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Speaker 1: important for our players, our coaches, We got staff down here.

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Speaker 1: I mean it was anyone that wants to do it,

431
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:43,400
Speaker 1: and we filled up. You know, our office is left

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Speaker 1: to get down here and try and lend a help

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Speaker 1: in hand. And we got a lot of people behind

434
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Speaker 1: me that are cutting up chicken, making salads, doing everything.

435
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:54,800
Speaker 1: Everybody just wants to lend a hand. And you know,

436
00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:57,480
Speaker 1: we'll take it day by day. What can I say

437
00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,720
Speaker 1: about the team that you manage to put together that

438
00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:04,720
Speaker 1: pretty much everybody's here. Like you said, those offices are closed. Yeah,

439
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 1: it's important. I mean, listen, the guys are here in

440
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 1: the off season to practice football and get better and

441
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:13,040
Speaker 1: prepare for the season. But um, the season's nothing. This

442
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 1: is life and um what happened here is just it's

443
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,520
Speaker 1: hard to put your put your head around I you know,

444
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,719
Speaker 1: I don't think any of us, you guys included, UH,

445
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,640
Speaker 1: can quite comprehend what just happened. And we all got

446
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 1: to support each other. And it's our job to support

447
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 1: this community and everyone in the city of Buffalo. All right,

448
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:36,000
Speaker 1: So Brandon being addressing the media out there as well,

449
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 1: pretty busy bustling atmosphere out there, and the support is there.

450
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Speaker 1: But I think what Brandon said is important. They know,

451
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Speaker 1: they realize as much as anyone that their efforts have

452
00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:56,119
Speaker 1: to go beyond today because those that lost people last Saturday,

453
00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 1: they're gonna be dealing with that lass a month from now,

454
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,639
Speaker 1: a year from now. I mean, wounds heal, but I

455
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 1: don't know if people ever mentally recover from a loss

456
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 1: like that, which is an unexpected one, an unnecessary one.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, and they said as much in their press release,

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Speaker 1: you know, when they announced the donation of four hundred

459
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars total between the Bills Foundation the NFL Foundation.

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Speaker 1: It's step one, step one. There will be concerted efforts

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Speaker 1: going forward as well, because it's important that we don't

462
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Speaker 1: forget what happened here, so we can prevent anything like

463
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Speaker 1: that from coming to our city again. Yeah, it's it's

464
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Speaker 1: going to leave some scars as well. This will be

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Speaker 1: unfortunate and unfortunate part of our public consciousness for a generation.

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Speaker 1: People are going to remember this, so it's going to

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Speaker 1: be part of a vernacular of our of our region

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Speaker 1: for the remainder of this generation's life. So let's use it.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we can turn it into a positive and a

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Speaker 1: rallying cry against hate and evil and all that stuff

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Speaker 1: as we move forward. So that's my hope. Yeah, Bills,

472
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Speaker 1: our own colleague, Bills reporter Mattie glab was down there

473
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Speaker 1: kind of covering what went down over there in terms

474
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Speaker 1: of the Bills showing up offering their support, and we'll

475
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Speaker 1: be talking to her in probably about five or seven minutes,

476
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: so she can kind of put a bow on the

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Speaker 1: efforts of the Bills and some Sabers players that were

478
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 1: still in town for that matter, and what they did

479
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,159
Speaker 1: to kind of lend a hand today as there was

480
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 1: an awful lot of food preparation and food service for

481
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 1: the people of that community as without their local grocery

482
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 1: store or really in some cases devoid of basically getting

483
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:54,760
Speaker 1: their basic food needs met due to either lack of transportation,

484
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 1: lack of a store being available, etc. So they were

485
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Speaker 1: all stepping up to help. And Maddie will give us

486
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 1: the lowdown on just exactly what the players were doing

487
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 1: in their efforts to kind of put their arms around

488
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:11,119
Speaker 1: a community that needs our support here in Buffalo. So

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Speaker 1: we will take a break here now so that we

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Speaker 1: can be catching up with Maddi Clab when we return

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Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalaida Health, It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right back here on One Bill's Live,

493
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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker and builds Border. Matti Clab joining

494
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Speaker 1: us as promised, fresh back from the late morning visit

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Speaker 1: to Jefferson Avenue, the local tops, the site of the

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00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:52,400
Speaker 1: tragic shooting. And we got a sense of this Maddie

497
00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 1: from Josh just hearing him speak. Pretty pretty somber atmosphere.

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Speaker 1: But but things got a little bit more upbeat when

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Speaker 1: the Bill showed up a little bit. I think it

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00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,120
Speaker 1: was a really powerful image just driving into the area.

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00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,119
Speaker 1: I mean there's four huge buses who are coming with

502
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,440
Speaker 1: the police escort, and here come the Buffalo Bills. Unloading

503
00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: off of these buses, and it started by a moment

504
00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,400
Speaker 1: of silence and then a prayer led by defensive coordinator

505
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: Leslie Frazier to kind of set the tone, and then

506
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 1: everybody moved kind of toward the front where where all

507
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,480
Speaker 1: the food was being handed out and chef Darian Brian

508
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: was cooking food for everybody. So a lot of people

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00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 1: kind of found their stations and started to get to

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00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: work immediately. But yeah, I think it was tough for everybody.

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Speaker 1: It's a tough situation to be in. Josh has said

512
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: it a lot. You know, you never think something like

513
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 1: that is going to happen to a place like Buffalo,

514
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 1: but we know racism is alive and it's our job

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Speaker 1: to try and stop that. And they had the shirts

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Speaker 1: that said choose love, and I think that's what a

517
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: lot of them were trying to do today. And you know,

518
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,720
Speaker 1: a great message for everybody in the world is to

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00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 1: choose love and to love people instead of hate. So

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Speaker 1: most of the players, the captains went over to the

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00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: memorial site. That was a very emotional moment for so

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00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: many of the players, for myself, for anybody just who

523
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 1: was around that area. To be able to play, some

524
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: flowers down, pay their respects, honor the victims, the beautiful

525
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:23,040
Speaker 1: lives that were lost in the senseless act of racism,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of players stayed there for for minutes,

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Speaker 1: for for a while, praying, paying their respects. Um again.

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00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: So many powerful images come from something like this. To

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Speaker 1: see our players there honoring those lives that were cut

530
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,040
Speaker 1: way too short. To see our general manager there, Brandon

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Speaker 1: Bean and Sean McDermott, I'm so glad they took the

532
00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 1: time to do that, to kind of say, you know what,

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Speaker 1: we're we're done with football today. We're not going to

534
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: think about football today. We're going to do something that's

535
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: bigger than us and that the community needs right now.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of smiles. We're also brought on by

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Speaker 1: their presence today. You know, when they were handing out

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Speaker 1: the food, when they were just mingling with the community,

539
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: so many people said, we haven't smiled in a week.

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00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: You guys are the first people to put smiles on

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Speaker 1: our faces. Kids were asking for signatures. Some of the

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00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: guys gave their hats to some of the people who

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Speaker 1: were there. So while it was very heavy and hard,

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Speaker 1: it was nice to see the players also bring some

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Speaker 1: joy to that day and some joy to the community. Well,

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00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: I know, when the bills show up at those places,

547
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: it's really symbolic because the bills represent so many people

548
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: and so many people who love that team in our

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Speaker 1: city and we all kind of identify with the Buffalo Bills.

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00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: And to have those the people in that region, that

551
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Speaker 1: neighborhood realize that by having those guys come down there,

552
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: they're not alone. You know, the people are out for

553
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: their neighborhood. They are looking out for them, there for

554
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,400
Speaker 1: them and trying to get them healed up. And the

555
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 1: Bills are a huge symbol for that, and so are

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Speaker 1: the Saves. So the Saves show up as well. And

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00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 1: to see those guys, it really you can imagine the

558
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: lift did gave their spirits to know that this is

559
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: a real symbol of the fact that we are not

560
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 1: alone in this. This isn't just neighborhood people getting together

561
00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: to help each other out. This is the entire region

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00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: and a symbol of all all the things we all

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00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,719
Speaker 1: cheer for and love about our region. You know, by

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00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 1: these guys that were these you know helmets on Sundays

565
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 1: in the fall, it's a big deal. Um, it's it's

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00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 1: no little thing to have those guys go down there

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Speaker 1: and do that, and I think it really says something

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00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: to the people in that neighborhood that they aren't alone.

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Speaker 1: And and this isn't just rhetoric that people are spewing out.

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00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's a real battle going on for

571
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Speaker 1: these neighborhoods and for the hearts and minds of our

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00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:42,120
Speaker 1: young people. So I'm um, it's it feels good to

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00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: be a part. I'm proud of the organization for doing

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Speaker 1: I'm proud of the Sabers for being a part of it,

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00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: and all those guys going down there, and it's it's

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00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,480
Speaker 1: it's one more thing that's that's on the right side

577
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 1: of this whole scenario, Manny. What was said, because we

578
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,360
Speaker 1: heard some of this from some of the comments from

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Speaker 1: Thailan Jones, especially what was said about this being kind

580
00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 1: of just an initial step. This isn't a hey, we're here,

581
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: We're here to support you, and then two weeks later

582
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: everything dissipates and goes away. I think there are people involved,

583
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: you know, in the idea creation portion of doing what's

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00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: right for the community, but having more of a lasting impact.

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00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,000
Speaker 1: What was said if anything in relation to that. Yeah,

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00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 1: the team has a group of leaders who meet and

587
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: who can talk about things like this and what they

588
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: want to do in the community where they want to

589
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: spend their time their money. And I think it's also

590
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: cool to note that some of these players already are

591
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: connected to some of these organizations who have been boots

592
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:42,480
Speaker 1: on the ground for this devastating tragedy, and guys like

593
00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins and Taiwan Jones have already maybe not poured

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00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 1: in time necessarily right by the tops, but have been

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00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: a part of some really great organizations who do great

596
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 1: things in Buffalo. And I think that's wonderful because they

597
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: have a relationship already and they can just continue that

598
00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,680
Speaker 1: and continue to grow it bring more guys in. So

599
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: they know there's so many different people who are who

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00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:08,000
Speaker 1: are helping right now. They don't want to be just

601
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: here today and gone tomorrow. I think a lot of

602
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: them understand this is something that's going to require help

603
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 1: and attention for weeks, days, months to come, and they

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00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: want to do that, and they want to provide that.

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00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 1: They know they have a job, and they know that

606
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: their job is to be an NFL player, but they

607
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,640
Speaker 1: also know the community that they live in. They love

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00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 1: Buffalo just like we do, and they want to be

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00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,400
Speaker 1: a part of the solution. They want to they want

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00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: to volunteer their time, they want to use their money

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00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 1: to donate, and they want to use their role model

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00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 1: status to help inspire change. And I think that's sometimes

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00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: what our players forget about. Sometimes they're they're around each

614
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: other every single day. Um, the coaches are around them

615
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 1: every single day. It's easy to kind of get into

616
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 1: this bubble of like you're just an average guy here,

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00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 1: because every one of those guys is an NFL player.

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Speaker 1: But on a day like today, I think they all

619
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Speaker 1: really were remembered of how important they are to this

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00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: community and how they can really inspire and bring change

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Speaker 1: to a world that needs a lot of help in

622
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: a lot of ways. I mean, we saw what happened

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Speaker 1: on Saturday. We need a lot of help as a country,

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00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 1: and I think we have some wonderful human beings on

625
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: our team who are are willing to fight for the

626
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 1: end of racism and to fight to love other people

627
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Speaker 1: and to just lend a hand to help in this community.

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Speaker 1: So I think, like you said, this is step one

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00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 1: in a process, and I wouldn't be surprised to see

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00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 1: these guys in the community again to come in the

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00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: weeks and the months to come. I also think it

632
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: was really cool. I don't know if you guys heard

633
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,240
Speaker 1: it from any of the soundbites that you had already played,

634
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: but it was initially spoke about to do something in

635
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,759
Speaker 1: the community. Um right after the tragedy happened, maybe on

636
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,719
Speaker 1: on Sunday or Monday, the team met and kind of

637
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 1: talked about, Okay, we want to do something, and then

638
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott circled up again with the guys I think

639
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: it was yesterday or the day before yesterday, to say, okay,

640
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:07,880
Speaker 1: we talked about this, I want to bring it up

641
00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 1: again and make sure we're all good here to do this,

642
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: like raise your hand if you're in and he said

643
00:35:13,080 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 1: that every single person on the team raised their hand.

