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Speaker 1: Oh great time watch Steve Blasker ends down, down, down,

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Speaker 1: that's not time. Welcome to one Bill's Live on a

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Speaker 1: beautiful Wednesday here in Western New York. Except as a

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Speaker 1: Wednesday or Tuesday. It's a Tuesday. Stink, it's Tuesday. Wow,

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Speaker 1: right off the top man stick two Wow, I stink.

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Speaker 1: That's got to break a record, right, that might be maybe, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I might be a personal record for me. Uh but

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Speaker 1: here we are, Steve, Steve Brown and Chris Tasker. It's

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Speaker 1: so bad, it is so bad. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: day it is. I can't get my own name right,

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Speaker 1: I am even the office real starting down the rabbit hole, Brownie,

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, this that is classic. To get that

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Speaker 1: turtle you found on did you get yeah? Did you

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Speaker 1: get my get my picture of the turtle? The relocation

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Speaker 1: project I had this morning? Where was he that he

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Speaker 1: couldn't be well? In my yard with my grandkids around

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Speaker 1: and and Vernie is out there too, so I got

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Speaker 1: my little French bulldogs out there and he's he's jumping

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Speaker 1: around barking at this thing and this thing tear it up.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this that turtle would would eat Verne for dessert.

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Speaker 1: Really so I got this big snapping turtle coming through

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Speaker 1: the yard and all, and the grandkids are over today, right,

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Speaker 1: so they're running around and we don't want that thing

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Speaker 1: over there. So I had to take it down and

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Speaker 1: put it off in a in a state park and

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Speaker 1: turn it loose. So oh, you went that far. I

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Speaker 1: thought you'd just throw him in the pond or something. Well,

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Speaker 1: my my property abuts the state park, so oh, glad,

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Speaker 1: then you didn't have to go. But I drove around

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Speaker 1: the corner and down a little ways. I found another

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Speaker 1: little swampy area that he could It would take him

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Speaker 1: be good maybe if he comes back. If he comes back,

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Speaker 1: I may, yeah, I may take more drastic measures, but

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Just yes, they scare me. Man, snapping

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Speaker 1: turtles all vicious, Yeah they are. And I do know

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Speaker 1: that some turtles carry salmonella um. So you definitely don't

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Speaker 1: want him near your grandkids. So right, well I didn't

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Speaker 1: you know, filthy animal. Anyway, So here we are what

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Speaker 1: I say, it was tuesday, It is say, yes, that

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Speaker 1: is an all time record for getting the day wrong Um.

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Speaker 1: Today on the show We're here till three o'clock, Steve Chaster,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, One Bills Live. Cynthia Freeland, the NFL network

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Speaker 1: analytics experts, coming on with us. She's gonna have some

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Speaker 1: things to say about what's going on to leave. Got

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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff going on as well. Two o'clock,

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Speaker 1: Chase Goodbread is coming on. He's an NFL dot com columnist.

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Speaker 1: He writes about college foot ball. There's a lot of

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Speaker 1: concern about how well the college prospects are going to

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Speaker 1: They're not gonna be able to go to practice and

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Speaker 1: college NFL as you know, the NFL scouts may struggle

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Speaker 1: that's a financial risk and a production risk for the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Chase Goodbread from NFL dot Com. We also had this

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Speaker 1: come across just about an hour ago. The Detroit Lions

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Speaker 1: now be Sheila Ford Hamp, her daughter, who will be

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Speaker 1: of the Detroit Lions, and Sheila Ford Hamp will succeed

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Speaker 1: what that says, Brownie, is they're going to have to

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Speaker 1: Brownie that in nineteen eighty seven threw together rosters in

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Speaker 1: number of articles for NFL Network about, you know, rookie

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Speaker 1: running backs who are going to be the most productive.

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Speaker 1: She's got Zach Moss on that list as She's also

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Speaker 1: thinks that Trey White is one of the top cornerbacks.

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Speaker 1: He's at the top of the league with Stefan Gilmore

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Speaker 1: the all analytics team. So even by the naked eye

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Speaker 1: and by analytics, Tredavious White's a pretty good player. Whoda thought. Also,

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Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer is one of the most underrated players, is

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Speaker 1: one of the other things that she wrote. So she's

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Speaker 1: gonna come out at the top of the hour. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And amidst all this gloom and doom of COVID nineteen,

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Speaker 1: there is some breaking news on vaccines news for COVID,

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Speaker 1: and so doctor Fauci, I don't know if he spoke

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Speaker 1: today in Washington, but the Associated Press at a Washington

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Speaker 1: apparently doctor Fauci says COVID nineteen vac scene could be

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Speaker 1: ready by the end of this calendar year or early

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. It's when and not if, he says so.

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Speaker 1: Apparently they're on track to have something by the end

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Speaker 1: of the year, maybe soon thereafter. Obviously that doesn't help

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Speaker 1: the NFL season very much. But Brownie's gonna happen. My

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Speaker 1: thing's gonna happen. What's that? My ultimate scenario for Buffalo

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Speaker 1: sports moments, the whole everybody gets vaccinated. They show up

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Speaker 1: in the stadium for the the Yes, the whole season happens,

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Speaker 1: no fans in the stands. The Bills knock it out

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Speaker 1: of the park home playoff game, and everybody gets vaccinated,

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Speaker 1: and the first game of the twenty twenty season is

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Speaker 1: a home playoff game full with the stands full. Oh,

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Speaker 1: we'll tailgate for two weeks leading up to that. Man,

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Speaker 1: Now here's the thing. Here's the thing that I'm wondering

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Speaker 1: with respect to the vaccine. And I am not a

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Speaker 1: medical expert um, but knowing that COVID nineteen is a

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Speaker 1: virus a lot like the flu in terms of how

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Speaker 1: it infects people and whatnot, when they say vaccine, are

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Speaker 1: they just talking about something similar to a flu shot

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Speaker 1: out completely. I'm I'm of the belief that it's the former,

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Speaker 1: not the latter. Yeah, I would say it's probably looks

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Speaker 1: like another flu shot where that you get it to

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Speaker 1: give you a sample of the of the virus and

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Speaker 1: you and it gets dramatically, dramatically reduces your chance of

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Speaker 1: contracting if the thing. If the thing mutates, though, then

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Speaker 1: you know, then you've got all bets. Yeah, and all

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Speaker 1: bets are all Who knows, But I think I don't know.

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Speaker 1: What do we know? We're just that radio encouraging news.

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Speaker 1: I know some people love doctor Fauci. I know some

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Speaker 1: people don't care for him nearly as much. But the

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Speaker 1: guy's been doing this for forty years. I think he

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Speaker 1: knows what he's talking about. You know, he must have

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Speaker 1: his ear to the ground and is being informed about

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Speaker 1: how clinical trials are going. And apparently good progress is

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Speaker 1: being made. So that's good. Yeah, he's you think about it. Um,

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Speaker 1: that's that's the holy grail they're looking for right now.

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Speaker 1: The faster they can get that and get they'll have lines,

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Speaker 1: you know, socially distanced lines around the block and down

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Speaker 1: the street to get that vaccine right so they can

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Speaker 1: get ready and get their lives back to normal. I mean,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't you if you're an employer, wouldn't you like incentivize

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Speaker 1: your workforces that go get vaccinated. I'll give you one

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Speaker 1: hundred bucks apiece, you know, so you can come back

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Speaker 1: to work and not leave anymore. Right, so we can

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Speaker 1: open our doors again if it's not too late already

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Speaker 1: for a lot of these small businesses. Yeah, that's the

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Speaker 1: that's good news. That's really good news. Yeah, So we'll

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Speaker 1: see where it goes from here. I know a lot

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Speaker 1: of hoops have to still be jumped through, you know,

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Speaker 1: by the medical experts to get something to market where

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Speaker 1: it can be given to the masses. But good on

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Speaker 1: them for what undoubtedly is tireless work that they're undertaking.

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Speaker 1: So kudos to them for sure to get us all

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Speaker 1: out from under this veil, of this virus veil that

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Speaker 1: we're living under. It's unbelievable. But we've got a Twitter

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Speaker 1: polls to even in case we forgot, and we haven't

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Speaker 1: even touched on it yet. Here. Well, all the stuff's happening,

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Speaker 1: so you got to bear with us here. And the

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Speaker 1: twit Twitter poll today is actually a really good one.

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Speaker 1: Although we would have it probably a different choice, maybe

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Speaker 1: had an extra choice. Maybe that'll be in the other

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Speaker 1: the revelation about guys opting out, but here it is,

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Speaker 1: and the Twitter question of the day, Which outside factor

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Speaker 1: could have the biggest impact on a successful Bills A

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Speaker 1: shortened season would have the biggest impact? Be no fans

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Speaker 1: in the stands would have a bigger impact, or see

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Speaker 1: practice limitations would have the biggest impact on a successful

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Speaker 1: Bill seasons, or something else. You can call us at

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Speaker 1: eight O three five fifty or eight one fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty, or tweet at us and we'll read it

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Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet, which of which we have a

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Speaker 1: ton of responses already from the tweet sheet brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Corgan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving of

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills from devon. The biggest factor that can

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Speaker 1: impact a successful Buffalo Bill season? I voted a shortened

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Speaker 1: season because even if alan even if the Bills win

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Speaker 1: the division, it won't feel the same and we don't

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Speaker 1: want the first time we went it in twenty five

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Speaker 1: years to be discounted something there. Yeah, but if you're

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Speaker 1: still winning the division, do you really care if it

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Speaker 1: was shortened? I mean, it didn't impact because it's still

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Speaker 1: you can still lose the division if there's if they

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Speaker 1: go alonger is that the point? That's the difference. So

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Speaker 1: because I voted shortened season also, although now I'm totally

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Speaker 1: rethinking it amidst you know the news that came down

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Speaker 1: about players potentially opting out that other may end up

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Speaker 1: winning this in a in a late comeback with what's

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Speaker 1: come down with the potential option for players to sit

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Speaker 1: out the season if they so choose. That's a report

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Speaker 1: last hour for those of you are just joining us.

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Speaker 1: But I think a shortened season could impact a successful

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Speaker 1: Bills season, especially Let's just say after four games, the

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Speaker 1: Bills are two and two, and you know they're they

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Speaker 1: win the next one, they're three and two, and then

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Speaker 1: who knows, something happens. They got to go on hiatus

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Speaker 1: for a month, and they come back and they're three

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Speaker 1: and two, and there's three games left and they're against

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Speaker 1: their three most difficult opponents, and you know, they end

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Speaker 1: up four and four because they only get to play

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Speaker 1: eight games. Right, That's that's where a shortened season could

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Speaker 1: really chances. The possibilities will make your head explode. But

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Speaker 1: right now, no fans in the stands at forty four

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Speaker 1: percent is what most people think. Got a couple of

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Speaker 1: hundred votes in most people think forty percent of you

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Speaker 1: think the outside factor that could have the biggest impact

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Speaker 1: on a successful Bill season is that there's not going

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Speaker 1: to be any fans of watching, right. I can get it.

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Speaker 1: Impact on fans, impact on fans, and the season can't

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Speaker 1: be a success if the fans can't be there to

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Speaker 1: watch it. Right? Is that the idea some fancy it?

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Speaker 1: Or is it? Or is it that because there's not

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Speaker 1: gonna be any fans in the season, the Bills aren't

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Speaker 1: gonna win as many games. Yeah, I have a hard

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Speaker 1: time getting there. I like the way Craig has approached

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Speaker 1: this on the tweet sheet here he said, not a

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Speaker 1: shortened season getting out of playing the NFC West might

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Speaker 1: be nice. He's not wrong there. Returning eighty eight percent

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Speaker 1: of last year's snaps on offense means practice reps are

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Speaker 1: less of any than other teams. No, fans is the

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Speaker 1: same for every team. So I say other because the

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Speaker 1: Bills are a good team and good teams will still win.

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Speaker 1: What do you think of that last sentence there? The

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Speaker 1: Bills are a good team and good teams still win

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Speaker 1: even in the extraordinary circumstances. There's a lot there. Yeah, um,

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Speaker 1: good good for a reason. They do have continuity on

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Speaker 1: their side. We've talked about that more than once on

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Speaker 1: their show, and he's right. And that's one thing that

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Speaker 1: gets washedway. Mean, we're not gonna have home field advantage,

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Speaker 1: that's correct, But you're also not going to have a

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Speaker 1: road game disadvantage because of the other fan. You know,

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Speaker 1: you go to Eota Arrowhead and uh, and it's not

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Speaker 1: so bad anymore, right, So uh, that's a wash for me. Um.

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Speaker 1: And same thing as uh. I'll tell you what though,

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Speaker 1: the return the continuity is big. Uh. And that's one

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Speaker 1: of the reasons the bills should be good. Um. And

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Speaker 1: a shortened season will it depends what are they shortening,

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Speaker 1: you know, Um, that's a question. So I don't know how.

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Speaker 1: The other offers a lot of intriguing possibilities. One the

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Speaker 1: story that just broke last hour about how the NFL

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Speaker 1: may give players opt out options, So now you might

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Speaker 1: be missing key players if some right play random he

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Speaker 1: decides to do that. Another thing that could go under

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Speaker 1: the other category. It is important players coming down with

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Speaker 1: COVID and having to be quarantined and not available for

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Speaker 1: two games, you know, for the fourteen days. They gotta

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Speaker 1: shack up by themselves. So I'm very interested to see

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Speaker 1: Steve if if the other category can make a late

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Speaker 1: run and maybe win a Twitter poll for perhaps the

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Speaker 1: first time ever. It's not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: They've got ten percent. It is changing slowly, but sure

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Speaker 1: that we got, you know, two and a half hours ago.

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Speaker 1: So I just got a long way to go before

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Speaker 1: no Fans in the Stands gets overtaken by other So

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Speaker 1: forty two percent of the people think it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: no fans in the stands is gonna be the biggest

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Speaker 1: impact on a successful season, because I think most fans, hey,

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Speaker 1: if it's going to be a successful season, I can't.

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Speaker 1: If I'm not there, it ain't. I gotta be there,

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Speaker 1: right And I get it, man, I totally get that.

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Speaker 1: Steve Jasker, Chris Brown were one Bills Live. Cynthia Freeland

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Speaker 1: coming up at the top of the hour from NFL Network.

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Speaker 1: She's the analytics person. She did some work, done some

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Speaker 1: work and written a lot that includes a lot of

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills players. So you can come back and

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Speaker 1: listen to us there. But the thing that happened before

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Speaker 1: we came on the air was that the league said, listen,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna give players an opt out. And I didn't

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Speaker 1: think about it until you said it, Brownie. It's a

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Speaker 1: good point. They probably will say, Listen, if you're gonna

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Speaker 1: opt out, you got to do it by whatever, pick

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Speaker 1: your date. You got to do it by this date,

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Speaker 1: because then we got to get going. But I still

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Speaker 1: think the league needs to say, hey, we are really

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Speaker 1: gonna work with fluid rosters this year. We're gonna have

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Speaker 1: let the teams have their hands and on site, way

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Speaker 1: more guys. Now, it's gonna make it more. It's it's

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Speaker 1: a double edged sword, though, right, Brownie, Because if he had,

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Speaker 1: like if you're like basketball, he had five guys on

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Speaker 1: a roster, a lot easier to quarantine them. But you've

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Speaker 1: got fifty five guys on the roster plus practice squad guy.

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Speaker 1: You know, you've got sixty guys. Sixty five guys, And

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Speaker 1: the bigger you make that number, the harder it is

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Speaker 1: to keep it quarantined and sickness free. And it's ninety

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Speaker 1: a training camp, right, So it's gonna be. I think though,

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Speaker 1: because of the protocols, and I think now that we're

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Speaker 1: gonna be what five or six months into the quarantine area.

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Speaker 1: In a social distancing area, people are kind of more

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Speaker 1: proficient at staying socially distant. Your players are going to

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Speaker 1: be heightened in their awareness of how healthy they've got

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Speaker 1: to stay. I think maybe you can up that number

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Speaker 1: and count on them to do it, or if not,

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Speaker 1: say listen, your game is going to count unless that

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Speaker 1: other team cannot field a team you forfeit. So that's

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Speaker 1: gonna put the pressure on these guys to be really

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Speaker 1: really conscious of staying virus. So I think you can

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Speaker 1: have more flexibility to have more guys around just in

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Speaker 1: case somebody does get it. We talk all the time

638
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 1: about how strong locker room cultures compel players to do

639
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 1: their very best in every situation because they don't want

640
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: to let their teammates down. Could you imagine how a

641
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: player would feel if they didn't do the responsible thing

642
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:24,919
Speaker 1: in terms of protocols to protect themselves, and then they're

643
00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:28,839
Speaker 1: not available for a game because they test positive due

644
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: to you know, some oversight of their own. I mean,

645
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Speaker 1: you want to talk about a loathsome feeling of letting

646
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,160
Speaker 1: your team down. That's eight number one. So I think

647
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 1: that I think players will be very, very diligent in

648
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 1: trying to adhere to all the precautions, protocols and prevention

649
00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:53,120
Speaker 1: measures to not be positive. Think about it, and not

650
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 1: only that, you know, bad enough if you test positive

651
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:57,880
Speaker 1: and you can't play, what if you gave it to

652
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: ten other teammates, They got a real problem. Oh, think

653
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,800
Speaker 1: about it. You'll be treated not for nothing, you'd be

654
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 1: treated like a leper. I mean, they don't even want

655
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,839
Speaker 1: your they'll be so mad at you for getting them sick.

656
00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:16,320
Speaker 1: But particularly if if you know, if it's your buddy

657
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 1: who got it, you'd be so you'd be so hot.

658
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 1: I mean, you just don't want to be that guy.

659
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 1: You really don't want to be that guy. So I

660
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:27,520
Speaker 1: think they've got a chance. But here's the problem too.

661
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:29,319
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys, these guys are grown men. They

662
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: got wives and families and businesses and brands to run

663
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:38,919
Speaker 1: and protecting. And and I'll be I'll tell you it'd

664
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,439
Speaker 1: be tough. It'll be tough. It's not gonna be easy

665
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: for these guys to stay separated when they're used to

666
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: having not just the freedoms that you and I enjoy,

667
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 1: but more freedoms than most people enjoy, or potentially just

668
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: even seeing their family living in the same house as

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Speaker 1: their family. Right, can't do that. That's that's it. That

670
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 1: you can't do that. You really can't unless your family

671
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,879
Speaker 1: is sectioned off and doesn't leave the house. If they're

672
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,520
Speaker 1: willing to do that. Okay, maybe you can get by

673
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 1: with doing that for the season, but this huge, huge

674
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 1: risk of you know, your kids can't go to school.

675
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,760
Speaker 1: You know you you can't go to the store, your

676
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: groceries got to be delivered. Everything, And that's for the

677
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,359
Speaker 1: entire six months. I mean, you got to you got

678
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: my advice, right, you gotta rent like a warehouse to

679
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,840
Speaker 1: live in so that you have room and space to

680
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 1: do whatever. You know what I mean, You can whatever.

681
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: You can ride your bike in circles in or where,

682
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, think about think about having

683
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,439
Speaker 1: in this being sequestered in a hotel room for six months.

684
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but as soon as you said that,

685
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: the first thing I pictured was Quentin Spain on a

686
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: bicycle riding around in a warehouse. Why right, It was

687
00:38:49,520 --> 00:38:51,879
Speaker 1: the first player that came to buy it. But it's

688
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,800
Speaker 1: kind of ridiculous. What do you think about it? But

689
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: it is, it's gonna be. There's gonna be some ridiculous

690
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,359
Speaker 1: stuff players have to do. They're not gonna be able

691
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:02,239
Speaker 1: to see their moms and their dads, you know, their

692
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:06,040
Speaker 1: wives and families. Maybe if they can stay safe. But

693
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 1: think about it that even the wives and kids, they don't.

694
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: They don't want to be those people to give them

695
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 1: the buffalo bills the virus either. Yeah, these these NFL

696
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:19,280
Speaker 1: teams want to cast as tight a net as possible.

