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Speaker 1: here of normalcy here, yea, we never strive to be

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Speaker 1: normal here on this show, One Bill's Live Friday Edition,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, jam packed show today.

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Speaker 1: Tons of news around the league, both player related, network

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Speaker 1: viewing related. Steve is in the process of trying to

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Speaker 1: house one of his burritos. He did not meet the

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Speaker 1: twelve noon deadline. People. I am telling you it is

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Speaker 1: a show of shows. I am going to lobby to

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Speaker 1: get Steve in a competitive eating contest, because I think

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Speaker 1: he is wholly capable of competing in one of these events.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying you're Joey Chestnut, but Steve, you you

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Speaker 1: would give some of those heavy hitters a run for

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Speaker 1: some of the others. You could give them a run.

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Speaker 1: Depends on what we're eating. Because this burrito that I

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Speaker 1: so it doesn't count. You were housing that thing. It

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Speaker 1: was so good. Oh my gosh, it was so good.

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Speaker 1: But it's unbelievable. What's going on. We got so much.

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Speaker 1: It's like it's March, like twentieth. What is it nineteenth

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Speaker 1: that we got all kinds of stuff we got to

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Speaker 1: TV deals for the NFL are done. I heard too

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. They've got a hundred bill and billion dollars.

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Speaker 1: Now you know, the the league's not gonna see you

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Speaker 1: kinds of they're talking about an eighteen game season down

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Speaker 1: and of course there's gambling, um right, The gambling element

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Speaker 1: gonna like be this big juggernaut of a big windfall financially. First,

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Speaker 1: you'll have any game sports betting, which is a very

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Speaker 1: down there in Texas. But we've got we've got much

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Speaker 1: Bean said, listen, we want you to punt, punt for

427
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Speaker 1: hang time, and we want you to have like a

428
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Speaker 1: forty yard average and not have any returns. And you'll

429
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Speaker 1: get punters who'll say, I don't want to do that,

430
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Speaker 1: and fine, didn't go play someplace else. We want you

431
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Speaker 1: to do that, and he won't. And there were probably

432
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Speaker 1: were some instances during the season where he hit it

433
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Speaker 1: in a way and they didn't. They were like, that's

434
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Speaker 1: not what we told you to do, um, and you know,

435
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Speaker 1: hence the inconsistencies as well. So that's if that happens

436
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Speaker 1: a couple of time times it's like what are you doing?

437
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 1: You know? And there that's it. The philosophy takes over

438
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna get a guy who's gonna do what

439
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Speaker 1: we want to do. And when they go out in

440
00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,440
Speaker 1: a free agency, they sit the guy down and say

441
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 1: here's what we're looking for, and the puner will go,

442
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:17,359
Speaker 1: you got it, or he'll say, uh, I don't like

443
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Speaker 1: that either, right, So there you go. That could be it,

444
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Speaker 1: and it could be just not on the same page.

445
00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: He wanted ten million dollars a year and they were

446
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Speaker 1: going to give him ten dollars a year. You know,

447
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Speaker 1: could be that difference. So that is all to be

448
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Speaker 1: discussed today, and as we said in the second hour

449
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Speaker 1: of the show, we'll kind of dice up some of

450
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Speaker 1: the highlights from Brandon being in Sean mcdermot's press conference yesterday.

451
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Speaker 1: Bring those too you along with our analysis of some

452
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Speaker 1: of those comments and some of the plans of the

453
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Speaker 1: Bills going forward. We also know that on Friday it

454
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Speaker 1: is the OBL Fan Friday mail Bag. Any question that

455
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 1: you might have about the team, the roster, the coaching staff,

456
00:24:56,800 --> 00:24:59,840
Speaker 1: the league at large, these new TV deals and what

457
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,240
Speaker 1: it means for you maybe you're a direct TV subscriber

458
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,400
Speaker 1: something like that. We can answer those questions for you here,

459
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,440
Speaker 1: So drop him in the mail bag at one Bills

460
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Speaker 1: Live or give us a call eight oh three oh

461
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Speaker 1: five fifty one eight eight eight five fifty two five

462
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Speaker 1: fifty to get on board with us. We have an

463
00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:21,560
Speaker 1: open line for you there. It's interesting, Steve, that yesterday

464
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 1: one of the tight ends came off the market going

465
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Speaker 1: to the Giants. Kyle Rudolph and the Bills were reported

466
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: to be in the mix for Kyle Rudolph. There's also

467
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 1: this These reports out there that the Bills are one

468
00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 1: of the teams interested in acquiring zach Ertz via trade

469
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Speaker 1: from the Eagles. Chargers have also been mentioned. I think

470
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,200
Speaker 1: there were a couple other teams in the mix. There

471
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,919
Speaker 1: are some who believe that now that the Chargers have

472
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Speaker 1: signed Jared Cook, who's entering his age thirty fourth season,

473
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Speaker 1: that that would take them out of the market for

474
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,399
Speaker 1: zach Ertz. I'm not necessarily convinced of that because it

475
00:25:57,480 --> 00:25:59,480
Speaker 1: was only a one year, six million dollars deal for

476
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Speaker 1: Jared Cook. So you look at that and you say,

477
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's enough to throw them off

478
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,520
Speaker 1: the trail of a Zacher. It's necessarily and you wonder,

479
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:14,120
Speaker 1: you know where it goes from here? Um with respect

480
00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:16,200
Speaker 1: to that, you know, do you hold your water? And wait?

481
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 1: We heard Brandon Bean say yesterday Steve that they're still

482
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,680
Speaker 1: in the market to add to the roster, but at

483
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 1: their value and their prices, and right now, he said,

484
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 1: their values aren't lining up with what people are asking

485
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,440
Speaker 1: for right now. They're still asking for too much money.

486
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 1: Whatever position and whatever players might be out there that

487
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:38,439
Speaker 1: they're interested. Tons of short contracts. That's what it's gonna be. Oh,

488
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:42,440
Speaker 1: it's gonna be all one day, all of them, and okay,

489
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 1: you know it's gonna be. And I think that's it's

490
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: It's two fold. It's a double edged sword. One way,

491
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 1: it's bad for Buffalo because this is a year where

492
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,280
Speaker 1: they didn't have the cap money to spend and they

493
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 1: can't really afford guys and they can't go out and

494
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 1: just shopping spree and find exactly the guys they want.

495
00:26:56,800 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 1: On the other hand, it's good for the Bills because

496
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,880
Speaker 1: they're in a spot where they're a contender. They got

497
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: a franchise quarterback, they're on the uptick, They've got a

498
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 1: vibe coming out of this building that is really appealing

499
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:14,160
Speaker 1: to players personally and professionally. And we've seen like Mitch Trubiski,

500
00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 1: Matt Milano, you know, Fleciano, Daryl Went, all these guys

501
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: are like and Levi Wallace, all these guys they didn't

502
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:26,160
Speaker 1: want to leave. That word gets out not only to players,

503
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 1: but to representation. So the other the bad edge is

504
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,120
Speaker 1: the fact that Bills don't have any money to spend.

505
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,399
Speaker 1: The good thing is there's this is a destination people

506
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: want to come here, at least for a short time,

507
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: hop on the super Bowl bandwagon that they think that

508
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 1: the Bills might be on and use it for a minute,

509
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: help their career, and then get out after a year.

510
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 1: So the Bills don't have much money to spend, but

511
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,160
Speaker 1: they're one of the most attractive destinations for free agents

512
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:55,120
Speaker 1: to land. So it's a double edged sword. We will

513
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Speaker 1: take a break, but when we return. It is the

514
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: latest installment of Tasker's Teammate. Steve was on it rather

515
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,480
Speaker 1: quick last week, right, you got it? Pretty cool? It

516
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: actually took you a little longer last week or four now,

517
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,719
Speaker 1: it was like four clues. Anyway, Yeah, we'll see how

518
00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,360
Speaker 1: quickly Steve can guess this week's former teammate of hits

519
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: starting to get a feel for the way you that's right.

520
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:20,280
Speaker 1: I know, I gotta mix it up a little. I

521
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 1: gotta try to shift gears on you. But we'll have

522
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: that next. Here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health,

523
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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bills Live.

524
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker here on a Friday, and it

525
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Speaker 1: is time our favorite time of the week. Well maybe

526
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 1: not Steve's but certainly ours. It is time for the

527
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: latest edition of Tasker's Teammate, and it is brought to

528
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Speaker 1: you by Wegman's Meals to Go Delicious Meals delivered Download

529
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: the Wegman's app today. Stevie, you're ready, I am ready. Okay,

530
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:08,520
Speaker 1: We'll begin with clue number one. That's usually where we begin.

531
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: Born in a state with a panhandle? Oh my gosh.

532
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: I played my college ball in my home state before

533
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: transferring to Louisville, where I finished my college career. How

534
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 1: many states have panhandle? Steve, Louisville, car World Gardener. It

535
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 1: is not Car World Gardener. He went to that. Well,

536
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 1: I don't even know where he was born. Born in

537
00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 1: the Western Hemisphere. Come on, man, a state with how

538
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: many states have panhandled too? Yeah? Well, yeah something you

539
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:51,520
Speaker 1: know some people are well, yeah, and what about Florida? Yeah,

540
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: Florida has a panhandle? Oklahoma, of course an Oklahoma has

541
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: Nebraska has a panhandle too? Does that count? Yes, that's

542
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:02,959
Speaker 1: what they call it. Seriously, Yeah, that's right. So that's

543
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 1: a bit of a stretch. Don't look at I didn't

544
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: invent it. I'm just saying I lived out the call.

545
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 1: The notch on Nebraska pan where Colorado cuts into the

546
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:13,640
Speaker 1: bottom corner of Nebraska. I'm not buying that one, and

547
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to have a conversation about that at

548
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: a later time. That's a notch, not a panhandle. Anyway,

549
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 1: an eleventh round draft choice of another AFC East club.

550
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: So he's an old guy. I ultimately didn't make the

551
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: roster as a rookie and played my first professional season

552
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:38,640
Speaker 1: in the World League of American Football, so he had

553
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:46,720
Speaker 1: to beat before. Oh man, he's older. You want me

554
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,280
Speaker 1: to read that full clue again because there was a

555
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 1: lot in there. No, no, I got it. He was

556
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 1: the eleventh round draft pick World League. It didn't make

557
00:30:53,800 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 1: it as a rookie in Buffalo. No no, no, I

558
00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: didn't say Buffalo and draft choice another ACT East club.

559
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: But back in that back then, the Tea the East

560
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:12,760
Speaker 1: might have had the Colts in it. It's possible. All right,

561
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 1: go ahead, I am okay, we'll move on to clue

562
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:21,400
Speaker 1: number three. I joined the Bills the following year, but

563
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,040
Speaker 1: my season was cut short after six games by a

564
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: knee injury. M Stevens, what's thinking hard here? Knee injury? Well,

565
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 1: unfortunately that doesn't narrow it down all that much. A

566
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: lot of guys have knee injuries and say, eleventh round

567
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: draft pick. Mm hmmm, gosh, I don't know. All right,

568
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: we'll go on to clue number four. You've got him

569
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: stumped here. This is good. I gotta I gotta give

570
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:01,760
Speaker 1: me a time frame. I don't know what you know,

571
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: what was it like in the You'll get a time

572
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: frame here. I didn't get the opportunity to start for

573
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: the Bills until my third and final season with the team,

574
00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 1: when I earned seven starts in nineteen ninety four ninety four,

575
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 1: which was his third and final season with the Bills. Oh,

576
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: come on, come on, eleventh round draft pick. Yeah, you're

577
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 1: hung up on that got ninety four seven game, right?

578
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: I don't want to be the second year. Who is

579
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: that man, oh man, that's driving me car? I don't know.

580
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: I will tell you he was. He was an eleventh

581
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: round draft choice in ninety one. Okay, just to kind

582
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,840
Speaker 1: of help you, n eleven rounds ninety one apprently, So okay,

583
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 1: that's all right. So does that help you? Yeah? Okay, okay,

584
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: so right, and so here's your next craft in world? Okay,

585
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: So here's your next click go ahead. After being out

586
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: of the league in nineteen ninety five, I returned to

587
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: the World League and played for two seasons there before

588
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: playing two more seasons in the NFL for Philadelphia, last

589
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: season in Buffalo ninety four, out of the league in

590
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 1: ninety five, World League ninety six, and then finishes his

591
00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: NFL in philadelph What was that, Jerry Kraft Jerry Krafts

592
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: is one hundred percent correct. I got big year condo condo. Man,

593
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 1: you are you doing? If you if if the hint

594
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,800
Speaker 1: had been every year? I wrapped my arms around him

595
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 1: to guess the first Yes, all right, so now I

596
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 1: got to hear that story. Now what is this is

597
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: Verry spent the whole off season in Buffalo and they

598
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: were always they were always hammering about his weight, and

599
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: I said, let me and I so I'd put my

600
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,919
Speaker 1: arms around him, and if if my fingers didn't meet,

601
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: I knew he'd been cheat. He's overweight. But but I

602
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: knew if I got if I got down to black

603
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 1: wore knuckles were and stuff, then I could. Then I

604
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:32,560
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, you're doing that was the test. Yeah,

605
00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: So you were like the human tape measure for his midsection, right, now. Yeah,

606
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: and believe me, I didn't have to. His waist was

607
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,200
Speaker 1: like right up up my shoulders too, Okay, well yeah,

608
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 1: well yeah he was like that. Yeah, and I knew

609
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: that when he started going down the list of leagues. Listen,

610
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: Jerry is as big a human as you'll ever come across.

611
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: And every league wanted to listen, that guy can play

612
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:57,879
Speaker 1: for us. Yeah, Jerry, you got a chance to play

613
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: in a lot of leagues right to like a championship game,

614
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: and almost I think in every league he played in.

615
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it was kind of a whirlwind

616
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: that there was nineteen seasons stuck in thirteen years and

617
00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: they were World League and NFL Europe. Then I went

618
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: to Canadian played six years there and snuck in six

619
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,839
Speaker 1: and Arena Ball and then XFL year and I mean

620
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: it was just some fun times. But it was all

621
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:25,319
Speaker 1: about relationships for me. You know, I would never really

622
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: that great of a player, like you said. I was

623
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: a good backup guy and a good role player, but man,

624
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: I enjoyed those times in the Bills and Stevie was

625
00:35:34,239 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 1: a Stevie was a great guy to have tea for sure.

626
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,480
Speaker 1: It's fun because yeah, you're right, I miss. You've probably

627
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,400
Speaker 1: you talked about all the teammates I had over thirteen

628
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,879
Speaker 1: year career. Think about all you know, the hundreds of Jerry, Yeah,

629
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: played a ton and how you played in your where'd

630
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: you play in Europe? Well? We played over early when

631
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: I when I got cut there from the Colts, I

632
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: went over and played in the NFL Europe and then

633
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: it turned into World League. I'm sorry, it was worldly,

634
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: he can. Then it turned into the NFL UM so

635
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: I was in Amsterdam for two years. Uh, you know,

636
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:07,480
Speaker 1: you can't say that was a bad deal. I guess

637
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 1: right right, Yeah, there were some Yeah, there's some exotics

638
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 1: and then and then Jerry probably doesn't even know this,

639
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 1: but when he was playing for the Buffalo Destroyers in

640
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:20,320
Speaker 1: the Arena League, I was doing the games on the radio,

641
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,759
Speaker 1: so I was traveling with the team. Ray Bentley was

642
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:25,919
Speaker 1: a coach then and they brought him in to play

643
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,800
Speaker 1: there both sides of the ball. He was a I

644
00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: mean it took you like three seconds to get around him.

645
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:32,320
Speaker 1: They used to put him on a line there and

646
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: I mean that game so fast. Jerry just had to

647
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,399
Speaker 1: stand up and it's great work. Was pretty much doing

648
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: his job. There, but no, I mean he got he

649
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 1: got to play both sides of the ball there, and

650
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 1: it was it was cool. It was fun watching him

651
00:36:42,680 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: move around out there. I don't think he ever got

652
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 1: enough credit for his athleticism. Get where you where you at?

653
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,000
Speaker 1: Are you, you know, staying safe and healthy during the pandemic.

654
00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: How's it been for you? Yeah, Well, we me and

655
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: the family got chicked early maybe you know, early on

656
00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 1: last year, maybe February March so and then so we

657
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 1: hunkered down just like everybody. We were in Florida, living

658
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: in Florida and um still there and uh so we

659
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: just kind of hunkered down with everybody else and you know,

660
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: got through it. It was really a blessed time for us. Um,

661
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 1: you know, my wife's a teacher and and and we

662
00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: just don't see a lot of me and her and

663
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 1: I have an eight year old a four year old,

664
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: So to be honest, it was a really blessed time

665
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: for us. We got to just kind of spend a

666
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 1: lot of time together. And fortunately for me, I actually

667
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: liked my wife. A lot of people don't, so that

668
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,239
Speaker 1: would be hard for them, I would assume, But I

669
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: liked my wife. She's a good friend. Of mine. So

670
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: we actually had a really good I think the pandemic

671
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 1: treated us nice, to be honest with you. And then

672
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: you were doing you were doing some coaching, right, Jerry Like, uh, yeah, yeah,

673
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,359
Speaker 1: I coached when when I when I when I stopped playing, Um,

674
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: I moved to Florida, me and my wife, she's the

675
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 1: Buffalo Orchard Park gall and so we moved to Florida

676
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: and I started coaching down here with Kerwin Bell as

677
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: an old Florida Gatorum. I played with actually him and

678
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 1: that for the Orlando Thunder after I got cut there

679
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: the Colts that first year ninety two and then um,

680
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,760
Speaker 1: but anyway, he was the head coach at Jacksonville University.

681
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 1: It's a small little broad school. Actually, I saw Stevie

682
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,880
Speaker 1: down here. We had one of the uh Chris Moore's

683
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 1: son was puntered for us for a couple of years,

684
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: and then um, Stevie was down here doing I think

685
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:21,880
Speaker 1: some Jacksonville broadcasting, maybe for the NFL or something, and

686
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 1: I ran across him the first thing he did, walk up,

687
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: put his arms around me and couldn't reach obviously. But yeah,

688
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:31,840
Speaker 1: I ended up down here in Jacksonville, and I love it.

689
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: Man it's uh, you know, I coached everybody eight years

690
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:39,600
Speaker 1: with Kerwin and then uh, sorry about the noise, and

691
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 1: then uh the uh you know. He laughed and went

692
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 1: on to figure in better things, and I decided to

693
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: kind of hang it up, concentrate on family, good stuff. Man.

694
00:38:48,800 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: It's great to see Jerry. You look good. It's and

695
00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 1: you're right. The last time we set eyes on each

696
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 1: other was at Jackson State, Jacksonville State, So it's good

697
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: to see you. Man. You look great and our best.

698
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 1: I'm glad the pandemic too. Well. Yeah, good to see

699
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: you guys. Take care of it. It's a pleasure. Thanks

700
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,160
Speaker 1: for making some time for us. Jerry crafts the condo,

701
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, man, Like yeah, for a giant human,

702
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:16,880
Speaker 1: he was pretty athletic, like oh yeah, And I didn't

703
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,439
Speaker 1: really come to appreciate it until I saw him playing

704
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: arena football, like it's a small field and that game

705
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 1: is like five times faster than the outdoor game, just

706
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:33,359
Speaker 1: because it's like it's like football in a matchbox. And uh,

707
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: he was a riot man, Like I'm just gonna I

708
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: don't have to tell you this because you were around

709
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: these guys. But Ray Bentley as a coach and that

710
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: guy is a player on the same on the same

711
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: bus going to games. Oh, man, I could write a

712
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: book about that that. I saw ye with that game

713
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: doing those in small spaces. Guys like he could cover

714
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:55,680
Speaker 1: a lot of ground in a space. You know, you

715
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: get across that the arena league sideline to signline and

716
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: you kind of multiply that. Like on a regular field,

717
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: how fast a guy can get sidelined the sideline takes

718
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,239
Speaker 1: a while, but in a rena league, even a guy

719
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 1: like Jerry can get there. Yeah, what a force. And

720
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: I think if I remember right, Ray used him on

721
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,400
Speaker 1: a couple of goal line plays. I mean, it's a

722
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: throwing league, but they gotta like if they were inside

723
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: the five cherry up in the backfield, just give him

724
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 1: the ball. It was just it was like a bowling

725
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: ball hitting pins. Man, I'm telling some believe he was

726
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,840
Speaker 1: a big dude. And yeah, and well liked on the

727
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: team because he was. That's good. Good to see him, man.

728
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 1: Nice to know that his wife is a good friend

729
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:39,879
Speaker 1: of his and she's nochard part. It was hilarious. Yeah, right, Oh,

730
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:41,879
Speaker 1: I like her. She's a good friend of mine. Good

731
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:43,920
Speaker 1: a friend of mine. So that was good. I got

732
00:40:43,960 --> 00:40:46,320
Speaker 1: that going forward. That but that's him, that's his personality.

733
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 1: That was a great story, the weightlifting, the weight the

734
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:54,760
Speaker 1: way in story. So what was Rusty? How many jokes

735
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,359
Speaker 1: was Rusty cracking? I mean, that guy must have been

736
00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 1: a headache for him. Rusty was one of the first

737
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,680
Speaker 1: coaches who was more of a scientist. He was a

738
00:41:02,719 --> 00:41:06,440
Speaker 1: sports science guy. He was a strength conditioning coach, but

739
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 1: he was also on the cutting edge of everything was

740
00:41:08,480 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 1: coming out and I think you know that was part

741
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 1: of his job description and he was on it. Uh

742
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: you know, body mass index, training, your core right, you know,

743
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: all that stuff was way you know, started way back then.

744
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 1: And Rusty was a kind of a nerve. He was like, Jerry,

745
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:24,360
Speaker 1: you gotta you know, because he had to answer to

746
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: Marv to get these guys ready. And Jerry sometimes some

747
00:41:28,239 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 1: days Jerry just wouldn't wouldn't hear it, you know, he

748
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:32,840
Speaker 1: was like listening and well, you told me the pizza

749
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: story from Fredonia training camp. Jerry could throw down a

750
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:39,120
Speaker 1: large pizza by himself like I'd do a burrito. I

751
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: mean it was it's not even close, right, and and

752
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:46,720
Speaker 1: it wasn't And it was the pizza and a sub

753
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 1: and fifty wings and it was and it was just

754
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:54,399
Speaker 1: it was just he wouldn't stop. Oh it was that guy.

755
00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: That guy's a compete competitive. Yeah, they should get him,

756
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: he should be doing that. Oh we should have mentioned

757
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 1: if if there was just a time when you just

758
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 1: want to sit down and watch a guy eat. I

759
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:08,560
Speaker 1: don't know that you could put enough food in front

760
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:11,799
Speaker 1: of him. It would shock you. Yeah, which they asked

761
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 1: him just the purifier. They wanted him to. They wanted

762
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 1: him at three sixty. Yeah, can Jerry? Can you just

763
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 1: get sixty? And he and it was always a conversation like, man,

764
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:24,840
Speaker 1: I could come on and the guys were kind of

765
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 1: on it. Come on, Jerry three six and he's like,

766
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know that he could, you know,

767
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 1: struggled so because he's so big, he's a massive he's

768
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 1: human being here three sixty and he's like, and so

769
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,719
Speaker 1: you know his struggles going on. They go, okay, Jerry,

770
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:41,879
Speaker 1: and they go what's your natch? He goes, he goes,

771
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 1: I'm probably he's I'm four bills plus if i'm if

772
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: I'm not really on it right, if I'm four bills

773
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: plus And they go, how fast could you get to

774
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:53,879
Speaker 1: four bills. If they turned you loose and Rusty said

775
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: we want you, how fast could you get that four bills?