644
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,080
Speaker 1: And if you were to walk down the hallway between

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Speaker 1: the hour of eleven and twelve this early afternoon, nobody,

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Speaker 1: nobody was here. Everybody was down there helping, from the

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Speaker 1: coaches to the players, to the trainers to the nutritionists.

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Speaker 1: Everybody was there to help. And I think that sends

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Speaker 1: a really big message to what this team means to

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Speaker 1: the community. Yeah, so I guess we'll just wait and see.

651
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Speaker 1: Because Taiwan was even asked, you know what's next, and

652
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: he said, look, we took a day or two just

653
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: to figure this out and step up here, step up

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Speaker 1: financially obviously with two hundred thousand dollars from the Bills

655
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Speaker 1: Foundation going to this cause along with a two hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars match from the NFL Foundation, so step one

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00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: has happened. He did say there will be more steps

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Speaker 1: coming down the pike here in the future, but give

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Speaker 1: them time to sort it through. And it is very

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Speaker 1: exciting to see, Maddie. What we found out was a

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Speaker 1: brand new Buffalo Together Community Response Fund, which is going

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Speaker 1: to be a collaborative philanthropic effort. Did anybody talk about

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Speaker 1: that at all, because it's kind of exciting to see that,

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Speaker 1: knowing that that has wide ranging power, it would seem

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00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: to address things like this but maybe other times of

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Speaker 1: need in our community. Yeah. They had mentioned the donation

667
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Speaker 1: that was made and Brandon being talked about. You know,

668
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Speaker 1: guys do want to donate money, but today it's about

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Speaker 1: more just giving our time. So that'll be exciting to

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Speaker 1: see where somewhere like that goes and what that can

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Speaker 1: lead to and what organizations, what people receive that money

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Speaker 1: because inside the building collective, the people make a lot

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Speaker 1: of money here, all these NFL players, the coaching staff,

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Speaker 1: so and it's great to see that they're willing to give.

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00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: They want to put together a fun like like you

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Speaker 1: explained and help. So I think that's the character of

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Speaker 1: the players that we have on this team. The DNA

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00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: that Sean McDermott and that Brandon Bean talk about it

679
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,960
Speaker 1: was alive and well today watching these guys in the community. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And I think that's why it took a couple of

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Speaker 1: days to get all the ducks in a row, because

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00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 1: it wasn't just the Bills stepping forward. This Buffalo Together

683
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Speaker 1: Community Response Fund is a collaborative philanthropic thing that involves

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Speaker 1: a multitude of local organizations all kind of pooling their

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Speaker 1: resources together to go towards this. And the Bills obviously

686
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 1: we're a big part of it with a good line

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Speaker 1: two hundred thousand dollars right, and the Bills, the Sabers

688
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,319
Speaker 1: and the Bandits were there. So there was a bunch

689
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: of guys and it takes a couple of days to

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Speaker 1: wrangle all that those entities together and get them coordinated.

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Speaker 1: So glad to see it happen and hopefully it'll it'll

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Speaker 1: make a big difference. Maddie, thanks for kind of painting

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Speaker 1: the picture for us from down there on Jefferson Avenue today.

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Speaker 1: Obviously a lot of heavy hearts, but maybe a few

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00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 1: smiles mixed in today with the Bill's efforts down there

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Speaker 1: along with the coaching staff. Thanks for painting a picture

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Speaker 1: for us. We appreciate it. Of course. That's Bills reporter

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00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:19,960
Speaker 1: Maddie Glab joining us here. There will be continuing coverage

699
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Speaker 1: on Buffalo bills dot com. Maddie, we'll be getting to

700
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Speaker 1: work on that with our video crew as well in

701
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 1: short order. So if you need to see more of

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00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 1: what went down today with the Bills visiting Jefferson Avenue

703
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,280
Speaker 1: and the area affected the most by the tragic shooting

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Speaker 1: last weekend, just go to Buffalo Bills dot com. We

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Speaker 1: will take a break here, but be back with more

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Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health. It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back One Bills Live.

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00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and well you want

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Speaker 1: a transition now to more football related items, and we

710
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: should tell you that coming up in our number two

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Speaker 1: of the show will be Maurice Jones Drew, NFL Network

712
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: analyst and former NFL running back. So not only will

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Speaker 1: we be talking to him about the Bills season kickoff

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Speaker 1: game in Week one against the defending Super Bowl champion Rams,

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Speaker 1: it will also be talking running backs, especially those on

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Speaker 1: Buffalo's roster with MJD Next Hour. Not a whole lot

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Speaker 1: on the NFL landscape, Steve, but there were two transactions

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Speaker 1: that I thought were interesting. The Colt sign running back

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Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay to a one year contract. The free agent

720
00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 1: played in Houston and Miami last season. I gotta tell you, Steve,

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Speaker 1: very quietly under the radar, while everybody talks about the

722
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Speaker 1: AFC West and how stacked it is and the Chiefs

723
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 1: are still dangerous, and people are talking about the Bengals

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Speaker 1: being defending AFC champs. Hm, I'm telling you, man, the

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Speaker 1: Colts are gonna win the AFC South and they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be a team to watch. I think people are sleeping

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Speaker 1: on the Colts. I might put them in my top

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Speaker 1: five in the AFC. I would agree, and I think

729
00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 1: they're smart. The leadership on that team, particularly like frank

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Speaker 1: Um and Ballard there at GM, and probably their players

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Speaker 1: like you know, Jonathan Taylor, always Nelson, Quentin Nelson. The

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Speaker 1: way their season ended last year had to sting really bad.

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Speaker 1: There's really big year that had to sting. They had

734
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Speaker 1: to beat Jacksonville to get in the playoffs and they

735
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 1: couldn't do it. In Week eighteen. Jacksonville had zero to

736
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Speaker 1: play for, an interim head coach, you know, nothing, and

737
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:51,319
Speaker 1: the Colts had everything to play for and couldn't get

738
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Speaker 1: it done. They're gonna come back with a vengeance this year.

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Speaker 1: They were really Bills fans were witnessed first hand to us,

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Speaker 1: and that kind of game that the Colts put up

741
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: against Buffalo here in Buffalo will give you the kind

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Speaker 1: of idea of what an emotional investment, what kind of

743
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 1: difference it can make for a team. You look at

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Speaker 1: that Colts team that played here in Buffalo after the

745
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 1: Bills put them out of the playoffs the year before,

746
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:16,399
Speaker 1: they pounded the Buffalo Bills, who were a really good

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00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: football team. Lost the Bills had by more than a

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00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: score on the road. They came in here and whumped

749
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Speaker 1: them Conversely, all I gotta do is beat Jacksonville and

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00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 1: jack and they didn't show up emotionally and they got

751
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,120
Speaker 1: trounced by one of the worst football teams. Bills did

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00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,400
Speaker 1: the same thing in Jacksonville. They would get down. You

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00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: watch those guys on film. They can't even get out

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00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: of their own way. It's hard to put the emotional

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00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: effort into that game and you go down there and

756
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: you get hammered. The cults are going to show up.

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00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:46,360
Speaker 1: I agree with you. They're They're too talented not to.

758
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:48,800
Speaker 1: And I think Matt Ryan is going to be a

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00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,879
Speaker 1: huge boost for stabilizing force for them and a guy

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Speaker 1: that can play. Yep. The Eagles have signed free agent

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Speaker 1: cornerback James Bradberry. That happened about an hour ago, to

762
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: one year, ten million dollars deal. Bradberry, if you remember,

763
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,319
Speaker 1: was released by the Giants last week in a cap

764
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Speaker 1: savings maneuver. Releasing him save the Giants almost thirteen million

765
00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: on their cap. He had a Carolina connection because his

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Speaker 1: last year in Carolina was also I believe Sean McDermott's

767
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 1: final season as defensive coordinator with the Panthers, and you know,

768
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Speaker 1: releasing him saves almost thirteen million on the Giants cap.

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Speaker 1: The problem is it allowed their division rival to make

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Speaker 1: themselves better Giants in year one under Joe Shane and

771
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:34,320
Speaker 1: Brian Dable. In all fairness, they're in a tough spot.

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00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,239
Speaker 1: They're in cap jail, so they have to clean that

773
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 1: up first, much like the Bills had to do in

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. But the Eagles are loading it up for

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Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, they're They're gonna make a run at

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Speaker 1: Dallas in that division, no question about it. Dallas has

777
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,839
Speaker 1: always had a pretty deep and talented roster. They've had

778
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 1: to do some things now because of their cap situation,

779
00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: you know, to make to kind of I think level

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Speaker 1: off talent wise, and the Eagles have not. They've gotten better, um,

781
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 1: but still those are the two teams is Dallas and

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Speaker 1: Philly Washington. I don't think is ready and New York well,

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Speaker 1: I think they will be better coached. I think they're

784
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:15,440
Speaker 1: I still think they're too shallow at the talent to

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Speaker 1: make a run at that division. They're gonna be better,

786
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Speaker 1: a better team, They're gonna be run better, They're gonna

787
00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:21,279
Speaker 1: look better at times, but there I don't know if

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Speaker 1: they've got enough horses to get it done in that

789
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Speaker 1: division with those other two teams. I don't know what

790
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 1: to make of that division. It seems like a division

791
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: of halves and have nots, the halves being Dallas and

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00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,919
Speaker 1: Philly and the have nots being the Giants and the Commanders. Yeah,

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00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 1: I mean Giants. Things have happened. The Giants cupboard isn't bare, no,

794
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,919
Speaker 1: But still, Daniel Jones has got to prove he can

795
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 1: carry it a little bit more than he had. Right.

796
00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:46,800
Speaker 1: He doesn't have to be Josh Allen or Pat Mahomes.

797
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:50,879
Speaker 1: He's gotta be at least well. And they're the only

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Speaker 1: team in the division with a new head, coach, new schemes,

799
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 1: all of that stuff to get up to speed on.

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00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,960
Speaker 1: There's a learning curve there. And I'll say this too.

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00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:02,120
Speaker 1: You're right, all that's right, But I'll say this as well,

802
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: like it was here in Buffalo when Sean McDermott took over.

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00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 1: You get the right guy. Yeah, you're gonna turn it

804
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: around fast because of the culture in the building. It's

805
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 1: gonna be better. It's gonna be it's gonna make some

806
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:15,799
Speaker 1: sense to these guys. It's gonna be like, Wow, it's

807
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,400
Speaker 1: gonna be inspiring for these guys rather than a change,

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00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:20,760
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Yeah, that's how it's done,

809
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,960
Speaker 1: and that's how McDermott did it here, that's how Brian

810
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 1: Dabole witnessed it and has seen it done before. So

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Speaker 1: I think that I think the Giants are gonna flip

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00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 1: it around culturally really fast, and their schemes and stuff

813
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: will be will take you know, they'll take hold that

814
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 1: much faster because the guys are gonna love going to work,

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Speaker 1: They're gonna love the atmosphere, and they're gonna love what

816
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 1: they see down the road. So I think the Giants

817
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: will turn it around faster. But I still think because

818
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:49,720
Speaker 1: of the Eagles and the Cowboys, you know, the Giants

819
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:55,360
Speaker 1: just don't have enough horses to get there. Yeah. The

820
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Speaker 1: recent deadlock in the Deshaun Watson civil cases are expected

821
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Speaker 1: now to push all of his civil trials to twenty

822
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Speaker 1: twenty three. And you have to believe Steve that the

823
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,879
Speaker 1: NFL got wind of this long before this report came out,

824
00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 1: and I wonder why. I wonder if this is why,

825
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,720
Speaker 1: at least it seems to me that they're fast tracking

826
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Speaker 1: their investigation right now. It would seem to me that

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Speaker 1: they want to levy a suspension of some kind this year,

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00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:29,719
Speaker 1: as opposed to waiting another full calendar year after they

829
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 1: allowed him to get paid not to play last year

830
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,799
Speaker 1: for the Texans. I feel like there's a there's an

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Speaker 1: impetus here for them to at least respond in some way,

832
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 1: shape or form. I think it would be two. I mean,

833
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: the league is you know, the league has taken a

834
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:46,759
Speaker 1: black eye in the past. I mean, there's no question

835
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:49,840
Speaker 1: about it. They've they've had scandals before of this nature

836
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 1: with players and coaches and goodness gracious, even owners. But

837
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: it's unseemly and it would look particularly bad, in my opinion,

838
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 1: to have a quarterback in the situation that Deshaun Watson

839
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:08,319
Speaker 1: finds himself playing with no recushion, with no repercussion, even

840
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:10,439
Speaker 1: if they're coming down the road. They don't want him

841
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 1: to start the twenty twenty two season in Cleveland like

842
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 1: like nothing's going on, and then have to readdress it

843
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 1: when it does come down then they say, okay, now

844
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: we're gonna now we're gonna suspend him. How could you

845
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:25,800
Speaker 1: let him play without any repercussions? All of that plus

846
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 1: plus and think about for the team. They got this

847
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: thing going and they're humming along fine, and then it

848
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: all comes down. And then late in the year when

849
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 1: they're a Super Bowl contender perhaps or certainly a division

850
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 1: title contender, then it all blows up in their face

851
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,360
Speaker 1: when he gets pulled off the off the bench area

852
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 1: and you know, gets thrown into thrown into suspension for

853
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 1: six weeks. It just magnifies and it becomes a mushroom

854
00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: cloud then, right, So I think they would much rather

855
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,399
Speaker 1: try and diffuse it and get out ahead of it

856
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 1: before the season begins or as the season begins. The

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00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:05,760
Speaker 1: timing of it, I think is what is most interesting.

