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Speaker 1: Oh, great time. I watch Steve Laspurs time to time.

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Speaker 1: Time A good afternoon. Welcome to One Bill's Live. I'm

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Speaker 1: John Murphy along with Steve Tasker on the line on

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Speaker 1: the Sky Today Radio only Today, once again, happy to

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Speaker 1: be with you. I'm at home. Steve's at home. Jay Harris,

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Speaker 1: our producer, is at home, and we're on the radio

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Speaker 1: from now until three o'clock. Good afternoon. See how you're

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Speaker 1: doing today? Do good Murph, M I guess for our raiders.

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Speaker 1: I got this right off the top. We noticed, Jay

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Speaker 1: and I did. When you popped on you're shaving you

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Speaker 1: shave your beard? Yeah, dude, come on, I know I

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Speaker 1: went two weeks. You know what when it started waking

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Speaker 1: I was waking up in the middle of night scratching

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Speaker 1: and look, my sleep is valuable, because I'm sure yours

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Speaker 1: is too. If there's something that's interfering with my sleep,

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Speaker 1: So I got up today in shaved. By the way,

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Speaker 1: it's not fun shaving when you have a two week

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Speaker 1: against it to No, I'm just kidding. I'm glad it's gone.

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Speaker 1: I'll probably shave every other day for a while. It

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Speaker 1: was a nice while it lasted two weeks. But when

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Speaker 1: come up, man, I can't do I can't. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: with you, you know what I mean? Yeah, exactly what

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Speaker 1: you mean. Got a lot to talk about, some pretty

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Speaker 1: good guests today. I want to talk about the well,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the last twenty four hours. Pretty much

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Speaker 1: the same. Here'st Eve. Although I gotta say, and this

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Speaker 1: is a sports fan in me talking last night yesterday

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Speaker 1: have to Do? And I left our show it was

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Speaker 1: when they call in the Georgia Doman, Atlanta. I was there.

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Speaker 1: I could see myself on TV. We're five rows from

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Speaker 1: the floor, and I had like a flashback, like this

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Speaker 1: is one of the great sports events I ever attended.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I texted a few friends, the guys I

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Speaker 1: went with, I said, this game's on right now. We

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Speaker 1: five events I ever attended. Michigan beating the Syracuse in

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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen. I got so motivated I texted the coach,

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Speaker 1: John Beeline, the former coach, and said, Hey, I'm watching

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Speaker 1: you beat Syracuse right now. I gotta tell you one

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Speaker 1: of the great sports events any sport I ever attended.

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Speaker 1: It was just it's kind of a nice memory, and

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Speaker 1: like everything else in these days when things are so

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Speaker 1: screwed up and things are so askew, it was good

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Speaker 1: kind of to have that memory. It was seven years ago,

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Speaker 1: which made me feel old too, but seven years ago

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Speaker 1: it was just again, one of the great sports memories

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Speaker 1: of my life. You probably have had nice experiences like that,

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Speaker 1: right yeah, but you growing up in Buffalo, you continually

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Speaker 1: astound me with your ability to recall events you've been to,

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Speaker 1: you know, like when you went they used to have

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Speaker 1: you know, you told me the story about you know,

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Speaker 1: you got to tell me though, what's your criterion? What

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Speaker 1: It was just the whole thing. And plus now keep

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Speaker 1: It was amazing. Uh. And you know what it forced

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Speaker 1: me to do last night? I did a little recollection

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Speaker 1: of my so that's in there. I did a recollection

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Speaker 1: of my top five all time sports events that I attended.

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Speaker 1: And can I give you my list off the top

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Speaker 1: I got to write these downs, all right. Uh. One

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Speaker 1: of them was I mean, obviously the Bills were involved.

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Speaker 1: It was you guys beating the Raiders fifty one to three.

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Speaker 1: It was an amazing game. You have much more vivid

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Speaker 1: recollections than I do. That was one. A second one

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Speaker 1: So now you're up to three U four, Um, I

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Speaker 1: gotta put the other final four semi final. Michigan was

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Speaker 1: everybody's favorite team that year. That was number four. And

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Speaker 1: the fifth is may kind of comes out of nowhere.

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Speaker 1: It was I saw Secretary AT's last rate, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Triple Crown. Last race was at Woodbine in Toronto

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Speaker 1: on a Sunday afternoon, and I saw him. You won

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Speaker 1: Now I want to hear your top five. Oh why yeah,

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Speaker 1: be the comeback as well for me. The third one

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Speaker 1: would be wow, the thing you know what? The pops

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Speaker 1: to my mind bills at Giants Week fourteen nineteen nine,

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Speaker 1: Now they don't have to be games you played in,

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Speaker 1: it is very close to yeah, absolutely, Uh wow, this

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Speaker 1: You know what else I was thinking. I really thought

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Speaker 1: to go to sleep. Um. I've been to some pretty

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Speaker 1: and there his credit. Larry Felter packed up his stuff

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Speaker 1: And the tension was amazing. You could literally feel the tension,

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Speaker 1: and what they want to find out. You're right, the

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Speaker 1: tension in that Ryder Cup was unbelievable. Also when Sean

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Speaker 1: was a PGA, I guess yuh. And I got a

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Speaker 1: sitting right next to Verne while he was calling those

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Speaker 1: and that's when it really gripped me, was the different

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Speaker 1: I'd been there when Curtis Strange won the US Open.

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Speaker 1: There was and uh, Sevy Biasteris was there. It was

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Speaker 1: It was Sevy Biasteros, another pro and Curtis, and I

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Speaker 1: about it. One o'clock. Gonna talk with Neil Reynolds. He's

427
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Speaker 1: a pretty good guy. We met him when the Bills

428
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Speaker 1: went to London in twenty thirteen to play the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Speaker 1: He is a Sky Sports reporter, covers in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: covers in the NFL in the United Kingdom. He's really

431
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Speaker 1: I don't know how to describe him. There's nobody quite

432
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Speaker 1: like him in the United States. But he is the

433
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Speaker 1: preeminent expert on NFL football in the United Kingdom. And

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Speaker 1: we'll talk with Neil Reynolds about a game that he's

435
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Speaker 1: got going on a new podcast. He wants to promote

436
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Speaker 1: you don't have to be in the United Kingdom to

437
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Speaker 1: appreciate it. He did a segment with Bills fans favorite

438
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Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick for his first one. We'll talk with Neil

439
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Speaker 1: Reynolds about that. Isaia McKenzie, wide receiver for the Bills,

440
00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:39,800
Speaker 1: agreed to terms out a new contract. Was that last week?

441
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Speaker 1: It was wasn't it time flying? Isam McKenzie is going

442
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Speaker 1: to join us live at one thirty to talk about that,

443
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Speaker 1: what his role might be in that, bills receiving corps.

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Speaker 1: And at two o'clock Breg Genyon, a bleacher report will

445
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Speaker 1: join us general NFL issues from Breg Genyon. So we

446
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Speaker 1: got a full show. Today's even a lot to talk about, right, yeah,

447
00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:00,320
Speaker 1: we got plenty to do. And you know there's always

448
00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:04,040
Speaker 1: the appending changes and stuff that are happening with the

449
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Speaker 1: league and what they may do or may not do.

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Speaker 1: It looks like the drafts going on preseasons up in

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Speaker 1: the air. Who knows about that? Plus the stuff we

452
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Speaker 1: were talking about. One of the things that kept us

453
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Speaker 1: going in the early part of this Murphy, you remember,

454
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Speaker 1: is that the CBA got voted on right yep, Well,

455
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Speaker 1: now that looks like it's back up in the air again.

456
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Speaker 1: As the as they were, the union was a choosed

457
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Speaker 1: accused of changing some of the language in a subtle

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Speaker 1: way that raised the hackles of somebody. And and there's

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Speaker 1: a lawsuit that says they might want to resend it

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Speaker 1: and revote on the CBA, which may throw a wrench

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Speaker 1: into the works. You know, not that any of us

462
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Speaker 1: care that much about it, but even that has become

463
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Speaker 1: has come into questions, So we can talk about that

464
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Speaker 1: a little bit. Maybe maybe one of our guests has

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Speaker 1: something to say about that as well. Yeah, that's an

466
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Speaker 1: interesting thing. Our producer Jay Harris sent us that league yesterday.

467
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Speaker 1: The new CBA passed by just sixty votes, by the way,

468
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Speaker 1: earlier this month, I think it was March fifteenth, sixty

469
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Speaker 1: vote margin. And they found language that was changed and

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Speaker 1: what the players have originally voted on and what was

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Speaker 1: originally submitted as approved, and and a lot of it

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Speaker 1: has to do with UM social Security disability X players

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Speaker 1: are playing for social Security disability payments. I don't know, Steve,

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Speaker 1: did you look at it closeas is something that might

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Speaker 1: affect you as a former player? It might? It might

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Speaker 1: UM if if I'm not on disability, I have never

477
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Speaker 1: taken disability from it, UM, but there are some guys

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Speaker 1: who do, obviously, Uh. And that's where the change will

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Speaker 1: change language comes in. UM. And I got to be

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Speaker 1: honest with you. It's a four hundred and ninety six

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Speaker 1: page document and I am not I am not that

482
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Speaker 1: interested in going back and checking it, but people do,

483
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Speaker 1: and that's and it's an issue, and it's it's a

484
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Speaker 1: risen up that uh, that there's been a change. So

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Speaker 1: I'm if they did, I think it's a little bit egregious.

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Speaker 1: I want to know why, whether it was carelessness or

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Speaker 1: whether it was premeditated. You can't do that and they're

488
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Speaker 1: gonna be called to task for it. So we'll see

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Speaker 1: what happens with it. Yeah, we'll see how that works out.

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Speaker 1: As far as other news today around the NFL, there's

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Speaker 1: not much. The Bengals cut former first round pick Drake Kirkpatrick,

492
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Speaker 1: a cornerback who spent eight years with the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 1: Pretty good player to you, But I never got the

494
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Speaker 1: sense that the Bengals were always real happy with Drake Kirkpatrick.

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Speaker 1: And maybe that's a Bengals thing as opposed to or

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Speaker 1: Kirkpatrick thing, you know what I mean. Yeah, And I

497
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Speaker 1: never you think about this though, Drake Kirkpatrick, he was

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Speaker 1: under Marvin Marvin Lewis, Yeah, and played most of his

499
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Speaker 1: career under Marvin Lewis. And in this last year that

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Speaker 1: could be the fact that now with under a new regime,

501
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Speaker 1: different style, different coaching staff. Maybe his skill set isn't

502
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Speaker 1: what they want. Certainly, a guy eight years in the

503
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Speaker 1: league should be still able to play. And I'll tell

504
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Speaker 1: you this, depending on what kind of guy he is,

505
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Speaker 1: you know, the Bills will kick the tires on him.

506
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Speaker 1: They're looking for another corner. They brought Josh Norman in,

507
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Speaker 1: they got EJ. Gaines back, Draker Patrick. Depending on what

508
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Speaker 1: his price tag is, could be a guy that the

509
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Speaker 1: Bills might reach out to. The other NFL news today,

510
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Speaker 1: contract negotiations kind of in the news with the Texans

511
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Speaker 1: opening up extension talks with Laramie Tunsel, the former first

512
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Speaker 1: round pick of the Dolphins. Texans acquired him in a

513
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Speaker 1: trade last year for a ton of draft picks, two

514
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Speaker 1: in the first round. He's expected to become the highest

515
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Speaker 1: bad left tackle in the NFL. What is odd, Stephen?

516
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Speaker 1: It was pointed out by a guest who's going to

517
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Speaker 1: be on the show with us this week, Joel Corey,

518
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Speaker 1: former agent. It's odd that the Texans didn't trade for

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Speaker 1: him and then sign him to a contract. They waited

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Speaker 1: until now to begin negotiations. They're gonna pay, They're gonna

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Speaker 1: pay a king's ransom to keep Laramie Tunsel. They should

522
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Speaker 1: have done this a year ago. The Texans continue to

523
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Speaker 1: make questionable moves, I think when it comes to a personnel. Yeah,

524
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Speaker 1: and they backed themselves into a corner because if you

525
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 1: can imagine as a player, they've got to sign him.

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Speaker 1: They gave up a ton to get him, and now

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Speaker 1: he's you know, he needs a contract. I mean, they've

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Speaker 1: got to sign him. I mean, so they're up against

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Speaker 1: it if they don't. They threw away all the draft

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Speaker 1: picks they gave for him. Plus they put maybe the

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Speaker 1: best tackle, one of the best left tackles on out

532
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Speaker 1: on the market and they get nothing for him. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: What they got was you know what, sixteen games out

534
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Speaker 1: of him. Yeah. And that's so the Texans are forced to,

535
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Speaker 1: you know, to sign the guy. And you know, he's

536
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Speaker 1: not gonna he's not gonna take a discount. It's crazy

537
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Speaker 1: to do business that way. One more NFL note, yannicking

538
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Speaker 1: Goaqway reportedly is obviously the Jacksonville Jaguar is looking to

539
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Speaker 1: trade him. They franchise tagged him and teams apparently are

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Speaker 1: checking in. The Jags reportedly have heard from multiple teams

541
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Speaker 1: about possible trade for in Goaqway and Gockway turns twenty

542
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Speaker 1: five years old today. He's younger than I thought. He

543
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 1: has said he wants to be traded. Trade rumors have

544
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Speaker 1: settled around circulated around in Goaqway since the franchise tag

545
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Speaker 1: was applied. I've said the Steve, I'm not a big fan,

546
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Speaker 1: but I wouldn't blame the Bills for taking a look

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Speaker 1: at him. Got Way. He's pretty talided at each twenty five.

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Speaker 1: They have to take a look. I guess, yeah, but

549
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:10,640
Speaker 1: let's face it, I mean, he's gonna get top dollar

550
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Speaker 1: or res a really good dollar. And I don't know

551
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Speaker 1: that the Bills are in a position now or whether

552
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Speaker 1: they need him that badly or perceive they need him

553
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Speaker 1: that badly, or he just or they just can't afford

554
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Speaker 1: him given the fact they've got draft picks they're gonna make. Uh. Certainly,

555
00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,600
Speaker 1: he's a good player, and people, you've you've been with

556
00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:33,400
Speaker 1: me on the air for the last three months, people

557
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,359
Speaker 1: have been begging the Bills to get that guy. Yeah.

558
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Speaker 1: I'm not that hot on him, but he's a good

559
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Speaker 1: He is a good player. And the reason I'm guys,

560
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Speaker 1: I don't know if he's a culture fit. Maybe he is,

561
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Speaker 1: Maybe he's a great guy. Maybe he's the kind of

562
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Speaker 1: guy they're looking for. Maybe that maybe they've you know,

563
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,360
Speaker 1: have they've obviously have more knowledge than I do. But um,

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Speaker 1: after free agency, Murphy, I don't know. I kind of

565
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Speaker 1: feel good where they're at. Yeah. I don't think they

566
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Speaker 1: him at all, Right, is that what you're saying? Yeah, exactly.

567
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Speaker 1: I mean I'm not sure they needed him at all.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure they would. They'd like to, you know, good

569
00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: players make you better. Yeah, but at this point, I

570
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: think they need the right players. Yeah. Hi, he's acted

571
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Speaker 1: on Twitter this morning. He said, it's obvious my time

572
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,840
Speaker 1: is up in my current situation. Let's both move on Jaguars.

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Speaker 1: So he wants out, he's gonna get out. I just

574
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Speaker 1: don't know. Let me, Um, I guess I wanted to

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Speaker 1: agree a little bit. Steve and Gockway, Drake Kirkpatrick, some

576
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:30,919
Speaker 1: of these guys, I don't know if they're gonna get

577
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Speaker 1: top dollar. They're gonna get money, They're gonna get a

578
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 1: lot of money, and you know, the bills aren't not

579
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Speaker 1: in a position to spend a ton of money. But

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Speaker 1: I think the I think things have changed a little

581
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Speaker 1: bit around the NFL. I don't know that. Look, I

582
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Speaker 1: don't know if i'd want to be a free agent

583
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Speaker 1: in the NFL right now, because I don't think they're

584
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 1: gonna get money. I really don't think they're gonna get

585
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:49,199
Speaker 1: a ton of money. Yeah, that's true, given the uncertainties

586
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Speaker 1: of the CBA and the and the and the right now,

587
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Speaker 1: the schedule. I think that. And I heard this mentioned

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00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: as well, and it makes some sense if you're an

589
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Speaker 1: NFL owner, Murph, which you and I are never going

590
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 1: to be, but if we were, you might, you know,

591
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 1: pick up the phone and say, hey, listen, this is

592
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,680
Speaker 1: looking like the season's looking like it's for the first

593
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 1: time ever, it's in doubt. I'm not saying it's not

594
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: going to happen, but it looks to me like there's

595
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Speaker 1: a chance we may not even play football this year.

596
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 1: Why give this guy ten million bucks in a signing

597
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 1: bonus not to play. Yeah, let's just wait and see

598
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 1: until everything settles out and then sign the guys we want.

599
00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: Let's just wait and giving these guys money right up

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Speaker 1: front until we really have to. And you know, and

601
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Speaker 1: certainly let's not give a guy twenty million bucks not

602
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:40,160
Speaker 1: even known if he's going to be able to play

603
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 1: for US for eighteen months or twelve fifteen months. Sure.

604
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: I think in general, teams are going to be a

605
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 1: lot more classes than they have been before because of

606
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: the current situation. Speaking of the future of the league,

607
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Speaker 1: and we don't have any news to report, but the

608
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: owners reportedly are meeting on a conference call today. We

609
00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: talked about this yesterday. Apparently they're going to agree to

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Speaker 1: expand the postseason. No formal agreement at all on any

611
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: rules changes or any schedule changes or even when the

612
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: season might begin or that sort of thing. But the

613
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: one thing they can do and are expected to do,

614
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Speaker 1: is to expand the postseason today, which we talked about

615
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: that I think yesterday. This is in lieu of the

616
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: owners meetings, which should be taking place this week in Florida.

617
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Speaker 1: Their meeting by a conference call today, and that's I'm okay.

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Speaker 1: If they expanned postseason today, good, yeah, talk about Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there might be a Twitter pole there. Steve like, what,

620
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Speaker 1: I don't know, what are my choices. I'll tell you

621
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: what one thing we can do is go back and

622
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: figure out how often the Bills, how long the Bills

623
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: play after route would have been under the under the

624
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:40,320
Speaker 1: new rules, in other words, with the seventh How many

625
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: times did they finish seventh place in the AFC? Yeah?

626
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,440
Speaker 1: Maybe many? I can think of one, top top of

627
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 1: my right, right, hey. Yeah. We got a Twitter poll

628
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,440
Speaker 1: up today and it is up right now with two

629
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 1: hundred twenty votes in what will be the biggest strength

630
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo offense in twenty twenty? Look, most of

631
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 1: their free agency activity has been on defense this year.

632
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: They made the big trade for Stephan Gigs. Obviously you

633
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: would anticipate they're going to take the next step in

634
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 1: offensive improvement. What will be the biggest strength of the

635
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: Buffalo offense in twenty twenty? Give us a problem, Let

636
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Speaker 1: us know what you think. Eight h three h five

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Speaker 1: fifty toll free from Outside Buffalo one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. We offer you some choices.

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Speaker 1: What'll be the biggest strength of the Buffalo offense? Will

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Speaker 1: it be the resurgence of the deep ball, Will it

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Speaker 1: be an underneath pass game, or will it be a

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Speaker 1: more developed run game. Right now on Twitter, fifty three

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Speaker 1: percent of you say the resurgence of a deep ball,

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Speaker 1: twenty five percent say underneath pass game, and seventeen percent

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Speaker 1: say it will be a more developed run game. You

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Speaker 1: tell me what you think, Steve, because I know what

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Speaker 1: I think here, but I don't know how to say

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Speaker 1: it yet. I don't know. It's really a tough it's

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Speaker 1: a tough one because I would say the resurgence of

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Speaker 1: the deep ball, you know, I don't know if that's

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Speaker 1: gonna actually happen, if that's gonna be the big transformation.

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Speaker 1: I think a more a more developed run game would

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Speaker 1: really certainly help UM and UH and the other the

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Speaker 1: other choices. I can't underneath pass gets underneath passing. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I'm gonna stay deep. I'm gonna stay deep ball.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay deep, you know why, because that's what

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Speaker 1: I hope. Yeah, but you know what I was I saying,

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Speaker 1: all the three of these things, these could happen and

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Speaker 1: you might not notice it, you know, I don't think they'll,

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Speaker 1: For instance, whenever they open the regular season, I doubt

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Speaker 1: that they're gonna have four seventy yard touchdown passes in

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Speaker 1: the game, right. You might not even notice it for

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Speaker 1: a while. And the other thing can strikes me here, Steve,

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Speaker 1: is you know, when we look at how the Bills

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Speaker 1: offense will improve, and what what might happen to the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo offense the biggest strength of the Bills offense. Look,

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Speaker 1: two of these out of three depend on Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: and his continued improvement, regardless of whether Stefan Digs is here,

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Speaker 1: regardless of whether they they craft a more a better

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Speaker 1: passing game underneath coverage. I think it's a lot of

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Speaker 1: that's up to Josh. Steps forward to the Buffalo offense

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Speaker 1: are basically in the hands of Josh Allen, is what

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to say exactly. I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: it it comes down to how Josh is gonna play,

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Speaker 1: no question about it. But obviously two as we've seen

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Speaker 1: from the moment he started until this this last playoff game,

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Speaker 1: he makes progress, steady, predictable progress. The only problem is

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Speaker 1: when you get put slapping off season in between games,

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Speaker 1: you know, is it going to continue? Is that going

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Speaker 1: to be something that we can depend on again? YEA, well,

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Speaker 1: we don't have that answer. We don't have that answer yet.

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Speaker 1: All Right, We're gonna take a break here. Un let's

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Speaker 1: you want to keep talking about golf tournaments we've been

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Speaker 1: do or famous sports events we've been so we can

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Speaker 1: continue that. We're starting to get feedback on it already.

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Speaker 1: You know, people are starting to chime in with their

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Speaker 1: top five took Maybe we took a lid off that

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Speaker 1: cannel too early. Here, what's a call we'll discuss on

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Speaker 1: the air. Eight fifty towel three one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. A lot more to discussed.

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Speaker 1: We've got the tweet sheet coming up. We're just getting

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Speaker 1: started here One Bill's Life presented by Kline Health. We

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Speaker 1: are not in the Seneca studio right now. We're at home.

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Speaker 1: Steve's at home. I'm at home. Our producer Jay Harrison

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Speaker 1: producing the show from home. Come on back for more.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Ready. Welcome back, one goes Line,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker coming here from our homes

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Speaker 1: again today radio cover. Jonie happy to be with you today, Steve.

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Speaker 1: How are you feeling? You look better than you did yesterday?

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Speaker 1: You don't look you were angry yesterday? Why? Why was

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Speaker 1: I angry yesterday? You're angry at me? No? Well, you

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Speaker 1: know what I was angry at Skype, not at you know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that was our problem. I got you. You're

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Speaker 1: not angry today. That's good. No no, no phone lines

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Speaker 1: open eight three fifty toll free one eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. Take a call from Dave in Erie, Pennsylvania. Hello, Dave,

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Speaker 1: you're on the air. Hey guys, how are you doing? Hey? Thanks,

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Speaker 1: appreciate what you're doing keeping us going through this hard time.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to playpen. When you brought up the

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Speaker 1: Ryder Cup at Old Kill, I was there, me and

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Speaker 1: a friend and and then you brought up Corey Paven

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Speaker 1: and we happened to be standing right behind him. I

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Speaker 1: couldn't tell you what hole it was. And he set

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Speaker 1: his ball up on the tea and we're probably too

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Speaker 1: deep and the ball falls off and out of force

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Speaker 1: I have I said one, did Caven turn around and

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Speaker 1: slug you? He looked at us and we were trying

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Speaker 1: not to laugh, and it seemed like fifteen minutes before

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Speaker 1: he hit that ball, before we could get away. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate the memory. It was a good time. That's great.

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Speaker 1: He was so intense, Corey Paven, and that's what got

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Speaker 1: me at that Ryder Cup. He was just so intense.

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Speaker 1: He may have even lost them. I don't know who is.

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Speaker 1: I was watching the Sunday singles matches. I don't know

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Speaker 1: who he was up against. He may have even lost

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Speaker 1: that match, but Nan, he was intense. Stevie was so

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Speaker 1: focused on it. And by the way, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing he's probably five feet four, just tall. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he was a tiny little guy, right, I got, I got,

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Speaker 1: I've got like a bunch of stories about that. When

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Speaker 1: I saw Michelson and Paven uh in a match together

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Speaker 1: on day on Friday, I think it was a it

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Speaker 1: was a doubles match. His best ball uh and uh

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Speaker 1: he was Corey Paven and Phil Michelson were playing Bernard

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Speaker 1: Langer and something per Olifson, that young uh Scandinavian guy.

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Speaker 1: And I can't remember his his really his name, and

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Speaker 1: I could go into I don't I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you really want me to tell this whole story. It's

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Speaker 1: unbelievable match that it was just the intensity was unbelievable

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Speaker 1: in that whole thing. And I saw those two teams

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Speaker 1: played the eighth hole against each other those in the match,

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Speaker 1: and it took you know what, fifteen minutes for this

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Speaker 1: all to take place, and it ends up in a half, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I was I was exhausted after watching that one hole,

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Speaker 1: watching those four guys battle the way they didn't all

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Speaker 1: the quirky stuff that happened on that hole in that match.

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Speaker 1: It was a rain I remember, remember it was rainy

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Speaker 1: that day. It was really rainy. They had had a

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Speaker 1: hot a lot of rain and stuff and all that

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Speaker 1: was going on. I loved it. And I remember also

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Speaker 1: watching one on like I think the twelfth hole is

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Speaker 1: short par four up the hill. It's the one where

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Speaker 1: the big steel beam holds up holds up an oak

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Speaker 1: tree over at oak Kill. You remember the one I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about, Okay, is that hole. They're playing a match

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Speaker 1: and this is Paving in a different match, and one

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Speaker 1: of the Euros missed a putt and somebody in the

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Speaker 1: crowd cheered right, and Paven turned around and I swear

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Speaker 1: for five minutes glared at the guy who was cheering

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Speaker 1: against the year, you know what I mean, because it

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Speaker 1: was unsportsmanlike. Right. He stood there motionless and glared at

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Speaker 1: the crowd, and you could have heard a pen drop.

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Speaker 1: It was like a teacher scolding as students. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he turned around and just glared at the guy, arms crossed,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't move and uh, it was just amazing. That whole

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Speaker 1: Ryder Cup experience was just so fun. So I've used

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Speaker 1: this opportunity. He's five nine, not five four, So my

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Speaker 1: bad on that. He is five nine and that was

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety five. You're right about that. Se Paven is

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Speaker 1: one lost record that here for the US was four

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Speaker 1: wins and four losses and he was the US lost

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Speaker 1: the Ryder Cup that year to Europe. He was the

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Speaker 1: most successful United States player. And in the match I

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Speaker 1: was talking about let me find it here Sunday Singles

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Speaker 1: and matches, it was Paven against Bernard Lager and Paven

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Speaker 1: won three and two and it was an amazing match.