776
00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:02,960
Speaker 1: He goes, He kind of like he thought, day and

777
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 1: a half, day and a half half. Oh my, forty

778
00:43:08,600 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 1: pounds in a day and a half. He could just

779
00:43:10,239 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 1: put it on as I could. He goes, day and

780
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: a half, and he was like serious, like, oh my god,

781
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: do you know how big guys I will say this,

782
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: like forty pounds for them is like two or like

783
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 1: two or three really for you and me, it's you

784
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:31,800
Speaker 1: have a big dinner or something and like a dessert

785
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: on top of it. Your next like this, we'll think

786
00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,320
Speaker 1: about three pounds. It's also the guy you know, you

787
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 1: set a gown the milk and a gown on the

788
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 1: water in front of the guy that's you know, he'll

789
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: drink that at a sitting because it's just so big.

790
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 1: Everything is, you know, is bigger exponential. Yeah, all right,

791
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 1: we have to take a break, but that was a

792
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:55,320
Speaker 1: lot of fun Jerry Craft, your latest edition of Tasker's Teammate.

793
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 1: We will take a break, but when we come back,

794
00:43:57,440 --> 00:44:00,360
Speaker 1: we'll uh dive into some of the stuff that we

795
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: want to cover around the league. That has happened. Some

796
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 1: receivers have signed. There have been some other news and

797
00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 1: notes that we want to get to, so we will

798
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:10,359
Speaker 1: cover that when we return here on One Bills Live,

799
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:24,320
Speaker 1: presented by Colloid to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome

800
00:44:24,360 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Taster with

801
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: you closing up our number one of the show. Plenty

802
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 1: more to bring your way, including our interview with one

803
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders, newest Bills wide receiver. And he wasn't the

804
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 1: only receiver in the league to come to terms. There

805
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:44,320
Speaker 1: were other receivers that have signed again one year deals,

806
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:49,280
Speaker 1: becoming the norm in what has quickly become a depressed

807
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: wide receiver market. So Sanders signs here for one year

808
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 1: and a reported six million dollars. The Dolphins jump into

809
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:01,879
Speaker 1: the free agent market. They sig Will Fuller, the deep

810
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: threat from the Texans one year, ten million dollars. And

811
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 1: I have to remember now, off the top of my

812
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:12,320
Speaker 1: head the other wide receivers signing from yesterday that I

813
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,320
Speaker 1: am that is going to escape me. I had it

814
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 1: in my head, Oh, Curtis Samuel Washington three year deal,

815
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:22,920
Speaker 1: and then there was one more receiver that signed a

816
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 1: one year deal. We know that Aj Green signed with

817
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,320
Speaker 1: the Cardinals. We had that on the show yesterday. That

818
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:31,799
Speaker 1: was a one year deal. You know, you see all

819
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,880
Speaker 1: these one year deals, Steve makes you wonder what the

820
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:37,320
Speaker 1: hell New England was thinking signing Nelson Aglore to a

821
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 1: three year deal worth twenty two million dollars and then

822
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 1: you get John Brown for three and a half, Emmanuel

823
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 1: Sanders for six and a one year. I don't know,

824
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:48,399
Speaker 1: I mean, I like, I mean, they're younger, no question

825
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 1: about it. Aglore's younger. Man, oh man, I don't know.

826
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: That just seems like it's out of whack with they went.

827
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: It seemed like they went too fast and didn't really

828
00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: see what the market was gonna do. You know, like

829
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: the you know what I mean, I got the money,

830
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 1: let's find it m interesting. You're right, uh, And you

831
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:09,400
Speaker 1: know we sit here and we throw darts at the

832
00:46:09,440 --> 00:46:11,279
Speaker 1: New England Patriots all the time because you know they're

833
00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 1: in the division, and you know they were they lorded

834
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: it over us for so many years. I guess it

835
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 1: was for you on this side. That's that training ain't

836
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: stopping so right. What I'm just saying, um, yeah, I'm

837
00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 1: they looked like they were decisive and stuff, but you

838
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 1: still can't. It's still hard to throw um darts at

839
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: the two tight ends they signed. Those guys are good players,

840
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 1: all you know. They they're the top guys at that

841
00:46:36,800 --> 00:46:40,640
Speaker 1: position and they signed both of them. Um, but man,

842
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:42,920
Speaker 1: it's a lot of money for Nelson Agaloor and the

843
00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:49,280
Speaker 1: other guy, which was yeah. So, but the receiver market

844
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: is moving at a snail's pace. Now, Steve here was

845
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: the most intriguing one. Okay, so we know that the

846
00:46:56,200 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears franchise tagged Alan Robinson, right, Alan Robinson didn't

847
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Speaker 1: appreciate that, didn't want to sign his franchise tag. The

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Speaker 1: Bears counter by hosting one Kenny Galladay for a free

849
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:15,839
Speaker 1: agent visit, the Lions top receiver who's a free agent.

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00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:18,680
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, he's not going to sign his franchise tag.

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00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 1: All right, well we'll look elsewhere. Kenny Galladay, how are

852
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 1: you doing? How much you come in for a visit.

853
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: We'll show you around, see what you think. Maybe you

854
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 1: could be our number one receiver. The next day, Alan

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00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:35,319
Speaker 1: Robinson signs his franchise tender. Now there's probably a couple

856
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:39,839
Speaker 1: of reasons for that. Okay, Number one, he ain't getting

857
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 1: any money if he doesn't sign it. Well, that's right.

858
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: And number two, we're witnessing a very depressed wide receiver market.

859
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: Kenny Galladay is still out there visiting teams when he

860
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 1: was widely seen as one of the top two receiver

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00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: talents on the market. And so Alan Robinson is sitting

862
00:47:56,719 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 1: there going, man, Galladay can't get work, Juju Smith Schuster

863
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,560
Speaker 1: can't get work. I have an opportunity to make eighteen

864
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 1: million dollars in a depressed economic state of the league

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00:48:07,440 --> 00:48:09,320
Speaker 1: next year and be a free agent next year. I

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00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:11,320
Speaker 1: think I'm just gonna sign this thing and make eighteen

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00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:13,920
Speaker 1: million because I'm gonna bet dollars to donuts. There's no

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00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: other receiver that signs a new deal this year that

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00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: makes eighteen million in twenty twenty one. No, he will

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00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 1: be at the top of the market. That's right. And

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00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 1: he's in a perfect spot because Chicago desperately want that.

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00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:29,600
Speaker 1: You gotta think desperately Chicago wants to upgrade now. He

873
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:35,160
Speaker 1: signed Andy Dalton. M aj Green was pretty productive with

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00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton as his quarterback. Yep, um, Andy Dalton's got

875
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 1: some chops. And he's not. Of course he's not, you know,

876
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:45,200
Speaker 1: not the top guys. But the guy's not gonna fall down.

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00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 1: He's a he's a proven veteran that can that's gonna

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00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:56,400
Speaker 1: help you. And yeah, there's yeah, gallad. I mean, Alan

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00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: Robinson should have signed that franchise tag as soon as

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00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: they offered it to Well, there was no way to

881
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:03,920
Speaker 1: predict what the market was going to bear for the

882
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:05,800
Speaker 1: top end of the receivers that we're going to be

883
00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:08,240
Speaker 1: out there in free agency. But it became readily apparent

884
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 1: right away that NFL clubs were balking at paying double

885
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:18,320
Speaker 1: digit millions per year for even the best receivers on

886
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 1: the market. Yeah, it doesn't matter, I mean it, he

887
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:24,800
Speaker 1: signed it, and it's good gun. Now it's good guaranteed.

888
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:28,320
Speaker 1: And maybe Chicago is sitting there going And there is

889
00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 1: still talk that the Bears aren't done trying to pry

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00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson out of Seattle. There is still talk that

891
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:40,440
Speaker 1: Seattle may pull the trigger if they can find a

892
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:44,000
Speaker 1: way or a clear path to a quarterback of their own. So,

893
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 1: like a Deshaun Watson, I tell you, we'll have to

894
00:49:46,719 --> 00:49:48,600
Speaker 1: see where it goes. It may even be a quarterback

895
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 1: in this year's draft that they're fond of or high on.

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00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:55,800
Speaker 1: We don't know, but the speculation continues. The quarterback carousel

897
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:59,000
Speaker 1: continues to spend. NFL Network went so far as to

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00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 1: create graphics for a full working you know, merry go

899
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:06,000
Speaker 1: round carousel with horses and everything, and they have all

900
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 1: the different quarterbacks on it riding up and down. Oh,

901
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:09,919
Speaker 1: this guy went here, This guy went. I'm like, wow,

902
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:12,320
Speaker 1: we're really we're really blowing this out here. Wait. I

903
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:15,440
Speaker 1: know it's a quarterback league, but my god, somebody's Yeah.

904
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 1: They got they got people. They gotta give something to do.

905
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 1: It's a little out of control. We will take a break,

906
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 1: but when we come back, we will be bringing you

907
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:26,360
Speaker 1: our interview with Emmanuel Sanders, which we tape just before

908
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 1: the show. He had a few minutes to join us,

909
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:31,720
Speaker 1: so we will bring that to you next when we return.

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00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: Here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health, this

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00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello, Bill's Radio Network. Sports Update.

912
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: Your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Free agency rolling along,

913
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:55,320
Speaker 1: and the Bills continuing to make moves on the roster. Thursday,

914
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:58,279
Speaker 1: the Bills and quarterback Mitchell Trubisky agreed to terms on

915
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:00,840
Speaker 1: a one year deal. Trubisky spent the last four seasons

916
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:03,920
Speaker 1: with the Bears. The twenty eighteen Pro bowler was drafted

917
00:51:03,960 --> 00:51:06,760
Speaker 1: by the Bears in twenty seventeen with the second overall

918
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: pick out of North Carolina. Brandon Being also announced that

919
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 1: they've agreed to a one year deal with running back

920
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: Taiwan Jones, an important piece to the team's special teams unit.

921
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:19,840
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders officially signed his one year contract this morning,

922
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 1: joined the show for a taped interview that will be

923
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:25,320
Speaker 1: airing here next You can check out the entire interview

924
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 1: later this afternoon, as well on the Bills app, Buffalo

925
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 1: bills dot com, and on YouTube. The NFL announced Thursday

926
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Speaker 1: it has signed long term agreements with media partners Amazon, CBS, ESPN, SLASH, ABC, Fox,

927
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:42,400
Speaker 1: and NBC to distribute NFL games across television and digital platforms,

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00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 1: along with additional media rights. The agreements will commence at

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00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:47,879
Speaker 1: the start of the twenty twenty three season and run

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00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 1: through the twenty thirty three season, broadening the league's digital

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00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:55,320
Speaker 1: football to a larger audience. With the new TV deals

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00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 1: in place, the NFL will have a new look regular

933
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:01,160
Speaker 1: season for the first time since seventy eighth, the NFL

934
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:04,200
Speaker 1: will expand the total number of regular season games from

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00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:07,480
Speaker 1: sixteen to seventeen. Reports are that the league will adopt

936
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: the seventeen game schedule for the upcoming twenty one twenty

937
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:13,719
Speaker 1: twenty one season. It's simply just a formality at this point.

938
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:16,839
Speaker 1: Patriots have resigned starting center David Andrews to a four

939
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 1: year deal. Interesting turn of events regarding Andrews, as it

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00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:21,239
Speaker 1: appeared the two sides were on the verge of a

941
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:25,800
Speaker 1: separation earlier in the week. They then signed Dolphins lineman

942
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: Ted Carris to a one year deal, which looked like

943
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:31,399
Speaker 1: a signal that the Patriots were moving on. But they've

944
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 1: done a complete one eighty since then, Andrews re upping

945
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 1: with the Patriots for the foreseeable future. The NFL informed

946
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans on Thursday they're investigating allegations made this

947
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: week against quarterback Deshaun Watson under the league's personal conduct policy.

948
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:49,759
Speaker 1: The news of the league's investigation comes after Watson was

949
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:53,400
Speaker 1: accused of sexual assault in a new civil lawsuit filed

950
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:57,760
Speaker 1: Thursday morning in Harris County, Texas. And finally, the Sabers

951
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 1: fell to the Bruins four to one last night, Buffalo's

952
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:04,880
Speaker 1: thirteen game skid, now the second longest enfranchise history of

953
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:08,360
Speaker 1: the teams, will conclude their two game series Saturday in Buffalo,

954
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 1: when eighteen hundred fans ten percent of the Key Bank

955
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 1: capacity will be allowed to attend. That is your sports

956
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:18,480
Speaker 1: update from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker here

957
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:22,279
Speaker 1: with you for our number two of the show, and

958
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:27,360
Speaker 1: we will bring you this Emmanuel Sanders interview at this

959
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 1: time that we had the opportunity to conduct with the

960
00:53:30,160 --> 00:53:33,919
Speaker 1: newest Bills wide receiver about an hour before the show.

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00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:37,400
Speaker 1: Before an hour before we came on, Steve and I

962
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:39,400
Speaker 1: had a chance to kind of do a zoom interview

963
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:43,800
Speaker 1: with Emmanuel Sanders. So here is that interview now on

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00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. All right, we're pleased to be joined

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00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:50,759
Speaker 1: now by the Bill's newest wide receiver on the roster.

966
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 1: It is one Emmanuel Sanders who put pen to paper

967
00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:56,960
Speaker 1: this morning at One Bill's Drive. So it is official, signed,

968
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 1: sealed and delivered Emmanuel. I don't imagine this has got

969
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:04,279
Speaker 1: to be kind of a cool thing, especially post well,

970
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 1: we're hoping we're coming out of this pandemic, right to

971
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: actually get on site and kind of get a lay

972
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 1: of the land. After signing the contract today, Yeah, I

973
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:19,000
Speaker 1: finally got me some Bills blue and you know, got

974
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:22,640
Speaker 1: familiar with, you know, the city a little bit with

975
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 1: the organization made everybody from the head coach Alo we

976
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 1: done it, equipment staffs to the trainers and just get acclimated.

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00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:32,360
Speaker 1: I mean here, if I think for twenty four hours,

978
00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:35,799
Speaker 1: but everything that I've been hearing, at everything that I've

979
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:38,239
Speaker 1: been seeing, I'm happy that I signed here and I'm

980
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 1: happy to be a part of, you know, the Bills organization.

981
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 1: I know that you were from the outside looking in

982
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 1: like everybody else, so Bills kind of burst onto the

983
00:54:47,440 --> 00:54:49,320
Speaker 1: scene in this past year. What was the vibe like

984
00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:51,840
Speaker 1: around the league about this team that you just joined.

985
00:54:51,880 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 1: I mean there were thirteen and three in the regular season,

986
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:57,040
Speaker 1: major the conference championship game. What are the thoughts around

987
00:54:57,080 --> 00:55:00,880
Speaker 1: the league about where this team is headed and what

988
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:05,360
Speaker 1: makes him good? Yeah? I mean if I watching television

989
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:08,040
Speaker 1: on a Sunday during my bye week, uh, and I

990
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:10,800
Speaker 1: see the Bills playing, I'm definitely wanted to tune in.

991
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:14,840
Speaker 1: Um just explosive offense that they have and uh, you

992
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:17,919
Speaker 1: know seeing Stefan Diggs have a career year and Josh

993
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: Allens laying it and Cole Beasley catching the ball over

994
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 1: the middle and um just putting up points and having

995
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 1: fun and playing. UM just just a fun brand of football.

996
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 1: It was fun to watch. And so from an outside perspective,

997
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: it's something that I feel like that's every player, every

998
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,520
Speaker 1: player that's a receiver, they want to be on the

999
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:38,400
Speaker 1: offense like this, and UM, you know, speaking with that

1000
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 1: with yesterday and just breaking down the offense and the

1001
00:55:41,680 --> 00:55:45,279
Speaker 1: routes and um, you know the concepts. I mean, I'm

1002
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:48,439
Speaker 1: excited about you know what what what what we have here,

1003
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 1: and I'm excited about getting into the system and learning

1004
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 1: and seeing if we can create magic with it. I know.

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00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 1: H Cole Beasley is a former college teammate of yours.

1006
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:00,920
Speaker 1: He was pretty excited after he kind of got winto

1007
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:04,360
Speaker 1: the news. He's tweeting out and putting stuff on Instagram

1008
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 1: of pictures of YouTube guys back at SMU. Uh did

1009
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:11,600
Speaker 1: he have any influence uh in this decision making process

1010
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:15,360
Speaker 1: for you. I wouldn't say he had any influence because

1011
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 1: right when I found out that the same you're gonna

1012
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 1: release me, the Bills were the number one team that

1013
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:24,000
Speaker 1: I wanted to go to. Obviously, the numbers had to

1014
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 1: work out. But when I tell you, I was, I

1015
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:31,080
Speaker 1: was a Bills fan its entire uh last season, I was,

1016
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:33,479
Speaker 1: I was a fan. Like I enjoyed watching you guys.

1017
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 1: I enjoyed watching them play and I'm telling the offense

1018
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:40,080
Speaker 1: and I was just very intrigued by offensive courting and

1019
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 1: how he was dialing up in a different routes they're running.

1020
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:45,760
Speaker 1: And I just won't watching the TV copies of the Bills.

1021
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:48,239
Speaker 1: I would bo on my iPad and I will watch

1022
00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:51,920
Speaker 1: like the coaches, uh the coach's tape and just to

1023
00:56:52,040 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 1: try to figure out what type of routes they're running,

1024
00:56:54,080 --> 00:56:56,240
Speaker 1: because it was just it was just unique and different.

1025
00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:58,400
Speaker 1: And you know, now that I got the playbook and

1026
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 1: I see, I said, I understand the concepts and how

1027
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:04,480
Speaker 1: you know, digs and bees and you know, and Davis

1028
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 1: was getting open so easy and so smooth, and the

1029
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 1: type of routes that they're running, so um that's that's

1030
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 1: that's the reason why I was. I was. I was excited,

1031
00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:15,560
Speaker 1: uh you know, um, you know, become a Buffalo Bill,

1032
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:17,760
Speaker 1: especially when they let me go because I was already

1033
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 1: a fan. I know you h, I know you were.

1034
00:57:21,200 --> 00:57:23,000
Speaker 1: There's a lot of interest in you to come to

1035
00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:25,320
Speaker 1: other teams. Did you get any phone calls from anybody else?

1036
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 1: And how that those conversations? Yeah, I got a couple

1037
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: of phone calls from different teams. But you know, at

1038
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I knew where I wanted

1039
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:34,640
Speaker 1: to be if the number, if the numbers worked out,

1040
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 1: and the number and the number worked out, and so

1041
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 1: you know, I'm here now, you know, getting acclimated with

1042
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:44,200
Speaker 1: the city. Uh. My financial advisor, Uh you know, he's

1043
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 1: from here and he's been my financial advisor since two

1044
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:53,600
Speaker 1: thousand and fourteen, and um, he always tells me about Buffalo, Uh,

1045
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 1: not only the organization, just the city in general. And

1046
00:57:57,360 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 1: me and him have a great relationship. And just getting

1047
00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:02,440
Speaker 1: out and seeing the people in the city, just just

1048
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:06,040
Speaker 1: or even from the hotel staff and going places to

1049
00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 1: grab some food. It's it's uh, some down to earth

1050
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:13,320
Speaker 1: people here, and um, some great people, great personality. My

1051
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 1: wife from New York, so I understand, you know New

1052
00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: Yorker mentality, and um, you know I love it. I

1053
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:22,760
Speaker 1: love it. I love everything about it, you know obviously, Uh,

1054
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 1: only downfall is a weather but I'm sure I get

1055
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 1: acclimated with that as well. Last one for me and Manuel,

1056
00:58:29,400 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 1: because I know your time is short. Uh. You mentioned

1057
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:34,280
Speaker 1: the offense a few times here already and how excited

1058
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:36,120
Speaker 1: you are to be a part of it. Now. Does

1059
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 1: the high volume of passing that this offense throws out

1060
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:42,760
Speaker 1: there line up with any of the offenses you've been

1061
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:44,720
Speaker 1: a part of before in your career or is this

1062
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:47,640
Speaker 1: really kind of a unique scheme that that you're eager

1063
00:58:47,680 --> 00:58:49,520
Speaker 1: to be a part of. Yeah. I mean I've been

1064
00:58:49,600 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 1: fortunate enough to play with pay Manny and fourteen we

1065
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:54,640
Speaker 1: had a running shoot offense, and then I played with

1066
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:56,760
Speaker 1: June Jones and College of the same system me and

1067
00:58:56,840 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 1: bees ring and offense, Uh, similar to that, And you

1068
00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:03,880
Speaker 1: know all these times if it's a new year, but

1069
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 1: I hope that we can we can duplicate exactly what

1070
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 1: they did last year. Returns for how much they throw

1071
00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 1: the football, but you never know, but um, yeah, definitely,

1072
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:16,760
Speaker 1: I definitely. My ideal offense is a rentishue, whatever receiver

1073
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 1: one want to be in the rentishue, throwing the ball

1074
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:21,840
Speaker 1: for thirty forty times the game, slinging it all over

1075
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:23,840
Speaker 1: scoring a lot of points, having a lot of fun,

1076
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 1: but ultimately it comes down to winning games. And so however,

1077
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 1: we got to do that. Um. You know, it doesn't

1078
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:32,920
Speaker 1: matter whether it's slinging in or throwing it or whatever.

1079
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:36,720
Speaker 1: But ultimately I came here to win, and I know

1080
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:39,720
Speaker 1: the Bills fans they love winning and that's what they

1081
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:42,520
Speaker 1: want to see, and so that's what I'm here for. Well,

1082
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:44,920
Speaker 1: last one for me. You you're in the building. Now

1083
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 1: you got a chance to say hi and meet all

1084
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 1: the people inside the building. What is this offseason? You

1085
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:52,520
Speaker 1: went through last off season where everything was thrown out

1086
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 1: the window completely different? Is are you getting an inkling

1087
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 1: that this offseason maybe a little bit more normal than

1088
00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:02,040
Speaker 1: last off season was. I don't know too much about

1089
01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 1: like what the NFL wants to do in terms of OTAH.

1090
01:00:06,200 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 1: I guess we'll just see. I guess this is gonna

1091
01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:11,080
Speaker 1: be a phone call. We all getting understand. Okay, Now

1092
01:00:11,160 --> 01:00:13,280
Speaker 1: it's tiding to go to work. For now, it's tiding

1093
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:14,840
Speaker 1: to work out at home and find a way and

1094
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 1: just keep doing what I've been doing in the off season.

1095
01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:20,320
Speaker 1: But whatever it is, you know, we'll find a way.

1096
01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 1: We're not gonna be the only team that has to

1097
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 1: find a way. Everybody has to just figure it out,

1098
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:27,520
Speaker 1: and ultimately, you know, at the end of the year,

1099
01:00:28,360 --> 01:00:30,360
Speaker 1: once the season is over, the best team is going

1100
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:32,720
Speaker 1: to win in the best end, it's because they're gonna

1101
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:36,040
Speaker 1: find a way. And so right now, no one knows

1102
01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:38,439
Speaker 1: exactly how the NFL is gonna go about it because

1103
01:00:38,440 --> 01:00:41,080
Speaker 1: of the COVID protocols, but we'll see when it comes

1104
01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:44,919
Speaker 1: I Maananuel, thanks very much for the time. Congrats again.