858
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: It almost seems more an issue of when, oh a

859
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: regard to punishment, not if, absolutely and absolutely. I think

860
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:16,320
Speaker 1: the when is going to be sometime this season, before

861
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 1: maybe even before the season starts. I think it's so

862
00:47:19,080 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 1: the Browns know what they're looking but it's not. And

863
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,520
Speaker 1: it's tough call for the league too, because they don't

864
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen and they can't tell the future.

865
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 1: And the further this gets pushed out into the future,

866
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:31,800
Speaker 1: the more ambiguous the present becomes. It's like trying to

867
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 1: hit a target with your eyes closed. Yeah, it's hard.

868
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: We have to take a break here because when we

869
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: come back, NFL Network analyst Maurice Jones Drew is going

870
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 1: to join us. We're going to talk Bills RAMS for

871
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:46,279
Speaker 1: the Week one matchup with him, and we'll also talk

872
00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:50,799
Speaker 1: about the Bills running back contingent. It's a very interesting

873
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 1: room now with the additions of Duke Johnson and James

874
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 1: Cook m j D coming your way next here on

875
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalat of Health. It's Buffalo

876
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 1: Radio at a Steve Tasker who has been all her fields.

877
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

878
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 1: player for you. State of a little steed, a blimp.

879
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 1: We're not even in the straged bear of normalcy all right.

880
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: Here we are our number two, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

881
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: with you One Bills Live and please to be joined

882
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:43,799
Speaker 1: now by NFL Network analyst, former NFL running back. It

883
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:46,919
Speaker 1: is Maurice Jones Drew kind enough to join us as

884
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 1: we dissect the Bills schedule, and we know there is

885
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:54,360
Speaker 1: a big one right in the front of the line

886
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 1: in the kickoff game, not only for the Bills in

887
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,319
Speaker 1: the Rams, but for the entire League Thursday Night from

888
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: Sofi Stadium on September eighth, and MJ. Do you spend

889
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:07,880
Speaker 1: a good amount of time out there, You know, you

890
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,360
Speaker 1: reside out there, you're keeping an eye on the Rams.

891
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: I surmise. So it's been an interesting offseason for them

892
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: because there have been some big names subtractions and we'll

893
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: get into the whole Von Miller thing in a second,

894
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:24,280
Speaker 1: but I think because of the von Miller thing clouding

895
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:28,279
Speaker 1: everybody's view here in Buffalo. You know, Robert Woods is

896
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:31,760
Speaker 1: traded to Tennessee. There are some other guys signed away

897
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 1: from them, like Darius Williams, who's a really good corner

898
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 1: who's played opposite Jalen Ramsey. I know they've signed some

899
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 1: big names also, you know, like Alan Robinson and others.

900
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:45,280
Speaker 1: What is how does the balance of the equation weighing

901
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 1: out for Rams fans in terms of what they've lost

902
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:51,839
Speaker 1: and what they've brought in? Well, I think a lot

903
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:53,319
Speaker 1: of it is. You know, the Rams have done an

904
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 1: awesome job of developing young talent. A lot of guys,

905
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 1: like you said, Derris Williams, a guy that got off

906
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 1: the practice s wat of the Ultimo Ravens. Probably like

907
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 1: three or four years ago, developed him in the heat

908
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 1: end up becoming a key role, a key player in

909
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:08,440
Speaker 1: the in their Super Bowl run. The year before that,

910
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 1: he was a key player, had an awesome year at corner.

911
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 1: So they develop, they do. They do not believe in

912
00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: the first round, second round picks. They rarely have a

913
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:19,279
Speaker 1: third round pick here and there. Most of the time

914
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 1: those are conversation picks. But they draft guys and they

915
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:25,960
Speaker 1: develop them, and they put those guys around starters or

916
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 1: stars like obviously Jalen Ramsey and Aaron Donald. Now, I

917
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 1: think the NFL got it right by putting the Buffalo

918
00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: Bills against the Rams, because they're probably the most talented

919
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 1: roster in the National Football League and going against the

920
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 1: defending Super Bowl champion. And the last time they played,

921
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: let's remember that was an epic game up there in Buffalo,

922
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 1: where their Bills jumped out to a big lead and

923
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: the Rams came scratching back and they end up pulling

924
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:52,879
Speaker 1: away and getting a victory at the end. And so

925
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 1: it's always been a competitive thing. And then you have

926
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:56,919
Speaker 1: to add the Bond Miller piece in there as well,

927
00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:01,160
Speaker 1: where Von chose the Buffalo Bills and that beautiful destination

928
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 1: over Los Angeles, and so that had a lot of

929
00:51:03,280 --> 00:51:05,960
Speaker 1: people upset as well. So there's gonna be so many storylines,

930
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, it's gonna be

931
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:10,879
Speaker 1: Josh Allen versus Matthew Stafford, and whoever wins this game,

932
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 1: we know the national media is going to kind of

933
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:16,080
Speaker 1: decide like they always do, how this season goes from there.

934
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 1: It's interesting because the Rams. You're right, the Rams have

935
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 1: a total disdain for high draft picks because so many times,

936
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:25,279
Speaker 1: and even on the best years, whether those guys are

937
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 1: good or bad, it's a coin flip. If you have

938
00:51:27,239 --> 00:51:30,279
Speaker 1: three first rounders, like quote unquote, one and a half

939
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:31,879
Speaker 1: of them will be a flop. You know, it won't

940
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 1: be won't be worth that pick. Same thing with the

941
00:51:34,520 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 1: second round, and most teams go the opposite where they

942
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:39,560
Speaker 1: want to get like fifty draft picks and hit on

943
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 1: twenty five of them. Rams just take four and just

944
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:44,400
Speaker 1: hit on two. And if they if they get some

945
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:46,520
Speaker 1: good return for the trade or their first and seconds,

946
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: that they're gonna live with all of that. This opening

947
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 1: game that we're talking about, the Bills are probably gonna

948
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:54,839
Speaker 1: be looking to get some contributions from guys they did

949
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 1: pick high at the front of this draft. Kaye Elam

950
00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 1: the corner. You can bet he's gonna be starting. He's

951
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:03,480
Speaker 1: gonna be plugged in and go. James Cook, the running

952
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 1: back from Georgia. Who you know you're running back. You've

953
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 1: played running back. You know how hard it is or

954
00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:09,759
Speaker 1: what it takes to come in first year and be

955
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 1: you know, be given the rock on a number of

956
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: occasions in tough spots. So it's a different philosophy, you're right,

957
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: But the Bills seem to have that philosophy. Listen, we're

958
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:22,279
Speaker 1: gonna pick these guys and we're gonna plug him in

959
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: and play him. What are your thoughts on those two philosophies.

960
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,360
Speaker 1: You've seen the Rams win a world championship that way,

961
00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:29,799
Speaker 1: and then you know the Bills walk in where they've

962
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:32,279
Speaker 1: got a ton of guys on their roster that got

963
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 1: picked high in the draft and are still on the

964
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:36,959
Speaker 1: field for them, Well, I think there's a million ways

965
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:40,160
Speaker 1: to skin a cat, right. However it works, it works right.

966
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,759
Speaker 1: So for the Rams, they believe instead of like you said,

967
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 1: instead of it being a fifty fifty shot at a

968
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 1: late round pick being a starter for you'd rather trade

969
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 1: that away and get Matthew Stafford, a guy that we

970
00:52:50,160 --> 00:52:52,400
Speaker 1: know can play, or Jalen Ramsey, a guy that we

971
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:55,839
Speaker 1: know can play. I think for the Buffalo Bills, they've

972
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 1: done a phenomenal job. They don't they didn't need to.

973
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:00,919
Speaker 1: They drafted Josh Allen. Was it hint overall a couple

974
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 1: of years ago. You saw the way he's progressed. They've

975
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: needed to add to that running game. Because Josh Allen,

976
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 1: if I pay you a quarter of a million billion dollars,

977
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:09,319
Speaker 1: I can't have you be in our starting running back

978
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 1: and quarterback, right, you can't lead us in rushing and

979
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: throwing the football. So you add and Cook, James Cook,

980
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:18,560
Speaker 1: and really his ability is more out of the backfield

981
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:21,839
Speaker 1: than it is from from obviously the eye or died

982
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:26,359
Speaker 1: behind the quarterback. So they're building to what they do best. Now.

983
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:28,839
Speaker 1: When you play that Cover two, yes, you could play

984
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 1: a young corner in that because you're playing Cover two

985
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:34,200
Speaker 1: and you're trying to affect the quarterback with your pass rush. Well,

986
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 1: I can draft a young corner and started because I

987
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 1: have BONB. Miller and that rotation of defensive linement that

988
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:41,319
Speaker 1: we've seen the Buffalo Bills have so and it's all

989
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:43,360
Speaker 1: predicated off of what your roster looks like. And I

990
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 1: think the Buffalo Bills have done a great job over

991
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: the years really since uh was it Brandon Bean's been

992
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 1: there right, yep, right, since he's been there, really building

993
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: and building and building this roster up from guys from

994
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 1: Carolina where he was, to draft picks to free agents

995
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:01,840
Speaker 1: and trades. I mean, getting upon Digs was a huge

996
00:54:01,880 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 1: get for them, right, being able to make that trade

997
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:07,439
Speaker 1: and the pull that off. So those are all things

998
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 1: that you have to do to build and try to

999
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:11,719
Speaker 1: build your roster for the ram side of it. You know,

1000
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: they believe, look, we want to develop, we want to

1001
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:17,320
Speaker 1: develop our young guys, but we don't have time to develop.

