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Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

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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 stradit here of normalcy. Let's get a rolling

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Speaker 1: here on a Thursday one Bills Live Chris Brown, Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker with you a high the hotally neighbor. How you

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Speaker 1: doing over there? You're doing okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do it. We'll be all right, We're gonna

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be. Okay, it's gonna be. Euros are in

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Speaker 1: full force. Steve. Here's I'm just gonna say this. I

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Speaker 1: am so proud of Steve Tasker. There are not many

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Speaker 1: people who are as rooted in their sporting habits as

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Speaker 1: people of Steve's particular age. They're very route it in

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Speaker 1: their sporting habits. They like what they like and that's it.

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Speaker 1: And Steve is as open minded as I have come

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Speaker 1: across who's whose number one sport is American football. He

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Speaker 1: this last week. I am so proud of him. Let

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Speaker 1: me just tell you here's what happened. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: was a replay of a game that was live earlier

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Speaker 1: in the day. Can I you know, we're working so

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Speaker 1: I can watch it, and so I do, and you know,

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Speaker 1: like at like eleven at night, right, I mean it's

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Speaker 1: which is you know I've been a part of these broadcasts, right,

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Speaker 1: the difference with soccer in comparison to other sports, as

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Speaker 1: so if you know the sport, as I'm assuming those

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Speaker 1: It looked like they were twenty five Spanish players out

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Speaker 1: How do they get Macedonia from that? And I didn't

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Speaker 1: to learn a lot about geography tournaments. And here's the

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Speaker 1: It's green, yellow, blue, gold. Those are the four colors

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Speaker 1: Belgium is what red, yellow, and black? Oh you're saying

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Speaker 1: same colors and they're all of their flags. It's the

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Speaker 1: I'm glad. I'm just happy you're enjoying. It is pretty good,

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Speaker 1: get blah blah blah, And I'm you know, the first

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Speaker 1: And but the game itself is structured in a team atmosphere,

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Speaker 1: there's professional sports they and that team will allow them

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Speaker 1: soccer seasons run about mid August to mid May, and

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Speaker 1: comparison to what they make professionally. I mean, Ronaldo makes

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Speaker 1: But he's gonna go play for portrait. I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: that Ronaldo inc right, But that's yeah, the Euros are

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Speaker 1: they play round robin, so you know, we're top two

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Speaker 1: there to a knockout stage where it's one and done. Right, Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's the next stage is so they have round robin.

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Speaker 1: It's like it's like the advance and then it's not same,

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Speaker 1: Why I don't look for those I don't know if you, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just don't think the public support and he might

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Speaker 1: not care whether he has it or not. There's there's

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Speaker 1: gonna be the public support is going to Wayne. I

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Speaker 1: think with each passing day that he continues to be

425
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Speaker 1: obstinate about his situation. Think about this. Green Bay's it's

426
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Speaker 1: unique city, unique place, unique franchise. It's not doesn't have

427
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Speaker 1: an owner, it's got a board that runs things. Mark Murphy,

428
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Speaker 1: the guy you just spoke about, is the top guy

429
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Speaker 1: for the time being anyway. And you're talking about a

430
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Speaker 1: local fan base that isn't local. Yeah, you're talking if

431
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Speaker 1: you're talking about going to living in Green Bay and

432
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Speaker 1: going to work, you're talking about you know what, fifteen

433
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Speaker 1: thousand people in that city. Maybe, I mean it's a village. Yeah,

434
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Speaker 1: he could care less if they love or hate him,

435
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Speaker 1: because he lives in California and he's a national figure

436
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Speaker 1: and most of the people in the nation don't care

437
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Speaker 1: about the Packers. They're not Packer fans. They're Bills fans

438
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Speaker 1: and Jet fans and buccaneer fans, and they they're just

439
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Speaker 1: they could not you know, he that's what he's you know,

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Speaker 1: that's the world he lives in. Selfishly. Though, if you're

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Speaker 1: a Bills fan, you don't want to see him end

442
00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:07,400
Speaker 1: up in the AFC that I would say, that's your

443
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Speaker 1: only concern. I think it's more of a if it's

444
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Speaker 1: a denver. I think most fans have the Rogers thing.

445
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 1: In Green Bay is more like a drive by wreck thing.

446
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Speaker 1: You're like, Okay, I'm gonna keep what what happened, what's

447
00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: going on over there as you drive by, and then

448
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Speaker 1: just like whatever, I'm moving on, you know, And if

449
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Speaker 1: it does, if he does land in the AFC, you know, well, yeah,

450
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 1: it could have been better, but at least we'll get

451
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Speaker 1: to see him play more often. Yeah, you know, I

452
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Speaker 1: don't know if I'm feeling the same way. We don't

453
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Speaker 1: need any more good quarterbacks where we have a ton

454
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Speaker 1: of them already, but you know, so, yeah, it's weird

455
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Speaker 1: and it's not even you know that that is a

456
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Speaker 1: to me. The Aaron Rodgers thing is a typical football

457
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:54,960
Speaker 1: business kind of situation. Look at the one in Houston

458
00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:57,600
Speaker 1: that's completely well there's and there's another one right now

459
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Speaker 1: going on in Miami with their top back Xavien Howard,

460
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Speaker 1: who has decided, I just had a career year led

461
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Speaker 1: the league in interceptions, I'm gonna flex and that's what

462
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Speaker 1: he's doing. He's not at mandatory minicamp. He's getting fined.

463
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Speaker 1: And how are the Dolphins handling that? Yeah, Well, according

464
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Speaker 1: to Armando Salgaro or a good friend from the Miami Herald.

465
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Speaker 1: They believe he believes that the situation could very well

466
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Speaker 1: end up via a trade. Just trade him right off

467
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Speaker 1: the roster. Now, we talked about this earlier in the week, Steve,

468
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:32,440
Speaker 1: Brian Flores does not mess. Oh, he does not mess. So,

469
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Speaker 1: as we've talked about on this show, five of his

470
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Speaker 1: eight captains from last year's team out the door captains

471
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Speaker 1: because they probably didn't measure up to what he felt

472
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Speaker 1: the captains should be on a team that Steve has

473
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Speaker 1: mentioned more than once folded their tents here at halftime

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Speaker 1: in week seventeen on a game where it was win

475
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Speaker 1: and get in, Yeah, lose and need help and they lost,

476
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Speaker 1: didn't get the help, and we're watching the playoffs on

477
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Speaker 1: their couch. They lost in a spectacular fashion. How scorn

478
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Speaker 1: do we think Brian Flora has felt by that? Because

479
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Speaker 1: he but he bounced five captains off his roster from

480
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Speaker 1: last season and now may trade his best cover corner

481
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Speaker 1: because he's griping about wanting a new contract just a

482
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Speaker 1: year removed from getting a new contract, right, And I

483
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Speaker 1: get that, but I think I get the feeling Brian

484
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Speaker 1: Flores um there are certain things that cross his desk

485
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Speaker 1: that are like, there is no gray area black and white.

486
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Speaker 1: If Xavian Howard said this, did this and wants this,

487
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry done. Oh you don't want to be here? Right?

488
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 1: I think it's that clear for him. It's gonna have

489
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Speaker 1: not like I'm not gonna pick the phone up and say,

490
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Speaker 1: what's Xavian? What's what's the deal, bud? Because you played

491
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,400
Speaker 1: really well for us wearing you just signed a new deal.

492
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Speaker 1: Why are you doing it? There's none of that going on.

493
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Speaker 1: It's like, what's that got you? You're you're going to

494
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Speaker 1: You're you know you're going to you know, Siberia, whatever

495
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 1: it is, we're trading you out of here. Um tough

496
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Speaker 1: to a guy making that kind of money at this

497
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 1: point of the season. But yeah, I these situations like

498
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:09,719
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers now Zavian Howard, and there'll be others as

499
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: well coming up, right, I mean, but that that could

500
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 1: get really sticky, and I don't Brian Flores is an

501
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: all in guy. If you're not all in here, then

502
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Speaker 1: you're out. And there is as you said, there is

503
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: not going to be any gray area here. They will

504
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:28,440
Speaker 1: pick up the phone say hey, you want a corner.

505
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Speaker 1: They had nine interceptions last year. There'll be people interested.

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00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,160
Speaker 1: There'll be people interested, sure, and you know you want

507
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:35,879
Speaker 1: to go get paid. See if some other team will

508
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: pay you, because we're not. We just did last year.

509
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:40,680
Speaker 1: You're a year removed from a new contract extension. Suck

510
00:27:40,760 --> 00:27:42,160
Speaker 1: up and deal and if you don't want to deal,

511
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:45,240
Speaker 1: we'll deal you. We paid you to play just like that.

512
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: Why do you want a new deal? That's what you

513
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 1: That's why we paid you, because then it's a slippery

514
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: slope because then you got the next guy coming to

515
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: you with his hands out. We already talked about it

516
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Speaker 1: on the show early this week. Emmanuel Ogba he wants

517
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,040
Speaker 1: a new contract, and uh, Mike Kisicki, he wants a

518
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Speaker 1: new contract. I mean, yeah, you got the quarterback on

519
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 1: the rookie deal, so you can pay some people some money,

520
00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:11,120
Speaker 1: but you can't pay everybody. It must be there. It's

521
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 1: got to be a unique environment down there. When you've

522
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 1: got guys like Gisicki and Ogba and Howard all popping.

523
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Speaker 1: I'm going, yeah, whoa this all in thing? That's all

524
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: fine and dandy, but you gotta make it worth my

525
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:26,199
Speaker 1: while because I don't know if I want to be

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Speaker 1: If you pay me. I'll be all in, but if not,

527
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: I want out. That's that smacks of discontent bubbling just below.

528
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Speaker 1: There's something going on down right, just doesn't add up.

529
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: There's a ton of stuff that doesn't add up. Three

530
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 1: offensive coordinators, let's go back to that coordinators, five captains,

531
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Speaker 1: jettisons after just signing a big couple of them just

532
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 1: k big deals. You got three important players who are

533
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: now going squawking about getting a bigger deal. One of

534
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,880
Speaker 1: them just signed a deal and led the league interceptions.

535
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: He and then Chan Gailey this is I'm done. I'm out.

536
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: I'm you know what, I'm done. I'm not hanging out.

537
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 1: And that was a week after. I think that's a

538
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: week a day after three days, three days. They like

539
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 1: my staff. We're not gonna make any changes. Chan Gailey said, ye,

540
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: Chan fulls of the rip chord. Something we should try

541
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: to get chant on the show. Something is up, Something

542
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: is up down there, and it doesn't look good from

543
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: the outside. It does not look harmonious. Yeah, and when

544
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: you roll in the schedule for the first five weeks,

545
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: it could get it could get ugly with a capital you.

546
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: Our boy Kyle Brandt got jumped on our train. He

547
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 1: ran down the first five weeks of the Dolphins season.

548
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 1: He goes, whoo, he goes, You come out of there

549
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 1: like anything other than three and two because you chalk

550
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: it up. Yeah, one in four division races over for them.

551
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: He's right too, Hey, why you listen to this show, Kyle.

552
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 1: It's true, it's true. They are in. They're in, They

553
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,760
Speaker 1: got some products. That's just what's going on down there.

554
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,920
Speaker 1: Not that I'm looking to save them or anything. I

555
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: know we're up against the break, So let me just

556
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Speaker 1: run down the show real quick for everybody. Coming up next,

557
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Speaker 1: we'll be the latest installment of Tasker's Teammate. Then coming

558
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Speaker 1: up at the top of the hour, about a half

559
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 1: an hour from now, Jason lochanfora from CBS Sports. We'll

560
00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:29,320
Speaker 1: be joining us, so we'll have a nice conversation with

561
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Speaker 1: him about where the offseason goes from here. And we're

562
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 1: having a little fun with you the fans today because

563
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: now mini camp has been put to bed, we wait

564
00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: six five or six weeks until training camp. Who are

565
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,719
Speaker 1: you pulling for to have a bigger role this season

566
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Speaker 1: on the field for the Bills. We're leaving it wide

567
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Speaker 1: open to you. Pick anybody you like eight oh three,

568
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Speaker 1: oh five fifty one eight eight five fifty two five

569
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Speaker 1: fifty open line for you there, or hit us up

570
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet and we'll get to your responses

571
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Speaker 1: when we return. Tasker's teammate up next. Here on one

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Collat of Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to one Bills Live. Chris Brownski Tasker with you,

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Speaker 1: and it is that time of the week where we

575
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Speaker 1: challenge the deeper recesses of Steve's cerebral cortex. That's right,

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Speaker 1: and everybody, it is time for Taskers teammates, which is

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Wegman's Meals to Go Delicious Meals

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Speaker 1: delivered download the Wegman's app all right to day. Last

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Speaker 1: week was Jeff Wright, that is correct. Before that was

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Speaker 1: outlet from Breakball. I got on this right here, So

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Speaker 1: here we go Clue number one for one. Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: born in nineteen sixty four. I was a highly decorated

583
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Speaker 1: three sport athlete in high school football, basketball, baseball. I

584
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 1: was an All league basketball player. I was an All

585
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: Star catcher in baseball. I was such an accomplished baseball

586
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,760
Speaker 1: player that if I had not chosen to play football

587
00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,080
Speaker 1: in college, I would have been drafted by the Pittsburgh

588
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: Pirates who were scouting me in high school. How about that?

589
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: This rings a bell, but I cannot think of who

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00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: it is. That's let's see, I throw it right in here.

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00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,240
Speaker 1: Give me a heater, Steve, Who was that? Gollye? I

592
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: remember having a conversation about this. I do not know. Okay,

593
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: one more high school clue to give it to you.

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00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 1: In an eight game season in high school, I rushed

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Speaker 1: for over one thousand yards, but did not play running

596
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: back when I moved on to college, instead playing my

597
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:57,880
Speaker 1: given position on the defensive side of the ball. That's

598
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: a good one. Ah, Kurt Schultz. It is not Kurt Schultz.

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00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: We had him before he had no I don't think

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Speaker 1: we have. He has not been every time I mentioned

601
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,360
Speaker 1: him guy like that. I know he's gonna come circle

602
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: back and get him. Okay, he's not on the clue

603
00:33:20,520 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: number three. I didn't travel too far from my home

604
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Speaker 1: to play my college ball and enjoyed a college career

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Speaker 1: that included a pair of national titles this prominent college

606
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Speaker 1: football powerhouse. Although I was a redshirt freshman for the

607
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: first national title, so he didn't really play on the

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Speaker 1: first song sixty four, so it's nineteen. It was eighty

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Speaker 1: five woman nationally relieve. Kind of Florida, right, he say,

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Speaker 1: do you who would pay five titles? I love how

611
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Speaker 1: Steve mutters through this stuff. It's really good thinking. It's

612
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Speaker 1: gotta be Cats powerhouse. Oh no, I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Okay, we go to clue number four. A

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Speaker 1: two time first team All American. I became a first

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Speaker 1: round pick of the Bills the following spring thanks to

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Speaker 1: a draft day trade with the Bills moving up the

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Speaker 1: board to get me in a trade with the Houston

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Speaker 1: Oilers first round draft pick. Yes, Reuben, it is not

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Speaker 1: Ruben Brown round he was a first round pick. You

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Speaker 1: are correct, that was later, though. Who's the first round

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Speaker 1: pick before Ruben? Jeff first? Who's already done? Yep, Henry

622
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:58,920
Speaker 1: Jones was earlier. Nate Clements, it is not Nate Clements.

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Speaker 1: Rate not Nate Clements. Nate Odoms, it is not Nato.

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Speaker 1: Do you you want any more Nates? You want to throw

625
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:07,879
Speaker 1: out there? We already had a Nate Turner, right, first

626
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Speaker 1: round draft pick. Corney has been it. It is not

627
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: Cornelius Better. He was not a draft pick of the Bills.

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00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:15,680
Speaker 1: We're right, we didn't trade up to get him. Then

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Speaker 1: he who was eighty who'd been an eighty five, eighty

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Speaker 1: six first round draft pick? Eric Molds not Eric Moulds.

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Speaker 1: Here's ninety six. You're about a decade off there, Pal, Oh, yeah, okay, Oh,

632
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Speaker 1: Will Wolford, Will Wilford. I will calm your nerves. Bell,

633
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 1: I will calm your nerves and let you know this

634
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 1: person is not on the phone line. But Bell is

635
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: not Greg Bell. Bruce, it is not Bruce. Tomorrow's Bruce's birthday.

636
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,399
Speaker 1: By the way, it is Bruce's birthday tomorrow. Happy early

637
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: birthday to Bruce Smith. Um, how do I how can

638
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Speaker 1: I not remember first round draft picks in the year

639
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: I was eighty six, it would have been It's not

640
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,720
Speaker 1: eighty six, you're awful little eighty five the well, remember

641
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 1: he red shirted his freshman year, so it's eighty seven.

642
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: Do we have a first round draft pick in eighty seven? Thurman?

643
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 1: It is not Thurman. He was and he was second

644
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 1: round pick. Bills did not have a first round pick

645
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,320
Speaker 1: in eighty eight. If I remember these seven, they traded

646
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 1: that for Bennett the strike year eighty seven. There you go,

647
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: you've narrowed it down. Now, who was a first round

648
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:37,920
Speaker 1: draft pick in eighty seven? It was just worried. I

649
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 1: was just worried about getting in shape. I wasn't even

650
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: paying attention. Do you want another clue? Okay, so an

651
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: immediate starter. I went to my first Pro Bowl the

652
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: following season and went to two more after that. For

653
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: three consecutive Pro Bowl appearances. He was on the defensive

654
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: side of the ball. Three Pro Bowl appearances. It wasn't

655
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: wasn't Pro bowler in his first year, second second year,

656
00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: and started right from day one. Remember Shane Conlin, Steve Tasker,

657
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 1: you got it? Doesn't it frustrate you when it's just

658
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:20,280
Speaker 1: staring in the face. I could not remember that guy Buckethead, Frewsburg,

659
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: New York. Yeah. And he ended up with the Rams,

660
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: and he had it all right, finished up with the

661
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: Rams his last three seasons. He had a bad knee injury, right,

662
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:34,839
Speaker 1: and then was I don't know if he was. Yeah,

663
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:37,880
Speaker 1: I was. That's why I didn't get I would he

664
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 1: didn't play running back. He played running back in high

665
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: school in thousand yards in eight games. He had the

666
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: he was one guy who you know, one of the

667
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 1: things I learned when I when I first got to

668
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: the NFL, even as a Houston oiler, I went down there,

669
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 1: and the one thing I noticed when I walk around

670
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:56,960
Speaker 1: the locker room, and you know, you'd see guys in

671
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 1: comparing them with your college buddies, and yeah, all the

672
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 1: guys in the NFL had a serious set of legs.

673
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 1: I mean they were big and you know, they're powerful

674
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 1: leg Shane Conlin chicken legs. Yeah, and I don't know

675
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 1: I'm talking. I mean they were like like guys made

676
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 1: fun of him. Yeah, oh my god, because he's so big.

677
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:17,880
Speaker 1: You know, he had the big male back then. We

678
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: all had big pads he had. I don't know, it

679
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 1: seemed like he's just huge up top and his legs

680
00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 1: were his calves in particular. I don't even know if

681
00:38:25,440 --> 00:38:30,359
Speaker 1: we had socks that would fit him fall down and uh,

682
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:32,920
Speaker 1: look at that's a that's a picture from Sports Illustrator

683
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:36,560
Speaker 1: were seeing with Jay Schrader. But yeah, Shane was a

684
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,959
Speaker 1: truly what he really was a great linebacker and hitting

685
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:44,400
Speaker 1: hit a nine hit a nice uh, very nice. You

686
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: can see how thin his lower legs are there. Yeah,

687
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just he's got to tape his socks up. Yeah,

688
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 1: he's great, great, great guy, great family. Good for him. Yeah,

689
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,840
Speaker 1: Shane was a great player. And uh, did you guys

690
00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: hang out at the Pro Bowl that year? What was

691
00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 1: it eighty eight? Was you were there right? Eighty nine?

692
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: Eighty nine? I was out ninety I was there eighty

693
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:10,280
Speaker 1: eight over the eighty seventh season, so it was February

694
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,000
Speaker 1: of eighty eight. So what do you guys do out

695
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: there at the Pro Bowl? Like, do you hang out

696
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,760
Speaker 1: during the week? Are you usually hanging with other guys

697
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,479
Speaker 1: on other teams? And well it changed over the course.

698
00:39:18,520 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: I was there for a total of seven there, but

699
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: a lot of your teammates were out there with you,

700
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: like one of them. I had like eleven guys, That's

701
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,640
Speaker 1: what I mean. So those it depends on the coaching staff,

702
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: it really does in terms, and a little bit of

703
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 1: it was also the logistics of where we were all staying. Now,

704
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:37,320
Speaker 1: we all stayed at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in the beginning,

705
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:39,959
Speaker 1: which is right and on Waikiki Beach in the middle

706
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 1: of Honolulu, and it's still one of my all time

707
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: favorite places to go because it the vibe is unparalleled. Right,

708
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 1: It's like Pacific Miami in a little bit, in a

709
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:54,800
Speaker 1: little way, Honolulu is a city. Yeah. So then later on,

710
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 1: after I was out of it for two years and

711
00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 1: then came back and went to a bunch, they moved

712
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 1: it out to a place called the Ihilani out around

713
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: the back side of the island. And for Islanders, if

714
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:08,359
Speaker 1: it's a fifteen minute drive, they'll never make that. That's

715
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: just too far. Seriously, if it's fifteen minutes away, the

716
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: Islanders are like, oh man, I haven't got time. I

717
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:18,839
Speaker 1: haven't got time in the day, you know, to make

718
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,840
Speaker 1: a fifteen minute drive. So they put us around on

719
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: the out there because there's more isolated because we're you know,

720
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Speaker 1: after the Pro Bowl shows up in Hallowin and it's

721
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:31,600
Speaker 1: just a it turns into a massacre, you know. I mean,

722
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:33,160
Speaker 1: we're just you can't go to the beer, you can't

723
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:34,520
Speaker 1: go to the bar at them, you can't do that.

724
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 1: So they put us out around the thing and nobody

725
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,879
Speaker 1: goes out there. And it was that place then all

726
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:43,720
Speaker 1: both teams were in the same spot, coaching staff, players,

727
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 1: we all hobnobbed at the same and nobody else was there.

728
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:48,719
Speaker 1: And they even had one of the practice facilities was

729
00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 1: there and the other one went to the university or

730
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: to the stadium. Yeah, and then it became a big

731
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 1: for turn. Then both teams were like, you know, sitting

732
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Speaker 1: at the bar together having fun. And then then it,

733
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:00,440
Speaker 1: you know, the teeth kind of came out of a game,

734
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 1: so that you know. So, yeah, the Pro Bowl is

735
00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:10,640
Speaker 1: and I went down to one of the Pro I

736
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: did the Pro Bowl on radio within the last ten

737
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 1: years when it was in Orlando, and that is and

738
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: I get why guys now even now, even in Orlando,

739
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,320
Speaker 1: were like, I don't know, man, if I want to,

740
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: because it is it's like going to Disneyland and you're

741
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse. It's hard to get around. So cool. Thing

742
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 1: that I didn't know about Shane was, at one point

743
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 1: in time he was an administrator vice president of corporate

744
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:42,160
Speaker 1: Partnerships for the Arena League team, the Pittsburgh Power for

745
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: a couple of seasons. And then he's got four kids.

746
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,840
Speaker 1: His one son, Patrick was a Division three college quarterback

747
00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:55,560
Speaker 1: at Hobart Out in Geneva, and his son Chris was

748
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: a Division one wide receiver at William and Mary in

749
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 1: the late nine So that's kind of cool. I didn't

750
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,800
Speaker 1: know that stuff. So, yeah, it's amazing what you uncover

751
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 1: when you do taskers. Teammate, Yeah, I was. Yeah, Ray

752
00:42:11,160 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: Bentley used to you know, Ray Bentley and Shane played

753
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 1: together in the inside. You know it's a three four alignment.

754
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: So Ray Bentley, Shane Conlin and Bentley will tell you

755
00:42:20,719 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 1: laughingly that when Shane got when Shane got elected to

756
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:27,840
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl, Ray had to tell him how to

757
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 1: get to Hawaii too, because he had because he had

758
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:31,560
Speaker 1: to show him. He had to tell him where to

759
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:34,719
Speaker 1: go on every call of defensive call. So Bentley would say,

760
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: I had to tell him where to go every single time.

761
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:43,759
Speaker 1: And Conlin's like, going, no, bro, those two guys, Oh

762
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 1: those are those are two characters there. I know I

763
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 1: knew Bentley better than Conlin, but I've worked with Ray

764
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,360
Speaker 1: in the booth. Yeah, so yeah, yeah, but those you know,

765
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 1: they were close friends obviously, And Shane came in and

766
00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: he's right, You're right in your assessment. When he came in,

767
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: he they plugged him in to the middle of that

768
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: defense and he was stellar from the from snap one. Yeah,

769
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,839
Speaker 1: and your guy's defense in eighty eight was lights out,

770
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:10,719
Speaker 1: man like Bruce was Bruce was at the height, yeah

771
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 1: of it. He was right coming into his prime. And

772
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 1: you Bennett was here and then yeah, you had guys.

773
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: You had offensive linemen that were just beside themselves, shaking

774
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,839
Speaker 1: in their shoes. Yeah, break time for us here. When

775
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: we come back, we're gonna hit that tweet sheet to

776
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:29,160
Speaker 1: see what player you are rooting for the most to

777
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: have a larger role this season with the Bills. We

778
00:43:33,600 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: all have our favorites. Let us know who yours are

779
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 1: when we return here on One Bills Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Collid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to

781
00:43:53,440 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 1: one Bills Live. About ten minutes away from chatting with

782
00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:00,279
Speaker 1: CBS Sports Jason Lock canfora be talking to him little

783
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 1: bit about the COVID protocol changes that were handed down

784
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: by the league and the Players Association jointly. Get into

785
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 1: that with him. He also has a very interesting pick

786
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 1: for his NFL Defensive Player of the Year in twenty

787
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:19,799
Speaker 1: twenty one, and it is a Bills player. So we'll

788
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 1: talk to him about that after our next break. But

789
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: we wanted to get to the tweet sheet, which is

790
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Speaker 1: brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems. The official equipment

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Speaker 1: moving company of the Buffalo Bills. As we are asking you,

792
00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:33,759
Speaker 1: who are you pulling for to have a bigger role

793
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,400
Speaker 1: this season with the Bills in twenty twenty one, and

794
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:41,360
Speaker 1: Dinah says tough one. Today, I guess Cole Beasley a

795
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:44,919
Speaker 1: bigger role. What do they have eighty three catches? Yeah,

796
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 1: in a career year. She has a caveat read on.

797
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:50,520
Speaker 1: Not that his role was small last year. I love

798
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: it when smaller guys have big roles. Plus, his hair

799
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:56,359
Speaker 1: is amazing. There is a lot of lettuce coming out

800
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 1: of the back of this mini camp man. It's un

801
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: rare for him, even for him. I think that the

802
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: thing that surprises me about Beasley one he led the

803
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 1: NFL and is contested catch percentage. Most players have contested

804
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 1: catches once in a while, you know where it's you know,

805
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,920
Speaker 1: the guy's defending him. He catches more of those than

806
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 1: anybody else in the NFL. And he has a small

807
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 1: catch radius. I mean he's not big, so to do that,

808
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:26,520
Speaker 1: I think it's more impressive than a guy if his

809
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 1: stature does something like that, you know right, and and

810
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 1: he's um, he just got that skill set to get

811
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 1: open in tight spaces. He's he obviously earned the trust

812
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:39,319
Speaker 1: to Josh last year, and uh yeah, that's it's gonna

813
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,399
Speaker 1: be fun to see, you know, him take another step

814
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:46,879
Speaker 1: and be part of everything. It's I agree he could

815
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: have a more enhanced role, particularly with and we've said it.

816
00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 1: You think go four wide, the two slot receivers, with

817
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:57,680
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders and Cole Beasley. You gotta like your chances

818
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 1: to be able to move this move love my chances

819
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:02,800
Speaker 1: right and with Josh thrown at the way he is

820
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: and his ability to extend the play or just to

821
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: run for the first down, they're really going to be

822
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: hard to get off the field on on a down

823
00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 1: that's on regular on distance, on third and short, third

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00:46:15,719 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 1: and medium, they're gonna be really hard to get off

825
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 1: the field. And I think that that bodes well for him.

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Speaker 1: I said, I think this offense is gonna score a

827
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: ton of points. His team was number one a third

828
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: down conversion rate last year. Now you add Sanders to that,

829
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: I mean, I agree, And I think Brian Dable, you know,

830
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: we talk about players being highly motivated because they're on

831
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: a one year deal or in the contract year. Yeah,

832
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 1: Brian Dabele got snubbed for a head coaching spot last year,

833
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 1: and you gotta think if there's a head coaching of,

834
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:53,719
Speaker 1: you know, a spot available, he's going to be in

835
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:57,920
Speaker 1: that conversation. So he's kind of essentially offensive coordinating on

836
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 1: a one year deal, you know what I mean. He's

837
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:01,919
Speaker 1: got to feel like this is my chance. I'm gonna

838
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:03,840
Speaker 1: get pick my spot if I do well because of

839
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 1: what's happened here in Buffalo. So he's gonna be play

840
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:13,440
Speaker 1: calling with some gusto I think, and I you know,

841
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: I just think it's I can't wait for Yeah, I

842
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 1: wasn't good enough to be a head coach. Try this right?

843
00:47:19,239 --> 00:47:23,399
Speaker 1: What do you think of this? Yeah? I see on this. Yeah,

844
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: but that's hard to image a bigger role for Beasley

845
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 1: than he had last year. And I think we even

846
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,359
Speaker 1: get an inflated idea of what his role was because

847
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 1: he made some really timely catches at you know, any

848
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: given moment, any given games. So it was yeah, good

849
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: one from Dinah. All right, we'll get to more of

850
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:42,759
Speaker 1: those comments on the tweet sheet, but we have to

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Speaker 1: take a break now because coming up next is CBO

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Speaker 1: Sports NFL insider Jason lockhan Fura as we said he's

853
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 1: got a defensive player on this Bill's roster pegged as

854
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:58,880
Speaker 1: his defensive player of the year. Talk to him about

855
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: that and some of these new COVID protocols handed down

856
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:04,319
Speaker 1: by the league in the Players Association. Next on One

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00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,760
Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Kalaida Health, it's Buffalo Bill's radio

858
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: Ada Steve Tasker, who has been all over the field.

859
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:30,239
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

860
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 1: player for you, ste Steve a blimp. We're not even

861
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 1: in the strategier of normalcy. Welcome to our number two

862
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 1: of one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you

863
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:49,360
Speaker 1: and please to be joined now by CBS Sports. NFL

864
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Speaker 1: Insider contributor to CBS is the NFL Today and radio

865
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 1: host on one of five point seven FM, The Fan

866
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. It is one Jason Lochan for a joining us. Jason,

867
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: how are you doing here during what we like to

868
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:06,359
Speaker 1: refer to as the dead period of the NFL calendar. Yeah,

869
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 1: I'm all for a stay that way. I'm doing well.

870
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 1: I'm sure something Aaron Rodgers related will happen while I'm

871
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 1: on vacation, but yeah, I am very much looking forward

872
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: to some downtime from the NFL. Yeah, we were talking

873
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 1: earlier about Aaron Rodgers in the situation out there. I thought,

874
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: I've said, I think Aaron Rodgers and you know, reigning MVP.

875
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 1: If you're looking for a guy who's got the ability

876
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 1: to flex on his organization, try and squeeze a contract

877
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:38,600
Speaker 1: out of him, Aaron Rodgers is the guy. He's certainly

878
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: in a unique situation given the way everything's been handled there,

879
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:47,720
Speaker 1: And frankly, I think the Packers front office, Mark Murphy

880
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:51,280
Speaker 1: in particular, have done themselves no favors in this manner

881
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:55,640
Speaker 1: with some of the things they said and done and written. Yeah,

882
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:59,680
Speaker 1: I continue to hear that he has no intention of

883
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,239
Speaker 1: every playing for them again. We'll find out in late

884
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:06,960
Speaker 1: July in August whether he truly is as stuck in

885
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:10,600
Speaker 1: as his words to friends and associates would lead you

886
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:12,799
Speaker 1: to believe. Right now. It's one thing in theory, it's

887
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:17,359
Speaker 1: another in practice. But he's not a guy you want

888
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:20,439
Speaker 1: to trifle with. And this thing is I mean, it's

889
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:22,600
Speaker 1: always about money to some degree, but this has also

890
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: become very personal. It'd be hard not to get to

891
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:29,920
Speaker 1: this right away because it jumped out at me when

892
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 1: you know, I looked at your Fearless forecast, Kyle. I'm

893
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:36,399
Speaker 1: on CBS Sports dot Com. Uh. There he is right

894
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: under the MVP prediction of Patrick Mahomes Defensive Player of

895
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:45,680
Speaker 1: the Year Tremaine Edmonds. Is your fearless forecast? Tell us

896
00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 1: why you are so high on the Bills linebacker. Well,

897
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 1: I didn't want to go all chalk, you know, Mahomes

898
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 1: just kind of it is what it is. But I

899
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 1: am very bullish on the Bills. What they've built, Um

900
00:50:57,719 --> 00:51:01,400
Speaker 1: what what the the mind power that they have on

901
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball with Sean McDermott and

902
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:07,440
Speaker 1: Leslie Fraser, the group that has continued to be built

903
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:09,920
Speaker 1: around him, and specifically, I think they're going to have

904
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:12,840
Speaker 1: more help rushing the pastor from the inside and the

905
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:18,320
Speaker 1: outside based on their draft and just the general development

906
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 1: of players, and his physical tools are off the charts.

907
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:23,840
Speaker 1: He's feels like he's been around for a while and

908
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: what he's twenty three. I think he's an ascending player

909
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 1: who you know, people who really are in the football

910
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: world respect and no. But I think he's going to

911
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,399
Speaker 1: have the sort of the box score numbers a little

912
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:42,399
Speaker 1: bit more this year. So maybe makes him a little

913
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:45,280
Speaker 1: bit more of a well known commodity to the average

914
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: football fan as well. I just am very bullish on

915
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:52,720
Speaker 1: the sort of nexus of his individual talent, his growth

916
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:55,880
Speaker 1: and development as a football player now that he's been

917
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 1: in the league for a few years, and the increasing

918
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:01,319
Speaker 1: the games they made around him on the roster. I'm

919
00:52:01,360 --> 00:52:03,839
Speaker 1: just playing a little hunch there, but I think he's

920
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:05,920
Speaker 1: gonna be a big deal this year. And with the

921
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 1: emergence of Josh Allen, the offense they scored, you know,

922
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 1: just shy at thirty points a game last year. How

923
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 1: good does this defense have to be for him to

924
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:17,040
Speaker 1: And they're gonna play a lot of ostensibly, they're gonna

925
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 1: play a lot of offenses that are gonna be a

926
00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 1: little bit desperate to keep up with the Bill's offense.

927
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:24,920
Speaker 1: How good does this defense have to be? Well, I

928
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna have to be great, but they

929
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: might be anyway. And I think what they will be

930
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:34,319
Speaker 1: to your point, especially about gameflow and scoreboard and down

931
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 1: in distance, I think they're gonna have the ability to

932
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:40,000
Speaker 1: be very opportunistic and to turn people over and to

933
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:44,839
Speaker 1: maybe gamble in a calculated way. I know analytics are

934
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 1: a big deal there, and those guys know how to

935
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:49,279
Speaker 1: play the angles and play the numbers. But I think

936
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,560
Speaker 1: because of the growth of that offense and because of

937
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:55,359
Speaker 1: a normal offseason this year to be able to get

938
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:58,320
Speaker 1: some of those rookies on defense as integrated as you'd like,

939
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: as opposed to last year, where we all know what

940
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:05,280
Speaker 1: the world was like then, Um yeah, I'm I'm bullis

941
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 1: on their ability to come after people, and you know

942
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 1: that tends to bring numbers, that tends to bring splash

943
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:15,319
Speaker 1: plays and highlight plays and and again, yeah, that's part

944
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:19,799
Speaker 1: of my thinking there. With Tremine, I found one thing

945
00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 1: that you did somewhat unique in that, you know, we

946
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:25,560
Speaker 1: see all these rankings out there, you chose to rank

947
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 1: divisions in terms of you know, competitive nature top to bottom,

948
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: and you had the afcast coming in at number five.

949
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:34,359
Speaker 1: We know the Jets are probably dragging that down a bit,

950
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 1: although they appear to be on the right track with

951
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:39,880
Speaker 1: Robert sala Hire and Joe Douglas looks like he knows

952
00:53:39,920 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 1: what he's doing draftwise, at least like they're on the

953
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:45,840
Speaker 1: right path now to be more respectable. And the Dolphins

954
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:47,760
Speaker 1: were a ten win team last year, and we're expecting

955
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:51,399
Speaker 1: the Patriots to bounce back. But how do you see

956
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:53,720
Speaker 1: the division shaking out? I mean, I think the Bills

957
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:58,359
Speaker 1: are widely considered the favor here. Um, so where where

958
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:00,720
Speaker 1: do you kind of find the Dolphins in the Patriots

959
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:02,800
Speaker 1: in that mix? Because I think we're all in agreement

960
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,439
Speaker 1: that the Jets just aren't ready yet to compete. Yeah,

961
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:08,280
Speaker 1: I'm I'm to me, this is a top heavy division.

962
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 1: There's one team that I feel really strongly about, and

963
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 1: there really isn't a second. I mean, could New England

964
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: make the playoffs because more teams get in now than YadA,

965
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 1: YadA YadA. Yeah. Um, do I think Mac Jones or

966
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:22,600
Speaker 1: Cam Newton has taken the league by storm this year?

967
00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:24,400
Speaker 1: I don't think I better pieces around them. I think

968
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: they will be um much more respectable on offense. I think,

969
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 1: you know, they may be a winning team, but I

970
00:54:33,280 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 1: don't look at them as a team that's that's anywhere

971
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 1: close to winning a super Bowl, nor anybody else in

972
00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 1: that division other than Buffalo. Um, I think Miami may

973
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 1: take a step back. I'm not sold that that's a

974
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 1: team that's just gonna like a send to send to send.

975
00:54:46,840 --> 00:54:50,480
Speaker 1: It's not usually how it works. Um, and I mean

976
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:53,680
Speaker 1: the Jets. I'll believe the Jets are something other than

977
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 1: the Jets when they proved me wrong. I just I

978
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:00,560
Speaker 1: just don't know what I mean. Woody Johnson's back in town.

979
00:55:00,760 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 1: That's already a side show. I mean, they're not even

980
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: asking them about football North. Should they be? Um, it's

981
00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 1: just one thing after another there. Uh, That quarterback in

982
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:12,279
Speaker 1: that market I think could end up being a bridge

983
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:14,160
Speaker 1: too far or a little bit too much of a reach.

984
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 1: So we'll see. But I don't think they're anywhere close

985
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:20,560
Speaker 1: to being a factor or winning more than you know,

986
00:55:20,680 --> 00:55:23,160
Speaker 1: four games or something like that. So yeah, I think

987
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 1: as you put all that in the hopper and you

988
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: compare it to some of these other divisions, you know,

989
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 1: the NFC West, the the AFC North, Um, it's I don't.

990
00:55:34,200 --> 00:55:38,920
Speaker 1: I don't see multiple teams that will be nationally significant

991
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:41,640
Speaker 1: in that division, do you. As we look around and

992
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 1: we talked about Aaron Rodgers and we see you know,

993
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:47,759
Speaker 1: different players up the OTAs the mandatory mini camps not

994
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:50,800
Speaker 1: show up. Is there been? And we and even it

995
00:55:50,920 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: started all off in the off season with Matt Stafford

996
00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:57,319
Speaker 1: and the Jared Goff trade. Is there any offseason move

997
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:00,400
Speaker 1: even with the recent Julio Jones move? What is the

998
00:56:00,480 --> 00:56:03,839
Speaker 1: offseason move that you think may on the field as

999
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 1: players forget about the head new head coaches, or you

1000
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:09,040
Speaker 1: know that kind of thing, What about the players who

1001
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 1: have changed positions? Who's going to make the biggest difference

1002
00:56:11,960 --> 00:56:15,239
Speaker 1: in the most startling way for most casual fans. I

1003
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:19,120
Speaker 1: think it's Matt Stafford. Now, might that defense tail off

1004
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 1: a little bit from what it was last year without

1005
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:23,880
Speaker 1: Brandon Staley pulling the strings and with some of the

1006
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 1: defections that they suffered in the off season from their

1007
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 1: secondary It may, But I think the offense is going

1008
00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:32,200
Speaker 1: to growth. They can get a modicum of health from

1009
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:34,920
Speaker 1: their offensive line. I think Matt Stafford is a massive

1010
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:38,439
Speaker 1: upgrade over Jared Goff. Sean mcvayh doesn't have to talk

1011
00:56:38,480 --> 00:56:41,240
Speaker 1: to Matt Stafford, you know, and convey as much information

1012
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:44,359
Speaker 1: as possible until that microphone cuts off, and then sit

1013
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 1: there and kind of hold his breath a little bit.

1014
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 1: You know, he's not going to think that John Walford

1015
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:52,320
Speaker 1: is a better option in the playoffs than Matt Stafford.

1016
00:56:52,400 --> 00:56:55,840
Speaker 1: It's just not happening. I think Matt Stafford's going to

1017
00:56:55,880 --> 00:56:58,840
Speaker 1: have the kind of creature comforts and be incubated in

1018
00:56:58,920 --> 00:57:01,760
Speaker 1: a way he's never been for from a play calling scheme,

1019
00:57:03,239 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 1: personnel standpoint, it's a tough division. But I think the

1020
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:11,960
Speaker 1: Rams are going to be a real thing this year,

1021
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 1: and I think Matt Stafford's going to have a lot

1022
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:16,760
Speaker 1: to do with that. Jason jumping back to the AFC

1023
00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 1: East real quick here, Steve and I have had several

1024
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:22,440
Speaker 1: discussions on this show just based on conversations we've had

1025
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:24,840
Speaker 1: with Miami media members and the like through the course

1026
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 1: of the offseason. That really wonder and after you said

1027
00:57:29,320 --> 00:57:31,680
Speaker 1: you think the Dolphins could slide back a little bit,

1028
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 1: but I tend to be an agreement on that. I

1029
00:57:35,000 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 1: found what you wrote in your Fearless Forecast column very

1030
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:42,120
Speaker 1: interesting when you have Tua listed as your first QB

1031
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:45,880
Speaker 1: botched and you said there are plenty of smart including

1032
00:57:45,960 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: people who work in high ranking spots with NFL teams,

1033
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:52,360
Speaker 1: who believe that Dolphins coach Brian Flores is not really

1034
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 1: all in on Tua, even some speculation that he was

1035
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:58,200
Speaker 1: really a pro Herbert guy and just is never going

1036
00:57:58,240 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 1: to let that go. Um. He jettisoned five of his

1037
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:05,600
Speaker 1: eight captains from last year's team off the roster. He's

1038
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:10,120
Speaker 1: got a schmazzle at offensive coordinator with Godsy and with

1039
00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 1: Eric Studisville, and even Charlie the quarterbacks coach is going

1040
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 1: to have some input. You got guys now demanding new

1041
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 1: contracts in Gisicki, Agba and Howard. Is this a recipe

1042
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:25,800
Speaker 1: for a potential disaster of a season where they just

1043
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:30,480
Speaker 1: go completely in the other direction. I have serious reservations

1044
00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:33,080
Speaker 1: about what direction they're headed in and if they're all

1045
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 1: of like minds about exactly where they are as an

1046
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 1: organization and who's a part of the long term solution

1047
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 1: and who's not. You look at how scattershot the coaching

1048
00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:46,240
Speaker 1: stuff has been, and look, Flores comes from New England

1049
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:48,880
Speaker 1: and he's he's got a lot of that in It's

1050
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:52,280
Speaker 1: obvious in the way he's handled players and coaches. And

1051
00:58:53,040 --> 00:58:55,439
Speaker 1: you know, one decent season does does not a bully

1052
00:58:55,520 --> 00:58:59,800
Speaker 1: pulp a make um to be to have to re

1053
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:02,320
Speaker 1: trace your own steps that many times, and even even

1054
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:04,280
Speaker 1: some of the stuff they did around the draft, that

1055
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:07,640
Speaker 1: moving around and I don't really know what they accomplished

1056
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:11,000
Speaker 1: um last year's draft has a lot of people around

1057
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 1: the league who are a full time evaluators kind of

1058
00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 1: scratching their head and wondering how many of those guys

1059
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:18,400
Speaker 1: are can't miss when you pick that many times that high?

1060
00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:23,080
Speaker 1: And then the guys are they identified as the veteran corps.

1061
00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 1: Excuse me. The trades and free agency last year are

1062
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:30,320
Speaker 1: all going, you know, I mean Eric Flowerhead, his flowers

1063
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 1: wasn't bad. I mean, maybe he's not worth the money

1064
00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:34,680
Speaker 1: that they wanted to pay him, but he's much better

1065
00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:37,240
Speaker 1: into your offensive lineman than he was to tackle. And

1066
00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:40,480
Speaker 1: you know he lands quickly back in Washington. You know,

1067
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:43,760
Speaker 1: Van Noy goes back to New England, will be better

1068
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 1: there than he was in Miami and for less money.

1069
00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 1: And I'll go back to make a Fitzpatrick. I mean

1070
00:59:50,680 --> 00:59:53,000
Speaker 1: they traded Micker Fitzpatrick because the coach wanted to be

1071
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 1: a box safety instead of a center fielder. And he

1072
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: goes to Pitchburgh. They you know what I mean, he

1073
00:59:57,480 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 1: let him make players on the ball and these defensive

1074
00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:01,720
Speaker 1: MVP Candi. Now, I know they got a first round

1075
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 1: picks back for him, but not as high as the

1076
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:07,600
Speaker 1: one they used on him. I have serious reservations about

1077
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:10,080
Speaker 1: the whole thing. And takes a village to raise a quarterback,

1078
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:11,640
Speaker 1: and I don't know what that village is really in

1079
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:14,760
Speaker 1: the quarterback raising business. Yeah, collectively, and if you know,

1080
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 1: I just don't know. And if you want to feel

1081
01:00:16,840 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 1: even worse about the Dolphins situation, go look at their

1082
01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:22,560
Speaker 1: first five games on the schedule. Yeah, right, it's brutal. Yeah,

1083
01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:28,200
Speaker 1: they got New England, Buffalo Vegas, Indianapolis, Tampa Bay. Yeah,

1084
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:30,080
Speaker 1: I know they had the two best teams in the

1085
01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:32,960
Speaker 1: division there right away. So that'll that'll give you a

1086
01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:34,680
Speaker 1: little feel for it. I mean, look, I don't think

1087
01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:37,360
Speaker 1: they're gonna be god awful, but but I don't think

1088
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:38,760
Speaker 1: they're gonna be much better. You know what I think

1089
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:40,480
Speaker 1: they'll be. I think they'll be what the Miami Dolphins

1090
01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:42,000
Speaker 1: have been for the last twenty years and what they've

1091
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:43,480
Speaker 1: been trying to get out of. Right, that's why they

1092
01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:45,920
Speaker 1: did the rebuild. We can't keep winning between six and

1093
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:48,960
Speaker 1: eight games and picking between thirteenth and eighteenth, you know

1094
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:50,600
Speaker 1: what I mean? And now here there is they did.

1095
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 1: They do the rebuild. They get all the high picks,

1096
01:00:52,560 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm not sure they're that much better for it. Yeah,

1097
01:00:55,800 --> 01:00:58,600
Speaker 1: they might still be middling it. Let's let's go to

1098
01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:00,440
Speaker 1: the other team as well. Take a hard look at

1099
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:04,920
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots, Cam Newton, mac Jones and I

1100
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 1: get it, it's the preseason and we're all up in

1101
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 1: arms over to throwing interceptions and doing all that. But

1102
01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:13,760
Speaker 1: and you've seen some film coming out of New England

1103
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:15,840
Speaker 1: where Cam's having trouble throwing the football. Then you hear

1104
01:01:15,920 --> 01:01:17,720
Speaker 1: report that he actually played better the next day. Mac

1105
01:01:17,800 --> 01:01:22,080
Speaker 1: Jones is getting running, getting extra reps, that kind of stuff.

1106
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:24,520
Speaker 1: How do you think it will shake out in New England?

1107
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: I mean, their opt outs are coming back, but really

1108
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:28,960
Speaker 1: they had a couple of optats out that we're gonna

1109
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:31,200
Speaker 1: come back and then are no longer there either. So

1110
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:34,760
Speaker 1: how do you think it shakes out in New England? Well,

1111
01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:37,240
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be better team than last year.

1112
01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:39,520
Speaker 1: I mean, they had the worst skill position talent in

1113
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:42,160
Speaker 1: the NFL a year ago, and I have a feeling

1114
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:44,760
Speaker 1: it's going to be more mac Jones than Cam Newton.

1115
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:46,480
Speaker 1: And I think you can go back to some of

1116
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:49,520
Speaker 1: the stuff they did with Gronk and Hernandez, and I

1117
01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:52,960
Speaker 1: think that's going to be where Josh McDaniel starts this

1118
01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 1: thing off with a young quarterback and we've got two

1119
01:01:55,560 --> 01:01:57,680
Speaker 1: move tight ends. We can line them up in a

1120
01:01:57,720 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 1: bunch of different places. They need to get RPO and

1121
01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 1: run action looks. You could put Cam in for those packages. UM.

1122
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:06,520
Speaker 1: I think you could see Cam in the red zone,

1123
01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:10,200
Speaker 1: Cam in short yardage situations. I think it could be

1124
01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 1: like a um Drew Brees Taysom Hill thing, only in reverse,

1125
01:02:14,000 --> 01:02:16,400
Speaker 1: where the young guy is the primary and the old

1126
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:21,160
Speaker 1: guy is the gadget guy. UM. They're never averse to

1127
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:24,920
Speaker 1: being creative or going outside the box. They're going to

1128
01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:27,800
Speaker 1: run the ball um fairly well. They ran it well

1129
01:02:27,880 --> 01:02:30,160
Speaker 1: last year, and now you have to respect at least

1130
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:33,200
Speaker 1: the intermediate pass where last year you know they weren't

1131
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:34,960
Speaker 1: throwing it more than eight yards down field. You could

1132
01:02:35,080 --> 01:02:37,880
Speaker 1: like them in Pittsburgh, you could squad on everything because

1133
01:02:37,960 --> 01:02:39,920
Speaker 1: they just weren't pushing the ball. I think they'll be

1134
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:41,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Matt Joe's a huge arm or

1135
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:43,640
Speaker 1: anything like that, but I think he'll be a better

1136
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:47,600
Speaker 1: intermediate passer than Cam was a year ago. And defensively,

1137
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:51,800
Speaker 1: you know they're never going to be horrible. UM, And

1138
01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 1: I think Matt Judon's going to be a really interesting

1139
01:02:54,080 --> 01:02:57,080
Speaker 1: piece for them. Uh you know, it was a long

1140
01:02:57,160 --> 01:02:59,320
Speaker 1: time ago they signed a Dailies Thomas and the Ravens

1141
01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:00,920
Speaker 1: a bit of a Swiss army knife, although more of

1142
01:03:00,920 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 1: a physical freak in Jude, and it didn't work out

1143
01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:05,640
Speaker 1: that well. I think this one, I think this one

1144
01:03:05,720 --> 01:03:08,800
Speaker 1: will work out. So no, I think of the second

1145
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:11,200
Speaker 1: best team in the division. I think they're a team

1146
01:03:11,280 --> 01:03:14,360
Speaker 1: that will could make the playoffs, but I don't think

1147
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:16,840
Speaker 1: they're built to win multiple games in January. What do

1148
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:20,280
Speaker 1: you think about the conjecture that Mac Jones watches Cam

1149
01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:22,800
Speaker 1: Newton for four weeks until they get to the Tampa

1150
01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:27,280
Speaker 1: Bay game, And until I've looked at that, I ain't

1151
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:28,840
Speaker 1: wrote a little about that. That would be that would

1152
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 1: be an interesting. Um if you were like the World

1153
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:33,840
Speaker 1: Wrestling Federation and you were writing the scripts ahead of time,

1154
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:36,439
Speaker 1: that would be that would that would make that would

1155
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:40,280
Speaker 1: make for an entertainment, entertaining debut with Tom Brady in town.

1156
01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:43,760
Speaker 1: I think Mac Jones is gonna again. I don't know

1157
01:03:43,880 --> 01:03:46,200
Speaker 1: what the week one breakdown is gonna be, but I

1158
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:49,200
Speaker 1: think you know who takes more reps, etc. But I

1159
01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:51,200
Speaker 1: think they'll be roles for both of them, and I

1160
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:53,560
Speaker 1: don't think they'll be a verse to playing Mac Jones

1161
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:58,720
Speaker 1: early in the season. How quickly is he officially the starter? Yeah,

1162
01:03:58,760 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna going to know a whole lot

1163
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:03,280
Speaker 1: more about that come August, when they're playing preseason games,

1164
01:04:03,520 --> 01:04:06,600
Speaker 1: when we see is Cam Newton really you know, has

1165
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:09,280
Speaker 1: he has he unlocked something with his ability to throw

1166
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 1: the ball or is that still limited? Yeah? I I

1167
01:04:12,600 --> 01:04:15,920
Speaker 1: don't know. I can't get passed watching him throwing bounce

1168
01:04:15,960 --> 01:04:19,200
Speaker 1: passes on ten and twelve yard outs last season, and

1169
01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:24,000
Speaker 1: I just don't even think he's starting caliber anymore. I

1170
01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:30,400
Speaker 1: don't know how a rotating quarterback situation a is sustainable

1171
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:33,320
Speaker 1: through the course of a season. Number one Jason and

1172
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:36,640
Speaker 1: then number two. I just don't know. If that's Belichick.

1173
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:40,439
Speaker 1: I know he loves Cam Newton, I'm not I'm still

1174
01:04:40,960 --> 01:04:44,160
Speaker 1: trying to come to grips with why that is. Because

1175
01:04:44,200 --> 01:04:46,240
Speaker 1: he just doesn't have it any He can't throw the

1176
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:51,560
Speaker 1: ball anymore. Yeah, I mean, look, he brought Tebow in

1177
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:54,200
Speaker 1: at one point, right. I do think he's intrigued by

1178
01:04:54,280 --> 01:04:59,200
Speaker 1: the whole what a certain type of quarterback can further

1179
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:01,280
Speaker 1: unlock for him him in the run game and what

1180
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:04,560
Speaker 1: that could look like and packages and concepts and things

1181
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:07,240
Speaker 1: you can build off of that. Um, I don't think

1182
01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:09,120
Speaker 1: Cam's going to be a guy who can hold up

1183
01:05:09,160 --> 01:05:13,080
Speaker 1: and play sixty five snaps a game, but look he again,

1184
01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:14,720
Speaker 1: I'll go back to the Newland doing with the New

1185
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:18,439
Speaker 1: Orleans thing. Um, that's been kind of a thing. First.

1186
01:05:18,520 --> 01:05:21,280
Speaker 1: You know what the last three three years of Drew Brees' career,

1187
01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:26,120
Speaker 1: will will Cam play a little more than Taysom Hill?

1188
01:05:26,200 --> 01:05:29,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know, but that stuff is there.

1189
01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:32,439
Speaker 1: There are things he did last year for them, even

1190
01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:34,480
Speaker 1: though he wasn't the passer they hoped he would be,

1191
01:05:34,960 --> 01:05:37,840
Speaker 1: that still allowed a team with zero talent on offense

1192
01:05:38,400 --> 01:05:40,720
Speaker 1: to hang around, And in large part it was because

1193
01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:44,480
Speaker 1: of again, things he unlocked for them in the ground game. Yeah,

1194
01:05:44,840 --> 01:05:48,880
Speaker 1: you mentioned that New Orleans and Taysom Hill, Jameis Winston.

1195
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:54,520
Speaker 1: The Bills play them late on Thanksgiving Night this season

1196
01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:57,000
Speaker 1: down in New Orleans. How do you think the quarterback

1197
01:05:57,120 --> 01:05:59,000
Speaker 1: thing is going to shake out? Is Taysom Hill a

1198
01:05:59,080 --> 01:06:05,000
Speaker 1: good enough quarterback to hold off Jamis Winston or vice versa?

1199
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:07,160
Speaker 1: I mean, or are they going to both play. What's

1200
01:06:07,200 --> 01:06:10,240
Speaker 1: Sean Payton going to do? I think I think he

1201
01:06:10,360 --> 01:06:12,120
Speaker 1: knows in his heart with Taysom Hill is and I

1202
01:06:12,240 --> 01:06:15,560
Speaker 1: think he knows that the upsideless Jamis could be higher.

1203
01:06:15,800 --> 01:06:17,960
Speaker 1: I think Jamis is the Drew Brees and Taysom is

1204
01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:21,720
Speaker 1: still Taysom because Taysom also provides a lot on special

1205
01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:23,920
Speaker 1: teams and their depth has been compromised a little bit

1206
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:26,840
Speaker 1: now because they were so up against the cap. I

1207
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:30,640
Speaker 1: think they really um value what Hill does on all

1208
01:06:30,680 --> 01:06:33,000
Speaker 1: those units. Um, I don't have to tell you Steve

1209
01:06:33,080 --> 01:06:36,000
Speaker 1: how important that stuff is. And if he can help them,

1210
01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:37,880
Speaker 1: you know, running around a little bit as a as

1211
01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:42,200
Speaker 1: a as a gadget quarterback, then then so be it.

1212
01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:46,480
Speaker 1: But you look at where they threw the ball, where

1213
01:06:46,480 --> 01:06:48,440
Speaker 1: they didn't throw the ball, and just how limited the

1214
01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:52,400
Speaker 1: scope of that offense was. And you don't want Jamis

1215
01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:54,000
Speaker 1: taking as many chances as he did with you know,

1216
01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:56,080
Speaker 1: Bruce Arians and no risk at no biscuit. But I

1217
01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:59,680
Speaker 1: do think there's a happy medium somewhere between um, the

1218
01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:03,280
Speaker 1: thanks never throwing the ball more than fifteen yards you know,

1219
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:06,560
Speaker 1: in the air, and you know Jamie's throwing at thirty

1220
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:08,520
Speaker 1: plus yards in the air more than anybody else in

1221
01:07:08,560 --> 01:07:12,680
Speaker 1: the league his final year in Tampa. So I have

1222
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:14,600
Speaker 1: a feeling you'll see quite a bit of Jameis Winston

1223
01:07:14,960 --> 01:07:17,360
Speaker 1: last one for me, Jason. Do you I mean in

1224
01:07:17,520 --> 01:07:21,880
Speaker 1: terms of the AFC hierarchy, the top tier of teams here,

1225
01:07:22,280 --> 01:07:24,360
Speaker 1: I mean, Kansas City is still the standard and we

1226
01:07:24,480 --> 01:07:28,520
Speaker 1: understand why a lot of people have the Bills not

1227
01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:33,040
Speaker 1: far behind. Do you trust Cleveland to be back there

1228
01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:37,000
Speaker 1: again this year? And is Baltimore is still there in

1229
01:07:37,080 --> 01:07:39,200
Speaker 1: your eyes along with anybody else you might want to

1230
01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:41,040
Speaker 1: throw in the mix in the top tier. Yeah, I

1231
01:07:42,720 --> 01:07:45,560
Speaker 1: think Cleveland is there. You know, I think Buffalo, Cleveland,

1232
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:50,880
Speaker 1: Baltimore in that next tier, Tennessee I would have had

1233
01:07:51,680 --> 01:07:54,000
Speaker 1: a couple of runs down before the Jolio thing. I

1234
01:07:54,040 --> 01:07:56,680
Speaker 1: still don't like Tennessee's defense. I mean, I think I

1235
01:07:56,720 --> 01:07:58,520
Speaker 1: think the running backs about to hit a wall. It's

1236
01:07:58,560 --> 01:08:01,160
Speaker 1: it's just you look at statistically the numbers and they'll

1237
01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:03,240
Speaker 1: tell you nobody touches the ball as much as he has.

1238
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:05,120
Speaker 1: And I know he's built different than other guys in

1239
01:08:05,200 --> 01:08:07,680
Speaker 1: YadA YadA, YadA, but Errol Campbell hit the wall once too.

1240
01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:10,800
Speaker 1: I don't care how big you are. I just I

1241
01:08:12,120 --> 01:08:13,680
Speaker 1: don't like the offensive line as much as I did

1242
01:08:13,720 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. I just think they're really

1243
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:18,360
Speaker 1: going to have to score forty points every week to

1244
01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:21,080
Speaker 1: get where they want to go. But but they're much

1245
01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:23,400
Speaker 1: more viable with Jolio than without him as he's healthy.

1246
01:08:23,520 --> 01:08:26,880
Speaker 1: So I think they would probably be a tier down.

1247
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:28,479
Speaker 1: And then the Chargers, you know, I would put the

1248
01:08:28,560 --> 01:08:31,519
Speaker 1: Chargers right there with Tennessee and and and maybe the

1249
01:08:31,640 --> 01:08:36,519
Speaker 1: Chargers are a little closer to that Baltimore, Buffalo Cleveland

1250
01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:39,599
Speaker 1: tier than some might think, especially if they just stay

1251
01:08:39,600 --> 01:08:42,160
Speaker 1: a little bit healthy on defense. And the one team

1252
01:08:42,240 --> 01:08:44,800
Speaker 1: that really impressed all of us here in Buffalo last

1253
01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:49,200
Speaker 1: year late in the year was Indianapolis with Carson Wentz

1254
01:08:49,280 --> 01:08:51,960
Speaker 1: going Frank Wright brought the Colts into Buffalo and gave

1255
01:08:52,040 --> 01:08:53,960
Speaker 1: the Bills as good a game as anybody did all

1256
01:08:54,120 --> 01:08:57,080
Speaker 1: year outside of the loss in the AHD Championship game.

1257
01:08:57,160 --> 01:09:01,960
Speaker 1: How good can they be if Carson Wentz is salvageable. Yeah,

1258
01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:04,760
Speaker 1: it's such a big if. Um, it's it's such a

1259
01:09:04,840 --> 01:09:07,280
Speaker 1: big if. I still don't know that i'd buy their

1260
01:09:07,320 --> 01:09:10,360
Speaker 1: pass rush. I think that defense, um, you know, ebra

1261
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Speaker 1: flus can can kind of play things a little bit

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01:09:13,280 --> 01:09:16,759
Speaker 1: vanilla and play not to lose, and you know, zonia

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01:09:16,920 --> 01:09:19,479
Speaker 1: up and and hope to pick off a pass underneath.

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01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:21,840
Speaker 1: And they got those fast linebackers. You can track stuff down.

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01:09:22,360 --> 01:09:24,400
Speaker 1: But I just don't know that when you start talking

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01:09:24,439 --> 01:09:26,680
Speaker 1: about the Patrick mahomes Is of the world and the

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01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:28,800
Speaker 1: Allen's and the Lamars. But you got to really be

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01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:31,160
Speaker 1: able to put them under pressure. I'm not sure they're

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01:09:31,240 --> 01:09:36,720
Speaker 1: there yet with that defensively, Um, but look, they ran

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01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:39,600
Speaker 1: the ball as well as anybody other than Baltimore the

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01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:41,479
Speaker 1: last eight weeks of the season, and I don't think

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Speaker 1: that's going away. Um. I just don't know which Wentz,

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01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:46,120
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I don't know who Carson

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01:09:46,160 --> 01:09:49,840
Speaker 1: Wentz is right now as a leader and as a

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01:09:49,960 --> 01:09:53,639
Speaker 1: as a football player. Has a quarterback look. I believe

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01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:56,240
Speaker 1: in Frank Reich, and if anybody can fix them, it's

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01:09:56,320 --> 01:09:59,160
Speaker 1: it's Frank Reich. I think they're the best team in

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01:09:59,240 --> 01:10:03,000
Speaker 1: that division. I just, uh, it's another team that I

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01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:05,920
Speaker 1: think probably kind of like last this team, you know,

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01:10:05,960 --> 01:10:08,800
Speaker 1: I think they top out, you know, first round of

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01:10:08,840 --> 01:10:15,639
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Jason, Thanks appreciate the time, Jason. You guys

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Speaker 1: do the same. Thank you. It's Jason Lockham for a

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01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:22,800
Speaker 1: CBA Sports NFL Insider contributor to CBS NFL Today. Um,

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01:10:24,600 --> 01:10:27,240
Speaker 1: it's cool that he's high on Tremaine Edmonds. I like

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01:10:27,439 --> 01:10:31,400
Speaker 1: that because it seems very high and well right, I mean,

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01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:33,439
Speaker 1: picking up for defensive Player of the Year. But I

1287
01:10:33,560 --> 01:10:38,479
Speaker 1: think it's interesting that he believes that the numbers in

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01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:41,960
Speaker 1: the stats columns are finally going to support the caliber

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01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:45,040
Speaker 1: of player that he is for this defense. And as

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01:10:45,120 --> 01:10:48,160
Speaker 1: he mentioned, he's only twenty three years old and now

1291
01:10:48,400 --> 01:10:56,640
Speaker 1: is where his ridiculous physical traits reach critical mass in

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01:10:56,880 --> 01:10:59,599
Speaker 1: terms of being a giant difference maker for this defense.

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01:10:59,720 --> 01:11:03,400
Speaker 1: And all indications from Mini camp and OTA's are that

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01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:09,080
Speaker 1: this defense has been on it like on it in

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01:11:09,200 --> 01:11:11,920
Speaker 1: the spring. I think they're going to have a big

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01:11:12,240 --> 01:11:14,880
Speaker 1: rebound year. I know. We just did a recent podcast,

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01:11:14,960 --> 01:11:18,599
Speaker 1: one Bill's Light. On our podcast, we had a discussion

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01:11:18,680 --> 01:11:22,360
Speaker 1: on whether this defense can return to top five status

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01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:26,479
Speaker 1: as they were in eighteen and nineteen before sliding back

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01:11:26,520 --> 01:11:29,200
Speaker 1: a little. And I believe finishing fourteenth overall last season,

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01:11:30,120 --> 01:11:33,400
Speaker 1: I think they can and with players like Edmonds and

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01:11:33,520 --> 01:11:37,000
Speaker 1: maybe a couple of others having career type years. You know,

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01:11:37,040 --> 01:11:38,600
Speaker 1: we talked about Ed Oliver and some of the other

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01:11:38,720 --> 01:11:42,160
Speaker 1: third year players. They can get back there in a hurry. Yeah.

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01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:44,160
Speaker 1: I think one of the key things is when you

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01:11:44,240 --> 01:11:46,120
Speaker 1: talk about it, it's two things you talk about, really

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01:11:46,479 --> 01:11:49,840
Speaker 1: when you talk about defense, even for casual fans, it's

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01:11:50,760 --> 01:11:54,880
Speaker 1: sackson turnovers, because those are splash plays. If you sack

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01:11:54,960 --> 01:11:58,439
Speaker 1: a team, it pretty much means they're going to struggle

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01:11:58,439 --> 01:12:00,120
Speaker 1: to get a first down on that series. They're going

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01:12:00,160 --> 01:12:01,680
Speaker 1: to be behind the sticks and they're gonna, you know,

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01:12:01,800 --> 01:12:06,240
Speaker 1: statistically speaking, that drive's gonna end right there. And obviously

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01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:09,559
Speaker 1: if it's on third down, it does end. But that's

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01:12:10,280 --> 01:12:12,519
Speaker 1: those are the things I think that made them different,

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01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:15,360
Speaker 1: particularly in Sean mcdermot's first year in twenty seventeen, when

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01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:18,640
Speaker 1: they broke the drought. They they had a rash of

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01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:21,720
Speaker 1: turnovers in the first half of the season that it

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01:12:21,880 --> 01:12:25,360
Speaker 1: was almost like, you know, ripe apple tree, you shake

1319
01:12:25,479 --> 01:12:27,439
Speaker 1: that thing, and they were falling everywhere. I mean, they

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01:12:27,479 --> 01:12:32,519
Speaker 1: were getting tipped interceptions, clean interceptions, fumbles forced. It was

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01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:36,360
Speaker 1: happening multiple times every week during the first half of

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01:12:36,400 --> 01:12:40,120
Speaker 1: that twenty seventeen season, and that's where I've always put

1323
01:12:40,200 --> 01:12:43,000
Speaker 1: the bar for this defense when they really looked, their

1324
01:12:43,080 --> 01:12:46,400
Speaker 1: best teams struggle to hang onto the ball and possess it.

1325
01:12:46,920 --> 01:12:49,479
Speaker 1: And last year we saw stretches of it, and particularly

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01:12:49,600 --> 01:12:51,960
Speaker 1: like in week late in the season, Week seventeen, they

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01:12:52,200 --> 01:12:57,880
Speaker 1: intercepted two or three times in that game. And that's

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01:12:58,520 --> 01:13:01,799
Speaker 1: the kind of defense that be a difference making defense,

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01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:04,040
Speaker 1: even if you've got a defense that doesn't really rush

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01:13:04,120 --> 01:13:07,400
Speaker 1: the passer as well as you'd like them to. Getting

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01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:09,000
Speaker 1: your hands on balls. We heard a couple of times

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01:13:09,120 --> 01:13:11,439
Speaker 1: Bash him and Rousseau both have had tip balls in

1333
01:13:11,520 --> 01:13:14,400
Speaker 1: this Ota, this mandatory mini camp and Rousseau, you can

1334
01:13:14,560 --> 01:13:20,360
Speaker 1: understand what the guys guys huge, so we'll see. But

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01:13:20,640 --> 01:13:25,120
Speaker 1: even on a defense like that, that tends to bring

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01:13:25,200 --> 01:13:28,000
Speaker 1: attention to the guys who play in it the turnovers.

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01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:30,400
Speaker 1: Forget about the sack numbers two. I get that that's

1338
01:13:30,479 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 1: an individual thing, but when the team starts getting turnovers,

1339
01:13:33,040 --> 01:13:34,800
Speaker 1: then people start to sit up and say, Okay, these

1340
01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:37,880
Speaker 1: guys are different. How intrigued were you by his thoughts

1341
01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:41,240
Speaker 1: that Brian Flores was never all in on TUA from

1342
01:13:41,280 --> 01:13:45,720
Speaker 1: the word go and preferred justin Herbert. You want to

1343
01:13:45,760 --> 01:13:49,320
Speaker 1: talk about a dividing line in an organization, picking the

1344
01:13:49,360 --> 01:13:52,840
Speaker 1: wrong quarterback. You'll do it in a hurry. Yeah, let's

1345
01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:56,680
Speaker 1: not forget he benched him twice last year. Don't never

1346
01:13:56,920 --> 01:14:04,720
Speaker 1: underestimate the pension that owners have and gms have for

1347
01:14:04,880 --> 01:14:10,040
Speaker 1: not listening to the guys who watch film. I wonder

1348
01:14:10,120 --> 01:14:13,040
Speaker 1: if that Embers are notorious for chiming well parachuting in

1349
01:14:13,120 --> 01:14:15,040
Speaker 1: on draft. Hnser No, they got a draft, you know,

1350
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:17,519
Speaker 1: and what somebody's gonna say. But I wonder if that's

1351
01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:20,519
Speaker 1: an owner thing or a GM thing, or you know,

1352
01:14:20,680 --> 01:14:25,479
Speaker 1: personnel department versus coach thing or public or the coaches

1353
01:14:25,520 --> 01:14:28,200
Speaker 1: typically don't swing as much weight in the draft room

1354
01:14:28,240 --> 01:14:30,240
Speaker 1: as the front off as the GM and the personnel

1355
01:14:30,280 --> 01:14:32,920
Speaker 1: and the personnel. I get it, I'll tell you that.

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01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:35,960
Speaker 1: And I'm sure he's not. I'm sure after that what

1357
01:14:36,080 --> 01:14:38,120
Speaker 1: we just saw that Brian Flores wasn't that guy standing

1358
01:14:38,120 --> 01:14:39,920
Speaker 1: out on an island saying, no, take that other guy

1359
01:14:40,000 --> 01:14:42,120
Speaker 1: over there. I'm sure there are other people who agreed

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01:14:42,160 --> 01:14:44,519
Speaker 1: with him as well, or at least had questions about

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01:14:44,520 --> 01:14:46,720
Speaker 1: the guy they were gonna pick. You get the feeling, though,

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01:14:46,760 --> 01:14:50,360
Speaker 1: you remember they were tank for TUA two years ago,

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01:14:50,439 --> 01:14:52,479
Speaker 1: the whole state. They you know, they were all in

1364
01:14:52,600 --> 01:14:54,760
Speaker 1: for let's get to maybe the owner of cowtow to

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01:14:54,840 --> 01:14:59,200
Speaker 1: the fan base maybe, or the GM did because he

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01:14:59,280 --> 01:15:01,280
Speaker 1: felt like, well, he had to take the obvious guy,

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01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:04,080
Speaker 1: you know. And that's one of the things you don't know,

1368
01:15:04,520 --> 01:15:06,840
Speaker 1: because for whatever you don't know about the guy you're picking,

1369
01:15:06,960 --> 01:15:09,160
Speaker 1: you really don't know about the guy somebody else picks.

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01:15:09,800 --> 01:15:13,200
Speaker 1: So the only way it can go bad, there's really bad,

1371
01:15:13,320 --> 01:15:15,160
Speaker 1: is if you pick your guy and then two picks

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01:15:15,240 --> 01:15:18,400
Speaker 1: later they pick a guy that's ten times better, which

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01:15:18,439 --> 01:15:20,880
Speaker 1: is what it looks like justin Herbert is out in LA.

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01:15:23,880 --> 01:15:26,760
Speaker 1: That's a bad look. I'm just and I'll tell you

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01:15:26,840 --> 01:15:28,760
Speaker 1: what I'm telling you right now. You're a head coach.

1376
01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:33,240
Speaker 1: You never let that drip drop like that's not even

1377
01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:35,519
Speaker 1: the guy I want. I told you we should. But

1378
01:15:36,040 --> 01:15:39,839
Speaker 1: as we've talked about that first five weeks of the schedule,

1379
01:15:41,120 --> 01:15:43,840
Speaker 1: with each passing loss, the tension just gets turned up

1380
01:15:43,880 --> 01:15:46,800
Speaker 1: even more, and so it's it's a powder keg man.

1381
01:15:47,080 --> 01:15:50,920
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm wildly coyote standing on the plunger,

1382
01:15:51,280 --> 01:15:54,040
Speaker 1: ready with the TNT, ready to just drop it on

1383
01:15:54,120 --> 01:15:56,720
Speaker 1: the dolphins. And I'm I can't wait. I just can't wait.

1384
01:15:57,080 --> 01:15:58,680
Speaker 1: Week one, Week two? What are we What are we doing?

1385
01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:00,120
Speaker 1: What are we doing? What do we do? Listen, they

1386
01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:02,479
Speaker 1: can come out down, they'll play well against They'll play

1387
01:16:02,520 --> 01:16:05,559
Speaker 1: well against New England, right, they always do. They'll play

1388
01:16:05,600 --> 01:16:08,320
Speaker 1: well against New England, it's particularly early in the season.

1389
01:16:09,160 --> 01:16:13,280
Speaker 1: Then it's Buffalo. It's Buffalo against a quarterback that owns them.

1390
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:15,320
Speaker 1: Then it's a pissed off Raiders team that then it's

1391
01:16:15,320 --> 01:16:18,400
Speaker 1: a Raiders team that knocked them out of big chip

1392
01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:22,000
Speaker 1: on their shoulder. Okay, now they're one and two. Then

1393
01:16:22,760 --> 01:16:28,000
Speaker 1: they've gone. They've got Indie and Carson Wentz after a

1394
01:16:28,080 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 1: month of getting it under their belts, and yeah, that's

1395
01:16:31,040 --> 01:16:36,320
Speaker 1: a win for the and Tampa Bay at Tampa that

1396
01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:41,479
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not calling them over, but they're not going

1397
01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:46,120
Speaker 1: to look good in that first five weeks. M hmmmm.

1398
01:16:47,120 --> 01:16:51,559
Speaker 1: And then what happens, Well, they're not starting Jacoby Brissett.

1399
01:16:52,080 --> 01:16:56,280
Speaker 1: You think maybe because Brian Flores knew the guy when

1400
01:16:56,320 --> 01:17:00,240
Speaker 1: he was in New England. Now, but that's why he's there. Yeah, yeah,

1401
01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:03,280
Speaker 1: you're right. Yeah, I hadn't thought about that connection could happen?

1402
01:17:04,479 --> 01:17:08,240
Speaker 1: He's I'll tell you right now. He's gonna look her arm.

1403
01:17:08,720 --> 01:17:12,479
Speaker 1: He's got a better arm and he looks a lot

1404
01:17:12,560 --> 01:17:16,000
Speaker 1: more like Justin Herbert than Tuah does. Big tall kid

1405
01:17:16,160 --> 01:17:19,559
Speaker 1: with an arm and move around a little bit. Jacoby

1406
01:17:19,600 --> 01:17:21,439
Speaker 1: Bris said, it's a phenomenal guy, and I'm not saying

1407
01:17:21,840 --> 01:17:27,160
Speaker 1: two is not. But after five weeks they may be ready.

1408
01:17:27,160 --> 01:17:28,880
Speaker 1: As they listen, I love you too, but you gotta

1409
01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:31,960
Speaker 1: sit down, time to pack it in. Thanks, thanks for coming.

1410
01:17:33,439 --> 01:17:40,679
Speaker 1: That's no elite traits, no elite traits physically, no elite traits.

1411
01:17:41,600 --> 01:17:43,880
Speaker 1: I mean hell, even Jaalen Waddle their first round picks

1412
01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:46,120
Speaker 1: that he'd rather go with Mac Jones than Tah and

1413
01:17:46,280 --> 01:17:49,680
Speaker 1: Mac Jones doesn't have any elite traits either. Think about that,

1414
01:17:49,960 --> 01:17:52,800
Speaker 1: got elite size, Jalen Waddle. It's like six two and

1415
01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:55,840
Speaker 1: a quarter. No, No, Mac Jones Jones is tall. He's like,

1416
01:17:56,120 --> 01:18:00,439
Speaker 1: is he guy? Yeah? He's big dude. Okay, he's he's up,

1417
01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:03,040
Speaker 1: he's upwards a six to five. Yeah. I want to

1418
01:18:03,120 --> 01:18:06,760
Speaker 1: check it, because come on, bro, didn't you see him

1419
01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:09,439
Speaker 1: walking next to Robert Crald hold on the video clip?

1420
01:18:10,520 --> 01:18:13,479
Speaker 1: He's listed A sixty three sixty three okay, sixty three

1421
01:18:13,560 --> 01:18:20,280
Speaker 1: two seventeen. He's a little smaller either way. Um, yes,

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01:18:21,520 --> 01:18:25,040
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, man, it's just gonna taste so good

1423
01:18:25,680 --> 01:18:29,320
Speaker 1: watching just Miami implode. But what is it. It's June.

1424
01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:33,200
Speaker 1: We're calling this. It's June, and we're calling it. Call

1425
01:18:33,280 --> 01:18:35,479
Speaker 1: it in from a thousand, from fifteen hundred miles away,

1426
01:18:35,479 --> 01:18:38,400
Speaker 1: we're calling it the Miami implosion. We may work together.

1427
01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:40,960
Speaker 1: I don't you know they're not. But no, they're not.

1428
01:18:41,160 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 1: I'm kind of I just I'm gonna speak it into existence.

1429
01:18:44,640 --> 01:18:46,639
Speaker 1: They are going to say it enough. If you say

1430
01:18:46,640 --> 01:18:50,599
Speaker 1: it enough, it'll happen. They're gonna implode at your rationale. Okay,

1431
01:18:50,760 --> 01:18:53,760
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, New England might be a little

1432
01:18:53,760 --> 01:18:56,439
Speaker 1: bit better. But Cam Newton cannot play. I'm just gonna

1433
01:18:56,479 --> 01:19:00,760
Speaker 1: state that for everyone. He can't play. He's done. I'm

1434
01:19:01,160 --> 01:19:04,759
Speaker 1: you know, I had a great career former NFL MVP.

1435
01:19:05,200 --> 01:19:08,680
Speaker 1: I am shocked Cam Newton cannot play any shocked that

1436
01:19:08,840 --> 01:19:12,400
Speaker 1: he resigned with the Patriots. I am too, because that's like,

1437
01:19:12,640 --> 01:19:16,200
Speaker 1: that's a that's an evaluation thing. And while Belichick and

1438
01:19:16,360 --> 01:19:22,680
Speaker 1: his crew are horrible at evaluating college talent, horrible, they

1439
01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:26,240
Speaker 1: are good at evaluating talent on the pro level. And

1440
01:19:26,439 --> 01:19:30,160
Speaker 1: I don't know how you look at Cam Newton film

1441
01:19:30,320 --> 01:19:34,720
Speaker 1: and say, bring that guy back for another year? What like?

1442
01:19:35,600 --> 01:19:37,320
Speaker 1: And I get it. There's a lot of done by that.

1443
01:19:37,400 --> 01:19:40,200
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things we see that we you know,

1444
01:19:40,240 --> 01:19:42,200
Speaker 1: we look at that, a lot of things we can't see,

1445
01:19:42,479 --> 01:19:44,960
Speaker 1: like what you know, he shows up early, he stays lady,

1446
01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:46,560
Speaker 1: works hard at it. He's a great guy in the

1447
01:19:46,600 --> 01:19:48,280
Speaker 1: locker room. The players love him. They raally to him.

1448
01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:52,680
Speaker 1: He cannot play when the ball is snapped. All that

1449
01:19:52,760 --> 01:19:56,360
Speaker 1: stuff don't matter. It don't manage. You showed up at

1450
01:19:56,400 --> 01:19:58,840
Speaker 1: five am every day of the week because you can't hit.

1451
01:19:58,960 --> 01:20:03,760
Speaker 1: The guy can not play the game. I mean, I'm

1452
01:20:03,800 --> 01:20:07,400
Speaker 1: watching those routes on air at Mini Camp. I mean

1453
01:20:08,320 --> 01:20:13,840
Speaker 1: he can't hit a target. It's the guy's fifteen yards away. Yeah,

1454
01:20:14,080 --> 01:20:18,000
Speaker 1: I cannot play anymore. It's sad, it's unfortunate. Guy had

1455
01:20:18,040 --> 01:20:20,120
Speaker 1: a great career, but it's time to hop on the

1456
01:20:20,160 --> 01:20:22,519
Speaker 1: horse and ride into the sunset like every end of

1457
01:20:22,600 --> 01:20:24,920
Speaker 1: a Western movie. And I'm sure he's you know, his

1458
01:20:25,080 --> 01:20:27,880
Speaker 1: whole practice didn't look like it did on those few things,

1459
01:20:28,680 --> 01:20:34,559
Speaker 1: but goodness, it's not sustainable. And then klock Camp four

1460
01:20:34,720 --> 01:20:37,200
Speaker 1: was talking about them doing like a mixed bag at quarterback.

1461
01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:41,720
Speaker 1: That's a recipe for disaster too. That never works. Might

1462
01:20:41,800 --> 01:20:45,680
Speaker 1: work in college, it's not working at this level. What

1463
01:20:45,800 --> 01:20:48,960
Speaker 1: are you doing? We're way late, so let's take a

1464
01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:51,120
Speaker 1: break here. When we come back, get more of your

1465
01:20:51,160 --> 01:20:54,320
Speaker 1: thoughts on the tweet We're rambling. We're rambling. This is

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Speaker 1: what we do on this show. But it's you know,

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Speaker 1: I like to think it's entertaining. I'm having fun. I

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Speaker 1: gotta tell you. I relish the fact that we can

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Speaker 1: just stomp on the dolphins and the meeting patients or not.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that's why we went over the excuse. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: use right, and we don't have to worry about playing

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Speaker 1: them on Sunday. There. We can just sit there and

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Speaker 1: just just relish in their misfortune. I'll dig the ditch

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Speaker 1: for him as soon as you'd ask me to back

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Speaker 1: in a second. Here on One Bills Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: collid to Health, it's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and

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Speaker 1: we want to get to your thoughts on the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: As we are asking you, who are you pulling for

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Speaker 1: you have a bigger role this season with the Bills,

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Speaker 1: and we already heard from Dinah on this subject. Rachel says,

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01:21:52,160 --> 01:21:54,720
Speaker 1: I want to see what Matt Breedy can do with

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Speaker 1: all the ten and eleven personnel we use and spread formations.

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01:21:58,520 --> 01:22:01,120
Speaker 1: I think a guy with speed will fit in perfectly.

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Speaker 1: Run a draw with digs and sanders running deep and

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Speaker 1: by the time the defunct is realized it to run,

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Speaker 1: Brita could be five yards downfield, maybe more. And I

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Speaker 1: gotta tell you, Steve Zack Moss still in a red

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Speaker 1: non contact jersey. All indications are he'll be ready for camp,

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Speaker 1: but it's gonna be a slow burn to get him

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Speaker 1: up to speed, and there's a good chance you may

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Speaker 1: need Brita to pair with Singletary early in the season.

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Speaker 1: If Moss, you know, it's still kind of trying to

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Speaker 1: get back to full strength, you know what I mean. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And we've seen it a couple of times, even in

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Speaker 1: his rookie season two years ago. Devin Singletary's pulled a

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Speaker 1: hammy Week two against the Giants, was out for a month.

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Speaker 1: Last year, of course, we saw Zach Moss go down.

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Speaker 1: We've also seen games where one or the other of

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Speaker 1: him coughs the ball up and then they get benched.

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Speaker 1: But you know that wouldn't having to do with what

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about, except the fact that this coaching staff

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01:22:57,680 --> 01:22:59,880
Speaker 1: is going to put a guy on the field who

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01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:02,600
Speaker 1: has earned it, and they're gonna stay there if they

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01:23:02,680 --> 01:23:05,559
Speaker 1: get a hot hand. And if Breeda comes out snaps

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01:23:05,600 --> 01:23:07,400
Speaker 1: off a twenty five yard run, you can bet he's

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01:23:07,400 --> 01:23:11,120
Speaker 1: gonna get the ball again. So this coaching staff more

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Speaker 1: than any other roles in the moment with running backs.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. If something's going well, man, man,

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01:23:20,280 --> 01:23:22,360
Speaker 1: they don't get off it, and I think it's a

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Speaker 1: plus for them offensively. But I think Zach Moss's road

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Speaker 1: back through the course of training camp in the preseason

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Speaker 1: is going to bear careful watching because, first of all,

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Speaker 1: as a rule, and I like this approach, the athletic

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Speaker 1: training staff here airs on the side of caution. They

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Speaker 1: would rather keep a guy sidelined an extra week, an

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Speaker 1: extra day, whatever they feel the appropriate timeline is. They

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Speaker 1: would rather go longer before bringing him back, especially before

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Speaker 1: you're in the throes of the regular season. And why

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Speaker 1: wouldn't you There's no reason to rush Zach Moss back

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Speaker 1: on the field. Right now, you have capable players on

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Speaker 1: your roster, number one, number two, waiting a little extra

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Speaker 1: probably enhances the chances of them staying on the field

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Speaker 1: once they get back on the field. And that's been

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Speaker 1: the general approach at nat Breski and his crew, the

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Speaker 1: athletic training staff. So I'm in favor of it. But

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Speaker 1: once he does get back, how does Zach Moss look

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Speaker 1: and is it going to take time for him to

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Speaker 1: kind of you know, feel the reads again, make the

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Speaker 1: right cuts and decisions with the ball, get up to

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Speaker 1: full strength, really feel like he has his legs underneath them.

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Speaker 1: An ankle injury that requires surgery, that's no small potatoes, right,

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Speaker 1: And it will come down to the other guys in

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Speaker 1: the room as well. You know how Singletary's doing it.

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Speaker 1: Does he stay healthy? Does breed to stay healthy? Does

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Speaker 1: Williams stay healthy? You know, Christian Wade, his development, all

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Speaker 1: the other guy, all the other factors that go into this.

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Speaker 1: Plus you know Taiwan Jones he gonna play special teams.

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Speaker 1: Does he stay healthy? And if Taiwan Jones goes down

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Speaker 1: as a special team or do they just flat out

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01:25:16,560 --> 01:25:19,000
Speaker 1: lose that running back spot and give the special team

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Speaker 1: spot to a wide out or to acker or one

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Speaker 1: of the other positions. Or do they go, listen, let's

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Speaker 1: let's elevate a running back for Taiwan Jones and maybe

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01:25:28,800 --> 01:25:30,960
Speaker 1: we'll get a package in for him. Yeah, a lot

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Speaker 1: of this stuff. It just seems to me, and we

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01:25:34,120 --> 01:25:37,880
Speaker 1: saw this last year. I think to it worked out

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01:25:37,880 --> 01:25:39,760
Speaker 1: the way they thought it would or for all of us.

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Speaker 1: I think Devin Singletary and Zach Moss are absolutely interchangeable,

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01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:49,320
Speaker 1: almost the same guy, and I served him well last

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01:25:49,360 --> 01:25:51,160
Speaker 1: year because they put those guys in there in any

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Speaker 1: situation and they knew they were good to go. I

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01:25:54,720 --> 01:25:58,280
Speaker 1: wonder if they're thinking, now, let's diversify a little bit.

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01:25:59,400 --> 01:26:03,719
Speaker 1: Maybe that does leave some room, yeah, for a different

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01:26:03,760 --> 01:26:06,120
Speaker 1: type of guy. Obviously Breeda comes to mind in that,

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01:26:06,280 --> 01:26:10,040
Speaker 1: but also a guy like Antonio Williams who came out

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01:26:10,080 --> 01:26:12,240
Speaker 1: and showed up big time in that game against me. Yeah,

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01:26:12,280 --> 01:26:14,720
Speaker 1: I mean, he has a big preseason. He could push

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Speaker 1: for a roster spot. At the very least, he's on

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Speaker 1: the practice squad again. You know, should you suffer an

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Speaker 1: injury at the position, you just pull him up. But

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Speaker 1: even so, Breed is the guy that stands out and

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01:26:26,760 --> 01:26:29,639
Speaker 1: all of that well because he has something that nobody

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Speaker 1: else has on the roster. Maybe with I mean Taiwan

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Speaker 1: Jones can run two, but he's just not a conventional

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Speaker 1: running back. But well, his skill set, his special teams,

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01:26:39,120 --> 01:26:41,400
Speaker 1: but he runs in the four threes also, so that

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Speaker 1: the four four is at this stage of his career.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, but other than that, that's the group and

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01:26:49,280 --> 01:26:52,479
Speaker 1: it'll be you know, out of the six guys on

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Speaker 1: the roster, it's hard to have a guy jump off

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Speaker 1: except for Breeda the way he brings the speed. Everybody

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Speaker 1: else's kind of you know, even Christian Wade and Williams

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01:27:05,120 --> 01:27:09,439
Speaker 1: or Antonio Antonio Whims are the same guy. Break time

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Speaker 1: for us here when we come back, more of your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on the tweet sheet and your phone calls at

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Speaker 1: eight oh three five fifty one, eight five fifty two,

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Speaker 1: five fifty Who are you pulling Ford to have a

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Speaker 1: bigger role this season on the field for the Bills.

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Speaker 1: Let us know, Steve and I back in a moment,

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Speaker 1: Stay tuned, Welcome back, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker here with

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Speaker 1: you closing out our number two of the program and

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01:27:41,400 --> 01:27:44,040
Speaker 1: your comments on the tweet sheet, who are you pulling

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01:27:44,120 --> 01:27:46,719
Speaker 1: forward to have a bigger role this season with the Bills.

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01:27:46,760 --> 01:27:49,000
Speaker 1: We've left it wide open for you to pick anybody

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01:27:49,040 --> 01:27:53,719
Speaker 1: you wish. Andrew goes with Tremaine Edmonds because he hasn't

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01:27:53,760 --> 01:27:57,120
Speaker 1: played to his full potential yet. Time for him to shine.

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01:27:58,240 --> 01:28:00,920
Speaker 1: He's on the Jason lockhamfora train with Tremaine. There's a

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01:28:00,960 --> 01:28:04,320
Speaker 1: lot of people that notice that guy's a two time

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01:28:04,400 --> 01:28:07,000
Speaker 1: pro bowler and he's gotta put it all together twenty

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01:28:07,520 --> 01:28:11,080
Speaker 1: and he's fourth year of the defense. He's been on

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Speaker 1: a defense a couple of years where it's a top

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01:28:12,840 --> 01:28:16,679
Speaker 1: five defense. Yeah, and he's he's one of those guys

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01:28:16,920 --> 01:28:19,320
Speaker 1: he may be maybe forever in his career, one of

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01:28:19,360 --> 01:28:21,439
Speaker 1: those guys that plays, he becomes a stall, but never

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01:28:21,560 --> 01:28:24,040
Speaker 1: has those signature plays in the game. You know. He's

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01:28:25,560 --> 01:28:28,320
Speaker 1: plays on great defenses, but is never the centerpiece. Is

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01:28:28,400 --> 01:28:30,599
Speaker 1: never the guy who gets the interception, tips the ball,

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01:28:30,680 --> 01:28:32,600
Speaker 1: makes the tackle for loss or whatever. But he's on

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Speaker 1: a defense that seems to do that a lot. You know.

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01:28:34,680 --> 01:28:36,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and I think that's what people are looking

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01:28:36,960 --> 01:28:38,280
Speaker 1: at him to do. If he's in the middle of it,

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01:28:39,720 --> 01:28:41,800
Speaker 1: get to you know, be at the ball more often,

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01:28:42,720 --> 01:28:45,320
Speaker 1: and you know, you see him once in a while.

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01:28:45,479 --> 01:28:47,479
Speaker 1: He has a hard one thing I notice about him

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01:28:47,479 --> 01:28:49,479
Speaker 1: at sometimes he has a hard time disengaging from a

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01:28:49,560 --> 01:28:51,840
Speaker 1: blocker if if the offensive line gets out on top

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01:28:51,880 --> 01:28:53,720
Speaker 1: of him, he has a hard time getting off that

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01:28:53,840 --> 01:28:58,599
Speaker 1: once in a while. But the guy, the guy covers

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01:28:58,680 --> 01:29:02,400
Speaker 1: an enormous around amount of ground and he's got an

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01:29:02,560 --> 01:29:05,519
Speaker 1: enormous reach and he uses it to his advantage. He's

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01:29:05,640 --> 01:29:07,439
Speaker 1: really good off the edge and when they give him

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01:29:07,439 --> 01:29:12,960
Speaker 1: a certain certain things, he does extremely well. And so

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Speaker 1: I'm I get it. He's gonna be a Buffalo bill

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01:29:16,479 --> 01:29:19,200
Speaker 1: for a long long time. So you better get your

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01:29:19,280 --> 01:29:21,840
Speaker 1: mind around what it means to have Tremaine Edmonds as

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01:29:22,120 --> 01:29:23,560
Speaker 1: the linebacker. And there's a lot of people that have

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01:29:23,600 --> 01:29:26,080
Speaker 1: a lot of high hopes for him now, Tiffany says,

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01:29:26,280 --> 01:29:28,240
Speaker 1: we really haven't had a chance to see what Cody

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01:29:28,320 --> 01:29:30,320
Speaker 1: Ford can bring to the old line. Hopefully he can

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01:29:30,360 --> 01:29:33,160
Speaker 1: stay healthy and compete for a starting spot. The team

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01:29:33,240 --> 01:29:35,160
Speaker 1: liked him enough in the draft to trade up for him.

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01:29:35,200 --> 01:29:36,680
Speaker 1: This is a make or break season for him to

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01:29:36,720 --> 01:29:38,360
Speaker 1: win one of the guard spots. I agree with that

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01:29:38,479 --> 01:29:41,960
Speaker 1: last sentiment. He's got to really come back here, and

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01:29:42,400 --> 01:29:44,439
Speaker 1: I mean he's still in a red non contact jersey

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01:29:44,560 --> 01:29:48,000
Speaker 1: coming off the surgery for his knee. That's not an

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01:29:48,040 --> 01:29:50,439
Speaker 1: easy injury to come off of when you're weigh three

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01:29:50,520 --> 01:29:53,679
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty something pounds, because you're challenging that knee

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01:29:53,760 --> 01:29:56,000
Speaker 1: joint right away just by virtue of all the weight

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01:29:56,080 --> 01:29:58,840
Speaker 1: that's on it, number one, and then all the weight

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01:29:58,880 --> 01:30:03,960
Speaker 1: that's leaning against you just walking around. Yeah. Yeah, I

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01:30:04,040 --> 01:30:06,840
Speaker 1: think it is important, and I think they I think

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01:30:06,880 --> 01:30:11,920
Speaker 1: the team brought in a lot of competitions to make

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01:30:12,040 --> 01:30:15,479
Speaker 1: sure that they're not I if he's not one hundred percent,

1636
01:30:15,560 --> 01:30:18,040
Speaker 1: that they're not stuck with him, and so to speak,

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01:30:19,120 --> 01:30:21,519
Speaker 1: they're gonna make him come back and come back big time.

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01:30:22,840 --> 01:30:25,479
Speaker 1: The guys they brought in on the interior the offensive line,

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01:30:25,880 --> 01:30:28,160
Speaker 1: both with draft picks and free agents, have some chops.

1640
01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:33,000
Speaker 1: And you know, she's right, he has had trouble staying

1641
01:30:33,040 --> 01:30:37,160
Speaker 1: healthy at times, so and last year being an obvious

1642
01:30:37,240 --> 01:30:41,920
Speaker 1: example of that. I think this offensive line is going

1643
01:30:42,000 --> 01:30:44,240
Speaker 1: to be a really interesting watch, not only because I

1644
01:30:44,360 --> 01:30:47,479
Speaker 1: think there's a chance we could have new starters on

1645
01:30:47,560 --> 01:30:49,360
Speaker 1: a team that look like it was set in stone.

1646
01:30:50,160 --> 01:30:53,960
Speaker 1: I think though you can make the argument that of

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01:30:54,200 --> 01:30:58,639
Speaker 1: all the offensive line positions, left guard is the most

1648
01:30:58,800 --> 01:31:03,599
Speaker 1: open because it was manned by more than one player

1649
01:31:03,720 --> 01:31:07,120
Speaker 1: last year. Cody Ford goes out of the lineup with

1650
01:31:07,160 --> 01:31:12,240
Speaker 1: the season ending knee injury, Butker comes in. Ford is healthy.

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01:31:12,360 --> 01:31:14,760
Speaker 1: Butker is still here, you know, on a one year

1652
01:31:14,880 --> 01:31:19,719
Speaker 1: RFA deal, And far As lamp is here. Now, Jamil

1653
01:31:19,800 --> 01:31:22,720
Speaker 1: Douglas is here. Now who else we got that could

1654
01:31:22,760 --> 01:31:25,519
Speaker 1: be in the mix at that linebacker spot? Ryan Bates

1655
01:31:25,640 --> 01:31:30,759
Speaker 1: is still here. I mean you've got and Jack Anderson,

1656
01:31:31,040 --> 01:31:33,439
Speaker 1: the seventh round draft choice, who's done a nice job

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01:31:33,479 --> 01:31:35,120
Speaker 1: at right guard. Would he coact her in at the

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01:31:35,200 --> 01:31:39,840
Speaker 1: left guards? Borden dev is here? Oh yeah, Jordan Devi right,

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01:31:39,880 --> 01:31:44,320
Speaker 1: then Douglas, Yeah, I mean they've got some guys. So

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01:31:44,760 --> 01:31:47,320
Speaker 1: I think of all the starting line spots from last

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01:31:47,400 --> 01:31:50,599
Speaker 1: year that are manned by the incumbents, I would if

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01:31:50,640 --> 01:31:53,439
Speaker 1: you asked me to pick, I would pick left guard

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01:31:53,520 --> 01:31:56,679
Speaker 1: as being the most open to be unseated, absolutely, because

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01:31:56,680 --> 01:31:57,920
Speaker 1: you don't know how he's gonna He may not be

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01:31:58,000 --> 01:32:01,920
Speaker 1: ready to play right And here's what happens. Invariably you

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01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:04,599
Speaker 1: can't play, so you're in a red non contact. Other

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01:32:04,640 --> 01:32:06,760
Speaker 1: guys step in, start taking your rips and those and

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01:32:06,840 --> 01:32:10,200
Speaker 1: the coach are going that's pretty good. Yeah, And Nike

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01:32:10,240 --> 01:32:12,080
Speaker 1: Bucker did a nice job last year. I mean, I

1670
01:32:12,160 --> 01:32:15,400
Speaker 1: thought he played well after Ford was lost for the season.

1671
01:32:15,880 --> 01:32:17,840
Speaker 1: But if you want to if you've got somebody on

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01:32:17,880 --> 01:32:20,920
Speaker 1: the roster that's playing better, they're gonna play. And there's

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01:32:21,120 --> 01:32:24,840
Speaker 1: there's always this logic as well that Okay, he didn't

1674
01:32:24,920 --> 01:32:27,280
Speaker 1: run the ball well enough last year. Not you don't

1675
01:32:27,280 --> 01:32:28,519
Speaker 1: want to run it more often, but you want to

1676
01:32:28,600 --> 01:32:30,920
Speaker 1: run it better when you do run it. That starts

1677
01:32:30,960 --> 01:32:34,960
Speaker 1: with your guards and your center. You got to those

1678
01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:39,120
Speaker 1: guys have got to be physical upfront and athletic. And

1679
01:32:39,200 --> 01:32:43,080
Speaker 1: if you can get more physical and better athletes up front,

1680
01:32:44,520 --> 01:32:47,680
Speaker 1: that's what you gotta do to run the ball better. Um.

1681
01:32:48,800 --> 01:32:50,720
Speaker 1: And that goes to the tackles as well to a

1682
01:32:50,800 --> 01:32:55,639
Speaker 1: certain extent. So if that if that's the case, yeah,

1683
01:32:55,720 --> 01:32:57,519
Speaker 1: they're going to start shuffling that inside there if they

1684
01:32:57,520 --> 01:32:59,080
Speaker 1: want to run the ball better, because that's where it's

1685
01:32:59,080 --> 01:33:00,840
Speaker 1: going to start. You know who the running backs are

1686
01:33:00,880 --> 01:33:03,639
Speaker 1: gonna be. And I'm not saying anything now. We talked

1687
01:33:03,640 --> 01:33:05,880
Speaker 1: about bat Breeda, maybe a you know, great addition to

1688
01:33:05,960 --> 01:33:08,320
Speaker 1: it but he's no magic elixir to the run game.

1689
01:33:08,520 --> 01:33:11,000
Speaker 1: It starts up front, and if you want to run

1690
01:33:11,080 --> 01:33:12,920
Speaker 1: the ball better, you either got to get your guys

1691
01:33:13,000 --> 01:33:15,439
Speaker 1: up there that are to play better, or get different

1692
01:33:15,479 --> 01:33:18,360
Speaker 1: guys up there who are better and maybe scheme it

1693
01:33:18,360 --> 01:33:20,880
Speaker 1: a little differently too, if you think that it'll help you.

1694
01:33:21,000 --> 01:33:24,439
Speaker 1: Gotta here's in a modern NFL team, you gotta be

1695
01:33:24,439 --> 01:33:27,479
Speaker 1: able to run different schemes because you're gonna face different

1696
01:33:27,520 --> 01:33:30,599
Speaker 1: defensive fronts. And if you've got a chance to run

1697
01:33:30,640 --> 01:33:32,680
Speaker 1: a zone scheme for a game, and you don't want

1698
01:33:32,720 --> 01:33:34,680
Speaker 1: guys that are smart and athletic enough to be able

1699
01:33:34,720 --> 01:33:36,120
Speaker 1: to get it done. And if you want to run

1700
01:33:36,160 --> 01:33:38,840
Speaker 1: a power game with a lead draw or you know,

1701
01:33:39,040 --> 01:33:43,680
Speaker 1: or a trap power formation, you know, the old you know,

1702
01:33:44,840 --> 01:33:47,519
Speaker 1: counter tray, you gotta have guys that can get out

1703
01:33:47,520 --> 01:33:52,080
Speaker 1: and run in front of it. Um. So it's there.

1704
01:33:52,160 --> 01:33:53,880
Speaker 1: They've got all that in their game plan and in

1705
01:33:54,200 --> 01:33:56,880
Speaker 1: their offense because you kind of have to do that

1706
01:33:57,040 --> 01:34:00,680
Speaker 1: nowadays in the NFL. So you want as versatile of

1707
01:34:00,760 --> 01:34:03,360
Speaker 1: offensive lineman as you can get. That's part of the deal.

1708
01:34:03,800 --> 01:34:07,519
Speaker 1: They've got both types of schemes in their playbook. Who

1709
01:34:07,640 --> 01:34:10,320
Speaker 1: runs all of them the best. Those five guys are

1710
01:34:10,320 --> 01:34:13,599
Speaker 1: gonna play. We have to take a break here. When

1711
01:34:13,680 --> 01:34:17,000
Speaker 1: we come back, we're gonna hear from Bill's linebacker Matt

1712
01:34:17,240 --> 01:34:21,920
Speaker 1: Milano addressed the media late yesterday as Mini camp wrapped up.

1713
01:34:22,160 --> 01:34:25,280
Speaker 1: We're gonna bring you some of his more intriguing comments

1714
01:34:25,600 --> 01:34:28,240
Speaker 1: when we return here on one Bill's Live, presented by

1715
01:34:28,320 --> 01:34:49,000
Speaker 1: Kalaida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve tester

1716
01:34:49,200 --> 01:34:51,880
Speaker 1: who has been all over the field. Kind of unique.

1717
01:34:51,880 --> 01:34:54,120
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role players for Steve.

1718
01:34:55,479 --> 01:35:00,439
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the thread deer

1719
01:35:00,800 --> 01:35:06,280
Speaker 1: of normalcy. All right, welcome to our number three here

1720
01:35:06,320 --> 01:35:14,200
Speaker 1: on a Thursday Thursday. It is Thursday all day long.

1721
01:35:15,120 --> 01:35:18,120
Speaker 1: I'm heading to the Yankees Blue Jay's game tonight, excited

1722
01:35:18,160 --> 01:35:19,960
Speaker 1: about that. What's going on? Is anybody throwing out the

1723
01:35:20,000 --> 01:35:23,439
Speaker 1: first pitch? Yeah? The Bill's quarterbacks doing that. You got

1724
01:35:23,520 --> 01:35:25,280
Speaker 1: a video that and bringing it out tomorrow. I'll do it.

1725
01:35:25,360 --> 01:35:27,559
Speaker 1: I can't promise it's gonna look pretty. I know our

1726
01:35:27,920 --> 01:35:30,439
Speaker 1: crack video staff at Buffalo bills dot Com will be

1727
01:35:30,560 --> 01:35:34,040
Speaker 1: on hand, all right, much better footage, My footage might

1728
01:35:34,080 --> 01:35:37,920
Speaker 1: be turned around sooner. But I can guarantee you their

1729
01:35:37,960 --> 01:35:40,599
Speaker 1: marriage will be better. Text it to me tomorrow tonight. Okay,

1730
01:35:40,840 --> 01:35:43,080
Speaker 1: just while you're there. Josh did say he wants to

1731
01:35:43,160 --> 01:35:47,080
Speaker 1: see if he's hoping the radar guns out there. Thank God,

1732
01:35:47,200 --> 01:35:48,920
Speaker 1: of course they're gonna put the radio gun out of it.

1733
01:35:49,040 --> 01:35:51,040
Speaker 1: I think if I remember, I think I may have

1734
01:35:51,120 --> 01:35:54,960
Speaker 1: once had a conversation with Josh about his baseball pitching

1735
01:35:55,000 --> 01:35:56,840
Speaker 1: acumen in high school. He said he put one in

1736
01:35:56,920 --> 01:35:59,560
Speaker 1: the nineties, right, yeah, low nineties, I think he told me.

1737
01:35:59,840 --> 01:36:02,160
Speaker 1: And back then he was only like six three eighty

1738
01:36:02,200 --> 01:36:06,760
Speaker 1: in high school and he's throwing low ninety's. That's pretty good.

1739
01:36:07,479 --> 01:36:08,600
Speaker 1: And he said, you know, and he told me he

1740
01:36:08,600 --> 01:36:12,439
Speaker 1: could dunk a basketball and all that stuff. So, yeah,

1741
01:36:12,600 --> 01:36:15,800
Speaker 1: who couldn't, Well, I know you could. I could not.

1742
01:36:16,720 --> 01:36:18,800
Speaker 1: I did not have that kind of lift I could

1743
01:36:18,880 --> 01:36:22,599
Speaker 1: jump and not that high. My god, I'm of vertical

1744
01:36:22,680 --> 01:36:24,680
Speaker 1: sports or not for me. How tough gonna be to

1745
01:36:24,680 --> 01:36:30,840
Speaker 1: slam dunk when you're six five? Come on, we before

1746
01:36:30,880 --> 01:36:34,519
Speaker 1: the break told you that we had some comments from

1747
01:36:34,520 --> 01:36:37,160
Speaker 1: Matt Milano we wanted to share with you, and we're

1748
01:36:37,160 --> 01:36:39,839
Speaker 1: going to bring those to you now. Matt Milano addressed

1749
01:36:39,880 --> 01:36:42,360
Speaker 1: the media late yesterday, after we were off the air

1750
01:36:43,439 --> 01:36:47,599
Speaker 1: and after minicamp had been essentially ended. The final day

1751
01:36:47,720 --> 01:36:50,080
Speaker 1: canceled by head coach Sean McDermott, kind of as a

1752
01:36:50,800 --> 01:36:53,120
Speaker 1: reward for the players for getting the work done that

1753
01:36:53,160 --> 01:36:56,120
Speaker 1: they did all through the course of the spring. So

1754
01:36:56,360 --> 01:37:02,120
Speaker 1: Milano was asked about the two rookie additions to the

1755
01:37:02,240 --> 01:37:05,120
Speaker 1: defense at the top of their twenty twenty one draft

1756
01:37:05,200 --> 01:37:08,719
Speaker 1: class in the form of Greg Russo and Boogie Basham,

1757
01:37:09,200 --> 01:37:12,240
Speaker 1: and Milana was asked for his early impressions on these

1758
01:37:12,280 --> 01:37:14,720
Speaker 1: two players, granted still not in pads and still not

1759
01:37:14,840 --> 01:37:18,720
Speaker 1: playing real football. Here is what the veteran linebacker had

1760
01:37:18,760 --> 01:37:22,960
Speaker 1: to say about Russo and Basham. Yeah, they've been great.

1761
01:37:23,000 --> 01:37:24,360
Speaker 1: We don't got the pads on right now, so you

1762
01:37:24,439 --> 01:37:27,320
Speaker 1: really can't see the physical side of it. But from

1763
01:37:27,360 --> 01:37:29,960
Speaker 1: a speeding clicking the standpoint, those guys are balling out,

1764
01:37:30,080 --> 01:37:33,080
Speaker 1: especially those guys in the secondary coming around the cloud,

1765
01:37:33,680 --> 01:37:38,200
Speaker 1: especially him with Rousseau. I know you can't understand the physicality,

1766
01:37:38,240 --> 01:37:40,479
Speaker 1: but it just his lengths. I mean you notice the

1767
01:37:40,600 --> 01:37:45,080
Speaker 1: things that again without full engaging in here with the

1768
01:37:46,040 --> 01:37:48,679
Speaker 1: defensive front and an offensive line, but can you tell

1769
01:37:49,280 --> 01:37:52,040
Speaker 1: what his lengths can bring to the table. Oh yeah,

1770
01:37:52,080 --> 01:37:54,720
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's gigantic. I'm like looking up at

1771
01:37:54,800 --> 01:37:58,280
Speaker 1: him in the huddles, So it should be good to

1772
01:37:58,320 --> 01:38:00,439
Speaker 1: have him up there. Hopefully get them bad ball some

1773
01:38:00,560 --> 01:38:04,400
Speaker 1: sacks this year help us out a little bit. Everybody

1774
01:38:04,640 --> 01:38:08,040
Speaker 1: on the defense when they're asked about Rousseau, all they're

1775
01:38:08,040 --> 01:38:10,400
Speaker 1: talking about is him batting passes so they can get picks.

1776
01:38:10,640 --> 01:38:12,400
Speaker 1: They don't even care if he gets sacked, just knocks

1777
01:38:12,439 --> 01:38:13,920
Speaker 1: some passes up in the air so we can get

1778
01:38:13,960 --> 01:38:17,960
Speaker 1: some freebees. And they also say just what he did

1779
01:38:18,000 --> 01:38:21,280
Speaker 1: as well. He's gigantic. Yeah, he's looking up at him

1780
01:38:21,280 --> 01:38:22,800
Speaker 1: in the hot telling you man, I've said it a

1781
01:38:22,920 --> 01:38:30,960
Speaker 1: ton these guys are. He is huge. Interesting that Mamelano

1782
01:38:31,040 --> 01:38:38,599
Speaker 1: also mentioned undrafted rookie cornerback Nick McCleod, who I think

1783
01:38:38,680 --> 01:38:41,080
Speaker 1: is a little bit of a sleeper player for this team.

1784
01:38:41,680 --> 01:38:48,400
Speaker 1: Played three years at nc State, graduate transfer to Notre Dame.

1785
01:38:49,240 --> 01:38:52,479
Speaker 1: Went to Notre Dame as a graduate transfer, played last

1786
01:38:52,560 --> 01:38:54,560
Speaker 1: year for them. I think he led the team in

1787
01:38:54,680 --> 01:38:59,599
Speaker 1: interceptions and has a pretty good college body of work.

1788
01:39:00,720 --> 01:39:03,160
Speaker 1: Decent size too. I think he goes about six foot

1789
01:39:04,080 --> 01:39:06,280
Speaker 1: and he's put he's got it packed on and pretty good.

1790
01:39:06,560 --> 01:39:08,160
Speaker 1: Like you know, it looks like he's got an NFL

1791
01:39:08,240 --> 01:39:11,720
Speaker 1: body already. Right, he's gonna get some looks um tough

1792
01:39:11,760 --> 01:39:14,240
Speaker 1: position to make the roster at right now, with the

1793
01:39:14,320 --> 01:39:16,680
Speaker 1: likes of Dane Jackson and Levi Wallace there ahead of

1794
01:39:16,760 --> 01:39:19,760
Speaker 1: him but outside corner. Yeah, and Wild Goose who was

1795
01:39:19,840 --> 01:39:23,720
Speaker 1: a draft choice. So here's what happens. The guys like

1796
01:39:24,600 --> 01:39:27,800
Speaker 1: like him get an opportunity. They sign him, they bring

1797
01:39:27,880 --> 01:39:30,720
Speaker 1: him in, they give him an opportunity, and all of

1798
01:39:30,760 --> 01:39:32,640
Speaker 1: a sudden, they give him this opportunity. In practice, they

1799
01:39:32,680 --> 01:39:34,760
Speaker 1: do get their normal reps, and they do okay in

1800
01:39:34,760 --> 01:39:36,400
Speaker 1: their normal reps. They get in some team reps and

1801
01:39:36,400 --> 01:39:38,599
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the guy flashes. And what happens

1802
01:39:38,760 --> 01:39:41,160
Speaker 1: from the very beginning, Now, I got like Wild Goose

1803
01:39:41,200 --> 01:39:43,640
Speaker 1: who's a draft pick, got like Rousseau gout like bash him.

1804
01:39:43,640 --> 01:39:45,760
Speaker 1: They get their picks because they're they've gotten invested in.

1805
01:39:45,840 --> 01:39:48,800
Speaker 1: They they've got some traits that they're looking at. These

1806
01:39:49,160 --> 01:39:51,840
Speaker 1: undrafted rookie free agents. They get a little bit less

1807
01:39:52,000 --> 01:39:54,760
Speaker 1: of a lease so they'll get their their reps. But

1808
01:39:54,880 --> 01:39:57,080
Speaker 1: if they perform well enough of say, okay, he's gonna

1809
01:39:57,120 --> 01:39:59,439
Speaker 1: keep getting reps, him, a few more, him, a few

1810
01:39:59,479 --> 01:40:01,880
Speaker 1: more reps. They keep continuing to do well, all of

1811
01:40:01,960 --> 01:40:06,600
Speaker 1: a sudden they become Levi Wallace, where it's like we

1812
01:40:06,720 --> 01:40:08,639
Speaker 1: got high. We gotta put him on the field. Yeah,

1813
01:40:08,760 --> 01:40:10,800
Speaker 1: he's earned it. I mean, he kept doing well in

1814
01:40:10,880 --> 01:40:12,240
Speaker 1: this rep, but he did it well in the next

1815
01:40:12,280 --> 01:40:14,360
Speaker 1: rep against a better player, and then he did well

1816
01:40:14,479 --> 01:40:16,880
Speaker 1: three times in a row against our top line. We

1817
01:40:17,000 --> 01:40:19,560
Speaker 1: gotta give him more time. But that is an unsolicited

1818
01:40:19,600 --> 01:40:23,120
Speaker 1: shout out by a veteran player saying that Nick McLeod

1819
01:40:23,240 --> 01:40:27,040
Speaker 1: is really get putting it together now. I mean Steve

1820
01:40:27,320 --> 01:40:31,120
Speaker 1: Matt Milano on a list of cornerbacks that include tarn Johnson,

1821
01:40:31,200 --> 01:40:34,479
Speaker 1: Tredevious White, Dane Jackson, Rashad Wild, Goose, I, Ran Neil,

1822
01:40:34,479 --> 01:40:38,519
Speaker 1: Elijah Griffin, Levi Wallace, caml Lewis, and Nick McLeod mentioned

1823
01:40:38,600 --> 01:40:43,240
Speaker 1: Nick McLeod only, Well, here's something too, and I was

1824
01:40:43,479 --> 01:40:47,200
Speaker 1: a beneficiary this as well, rookie free agent. I was

1825
01:40:47,280 --> 01:40:48,960
Speaker 1: not a rookie free agent, but I was a draft

1826
01:40:49,040 --> 01:40:53,599
Speaker 1: pick that looked like a sixth grader. The expectation at

1827
01:40:53,600 --> 01:40:59,960
Speaker 1: the barslow. Yeah, so it's easy to kind of outperform

1828
01:41:00,000 --> 01:41:05,960
Speaker 1: form that expectation to begin with the question now is

1829
01:41:06,840 --> 01:41:10,160
Speaker 1: does he disappears he flashing on? Can he put when

1830
01:41:10,200 --> 01:41:12,280
Speaker 1: the pads go on? Do things change? Does things change

1831
01:41:12,280 --> 01:41:13,760
Speaker 1: when the pads go on? Or maybe do they get

1832
01:41:13,840 --> 01:41:16,840
Speaker 1: better for him when the pads go on? Good? Does

1833
01:41:16,920 --> 01:41:19,400
Speaker 1: he does he have a great day? And then followed

1834
01:41:19,439 --> 01:41:21,600
Speaker 1: by a day where he can't cover you know, he

1835
01:41:21,680 --> 01:41:24,960
Speaker 1: can't cover a bed with a blanket? You know, does

1836
01:41:25,000 --> 01:41:27,479
Speaker 1: he have a good day? Then three bad ones? Then

1837
01:41:27,520 --> 01:41:30,120
Speaker 1: another flash play, then he disappears again? Or does he

1838
01:41:30,280 --> 01:41:34,960
Speaker 1: continue to get better and also flash moments where he's

1839
01:41:35,040 --> 01:41:38,080
Speaker 1: way better? That's the difference and that's what they find

1840
01:41:38,160 --> 01:41:41,599
Speaker 1: out through rep after rep after rep, meeting after meeting,

1841
01:41:41,800 --> 01:41:44,840
Speaker 1: interaction after interaction, coaching point and how well does he

1842
01:41:44,920 --> 01:41:46,720
Speaker 1: take that coaching? How does he put that? Do I

1843
01:41:46,800 --> 01:41:49,040
Speaker 1: see that when he comes out the next rep? Is

1844
01:41:49,080 --> 01:41:53,200
Speaker 1: he using that coaching point? Is he on point? All

1845
01:41:53,240 --> 01:41:55,559
Speaker 1: of that stuff comes to the forefront. And I think

1846
01:41:55,600 --> 01:41:58,280
Speaker 1: that's the interesting part about these young players coming out.

1847
01:41:59,680 --> 01:42:03,080
Speaker 1: They to advance their own game. They got to get better,

1848
01:42:03,479 --> 01:42:08,639
Speaker 1: and do they continually exceed expectations every step along the way?

1849
01:42:08,960 --> 01:42:13,800
Speaker 1: And do they never disappear, and that's when they turn

1850
01:42:13,880 --> 01:42:16,080
Speaker 1: into a guy, a four year starter like Levi Wallace,

1851
01:42:16,560 --> 01:42:19,800
Speaker 1: you know, a Tarn Johnson, you know all these other

1852
01:42:19,840 --> 01:42:21,880
Speaker 1: guys who show up and they just never go away

1853
01:42:22,000 --> 01:42:24,640
Speaker 1: because there they get it and they get better. They

1854
01:42:24,680 --> 01:42:28,240
Speaker 1: apply themselves and they're too smart to regress. Just so

1855
01:42:28,400 --> 01:42:33,479
Speaker 1: everybody knows a little bit more about Nick McLeod as

1856
01:42:33,560 --> 01:42:37,439
Speaker 1: I mentioned three seasons at NC State senior year cut

1857
01:42:37,520 --> 01:42:40,200
Speaker 1: short by a knee injury, red shirts his last year

1858
01:42:40,240 --> 01:42:44,519
Speaker 1: and Raleigh graduates transfers to Notre Dame. Made eleven starts

1859
01:42:44,560 --> 01:42:47,320
Speaker 1: for the Irish, led the team in pass breakups with nine,

1860
01:42:47,640 --> 01:42:50,800
Speaker 1: got third team All ACC honors. Is known as a

1861
01:42:50,960 --> 01:42:54,799
Speaker 1: good run support corner with speed in the mid four fours.

1862
01:42:55,240 --> 01:42:57,679
Speaker 1: Also went to the same high school as former Bills

1863
01:42:57,760 --> 01:43:00,680
Speaker 1: corner Stefan Gilmore down in rock Hill, South Carolina. So

1864
01:43:01,320 --> 01:43:03,280
Speaker 1: run support is important if you're going to be a

1865
01:43:03,360 --> 01:43:06,040
Speaker 1: corner out on the out on the edges in this

1866
01:43:06,240 --> 01:43:08,920
Speaker 1: defensive scheme. So if he can prove himself worthy in

1867
01:43:09,000 --> 01:43:12,640
Speaker 1: that area, six foot one ninety three, so we'll have

1868
01:43:12,720 --> 01:43:16,280
Speaker 1: to see what happens there. Some of the undrafteds are

1869
01:43:16,360 --> 01:43:19,120
Speaker 1: turning head Steve I know Quentin Morris is a guy

1870
01:43:19,200 --> 01:43:22,559
Speaker 1: that some people are impressed with. The tight end who

1871
01:43:23,080 --> 01:43:28,120
Speaker 1: is out of bowling green so and the other safety,

1872
01:43:28,280 --> 01:43:32,320
Speaker 1: Terek Thompson, San Diego State kid. Forty seven games under

1873
01:43:32,400 --> 01:43:34,640
Speaker 1: his belt at the college level with the Aztecs at

1874
01:43:34,680 --> 01:43:38,960
Speaker 1: San Diego State, thirty five pass breakups in forty seven games,

1875
01:43:39,240 --> 01:43:43,160
Speaker 1: eighteen total turnovers including twelve picks, and he's had a

1876
01:43:43,200 --> 01:43:44,960
Speaker 1: couple of takeaways here in the spring. So if you

1877
01:43:45,000 --> 01:43:46,640
Speaker 1: want to if you want to turn heads of a

1878
01:43:46,720 --> 01:43:49,960
Speaker 1: coachings to have get turnovers, goodness gracious. And Mcloud's in

1879
01:43:50,040 --> 01:43:51,840
Speaker 1: a good spot too if he if he does run

1880
01:43:51,880 --> 01:43:56,120
Speaker 1: support and the pads go on and he gets better. Yeah, Yeah,

1881
01:43:56,320 --> 01:43:59,080
Speaker 1: that's that's his feather in his cap. Yeah, that's his

1882
01:43:59,160 --> 01:44:02,439
Speaker 1: ticket feather in this game. And we said too, even

1883
01:44:02,479 --> 01:44:06,240
Speaker 1: when even though he's a little bit undersized, um that

1884
01:44:07,120 --> 01:44:10,760
Speaker 1: um Dan Jackson like like to mix it up, you see,

1885
01:44:10,760 --> 01:44:12,479
Speaker 1: you know, I mean that Pittsburgh crew that comes hit

1886
01:44:12,560 --> 01:44:17,040
Speaker 1: the kids, they play with some grit, and but his

1887
01:44:17,200 --> 01:44:20,040
Speaker 1: body he's you know, one hundred and seventy five. You

1888
01:44:20,120 --> 01:44:22,080
Speaker 1: had twenty pounds onto that and it makes a little

1889
01:44:22,080 --> 01:44:25,080
Speaker 1: bit more of an impact in the run game. Matt

1890
01:44:25,160 --> 01:44:30,200
Speaker 1: Milano also asked about the key members of his twenty

1891
01:44:30,280 --> 01:44:35,160
Speaker 1: seventeen draft class, all returning on second contracts, namely Trudavious White,

1892
01:44:35,200 --> 01:44:39,479
Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins, and then he being the third and final

1893
01:44:39,560 --> 01:44:42,960
Speaker 1: guy to get a second deal here and staying in Buffalo.

1894
01:44:43,160 --> 01:44:48,920
Speaker 1: So here is Milano's reflections on his draft class. Right now,

1895
01:44:48,960 --> 01:44:50,920
Speaker 1: we're just way ahead of the game. You know. Its

1896
01:44:50,960 --> 01:44:53,280
Speaker 1: guys aren't so much concerned about the playbook. We already

1897
01:44:53,280 --> 01:44:56,040
Speaker 1: know the playbook. It's more about getting those small details

1898
01:44:56,479 --> 01:44:58,639
Speaker 1: tuned up in order to make those plays to help

1899
01:44:58,680 --> 01:45:01,400
Speaker 1: the team win. So ahead of the game, we're rolling,

1900
01:45:01,479 --> 01:45:03,360
Speaker 1: especially on defense. The back seven I think has been

1901
01:45:03,360 --> 01:45:06,280
Speaker 1: together for four plus years now, if not more than that.

1902
01:45:06,400 --> 01:45:09,400
Speaker 1: So so yeah, it's been it's been pretty cool to

1903
01:45:09,600 --> 01:45:11,600
Speaker 1: experience that, not having to worry so much about the

1904
01:45:11,600 --> 01:45:14,360
Speaker 1: playbook and little stuff like that. It's more about now

1905
01:45:14,520 --> 01:45:16,960
Speaker 1: making plays and taking it to that nice level. And

1906
01:45:17,080 --> 01:45:19,639
Speaker 1: that's what I ask coach McDermott about the other day,

1907
01:45:19,880 --> 01:45:23,559
Speaker 1: because now you have your offensive and defensive coordinator here

1908
01:45:23,600 --> 01:45:26,200
Speaker 1: for a fourth consecutive season. Your special team's coach is

1909
01:45:26,320 --> 01:45:29,040
Speaker 1: entering his third consecutive season here in Buffalo. So you

1910
01:45:29,120 --> 01:45:32,479
Speaker 1: have that continuity, and now you have players the back

1911
01:45:32,560 --> 01:45:36,080
Speaker 1: seven of this defense. It's been together for four years,

1912
01:45:36,600 --> 01:45:41,559
Speaker 1: white Hide, Poyer, Wallace. Wallace is his fourth year, Terren

1913
01:45:41,640 --> 01:45:46,720
Speaker 1: Johnson fourth year, Mulano fifth year, Edmund's fourth year. I mean,

1914
01:45:47,000 --> 01:45:50,719
Speaker 1: they've all been playing together for a long time. Now

1915
01:45:50,960 --> 01:45:53,519
Speaker 1: what you can do is you already have the foundation,

1916
01:45:53,880 --> 01:45:56,360
Speaker 1: you already know the playbook. Now you can get into

1917
01:45:56,439 --> 01:46:01,480
Speaker 1: those finer points, the nuances, the granular items that sometimes

1918
01:46:02,200 --> 01:46:05,479
Speaker 1: can mean the difference in winning a football game because

1919
01:46:06,000 --> 01:46:10,080
Speaker 1: you align yourself maybe a half yard this way when

1920
01:46:10,160 --> 01:46:12,519
Speaker 1: you see this look from the offense and you just

1921
01:46:12,680 --> 01:46:15,000
Speaker 1: give Edmonds a look over there so he knows, hey,

1922
01:46:15,080 --> 01:46:17,960
Speaker 1: I'm a half a yard this way because we think

1923
01:46:18,040 --> 01:46:20,080
Speaker 1: this is going to happen, so I have a chance

1924
01:46:20,120 --> 01:46:25,879
Speaker 1: at a pick right. And McDermott has addressed that earlier

1925
01:46:25,920 --> 01:46:28,160
Speaker 1: as well and before in other seasons where he says, listen,

1926
01:46:28,320 --> 01:46:30,760
Speaker 1: the real problem is when you get continuity is to

1927
01:46:30,840 --> 01:46:33,320
Speaker 1: not let it get stale. And as a coaching staff,

1928
01:46:33,320 --> 01:46:37,519
Speaker 1: they've got to continually scour the league, other coaches of

1929
01:46:37,760 --> 01:46:40,760
Speaker 1: their own team, their own ideas, their own concepts, to

1930
01:46:41,000 --> 01:46:44,160
Speaker 1: continue to evolve You can't go back and just say, Okay,

1931
01:46:44,200 --> 01:46:48,639
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep doing this forever it grows because there's

1932
01:46:48,840 --> 01:46:52,840
Speaker 1: no magic. There's no thing offensive scheme or offensive plan

1933
01:46:52,960 --> 01:46:54,960
Speaker 1: or game plans you can run that's gonna work all

1934
01:46:55,000 --> 01:46:58,720
Speaker 1: the time. You have to change constantly because the other

1935
01:46:58,800 --> 01:47:02,479
Speaker 1: team's got some smart people too, So I think that's

1936
01:47:02,520 --> 01:47:04,640
Speaker 1: what they're fighting and McDermott has said it. We got

1937
01:47:04,760 --> 01:47:08,200
Speaker 1: to fight against just trying to re rack the same

1938
01:47:08,280 --> 01:47:11,560
Speaker 1: old game calls, game plans, concepts and all of that.

1939
01:47:11,640 --> 01:47:14,080
Speaker 1: We got to continue to throw new things at our

1940
01:47:14,120 --> 01:47:17,439
Speaker 1: opponents and force them onto their heels. And I think

1941
01:47:17,479 --> 01:47:20,280
Speaker 1: that's I think it's really insightful on mcdermot's part to

1942
01:47:20,360 --> 01:47:22,519
Speaker 1: know that just because we have stability doesn't mean we

1943
01:47:22,600 --> 01:47:24,680
Speaker 1: need to be the same every year year to year.

1944
01:47:25,680 --> 01:47:30,000
Speaker 1: Matt Milano also asked about his impressions of second year

1945
01:47:30,040 --> 01:47:33,320
Speaker 1: cornerback Dane Jackson, who was in a heated competition with

1946
01:47:33,560 --> 01:47:38,040
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace for the cornerback to position opposite Tradevius White.

1947
01:47:38,280 --> 01:47:41,559
Speaker 1: Here's what Milano has thought of Jackson's play through the spring.

1948
01:47:43,080 --> 01:47:44,719
Speaker 1: He's been bawling out. He made a couple of plays

1949
01:47:44,760 --> 01:47:47,360
Speaker 1: today actually in the short amount of time we were

1950
01:47:47,400 --> 01:47:49,720
Speaker 1: out there, So he's looking good. I mean, the whole

1951
01:47:49,760 --> 01:47:53,200
Speaker 1: secondary has been bringing a lot of energy and use

1952
01:47:53,280 --> 01:47:56,320
Speaker 1: to the team these fast few days, so it'll be

1953
01:47:56,360 --> 01:47:58,519
Speaker 1: interesting to see the season. How do you think that

1954
01:47:58,640 --> 01:48:02,799
Speaker 1: helps motivate the offense during practice? How does it motivate

1955
01:48:02,840 --> 01:48:06,160
Speaker 1: the offense? I mean, obviously, if you're not doing too

1956
01:48:06,240 --> 01:48:10,840
Speaker 1: hot on offense going creating turnovers, you're not. It's not

1957
01:48:11,000 --> 01:48:14,560
Speaker 1: looking too good. But it's just off season, you know that,

1958
01:48:14,680 --> 01:48:17,840
Speaker 1: really too much to be concerned about. So defense was

1959
01:48:17,880 --> 01:48:22,639
Speaker 1: turning the ball over yesterday and the question was, well,

1960
01:48:22,640 --> 01:48:25,040
Speaker 1: how does that motivate them? Well, they get pretty sore

1961
01:48:25,080 --> 01:48:28,040
Speaker 1: about it. I know that, but that's part of the

1962
01:48:28,120 --> 01:48:32,640
Speaker 1: competition that they've cultivated here. It's a tip for tad thing.

1963
01:48:32,680 --> 01:48:34,240
Speaker 1: Oh you're gonna make a play. No, we're gonna make

1964
01:48:34,280 --> 01:48:37,200
Speaker 1: a play now. And that just raises the level of

1965
01:48:37,280 --> 01:48:41,600
Speaker 1: intensity in practice, which makes it more reminiscent of what

1966
01:48:41,920 --> 01:48:46,240
Speaker 1: the game tempo is, which is exactly what coaches want,

1967
01:48:46,320 --> 01:48:49,320
Speaker 1: because if you can practice at game tempo when you're

1968
01:48:49,400 --> 01:48:52,920
Speaker 1: in the game, executing becomes that much easier. It's interesting

1969
01:48:52,960 --> 01:48:55,320
Speaker 1: because it's kind of the opposite of what you might expect.

1970
01:48:55,520 --> 01:48:57,320
Speaker 1: As we saw last year early in the season, the

1971
01:48:57,400 --> 01:48:59,360
Speaker 1: defenses didn't know how to tackle. They couldn't get guys

1972
01:48:59,400 --> 01:49:02,000
Speaker 1: on the ground. Was you know, there was no physical

1973
01:49:02,080 --> 01:49:05,080
Speaker 1: practices at all, no padded practices, no full contact up

1974
01:49:05,120 --> 01:49:08,120
Speaker 1: until week one of the regular season, and defenses showed it.

1975
01:49:08,240 --> 01:49:10,600
Speaker 1: I mean teams were scoring points right and left. But

1976
01:49:10,800 --> 01:49:12,639
Speaker 1: you get out there early in the seven on sevens

1977
01:49:12,680 --> 01:49:15,600
Speaker 1: and stuff where a defense the offense still even on

1978
01:49:15,680 --> 01:49:19,680
Speaker 1: seven on sevens against you know, a skeleton crew of defenders,

1979
01:49:20,320 --> 01:49:23,920
Speaker 1: they still got to execute exactly right. It's a choreographed dance,

1980
01:49:23,960 --> 01:49:25,840
Speaker 1: and you've got to have all your guys making the

1981
01:49:26,000 --> 01:49:28,960
Speaker 1: right steps. Defense. On the defense, all they need one

1982
01:49:29,000 --> 01:49:31,960
Speaker 1: guy to show up and that's that's all they need

1983
01:49:32,040 --> 01:49:34,679
Speaker 1: to look good so they have the edge or early

1984
01:49:34,760 --> 01:49:36,479
Speaker 1: going they just kind of read and react. If I

1985
01:49:36,560 --> 01:49:40,280
Speaker 1: got number two strong and that guy's you know, stays in,

1986
01:49:41,680 --> 01:49:44,040
Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm gonna look around, you know, and react.

1987
01:49:45,680 --> 01:49:47,560
Speaker 1: Particularly for a bunch of guys who have got a

1988
01:49:47,680 --> 01:49:51,120
Speaker 1: lot of time in this defense, it's all like, oh yeah,

1989
01:49:51,120 --> 01:49:52,479
Speaker 1: I know what I'm doing. Here we go and they

1990
01:49:52,520 --> 01:49:54,400
Speaker 1: can play a lot faster than guys in the offense,

1991
01:49:54,439 --> 01:49:58,160
Speaker 1: because the offensive guys still have to do everything exactly

1992
01:49:58,320 --> 01:50:00,240
Speaker 1: right in order to make to play a success, and

1993
01:50:00,320 --> 01:50:03,800
Speaker 1: the defenders, like I said, Reid react and run fast

1994
01:50:03,920 --> 01:50:06,160
Speaker 1: and it's easier for them in the early going, which

1995
01:50:06,240 --> 01:50:08,200
Speaker 1: is contrary to what I like I said, what happened

1996
01:50:08,200 --> 01:50:10,679
Speaker 1: in the early regular season last year when they couldn't

1997
01:50:11,000 --> 01:50:12,760
Speaker 1: you know, the physicality was never there, and then when

1998
01:50:12,760 --> 01:50:14,400
Speaker 1: they turned it on it it was like a fire

1999
01:50:14,479 --> 01:50:17,160
Speaker 1: hose and they weren't quite ready for it. Across the league,

2000
01:50:17,240 --> 01:50:22,240
Speaker 1: defenses weren't quite ready for it. Milano also has played

2001
01:50:22,520 --> 01:50:25,639
Speaker 1: This will be the fourth season he's played alongside Terren Johnson,

2002
01:50:25,680 --> 01:50:29,400
Speaker 1: and those guys are often line up neighbors based on

2003
01:50:29,479 --> 01:50:35,640
Speaker 1: the opponent's formation, and Milano talked about tarn Johnson's confidence

2004
01:50:36,120 --> 01:50:38,360
Speaker 1: on the field. Not the biggest guy, often has to

2005
01:50:38,400 --> 01:50:41,040
Speaker 1: stick his nose in some dirty places in terms of

2006
01:50:41,160 --> 01:50:43,679
Speaker 1: his role in this scheme, but he comes through every

2007
01:50:43,720 --> 01:50:46,599
Speaker 1: single time. Here's Milano on Johnson's confidence out on the field.

2008
01:50:47,920 --> 01:50:51,120
Speaker 1: His mindset is just incredible. Terrence is a great guy

2009
01:50:51,160 --> 01:50:54,080
Speaker 1: all around on and off the field. But getting those

2010
01:50:54,120 --> 01:50:56,880
Speaker 1: plays really does help your confidence, and that's what it's about,

2011
01:50:57,000 --> 01:51:00,840
Speaker 1: especially playing that position. If you're confidence is shot, you're

2012
01:51:00,880 --> 01:51:03,519
Speaker 1: putting yourself in a bad position to make plays. And

2013
01:51:03,600 --> 01:51:06,519
Speaker 1: he fortunately made some great plays and continued to make

2014
01:51:06,560 --> 01:51:10,200
Speaker 1: them throughout the playoffs. So I think he's on that

2015
01:51:10,320 --> 01:51:14,240
Speaker 1: same track going into this year. So looking good for

2016
01:51:14,320 --> 01:51:16,400
Speaker 1: him there, but he's gonna get some stiff competition from

2017
01:51:16,439 --> 01:51:18,600
Speaker 1: Cam Lewis. There might be some other candidates in the

2018
01:51:18,640 --> 01:51:21,479
Speaker 1: mix if they're looking for more of a hybrid body

2019
01:51:21,560 --> 01:51:26,439
Speaker 1: type player between you know, a linebackers, safety, nickel kind

2020
01:51:26,479 --> 01:51:28,560
Speaker 1: of looking guy. Here's the fan, and this is what

2021
01:51:28,920 --> 01:51:30,519
Speaker 1: kind of gets lost in all of this about when

2022
01:51:30,560 --> 01:51:34,320
Speaker 1: you talking about Terren Johnson and Dane Jackson and you know,

2023
01:51:34,439 --> 01:51:37,040
Speaker 1: all these guys that are coming in to compete all

2024
01:51:37,320 --> 01:51:40,400
Speaker 1: the offensive lineman we've been talking about. Yeah, this this

2025
01:51:40,760 --> 01:51:44,120
Speaker 1: stellar offense last year, and we as fans think, okay,

2026
01:51:44,120 --> 01:51:45,840
Speaker 1: where can we get better. Let's get our running game

2027
01:51:45,840 --> 01:51:47,800
Speaker 1: a little better. Maybe get an offensive line or just

2028
01:51:47,880 --> 01:51:50,160
Speaker 1: get a running back to get our offensive line run

2029
01:51:50,280 --> 01:51:52,280
Speaker 1: game going. You know where else do we need? We're

2030
01:51:52,320 --> 01:51:55,360
Speaker 1: losing John Brown. We plugged in Emmanuel Sanders. Here's the thing,

2031
01:51:56,160 --> 01:51:58,639
Speaker 1: all these guys who played really well for the Bills

2032
01:51:58,720 --> 01:52:01,760
Speaker 1: last year, even the safeties, you know, Tradevius White, all

2033
01:52:01,840 --> 01:52:05,160
Speaker 1: these guys. They're bringing in people to push those guys

2034
01:52:06,280 --> 01:52:10,040
Speaker 1: they got to show up. They've brought in not just

2035
01:52:10,280 --> 01:52:12,479
Speaker 1: one corner leave, they brought all those corners in. And

2036
01:52:12,600 --> 01:52:14,479
Speaker 1: Trevis White has not taken every rep at the other

2037
01:52:14,560 --> 01:52:17,559
Speaker 1: corner either at CB one either. You know, these guys

2038
01:52:17,680 --> 01:52:21,479
Speaker 1: move right up. It is all on all the time

2039
01:52:21,640 --> 01:52:24,080
Speaker 1: in this training camp and these mini camps and these OTAs.

2040
01:52:24,200 --> 01:52:29,320
Speaker 1: They every single guy on this team, including including Josh

2041
01:52:29,400 --> 01:52:31,679
Speaker 1: Allen has got a number two pick of the draft

2042
01:52:31,840 --> 01:52:35,479
Speaker 1: sitting right behind him. They have all got somebody there

2043
01:52:36,560 --> 01:52:38,720
Speaker 1: who wants to play well and further their career, and

2044
01:52:38,800 --> 01:52:41,320
Speaker 1: they all feel it. And it's an atmosphere that they all,

2045
01:52:42,120 --> 01:52:46,840
Speaker 1: you know, unbelievably all thrive in. That's the kind of

2046
01:52:46,960 --> 01:52:50,479
Speaker 1: DNA that schal McDermott looks for and Brandon Bean looks for.

2047
01:52:50,640 --> 01:52:53,759
Speaker 1: They want guys who thrive on competition, don't mind being pushed,

2048
01:52:54,240 --> 01:52:56,639
Speaker 1: don't mind having somebody saying, hey, you got to keep

2049
01:52:56,640 --> 01:52:58,640
Speaker 1: it turned up all the way. And I think that

2050
01:52:58,800 --> 01:53:02,920
Speaker 1: has enabled to the team to play better than the

2051
01:53:02,960 --> 01:53:05,120
Speaker 1: sum of its parts, particularly when they were you know,

2052
01:53:05,600 --> 01:53:08,240
Speaker 1: a nine and seven playoff team three years ago. Now

2053
01:53:09,000 --> 01:53:11,200
Speaker 1: they're in the ABC Championship game and they've still got

2054
01:53:11,280 --> 01:53:13,800
Speaker 1: that mindset. And now they've got a ton of really

2055
01:53:13,880 --> 01:53:16,360
Speaker 1: good players vying for positions all over the roster. And

2056
01:53:17,600 --> 01:53:21,000
Speaker 1: that's why you know, people are looking at the Bills as, Wow,

2057
01:53:21,040 --> 01:53:26,120
Speaker 1: they're legit contenders and deep very would appear at least

2058
01:53:26,200 --> 01:53:28,320
Speaker 1: right now, and we'll see how it all shakes out

2059
01:53:28,360 --> 01:53:31,320
Speaker 1: in training camp in five or six short weeks. Those

2060
01:53:31,360 --> 01:53:33,320
Speaker 1: are the comments from Matt Milana we wanted to pass

2061
01:53:33,360 --> 01:53:35,759
Speaker 1: along to you. Hopefully that provided you with some insight

2062
01:53:35,840 --> 01:53:37,560
Speaker 1: as to just what he's looking at with respect to

2063
01:53:37,600 --> 01:53:39,840
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball for the Bills. On

2064
01:53:39,960 --> 01:53:42,360
Speaker 1: the tweet, cheet today, who are you pulling for to

2065
01:53:42,520 --> 01:53:45,160
Speaker 1: have a bigger role this season with the Bills? We

2066
01:53:45,200 --> 01:53:47,120
Speaker 1: can also take your phone calls at eight oh three

2067
01:53:47,200 --> 01:53:49,800
Speaker 1: oh five fifty one eighty eight five fifty two five

2068
01:53:49,920 --> 01:53:52,400
Speaker 1: fifty open line for you there. But we are going

2069
01:53:52,439 --> 01:53:54,680
Speaker 1: to go to Judy and Buffalo next. Judy, you're on

2070
01:53:54,760 --> 01:53:57,559
Speaker 1: one Bills Live. What do you have for us? Well,

2071
01:53:57,600 --> 01:54:00,840
Speaker 1: I'll tell you I'm rooting for two relatively draft picks,

2072
01:54:01,080 --> 01:54:05,759
Speaker 1: Knox and EPINESSA. Okay, and what I see from Knox

2073
01:54:06,040 --> 01:54:08,960
Speaker 1: is I think there's hope for him because none of

2074
01:54:09,000 --> 01:54:11,240
Speaker 1: the passes that were thrown to him last year were

2075
01:54:11,280 --> 01:54:14,640
Speaker 1: simply off target. So I'm hoping that, you know, he

2076
01:54:14,720 --> 01:54:17,680
Speaker 1: can come through with a better year. Epanessa is a

2077
01:54:17,800 --> 01:54:21,160
Speaker 1: complete mystery to me. They drafted him. I think that

2078
01:54:21,320 --> 01:54:24,320
Speaker 1: was their first draft choice that year. He doesn't seem

2079
01:54:24,360 --> 01:54:27,240
Speaker 1: to have any technique, and I think he's going to

2080
01:54:27,280 --> 01:54:30,720
Speaker 1: be threatened by the two new edge rushers we brought in.

2081
01:54:31,120 --> 01:54:34,160
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that something good happens for him. Yeah, I

2082
01:54:34,240 --> 01:54:37,760
Speaker 1: wait for your comments. Yeahs. As Steve just mentioned though,

2083
01:54:38,400 --> 01:54:42,040
Speaker 1: when that competition comes in, it raises all boats, if

2084
01:54:42,080 --> 01:54:44,560
Speaker 1: you will, and I think it's put AJ's nose to

2085
01:54:44,640 --> 01:54:46,680
Speaker 1: the grindstone. But he was doing that even before those

2086
01:54:46,720 --> 01:54:49,240
Speaker 1: guys were made draft choices. He spent almost the entire

2087
01:54:49,280 --> 01:54:52,520
Speaker 1: offseason here in Buffalo working with the strength and conditioning

2088
01:54:52,600 --> 01:54:56,040
Speaker 1: staff because he had trouble keeping weight on last year

2089
01:54:56,120 --> 01:54:57,680
Speaker 1: and that's what kept him out of the lineup for

2090
01:54:57,720 --> 01:54:59,400
Speaker 1: the first half of the season. I mean didn't really

2091
01:54:59,400 --> 01:55:01,280
Speaker 1: get on the feed till about week seven or eight

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Speaker 1: when he got his weight back in line, and then

2093
01:55:04,520 --> 01:55:07,520
Speaker 1: keeping weight on was an issue. He's got that rectified.

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01:55:07,680 --> 01:55:12,120
Speaker 1: He's completely changed his body composition. Leslie Frasier was over

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01:55:12,200 --> 01:55:14,800
Speaker 1: the moon about how he's looked in the spring practices.

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01:55:14,880 --> 01:55:17,640
Speaker 1: Now again, the pads still have to go on, but

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01:55:17,760 --> 01:55:20,640
Speaker 1: all indications are he is on the right path now

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01:55:21,080 --> 01:55:23,360
Speaker 1: to have a much more successful season this year than

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01:55:23,400 --> 01:55:25,600
Speaker 1: he did last year. How much playing time he gets

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01:55:26,120 --> 01:55:29,120
Speaker 1: is a completely different question. And here's a big question too,

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Speaker 1: is I think there's no question the organization has looked

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Speaker 1: a himself said, I don't know if you know if

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01:55:33,840 --> 01:55:37,680
Speaker 1: they have drafted well enough. Ed Oliver Agapaneza, Greg Rousseau

2104
01:55:37,760 --> 01:55:41,000
Speaker 1: and Boogie basham very high draft picks over in the

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01:55:41,080 --> 01:55:44,360
Speaker 1: last two or two three years. And they are investing

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01:55:44,440 --> 01:55:48,040
Speaker 1: a great deal into finding a pass rush that will

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01:55:48,480 --> 01:55:51,600
Speaker 1: be dominant, if not every single week, at least on

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Speaker 1: some weeks. Because they have yet to do that and

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01:55:55,760 --> 01:55:57,920
Speaker 1: particularly not yet to do it on a consistent basis.

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01:55:58,040 --> 01:56:03,640
Speaker 1: They are continuing to scour every every avenue, both in

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01:56:03,720 --> 01:56:06,040
Speaker 1: free agency big time last year as well as the

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Speaker 1: draft and the draft this year, and some free agents

2113
01:56:09,640 --> 01:56:13,680
Speaker 1: as well, so they you know, they understand that their

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01:56:13,760 --> 01:56:17,720
Speaker 1: pass rush has to be more dominant and they've invested

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01:56:17,800 --> 01:56:19,880
Speaker 1: the assets to make it happen. We'll see if they've

2116
01:56:19,960 --> 01:56:22,600
Speaker 1: if they've got the right guys. That remains to be seen. Yeah,

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01:56:23,280 --> 01:56:25,080
Speaker 1: let's go back to the tweet sheet to see what

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01:56:25,200 --> 01:56:28,840
Speaker 1: other choices fans have. Nick says, I'd love to see

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01:56:28,920 --> 01:56:31,040
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox more involved. He's on the field a lot

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01:56:31,080 --> 01:56:32,840
Speaker 1: as our tight end, but he has always seemed to

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01:56:32,880 --> 01:56:34,960
Speaker 1: be more of a placeholder while we focused on our

2122
01:56:35,000 --> 01:56:38,800
Speaker 1: wide receivers. That's legitimate, that's valid. But I think with

2123
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Speaker 1: all the attention our wide receivers get from defenses, knocks

2124
01:56:41,400 --> 01:56:44,240
Speaker 1: can find openings and more opportunities. How do you see

2125
01:56:44,280 --> 01:56:47,000
Speaker 1: that shaking out, Steve? Because I think the juror you know,

2126
01:56:47,240 --> 01:56:49,920
Speaker 1: the word is out on the bills receiving corps, so

2127
01:56:50,120 --> 01:56:52,280
Speaker 1: naturally more attention will be paid to them. There could

2128
01:56:52,280 --> 01:56:55,840
Speaker 1: be an opportunity lying there for Dawson to take. Yeah,

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01:56:55,880 --> 01:56:57,360
Speaker 1: and I think it. I think it lies in the

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01:56:57,440 --> 01:57:02,240
Speaker 1: red zone. We saw it last year in crucial time

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01:57:02,320 --> 01:57:05,320
Speaker 1: in Denver. He caught a nice touchdown pass. He caught

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01:57:05,360 --> 01:57:10,360
Speaker 1: a nice touchdown pass against the Indianapolis Colts. He caught

2133
01:57:10,440 --> 01:57:13,960
Speaker 1: a nice swing pass against the forty nine ers. He

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01:57:14,200 --> 01:57:19,280
Speaker 1: has some ability to get loose. And I Judy called

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01:57:19,320 --> 01:57:20,880
Speaker 1: in a moment ago and said, yeah, they looked. There

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01:57:20,960 --> 01:57:23,000
Speaker 1: was a couple of games where and even in the

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01:57:23,320 --> 01:57:25,560
Speaker 1: week seventeen, I think Miami game, there were a couple

2138
01:57:25,560 --> 01:57:28,520
Speaker 1: of passage he just could not reach that just didn't

2139
01:57:28,520 --> 01:57:30,280
Speaker 1: get to him. But I think that I think in

2140
01:57:30,360 --> 01:57:33,520
Speaker 1: the red zone, Dawson Knox is a real weapon and

2141
01:57:33,640 --> 01:57:35,440
Speaker 1: I think that's where his role is going to come

2142
01:57:35,480 --> 01:57:37,120
Speaker 1: to fruition, and I think they're gonna look for him,

2143
01:57:37,120 --> 01:57:41,840
Speaker 1: give him opportunities to do that. He's because in the

2144
01:57:41,880 --> 01:57:44,680
Speaker 1: regular down and distance passing game, there's no question and

2145
01:57:44,840 --> 01:57:48,480
Speaker 1: she's right, they focus on the wide outs in their separation. Yeah,

2146
01:57:48,560 --> 01:57:51,120
Speaker 1: so if Knox, and I think one of the reasons

2147
01:57:51,200 --> 01:57:53,280
Speaker 1: he can change the coach's mind about it is by

2148
01:57:53,320 --> 01:57:55,280
Speaker 1: being more physical in the run game and pass pro

2149
01:57:55,440 --> 01:57:57,160
Speaker 1: and all the physical elements that you want to tie

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01:57:57,240 --> 01:58:00,440
Speaker 1: in to do. If he can get to a dominant

2151
01:58:00,480 --> 01:58:04,080
Speaker 1: place in that role, then at least he'll be on

2152
01:58:04,160 --> 01:58:09,160
Speaker 1: the field for more opportunities. Eli says Gabe Davis. On

2153
01:58:09,280 --> 01:58:13,680
Speaker 1: the offense, he is the future Dawson Knox because if

2154
01:58:13,680 --> 01:58:16,000
Speaker 1: he turns it up one notch. He'll be another problem

2155
01:58:16,080 --> 01:58:18,000
Speaker 1: for defenses. I want to see the guy I root

2156
01:58:18,040 --> 01:58:21,560
Speaker 1: for having a healthy season, my man, Cody Ford on defense.

2157
01:58:21,600 --> 01:58:24,880
Speaker 1: I would like to see Dane, Levi and Ed taking

2158
01:58:25,040 --> 01:58:27,600
Speaker 1: a step up. He like plenty of choices for Dan

2159
01:58:27,720 --> 01:58:31,680
Speaker 1: the roster there, doesn't he Yeah, yeah, there's a lot

2160
01:58:31,760 --> 01:58:34,680
Speaker 1: to say there, Dane, Levi and Ed take a step up.

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01:58:36,880 --> 01:58:39,240
Speaker 1: Its hard to be seen. It's hard for me to

2162
01:58:39,360 --> 01:58:44,000
Speaker 1: envision Dane and Levi both taking a step up because

2163
01:58:44,040 --> 01:58:45,920
Speaker 1: one of them is probably not gonna be. One is

2164
01:58:45,960 --> 01:58:48,320
Speaker 1: on the field and one isn't in all likelihood right,

2165
01:58:48,880 --> 01:58:52,800
Speaker 1: but at Oliver obviously Starlow two Lay is back. Maybe

2166
01:58:52,840 --> 01:58:56,440
Speaker 1: he'll help. Maybe that will be that you know, magic

2167
01:58:56,600 --> 01:58:59,760
Speaker 1: ingredient that we all hope it will be. And then

2168
01:59:00,400 --> 01:59:03,920
Speaker 1: you know, Gabe is already there. I mean, I don't

2169
01:59:03,920 --> 01:59:05,440
Speaker 1: know how much more of a role he can play,

2170
01:59:05,560 --> 01:59:10,960
Speaker 1: especially with Sanders here now, assuming everyone's healthy. Um, maybe

2171
01:59:11,000 --> 01:59:13,440
Speaker 1: he gets up to forty receptions instead of thirty five

2172
01:59:13,600 --> 01:59:17,160
Speaker 1: and I have heard topping seven touchdowns the grape Vine.

2173
01:59:17,200 --> 01:59:20,120
Speaker 1: Gabe Davis has been impressive in his ability to catch

2174
01:59:20,160 --> 01:59:22,560
Speaker 1: the ball this training. People have noticed his hands. He's

2175
01:59:22,560 --> 01:59:24,760
Speaker 1: got great hands. And great feet. Do you remember him

2176
01:59:24,800 --> 01:59:27,120
Speaker 1: tiptoe and the sidelines against the Colts. Actually, we're watching

2177
01:59:27,120 --> 01:59:28,680
Speaker 1: some of that right now. Yeah, he did it one

2178
01:59:28,760 --> 01:59:31,080
Speaker 1: sideline Pete. They're like, oh no, he didn't get that.

2179
01:59:31,160 --> 01:59:32,600
Speaker 1: Look at the guy on the sideline for the Colts

2180
01:59:32,640 --> 01:59:34,320
Speaker 1: and they remember they reviewed that play and it's like,

2181
01:59:34,400 --> 01:59:36,120
Speaker 1: holy crap, he did get bold feet down and then

2182
01:59:36,160 --> 01:59:38,320
Speaker 1: he did it on the left sideline. Did he did

2183
01:59:38,360 --> 01:59:40,440
Speaker 1: it to the Yeah, it's like same drive. I want

2184
01:59:40,440 --> 01:59:42,600
Speaker 1: to say it was. It was like three passes in

2185
01:59:42,680 --> 01:59:45,120
Speaker 1: a row he caught. I mean, it's unbelievable. Yeah, come

2186
01:59:45,160 --> 01:59:47,760
Speaker 1: on with that. Yeah, he's what is what do you

2187
01:59:47,840 --> 01:59:50,000
Speaker 1: got like twenty receivers in the league that can do that?

2188
01:59:50,600 --> 01:59:53,760
Speaker 1: Come on, He's he's really good. And I agree though,

2189
01:59:53,800 --> 01:59:56,200
Speaker 1: I think he's he's gonna be on the field. I mean,

2190
01:59:56,280 --> 01:59:59,360
Speaker 1: you don't. You don't work your way onto the field

2191
01:59:59,440 --> 02:00:03,520
Speaker 1: the way he he did as a rookie and then disappear,

2192
02:00:04,000 --> 02:00:07,320
Speaker 1: you know, the next year. I mean, he's he has

2193
02:00:07,440 --> 02:00:12,320
Speaker 1: got a really really I just I can't tell you

2194
02:00:12,320 --> 02:00:14,040
Speaker 1: how impressive it was to see him on the field

2195
02:00:14,040 --> 02:00:15,720
Speaker 1: as early as he was in the regular season and

2196
02:00:15,840 --> 02:00:19,440
Speaker 1: to stay there for the entire season. Gabe Davis was

2197
02:00:19,520 --> 02:00:22,240
Speaker 1: as impressive a rookie as the Bills had last year,

2198
02:00:22,880 --> 02:00:25,560
Speaker 1: and he had the production to prove it, So you

2199
02:00:25,680 --> 02:00:27,800
Speaker 1: know that. Yeah, I forgot about the long throw from

2200
02:00:27,840 --> 02:00:31,920
Speaker 1: Barkley in the Week seventeen game, the touchdown. Just he's

2201
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Speaker 1: just a great, great addition to the Bills receiving corps.

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Speaker 1: Break time for us here when we return, we'll wrap

2203
02:00:38,520 --> 02:00:41,160
Speaker 1: up your comments on the tweet sheet and maybe do

2204
02:00:41,280 --> 02:00:44,880
Speaker 1: a little NFL True false All coming your way next

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Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live presented by Collid to Health,

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

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02:01:00,720 --> 02:01:03,280
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you final half hour of

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02:01:03,360 --> 02:01:05,880
Speaker 1: the show, and we're wrapping up your thoughts on the

2209
02:01:05,960 --> 02:01:08,560
Speaker 1: tweet sheet in terms of who you're pulling for to

2210
02:01:08,640 --> 02:01:11,360
Speaker 1: have a bigger role this season with the Bills. We

2211
02:01:11,440 --> 02:01:14,280
Speaker 1: all have our favorites. We wanted to know what yours were.

2212
02:01:14,520 --> 02:01:17,480
Speaker 1: Rusty says, I gotta go with my guy, mister underrated

2213
02:01:17,560 --> 02:01:21,880
Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie. The guy is fast and swift, has good

2214
02:01:21,960 --> 02:01:24,400
Speaker 1: hands and can get open. Not only does he have

2215
02:01:24,520 --> 02:01:26,960
Speaker 1: a crack to be the main returner and can still

2216
02:01:27,040 --> 02:01:29,800
Speaker 1: do the jet sweeps and gimmicks, but he's shown he's

2217
02:01:29,800 --> 02:01:33,320
Speaker 1: a fine NFL wide receiver. His deep speed can replace smoke.

2218
02:01:33,480 --> 02:01:36,760
Speaker 1: Get him the ball. Somebody was over the moon after

2219
02:01:36,840 --> 02:01:39,880
Speaker 1: his performance against the Dolphin. Admirer ability to read these

2220
02:01:39,920 --> 02:01:42,760
Speaker 1: tweets with some passion, but I try to read it

2221
02:01:42,840 --> 02:01:44,760
Speaker 1: like I think the fan is feeling. There you go.

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02:01:45,000 --> 02:01:48,720
Speaker 1: And it was impressive last year Week seventeen when they

2223
02:01:48,800 --> 02:01:52,200
Speaker 1: just put him in the offense and get him the centerpiece. Now,

2224
02:01:52,240 --> 02:01:54,840
Speaker 1: certainly he got a little juice because they had never

2225
02:01:54,920 --> 02:02:00,360
Speaker 1: seen that before, but Isaiah McKenzie did not disappoint. He

2226
02:02:00,520 --> 02:02:04,280
Speaker 1: was running slot stuff that the three touchdowns and one

2227
02:02:04,360 --> 02:02:07,320
Speaker 1: was a punt return for a touchdown. Just a phenomenal performance.

2228
02:02:07,360 --> 02:02:13,160
Speaker 1: He got the ball a lot. Yeah, a just sensational

2229
02:02:13,280 --> 02:02:15,919
Speaker 1: game by him, and I think it showed the confidence

2230
02:02:15,960 --> 02:02:17,880
Speaker 1: of the coaching staff had in him. They put him

2231
02:02:17,920 --> 02:02:19,760
Speaker 1: into a spot where he didn't play too much during

2232
02:02:19,760 --> 02:02:23,720
Speaker 1: the regular season, and they fed him the ball and

2233
02:02:24,160 --> 02:02:26,320
Speaker 1: it was enough to beat the Dolphins a division game

2234
02:02:26,360 --> 02:02:27,960
Speaker 1: in Week seventeen of the year and can send him

2235
02:02:27,960 --> 02:02:32,800
Speaker 1: to a thirteen win season. Pretty impressive. Stuff. Had a

2236
02:02:32,880 --> 02:02:37,879
Speaker 1: good showing. Heck of a game one R two teas,

2237
02:02:38,920 --> 02:02:46,000
Speaker 1: says Isaiah Hodgins. He is the real deal. We'll see,

2238
02:02:46,320 --> 02:02:48,440
Speaker 1: We're gonna get a chance to see it. Yeah, I'm

2239
02:02:48,480 --> 02:02:49,960
Speaker 1: looking forward to that. Yeah, I mean too. I hope

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Speaker 1: is there any chance that we get to watch? I

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02:02:52,320 --> 02:02:55,520
Speaker 1: think we will because the camp practice, I believe, are

2242
02:02:55,560 --> 02:02:58,280
Speaker 1: gonna be early morning. If you remember from camp at

2243
02:02:58,360 --> 02:03:01,760
Speaker 1: Fisher and even here last year, they can't the practices.

2244
02:03:01,840 --> 02:03:03,840
Speaker 1: They have a practice in the morning and then walk

2245
02:03:03,920 --> 02:03:06,520
Speaker 1: through in the afternoon. So I think what it will

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02:03:06,560 --> 02:03:12,160
Speaker 1: be afforded the opportunity probably who's looking good and who's

2247
02:03:12,200 --> 02:03:14,680
Speaker 1: making plays. You can't we talk about who's lined up

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02:03:14,720 --> 02:03:17,400
Speaker 1: on the offensive line. I don't think so. I don't

2249
02:03:17,440 --> 02:03:20,040
Speaker 1: think so. I don't get the sense that that's gonna

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Speaker 1: be fair game. Um, that's cool, that's fine. Uh, Derek

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02:03:25,320 --> 02:03:31,040
Speaker 1: says Justin Zimmer. Pro Football Focus had him rated as

2252
02:03:31,120 --> 02:03:34,480
Speaker 1: by far our best defensive lineman in his limited role.

2253
02:03:34,920 --> 02:03:39,160
Speaker 1: There's your boy, Zimmersties say it, Derek, I told you

2254
02:03:40,120 --> 02:03:42,480
Speaker 1: he's gonna be I think he's also our number fullback. Fullback.

2255
02:03:43,440 --> 02:03:46,800
Speaker 1: The guy is so he's got such open fields, stinteen

2256
02:03:46,880 --> 02:03:51,040
Speaker 1: miles per hour. I'm just I am just shocked and

2257
02:03:51,160 --> 02:03:55,360
Speaker 1: dismayed that he's not got a thirties number, now forties number.

2258
02:03:57,520 --> 02:03:59,880
Speaker 1: I am just charge that guy that the Ravens are

2259
02:04:00,120 --> 02:04:04,720
Speaker 1: into a fullback Alan Ricart, who was a defensive Yeah,

2260
02:04:05,280 --> 02:04:07,800
Speaker 1: it's exact same sumber forty two. Of course they got

2261
02:04:07,840 --> 02:04:14,080
Speaker 1: a different offensive philosophy, this is true. But nevertheless, the

2262
02:04:14,240 --> 02:04:17,960
Speaker 1: zim Dog is my guy, Zimbi. He's got a nickname,

2263
02:04:19,320 --> 02:04:22,720
Speaker 1: the zim Dog Dog. Okay, we gotta get him show.

2264
02:04:23,480 --> 02:04:25,120
Speaker 1: We gotta get him on the show so Steve can

2265
02:04:25,160 --> 02:04:29,680
Speaker 1: fawn all over him. The Violet Wanderers submit this. I

2266
02:04:29,800 --> 02:04:32,480
Speaker 1: want to see Isaiah McKenzie get more time on the field,

2267
02:04:32,520 --> 02:04:35,000
Speaker 1: and not just on special teams. Put him on a

2268
02:04:35,080 --> 02:04:41,600
Speaker 1: field and ten personnel and let it rip go. McKenzie

2269
02:04:42,840 --> 02:04:46,280
Speaker 1: has always exceeded expectations, and they've given him a ton

2270
02:04:46,360 --> 02:04:48,720
Speaker 1: of different things to do, kick returns and that slot

2271
02:04:48,840 --> 02:04:51,040
Speaker 1: thing and all the trick plays, gadget plays. I'm just

2272
02:04:51,160 --> 02:04:54,400
Speaker 1: gonna quietly throw this out there, Steve. Isaiah McKenzie came

2273
02:04:54,440 --> 02:04:58,520
Speaker 1: to this roster at a time when they had players

2274
02:04:58,640 --> 02:05:00,920
Speaker 1: on this roster. Address I have choice in Ray Ray

2275
02:05:01,000 --> 02:05:04,920
Speaker 1: McLeod with a similar skill set and another receiver by

2276
02:05:05,000 --> 02:05:07,280
Speaker 1: the name of Robert Foster, who they had high hopes

2277
02:05:07,360 --> 02:05:11,400
Speaker 1: for as an undrafted Robert Foster's in Miami, Ray Ray

2278
02:05:11,520 --> 02:05:15,560
Speaker 1: McLeod's in Pittsburgh, and Isaiah McKenzie is still here. Beat

2279
02:05:15,600 --> 02:05:18,280
Speaker 1: both of them out for a roster spot. Yeah, he's

2280
02:05:18,320 --> 02:05:23,560
Speaker 1: just he's athletic. He's not big, as we all know,

2281
02:05:23,720 --> 02:05:27,280
Speaker 1: but he is. He is athletic, and he's got great

2282
02:05:27,360 --> 02:05:31,640
Speaker 1: speed and that's you know, it's a great common touchdown

2283
02:05:31,720 --> 02:05:37,080
Speaker 1: pass last year. Yeah, he's really a versatile athlete and

2284
02:05:37,160 --> 02:05:38,920
Speaker 1: the only thing keeping him from a bigger role is

2285
02:05:39,080 --> 02:05:41,280
Speaker 1: what the fact that there's a bunch of good guys

2286
02:05:41,320 --> 02:05:43,400
Speaker 1: in front of him or what he's just that is

2287
02:05:43,440 --> 02:05:46,760
Speaker 1: it his size? He doesn't strike me, I can't remember.

2288
02:05:47,560 --> 02:05:51,960
Speaker 1: He doesn't strike me as a guy who's been injured, right,

2289
02:05:52,280 --> 02:05:55,880
Speaker 1: You know that might be partially rooted in the fact

2290
02:05:55,960 --> 02:05:58,360
Speaker 1: that he hasn't had a heavy workload, and which is

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02:05:58,440 --> 02:06:01,520
Speaker 1: what Yeah, which is what concerns me a bit in

2292
02:06:01,720 --> 02:06:03,880
Speaker 1: terms of what we'll see from him on offense. If

2293
02:06:03,920 --> 02:06:06,480
Speaker 1: he wins the primary return job, if he's doing kick

2294
02:06:06,560 --> 02:06:11,120
Speaker 1: and punt return, it spreads you think, can his role

2295
02:06:11,160 --> 02:06:13,000
Speaker 1: on offense really be that much bigger. I don't know

2296
02:06:13,040 --> 02:06:15,320
Speaker 1: that it can be. Yeah, that's that's a good question.

2297
02:06:15,400 --> 02:06:19,360
Speaker 1: And it is an extra layer of difficulty, extra degree

2298
02:06:19,360 --> 02:06:21,920
Speaker 1: of difficulty for a guy to return both kicks and punts.

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Speaker 1: And that's why most teams have a guy because it

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02:06:25,120 --> 02:06:29,480
Speaker 1: takes such concentration and such focus. You can't play down

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Speaker 1: in distance and do it well, or at least your

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Speaker 1: best not to mention the fact that he's a little

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Speaker 1: guy and from aware and tear standpoints two, that might

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Speaker 1: be too much to ask. But he does. You know,

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Speaker 1: he does have the skill set. He catches kicks well.

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Speaker 1: And you know I've said about there's so much that

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Speaker 1: goes into return and kicks. There people say, catch the ball, run.

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Speaker 1: It's way more complicated than that. You've got to you

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Speaker 1: got to you gotta be fast, you gotta have home

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Speaker 1: run speed. You gotta make great decisions about whin to

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Speaker 1: catch it, when to fair catch it. You've got to

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Speaker 1: first and foremost every kick return you have as a

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Speaker 1: professional athlete, at the end of that play, your team

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Speaker 1: has to have the ball. You cannot ever turn that

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Speaker 1: thing over. And that's what the other team is expressly

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Speaker 1: trying to do every single play. That's first and foremost,

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02:07:14,520 --> 02:07:16,480
Speaker 1: and then the other stuff is as good as you

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02:07:16,520 --> 02:07:19,440
Speaker 1: can do it. You gotta get it done every time.

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Speaker 1: And once you start thinking about that, you can't really

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Speaker 1: think about anything else. I mean, it takes everything because

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Speaker 1: the whole team, I've said it before, the whole team

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02:07:29,960 --> 02:07:33,280
Speaker 1: can be playing like Gangbusters and your kick returner can

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Speaker 1: have it all blow up in your face. One bad

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02:07:35,960 --> 02:07:37,600
Speaker 1: turnover in your own end, and all of a sudden,

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02:07:37,640 --> 02:07:40,640
Speaker 1: the whole game is over or changes and you're back

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02:07:40,680 --> 02:07:43,880
Speaker 1: into a hole neck deep. Look at the Denver game

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02:07:44,000 --> 02:07:46,160
Speaker 1: last year, the Bills were in total control, and that's

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02:07:46,160 --> 02:07:48,680
Speaker 1: the one time when you saw Andre Roberts cough the

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02:07:48,720 --> 02:07:51,400
Speaker 1: ball up. All of a sudden, they're in deep in

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Speaker 1: the Bills in they score a touchdown out of it,

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02:07:53,400 --> 02:07:55,160
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, it's what was a Laugher's like,

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Speaker 1: oh geet, we gotta play. We're down by single digits.

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02:07:58,920 --> 02:08:01,080
Speaker 1: Now were by single digit it's now, you know, and

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02:08:01,160 --> 02:08:04,240
Speaker 1: they got some momentum, that's all. It takes one bad

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02:08:04,320 --> 02:08:07,080
Speaker 1: play by that guy and you're sunk. So they that's

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Speaker 1: why Micah Hyde goes back there. Yeah, you know, just

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02:08:10,560 --> 02:08:14,200
Speaker 1: purely for ball security he's not going to turn it over. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Hale says, what a great question. In addition to Dawson Knox,

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02:08:18,440 --> 02:08:20,960
Speaker 1: I'll be rooting for AJ and s N Devin Singletary.

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02:08:21,000 --> 02:08:23,280
Speaker 1: I have a feeling that Singletary is motivated to be

2341
02:08:23,360 --> 02:08:26,400
Speaker 1: considered that home run running back. Also cheering for AJ

2342
02:08:26,560 --> 02:08:29,680
Speaker 1: to shine with the return of Star and a fortified defense.

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Speaker 1: And that's it on the tweet sheet. Time for a

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Speaker 1: little NFL true false, brought to you by Yancy's Fancy

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Speaker 1: New York's artists in Cheese Steve NFL True false Number

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Speaker 1: one Matthew Stafford will join the NFL's elite class of

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks in twenty twenty one. True Yeah, put it in

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02:08:48,840 --> 02:08:51,879
Speaker 1: the book. I think the pen I think the Rams

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02:08:52,320 --> 02:08:56,280
Speaker 1: are a force in that conference this year. I think

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Speaker 1: they are absolutely a force. He's going to raise them

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02:08:59,520 --> 02:09:02,120
Speaker 1: a couple of notches. That guy in offensive exit is

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02:09:02,160 --> 02:09:06,520
Speaker 1: going to be he freed from the oppression of the

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02:09:06,600 --> 02:09:12,440
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions organization. From the God Matthew Stafford and bondage

2354
02:09:12,480 --> 02:09:16,520
Speaker 1: here I am. He has big shackles, are alligated to

2355
02:09:16,800 --> 02:09:20,320
Speaker 1: the abyss of professional football for his entire career. Now

2356
02:09:20,360 --> 02:09:22,360
Speaker 1: he's gonna be out in the sunshine on the beach

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02:09:22,800 --> 02:09:25,360
Speaker 1: with a with a coach who can call plays, and

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02:09:25,440 --> 02:09:28,800
Speaker 1: a team that's built for it. Yeah, that guy is

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02:09:28,840 --> 02:09:33,440
Speaker 1: gonna flourish like a rose in the spring. Man, he's

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02:09:33,480 --> 02:09:36,760
Speaker 1: gonna bloom. That guy's gonna be really good. Yeah. Knowing

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Speaker 1: your lack of appreciation for the NFC North, I don't

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02:09:39,880 --> 02:09:41,120
Speaker 1: know how you're going to react to this one. The

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Speaker 1: Chicago Bears of the NFL's most interesting team. Interesting, yes,

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Speaker 1: not the most interesting team. I think Jacksonville is the

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02:09:47,920 --> 02:09:51,960
Speaker 1: most interesting team. Their quarterback, their rebuild, their head coach,

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02:09:52,760 --> 02:09:56,480
Speaker 1: and everything that has happened down there with particularly with

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Speaker 1: their quarterback. On the guy they've got, I think a

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Speaker 1: that division, they have a chance to go from worse

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02:10:03,200 --> 02:10:08,440
Speaker 1: to first if it clicks. Okay, they do have players.

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02:10:08,800 --> 02:10:11,760
Speaker 1: Lawrence has weapons down yes, CJ. Chark. They are not

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Speaker 1: going to be bereft. They're not gonna be non competitive.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have some guy. They're gonna have. They got guys,

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna be fun to watch. And I want

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02:10:19,880 --> 02:10:23,840
Speaker 1: to see Trevor Lawrence, who, by his own admission, has

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02:10:23,880 --> 02:10:27,640
Speaker 1: been this anointed kid since he was thirteen. He's been

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02:10:27,680 --> 02:10:30,040
Speaker 1: set apart, and he knows it, and he handles it

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02:10:30,120 --> 02:10:33,440
Speaker 1: as well as anybody ever has that level of accolades

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02:10:33,480 --> 02:10:38,320
Speaker 1: at a young age, and he is ready to attack us.

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02:10:38,360 --> 02:10:40,600
Speaker 1: So here we are. Here's his opportunity to be that

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Speaker 1: guy they always thought he would be when he was

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02:10:42,600 --> 02:10:44,680
Speaker 1: a kid, and I think he's up for it. I

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02:10:44,760 --> 02:10:47,160
Speaker 1: think they're a really interesting team. I'm gonna say falls

2383
02:10:47,240 --> 02:10:49,680
Speaker 1: here too, because I think the most interesting team for

2384
02:10:49,760 --> 02:10:52,240
Speaker 1: me is the Chargers. Can they take a next step

2385
02:10:52,320 --> 02:10:54,400
Speaker 1: and really kind of push the Chiefs. I don't think

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02:10:54,440 --> 02:10:56,360
Speaker 1: they're gonna catch the Chiefs for tops in the division,

2387
02:10:56,400 --> 02:10:59,080
Speaker 1: but I think they could be right behind them second

2388
02:10:59,120 --> 02:11:02,840
Speaker 1: in the West and maybe scratch out a wildcard Berth.

2389
02:11:03,200 --> 02:11:05,440
Speaker 1: So I'll that's my pick. So I'll say false for

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02:11:05,480 --> 02:11:07,680
Speaker 1: the Bears being the most interesting team. They're just trying

2391
02:11:07,720 --> 02:11:11,320
Speaker 1: not to be a tire fire. That'll do it for NFL.

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Speaker 1: True false brought to you by Yancy's, Fancy New York's

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Speaker 1: Artists and Cheese break time for us. When we return,

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02:11:16,280 --> 02:11:18,120
Speaker 1: Steve and I find out what the heck we learned

2395
02:11:18,160 --> 02:11:20,680
Speaker 1: on today's show. That's next here on One Bill's Live,

2396
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Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health it's Buffalo Bills Radio. What have

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Speaker 1: we learned? Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction

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Speaker 1: equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. Well, we've just

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Speaker 1: learned this officially anyway. The Chicago Bears President and CEO

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Speaker 1: Ted Phillips released the following statement, We recently submitted a

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Speaker 1: bid to purchase the Arlington International Race Corps property. It's

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02:11:57,440 --> 02:12:00,800
Speaker 1: our obligation to explore every possible option to ensure we're

2403
02:12:00,840 --> 02:12:04,560
Speaker 1: doing what's best for our organization and its future. If selected,

2404
02:12:05,080 --> 02:12:08,920
Speaker 1: this step allows us to further evaluate the property and

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02:12:09,240 --> 02:12:12,120
Speaker 1: its potential. There has been much written in Chicago of

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02:12:12,240 --> 02:12:15,400
Speaker 1: late about how the Bears could be seeking a new

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02:12:15,560 --> 02:12:19,320
Speaker 1: property location for a new stadium, and they could be

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02:12:19,440 --> 02:12:23,600
Speaker 1: leaving the very hallowed ground of Soldier Field in the

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02:12:23,720 --> 02:12:26,880
Speaker 1: not too distant future. Yeah, the new field a Soldier

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Speaker 1: Field is is a weird layout. It sits inside the

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02:12:31,480 --> 02:12:33,800
Speaker 1: old Soldier Field shell. It's kind of like that spaceship

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02:12:33,840 --> 02:12:35,960
Speaker 1: looking thing that drops. Yeah, they did a retro did

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02:12:36,000 --> 02:12:38,120
Speaker 1: a retro fit, and it's a nice field and all that.

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02:12:38,760 --> 02:12:41,200
Speaker 1: The stadium, the way it's laid out is not conducive

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02:12:41,280 --> 02:12:45,120
Speaker 1: to in my opinion, is not a great layout for

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02:12:45,200 --> 02:12:48,640
Speaker 1: a football team field, and it's there's a lot of

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02:12:48,680 --> 02:12:51,720
Speaker 1: things that are weird about that. Selfishly, the press box

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02:12:51,920 --> 02:12:54,720
Speaker 1: is on the opposite side of the broadcast booth locations.

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02:12:55,280 --> 02:12:58,800
Speaker 1: So for me to go do pregame radio, I have

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02:12:58,920 --> 02:13:01,240
Speaker 1: to leave the press box, go downstairs to the battles

2421
02:13:01,240 --> 02:13:04,120
Speaker 1: of the stadium, walk all the way around, then back

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02:13:04,240 --> 02:13:07,560
Speaker 1: up the elevator. It's I mean, that's just it's selfishly

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Speaker 1: speaking for that reason, we're important issues. There's not other

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02:13:11,120 --> 02:13:13,360
Speaker 1: things either. In the broadcast booth where you got a

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02:13:13,480 --> 02:13:16,879
Speaker 1: national TV, you can't see punts punts. There's an overhang

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02:13:17,040 --> 02:13:19,720
Speaker 1: from the upper dead. You also can't see the scoreboard, right,

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02:13:19,800 --> 02:13:22,520
Speaker 1: so they have a television monitor mounted on the underside

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02:13:22,560 --> 02:13:26,440
Speaker 1: of the overhang so the broadcasters can see the scoreboard

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02:13:26,520 --> 02:13:28,960
Speaker 1: or the clock or whatever. Yeah, but I will say this,

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02:13:29,120 --> 02:13:32,640
Speaker 1: their second level seats are have great angles, because that's

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02:13:32,720 --> 02:13:36,360
Speaker 1: why they that's it's like sitting at the second level

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02:13:36,440 --> 02:13:39,320
Speaker 1: way out over the field and there's great angles. But

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02:13:39,400 --> 02:13:42,040
Speaker 1: there's only about what about five thousand seats in a

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02:13:42,360 --> 02:13:45,240
Speaker 1: sixty thousand seat stadium that are that good. The rest

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02:13:45,280 --> 02:13:48,920
Speaker 1: of the moon kind of bad. Yeah, that so good

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Speaker 1: luck to the good luck to the Bears. With that endeavor,

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02:13:51,080 --> 02:13:52,480
Speaker 1: we'll see if they can get it right on their

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02:13:52,520 --> 02:13:54,800
Speaker 1: next stadium, if indeed it happens in Arlington. I am

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02:13:54,880 --> 02:13:59,600
Speaker 1: on vacation effective now. Thad Brown will be in this

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02:13:59,720 --> 02:14:03,560
Speaker 1: seat or on the show with Steve tomorrow and they'll

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02:14:03,640 --> 02:14:06,520
Speaker 1: carry you into the weekend and I'll see you about

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Speaker 1: ten days from now. Good for you, Brownie, Travel safe, man,

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Speaker 1: it'll be fun, all right. We'll catch up with you soon.

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Speaker 1: Steve will carry you through on One Bill's Live tomorrow