1
00:00:06,920 --> 00:00:10,200
Speaker 1: At a Steve Tasker who has been all over the

2
00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:12,120
Speaker 1: fields kind of unique. He was kind of a dual

3
00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:18,759
Speaker 1: role player for you, Steve a blimp. We're not even

4
00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:26,040
Speaker 1: in the stratedere of normalcy. Holy Friday, It's one Bills Live,

5
00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:29,840
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you Boop Diggity. Moving our

6
00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:32,920
Speaker 1: way into the weekend, and when we come back on

7
00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:36,800
Speaker 1: Labor Day Monday, we will have a three hour program

8
00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:39,720
Speaker 1: for you noon to three as we are back to

9
00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:47,000
Speaker 1: three hour Mondays during the regular season. Fire it up.

10
00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:51,000
Speaker 1: We are ready and willing. I've had a table. I've

11
00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:54,440
Speaker 1: had a conversation like maybe three times over the last

12
00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:59,160
Speaker 1: through it this week, since since the weekend where I've

13
00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:01,560
Speaker 1: been out and about somebody came, you know, because everybody's

14
00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,360
Speaker 1: just like it's a fever pitch right, because we're like

15
00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,160
Speaker 1: the next thing we do is play the rams and

16
00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,560
Speaker 1: people are going, I listen, I'm sorry, I know you

17
00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:11,840
Speaker 1: don't want to talk football, but you know what do

18
00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:12,959
Speaker 1: you you know? What do you think of it? They're

19
00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:15,000
Speaker 1: asking Bill's question because I'm sorry, I don't know. I

20
00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:18,120
Speaker 1: want to bother you with the football. Listen, I go,

21
00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:21,959
Speaker 1: I love talking about it. I can't you know, go ahead, shoot,

22
00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:24,600
Speaker 1: let's go, let's sit down and talk. You got time

23
00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:27,040
Speaker 1: Because they think I don't want to talk about it.

24
00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:30,160
Speaker 1: I'm like, shoot, yeah, what what's up? That's right. I

25
00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,200
Speaker 1: mean that I do it. We do it every day

26
00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,880
Speaker 1: so and people think and you know, it's work and

27
00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,320
Speaker 1: we you know, we we're getting ready. But man, oh man,

28
00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:41,960
Speaker 1: you do what you love. That's right. And this is

29
00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:43,880
Speaker 1: an easy team. I tell people it is an easy

30
00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:48,440
Speaker 1: team to love. Man. It is a Friday fan mail

31
00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:52,000
Speaker 1: bag Friday, as it always is here on One Bill's Live.

32
00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:56,840
Speaker 1: But we do have a full schedule for you. In

33
00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:59,440
Speaker 1: about a half an hour, we're gonna be joined by

34
00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:04,080
Speaker 1: the Wing King, Drew Serza as the Buffalo Wing Festival

35
00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:08,720
Speaker 1: begins in earnest here at high Mark Stadium this weekend.

36
00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:13,000
Speaker 1: So we will have you prepped and ready to eat

37
00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:16,280
Speaker 1: your face off this weekend if you are coming out

38
00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,040
Speaker 1: to the stadium with Drew Sarzas, so we'll catch up

39
00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,280
Speaker 1: with him and then you like that. Then second hour

40
00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,640
Speaker 1: the program will be joined by former Rams defensive lineman

41
00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:31,040
Speaker 1: DeMarco Farr, who was now part of their broadcast team,

42
00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:33,120
Speaker 1: and he will bring us up to speed on a

43
00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:36,480
Speaker 1: RAMS team that I have a few questions about. And

44
00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:42,240
Speaker 1: I will tell you what my biggest mismatch is in

45
00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:46,320
Speaker 1: this game in my estimation, just in surveying the rosters

46
00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:48,920
Speaker 1: and how things have come through the course of the preseason.

47
00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:51,880
Speaker 1: And I'll be bouncing that off of DeMarco far come

48
00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:58,080
Speaker 1: the second hour of the program. But Steve, before we

49
00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,760
Speaker 1: even get to NFL football, there's college football this weekend.

50
00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:06,200
Speaker 1: Some pretty big games on the slate. Actually last night

51
00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:10,079
Speaker 1: there was a big game. The Backyard Brawl kicked off

52
00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:12,560
Speaker 1: the season for Pitt and West Virginia. It's that's kind

53
00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:15,160
Speaker 1: of biggin. It's fondly referred to as the Backyard Brawl.

54
00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,120
Speaker 1: It had been on hiatus for a while because, as

55
00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,040
Speaker 1: we know, West Virginia jumped into the Big Twelve. Pitt

56
00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:23,560
Speaker 1: went to the ACC after the Big East kind of

57
00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:27,480
Speaker 1: dissolved as a football conference, and they hadn't played each

58
00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:31,360
Speaker 1: other in a while. It was the kickoff game for

59
00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:35,600
Speaker 1: Pitt in Pittsburgh and Bill's players Dane Jackson and tomar

60
00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:37,880
Speaker 1: Hamlin went down to go see the game because they

61
00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:42,080
Speaker 1: basically have off Wednesday, Thursday Friday, so they went down

62
00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:43,360
Speaker 1: and Manny and I were talking about it on the

63
00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,720
Speaker 1: show yesterday to mar Hamlin put out on his social media,

64
00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,960
Speaker 1: I am tailgating for the first time and I am

65
00:03:50,080 --> 00:03:52,960
Speaker 1: looking forward to you think about it. These players they've

66
00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,640
Speaker 1: never tailgated in their life. They're always playing in the game.

67
00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,720
Speaker 1: It's been a fun odyssey for me too, after because

68
00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,880
Speaker 1: he didn't know what it's like. Yeah, that had to be.

69
00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,200
Speaker 1: That'd be kind of cool for him. Well, and not

70
00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:08,360
Speaker 1: only that. Pitt won the game last night by a

71
00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,640
Speaker 1: score of thirty eight to thirty one. It was a

72
00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:18,600
Speaker 1: barn burner. So yeah, basically, well let me think, I

73
00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:20,520
Speaker 1: gotta do my math. I I had forty nine points

74
00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,440
Speaker 1: scored in the second half. Oh really, Oh yeah, it

75
00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:26,600
Speaker 1: was a it was a heater. Yeah, it was a heater.

76
00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:32,479
Speaker 1: So Pitt wins thirty eight thirty one to win the

77
00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:35,920
Speaker 1: backyard brawl. So the game lived up to the hype

78
00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:40,720
Speaker 1: in every sense of the word. So the number seventeen

79
00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:45,920
Speaker 1: Pitt Panthers emerged victorious and off they go. So I'm

80
00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:51,640
Speaker 1: sure Damar and Dane had a bang up time. Hopefully

81
00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,599
Speaker 1: they did it under control, because the bottom line is

82
00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:58,800
Speaker 1: they've they've got practice over the weekend here because we

83
00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,159
Speaker 1: come back on this show Monday and the game is

84
00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,919
Speaker 1: three days away. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's I mean, the

85
00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:06,400
Speaker 1: turnaround is gonna be like it's here, Oh my gosh. Yeah,

86
00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,200
Speaker 1: pretty crazy. Yeah, we're doing the show now. We're gonna

87
00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,200
Speaker 1: be here on Monday and nobody else. It's Labor Day,

88
00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:17,159
Speaker 1: so nobody's working except for us, and so we hope

89
00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,480
Speaker 1: you'll still tune in in your normal whether you're doing

90
00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,000
Speaker 1: your backyard barbecue you know, you're last barbecue of the

91
00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,040
Speaker 1: summer or whatever it is. You can watch us on

92
00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:27,080
Speaker 1: TVs that are just listening. That's true, you can do

93
00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,440
Speaker 1: that as well. But we are noon to three on Monday,

94
00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:33,440
Speaker 1: which is very exciting, so we're happy about that. But

95
00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:38,720
Speaker 1: the big game this weekend is down at the Mercedes

96
00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:44,360
Speaker 1: Benz Dome in Atlanta, Number three Georgia against Oregon, which

97
00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:47,600
Speaker 1: is ranked also but I can't remember the ranking. Giant

98
00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,640
Speaker 1: game down there to kick off the season, and the

99
00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:56,000
Speaker 1: reason it is it is because Georgia is facing an

100
00:05:56,040 --> 00:06:00,480
Speaker 1: Oregon team who is coached by their former defensive coordinator.

101
00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:03,240
Speaker 1: The guy who led the number one Georgia defense is

102
00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:09,520
Speaker 1: now over there at Oregon. So pretty crazy to think

103
00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,960
Speaker 1: that you know that. That reminds me because you get

104
00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,520
Speaker 1: all these games. I'm always thinking about the NFL. But

105
00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:19,760
Speaker 1: that game, you know, we've got guys that you've played

106
00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,000
Speaker 1: against it that are you know, for the first time

107
00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:23,800
Speaker 1: you're gonna play against. It's happening a lot more in

108
00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:25,680
Speaker 1: the NFL because of free agency and stuff. It never

109
00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:27,760
Speaker 1: used to be a thing. Now it seems like this

110
00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:32,120
Speaker 1: year Von Miller going back to play the Rams, Baker

111
00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:37,760
Speaker 1: Mayfield in Cleveland, Deshaun Watson and Houston, all these guys

112
00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:40,640
Speaker 1: who played for other teams are getting a chance to

113
00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,080
Speaker 1: you know, show them up. Matt staffor does Matt Stafford

114
00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:46,320
Speaker 1: did they play or did they last year? Like all

115
00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:49,599
Speaker 1: these named guys are switching. Soil Wilson's playing against the

116
00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:52,960
Speaker 1: Sea Monday night week one. Yeah, think about that. Baker

117
00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:58,080
Speaker 1: Mayfield's playing the Browns week one. There's something about that.

118
00:06:58,080 --> 00:07:02,800
Speaker 1: That's really Ron Miller playing the Rams week one. It's

119
00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:06,279
Speaker 1: pretty good. So anyway, that is the former defensive coordinator

120
00:07:06,279 --> 00:07:09,200
Speaker 1: for Georgia, Dan Lanning is now the head coach at

121
00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:12,920
Speaker 1: Oregon and he's got to bring his ducks into the

122
00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:17,040
Speaker 1: Crucible in Atlanta, where there's gonna be so much red

123
00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,160
Speaker 1: and black. He's not even gonna be able to see straight.

124
00:07:19,200 --> 00:07:20,960
Speaker 1: And he knows what that atmosphere is like. He won

125
00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:25,440
Speaker 1: a national title with them. The Bulldogs are loaded for bear.

126
00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:28,800
Speaker 1: Though my son is gonna be at the game. He

127
00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:31,880
Speaker 1: has completely immersed himself and everything that is University of

128
00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,880
Speaker 1: Georgia as a freshman down there. He and his buddies

129
00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:37,640
Speaker 1: are going to the game. It is going to be

130
00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:40,840
Speaker 1: bananas down there. Ticket prices are through the roof, by

131
00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:45,760
Speaker 1: the way, O think SEC fans are absolutely insane. Kids

132
00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:47,400
Speaker 1: some money so we can go to the gay. Well,

133
00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,680
Speaker 1: we got him a ticket and I told him. I

134
00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:53,720
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, that's your Christmas present, bud. Enjoy because

135
00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:57,120
Speaker 1: it is not cheap, right, it is not cheap. There's

136
00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:01,960
Speaker 1: student sections, not for neutral psyche games. That's considered a

137
00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,080
Speaker 1: neutral site game because it's in Atlanta, all right. He's

138
00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:09,600
Speaker 1: got his tickets for the on campus games at Sanford Stadium.

139
00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:14,120
Speaker 1: Those are like those are like ten bucks? How wrong

140
00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,480
Speaker 1: is that? That's pretty wrong to me. You got the

141
00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,400
Speaker 1: n nil deals for the players and all out, and

142
00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:22,600
Speaker 1: the universities are making him any hand over fist. Now,

143
00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:26,320
Speaker 1: the students that actually go to the university can't go

144
00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:30,160
Speaker 1: to a lot of money in tuition, right, And they

145
00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:32,280
Speaker 1: don't have a section that's like, hey, here's your student

146
00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,800
Speaker 1: body like they do it at the on campus station.

147
00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:38,360
Speaker 1: They should have it a ten thousand seat section just

148
00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:40,960
Speaker 1: for the kids of each school. I don't know the

149
00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,280
Speaker 1: size of it, but it's pretty large at their stadium

150
00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:46,480
Speaker 1: on campus. Whatever you get at my point, five thousand,

151
00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:50,959
Speaker 1: ten thousand something, a percentage of those tickets should be boom.

152
00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:53,920
Speaker 1: Your students are sitting over here. Their students are sitting

153
00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:56,960
Speaker 1: straight across from you. Let's go. So they have that

154
00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,760
Speaker 1: for those neutral site games. But it's a lottery because

155
00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:02,920
Speaker 1: there's only a certain number of them. Now, who gets

156
00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,920
Speaker 1: those tickets, Well, it's a lottery for the students. It

157
00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:09,120
Speaker 1: is the student and it's based on seniority. So as

158
00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:11,240
Speaker 1: a freshman you're probably gonna wind up out of luck.

159
00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:12,680
Speaker 1: So then you have to go to the second hand

160
00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:15,560
Speaker 1: ticket market and that's I'll let it go there. That's pricey,

161
00:09:15,640 --> 00:09:17,520
Speaker 1: I'll let it go. Then, since they're doing that, it's

162
00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:19,800
Speaker 1: a lottery. So he entered the lottery, didn't get his

163
00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:21,640
Speaker 1: name called, so he had to get him and his

164
00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:24,000
Speaker 1: buddies had to get tickets on the second hand market school.

165
00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:26,840
Speaker 1: He's not a senior enough to get it, No, he's not, so,

166
00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:31,200
Speaker 1: but he'll be there. So they do give kids tickets

167
00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:33,200
Speaker 1: to his neutral sight game, but the neutral site game

168
00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:37,120
Speaker 1: pool for students is considerably smaller because the venue wants

169
00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:40,720
Speaker 1: to make money, so discounted tickets for students is going

170
00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:43,720
Speaker 1: to be limited in scope. You know, an arena like that,

171
00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:46,319
Speaker 1: I get it in the home stadium. It's a much

172
00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:49,160
Speaker 1: larger student section and it's only ten bucks a pop

173
00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,240
Speaker 1: for a student. So he's got his season tickets for

174
00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:54,760
Speaker 1: all the games at Sanford Satium on campus in Athens.

175
00:09:55,040 --> 00:10:00,000
Speaker 1: So there you go. He's ready to roll, ready to roll. Money.

176
00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:04,200
Speaker 1: He coughed up for Georgia gear Uh not a ton,

177
00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,360
Speaker 1: but yeah I saw his dorm room. Well, yeah, he's

178
00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:12,000
Speaker 1: decked out. He's he's ready to roll. Really all you

179
00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:14,320
Speaker 1: need for your room though, was a flag, right, just flag. Yeah,

180
00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:15,840
Speaker 1: that's all he's got in his room. And then you

181
00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:18,320
Speaker 1: know he's got a couple of polos and probably like

182
00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:22,240
Speaker 1: four or five T shirts that pull over. See that's

183
00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:24,320
Speaker 1: one when where you're hoping that the gay borders zip.

184
00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:27,679
Speaker 1: You got the T shirt gun, you got to catch one.

185
00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:30,079
Speaker 1: I think all the freshmen got handed a T shirt

186
00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:33,200
Speaker 1: on their way in. And I don't know that it's

187
00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:38,400
Speaker 1: like sports oriented. It might just say, you know, University

188
00:10:38,440 --> 00:10:40,800
Speaker 1: of Georgia or whatever. And plus everybody in the whole

189
00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:43,920
Speaker 1: school's got one. Everybody's got one. Like it's not exactly unique.

190
00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,280
Speaker 1: You look like a total goober everybody. I don't know

191
00:10:48,320 --> 00:10:50,880
Speaker 1: about that. Maybe they do wear them. Who knows that

192
00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:56,280
Speaker 1: idiot wearing his free T shirt? Yeah? Uh. NFL News

193
00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,760
Speaker 1: and Notes concerns the Bills Bills to some degree because

194
00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:07,440
Speaker 1: Houston Texans have signed OJ Howard. Howard was originally going

195
00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:09,840
Speaker 1: to sign with the Bengals, but then they found a

196
00:11:09,880 --> 00:11:13,040
Speaker 1: tight end they liked better and said, well thanks, but

197
00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:15,400
Speaker 1: no thanks Oja. And so now he's looking for a

198
00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:17,440
Speaker 1: new team, and it looks like the Texans are interested.