1002
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: It's not it's you don't really have a lot of

1003
00:54:18,760 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 1: time to develop in the National Football League if you're

1004
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 1: expected to win year after year after year. When McVay

1005
00:54:24,239 --> 00:54:27,839
Speaker 1: first got there, the expectation was winning a championship and

1006
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:29,799
Speaker 1: find a way to get there. He got there one year,

1007
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:32,600
Speaker 1: figured out that you know, they needed a little bit

1008
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 1: more in certain positions to do it. They made trades

1009
00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 1: to really go after those guys and it paid off

1010
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 1: and so this first game is gonna be awesome. I mean,

1011
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:43,759
Speaker 1: let's just talk about it real quick. Two high powered offenses,

1012
00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: two great defenses who give up some, but they're so

1013
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 1: explosive defensively they could turn picks to touchdowns, they can

1014
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:54,360
Speaker 1: get after the quarterback, and so it's gonna be exciting

1015
00:54:54,360 --> 00:54:56,399
Speaker 1: to see. And then, to be honest, if you look

1016
00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:58,759
Speaker 1: at both of these teams, were the question marks the

1017
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:01,880
Speaker 1: offensive line? Right? For the Rams, you lose Andrew Whitworth,

1018
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:05,880
Speaker 1: and you know you probably have to plug in a

1019
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:08,480
Speaker 1: guard or a rookie guard to play. You lost a

1020
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:10,759
Speaker 1: couple other guys, And for the Bills, that's that's been

1021
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:12,719
Speaker 1: the suit. They can they run the ball? Have they

1022
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:13,840
Speaker 1: been able to run the ball? And a lot of

1023
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:16,960
Speaker 1: has been on the offensive line creating holes. So it's

1024
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:19,200
Speaker 1: gonna be exciting to see how both teams kind of

1025
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 1: sure this up and then how they are able to

1026
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 1: go out and play. You mentioned von Miller already, Maurice,

1027
00:55:24,280 --> 00:55:26,960
Speaker 1: and I'm just curious, since you know you you have

1028
00:55:27,040 --> 00:55:31,080
Speaker 1: boots on the ground out there, when he comes in

1029
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:33,000
Speaker 1: September eighth with the Bills, is he going to be

1030
00:55:33,040 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: like public Enemy Number one? How much animosity was out

1031
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 1: there after he chose Buffalo over La on the part

1032
00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:41,600
Speaker 1: of the fan base, Um, I think a lot of

1033
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 1: people you know it's La, right, So LA is all

1034
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:47,480
Speaker 1: about winning championships and vond came and brought that, and

1035
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:49,440
Speaker 1: I think people are more thankful for him coming in

1036
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 1: and being part of that championship run where he had

1037
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:53,839
Speaker 1: a sack in the last six or seven games and

1038
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:58,839
Speaker 1: crucial sacks at that. Then they say, you know, we're upset, right,

1039
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:00,960
Speaker 1: How can you be upset with someone taking the money

1040
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 1: that the Buffalo Bills gave them? And I think that's

1041
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:07,560
Speaker 1: kind of how they see it now from a competitive standpoint, Yeah,

1042
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:10,319
Speaker 1: we're frustrated. We're upset, right, because you know, if we

1043
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:14,480
Speaker 1: have Von back, we have a chance to repeat. But again,

1044
00:56:14,520 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: the Rams understand that they have pieces that they want

1045
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:18,840
Speaker 1: to continue to build around and give opportunities to have

1046
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:21,520
Speaker 1: a lot of young guys there that can go. I

1047
00:56:21,520 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 1: think you'll see a lot of hugs and kisses and

1048
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 1: happy for them, and then once if the game goes,

1049
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:28,440
Speaker 1: they'll probably get chipped a bunch of times by the

1050
00:56:28,480 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: running backs and some some different things to happen, right,

1051
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:34,320
Speaker 1: So it's one of those things. Bonza tremendous player, and

1052
00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 1: I say this, what he did is best for Vaughan

1053
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:41,960
Speaker 1: and that's beautiful because Von's legacy, if the Buffalo Bills

1054
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:44,360
Speaker 1: win a championship, is going to be one of the

1055
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:47,200
Speaker 1: top ever in the National Football League. I know Tom

1056
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:50,480
Speaker 1: Brady's won seven rings. For Von to win three with

1057
00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:53,040
Speaker 1: three separate teams and be the reason, it would be

1058
00:56:53,120 --> 00:56:56,040
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why or the reason why. That's

1059
00:56:56,080 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 1: tough to deal with. Yeah, I think you're right. It's

1060
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:00,160
Speaker 1: a it's a historic move by him and again gives

1061
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:02,319
Speaker 1: him a chance at at that at something nobody else

1062
00:57:02,400 --> 00:57:04,239
Speaker 1: or not very many guys have done. I think Matt

1063
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 1: Millen as a linebacker did it with the forty nine Ers,

1064
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:13,439
Speaker 1: the the Redskins and the and the Raiders. U Vughan

1065
00:57:13,520 --> 00:57:15,319
Speaker 1: would be the second guy in history to do that.

1066
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:18,000
Speaker 1: It's it's I think it's a huge step for him,

1067
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 1: and I think it's You're right. It's hard to argue

1068
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:21,560
Speaker 1: with him. One of the things I wanted to ask

1069
00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:27,040
Speaker 1: you about, uh, was we see on the defensive side

1070
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 1: guys coming into the league who are kind of positionless

1071
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 1: guys playing safety slash slash linebacker, slash slot corner slash corner. Um,

1072
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:41,080
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on the offensive side of combating

1073
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 1: that with a guy like a like a James Cook

1074
00:57:43,400 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: or an Alvin Kamara or or a Deebo Samuel. Some

1075
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: of these guys that can play wide out and running

1076
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:52,520
Speaker 1: back be big enough and hardy enough maybe to take

1077
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:56,440
Speaker 1: a handoff. Not too many, but some and also split

1078
00:57:56,440 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 1: out wide and run routes like a wide out, and

1079
00:57:58,240 --> 00:57:59,920
Speaker 1: so they can move them around, line them up and

1080
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:04,160
Speaker 1: force the defense to make decisions with personnel how they're

1081
00:58:04,160 --> 00:58:06,680
Speaker 1: gonna match up. Are we seeing more and more and

1082
00:58:06,720 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 1: more of that? Oh? Yes, I completely believe that. The

1083
00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 1: game of football. I used to think it was checkers. Right, Look,

1084
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:16,919
Speaker 1: you get your eleven guys, you go out there. You're better.

1085
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:18,480
Speaker 1: That's what it used to be. You're just better than

1086
00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:20,840
Speaker 1: they are executing what we do. Now the game has

1087
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: turned to chess, where you have these pieces that we

1088
00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:27,560
Speaker 1: call weapons. Right, So James Cook, just like his brother,

1089
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 1: can play from the backfield, but he can line up

1090
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: at wide receiver as we saw it at the University

1091
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 1: of Georgia when he runs past one of the top

1092
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 1: corners in Michigan with ease Alvin Kamara, guy that you

1093
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:37,840
Speaker 1: could put in the slot outside you don't know where

1094
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:39,760
Speaker 1: they're going to be. And what that's come to is

1095
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:41,920
Speaker 1: you have pieces that are different than tight ends. Right

1096
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:43,960
Speaker 1: if you look at the tight end position has always

1097
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: been a tough mismatch because if you come out in

1098
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 1: twelve personnel, you don't know if you should come out

1099
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:50,120
Speaker 1: with three linebackers, or if you should come out in

1100
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 1: sub packages or however that fits. And so I love

1101
00:58:53,960 --> 00:58:56,960
Speaker 1: to see guys being utilized in different aspects. Christian McCaffrey

1102
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:58,440
Speaker 1: is one of the first guys that did it in

1103
00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:00,960
Speaker 1: college at the University Aford, where they put him out

1104
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:03,280
Speaker 1: in the slot. He ran routes. You see the Niners

1105
00:59:03,320 --> 00:59:06,320
Speaker 1: do it with George Kittle, obviously, the Chiefs du it

1106
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 1: with Travis Kelson. They put them all over the field

1107
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:11,000
Speaker 1: and it forces the defense to really show their hand

1108
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,240
Speaker 1: and what covers they're in. Are you in manner zone?

1109
00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:15,959
Speaker 1: What kind of zone are you in? And so those

1110
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:19,400
Speaker 1: things happen, and I love that NFL. The NFL is

1111
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 1: kind of going that way where college has kind of

1112
00:59:21,080 --> 00:59:23,000
Speaker 1: been that way for a little bit, And like you said,

1113
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:26,640
Speaker 1: you're starting to get those hybrid guys. I mean, there's

1114
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 1: a kid and I forget his name, all right, I

1115
00:59:29,760 --> 00:59:31,760
Speaker 1: really can't pronounce his name. But he went to Notre Dame.

1116
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 1: He was a safety, but he's with the Browns. He

1117
00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:38,320
Speaker 1: could playbacker. Jeremiah who's to Kamala? Yeah exactly, yes, he

1118
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:40,920
Speaker 1: can heat. Now the defenses have pieces like that that

1119
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:44,080
Speaker 1: can cover these guys. Right, and so as these things

1120
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 1: start to change, and this comes all the way from

1121
00:59:45,640 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 1: high school. Right. High school has guys like this, They

1122
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:49,840
Speaker 1: move all around. They go to college and do the

1123
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:51,720
Speaker 1: same thing. And now the league is starting to adjust

1124
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:54,040
Speaker 1: to these players. And I love to see that. And

1125
00:59:54,040 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 1: I love to see any running back touch the ball

1126
00:59:56,440 --> 00:59:58,960
Speaker 1: because we are the biggest mismatch on the field. As

1127
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:01,640
Speaker 1: you guys know. You could. You know, I'm not a

1128
01:00:01,680 --> 01:00:04,640
Speaker 1: big like. I went to school, and you know I

1129
01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:07,400
Speaker 1: made it in some accounting a little bit. I know this.

1130
01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:09,800
Speaker 1: The running back is the best investment to a quarterback

1131
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:11,960
Speaker 1: because if you throw us a five yard pass, we

1132
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 1: could take a sixty four a touchdown. And there's nothing

1133
01:00:14,360 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 1: easier than that for a quarterback. Yeah, quarterbacks they get

1134
01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:18,800
Speaker 1: they still get credit for all those yards you run.

1135
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:22,960
Speaker 1: Yeah exactly, exactly I did want to get your thoughts

1136
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:26,480
Speaker 1: on the Bills running back contingent as it currently sits.

1137
01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 1: So we've already talked about James Cook. You still have Singletary,

1138
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:34,360
Speaker 1: Zack Moss, who still wasn't right with his ankle after

1139
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:39,000
Speaker 1: breaking it in the playoff game against Indie the postseason prior.

1140
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:42,440
Speaker 1: And then you've got the veteran Duke Johnson here also

1141
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:46,600
Speaker 1: who's got a pass catching resume that's pretty impressive. How

1142
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:49,400
Speaker 1: do you see that kind of shaking out knowing those

1143
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:53,920
Speaker 1: backs like you do, well, I think you know this

1144
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:56,120
Speaker 1: is the NFL. The best player is going to play, right,

1145
01:00:56,160 --> 01:00:58,760
Speaker 1: And I thought Devin Singletary did an amazing job with

1146
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:01,520
Speaker 1: his ability because he's so lucive in space, never the

1147
01:01:01,560 --> 01:01:04,240
Speaker 1: first guy tackles them. And when they started running and

1148
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 1: giving him the ball towards the end of the year,

1149
01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:08,440
Speaker 1: you started to see his production go right. And I

1150
01:01:08,480 --> 01:01:11,120
Speaker 1: think a lot of it was being being committed to

1151
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 1: running the ball, being okay with having three yards or

1152
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:15,480
Speaker 1: four yards, and that's tough to do when you have

1153
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:18,000
Speaker 1: a quarterback. When he scrambles, you do a quarterback run.

1154
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:22,120
Speaker 1: He gets fifteen to twenty. But sometimes efficiency helps out

1155
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:23,439
Speaker 1: in the long run. It takes a lot of hits

1156
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:26,080
Speaker 1: off your quarterback. It allows your quarterback to rest a

1157
01:01:26,160 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 1: little bit more as well. I think again, Segle Terry

1158
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:33,080
Speaker 1: has a very similar skill set to James Cook, just

1159
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 1: not as fast, just like Duke Johnson has a very

1160
01:01:36,040 --> 01:01:38,560
Speaker 1: similar skill They all all those three have a very

1161
01:01:38,560 --> 01:01:40,920
Speaker 1: similar skill set. I just think the speed is with

1162
01:01:41,040 --> 01:01:43,800
Speaker 1: James Cook. So you're gonna see that home run hitting ability. Now.

1163
01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:48,240
Speaker 1: Zach Moss is different and I was really kind of

1164
01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 1: confused with why he wasn't being utilized. And obviously you

1165
01:01:50,920 --> 01:01:53,200
Speaker 1: said his ankle was hurting or he wasn't really recovered

1166
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:55,600
Speaker 1: from it, so that makes sense. But his ability to

1167
01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:58,280
Speaker 1: break tackles are running between the between the tackles and

1168
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:01,000
Speaker 1: be that that force that you need, that physical nature

1169
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 1: that you need as an offense, it's gonna be used.

1170
01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 1: Right you're expecting the Buffalo Bills to have home playoff

1171
01:02:07,040 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 1: games again, You're gonna need this guy in the cold

1172
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 1: running through people. You're gonna need this guy to close

1173
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 1: out games in the playoffs instead of using your quarterback.