697
00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 1: They do not want to have to throw a wide

698
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:25,240
Speaker 1: net around not only the players but their family members,

699
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: extended family. They don't want to do any of that

700
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: because all that does is up the risk of exposure.

701
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: So they got they gotta bubble this as best they

702
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 1: can think about this. It's one thing for a player

703
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: to get it, because you know, the guy's an athlete

704
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 1: and he's whatever, and he's they're they're gonna they're gonna

705
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:47,760
Speaker 1: do everything they can to get him back on the field.

706
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:51,800
Speaker 1: What if the assistant assistant equipment manager gets it and

707
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,879
Speaker 1: he's the guy, how long do you think he's gonna

708
00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 1: be working there? We'll see in two weeks. We'll see

709
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: in two years, you know, I mean, get thanks for

710
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:03,880
Speaker 1: stopping by. You know what you're doing. You just crushed

711
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 1: our whole season because you went out and had a

712
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 1: beer at you know, at bar X whatever. Yeah. I

713
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: don't want to mention a bar because I don't want

714
00:40:14,680 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 1: to get anybody, you know what I mean, I don't

715
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,920
Speaker 1: want to give. But you know what I mean. The

716
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 1: staff is also on the hook for this. That's huge, man.

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00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, the pressure will be would be unbearable.

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00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: Almost you would you would almost be afraid. You'd be

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00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: walking on eggshells all day long. Yeah, And I don't

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00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 1: know that stress would manifest itself in a lot of

721
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: different ways that because that really is stressful. That's a

722
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 1: that's a stressful environment when you're trying to get ready

723
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: to play a really tough physical football game. And then

724
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 1: the stress of when you want to rest and get

725
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:53,320
Speaker 1: away from it and relax, there's no place to go.

726
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 1: You gotta stay there, you gotta you know what I mean.

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00:40:56,000 --> 00:41:01,399
Speaker 1: It's in a different way, but still have Oh you'll

728
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: have guys at each other's throats, you know, I mean,

729
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:08,560
Speaker 1: think about it. It's it's it's really going to be difficult.

730
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 1: So and having and talking all the way through it

731
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: like we have, you almost think you know you're not

732
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:19,399
Speaker 1: gonna be able to do it. You know there's gonna

733
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: be positive cases. There's gonna be guys that check in.

734
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Speaker 1: So you're gonna need a pool of players to draw

735
00:41:24,880 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: from that can play when these guys go down day

736
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Speaker 1: before a game. What it's gonna be enormous, enormous, Um,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Chris Brown, One Bills Live, coming to you

738
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Speaker 1: from our homes Radio only. Pretty soon, whoever, Um, we're

739
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 1: gonna be back on MSG and you'll be able to

740
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: see us once again. But for the time being, we're

741
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 1: still radio only. This is Buffalo Bills Radio and this

742
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:55,359
Speaker 1: is One Bills Live. Welcome back to One Bill's Lives

743
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 1: pastor Chris Brown. We're asking you which of these factors

744
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,800
Speaker 1: could have the biggest impact on a successful Bill's season,

745
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 1: and wise it a shortened season, it could have the

746
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: biggest impact. No, fans in the stands could have the

747
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: biggest impact, or practice limitations having the biggest impact, or

748
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:11,799
Speaker 1: something else. You can give us a call at eight

749
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 1: three or one, eight fifty two, five fifty We have

750
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: a call and it's and it is Jim from deput

751
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: Online one. Jim, you're on with Steve and Chris. Go ahead,

752
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:24,719
Speaker 1: Hey guys, how are you doing this afternoon? Doing well?

753
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell a little crew boy, are you? Because

754
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 1: we're talking about the players, But hypothetically, what if Brian

755
00:42:32,719 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 1: bable round up getting COVID? How long would he be

756
00:42:37,760 --> 00:42:46,879
Speaker 1: quarantine and would be poord dator. Yeah, that's interesting. I've

757
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,479
Speaker 1: actually thought about that. But he'd be quarantined for fourteen days,

758
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:56,319
Speaker 1: just like everybody else. It wouldn't shock me if they

759
00:42:56,440 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 1: provide some kind of camera feed for him and he's

760
00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 1: on the phone to who to maybe quarterbacks coach Ken

761
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: Dorsey and the booth upstairs, and he's helping him with

762
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:11,839
Speaker 1: play calls. He may have to do it remotely from

763
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: his home. Yeah, quarantine doesn't mean without contact. That's how

764
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: that could happen where he's not at the stadium on

765
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 1: game day, but he's got a live feed coming to

766
00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 1: him with no delay, and you know they got it

767
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:29,719
Speaker 1: mounted up in the coach's booth. He's watching it there

768
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 1: and maybe Coach Dorsey's got an earpiece in his ear

769
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 1: from his cell phone and Dable's talking to him, and

770
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:40,920
Speaker 1: you know they're they're kind of commiserating on play calling.

771
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: I could see that happening. They'll try they'll do anything

772
00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 1: that technology allows him to do, no question about it.

773
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 1: But yeah, that's it's an issue that's got to be addressed, Jim.

774
00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 1: And that's a good question. And what happens if Sean

775
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: McDermott gets COVID What happens if you know, you can

776
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:59,279
Speaker 1: take your pick, what happens if McDermott Leslie Frasier and

777
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:05,800
Speaker 1: day Ball get COVID. Um, Yeah, you're you're you're looking

778
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:09,799
Speaker 1: at a lot of problems. You better have contingencies. Yeah,

779
00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:12,919
Speaker 1: you've got to have contingency plans. And if that's the case,

780
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 1: if all, if both coordinators and the head coach were

781
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 1: to be you know, positively tested, you know, you could

782
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 1: even see a team going as far as if there's

783
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 1: no fans in the stands, isolating a booth and having

784
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: those guys in the booth at the stadium in the

785
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: game so they could stay there and nobody else would

786
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 1: be allowed in the booth, that kind of thing. But

787
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 1: it's you know, that's that's what it might be. So yeah,

788
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: and I yeah, and that's why they're going to have

789
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:47,720
Speaker 1: to have contingency plans in place. You know, John Butler,

790
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,759
Speaker 1: the Bill secondary coach, has been a coordinator on the

791
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:52,800
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball in this league before. I

792
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,359
Speaker 1: think he did it for a year in Houston. Um.

793
00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:59,839
Speaker 1: I think Rob Boris, the tight ends coach for the Bill,

794
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: may have coordinator experience, if memory serves so. There, you know,

795
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,239
Speaker 1: they have to decide what contingencies to have at the

796
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:13,440
Speaker 1: ready if such a thing happens, well, you gotta you

797
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: gotta go a lot further down the list this year

798
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:18,839
Speaker 1: with contingency plans than you usually do. Well, that's right,

799
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: that's right. We have another call from TJ in Toronto.

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Speaker 1: While online to TJ, you're on with Steve Tasker Chris

801
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 1: Brown on One Bills Live. What's on your mind? We met,

802
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 1: we lost him. TJ in Toronto gave up on us

803
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,880
Speaker 1: and we took him took too long to get there's Brownie.

804
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:36,640
Speaker 1: We've got Cynthia Freeland coming on at the top of

805
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 1: the hour, the analytics expert from NFL Network. What are

806
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:43,279
Speaker 1: we She met a lot of stuff. This is something

807
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: that's kind of new of late and the last couple

808
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 1: of years for Bills fancies not Brownie, where these National

809
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:52,239
Speaker 1: riders are also sprinkling everything they write. There's always one

810
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,799
Speaker 1: or two Bills players on their top list. Yeah, there are.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I know she's pretty high on the

812
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 1: Bills draft class this year. She took a look at

813
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: running backs that could make an impact out of this

814
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: twenty twenty draft class, and I know the Bills running

815
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:14,280
Speaker 1: back is on that list for her. And she also

816
00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 1: had Trudebus White on another list for a story that

817
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 1: she did. And she's not she's not going on opinion.

818
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 1: She's basing it on advanced metrics and data to put

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Speaker 1: these lists together. She kind of just goes hardcore numbers

820
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:38,040
Speaker 1: on these things, not what her eyeballs necessarily tell her.

821
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Speaker 1: It's what the data tells her. And that's how she

822
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: kind of puts some of these lists together. And know

823
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 1: she had Jordan Poyer on another list, So yeah, it'll

824
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:48,720
Speaker 1: be interesting, um to see how you know she comes

825
00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:54,360
Speaker 1: to devise or develop some of these metrics. And you

826
00:46:54,440 --> 00:46:58,320
Speaker 1: know she really she cuts it really fine if you

827
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Speaker 1: read some of her stuff. So interesting to talk to.

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Speaker 1: She's coming up right after the break one Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: presented by Clyda Health Cynthy Cynthia Freeland from NFL Network.

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Speaker 1: Coming up. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Oh Great Time,

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Speaker 1: Oh by Steve Plasterers do fus dos dosto over time.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to one of Dell's Live Steve Tasker Chris

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Speaker 1: Brown here, and we're please and we are pleased to

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Speaker 1: be joined on the line by Cynthia Freeland, who is

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Speaker 1: an NFL analyst analytics expert in UH with NFL Network.

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Speaker 1: She also contributes to NFL Fantasy Live and Game Day Morning,

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Speaker 1: and she hosts the Game Theory and Money podcast Cynthia

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00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:57,399
Speaker 1: Freeland On with Us Now Cynthia, Steve Tasker Chris Brown

839
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Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. I gotta ask you the first thing

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00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:01,920
Speaker 1: we asked all of our guests. How have you been

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00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,320
Speaker 1: managing during the pandemic? Are you safe and well? I

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00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 1: thank you so much for asking. I am safe and well.

843
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 1: I'm ready for football season. I've been doing a lot

844
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: of extra you know, film study and things that you know.

845
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:17,080
Speaker 1: It's trying to make the most of my time coming

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Speaker 1: out of here. So have a lot of have a

847
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: lot of new metrics and dorky things to present this season.

848
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:25,120
Speaker 1: So that'll be great, so best as I can, and

849
00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:27,839
Speaker 1: trying to keep it positive and trying to find something.

850
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:30,240
Speaker 1: We're gonna ask you too about you wrote an article

851
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 1: that was really interesting about the steven rookie running backs.

852
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,799
Speaker 1: And I know Buffalo Bills fans know a lot about

853
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 1: Zach Moss and they have high hopes for him and

854
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,800
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary to be quite a one two punch. But

855
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: you've got and it's hard, but it's hard for Bills

856
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 1: fans really to keep track of the rest of the

857
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: NFL and what their running backs are doing. So who

858
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:52,840
Speaker 1: do And I did read the list, so I know

859
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: who's number one, And it makes a lot of sense

860
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:56,400
Speaker 1: once you give us a little rundown of how this

861
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 1: running back class might fit into the NFL this season.

862
00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 1: You know, the interesting part about running back is that

863
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,839
Speaker 1: it's one of the easier transitions from the college game

864
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: to the pro game in terms of who has you know, obviously,

865
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 1: like there's always going to be some form of how

866
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:13,320
Speaker 1: long does it take to adapt to the speed of

867
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,239
Speaker 1: the pro game, But often running backs have an easier time,

868
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 1: mostly because you know, if they'round the ground, it's all

869
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:21,839
Speaker 1: about they get a chance, they don't have to read

870
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 1: the defense the same way a quarterback might. So for me,

871
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 1: the Clyde Edward Hilaire situation with the Kansas Chiefs, he

872
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 1: ranked number one in terms of who's going to have

873
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:33,279
Speaker 1: the biggest fantasy season for two reasons. One, I mean

874
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 1: he's gonna catch a lot of balls because that's how

875
00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 1: he profiles coming out of that LSU offense. And to

876
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:40,840
Speaker 1: the continuity of the team around him. The Chiefs just

877
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 1: have so many people returning, and Andy Reid's called something

878
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:47,080
Speaker 1: like one billion plays in his life, and he's called

879
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:51,000
Speaker 1: plays for people who profile quite like Clyde Edwards Hilaire does.

880
00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: So it's going to be one of those things where

881
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:56,800
Speaker 1: there's a nice transition, a quicker transition to the NFL,

882
00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 1: even though the preseason and the kind of train any

883
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 1: camp stuff is very likely to be quite different. Yeah,

884
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,240
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people think that Edwards Hilaire

885
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:10,359
Speaker 1: is very similar to Brian Westbrook, who Andy Reid had

886
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 1: back in Philadelphia. With respect to the method to your

887
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:19,440
Speaker 1: number crunching madness, Cynthia, I'm just curious as to how

888
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:22,800
Speaker 1: you kind of come up with models that you feel

889
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 1: are going to effectively measure what could potentially happen in

890
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. And the reason I'm asking that is because

891
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 1: I look at something like the Bills red zone touchdown

892
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:35,320
Speaker 1: percentage last year they finished eighteenth in the league. I

893
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: think they're around fifty seven fifty eight percent touchdown efficiency.

894
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:43,800
Speaker 1: But then I'm trying to add in, you know a

895
00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs who has an eighty one point eight catch rate,

896
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 1: and you know Zach Moss who can get tough yards

897
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:53,840
Speaker 1: because of his yards after contact numbers. How do you

898
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 1: take those positive metrics and wedge them into a red

899
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:02,440
Speaker 1: zone touchdown of ancy for an offense and say, not

900
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: that you've said this, but how do you formulate that

901
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:08,839
Speaker 1: and maybe gauge the kind of a leap that maybe

902
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 1: the Bills could make in twenty twenty in their red

903
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 1: zone touchdown production. Sure, so there's a couple of things

904
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: that kind of work. Like to overly simplify it, it's

905
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:22,200
Speaker 1: the resume of the rookie player. So just like when

906
00:51:22,239 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 1: you and I went to go get a resume or

907
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:25,879
Speaker 1: to go get a job in college, the more kind

908
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 1: of relevant background we have towards it, you know, the

909
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 1: easier it is for someone to imagine how they could

910
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:34,320
Speaker 1: use us in our first job. Luckily, for these players,

911
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: they've got so much film they've been able to do,

912
00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 1: you know, a lot physically, it's it's an easier kind

913
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:40,239
Speaker 1: of leap than some of the things quick at least

914
00:51:40,280 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 1: you and I had to or at least I had

915
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:45,040
Speaker 1: to interview for right, sure, I could be a banker yep.

916
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 1: And their resume, they're kind of what kind of body,

917
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 1: what kind of body of work do they have, what

918
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:54,560
Speaker 1: kind of production? Who were they in college? What have

919
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: we seen them do? And then you take it into

920
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:59,240
Speaker 1: an offense and then you think, Okay, who's the coordinator,

921
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:01,719
Speaker 1: who are the other pieces? What have we seen from

922
00:52:01,760 --> 00:52:03,439
Speaker 1: Josh Allen? What have we seen from your O line?

923
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: By the way, Bills oligne a lot of continuity there.

924
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 1: That's hugely important for everyone involved in the Bills offense.

925
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:12,319
Speaker 1: So the more continuity than obviously only if they're good,

926
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 1: which the Bills O line is good. So you take

927
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: all those factors and then you put in the context

928
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:20,719
Speaker 1: of who they're playing. Bills have kind of a hard

929
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 1: schedule this season. You know, it's it's not there is

930
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:26,480
Speaker 1: a there is a lot of difficult stretches in that

931
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: Bill season, So you have to factor in what type

932
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:31,239
Speaker 1: of the defenses are you playing, when is your buy

933
00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:33,759
Speaker 1: what have we seen historically? So you take lots and

934
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,279
Speaker 1: lots of past data and you find this data that

935
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:40,239
Speaker 1: reflects the most comparable situations that the Bills are in

936
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 1: now versus the past, and then you look to see

937
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:45,880
Speaker 1: what's most likely. What happened in the past is helpful

938
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 1: in terms of what is most likely to happen in

939
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: the future in this season with this personnel, with these people,

940
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 1: with this play caller, with this quarterback in his third

941
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 1: season that needs to do the things that he needs

942
00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 1: to do. So ultimately it's finding imparable kind of like

943
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 1: when you know when you go to figure out how

944
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 1: much you should pay for your house and you look

945
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:07,000
Speaker 1: on the street and you're like, well that per square

946
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 1: foot is that one and that one? You find these

947
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:11,880
Speaker 1: comparable to draw conclusions so you can have a defensible

948
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 1: logical argument. We're talking with Cynthia Freeland, NFL network analytics expert,

949
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 1: and yet also we've had this little debate on our show.

950
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 1: Cynthian and I know you're an analytics person, as I

951
00:53:24,280 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 1: just said, and I think I know how you fall

952
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:29,520
Speaker 1: on this. But fans out in when they're watching football,

953
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 1: they think defense is all about pressure, pressure, pressure. If

954
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:34,920
Speaker 1: their team's gonna throw it, you need to get more

955
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 1: pressure on the quarterback, and that disrupts the passing game.

956
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:40,399
Speaker 1: But of late, we've heard a lot of analytics people

957
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 1: say that's actually coverage that is more important than pressure,

958
00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 1: given the athletic nature the quarterback position these days. Is

959
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:51,399
Speaker 1: that a fair assessment and if so, talk a little

960
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 1: bit about Tredavious White and guys like Stefan Gilmore and

961
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 1: the articles you've written about the great corners. If that

962
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 1: is true, that that coverage is better than to pressure.

963
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 1: So the funny part is is I'm going to give

964
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 1: you an unsatisfying answer, and that's that neither one is

965
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 1: more important. They work hand in gloves and if the

966
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:11,320
Speaker 1: better you are like like, think about it like this.

967
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:15,080
Speaker 1: If you had just horrible pressure but great corners, you'd

968
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:18,920
Speaker 1: get certain results. If you had horrible corners and great pressure,

969
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:22,080
Speaker 1: you'd get other results. So if you have the corner

970
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:24,799
Speaker 1: that makes a few more seconds, or the quarterbacks think

971
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: about it even for half a second more, then the

972
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: front can be more effective. If you have the front

973
00:54:30,400 --> 00:54:33,040
Speaker 1: that breaks a lot of pressure right up very quickly

974
00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 1: in a quarterback space, well, then the backs can be

975
00:54:35,320 --> 00:54:37,560
Speaker 1: more effective in terms of the qualities of throws that

976
00:54:37,600 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks getting off is going to be less good

977
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:42,279
Speaker 1: than if it were then if you had more time.

978
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:44,680
Speaker 1: So they really work hand in glove. So when you

979
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:47,839
Speaker 1: have an elite corner like a Tredavious White, you see

980
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 1: better sack results, you see better pressure numbers. But also

981
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 1: when you have good sackers right like Jerry Hugh has

982
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: been super effective. I think he's one of the more

983
00:54:56,600 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 1: underrated players in the at least nationally speaking, we don't

984
00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:01,840
Speaker 1: talk about that. But when you have someone like like

985
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,640
Speaker 1: maybe Aaron Donald's a little bit more visible. Right, when

986
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:06,360
Speaker 1: you have an Aaron Donald, then you're going to have

987
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:08,759
Speaker 1: kind of better sack numbers too. But you have to

988
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 1: also look and see, hey, what's going on with the

989
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:13,920
Speaker 1: receivers when that happens. So the fact that the Bill's

990
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 1: defense not only has a really strong front, but also

991
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 1: a really smartly constructed front whereby you have young players

992
00:55:21,280 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 1: like a j Fanessa who was drafted this season, and

993
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:26,480
Speaker 1: you've got more veteran players who can create that veteran presence,

994
00:55:26,800 --> 00:55:30,800
Speaker 1: and you've got the nasty corner arguably best or second

995
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 1: best corner in the entire league. You know, that is

996
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:36,399
Speaker 1: a situation where both of those two levels are great.