1105
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 1: We look forward to seeing you out there on the

1106
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:49,360
Speaker 1: practice field later on in the offseason. So good luck

1107
01:00:49,360 --> 01:00:51,360
Speaker 1: getting ready for all of that, and we'll catch up

1108
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:54,080
Speaker 1: with you soon. All right, Thank you guys. Thanks Emmanuel.

1109
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:58,720
Speaker 1: All right, so the Pills newest receiver Emmanuel Sanders joining

1110
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:01,560
Speaker 1: us here on the show. And I don't know what

1111
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 1: your takeaways were, Steve, but just knowing that while playing

1112
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 1: for the Saints, this guy, I mean, you know, all

1113
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 1: the study time that goes into preparing for games through

1114
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:15,200
Speaker 1: the course of the week, all the film you're watching

1115
01:01:15,240 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 1: of your opponents, this guy, in his limited free time

1116
01:01:19,720 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 1: is watching Bills games on the All twenty two trying

1117
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:25,400
Speaker 1: to figure out the routes they're running to understand what

1118
01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:30,520
Speaker 1: he thought of as a very unique scheme. How many

1119
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:33,720
Speaker 1: guys do that. This guy's a student of the game,

1120
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 1: like through and through. I think I think word got out.

1121
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:41,520
Speaker 1: I think there's it's really obvious. And we you know,

1122
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 1: we were all wrapped up in that season last year

1123
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 1: that the Bills had. And and you laugh at me

1124
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:49,920
Speaker 1: because I'm still today. It was the Seattle game. I

1125
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:52,160
Speaker 1: went back and watched and you're still watching the game

1126
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:56,680
Speaker 1: that season, and I hate to keep talking about it

1127
01:01:56,760 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: because it's it's gonna be hard for the team to

1128
01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:02,440
Speaker 1: do what they did a year ago because everybody's kind

1129
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:05,919
Speaker 1: of onto it now. But this team was so good

1130
01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:10,520
Speaker 1: last year. This last season, they were so good. Players

1131
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 1: on other teams were like going, what is going on

1132
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 1: over there? They were hanging a lot of points on

1133
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:18,600
Speaker 1: some really good football teams and some good defenses, and

1134
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:21,440
Speaker 1: guys like Emmanuel Sanders out there going what do they

1135
01:02:22,240 --> 01:02:24,280
Speaker 1: I gotta look at this? What are they doing here? Um?

1136
01:02:25,200 --> 01:02:28,320
Speaker 1: It was it was eye popping And that's why you know,

1137
01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:30,600
Speaker 1: it was so fun to do this the games on

1138
01:02:30,760 --> 01:02:32,400
Speaker 1: radio with Murph and it was it was, you know,

1139
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:35,520
Speaker 1: the fans here in Buffalo, it was muted a little

1140
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:37,600
Speaker 1: bit because you know, couldn't go to the stadium, you

1141
01:02:37,680 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 1: couldn't go to bars. And if you couldn't, we couldn't

1142
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:42,760
Speaker 1: experience it as you know, the Mafia couldn't get together

1143
01:02:42,920 --> 01:02:45,560
Speaker 1: like they normally do. Yeah, you couldn't get that that

1144
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:49,360
Speaker 1: herd mentality of we're all in it together. Listen, isn't

1145
01:02:49,400 --> 01:02:51,160
Speaker 1: this awesome? You know, you just had to kind of

1146
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:54,800
Speaker 1: take it for granted. It kind of went under the wayside.

1147
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 1: This team was there thirteen and wasn't twelve and four

1148
01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:01,000
Speaker 1: is a great season. They went thirteen and three and

1149
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:04,840
Speaker 1: Hail Mary, Hail Murray away from fourteen and two and

1150
01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:08,120
Speaker 1: hanging like eleven straight wins up at the end of

1151
01:03:08,160 --> 01:03:11,480
Speaker 1: the season. I mean, it was unbelievable. And I'm going

1152
01:03:11,520 --> 01:03:12,920
Speaker 1: back and look at and so you got guys like

1153
01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:16,880
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders out on a really good team in New Orleans.

1154
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:21,520
Speaker 1: They're looking at the Bills going, dude, look at this.

1155
01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:24,000
Speaker 1: You know, I mean there said it. This was his

1156
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:27,160
Speaker 1: first choice. Yeah, like, how do I get on there?

1157
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:31,120
Speaker 1: That's I mean. And let's not forget this is a

1158
01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:35,720
Speaker 1: guy that's played with Ben Roethlisberger, Peyton Manning and Drew Brees.

1159
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 1: This was where he wanted to come first. I mean,

1160
01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:42,680
Speaker 1: what does that say. That's that's big to me. That's

1161
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:44,960
Speaker 1: really big. I mean those are three first ballot Hall

1162
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:47,040
Speaker 1: of Famers. He's just kind of like just you know,

1163
01:03:47,080 --> 01:03:48,720
Speaker 1: he's just kind of like, whoa, whoa, whoa, I got it.

1164
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:50,640
Speaker 1: We're good. You know, we still gotta play. You know,

1165
01:03:50,720 --> 01:03:54,640
Speaker 1: you gotta play games. But yeah, right now, after the

1166
01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:58,040
Speaker 1: blush of this last season is off, and you come

1167
01:03:58,040 --> 01:04:00,360
Speaker 1: out and you lose to a team like Kansas City's rough,

1168
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 1: and you can yeah, maybe we're not that good. No,

1169
01:04:03,640 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 1: they're good. They're really good, and players are taking notice

1170
01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:13,000
Speaker 1: around the league investigating. Yeah, they're investigating. And also players

1171
01:04:13,080 --> 01:04:14,560
Speaker 1: on this team are like, going on, I don't want

1172
01:04:14,560 --> 01:04:18,400
Speaker 1: to go anywhere. This is it. The atmosphere, the coaching staff,

1173
01:04:18,720 --> 01:04:22,520
Speaker 1: the vibe, the city, the chance to win, the whole thing.

1174
01:04:23,080 --> 01:04:25,800
Speaker 1: Let's go. This is I mean, this is the you know,

1175
01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:29,880
Speaker 1: a really attractive destination all of a sudden, and it's

1176
01:04:29,880 --> 01:04:32,800
Speaker 1: pretty cool. It's pretty fun to see. And it's not

1177
01:04:32,920 --> 01:04:37,120
Speaker 1: just words either. These guys are signing deals. Yeah. Sanders

1178
01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:40,400
Speaker 1: in his subsequent press conference with the media, which happened

1179
01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:43,440
Speaker 1: after we had interviewed him that you just heard here

1180
01:04:43,720 --> 01:04:47,160
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live. He expanded on the conversations he

1181
01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 1: had with Dable, saying, really we only talked ball for

1182
01:04:50,280 --> 01:04:53,280
Speaker 1: twenty minutes, talked life for forty minutes. He said, I

1183
01:04:53,400 --> 01:04:55,800
Speaker 1: love that dude already. He's one of those guys I

1184
01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:57,440
Speaker 1: know I'm going to look forward to playing for. I

1185
01:04:57,560 --> 01:05:00,160
Speaker 1: was blown away by how he's taking this offense and

1186
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:03,520
Speaker 1: put things in for Beasley and Digs. It really got

1187
01:05:03,640 --> 01:05:08,439
Speaker 1: me excited. He also said he prides himself on being

1188
01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:11,080
Speaker 1: a great route runner, which is something that we covered yesterday.

1189
01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:15,120
Speaker 1: I mean, he is an elite route runner. He takes

1190
01:05:15,200 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 1: pride in the precision to run perfect routes, and that

1191
01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:23,160
Speaker 1: kind of falls in line with who Digs aims to

1192
01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:26,360
Speaker 1: be as a receiver and Beasley for that matter. And

1193
01:05:26,920 --> 01:05:29,000
Speaker 1: I was making the argument yesterday the Bills have three

1194
01:05:29,040 --> 01:05:31,680
Speaker 1: of the top fifteen route runners probably in the entire

1195
01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:37,240
Speaker 1: football league on the same roster. In the subsequent interview

1196
01:05:37,280 --> 01:05:41,920
Speaker 1: that came out after we just did ours, he was

1197
01:05:42,400 --> 01:05:45,919
Speaker 1: Sanders was quoted as saying that Brandon Bean had kept

1198
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:48,840
Speaker 1: been having an eye on Sanders for a while, tried

1199
01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:51,000
Speaker 1: to get him when he was in Denver by trade

1200
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:52,920
Speaker 1: tried to get him last year. I mean, he was

1201
01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:56,200
Speaker 1: trying to get this guy on the Bill's roster. And

1202
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:58,280
Speaker 1: it finally happen in a year where this cap is

1203
01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:00,880
Speaker 1: depressed and everybody's getting kicked to the curb and their

1204
01:06:00,920 --> 01:06:02,840
Speaker 1: deals are running out and teams are getting cap space

1205
01:06:02,880 --> 01:06:05,360
Speaker 1: and all these guys are available, being finally makes it

1206
01:06:05,480 --> 01:06:08,240
Speaker 1: happen on a one year deal with Emmanuel Sanders after

1207
01:06:08,720 --> 01:06:11,440
Speaker 1: self admittedly pursuing the guy for like the last four

1208
01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:15,920
Speaker 1: or five years. And Beasley has since had conversations with

1209
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:19,200
Speaker 1: Sanders since, you know, he got wind of the deal

1210
01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:21,880
Speaker 1: and everything. He called him up. He's all excited, and

1211
01:06:22,040 --> 01:06:25,360
Speaker 1: he told Sanders, hey, look, Buffalo has never had a

1212
01:06:25,400 --> 01:06:30,880
Speaker 1: Super Bowl title here yet and how and Sanders reiterated

1213
01:06:30,960 --> 01:06:33,640
Speaker 1: how Beasley told him he'd love to see the faces

1214
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:36,560
Speaker 1: of these people in Buffalo. We could win a Super Bowl.

1215
01:06:36,840 --> 01:06:39,960
Speaker 1: So Sanders said, that's my goal now, that's my goal now.

1216
01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:42,840
Speaker 1: And he was even saying in the interview with the

1217
01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 1: media how much he has taken to just the people

1218
01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:50,680
Speaker 1: of the city, Like he's staying at a hotel downtown,

1219
01:06:51,240 --> 01:06:53,720
Speaker 1: you know, kind of toured the facility and signed his

1220
01:06:53,800 --> 01:06:56,720
Speaker 1: deal this morning and all that. But he's like, and

1221
01:06:56,760 --> 01:06:58,680
Speaker 1: it was just his birthday. He just celebrated a birthday.

1222
01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:00,640
Speaker 1: I gotta check this. His birthday the same day as

1223
01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:02,720
Speaker 1: mine might be the same day. I'll look it up.

1224
01:07:02,760 --> 01:07:04,800
Speaker 1: But in any event, he said, people at the hotel

1225
01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:06,680
Speaker 1: are saying, hey, welcome to Buffalo. They're wishing me a

1226
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:09,000
Speaker 1: happy birthday, like they know his birthday. He couldn't believe it.

1227
01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:11,040
Speaker 1: He was like that used it was really cool. That

1228
01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:14,160
Speaker 1: used to get me too. You people would he's the

1229
01:07:14,200 --> 01:07:17,720
Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's day baby, Yeah, smart seventeen. When I first

1230
01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:20,840
Speaker 1: got here, twenty thirty point, I was thirty whatever it

1231
01:07:20,960 --> 01:07:25,040
Speaker 1: is thirty something here, yeah, h Soon after I got here,

1232
01:07:25,080 --> 01:07:26,760
Speaker 1: you'd meet people and say, hey, yeah, i've been you know,

1233
01:07:26,960 --> 01:07:29,080
Speaker 1: been checking out since you with the oilers. That kind

1234
01:07:29,080 --> 01:07:30,760
Speaker 1: of they were like. There wasn't like, oh, you played

1235
01:07:30,800 --> 01:07:33,280
Speaker 1: for the Bills, just like hey Steve, Hey, yeah, how's light.

1236
01:07:33,320 --> 01:07:35,120
Speaker 1: You're liking it better than Houston was, you know, because

1237
01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:39,040
Speaker 1: they they read up and this was back before any

1238
01:07:39,040 --> 01:07:41,680
Speaker 1: of this was available. You know, like it is now, um,

1239
01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:48,120
Speaker 1: pretty amazing here in Buffalo. Have nothing escapes the notice

1240
01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:50,120
Speaker 1: of these fans and they get into the details on

1241
01:07:50,440 --> 01:07:52,880
Speaker 1: the players that come in here, and it's it's interesting because, yeah,

1242
01:07:52,880 --> 01:07:55,240
Speaker 1: people wishing him happy birthday. He arrived in town ten

1243
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:58,560
Speaker 1: minutes ago. It's pretty funny. And it looks like his

1244
01:07:58,760 --> 01:08:01,160
Speaker 1: jersey number has been decided. I didn't even wear jersey

1245
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:06,120
Speaker 1: number ten, so that was put out on the Bill's

1246
01:08:06,160 --> 01:08:10,120
Speaker 1: Twitter account. So number ten for Emmanuel Sanders. Get your

1247
01:08:10,240 --> 01:08:14,040
Speaker 1: jerseys now. It's interesting because Sanders is gonna be ten,

1248
01:08:14,160 --> 01:08:16,800
Speaker 1: and Trebisky has been number ten in the past, mostly

1249
01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:19,080
Speaker 1: since since high school. And Jake From was number ten

1250
01:08:19,200 --> 01:08:25,679
Speaker 1: last year, So there you go jersey numbers. Wait a second,

1251
01:08:25,720 --> 01:08:28,760
Speaker 1: who was ten last year? Jake From? Oh, that's right,

1252
01:08:29,120 --> 01:08:31,559
Speaker 1: and the year before that it was Beasley. That's right,

1253
01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:33,960
Speaker 1: because Beasley's first year here is a Jones was still

1254
01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:37,439
Speaker 1: on the roster wearing right. That's right. That you know.

1255
01:08:38,240 --> 01:08:42,040
Speaker 1: I don't know what you know how much. When I

1256
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:46,280
Speaker 1: got to Buffalo it was mid season. I found out

1257
01:08:46,320 --> 01:08:50,439
Speaker 1: I was number eighty nine. The day I walked in

1258
01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:52,800
Speaker 1: and looked at my logger said, oh, okay, I'm number

1259
01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:58,760
Speaker 1: eighty nine. I had no say, just five that that'll

1260
01:08:58,800 --> 01:09:01,639
Speaker 1: be just fine, thank you. So I took it. There

1261
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:04,400
Speaker 1: you go. Yeah, I worked for eleven years and I'd

1262
01:09:04,479 --> 01:09:09,679
Speaker 1: never even Yeah, there you go. Interesting news from Adam

1263
01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:13,839
Speaker 1: Schefter with regard to the wide receiver market Steve Juju

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01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:19,559
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster's one year deal with Pittsburgh. Let me see here.

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Speaker 1: I want to make sure I have this right. Apparently

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01:09:22,320 --> 01:09:26,799
Speaker 1: he's got some kind of let me check, because Schefter tweeted,

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Speaker 1: here's the interesting part on Steelers Smith Schuster's one year

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01:09:31,120 --> 01:09:32,880
Speaker 1: deal with Pittsburgh. The Ravens made a hard push to

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Speaker 1: sign him. You wound up taking significantly less money to

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Speaker 1: go back to the Steelers, per sources. And then on

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Speaker 1: top of that, Diana Rassini is saying the Steelers gave

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Speaker 1: him a deadline to decide by today whether he wanted

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01:09:46,479 --> 01:09:48,800
Speaker 1: to take a one year deal. But it looks like

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01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:54,400
Speaker 1: he has resigned with the Steelers for one year, which

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01:09:54,520 --> 01:09:57,680
Speaker 1: is probably good for him because after this year, he

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01:09:57,760 --> 01:10:00,240
Speaker 1: didn't know the quarterback's going to be in Pittsburg, So

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01:10:00,360 --> 01:10:02,760
Speaker 1: why sign on for more than that You don't know

1278
01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:05,920
Speaker 1: what the quarterback situation is. Number One, presumably he's going

1279
01:10:05,960 --> 01:10:07,479
Speaker 1: to be taking a lot less money than he thought

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01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:09,160
Speaker 1: he was going to be making in the free agent market,

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01:10:09,479 --> 01:10:11,679
Speaker 1: and next year he goes back into the free agent market.

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01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:14,439
Speaker 1: And he's only twenty five years old, right, so he

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01:10:14,479 --> 01:10:16,080
Speaker 1: could still strike it rich next year. If he has

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01:10:16,080 --> 01:10:17,800
Speaker 1: a good season this year, he could be anywhere next

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01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:19,920
Speaker 1: year after the season, depending on how the Steelers do.

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Speaker 1: And for this, not for nothing. You know, the Steelers

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01:10:23,800 --> 01:10:26,160
Speaker 1: are kind of took it on the chin this last year.

1288
01:10:26,560 --> 01:10:29,040
Speaker 1: But don't forget. They ran off eleven straight wins to

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01:10:29,120 --> 01:10:31,240
Speaker 1: start the season and they kind of ran out of

1290
01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:32,880
Speaker 1: gas a little bit. And maybe you can say, hey,

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01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:35,519
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger did or whatever, and they didn't run the

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01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:39,240
Speaker 1: ball well enough. Steelers are a good football team. They're not.

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01:10:39,360 --> 01:10:41,200
Speaker 1: And I think they did the right thing by bringing

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Speaker 1: Ben back. Ben took a haircut to come back. Looks

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01:10:44,720 --> 01:10:47,400
Speaker 1: like Juju took a haircut. So did one year eight million.

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, you don't do that unless

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01:10:49,800 --> 01:10:51,799
Speaker 1: you're playing for a coach you really like and respect,

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01:10:51,880 --> 01:10:54,320
Speaker 1: and Mike Tomlin's that guy. So they've got it going

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Speaker 1: on in Pittsburgh and it's going to continue. I think

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01:10:56,160 --> 01:10:57,920
Speaker 1: they're going to be really good this next year. If

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Speaker 1: you made a wager with me and said I bet

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01:11:02,400 --> 01:11:05,680
Speaker 1: you that Will Fuller has a more lucrative contract and

1303
01:11:05,760 --> 01:11:08,200
Speaker 1: free agency than Juju Smith Schuster. I would have called

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01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:10,680
Speaker 1: you in nuts, right. I would have taken that bet

1305
01:11:10,680 --> 01:11:12,320
Speaker 1: one hundred times out of one hundred, and I would

1306
01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:14,840
Speaker 1: have lost because Will Fuller got a one year ten

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01:11:14,880 --> 01:11:17,840
Speaker 1: million dollars deal in Miami and Juju Smith Schuster got

1308
01:11:17,920 --> 01:11:19,960
Speaker 1: a one year eight million dollar deal from the Steelers.

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01:11:20,280 --> 01:11:22,760
Speaker 1: Now we know why the Steelers lowballed them, because their

1310
01:11:22,840 --> 01:11:25,719
Speaker 1: cap situation's a mess. They can't be thrown around money,

1311
01:11:25,960 --> 01:11:28,880
Speaker 1: so that's probably the very best that they could do. Now,

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01:11:29,360 --> 01:11:32,400
Speaker 1: there are reports that among the other offers that he

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01:11:32,520 --> 01:11:36,760
Speaker 1: was presented with Baltimore nine million dollars on a one

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01:11:36,880 --> 01:11:41,800
Speaker 1: year deal with incentives, four million in incentives, Kansas City

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01:11:42,439 --> 01:11:46,000
Speaker 1: one year, eight million with three million in incentives. Can

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01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:50,439
Speaker 1: you imagine if the Chiefs got Juju Smith Schuster, Sweet lord,

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01:11:51,800 --> 01:11:55,160
Speaker 1: thank god he went back to Pittsburgh, Tyreek Hill, Travis

1318
01:11:55,280 --> 01:11:58,040
Speaker 1: Kelsey and Juju Smith Schuster. Holy crap, that would have

1319
01:11:58,080 --> 01:12:01,080
Speaker 1: been a mess. Yeah, Well, chefs still make get a guy.

1320
01:12:02,080 --> 01:12:05,800
Speaker 1: Well they're looking. The Galladay is still out there, I mean,

1321
01:12:06,240 --> 01:12:08,479
Speaker 1: and and let's face it, the Chiefs have done it.

1322
01:12:08,720 --> 01:12:11,960
Speaker 1: Their way. I mean, you know, bless their heart. They

1323
01:12:12,040 --> 01:12:14,439
Speaker 1: get Pat Mahomes wrapped up in a deal, a ten

1324
01:12:14,560 --> 01:12:17,080
Speaker 1: year deal where he doesn't make any significant money until

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01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:20,400
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four, and so they can

1326
01:12:20,520 --> 01:12:26,200
Speaker 1: they can put these pieces around him, and they they

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01:12:26,360 --> 01:12:29,560
Speaker 1: do nothing but add weapons. Their offensive line is, and

1328
01:12:29,640 --> 01:12:31,880
Speaker 1: it's certainly their offensive line. The mess their offensive line

1329
01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:34,639
Speaker 1: was because of the injuries, cost them the Super Bowl

1330
01:12:34,720 --> 01:12:38,840
Speaker 1: victory right in large measure. But they're gonna they're replenishing that.

1331
01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:41,960
Speaker 1: They're getting it together and they're they're gonna be hard

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01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:46,600
Speaker 1: to beat again. Um man, oh man. That you know,

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01:12:46,680 --> 01:12:49,000
Speaker 1: everybody's chasing them, no question about it. But they're that

1334
01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:51,920
Speaker 1: they do it by just adding weapons on offense. Let's

1335
01:12:51,960 --> 01:12:54,280
Speaker 1: get another one. Let's get another one at Clyde Edwards,

1336
01:12:54,320 --> 01:12:58,400
Speaker 1: Hilaire Tyreek Hill, Travis Kelsey, Sammy Watkins, who now is

1337
01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:00,760
Speaker 1: a free agent. They may sign him back, you know,

1338
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:05,280
Speaker 1: on a lesser deal. I mean, I think that's kind

1339
01:13:05,320 --> 01:13:07,240
Speaker 1: of the way it's going to be. All these teams,

1340
01:13:07,280 --> 01:13:11,160
Speaker 1: these now, these wide receivers, the only leverage they have

1341
01:13:12,040 --> 01:13:15,240
Speaker 1: is their free agency. They just say, listen, do you

1342
01:13:15,320 --> 01:13:16,599
Speaker 1: want me to play for you, what are you gonna

1343
01:13:16,640 --> 01:13:19,479
Speaker 1: give me? All right, let's go. That's it. I'm gonna

1344
01:13:19,479 --> 01:13:22,240
Speaker 1: They're gonna pick the best spot for themselves, take the

1345
01:13:22,320 --> 01:13:24,519
Speaker 1: money for a year, and then see what happens next year.