1174
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:19,560
Speaker 1: So he's gonna he's gonna have a role. I don't

1175
01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:21,720
Speaker 1: know how big it will be. I don't know kind

1176
01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:23,520
Speaker 1: of what they're they're gonna do. I know they're running

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01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:26,080
Speaker 1: back coach. Kelly Skipper was the one that coached me

1178
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 1: at the Raiders, so I know he's gonna utilize these

1179
01:02:28,640 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 1: guys in all different facets. But I could tell you

1180
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:33,960
Speaker 1: right now Zach Moss is gonna be there closing as

1181
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:36,560
Speaker 1: he should be. That's what you drafted him for. He's

1182
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 1: a one cut runner, reminds a lot of people of

1183
01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:41,920
Speaker 1: Marshall Lynch with his running style. Devin Singletary is more

1184
01:02:41,920 --> 01:02:45,200
Speaker 1: of a slasher. I think James Cook is more of

1185
01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:47,080
Speaker 1: your home run hitter, a guy that you could put

1186
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:49,760
Speaker 1: all over the field and its stress a defense vertically

1187
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:53,200
Speaker 1: and horizontally. And I think Duke Johnson brings a competitive

1188
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:56,400
Speaker 1: nature in there with the protections and the bits Blitz pickup,

1189
01:02:56,720 --> 01:02:58,400
Speaker 1: as well as a guy that you can count on

1190
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:01,280
Speaker 1: in a crucial situation. So they have a great stable

1191
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:03,720
Speaker 1: of backs there. It's just again, these guys have to

1192
01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:06,120
Speaker 1: compete to better each other and then be able to

1193
01:03:06,200 --> 01:03:07,800
Speaker 1: utilize out on the football field. One of the things

1194
01:03:07,880 --> 01:03:10,760
Speaker 1: you said earlier that that we hear everybody talking we

1195
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:12,960
Speaker 1: have offensive linemen on the show. We have running backs

1196
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:15,400
Speaker 1: on this show, and they and like yourself, they all

1197
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:17,520
Speaker 1: say the same thing. If you want to run the ball, well,

1198
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 1: you gotta keep running it. You gotta hand it off

1199
01:03:20,640 --> 01:03:22,320
Speaker 1: even when it doesn't make sense or even when you

1200
01:03:22,360 --> 01:03:25,360
Speaker 1: haven't been successful. You gotta get your offensive line into

1201
01:03:25,400 --> 01:03:28,120
Speaker 1: a mindset of going forward rather than backing up in

1202
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:31,280
Speaker 1: pass protection. You gotta give your the defense a chance

1203
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:33,960
Speaker 1: to to understand they got to get ready for that

1204
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:37,320
Speaker 1: m and your back has to get a feel for

1205
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:40,000
Speaker 1: the guys up front how they work. All of that

1206
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:42,439
Speaker 1: stuff goes into the mix of a really good running game.

1207
01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:47,280
Speaker 1: It's almost the point now where the NFL atmosphere offensively

1208
01:03:47,440 --> 01:03:52,480
Speaker 1: is like they don't we run the ball because once

1209
01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:56,200
Speaker 1: in a while we need to, right um, particularly in

1210
01:03:56,200 --> 01:03:59,880
Speaker 1: the AFC. You hurting him right now with oh no,

1211
01:04:01,240 --> 01:04:03,080
Speaker 1: think I look at the rams all the time. They

1212
01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:05,360
Speaker 1: have necessary evil for the RAM. Yeah, but think about

1213
01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:07,240
Speaker 1: think about it, and let's let's just go. You know,

1214
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:10,360
Speaker 1: you go down the list you got. Let's let's start

1215
01:04:10,360 --> 01:04:12,920
Speaker 1: with a one seed you got. Certainly the Tennessee Titans

1216
01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:15,360
Speaker 1: last year were a different kind of team, right, They

1217
01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:17,160
Speaker 1: got it done and they were the one seed although

1218
01:04:17,160 --> 01:04:18,760
Speaker 1: they were one and done. Then you go through these

1219
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:24,960
Speaker 1: other teams, Mahomes, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Derek Carr, you

1220
01:04:25,040 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 1: got didn't last year at Ben Roethlisberger you got now

1221
01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:34,280
Speaker 1: you got Matt Ryan in Indianapolis, TUA, Justin Herbert, Deshaun Watson,

1222
01:04:34,520 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 1: Lamar uh Russ Wilson. I mean, you got some guys

1223
01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:41,200
Speaker 1: that can sling it and who are known for it.

1224
01:04:41,240 --> 01:04:44,439
Speaker 1: And that's just the AC that's just one conference. So

1225
01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:47,440
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you got this league that has

1226
01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 1: made it almost impossible to play good, hard nose, physical

1227
01:04:50,960 --> 01:04:54,960
Speaker 1: defense because you can't touch these guys. And then on

1228
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:56,680
Speaker 1: the flip side of that, you say, well you want

1229
01:04:56,680 --> 01:04:58,720
Speaker 1: to have a hard nose running in but it's so easy.

1230
01:04:58,800 --> 01:05:01,200
Speaker 1: This this game is almost as at times like that

1231
01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 1: as the Chiefs game builds game. It almost turned into

1232
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 1: a seven on seven game. How do you balance that

1233
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:10,960
Speaker 1: with staying physical and taking enough time and effort and

1234
01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:14,960
Speaker 1: touches to give it to the running back. Well, I'll

1235
01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:17,080
Speaker 1: say this, I think every quarterback has a pitch count.

1236
01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 1: And even with the Rams, when I call the Rams games,

1237
01:05:20,320 --> 01:05:22,960
Speaker 1: and I see throughout the National Football League, there was

1238
01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:26,280
Speaker 1: a stretch in like November that the Rams didn't win

1239
01:05:26,320 --> 01:05:29,600
Speaker 1: a game. There was a stretch in December where they

1240
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:32,160
Speaker 1: were struggling a little bit and it was all because

1241
01:05:32,280 --> 01:05:36,200
Speaker 1: they couldn't run the football. And as we know, as

1242
01:05:36,240 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 1: good as these quarterbacks are, they need a break every

1243
01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 1: now and then on the football field. And to be honest,

1244
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:43,160
Speaker 1: majority of them have a pitch count where a throw

1245
01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:45,960
Speaker 1: count of like twenty eight to thirty two throws in

1246
01:05:46,000 --> 01:05:48,000
Speaker 1: a game. It's kind of like the sweet spot for

1247
01:05:48,040 --> 01:05:50,800
Speaker 1: the really good quarterbacks. If you're not really good, then

1248
01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 1: it drops down to like twenty two to twenty five.

1249
01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:56,520
Speaker 1: And so the reason I say that is you don't

1250
01:05:56,560 --> 01:05:59,680
Speaker 1: want your quarterback exposed to different coverages. You don't want

1251
01:05:59,680 --> 01:06:02,600
Speaker 1: your back to have to read all these different things

1252
01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:05,840
Speaker 1: and blitzes. And because it's a lot on his plate.

1253
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:08,080
Speaker 1: When your quarterback can just turn around and hand the

1254
01:06:08,120 --> 01:06:09,720
Speaker 1: football off and it's like a play where he can

1255
01:06:09,760 --> 01:06:12,880
Speaker 1: get a take, take a break, right, deep breath, it

1256
01:06:12,960 --> 01:06:14,880
Speaker 1: just it kind of helps them out a little bit more.

1257
01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:19,959
Speaker 1: And so, yes, that Bill's Chiefs game amazing. I mean,

1258
01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:22,320
Speaker 1: they were going back and forth and it was awesome.

1259
01:06:22,320 --> 01:06:24,800
Speaker 1: But then look what happened to the Chiefs. The next week,

1260
01:06:25,040 --> 01:06:27,360
Speaker 1: they're up by twenty one or I think it was

1261
01:06:27,400 --> 01:06:29,000
Speaker 1: twenty four to three or whatever. It might have been

1262
01:06:29,000 --> 01:06:31,680
Speaker 1: twenty one three or whatever it was, and they stopped

1263
01:06:31,720 --> 01:06:34,000
Speaker 1: running the football. They kept trying to throw the football,

1264
01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:36,959
Speaker 1: and you threw the other team back into the game.

1265
01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:40,600
Speaker 1: And so that's where you need a running game. It's

1266
01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:43,440
Speaker 1: very simple. I coach youth football and we won a

1267
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:46,280
Speaker 1: championship this last year, and you know, I had some

1268
01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:48,680
Speaker 1: parents upset because we didn't throw the ball as much

1269
01:06:48,680 --> 01:06:50,360
Speaker 1: in the championship game. I said, well, we were at

1270
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:52,440
Speaker 1: twenty two to zero, why I throw the ball. I

1271
01:06:52,480 --> 01:06:53,680
Speaker 1: really should have went out there and just took a

1272
01:06:53,720 --> 01:06:55,760
Speaker 1: bunch of knees, to be honest with you, and close

1273
01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:57,200
Speaker 1: out the game. Because at the end of the day,

1274
01:06:57,480 --> 01:07:01,280
Speaker 1: it's about winning. It's not about stats, it's not about points.

1275
01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:04,440
Speaker 1: It's about winning the ball game. And so when you

1276
01:07:04,480 --> 01:07:07,200
Speaker 1: look at a lot of these teams, I either the

1277
01:07:07,200 --> 01:07:11,960
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals when they were rolling Chase not Chase, excuse me.

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Speaker 1: James Connor was going crazy in the middle of year

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Speaker 1: when they were undefeated. James Connor was getting twenty five

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01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:21,280
Speaker 1: to thirty touches a game. He was running and they

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01:07:21,320 --> 01:07:23,959
Speaker 1: were unstoppable. The back half of the season, they started

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01:07:23,960 --> 01:07:26,720
Speaker 1: throwing the ball a little bit more, quarterbacks started getting

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01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:28,600
Speaker 1: hit a little bit more. He started getting to expose

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01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:31,919
Speaker 1: the different coverages. He started to struggle trying to read them.

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01:07:32,480 --> 01:07:35,600
Speaker 1: They didn't look the same. And so a lot of

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Speaker 1: times and again, and let me say this too, because

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Speaker 1: a lot of these coaches, these ocs, where are they

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01:07:41,320 --> 01:07:44,120
Speaker 1: trying to get head coaching? Do you guys know head

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01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:48,160
Speaker 1: coaching job? Right? So they're trying to showcase their offense.

1290
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Speaker 1: But I feel like, if you win, you'll get a

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Speaker 1: head coaching job, and so I think eventually the title

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01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:56,760
Speaker 1: will turn. There's just a lot of really good quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: in the National Football League right now, especially in the AFC.

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01:07:59,520 --> 01:08:01,520
Speaker 1: But eventually someone's gonna have to run the ball in

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01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:03,440
Speaker 1: order to win games, and we'll see which team does it.

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Speaker 1: Burn So in your experience and expertise, and I'll just

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01:08:07,200 --> 01:08:09,400
Speaker 1: let you explain this for some of the viewers who

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Speaker 1: may wonder about it. Explain exactly what being able to

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Speaker 1: and being committed to running the football does to the

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01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:20,160
Speaker 1: defense that you're facing and why it's a plus. So

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Speaker 1: if you're if you're if you're a running team, you're

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01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:24,320
Speaker 1: gonna see what we call loaded box. Eight guys in

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01:08:24,360 --> 01:08:26,280
Speaker 1: the box, which it means they only can run two

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01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:29,639
Speaker 1: coverages cover three which is a zone. Uh, there'll be

1305
01:08:29,720 --> 01:08:32,840
Speaker 1: four guys underneath, three guys over the top, or they

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01:08:32,840 --> 01:08:35,240
Speaker 1: have to play cover one man, which then allows your

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01:08:35,280 --> 01:08:38,479
Speaker 1: quarterback to play fast. Right, you can you can really

1308
01:08:38,520 --> 01:08:41,720
Speaker 1: design plays that attack those coverages. If you can't run

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01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:45,200
Speaker 1: the ball and you're you have to see what we call,

1310
01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:47,960
Speaker 1: you know, a two shell look, a two safety look.

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01:08:48,360 --> 01:08:50,519
Speaker 1: There's way more coverage that you get. You get get

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01:08:50,520 --> 01:08:52,240
Speaker 1: covered two, you can get covered. Three, you can get

1313
01:08:52,240 --> 01:08:54,160
Speaker 1: man to man, you can get covered. Four, you can

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01:08:54,200 --> 01:08:56,559
Speaker 1: get covered, six, you get covered, eight, you can get bracket,

1315
01:08:56,880 --> 01:08:59,679
Speaker 1: you can get palms coverage. There's so many more coverages

1316
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:01,720
Speaker 1: for your order breck to have to think about and

1317
01:09:01,760 --> 01:09:04,000
Speaker 1: be able to read. And so when you can run

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01:09:04,040 --> 01:09:06,559
Speaker 1: the ball and be efficient and force that defensive put

1319
01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:08,880
Speaker 1: that eighth guy in the box, it allows everyone to

1320
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:11,920
Speaker 1: play fast. I kind of do it to like a test.

1321
01:09:12,760 --> 01:09:15,880
Speaker 1: If you prepare, Let's say, if a teacher tells you, look,

1322
01:09:15,920 --> 01:09:17,880
Speaker 1: these two chapters are what you have to study for

1323
01:09:18,040 --> 01:09:20,880
Speaker 1: for the test, Like, Okay, that's easy. I know what

1324
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:22,640
Speaker 1: cover one and cover three are gonna be. I can

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01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:25,680
Speaker 1: study for that. I know my answers to those those questions.

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Speaker 1: But what if the teacher goes in at the end

1327
01:09:27,680 --> 01:09:29,599
Speaker 1: of the year, we're gonna have a test on everything.

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01:09:30,479 --> 01:09:33,639
Speaker 1: You have to study all the way from day one

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01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:36,519
Speaker 1: to the last day of class to figure out which

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01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:38,880
Speaker 1: answer what questions are gonna be on the test. It's

1331
01:09:38,880 --> 01:09:41,479
Speaker 1: just so much more for you and most likely you're

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01:09:41,479 --> 01:09:43,040
Speaker 1: not gonna do as well because you don't you have

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01:09:43,120 --> 01:09:45,000
Speaker 1: a you don't have you have it narrowed down what

1334
01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:48,320
Speaker 1: you need to study for. So to me, it's it's

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01:09:48,400 --> 01:09:50,200
Speaker 1: very simple if you can be efficient and I'm not

1336
01:09:50,240 --> 01:09:52,920
Speaker 1: saying being an explosive running game or a committed running game.

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01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:55,920
Speaker 1: An efficient running game which is four yards on first down,

1338
01:09:57,120 --> 01:09:59,479
Speaker 1: second down, or it's four yards or more on first down,

1339
01:09:59,520 --> 01:10:01,760
Speaker 1: second down, half the distance to get the first down

1340
01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:05,160
Speaker 1: and then third down getting the first down, that forces

1341
01:10:05,200 --> 01:10:06,800
Speaker 1: the defense have to bring that extra guy in the

1342
01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:09,200
Speaker 1: box to stop you, which it opens up your passing

1343
01:10:09,240 --> 01:10:11,400
Speaker 1: game in the long run and play action pass. And

1344
01:10:11,400 --> 01:10:13,160
Speaker 1: that's why the Bills are still committed to running it

1345
01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:15,920
Speaker 1: because they know what Josh Allen's arm. You're gonna see

1346
01:10:15,920 --> 01:10:18,760
Speaker 1: two safeties twenty something yards down the field on a

1347
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:21,599
Speaker 1: lot of snaps, especially when they throw it as much

1348
01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:23,559
Speaker 1: as they do on first down each of the last

1349
01:10:23,560 --> 01:10:25,600
Speaker 1: two years. More Race has been great talking to you.

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01:10:25,640 --> 01:10:28,040
Speaker 1: We really appreciate the time. Look forward to seeing you

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01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:31,439
Speaker 1: out there in September Week one. No problem, guys, is

1352
01:10:31,439 --> 01:10:33,920
Speaker 1: gonna be a great one, all right, that's Moreraice Jones Drew,

1353
01:10:33,960 --> 01:10:37,000
Speaker 1: analyst for NFL Network, also see him once in a

1354
01:10:37,040 --> 01:10:41,720
Speaker 1: while on Good Morning Football. He actually had he was

1355
01:10:41,800 --> 01:10:44,559
Speaker 1: tasked with as everybody on that panel was. When he

1356
01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:46,840
Speaker 1: was on this week of coming up with his top

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01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:50,760
Speaker 1: five quarterback list. Did you see that? I didn't his, No,

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01:10:50,880 --> 01:10:53,120
Speaker 1: I didn't see his. He had Josh Allen on his

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01:10:53,200 --> 01:10:58,120
Speaker 1: top five list. Where do you think he had him? Three? Two?

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Speaker 1: He had him as his number two quarter I think

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01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:07,080
Speaker 1: I had Rogers first, Matt Staffords first. Okay, Um, that's

1362
01:11:07,080 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 1: a usual suspect. You can get down. There's a handful.

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01:11:09,520 --> 01:11:14,679
Speaker 1: It's Mahomes, Josh Rogers, Rogers, and then you can go between.

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01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:20,400
Speaker 1: You can go between Brady Stafford, Burrow, Herbert Deshaun even

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01:11:20,439 --> 01:11:23,320
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson or even the low arms action sometimes. So yeah,

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01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:25,599
Speaker 1: we'll see Lamar. It's kind of Lamar's kind of off

1367
01:11:25,600 --> 01:11:28,240
Speaker 1: everybody's radar because he spent so much time hurt last year.

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01:11:29,439 --> 01:11:31,479
Speaker 1: That guy's gonna come back with a vengeance, I think

1369
01:11:31,520 --> 01:11:33,960
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, he's just gotta stay healthy. So that

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01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:37,280
Speaker 1: whole roster, that that whole roster fell off a cliff

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01:11:37,280 --> 01:11:40,520
Speaker 1: of hell last year and they still almost made the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: They're good man. See people are sleeping on the Ravens.

1373
01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:45,719
Speaker 1: People are sleeping on the Colts. Yeah, that's what's happening

1374
01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:48,240
Speaker 1: right now, because both of them missed the playoffs. The

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01:11:48,840 --> 01:11:51,680
Speaker 1: radar not us. No, I will not. I refuse to

1376
01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:54,320
Speaker 1: ignore those two teams, one of which the Bills will

1377
01:11:54,360 --> 01:11:57,719
Speaker 1: be playing, that being the Ravens, So that will be interesting.

1378
01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:00,559
Speaker 1: But I can envision, and we didn't have time to

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01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:04,840
Speaker 1: get into this with Maurice. Maybe another time as the

1380
01:12:04,880 --> 01:12:10,799
Speaker 1: season opener gets closer, but I can totally envision split

1381
01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:14,360
Speaker 1: back fields with like Singletary and Cook or some combination

1382
01:12:14,400 --> 01:12:18,360
Speaker 1: they're in, and those guys just causing all sorts of

1383
01:12:18,400 --> 01:12:20,240
Speaker 1: problems because it's like, oh, we gotta play our two

1384
01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:23,280
Speaker 1: safeties deep because we don't want Josh beating us over

1385
01:12:23,320 --> 01:12:25,720
Speaker 1: the top. And then you put Cook in Singletary on

1386
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:28,120
Speaker 1: the field, It's like you might, well, whether they run

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01:12:28,160 --> 01:12:32,000
Speaker 1: the ball or whether they you know, have Cook runs

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01:12:32,000 --> 01:12:35,000
Speaker 1: some kind of under route. We got a problem with

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01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:37,000
Speaker 1: our safeties that far down the field. Now what do

1390
01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:41,559
Speaker 1: we do? Yeah, because Cook on a linebacker, Thanks for coming. Yeah,

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01:12:42,120 --> 01:12:44,519
Speaker 1: that's not gonna watchen issues. Teams are gonna Teams are

1392
01:12:44,520 --> 01:12:49,360
Speaker 1: gonna have to counter with some pretty well pretty one

1393
01:12:49,439 --> 01:12:52,280
Speaker 1: size fits all defensive personnel packages. And that's and that

1394
01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:54,879
Speaker 1: goes back to your position with football. I mean, I remember,

1395
01:12:54,920 --> 01:12:57,639
Speaker 1: even a couple of years ago, unto Brian Flores, the

1396
01:12:57,680 --> 01:13:00,960
Speaker 1: Dolphins are playing seven dbs on the field right to

1397
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:03,760
Speaker 1: deal with the Bills passing game because they didn't have

1398
01:13:03,800 --> 01:13:06,960
Speaker 1: people that could cover at the linebacker position. Right, they

1399
01:13:06,960 --> 01:13:11,439
Speaker 1: had like three they had three linemen one linebacker in

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Speaker 1: seven dbs. There were a couple of plays they had

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Speaker 1: eight dbs on the field against the Bills. Right. More

1402
01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:18,800
Speaker 1: of that's coming down the pike. I think more and

1403
01:13:18,840 --> 01:13:20,400
Speaker 1: more teams are gonna be doing that. They're gonna have to,

1404
01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:22,640
Speaker 1: and you know, obviously, you know you've got guys like

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01:13:22,680 --> 01:13:25,280
Speaker 1: Micah Parsons down in Dallas who can do a lot

1406
01:13:25,320 --> 01:13:28,000
Speaker 1: of things. Yes, well he's, yeah, he's, but he's a unicorn.

1407
01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:32,120
Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna be looking for those guys. Not easy to

1408
01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:34,760
Speaker 1: find there. They don't grow on trees. It's right, we

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Speaker 1: have to take a break here. When we come back.

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Speaker 1: There are some odds on the MVP race for twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two season. Event even started. People are ready to

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01:13:46,120 --> 01:13:49,920
Speaker 1: lay lines. Man, they waste no time. We'll break that

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01:13:49,960 --> 01:13:52,120
Speaker 1: down for you, and there might even be some time

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01:13:52,160 --> 01:13:54,400
Speaker 1: for a little NFL true falls when we return here

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Speaker 1: on one Bills Live presented by a lot of health.

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right. So there are odds

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Speaker 1: out and I'll credit the proper sports book in this case.

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01:14:17,240 --> 01:14:21,920
Speaker 1: This one is Caesar's Sports Book, and they have eleven

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01:14:22,040 --> 01:14:27,040
Speaker 1: players with MVP odds of twenty to one or greater.

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01:14:29,200 --> 01:14:35,599
Speaker 1: They are all quarterbacks, not surprisingly. The players at twenty

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01:14:35,680 --> 01:14:45,960
Speaker 1: to one, Jack Prescott, Kyler, Murray, Lamar Jackson twenty to one, Okay, right,

1422
01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:53,599
Speaker 1: sixteen to one, Russell Wilson, Matthew Stafford thirteen to one,

1423
01:14:54,000 --> 01:15:01,080
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow twelve to one, Justin Herbert ten one, Aaron

1424
01:15:01,200 --> 01:15:07,040
Speaker 1: Rodgers nine to one, Tom Brady fifteen to two. Patrick

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01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:13,240
Speaker 1: Mahomes Number one. Odds for the MVP is Josh Allen

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01:15:13,640 --> 01:15:17,560
Speaker 1: seven to one. Odds seven to one. Yeah, so it.

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01:15:18,000 --> 01:15:21,080
Speaker 1: Mahomes is seven and a half to one. Josh is

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01:15:21,120 --> 01:15:26,519
Speaker 1: seven to one. Is there any other quarterback that you

1429
01:15:26,600 --> 01:15:32,120
Speaker 1: would think, or player for that matter, that has a

1430
01:15:32,240 --> 01:15:36,280
Speaker 1: shot at surprising people this year to the point where

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01:15:36,280 --> 01:15:43,719
Speaker 1: they at least get into the MVP conversation? Yes, who's

1432
01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:46,320
Speaker 1: your pick? Matt Ryan? Matt Ryan. I like that pick.

1433
01:15:47,040 --> 01:15:49,840
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan's got a dark horse shot at getting in there.

1434
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:52,240
Speaker 1: I think he does a talented roster. They're gonna win

1435
01:15:52,280 --> 01:15:58,160
Speaker 1: a ton of games. He's gonna play well enough. He'll

1436
01:15:58,200 --> 01:16:00,800
Speaker 1: be able to if he can if he doesn't turn

1437
01:16:00,840 --> 01:16:03,439
Speaker 1: it over, you know what I mean. He doesn't have

1438
01:16:03,439 --> 01:16:06,280
Speaker 1: to throw for five thousand touchdowns or sixty probably playing

1439
01:16:06,280 --> 01:16:08,080
Speaker 1: for a division champion. But if he throws, but if

1440
01:16:08,080 --> 01:16:10,479
Speaker 1: he throws for thirty five touchdowns and has less than

1441
01:16:10,560 --> 01:16:15,960
Speaker 1: maybe what ten interceptions, yeah he'll be He'll be good.