199
00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:23,400
Speaker 1: So we'll we'll have to see where it goes. I'm Steve,

200
00:11:23,400 --> 00:11:25,360
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put to you this way. The Bengals were

201
00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:28,960
Speaker 1: initially interested in Oj Howard. Do you know who they

202
00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,719
Speaker 1: chose over Oj Howard? The guy from New England, Devin Asiasi,

203
00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:36,319
Speaker 1: who was a cast off in New England. They chose

204
00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:41,560
Speaker 1: to sign him, and so now OJ Howard looks like

205
00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:44,160
Speaker 1: he's going to Houston. The good news there is it

206
00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,360
Speaker 1: will offset some of the costs for the Bills. Yeah,

207
00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:48,319
Speaker 1: but it won't be till next year though, right correct

208
00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:51,480
Speaker 1: here they correct credit for the money OJ Howard makes

209
00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:56,240
Speaker 1: for the Texans. They get credit on their cap next year,

210
00:11:56,640 --> 00:11:59,120
Speaker 1: that's right, instead of having all that hit and we'll

211
00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:02,560
Speaker 1: take the cap hit this year, but correct offset the

212
00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,480
Speaker 1: six twenty five hit they take next year. Yeah, so

213
00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:08,920
Speaker 1: that helps to some degree. A little bit of a surprise,

214
00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:15,679
Speaker 1: the Giants released veteran linebacker Blake Martinez coming off at

215
00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:19,840
Speaker 1: torn ACL Martinez restructured his contract in the spring, but

216
00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:22,840
Speaker 1: still not enough for the Giants, who are really in

217
00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:28,959
Speaker 1: cap jail right now. Cutting him frees up about three

218
00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:31,240
Speaker 1: and a half million in additional space. So really he's

219
00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:36,800
Speaker 1: a cap casualty more than anything else, because he's been

220
00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:39,360
Speaker 1: a solid player, productive player for a long time in

221
00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:41,520
Speaker 1: this league, even going back to his days in Green Bay.

222
00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,840
Speaker 1: But Joe Shane's got some tough decisions to make there

223
00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:47,320
Speaker 1: and he's got to get that cap sorted out. So

224
00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:49,800
Speaker 1: much like twenty eighteen was a bite the bullet year,

225
00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,840
Speaker 1: for the Bills on the cap, I fear that year

226
00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:56,800
Speaker 1: one for Joe, Shane and Brian Dabel is going to

227
00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,840
Speaker 1: look much the same as they try to get that

228
00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:02,600
Speaker 1: sorted out, not only in terms of cap, but in

229
00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:06,319
Speaker 1: terms of the on field product as well. Yeah, and

230
00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:09,160
Speaker 1: you think about what the Giants are going through picked

231
00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:14,160
Speaker 1: up one guy from the Bills, cam lewis no Nick McLeod,

232
00:13:14,200 --> 00:13:16,680
Speaker 1: sorry Nick McCleod, who has been around the block already

233
00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:21,680
Speaker 1: once in the NFL. But for those I think most

234
00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:24,880
Speaker 1: Bills fans are kind of pulling for day Ball to

235
00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:27,640
Speaker 1: be successful over there and Shane, Yeah, to a degree,

236
00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:30,760
Speaker 1: I would say, because we we know him and have

237
00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:32,720
Speaker 1: relationships with him, so you kind of wish him the

238
00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:35,120
Speaker 1: best until you know they play your team. But first

239
00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:37,200
Speaker 1: year can always be along yere as you're trying at

240
00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:40,240
Speaker 1: things right, especially when you inherit such a cost prohibitive

241
00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:42,920
Speaker 1: cap situation as Shane and day Will are down there

242
00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:45,480
Speaker 1: in New York. That was a mess. That's why after

243
00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:50,240
Speaker 1: seventeen years of a drought in Buffalo and trading two

244
00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:53,440
Speaker 1: really good players the first the week before the start

245
00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:57,239
Speaker 1: of the regular season, the Bills going to the playoffs

246
00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:01,160
Speaker 1: in mcdermot's first year. How does he not win Coach

247
00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:04,000
Speaker 1: of the Year that year? Yeah, I don't know. That's

248
00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,640
Speaker 1: it also finished as runner up to Coach of the

249
00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:11,560
Speaker 1: Year to Kevin Stefanski in twenty twenty, when Stefanski did

250
00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,720
Speaker 1: what McDermott did in his first year in Buffalo. So

251
00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:20,120
Speaker 1: either way, it's it's amazing that is he probably should

252
00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,920
Speaker 1: have one Coach of the Year on his on his resume,

253
00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:27,880
Speaker 1: If not in seventeen, certainly in twenty. Right, you know

254
00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:31,320
Speaker 1: when the team went, what were the twelve and four?

255
00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:35,280
Speaker 1: Thirteen and three? They were thirteen and three? Um? What

256
00:14:35,280 --> 00:14:37,000
Speaker 1: the hell were the Bills in twenty twenty, No, they

257
00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,840
Speaker 1: weren't thirty four. I can't even remember. Look at all.

258
00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,800
Speaker 1: Look the meantime, the Patriots placed wide receiver Taekwon Thornton

259
00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:49,080
Speaker 1: on injured reserve. He had a collarbone injury in the preseason.

260
00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:51,960
Speaker 1: He was their second round pick. He also ran the

261
00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:57,000
Speaker 1: fastest time at the combine. Um it's a four to

262
00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,800
Speaker 1: eight week timeline. After Thornton broke his collar bone in

263
00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:02,960
Speaker 1: the Patriots second preseason game, he was one of the

264
00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:06,680
Speaker 1: few receivers on the roster. In addition to Jacoby Myers,

265
00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,800
Speaker 1: who actually had a rapport in the passing game with

266
00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:12,080
Speaker 1: Mac Jones through the course of the preseason, So that

267
00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:15,480
Speaker 1: could prove to be a costly lost for them, knowing

268
00:15:17,160 --> 00:15:20,160
Speaker 1: continuity in the passing game has been anything but for

269
00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:23,080
Speaker 1: the Patriots through the course of the preseason. So tough

270
00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:24,760
Speaker 1: loss for them there. He's gonna be gone for half

271
00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:27,680
Speaker 1: the year in all likelihood. Thirteen and three by the way,

272
00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:34,040
Speaker 1: thirteen and three, Okay, it was right costly lost for

273
00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:36,840
Speaker 1: the Titans, who have already lost enough talent through the

274
00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:40,080
Speaker 1: course of this past offseason. Julio Jones no longer there,

275
00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:42,960
Speaker 1: They trade away a j Brown, They lose offensive lineman

276
00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,280
Speaker 1: like Roger Saffold and David Quessenberry, who are now in Buffalo.

277
00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,240
Speaker 1: Now they have lost one of their best pass rushers,

278
00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:54,920
Speaker 1: Harold Landry, tears his ACL in practice and is out

279
00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:59,560
Speaker 1: for the year. It's a Pro Bowl edge rusher who

280
00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:04,360
Speaker 1: had elf sacks last year. Twenty two quarterback hits fourteen

281
00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:10,840
Speaker 1: tackles for loss. That is a huge subtraction from their defense. Huge. Yeah,

282
00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:13,240
Speaker 1: that's unbelievable. And here's the thing, here's the problem. They

283
00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:15,720
Speaker 1: also lost a Kuon Jones to the Bills for Yeah,

284
00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:17,680
Speaker 1: here's here's one of the problems too. That and this

285
00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:19,400
Speaker 1: happened to the Buffalo Bills. We were talking about it

286
00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:21,920
Speaker 1: the other day. With the year. They lost Eric Wood

287
00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:27,560
Speaker 1: and Ritchie Incognito out of the blue and couldn't didn't

288
00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,080
Speaker 1: have any replacement. You couldn't replace them. They didn't have

289
00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:34,560
Speaker 1: any any any asked. They don't get assets in return.

290
00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:37,160
Speaker 1: They're just gone. It's like they, you know, vaporize. That's

291
00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:39,920
Speaker 1: what happens to these guys. Last week of training camp,

292
00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:42,520
Speaker 1: right before the regular season opener. You lose a top,

293
00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:46,160
Speaker 1: top player. You can't fill that hole. There's just nobody

294
00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:49,960
Speaker 1: out there to get Yeah, that's a crusher. The timing

295
00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:54,280
Speaker 1: is never good, but there's absolutely nobody out there now

296
00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:57,040
Speaker 1: after all the waiver claims went through, the roster cuts happened.

297
00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:59,320
Speaker 1: It's a tough time to lose a player for the

298
00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:04,560
Speaker 1: entire season. That is a crusher. Eagles offensive tackle Andre

299
00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:11,199
Speaker 1: Dillard freak injury here broken arm. In Thursday's practice. He

300
00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:16,560
Speaker 1: suffered a non displaced fracture of his forearm um. The

301
00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:20,760
Speaker 1: expectation is Dillard will be available for a majority of

302
00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:24,159
Speaker 1: the season, but that's their former first round pick in

303
00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:32,960
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. He's playing on his fifty year options. Or

304
00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,439
Speaker 1: actually he had his fifth year option declined if I

305
00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:39,159
Speaker 1: remember right. So he's just playing it out here in

306
00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:43,440
Speaker 1: year four. That's um that happened. I got it. I

307
00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:47,159
Speaker 1: broke my forearm same way. The problem is that you

308
00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,479
Speaker 1: can kind of the problem is with a forearm, they

309
00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:54,280
Speaker 1: they cast you above your elbow, so you can't twist

310
00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,479
Speaker 1: turn your wrist like a you know, like you're they

311
00:17:57,480 --> 00:17:59,920
Speaker 1: don't want the bones crossing over each other. Screw driver.

312
00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:02,440
Speaker 1: You can't. They won't let you do that. That's that's

313
00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:05,879
Speaker 1: the only reason you can't play with that. Although you know,

314
00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:07,879
Speaker 1: pain is certainly a factor in that kind of imagine.

315
00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:09,680
Speaker 1: That's gonna take time for alignment. It's got to use

316
00:18:09,720 --> 00:18:12,560
Speaker 1: that forearm in a violent way, like every single place

317
00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:15,240
Speaker 1: punch and you know what I mean, not only that

318
00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:17,159
Speaker 1: you twist to kind of grab a hold of the

319
00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:20,880
Speaker 1: guy's pads if you can stay inside his arms like man,

320
00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:23,720
Speaker 1: you can't. I think he's gonna miss it close to

321
00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:26,760
Speaker 1: half the season. Well, Plus you can't lift and stay strong.

322
00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,399
Speaker 1: Oh that's the other though. You can't push you any weight.

323
00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:31,640
Speaker 1: You just yeah, you just you're stuck there and watch

324
00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:35,000
Speaker 1: your arm shrink. Yes, yeah, you're stuck. It's bad. Arizona

325
00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:39,120
Speaker 1: cornerback Antonio Hamilton. Now this one you don't hear every day.

326
00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:43,080
Speaker 1: I heard this placed on the Cardinals reserve non football

327
00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:47,200
Speaker 1: injury last after an accident while cooking at his home.

328
00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:54,440
Speaker 1: Ian Rappidport and Mike Erifola were reporting this. Hamilton badly

329
00:18:54,520 --> 00:19:00,560
Speaker 1: burned his foot after spilling cooking oil. He's gonna miss

330
00:19:00,600 --> 00:19:03,760
Speaker 1: at least the first four games of the season because

331
00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:08,199
Speaker 1: he's got second degree burns on his foot, like you

332
00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:10,560
Speaker 1: can't put a sock on a shoe on. There were

333
00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:13,199
Speaker 1: pictures out there and it was not pretty. I mean

334
00:19:13,240 --> 00:19:17,920
Speaker 1: it's it's wow. Cooking oil on skin not a good

335
00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,720
Speaker 1: mix when the cooking oil is about three fifty degree. Yeah,

336
00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:23,560
Speaker 1: think about if you're if you're if you're fond doing

337
00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:29,399
Speaker 1: or your skin just melts, it's bad. Am I dating myself?

338
00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,800
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe a little bit, maybe a little bit. Yeah,

339
00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:36,000
Speaker 1: that's who doesn't like a good fond You know what

340
00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:40,440
Speaker 1: I mean is there's cooking oil spilling out of a

341
00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:44,400
Speaker 1: scalding hot frying pan on to your foot. Man, that's tough.

342
00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:47,879
Speaker 1: That is really really rough, second degree burns on his foot.

343
00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:52,360
Speaker 1: It's I mean it's wrapped and being treated now, but

344
00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:55,560
Speaker 1: that dude's not putting a sock or a shoe on

345
00:19:55,720 --> 00:20:00,480
Speaker 1: for a long time. That's gonna be tough, so tough

346
00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,960
Speaker 1: loss for a team that is already shorthanded at the

347
00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,880
Speaker 1: cornerback position. If we remember, earlier in the week, they

348
00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:10,080
Speaker 1: traded with the Raiders for cornerback tray Von Mullen because

349
00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,720
Speaker 1: they were already shorthanded. Now they lose Antonio Hamilton to

350
00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:18,200
Speaker 1: a cooking accident. Good grief. That is not good. As

351
00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,119
Speaker 1: we said Friday, fan mail bag is open eight oh

352
00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:24,080
Speaker 1: three oh five fifty one eight eight five fifty two

353
00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:26,440
Speaker 1: five fifty. Let's get to the phones where we got

354
00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:30,080
Speaker 1: people waiting. Leading us off today is John in Williamsville.

355
00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:33,399
Speaker 1: We got first, John, You're on one bills live. I

356
00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:36,560
Speaker 1: ask good afternoon. Two questions. The first one, they bringing

357
00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,600
Speaker 1: up Hunter or a free agent or even a college

358
00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:42,880
Speaker 1: kid for pre draft. Do the Bills pay for the

359
00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,320
Speaker 1: flight into the Buffalo? And if so, it's a good

360
00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,680
Speaker 1: chance to go first class and show them Acama organization

361
00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:53,919
Speaker 1: we are. And number two, you talk about special teams

362
00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,960
Speaker 1: players all the time. Well, what exactly it makes a

363
00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:00,560
Speaker 1: better player than the other guy. They can't I'll be tacklers,

364
00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:03,679
Speaker 1: they can all be blockers. What do they look for?

365
00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:07,760
Speaker 1: And I guess that said? Thanks, okay, no problem, John M.

366
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:12,000
Speaker 1: Regarding your first part of the question, free agent visits,

367
00:21:12,119 --> 00:21:13,960
Speaker 1: of course they pay for it. Yeah, they pay for

368
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,480
Speaker 1: the flights. They're bringing you in because they're interested in you,

369
00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,119
Speaker 1: so they pay for that. The amount of teams that

370
00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:23,960
Speaker 1: fly people first class, that I can't answer. Um, I

371
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,520
Speaker 1: do know in I knew during the draft when they

372
00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,960
Speaker 1: draft players, I know the Bills do this. They'll send

373
00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,680
Speaker 1: a private plane to go pick up the player and

374
00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,000
Speaker 1: his family. They did that for kyer Elan this year.

375
00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:41,240
Speaker 1: They've done it in years past, so yeah, they it's

376
00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:45,040
Speaker 1: usually first class all the way. But for for example,

377
00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:46,800
Speaker 1: this week with Sam Martin, did they put him in

378
00:21:46,840 --> 00:21:49,959
Speaker 1: first class? I don't know. I kind of did that.

379
00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 1: I kind of doubt it. Maybe I don't know. What

380
00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:57,000
Speaker 1: do I know? Um, but why don't you answer first class?

381
00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:59,720
Speaker 1: But why? Yeah, I don't think it's for everybody. But

382
00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,080
Speaker 1: why don't you address what makes a good special teams player?

383
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,240
Speaker 1: What makes one person a better candidate for special teams

384
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:15,360
Speaker 1: than another. How do you identify good special teams? Talent, athleticism, speed, balance,

385
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 1: and most importantly it sounds hokey, but its desire. Most

386
00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:23,439
Speaker 1: of these guys come out of college as really really,

387
00:22:23,760 --> 00:22:27,399
Speaker 1: not just really good great college football players, great ones.

388
00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:29,960
Speaker 1: And just because we don't hear about all of them

389
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,760
Speaker 1: doesn't mean they aren't fantastic college football players, all of them.

390
00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,920
Speaker 1: And in fact, if they're fantastic college football players, most

391
00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,480
Speaker 1: of them are, if not all of them, they're also

392
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,760
Speaker 1: incredible high school football players. They've been the center of attention,

393
00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 1: the center of the offense or the defense that they've

394
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,200
Speaker 1: been playing on for four or five six years, for

395
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,400
Speaker 1: their entire career. They've always been better than everybody else

396
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:53,960
Speaker 1: that works against them when they get to the pros,

397
00:22:54,320 --> 00:22:56,240
Speaker 1: because when they get to the pros and they're asked

398
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:59,200
Speaker 1: to play special teams, all the guys they've ever known

399
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:01,679
Speaker 1: that have been special teams were not good enough players

400
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 1: to play on offense or defense like me. They weren't

401
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 1: big enough, fast enough, strong enough whatever to play regular

402
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:09,920
Speaker 1: down and distance, and they need somebody to cover kicks,

403
00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:13,560
Speaker 1: and they put those guys out there. When you ask

404
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 1: a star to do that. Sometimes they're like, well, I'll

405
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,800
Speaker 1: do it, but they're like okay, some of them just

406
00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:24,600
Speaker 1: flat out refused to do it. And I don't play

407
00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 1: special teams. They won't do it. So all the things

408
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:32,080
Speaker 1: I mentioned, the athleticism, size, speed, strength and all of

409
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:35,879
Speaker 1: that stuff, the aggression is secondary to the guy actually

410
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 1: even wanting to do it. And in football, and I've

411
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:43,920
Speaker 1: said this a lot and I believe it, and you know,

412
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:49,200
Speaker 1: I always take criticism. Football is the team sport more

413
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 1: so than any other team sport. There's some other pretty

414
00:23:52,920 --> 00:24:00,119
Speaker 1: good team sports, hockey, soccer, some others. Basketball into a

415
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,480
Speaker 1: pretty quickly, right, um it. Football is the supreme team

416
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 1: sport because it is a big group and you've got

417
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,399
Speaker 1: to be hitting on a lot of cylinders to be

418
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,640
Speaker 1: any good at it. And when you get guys who

419
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:18,439
Speaker 1: balk at doing things that other guys have always done, um,

420
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 1: it's a problem. And a good special teams players, an athlete,

421
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 1: a football players got to have some aggression, um, some

422
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,480
Speaker 1: willingness to be physical in it is that you're not.

423
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,880
Speaker 1: You're not just catching passes and stepping out of bounds. Um.

424
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:38,120
Speaker 1: Special teams is about contact and aggression on both sides.

425
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:41,680
Speaker 1: It's about collisions, it's about at high at the highest rate. Say,

426
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 1: it's high intensity competition at very close proximity. It's a

427
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,800
Speaker 1: it's a hand fight, it's a street brawl, it's you know,

428
00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,159
Speaker 1: a dead run. So most guys, some guys are not

429
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: fit for that, they're not made up physically made up

430
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,360
Speaker 1: to do it. And some guys want no part of it.

431
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,880
Speaker 1: So whatever you find, most of it, they start with

432
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 1: a guy who actually wants to because because ninety nine

433
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,119
Speaker 1: point nine percent of the guys in the NFL, one

434
00:25:09,160 --> 00:25:10,760
Speaker 1: hundred percent of the guys in the NFL are good

435
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 1: enough athletes to play. But that's where the the that's

436
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:19,399
Speaker 1: where the characteristics stop for a lot of them. They

437
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:24,120
Speaker 1: don't have the desire, they don't have the mental makeup

438
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:27,720
Speaker 1: and that they're you know, they just don't want to

439
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:32,439
Speaker 1: do it. So yeah, I mean, guys just don't do it.

440
00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 1: And some who actually want to have start too late

441
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 1: in life and can't get good enough at it. You know,

442
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: they don't have any skills, so and they don't have

443
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 1: time to learn it or don't have time or take

444
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 1: time to get good enough fast enough to make a

445
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:51,320
Speaker 1: team right an examples of that right here, right, I mean,

446
00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 1: I yeah, guys, you know I've said it. I said

447
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,439
Speaker 1: it this week. Guys always say when they're growing up,

448
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: you hear kids all the time say I'll do anything, man,

449
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 1: I do it. You see eight year old kids, I'll

450
00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:01,680
Speaker 1: do anything to play in the NFL. I'd do anything.

451
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:03,479
Speaker 1: I'll do this, I'll do that. And they get up there,

452
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: they'll say, why I ain't get a cover kicks? Right right?

453
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,880
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's ironic that they won't play football

454
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,879
Speaker 1: on an NFL team when they said they'd do anything

455
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 1: to play football and an NFL team. Yeah, So you

456
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,439
Speaker 1: know that's how crazy it gets sometimes. Yeah, we have

457
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 1: to take a break here. When we come back, we're

458
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: gonna be joined by the Wing King, Drew Serza, who's

459
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,880
Speaker 1: gonna fill us in on anything and everything that will

460
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:34,159
Speaker 1: be happening across the parking lot from us here at

461
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,159
Speaker 1: our One Bill's Drive Studios in high Mark Stadium for

462
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 1: the Wing Festival Labor Day weekend. Get your eating face on.

463
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,880
Speaker 1: It's about to go down here next on One Bill's Live,

464
00:26:45,920 --> 00:27:00,919
Speaker 1: presented by Klata Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right,

465
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's live Chris Brown, Steve task

466
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: me with you here on a Friday, and we're joined

467
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:10,200
Speaker 1: now by the man you often see with a chicken

468
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,880
Speaker 1: wing hat on his head. It is the wing King,

469
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 1: Drew Sarza, who's got the Buffalo Wing Festival back here

470
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,919
Speaker 1: at him Mark Stadium this weekend. Are is everything lined

471
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 1: up and ready to roll? Here? Drew? Just about? We're

472
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 1: looking pretty good, you know, a couple of hiccups along

473
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 1: the way behind the scenes, but I think we're in

474
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 1: good shape. How has moved it to you moved it

475
00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,399
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one to him Mark? How has that

476
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:34,080
Speaker 1: changed it? The whole vibe is different, isn't You know?

477
00:27:34,119 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 1: It really is? It's wasn't and what is it now?

478
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,119
Speaker 1: You know when it was on the baseball field, everything

479
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,520
Speaker 1: was in a bowl and it was really tight and crowded.

480
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: Now when you walk in right by the Bills store

481
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 1: by Gate four, that's where the entrance is on that

482
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,959
Speaker 1: big outer concourse, that's our restaurant row and it wraps

483
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: all the way around and that's a really cool setup.

484
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 1: And then over by Gate seven, in between the two

485
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,600
Speaker 1: Pepsi clubs, there's a huge area. We've got an entertainment

486
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,400
Speaker 1: thing going on now called the Coop. We're we got

487
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: Jim Beam doing some sampling. They got like a mini

488
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: distillery there. We've got some wine sampling, live music. We've

489
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,680
Speaker 1: got a big TV screen that's going to show whatever

490
00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,320
Speaker 1: is going on contest wise on the field up on top,

491
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: and then on the field we got the main stage

492
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:20,000
Speaker 1: with all the crazy contests, more live music, and then

493
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,359
Speaker 1: all the vendors are down there with activations. There are

494
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: all these games to play in different things, so you know,

495
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: it's a little disjointed, but it still flows together so well.

496
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: Ins all spaced out. We get to use the Pepsi Club,

497
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 1: so if it rains, you're inside. If it's hot, you

498
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 1: got air conditioning. It's just a great venue and you

499
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 1: get to go on the field. Yeah, but you guys

500
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: know is surreal. It is, Well not for you, Steve.

501
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:46,040
Speaker 1: I saw as soon as I saw a contests, I

502
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,600
Speaker 1: immediately thought of competitive eating, which I know you've done

503
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: in the past. Is that on the program, like it

504
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,240
Speaker 1: is a staple? Yeah, we've had that since year one.

505
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: And Joey Chestnut's going to come back in time and

506
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,200
Speaker 1: he lost last year to Miki Pseudo. Yeah, you guys

507
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: do the you weigh it, right, it goes by weight

508
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:04,520
Speaker 1: because it's kind of hard with wings, right bones and everything.

509
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: Yeah's who's going to judge on did you really finish

510
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 1: it off as the little cartilage on there or not? Yeah? Yeah,

511
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,280
Speaker 1: So all right, So Joey's chestnut's gonna be here. He

512
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: lost last year. Has he ever won it before though?

513
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: Oh he had six years in a row. Okay, So

514
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: then he loses the Mickey pseudo who was he had

515
00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,720
Speaker 1: a baby. So a month and a half after she

516
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 1: has a baby, she eats two hundred forty six wings. Dang,

517
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty six. Yeah, yeah, not bad. Huh,

518
00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: good night, Irene. I'm telling you, man, it is expect

519
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: How many people are you expecting and how like what's

520
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: your record and how's that? You know, how's attendance go?

521
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 1: You know, we've averaged about fifty thousand a year over

522
00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 1: the last ten years or so. Last year we were

523
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: wide down because we were still in the midst of

524
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 1: the pandemic. Um. We just don't know this year, but

525
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I can just talk from the

526
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 1: vibe in the excitement and also being partner with the Bills,

527
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: you know, just being on that field and we're almost

528
00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 1: like the last preseason game. We're like the kickoff, like

529
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 1: the kickoff to tailgate season, you know. So I think

530
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 1: we're going asid good crowds. Twenty four different eateries, and

531
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 1: it's not just local, it's from across the country. Give

532
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: us a give us an idea on from like what

533
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: parts of the country are we talking about here, like

534
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,680
Speaker 1: all different part Like, yeah, you have an idea as

535
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 1: to some of the out of state places. How far

536
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: away are people coming in to have people sample their wings.

537
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 1: I'll give you out of the country. Down in Mexico,

538
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: the southern part of Mexico, a place called Wing's Army.

539
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 1: They've got they're coming in with twenty different sauces and

540
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: they've got about sixteen different locations down there. This is

541
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 1: like they're fifty year back Saint Thomas virgin Islands. Wow,

542
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: they have a little festival on the beach. They invite

543
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: my wife and I down there to judge, and whoever wins,

544
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:40,719
Speaker 1: we invite to come back here. And they've got some

545
00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: great Caribbean style wings are called bareput Buddha. I mean,

546
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: one of my favorites is a place called Double Dubs. Okay,

547
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: they're from Laramie, Wyoming. Sound familiar. Okay, So this guy

548
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: always wanted to come in and he's really more food trucks,

549
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: and I said, we don't have food trucks. He goes, well,

550
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:57,960
Speaker 1: you know, you ever hear Josh Allen And this is

551
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: like three years ago. I'm like, yeah, I've heard of them.

552
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: Here's a quarterback. He goes, yeah, well he loves Double Dubs.

553
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: I said, well, if Josh tweets it, you're in. Josh

554
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: called me five minutes later, twenty minutes on the phone

555
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: telling me why Double Dubs should come. So that's Josh's

556
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,800
Speaker 1: favor when he got there to keep a tab on. Yeah,

557
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,040
Speaker 1: and guy Fieri went there and did a diner's drivings

558
00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: and dives there because they won awards at the Wing Best.

559
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: How what about anybody knew this year and anybody jump

560
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: out at you that you think, oh, well, we'll see

561
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 1: what these guys. Yeah, there's a place called Winning On.

562
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: They started out on Winning On. Yeah, they started out

563
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: as a food truck up in Connecticut, and now they expanded.

564
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: They went to Raleigh and they're doing really well. And

565
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: the thing about Raleigh. That's a big Buffalo expat destination.

566
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: So if you're doing well, they're doing really well. So

567
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:47,000
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see them. And there's a place from

568
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: Syracuse called the Limp Lizard. So they partnered up with

569
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: a guy named Danoh. Dan O's seasoning and Eric Wood

570
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: is their spokesman. And this guy's got to let go

571
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 1: over a million TikTok followers, so they're gonna do smoke wings.

572
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:04,440
Speaker 1: That'll be exciting, too interesting stuff. What would you say

573
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: is I'm trying to think of how to best phrase this, Like,

574
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: do you guys do reviews after the festival is over

575
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: to see what did really really well like that year,

576
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: so you know how to plan for next You know

577
00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, I'm just curious, what is like

578
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:26,640
Speaker 1: the popular thing from last year that might be carried

579
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,960
Speaker 1: into this year that you think might run wild again,

580
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:30,800
Speaker 1: or is there a new thing this year that you

581
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: say this one's going to be. People are gonna be

582
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: all over this. That's a great question. And right from

583
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: the start we're going to be trying to really pay

584
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: attention to engage the crowd because you don't know where

585
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 1: the flow is going to go. We're hoping that this

586
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,320
Speaker 1: last year we had beer benders lined up on the

587
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: other side of the wing, remp benders create a catastrophe

588
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,479
Speaker 1: with the lines crossing each other. Now we have a

589
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 1: different style marketplace, they call it beverage set up that

590
00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: Delawarre Nor is just doing a great job with it,

591
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: and we're trying to push people into that entertainment area

592
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: the coup you know where we're going to serve most

593
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:05,600
Speaker 1: the beverages there. So we're gonna pay attention to that

594
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 1: traffic flow. It's really just trying to make sure that

595
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: people have an opportunity to go on the field. Now

596
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:14,920
Speaker 1: the Bill's UM Guest Services Organization. They've got eight golf

597
00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: carts that are going to help people that can't get

598
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: around that well down the stairs to go around and

599
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: then take the elevator on the back end. So we're

600
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: gonna help people that just can't make that trip down

601
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,320
Speaker 1: the steps get around. So these are things we learned

602
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 1: last year. Yea, So now we'll just do I think

603
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: pay attention to the flow. That's going to be our

604
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,120
Speaker 1: major thing. So tickets to twenty bucks, you can get

605
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 1: them when you just show up and get it. Yeah, no,

606
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:36,560
Speaker 1: precl just right at the gate. Kids eight and under

607
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: are free and the best thing is parking is free. Oh,

608
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 1: no charge for parking. Good stuff. That's great. And then

609
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: is there so when is the winner of best wing

610
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,720
Speaker 1: gonna be announced? Is that on the last day, Like

611
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 1: you have a contest with all the eateries too, so yeah, yeah,

612
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:58,080
Speaker 1: So there's seven different categories, remember them all A medium, hot,

613
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 1: extra hot, barq, creative, spicy, dry rub, Best of show,

614
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: and festival favorite. So festival favorite, whoever sells the most wings, okay,

615
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: they're the festival favorite. Best to show is we have

616
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 1: all the local media come around on Monday on Monday

617
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: on Sunday and they go around as the restaurant, give

618
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 1: you your best, what's your best, and whoever has the

619
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 1: best wing that'll be in a war two and then

620
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: all those other categories. Each restaurant gets to enter three

621
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: of the seven and we have a first, second, third place.

622
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: That's huge for them, yeah, because if first of all,

623
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 1: they're all getting publicity because they got invited to the backup,

624
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 1: they got invited to the super Bowl in Buffalo, right,

625
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,839
Speaker 1: representing their city or state for wings. And then if

626
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,359
Speaker 1: they win awards, it's off the charts. I mean, there's

627
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: a place called the Blind Rhino out of Connecticut. They

628
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: won a couple awards. They posted on Twitter. Some food

629
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: influencers saw it from Connecticut. His best friend was organized

630
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 1: in the VIP party for the Super Bowl. Guess why,

631
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: so you gotta do these wings. So they were the

632
00:34:56,560 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: official wing of the VIP party for the Super Bowl

633
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 1: last year in LA because they won a pad here

634
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 1: it seems it, you know, it's pretty cool. Well, you

635
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: gotta there is a level of credibility wings in this region, right,

636
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,479
Speaker 1: and and the fact that these places from all over

637
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:18,200
Speaker 1: come here to check it out and get checked out right,

638
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,920
Speaker 1: basically get to right. That's why they want to go

639
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,000
Speaker 1: to Buffalo see what they really got because even the

640
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 1: I mean, let's face it, most of the people and

641
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: who come here, local people in Buffalo are qualified wing judges,

642
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 1: absolutely right, absolutely mean everybody who lives in Buffalo. You

643
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 1: know what I'm you know, yeah, you know what's need

644
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 1: about this festival too, is these restaurants not only did

645
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,760
Speaker 1: they bring their traditional wings, but they bring in creative

646
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 1: wings that take on the regional flavors of their area. Yeah,

647
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 1: you know, I think that's the beauty of it or

648
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 1: one hundred and ten different styles of sauces this year, right,

649
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 1: you know it's crazy. I gotta try the dry rubs

650
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,239
Speaker 1: stuff because I've not done that. I have yet to

651
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: do that, and it's intriguing to me because they're like,

652
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 1: that's totally different from what you're used to with any

653
00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 1: kind of wing that you got these people, what is

654
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: the general hold on? I want to know what the

655
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,799
Speaker 1: general consensus is on on dry rub because it is

656
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: somewhat unique. Like, I can't fall I cannot fall in

657
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: love with it. I'm just so it's just I just cannot.

658
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 1: I'm such a sauce guy. Yeah, I just can't. Just

659
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 1: what's the taste, like, does it stay with you? Textures different,

660
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:23,600
Speaker 1: and it's more seasoning than bite that you can get

661
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:25,359
Speaker 1: bite on it too, but more season Yeah, you can

662
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,120
Speaker 1: certainly get bite on it. But that's the thing too,

663
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 1: it's it's so you've had dry rubstave. Oh sure, okay,

664
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's a the Bill the bar Bill has

665
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: a great Cajun wing that's dry rub. And there are

666
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 1: others around the town too who have those. You can

667
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: get them. Yeah, they all they all kind of tend

668
00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:42,920
Speaker 1: to offer it now because you know some you know,

669
00:36:43,280 --> 00:36:44,719
Speaker 1: if you're on a date in a white shirt, you

670
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: order them instead. Right, But the wings, right, The thing

671
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 1: about it is when you sit down, all of us

672
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 1: have tried all these wings everywhere, and you get this

673
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:03,440
Speaker 1: point where the sauce is important because I like this

674
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 1: one and like that one, and I even get it.

675
00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,359
Speaker 1: I'm at the point now where there certain restaurants around

676
00:37:07,360 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 1: where you get a certain kind of wing at certain

677
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna wake up at three am, you

678
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: know what I mean or not, so you got to

679
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: be ready for that. There's a pro so, Drew. The

680
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: one thing I do not have here in front of

681
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: me the hours, first of all, when gates open, and

682
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 1: then the length of hours that you're going to be

683
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: running this on the weekend. If you could just give

684
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 1: us start and end times, that would be a big help. Yeah.

685
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: So it's twelve to nine on Saturday and twelve to

686
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,960
Speaker 1: seven on Sunday. Okay, twelve to nine and twelve to seven.

687
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,960
Speaker 1: All right, kids are free under eight twenty dollars, tickets,

688
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:38,359
Speaker 1: parking free and if they have any questions, Buffalo Wing

689
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: dot com. Everything's there, right, and then you buy food tickets, um,

690
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 1: you know, to buy your wings. Yeah, and this is

691
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: really important. It's all cash coming in for admission and

692
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: cash for food tickets and credit cards for the beverages

693
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: we have ATMs. And the reason we have to do

694
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,759
Speaker 1: cash I have volunteers. We give some money to the

695
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: Feedbore Western New York in the All Times Association. We've

696
00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: raised over four hundred twenty thousands. Could you imagine trying

697
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 1: to train volunteers how to work the square, you know,

698
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: and the speed factor, and it just if it's just volunteers,

699
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 1: you kind of gotta go cash. Everybody have to handle it. Yeah,

700
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: imagine there's a seventeen thousand dollar charge from mission. Yeah,

701
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: so hit the ATMs before you show up. There will

702
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,200
Speaker 1: be ATMs there, but there's they will will inevitably be lines.

703
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 1: So maybe stock up on your cash before you get

704
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:24,960
Speaker 1: It's a good way to get rid of that Christmas money. Drew,

705
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: Thanks man, Yeah, thanks, thanks for the time. Good luck

706
00:38:27,200 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: with it, man. We'll look forward to another outstanding event

707
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:34,240
Speaker 1: as usual. Buffalo Wing Festival back at high Mark Stadium

708
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday. Gates opened at noon on both days.

709
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: Twenty bucks to get in Parking's Free Kids under eid

710
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:43,919
Speaker 1: or free. Don't miss it. It is a spectacle each

711
00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: and every year. We'll be back in a moment here

712
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live, presented by Callid to Health. It's

713
00:38:47,640 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back to One Bills Live.

714
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. The Friday fan mail

715
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: bag is open and we have some lines open for

716
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: you at eight oh three, oh five, fifty one eighty eight,

717
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: five fifty two, five fifty. We're gonna go to the

718
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: phones now and leading us off here is Kevin in Hamburg.

719
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: What do you got for us? Kevin? You're owe Bills Live?

720
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,480
Speaker 1: How you doing bank for taking my call? You bet.

721
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 1: I've always wanted to say this for a long time.

722
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: Is when they cut down the last to fifty three.

723
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: And I've always had his opinion. In a violence sport

724
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,479
Speaker 1: like football, especially now with the Tennessee guy going out

725
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: and he's not even played one regular season down, he's

726
00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 1: out the whole season, I always wish they would go

727
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: to change it to go to sixty. I like sixty

728
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: for a number. I just think that seven men more

729
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 1: leaveway gives it in terms of violence sport. Like football,

730
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: and I've always felt that way, and even my dad,

731
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 1: who passed away in ninety two, used to think a

732
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: violence sport like football is just two little for fifty

733
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 1: and three. And I always thought sixty would be a

734
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:03,160
Speaker 1: good so of the first cut, eighty five, sixty because

735
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: that leave way of seven more people gives you every team,

736
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,400
Speaker 1: not just the Titan I just to Bills, the Cowboys,

737
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,279
Speaker 1: the Raiders, etc. Etc. So I want to hang up

738
00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: and see what you think. Yeah, I mean, it's not

739
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: a bad thought. It makes sense, and I think every

740
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: coach or GM in the league would agree with you.

741
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,520
Speaker 1: The problem is the people that pay and write the

742
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,719
Speaker 1: checks are going to kind of push back on that,

743
00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,720
Speaker 1: because once you expand the roster now the cost is higher,

744
00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:34,120
Speaker 1: and if for ownership, more cost means less profit, So

745
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:35,720
Speaker 1: I think they're going to try to keep the roster

746
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: where it is. They have acquiesced to some extent because

747
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 1: the pandemic forced them to expand practice squads to sixteen.

748
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 1: They were only supposed to be twelve in twenty twenty,

749
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 1: and then in twenty twenty one were actually twelve, and

750
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one they were going to expand to fourteen.

751
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: This year under the new CBA that was signed in

752
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:03,279
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, but they kept the pandemic practice squad rules.

753
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: So the practice squad is now looks like it's going

754
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: to be a permanent sixteen player group, which allows you

755
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: to carry up to six veteran players on the practice squad,

756
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: and the call up rules are easier now to add

757
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,239
Speaker 1: two players, so you technically have fifty five on your

758
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 1: roster for the twenty four hours of game day to

759
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: expand your roster if somebody has to suddenly be an

760
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: active unexpectedly. So they've had They've offered some flexibility to

761
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: teams in that fashion, But Steve, I don't know about

762
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:36,319
Speaker 1: adding full time extra roster players is going to be

763
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:40,399
Speaker 1: argued by the players Association until maybe when we get

764
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:42,719
Speaker 1: to the eighteen game schedule. Then they'll have a leg

765
00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 1: to stand up. I'll say this. You're right, Kevin, it

766
00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:47,920
Speaker 1: used to be the rosters used to be thirty six.

767
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: You can imagine that, Yeah, thirty six what was that

768
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 1: for a fourteen game season? For fourteen game season, You're right,

769
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,320
Speaker 1: I think you could do the sixty rot man roster

770
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 1: right now and just drop the practice squad to nine guys.

771
00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 1: Make it smaller, make the practice squads smaller, so you

772
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: could have sixty guys on your active roster and then

773
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 1: activate fifty for game day. You know what I mean.

774
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: And in fact, I'll make this. I'll make this observation.

775
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,720
Speaker 1: You never had professional special teams players until the rosters

776
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:26,000
Speaker 1: got to forty five and certainly forty seven on game day.

777
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: Then you started having special teams guys that were pros.

778
00:42:29,840 --> 00:42:32,080
Speaker 1: That's when I that I played in the Golden era

779
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: special teams when the rosters got that big, and then

780
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 1: there was no salary cap for a large part of

781
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: my career. And then even now after the salary cap,

782
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,240
Speaker 1: when teams have started to maximize their rosters on game day,

783
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: did you have do you have professional special teams players now?

784
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 1: Because of players safety, they've de emphasized special teams play.

785
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: With the changed kickoff rules, with the alignment on punt

786
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:59,399
Speaker 1: on punt rush teams and your punt return teams, you've

787
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: got also got alignment things. You've got alignment restrictions on kickoff, kickoff,

788
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: on field goal as well, field goal rush field goal

789
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: defense teams. You can't rush. You can't put a guy

790
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 1: over the top of the snapper. You've got to have

791
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 1: an even number of guys on either side of the

792
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 1: ball outside the numbers. You've got to have guys outside

793
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: the numbers. So they even now they have curtailed the

794
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: ability of special teams coaches to maximize their squads. So

795
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: the golden areas special teams, in my mind, was before that,

796
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 1: and then after the rosters got large, after the rosters

797
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,879
Speaker 1: got above forty five guys and even to forty five

798
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 1: guys team, it took teams a long time to maximize

799
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 1: those spots where they had They realized they had three

800
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: or four guys standing on the sidelines during games, never played. Yeah,

801
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden they said, well, let's let's

802
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,800
Speaker 1: let them at least cover kicks. So then they started

803
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:57,720
Speaker 1: maximizing their rosters, and in the early eighties you started

804
00:43:57,719 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 1: getting guys making differences on special teams, and all the

805
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: way through the late nineties until until the player's safety

806
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:07,919
Speaker 1: stuff came around two thousand and five, two thousand and six,

807
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, two thousand and ten when they started,

808
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 1: you know, player safety stuff. So there was a long

809
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:15,840
Speaker 1: time in there where it was great to be a

810
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:20,040
Speaker 1: special teams player because you could really affect games and

811
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: then player's safety, change the alignments and stuff, and now

812
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 1: it's really hard to do that. So yeah, Kevin's right,

813
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:31,719
Speaker 1: they could do the sixty man rosters now, and I

814
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: just think they'll get pushback from ownership. They will added costs,

815
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,919
Speaker 1: except yeah, it would be the added cast they still play.

816
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 1: It wouldn't be as much added as you might think

817
00:44:39,239 --> 00:44:45,479
Speaker 1: because all the guys would be making minimums and they're

818
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,360
Speaker 1: making some of them are making the money now, certainly

819
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,840
Speaker 1: they're not making too much more than that. But to

820
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: accommodate to sixty man roster, you're also gonna have to

821
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: adjust the salary cap structure, right whereas that number go,

822
00:44:56,719 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: and so now the CAP's not gonna change, well, it

823
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:02,800
Speaker 1: might have to if your roster as big as sixty,

824
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: that's right, it's a big issue. So you'd have a

825
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:07,319
Speaker 1: lot of hoops you gotta jump, have a lot more.

826
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: There'd be a ton more guys to share the cap with,

827
00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: so the you'd have a hard time fitting them in.

828
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:18,000
Speaker 1: So they'd have to do the math on fitting sixty

829
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:21,800
Speaker 1: guys under the salary cap rather than whatever. So certainly

830
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:24,759
Speaker 1: you could, you could do it. Maybe you just count

831
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: the top fifty one still and still have nine guys

832
00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 1: left on your roster to fill in, because once you

833
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: get to the regular season, all fifty three guys, your

834
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 1: ir people, your player aractice squad players, they all count

835
00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 1: towards the cap now anyway, but they do it at

836
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: a much lower cost because it's eleven five a week

837
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: for a practice squad rookie if and it's fifteen to

838
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: twenty grand a week for a veteran on the practice squad.

839
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 1: That ain't the case when you get if the active roster.

840
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,840
Speaker 1: If your cap just went to the fifty one or

841
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:00,799
Speaker 1: fifty three guys and the last seven guys as long

842
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: as they were below that fifty third guy on your

843
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:07,359
Speaker 1: on your squad, you've got a chance. But there's still

844
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:10,359
Speaker 1: minimums you gotta meet, right, You still gotta So if

845
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:13,360
Speaker 1: if you had a guy that was making minimum and

846
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:16,879
Speaker 1: your top fifty three, the fifty third guy was making

847
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 1: more than the minimum, if you activate one of those

848
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: bottom seven guys onto the active roster for a game,

849
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,440
Speaker 1: he'd have to be making at least what the fifty

850
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:27,439
Speaker 1: third guy was making, you know what I mean, Yeah,

851
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: he'd have if he was making less than that all

852
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: of a sudden, he gets a pay raise if he's

853
00:46:31,560 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: activated for that week, no matter what, even he's on

854
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 1: the roster. So maybe you could do it that way

855
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: with some you know, there are smarter guys than I

856
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: am with money doing it. But they you're right, the

857
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 1: cap as an issue, fitting them under the cap as

858
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:50,239
Speaker 1: an issue, the added ex Yeah, and the bottom line

859
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:54,879
Speaker 1: is the issue. Yeah. So yeah, that's don't think that's

860
00:46:54,880 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 1: going to move until you get to an age. Whenever

861
00:46:56,760 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 1: you start, whenever you start asking why the roster is

862
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:02,160
Speaker 1: what it is and who plays and how many guys

863
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 1: that got active, it always starts with one thing. Money. Yeah,

864
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:07,880
Speaker 1: let's go back to the phones. We go to Danny

865
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 1: down in Texas. Next, what you got for us? Danny,

866
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,959
Speaker 1: Hey Brownie, Hey Steve. Good to talk to you guys.

867
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 1: I just wanted to address special teams. I know a

868
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 1: lot of people have been questioning the importance of that recently,

869
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,279
Speaker 1: and I don't think many people realize how it's such

870
00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 1: a huge momentum shifter. I mean it starts to it

871
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: starts where the drive gets to take place. And I

872
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:31,359
Speaker 1: couldn't imagine just every drive beginning at the twenty at

873
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 1: the switch of downs, and I'm glad that we have

874
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: players like Neil Matakavich Kumro who are hard working, hard

875
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 1: nosed players who light a fire under themselves. And I'm

876
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:44,359
Speaker 1: excited to see you shacare return punts. And that's it, guys,

877
00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:47,879
Speaker 1: all right, thanks for the call. Appreciate it. Danny M. Yeah.

878
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:52,879
Speaker 1: When the whole punter switch kind of went down, there

879
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: were some social media people out there that were dismissing

880
00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:01,919
Speaker 1: the importance of special teams. What difference does it make

881
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 1: this then the other? What are you doing with all

882
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 1: this money, blah blah blah, dead money, etc. Etc. I

883
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: realize that it's still a phase of the game where

884
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,560
Speaker 1: when they see it's punt time, casual fans will get

885
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 1: up off their couch and go get a drink at

886
00:48:18,200 --> 00:48:20,480
Speaker 1: the fridge, or get up from their seat in the

887
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 1: stadium and go to the concession stand. I understand, but

888
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: talk to any coach in this league, any personnel executive

889
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:29,799
Speaker 1: in this league, they will tell you it is an

890
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:32,360
Speaker 1: important part of the game. There are times in games

891
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,480
Speaker 1: where you can find up to one hundred and fifty

892
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:40,439
Speaker 1: hidden yards within the special team's phase of the game

893
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: that impacted drive starts, length of drives, etc. Etc. And

894
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:49,320
Speaker 1: I said it the other day when you were out, Steve.

895
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: But it is a proven, documented statistical fact that when

896
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,840
Speaker 1: a drive start starts at the thirty yard line instead

897
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 1: of the twenty yard line, it is not an incremental

898
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:02,040
Speaker 1: change in the likelihood of putting points on the board.

899
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:04,640
Speaker 1: It is a significant change. It's like ten percent difference.

900
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:07,400
Speaker 1: And the object of the game is to score more

901
00:49:07,440 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 1: points than your opponent. Drive start is a direct correlation

902
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 1: to scoring efficiency and scoring percentage. Here's the thing, there's

903
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:17,320
Speaker 1: there's twenty all right, we gotta go, so we we

904
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:19,880
Speaker 1: We'll do this another time. I'll give you I'll give

905
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 1: you the breakdown as to why and how important special

906
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 1: teams are statistically and football wise at some point. M well,

907
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:28,840
Speaker 1: we'll do it when we after we're done talking to

908
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: DeMarco Far, part of the Rams broadcasting network. He's gonna

909
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 1: get us up to speed on that team out in

910
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:36,640
Speaker 1: Los Angeles that the Bills are going to be playing

911
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 1: in six days time. Former Rams defensive linement DeMarco Far.

912
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: Next year on One Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health,

913
00:49:43,239 --> 00:50:03,920
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio at a Steve Tasker who has

914
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 1: been all over the fields. Kind of unique. He was

915
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:10,080
Speaker 1: kind of a dual role player for you, Steve, Steve

916
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 1: a blimp. We're not even in the stratoire of normalcy here,

917
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 1: all right, Welcome to our number two, Chris Brown, Steve

918
00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: Tasker with you one Bills live here on a Friday,

919
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 1: and happy to be joined now a guy who used

920
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: to play defensive tackle for the Rams. Rams or radio

921
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 1: analyst DeMarco far joining us to get us the four

922
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: one one on the Bills Week one opponent just six

923
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 1: days away. It's finally here, DeMarco. How you doing? Good man?

924
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:48,600
Speaker 1: I got to watch the show more. You guys are hilarious. Yeah, okay,

925
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,600
Speaker 1: hopefully in a good way. All right. Hey, by the way,

926
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 1: did you do that? Were you the Rams analysts last year?

927
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 1: They're Super Bowl year? Yeah, I've been doing this for

928
00:50:59,800 --> 00:51:02,880
Speaker 1: fourteen years, nor crazy. I thought you were. Do you

929
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 1: Does the organization give you a ring? Do you get commemorated?

930
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:08,759
Speaker 1: Do you get a token of being a part of

931
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 1: the broadcast crew? Steve, we share a like mine. I'm like,

932
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:15,400
Speaker 1: should I bring that thing out? Because I want to

933
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 1: show everybody I really do how big this thing is.

934
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: I read that you guys might be interested in No

935
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 1: b J Good because if you win super Bowls and

936
00:51:24,200 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: he helps design rings, they're gonna be the most gaudy

937
00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 1: things ever. But it's awesome. Yeah, I just got my ring. Um,

938
00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: it's huge. The whole thing comes apart. It's the size

939
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:38,200
Speaker 1: of Sofi Stadium. It's it's the coolest thing ever. But yeah,

940
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:41,799
Speaker 1: I thought that might be rude. Though, Well that's fine.

941
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:43,840
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like you're wearing a Matchbox car on

942
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 1: your hand. It's crazy. You know. I actually expected, Um,

943
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 1: I thought it was gonna be the Rams Buffalo in

944
00:51:51,680 --> 00:51:55,319
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. Yeah, and that's that's how I'll say

945
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 1: I have a new respect for Joe Burrow because I

946
00:51:57,800 --> 00:51:59,759
Speaker 1: was really I'm like, Wow, you're gonna play Josh Allen

947
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl in LA. That's gonna be Okay,

948
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 1: you got Burrow? Good? Then I found out this guy

949
00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:07,719
Speaker 1: is pretty good. But yeah, I mean, I thought that

950
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 1: might be rude if I showed you guys that ring's

951
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:12,839
Speaker 1: w What about this though? I want to start here

952
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 1: because I think it's one of the more compelling matchups

953
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 1: in this game. Buffalo went to great lengths to completely

954
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:27,240
Speaker 1: revamp their defensive line, and it's not just Von Miller,

955
00:52:27,680 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 1: it's Jordan Phillips, it's de Quan Jones, it's Tim Settle

956
00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 1: on the interior. And I look at what has transpired

957
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:42,240
Speaker 1: with the Rams offensive line, Austin Corbett going to Carolina

958
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: in free agency, their top draft pick, Logan Bruss going

959
00:52:46,200 --> 00:52:49,960
Speaker 1: down to an ACL injury in the last preseason game,

960
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:56,439
Speaker 1: Andrew Whitworth retiring. I'm kind of seeing the scale tip

961
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:59,480
Speaker 1: in the favor of the Bill's defensive frontier going into

962
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:02,759
Speaker 1: this game. What can you tell us about that offensive

963
00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:06,000
Speaker 1: line that, as you know, hasn't even played in the preseason,

964
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:09,320
Speaker 1: because that's not what they do. Well, that's you know,

965
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: it's a great point. Logan Bruss is a guy they drafted,

966
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 1: but I think they drafted with the thought that he

967
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: would be the starter of the future. So I don't

968
00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: think he was gonna be your day one guy. He

969
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 1: was progressing really well until that that injury happened when

970
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 1: he tore up his knees. So that's just the way

971
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:28,879
Speaker 1: it is. But yeah, I mean, the talk around training camp,

972
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 1: at least from my perspective, was I know, we're talking

973
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:33,320
Speaker 1: about Aaron Donald being the best in football, and you

974
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 1: can have a you know, a fit if you want.

975
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:38,359
Speaker 1: If they ranked him number two behind Brady, you got

976
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey, you've got Cooper Cup. But the most important

977
00:53:41,840 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 1: guy on the football team no matter what, is Matthew Stafford,

978
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 1: and you've got to keep him upright. You got to

979
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:48,920
Speaker 1: give him time to operate. I don't care how good

980
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 1: your quarterback is. If he's getting hit, he's going to

981
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:53,880
Speaker 1: be less good on game day. So Andrew Whitworth is

982
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 1: a guy you just cannot replace. He's physically gifted. I

983
00:53:58,600 --> 00:54:02,160
Speaker 1: think he's entered into the Future Hall or Fame realm.

984
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:05,560
Speaker 1: He's got the ring now, he's tremendous. He's an absolute leader.

985
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:08,080
Speaker 1: The cool thing about my job being on the sidelines

986
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: is I get to go into the locker room and

987
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: I'll see the players come in after a victory or loss.

988
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:16,399
Speaker 1: I'll see Sean McVay come in after them, and they'll

989
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:19,560
Speaker 1: just kind of wait for the team meeting until Witch

990
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 1: shows up. When witt came in and they closed the door, Okay,

991
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:25,400
Speaker 1: we're all here, let's go. So you can't replace that

992
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 1: with a guy. But Joseph Noteboom is a guy that

993
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:30,239
Speaker 1: has been wits understudy. He was actually the start and

994
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 1: left guard before he got hurt. But he's a guy

995
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:35,320
Speaker 1: that's been training for this and he's ready for it.

996
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 1: But nothing really can replace that experience. So the offensive

997
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:45,240
Speaker 1: line looks good on paper so far. Athletically, they're all freaks.

998
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 1: They all get the game above the neck, which is

999
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:51,320
Speaker 1: what Sean McVay likes. But you know, Thursday, next Thursday

1000
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 1: will be a heck of a test. Von Miller coming

1001
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:55,320
Speaker 1: the other way is scary. If I was at Oliver,

1002
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 1: I would love having Von Miller on my football team.

1003
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:01,400
Speaker 1: Just watch everything he and a him Donald did do

1004
00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: that and you'll have a chance to be great. So yeah,

1005
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: it's pretty scary, But I think Sean McVay understands what

1006
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:09,720
Speaker 1: he has and this is a very offensive line friendly

1007
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:14,319
Speaker 1: offense anyway, so you'll be chasing ghosts more often than

1008
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 1: not versus just teeing off on the old line. How

1009
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:21,440
Speaker 1: has the review of the preseason for the Rams been.

1010
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:25,160
Speaker 1: They haven't played their stars, as we've said, What have

1011
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 1: the practices looked like? What has the media been saying

1012
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:30,880
Speaker 1: about what they see with this Rams edition as opposed

1013
00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:34,240
Speaker 1: to maybe the World champions last year? You know lost

1014
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:36,840
Speaker 1: in all this, you know brew haha about what happened

1015
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:39,120
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati with the helmets and Aaron and stuff like that.

1016
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:43,160
Speaker 1: Day one on Wednesday, Aaron Donald was in search of

1017
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:46,800
Speaker 1: a challenger and there was none. He was absolutely tearing

1018
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:48,759
Speaker 1: through that line, just like he did in the Super Bowl.

1019
00:55:49,200 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 1: So I think that carried over to Thursday. That kind

1020
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:52,840
Speaker 1: of helped out and that's what kind of created that

1021
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 1: that mess that we all saw with the two helmets.

1022
00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:58,160
Speaker 1: Beyond that, Cooper Cup and Matthew Stafford made it look

1023
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:02,000
Speaker 1: easy against a pretty good Bengals secondary that was charged up.

1024
00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:05,400
Speaker 1: So I mean they're getting better. Cooper Cup is getting better,

1025
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:08,360
Speaker 1: if that's even possible. He's bigger, stronger, faster than he

1026
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 1: was last season and he had a phenomenal last year.

1027
00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:15,000
Speaker 1: And Matthew Stafford and Cup have developed this new connection

1028
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 1: to where he'll put it behind the defender where he

1029
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 1: can't see it, and Cooper Cup won't put his hands

1030
00:56:20,120 --> 00:56:22,759
Speaker 1: out until the balls about a quarter wrench from his hands.

1031
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 1: So they're doing things beyond just the play. They're taking

1032
00:56:26,239 --> 00:56:29,799
Speaker 1: it one step beyond. That's that great quarterback receiver kind

1033
00:56:29,840 --> 00:56:33,200
Speaker 1: of connection there. And then Albert Robinson. Allen Robinson who

1034
00:56:33,239 --> 00:56:37,160
Speaker 1: came in. I was a big Robert Woods fan. He's physical.

1035
00:56:37,239 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 1: I thought he was a thumper of the football team.

1036
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 1: I was heartbroken when he left. And then I saw

1037
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:45,879
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson. Wow, that guy's big. Not just play big,

1038
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:47,560
Speaker 1: he is big. And then to watch him on the

1039
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:50,800
Speaker 1: football field while he's big and could play outside the numbers. Great,

1040
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: you didn't really have that last year. You had Rdell

1041
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 1: Beckham Junior, who plays a little bit bigger than what

1042
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 1: he is. But this is a truly big guy. So

1043
00:56:57,120 --> 00:57:00,200
Speaker 1: that opens pretty much everything up for Cooper Cup up,

1044
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:02,480
Speaker 1: which is great. So, like I said, if you can

1045
00:57:02,560 --> 00:57:04,840
Speaker 1: give Matthew Stafford time, if you can run the football

1046
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:08,960
Speaker 1: effectively enough to keep defenses off balanced, you'll be able

1047
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: to move the ball through the air. But these receivers, yeah,

1048
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:13,880
Speaker 1: I mean you can easily make the argument that the

1049
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 1: Rams have two number one receivers with Cup and Robinson

1050
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:20,080
Speaker 1: for sure, at least in my estimation. What about receiver three.

1051
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 1: I know coach McVeigh has said they're taking it a

1052
00:57:23,640 --> 00:57:25,840
Speaker 1: day at a time with Van Jefferson, but he's now

1053
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 1: about a month removed from the NIE scope and they're

1054
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 1: still holding out hope for week one is that is

1055
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: that realistic? Do you think? I mean we're less than

1056
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:41,760
Speaker 1: a week out now? Well you know, uh, well, I'm

1057
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:46,960
Speaker 1: no doctor. I haven't seen him do much so but

1058
00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:50,160
Speaker 1: I would say this between Ben Scronic, a guy they

1059
00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:52,440
Speaker 1: like a lot. He's a special teams guy. He's a

1060
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 1: taller version of you, Steve. Actually, really he's a receiver.

1061
00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:59,480
Speaker 1: Plus he's tough enough to go play special teams and

1062
00:57:59,520 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 1: go tackle somebody, so he's more than willing to hit you.

1063
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:05,560
Speaker 1: He's just he's really big. So between Ben Sconic and

1064
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 1: two two out, well, who's the opposite. He's very small.

1065
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 1: Two two has really emerged with these opportunities without Van

1066
00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 1: Jefferson on the field. So he's as emerged as a

1067
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:17,600
Speaker 1: guy that you couldn't really fit into the offense or

1068
00:58:18,120 --> 00:58:20,600
Speaker 1: on special teams because Brandon Palace taken over the punt

1069
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:22,840
Speaker 1: return duty. So where do you put two two? Well,

1070
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:24,920
Speaker 1: now that Van's down, two two had a chance to

1071
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 1: step in and you start to see that explosiveness, that

1072
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:31,320
Speaker 1: quick twitch. If he's your loose play guy as a defense,

1073
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 1: you've got problems. If that's your third corner, you better

1074
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 1: hope he can tackle because if two two gets in

1075
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:38,880
Speaker 1: in space, he's small and can dart anywhere. Plus they'll

1076
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:41,920
Speaker 1: mix and match with Ben Scnic, So it's gonna be

1077
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 1: less one guy. When Van Jefferson's right, it's his job.

1078
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:48,960
Speaker 1: But until he's right, they'll split that into about three

1079
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:51,360
Speaker 1: guys and get production out of the position instead of

1080
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: just out of one guy. How fast will how fast

1081
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:59,120
Speaker 1: will Van Jefferson be ready? You know what I mean?

1082
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 1: He's a coach kid. He does everything right. Um, he's he's, he's,

1083
00:59:04,480 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: I don't know how to say it. He's he'd when

1084
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:09,760
Speaker 1: your MVP of of being a great teammate every single year.

1085
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:12,439
Speaker 1: So he works hard. I bet he'll come back sooner

1086
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 1: than later. But just based on what I've seen and

1087
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:18,480
Speaker 1: what I haven't seen on the field, Okay, to come

1088
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 1: back and play week one without that much prep, you

1089
00:59:20,960 --> 00:59:26,040
Speaker 1: are superman. People are wondering what kind or what version

1090
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:29,920
Speaker 1: of Bobby Wagner are the Rams really getting. You know,

1091
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:34,960
Speaker 1: ten seasons in the NFL, we saw the you know,

1092
00:59:35,280 --> 00:59:38,120
Speaker 1: slow and steady decline of that legion of boom defense

1093
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:41,240
Speaker 1: up in Seattle. It's been broken up. Now it doesn't

1094
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:44,480
Speaker 1: exist anymore. Wagner is one of the few holdovers still

1095
00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:47,800
Speaker 1: in the league from that group. What have you seen

1096
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:51,800
Speaker 1: from him through the course of the preseason and is

1097
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:54,320
Speaker 1: it the same old Bobby Wagner that most people are

1098
00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:59,120
Speaker 1: familiar with seen and heard from him? Um, the I

1099
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:01,280
Speaker 1: like that the declined up the legion of Boom. I

1100
01:00:01,320 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 1: don't think it was him. I really don't when you

1101
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:06,440
Speaker 1: talk to him and ask him, like directly, like what

1102
01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:10,760
Speaker 1: happened up there? There was a philosophy change, things were

1103
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:13,120
Speaker 1: changing in the locker room. But if you look at

1104
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 1: his numbers, I don't think he's really fallen off. He

1105
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:19,280
Speaker 1: was tremendous last year. I think he finished third in tackles.

1106
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:23,240
Speaker 1: So you kind of debunked that. And then you see

1107
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:25,840
Speaker 1: him up close, Well, he's as big as you think

1108
01:00:25,880 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 1: he is. And then you watch him in practice, Well,

1109
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:30,560
Speaker 1: this guy's got plenty of juice left and he's already

1110
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:32,760
Speaker 1: picked up the defense, you know what I mean. So

1111
01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:36,880
Speaker 1: he's last year, the Rams had to go with safety's

1112
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 1: calling signals because they didn't want the middle linebackers doing it.

1113
01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:43,240
Speaker 1: So you're kind of a weird defense. Your secondary is

1114
01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 1: kind of leading your front. It worked, you won the

1115
01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:48,320
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, but it's not the really kind of the

1116
01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:49,920
Speaker 1: way you want to do it. Well, now you've got

1117
01:00:49,960 --> 01:00:52,959
Speaker 1: a true middle linebacker who knows everything, who can, who's

1118
01:00:53,000 --> 01:00:55,520
Speaker 1: the quarterback of the defense, gets everybody lined up, and

1119
01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:58,320
Speaker 1: he can hit like a truck. I thought that maybe

1120
01:00:58,360 --> 01:01:00,480
Speaker 1: Bobby Wagoner would be a two down line because I

1121
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:02,360
Speaker 1: thought what most people thought. Maybe he's passed it a

1122
01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:04,960
Speaker 1: little bit. No, No, he can play third down. Yeah,

1123
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:07,919
Speaker 1: you don't have to hide him in pass coverage. He's good,

1124
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:10,560
Speaker 1: he knows what he's doing. But first and ten is

1125
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 1: going to be a monster for football teams. Now. Now,

1126
01:01:12,840 --> 01:01:15,840
Speaker 1: with respect to the Bills, the Bills are the Bills,

1127
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:18,200
Speaker 1: But I thought this was more forty nine er insurance

1128
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:21,120
Speaker 1: for the way they run their offense, because the only

1129
01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:24,160
Speaker 1: defenses that really played them well in this division have

1130
01:01:24,360 --> 01:01:27,880
Speaker 1: been Seattle, so that will help you against them. We

1131
01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 1: know that the Rams have had a good roster for

1132
01:01:30,640 --> 01:01:32,440
Speaker 1: more than a handful of years, so there is that

1133
01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:35,120
Speaker 1: I know. But why is Sean McVay five and oh

1134
01:01:35,200 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 1: and season openers? You know what, man, Okay, you kind

1135
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:40,600
Speaker 1: of came up in the same area. You're older, so

1136
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:42,880
Speaker 1: we came up an old school training camp where you

1137
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:45,080
Speaker 1: put pads on twice a day and they banged the

1138
01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:48,400
Speaker 1: lactic acid out of you. Yeah, it's different. So Sean

1139
01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:53,640
Speaker 1: McVay has completely flipped it. They're they're they're worried about

1140
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:55,800
Speaker 1: getting good work. Believe me, they get good word, but

1141
01:01:55,880 --> 01:01:58,120
Speaker 1: they take care of their bodies and they don't play

1142
01:01:58,160 --> 01:02:02,240
Speaker 1: their guys in preseason. And he's won every single opener

1143
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:04,439
Speaker 1: that he's had since he's been a Rams head coach.

1144
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 1: So everybody else has to look at that. It's working

1145
01:02:07,040 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 1: for him. It could work for everybody else, but it's

1146
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:12,479
Speaker 1: I think they're always I call this team a zero

1147
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:14,720
Speaker 1: excuse football team. There's no excuse for you not to

1148
01:02:14,760 --> 01:02:18,040
Speaker 1: get better Medically. They've got the best medical staff. Training wise,

1149
01:02:18,080 --> 01:02:20,240
Speaker 1: they've got the best training staff. You're in LA. You

1150
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 1: can train twenty four hours a day, seven days a

1151
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:24,560
Speaker 1: week if you want. You've got an owner that's willing

1152
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 1: to put in all the money you need to be great.