1346
01:13:26,600 --> 01:13:29,240
Speaker 1: Quarterback trade in the league, So Kansas that gives Kansas

1347
01:13:29,280 --> 01:13:32,040
Speaker 1: City leverage. It does. I don't think there's any question

1348
01:13:32,080 --> 01:13:35,479
Speaker 1: about that. There's also a quarterback trade. Not blockbuster by

1349
01:13:35,520 --> 01:13:38,400
Speaker 1: any means, but it is interesting. Concerning the Texans. They've

1350
01:13:38,439 --> 01:13:41,680
Speaker 1: acquired quarterback Ryan Finlay via trade from the Bengals. The

1351
01:13:41,720 --> 01:13:45,920
Speaker 1: Bengals are gonna cut Ryan Finlay, and then they said, oh,

1352
01:13:46,120 --> 01:13:48,360
Speaker 1: let's shop them around a little bit, see if anybody's interested.

1353
01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:52,240
Speaker 1: So the Texans have acquired quarterback Ryan Finley from the Bengals,

1354
01:13:53,000 --> 01:13:59,240
Speaker 1: and now the Texans have Tyrod Taylor, Ryan Finley, and

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01:13:59,479 --> 01:14:03,280
Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson on their roster. You have to wonder if

1356
01:14:03,320 --> 01:14:05,200
Speaker 1: you're another team in the league and you see the

1357
01:14:05,320 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 1: Texans making a trade to acquire Ryan Finlay, aren't you

1358
01:14:09,400 --> 01:14:11,400
Speaker 1: picking up the phone again if you're interested in trying

1359
01:14:11,439 --> 01:14:15,200
Speaker 1: to acquire Deshaun Watson. I think you are right, Hey,

1360
01:14:16,400 --> 01:14:19,040
Speaker 1: Ryan Finley, I told you that I thought should have happened.

1361
01:14:19,360 --> 01:14:22,360
Speaker 1: Seattle should have taken the Chicago deal for Russell Wilson.

1362
01:14:22,760 --> 01:14:25,120
Speaker 1: They should have taken all that money, all those draft

1363
01:14:25,240 --> 01:14:28,719
Speaker 1: three number ones, A three, and two starters, including Khalil Mack,

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01:14:29,479 --> 01:14:32,280
Speaker 1: packaged it. Except for Khalil Mack, I would have kept him.

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01:14:32,479 --> 01:14:35,320
Speaker 1: I would have packaged it, sent it all down to Houston,

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01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:38,560
Speaker 1: plus a one. So give him four ones and a

1367
01:14:38,680 --> 01:14:46,439
Speaker 1: starter from Chicago and a three for DeShawn. Yeah, might

1368
01:14:46,479 --> 01:14:52,639
Speaker 1: have got it done. Might have gotten it done. Four ones,

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01:14:53,360 --> 01:14:58,719
Speaker 1: a three, a starter for a guy, Yeah, who doesn't

1370
01:14:58,720 --> 01:15:02,280
Speaker 1: want to play for you. Yeah, don't look a gift

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01:15:02,320 --> 01:15:04,200
Speaker 1: horse in the mouth. And that would have said, you

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01:15:04,280 --> 01:15:06,000
Speaker 1: gotta take this is it? This is as good as

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01:15:06,040 --> 01:15:09,759
Speaker 1: gonna get. Yeah, it's good, and it's good for another

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01:15:09,960 --> 01:15:11,639
Speaker 1: three or four days because then we got to start

1375
01:15:12,640 --> 01:15:15,439
Speaker 1: doing other things. Break time for us. But when we

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01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:17,679
Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna bring you some of the highlights

1377
01:15:18,080 --> 01:15:21,800
Speaker 1: from the press conference yesterday from one Brandon Bean and

1378
01:15:21,960 --> 01:15:24,599
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott. You don't want to miss those in case

1379
01:15:24,680 --> 01:15:26,920
Speaker 1: you didn't get the reports on them. We've got it

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01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:29,400
Speaker 1: all here for you. Next on One Bill's Live presented

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01:15:29,439 --> 01:15:41,599
Speaker 1: by Colloid. To help this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome

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01:15:41,640 --> 01:15:44,160
Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Faster with

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01:15:44,280 --> 01:15:47,439
Speaker 1: you on the heels of the news that Juju Smith

1384
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:52,200
Speaker 1: Schuster has resigned with the Steelers, so that is news there.

1385
01:15:52,520 --> 01:15:55,599
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay, who is now perceived as the top receiver

1386
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:59,639
Speaker 1: left on the open market, is currently visiting the New

1387
01:15:59,760 --> 01:16:03,280
Speaker 1: York Giants, so we'll have to see if that goes anywhere.

1388
01:16:04,200 --> 01:16:07,839
Speaker 1: He already visited the Chicago Bears, believe he visited Baltimore

1389
01:16:08,960 --> 01:16:11,639
Speaker 1: on that and now visiting the Giants today. We'll see

1390
01:16:11,680 --> 01:16:15,719
Speaker 1: where this free agent tour ends up for him going forward.

1391
01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:18,280
Speaker 1: But that's the top guy on the list right now

1392
01:16:19,280 --> 01:16:22,760
Speaker 1: that's left, and we'll see what happens. We do want

1393
01:16:22,760 --> 01:16:26,639
Speaker 1: to get to the comments from Brandon Bean and Sean

1394
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:29,599
Speaker 1: McDermott from their press conference with the media yesterday as

1395
01:16:29,640 --> 01:16:32,960
Speaker 1: they were answering questions on their first week in the

1396
01:16:33,040 --> 01:16:36,439
Speaker 1: free agent market and the acquisitions they made as well

1397
01:16:36,520 --> 01:16:40,679
Speaker 1: as the resignings that were completed and maybe looking ahead

1398
01:16:40,680 --> 01:16:44,680
Speaker 1: a little bit. And we'll begin with the headliner that

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01:16:44,800 --> 01:16:47,240
Speaker 1: Brandon being dropped on everybody right at the outset of

1400
01:16:47,280 --> 01:16:51,000
Speaker 1: the press conference, and that was on agreeing to terms

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01:16:51,520 --> 01:16:57,760
Speaker 1: with one Mitchell Trubisky. We were a game away from

1402
01:16:57,800 --> 01:17:01,679
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and injury happening, and this guy's won

1403
01:17:02,120 --> 01:17:05,519
Speaker 1: twenty nine games fifty starts like he's got a good resume,

1404
01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:09,240
Speaker 1: even though he's a younger player, and we know how

1405
01:17:09,479 --> 01:17:13,120
Speaker 1: Josh plays. Josh is not scared to try and lower

1406
01:17:13,160 --> 01:17:17,160
Speaker 1: his pads or you know, take a hit. And if

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01:17:17,280 --> 01:17:19,680
Speaker 1: Josh was out for you know, a few weeks or

1408
01:17:19,720 --> 01:17:22,080
Speaker 1: something like that, we just we would we want to

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01:17:22,120 --> 01:17:24,080
Speaker 1: make sure we have the best player that we can

1410
01:17:24,439 --> 01:17:26,599
Speaker 1: and no matter if it's a it's like any other

1411
01:17:26,680 --> 01:17:29,920
Speaker 1: position for depth, and whether it's a backup tackle, a

1412
01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:34,519
Speaker 1: backup defensive lineman, whatever, you got your starters and then

1413
01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:36,960
Speaker 1: you got your depth players. And we just think Mitchell

1414
01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:39,599
Speaker 1: will come in here. He's gonna be excited to join

1415
01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:43,040
Speaker 1: in the mix. And assuming he's the backup or whatever,

1416
01:17:43,360 --> 01:17:47,000
Speaker 1: if Josh goes down, you know that with his experience,

1417
01:17:47,439 --> 01:17:49,479
Speaker 1: he would be able to keep the ship afloat until

1418
01:17:49,560 --> 01:17:53,439
Speaker 1: Josh got back in the lineup. So that last sentence there,

1419
01:17:53,479 --> 01:17:56,880
Speaker 1: Steve keep the ship afloat until Josh gets back in

1420
01:17:56,920 --> 01:17:59,599
Speaker 1: the lineup. I mean, the guy is eight games over

1421
01:17:59,720 --> 01:18:02,479
Speaker 1: five hundred in his career as a starter six and

1422
01:18:02,640 --> 01:18:05,680
Speaker 1: three last year with the Bears team that you know,

1423
01:18:05,800 --> 01:18:07,759
Speaker 1: really just didn't measure up in a lot of ways.

1424
01:18:08,640 --> 01:18:14,080
Speaker 1: So what's what's your take on Brandon's explanation for the acquisition.

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01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:17,200
Speaker 1: I think he's right. I mean, they look they look

1426
01:18:17,240 --> 01:18:19,280
Speaker 1: at that dish passionately. You know. Of course, we hear

1427
01:18:19,320 --> 01:18:23,479
Speaker 1: all the rhetoric from Chicago fans about how they felt

1428
01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:26,200
Speaker 1: like they're a quarterback away. Mitch Trubisky's their quarterback. They're

1429
01:18:26,200 --> 01:18:29,200
Speaker 1: a quarterback away. So they go out and get Nick Foles. Uh,

1430
01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:32,519
Speaker 1: Trubisky goes six and three on the season, is not

1431
01:18:32,800 --> 01:18:40,599
Speaker 1: playing Um, that's an unusual turn of events. Thirty twenty

1432
01:18:40,680 --> 01:18:45,560
Speaker 1: nine and twenty twenty one as a starter. Yeah, Pro

1433
01:18:45,680 --> 01:18:49,000
Speaker 1: Bowl on his resume, I get it. Um. But and

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01:18:49,160 --> 01:18:52,160
Speaker 1: he also fits the bill for a guy who's gifted

1435
01:18:52,280 --> 01:18:54,160
Speaker 1: enough to hang in there with the same off Like

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01:18:54,200 --> 01:18:57,519
Speaker 1: you mentioned, he's the same offense as Josh. If Josh

1437
01:18:57,600 --> 01:19:01,560
Speaker 1: isn't in the lineup, you gotta play Trubisky. It's the

1438
01:19:01,640 --> 01:19:04,640
Speaker 1: same place, play sheet, And that's that's kind of that

1439
01:19:04,760 --> 01:19:07,560
Speaker 1: helps that helps the offense as a whole. Here is

1440
01:19:07,600 --> 01:19:13,280
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott on the Mitchell Trubisky acquisition. We're always trying

1441
01:19:13,280 --> 01:19:15,760
Speaker 1: to add good pieces to our football team. It is

1442
01:19:15,800 --> 01:19:18,320
Speaker 1: an important position, right, I mean, we all would agree

1443
01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:21,840
Speaker 1: that the quarterback is an important position. And uh, you know,

1444
01:19:21,920 --> 01:19:23,760
Speaker 1: we want to make sure that we continue to add

1445
01:19:24,160 --> 01:19:27,320
Speaker 1: good football players at every position, in this position in particular.

1446
01:19:27,400 --> 01:19:30,320
Speaker 1: And uh, and so we felt like it was an

1447
01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:33,720
Speaker 1: opportunity for us to do that. Yeah, And he's right.

1448
01:19:33,760 --> 01:19:36,080
Speaker 1: And you know what I often wonder about this, Steve,

1449
01:19:36,120 --> 01:19:39,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if enough teams attach enough importance to

1450
01:19:39,360 --> 01:19:44,560
Speaker 1: the backup quarterback position. Um, some teams, I just I

1451
01:19:44,600 --> 01:19:47,600
Speaker 1: don't Maybe afterthought is too strong a word, but I

1452
01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:51,120
Speaker 1: don't know if they invest ardently enough in the backup

1453
01:19:51,240 --> 01:19:54,320
Speaker 1: quarterback position. And then when you lose your start, I mean,

1454
01:19:54,479 --> 01:19:56,400
Speaker 1: when you lose your starter, you're already up a creek

1455
01:19:56,479 --> 01:19:58,720
Speaker 1: to begin with. But if you don't have a good

1456
01:19:58,760 --> 01:20:00,560
Speaker 1: guy to turn to to it at least kind of

1457
01:20:01,040 --> 01:20:03,960
Speaker 1: hold the fort. I mean, you're certainly not expecting the

1458
01:20:04,080 --> 01:20:08,200
Speaker 1: same production, but to at least hold the fort. And

1459
01:20:08,439 --> 01:20:11,920
Speaker 1: it's an enterprising it's an unusual market right now because

1460
01:20:11,960 --> 01:20:14,240
Speaker 1: they got a guy like Trubisky who who's got a

1461
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:18,280
Speaker 1: little bit of on his resume, but they get him

1462
01:20:18,320 --> 01:20:22,400
Speaker 1: for dirt cheap money. Yeah, because of the opportunity that

1463
01:20:22,520 --> 01:20:25,719
Speaker 1: he's looking for in the financial landscape in the league,

1464
01:20:26,040 --> 01:20:28,080
Speaker 1: where these guys want to just they want to land

1465
01:20:28,160 --> 01:20:31,599
Speaker 1: someplace for this next season. And then knows that most

1466
01:20:31,680 --> 01:20:33,479
Speaker 1: teams are going to have a ton more money to

1467
01:20:33,560 --> 01:20:36,760
Speaker 1: spend next year they can hit the market again, and

1468
01:20:36,880 --> 01:20:38,960
Speaker 1: you want to find a landing spot that serves you

1469
01:20:39,120 --> 01:20:43,880
Speaker 1: well for a year, Trubisky. There's very short list of

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Speaker 1: teams that Trubisky would go to thinking he's gonna have

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01:20:46,720 --> 01:20:51,120
Speaker 1: a shot to compete as a starter, particularly teams with

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01:20:51,200 --> 01:20:54,920
Speaker 1: any money to spend. So he's looking for a place

1473
01:20:55,000 --> 01:20:58,960
Speaker 1: also and was well framed by Brandon Bean and this crew,

1474
01:20:59,080 --> 01:21:00,720
Speaker 1: like listen, you come here or take a year off,

1475
01:21:00,760 --> 01:21:04,599
Speaker 1: take a deep breath, work on your game during this season,

1476
01:21:05,439 --> 01:21:08,519
Speaker 1: work on your delivery, your footwork, your delivery, all of

1477
01:21:08,560 --> 01:21:11,800
Speaker 1: that stuff, your mechanics, and then jump back in the

1478
01:21:11,920 --> 01:21:15,439
Speaker 1: market next year with a chance to go compete someplace

1479
01:21:15,520 --> 01:21:17,479
Speaker 1: for a starting job and hit a home run financially.

1480
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:21,080
Speaker 1: That's it's a perfect spot for a guy like Trubisky

1481
01:21:21,120 --> 01:21:23,200
Speaker 1: to come back, take a step back after going through

1482
01:21:23,280 --> 01:21:26,880
Speaker 1: the meat grinder in Chicago for four years and then

1483
01:21:27,360 --> 01:21:29,080
Speaker 1: getting a chance to just take a deep, deep breath

1484
01:21:29,520 --> 01:21:32,040
Speaker 1: and then bounce back when the league bounces back financially.

1485
01:21:32,720 --> 01:21:36,160
Speaker 1: Coach McDermott was asked about what level of input Josh

1486
01:21:36,240 --> 01:21:39,000
Speaker 1: Allen has on some of the free agent moves that

1487
01:21:39,080 --> 01:21:43,440
Speaker 1: the team is made to this point, and coach McDermott

1488
01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:49,320
Speaker 1: was pretty candid in saying that Josh Allen is consulted

1489
01:21:49,800 --> 01:21:52,479
Speaker 1: on some things or at least used as a sounding

1490
01:21:52,560 --> 01:21:56,320
Speaker 1: board and is allowed to make input, not decisions, but

1491
01:21:56,439 --> 01:21:59,559
Speaker 1: at least share his feelings on certain prospects that they

1492
01:21:59,640 --> 01:22:02,360
Speaker 1: might be looking to pursue. Here's coach McDermott on that.

1493
01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:07,800
Speaker 1: I would say, it's a healthy amount um. And you know,

1494
01:22:07,920 --> 01:22:10,439
Speaker 1: Josh is a is a cornerstone to our foundation and

1495
01:22:10,640 --> 01:22:15,160
Speaker 1: and our organization. Um, the way he's elevated his game,

1496
01:22:15,200 --> 01:22:17,960
Speaker 1: the work he's put in, He's earned that and uh,

1497
01:22:18,080 --> 01:22:21,760
Speaker 1: and so between brand and myself Coach Dabele, I would

1498
01:22:21,800 --> 01:22:24,280
Speaker 1: say between the three of us, there's definitely a healthy

1499
01:22:24,320 --> 01:22:28,360
Speaker 1: amount um. Sometimes maybe tip where Josh would just probably

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01:22:28,400 --> 01:22:31,360
Speaker 1: wish we'd stop calling him so, but no, it's a

1501
01:22:31,520 --> 01:22:33,080
Speaker 1: it's I think it's a it's a it's a good

1502
01:22:33,080 --> 01:22:38,200
Speaker 1: amount and he's earned that. So I don't think anybody's

1503
01:22:38,240 --> 01:22:42,320
Speaker 1: surprised to learn that the franchise quarterback is called and

1504
01:22:42,520 --> 01:22:46,120
Speaker 1: asked about certain things. Uh. For example, Hey, what do

1505
01:22:46,120 --> 01:22:48,280
Speaker 1: you think of Manuel Sanders? You have a good time

1506
01:22:48,360 --> 01:22:50,160
Speaker 1: playing with him. He's a good really good route runner.

1507
01:22:50,200 --> 01:22:51,800
Speaker 1: This is what we know about him. Blah blah blah.

1508
01:22:52,040 --> 01:22:55,120
Speaker 1: How do you feel about that? They Yeah, they consult him.

1509
01:22:55,160 --> 01:22:58,200
Speaker 1: I think it would probably be I don't know how

1510
01:22:58,200 --> 01:23:01,200
Speaker 1: it goes, but it seemed would probably go like more like, listen,

1511
01:23:01,280 --> 01:23:04,760
Speaker 1: we're thinking about this guy, this guy, and this guy.

1512
01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:07,200
Speaker 1: Here's what we see all of them. The best, the

1513
01:23:07,240 --> 01:23:09,320
Speaker 1: guy we really want would be this guy because of this,

1514
01:23:09,479 --> 01:23:11,240
Speaker 1: this and this. Now, the other two guys are good,

1515
01:23:11,360 --> 01:23:13,360
Speaker 1: but this guy's got this that we kind of were

1516
01:23:13,439 --> 01:23:16,080
Speaker 1: looking for. And Josh is cool. Yeah, any of those

1517
01:23:16,120 --> 01:23:20,479
Speaker 1: guys is great. You know, good players make you better.

1518
01:23:20,880 --> 01:23:24,600
Speaker 1: In case, you know, anybody's keeping track, and just like

1519
01:23:24,680 --> 01:23:27,880
Speaker 1: with Traubisky, Emmanuel Sanders, any of these other guys, the

1520
01:23:27,960 --> 01:23:31,160
Speaker 1: new guys that they may sign, that's always the idea.

1521
01:23:31,520 --> 01:23:35,360
Speaker 1: They're trying to get better, and I think the atmosphere

1522
01:23:35,680 --> 01:23:38,800
Speaker 1: inside the building is and we've seen it. If you're

1523
01:23:38,840 --> 01:23:42,519
Speaker 1: on the team, you're competing for a spot because if

1524
01:23:42,520 --> 01:23:44,560
Speaker 1: you earn it, you're gonna get it. Yeah, despite, I

1525
01:23:44,600 --> 01:23:46,880
Speaker 1: don't care if this guy's making twenty million and you're

1526
01:23:46,920 --> 01:23:49,479
Speaker 1: making two million. If you earn it, you get it.

1527
01:23:50,280 --> 01:23:53,360
Speaker 1: And that's pretty enticing to a lot of guys out

1528
01:23:53,400 --> 01:23:55,040
Speaker 1: on the street and guys who are who come in

1529
01:23:55,120 --> 01:23:56,720
Speaker 1: and the word gets out about that's how it's going

1530
01:23:56,760 --> 01:23:59,640
Speaker 1: to be. We had this conversation yesterday. Trent Murphy is

1531
01:23:59,680 --> 01:24:02,439
Speaker 1: making you know, eight seven million bucks last year, seven

1532
01:24:02,439 --> 01:24:04,640
Speaker 1: and a half eight million bucks last year. He got

1533
01:24:04,760 --> 01:24:07,760
Speaker 1: deactivated for a good portion of the league, for a

1534
01:24:07,960 --> 01:24:10,679
Speaker 1: good portion of the season, and a lot of people are, oh, wait, listen,

1535
01:24:11,400 --> 01:24:15,040
Speaker 1: you gotta earn it. And when I said it yesterday,

1536
01:24:15,760 --> 01:24:17,760
Speaker 1: you bench a guy like that, deactivated guy like that,

1537
01:24:17,840 --> 01:24:22,519
Speaker 1: he's not even playing today because somebody else earned it. Man,

1538
01:24:22,720 --> 01:24:25,160
Speaker 1: you may as well post a sign on the you know,

1539
01:24:25,800 --> 01:24:28,800
Speaker 1: have a tattooed on everybody's forehead. You got to do

1540
01:24:28,880 --> 01:24:31,439
Speaker 1: it every day, and if you don't, you get benched.

1541
01:24:31,479 --> 01:24:34,080
Speaker 1: And that's you know, if we got a better option,

1542
01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:36,800
Speaker 1: you sit down that's huge in a locker room that

1543
01:24:36,920 --> 01:24:41,120
Speaker 1: keeps everybody striving to be their best, and that's that's

1544
01:24:41,160 --> 01:24:43,759
Speaker 1: the atmosphere that gets you thirteen wins in a regular season.

1545
01:24:43,880 --> 01:24:47,040
Speaker 1: The tight end position is one that the Bills have

1546
01:24:47,160 --> 01:24:49,880
Speaker 1: been rumored to be in the market for improving, and

1547
01:24:50,320 --> 01:24:53,880
Speaker 1: that has only been enhanced by the recent moves by

1548
01:24:53,920 --> 01:24:57,000
Speaker 1: the team, trading Lee Smith to the Atlanta Falcons, a

1549
01:24:57,040 --> 01:25:02,000
Speaker 1: trade that was completed earlier in the and Tyler Croft,

1550
01:25:02,080 --> 01:25:04,880
Speaker 1: as we know, is a free agent as well. So

1551
01:25:05,040 --> 01:25:08,240
Speaker 1: that leaves their ranks rather thin at the tight end position.

1552
01:25:08,439 --> 01:25:11,000
Speaker 1: And Brandon Bean said going into the off season that

1553
01:25:11,040 --> 01:25:13,160
Speaker 1: it was there intend to take a hard look at

1554
01:25:13,280 --> 01:25:15,960
Speaker 1: improving at that position. So here is Brandon being on

1555
01:25:16,120 --> 01:25:20,439
Speaker 1: that very subject. We're just really looking for good players

1556
01:25:21,200 --> 01:25:23,759
Speaker 1: to add to the competition. You know. We think Dawson

1557
01:25:23,840 --> 01:25:27,599
Speaker 1: going into year three, uh, you know, big expectations for him,

1558
01:25:27,600 --> 01:25:29,760
Speaker 1: and it's an important offseason for him, and we know

1559
01:25:29,880 --> 01:25:32,680
Speaker 1: he's he's already told us he's planning on linking up

1560
01:25:32,720 --> 01:25:35,639
Speaker 1: with Josh uh, you know, out in California, which which

1561
01:25:35,640 --> 01:25:37,920
Speaker 1: would be good just to you know, continue for those

1562
01:25:37,960 --> 01:25:41,519
Speaker 1: guys to get more reps. And Tommy Sweeney, you know,

1563
01:25:41,720 --> 01:25:45,960
Speaker 1: unfortunately had his uh the COVID setback and was ruled

1564
01:25:46,000 --> 01:25:48,680
Speaker 1: out for the year, but he's excited about joining back in.

1565
01:25:48,840 --> 01:25:53,160
Speaker 1: And listen, we're still we'll still continue to look for

1566
01:25:53,680 --> 01:25:56,599
Speaker 1: free agents out there, and then we're also monitor the draft,

1567
01:25:56,720 --> 01:25:59,800
Speaker 1: but we'll continue to add depth to the position. And

1568
01:26:00,479 --> 01:26:03,960
Speaker 1: it's not one specific thing. It's just a really good

1569
01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:06,479
Speaker 1: player that, however, Brian could use them whether it's in

1570
01:26:06,520 --> 01:26:09,519
Speaker 1: the run game or the pass game. So that's the

1571
01:26:09,600 --> 01:26:12,519
Speaker 1: look at the tight end position. We have to take

1572
01:26:12,560 --> 01:26:14,599
Speaker 1: a break here, but when Steve and I return, more

1573
01:26:14,680 --> 01:26:18,960
Speaker 1: comments from Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott. Coach addresses the

1574
01:26:19,120 --> 01:26:22,920
Speaker 1: cornerback position, which will be of interest since it really

1575
01:26:23,240 --> 01:26:25,720
Speaker 1: with Levi Wallace back in the fold, Now, does that

1576
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:29,479
Speaker 1: change their approach? Does it only represent a small step

1577
01:26:29,560 --> 01:26:32,479
Speaker 1: going forward? Coach McDermott addresses that, and then we'll have

1578
01:26:32,640 --> 01:26:36,360
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean on his plans with the salary cap going forward,

1579
01:26:36,600 --> 01:26:39,120
Speaker 1: not only for the rest of this year, but beyond.

1580
01:26:39,880 --> 01:26:41,840
Speaker 1: Both of those comments coming your way next year. On

1581
01:26:41,920 --> 01:26:44,160
Speaker 1: One Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo

1582
01:26:44,240 --> 01:26:57,720
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Chris Browse Steves as your one Bills Live

1583
01:26:57,960 --> 01:27:01,760
Speaker 1: coming off the heels of the comments by Brandon being

1584
01:27:01,880 --> 01:27:05,000
Speaker 1: on the tight end position, basically indicating that they are

1585
01:27:05,160 --> 01:27:07,720
Speaker 1: looking to add there, which they'll need to do just

1586
01:27:07,840 --> 01:27:11,080
Speaker 1: by virtue of numbers at the position currently on the roster.

1587
01:27:11,640 --> 01:27:15,320
Speaker 1: We should also mention that on the tail end of

1588
01:27:15,360 --> 01:27:19,720
Speaker 1: those comments they mentioned, you know, Dawson Knox, big year

1589
01:27:19,800 --> 01:27:24,240
Speaker 1: for him year three. He also mentioned that Tommy Sweeney,

1590
01:27:24,600 --> 01:27:26,800
Speaker 1: who as we know, had to go on IR because

1591
01:27:26,800 --> 01:27:31,120
Speaker 1: he was dealing with myocarditis, you know, a residual effect

1592
01:27:31,200 --> 01:27:34,080
Speaker 1: of having the covid virus, which is an inflammation of

1593
01:27:34,120 --> 01:27:37,280
Speaker 1: the heart muscle, which is a serious condition for an athlete.

1594
01:27:38,640 --> 01:27:41,840
Speaker 1: He said that he's excited about Tommy joining back in

1595
01:27:42,120 --> 01:27:45,000
Speaker 1: on the roster this offseason. So it sounds as though

1596
01:27:45,760 --> 01:27:49,320
Speaker 1: he's going to be hopefully medically cleared and be back

1597
01:27:49,400 --> 01:27:51,320
Speaker 1: on the roster and you know, competing for a roster

1598
01:27:51,439 --> 01:27:55,519
Speaker 1: spot next summer. Yeah. Yeah, Sweeney loses his entire second year,

1599
01:27:55,680 --> 01:27:58,000
Speaker 1: he was on the practice squad as a as a rookie.

1600
01:27:58,439 --> 01:28:00,639
Speaker 1: Last year, he loses his entire He made the roster

1601
01:28:00,680 --> 01:28:03,599
Speaker 1: as he didn't play much, no it didn't play much,

1602
01:28:03,720 --> 01:28:08,200
Speaker 1: but lost his entire last year. Yeah, so you know,

1603
01:28:08,320 --> 01:28:11,479
Speaker 1: he's kind of fallen behind where Knox was. Remember those

1604
01:28:11,479 --> 01:28:13,800
Speaker 1: two guys came in at the same time. So it'll

1605
01:28:13,800 --> 01:28:16,680
Speaker 1: be interesting to see if Sweeney's and you know, we've

1606
01:28:16,720 --> 01:28:18,600
Speaker 1: hang around these guys we've seen haven't seen him for

1607
01:28:18,600 --> 01:28:21,160
Speaker 1: a while, but you know, Knox is a big, tall dude.

1608
01:28:21,200 --> 01:28:24,519
Speaker 1: They're they're tight, they're NFL tight end types. Sweeney's even taller.

1609
01:28:25,320 --> 01:28:29,559
Speaker 1: They're both like, they're both really big dudes. And Dawson

1610
01:28:29,640 --> 01:28:32,040
Speaker 1: Knox last year I saw when he did play. The

1611
01:28:32,120 --> 01:28:34,800
Speaker 1: one thing I noticed that was better about his game

1612
01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:37,840
Speaker 1: was the physical nature of it when he was asked

1613
01:28:37,880 --> 01:28:40,080
Speaker 1: to block in the run game and also pass protect

1614
01:28:40,160 --> 01:28:42,439
Speaker 1: once in a while, either chip getting out or stand

1615
01:28:42,520 --> 01:28:46,000
Speaker 1: in and take on somebody coming from the secondary. His

1616
01:28:46,160 --> 01:28:48,160
Speaker 1: rookie year, he was a mess trying to do that.

1617
01:28:48,920 --> 01:28:51,960
Speaker 1: Last year, he was significantly better. Wasn't phenomenal by any stretch,

1618
01:28:52,000 --> 01:28:55,439
Speaker 1: but you could tell that the improvement was there. And

1619
01:28:55,520 --> 01:28:57,960
Speaker 1: if he takes another step forward this year as well

1620
01:28:58,040 --> 01:28:59,920
Speaker 1: as on the other end of the past pass at

1621
01:29:00,520 --> 01:29:03,519
Speaker 1: the past offense, Dawson Knox is gonna tende to a

1622
01:29:03,560 --> 01:29:06,600
Speaker 1: pretty good player. Sweeney's I have yet to know what

1623
01:29:06,760 --> 01:29:08,599
Speaker 1: I think about. He's kind of a jack of all

1624
01:29:08,680 --> 01:29:11,200
Speaker 1: trades type as I see him. He can do everything.

1625
01:29:11,880 --> 01:29:15,000
Speaker 1: He just doesn't do everything at an elite level, which

1626
01:29:15,080 --> 01:29:17,120
Speaker 1: is why he was a seventh round draft choice. But

1627
01:29:17,400 --> 01:29:19,880
Speaker 1: he's capable of doing all the things you need a

1628
01:29:19,920 --> 01:29:22,840
Speaker 1: tight end to do on the field. It's just how

1629
01:29:22,920 --> 01:29:24,960
Speaker 1: much has he rounded his game into form, and he

1630
01:29:25,280 --> 01:29:27,920
Speaker 1: had obviously very little opportunity to do that last year

1631
01:29:28,280 --> 01:29:31,200
Speaker 1: between being on the COVID list and then suffering after

1632
01:29:31,280 --> 01:29:33,320
Speaker 1: with Myo. Kardi isn't having to go on IR So

1633
01:29:33,720 --> 01:29:37,000
Speaker 1: just a tough sophomore season for him. So hopefully he's

1634
01:29:37,280 --> 01:29:40,679
Speaker 1: back on the train to recovery and you know, working

1635
01:29:40,720 --> 01:29:44,599
Speaker 1: on his game. Brandon Being also mentioned that Dawson Knox

1636
01:29:44,760 --> 01:29:47,560
Speaker 1: told him he had full plans to go out to

1637
01:29:47,680 --> 01:29:50,719
Speaker 1: California and throw and catch with Josh during the course

1638
01:29:50,760 --> 01:29:53,320
Speaker 1: of the offseason on his own volition, So good on

1639
01:29:53,479 --> 01:29:56,800
Speaker 1: him for trying to do that. We do want to

1640
01:29:56,840 --> 01:30:00,400
Speaker 1: get back to the comments here. Brandon Bean was asked

1641
01:30:00,560 --> 01:30:05,640
Speaker 1: in yesterday's press conference about the restrictive salary cap, and

1642
01:30:06,600 --> 01:30:09,640
Speaker 1: it's well known now that they've asked a handful of

1643
01:30:09,720 --> 01:30:13,920
Speaker 1: players to restructure contracts, which essentially just moves money down

1644
01:30:14,000 --> 01:30:16,599
Speaker 1: the road, doesn't really get rid of it necessarily unless

1645
01:30:16,600 --> 01:30:19,040
Speaker 1: someone takes an outright pay cut, which we heard a

1646
01:30:19,080 --> 01:30:21,240
Speaker 1: couple of players did, but not all of them. And

1647
01:30:21,439 --> 01:30:24,720
Speaker 1: so going forward, how much more money can he spend

1648
01:30:24,760 --> 01:30:26,760
Speaker 1: in the free agent market, And how cautious is he

1649
01:30:27,280 --> 01:30:29,439
Speaker 1: knowing that he's got a quarterback he's going to have

1650
01:30:29,479 --> 01:30:31,840
Speaker 1: to sign to a very big contract in the not

1651
01:30:31,960 --> 01:30:36,840
Speaker 1: too distant future. You know, we haven't finalized the deal

1652
01:30:36,880 --> 01:30:39,920
Speaker 1: with Josh, and that's the biggest piece, not only this year,

1653
01:30:39,960 --> 01:30:42,800
Speaker 1: but years to come and work in every other deal

1654
01:30:43,200 --> 01:30:46,080
Speaker 1: around that, you know, and obviously the uncertainty the cap

1655
01:30:46,560 --> 01:30:49,080
Speaker 1: change things for us. But you know, you can fit

1656
01:30:49,120 --> 01:30:50,880
Speaker 1: as much as you want as you as you well

1657
01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:54,000
Speaker 1: know with converting and restructure and all these things. But

1658
01:30:54,360 --> 01:30:56,800
Speaker 1: the more you do that, the more you kick it

1659
01:30:56,880 --> 01:30:59,559
Speaker 1: down the road. And so not that we won't use

1660
01:30:59,640 --> 01:31:01,920
Speaker 1: it this year, we've we've had to be a little

1661
01:31:01,960 --> 01:31:04,800
Speaker 1: more creative than I had planned a year ago. Joke,

1662
01:31:05,479 --> 01:31:07,439
Speaker 1: But it's not something that I want to make a

1663
01:31:07,520 --> 01:31:10,760
Speaker 1: habit of. I like to be able to not have

1664
01:31:10,840 --> 01:31:14,560
Speaker 1: an albatross staring at me just down the road. So

1665
01:31:14,880 --> 01:31:18,519
Speaker 1: we'll try and keep deals so that we can get

1666
01:31:18,560 --> 01:31:20,560
Speaker 1: in and get out of them and not you know,

1667
01:31:20,680 --> 01:31:23,160
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you get right to the threshold

1668
01:31:23,200 --> 01:31:26,040
Speaker 1: and you got to every year release you know, four

1669
01:31:26,160 --> 01:31:29,719
Speaker 1: or five six players just to get under the cap.

1670
01:31:30,240 --> 01:31:32,240
Speaker 1: It's just I've been a part of that before and

1671
01:31:32,320 --> 01:31:35,040
Speaker 1: it's not something I en George of doing. Yeah, I mean,

1672
01:31:35,160 --> 01:31:38,880
Speaker 1: he said, in a normal year, John Brown and Quentin

1673
01:31:39,000 --> 01:31:42,120
Speaker 1: Jefferson run this roster right. Because of the restrictive cap,

1674
01:31:42,280 --> 01:31:45,280
Speaker 1: they had to make some tough decisions, namely lopping them

1675
01:31:45,360 --> 01:31:48,000
Speaker 1: off the roster right and restructuring a handful of guys.

1676
01:31:48,160 --> 01:31:50,879
Speaker 1: I mean, they had had some work to do. Certainly,

1677
01:31:51,080 --> 01:31:55,120
Speaker 1: they knew it was coming, didn't know exactly how much

1678
01:31:55,160 --> 01:31:56,519
Speaker 1: it was gonna be. It looked like they knew the

1679
01:31:56,560 --> 01:31:58,639
Speaker 1: floor was one seventy five, and then it came out

1680
01:31:58,760 --> 01:32:01,400
Speaker 1: later it was going to be one eighty Maybe then

1681
01:32:01,439 --> 01:32:03,400
Speaker 1: it was one eighty two and a half million dollars.

1682
01:32:04,360 --> 01:32:09,840
Speaker 1: That's still it's thirty million dollars from where they thought

1683
01:32:09,880 --> 01:32:12,240
Speaker 1: this year was going to be thirty million. And you

1684
01:32:12,320 --> 01:32:15,400
Speaker 1: know that that changes things, There's no doubt about it.

1685
01:32:15,520 --> 01:32:18,840
Speaker 1: So I'm it'll be interesting to see where it goes

1686
01:32:18,920 --> 01:32:21,400
Speaker 1: next year the cap I know too that there's language

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01:32:21,439 --> 01:32:23,120
Speaker 1: in the CBA that's going to keep it from just

1688
01:32:23,200 --> 01:32:26,000
Speaker 1: going all in all at once. They'll raise it incrementally,

1689
01:32:26,479 --> 01:32:28,439
Speaker 1: although I think a lot of teams will say, listen,

1690
01:32:28,560 --> 01:32:30,120
Speaker 1: at least give us where we were going to be

1691
01:32:30,280 --> 01:32:32,880
Speaker 1: this year in twenty twenty one, you know, give us

1692
01:32:32,880 --> 01:32:34,840
Speaker 1: the two hundred and twelve to two hundred and fifteen million,

1693
01:32:34,880 --> 01:32:37,160
Speaker 1: maybe a little more, and then we'll go from there

1694
01:32:37,200 --> 01:32:41,200
Speaker 1: and raise it up incrementally because in twenty they may

1695
01:32:41,280 --> 01:32:42,560
Speaker 1: not be able to even go that high now that

1696
01:32:42,600 --> 01:32:45,040
Speaker 1: I think about it, because the new TV money that

1697
01:32:45,080 --> 01:32:46,640
Speaker 1: we've all been talking about over the last day and

1698
01:32:46,680 --> 01:32:51,800
Speaker 1: a half doesn't kick in until twenty twenty three, so

1699
01:32:51,880 --> 01:32:53,639
Speaker 1: they're not going to get any of this big money

1700
01:32:54,280 --> 01:32:56,519
Speaker 1: that they've heard, that we've heard so much about until

1701
01:32:56,600 --> 01:32:58,240
Speaker 1: for another two or three years. So the cap is

1702
01:32:58,240 --> 01:33:00,560
Speaker 1: going to be commenced with what the last deal. The

1703
01:33:00,720 --> 01:33:03,880
Speaker 1: last TV deals were not the new ones. So it'll

1704
01:33:03,920 --> 01:33:06,200
Speaker 1: go up, but maybe not even as much as anticipated,

1705
01:33:06,280 --> 01:33:09,040
Speaker 1: So be interesting to see where that all shakes out.

1706
01:33:09,479 --> 01:33:13,799
Speaker 1: Coach McDermott, as we said, also addressed the cornerback position.

1707
01:33:13,880 --> 01:33:16,760
Speaker 1: We know that Levi Wallace was resigned on a one

1708
01:33:16,840 --> 01:33:19,120
Speaker 1: year agreement. We know they think a lot of Dane

1709
01:33:19,200 --> 01:33:22,240
Speaker 1: Jackson is expected to compete for a starting job, but

1710
01:33:22,520 --> 01:33:26,120
Speaker 1: will they look to add more pieces to the position,

1711
01:33:26,240 --> 01:33:29,920
Speaker 1: knowing Josh Norman is no longer here and out the door?

1712
01:33:30,360 --> 01:33:34,120
Speaker 1: So here was coach McDermott on that subject. It's a

1713
01:33:34,160 --> 01:33:37,840
Speaker 1: critical piece to our defense, you know how the rush

1714
01:33:37,880 --> 01:33:40,680
Speaker 1: and the covers work together. So Levi has done a

1715
01:33:40,760 --> 01:33:42,400
Speaker 1: nice job. Dame when he was in there did a

1716
01:33:42,479 --> 01:33:46,800
Speaker 1: nice job. So you know, again the competition at the

1717
01:33:46,840 --> 01:33:49,120
Speaker 1: position will be important for us to continue to improve

1718
01:33:49,200 --> 01:33:53,439
Speaker 1: our overall defense. So rather short on that, but I

1719
01:33:53,520 --> 01:33:56,439
Speaker 1: think I think they're going to add There could very

1720
01:33:56,479 --> 01:33:58,639
Speaker 1: well be the draft somewhere on the first two days,

1721
01:33:58,720 --> 01:34:01,160
Speaker 1: as would be or I would think they would probably

1722
01:34:01,200 --> 01:34:03,320
Speaker 1: make an investment like that if they don't do anything

1723
01:34:03,360 --> 01:34:06,599
Speaker 1: else in free agency. Now there are some veteran corners

1724
01:34:06,680 --> 01:34:09,439
Speaker 1: drifting around out there. If in fact they like one

1725
01:34:09,520 --> 01:34:11,479
Speaker 1: of them, I'm sure they'll kind of go the way

1726
01:34:11,560 --> 01:34:13,280
Speaker 1: they have the last few years, which is a one

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01:34:13,400 --> 01:34:15,920
Speaker 1: year deal. Did a one year deal for EJ. Gaines,

1728
01:34:15,960 --> 01:34:17,800
Speaker 1: did a one year deal for Kevin Johnson, did a

1729
01:34:17,840 --> 01:34:20,000
Speaker 1: one year deal for Josh Norman, So if they go

1730
01:34:20,160 --> 01:34:22,760
Speaker 1: that route again, it would be far from surprising. The

1731
01:34:22,880 --> 01:34:24,840
Speaker 1: question is can they find a guy they like enough

1732
01:34:24,920 --> 01:34:28,200
Speaker 1: to do that, and then if not, the draft probably

1733
01:34:28,200 --> 01:34:31,200
Speaker 1: becomes the most likely avenue for them to add somebody

1734
01:34:31,280 --> 01:34:33,840
Speaker 1: significant at the Yeah, it's all about competition. They want

1735
01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:35,880
Speaker 1: they want to bring in on whether they can or

1736
01:34:35,920 --> 01:34:37,720
Speaker 1: not as it beside the point, but they want to

1737
01:34:37,760 --> 01:34:40,400
Speaker 1: bring in somebody who they feel and have seen on

1738
01:34:40,600 --> 01:34:44,960
Speaker 1: film have the ability to compete to start for the

1739
01:34:45,560 --> 01:34:49,320
Speaker 1: Bills in their secondary I mean, I mean, yeah, you

1740
01:34:49,360 --> 01:34:52,400
Speaker 1: can say, okay, a guy although they did it last year,

1741
01:34:52,520 --> 01:34:55,320
Speaker 1: Dane Jackson is better than they thought he was as

1742
01:34:55,360 --> 01:34:57,600
Speaker 1: a seventh round draft There's no question about it. Now,

1743
01:34:57,640 --> 01:34:59,360
Speaker 1: are they going to wait till the seventh round to

1744
01:34:59,400 --> 01:35:01,720
Speaker 1: pick somebody else to compete for that? I doubt it.

1745
01:35:02,040 --> 01:35:03,519
Speaker 1: I think they'll bring some guy in with some more

1746
01:35:03,600 --> 01:35:06,560
Speaker 1: measurables than that. They'll bring a guy that's bigger and

1747
01:35:06,680 --> 01:35:09,320
Speaker 1: stronger and faster and all this more athletic. But dat

1748
01:35:09,479 --> 01:35:13,000
Speaker 1: Jackson proved himself on the team last year. He's been

1749
01:35:13,000 --> 01:35:15,439
Speaker 1: a pro pro athlete for a year. He's got something

1750
01:35:15,520 --> 01:35:18,360
Speaker 1: under the hood now, and he showed something when he

1751
01:35:18,400 --> 01:35:22,519
Speaker 1: actually got into game. How much are they willing to

1752
01:35:22,640 --> 01:35:26,960
Speaker 1: invest in that competition? That's really intriguing because I think

1753
01:35:27,000 --> 01:35:29,160
Speaker 1: they've been trying to do it for three years and

1754
01:35:29,240 --> 01:35:30,840
Speaker 1: they haven't been able to get it done. That's why

1755
01:35:30,880 --> 01:35:33,360
Speaker 1: I'm inclined to believe they go with youth here they've

1756
01:35:33,400 --> 01:35:35,519
Speaker 1: got a veteran secondary. Everywhere else, I think they go

1757
01:35:35,640 --> 01:35:38,639
Speaker 1: with youth. I think they invest in a relatively high

1758
01:35:38,720 --> 01:35:41,439
Speaker 1: draft choice somewhere in the first three rounds and bring

1759
01:35:41,520 --> 01:35:43,519
Speaker 1: a guy in they can compete for a starting job

1760
01:35:43,720 --> 01:35:46,800
Speaker 1: and looks pro ready. I could see them going that

1761
01:35:47,000 --> 01:35:50,160
Speaker 1: route for sure. I think that's way more likely than say,

1762
01:35:50,400 --> 01:35:55,560
Speaker 1: taking like a Nach Harris or an atn one of

1763
01:35:55,600 --> 01:35:57,559
Speaker 1: those two high running backs. Even if those guys are

1764
01:35:57,560 --> 01:35:59,400
Speaker 1: there at thirty, I think they'll more likely take up

1765
01:35:59,800 --> 01:36:03,519
Speaker 1: a corner. Sean McDermott called it a critical piece to

1766
01:36:03,720 --> 01:36:06,640
Speaker 1: their defense. So that's that. Before we close this thing

1767
01:36:06,760 --> 01:36:09,559
Speaker 1: up on the Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott press conference,

1768
01:36:09,600 --> 01:36:11,680
Speaker 1: we should also pass along because we didn't play the

1769
01:36:11,720 --> 01:36:14,960
Speaker 1: sound bite that with respect to a Josh Allen contract extension,

1770
01:36:15,280 --> 01:36:18,360
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean said it's something they probably wouldn't address or

1771
01:36:18,479 --> 01:36:22,640
Speaker 1: even bring up until after the draft. Obviously there is

1772
01:36:22,760 --> 01:36:26,360
Speaker 1: that may third deadline for the fifty year option. I'm

1773
01:36:26,400 --> 01:36:28,960
Speaker 1: assuming that it will be revisited in short order after

1774
01:36:29,040 --> 01:36:33,639
Speaker 1: the draft, and then they'll have to decide. And basically

1775
01:36:33,720 --> 01:36:35,599
Speaker 1: Brandon being has said, it's going to be largely based

1776
01:36:35,640 --> 01:36:37,120
Speaker 1: on whether they know if there will be fans in

1777
01:36:37,200 --> 01:36:39,000
Speaker 1: the stands or not, because that's going to impact the

1778
01:36:39,040 --> 01:36:42,479
Speaker 1: revenue again, and if not or if there's uncertainty, they

1779
01:36:42,520 --> 01:36:44,840
Speaker 1: may just buy time, use the fifty year option and

1780
01:36:44,880 --> 01:36:47,240
Speaker 1: address it at a later date. That's pretty much where

1781
01:36:47,560 --> 01:36:49,360
Speaker 1: he left it. We have to take a break. But

1782
01:36:49,439 --> 01:36:52,400
Speaker 1: when we come back from NFL films, it's our old

1783
01:36:52,439 --> 01:36:55,600
Speaker 1: friend Greg co Sell back for another round as we

1784
01:36:55,800 --> 01:36:58,280
Speaker 1: discuss free agency with him some of the winners that

1785
01:36:58,640 --> 01:37:01,320
Speaker 1: he thinks have made good moves and maybe some of

1786
01:37:01,400 --> 01:37:05,040
Speaker 1: that weren't so great. We'll talk with Great Kosal next.