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Speaker 1: I mean it was back and forth Lager. It was

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Speaker 1: really good too. I was rooting for Paven, but it

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Speaker 1: was it was just so much fun to watch that, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: my top I didn't have it in my top five.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it is now, I don't know. Eight O three

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five. We got a Twitter poll

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Speaker 1: out today about the Bills, not about Ryder Cup golf.

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Speaker 1: Give us a call if you'd like to discuss what'll

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Speaker 1: be the biggest strength of the Bills offense and twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty will it be a resurgence of the deep ball

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Speaker 1: underneath a passing game will get better, or a more

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Speaker 1: developed run game. What do you think give us a call.

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Speaker 1: We're happy to discuss. Let's get to the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: The tweet sheet brought you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the

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Speaker 1: official movers of the Buffalo Bills. The tweet sheet from

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Speaker 1: Jack Anderson. I think adding Diggs and his big playability

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Speaker 1: will allow him to catch deep balls and draw double coverage,

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Speaker 1: which should free up Smoke and maybe Foster or Mackenzie

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Speaker 1: to get open deep and more often. Hopefully Alan can

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Speaker 1: drop a pin and connect more often. Interesting. I like

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Speaker 1: the way he refers to Alan dropping a pin, Steve.

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Speaker 1: It reminds me of our conversation with Corey with Corey

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Speaker 1: Pavement with Josh Allen's quarterbacks coach at the Combine, when

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Speaker 1: Palmer Jordan Palmer told us about the philosophy that he's

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Speaker 1: the mindset he's trying to give Josh Allen about hitting

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Speaker 1: deep balls, like dropping a Google pin and Google Earth,

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Speaker 1: like don't look at the guy, don't look at you

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Speaker 1: know where you throwing at the guy's hands. Look at

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Speaker 1: a spot on the field, throw the ball there. And

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Speaker 1: the guy will go get it. I think it was

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Speaker 1: a really for me, a really helpful way to think

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Speaker 1: about maybe Josh can solve his deep pass connection pro

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Speaker 1: I was I was walking into the supermarket last night

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Speaker 1: and a guy stopped me. He says, I won't touch you.

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Speaker 1: He stayed six feet away, and as we walked in,

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Speaker 1: this guy gave me and I don't know the gentleman's name,

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Speaker 1: he could have been nicer, but he told me how

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen needed to fix his He was he knew

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Speaker 1: why Josh Allen was not throwing the deep ball well,

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Speaker 1: and he equated it to going back and watching Jim

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Speaker 1: Kelly and how he threw. And he gave me a

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Speaker 1: whole rundown. He goes, how often do you talk to Josh?

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Speaker 1: And I said, well, not too often these days, and

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Speaker 1: he goes, well, just tell him, and he gave me

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Speaker 1: the whole rundown how Josh needed to fix his throwing motion. Murph,

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Speaker 1: everybody's on board with him, everybody, you know. I'll just

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Speaker 1: say this though, you and I both know he is

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Speaker 1: working really hard to do exactly that. We've We've heard

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Speaker 1: from more average from multiple sources. He's working really hard.

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Speaker 1: He wants to get better. That's always been the thing

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Speaker 1: that all the critics and you've seen him too, he's

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Speaker 1: still a polarizing guy. Every nobody really has given him

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Speaker 1: the credit that one secret weapon he has is his

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Speaker 1: work ethic. He has really worked hard to get better

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Speaker 1: and it's showed. So I think ultimately he's got to

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Speaker 1: be the guy everybody hopes he is. In Bills country.

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Speaker 1: You make a good point. I think people underestimate his

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Speaker 1: work ethic and know hard he works even and you know,

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Speaker 1: you get we you know we're guilty. We talked to

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Speaker 1: people all over the country about the Bills and Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen and what do you think of this? What do

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Speaker 1: you think of that? And outside observers can can they've got,

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Speaker 1: better as a quarterback. But I don't think outside observers,

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Speaker 1: people not close to the Bills organization and maybe some fans,

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Speaker 1: they don't appreciate how much work goes into this. Stay

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Speaker 1: don't appreciate how much he works himself to get better

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Speaker 1: at the things that he's not good at. I think

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Speaker 1: that's a big part of josh The development now as

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Speaker 1: I think so too. And when he came out, one

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Speaker 1: of the things that I thought gave him gave me

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Speaker 1: optimism that he was going to improve and improve fast.

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Speaker 1: There were two things. One and not not that this

851
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Speaker 1: is the be all end all, but they test things

852
00:41:14,239 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: guys intelligence. They give him intelligence tests, and Josh graded

853
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:22,040
Speaker 1: out not just a little, but significantly smarter than the

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Speaker 1: other four or five guys that were tested. You know,

855
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Speaker 1: those four other four quarterbacks that were taken in the

856
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Speaker 1: draft in the first round. Josh tracks graded out significantly better.

857
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Speaker 1: His test score was higher. Secondly, is that work ethic.

858
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Speaker 1: When you're smart and you work really hard, you're going

859
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Speaker 1: to improve. That's just that's just the fact that's true

860
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Speaker 1: in any industry, let alone athletics. So those two things,

861
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Speaker 1: you know, gave me real optimism when the Bills drafted

862
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Speaker 1: Josh that he was gonna, you know, as whatever he

863
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: was when they got him, he was gonna get significantly

864
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 1: better as his career progressed. Yep, all right, We're gonna

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Speaker 1: take a break here. More from the tweet sheet and

866
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Speaker 1: more phone calls when we return. One Bill's Live presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalaida Health from our homes today Radio Only. This

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Ready, Welcome back. One Bill's Live, John

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Speaker 1: Murphy's Team Tansker Radio Only Today. We're both at home

870
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:29,560
Speaker 1: again today. Steve Tomorrow two o'clock or one two or

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Speaker 1: one two. I'm a Brandon Bean Bills general manager will

872
00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: join us. Going to do a press conference tomorrow and

873
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Speaker 1: we'll talk with us at two. I got a lot

874
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 1: of questions for him, including, um, you know, how they're

875
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Speaker 1: getting ready for the draft. I think he's gonna we'll

876
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 1: ask him where they plan on doing the draft, but

877
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Speaker 1: even the prep work, I mean, is he sitting at

878
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:49,439
Speaker 1: home in his office at home and looking at video?

879
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 1: I bet he is. Huh, yeah, he's gotta be. And

880
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:56,280
Speaker 1: he's probably constantly on the phone with scouts and personnel

881
00:42:56,320 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: evaluators and Sean McDermott and Terry Googla probably as well.

882
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,239
Speaker 1: He's probably talking to him a bunch, you know, talking

883
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 1: about which direction they're going, and UM, yeah, I mean

884
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: they've got to be in constant contact with all with

885
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys. I was thinking, I was reading

886
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: the piece this morning about how much NFL teams will

887
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:18,080
Speaker 1: miss the player visits they have for the pro days

888
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:19,759
Speaker 1: and then players coming into the complex. I want to

889
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: hear hear it from Brandon. You you made a good

890
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: point yesterday, like they're really not going to miss much.

891
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:27,359
Speaker 1: But I read a piece today about how how much

892
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: of a loss it is not have not they have

893
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:30,800
Speaker 1: those pro days in the player days. I want to

894
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: hear it from Brandon Bean, you know what I mean,

895
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Speaker 1: And I hope he's honest about it. What are they

896
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,960
Speaker 1: not getting when they don't get to go all over

897
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: the country scouts. I mean, you know the famous video

898
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,760
Speaker 1: we had last year of Sean McDermott at at Oliver

899
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Speaker 1: McDermott was right in the middle of the workouts with

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Speaker 1: that Oliver. That cam happened this year, and I wonder

901
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 1: how much of a difference it will be. Yeah, I

902
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: think it's interest. I think what it is is they

903
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:56,399
Speaker 1: just you know, convinced themselves further of who the guy

904
00:43:56,600 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: really is. They may not be able to convince themselves

905
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Speaker 1: before they pick guys like they have in the past,

906
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,399
Speaker 1: but I think for you know, for most of them,

907
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Speaker 1: so probably going to get it right or wrong the

908
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Speaker 1: same as they would otherwise, you know what I mean. Yeah,

909
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: they just don't know, these aren't assure on draft day,

910
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: as they may be six months after the draft. This

911
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: piece I was reading this morning made a pretty good point.

912
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 1: How what you say is obviously true when it comes

913
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Speaker 1: to the premium picks and maybe the first two rounds.

914
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: When he get down into smaller school guys, guys who

915
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Speaker 1: are not at the combine, guys who may not be

916
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Speaker 1: on everybody's radar screen, those seem to me to be

917
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Speaker 1: the guys that might be missing out without this free

918
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Speaker 1: draft visit evaluation period, you know what I mean? Yeah, absolutely,

919
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Speaker 1: I mean it may be that now in this environment,

920
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: just as one example, it may be that now they

921
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Speaker 1: put more emphasis on what the kids coach tells about

922
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Speaker 1: you know, it may put more emphasis on what the

923
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Speaker 1: kids high school coach or you know whatever, you know,

924
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Speaker 1: what they hear about the kid. They may put more

925
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 1: emphasis on what other sources rather than their own eyes

926
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Speaker 1: on the guy or a sit down interview. They may

927
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Speaker 1: have to rely on, you know, what a coach has

928
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Speaker 1: told him about the kid, or assistant coaches told him

929
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Speaker 1: about the kid, or a high school coach or a

930
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 1: high school teacher. But then you're talking about going down

931
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 1: two hundred players deep. Into this draft trying to talk

932
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 1: to college coaches and high school teachers and things like that.

933
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:31,800
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be difficult, but I think they're just

934
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,279
Speaker 1: gonna have to trust what they do without, you know,

935
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Speaker 1: getting a corroborating testimony to say, yeah, you're right, that

936
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Speaker 1: is exactly what the what you think the kid is,

937
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:43,320
Speaker 1: you know. Yep. The draft is on around one is

938
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Speaker 1: three weeks from Thursday this week, and we'll keep you

939
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: updated and any updates that come on. We'll talk about

940
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:50,800
Speaker 1: the draft with Brandon Bean when he joins us on

941
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Speaker 1: the show tomorrow at two pm. Coming up after the

942
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Speaker 1: top of the hour break, Neil Reynolds, who covers the

943
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,759
Speaker 1: NFL in the United Kingdom for Sky Sports, got a

944
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Speaker 1: lot of thoughts about what's going on in the NFL

945
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 1: these days, and he's got a new podcast coming up

946
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Speaker 1: as well. We'll talk with Neil enos when we return.

947
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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by KLATA Health, coming to you

948
00:46:08,040 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 1: from our homes again on the radio only. This is

949
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:19,320
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills raf be update from One Bills Live. Some

950
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,760
Speaker 1: NFL news today. The Cincinnati Bengals have release venteran cornerback

951
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 1: Drake Kirkpatrick, former first round pick in twenty twelve. He

952
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:30,240
Speaker 1: spent eight years with the Bengals. Former Alabama product started

953
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,839
Speaker 1: six games at cornerback for the Cincinnati Bengals last year

954
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:37,520
Speaker 1: before he suffered a season nd knee injury in November

955
00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: tenth sixty seventh starts. Drake Kirkpatrick's release comes on the

956
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Speaker 1: heels of Cincinnati's massive spending spree during free agency. Drake

957
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 1: Kirkpatrick cut loose by the Cincinnati Bengals. Today, the Houston

958
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 1: Texans are opened up contract talks with tackle left tackle

959
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 1: Laramie Tunsel, talking about the multi year contract extension, the

960
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:02,000
Speaker 1: two sides exchanging preliminary proposals. Tonsol, whom the Texans acquired

961
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen for a huge package of picks, is

962
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Speaker 1: expected to become the highest paid left tackle in the NFL.

963
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 1: Janicking his availability drawing trade interests ahead of the draft,

964
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 1: he says he's all for it. Jacksonville Jaguars put the

965
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Speaker 1: franchise tack on the defensive end a couple of weeks ago.

966
00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 1: The presumption has benned that he is a prime tag

967
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 1: and trade candidate, and it looks like that's what's going

968
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 1: to happen. If several teams have inquired about his availability

969
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:30,399
Speaker 1: with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Two tack o'violola has passed every

970
00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 1: hurdle thrown his way during his recovery from hip surgery.

971
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 1: The former Alabama quarterback has made such strides that the

972
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 1: firm that represents him is confident enough to pronounce him

973
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:42,680
Speaker 1: fully clear. Former Bills and New Orleans Saints kicker and

974
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 1: Tom Dempsey is being treated for a coronavirus. He is

975
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 1: famous for making a sixty three yard field goal in

976
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy. He was born without toad on his kicking foot.

977
00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:55,279
Speaker 1: He made a legendary sixty three yard field goal in

978
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 1: New Orleans to Lane Stadium to help his team come

979
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:00,719
Speaker 1: from behind and beat the Detroit Lions in the final

980
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:02,919
Speaker 1: second of that game. And Freed and safety Eric Reed

981
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 1: wants the NFL's new collective bargaining agreement invalidated or language

982
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:10,879
Speaker 1: added reportedly after a ratification of the pack earlier this year.

983
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:14,279
Speaker 1: And that is the update from One Bill's Line. John

984
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: Murphy and Steve task around the line, joining us on

985
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:20,480
Speaker 1: the line. The NFL analysts from United Kingdom, Sky Sports,

986
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 1: NFL dot Com analysts based in the United Kingdom most

987
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 1: of the Inside the Huddle podcast. Happy to have our

988
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 1: friend Neil Reynolds on the line with us. Neil coming

989
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:31,560
Speaker 1: to us from just south of London. How are you doing, Neil?

990
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 1: Very good? Yeah, just getting through these crazy times like

991
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 1: everyone working from home a lot, doing a lot of

992
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: writing on the off season. And as I'm sure we're

993
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: going to discuss in the next few minutes. Launching my

994
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 1: own podcast, the Neil Reynolds Podcast Thursday of this week.

995
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,239
Speaker 1: So I doing a few interviews this week to set

996
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 1: out Yeah, I want to give our listeners a chance

997
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 1: to set what the podcast is all about. Ryan Fitzpatrick,

998
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,360
Speaker 1: one of Neil's first guests. Let's listen in to what

999
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 1: that sounds like on Neil's podcast. The fan base there

1000
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 1: is very unique. I mean, they live for that football team,

1001
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: and I think that's a lot of it. There are

1002
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:13,760
Speaker 1: a lot of passionate fans in the NFL, but Buffalo

1003
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 1: in particular, not being in a huge city, just with

1004
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 1: everything you know in the history and everything that they've

1005
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:26,760
Speaker 1: gone through, it's a very unique place to play because

1006
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 1: they love their Bills so much. And luckily you're getting

1007
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 1: ready to play the game, you'll nowhere near the tailgate party.

1008
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: But that looks just ridiculous. Some of the stuff they do,

1009
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,799
Speaker 1: comedy and ketchup mustard. They're throwing themselves on tables. I'm

1010
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 1: in ridiculous. Yeah, and I'm proud to call some of

1011
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,880
Speaker 1: those people neighbors and friends. But it is it is funny.

1012
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: You're hearing about somebody doing that and then watching them

1013
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:52,360
Speaker 1: drop their kid off at preschool. Yeah. So that is

1014
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 1: the voice of Ryan Fitzpatrick on the podcast with Neil Reynolds,

1015
00:49:55,640 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 1: our current guests talking with Brian Fitzpatrick about the atmosphere

1016
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 1: at Buffalo Games. Sound. I get a good time talking

1017
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Speaker 1: with Fits, Neil. We had a great time. I mean,

1018
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Speaker 1: you guys know Fits very well. He's one of the

1019
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:10,839
Speaker 1: most humble, most down to earth NFL players. We were

1020
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 1: We were out on the water in Tampa Bay. We

1021
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,200
Speaker 1: went fishing for about two hours. He took us out

1022
00:50:18,239 --> 00:50:20,360
Speaker 1: on kayaks. We were supposed to go out on a

1023
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Speaker 1: boat and go a little bit further out to see

1024
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 1: but it was really windy, but he took us out fishing.

1025
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 1: We were I was riding electric scooters up and down

1026
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:31,719
Speaker 1: his street with him. We were we were just kind

1027
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 1: of hanging out and then at the end of it

1028
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:36,320
Speaker 1: we added like thirty minute conversation which became the podcast.

1029
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,160
Speaker 1: We recorded all the fishing stuff as well. But yeah,

1030
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Speaker 1: I mean, he's just he's one of my favorites. I

1031
00:50:41,000 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 1: decided to start with somebody who's a real character and

1032
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 1: somebody who has such a story to tell. This this

1033
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:50,400
Speaker 1: podcast is all about stories. It's not it's not the

1034
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:53,759
Speaker 1: news of the day. You can get that from Peter King,

1035
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:55,440
Speaker 1: you get it from Mike Florio, you get it from

1036
00:50:55,440 --> 00:50:57,520
Speaker 1: Albert Brier. Why do you want to get that from me?

1037
00:50:57,640 --> 00:50:59,520
Speaker 1: So I'm going to use my great contacts I have

1038
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:02,400
Speaker 1: around the NFL to tell these stories. And so I

1039
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 1: started with Fits and I decided to go out there

1040
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 1: and see him, and I said, can we just do

1041
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 1: an interview And he's like no, We'll go fishing, and

1042
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 1: it's like next, don't come back. Next time come back

1043
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:12,440
Speaker 1: and we'll go out with the beers. So, I mean,

1044
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,320
Speaker 1: it was it was great fun. You know, he's a

1045
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:17,799
Speaker 1: great character and I really enjoyed my day with him.

1046
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:21,400
Speaker 1: I gotta ask, I want to know Fits as story

1047
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: as you say, it's a it's a your podcast centers

1048
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:28,480
Speaker 1: around stories. Ryan Fitzpatrick's stories still aren'tgoing. What's the atmosphere?

1049
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:31,399
Speaker 1: What did he think about the next chapter? Well, yeah,

1050
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:33,640
Speaker 1: that was one of the things we touched on, was,

1051
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:36,399
Speaker 1: you know, his appreciation for the game. And I'm sure

1052
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 1: you had this, Steve, as you go through to your

1053
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 1: latter years of your career, you appreciate every one of

1054
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 1: them because you never know if it's your last. He

1055
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: talked about that, really appreciating every year. But he said

1056
00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:49,720
Speaker 1: he doesn't think he's ever been better than he's played

1057
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:51,440
Speaker 1: in the last two years. And you look at the

1058
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 1: records he had in Tampa, the way he turned Miami

1059
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 1: around last year. Miami were absolutely floundering and we're out

1060
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Speaker 1: of it and they won five of their last nine

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00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 1: and that was for me, that was a lot of

1062
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 1: it down to fits. So yeah, I asked him what

1063
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:07,359
Speaker 1: he's going to do next. You know, is he coming

1064
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: to the end and that competitive fire is still burning,

1065
00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: So you know, I think he's for the Dolphins to

1066
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 1: see what they're doing in the draft. But you know,

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00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 1: he's the perfect bridge quarterback for twenty twenty. Neil Reynolds

1068
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: are guests. He launches the Neil Reynolds Podcast Thursday. It's

1069
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 1: available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Deezer, and Stitcher. You can

1070
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: follow Neil on Twitter at Neil Reynolds at NFL Neil

1071
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Speaker 1: Reynolds NFL. And you know one thing about fits that

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Speaker 1: you mentioned now, he is one of your favorites. He's

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00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 1: one of my favorites too. I hope he plays as

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00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:38,359
Speaker 1: long as he wants. We know it's he's not Tom Brady.

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Speaker 1: We know he's not going to play, you know, into

1076
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:43,279
Speaker 1: his mid forties. But um, when when when Bryan Twitz

1077
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 1: Paedrick leaves the NFL? The league will miss him, don't

1078
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:48,839
Speaker 1: you think a guy like that? Yeah, And I'll tell

1079
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: you it's just one of the things you find everywhere

1080
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,360
Speaker 1: he's been, he's been loved by the fans. And I

1081
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 1: asked him about that. We talk about that in this podcast,

1082
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:57,400
Speaker 1: and he gives a great answer. I'm not going to

1083
00:52:57,440 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 1: tell you you can you can go and download it

1084
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:02,840
Speaker 1: and listen, but he gives a great answer about you know,

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00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:05,200
Speaker 1: why he thinks he's so popular with the fans and

1086
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:07,480
Speaker 1: what it is. But you can see why he's so

1087
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: popular in the locker room. As a fisherman, John, I

1088
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:14,879
Speaker 1: was useless, I was terrible. I could barely cast off.

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00:53:14,960 --> 00:53:16,799
Speaker 1: I mean, how I caught one? I did catch one.

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00:53:17,080 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but every time, every time I

1091
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 1: made a mistake, and at one point I cast off

1092
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:24,759
Speaker 1: and I just got the hook caught on the rope

1093
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 1: on the end of my boat. And he was like

1094
00:53:27,040 --> 00:53:28,719
Speaker 1: and he was like, sorry, I should have warned you

1095
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:32,120
Speaker 1: about that. Every time I messed up, it was his fault.

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00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 1: He said it was his fault, not mine, And I thought, no,

1097
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: wonder they love you in that locker room. Everything on

1098
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 1: the day was his fault and not mine. He made

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00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 1: me feel so welcome, and he made me feel less

1100
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:45,840
Speaker 1: stupid than I actually was. Because how successful do you

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00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 1: think he's going to be in Miami this year? Do

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00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 1: you think he'll be the guy on opening Day? Then

1103
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 1: take snaps and move forward with him? I think he

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00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:54,839
Speaker 1: should be. I think even if they draft a first

1105
00:53:54,920 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 1: round quarterback, you should let that young guy learn a

1106
00:53:57,120 --> 00:53:58,960
Speaker 1: little a little bit. I think they're certainly going to

1107
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:02,359
Speaker 1: build a better team around him, and they love him.

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00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 1: I mean, it's probably no different than when he was

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00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. I don't think his career story has changed

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00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 1: that much. Wherever he's been, he has been loved in

1111
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 1: the locker room. I do think he'll be I think

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00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 1: I look at how he played in the last game

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Speaker 1: of the season against New England, and I thought he

1114
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 1: had he had an answer for most of what New

1115
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:23,919
Speaker 1: England threw at him, and that's because he's He's played

1116
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 1: fifteen years. So I think he is in that that

1117
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 1: sweet spot where you have all the experience but you're

1118
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 1: still athletic enough to try to take advantage of it.

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Speaker 1: So I think I think he will be better. I

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00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:40,279
Speaker 1: think the Dolphins will be better for having him make

1121
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:43,840
Speaker 1: that first start on opening date. Well, with Neil Reynolds

1122
00:54:43,920 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 1: of Sky Sports in the United Kingdom, he's got his

1123
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:50,399
Speaker 1: Neil Reynolds podcasts launching this Thursday. And Neil, you're as

1124
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:53,240
Speaker 1: you said, You're home just south of London and Stephen

1125
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:55,279
Speaker 1: I have been doing our show from Home from the

1126
00:54:55,400 --> 00:54:57,840
Speaker 1: last well, this is the third week. Now. I know

1127
00:54:57,960 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 1: what it's like here and I know how many I've

1128
00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:03,239
Speaker 1: told us they appreciate that we're talking about things other

1129
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: than coronavirus every day. I wonder about the audience in

1130
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 1: the United Kingdom, is there is the interest in the

1131
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 1: NFL was maintaining during these difficult times. What do you,

1132
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: what do you know ice about these days. Yeah, I

1133
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:16,480
Speaker 1: think it's probably the same your your side of the

1134
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:18,880
Speaker 1: pond as well. People want there are no sports going on,

1135
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:21,960
Speaker 1: so people want some content just to distract because you

1136
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:25,080
Speaker 1: can get you can get stuck just watching the news

1137
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 1: cycle hour after hour, and you need a break from that.

1138
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:31,239
Speaker 1: So I was very busy during free agency week. I

1139
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,040
Speaker 1: was doing a lot of Sky Sports news hits. You know,

1140
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's moved to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That's actually

1141
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:40,640
Speaker 1: episode two of my podcast with Bruce Arians And I

1142
00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 1: think he was hatching that the day I was there,

1143
00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:45,320
Speaker 1: because he was in long meetings with Jason light the

1144
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 1: general manager that day. So but yeah, I think there's

1145
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:52,239
Speaker 1: a lot of interest around free agency, and I think

1146
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:56,680
Speaker 1: we're looking at creative ways to get content out there

1147
00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:59,320
Speaker 1: as they I've told talked to you guys before about

1148
00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:03,880
Speaker 1: the nfl UK live stage shows that I do around

1149
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:08,920
Speaker 1: the country traveling the UK, and we may we're looking

1150
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 1: into whether we do one from my living room, which

1151
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:14,800
Speaker 1: would be which would be incredible And actually if it

1152
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:16,880
Speaker 1: is the case, I might end up calling on one

1153
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 1: of my friends from one of the previous tours, which

1154
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 1: is a Bill's connection because obviously I worked quite a

1155
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:25,839
Speaker 1: lot with Josh Norman. Yeah, that's yeah. When you talk

1156
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 1: about free agency and how you know the content got dispersed.

1157
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 1: What did you think about what Buffalo did in free agency?

1158
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:34,239
Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite move at least favorite move

1159
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 1: or perhaps an underrated move that you like. I love

1160
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 1: the obviously the headline. I love Stefon Diggs. I think

1161
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 1: you know, give Josh. We saw what Josh Allen grew

1162
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:46,640
Speaker 1: into last year, and you think would just give him

1163
00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:49,720
Speaker 1: even more? You know? And I say this around the NFL,

1164
00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:52,800
Speaker 1: like if you've got if you've got Patrick Mahomes, surrounding

1165
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:55,239
Speaker 1: with talent. That's why it made no sense to me

1166
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:58,840
Speaker 1: that DeShawn Watson is no longer throwing to DeAndre Hopkins.

1167
00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:01,879
Speaker 1: You want to surround Watson with everything you can. It's

1168
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 1: the same with Josh Allen. I think it made total

1169
00:57:04,280 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 1: sense to go and get Stephan Diggs. He can be

1170
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:10,680
Speaker 1: that true number one. He's explosive. I still think Mario

1171
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:14,279
Speaker 1: Addison can play. You know, again, that's a somebody I've

1172
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:16,640
Speaker 1: worked with over here. I I like Mario and I

1173
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 1: think he's as he'll think, he's very good as a

1174
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 1: as a pass rusher. And you know, I was with

1175
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:25,040
Speaker 1: Rob Bryan and Josh Norman in our Sky Sports studio

1176
00:57:25,920 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 1: for the Super Bowl this year in Miami, and you know,

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00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 1: Josh had some ups and downs, but of course being

1178
00:57:32,200 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 1: with coach McDermott, that's that's there's a familiarity there. And

1179
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 1: Rob told me kind of off camera, you will not

1180
00:57:38,800 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 1: get a more physical, aggressive cornerback in the NFL even

1181
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:45,360
Speaker 1: today than Josh Norman. So I'd be interesting to see

1182
00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:48,360
Speaker 1: what he brings to the defense he neil for the Bills.

