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

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Speaker 1: another week of One Bill's Live Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

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Speaker 1: with you here on a Monday where the weather's turning

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Speaker 1: it's like having cavemen out there with clubs measuring first downs?

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Speaker 1: Can we use technology of some kind? Come on, we're

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Speaker 1: better than that. No, No, that looked like a first

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Speaker 1: down to awful, absolutely awful. Anyway, I digress, let it go,

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Speaker 1: chairwoman and co owner of the XFL, Danny Garcia, She

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Speaker 1: was asked, does this collab could this collaboration include some

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Speaker 1: of what we saw in NFL Europe when NFL teams

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Speaker 1: were afforded the opportunity to allocate eight players to NFL

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Speaker 1: Europe teams play over there in the spring. If you

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Speaker 1: like the world on fire, who knows you've got a

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Speaker 1: better chance of making the roster here? Alah, Fred Jackson, Ala,

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Speaker 1: Kurt Warner. Well, okay, yeah, so Danny Garcia said this though,

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Speaker 1: she said, no, that's not happening. We are a spring

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Speaker 1: football league. We'll have our own players. We're not doing this.

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Speaker 1: We're not serving as a minor league for the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I get it, and the league, I would say, the NFL.

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Speaker 1: There are many instances when you can think of a

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Speaker 1: great idea, like, for instance, Christian Wade. Yeah, he would have.

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Speaker 1: He's one of those guys would have really benefited from

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Speaker 1: being on the field playing right. You know. So there's

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Speaker 1: a guy, all the European guys like like your NFL,

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Speaker 1: all the European guys would have been like, Wow, that's

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Speaker 1: that's you know, that's really gonna help him getting some reps,

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Speaker 1: you know, get us some instincts built in. So there's

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Speaker 1: instances where the league would benefit from it. But if um,

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that the XFL has to like say, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: whatever you want. Um So, yeah, I and the contracts

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Speaker 1: are also. I mean that if you're signed to an

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Speaker 1: XFL deal, you know you're done. You're not You're not

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Speaker 1: signing with an NFL, right kind of thing. That's the

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Speaker 1: way it is interesting, the same thing, and it's the

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Speaker 1: same way in the CFL. If you're on a CFL roster,

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Speaker 1: you can't just leave and come down to the States

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Speaker 1: and play in the NFL roster protections. There's a small

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Speaker 1: window in which if they want to come down they can.

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Speaker 1: I think it's like I can't even remember the time

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Speaker 1: in the calendar year when that is. But that's what

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Speaker 1: happened with Duke Williams. Duke Williams lit it up with

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Speaker 1: the Edmonton Eskimos and then his contract was up and

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Speaker 1: he took advantage of that that window where CFL players

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Speaker 1: can sign with NFL teams and did so. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: that's where I think it's sometime in February. Usually Duke

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Speaker 1: get a nice run here in Buffalo. Yeah, limited playing

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Speaker 1: time on the active roster, but hung around for almost

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Speaker 1: three seasons. So yeah. The NFL is reportedly planning a

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Speaker 1: Monday night with two games, one that will air on ESPN,

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Speaker 1: the other on ABC. And it's not like this is

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Speaker 1: completely foreign because typically in week one, Steve, they've had

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Speaker 1: doubleheaders on the first Monday night of the year, with

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Speaker 1: an East Coast game and a West Coast game at

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Speaker 1: seven and nine pm, respectively. I know you were telling me.

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Speaker 1: From what you read, it looks like the games are

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Speaker 1: only going to be separated by a single hour on

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Speaker 1: the clock, so they'll definitely overlap to a great degree. Right,

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Speaker 1: Here's that thing. The NFL never wants to compete against

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Speaker 1: itself in primetime. It does every Sunday afternoons. There's like

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Speaker 1: nine games going, but you only see one, you know,

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Speaker 1: the one selected one from each conference. That kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: We all know the rules. They don't ever put games

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Speaker 1: on against each other, particularly in primetime Thursday night, Sunday night,

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Speaker 1: Monday night. Now, this however, is different because ESPN is

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Speaker 1: owned by ABC. And ABC's the other network, so it

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Speaker 1: may compete. But conversely, if you get one game that's

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Speaker 1: a dog, they don't lose everybody. They'll just go to

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Speaker 1: the other game and watch that. Theoretically, yeah, theoretically that's

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Speaker 1: the one benefit. You know, if you have a lousy game,

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Speaker 1: they just go to the other one. Um, it wouldn't

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Speaker 1: shock me if one of the West Coast games winds

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Speaker 1: up being something like it the Mexico game, you know,

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Speaker 1: the games that are gonna be played in Mexico funky times.

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Speaker 1: To make that the western you know, time zone, they'll

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Speaker 1: start on the days to have one in the West

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Speaker 1: coast time slot and then the one of the East

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Speaker 1: coast time slot. It'll make it better for the West

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Speaker 1: Coast to keep hanging there with the game. It won't

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Speaker 1: start at like four in the afternoon, you know, So

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Speaker 1: that'll give them a benefit. But um, I'll say this now,

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Speaker 1: this last year, and I will say I thought this

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Speaker 1: last year, and the numbers bared out, was the most

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Speaker 1: entertaining and watchable football season I can remember in a

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Speaker 1: long long time. Games loves type game plus, especially in

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Speaker 1: the plaffs, but also all the way throughout and the

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Speaker 1: way they they structured it an opening weekend. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you remember and Thanksgiving where you get like

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Speaker 1: there's a Monday afternoon game and a Monday night game,

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Speaker 1: and there's a doubleheader Saturday, a doubleheader Sunday with a

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Speaker 1: night game and a Monday. How many we had games

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Speaker 1: all the time on a couple of weekends for a

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Speaker 1: wild card weekends? Oh my gosh, it was so fun.

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Speaker 1: I love that Super wild Card weekend was super Man.

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Speaker 1: It was awesome. And plus all those games were walkoffs, right,

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Speaker 1: It was just great weekend of football. As we know,

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Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams, who won the Super Bowl are

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Speaker 1: likely to be the season kickoff game at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty two campaign. As is typically the case,

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl champion is usually playing in primetime against

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Speaker 1: somebody on a Thursday night, and John Aurand from Sports

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Speaker 1: Business Journal was trying to surmise who the chosen opponent

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Speaker 1: might be for them, knowing the Rams will present doubly

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Speaker 1: open up at home, much like the Bucks did last

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Speaker 1: year at home Week one against the Cowboys. The Rams

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Speaker 1: have five home opponents that, in John Aurand's opinion, make

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Speaker 1: the most sense. Here are the teams that he chose

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Speaker 1: as possible candidates Denver provided Aaron Rodgers moves to the Broncos,

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Speaker 1: which I think at this point is pretty unlikely. He

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Speaker 1: picks Dallas because of their big ratings draw. They were

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Speaker 1: a choice last year for the Bucks and they didn't

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Speaker 1: even make the playoffs the year before San Francisco in

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Speaker 1: a rematch of the NFC title game. But he does

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Speaker 1: point out that they're not as keen on opening with

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Speaker 1: a pair of West Coast teams, believing it'll hurt the

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Speaker 1: ratings on the East Coast. And then Las Vegas is another,

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Speaker 1: but it offers the same problems with another West Coast team,

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Speaker 1: which for John aurand leaves Buffalo. He says, a team

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Speaker 1: that is expected to compete for the AFC Championship. The

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Speaker 1: Bills have a star quarterback in Josh Allen and an

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Speaker 1: exciting offense. Expect this to be the selection for the

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Speaker 1: season kickoff game with the Rams if Rogers does not

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Speaker 1: move to the Mile High City. So that is our

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Speaker 1: Twitter conversation today. Let us know what do you think

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Speaker 1: about the Bills opening the regular season in the prime

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Speaker 1: time kickoff game Thursday to kickoff Week one against the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl Champion rams on the road. Are you in

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Speaker 1: favor of that or are you against it? Eight oh

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

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Speaker 1: fifty then number to get on board. Open lines for

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Speaker 1: you there or hit us up on the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: at one Bill's Live. Steve and I take a break

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Speaker 1: here back with more in a second on one Bills

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalaida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right,

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Speaker 1: so there is a quick update on the NFL Combine

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Speaker 1: situation where players are threatening to sit out the workouts

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Speaker 1: with support from their agents. ESPN's Adam Schefter, who has

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Speaker 1: been in touch with some of these said agents as

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Speaker 1: this to report in terms of what he's getting back

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Speaker 1: from the agency, has spoken to agents are getting on

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Speaker 1: the same page right now to ask the Combine to

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Speaker 1: unbubble and reduce their COVID restrictions, thereby giving players complete

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Speaker 1: access to their physical therapy and performance teams. Additionally, they

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Speaker 1: are asking for a change to the scheduled day of

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Speaker 1: bench press testing in a return to all previous years

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Speaker 1: which had it on a separate day from field testing.