997
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 1: And then, by the way, your middle of your defense,

998
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:42,120
Speaker 1: the linebackers, that's also great. Like this defense one of

999
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 1: the best constructions in terms of not just built to

1000
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:48,600
Speaker 1: win this season, but also for continued success because of

1001
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:52,320
Speaker 1: the spacing of the ages and really not being overly

1002
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 1: reliant on the front or the back. So it's a

1003
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 1: little unsatisfying from the standpoint of like, I don't actually

1004
00:55:57,520 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 1: think one is better than the other. I think it's

1005
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 1: the some of the parts of both that determine whether

1006
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: you're going to be successful or not. Yeah, and you

1007
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 1: and you even mentioned that, Cynthia when you did the

1008
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:12,920
Speaker 1: Underappreciated Player piece talking about Jordan Poyer, Because there are

1009
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 1: things that my eyeball see just watching the game, and

1010
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:19,120
Speaker 1: you know, you develop theories and hunches. I just don't

1011
00:56:19,200 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 1: have the number crunching skills like you do to kind

1012
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:25,280
Speaker 1: of confirm it through data. But I was very happy

1013
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:28,320
Speaker 1: to see that, you know, you kind of deduced that

1014
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 1: Poyer is better in part because his partner back there,

1015
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:36,360
Speaker 1: it's Micah Hyde and that's probably the case the other

1016
00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:40,439
Speaker 1: way vice versas as well. You even kind of poked

1017
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:42,359
Speaker 1: fun at yourself. I think it's wrote something like it's

1018
00:56:42,440 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: some dorky thing that scientists do when they take one

1019
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:48,360
Speaker 1: part of the equation out and try to, you know,

1020
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:53,360
Speaker 1: reassess the value again. But it's true, I mean, poorer

1021
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 1: and hide since they've come here to Buffalo in twenty seventeen,

1022
00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: really have been a package a deal in terms of

1023
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:03,320
Speaker 1: their value, and I guess you've found a way to

1024
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 1: at least deduce that the numbers bear that out too, right, totally.

1025
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 1: The interesting part, see, the interesting part is that when

1026
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:14,080
Speaker 1: you have certain defenders that stand out, it's really easier

1027
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 1: to see. Let's like, let's take one step back. It's

1028
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:19,520
Speaker 1: really a lot easier to see how a really smartly

1029
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:23,520
Speaker 1: constructed team or side of the ball works. With the Ravens, right,

1030
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,040
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson has a certain skill set and then they

1031
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 1: built the team around it, and then they played the

1032
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 1: calls around that skill set, and the same thing can

1033
00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 1: be set of defense. Is it's just it's not as sexy,

1034
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 1: it's not as you know, it's not someone every single snap,

1035
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:37,840
Speaker 1: throwing the ball right or running with the ball. It's

1036
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:41,360
Speaker 1: it's the defense is a lot more of like adapting

1037
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:43,600
Speaker 1: to what they're get being given from the offense. So

1038
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 1: you can't necessarily see it as well, but it is

1039
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 1: just as important. And that's what the Bills do really expertly, right,

1040
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:53,200
Speaker 1: Like they figure out how to how to make the safety.

1041
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:55,520
Speaker 1: The safety is Micah Hyde and Jordan poy are working together,

1042
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 1: helps your Davis White. Your Davis White help them, and

1043
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 1: the front helps the helps everyone, right, So it's the

1044
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 1: way that they're all working together, Like, that's how you

1045
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:05,840
Speaker 1: get That's how you are effective on the side of

1046
00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:08,800
Speaker 1: the ball. It is not just plopping down one player, right,

1047
00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:12,480
Speaker 1: It is creating a construct where all of the pieces

1048
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:16,040
Speaker 1: reinforce each other. In fact, many teams need to have

1049
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys who are a little better than

1050
00:58:18,480 --> 00:58:22,120
Speaker 1: average and some stars. That is actually the better kind

1051
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 1: of construct than having you know, an Aaron Donald and

1052
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:28,400
Speaker 1: then terrible corners. Right. So it's all about the some

1053
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: of the parts and how they work together. So trying

1054
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:33,439
Speaker 1: to figure out how they work separately has been really

1055
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:35,840
Speaker 1: tricky and fun. It's been fun to do because look,

1056
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:38,880
Speaker 1: as far as data analytics go, you're figuring out safety

1057
00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 1: play and certain types of linebackers, and now we've got her.

1058
00:58:42,000 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 1: I hope she's sentia. Are you there? Yeah? Are you

1059
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Speaker 1: canna hear me? Okay? Yeah? And we lost you for

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Speaker 1: just we lost you for about fifteen seconds. I apologize

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00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:54,760
Speaker 1: and I was sitting there reintroducing you. We were go

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Speaker 1: ahead and give us a quick synops of what that

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00:58:56,720 --> 00:58:59,400
Speaker 1: answer was. You just gave us. We got the first

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00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 1: fifteen seconds of it got you all the saying was

1065
00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:05,160
Speaker 1: that all you gotta do is as a data scientist,

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00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 1: it's hard to know what corners and linebackers were supposed

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00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:09,480
Speaker 1: to do because we didn't call the play, but you

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00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 1: can see the effectiveness. So trying to figure out how

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00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 1: to find the right pieces to go together on defense,

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00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:16,560
Speaker 1: I've spent a lot of time doing that, and I

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00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:19,240
Speaker 1: think it is all about some of the parts, not

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00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:22,000
Speaker 1: just one thing. Okay, And that makes a lot of

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00:59:22,040 --> 00:59:24,280
Speaker 1: sense when you look at the Bill's defense is how

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00:59:24,320 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 1: good it was. There was never really inthing spectacular about

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00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:28,160
Speaker 1: it a year ago, but they were at the top

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00:59:28,240 --> 00:59:30,200
Speaker 1: of the league in a lot of categories. Sent to

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00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:33,480
Speaker 1: your Freeland NFL expert on NFL analytics, I've got to

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00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 1: I want to ask you this. You wrote an article

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00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:37,680
Speaker 1: about the toughest stretch in the Bill's schedule coming up,

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00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:39,640
Speaker 1: and of course, to the naked eye, you look at

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00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:41,400
Speaker 1: the teams and you think, Wow, that team's pretty good,

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00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:43,200
Speaker 1: and that team's pretty good, and that team's pretty good.

1083
00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:47,280
Speaker 1: How do you go about analytically drawing align as to

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00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:51,400
Speaker 1: what a difficult schedule is as opposed to a maybe

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00:59:51,480 --> 00:59:54,120
Speaker 1: not so difficult schedule. Is it go beyond just last

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00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:56,840
Speaker 1: year's wins and losses because all these teams have changed

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00:59:57,280 --> 01:00:01,280
Speaker 1: through this offseason totally. It's it's not just I mean

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01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 1: last years wins and losses are I mean, I don't

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01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 1: even know if I use that anywhere. Ultimately, it's who

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01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 1: are they playing and in what order? When is there

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01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:11,440
Speaker 1: buy and what is what is the going across the

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01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:13,800
Speaker 1: country then coming back? Then going across the country again

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01:00:14,200 --> 01:00:17,200
Speaker 1: is inherently more difficult then if you're just staying on

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01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:19,040
Speaker 1: the on the East coast, and even if you know

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01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 1: what I mean, like so, there's there's historical things we

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01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:23,160
Speaker 1: can look to to see, you know, if you're going

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01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 1: to go play the Niners and they have a really

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01:00:25,440 --> 01:00:28,400
Speaker 1: tough defense, right, their defensive front is banged up. Then

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Speaker 1: you go the next day and you're gonna you're gonna

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Speaker 1: go play another defense with a really stingy front that's

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01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:36,640
Speaker 1: gonna come at you those back to back weeks. That's

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01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:38,880
Speaker 1: more difficult. It is also very difficult to play a

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Speaker 1: team like the Ravens who are run first team, and

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Speaker 1: then go play the Cardinals the week after, who are

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01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 1: a very past happy team. Right. So the types of

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01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 1: things are what kind of what kind of things in

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01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:53,040
Speaker 1: the past have we seen project for success given the

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01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 1: personnel that you have on the bill team and the

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Speaker 1: personnel that you're facing in the opponent. So you can

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Speaker 1: hear me, Okay, yeah, go ahead, o yep. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: So it's all about just creating those looking to the

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Speaker 1: past for efficiencies and then matching them to what you

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Speaker 1: see this. Thanks so much, Cynthia. We really appreciate you

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Speaker 1: coming on. I hope you can whether the rest of

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Speaker 1: the pandemic extremely well. Thanks so much for taking some time,

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Speaker 1: and we'll talk to you again soon. Let's do it.

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Speaker 1: Talk to you soon. Cynthia Freeland, NFL network analytics experts.

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01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:32,640
Speaker 1: She also hosts the Game theory and money podcasting as

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01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:35,959
Speaker 1: a contribute to NFL Fantasy Live and Game Day Morning.

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01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:38,920
Speaker 1: She's a busy girl on NFL Network. They use her

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01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:40,800
Speaker 1: a lot, and you can see why her expertise in

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01:01:41,760 --> 01:01:44,320
Speaker 1: the predictive analytics is a lot of fun to listen to.

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Speaker 1: We'll have her back back again soon. Brownie d that

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Speaker 1: I wonder if she had an analytics We should have

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01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:54,480
Speaker 1: asked her about analytics about who's going to sit out

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Speaker 1: this season and voluntarily opt? Yeah, right, yeah, I don't

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01:01:58,680 --> 01:02:02,200
Speaker 1: know if there's a formula for that yet. But the

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Speaker 1: one thing that I was tempted to ask her is,

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Speaker 1: you know, you see all these numbers flying around about

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Speaker 1: the COVID pandemic, and I'm sure she doesn't have the

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Speaker 1: access to those numbers and data like the medical experts do.

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Speaker 1: But if I was somebody in her shoes, I would

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01:02:16,960 --> 01:02:20,680
Speaker 1: be tempted to try to find enough data to kind

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01:02:20,720 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 1: of put my own model together to make my own assessment.

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01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:26,360
Speaker 1: You know, if I'm an expert in data information and

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01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:31,800
Speaker 1: you know, developing models to make predictive analysis, I might

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01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:34,479
Speaker 1: be inclined to at least, you know, you got extra time,

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01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:37,760
Speaker 1: you're not going to work you're staying at home. You know,

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01:02:37,840 --> 01:02:39,960
Speaker 1: you're not going out to eat. You know, you're hanging

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01:02:40,040 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 1: the restaurant in the night at night or whatever. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know, there's a part of me that might

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Speaker 1: be tempted to kind of try to find my own

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01:02:46,240 --> 01:02:49,480
Speaker 1: numbers and see if if they're similar in nature to

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Speaker 1: what these medical experts or the CDC or the World

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01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:55,880
Speaker 1: Health Organization are coming up with. Right, I mean, it's

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01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:58,160
Speaker 1: it's gonna it would be fun. I think if you

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01:02:58,280 --> 01:02:59,960
Speaker 1: like what you do, that kind of thing would be

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01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:01,800
Speaker 1: fun for you. All though it sounds to me like

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01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:05,840
Speaker 1: it would be homework. But um, I might get aheadache,

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01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:07,960
Speaker 1: But although isn't. Aren't we all just living in the

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01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:11,560
Speaker 1: era of homework where everybody, our whole job and career

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01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:14,959
Speaker 1: is now homework. Um, yeah, with a with an added

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01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:16,960
Speaker 1: degree of difficulty. You're I mean, you're sitting in your house.

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01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:19,720
Speaker 1: I'm sitting in my house. Jay Harris, our producer, sitting

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01:03:19,760 --> 01:03:22,960
Speaker 1: in his house. Yeah, we're all in the same boat.

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Speaker 1: All right. Well, we gotta what what factor, uh, what

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01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:30,840
Speaker 1: what outside factor could have the biggest impact on a

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01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:33,000
Speaker 1: successful bill season? And why is it going to be

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Speaker 1: a shortened season? Um? Only twenty percent of you think

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a shortened season. No fans in

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01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:42,480
Speaker 1: the stands. Forty one percent, almost forty two percent of

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Speaker 1: you think, yeah, that's what's gonna be the biggest difference,

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01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:47,680
Speaker 1: the biggest factor in a bill successful seasons, no fans

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01:03:47,720 --> 01:03:51,080
Speaker 1: in the stands to enjoy it, practice limitations. Thirty percent

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Speaker 1: of you say that, and some and ten percent, almost

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01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:56,680
Speaker 1: eleven percent of you say something else about it. Steve Tasker,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown we're here till three o'clock. At the top

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Speaker 1: of the end. Next hour, at two o'clock, we've got

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Speaker 1: Chase Goodbread. That is a guy's name, and if you

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01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:08,640
Speaker 1: don't know who he is, he's an NFL dot Com columnists.

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01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:11,360
Speaker 1: He covers college football so here in Buffalo, you might

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01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:13,760
Speaker 1: not have read a lot of his stuff, but he's

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01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:16,320
Speaker 1: got some interesting things about and mostly about how the

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Speaker 1: college football players might struggle to be evaluated property by

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Speaker 1: NFL scouts this college football season. And I'm having said that,

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Speaker 1: if indeed there is a college football season as we

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Speaker 1: know it, it's it's gonna be interesting to think Brownie.

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Speaker 1: As we get down, Let's let's read one or two

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Speaker 1: more from the tweet sheet about people and what they

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01:04:37,600 --> 01:04:39,600
Speaker 1: think The biggest factor is going to be going forward

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Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bill's success in this season. From sipping

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01:04:42,280 --> 01:04:45,520
Speaker 1: the kool aid, he says a COVID outbreak within the

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01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:48,560
Speaker 1: team would be devastating. As close as this group is

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01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:51,040
Speaker 1: on and off the field, they may be more vulnerable

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Speaker 1: to encounter an outbreak than other teams in the league.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the case. I think protocols

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Speaker 1: would rule the day. Once in once you're in the

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01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:04,080
Speaker 1: once you're in the locker room, I think every team

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01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:06,200
Speaker 1: is just about as vulnerable as another as long as

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Speaker 1: they follow the same protocols. I think protocols rule the day.

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01:05:09,600 --> 01:05:13,520
Speaker 1: They'll know the importance of doing the social distancing and

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01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:18,040
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. So I'm not worried about the

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Speaker 1: close knit nature of the locker room potentially putting the

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Speaker 1: Bills at greater risk for an outbreak. Once they're back

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Speaker 1: at One Bill's Drive. I mean, they're gonna they're gonna

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Speaker 1: see enough of each other through the course of the

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01:05:31,080 --> 01:05:36,840
Speaker 1: day anyway. So to take that, you know, out of

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Speaker 1: the building and into a social atmosphere when it's strictly

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Speaker 1: a bad idea you know, I think that I don't

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Speaker 1: think they're going to go that far. The season and

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Speaker 1: their fortunes this season, I think are too important to

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Speaker 1: override protocols at the risk of, you know, giving your

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01:05:55,520 --> 01:05:57,760
Speaker 1: team an outbreak. I just don't see that. Yep. We

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Speaker 1: talked about that a little bit in the show. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on these guys when they come

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01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:05,600
Speaker 1: back not to be the typhoid Mary of the locker

1207
01:06:05,680 --> 01:06:09,240
Speaker 1: room right and carry this virus in and infect everybody.

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Speaker 1: And there's going to be an enormous amount of protocols

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Speaker 1: in place, and you can bet they're gonna follow them

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Speaker 1: to the tea to make sure that they can stay helly,

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Speaker 1: particularly if this season goes on, and particularly forget about

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Speaker 1: getting guys sick, Brownie in the big in the in

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Speaker 1: the in the real picture, that's what's important. You don't

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Speaker 1: want Tony to make it sick and anybody risk losing

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Speaker 1: their life because of the virus. And you know, statistics

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Speaker 1: would say that if if everybody in the league got it,

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Speaker 1: there'd be a handful of guys who may pass away

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Speaker 1: because of it, um despite their age, and you know

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Speaker 1: all that. So but aside from that, the consequences are

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Speaker 1: really interesting to me. So if they do get to

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Speaker 1: a point where it's touching, goes to where they're gonna

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Speaker 1: have enough guys to feel the team, what is the

1223
01:06:56,840 --> 01:06:58,880
Speaker 1: league's stance going to be? Are they gonna forfeit that

1224
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:00,919
Speaker 1: game if the other teams they're and ready to play.

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01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:03,600
Speaker 1: I think they try to postpone it. I think that's

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Speaker 1: what they try to do. They don't want to lose

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Speaker 1: the revenue from a game, so I think they try

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Speaker 1: to postpone it, and they put, you know, certain contingencies

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Speaker 1: in place if we you know, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: they devise these contingencies, but I have to believe that

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Speaker 1: the league has them. There's too much there's too much

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Speaker 1: revenue to lose to not have contingency plans. And so

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Speaker 1: there's a reason the schedule makers have all the teams

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01:07:28,280 --> 01:07:31,040
Speaker 1: from the same division with the same bye week on

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Speaker 1: the schedule this year, right, There's a reason that they

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01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:39,320
Speaker 1: plugged in the entire set of Sundays in February for

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01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:41,720
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl in Tampa this year, so they can

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Speaker 1: move that back if they need to. So I would

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Speaker 1: envision postponement of games, you know, you push it out

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, you know, maybe the week that

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Speaker 1: you have a Thursday game, you play the following Thursday,

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Speaker 1: and then you figure out the game after that. At

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01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:02,920
Speaker 1: it's interesting too today that we got the word from

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01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:05,960
Speaker 1: doctor Faucci that there's gonna be a vaccine and might

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Speaker 1: be by the end of the calendar year. He's saying

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01:08:08,480 --> 01:08:11,800
Speaker 1: when not if so if that happens and they can

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01:08:11,920 --> 01:08:14,840
Speaker 1: delay the start of the you know, delayed the start

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Speaker 1: of the season by two weeks. I remember those first

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. The teams that the Bills play, they

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01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:22,200
Speaker 1: have matching bye weeks later in the season, so they

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01:08:22,240 --> 01:08:26,519
Speaker 1: could fill the bye week with games. Everybody's bye week

1252
01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:28,719
Speaker 1: would cease to exist and they would just keep playing.

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Speaker 1: Your bye week is essentially at the front of the schedule, right,

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01:08:32,439 --> 01:08:34,400
Speaker 1: so your bye week you take it, you know, like

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Speaker 1: you said, they you know, two week quarantine to begin

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Speaker 1: the season and then you're off and running. So they've

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01:08:39,960 --> 01:08:43,040
Speaker 1: got that built in as well. So then if you

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01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:45,439
Speaker 1: can just get to the calendar year when you've got

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Speaker 1: a chance at getting a vaccine, then you know, the

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Speaker 1: lid comes off and everything's you know, honkey Dorry and

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01:08:52,680 --> 01:08:57,120
Speaker 1: everybody gets vaccinated and away you go. But getting there

1262
01:08:57,280 --> 01:09:01,360
Speaker 1: may be really really difficult, give you know, given the environment.

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01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:05,120
Speaker 1: And I think it's safe to say none of this

1264
01:09:05,280 --> 01:09:08,200
Speaker 1: is going to be easy. The whole thing is gonna

1265
01:09:08,200 --> 01:09:11,360
Speaker 1: be a heavy lift, the whole thing, right it is

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Speaker 1: it is we get another one on the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: from George Ship before we go from George is uh

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Speaker 1: and as we as we told you what the the

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Speaker 1: you know, the winning choice is there no fans in

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01:09:22,360 --> 01:09:25,040
Speaker 1: the stands would have the biggest impact on a successful

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Speaker 1: Bills season. And Georgie answers that that's number one. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I get a kick out of fans in the stands

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Speaker 1: being the top choice. Sorry, we don't have nearly that

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Speaker 1: much impact. Reality, Georgie not not believing that. I don't

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01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:43,280
Speaker 1: think it. I don't think it has to be that

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01:09:45,120 --> 01:09:47,840
Speaker 1: that they think they're gonna affect the outcomes of games

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01:09:47,880 --> 01:09:49,719
Speaker 1: and that's what it will make it a successful season.