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01:37:05,080 --> 01:37:07,120
Speaker 1: Here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health, It's

1788
01:37:07,120 --> 01:37:20,599
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello Bill's Radio Network, Sports date, your

1789
01:37:20,760 --> 01:37:23,880
Speaker 1: sports update from One Bill's Drive. Free agency rolling along,

1790
01:37:24,000 --> 01:37:26,800
Speaker 1: Bills continuing to make moves on the roster. Thursday, the

1791
01:37:26,840 --> 01:37:29,479
Speaker 1: Bills and quarterback Mitchell Drubisky agreed to terms on a

1792
01:37:29,520 --> 01:37:32,760
Speaker 1: one year deal. Rubisky spent the last four seasons with

1793
01:37:32,880 --> 01:37:35,879
Speaker 1: the Bears as the twenty eighteen Pro bowler was drafted

1794
01:37:35,920 --> 01:37:39,160
Speaker 1: by Chicago in the twenty seventeen draft, with the second

1795
01:37:39,280 --> 01:37:42,080
Speaker 1: overall pick, Brandon Being also announced, they've agreed to a

1796
01:37:42,120 --> 01:37:45,080
Speaker 1: one year deal with running back Taiwan Jones, an important

1797
01:37:45,120 --> 01:37:49,200
Speaker 1: piece to their special teams unit. Emmanuel Sanders officially signed

1798
01:37:49,240 --> 01:37:51,920
Speaker 1: his one year contract this morning at One Bill's Drive.

1799
01:37:52,000 --> 01:37:55,840
Speaker 1: He joined the show for an interview that has already aired.

1800
01:37:55,880 --> 01:37:58,439
Speaker 1: You can check out that entire interview later this afternoon

1801
01:37:58,479 --> 01:38:02,320
Speaker 1: on the Bills app, Buffalo bills dot Com, and on YouTube.

1802
01:38:02,479 --> 01:38:05,000
Speaker 1: NFL announced Thursday it has signed long term agreements with

1803
01:38:05,120 --> 01:38:10,000
Speaker 1: media partners Amazons, CBSCESPN, ABC, Fox, and NBC to distribute

1804
01:38:10,080 --> 01:38:14,720
Speaker 1: NFL games across television and digital platforms, along with additional

1805
01:38:14,960 --> 01:38:19,120
Speaker 1: media rights. The total one hundred ten billion dollars. With

1806
01:38:19,360 --> 01:38:21,479
Speaker 1: new TV deals in place, the NFL will have a

1807
01:38:21,560 --> 01:38:24,000
Speaker 1: new look regular season for the first time since nineteen

1808
01:38:24,080 --> 01:38:26,559
Speaker 1: seventy eight. They'll expand the total number of regular season

1809
01:38:26,680 --> 01:38:30,160
Speaker 1: games from sixteen to seventeen. Reports are the league will

1810
01:38:30,160 --> 01:38:34,639
Speaker 1: adopt that schedule very soon. Patriots have resigned starting center

1811
01:38:34,720 --> 01:38:37,240
Speaker 1: David Andrews to a four year deal. It's an interesting

1812
01:38:37,320 --> 01:38:40,080
Speaker 1: turn of events as it was rumored that Andrews may

1813
01:38:40,120 --> 01:38:43,040
Speaker 1: be parting ways with the club, especially after the team

1814
01:38:43,160 --> 01:38:46,760
Speaker 1: signed former Dolphins lineman Ted Carriss a center as well,

1815
01:38:46,880 --> 01:38:49,519
Speaker 1: to a one year deal. But the team reversed course,

1816
01:38:49,880 --> 01:38:53,759
Speaker 1: and Andrews and the Patriots are back together again. NFL

1817
01:38:53,960 --> 01:38:57,720
Speaker 1: informed the Houston Texans on Thursday it's investigating allegations made

1818
01:38:57,760 --> 01:38:59,960
Speaker 1: this week against quarterback to Shaun Watson under the lead

1819
01:39:00,200 --> 01:39:03,720
Speaker 1: Personal Conduct Policy. News of the league's investigation comes after

1820
01:39:03,800 --> 01:39:06,439
Speaker 1: Watson was accused of sexual assault in a new civil

1821
01:39:06,520 --> 01:39:11,200
Speaker 1: lawsuit filed earlier this week in Texas. And one additional note,

1822
01:39:11,600 --> 01:39:15,200
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers have retained wide receiver Juju smith Schuster.

1823
01:39:15,680 --> 01:39:18,400
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster agreed to a one year, eight million dollar

1824
01:39:18,479 --> 01:39:21,759
Speaker 1: contract today. And finally, the Sabers game against the Boston

1825
01:39:21,880 --> 01:39:25,920
Speaker 1: Bruins on Saturday has been postponed after four more Bruins

1826
01:39:26,000 --> 01:39:30,280
Speaker 1: players were placed in the NHL's COVID protocols. That is

1827
01:39:30,360 --> 01:39:33,000
Speaker 1: your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown, Steve

1828
01:39:33,080 --> 01:39:34,920
Speaker 1: Tasker here with you for hour number three of the

1829
01:39:35,000 --> 01:39:38,000
Speaker 1: program and joining us now is our good friend from

1830
01:39:38,200 --> 01:39:41,639
Speaker 1: NFL Films, also one of the co hosts of ESPN's

1831
01:39:41,760 --> 01:39:44,880
Speaker 1: NFL Matchup show during the football season. It is one

1832
01:39:45,320 --> 01:39:48,479
Speaker 1: Greg co Cell. Greg, how you doing, long time no talk?

1833
01:39:48,680 --> 01:39:51,800
Speaker 1: You're doing all right? I'm hanging in there, Chris. Yeah. Yeah,

1834
01:39:51,880 --> 01:39:53,679
Speaker 1: it's good to be with you guys again. Yeah, thanks

1835
01:39:53,720 --> 01:39:55,280
Speaker 1: for coming back on. We're going to talk to you

1836
01:39:55,280 --> 01:39:57,320
Speaker 1: a little bit about we had a bunch of stuff

1837
01:39:57,360 --> 01:39:58,840
Speaker 1: on the docket. Then late after we got off the

1838
01:39:58,880 --> 01:40:01,800
Speaker 1: area yesterday, the Bill signed Mitch Trubisky. I want to

1839
01:40:01,800 --> 01:40:04,960
Speaker 1: get your take on Trubisky because you hear a lot

1840
01:40:05,040 --> 01:40:09,920
Speaker 1: of stuff from Chicago fans about how they they they

1841
01:40:10,080 --> 01:40:12,519
Speaker 1: hated him, you know, and how he stung but he

1842
01:40:12,600 --> 01:40:14,519
Speaker 1: had he was six and three last year as a start.

1843
01:40:14,560 --> 01:40:16,240
Speaker 1: I mean, what are you what are you getting with Trubisky.

1844
01:40:16,280 --> 01:40:20,240
Speaker 1: There's a lot of interest in him apparently. Well I

1845
01:40:20,320 --> 01:40:22,679
Speaker 1: don't know about that, because the league kind of told

1846
01:40:22,760 --> 01:40:25,080
Speaker 1: him that he's a backup because no one was willing

1847
01:40:25,120 --> 01:40:27,360
Speaker 1: to sign him as a as a starting quarterback or

1848
01:40:27,400 --> 01:40:29,920
Speaker 1: even as a compete guy for the starting job. So

1849
01:40:30,479 --> 01:40:32,320
Speaker 1: I think When you look at the tape of Trubisky,

1850
01:40:32,400 --> 01:40:36,400
Speaker 1: you see a guy that's athletic. His arm is probably

1851
01:40:36,439 --> 01:40:39,800
Speaker 1: a little better than average, nothing more than that. He's

1852
01:40:39,840 --> 01:40:42,920
Speaker 1: inconsistent with his accuracy. He's a He's a guy that

1853
01:40:43,479 --> 01:40:48,120
Speaker 1: needs everything really well defined. Fewer gray areas for him,

1854
01:40:48,360 --> 01:40:51,240
Speaker 1: the better he can be. And obviously he's been a

1855
01:40:51,280 --> 01:40:53,120
Speaker 1: starter in the league. He's a former number two pick

1856
01:40:53,200 --> 01:40:55,679
Speaker 1: in the draft. But I think at this point in time,

1857
01:40:55,760 --> 01:40:58,000
Speaker 1: the league kind of told you what he is, and

1858
01:40:58,200 --> 01:41:00,479
Speaker 1: that's why he ended up signing with a Bill as

1859
01:41:00,479 --> 01:41:02,400
Speaker 1: a clear backup. I mean, he's not signing with the

1860
01:41:02,439 --> 01:41:04,320
Speaker 1: Bills to compete for a starting job. He's signing with

1861
01:41:04,400 --> 01:41:09,719
Speaker 1: the Bills as a backup quarterback. Emmanuel Sanders greg another

1862
01:41:10,000 --> 01:41:16,280
Speaker 1: precision type route runner for this offense, him, Beasley and Diggs.

1863
01:41:16,760 --> 01:41:18,760
Speaker 1: I mean, my gosh, you want to talk about route

1864
01:41:18,800 --> 01:41:22,960
Speaker 1: running precision. The Bills have it in spades now, don't they. Yeah.

1865
01:41:23,000 --> 01:41:26,639
Speaker 1: I've always liked Emmanuel Sanders. I think I think it's

1866
01:41:26,640 --> 01:41:29,320
Speaker 1: a good replacement for John Brown. I think Sanders is

1867
01:41:29,360 --> 01:41:31,599
Speaker 1: a little more versatile and how he can line up

1868
01:41:31,640 --> 01:41:34,679
Speaker 1: within your formation. I think you can do more things

1869
01:41:34,840 --> 01:41:39,439
Speaker 1: with him formationally, he's a really good route runner, really precise,

1870
01:41:40,240 --> 01:41:43,120
Speaker 1: a really good signing. And that's what this year has

1871
01:41:43,240 --> 01:41:46,439
Speaker 1: become with the salary cap going down, is you get

1872
01:41:46,479 --> 01:41:48,120
Speaker 1: a lot of veterans who are out there who are

1873
01:41:48,160 --> 01:41:51,160
Speaker 1: not signing to long term deals, but you get them

1874
01:41:51,200 --> 01:41:54,400
Speaker 1: for a year. And sanders to me, I remember when

1875
01:41:54,400 --> 01:41:56,000
Speaker 1: the Saints God, I mean, I thought, then that's a

1876
01:41:56,120 --> 01:41:58,120
Speaker 1: really good signing for them with Drew Grees And I

1877
01:41:58,160 --> 01:41:59,920
Speaker 1: think this is a really good signing for the Bills.

1878
01:42:00,640 --> 01:42:03,120
Speaker 1: And what do you think about the fact that, as

1879
01:42:03,160 --> 01:42:07,120
Speaker 1: you see this free agent market be what it is

1880
01:42:07,200 --> 01:42:11,680
Speaker 1: in his cap strain, zach Ertz was given permission to

1881
01:42:11,920 --> 01:42:14,519
Speaker 1: get traded by the Philadelphia Eagles, a Titans, John hu

1882
01:42:14,600 --> 01:42:19,160
Speaker 1: Smith and Hunter Henry goes straight to New England. What

1883
01:42:19,280 --> 01:42:23,479
Speaker 1: about zach Ertz and where do you see him landing? Yeah,

1884
01:42:23,560 --> 01:42:26,479
Speaker 1: I thought zach Ertz was not anywhere near as good

1885
01:42:26,640 --> 01:42:28,639
Speaker 1: last year as he has been in the past. Guys.

1886
01:42:29,400 --> 01:42:31,280
Speaker 1: I thought in terms of route running, I thought he

1887
01:42:31,360 --> 01:42:33,920
Speaker 1: didn't quite separate as well. I thought he looked a

1888
01:42:34,000 --> 01:42:37,360
Speaker 1: little slower as a route runner. Zach Ertz obviously has

1889
01:42:37,360 --> 01:42:39,680
Speaker 1: put up great, great numbers in his career, but he

1890
01:42:39,760 --> 01:42:42,200
Speaker 1: was never a special athlete at the tight end position.

1891
01:42:42,280 --> 01:42:45,800
Speaker 1: He was a really good route runner, really good understanding

1892
01:42:46,080 --> 01:42:49,320
Speaker 1: of how to find voyads and zones, understood at the

1893
01:42:49,400 --> 01:42:51,639
Speaker 1: top of his route stem, how to separate from man

1894
01:42:52,360 --> 01:42:54,680
Speaker 1: That didn't show up on tape as much last year.

1895
01:42:54,760 --> 01:42:56,800
Speaker 1: Now maybe it was due to injury. That's always hard

1896
01:42:56,840 --> 01:42:59,600
Speaker 1: to know. But all we can do is evaluate a

1897
01:42:59,640 --> 01:43:01,160
Speaker 1: guy when he's on the field and then watch the

1898
01:43:01,240 --> 01:43:03,559
Speaker 1: tape and see what it looks like. So we'll see.

1899
01:43:04,160 --> 01:43:06,120
Speaker 1: You know, obviously, when you don't feel like you have

1900
01:43:06,200 --> 01:43:08,880
Speaker 1: a great tight end room, you're looking for a tight end.

1901
01:43:09,080 --> 01:43:11,320
Speaker 1: So we'll see if if something like this comes about.

1902
01:43:12,320 --> 01:43:15,439
Speaker 1: And then I don't know what your initial impressions are

1903
01:43:15,479 --> 01:43:18,280
Speaker 1: of this first wave of free agency, Greg, but do

1904
01:43:18,400 --> 01:43:21,400
Speaker 1: you is there a team that comes immediately to mind

1905
01:43:21,479 --> 01:43:23,519
Speaker 1: in terms of saying, hey, I really like what those

1906
01:43:23,600 --> 01:43:28,280
Speaker 1: guys did so far. You know, there's been so many signings, Chris,

1907
01:43:28,360 --> 01:43:31,439
Speaker 1: you'd have to give me because like a few team

1908
01:43:31,640 --> 01:43:34,719
Speaker 1: I mean, it's yeah, I mean crazy. Yeah, New England

1909
01:43:34,800 --> 01:43:38,959
Speaker 1: has been obviously very busy. They've overpaid in my estimation

1910
01:43:39,040 --> 01:43:41,720
Speaker 1: in some cases. But you have to do that in

1911
01:43:41,800 --> 01:43:43,600
Speaker 1: free agency, especially if you don't have a guy like

1912
01:43:43,680 --> 01:43:46,240
Speaker 1: Tom Brady walking around on your roster anymore. And it

1913
01:43:46,320 --> 01:43:48,960
Speaker 1: seems like New England has now got to play that

1914
01:43:49,080 --> 01:43:52,000
Speaker 1: kind of game. No. And it's interesting with what they

1915
01:43:52,160 --> 01:43:54,760
Speaker 1: did because clearly with what they did, they're telling you

1916
01:43:54,880 --> 01:43:56,920
Speaker 1: were going to be a twelve personnel offense. We're going

1917
01:43:56,960 --> 01:43:59,160
Speaker 1: to line up with one back, two tight ends, two

1918
01:43:59,160 --> 01:44:04,120
Speaker 1: wide receivers as our foundational offense. Uh and and almost

1919
01:44:04,200 --> 01:44:07,720
Speaker 1: play to some degree old school football. And we know

1920
01:44:07,840 --> 01:44:09,599
Speaker 1: there's many ways to win in the league. It's it's

1921
01:44:09,640 --> 01:44:13,400
Speaker 1: just become sort of gospel in the minds of many that, oh,

1922
01:44:13,439 --> 01:44:15,280
Speaker 1: you can't play like that and you can't win, but

1923
01:44:15,680 --> 01:44:17,160
Speaker 1: you can win a lot of ways in the league.

1924
01:44:17,200 --> 01:44:20,040
Speaker 1: And that's what they'll try to do. I mean, what

1925
01:44:20,160 --> 01:44:23,120
Speaker 1: they have right now is they have Sony Michelle, they

1926
01:44:23,160 --> 01:44:25,200
Speaker 1: have Damien Harris, who's a very good back. Who knows

1927
01:44:25,240 --> 01:44:28,479
Speaker 1: they might get another back. You'd have to assume Cam

1928
01:44:28,560 --> 01:44:31,360
Speaker 1: Newton will be better in his second season. He didn't

1929
01:44:31,400 --> 01:44:33,840
Speaker 1: really have an off season last year. And they've got

1930
01:44:33,880 --> 01:44:36,519
Speaker 1: the two really good tight ends, so we know what

1931
01:44:36,640 --> 01:44:42,280
Speaker 1: they're going to be. What about Nelson Aglore and Kendrick Bourne.

1932
01:44:42,320 --> 01:44:45,639
Speaker 1: What about those two wideouts that they paid. And yeah,

1933
01:44:45,640 --> 01:44:49,519
Speaker 1: I mean obviously they thought of a little more than

1934
01:44:49,680 --> 01:44:52,960
Speaker 1: probably other teams. But you know, the one thing about

1935
01:44:52,960 --> 01:44:55,960
Speaker 1: Aglar is he can run. And you know, it's interesting

1936
01:44:56,040 --> 01:45:00,920
Speaker 1: because what you often get and I'm sure they feel

1937
01:45:01,000 --> 01:45:03,080
Speaker 1: this way, particularly with John HU Smith. One of the

1938
01:45:03,240 --> 01:45:07,240
Speaker 1: toughest formations now to defend in the NFL is when

1939
01:45:07,320 --> 01:45:10,080
Speaker 1: you have a tight end who's the single receiver to

1940
01:45:10,160 --> 01:45:11,960
Speaker 1: the short side of the field, and John U. Smith

1941
01:45:12,000 --> 01:45:14,960
Speaker 1: can be that guy. He's very athletic. And then you

1942
01:45:15,080 --> 01:45:17,840
Speaker 1: have trips three receivers to the other side and you

1943
01:45:17,920 --> 01:45:22,200
Speaker 1: put a speed guy as the inside slot and Aglar

1944
01:45:22,439 --> 01:45:24,360
Speaker 1: fits that role. Now, he's not going to be a

1945
01:45:24,479 --> 01:45:27,720
Speaker 1: volume target. He won't catch ninety balls, but that's a

1946
01:45:27,800 --> 01:45:33,160
Speaker 1: particularly difficult offensive formation to defend him today's NFL. And

1947
01:45:33,280 --> 01:45:37,080
Speaker 1: then Greg, we saw Will Fuller sign with the Dolphins yesterday.

1948
01:45:38,840 --> 01:45:41,200
Speaker 1: We know that, you know, he certainly was a successful

1949
01:45:41,240 --> 01:45:46,200
Speaker 1: deep threat for Houston. I don't know, does does he

1950
01:45:46,400 --> 01:45:53,160
Speaker 1: match what they want two or to do in that offense? Well,

1951
01:45:53,600 --> 01:45:55,320
Speaker 1: you know, two or through a pretty good deep ball

1952
01:45:55,320 --> 01:45:59,080
Speaker 1: at Alabama to a last year, I didn't think played

1953
01:45:59,240 --> 01:46:02,320
Speaker 1: overly well and I thought they really kept him under wraps,

1954
01:46:02,360 --> 01:46:05,120
Speaker 1: and when that happens, my first thought is they're doing

1955
01:46:05,240 --> 01:46:07,360
Speaker 1: that for a reason, because they're with him every day

1956
01:46:07,360 --> 01:46:09,599
Speaker 1: and this is the way they feel that he can

1957
01:46:09,680 --> 01:46:13,880
Speaker 1: best function. Right, So we'll see. Obviously they wanted to

1958
01:46:13,920 --> 01:46:16,559
Speaker 1: get better at the wide receiver position Fuller as he's

1959
01:46:16,600 --> 01:46:18,880
Speaker 1: gotten better as a rout runner in his career. But

1960
01:46:19,040 --> 01:46:22,000
Speaker 1: for the most part, he's a vertical dimension. You always

1961
01:46:22,040 --> 01:46:24,479
Speaker 1: would love to have a vertical dimension because it changes

1962
01:46:24,560 --> 01:46:28,080
Speaker 1: the way the defense plays. But to me, too, is

1963
01:46:28,080 --> 01:46:30,360
Speaker 1: going to be one of the most fascinating guys to

1964
01:46:30,439 --> 01:46:34,320
Speaker 1: watch this year. And for the Buffalo Bills, they surprised

1965
01:46:34,400 --> 01:46:36,400
Speaker 1: all of us. I mean we were really surprised that

1966
01:46:36,479 --> 01:46:39,920
Speaker 1: they were able to resign Matt Milano and John Feliciano

1967
01:46:40,040 --> 01:46:43,560
Speaker 1: and Daryl Williams. Levi Wallace was a little bit of

1968
01:46:43,600 --> 01:46:46,519
Speaker 1: a throw in there. A lot of fans were like,

1969
01:46:46,840 --> 01:46:49,360
Speaker 1: we can replace him, just like the Bills have thought

1970
01:46:49,400 --> 01:46:52,920
Speaker 1: for a couple of years. But Milano, Williams, and Feliciano,

1971
01:46:53,000 --> 01:46:55,320
Speaker 1: those were kind of surprising moves. What are they? What

1972
01:46:55,400 --> 01:46:57,680
Speaker 1: are the Bills? What do you think the Bills are

1973
01:46:57,760 --> 01:47:02,400
Speaker 1: thinking resigning those three guys? Well, I think Milano is

1974
01:47:02,400 --> 01:47:04,120
Speaker 1: a little bit of a separate case because he's a

1975
01:47:04,240 --> 01:47:06,479
Speaker 1: really good player. So I think you want to sign

1976
01:47:06,520 --> 01:47:09,400
Speaker 1: a really good player because, as we've discussed throughout the season,

1977
01:47:10,360 --> 01:47:12,920
Speaker 1: I think Edmonds and Milano are as good a nickel

1978
01:47:13,160 --> 01:47:15,799
Speaker 1: linebacking duo as there is in the league. So Milano,

1979
01:47:15,920 --> 01:47:18,640
Speaker 1: to me, is a really good signing. I think the

1980
01:47:18,760 --> 01:47:22,000
Speaker 1: thought with Feliciano and Williams is, let's have continuity in

1981
01:47:22,000 --> 01:47:24,960
Speaker 1: our offensive line. You had a dirty, good offense last year.

