out right and when we're on there, I don't even

1646
01:16:56,960 --> 01:16:58,599
Speaker 1: know where my phone is right now, by the way,

1647
01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:02,160
Speaker 1: is he's back? And gentlemen, hey, our Twitter poll today?

1648
01:17:02,439 --> 01:17:04,439
Speaker 1: Who is the best athlete ever from Western New York?

1649
01:17:04,520 --> 01:17:07,400
Speaker 1: Is it Robert Gronkowski? Is it Bob Lanier? Is it

1650
01:17:07,520 --> 01:17:10,120
Speaker 1: Warren Spot? Is it Patrick Kane? Is it somebody else

1651
01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:11,640
Speaker 1: we haven't thought of? Give us a call, let us know.

1652
01:17:11,720 --> 01:17:13,680
Speaker 1: Do you think? Eight h three oh five fifty and

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Speaker 1: toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: Jim on the line from Boston, Hello, Jim, what do

1655
01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:23,240
Speaker 1: you think? Hey, guys, how you doing today? Okay? Great? Yeah,

1656
01:17:24,160 --> 01:17:26,240
Speaker 1: I would have to say, you know, as far as

1657
01:17:26,360 --> 01:17:30,320
Speaker 1: lifetime achievement, you'd have to say Warren Spot right now,

1658
01:17:30,960 --> 01:17:34,240
Speaker 1: m Patrick Kane. You know the books still open on him. Hey,

1659
01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:38,439
Speaker 1: you know there's still things he may accomplish. But Warren Spot,

1660
01:17:38,560 --> 01:17:41,360
Speaker 1: I mean, the winning ist left handed pitcher of all

1661
01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:43,880
Speaker 1: time in Major League Baseball at a time when there

1662
01:17:43,960 --> 01:17:48,040
Speaker 1: was only sixteen Major League teams, and also a good

1663
01:17:48,120 --> 01:17:50,400
Speaker 1: hug of his career got taken away when he served

1664
01:17:50,439 --> 01:17:52,960
Speaker 1: in World War Two, so his total could have been

1665
01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:56,439
Speaker 1: even higher. You know, So I would say, hands of

1666
01:17:56,560 --> 01:17:59,880
Speaker 1: right now, I put Warren spot number one, Patrick Kane second.

1667
01:18:00,400 --> 01:18:03,040
Speaker 1: But the book is still open to Patrick Kane because

1668
01:18:03,760 --> 01:18:06,400
Speaker 1: you know he may still accomplish even more. Jim, where

1669
01:18:06,439 --> 01:18:10,000
Speaker 1: does Gronkowski belong on your rankings? I would put him

1670
01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:14,360
Speaker 1: behind Bob. I mean maybe with Bob Lanier, you know,

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01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:18,439
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean gron had Super Bowl titles. I

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01:18:18,520 --> 01:18:20,840
Speaker 1: mean Bob Lanier, I mean he was a great player

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01:18:20,880 --> 01:18:23,759
Speaker 1: in the NBA also, So I call it a toss

1674
01:18:23,840 --> 01:18:27,360
Speaker 1: up between those two. Uh. But you know, I would say,

1675
01:18:27,640 --> 01:18:30,960
Speaker 1: you know, when your final tally was taken. Uh. You know,

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01:18:31,280 --> 01:18:33,680
Speaker 1: in a few years, when Patrick Kane retires, he may

1677
01:18:33,800 --> 01:18:35,800
Speaker 1: end up being the greatest, But right now, I'd say

1678
01:18:35,920 --> 01:18:39,280
Speaker 1: Warren spawn. Okay, Yeah, thanks Jim. That's a good and

1679
01:18:39,600 --> 01:18:42,559
Speaker 1: well thought out and I appreciate your being able to articulate.

1680
01:18:42,680 --> 01:18:46,000
Speaker 1: You're right, it's hard and any of these things. It's

1681
01:18:46,040 --> 01:18:48,160
Speaker 1: hard to like we said earlier in the shows, to

1682
01:18:48,280 --> 01:18:51,840
Speaker 1: cross point and compare Patrick Kane to Bob Lanier, you know,

1683
01:18:52,040 --> 01:18:56,600
Speaker 1: and and to compare other athletes, Warren spawn to Rob Grenkowski.

1684
01:18:56,760 --> 01:19:01,120
Speaker 1: You know, baseball is a different different You're if you're

1685
01:19:01,120 --> 01:19:05,720
Speaker 1: a really good player, your career tends to be much much,

1686
01:19:05,880 --> 01:19:08,840
Speaker 1: much longer, significantly longer than that of a football player.

1687
01:19:09,320 --> 01:19:11,519
Speaker 1: Uh and some and same thing with a football player

1688
01:19:11,520 --> 01:19:15,160
Speaker 1: and a hockey player. So um. Certainly, longevity is a

1689
01:19:15,320 --> 01:19:20,320
Speaker 1: key towards being evaluated long term and as a lifetime achievement.

1690
01:19:20,920 --> 01:19:23,519
Speaker 1: It lends itself to being higher on that list when

1691
01:19:23,560 --> 01:19:26,120
Speaker 1: you've got a twenty one career year career rather than

1692
01:19:26,240 --> 01:19:28,599
Speaker 1: a nine or seven year career as a football player.

1693
01:19:28,880 --> 01:19:31,000
Speaker 1: Good point. So it's it's hard to cross, you know,

1694
01:19:31,120 --> 01:19:35,200
Speaker 1: to to evaluate evenly when you're the criteria is so

1695
01:19:35,320 --> 01:19:37,840
Speaker 1: different in both sports. Peter and Cheekzwaga on the line, Peter,

1696
01:19:37,920 --> 01:19:41,479
Speaker 1: who do you got? I worry broke faith. There's two

1697
01:19:41,640 --> 01:19:47,519
Speaker 1: guys who did mansion. That's Paul Seymour and Deep Mats

1698
01:19:47,760 --> 01:19:50,400
Speaker 1: Arts one of them. Neither one of those guys are

1699
01:19:50,439 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 1: from Buffalo, Bud, Peter, you mean for the all time

1700
01:19:53,200 --> 01:19:58,120
Speaker 1: tight end in NFL history? Yep, do either one of

1701
01:19:58,160 --> 01:19:59,880
Speaker 1: them belong on the list of all time, great time

1702
01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:04,559
Speaker 1: ends in NFL history. I think Pete Michel does. Why

1703
01:20:05,720 --> 01:20:07,880
Speaker 1: I listened. Pete was my roommate for a lot of

1704
01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:10,920
Speaker 1: road trips. I mean, I'm as buddy. Um. I think

1705
01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:13,679
Speaker 1: he might laugh at you, but go ahead, and I won't,

1706
01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:16,040
Speaker 1: but go ahead. But why do you think? Why do

1707
01:20:16,120 --> 01:20:18,880
Speaker 1: you think? Why do you think Pete wheat Straw deserves

1708
01:20:18,920 --> 01:20:21,920
Speaker 1: to be on that list? Well, okay, I don't watch

1709
01:20:22,080 --> 01:20:27,880
Speaker 1: the Bills tonight, stick and Pete was a pretty good

1710
01:20:28,040 --> 01:20:32,479
Speaker 1: tight he really contributed to. Yeah, we gotta be thanks

1711
01:20:32,520 --> 01:20:34,680
Speaker 1: for calling Peter. We gotta be better than pretty good.

1712
01:20:34,760 --> 01:20:40,280
Speaker 1: Yeah right, what is that? Okay? It's not just okay.

1713
01:20:40,439 --> 01:20:42,080
Speaker 1: You know, you can't just be okay and get on

1714
01:20:42,160 --> 01:20:44,479
Speaker 1: the list. I mean, and then I listen, we all

1715
01:20:44,560 --> 01:20:46,439
Speaker 1: fall into this. We start thinking, oh, yeah, I forgot

1716
01:20:46,479 --> 01:20:48,479
Speaker 1: about that guy or this guy or that guy. Listen

1717
01:20:49,120 --> 01:20:51,720
Speaker 1: if you have to, if if nobody has mentioned it

1718
01:20:51,800 --> 01:20:54,200
Speaker 1: out loud as being a kind of it's they're not

1719
01:20:54,320 --> 01:20:58,120
Speaker 1: good enough. So all time Yeah, and we're talking about

1720
01:20:58,160 --> 01:21:01,720
Speaker 1: all time great Western New York athletes, people who were

1721
01:21:01,880 --> 01:21:04,280
Speaker 1: born here and and and you know people are starting

1722
01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:06,800
Speaker 1: to chime in with Rochester. If you've got somebody like

1723
01:21:06,920 --> 01:21:11,320
Speaker 1: like Walter Hagen's a Rochester guy. Uh. Okay, you know

1724
01:21:11,479 --> 01:21:13,080
Speaker 1: you can, you can chime in with a name like that,

1725
01:21:13,280 --> 01:21:18,040
Speaker 1: but I don't want to hear about you know, Pete

1726
01:21:18,120 --> 01:21:22,920
Speaker 1: Metzlars and Khalil Mack. You know, two guys, two good players,

1727
01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:24,639
Speaker 1: but you know they're a good friend of this. They're

1728
01:21:24,680 --> 01:21:28,080
Speaker 1: not They're not from here. Yeah, you know. From f Martinez.

1729
01:21:28,200 --> 01:21:31,920
Speaker 1: A tweet from the tweet sheet gets gets an insult

1730
01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:34,479
Speaker 1: in on Twitter. That's amazing, sweet. I know you meet

1731
01:21:34,560 --> 01:21:39,360
Speaker 1: heads don't care about women's sports, but Abbe Wambach, not

1732
01:21:39,520 --> 01:21:42,519
Speaker 1: spelled correctly, is considered by most as the goat in

1733
01:21:42,600 --> 01:21:45,720
Speaker 1: her sport. She's from Rochester. Okay, we know that. Um

1734
01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:49,040
Speaker 1: we kind of had a Buffalo seven one six fixation

1735
01:21:49,120 --> 01:21:50,880
Speaker 1: on this question, but I get it. We could be

1736
01:21:50,960 --> 01:21:53,360
Speaker 1: called to task for that. Certainly, one of the greatest

1737
01:21:53,400 --> 01:21:56,000
Speaker 1: of all time from the Bills monster on the tweet sheet,

1738
01:21:56,040 --> 01:21:58,040
Speaker 1: Gronk is one of the best of all time. He

1739
01:21:58,120 --> 01:21:59,719
Speaker 1: will be in the Hall of Fame. It's a shamed.

1740
01:22:00,200 --> 01:22:02,240
Speaker 1: It's a shame that thing that happened with White. I

1741
01:22:02,360 --> 01:22:03,800
Speaker 1: like him as a player. He has fun to watch

1742
01:22:03,920 --> 01:22:07,400
Speaker 1: catch the ball in triple coverage. Well, okay, the trenevious

1743
01:22:07,439 --> 01:22:10,680
Speaker 1: white thing I think sticks in the craw just like

1744
01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:13,200
Speaker 1: saying that of many Bills fans. And I told me,

1745
01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:15,720
Speaker 1: we talked about this even before the show. There was

1746
01:22:15,800 --> 01:22:18,040
Speaker 1: so out of character for him. It still stuns me

1747
01:22:18,120 --> 01:22:20,200
Speaker 1: that that happened. See, he got the one game suspension

1748
01:22:20,240 --> 01:22:22,639
Speaker 1: and he never done anything like that really before. Since

1749
01:22:22,680 --> 01:22:25,000
Speaker 1: I told you the story, he knew it too, right

1750
01:22:25,120 --> 01:22:27,280
Speaker 1: telling the story. So I'm going down after that game

1751
01:22:27,360 --> 01:22:29,200
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, going down the tunnel, long

1752
01:22:29,240 --> 01:22:32,280
Speaker 1: tunnel here at a new airfield and Gronks coming up

1753
01:22:32,439 --> 01:22:35,160
Speaker 1: all by himself. And I've known him for twenty years ago.

1754
01:22:35,160 --> 01:22:36,720
Speaker 1: I knew when he was, you know, a teenager. And

1755
01:22:36,760 --> 01:22:38,600
Speaker 1: he looks at me and he goes, he gave me

1756
01:22:38,680 --> 01:22:41,320
Speaker 1: the most sheepish look I've ever seen, like he knew

1757
01:22:41,320 --> 01:22:45,439
Speaker 1: he screwed up. And he said, I mister Murphy, And

1758
01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:48,080
Speaker 1: I said, Rob, what what what was it? He goes, yeah,

1759
01:22:48,240 --> 01:22:51,240
Speaker 1: and he just kept walking. You know, he was out

1760
01:22:51,280 --> 01:22:53,280
Speaker 1: of character for he knew was after it had he

1761
01:22:53,360 --> 01:22:57,360
Speaker 1: knew it was inexcusable. And there's no doubt that in

1762
01:22:57,520 --> 01:23:00,839
Speaker 1: that locker room Bill Belichick gave him a near He's

1763
01:23:00,840 --> 01:23:02,800
Speaker 1: not gonna put up with it. Bill Belichick said something

1764
01:23:02,840 --> 01:23:05,960
Speaker 1: to Sean McDermott after the game as well. Uh, and

1765
01:23:06,280 --> 01:23:09,800
Speaker 1: he knew, Uh, it's not gonna fly. Belichick doesn't want

1766
01:23:09,840 --> 01:23:12,360
Speaker 1: that kind of thing on his team. Uh, it's not.

1767
01:23:12,960 --> 01:23:15,919
Speaker 1: It was our age and it and it was dangerous,

1768
01:23:16,040 --> 01:23:18,439
Speaker 1: no question about it. And it was also but I

1769
01:23:18,520 --> 01:23:20,160
Speaker 1: think that's one of the times and I'm not I'm

1770
01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:22,800
Speaker 1: not coming down any one side of there. It was

1771
01:23:22,800 --> 01:23:25,640
Speaker 1: a wrong thing to do, absolutely, And I think the

1772
01:23:25,760 --> 01:23:29,320
Speaker 1: thing that the strikes you about is how out of

1773
01:23:29,400 --> 01:23:31,639
Speaker 1: character that was for him. Yeah, he's not that kind

1774
01:23:31,680 --> 01:23:34,160
Speaker 1: of player, never was, And I think that's why. Um,

1775
01:23:36,040 --> 01:23:37,800
Speaker 1: even and though it was, even though it was an

1776
01:23:37,880 --> 01:23:41,160
Speaker 1: egregious penalty and he got suspended for it and deserved it.

1777
01:23:41,920 --> 01:23:45,080
Speaker 1: Um it taken as a whole, that was that was

1778
01:23:45,200 --> 01:23:46,880
Speaker 1: There's no question. You got to say that was an

1779
01:23:46,880 --> 01:23:49,080
Speaker 1: aberration in his career, no question, but it was. It

1780
01:23:49,160 --> 01:23:51,400
Speaker 1: was pretty glaring, particularly for hearing people people here in

1781
01:23:51,400 --> 01:23:53,240
Speaker 1: Buffalo and the fact it was you know, it's in

1782
01:23:53,320 --> 01:23:55,880
Speaker 1: his hometown. Yeah, so we all know him, and we're like,

1783
01:23:56,280 --> 01:23:59,040
Speaker 1: you know, so his family members, you're allowed as a

1784
01:24:00,200 --> 01:24:03,479
Speaker 1: what are you doing pretty much right. And that's why

1785
01:24:03,640 --> 01:24:05,360
Speaker 1: that's where we're all say it, Joe, what do you

1786
01:24:06,160 --> 01:24:07,880
Speaker 1: gron What are you doing? What happened? I mean you

1787
01:24:08,080 --> 01:24:09,560
Speaker 1: see him twice a year. I mean he's in the

1788
01:24:09,640 --> 01:24:11,360
Speaker 1: guy he's from. He's like one of the local guys.

1789
01:24:11,760 --> 01:24:13,000
Speaker 1: It's like you see him, he comes back and then

1790
01:24:13,080 --> 01:24:16,519
Speaker 1: tell me, bro, what are you doing? Yeah, and you

1791
01:24:16,600 --> 01:24:19,320
Speaker 1: know he's gonna have to you know what, Hana live

1792
01:24:19,360 --> 01:24:20,880
Speaker 1: with it. He's gotta live with it. A call here

1793
01:24:20,920 --> 01:24:22,840
Speaker 1: from Kevin and Hamburg. Hello, Kevin, go ahead, you're on

1794
01:24:22,880 --> 01:24:26,000
Speaker 1: the air. Good good Unfortunately, because he has to play

1795
01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:28,400
Speaker 1: against as Gronk is one of the best of Western

1796
01:24:28,479 --> 01:24:32,280
Speaker 1: New York. Unfortunately, But can I tell you something. My

1797
01:24:32,439 --> 01:24:35,760
Speaker 1: favorite from Western New York is Ron Jeworski from Lackawanna.

1798
01:24:36,280 --> 01:24:38,880
Speaker 1: He's my favorite from even though he didn't win a

1799
01:24:38,920 --> 01:24:40,720
Speaker 1: super Bowl because he ran in the gym Punk and

1800
01:24:40,800 --> 01:24:46,439
Speaker 1: the Raiders. My favorite Lackawanna guys from Lackawanna the Jaws Manorsky. Well,

1801
01:24:46,479 --> 01:24:48,600
Speaker 1: that's good. That's a good one and Jaws. Hey a

1802
01:24:48,640 --> 01:24:52,760
Speaker 1: super Bowl. Winning a Super Bowl participating quarterback, uh is

1803
01:24:52,800 --> 01:24:55,120
Speaker 1: a high bar. It's hard to get in that spot.

1804
01:24:55,240 --> 01:24:56,760
Speaker 1: It's hard to be one of those guys. There's not

1805
01:24:56,840 --> 01:24:59,680
Speaker 1: that many of them. Um, and I it'd be an

1806
01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:03,479
Speaker 1: interesting analytics project. I'll leave it to our listeners if

1807
01:25:03,479 --> 01:25:04,680
Speaker 1: they want to go back and do this, because I'm

1808
01:25:04,680 --> 01:25:06,840
Speaker 1: not going to How many guys have quarterback to team

1809
01:25:06,880 --> 01:25:10,160
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. It's less than one hundred. You know,

1810
01:25:11,240 --> 01:25:12,840
Speaker 1: it's less than a hundred over the history of the

1811
01:25:12,880 --> 01:25:14,519
Speaker 1: team because you got all these guys have you know,

1812
01:25:14,640 --> 01:25:18,360
Speaker 1: like Brady's done like seven of them, and Bradshaw four

1813
01:25:18,560 --> 01:25:24,800
Speaker 1: Stabaka Bunch uh Terry Terry, Uh yeah, Kelly's done four,

1814
01:25:25,520 --> 01:25:29,200
Speaker 1: Akeman's done a Cup four Montana. All these guys have

1815
01:25:29,320 --> 01:25:32,879
Speaker 1: got multiple super Bowls. So there's not that many quarterbacks

1816
01:25:32,920 --> 01:25:35,000
Speaker 1: who have had the opportunity or earned the right to

1817
01:25:35,120 --> 01:25:39,519
Speaker 1: be the quarterback of a team NFL team. So it's uh,

1818
01:25:40,040 --> 01:25:42,200
Speaker 1: it's an elite group. And and you know, there's no

1819
01:25:42,360 --> 01:25:44,600
Speaker 1: question it's a lifetime achievement when you look back on it.

1820
01:25:44,720 --> 01:25:46,920
Speaker 1: That's the highlight of ron Gerroiski's career, even though it

1821
01:25:46,920 --> 01:25:48,840
Speaker 1: didn't go his way and they met a really good

1822
01:25:48,880 --> 01:25:51,560
Speaker 1: team in the Super Bowl, no question. Believe me. I

1823
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:53,360
Speaker 1: know that as well as anybody you don't run into

1824
01:25:53,439 --> 01:25:56,080
Speaker 1: bad teams in the Super Bowl. Um, you might run

1825
01:25:56,120 --> 01:25:57,840
Speaker 1: into a team that plays bad. I was, I was

1826
01:25:57,920 --> 01:25:59,639
Speaker 1: on a couple of I don't know if you saw those.

1827
01:25:59,680 --> 01:26:02,800
Speaker 1: I was on a couple of them, you know. But yeah,

1828
01:26:02,920 --> 01:26:05,519
Speaker 1: so I get it. Jos is great, and hey, he's

1829
01:26:05,520 --> 01:26:06,960
Speaker 1: a locker when you grew up running the lake the

1830
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:10,040
Speaker 1: lock of Wana man. So yeah, that's a I get it.

1831
01:26:10,320 --> 01:26:12,400
Speaker 1: I don't mind that name being thrown in. We got

1832
01:26:12,760 --> 01:26:14,720
Speaker 1: a couple of good suggestions from the tweet sheep. We'll

1833
01:26:14,720 --> 01:26:17,759
Speaker 1: get to those when we return. Talking about Rob Groundcowsey's retirement,

1834
01:26:17,760 --> 01:26:20,200
Speaker 1: as he in fact, the best athlete all time any

1835
01:26:20,240 --> 01:26:22,240
Speaker 1: sport from Western New York. We'll discuss more and when

1836
01:26:22,280 --> 01:26:24,679
Speaker 1: we come back. One Bill's Live from One Bill's Driving.

1837
01:26:24,720 --> 01:26:42,320
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to the show.

1838
01:26:42,360 --> 01:26:44,559
Speaker 1: Steve Task along with John Murphy back in the saddle

1839
01:26:44,760 --> 01:26:47,240
Speaker 1: took us. I'm hosting us back from the break because

1840
01:26:47,280 --> 01:26:52,200
Speaker 1: we were hustling back in having having a heated discussion

1841
01:26:52,439 --> 01:26:56,040
Speaker 1: back there over the printer. Yeah, and college hoops and

1842
01:26:56,200 --> 01:26:58,920
Speaker 1: college hoops, Yeah, everybody talking about college bass. Yeah, it's

1843
01:26:59,160 --> 01:27:02,360
Speaker 1: it's big. I was I was in, didn't I know.

1844
01:27:02,800 --> 01:27:05,320
Speaker 1: I know it's funny because I was talking about my

1845
01:27:05,400 --> 01:27:07,360
Speaker 1: trip to Africa and I was missing I was you know,

1846
01:27:07,400 --> 01:27:09,599
Speaker 1: you keep It's easy to keep up with stuff nowadays

1847
01:27:09,640 --> 01:27:12,400
Speaker 1: because I'm I'm across the globe and all I get

1848
01:27:13,280 --> 01:27:17,639
Speaker 1: pop on Twitter and I'm getting the brackets, I'm getting

1849
01:27:17,640 --> 01:27:20,200
Speaker 1: the games like that that I'm like, wow, I got

1850
01:27:20,320 --> 01:27:22,439
Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm missing that. I'm not on any

1851
01:27:22,479 --> 01:27:25,479
Speaker 1: bra I have no bracket at all. I don't have

1852
01:27:25,560 --> 01:27:27,600
Speaker 1: a single one filled out. Yeah, I filled one up

1853
01:27:27,640 --> 01:27:29,080
Speaker 1: and didn't put money on it. I was telling the

1854
01:27:29,160 --> 01:27:30,920
Speaker 1: show last money on it? Man, what do you do

1855
01:27:31,080 --> 01:27:33,240
Speaker 1: with who? Nobody wanted to do it, but nobody wants

1856
01:27:33,240 --> 01:27:36,080
Speaker 1: nobody wants any of you? Right, Nobody wanted to do it.

1857
01:27:36,120 --> 01:27:38,320
Speaker 1: And I will confess it's not it's much fun when

1858
01:27:38,320 --> 01:27:41,560
Speaker 1: you don't have money involved. It's not. I'm not a

1859
01:27:41,640 --> 01:27:44,639
Speaker 1: gambling addict or anything. But I got this bracket. Obviously

1860
01:27:44,720 --> 01:27:46,560
Speaker 1: everybody's doing well. It's all chock. Did you see that

1861
01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:49,799
Speaker 1: there's like, um, two of the two of the regions.

1862
01:27:49,880 --> 01:27:52,760
Speaker 1: Now the remaining four in each ar one through four, one, two,

1863
01:27:52,840 --> 01:27:54,760
Speaker 1: three and four. I think there's a ten seed and

1864
01:27:54,840 --> 01:27:58,240
Speaker 1: a nine seed and everything else's top top four, top anyway,

1865
01:27:58,520 --> 01:28:01,040
Speaker 1: so it's all chuck. So everybody's racket's doing great, which

1866
01:28:01,080 --> 01:28:04,400
Speaker 1: isn't that much fun either. Really, they had a couple

1867
01:28:04,600 --> 01:28:07,439
Speaker 1: of the and that billion dollar contest where there was

1868
01:28:07,479 --> 01:28:09,519
Speaker 1: a couple that were still perfect right up until like,

1869
01:28:09,760 --> 01:28:12,000
Speaker 1: well yeah before yesterday. Right, yeah, they got the first

1870
01:28:12,040 --> 01:28:15,000
Speaker 1: two rounds almost exactly right, well exactly right, yeah, and

1871
01:28:15,120 --> 01:28:18,080
Speaker 1: then yeah, there's no way they're still right. Correct. No,

1872
01:28:18,360 --> 01:28:20,080
Speaker 1: I don't know, there's no way that too. Out of

1873
01:28:20,120 --> 01:28:22,320
Speaker 1: one play pool. You don't care about pools, right, I

1874
01:28:22,360 --> 01:28:24,840
Speaker 1: don't know, that's exactly right, you don't care about the tournament.

1875
01:28:24,880 --> 01:28:27,840
Speaker 1: I watched a ton of basketball, including great seasons for

1876
01:28:27,960 --> 01:28:30,360
Speaker 1: both Buffalo teams, the men and the women. I watched

1877
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:32,880
Speaker 1: all of the men's game and the remainder of the

1878
01:28:32,960 --> 01:28:35,280
Speaker 1: women's game. The women's game was amazing. They had Ukon

1879
01:28:35,400 --> 01:28:37,800
Speaker 1: on the run last night that yeah, you can calling

1880
01:28:37,840 --> 01:28:40,280
Speaker 1: time outs late, trying whoa whoa, whoa, whoa, He's gonna

1881
01:28:40,280 --> 01:28:44,400
Speaker 1: get out of awesome. And this is the first year, uh,

1882
01:28:44,840 --> 01:28:46,920
Speaker 1: since I've been in Buffalo. Let me think I think

1883
01:28:46,960 --> 01:28:48,960
Speaker 1: it might be there might have been one other year,

1884
01:28:49,200 --> 01:28:51,960
Speaker 1: because you know, I live over in East Row. One

1885
01:28:52,000 --> 01:28:53,679
Speaker 1: of the easter Or kids was on the UB team

1886
01:28:53,720 --> 01:28:56,439
Speaker 1: about ten years ago. Um, and I went to one

1887
01:28:56,439 --> 01:28:59,519
Speaker 1: of those games. But the first basketball game, well, you

1888
01:28:59,560 --> 01:29:01,960
Speaker 1: went to you. I went to you B once this year,

1889
01:29:02,080 --> 01:29:05,759
Speaker 1: and it's just because they were, you know, top twenty

1890
01:29:05,800 --> 01:29:07,280
Speaker 1: in the nation. I was like, man, I gotta go

1891
01:29:07,320 --> 01:29:09,880
Speaker 1: see him. That's called being a front runner. Yes it is,

1892
01:29:10,600 --> 01:29:13,000
Speaker 1: I fully admit that. But that's how good it was.

1893
01:29:14,280 --> 01:29:16,040
Speaker 1: That's how fun it was this season for you B.

1894
01:29:16,280 --> 01:29:20,000
Speaker 1: And and that is correct. And just as quickly I

1895
01:29:20,120 --> 01:29:23,040
Speaker 1: was tossed off of it. Who are you getting? I

1896
01:29:23,160 --> 01:29:26,519
Speaker 1: saw you played twice, some beat Canacius and saw them

1897
01:29:26,760 --> 01:29:28,960
Speaker 1: beat Lemoine. So I'm two and the bulls and it

1898
01:29:29,120 --> 01:29:34,559
Speaker 1: was a great atmosphere. Um. Now, given my limited um,

1899
01:29:35,080 --> 01:29:37,680
Speaker 1: don't sell yourself short, and given my limited experience and

1900
01:29:38,200 --> 01:29:42,360
Speaker 1: fandom of that sport, now you be is hoping that

1901
01:29:42,479 --> 01:29:45,680
Speaker 1: their guy is just leave right. Yeah, he's got a

1902
01:29:45,720 --> 01:29:47,840
Speaker 1: contract extension. But you can get out of those if

1903
01:29:47,880 --> 01:29:50,400
Speaker 1: you if somebody's ready to pay the bulls. Yeah, but yeah,

1904
01:29:50,439 --> 01:29:53,080
Speaker 1: I just this. That was great to see. Um. It

1905
01:29:53,240 --> 01:29:56,320
Speaker 1: was great for the city that both those teams um

1906
01:29:56,640 --> 01:30:00,360
Speaker 1: led by quality people, uh speaks one of the region.

1907
01:30:00,400 --> 01:30:02,000
Speaker 1: It's nice to see and it was fun to see

1908
01:30:02,040 --> 01:30:04,840
Speaker 1: him on TV international stage. Take a quick call here,

1909
01:30:04,920 --> 01:30:06,880
Speaker 1: Al and Clarence. Go ahead out you're on the air.

1910
01:30:07,360 --> 01:30:10,599
Speaker 1: Hey guys, how you doing great? I think the thing

1911
01:30:10,640 --> 01:30:12,720
Speaker 1: with the Twitter Poles, I didn't expect Bronk to win

1912
01:30:12,800 --> 01:30:16,120
Speaker 1: it because you're Buffalo Bill's show and you're asking us

1913
01:30:16,160 --> 01:30:19,040
Speaker 1: to call him about guy who used villainize around here. Basically,

1914
01:30:19,120 --> 01:30:22,800
Speaker 1: I mean the images is of Bronkar with Tom Brady

1915
01:30:22,920 --> 01:30:25,160
Speaker 1: and taking pictures with Tom, not when he's doing something

1916
01:30:25,200 --> 01:30:26,920
Speaker 1: good in the city of Buffalo. So he's looked at

1917
01:30:27,040 --> 01:30:29,200
Speaker 1: more of a New England guy, not a Buffalo guy.

1918
01:30:29,240 --> 01:30:31,000
Speaker 1: And how do you account for Patrick Kane Is he

1919
01:30:31,120 --> 01:30:34,280
Speaker 1: looked at the Chicago guy not a Buffalo guy. Um,

1920
01:30:34,479 --> 01:30:37,680
Speaker 1: I think he's more Buffalo's not. He's not villainized as

1921
01:30:37,760 --> 01:30:39,600
Speaker 1: much because we don't see Patrick Kine that much. We

1922
01:30:39,640 --> 01:30:42,479
Speaker 1: see him twice a year. I mean, it'd be different

1923
01:30:42,479 --> 01:30:44,680
Speaker 1: if you were in our division maybe or something like that.

1924
01:30:45,439 --> 01:30:48,240
Speaker 1: But you knows, Rocks in the AFC East we see

1925
01:30:48,320 --> 01:30:50,360
Speaker 1: him twice a year. He did the thing that Tavius.

1926
01:30:50,920 --> 01:30:53,880
Speaker 1: I just think that you know, it's a perception thing,

1927
01:30:53,960 --> 01:30:56,800
Speaker 1: and yeah, I see it. I guess i'd people to

1928
01:30:56,880 --> 01:30:58,640
Speaker 1: look beyond some of that and in fact that he

1929
01:30:58,720 --> 01:31:02,479
Speaker 1: plays for the Patriots and appreciate and it's really what

1930
01:31:02,600 --> 01:31:05,120
Speaker 1: today's show, we've had two different guests talk about Gronkowski

1931
01:31:05,600 --> 01:31:08,559
Speaker 1: just kind of a homage of respect for his great

1932
01:31:08,680 --> 01:31:11,759
Speaker 1: nine year career. The guy is an all timer, probably

1933
01:31:11,800 --> 01:31:15,280
Speaker 1: a Pro Football Hall of Fame, arguably the greatest professional

1934
01:31:15,360 --> 01:31:17,120
Speaker 1: athlete to come out of Buffalo and Western New York.