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01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:51,680
Speaker 1: They'll help the Bills win enough games. But I do

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01:09:51,840 --> 01:09:55,800
Speaker 1: think a successful season means successful for the fans who

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01:09:55,840 --> 01:09:58,000
Speaker 1: are voting, means they get to take part, and they

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01:09:58,040 --> 01:09:59,519
Speaker 1: get to be there and they get to watch it.

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01:10:00,320 --> 01:10:02,559
Speaker 1: So I think that's part of what the success they're

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01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:06,240
Speaker 1: looking at for. Maybe I may be stepping out on

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01:10:06,280 --> 01:10:07,800
Speaker 1: a limb there, but I think that's where they most

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01:10:07,840 --> 01:10:09,360
Speaker 1: people say, listen, it's not going to be a success

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01:10:09,400 --> 01:10:11,639
Speaker 1: if I can't be in my seat, right I don't

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01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:13,720
Speaker 1: you know who cares. I got a watch on TV

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01:10:13,920 --> 01:10:16,720
Speaker 1: like everybody who's not a fan. So I think that's

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01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:19,320
Speaker 1: one of the aspects of that you might miss. Do

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Speaker 1: you follow me, Brownie? No, I know what you're saying,

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01:10:24,200 --> 01:10:27,400
Speaker 1: but I tend to agree with the point you made earlier,

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01:10:27,479 --> 01:10:30,400
Speaker 1: which was, across the board, every team's in the same boat.

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01:10:30,439 --> 01:10:32,120
Speaker 1: There's no fans in the stands, so there's no home

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01:10:32,160 --> 01:10:36,960
Speaker 1: field advantage, there's no road feel disadvantage. So to me,

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01:10:37,240 --> 01:10:40,000
Speaker 1: I you know, as much as I think the players

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01:10:40,040 --> 01:10:43,560
Speaker 1: appreciate having the fans behind him for home games, I

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01:10:43,720 --> 01:10:45,920
Speaker 1: don't know that it's going to have a dramatic impact

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01:10:46,040 --> 01:10:49,240
Speaker 1: on the success or failure of a season. Lots coming up.

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Speaker 1: Chase Goodbread of NFL dot COM's gonna come on, he's

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01:10:51,880 --> 01:10:55,719
Speaker 1: a college football columnists. We've also got NFL true false,

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01:10:55,760 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 1: We've got What's for Lunch coming up, Lots going on,

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01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:00,640
Speaker 1: plus more on the Twitter. Well if you want you

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01:11:00,680 --> 01:11:02,240
Speaker 1: can get give us a call of eight h three

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01:11:02,280 --> 01:11:04,160
Speaker 1: oh five fifty. We'll get you on the air after

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Speaker 1: the break. This is One Bills Live percent of by

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01:11:06,120 --> 01:11:16,640
Speaker 1: Khalid to Health one Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to

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01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:18,840
Speaker 1: One of Bills Lives. Keep fast along with Chris Brown

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01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:21,439
Speaker 1: coming up at the top of the hour, Chase Goodbread

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01:11:21,479 --> 01:11:24,800
Speaker 1: of nfel dot com. He's a college football columnists. We've

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Speaker 1: been talking about the NFL's decision to maybe allow the

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01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:31,599
Speaker 1: players to opt out of this season. Coming up, We've

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Speaker 1: also got a Twitter question out what factor would cause

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01:11:37,880 --> 01:11:41,479
Speaker 1: the biggest impact to a successful Bills season. We gave

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01:11:41,560 --> 01:11:43,720
Speaker 1: you a couple of different choices, and most of you

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01:11:44,280 --> 01:11:46,280
Speaker 1: right now forty percent to forty one percent of you

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01:11:46,439 --> 01:11:48,479
Speaker 1: think it's no fans in the stands, we'll have the

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Speaker 1: biggest factor to a successful season. Most of it. I

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Speaker 1: think we think people are answering that because it won't

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Speaker 1: be a success if they can't be there to take part.

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Speaker 1: Twenty seven percent of the people say it's going to

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Speaker 1: be the practice limitations that have the big just to impact,

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01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:03,519
Speaker 1: and twenty percent say it's going to be a shortened season.

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Speaker 1: What do you think give us a Colonado three oh

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01:12:05,800 --> 01:12:08,639
Speaker 1: five fifty or one eight eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty. We also have some feedback from the tweet

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Speaker 1: sheet and from Tony says, what about contracts? Will players

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01:12:17,720 --> 01:12:19,760
Speaker 1: lose a year on their contracts if they sit out?

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01:12:20,200 --> 01:12:23,320
Speaker 1: Especially for players on one year deals. I kind of

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01:12:23,400 --> 01:12:25,519
Speaker 1: doubt that, Brownie. You don't have any specifics on that,

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01:12:25,640 --> 01:12:28,040
Speaker 1: do you no? Because we really just don't know what

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01:12:28,160 --> 01:12:31,000
Speaker 1: the nature of these discussions are outside of, you know,

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01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:33,960
Speaker 1: the obvious, which is will they be given an out

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01:12:34,080 --> 01:12:37,240
Speaker 1: option for the twenty twenty season because of the COVID pandemic.

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Speaker 1: We don't know the particulars because the story just broke

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01:12:41,040 --> 01:12:45,320
Speaker 1: right after we got on the air. So I just

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01:12:45,439 --> 01:12:49,920
Speaker 1: think it's interesting. And the reason I think it may

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01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:51,920
Speaker 1: not have quite the legs that it does in some

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01:12:52,040 --> 01:12:55,200
Speaker 1: other sports leagues because, as we mentioned earlier in the show,

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Speaker 1: you've got you know, w NBA and NBA players saying

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01:13:00,920 --> 01:13:03,600
Speaker 1: for safety reasons they're not going to play in this.

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01:13:04,560 --> 01:13:06,960
Speaker 1: You know, the w NBA is just trying to get started,

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01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:11,360
Speaker 1: the NBA is trying to finish, and players from both

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01:13:11,479 --> 01:13:14,519
Speaker 1: leagues are saying, I'm not gonna play I'm sitting out

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Speaker 1: for safety reasons. The difference is, as you mentioned, they

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01:13:18,439 --> 01:13:23,000
Speaker 1: have guaranteed contracts. NFL players in many cases do not.

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Speaker 1: There are first round picks who have their entire rookie

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01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:33,160
Speaker 1: contracts guaranteed. But I think if you're not playing, there's

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01:13:33,160 --> 01:13:35,799
Speaker 1: gonna be something said about that. These owners are already

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Speaker 1: losing revenue. Presumably, you know, we get to a place

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Speaker 1: where there's no fans in the stands, which looks like

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01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:44,519
Speaker 1: that's going to be the case. They're losing revenue there.

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01:13:44,640 --> 01:13:47,000
Speaker 1: If you think they're gonna play pay players who have

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01:13:47,160 --> 01:13:49,400
Speaker 1: decided to sit out and not play, you're out of

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01:13:49,439 --> 01:13:55,720
Speaker 1: your mind, right, Yeah, right, I think I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I just think that. And like I said earlier, I

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01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:01,040
Speaker 1: think NFL players are gonna say, listen, I'm I'm playing. Plus,

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01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:04,200
Speaker 1: it's a different animals. Really, it's a different animal that

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01:14:04,479 --> 01:14:07,120
Speaker 1: it really is. And as much as the NFL, and

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01:14:07,160 --> 01:14:09,759
Speaker 1: we've spoken about the NFL learning from the other sports

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01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:12,280
Speaker 1: leagues about how they can handle it, what the risks

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Speaker 1: would be, how the other leagues handled outbreaks, I think

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Speaker 1: the fact that these other leagues, that the fact that

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01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:21,080
Speaker 1: these other leagues are really struggling to get started is

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01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:22,960
Speaker 1: the first stumbling block that the NFL is going to

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01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:26,320
Speaker 1: have to face. Although up till now it doesn't even

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01:14:26,320 --> 01:14:28,800
Speaker 1: seem to be a blip on the radar, I could

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01:14:28,880 --> 01:14:30,639
Speaker 1: see and I and we've get this from a guy

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01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:33,800
Speaker 1: named Jello. He says, the first and most important question

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01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:35,519
Speaker 1: for me is will there even be a season? We

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01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:37,519
Speaker 1: seem to be on track right now. But given many

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01:14:37,600 --> 01:14:40,439
Speaker 1: states are spiking again and the other leagues are having

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Speaker 1: major issues, I can see the NFL just closing up

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01:14:43,280 --> 01:14:46,200
Speaker 1: shop for the year. I can't see that. No, I

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Speaker 1: can't either. I would see more so the fact that

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Speaker 1: the NFL would say, listen, we're going and if you

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01:14:52,920 --> 01:14:55,599
Speaker 1: want to opt out, you can, but we're gonna if

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01:14:55,800 --> 01:14:59,040
Speaker 1: and if they'd end up in high water, right, it

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01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:01,600
Speaker 1: might come, or high water there might be by the

1379
01:15:01,720 --> 01:15:03,519
Speaker 1: end of the season, you may have used two hundred

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Speaker 1: guys on your roster. You know what I'm saying, Because

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01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:08,519
Speaker 1: they'll have guys that line up and play, you know,

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01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:11,160
Speaker 1: guys that have always wanted to play, or it's their dream,

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01:15:11,280 --> 01:15:13,479
Speaker 1: or they need one more shot, they want one more

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01:15:13,520 --> 01:15:15,880
Speaker 1: shot to impress, or they just want flat out want

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01:15:15,920 --> 01:15:18,559
Speaker 1: the money. They're gonna you know, I would say they're

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01:15:18,600 --> 01:15:24,519
Speaker 1: gonna go. Now, how many healthy NFL caliber players you

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01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:27,719
Speaker 1: can keep going throughout the regular season. Maybe the guys

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01:15:27,760 --> 01:15:29,640
Speaker 1: who win the Super Bowl, you know what I mean.

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01:15:30,280 --> 01:15:33,280
Speaker 1: It may be that cut and dried this team had

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01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:36,839
Speaker 1: more guys or fewest guys with the virus, and therefore

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01:15:37,600 --> 01:15:40,240
Speaker 1: they won it all. It may be like that. I

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01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:45,680
Speaker 1: get it. But don't think the league cares about you know,

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01:15:45,800 --> 01:15:47,840
Speaker 1: at the league at large, it cares about who wins.

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01:15:48,360 --> 01:15:51,280
Speaker 1: But they do care about having games on TV for

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01:15:51,400 --> 01:15:55,000
Speaker 1: sixteen weeks and fulfilling their into the TV contracts. They

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01:15:55,080 --> 01:15:57,679
Speaker 1: do care about that. And they don't care if it's

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01:15:57,760 --> 01:16:01,080
Speaker 1: Charlie six Pack taking snaps for the New York Giants

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01:16:01,840 --> 01:16:05,160
Speaker 1: or Eli Manning flying in the night before just to

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Speaker 1: take snaps for the New Yea. They don't care. They

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Speaker 1: want the games to take place in the worst way,

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01:16:12,200 --> 01:16:14,920
Speaker 1: in the worst way. I think that's the bottom line, Brownie.

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01:16:14,960 --> 01:16:18,920
Speaker 1: I think it tends more towards that than anything else. Yeah,

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01:16:18,960 --> 01:16:23,040
Speaker 1: there's no way they're flushing it exactly. You don't flush

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01:16:23,080 --> 01:16:29,280
Speaker 1: a twenty seven billion dollar industry for this. I don't think.

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01:16:29,360 --> 01:16:32,559
Speaker 1: I don't think these and I don't know anything about anything.

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01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:38,720
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I don't know if I would, you know, right, Yeah,

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01:16:38,840 --> 01:16:40,880
Speaker 1: I got. There's a lot to there's too much to

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01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:44,880
Speaker 1: be lost here. And that's that's the motivating factor, perhaps

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01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:47,519
Speaker 1: more than anything. So the clubs are gonna do every

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01:16:47,560 --> 01:16:50,760
Speaker 1: They got all these protocols in the head coaches said, wow,

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01:16:50,800 --> 01:16:53,040
Speaker 1: it seems like a little bit excessive. That's exactly what

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01:16:53,160 --> 01:16:55,120
Speaker 1: you want them to say, because then you can say, listen,

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01:16:55,200 --> 01:16:57,320
Speaker 1: we're doing everything, even the excessive things, to keep you

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01:16:57,360 --> 01:17:00,400
Speaker 1: guys healthy. You gotta do it for yourselves. We're gonna

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01:17:00,400 --> 01:17:02,360
Speaker 1: go on and play, and we're paying you a ton

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01:17:02,439 --> 01:17:06,360
Speaker 1: of cash to do it. You're getting handsomely rewarded. Let's

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01:17:06,400 --> 01:17:11,120
Speaker 1: go and and if this happens, If and I'm not

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Speaker 1: even gonna try and guess a number of COVID positive

1419
01:17:14,760 --> 01:17:18,240
Speaker 1: tests or whatever, just say, whatever happens, here's what's gonna

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01:17:18,280 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 1: happen in response to it. If if you get sick,

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01:17:21,200 --> 01:17:23,240
Speaker 1: here's what's gonna happen. If a bunch of you get sick,

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01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:25,920
Speaker 1: here's what's gonna happen. If the coaches get sick, here's

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01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:28,800
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. There's not gonna be any fans to

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01:17:28,960 --> 01:17:32,840
Speaker 1: begin with, and we're gonna keep rolling. Um, that's it.

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01:17:33,360 --> 01:17:35,599
Speaker 1: That's all there is to it. And that's and they roll.

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01:17:35,720 --> 01:17:37,479
Speaker 1: And if you can, you can. If you don't like

1427
01:17:37,600 --> 01:17:40,760
Speaker 1: those parameters, opt out. You won't get paid, but you

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01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:44,840
Speaker 1: won't lose a year year contract. That is a year

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01:17:44,880 --> 01:17:46,920
Speaker 1: of your career because you can only play this game

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01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:50,400
Speaker 1: for so long though, that's right, and you say then career,

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01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:53,439
Speaker 1: that's right, finite career that on average last three years.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if people are are for going the

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01:17:56,920 --> 01:18:00,360
Speaker 1: year right, and they'll get they'll get the money. You know,

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01:18:00,479 --> 01:18:03,280
Speaker 1: they'll get paid if they come back and play. They

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01:18:03,360 --> 01:18:06,840
Speaker 1: won't us they don't and that's you know, that's the

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01:18:06,920 --> 01:18:08,880
Speaker 1: bottom line there. So I think the league. I could

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01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:12,400
Speaker 1: see the league just saying we're going and if you

1438
01:18:12,479 --> 01:18:14,920
Speaker 1: want to opt out, please do but tell us now

1439
01:18:15,360 --> 01:18:18,080
Speaker 1: because we're gonna get you know, we're gonna get Steve

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01:18:18,160 --> 01:18:19,880
Speaker 1: and Chris from the radio booth to come down and

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01:18:19,960 --> 01:18:22,960
Speaker 1: cover a kick here in the fourth quarter because we're short, guys.

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01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:26,639
Speaker 1: I mean, they'll do it. They did it before, they've

1443
01:18:26,680 --> 01:18:28,479
Speaker 1: done it before, they did it in nineteen eighties. They

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01:18:28,520 --> 01:18:32,120
Speaker 1: did it thirty five years ago in eighty seven, right,

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01:18:33,160 --> 01:18:37,280
Speaker 1: I mean, that's um, it's gonna happen. They'll they'll get

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01:18:37,439 --> 01:18:41,280
Speaker 1: guys to fill those uniforms, so don't think they won't.

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01:18:42,439 --> 01:18:44,600
Speaker 1: So that's the that's the real interesting part about this

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01:18:44,720 --> 01:18:47,000
Speaker 1: whole thing. I mean, they can they can plow ahead

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01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:49,160
Speaker 1: because they'll have people standing in line to play. And

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01:18:49,479 --> 01:18:51,400
Speaker 1: that may sound crazy to a lot of people, like, oh,

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01:18:51,439 --> 01:18:54,479
Speaker 1: I don't know, I think about it for just a minute.

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01:18:55,320 --> 01:19:00,719
Speaker 1: You know, college kids, peer drinking buddies. They'll fine bodies.

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01:19:01,439 --> 01:19:04,000
Speaker 1: It won't look pretty on TV, and it won't be

1454
01:19:04,080 --> 01:19:06,639
Speaker 1: the product we're all used to, but they'll be fulfilling

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01:19:06,680 --> 01:19:09,439
Speaker 1: their into the television contracts. Yeah, and that's why I

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01:19:09,520 --> 01:19:13,120
Speaker 1: think Monster numbers too. Brownie, Well, yeah they will. But

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Speaker 1: that's why I think, you know, the report that we

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01:19:15,720 --> 01:19:19,479
Speaker 1: saw yesterday about upwards of ten NFL owners are in

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01:19:19,600 --> 01:19:23,120
Speaker 1: favor of pushing the start of the season back, you know,

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01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:24,840
Speaker 1: because they kind of want to go to school on

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Speaker 1: what these other leagues do when they do resume their

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Speaker 1: pre existing seasons to finish them up. I think they

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01:19:32,680 --> 01:19:35,679
Speaker 1: want more of a runway to make sure that they're

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01:19:35,720 --> 01:19:38,640
Speaker 1: doing everything possible to avoid some of the pitfalls that

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01:19:39,479 --> 01:19:41,040
Speaker 1: these leagues that are going to start at the end

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01:19:41,080 --> 01:19:43,960
Speaker 1: of July inevitably are going to fall into with respect

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Speaker 1: to COVID, Right, And I think that's that's the thing.

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Speaker 1: How much of the season can they get in, how

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Speaker 1: healthy can they keep the bulk of their rosters? What

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Speaker 1: concessions there are they going to have to make to

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Speaker 1: make sure the teams have enough bodies and and players

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Speaker 1: on their rosters and practicing to the so that they

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01:20:07,800 --> 01:20:10,760
Speaker 1: can go out and actually play well enough, uh, to

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01:20:10,920 --> 01:20:16,200
Speaker 1: compete or to be competitive. What happens if one team

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01:20:16,320 --> 01:20:23,000
Speaker 1: is afflicted and the other is not. Um, you know

1476
01:20:23,080 --> 01:20:32,920
Speaker 1: what happens when some crazy Eagles fan sends a virus

1477
01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:35,439
Speaker 1: leaden letter to one of the star players. You know

1478
01:20:35,479 --> 01:20:39,720
Speaker 1: what I mean? I mean, wow, think about it. I mean,

1479
01:20:39,760 --> 01:20:42,080
Speaker 1: there's crazies out there, right, It's the world we live in.

1480
01:20:42,840 --> 01:20:45,559
Speaker 1: All this stuff has to be taken into account. Uh.

1481
01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:48,920
Speaker 1: And and just you know, for whatever reason, you know,

1482
01:20:49,080 --> 01:20:52,400
Speaker 1: coming up and having one team beat a vast, vast

1483
01:20:52,520 --> 01:20:56,120
Speaker 1: disadvantage because of the virus, I don't think the league

1484
01:20:56,160 --> 01:20:57,960
Speaker 1: can care about that. They've got to the game's got

1485
01:20:58,040 --> 01:21:01,320
Speaker 1: to take place, and your players are responsible for remaining competitive,

1486
01:21:01,680 --> 01:21:03,880
Speaker 1: you and your players and your coaches. So if you

1487
01:21:04,080 --> 01:21:07,320
Speaker 1: end up with six guys, six key guys that go

1488
01:21:07,439 --> 01:21:12,120
Speaker 1: down the night before the game, that's on you. That's

1489
01:21:12,200 --> 01:21:14,439
Speaker 1: part of what your team needs to take into account

1490
01:21:14,439 --> 01:21:16,680
Speaker 1: to get ready to play on Sunday, just like practicing

1491
01:21:16,720 --> 01:21:18,920
Speaker 1: and everything else. And that's why another thing that I

1492
01:21:19,000 --> 01:21:20,439
Speaker 1: think is going to happen is, you know, the new

1493
01:21:20,520 --> 01:21:26,040
Speaker 1: CBA already raised the practice squad limit to twelve from

1494
01:21:26,120 --> 01:21:29,840
Speaker 1: ten that was already on the docket for this year,

1495
01:21:30,400 --> 01:21:32,519
Speaker 1: and now there's talk that they may go all the

1496
01:21:32,560 --> 01:21:36,720
Speaker 1: way up to sixteen in an effort to have more

1497
01:21:36,920 --> 01:21:40,920
Speaker 1: bodies in the bubble, so to speak, already, rather than

1498
01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:44,240
Speaker 1: having to bring them in from parts unknown if you

1499
01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:47,920
Speaker 1: suffer a couple of infections, or if you suffer a

1500
01:21:48,040 --> 01:21:51,759
Speaker 1: rash of injuries. Because I think we also can't dismiss

1501
01:21:51,800 --> 01:21:55,280
Speaker 1: the fact that these guys have not been training the

1502
01:21:55,400 --> 01:21:57,760
Speaker 1: way they normally do through the course of the offseason,

1503
01:21:57,840 --> 01:22:00,200
Speaker 1: so I think there is also a risk involved that

1504
01:22:00,320 --> 01:22:02,800
Speaker 1: there could be a greater number of injuries the first

1505
01:22:02,840 --> 01:22:05,400
Speaker 1: couple of weeks of training camp. So you know, when

1506
01:22:05,439 --> 01:22:08,439
Speaker 1: you get your roster down to fifty three. Having a

1507
01:22:08,560 --> 01:22:12,439
Speaker 1: practice squad of sixteen gives you almost seventy players, So

1508
01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:15,960
Speaker 1: that's most of your camp roster. And I think that

1509
01:22:16,120 --> 01:22:19,400
Speaker 1: basically you're basically cutting twenty people, right, And I think

1510
01:22:19,520 --> 01:22:22,200
Speaker 1: maybe they even up that, and you know, maybe you

1511
01:22:22,280 --> 01:22:25,280
Speaker 1: cut the bottom fringe, like maybe you cut five or

1512
01:22:25,360 --> 01:22:28,240
Speaker 1: eight or ten guys and keep everybody. And I think

1513
01:22:28,320 --> 01:22:31,360
Speaker 1: every team would probably do that and just have them

1514
01:22:31,400 --> 01:22:34,559
Speaker 1: hang around. The bubble that you go to training camp

1515
01:22:34,640 --> 01:22:37,080
Speaker 1: with is the bubble that you end the season with.

1516
01:22:38,200 --> 01:22:40,080
Speaker 1: And once you go into that bubble, if you're not

1517
01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:42,559
Speaker 1: going to opt out, you're in and you don't leave.

1518
01:22:43,040 --> 01:22:45,439
Speaker 1: And those seventy guys, and some of them may never

1519
01:22:45,520 --> 01:22:47,800
Speaker 1: see the field in the game, most of them are

1520
01:22:47,800 --> 01:22:50,800
Speaker 1: a good chunk of them hopefully would not. They would

1521
01:22:50,840 --> 01:22:53,640
Speaker 1: be standby in case a virus broke out, but they

1522
01:22:53,680 --> 01:22:55,439
Speaker 1: would be I don't even you'd have to see quester

1523
01:22:55,520 --> 01:22:59,840
Speaker 1: those guys away from everybody, right or what precautions could

1524
01:22:59,840 --> 01:23:03,280
Speaker 1: you possibly take that wouldn't allow him to get practice

1525
01:23:03,360 --> 01:23:07,040
Speaker 1: reps and still be separated. That's a whole another can

1526
01:23:07,160 --> 01:23:09,760
Speaker 1: of worms that each team's got to deal with. Wow,

1527
01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:12,280
Speaker 1: who's right? So if you have a lower rung of

1528
01:23:12,840 --> 01:23:15,160
Speaker 1: players that you know, you kind of want to keep

1529
01:23:15,240 --> 01:23:18,400
Speaker 1: separate from the main group that's dressing every Sunday to

1530
01:23:18,560 --> 01:23:22,200
Speaker 1: reduce the pool of exposure. Who's coaching those guys up

1531
01:23:22,439 --> 01:23:26,000
Speaker 1: every week? And then can those coaches cross over? Probably not.

1532
01:23:26,200 --> 01:23:29,639
Speaker 1: They may just be exclusively coaching up the practice squad

1533
01:23:30,320 --> 01:23:32,639
Speaker 1: week to week to week to week in a separate area.

1534
01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:38,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, exactly, there's a lot of layers to exactly.

1535
01:23:38,280 --> 01:23:41,519
Speaker 1: All right. Steve Tasker, Chris Brown, we're here till three o'clock.

1536
01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:43,639
Speaker 1: Coming up at the top of the hour has Chased Goodbread,

1537
01:23:43,720 --> 01:23:46,560
Speaker 1: NFL dot com columnists on college football, and this just

1538
01:23:46,840 --> 01:23:48,960
Speaker 1: you know Nick over the night Nic O'Leary, the former

1539
01:23:49,000 --> 01:23:51,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill tight end, had a heart attack, had some

1540
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:55,880
Speaker 1: heart surgery. He's going to try and continue his career

1541
01:23:56,400 --> 01:24:00,719
Speaker 1: despite the the protocols that maybe are humanly possible. According

1542
01:24:00,720 --> 01:24:03,559
Speaker 1: to head coach John Harbor the Baltimore Ravens, he thinks

1543
01:24:03,640 --> 01:24:05,680
Speaker 1: the season's gonna happen. A lot of stuff going on

1544
01:24:05,840 --> 01:24:09,360
Speaker 1: the Bills headed towards training camp, and also the NFL

1545
01:24:09,360 --> 01:24:12,519
Speaker 1: announcing today that they might give players a chance to

1546
01:24:12,600 --> 01:24:14,840
Speaker 1: opt out. That much all that coming up after The

1547
01:24:14,920 --> 01:24:17,439
Speaker 1: Break One Bill's Live presented by Kalidah Health on Buffalo

1548
01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:30,080
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome back to one of Bill's Life, Steve

1549
01:24:30,160 --> 01:24:33,120
Speaker 1: Tasker Chris Brown here till three o'clock. Coming up is

1550
01:24:33,479 --> 01:24:36,040
Speaker 1: Chase Goodbread of NFL dot com. He's a columnist of

1551
01:24:36,080 --> 01:24:40,439
Speaker 1: her college football Brownie, you remember Nico Leary, the tight

1552
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:42,680
Speaker 1: end for the Buffalo Bill's fifth round draft pick back

1553
01:24:42,720 --> 01:24:47,600
Speaker 1: in I think two fifteen, had a blockage in his

1554
01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:50,040
Speaker 1: heart and had to have surgery that he was with

1555
01:24:50,160 --> 01:24:52,719
Speaker 1: the He's with the Raiders after moving from Buffalo to Miami.

1556
01:24:52,840 --> 01:24:54,479
Speaker 1: Now he's with the Raiders. They put him on the

1557
01:24:54,520 --> 01:24:57,519
Speaker 1: reserve list. He's out for this season because he's on

1558
01:24:57,600 --> 01:25:00,439
Speaker 1: blood thinners and if he got a cut on the field,

1559
01:25:00,680 --> 01:25:04,000
Speaker 1: you know, he wouldn't stop the bleeding. Um. He was

1560
01:25:04,080 --> 01:25:06,000
Speaker 1: on a little bit for the Jaguars last year and

1561
01:25:06,080 --> 01:25:08,920
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, and uh, just kind of a role player.

1562
01:25:09,000 --> 01:25:12,160
Speaker 1: But how about that, a young guy like that. I've

1563
01:25:12,160 --> 01:25:16,240
Speaker 1: played golf with him and uh, he's you know, six two,

1564
01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:19,080
Speaker 1: two fifty three. He can bust it. But to see

1565
01:25:19,080 --> 01:25:23,760
Speaker 1: a guy like that have you know, a little heart surgery. Man,

1566
01:25:24,080 --> 01:25:26,760
Speaker 1: none of us are safe really, you know. Yeah, keep

1567
01:25:26,840 --> 01:25:29,200
Speaker 1: track of everything that goes on, Right, I got too

1568
01:25:29,280 --> 01:25:31,800
Speaker 1: much going on to worry about that. Yeah, I mean

1569
01:25:33,040 --> 01:25:35,240
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't want to make light of his

1570
01:25:35,400 --> 01:25:38,360
Speaker 1: condition in any way, shape or form. But that guy

1571
01:25:38,520 --> 01:25:41,679
Speaker 1: was wound pretty tight as a player when he was here.

1572
01:25:42,320 --> 01:25:49,040
Speaker 1: Um and so quiet, real quiet, very quiet, just as

1573
01:25:49,560 --> 01:25:55,479
Speaker 1: serious as you can be about everything. So yeah, you

1574
01:25:55,640 --> 01:25:57,880
Speaker 1: kind of feel for the guy because you know, he's

1575
01:25:57,920 --> 01:25:59,960
Speaker 1: one of those grinders that has kind of carved out

1576
01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:03,320
Speaker 1: a niche for himself. He's bounced around the league to

1577
01:26:03,439 --> 01:26:08,000
Speaker 1: try to hang on and just not something you often

1578
01:26:08,120 --> 01:26:11,519
Speaker 1: hear about for a for a twenty seven year old. Yeah,

1579
01:26:11,600 --> 01:26:14,760
Speaker 1: it's not, he says. He's they expected to make a

1580
01:26:14,800 --> 01:26:17,080
Speaker 1: full recovery. And really the only reason he's not playing

1581
01:26:17,439 --> 01:26:20,000
Speaker 1: in this season is because of the medication he's on.

1582
01:26:20,160 --> 01:26:24,000
Speaker 1: And like I said, he he's fully healthy except for

1583
01:26:24,040 --> 01:26:25,680
Speaker 1: the fact that they've got him on this medication that

1584
01:26:25,760 --> 01:26:27,479
Speaker 1: thins his blood and he may not be able to

1585
01:26:27,920 --> 01:26:30,280
Speaker 1: stop a bleeding if he got nicked or cut in

1586
01:26:30,320 --> 01:26:34,479
Speaker 1: a game or any place else for that matter. Right,

1587
01:26:34,600 --> 01:26:37,080
Speaker 1: So you got a guy like Nicolo's five year vet

1588
01:26:37,200 --> 01:26:39,600
Speaker 1: kind of hanging around, bounced around, and he's gonna Now

1589
01:26:39,640 --> 01:26:41,800
Speaker 1: he's on his fourth team. He went from the Bills

1590
01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:43,799
Speaker 1: to the Dolphins, of the Jaguars, back to the Dolphins.

1591
01:26:43,840 --> 01:26:46,160
Speaker 1: Now he's with the Raiders. It's kind of one of

1592
01:26:46,200 --> 01:26:47,919
Speaker 1: those guys. And on the other end of the spectrum,

1593
01:26:47,960 --> 01:26:53,120
Speaker 1: you've got Dak Prescott signing the franchise tag off his

1594
01:26:53,280 --> 01:26:56,720
Speaker 1: rookie deal for thirty one point four million bucks as

1595
01:26:56,760 --> 01:27:01,120
Speaker 1: the franchise tender thirty one and thirty one and a

1596
01:27:01,160 --> 01:27:05,120
Speaker 1: half million, just about dollars. I think it's a smart

1597
01:27:05,200 --> 01:27:07,719
Speaker 1: move for Dac to do, no question about it, particularly

1598
01:27:07,760 --> 01:27:09,800
Speaker 1: in this day and with the pandemic going on and

1599
01:27:09,920 --> 01:27:12,200
Speaker 1: this kind of timing out this way, it's perfect for

1600
01:27:12,320 --> 01:27:14,960
Speaker 1: him sign it. It's a one year, proven deal, You're

1601
01:27:14,960 --> 01:27:17,519
Speaker 1: going to compare and play well, and they've got the

1602
01:27:17,600 --> 01:27:19,719
Speaker 1: option the Cowboys have the option to do it again

1603
01:27:19,800 --> 01:27:22,800
Speaker 1: next year alla Kirk Cousins and the Redskins, and then

1604
01:27:22,880 --> 01:27:25,800
Speaker 1: it bumps up. It's like thirty eight million, right, But

1605
01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:29,280
Speaker 1: that's but that's why I think it's smart, because it's

1606
01:27:29,360 --> 01:27:33,880
Speaker 1: clear that where the Cowboys in Prescott's camp differ is

1607
01:27:34,080 --> 01:27:37,800
Speaker 1: length of contract. You know, on a long deal, Prescott

1608
01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:41,439
Speaker 1: wants four years. The Cowboys want five because Prescott wants

1609
01:27:41,439 --> 01:27:43,400
Speaker 1: to get back to the table to negotiate the next

1610
01:27:43,479 --> 01:27:48,400
Speaker 1: quarterback deal. You know, one more blockbuster contract before he's done,

1611
01:27:49,040 --> 01:27:53,719
Speaker 1: and he's still arguably in his prime. But the reason

1612
01:27:53,800 --> 01:27:57,240
Speaker 1: it's smart is because if you can't get that done

1613
01:27:57,320 --> 01:28:00,599
Speaker 1: before July fifteenth, no matter what happen into the twenty

1614
01:28:00,640 --> 01:28:04,439
Speaker 1: twenty season with this pandemic, your salaries guaranteed. Right, you know,

1615
01:28:04,640 --> 01:28:08,559
Speaker 1: you signed the franchise standard, You're guaranteed thirty one million dollars.

1616
01:28:08,640 --> 01:28:11,960
Speaker 1: Whether you play two games, four games, ten games, you're

1617
01:28:12,000 --> 01:28:14,840
Speaker 1: getting your money. Yeah, it's a no brainer. Yeah. And

1618
01:28:15,240 --> 01:28:18,160
Speaker 1: you've also put yourself in a good leverage position because

1619
01:28:18,240 --> 01:28:21,680
Speaker 1: now you've compelled the Cowboys to come to a long

1620
01:28:21,800 --> 01:28:25,000
Speaker 1: term contract extension with you. Because if they sign you,

1621
01:28:25,200 --> 01:28:28,920
Speaker 1: if they franchise you again next year, by rule, your

1622
01:28:28,960 --> 01:28:32,920
Speaker 1: salary has to go up twenty percent, which makes it,

1623
01:28:33,040 --> 01:28:36,000
Speaker 1: as you said, almost thirty eight million dollars. So you've

1624
01:28:36,080 --> 01:28:40,280
Speaker 1: put you've kind of painted the Cowboys into a corner here. Yes,

1625
01:28:40,600 --> 01:28:43,200
Speaker 1: and plus you've done everything they've asked you to do.

1626
01:28:43,320 --> 01:28:46,360
Speaker 1: They offered you the you signed it. Now you show

1627
01:28:46,439 --> 01:28:48,439
Speaker 1: up on time to training camp, you give yourself the

1628
01:28:48,520 --> 01:28:50,559
Speaker 1: best chance to be successful in a year you want

1629
01:28:50,560 --> 01:28:52,800
Speaker 1: to be successful, not that you don't all the time,

1630
01:28:52,880 --> 01:28:56,280
Speaker 1: but you know you you're an approve it deal and

1631
01:28:56,600 --> 01:28:58,439
Speaker 1: you can get all through training camp, you can be

1632
01:28:58,520 --> 01:29:01,240
Speaker 1: all acclimated. You look like the good guys signing the deal,

1633
01:29:01,960 --> 01:29:05,720
Speaker 1: the contract tender. You're not making the waves and it's

1634
01:29:05,760 --> 01:29:07,160
Speaker 1: up to the cowboy and then you put the ball

1635
01:29:07,200 --> 01:29:09,040
Speaker 1: back in their court and you get paid while you're

1636
01:29:09,080 --> 01:29:10,800
Speaker 1: doing it. And that's I think it's a smart move

1637
01:29:10,840 --> 01:29:13,400
Speaker 1: by Dak Prescott as well. That's in stark contrast the

1638
01:29:13,439 --> 01:29:16,040
Speaker 1: other guys like Nicolee we're just talking about who are

1639
01:29:16,080 --> 01:29:20,200
Speaker 1: trying to, you know, fumble around. Leagues full of guys, Brownie,

1640
01:29:20,240 --> 01:29:22,120
Speaker 1: and they all have different agendas. This is going to

1641
01:29:22,160 --> 01:29:24,640
Speaker 1: be an interesting season coming up. At the top of

1642
01:29:24,680 --> 01:29:27,599
Speaker 1: the hour, Chase Goodbread, NFL dot com columnists he writes

1643
01:29:27,600 --> 01:29:30,400
Speaker 1: about college football will ask him about what's going on

1644
01:29:30,560 --> 01:29:32,560
Speaker 1: with the college ranks and how likely it is that

1645
01:29:32,680 --> 01:29:36,040
Speaker 1: they play and what effects that'll have if they don't play.

1646
01:29:36,200 --> 01:29:38,920
Speaker 1: On the upcoming NFL Draft in twenty twenty one, a

1647
01:29:39,000 --> 01:29:42,000
Speaker 1: lot going on. Steve Tasker Chris Brown on Buffalo Bill's

1648
01:29:42,080 --> 01:29:44,840
Speaker 1: Radio presented by Kalidah Health and this is One Bill's Lot.

1649
01:29:49,960 --> 01:30:12,040
Speaker 1: Oh Good Time by Steve Flasks. Welcome back to our

1650
01:30:12,160 --> 01:30:15,360
Speaker 1: number three of the Buffalo of One Bill's Live Steve

1651
01:30:15,479 --> 01:30:19,000
Speaker 1: Tasker along with Chris Brown. We're on the line right now.

1652
01:30:19,040 --> 01:30:21,800
Speaker 1: We'd like to welcome from NFL dot Com. He's a

1653
01:30:21,840 --> 01:30:25,680
Speaker 1: contact content writer covering college football and top NFL prospects.

1654
01:30:26,320 --> 01:30:29,280
Speaker 1: He's also a back to Campus feature writer. Would like

1655
01:30:29,360 --> 01:30:32,160
Speaker 1: to welcome Chase Goodbread to the program. Chase, Steve Tasker,

1656
01:30:32,160 --> 01:30:34,040
Speaker 1: and Chris Brown here in Buffalo. We have to ask

1657
01:30:34,120 --> 01:30:36,400
Speaker 1: you to begin with how are you doing during the pandemic?

1658
01:30:36,479 --> 01:30:40,679
Speaker 1: Are you staying safe and well? So far, so good

1659
01:30:40,720 --> 01:30:44,000
Speaker 1: on that. I'm based in Alabama. I'm what you call

1660
01:30:44,040 --> 01:30:48,280
Speaker 1: a satellite employee. I'm a long way from NFL Media headquarters,

1661
01:30:48,320 --> 01:30:52,040
Speaker 1: which are in LA. But there's it's been a spike

1662
01:30:52,200 --> 01:30:56,360
Speaker 1: of cases in Alabama here of late, but obviously it's

1663
01:30:56,439 --> 01:30:59,240
Speaker 1: it's not not near the hot spot in some places.

1664
01:30:59,280 --> 01:31:01,519
Speaker 1: Have been so far, so good for me. Hopefully all

1665
01:31:01,520 --> 01:31:06,240
Speaker 1: are doing fine too. Yeah, we're doing good. Um. You know, Chase,

1666
01:31:06,360 --> 01:31:08,200
Speaker 1: we were We wanted to get you on the show

1667
01:31:08,280 --> 01:31:12,000
Speaker 1: because I think you shed some light on maybe an

1668
01:31:12,120 --> 01:31:14,559
Speaker 1: area of the NFL operation that a lot of people

1669
01:31:14,600 --> 01:31:17,559
Speaker 1: hadn't really given much thought to yet. Everybody's focus, obviously

1670
01:31:17,760 --> 01:31:20,479
Speaker 1: is on getting the twenty twenty season off the ground

1671
01:31:20,520 --> 01:31:24,479
Speaker 1: in September and all the different layers and logistics that

1672
01:31:24,560 --> 01:31:27,599
Speaker 1: that's going to entail amid the COVID pandemic. But if

1673
01:31:27,640 --> 01:31:30,799
Speaker 1: people thought that the twenty twenty NFL Draft was impacted

1674
01:31:30,880 --> 01:31:33,560
Speaker 1: by COVID, you can make the argument that it was

1675
01:31:33,640 --> 01:31:37,120
Speaker 1: in terms of its presentation and how it was conducted,

1676
01:31:37,720 --> 01:31:41,000
Speaker 1: But a lot of the nuts and bolts that goes

1677
01:31:41,080 --> 01:31:45,080
Speaker 1: into accumulating the information for these teams could really be

1678
01:31:45,280 --> 01:31:47,800
Speaker 1: impacted for the twenty twenty one draft. And I thought,

1679
01:31:48,240 --> 01:31:49,800
Speaker 1: you know, the write up that you had on that

1680
01:31:51,280 --> 01:31:54,280
Speaker 1: was it was pretty eye opening in terms of what

1681
01:31:54,439 --> 01:31:57,120
Speaker 1: are undoubtedly going to be a lot of hurdles for

1682
01:31:57,360 --> 01:32:01,800
Speaker 1: NFL scouts this fall. Right, It's gonna be different for them,

1683
01:32:01,880 --> 01:32:04,000
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it. It's just a question of

1684
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:07,519
Speaker 1: how different and in what ways it'll be different. The

1685
01:32:08,520 --> 01:32:14,000
Speaker 1: NFL scouting process is obviously it's intense in the spring,

1686
01:32:14,640 --> 01:32:17,360
Speaker 1: but it doesn't begin in the spring. Obviously, it starts

1687
01:32:17,880 --> 01:32:21,320
Speaker 1: long before that, maybe not quite three hundred and sixty

1688
01:32:21,360 --> 01:32:25,160
Speaker 1: five days. But a lot goes on for NFL scouts

1689
01:32:25,240 --> 01:32:29,920
Speaker 1: in the fall and even in the spring for two

1690
01:32:30,040 --> 01:32:32,679
Speaker 1: drafts away. They get some work done and they gather

1691
01:32:32,920 --> 01:32:37,240
Speaker 1: some information on underclassmen who won't even me coming out

1692
01:32:37,360 --> 01:32:40,519
Speaker 1: quite yet. They didn't get that information in the spring.

1693
01:32:40,680 --> 01:32:42,920
Speaker 1: That's called the Junior Pro Day, which has only been

1694
01:32:42,960 --> 01:32:47,040
Speaker 1: around for three or four years. But yeah, the bottom

1695
01:32:47,080 --> 01:32:50,000
Speaker 1: line is NFL scouts. The routine for them and the

1696
01:32:50,160 --> 01:32:53,280
Speaker 1: fall is that they're traveling all over the place to

1697
01:32:53,600 --> 01:32:57,880
Speaker 1: college campuses, not only to catch games on Saturdays, but

1698
01:32:58,040 --> 01:33:02,880
Speaker 1: they're in there on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays watching practices, talking

1699
01:33:02,920 --> 01:33:08,400
Speaker 1: to coaches, talking to academic advisors, strength coaches, trainers, etc.

1700
01:33:09,400 --> 01:33:12,880
Speaker 1: And gathering all the information they can on players. And

1701
01:33:13,560 --> 01:33:15,160
Speaker 1: they're just not going to be able to pop in

1702
01:33:15,280 --> 01:33:18,160
Speaker 1: and out like they're used to doing. And it's going

1703
01:33:18,240 --> 01:33:20,920
Speaker 1: to be I'm sure it's going to vary from school

1704
01:33:20,960 --> 01:33:24,680
Speaker 1: to school how much access they get, and they may

1705
01:33:24,760 --> 01:33:29,400
Speaker 1: be having to turn to zoom for some interviews. It's

1706
01:33:29,439 --> 01:33:32,439
Speaker 1: going to be a lot different for them. Is there

1707
01:33:32,479 --> 01:33:35,240
Speaker 1: any idea or any inkling yet as to what the

1708
01:33:35,360 --> 01:33:37,920
Speaker 1: college football games will look like? With fans of the

1709
01:33:37,960 --> 01:33:40,160
Speaker 1: stands or not fans, and who will have access and

1710
01:33:40,240 --> 01:33:45,240
Speaker 1: who will not. There's really not yet. And I talked

1711
01:33:45,280 --> 01:33:48,400
Speaker 1: to a couple of athletic directors for the story to

1712
01:33:48,560 --> 01:33:50,680
Speaker 1: just try to get a feel on how things are

1713
01:33:50,720 --> 01:33:52,880
Speaker 1: going to be for scouts. In the general tone that

1714
01:33:52,960 --> 01:33:57,080
Speaker 1: I got from them was, look, we're still kind of

1715
01:33:57,160 --> 01:34:01,080
Speaker 1: grappling with how we're going to get our players healthy

1716
01:34:01,200 --> 01:34:04,120
Speaker 1: and safe and in a position where they can play.

1717
01:34:04,760 --> 01:34:10,160
Speaker 1: And so NFL scouts or frankly, any other kind of

1718
01:34:10,280 --> 01:34:14,880
Speaker 1: visitor to a college athletic facility is down the road

1719
01:34:15,000 --> 01:34:17,400
Speaker 1: consideration for them, and it can't be too far down

1720
01:34:17,479 --> 01:34:19,400
Speaker 1: the road because we're already in the summer here and

1721
01:34:19,439 --> 01:34:21,400
Speaker 1: the season's supposed to start in a couple of months.

1722
01:34:22,240 --> 01:34:26,200
Speaker 1: But that being said, their focus for the moment is

1723
01:34:27,080 --> 01:34:28,800
Speaker 1: how are we going to get our arms around this

1724
01:34:29,000 --> 01:34:32,040
Speaker 1: so that the student athletes are safe and healthy, because

1725
01:34:32,080 --> 01:34:35,000
Speaker 1: as an athletic director, obviously that's your number one priority.

1726
01:34:35,520 --> 01:34:41,800
Speaker 1: And we're seeing Houston, Boise State, Kansas State, several colleagues

1727
01:34:41,840 --> 01:34:46,439
Speaker 1: have already shut down voluntary workouts this summer because of

1728
01:34:47,000 --> 01:34:51,320
Speaker 1: COVID issues, and so at some point they're going to

1729
01:34:51,400 --> 01:34:54,960
Speaker 1: have to put together a hard policy for scouts, but

1730
01:34:55,200 --> 01:34:57,720
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna vary from school to school, and it

1731
01:34:57,760 --> 01:35:00,720
Speaker 1: could be weeks before the scouts have much of a

1732
01:35:00,800 --> 01:35:04,720
Speaker 1: handle on what kind of access they'll be able to get. Yeah,

1733
01:35:04,720 --> 01:35:07,439
Speaker 1: because I chase the old way of doing things, I

1734
01:35:07,479 --> 01:35:11,600
Speaker 1: don't see how that can even function, because you know,

1735
01:35:11,720 --> 01:35:16,040
Speaker 1: these NFL scouts like they cover wide swaths and regions

1736
01:35:16,120 --> 01:35:19,760
Speaker 1: of a country sometimes and you know, let's just say

1737
01:35:20,000 --> 01:35:24,879
Speaker 1: SEC for example, you got a scout coming from Texas

1738
01:35:24,960 --> 01:35:28,040
Speaker 1: A and M, which might be in a hotspot, and

1739
01:35:28,240 --> 01:35:32,840
Speaker 1: his next school on his list is LSU and they're fine,

1740
01:35:33,240 --> 01:35:37,519
Speaker 1: and they've somehow miraculously been able to avoid a COVID outbreak.

1741
01:35:37,720 --> 01:35:39,840
Speaker 1: There's no way they're letting that guy on campus or

1742
01:35:39,880 --> 01:35:44,080
Speaker 1: hang out on the sideline to practice. That's a good point,

1743
01:35:44,120 --> 01:35:47,759
Speaker 1: and that's one of the points that the Memphis athletic

1744
01:35:47,840 --> 01:35:50,439
Speaker 1: director who I spoke to for the story. He made

1745
01:35:50,479 --> 01:35:54,599
Speaker 1: it as well, that you're going to have a broad

1746
01:35:54,720 --> 01:35:57,519
Speaker 1: policy at all these schools that's going to cover any

1747
01:35:57,640 --> 01:36:02,160
Speaker 1: visitor to the football building, but there may be a

1748
01:36:02,280 --> 01:36:08,080
Speaker 1: more stringent, more narrow policy for high risk visitors and

1749
01:36:08,640 --> 01:36:12,120
Speaker 1: scouts may fall under that because of their travel routine,

1750
01:36:12,160 --> 01:36:15,320
Speaker 1: because they put so many miles on their cars there.

1751
01:36:15,720 --> 01:36:18,439
Speaker 1: They don't fly everywhere. Obviously, the area scouts do a

1752
01:36:18,520 --> 01:36:21,600
Speaker 1: lot more driving than flying. It's a tough gig, but

1753
01:36:21,720 --> 01:36:24,040
Speaker 1: they do. But they do fly a little bit, and

1754
01:36:24,479 --> 01:36:27,360
Speaker 1: they're in hotels all the time. So you know, those

1755
01:36:27,400 --> 01:36:29,559
Speaker 1: are some red and like you pointed out, they're going

1756
01:36:29,600 --> 01:36:34,920
Speaker 1: to be coming from other states, other cities where uh

1757
01:36:35,600 --> 01:36:37,960
Speaker 1: it may may have been a hot spot where they've

1758
01:36:38,040 --> 01:36:41,240
Speaker 1: just been. So all these things are uh something that

1759
01:36:41,360 --> 01:36:43,760
Speaker 1: these athletic departments are going to have to take into

1760
01:36:43,800 --> 01:36:47,519
Speaker 1: consideration as far as how much access that they'll give

1761
01:36:47,600 --> 01:36:50,080
Speaker 1: these guys. And so it's going to be it's gonna

1762
01:36:50,080 --> 01:36:51,640
Speaker 1: be a different job for them in a lot of

1763
01:36:51,720 --> 01:36:55,880
Speaker 1: ways for at least a year. We're talking to Chase

1764
01:36:55,960 --> 01:36:59,240
Speaker 1: Goodbredy's NFL dot com content writer covering college football and

1765
01:36:59,320 --> 01:37:02,720
Speaker 1: the top end of the prospects. Chase does do the conferences, say,

1766
01:37:02,760 --> 01:37:05,040
Speaker 1: for instance, and I know it varies from conference to conference,

1767
01:37:05,400 --> 01:37:08,479
Speaker 1: does the Big Ten or the Pac twelve, the SEC,

1768
01:37:09,479 --> 01:37:14,000
Speaker 1: the ACC, the Big Sky Conference, the Mountain West? Do

1769
01:37:14,200 --> 01:37:17,880
Speaker 1: all do these conferences have the wherewithal or the authority

1770
01:37:18,160 --> 01:37:22,120
Speaker 1: or the clout to tell all their conference schools to say, listen,

1771
01:37:22,240 --> 01:37:24,720
Speaker 1: here's the standard. You've got to live up to it.

1772
01:37:24,920 --> 01:37:26,719
Speaker 1: Or will they just leave it up to the schools

1773
01:37:27,200 --> 01:37:29,479
Speaker 1: to take care of it and take their chances that way.

1774
01:37:29,560 --> 01:37:33,559
Speaker 1: Do the conferences themselves step into the SEC and say, hey, listen,

1775
01:37:33,600 --> 01:37:36,080
Speaker 1: you've got to do ABC and D if you want

1776
01:37:36,120 --> 01:37:39,080
Speaker 1: to have football this year. I don't think you're going

1777
01:37:39,120 --> 01:37:41,680
Speaker 1: to see the conferences step in that realm at all.

1778
01:37:41,760 --> 01:37:45,320
Speaker 1: They're really not doing that as far as the player policies,

1779
01:37:45,800 --> 01:37:47,200
Speaker 1: and I don't think you're going to see him do

1780
01:37:47,320 --> 01:37:50,760
Speaker 1: that as far as policies for anyone else either. The

1781
01:37:50,840 --> 01:37:55,439
Speaker 1: reason being you've got, you know, in these pretty much

1782
01:37:55,479 --> 01:37:59,120
Speaker 1: any major conference, you've got schools that are from all

1783
01:37:59,200 --> 01:38:01,680
Speaker 1: over the place, and big towns and small towns, and

1784
01:38:01,960 --> 01:38:05,160
Speaker 1: and this state and that state. The footprints are are

1785
01:38:05,240 --> 01:38:07,799
Speaker 1: pretty huge. I mean you look at the SEC, for instance,

1786
01:38:08,320 --> 01:38:11,400
Speaker 1: and they go far as as far west as Texas,

1787
01:38:11,520 --> 01:38:15,840
Speaker 1: as far north as Kentucky, I guess, and obviously as

1788
01:38:15,880 --> 01:38:19,479
Speaker 1: far south as Florida. So talking about a big footprint there.

1789
01:38:19,680 --> 01:38:24,280
Speaker 1: And you're gonna have different government regulations in all those places.

1790
01:38:24,840 --> 01:38:28,320
Speaker 1: And as long as you know the SEC, for instance,

1791
01:38:28,439 --> 01:38:30,360
Speaker 1: or any other league. I don't think you're going to

1792
01:38:30,439 --> 01:38:36,200
Speaker 1: see them try to standardize policies in the face of

1793
01:38:36,880 --> 01:38:42,760
Speaker 1: schools that are dealing with different rules for different jurisdictions.

1794
01:38:42,880 --> 01:38:44,800
Speaker 1: So I think it's going to be a school by

1795
01:38:44,880 --> 01:38:47,360
Speaker 1: school thing. I don't think the conferences want anything to

1796
01:38:47,400 --> 01:38:49,280
Speaker 1: do with that, because look at it. If you're a

1797
01:38:49,360 --> 01:38:51,680
Speaker 1: conference and you try to, you know, lay down a

1798
01:38:51,760 --> 01:38:54,760
Speaker 1: policy for everybody and it turns out to be the

1799
01:38:54,840 --> 01:38:59,200
Speaker 1: wrong policy for a particular school, you don't want that.

1800
01:39:00,240 --> 01:39:02,400
Speaker 1: You don't want that responsibility. You don't want that on

1801
01:39:02,479 --> 01:39:05,400
Speaker 1: your head as a conference commissioner. So I think it's

1802
01:39:05,439 --> 01:39:09,600
Speaker 1: going to stay schooled by school. Seeing some of the

1803
01:39:09,720 --> 01:39:13,560
Speaker 1: recent outbreaks on the college campuses, you know, I know

1804
01:39:13,640 --> 01:39:15,879
Speaker 1: you said you spoke to a couple of athletic directors.

1805
01:39:16,560 --> 01:39:21,160
Speaker 1: Do you anticipate that there might be a relaxing of

1806
01:39:22,240 --> 01:39:26,759
Speaker 1: the eligibility rules from the standpoint of, you know, players

1807
01:39:26,840 --> 01:39:32,439
Speaker 1: that are red shirting, players that are gray shirting. Knowing

1808
01:39:32,520 --> 01:39:36,320
Speaker 1: that with an outbreak there's the potential for a college

1809
01:39:36,320 --> 01:39:38,439
Speaker 1: team to lose upwards the twenty three people that have

1810
01:39:38,520 --> 01:39:41,240
Speaker 1: to be quarantined for two weeks, and those ten kids

1811
01:39:41,320 --> 01:39:43,680
Speaker 1: you're red shirting for that year, you may need them

1812
01:39:44,120 --> 01:39:46,559
Speaker 1: to field a team that week or the next week.

1813
01:39:47,960 --> 01:39:50,280
Speaker 1: Can you foresee it getting that far down the road.

1814
01:39:52,240 --> 01:39:54,240
Speaker 1: I think the nca may look at some of that.

1815
01:39:54,439 --> 01:39:57,320
Speaker 1: They certainly considered some of those things in the spring

1816
01:39:57,479 --> 01:40:01,320
Speaker 1: when you had the spring sports canceled pretty abruptly. Uh,

1817
01:40:01,720 --> 01:40:05,840
Speaker 1: you may see some of that, um maybe next spring. Uh.

1818
01:40:06,040 --> 01:40:09,240
Speaker 1: For now, obviously, the NCAA's focuses on how how do

1819
01:40:09,320 --> 01:40:13,400
Speaker 1: we play a season? Eligibility going forward is probably something

1820
01:40:13,439 --> 01:40:17,000
Speaker 1: they'll deal with um beyond the season. But yeah, that

1821
01:40:17,200 --> 01:40:20,160
Speaker 1: that's that's something that could shake things up as well

1822
01:40:20,240 --> 01:40:23,200
Speaker 1: as far as how much more football or any other

1823
01:40:23,280 --> 01:40:29,240
Speaker 1: sport players get to play. And uh, it's it's uncharted

1824
01:40:29,360 --> 01:40:32,479
Speaker 1: territory for everybody, especially the NCAA. It's a it's a

1825
01:40:32,960 --> 01:40:35,439
Speaker 1: it's a mess for the NCAA, I think in a

1826
01:40:35,560 --> 01:40:38,320
Speaker 1: lot of ways, more so than the NFL or a

1827
01:40:38,439 --> 01:40:41,360
Speaker 1: pro sports league because you don't have one commissioner. With

1828
01:40:41,439 --> 01:40:44,840
Speaker 1: the NCAA, it's a it's a body of member schools

1829
01:40:45,400 --> 01:40:49,880
Speaker 1: that are all um looking out for their own best interests,

1830
01:40:49,920 --> 01:40:52,280
Speaker 1: which is a good thing in some ways, but when

1831
01:40:52,360 --> 01:40:55,360
Speaker 1: you need uh, when you need leadership. Sometimes it makes

1832
01:40:55,400 --> 01:41:00,400
Speaker 1: it tough. So Steve, did you have another question? Yeah,

1833
01:41:00,439 --> 01:41:03,120
Speaker 1: I did. Some of these kids that just came out

1834
01:41:03,160 --> 01:41:06,800
Speaker 1: of college this year and they're trying to, you know,

1835
01:41:07,000 --> 01:41:10,960
Speaker 1: get hook on with an NFL club. They've got uncertain futures,

1836
01:41:11,880 --> 01:41:15,040
Speaker 1: they're trying to fake get workouts for teams, they can't travel.

1837
01:41:15,600 --> 01:41:18,840
Speaker 1: There's a whole kind of niche because there's thousands of

1838
01:41:18,880 --> 01:41:21,320
Speaker 1: kids coming out of college who have played college football

1839
01:41:21,360 --> 01:41:24,160
Speaker 1: and would like a shot at an NFL roster. The

1840
01:41:24,560 --> 01:41:27,840
Speaker 1: draft was different, the free agent process is different, The

1841
01:41:28,160 --> 01:41:31,800
Speaker 1: time leading up to training camp has been different. You

1842
01:41:31,880 --> 01:41:34,280
Speaker 1: know how, you know, how is this going to affect

1843
01:41:34,680 --> 01:41:37,120
Speaker 1: maybe some kids who maybe stayed in school or maybe

1844
01:41:37,160 --> 01:41:40,639
Speaker 1: coming out or this the decision making process going forward

1845
01:41:40,720 --> 01:41:43,759
Speaker 1: in your mind with kids staying in school, junior staying

1846
01:41:43,760 --> 01:41:46,400
Speaker 1: in school, or seniors coming out, that kind of thing.

1847
01:41:48,439 --> 01:41:51,240
Speaker 1: I think there's some kids out there who are NFL

1848
01:41:51,439 --> 01:41:54,840
Speaker 1: talents who would have made an NFL team this year

1849
01:41:55,000 --> 01:41:57,040
Speaker 1: that we're never going to hear their names, We're never

1850
01:41:57,120 --> 01:41:58,960
Speaker 1: gonna know who they are. They're gonna go on and

1851
01:42:00,240 --> 01:42:03,080
Speaker 1: take on other jobs in sports, out of sports, whatever.