1183
00:57:48,880 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 1: Josh Norman becoming an important player would sort of be

1184
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 1: a career rebirth, wouldn't it. I mean, he's thirty two

1185
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 1: years old, struggled in his last year at least in Washington.

1186
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:01,200
Speaker 1: I guess some people have a question of if he's

1187
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:03,920
Speaker 1: got anything left? What do you think I think that's

1188
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:06,040
Speaker 1: going to motivate him? You know, I know, I know

1189
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 1: that for a fact. We spent a lot of time,

1190
00:58:07,960 --> 00:58:09,640
Speaker 1: you know, in the build up to the Super Bowl

1191
00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:12,800
Speaker 1: and around each other in Miami, and you know, he

1192
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 1: is a proud athlete. He is he was one of

1193
00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:17,480
Speaker 1: the very best in the NFL. So I think it

1194
00:58:17,680 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 1: is going to motivate him. I think he he's so

1195
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:24,120
Speaker 1: so determined to play for a contender again. You know,

1196
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 1: we we kind of hugged at the end of the

1197
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 1: show in the studio and I said, oh, same time

1198
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:31,880
Speaker 1: next year, Josh, And he was like, no, I've got

1199
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Speaker 1: to get back in this game. I've got to I've

1200
00:58:34,200 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: got to play in this game. I mean, he's and

1201
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:40,120
Speaker 1: you admire that. You admire that that fire that is

1202
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 1: still in the belly. It's how they got to the

1203
00:58:41,920 --> 00:58:44,400
Speaker 1: NFL in the first place. So yeah, I think he's

1204
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:46,720
Speaker 1: gonna have a point to prove. Yeah, and it'll be

1205
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:48,800
Speaker 1: interesting to see if he does. The Bills are signing

1206
00:58:48,880 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 1: him to a deal, looking forward to watching him compete

1207
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:55,120
Speaker 1: to get back to um, you know, his former greatness

1208
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 1: or I guess or their greatness that may still be

1209
00:58:57,640 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 1: in him. He's going to compete to start opposite TRADEVI.

1210
00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 1: Why do you think if he comes back and can

1211
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Speaker 1: recreate his fourth year in Carolina and be that guy again,

1212
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:12,640
Speaker 1: then may put the Buffalo Bills defense on a level

1213
00:59:12,680 --> 00:59:17,440
Speaker 1: we haven't seen in recent years, certainly, but maybe ever

1214
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills defense, Well, yeah, I mean those

1215
00:59:21,200 --> 00:59:24,200
Speaker 1: ones you played on Steph a pre special as well.

1216
00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:26,960
Speaker 1: But yes, I think it would be that on your

1217
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:30,640
Speaker 1: teams when you were playing. Excuse me, I think I

1218
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:33,320
Speaker 1: think it's going to put the whole Buffalo Bills team.

1219
00:59:33,360 --> 00:59:35,480
Speaker 1: I think that Buffalo Bills team now is on a

1220
00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:38,680
Speaker 1: different footing. You so often see it. I think I

1221
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 1: said this the last time I was on You so

1222
00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:43,880
Speaker 1: often see a team will get to the playoffs. One year,

1223
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:47,439
Speaker 1: first round of the playoffs, you get to experience it again.

1224
00:59:47,520 --> 00:59:49,240
Speaker 1: You know what it takes, you know what it took

1225
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:50,880
Speaker 1: to get there, you know what it was like, and

1226
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:53,320
Speaker 1: then maybe the pain of being kicked out of the

1227
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:56,880
Speaker 1: playoffs pretty quickly. Then you sometimes see those teams advanced

1228
00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 1: deeper the next year. I think that's where I think

1229
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:01,959
Speaker 1: that's where we're looking with this whole Buffalo Bills team,

1230
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:04,520
Speaker 1: let alone the defense, I mean, the defense is is

1231
01:00:04,560 --> 01:00:07,400
Speaker 1: truly special. I do believe that. But now I think

1232
01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:09,680
Speaker 1: the offense is going to is going to catch up

1233
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:11,760
Speaker 1: to that level a little bit. And look, there's no

1234
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:15,080
Speaker 1: number twelve in New England anymore. That is a fact.

1235
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 1: And no matter what his age was, that is a

1236
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:20,400
Speaker 1: that is a key part of this. I think I

1237
01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:23,000
Speaker 1: think the rest of the AFC East will be looking

1238
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:25,000
Speaker 1: at ways to catch up to the Patriots, and I

1239
01:00:25,080 --> 01:00:27,760
Speaker 1: think the Bills will be leading that charge. Neil Reynolds

1240
01:00:27,840 --> 01:00:30,200
Speaker 1: from Sky Sports UK, He's got a podcast that comes

1241
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:33,640
Speaker 1: out this Thursday, April. Second, all right, let's talk about

1242
01:00:33,680 --> 01:00:35,480
Speaker 1: the former number twelve in New England. Why does he

1243
01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 1: go left? What will he do for Tampa Bay? And

1244
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 1: by the same joke, and what do you think New

1245
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:42,840
Speaker 1: England does so without it? What do you make? So? Yeah,

1246
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:45,520
Speaker 1: So with Brady, first of all, I'm actually fascinated to

1247
01:00:45,640 --> 01:00:48,680
Speaker 1: see the career Encore, right. I think with Bruce Arians,

1248
01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:51,440
Speaker 1: I know for a fact, Oh I was doubt, like

1249
01:00:51,520 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 1: I said, I was down in Tampa. Bruce Arians was

1250
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:57,520
Speaker 1: was driven crazy by the turnovers of Jamis Winston. He

1251
01:00:57,600 --> 01:01:00,880
Speaker 1: had what thirty thirty and I think there was a

1252
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 1: video circulating on social media last week at least twenty

1253
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:07,440
Speaker 1: twenty that were dropped. I mean, the guy could have

1254
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 1: conceivably thrown fifty interceptions last year. We know Brady doesn't

1255
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:15,080
Speaker 1: play that way. We know Bruce Arians loves veteran quarterbacks,

1256
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:18,000
Speaker 1: and we know that Brady has a supporting cast in

1257
01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:21,280
Speaker 1: skill position players that hasn't been there in New England

1258
01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:23,080
Speaker 1: for a couple of years now, So you know, I

1259
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:25,520
Speaker 1: think I think we're going to see a kind of

1260
01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 1: bounce back. And it doesn't necessarily have to be in

1261
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:29,080
Speaker 1: a bounce back all the way to the super Bowl,

1262
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:31,040
Speaker 1: but I think we see a bounce back where Tom

1263
01:01:31,120 --> 01:01:35,320
Speaker 1: Brady makes makes the Bucks a contender for the playoffs,

1264
01:01:35,600 --> 01:01:38,480
Speaker 1: and he makes us forget twenty nineteen. Tom Brady, I

1265
01:01:38,560 --> 01:01:42,400
Speaker 1: do think he can turn that around. I'm fascinated to

1266
01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:46,960
Speaker 1: see how that works. And as for the Patriots, I

1267
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:49,760
Speaker 1: don't know if the Patriots go with the draft. I

1268
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:53,040
Speaker 1: mean from everything I'm hearing, and they actually like Jarrett

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Speaker 1: Stidham a lot, and some people have told me that

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Speaker 1: Jarrett Stidham should have been a much higher round draft

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Speaker 1: pick last year. So there's a lot of positive noise

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Speaker 1: coming out about the Patriots starting over with Stidham. We

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01:02:05,680 --> 01:02:09,400
Speaker 1: thought everybody in the in the entire league would maybe

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01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 1: stand in line to have Tom Brady's services, but when

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Speaker 1: it pushed came to shove, there was a very limited

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Speaker 1: list of teams that were actually in their running. Why

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay? What was the deciding factor? I think? I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think we were right. Brady's market was not what

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Speaker 1: he might have expected it to be, and maybe that's

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Speaker 1: because he was you know, he's forty three years old.

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Speaker 1: He was not good in terms of last year. But

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Speaker 1: I think I think Tampa Bay was a little bit

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Speaker 1: of a It's very much a football thing for Brady

1284
01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:41,680
Speaker 1: and he's going to want to go somewhere and win.

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Speaker 1: But you know they're going to make that money back

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01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:47,600
Speaker 1: already in ticket sales, in Jersey sales. I mean, they're

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Speaker 1: not going to be out of pocket for going and

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Speaker 1: getting Tom Brady. I think it would have been the

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Speaker 1: same for the Chargers in LA, but I don't think

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Speaker 1: the market was as big as it it probably I

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01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:02,640
Speaker 1: don't think it was a bigg as he would have expected.

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Speaker 1: And I think it was easiest for the Bucks to

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01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:07,520
Speaker 1: move on from Jamos. It was a tricky decision, that

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Speaker 1: one with Jameis Winston first overall, pick I think it

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01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:12,640
Speaker 1: was easier for them to move on if if your

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Speaker 1: answer is sorry, Jamis, it's Tom Brady, that's a little

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Speaker 1: bit easier to move on for that. Yeah, I could.

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Speaker 1: I could understand that as well, and it makes a

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Speaker 1: lot of sense. Another quarterback that was out there that

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Speaker 1: moved from the West coast back to I guess Central

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01:03:28,680 --> 01:03:33,920
Speaker 1: time in Indianapolis. Philip Rivers left the Lightning Bolts and

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Speaker 1: pretty unceremoniously, I thought, for the career he had with

1303
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Speaker 1: them for them to seemingly to me so easily release

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01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:47,680
Speaker 1: him and send him to Indianapolis, or at least to

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Speaker 1: have him end up in Indianapolis. What are your thoughts

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Speaker 1: about this LA Chargers doing that? What's first of all? Yeah,

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01:03:56,200 --> 01:03:59,880
Speaker 1: I mean, it never ends, never ends amicably all the time,

1308
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:02,400
Speaker 1: doesn't always end well in the NFL. But I do

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01:04:02,600 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 1: think that was It didn't sit right with me either,

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01:04:07,240 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 1: But I feel like I've done that before. I think

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01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 1: I did that with Ladanian Tomlinson as well, who would

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Speaker 1: being such a great servant for that team. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know where the Charges are going right now

1314
01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:20,520
Speaker 1: with if they are going with with Tara Taylor as

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01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:23,080
Speaker 1: their their full time starter, if they are going to

1316
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Speaker 1: dip into that first round of the quarterback Paul in

1317
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Speaker 1: the draft. I do think it's interesting is that the

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Speaker 1: two quarterbacks that made the most headlines in free agency,

1319
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:37,800
Speaker 1: Rivers and Bradier kind of that almost almost from a

1320
01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:40,680
Speaker 1: bygone age. You know, real pocket passers can't run around

1321
01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 1: like the DeShawn Watsons and the Mahomes and Lamar Jackson's.

1322
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:46,640
Speaker 1: But for Rivers, this is a this is a good spot,

1323
01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:49,240
Speaker 1: I think because we know about that offensive line, We

1324
01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:52,600
Speaker 1: know how good that that front is. You know, if

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01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:55,160
Speaker 1: he can squeeze one more, two more years out of

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01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:56,800
Speaker 1: his arm. I don't think he's going to get hit

1327
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Speaker 1: anywhere near as much as he did in LA last year,

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01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:03,720
Speaker 1: because was he you know, that was just it was

1329
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:05,920
Speaker 1: just too much. Those tackles were so bad. He was

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01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:08,680
Speaker 1: throwing it up for grabs. So I do think he's

1331
01:05:08,680 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 1: going to have a chance. He's just gonna have to

1332
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:11,959
Speaker 1: get used to people being in the stands again because

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01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:13,360
Speaker 1: he's not had that for a couple of years. Yeah,

1334
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Speaker 1: with Neil Reynolds launches his new podcast and Neil Reynolds Podcast,

1335
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Speaker 1: There's Thursday, it's you know we've talked, You've talked about

1336
01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:24,320
Speaker 1: Brady and Philip Rivers and it's been a really interesting

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01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:26,520
Speaker 1: couple of months. As far as NFL quarterbacks, Neil, when

1338
01:05:26,520 --> 01:05:28,960
Speaker 1: you look at even now, Cam Newton is still available,

1339
01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:31,920
Speaker 1: Jameis Winston is available, Joe Flacco is still out there.

1340
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Speaker 1: It's been a weird our season for quarterbacks, hasn't it. Well.

1341
01:05:36,040 --> 01:05:38,600
Speaker 1: We always talked about it being a kind of musical

1342
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:40,840
Speaker 1: chairs and who's going to be left without a chair

1343
01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:43,840
Speaker 1: at the end. You've got two number one overall picks

1344
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:49,160
Speaker 1: there in Jamis and Cam Newton, and both of as

1345
01:05:49,360 --> 01:05:53,040
Speaker 1: such have been such high profile players who've been so

1346
01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:56,160
Speaker 1: talked about. It's hard to see them having to become

1347
01:05:56,240 --> 01:05:59,240
Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks. I mean, look at Cam Newton and how

1348
01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:03,160
Speaker 1: flamboyant is, how much he takes over a press conference,

1349
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 1: how big a character he is. How does Cam Newton

1350
01:06:06,440 --> 01:06:09,480
Speaker 1: stand somewhere and hold a clipboard. I just don't know

1351
01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:12,320
Speaker 1: how that works. That's going to be really hard to see.

1352
01:06:12,400 --> 01:06:14,080
Speaker 1: I mean, Jamis may have to go and do that

1353
01:06:14,240 --> 01:06:17,520
Speaker 1: somewhere for a year. But again that when you think

1354
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:19,160
Speaker 1: about it, if he could tie the up parts of

1355
01:06:19,240 --> 01:06:22,760
Speaker 1: his game, we're talking about a quarterback through for thirty touchdowns,

1356
01:06:22,840 --> 01:06:26,200
Speaker 1: five thousand yards looking at being a backup next year.

1357
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:29,000
Speaker 1: So there were just too many. There've been too many

1358
01:06:29,080 --> 01:06:31,680
Speaker 1: kind of coming in from the draft the last couple

1359
01:06:31,720 --> 01:06:35,040
Speaker 1: of years. Too many teams have been addressing their quarterback

1360
01:06:35,160 --> 01:06:38,560
Speaker 1: needs it wasn't like there were that many quarterback hungry

1361
01:06:38,640 --> 01:06:41,000
Speaker 1: teams out there now, and so you are going to

1362
01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:43,680
Speaker 1: start to get these guys missing out. And that's what

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01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:47,439
Speaker 1: we've got. Is there a little aspect of this where

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01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:50,000
Speaker 1: the quarterback position is changing in front of our eyes

1365
01:06:50,040 --> 01:06:53,560
Speaker 1: and somehow, you know, Tom Brady's and Philip Rivers and

1366
01:06:54,160 --> 01:06:58,640
Speaker 1: pure parker passers aren't as desirable as they once were.

1367
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Speaker 1: So that question, and Steve is one I asked Kurt

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01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:04,560
Speaker 1: Warner on my Inside the Huddle show ahead of the

1369
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:07,760
Speaker 1: super Bowl in Miami, and I asked that exame question,

1370
01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:10,720
Speaker 1: the exact same question. Our pocket pass is going to

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01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:12,600
Speaker 1: be a thing of the past because we see all

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01:07:12,960 --> 01:07:14,840
Speaker 1: all the others, you know where you come in with

1373
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:19,840
Speaker 1: Lamar and you mentioned them, Mahomes, Watson, they move around,

1374
01:07:19,960 --> 01:07:23,440
Speaker 1: they have to move around. But Kurt said, and I

1375
01:07:23,520 --> 01:07:25,960
Speaker 1: think it makes a bit of sense. You you still

1376
01:07:26,040 --> 01:07:28,840
Speaker 1: have to win some from the pocket. What you want

1377
01:07:29,120 --> 01:07:32,600
Speaker 1: is somebody who who when it push comes to shove,

1378
01:07:32,720 --> 01:07:35,800
Speaker 1: they can give you those four or five special plays

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01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:39,240
Speaker 1: outside of the pocket. So so to a degree, you're right.

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Speaker 1: I think the pocket passer as we know it, that

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01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:44,200
Speaker 1: the you know, the the Dan Marino, the Tom Brady,

1382
01:07:44,880 --> 01:07:47,880
Speaker 1: Jim Kelly, there they were all They all operated within

1383
01:07:47,960 --> 01:07:51,360
Speaker 1: the pocket. Joe Montana. You you're still going to need

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01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:53,520
Speaker 1: to operate within the pocket, but you're going to need

1385
01:07:53,560 --> 01:07:55,200
Speaker 1: a little bit more now. So you need to have

1386
01:07:55,960 --> 01:07:58,440
Speaker 1: maybe you don't need to necessarily be Lamar Jackson, but

1387
01:07:58,560 --> 01:08:00,880
Speaker 1: you need to have the movement of homes at least.

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01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:03,520
Speaker 1: So yeah, I do think. I do think it's changed,

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01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:06,600
Speaker 1: and I don't think we're looking at six foot four,

1390
01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:09,560
Speaker 1: six five, two hundred and thirty pounds. You know, they'll

1391
01:08:09,560 --> 01:08:12,000
Speaker 1: live with you being six ft six foot one if

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01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:15,080
Speaker 1: you can move. It's just a different position now on

1393
01:08:15,200 --> 01:08:17,559
Speaker 1: the line with Neil Reynolds from his home outside London.

1394
01:08:17,600 --> 01:08:20,840
Speaker 1: He's NFL analysts for his Sky Sports in United Kingdom.

1395
01:08:22,160 --> 01:08:24,080
Speaker 1: I guess it was a couple of weeks ago for

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01:08:24,280 --> 01:08:27,439
Speaker 1: NFL dot Com you wrote a post about your favorite

1397
01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:29,800
Speaker 1: games or the best games of the twenty nineteen season.

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01:08:30,120 --> 01:08:33,840
Speaker 1: You included the Bills wild card playoff loss in Houstony. No,

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Speaker 1: that's okay, but what did you like about that game

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01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:37,479
Speaker 1: and how did you measure that's one of your better

1401
01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:40,799
Speaker 1: games of the year. So obviously the drama of the comeback.

1402
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:42,760
Speaker 1: So what I tell you what I liked at the start,

1403
01:08:42,840 --> 01:08:45,879
Speaker 1: it was I felt like the Bills were so creative

1404
01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:48,599
Speaker 1: that day. They just it felt like they emptied their

1405
01:08:48,640 --> 01:08:52,479
Speaker 1: playbook on the first two and a half quarters. I

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01:08:52,600 --> 01:08:54,720
Speaker 1: felt like there was there was kind of everything that

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01:08:54,760 --> 01:08:57,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo were doing, lots of different end arounds, different types

1408
01:08:57,880 --> 01:09:01,240
Speaker 1: of runs, really really created tips stuff. Then, of course

1409
01:09:01,320 --> 01:09:06,000
Speaker 1: to Seawan Watson takes over that game. Then Josh Allen

1410
01:09:06,160 --> 01:09:09,439
Speaker 1: comes back, and and and then the craziness of the

1411
01:09:09,560 --> 01:09:11,600
Speaker 1: Watson play to set up the winning field guy. I

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Speaker 1: just felt it had it was kind of I was

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01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:17,880
Speaker 1: I was weighing up that one in the playoff round

1414
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:20,839
Speaker 1: there all the Vikings beating the Saints in the Superdome,

1415
01:09:20,920 --> 01:09:22,880
Speaker 1: and I just felt like there was there was more

1416
01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:26,000
Speaker 1: wackiness in the In the Bills Texans game, there was

1417
01:09:26,439 --> 01:09:28,599
Speaker 1: a little bit of craziness, and part of that came

1418
01:09:28,720 --> 01:09:33,200
Speaker 1: from from Buffalo's young quarterback. You know, down down the

1419
01:09:33,320 --> 01:09:35,840
Speaker 1: line there, you know, he's lateral into people that aren't there,

1420
01:09:36,640 --> 01:09:38,160
Speaker 1: you know, but he was just playing like he was

1421
01:09:38,200 --> 01:09:40,920
Speaker 1: in the playground. And I think I think it was

1422
01:09:41,160 --> 01:09:42,800
Speaker 1: I think it was actually a good stepping stone for

1423
01:09:42,880 --> 01:09:45,280
Speaker 1: Buffalo for twenty twenty. But yeah, that made my list

1424
01:09:45,400 --> 01:09:47,320
Speaker 1: that one. Well, before I let you go, I gotta

1425
01:09:47,320 --> 01:09:50,120
Speaker 1: ask you about NFL. You only Keendom offering a virtual

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01:09:50,360 --> 01:09:54,560
Speaker 1: pub quiz night. They're getting keeping the momentum of the

1427
01:09:54,680 --> 01:09:57,400
Speaker 1: NFL going and there's a quiz night eight you go

1428
01:09:57,479 --> 01:09:59,719
Speaker 1: to the pub and they have what a trivia contest

1429
01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:02,320
Speaker 1: was about it? So yeah, it's on. It's on Twitter.

1430
01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:05,080
Speaker 1: They're gonna they trialed it last week and they're gonna

1431
01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:07,920
Speaker 1: put more questions into it this week. I guess, just

1432
01:10:08,080 --> 01:10:11,000
Speaker 1: again hoping that people are sitting at home. If it

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Speaker 1: fills an hour, you know, if we fill an hour

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01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:16,080
Speaker 1: with that, UM, you know that that all helps people

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01:10:16,160 --> 01:10:18,400
Speaker 1: get through this time. And you know everyone's going to

1436
01:10:18,479 --> 01:10:20,519
Speaker 1: get through it. We just have to we have to

1437
01:10:20,680 --> 01:10:22,400
Speaker 1: just do what we're told, and that's stay at home,

1438
01:10:22,720 --> 01:10:25,720
Speaker 1: you know, and and get through this UM. And it's

1439
01:10:25,760 --> 01:10:28,000
Speaker 1: not just us in the UK, It's happening everywhere, so

1440
01:10:28,120 --> 01:10:31,360
Speaker 1: we just all need to kind of dig in UM,

1441
01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:34,080
Speaker 1: get through it, and we'll try and provide content as

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01:10:34,160 --> 01:10:36,920
Speaker 1: we can as we go through. UM. That's that's kind

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01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:39,080
Speaker 1: of the role that we can play, I guess. So

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01:10:39,320 --> 01:10:43,080
Speaker 1: that's what, I'm launching this podcast on Thursday, and yeah,

1445
01:10:43,160 --> 01:10:45,599
Speaker 1: hopefully hopefully it does all right, And tell us again

1446
01:10:45,600 --> 01:10:48,559
Speaker 1: about the podcast, Neil, how is it available to those

1447
01:10:48,680 --> 01:10:50,760
Speaker 1: listening to our shawl And this one is about Fits,

1448
01:10:50,800 --> 01:10:53,360
Speaker 1: But you've already got some interviews already in the bag

1449
01:10:53,479 --> 01:10:56,880
Speaker 1: with like Peter King and Dallas Clark, etc. Right, some

1450
01:10:56,920 --> 01:11:00,000
Speaker 1: other players. Yeah, because these are these are pretty timeless. See,

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01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:02,439
Speaker 1: these are the these are their life stories. So these

1452
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:05,160
Speaker 1: are these are stories about you know, where they where

1453
01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:07,000
Speaker 1: they've got to, where they've got to, how they did it.

1454
01:11:07,120 --> 01:11:10,160
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm going to start off with Fits this Thursday.

1455
01:11:10,280 --> 01:11:13,280
Speaker 1: Then it'll be Bruce Arians, then Peter King, and it's

1456
01:11:13,520 --> 01:11:16,880
Speaker 1: basically stories of anyone who has an impact in the

1457
01:11:16,920 --> 01:11:20,679
Speaker 1: football world. So it's players past and present, it's coaches,

1458
01:11:21,120 --> 01:11:24,160
Speaker 1: it's media members and everyone has a different story to tell.

1459
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:25,920
Speaker 1: You know, Bruce Arians was telling me about how he

1460
01:11:26,040 --> 01:11:29,120
Speaker 1: was held up at gunpoint while he's tending bar in

1461
01:11:29,320 --> 01:11:32,360
Speaker 1: West Virginia. I mean, it's everyone's got a story. It's

1462
01:11:32,439 --> 01:11:35,000
Speaker 1: it's going to be fantastic to hear those stories. So

1463
01:11:35,080 --> 01:11:37,200
Speaker 1: it's not about the news of the day, but it's

1464
01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:39,880
Speaker 1: a chance to put a podcast on for forty five minutes.

1465
01:11:39,960 --> 01:11:43,679
Speaker 1: Listen to a good bit of storytelling our hope and yeah,

1466
01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:46,400
Speaker 1: we got Dallas Clark, We've got Cliff Favor. All we've got.

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01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:49,560
Speaker 1: I did have Lamar Jackson lined up, but things have

1468
01:11:49,760 --> 01:11:52,720
Speaker 1: changed a little bit. He's not really in the facility,

1469
01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:54,360
Speaker 1: so we can see if we get that one done

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01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:58,320
Speaker 1: before before the start of the season. And yeah, anyone

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Speaker 1: who's you know, I had a really good run in

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01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:05,080
Speaker 1: the NFL and has a good story to tell. So Steve,

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Speaker 1: if I can get your number, yeah absolutely, I love

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Speaker 1: I love to talk with you. Neil, thanks so much,

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01:12:09,880 --> 01:12:11,600
Speaker 1: good luck with the podcast and we'll talk to you

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01:12:11,680 --> 01:12:14,240
Speaker 1: down the road. Appreciate you coming on. Thanks for having

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Speaker 1: me guys. Always a pleasure. Thanks Nei'll stay healthy. Neil Reynolds,

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Speaker 1: NFL analyst for Sky Sports and United Kingdom rights for

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Speaker 1: NFL dot Com and he launches the Neil Reynolds Reynolds

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Speaker 1: Podcast Thursday with Ryan Fitzpatrick. Some good stories there when

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Speaker 1: we come back after the break Isam McKenzie just signed

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01:12:30,360 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 1: a new contract with the Bills. Wide receiver kind of

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01:12:33,160 --> 01:12:37,080
Speaker 1: a return specialist, kind of a kind of a unique

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01:12:37,400 --> 01:12:39,960
Speaker 1: weapon for their offense. Right with the jet sweets. Isam

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Speaker 1: McKenzie joins us live and we come back. It's One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Collid of Health Team Tasker John

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Speaker 1: Murphy coming to here from our homes and this is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's reader. Welcome back. It's One Bill's Live presented

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Speaker 1: by a lot of health I'm John Murphy and Homesteave

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01:13:01,760 --> 01:13:03,800
Speaker 1: Canscos at home. Everything cool at home, Steve, You're good.

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01:13:03,840 --> 01:13:06,559
Speaker 1: You got this down now. Yeah, it's you know, um

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01:13:08,120 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 1: uncomfortably quiet. There's just nothing going on. I told I

1493
01:13:15,640 --> 01:13:18,120
Speaker 1: texted my you know, we have a family loop. We

1494
01:13:18,160 --> 01:13:20,920
Speaker 1: have you know, five kids, three three daughters in law.

1495
01:13:21,160 --> 01:13:22,960
Speaker 1: You know, we got we got a whole big blop

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01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:26,040
Speaker 1: just with our family on it. And I told him

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01:13:26,080 --> 01:13:28,439
Speaker 1: my day was complete earlier because I've refilled the salt

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01:13:28,479 --> 01:13:33,639
Speaker 1: and pepper shakers. I mean, you're gonna go to lie

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01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:36,000
Speaker 1: down after that. You are way down the to do

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01:13:36,200 --> 01:13:38,320
Speaker 1: list when you get to the salt and pepper shaker.

1501
01:13:38,640 --> 01:13:40,400
Speaker 1: I think I shaved today just to have something to do.

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01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:44,240
Speaker 1: I'm the line with us right now, a guy who's

1503
01:13:44,240 --> 01:13:46,000
Speaker 1: got something to do for the Bills again this year,

1504
01:13:46,040 --> 01:13:48,840
Speaker 1: getting set for its third season with the Buffalo Bills

1505
01:13:48,880 --> 01:13:52,000
Speaker 1: signed the contract last week. Wide receiver Isa McKenzie on

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01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:53,920
Speaker 1: the line with us. Hello, Isaah, thanks coming on. You're

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01:13:53,960 --> 01:13:58,040
Speaker 1: home in South Florida right now, are you? Yes? I am. Yeah.

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01:13:58,080 --> 01:14:00,320
Speaker 1: It's funny South Florida right now, even though I'm time,

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01:14:00,840 --> 01:14:02,920
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, how's it going down there with you

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01:14:03,280 --> 01:14:06,080
Speaker 1: and your family and everybody you you care for? Everybody's healthy?

1511
01:14:06,120 --> 01:14:09,240
Speaker 1: I open doing okay? Yeah, yeah, I hope so, because

1512
01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:12,559
Speaker 1: I'm standing away from them, so they're there or no kid?

1513
01:14:12,720 --> 01:14:15,720
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah right, it's not worth staying away if they're

1514
01:14:15,760 --> 01:14:18,120
Speaker 1: not going to be healthy. I said, congratulations on the

1515
01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:20,600
Speaker 1: new contract. What went into resigning with the Bills? What

1516
01:14:20,720 --> 01:14:26,599
Speaker 1: were your considerations there? Um? I just always I told

1517
01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:28,680
Speaker 1: my agent and everybody, I said, I want to come back,

1518
01:14:28,960 --> 01:14:31,200
Speaker 1: you know, like, no matter what, I want to come back,

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01:14:31,640 --> 01:14:33,720
Speaker 1: And um, they gave me opportunity and they wanted me

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01:14:33,840 --> 01:14:36,080
Speaker 1: back and I wanted to be back. So it wasn't

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01:14:36,080 --> 01:14:38,800
Speaker 1: it wasn't. It wasn't meting they had to do to

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01:14:39,160 --> 01:14:41,000
Speaker 1: get me there, because you know I would I would

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01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:44,160
Speaker 1: have came back with regardless, but um, it worked out.

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01:14:44,240 --> 01:14:47,680
Speaker 1: So you know now I'm back, So I, like I say,

1525
01:14:47,720 --> 01:14:50,360
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta know what, you know, what this

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01:14:50,520 --> 01:14:52,680
Speaker 1: offseason has been like. I know it's been different for

1527
01:14:52,760 --> 01:14:54,560
Speaker 1: all of us because of you know, what's going on

1528
01:14:54,680 --> 01:14:58,120
Speaker 1: with being locked down and quarantine whatever you want to

1529
01:14:58,200 --> 01:15:01,439
Speaker 1: call it. But football wise, how has this affected you

1530
01:15:01,520 --> 01:15:04,960
Speaker 1: and your ability to stay um, I guess in shape

1531
01:15:05,160 --> 01:15:11,479
Speaker 1: or how has it affected your normal offseason routine? Every

1532
01:15:11,680 --> 01:15:13,559
Speaker 1: I think I don't think it affects me at all

1533
01:15:13,680 --> 01:15:16,320
Speaker 1: because every morning I wake up, I go to me

1534
01:15:16,400 --> 01:15:18,519
Speaker 1: and my trainer and everybody else, all other guys. We

1535
01:15:18,600 --> 01:15:20,360
Speaker 1: still go to the park and we still work out,

1536
01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:22,680
Speaker 1: regardless of the fact, well, I mean we got to

1537
01:15:22,760 --> 01:15:24,799
Speaker 1: change the weight room because we used to work at

1538
01:15:24,880 --> 01:15:27,200
Speaker 1: my old high school. Right now we work out at

1539
01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:29,920
Speaker 1: my at my trainer's house, so we still do our

1540
01:15:29,920 --> 01:15:33,920
Speaker 1: own thing, you know, regardless of the fact everybody has

1541
01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:35,240
Speaker 1: to be in the house. I think by ten and

1542
01:15:35,320 --> 01:15:37,920
Speaker 1: twelve o'clock, nobody's out that leg. I'm not out that

1543
01:15:38,080 --> 01:15:40,320
Speaker 1: leg anyway, So everything I do is in the morning,

1544
01:15:40,360 --> 01:15:44,280
Speaker 1: and then you know, from from one till at night,

1545
01:15:44,280 --> 01:15:48,000
Speaker 1: I'm in the house. So it's not bad. Um, how

1546
01:15:48,040 --> 01:15:49,719
Speaker 1: do you do you go to a park to workout?

1547
01:15:49,760 --> 01:15:52,000
Speaker 1: Isaiah is that just so you can stay apart to

1548
01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:54,240
Speaker 1: have a little social distancing going on there. What what

1549
01:15:54,400 --> 01:15:57,160
Speaker 1: kind of stuff do you do in a park, just

1550
01:15:57,240 --> 01:16:01,040
Speaker 1: the regular things were normally doing another in the regular season,

1551
01:16:01,960 --> 01:16:06,439
Speaker 1: just Colin's wills, conditioning. Uh, that's all of you know,

1552
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:09,120
Speaker 1: catching the ball, these winner routes, all the things you

1553
01:16:09,160 --> 01:16:11,200
Speaker 1: would do if you weren't quarantine and things like that.

1554
01:16:11,360 --> 01:16:13,960
Speaker 1: But I mean, we still do the norm because we

1555
01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:16,439
Speaker 1: do it all in the morning and nobody's really out

1556
01:16:16,479 --> 01:16:19,439
Speaker 1: in the morning, nobody's watching us, so you can get it.

1557
01:16:19,600 --> 01:16:21,040
Speaker 1: You can get it all through it in the morning

1558
01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:24,040
Speaker 1: and then afternoons ourselves and through it the next day.

1559
01:16:25,120 --> 01:16:28,880
Speaker 1: What have you heard from the Buffalo Bills regarding your

1560
01:16:28,920 --> 01:16:31,720
Speaker 1: schedule going forward after the draft and that kind of thing.

1561
01:16:31,800 --> 01:16:36,400
Speaker 1: OTA's training camp. Have you heard anything at all. I'll

1562
01:16:36,439 --> 01:16:39,880
Speaker 1: be here from them tomorrow, from my coach, my position coach.

1563
01:16:39,920 --> 01:16:42,320
Speaker 1: He'll tell me everything tomorrow, and I'm pretty sure you

1564
01:16:42,360 --> 01:16:44,960
Speaker 1: know everybody else will let you know everything else you

1565
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:48,759
Speaker 1: know after the fact. But nothing, nothing yet, but tomorrow

1566
01:16:48,760 --> 01:16:53,120
Speaker 1: we'll get from more information. We're live with Isaiah McKenzie,

1567
01:16:53,160 --> 01:16:55,800
Speaker 1: Bill's wide receiver who signed a contract last week to

1568
01:16:55,880 --> 01:16:58,320
Speaker 1: come back to the Buffalo Bills. The wide receiver room

1569
01:16:58,400 --> 01:17:00,960
Speaker 1: has has changed, Isaiah in the big addition, of course

1570
01:17:01,080 --> 01:17:03,439
Speaker 1: is Stefan Jags. What did you think of that pick

1571
01:17:03,520 --> 01:17:05,000
Speaker 1: up out of the Bills on the trade and what

1572
01:17:05,080 --> 01:17:06,320
Speaker 1: do you think of the group you have at? Why

1573
01:17:06,400 --> 01:17:10,200
Speaker 1: don't now? I love it? I mean it's just like

1574
01:17:10,320 --> 01:17:12,000
Speaker 1: last year. We had a two pieces of last year

1575
01:17:12,360 --> 01:17:13,840
Speaker 1: and they came on the scene and they did it.

1576
01:17:13,880 --> 01:17:15,760
Speaker 1: They did a great job with Cole Beasley and John

1577
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:18,200
Speaker 1: Brow and um now we got stuff on Dug. I

1578
01:17:18,280 --> 01:17:20,400
Speaker 1: feel like just another piece of the publem that we

1579
01:17:20,520 --> 01:17:23,360
Speaker 1: need and it's gonna be a great season. You know everybody,

1580
01:17:23,439 --> 01:17:26,920
Speaker 1: you know, everybody's talking talking about, you know, how we

1581
01:17:27,040 --> 01:17:29,080
Speaker 1: needed more receivers and you know we're getting more and

1582
01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:32,080
Speaker 1: were getting ones that you know have production. You know.

1583
01:17:32,120 --> 01:17:34,479
Speaker 1: I like that. So I don't think it's pretty fun.

1584
01:17:35,479 --> 01:17:38,640
Speaker 1: When people think about you, Isaiah, they think about your versatility.

1585
01:17:38,760 --> 01:17:40,720
Speaker 1: All you can run routes, you do all that, but

1586
01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:43,960
Speaker 1: you're also carry the football, you run jet sweeps, You're

1587
01:17:44,200 --> 01:17:47,280
Speaker 1: you're part of the rushing attack as well. Uh did

1588
01:17:47,439 --> 01:17:49,479
Speaker 1: did they give you any indication that that will continue?

1589
01:17:49,640 --> 01:17:51,840
Speaker 1: What do they tell you in your in your end

1590
01:17:51,920 --> 01:17:55,559
Speaker 1: of season meetings with your position coach about maybe how

1591
01:17:55,640 --> 01:18:01,719
Speaker 1: you could developer more ways you can contribute. Um. Nothing,

1592
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:05,320
Speaker 1: really nothing, It's just I really didn't have a conversation anymore.

1593
01:18:05,800 --> 01:18:07,960
Speaker 1: My position goes to have a conversation with him about

1594
01:18:08,320 --> 01:18:10,120
Speaker 1: my role and things like that. Other than that, I

1595
01:18:10,280 --> 01:18:12,200
Speaker 1: know my role. I feel like I know my role,

1596
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:14,720
Speaker 1: and I feel like I just, you know, need to

1597
01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:16,439
Speaker 1: do my role and if they give me something more

1598
01:18:16,720 --> 01:18:18,439
Speaker 1: then I can do that as well. Like you said

1599
01:18:18,520 --> 01:18:21,479
Speaker 1: one routes, you know, care about Blackfield with the Jet

1600
01:18:21,520 --> 01:18:23,880
Speaker 1: Seas and everything like that. I feel like that's my

1601
01:18:24,040 --> 01:18:26,519
Speaker 1: role on this team to let until they give me

1602
01:18:26,600 --> 01:18:29,439
Speaker 1: some furthermore. Rather than that, I took my role and

1603
01:18:29,600 --> 01:18:32,080
Speaker 1: my position. I just gotta sporting and that's when I'm

1604
01:18:32,080 --> 01:18:36,320
Speaker 1: gonna keep doing. How would you describe your role? I mean,

1605
01:18:36,560 --> 01:18:44,240
Speaker 1: what would you call it? Uh? Uh uh? What do

1606
01:18:44,320 --> 01:18:47,000
Speaker 1: you want? Like? What's the new position? The flex? I

1607
01:18:47,040 --> 01:18:51,519
Speaker 1: don't know. I guess I would need another Yeah, I guess,

1608
01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:54,479
Speaker 1: like you said, versatile at me a clear receiver like

1609
01:18:54,560 --> 01:18:55,960
Speaker 1: I went to Jet the least, you know, I can

1610
01:18:56,000 --> 01:18:58,040
Speaker 1: get a couple of you know, a couple of carries

1611
01:18:58,080 --> 01:19:01,880
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. They need me to also special teams. Well,

1612
01:19:01,920 --> 01:19:03,280
Speaker 1: I mean I don't want to leave that up. I

1613
01:19:03,360 --> 01:19:05,759
Speaker 1: also want to be a part of the special teams,

1614
01:19:05,880 --> 01:19:09,320
Speaker 1: you know, whenever I get a chance. But yeah, that

1615
01:19:09,400 --> 01:19:12,800
Speaker 1: feel like I'm doing a lot. So you're not gonna

1616
01:19:13,120 --> 01:19:15,200
Speaker 1: play anymore cornerback? Are you like you did in the

1617
01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:18,760
Speaker 1: finale against the Jets? Oh yeah, I forgot about that, dude.

1618
01:19:18,960 --> 01:19:22,519
Speaker 1: I live a little corner I did it. I did

1619
01:19:22,560 --> 01:19:25,360
Speaker 1: it in high school, so I didn't feel like I

1620
01:19:25,439 --> 01:19:26,720
Speaker 1: didn't do it in a while. So I kind of

1621
01:19:26,760 --> 01:19:28,360
Speaker 1: got to had to get a call. Webbs done a

1622
01:19:28,400 --> 01:19:31,040
Speaker 1: little bit. But after the first snap at corner that

1623
01:19:31,200 --> 01:19:35,040
Speaker 1: the next two d players, I was just fun you.

1624
01:19:35,640 --> 01:19:37,880
Speaker 1: You were an important part of the Buffalo offense last

1625
01:19:37,960 --> 01:19:40,080
Speaker 1: year anyway, I mean forty two percent of the snaps.

1626
01:19:40,400 --> 01:19:43,599
Speaker 1: Only Beasley and Brown played a higher percentage of snaps

1627
01:19:43,640 --> 01:19:46,559
Speaker 1: at the wide receiver spot. It's understandable that you would

1628
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:49,240
Speaker 1: think you have a role to play and a contribution

1629
01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:51,120
Speaker 1: to make to the Bill's roster regardless of who they

1630
01:19:51,160 --> 01:19:55,439
Speaker 1: pick up this offseason. Yeah, I feel like I just

1631
01:19:55,880 --> 01:19:58,120
Speaker 1: I feel like I know what I can do and

1632
01:19:58,200 --> 01:19:59,479
Speaker 1: they know what I can do. And they know what

1633
01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:03,280
Speaker 1: I can bring to the table, and you know, we're

1634
01:20:03,280 --> 01:20:05,800
Speaker 1: both for the same page. I just feel like I

1635
01:20:05,880 --> 01:20:07,720
Speaker 1: come in there, I do my job, I do it

1636
01:20:07,760 --> 01:20:10,880
Speaker 1: the right way. I have winning games and things like that.

1637
01:20:11,280 --> 01:20:14,360
Speaker 1: You know, you know, they'll appreciate what I do and

1638
01:20:14,400 --> 01:20:16,000
Speaker 1: they'll keep me there. And that's why I want to

1639
01:20:16,040 --> 01:20:18,160
Speaker 1: be so if I keep working and doing my job,

1640
01:20:18,240 --> 01:20:21,960
Speaker 1: they have nothing to worry about. Isaiah. You saw the

1641
01:20:22,040 --> 01:20:25,320
Speaker 1: progression of Josh the quarterback from his rookie year into

1642
01:20:25,400 --> 01:20:28,639
Speaker 1: his second year. What was the biggest difference in last

1643
01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:30,439
Speaker 1: year than it was two years ago? And what do

1644
01:20:30,479 --> 01:20:35,200
Speaker 1: you expect from him this year? Oh, j Well, I

1645
01:20:35,280 --> 01:20:37,840
Speaker 1: came in when I came in the first half of

1646
01:20:37,920 --> 01:20:40,439
Speaker 1: that half of the season month and on the eighteen

1647
01:20:40,840 --> 01:20:44,280
Speaker 1: I seen towards the end of Josh. And then last

1648
01:20:44,360 --> 01:20:46,960
Speaker 1: year he came onto the scene. You know, he led

1649
01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:48,960
Speaker 1: us to the playoffs. You know, he did his thing.

1650
01:20:49,160 --> 01:20:52,320
Speaker 1: I can't I can't say nothing about it because I

1651
01:20:52,439 --> 01:20:54,000
Speaker 1: love the guy. You know, I love him like a brother.

1652
01:20:54,080 --> 01:20:56,920
Speaker 1: You know, he's our quarterback, he's a leader, and I

1653
01:20:57,000 --> 01:20:59,040
Speaker 1: feel like next year he's gonna take an even bigger step.

1654
01:20:59,160 --> 01:21:01,479
Speaker 1: You know, He's gonna take us further. And you know,

1655
01:21:01,680 --> 01:21:03,759
Speaker 1: I'm behind him one hundred percent, a hundred ten percent

1656
01:21:04,160 --> 01:21:06,000
Speaker 1: because you got a quarterback and I love him like

1657
01:21:06,040 --> 01:21:08,120
Speaker 1: a brother. So I wanted to see him keep want

1658
01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:10,000
Speaker 1: to improve him. I want I wanted to be one

1659
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:12,160
Speaker 1: of the best quarterbacks in the league when it's all

1660
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:14,200
Speaker 1: said it done. So you know, I like what he's doing.

1661
01:21:15,600 --> 01:21:18,040
Speaker 1: Last thing I have for you, Isaiah as you you know,

1662
01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:20,679
Speaker 1: who knows what's going to happen here, But it appears

1663
01:21:20,760 --> 01:21:23,360
Speaker 1: that the offseason workouts, which we're supposed to begin in

1664
01:21:23,400 --> 01:21:25,960
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks April twentieth, does not look like

1665
01:21:26,080 --> 01:21:28,920
Speaker 1: that'll start on time. Who knows about training camp? How

1666
01:21:28,960 --> 01:21:31,160
Speaker 1: do you kind of keep focused and keep steady and

1667
01:21:31,280 --> 01:21:33,040
Speaker 1: just kind of getting ready to play whenever it is.

1668
01:21:33,080 --> 01:21:34,920
Speaker 1: How do you how do you keep going when you

1669
01:21:34,960 --> 01:21:38,439
Speaker 1: don't know when you'll play or when you'll start practicing? Uh,

1670
01:21:38,640 --> 01:21:40,240
Speaker 1: you know, let's I'll talk about the last week with

1671
01:21:40,320 --> 01:21:43,200
Speaker 1: my trainer. And I feel like and in the off

1672
01:21:43,240 --> 01:21:45,320
Speaker 1: season like this, I feel like, if you have a

1673
01:21:45,960 --> 01:21:48,760
Speaker 1: steady schedule or you're consistent with everything you do, and

1674
01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:51,760
Speaker 1: it shouldn't everything you do in the off season, whether

1675
01:21:51,800 --> 01:21:54,919
Speaker 1: it's being quarantine. You're still working out, you're still conditioning

1676
01:21:55,040 --> 01:21:57,840
Speaker 1: it since being prepared. But when you go back, you don't.

1677
01:21:57,920 --> 01:21:59,800
Speaker 1: You don't fall off. Because you fall off, then you're

1678
01:21:59,840 --> 01:22:01,680
Speaker 1: hurt and the team. And that's how I feel. I

1679
01:22:01,800 --> 01:22:03,599
Speaker 1: feel like if I just keep working out every day

1680
01:22:03,840 --> 01:22:06,040
Speaker 1: and keep doing what I do every day that I've

1681
01:22:06,040 --> 01:22:08,160
Speaker 1: been doing in the past, then it shouldn't hurt me.

1682
01:22:08,240 --> 01:22:10,360
Speaker 1: It should when I get there, it should be just

1683
01:22:10,680 --> 01:22:12,479
Speaker 1: you know, let's get it rolling. And know what I'm saying,

1684
01:22:12,479 --> 01:22:14,840
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be no fall off. And that's what that's

1685
01:22:14,840 --> 01:22:17,080
Speaker 1: what our positions took told me that train and told

1686
01:22:17,120 --> 01:22:19,320
Speaker 1: me it's like, you can't fall off when it's time

1687
01:22:19,360 --> 01:22:21,400
Speaker 1: to go. It's time to go, because you never know

1688
01:22:21,479 --> 01:22:24,240
Speaker 1: what can happen with the season can start right away

1689
01:22:24,360 --> 01:22:27,040
Speaker 1: or you can you won't be you probably won't even

1690
01:22:27,080 --> 01:22:29,360
Speaker 1: get it to training camp, you know, so you never know.

1691
01:22:29,520 --> 01:22:31,880
Speaker 1: You just gotta be ready. You know. I had a

1692
01:22:31,920 --> 01:22:34,800
Speaker 1: friend today tell me similar things just about everyday life

1693
01:22:34,880 --> 01:22:37,200
Speaker 1: these days. Just take it day by day, right, That's

1694
01:22:37,200 --> 01:22:39,120
Speaker 1: all you can do until there's more certainty. You just

1695
01:22:39,200 --> 01:22:43,000
Speaker 1: go to work every day like it's another day, right, Yes,

1696
01:22:43,080 --> 01:22:45,400
Speaker 1: it is. Just like that and just do what you do.

1697
01:22:45,840 --> 01:22:47,720
Speaker 1: And if you're doing the right then it should help

1698
01:22:47,720 --> 01:22:49,080
Speaker 1: you out in the long run. If you're doing it wrong,

1699
01:22:49,160 --> 01:22:52,160
Speaker 1: you should change something before the time comes. When it comes,

1700
01:22:52,160 --> 01:22:54,960
Speaker 1: it's gonna come fast. And the people that's coming fast,

1701
01:22:55,040 --> 01:22:57,640
Speaker 1: they're gonna know they they've been working. If you're not

1702
01:22:57,680 --> 01:23:00,120
Speaker 1: coming fast enough, then obviously you ain't been working. So

1703
01:23:00,400 --> 01:23:04,720
Speaker 1: we'll see, all right, Great, Isaiah, thanks great to talk

1704
01:23:04,760 --> 01:23:06,800
Speaker 1: with it. I hope to see you soon. Stay healthy

1705
01:23:06,880 --> 01:23:10,120
Speaker 1: and thanks for this. Thanks Isaiah, you too, Thank you

1706
01:23:10,120 --> 01:23:14,360
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Isaia McKenzie, Bill's wide receiver. He came around

1707
01:23:14,400 --> 01:23:17,720
Speaker 1: mid season in twenty eighteen and then played all of

1708
01:23:17,840 --> 01:23:20,360
Speaker 1: last year. I played fifteen games last year, started eight

1709
01:23:20,439 --> 01:23:23,560
Speaker 1: of them. Bill's third wide receiver. He was Steve you know,

1710
01:23:24,080 --> 01:23:27,200
Speaker 1: after Beasley and and Smoke John Brown. He was the

1711
01:23:27,400 --> 01:23:30,720
Speaker 1: third most used receiver in the Buffalo offense. I don't

1712
01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:32,840
Speaker 1: blame him for expecting to have a role to play

1713
01:23:32,920 --> 01:23:36,519
Speaker 1: this year. Look, nobody hands Stefan Diggs or anybody else's job.

1714
01:23:36,600 --> 01:23:38,680
Speaker 1: He's gonna have to earn it here and who knows

1715
01:23:38,720 --> 01:23:40,200
Speaker 1: who gets pushed to the back of the pile. I

1716
01:23:40,280 --> 01:23:42,760
Speaker 1: don't know, and one of the reasons he's out there

1717
01:23:42,800 --> 01:23:45,400
Speaker 1: and they liked him in there, it was because he's fast,

1718
01:23:45,640 --> 01:23:48,120
Speaker 1: and he's really fast, and he's at blue versatile. He

1719
01:23:48,200 --> 01:23:51,080
Speaker 1: can he can carry the ball. They're not afraid to

1720
01:23:51,160 --> 01:23:53,880
Speaker 1: hand him the rock and have him go there. They

1721
01:23:53,960 --> 01:23:56,720
Speaker 1: trust him with that and that's that's big. So the

1722
01:23:56,800 --> 01:23:58,840
Speaker 1: fact that he played so much and did have that

1723
01:23:59,040 --> 01:24:01,439
Speaker 1: role says a lot about how much they trusted him

1724
01:24:01,479 --> 01:24:03,800
Speaker 1: with the ball in his hands. And um, that's what

1725
01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:06,000
Speaker 1: you know. The guys started half the games of the season.

1726
01:24:06,080 --> 01:24:08,839
Speaker 1: That's that's big. In a spot where they were rotating

1727
01:24:08,920 --> 01:24:12,040
Speaker 1: guys through it seemed like a lot YEP played twice

1728
01:24:12,040 --> 01:24:14,400
Speaker 1: as many stamps as Robert Foster, a lot more than

1729
01:24:15,439 --> 01:24:18,680
Speaker 1: Duke Williams, obviously a lot more than Andre roberts Um,

1730
01:24:19,120 --> 01:24:20,680
Speaker 1: I'm wondering. I want to answer the Steve, you're a

1731
01:24:20,720 --> 01:24:24,000
Speaker 1: special teams guy. Could they use as Zaia McKenzie as

1732
01:24:24,040 --> 01:24:26,800
Speaker 1: a return specialists? I mean, yes, they could, But um,

1733
01:24:27,680 --> 01:24:29,880
Speaker 1: I think that might be one of the under under

1734
01:24:29,960 --> 01:24:33,600
Speaker 1: the radar things to watch when they get the preseason,

1735
01:24:33,640 --> 01:24:36,200
Speaker 1: if ever is what happens to Andre Robertson, is isam

1736
01:24:36,280 --> 01:24:38,320
Speaker 1: McKenzie start to take some of the some of that

1737
01:24:38,439 --> 01:24:40,720
Speaker 1: return work. What do you think? Yeah, I think so too.

1738
01:24:41,240 --> 01:24:43,840
Speaker 1: Andre Roberts has that role. I mean he's a he

1739
01:24:43,920 --> 01:24:47,599
Speaker 1: does at a high level mostly at that at that spot.

1740
01:24:48,400 --> 01:24:50,560
Speaker 1: It's it's not about a guy who can hit a

1741
01:24:50,600 --> 01:24:52,560
Speaker 1: home run, because you think every guy back there is

1742
01:24:52,560 --> 01:24:54,400
Speaker 1: going to be able to do that. They put fast

1743
01:24:54,600 --> 01:24:58,280
Speaker 1: athletes back there to return kicks. What the difference is,

1744
01:24:59,080 --> 01:25:02,680
Speaker 1: can he get at a first down? Every time he

1745
01:25:02,760 --> 01:25:05,160
Speaker 1: touches the ball? Does he make the right decisions when

1746
01:25:05,200 --> 01:25:07,840
Speaker 1: the ball's punted down inside your five yard line? Does

1747
01:25:07,920 --> 01:25:10,120
Speaker 1: he make the right decisions whether to fair catch it,

1748
01:25:10,280 --> 01:25:13,000
Speaker 1: let it drop? Does he field every punt that you

1749
01:25:13,080 --> 01:25:15,120
Speaker 1: want him to? And that's the difference, And I think

1750
01:25:15,200 --> 01:25:17,800
Speaker 1: Andre Roberts, with the experience he has, has a leg

1751
01:25:17,920 --> 01:25:20,240
Speaker 1: up in that. But if if a guy like Isaiah

1752
01:25:20,320 --> 01:25:22,559
Speaker 1: McKenzie can prove that he can make the right decisions

1753
01:25:22,600 --> 01:25:24,280
Speaker 1: back there with the ball in the air, coming down

1754
01:25:24,360 --> 01:25:26,840
Speaker 1: on a punt, wherever the ball is on the field,

1755
01:25:26,880 --> 01:25:28,880
Speaker 1: and whoever, how much room he has and how much

1756
01:25:28,960 --> 01:25:30,920
Speaker 1: room he doesn't have, and when he catches it and

1757
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:33,760
Speaker 1: returns it, can he get you a first down? Yeah?

1758
01:25:33,880 --> 01:25:36,439
Speaker 1: He could? He could he could take that spot, but

1759
01:25:36,600 --> 01:25:38,479
Speaker 1: that's what it takes. It's not as easy. He's just

1760
01:25:38,600 --> 01:25:40,600
Speaker 1: catching it and run with it. Yeah, and it's I

1761
01:25:40,640 --> 01:25:43,639
Speaker 1: think it's worth noting and to remind ourselves, remind me anyway,

1762
01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:46,719
Speaker 1: we're talking about essentially a punt return guy. Kick returns

1763
01:25:46,760 --> 01:25:48,960
Speaker 1: have almost been taken out of the game. So you're

1764
01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:51,360
Speaker 1: keeping a guy, you know, for what six or eight

1765
01:25:51,400 --> 01:25:53,840
Speaker 1: punt returns for a game, you're keeping an extra roster spot.

1766
01:25:53,880 --> 01:25:56,519
Speaker 1: I think it has to enter into the consideration. Hey,

1767
01:25:56,960 --> 01:25:59,240
Speaker 1: is this guy worth using one of the fifty three

1768
01:25:59,320 --> 01:26:01,400
Speaker 1: or fifty five roster spots. He's only going to get

1769
01:26:01,640 --> 01:26:03,960
Speaker 1: six or eight chances to handle the ball each game.

1770
01:26:04,040 --> 01:26:06,400
Speaker 1: That's got to be a consideration. And it's also too

1771
01:26:06,520 --> 01:26:09,200
Speaker 1: a guy like Andre Roberts or and Isaiah McKenzie and

1772
01:26:09,240 --> 01:26:11,000
Speaker 1: Andre roberts built a little bit better for it. But

1773
01:26:11,080 --> 01:26:14,320
Speaker 1: they could also cover cover you can they can take

1774
01:26:14,400 --> 01:26:16,400
Speaker 1: up a slot on kickoff coverage, which is you know,

1775
01:26:16,600 --> 01:26:20,840
Speaker 1: mostly you could put you could put cows out there now,

1776
01:26:20,840 --> 01:26:23,360
Speaker 1: because nobody has to cover kickoffs anymore, right, they don't

1777
01:26:23,360 --> 01:26:27,680
Speaker 1: get returned or pump return punk coverage is a huge one.

1778
01:26:28,040 --> 01:26:30,000
Speaker 1: You don't want to be the team that allows a

1779
01:26:30,040 --> 01:26:33,000
Speaker 1: punt return for a touchdown and and thereby you know,

1780
01:26:33,280 --> 01:26:35,960
Speaker 1: giving up the game for that reason or pump or

1781
01:26:36,240 --> 01:26:40,559
Speaker 1: missing an assignment on punk protection as well. So punt

1782
01:26:40,600 --> 01:26:45,080
Speaker 1: pump return has always been the a one special team

1783
01:26:45,720 --> 01:26:48,479
Speaker 1: slots that you have to fill. And if you can

1784
01:26:48,560 --> 01:26:51,040
Speaker 1: do that, as an Isaiah McKenzie or and Andrea Roberts

1785
01:26:51,080 --> 01:26:53,840
Speaker 1: on both sides of that, it helps. It helps a lot.

1786
01:26:54,080 --> 01:26:55,960
Speaker 1: All Right, we gotta break here. We're coming back with more.

1787
01:26:56,320 --> 01:27:00,360
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the NFL owners meeting in the teleconference today.

1788
01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:01,800
Speaker 1: They have one bit of news. We'll get to it

1789
01:27:01,880 --> 01:27:04,360
Speaker 1: when we come back. One Bills Live presented by Kalaid

1790
01:27:04,400 --> 01:27:06,559
Speaker 1: of Health from our Homes to begin today radio cover

1791
01:27:06,680 --> 01:27:18,360
Speaker 1: je only. This is Buffalo Bill's Raiding a little Fly,

1792
01:27:18,520 --> 01:27:21,519
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker from our Homes. I'm in my kitchen,

1793
01:27:21,560 --> 01:27:23,840
Speaker 1: Steve's and his den with his dog. I think I

1794
01:27:23,960 --> 01:27:25,760
Speaker 1: heard your dog to snore, and Steve and your den

1795
01:27:25,880 --> 01:27:28,679
Speaker 1: is he's sleeping. He is sleeping, and he is snoring,

1796
01:27:28,760 --> 01:27:32,400
Speaker 1: and I'm sorry about that. I don't want to wake him.

1797
01:27:32,439 --> 01:27:35,080
Speaker 1: It may cause more commotion than we're signing up for.

1798
01:27:35,400 --> 01:27:38,880
Speaker 1: I'm not attended by people who snore at all. Hey,

1799
01:27:38,920 --> 01:27:41,800
Speaker 1: we got this just moved across to the wires on

1800
01:27:41,960 --> 01:27:46,320
Speaker 1: the NFL dot com. The anticipated playoff expansion has officially passed.

1801
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:49,320
Speaker 1: League owners have voted to approve extending the postseason to

1802
01:27:49,400 --> 01:27:52,479
Speaker 1: fourteen teams starting this coming season. According to the Ian

1803
01:27:52,560 --> 01:27:56,240
Speaker 1: Rapp Report, NFL Network came in a teleconference call today

1804
01:27:56,720 --> 01:27:59,639
Speaker 1: and LOEU of the league's annual meeting. Changing the playoff

1805
01:27:59,680 --> 01:28:02,880
Speaker 1: format required approval of three quarters of thirty two NFL owners.

1806
01:28:02,920 --> 01:28:06,480
Speaker 1: But they're going with it. Steve seven teams per conference.

1807
01:28:06,600 --> 01:28:08,800
Speaker 1: And we looked and there was an article in I

1808
01:28:08,880 --> 01:28:12,680
Speaker 1: think the Rochester Syracuse paper. They did the survey and

1809
01:28:13,120 --> 01:28:15,560
Speaker 1: the Bills would not have qualified at all over the

1810
01:28:15,640 --> 01:28:18,200
Speaker 1: last seven years. Wouldn't have helped them, wouldn't have helped.

1811
01:28:18,200 --> 01:28:20,040
Speaker 1: They still would have been a seventeen year playoff drove.

1812
01:28:20,160 --> 01:28:22,840
Speaker 1: But they have been. They have been in two out

1813
01:28:22,840 --> 01:28:24,479
Speaker 1: of the last three years. So there's yeah, in a

1814
01:28:24,560 --> 01:28:28,720
Speaker 1: six team field. I don't know. I look, there's no

1815
01:28:28,880 --> 01:28:32,360
Speaker 1: question I'm not gonna, you know, rain on anybody's parade,

1816
01:28:32,400 --> 01:28:35,519
Speaker 1: but there's no question they have cheapened what it means

1817
01:28:35,560 --> 01:28:37,519
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs with a Steve, they really have.

1818
01:28:38,160 --> 01:28:40,080
Speaker 1: You get an extra team in there. Now, the seventh

1819
01:28:40,200 --> 01:28:42,280
Speaker 1: best team gets in as long as well as the sixth.

1820
01:28:42,560 --> 01:28:46,360
Speaker 1: They've done that, they have diminished the importance I think

1821
01:28:46,439 --> 01:28:49,640
Speaker 1: of the regular season. Although it's really important now to

1822
01:28:49,680 --> 01:28:51,720
Speaker 1: finish number one in your conference if you can, as

1823
01:28:51,760 --> 01:28:54,360
Speaker 1: opposed to finish first or second in the conference. Right,

1824
01:28:54,400 --> 01:28:55,960
Speaker 1: it's got to be fun to watch your play out.

1825
01:28:56,000 --> 01:28:58,080
Speaker 1: It always is. And I think you know what we

1826
01:28:58,120 --> 01:29:00,240
Speaker 1: said yesterday that the first thing of pup to my

1827
01:29:00,280 --> 01:29:02,479
Speaker 1: mind as we always have these games that like the

1828
01:29:02,560 --> 01:29:05,360
Speaker 1: Bills last game this last season against the Jets, the

1829
01:29:05,400 --> 01:29:09,640
Speaker 1: Bills couldn't improve or or lessen their playoff chances. They

1830
01:29:09,640 --> 01:29:11,439
Speaker 1: were going to be the five seed no matter what,

1831
01:29:12,040 --> 01:29:15,240
Speaker 1: and so Josh Allen a bunch of keys guys didn't

1832
01:29:15,280 --> 01:29:18,400
Speaker 1: play very much in that last game. On the reverse

1833
01:29:18,479 --> 01:29:21,400
Speaker 1: of that, I thought yesterday, and it still might happen

1834
01:29:21,479 --> 01:29:23,240
Speaker 1: if you get two teams that are neck and neck

1835
01:29:23,320 --> 01:29:26,439
Speaker 1: going down the stretch for the while for the number

1836
01:29:26,520 --> 01:29:29,040
Speaker 1: one seed, you may have the best teams in the

1837
01:29:29,120 --> 01:29:33,080
Speaker 1: conference playing like there's no tomorrow, and the three, four

1838
01:29:33,160 --> 01:29:37,840
Speaker 1: and five seed coasting in for that final week because

1839
01:29:37,880 --> 01:29:39,919
Speaker 1: they are playing teams that are out of the playoffs

1840
01:29:39,960 --> 01:29:41,600
Speaker 1: and you know, and they don't have to win or

1841
01:29:41,680 --> 01:29:44,600
Speaker 1: those team games won't affect their seeding at least in

1842
01:29:44,640 --> 01:29:49,400
Speaker 1: a significant way. That's an interesting curveball to this whole thing,

1843
01:29:49,520 --> 01:29:53,920
Speaker 1: because you're I'm like humor. The bye week after seventeen

1844
01:29:54,000 --> 01:29:59,320
Speaker 1: weeks season is a huge advantage for whichever team gets it,

1845
01:29:59,560 --> 01:30:03,280
Speaker 1: and to make them work for it, that one single

1846
01:30:03,360 --> 01:30:05,280
Speaker 1: bye week may be a plus for the rest of

1847
01:30:05,320 --> 01:30:09,080
Speaker 1: the playoff field. Yeah, I guess, I just look, it

1848
01:30:09,200 --> 01:30:10,880
Speaker 1: just doesn't mean as much to make the playoffs now

1849
01:30:10,920 --> 01:30:13,240
Speaker 1: in the NFL, right the seventh seed, it'll be more fun.

1850
01:30:13,280 --> 01:30:15,960
Speaker 1: There'll be one more game on wild card weekend. There

1851
01:30:16,120 --> 01:30:17,640
Speaker 1: was talk Steven, I don't know if this has come

1852
01:30:17,680 --> 01:30:20,360
Speaker 1: out today, there was talk of having, you know, so

1853
01:30:20,479 --> 01:30:23,880
Speaker 1: now each conference says one more playoff game, one more

1854
01:30:23,920 --> 01:30:26,639
Speaker 1: wild card game. They talked about maybe, I mean moving

1855
01:30:26,680 --> 01:30:29,320
Speaker 1: at least one game to Monday night wild Card weekend,

1856
01:30:29,360 --> 01:30:31,599
Speaker 1: although opponents of that move said, well then that team

1857
01:30:31,720 --> 01:30:34,120
Speaker 1: should they win as a short week to get ready

1858
01:30:34,120 --> 01:30:37,800
Speaker 1: for the divisional playoff game. But either otherwise, you're gonna

1859
01:30:37,840 --> 01:30:40,320
Speaker 1: have three games on Saturday, three games on wildcard Sunday.

1860
01:30:40,360 --> 01:30:42,880
Speaker 1: What do you think you need it a game? It's

1861
01:30:42,960 --> 01:30:46,400
Speaker 1: interesting because what do you get one of those half

1862
01:30:46,439 --> 01:30:49,400
Speaker 1: the field? Now, the teams that play on Saturday get

1863
01:30:49,439 --> 01:30:53,280
Speaker 1: an extra day to prepare, you know, I mean, what

1864
01:30:53,439 --> 01:30:57,080
Speaker 1: are we talking about and teams playing Monday night football.

1865
01:30:57,080 --> 01:30:59,840
Speaker 1: I'm playing Monday night football since nineteen seventy so you know,

1866
01:31:00,120 --> 01:31:04,000
Speaker 1: spare me the extra twenty four hours. But yeah, let

1867
01:31:04,040 --> 01:31:06,719
Speaker 1: them play this, you know, let them go from Monday

1868
01:31:06,840 --> 01:31:09,960
Speaker 1: night to Sunday game and then the Saturday games got

1869
01:31:10,040 --> 01:31:12,599
Speaker 1: to play on the Saturday you know or whatever. So yeah,

1870
01:31:12,640 --> 01:31:16,400
Speaker 1: I don't whatever, let's face it, Murph, there are certain

1871
01:31:16,479 --> 01:31:19,240
Speaker 1: times in the NFL where they don't really care about

1872
01:31:19,280 --> 01:31:21,240
Speaker 1: the football. They care about the TV and the book

1873
01:31:21,280 --> 01:31:23,240
Speaker 1: kind of ratings. It's gonna pull. So the extra twenty

1874
01:31:23,280 --> 01:31:25,759
Speaker 1: four hours for one team or the other, I'm pretty

1875
01:31:25,800 --> 01:31:28,240
Speaker 1: sure they're not gonna lose any sleep over it. Wow,

1876
01:31:28,720 --> 01:31:30,519
Speaker 1: at least at least not the at least not the

1877
01:31:30,640 --> 01:31:35,720
Speaker 1: people who who worry about football in the NFL. Yeah, well,

1878
01:31:36,320 --> 01:31:40,519
Speaker 1: you know it's true. Um listen, by that time you're playing,

1879
01:31:40,600 --> 01:31:43,760
Speaker 1: so well, let them go, you know, turn them lose

1880
01:31:43,800 --> 01:31:45,560
Speaker 1: And I get it though, there You're right, it is

1881
01:31:45,600 --> 01:31:47,840
Speaker 1: a little bit of a disadvantage, particularly when they get

1882
01:31:47,880 --> 01:31:50,920
Speaker 1: those guys that are maybe game day decisions injury wise,

1883
01:31:51,320 --> 01:31:54,040
Speaker 1: and that twenty four hours might have made a difference. Uh,

1884
01:31:54,560 --> 01:31:56,519
Speaker 1: but that's you know, that's the luck of the draw

1885
01:31:56,560 --> 01:31:58,880
Speaker 1: as much as anything. Hey, we can talk about that

1886
01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:00,760
Speaker 1: in the third and final or the show. Give us

1887
01:32:00,760 --> 01:32:02,920
Speaker 1: a call eight oh three five fifty and toll three

1888
01:32:03,200 --> 01:32:05,880
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. It's

1889
01:32:05,920 --> 01:32:09,559
Speaker 1: official now. Owners have approved the expanded postseason, seven teams

1890
01:32:09,640 --> 01:32:14,040
Speaker 1: per conference starting next year, the playoffs next January. No

1891
01:32:14,560 --> 01:32:17,320
Speaker 1: move on a regular season expansion that's expected to come

1892
01:32:17,360 --> 01:32:20,559
Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty twenty one campaign. You can talk

1893
01:32:20,560 --> 01:32:23,000
Speaker 1: about that. With the phone lines open, you can weigh

1894
01:32:23,080 --> 01:32:25,960
Speaker 1: in in our Twitter poll. What'll be the biggest strength

1895
01:32:25,960 --> 01:32:29,000
Speaker 1: of the Bills offense in twenty twenty resurgence of the

1896
01:32:29,080 --> 01:32:32,120
Speaker 1: deep pass, underneath passing game, a more developed run game,

1897
01:32:32,320 --> 01:32:34,439
Speaker 1: anything you'd like to talk about. When we return, we're

1898
01:32:34,439 --> 01:32:37,120
Speaker 1: gonna have Brad Genyon, national NFL writer for a Bleacher

1899
01:32:37,160 --> 01:32:38,960
Speaker 1: Reports standing by. So we got a lot of business

1900
01:32:39,000 --> 01:32:41,040
Speaker 1: to cover and our number three come on back with

1901
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Speaker 1: us one. Bills Live Presented by Kalida Health. Coming to

1902
01:32:44,280 --> 01:32:46,560
Speaker 1: you from Hame again. We're on the radio only. This

1903
01:32:46,720 --> 01:32:54,559
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Review. The update comes from one Bills Live.

1904
01:32:54,760 --> 01:32:58,320
Speaker 1: NFL owners. We're supposed to meet today in Florida. Instead

1905
01:32:58,360 --> 01:33:01,120
Speaker 1: they had a tele conference and they've already taken action.

1906
01:33:01,400 --> 01:33:05,240
Speaker 1: The owners have officially expanded the playoffs the postseason. That

1907
01:33:05,720 --> 01:33:08,200
Speaker 1: vote came as more than two thirds were needed to

1908
01:33:08,360 --> 01:33:11,400
Speaker 1: make it happen. The decision came during a conference call today.

1909
01:33:11,840 --> 01:33:15,120
Speaker 1: Changing the playoff format is approved. The expanded format, which

1910
01:33:15,240 --> 01:33:20,440
Speaker 1: was agreed to, already adds one team per conference, including

1911
01:33:20,720 --> 01:33:24,400
Speaker 1: six total wildcard spots seven playoffs spots in general per conference.

1912
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Speaker 1: Since nineteen ninety, when the playoffs expanded from ten to

1913
01:33:27,600 --> 01:33:30,559
Speaker 1: twelve teams, forty four of the sixty teams that would

1914
01:33:30,560 --> 01:33:33,559
Speaker 1: have claimed the seven seeds had winning records, including ten

1915
01:33:33,680 --> 01:33:37,320
Speaker 1: different ten win teams. Adding an additional playoff team in

1916
01:33:37,360 --> 01:33:39,519
Speaker 1: each conference means only the number one seeds in each

1917
01:33:39,600 --> 01:33:42,600
Speaker 1: conference get a postseason buy, which should be exciting. The

1918
01:33:42,680 --> 01:33:46,000
Speaker 1: move to fourteen playoff teams means forty three point seven

1919
01:33:46,080 --> 01:33:48,720
Speaker 1: percent of all NFL teams will qualify for the postseason,

1920
01:33:49,080 --> 01:33:52,639
Speaker 1: compared to thirty three percent in Major League Baseball, fifty

1921
01:33:52,680 --> 01:33:56,120
Speaker 1: two percent in the NHL, fifty three percent in the NBA.

1922
01:33:56,520 --> 01:34:00,360
Speaker 1: Playoff expansion is official for this coming season. In the NFL,

1923
01:34:00,600 --> 01:34:02,920
Speaker 1: around the league to Cincinnati Bengals ever released venter in

1924
01:34:03,000 --> 01:34:06,800
Speaker 1: cornerback Drake Kirkpatrick, former first round pick in twenty twelve,

1925
01:34:06,840 --> 01:34:10,000
Speaker 1: spent eight years with the Bengals. Former Alabama product. During

1926
01:34:10,040 --> 01:34:12,800
Speaker 1: his time in Cincinnati, he started sixty seven games and

1927
01:34:12,880 --> 01:34:17,519
Speaker 1: had ten interceptions. Suffered a season engine ending injury last November.

1928
01:34:18,320 --> 01:34:21,479
Speaker 1: NFL Draft this year will not feature players walking across

1929
01:34:21,560 --> 01:34:24,280
Speaker 1: the stage to shake hands with Roger Goodell, but NFL

1930
01:34:24,400 --> 01:34:27,960
Speaker 1: Executive BP of Football Operations Torry Vincent sent a letter

1931
01:34:28,040 --> 01:34:30,160
Speaker 1: to the top fifty years so prospects asking them to

1932
01:34:30,200 --> 01:34:32,759
Speaker 1: be ready to join the draft by a video conference

1933
01:34:32,840 --> 01:34:35,840
Speaker 1: from their homes. That All CONFERENCEEAM will allow drafted players

1934
01:34:35,880 --> 01:34:39,200
Speaker 1: to appear on the NFL network. Left tackle Army Tunsel

1935
01:34:39,240 --> 01:34:41,960
Speaker 1: and the Houston Texans have started talking about a multi

1936
01:34:42,040 --> 01:34:46,519
Speaker 1: year contract extension. The two sides exchange preliminary proposals. Tunsel

1937
01:34:46,600 --> 01:34:48,679
Speaker 1: was acquired by the Texans and exchange for a huge

1938
01:34:48,720 --> 01:34:52,519
Speaker 1: package of draft picks, including two first rounders a last

1939
01:34:52,560 --> 01:34:56,160
Speaker 1: season in twenty nineteen season, and that is the update

1940
01:34:56,560 --> 01:34:59,400
Speaker 1: from One Bills Live. John Murphy and Steve Tasker Company

1941
01:34:59,600 --> 01:35:01,920
Speaker 1: from Home are Our show is on the radio only

1942
01:35:02,000 --> 01:35:04,639
Speaker 1: today and joining us on the line. The Nashville NFL

1943
01:35:04,720 --> 01:35:08,560
Speaker 1: writer for Bleacher Report contributed to the comeback Brad Genios

1944
01:35:08,600 --> 01:35:11,160
Speaker 1: with us Brad, John Murphy, Steve Tasker here, thanks, coming on.

1945
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Speaker 1: How you doing? I'm good? How are you guys doing good?

1946
01:35:15,400 --> 01:35:18,040
Speaker 1: We're hanging in there. And initial thoughts on the news

1947
01:35:18,080 --> 01:35:21,599
Speaker 1: of the day, the expansion of NFL postseason, the fourteen teams,

1948
01:35:21,680 --> 01:35:24,559
Speaker 1: what do you think? You know, it's interesting when all

1949
01:35:24,640 --> 01:35:27,840
Speaker 1: this the CBA talk that you know, was dominating before

1950
01:35:28,160 --> 01:35:31,479
Speaker 1: the world was turned upside down, the one they're kind

1951
01:35:31,479 --> 01:35:33,160
Speaker 1: of the two things of course that barked a lot

1952
01:35:33,240 --> 01:35:36,759
Speaker 1: of people and were very controversial, where the expanded season

1953
01:35:36,880 --> 01:35:39,360
Speaker 1: to seventeen games, which we're probably kicking in a couple

1954
01:35:39,400 --> 01:35:42,360
Speaker 1: of years, and the expanded playoff field. I have a

1955
01:35:42,439 --> 01:35:44,680
Speaker 1: lot of problems with the expanded season on how a

1956
01:35:44,720 --> 01:35:46,280
Speaker 1: lot of people do I think that you know, it

1957
01:35:46,320 --> 01:35:49,679
Speaker 1: could be it could be very problematic for the players

1958
01:35:50,000 --> 01:35:52,439
Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons. But I have never had

1959
01:35:52,439 --> 01:35:54,760
Speaker 1: an issue expanding the playoff field. I think the more

1960
01:35:54,800 --> 01:35:57,360
Speaker 1: playoff games, the marrier. I think it'll make wild Card

1961
01:35:57,439 --> 01:36:00,559
Speaker 1: weekend that much more awesome. I think it leaves more

1962
01:36:00,640 --> 01:36:04,160
Speaker 1: fan bases intrigued in December and knowing their team as

1963
01:36:04,160 --> 01:36:06,040
Speaker 1: a chance to get into the playoffs, and once you

1964
01:36:06,120 --> 01:36:08,439
Speaker 1: get in, as you know, you've got a shot. So

1965
01:36:08,960 --> 01:36:11,280
Speaker 1: you know. I understand the argument that it could kind of,

1966
01:36:12,160 --> 01:36:14,320
Speaker 1: I guess, cheap in the regular season a tiny bit.

1967
01:36:14,479 --> 01:36:16,880
Speaker 1: I really don't see that being the case. It's not

1968
01:36:17,000 --> 01:36:19,639
Speaker 1: that dramatic of a change. You still want that number

1969
01:36:19,680 --> 01:36:21,760
Speaker 1: one seed, you still want the highest possible seed to

1970
01:36:21,840 --> 01:36:24,760
Speaker 1: get a home game. But again, I just think it's

1971
01:36:24,800 --> 01:36:26,400
Speaker 1: going to be a lot of fun. I think it's

1972
01:36:26,439 --> 01:36:28,920
Speaker 1: going to make wildcard races that much more interesting and

1973
01:36:29,000 --> 01:36:32,280
Speaker 1: include the more fan bases that have been starved to

1974
01:36:32,360 --> 01:36:34,640
Speaker 1: get those opportunities. And I think that we're going to

1975
01:36:34,720 --> 01:36:37,360
Speaker 1: really enjoy having back to back triple headers is what

1976
01:36:37,479 --> 01:36:39,360
Speaker 1: it looks like. It's going to be on the first

1977
01:36:39,439 --> 01:36:42,040
Speaker 1: weekend of January every year, So I'm pretty excited about it.

1978
01:36:43,000 --> 01:36:46,559
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily disagree with you do, being honest, Bread,

1979
01:36:46,640 --> 01:36:52,000
Speaker 1: but it does I mean, of the NFL teams will

1980
01:36:52,000 --> 01:36:54,599
Speaker 1: now make the playoffs. Major League Baseball has a third

1981
01:36:54,720 --> 01:36:58,000
Speaker 1: thirty three percent. It does cheapen the regular season. The

1982
01:36:58,479 --> 01:37:01,000
Speaker 1: NFL will like to tell you that every regular season

1983
01:37:01,080 --> 01:37:03,639
Speaker 1: game means something. We only play sixteen to these things,

1984
01:37:04,160 --> 01:37:07,360
Speaker 1: it makes them a little bit less meaningful, doesn't it. Yeah,

1985
01:37:07,400 --> 01:37:09,439
Speaker 1: although I would argue that again to go back to that.

1986
01:37:09,640 --> 01:37:12,680
Speaker 1: The other big change, the seventeen game season is much

1987
01:37:12,760 --> 01:37:15,479
Speaker 1: more dramatic in that respect, I think, and that now

1988
01:37:15,520 --> 01:37:17,360
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you're at an entire other game

1989
01:37:17,439 --> 01:37:21,160
Speaker 1: to the schedule. I guess percentage wise you can argue

1990
01:37:21,200 --> 01:37:24,600
Speaker 1: over which makes a bigger difference, but both work to

1991
01:37:24,720 --> 01:37:27,080
Speaker 1: do that. But if you're going to cheapen it, I'd

1992
01:37:27,200 --> 01:37:29,760
Speaker 1: rather cheapen it this way than cheapen it with the

1993
01:37:29,840 --> 01:37:33,160
Speaker 1: added extra regular season games that essentially make every game

1994
01:37:33,400 --> 01:37:37,920
Speaker 1: a certain percentage less essentially that's important or less significant.

1995
01:37:38,040 --> 01:37:41,400
Speaker 1: So you're right, that's as that's the obvious drawback. And

1996
01:37:41,520 --> 01:37:43,800
Speaker 1: if they were to go to like sixteen teams, which

1997
01:37:43,880 --> 01:37:46,160
Speaker 1: is you know, the NHL having sixteen out of thirty

1998
01:37:46,200 --> 01:37:50,240
Speaker 1: one the NBA having sixteen out of thirty over fifty

1999
01:37:50,320 --> 01:37:53,639
Speaker 1: percent in both cases, I think that's where you get

2000
01:37:53,640 --> 01:37:55,360
Speaker 1: to a point where it's like, is the player is

2001
01:37:55,439 --> 01:37:57,680
Speaker 1: making the playoffs that great? I'm an accomplishment. You have

2002
01:37:57,760 --> 01:38:00,519
Speaker 1: to be essentially an average team. We're going to closure

2003
01:38:00,520 --> 01:38:02,439
Speaker 1: to that, and that is scary. I understand it, and

2004
01:38:02,439 --> 01:38:04,519
Speaker 1: I agree with you on that it's not quite the

2005
01:38:04,600 --> 01:38:08,080
Speaker 1: accomplishment that it has been, although that's a change we

2006
01:38:08,200 --> 01:38:09,960
Speaker 1: made in the past too, right, I mean, the playoff

2007
01:38:09,960 --> 01:38:12,840
Speaker 1: field wasn't always twelve teams, and slowly we kind of,

2008
01:38:13,040 --> 01:38:17,479
Speaker 1: you know, grow toward that number. You also wonder if,

2009
01:38:17,680 --> 01:38:19,679
Speaker 1: you know, maybe we get more expansion at some point

2010
01:38:19,680 --> 01:38:22,120
Speaker 1: in the future. I don't think that's on that immediate horizon,

2011
01:38:22,200 --> 01:38:24,680
Speaker 1: but if that happens, that forty four percent starts to

2012
01:38:24,760 --> 01:38:27,639
Speaker 1: drop down a little bit. Again, So again I don't

2013
01:38:27,680 --> 01:38:29,240
Speaker 1: think it's the end of the world, but I do

2014
01:38:29,400 --> 01:38:31,679
Speaker 1: agree with you, of course, that it will be slightly

2015
01:38:31,880 --> 01:38:34,680
Speaker 1: less of an accomplishment to get into the playoffs. With

2016
01:38:34,800 --> 01:38:38,040
Speaker 1: breg Ganiel from Bleacher Report, John Murphy and Steve Tasker.

2017
01:38:38,040 --> 01:38:39,920
Speaker 1: I think Steve, you got a question right, Yeah, I

2018
01:38:40,000 --> 01:38:42,840
Speaker 1: was gonna. I wanted to know. As soon as this

2019
01:38:43,000 --> 01:38:45,320
Speaker 1: came out and happened, we started doing statistics on what

2020
01:38:45,439 --> 01:38:47,800
Speaker 1: would have been would you know the Bills had a

2021
01:38:47,920 --> 01:38:49,840
Speaker 1: long drought of playoffs, would it have helped them? And

2022
01:38:49,920 --> 01:38:51,640
Speaker 1: you go all the way back to nineteen ninety and

2023
01:38:51,760 --> 01:38:53,559
Speaker 1: one of the thoughts is, and one of the problems

2024
01:38:53,600 --> 01:38:56,400
Speaker 1: I have with expanding the playoffs is there's a chance

2025
01:38:56,520 --> 01:38:59,720
Speaker 1: that a team with a losing record could get into

2026
01:38:59,720 --> 01:39:01,519
Speaker 1: the layoffs. And if you go back and look at

2027
01:39:01,560 --> 01:39:05,240
Speaker 1: statistics only, this would have changed. Only one point six

2028
01:39:05,760 --> 01:39:07,720
Speaker 1: of the teams that would have made the playoffs since

2029
01:39:07,880 --> 01:39:11,320
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety would have had losing records. But on the

2030
01:39:11,400 --> 01:39:13,679
Speaker 1: other side of it, a bunch of teams that actually

2031
01:39:13,800 --> 01:39:16,519
Speaker 1: won ten games in a regular season that did not

2032
01:39:16,720 --> 01:39:19,280
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs would have So when you look

2033
01:39:19,320 --> 01:39:22,160
Speaker 1: at it from that perspective, to me, what were they

2034
01:39:22,240 --> 01:39:23,880
Speaker 1: waiting on and why did it take so long to

2035
01:39:23,960 --> 01:39:26,200
Speaker 1: do this, Because we've already found out they didn't need

2036
01:39:26,280 --> 01:39:28,200
Speaker 1: the CBA to be signed or the players you need

2037
01:39:28,320 --> 01:39:31,360
Speaker 1: to sign off on it. Why did it takes so long? Yeah, yeah,

2038
01:39:31,439 --> 01:39:33,519
Speaker 1: that's a good point. I'm surprised that there wasn't more

2039
01:39:33,600 --> 01:39:35,800
Speaker 1: momentum for this earlier. I don't know if maybe it

2040
01:39:35,880 --> 01:39:38,479
Speaker 1: wanted one of the two sides wanted to utilize it

2041
01:39:38,560 --> 01:39:40,960
Speaker 1: as a bargaining ship and CBA negotiations, even though, as

2042
01:39:40,960 --> 01:39:43,600
Speaker 1: you say, that didn't necessarily have to come part and

2043
01:39:43,680 --> 01:39:47,840
Speaker 1: parcel with CBA negotiations. It is fun to look back

2044
01:39:47,880 --> 01:39:50,559
Speaker 1: at those scenarios. You're right, I would back last night.

2045
01:39:50,600 --> 01:39:52,720
Speaker 1: I looked at the last twenty four teams sitting back

2046
01:39:52,760 --> 01:39:55,640
Speaker 1: twelve years to actually highlight them more specifically. And there

2047
01:39:55,680 --> 01:39:58,439
Speaker 1: aren't any losing records at least between two thousand and

2048
01:39:58,520 --> 01:40:01,200
Speaker 1: eight and two thousand nine team. But there are the

2049
01:40:01,240 --> 01:40:04,080
Speaker 1: eleven and five two thousand and eight Patriots, who if

2050
01:40:04,120 --> 01:40:06,680
Speaker 1: they had gotten in that year, would currently be on

2051
01:40:06,840 --> 01:40:09,960
Speaker 1: I believe a seventeen year playoffs three because that was

2052
01:40:10,000 --> 01:40:11,760
Speaker 1: the one team that didn't get through. Of course, Matt

2053
01:40:11,840 --> 01:40:15,000
Speaker 1: Castle quarterback them for almost the entirety of the season.

2054
01:40:15,479 --> 01:40:17,640
Speaker 1: That's an intriguing one. The Steelers would have made it

2055
01:40:17,880 --> 01:40:20,679
Speaker 1: in each of their last four times they'd missed the playoffs,

2056
01:40:20,760 --> 01:40:22,840
Speaker 1: they'd been the seven seeds, that they would have been

2057
01:40:22,880 --> 01:40:25,599
Speaker 1: in there four more times, which is wild. And yeah,

2058
01:40:25,680 --> 01:40:28,280
Speaker 1: you're right, there'd be some other double digit win teams,

2059
01:40:28,760 --> 01:40:31,320
Speaker 1: maybe in the Philadelphia Eagles twenty fourteen. They fired him

2060
01:40:31,439 --> 01:40:34,000
Speaker 1: Kelly that year, so you wonder they hang on to

2061
01:40:34,120 --> 01:40:36,439
Speaker 1: Chip Kelly, if they're the seven seed in twenty fourteen

2062
01:40:36,479 --> 01:40:37,800
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden they don't hire Doug

2063
01:40:37,840 --> 01:40:39,519
Speaker 1: Peterson and who knows, maybe they don't even win the

2064
01:40:39,560 --> 01:40:42,040
Speaker 1: super Bowl two years later. So I mean, it's just fun,

2065
01:40:42,200 --> 01:40:46,040
Speaker 1: it's just hypothetical, but it does make you realize that

2066
01:40:46,120 --> 01:40:48,240
Speaker 1: a few were the good teams missed and that might

2067
01:40:48,280 --> 01:40:52,280
Speaker 1: have been the larger loss than the idea of having

2068
01:40:52,320 --> 01:40:55,720
Speaker 1: the odd occasion. Where As you say, Steven, what one

2069
01:40:55,760 --> 01:40:58,080
Speaker 1: and a half percent chance that you're going to have

2070
01:40:58,160 --> 01:41:00,599
Speaker 1: a bad team get in which a chance still exists.

2071
01:41:00,640 --> 01:41:03,240
Speaker 1: Now we've still seen, you know, teams with losing records

2072
01:41:03,280 --> 01:41:06,840
Speaker 1: in the playoffs even under the current format. We'll live

2073
01:41:06,880 --> 01:41:09,880
Speaker 1: with Bret Genya, a national NFL writer for a Bleacher Report. Hey,

2074
01:41:09,920 --> 01:41:13,240
Speaker 1: brand switching gears. Oh, not long ago, and the Bills

2075
01:41:13,280 --> 01:41:15,479
Speaker 1: made the trade for Stefan Diggs about two weeks ago.

2076
01:41:15,720 --> 01:41:17,680
Speaker 1: You gave the Bills an A for that move, not

2077
01:41:17,800 --> 01:41:19,800
Speaker 1: a B, not an a minus, but an A. What

2078
01:41:19,880 --> 01:41:22,800
Speaker 1: do you like about the Stefan Diggs trip. I just

2079
01:41:22,880 --> 01:41:24,560
Speaker 1: think it gives them a true number one. And I

2080
01:41:24,640 --> 01:41:27,360
Speaker 1: think John Brown's a great receiver, and I think he's

2081
01:41:27,360 --> 01:41:28,720
Speaker 1: a great deep threat, and he's a guy that they

2082
01:41:28,760 --> 01:41:30,479
Speaker 1: can utilize his speed. But I don't know if he's

2083
01:41:30,640 --> 01:41:32,599
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think he's viewed even in Buffalo.

2084
01:41:32,880 --> 01:41:35,280
Speaker 1: You guys can correct me if I'm wrong. Asn't necessarily

2085
01:41:35,439 --> 01:41:38,519
Speaker 1: like an elite number one receiver, and I think Stefan

2086
01:41:38,600 --> 01:41:40,880
Speaker 1: Diggs has that ability. I think he's maybe the best

2087
01:41:40,960 --> 01:41:44,280
Speaker 1: route runner in the NFL. You combine that with having

2088
01:41:44,600 --> 01:41:48,000
Speaker 1: a safety valve like Cole Beasley, and all of a sudden,

2089
01:41:48,040 --> 01:41:51,040
Speaker 1: you have, you know, a perfect trio for Josh Allen.

2090
01:41:51,080 --> 01:41:53,599
Speaker 1: I mean, they took a big step forward last year

2091
01:41:53,680 --> 01:41:56,200
Speaker 1: when they brought in those two guys, and obviously that

2092
01:41:56,320 --> 01:41:58,479
Speaker 1: gave him a lot more support in his second season.

2093
01:41:58,520 --> 01:42:00,240
Speaker 1: But now you look at his third season, out of

2094
01:42:00,280 --> 01:42:03,120
Speaker 1: player like Biggs, who should be motivated, who's got that

2095
01:42:03,200 --> 01:42:06,840
Speaker 1: route running ability, who's in his prime, you know, he's

2096
01:42:06,880 --> 01:42:09,320
Speaker 1: really the perfect package. And you don't give up too much.

2097
01:42:09,360 --> 01:42:10,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's the first round pick, it

2098
01:42:10,960 --> 01:42:12,479
Speaker 1: is in the bottom of the first half of the

2099
01:42:12,520 --> 01:42:15,080
Speaker 1: first round, and it's a known commodity, a guy who

2100
01:42:15,120 --> 01:42:17,240
Speaker 1: should be able to make a major impact right away

2101
01:42:17,280 --> 01:42:20,760
Speaker 1: for your young quarterback versus an unknown commodity, essentially a

2102
01:42:21,240 --> 01:42:23,760
Speaker 1: roll of the dice, which is what you know, a

2103
01:42:23,840 --> 01:42:26,320
Speaker 1: first round draft pick, especially in the twenties is. So

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Speaker 1: I love it, and you know, I frankly I love

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01:42:29,240 --> 01:42:31,240
Speaker 1: it from the Viking standpoint too. It was one of

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01:42:31,320 --> 01:42:34,200
Speaker 1: those rare trades that made sense on both sides. Whereas

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01:42:34,200 --> 01:42:36,240
Speaker 1: you know, everyone's talking about the Texans getting ripped off

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01:42:36,280 --> 01:42:38,760
Speaker 1: by the Cardinals, this wasn't the case. You know, this

2109
01:42:38,920 --> 01:42:41,559
Speaker 1: was the case where Minnesota had to dump some salary.

2110
01:42:42,400 --> 01:42:44,840
Speaker 1: Is not a team that relies heavily on its wide

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01:42:44,920 --> 01:42:48,320
Speaker 1: receiving corps has you know, a focus on Dalvin Cook

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01:42:48,520 --> 01:42:50,800
Speaker 1: and the looking at the draft that is very, very

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01:42:50,920 --> 01:42:52,760
Speaker 1: receiver heavy. So you can get a guy on a

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01:42:53,000 --> 01:42:55,320
Speaker 1: rookie contract, you might be able to make a similar

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01:42:55,600 --> 01:42:58,640
Speaker 1: or close impact, and it isn't necessarily going to take

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01:42:58,680 --> 01:43:00,679
Speaker 1: you down. So it made sense from a vice standpoint.

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01:43:00,920 --> 01:43:02,760
Speaker 1: But of course from a Bill standpoint, I think they're

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01:43:02,760 --> 01:43:06,160
Speaker 1: the obvious immediate victors in that trade because they're the only,

2119
01:43:06,280 --> 01:43:08,000
Speaker 1: you know, you know, the only team that walks away

2120
01:43:08,040 --> 01:43:11,559
Speaker 1: with a twenty twenty asset that's improven. So I think

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01:43:11,600 --> 01:43:13,560
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a great move for Buffalo one of

2122
01:43:13,600 --> 01:43:18,000
Speaker 1: the best moves made in the NFL this offseason so far. Brad,

2123
01:43:18,080 --> 01:43:19,840
Speaker 1: you also went down the thirty two teams in the

2124
01:43:19,920 --> 01:43:21,760
Speaker 1: league and you thought there was at least one move

2125
01:43:21,840 --> 01:43:24,720
Speaker 1: by every team that maybe there was a chance that

2126
01:43:24,920 --> 01:43:27,200
Speaker 1: that team would regret making that move, and that includes

2127
01:43:27,200 --> 01:43:30,920
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. You thought not shining, not signing Shack

2128
01:43:31,040 --> 01:43:33,320
Speaker 1: Lawson might come back to haunt the Bills. Tell us

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01:43:33,360 --> 01:43:36,160
Speaker 1: why I like Shack. It's a simple as that I

2130
01:43:36,200 --> 01:43:37,840
Speaker 1: think Buffalo has had a great off season, but as

2131
01:43:37,840 --> 01:43:39,920
Speaker 1: you mentioned, I had to find something for everybody, and

2132
01:43:40,360 --> 01:43:42,559
Speaker 1: in this case, it's the fact is he still has

2133
01:43:42,600 --> 01:43:45,360
Speaker 1: a high ceiling. Right. He hasn't lived up to expectations,

2134
01:43:45,760 --> 01:43:48,439
Speaker 1: but it's still there considering that he's only in his

2135
01:43:48,560 --> 01:43:50,800
Speaker 1: mid twenties. And then he had a pretty nice finish

2136
01:43:50,880 --> 01:43:52,640
Speaker 1: the last season in terms of finally getting to the

2137
01:43:52,720 --> 01:43:54,800
Speaker 1: quarterback and it was his best season yet. He had

2138
01:43:54,800 --> 01:43:57,200
Speaker 1: four and a half sacks in the final six games

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01:43:57,240 --> 01:43:59,800
Speaker 1: of that that campaign. I called it a semi breakout season.

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01:44:00,080 --> 01:44:02,120
Speaker 1: Wasn't buy any means a breakout s He's not a

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01:44:02,200 --> 01:44:04,640
Speaker 1: pro bowler yet, He's not an All pro and he

2142
01:44:04,720 --> 01:44:06,600
Speaker 1: might never be that. But there is a chance that

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01:44:06,720 --> 01:44:09,759
Speaker 1: he becomes that still, whereas I don't think anyone expects

2144
01:44:09,800 --> 01:44:12,400
Speaker 1: Mario Addison to become that at this point in his career.

2145
01:44:12,520 --> 01:44:15,280
Speaker 1: So you have a ceiling with Addison, he's essentially lost

2146
01:44:15,320 --> 01:44:18,439
Speaker 1: in his replacement, and you don't really know the ceiling

2147
01:44:18,560 --> 01:44:21,360
Speaker 1: yet for Lawson. So while right now, if you just

2148
01:44:21,680 --> 01:44:24,920
Speaker 1: extrapolate my loss in's career over the next five or

2149
01:44:25,000 --> 01:44:27,559
Speaker 1: ten years, maybe it's not a big deal. But if

2150
01:44:27,600 --> 01:44:29,960
Speaker 1: he does take off, if he's on an upper trajectory,

2151
01:44:30,200 --> 01:44:31,760
Speaker 1: it's the kind of thing that even though Buffalo has

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01:44:31,800 --> 01:44:35,160
Speaker 1: got a great defensive line, a little more interior focused

2153
01:44:35,439 --> 01:44:37,639
Speaker 1: and obviously a little bit more old or a little

2154
01:44:37,680 --> 01:44:41,560
Speaker 1: older on the edge, it's possible that a two or

2155
01:44:41,640 --> 01:44:47,040
Speaker 1: three years, when Hughes and Addison aren't big factors anymore,

2156
01:44:47,200 --> 01:44:50,400
Speaker 1: or factors at all, they'd be wondering. Man, I kind

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01:44:50,400 --> 01:44:52,360
Speaker 1: of wish we still had Shack Lawson. I got he

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01:44:52,479 --> 01:44:54,760
Speaker 1: got a pretty fair contract, a ten million a year

2159
01:44:54,800 --> 01:44:58,000
Speaker 1: from the Dolphin. Well on the line with Greg Daniel,

2160
01:44:58,160 --> 01:45:01,040
Speaker 1: national NFL writer for a Bleacher Board, Brad, we're about

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01:45:01,080 --> 01:45:03,519
Speaker 1: two weeks in the free agency now, and the Bills

2162
01:45:03,560 --> 01:45:06,320
Speaker 1: waited until free agency was about a week over to

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01:45:06,400 --> 01:45:08,960
Speaker 1: sign an offensive lineman Daryl Williams. You had him as

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01:45:09,000 --> 01:45:11,040
Speaker 1: an underrated guy. Did the Bills get a bargain there?

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01:45:11,080 --> 01:45:13,800
Speaker 1: Do you think? Yeah? I loved Daryl Williams. I think

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01:45:13,840 --> 01:45:16,040
Speaker 1: he is one of the identified him as the guy

2167
01:45:16,080 --> 01:45:18,439
Speaker 1: who was going to be a bargain signing heading into

2168
01:45:18,479 --> 01:45:22,320
Speaker 1: the offseason. That turned out to be the case, and

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01:45:22,520 --> 01:45:25,719
Speaker 1: I think that again, it's just this is why Buffalos

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01:45:25,720 --> 01:45:27,680
Speaker 1: had a great offseason. It's moves like this. It's not

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01:45:27,760 --> 01:45:31,040
Speaker 1: just the Digs move. You look at Williams and the

2172
01:45:31,120 --> 01:45:34,080
Speaker 1: way he played in twenty seventeen. He didn't make the

2173
01:45:34,160 --> 01:45:36,600
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, he didn't get a lot of accolades, but

2174
01:45:36,840 --> 01:45:39,560
Speaker 1: that was his first true season as a starter in

2175
01:45:39,600 --> 01:45:42,160
Speaker 1: the NFL and he was one of the best tackles

2176
01:45:42,200 --> 01:45:44,240
Speaker 1: in the league. I've watched the tape from that season

2177
01:45:44,560 --> 01:45:46,640
Speaker 1: over and over for several articles I did on him

2178
01:45:46,640 --> 01:45:49,240
Speaker 1: at the time. I think he's got the abilities to

2179
01:45:49,400 --> 01:45:52,800
Speaker 1: be a franchise caliber tackle or guard in this thig.

2180
01:45:52,960 --> 01:45:55,680
Speaker 1: That's the beautiful thing about the signing. As he's so versatile,

2181
01:45:55,760 --> 01:45:59,200
Speaker 1: you could possibly plug him in in multiple spots because

2182
01:45:59,240 --> 01:46:01,720
Speaker 1: he has succeeded the guard position as well, since he

2183
01:46:01,840 --> 01:46:04,320
Speaker 1: suffered an injury early in the twenty eighteen season that

2184
01:46:04,439 --> 01:46:06,880
Speaker 1: was supposed to be his kind of his his real

2185
01:46:06,960 --> 01:46:09,479
Speaker 1: breakout season. After he played so well in twenty seventeen,

2186
01:46:10,240 --> 01:46:13,320
Speaker 1: essentially missed all that year, wasn't quite the same while

2187
01:46:13,360 --> 01:46:16,040
Speaker 1: playing a wide variety of roles in twenty nineteen, and

2188
01:46:16,120 --> 01:46:17,960
Speaker 1: so I think he flew unto the radar for that reason,

2189
01:46:18,000 --> 01:46:19,720
Speaker 1: as well as the fact that, of course, as you know,

2190
01:46:19,880 --> 01:46:21,720
Speaker 1: this market was flushed for the first time in a

2191
01:46:21,800 --> 01:46:26,240
Speaker 1: long time with very good tackle and guard free agents,

2192
01:46:26,560 --> 01:46:29,559
Speaker 1: and so I think when everyone's focused on Jack Conklin

2193
01:46:30,080 --> 01:46:33,920
Speaker 1: and Andrew Whitworth and even Jason Peter still being in

2194
01:46:34,000 --> 01:46:37,519
Speaker 1: the market and all these different guys, you sort of

2195
01:46:37,600 --> 01:46:40,519
Speaker 1: lost Andrews Pete, Andrews Pete, You sort of lost track

2196
01:46:40,600 --> 01:46:42,639
Speaker 1: of a guy like Williams who hasn't really been there,

2197
01:46:42,680 --> 01:46:44,519
Speaker 1: you know, mergess a household name yet. But he's only

2198
01:46:44,560 --> 01:46:47,040
Speaker 1: twenty seven years old, and I really do think he

2199
01:46:47,080 --> 01:46:49,920
Speaker 1: can become a star in the NFL at potentially more

2200
01:46:49,960 --> 01:46:53,280
Speaker 1: than one position. Wow. Yeah, I've heard a lot of

2201
01:46:53,320 --> 01:46:57,360
Speaker 1: people talk about Darry Williams, as you know, great versatile guy,

2202
01:46:57,439 --> 01:47:01,000
Speaker 1: can play guarder, tackle. You know, serviceable player, you describe

2203
01:47:01,080 --> 01:47:03,639
Speaker 1: him in glowing terms. Brand you really like that guy?

2204
01:47:03,760 --> 01:47:08,040
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, he Again, you couldn't have asked me about

2205
01:47:08,040 --> 01:47:10,760
Speaker 1: a guy who I'd be more thrilled to to hype.

2206
01:47:11,000 --> 01:47:13,559
Speaker 1: I really think he's I should be wrong. I'm wrong

2207
01:47:13,680 --> 01:47:16,720
Speaker 1: often guys, but you know, I do think he's. I

2208
01:47:16,800 --> 01:47:19,280
Speaker 1: think at the very least he's how you just described him,

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01:47:19,360 --> 01:47:23,200
Speaker 1: which for the money is worth it. But there is

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01:47:23,240 --> 01:47:25,800
Speaker 1: a very most there's a best case scenario for him,

2211
01:47:26,640 --> 01:47:29,519
Speaker 1: which is pretty darn high. And so that's exactly the

2212
01:47:29,600 --> 01:47:31,599
Speaker 1: signing you want, right you get you don't pay too

2213
01:47:31,720 --> 01:47:33,680
Speaker 1: much money for a guy who you know is going

2214
01:47:33,720 --> 01:47:37,560
Speaker 1: to be serviceable but could still become something special. You

2215
01:47:37,640 --> 01:47:40,160
Speaker 1: know that speaks even why I said Shack Lawson could

2216
01:47:40,200 --> 01:47:42,400
Speaker 1: be a tough loss because for the exact same reason,

2217
01:47:42,479 --> 01:47:45,400
Speaker 1: and that he's got the potential to become something special.

2218
01:47:45,439 --> 01:47:47,519
Speaker 1: And I think Darry Williams maybe not quite in the

2219
01:47:47,600 --> 01:47:50,080
Speaker 1: Shack Losson level, but he does have the ability to

2220
01:47:50,120 --> 01:47:52,639
Speaker 1: grow into something a lot more than what he's being

2221
01:47:52,760 --> 01:47:56,760
Speaker 1: paid for. Bred Yet you mentioned this move a little

2222
01:47:56,840 --> 01:48:00,760
Speaker 1: earlier and with as the unfairest trade, maybe in the

2223
01:48:00,840 --> 01:48:02,920
Speaker 1: offseason You also had it listed one of your articles

2224
01:48:02,960 --> 01:48:05,920
Speaker 1: as the biggest surprise move of this offseason, and that's

2225
01:48:05,960 --> 01:48:08,960
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans trade of DeAndre Hopkins. Talk a little

2226
01:48:09,000 --> 01:48:11,560
Speaker 1: bit about why you think that happened, what the ramifications

2227
01:48:11,600 --> 01:48:15,720
Speaker 1: would be, and like most people, how badly did the

2228
01:48:15,800 --> 01:48:21,200
Speaker 1: Houston Texans get taken in that trade. I just I mean,

2229
01:48:21,320 --> 01:48:24,080
Speaker 1: all this time, we've had to now process this right

2230
01:48:24,160 --> 01:48:27,400
Speaker 1: and it doesn't make any more sense. And I know

2231
01:48:27,479 --> 01:48:30,879
Speaker 1: that report came out about him having new contract demands

2232
01:48:31,360 --> 01:48:34,840
Speaker 1: and potentially some tension between him and Bill brian, But

2233
01:48:35,080 --> 01:48:37,360
Speaker 1: you know, frankly, I think the entire thing is this

2234
01:48:37,520 --> 01:48:40,519
Speaker 1: more of an indictment on Bill O'Brien in the role

2235
01:48:40,600 --> 01:48:43,920
Speaker 1: he's in and potentially being in overs serving as essentially

2236
01:48:43,960 --> 01:48:46,240
Speaker 1: a general manager as well as a head coach. I

2237
01:48:46,320 --> 01:48:49,639
Speaker 1: think if there was friction there, it's something that you handle.

2238
01:48:49,760 --> 01:48:52,080
Speaker 1: It's something that you try to figure out, because he's

2239
01:48:52,120 --> 01:48:54,120
Speaker 1: that much of a superstar and he's that much of

2240
01:48:54,160 --> 01:48:57,240
Speaker 1: a difference maker. I think if they stubbornly moved on

2241
01:48:57,439 --> 01:49:00,920
Speaker 1: as quickly as they seem to have moved on based

2242
01:49:01,040 --> 01:49:04,519
Speaker 1: on potential friction, that that's a problem in itself and

2243
01:49:04,600 --> 01:49:06,840
Speaker 1: an indication as to where they are in terms of

2244
01:49:06,880 --> 01:49:11,800
Speaker 1: their front office and their ability to handle personalities, which

2245
01:49:11,880 --> 01:49:13,640
Speaker 1: is important in this league. I don't I don't. I

2246
01:49:13,720 --> 01:49:15,880
Speaker 1: don't know that a lot of more experienced CMS would

2247
01:49:15,880 --> 01:49:18,400
Speaker 1: have just simply traded the guy as soon as there

2248
01:49:18,560 --> 01:49:21,800
Speaker 1: was some contention, which again it seems as though that

2249
01:49:22,040 --> 01:49:25,640
Speaker 1: was the precipice for this, So that doesn't get them

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01:49:25,720 --> 01:49:30,120
Speaker 1: off the hook. From my standpoint, David Johnson is at

2251
01:49:30,160 --> 01:49:32,559
Speaker 1: this point in his career more of a liability than

2252
01:49:32,600 --> 01:49:36,120
Speaker 1: an asset. Financially, he's a liability on the field, he

2253
01:49:36,280 --> 01:49:41,439
Speaker 1: is hardly an asset, especially when you already have Duke Johnson,

2254
01:49:41,560 --> 01:49:44,160
Speaker 1: who is a similar type of back, and you really

2255
01:49:44,160 --> 01:49:46,640
Speaker 1: don't need an excess of backs at this point in

2256
01:49:46,680 --> 01:49:50,479
Speaker 1: the NFL. We've we've learned that with two undrafted players

2257
01:49:50,560 --> 01:49:52,720
Speaker 1: just competing against one another in the Super Bowl at

2258
01:49:52,760 --> 01:49:55,840
Speaker 1: that position, and into the nine highest paid backs in

2259
01:49:55,920 --> 01:49:58,680
Speaker 1: the league not participating in last year's playoffs, we know

2260
01:49:58,840 --> 01:50:01,200
Speaker 1: now that running back have been greatly be valued and

2261
01:50:01,320 --> 01:50:03,479
Speaker 1: that's unfortunate for them, but that's a reason why you

2262
01:50:03,520 --> 01:50:05,840
Speaker 1: don't trade for them, and you don't give away three

2263
01:50:05,920 --> 01:50:09,280
Speaker 1: time All Pro wide receivers for them. So no matter

2264
01:50:09,360 --> 01:50:11,680
Speaker 1: how I look at this, they just got older, they

2265
01:50:11,800 --> 01:50:14,880
Speaker 1: didn't save any money, and they got worse in terms

2266
01:50:14,960 --> 01:50:17,400
Speaker 1: of their depth chart and their roster and the value

2267
01:50:17,400 --> 01:50:20,240
Speaker 1: they have on that roster. So it's a huge step backward,

2268
01:50:20,360 --> 01:50:23,200
Speaker 1: and there's no way to convince me otherwise. I mean,

2269
01:50:23,439 --> 01:50:26,160
Speaker 1: we've seen these things changed. Remember the Amari Cooper trade

2270
01:50:26,280 --> 01:50:30,080
Speaker 1: was widely mocked at the time and has now essentially

2271
01:50:30,160 --> 01:50:33,519
Speaker 1: become the opposite criticism. That happens in this league. It

2272
01:50:33,560 --> 01:50:35,559
Speaker 1: can happen with any of these deals, including the stuff

2273
01:50:35,600 --> 01:50:38,640
Speaker 1: bigs straight Buffalo, but this one feels like it's one

2274
01:50:38,720 --> 01:50:42,080
Speaker 1: that no matter what happens, unless DeAndre Hopkin's career really

2275
01:50:42,120 --> 01:50:44,880
Speaker 1: goes in the wrong direction or David Johnson's really recovers,

2276
01:50:45,640 --> 01:50:48,000
Speaker 1: this is gonna look very very bad on Bill Bryant

2277
01:50:48,000 --> 01:50:51,200
Speaker 1: in the Texans just about two weeks into free agency.

2278
01:50:51,280 --> 01:50:53,120
Speaker 1: It's not over, but we're kind of reviewing it with

2279
01:50:53,160 --> 01:50:56,479
Speaker 1: Greg Danio, national NFL writer for a Bleacher Report. Hey, Brad,

2280
01:50:56,960 --> 01:50:58,880
Speaker 1: Bill's fans will like to hear this. You have written

2281
01:50:58,960 --> 01:51:01,439
Speaker 1: that as far as teams taking step backwards, you think

2282
01:51:01,479 --> 01:51:04,120
Speaker 1: the Patriots took the biggest step backwards so far. This

2283
01:51:04,240 --> 01:51:07,840
Speaker 1: off season. Hugh. Yeah, and well, it's not only losing

2284
01:51:07,880 --> 01:51:10,040
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, of course, that's the big one, right and

2285
01:51:10,560 --> 01:51:13,800
Speaker 1: not really replacing Tom Brady. And that might change if

2286
01:51:13,880 --> 01:51:16,080
Speaker 1: they well, I mean, i'd think they're gonna be able

2287
01:51:16,120 --> 01:51:19,280
Speaker 1: to do that necessarily with their draft position, but Cam

2288
01:51:19,400 --> 01:51:23,680
Speaker 1: Newton is a possibility still. Of course, Jameis Winston a

2289
01:51:23,760 --> 01:51:26,680
Speaker 1: possibility if you want to consider that an upgrade, or

2290
01:51:26,720 --> 01:51:28,479
Speaker 1: even if you want to consider Jameis Winston to be

2291
01:51:28,520 --> 01:51:30,519
Speaker 1: a player worthy of a starting job right now. But

2292
01:51:30,800 --> 01:51:32,719
Speaker 1: the fact is that could still change. To an extent.

2293
01:51:33,000 --> 01:51:36,559
Speaker 1: I think if they signed Cam Newton, it sounds crazy,

2294
01:51:37,040 --> 01:51:39,400
Speaker 1: but in a way you could argue that that's almost

2295
01:51:39,439 --> 01:51:41,880
Speaker 1: a trade off with Tom Brady. You get a lot younger.

2296
01:51:42,720 --> 01:51:46,040
Speaker 1: Tom Brady clearly is declining. Maybe Cam Newton has a

2297
01:51:46,120 --> 01:51:49,439
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen in him again, so I would almost give

2298
01:51:49,479 --> 01:51:51,320
Speaker 1: them a little bit of a let's call that a

2299
01:51:51,360 --> 01:51:53,400
Speaker 1: wash right now, fine if you want to be generous,

2300
01:51:53,479 --> 01:51:55,479
Speaker 1: but look at the loss of the defensive side of

2301
01:51:55,479 --> 01:51:57,720
Speaker 1: the ball. Kyle Van annoying Jamie Collins, where they're two

2302
01:51:57,760 --> 01:52:00,680
Speaker 1: most active defensive players last season, they were two very

2303
01:52:00,760 --> 01:52:03,960
Speaker 1: important defensive players off season, and I know, the Patriots

2304
01:52:04,080 --> 01:52:07,000
Speaker 1: lose guys like Kyle van Noy and Jamie Collins every

2305
01:52:07,160 --> 01:52:09,560
Speaker 1: single offseason. And when you go on about how the

2306
01:52:09,640 --> 01:52:11,640
Speaker 1: Patriots are not going to be the same anymore, and

2307
01:52:11,760 --> 01:52:13,880
Speaker 1: then they're the same. But this was a team that

2308
01:52:14,040 --> 01:52:16,840
Speaker 1: wasn't the same last year, especially down the stretch, and

2309
01:52:17,600 --> 01:52:20,200
Speaker 1: the defense was even starting the social chinks in the show,

2310
01:52:20,280 --> 01:52:22,680
Speaker 1: some chinks in the armor over the course of the

2311
01:52:22,720 --> 01:52:25,760
Speaker 1: second half of that season as well, And so you know,

2312
01:52:25,880 --> 01:52:29,479
Speaker 1: you consider that, and you consider the loss that they suffered,

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01:52:29,479 --> 01:52:32,760
Speaker 1: and then Danny Shelton gets away as well. I just

2314
01:52:32,880 --> 01:52:35,640
Speaker 1: don't know how much they have left. The offense is

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01:52:36,200 --> 01:52:39,479
Speaker 1: probably mediocre at this point in time, and the defense

2316
01:52:39,640 --> 01:52:42,280
Speaker 1: might no longer be special. And when you combine those

2317
01:52:42,360 --> 01:52:45,080
Speaker 1: two aspects and you look at the games the Bills

2318
01:52:45,120 --> 01:52:47,720
Speaker 1: have made, the games even the Jets and Dolphins have

2319
01:52:47,880 --> 01:52:51,200
Speaker 1: made the last two offseasons, particularly this offseason with Miami

2320
01:52:51,240 --> 01:52:54,960
Speaker 1: and last offseason with New York, the competition is going

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01:52:55,000 --> 01:52:56,920
Speaker 1: to be a lot more fierce than the afcast. So,

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01:52:57,520 --> 01:53:02,120
Speaker 1: you know, we've all been made fools of by ruling

2323
01:53:02,160 --> 01:53:04,760
Speaker 1: the Patriots out, and I'm not going to do that yet,

2324
01:53:04,840 --> 01:53:06,840
Speaker 1: but I think that this division is as up for

2325
01:53:06,920 --> 01:53:10,439
Speaker 1: grabs as it's been in two decades. Do you think

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01:53:10,479 --> 01:53:13,560
Speaker 1: there's going to be enough chairs at the table for

2327
01:53:13,680 --> 01:53:17,240
Speaker 1: all the quarterbacks? They're still free agents, Cam Newton, Jamis Winston.

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01:53:18,720 --> 01:53:21,200
Speaker 1: Where do you think those guys will land? And how

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01:53:21,240 --> 01:53:24,040
Speaker 1: will it end at this quarterback? This the way this

2330
01:53:24,160 --> 01:53:28,360
Speaker 1: quarterback crop has shaken out in this offseason. Yeah, even

2331
01:53:28,400 --> 01:53:30,960
Speaker 1: if we're just looking at those two quarterbacks being the

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01:53:31,080 --> 01:53:33,439
Speaker 1: last ones playing this, you know, this game of musical

2333
01:53:33,600 --> 01:53:37,559
Speaker 1: chairs and the new two natural fits? Did everyone look

2334
01:53:37,600 --> 01:53:40,160
Speaker 1: at everyone's looking out? Which is the Chargers the Patriots?

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01:53:40,680 --> 01:53:42,720
Speaker 1: I guess those are two seats for two, you know,

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01:53:42,800 --> 01:53:45,280
Speaker 1: two chairs for two players. But then you look at

2337
01:53:45,320 --> 01:53:47,160
Speaker 1: the draft and you look at the you know, the

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01:53:47,240 --> 01:53:50,320
Speaker 1: big three quarterbacks in the draft, and if the Chargers

2339
01:53:50,360 --> 01:53:53,639
Speaker 1: are dead set on drafting someone in the top ten

2340
01:53:53,720 --> 01:53:57,000
Speaker 1: and comparing him with Tyrod Taylor for now, then all

2341
01:53:57,040 --> 01:53:59,400
Speaker 1: of a sudden they're out, and that the Patriots are saying,

2342
01:53:59,439 --> 01:54:01,840
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna oh with Jared Stidham, and if

2343
01:54:01,880 --> 01:54:04,720
Speaker 1: we tank, we have a shot at Trevor Lawrence. And

2344
01:54:04,800 --> 01:54:07,920
Speaker 1: if we don't, um, you know, we go into twenty

2345
01:54:07,960 --> 01:54:11,800
Speaker 1: twenty one free agency um and figure it out then,

2346
01:54:11,880 --> 01:54:14,200
Speaker 1: or maybe stid him emergence. Maybe he's an ex Brady.

2347
01:54:14,240 --> 01:54:16,320
Speaker 1: I don't know if the Patriots want to approach things

2348
01:54:16,400 --> 01:54:19,719
Speaker 1: that way, which is entirely possible considering their their typical

2349
01:54:19,960 --> 01:54:22,880
Speaker 1: m um and considering what they gave with Tom Brady

2350
01:54:22,960 --> 01:54:24,760
Speaker 1: and the Hubrists, and the fact that maybe they think

2351
01:54:24,800 --> 01:54:26,559
Speaker 1: we can do the same thing because it was us

2352
01:54:26,720 --> 01:54:29,840
Speaker 1: not Tom. Whatever it might be, those two teams might

2353
01:54:29,920 --> 01:54:32,920
Speaker 1: be out. And if Miami's looking at you know, at

2354
01:54:32,960 --> 01:54:36,680
Speaker 1: Tuah and Um, you know, obviously in Cincinnati looks like

2355
01:54:36,760 --> 01:54:39,960
Speaker 1: it's it's it's gonna go um, you know, uh, you know,

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01:54:40,120 --> 01:54:43,120
Speaker 1: with um with the number one overall, pick Joe Burrow.

2357
01:54:43,560 --> 01:54:45,720
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden there aren't any seats, So

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01:54:46,080 --> 01:54:48,440
Speaker 1: so Jammes Winston. I think at this point it's almost

2359
01:54:48,840 --> 01:54:52,920
Speaker 1: inevitable he's going to be a backup or he's going

2360
01:54:53,000 --> 01:54:58,000
Speaker 1: to be somewhere out um, unless an injury happens with Newton,

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01:54:58,360 --> 01:55:00,680
Speaker 1: I think he ends up in one of those two places,

2362
01:55:00,880 --> 01:55:03,880
Speaker 1: or a wildcard team like potentially even the Dolphins that

2363
01:55:03,920 --> 01:55:05,400
Speaker 1: they decided to give it a shot this year with

2364
01:55:05,520 --> 01:55:07,320
Speaker 1: him and Groom somebody, or if they want two to

2365
01:55:07,360 --> 01:55:11,400
Speaker 1: sit on the sideline considering his hip injury. Maybe there's

2366
01:55:11,440 --> 01:55:14,560
Speaker 1: a wildcard there for Neton because he's a former MVP

2367
01:55:14,840 --> 01:55:17,880
Speaker 1: with so much unique talent. But I think Winston's probably

2368
01:55:17,920 --> 01:55:20,000
Speaker 1: gonna have to sit out some time because, let's be really,

2369
01:55:20,040 --> 01:55:21,840
Speaker 1: you know, it's the first quarterback and over thirty years,

2370
01:55:21,880 --> 01:55:24,480
Speaker 1: it's or thirty picks in the season. He's just too

2371
01:55:24,600 --> 01:55:27,280
Speaker 1: much of a liability to turnover prone. So he's probably

2372
01:55:27,360 --> 01:55:28,960
Speaker 1: gonna have to take some time before he gets the

2373
01:55:29,040 --> 01:55:32,280
Speaker 1: next opportunity. Yeah, we're mad at him. He threw thirty

2374
01:55:32,320 --> 01:55:36,560
Speaker 1: picks in the season. He's got to pay for that, right, Brad. Hey, Brad,

2375
01:55:36,640 --> 01:55:39,600
Speaker 1: one more for you. I'm not asking you to predict

2376
01:55:39,640 --> 01:55:41,520
Speaker 1: as much as just your sense of how it should

2377
01:55:41,600 --> 01:55:45,520
Speaker 1: move forward. Your thoughts on the twenty twenty season, any

2378
01:55:45,680 --> 01:55:49,760
Speaker 1: major changes, any suggestions for the NFL should do. Is

2379
01:55:49,800 --> 01:55:52,600
Speaker 1: it still goes on with the off season they're scheduled

2380
01:55:52,640 --> 01:55:55,360
Speaker 1: to this point anyway? What do you think? Yeah, you know,

2381
01:55:55,720 --> 01:55:58,240
Speaker 1: there's just it's so wild because we don't know what's

2382
01:55:58,240 --> 01:56:01,360
Speaker 1: going to happen with the spars, and until we know that,

2383
01:56:01,520 --> 01:56:03,200
Speaker 1: we really don't have a feel for how things they're

2384
01:56:03,200 --> 01:56:04,640
Speaker 1: gonna play out. I didn't read to write a piece

2385
01:56:04,720 --> 01:56:07,320
Speaker 1: for the comeback yesterday. They sort of looked at the

2386
01:56:07,400 --> 01:56:10,160
Speaker 1: likelihood of different scenarios playing out with the with the

2387
01:56:10,240 --> 01:56:12,880
Speaker 1: preface that I'm not a doctor, I'm not a medical professional,

2388
01:56:12,920 --> 01:56:15,240
Speaker 1: and I certainly don't have any weight with the NFL

2389
01:56:15,280 --> 01:56:17,880
Speaker 1: in terms of the way they go. But I think

2390
01:56:17,920 --> 01:56:19,400
Speaker 1: the one thing to look at is is there's a

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01:56:19,560 --> 01:56:22,040
Speaker 1: very good chance for playing some games without fans. You'd

2392
01:56:22,080 --> 01:56:24,840
Speaker 1: have to think that's the case considering the recommendations right now.

2393
01:56:24,880 --> 01:56:27,200
Speaker 1: It's not even fifty people in one place, right, and

2394
01:56:27,600 --> 01:56:29,560
Speaker 1: to get the idea of getting you know, forty five

2395
01:56:29,640 --> 01:56:32,200
Speaker 1: thousand and sixty thousand people in one place for an

2396
01:56:32,360 --> 01:56:35,520
Speaker 1: entire season seems farfects. The biggest concern I have is

2397
01:56:35,600 --> 01:56:37,960
Speaker 1: if you look at a shortened or interrupted season, we

2398
01:56:38,040 --> 01:56:39,960
Speaker 1: look at the idea of having to play a truncated

2399
01:56:40,560 --> 01:56:43,000
Speaker 1: season next year. I'm hearing a lot of talk about

2400
01:56:43,080 --> 01:56:46,440
Speaker 1: well backloads of division games, right because you know, if

2401
01:56:46,480 --> 01:56:48,080
Speaker 1: you have to start late, well at least you have

2402
01:56:48,280 --> 01:56:51,200
Speaker 1: somewhat of a balanced schedule down the stretch. My concern

2403
01:56:51,280 --> 01:56:52,520
Speaker 1: that I don't think a lot of people have brought

2404
01:56:52,600 --> 01:56:55,680
Speaker 1: up is I'm not too worried about starting in September.

2405
01:56:55,760 --> 01:56:59,240
Speaker 1: I'm worried about finishing in December, January, and February. That's

2406
01:56:59,280 --> 01:57:01,200
Speaker 1: when this You know, a lot of the doctors and

2407
01:57:01,280 --> 01:57:03,800
Speaker 1: medical professionals and authorities have said there could be a

2408
01:57:03,840 --> 01:57:07,280
Speaker 1: second wave of this virus, and if that's the case,

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01:57:07,520 --> 01:57:09,760
Speaker 1: the NFL has to account for the possibility that has

2410
01:57:09,800 --> 01:57:14,160
Speaker 1: to stop playing football in November or December or January

2411
01:57:14,360 --> 01:57:16,600
Speaker 1: or a week before Super Bowl fifty five in Tampa.

2412
01:57:16,920 --> 01:57:19,400
Speaker 1: Those are the worst case scenarios and the one thing

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01:57:19,440 --> 01:57:21,880
Speaker 1: thing they should be fearing the most, and they probably

2414
01:57:21,920 --> 01:57:24,680
Speaker 1: need to think about playing together contingency plan for that.

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01:57:25,320 --> 01:57:28,600
Speaker 1: Right now, playing without fans is an easy thing to do,

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01:57:28,880 --> 01:57:31,600
Speaker 1: and they'll still get their TV ratings and they'll still

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01:57:31,640 --> 01:57:34,600
Speaker 1: get you get the games played. But if you can't

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01:57:34,640 --> 01:57:37,720
Speaker 1: play at all in December January, you're gonna have a

2419
01:57:37,800 --> 01:57:39,840
Speaker 1: problem on your hands, and possibly look at delays into

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01:57:39,880 --> 01:57:42,360
Speaker 1: the summertime. So you know, I wouldn't rule anything out,

2421
01:57:42,400 --> 01:57:45,000
Speaker 1: because we just can't without knowing so much right now.

2422
01:57:45,280 --> 01:57:46,800
Speaker 1: But I think the key is the NFL is gonna

2423
01:57:46,800 --> 01:57:49,120
Speaker 1: have to spend this entire offseason coming up with a

2424
01:57:49,200 --> 01:57:52,240
Speaker 1: wide variety of plans for a wide variety of potential scenarios.

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01:57:53,200 --> 01:57:56,360
Speaker 1: One problem bred is that if the bill, if the

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01:57:56,920 --> 01:57:59,920
Speaker 1: NFL decides they're going to play games without without fans,

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01:58:00,120 --> 01:58:03,160
Speaker 1: because you can't have any more than fifty people or

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01:58:03,280 --> 01:58:06,880
Speaker 1: whatever the number, you know, the fifty people in proximity

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01:58:06,960 --> 01:58:10,320
Speaker 1: to each other. You can't even have an NFL dressing

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01:58:10,400 --> 01:58:14,480
Speaker 1: room without having sixty people in the same room. You

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01:58:14,560 --> 01:58:17,240
Speaker 1: can't even run a play from scrimmage without having twenty

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01:58:17,320 --> 01:58:20,600
Speaker 1: two people on the field in proximity at some point together.

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01:58:20,760 --> 01:58:24,240
Speaker 1: So if that's gonna be the case, it's not like basketball.

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01:58:24,280 --> 01:58:26,680
Speaker 1: There's only ten guys on the floor and you know,

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01:58:26,840 --> 01:58:29,680
Speaker 1: and an extra fifteen guys on the bench if they

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01:58:30,040 --> 01:58:32,720
Speaker 1: have to play, and you can't have more than one

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01:58:32,800 --> 01:58:38,280
Speaker 1: hundred people at any one spot, football's out of the question. Yeah,

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01:58:38,520 --> 01:58:40,480
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's when you get into these much

2439
01:58:40,520 --> 01:58:44,480
Speaker 1: more a while the possibilities my Pro Football talks Mike

2440
01:58:44,480 --> 01:58:47,720
Speaker 1: Floria throughout the idea of essentially having the entire league

2441
01:58:47,760 --> 01:58:50,000
Speaker 1: go to you know, the middle of nowhere for an

2442
01:58:50,160 --> 01:58:53,320
Speaker 1: entire you know, five month period, and you know, you

2443
01:58:53,400 --> 01:58:56,640
Speaker 1: get tested going in, and you get tested coming out,

2444
01:58:56,840 --> 01:58:59,480
Speaker 1: and you play the whole season there. I mean this

2445
01:58:59,680 --> 01:59:05,040
Speaker 1: thought of it, it seems incredible and probably impossible considering

2446
01:59:05,080 --> 01:59:09,320
Speaker 1: the team personnel, executive coaches, medical personnel, who's getting food

2447
01:59:09,400 --> 01:59:11,480
Speaker 1: in and out, how are they getting supplies, how are

2448
01:59:11,480 --> 01:59:14,600
Speaker 1: they etc. Ex. Players seeing their families might be one

2449
01:59:14,680 --> 01:59:18,280
Speaker 1: factor there that we're not considering. But again, I wouldn't

2450
01:59:18,480 --> 01:59:21,640
Speaker 1: rule out anything with the NFL because if the alternative

2451
01:59:21,800 --> 01:59:24,240
Speaker 1: is losing the entire season, and if they tell the

2452
01:59:24,320 --> 01:59:27,120
Speaker 1: players that the alternative is losing the entire season worth

2453
01:59:27,200 --> 01:59:29,720
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars, that of these guys are going

2454
01:59:29,840 --> 01:59:34,160
Speaker 1: to lose. Maybe some really dramatic measures you're taken, But

2455
01:59:34,280 --> 01:59:38,560
Speaker 1: again I think that the logistics involved in some of

2456
01:59:38,600 --> 01:59:42,360
Speaker 1: these proposals are probably near impossible with the amount of

2457
01:59:42,440 --> 01:59:44,320
Speaker 1: time that we're looking at, which is why again, like

2458
01:59:44,400 --> 01:59:47,320
Speaker 1: all these sports are facing the possibility of losing the

2459
01:59:47,400 --> 01:59:52,280
Speaker 1: twenty twenty season, and the NFL is absolutely no exception. Okay,

2460
01:59:52,320 --> 01:59:53,880
Speaker 1: well that's not good news, Bread, but that's the way

2461
01:59:53,880 --> 01:59:55,600
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to end it. Thanks thanks for going

2462
01:59:55,640 --> 02:00:01,320
Speaker 1: on the That was a groomy for this. Thanks guys. Yeah,

2463
02:00:01,400 --> 02:00:04,240
Speaker 1: mister gloom and Doom. Rad Gania, national NFL writer for

2464
02:00:04,360 --> 02:00:09,680
Speaker 1: Bleacher Report contributed to uh, the comeback. UM, I don't

2465
02:00:09,680 --> 02:00:11,000
Speaker 1: want to end with that, but he had good things

2466
02:00:11,000 --> 02:00:13,840
Speaker 1: to say about the Bill Steve about the acquisition of

2467
02:00:14,000 --> 02:00:16,600
Speaker 1: a couple of important free agents, well one of them

2468
02:00:16,640 --> 02:00:20,080
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs, and then he said that the acquisition of

2469
02:00:20,160 --> 02:00:24,280
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman William Yeah, he said that was he said,

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02:00:24,320 --> 02:00:27,240
Speaker 1: he's great. Basically, I think he didn't he yeah. He

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02:00:27,640 --> 02:00:30,160
Speaker 1: he was really high on Daryl Wives, which was good

2472
02:00:30,200 --> 02:00:32,720
Speaker 1: and as much for the for the downer that was. Listen,

2473
02:00:33,040 --> 02:00:35,720
Speaker 1: there's a nobody knows what's this is gonna look like

2474
02:00:35,840 --> 02:00:39,760
Speaker 1: in a month, let alone six months, so we can

2475
02:00:39,840 --> 02:00:44,280
Speaker 1: speculate all we want. Uh. Certainly, if something is cumbersome

2476
02:00:44,400 --> 02:00:46,720
Speaker 1: as all thirty two teams in the National Football League

2477
02:00:46,800 --> 02:00:49,680
Speaker 1: making all one big decision and doing something on Moss

2478
02:00:50,320 --> 02:00:52,320
Speaker 1: uh as the kind of thing we're talking about, has

2479
02:00:52,360 --> 02:00:54,440
Speaker 1: to get ramped up and we'll take months to make

2480
02:00:54,480 --> 02:00:58,520
Speaker 1: it happen. But let's let's you know, let's pump the

2481
02:00:58,560 --> 02:01:01,960
Speaker 1: brakes for just a minute it and uh and just say, listen,

2482
02:01:02,000 --> 02:01:04,920
Speaker 1: we'll just keep on keeping on doing what we're doing

2483
02:01:05,360 --> 02:01:07,680
Speaker 1: and staying on schedule for the time being. We don't

2484
02:01:07,680 --> 02:01:09,280
Speaker 1: know what it's going to look like in three months,

2485
02:01:09,600 --> 02:01:12,680
Speaker 1: and we've got a lot of time before anything has

2486
02:01:12,720 --> 02:01:16,840
Speaker 1: to be moved at all, let alone, you know, wholesale

2487
02:01:16,920 --> 02:01:19,280
Speaker 1: changes to the way they're going to do business. And

2488
02:01:19,360 --> 02:01:22,800
Speaker 1: you know what, just from a perspective, since it strikes me,

2489
02:01:23,240 --> 02:01:25,760
Speaker 1: you're right, nobody really knows. And number two, it's not

2490
02:01:26,160 --> 02:01:28,400
Speaker 1: what it's not what's important right now, right, I mean,

2491
02:01:28,480 --> 02:01:31,040
Speaker 1: there's serious issues going on in New York City primarily

2492
02:01:31,120 --> 02:01:32,880
Speaker 1: and maybe throughout the rest of the country in the

2493
02:01:32,920 --> 02:01:35,200
Speaker 1: next few weeks. It's not what important worried about the NFL.

2494
02:01:35,320 --> 02:01:37,240
Speaker 1: So thanks, I want to get caught up in there.

2495
02:01:37,400 --> 02:01:39,120
Speaker 1: Thank you. And it's and it is only football, so

2496
02:01:39,280 --> 02:01:41,800
Speaker 1: you can, you know, give them two weeks of training

2497
02:01:41,840 --> 02:01:43,960
Speaker 1: camp and turn it on. Let's go, you know, I mean,

2498
02:01:45,200 --> 02:01:47,560
Speaker 1: we'll watch. It won't be like what we're used to,

2499
02:01:47,640 --> 02:01:49,440
Speaker 1: but we'll watch and it'll get better than the season

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02:01:49,480 --> 02:01:51,720
Speaker 1: grinds on. Even if they have to compress this preseason

2501
02:01:51,800 --> 02:01:55,640
Speaker 1: into just two weeks. You know, the fans, nobody will care.

2502
02:01:56,280 --> 02:01:58,600
Speaker 1: Show me football and we'll just get it going. Certainly

2503
02:01:58,640 --> 02:02:00,920
Speaker 1: the teams and the players, the coaches will be put

2504
02:02:01,000 --> 02:02:03,680
Speaker 1: out of whack by it. But you know, that's why

2505
02:02:03,760 --> 02:02:05,640
Speaker 1: they get the big money. They got to adjust to

2506
02:02:05,720 --> 02:02:08,360
Speaker 1: that stuff. Good point. Hey, we know a little bit more.

2507
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Speaker 1: The league owners voted today overwhelming lead to expand the postseason,

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02:02:12,560 --> 02:02:14,280
Speaker 1: and we know a little bit more about what that

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02:02:14,360 --> 02:02:16,040
Speaker 1: schedule will look like. We'll talk about that when we

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Speaker 1: come back. Love to hear your thoughts. Two eight oh

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll what'll be the biggest strength of the Bills

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Speaker 1: offense this year. We'll do all that when we return.

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Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking about. This is continue our

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Speaker 1: discussion with me during the bridg Yeah, I'm not saying anything.

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02:02:57,440 --> 02:03:02,840
Speaker 1: I'm just saying anyway. Hey, there's stuff going on around

2523
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Speaker 1: the NFL today, in particular, we'll get to that in

2524
02:03:05,360 --> 02:03:07,000
Speaker 1: a moment. We want to let you know that the uh,

2525
02:03:07,360 --> 02:03:09,240
Speaker 1: the poll is still up. What do you think the

2526
02:03:09,280 --> 02:03:11,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo offense? What's the Buffalo offense going to do this year?

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Speaker 1: And in particular about the Buffalo offense, the question is,

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Speaker 1: let me find it here. I lost it, Steve, you

2529
02:03:17,760 --> 02:03:19,040
Speaker 1: have it in front of you. Yeah, I did. What

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02:03:19,080 --> 02:03:21,720
Speaker 1: will be the biggest drinker the Bill's offense in twenty

2531
02:03:21,840 --> 02:03:27,920
Speaker 1: twenty And we obviously had the choices that ranged from

2532
02:03:28,960 --> 02:03:35,680
Speaker 1: the resurgence of the deep ball, the well, now I'm

2533
02:03:35,720 --> 02:03:39,400
Speaker 1: having trouble finding the choices which I don't have the

2534
02:03:39,880 --> 02:03:44,560
Speaker 1: resurgence to the deep ball, the developed running game, underneath

2535
02:03:44,600 --> 02:03:47,240
Speaker 1: pass game gets better, passing game gets better. Those are

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02:03:47,240 --> 02:03:50,040
Speaker 1: the three choices and four hundred ten votes so far.

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02:03:50,200 --> 02:03:53,200
Speaker 1: Fifty six percent said you'll see resurgent deep passing game,

2538
02:03:53,560 --> 02:03:56,560
Speaker 1: twenty three percent say they'll be underneath passing game get better,

2539
02:03:56,920 --> 02:03:59,720
Speaker 1: seventeen percent say more developed run game. Give us a

2540
02:03:59,760 --> 02:04:02,680
Speaker 1: call eight three fifty toll free one eight eight eight

2541
02:04:02,800 --> 02:04:05,400
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty will talk about any of that.

2542
02:04:05,480 --> 02:04:07,160
Speaker 1: We'll talk about whatever you'd like. Maybe you'd like to

2543
02:04:07,240 --> 02:04:09,760
Speaker 1: weigh in on the news of the day in the NFL,

2544
02:04:09,880 --> 02:04:13,480
Speaker 1: the news about the postseason. The NFL postseason is going

2545
02:04:13,560 --> 02:04:17,760
Speaker 1: to expand next year already, and there's nothing to do

2546
02:04:17,840 --> 02:04:19,680
Speaker 1: with the regular season. Make sure you know that the

2547
02:04:19,800 --> 02:04:23,280
Speaker 1: postseason will have three games and one day a wild

2548
02:04:23,320 --> 02:04:26,080
Speaker 1: card weekend, three more the other day because they're going

2549
02:04:26,120 --> 02:04:29,360
Speaker 1: to do seven teams in the postseason. Let me tell you.

2550
02:04:29,520 --> 02:04:33,200
Speaker 1: League owners on the phone today voted to approve approve

2551
02:04:33,280 --> 02:04:37,360
Speaker 1: expanding the postseason the fourteen day games. The decision came

2552
02:04:37,440 --> 02:04:41,280
Speaker 1: during their conference call. It required three quarters of the

2553
02:04:41,400 --> 02:04:43,440
Speaker 1: vote of thirty two NFL owners. They got that. In

2554
02:04:43,480 --> 02:04:47,040
Speaker 1: the new format, AFC and NFC wildcard games will feature

2555
02:04:47,440 --> 02:04:50,920
Speaker 1: two verses seven, three versus six, and then the fourth

2556
02:04:50,960 --> 02:04:53,440
Speaker 1: seed hosts the five seed needs conference. The one seed

2557
02:04:53,520 --> 02:04:57,360
Speaker 1: gets a buy now. NBC and CBS will broadcast the

2558
02:04:57,400 --> 02:05:00,600
Speaker 1: additional wildcard games. There's no Monday Night football. Wild Card

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02:05:00,640 --> 02:05:03,920
Speaker 1: Weekend will include three games Saturday, January ninth. Next year,

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02:05:04,240 --> 02:05:08,000
Speaker 1: another three games on Sunday, January tenth, in addition to

2561
02:05:08,080 --> 02:05:10,840
Speaker 1: the Saturday games. In addition to CBS Extra broadcast on

2562
02:05:11,280 --> 02:05:14,320
Speaker 1: January ninth, and will also they will have a live

2563
02:05:14,400 --> 02:05:17,520
Speaker 1: stream on CBS All Access. And the NFL is going

2564
02:05:17,560 --> 02:05:19,720
Speaker 1: to have a separately produced telecast of the game Era

2565
02:05:19,800 --> 02:05:24,320
Speaker 1: on Nickelodeon, tailored for a younger audience. What does that?

2566
02:05:24,640 --> 02:05:28,120
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Earth? That means when Alberto Riveron

2567
02:05:28,240 --> 02:05:30,640
Speaker 1: makes a bad Calldale Slimon though, dump the green Slimon.

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02:05:32,040 --> 02:05:34,920
Speaker 1: It's Nickelodeon. You're right. Did you ever watch Nickelodeon when

2569
02:05:34,920 --> 02:05:37,640
Speaker 1: you kids were young? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm with

2570
02:05:37,760 --> 02:05:41,240
Speaker 1: you this. I'll tell you this. And I said this too,

2571
02:05:41,360 --> 02:05:43,480
Speaker 1: and I kind of forgot it. But I remember thinking this,

2572
02:05:43,600 --> 02:05:45,600
Speaker 1: and I've thought this in years past. When they it

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02:05:45,760 --> 02:05:50,640
Speaker 1: sounds six games all stand alone over the weekend, three Saturday,

2574
02:05:51,120 --> 02:05:54,760
Speaker 1: three Sunday. It sounds like a lot, and it is, right, Yeah,

2575
02:05:54,960 --> 02:05:56,760
Speaker 1: but here's what you gotta remember, And here's what I

2576
02:05:56,920 --> 02:06:00,480
Speaker 1: remember thinking and believing, because it's a way now and

2577
02:06:00,560 --> 02:06:02,400
Speaker 1: I don't feel this way. I can't remember what it

2578
02:06:02,480 --> 02:06:05,480
Speaker 1: was like, but I remember this. That is the weekend

2579
02:06:05,640 --> 02:06:09,840
Speaker 1: when the entire country can't get enough football. They're giving

2580
02:06:09,920 --> 02:06:12,640
Speaker 1: them six games over the weekend that stand alone at

2581
02:06:12,680 --> 02:06:15,360
Speaker 1: the exact time when the country wants to eat them up.

2582
02:06:17,200 --> 02:06:19,800
Speaker 1: No other weekend with because of the run up of

2583
02:06:19,840 --> 02:06:23,240
Speaker 1: the regular season, because all the teams getting in and

2584
02:06:23,400 --> 02:06:26,240
Speaker 1: trying to get in and just getting in, And they've

2585
02:06:26,240 --> 02:06:28,360
Speaker 1: been talking about the playoffs for a month up to

2586
02:06:28,480 --> 02:06:31,360
Speaker 1: that point. Who's in, who's out, who, who's in the hunt,

2587
02:06:31,760 --> 02:06:34,600
Speaker 1: who's got it sewed up, who's got home field, who's

2588
02:06:34,600 --> 02:06:37,520
Speaker 1: gonna get seated. All of that conversation takes a month

2589
02:06:37,680 --> 02:06:40,120
Speaker 1: leading up to it, and they get there and those

2590
02:06:40,200 --> 02:06:42,480
Speaker 1: six games. It does sound like a lot when you'd

2591
02:06:42,520 --> 02:06:44,720
Speaker 1: say them like you did, But man, oh man, it's

2592
02:06:44,720 --> 02:06:46,960
Speaker 1: gonna be Maybe it's gonna be the best weekend of

2593
02:06:47,000 --> 02:06:49,720
Speaker 1: the season. I think it's it's okay to have three games,

2594
02:06:50,080 --> 02:06:52,680
Speaker 1: add the two extra games on that weekend stand alone.

2595
02:06:52,720 --> 02:06:55,400
Speaker 1: I just think it's gonna be a great weekend in football.

2596
02:06:55,440 --> 02:06:57,880
Speaker 1: It's always been my favorite, and I think it got

2597
02:06:57,960 --> 02:07:00,400
Speaker 1: even better with the addition of an extra footbayoff team.

2598
02:07:00,640 --> 02:07:03,960
Speaker 1: Your weekend is booked that weekend January ninth and tenth,

2599
02:07:04,200 --> 02:07:05,840
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what, people be ready for only

2600
02:07:05,920 --> 02:07:08,840
Speaker 1: four games the next week? You know? Yeah, that's true.

2601
02:07:09,840 --> 02:07:11,320
Speaker 1: Like you know what I've had. I mean, that's enough

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02:07:11,520 --> 02:07:14,320
Speaker 1: teams going for the I'm not gonna give them nine

2603
02:07:14,440 --> 02:07:18,520
Speaker 1: hours again, two days in a row again this weekend,

2604
02:07:18,560 --> 02:07:20,600
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Yeah, it's gonna wake out perfect.

2605
02:07:20,960 --> 02:07:22,880
Speaker 1: On the topic of the postseason and the fact that

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02:07:22,960 --> 02:07:25,080
Speaker 1: there's only one buy left in each conference. Now, the

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02:07:25,200 --> 02:07:28,040
Speaker 1: number one team, we've talked about what a huge advantage

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02:07:28,080 --> 02:07:31,040
Speaker 1: that is for the team that finishes number one. You're

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02:07:31,080 --> 02:07:33,360
Speaker 1: taking away a pretty good break for the team that

2610
02:07:33,520 --> 02:07:36,919
Speaker 1: finishes second in the conference, right, I mean you typically

2611
02:07:37,000 --> 02:07:39,240
Speaker 1: a second team in a conference canna have eleven or

2612
02:07:39,280 --> 02:07:41,760
Speaker 1: twelve wins. They've become a customed over the years to

2613
02:07:41,880 --> 02:07:44,760
Speaker 1: getting that first weekend off. That's kind of that's taken

2614
02:07:44,800 --> 02:07:46,440
Speaker 1: a lot away from that team. Steve, I think, and

2615
02:07:46,600 --> 02:07:49,240
Speaker 1: I'm not against this, but I'm just I'm just raising points.

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02:07:49,280 --> 02:07:51,280
Speaker 1: What do you think of that? I agree, and I've

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02:07:51,320 --> 02:07:53,240
Speaker 1: said it a couple of times of the last couple

2618
02:07:53,240 --> 02:07:55,360
Speaker 1: of days. I think those last two teams that are

2619
02:07:55,360 --> 02:07:58,040
Speaker 1: at the top of the conference, they're not gonna let up.

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02:07:58,080 --> 02:08:00,240
Speaker 1: You had two teams getting to buy this last year.

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02:08:00,280 --> 02:08:05,240
Speaker 1: It was Baltimore in Kansas City, and they know they're

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02:08:05,240 --> 02:08:07,080
Speaker 1: gonna have to push it to one of them is

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02:08:07,120 --> 02:08:10,360
Speaker 1: gonna have to get the tiebreaker right. They're gonna have

2624
02:08:10,400 --> 02:08:12,640
Speaker 1: to figure out the tiebreaker for the bye if both

2625
02:08:12,680 --> 02:08:15,920
Speaker 1: of them finish twelve and four, who gets who gets

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02:08:16,000 --> 02:08:19,440
Speaker 1: the tiebreaker for the bye week, And that means also

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02:08:19,760 --> 02:08:22,120
Speaker 1: both those teams are really gonna be gutting it out

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02:08:22,800 --> 02:08:25,200
Speaker 1: on that final weekend of the season. If they already

2629
02:08:25,240 --> 02:08:27,480
Speaker 1: had it sewed up, you know, okay, they gotta sewed up.

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02:08:27,520 --> 02:08:30,480
Speaker 1: Who cares? You know, well, we'll coast in. But those

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02:08:30,600 --> 02:08:32,840
Speaker 1: top teams in the conference are going to be pressed

2632
02:08:32,920 --> 02:08:35,760
Speaker 1: for a week or two further than they otherwise would

2633
02:08:35,760 --> 02:08:37,600
Speaker 1: have been because the only one of them is going

2634
02:08:37,640 --> 02:08:39,880
Speaker 1: to get the buy in, not two. So I think

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02:08:39,960 --> 02:08:41,760
Speaker 1: that is a big difference for the top teams in

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02:08:41,800 --> 02:08:43,960
Speaker 1: the conference at the end of the regular season, and

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02:08:44,400 --> 02:08:46,680
Speaker 1: I think it'll make a difference for some of these teams,

2638
02:08:46,760 --> 02:08:48,960
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be interesting to watch how it plays out.

2639
02:08:49,440 --> 02:08:52,000
Speaker 1: One more thing, Stephen, we talked with bred Genie about

2640
02:08:52,040 --> 02:08:55,120
Speaker 1: this last hour, and again I am not against expansion

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02:08:55,160 --> 02:08:59,080
Speaker 1: of the postseason. It is not that radical. But currently

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02:08:59,560 --> 02:09:02,879
Speaker 1: fifty three percent of teams in the NBA make the playoffs,

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02:09:03,280 --> 02:09:06,160
Speaker 1: fifty two percent of teams in the NHL sixteen or

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02:09:06,240 --> 02:09:09,000
Speaker 1: thirty two make the playoffs or sixteen and thirty Rather

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02:09:09,440 --> 02:09:11,680
Speaker 1: thirty three percent of Major League Baseball teams make the

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02:09:11,720 --> 02:09:15,960
Speaker 1: playoffs and forty three point seven forty four percent of

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02:09:16,040 --> 02:09:19,640
Speaker 1: all NFL teams qualify. You're getting close to where everybody,

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02:09:19,720 --> 02:09:21,600
Speaker 1: you know, the old thing about the NFL, everybody makes

2649
02:09:21,600 --> 02:09:24,320
Speaker 1: the playoffs. You're getting close to that, I think in football,

2650
02:09:24,440 --> 02:09:28,560
Speaker 1: just close, not too close, but close. Yeah. It's like

2651
02:09:28,680 --> 02:09:31,760
Speaker 1: in hockey and the NBA. You almost play yourself out

2652
02:09:31,800 --> 02:09:35,440
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. You know, the playoffs start like a

2653
02:09:35,560 --> 02:09:38,000
Speaker 1: month into the regular season, you know, just to get

2654
02:09:38,080 --> 02:09:41,040
Speaker 1: into the tournament, and just about everybody's still in it

2655
02:09:41,080 --> 02:09:44,760
Speaker 1: all the way at the end. Yeah, I'm kind of

2656
02:09:44,840 --> 02:09:48,680
Speaker 1: with you on that, but I still think, yeah, half

2657
02:09:48,760 --> 02:09:50,720
Speaker 1: the team, if you can get into I don't know.

2658
02:09:51,640 --> 02:09:54,000
Speaker 1: I have a hard time, particularly in this sport. In football,

2659
02:09:54,640 --> 02:09:57,040
Speaker 1: the top half of the league getting into the playoffs

2660
02:09:58,160 --> 02:10:01,200
Speaker 1: seems a bit much. Yeah, seems a bit much. But

2661
02:10:01,640 --> 02:10:04,000
Speaker 1: I do like this the format. I like the seven

2662
02:10:04,080 --> 02:10:06,200
Speaker 1: teams in it's an odd number, gives one team an

2663
02:10:06,240 --> 02:10:09,080
Speaker 1: extra boost going in the team that's favorite. It makes

2664
02:10:09,160 --> 02:10:14,280
Speaker 1: the regular season top the top team, and a regular

2665
02:10:14,320 --> 02:10:18,480
Speaker 1: season record is rewarded big time, and it gives them,

2666
02:10:18,800 --> 02:10:21,040
Speaker 1: you know, a week off in the playoffs, and I

2667
02:10:21,160 --> 02:10:23,560
Speaker 1: think that's a good reward. For a team that's played

2668
02:10:23,640 --> 02:10:27,240
Speaker 1: so well. Nickelodeon game on Saturday night, that could be fun.

2669
02:10:27,520 --> 02:10:31,160
Speaker 1: That's a Twitter poll. What changes would you make to

2670
02:10:31,280 --> 02:10:34,400
Speaker 1: that game to attracting younger audience? What do you do? Man?

2671
02:10:36,080 --> 02:10:39,400
Speaker 1: I mean how young are we talking about? Preschool? The

2672
02:10:39,520 --> 02:10:42,880
Speaker 1: officials could wear could wear rainbow colored outfits in a

2673
02:10:42,920 --> 02:10:44,800
Speaker 1: black and white You know, they can show up. You know,

2674
02:10:44,800 --> 02:10:47,200
Speaker 1: they could make you know, where knickers or clown suits

2675
02:10:47,320 --> 02:10:50,720
Speaker 1: or something. I don't know, Yeah, yeah, for sure. All right,

2676
02:10:50,720 --> 02:10:52,480
Speaker 1: we got a breakcare We're coming back. One Bill's Life

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Speaker 1: presented by Collat of Health steams at home. I'm at home.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. So what have we learned from?

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Speaker 1: Tanisio brought you about sky Works, the official construction equipment

2680
02:11:05,400 --> 02:11:08,240
Speaker 1: Reynold company of the Buffalo Bills. Neil Reynolds joined us

2681
02:11:08,280 --> 02:11:10,840
Speaker 1: from Sky Sports in the United Kingdom. We asked if

2682
02:11:10,880 --> 02:11:13,440
Speaker 1: the interest in the NFL Free Agency was still up

2683
02:11:13,800 --> 02:11:17,960
Speaker 1: in light of the current circumstances about coronavirus US. What

2684
02:11:18,080 --> 02:11:22,040
Speaker 1: Neil Reynolds said, Oh, no, So people want some content

2685
02:11:22,240 --> 02:11:25,240
Speaker 1: just to distract because you can get you can get

2686
02:11:25,280 --> 02:11:28,760
Speaker 1: stuck just watching the news cycles hour after hour and

2687
02:11:29,080 --> 02:11:31,240
Speaker 1: you need a break from that. So I was very

2688
02:11:31,280 --> 02:11:33,280
Speaker 1: busy during free agency week. I was doing a lot

2689
02:11:33,320 --> 02:11:36,720
Speaker 1: of Sky Sports news hits. You know, Tom Brady's moved

2690
02:11:36,760 --> 02:11:39,640
Speaker 1: to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. But yeah, I think there's

2691
02:11:39,680 --> 02:11:42,920
Speaker 1: a lot of interest around free agency, and I think

2692
02:11:43,680 --> 02:11:47,360
Speaker 1: we're looking at creative ways to get content out there

2693
02:11:47,360 --> 02:11:49,960
Speaker 1: as they I've told talked to you guys before about

2694
02:11:50,040 --> 02:11:54,520
Speaker 1: the nfl UK live stage shows that I do around

2695
02:11:54,600 --> 02:11:59,560
Speaker 1: the country, traveling the UK, and we may we're looking

2696
02:11:59,640 --> 02:12:02,400
Speaker 1: into whether we do one from my living room, which

2697
02:12:02,480 --> 02:12:07,440
Speaker 1: which will be incredible. That's Neil Reynolds also on the

2698
02:12:07,440 --> 02:12:10,560
Speaker 1: show today as a McKenzie, Bill's veteran wide receiver who

2699
02:12:10,640 --> 02:12:13,480
Speaker 1: resigned with the Bills last week. He's training during the

2700
02:12:13,560 --> 02:12:17,080
Speaker 1: South season at a park practicing social distancing down in

2701
02:12:17,160 --> 02:12:20,640
Speaker 1: South Florida. Here's McKenzie. Just the regular things were lomally

2702
02:12:20,720 --> 02:12:27,600
Speaker 1: doing another I mean the regular seasons, just Colnsville's conditioning, uh, ladders,

2703
02:12:27,840 --> 02:12:30,080
Speaker 1: all of you know, catching the ball the winner, routes,

2704
02:12:30,600 --> 02:12:32,640
Speaker 1: all the things you would do if you weren't quarantine

2705
02:12:32,640 --> 02:12:35,200
Speaker 1: and things like that. But we still do it, Lord,

2706
02:12:35,680 --> 02:12:37,640
Speaker 1: because we do it all in the morning and nobody's

2707
02:12:37,680 --> 02:12:40,800
Speaker 1: really out in the morning what he's watching or something.

2708
02:12:40,960 --> 02:12:42,520
Speaker 1: You can get it. You can get it all through

2709
02:12:42,560 --> 02:12:45,000
Speaker 1: it in the morning and then afternoons to ourselves and

2710
02:12:45,320 --> 02:12:50,680
Speaker 1: to it the next day. As Ai McKenzie resigned his deal, Hey, Steve,

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02:12:51,120 --> 02:12:54,320
Speaker 1: are you saying I'm here? I got a tweet from

2712
02:12:54,480 --> 02:12:57,160
Speaker 1: John Green. I'll read it. Can we get Stefan Diggs

2713
02:12:57,200 --> 02:13:00,720
Speaker 1: on here already or any dude free agent signe? Really? Hey, Johnna,

2714
02:13:01,040 --> 02:13:02,840
Speaker 1: I appreciate your interest. John. We'd love to Damn mom,

2715
02:13:02,920 --> 02:13:05,120
Speaker 1: we're not slacking. Look, the whole league is sort of

2716
02:13:05,160 --> 02:13:07,360
Speaker 1: slowed down as they get these contracts that we'll get

2717
02:13:07,360 --> 02:13:09,520
Speaker 1: the paperwork done. That's what we're waiting for, Steve, and

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02:13:09,640 --> 02:13:11,320
Speaker 1: we're under order to do that. By the way, I

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02:13:11,360 --> 02:13:13,800
Speaker 1: don't think Stefan digs has been an interviewed by anyone

2720
02:13:14,160 --> 02:13:17,480
Speaker 1: since the trade. Has he, Steve? If he you might heat,

2721
02:13:17,640 --> 02:13:19,600
Speaker 1: He's tweeted a couple things and stuff. I haven't heard

2722
02:13:19,600 --> 02:13:22,200
Speaker 1: any interviews from. But we're talking about getting all the

2723
02:13:22,280 --> 02:13:25,880
Speaker 1: guys that the Bills have signed in free agency. There's

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02:13:25,960 --> 02:13:28,400
Speaker 1: six or seven of them, and if you know, we

2725
02:13:28,480 --> 02:13:30,360
Speaker 1: will get them. But it's gonna take time for the

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02:13:30,440 --> 02:13:33,200
Speaker 1: contracts to go through. We're gonna wait until everything is signed,

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Speaker 1: sealed and delivered, and then we'll have all these guys

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Speaker 1: on in the preseason or in the in the weeks

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Speaker 1: leading up to it. So hang with us. We're we'll

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Speaker 1: get him probably, we'll probably get him first or trying.

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Speaker 1: Thanks you, John. We got Brandon Bean on the show

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Speaker 1: tomorrow to tune in for that. Production assistance today from

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Speaker 1: George Blast, Jeff Colt, Nick Thomas Older, Kelly Rude, jj Urito,

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Speaker 1: Kevin Cargis, James Robot, Brayton Wilson, Derek Kramer, our producer

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Speaker 1: Jay Harris. We're back tomorrow at twelve noon with One

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