1442
01:16:16,200 --> 01:16:17,840
Speaker 1: They're gonna be a good team and that team will

1443
01:16:17,840 --> 01:16:21,720
Speaker 1: win the division. Helps him, right, See, I would I

1444
01:16:21,760 --> 01:16:23,799
Speaker 1: think if you really want to go out on a limb,

1445
01:16:23,840 --> 01:16:27,439
Speaker 1: maybe you say Derek Carr. But the division's too tough.

1446
01:16:27,479 --> 01:16:31,200
Speaker 1: I don't see them winning enough games, and that often

1447
01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:33,160
Speaker 1: puts you out of the conversation. You can't give the

1448
01:16:33,280 --> 01:16:36,240
Speaker 1: MVP to a team that's ten and seven the right.

1449
01:16:36,360 --> 01:16:40,000
Speaker 1: The The thought to me is on the guys that

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01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:44,080
Speaker 1: you mentioned first, like like Stafford, um who or who's

1451
01:16:44,080 --> 01:16:47,320
Speaker 1: on the Rodgers Rogers Rogers Mate Rogers is always going

1452
01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:49,000
Speaker 1: to be in there, Brady's always going to be in there.

1453
01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:53,360
Speaker 1: But I think guys like Stafford, even Joe Burrow, the

1454
01:16:53,400 --> 01:16:56,360
Speaker 1: guys that were in the Super Bowl last year, I

1455
01:16:56,400 --> 01:16:59,519
Speaker 1: just don't think DA they're gonna be Now. Dak is

1456
01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:01,800
Speaker 1: gonna be in there because the Cowboys will be in

1457
01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:08,240
Speaker 1: the conversation, But for the division, I just don't think, Yeah,

1458
01:17:08,320 --> 01:17:10,240
Speaker 1: I can't see Dak being good. He's gonna be in

1459
01:17:10,240 --> 01:17:13,040
Speaker 1: the conversation because he plays for the Star, you know,

1460
01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:16,479
Speaker 1: but he's not going to beat out any of those

1461
01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:19,000
Speaker 1: these other guys that we're talking about. So I think

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01:17:19,040 --> 01:17:22,519
Speaker 1: it comes down to and I'll say this, Mahomes probably

1463
01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:25,120
Speaker 1: to me would probably as the season progresses, have an

1464
01:17:25,240 --> 01:17:28,680
Speaker 1: edge over a guy like Josh, because the perception will

1465
01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:36,120
Speaker 1: be that because he lost Tyreek Hill, mahone, Pat is

1466
01:17:36,160 --> 01:17:38,599
Speaker 1: gonna be doing it with less. You know what I'm saying, Well,

1467
01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:41,280
Speaker 1: he's making a nag and chicken salad out of chiapoo.

1468
01:17:41,479 --> 01:17:43,800
Speaker 1: And then and not only that, but think about this,

1469
01:17:44,880 --> 01:17:47,040
Speaker 1: a lot of those games in the AFC West could

1470
01:17:47,080 --> 01:17:50,240
Speaker 1: be shootouts. Yeah. With the quarterback talent you have there,

1471
01:17:50,320 --> 01:17:54,519
Speaker 1: he could Russell Wilson and Derek Carr. I mean he

1472
01:17:54,560 --> 01:17:56,599
Speaker 1: could be in a shootout and at least six of

1473
01:17:56,600 --> 01:17:59,240
Speaker 1: these I mean all six of those games, that's right.

1474
01:17:59,320 --> 01:18:02,720
Speaker 1: And he's his his numbers might be his numbers might

1475
01:18:02,720 --> 01:18:04,719
Speaker 1: be gaudy because of that. Go back to a fifty

1476
01:18:04,760 --> 01:18:07,920
Speaker 1: touchdown season that when he last won the right. That's right.

1477
01:18:07,960 --> 01:18:10,320
Speaker 1: And if you're throw him for fifty touchdowns or thereabouts,

1478
01:18:10,720 --> 01:18:14,120
Speaker 1: you're in the conversation that's where Josh was. You know,

1479
01:18:14,720 --> 01:18:17,320
Speaker 1: Josh threw for what forty six and ran for eight

1480
01:18:17,400 --> 01:18:23,800
Speaker 1: or something like that. Um, that's where it is. Yeah,

1481
01:18:23,840 --> 01:18:25,720
Speaker 1: that that's you know, it's an obvious list. I mean,

1482
01:18:25,720 --> 01:18:27,439
Speaker 1: you can go down and we can all do it ourselves,

1483
01:18:27,520 --> 01:18:32,120
Speaker 1: but those odds are about right. Yeah, I would say

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Speaker 1: Matt Ryan. Matt Ryan is a guy that is I think,

1485
01:18:35,920 --> 01:18:39,519
Speaker 1: and I didn't watch that much Atlanta Falcons ball last year.

1486
01:18:40,320 --> 01:18:42,040
Speaker 1: He strikes me as a guy still got enough in

1487
01:18:42,040 --> 01:18:45,280
Speaker 1: the tank and enough wherewithal to be really good for

1488
01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:47,880
Speaker 1: the Colts, and probably really good for him for more

1489
01:18:47,880 --> 01:18:49,920
Speaker 1: than just one year that we've seen over the last

1490
01:18:49,920 --> 01:18:53,080
Speaker 1: five years. You know, he's got talent around him. He's

1491
01:18:53,120 --> 01:18:54,880
Speaker 1: got one of the best running backs in football, a

1492
01:18:54,920 --> 01:18:57,920
Speaker 1: great offensive line, and a pretty dark your defense. I

1493
01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:00,400
Speaker 1: was surprised. I was surprised that their lack of well

1494
01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:03,160
Speaker 1: maybe not. I guess they don't change head coaches because

1495
01:19:03,160 --> 01:19:07,360
Speaker 1: you got a stacked roster. So, you know, with Arthur

1496
01:19:07,400 --> 01:19:09,160
Speaker 1: Smith in Atlanta last year, I thought they would be

1497
01:19:09,160 --> 01:19:11,320
Speaker 1: more successful under him as head coach. I thought he's

1498
01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:16,880
Speaker 1: a smart guy. I just apparently something's missing. I don't

1499
01:19:16,880 --> 01:19:20,960
Speaker 1: think too much is missing in Indianapolis. It is time now,

1500
01:19:21,360 --> 01:19:25,240
Speaker 1: because we do have time for a little NFL true

1501
01:19:25,280 --> 01:19:31,800
Speaker 1: false brought to you by Yancey's Fancy New York's Artisan Cheese.

1502
01:19:32,040 --> 01:19:36,360
Speaker 1: First up on the NFL True False List. If NBC

1503
01:19:37,720 --> 01:19:43,400
Speaker 1: and the TV Gig falls through, Drew Brees will return

1504
01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:49,599
Speaker 1: to the NFL as a quarterback. That's false. Now, I

1505
01:19:49,600 --> 01:19:53,000
Speaker 1: did find out Steve that his shoulder surgery was on

1506
01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:58,400
Speaker 1: his non throwing shoulder, but that's allow to recover from

1507
01:19:58,400 --> 01:20:01,000
Speaker 1: in time to play quarterback this year. If he chose

1508
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:03,000
Speaker 1: to do something this year, is not gonna happen for sure.

1509
01:20:03,439 --> 01:20:07,040
Speaker 1: There's no way. He's not forty one, right, he's older

1510
01:20:07,040 --> 01:20:14,680
Speaker 1: than that. No, he he's done. Oh, you're right, he's

1511
01:20:14,680 --> 01:20:20,400
Speaker 1: forty three, forty three. Yeah, he's um, he's done. You

1512
01:20:20,400 --> 01:20:23,320
Speaker 1: could see the arm strength wasn't there anymore last year, right,

1513
01:20:23,439 --> 01:20:27,920
Speaker 1: And it's not like you know, and I'm sure he's

1514
01:20:28,640 --> 01:20:32,160
Speaker 1: not just sitting on the couch for the last fourteen months.

1515
01:20:32,280 --> 01:20:34,080
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been out for a full year. It's

1516
01:20:34,120 --> 01:20:36,880
Speaker 1: not like he just retired. He's been out for an

1517
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:40,920
Speaker 1: entire season doing something else. He's not coming back to

1518
01:20:40,960 --> 01:20:47,400
Speaker 1: the National Football League. He's not in May or April

1519
01:20:47,520 --> 01:20:50,599
Speaker 1: or may or June or July right before training camp. Yeah,

1520
01:20:50,640 --> 01:20:55,000
Speaker 1: I would. I would tend to lean false on this too. Yeah.

1521
01:20:55,080 --> 01:20:58,799
Speaker 1: Forty three, man, he's six foot He's not Tom Brady

1522
01:20:58,840 --> 01:21:04,200
Speaker 1: forty three. Yeah, so I would feet one forty three,

1523
01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:06,960
Speaker 1: not six feet five forty three. He's barely six one.

1524
01:21:07,040 --> 01:21:10,519
Speaker 1: He might be six one and long studs might. Yeah,

1525
01:21:10,520 --> 01:21:13,000
Speaker 1: he's not a big dude, so yeah he's No, that's

1526
01:21:13,080 --> 01:21:19,480
Speaker 1: false NFL true false. Number two, Steve, the NFL quarterback

1527
01:21:19,600 --> 01:21:24,840
Speaker 1: carousel will not slow down. So I guess we're kind

1528
01:21:24,840 --> 01:21:28,240
Speaker 1: of looking we're fast forwarding to next offseason here, I

1529
01:21:28,320 --> 01:21:33,479
Speaker 1: would say, slow down. Well, I mean we did that

1530
01:21:33,720 --> 01:21:38,880
Speaker 1: that article. Since twenty nineteen. Yes, twenty two of thirty

1531
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:45,280
Speaker 1: two teams have a different quarterback, twenty two of thirty

1532
01:21:45,280 --> 01:21:50,360
Speaker 1: two in three years. In three years, I would say

1533
01:21:50,360 --> 01:21:53,800
Speaker 1: it's not going to slow down. I would say it's

1534
01:21:53,840 --> 01:21:55,320
Speaker 1: not going to slow down. Now. There may have been

1535
01:21:55,360 --> 01:21:57,200
Speaker 1: there may be a year where there there's a little

1536
01:21:57,280 --> 01:22:00,160
Speaker 1: less movement than than it was like this year, the

1537
01:22:00,240 --> 01:22:03,439
Speaker 1: year before, but it's going to continue at that pace.

1538
01:22:03,560 --> 01:22:09,000
Speaker 1: This is unquestionably true. I would say, um, because I

1539
01:22:09,040 --> 01:22:11,000
Speaker 1: was running through my head when I first read this,

1540
01:22:12,160 --> 01:22:15,840
Speaker 1: Who are the options to be replaced next year? Run

1541
01:22:16,080 --> 01:22:18,320
Speaker 1: run down the list? Jalen Hurts with a bad year

1542
01:22:18,640 --> 01:22:25,960
Speaker 1: to a Zach Wilson Fields in Chicago. I mean, you

1543
01:22:26,000 --> 01:22:28,719
Speaker 1: can very easily get to a place where you've suddenly

1544
01:22:28,720 --> 01:22:33,479
Speaker 1: got eight teams looking for something better. Tom Brady Kirk Cousins,

1545
01:22:34,640 --> 01:22:37,280
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. You know he's on a one year, thirty

1546
01:22:37,280 --> 01:22:45,680
Speaker 1: five million dollars deal, right, Jamison, Winston, Carson, Wentz and Washington. Yep,

1547
01:22:46,240 --> 01:22:47,960
Speaker 1: I mean you cant still do it. I mean you're

1548
01:22:48,479 --> 01:22:50,479
Speaker 1: I don't even know what they have they're about in

1549
01:22:50,520 --> 01:22:52,960
Speaker 1: the fields. If it doesn't work, there are they pulling

1550
01:22:52,960 --> 01:22:58,240
Speaker 1: the rip court? Jared Goff in Detroit, Atlanta, Carolina still

1551
01:22:58,240 --> 01:23:00,920
Speaker 1: doesn't have anybody. I mean you could Daniel Jones could

1552
01:23:00,960 --> 01:23:04,160
Speaker 1: be replaced without even blinking. You get to twelve ten

1553
01:23:04,240 --> 01:23:07,360
Speaker 1: twelve teams Detroit, might you know? That's why I said

1554
01:23:07,439 --> 01:23:10,759
Speaker 1: Jared Goff Yeah, yeah, So he suddenly has a pretty

1555
01:23:10,760 --> 01:23:14,280
Speaker 1: good amount of skill talent around him, and there's the

1556
01:23:14,360 --> 01:23:25,560
Speaker 1: usual suspects, Zach Wilson, h Davis Mills, Yeah, those guys, Tannehill, Tannehill, Pittsburgh,

1557
01:23:25,680 --> 01:23:29,040
Speaker 1: who knows if Trubisky or you know winning that Musical

1558
01:23:29,120 --> 01:23:31,920
Speaker 1: Chairs contest. So yeah, it's going to continue, and it

1559
01:23:31,960 --> 01:23:34,479
Speaker 1: may it may increase. So I think the reason it

1560
01:23:34,520 --> 01:23:38,719
Speaker 1: will continue is because the bar is so high. Now,

1561
01:23:39,640 --> 01:23:41,920
Speaker 1: Like if you don't have one of those top five guys,

1562
01:23:43,080 --> 01:23:46,120
Speaker 1: you don't have a chance. You usually do not have

1563
01:23:46,160 --> 01:23:48,960
Speaker 1: a chance to win the whole thing. You'd be good,

1564
01:23:49,040 --> 01:23:51,559
Speaker 1: you can be a playoff team. You're not getting all

1565
01:23:51,560 --> 01:23:55,800
Speaker 1: the way there though, You're just not And so I

1566
01:23:55,840 --> 01:23:58,599
Speaker 1: think there's this constant churn to try to see if

1567
01:23:58,600 --> 01:24:00,800
Speaker 1: you can find a better formula guy that's even just

1568
01:24:00,840 --> 01:24:03,240
Speaker 1: a little bit better to give you a better chance.

1569
01:24:04,240 --> 01:24:06,520
Speaker 1: You think about the teams that didn't make the playoffs

1570
01:24:06,600 --> 01:24:09,120
Speaker 1: last year, only the Chargers and you can make a

1571
01:24:09,120 --> 01:24:13,800
Speaker 1: case for maybe Baltimore in the AFC as being the

1572
01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:15,240
Speaker 1: only two teams that did in May that have a

1573
01:24:15,320 --> 01:24:18,600
Speaker 1: quarterback in Pittsburgh with Ben Roethlisberger he was shot in

1574
01:24:18,720 --> 01:24:21,960
Speaker 1: New England with Mac Jones who made it in Those

1575
01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:25,960
Speaker 1: are two teams that didn't think about it this way, Steve,

1576
01:24:26,720 --> 01:24:29,559
Speaker 1: If you're one of those teams that we mentioned and

1577
01:24:29,600 --> 01:24:32,799
Speaker 1: you're watching the divisional playoff between Josh Allen and Patrick

1578
01:24:32,880 --> 01:24:36,800
Speaker 1: Mahomes and you're watching that game, the only conclusion you

1579
01:24:36,840 --> 01:24:40,080
Speaker 1: can come up with that's not us is we have

1580
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:43,240
Speaker 1: no chance against those We don't have one of those

1581
01:24:43,280 --> 01:24:47,120
Speaker 1: guys that the Denver Broncos unequivocally said that and said,

1582
01:24:47,200 --> 01:24:49,639
Speaker 1: we'll give you four draft choices, give us Russell Wilson.

1583
01:24:49,720 --> 01:24:52,400
Speaker 1: So we have a prayer of a chance to compete.

1584
01:24:53,040 --> 01:24:54,880
Speaker 1: We got to get a guy. You've got to get

1585
01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:59,040
Speaker 1: a guy if your guy can't hang in there. The

1586
01:24:59,120 --> 01:25:01,800
Speaker 1: teams watch that game last year and thought that a lot, like,

1587
01:25:01,920 --> 01:25:05,120
Speaker 1: how are we doing that? That final drive Josh puts

1588
01:25:05,160 --> 01:25:07,120
Speaker 1: on with they get the ball one h two left

1589
01:25:07,120 --> 01:25:10,960
Speaker 1: and they score in forty nine seconds, And I mean,

1590
01:25:11,280 --> 01:25:13,280
Speaker 1: and that's an eighty plus yard or a seventy plus

1591
01:25:13,400 --> 01:25:15,960
Speaker 1: yard drive and he and he's a converted to he

1592
01:25:16,000 --> 01:25:18,000
Speaker 1: converted at least one third down on a run. You

1593
01:25:18,040 --> 01:25:21,200
Speaker 1: know he's running, he was, it was all on him. Well,

1594
01:25:21,240 --> 01:25:23,360
Speaker 1: the two teams scored twenty five points in the last

1595
01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:25,280
Speaker 1: two minutes. Yeah, there were five watching that game. I

1596
01:25:25,320 --> 01:25:27,160
Speaker 1: don't know how you if you don't have a top

1597
01:25:27,200 --> 01:25:29,519
Speaker 1: five guy, you're just sitting there going on, We're not

1598
01:25:29,560 --> 01:25:31,760
Speaker 1: we're not winning the championship for a while, right because

1599
01:25:31,760 --> 01:25:34,599
Speaker 1: we don't have anybody like that, right? And I get

1600
01:25:34,600 --> 01:25:37,840
Speaker 1: it too. Were you looking for him? Because you can

1601
01:25:37,880 --> 01:25:39,800
Speaker 1: say what you want about some of these teams, like

1602
01:25:39,800 --> 01:25:44,439
Speaker 1: like the Patriots or the Dolphins. You know the Dolphins

1603
01:25:44,439 --> 01:25:46,880
Speaker 1: are they're trying to put on a brave face. But

1604
01:25:47,040 --> 01:25:49,840
Speaker 1: come on, you go down on and I you and

1605
01:25:49,880 --> 01:25:52,120
Speaker 1: I have done it. You go down on the field pregame,

1606
01:25:53,439 --> 01:25:57,120
Speaker 1: you watch two a Tonga Voloa throwing warm ups and

1607
01:25:57,160 --> 01:25:58,600
Speaker 1: all that. Then you get down the other end of

1608
01:25:58,600 --> 01:26:00,640
Speaker 1: the field and you watch Josh out and throw it

1609
01:26:00,720 --> 01:26:06,320
Speaker 1: and Mitch Trubisky throwing. You're standing there and you're looking

1610
01:26:06,360 --> 01:26:08,600
Speaker 1: down there at their number one guy in Tuah, and

1611
01:26:08,640 --> 01:26:11,720
Speaker 1: you're looking at Josh and MITCHI biscuits and you're going

1612
01:26:13,640 --> 01:26:16,880
Speaker 1: that one of these things is not like the others. Yeah,

1613
01:26:17,120 --> 01:26:22,599
Speaker 1: Ta can't throw it. His his ball has too much

1614
01:26:22,760 --> 01:26:25,639
Speaker 1: arc on it. Well, because it has he can't get

1615
01:26:25,640 --> 01:26:27,240
Speaker 1: it there unless he throws it in the sky to

1616
01:26:27,360 --> 01:26:30,839
Speaker 1: drop it in on like an out route. And Josh

1617
01:26:30,960 --> 01:26:33,120
Speaker 1: is flicking it out there and it's like and the

1618
01:26:33,200 --> 01:26:37,040
Speaker 1: things like sizzling. Yeah, you're and you're sitting there as

1619
01:26:37,040 --> 01:26:41,479
Speaker 1: a GM next to your owner, trying to justify why

1620
01:26:41,520 --> 01:26:45,559
Speaker 1: you took that guy. That's a tough tough day at

1621
01:26:45,560 --> 01:26:49,000
Speaker 1: the office, especially when Herbert was on the board. And

1622
01:26:49,120 --> 01:26:50,800
Speaker 1: Herbert's the same way. He gets out there and that

1623
01:26:50,840 --> 01:26:53,679
Speaker 1: ball sizzles out of his hand, same as Josh, same

1624
01:26:53,680 --> 01:26:58,880
Speaker 1: as Trubisky, same same as Mahomes, even rogers, I mean

1625
01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:02,599
Speaker 1: those guys that balls pops have fun with that. Everybody

1626
01:27:02,800 --> 01:27:05,280
Speaker 1: that doesn't have one of those, and it's it's amazing.

1627
01:27:05,479 --> 01:27:07,280
Speaker 1: And I know, and I tell people this all the time.

1628
01:27:07,439 --> 01:27:10,840
Speaker 1: If you're you should never watch an NFL game like

1629
01:27:11,040 --> 01:27:13,759
Speaker 1: standing on the side. I've done a hundred times standing

1630
01:27:13,800 --> 01:27:16,880
Speaker 1: next to the down markers. You can't watch anyplace else.

1631
01:27:16,920 --> 01:27:19,519
Speaker 1: It's nothing like it. It is nothing like it. Yeah,

1632
01:27:20,040 --> 01:27:23,599
Speaker 1: it's a three hour car wreck that is within with emotion. Yeah,

1633
01:27:23,680 --> 01:27:25,680
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. And you see the ball jump out of

1634
01:27:25,680 --> 01:27:31,479
Speaker 1: their hands. It's yeah, there's a difference. Break time for us. Here,

1635
01:27:31,560 --> 01:27:33,360
Speaker 1: Steve and I back in a second on One Bill's Live,

1636
01:27:33,360 --> 01:27:49,000
Speaker 1: presented by Collid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right,

1637
01:27:49,040 --> 01:27:53,160
Speaker 1: it's One Bills Live. Steve and I here and h

1638
01:27:53,600 --> 01:27:56,479
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but I still am getting hung

1639
01:27:56,560 --> 01:27:58,720
Speaker 1: up on the whole Deshaun Watson thing and what the

1640
01:27:58,800 --> 01:28:00,799
Speaker 1: league is going to do, because as we said earlier,

1641
01:28:02,080 --> 01:28:04,639
Speaker 1: they're really trying to hit a target with their eyes

1642
01:28:04,680 --> 01:28:07,640
Speaker 1: closed here because nothing is going to be resolved in

1643
01:28:07,680 --> 01:28:10,160
Speaker 1: the courts until next year at the earliest. Those are

1644
01:28:10,160 --> 01:28:13,679
Speaker 1: all the indications of the reports coming out of Houston.

1645
01:28:14,560 --> 01:28:17,280
Speaker 1: They're trying to conduct an investigation. They know the optics

1646
01:28:17,320 --> 01:28:20,679
Speaker 1: are bad if they do nothing, and trying to come

1647
01:28:20,720 --> 01:28:23,960
Speaker 1: down and stick the landing. I think it's gonna be

1648
01:28:24,040 --> 01:28:26,559
Speaker 1: very challenging here. Well, no matter what they do, they'll

1649
01:28:26,600 --> 01:28:32,960
Speaker 1: get some criticism and as the world we live in,

1650
01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:35,000
Speaker 1: they'll probably on both sides of it. Cleveland fans will

1651
01:28:35,000 --> 01:28:40,439
Speaker 1: hate him for suspending a guy for that, and then

1652
01:28:40,439 --> 01:28:42,240
Speaker 1: you'll get the other side, this is like it's not enough,

1653
01:28:42,320 --> 01:28:47,040
Speaker 1: it's never enough, and I get it. So there's a

1654
01:28:47,040 --> 01:28:50,000
Speaker 1: lot to be sorted through here and it's amazing, and

1655
01:28:50,280 --> 01:28:54,320
Speaker 1: I think part of the plan for this is on

1656
01:28:54,320 --> 01:28:56,080
Speaker 1: one side of there, they wanted to string out as

1657
01:28:56,120 --> 01:28:58,000
Speaker 1: long as they can so hopefully get off the radar

1658
01:28:58,120 --> 01:29:00,240
Speaker 1: or on the radar, or stay relevant for as long

1659
01:29:00,280 --> 01:29:02,040
Speaker 1: as it can could be looking at a fourth of

1660
01:29:02,120 --> 01:29:07,919
Speaker 1: July news dump, I think they put it out cynical.

1661
01:29:08,479 --> 01:29:12,840
Speaker 1: Come on Man, Big Show tomorrow including NBC Sports, Peter King,

1662
01:29:13,280 --> 01:29:15,760
Speaker 1: Steve and I will see you at our usual badtime

1663
01:29:16,040 --> 01:29:25,960
Speaker 1: one pm.