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Speaker 1: It was compressed. Agents are not threatening a boycott, but

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Speaker 1: rather considering advising the players in mass to hold off

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Speaker 1: on workouts until their pro days. They will still encourage

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Speaker 1: players to participate in medical interview and non physical test.

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Speaker 1: Clubs have expressed privately that they are fine with players

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Speaker 1: not working out at the Combine and are more interested

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Speaker 1: in seeing players put their best foot forward. As Steve

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Speaker 1: mentioned in the first segment of the show, teams want them,

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Speaker 1: want to sit them down and get them in front

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Speaker 1: of them, and they want their doctors to get their

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Speaker 1: hands on them. Those are the two most important things

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Speaker 1: that go on at the Combine. Despite what you know,

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Speaker 1: the NFL network is airing for three or four days

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Speaker 1: on television. Yeah, the only thing that changes, The only

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Speaker 1: thing that moves the needle at the Combine is the

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Speaker 1: medical and the interview. Certainly there's a buzz created by

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Speaker 1: a four three forty time. Okay, it's great, But they

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Speaker 1: knew that before they went there. Yea. They know that

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Speaker 1: they know the guys fast just because they in fact,

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Speaker 1: I mean you've you've heard it on a couple of occasions.

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Speaker 1: They'll have the gems of different they'll have the gems

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Speaker 1: of different clubs. You know, every club's got there embedded

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Speaker 1: like bills have him, but we'll probably have one for

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Speaker 1: this this uh combine where you'll have band being you

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Speaker 1: have some candid conversations where you'll be able to hear

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Speaker 1: what he says. You remember one of them, I can't

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Speaker 1: remember when it was. Maybe it was Motor Singletary or

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Speaker 1: maybe Zach Moss or one of those guys that were

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Speaker 1: gonna draft. And they said, don't hope he doesn't run

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Speaker 1: a good time. I don't want anybody to get him.

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Speaker 1: I don't know anybody like him, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's what you get. They don't don't care what he

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Speaker 1: runs the forty in. They want to see him play.

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Speaker 1: So and I get it, and I listen, I was there.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't there, but I understand what they're doing. The

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Speaker 1: players think every the young players think every time they

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Speaker 1: walk on the field and they're combined and setting, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna they're gonna be an All Pro or

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Speaker 1: they're gonna get cut. You know. Um. They think every

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Speaker 1: time they step on the field it's life and death,

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Speaker 1: and you know, to them, it is, it's the dream

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Speaker 1: they're chasing. They can't even they don't even they want

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Speaker 1: anything out of place let alone a test result. So

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Speaker 1: they want every they want their ducks in a row.

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Speaker 1: But you know, let's be real, right, so we'll see

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Speaker 1: what comes of it. That's the latest on that, and

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there'll be more updates forthcoming. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: the phones though, at eight oh three five fifty one,

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two, five fifty open line for you there?

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Speaker 1: What do you think about the Bills possibly opening the

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Speaker 1: regular season against the Super Bowl champion Rams on the road?

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Speaker 1: John Aurand from Sports Business Journal is surmising that the

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Speaker 1: Bills are the favorite to be the dance partner for

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Speaker 1: the Rams on Kickoff weekend, which would mean they would

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Speaker 1: play in prime time on Thursday night. Week one, we

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Speaker 1: go to the phones and to Robert in Amherst, Robert,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Year on one Bills Live? Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: thanks for taking my college or a couple of comments

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Speaker 1: and then I'll hang up and hear what you have

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Speaker 1: to say. The first thing is really looking forward to

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Speaker 1: the next season with the Bills, and I think Allen's

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Speaker 1: to the point where you can pretty much put anything

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Speaker 1: around him and he will make it succeed. Kind of

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Speaker 1: Camp Rady from the Gloriers New England. Secondly, so with

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Speaker 1: that said, I hope they go heavy on defense in

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Speaker 1: the draft, particularly at cornerback. I do not want to

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Speaker 1: see another d alignment drafted. I want to see Greg

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Speaker 1: aj gets the time to develop alongside that Oliviho, I

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Speaker 1: think is a fantastic player. I just wanted to make

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Speaker 1: a quick mention Brigardian and Aaron Rodgers trade to use

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Speaker 1: a Steve analogy. If Denver's only going to offer a

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Speaker 1: turkey sandwich with extra veggis, but then other team's offering

638
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 1: a brisket sandwich with bacon on top, Denver's obviously not

639
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 1: going to get that, and don't I don't see him

640
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:47,399
Speaker 1: going to Denver. And then lastly, i'd like to see

641
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 1: you guys bring on a salary cap expert. Sometimes I

642
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 1: have some questions on how deferred money works, or signing

643
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: bonuses and you know pro rating, you know, buyouts, etc.

644
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Speaker 1: But I love the show and i'd love to hear

645
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:07,279
Speaker 1: your coming yepure thing, Robert. I think we'll start you

646
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,759
Speaker 1: mentioned draft and where you hope they'll go. I think

647
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,800
Speaker 1: corner is a position they will definitely address in the draft.

648
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 1: I suppose they may try to address it in free

649
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:20,000
Speaker 1: agency first, but that's a high priced position, and you

650
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: have enough veteran talent on the back end where I

651
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,399
Speaker 1: think you could bring another young player into the mix.

652
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 1: I mean, Dane Jackson will already be going into his

653
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: third season. He'll be the youngest guy back there, and

654
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 1: he started every game since Thanksgiving, that's right, So I

655
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:37,160
Speaker 1: think you can dive into the draft for that player.

656
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,399
Speaker 1: And it is a deep cornerback class this year, which

657
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 1: is good for the Bills. I do think, though, they

658
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,720
Speaker 1: are going to invest in defensive line help Robert, because

659
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 1: as we have mentioned on this show several times already,

660
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: they have eight players whose contracts are up on the

661
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: defensive line alone. They're going to have to address it

662
00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: in some way, shape or form, maybe with free agency

663
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 1: and the draft. Just from a sheer number standpoint, they're

664
00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: gonna have to do it right. They've got to have bodies,

665
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 1: and they'll they'll fill out their roster with eighty players,

666
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 1: no question. But I would anticipate some of the guys

667
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:13,360
Speaker 1: like Mario Addison or Jerry Hughes to go out and

668
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,240
Speaker 1: they'll probably make it all the way to free agency,

669
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Speaker 1: and unless they really want to be here unless those

670
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:21,200
Speaker 1: guys are willing to sit down with Brandon being saying, Okay,

671
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: I know I was, you know, making whatever I was

672
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 1: before this contract over, and I know I'm in my

673
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: mid thirties. Give me a two year deal or one

674
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 1: year deal, you know, and I'll take I'll take a

675
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: pay cut, or I'll take a better cap hit for

676
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 1: the club moving forward, unless they're willing to do that,

677
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,719
Speaker 1: which I don't think they would be. You know, those

678
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,480
Speaker 1: guys are gonna hit free agency, and then that's when

679
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: you may get them. If there's no interest or lack

