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Speaker 2: It doesn't get much juicier than this, people. The Week

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Speaker 2: Bills at Jets Monday Night Football Week one, good stuff,

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Speaker 2: go get it called it. We weren't talking about that

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Speaker 2: earlier in the week and even last week. That with

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Speaker 2: Rogers in New York, knowing that division games are scheduled

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Speaker 2: early in the season and at the end of the season,

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Speaker 2: this was kind of a no brainer for the Jets

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Speaker 2: to be somewhere on Week one, and why not sticking

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Speaker 2: with the Bills.

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Speaker 1: It happens so rare. I always like to gloat when

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Speaker 1: it happens.

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Speaker 2: I told you so.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So it makes too much sense, man, It's perfect, perfect.

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Speaker 2: And there it is. We have since learned that the

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Speaker 2: kickoff game, of all things, which we knew would include

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Speaker 2: the Chiefs, will also include Steve a certain team that

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Speaker 2: I think you dismissed a little out of hand the

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Speaker 2: other day. The Detroit Lions will be playing the Kansas

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Speaker 2: City Chiefs at Arrowhead in the league kickoff game. Steve

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Speaker 2: the Detroit Lions suddenly a sexy pick. When have you

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Speaker 2: ever heard the Detroit Lions in sexy used in the

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Speaker 2: same sentence?

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Speaker 1: Yea, the never. It's a good point. Yeah, the Lions

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Speaker 1: are in that game because you want to get it early,

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Speaker 1: because they're gonna for the bottom falls, for the bottom

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Speaker 1: falls out, for the roof caves in, whatever you want

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Speaker 2: To cave in in Detroit steves absolutely zero faith.

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Speaker 1: I don't they're like and do you know why the Lions,

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Speaker 1: You know why the lines are a sexy pick because

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Speaker 1: the really hot chick left and went to New York.

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Speaker 1: So now they got a chance to be the last

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Speaker 1: the best of the rest sexy things standing in the room.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Right, that's why it's getting late and it's getting later,

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Speaker 2: and they had to pick some.

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Speaker 1: The NFC North has become Oh boy, you know it's

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Speaker 1: the it's the best donkey in the stable.

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Speaker 2: That's left, right, Okay, fair enough, and.

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Speaker 1: You and there and there could be an NFC North

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Speaker 1: will not be seen on prime time.

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Speaker 2: I will say this, though, I think the Lions can

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Speaker 2: be entertaining from a point scoring perspective. Their offensive coordinator

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Speaker 2: Ben Johnson really made a name for himself last year

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Speaker 2: and this year you have a healthy well, no, you

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Speaker 2: don't have Jamison Williams. He suspended for the first The

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Speaker 2: bottom's already fallen out. That was that?

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Speaker 1: Is that the roof caving in? Is that the bottom falling?

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Speaker 2: Thinking of himself, we'll get to see Jamison, Oh no,

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Speaker 1: I think Jamison Williams is the roof caving in. The

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, So that'll that's it'll be interesting to see

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Speaker 2: if golf and that offense can keep up with the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing. They were fun to watch last year,

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Speaker 1: and they gave the Bills all they could handle on Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 2: And Bill's won that squeaker And that's so.

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Speaker 1: They and Campbell, they were the flavor of the month

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Speaker 1: last you know, Hard Knocks, they were on TV. People

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Speaker 1: got exposed to the kind of coaching Dan Campbell can give.

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Speaker 1: He's a he's a dude man that guys want to

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Speaker 1: the interim coach of the Miami Dolphins. I did a

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Speaker 2: Before we dive into what we know is the Bill's

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Speaker 2: season opener on Monday night football at the Jets, which

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Speaker 2: will be the topic of conversation today, we'll explain in

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Speaker 2: a second Steve, had you had a bit of a

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Speaker 2: harrowing sports viewing experience last night? What the heck happened?

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Speaker 1: He listen to this. Okay, so everybody out of there

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's the face of the National foot Basketball Association

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Speaker 1: for fifteen years, twenty years. I gotta watch and Connor

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Speaker 3: They're just they haven't even tipped they it's ten o'clock

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Speaker 1: Just dropped the buck. Give me a chance to watch it.

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Speaker 1: I'm dying today because I stayed up and watched it,

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Speaker 2: So you were dozing off in your chair pretty early?

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Speaker 1: Or my dog was looking at me across like what

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Speaker 1: But you know, come on, let's go. Yeah, he's like,

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Speaker 2: So what what is your solution to that dilemma?

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Speaker 1: Tip the thing off and drop the pucket one pm?

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Speaker 2: Well that some then that's not gonna happen on a week.

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Speaker 1: It's a four am. It's a four pm listen. In Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: everybody in the city would take off work for a

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Speaker 2: Edmonton, Come on much else, What else are.

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Speaker 1: You gonna do except drop the give us a chance

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say, then listen to the LA.

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Speaker 1: The LA and the and the the Golden State. Come on,

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Speaker 1: Golden States won Steph Curry and Lebron And you're gonna

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're not doing You're doing a disservice to the

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Speaker 1: It's the only chance you got in a league, in

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Speaker 1: a in a country that's run by the NFL sports wise, right,

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Speaker 1: you got a chance to go out and win some fans.

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Speaker 2: And it's possibly the last time that you will see

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Speaker 2: of either of their careers. It might be the last

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Speaker 2: time you see that. It is appointment viewing. Whether you're

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Speaker 2: even a I mean, even if you're a casual NBA fan,

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Speaker 2: which is something that I probably label you. I would

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Speaker 2: know why the NBA. I understand, you've got Nick's heat

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Speaker 2: that that's what the NBA should have done. They missed

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Speaker 2: that game an hour earlier. That's six that's six '

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Speaker 1: Don't give me traffic problems. Shut up, drop the puck, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Me, Well, the four h five is bad out there.

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Speaker 1: It's it's nobody's fault, but yours. Stay at home watch

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Speaker 1: People, let the people who want to be there make

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Speaker 2: you're the NBA, you have two generational talents, both of

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Speaker 2: the last time in the conference semi finals. It's probably

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Speaker 2: And I would tell you put it in an eight

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Speaker 2: But here's the marquee one. And if everybody wants to

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Speaker 1: I don't buy this thing about you know, having it's

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Speaker 1: they're playing every other day as hard as you know,

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Speaker 1: they need some rest. Play them every three days. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Give him an extra two days a rest.

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Speaker 1: But that's I do not care. At least tip it

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Speaker 2: Time, right, And I think the exploits of Connor McDavid

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Speaker 2: Don't get me started on they don't you don't see

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Speaker 2: him play. I'm just gonna tell you. I'm just gonna

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Speaker 2: What do you think?

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Speaker 2: It's our first one.

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Speaker 1: It is. It is so delicious for Bills fans because Bills,

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Speaker 1: Gonna be a really good game. I like the Bills

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I The thing about this is I think you

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Speaker 2: could safely make the argument that Aaron Rodgers is going

436
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Speaker 2: to be as motivated to impress as as much as

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Speaker 2: any other time in his career. R I mean, the

438
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Speaker 2: only other time that might come close is playing in

439
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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl for the first time and he won

440
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,960
Speaker 2: that game, as we know, back in twenty ten, and

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Speaker 2: when he took over for Brett Favs the starter in

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Speaker 2: his first year as a starter in Green Bay. Those

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Speaker 2: are the only two times I can probably point to

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Speaker 2: that he would be as motivated as he is going

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Speaker 2: to be in Week one against the Bills.

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Speaker 1: Jets the third the opening day after they drafted Jordan Love,

447
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Speaker 1: same thing, Okay, and he was back to back MVPs

448
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Speaker 1: those two years. So yeah, that his motivation meter is

449
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Speaker 1: going to be off, off the charts. So he's going

450
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Speaker 1: to want to play. And it's a lot like you know,

451
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Speaker 1: we've talked about the Bills, you know, being motivated, gotten

452
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Speaker 1: a lot of guys on one year deals trying to

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Speaker 1: hit another that kind of thing. It makes a big,

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Speaker 1: big difference because as easy as it is for these

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Speaker 1: guys to say, all right, let's go out and play

456
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Speaker 1: a game, it's not so easy to say, all right,

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Speaker 1: let's go out and prepare to play a game. Let's

458
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Speaker 1: go out and practice, let's go out and lyft, let's

459
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Speaker 1: go run, let's go run seven and do all that.

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Speaker 1: It's not so easy to get these guys together and

461
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Speaker 1: to get it together and work hard to get ready.

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Speaker 1: That's the issue. And when you've got a guy like

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Speaker 1: Rogers who's gonna be that and gets into training camp

464
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Speaker 1: with these guys and says, hey, here's how it's gonna work.

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Speaker 1: Let's go, they're gonna jump on board with him, and

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Speaker 1: so I, yeah, that's it's You're right. It makes a difference.

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Speaker 1: It really makes a difference. And that's why I think

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be a good one.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 1: This is and I last week, we of course, we

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Speaker 1: talked about nine thousand different opening scenarios. This was one

472
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Speaker 1: of them for this very reason. Two great quarterbacks, the

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Speaker 1: most interesting player move of the offseason and the biggest

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Speaker 1: one in a while, and going against the Bills on

475
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Speaker 1: a Monday night game that's I think it's huge.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to the phones to see what you think

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Speaker 2: in terms of what your gut reaction was to how

478
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Speaker 2: the Bills at Jets matchup will play out in Week

479
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Speaker 2: one after you found out it was going to be

480
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Speaker 2: the Monday night game to lead off the season, and

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Speaker 2: leading us off is Ron and Alden? What do you

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Speaker 2: got for us? Ron?

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Speaker 6: Well, the Bills are going on Monday Nights football. And

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Speaker 6: let me tell you something. I'm glass the Jets because

485
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Speaker 6: you know what, the Bills have a chip on your shoulder,

486
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Speaker 6: probably the biggest chip on our shoulder since Jim Kelly

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Speaker 6: days when Seacats were playing and everyone doubted. And right

488
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Speaker 6: now everyone's talking about all Miami's gonna be this. You know,

489
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Speaker 6: New England's done, but Miami and the Jets, and I

490
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Speaker 6: think the Bills for the last month of the season

491
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Speaker 6: last year were playing on fumes. Really they were a

492
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Speaker 6: ghost to sell of themselves. They gave everything they had,

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Speaker 6: but they're coming in with a chip on their shoulder.

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Speaker 6: I mean you can just feel it. You just all

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Speaker 6: a talk. I think we're going to smash the Jets

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Speaker 6: into nineteen sixty eight, so far back that I Honestly,

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Speaker 6: I don't know if Steve you might remember this. You guys,

498
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Speaker 6: it was the first time the Bills were on Monday

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Speaker 6: Night football on a long time. You guys went to

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Speaker 6: New York Jets and Thurman Thomas ran for like three

501
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Speaker 6: hundred and forty yards and you guys just killed them

502
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Speaker 6: like thirty five to like ten or something. And you know,

503
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Speaker 6: and that's when the Jets actually were good and the

504
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Speaker 6: Bills are Jets startedn't need good. And I know the

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Speaker 6: Jets are just Rogers is old. I mean, he is older,

506
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Speaker 6: he's you know, he's just selling them themself too. The

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Speaker 6: Bills will have no business not winning that game by

508
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Speaker 6: at least twenty points. And that's and I'll can say

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Speaker 6: that a close game. So that's my point. I'm looking

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00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 6: forward to it, and the Bills are ready to roll. Man,

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Speaker 6: go Bills, all right.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, Ron, appreciate the phone call. Bills by twenty Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm quite that confident, uh, because

514
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Speaker 2: I think the one thing that Jets are gonna be

515
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Speaker 2: able to do this here is score points.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: There are question marks like is Brice Hall gonna be

518
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Speaker 2: able to play Week one coming off of his ac

519
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 2: on the injury mid season last year. Is Von Miller

520
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 2: going to be able to play coming off his ACL

521
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Speaker 2: injury in Week one? Those are all completely up in

522
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Speaker 2: the air right now, and we probably won't have a

523
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Speaker 2: better picture of that until we get to training camp.

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Speaker 2: Those are two pretty important pieces into how.

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Speaker 1: This matchup playout, certainly, and you know, coming through training

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Speaker 1: camp healthy and all of that as well. But you know,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is he's thirty nine at the moment, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know it is going to be a good game.

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Speaker 1: I don't. I think you know, he's I think he's

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Speaker 1: drinking the kool Aid, no doubt about it. Bills by

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Speaker 1: twenty is a big ask against that team in that spot.

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Speaker 1: Nine to eleven New York.

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Speaker 2: That's the other element we have to discuss.

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Speaker 1: All the pre game. It has been a couple of decade.

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Speaker 1: There'll be guys on the field who were barely born

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Speaker 1: at you know, when nine to eleven occurred. Think about that.

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Speaker 1: Most of us guys like me, I mean, it's still

538
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:06,520
Speaker 1: in our vernacular. I mean it's still a huge, a

539
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: huge event in our lives. So we there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: that in the stadium. The Jets and the New York

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Speaker 1: Jets and the Bills. I yeah, I think it's hard

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Speaker 1: to invent.

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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it couldn't happen, but yeah, a Bills

545
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Speaker 1: blowout win, certainly Bills fans will take it. But you're gonna,

546
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Speaker 1: You're gonna. You may as well. On the same the

547
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Speaker 1: other side of that coin, you may be walking into

548
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Speaker 1: an absolute tree grinder, an absolute tree grinder. So keep

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Speaker 1: that in the back of your in the back of

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Speaker 1: your mind.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we'll explain why when we come back, Bill

552
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Speaker 2: and Florida is gonna lead us off as we take

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Speaker 2: more of your phone calls. Eight oh three zero five

554
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Speaker 2: point fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two five

555
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 2: fifty the number to get on board. Got an open

556
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Speaker 2: line for you. Tell us your gut reaction after seeing

557
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Speaker 2: what the opener is gonna be as to how Bills

558
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 2: at Jets on Monday Night will play out in Week

559
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Speaker 2: one riophone calls next year on one Bill's Live.

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Speaker 7: All Right.

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Speaker 2: Week one is Monday Night football for the Bills, Bills

562
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Speaker 2: at Jets, and you want to know what your gut

563
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,040
Speaker 2: reaction is to how the Bills and Jets matchup will

564
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Speaker 2: play out in Week one, initial feelings about this one

565
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Speaker 2: and how it might shake out on nine to eleven,

566
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Speaker 2: which is a whole nother part of the equation here.

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Speaker 2: Just having experienced it personally, I can tell you when

568
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Speaker 2: New York fans believe their team is good, the energy

569
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Speaker 2: level goes up by a factor of ten, and the

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Speaker 2: atmosphere can get very intimidating. I've witnessed it in Yankee

571
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Speaker 2: Stadium and a lot of other arenas in the New

572
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Speaker 2: York metropolitan area. It just it becomes an overwhelming thing

573
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Speaker 2: to where you can't even hear yourself think as an athlete,

574
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Speaker 2: and it affects performance. And so knowing that there's gonna

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Speaker 2: probably be a tremendous, huge pregame run up with presumably

576
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Speaker 2: a nine to eleven ceremony, and it'll be the twenty

577
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 2: second anniversary of nine to eleven, you're fifteen miles from

578
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 2: where those terrorist attacks happen. It's particularly important in that

579
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Speaker 2: region of the country. Then you roll in Rogers first

580
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,680
Speaker 2: start as a jet. All of that, I mean, it's

581
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Speaker 2: gonna be that fan base is going to be in

582
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Speaker 2: a froth. So getting off to a quick start would

583
00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 2: be beneficial for the Bills to take the crowd out

584
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Speaker 2: of it initially, and then if you can really get

585
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 2: up on that team somehow, some way, you can actually

586
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 2: turn that crowd against their own team. That's right, they'd

587
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 2: be booing the Jets in ten minutes.

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00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: Expectations are what they are in New York. And I'll

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Speaker 1: say this too. We talked. Branny and I have long

590
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 1: conversations about what this is going to be like in

591
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Speaker 1: New York and all the ways it could go. Because

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Speaker 1: the media scrutiny that they get in New York is

593
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Speaker 1: really subversive from within, that team has to deal with

594
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: its own guys who cover the team on a regular

595
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 1: basis looking to one up each other, and controversy sells,

596
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,280
Speaker 1: so they try and instill that controversy into a locker

597
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: room and you're trying to get ready to play the

598
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: Bills and they're wanting to talk about he said, she said,

599
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: and this and that and the other. But and it

600
00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with You gotta deal with that

601
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 1: every day and the expectations being through the roof like

602
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: they are in New York. It's gonna be an if

603
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: they get on, even if they get off to a

604
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Speaker 1: fast start, that it's gonna be a pressure cooker in

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Speaker 1: New York.

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Speaker 2: And we were It's funny, Steve and I were listening

607
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 2: to some New York area programs. It's just curious to

608
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 2: see what they were thinking. And one of the guys

609
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 2: who's got a radio show there in New York, he said,

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Speaker 2: if the Jets lose this game, it's already gonna be

611
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 2: like the apocalypse.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one game, yeah, on the seventeen over. It will

613
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Speaker 1: that they're gonna have to recover their entire season after

614
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Speaker 1: week one if they look bad against the Bills. Now,

615
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 1: if they come out and you know, the Bills, and

616
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Speaker 1: Tyer Bass hits a fifty seven yarder to beat them,

617
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Speaker 1: then they're gonna say, okay, it's on. Here we go.

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Speaker 1: We can compete with these guys. We're gonna win, or

619
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: vice versa. If their kicker makes a fifty seven yarder

620
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: to beat the Bills, it's gonna be like, all right,

621
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Speaker 1: here we go, you know. But anything other than a

622
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,479
Speaker 1: great close game like that, if it's a you know,

623
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Speaker 1: and if it and it's just as bad in my

624
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: opinion for the Jets long term, if they blow the

625
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: Bills out, that that's just as bad.

626
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Speaker 2: Because they will absolutely choke to death on well, the

627
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 2: expectations will only go higher.

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Speaker 1: That's right. They'll choke to death on the expectations. So

629
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Speaker 1: it's they need. You know, if they play well, you know,

630
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: there's always a chanceform to save it. But if man,

631
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: if they look bad, or if they look absolutely like

632
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: greased lightning, that might not be good. It's not gonna

633
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: be good either.

634
00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:10,839
Speaker 2: Let's go to the phones, and as promised to Bill

635
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 2: and Florida, to lead us off for this segment, Bill,

636
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 2: what do you got for us? You're on one Bill's Live.

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00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:20,880
Speaker 8: Good afternoon, guys, great show, great show. First of all,

638
00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,720
Speaker 8: I'm a transplant from East Aura right next to the stadium. Yep,

639
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 8: this buffalo to answer your first question got reaction. Buffalo

640
00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 8: by ten. I was there in seventy three in Shay,

641
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:40,760
Speaker 8: in the Old Shay when OJ did the two thousand

642
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 8: yard mark for the season, and it was spectacular, and

643
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,399
Speaker 8: they're good fans and at the time they were kind

644
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:51,720
Speaker 8: of rooting for OJ to break it, and it happened

645
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:57,320
Speaker 8: to be in Shay and as far as Osiris and Kincaid,

646
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 8: I think it's an excellent pick. I think the Bills

647
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 8: are really going to roll. I listen to all your programs.

648
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 8: As far as the twelfth Man two tight end spread.

649
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 8: I think it's going to be great and thank you.

650
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Speaker 2: Sure thing, Bill, no problem. I will say this about

651
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 2: New York fans, even if you play for the opponent.

652
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Speaker 2: New York fans know how to recognize greatness when they

653
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 2: see it, and they will respect it and honor it

654
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 2: in the moment, even if it's at the expense of

655
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:33,520
Speaker 2: their own teams. I saw it growing up all the time,

656
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 2: whether it was a guy you know going for three

657
00:35:36,719 --> 00:35:42,720
Speaker 2: thousand hits, three hundred wins in baseball, you know, somebody

658
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 2: like Ojy hitting two thousand yards in a single season,

659
00:35:45,560 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 2: that's history. That's respect first to ever do it. You know,

660
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 2: fans in New York know how to recognize greatness when

661
00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 2: they see it and they respect it. So you got

662
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 2: to give them credit for that.

663
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Speaker 1: They do have that. The Jet fans, I think, particularly

664
00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: in that stadium and in that city and the way

665
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: they talk about their team. They know their lights are on.

666
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: They understand it's hard to win in the league, no question,

667
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: and they will acknowledge other players who come in there

668
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: and light them up. Yeah, I'm with you, Brownie. He's

669
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 1: got bills.

670
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 2: He's got bills by ten. Though. That is here's the

671
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 2: thing I think.

672
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 1: I mean, we're bills, we're bills broadcasts.

673
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Speaker 2: We had somebody that's saying bills by twenty. He says

674
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,440
Speaker 2: bills by ten. I think it's gonna be a tighter

675
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 2: game than that. I think the only reason the Bills

676
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:39,000
Speaker 2: probably prevail in this, at least as I see it.

677
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,720
Speaker 2: And of course, what are we talking. It's four months away.

678
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 2: I wonder if the Jets may not have all their

679
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:50,719
Speaker 2: ducks in a row, you know what I mean, Like

680
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 2: they're gonna have to do some shuffling on that's kind

681
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,399
Speaker 2: of what I Yeah, they've got new parts that they're

682
00:36:55,400 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 2: plugging in on offense and defense for that matter. You

683
00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 2: got a new starting safety and Chuck Clark. You got

684
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 2: some other guys moving in, some other people moving out,

685
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:08,520
Speaker 2: not back, and that kind of turnover to become better

686
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,759
Speaker 2: is understandable. But is it all going to be in

687
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,880
Speaker 2: place and fit like a glove in week one? NFL

688
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,880
Speaker 2: history says more often than not that is not the case.

689
00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 2: You don't hit the ground running when you make those

690
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 2: kinds of changes in the early going. So I think

691
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 2: that plays into the hands of the Bills, who obviously

692
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 2: offer a whole lot more continuity with their roster than

693
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 2: the Jets do with theirs.

694
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: I would agree.

695
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 2: Let's get back to the phones and to Jerome in Buffalo.

696
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 2: Next we got first, Jerome.

697
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 9: Listens, Chris Steve.

698
00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:44,320
Speaker 10: The Bills are going to beat the brace off the Jets.

699
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 10: And let me give you two key reasons why. First

700
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 10: of all, Rogers is gotten obs to slow starts in

701
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 10: the past couple of years for some reason. I don't

702
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 10: know what it is, but he doesn't like eat up,

703
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 10: you know, maybe it's because of aging or whatever.

704
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 9: But and he's still great. He's not to be underestimated.

705
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 9: But he's just assimilating to this new team. It's gonna

706
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 9: be difficult to just jump out of the gate and

707
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 9: just start, you know, taking on some Bahama. And let

708
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 9: me tell you something about Josh number two. Josh doesn't

709
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 9: shy away from the spotlight. Man, this guy's a stud.

710
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 9: He's like so much poised when he gets in there,

711
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 9: he just he just is amazing. So I think Josh

712
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 9: comes out to start to get off with a big game,

713
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 9: and with or without Vin, I think they really, you know,

714
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 9: I don't think it's gonna be twenty or ten, but

715
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 9: I think it'll be. We'll probably win by something like

716
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 9: eight because they'll get a late touchdown. Late, you know,

717
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,360
Speaker 9: have teams light up. But the Bill is definitely win

718
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 9: this game, no, without a doubt. And that's all I

719
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:36,600
Speaker 9: gotta say.

720
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:40,239
Speaker 1: All Right, Jerome is interesting because I had the same

721
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: conversation that and I don't want to jinx it by

722
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 1: make speaking it. But Josh is a monster in prime time,

723
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:55,439
Speaker 1: an absolute monster, and he does and this team under

724
00:38:55,440 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott notoriously does get out the fast starts. And

725
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say what I think Aaron Rodgers is

726
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: going to do out of the gate because that New

727
00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 1: York ain't Green Bay, so it's gonna be different. He

728
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: has every reason to think it's going to be different

729
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:11,920
Speaker 1: in New York, and the roster is going to be

730
00:39:11,920 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 1: better around him. So I'm not going to count on

731
00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:17,319
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers getting out to a slow start. But I

732
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: will say this, I agree with you. I don't think

733
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:22,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo's getting off to a slow start. Whether they win

734
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 1: this game or not, they're gonna play well.

735
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 2: And I think it's safe to say that history has

736
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 2: shown that more often than not, in prime time, Josh

737
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 2: rises to the occasion rather than shrink. He's a monster.

738
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,720
Speaker 2: When the stakes are higher and the lights are brighter,

739
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 2: he plays better. More often than not, he raises his

740
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 2: game when the stakes are up, and that's not to

741
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 2: be discounted in this matchup. Let's go back to the

742
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 2: phones and to Kevin and Hamburgh. Yeah for us, Kevin, Hey.

743
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 11: Guys, how you doing? Banks for taking my call? Sure,

744
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 11: I think it's awesome. I think the Bills will win.

745
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 11: But the only thing that worries me is and of

746
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 11: course I'm sure you're gonna hear about it from now

747
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 11: until then. The culture then is the nine to eleven thing.

748
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 11: That's the only thing I think that would because even

749
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 11: Bearon Rodgers didn't come there. They had to live that

750
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,239
Speaker 11: thing across the border. We saw it on TV four

751
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 11: hundred miles away up here in Buffalo. They had to

752
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 11: see it and see the smoke. Even they didn't work

753
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 11: at ground zero, and that momentum that nine to eleven

754
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 11: Rogers or no Rogers we have been. You know, they'd

755
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 11: be like if someone lived in Limestone and worked in

756
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,879
Speaker 11: Bradford and someone blew up Bradford. They had to look

757
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 11: at it every single day, the smoke and stuff like that. Yeah,

758
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 11: with that possibly it's kind of it's kind of scary,

759
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:45,400
Speaker 11: you know. They live with that and they have delivered it.

760
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 11: We saw it four hundred miles away on CNN and

761
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 11: that right, Yeah, you had to deal with it every

762
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,440
Speaker 11: single day, even if they didn't have no one killed.

763
00:40:53,560 --> 00:40:56,280
Speaker 1: You're right, Kevin. But the thing about that is, and

764
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:58,640
Speaker 1: and thank you for yourcall, and I appreciate it. You're right,

765
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 1: and we should not forget that's way more important the

766
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: football game we're talking about, uh, And it will be

767
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: commemorated that night by the Jets and the NFL, and

768
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 1: it should be. I said it earlier. Most of the

769
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: guys playing in the game will be will have been

770
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,280
Speaker 1: toddlers or small children when it happens. So it's gonna

771
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 1: it's gonna strike different. But being in that city in

772
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: New York in the run up, they're gonna get a

773
00:41:26,360 --> 00:41:31,480
Speaker 1: they're gonna get plenty of of information and tutoring about

774
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 1: how that should go, and you can bet they're gonna

775
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 1: listen to it. So it's gonna be a moment that

776
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 1: I think all of us can appreciate, uh, even here

777
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. I mean it's not the same, uh, But

778
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:47,399
Speaker 1: both tragedy and the five fourteen anniversaries coming up soon,

779
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:49,280
Speaker 1: and there's a ton of stuff going on in Buffalo

780
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:52,720
Speaker 1: to commemorate that. I'm involved with some of it, Bruce

781
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: is involved with. Bruce Smith's involved with some of it.

782
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: It's that kind of thing draws people together, and at

783
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: Uknit says, we all agree with that, and New York

784
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:04,120
Speaker 1: is no different. As diverse and enormous as that city is,

785
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 1: it does unite people and maybe maybe that's part of

786
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:12,279
Speaker 1: the you know what, the pot one positive you can

787
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: take away from a from a horrific thing like that,

788
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: a tragedy like that.

789
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 2: I think that's what Kevin's point is. He thinks he

790
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 2: sees that uniting the fan base, and I agree right

791
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 2: after it happens. So it's only going to make that

792
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 2: atmosphere even more intense and challenging. We got to take

793
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,840
Speaker 2: a break here, but Jim and James sound David Houston

794
00:42:30,920 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 2: will lead us off when we return more of your

795
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 2: phone calls as we're looking for your gut reaction. Now.

796
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 2: The Bills at Jets matchup will play out in Week one.

797
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 2: Now that the season opener has been announced, we're back

798
00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 2: to more of your phone calls. Next here on one

799
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804
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805
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 2: It'd be interesting to see who the home opener is.

806
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 2: Knowing the Bills will start the season on the road

807
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 2: in Week one at the Jets on Monday Night Football.

808
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 2: Let's get back to the phones and to Jim in Jamestown.

809
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 2: We got first, Jim.

810
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:24,439
Speaker 7: Yeah.

811
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,719
Speaker 12: I think it's a shame that Steve Taster is now

812
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:29,359
Speaker 12: in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And I think

813
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 12: it's a great thing that open up against at Jets,

814
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 12: because I think our quarterback Josh Allen's gonna light it

815
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 12: up that night. That's all I gotta say.

816
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 2: All Right, He's gonna light it up in MetLife Stadium

817
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 2: under the lights. We said it earlier. He does seem

818
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 2: to play his best when the lights are the brightest.

819
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:53,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, you made the point as well. Aaron Rodgers is

820
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 1: coming into this season insanely motivated to play well. Yeah,

821
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:59,479
Speaker 1: I mean he wants to do it in New York,

822
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: where he's been in Green Bay for four to sixteen years.

823
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 1: He wants to do it in New York and and

824
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: be that guy. Right, what do you think Josh thinks

825
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: when he comes in this game?

826
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:14,439
Speaker 2: He's thinking, oh, right, Jets are getting all the hype

827
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 2: as the class of the division. We're not good anymore.

828
00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:18,600
Speaker 13: You know.

829
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:20,359
Speaker 1: Oh you know we're not. We're not We're not in

830
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:23,000
Speaker 1: your top five in the AFC. We're not a super

831
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: Bowl favorite.

832
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 2: Just watch.

833
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 1: I'm not the I'm not in the conversation for MVP,

834
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:29,320
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is yeah, you got it. You've got a

835
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: good roster. Yeah, that's it's they're both these Come on, man,

836
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: that Josh is gonna absolutely play his best.

837
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't have any questions about that.

838
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:45,200
Speaker 1: It has been my take for a long night, ever

839
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: since I got my head caved in in four straight

840
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:51,920
Speaker 1: Super Bowls. The best way to play in big moments

841
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,399
Speaker 1: is act like you are showing off for your mom

842
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: on the front porch.

843
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.

844
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,160
Speaker 1: She you know, I'm gonna love you whether you can

845
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 1: pull it off or not. Right, So just don't worry

846
00:45:01,760 --> 00:45:03,800
Speaker 1: about not doing it and get watch me, watch me,

847
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: watch me, right, and just.

848
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:07,399
Speaker 2: Look, just do it.

849
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: Just show off, play with and no con It don't

850
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 1: matter what consequences are. It don't matter if it's in

851
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: front of a gazillion people. Just go out and have

852
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 1: fun and play and just cut it loose. That's the

853
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 1: best way to play in big moments because it removes

854
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 1: the consequences that will hinder your ability to play your best.

855
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:29,359
Speaker 1: And that's where I think both these quarters they're gonna

856
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:32,720
Speaker 1: they're gonna be out there on Monday night Football opening weekend.

857
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:36,280
Speaker 1: They are gonna sling it. Both these guys are gonna

858
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:40,400
Speaker 1: sling it. And Josh is gonna hurdle some some poor soul.

859
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 2: Oh you think so. I it's the best bet if

860
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 2: it's a dB, because DB's with a two hundred and

861
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 2: fifty pounds quarterback running at him.

862
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:52,719
Speaker 1: Usually trying Josh, Josh're gonna hurdle Robert Salah.

863
00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:02,280
Speaker 2: Right, that's gonna have to be on the sidelines, apparently.

864
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 2: But okay, fair enough, let's go to Frank in Woodstock. Next,

865
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:06,360
Speaker 2: what do you got for us?

866
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 7: Frank, Hey, Chris A Steve Hall of Famer, Steve Great Show.

867
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 7: Listen to you guys every day in Woodstock on my

868
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:20,080
Speaker 7: direct TV. Thank God. The Bills are gonna crush them.

869
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 7: There is no pressure on the Bills, none whatsoever. Josh

870
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:28,160
Speaker 7: is gonna go in there. He's fearless. Everybody's gonna go

871
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 7: in there with a clean mind. And they were humiliated

872
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 7: last year and just so many things happened to them

873
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:39,279
Speaker 7: and that kid, that new tight end, big debut. I'm

874
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 7: telling you we're gonna crush them at their home stadium.

875
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 7: Gold Bills.

876
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 2: All right, Frank, thanks for the call. Uh, it's amazing.

877
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 2: How how coun I haven't heard Bills fans is confident?

878
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:55,839
Speaker 1: A why? I know, right, we weren't this they were points.

879
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 2: By ten points. They're gonna crush them.

880
00:46:57,719 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: They weren't this confident going into LA last year.

881
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:06,399
Speaker 2: Wow. I gotta say it's buoyed my spirits. I'm I'm

882
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:06,920
Speaker 2: enjoying this.

883
00:47:07,600 --> 00:47:09,840
Speaker 1: Both these teams have a lot to look forward to,

884
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,719
Speaker 1: and I think it's really fun to think about and

885
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:20,799
Speaker 1: great players, great matchup. It's it's like it really it's

886
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:24,319
Speaker 1: like Steph Curry and Lebron James in the playoffs. You know,

887
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 1: this young difference making stallion of a player who's a

888
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 1: little bit different than everybody else going against this old

889
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:34,799
Speaker 1: guy who has been an MVP and been to the

890
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 1: mountaintop a number of times. It's it's a little bit

891
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:41,360
Speaker 1: like that this opening game. And it's too bad that

892
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: and this game is gonna tip off at eight pm

893
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: Eastern and not ten ten Eastern, right, so it's gonna

894
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 1: be it's gonna be a really good matchup for all

895
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:51,839
Speaker 1: those reasons. Plus we all know too, those guys are

896
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,560
Speaker 1: kind of buddies. You know, they play golf together, they

897
00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: hang out, and that's that's kind of a little bit.

898
00:47:58,800 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: That's a little bit more flavor to the whole thing.

899
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:03,680
Speaker 2: We have to take a break here because when we

900
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 2: begin our number two, we will be doing it with

901
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 2: the NFL Vice President of Broadcast Planning, Mike North, who

902
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:14,360
Speaker 2: is in the room on Park Avenue when the NFL

903
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 2: regular season schedule is put together. We'll get his thoughts

904
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:21,399
Speaker 2: on the week one choice, among other things. Next here

905
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:22,720
Speaker 2: on One Bill's Live, Stay tuned.

906
00:48:56,960 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 14: This One Bill's Live presented called lighta help.

907
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 2: All right, welcome to our number two here on a Thursday,

908
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:06,960
Speaker 2: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. Happy to be joined

909
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 2: now by NFL Vice President of Broadcast Planning Mike North,

910
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 2: who is a key component of the NFL schedule being

911
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:21,279
Speaker 2: put together. He knows how the sausage is made, and

912
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:25,400
Speaker 2: it'll all be revealed tonight at eight pm on NFL Network.

913
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 2: All the hay is in the barn, Mike. So this

914
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 2: is like you're like an accountant. After April fifteenth, it's

915
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,919
Speaker 2: you can breathe easy now right. I don't know about

916
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 2: breathe easy now comes.

917
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 4: Honestly. The hard part now comes the reaction. I mean,

918
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:43,839
Speaker 4: we've been at this fourteen weeks. We're happy with it.

919
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:46,080
Speaker 4: The commissioner is happy enough with it to approve it

920
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 4: and allow us to release it. You know, now comes

921
00:49:49,080 --> 00:49:51,720
Speaker 4: the hard part. It's the club reaction, it's the network

922
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:55,440
Speaker 4: television partner reaction, it's the fan reaction. You know, we

923
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:57,600
Speaker 4: don't do this for us, We do this for them,

924
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:00,879
Speaker 4: so obviously their reaction is the most important thing here.

925
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 4: So you know, I'll breathe ease year after a couple

926
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:06,279
Speaker 4: of days when you know, certainly the ones who are

927
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 4: going to be disappointed. Hopefully we knew we're going to

928
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:11,719
Speaker 4: be disappointed, and we were comfortable with how disappointed and

929
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 4: why they were disappointed. It's the ones that always kind

930
00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 4: of come out of left field and didn't see that

931
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:18,799
Speaker 4: one coming, and I can't believe we missed that one,

932
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,279
Speaker 4: and oh my god, what were we thinking? Those are

933
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 4: the ones that I'm still a little trepidacious about.

934
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:25,840
Speaker 1: Are there Are there those every year? Or do you

935
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:28,080
Speaker 1: some years better than others? Are there those every year

936
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:29,320
Speaker 1: where they come out of left field and you're like,

937
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: oh wow, how do we miss that? Does that happen

938
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:31,399
Speaker 1: a lot?

939
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:32,239
Speaker 2: Yeah?

940
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 4: I mean, look, you know, I mean you get the

941
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:37,400
Speaker 4: schedule of the day comes out, and your reaction to

942
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,799
Speaker 4: it at that point is just emotional. You know, when

943
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:42,040
Speaker 4: are we playing in primetime? When's our bye?

944
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 12: You know?

945
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:44,440
Speaker 4: When do we have to go to Florida if it's

946
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:45,880
Speaker 4: too hot in September? When do we have to go

947
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:48,439
Speaker 4: to Lambeau in December if it's too cold? I can't

948
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 4: believe we got another early bye week. Why aren't we

949
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 4: on Christmas or Thanksgiving? You know, those are emotional, those

950
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 4: are visceral what ends up happening is after a couple

951
00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 4: of days, when you know, the coaching gets a look

952
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,320
Speaker 4: at it, or somebody in the PR department or somebody

953
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 4: in the scouting department, and did you know that this

954
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 4: is the fourth straight year that we've had to play

955
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 4: that team where they've had a positive rest disparity against us,

956
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:13,760
Speaker 4: Like stuff like that that only like the real true

957
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:14,520
Speaker 4: wonks would know.

958
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 1: Those are the.

959
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:17,919
Speaker 4: Things that kind of trickle out over the next couple

960
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 4: days and you just kind of file away and you

961
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 4: talk to your own people, like is that a thing?

962
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 4: Like is it really unfair if you're having to play

963
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 4: a team coming off their bye I mean when you

964
00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 4: played Steve, you know, the bye week was a big deal.

965
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 4: Teams had incredible records coming off their bye weeks. So

966
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:37,320
Speaker 4: it always felt unfair that we had to play multiple

967
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:40,200
Speaker 4: teams coming off of their bye weeks, especially if we

968
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:42,360
Speaker 4: were traveling on the road to a team that is

969
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 4: rested and at home. Lately, with the new CBA, you know,

970
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 4: you've got to give the players four days off and

971
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:50,680
Speaker 4: away from the facility, And what seems to be happening

972
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 4: is guys kind of get out of their rhythm and

973
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 4: now playing a team coming off their by has almost

974
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,800
Speaker 4: shifted statistically to become an advantage because they're out of

975
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 4: their routine, and if you're still playing and you're still going,

976
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:05,359
Speaker 4: it's actually gone the other way now, coming off your

977
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 4: own bye week has almost become a bit of a

978
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 4: disadvantage statistically. So all those things are good feedback, good data.

979
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 4: I know we're not supposed to read the Internet comments,

980
00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 4: but I do, and it's always there's always something more

981
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 4: to be learned.

982
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:21,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, you can't make everybody happy. I think we

983
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 2: all know that, But Mike, we do know that Week

984
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:27,560
Speaker 2: one for the Bills, it came out this morning, Bills

985
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 2: at Jets Monday Night leadoff. I think we were kind

986
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 2: of surmising that Bills at Jets could very easily be

987
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 2: a primetime matchup in week one. We didn't know when,

988
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:42,759
Speaker 2: but it just made too much sense to us, and

989
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,400
Speaker 2: obviously it made sense to you guys as well, with

990
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers being there in New York. And we didn't

991
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:51,319
Speaker 2: realize this until the eleventh hour, but Monday night is

992
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 2: also the twenty second anniversary of nine to eleven. How

993
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 2: much of a no brainer was it for you guys?

994
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wouldn't call it a no brainer. There were

995
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 4: a couple of different, maybe converging elements that kind of

996
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 4: got us to that point. One of them, it was

997
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 4: obviously nine to eleven, so that we knew, and it

998
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 4: kind of made sense and maybe felt right to have

999
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 4: one of the New York teams hosting that night. For

1000
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 4: a minute there, we actually considered Jets versus Giants. They

1001
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:17,279
Speaker 4: do play each other this year, and so you could

1002
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 4: have done both New York teams playing in that window.

1003
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:22,400
Speaker 4: The challenge there was that they play each other in

1004
00:53:22,440 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 4: the third week of the preseason, so having them played

1005
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:29,319
Speaker 4: just two weeks prior maybe isn't the best use of

1006
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:31,920
Speaker 4: that asset. And maybe, you know, those are two teams

1007
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 4: that you know, we think are going to be relevant

1008
00:53:34,000 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 4: this year. What do any of us know, But maybe

1009
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 4: saving that Jets Giants game for a little later in

1010
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:40,960
Speaker 4: the season, using it in a slightly different window might

1011
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:43,000
Speaker 4: have made a little bit more sense. And then you

1012
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 4: made the point about, you know, the Jets having Aaron

1013
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:49,399
Speaker 4: Rodgers now, and thankfully that deal got done before our

1014
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 4: schedule came out, so his first game was going to

1015
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 4: have a lot of interest, no toys around it. Kansas

1016
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:00,319
Speaker 4: City's first game. Obviously, the Super Bowl Champions was going

1017
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 4: to have a lot of interest, and as always, the

1018
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:05,359
Speaker 4: Dallas Cowboys seemed to be our you know, ratings bell

1019
00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:07,719
Speaker 4: cow so you knew that game was going to have

1020
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:10,520
Speaker 4: a lot of interest. Those three games kind of made

1021
00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:13,799
Speaker 4: sense for our three primetime windows in week one, So

1022
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 4: as you kind of spun it forward and thought about

1023
00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 4: who should be Sunday night, who should be Monday Night,

1024
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:22,160
Speaker 4: we kind of landed on Dallas Giant Sunday night of

1025
00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 4: Week one, and then what we got was a Jeff's

1026
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 4: Bills game on Monday night of Week one, and you

1027
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,880
Speaker 4: kind of let the ESPN promotional machine, you know, starting

1028
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:32,480
Speaker 4: in the morning with all the talk shows, and then

1029
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 4: all throughout the day kind of talking about Aaron Rodgers

1030
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 4: and his journey to New York and what did he

1031
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:39,880
Speaker 4: look like in the preseason if he even played in

1032
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 4: the preseason, And obviously, you know, Josh Allen against Aaron

1033
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:47,560
Speaker 4: Rodgers twice a year is catnip for our fans, for

1034
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:50,319
Speaker 4: our network partners, and for the scheduling team. So using

1035
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:51,799
Speaker 4: one of them up here in Week one and using

1036
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 4: another one in another national window later just felt right.

1037
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:57,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, everything we always get so caught up in how

1038
00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:00,319
Speaker 1: every season comes out and the schedule coming out and

1039
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 1: win and hind why and how in all this is

1040
00:55:03,239 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 1: this Groundhog Day for you? Or is each season? Is

1041
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:11,959
Speaker 1: it extremely different or is it the same problems just recycled.

1042
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:15,879
Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, it's Groundhog's Day in the sense that you know,

1043
00:55:16,400 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 4: we've been at this for fourteen weeks. They kind of

1044
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:21,040
Speaker 4: let me out of my hole for a minute, they

1045
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:23,160
Speaker 4: let me talk to nice folks like you, and then

1046
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:25,359
Speaker 4: tomorrow they put me back in my hole. So in

1047
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:26,919
Speaker 4: that respect, it's Groundhog's Day.

1048
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:28,319
Speaker 2: But look, the.

1049
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 4: Difference here is, you know, every year is a little

1050
00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:33,799
Speaker 4: bit different. This year was very different. Actually, we've got

1051
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:37,399
Speaker 4: a lot more windows. We've got three side by side

1052
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:40,800
Speaker 4: Monday nights. We added the Black Friday Game. We've got

1053
00:55:40,920 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 4: a Peacock game now to go with our ESPN Plus game.

1054
00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:47,120
Speaker 4: So there's a lot more call it mouths to feed

1055
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 4: relative to how we dole out these two hundred and

1056
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:53,719
Speaker 4: seventy two games to our partners. And obviously every year

1057
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:55,879
Speaker 4: is a little different. Just when you think about, you know,

1058
00:55:56,040 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 4: who are the good teams, who are the up and

1059
00:55:58,080 --> 00:56:00,800
Speaker 4: coming teams? You know, none of us know anything. You

1060
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,600
Speaker 4: gotta figure, you know, the Kansas Cities of the world

1061
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:05,440
Speaker 4: are going to be there at the end, the Cincinnatis,

1062
00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 4: the Buffaloes on the AFC side. On the NFC side,

1063
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 4: you gotta figure Philly and San fran are going to

1064
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,160
Speaker 4: be there. But there might be question marks around most

1065
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:16,719
Speaker 4: of these other teams, especially some big brands. Right for decades,

1066
00:56:17,120 --> 00:56:19,880
Speaker 4: the Green Bay Packers were one of our, you know,

1067
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:23,920
Speaker 4: top tier brands, and we're scheduled throughout the season in

1068
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:26,759
Speaker 4: national windows. Now, I know, we're all interested in seeing

1069
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:28,480
Speaker 4: what Jordan Love can do in the first couple of

1070
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 4: weeks of the season. Are they gonna be there, Are

1071
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:32,720
Speaker 4: they gonna be relevant? Are they still worthy of national

1072
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 4: television throughout the season? Did Chicago get better?

1073
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:37,040
Speaker 1: You know?

1074
00:56:37,080 --> 00:56:39,880
Speaker 4: Who's the class to the NFC South Now that Brady's retired.

1075
00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:44,360
Speaker 4: There's a lot of open questions, I think in both conferences.

1076
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:46,799
Speaker 4: So in that respect, maybe a little different that which

1077
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:48,279
Speaker 4: you can count on, and that's what you're not one

1078
00:56:48,360 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 4: hundred percent sure about. But otherwise, yeah, it's it's the

1079
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:53,319
Speaker 4: same process year after year, trying to get the best

1080
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:55,799
Speaker 4: games into the best windows so the fans can watch

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Speaker 4: the games they want to watch and kind of maximize

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00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:02,719
Speaker 4: that television viewers number while also minimizing some of the

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00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:05,839
Speaker 4: competitive inequities and the team pain and the three game

1084
00:57:05,920 --> 00:57:08,440
Speaker 4: road trips and road after road mondays and early buys

1085
00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:10,880
Speaker 4: and all the things that the teams and the coaches

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Speaker 4: and the fans are going to complain about.

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Speaker 2: Talking with NFL Vice President of Broadcast Planning Mike North,

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Speaker 2: and Mike we know the kickoff game. We knew it

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Speaker 2: was going to include the Chiefs. Obviously in the past

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Speaker 2: on occasion it's been the Super Bowl rematch. So we

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00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 2: were wondering, knowing that the Chiefs were playing the Eagles,

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00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 2: would that go right there in Week one? But I

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00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:37,160
Speaker 2: wonder if you guys as planners felt, well, the first

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00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:39,040
Speaker 2: game is going to be so popular on its own

1095
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:41,640
Speaker 2: volition anyway because football is back, do we want to

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Speaker 2: use the Super Bowl rematch in Week one? How much

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00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:48,040
Speaker 2: thought was there to maybe save that for later so

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Speaker 2: to speak.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Look, you could have made a really good case

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Speaker 4: for Philly KC for kickoff. Right, Let's just pick up

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00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 4: right where we left off. Let's have Philly get the

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Speaker 4: ball back down thirty five, thirty two, and let's keep

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Speaker 4: going I think we all would have been thrilled if

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Speaker 4: the Super Bowl had another quarter or two in it.

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Speaker 4: So we definitely thought about that. We surely thought about Cincinnati,

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Speaker 4: We thought about Buffalo, We looked at all the division opponents,

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00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:14,840
Speaker 4: and then we kind of came over into the NFC North.

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Speaker 4: We thought about Chicago, and we thought about Detroit. You know,

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00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:20,880
Speaker 4: Chicago was nothing if not exciting last year. Maybe a

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00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 4: three win team doesn't necessarily warrant, you know, that kind

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00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:28,000
Speaker 4: of platform, that kind of first game of the season idea.

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Speaker 4: But man, the last time we all saw Detroit, they

1113
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:33,160
Speaker 4: were what, winning eight of their last ten. They were

1114
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 4: going into Lambeau in Game two seventy two and ruining

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00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:38,880
Speaker 4: the Packers season. Like we always talk about playing your

1116
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 4: way in the primetime, the Lions have done that, so

1117
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 4: they've earned this additional national exposure. And what do any

1118
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 4: of us know? Going into Kansas City's no easy task

1119
00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:53,440
Speaker 4: for anybody, But yeah, using Detroit in that window, quote unquote,

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Speaker 4: saving Philadelphia for maybe kind of a November time slot,

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Speaker 4: and then saving your Buffalo and Cincinnati Kansas City's for

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00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:05,240
Speaker 4: December when hopefully the AFC is uh, you know, up

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Speaker 4: for grabs.

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Speaker 1: When you look at this. If you can give me

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Speaker 1: a thumbnail, I'll give you like three categories. There's big

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Speaker 1: games that you know, big matchups that people are going

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00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: to want to see at least before the season starts,

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Speaker 1: big slot time slots like Black Friday, Christmas Eve, New

1129
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:26,360
Speaker 1: Year's Eve, a three game Christmas Day triple header. And

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Speaker 1: then you've also got big TV markets you kind of

1131
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:31,840
Speaker 1: got to think about. And then there's always the hard

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00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:36,480
Speaker 1: the wild card of new faces like Detroit. Right, can

1133
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Speaker 1: you cat do you what's what's the number one priority?

1134
00:59:40,560 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 1: Is it the time slots or is it the big games? Well,

1135
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 1: big matchups number one? That the number one priority, honestly

1136
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:56,320
Speaker 1: is competitive fairness, competitive equity. We can make the perfect

1137
00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:59,080
Speaker 1: television schedule if there is such a thing, nothing but

1138
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:02,760
Speaker 1: you know, dow in Kansas City and Philadelphia and all

1139
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 1: the biggest brands and all the national television windows, you know,

1140
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Speaker 1: week after week after week. That might be, you know,

1141
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:11,760
Speaker 1: maximizing your viewership numbers. But that's not really going to

1142
01:00:11,800 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: be the fairest team schedules as opposed to you could

1143
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:16,800
Speaker 1: make you know, perfect team schedules. Every team in the

1144
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:20,040
Speaker 1: league open at home, close at home, mid season by

1145
01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:22,800
Speaker 1: nobody goes to Florien in September. Nobody goes to Lambo

1146
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 1: or Buffalo in December. Like, that's not going to be

1147
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:27,480
Speaker 1: your best television schedule. So you got to try to

1148
01:00:27,520 --> 01:00:30,880
Speaker 1: find the balance between the two. And look, you said

1149
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 1: it right, the number one goal is biggest games in

1150
01:00:34,000 --> 01:00:36,600
Speaker 1: the biggest windows. We're not doing our jobs if we

1151
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 1: put that Buffalo Kansas City game on a Sunday afternoon

1152
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:42,440
Speaker 1: at one o'clock on CBS with four other games and

1153
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:45,200
Speaker 1: five games on Fox, and maybe only twenty percent of

1154
01:00:45,240 --> 01:00:46,400
Speaker 1: the country are going to be able to see it.

1155
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:48,920
Speaker 1: That game needs a national audience. It needs to be

1156
01:00:48,960 --> 01:00:50,520
Speaker 1: available to one hundred percent of the country.

1157
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Speaker 4: So finding those biggest games, those you know, juiciest apples

1158
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:57,040
Speaker 4: on the search tree, or whatever an analogy you want

1159
01:00:57,040 --> 01:00:59,160
Speaker 4: to use. It's trying to make sure that the biggest

1160
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 4: games land in the biggest windows, so that those games

1161
01:01:02,080 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 4: that you just kind of rattled off in your mind,

1162
01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:06,000
Speaker 4: we can all look at the list to seventy two

1163
01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:09,240
Speaker 4: and pick the ten or fifteen best must see TV games.

1164
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 4: Those games half the land in national windows, then it's

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01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:14,120
Speaker 4: on us to make sure we spread them around. They

1166
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:16,960
Speaker 4: shouldn't all be on NBC Sunday Night Football. They shouldn't

1167
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:20,120
Speaker 4: all be Fox doubleheader games. Everybody's gonna have to get

1168
01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:23,120
Speaker 4: a little taste of all that really good inventory.

1169
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:25,880
Speaker 2: Last one I've got for you, Mike. We know that

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01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 2: the Bills are playing in London in Week five against

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01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:31,880
Speaker 2: the Jaguars as the quote unquote home team. The thing

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01:01:31,880 --> 01:01:35,640
Speaker 2: I found interesting about the games in Europe as far

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01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:38,000
Speaker 2: as the schedule goes. And I don't know if this

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01:01:38,040 --> 01:01:40,000
Speaker 2: is the first time this has happened, but you went

1175
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Speaker 2: back to back to back weeks in London and back

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01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:47,480
Speaker 2: to back weeks in Germany. I like the building momentum idea.

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Speaker 2: It's not like you can't sell those games out. Those

1178
01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:52,240
Speaker 2: games are enormously popular over there. You could have scheduled

1179
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:54,880
Speaker 2: them wherever you wanted. Why the back to back to

1180
01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:56,120
Speaker 2: back week model.

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01:01:57,480 --> 01:02:00,240
Speaker 4: Well, back to back in Germany definitely first time ever.

1182
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 4: We haven't played right two games in Germany before. We

1183
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:06,400
Speaker 4: only played our first one last year. The honest answer

1184
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:09,439
Speaker 4: to your question has to do a stadium availability. We're

1185
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 4: working around the English Premier League in the UK, we're

1186
01:02:12,560 --> 01:02:16,760
Speaker 4: working around the international breaks for the soccer teams We're

1187
01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:20,000
Speaker 4: working around the Bundesliga schedule in Germany trying to find

1188
01:02:20,040 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 4: those windows where you can play NFL games. They've got

1189
01:02:23,320 --> 01:02:26,520
Speaker 4: to obviously turn the stadium around and make it NFL friendly,

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01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:29,600
Speaker 4: and doing it in back to back weeks allows you

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01:02:29,680 --> 01:02:32,720
Speaker 4: operationally to have some efficiencies. Obviously, to have to turn

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01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:35,919
Speaker 4: the whole building to an NFL game one week, turn

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Speaker 4: it back to Bundesliga game the next week, and then

1194
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:41,280
Speaker 4: turn it back to an NFL game the following week

1195
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:43,840
Speaker 4: is a lot of wear and tear on the field,

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01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:47,360
Speaker 4: the staff, the operations folks. So being able to do

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Speaker 4: those back to back bring some efficiencies, and like I

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01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:51,520
Speaker 4: think you just said, it allows you to build a

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Speaker 4: little momentum.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:55,520
Speaker 4: We did a one off Germany game last year and

1202
01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:57,320
Speaker 4: to a certain extent, it kind of popped up out

1203
01:02:57,320 --> 01:03:00,720
Speaker 4: of nowhere. Here's Seattle, Tampa Bay and we leave again.

1204
01:03:01,240 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 4: Now you come over there for two weeks and you

1205
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:06,880
Speaker 4: can really build out like a two week sort of celebration.

1206
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:10,760
Speaker 4: You know, we're not in October anymore, but November fest if.

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Speaker 1: You will, I mean, we're gonna be over there.

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Speaker 4: And the NFL, you know, is nothing if not a

1209
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:18,360
Speaker 4: good marketing machine and being over there for ten days

1210
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Speaker 4: in a row, being you know, back to back at

1211
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Speaker 4: Tottenham in September, and you're gonna have the Jaguars going

1212
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Speaker 4: over twice, as I think you guys know they're playing.

1213
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Speaker 4: They're hosting their own London game in week four, right,

1214
01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:32,960
Speaker 4: and then they're stay to play against the Bills against

1215
01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:34,800
Speaker 4: you guys in week five. So that'll be a first

1216
01:03:34,800 --> 01:03:37,520
Speaker 4: time for us as well, just kind of testing the water,

1217
01:03:37,640 --> 01:03:39,240
Speaker 4: see what it's like for a team to go over,

1218
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:44,200
Speaker 4: stay for the week, practice, meet, sleep, eat, you know,

1219
01:03:44,520 --> 01:03:45,840
Speaker 4: all the stuff that you have to do to get

1220
01:03:45,880 --> 01:03:48,800
Speaker 4: ready for game day. It'll be interesting to see how

1221
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 4: the Jaguars experience goes, and all interesting to see what

1222
01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:54,480
Speaker 4: the Bills say about it. You know, was there an

1223
01:03:54,520 --> 01:03:57,360
Speaker 4: element maybe of unfairness that the Jaguars have been over

1224
01:03:57,400 --> 01:03:59,480
Speaker 4: there for the whole week and they're adjusted to the

1225
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:02,240
Speaker 4: body clock And it'll be interesting to see how that

1226
01:04:02,280 --> 01:04:04,640
Speaker 4: game goes. But certainly a toe in the water for us.

1227
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:09,960
Speaker 4: All can we play multiple games with the same team overseas,

1228
01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:12,640
Speaker 4: you know, year after year like this, and certainly back

1229
01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 4: to back helps from an efficiency standpoint, but I think

1230
01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:16,840
Speaker 4: it will also help with a momentum standpoint, I think

1231
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:19,320
Speaker 4: it'll be hard for fans in Germany to miss the

1232
01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:21,120
Speaker 4: fact that we're playing two games there and back to

1233
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Speaker 4: back weeks.

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Speaker 2: Mike, thanks very much for the time. Has always appreciate

1235
01:04:24,560 --> 01:04:27,480
Speaker 2: the insight into, as we said, how the sausage is

1236
01:04:27,520 --> 01:04:30,640
Speaker 2: made by the NFL schedule makers. Appreciate the time.

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01:04:31,520 --> 01:04:32,200
Speaker 4: Always a pleasure.

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01:04:32,200 --> 01:04:34,720
Speaker 2: Guys, Take care all right. That's Mike North, NFL Vice

1239
01:04:34,800 --> 01:04:38,520
Speaker 2: President of Broadcast Planning, one of the chief guys in

1240
01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:42,040
Speaker 2: the schedule making room at the NFL offices at Park Avenue.

1241
01:04:42,120 --> 01:04:44,400
Speaker 2: We take a break here more your phone calls. Next

1242
01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:47,480
Speaker 2: on the week one matchup Bills at Jets on Monday

1243
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:49,400
Speaker 2: Night Football. Here on one Bill's Live.

1244
01:04:49,440 --> 01:05:11,480
Speaker 14: Stay tune.

1245
01:05:02,480 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 2: All right, give us your gut reaction to how the

1246
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:07,760
Speaker 2: Bills and Jets matchup will play out in Week one. Yes,

1247
01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:10,400
Speaker 2: it is the season opener for the Bills on the

1248
01:05:10,480 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 2: road on Monday Night football. Let's go back to the

1249
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:16,000
Speaker 2: phones at eight oh three zero five fifty one eight

1250
01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 2: eight five fifty two five fifty open line for you there,

1251
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:21,480
Speaker 2: and we go to Dave in Clarence. What do you

1252
01:05:21,560 --> 01:05:23,160
Speaker 2: got first, Dave? If you're on one Bills Live.

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Speaker 13: Hey, guys, great show as usual, But I think the

1254
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:30,880
Speaker 13: question today is being asked the wrong way. I think

1255
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:34,760
Speaker 13: the question should be who has more to prove on

1256
01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:37,680
Speaker 13: that Monday night game. The Bills are the Jets. Let's

1257
01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:40,200
Speaker 13: look at the record real quick. The Bills are the

1258
01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:43,800
Speaker 13: AFC champions three years running, have made the playoffs four

1259
01:05:43,880 --> 01:05:47,080
Speaker 13: years in a row. They are being they are being

1260
01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:51,560
Speaker 13: doubted by the entire NFL as being washed up and

1261
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:56,080
Speaker 13: out of contention. And you have two guys who are

1262
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 13: just loved the spotlight, Josh and Steph Diggs, who have

1263
01:05:59,760 --> 01:06:04,600
Speaker 13: comedmitted themselves to renewing their minds for football. What have

1264
01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:08,479
Speaker 13: the Jets proven. They haven't had a great quarterback since

1265
01:06:08,560 --> 01:06:11,480
Speaker 13: nineteen sixty seven. They got a thirty nine year old

1266
01:06:11,560 --> 01:06:14,320
Speaker 13: guy coming in supposed to be a savior. The only

1267
01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:16,880
Speaker 13: thing the Jets have going for them is a media

1268
01:06:17,040 --> 01:06:20,600
Speaker 13: outlet that can spin a great story. So I'm sorry.

1269
01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:23,320
Speaker 13: I don't look for a blowout necessarily, but I do

1270
01:06:23,480 --> 01:06:26,520
Speaker 13: look for Josh Stepp and the guys to put on

1271
01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:30,400
Speaker 13: one echop for performance. What do you think I.

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Speaker 2: Like the way you're thinking, Dave, and you lay that

1273
01:06:32,800 --> 01:06:37,479
Speaker 2: out very well. Yeah, I mean I would, I would

1274
01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:40,040
Speaker 2: be inclined to give the Jets a little bit more credit,

1275
01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:44,720
Speaker 2: not a lot. They had what many felt was a

1276
01:06:44,800 --> 01:06:48,240
Speaker 2: championship caliber defense last year. That defense has undergone a

1277
01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:53,080
Speaker 2: few changes. Some would say for the better in some spots,

1278
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:54,880
Speaker 2: and then others would say not so good in some

1279
01:06:54,920 --> 01:07:00,360
Speaker 2: other spots, particularly upfront. But the offensive line is something

1280
01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:02,880
Speaker 2: that still has to be fit together with some new

1281
01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:05,600
Speaker 2: parts and some people coming back from injury. Mackai Beckton,

1282
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:07,880
Speaker 2: where does he land? Does he playing tackle? Is he

1283
01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:10,520
Speaker 2: playing guard? Is he playing right tackle? Not left tackle?

1284
01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:13,480
Speaker 2: After being a top ten picking the draft and missing

1285
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:15,760
Speaker 2: the better port of the last two seasons, they've got

1286
01:07:15,800 --> 01:07:18,160
Speaker 2: a lot to figure out, more so on the offensive

1287
01:07:18,200 --> 01:07:20,520
Speaker 2: side of the ball, and that is the tougher side

1288
01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:22,920
Speaker 2: of the ball to fit all together, knowing all the

1289
01:07:22,920 --> 01:07:25,600
Speaker 2: moving parts that have to go into executing a play.

1290
01:07:26,120 --> 01:07:28,840
Speaker 2: So how good is that going to look in week one?

1291
01:07:29,560 --> 01:07:32,480
Speaker 2: We'll have to wait and see. It's already interesting that

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Speaker 2: the media is on Aaron Rodgers because last week he

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01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:36,280
Speaker 2: said I should make it to more than half of

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Speaker 2: the voluntary sessions, and people are already questioning saying why

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Speaker 2: not most of them? If not all? Of them. You're

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Speaker 2: a new guy on a new team. I know you

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01:07:45,280 --> 01:07:47,800
Speaker 2: know the offense because it's being taken from Green Bay

1298
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Speaker 2: to here, But what the heck more than half that

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Speaker 2: people are already criticizing.

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Speaker 1: The voice of the New York Jet fan base is

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01:07:55,800 --> 01:08:00,560
Speaker 1: a thousand times louder than the fan voice in Green Bay. Yeah,

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01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:04,640
Speaker 1: it's a thousand times magnified. And the emotion is magnified

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01:08:04,720 --> 01:08:07,000
Speaker 1: as well. So when Aaron says I'm making more than

1304
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:09,520
Speaker 1: half of them, the Green Bay fans are going, Oh cool,

1305
01:08:09,560 --> 01:08:13,240
Speaker 1: they's kind of engage this shit awesome right in New York.

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01:08:13,280 --> 01:08:16,600
Speaker 1: It's like, what, So it's different, It's gonna be a

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01:08:16,640 --> 01:08:19,799
Speaker 1: different He's going to get different feedback from the media

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01:08:21,400 --> 01:08:24,439
Speaker 1: that comes out of the Jet organization in regards to him.

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01:08:24,479 --> 01:08:27,320
Speaker 1: So there's that, And I do like, you know, Dave,

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Speaker 1: the way you said it. You know, who has more

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01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:32,280
Speaker 1: to prove? I get it. The Bills are a known commodity,

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01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:37,560
Speaker 1: and as much as the disappointment of the end of

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01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:43,920
Speaker 1: their last season was, they've still got a stable full

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Speaker 1: of stallions in their locker room. The Jets, while they

1315
01:08:48,320 --> 01:08:52,679
Speaker 1: are a very good roster, they're in uncharted waters right now.

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Speaker 1: They're in uncharted waters for this franchise since sixty said,

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01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:00,639
Speaker 1: they've got a guy who's proven he can take snaps

1318
01:09:00,640 --> 01:09:03,639
Speaker 1: and be effective even whether he's thirty nine or whether

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01:09:03,680 --> 01:09:08,040
Speaker 1: he's ninety nine. The guy can play, and that is

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01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:11,320
Speaker 1: something they have been missing, as we've well said this

1321
01:09:12,439 --> 01:09:17,240
Speaker 1: today since nineteen sixty seven. So the Jet fans are

1322
01:09:18,240 --> 01:09:22,320
Speaker 1: understandably optimistic. And I'll say this, I'm optimistic for them.

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01:09:22,320 --> 01:09:23,639
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be a really good team

1324
01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:25,080
Speaker 1: this year, and I think this is going to be

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01:09:25,120 --> 01:09:29,160
Speaker 1: a really good game. Certainly, the Bills have proven more

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01:09:29,200 --> 01:09:32,720
Speaker 1: as a club, but the Jets have every reason to

1327
01:09:32,800 --> 01:09:35,799
Speaker 1: legitimately believe they're going to be a much improved football

1328
01:09:35,840 --> 01:09:38,599
Speaker 1: team from where they were a year ago. And we're

1329
01:09:38,600 --> 01:09:41,559
Speaker 1: gonna find out on opening Day. But you're right, when

1330
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:44,760
Speaker 1: push comes to shove, it's about what those guys in

1331
01:09:44,800 --> 01:09:47,320
Speaker 1: the locker room think about their season rather than what

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Speaker 1: the media or me and Brownie say about it.

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Speaker 2: Let's get back to the phones and we go to

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01:09:52,600 --> 01:09:54,479
Speaker 2: Eddie in Depew. What do you got for us? Eddie?

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01:09:54,560 --> 01:09:56,799
Speaker 2: Or on one Bills Live, Hey.

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Speaker 15: Guys, how you doing good? I just looked up Caesar

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01:10:00,520 --> 01:10:02,160
Speaker 15: or Sportsbook. I don't know if you guys checked out

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Speaker 15: on any of the early lines that we have. Yeah, okay, Yeah,

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01:10:06,439 --> 01:10:10,200
Speaker 15: it's shocking to me the Bills being only a one

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01:10:10,200 --> 01:10:11,160
Speaker 15: point favorite.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's varied from the different ones that I've seen, Eddie.

1342
01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:16,920
Speaker 2: One of them had him as a three point favorite,

1343
01:10:16,960 --> 01:10:18,280
Speaker 2: another one had him as a two and a half

1344
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:20,679
Speaker 2: point favorite. So you're saying you've got him as a one.

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01:10:21,520 --> 01:10:25,760
Speaker 15: Right, which means I mean they're so they're on a

1346
01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:28,720
Speaker 15: neutral site, they're saying that Jets, Jets are better.

1347
01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:32,559
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, And what that is in Eddie, what

1348
01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:33,960
Speaker 1: you have to remember is it has nothing to do

1349
01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:38,160
Speaker 1: with football. The lines that they set have nothing to

1350
01:10:38,200 --> 01:10:40,400
Speaker 1: do with the game that's actually going to be played.

1351
01:10:40,760 --> 01:10:43,400
Speaker 1: It has to do with the public perception about the

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01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:47,040
Speaker 1: teams in the game and who's and how they It's

1353
01:10:47,160 --> 01:10:50,880
Speaker 1: it's how the gambling population sees the game, not how

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01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:53,240
Speaker 1: they think the game may go. They're trying to read

1355
01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:57,439
Speaker 1: the people outside the game rather than the game itself.

1356
01:10:57,520 --> 01:10:59,960
Speaker 1: They don't care about the game itself. They're trying to

1357
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:03,360
Speaker 1: read the out the the fans of both teams.

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01:11:03,640 --> 01:11:04,479
Speaker 2: Public perception.

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01:11:04,680 --> 01:11:08,639
Speaker 1: What's the public perception and who's betting. And I've heard

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01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:11,680
Speaker 1: it started out at Bill's minus three, which means it's

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01:11:11,760 --> 01:11:16,559
Speaker 1: on a neutral field, they'd be dead even. And is

1362
01:11:16,600 --> 01:11:19,120
Speaker 1: that right dead even or is it the other way anyway?

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01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:23,000
Speaker 1: I don't gamble, but but now you're telling me it's

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01:11:23,040 --> 01:11:28,240
Speaker 1: a it's a Bill's plus one or minus one instead

1365
01:11:28,240 --> 01:11:30,720
Speaker 1: of minus three. That tells you it's moving already that

1366
01:11:30,920 --> 01:11:33,679
Speaker 1: if it's the same line I heard, that it's gonna

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01:11:33,680 --> 01:11:37,920
Speaker 1: move as the season, the preseason rolls along. So this

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01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:42,160
Speaker 1: is this has nothing to do with the sportsbooks do

1369
01:11:42,240 --> 01:11:45,280
Speaker 1: not care how the game turns out. They just they

1370
01:11:45,280 --> 01:11:47,479
Speaker 1: have money's skin of the game. But they're gonna they.

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01:11:47,320 --> 01:11:49,839
Speaker 2: Want even money on the even money.

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Speaker 1: On both sides. They want they want the Bills fans

1373
01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:53,800
Speaker 1: to bet as much money on their team as the

1374
01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:56,040
Speaker 1: Jet fans bet on theirs, and they want it to

1375
01:11:56,080 --> 01:12:00,599
Speaker 1: be every cent everybody's got because they want the most money, right,

1376
01:12:00,720 --> 01:12:02,400
Speaker 1: So they don't care how the game turns out because

1377
01:12:02,400 --> 01:12:05,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna get paid anyway. The only thing that bad

1378
01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:06,760
Speaker 1: thing that can happen for the sports books is if

1379
01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:09,519
Speaker 1: all the money's on one team and that team comes through.

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01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:12,240
Speaker 1: That's not gonna happen, and that's why the line moves.

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01:12:12,240 --> 01:12:15,200
Speaker 1: So don't And and I'm for a lot of people

1382
01:12:15,240 --> 01:12:17,880
Speaker 1: out there, they're saying, yeah, no, duh. But some people

1383
01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:20,559
Speaker 1: don't think about it like that. It's not they don't

1384
01:12:20,600 --> 01:12:23,479
Speaker 1: care about the game. They care about what the betting

1385
01:12:23,600 --> 01:12:26,280
Speaker 1: public thinks about the game, and they play on that

1386
01:12:26,760 --> 01:12:27,599
Speaker 1: to set the odds.

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01:12:27,680 --> 01:12:30,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they want to split that perception right right

1388
01:12:30,280 --> 01:12:32,240
Speaker 2: down the mist so they got money on both sides,

1389
01:12:32,280 --> 01:12:35,160
Speaker 2: so the house doesn't lose. Let's go to the tweets

1390
01:12:35,160 --> 01:12:37,120
Speaker 2: sheet to get some thoughts on your gut reaction to

1391
01:12:37,120 --> 01:12:38,960
Speaker 2: how the Bills and Jets matchup will play out in

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Speaker 2: Week one. Tweet sheet brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

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01:12:41,600 --> 01:12:44,479
Speaker 2: the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. Rick

1394
01:12:44,600 --> 01:12:47,599
Speaker 2: leads this often says the Jets are nothing but hype

1395
01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:51,240
Speaker 2: and haven't been relevant and over a decade they're only

1396
01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:54,639
Speaker 2: drawing attention because of forty year old Aaron Rodgers. Meanwhile,

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01:12:54,680 --> 01:12:57,080
Speaker 2: the Bills are the three time AFCAST champs who went

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01:12:57,120 --> 01:13:00,799
Speaker 2: thirteen and three last year despite several major distractions. Bills

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01:13:00,840 --> 01:13:06,240
Speaker 2: by at least twenty one. That's ambitious, Rick, but I

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01:13:06,320 --> 01:13:09,759
Speaker 2: get it. The Bills have had far greater staying power

1401
01:13:09,800 --> 01:13:12,200
Speaker 2: of late than that of the Jets. But the Jets

1402
01:13:12,200 --> 01:13:15,519
Speaker 2: do have a four time MVP at quarterback right now,

1403
01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:17,479
Speaker 2: which is the best they can say for themselves, probably

1404
01:13:17,520 --> 01:13:20,679
Speaker 2: since on over the Hill Brett Fahr have played quarterback

1405
01:13:20,720 --> 01:13:22,560
Speaker 2: for them in two thousand and eight.

1406
01:13:22,680 --> 01:13:26,400
Speaker 1: So yeah, it seems like it was nineteen fifty eight

1407
01:13:26,439 --> 01:13:28,320
Speaker 1: when Brett Farb was thereon so long ago.

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01:13:29,040 --> 01:13:31,000
Speaker 2: He was one and done there. Yeah, but I and

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01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:31,960
Speaker 2: then went to Minnesota.

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01:13:32,080 --> 01:13:35,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got maybe I don't know whether the scar

1411
01:13:36,080 --> 01:13:37,800
Speaker 1: tissue or whatever. I got a lot of respect for

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01:13:37,800 --> 01:13:39,040
Speaker 1: the Jets. I think they're going to be a really

1413
01:13:39,040 --> 01:13:40,439
Speaker 1: good football team this year. I think this is going

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01:13:40,520 --> 01:13:41,720
Speaker 1: to be a great game. And I don't think it's

1415
01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:43,040
Speaker 1: going to be easy win for the Bills.

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01:13:43,080 --> 01:13:43,920
Speaker 2: I don't think so either.

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01:13:43,960 --> 01:13:46,599
Speaker 1: I think we got a lot and plus I also

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01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:51,040
Speaker 1: realize that we're still you know, May, June, July, August,

1419
01:13:51,120 --> 01:13:54,680
Speaker 1: and September away can happen sixteen eighteen weeks away from it.

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01:13:54,720 --> 01:13:56,400
Speaker 1: So let's just sit tight for a minute.

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Speaker 2: And the other thing we need to remember last year,

1422
01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:04,360
Speaker 2: the Bill's only scored thirteen and twenty points against this team.

1423
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:06,800
Speaker 2: They're great defense, and this is a team that was

1424
01:14:06,840 --> 01:14:10,639
Speaker 2: second in the league in scoring despite those two subpar

1425
01:14:10,800 --> 01:14:14,320
Speaker 2: point scoring performances, but the Jets held them twenty or

1426
01:14:14,360 --> 01:14:18,320
Speaker 2: below in both games, so their defense is nothing to

1427
01:14:18,360 --> 01:14:20,680
Speaker 2: sneeze at. So that's got to be respected. And now

1428
01:14:20,720 --> 01:14:23,439
Speaker 2: their offense figures to be better with Rogers at the helm.

1429
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:26,160
Speaker 2: We have to take a break here when we come back,

1430
01:14:26,200 --> 01:14:28,000
Speaker 2: more of your thoughts on the tweet sheet as we

1431
01:14:28,040 --> 01:14:30,800
Speaker 2: look for your gut reaction to the announcement of the

1432
01:14:30,840 --> 01:14:35,040
Speaker 2: Bills season opener at the Jets Week one on Monday

1433
01:14:35,320 --> 01:14:37,439
Speaker 2: Night Football. We're back in a moment here on one

1434
01:14:37,439 --> 01:14:50,719
Speaker 2: Bill's Life. All right, right back to the tweets sheeet

1435
01:14:50,760 --> 01:14:52,920
Speaker 2: we go for your gut reaction to the announcement that

1436
01:14:52,920 --> 01:14:55,240
Speaker 2: the Bills will open the season on the road at

1437
01:14:55,280 --> 01:14:58,200
Speaker 2: Medlife Stadium against the Jets on Monday Night Football and

1438
01:14:58,360 --> 01:15:04,120
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers Jets' debut. What say you about that matchup?

1439
01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:06,960
Speaker 2: Andrea on the tweets sheet says, I thought it would

1440
01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:10,000
Speaker 2: be Sunday Night Football, but very intriguing. Make no mistake,

1441
01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:11,640
Speaker 2: the Jets are a team to be reckoned with. But

1442
01:15:11,680 --> 01:15:14,160
Speaker 2: Bill's always come out of the Gate. Great Sean is

1443
01:15:14,160 --> 01:15:18,400
Speaker 2: probably breaking down Packers, Jets and Broncos tape. I'm psyched,

1444
01:15:19,560 --> 01:15:20,800
Speaker 2: wonder why Broncos tape?

1445
01:15:21,439 --> 01:15:25,479
Speaker 1: Oh Hackett, Nate Hackett, and Russ Wilson. Listen, Russ Wilson's no,

1446
01:15:25,720 --> 01:15:32,040
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers was particularly last year, and yeah, no doubt

1447
01:15:32,120 --> 01:15:34,320
Speaker 1: he will be breaking down tape from all of those

1448
01:15:34,320 --> 01:15:37,960
Speaker 1: teams and Nate Hackett and particularly Aaron Rodgers from the Packers,

1449
01:15:38,800 --> 01:15:41,720
Speaker 1: and probably from Aaron Rodgers and Nate Hackett in Green

1450
01:15:41,720 --> 01:15:44,040
Speaker 1: Bay together three or four years ago. So there's a

1451
01:15:44,080 --> 01:15:48,439
Speaker 1: lot going on there. It's yeah, that's commonplace. They will

1452
01:15:48,479 --> 01:15:52,320
Speaker 1: be breaking that film down and trying to extrapolate what

1453
01:15:52,360 --> 01:15:53,559
Speaker 1: they think it's going to look like.

1454
01:15:54,080 --> 01:15:59,800
Speaker 2: Yeah. I know some people who were being clearly sarcastic

1455
01:16:01,520 --> 01:16:06,519
Speaker 2: on social media after the Rogers trade finally happened, said Geez.

1456
01:16:07,240 --> 01:16:10,880
Speaker 2: I wonder if Aaron Rodgers first season in New York

1457
01:16:10,920 --> 01:16:13,439
Speaker 2: with the Jets is gonna look anything like Russell Wilson's

1458
01:16:13,439 --> 01:16:16,120
Speaker 2: first season with the Denver Broncos under Nathaniel Hackett.

1459
01:16:16,320 --> 01:16:18,000
Speaker 1: I said that too. I was making a joke about

1460
01:16:18,040 --> 01:16:20,919
Speaker 1: that too. Is Nate Hackett gonna work one work miracles

1461
01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:24,439
Speaker 1: like he did with Russ Wilson. I mean, that was ugly.

1462
01:16:24,640 --> 01:16:28,880
Speaker 2: I can't And here's the crazy thing, Steve. You could

1463
01:16:28,880 --> 01:16:34,040
Speaker 2: make the argument that Denver's wide receiving corps is better

1464
01:16:34,720 --> 01:16:37,679
Speaker 2: than what the Jets put on the field. Courtland, Sutton,

1465
01:16:38,640 --> 01:16:46,960
Speaker 2: kJ Hamler, Jerry Judy, Yeah, I mean, okay, yeah right,

1466
01:16:47,240 --> 01:16:49,519
Speaker 2: I mean and Patrick the Patrick Kidd he got hurt

1467
01:16:49,600 --> 01:16:49,960
Speaker 2: yest year.

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Speaker 1: But the Jets have got Allen Bazard now, Denzel Jahams,

1469
01:16:53,479 --> 01:16:57,760
Speaker 1: Dante Spencer who, Jason Brownlee come again. And then you

1470
01:16:57,800 --> 01:17:04,960
Speaker 1: got Garrett Wilson, Ram the Cobb Gibson. No right, little

1471
01:17:05,000 --> 01:17:07,599
Speaker 1: top heavy, little top heavy in New York.

1472
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Speaker 2: But I you know, I'm just saying, you think about

1473
01:17:10,240 --> 01:17:13,839
Speaker 2: the personnel that Hackett had to work with in Denver

1474
01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:19,920
Speaker 2: and it didn't come together. Is it better? Is it

1475
01:17:19,960 --> 01:17:22,680
Speaker 2: better with the Jets on offense right now, especially with

1476
01:17:22,720 --> 01:17:25,439
Speaker 2: an offensive line that's still being fit together as well.

1477
01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:30,360
Speaker 2: I mean, you're good, you're good at the guard spots there.

1478
01:17:30,760 --> 01:17:33,200
Speaker 2: The Jet office drafted a center that you liked, and

1479
01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:36,839
Speaker 2: Joe Tipman, who may unseat Connor McGovern there Connor McGovern,

1480
01:17:36,960 --> 01:17:40,800
Speaker 2: not the Bills. But tackle is still something that has

1481
01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:43,960
Speaker 2: to be sorted out with a collection of injured guys,

1482
01:17:44,520 --> 01:17:46,840
Speaker 2: really old guys like Dwayne Brown is going to turn

1483
01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:49,479
Speaker 2: thirty nine this season. I mean, I don't think they

1484
01:17:49,560 --> 01:17:51,679
Speaker 2: in an ideal world they want him playing left tackle.

1485
01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:53,840
Speaker 2: I think they want him as a swing tackle, right.

1486
01:17:54,200 --> 01:17:56,280
Speaker 2: So there's a lot to fit together there.

1487
01:17:56,680 --> 01:17:58,360
Speaker 1: Lake and Tomlinson good player.

1488
01:17:58,439 --> 01:18:02,200
Speaker 2: Ja those of their two starting guards, two good players.

1489
01:18:02,200 --> 01:18:03,080
Speaker 2: So they're good there.

1490
01:18:03,439 --> 01:18:08,160
Speaker 1: Then they got got Tristan Colan, Chris Glazer, Brent Lang,

1491
01:18:10,240 --> 01:18:11,480
Speaker 1: Max Mitchell.

1492
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:15,799
Speaker 2: A boy he hell.

1493
01:18:15,640 --> 01:18:24,680
Speaker 1: No, Adam Panke Schweitzer yeah, Greg Sinnat, Yeah, Eric Smith.

1494
01:18:24,720 --> 01:18:27,840
Speaker 2: Don't that's it. Don't waste your time. So they they've

1495
01:18:27,880 --> 01:18:29,960
Speaker 2: got some stuff to fit together up front, and it

1496
01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:31,360
Speaker 2: may turn out great. Who knows.

1497
01:18:31,400 --> 01:18:33,599
Speaker 1: When they got McKay Beckton, Dwayne Brown, Yeah.

1498
01:18:33,400 --> 01:18:35,640
Speaker 2: But McKay Beckton hasn't played in two calendar years. You're

1499
01:18:35,640 --> 01:18:38,160
Speaker 2: gonna roll him out there and left tackle on Week one,

1500
01:18:38,360 --> 01:18:41,200
Speaker 2: Monday Night against against Von Miller. If he's playing, are

1501
01:18:41,200 --> 01:18:41,559
Speaker 2: you doing that?

1502
01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:44,400
Speaker 1: It's gonna be Dwayne Brown or maybe Billy Turner even.

1503
01:18:44,479 --> 01:18:46,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, Billy Turner they just signed recently too, and they

1504
01:18:46,560 --> 01:18:48,920
Speaker 2: want him to play tackle, not guard.

1505
01:18:49,400 --> 01:18:52,799
Speaker 1: So I'm not as down on those guys up front

1506
01:18:52,840 --> 01:18:54,439
Speaker 1: as a lot of people are. I think those guys

1507
01:18:54,439 --> 01:18:56,120
Speaker 1: are gonna come together find and there's some depth in

1508
01:18:56,240 --> 01:18:56,639
Speaker 1: week one.

1509
01:18:56,720 --> 01:18:58,400
Speaker 2: You think it'll be all together.

1510
01:18:59,200 --> 01:19:02,439
Speaker 1: I get that. I just don't think they're gonna be talentless. No,

1511
01:19:02,640 --> 01:19:04,720
Speaker 1: so they're gonna have some guys. If they can get

1512
01:19:04,720 --> 01:19:06,320
Speaker 1: a hat on a hat, they're gonna be better than

1513
01:19:06,360 --> 01:19:07,680
Speaker 1: what I think people think they're gonna be.

1514
01:19:07,840 --> 01:19:09,759
Speaker 2: I just yeah.

1515
01:19:09,960 --> 01:19:13,280
Speaker 1: But let's face it, everybody in this end of the business,

1516
01:19:13,320 --> 01:19:15,920
Speaker 1: which is on this side of the microphones, everybody is

1517
01:19:15,960 --> 01:19:18,160
Speaker 1: saying the Jets offensive line is not going to be

1518
01:19:18,479 --> 01:19:21,559
Speaker 1: is gonna be the weak link. And a little bit

1519
01:19:21,560 --> 01:19:24,840
Speaker 1: of that, to me is the depth of their roster

1520
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:27,599
Speaker 1: everyplace else. I mean, they're good, they got some talent.

1521
01:19:27,680 --> 01:19:29,920
Speaker 1: So if you're looking for a hole in their roster

1522
01:19:30,479 --> 01:19:34,200
Speaker 1: without some chops that have already been earned, it's their

1523
01:19:34,240 --> 01:19:38,880
Speaker 1: offensive line. But having said that, I still I'm a

1524
01:19:38,880 --> 01:19:41,960
Speaker 1: little bit more positive about those guys upfront than maybe

1525
01:19:41,960 --> 01:19:42,720
Speaker 1: a lot of guys are.

1526
01:19:42,960 --> 01:19:45,120
Speaker 2: Ted On the tweet, Cheet says, we get it out

1527
01:19:45,160 --> 01:19:47,559
Speaker 2: of the way. Week one, Bill's at Jets. We go

1528
01:19:47,600 --> 01:19:50,040
Speaker 2: to New Jersey under the radar just how we like it.

1529
01:19:50,360 --> 01:19:52,280
Speaker 2: I think we have a similar game to our opener

1530
01:19:52,520 --> 01:19:55,479
Speaker 2: last year, and we stopped the A rod hype train

1531
01:19:55,520 --> 01:19:58,760
Speaker 2: as soon as it leaves the station. I like that

1532
01:19:58,800 --> 01:20:04,120
Speaker 2: line pretty good from Tad there. Bill's News Consolidated says,

1533
01:20:04,760 --> 01:20:07,040
Speaker 2: offenses lag at the beginning of the year. That's what

1534
01:20:07,080 --> 01:20:09,479
Speaker 2: I was getting at, right. Therefore, Aaron rodgers first game

1535
01:20:09,479 --> 01:20:11,920
Speaker 2: as the New York Jet won't be their best. Rogers

1536
01:20:11,920 --> 01:20:14,879
Speaker 2: won't always be on the same page with his targets.

1537
01:20:14,920 --> 01:20:16,680
Speaker 2: Now two of his targets are coming with him from

1538
01:20:16,680 --> 01:20:21,479
Speaker 2: Green Bay, so Alan Wizzard and Randall Cobb conceivably should

1539
01:20:21,520 --> 01:20:25,280
Speaker 2: be fine. Getting on the same page with Garrett Wilson

1540
01:20:25,320 --> 01:20:29,320
Speaker 2: is of paramount importance because that guy was productive during

1541
01:20:29,360 --> 01:20:32,040
Speaker 2: an abominable quarterback season with the Jets last year. He

1542
01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:35,920
Speaker 2: still had over eighty receptions, was a clear number one receiver,

1543
01:20:36,080 --> 01:20:38,639
Speaker 2: established himself as a number one receiver in his rookie year,

1544
01:20:39,040 --> 01:20:41,120
Speaker 2: and was the Rookie offensive player of the year.

1545
01:20:42,479 --> 01:20:43,400
Speaker 1: With no quarterback.

1546
01:20:43,640 --> 01:20:47,000
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. I mean, in an abominable quarterback season.

1547
01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:48,160
Speaker 2: It was abominable.

1548
01:20:48,160 --> 01:20:52,160
Speaker 1: And yeah, so they yeah, and I like Robert Sola,

1549
01:20:52,200 --> 01:20:53,719
Speaker 1: I got a lot of respect for him as a coach.

1550
01:20:53,760 --> 01:20:56,479
Speaker 1: I think he has navigated the New York market and

1551
01:20:56,479 --> 01:21:00,439
Speaker 1: that and all the unique things about that franchise very well.

1552
01:21:01,280 --> 01:21:05,920
Speaker 1: In the midst of Yeah, what happened to them in

1553
01:21:05,960 --> 01:21:11,120
Speaker 1: the draft last year, We'll see. I think if I'm

1554
01:21:11,160 --> 01:21:14,960
Speaker 1: a Jet fan, and I've said a ton on this show,

1555
01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:17,680
Speaker 1: if I'm a Jet fan and I don't know what

1556
01:21:17,760 --> 01:21:22,840
Speaker 1: to do because they have they have done everything. I

1557
01:21:22,880 --> 01:21:25,240
Speaker 1: don't want to say everything, but they've done everything right

1558
01:21:25,920 --> 01:21:28,919
Speaker 1: for two straight off seasons. They're gonna see some results

1559
01:21:28,920 --> 01:21:33,200
Speaker 1: for that. I think they're gonna see some real positive

1560
01:21:33,320 --> 01:21:38,120
Speaker 1: change in what's happening with the Jets. If they can

1561
01:21:38,200 --> 01:21:41,640
Speaker 1: if they can keep it, you know, emotionally together, if

1562
01:21:41,640 --> 01:21:43,720
Speaker 1: they can weather the storms that every team goes through,

1563
01:21:43,760 --> 01:21:45,680
Speaker 1: they're gonna be some They're gonna stumble, They're gonna have

1564
01:21:45,680 --> 01:21:47,439
Speaker 1: some bad weeks, and maybe they may get off to

1565
01:21:47,479 --> 01:21:48,120
Speaker 1: a slow start.

1566
01:21:48,200 --> 01:21:48,400
Speaker 2: All that.

1567
01:21:48,720 --> 01:21:51,200
Speaker 1: You gotta see through that, I think, and I think

1568
01:21:51,200 --> 01:21:54,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna have a much better season and much it's

1569
01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:56,439
Speaker 1: just gonna be much better for the Jets this year.

1570
01:21:57,200 --> 01:21:57,559
Speaker 2: Danny.

1571
01:21:57,960 --> 01:22:00,920
Speaker 1: It may start on Monday Night. They're good, man, They're

1572
01:22:00,920 --> 01:22:02,080
Speaker 1: gonna be good, Danny.

1573
01:22:02,120 --> 01:22:04,559
Speaker 2: On the tweet, she says, great game to start the season.

1574
01:22:04,600 --> 01:22:08,800
Speaker 2: The ratings will be huge. Well, you know, our guest

1575
01:22:08,880 --> 01:22:11,599
Speaker 2: in a couple of segments ago, Mike North, is hoping

1576
01:22:11,640 --> 01:22:14,479
Speaker 2: for that for sure. Got to keep those broadcast partners happy.

1577
01:22:14,479 --> 01:22:16,759
Speaker 2: This is a good way to start. Robert. On the tweet,

1578
01:22:16,840 --> 01:22:19,040
Speaker 2: she says, I hope all of this hype on the

1579
01:22:19,120 --> 01:22:21,960
Speaker 2: Jets backfires and they end up with the number one

1580
01:22:22,040 --> 01:22:23,000
Speaker 2: overall Picnics.

1581
01:22:23,080 --> 01:22:23,519
Speaker 12: Wow.

1582
01:22:23,600 --> 01:22:25,080
Speaker 2: I don't know if you want that, because that means

1583
01:22:25,080 --> 01:22:27,400
Speaker 2: he's gonna draft a quarterback. Right, it goes that bad

1584
01:22:28,200 --> 01:22:31,000
Speaker 2: Rogers is gone and they're taking the best quarterback on

1585
01:22:31,040 --> 01:22:32,519
Speaker 2: the board, and they're gonna have the first pick. You

1586
01:22:32,560 --> 01:22:34,439
Speaker 2: don't want that, No, you want to have like you

1587
01:22:34,479 --> 01:22:37,160
Speaker 2: wanted to be six and twelve. You're six and eleven,

1588
01:22:37,439 --> 01:22:38,759
Speaker 2: five eleven, five and twelve.

1589
01:22:39,280 --> 01:22:41,479
Speaker 1: That way, they'll be like that, they'll be just out

1590
01:22:41,479 --> 01:22:43,840
Speaker 1: of quarterback, right right, they'll be like sixth overall pick.

1591
01:22:44,280 --> 01:22:46,160
Speaker 1: That's perfect, right there.

1592
01:22:48,880 --> 01:22:51,360
Speaker 2: We just have them go seven and ten, you know,

1593
01:22:51,880 --> 01:22:54,920
Speaker 2: that's that's all. Yeah, that's right from Barkert.

1594
01:22:55,560 --> 01:22:56,519
Speaker 1: I love it.

1595
01:22:57,000 --> 01:22:59,320
Speaker 2: Face, who I consider to be our toughest matchup in

1596
01:22:59,360 --> 01:23:02,720
Speaker 2: the East at our healthiest, no excuses. Shut down the

1597
01:23:02,800 --> 01:23:06,880
Speaker 2: Jets hype right away. You can tell that all the

1598
01:23:06,920 --> 01:23:11,320
Speaker 2: hype for the Jets is really bothering the Bill's fan base,

1599
01:23:11,520 --> 01:23:13,800
Speaker 2: like it's irked them. Well, here's as if to say,

1600
01:23:13,880 --> 01:23:14,360
Speaker 2: like what if.

1601
01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:16,720
Speaker 1: You kids, I can't speak for all Bills fans and

1602
01:23:16,760 --> 01:23:18,080
Speaker 1: you and I have felt well you and I kind

1603
01:23:18,080 --> 01:23:19,720
Speaker 1: of get a firsthand view of it when we have

1604
01:23:19,840 --> 01:23:25,800
Speaker 1: callers and all this Bill's fans are you're it's that

1605
01:23:26,680 --> 01:23:29,320
Speaker 1: two edged sword on one hands, like we we we

1606
01:23:29,640 --> 01:23:32,680
Speaker 1: can't respect. Don't pick us, don't pick us. We're not

1607
01:23:32,800 --> 01:23:35,000
Speaker 1: front running. It was uncomfortable last year when we were

1608
01:23:35,040 --> 01:23:38,400
Speaker 1: the favorite. Ah, it's not right, bad karma. Right now

1609
01:23:38,439 --> 01:23:40,880
Speaker 1: this year is like, oh, you know, don't think we're

1610
01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:44,800
Speaker 1: in he get any respect, to get any respect, that's right,

1611
01:23:45,000 --> 01:23:46,120
Speaker 1: We're gonna show you.

1612
01:23:46,120 --> 01:23:48,839
Speaker 2: Keep making us the Rodney danger field to the NFL football.

1613
01:23:48,920 --> 01:23:52,040
Speaker 1: We're the three time division champions. Yeah we're you know,

1614
01:23:52,160 --> 01:23:55,559
Speaker 1: we're the one that ever came the catastrophic distractions from

1615
01:23:55,600 --> 01:23:57,599
Speaker 1: a year ago. Where are those guys? And you don't

1616
01:23:57,600 --> 01:24:00,160
Speaker 1: think we can do it? That's where we're at, Like,

1617
01:24:00,200 --> 01:24:02,680
Speaker 1: don't pick us, but you should be picking us.

1618
01:24:02,880 --> 01:24:08,520
Speaker 2: Yeah right right. Philip on the tweets sheet says Bills

1619
01:24:08,680 --> 01:24:12,400
Speaker 2: buy a billion, but seriously, to start season on Monday,

1620
01:24:13,040 --> 01:24:15,639
Speaker 2: not a fan puts the Bills on a short week

1621
01:24:15,680 --> 01:24:18,880
Speaker 2: the following week because my gut says the Jets is

1622
01:24:18,920 --> 01:24:23,439
Speaker 2: the beginning of a difficult slate of games slash travel

1623
01:24:23,520 --> 01:24:26,479
Speaker 2: to start the season that won't end until the parade

1624
01:24:26,560 --> 01:24:32,240
Speaker 2: and Lombardi come to Buffalo. I'll say this, it's a

1625
01:24:32,280 --> 01:24:35,320
Speaker 2: tough schedule. Yeah, we know that we got a tough schedule. Right,

1626
01:24:35,320 --> 01:24:37,559
Speaker 2: there's seventh toughest by percentage points.

1627
01:24:37,560 --> 01:24:40,120
Speaker 1: There's no dodge in it. So it's gonna look bad.

1628
01:24:40,160 --> 01:24:42,479
Speaker 1: There's gonna be stretches of the season. Probably they're gonna

1629
01:24:42,479 --> 01:24:45,280
Speaker 1: look bad. We just we there always are, and this

1630
01:24:45,360 --> 01:24:50,040
Speaker 1: one's beyond that. I think because you've got the AFC West,

1631
01:24:50,479 --> 01:24:53,799
Speaker 1: you've got the NFC East, you've got our own division

1632
01:24:54,439 --> 01:24:56,840
Speaker 1: and too strong and the two teams outside of our

1633
01:24:56,840 --> 01:25:02,639
Speaker 1: division are Kansas City and Cincinnati. I mean, hello, hell yeah,

1634
01:25:03,160 --> 01:25:05,320
Speaker 1: it's a tough schedule, so it's I think they're gonna

1635
01:25:05,360 --> 01:25:08,759
Speaker 1: be I think there's probably gonna be a stretching the schedule,

1636
01:25:08,760 --> 01:25:10,639
Speaker 1: maybe two stretcher or maybe the whole thing, and there's

1637
01:25:10,640 --> 01:25:13,559
Speaker 1: gonna be travel in short weeks. I think it's gonna be.

1638
01:25:15,160 --> 01:25:17,599
Speaker 1: There's just no dodge in it. Bill Bills have ten

1639
01:25:18,160 --> 01:25:20,679
Speaker 1: there's no dodging. It's gonna be. It's gonna look bad.

1640
01:25:20,520 --> 01:25:23,400
Speaker 2: The Bills send. The Bills have ten games against playoff

1641
01:25:23,439 --> 01:25:25,680
Speaker 2: teams from last season. That's all you need to know,

1642
01:25:25,760 --> 01:25:28,120
Speaker 2: that's right, including the two teams that were in the

1643
01:25:28,120 --> 01:25:30,719
Speaker 2: super Bowl, the two conference champions, you got both.

1644
01:25:30,560 --> 01:25:33,920
Speaker 1: Of them, right, And teams like the Giants who think

1645
01:25:34,280 --> 01:25:36,160
Speaker 1: they were rebuilding last year, now they're gonna be a

1646
01:25:36,240 --> 01:25:40,800
Speaker 1: year further along. Yeah, So stuff like that's going on.

1647
01:25:41,760 --> 01:25:43,800
Speaker 2: Andrew on the tweet, he says, I think it's going

1648
01:25:43,840 --> 01:25:45,519
Speaker 2: to be a back and forth game, but in the end,

1649
01:25:45,600 --> 01:25:47,800
Speaker 2: I think the Bills can pull it off. The one

1650
01:25:47,800 --> 01:25:50,679
Speaker 2: thing I'm totally upset about is why are the Chiefs

1651
01:25:50,720 --> 01:25:54,000
Speaker 2: playing the Lions. Why don't they just give them the game?

1652
01:25:55,840 --> 01:25:57,400
Speaker 2: Meaning they have no faith in the Lions.

1653
01:25:57,400 --> 01:25:58,880
Speaker 1: He likes the Lions as much as I do.

1654
01:25:58,960 --> 01:26:01,519
Speaker 2: I do have to say, when we heard from Mike

1655
01:26:01,560 --> 01:26:03,439
Speaker 2: North earlier this hour, kind of explain it because I

1656
01:26:03,439 --> 01:26:05,840
Speaker 2: asked him, you know, did why were the Lions a

1657
01:26:05,880 --> 01:26:07,720
Speaker 2: fit for you there, and I think they have a

1658
01:26:07,760 --> 01:26:09,400
Speaker 2: lot of respect for the way the Lions finished the

1659
01:26:09,439 --> 01:26:11,160
Speaker 2: season last year. I think they won eight of their

1660
01:26:11,240 --> 01:26:15,519
Speaker 2: last ten, including knocking Green Bay out of the playoffs

1661
01:26:15,560 --> 01:26:17,200
Speaker 2: last year in the final game of the season. They

1662
01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:19,240
Speaker 2: needed help to get in themselves and didn't get it

1663
01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:21,720
Speaker 2: that they were not a win and in they were

1664
01:26:21,760 --> 01:26:23,559
Speaker 2: a win need help to get in. They didn't get

1665
01:26:23,560 --> 01:26:25,200
Speaker 2: the help they needed, so they didn't qualify for the

1666
01:26:25,200 --> 01:26:29,679
Speaker 2: playoffs themselves. But they can score points. We know that,

1667
01:26:30,520 --> 01:26:33,840
Speaker 2: and maybe the league thinks they can be a competitive

1668
01:26:33,880 --> 01:26:36,920
Speaker 2: side against the Chiefs. I gotta say this, that is

1669
01:26:36,960 --> 01:26:40,760
Speaker 2: a big step up in weight class going there when

1670
01:26:40,760 --> 01:26:45,800
Speaker 2: they're hanging raising another banner, flying the flag Thursday night

1671
01:26:46,439 --> 01:26:51,840
Speaker 2: national televised game at Arrowhead. Welcome to the real party, pal,

1672
01:26:51,960 --> 01:26:53,680
Speaker 2: That's what I got to say to Detroit. Can you

1673
01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:54,960
Speaker 2: swing with the big dogs?

1674
01:26:55,080 --> 01:26:56,760
Speaker 1: Just tell you something. The big dogs go in there

1675
01:26:56,800 --> 01:26:59,400
Speaker 1: like the Bills did going into LA last year in

1676
01:26:59,439 --> 01:27:01,479
Speaker 1: the face of the and doing the exact same thing

1677
01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:05,160
Speaker 1: and thumping them in the mouth. You gotta go in

1678
01:27:05,240 --> 01:27:07,479
Speaker 1: and swing for it. And I'm sure Dan Campbell and

1679
01:27:07,560 --> 01:27:09,840
Speaker 1: Campbell do that. Campbell's gonna do that. He's gonna have

1680
01:27:09,840 --> 01:27:12,000
Speaker 1: his guys ready. But that's what you're walking into. It

1681
01:27:12,040 --> 01:27:14,519
Speaker 1: isn't You're right, Brownie, it is a it's an up

1682
01:27:14,560 --> 01:27:16,800
Speaker 1: and weight class. This isn't the NFC.

1683
01:27:16,439 --> 01:27:19,519
Speaker 2: North the flyweight division.

1684
01:27:19,640 --> 01:27:22,400
Speaker 1: This is not the relegation conference over in the NFC.

1685
01:27:22,640 --> 01:27:26,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the AFC defending Super Bowl Chain.

1686
01:27:26,160 --> 01:27:31,759
Speaker 1: Defending MVP, defending MVP. Bruce Lee. Roll into that smell

1687
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:33,519
Speaker 1: the barbecue. It might be you.

1688
01:27:35,960 --> 01:27:37,720
Speaker 2: We gotta get you writing more of these things, man,

1689
01:27:39,120 --> 01:27:41,840
Speaker 2: je that was good. I like that Jeremy on the

1690
01:27:41,880 --> 01:27:44,280
Speaker 2: tweets sheet. Given the amount of time to prepare on

1691
01:27:44,360 --> 01:27:46,599
Speaker 2: both sides, I think we win an exciting game. Both

1692
01:27:46,600 --> 01:27:50,080
Speaker 2: the O and the D will be ready. And then

1693
01:27:50,080 --> 01:27:53,439
Speaker 2: from Jake, first off, I predicted it with you, Chris

1694
01:27:53,439 --> 01:27:56,280
Speaker 2: Brown of the Week one matchup, Right, the Bills have

1695
01:27:56,320 --> 01:27:58,600
Speaker 2: to attack this Jets defense in the slot and the

1696
01:27:58,640 --> 01:28:01,880
Speaker 2: deep middle. How to slow our outside receivers. Now we

1697
01:28:01,960 --> 01:28:04,439
Speaker 2: just have to adjust. This matchup can play out well

1698
01:28:04,479 --> 01:28:08,599
Speaker 2: for kin Kid Knocks and the running backs the middle

1699
01:28:08,600 --> 01:28:11,120
Speaker 2: of the field. Yeah, I think it's a real Lina.

1700
01:28:11,880 --> 01:28:13,559
Speaker 1: At this point, we don't know because we haven't seen

1701
01:28:13,640 --> 01:28:15,559
Speaker 1: him in the preseason and all that their defense was

1702
01:28:15,600 --> 01:28:17,840
Speaker 1: really good on the edges, and I'll say this, you're

1703
01:28:17,880 --> 01:28:20,599
Speaker 1: gonna have to go really deep. If you're gonna play

1704
01:28:20,640 --> 01:28:23,320
Speaker 1: Sauce Gardener on Man at Manda Man coverage and go

1705
01:28:23,360 --> 01:28:27,000
Speaker 1: down the line from there, you've you better go really

1706
01:28:27,080 --> 01:28:29,240
Speaker 1: deep with guys that can cover against this Bill's offense,

1707
01:28:29,240 --> 01:28:30,920
Speaker 1: because they're gonna throw some guys out there that can

1708
01:28:30,960 --> 01:28:34,160
Speaker 1: win against Manda Man and you're gonna have you got

1709
01:28:34,200 --> 01:28:36,519
Speaker 1: a chance of having a small corner on a big,

1710
01:28:36,960 --> 01:28:39,400
Speaker 1: fast tight end that the Bill's just drafted, and you're

1711
01:28:39,400 --> 01:28:41,519
Speaker 1: gonna have to chance to get a linebacker on Knox

1712
01:28:41,640 --> 01:28:45,640
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. I think the Bill's ability to

1713
01:28:45,680 --> 01:28:50,280
Speaker 1: go deep down their roster with guys who can catch

1714
01:28:50,320 --> 01:28:52,840
Speaker 1: and be a threat, and also on defense where we

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01:28:52,880 --> 01:28:54,880
Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna look like with Sean McDermott call

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01:28:54,880 --> 01:28:58,040
Speaker 1: on the plays and a new roster, lots of stuff

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01:28:58,040 --> 01:28:59,320
Speaker 1: to look forward to on this and a lot of

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01:28:59,400 --> 01:29:01,599
Speaker 1: questions marks the Jets can say, oh, it's the same

1719
01:29:01,600 --> 01:29:03,320
Speaker 1: old team of the Bills. It's not the same old team.

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01:29:03,360 --> 01:29:04,640
Speaker 1: This is gonna have some refreshed to it.

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01:29:04,840 --> 01:29:07,479
Speaker 2: A reminder for you when the schedule comes out tonight

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01:29:07,479 --> 01:29:10,280
Speaker 2: at eight o'clock. Go over to the Bill's social media channels.

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01:29:10,520 --> 01:29:13,879
Speaker 2: We'll be breaking down the bill schedule. Maddie Glabin myself

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01:29:14,280 --> 01:29:16,680
Speaker 2: for all the info you need on the breakdown of

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01:29:16,720 --> 01:29:19,200
Speaker 2: the bill schedule. Go to the bills social media channels

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01:29:19,240 --> 01:29:21,640
Speaker 2: tonight at eighth one PM. Will be there for you.

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Speaker 2: We'll see you tomorrow here at one