1982
01:47:25,000 --> 01:47:27,280
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, I believe they would still like to

1983
01:47:27,360 --> 01:47:29,519
Speaker 1: run the ball better. Whether they do it with more

1984
01:47:29,640 --> 01:47:32,120
Speaker 1: volume or means to be seen. But I think that

1985
01:47:33,160 --> 01:47:36,479
Speaker 1: they really would like stability and continuity on their offensive

1986
01:47:36,520 --> 01:47:39,599
Speaker 1: line because, don't forget, an offensive line gets a feel

1987
01:47:39,680 --> 01:47:43,120
Speaker 1: for a quarterback, particularly a quarterback that has movement ability.

1988
01:47:43,400 --> 01:47:46,160
Speaker 1: So you want your offensive line to feel that they

1989
01:47:46,200 --> 01:47:48,880
Speaker 1: have an understanding of how Josh Allen plays the position.

1990
01:47:49,720 --> 01:47:52,040
Speaker 1: And we've asked some of our other guests this greg

1991
01:47:53,320 --> 01:47:57,439
Speaker 1: just how soft the top of the receiver market has

1992
01:47:57,520 --> 01:48:00,320
Speaker 1: been here in the first wave of free agency. Some

1993
01:48:00,640 --> 01:48:03,880
Speaker 1: suspect that it's because there's this flood of good wide

1994
01:48:03,920 --> 01:48:07,200
Speaker 1: receiver draft classes coming in seemingly almost every year. Now,

1995
01:48:08,200 --> 01:48:13,080
Speaker 1: others believe it's due strictly to the restrictive cap. Where

1996
01:48:13,080 --> 01:48:14,880
Speaker 1: do you come down on why the top of the

1997
01:48:14,960 --> 01:48:17,040
Speaker 1: market has been so soft and you see guys like

1998
01:48:17,160 --> 01:48:19,920
Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster taking a one year deal for eight

1999
01:48:20,000 --> 01:48:26,040
Speaker 1: million dollars. Yeah, it's obviously a combination of both things

2000
01:48:26,080 --> 01:48:28,800
Speaker 1: that you just said, Chris, But you're right about the

2001
01:48:28,880 --> 01:48:31,600
Speaker 1: draft class. You know, college football has basically become a

2002
01:48:32,000 --> 01:48:36,880
Speaker 1: very very few exceptions holdovers, so to speak, from the

2003
01:48:36,960 --> 01:48:39,280
Speaker 1: old school way of playing with college football is spread.

2004
01:48:39,640 --> 01:48:42,080
Speaker 1: So you get a ton of receivers who come into

2005
01:48:42,120 --> 01:48:45,519
Speaker 1: the NFL Now that can that kind of fit the

2006
01:48:45,600 --> 01:48:47,599
Speaker 1: way a lot of people play in the league. Look

2007
01:48:47,760 --> 01:48:49,519
Speaker 1: how many times the year to do we talk about

2008
01:48:49,520 --> 01:48:52,160
Speaker 1: the Bills and their use of four wide receivers. Yeah,

2009
01:48:52,400 --> 01:48:55,840
Speaker 1: how many teams now use receivers like a tire reech

2010
01:48:55,920 --> 01:49:00,439
Speaker 1: kill where they move him around so much motion, lining

2011
01:49:00,560 --> 01:49:03,640
Speaker 1: up in all different places in the formation. There's a

2012
01:49:03,720 --> 01:49:06,519
Speaker 1: lot of those receivers in this kind of draft, and

2013
01:49:06,640 --> 01:49:09,479
Speaker 1: the league is i think somewhat moving in that direction

2014
01:49:09,560 --> 01:49:11,719
Speaker 1: because it makes it harder for the defense to defend.

2015
01:49:12,200 --> 01:49:15,960
Speaker 1: So you're right, there's an abundance of receivers. This is

2016
01:49:16,000 --> 01:49:18,080
Speaker 1: the kind of draft and I've probably looked at thirty

2017
01:49:18,160 --> 01:49:21,280
Speaker 1: five receivers if not more, on tape already from this

2018
01:49:21,520 --> 01:49:26,120
Speaker 1: college draft, and there's a lot of quality wideouts who

2019
01:49:26,200 --> 01:49:28,560
Speaker 1: are going to contribute in the NFL. So let me

2020
01:49:28,640 --> 01:49:30,600
Speaker 1: take that a step further, Greg, do you think we

2021
01:49:30,680 --> 01:49:32,719
Speaker 1: could get to a point in the very near future

2022
01:49:33,600 --> 01:49:36,519
Speaker 1: where the wide receiver position goes the way that the

2023
01:49:36,640 --> 01:49:39,000
Speaker 1: running back position has in this league, where there are

2024
01:49:39,080 --> 01:49:43,000
Speaker 1: so many that it gets devalued because there's always more

2025
01:49:43,080 --> 01:49:45,800
Speaker 1: supply coming right behind the guys coming into the league.

2026
01:49:48,479 --> 01:49:51,479
Speaker 1: It's an interesting question. I think you always would want

2027
01:49:51,560 --> 01:49:54,800
Speaker 1: to have somewhere along the line a wide receiver who

2028
01:49:54,880 --> 01:49:57,280
Speaker 1: you can line up at the boundary X position, the

2029
01:49:57,360 --> 01:49:59,320
Speaker 1: single receiver to the short side of the field, and

2030
01:49:59,400 --> 01:50:02,400
Speaker 1: can win one on one because the boundary X receiver

2031
01:50:02,560 --> 01:50:05,400
Speaker 1: he gets the one on ones. Those are individual routes.

2032
01:50:05,439 --> 01:50:09,679
Speaker 1: He's not running routes in conjunction with any other receiver

2033
01:50:09,960 --> 01:50:12,760
Speaker 1: for the most part, because he's the single receiver. So

2034
01:50:13,080 --> 01:50:15,960
Speaker 1: you would always love to have that guy. The question

2035
01:50:16,120 --> 01:50:18,160
Speaker 1: is how many of those guys are going to be there?

2036
01:50:18,640 --> 01:50:20,760
Speaker 1: There may not be a lot of those guys. So,

2037
01:50:21,760 --> 01:50:23,800
Speaker 1: you know, I think when you look at look at

2038
01:50:23,840 --> 01:50:25,880
Speaker 1: someone like Michael Thomas with the Saints, he was a

2039
01:50:25,920 --> 01:50:28,600
Speaker 1: second round pick, good prospect, no one thought he was

2040
01:50:28,680 --> 01:50:31,519
Speaker 1: a special prospect coming out of Ohio State, and because

2041
01:50:31,560 --> 01:50:34,439
Speaker 1: of Sean Payton's scheme and of course the great quarterback.

2042
01:50:34,720 --> 01:50:37,920
Speaker 1: This is a guy who's put up ridiculous numbers. Taking

2043
01:50:38,000 --> 01:50:40,679
Speaker 1: nothing away from Michael Thomas, but you wonder if there'll

2044
01:50:40,680 --> 01:50:43,599
Speaker 1: be other receivers who we don't necessarily look at and say, wow,

2045
01:50:43,640 --> 01:50:45,360
Speaker 1: there are special talents who are going to put up

2046
01:50:45,360 --> 01:50:48,360
Speaker 1: you know, one hundred and fifteen catches. And when you

2047
01:50:48,439 --> 01:50:50,400
Speaker 1: look at these guys running routes and there's so many

2048
01:50:50,479 --> 01:50:52,560
Speaker 1: receivers out there, you always have to have somebody to

2049
01:50:52,640 --> 01:50:55,439
Speaker 1: cover them. The Bills have been looking to replace Levi

2050
01:50:55,680 --> 01:50:58,439
Speaker 1: Wallace for a couple of years. They tried it with EJ. Gaines,

2051
01:50:58,520 --> 01:51:02,080
Speaker 1: they tried it with Kevin Johnson, they tried it with

2052
01:51:02,280 --> 01:51:05,960
Speaker 1: Josh Norman, and Levi's still there. They in fact, they

2053
01:51:06,040 --> 01:51:09,280
Speaker 1: signed him to come back on a one year deal. Yeah,

2054
01:51:09,479 --> 01:51:12,519
Speaker 1: what do you think? What are about the cornerback market

2055
01:51:12,680 --> 01:51:14,960
Speaker 1: out there on the free agency and the chances of

2056
01:51:15,000 --> 01:51:17,840
Speaker 1: the bills, get a guy who can immediately step in

2057
01:51:17,920 --> 01:51:20,880
Speaker 1: and play well. See that's the other factors. You're dealing

2058
01:51:20,920 --> 01:51:23,160
Speaker 1: with a guy who with Levi Wallace, who's been there now,

2059
01:51:23,360 --> 01:51:27,479
Speaker 1: so he understands Sean's system, Leslie's system, and you don't

2060
01:51:27,479 --> 01:51:29,600
Speaker 1: have to worry about teaching him the specifics of it,

2061
01:51:29,680 --> 01:51:34,719
Speaker 1: how to play in zone with spacing and understanding splits

2062
01:51:34,720 --> 01:51:38,200
Speaker 1: and route concepts. He knows all this. So unless you

2063
01:51:38,360 --> 01:51:40,479
Speaker 1: feel you're going to get a guy and doesn't mean

2064
01:51:40,640 --> 01:51:43,040
Speaker 1: who knows, maybe they draft one, but unless you feel

2065
01:51:43,080 --> 01:51:46,160
Speaker 1: you're getting a guy in free agency who's significantly better

2066
01:51:46,280 --> 01:51:48,839
Speaker 1: talent wise, and I think lee Vi Wallace quite honestly's

2067
01:51:48,880 --> 01:51:52,600
Speaker 1: played reasonably well. So you're not going to go that

2068
01:51:52,760 --> 01:51:54,760
Speaker 1: route because then you have to teach a guy and

2069
01:51:55,520 --> 01:51:57,400
Speaker 1: you know there's a lot involved. Look, Steve, you know

2070
01:51:57,520 --> 01:52:00,720
Speaker 1: that the corner position, particularly when you play his own

2071
01:52:00,760 --> 01:52:02,599
Speaker 1: look man is a little different animal. You say, hey,

2072
01:52:02,600 --> 01:52:04,880
Speaker 1: you got him, but soon there's a lot of things

2073
01:52:04,960 --> 01:52:08,160
Speaker 1: that go into his zone and it requires teaching and

2074
01:52:08,560 --> 01:52:11,680
Speaker 1: understanding and you have to start from scratch with that.

2075
01:52:11,760 --> 01:52:16,040
Speaker 1: When you get a new corner Greg, just with respect

2076
01:52:16,160 --> 01:52:19,120
Speaker 1: to Buffalo's offensive scheme, you know, we hadn't a chance

2077
01:52:19,160 --> 01:52:21,599
Speaker 1: to talk to Emmanuel Sanders earlier today he just signed

2078
01:52:21,640 --> 01:52:25,599
Speaker 1: his deal here in Buffalo, and he said, I mean,

2079
01:52:25,920 --> 01:52:28,040
Speaker 1: we were just kind of I don't know if we

2080
01:52:28,080 --> 01:52:30,519
Speaker 1: would were floored by this, that might be a little strong,

2081
01:52:30,880 --> 01:52:34,240
Speaker 1: but we were a little surprised because we think about

2082
01:52:34,360 --> 01:52:37,840
Speaker 1: all of the time that these players spend studying their

2083
01:52:37,920 --> 01:52:40,960
Speaker 1: own playbook, getting ready with their own game plan, repping it,

2084
01:52:41,400 --> 01:52:43,720
Speaker 1: studying film and their opponent through the week, all of that,

2085
01:52:44,160 --> 01:52:47,599
Speaker 1: and Emmanuel Sanders told us he was so enthralled by

2086
01:52:47,680 --> 01:52:50,799
Speaker 1: what the Bills were doing offensively. In his few moments

2087
01:52:50,840 --> 01:52:52,800
Speaker 1: of spare time, he would pull up the All twenty

2088
01:52:52,840 --> 01:52:54,760
Speaker 1: two to try to figure out what exactly they were

2089
01:52:54,840 --> 01:52:59,040
Speaker 1: doing with their route concepts. He was that interested last

2090
01:52:59,160 --> 01:53:01,800
Speaker 1: year what the Bills were doing. What do you think,

2091
01:53:02,120 --> 01:53:05,160
Speaker 1: Obviously the production speaks for itself, Greg, but what do

2092
01:53:05,240 --> 01:53:08,320
Speaker 1: you think was so eyecatching for even veteran receivers like

2093
01:53:08,400 --> 01:53:10,920
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders to say, Hey, I want to see what

2094
01:53:10,960 --> 01:53:13,479
Speaker 1: the heck those guys are doing up there. Well, I

2095
01:53:13,600 --> 01:53:16,200
Speaker 1: think he's probably referring to the fact that they play

2096
01:53:16,240 --> 01:53:18,800
Speaker 1: a lot out of a spread offense. I think he's

2097
01:53:18,840 --> 01:53:20,280
Speaker 1: referring to the fact that they run a lot of

2098
01:53:20,360 --> 01:53:24,599
Speaker 1: intermediate and vertical route concepts and receivers like that. I mean,

2099
01:53:24,840 --> 01:53:27,559
Speaker 1: you know a lot of these these short passing games,

2100
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Speaker 1: and there's a place for that, and every team has it.

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Speaker 1: The Bills have it obviously as well. Every team has

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Speaker 1: a complete playbook. But I think when you look at

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Speaker 1: the Bills offense, you see a really multidimensional pass scheme

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Speaker 1: with a lot of spread looks, a lot of three

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01:53:39,800 --> 01:53:43,519
Speaker 1: by one set to buy two sets, empty sets, a

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01:53:43,640 --> 01:53:46,800
Speaker 1: lot of ways for receivers to run, a lot of

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Speaker 1: different route concepts. And Sanders has been doing this a

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Speaker 1: long time, so this is not new to him. There's

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Speaker 1: not going to be route concepts that he doesn't understand.

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Speaker 1: And bottom line is they're a passing football team. He

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Speaker 1: wants targets. That's what receivers want. He wants targets, and

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Speaker 1: he knows he'll get targets with the Bills. And as

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Speaker 1: before we start talking about some of the signings around

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Speaker 1: the league, I just want to ask you, you know,

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Speaker 1: this a couple of days into free agency, what has

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Speaker 1: surprised you the most? If anything? Oh? Um, you know

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Speaker 1: it's funny. I just see it when when guys get signed. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think the early part of like who

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01:54:25,040 --> 01:54:27,240
Speaker 1: signed right away? I mean, that's the thing that that

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Speaker 1: you always try to think about. You remember Chris who

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Speaker 1: signed like right away? You know, Yeah, the two tight

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Speaker 1: ends for New England. New England was pretty busy pretty early. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they were busy early. Um. I guess I'm not surprised

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Speaker 1: anymore these days. You know, I always assume that guys

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Speaker 1: are going to get a lot of money. That's the

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01:54:46,240 --> 01:54:47,960
Speaker 1: nature of the business, you know. I know the cap

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Speaker 1: went down, so there's more one year deals. I guess

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01:54:50,400 --> 01:54:54,040
Speaker 1: maybe that's the thing that's a little more. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: A bigger part of the free agency this year is

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Speaker 1: there are more one year deals because the cap went down.

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01:54:59,160 --> 01:55:01,440
Speaker 1: So you know, when start getting the cap get going down,

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Speaker 1: probably for the first time it did. Has it ever

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01:55:03,760 --> 01:55:06,640
Speaker 1: gone down before in a long time, certainly, I don't know.

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01:55:07,560 --> 01:55:09,520
Speaker 1: But there's a lot more one year deals, and you

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Speaker 1: see that because teams just don't have the money to

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Speaker 1: give out. Yeah. And the only other time the cap

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Speaker 1: went down was the lockout here twenty eleven. But Greg, listen,

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Speaker 1: we thank you very much for the time we're up

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Speaker 1: against the clock here, but thanks for joining us again.

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Speaker 1: It was good to start talking to you after a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a hiatus there. We look forward to

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Speaker 1: talking to you soon as we get more into the

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Speaker 1: draft in the not too distant future, because we know

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Speaker 1: you're already pounding away at the film. Sure I am.

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01:55:34,920 --> 01:55:37,000
Speaker 1: I think I've watched one hundred and sixty guys already.

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Speaker 1: Good lord, awesome. I don't know how you don't you

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Speaker 1: send me a list on a complete evaluation of each one. Thanks. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's let Greg do all the heavy lifting. Nice Steve,

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Speaker 1: all right, guys, take care. That's great co sale from

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Speaker 1: NFL Films. It was already hard at work on the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one NFL Draft Class one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: deep already thing he's just well, yeah, fortunately it is

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Speaker 1: his thing, because my eyes would literally fall out of

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Speaker 1: my skull doing all of that sitting in a dark room.

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Speaker 1: Rewind fast forward, just for the fresh air. Right. We

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Speaker 1: are going to take a break here, but when we

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Speaker 1: come back, we're going to answer some of your questions

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01:56:22,120 --> 01:56:25,200
Speaker 1: from the obl fan mail bag. We haven't gotten to

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Speaker 1: the mail bag yet. We've been so busy today. We

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Speaker 1: will get to that next when we return. You're on

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live, presented by Kalaida Health. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

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01:56:44,320 --> 01:56:46,440
Speaker 1: Steve Chattie with you final half hour of the show

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Speaker 1: in time to open the OBL Friday fan mail bag.

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Speaker 1: Rachel asks, what's the point of spending a lot of

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Speaker 1: money or a high draft pick on a new tight end.

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01:56:56,240 --> 01:56:59,120
Speaker 1: Knox may not be phenomenal, but we already have an

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Speaker 1: elite pass out offense. It's not like he's holding our

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Speaker 1: pass game back. Don't we have more urgent needs to

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Speaker 1: address with our limited resources. It's a fair question point,

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01:57:09,840 --> 01:57:13,720
Speaker 1: it's a really good point. Plus I don't know how

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01:57:13,800 --> 01:57:17,080
Speaker 1: many if you had a bigger tight end. Let's face it,

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01:57:17,200 --> 01:57:19,440
Speaker 1: there's only one football in the game. If you're gonna

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Speaker 1: throw to the tight end, you're not throwing it to

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Speaker 1: Digs and you're not throwing it Beasley, and you're not

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Speaker 1: throwing it to Immanuel Sanders or Gabriel Davis. Ye. So, well,

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Speaker 1: if your tight end is going to be the fourth

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Speaker 1: option anyway or at best, yeah, I get it. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's reframe. Let's reframe the question and maybe see if

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Speaker 1: we can get a better answer there. What do we

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01:57:42,040 --> 01:57:45,840
Speaker 1: think Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott are looking for in

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Speaker 1: adding a tight end to the offense, Like, what's the

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Speaker 1: end game there? Well, do we feel me a guy?

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01:57:53,240 --> 01:57:55,800
Speaker 1: They'd like a guy that can pass, that they can

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01:57:55,880 --> 01:57:58,240
Speaker 1: catch and run routes like the knocks and block like

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Speaker 1: Lee Smith. Right, that's not easy to find, right, so

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01:58:03,520 --> 01:58:05,680
Speaker 1: they got Whenever you put Lee Smith on the field,

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01:58:06,200 --> 01:58:08,200
Speaker 1: they became a little bit predictable. He was gonna pass

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Speaker 1: protect or he's gonna run block. Once in a while

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01:58:11,080 --> 01:58:14,960
Speaker 1: he'd slip out and you'd find that he was wide open.

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Speaker 1: They didn't cover him because you know, for whatever, they

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Speaker 1: didn't cover him because they watch film too, you know, Right, So, yeah,

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01:58:24,200 --> 01:58:25,800
Speaker 1: you get predictable when you get guys that you have

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01:58:25,960 --> 01:58:30,240
Speaker 1: to come in or they're specialists. So yeah, good players

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01:58:30,320 --> 01:58:31,520
Speaker 1: make you better. And if you've got a guy that

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Speaker 1: can do things better than Dawson Knox or do more

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01:58:35,160 --> 01:58:38,400
Speaker 1: things well than a guy like Lee Smith or Reggie Gilliam,

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Speaker 1: you get him and you put him in, you plug

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Speaker 1: him in. It just makes you that much better. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: you're right, though, She's right, nobody was complaining about this

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Speaker 1: pass offensive year ago. Yeah, what they were complaining about

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Speaker 1: was the pass rush. And just from the feedback we

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Speaker 1: get on social media from our listeners and viewers, it's

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01:58:57,160 --> 01:58:59,240
Speaker 1: clear to me that that is a bigger priority in

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Speaker 1: their eyes in terms of something to fix than the

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Speaker 1: tight end position. Right. But here's the thing. There's a

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01:59:08,520 --> 01:59:11,440
Speaker 1: couple of things. It's a throwing league, which is why

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01:59:11,520 --> 01:59:13,480
Speaker 1: you know your point about you know, will the wide

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Speaker 1: receiving market go like the way of the running backs

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01:59:15,880 --> 01:59:18,080
Speaker 1: because they're just easier to find on many of them.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It's different to be a wide receiver

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01:59:20,680 --> 01:59:23,360
Speaker 1: in a throwing league than it is to be a

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Speaker 1: running back in a throwing league. That's a difference. But

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Speaker 1: but it's also true that it's an offensive league. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, Kansas City got to a Super Bowl and

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Speaker 1: almost they've been the last three super last three AFC

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Speaker 1: Championship games, three Super Bowls, or have been on the doorstep.

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Speaker 1: And they're all offense. I mean, their defense certainly stepped

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01:59:48,240 --> 01:59:54,600
Speaker 1: up this year with better coordinating with Spagnolo, and but

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Speaker 1: it's a it's an offense league. Man, It's an offensive league.

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Speaker 1: And unless you get into a game where the offensive

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Speaker 1: line is a mess, like it was for the Chiefs

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Speaker 1: against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Chiefs are you know,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna they almost signed somebody. They almost still signed

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Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster. Yeah, they need to run at Juju Smith.

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Speaker 1: So I'm kind of getting to the point where he

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Speaker 1: had pass rush is nice, but he ain't gonna get

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Speaker 1: home anyway and spend it on secondary and you know,

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Speaker 1: make sure you can stop the run with defensive tackles

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Speaker 1: and stuff. So I think a lot of teams are

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Speaker 1: doing that too, you know, yes, yeah, they are. Tiffany

2232
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Speaker 1: asks with everything Brandon Bean has been able to accomplish

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Speaker 1: so far this offseason, what grade would you give him?

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Speaker 1: I think he vaulted himself into the A category just

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Speaker 1: by getting Williams, Feliciano, and Mlano resigned. I don't think

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Speaker 1: there was any I think most of us thought it

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Speaker 1: would be a victory if they got one of those

2238
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Speaker 1: three back. Forget about all three. I didn't think for

2239
02:00:59,800 --> 02:01:01,960
Speaker 1: a second they were going to get more than two.

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Speaker 1: So think about it. He got Feliciano and Williams and

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Speaker 1: solidified the offensive line, got the five starters they want

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Speaker 1: from a year ago gives them. You know, they want

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Speaker 1: some depth, no question. So that's that's left to be done.