680
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 1: of interest, you may get a pretty good job deal

681
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: for those guys, right or at least they may like

682
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: your deal better than they like the option, even if

683
00:36:54,719 --> 00:36:56,640
Speaker 1: the other options a little bit more money. They may

684
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: like like it here and not want to uproot their fans,

685
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: want to change systems. I want to take a chance

686
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 1: that it's nicer over there. Um, then you've then you're

687
00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: you know, they're comparing apples to apples instead of not

688
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:13,439
Speaker 1: not knowing. So yeah, I think there's gonna they're gonna

689
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 1: be able to resign some of the guys they've gotten

690
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: this free agent list. They're certainly gonna have to do

691
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,120
Speaker 1: some restructuring. They're too close to the cap to get

692
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,719
Speaker 1: anything done right now. Uh, And we'll have to wait

693
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: and see what happens as they as they get closer

694
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: to the free agency deadline. And then once they do that,

695
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 1: we'll have a clearer picture of what the draft looks

696
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:34,399
Speaker 1: like because we'll still see places where they I don't

697
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: know about I don't know about corner right there, I

698
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: don't know about it. I don't know about the D line,

699
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: you know, or right you know, offensive line is a

700
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 1: little thin. We need some depth that kind of thing.

701
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 1: So that's what you gotta wait on. But they do

702
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: have some work to do before they get to free

703
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: agency and the draft. And as far as salary cap

704
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: experts go, we've had Joel Corey from CBO Sports on here,

705
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: Mike Ginity from spot Track. Those guys will undoubtedly beyond

706
00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 1: uh and then not to dis in future here on

707
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 1: One Bill Live, as they are every year, So just

708
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:04,600
Speaker 1: stay tuned for that. Robert, Well, we'll have them on

709
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 1: in due course. Let's go back to the phones and

710
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: to Jeff on a sell. Jeff, what do you have

711
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:12,800
Speaker 1: for us? Year on One Bills Live? Hey? Thanks? For

712
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: taking my call, sure the first time. I just wanted

713
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 1: to comment on the Rams and bills. Yeah, opener, I'm

714
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: into it. I hope the Rams pull out all the

715
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: all the stops, all the curtains with pageant, tree and

716
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: the ring ceremony, the flags and everything, and I just

717
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: think that will pay up the bill. So I'd like

718
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,399
Speaker 1: to hear your comment too. Christmay to Night. Yeah, thanks

719
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: for calling. Um yeah, I mean, I hey, man, to

720
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: beat the best, you gotta be the best. So why

721
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,880
Speaker 1: not do the early measuring stick game against the defending

722
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champs? And you're right, who's the pressure on?

723
00:38:46,280 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 1: It's on the champs, So just go in there week

724
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: one put a beat down on him. I mean, how

725
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 1: would that taste? Pretty good? I think, particularly if you're

726
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: in their building, which you probably will be. Play the

727
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,800
Speaker 1: Rams there, right, yep. I think we do it on

728
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,879
Speaker 1: the road. It would be on the road opening day.

729
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 1: Um yeah, I mean I don't have a problem with it.

730
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: Um yeah. I mean there's a lot of questions have

731
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: to be answered. I mean, Ken Dorsey calling his first

732
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 1: game against the world defending World champions, that'd be a

733
00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: big deal. Um, draft classes a lot of Yeah for

734
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 1: us sitting right here and this one. Yeah, let's go

735
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 1: take a swing at him. You know you want your

736
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: you want a shot at him, pick up where you

737
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: left off, maybe offensively. Yeah, I'm you'd be a chance

738
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 1: to get a chance to address um Aaron Donald and

739
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: his cohorts up front. With a healthy and starting offensive line, Theoretically,

740
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: you'd get your best guys out there and you'd be

741
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: you'd be you humming along. But uh yeah, I'm all

742
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: about it. Let's let's do it. Because I'll say this too,

743
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 1: It's also it is a it is a confirmation or

744
00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:01,680
Speaker 1: a validation of the Nash expectations of your team and

745
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: the national appeal of your team. Right, and I think

746
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 1: that you know, you want to be one of those

747
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: teams that are taken seriously around the country. Let's go

748
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: to Benny in California next. What do you got for us? Benny? Hey,

749
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 1: good morning guys. Yeah, good afternoon out here. But yeah, afternoon,

750
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 1: I'm an offensilis I forgot no problem? No, yeah, yeah, yeah, man.

751
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to the Bills coming to Los Angeles.

752
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: I'm a dive heard Bills fan since the nineties, and

753
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:31,959
Speaker 1: I was actually gonna go to Buffalo when the Rams

754
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 1: were out there, but I couldn't make it. That'll be

755
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,840
Speaker 1: great if the Bills come down here and I'll actually

756
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,239
Speaker 1: get to see them play right here, and and we'll

757
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: have a real super Bowl fifty six. Yeah right, So

758
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: you'd be pretty fired up if that was you'd be

759
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:50,200
Speaker 1: pretty fired up if that was the kickoff game for

760
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two season. You take that in Week one, oh,

761
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 1: no doubt. Yes, I'll love it. I'll love it. And

762
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: I have a few Bills fans out here too, so yes,

763
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:03,960
Speaker 1: we'll bring them up to soul fight and yeah, man,

764
00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:06,319
Speaker 1: all right, that sounds good, Benny, Thanks for the call.

765
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Um, Thanks Benny. Yeah, I mean there's a

766
00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: healthy number of transplants out in California, I think more

767
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:15,960
Speaker 1: than people realize. People expect Bills fans in Florida, you

768
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:19,359
Speaker 1: know the Snowbird thing. They expect Bills fans there. There's

769
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 1: a healthy contingent of Bills fans in Arizona, you know

770
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 1: the common retirement states. You would expect it California. Nobody

771
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:32,439
Speaker 1: or even worse than New York State. You're not really

772
00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 1: expecting a lot of Bills fans out there. There's a

773
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: lot of Bills fans out there, there is, yeah, yeah, yeah.

774
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 1: The tax burden in California is the only state that

775
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 1: kit that's in the conversation with New York. So yeah, yeah,

776
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,200
Speaker 1: we have to take a break here, but hang on

777
00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: the line if you are there. At eight three, five fifty,

778
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,840
Speaker 1: we will get to you. Are you in favor of

779
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 1: the Bills opening the regular season against the Super Bowl

780
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 1: champion Rams on the road? Yay or nay? John Aarand

781
00:41:58,080 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 1: from Sports Business Journal believes it is the leader in

782
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 1: the clubhouse for the week one slate to be the

783
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 1: season kickoff game Thursday night in prime time. Tell us

784
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 1: what you think. We'll be back in a second here

785
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live. Stay tun all right, welcome back,

786
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 1: Chris round Steve Tasker with you, talking to you about

787
00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:31,440
Speaker 1: the potential of a season opening kickoff weekend game Thursday night.

788
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: Bills could possibly be the season opening opponent against the

789
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champion Rams in LA Thursday night primetime kickoff

790
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: game of the year in twenty twenty two. We want

791
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: your thoughts on that. At eight oh three five fifty,

792
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 1: back to the phones into Jack in Cheek to Wago

793
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: we go what do you got first, Jack, Hi, good afternoon.

794
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,920
Speaker 1: I'm a guest of that what I'm in favor of,

795
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:01,720
Speaker 1: and I've been saying this to my friends freight years.

796
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:06,320
Speaker 1: The scheduling is all wrong. The first three games of

797
00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: the year, in the last three games of the year,

798
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:11,600
Speaker 1: you should play your division fos. That does a couple

799
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: of things. For example, let's take Buffalo Miami. Let's say

800
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 1: next year Buffalo starts their season in Miami and the

801
00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:22,360
Speaker 1: hot weather. Then the second game they're up there in

802
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: the cold weather. So Miami gets to play in the

803
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: hot weather and the cold weather, and Buffalo gets to

804
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 1: play in the decent weather in Buffalo and decent weather

805
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: in Miami. So and you switch it every other year. Also,

806
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:45,479
Speaker 1: players coming back for injury or suspension have at least

807
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 1: fourteen gays recover from it. Rookies have fourteen gays a

808
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 1: game experienced a second time around. And let me just

809
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 1: give you a couple of examples of their scheduling. Now,

810
00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:03,240
Speaker 1: this past year, Cleveland played Balimart twice in three weeks.

811
00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 1: They played each other in game twelve, in game fourteen

812
00:44:08,719 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: with a buy in between. That's ridiculous. Buffalo played New

813
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 1: England in game thirteen and in game fourteen or a

814
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: game sixteen, that that's too close together, right, so you'd

815
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: like to business out. Yeah, we get it, Jack, And yeah,

816
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: I mean, there's only so much they can do with

817
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: all the different permutations for thirty two teams in the league,

818
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 1: and those guys have it down to a science. Yeah,

819
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 1: they have. You're right. And actually when Goodell became commissioner,

820
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 1: I said this before, and when Goodell became condissioner, he

821
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 1: had this that same thought about the divisions. Play him

822
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: early and then play him late because it drives drama

823
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 1: at the end of the season where we have these

824
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: meaningless games and you don't have meaningless Yeah, fewer meaningless games.

825
00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:59,280
Speaker 1: So because of that, you know they're on that program.

826
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:02,799
Speaker 1: I didn't get exactly what you meant when you're talking

827
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 1: about he wants division games close together in terms of

828
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:12,399
Speaker 1: playing all three division opponents in the first three weeks

829
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 1: of the season and then the last three weeks because

830
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: he feels if there's injuries or suspensions, you know, you're

831
00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:21,640
Speaker 1: playing all those teams in your division at that time.

832
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: But then you get a second crack at him late

833
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:25,800
Speaker 1: in the year when everybody's probably presumably back healthy or

834
00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:28,080
Speaker 1: off suspension. The thing I didn't get about what he

835
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 1: was saying was like, somebody who's hurt, you gotta have

836
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 1: fourteen weeks to recover, dude, No, you know, No, he

837
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:40,439
Speaker 1: means that specific player is recovered and available to play

838
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: the second time around, when you play the division of

839
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Speaker 1: the year. All right, that's what he's saying. I got you.

840
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 1: So if they're missing a guy, yeah, okay, um yeah

841
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: maybe yeah. I mean and an ideal world, Sure you'd

842
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: love to draw it up that that's a roll of

843
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:56,400
Speaker 1: the dice. I mean, you can't be if the guy

844
00:45:56,480 --> 00:45:58,399
Speaker 1: could be hurt and come back and playing both games

845
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:02,200
Speaker 1: or last year the Bills had a handful of guys

846
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 1: that were hurt training camp. Yea, plus COVID and all that.

847
00:46:05,239 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 1: You had guys out. So I do think it is

848
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:13,400
Speaker 1: we can't schedule because of any consideration toward injuries. I

849
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:17,640
Speaker 1: will say that I do. I am with him on

850
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:22,560
Speaker 1: the playing a division team in rapid succession. Yeah. That

851
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 1: bothers me too to a certain extent. Like, as he

852
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 1: pointed out, the Bills had completed their season series with

853
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. By mid season, them hadn't played another Division.

854
00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:35,800
Speaker 1: They hadn't played New England until December or the Jets,

855
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 1: and they played him twice in four weeks. I don't

856
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: know that that bothers me a little bit. True. I

857
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: gotta believe there's a permutation to work around that that

858
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 1: the league can you know, punch into the system. Maybe

859
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 1: maybe it's harder than thing the problem is, and I

860
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: guess we're you're calling them permutations the considerations they have. Yeah,

861
00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: and let's go down a quick off handling. Forget about

862
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,800
Speaker 1: the deep down dark list that they got to do

863
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: one stadium availability, home and away, early and late double matchups,

864
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:16,320
Speaker 1: whereas you got you know, the you know, the Titans

865
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 1: playing the same team two weeks in a row. You gotta,

866
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 1: you know, you gotta can't let that happen. Bye weeks,

867
00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:25,319
Speaker 1: bye weeks. All that. And those are just the ones

868
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 1: that we're thinking of off the top of our head.

869
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:31,320
Speaker 1: And you got thirty two teams on eighteen weeks with

870
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 1: a bye weekend. There's a lot of juggling. It's a

871
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 1: lot of juggling, and the venues are really the one

872
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:45,400
Speaker 1: of the main issues. Plus accommodating prime time networks for

873
00:47:45,440 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: a primetime Thursday night Sunday night Monday night. So you

874
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: got a wedge in perceived better matchups for the prime

875
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: time games because the networks paying more for those. So

876
00:47:55,680 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: you're trying to accommodate your broadcast partners. So yeah, it

877
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 1: gets pretty cond alluded pretty quickly. Yeah, and CBS, Fox, NBC, Perfect, ESPN,

878
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:10,920
Speaker 1: all have requests and they have a voice, right, and

879
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: a perfect and a perfect example as to why perhaps

880
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:17,799
Speaker 1: the Bills and Patriots played twice in a four week

881
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:21,800
Speaker 1: span was because both of those games were primetime games.

882
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 1: They were both primetime games and late in the year.

883
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:28,320
Speaker 1: Hey give us a good primetime game. What do you know,

884
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 1: Oh well, we'll give you Bills Patriots. Right, well, we

885
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: need another one over here? What about that Rams getting No,

886
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 1: it's used up already. What about this one? Well we

887
00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 1: could still do. We could wedge Bills Patriots in over there,

888
00:48:38,480 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 1: and Week said, just do it. That's a good game.

889
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:41,839
Speaker 1: We'll take that, you know what I mean, Like, that's

890
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:44,480
Speaker 1: the stuff that goes on. They are the thirty two

891
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: owners that have a say and where their franchise and

892
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: what their franchises played. And you can say that, you know,

893
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 1: well thirty two Okay, the thirty two teams. I've already known.

894
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: The thirty two teams have like three voices. The owner,

895
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: the GM, and the head coach all get us. You know.

896
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:03,839
Speaker 1: The coach talks to the GM, and the GM talks

897
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:05,359
Speaker 1: to the coach, and the coach and the GM talk

898
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 1: to the owner, and they have certain and that's just

899
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 1: about and that's about one game. You know, Listen, we

900
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:14,919
Speaker 1: don't want to do this on opening day. We don't

901
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:16,719
Speaker 1: want to see those guys on opening day, or we

902
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:19,320
Speaker 1: want to see this team early in the season, that

903
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and and or they want to say, listen,

904
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 1: we got this guy, we got we got this guy

905
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 1: pulling the trigger here in Buffalo. We need at least

906
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 1: three Monday night get three primetime games. And the last

907
00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:35,320
Speaker 1: year the Bills got like five, So we need some

908
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:40,360
Speaker 1: primetime games this year, or just the opposite what is usual,

909
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: what is usually happens here in Buffalo because of the

910
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:48,440
Speaker 1: fan base. This ownership, and so did the last ownership.

911
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:50,240
Speaker 1: They go to leak and say, listen, we want Sunday

912
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 1: one o'clock in the afternoon, ten times in our stadium,

913
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 1: one o'clock, ten games right here. I don't want any

914
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 1: that Monday night, Thursday night, yakety, give me one o'clock game.

915
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:03,359
Speaker 1: If you want us on primetime, dude on the road,

916
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 1: that's what they do. Or if you're gonna do primetime,

917
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:09,400
Speaker 1: do it early in the season, you know where the

918
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 1: weather is still nice. Because if you're gonna put us

919
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 1: on primetime at home, do it in September. Yeah, that

920
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 1: kind of So you got that's now, that's just Buffalo,

921
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 1: right Cleveland, as say, Cleveland, what are you thinking? We

922
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:25,800
Speaker 1: don't want that either, right exactly. So I get it

923
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:30,840
Speaker 1: when the and it has become fodder for guys like

924
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:34,839
Speaker 1: Brownie and I when that when the schedule comes out

925
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: or we slice it up, baby, good good, Oh, this

926
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 1: is horrible good? What's this? All things considered, it was

927
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: pretty good last year, I will say. And I took

928
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:47,879
Speaker 1: major issue with the schedule back in twenty thirteen when

929
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 1: the Bills had to play six opponents off shorter rest

930
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 1: than their opponents did. They were either coming off a

931
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 1: bye or a Thursday night game and had three extra

932
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:58,399
Speaker 1: days of rest. And the Bills are coming off short

933
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: weeks in six of their games, and three of them

934
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:04,879
Speaker 1: were division games. It was insane. I mean, I wrote

935
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 1: a story about it on Buffalo Bills dot com. I

936
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: was so hot about it, and it did change after that.

937
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:11,440
Speaker 1: They did kind of take a closer look at some

938
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: of that stuff. I'm not saying I was the reason,

939
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,160
Speaker 1: but it did improve for the Bills after that. Brownies.

940
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 1: Brownies our hero and they only had well the Bills

941
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 1: last year. I think they only had two games total

942
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 1: in which they came off of shorter rest than their opponents,

943
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: which is really good. So they have made a point

944
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:29,880
Speaker 1: of making that better for everybody involved. We have to

945
00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: take a break here though. More of your phone calls

946
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,279
Speaker 1: though when we come back. David New Jersey, Kevin and

947
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 1: Hamburg Harvey on a sale, Hank Tight, We'll get to

948
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: you when we return here. On one Bills Live for

949
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: his entybody Collid to health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio had

950
00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: a Steve Tester who has put all all over the

951
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: fields kind of unique. He was kind of a dual

952
00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 1: role player for the state state a blimp. We're not

953
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 1: even in the sredit beer of normalcy. Alright, Hour number

954
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 1: two here Chris Brown seas Aster with you on a Monday,

955
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:22,400
Speaker 1: getting your thoughts on the reporting the Sports Business Journal

956
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:26,040
Speaker 1: that the Bills might be a favorite for the season

957
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:29,399
Speaker 1: kickoff game against the Super Bowl champion Rams in La

958
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:33,439
Speaker 1: Week one Thursday night. It gives you come September, Oh,

959
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: it's so taste yet that thing that you were talking

960
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 1: about when you read the statement about it, it gives

961
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 1: you an insight as to all the stuff like the

962
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:44,399
Speaker 1: different you know, they're they're talking about Dallas, they're talking

963
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 1: about Denver, they're talking about Vegas, they're talking about all

964
00:52:47,719 --> 00:52:49,560
Speaker 1: these teams you know that are in the running, and

965
00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 1: the rationale for not having those other teams will give

966
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 1: you an insight as to all the layers of difficulty

967
00:52:56,800 --> 00:52:58,800
Speaker 1: they have putting together a schedule, right, and this is

968
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:02,800
Speaker 1: just like the opening game could be in anybody. But

969
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:08,799
Speaker 1: it's just, you know, it's a mind bender to try

970
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: and figure out, you know, eighteen games and seventeen game schedule,

971
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:14,319
Speaker 1: eighteen over eighteen weeks for thirty two teams with bye

972
00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:18,399
Speaker 1: weeks and divisions and home and a way. It's it's

973
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 1: a crusher. Oh, we do want your thoughts on it.

974
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 1: So let's go to Dave in New Jersey. Next. We

975
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:28,920
Speaker 1: got first, Dave Hi. When I look at that Ram

976
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 1: game with the Bills, I think the Bills should look

977
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:36,799
Speaker 1: forward to be in it because this is the one

978
00:53:36,880 --> 00:53:39,200
Speaker 1: game they can be sure of that they are not

979
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:42,919
Speaker 1: beyond a short week. Well right, get that West Coast

980
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:47,719
Speaker 1: trip out of the way, right, Yeah, because short weeks. Yeah,

981
00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:49,839
Speaker 1: I know they can go every way possible, but if

982
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:51,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna have a short week and it's going to

983
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:54,800
Speaker 1: be away now they have it the first game and

984
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:57,800
Speaker 1: because you know you're gonna have everybody who you have

985
00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: available is going to be rested up right. Yeah, that's

986
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: a that's a good one. It's true because you remember

987
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 1: the way they work the preseason. They everybody plays their

988
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:12,840
Speaker 1: last preseason game on a Thursday, so that they have

989
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 1: the weekend to make all their final cuts and stuff

990
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 1: for the for the roster, and then they have the

991
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: entire a whole week through to go to opening it.

992
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 1: If you have and if it's on a Thursday night

993
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:27,520
Speaker 1: opening day, right, a Thursday night football game, you could

994
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: you know, play that game on the Thursday. In fact,

995
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:33,320
Speaker 1: they last year they did Thursday like one, right, I

996
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:34,719
Speaker 1: mean they had one of those at one o'clock in

997
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: the after is a Saturday at one o'clock one of

998
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: their preseason games. Remember, that. Yeah, yeah, so it usually

999
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:42,800
Speaker 1: all the preseason games have always been at night. But

1000
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 1: they went to Chicago played at one o'clock in the afternoon,

1001
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:50,480
Speaker 1: I think on a Saturday, and so that would give

1002
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 1: them the full week. It wouldn't be sure. That's a

1003
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:54,399
Speaker 1: good way. That's a good way to look at it. Well, yeah,

1004
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 1: like get your West Coast trip out of the way.

1005
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:59,560
Speaker 1: At the beginning of the season. You know, you're thirteen

1006
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:02,359
Speaker 1: weeks in, your bodies are hanging like, your bodies feel

1007
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: like garbage. Oh yeah, Let's take a five hour flight

1008
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:06,640
Speaker 1: to LA and play the defending Super Bowl champs in

1009
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:09,239
Speaker 1: week fourteen, like you're rather play him in week one?

1010
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 1: I think from a health perspectives, no question about it exactly.

1011
00:55:12,600 --> 00:55:14,160
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones. We go to Kevin

1012
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:16,440
Speaker 1: in Hamburg. What it got first? You doing? Thanks for

1013
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:20,400
Speaker 1: taking my call. I'm gonna stay nay for one reason.

1014
00:55:20,480 --> 00:55:23,879
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do what Jack says about the experienced thing.

1015
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:26,200
Speaker 1: For the reason of this. And you will understand this

1016
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:29,880
Speaker 1: steam because you played the first week of regular season.

1017
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:32,839
Speaker 1: They always say that it used to be a joke.

1018
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:37,279
Speaker 1: It's like because the mistakes is like the last preseason

1019
00:55:37,719 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 1: belated preseason. You know the old joke that used to

1020
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:43,760
Speaker 1: make the first week is like the last preseason because

1021
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:45,759
Speaker 1: of mistakes, you know what I mean. There used to

1022
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: always be that old staining, didn't you always see the

1023
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:51,520
Speaker 1: about the first week regular season? Okay? Um? And the

1024
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 1: mistakes sometimes in the rookies that make the team make

1025
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:56,880
Speaker 1: you don't want them to make against the Rams, like

1026
00:55:56,960 --> 00:56:01,680
Speaker 1: maybe our cornerback gets burned, or little penalties, little goofy

1027
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 1: penalties like off sides and stuff like that. Like remember

1028
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:07,279
Speaker 1: last year when we played the Chief it was the

1029
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:10,799
Speaker 1: weekend of Columbus Day, and the guys were a little

1030
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,200
Speaker 1: bit more wet behind the years and that's why we

1031
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:18,560
Speaker 1: thriled them and stuff like that. Yeah, personally, I'm gonna

1032
00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 1: be honest with me, I'd like to see him play

1033
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:23,239
Speaker 1: someone like the Bears in Minnesota the first week. Well,

1034
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:27,080
Speaker 1: now you're you're for Detroit. Yeah, so I get it. Yeah,

1035
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 1: you're right. Uh, one of those games against the those

1036
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:33,880
Speaker 1: franchises would be I mean, those are the kind of

1037
00:56:34,040 --> 00:56:35,799
Speaker 1: those are the kind when you come up preseason you're

1038
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:38,400
Speaker 1: gonna say that's a W. That's a W. That's Um

1039
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:41,800
Speaker 1: said that about Jacksonville last year that's true. Uh, we

1040
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:45,719
Speaker 1: certainly did and played like it, um, like it was

1041
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:47,400
Speaker 1: already one, Like we didn't have to show up. So

1042
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 1: Kevin wants a cupcake early though, But he's right, however,

1043
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 1: the West Coast and getting it out of the way, um,

1044
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 1: and catching those guys out of the gate. I think

1045
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:02,399
Speaker 1: if you're gonna pick a game where it's gonna be tough,

1046
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:07,920
Speaker 1: um or not for not for anything. But it's like

1047
00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:10,000
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay game this year, that's it's a tough game,

1048
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:17,640
Speaker 1: and I like, yeah, it's not. It's an out of conference,

1049
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 1: out of division away game. Um. If you're gonna make

1050
00:57:22,800 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 1: one hard on yourself, I don't have a problem with that.

1051
00:57:24,840 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 1: Go out, go out there and play. And if it's

1052
00:57:26,280 --> 00:57:30,560
Speaker 1: on opening day, it's better for you. So um yeah,

1053
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 1: I disagree. I think it's a good idea to get

1054
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: it done. Um yeah, I'd rather let's test. Let's test

1055
00:57:37,800 --> 00:57:39,600
Speaker 1: this baby out early here. You know, what are we

1056
00:57:39,680 --> 00:57:41,720
Speaker 1: looking at? Are a hot ride? Are we rolling? Take

1057
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:43,880
Speaker 1: it out of the rapper man? Let's go. I think.

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00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:46,439
Speaker 1: So I go out there and play those guys, you'll

1059
00:57:46,480 --> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 1: be fresh and ready to go. You'll be able to

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00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 1: do some things that they don't know. They won't have

1061
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:52,080
Speaker 1: any kind of idea of what Ken Dorsey play calling

1062
00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 1: is gonna look like. They won't have any kind of

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00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:56,800
Speaker 1: idea of what this offense is gonna look like. And

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00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:59,640
Speaker 1: I would think this their offense is gonna look a

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00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:05,440
Speaker 1: lot like it did with Cooper Cup and Robert Wood.

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00:58:05,600 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: And I mean they're gonna have the same cast of

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00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:08,760
Speaker 1: characters over there, but the Bills are gonna be a

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00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 1: little bit different, I would think, particularly with a different

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00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 1: offensive a coordinator. So it's gonna be a little different too.

1070
00:58:14,080 --> 00:58:20,960
Speaker 1: Maybe no oj R. Miller. I mean let him adjust. Yeah,

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00:58:21,200 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 1: I say, go out there and put it on him

1072
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 1: if you can early, um, yeah, hit him when you're fresh,

1073
00:58:27,640 --> 00:58:30,840
Speaker 1: and take your best swing. Let's go back to the phones,

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00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 1: into a Harvey on a cell. Well you got first, Harvey. Hi, guys,

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00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 1: I'm in California, and I want to thank you for

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00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:42,280
Speaker 1: being on TV. You're great, I mean the radio, You're great.

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00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 1: Appreciate it and I appreciate it. Also. I just going

1078
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 1: to mention I've been a Bills fan since nineteen forties.

1079
00:58:49,840 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 1: I'm ninety one years old, and so I see't heard

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00:58:54,240 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 1: it a lot, and but I wanted to change the

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00:58:56,840 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 1: subject for a little bit. Okay, how do you guys

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00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 1: about containment versus sexx. You know, George Allen always said

1083
00:59:05,920 --> 00:59:09,120
Speaker 1: how your only veterans. He wasn't interested in rookies at all.

1084
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:13,640
Speaker 1: And I kind of go along with the idea of containments.

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00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:17,320
Speaker 1: I don't care about ten secs got he took all

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00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 1: year to get ten secs. Containments is a lot more

1087
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:25,360
Speaker 1: to me important. I was wondering how you feel about that. Yeah,

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00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:27,440
Speaker 1: I mean I think it varies based on who you're

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00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 1: playing to a certain extent, Harvey, I mean, George Allen

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00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:32,480
Speaker 1: wasn't playing against quarterbacks like we see today, maybe with

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00:59:32,560 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 1: the exception of fran Tarkington, who could run around all

1092
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 1: over the place. But nowadays you got dual threat quarterbacks

1093
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:43,880
Speaker 1: where containment in a given week might be the wise choice.

1094
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:46,720
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's probably the perfect example of that. People may

1095
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 1: want to contain him, but you do also have to

1096
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:51,720
Speaker 1: get pressure on him to force him into hurry throws

1097
00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 1: while containing him within the pocket. So you know you're

1098
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:59,480
Speaker 1: playing a guy like Matt Ryan, you want sacks. Containment

1099
00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:01,440
Speaker 1: isn't gonna at you anywhere. He'll pick you apart, if

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01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 1: you don't get him on the ground or hit him,

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01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 1: you at least got to make him run around. I

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01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 1: think one of the things as well, like you're not

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01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,600
Speaker 1: you got Kyler Murray, you got lamar Jack, you got

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01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:13,920
Speaker 1: Josh Allen Um, you go down the list, and Herbert

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01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 1: can run around justin Herbert M Deshaun Watson, h Trevor

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01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:23,520
Speaker 1: Lawrence is an athlete. Russell Wilson has always been an

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01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:25,960
Speaker 1: elusive guy in the pocket, although he doesn't run down

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01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:28,560
Speaker 1: the field. Aaron Rodgers is as slick in the pocket

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01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:32,160
Speaker 1: as anybody. Now you used to down the list Pat Mahomes,

1110
01:00:32,720 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes, for goodness sake, right, So uh, it's yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, Harvey, you're right. It is as important as

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01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 1: getting sacks, and I think it's also as important now

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01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 1: with not even can you call it containment, call it pressure,

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01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:56,880
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, it's it's defending a

1115
01:00:57,040 --> 01:01:03,080
Speaker 1: quarterbacks game without getting sacks with your front four. And

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01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:05,560
Speaker 1: that's you know what the Bills have done a lot

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01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:09,240
Speaker 1: of recently, particularly now they got you know, they get

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01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 1: mac Jones on the ground once in a while. Yeah,

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01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:13,480
Speaker 1: they get to a Tangavloa on the ground a couple

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Speaker 1: of times, particularly early in their first matchup this year.

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01:01:16,080 --> 01:01:18,000
Speaker 1: You can remember instances where they did it. But man,

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01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:23,080
Speaker 1: oh man, like Kyler Murray, you don't really want to.

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01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:25,600
Speaker 1: You don't run past him in the pocket. You stay

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01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:28,640
Speaker 1: in front of him. You make him stand back there

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01:01:28,720 --> 01:01:30,160
Speaker 1: and you stand in front of him, You make him

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01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:32,440
Speaker 1: throw it around you or three year between you. When

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01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 1: he starts to run, you stay in front of him.

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Speaker 1: So I think you're right. The past rush philosophies of

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01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:42,800
Speaker 1: these teams very to a much greater degree than they

1130
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:45,000
Speaker 1: ever have before in the history of the league because

1131
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 1: of the athleticism of the guys they're facing. But Kyler Murray's,

1132
01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:52,040
Speaker 1: the Josh Allen's, the Lamar Jackson's, the Pat Mahomes, all

1133
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:55,120
Speaker 1: of these guys that we mentioned Russ Wilson, you gotta

1134
01:01:55,240 --> 01:01:57,520
Speaker 1: either if you can't get to him right now, you

1135
01:01:57,640 --> 01:02:02,280
Speaker 1: gotta make sure they stay where they're at. And that's

1136
01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:05,240
Speaker 1: also that feeds into the analytics part of We've heard

1137
01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:09,400
Speaker 1: a lot of analytics people tell us it's coverage, not

1138
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 1: pressure that wins games. So we'll you know, you got

1139
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:15,320
Speaker 1: to play one or the other. But I think there's

1140
01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:18,600
Speaker 1: a lot in there Harvey about containment being more important

1141
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:22,960
Speaker 1: than sacks. Yeah, I just don't think it's one absolute answer.

1142
01:02:23,640 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 1: I think it is going to vary week to week

1143
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:27,600
Speaker 1: based on the quarterback you're playing. There might be weeks

1144
01:02:27,640 --> 01:02:30,040
Speaker 1: where containment makes the most sense. There might be weeks

1145
01:02:30,080 --> 01:02:31,840
Speaker 1: where hey, we got a knock the tar out of

1146
01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 1: this guy, or he's gonna pick us apart. We don't

1147
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:35,440
Speaker 1: have to worry about him running around, but we do

1148
01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:38,040
Speaker 1: have to worry about him, you know, carving us up

1149
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:41,320
Speaker 1: with his arm. So containments nice, but it's not going

1150
01:02:41,360 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 1: to help us win the football game. So I think

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01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:47,960
Speaker 1: are there are different approaches in different weeks for different

1152
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:52,000
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that will have different degrees of success. And that's

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01:02:52,040 --> 01:02:54,880
Speaker 1: why you know, your defensive staff is so critical in

1154
01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:57,720
Speaker 1: putting together the right plan for the quarterback you're going

1155
01:02:57,760 --> 01:02:59,840
Speaker 1: against in a given week. And one week it might

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01:02:59,880 --> 01:03:02,040
Speaker 1: be containment, next week it might be let's get this

1157
01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: guy on the ground, and ideally, yeah, there's we had

1158
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:05,600
Speaker 1: them enough, we can get them out of the game.

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01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:08,880
Speaker 1: There's no magic elixer that that is within that you

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01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:12,880
Speaker 1: can attain that's going to work against every team every week. Certainly,

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01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:14,640
Speaker 1: if you can all right, let's just sack the quarterback

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01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 1: every play. Well, okay, good luck with that strategy, you know,

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01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:20,360
Speaker 1: I mean, that's every team's plan. Find those guys. If

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01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 1: you can line up Reggie White, Bruce Smith, Aaron Donald,

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01:03:24,240 --> 01:03:26,520
Speaker 1: and Lawrence Taylor on your front four, you got a

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Speaker 1: chance at that. Good luck. I mean, you know, I mean,

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01:03:31,560 --> 01:03:33,760
Speaker 1: there's no magic elixer in the NFL that helps you

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01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:36,000
Speaker 1: went out on a given day. Any One aspect of

1169
01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:38,720
Speaker 1: your team can be that magic elixer because we've seen

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01:03:38,840 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 1: games one a thousand different ways. You know, you got

1171
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:44,560
Speaker 1: cornerbacks that picked the ball off five times. You know

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01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 1: we've done that. And this here in Buffalo, your corners

1173
01:03:47,440 --> 01:03:52,160
Speaker 1: and safeties get every every starting defensive back got a interception,

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01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:55,000
Speaker 1: got an interception or takeaway in a game against was

1175
01:03:55,000 --> 01:03:58,080
Speaker 1: against the Jets, exists the Jets. Then you come in

1176
01:03:58,160 --> 01:04:00,800
Speaker 1: and you get you know, you get four sacks, five sacks,

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01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:03,960
Speaker 1: three of which come in successive series to get them

1178
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:06,440
Speaker 1: off the field. That kind of stuff. So there is

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01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:08,960
Speaker 1: a magic elixer, but it's different on every game and

1180
01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:12,560
Speaker 1: every play. And sometimes the magic elixer is just letting

1181
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:14,560
Speaker 1: Josh go out and whenever you get into the ball,

1182
01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:16,680
Speaker 1: they go for a touchdown like they did against the Patriots.

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01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:19,280
Speaker 1: That's that's a little bit of a magic elixer. If

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01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:21,120
Speaker 1: you don't have the ball, you're giving up a couchdown.

1185
01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 1: If if you don't have the ball, you're giving up

1186
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:27,160
Speaker 1: a touchdown before you give it back. That that's a

1187
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:30,720
Speaker 1: magic elixer. But that you know that happened once this year.

1188
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:37,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, there. If you've got something that's dominant, exploit

1189
01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:40,360
Speaker 1: it right, no matter what it is. Back to the

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01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:43,360
Speaker 1: phones into Jim in Plattsburgh. What do you got first, Jim,

1191
01:04:44,920 --> 01:04:51,080
Speaker 1: I just wanted to register that there was a previous

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01:04:51,200 --> 01:04:55,800
Speaker 1: caller who suggested that we play the first three games

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Speaker 1: of the season against division and the last three against

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01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:06,600
Speaker 1: the division opponents. I'm against that idea because what I

1195
01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:12,640
Speaker 1: think it will do is it will cause the possibility

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01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:18,480
Speaker 1: of tanking, particularly if you have a bad division or

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01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:24,240
Speaker 1: division of where four teams are really non competitive, such

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01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:29,120
Speaker 1: was the case this year in the NFC East. If

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Speaker 1: you looked at the NFC East with four weeks to go,

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01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:37,080
Speaker 1: there was not a single team that was playing five

1201
01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:42,760
Speaker 1: hundred football, which meant that whatever the reason coaching or

1202
01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:49,360
Speaker 1: drafting or free agency or whatever you had. You what

1203
01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 1: you had was a contention of non competitive teams. So

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01:05:56,320 --> 01:05:58,840
Speaker 1: what would happen in the last three weeks in that

1205
01:05:59,080 --> 01:06:04,160
Speaker 1: case is that one or two of those teams would

1206
01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:10,160
Speaker 1: definitely be playing tanking football to get a better draft

1207
01:06:10,320 --> 01:06:16,320
Speaker 1: position because they were already essentially eliminated from the playoff race. Right.

1208
01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:22,320
Speaker 1: The whole whole aspect of the NFL season is designed

1209
01:06:22,880 --> 01:06:29,400
Speaker 1: to make the major goal make the playoffs, stay healthy

1210
01:06:30,040 --> 01:06:34,400
Speaker 1: enough to make the playoffs, right, And just the way

1211
01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:38,600
Speaker 1: that the coaches approach that when they make a game plan,

1212
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:41,960
Speaker 1: they when they make a game plan, they look at

1213
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:45,560
Speaker 1: their opponent and they see, can we can we with

1214
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:50,200
Speaker 1: this group of guys that we've got make the playoffs?

1215
01:06:50,600 --> 01:06:54,920
Speaker 1: And if so, what can we do against this week's

1216
01:06:54,960 --> 01:07:00,160
Speaker 1: opponent to enhance the possibility of that happening? And I

1217
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:02,440
Speaker 1: understand what you're saying, Jim about you know, if you

1218
01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:06,760
Speaker 1: have a division that's completely down, that you know, you're

1219
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:10,320
Speaker 1: even more incentivized to try to get a better draft

1220
01:07:10,360 --> 01:07:13,919
Speaker 1: pick than your draft than your division opponent. Right, So yeah,

1221
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:17,960
Speaker 1: you could run into that. Um, how likely is that?

1222
01:07:18,280 --> 01:07:20,640
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty unlikely. And I'm not I'm talking

1223
01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:23,720
Speaker 1: about the prospect of you know, three games at the front,

1224
01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:25,480
Speaker 1: three games at the back being all division games. I

1225
01:07:25,520 --> 01:07:28,240
Speaker 1: don't think the NFL will ever get there an ongoing basis,

1226
01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:30,840
Speaker 1: I agree with you. Yeah, well, I think yeah too. Yet,

1227
01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:35,400
Speaker 1: remember I like the program. I'm watching it on TV

1228
01:07:35,640 --> 01:07:40,240
Speaker 1: on on I have Spectrum and the broadcasting one. Uh

1229
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:45,240
Speaker 1: Bills live on the MSG network. That's right, and I'm

1230
01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:49,560
Speaker 1: enjoying it. I'm a Bills fan, have been way back

1231
01:07:49,720 --> 01:07:53,280
Speaker 1: when they had when they were in the AFC. Yeah,

1232
01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:57,400
Speaker 1: or you know when they had Kokie Gilchrist. That's right. Well,

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01:07:57,480 --> 01:07:59,919
Speaker 1: I'm happy to report, Jim, I've been a Bills fan forever.

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01:08:00,160 --> 01:08:02,440
Speaker 1: That's great. I'm happy to report him that I want

1235
01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:06,560
Speaker 1: to make out about the pills that my group. My

1236
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:13,320
Speaker 1: son in law is the safety officer on the board

1237
01:08:13,360 --> 01:08:17,599
Speaker 1: of the company that has the construction equipment supplier. Okay

1238
01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:20,880
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bill that's great. I am happy to

1239
01:08:21,280 --> 01:08:27,160
Speaker 1: he's a designer. He helped U design uh the Cali

1240
01:08:27,280 --> 01:08:31,240
Speaker 1: Club and things like that. Well, that's great. That's great, Jim,

1241
01:08:31,320 --> 01:08:33,120
Speaker 1: and I'm thank you for the time. And I'm happy

1242
01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:35,880
Speaker 1: to report. Yeah, I'm happy to report Jim that we

1243
01:08:35,960 --> 01:08:39,679
Speaker 1: are also on MSG every single day Monday to Friday

1244
01:08:39,800 --> 01:08:42,720
Speaker 1: one to three pm. So it's not just today. We're

1245
01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:44,880
Speaker 1: on all the time, so be sure to tune back

1246
01:08:44,920 --> 01:08:46,600
Speaker 1: in on another day. And thanks for the call. We

1247
01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:48,400
Speaker 1: appreciate it. We gotta get to some more people though.

1248
01:08:49,080 --> 01:08:51,200
Speaker 1: We go to Dave in Florida next. Dave, what do

1249
01:08:51,240 --> 01:08:55,080
Speaker 1: you have? Hey, guys, how you doing today? Good? Okay,

1250
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:58,800
Speaker 1: I agree with you. One of the earlier calls the

1251
01:08:58,920 --> 01:09:01,479
Speaker 1: first game against the Rams. I don't believe the Rams

1252
01:09:01,520 --> 01:09:06,439
Speaker 1: are that good other than their pass Rushford together with

1253
01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 1: only the three preseason games and we put our team

1254
01:09:10,360 --> 01:09:12,560
Speaker 1: up front like they're supposed to be, and you have

1255
01:09:12,680 --> 01:09:17,560
Speaker 1: them ready, and you were right about Ken Dorsey with

1256
01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:21,240
Speaker 1: his office. I think we could take them out. Well,

1257
01:09:21,360 --> 01:09:23,720
Speaker 1: whether you're gonna win or or not, I think we're

1258
01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:25,640
Speaker 1: gonna beat them. I think we can beat them. I

1259
01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:28,759
Speaker 1: told you this earlier. We're gonna win the Super bowlers

1260
01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:33,840
Speaker 1: year twenty twenty three. All right, thanks a lot, day appreciated.

1261
01:09:34,000 --> 01:09:36,400
Speaker 1: Dave loved the positive energy. Yeah, and I'll say this,

1262
01:09:36,479 --> 01:09:40,880
Speaker 1: get him back to the tanking thing about if you're

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Speaker 1: playing your division teams at the beginning of the end

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Speaker 1: of the season, you got a chance to tank, you'll

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Speaker 1: tank be making more likely. I doubt that because all

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Speaker 1: these games are worth the same on the one loss record,

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Speaker 1: and that's right to go with. I mean, you can

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Speaker 1: certainly affect your seating by you know, to help you

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Speaker 1: more if it's come. But if it's even if it's

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Speaker 1: a conference team rather than a division team, that doesn't

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Speaker 1: change that. I'm saying they might be if he's telling

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Speaker 1: me he's got an entire division in his scenario, he

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Speaker 1: has an entire division of lousy teams under five hundred.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they're neck and neck. They're not going anywhere for

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Speaker 1: a playoff, Berth unless the team at the top wins

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Speaker 1: the division with a six and eleven record or whatever.

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Speaker 1: There might be a couple of teams at the end

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Speaker 1: of the season playing each other in the division. Oh,

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01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:31,680
Speaker 1: we're tied in record here, let's lose this game so

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Speaker 1: we're one spot ahead of that division rival of ours,

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01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:35,880
Speaker 1: so we can get the quarterback, you know that kind

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Speaker 1: of thing. Sure could it happen, Sure how the same

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Speaker 1: way if it's not a division game, well right, But

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying there's incentive there, maybe even more so

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Speaker 1: with a division opponent that you're competing neck and neck

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Speaker 1: with for a number one draft choice, for example. I'm

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Speaker 1: just I'm throwing out the scenario. It's a possibility, it's

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Speaker 1: a remote possibility, probably of astronomical I get it. But

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Speaker 1: think calculation. You're still competing with that guy, whether you're

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Speaker 1: playing them or not, and just because you can directly

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Speaker 1: affect their record if they're And here's the thing, if

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Speaker 1: don't forget the last two weeks of the season last year,

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Speaker 1: any one of those ac NFC East teams could have

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01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:19,960
Speaker 1: been there. Philly got in Philly. So I mean, if

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Speaker 1: they all stink that bad, somebody's gotta win that division,

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Speaker 1: right well, And to you, I think it was not

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Speaker 1: this past year, but the year before the division winner

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Speaker 1: at a losing record. I think they were seven and

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Speaker 1: nine the last year they played six hours, right there

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Speaker 1: was Yeah, I think I know, um Washington, that's right.

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Speaker 1: Heine was a quarterback. And yeah, they played a good

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Speaker 1: game too in the playoffs. I mean they hung tough

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01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:44,639
Speaker 1: for a while there there. Yeah, but they were seven

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01:11:44,680 --> 01:11:46,679
Speaker 1: and nine in the playoffs. And I remember Seattle several

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01:11:46,840 --> 01:11:49,400
Speaker 1: years ago, was it seven and nine? Team won the West?

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Speaker 1: And you know, they had, they had a play in

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Speaker 1: a playoff game, hosted a playoff game because they were

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01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:57,439
Speaker 1: the division winners, right, that's seven and nine. They hosted

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01:11:57,520 --> 01:12:02,160
Speaker 1: like a ten win team. Yeah, they hosted. Uh, it's crazy.

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Speaker 1: I think it was, like was it. It doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: It's a remote possibility, and I don't think you have

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01:12:08,720 --> 01:12:10,639
Speaker 1: to worry about three games in the front three games

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01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:12,240
Speaker 1: at the back of the schedule being I get I

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Speaker 1: like it. I think it's great because it does leave

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Speaker 1: some drama open. Certainly, it does leave open the possibility

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Speaker 1: of a of stinkers at the end of the game

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Speaker 1: at the end of the season. Two, particularly for of

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Speaker 1: division that the NFC East was last year, where all

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Speaker 1: these teams are there. You know, they all happen to

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Speaker 1: have a down year at the same time, you know, Washington, Dallas, Philly,

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01:12:31,960 --> 01:12:36,320
Speaker 1: and New York m But that doesn't happen all that often, no,

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Speaker 1: So I think it's a bunch on more occasions than not.

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Speaker 1: It would be a good thing to have the division

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Speaker 1: games very early and very late. Right, Maybe not bang

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01:12:45,479 --> 01:12:47,760
Speaker 1: bang bang all in a row, but most of them here,

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Speaker 1: most of them there. I get it. Let's squeeze Marty

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01:12:51,080 --> 01:12:52,880
Speaker 1: from east Rory in here before we go to break.

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Speaker 1: What do you got Marty? