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Speaker 1: player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even

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Speaker 1: in the strated here of normalcy. It's hum Day Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: Here on One Bills Live Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with

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Speaker 1: you as always from noon to three and set to

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Speaker 1: take you through the latest news and notes concerning the Bills,

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Speaker 1: the NFL at large, and there is stuff afoot to

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Speaker 1: cover as we will have one Isaiah McKenzie on the show,

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Speaker 1: for that. He's always entertaining, I think that's safe to say,

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Speaker 1: good to catch up with Isaiah, fresh off the heels

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Speaker 1: he and his agency announced on Twitter yesterday and was

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Speaker 1: later confirmed by the team in the afternoon. So we

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Speaker 1: and that is one defensive end from the Carolina Panthers.

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Speaker 1: Bills fans in searcher joke here, another Carolina Panther shore

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Speaker 1: fa Obada, who Steve has actually met face to face

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Speaker 1: guests are telling me it was twenty eighteen. I was,

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Speaker 1: back to twenty eighteen, Steve, because our crack staff in

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Speaker 1: ways they use you. You threw for a touchdown, you

429
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:53,240
Speaker 1: caught touchdowns, you had a punt return for a touchdown.

430
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 1: Have you gotten any inkling that that role is going

431
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 1: to be changed at all or enhanced or is it

432
00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,960
Speaker 1: gonna be a little different than last year? Andre Roberts

433
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:06,120
Speaker 1: isn't here anymore. Um, I have no idea. To be honest,

434
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,320
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I just I just come in

435
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 1: and do my job. I can't I can't really say

436
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:14,159
Speaker 1: much because I have no idea myself. Okay, but I

437
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 1: mean my role does expand and I do get more opportunity.

438
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 1: I just gotta take advantage of him. And then if

439
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:21,639
Speaker 1: I and you know, hoping to be a returner and

440
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 1: I'm a returner, I'm just gonna take advantage in the

441
00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 1: you know, a return game. So I'm pretty sure, you know,

442
00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: if I can get a bigger role, I'm gonna just

443
00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 1: have to do what I gotta do. And then, Isaiah,

444
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 1: I know you spend some time your former your former

445
00:24:35,040 --> 00:24:38,679
Speaker 1: teammate in Denver is now your teammate again. And Emmanuel Sanders, Uh,

446
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:43,120
Speaker 1: you spend some time with him up there. I'm curious first, uh,

447
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 1: whether or not he reached out to you when he

448
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:51,000
Speaker 1: was considering um Buffalo. And then number two, what what

449
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,639
Speaker 1: do you remember most about the kind of player that

450
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: the Bills are getting, Just so fans can get a

451
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:58,000
Speaker 1: feel for the kind of of player he is that

452
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,879
Speaker 1: that will be joining the roster. I actually talked to

453
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:06,119
Speaker 1: him about I talked to him man sans probably I

454
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 1: think we're I think the second round of the playoffs

455
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 1: or before the NC champion was one of those days

456
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:14,240
Speaker 1: we just you know, just spoke briefly about you know,

457
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:16,320
Speaker 1: how Buffalo it was and things like that. I don't

458
00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:19,919
Speaker 1: I don't know if day has any correlation with what happens,

459
00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,520
Speaker 1: you know, this offseason, but we just spoken things like that.

460
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,400
Speaker 1: But other than that, um, now I have I haven't

461
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:28,080
Speaker 1: spoke to him, you know, after after that, but I

462
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:31,800
Speaker 1: plan on speaking to him eventually. Other than that, you know,

463
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,480
Speaker 1: in in Denver, great player, you know, obviously he was

464
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,960
Speaker 1: on the Super Bowl team, won a super Bowl. He

465
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,040
Speaker 1: runs great routes, He's fast, you can catch the ball

466
00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,879
Speaker 1: like he put it home and take Um he's a

467
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 1: little he's a little bit older than I am, so

468
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:46,400
Speaker 1: you know, he's been in the league for a while,

469
00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 1: and I just wanted to see him and Bees were

470
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,280
Speaker 1: together because you know, they played together in the college.

471
00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm I'm looking forward to that. And we

472
00:25:55,960 --> 00:26:00,200
Speaker 1: got a chance last year Week seventeen when Brian dabouged

473
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,400
Speaker 1: you in at you did everything, I mean, had three

474
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 1: first half touchdowns. You ran the ball, you were, you know,

475
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:09,120
Speaker 1: the number one option on the routes. Did you after

476
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,159
Speaker 1: that game, did you go to Brian Dabon and say, hey,

477
00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 1: what about it? You know, um right, that's your chance

478
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:19,040
Speaker 1: to flex Isaiah? Uh nah, it was that easily when

479
00:26:19,080 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: that happens. No, I'm actually, uh, we're in the meeting.

480
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 1: We're in the meeting after the game. We're in the

481
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 1: meeting at the day of the day after the game.

482
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: We're in the meeting which hold over the film, and

483
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 1: I think, I got, oh, I gotta jet sweep, I

484
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 1: gotta jet sweep, and I got like three yards. And

485
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 1: he goes, uh, this is all you can get. He

486
00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:42,359
Speaker 1: said something you know, smart connect at the house, and

487
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:46,200
Speaker 1: I go, also had three touchdowns and he goes and

488
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:50,240
Speaker 1: he goes, oh, okay, yeah right, because that's what you do.

489
00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:54,439
Speaker 1: You're full of yourself. I'm like, all right, all right.

490
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,280
Speaker 1: It was like you said I had three yards. I mean,

491
00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 1: it's like you can't. He's like, you can't average more

492
00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:01,920
Speaker 1: than three yards. I also had big tests out, so

493
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,959
Speaker 1: you know whatever. But it was a little joke in there.

494
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 1: But I mean that was all the joke I got in, right, there. Now.

495
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 1: I know you said you really haven't been given much

496
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: guidance on you know, how much of a role you

497
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: could have as a return man. But you know you

498
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 1: were a guy that was plugged in when Andre wasn't available.

499
00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 1: Just in terms, just in terms of your history on

500
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,639
Speaker 1: return work, Isaiah, can you just refresh our memory? You

501
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: have more experience doing punt return than kick return, right,

502
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: but I know you've done both, but you've done more

503
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 1: punt return in your career. Is that right? Yes? Okay?

504
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,360
Speaker 1: Is it like a two to one ratio like you've

505
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,600
Speaker 1: you've done that almost. I'm just kind of curious the

506
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 1: level of reps you've gotten at one as opposed to

507
00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 1: the other. That's all. Oh, No, I'm the part In

508
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,680
Speaker 1: terms for most of I would say, most of my life,

509
00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 1: keep return. It's just what I'm saying. I can do it.

510
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:01,919
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't mind doing it like it's it's

511
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,159
Speaker 1: something i've done. Plumbing term, you know, most of the

512
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 1: most for most of them, off most of my career,

513
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 1: I would say, what do you feel like coming into

514
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 1: out of this last season where you guys got the

515
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,360
Speaker 1: FC Championship game? You come back, you see all these

516
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 1: guys resigning yourself included what's the you know, what was

517
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:19,719
Speaker 1: the vibe like at the end of the season as

518
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: you as you started your off season and now when

519
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:24,640
Speaker 1: you see all the signings and the way free agencies

520
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:26,879
Speaker 1: treated the Bills, what are your thoughts about going forward

521
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:31,960
Speaker 1: in this next season. Um, Hey, the whole the whole

522
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:35,440
Speaker 1: cruise back together. Like I said before, Um, we have

523
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: you know, you let go John Brown, you know he

524
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:40,959
Speaker 1: was a great player. But bringing in the main A Sanders, Um,

525
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 1: like I said, Um, he's a great player as well.

526
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,480
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Not you can't take anything

527
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,800
Speaker 1: from either, but him coming in it's just gonna add

528
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 1: you know more, I Kate and we got the whole

529
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: crew back, like I said before, Um, so it should

530
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 1: be a great season, you know what I'm saying. We

531
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: just gotta keep on working. Obviously, you know it's season

532
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,240
Speaker 1: nine one today. You know it's one on Sundays, and

533
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: you know during the week, no practice. So I'm pretty

534
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:06,600
Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited to see where the season goes and

535
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: let's see what we can do. And then we know,

536
00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 1: Brian Dable is all about changing things week to week,

537
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 1: let alone year to year. I mean, we saw how

538
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 1: much the identity of this offense changed from nineteen to twenty.

539
00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm fully expecting you guys are gonna be

540
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: throwing the ball a ton still, don't get me wrong,

541
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: But um, knowing how inventive he is, and you know,

542
00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 1: knowing right now he's probably in the lab trying to

543
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 1: think up stuff, how much does that make you, as

544
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: a player kind of look forward to what? I mean,

545
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 1: he's like a mad scientist. Man. How much does that

546
00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 1: make you look forward to what he has in store

547
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:43,840
Speaker 1: for you guys this year? Um, I'm I'm excited. You know,

548
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: he comes up with these ideas, coming these plays, and

549
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 1: I'm very excited because I'm pretty he's always thinking. His

550
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 1: mind's always going, and that's what I like about him.

551
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,520
Speaker 1: You know, he's he tries to put guys in position

552
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 1: to make plays, and you know he excels at it.

553
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: And um, you know, obviously you know he's throwing out

554
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: he's out there throwing the ball, you know, man, like

555
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: a madman. He's and he's he's excelling in a great

556
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: season last year. But right now, you know, Dave balls

557
00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: cooking and I can't wait, you know, I can't wait

558
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:13,959
Speaker 1: to see it. I also talk to him yesterday. Um

559
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: so that was exciting. Is he's still giving you a

560
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,080
Speaker 1: crap about getting three yards on a on a on

561
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: a sweep. Uh No, I don't think so. Okay, good

562
00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: he kind of he kind of like, you know, he

563
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 1: understands now. He likes he lightens up in the off season. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

564
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: In two thy nineteen, the team was kind of all

565
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:36,960
Speaker 1: about their defense. You know, the defense was number one

566
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,080
Speaker 1: or two in the league, and a lot of categories

567
00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: in the offense was you know, with Josh, you know,

568
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,280
Speaker 1: kind of developing. They got Beasley and Brown and yourself,

569
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 1: and they were trying You're trying to find your way offensively,

570
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 1: score more points only average like nineteen and a half

571
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 1: points a game. So yet the identity of the team

572
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 1: was kind of set on that defense that you'd lean

573
00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 1: on and try and score enough points to win. Then

574
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: this last year in twenty twenty, out of the blue,

575
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,640
Speaker 1: it turns all almost on its head. It's all about

576
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,880
Speaker 1: Josh and you guys scoring thirty points a game. The

577
00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: defense is making enough plays to help you. When you

578
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: go thirteen, you get better. Uh by three games. Uh.

579
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: In the wind call and you go thirteen and three,

580
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: So you look ahead. Now, do you expect the team

581
00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 1: to like keep on keeping on where it was? I

582
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,040
Speaker 1: mean's there gonna be another offensive kind of team? Or

583
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: do you expect the defense to bounce back? How do

584
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: you think this team's gonna look in twenty twenty one? Um,

585
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,240
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but I know, I mean, we

586
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: have we have everything we want. I'm saying, we got

587
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: an offense, defense, you got a great special teams coordinator

588
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: that's gonna have special teams rolling. So I feel like

589
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 1: we just need to come in, you know, like I said,

590
00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,720
Speaker 1: come in practice and then go play the games. We shouldn't,

591
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,120
Speaker 1: you know, we shouldn't have no drop off. Everybody's familiar

592
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: with each other, The coaches an't familiar with players. Obviously

593
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 1: we got some new players here and there. But you know,

594
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: know him being he probably brought the right guys in

595
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: to you know, learn the system fast and get up

596
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 1: and get caught up to speed. But like I said,

597
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: the whole cruise back. So shit, I don't want it

598
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: to be any driver. So I'm not gonna allow that,

599
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 1: you know, and I got it starts with you know,

600
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 1: it starts with me. I can't speak on everybody else,

601
00:32:09,920 --> 00:32:12,080
Speaker 1: but for me, I don't want to fall off. Andrew

602
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: Robinson's gone and if I've been coming to returner, I'm gonna,

603
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 1: you know, step up and do what I gotta do,

604
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: you know, take you know, take it away from where

605
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: sorry left and at the receiving position. I'm gonna keep

606
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 1: doing my part the team win. Other than that, I'm

607
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,479
Speaker 1: pretty sure everybody else staying the same thing. All Right, Isaiah,

608
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,560
Speaker 1: we'll listen. We thank you for giving us some time here.

609
00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Stay healthy. We look forward to seeing

610
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 1: your back on the practice field when that time of

611
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 1: the year rolls around. All right, be good and stay

612
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: safe out there. I appreciate it. Thank you for having Thanks.

613
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: That's Isaiah mackenzie, Bill's wide receiver who just agreed to

614
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 1: terms on a new contract for twenty twenty one, just yesterday.

615
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: So good to see him back in the fold. And

616
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: guy's a character. Man, he's just fun to be around. Yeah. Um.

617
00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: Talking to some of his teammates, they always say, man,

618
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: that guy, he always he's always talking. He's always talking.

619
00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: He's always talking. But that energy is good sometimes, you know,

620
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: it gets other people going. Whether you like it or

621
00:33:10,440 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: don't like it. Sometimes it kind of gets you off

622
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 1: your duff, you know, and you get moving. Yeah, he's

623
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: just a bun. He's like an energizer bunny. He's a

624
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: really good football player. And he's and he's really versatile,

625
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 1: as you've seen the way Brian day Bowl moves him around.

626
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: He throw him the football, he throws the football, he

627
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: returns kicks. It's you know, it's never just too big

628
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: for him. And also, and I know that he was

629
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: asked about this in his press conference a few minutes

630
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: ago that you know, when they were in the run

631
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:42,080
Speaker 1: up towards uh, you know, a Baltimore Ravens game or

632
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: an Arizona Cardinals game. Isaia McKenzie's scout team quarterback. So

633
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 1: he helps the defense get ready because of his athleticism,

634
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: his ability to throw the football. And he was Kyler Murray,

635
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: he was Lamar Jackson, Lamar Jackson, And uh, you know,

636
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 1: it helps your defense get ready. So it's not just

637
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 1: about what he does on Sunday afternoon when they send

638
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: him in motion at one hundred miles an hour. It's

639
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:07,280
Speaker 1: also you know, Monday through Saturday, helping your team get

640
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: ready to win as well. So all those things kind

641
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:13,520
Speaker 1: of go into the mix that every guy brings to

642
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 1: the table, and it's all different and obviously the Bill's

643
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:21,280
Speaker 1: value what Isaam McKinzie has. Yeah, it's gonna It's funny

644
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: that you know, here's a guy that was embedded in

645
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: this offense and what it was, and he's not sure

646
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 1: what's gonna be different or what it's going to look

647
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: like this year. And you know that Brian Dable is

648
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 1: not one to rest on laurels or go at the

649
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: same old, same old. He's gonna tweak things, he's gonna

650
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: alter things, and he has the liberty to do that

651
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: because the vast majority of the offensive roster is the same.

652
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: So making tweaks are minor for the guys in this

653
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,439
Speaker 1: offense because they know how it runs. And how about

654
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 1: him saying Emmanuel, Remember we had Emmanuel Sanders on with

655
00:34:56,360 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: the press conference last week and we had him on

656
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: the show here and he talked about being so interested

657
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 1: in what the Bills were doing offensively that he's pull

658
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: up there all twenty two and watched their tape to

659
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 1: see ay and what are these guys running? But he

660
00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:13,280
Speaker 1: was so interested he called his former teammate Isaiah McKenzie

661
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 1: during the postseason and what are you what are you

662
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: guys running? Exactly he really wanted to know. And now

663
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: he's here. That's pretty cool. It is and it's and

664
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:26,319
Speaker 1: it was evident. I mean, the results were unbelievable. Yeah,

665
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:30,880
Speaker 1: Josh Allen going from really I mean, he was polarizing

666
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: at least, and the people who were haters, he was

667
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: a punchline. You know, he was never gonna do this,

668
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,600
Speaker 1: never gonna be that, never gonna do and he comes

669
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 1: out and it was a rough year for those people

670
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 1: watching the Bills offense. I mean they were struggling to

671
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,600
Speaker 1: come up with criticisms of Josh and this offense after

672
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 1: the season got going. And obviously they've all been well

673
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 1: maybe not all of them, but they're it's rough. It's

674
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,719
Speaker 1: a rough gig being a Josh Allen hater these days.

675
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 1: And to have other players sit up and say, okay,

676
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: now what's going on because a lot of times, and

677
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,680
Speaker 1: I know this is a player you start to from

678
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: a million miles away in another team, you start making

679
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 1: conjecture about who's really responsible. So you're going like, yeah,

680
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: day ball must be doing a really great job up there.

681
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:23,240
Speaker 1: You know, Wow, Steph Diggs really made a big difference

682
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: for that team. And it's everybody but Josh, or it's

683
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: everybody but the guy you don't want to like, right,

684
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:32,520
Speaker 1: And I think, as we all know here, it is

685
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 1: a lot Josh, no question. It is Steph Diggs and

686
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 1: John Brown and Cole Beasley and Gabe Davis, and it

687
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 1: is Brian day Ball as well. It's all of those

688
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,799
Speaker 1: guys trying to get better. And it's also Sean McDermott

689
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 1: and the whole it's a collective. Yeah, you can't really

690
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 1: lay it on the shoulders of anybody, but when you

691
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 1: get guys that improve significantly, I think that the results

692
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 1: are exponentially better than you anticipated. And that's what happened

693
00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,439
Speaker 1: last year. And I think what helped set the record

694
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 1: straight there, particularly on Josh, was the national exposure with

695
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: the primetime games, you know, those four primetime games, you know,

696
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 1: moving into the second half of the season where people

697
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: got to see I mean, they tore up the Niners,

698
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 1: they tore up the Patriots on national television, and that

699
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 1: kind of set the narrative straight that, oh, you know what,

700
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: this quarterback's pretty damn good, right, I mean, that they

701
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 1: the game they really kind of splattered them out there.

702
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: They beat the Patriots, but just barely right. And I

703
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 1: think one game that really catapulted them forward was right

704
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: when they got on that the second game of that

705
00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 1: stretch where they had five or six games. It was

706
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: started with the Patriots, their their first meeting with the Patriots,

707
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 1: and went to Seattle in Arizona. Then Chargers, the Niners,

708
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: the Steelers, those you know, kind of blue bloods of

709
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,200
Speaker 1: the NFL. Oh, they beat the Steelers in primetime. They

710
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: beat the Patriots in primetime blue blood They beat the Niners,

711
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 1: who were right off the Super Bowl appearance and and

712
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: wax them so and the quarterback was a big part

713
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,480
Speaker 1: of those victories, right, and and Seahawks come in here

714
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: being really good football team and they lumped them up.

715
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: So you're right. As the season rolled on and it

716
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 1: got rough for people who were trying to poke holes

717
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: in it. Um, Josh free Train, I told you, and

718
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: I told you brand I've gone back. You're laughing at me.

719
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:27,320
Speaker 1: I've I've watched those games from like, I watched that

720
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 1: season again. And I don't know where this team's gonna

721
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: be this year, but I know last year. They were elite.

722
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: They were in among the elite in the NFL. They

723
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:39,799
Speaker 1: got to the Final four for a reason, and they

724
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: plowed through what was thought to be a really tough

725
00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:46,800
Speaker 1: schedule and they they blew it out for thirteen and

726
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: three and one of the win one of the losses

727
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: was a hail Mary. They were good and there was

728
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 1: no two ways about it. We'll see if they can

729
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:56,399
Speaker 1: put that together again. It's gonna be difficult. I don't

730
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: care what the schedule looks like. We've learned that, but man,

731
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 1: oh man, they were. They were lumping some people up,

732
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 1: and the expectations are going to be through the roof

733
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 1: this year. Through the roof they will. Which is why

734
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:13,240
Speaker 1: I found it interesting that, you know, when you asked Isaiah,

735
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:14,719
Speaker 1: you know, what do you think this team is going

736
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 1: to look like in twenty twenty one, he said, I

737
00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: don't know. And I think that's a healthy mindset for

738
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: a player to have, because, as coach McDermott pounds them

739
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: over the head with all the time, every year is different.

740
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: You can't count on anything from last year. It's a

741
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:35,840
Speaker 1: new year, and whatever success you may have had the

742
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: year before, it doesn't mean much right now. Because everybody

743
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 1: zero and zero and you got to climb them out

744
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:47,560
Speaker 1: and again, right so and it you know, they don't

745
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: even know what they got. You can say, well, it's

746
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: the same guys. Something. They're going to be different guys,

747
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: and they were a year ago. Their team's going to

748
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:57,160
Speaker 1: be different and hopefully in a good way, right like

749
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: they were different from the playoff team they were the

750
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 1: year before. So you know, I don't know how you're

751
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,320
Speaker 1: gonna really think about it. They went from six and

752
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:10,080
Speaker 1: ten to ten and six to thirteen and three. Those

753
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:15,719
Speaker 1: are some pretty significant steps, really significant steps. And the

754
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: problem is the next step it doesn't even look to beat.

755
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: You don't even have to make it that big. You

756
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:24,880
Speaker 1: don't have to go fifteen to oz or fifteen and

757
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,640
Speaker 1: one or fourteen and two. You just got to play

758
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: better on those games that are do or die. You know,

759
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: of the way they did against the Indianapolis Colts and

760
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,160
Speaker 1: the way they did against Baltimore, and then they did

761
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,160
Speaker 1: not play that well against the Kansas City Chiefs, and

762
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: the Chiefs did. And you know, I've gone on regular

763
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,239
Speaker 1: a ton now. It seems like I repeat myself, and

764
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: I know kind of some of what we do here.

765
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:50,319
Speaker 1: But they don't have to throw everything out and change

766
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,720
Speaker 1: their whole philosophy to beat one team in the Kansas

767
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:57,279
Speaker 1: City Chiefs. Just play better on that day. Okay, just

768
00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:59,640
Speaker 1: play better. You got enough. They got enough guys to win.

769
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 1: They really do well. I think that's the lesson that

770
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,840
Speaker 1: they learned that they learned this past year. It's that

771
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 1: you only got one shot at it every week. If

772
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,680
Speaker 1: you want to survive in advance, you have to play

773
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: your best. Now, playing the perfect game is virtually impossible

774
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: because a nobody's perfect and be the team on the

775
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 1: other side, it's pretty damn good too, So to play

776
00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:26,320
Speaker 1: the perfect game is also is almost impossible. It probably is,

777
00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean you don't strive for it and

778
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: try to play as best as you possibly can. And

779
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes the ball just doesn't bounce your way.

780
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: But if you're striving to be perfect on every single play,

781
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:42,080
Speaker 1: hopefully there will be enough of those that outweigh some

782
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 1: of the ones that maybe are imperfect or don't go

783
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 1: the way you hope they will. And at the end

784
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:50,640
Speaker 1: the some of those good plays outweighs the poor ones

785
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:52,600
Speaker 1: to the point where you can win a football game.

786
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:56,879
Speaker 1: You know, and being aggressive and all of those things.

787
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 1: Laying it on the line. I mean, we talked about it.

788
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: Andy Reid goes for it on fourth down thirty percent

789
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: more in the postseason over the course of his career

790
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: than he does in the regular season. He goes for

791
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: it a lot. Yeah, So there's a lot that I

792
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: think they took from that game last year. I think

793
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:14,760
Speaker 1: they'll be better for it this year in the playoffs.

794
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: So I think so too. And you know, they're hard

795
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 1: lessons to learn, and it's easy to second guess all

796
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:22,720
Speaker 1: the you know, whatever mistake or whatever bad play happens

797
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: in the game, you can second guess it for the

798
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: rest of your life. But you've got to get to

799
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: a point where more often than not, you're gonna do

800
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 1: the right thing. You're gonna take the chances that make

801
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: a lot of sense, and you're gonna given the moment

802
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: and you're gonna even to the point where you're gonna

803
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:41,320
Speaker 1: play then make the conservative call at the right moment.

804
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: But you got to go through it once or twice before,

805
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 1: as you know, in the role you're playing, so you're

806
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 1: ready for that and you're ready for the process of

807
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 1: getting to the right decision. And that process in in

808
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,359
Speaker 1: a case that we're talking about in this playoff game,

809
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 1: even when after the game when Sean McDermott said, hey,

810
00:42:57,960 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: I which you know, maybe you'd have gone for it

811
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,879
Speaker 1: on one of those fourth downs. That process that we're

812
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: talking about, it takes about fifteen seconds. That's all the

813
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 1: time you've got. You gotta be ready for that, you know,

814
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 1: And that's by going through it once you think, Okay,

815
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 1: now you know, I get it. Now I'm gonna I

816
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: gotta get out ahead of it, and I'm gonna be

817
00:43:15,120 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 1: ready when it happens. So it's yeah, you'd like to

818
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:22,719
Speaker 1: think that those will help you in future times, but

819
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: now you've The problem is and when I remember vividly

820
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 1: experiencing it's all great, but you know how far we

821
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 1: have to go to get to that spot again. Yeah,

822
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: we got a long climb. It's a long, long, hard climb,

823
00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:40,120
Speaker 1: and not everybody makes it back to the top with you.

824
00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:44,759
Speaker 1: And it's that's the that's the soul crushing part of

825
00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 1: losing a playoff game because to get back to that

826
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: playoff game, you know how hard it took to get

827
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: to that point this year, knowing you have to undertake

828
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 1: that again next year. Is it makes it makes it

829
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,399
Speaker 1: just it's crushing my soul right as I'm even talking

830
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,640
Speaker 1: about I remember what it was like walking off the

831
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: field after Super Bowl twenty five, and it's just it

832
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 1: is truly soul crushing. You can't even get your mind

833
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:10,759
Speaker 1: around what you gotta do to even start thinking about

834
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,359
Speaker 1: the next year. And now you know, now that's right,

835
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 1: you gotta get away. And then so finally you know,

836
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: you get back and now you start planning, you get

837
00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 1: into it, and that's fresh and ready, but it doesn't

838
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: take away you got Now you got seventeen games you

839
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:28,399
Speaker 1: gotta go through. So yeah, it'll be it'll be really

840
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:30,439
Speaker 1: really telling how this team gets out of the blocks,

841
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 1: how they come back for this offseason, and what it's

842
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 1: all going to look like break time for us when

843
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 1: we come back. We'll set up the Twitter poll with you.

844
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: As it looks like negotiations are already underway between the

845
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 1: NFL's Management Council and the Players Association on what this

846
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 1: year's offseason is going to look like. We still have

847
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: the tail end of the pandemic to deal with. How

848
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: much of it will be virtual, how much of it

849
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,080
Speaker 1: will be in person? That is what's being negotiated. We

850
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: want to know how you feel about it. When we

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Speaker 1: return here on One Bill's Live, presented by at Health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio, Chris Brown's new chaster here on

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Speaker 1: a Wednesday, broadcasting from the Seneca Studios in Orchard Park.

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Speaker 1: You're on One Bills Live with you until three pm,

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00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 1: and we are talking about what appears to be ongoing

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Speaker 1: talks between the NFLPA and the league, more specifically the

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Speaker 1: Management Council in terms of what the off season this

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Speaker 1: year is going to look like. Last year, obviously, the

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Speaker 1: regular procedures of an off season were hijacked by the

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Speaker 1: COVID pandemic that is still lingering here now as vaccination

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00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,720
Speaker 1: rollouts are under way. But I don't know how likely

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Speaker 1: it is. I mean, President Biden has said that he

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Speaker 1: anticipates that anyone that wants a vaccination will be able

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Speaker 1: to get one by May, which maybe just in time

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Speaker 1: for stuff like the OTAs Steve and June Mini Camp.

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Speaker 1: But we have a players association that's saying, well, hold

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Speaker 1: on a second. We did this thing fully virtual last

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Speaker 1: year and it was great, and there wasn't a There

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Speaker 1: wasn't a hiccup to quality of play on the field

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Speaker 1: comes September. So what's the deal, right, We'll just do

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Speaker 1: it from our house. I'll sit in meetings into my house.

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Speaker 1: But why don't have to come down to a facility,

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Speaker 1: you know, fly into town and you know May and

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Speaker 1: then again in June and essentially only get five weeks

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Speaker 1: off once April rolls around, you know, the time between

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Speaker 1: the end of a June mini camp in mid June

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Speaker 1: and the start of training camp at the end of July.

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Speaker 1: So negotiations have ensued, shall we say, for lack of

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Speaker 1: a better term, it still seems light years away, you know,

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00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:02,239
Speaker 1: the league does, and all of us from showing up

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Speaker 1: at Saint John Fisher College just walking around and sitting

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Speaker 1: in the stands and being standing on sidelines. That seems

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Speaker 1: light years away. I don't know. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: say I'd never get back to that, but man, oh man,

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Speaker 1: it seems like we're never going to get back to that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It does seem like we're never gonna

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Speaker 1: get back to where fans just sitting the stands and

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Speaker 1: you know, watch practice and have you know, us media

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Speaker 1: members walking around on the sidelines and the players and

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Speaker 1: everybody just it just seems so far away still. So

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Speaker 1: if you did not see the report by Chris Mortenson,

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Speaker 1: he tweeted this, so I will lay it out for you.

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Speaker 1: Number one, the players want to repeat the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: model of an entirely virtual offseason, while owners want to

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Speaker 1: return to the previous norms that include OTAs and mini

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Speaker 1: camps at team facilities. The NFLPA Executive Board also anticipates

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Speaker 1: that owners next week will implement the seventeen game regular

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Speaker 1: season in three game preseason, which the union maintains should

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Speaker 1: lead to a revision of the CBA that they just

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Speaker 1: agreed to last off season, and that the offseason and

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Speaker 1: in season work rules should be reworked for lack of

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Speaker 1: a better term, And as to the immediate twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one offseason, the union wants daily COVID testing if the

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Speaker 1: owners demand players to conduct OTAs on team sites in

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Speaker 1: mid to late May, and then the NFLPA expects the

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Speaker 1: training camps can be conducted without daily testing, believing the

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Speaker 1: majority of players will have been vaccinated by that point

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Speaker 1: in time, which that stands to reason. I think that's

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Speaker 1: a reasonable assumption. The question is, is everybody getting vaccinated

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Speaker 1: because there isn't some federal mandate that you have to

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Speaker 1: get a vaccination. So I wonder if there will be

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Speaker 1: any NFL players reluctant to do so. Yeah, it depends

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Speaker 1: on the consequences of that decision. What will league force

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Speaker 1: those players to do? What will they be forced to

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Speaker 1: do if those players don't. Could that be a league policy?

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Speaker 1: It could be a league policy. Um, that will have

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Speaker 1: to be negotiated, I would think with the NFLPA, because

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Speaker 1: you're dealing with players health and as soon as that

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Speaker 1: comes into health. Yeah, it's a health decision that's hard

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Speaker 1: to take out of the hands of players. Certainly, Certainly

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Speaker 1: there'll be some peer pressure to get vaccinated by some

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Speaker 1: guys and and vice versa, uh, pressure for not guys

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Speaker 1: not to get to vaccinated. They never want anything to

924
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Speaker 1: do with it, But yeah, it's an issue. And you

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Speaker 1: know this is you're you're asking a group of people,

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Speaker 1: a large group of people who are pretty smart, buying

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Speaker 1: large to give up the power to take control over,

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Speaker 1: you know, what goes into their body. That's even if

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Speaker 1: we all you know, even if all of us get vaccinated,

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Speaker 1: it's still a decision they have to make. And you

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Speaker 1: take that aw away from him. That's that's a big ask.

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Speaker 1: I think. So the Twitter poll that we put before

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Speaker 1: you today, how should the NFL handle the off season program,

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Speaker 1: end preseason? League wide? Choices are there for you. At

935
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Speaker 1: one Bills Live a virtual offseason program last year proved

936
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Speaker 1: it works. Be partially virtual offseason, shorter training camp and

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Speaker 1: preseason see go back to what you had normally. And

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Speaker 1: I am surprised, Steve that a normal off season is

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Speaker 1: getting as much traction in the early voting as it is.

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Speaker 1: Forty two percent of you say go back to the

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Speaker 1: normal off season. And you have to wonder, Steve, if

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Speaker 1: that's rooted in fans desire to see players at training camp. Yeah. Perhaps,

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Speaker 1: I've I've always been a proponent. I don't want to say, well,

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Speaker 1: I've been shocked that the league has not told players

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Speaker 1: point blank in the CBA or whatever, listen, we're paying

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Speaker 1: you seven figures. You're going to act like the rest

947
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Speaker 1: of the population. If you're making that kind of money,

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Speaker 1: it's a full time job. You'll be living in our

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Speaker 1: city and you'll be coming to work every day in

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Speaker 1: the off season. It'll be a year round deal. I'm

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Speaker 1: surprised they don't do that. I have to believe, and

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Speaker 1: we have to take a break here, but we'll talk

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Speaker 1: about this more on the other side, and we also

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Speaker 1: will take your phone calls at eight three fifty two

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00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:24,279
Speaker 1: five fifty open lines for you there to weigh in

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Speaker 1: on this. I have to believe the owners are trying

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Speaker 1: to negotiate and advocate for their coaching staffs, who no

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Speaker 1: doubt want as much time on the field with their

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Speaker 1: players as possible to be as prepared as possible for

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Speaker 1: the regular season. Coaches, I mean, in the core of

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Speaker 1: their being, preparation sits there right at the top of

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Speaker 1: the list. And you can't convince a coach that they

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00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,640
Speaker 1: can't be more prepared with more time on the field.

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Speaker 1: Time on the field means my team's more prepared. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you can convince the coach otherwise

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Speaker 1: by saying, well, you could do just as good a

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Speaker 1: job virtually as you could on the practice field. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you're convincing any yeah, you know, professional

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00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: coach of that. You're not going to convince them of that.

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00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:12,440
Speaker 1: And I know this too, And it may be this

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Speaker 1: goes back to the long time and the old back

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Speaker 1: in the very beginning of the league. I would think

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Speaker 1: way of the finances worked. You didn't want anybody in

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00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:26,800
Speaker 1: the building between January and September because you had to

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00:52:26,840 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 1: pay them just they're seasonal employees. And I think that

976
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:33,759
Speaker 1: kind of carries over even the players. You don't if

977
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 1: you bring them in and what do you got to

978
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:36,840
Speaker 1: feed them every day? Then too right, you gotta you know,

979
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 1: it's an expense to keep these guys in here. And

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00:52:40,239 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 1: I think I know the football guys, the head coaches

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00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: and the you know whatever, they'd love to have these

982
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:48,799
Speaker 1: guys in here. But the owners after the season, they

983
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 1: just had they could care. You don't have to pay them,

984
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Speaker 1: you know, turn the office, turn all these people out,

985
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 1: and just you know, save the money and shut the

986
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:02,840
Speaker 1: building down. You know, uh, whatever it costs you to

987
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:05,319
Speaker 1: run a team in the off season, the owners are

988
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 1: for yeah, I would you know, cut us, cut our

989
00:53:07,560 --> 00:53:10,360
Speaker 1: costs because it goes right to our bottom line. So

990
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 1: it's there's a lot in that. But when you're talking

991
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:19,240
Speaker 1: about putting out a good football team on field gets

992
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:21,919
Speaker 1: you a better football being on the field more gets

993
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 1: you a better football team. It really does. And there's

994
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 1: just there's just no two ways about it. So how

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00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 1: should the NFL handle the offseason program and preseason? They're

996
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 1: in negotiations. Now let us know what you think. At

997
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 1: eight five fifty break time for us. We'll be back

998
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 1: with your phone calls. When we were turning here on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio, Buffalo Bills Radio Network, Sports Date your sports

1001
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:58,719
Speaker 1: update from One Bills Drive. The Bills in defensive end

1002
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:01,399
Speaker 1: Fa Obada I agreed to terms on a one year deal.

1003
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:04,520
Speaker 1: Obada joins the Bills after playing for the Carolina Panthers

1004
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 1: from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty. Defensive end played in

1005
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 1: all sixteen games last season, including a career high five

1006
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:15,360
Speaker 1: and a half sacks, forced fumble and seventeen total tackles.

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00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:18,320
Speaker 1: Obada was born in Nigeria, spent part of his childhood

1008
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Speaker 1: in England. Joined the British American Football Association in twenty fourteen,

1009
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Speaker 1: played for the London Warriors, then assigned to the Panthers

1010
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 1: through the NFL's International Pathway program. Wide receiver Isaiah McKenzie

1011
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 1: resigned with the team yesterday and was on our show

1012
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: earlier today. You can catch our interview with McKenzie later

1013
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 1: this afternoon on the Bills app, YouTube, and most players

1014
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:43,600
Speaker 1: most places that podcasts are available. The lawyer fused in

1015
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 1: Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson said he believes that any allegation

1016
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: that DeShawn forced a woman to commit a sexual act

1017
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,400
Speaker 1: is completely false. That's a direct quote. He said that

1018
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 1: in a Tuesday statement that also included a declaration on

1019
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:57,800
Speaker 1: behalf of Watson claiming one of the believed plaintiffs in

1020
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 1: question previously tried to stored him. The statement from Rusty

1021
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 1: Harden came after additional lawsuits were filed this week accusing

1022
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Speaker 1: Watson of sexual assault and harassment. Watson is currently facing

1023
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Speaker 1: sixteen separate lawsuits filed in Harris County, Texas. The Bucks

1024
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 1: continue their offseason of retaining their big name free agents.

1025
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Speaker 1: The team agreed to terms with defensive tackle and Damikinsue

1026
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Speaker 1: today on a one year contract where the max of

1027
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Speaker 1: ten million dollars. In other news and notes around the league,

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Speaker 1: running back James White resigns with New England one year,

1029
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:30,680
Speaker 1: two point five million. Linebacker alex Anzelone goes from New

1030
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Speaker 1: Orleans to Detroit on a one year deal worth one

1031
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,359
Speaker 1: and three quarter million, and running back Damian Williams, who

1032
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Speaker 1: was just released by the Chiefs, signs with Chicago on

1033
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Speaker 1: a one year deal. And finally, the Sabers back at

1034
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Speaker 1: it tonight when they visit the Pittsburgh Penguins. Justin Tokarski

1035
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Speaker 1: will get the start net for Buffalo. Thirty one year

1036
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 1: old will attempt to secure his first NHL wins since

1037
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Speaker 1: the twenty fifteen sixteen season against the Pittsburgh team. That's

1038
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Speaker 1: twelve three and one on home ice this season. That

1039
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Speaker 1: is your sports update from One Bills Drive Chris Brown,

1040
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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you our number two of the program

1041
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Speaker 1: broadcasting from the Seneca Studios here in Orchard Park and

1042
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Speaker 1: on the table for you today, how should the NFL

1043
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Speaker 1: handle the off season program? And preseason choices are there

1044
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Speaker 1: for you on the tweet sheet at one bills Live.

1045
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Speaker 1: A virtual offseason program last year proved that it works

1046
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:29,520
Speaker 1: be partially virtual offseason, shorter camp in preseason or see

1047
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Speaker 1: go back to the way it was and a lot

1048
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Speaker 1: of traction more than I anticipated, Steve for the good

1049
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Speaker 1: old fashioned normal off season. Over forty two percent of

1050
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Speaker 1: the respondents are voting for that even though a partial

1051
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Speaker 1: virtual offseason is the leader right now with almost fifty

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Speaker 1: two percent of the vote. I think there's got to

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Speaker 1: be a percentage out there. Although we didn't give him

1054
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Speaker 1: the choice of another just to say, you know what,

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Speaker 1: the good old other. I don't care what they do

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Speaker 1: in the preseason. I just get into the regular season

1057
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Speaker 1: healthy and ready to play. You know, for anybody who

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Speaker 1: doesn't live near Saint John Fisher or anywhere, or don't

1059
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Speaker 1: have any desire to go to a training camp. And

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Speaker 1: let's not forget how we all absolutely trash preseason football.

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Speaker 1: I mean all of and I don't and I know

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Speaker 1: you're out there, don't even think about it. We all

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00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:28,400
Speaker 1: think preseason football is garbage. We've been done nothing but

1064
00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:33,479
Speaker 1: complain about it for decades, so I'm kind of don't

1065
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 1: bring that up. Well, it's gotta be shorter or anyway,

1066
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:39,120
Speaker 1: it's gonna be three games anyway. All I'm saying is

1067
00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 1: most people say, I don't care, Just get to the

1068
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:42,960
Speaker 1: regular seat. Do what you want. As long as it's

1069
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:45,600
Speaker 1: thirty two teams doing the same thing, it's fair. Let's

1070
00:57:45,640 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 1: just go. They don't care. I mean most people, most

1071
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 1: people like you when I all care when when the

1072
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: score counts, you know, and when my guys play to

1073
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:56,840
Speaker 1: win instead of play to find out who they've got

1074
00:57:56,920 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 1: on their team. I think there's a lot of fans

1075
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 1: in that category. And if you're going to force the

1076
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:05,640
Speaker 1: issue and force them into an opinion and force them

1077
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 1: to care enough to make a choice, I think most

1078
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:11,160
Speaker 1: of you just says, yeah, just keep it normal, you know,

1079
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 1: so because I'm I'm laughing at myself inside, because you know,

1080
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 1: you think that, man, I missed the preseason last ydear.

1081
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 1: It was. It's trash. It always is. We always complain

1082
00:58:24,320 --> 00:58:26,840
Speaker 1: about it. We always got that wins. The commissioner gonna

1083
00:58:26,840 --> 00:58:29,280
Speaker 1: step in and the support product they are, they're shortening it.

1084
00:58:29,960 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 1: They're giving you an extra regular season game this year,

1085
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 1: right who needs it? God, I don't care. Is give

1086
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 1: me the September, you know, weekend after Labor Day. Let's

1087
00:58:40,720 --> 00:58:43,680
Speaker 1: tee it up, because you know, because we do. I mean,

1088
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:50,240
Speaker 1: everybody just dumps on the preseason. They dump on it. Now,

1089
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 1: It's like, wow, what are we gonna do? Nothing? Nobody cares.

1090
00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:59,120
Speaker 1: There is an evaluation component to the preseason that still

1091
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:02,000
Speaker 1: carries value for coaches. You're sounding like a professor, Now

1092
00:59:02,080 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 1: there am I yes, sorry, So there is an evaluation

1093
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:11,000
Speaker 1: component to the year with nothing well pretty good job too,

1094
00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 1: by the way, Well, I think that can be argued

1095
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:17,200
Speaker 1: at least and coaches, if I mean a number of

1096
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:19,720
Speaker 1: coaches have said, yeah, two preseason games is enough, Yes,

1097
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:23,800
Speaker 1: to get a handle they don't need, or one in

1098
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 1: a scrimmage, two in a scrimmage. Whatever I mean that

1099
00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 1: we've seen that. I mean it is, let's face it,

1100
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:33,240
Speaker 1: it's a multi billion dollar industry. They don't need to

1101
00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 1: shortcut it, no question. But they also don't need to

1102
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 1: drill it into the ground. Yeah, they don't need to

1103
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 1: wear it out. And getting these guys to the season

1104
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 1: healthy is is critical and teams have gotten better over

1105
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:49,920
Speaker 1: the decades, particularly with since the NFLPA has gotten a

1106
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 1: voice and said listen, let's not have two days for

1107
00:59:52,840 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 1: for six weeks going into the season. Please. Um. They

1108
00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 1: and you can say that's where it used to be. Yeah,

1109
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 1: in the seventies eighties, when I got to when I

1110
01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:05,520
Speaker 1: got to the pros, it was two of days and

1111
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:07,360
Speaker 1: there there was no stopping them. They did it as

1112
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:09,840
Speaker 1: long as they wanted and it was two days all

1113
01:00:09,840 --> 01:00:12,400
Speaker 1: the way up until day before your preseason game, and

1114
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 1: then it was back to two a days the day

1115
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:18,000
Speaker 1: after that or two days after you're back to you know,

1116
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:23,480
Speaker 1: two days. It was crazy. And there was six preseason

1117
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 1: games before my day, yeah, and now then it was

1118
01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:30,320
Speaker 1: four during my day. Oh my gosh. I mean, so, yeah,

1119
01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 1: let's rein it in a little bit. Um. And this

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01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 1: last season football guys didn't like it too much, but

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01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:40,200
Speaker 1: come on, they it was pretty good. They were pretty

1122
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 1: good football played out there. Yeah, so I'm defody. Yeah,

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01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:48,800
Speaker 1: I get that that. We heard players on this roster

1124
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:51,240
Speaker 1: say as much. I said, I don't know how we

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01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:54,480
Speaker 1: expected to play airtight defense when we didn't tackle a

1126
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:57,840
Speaker 1: single human being. To acknowledge the training camp, you know,

1127
01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 1: obviously no offseason ot as mini camp. We didn't tackle anybody.

1128
01:01:02,160 --> 01:01:06,480
Speaker 1: And now it's week one, speed go tackle somebody. Defense

1129
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:09,240
Speaker 1: is struggled. Yeah, I don't know anybody cared because it

1130
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 1: made for entertaining football and high scoring games. And we

1131
01:01:12,440 --> 01:01:15,720
Speaker 1: know fans love offense and scoring and points and big plays,

1132
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 1: but the defense has at a devil of the time

1133
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:20,120
Speaker 1: that first month trying to get back up to speed. Yeah,

1134
01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:23,080
Speaker 1: that's there was an acclamation that it is an issue.

1135
01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:25,080
Speaker 1: I think that is the issue. Yeah, you got to

1136
01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 1: get the guys ready to to bear up for physical confrontation,

1137
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:31,880
Speaker 1: and if you don't do that in the run up

1138
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:36,440
Speaker 1: to the season, you're gonna look like that. Now, certainly

1139
01:01:36,520 --> 01:01:41,520
Speaker 1: fans didn't care, but you know the players do. You know,

1140
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 1: they don't want to go out there and and it's

1141
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:46,040
Speaker 1: and it's it's the age old balance. It's a very

1142
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:48,640
Speaker 1: physical game that's a little bit dangerous. Every extra rep

1143
01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:51,480
Speaker 1: is a risk, that's right, Every extra every extra tackle

1144
01:01:51,680 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 1: in a practice that you're that doesn't count for anything

1145
01:01:55,080 --> 01:01:57,240
Speaker 1: in your career or anything. Just getting you ready, it's

1146
01:01:57,280 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 1: a risk that your career could be over. So all

1147
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:02,560
Speaker 1: of that stuff gets in the mix. It's the balance

1148
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 1: that's impossible to strike because if you go hard and

1149
01:02:05,920 --> 01:02:08,600
Speaker 1: get up there, the two guys are even the one

1150
01:02:08,680 --> 01:02:13,240
Speaker 1: guy that it costs his season. You know, that's it's

1151
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:15,520
Speaker 1: not fair to the guy for taking that rep or

1152
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:19,560
Speaker 1: having to go that hard. But if nobody gets ready,

1153
01:02:21,320 --> 01:02:26,000
Speaker 1: the level of play suffers, and you know, subsequently everybody

1154
01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:28,640
Speaker 1: gets hurt by it. Let's go to the phones at

1155
01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:31,760
Speaker 1: eight oh three, five fifty one, eight five fifty two,

1156
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:34,240
Speaker 1: five fifty see what you guys think about what the

1157
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:38,800
Speaker 1: NFL should do with their offseason and preseason programs, which

1158
01:02:38,840 --> 01:02:43,160
Speaker 1: are currently being negotiated between the league and the Players Association.

1159
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:46,200
Speaker 1: Leading us off today is Frank and Hamburg. Frank, what

1160
01:02:46,280 --> 01:02:49,920
Speaker 1: do you have for us? You're on one Bill's Live say, gentlemen,

1161
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:55,160
Speaker 1: a little bit different topic. I was wondering any new

1162
01:02:55,720 --> 01:03:00,920
Speaker 1: coaches for the team this year. Well, no changes to

1163
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:05,160
Speaker 1: the staff at this point, because well there was one change.

1164
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:10,120
Speaker 1: Their assistant offensive line coach Terry Heffernan took the head

1165
01:03:10,200 --> 01:03:13,480
Speaker 1: offensive line coaching job at Stanford, so he is a

1166
01:03:13,520 --> 01:03:17,040
Speaker 1: subtraction from the staff. But they had another assistant offensive

1167
01:03:17,080 --> 01:03:19,840
Speaker 1: line coach, Ryan Wendell, who I think is just going

1168
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:22,600
Speaker 1: to handle that role by himself. They had two assistant

1169
01:03:22,600 --> 01:03:24,640
Speaker 1: old line coaches last year. Now they're down to one

1170
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:28,360
Speaker 1: in Wendell or Wendy as they call him, the coaches

1171
01:03:28,400 --> 01:03:30,240
Speaker 1: call him that, So I think he'll just step into

1172
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:32,960
Speaker 1: that role full and handle it on his own. But yeah,

1173
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:35,800
Speaker 1: no changes really at this point. So thanks thanks for

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01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:38,760
Speaker 1: the call, Frank, We appreciate it. We'll move along and

1175
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:41,320
Speaker 1: go to Barry in Buffalo. Barry, what do you have

1176
01:03:41,400 --> 01:03:44,160
Speaker 1: for us here on one Bill's Live. Hey guys, always

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01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:46,480
Speaker 1: a pleasure, Thanks very much for taking the call. Sure,

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01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 1: as good as things went last year, I think that

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01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 1: until things are a little more stable and solved, I

1180
01:03:55,760 --> 01:03:59,680
Speaker 1: think I'd like to go to a partial virtual and

1181
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:03,880
Speaker 1: be able to have some kind of camp a little bit.

1182
01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:06,840
Speaker 1: I agree with you, obviously, Steve. I mean, we all

1183
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:10,360
Speaker 1: think preseason games are a joke, and I still think

1184
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:13,840
Speaker 1: to Sam that they can charge regular price for these games.

1185
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 1: I don't know how they're going to decide who gets

1186
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:18,160
Speaker 1: two home games and who gets won away each year

1187
01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:20,640
Speaker 1: with the three games. Maybe they'll go on and off.

1188
01:04:20,720 --> 01:04:23,880
Speaker 1: But but you know, things seem to work last year.

1189
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:26,280
Speaker 1: But I obviously your team's going to be better if

1190
01:04:26,320 --> 01:04:28,480
Speaker 1: you're together a little bit more. So, I'd love to

1191
01:04:28,520 --> 01:04:30,520
Speaker 1: see him be able to get together at least a

1192
01:04:30,560 --> 01:04:35,080
Speaker 1: little bit before the preseason starts. That being said, I'd

1193
01:04:35,160 --> 01:04:36,760
Speaker 1: like to ask you a question Steve that I've been

1194
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:39,320
Speaker 1: wanting to ask you for a long time, and you

1195
01:04:39,480 --> 01:04:43,680
Speaker 1: brought it up today about about walking off the field

1196
01:04:43,720 --> 01:04:46,439
Speaker 1: for Super Bowl twenty five. I was at the game.

1197
01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:50,320
Speaker 1: I was behind the goal post. I'd left my seat

1198
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:52,240
Speaker 1: with the time out at eight seconds left and I

1199
01:04:52,600 --> 01:04:55,240
Speaker 1: and I went down to the other end zone and

1200
01:04:57,560 --> 01:04:59,959
Speaker 1: I was twenty nine years old, cried like a baby

1201
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 1: after the kick. And what I I know it's a

1202
01:05:03,680 --> 01:05:05,560
Speaker 1: personal kind of a thing with the team and everything,

1203
01:05:05,600 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 1: but I've always wanted to know you're from coming from you,

1204
01:05:11,520 --> 01:05:14,560
Speaker 1: what it was like in that locker room afterwards. But

1205
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:17,920
Speaker 1: I know it had to be unbelievably brutal, But what

1206
01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:20,280
Speaker 1: what was the atmosphere like? Can you share a little

1207
01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:23,760
Speaker 1: bit of it for us? Quit please? And because I

1208
01:05:23,960 --> 01:05:26,200
Speaker 1: was there, and you know, I went to my first

1209
01:05:26,240 --> 01:05:27,840
Speaker 1: game when I was five years old at the Rock

1210
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:30,760
Speaker 1: Pile in sixty seven and been a fan of my

1211
01:05:30,800 --> 01:05:34,080
Speaker 1: whole life, and um, I just you know, I want

1212
01:05:34,120 --> 01:05:36,560
Speaker 1: to see us win one championship before I leave this earth,

1213
01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:39,560
Speaker 1: and I have you share with us a little bit

1214
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:42,480
Speaker 1: what that locker room was like. The thing I remember

1215
01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:45,840
Speaker 1: most about it, Barry's how silent it was. M Most

1216
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:48,560
Speaker 1: of the interaction between the players and each other, the

1217
01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:52,280
Speaker 1: players and coaches was very quiet, whispered, a lot of appreciation,

1218
01:05:53,840 --> 01:05:56,720
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of you know, commiseration about you know,

1219
01:05:57,120 --> 01:06:00,280
Speaker 1: missing an opportunity. There was not there wasn't two much

1220
01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:02,600
Speaker 1: anger in that off, in that locker room, there's a

1221
01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:05,320
Speaker 1: lot of sadness, and I think it, like I mentioned

1222
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:06,959
Speaker 1: earlier in the show, I think it was a little

1223
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:12,440
Speaker 1: soul crushing to have climbed such a hard mountain right

1224
01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:15,240
Speaker 1: and then come up that short and realize then you

1225
01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:17,920
Speaker 1: got to you gotta start at the bottom. Well, we

1226
01:06:18,040 --> 01:06:19,880
Speaker 1: all know you guys were the best team that year.

1227
01:06:19,920 --> 01:06:22,680
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no question about it. I understand that

1228
01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:25,480
Speaker 1: the best team doesn't always win, but let's be honest.

1229
01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:27,960
Speaker 1: You guys had the ball nineteen minutes and score and

1230
01:06:28,080 --> 01:06:30,240
Speaker 1: and and still had a chance to win on the

1231
01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:32,040
Speaker 1: last play of the game. We were we were the

1232
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:35,040
Speaker 1: dominant team. They just they just held the ball away

1233
01:06:35,120 --> 01:06:38,480
Speaker 1: from us and ground O J. Anderson with the ball

1234
01:06:38,640 --> 01:06:41,440
Speaker 1: enough and and ourselves had a great game plan obviously.

1235
01:06:41,560 --> 01:06:44,360
Speaker 1: But I never blamed Scott. I don't. I'm sure you

1236
01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:48,000
Speaker 1: guys didn't either. I never I never blamed Scott only

1237
01:06:48,080 --> 01:06:52,000
Speaker 1: because I everything could have handled bit differently in the game,

1238
01:06:52,040 --> 01:06:53,920
Speaker 1: and I had to, you know, caught a couple of

1239
01:06:53,960 --> 01:06:56,439
Speaker 1: those passes at the end and and gotten a little

1240
01:06:56,440 --> 01:06:58,760
Speaker 1: closer than he probably would have drilled it. So I

1241
01:06:59,120 --> 01:07:02,040
Speaker 1: just I appreciate you sharing that with us because it

1242
01:07:02,120 --> 01:07:04,720
Speaker 1: can't be easy. And what was was the plane ride

1243
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:09,200
Speaker 1: home also just totally silent? Uh No, we had it. No,

1244
01:07:09,480 --> 01:07:14,880
Speaker 1: probably not. I didn't make that flight home Pro Bowl, right, Yeah,

1245
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:19,880
Speaker 1: Me and Jim and Bruce and Thurman and Cornelius, maybe

1246
01:07:20,280 --> 01:07:23,840
Speaker 1: Darryl Tally. There's like six or seven of us that

1247
01:07:24,080 --> 01:07:27,720
Speaker 1: got a different flight at seven thirty the next morning

1248
01:07:28,960 --> 01:07:31,720
Speaker 1: and flew to Hawaii because back then the Pro Bowl

1249
01:07:31,840 --> 01:07:34,400
Speaker 1: was after. I'll tell you a story. So they tell

1250
01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:38,080
Speaker 1: us it's at like like literally I think I can't remember.

1251
01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:41,400
Speaker 1: I seemed like it was like five thirty am after

1252
01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:43,360
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. We had to be downstairs in the

1253
01:07:43,440 --> 01:07:45,960
Speaker 1: lobby of the hotel to get our stuff together and

1254
01:07:46,040 --> 01:07:48,880
Speaker 1: be taken to the airport airport. So we get taken

1255
01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:50,920
Speaker 1: to the airport and we're in They got it. I

1256
01:07:50,920 --> 01:07:55,320
Speaker 1: don't know how that who knows special room aside from

1257
01:07:55,440 --> 01:08:00,240
Speaker 1: any not at public although it was a public it

1258
01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:02,240
Speaker 1: was just a regular concourse. We're in a special room.

1259
01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:04,040
Speaker 1: So they go, yeah, you guys go right into special

1260
01:08:04,160 --> 01:08:05,920
Speaker 1: room here too. So we bust in, you know, we

1261
01:08:06,080 --> 01:08:08,480
Speaker 1: opened the door and all our wives and our and

1262
01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:11,000
Speaker 1: my buddies and all of us walk in, Darryl Thurman,

1263
01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:15,800
Speaker 1: Jim Andre and who's in the room but Lawrence Taylor

1264
01:08:16,600 --> 01:08:21,320
Speaker 1: and Peppers and all the all the pro bowlers for

1265
01:08:21,360 --> 01:08:24,960
Speaker 1: the Giant Jim Burt, Pepper Johnson, the uh, Jim Burt,

1266
01:08:25,120 --> 01:08:27,639
Speaker 1: all the Giant guys are in there, and they're were

1267
01:08:28,080 --> 01:08:31,320
Speaker 1: and of course they're hanging, you know, so we're in

1268
01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:33,519
Speaker 1: there going they probably didn't go to sleep, right, So

1269
01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:38,120
Speaker 1: we're like, dudes, really, you know, they're great dudes. They're

1270
01:08:38,160 --> 01:08:41,800
Speaker 1: great guys. And there was no animosity burns from this area,

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Speaker 1: but you know, it was kind of the way it went.

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01:08:44,280 --> 01:08:46,639
Speaker 1: And then of course we get in the flight. Flights

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01:08:46,680 --> 01:08:50,840
Speaker 1: delayed three hours connection in Dallas and it's a twenty

1274
01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:55,719
Speaker 1: three hour extravagance. But most of the people on our flight,

1275
01:08:56,560 --> 01:08:58,479
Speaker 1: like Art Shell, who was the Pro Bowl coach for

1276
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:03,000
Speaker 1: our team, was on our flight. Uh. Jack Whittaker, the

1277
01:09:03,320 --> 01:09:07,160
Speaker 1: great old broadcaster set across the aisle front um. You know.

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01:09:07,240 --> 01:09:09,080
Speaker 1: So it was a big, big wide body and we

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01:09:09,200 --> 01:09:11,280
Speaker 1: all get on it and it's all delayed. It takes

1280
01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:14,680
Speaker 1: four ever to get to Hawaii. In fact, it took

1281
01:09:14,760 --> 01:09:21,599
Speaker 1: so long. Right the the schedule for the week, we're

1282
01:09:21,680 --> 01:09:24,320
Speaker 1: already missing stuff. Yeah, but I know we're all right

1283
01:09:24,320 --> 01:09:27,439
Speaker 1: because the guy who set the schedule play right here

1284
01:09:27,439 --> 01:09:31,120
Speaker 1: in front of me, right, Am I gonna get fined? Right? Um?

1285
01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:36,000
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was Yeah, the kick was the start

1286
01:09:36,040 --> 01:09:38,120
Speaker 1: of the problem. Believe me. They yeah, at the end

1287
01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:42,200
Speaker 1: of that game. So but it was uh, people, I

1288
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:44,680
Speaker 1: even did an I did a NFL Films thing. I

1289
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:46,839
Speaker 1: don't know who have to We did an NFL Films

1290
01:09:47,640 --> 01:09:50,320
Speaker 1: interview a couple of weeks ago, a month or two ago,

1291
01:09:50,560 --> 01:09:52,720
Speaker 1: I can't remember when. It was for NFL Films, and

1292
01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:55,280
Speaker 1: it was um, I told the story about me becoming

1293
01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:58,479
Speaker 1: a Buffalo bill and all that, and even um the

1294
01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:03,879
Speaker 1: the interview and I can't remember her name now. She asks,

1295
01:10:04,680 --> 01:10:06,439
Speaker 1: they you can always tell they always kind of screwed

1296
01:10:06,439 --> 01:10:08,840
Speaker 1: around the issue, Like, well, listen, I just want to

1297
01:10:08,840 --> 01:10:10,400
Speaker 1: ask you. You know a long time, you know, you

1298
01:10:10,439 --> 01:10:14,639
Speaker 1: guys went to four straight Super Bowls and and none

1299
01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:16,439
Speaker 1: of them kind of went your way. They kind of

1300
01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:18,880
Speaker 1: walk around the fact you guys got around. You guys

1301
01:10:18,920 --> 01:10:21,040
Speaker 1: got crushed in four Super Bowls. How does it make

1302
01:10:21,080 --> 01:10:22,479
Speaker 1: you feel that kind of I'm like, and I was

1303
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:24,240
Speaker 1: telling Michel, you can you can ask me about it.

1304
01:10:24,720 --> 01:10:27,519
Speaker 1: I'm okay, it's it's long enough ago. Yeah, It's like

1305
01:10:27,640 --> 01:10:29,599
Speaker 1: you know, they ask you if it's too soon. It's

1306
01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:31,360
Speaker 1: not too soon. You can ask me about it. I

1307
01:10:31,439 --> 01:10:34,640
Speaker 1: have no problem talking about the Super Bowls, you know,

1308
01:10:34,760 --> 01:10:37,840
Speaker 1: I'm I'm good with it now. So okay, Yeah, so

1309
01:10:37,960 --> 01:10:40,160
Speaker 1: that's good. Like even Barry, he asked me, can I

1310
01:10:40,200 --> 01:10:41,960
Speaker 1: ask you? I know, I know it's a personal thing,

1311
01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:44,639
Speaker 1: and I ask me, man is yeah, two decks, three

1312
01:10:44,680 --> 01:10:47,439
Speaker 1: decades ago. Well I'm good. Well, yeah, but I think

1313
01:10:47,520 --> 01:10:50,479
Speaker 1: some people recognize it as a potentially sore subject, and

1314
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:52,920
Speaker 1: you know, they want to tread lightly out of respect. So,

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01:10:53,520 --> 01:10:55,680
Speaker 1: you know, good on him for doing that. Yeah, eight

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01:10:55,760 --> 01:10:58,799
Speaker 1: oh three, oh five, fifty one eighty eighty five fifty

1317
01:10:59,160 --> 01:11:02,240
Speaker 1: two five. As we are asking you what you think

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01:11:02,320 --> 01:11:05,680
Speaker 1: the NFL offseasons you'd look like. Now, as one of

1319
01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:09,840
Speaker 1: our callers brought up Astuteley, it's important to remember that

1320
01:11:10,439 --> 01:11:12,720
Speaker 1: the fly in the ointment here is the uncertainty still

1321
01:11:12,800 --> 01:11:16,599
Speaker 1: surrounding the COVID pandemic. We're not out of the woods yet. Here.

1322
01:11:17,160 --> 01:11:20,639
Speaker 1: They're trying to get vaccinations in everybody's arm by May,

1323
01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:25,120
Speaker 1: and we still have the virus spiking in about twelve

1324
01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:27,920
Speaker 1: or thirteen states in this country right now. I think

1325
01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:30,919
Speaker 1: hospitalizations even here in Western New York went up yesterday

1326
01:11:31,680 --> 01:11:35,280
Speaker 1: for the first time in a few weeks. So it's

1327
01:11:35,320 --> 01:11:38,400
Speaker 1: still very much there as an issue that the league

1328
01:11:38,439 --> 01:11:43,800
Speaker 1: has to contend with, and so naturally, and I'm not

1329
01:11:43,880 --> 01:11:46,120
Speaker 1: saying they're wrong in doing this, the Players Association is

1330
01:11:46,160 --> 01:11:50,799
Speaker 1: going to lean on that situation to facilitate their agenda

1331
01:11:50,920 --> 01:11:53,320
Speaker 1: and get what they want, which is a virtual offseason,

1332
01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:57,040
Speaker 1: And because of the pandemic, they may get that at

1333
01:11:57,160 --> 01:11:59,920
Speaker 1: least for April and may Steve and maybe even June.

1334
01:12:00,320 --> 01:12:02,519
Speaker 1: Right I think training camp is where it might change.

1335
01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:04,519
Speaker 1: I think I think there's a lot on the time.

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01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:06,479
Speaker 1: I think this pandemic put a lot on the table

1337
01:12:06,560 --> 01:12:09,559
Speaker 1: for both sides, the management Council, the NFL, and also

1338
01:12:09,840 --> 01:12:14,680
Speaker 1: the Players Association. The thing that Players Association obviously relishes

1339
01:12:14,680 --> 01:12:17,040
Speaker 1: a lot is free time, time where you're not on

1340
01:12:17,160 --> 01:12:20,879
Speaker 1: the that the beck and call of the organization, despite

1341
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:23,400
Speaker 1: the money that they make and all that free time

1342
01:12:23,439 --> 01:12:26,439
Speaker 1: as a professional athlete is one of the perks of

1343
01:12:26,640 --> 01:12:29,519
Speaker 1: being off season, having an off season. Certainly in this

1344
01:12:29,640 --> 01:12:31,439
Speaker 1: day and age, there really is no time it's a

1345
01:12:31,479 --> 01:12:34,760
Speaker 1: lifestyle these guys live. It's not really a career. It's

1346
01:12:34,760 --> 01:12:37,519
Speaker 1: a lifestyle. They're always eating right, they're always lifting, they're

1347
01:12:37,520 --> 01:12:39,920
Speaker 1: always working out, they're always kind of thinking about what

1348
01:12:40,080 --> 01:12:42,160
Speaker 1: they put into themselves so that they can be ready.

1349
01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:44,559
Speaker 1: And when they do start to train intensely, they don't

1350
01:12:44,600 --> 01:12:47,479
Speaker 1: have to come back and drop sixty pounds in some

1351
01:12:47,600 --> 01:12:50,639
Speaker 1: of these things. So it's a lifestyle these guys live.

1352
01:12:51,160 --> 01:12:53,600
Speaker 1: And so that's that's what's always been on the on

1353
01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:58,040
Speaker 1: the player's mind for ownership, and I think this pandemic

1354
01:12:58,080 --> 01:13:00,479
Speaker 1: has put these both these sides into where we can

1355
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:03,800
Speaker 1: make this thing work really well. And there's certain things

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01:13:03,840 --> 01:13:07,920
Speaker 1: that the league would covet that the players wouldn't would

1357
01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:09,760
Speaker 1: be able to say, Yeah, okay, you can do that

1358
01:13:09,960 --> 01:13:13,120
Speaker 1: if you give us some of these givebacks, like take

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01:13:13,120 --> 01:13:15,439
Speaker 1: an eighteen game regular season, but give us an extra

1360
01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:17,800
Speaker 1: month of our off season, you know, give us an

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01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:20,760
Speaker 1: give us all the way till June before we ever

1362
01:13:20,840 --> 01:13:23,200
Speaker 1: have to come back and even set foot in the building,

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01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:26,439
Speaker 1: instead of having us come back in April and may

1364
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:29,040
Speaker 1: you know, you're back for two weeks and you can

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01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:31,120
Speaker 1: leave for three, then you're back for another two weeks.

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01:13:31,160 --> 01:13:32,880
Speaker 1: Then you come back and add some mini camp where

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01:13:32,880 --> 01:13:34,439
Speaker 1: you can actually play football. Then you got to go

1368
01:13:34,520 --> 01:13:38,800
Speaker 1: home again, you know, just kick him out until June

1369
01:13:39,240 --> 01:13:42,559
Speaker 1: and then started in and and acclimate slowly through June

1370
01:13:42,560 --> 01:13:44,679
Speaker 1: all the way through July and August and get ready

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01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:48,800
Speaker 1: for the season or even July starting early first to

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01:13:48,960 --> 01:13:51,240
Speaker 1: July and go that way and do it the second

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01:13:51,280 --> 01:13:55,679
Speaker 1: half of the of the of the year. That would

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01:13:55,880 --> 01:13:58,000
Speaker 1: go a long way. And the giveback, give and take,

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01:13:58,120 --> 01:14:00,360
Speaker 1: if you know, if you want an eighteen games schedule

1376
01:14:00,400 --> 01:14:03,200
Speaker 1: in two preseason games, take it. But you got to

1377
01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:07,400
Speaker 1: give us all the way until July first without making

1378
01:14:07,479 --> 01:14:09,800
Speaker 1: us come through the door. Yeah. And I think they

1379
01:14:09,840 --> 01:14:12,720
Speaker 1: will lean on the fact that the picture will not

1380
01:14:12,880 --> 01:14:15,760
Speaker 1: be clear, at least as it appears right now. The

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01:14:15,880 --> 01:14:19,240
Speaker 1: picture will not be clear on where we will stand

1382
01:14:19,320 --> 01:14:21,920
Speaker 1: as a country on the pandemic. And because of that,

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01:14:23,320 --> 01:14:27,400
Speaker 1: I think the Players Association is going to argue that

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01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:29,880
Speaker 1: the league should air on the side of caution and

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01:14:30,040 --> 01:14:33,679
Speaker 1: continue with a virtual offseason again this year, at least

1386
01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:37,680
Speaker 1: through the OTA and June minicamp period. I think when

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01:14:37,720 --> 01:14:40,160
Speaker 1: we get to training camp, that's when the rubber is

1388
01:14:40,160 --> 01:14:41,720
Speaker 1: going to meet the road. And the league is going

1389
01:14:41,760 --> 01:14:43,760
Speaker 1: to push back a little bit and say, hey, look,

1390
01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:49,320
Speaker 1: by the end of July early August, everybody should have

1391
01:14:49,360 --> 01:14:53,920
Speaker 1: a vaccination that wants one, mandating it as a whole

1392
01:14:53,920 --> 01:14:56,000
Speaker 1: different canon worms that we're not going to get into today.

1393
01:14:56,800 --> 01:15:01,479
Speaker 1: But there's money to be made at NFL training camps

1394
01:15:01,520 --> 01:15:05,519
Speaker 1: for clubs. That's going to count for something. The amount

1395
01:15:05,520 --> 01:15:09,480
Speaker 1: of merchandise sales that happened in NFL training camps is significant,

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01:15:11,640 --> 01:15:15,679
Speaker 1: and fans being there is significant in building your brand

1397
01:15:15,840 --> 01:15:20,360
Speaker 1: and you know, allowing fans to engage something they didn't

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01:15:20,360 --> 01:15:25,600
Speaker 1: do last year. So I understand that you gotta be

1399
01:15:26,160 --> 01:15:28,840
Speaker 1: smart and say first with respect to the pandemic. But

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01:15:29,240 --> 01:15:31,400
Speaker 1: we get to the end of the summer and training

1401
01:15:31,439 --> 01:15:35,240
Speaker 1: camps getting ready to start up, there's gonna be some

1402
01:15:35,320 --> 01:15:39,080
Speaker 1: pushback there, I think from from coaches and from owners saying, hey,

1403
01:15:39,760 --> 01:15:41,800
Speaker 1: it's time to kind of get back to normal and

1404
01:15:41,880 --> 01:15:44,680
Speaker 1: what we're used to. At least for training kit you need,

1405
01:15:44,760 --> 01:15:47,679
Speaker 1: you need two or three weeks before your first preseason game.

1406
01:15:47,720 --> 01:15:49,960
Speaker 1: You need a couple of preseason games and then let's go.

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01:15:50,640 --> 01:15:53,800
Speaker 1: That's it. I mean, I've had head coaches say that

1408
01:15:54,880 --> 01:16:00,360
Speaker 1: you know now on the back side of that, there

1409
01:16:00,439 --> 01:16:02,599
Speaker 1: would be some times where there would be some guys

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01:16:02,640 --> 01:16:04,880
Speaker 1: who may on one team or the other slip through

1411
01:16:04,880 --> 01:16:06,760
Speaker 1: the cracks because they didn't get a they didn't get

1412
01:16:06,800 --> 01:16:09,439
Speaker 1: a chance to show in this preseason and there's only

1413
01:16:09,479 --> 01:16:11,720
Speaker 1: two preseason games. They didn't get an extra game to say, Okay,

1414
01:16:11,800 --> 01:16:13,920
Speaker 1: let's see. Oh if he caught their eye, then he

1415
01:16:13,960 --> 01:16:16,880
Speaker 1: gets another opportunity, he makes good on that, gets another opportunity,

1416
01:16:17,040 --> 01:16:19,640
Speaker 1: and then he makes the team. Uh. That kind of

1417
01:16:19,720 --> 01:16:23,040
Speaker 1: stuff would tend to happen probably a little less. But

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01:16:23,360 --> 01:16:27,400
Speaker 1: my contention would be this, You can you start July

1419
01:16:27,640 --> 01:16:30,080
Speaker 1: first and give him half of July. You can take

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01:16:30,120 --> 01:16:31,720
Speaker 1: the first two weeks of July, then give him two

1421
01:16:31,720 --> 01:16:33,880
Speaker 1: weeks off, or take it one week, one week on,

1422
01:16:34,040 --> 01:16:35,920
Speaker 1: one week up, whatever. Just give him half a July,

1423
01:16:36,840 --> 01:16:41,759
Speaker 1: and then through August you start regular hard preseason, preseason games,

1424
01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:47,000
Speaker 1: regular season. Let's go. That's that's ten weeks. Yeah, it's

1425
01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:50,720
Speaker 1: ten weeks. That's a long time. That's a long time.

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01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:53,200
Speaker 1: Plus if you start it and you don't let up,

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01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:57,639
Speaker 1: it's it's you can start to build through that ten

1428
01:16:57,720 --> 01:17:01,240
Speaker 1: weeks and get to the regular season beginning with a

1429
01:17:01,280 --> 01:17:03,519
Speaker 1: pretty good football team with a better football team than

1430
01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:06,360
Speaker 1: you would have if you spread it out piecemeal over

1431
01:17:07,120 --> 01:17:09,479
Speaker 1: you know, three months, where the guys are there for

1432
01:17:09,560 --> 01:17:11,800
Speaker 1: a week, they're gone for three they're back for another week,

1433
01:17:12,320 --> 01:17:14,080
Speaker 1: they're gone for another week, and then they got the act.

1434
01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:16,960
Speaker 1: They come back from mini camp. Then they acclimate all

1435
01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:18,680
Speaker 1: of that stuff. You know, these guys are out of

1436
01:17:18,680 --> 01:17:20,960
Speaker 1: the building. It's easy for them to go, you know,

1437
01:17:21,040 --> 01:17:23,760
Speaker 1: get distracted with other things. But if you just gave

1438
01:17:23,840 --> 01:17:26,320
Speaker 1: them big chunk, a bigger chunk of the offseason from

1439
01:17:26,800 --> 01:17:32,280
Speaker 1: the super Bowl all the way through until, like I said,

1440
01:17:32,360 --> 01:17:36,719
Speaker 1: July first, you know, they what can they complain about?

1441
01:17:36,880 --> 01:17:38,120
Speaker 1: You know, they got a season to get ready for,

1442
01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:40,080
Speaker 1: and there's there's something to look the look for there,

1443
01:17:40,080 --> 01:17:42,200
Speaker 1: and you got these the draft picks all of that stuff.

1444
01:17:44,120 --> 01:17:45,640
Speaker 1: I just think it makes more sense that way. But

1445
01:17:45,680 --> 01:17:48,599
Speaker 1: if you get into the conversation, you could iron out

1446
01:17:48,600 --> 01:17:50,839
Speaker 1: a lot of these big issues and these big asks

1447
01:17:50,920 --> 01:17:55,000
Speaker 1: that either side have by each side given what the

1448
01:17:55,080 --> 01:17:57,840
Speaker 1: other wants and taking what they need. Yeah, we have

1449
01:17:57,920 --> 01:17:59,600
Speaker 1: to take a break, but when we come back, it

1450
01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:02,679
Speaker 1: is unch time, so we will ask what's for lunch?

1451
01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:05,040
Speaker 1: When Steve and I come back, go through a couple

1452
01:18:05,080 --> 01:18:09,080
Speaker 1: of topics on the NFL menu and see which way

1453
01:18:09,640 --> 01:18:12,519
Speaker 1: Steve and I may lean. That's coming up next here

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01:18:12,560 --> 01:18:14,479
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live, presented by Colloid to Health. This

1455
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:28,920
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio look back on One Bills Live.

1456
01:18:28,960 --> 01:18:32,000
Speaker 1: And it's time for a little lunch. Steve, all right,

1457
01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:36,720
Speaker 1: what's for lunch? Let's go. Then, this is when we

1458
01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:42,599
Speaker 1: look on the NFL menu and provide some choices. Steve

1459
01:18:42,680 --> 01:18:45,800
Speaker 1: and I pick what we'd prefer to have for lunch.

1460
01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:50,200
Speaker 1: So we lead off with this quarterback menu item. Would

1461
01:18:50,200 --> 01:18:55,639
Speaker 1: you rather build your franchise around Carson Wentz or Jared Goff?

1462
01:18:56,360 --> 01:19:02,120
Speaker 1: Two quarterbacks who have struggled of eight to lift their

1463
01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:05,360
Speaker 1: team to promising new hype. I say Carson Wentz because

1464
01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:12,080
Speaker 1: of the physical traits, simple as that, simple as that,

1465
01:19:12,280 --> 01:19:18,560
Speaker 1: he's I think he is resurrectable. Resurrectable there is a

1466
01:19:18,760 --> 01:19:24,040
Speaker 1: fifty cent word for today. I think Jared Goff. I

1467
01:19:24,800 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 1: I like Carson wentz limitations better than I like Jared

1468
01:19:28,160 --> 01:19:31,960
Speaker 1: Goff's limitations to try and come, you know, try and rebound. Yeah,

1469
01:19:32,040 --> 01:19:34,120
Speaker 1: I'm I'm on the same side of the fence here.

1470
01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:38,000
Speaker 1: I've never been a huge fan of Jared Goff. I

1471
01:19:38,160 --> 01:19:44,000
Speaker 1: think he's he's got limitations that don't sit well with me. Um,

1472
01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:50,040
Speaker 1: I think he can be pressured easily into bad mistakes. Now,

1473
01:19:50,400 --> 01:19:53,120
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz's game got down around that level as well

1474
01:19:53,600 --> 01:19:56,639
Speaker 1: this past year especially, But I think there was too

1475
01:19:56,760 --> 01:19:59,559
Speaker 1: much on his plate and there was no supporting cast

1476
01:19:59,640 --> 01:20:03,800
Speaker 1: to throw all my lifeline in Philadelphia last season. And

1477
01:20:04,280 --> 01:20:06,200
Speaker 1: there was a time that I really had a lot

1478
01:20:06,280 --> 01:20:10,760
Speaker 1: of respect for Carson Wentz's game. Um, you know, back

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Speaker 1: in seventeen and even eighteen. Um, the last two years

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01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:16,639
Speaker 1: have been difficult. I'll say this though, but I would

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01:20:16,680 --> 01:20:20,840
Speaker 1: take him over Goff. I'll say this though both of

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01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:24,200
Speaker 1: them have their you know, question marks. From where I

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01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:28,000
Speaker 1: sit Um Goff, certainly, I don't know what kind of

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01:20:28,120 --> 01:20:31,080
Speaker 1: personality he has as a leader that elevate guys around him.

1485
01:20:31,400 --> 01:20:34,719
Speaker 1: And certainly he benefited from the coaching that Sean McVeigh

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01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:44,160
Speaker 1: and the creativity that McVeigh displayed. UM, So I don't

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01:20:44,200 --> 01:20:46,960
Speaker 1: know how much to the how much golf brought to

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01:20:47,080 --> 01:20:49,160
Speaker 1: the table in the success of the Rams offense. I

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01:20:49,240 --> 01:20:52,720
Speaker 1: am I am in agreement. I'm fearful that that is

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01:20:52,760 --> 01:20:55,479
Speaker 1: the best he was ever going to look right, how

1491
01:20:55,560 --> 01:20:57,880
Speaker 1: he looked in here's my here's my thing about Carson Wentz.

1492
01:20:58,560 --> 01:21:01,120
Speaker 1: I don't know how meant really tough the guy is

1493
01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:05,799
Speaker 1: They draft a guy in the second round and he tanks.

1494
01:21:06,080 --> 01:21:08,599
Speaker 1: I mean, he can't handle it. And there were reports

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01:21:08,640 --> 01:21:11,200
Speaker 1: out of Philadelphia that he did not take hard coaching

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01:21:11,280 --> 01:21:16,800
Speaker 1: well either. Right, that's an issue for me that can

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01:21:16,880 --> 01:21:19,080
Speaker 1: get sticky. I mean, how how mentally tough do you have?

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01:21:19,400 --> 01:21:21,880
Speaker 1: I mean, you're gonna be if the NFL. Dude, right,

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01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:23,920
Speaker 1: if you can't take hard coaches from a guy who

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01:21:24,040 --> 01:21:27,760
Speaker 1: loves you, how are you going to hold up under

1501
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:31,280
Speaker 1: that kind of pressure that that that that spot generates. Yeah,

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01:21:31,360 --> 01:21:34,680
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about him like pressure into performing, like

1503
01:21:34,960 --> 01:21:39,280
Speaker 1: emotional and mental pressure, not physical pressure. Yeah, but I

1504
01:21:39,360 --> 01:21:42,200
Speaker 1: mean there's no time so sorry for yourself. In the NFL,

1505
01:21:42,280 --> 01:21:45,080
Speaker 1: you gotta perform. And I think Carson Wentz did that.

1506
01:21:45,479 --> 01:21:49,000
Speaker 1: So that's his So both those guys got huge Wartz

1507
01:21:49,800 --> 01:21:52,840
Speaker 1: on their total package. This is not a great menu

1508
01:21:52,920 --> 01:21:55,599
Speaker 1: item to choose from, but it's pretty interesting though. It's

1509
01:21:55,920 --> 01:21:57,920
Speaker 1: it's interesting. I don't know if it's gonna taste good.

1510
01:21:57,960 --> 01:22:01,920
Speaker 1: They just give me that in a doggie bag and

1511
01:22:02,200 --> 01:22:04,320
Speaker 1: forget the doggie bag. We should leave right, give it

1512
01:22:04,439 --> 01:22:06,240
Speaker 1: right to my dog. Get home. Yeah, leave it on

1513
01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:12,519
Speaker 1: the table. Next on what's for lunch? Better free agent

1514
01:22:12,720 --> 01:22:18,560
Speaker 1: signing Juju Smith Schuster or Kenny Gala Day. Now, this

1515
01:22:18,760 --> 01:22:24,599
Speaker 1: is an interesting one because Juju stayed put, Gala Day

1516
01:22:24,680 --> 01:22:29,559
Speaker 1: went elsewhere. Gala Day coming off an injury riddled season

1517
01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:32,560
Speaker 1: in which he played only five games last year for

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01:22:32,640 --> 01:22:38,439
Speaker 1: the Lions. Juju productive and only twenty four years of age.

1519
01:22:40,439 --> 01:22:42,559
Speaker 1: You could argue that guy still hasn't reached his prime

1520
01:22:42,640 --> 01:22:49,080
Speaker 1: yet and he's played four seasons. I think Galladay is

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01:22:49,080 --> 01:22:53,400
Speaker 1: a better signing. In fact, I would have thought and

1522
01:22:53,640 --> 01:22:56,320
Speaker 1: for me, I think Pittsburgh should have ditched Juju and

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01:22:56,400 --> 01:23:00,200
Speaker 1: signed Galladay. Not that I think he's that much of

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01:23:00,240 --> 01:23:04,240
Speaker 1: a better player, although I think he is. I think

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01:23:04,280 --> 01:23:07,640
Speaker 1: he's more got more at more professionalism or autonomy. I

1526
01:23:07,760 --> 01:23:11,439
Speaker 1: like his attitude, you know that kind of thing. I

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01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:13,640
Speaker 1: think the Steelers would be better with Galladay than they

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01:23:13,680 --> 01:23:19,000
Speaker 1: would be with Juju U. Juju is younger, He's got

1529
01:23:19,080 --> 01:23:20,640
Speaker 1: a top end that you may not see. But I

1530
01:23:20,720 --> 01:23:24,360
Speaker 1: also like the fit that Galladay brings to the Giants.

1531
01:23:24,400 --> 01:23:28,040
Speaker 1: Say it's exactly you gotta help Daniel Jones be better.

1532
01:23:28,439 --> 01:23:31,200
Speaker 1: You start at the offensive line, and the skill position

1533
01:23:31,240 --> 01:23:34,360
Speaker 1: players are really important. And I think Galladay is a

1534
01:23:34,400 --> 01:23:35,960
Speaker 1: guy that's going to help him. And I think I

1535
01:23:36,080 --> 01:23:39,439
Speaker 1: think so. I think that is a major fit for

1536
01:23:39,680 --> 01:23:42,400
Speaker 1: the Giants to get Galaday in this free agent market

1537
01:23:42,400 --> 01:23:44,720
Speaker 1: the way it wins, So I like the Galaday signing better,

1538
01:23:45,320 --> 01:23:47,000
Speaker 1: not only because I like the player better, but I

1539
01:23:47,080 --> 01:23:49,920
Speaker 1: think that's a team where Galladay will make a bigger

1540
01:23:49,960 --> 01:23:52,960
Speaker 1: difference than Jiuju will in Pittsburgh. The Giants better hope.

1541
01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:55,640
Speaker 1: So after paying him eighteen million dollars a year, And

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01:23:55,760 --> 01:23:58,360
Speaker 1: that's the reason that Pittsburgh wasn't gonna get a sniff

1543
01:23:58,360 --> 01:24:02,080
Speaker 1: at him. His asking price was way too high. I mean,

1544
01:24:02,160 --> 01:24:04,920
Speaker 1: they made Juju take a haircut to come back for

1545
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:09,800
Speaker 1: one year at eight million dollars, So he's getting he's

1546
01:24:09,800 --> 01:24:14,760
Speaker 1: getting less than half or what Galladay's making. So Pittsburgh

1547
01:24:14,840 --> 01:24:16,880
Speaker 1: wasn't in a position to touch Galla. And I'll tell

1548
01:24:16,880 --> 01:24:19,080
Speaker 1: you what that's That's what kind of tips it in

1549
01:24:19,160 --> 01:24:24,120
Speaker 1: favor of Juju Smith Schuster. He's cheaper work, he's cheaper help.

1550
01:24:24,600 --> 01:24:29,200
Speaker 1: But if Galladay comes through like a seasoned veteran and

1551
01:24:29,320 --> 01:24:31,840
Speaker 1: contributes obviously all the positives, if you know, if he

1552
01:24:31,880 --> 01:24:35,559
Speaker 1: stays healthy and all, YadA, YadA, YadA. I think Galladay

1553
01:24:35,640 --> 01:24:38,160
Speaker 1: makes a bigger difference for the Giants than Juju Smith

1554
01:24:38,200 --> 01:24:40,920
Speaker 1: Schuster does for the Steelers, even though he's getting more

1555
01:24:41,000 --> 01:24:43,320
Speaker 1: than double what he's what Juju Smith Schuster is getting.

1556
01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:44,920
Speaker 1: If it makes that kind of difference, that's what you're

1557
01:24:44,960 --> 01:24:48,680
Speaker 1: paying for a little of what you're paying for. Taysom

1558
01:24:48,840 --> 01:24:54,680
Speaker 1: Hill or Jamis Winston should be the Saints starting quarterback

1559
01:24:55,360 --> 01:24:58,599
Speaker 1: next season? Is it either or? Or is it one

1560
01:24:58,720 --> 01:25:01,240
Speaker 1: or the other? One or the other? I think Jamis

1561
01:25:01,280 --> 01:25:06,320
Speaker 1: Winston what should be? That's your preferences. I think, yeah,

1562
01:25:06,439 --> 01:25:08,920
Speaker 1: that's who I would say he's He's more of a

1563
01:25:09,320 --> 01:25:12,040
Speaker 1: true quarterback as I see it. I agree has more

1564
01:25:12,120 --> 01:25:15,040
Speaker 1: production in the passing game, which is where Sean Payton excels.

1565
01:25:15,320 --> 01:25:18,439
Speaker 1: I think there's a place for Taysom Hill in the offense,

1566
01:25:19,000 --> 01:25:21,240
Speaker 1: much the way they've used him the last couple of years,

1567
01:25:21,280 --> 01:25:24,320
Speaker 1: you know, as a change of pace, guys red zone,

1568
01:25:24,840 --> 01:25:27,920
Speaker 1: you know, run him in the red zone. I mean, heck,

1569
01:25:27,960 --> 01:25:29,920
Speaker 1: they could use Taysom Hill like the Bills use Josh

1570
01:25:29,960 --> 01:25:32,920
Speaker 1: Allen in the red zone. I wouldn't shy away from

1571
01:25:32,960 --> 01:25:36,680
Speaker 1: that at all, and so that's how you go. But

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01:25:36,760 --> 01:25:39,280
Speaker 1: I think Winston is, you know, the guy that's Winston's

1573
01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:42,840
Speaker 1: quote unquote starter. Winson's got a live pro arm, he

1574
01:25:42,960 --> 01:25:45,599
Speaker 1: can sling it, and he got his vision fixed now,

1575
01:25:45,640 --> 01:25:49,360
Speaker 1: so he knows who he's looking at, right, And I

1576
01:25:49,479 --> 01:25:52,719
Speaker 1: think went Jamis has maybe one He's got one attribute

1577
01:25:52,760 --> 01:25:55,519
Speaker 1: that you have to fix, and that's the turnovers. But

1578
01:25:55,640 --> 01:25:57,519
Speaker 1: other than that, he's he's pretty good. Quote. I think

1579
01:25:57,520 --> 01:25:59,519
Speaker 1: he's a pretty good quarterback. Certainly you can say which

1580
01:25:59,520 --> 01:26:01,720
Speaker 1: you want about his leadership qualities. Is still a little

1581
01:26:01,760 --> 01:26:03,760
Speaker 1: bit of a scatter brain, and he's always going to

1582
01:26:03,800 --> 01:26:06,439
Speaker 1: be credited with probably possibly the worst pregame speech of

1583
01:26:06,479 --> 01:26:11,600
Speaker 1: all time. But having said that, I still think with

1584
01:26:11,680 --> 01:26:15,040
Speaker 1: Sean Payton pulled in the strings Winston Jamis Winston could

1585
01:26:15,080 --> 01:26:19,799
Speaker 1: really play well in New Orleans. Um, but big unknown,

1586
01:26:19,880 --> 01:26:23,560
Speaker 1: is he gonna throw thirty thirty five touchdowns again and

1587
01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:27,160
Speaker 1: throw thirty thirty five picks again? Yeah, that's a I

1588
01:26:27,240 --> 01:26:30,000
Speaker 1: don't think he'll throw that many interceptions. I really think

1589
01:26:30,080 --> 01:26:32,479
Speaker 1: his vision played a part and in that, and he

1590
01:26:32,560 --> 01:26:35,600
Speaker 1: had laser vision corrections, so his vision is good, and

1591
01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:38,519
Speaker 1: let's just see if it makes a difference. I don't

1592
01:26:38,560 --> 01:26:40,639
Speaker 1: think he's gonna throw thirty three picks again, I don't.

1593
01:26:40,640 --> 01:26:43,400
Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna happen. I don't think so either,

1594
01:26:43,400 --> 01:26:45,640
Speaker 1: because if he throws like fifteen, he may not get

1595
01:26:45,680 --> 01:26:53,160
Speaker 1: a chance to throw sixteen. Well, right, that taste. My

1596
01:26:53,320 --> 01:26:59,599
Speaker 1: former colleague in the booth, Steve, He's does his lou

1597
01:26:59,680 --> 01:27:03,120
Speaker 1: hole impression because I know you're not going to throw

1598
01:27:03,200 --> 01:27:05,439
Speaker 1: any more than three interceptions. I just know it in

1599
01:27:05,520 --> 01:27:07,680
Speaker 1: my heart, and his coach I hope so too. You

1600
01:27:07,720 --> 01:27:09,559
Speaker 1: know how, I know you're not gonna throw worth creators ever,

1601
01:27:09,760 --> 01:27:12,560
Speaker 1: because you're not gonna get cancer through four because I

1602
01:27:12,680 --> 01:27:14,800
Speaker 1: have to the third one. You're on the bench, because

1603
01:27:14,800 --> 01:27:18,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna be on a bench. Yeah, that's what he's

1604
01:27:18,680 --> 01:27:21,880
Speaker 1: I've never met so that, and he's that he does

1605
01:27:21,960 --> 01:27:25,160
Speaker 1: lou holes to a team. And that's the way you

1606
01:27:25,240 --> 01:27:26,880
Speaker 1: do it. I mean, the guy. If you if you

1607
01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:30,680
Speaker 1: turn it over, you sit down eventually. Even the most

1608
01:27:30,840 --> 01:27:35,000
Speaker 1: even in the most UH player friendly environments, if you

1609
01:27:35,080 --> 01:27:36,760
Speaker 1: turn it over too much, you've got to sit down.

1610
01:27:36,880 --> 01:27:38,720
Speaker 1: And that's what will happen. If Jamie starts to do that.

1611
01:27:39,000 --> 01:27:41,000
Speaker 1: All right, that is what's for a lunch. Steve and

1612
01:27:41,040 --> 01:27:42,519
Speaker 1: I will take a break, but when we come back,

1613
01:27:42,560 --> 01:27:45,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna reset the deck for you on the Twitter

1614
01:27:45,360 --> 01:27:49,160
Speaker 1: poll as we are checking in with you to find

1615
01:27:49,240 --> 01:27:53,520
Speaker 1: out how you feel the NFL should handle their offseason

1616
01:27:53,600 --> 01:27:57,560
Speaker 1: program in preseason with the pandemic still an issue in

1617
01:27:57,800 --> 01:28:01,879
Speaker 1: terms of players being on site a team facilities in April,

1618
01:28:02,479 --> 01:28:06,000
Speaker 1: May and June for the off season programs. We're back

1619
01:28:06,040 --> 01:28:08,479
Speaker 1: with more on that, including your phone calls when we

1620
01:28:08,600 --> 01:28:11,360
Speaker 1: return on One Bills Live, presented by Kalaida Help. This

1621
01:28:11,560 --> 01:28:27,200
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills or Radio. Welcome back to One Bills

1622
01:28:27,280 --> 01:28:30,760
Speaker 1: Live here on this Wednesday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you,

1623
01:28:31,160 --> 01:28:36,800
Speaker 1: and we are diving deep into the NFL offseason and

1624
01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:42,600
Speaker 1: what it should look like the NFL and the Players Association.

1625
01:28:42,800 --> 01:28:46,280
Speaker 1: According to one Chris Mortenson from ESPN friend of the show,

1626
01:28:47,800 --> 01:28:50,320
Speaker 1: they are negotiating what the off season is going to

1627
01:28:50,400 --> 01:28:52,560
Speaker 1: look like. How virtual will it be. Will it be

1628
01:28:52,680 --> 01:28:55,920
Speaker 1: identical to what we witness last year or will it

1629
01:28:56,040 --> 01:29:00,439
Speaker 1: be a morphed version of that. Will it be hybrid

1630
01:29:00,560 --> 01:29:04,240
Speaker 1: virtual and in person? We just don't know yet, but

1631
01:29:04,360 --> 01:29:06,240
Speaker 1: we wonder what you would prefer to see at eight

1632
01:29:06,280 --> 01:29:09,439
Speaker 1: o three fifty and the choices are there for you

1633
01:29:09,760 --> 01:29:13,760
Speaker 1: at one Bills Live on Twitter Virtual offseason program last

1634
01:29:13,840 --> 01:29:17,439
Speaker 1: year proved it works a partially virtual offseason with a

1635
01:29:17,520 --> 01:29:22,240
Speaker 1: shorter training camp in preseason, or a normal off season

1636
01:29:22,400 --> 01:29:25,639
Speaker 1: like it's always been with the exception of twenty twenties

1637
01:29:25,960 --> 01:29:30,280
Speaker 1: pandemic offseason. Let us know at eight five fifty and

1638
01:29:30,400 --> 01:29:32,559
Speaker 1: we were surprised that a lot of fans just want

1639
01:29:32,560 --> 01:29:34,800
Speaker 1: to see it go back to normal, get a normal

1640
01:29:34,840 --> 01:29:37,599
Speaker 1: preseason schedule, like four games, the whole well on normal

1641
01:29:37,720 --> 01:29:41,320
Speaker 1: offseason with OTAs and mini camp. I think I think Steve,

1642
01:29:41,680 --> 01:29:45,120
Speaker 1: they're coming from this standpoint when they vote that way.

1643
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:51,960
Speaker 1: I think the OTAs and the mini camp are opportunities

1644
01:29:52,000 --> 01:29:55,160
Speaker 1: for them to check in on their teams. How are

1645
01:29:55,200 --> 01:29:58,280
Speaker 1: they looking in advance of the season. You know they

1646
01:29:58,360 --> 01:30:02,160
Speaker 1: pay attention to the reports, uh, you know, the practice reports,

1647
01:30:02,200 --> 01:30:04,920
Speaker 1: the player interviews, what the coaches think about, how the

1648
01:30:05,040 --> 01:30:08,320
Speaker 1: team's coming along, How are the new draft class fitting in,

1649
01:30:08,520 --> 01:30:11,759
Speaker 1: How are they acclimating to a pro lifestyle and a career.

1650
01:30:12,600 --> 01:30:14,479
Speaker 1: These are things that I think fans do have an

1651
01:30:14,520 --> 01:30:17,320
Speaker 1: interest in, at least the diehards do. They want to

1652
01:30:17,400 --> 01:30:19,519
Speaker 1: check in and this is a way for them to

1653
01:30:19,640 --> 01:30:22,559
Speaker 1: check up on their team right in May and June,

1654
01:30:24,120 --> 01:30:27,280
Speaker 1: the duldrums of a football fan's life, if you will.

1655
01:30:27,520 --> 01:30:29,760
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm overstaying now though, because we can you can

1656
01:30:29,880 --> 01:30:32,439
Speaker 1: check in with these particularly since the pandemic. You check

1657
01:30:32,479 --> 01:30:34,640
Speaker 1: in with these guys on zoom anytime you want. I mean,

1658
01:30:34,960 --> 01:30:36,960
Speaker 1: if the media, if they make them available to the media.

1659
01:30:37,439 --> 01:30:40,640
Speaker 1: But there's action on the field, yeah, but nobody sees it.

1660
01:30:40,800 --> 01:30:42,320
Speaker 1: I mean we go out and watch it, you know,

1661
01:30:42,400 --> 01:30:44,040
Speaker 1: and you get and you get you know, guys like

1662
01:30:44,120 --> 01:30:46,160
Speaker 1: you and me saying this and this and this about it,

1663
01:30:46,240 --> 01:30:49,920
Speaker 1: and you can you know, I just, um, I think

1664
01:30:49,920 --> 01:30:52,280
Speaker 1: it's what you're used to a little bit of this.

1665
01:30:53,240 --> 01:30:54,720
Speaker 1: You know, you want to you want to get a

1666
01:30:55,200 --> 01:30:57,760
Speaker 1: you know, check in, like you said, check in with it.

1667
01:30:57,840 --> 01:31:00,559
Speaker 1: But I think given the environment we're in right now,

1668
01:31:00,640 --> 01:31:03,040
Speaker 1: it proves that you can stay abreast of what your

1669
01:31:03,080 --> 01:31:07,400
Speaker 1: team's doing without them being in the building. The players

1670
01:31:07,439 --> 01:31:12,760
Speaker 1: certainly feel that way, right and yeah, yeah, they don't

1671
01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:15,040
Speaker 1: need to be in the building. The coaches will tell

1672
01:31:15,040 --> 01:31:18,400
Speaker 1: you they want them to because they they want to

1673
01:31:18,400 --> 01:31:22,320
Speaker 1: get them ready. But here's the thing. If every coach

1674
01:31:22,880 --> 01:31:25,559
Speaker 1: is in the same boat as you, fair is fair.

1675
01:31:25,640 --> 01:31:29,400
Speaker 1: You don't need any worse than they do. Get your

1676
01:31:29,439 --> 01:31:33,880
Speaker 1: guys ready, you know, Um, that's what you're signing. Yeah,

1677
01:31:34,040 --> 01:31:36,479
Speaker 1: just find Yeah, do it. Find a way. And I'm

1678
01:31:36,520 --> 01:31:39,400
Speaker 1: not making light of that slogan. I'm just saying. I'm

1679
01:31:39,479 --> 01:31:43,240
Speaker 1: just saying, if it's fair, it's fair. All thirty two

1680
01:31:43,280 --> 01:31:45,519
Speaker 1: teams are in the same boat. You're not losing anything.

1681
01:31:46,680 --> 01:31:49,719
Speaker 1: So do your best and let's go, you know, find

1682
01:31:49,760 --> 01:31:52,920
Speaker 1: the best way to figure out and decipher and meet

1683
01:31:52,960 --> 01:31:55,960
Speaker 1: about and talk about and plan the best way to

1684
01:31:56,080 --> 01:31:59,800
Speaker 1: do it and execute it well. And the plus this

1685
01:32:00,200 --> 01:32:04,600
Speaker 1: offseason anyway, as you have a roadmap. Last year you

1686
01:32:04,720 --> 01:32:07,320
Speaker 1: had to build, you had to make the map. Yeah,

1687
01:32:07,720 --> 01:32:10,439
Speaker 1: but now you've got a roadmap off of which to

1688
01:32:10,560 --> 01:32:13,519
Speaker 1: work to be maybe even more effective in a virtual

1689
01:32:13,600 --> 01:32:17,840
Speaker 1: setting this offseason than you were the last offseason. When

1690
01:32:17,880 --> 01:32:19,360
Speaker 1: you're like, what the hell do we have to do

1691
01:32:19,439 --> 01:32:22,760
Speaker 1: to get ready? Yeah, we're not getting on the what

1692
01:32:22,840 --> 01:32:24,160
Speaker 1: do you mean we're not getting The only thing they

1693
01:32:24,200 --> 01:32:25,880
Speaker 1: had to work with last season is that they were

1694
01:32:25,960 --> 01:32:30,400
Speaker 1: inside of what a multi billion dollar industry, and they

1695
01:32:30,479 --> 01:32:31,800
Speaker 1: kind of knew in their heart of hearts. It was

1696
01:32:31,840 --> 01:32:34,240
Speaker 1: gonna have. They weren't gonna not have a season. So

1697
01:32:34,320 --> 01:32:36,160
Speaker 1: you better fight figure out how it's gonna how it's

1698
01:32:36,200 --> 01:32:38,479
Speaker 1: gonna work. You better ask your people and get it going.

1699
01:32:39,040 --> 01:32:41,799
Speaker 1: And so you got like guys like Sean McDermot, Brandon

1700
01:32:41,880 --> 01:32:45,519
Speaker 1: Bean and the football operations people are here going, Okay,

1701
01:32:45,560 --> 01:32:48,920
Speaker 1: we got to set up sixty tables six feet apart

1702
01:32:49,200 --> 01:32:53,679
Speaker 1: on this grid. We got to coordinate off section it off.

1703
01:32:54,360 --> 01:32:56,600
Speaker 1: Put plat masks on the players get there, Get a

1704
01:32:56,640 --> 01:32:59,720
Speaker 1: temperature taker as they come in the door, get a

1705
01:32:59,800 --> 01:33:04,200
Speaker 1: dry through test. You know all this stuff. Um got

1706
01:33:04,280 --> 01:33:07,040
Speaker 1: a contract out with a company to get tested every day.

1707
01:33:07,120 --> 01:33:09,320
Speaker 1: You know all this. You know this is all football

1708
01:33:09,360 --> 01:33:14,360
Speaker 1: operations people doing this. Who's who's got infectious disease experts

1709
01:33:14,439 --> 01:33:18,559
Speaker 1: until last year, right right? Who knew that was going

1710
01:33:18,600 --> 01:33:23,120
Speaker 1: to be a hot job in twenty twenty infection control officer? Right?

1711
01:33:24,120 --> 01:33:26,200
Speaker 1: So now they got all that under their belt. Now

1712
01:33:26,240 --> 01:33:29,000
Speaker 1: they can kind of start thinking about football a little

1713
01:33:29,000 --> 01:33:34,040
Speaker 1: earlier in the off season. But they don't need these

1714
01:33:34,080 --> 01:33:37,360
Speaker 1: guys in the building. Man, Let's see what Frank and

1715
01:33:37,439 --> 01:33:39,720
Speaker 1: Angola thinks. Frank, you're on one Bill's Live. What do

1716
01:33:39,800 --> 01:33:44,960
Speaker 1: you have for us? Yeah, I just my opinion is

1717
01:33:45,920 --> 01:33:48,320
Speaker 1: that you're talking about all we need more time off

1718
01:33:48,360 --> 01:33:51,519
Speaker 1: and everything else, baby, and ever since high school. The

1719
01:33:51,640 --> 01:33:55,080
Speaker 1: money they're making nowadays, eighteen million dollars for the receiver

1720
01:33:55,520 --> 01:33:58,519
Speaker 1: and you, oh, I want more time off. Suck it up.

1721
01:33:59,439 --> 01:34:02,840
Speaker 1: It's a good Frank. I hear you. I hear you.

1722
01:34:03,080 --> 01:34:05,080
Speaker 1: I think some of it, Frank, is this I mean,

1723
01:34:05,160 --> 01:34:08,360
Speaker 1: there's no question that it's a physically taxing sport, no

1724
01:34:08,560 --> 01:34:12,240
Speaker 1: question about it. Um And a lot of this free time,

1725
01:34:12,320 --> 01:34:15,000
Speaker 1: this offseason thing stems from when the league was not

1726
01:34:15,600 --> 01:34:18,920
Speaker 1: paying guys eighteen million life dollars in cat you know,

1727
01:34:19,000 --> 01:34:21,880
Speaker 1: eight life changing money. These guys were making great money

1728
01:34:22,240 --> 01:34:26,840
Speaker 1: and they lived good. But guys, here's how recent guys

1729
01:34:26,880 --> 01:34:30,920
Speaker 1: that I played with, Guys that I played with early

1730
01:34:31,000 --> 01:34:33,320
Speaker 1: in their careers, and the old guys that were in

1731
01:34:33,360 --> 01:34:35,559
Speaker 1: the league when I got into the league would talk

1732
01:34:35,600 --> 01:34:38,479
Speaker 1: about how they had offseason jobs because they weren't making

1733
01:34:38,600 --> 01:34:42,120
Speaker 1: enough money for you know what I mean, They they

1734
01:34:42,240 --> 01:34:44,360
Speaker 1: had to have a second job. So there's still a

1735
01:34:44,439 --> 01:34:46,760
Speaker 1: lot of that out there where guys, you know, had

1736
01:34:46,840 --> 01:34:48,519
Speaker 1: that free time, they had to to make ends meet.

1737
01:34:48,520 --> 01:34:53,800
Speaker 1: They nobody was getting filthy stinking rich now And when

1738
01:34:53,880 --> 01:34:57,559
Speaker 1: I and when I, during my career, you had guys

1739
01:34:57,680 --> 01:35:01,519
Speaker 1: making some life changing money, but only handful, Yeah, the

1740
01:35:01,640 --> 01:35:04,640
Speaker 1: top one percent. Yeah, maybe one or two guys a

1741
01:35:04,760 --> 01:35:08,639
Speaker 1: team maybe if they saw all the money. And then

1742
01:35:08,800 --> 01:35:10,760
Speaker 1: during my career gott Mound, maybe it was two or

1743
01:35:10,840 --> 01:35:14,240
Speaker 1: three on the team. Maybe two or three maybe, And

1744
01:35:14,439 --> 01:35:17,000
Speaker 1: now that number has grown and grown and grown and

1745
01:35:17,080 --> 01:35:20,680
Speaker 1: grown until now you've got a large percentage of these

1746
01:35:20,720 --> 01:35:23,560
Speaker 1: guys making twelve guys right, there might be ten or

1747
01:35:23,600 --> 01:35:26,439
Speaker 1: twelve guys making life that make a life changing deal

1748
01:35:26,520 --> 01:35:30,800
Speaker 1: on a contract. So now it's it's evolving away from

1749
01:35:31,000 --> 01:35:34,160
Speaker 1: these and nope, but now nobody is getting an offseason

1750
01:35:34,280 --> 01:35:36,920
Speaker 1: job unless they want it, unless they you know, got

1751
01:35:36,960 --> 01:35:39,360
Speaker 1: a career and they want to pursue something. They're an

1752
01:35:39,439 --> 01:35:42,160
Speaker 1: artist or or whatever it is. I don't care if

1753
01:35:42,160 --> 01:35:44,559
Speaker 1: they're digging ditches, but if it's their job, it's their passion,

1754
01:35:44,800 --> 01:35:50,080
Speaker 1: these guys pursue it. Nobody though, is sitting around getting

1755
01:35:50,080 --> 01:35:52,720
Speaker 1: another job, worrying about where their next meal is coming from,

1756
01:35:52,800 --> 01:35:55,439
Speaker 1: like they did at one era in the league. So

1757
01:35:57,120 --> 01:35:59,400
Speaker 1: I think until you can get to a point where

1758
01:35:59,479 --> 01:36:03,160
Speaker 1: every single guy as soon as he's drafted, changes signs

1759
01:36:03,160 --> 01:36:07,519
Speaker 1: a life changer. You're gonna have this balance of listen,

1760
01:36:07,560 --> 01:36:09,479
Speaker 1: I need some I want some time off, and you don't.

1761
01:36:09,880 --> 01:36:11,639
Speaker 1: You're not paying me enough to get me twelve months

1762
01:36:11,680 --> 01:36:17,960
Speaker 1: a year. But He's right, it's still hard for you know,

1763
01:36:18,160 --> 01:36:21,599
Speaker 1: us working Joe's to wrap our head around it sometimes

1764
01:36:21,880 --> 01:36:24,719
Speaker 1: because I'm having enough trouble wrapping my head around eighteen

1765
01:36:24,800 --> 01:36:29,280
Speaker 1: million dollars a year for Kenny Galaday, like a year,

1766
01:36:29,479 --> 01:36:32,719
Speaker 1: one year, that's one year that and you say after taxes,

1767
01:36:32,760 --> 01:36:36,240
Speaker 1: when you say that, he's getting twelve million, but sticking

1768
01:36:36,280 --> 01:36:38,800
Speaker 1: the bank, I mean, and then in the same breath,

1769
01:36:39,479 --> 01:36:41,599
Speaker 1: you know they're saying, well, let's do the whole off

1770
01:36:41,640 --> 01:36:45,600
Speaker 1: season from home. You know, so now even if you

1771
01:36:45,760 --> 01:36:50,200
Speaker 1: have a full training camp, you're talking August through January,

1772
01:36:51,680 --> 01:36:57,240
Speaker 1: I mean, five six months making eighteen million. And I

1773
01:36:57,360 --> 01:36:59,479
Speaker 1: realized that, you know, you gotta stay in shape in

1774
01:36:59,520 --> 01:37:01,479
Speaker 1: the office. He's gonna do that on your own volition.

1775
01:37:02,560 --> 01:37:06,400
Speaker 1: But it it rubs some some some regular work in

1776
01:37:06,520 --> 01:37:09,720
Speaker 1: Joe's the wrong. Well question, and I'll say this too,

1777
01:37:11,200 --> 01:37:15,120
Speaker 1: You'd be hard pressed at any athlete in today's NFL

1778
01:37:15,960 --> 01:37:17,800
Speaker 1: to come out with this thing going, well, you know,

1779
01:37:17,920 --> 01:37:20,920
Speaker 1: they don't pay me enough to have me work twelve

1780
01:37:20,960 --> 01:37:25,479
Speaker 1: months a year. I don't know, bro, that's the hard sell,

1781
01:37:25,560 --> 01:37:27,240
Speaker 1: am I right? That's not the leg you want to

1782
01:37:27,280 --> 01:37:29,080
Speaker 1: stand up now. I don't think that. Now. Here's the

1783
01:37:29,120 --> 01:37:31,160
Speaker 1: other thing. I don't think the ownership and the coaches

1784
01:37:31,200 --> 01:37:33,400
Speaker 1: are Nobody wants to be in this building twelve months

1785
01:37:33,400 --> 01:37:36,479
Speaker 1: a year doing what they do, because if you're not

1786
01:37:36,640 --> 01:37:41,280
Speaker 1: playing games, I mean, real live football games, what are

1787
01:37:41,320 --> 01:37:45,120
Speaker 1: you doing? You know? I mean, come on, there's there's

1788
01:37:45,120 --> 01:37:47,880
Speaker 1: just no way to there's no way to fill that day.

1789
01:37:48,080 --> 01:37:50,439
Speaker 1: I mean, how much can you work out? And then

1790
01:37:50,560 --> 01:37:52,160
Speaker 1: you have the sports science and say, listen, you need

1791
01:37:52,200 --> 01:37:53,720
Speaker 1: a certain amount of rest for a certain amount of

1792
01:37:53,800 --> 01:37:56,639
Speaker 1: you know. I get all that. So it's a hard sell,

1793
01:37:57,200 --> 01:38:01,240
Speaker 1: but the justifications easy for all of us working stiffs

1794
01:38:01,240 --> 01:38:03,240
Speaker 1: out here saying, well, listen, they pay you eighteen million

1795
01:38:03,280 --> 01:38:05,080
Speaker 1: bucks a year, Yeah, you should go to work every day.

1796
01:38:07,320 --> 01:38:10,800
Speaker 1: That's yeah, it's comical, right, it's comical. That's like I

1797
01:38:10,880 --> 01:38:14,560
Speaker 1: kind of chuckled, right, it's comical. So I don't so

1798
01:38:15,439 --> 01:38:18,880
Speaker 1: it's tradition that these guys get an off season. It's

1799
01:38:18,920 --> 01:38:20,519
Speaker 1: not that they're not getting paid enough not to work

1800
01:38:20,520 --> 01:38:24,000
Speaker 1: twelve months. All right, break time for us. We will

1801
01:38:24,040 --> 01:38:26,200
Speaker 1: pick this back up on the other side of the break.

1802
01:38:26,320 --> 01:38:28,040
Speaker 1: We have yet to get to your comments on the

1803
01:38:28,080 --> 01:38:31,719
Speaker 1: tweet sheet. We will address those on what you think

1804
01:38:32,400 --> 01:38:35,400
Speaker 1: the NFL should do in handling the offseason program and

1805
01:38:35,560 --> 01:38:40,120
Speaker 1: the preseason with the pandemic still lingering here in twenty

1806
01:38:40,240 --> 01:38:42,400
Speaker 1: twenty one, We'll be back in a moment here on

1807
01:38:42,479 --> 01:38:44,839
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo

1808
01:38:44,920 --> 01:38:59,639
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio, Collo Bills Radio Network Sports update your sports

1809
01:38:59,720 --> 01:39:02,519
Speaker 1: up to from One Bills Live, One Bill's Drive. The

1810
01:39:02,600 --> 01:39:05,080
Speaker 1: Bills and defensive end Fa Obada have agreed to terms

1811
01:39:05,120 --> 01:39:07,400
Speaker 1: on a one year deal. Obada joins the Bills after

1812
01:39:07,920 --> 01:39:10,719
Speaker 1: playing for the Panthers from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty.

1813
01:39:10,760 --> 01:39:13,160
Speaker 1: The defensive end played in sixteen games last season at

1814
01:39:13,400 --> 01:39:15,519
Speaker 1: a career high five and a half sacks, a forced

1815
01:39:15,520 --> 01:39:19,439
Speaker 1: fumble and seventeen total tackles. Born in Nigeria, he spent

1816
01:39:19,560 --> 01:39:22,719
Speaker 1: part of his childhood in England, then started playing semi

1817
01:39:22,800 --> 01:39:26,400
Speaker 1: pro football in the British American Football Association. Played for

1818
01:39:26,439 --> 01:39:29,920
Speaker 1: the London Warriors, then was assigned to the Panthers as

1819
01:39:30,000 --> 01:39:34,200
Speaker 1: part of the league's International Pathway program. Wide receiver Isaiah

1820
01:39:34,280 --> 01:39:37,240
Speaker 1: McKenzie resigned with the team on Tuesday, met with the

1821
01:39:37,320 --> 01:39:40,439
Speaker 1: media today also joined our show here on one Bills Live.

1822
01:39:40,520 --> 01:39:43,519
Speaker 1: You can catch our interview with McKenzie later this afternoon

1823
01:39:43,600 --> 01:39:48,600
Speaker 1: on the Bills app, YouTube, and most places podcasts are available.

1824
01:39:49,120 --> 01:39:51,800
Speaker 1: Lawyer for Houston Texans QB Deshaun Watson said that he

1825
01:39:51,920 --> 01:39:55,599
Speaker 1: believes that quote any allegation that DeShawn forced a woman

1826
01:39:55,640 --> 01:39:58,400
Speaker 1: to commit a sexual act is completely false end quote.

1827
01:39:58,720 --> 01:40:01,320
Speaker 1: He said that in a Tuesday's damon that also included

1828
01:40:01,360 --> 01:40:03,640
Speaker 1: a declaration on behalf of Watson, claiming one of the

1829
01:40:03,720 --> 01:40:08,679
Speaker 1: believed plaintiffs in question previously tried to extort him. Watson

1830
01:40:08,760 --> 01:40:13,080
Speaker 1: is currently facing sixteen separate lawsuits filed in Harris County, Texas.

1831
01:40:14,120 --> 01:40:17,760
Speaker 1: The Bucks continue their offseason trying to retain the big

1832
01:40:17,880 --> 01:40:20,200
Speaker 1: name free agents from their Super Bowl team of a

1833
01:40:20,360 --> 01:40:23,400
Speaker 1: season ago. The team agreed with agreed to terms with

1834
01:40:23,479 --> 01:40:26,599
Speaker 1: defensive tackle and Dominckinsoue on a one year contract where

1835
01:40:26,600 --> 01:40:30,000
Speaker 1: the max of ten million dollars. Running Back James White

1836
01:40:30,120 --> 01:40:32,599
Speaker 1: resigns with New England one year, two and a half

1837
01:40:32,680 --> 01:40:36,400
Speaker 1: million linebacker Alexandzelone goes from New Orleans to Detroit on

1838
01:40:36,439 --> 01:40:39,240
Speaker 1: a one year deal, and Damian Williams, the running back

1839
01:40:39,280 --> 01:40:41,679
Speaker 1: who was just released by the Chiefs this past week,

1840
01:40:42,080 --> 01:40:46,280
Speaker 1: signs with Chicago on a one year deal. The Sabers

1841
01:40:46,400 --> 01:40:48,839
Speaker 1: back at it tonight when they visit the Pittsburgh Penguins.

1842
01:40:49,240 --> 01:40:51,799
Speaker 1: Dustin Dakarski will get the start in net for Buffalo.

1843
01:40:52,120 --> 01:40:53,960
Speaker 1: The thirty one year old will attempt to secure his

1844
01:40:54,040 --> 01:40:57,840
Speaker 1: first NHL win since the twenty fifteen sixteen season against

1845
01:40:57,840 --> 01:41:01,679
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh team that is twelve and one on home

1846
01:41:01,800 --> 01:41:05,439
Speaker 1: ice this season. That is your space update from One

1847
01:41:05,520 --> 01:41:08,280
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you our number

1848
01:41:08,320 --> 01:41:10,800
Speaker 1: three of the program, where we are asking you how

1849
01:41:10,920 --> 01:41:15,840
Speaker 1: should the NFL handle the off season program and preseason

1850
01:41:15,960 --> 01:41:18,360
Speaker 1: choices are there for you at One bills Live on Twitter.

1851
01:41:18,920 --> 01:41:22,720
Speaker 1: As Chris Mortenson reported, the league's executive board and the

1852
01:41:22,800 --> 01:41:26,760
Speaker 1: players Association already negotiating what the offseason should look like

1853
01:41:26,800 --> 01:41:29,000
Speaker 1: because in about a month from now, actually less than

1854
01:41:29,040 --> 01:41:33,840
Speaker 1: a month from now, is when offseason conditioning programs begin

1855
01:41:34,360 --> 01:41:37,879
Speaker 1: for NFL clubs, and as we know, new head coaches

1856
01:41:38,200 --> 01:41:40,760
Speaker 1: get a beneficial get the benefit of getting an extra

1857
01:41:41,320 --> 01:41:45,679
Speaker 1: week of workouts on the field to kind of implement

1858
01:41:46,040 --> 01:41:50,400
Speaker 1: their systems respectively. So phase one, Phase two, Phase three

1859
01:41:50,439 --> 01:41:53,680
Speaker 1: of the offseason program. What's it gonna look like? It's

1860
01:41:53,760 --> 01:41:56,120
Speaker 1: up to the league's executive board in the players Association,

1861
01:41:56,160 --> 01:41:58,559
Speaker 1: but we want to know how you think the NFL

1862
01:41:58,560 --> 01:42:01,560
Speaker 1: should handle it and what it should look like and

1863
01:42:01,720 --> 01:42:03,880
Speaker 1: to get some of your comments. See if we're gonna

1864
01:42:03,880 --> 01:42:05,639
Speaker 1: go to the tweet sheet, because we haven't done that yet.

1865
01:42:06,120 --> 01:42:09,080
Speaker 1: Here on today's program tweet sheet brought to you by

1866
01:42:09,200 --> 01:42:12,479
Speaker 1: Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equiment moving company of the

1867
01:42:12,520 --> 01:42:15,720
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, and from Bills and Mets fan they say,

1868
01:42:15,760 --> 01:42:18,120
Speaker 1: I really miss Saint John Fisher. That's always one of

1869
01:42:18,200 --> 01:42:20,439
Speaker 1: my favorite parts of the Bill season. Wish there was

1870
01:42:20,479 --> 01:42:22,880
Speaker 1: a way to do it with social distancing and be

1871
01:42:23,080 --> 01:42:28,519
Speaker 1: there to see the team. And really, you gotta wonder, Steve,

1872
01:42:28,600 --> 01:42:31,080
Speaker 1: what is going to be the drop dead point to

1873
01:42:31,240 --> 01:42:34,519
Speaker 1: determine what training camp is going to be? Is it

1874
01:42:34,680 --> 01:42:37,680
Speaker 1: going to be a venue where fans can watch and

1875
01:42:38,080 --> 01:42:42,920
Speaker 1: sit in crowds to witness practices and see their teams

1876
01:42:42,960 --> 01:42:46,040
Speaker 1: and you know, make autograph requests. I mean, that's getting

1877
01:42:46,080 --> 01:42:48,800
Speaker 1: up close and personal to an NFL player that we

1878
01:42:48,920 --> 01:42:51,960
Speaker 1: haven't seen in over a calendar year. There was none

1879
01:42:52,000 --> 01:42:54,479
Speaker 1: of that. I mean, heck, we didn't go near players. Yeah,

1880
01:42:55,080 --> 01:42:58,160
Speaker 1: I think it's really interest. It's obviously for us, for

1881
01:42:58,240 --> 01:43:01,560
Speaker 1: you and me. I mean, I'd be hard pressed to

1882
01:43:01,640 --> 01:43:03,800
Speaker 1: find any fan that would mean more to them to

1883
01:43:03,840 --> 01:43:05,240
Speaker 1: go to training camp than it means to you and me.

1884
01:43:05,360 --> 01:43:07,400
Speaker 1: We talk about these guys every day and to be

1885
01:43:07,479 --> 01:43:09,599
Speaker 1: able to get down there and see him and talk

1886
01:43:09,680 --> 01:43:12,280
Speaker 1: to him and watch him on practice field and watch

1887
01:43:12,320 --> 01:43:14,240
Speaker 1: him go one on one is huge for you and

1888
01:43:14,360 --> 01:43:18,519
Speaker 1: I for what we do every day. So it's big

1889
01:43:18,680 --> 01:43:21,400
Speaker 1: for us, But for an average fan, I think just

1890
01:43:21,960 --> 01:43:24,880
Speaker 1: for a lot of people, Saint John Fisher's just it's

1891
01:43:24,920 --> 01:43:26,720
Speaker 1: a day trip that they take every year. Let's just

1892
01:43:26,800 --> 01:43:29,519
Speaker 1: go see because for some people, hey, they can't. They

1893
01:43:29,560 --> 01:43:31,360
Speaker 1: don't go to a game or be they don't go

1894
01:43:31,400 --> 01:43:34,640
Speaker 1: to a game until October November, and they don't want

1895
01:43:34,680 --> 01:43:35,920
Speaker 1: to wait that long to get a look at these

1896
01:43:35,960 --> 01:43:37,519
Speaker 1: guys in person. They want to get you know, it's

1897
01:43:37,600 --> 01:43:40,439
Speaker 1: just a fun day out. The club does a great

1898
01:43:40,520 --> 01:43:42,400
Speaker 1: job at Saint John Fisher and making it fun for

1899
01:43:42,520 --> 01:43:44,160
Speaker 1: people to be there, and you know, the weather is

1900
01:43:44,200 --> 01:43:46,960
Speaker 1: always nice, and so I get it. It's kind of

1901
01:43:46,960 --> 01:43:51,280
Speaker 1: a little destination. But for most fans across the country,

1902
01:43:52,120 --> 01:43:55,920
Speaker 1: you know, news coming out of training camp is you know,

1903
01:43:55,960 --> 01:43:57,400
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of that you know, kind of

1904
01:43:57,600 --> 01:43:59,439
Speaker 1: manna from heaven kind of thing. He just you know,

1905
01:43:59,720 --> 01:44:01,240
Speaker 1: you know, didn't work for it is just and it

1906
01:44:01,280 --> 01:44:04,280
Speaker 1: shows up right because it's just that time of year.

1907
01:44:04,400 --> 01:44:11,000
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I'm I'm torn between my old

1908
01:44:11,240 --> 01:44:15,040
Speaker 1: player self saying I'll be there when it's time to play,

1909
01:44:16,920 --> 01:44:20,200
Speaker 1: and the football side of this because I see the

1910
01:44:20,520 --> 01:44:23,200
Speaker 1: clubs like, let's get ready to play. We're paying you

1911
01:44:23,200 --> 01:44:25,840
Speaker 1: a ton of money. You do what we say, um

1912
01:44:27,080 --> 01:44:29,599
Speaker 1: and B two that for the owners and and there's

1913
01:44:30,200 --> 01:44:33,200
Speaker 1: there's conflicting stuff inside every building too, the coaches and

1914
01:44:33,280 --> 01:44:35,600
Speaker 1: the and the team. The coaches want these guys in

1915
01:44:35,720 --> 01:44:37,599
Speaker 1: the building. They want to get them as read as

1916
01:44:37,640 --> 01:44:39,599
Speaker 1: they can. They want to get their guys more ready

1917
01:44:39,640 --> 01:44:42,040
Speaker 1: than everybody else. Gets their guys ready to play. Yeah,

1918
01:44:42,120 --> 01:44:44,040
Speaker 1: and right, And if there's two or three weeks even

1919
01:44:44,080 --> 01:44:48,439
Speaker 1: in the offseason conditioning program where they're doing their own

1920
01:44:48,479 --> 01:44:52,760
Speaker 1: strength and conditioning department's regimen right in person under the

1921
01:44:52,800 --> 01:44:56,000
Speaker 1: watchful eye of the strength and conditioning coaches. They feel

1922
01:44:56,040 --> 01:44:58,400
Speaker 1: that's better too, right, But now in the same building,

1923
01:44:58,479 --> 01:45:04,479
Speaker 1: you've got guys hired the the owner, most notably, who's saying,

1924
01:45:06,080 --> 01:45:08,000
Speaker 1: why am I paying three hundred people to be in

1925
01:45:08,080 --> 01:45:10,560
Speaker 1: my building when they ain't gonna do anything until September?

1926
01:45:12,120 --> 01:45:16,680
Speaker 1: Get out, you know, show up, show up when we've

1927
01:45:16,680 --> 01:45:18,240
Speaker 1: got to get ready for a season. I don't want to,

1928
01:45:18,280 --> 01:45:19,639
Speaker 1: you know, I don't even want to pay the electric

1929
01:45:19,720 --> 01:45:22,200
Speaker 1: bill in this place, let alone. Want you know, pay

1930
01:45:22,280 --> 01:45:24,840
Speaker 1: you guys, pay the insurance for you guys being in here.

1931
01:45:25,120 --> 01:45:27,840
Speaker 1: Let alone having my first round draft pick blow his

1932
01:45:27,920 --> 01:45:31,719
Speaker 1: acl while he's doing a cone drill in July. No thanks.

1933
01:45:32,800 --> 01:45:35,320
Speaker 1: You know there's that kind of tension too. You gotta

1934
01:45:35,320 --> 01:45:41,880
Speaker 1: get because it's real. It's real, it's real. So ownership

1935
01:45:41,960 --> 01:45:43,400
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, yeah, they want to put the

1936
01:45:43,439 --> 01:45:46,840
Speaker 1: football out there, but this last offseason probably showed a

1937
01:45:46,920 --> 01:45:50,880
Speaker 1: lot of owners might not need guys. You know, let's

1938
01:45:50,920 --> 01:45:54,840
Speaker 1: just save a few hundred thousand, if not a million

1939
01:45:54,960 --> 01:45:58,840
Speaker 1: or two dollars off our bottom line by you know,

1940
01:45:59,080 --> 01:46:01,080
Speaker 1: just pushing it back another month and a half. And

1941
01:46:01,240 --> 01:46:04,320
Speaker 1: let's not forget that a lot of NFL clubs are

1942
01:46:04,400 --> 01:46:06,360
Speaker 1: probably still trying to find ways to recruit some of

1943
01:46:06,400 --> 01:46:10,000
Speaker 1: the losses from last year. Now, the new TV deals

1944
01:46:10,040 --> 01:46:13,200
Speaker 1: will certainly help with that. They yeah, in twenty four months,

1945
01:46:13,360 --> 01:46:16,760
Speaker 1: but yeah, not right away. Yeah, that's that stuff's in

1946
01:46:16,800 --> 01:46:22,800
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. Yep, you gotta go. I'm surprised we

1947
01:46:22,840 --> 01:46:26,360
Speaker 1: don't have fifteen fifteen preseason games. Let's make up some

1948
01:46:26,439 --> 01:46:30,679
Speaker 1: of that money, right, Let's start having preseason games in May.

1949
01:46:32,120 --> 01:46:36,800
Speaker 1: You know. Now the seventeenth regular season game and the

1950
01:46:36,880 --> 01:46:40,400
Speaker 1: shaving of the preseason from four to three games. It

1951
01:46:40,479 --> 01:46:43,840
Speaker 1: looks like it's a formality, and we'll be going through

1952
01:46:44,080 --> 01:46:49,719
Speaker 1: early next week when the owners meet virtually. I wonder

1953
01:46:49,760 --> 01:46:52,400
Speaker 1: when we're going to get to a point where the

1954
01:46:52,560 --> 01:46:56,240
Speaker 1: extra game is going to prompt the players Association to

1955
01:46:56,439 --> 01:47:02,519
Speaker 1: demand bigger rosters, bigger practice squads. We saw that that

1956
01:47:02,800 --> 01:47:07,160
Speaker 1: was born out of necessity last year with a sixteen

1957
01:47:07,240 --> 01:47:11,040
Speaker 1: player practice squad and looser rules to bring players up

1958
01:47:11,280 --> 01:47:13,760
Speaker 1: to the active roster from the practice squad and then

1959
01:47:14,120 --> 01:47:17,479
Speaker 1: fare at them back down, etc. Etc. I wonder if

1960
01:47:17,520 --> 01:47:21,200
Speaker 1: there's any traction on that front to try to Hey,

1961
01:47:22,080 --> 01:47:24,320
Speaker 1: I know we're cutting the preseason, but that extra regular

1962
01:47:24,400 --> 01:47:28,120
Speaker 1: season game. That's like getting into fifteen car accidents for

1963
01:47:28,280 --> 01:47:30,800
Speaker 1: another week, and we're not getting an extra buye week.

1964
01:47:31,479 --> 01:47:34,160
Speaker 1: What do we say about expanding the roster ever so

1965
01:47:34,320 --> 01:47:38,880
Speaker 1: slightly to try to accommodate a more rigorous regular season schedule.

1966
01:47:38,960 --> 01:47:43,760
Speaker 1: The onest thing that I can you can rationalize that with, Yes,

1967
01:47:43,840 --> 01:47:47,479
Speaker 1: it's a dangerous game, but it's the same game. Would

1968
01:47:47,479 --> 01:47:49,880
Speaker 1: be a fundamental change to how the game's played. Like

1969
01:47:50,120 --> 01:47:52,400
Speaker 1: last year, it made some sense because they didn't know

1970
01:47:52,479 --> 01:47:53,960
Speaker 1: if they were going to have enough bodies on a

1971
01:47:54,040 --> 01:47:57,439
Speaker 1: given week to to COVID due to COVID, not injury,

1972
01:47:57,680 --> 01:48:00,719
Speaker 1: not the game itself. So if all of a sudden

1973
01:48:00,840 --> 01:48:03,479
Speaker 1: the game was going to be played and it was

1974
01:48:03,560 --> 01:48:06,920
Speaker 1: gonna be you know, six quarters long instead of four

1975
01:48:07,000 --> 01:48:09,479
Speaker 1: quarters long, and he had and he had more rotation,

1976
01:48:09,560 --> 01:48:11,800
Speaker 1: more players more, then you'd need more players to cover

1977
01:48:11,880 --> 01:48:14,160
Speaker 1: those spots, that kind of thing. But fundamentally, the game

1978
01:48:14,240 --> 01:48:16,320
Speaker 1: is the same, So you're only gonna have eleven guys

1979
01:48:16,360 --> 01:48:19,920
Speaker 1: on the team on the field at once. So unless

1980
01:48:19,960 --> 01:48:22,880
Speaker 1: there's a fundamental change in getting players to the game,

1981
01:48:23,439 --> 01:48:25,920
Speaker 1: I'm talking about physically and having enough guys to line

1982
01:48:26,000 --> 01:48:29,480
Speaker 1: up at a certain position or whatever. Unless something drastically

1983
01:48:29,600 --> 01:48:31,719
Speaker 1: changes with that, I think it'll be a hard sell

1984
01:48:32,360 --> 01:48:35,200
Speaker 1: for ownership or the players or anybody to say, yeah,

1985
01:48:35,240 --> 01:48:40,920
Speaker 1: we need an extra six slots on our roster. COVID

1986
01:48:41,240 --> 01:48:44,960
Speaker 1: was an obvious exception to that. I don't know how

1987
01:48:45,080 --> 01:48:47,800
Speaker 1: you go back the other way and say, well, since

1988
01:48:47,840 --> 01:48:50,320
Speaker 1: it worked so well, well, yeah, it worked well, but

1989
01:48:51,479 --> 01:48:53,760
Speaker 1: why are you going to force us to pay an

1990
01:48:53,840 --> 01:49:00,360
Speaker 1: extra ten guys salaries? Which is you know, in bucks

1991
01:49:00,360 --> 01:49:04,720
Speaker 1: a week? Yeah, you know, you know it's seven figures. Yeah.

1992
01:49:05,720 --> 01:49:09,920
Speaker 1: Christian on the tweet sheet says, normal mini camps, training

1993
01:49:10,040 --> 01:49:17,560
Speaker 1: camp with continued COVID protocols in place, no preseason. We

1994
01:49:17,720 --> 01:49:19,920
Speaker 1: got through last summer without a preseason. What did we

1995
01:49:20,000 --> 01:49:23,720
Speaker 1: think of that though? Yeah, well we got through it

1996
01:49:23,800 --> 01:49:25,560
Speaker 1: fine because there were other things on our plate like

1997
01:49:25,680 --> 01:49:27,360
Speaker 1: COVID and who was going to play and what happens

1998
01:49:27,400 --> 01:49:30,840
Speaker 1: if you're starting quarterback goes down and all that. But um,

1999
01:49:31,360 --> 01:49:33,880
Speaker 1: and we were more worried about not having preseason games

2000
01:49:33,920 --> 01:49:37,519
Speaker 1: as to you know, how good the product was gonna look? Right?

2001
01:49:37,760 --> 01:49:40,960
Speaker 1: How are they going to play? And that seemed to go, Yeah,

2002
01:49:41,040 --> 01:49:44,200
Speaker 1: we saw the preseason as a as a necessary ramp

2003
01:49:44,280 --> 01:49:48,640
Speaker 1: up to regular season football. Yeah, yeah, that that was

2004
01:49:48,760 --> 01:49:54,160
Speaker 1: kind of proven to be a feudal argument. Yeah, in

2005
01:49:54,280 --> 01:49:57,639
Speaker 1: many ways, I don't know that it that the way

2006
01:49:57,680 --> 01:50:00,439
Speaker 1: it went last year means automatically we don't need it,

2007
01:50:01,000 --> 01:50:03,560
Speaker 1: or that it serves no purpose, because I think it

2008
01:50:03,640 --> 01:50:06,680
Speaker 1: does serve a big purpose, particularly in player evaluation for

2009
01:50:06,800 --> 01:50:10,320
Speaker 1: young players and stuff. But four games is goodness, gracious,

2010
01:50:12,320 --> 01:50:17,960
Speaker 1: let's just do two and move on. Well, So, yeah,

2011
01:50:18,000 --> 01:50:20,320
Speaker 1: I'm totally with him, and I did my little rant

2012
01:50:20,360 --> 01:50:23,240
Speaker 1: earlier in the show about you know, let's not forget

2013
01:50:23,439 --> 01:50:27,559
Speaker 1: how much we hate preseason games, all of us, about

2014
01:50:27,600 --> 01:50:29,880
Speaker 1: how we thought the commissioner should step in and do

2015
01:50:30,000 --> 01:50:33,520
Speaker 1: something about the product we're forced to watch in the preseason.

2016
01:50:33,840 --> 01:50:36,760
Speaker 1: I mean, it all happens every season, so you know,

2017
01:50:36,800 --> 01:50:40,560
Speaker 1: we can pump the brakes on us all missing preseason

2018
01:50:40,600 --> 01:50:44,240
Speaker 1: because we know we don't. Tiffany says it's tough to

2019
01:50:44,360 --> 01:50:47,280
Speaker 1: argue how the Bills handled last offseason with the amount

2020
01:50:47,280 --> 01:50:50,320
Speaker 1: of success they had. As a fan, I look forward

2021
01:50:50,320 --> 01:50:52,920
Speaker 1: to seeing practice coverage. Getting a look at the new

2022
01:50:52,960 --> 01:50:55,600
Speaker 1: additions to the team would be nice. Hopefully they can

2023
01:50:55,640 --> 01:50:59,400
Speaker 1: add some more in person work this offseason. The more

2024
01:50:59,560 --> 01:51:01,240
Speaker 1: I think about it, though, the more I think that's

2025
01:51:01,280 --> 01:51:06,080
Speaker 1: not happening until training camp again, I just I don't

2026
01:51:06,080 --> 01:51:08,479
Speaker 1: see how they get there. Yeah, the timing of the

2027
01:51:08,600 --> 01:51:12,840
Speaker 1: virus being tamped down effectively through vaccinations and other means

2028
01:51:13,600 --> 01:51:16,519
Speaker 1: is not moving at the pace that I think many

2029
01:51:16,600 --> 01:51:20,120
Speaker 1: of us anticipated it would be by this point in time,

2030
01:51:20,800 --> 01:51:24,320
Speaker 1: Like we were all thinking in January. Ah, by the

2031
01:51:24,400 --> 01:51:26,560
Speaker 1: time we get to well maybe in December. Where you

2032
01:51:26,600 --> 01:51:28,120
Speaker 1: thinking that by the time we get to the spring,

2033
01:51:28,960 --> 01:51:31,639
Speaker 1: you know, this thing will be on the way down.

2034
01:51:32,240 --> 01:51:35,759
Speaker 1: People will be vaccinated. Is But people are getting vaccinated,

2035
01:51:36,000 --> 01:51:38,040
Speaker 1: you know, as fast as they can't. But it's I mean,

2036
01:51:38,120 --> 01:51:42,680
Speaker 1: I'm I'm waiting, right, I know you're nowhere near it.

2037
01:51:43,600 --> 01:51:47,600
Speaker 1: Well yeah, well, young and virile as you are, you know,

2038
01:51:47,640 --> 01:51:49,680
Speaker 1: an old guy like me, I should beat you know,

2039
01:51:50,280 --> 01:51:52,240
Speaker 1: you're in good shape. In New York State, they just said,

2040
01:51:52,640 --> 01:51:56,040
Speaker 1: finally over fifty, go get them. Yeah, well I get

2041
01:51:56,280 --> 01:52:00,240
Speaker 1: my first available appointment is sometimes right, So you know

2042
01:52:00,400 --> 01:52:04,080
Speaker 1: there's all of that. They're doing it fast, I mean

2043
01:52:05,439 --> 01:52:09,800
Speaker 1: as fast as they can. We'll see, we'll see. Yeah,

2044
01:52:10,200 --> 01:52:13,720
Speaker 1: but you know that's a fan that's like I said,

2045
01:52:13,760 --> 01:52:16,240
Speaker 1: they like to check in on their team. In April

2046
01:52:16,280 --> 01:52:18,160
Speaker 1: and may you know, how are they looking on the field.

2047
01:52:18,200 --> 01:52:20,519
Speaker 1: What are the new draft choices look like? These guys

2048
01:52:20,560 --> 01:52:23,200
Speaker 1: look like they're ready to contribute as rookies, this, that

2049
01:52:23,320 --> 01:52:25,800
Speaker 1: and the other. So there is a level of interest there.

2050
01:52:25,920 --> 01:52:28,960
Speaker 1: We talk about the year round machine that the NFL is,

2051
01:52:29,720 --> 01:52:33,759
Speaker 1: and it's conditioned fans to check in on their teams.

2052
01:52:34,040 --> 01:52:37,320
Speaker 1: And you know, a virtual offseason would again take that

2053
01:52:37,439 --> 01:52:41,240
Speaker 1: away from Jack. I think they can go virtual for

2054
01:52:41,400 --> 01:52:44,320
Speaker 1: now for OTAs. Let the players also organize their own

2055
01:52:44,360 --> 01:52:47,240
Speaker 1: workouts together, then have a mini camp in May or June,

2056
01:52:47,560 --> 01:52:50,479
Speaker 1: a normal training camp, and a shortened preseason with one

2057
01:52:50,560 --> 01:52:53,920
Speaker 1: controlled scrimmage inter squad or with another team, and two

2058
01:52:54,040 --> 01:52:59,880
Speaker 1: preseason games. Like Jack's tone, listen, it's virtual for now.

2059
01:53:00,240 --> 01:53:02,800
Speaker 1: We're good getting players will get together on their own

2060
01:53:03,400 --> 01:53:06,360
Speaker 1: many camp mayor June, normal training camp, shortened season, let's

2061
01:53:06,400 --> 01:53:08,439
Speaker 1: go with a scrimmage in a couple of preseason games.

2062
01:53:08,479 --> 01:53:11,560
Speaker 1: Let's go. Jack's very matter of fact. I like it,

2063
01:53:12,439 --> 01:53:14,200
Speaker 1: and he's right. We're he's right in the wheelhouse. I

2064
01:53:14,280 --> 01:53:17,920
Speaker 1: think we're collectively people are kind of right there. Two

2065
01:53:18,000 --> 01:53:21,120
Speaker 1: preseason games. Do whatever you want with the OTAs and

2066
01:53:21,240 --> 01:53:23,360
Speaker 1: scrimmages and let's go. You don't have to do any

2067
01:53:23,439 --> 01:53:26,720
Speaker 1: arm twisting if you get a fan to shorten the preseason, right,

2068
01:53:26,920 --> 01:53:30,519
Speaker 1: because they're if they have tickets, they're paying full freight

2069
01:53:30,600 --> 01:53:33,120
Speaker 1: for those preseason games. So they're not shying away from

2070
01:53:33,160 --> 01:53:35,920
Speaker 1: a shortened preseason, especially if the payback is an extra

2071
01:53:36,000 --> 01:53:39,800
Speaker 1: regular season game, which this year it is nine home games.

2072
01:53:39,920 --> 01:53:42,720
Speaker 1: Yeah for the Bills and every other AFC team, so

2073
01:53:43,240 --> 01:53:47,320
Speaker 1: very nice. So yeah, that's an easy sale. How how

2074
01:53:47,479 --> 01:53:51,920
Speaker 1: quick do they go to eighteen regular season games twenty

2075
01:53:52,040 --> 01:53:56,439
Speaker 1: twenty three? Reallything, it'll be that fast? John when the

2076
01:53:56,520 --> 01:53:58,880
Speaker 1: new new CBA King say, I mean when the new TV,

2077
01:53:59,479 --> 01:54:01,400
Speaker 1: why do you think that'll kick one will kick in

2078
01:54:01,479 --> 01:54:06,960
Speaker 1: the other? I just think it's It wouldn't surprise me

2079
01:54:07,160 --> 01:54:11,000
Speaker 1: if within the scope of the television deals there is

2080
01:54:11,000 --> 01:54:14,479
Speaker 1: an if then scenario that says, if the league goes

2081
01:54:14,520 --> 01:54:17,720
Speaker 1: to eighteen games, we will pay this much more, and

2082
01:54:17,880 --> 01:54:21,840
Speaker 1: so it's it's dollar signs in the eyeballs. Yeah, and

2083
01:54:21,920 --> 01:54:25,519
Speaker 1: I would say, say, let's get her done. Yeah, maybe

2084
01:54:25,640 --> 01:54:29,080
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. I think the players would have to

2085
01:54:29,400 --> 01:54:31,040
Speaker 1: use their leverage and say, okay, you can do that

2086
01:54:31,120 --> 01:54:33,040
Speaker 1: eighteen game schedule thing. But you're gonna give us a

2087
01:54:34,040 --> 01:54:35,960
Speaker 1: one preseason and you're gonna kick in a full another

2088
01:54:36,000 --> 01:54:39,120
Speaker 1: percentage point on the gross revenues. Yeah, and another bye week.

2089
01:54:40,880 --> 01:54:43,760
Speaker 1: You're okay, you're gonna start two weeks before Labor Day

2090
01:54:43,840 --> 01:54:47,040
Speaker 1: and then take a league wide laborer and then we're

2091
01:54:47,080 --> 01:54:49,600
Speaker 1: gonna go from there. The tasker plan will happen when

2092
01:54:49,640 --> 01:54:52,160
Speaker 1: we get to eighteen games. That is when the tasker

2093
01:54:52,240 --> 01:54:55,800
Speaker 1: plan will officially. They may push reality. They may push

2094
01:54:55,840 --> 01:54:59,640
Speaker 1: it back into February Super Bowl February twentieth instead of

2095
01:55:00,040 --> 01:55:03,600
Speaker 1: worry third first week because they don't want to start

2096
01:55:03,720 --> 01:55:06,920
Speaker 1: the TV wat They don't want to start the TV

2097
01:55:07,200 --> 01:55:09,240
Speaker 1: the game the regular season before the summer is that

2098
01:55:09,800 --> 01:55:11,560
Speaker 1: might be more of a network thing than it is

2099
01:55:11,600 --> 01:55:13,680
Speaker 1: a network thing. And I know this too that they

2100
01:55:13,760 --> 01:55:16,400
Speaker 1: used to start it on Labor Day weekend and nobody

2101
01:55:16,440 --> 01:55:21,200
Speaker 1: would watch because you know that nobody was home. Yeah,

2102
01:55:21,560 --> 01:55:23,360
Speaker 1: so people are more likely to be home in the

2103
01:55:23,400 --> 01:55:26,040
Speaker 1: middle of February than they are exactly on Labor Day

2104
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Speaker 1: weekend exactly. But if they started before Labor Day, everybody,

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Speaker 1: you know, then you might miss some people, but you know,

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Speaker 1: people will make it up and then you get Labor

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01:55:32,680 --> 01:55:35,240
Speaker 1: Day weekend off. It'll be a nice league wide bye

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Speaker 1: week reset after two preseason games two and then that

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Speaker 1: bye week on Labor Day, everybody gets a long weekend.

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Speaker 1: I just I feel fat and happy just to talk

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01:55:47,400 --> 01:55:49,680
Speaker 1: talking about it. I'm telling you, man, you better get

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Speaker 1: a copyright on this thing. It's like the Marshall Plan.

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01:55:55,480 --> 01:55:57,200
Speaker 1: Like I don't know what that was. I can't remember

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01:55:57,240 --> 01:56:00,280
Speaker 1: exactly what I remember the name of it either, certainly

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01:56:00,440 --> 01:56:02,840
Speaker 1: was like the Marshall Plan. I never got the appreciation

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01:56:02,920 --> 01:56:05,920
Speaker 1: in my in my own era. We got to get

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01:56:05,960 --> 01:56:07,960
Speaker 1: the attorneys on this, Steve. I'm telling you you got

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01:56:08,080 --> 01:56:11,120
Speaker 1: to write this up, presented to the league as your own.

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Speaker 1: And then this is another I want. I want the

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01:56:14,040 --> 01:56:16,800
Speaker 1: rights to NFL City is what I want? Oh? Right

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01:56:16,880 --> 01:56:18,960
Speaker 1: for the super Bowl. Yeah, that's the thing you gotta do.

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01:56:19,240 --> 01:56:22,520
Speaker 1: That's that's my ultimate. Yeah, that's my ultimate holy kind

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01:56:22,520 --> 01:56:24,840
Speaker 1: of like Omaha for the College. This would be my Yes,

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01:56:24,960 --> 01:56:28,360
Speaker 1: this would be my Sean Connery role as Indiana Jones's father.

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01:56:28,560 --> 01:56:30,720
Speaker 1: That's his holy grail he searched his whole life for.

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01:56:30,960 --> 01:56:34,880
Speaker 1: Mine would be NFL City. That would be my holy grail.

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01:56:35,560 --> 01:56:38,160
Speaker 1: And I think it should happen. Get a little bronze

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01:56:38,160 --> 01:56:42,320
Speaker 1: statue of Steve outside the stadium. Welcome to NFL City.

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Speaker 1: What would that idea forged in reality by one Steve Tasker?

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01:56:48,200 --> 01:56:51,000
Speaker 1: What would that I can hear John Facender's voice, now,

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01:56:52,120 --> 01:56:56,040
Speaker 1: NFL City, I'm an idea forged in the mind of

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01:56:57,520 --> 01:56:59,320
Speaker 1: real quick. I'll just tell you what NFL City is.

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01:56:59,440 --> 01:57:04,120
Speaker 1: It would be Disney World, except instead of mouse ears,

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01:57:04,160 --> 01:57:06,360
Speaker 1: it would be the NFL Shield, and it would be

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01:57:06,480 --> 01:57:10,760
Speaker 1: centered around that, not so much the and they're holding

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01:57:10,840 --> 01:57:13,440
Speaker 1: the shield in his arm would be Steven Tasker and

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01:57:13,520 --> 01:57:17,600
Speaker 1: a bronze statue like Captain American America. I could see it,

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01:57:18,080 --> 01:57:21,200
Speaker 1: I could sit. It meant my tiny little pot gut.

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01:57:21,480 --> 01:57:24,640
Speaker 1: Let's go up, Captain. Well, we'll have you in fighting

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01:57:24,720 --> 01:57:27,360
Speaker 1: shape for the year. Right, let's go to the phones.

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Speaker 1: We go to Joe in Rochester. Joe, what do you

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01:57:30,400 --> 01:57:32,520
Speaker 1: have for us? You're on one Bill's Live Quick, Yeah,

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01:57:32,600 --> 01:57:34,480
Speaker 1: real quick. Thanks for taking my call, Steve. I heard

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Speaker 1: you say, you're you. There was a time when they

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01:57:36,640 --> 01:57:39,400
Speaker 1: played on Labor Day. I remember it was my tenth

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Speaker 1: wedding anniversary. The Missus and I went up to Canada

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01:57:42,240 --> 01:57:45,480
Speaker 1: for a nice romantic weekend, but I couldn't miss the game,

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01:57:45,560 --> 01:57:47,760
Speaker 1: of course, so we we went to a bar and

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01:57:47,960 --> 01:57:50,840
Speaker 1: we watched the game because that was like a must

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01:57:51,240 --> 01:57:55,920
Speaker 1: must see TV. So when you commented on that first thing,

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01:57:55,960 --> 01:57:57,680
Speaker 1: that popped into my head. So I just wanted to

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01:57:57,760 --> 01:58:00,240
Speaker 1: call in and uh and pipe in on that. Yeah

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01:58:00,600 --> 01:58:02,720
Speaker 1: a good wife, you got there. Yeah, good for her

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01:58:02,920 --> 01:58:05,920
Speaker 1: tenth wed of Averse wedding anniversary too. I don't know that.

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01:58:06,240 --> 01:58:08,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if the shine has really worn off

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01:58:08,840 --> 01:58:11,160
Speaker 1: on the tenth anniversary or maybe it has a little bit.

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01:58:11,160 --> 01:58:13,760
Speaker 1: First that's a giveback though on the wife's part, it is. No,

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01:58:14,040 --> 01:58:15,760
Speaker 1: that's because it's a big number. You're going away for

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01:58:15,840 --> 01:58:17,880
Speaker 1: the weekend. It's well, what are we gonna do? You know,

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01:58:18,000 --> 01:58:19,880
Speaker 1: we're here in this exciting about Well, we're going to

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01:58:19,920 --> 01:58:23,880
Speaker 1: the bar. We're gonna watch the game, the games on honey. Yeah,

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01:58:24,320 --> 01:58:27,680
Speaker 1: what else you got? Joe? Oh? Hold, sorry, Joe, we're

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01:58:27,720 --> 01:58:29,120
Speaker 1: short on time here and I want to get to

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Speaker 1: Greg here. Who's next? Sorry about that, Joe, but thanks

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Speaker 1: for calling Greg in Toronto? What do you have for us? Greg?

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Speaker 1: You're on One Bill's Live. Hello, guys. I have three

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01:58:38,680 --> 01:58:42,480
Speaker 1: huge reasons why I love preseason and one of them

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Speaker 1: has to do with the fact that I'm a single

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Speaker 1: day with two kids. The tickets are way cheaper, right,

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Speaker 1: and just to get out there to have that experience

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01:58:49,680 --> 01:58:52,080
Speaker 1: of you know, going to a game. I can't drop

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01:58:52,160 --> 01:58:55,839
Speaker 1: a geno on regular season, so you know, the preseason

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01:58:55,920 --> 01:58:57,440
Speaker 1: is great just to get out there and you know,

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Speaker 1: have that experience. Then you can't beat the weather, which

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01:59:00,880 --> 01:59:03,400
Speaker 1: is you know, yeah that time of year. That's a

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01:59:03,440 --> 01:59:05,640
Speaker 1: good point. Well, people don't vot a December game for

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01:59:05,760 --> 01:59:10,120
Speaker 1: a huge reason, right, Um. And of course this Saturday

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01:59:10,240 --> 01:59:14,520
Speaker 1: dynamic is huge too. Um. I'm a huge Bill fan,

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Speaker 1: but I'm also a Steeler fan because my dad used

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01:59:17,600 --> 01:59:22,600
Speaker 1: to follow um Franco Harris and so going down to

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01:59:22,680 --> 01:59:25,800
Speaker 1: see a game in Pittsburgh on a Saturday the preseason

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01:59:26,120 --> 01:59:29,280
Speaker 1: was awesome, So it was. And then you can get

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01:59:29,320 --> 01:59:30,880
Speaker 1: back in time to you know, get back to work

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01:59:30,920 --> 01:59:32,920
Speaker 1: or do whatever you got to do, as opposed to

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Speaker 1: having it on a Sunday when it's more of a struggle.

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01:59:35,480 --> 01:59:37,520
Speaker 1: So and you can make a weekend of it. That's

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01:59:37,560 --> 01:59:39,880
Speaker 1: what we used to do all the time too. So yeah,

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01:59:40,080 --> 01:59:42,520
Speaker 1: those were those were huge reasons. And and you know,

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01:59:42,640 --> 01:59:45,600
Speaker 1: to spend what you spend on a regular season game

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01:59:46,000 --> 01:59:50,120
Speaker 1: with being a single dad than two kids. But yeah, no, yeah,

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01:59:50,720 --> 01:59:52,320
Speaker 1: that's good when Greg, and I'll tell you a couple

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01:59:52,320 --> 01:59:54,440
Speaker 1: of things you did date yourself. Because nobody plays on

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01:59:54,520 --> 01:59:58,160
Speaker 1: Saturdays too much anymore now everybody, I know, but but

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01:59:58,240 --> 02:00:00,360
Speaker 1: it used to be the everybody played on Saturdays. Right now,

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02:00:00,400 --> 02:00:02,920
Speaker 1: they're playing Thursdays because they want the extra they want

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Speaker 1: to especially the last preseason game comes on the Thursday,

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02:00:06,000 --> 02:00:09,360
Speaker 1: so they want to start. Like the Bills almost played

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Speaker 1: all of their preseason games two years ago on Thursdays

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Speaker 1: because they wanted that week routine working up to the game,

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02:00:15,560 --> 02:00:17,760
Speaker 1: and get into that routine all the way until their

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Speaker 1: last preseason game and then have a couple of extra

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02:00:20,240 --> 02:00:22,720
Speaker 1: days to settle, let the dust settle, and go into

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02:00:23,000 --> 02:00:26,920
Speaker 1: the first season game. And cheap secondary ticket market makes

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02:00:26,960 --> 02:00:29,000
Speaker 1: it that way, but if you're a season ticket holder,

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02:00:29,040 --> 02:00:31,680
Speaker 1: you get no such break, right, And that's all across

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Speaker 1: the league, and that's a league policy. And then of

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02:00:35,160 --> 02:00:37,000
Speaker 1: course the weather is awesome too. Yeah you're right, and

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02:00:37,040 --> 02:00:40,040
Speaker 1: almost it's almost too hot, and well yeah, but you

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Speaker 1: get those evening games, you know, for preseasons and summertime,

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Speaker 1: it's spectacular it's awesome, spectacular football, except the football stinks

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02:00:50,600 --> 02:00:53,400
Speaker 1: spectacular evening on a bad football game. All right, we

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Speaker 1: have to take a break, but we will wrap up

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Speaker 1: our thoughts on this along with your comments on the

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Speaker 1: tweet cheat, and then get into a little NFL true false.

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Speaker 1: Steve and I back in a flash here on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: with you, and I'm going to wrap up your thoughts

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Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet. Dinah had a very good comment.

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Speaker 1: Gotta go with part virtual offseason shorter camp in preseason

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02:01:28,040 --> 02:01:30,320
Speaker 1: virtual meetings work, but it took longer for the defense

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02:01:30,360 --> 02:01:33,000
Speaker 1: to get settled. Last year. Also, teams learned how to

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02:01:33,080 --> 02:01:35,600
Speaker 1: have players safely in their buildings, let everyone work out

2224
02:01:35,680 --> 02:01:39,120
Speaker 1: under guidelines. Has to be better. It has to be

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02:01:39,200 --> 02:01:43,760
Speaker 1: better than last year. You know your way around. Yeah,

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02:01:43,800 --> 02:01:45,840
Speaker 1: it'll be smooth, hirdles you have to play guys won't

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Speaker 1: be you know, it won't be the acclamation process. It

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02:01:48,080 --> 02:01:50,000
Speaker 1: will be for the new guys. But even them probably

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02:01:50,040 --> 02:01:56,120
Speaker 1: had COVID protocols in their colleges and stuff. Yeah, I

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02:01:56,720 --> 02:01:58,400
Speaker 1: still think we don't know what it's going to look like,

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02:01:58,520 --> 02:02:01,320
Speaker 1: and certainly the league and then management council's talking to

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02:02:01,360 --> 02:02:04,160
Speaker 1: the NFLPA even as we speak about all this stuff

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02:02:04,200 --> 02:02:08,240
Speaker 1: and what it's going to look like. And I do

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02:02:08,400 --> 02:02:10,040
Speaker 1: think it's going to be one of those things that's

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Speaker 1: going to be changed forever because of the pandemic. Right

2236
02:02:12,760 --> 02:02:14,800
Speaker 1: at least for the foreseeable future. They're gonna make some

2237
02:02:14,840 --> 02:02:17,920
Speaker 1: adjustments based on what they learned last year, Jeremy says,

2238
02:02:18,000 --> 02:02:20,200
Speaker 1: seeing how most defenses struggled, they need to go back

2239
02:02:20,240 --> 02:02:22,760
Speaker 1: to having a full off season program. This past season,

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Speaker 1: I proved that they were able to get everything done

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Speaker 1: in a safe and sufficient manner. I don't know about

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02:02:29,640 --> 02:02:32,920
Speaker 1: a full off season program, but we'll see. They'll never

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Speaker 1: go back to it. It's that, yeah, I don't. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: even when the pandemic, when they're free and clear the pandemic,

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02:02:38,120 --> 02:02:39,960
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if they'll ever go back

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Speaker 1: to what it once was. Well, I don't think so.

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02:02:41,920 --> 02:02:43,959
Speaker 1: I don't think they'll ever go back to four preseason

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02:02:44,040 --> 02:02:46,120
Speaker 1: games either. I think there's just too many, even for

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Speaker 1: coaches and stuff. I think they do need some time,

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Speaker 1: and I do you know, one thing I think that

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Speaker 1: was University universally appreciated was they had that acclamation process

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Speaker 1: that week where they came in, worked out and started

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02:03:01,680 --> 02:03:06,480
Speaker 1: playing football without actually putting helmets and pads on. Yeah,

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02:03:06,640 --> 02:03:09,560
Speaker 1: and it's it got them up. And I think one

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Speaker 1: thing that we can be sure of they took meticulous

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Speaker 1: note of how it affected injuries and when those injuries

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02:03:16,720 --> 02:03:19,320
Speaker 1: occurred and what type of injuries they got. The league

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02:03:19,360 --> 02:03:22,440
Speaker 1: has always been very meticulous in keeping track of where

2259
02:03:22,520 --> 02:03:25,040
Speaker 1: these guys get hurt and why, and what type of

2260
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Speaker 1: injuries they they they sustain and whether there is a

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02:03:32,720 --> 02:03:38,200
Speaker 1: systemic remedy to that. Um They've been very They're always

2262
02:03:38,400 --> 02:03:40,480
Speaker 1: they've been sensitive that for a long time. With players

2263
02:03:40,480 --> 02:03:44,480
Speaker 1: of safety taking the forefront, they've scoured those numbers and

2264
02:03:44,560 --> 02:03:49,000
Speaker 1: tried to glean where they can not just cut back

2265
02:03:49,040 --> 02:03:53,880
Speaker 1: but also increase. So I think once that those numbers

2266
02:03:53,920 --> 02:03:56,320
Speaker 1: come out and that research is done, the league will

2267
02:03:56,400 --> 02:03:59,840
Speaker 1: learn from it and and they'll make some probably some

2268
02:04:00,000 --> 02:04:02,920
Speaker 1: pretty good decisions based on it. But I think that's

2269
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Speaker 1: that data is really interesting to think about because I

2270
02:04:06,080 --> 02:04:10,520
Speaker 1: know they did reams reams of data about what the

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Speaker 1: injuries meant and the you know, the acclamation period, how

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Speaker 1: they when the injuries occurred after the acclamation period was over,

2273
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Speaker 1: what kind of injuries they sustained, What were the most

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Speaker 1: common types of injuries, all of that stuff. I think

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Speaker 1: that'd be really interesting number. Those would be really interesting

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Speaker 1: number to get your hands on. Yeah, and that ramp

2277
02:04:27,520 --> 02:04:30,040
Speaker 1: up period was designed because of all the virtual stuff

2278
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Speaker 1: that took place before it. Guys that hadn't done anything

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02:04:32,960 --> 02:04:34,720
Speaker 1: in a team setting for the better part of a

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02:04:34,800 --> 02:04:39,160
Speaker 1: calendar year. So yeah, that's why it was brought in

2281
02:04:39,240 --> 02:04:41,880
Speaker 1: in the first place. Jay Ad wraps up the tweet

2282
02:04:41,920 --> 02:04:44,240
Speaker 1: sheet by saying, I say, b as much as defense

2283
02:04:44,280 --> 02:04:45,920
Speaker 1: has struggled last year, they need to be able to

2284
02:04:45,960 --> 02:04:51,000
Speaker 1: get together in person. You can't practice tackling virtually. I say,

2285
02:04:51,120 --> 02:04:54,800
Speaker 1: have all meetings virtually. Also, a shorter camp with limited fans,

2286
02:04:54,880 --> 02:04:58,720
Speaker 1: socially distanced maybe twice a week, two preseason games at most.

2287
02:04:58,920 --> 02:05:04,320
Speaker 1: That's not bad. Yeah, I'd sign up for that. Yeah,

2288
02:05:04,640 --> 02:05:08,200
Speaker 1: the meetings, the the the meetings are great because you

2289
02:05:08,280 --> 02:05:11,520
Speaker 1: can do though we've all learned that you can do

2290
02:05:11,760 --> 02:05:15,480
Speaker 1: meetings virtually. You don't need to fly Cole Beasley in

2291
02:05:15,680 --> 02:05:21,400
Speaker 1: from Dallas from his offseason home or whoever from Virginia, California,

2292
02:05:21,480 --> 02:05:23,880
Speaker 1: or Texas, Florida, all where all these guys are from.

2293
02:05:24,040 --> 02:05:26,080
Speaker 1: You don't need to fly them in here to meet

2294
02:05:26,160 --> 02:05:29,520
Speaker 1: for three days, so you can draw stuff on a board.

2295
02:05:31,760 --> 02:05:36,040
Speaker 1: Let him stay home. Yeah, and that I think is

2296
02:05:36,080 --> 02:05:38,600
Speaker 1: as big a revelation for football is as it has

2297
02:05:38,680 --> 02:05:40,520
Speaker 1: been for the rest of society. We all kind of

2298
02:05:40,600 --> 02:05:42,560
Speaker 1: learned that there are people who may never go back

2299
02:05:42,640 --> 02:05:45,400
Speaker 1: in the office now after the pandemic because they don't

2300
02:05:45,440 --> 02:05:51,920
Speaker 1: have to. Um. The league should adopt that philosophy. They

2301
02:05:51,960 --> 02:05:55,120
Speaker 1: don't need these guys in the same room. Um. They

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02:05:55,200 --> 02:05:58,840
Speaker 1: can do a lot of work remotely and get a

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02:05:58,880 --> 02:06:02,240
Speaker 1: lot of production out of that, because, you know, until

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02:06:02,360 --> 02:06:06,840
Speaker 1: you need to be on the field playing football, you

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02:06:06,880 --> 02:06:11,000
Speaker 1: don't need to be in town. You know. Speaking of town,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go out to Kansas, Steve and talk to Adam.

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02:06:14,960 --> 02:06:17,400
Speaker 1: Who's waiting on the line here. Adam in Kansas, what

2308
02:06:17,440 --> 02:06:20,840
Speaker 1: do you have for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Hey,

2309
02:06:20,960 --> 02:06:24,920
Speaker 1: guys just coming home from work right now. So I

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Speaker 1: got a great idea for Josh Allen. Okay, sign him

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Speaker 1: to the Sabers for a huge contract. Can't make the

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Speaker 1: Sabers worse, and it will help out the salary cap.

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Speaker 1: What do you think you mean? Not even put him

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Speaker 1: on the Yeah, that's for an extension. Where are you

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Speaker 1: add in Kansas? What's town love and Worth? Oh? Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: good for you. Yeah, I'm in the military, so I'm

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Speaker 1: here doing a duty position. Awesome. I appreciate, thank you

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Speaker 1: for your service. Appreciate it. Yeah, it's a good idea.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think the league will let him get

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Speaker 1: around that. Yeah, I don't think they're If you're if

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Speaker 1: he's under if he's on your team on the field,

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02:07:01,440 --> 02:07:03,400
Speaker 1: he's got to be under contract with your club. So

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Speaker 1: Adam's got time to think out there and well, hey,

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Speaker 1: anything that will help, you know. But yeah, hiring him too,

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Speaker 1: like you couldn't hire like Terry Pagoula couldn't hire Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen to work in his energy company, pay him a

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02:07:20,600 --> 02:07:22,920
Speaker 1: gazillion dollars and then pay him ten bucks to work

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Speaker 1: for the bills that it doesn't It's an interesting workaround.

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Speaker 1: I get it. It's an interesting workaround that he came.

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Speaker 1: I've heard people conjecture that Robert Kraft was paying TB

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Speaker 1: twelve stuff or you know, kicking in his out. There's

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Speaker 1: something you know. Um, I will financially back your TB

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02:07:40,640 --> 02:07:43,200
Speaker 1: twelve outfit right if you don't, if you take a

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02:07:43,280 --> 02:07:46,680
Speaker 1: smaller contract with my Robert Robert Kraft turns into whimpy

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02:07:46,760 --> 02:07:50,240
Speaker 1: on the Popeye. Yes, I would. Did you play you gladly?

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Speaker 1: Pay you Tuesday for a Hamburger I eat today? Yes? Uh,

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Speaker 1: let's go back to the phones. Drew in Buffalo waiting there, Drew,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us here on one Bill's life? Hey,

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02:08:00,720 --> 02:08:02,720
Speaker 1: thanks for taking my call, guys. I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: know what you guys thought about some of them superstars

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02:08:07,120 --> 02:08:11,520
Speaker 1: and their non contract injuries like McCaffrey, UM, George Kittle

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Speaker 1: and Barkley and how that possibly could have related to

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Speaker 1: some of the offseason stuff. UM and anything that you think, UM,

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Speaker 1: whether it's strength training wise, just a freak accident, what

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02:08:22,440 --> 02:08:26,480
Speaker 1: you could do better to avoid some of that? Okay,

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02:08:26,680 --> 02:08:28,560
Speaker 1: well we'll take a stab at it. Thanks Drew. We

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02:08:28,600 --> 02:08:32,560
Speaker 1: appreciate the call. Um. What's he mean about the injury contracts?

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02:08:32,880 --> 02:08:36,840
Speaker 1: He non contact injuries? Contact injury. He was wondering if

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02:08:36,920 --> 02:08:41,320
Speaker 1: I get the virtual offseason had an impact on some

2350
02:08:41,520 --> 02:08:44,040
Speaker 1: of those That's part of the data that I was

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02:08:44,080 --> 02:08:46,600
Speaker 1: talking about a minute ago. They will, they'll find that out.

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02:08:46,680 --> 02:08:50,080
Speaker 1: They'll know who got hurt doing what you remember Deshaun Watson,

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02:08:50,800 --> 02:08:54,640
Speaker 1: um is first or second year, same thing. Teddy Bridgewater

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02:08:54,840 --> 02:08:58,720
Speaker 1: non contact in practice, blew out every ligament in his knee. Um,

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02:08:58,840 --> 02:09:00,800
Speaker 1: It's happened over the course of the history of the

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02:09:00,840 --> 02:09:04,520
Speaker 1: game where guys have gotten hurt. I don't think it

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02:09:04,600 --> 02:09:08,240
Speaker 1: has anything to do with having been virtual for the

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02:09:08,480 --> 02:09:11,520
Speaker 1: entire spring and summer before getting to training camp and

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02:09:11,600 --> 02:09:16,400
Speaker 1: then playing real life football. I mean, yes, it's a

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02:09:16,480 --> 02:09:19,960
Speaker 1: collision sport, but that's not the only way injuries happen

2361
02:09:20,520 --> 02:09:25,520
Speaker 1: in football. It is such a sudden, an explosive, explosive

2362
02:09:25,600 --> 02:09:29,040
Speaker 1: sport that you're going one hundred miles an hour, and

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02:09:29,200 --> 02:09:32,240
Speaker 1: sometimes there are some bodies out there that just say

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02:09:32,720 --> 02:09:37,200
Speaker 1: not today, right. I mean, I remember watching a may

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Speaker 1: mini camp Mayota practice over here in two thousand and

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02:09:41,720 --> 02:09:46,640
Speaker 1: five and Kevin Everett, the third round draft choice day

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02:09:46,720 --> 02:09:51,840
Speaker 1: one of OTA's does an outcut on a route and

2368
02:09:52,000 --> 02:09:57,960
Speaker 1: tears his ACL. Nobody was near him. Just happened. That

2369
02:09:58,680 --> 02:10:03,400
Speaker 1: stuff happens, It does, and Um, and I don't know

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Speaker 1: that you'll ever get away from that and it used

2371
02:10:06,160 --> 02:10:08,200
Speaker 1: to be too that some of these guys they trained hard,

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02:10:08,280 --> 02:10:10,000
Speaker 1: and it used to be when you know, back in

2373
02:10:10,080 --> 02:10:12,360
Speaker 1: my day, and it was kind of the steroid kind

2374
02:10:12,400 --> 02:10:15,480
Speaker 1: of it was the steroid era before my career and

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02:10:15,640 --> 02:10:17,200
Speaker 1: end at the end, at the beginning of my career,

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02:10:17,600 --> 02:10:20,920
Speaker 1: and then so you would have guys that just absolutely

2377
02:10:20,960 --> 02:10:24,520
Speaker 1: out trained their body's ability to keep up physically. You know,

2378
02:10:24,680 --> 02:10:29,360
Speaker 1: guys were side of taking all that stuff side effects,

2379
02:10:29,800 --> 02:10:32,360
Speaker 1: and that was an issue for a while. And then

2380
02:10:32,440 --> 02:10:36,000
Speaker 1: it was guys taking different kinds of supplements and doing that,

2381
02:10:36,160 --> 02:10:38,440
Speaker 1: you'd see a rash of this type of injury or

2382
02:10:38,520 --> 02:10:41,520
Speaker 1: that type of injury, and it would stem back to

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02:10:41,640 --> 02:10:44,280
Speaker 1: their body training in such a way that when you

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02:10:44,360 --> 02:10:47,760
Speaker 1: start doing something other than the way you've trained, say,

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02:10:47,760 --> 02:10:50,640
Speaker 1: for instance, you lift and you stretch or whatever. When

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02:10:50,680 --> 02:10:55,480
Speaker 1: you start playing football, it's completely different muscle movements and

2387
02:10:55,600 --> 02:10:58,600
Speaker 1: you probably just ain't ready for it, you know it.

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02:10:59,640 --> 02:11:02,360
Speaker 1: You may make your acl goes. Yeah. Plus when you

2389
02:11:02,400 --> 02:11:06,120
Speaker 1: make your muscles bigger, they get shorter, and now you

2390
02:11:06,240 --> 02:11:10,080
Speaker 1: gotta leg out a play as alignment on a on

2391
02:11:10,120 --> 02:11:13,040
Speaker 1: a screenplay and you're legging it out as a convoy down. Well,

2392
02:11:13,320 --> 02:11:15,520
Speaker 1: you know when you yank at hamming because you were

2393
02:11:15,560 --> 02:11:17,800
Speaker 1: doing squats with three hundred more pounds of weight on

2394
02:11:17,840 --> 02:11:20,880
Speaker 1: the bar because you're taking roids and you're stronger, so

2395
02:11:20,960 --> 02:11:23,200
Speaker 1: you can lift more. But that might not be helping

2396
02:11:23,240 --> 02:11:24,760
Speaker 1: you in the flexibility of the department when you got

2397
02:11:24,840 --> 02:11:26,560
Speaker 1: to run forty yards on a screen play. Yeah, if

2398
02:11:26,600 --> 02:11:29,240
Speaker 1: you don't stretch enough, if you don't have and you

2399
02:11:29,320 --> 02:11:31,680
Speaker 1: know a lot of guys, you guys need help stretching.

2400
02:11:31,720 --> 02:11:33,120
Speaker 1: You need somebody to push down, you know all that.

2401
02:11:33,200 --> 02:11:34,720
Speaker 1: And if you're doing it on your own, you don't

2402
02:11:34,720 --> 02:11:36,400
Speaker 1: have anybody to do that for you. And you come

2403
02:11:36,400 --> 02:11:38,360
Speaker 1: out the first time you try to stride it out,

2404
02:11:38,480 --> 02:11:43,560
Speaker 1: you twing. You know twing is that the sound in

2405
02:11:43,560 --> 02:11:46,760
Speaker 1: the hand string makes. That's what mine did it several times.

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02:11:46,840 --> 02:11:49,440
Speaker 1: I know the feeling, Yeah, I get shot either a

2407
02:11:49,560 --> 02:11:53,520
Speaker 1: twing or a yeah, you know to whatever, those are

2408
02:11:53,560 --> 02:11:56,200
Speaker 1: the worst. It sounds happy, but it's not. No, it hurts.

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02:11:56,240 --> 02:12:01,240
Speaker 1: So that's what happens you um, And I think when

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Speaker 1: you make the transition, that's why I like that week long.

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02:12:04,160 --> 02:12:05,680
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people were really happy about

2412
02:12:05,720 --> 02:12:09,480
Speaker 1: that transition. That week long kind of getting into acclamation period.

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02:12:09,560 --> 02:12:13,040
Speaker 1: It really helps when you change over from training to playing,

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02:12:13,840 --> 02:12:16,480
Speaker 1: the different movements that you do that you don't do

2415
02:12:16,640 --> 02:12:21,400
Speaker 1: when you're training that lead to injury can be alleviated

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02:12:21,480 --> 02:12:24,320
Speaker 1: and mitigated a little bit smoother, and so you don't

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02:12:25,320 --> 02:12:28,440
Speaker 1: injure yourself. Last break for us, Steve, and I'll come

2418
02:12:28,480 --> 02:12:31,880
Speaker 1: back with what have we learned? Next? We'll be right

2419
02:12:31,960 --> 02:12:47,800
Speaker 1: back here for what have we learned? Brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company of the

2421
02:12:50,760 --> 02:12:54,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. We learned just now that one t Y

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02:12:55,000 --> 02:12:58,160
Speaker 1: Hilton is returning to Indianapolis on what is reported to

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02:12:58,240 --> 02:13:03,360
Speaker 1: be a one year deal. So it's ten million dollar deal,

2424
02:13:03,480 --> 02:13:07,520
Speaker 1: eight million guaranteed. So that is done as the Colts

2425
02:13:07,560 --> 02:13:11,000
Speaker 1: get one of their top receivers back in the fold.

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02:13:11,440 --> 02:13:15,760
Speaker 1: There is also this South Carolina's pro day is today, Steve.

2427
02:13:16,680 --> 02:13:19,640
Speaker 1: One of their top prospects is cornerback J. C. Horne,

2428
02:13:20,120 --> 02:13:22,760
Speaker 1: who was expected to be a first round draft selection,

2429
02:13:23,320 --> 02:13:26,920
Speaker 1: and his forty time did nothing to dispel that from

2430
02:13:27,000 --> 02:13:31,960
Speaker 1: happening on three different washes. He posted a four three

2431
02:13:32,120 --> 02:13:35,680
Speaker 1: nine forty time at his pro day. Needless to say,

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02:13:35,760 --> 02:13:39,240
Speaker 1: he is not running it a second time o'clock of

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Speaker 1: four three nine. You know what, I'm good. I'm out

2434
02:13:42,800 --> 02:13:45,560
Speaker 1: jumping in the car. You guys got that you see

2435
02:13:45,600 --> 02:13:48,240
Speaker 1: in Draft Night? I got you, lady. I can do

2436
02:13:48,320 --> 02:13:50,480
Speaker 1: it again, but I'm not going to. I'm not going to.

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Speaker 1: Uh tomorrow's show. That is a mic drop, Yes, it

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Speaker 1: is a mic drop. Tomorrow's show, we will have our

2439
02:13:56,520 --> 02:13:59,840
Speaker 1: colleague Maddie glab On as we'll be undoubtedly doing some

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02:14:00,000 --> 02:14:04,240
Speaker 1: were mock Draft Watch and former NFL Front office executive

2441
02:14:04,600 --> 02:14:08,040
Speaker 1: Scott Pioli from the NFL Network. We'll see you tomorrow. Everybody,

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Speaker 1: Noon is the time.