1153
01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:30,600
Speaker 1: You've got a head coach that's young, that grinds, and

1154
01:02:31,160 --> 01:02:33,880
Speaker 1: he's not a grinder, he just grinds. So it's a

1155
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:38,080
Speaker 1: zero excuse football team. So that's why the culture is good,

1156
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 1: and that's why guys want to come this way. But

1157
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:44,080
Speaker 1: you know, it all sounds good until you have to

1158
01:02:44,120 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 1: play Buffalo, and so you know, we'll see how they play.

1159
01:02:47,600 --> 01:02:51,600
Speaker 1: But Sean McVay and his attitude and his culture just

1160
01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:54,960
Speaker 1: really keeps things going in the right direction, going out

1161
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:57,200
Speaker 1: to the right things. If you ask me, this is

1162
01:02:57,320 --> 01:03:01,400
Speaker 1: probably a question that is more meaningful if it's asked

1163
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 1: in week fourteen or fifteen. But since they haven't played

1164
01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:09,680
Speaker 1: a game yet, what is to be expected with Stafford

1165
01:03:09,720 --> 01:03:13,760
Speaker 1: and the elbow? Is it basically taken care of, no worries,

1166
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:15,960
Speaker 1: good to go, or is this something they're going to

1167
01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:17,480
Speaker 1: have to keep an eye on as they get into

1168
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 1: the latter stages of the season and the throws add

1169
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:24,200
Speaker 1: up on the arm. It is what it is. I'll

1170
01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:27,320
Speaker 1: relate to Steve again um Thurman. Thomas wore a neat

1171
01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:30,160
Speaker 1: brace right because he had an issue, but he played

1172
01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 1: through it. I think Bruce Smith wore something. But it's

1173
01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:34,960
Speaker 1: just it is what it is. With Matthew Stafford, um

1174
01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:37,440
Speaker 1: the way he wins it, how hard he throws it,

1175
01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:40,440
Speaker 1: how violent he throws it, that no look past that

1176
01:03:40,560 --> 01:03:43,400
Speaker 1: he does where he can look off safeties and throw

1177
01:03:43,480 --> 01:03:45,040
Speaker 1: to a spot without looking at it. I mean that

1178
01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:46,680
Speaker 1: takes a toll on your body. He's been doing this

1179
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:49,840
Speaker 1: a long time, but it's it's not something that's going

1180
01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:51,440
Speaker 1: to keep him out of the lineup. It's just it

1181
01:03:51,600 --> 01:03:54,800
Speaker 1: is what it is. After like Tom Brady said, you

1182
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:56,920
Speaker 1: know when you when you get up in age, you

1183
01:03:57,040 --> 01:03:59,720
Speaker 1: know stuff happens. So part of that elbow is the

1184
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 1: stuff happens. One of the things about this team too

1185
01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:05,720
Speaker 1: last year at the end of the year, during the

1186
01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 1: year they acquired OBJ and they got von Miller. What

1187
01:04:09,160 --> 01:04:13,120
Speaker 1: difference like, kind of quantify the difference. Certainly quantify each

1188
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:16,280
Speaker 1: one individually and together what they did for that team

1189
01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:21,160
Speaker 1: and how big a difference it made. Man OBJ and

1190
01:04:21,200 --> 01:04:23,000
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. If he doesn't get hurt, if he

1191
01:04:23,040 --> 01:04:24,840
Speaker 1: doesn't hurt the knee, he's going to be your MVP,

1192
01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 1: and in my opinion, your your entire offseason is different

1193
01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:31,400
Speaker 1: because imagine if Odell Beckham Junior became your Super Bowl

1194
01:04:31,560 --> 01:04:33,960
Speaker 1: MVP and a Super Bowl you just won in Los Angeles,

1195
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:36,360
Speaker 1: your home city, Well you're going to resign him. So

1196
01:04:36,720 --> 01:04:38,880
Speaker 1: that changes a lot. That changes a lot of things.

1197
01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:42,800
Speaker 1: Perhaps Aaron Donald retires because they don't have enough money,

1198
01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:46,440
Speaker 1: so a lot of things change. With that injury. But

1199
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:49,720
Speaker 1: what he brought to the offense is, you know, an

1200
01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:53,720
Speaker 1: unbelievable athleticism and a great pair of hands, and he's

1201
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:56,720
Speaker 1: bigger than what you think. So I thought he was

1202
01:04:56,800 --> 01:04:59,560
Speaker 1: a great compliment to Robert Woods and Cooper Cup. If

1203
01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:02,800
Speaker 1: you let O b J singled up outside the numbers

1204
01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:05,680
Speaker 1: or anywhere, that's a threat. He can run by you,

1205
01:05:06,240 --> 01:05:08,400
Speaker 1: he can beat you on the hitch if he gets

1206
01:05:08,440 --> 01:05:10,000
Speaker 1: the ball in front of and makes your miss. He's

1207
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:12,640
Speaker 1: down the sidelines. So if you focus energy on him,

1208
01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:14,560
Speaker 1: then Cooper Cup is tearing you up in the middle.

1209
01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:18,080
Speaker 1: So that's what he brought. That was another part, a

1210
01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:21,360
Speaker 1: great weapon for Matthew Stafford to just manipulate defenses. Von

1211
01:05:21,520 --> 01:05:25,240
Speaker 1: Miller I couldn't believe it. I just remember when he

1212
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:27,160
Speaker 1: walked in the billy, I just couldn't. I just kept staring.

1213
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:31,040
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe he was here. But watching him just

1214
01:05:31,520 --> 01:05:36,360
Speaker 1: slowly and steadily progress like a patient hunter, you know,

1215
01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 1: trying to figure out where the lanes are. And then

1216
01:05:38,760 --> 01:05:40,960
Speaker 1: once he figured out, okay, this is how Aaron likes

1217
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:42,760
Speaker 1: to play it, this is how Floyd likes to play

1218
01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:45,960
Speaker 1: this is how Rahee Morris likes to call defenses. Now

1219
01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 1: I can start showing you my stuff, and once he

1220
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:52,000
Speaker 1: goes and gets into your backfield, he's like a parasite.

1221
01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:54,440
Speaker 1: You'll never get him out and there's not a tackle

1222
01:05:54,520 --> 01:05:57,640
Speaker 1: that can stay with him when he's on. So couple

1223
01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:01,880
Speaker 1: that with Aaron Donald, you know you've got almost no chance.

1224
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:03,640
Speaker 1: That's what I said. I have an ultimate respect for

1225
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:05,880
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow because they were all over this guy and

1226
01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:07,640
Speaker 1: he was still making plays and almost won the game.

1227
01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:11,720
Speaker 1: So same with Josh Allen. You'll you'll get pressure and

1228
01:06:11,840 --> 01:06:14,040
Speaker 1: he'll find a way out. He'll beat the defense with

1229
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:17,400
Speaker 1: his athletic ability. But Von Miller just brought the entire

1230
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:20,400
Speaker 1: defense up a notch when he stepped on the field.

1231
01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:24,400
Speaker 1: Last one I've got for you, DeMarco is the running

1232
01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:28,080
Speaker 1: back situation. Cam Akers ready to enter a full season

1233
01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:30,480
Speaker 1: healthy after the injury last year. I know he came

1234
01:06:30,520 --> 01:06:32,080
Speaker 1: back late at the end of the year last year,

1235
01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 1: but the two headed monster of him and Henderson, how

1236
01:06:37,920 --> 01:06:40,080
Speaker 1: has that looked? Are they kind of back to what

1237
01:06:40,240 --> 01:06:44,160
Speaker 1: they wanted to be as a backfield last year? Does

1238
01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:46,040
Speaker 1: it count as a two headed monster when they keep

1239
01:06:46,080 --> 01:06:50,960
Speaker 1: getting hurt? Yeah? Yeah, I mean they're almost like interchangeable

1240
01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:54,600
Speaker 1: heads because one's out one's end. And but look, if

1241
01:06:54,640 --> 01:06:58,400
Speaker 1: they both stay healthy, if you can guarantee me seventeen

1242
01:06:58,440 --> 01:07:00,960
Speaker 1: weeks of Cam Akers and Daryl Henderson, you're right back

1243
01:07:00,960 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, probably a one or a two seed.

1244
01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:05,560
Speaker 1: If you could run the football with those two guys

1245
01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:08,760
Speaker 1: and they're at their best. Daryl Henderson is a sprinter.

1246
01:07:08,960 --> 01:07:10,840
Speaker 1: He could run. He can beat you to the pylone.

1247
01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:13,920
Speaker 1: Cam Akers is a guy that does everything, I mean

1248
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 1: absolutely everything, a thousand miles an hour, and he's he'll

1249
01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:20,440
Speaker 1: run through you. Ask Buddha Baker. So if you give

1250
01:07:20,480 --> 01:07:23,600
Speaker 1: me seventeen straight weeks of that as a one two punch,

1251
01:07:23,720 --> 01:07:26,720
Speaker 1: you're in the playoffs. And Matthew Stafford probably only has

1252
01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:29,040
Speaker 1: to throw at twenty to twenty five times a game,

1253
01:07:29,080 --> 01:07:32,360
Speaker 1: which is great, but that's the question mark. You don't know.

1254
01:07:32,520 --> 01:07:35,080
Speaker 1: They keep getting hurt. But I'll say this, keep an

1255
01:07:35,120 --> 01:07:37,720
Speaker 1: eye out for kyr and Williams. It's a kid from

1256
01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:40,360
Speaker 1: Notre Dame that just drafted him. He's a smaller guy,

1257
01:07:40,480 --> 01:07:43,920
Speaker 1: five to nine, less than two hundred pounds, but he's

1258
01:07:43,960 --> 01:07:45,760
Speaker 1: the guy that Sean McVay likes a kind of guy

1259
01:07:45,840 --> 01:07:47,800
Speaker 1: that he likes at running back. He's a great zone runner,

1260
01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:49,720
Speaker 1: he gets lost in traffic, and he's great out of

1261
01:07:49,720 --> 01:07:52,400
Speaker 1: the backfield, so that will add a different dimension to

1262
01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:54,760
Speaker 1: the offense when he's in the game. But if cam

1263
01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:57,600
Speaker 1: Akers is healthy and Darryl Henderson stays healthy, that's a

1264
01:07:57,680 --> 01:08:00,680
Speaker 1: heck of a one two punch. Jamarco, thanks so much

1265
01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:03,160
Speaker 1: for taking some time beyond with us, and good luck

1266
01:08:03,240 --> 01:08:06,560
Speaker 1: this season with the Rams. You got it, man, the

1267
01:08:06,640 --> 01:08:12,880
Speaker 1: old double thud take care of Tomarco. Thanks for the time.

1268
01:08:12,880 --> 01:08:17,559
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Man. It's de Marco far Rams radio

1269
01:08:17,680 --> 01:08:21,600
Speaker 1: color analyst on the Rams Radio Network and covering the

1270
01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:24,400
Speaker 1: team for quite some time since his playing career ended,

1271
01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:27,479
Speaker 1: and not a bad player in his own defensive tackle

1272
01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:30,360
Speaker 1: mainly when the Rams were still in Saint Louis, so

1273
01:08:31,479 --> 01:08:36,640
Speaker 1: put together a nice career there. Yeah, I you know,

1274
01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:38,880
Speaker 1: you talk about it all the time, Steve. The unknowns

1275
01:08:38,960 --> 01:08:41,600
Speaker 1: of week one this is when coaches are dealing with

1276
01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:43,880
Speaker 1: the most unknowns and it can be unnerving for them.

1277
01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:46,960
Speaker 1: They have some sleepless nights because every week you have

1278
01:08:47,160 --> 01:08:49,719
Speaker 1: things that you don't expect, but you have literally nothing

1279
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:53,559
Speaker 1: to go on with the current iteration of the team

1280
01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:55,960
Speaker 1: you're facing in week one, because we know that rosters

1281
01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:59,680
Speaker 1: turn over twenty to twenty eight percent year over year

1282
01:09:00,120 --> 01:09:03,000
Speaker 1: just through free agency, draft and all that stuff along

1283
01:09:03,080 --> 01:09:06,800
Speaker 1: with free agent losses. So yeah, I mean you've got

1284
01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:11,120
Speaker 1: this Rams roster that you haven't seen on a preseason field.

1285
01:09:11,800 --> 01:09:13,880
Speaker 1: I mean you don't even have that to go off of,

1286
01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:18,640
Speaker 1: so you really the first like ten minutes of the

1287
01:09:18,760 --> 01:09:22,600
Speaker 1: game is kind of more about getting your bearings on

1288
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:25,439
Speaker 1: what you're looking at from the opponent, almost more than

1289
01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:28,080
Speaker 1: anything else. It's about, you know, when you watch your

1290
01:09:28,120 --> 01:09:30,320
Speaker 1: team play. I remember thinking this, when you watch your

1291
01:09:30,360 --> 01:09:35,719
Speaker 1: guys play, you haven't seen him play that season going

1292
01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:40,320
Speaker 1: all out against another good or good or opponent at all,

1293
01:09:40,360 --> 01:09:42,960
Speaker 1: a good or a bad opponent. And when the speed

1294
01:09:43,080 --> 01:09:47,439
Speaker 1: picks up, the other team speed picks up, and it

1295
01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:52,160
Speaker 1: takes it takes some adjustment mentally for you to get

1296
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:54,840
Speaker 1: used to seeing everything the way you're you you'll get

1297
01:09:54,960 --> 01:09:57,880
Speaker 1: used to very quickly as a season rolls along. Um

1298
01:09:58,080 --> 01:10:01,080
Speaker 1: it's it's a new and different season, and it's a

1299
01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:03,600
Speaker 1: stark reminder of how fast the game is when you

1300
01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:06,280
Speaker 1: get out there for that first game and everything's turned

1301
01:10:06,320 --> 01:10:08,880
Speaker 1: on and there's no holds barred and it's like, let's go.

1302
01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:12,560
Speaker 1: It's like wow, yeah here. You know, you feel like

1303
01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:14,639
Speaker 1: if you're a veteran player, you're like, wow, yeah, okay,

1304
01:10:14,680 --> 01:10:17,400
Speaker 1: I remember this now kind of thing. And it takes

1305
01:10:17,439 --> 01:10:21,360
Speaker 1: some adjustment to get back into the mindset of playing,

1306
01:10:21,560 --> 01:10:23,800
Speaker 1: you know, as good as you can play. Let's go

1307
01:10:23,920 --> 01:10:26,200
Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet for some of your questions on

1308
01:10:26,640 --> 01:10:30,719
Speaker 1: Friday fan mail bag here on OBL and we begin

1309
01:10:31,200 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 1: with Scottish Bills Mafia, and he says, can we have

1310
01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:39,320
Speaker 1: a shout out to all the international Bills Mafia looking

1311
01:10:39,320 --> 01:10:41,200
Speaker 1: forward to another season of late night games and the

1312
01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:43,679
Speaker 1: dilemma of work in the morning or drinking at three am.

1313
01:10:43,760 --> 01:10:45,880
Speaker 1: I can't wait for the new season and the one

1314
01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:51,200
Speaker 1: twenty am kickoff in Scotland. Go Bills. Yeah, that week

1315
01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:54,000
Speaker 1: one on Thursday night. It's not a lot of primetime

1316
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:56,120
Speaker 1: games they got to deal with, baby, that's a late

1317
01:10:56,320 --> 01:10:59,639
Speaker 1: night just getting started to turnaround. Oh my gosh. Yeah,

1318
01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:03,479
Speaker 1: including your including your Italian Bills backers friends. They got

1319
01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:06,000
Speaker 1: the same They're in the same boat. Might actually I

1320
01:11:06,080 --> 01:11:08,960
Speaker 1: got a I got an email from They're coming in

1321
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:11,519
Speaker 1: town for the Green Bay game. Are they really, Wow,

1322
01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:15,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna hook up and go to dinner up. Yeah. Yeah,

1323
01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:18,519
Speaker 1: it's very nice, very nice. But yeah, that's that you

1324
01:11:18,640 --> 01:11:20,800
Speaker 1: forget about it, and we always think about the East

1325
01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:25,320
Speaker 1: Coast West Coast. Okay, think about West Coast game at

1326
01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:31,680
Speaker 1: eight kicking off at one am. Yeah, that's like you

1327
01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:34,920
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta wake back up to watch that game. Yeah,

1328
01:11:34,960 --> 01:11:38,720
Speaker 1: it's an investment for sure. JT out of the mail

1329
01:11:38,760 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 1: bag asks who do you guys think we'll be starting

1330
01:11:41,800 --> 01:11:45,639
Speaker 1: at kick returner and punt returner. I'd assume Mackenzie until

1331
01:11:45,720 --> 01:11:48,799
Speaker 1: Stevenson's available again. Tasker and Brownie, what are your favorite

1332
01:11:48,880 --> 01:11:51,759
Speaker 1: choice of chicken wings? And do you prefer them Crispy

1333
01:11:52,400 --> 01:11:56,840
Speaker 1: go bills? Six days away baby whom. Let's start with

1334
01:11:56,920 --> 01:12:00,360
Speaker 1: the return jobs. I think we all anticipate the Khalil

1335
01:12:00,400 --> 01:12:03,120
Speaker 1: Shakir will be the team's punt returner. I think there's

1336
01:12:03,160 --> 01:12:05,479
Speaker 1: a good chance that James Cook is the kick returner

1337
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:09,160
Speaker 1: because he got some action in the preseason. Might be

1338
01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:14,320
Speaker 1: the guy. There are other candidates. Yeah, and kick return,

1339
01:12:14,360 --> 01:12:17,479
Speaker 1: as you know, is different than punt return. Yes, kick

1340
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:22,800
Speaker 1: returns is easier than punt return and you can kind

1341
01:12:22,840 --> 01:12:25,760
Speaker 1: of get a yeah, a good athlete, a guy. Yes,

1342
01:12:26,320 --> 01:12:30,439
Speaker 1: anybody can do that, anybody with bull skills. So that's

1343
01:12:30,479 --> 01:12:32,640
Speaker 1: not the problem. The punt returner is the is the

1344
01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:34,920
Speaker 1: guy who's the important guy. In fact, you know, the

1345
01:12:34,960 --> 01:12:37,439
Speaker 1: punt returner is way way more important than the holder

1346
01:12:37,479 --> 01:12:41,599
Speaker 1: we've been angsting about all off season. The punt returns

1347
01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:44,320
Speaker 1: the guy. So Khalil Shakir is out there. Well, he's

1348
01:12:44,360 --> 01:12:47,120
Speaker 1: gotten an extraordinary number of reps at the position through

1349
01:12:47,120 --> 01:12:49,320
Speaker 1: the preseason. That shows a lot of faith in the guy,

1350
01:12:49,720 --> 01:12:51,800
Speaker 1: a lot of faith. Well, he's very sure handed. We

1351
01:12:51,920 --> 01:12:54,000
Speaker 1: know that. I know it's different on a punt return

1352
01:12:54,040 --> 01:12:56,200
Speaker 1: than catching a pass because you're dealing with a lot

1353
01:12:56,280 --> 01:12:59,120
Speaker 1: more wind and everything and people screaming at you from

1354
01:12:59,160 --> 01:13:02,400
Speaker 1: forty yards down the field. But I thought he availed

1355
01:13:02,479 --> 01:13:04,439
Speaker 1: himself quite well through the course of the preseason. It

1356
01:13:04,479 --> 01:13:07,360
Speaker 1: seemed to very well. Um, but that's that's a lot

1357
01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:09,759
Speaker 1: of faith in a young player for a very important spot.

1358
01:13:09,880 --> 01:13:13,240
Speaker 1: But yes, you're right. And if if it's not Khalil Shakir,

1359
01:13:14,560 --> 01:13:16,320
Speaker 1: I don't know who it's going to be because James

1360
01:13:16,400 --> 01:13:18,280
Speaker 1: Cook didn't kit return any punts in them. No, I

1361
01:13:18,320 --> 01:13:22,360
Speaker 1: mean it could be McKenzie. Conceivably U mackenzie did return

1362
01:13:22,400 --> 01:13:26,200
Speaker 1: a kick late in the preseason um, but James Cook

1363
01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:28,719
Speaker 1: got action there. They had some other guys who didn't

1364
01:13:28,760 --> 01:13:31,680
Speaker 1: make the roster return kicks. I remember Raheem Blackshire doing

1365
01:13:31,720 --> 01:13:35,800
Speaker 1: it on occasion. So if I had to guess, I

1366
01:13:35,840 --> 01:13:38,080
Speaker 1: would I would probably put James Cook in the kick

1367
01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:42,320
Speaker 1: return role Khalil Shakir in the punt return role, subject

1368
01:13:42,400 --> 01:13:45,639
Speaker 1: to change, of course, but those would be my candidates there.

1369
01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:50,240
Speaker 1: Favorite choice of chicken wings? Do you prefer them crispy?

1370
01:13:50,320 --> 01:13:53,360
Speaker 1: I don't mind them crispy, like if you're gonna grill them,

1371
01:13:53,520 --> 01:13:55,160
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. No, I'm a big Crispy fan.

1372
01:13:55,320 --> 01:13:58,519
Speaker 1: I have I have no problem with Krispy wings. I

1373
01:13:58,600 --> 01:14:03,160
Speaker 1: don't know if I am I picking that first? Yeah,

1374
01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:05,720
Speaker 1: I don't know, get depending on I don't know if

1375
01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:08,120
Speaker 1: you can ask for your wings extra crispy with the

1376
01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:12,920
Speaker 1: sauce too. And I'm a big flat fan of the flats,

1377
01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:17,519
Speaker 1: not the drumsticks. So yes, totally with you. I'm a

1378
01:14:17,560 --> 01:14:24,080
Speaker 1: flat guy and crispy. Yeah. And now what about flavor

1379
01:14:24,200 --> 01:14:28,160
Speaker 1: outside of outside of regular? What is your favorite? Here's

1380
01:14:28,160 --> 01:14:30,280
Speaker 1: the thing you got eiver if you're ordering. If you

1381
01:14:30,360 --> 01:14:31,960
Speaker 1: go to a place here with a group and you're

1382
01:14:32,000 --> 01:14:33,880
Speaker 1: gonna get multiple wings, you got to start with the

1383
01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:38,760
Speaker 1: mediums because that's what every restaurant has a medium wing. Well, yeah,

1384
01:14:38,880 --> 01:14:40,760
Speaker 1: that's what I usually order, or just getting them for

1385
01:14:40,800 --> 01:14:43,840
Speaker 1: the house, the pizza, the that's that that wing should

1386
01:14:43,840 --> 01:14:47,640
Speaker 1: be for everybody and every Yeah, because then if you

1387
01:14:47,720 --> 01:14:50,160
Speaker 1: get a hot wing, then you get into how hot

1388
01:14:50,320 --> 01:14:53,640
Speaker 1: is it? You know that I don't like them that high, right,

1389
01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:57,120
Speaker 1: or or you get the you know, the donkey that

1390
01:14:57,200 --> 01:14:59,200
Speaker 1: comes in because these aren't hot and they start to

1391
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:01,840
Speaker 1: I can eat, Yeah, they don't. I don't even need

1392
01:15:01,920 --> 01:15:03,439
Speaker 1: water with these hot wings. You know, you get the

1393
01:15:03,600 --> 01:15:05,840
Speaker 1: donkeys that do that, or you get the wings that

1394
01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:08,960
Speaker 1: are hot, like you can't eat them, they're so hot.

1395
01:15:09,240 --> 01:15:13,160
Speaker 1: You know, they use ghost pepper sauce or something. So yeah,

1396
01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:16,360
Speaker 1: get the medium wing if you that's where you start.

1397
01:15:16,439 --> 01:15:18,680
Speaker 1: And then if they have any other you know, all

1398
01:15:18,720 --> 01:15:21,560
Speaker 1: the other stuff. You can try the fun stuff, this

1399
01:15:23,000 --> 01:15:26,000
Speaker 1: alternate flavors, but you gotta get if you're gonna get it,

1400
01:15:26,160 --> 01:15:28,080
Speaker 1: and you got a group, you gotta start with the wings,

1401
01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:30,800
Speaker 1: the medium wings, because that's where if you're going into

1402
01:15:30,840 --> 01:15:33,439
Speaker 1: a contest. Everybody says, that's that's the wing you gotta

1403
01:15:33,880 --> 01:15:37,160
Speaker 1: well I have. I have recently been been turned onto

1404
01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:41,479
Speaker 1: the Honey Djen wing. I enjoy that, and I am

1405
01:15:41,560 --> 01:15:45,679
Speaker 1: not really more often than not, I'm like a medium

1406
01:15:45,720 --> 01:15:48,400
Speaker 1: wing or a barbecue wing guy, and I'm good there

1407
01:15:48,479 --> 01:15:51,520
Speaker 1: like that. I don't need anything else, you know, simple goodings.

1408
01:15:51,640 --> 01:15:54,280
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, simple goodness. But you want

1409
01:15:54,280 --> 01:15:57,040
Speaker 1: to start getting into the gore may end of the spectrum.

1410
01:15:57,840 --> 01:16:00,479
Speaker 1: There's something about the honey Dijon wing that's very appealing

1411
01:16:00,520 --> 01:16:04,360
Speaker 1: to me. I think it's very underrated. So that's kind

1412
01:16:04,400 --> 01:16:07,000
Speaker 1: of where I'm at. I like, I like trying new, different,

1413
01:16:07,360 --> 01:16:09,760
Speaker 1: different wings, as long as I've got enough of the

1414
01:16:09,840 --> 01:16:11,800
Speaker 1: wings that I know I can get the staples. If

1415
01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:13,600
Speaker 1: if I'm if I could try the new wing, I

1416
01:16:13,640 --> 01:16:15,439
Speaker 1: don't like it, I'm going back to the other right

1417
01:16:15,479 --> 01:16:18,240
Speaker 1: and I want them there. Yea, And I said, there's

1418
01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:21,960
Speaker 1: sounding to be said for simple goodness and medium wings,

1419
01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:25,240
Speaker 1: barbecue wings. They're pretty tried and true, especially here in Buffalo.

1420
01:16:25,320 --> 01:16:27,360
Speaker 1: But so yeah, I don't know if that answers all

1421
01:16:27,479 --> 01:16:30,000
Speaker 1: his I think we did a good job there. We

1422
01:16:30,120 --> 01:16:32,040
Speaker 1: have to take a break here more of your thoughts

1423
01:16:32,080 --> 01:16:33,639
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet and a little bit of NFL

1424
01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:36,240
Speaker 1: true false. When we return here on One Bills Live

1425
01:16:36,280 --> 01:16:50,559
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, it's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right,

1426
01:16:50,600 --> 01:16:53,040
Speaker 1: welcome back to one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker,

1427
01:16:53,120 --> 01:16:56,559
Speaker 1: back to the OBL Friday fan mailbag, and Nick asks

1428
01:16:56,640 --> 01:16:59,240
Speaker 1: what role will James Cook having going half going into

1429
01:16:59,280 --> 01:17:01,920
Speaker 1: week one of the season. I think we have to

1430
01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:07,880
Speaker 1: remember how Sean McDermott handles things with rookies, in particular,

1431
01:17:08,520 --> 01:17:10,639
Speaker 1: they have to earn it time on the field I'm

1432
01:17:10,680 --> 01:17:14,960
Speaker 1: talking about, and I don't think he or Khalil Shaker

1433
01:17:15,160 --> 01:17:17,160
Speaker 1: with respect to the offensive side of the ball, have

1434
01:17:17,320 --> 01:17:22,960
Speaker 1: done anything to discourage coach or the offensive staff from

1435
01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:27,000
Speaker 1: not trusting them, because with coaches it is all about trust.

1436
01:17:27,040 --> 01:17:29,080
Speaker 1: I want to trust that you know what you're doing

1437
01:17:29,120 --> 01:17:30,720
Speaker 1: out there and you're going to execute to the best

1438
01:17:30,760 --> 01:17:32,680
Speaker 1: of your abilities on every single play and know the

1439
01:17:32,760 --> 01:17:35,519
Speaker 1: situations in which you find yourself in the snap of

1440
01:17:35,560 --> 01:17:38,280
Speaker 1: a finger and make the correct decision. That's how you

1441
01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:41,320
Speaker 1: earn playing time along with being productive with your talent level.

1442
01:17:43,920 --> 01:17:47,599
Speaker 1: I would estimate in the early going that James Cook

1443
01:17:47,760 --> 01:17:51,799
Speaker 1: is looking at somewhere from between eight to fifteen reps

1444
01:17:51,840 --> 01:17:54,719
Speaker 1: on offense. That doesn't mean he's getting the ball every time,

1445
01:17:55,280 --> 01:17:58,719
Speaker 1: but on the field for eight to fifteen plays, and maybe,

1446
01:17:58,800 --> 01:18:01,160
Speaker 1: as we said earlier, he gets some kick return work.

1447
01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:05,040
Speaker 1: Do you think it'll be more right at the right

1448
01:18:05,120 --> 01:18:10,479
Speaker 1: in Week one? I think that's baseline, just as just

1449
01:18:10,520 --> 01:18:13,080
Speaker 1: because he's gonna if he who knows, he may not

1450
01:18:13,120 --> 01:18:14,760
Speaker 1: even be active for the game. We've seen that happen

1451
01:18:14,800 --> 01:18:17,840
Speaker 1: with high draft picks too. But my guess is that

1452
01:18:18,600 --> 01:18:24,400
Speaker 1: is baseline, or maybe a little slightly above baseline what

1453
01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:26,840
Speaker 1: it might be because we have a new offensive coordinator

1454
01:18:26,920 --> 01:18:30,519
Speaker 1: who has a voice. Now, we might see the guy go.

1455
01:18:31,439 --> 01:18:34,680
Speaker 1: You know, like I said, you said fourteen, but he

1456
01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:39,439
Speaker 1: may get fourteen touches. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. That's

1457
01:18:39,439 --> 01:18:41,280
Speaker 1: the high end. I think we get fourteen touches and

1458
01:18:41,320 --> 01:18:43,240
Speaker 1: he'll be on the field a lot more than that

1459
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:46,800
Speaker 1: because your new offensive coordinator wants to do something different

1460
01:18:46,800 --> 01:18:49,080
Speaker 1: than they've been able to do with their staple of

1461
01:18:49,200 --> 01:18:52,160
Speaker 1: running backs to this point. That's I think that's as

1462
01:18:52,280 --> 01:18:57,519
Speaker 1: likely as your scenario. Okay, that's fair. Rachel asks, does

1463
01:18:57,640 --> 01:19:00,280
Speaker 1: Mackenzie play a limited role due to being slightly banged

1464
01:19:00,320 --> 01:19:02,960
Speaker 1: up or does he go all in week one. I

1465
01:19:03,040 --> 01:19:05,320
Speaker 1: think that's a weight And see, Rachel, it's hard to

1466
01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:11,200
Speaker 1: say now six days from the game what Isaiah mackenzie's

1467
01:19:11,560 --> 01:19:13,479
Speaker 1: health is going to be. He had missed the last

1468
01:19:13,520 --> 01:19:15,679
Speaker 1: couple of days of practice before the team got Wednesday

1469
01:19:15,720 --> 01:19:18,880
Speaker 1: through Friday off. We'll probably no more through the course

1470
01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:21,160
Speaker 1: of the weekend as the team gets back to practicing

1471
01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:25,400
Speaker 1: and his participation in it. So when we're back on

1472
01:19:25,479 --> 01:19:28,200
Speaker 1: the air Monday, we'll probably have a better handle on

1473
01:19:28,320 --> 01:19:30,720
Speaker 1: whether or not he's good to go and all systems go.

1474
01:19:30,880 --> 01:19:34,760
Speaker 1: If he is, then he's probably playing his expanded role

1475
01:19:34,800 --> 01:19:37,439
Speaker 1: on offense, and then perhaps he is factoring in in

1476
01:19:37,479 --> 01:19:41,240
Speaker 1: the return game in some capacity. Yeah, I think that's

1477
01:19:41,280 --> 01:19:44,759
Speaker 1: an ongoing question. Can he handle a full loaded receiver

1478
01:19:44,920 --> 01:19:47,560
Speaker 1: for seventeen games? And that's why I think there is

1479
01:19:47,600 --> 01:19:50,320
Speaker 1: still the possibility that it is a shared role between

1480
01:19:50,479 --> 01:19:53,080
Speaker 1: him and Jamison Crowder through the course of the season.

1481
01:19:54,479 --> 01:19:57,040
Speaker 1: You know Crowder is going to play. Yeah, and Crowder's

1482
01:19:57,320 --> 01:20:00,280
Speaker 1: advanced age as well, I mean twenty eight, so they

1483
01:20:00,360 --> 01:20:04,080
Speaker 1: want I mean, yeah, he's played a lot and would

1484
01:20:04,080 --> 01:20:07,439
Speaker 1: be my point, Yeah, And I think having those two

1485
01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:11,760
Speaker 1: guys knowing well with it's a new role, expanded role

1486
01:20:11,800 --> 01:20:13,960
Speaker 1: for Isaiah and Crowder. You want to make sure that

1487
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:16,360
Speaker 1: if he's gonna play, you're gonna don't overwork him either.

1488
01:20:18,080 --> 01:20:19,439
Speaker 1: A little bit of that going on, you know what

1489
01:20:19,479 --> 01:20:23,479
Speaker 1: I'm saying, And we don't know. It could be Crowder

1490
01:20:23,520 --> 01:20:25,439
Speaker 1: comes out and plays ninety percent of the snaps too.

1491
01:20:25,720 --> 01:20:27,719
Speaker 1: I mean they may have been sitting on him, although

1492
01:20:27,760 --> 01:20:30,439
Speaker 1: I kind of doubt that, but because of what we've

1493
01:20:30,439 --> 01:20:34,200
Speaker 1: seen in practice. But I think the real I think

1494
01:20:35,200 --> 01:20:39,040
Speaker 1: the question is not with week one. I think that's

1495
01:20:39,080 --> 01:20:41,519
Speaker 1: a go. I think everybody will be full systems go

1496
01:20:42,720 --> 01:20:46,800
Speaker 1: on week one. The question for me and Mackenzie is

1497
01:20:46,920 --> 01:20:49,720
Speaker 1: how will it look week four weeks? Since Week ten,

1498
01:20:50,120 --> 01:20:52,519
Speaker 1: week fourteen kind of thing. That's why I think it

1499
01:20:52,560 --> 01:20:56,360
Speaker 1: could be shared a great degree between those two guys.

1500
01:20:57,240 --> 01:21:00,560
Speaker 1: Joe from the OBL Friday fan mail says, what do

1501
01:21:00,640 --> 01:21:03,559
Speaker 1: you predict their record to be after a tough first

1502
01:21:03,680 --> 01:21:06,720
Speaker 1: six games stretch? It is tough pretty much through the

1503
01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:09,640
Speaker 1: first seven games, but you want to go up to

1504
01:21:09,720 --> 01:21:14,040
Speaker 1: the bye week, which, okay, let's look at that for

1505
01:21:14,120 --> 01:21:18,920
Speaker 1: a second. You know, you start with the Rams. This

1506
01:21:19,080 --> 01:21:21,759
Speaker 1: is not an easy game, although the Bills are favored

1507
01:21:23,400 --> 01:21:26,080
Speaker 1: by two and a half points right now by the oddsmakers,

1508
01:21:26,920 --> 01:21:29,320
Speaker 1: So that's game one. I think the Tennessee game has

1509
01:21:29,360 --> 01:21:33,960
Speaker 1: become easier. No, Harold Landry, your play them at home.

1510
01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:39,479
Speaker 1: Offensive line subtractions for the Titans defensive line subtractions now

1511
01:21:40,600 --> 01:21:42,800
Speaker 1: depending on a lot of young players. I think that's

1512
01:21:42,840 --> 01:21:46,280
Speaker 1: a winnable game. You're at the Dolphins. I think their

1513
01:21:46,360 --> 01:21:49,960
Speaker 1: defense will help to keep them in it, but the

1514
01:21:50,040 --> 01:21:54,800
Speaker 1: Bill should win that game. Ravens Week four in Baltimore,

1515
01:21:55,120 --> 01:21:56,960
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a tough one. I expect that to

1516
01:21:57,040 --> 01:22:02,160
Speaker 1: be a very tight contest. And which way does it go?

1517
01:22:02,360 --> 01:22:04,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that could be a toss up

1518
01:22:04,200 --> 01:22:07,640
Speaker 1: game there, I really do. The Ravens always play it tough. Absolutely,

1519
01:22:07,840 --> 01:22:11,360
Speaker 1: they never They rarely look overmatched, do you know what

1520
01:22:11,439 --> 01:22:16,280
Speaker 1: I mean? Like, yes, play they always play well. They

1521
01:22:16,840 --> 01:22:19,439
Speaker 1: rarely look bad on the football field. They're always a

1522
01:22:19,520 --> 01:22:24,000
Speaker 1: tough out. They're a unique football team because of their quarterback,

1523
01:22:24,040 --> 01:22:26,080
Speaker 1: in the way they run their offense. Their defense has

1524
01:22:26,120 --> 01:22:28,760
Speaker 1: always been salty. They're they're just well coached and they're

1525
01:22:28,840 --> 01:22:30,760
Speaker 1: they're always ready, so you never catch them in the

1526
01:22:30,800 --> 01:22:33,680
Speaker 1: middle of a bad performance, you know. So, yeah, it's

1527
01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:36,759
Speaker 1: gonna be a tussle home against the Steelers again. Another

1528
01:22:37,479 --> 01:22:40,599
Speaker 1: big play, splash play type of defense that can change

1529
01:22:40,640 --> 01:22:45,280
Speaker 1: the course of a game should win it. At the Chiefs,

1530
01:22:45,640 --> 01:22:48,000
Speaker 1: I think it's still gonna be difficult. Mahomes is still

1531
01:22:48,080 --> 01:22:51,280
Speaker 1: Mahomes different receiving corps, but by week six he should

1532
01:22:51,320 --> 01:22:54,160
Speaker 1: probably have a pretty good handle on his weapons. If

1533
01:22:54,160 --> 01:22:56,160
Speaker 1: you're playing them in week one, I would feel better

1534
01:22:56,240 --> 01:22:59,360
Speaker 1: about that game because they haven't tied everything together yet. Yeah,

1535
01:22:59,520 --> 01:23:03,080
Speaker 1: but we six, they will be humming along. I think

1536
01:23:03,120 --> 01:23:06,240
Speaker 1: the Bills defense is vastly superior to that of the Chiefs,

1537
01:23:07,120 --> 01:23:08,720
Speaker 1: so I think they certainly have a good chance of

1538
01:23:08,800 --> 01:23:11,400
Speaker 1: winning that game because their defense is that much better

1539
01:23:11,479 --> 01:23:15,080
Speaker 1: than Kansas City's. So I am going to say four

1540
01:23:15,160 --> 01:23:19,080
Speaker 1: and two through the first I was thinking that as well.

1541
01:23:19,120 --> 01:23:21,760
Speaker 1: I think the Bills beat Tennessee, they beat Miami, they

1542
01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:25,160
Speaker 1: beat Pittsburgh, So that's three right there, right, and I

1543
01:23:25,280 --> 01:23:27,439
Speaker 1: think he can get give them one and a half

1544
01:23:27,520 --> 01:23:29,200
Speaker 1: to two of the other two. I think the Rams

1545
01:23:29,280 --> 01:23:32,240
Speaker 1: game is a big question mark because of the uncertainties

1546
01:23:32,320 --> 01:23:34,720
Speaker 1: going in because of both teams. If they can beat

1547
01:23:34,760 --> 01:23:36,439
Speaker 1: the Rams, I think it they could be as good

1548
01:23:36,479 --> 01:23:40,280
Speaker 1: as five and one, but I think three and a

1549
01:23:40,360 --> 01:23:44,280
Speaker 1: half wins there, you know what I mean. Tennessee Dolphins

1550
01:23:44,320 --> 01:23:47,280
Speaker 1: and the Steelers. I'm given to the Bills, the Rams,

1551
01:23:47,360 --> 01:23:50,519
Speaker 1: the Ravens, and the Chiefs. It's a coin flip with

1552
01:23:50,600 --> 01:23:54,920
Speaker 1: all of them. Because they're at LA, they're at Baltimore,

1553
01:23:55,120 --> 01:23:59,639
Speaker 1: and they're at Kansas City. Those are three really tough games.

1554
01:24:00,000 --> 01:24:01,680
Speaker 1: If you coin flip all of them, that gives you

1555
01:24:01,760 --> 01:24:04,519
Speaker 1: one and a half. So that gives you, like, you know,

1556
01:24:04,720 --> 01:24:09,240
Speaker 1: four and a half wins, four wins out of the six. Yeah,

1557
01:24:09,680 --> 01:24:11,080
Speaker 1: you come out of that four and two you're doing

1558
01:24:11,120 --> 01:24:13,240
Speaker 1: pretty good. And I agree, I think four and two

1559
01:24:13,280 --> 01:24:15,599
Speaker 1: you're looking great. There's a chance you could go five

1560
01:24:15,680 --> 01:24:17,280
Speaker 1: and one if you get two of those coin flip

1561
01:24:17,400 --> 01:24:21,080
Speaker 1: games the Rams, Steelers or the Rams, Ravens and Chiefs.

1562
01:24:21,520 --> 01:24:24,000
Speaker 1: But the Steelers, the Dolphins and the Titans are three

1563
01:24:24,120 --> 01:24:28,040
Speaker 1: games that you gotta I think you gotta count that

1564
01:24:28,120 --> 01:24:30,200
Speaker 1: the Bills are gonna win those games. You gotta get

1565
01:24:30,240 --> 01:24:34,360
Speaker 1: them there. They're on the road at Miami, but they

1566
01:24:34,400 --> 01:24:38,880
Speaker 1: got Tennessee and Pittsburgh at home for the first six.

1567
01:24:39,000 --> 01:24:40,840
Speaker 1: Four those first six are on the road. Is tough.

1568
01:24:41,800 --> 01:24:44,720
Speaker 1: Let's that's that's the way I see it. Yeah, let's

1569
01:24:44,760 --> 01:24:48,599
Speaker 1: do a quick NFL true false here, presented by Patron Tequila,

1570
01:24:48,680 --> 01:24:52,559
Speaker 1: the official tequila of the Buffalo Bills, and we begin

1571
01:24:52,640 --> 01:24:56,559
Speaker 1: with this Steve NFL true false. Number one Texans QB

1572
01:24:56,760 --> 01:25:00,240
Speaker 1: Davis Mills will have to shock the world to keep

1573
01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:07,720
Speaker 1: his starting job beyond this season. Shock the world is

1574
01:25:07,720 --> 01:25:10,640
Speaker 1: a little overstated, so I'm gonna say false. Okay, he

1575
01:25:10,680 --> 01:25:12,160
Speaker 1: won't have to shock the world, but he's going to

1576
01:25:12,240 --> 01:25:19,599
Speaker 1: play better if he shows marked improvement and just plays good,

1577
01:25:19,720 --> 01:25:23,960
Speaker 1: not great good. I don't think. I think they may

1578
01:25:24,040 --> 01:25:26,799
Speaker 1: go in a different direction and next year's draft, depending

1579
01:25:26,840 --> 01:25:28,840
Speaker 1: on where they pick. Yeah, it is supposed to be

1580
01:25:28,920 --> 01:25:32,599
Speaker 1: a better quarterback draft next year. But I think they

1581
01:25:32,720 --> 01:25:35,479
Speaker 1: like Davis Mills, and I thought he showed progress last year,

1582
01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:39,439
Speaker 1: Yes he did. I think he's gonna get the benefit

1583
01:25:39,520 --> 01:25:42,759
Speaker 1: of the doubt this year. Wire to wire, Kyle Allen

1584
01:25:42,880 --> 01:25:44,880
Speaker 1: is their backup down there who has been unable to

1585
01:25:44,920 --> 01:25:47,320
Speaker 1: win a starting job in this league. So I think

1586
01:25:47,400 --> 01:25:50,240
Speaker 1: Davis Mills, even after maybe a down performance one week,

1587
01:25:50,400 --> 01:25:51,960
Speaker 1: is going to be right back in the lineup next week.

1588
01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:53,240
Speaker 1: You know, he's not gonna have a quick hook. I

1589
01:25:53,280 --> 01:25:55,519
Speaker 1: guess that's what I'm saying. I think so because of

1590
01:25:55,600 --> 01:25:58,880
Speaker 1: the fact that he'll be presumably if he's healthy, playing

1591
01:25:58,960 --> 01:26:03,760
Speaker 1: all seventeen games. I think he will make the progress necessary.

1592
01:26:03,920 --> 01:26:06,840
Speaker 1: But shocking the world to keep his starting job. I

1593
01:26:06,880 --> 01:26:09,439
Speaker 1: don't think he's got a throw for forty five hundred yards.

1594
01:26:09,720 --> 01:26:12,479
Speaker 1: I think if he's somewhere between thirty six hundred and

1595
01:26:12,560 --> 01:26:16,960
Speaker 1: four thousand yards and he's got twenty four touchdown passes,

1596
01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:19,160
Speaker 1: he's the starter. I'll put the over under it four grand,

1597
01:26:19,400 --> 01:26:22,120
Speaker 1: four thousand yards for him throwing it this year. You know,

1598
01:26:22,200 --> 01:26:25,720
Speaker 1: certainly the roster around him isn't tremendous, but I think

1599
01:26:25,800 --> 01:26:29,479
Speaker 1: he really benefited this year from a full offseason as

1600
01:26:29,520 --> 01:26:32,080
Speaker 1: the guy, you know what I mean. I think that's

1601
01:26:32,120 --> 01:26:34,680
Speaker 1: gonna help him when this team kicks it off. He

1602
01:26:34,760 --> 01:26:36,320
Speaker 1: got a lot of snaps last year, a lot of

1603
01:26:36,360 --> 01:26:39,800
Speaker 1: really good experience. They like what they see in him,

1604
01:26:40,720 --> 01:26:43,479
Speaker 1: and the upside is there. I'm certainly he's not. You know,

1605
01:26:44,960 --> 01:26:49,000
Speaker 1: he's got he's got an NFL arm. So yeah, I

1606
01:26:49,040 --> 01:26:52,320
Speaker 1: don't think he has to shock the world to keep

1607
01:26:52,439 --> 01:26:57,439
Speaker 1: the job. But I'll bet but he could shock the

1608
01:26:57,520 --> 01:27:02,360
Speaker 1: world he could. It be possible, but I'm gonna go fall.

1609
01:27:02,520 --> 01:27:04,439
Speaker 1: Don't think he can. I don't think. Yeah, I am too.

1610
01:27:04,479 --> 01:27:05,840
Speaker 1: I don't think he has to shock the world to

1611
01:27:05,920 --> 01:27:08,360
Speaker 1: keep his job. That's the question, right, Yes, And I'm

1612
01:27:08,360 --> 01:27:12,240
Speaker 1: gonna say I think you'll be able to look at

1613
01:27:12,280 --> 01:27:14,559
Speaker 1: that Houston team and say, listen, if David's Mills had

1614
01:27:14,600 --> 01:27:16,360
Speaker 1: some weapons in a little bit better you know, a

1615
01:27:16,400 --> 01:27:19,439
Speaker 1: little better roster, he's a better quarterback. That is NFL

1616
01:27:19,520 --> 01:27:22,439
Speaker 1: True Falls presented by Petron Tequila, the official tequila the

1617
01:27:22,479 --> 01:27:24,640
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. We break here but close it up for

1618
01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:27,320
Speaker 1: the rest of the week here on One Bills Live,

1619
01:27:27,360 --> 01:27:43,320
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right,

1620
01:27:43,320 --> 01:27:45,920
Speaker 1: welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

1621
01:27:46,120 --> 01:27:48,960
Speaker 1: with you as we close out the week. Enjoy your

1622
01:27:49,040 --> 01:27:53,479
Speaker 1: Labor Day weekend, but don't forget On Labor Day Monday,

1623
01:27:53,560 --> 01:27:56,800
Speaker 1: Steve and I will be here kicking off our three

1624
01:27:56,880 --> 01:28:00,360
Speaker 1: hour Monday editions of the show, as we will be

1625
01:28:00,479 --> 01:28:04,400
Speaker 1: doing all season long. In season, we are back to

1626
01:28:04,520 --> 01:28:07,160
Speaker 1: three hours on Mondays, so be sure to make an

1627
01:28:07,200 --> 01:28:12,120
Speaker 1: adjustment to your schedules, set your alarm clocks, accordingly to noon,

1628
01:28:12,880 --> 01:28:16,640
Speaker 1: not one pm. And Monday's show is already loaded for

1629
01:28:16,800 --> 01:28:19,880
Speaker 1: bear as we get set for the season opener. We'll

1630
01:28:19,920 --> 01:28:23,760
Speaker 1: have Eric Wood on the show and we'll be announcing

1631
01:28:23,840 --> 01:28:28,839
Speaker 1: Steve a new surprise addition to our in season lineup

1632
01:28:29,439 --> 01:28:33,120
Speaker 1: on Monday. Really yes, very excited to bring that to everybody.

1633
01:28:33,360 --> 01:28:35,040
Speaker 1: The other thing we wanted to make you aware of

1634
01:28:35,800 --> 01:28:39,839
Speaker 1: is the newest addition of Bills by the Numbers podcast

1635
01:28:39,920 --> 01:28:43,040
Speaker 1: will be out this weekend, So keep an eye out

1636
01:28:43,080 --> 01:28:46,920
Speaker 1: for that on whatever podcast platform you use as we

1637
01:28:47,400 --> 01:28:50,640
Speaker 1: dive in deep into the numbers as we always do

1638
01:28:50,800 --> 01:28:54,240
Speaker 1: on Bills by the Numbers about the week one matchup

1639
01:28:54,720 --> 01:28:56,880
Speaker 1: with the Rams. We even check in with a Rams

1640
01:28:56,920 --> 01:28:59,519
Speaker 1: beat reporter for some details, so be on the lookout

1641
01:28:59,560 --> 01:29:03,080
Speaker 1: for that this weekend. Boom diggity. Happy Labor Day, Yeah,

1642
01:29:03,160 --> 01:29:05,240
Speaker 1: have a great Labor Day. The next time we see

1643
01:29:05,400 --> 01:29:09,479
Speaker 1: is Game week. It's Game week already, We're less than

1644
01:29:09,560 --> 01:29:12,280
Speaker 1: a week away. But we'll see you on Monday at noon.

1645
01:29:13,160 --> 01:29:13,679
Speaker 1: Right here,