1935
01:31:17,120 --> 01:31:19,439
Speaker 1: Am I wrong about this? No, not at all. It's

1936
01:31:20,200 --> 01:31:22,200
Speaker 1: it's a huge it's a huge thing. I mean, you

1937
01:31:22,320 --> 01:31:24,360
Speaker 1: talk about the guy, the guys on the list, Gronkowski

1938
01:31:24,479 --> 01:31:26,160
Speaker 1: is going to be on the list, on the short

1939
01:31:26,200 --> 01:31:28,880
Speaker 1: list of what we're talking about, and we put four

1940
01:31:29,040 --> 01:31:32,120
Speaker 1: names on it. Uh. I was just explaining, you know, oh,

1941
01:31:32,160 --> 01:31:34,920
Speaker 1: I know, I got you, Yeah, I get you. Let

1942
01:31:35,000 --> 01:31:37,080
Speaker 1: me ask you this and it's just just going reverse.

1943
01:31:37,760 --> 01:31:41,200
Speaker 1: You're gonna take Warren Spawn off that list? Oh no,

1944
01:31:41,600 --> 01:31:43,719
Speaker 1: you're gonna, I mean yeah, I mean you can. We're

1945
01:31:43,720 --> 01:31:45,960
Speaker 1: getting all this stuff from Twitter and everybody around. Everybody's

1946
01:31:46,000 --> 01:31:49,920
Speaker 1: got these you know these names from yeah, yeah, when

1947
01:31:50,000 --> 01:31:52,639
Speaker 1: Brown is playing, when NFL is the most popular sport

1948
01:31:52,640 --> 01:31:55,280
Speaker 1: in America. You know, those are two different eras, and

1949
01:31:55,600 --> 01:32:00,679
Speaker 1: absolutely that's true. And baseball was it, I mean, number

1950
01:32:00,680 --> 01:32:03,479
Speaker 1: one sport in America. So if you have people from

1951
01:32:03,520 --> 01:32:06,120
Speaker 1: that demographic calling and they'll be calling him what Warren's

1952
01:32:06,120 --> 01:32:10,240
Speaker 1: found them, dollaly and I get it. And it's we

1953
01:32:10,360 --> 01:32:12,720
Speaker 1: are a little bit of the of an era here,

1954
01:32:12,880 --> 01:32:15,439
Speaker 1: and we're kind of I mean, they didn't have Twitter

1955
01:32:15,479 --> 01:32:19,240
Speaker 1: polls in nineteen fifty four, so you know, we are

1956
01:32:19,280 --> 01:32:21,160
Speaker 1: a little bit of a prisoner of the technology. But

1957
01:32:22,000 --> 01:32:23,639
Speaker 1: and I was just telling Murf earlier in the show

1958
01:32:23,640 --> 01:32:25,479
Speaker 1: about the demographic. You know, young people are the ones

1959
01:32:25,479 --> 01:32:27,400
Speaker 1: who were kind of on Twitter. People who saw Warren

1960
01:32:27,439 --> 01:32:29,680
Speaker 1: spawn player bobbylan Near play aren't really as likely to

1961
01:32:30,200 --> 01:32:32,640
Speaker 1: be chiming in on the Twitter feed. But by the

1962
01:32:32,720 --> 01:32:35,400
Speaker 1: same token, we've gotten a lot of names on this list.

1963
01:32:35,439 --> 01:32:37,519
Speaker 1: We only put four on because that's kind of what

1964
01:32:37,640 --> 01:32:41,840
Speaker 1: we're allowed to buy the app itself. And you know,

1965
01:32:42,320 --> 01:32:44,080
Speaker 1: there's a lot been a lot of great athletes, and

1966
01:32:44,160 --> 01:32:45,920
Speaker 1: you kind of remember it's fun to be reminded of

1967
01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:47,479
Speaker 1: some of them, but I don't know that they deserve

1968
01:32:47,560 --> 01:32:49,439
Speaker 1: to be on this list. And I think the fact

1969
01:32:49,520 --> 01:32:53,479
Speaker 1: that Gronkowski retiring and walking away rather than getting kicked

1970
01:32:53,520 --> 01:32:55,639
Speaker 1: to the curb like so many athletes do. I think

1971
01:32:55,640 --> 01:32:57,160
Speaker 1: it's I think it's a positive for him in his

1972
01:32:57,240 --> 01:32:59,160
Speaker 1: career at the end of it. I do too. We're

1973
01:32:59,160 --> 01:33:01,080
Speaker 1: gonna take a break, we come back. We're gonna switch

1974
01:33:01,120 --> 01:33:02,679
Speaker 1: gears a little bit. We'll get back to the Twitter

1975
01:33:02,720 --> 01:33:05,080
Speaker 1: poll and back your phone calls. But a couple of

1976
01:33:05,160 --> 01:33:08,080
Speaker 1: Bills offensive linemen, Jeremiah Searles and Spencer Long have done

1977
01:33:08,120 --> 01:33:12,000
Speaker 1: an amazing thing in their home area back in Nebraska.

1978
01:33:12,040 --> 01:33:14,400
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that with the Jeremiah Searles in the

1979
01:33:14,479 --> 01:33:16,840
Speaker 1: next hour. Come on back One Bill's Live presented by

1980
01:33:16,880 --> 01:33:19,439
Speaker 1: Kalaida Health from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo

1981
01:33:19,520 --> 01:33:35,000
Speaker 1: Bills Radiolo Hills Radio Network Sports Games. They comes from

1982
01:33:35,040 --> 01:33:37,679
Speaker 1: One Bill Drive to Bill's d Yet another free agent.

1983
01:33:37,720 --> 01:33:40,000
Speaker 1: They've signed a backup cornerback or a cornerback. I'm not

1984
01:33:40,080 --> 01:33:42,000
Speaker 1: going to call him back up. They signed free agent

1985
01:33:42,120 --> 01:33:44,720
Speaker 1: Eja Gaines to a one year contract to day back

1986
01:33:44,800 --> 01:33:47,240
Speaker 1: for a second stint with the Bills. Gains played corner

1987
01:33:47,280 --> 01:33:50,320
Speaker 1: for the Bills a couple of years ago. Two seventeen season,

1988
01:33:50,560 --> 01:33:53,000
Speaker 1: the Bills won eight lost three. That was his one

1989
01:33:53,080 --> 01:33:54,800
Speaker 1: loss record when he was in the lineup for the

1990
01:33:54,840 --> 01:33:57,800
Speaker 1: Bills in twenty seventeen. He was acquired in August of

1991
01:33:57,840 --> 01:34:00,400
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen in the Sammy Watkins trade with the Rams.

1992
01:34:00,560 --> 01:34:02,760
Speaker 1: Played eleven games in twenty seventeen, went on to sign

1993
01:34:02,840 --> 01:34:05,960
Speaker 1: with the Cleveland Browns. Last year with Cleveland, appeared in

1994
01:34:06,040 --> 01:34:08,639
Speaker 1: just six games, started two. Went on the injury reserve

1995
01:34:08,720 --> 01:34:11,639
Speaker 1: after a concussion. E J. Gaines back with the Buffalo Bills.

1996
01:34:11,680 --> 01:34:13,160
Speaker 1: We had him on the show at noon today. He

1997
01:34:13,320 --> 01:34:15,320
Speaker 1: is back. Over the weekend, the Bills signed a couple

1998
01:34:15,360 --> 01:34:18,719
Speaker 1: of others free agents. Sight end Jake Fisher, a longtime

1999
01:34:18,800 --> 01:34:21,880
Speaker 1: offensive lineman who signed for the Bills to play tight end.

2000
01:34:21,960 --> 01:34:26,200
Speaker 1: Spent four seasons with Cincinnati, and they signed linebacker Maurice Alexander.

2001
01:34:26,520 --> 01:34:29,400
Speaker 1: He was with the He spent four seasons with the Rams,

2002
01:34:29,400 --> 01:34:32,000
Speaker 1: spent last season with Seattle. Came into the league as

2003
01:34:32,000 --> 01:34:35,559
Speaker 1: a fourth round pick. Alexander as a special teamer right

2004
01:34:35,600 --> 01:34:38,479
Speaker 1: now for the Buffalo Bills. Rob Gronkowski announced his retirement

2005
01:34:38,600 --> 01:34:41,799
Speaker 1: late yesterday after nine years with the New England Patriots.

2006
01:34:42,040 --> 01:34:44,759
Speaker 1: His agent told ESPN this morning he wouldn't be surprised

2007
01:34:45,040 --> 01:34:49,280
Speaker 1: if Gronkowski reconsidered in the future. John Mara, owner of

2008
01:34:49,320 --> 01:34:51,479
Speaker 1: the Giants, the only no vote for an alternative to

2009
01:34:51,560 --> 01:34:54,720
Speaker 1: onside kicks on the Competition Committee meeting in Arizona. At

2010
01:34:54,760 --> 01:34:57,680
Speaker 1: the NFL meetings this week, Mara said, what are we

2011
01:34:57,800 --> 01:35:00,240
Speaker 1: the Arena league the proposals to pro I had a

2012
01:35:00,280 --> 01:35:03,280
Speaker 1: fourth and fifteen alternative option to the onside kick. We'll

2013
01:35:03,280 --> 01:35:05,800
Speaker 1: talk more about that this hour season ended for both

2014
01:35:05,920 --> 01:35:09,120
Speaker 1: UB basketball teams. Yesterday. The men's team lost to Texas

2015
01:35:09,160 --> 01:35:11,479
Speaker 1: SEC seventy eight fifty eight in the second round of

2016
01:35:11,479 --> 01:35:14,160
Speaker 1: the NCAA Tournament in Tulsa. The women's team gave a

2017
01:35:14,280 --> 01:35:17,200
Speaker 1: run at University of Connecticut, but the UB women lost

2018
01:35:17,240 --> 01:35:20,280
Speaker 1: to Connecticut eighty four to seventy two. Sierra Dillard with

2019
01:35:20,560 --> 01:35:22,680
Speaker 1: Dillard with twenty nine points for the UB Bulls in

2020
01:35:22,760 --> 01:35:25,639
Speaker 1: that game. Savers Hockey tonight, they're in New Jersey, game

2021
01:35:25,680 --> 01:35:28,080
Speaker 1: two of their road trip. Face off seven o'clock tonight

2022
01:35:28,160 --> 01:35:30,840
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Savers. Down to what eight games left

2023
01:35:30,920 --> 01:35:34,760
Speaker 1: in this regular season? John Murphy was Steve Tasker. Steve

2024
01:35:34,920 --> 01:35:40,599
Speaker 1: is back after a long, well deserved vacation. I added

2025
01:35:40,640 --> 01:35:42,920
Speaker 1: the right words, Hey, we missed you Steve. It's a

2026
01:35:42,960 --> 01:35:44,960
Speaker 1: different show what you're here. I'm glad you're appreciate you.

2027
01:35:45,280 --> 01:35:48,360
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. It's nice to be back, it really is. Yeah,

2028
01:35:48,360 --> 01:35:50,439
Speaker 1: it's good to have you best. Good to be on

2029
01:35:50,520 --> 01:35:53,439
Speaker 1: the line right now with Bill's offensive lineman Jeremiah Searles,

2030
01:35:53,840 --> 01:35:55,680
Speaker 1: entering the sixth season in the league. He's played with

2031
01:35:55,800 --> 01:35:59,040
Speaker 1: the Chargers, with the Vikings, and the Buffalo Bills. Twelve

2032
01:35:59,080 --> 01:36:01,639
Speaker 1: games played for the Bill last year, including five starts

2033
01:36:01,680 --> 01:36:03,840
Speaker 1: towards the end of the season. Jeremiah Searles on the

2034
01:36:03,880 --> 01:36:06,200
Speaker 1: line with me, John Murphy and Steve Tasker from his

2035
01:36:06,280 --> 01:36:08,719
Speaker 1: home in Nebraska. Hello, Jeremiah, thank you for joining us today.

2036
01:36:09,400 --> 01:36:10,960
Speaker 1: Hey guys, thanks for having me back on Good to

2037
01:36:11,040 --> 01:36:12,519
Speaker 1: be back. You gotta be getting ready to come here.

2038
01:36:12,520 --> 01:36:14,200
Speaker 1: I would think a week, maybe two weeks. What do

2039
01:36:14,280 --> 01:36:16,000
Speaker 1: we say three weeks from today? Is the first day

2040
01:36:16,000 --> 01:36:18,880
Speaker 1: of the off season, right, yep? Can't wait. Hey, we

2041
01:36:18,960 --> 01:36:20,920
Speaker 1: want to talk you about your off season, which took

2042
01:36:20,960 --> 01:36:23,519
Speaker 1: an interesting turn over the last couple of weeks. The

2043
01:36:23,880 --> 01:36:26,760
Speaker 1: flooding around your home in Nebraska causing a ton of

2044
01:36:26,880 --> 01:36:29,439
Speaker 1: damage that if you can, Jeremiah, tell us exactly where

2045
01:36:29,439 --> 01:36:32,000
Speaker 1: are you in Nebraska. Are you in Lincoln, Yeah, so

2046
01:36:32,080 --> 01:36:34,320
Speaker 1: I live in Lincoln. Me and Spencer actually lived together

2047
01:36:34,600 --> 01:36:37,080
Speaker 1: here in Lincoln, Nebraska, and Spencer being from here and

2048
01:36:37,200 --> 01:36:40,479
Speaker 1: bed Column is home. Now we stay here. But the

2049
01:36:40,600 --> 01:36:43,439
Speaker 1: devastating flooding is affected people that I know, people that

2050
01:36:43,520 --> 01:36:45,679
Speaker 1: you know, his family. I mean, all over the northern

2051
01:36:45,720 --> 01:36:47,559
Speaker 1: and the eastern part of the state. It's been devastating.

2052
01:36:47,640 --> 01:36:49,240
Speaker 1: And this is flooding over the last month or so.

2053
01:36:49,439 --> 01:36:51,880
Speaker 1: This all came about really the last a couple of weeks.

2054
01:36:51,920 --> 01:36:54,880
Speaker 1: Couple of guys, remember there's that huge like cyclone, Hurricane

2055
01:36:55,000 --> 01:36:58,360
Speaker 1: Lizard that hit Colorado. Well, that was sit in Colorado

2056
01:36:58,400 --> 01:37:00,559
Speaker 1: with the snow. It was hammering the north east part

2057
01:37:00,600 --> 01:37:03,080
Speaker 1: of our state with snow, but also a little farther

2058
01:37:03,200 --> 01:37:06,320
Speaker 1: east was just pounding in rains. And the problem was

2059
01:37:06,439 --> 01:37:08,920
Speaker 1: everything here was still frozen. I mean everything here was

2060
01:37:08,960 --> 01:37:10,760
Speaker 1: still full winter time. And then all of sudden everything

2061
01:37:10,800 --> 01:37:15,240
Speaker 1: started rainy, which then sought everything, which then flooded everything,

2062
01:37:15,400 --> 01:37:17,559
Speaker 1: and we did the water had nowhere to go. Yeah,

2063
01:37:19,240 --> 01:37:22,000
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, go ahead. Ninety three counties have declared a

2064
01:37:22,120 --> 01:37:24,719
Speaker 1: state of emergency. I mean it's I mean, we're seeing

2065
01:37:24,760 --> 01:37:28,479
Speaker 1: some pictures now here on our MSG feed there's houses

2066
01:37:28,479 --> 01:37:30,240
Speaker 1: all the way up to the eaves of the roofs.

2067
01:37:31,160 --> 01:37:34,080
Speaker 1: And I grew up in Kansas, so Nebraska is not

2068
01:37:34,200 --> 01:37:37,439
Speaker 1: much different. It's it's flat and once if the waters,

2069
01:37:37,520 --> 01:37:39,479
Speaker 1: there's no place for it to run except to the

2070
01:37:39,560 --> 01:37:41,560
Speaker 1: Gulf of Mexico, and it's going to take weeks to

2071
01:37:41,600 --> 01:37:44,040
Speaker 1: get I mean, are are you seeing this flood waters

2072
01:37:44,120 --> 01:37:46,360
Speaker 1: go back down now as it's starting to recede at all?

2073
01:37:47,080 --> 01:37:48,840
Speaker 1: The problem, yeah, it started to see. The problem is

2074
01:37:48,920 --> 01:37:51,240
Speaker 1: some of the places that flooded still just have what

2075
01:37:51,400 --> 01:37:54,040
Speaker 1: looks like lakes in them. I mean these farmers fields

2076
01:37:54,240 --> 01:37:56,439
Speaker 1: that I mean we went up to when we did

2077
01:37:56,479 --> 01:37:59,680
Speaker 1: our event up in Skyland, Nebraska last Tuesday Thursday. We

2078
01:37:59,760 --> 01:38:01,840
Speaker 1: went and looked at some of the Some of the

2079
01:38:01,960 --> 01:38:04,040
Speaker 1: damage I mean, I'm talking entire highways are just like

2080
01:38:04,160 --> 01:38:06,560
Speaker 1: looks like earthquakes hit them because they washed all the

2081
01:38:06,600 --> 01:38:08,600
Speaker 1: foundation out from underneath them. Then they just caved in

2082
01:38:08,680 --> 01:38:11,719
Speaker 1: on themselves. And then I'm sorry to interrupt you again,

2083
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Speaker 1: but is there are there rivers that have overflooded their

2084
01:38:14,840 --> 01:38:18,000
Speaker 1: banks or is this just standing water? No, it's it's

2085
01:38:18,040 --> 01:38:21,120
Speaker 1: the Plant River, the Elkhorn River, and one other river

2086
01:38:21,160 --> 01:38:22,360
Speaker 1: I can't think of the name of it right now.

2087
01:38:22,439 --> 01:38:25,559
Speaker 1: They just all just rose so fast. And the other

2088
01:38:25,640 --> 01:38:28,000
Speaker 1: problem was that they were all frozen. Yeah. So I mean,

2089
01:38:28,000 --> 01:38:29,560
Speaker 1: if you look at there's some pictures of people that

2090
01:38:29,680 --> 01:38:32,280
Speaker 1: look like they have icebergs in their fields, because they do.

2091
01:38:32,680 --> 01:38:34,920
Speaker 1: I mean, these rivers had two three feet of ice.

2092
01:38:35,439 --> 01:38:37,639
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, the floodwaters came and lifted

2093
01:38:37,640 --> 01:38:39,360
Speaker 1: the ice and broke the ice into these chunks and

2094
01:38:39,439 --> 01:38:42,040
Speaker 1: then flooded it. And then once the water receded. There's

2095
01:38:42,040 --> 01:38:45,559
Speaker 1: a farm in Atkinson, Nebratska that literally is just riddled

2096
01:38:45,640 --> 01:38:49,439
Speaker 1: with what looks like icebergs. Wow, and nothing like, nothing

2097
01:38:49,479 --> 01:38:51,280
Speaker 1: like this has ever happened before. Out your way on,

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01:38:51,439 --> 01:38:53,600
Speaker 1: Jeremiah Not well, I've been alive. They say this is

2099
01:38:53,600 --> 01:38:56,880
Speaker 1: like a once in a century type flood. So tell

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01:38:56,960 --> 01:38:59,360
Speaker 1: us a little bit about what you and Spencer Long

2101
01:38:59,520 --> 01:39:03,280
Speaker 1: did kind of help out. I mean, what you came

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01:39:03,360 --> 01:39:05,200
Speaker 1: up with this idea? Is this something you did every year?

2103
01:39:05,280 --> 01:39:06,640
Speaker 1: Is this just a spur of the moment, say hey,

2104
01:39:06,680 --> 01:39:08,200
Speaker 1: we got to help out somehow, and here's what we're

2105
01:39:08,200 --> 01:39:10,400
Speaker 1: gonna do. I got a spur of the moment about

2106
01:39:10,400 --> 01:39:12,120
Speaker 1: a week ago. We got done working out here at

2107
01:39:12,160 --> 01:39:14,439
Speaker 1: the university. We got home to my place and we

2108
01:39:14,520 --> 01:39:15,920
Speaker 1: were eating lunch and we were like, man, we should

2109
01:39:15,960 --> 01:39:18,120
Speaker 1: do something, but it's a lot of like man, what

2110
01:39:18,200 --> 01:39:20,360
Speaker 1: do you even do? Where do you even start? And

2111
01:39:20,680 --> 01:39:22,400
Speaker 1: so I called a buddy of mine who worked in

2112
01:39:22,439 --> 01:39:25,040
Speaker 1: the government up in the northern part of Nebraska's named Saul,

2113
01:39:25,479 --> 01:39:27,360
Speaker 1: and I was like, hey, we want to do something

2114
01:39:27,400 --> 01:39:28,840
Speaker 1: to help, but we don't know really know what to do.

2115
01:39:28,920 --> 01:39:30,720
Speaker 1: And he's like, all right, I have an idea. And

2116
01:39:30,920 --> 01:39:33,479
Speaker 1: his idea was, let's help the people that are helping,

2117
01:39:33,920 --> 01:39:38,080
Speaker 1: aka the first responders, the Sheriff's department, the firefighters, the volunteers,

2118
01:39:38,439 --> 01:39:41,360
Speaker 1: like those dudes were running on absolute fumes because they've

2119
01:39:41,439 --> 01:39:43,479
Speaker 1: just been going NonStop trying to get people out, like

2120
01:39:43,640 --> 01:39:46,360
Speaker 1: rescue people, trying to keep people from dying, I mean

2121
01:39:46,760 --> 01:39:49,240
Speaker 1: cattle from dying. And so we were like, Okay, let's

2122
01:39:49,240 --> 01:39:50,920
Speaker 1: put on a dinner. So we just put on a

2123
01:39:50,960 --> 01:39:53,599
Speaker 1: dinner and we invited all those people, and we invited

2124
01:39:53,640 --> 01:39:57,760
Speaker 1: all the people that have been misplaced or displaced from

2125
01:39:57,840 --> 01:40:00,960
Speaker 1: this flood, and we just decided feed them, bring them in,

2126
01:40:01,120 --> 01:40:03,240
Speaker 1: just be there, talk to them, just pray with them,

2127
01:40:03,360 --> 01:40:05,479
Speaker 1: talk with them. Just kind of try and be something

2128
01:40:05,600 --> 01:40:09,479
Speaker 1: positive and is all that's negative. And we came together

2129
01:40:09,520 --> 01:40:12,280
Speaker 1: with about forty eight hours. We got to a high

2130
01:40:12,320 --> 01:40:14,200
Speaker 1: V which is a local grocery store. We got them

2131
01:40:14,240 --> 01:40:15,760
Speaker 1: to give us food at cost, so we were able

2132
01:40:15,800 --> 01:40:18,880
Speaker 1: to feed about three hundred and fifty people and it

2133
01:40:19,040 --> 01:40:20,400
Speaker 1: was just it was really neat. We were there just

2134
01:40:20,479 --> 01:40:22,920
Speaker 1: for about three hours, is helping with gift supplies out

2135
01:40:22,960 --> 01:40:25,519
Speaker 1: and there's really anything anyone needed. We're just there and

2136
01:40:26,000 --> 01:40:28,120
Speaker 1: that was a great place for us to start this week.

2137
01:40:28,160 --> 01:40:29,439
Speaker 1: We're going to kind of figure out what the next

2138
01:40:29,479 --> 01:40:31,519
Speaker 1: step is as far as where do we go from here,

2139
01:40:31,960 --> 01:40:34,479
Speaker 1: because the work is just getting started. Yeah, the waters

2140
01:40:34,479 --> 01:40:37,640
Speaker 1: have receded, but now the real devastation starts to set in.

2141
01:40:37,920 --> 01:40:40,559
Speaker 1: And this dinner was in Skyler, Nebraska. How far away

2142
01:40:40,600 --> 01:40:43,240
Speaker 1: from your place in Lincoln. Is that about an hour

2143
01:40:43,280 --> 01:40:45,120
Speaker 1: and a half. Oh, okay, it's out there. And is

2144
01:40:45,200 --> 01:40:48,120
Speaker 1: most of the flooding in rural areas, would you say, Jeremiah,

2145
01:40:48,720 --> 01:40:53,080
Speaker 1: it is? And that's the problem that it's all volunteer firefighters,

2146
01:40:53,160 --> 01:40:56,920
Speaker 1: it's volunteer sheriffs. I mean, these aren't the big fireplace

2147
01:40:57,000 --> 01:40:59,799
Speaker 1: stations that you think can go and mean people farmers

2148
01:41:00,320 --> 01:41:03,479
Speaker 1: with airboats were the ones that were rescuing people. These

2149
01:41:03,520 --> 01:41:05,840
Speaker 1: places don't have airboats. I mean, that's just not something

2150
01:41:05,880 --> 01:41:07,360
Speaker 1: that they have. So I mean it was people like

2151
01:41:07,880 --> 01:41:10,519
Speaker 1: risking their own lives to go save people off of

2152
01:41:10,600 --> 01:41:13,120
Speaker 1: when the floodwaters hit. I mean there's over half a

2153
01:41:13,200 --> 01:41:15,240
Speaker 1: million dollars or a half a billion dollars I think

2154
01:41:15,280 --> 01:41:18,960
Speaker 1: in cattle loss, because driving to Columbus, you just saw

2155
01:41:19,040 --> 01:41:23,479
Speaker 1: dead cows everywhere that were just washed away. One guy

2156
01:41:23,520 --> 01:41:26,960
Speaker 1: I was talking to, his entire house started flooding. He's

2157
01:41:26,960 --> 01:41:30,400
Speaker 1: about eighty years old. His house started flooding. His wife

2158
01:41:30,439 --> 01:41:33,280
Speaker 1: started having a hard issue, so they rushed to the hospital.

2159
01:41:33,720 --> 01:41:35,360
Speaker 1: And then the people to the hospital are like, hey,

2160
01:41:35,880 --> 01:41:37,439
Speaker 1: you can't go back to your house. It burned to

2161
01:41:37,520 --> 01:41:40,519
Speaker 1: the ground. And I mean this dude's telling us with

2162
01:41:40,640 --> 01:41:42,200
Speaker 1: tears in his eyes, like what am I going to do?

2163
01:41:42,240 --> 01:41:45,400
Speaker 1: I'm eighty years old, and I mean it's just gut wrenching.

2164
01:41:45,439 --> 01:41:47,679
Speaker 1: You just heard story after story of like, yeah, everything

2165
01:41:47,720 --> 01:41:50,400
Speaker 1: I owned is gone. One of my buddies lives on

2166
01:41:50,520 --> 01:41:52,439
Speaker 1: his family's farm and a trailer like a double wide

2167
01:41:52,439 --> 01:41:57,960
Speaker 1: album his family's farm and Norfolk, Nebraska, and he sent

2168
01:41:58,040 --> 01:41:59,840
Speaker 1: me a snapchat the other day and it was just

2169
01:42:00,000 --> 01:42:01,599
Speaker 1: the center blocks and he goes, well, this is where

2170
01:42:01,640 --> 01:42:04,040
Speaker 1: my house used to be. So, I mean, this is

2171
01:42:04,240 --> 01:42:06,680
Speaker 1: absolutely devastating, man. So we just felt like we had

2172
01:42:06,720 --> 01:42:08,960
Speaker 1: to do something. Um And like I said, this was

2173
01:42:09,000 --> 01:42:10,840
Speaker 1: just a start, but we felt like we got off

2174
01:42:10,840 --> 01:42:12,400
Speaker 1: to a good start and we'll kind of figure out

2175
01:42:12,400 --> 01:42:14,000
Speaker 1: where we go from here. And it's interesting too. You

2176
01:42:14,120 --> 01:42:15,920
Speaker 1: can't really even prepare for it because it's once in

2177
01:42:15,920 --> 01:42:18,360
Speaker 1: a hundred year kind of flooding. It was a confluence

2178
01:42:18,400 --> 01:42:21,120
Speaker 1: of weather patterns as well as the time of year

2179
01:42:21,200 --> 01:42:24,759
Speaker 1: that had happened in that all came together to form

2180
01:42:24,840 --> 01:42:28,400
Speaker 1: this this weather event that you know, really kind of

2181
01:42:30,240 --> 01:42:33,000
Speaker 1: scrape the earth clean of all these homes and fields

2182
01:42:33,080 --> 01:42:37,680
Speaker 1: and livestock and all these industries out there that are

2183
01:42:37,800 --> 01:42:40,360
Speaker 1: laid to waste now, right, I mean a lot of

2184
01:42:40,400 --> 01:42:42,840
Speaker 1: these people didn't have flood insurance because they've never been

2185
01:42:42,880 --> 01:42:45,280
Speaker 1: flooded before. They don't even get they don't get I

2186
01:42:45,360 --> 01:42:46,920
Speaker 1: know what you mean, because they don't get enough rain

2187
01:42:46,960 --> 01:42:49,120
Speaker 1: out there. They're praying for rain, right because they want

2188
01:42:49,200 --> 01:42:52,479
Speaker 1: they've got crops, they've got livestock. They never get enough rain.

2189
01:42:52,560 --> 01:42:54,760
Speaker 1: And then when this happens, It's like, wait a minute,

2190
01:42:55,080 --> 01:42:58,200
Speaker 1: they don't. Nobody has flood insurance. That's crazy. No, no

2191
01:42:58,280 --> 01:43:00,640
Speaker 1: one has flood insurance. This is the problem. You can't

2192
01:43:00,680 --> 01:43:03,600
Speaker 1: ensure cattle for people that lost hundreds of thousands of

2193
01:43:03,600 --> 01:43:06,160
Speaker 1: dollars in cattle are gonna have to sell their farms, right.

2194
01:43:06,360 --> 01:43:09,120
Speaker 1: I mean, we're gonna see a huge agricultural hit this

2195
01:43:09,240 --> 01:43:12,320
Speaker 1: year out of Nebraska because I'm telling you, guys aren't

2196
01:43:12,320 --> 01:43:14,599
Speaker 1: gonna be able to plant because their fields are gonna

2197
01:43:14,600 --> 01:43:17,160
Speaker 1: be so wet, so gross. The dirt's gone. I mean,

2198
01:43:17,320 --> 01:43:20,679
Speaker 1: fields are toasts. It's down the sand because the water

2199
01:43:20,800 --> 01:43:23,880
Speaker 1: just came through and just took everything. Man, it's devastating.

2200
01:43:24,840 --> 01:43:27,439
Speaker 1: With Bill's offensive line with Jeremiah Cyril's talking about the

2201
01:43:27,560 --> 01:43:30,160
Speaker 1: Nebraska flood and what he and his teammate, Bill's teammate,

2202
01:43:30,360 --> 01:43:32,400
Speaker 1: Spencer Long have done to try to help things out there,

2203
01:43:32,680 --> 01:43:35,600
Speaker 1: I'm curious, Jeremiah, when you talk tells the story of

2204
01:43:35,640 --> 01:43:37,400
Speaker 1: the eighty year old man who lost his home and

2205
01:43:37,720 --> 01:43:40,439
Speaker 1: his home burned to the ground. What was the mood

2206
01:43:40,520 --> 01:43:43,479
Speaker 1: of the event you had last Thursday? Was it I mean,

2207
01:43:43,760 --> 01:43:46,080
Speaker 1: was it all like doom and gloomer? Were people just

2208
01:43:46,240 --> 01:43:48,519
Speaker 1: happy to be together and maybe trying to kindle some

2209
01:43:48,680 --> 01:43:51,120
Speaker 1: hope in their lives out there. That's kind of what

2210
01:43:51,200 --> 01:43:54,720
Speaker 1: it was. Honestly, it was surprising the resiltency of the Nebraskas.

2211
01:43:54,760 --> 01:43:57,640
Speaker 1: They're surprising we were able to get a community that

2212
01:43:57,720 --> 01:44:00,120
Speaker 1: had just been ripped apart and bring them together. And

2213
01:44:00,439 --> 01:44:03,200
Speaker 1: a lot of it was just fellowship, sitting talking. We

2214
01:44:03,240 --> 01:44:05,320
Speaker 1: would share stories and try and get some laughs and

2215
01:44:05,600 --> 01:44:08,959
Speaker 1: smiles and talking football and just making being very vulnerable

2216
01:44:09,160 --> 01:44:11,679
Speaker 1: to these people just I don't know, Hey, we're here

2217
01:44:11,880 --> 01:44:14,960
Speaker 1: as Nebraskans. We're not here as NFL players or Hushker players.

2218
01:44:14,960 --> 01:44:16,880
Speaker 1: We're here as fellow Nebraskans that want to take care

2219
01:44:16,920 --> 01:44:19,519
Speaker 1: of our own and we have been blessed with have

2220
01:44:19,680 --> 01:44:21,960
Speaker 1: the means to do something, and so we are doing something.

2221
01:44:22,560 --> 01:44:25,760
Speaker 1: And I think that they really were able to embrace that.

2222
01:44:26,360 --> 01:44:27,760
Speaker 1: And so we were able to have a great time

2223
01:44:27,800 --> 01:44:29,400
Speaker 1: with these guys, and that was kind of we wanted

2224
01:44:29,479 --> 01:44:32,080
Speaker 1: to kind of a reprieve from real life, or even

2225
01:44:32,080 --> 01:44:34,000
Speaker 1: if it was just for forty five minutes, Yeah, just

2226
01:44:34,240 --> 01:44:37,200
Speaker 1: come eat some food, enjoy each other's company, and then

2227
01:44:37,320 --> 01:44:39,120
Speaker 1: go back to work. And so it was actually a

2228
01:44:39,120 --> 01:44:42,960
Speaker 1: really positive environment there. Well, it's it's excellent that you

2229
01:44:43,040 --> 01:44:45,400
Speaker 1: guys jumped in and help these people. I remember over

2230
01:44:45,520 --> 01:44:48,479
Speaker 1: a decade ago I went to Louisiana and helped in

2231
01:44:48,640 --> 01:44:51,960
Speaker 1: hurricane relief after Hurricane Katrina. And it's easy for us

2232
01:44:52,000 --> 01:44:53,320
Speaker 1: to have you on. And I just want to make

2233
01:44:53,360 --> 01:44:55,599
Speaker 1: sure you understand I kind of know where you're coming from.

2234
01:44:55,800 --> 01:44:57,519
Speaker 1: It's easy enough for us to have you on one

2235
01:44:57,600 --> 01:44:59,160
Speaker 1: day and say, hey, you did this nice thing. But

2236
01:44:59,280 --> 01:45:02,519
Speaker 1: this is this catastroph i'll call it a disaster or

2237
01:45:02,600 --> 01:45:05,400
Speaker 1: catastrophe that happened in Nebraska. It's not going to go

2238
01:45:05,479 --> 01:45:07,640
Speaker 1: away in just a week a couple of days when

2239
01:45:07,680 --> 01:45:11,280
Speaker 1: the waters go down. This is gonna be life changing

2240
01:45:11,400 --> 01:45:14,479
Speaker 1: for thousands of people in the heartland of America. I

2241
01:45:14,600 --> 01:45:18,120
Speaker 1: mean literally life changing, is it not. And this is

2242
01:45:18,160 --> 01:45:19,360
Speaker 1: not going to go away in just a couple of

2243
01:45:19,360 --> 01:45:21,960
Speaker 1: weeks when things dry out. No, that's the thing. Like

2244
01:45:22,000 --> 01:45:24,600
Speaker 1: I said, this is going to change the course of

2245
01:45:24,720 --> 01:45:27,120
Speaker 1: history for some of these families. Some of these families

2246
01:45:27,120 --> 01:45:29,559
Speaker 1: that have had farms for hundreds of years are gonna

2247
01:45:29,600 --> 01:45:30,960
Speaker 1: have to sell because they're not gonna be able to

2248
01:45:31,000 --> 01:45:32,760
Speaker 1: make crops this year. I mean, and it's already was

2249
01:45:32,800 --> 01:45:35,519
Speaker 1: supposed to be down here in the agricultural world. And

2250
01:45:35,800 --> 01:45:38,040
Speaker 1: so now you add this on top of it. If

2251
01:45:38,040 --> 01:45:40,240
Speaker 1: you didn't ensure your stuff because you don't have flood insurance,

2252
01:45:40,360 --> 01:45:42,960
Speaker 1: you could be out hundreds of thousands of dollars. And

2253
01:45:43,080 --> 01:45:45,160
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't plan. When you can't plan, you

2254
01:45:45,200 --> 01:45:47,040
Speaker 1: can't harvest. I mean it's just this trickle effect that's

2255
01:45:47,040 --> 01:45:51,720
Speaker 1: going to affect, like you said, thousands of people here. Jeremiah,

2256
01:45:52,680 --> 01:45:55,200
Speaker 1: you've mentioned you're kind of you and Spencer, your teammates,

2257
01:45:55,200 --> 01:45:57,920
Speaker 1: Spencer long or looking for what's next to do. And

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01:45:58,040 --> 01:45:59,880
Speaker 1: while you still think through that, I wonder if there's

2259
01:46:00,240 --> 01:46:02,680
Speaker 1: anything that Bills fans listening in today might be able

2260
01:46:02,720 --> 01:46:04,960
Speaker 1: to do. Is there any place to send relief money

2261
01:46:05,040 --> 01:46:07,400
Speaker 1: or something like that, you know, anything like that. Yeah,

2262
01:46:07,560 --> 01:46:09,320
Speaker 1: So me and Spencer actually gonna try and set something

2263
01:46:09,400 --> 01:46:10,800
Speaker 1: up this week. We are trying to think what the

2264
01:46:10,880 --> 01:46:12,920
Speaker 1: best place to send the money to is, because again,

2265
01:46:12,960 --> 01:46:15,759
Speaker 1: where do you start? And I think what we decided

2266
01:46:15,960 --> 01:46:18,439
Speaker 1: was we want to try and get money raised for

2267
01:46:18,640 --> 01:46:22,120
Speaker 1: these rule first responders, because if we can get money

2268
01:46:22,160 --> 01:46:24,240
Speaker 1: to the people in the rural areas that are first responders,

2269
01:46:24,320 --> 01:46:26,599
Speaker 1: they'll know where they need to put in. We don't

2270
01:46:26,600 --> 01:46:29,639
Speaker 1: know where that necessary. The little county in northeast Nebraska.

2271
01:46:29,680 --> 01:46:33,080
Speaker 1: What did they lose? There's is Skyler versus Columbus versus

2272
01:46:33,120 --> 01:46:34,960
Speaker 1: all these little counties. But if we can get the

2273
01:46:35,000 --> 01:46:37,439
Speaker 1: money to the people that actually understand what they need

2274
01:46:37,560 --> 01:46:40,720
Speaker 1: to restore that county, we think that's the best thing.

2275
01:46:40,760 --> 01:46:43,200
Speaker 1: So we're gonna try and set up a fundraiser or

2276
01:46:43,320 --> 01:46:45,400
Speaker 1: go fund me or something through a charity that we

2277
01:46:45,439 --> 01:46:47,240
Speaker 1: can send money to for that. And that's in the

2278
01:46:47,280 --> 01:46:49,320
Speaker 1: works that we getting started on this week. And once

2279
01:46:49,360 --> 01:46:51,240
Speaker 1: we have that set up, we're gonna blast out on

2280
01:46:51,320 --> 01:46:53,400
Speaker 1: social media all these out to the bills and they

2281
01:46:53,439 --> 01:46:54,960
Speaker 1: said they'd be more than willing to help send it

2282
01:46:55,000 --> 01:46:57,120
Speaker 1: out too, So I think this week, once we get

2283
01:46:57,160 --> 01:46:58,880
Speaker 1: something set up, we'll be able to send that out. Yeah,

2284
01:46:58,920 --> 01:47:00,120
Speaker 1: make sure you keep it's in the loop and that

2285
01:47:00,200 --> 01:47:02,800
Speaker 1: we'd like to help with that. Absolutely. I appreciate that

2286
01:47:02,880 --> 01:47:05,519
Speaker 1: a lot. Guys. Hey, um, is appropriate to ask you

2287
01:47:05,520 --> 01:47:07,479
Speaker 1: a couple of football questions. Right we got down the line,

2288
01:47:08,080 --> 01:47:10,320
Speaker 1: oh yeah, let's do it man, Okay, have you said no?

2289
01:47:10,439 --> 01:47:12,720
Speaker 1: I was. I was perfectly okay with doing that. But

2290
01:47:13,360 --> 01:47:15,400
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, you're living with Spencer Long. We talked

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Speaker 1: to Spencer when he signed. Here were the bills in February.

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01:47:17,880 --> 01:47:20,840
Speaker 1: You guys go way back to college teammates, right and

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01:47:20,920 --> 01:47:23,400
Speaker 1: good friends. And did you tell you this or is

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01:47:23,400 --> 01:47:25,080
Speaker 1: he said that he's living in your basement the last

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01:47:25,120 --> 01:47:27,760
Speaker 1: we heard. Yep, he's still in my basement. My wife?

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01:47:27,880 --> 01:47:29,719
Speaker 1: Is he evicting him here in a few weeks because

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01:47:29,760 --> 01:47:32,320
Speaker 1: we are expecting our first in August, right, and so

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01:47:32,520 --> 01:47:34,839
Speaker 1: he is getting addicted so we can set up the nursery.

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01:47:34,960 --> 01:47:37,240
Speaker 1: So he's not bumped about that, but we'll up up

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01:47:37,280 --> 01:47:40,000
Speaker 1: and we'll hang out in Buffalo together. Well, just remind

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01:47:40,120 --> 01:47:41,800
Speaker 1: him he's a professional athlete and he just signed a

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01:47:41,880 --> 01:47:45,280
Speaker 1: new contract. He can afford to get his own place apartments. Yeah,

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01:47:45,320 --> 01:47:48,000
Speaker 1: you know, we bumped we bumped his rent a little bit, right.

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01:47:48,080 --> 01:47:49,400
Speaker 1: I mean, you can put him in the loft in

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01:47:49,439 --> 01:47:51,479
Speaker 1: your garage or something. I mean, the guy's got to have,

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01:47:51,600 --> 01:47:53,200
Speaker 1: you know, I got to be able to contribute something

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01:47:53,240 --> 01:47:56,200
Speaker 1: to society at large. But um, oh yeah, and well

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01:47:56,240 --> 01:47:58,760
Speaker 1: the congratulations on the new arrival coming up and and

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01:47:58,880 --> 01:48:01,400
Speaker 1: I'm and I'm sure you're probably not gonna name him Spencer,

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01:48:01,479 --> 01:48:06,200
Speaker 1: but um, you guys when you show up. You guys

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01:48:06,400 --> 01:48:09,519
Speaker 1: planning on you know, driving out here to get You're

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01:48:09,520 --> 01:48:11,439
Speaker 1: gonna road trip out here together? Are you gonna just

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01:48:11,520 --> 01:48:15,960
Speaker 1: flying together? What's the You're gonna charter jet or No,

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01:48:16,160 --> 01:48:18,240
Speaker 1: He's actually gonna head out a little bit early. Um,

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01:48:18,320 --> 01:48:20,040
Speaker 1: he's got to get his apartment and stuff set up

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01:48:20,080 --> 01:48:22,120
Speaker 1: out there. I had already me and Ike, Butcker are

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01:48:22,120 --> 01:48:24,200
Speaker 1: actually gonna live together. We set that up last year

2318
01:48:24,560 --> 01:48:27,960
Speaker 1: and so I wasn't gonna bail on Ike once once uh,

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01:48:28,080 --> 01:48:30,200
Speaker 1: Spencer signed and he respects that. So me and I

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01:48:30,360 --> 01:48:31,800
Speaker 1: have a place together out there that we're gonna hang

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01:48:31,840 --> 01:48:33,679
Speaker 1: out for a throw kids because my wife's not gonna

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01:48:33,720 --> 01:48:37,040
Speaker 1: come up because she's in full nest mode. So but

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01:48:37,600 --> 01:48:39,760
Speaker 1: during Campbell right up together. But he's gonna hang out

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01:48:40,080 --> 01:48:41,720
Speaker 1: up there, I think for an extra week before me,

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01:48:41,800 --> 01:48:43,360
Speaker 1: just to try and get his apartment everything set up,

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01:48:43,360 --> 01:48:44,960
Speaker 1: because he's got to get all his stuff moved from

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01:48:45,040 --> 01:48:48,479
Speaker 1: Jersey out there. Hey. Jeremiah Spencer Long is one of

2328
01:48:48,600 --> 01:48:51,680
Speaker 1: five new offensive linemen signed by the Bills since you

2329
01:48:51,880 --> 01:48:54,560
Speaker 1: resigned back in January. That the landscape it off on

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01:48:54,640 --> 01:48:56,360
Speaker 1: the offensive line has changed the lat in the last

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01:48:56,400 --> 01:48:59,000
Speaker 1: month or so, Huh, yeah, I'd say so. I said

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01:48:59,000 --> 01:49:01,760
Speaker 1: that room is different. I'm excited a lot of competition

2333
01:49:01,840 --> 01:49:03,599
Speaker 1: in that room now. I mean I don't think anything's

2334
01:49:03,640 --> 01:49:05,960
Speaker 1: given anyone except for maybe much worse, who has eleven

2335
01:49:06,000 --> 01:49:08,760
Speaker 1: million reasons why he'll start at center. But I think

2336
01:49:08,800 --> 01:49:10,720
Speaker 1: other than that, there's a lot of competition that's going

2337
01:49:10,760 --> 01:49:12,519
Speaker 1: to be open there. I think that there's a lot

2338
01:49:12,560 --> 01:49:14,920
Speaker 1: of opportunity for everyone, and I think that talking with

2339
01:49:15,040 --> 01:49:17,120
Speaker 1: Coach Johnson, I think that we're gonna all have a

2340
01:49:17,280 --> 01:49:19,000
Speaker 1: great chance to compete in the room. And that's all

2341
01:49:19,040 --> 01:49:20,439
Speaker 1: you can ask for this league. I mean, that's all

2342
01:49:20,479 --> 01:49:22,880
Speaker 1: I've ever asked for for my six years. There's a

2343
01:49:22,960 --> 01:49:24,840
Speaker 1: chance to compete, a chance to be competitive, and a

2344
01:49:24,920 --> 01:49:26,720
Speaker 1: chance to go earn a spot. And I think we're

2345
01:49:26,720 --> 01:49:28,840
Speaker 1: all going to get that chance, and I'm excited for it. Man,

2346
01:49:29,680 --> 01:49:32,040
Speaker 1: have you ever worked with coach Bobby Johnson before any

2347
01:49:32,120 --> 01:49:35,000
Speaker 1: other NFL stops? He worked me out when here's what

2348
01:49:35,040 --> 01:49:36,920
Speaker 1: the Lions as I was coming out of college. But

2349
01:49:37,280 --> 01:49:39,920
Speaker 1: other than that, no, Okay, it is going to be

2350
01:49:39,960 --> 01:49:43,080
Speaker 1: a different landscape and there's gonna be so many new faces.

2351
01:49:43,080 --> 01:49:46,479
Speaker 1: I mean there may be more. There's gonna be more

2352
01:49:46,560 --> 01:49:49,920
Speaker 1: new faces and strangers in that room than there are

2353
01:49:50,040 --> 01:49:52,200
Speaker 1: guys who actually know each other's names. It's going to

2354
01:49:52,280 --> 01:49:55,760
Speaker 1: be it's gonna look different in there. Plus the new

2355
01:49:55,840 --> 01:49:59,680
Speaker 1: coaching staff as well, so it's it's almost like a

2356
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:03,840
Speaker 1: pletely new team from just three months ago. Right, Yeah,

2357
01:50:03,880 --> 01:50:05,920
Speaker 1: I mean, it's gonna be a whole new movement. I

2358
01:50:06,000 --> 01:50:07,960
Speaker 1: think that one of my favorite quotes that I learned

2359
01:50:08,000 --> 01:50:11,200
Speaker 1: from from here in colleges, competition breeds greatness. So I mean,

2360
01:50:11,200 --> 01:50:12,920
Speaker 1: I don't think if if people want to shy away

2361
01:50:13,000 --> 01:50:15,320
Speaker 1: from competition, I think they'll get weeded out pretty quick.

2362
01:50:15,680 --> 01:50:17,080
Speaker 1: But if you step up to the plate and you

2363
01:50:17,120 --> 01:50:19,559
Speaker 1: take advantage of the opportunity that you get, it's only

2364
01:50:19,600 --> 01:50:21,120
Speaker 1: gonna make the guy in front of you stronger, to

2365
01:50:21,240 --> 01:50:22,880
Speaker 1: make the guy behind you stronger. It's gonna make you

2366
01:50:22,960 --> 01:50:27,120
Speaker 1: stronger ultimately, because if you're in front, you're gonna possibly

2367
01:50:27,120 --> 01:50:28,760
Speaker 1: be looking over your shoulder, and if you're behind, you're

2368
01:50:28,760 --> 01:50:31,160
Speaker 1: gonna be chasing that guy. In funny, even with you

2369
01:50:31,200 --> 01:50:33,920
Speaker 1: know the fact that they added five new offensive ironman Jeremy,

2370
01:50:33,920 --> 01:50:36,479
Speaker 1: I wonder are you impressed with the effort the Bills

2371
01:50:36,520 --> 01:50:39,200
Speaker 1: have made this offseason so far? With the draft even

2372
01:50:39,479 --> 01:50:42,439
Speaker 1: a month away, to improve offensively. I mean, they've really

2373
01:50:42,520 --> 01:50:44,120
Speaker 1: kind of focused on that side of the ball. That's

2374
01:50:44,200 --> 01:50:47,439
Speaker 1: last month. Yeah. I mean, I think that coach, coach

2375
01:50:47,560 --> 01:50:51,880
Speaker 1: McDermott and random mister Beans have a great vision for

2376
01:50:52,000 --> 01:50:53,519
Speaker 1: what they wanted out of this free agency, and I

2377
01:50:53,560 --> 01:50:55,600
Speaker 1: think they're attacking it in the right way. And so

2378
01:50:55,760 --> 01:50:57,880
Speaker 1: I think that they're really just kind of really toning

2379
01:50:58,000 --> 01:50:59,880
Speaker 1: in on what they need, what they want, and they

2380
01:51:00,000 --> 01:51:01,479
Speaker 1: have a visit for this team is going and I'm

2381
01:51:01,479 --> 01:51:03,240
Speaker 1: just excited to be a part of it. We're excited

2382
01:51:03,280 --> 01:51:05,400
Speaker 1: to have you keep us in mind when you come

2383
01:51:05,479 --> 01:51:07,240
Speaker 1: up with your next plan and have an idea on

2384
01:51:07,360 --> 01:51:09,960
Speaker 1: how to get the bills fans involved in helping out

2385
01:51:10,000 --> 01:51:12,599
Speaker 1: the effort in Nebraska, please make sure you let us know, Jeremiah,

2386
01:51:12,600 --> 01:51:15,400
Speaker 1: we'll help you out of we can. I appreciate that.

2387
01:51:15,479 --> 01:51:16,800
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me on, guys. Thank

2388
01:51:16,800 --> 01:51:19,280
Speaker 1: you and congratulations for this move in Nebraska. That's that's

2389
01:51:19,280 --> 01:51:21,280
Speaker 1: pretty impressive. Thank you for taking part in that. That's

2390
01:51:21,479 --> 01:51:23,240
Speaker 1: and it's for a lot of people who really need

2391
01:51:23,320 --> 01:51:26,320
Speaker 1: and I appreciate your effort. I appreciate you, guys. Thank

2392
01:51:26,320 --> 01:51:28,920
Speaker 1: you so much. Thanks Jeremiah Searles, Bill's offensive lineman. He

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01:51:29,040 --> 01:51:32,200
Speaker 1: and his buddy, his Bill's teammate now Spencer Long, put

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01:51:32,280 --> 01:51:35,320
Speaker 1: together a dinner last Thursday in Nebraska to help the

2395
01:51:35,640 --> 01:51:38,439
Speaker 1: flood relief effort. Three quarters of the ninety three counties

2396
01:51:38,439 --> 01:51:41,400
Speaker 1: in Nebraska declared the state of emergency, and as Jeremiah said,

2397
01:51:41,560 --> 01:51:44,080
Speaker 1: they've gotten other plans coming out to Uh. I mean,

2398
01:51:44,120 --> 01:51:45,920
Speaker 1: we're all get about we're gonna help it. I grew

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01:51:46,000 --> 01:51:49,519
Speaker 1: up that. I grew up south in Kansas, which is

2400
01:51:49,600 --> 01:51:52,360
Speaker 1: just straight south. It's the next day South, and they're

2401
01:51:52,479 --> 01:51:55,360
Speaker 1: much similar. Yeah, Nebraska gets a little bit more moisture

2402
01:51:55,400 --> 01:51:57,599
Speaker 1: on a regular basis than Kansas does. They grow corn

2403
01:51:57,680 --> 01:52:00,200
Speaker 1: instead of wheat like Kansas does. Wheat needs less water

2404
01:52:00,360 --> 01:52:02,439
Speaker 1: and that's what the farmers grow out there. When you

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01:52:02,520 --> 01:52:06,760
Speaker 1: go up to Nebraska, nebrascast corners and Kansas has wheat

2406
01:52:07,520 --> 01:52:10,200
Speaker 1: and because because of the climate. But the counties in

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01:52:10,240 --> 01:52:12,560
Speaker 1: the western part of the state are very similar in

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01:52:12,600 --> 01:52:15,160
Speaker 1: the way they're set up. I went to a community

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01:52:15,320 --> 01:52:19,880
Speaker 1: public high school in a county that had less than

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01:52:19,960 --> 01:52:22,320
Speaker 1: two thousand people in the entire county. It was twenty

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01:52:22,400 --> 01:52:25,840
Speaker 1: three miles across. In twenty five miles north south. It's

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01:52:25,840 --> 01:52:29,080
Speaker 1: a big area. Uh, only you know, less than two

2413
01:52:29,120 --> 01:52:33,439
Speaker 1: thousand people live there in that whole county. Um, that's

2414
01:52:33,560 --> 01:52:35,880
Speaker 1: the kind of country you're looking at, and everybody everything's

2415
01:52:35,880 --> 01:52:39,400
Speaker 1: tied up in land and farm and farming and equipment,

2416
01:52:39,760 --> 01:52:43,920
Speaker 1: houses and some livestock. Um, they're great, big feed lots

2417
01:52:43,960 --> 01:52:48,040
Speaker 1: out there. So there's not that many people out there

2418
01:52:48,120 --> 01:52:50,080
Speaker 1: like you would think about in a in a New Jersey,

2419
01:52:50,280 --> 01:52:51,800
Speaker 1: even in the rural parts of New Jersey or in

2420
01:52:51,800 --> 01:52:53,400
Speaker 1: the rural parts of here in western New York. It's

2421
01:52:53,439 --> 01:52:56,000
Speaker 1: not that many people like there are here. But the

2422
01:52:56,320 --> 01:52:59,600
Speaker 1: but the depth the damage is devastating, and it could have.

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01:53:00,400 --> 01:53:03,160
Speaker 1: Given the widespread of this of the entire state, ninety

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01:53:03,200 --> 01:53:06,280
Speaker 1: three counties, it could have an economic impact that has

2425
01:53:06,320 --> 01:53:09,040
Speaker 1: felt by a lot of us sure around the country.

2426
01:53:09,040 --> 01:53:11,720
Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting to see how this transpires

2427
01:53:11,760 --> 01:53:13,479
Speaker 1: the rest of the way because there's a huge disaster

2428
01:53:13,600 --> 01:53:15,759
Speaker 1: out there. The pictures that we saw on the MSG

2429
01:53:15,880 --> 01:53:18,400
Speaker 1: feed are amazing. Lean houses up to the As you said,

2430
01:53:18,439 --> 01:53:21,040
Speaker 1: there are no hills out there. Yeah. If it's water standing,

2431
01:53:21,160 --> 01:53:23,960
Speaker 1: it's standing for a couple of hundred square miles. Yeah,

2432
01:53:24,160 --> 01:53:26,760
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not there's no hills or valleys there.

2433
01:53:27,439 --> 01:53:30,880
Speaker 1: Even the riverbeds are barely lower than the surrounding land.

2434
01:53:30,960 --> 01:53:35,120
Speaker 1: It just doesn't there's no elevation change. And it's unbelievable.

2435
01:53:35,479 --> 01:53:37,120
Speaker 1: I don't know where the water just you have to

2436
01:53:37,160 --> 01:53:39,479
Speaker 1: wait for it to soak in. I guess because it's crazy.

2437
01:53:39,560 --> 01:53:41,920
Speaker 1: It's not gonna doesn't have anywhere to run. It can run,

2438
01:53:42,040 --> 01:53:44,560
Speaker 1: you know, it's like on a flat table. Well, congratulations

2439
01:53:44,600 --> 01:53:47,479
Speaker 1: to Jeremiah and Spencer Lung. And this is gonna sound

2440
01:53:47,840 --> 01:53:50,599
Speaker 1: not self serving, but we always hear about the players

2441
01:53:50,600 --> 01:53:53,000
Speaker 1: who are getting trouble, get arrested, getting uh, you know,

2442
01:53:53,160 --> 01:53:55,639
Speaker 1: create issues for their teams, do stuff off the field.

2443
01:53:55,800 --> 01:53:58,400
Speaker 1: It's important to know that guys like Jeremiah and Uh

2444
01:53:59,080 --> 01:54:01,479
Speaker 1: and Spencer are doing the us of their own volition,

2445
01:54:01,960 --> 01:54:04,439
Speaker 1: without TV cameras, without the INN call and ask us

2446
01:54:04,520 --> 01:54:06,960
Speaker 1: to yeah, we went to solicit us. Hey, you know

2447
01:54:06,960 --> 01:54:08,720
Speaker 1: what I mean, that happens in the NFL. You know

2448
01:54:08,880 --> 01:54:11,560
Speaker 1: that they're guys, they're good people, and people get that.

2449
01:54:11,600 --> 01:54:13,760
Speaker 1: They hear Lorenzo on here all the time. Lorenzo is

2450
01:54:15,200 --> 01:54:17,720
Speaker 1: quickly becoming legendary here in Buffalo. It's as short of

2451
01:54:17,760 --> 01:54:19,360
Speaker 1: time as he's been here for over the two or

2452
01:54:19,400 --> 01:54:22,479
Speaker 1: three three coin in his fourth year. You know. Yeah,

2453
01:54:22,520 --> 01:54:25,519
Speaker 1: these guys get on it. Yeah, they help out. That's

2454
01:54:25,560 --> 01:54:27,920
Speaker 1: a great thing to see. Happy for him. Hey, we

2455
01:54:28,000 --> 01:54:30,360
Speaker 1: got an interesting Twitter poll today getting a ton of response,

2456
01:54:30,640 --> 01:54:33,960
Speaker 1: not all positive. Who's the best athlete ever from Western

2457
01:54:34,000 --> 01:54:36,040
Speaker 1: New York? Any sport? The reason this came about Rob

2458
01:54:36,120 --> 01:54:38,440
Speaker 1: Gronkowski and outs last night that he's stepping aside leaving

2459
01:54:38,480 --> 01:54:40,920
Speaker 1: the Patriots, retiring from the NFL. So we put up

2460
01:54:40,960 --> 01:54:44,600
Speaker 1: a Twitter poll with four choices Gronkowski, Patrick Kane, Bob Lanier,

2461
01:54:44,600 --> 01:54:46,880
Speaker 1: Warren Spawn. Who's the best athlete from Western New York?

2462
01:54:47,040 --> 01:54:49,120
Speaker 1: You may have another idea. We'll talk about it on

2463
01:54:49,200 --> 01:54:51,800
Speaker 1: the phones and on Twitter when we come back. Also

2464
01:54:52,000 --> 01:54:54,360
Speaker 1: NFL tour or false when we return. John Murphy was

2465
01:54:54,360 --> 01:54:57,000
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health from

2466
01:54:57,000 --> 01:55:14,800
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back,

2467
01:55:14,840 --> 01:55:16,920
Speaker 1: One Bill is Live. I'm John Murphy. This is Deep Casker.

2468
01:55:16,960 --> 01:55:19,280
Speaker 1: In case you've forgotten, he's back with us after a

2469
01:55:19,440 --> 01:55:21,840
Speaker 1: long vacation. Happy to have him back, though the show

2470
01:55:22,080 --> 01:55:24,680
Speaker 1: is what are you laughing about? I am happy to

2471
01:55:24,720 --> 01:55:28,120
Speaker 1: have you back. I'm genuinely glad. I'm I'm shaving this morning.

2472
01:55:28,160 --> 01:55:29,920
Speaker 1: I said in my way, Hey, we get Stevie back today.

2473
01:55:30,960 --> 01:55:35,040
Speaker 1: Mary said, who no, No, I'm glad have ye. I'm

2474
01:55:35,080 --> 01:55:39,240
Speaker 1: glad to have you back. Got an interesting I'm you

2475
01:55:39,280 --> 01:55:42,120
Speaker 1: wouldn't laugh at that. I'm getting you won't laugh at that.

2476
01:55:42,160 --> 01:55:45,360
Speaker 1: In two week, I'm thirteen percent on Mary on your

2477
01:55:45,440 --> 01:55:49,000
Speaker 1: wife's list of four best favorite codes. So I'm getting

2478
01:55:49,840 --> 01:55:53,960
Speaker 1: on that that's not true. Um. Speaking of polls, because

2479
01:55:54,000 --> 01:55:57,280
Speaker 1: of Bronkowski's retirement, who's the best athlete ever any sported

2480
01:55:57,280 --> 01:55:59,640
Speaker 1: Western New York? We put up four names. We're getting

2481
01:55:59,640 --> 01:56:02,600
Speaker 1: a lot of suggestions. But on our Twitter poll, Patrick

2482
01:56:02,680 --> 01:56:05,520
Speaker 1: Kane gets forty six percent of the vote, but Rob

2483
01:56:05,600 --> 01:56:09,120
Speaker 1: Gronkowski gets twenty eight percent, Warren Spine gets fourteen percent,

2484
01:56:09,520 --> 01:56:13,120
Speaker 1: Bob Lanier gets a thirteen percent. I find that interesting. See,

2485
01:56:13,160 --> 01:56:14,640
Speaker 1: if I think you're absolutely right, you said it right

2486
01:56:14,640 --> 01:56:17,440
Speaker 1: out of the box. Um, Twitter will provide a certain

2487
01:56:17,480 --> 01:56:20,800
Speaker 1: demographic that may not appreciate Warren Spine or Bob Lanier

2488
01:56:20,800 --> 01:56:22,600
Speaker 1: as much as some of the others. And the Patrick

2489
01:56:22,720 --> 01:56:27,560
Speaker 1: Kane vote almost half of this hockey season, and this

2490
01:56:27,640 --> 01:56:31,280
Speaker 1: guy's been dominant in a league that is Listen, Buffalo

2491
01:56:31,360 --> 01:56:33,800
Speaker 1: knows good hockey players when they see him, and to

2492
01:56:33,880 --> 01:56:36,640
Speaker 1: see a guy that grew up here in town go

2493
01:56:36,760 --> 01:56:41,200
Speaker 1: out and win first overall pick, first overall pick, scored

2494
01:56:41,200 --> 01:56:46,000
Speaker 1: a couple of goals and cup winning you know games.

2495
01:56:46,680 --> 01:56:49,880
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I get it. That's rare. It's rare.

2496
01:56:50,280 --> 01:56:54,080
Speaker 1: Forget that he grew up here in Buffalo. The guys,

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01:56:54,800 --> 01:57:00,480
Speaker 1: you know, he's a dominant in a real life right

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01:57:00,600 --> 01:57:03,960
Speaker 1: this minute. I mean he's he is as good a

2499
01:57:04,040 --> 01:57:05,920
Speaker 1: hockey player as there are is in the league right

2500
01:57:05,960 --> 01:57:09,240
Speaker 1: now and has been for a while. We'll take phone

2501
01:57:09,280 --> 01:57:11,680
Speaker 1: calls on this eighth three five fifty and toll three

2502
01:57:11,800 --> 01:57:14,440
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2503
01:57:14,520 --> 01:57:18,080
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet from Cannibal King. Gotta add for donly

2504
01:57:18,160 --> 01:57:22,080
Speaker 1: native Jen ser seventeen US championships, two gold, three silver,

2505
01:57:22,200 --> 01:57:25,280
Speaker 1: one bronze, Olympic medal, past number one pole vauler in

2506
01:57:25,320 --> 01:57:28,560
Speaker 1: the world, indoor world record holder, can't argue with any

2507
01:57:28,560 --> 01:57:30,520
Speaker 1: of that. She is outstanding and a great person too.