1852
01:42:03,280 --> 01:42:09,360
Speaker 1: But and that's unfortunate. But clubs take on dozens of

1853
01:42:10,080 --> 01:42:13,920
Speaker 1: rookie free agents to fill out their rookie camp groups

1854
01:42:14,400 --> 01:42:17,280
Speaker 1: in May. And I'm not just talking about draft picks

1855
01:42:17,400 --> 01:42:20,599
Speaker 1: and the UFAs that the guys that got get signed

1856
01:42:20,720 --> 01:42:23,479
Speaker 1: right after the draft, talking about guys that get picked

1857
01:42:23,560 --> 01:42:27,160
Speaker 1: up right before camp and they come into camp, typically

1858
01:42:27,200 --> 01:42:30,560
Speaker 1: without even a contract. It's just a straight tryout, and

1859
01:42:30,840 --> 01:42:34,479
Speaker 1: the ones that impress sometimes they get picked up right

1860
01:42:34,560 --> 01:42:37,960
Speaker 1: after rookie mini camp and maybe an undrafted free agent

1861
01:42:38,560 --> 01:42:42,720
Speaker 1: gets cut to make room, but there may not be

1862
01:42:42,840 --> 01:42:45,880
Speaker 1: any time to evaluate those guys, and if it, depending

1863
01:42:45,880 --> 01:42:49,519
Speaker 1: on what happens with the NFL planning this summer, they

1864
01:42:49,600 --> 01:42:51,600
Speaker 1: may just go straight to training camp. If they go

1865
01:42:51,720 --> 01:42:54,760
Speaker 1: straight to training camp with not not much of a

1866
01:42:54,840 --> 01:42:58,439
Speaker 1: tryout opportunity, then yeah, a lot of kids who who

1867
01:42:58,479 --> 01:43:01,040
Speaker 1: would have made a club aren't even going to get

1868
01:43:01,040 --> 01:43:02,759
Speaker 1: to put a helmet on, which is a real shame.

1869
01:43:03,800 --> 01:43:07,519
Speaker 1: Talked to one a few weeks ago who's crossing his

1870
01:43:07,640 --> 01:43:10,840
Speaker 1: fingers that if he just stays in shape for a

1871
01:43:11,000 --> 01:43:15,679
Speaker 1: year plus then maybe in twenty twenty one, one NFL

1872
01:43:15,760 --> 01:43:18,919
Speaker 1: clubs are looking to fill out those rookie minicamp rosters

1873
01:43:19,479 --> 01:43:22,679
Speaker 1: and he's hoping that they'll not forget the twenty twenty guys.

1874
01:43:23,560 --> 01:43:25,639
Speaker 1: But it's a tough way to go for those guys

1875
01:43:25,720 --> 01:43:29,760
Speaker 1: for sure. So Chase knowing that a good number of

1876
01:43:29,840 --> 01:43:34,719
Speaker 1: players are getting quarantined here around the college ranks, they're

1877
01:43:34,800 --> 01:43:37,840
Speaker 1: left to their own devices really to try to stay

1878
01:43:37,880 --> 01:43:41,600
Speaker 1: in shape and get creative with workouts. The Bills have

1879
01:43:41,720 --> 01:43:45,040
Speaker 1: actually experienced that to a certain degree themselves this offseason.

1880
01:43:45,120 --> 01:43:48,559
Speaker 1: Andre Roberts, their return man, has no access to any

1881
01:43:48,600 --> 01:43:51,520
Speaker 1: weight room facilities. He's in a hotspot area in Arizona

1882
01:43:51,640 --> 01:43:54,320
Speaker 1: right now, so he's pretty much confined to his home.

1883
01:43:54,760 --> 01:43:57,360
Speaker 1: I mean he's shoulder pressed in one end of his

1884
01:43:57,520 --> 01:44:00,599
Speaker 1: couch to get weight work in. What's what's the most

1885
01:44:00,680 --> 01:44:04,360
Speaker 1: creative workouts you've seen or heard of amongst some of

1886
01:44:04,439 --> 01:44:08,840
Speaker 1: the college players. There's been some wild ones, for sure,

1887
01:44:09,000 --> 01:44:13,280
Speaker 1: and I think the strength coaches around these college football

1888
01:44:13,360 --> 01:44:16,639
Speaker 1: programs are really glad that players are for the most

1889
01:44:16,680 --> 01:44:19,639
Speaker 1: part anyway or back on campus now and back doing

1890
01:44:19,720 --> 01:44:25,439
Speaker 1: voluntary workouts and have access to campus facilities. But from

1891
01:44:25,479 --> 01:44:29,679
Speaker 1: the time that the players got sent home basically, which

1892
01:44:29,800 --> 01:44:35,000
Speaker 1: was in mid March and classes went online until oh,

1893
01:44:35,600 --> 01:44:39,080
Speaker 1: roughly a month ago, not even a month ago, a

1894
01:44:39,160 --> 01:44:43,560
Speaker 1: few weeks ago. They were left to work out on

1895
01:44:43,680 --> 01:44:47,000
Speaker 1: their own anyway they could. And a lot of college

1896
01:44:47,040 --> 01:44:49,639
Speaker 1: players don't have a bunch of weight equipment at home

1897
01:44:49,880 --> 01:44:54,680
Speaker 1: that they can use, and gyms were closed, so you

1898
01:44:54,760 --> 01:44:56,680
Speaker 1: can have a gym membership, but you can't get in

1899
01:44:56,800 --> 01:44:59,519
Speaker 1: there if the doors locked, and so yeah, they were

1900
01:44:59,560 --> 01:45:02,800
Speaker 1: having to go around and basically find the heaviest thing

1901
01:45:02,840 --> 01:45:04,880
Speaker 1: in the house and start lifting. And I talked to

1902
01:45:05,439 --> 01:45:08,519
Speaker 1: Tyland Wallace, who's a star wide receiver from Oklahoma State.

1903
01:45:09,200 --> 01:45:12,439
Speaker 1: He's actually getting past a knee rehab right now, but

1904
01:45:13,080 --> 01:45:15,439
Speaker 1: he told me he was trying to do squats with

1905
01:45:16,360 --> 01:45:19,240
Speaker 1: forty pound bags of cat litter. You know, I've seen

1906
01:45:19,360 --> 01:45:23,600
Speaker 1: little social media videos of guys that are trying to

1907
01:45:23,680 --> 01:45:27,320
Speaker 1: lift with fertilizer bags or you know, like you said,

1908
01:45:27,400 --> 01:45:30,040
Speaker 1: picking up picking up beds from the frame, the dead

1909
01:45:30,120 --> 01:45:32,720
Speaker 1: lift with stuff all over. It just just all kinds

1910
01:45:32,720 --> 01:45:36,760
Speaker 1: of stuff. And they definitely got pretty creative with it all,

1911
01:45:37,479 --> 01:45:39,000
Speaker 1: and it was kind of fun to see how they

1912
01:45:39,040 --> 01:45:42,400
Speaker 1: were staying in shape. But and you know, it's interesting.

1913
01:45:42,479 --> 01:45:44,519
Speaker 1: I talked to a handful of strength coaches about that,

1914
01:45:44,680 --> 01:45:49,000
Speaker 1: and most of them applauded the creativity applauded the effort.

1915
01:45:49,160 --> 01:45:53,000
Speaker 1: A couple of them were concerned, you know, safety wise,

1916
01:45:53,120 --> 01:45:56,640
Speaker 1: because obviously if you if you pick the wrong thing

1917
01:45:56,680 --> 01:45:58,680
Speaker 1: around the house to try to lift with and you

1918
01:45:58,760 --> 01:46:01,240
Speaker 1: know you can, might be a little bit of a

1919
01:46:01,360 --> 01:46:04,800
Speaker 1: risk to hurt yourself. So a couple of them m

1920
01:46:05,320 --> 01:46:09,479
Speaker 1: kind of nervous about players doing those crazy things to

1921
01:46:10,040 --> 01:46:13,320
Speaker 1: lift and stay in shape at home. But fortunately they're

1922
01:46:13,479 --> 01:46:17,439
Speaker 1: they're back on campus. Now we're talking with Chase Goodbread.

1923
01:46:17,560 --> 01:46:21,639
Speaker 1: Last one for me, Chase, do you've anticipated We heard

1924
01:46:21,640 --> 01:46:25,360
Speaker 1: a report today from doctor Fauci from the President's Task

1925
01:46:25,479 --> 01:46:28,960
Speaker 1: Force on Communicative Diseases, and he says it's it's when,

1926
01:46:29,160 --> 01:46:32,320
Speaker 1: not if, that there will be a vaccine, and he

1927
01:46:32,439 --> 01:46:36,280
Speaker 1: says it may be by the end of this calendar year.

1928
01:46:36,360 --> 01:46:39,160
Speaker 1: If that happens. How quickly do you think things will

1929
01:46:39,280 --> 01:46:43,920
Speaker 1: return to normal? I guess I would have to do.

1930
01:46:44,040 --> 01:46:47,679
Speaker 1: And how quickly that they can ramp up the volume.

1931
01:46:47,800 --> 01:46:52,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure that once a vaccine is released,

1932
01:46:53,800 --> 01:46:56,439
Speaker 1: there's going to be a question of, Okay, how many

1933
01:46:56,560 --> 01:46:59,000
Speaker 1: vaccines can you get out there and how quickly can

1934
01:46:59,040 --> 01:47:02,800
Speaker 1: you do it? Just like testing obviously testing initially was slow.

1935
01:47:02,880 --> 01:47:05,200
Speaker 1: They're just weren't enough tests out there. And now tests

1936
01:47:05,240 --> 01:47:07,920
Speaker 1: have been ramped up, they're gonna try to ramp up

1937
01:47:07,960 --> 01:47:11,120
Speaker 1: the vaccine as fast as they can as well. Uh

1938
01:47:11,320 --> 01:47:14,840
Speaker 1: couldn't you know no idea obviously how fast they'll be

1939
01:47:14,880 --> 01:47:16,559
Speaker 1: able to do that. But you know, as soon as

1940
01:47:16,600 --> 01:47:20,760
Speaker 1: the vaccine's out there, um, they're gonna, you know, they're

1941
01:47:20,760 --> 01:47:23,439
Speaker 1: gonna pile on it from from all from all walks

1942
01:47:23,479 --> 01:47:26,840
Speaker 1: of life. And and you know, I would you would

1943
01:47:26,880 --> 01:47:31,400
Speaker 1: hope that for sure that that uh, things can get

1944
01:47:31,439 --> 01:47:33,839
Speaker 1: back to normal as fast as possible once that happens,

1945
01:47:33,920 --> 01:47:38,760
Speaker 1: for sports and everything else. Chase Goodbread, thanks for being

1946
01:47:38,840 --> 01:47:40,960
Speaker 1: on with us. We appreciate you taking some time for

1947
01:47:41,120 --> 01:47:43,600
Speaker 1: us up here in Buffalo. Take care and U and uh,

1948
01:47:43,720 --> 01:47:46,120
Speaker 1: I hope you you and your family are safe and sound.

1949
01:47:47,160 --> 01:47:49,080
Speaker 1: For sure, I enjoyed a fellows. I'll have a good day.

1950
01:47:50,120 --> 01:47:54,559
Speaker 1: Chase Goodbread NFL dot Com columnists on college football. He's uh,

1951
01:47:55,240 --> 01:47:57,479
Speaker 1: he also has he's also kind of wired into that

1952
01:47:57,560 --> 01:48:00,320
Speaker 1: college football thing. He's a back to campus feature writer

1953
01:48:00,439 --> 01:48:03,880
Speaker 1: as well, and he's also writes on the top NFL

1954
01:48:04,000 --> 01:48:06,040
Speaker 1: prospects that are going to be in each year's draft.

1955
01:48:06,160 --> 01:48:08,720
Speaker 1: Chase Goodbread joined us here on One Bill's Live Steve

1956
01:48:08,800 --> 01:48:12,040
Speaker 1: Tasker Chris Brown. Coming back after the break. We're gonna

1957
01:48:12,800 --> 01:48:15,080
Speaker 1: talk a little wind up the sweet sheet, talk a

1958
01:48:15,120 --> 01:48:18,519
Speaker 1: little bit about that biggest factor, outside factor that may

1959
01:48:18,600 --> 01:48:23,400
Speaker 1: have something, some success, some impact on a successful Bills season.

1960
01:48:24,280 --> 01:48:26,599
Speaker 1: We also have NFL True False coming up as well.

1961
01:48:26,640 --> 01:48:28,640
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Chris Brown and One Bills Live and this

1962
01:48:28,760 --> 01:48:37,720
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live

1963
01:48:37,800 --> 01:48:40,519
Speaker 1: Steeve Tasker Chris Brown here. I'd like to thank Chase

1964
01:48:40,600 --> 01:48:43,679
Speaker 1: Goodbread for coming on. He's from NFL dot Com, Top Prospect,

1965
01:48:44,000 --> 01:48:48,160
Speaker 1: top college prospect expert. He writes about the NCAA football

1966
01:48:48,200 --> 01:48:51,799
Speaker 1: stuff all the time. Enjoyed having him on. Right now, Brownie.

1967
01:48:52,040 --> 01:48:54,479
Speaker 1: Before we get to the final tweet sheet of the day,

1968
01:48:54,680 --> 01:48:58,519
Speaker 1: let's do NFL True False. How about it? Rocket Roll

1969
01:48:58,880 --> 01:49:02,719
Speaker 1: brought to you by Yancy's, Yancy's Fancy New York's artists

1970
01:49:02,720 --> 01:49:05,439
Speaker 1: and Cheese. Here we go. NFL True falls Number one.

1971
01:49:06,960 --> 01:49:09,880
Speaker 1: Falcon's head coach Dan Quinn is on the hottest seat

1972
01:49:10,040 --> 01:49:17,240
Speaker 1: headed into twenty twenty football season. Yeah, I think there

1973
01:49:17,280 --> 01:49:21,519
Speaker 1: are other candidates for this besides Quinn. I understand why

1974
01:49:21,640 --> 01:49:24,719
Speaker 1: Quinn was listed as the guy with the hottest seat

1975
01:49:24,800 --> 01:49:29,840
Speaker 1: because I think ownership and the front office believes that

1976
01:49:30,040 --> 01:49:36,040
Speaker 1: they have playoff caliber talent on their roster. I don't

1977
01:49:36,080 --> 01:49:40,400
Speaker 1: know about championship talent, but I think they feel they

1978
01:49:40,439 --> 01:49:42,680
Speaker 1: should be in the playoffs just about every year. They

1979
01:49:42,760 --> 01:49:46,240
Speaker 1: have a franchise quarterback who's been an MVP in this league.

1980
01:49:46,800 --> 01:49:50,120
Speaker 1: And what's let them down has been their defense, which

1981
01:49:50,840 --> 01:49:55,160
Speaker 1: dan Quinn was hired to fix. And I don't think

1982
01:49:55,200 --> 01:49:57,280
Speaker 1: they've been in the top ten in defense since he's

1983
01:49:57,320 --> 01:50:01,080
Speaker 1: been the head coach there, and that's a that's a

1984
01:50:01,320 --> 01:50:05,800
Speaker 1: pretty damning blackmark on your resume when that's supposed to

1985
01:50:05,880 --> 01:50:09,479
Speaker 1: be your specialty. So I certainly think he is on

1986
01:50:09,600 --> 01:50:12,519
Speaker 1: the hot seat. Is he on the hottest seat? Yeah,

1987
01:50:12,840 --> 01:50:17,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say false. I'm voting for Adam Gase. If

1988
01:50:17,920 --> 01:50:20,680
Speaker 1: he doesn't. If he doesn't have a winning season this year,

1989
01:50:20,800 --> 01:50:24,080
Speaker 1: he is he is ABC later. I mean, he is

1990
01:50:24,120 --> 01:50:26,960
Speaker 1: going to be out the door. Joe Douglas is a

1991
01:50:27,040 --> 01:50:30,000
Speaker 1: general manager that was brought on after Gas was hired.

1992
01:50:30,080 --> 01:50:32,880
Speaker 1: He did not hire Gaze. He's not beholden to him,

1993
01:50:33,840 --> 01:50:36,719
Speaker 1: and we know the pressure of the New York media

1994
01:50:36,840 --> 01:50:40,040
Speaker 1: and the extra layer of stuff that that can create,

1995
01:50:41,120 --> 01:50:47,080
Speaker 1: and he has not helped Sam Darnold realize his full potential.

1996
01:50:47,600 --> 01:50:51,880
Speaker 1: So if they struggle this year and can't get above

1997
01:50:51,960 --> 01:50:55,760
Speaker 1: five hundred, they're not sniffing around for a playoff. Berth.

1998
01:50:57,240 --> 01:50:59,880
Speaker 1: He's in trouble. I so I say false to the

1999
01:51:00,160 --> 01:51:01,920
Speaker 1: and I would put him at the top of the list.

2000
01:51:02,400 --> 01:51:05,720
Speaker 1: The other guys I would consider are Doug Marone and

2001
01:51:05,880 --> 01:51:11,000
Speaker 1: Matt Patricia. Marone, however, has the out that his roster

2002
01:51:11,200 --> 01:51:16,360
Speaker 1: is terrible, uh, particularly on offense. So what do you

2003
01:51:16,479 --> 01:51:19,800
Speaker 1: expect me to do? You know you're gonna trade Nick

2004
01:51:19,880 --> 01:51:24,760
Speaker 1: Foles and keep Gardner Minshew. You get what you deserve, right,

2005
01:51:25,960 --> 01:51:28,160
Speaker 1: And so there you go. I'm not to mention they

2006
01:51:28,280 --> 01:51:31,400
Speaker 1: traded Calais Campbell for a song, right. I don't think

2007
01:51:31,439 --> 01:51:33,280
Speaker 1: I don't think the Falcons. I think dan Quinn's on

2008
01:51:33,320 --> 01:51:35,639
Speaker 1: a hot seat, no question. But it's about is his seat?

2009
01:51:35,800 --> 01:51:39,759
Speaker 1: Is he more precarious than Adam Gase, Matt Patricia, Doug Marone?

2010
01:51:39,840 --> 01:51:41,800
Speaker 1: Those are those are the four guys right off the

2011
01:51:41,840 --> 01:51:43,840
Speaker 1: top of your head that you're saying, yeah, I might

2012
01:51:44,080 --> 01:51:47,479
Speaker 1: might give me the guy, right. I think even Patricia

2013
01:51:48,600 --> 01:51:52,280
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien, all right, but at least he's made the playoffs.

2014
01:51:52,520 --> 01:51:55,840
Speaker 1: You know, the last two or three years, Um, Patricia

2015
01:51:55,960 --> 01:51:58,800
Speaker 1: had to fire a bunch of his assistants, probably to

2016
01:51:58,880 --> 01:52:01,760
Speaker 1: keep his job. He had to fire special teams coach

2017
01:52:02,000 --> 01:52:05,519
Speaker 1: somebody else. And I mean that was that was a

2018
01:52:05,640 --> 01:52:08,200
Speaker 1: blood letting at the end of the year last year,

2019
01:52:08,280 --> 01:52:11,080
Speaker 1: And he probably did that to save his own skin

2020
01:52:11,400 --> 01:52:14,880
Speaker 1: to a certain extent. And Maron's had to jettison coordinators.

2021
01:52:15,400 --> 01:52:20,040
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know it's they're they're on hot seats too,

2022
01:52:20,120 --> 01:52:23,320
Speaker 1: no question. There are some teams that you know that

2023
01:52:23,439 --> 01:52:25,800
Speaker 1: are like the Bills worth three years ago, four years ago,

2024
01:52:25,840 --> 01:52:29,560
Speaker 1: five years ago, six years ago. Um, that we're just

2025
01:52:29,720 --> 01:52:31,920
Speaker 1: you know where you thinking, uh, we're gonna stick with this.

2026
01:52:32,000 --> 01:52:33,960
Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna stick with Rex another year. We're

2027
01:52:34,000 --> 01:52:36,120
Speaker 1: gonna I don't know, is this gonna work out? You know,

2028
01:52:36,240 --> 01:52:37,880
Speaker 1: there's a lot of that going around. It's at those

2029
01:52:37,920 --> 01:52:39,840
Speaker 1: other at those squads. It's nice not to be there.

2030
01:52:39,840 --> 01:52:42,439
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that. Um, the Bills are are certainly

2031
01:52:42,479 --> 01:52:44,400
Speaker 1: far from it at the current point in history. All right.

2032
01:52:44,400 --> 01:52:47,800
Speaker 1: It's NFL true false Number two. Julio Jones is the

2033
01:52:47,880 --> 01:52:50,240
Speaker 1: top wide receiver in the National Football League. That's our

2034
01:52:50,240 --> 01:52:52,559
Speaker 1: friend Bucky Brooks who made that assertion. I think it's

2035
01:52:52,560 --> 01:52:56,720
Speaker 1: true or false. He's in a conversation. I think three

2036
01:52:56,840 --> 01:53:00,840
Speaker 1: years ago was unequivocally true. I think Michael Thomas has

2037
01:53:00,920 --> 01:53:03,720
Speaker 1: passed him. I think DeAndre Hopkins has passed him, and

2038
01:53:03,840 --> 01:53:07,240
Speaker 1: those guys are in the prime of their respective careers.

2039
01:53:07,680 --> 01:53:10,240
Speaker 1: I think Julio is kind of on the down side

2040
01:53:10,280 --> 01:53:14,439
Speaker 1: now he's a ten year veteran. He's still extraordinarily productive.

2041
01:53:14,479 --> 01:53:16,519
Speaker 1: I mean, he was second in the league in receiving yards,

2042
01:53:16,600 --> 01:53:20,360
Speaker 1: but he was not in the top five in receiving touchdowns.

2043
01:53:20,400 --> 01:53:23,519
Speaker 1: He was not in the top five in receptions. So

2044
01:53:24,320 --> 01:53:27,960
Speaker 1: is he a prototype player for the position? Absolutely? Is

2045
01:53:28,040 --> 01:53:31,559
Speaker 1: he still extraordinarily productive in terms of receiving yards, Yes

2046
01:53:31,640 --> 01:53:34,880
Speaker 1: he is. But if you're talking about who is the

2047
01:53:34,920 --> 01:53:39,000
Speaker 1: best and at their peak performance level right now, I

2048
01:53:39,200 --> 01:53:42,200
Speaker 1: say false, he is not. It's Michael Thomas, I agree,

2049
01:53:42,439 --> 01:53:45,800
Speaker 1: And it's you're splitting hairs because you know most you'd

2050
01:53:45,840 --> 01:53:49,880
Speaker 1: like to have either one of those guys. Julio Jones

2051
01:53:49,960 --> 01:53:53,040
Speaker 1: is still a franchise player. Michael Thomas is a phenomenally

2052
01:53:53,120 --> 01:53:57,040
Speaker 1: gifted player who's on and both those guys not for nothing,

2053
01:53:57,120 --> 01:53:59,360
Speaker 1: but both those wide receivers landed in the perfect spot

2054
01:53:59,400 --> 01:54:03,479
Speaker 1: for themselves with Matt Ryan who's a franchise quarterback who

2055
01:54:03,520 --> 01:54:05,920
Speaker 1: can sling, and Drew Brees who can who is the

2056
01:54:06,000 --> 01:54:10,639
Speaker 1: most prolific passer ever. So I'm yeah, both those guys

2057
01:54:10,680 --> 01:54:14,600
Speaker 1: are in great positions to exploit their abilities. But I

2058
01:54:14,680 --> 01:54:18,080
Speaker 1: would say, yeah, Julio is it just passed the crest

2059
01:54:18,439 --> 01:54:21,160
Speaker 1: and Michael Thomas is above him and still headed upwards.

2060
01:54:21,320 --> 01:54:24,120
Speaker 1: In my opinion, all right, NFL true false Number three,

2061
01:54:24,640 --> 01:54:29,599
Speaker 1: The NFL should expand expand practice squads to sixteen players.

2062
01:54:29,680 --> 01:54:31,519
Speaker 1: It depends on how literally you want to take this

2063
01:54:31,640 --> 01:54:34,640
Speaker 1: brownie and all start sixteen. I think sixteen. No, I

2064
01:54:34,720 --> 01:54:36,880
Speaker 1: think it's even higher than that. They're gonna need a

2065
01:54:36,960 --> 01:54:39,960
Speaker 1: ton of guys on these teams to make sure they've

2066
01:54:40,000 --> 01:54:43,560
Speaker 1: got the slack it takes to have bodies available on

2067
01:54:43,640 --> 01:54:45,720
Speaker 1: a Sunday for a game. So I'm gonna say they

2068
01:54:45,760 --> 01:54:48,960
Speaker 1: should expand it even past sixteen players. So in that case,

2069
01:54:49,200 --> 01:54:51,840
Speaker 1: at least sixteen players, I'd say yes, But just two

2070
01:54:51,920 --> 01:54:55,440
Speaker 1: sixteen players that's not enough. So that's my take on it.

2071
01:54:55,560 --> 01:54:58,839
Speaker 1: I think the NFL is going to have to expand

2072
01:54:58,920 --> 01:55:03,560
Speaker 1: their rosters as far as they need to to get

2073
01:55:03,640 --> 01:55:06,000
Speaker 1: the season going and finish it up well. And I

2074
01:55:06,040 --> 01:55:07,920
Speaker 1: don't see the union standing in the way of more

2075
01:55:08,080 --> 01:55:12,920
Speaker 1: jobs for their players. But what is what is the

2076
01:55:13,000 --> 01:55:16,960
Speaker 1: point of no return for ownership? Yes, we want to

2077
01:55:17,000 --> 01:55:19,240
Speaker 1: have rosters large enough to still be able to stage

2078
01:55:19,280 --> 01:55:21,880
Speaker 1: games in case we have an outbreak, But how many

2079
01:55:21,920 --> 01:55:23,600
Speaker 1: people are we going to carry on the roster because

2080
01:55:23,640 --> 01:55:25,760
Speaker 1: we're already losing money with no fans in the stands.

2081
01:55:25,960 --> 01:55:29,560
Speaker 1: If we're paying more players, we're more out of pocket there.

2082
01:55:29,800 --> 01:55:34,280
Speaker 1: So what's the law of diminishing returns? Say the limit

2083
01:55:34,320 --> 01:55:36,880
Speaker 1: should be? Should it be sixteen? Should it be twenty?

2084
01:55:37,520 --> 01:55:39,920
Speaker 1: If we get to twenty four, is that too many?

2085
01:55:40,040 --> 01:55:43,320
Speaker 1: I mean, now you're talking about a practice squad that's

2086
01:55:43,960 --> 01:55:46,240
Speaker 1: half the size of your roster. Yeah, they'll have it.

2087
01:55:46,320 --> 01:55:48,760
Speaker 1: They'll have actuaries that will tell them exactly what that

2088
01:55:48,920 --> 01:55:51,280
Speaker 1: number is, and what that number and what that number

2089
01:55:51,320 --> 01:55:56,200
Speaker 1: in the budget should be, given their newfound parameters for

2090
01:55:56,320 --> 01:55:59,120
Speaker 1: financial responsibility that maybe they've never had to work under

2091
01:55:59,160 --> 01:56:00,720
Speaker 1: in the NFL, or at least having for a couple

2092
01:56:00,800 --> 01:56:03,600
Speaker 1: of decades. So yeah, they'll know that number and that

2093
01:56:03,760 --> 01:56:05,360
Speaker 1: number is where they're gonna get to. I would, but

2094
01:56:05,480 --> 01:56:07,120
Speaker 1: I would think, but it's bigger than it is now.

2095
01:56:07,680 --> 01:56:09,480
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that they need more guys than they

2096
01:56:09,520 --> 01:56:11,760
Speaker 1: have now, and I think they can have I think

2097
01:56:11,840 --> 01:56:15,480
Speaker 1: even with the the constricted budget that they're going to

2098
01:56:15,560 --> 01:56:18,480
Speaker 1: be under still, I still think they can afford it um,

2099
01:56:19,000 --> 01:56:21,919
Speaker 1: particularly if it means they're going to get that television

2100
01:56:22,040 --> 01:56:24,440
Speaker 1: rights to pay better to pay. It's better to pay

2101
01:56:24,560 --> 01:56:29,240
Speaker 1: eight more guys a minimum seal a practice squad salary

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Speaker 1: than it is to not have a game. Exactly, there's

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Speaker 1: more to be lost not having a game. That's NFL

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Speaker 1: true false. Brought to you by Yancy's Fancy Yancey's Fancy

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Speaker 1: New York's Artisan Cheese. Now, we also have the big

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Speaker 1: question of the day, which which outside factor could have

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Speaker 1: the biggest impact on a successful Bills season. And that's

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Speaker 1: it's been an interesting uh foray for us all going

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Speaker 1: into UH whether that's actually uh the thing shortened season.

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Speaker 1: Twenty percent of the people believe it's going to be

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Speaker 1: a shortened season that has the biggest impact. Most of

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Speaker 1: the people forty percent say there's gonna be no fans

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Speaker 1: in the stands that is the biggest impact on a

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Speaker 1: successful season, because I think fans, really it ain't success

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Speaker 1: unless they're there. Who cares? Who wins this thing? If

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Speaker 1: nobody can watch and see it right? And thirty or

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Speaker 1: twenty seven percent say limited practices are gonna have the

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Speaker 1: biggest impact. Which nuts and boltswise, Brownie, that's probably it

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Speaker 1: practice limitations. Whether you have the players, the healthy players,

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Speaker 1: how are you going to keep them healthy? Those limitations

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Speaker 1: maybe have the biggest fact, biggest impact on a successful season.

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Speaker 1: And ten percent of people have something else in mind.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to argue other here. I'll argue another because

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Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing is going to be an outbreak.

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Speaker 1: You know, a biggest impact on a successful season could

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Speaker 1: be an outbreak with the exact players on your roster

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Speaker 1: that you don't want contracting the virus suddenly being unavailable

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Speaker 1: for two important weeks. So you want to talk about

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Speaker 1: an impact, you know, take Devin Singletary and Stefan Digs

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Speaker 1: off the field the week you got to play the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: That that's gonna have a hell of an impact, real,

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Speaker 1: real fast. And but that goes for the Chiefs too.

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Speaker 1: What are the Chiefs going on? The road coming into

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Speaker 1: Buffalo and all of a sudden, you know, Jimmy Mahomes

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Speaker 1: is out, Tyreek Hill is out, and they're starting left

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Speaker 1: tackle is out. You know, well, it works both ways,

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Speaker 1: but that you know, and that's a Chiefs successful season,

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Speaker 1: not the Bill successful season that that would impact. So

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01:58:40,200 --> 01:58:42,080
Speaker 1: you know, it's it goes both ways. And that's just

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Speaker 1: like the home field advantage thing. You don't get enough

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Speaker 1: disadvantage on the road games either. So what's the biggest

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Speaker 1: impact that could affect a successful Bill's season? From Jeremiah

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Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet, question, what if anything, do you

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Speaker 1: think happens if the season goes forward without a hitch

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01:58:58,400 --> 01:59:00,720
Speaker 1: and player injuries across the leagu are less than ever

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Speaker 1: before because the players have had more time for rest

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Speaker 1: and offseason rehab because of social distancing. So what happens

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Speaker 1: if they if they sidestep this virus completely and they

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Speaker 1: find out that all this social distancing and all the

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Speaker 1: virtual offseason, all that related to bigger jump in player safety.

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Speaker 1: I see it, you know, I get what he's saying.

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Speaker 1: If they can listen, Brownie, if they can quantify that

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Speaker 1: and the league gets a boost from the players union

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Speaker 1: for that and they can and the product on the

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Speaker 1: field doesn't suffer the legal let's say, fine, let's do

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Speaker 1: it in fact, but we've already got this deal signed.

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Speaker 1: If you want to amend this deal and have these

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Speaker 1: off seasons be hands off from March until July like

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01:59:50,880 --> 01:59:53,280
Speaker 1: it has been this year, that's fine. What are you

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Speaker 1: going to give us in return for it? You know,

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Speaker 1: basically is what will happen. And it'll and they'll hold

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Speaker 1: the players safety in their free time, hostage over something

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Speaker 1: on the table to negotiate over, right, Yeah, well obviously, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: anything they can get a leg up on, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: try to take it. Give an inch to take a

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Speaker 1: mile kind of thing, exactly, like, we'll give you that off,

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Speaker 1: but you gotta give us some money back, right or

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Speaker 1: whatever something else that ecoates to money. Yeah? How well

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Speaker 1: has that gone with the Major League Baseball and their

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Speaker 1: players Association? Yeah, they look great, don't they. I was

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Speaker 1: just saying, they've been haggling over off stupid stuff. So

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Speaker 1: you just hope it doesn't go down that road. And

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Speaker 1: we listen. It's I'm a football player, so I'm completely

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Speaker 1: biased in this argument, and I have no I have

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Speaker 1: no enormous disdain for Yeah, I have an enormous dislike

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Speaker 1: of the sport. Not because it's not fun to play.

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Speaker 1: It is fun, but it's it's not dangerous. I mean, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, what are they? What are they? They're worried

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Speaker 1: about going out and stand in right field. That's way

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Speaker 1: too much, you know, that's way too much for them

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Speaker 1: that they can't for twenty seven million dollars a year

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Speaker 1: that they're making to go out and stand in the

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Speaker 1: in right field and take three swings at the plate

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Speaker 1: and call it a day. I don't know what the

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Speaker 1: hold up is. Sixty games, not one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: two games, sixty You know, I have a hard time

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Speaker 1: dredging up any passion for that. It doesn't reflect very

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Speaker 1: well on them. It doesn't. The game is not dangerous.

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Speaker 1: I just have a hard time getting my mind around.

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Speaker 1: I'd say, I don't know. I you know, and I

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Speaker 1: and I don't know if I want to be away

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Speaker 1: from my wife and kids for the fifteen million bucks

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Speaker 1: I'm making to play shortstop, give me a break. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I just don't buy it. I just don't. I just

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Speaker 1: don't something. I mean that they're just trying to It

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Speaker 1: looks bad. It looks bad on both sides of the league.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I get it. The calendar won't allow them

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Speaker 1: to play into December, you know, So they got to

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Speaker 1: get these games in and playoffs done and all that

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Speaker 1: out of the way or they lose everything, the whole

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Speaker 1: season and all of it. But so, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Some at some point, somebody's gonna something's gonna have to give.

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Speaker 1: There's gotta be a drop dead date where they say, well,

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Speaker 1: baseball is not going to happen, you know, And we'll see.

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Speaker 1: I'd be there, right, we'll see, all right, we'll see

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Speaker 1: from Bills and Mets fans on the tweet sheet, the

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Speaker 1: biggest impact, the biggest outside force that could impact a

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Speaker 1: successful Bills season. We are Bills and Mets fan. We're

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Speaker 1: primed to have a breakout season, and now with the virus,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure a season will be possible. Fortunately, I

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Speaker 1: think we're built for the long haul, so our rise

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Speaker 1: might be delayed, but it will happen. Buffalo will rise up.

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Speaker 1: And this is somebody else in the earlier in the show,

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Speaker 1: Brownie said, good teams are gonna win, Bad teams are

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Speaker 1: gonna lose, no matter how this virus shakes out maybe,

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Speaker 1: but you do get the feeling that the Bills are

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Speaker 1: in a place now where they can maintain this level

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Speaker 1: for a little bit, particularly with Josh Allen's contract, Tomaine

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Speaker 1: Edmond's contract, Davious White's contract, you know, Dion Dawkins contract.

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Speaker 1: They got some guys. You know, they don't have anybody

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Speaker 1: that's ready to really be the franchise bank breaker, you know,

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Speaker 1: so they do seem to be primed right now for

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a run. Yeah. And the other

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Speaker 1: thing to consider with that is, you know, when we've

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Speaker 1: talked about this on the show several times, how deep

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Speaker 1: the roster is. So you know, they've stayed remarkably healthy

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Speaker 1: the last couple of years and that's helped them where

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Speaker 1: they haven't had to rely on that depth. But now

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Speaker 1: with COVID entering the picture, that could compromise your depth somewhat.

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Speaker 1: But if you have a deep roster, I think you're

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Speaker 1: better equipped to sustain those little lulls where you might

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Speaker 1: lose somebody for a two week quarantine. Steve Tasker, Chris

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Speaker 1: Brown here, it's all three o'clock. Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 1: This the One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health on

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. NFL Network analytics expert Cynthia Freeland was on today.

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Speaker 1: She spoke about the coverage of the back end of

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Speaker 1: the defense versus the defensive line pressure and how they

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Speaker 1: work together. So the fact that the Bills defense not

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Speaker 1: only has a really strong front, but also a really

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Speaker 1: smartly constructed front whereby you have young players like aj

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Speaker 1: Fanessa who was drafted this season, and you've got more

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Speaker 1: veteran players who can create that veteran presence, and you've

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Speaker 1: got the nasty corner arguably best or second best corner

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Speaker 1: in the entire league. You know, that is a situation

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Speaker 1: where both of those two levels are great. And then,

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Speaker 1: by the way, your middle of your defense, the linebackers,

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Speaker 1: that's also great. Like this defense one of the best

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Speaker 1: constructions in terms of not just built to win this season,

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Speaker 1: but also for continued success because of the spacing of

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Speaker 1: the ages and and really not being overly reliant on

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Speaker 1: the front or the back. So it's a little unsatisfied

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Speaker 1: from the standpoint of like I don't actually think one

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Speaker 1: is better than the other. I think it's some of

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Speaker 1: the parts of both that determine whether you're going to

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Speaker 1: be successful or not. That was Cynthia Freedom of NFL

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Speaker 1: Network Brownie A Good Show Today. Got dropped in our

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Speaker 1: lapse right before we came on, that the NFL may

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Speaker 1: give players an opt out date if they don't want

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Speaker 1: to play this season. They might have the freedom to

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Speaker 1: do that. Don't know what that'll mean long term for

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Speaker 1: their careers or their contracts, but still pretty significant that

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Speaker 1: the league's starting to think that way. Yeah. I just

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Speaker 1: see them saying, Hey, I can't afford to four go

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Speaker 1: a year of my career which may only last six

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Speaker 1: to eight years in total, even if you're a franchise player,

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Speaker 1: you know, ten year player, Do you want to give

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Speaker 1: up a year of your career. I think they're going

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Speaker 1: to try to give it a go, see if they

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Speaker 1: can make it work for as long as it'll work. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: from which outside factor could have been the biggest impact

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Speaker 1: on a successful Bills season? And why forty percent of

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Speaker 1: you thought it was just because there's no fans in

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Speaker 1: the stands is going to be the biggest factor, and

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Speaker 1: mostly because probably fans can participates. What's what kind of

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Speaker 1: success could it be if we're not there to enjoy it? Right, Brownie,

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Speaker 1: I mean I see their point. I see their point. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Who we got tomorrow? Judy Battista, right, yes, Judi Batista

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Speaker 1: NFL dot Com and NFL Network and Michael Lombardi former

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Speaker 1: NFL GM. He's also now writes for The Athletic. Both

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Speaker 1: of them are coming on tomorrow on It'll be Wednesday

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Speaker 1: hump Day, even though I started out today thinking today

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Speaker 1: was Wednesday as my bad. Right off the top of

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Speaker 1: the show, I'll be better. We'll be better tomorrow. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for jumping on with a Steve Tasker, Chris Brown. We've

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Speaker 1: been this has been Buffalo Bill's Radio. We've been presented

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