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Speaker 1: Milano was an absolute out the door all Bills fans

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Speaker 1: I think mostly had thought there's just no way they

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Speaker 1: can get it done. Yeah, he got that done too

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02:01:21,520 --> 02:01:24,480
Speaker 1: as well. Of course, then he signed Levi Wallace. Oh

2248
02:01:24,920 --> 02:01:29,080
Speaker 1: that's pretty cool too. Then the Emmanuel Sanders thing happens.

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Speaker 1: That's big. I mean, that's that's that's given. That's a

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Speaker 1: heck of a rebound from having to cut John Brown, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean that's almost a flex you know, like you

2252
02:01:43,520 --> 02:01:49,080
Speaker 1: Thinkiano Williams and Milano look at this guy, right, So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's doing pretty good, you know. I'm I think the

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Speaker 1: only thing that keeps him from an A plus is

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Speaker 1: the cornerback position, which I still believe they want to upgrade.

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Speaker 1: I just don't see them being satisfied going into the

2257
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Speaker 1: season with Levi and Dane Jackson as your primary competitors

2258
02:02:07,640 --> 02:02:09,880
Speaker 1: for the second corner position. I think they address that

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Speaker 1: in some way, shape or form before they get to September,

2260
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Speaker 1: and then offensive line depth is still needed, and do

2261
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Speaker 1: they or don't they do something with their defensive front.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they don't. Maybe they don't. Maybe, like you were saying,

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Speaker 1: they leave it alone and hope it's better the second

2264
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Speaker 1: time around. Maybe they just resigned themselves to the fact that, look,

2265
02:02:35,200 --> 02:02:38,720
Speaker 1: most teams aren't getting home to the quarterback anyway. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm interested now because now I want to We've got

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Speaker 1: more passing than we've ever had in this league before.

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Speaker 1: I want to see if the sack totals for who

2269
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Speaker 1: leads the league in sacks is going down, which would

2270
02:02:50,040 --> 02:02:52,560
Speaker 1: also be an indication that the balls just coming out

2271
02:02:52,600 --> 02:02:54,560
Speaker 1: so fast. Doesn't matter who you have on your pass rush.

2272
02:02:54,760 --> 02:02:56,880
Speaker 1: It's just not going to bed be made to be

2273
02:02:56,920 --> 02:03:01,160
Speaker 1: effective league, they get the time and it involves fast

2274
02:03:02,320 --> 02:03:06,760
Speaker 1: and trends become staples, you know, they become you know,

2275
02:03:06,800 --> 02:03:09,040
Speaker 1: the way what you hang your hat on, and what

2276
02:03:09,320 --> 02:03:12,600
Speaker 1: was last year's trend is now a given across the league.

2277
02:03:12,640 --> 02:03:14,520
Speaker 1: And now there's going to be another trend coming up.

2278
02:03:14,840 --> 02:03:16,520
Speaker 1: You have to stay on top of it all the time.

2279
02:03:17,000 --> 02:03:19,760
Speaker 1: And we heard John Feliciano say this about the Bill's

2280
02:03:19,840 --> 02:03:22,880
Speaker 1: running game, that it's a big playbook they've got. They've

2281
02:03:22,920 --> 02:03:25,480
Speaker 1: got all of the philosophies incorporated in it, so they

2282
02:03:25,520 --> 02:03:27,360
Speaker 1: can pull those out at any time. I think the

2283
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Speaker 1: simple fact of the matter was Josh took such a

2284
02:03:30,000 --> 02:03:34,480
Speaker 1: big leap forward last year. They just saw no reason

2285
02:03:34,760 --> 02:03:37,680
Speaker 1: to take their foot off the gas with that passing game,

2286
02:03:37,720 --> 02:03:42,280
Speaker 1: and they ran it merely as a diversion, as a

2287
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Speaker 1: change of pace. They were not committed to it, They

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Speaker 1: didn't feel like they needed to be committed to it,

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Speaker 1: and they kept ringing up the points. So I Sean

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Speaker 1: McDermott said, he says, we can run the ball with

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Speaker 1: the guys we have, and I think we heard it

2292
02:03:56,520 --> 02:04:00,600
Speaker 1: from Eric Wood, from Ruben Brown and from other offensive lineman.

2293
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Speaker 1: If you want to run the ball well, you gotta

2294
02:04:02,320 --> 02:04:04,040
Speaker 1: be committed to doing it a lot, even when you

2295
02:04:04,120 --> 02:04:06,840
Speaker 1: don't get a lot of production early on in the game.

2296
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Speaker 1: So I think that's where Sean McDermott is right now.

2297
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Speaker 1: And I think last year, with the way the offense

2298
02:04:13,400 --> 02:04:16,800
Speaker 1: burst out of the gates, they just rode that thing

2299
02:04:16,840 --> 02:04:19,000
Speaker 1: as far as they would and just you know, when

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02:04:19,040 --> 02:04:20,480
Speaker 1: they needed to, they ran it. You know, in the

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Speaker 1: first New England game. Okay, they ran it really well

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Speaker 1: that game, And there was another one in there sprinkled

2303
02:04:24,840 --> 02:04:27,120
Speaker 1: in somewhere, the Chargers game. They ran it really well too.

2304
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Speaker 1: Other than that they didn't need to and they didn't

2305
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Speaker 1: really want to, and they weren't losing any sleepover not

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Speaker 1: running it well. So, like I said earlier in the week, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can say what you want about the Bill's running

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Speaker 1: game last year, but for that offense in total, you're nitpicking.

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Speaker 1: You know, they scored almost they scored twenty nine and

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Speaker 1: a half points a game. You're nitpicking if you're saying

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Speaker 1: they couldn't they weren't any good because they didn't run

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Speaker 1: the ball. Well. You know, the Steelers have led the

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Speaker 1: league in sacks each of the last four years. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: surprise me. That is crazy fifty six in seventeen fifty

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Speaker 1: two and eighteen fifty four in nineteen and fifty six

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Speaker 1: again last year. They're really good. And with Dupree and

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Speaker 1: and J. T. J. Watta, you know they got two

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Speaker 1: two really good dudes. Where does dupre end up though,

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Speaker 1: is the question? Oh, actually did he sign? He signed

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Speaker 1: with the Titans. Signed with the Titans. Signed with the Titans,

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Speaker 1: So he's off the market. Um, it'd be interesting to

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Speaker 1: see what kind of season he can have coming off

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02:05:31,880 --> 02:05:33,840
Speaker 1: that major knee injury late in the season last year.

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02:05:34,120 --> 02:05:35,920
Speaker 1: I got to wonder if he'll be ready to roll

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Speaker 1: come training camp time. Back to the OBIL fan Friday

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02:05:40,440 --> 02:05:44,840
Speaker 1: mail bag and Adam asks, what's next for Matt Barkley.

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02:05:44,920 --> 02:05:47,880
Speaker 1: I love the Mitch Drubisky signing, but Barkeley seems like

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02:05:48,000 --> 02:05:50,280
Speaker 1: a top backup option to me. What system do you

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02:05:50,360 --> 02:05:54,320
Speaker 1: think he'd fit into? Best? West Coast system? Yes, West

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02:05:54,360 --> 02:05:56,840
Speaker 1: Coast system is his ticket. He might be pretty good

2331
02:05:56,960 --> 02:05:59,880
Speaker 1: in Kyle Shanahan's offense. A lot of quarterbacks would, obviously,

2332
02:06:00,000 --> 02:06:02,600
Speaker 1: and they're looking for an upgrade behind Garoppolo because they

2333
02:06:02,640 --> 02:06:05,280
Speaker 1: were not satisfied with Nick Mullins last year. Barkley could

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Speaker 1: play well there. He could also probably play pretty well

2335
02:06:08,720 --> 02:06:13,960
Speaker 1: in Sean mcvay's offense, although I don't know if he

2336
02:06:14,280 --> 02:06:16,080
Speaker 1: moves well enough to do all the rollouts in the

2337
02:06:16,200 --> 02:06:23,320
Speaker 1: quarterback movement that they do. Let's see who else Tennessee.

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02:06:23,480 --> 02:06:26,160
Speaker 1: He could play as well as Ryan Tannehill, not as

2339
02:06:26,200 --> 02:06:29,160
Speaker 1: mobile as Ryan Tannehill mobile, but with the run game

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02:06:29,240 --> 02:06:32,800
Speaker 1: that they have, that's a very quarterback friendly system there.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, any of those he would, Yeah, he could,

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02:06:37,440 --> 02:06:39,120
Speaker 1: he could do that in any of those spots, I

2343
02:06:39,200 --> 02:06:42,200
Speaker 1: would think, Yeah. I think Bill's fans kind of have

2344
02:06:42,200 --> 02:06:44,680
Speaker 1: a soft spot in their heart for Matt Barkley, and

2345
02:06:44,720 --> 02:06:47,240
Speaker 1: I understand why. I mean, let's not forget you know,

2346
02:06:47,320 --> 02:06:52,720
Speaker 1: this team had no quarterback to play. He signs. Four

2347
02:06:52,800 --> 02:06:57,480
Speaker 1: days later, he's starting against the Jets. Remember that Derek Anderson,

2348
02:06:58,120 --> 02:07:01,800
Speaker 1: he gets hurt. Bark He comes in first play bomb

2349
02:07:01,960 --> 02:07:05,000
Speaker 1: to Robert Foster down the right sideline, and the Bills

2350
02:07:05,000 --> 02:07:07,840
Speaker 1: win forty one to ten. I love that, man. That's

2351
02:07:07,920 --> 02:07:11,440
Speaker 1: that was an absolute highlight. Yeah, absolute highlight. He was. Yeah,

2352
02:07:11,520 --> 02:07:14,720
Speaker 1: from that moment on, I'd forgotten all about that, And

2353
02:07:14,800 --> 02:07:16,840
Speaker 1: that's all doing your team a solid coming in on

2354
02:07:17,000 --> 02:07:20,960
Speaker 1: four days of preparation. He had a nice farewell tweet

2355
02:07:21,080 --> 02:07:23,160
Speaker 1: last night to the Bills mafia, and of course all

2356
02:07:23,200 --> 02:07:25,760
Speaker 1: the responses were great, and everybody mentioned that Jets game,

2357
02:07:25,800 --> 02:07:28,440
Speaker 1: and I'd kind of forgotten all about it until untill

2358
02:07:28,480 --> 02:07:30,920
Speaker 1: they reminded me about him. You know, you showed up

2359
02:07:31,680 --> 02:07:33,880
Speaker 1: kind of like had that mercenary kind of feel to

2360
02:07:34,080 --> 02:07:36,160
Speaker 1: just a guy we're hiring, just we're gonna see what

2361
02:07:36,240 --> 02:07:38,320
Speaker 1: he can do, you know, and he comes in and

2362
02:07:38,440 --> 02:07:39,960
Speaker 1: lit him up. And that was it. Man. He was

2363
02:07:40,160 --> 02:07:44,600
Speaker 1: He was in like flint, ended up spending three seasons here. Yeah,

2364
02:07:44,760 --> 02:07:46,560
Speaker 1: and for two and a half anyway, and then the

2365
02:07:46,680 --> 02:07:48,800
Speaker 1: last it was his first game here and his last

2366
02:07:48,880 --> 02:07:52,640
Speaker 1: game here. Forget think about it Week seventeen this last year, Yeah,

2367
02:07:52,880 --> 02:07:54,720
Speaker 1: let him up in the second half, lit him up

2368
02:07:54,880 --> 02:07:58,440
Speaker 1: and Dolphins. It was awesome. So I Matt Barkley had

2369
02:07:58,600 --> 02:08:01,520
Speaker 1: very nice book end appearing for his career here in Buffalo.

2370
02:08:02,200 --> 02:08:05,120
Speaker 1: Rob asks, what do you guys think about signing running

2371
02:08:05,120 --> 02:08:07,800
Speaker 1: back Philip Lindsay. I think he'd be a good fit here.

2372
02:08:08,440 --> 02:08:12,600
Speaker 1: Lindsay is of a different skill set than that of

2373
02:08:12,880 --> 02:08:18,600
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary and Zach Moss because what he has is

2374
02:08:18,720 --> 02:08:22,120
Speaker 1: something those two don't. Guy ran a four three ninety

2375
02:08:22,920 --> 02:08:26,320
Speaker 1: coming out of college. He has the explosive burst and

2376
02:08:26,440 --> 02:08:31,000
Speaker 1: the home run ability that Devin Singletary and Zack Moss lack.

2377
02:08:31,640 --> 02:08:34,920
Speaker 1: So yeah, what can you get him for is the question?

2378
02:08:34,960 --> 02:08:37,000
Speaker 1: Because he's a young player. He's twenty, you know, he's

2379
02:08:37,040 --> 02:08:39,440
Speaker 1: just as young as those guys in this market, you'd

2380
02:08:39,480 --> 02:08:42,920
Speaker 1: be surprised. But he's a guy that if you're looking

2381
02:08:42,920 --> 02:08:44,600
Speaker 1: at him as a from a defense, he can get

2382
02:08:44,600 --> 02:08:46,840
Speaker 1: to the edge quick. Oh yeah, a lot faster than

2383
02:08:46,920 --> 02:08:51,200
Speaker 1: Moss or Singletary. He'll take us you know, it's one

2384
02:08:51,240 --> 02:08:53,600
Speaker 1: of those things where it looks like an innocuous little

2385
02:08:53,600 --> 02:08:55,280
Speaker 1: sweep off the right side. Whow they ran him out

2386
02:08:55,320 --> 02:08:57,120
Speaker 1: of bound, saying, oh my gosh, he's a five yard game,

2387
02:08:57,200 --> 02:08:58,680
Speaker 1: you know that kind of thing. That's the speed that

2388
02:08:58,920 --> 02:09:00,520
Speaker 1: what speed does too. You can kind of turn that

2389
02:09:00,560 --> 02:09:03,200
Speaker 1: corner a little faster and before you can get out

2390
02:09:03,200 --> 02:09:04,800
Speaker 1: there to rally to run him out of bounds, it's

2391
02:09:04,800 --> 02:09:06,800
Speaker 1: a five yard game. And that's a really nice play.

2392
02:09:07,680 --> 02:09:09,240
Speaker 1: Those are the kind of things that a speeding game.

2393
02:09:09,320 --> 02:09:12,120
Speaker 1: And if and conversely, if moss or single terrier in there,

2394
02:09:13,160 --> 02:09:14,520
Speaker 1: they take it off to the edge and all of

2395
02:09:14,520 --> 02:09:15,680
Speaker 1: a sudden they have to put their foot in the

2396
02:09:15,760 --> 02:09:17,520
Speaker 1: ground and cut up the field because they can't out

2397
02:09:17,600 --> 02:09:18,920
Speaker 1: run the pursuit to get up there. And then they

2398
02:09:18,920 --> 02:09:21,080
Speaker 1: got to find a gap and they get blasted, and

2399
02:09:21,120 --> 02:09:23,840
Speaker 1: it's a two or three yard game, three yard game,

2400
02:09:23,880 --> 02:09:26,080
Speaker 1: you know, instead of a five yard So that's the

2401
02:09:26,200 --> 02:09:28,920
Speaker 1: difference that it can consistently make for you's just being

2402
02:09:28,960 --> 02:09:30,920
Speaker 1: able to get to the edge, like lindsay, so, yeah,

2403
02:09:30,960 --> 02:09:34,120
Speaker 1: you're right, he's out there. He's probably not gonna bust

2404
02:09:34,200 --> 02:09:36,320
Speaker 1: the bank. He's probably gonna look at one of these

2405
02:09:36,400 --> 02:09:39,160
Speaker 1: one year deals that everybody else is and so you

2406
02:09:39,200 --> 02:09:41,440
Speaker 1: can imagine the bills are like, be a hell of

2407
02:09:41,520 --> 02:09:43,440
Speaker 1: an ad what about it? You know they got t

2408
02:09:43,560 --> 02:09:45,760
Speaker 1: J yeld and they lost from last year he's out there.

2409
02:09:46,280 --> 02:09:49,360
Speaker 1: So he's averaged almost four point eight yards per carry

2410
02:09:49,960 --> 02:09:53,760
Speaker 1: in his career. You know, hasn't caught the ball a

2411
02:09:53,880 --> 02:09:57,200
Speaker 1: ton in his three seasons, but seventy seven receptions for

2412
02:09:57,320 --> 02:10:00,480
Speaker 1: his career for four hundred and sixty five yards. So

2413
02:10:01,080 --> 02:10:04,640
Speaker 1: you know it's it's a guy that has the different

2414
02:10:04,720 --> 02:10:07,560
Speaker 1: kind of skill set if you're looking for that for

2415
02:10:07,680 --> 02:10:10,760
Speaker 1: the bills available to you. And the next question is

2416
02:10:10,800 --> 02:10:12,840
Speaker 1: at what kind of price could you get him? Let's

2417
02:10:13,040 --> 02:10:16,880
Speaker 1: squeeze one more question in this one from Marty. Is

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Speaker 1: there any chance Christian Wade plays this year in Buffalo.

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02:10:21,360 --> 02:10:28,480
Speaker 1: We've had this discussion before, Steve. It's tough. He's young

2420
02:10:28,720 --> 02:10:31,600
Speaker 1: in the sport. The nuances of the game are still

2421
02:10:31,680 --> 02:10:34,360
Speaker 1: somewhat foreign to him despite his best efforts of studying

2422
02:10:34,600 --> 02:10:38,720
Speaker 1: because he hasn't played, He hasn't seen live action as

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02:10:38,840 --> 02:10:41,000
Speaker 1: much as all the other guys that surround him in

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02:10:41,000 --> 02:10:46,200
Speaker 1: the locker room. He's seen like two or three games. Yeah,

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02:10:46,520 --> 02:10:48,960
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not sure how much he's practiced. He

2426
02:10:49,040 --> 02:10:53,280
Speaker 1: hasn't played at all, not even in any game that's counted.

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Speaker 1: He has not played. He didn't even have the benefit

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02:10:55,160 --> 02:10:57,720
Speaker 1: of getting a preseason last year. No preseason. He had

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02:10:57,720 --> 02:11:00,200
Speaker 1: a couple of preseason games in his first year, then

2430
02:11:00,280 --> 02:11:04,520
Speaker 1: this last year there were none. Um, and he didn't

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02:11:04,520 --> 02:11:07,880
Speaker 1: play in college, didn't play in high school, didn't play

2432
02:11:07,880 --> 02:11:11,400
Speaker 1: in grade school. Yeah, it's a it's a long road.

2433
02:11:12,000 --> 02:11:15,080
Speaker 1: And uh, while the position, and I said this three

2434
02:11:15,160 --> 02:11:20,280
Speaker 1: years ago when he first got here, his instincts transfer

2435
02:11:20,400 --> 02:11:23,160
Speaker 1: over big time. And you saw that in the brief

2436
02:11:23,320 --> 02:11:26,200
Speaker 1: stint he got on the field from Yeah, from rugby.

2437
02:11:26,240 --> 02:11:28,760
Speaker 1: It's he's playing a position that's very instinctual. It's not

2438
02:11:28,920 --> 02:11:31,640
Speaker 1: like he's playing wide receiver where you gotta run routes

2439
02:11:31,640 --> 02:11:34,040
Speaker 1: and you gotta you know, there's a lot of technique. Um,

2440
02:11:34,280 --> 02:11:38,360
Speaker 1: cornerback playing man to man coverage hard to do. So

2441
02:11:39,120 --> 02:11:40,920
Speaker 1: this you give him the ball and turn him loose

2442
02:11:40,960 --> 02:11:42,760
Speaker 1: a little bit and that's kind of makes it a

2443
02:11:42,840 --> 02:11:45,400
Speaker 1: little bit easier for him. But man, oh man, that

2444
02:11:45,600 --> 02:11:48,680
Speaker 1: it's an uphill. It's an uphill. Think about this. Think

2445
02:11:48,720 --> 02:11:53,480
Speaker 1: about these guys coming out of college who are have

2446
02:11:53,760 --> 02:11:57,480
Speaker 1: played at their whole lives, maybe even more physically gifted.

2447
02:11:59,520 --> 02:12:01,879
Speaker 1: That's what he's up against every year. It's to practice.

2448
02:12:02,080 --> 02:12:03,920
Speaker 1: And I gave him credit for trying. I mean that's

2449
02:12:03,960 --> 02:12:06,680
Speaker 1: a that's a gutsy move. Try to chase your dream

2450
02:12:06,680 --> 02:12:09,240
Speaker 1: in another sport. We have to take a break. But

2451
02:12:09,400 --> 02:12:11,520
Speaker 1: when we come back, Steve and I close it up

2452
02:12:11,880 --> 02:12:13,680
Speaker 1: for another week with what have we learned? When we

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Speaker 1: return Here on one Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health,

2454
02:12:16,080 --> 02:12:32,200
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio time for what have we learned?

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02:12:32,360 --> 02:12:36,600
Speaker 1: Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental

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02:12:36,720 --> 02:12:40,400
Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills and Steve we have just

2457
02:12:40,720 --> 02:12:44,680
Speaker 1: learned courtesy of NFL Networks Tom Pellisero. He is reporting

2458
02:12:44,760 --> 02:12:47,720
Speaker 1: that the Bills are signing former Seahawks tight end Jacob

2459
02:12:47,800 --> 02:12:52,520
Speaker 1: Hollister to a one year deal. Another weapon for Josh

2460
02:12:52,560 --> 02:12:56,320
Speaker 1: Allen and played with Hollister at Wyoming. That is right

2461
02:12:57,840 --> 02:13:01,800
Speaker 1: his career stats, just so people can get these very quickly.

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02:13:03,320 --> 02:13:06,879
Speaker 1: Last season played in all sixteen games, twenty five receptions,

2463
02:13:06,880 --> 02:13:09,320
Speaker 1: two hundred nine yards, three touchdowns. We also remember Greg

2464
02:13:09,400 --> 02:13:11,480
Speaker 1: Olsen was up there in Seattle last year. The veteran

2465
02:13:12,760 --> 02:13:14,680
Speaker 1: played for New England his first two years, then went

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02:13:14,720 --> 02:13:19,080
Speaker 1: to Seattle for the last two years. And yeah, so

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Speaker 1: we'll see nothing confirmed by the Bills as if yet,

2468
02:13:21,760 --> 02:13:24,880
Speaker 1: but that's what Tom Pelisero is reporting. Take that one

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Speaker 1: into the weekend. Have a great weekend everyway, Tom Hollander

2470
02:13:27,680 --> 02:13:30,480
Speaker 1: our crew in the background, Happy birthday to Tom Hollander.

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02:13:30,520 --> 02:13:33,280
Speaker 1: I was remiss it was Brownie's birthday yesterday. I wish

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02:13:33,360 --> 02:13:34,960
Speaker 1: him happy birthday on the air, but I'll do that now.

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02:13:35,040 --> 02:13:37,360
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Happy birthday. Glad you're here, Bro Sleeves and

2474
02:13:37,440 --> 02:13:40,920
Speaker 1: Tom Hollander, Happy birthday to you, my friend graphic extraordinary

2475
02:13:41,640 --> 02:13:44,480
Speaker 1: man on the back side there. So yeah, and we

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02:13:44,560 --> 02:13:46,400
Speaker 1: got another birthday coming up next week. We'll get to

2477
02:13:46,480 --> 02:13:48,800
Speaker 1: that next week. But join us next week as hopefully

2478
02:13:48,880 --> 02:13:50,720
Speaker 1: we have more free agent news for you to chew

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02:13:50,800 --> 02:13:52,320
Speaker 1: on with the Buffalo Bills. We'll see you that