2508
01:57:30,560 --> 01:57:33,560
Speaker 1: I've met her several times. Also, Cannibal King says, shout

2509
01:57:33,600 --> 01:57:36,440
Speaker 1: out for Salm Magley. Two pitched into his forty second

2510
01:57:36,480 --> 01:57:39,520
Speaker 1: and nationally MVP voting at thirty nine. Great record for

2511
01:57:39,600 --> 01:57:43,880
Speaker 1: sal Magley, great shout out. I do think you put

2512
01:57:43,960 --> 01:57:45,680
Speaker 1: him side by side, Warren Spound would be ahead of

2513
01:57:45,720 --> 01:57:47,800
Speaker 1: sal Magleie. But I get that. I know that agafall

2514
01:57:47,840 --> 01:57:51,320
Speaker 1: sal Maglee. Yeah. And then also from Brian Falker, Bob Lanier.

2515
01:57:51,760 --> 01:57:53,560
Speaker 1: Most don't know. Bob was not the same player after

2516
01:57:53,640 --> 01:57:55,400
Speaker 1: his knee injury in college. He played the first year

2517
01:57:55,440 --> 01:57:58,120
Speaker 1: on a bad unhealed knee. Eight time All Star in

2518
01:57:58,160 --> 01:58:01,200
Speaker 1: the NBA All Star MVP. He also he's a Hall

2519
01:58:01,240 --> 01:58:03,840
Speaker 1: of Famer. Uh. He's also great off the cord, winner

2520
01:58:03,840 --> 01:58:07,520
Speaker 1: of many community awards. Bob Lanier also getting some votes

2521
01:58:08,320 --> 01:58:12,560
Speaker 1: for that. Warren Spawn is a close second to Patrick Kane. Yeah,

2522
01:58:12,600 --> 01:58:16,200
Speaker 1: Dave Delane. Warren spaonn is a close second to Patrick Kane.

2523
01:58:16,240 --> 01:58:21,320
Speaker 1: But Gronk Nope. Gronk played sixteen regular season games slash seasons,

2524
01:58:21,440 --> 01:58:23,800
Speaker 1: and in each game was on the field for about

2525
01:58:23,840 --> 01:58:26,680
Speaker 1: thirty minutes and actively engaged in football action for a

2526
01:58:26,760 --> 01:58:29,960
Speaker 1: fraction of that time, whereas Kane is actively skating twenty

2527
01:58:30,000 --> 01:58:32,200
Speaker 1: minutes a game. I get it, but you know what,

2528
01:58:32,520 --> 01:58:34,400
Speaker 1: I get it, But I don't agree with it. Yeah,

2529
01:58:34,400 --> 01:58:36,680
Speaker 1: I don't either. I mean, and that's and he's going

2530
01:58:36,760 --> 01:58:38,920
Speaker 1: down the road I have I find a hard time going.

2531
01:58:39,000 --> 01:58:40,920
Speaker 1: I don't think he'd discount a guy because of the

2532
01:58:40,960 --> 01:58:44,720
Speaker 1: sport that he played. Gronkowski was a and you can

2533
01:58:44,800 --> 01:58:48,520
Speaker 1: make the exact same argument in Gronk's favor, he wasn't

2534
01:58:48,520 --> 01:58:51,440
Speaker 1: asked to do as much but contributed more for his team.

2535
01:58:51,520 --> 01:58:53,840
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying now, Pat Kane contributed everything.

2536
01:58:53,880 --> 01:58:55,800
Speaker 1: The guy when he's on the ice, he's he's all

2537
01:58:55,840 --> 01:58:57,600
Speaker 1: of that, and he does a lot of things for

2538
01:58:57,680 --> 01:59:00,880
Speaker 1: that for that team. But if they could use him

2539
01:59:00,960 --> 01:59:03,000
Speaker 1: fifty minutes a game, they would use him in a

2540
01:59:03,040 --> 01:59:05,400
Speaker 1: sixty minute a game, if they could skate him every

2541
01:59:05,520 --> 01:59:08,240
Speaker 1: single moment, they would. Um, you're not gonna do that

2542
01:59:08,360 --> 01:59:10,800
Speaker 1: in football because nobody played you know, No, guys don't

2543
01:59:10,800 --> 01:59:14,400
Speaker 1: go both ways in football. So it's it's hard to

2544
01:59:14,480 --> 01:59:19,120
Speaker 1: compare or detract or add to a guy's uh contribution

2545
01:59:21,240 --> 01:59:24,120
Speaker 1: because of the sport he played in. So I think

2546
01:59:24,160 --> 01:59:26,720
Speaker 1: that's I mean, I get your point, but I don't

2547
01:59:26,760 --> 01:59:29,560
Speaker 1: know that the point is valid because of the crows

2548
01:59:29,880 --> 01:59:33,560
Speaker 1: cross referencing between football and so Rocky I mean, I'm

2549
01:59:33,560 --> 01:59:35,520
Speaker 1: not sure, and I don't want to dive into it

2550
01:59:35,600 --> 01:59:39,120
Speaker 1: too much, But is Dave Delanney on Twitter suggesting that

2551
01:59:39,200 --> 01:59:43,120
Speaker 1: football is not what as athletic as some of the

2552
01:59:43,200 --> 01:59:46,920
Speaker 1: other sports as hockey. I don't know. Yeah, I don't

2553
01:59:46,920 --> 01:59:49,040
Speaker 1: know what the core point is, but you're right, it's

2554
01:59:49,160 --> 01:59:51,560
Speaker 1: it's I don't know that it's That's why I don't

2555
01:59:51,560 --> 01:59:53,520
Speaker 1: think it holds water. I don't all right, here's another

2556
01:59:53,520 --> 01:59:55,600
Speaker 1: one from Big Bills fan nineteen sixty five. To win

2557
01:59:55,680 --> 01:59:57,760
Speaker 1: three Super Bowls in nine years is amazing, and as

2558
01:59:57,800 --> 01:59:59,640
Speaker 1: a Bills fan, I have to give Gronk his due.

2559
02:00:00,040 --> 02:00:03,080
Speaker 1: He was an awesome past blocker. Rob's talent as a

2560
02:00:03,160 --> 02:00:06,400
Speaker 1: tight end is second to none. He came every year,

2561
02:00:06,680 --> 02:00:09,080
Speaker 1: every game and gave his all, leaving it on the field.

2562
02:00:09,480 --> 02:00:12,720
Speaker 1: By far, this Hall of Famer is the true best.

2563
02:00:12,920 --> 02:00:15,440
Speaker 1: That's from a Big Bills fan. I and there's a

2564
02:00:15,440 --> 02:00:19,640
Speaker 1: lot of people who see that. But then again, I mean,

2565
02:00:19,720 --> 02:00:21,200
Speaker 1: what are you gonna say about a guy like Pat

2566
02:00:21,320 --> 02:00:27,520
Speaker 1: Kane who won some Stanley Cups? Kind of you know,

2567
02:00:28,000 --> 02:00:32,040
Speaker 1: they's that team was not very good before Pat Kane

2568
02:00:32,040 --> 02:00:34,160
Speaker 1: and they're really good since him, And now they've kind

2569
02:00:34,160 --> 02:00:36,560
Speaker 1: of busted it up and they're struggling now, but he's

2570
02:00:36,600 --> 02:00:40,200
Speaker 1: still having really good success. So both those guys are

2571
02:00:40,560 --> 02:00:42,640
Speaker 1: dominant players in their own right. One more from the

2572
02:00:42,680 --> 02:00:45,720
Speaker 1: tweet sheet Bill Gilligan. All due respect to the other

2573
02:00:45,800 --> 02:00:49,280
Speaker 1: guys on the list, Warren Spine is the greatest Buffalo athlete.

2574
02:00:49,320 --> 02:00:52,280
Speaker 1: And it's not that close, he says. Unfortunately, not that

2575
02:00:52,400 --> 02:00:55,160
Speaker 1: many currently alive ever saw him play. I didn't, he said,

2576
02:00:55,160 --> 02:00:57,440
Speaker 1: but look at his numbers, he's the greatest of all time.

2577
02:00:58,800 --> 02:01:01,600
Speaker 1: My vote would go to Warren Spy. Steve, I'm beginning

2578
02:01:01,600 --> 02:01:04,600
Speaker 1: to think. I'm beginning to agree. Um, when you think

2579
02:01:04,640 --> 02:01:09,320
Speaker 1: about being that level and this is, let's face it,

2580
02:01:09,400 --> 02:01:11,800
Speaker 1: Baseball is a game about statistics. I mean they they

2581
02:01:11,920 --> 02:01:16,160
Speaker 1: pulled it apart. Uh, they computerized that game quick. I

2582
02:01:16,200 --> 02:01:19,640
Speaker 1: mean it was all about numbers. And Warren spawn had

2583
02:01:19,720 --> 02:01:21,960
Speaker 1: better numbers than any left handed pitcher of all time.

2584
02:01:22,360 --> 02:01:25,360
Speaker 1: More wins, more wins. The guy got it done. We

2585
02:01:25,480 --> 02:01:27,320
Speaker 1: had a shot here. And for those of you watching

2586
02:01:27,360 --> 02:01:29,480
Speaker 1: on MSG, we're watching some clips. I mean, the guy

2587
02:01:29,560 --> 02:01:32,360
Speaker 1: hit a home run lefty, you know, and one of

2588
02:01:32,400 --> 02:01:39,320
Speaker 1: these shots h and his ability to win games, and

2589
02:01:39,480 --> 02:01:41,600
Speaker 1: that's it, and and again and that. And let's face

2590
02:01:41,640 --> 02:01:45,360
Speaker 1: it too, in his era, baseball was the NFL and

2591
02:01:45,480 --> 02:01:47,600
Speaker 1: they were the eight hundred pound guerrilla on the American

2592
02:01:47,680 --> 02:01:51,720
Speaker 1: sports landscape. Baseball was the sport, the only sport, the

2593
02:01:51,800 --> 02:01:55,520
Speaker 1: only sport that mattered. Everybody watched it, everybody played it,

2594
02:01:55,640 --> 02:01:57,960
Speaker 1: everybody wanted to you know, ton a lot about it.

2595
02:01:58,120 --> 02:02:01,400
Speaker 1: It was the centerpiece of the sports landscape. And Warren

2596
02:02:01,480 --> 02:02:06,040
Speaker 1: Spawn was the greatest ever left handed pitcher to pick

2597
02:02:06,160 --> 02:02:08,200
Speaker 1: up a baseball. I mean, we're talking about Hall of

2598
02:02:08,280 --> 02:02:11,960
Speaker 1: famers here right with Lanier and Spawn. Gronkowski is gonna

2599
02:02:11,960 --> 02:02:13,240
Speaker 1: be in the Hall of Fame. Pat Kane's gonna be

2600
02:02:13,280 --> 02:02:14,800
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. Now you got a Hall of Famer,

2601
02:02:14,840 --> 02:02:16,920
Speaker 1: Warren Spahn, who is not just a Hall of Famer,

2602
02:02:17,200 --> 02:02:20,760
Speaker 1: but the greatest at his position, left handed pitcher, the

2603
02:02:20,840 --> 02:02:23,520
Speaker 1: winningness anyway, left handed pitcher of all time. That got

2604
02:02:23,600 --> 02:02:26,000
Speaker 1: my That gets my attention. All time means like back

2605
02:02:26,040 --> 02:02:29,040
Speaker 1: into the eighteen hundreds, Yeah, more than a hundred years.

2606
02:02:30,240 --> 02:02:31,960
Speaker 1: Told us to some of the on the arguments, for sure.

2607
02:02:32,440 --> 02:02:35,560
Speaker 1: A couple of phone calls will take here, Pat in Buffalo, Hello, Pat,

2608
02:02:35,600 --> 02:02:38,160
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air. Muri Steve, thanks for

2609
02:02:38,200 --> 02:02:41,320
Speaker 1: having me in you bet, I agree with the Warren

2610
02:02:41,320 --> 02:02:42,960
Speaker 1: Spawn is probably the best. But just to be a

2611
02:02:43,040 --> 02:02:46,920
Speaker 1: devil's advocate, what about Jimmy Slattery? You know earlier about

2612
02:02:47,000 --> 02:02:49,400
Speaker 1: you know, the baseball was the biggest sport and one

2613
02:02:49,400 --> 02:02:52,240
Speaker 1: of the callers had in their time and boxing in

2614
02:02:52,240 --> 02:02:56,000
Speaker 1: the thirties and forties, was there anything other than baseball bigger? No,

2615
02:02:56,320 --> 02:02:58,880
Speaker 1: you're at your Slattery was twenties and thirties or thirties

2616
02:02:58,920 --> 02:03:01,480
Speaker 1: and forties. I'm not quite up to date on his career.

2617
02:03:01,680 --> 02:03:03,720
Speaker 1: And he did win championships, right, didn't he win a

2618
02:03:03,800 --> 02:03:06,880
Speaker 1: vacated the light heavyweight title or something? You want, a

2619
02:03:06,920 --> 02:03:10,720
Speaker 1: couple of titles? Loss, came back, lost one, you know.

2620
02:03:10,920 --> 02:03:13,080
Speaker 1: So that's a good point. Yeah, it's a good point.

2621
02:03:14,200 --> 02:03:17,120
Speaker 1: Boxing champion from an era when boxing was preeminent. That's

2622
02:03:17,120 --> 02:03:19,120
Speaker 1: one of the things you can also would have we've

2623
02:03:19,160 --> 02:03:22,320
Speaker 1: had such a problem today in cross you know, comparing

2624
02:03:23,040 --> 02:03:27,440
Speaker 1: apples and oranges, hockey to baseball, uh, football to basketball,

2625
02:03:27,800 --> 02:03:32,480
Speaker 1: and now you got you know, you're comparing baseball to boxing.

2626
02:03:33,280 --> 02:03:36,520
Speaker 1: But all of these sports, particularly in our country, they've

2627
02:03:36,560 --> 02:03:42,640
Speaker 1: all had eras where they were very big, big important sports.

2628
02:03:42,800 --> 02:03:45,760
Speaker 1: Boxing was much bigger in the last century, early in

2629
02:03:45,800 --> 02:03:48,520
Speaker 1: the mid to last century than it is now. Uh,

2630
02:03:48,880 --> 02:03:51,840
Speaker 1: football is big now, It's been big for twenty twenty

2631
02:03:51,880 --> 02:03:57,000
Speaker 1: five years, thirty years. Baseball was very big in the forties, fifties, sixties,

2632
02:03:57,600 --> 02:04:02,200
Speaker 1: um in America, and you know, and now in the

2633
02:04:02,360 --> 02:04:04,840
Speaker 1: NHL particularly, it gets a little bit more regional even

2634
02:04:04,880 --> 02:04:07,040
Speaker 1: at this point in history. But now you talk about Buffalo,

2635
02:04:07,200 --> 02:04:09,040
Speaker 1: we know what's going on in hockey as well as

2636
02:04:09,040 --> 02:04:12,160
Speaker 1: any city in the United States. And to have a

2637
02:04:12,240 --> 02:04:14,320
Speaker 1: guy who grew up here be as dominant as he

2638
02:04:14,400 --> 02:04:18,440
Speaker 1: has in the last decade, it's we know what we're

2639
02:04:18,480 --> 02:04:21,320
Speaker 1: looking at here. So it's it's fun to talk about

2640
02:04:22,040 --> 02:04:24,880
Speaker 1: these sports and the eras in which they were truly

2641
02:04:25,080 --> 02:04:28,120
Speaker 1: American sports, and right on the front page of the paper,

2642
02:04:28,240 --> 02:04:32,040
Speaker 1: above the fold. You know they were important and have

2643
02:04:32,320 --> 02:04:34,360
Speaker 1: people from Western New York who were part of those

2644
02:04:34,480 --> 02:04:36,480
Speaker 1: and at the top of those games. I think it's

2645
02:04:36,480 --> 02:04:39,640
Speaker 1: fun to compare that apart in those eras. But an

2646
02:04:39,680 --> 02:04:42,280
Speaker 1: interesting discussion all day. Here's a discussion NFL True or

2647
02:04:42,320 --> 02:04:45,280
Speaker 1: False Rock about Yancey's fancy New York startists and cheese.

2648
02:04:45,320 --> 02:04:46,920
Speaker 1: I bet you missed this when you were on vacation

2649
02:04:47,040 --> 02:04:48,760
Speaker 1: I did. Did you ever say to Sarah Sarah true

2650
02:04:48,800 --> 02:04:52,800
Speaker 1: or false, you're looking at some animal in your safaris?

2651
02:04:52,840 --> 02:04:55,080
Speaker 1: And true or false? A giraffe is taller than a rhino.

2652
02:04:55,560 --> 02:04:57,400
Speaker 1: True or false. No, you didn't get it. You know

2653
02:04:57,520 --> 02:04:59,280
Speaker 1: I didn't do that because they wouldn't. They wouldn't have

2654
02:04:59,280 --> 02:05:01,720
Speaker 1: been up for it. And false from centivell Yancy's fancy

2655
02:05:01,920 --> 02:05:04,120
Speaker 1: here we go. Did you see this? Quentin Williams, the

2656
02:05:04,160 --> 02:05:07,320
Speaker 1: Alabama defensive lineman going to be a top five pick

2657
02:05:07,400 --> 02:05:10,440
Speaker 1: in the NFL draft in four weeks, went to or

2658
02:05:10,520 --> 02:05:14,280
Speaker 1: He had a visit with forty nine Ers executives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

2659
02:05:14,480 --> 02:05:16,520
Speaker 1: They took him to dinner. Did you see where he

2660
02:05:16,640 --> 02:05:20,160
Speaker 1: wanted to go? I hop, I hop Quentin Williams makes

2661
02:05:20,200 --> 02:05:23,160
Speaker 1: the right choice pancakes over steak at ie hoop. True

2662
02:05:23,240 --> 02:05:26,400
Speaker 1: or false? I'll say true, sure, go for it. Go.

2663
02:05:26,640 --> 02:05:28,480
Speaker 1: You know you're driving the bus here at Quinnin. You

2664
02:05:28,480 --> 02:05:31,080
Speaker 1: can go wherever you want, buddy, I've never been to Tuscaloosa.

2665
02:05:32,640 --> 02:05:34,880
Speaker 1: They gotta have better than I have. They might, but

2666
02:05:35,040 --> 02:05:37,640
Speaker 1: you know what, I think it's a really smart move.

2667
02:05:37,680 --> 02:05:40,440
Speaker 1: I will say, yes, it's a smart move by him.

2668
02:05:40,680 --> 02:05:44,480
Speaker 1: Why you want to go someplace where you're comfortable, and

2669
02:05:44,800 --> 02:05:47,080
Speaker 1: that's what he did. You're in a tough s you're

2670
02:05:47,120 --> 02:05:50,520
Speaker 1: a stress stressful situation. You want to make the best impression.

2671
02:05:50,600 --> 02:05:54,839
Speaker 1: You want to be someplace where you know the terrain, comfortable,

2672
02:05:55,120 --> 02:05:59,480
Speaker 1: dumping syrup all over those comfortable, comfortable with the menu,

2673
02:06:00,080 --> 02:06:02,120
Speaker 1: comfortable with what's going on. You're not gonna you know,

2674
02:06:02,280 --> 02:06:04,600
Speaker 1: you might even know people in the joint. Yeah. I

2675
02:06:05,320 --> 02:06:07,320
Speaker 1: think it is a really smart move by that guy.

2676
02:06:07,520 --> 02:06:09,560
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say true. We will say true. Yeah

2677
02:06:09,880 --> 02:06:13,160
Speaker 1: Part two NFL two or false. Dez Bryant, wide receiver

2678
02:06:13,280 --> 02:06:15,920
Speaker 1: free agent will be a steel wherever he winds up.

2679
02:06:15,960 --> 02:06:18,320
Speaker 1: That's what he says. That's what he told people. The

2680
02:06:18,600 --> 02:06:23,560
Speaker 1: former first team All Pro tours Achilles ten in his

2681
02:06:23,680 --> 02:06:28,040
Speaker 1: practice with the Saints last year. He says, I'm gonna

2682
02:06:28,160 --> 02:06:32,080
Speaker 1: light some blank up this year. I am excited, he

2683
02:06:32,200 --> 02:06:34,760
Speaker 1: said in a tweet. He's thirty years old, coming off

2684
02:06:34,800 --> 02:06:38,000
Speaker 1: a pretty serious injury. Dez Bryant says he'll be a

2685
02:06:38,040 --> 02:06:40,760
Speaker 1: steal wherever he winds up. Two or false. Let's say false.

2686
02:06:41,320 --> 02:06:43,480
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think he's at the tail

2687
02:06:43,600 --> 02:06:46,760
Speaker 1: end of it and he just needs to show somebody

2688
02:06:46,840 --> 02:06:48,680
Speaker 1: that he's healthy. I don't know fe he'll be a

2689
02:06:48,760 --> 02:06:51,000
Speaker 1: steel What do you think, ste I agree, I think

2690
02:06:51,040 --> 02:06:53,360
Speaker 1: that's false. I don't think Dez Bryant will ever play

2691
02:06:53,360 --> 02:06:55,960
Speaker 1: another down. He might, he might get a tryout, he

2692
02:06:56,040 --> 02:06:57,720
Speaker 1: might get a contract. I don't think he will ever

2693
02:06:57,800 --> 02:07:01,360
Speaker 1: see the field in a regular season game again. So

2694
02:07:01,480 --> 02:07:06,160
Speaker 1: I think that's false. I think he's he's finished his career.

2695
02:07:06,600 --> 02:07:08,600
Speaker 1: They had a good run in Dallas, no question about it.

2696
02:07:08,680 --> 02:07:17,320
Speaker 1: He was a physical specimen. But tearing your achilles at thirty, yeah, no,

2697
02:07:17,600 --> 02:07:20,160
Speaker 1: he is not. Yeah, he is not gonna be a

2698
02:07:20,280 --> 02:07:22,760
Speaker 1: steal if he signs someplace. I don't. I think he's

2699
02:07:22,800 --> 02:07:25,760
Speaker 1: going to struggle to ever play another game. I agree, finally,

2700
02:07:26,000 --> 02:07:29,960
Speaker 1: NFL true or false, Michael Bennett to New England was

2701
02:07:30,080 --> 02:07:33,680
Speaker 1: the best acquisition by anybody in the off season so far.

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Speaker 1: Michael Bennett, That's what Mike Sando said. ESPN reporter Mike Sando,

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Speaker 1: I'll just read what he said. He said. I like

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Speaker 1: the Patriots acquiring Bennett knowing they would get a third

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02:07:42,560 --> 02:07:45,480
Speaker 1: round compensed story pick for losing Trey Flowers. Bennett is

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Speaker 1: thirty three and could decline in any time. But the

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02:07:47,520 --> 02:07:50,560
Speaker 1: Patriots are getting short term and long term insurance without

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Speaker 1: handing Flowers. The eighteen million dollars deal Detroit gat him

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Speaker 1: Michael Bennett the best acquisition of the off season. You

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Speaker 1: want that one, you want to go first, I'll go first. No,

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Speaker 1: that's false, that's it jump crazy talk. You're talking about

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Speaker 1: Odell Beckham Junior going to the to the Browns. You're

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Speaker 1: talking about all the every free agent signing, and Bennett

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Speaker 1: is the best one, that's not even close. And to

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Speaker 1: use the compensatory picks that may or may not come

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Speaker 1: their way is a stretch. I believe. No, that's false,

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Speaker 1: that's not true. I think that's crazy. NFL true or false.

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Speaker 1: Brought to you by Yancey's Fancy New York's artists and Cheese.

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Speaker 1: I got one more thing to ask to see, but

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Speaker 1: I'll wait until after the break, and it's it's about

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Speaker 1: the owners meetings, which begun began yesterday in Arizona in Phoenix, Arizona,

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Speaker 1: and the competition Committee vote on an onside kick alternative.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that, among other things when we

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Speaker 1: come back. One Bill's Live presented by Glad of Health

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So what have we learned from today's show? Presented by

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Speaker 1: the finance and security and home theater the preferred alarm

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Speaker 1: at home theater provider O the Buffalo Bills. I think

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02:09:09,680 --> 02:09:12,200
Speaker 1: we learned a lot today. I feel I feel enlightened today.

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02:09:12,360 --> 02:09:14,960
Speaker 1: We at EJ. Gaines on the show. Cornerback just signed

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Speaker 1: to a new contract coming back to the Buffalo Bills,

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Speaker 1: comes back to a crowded field at the cornerback spot,

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Speaker 1: and we talked to EJ. Gaines about that. I hope

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02:09:23,480 --> 02:09:24,840
Speaker 1: there is, you know, a lot of depth and a

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Speaker 1: lot of competition at the cornerback position, you know, because

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Speaker 1: from what I've learned, teams is better. You know, the

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02:09:29,880 --> 02:09:32,280
Speaker 1: better the more competition, you know, the higher the level

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Speaker 1: rises for everyone. And you know, I'm all, I'm all

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02:09:34,640 --> 02:09:36,760
Speaker 1: for the competition, all for coming in and you know,

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02:09:36,960 --> 02:09:39,280
Speaker 1: let the best man win. And it's all fun in

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02:09:39,360 --> 02:09:41,960
Speaker 1: the competition also. And this time you get dude started

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02:09:42,000 --> 02:09:43,880
Speaker 1: in the off season. Last time you came here, it

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02:09:43,960 --> 02:09:46,120
Speaker 1: was the middle of August, right when they traded for you. Yeah,

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02:09:46,200 --> 02:09:48,720
Speaker 1: gotta be different thing. Oh there's a hundred percent difference.

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Speaker 1: You know. I know that I know the team, I

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02:09:50,560 --> 02:09:53,240
Speaker 1: know the defense, I know who's who's going to be where,

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02:09:53,240 --> 02:09:54,760
Speaker 1: I know what I'm supposed to do. I know what

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02:09:54,840 --> 02:09:57,160
Speaker 1: I should be watching in the off season and before

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02:09:57,200 --> 02:09:58,840
Speaker 1: I get there. You know, it's a lot that goes

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Speaker 1: into it. But I'm so excited did to get back

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Speaker 1: to him. I think the sky's a limit for myself

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Speaker 1: and really his defense. Good day. VJ. Gaines back on

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Speaker 1: our show, back with the Buffalo Bills. Signed today with

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Speaker 1: the Bills. Well. Also on the show today, talk with

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Speaker 1: Brian Dabo, Bill's offensive coordinator, took some time out of

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Speaker 1: his little vacation time to talk to us about Rob

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02:10:16,320 --> 02:10:20,200
Speaker 1: Gronkowski announced his retirement. Dabo coached him three years with

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Speaker 1: the New England Patriots, and this is what he had

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Speaker 1: to say about Rob Gronkowski and his work ethic. He

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02:10:26,320 --> 02:10:29,000
Speaker 1: was a competitor, you know, he got to the building,

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02:10:29,480 --> 02:10:32,800
Speaker 1: he was you know, serious and meetings, took his craft,

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02:10:32,880 --> 02:10:36,080
Speaker 1: serious of practice, did whatever he could do in terms

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02:10:36,120 --> 02:10:40,680
Speaker 1: of you know, eating the right thing, working out, being

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02:10:40,760 --> 02:10:43,400
Speaker 1: on top of his body. You know, had a have

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02:10:43,600 --> 02:10:45,640
Speaker 1: some injuries, there throughout the career, some of those dark

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02:10:45,680 --> 02:10:49,080
Speaker 1: fluke things and other things he battled through but did

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02:10:49,160 --> 02:10:52,880
Speaker 1: everything he could do to help his team be successful.

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Speaker 1: And that's what you appreciate about Rob. Brian Dable, who

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Speaker 1: coached him for three years, said about Rob Gronkowski announce

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Speaker 1: his retirement on our Twitter today, is he, in fact

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Speaker 1: the greatest athlete ever? Spawned in Buffalo, Western New York

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Speaker 1: and Vicky in Buffalo on the line with us. Vicky,

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Speaker 1: what do you think? Vicky? Well, I don't like him

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02:11:11,800 --> 02:11:16,920
Speaker 1: at all because I saw one and I was looking

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02:11:16,960 --> 02:11:20,840
Speaker 1: for basketball scores actually, and I just caught ran across you. Okay.

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Speaker 1: If I had a vote for for a player, I

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02:11:23,480 --> 02:11:26,400
Speaker 1: would go with Spawn. But the reason why I called

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02:11:26,600 --> 02:11:30,000
Speaker 1: was because you know, everybody's talking so good about God.

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Speaker 1: Did you guys forget what he did to one of

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Speaker 1: our bills when he was down on the ground. Nope,

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Speaker 1: that's probably been mentioning a half dozen times in the show, Remember, Vicky,

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Speaker 1: I mean and and uh yeah so and you're you're

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Speaker 1: you're never gonna forgive him for that? Vicky? Yeah, No,

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Speaker 1: I won't. Okay, I see people to do stuff for sports.

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Speaker 1: I I don't think they played for the love of

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Speaker 1: the game anymore. And I'm more of a baseball and

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest with you, but you know, I love

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Speaker 1: the Bills, I love the Braves, that loved all the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo teams. Okay, so thanks Becky. We got to move

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Speaker 1: along because we're almost up against it here on our

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02:12:07,520 --> 02:12:10,640
Speaker 1: Twitter pole when we asked the question Gronkowski's retirement to

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02:12:10,800 --> 02:12:13,360
Speaker 1: spark this question who it's the greatest athlete ever to

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02:12:13,440 --> 02:12:15,560
Speaker 1: come out of Buffalo, born and bred and Buffalo, And

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02:12:15,680 --> 02:12:18,280
Speaker 1: the Twitter poll showed that most respondents believe it was

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Speaker 1: Patrick Kane. It is Patrick Kane. Forty six percent said Kane,

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Speaker 1: twenty seven percent said Gronkowski, fifteen percent said Warren Spond,

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Speaker 1: twelve percent said Bobblin Here. Of course, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of people that we couldn't get We only had four options,

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Speaker 1: you know, we had four slots we had to use

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Speaker 1: for the for the pole. Guys like Christian Layton or

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Speaker 1: didn't get on, John Jones didn't get on, the MMA guy, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, Abby Wombaugh didn't get on. I mean, so

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of there's a lot of athletes out

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Speaker 1: there that we could have put on. But these are

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Speaker 1: people who were actually born in Western New York, and

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Speaker 1: so it wasn't It didn't include people like Khalil Mack

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Speaker 1: or you know Jim Kelly or I like you know

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Speaker 1: Thurman Thomas, those guys. Hey, the owners are meeting in Phoenix.

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Speaker 1: Nothing yet. As far as rules changes, um there you

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Speaker 1: might change the outside kick. The petition committee voted pretty

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Speaker 1: overwhelmingly Steve to change outside kick to once a game,

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter instead of If you don't want to try

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Speaker 1: an outside kick, you can go fourth and fifteen from

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Speaker 1: your own I believe it's a thirty yard life thirty

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Speaker 1: five yard line. What do you think of that? I agree,

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Speaker 1: I think it's great. You can't get an onside kick now,

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Speaker 1: with the way the rules are and the way they

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Speaker 1: may change the line of alignment, you can't. You just

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Speaker 1: don't get any onside kicks, so giving him a fourth

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02:13:24,600 --> 02:13:26,680
Speaker 1: and fifteen option is great. I think it gets your

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Speaker 1: stars back on the field. You get you know, you

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Speaker 1: get Josh Allen back on the field, you get Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: you get the stars back on the field. Let them

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Speaker 1: try and win the game again with a fourth and fifteen.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a great move. I think they should

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Speaker 1: have done it a long time ago. We're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: more about this tomorrow. We anticipate some of the rules

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Speaker 1: will be approved over the next twenty four to forty

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Speaker 1: eight hours. Sean McDermott will hear from him at the

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Speaker 1: NFL owners meetings. Also coming up on tomorrow's show. Thanks

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Speaker 1: to our production assistant George Blast, Jeff Colteneck, Thomas Hollander,

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Speaker 1: Kelly Road, j J. Turito, Kevin Gardis, James Roebel, our

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Speaker 1: producer Jay Harris, thanks for tuning in Steve's Beck. You're

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Speaker 1: coming in tomorrow, I think so. SE's back to much

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Speaker 1: as well. One Bill's Live from Kalid to Health from

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio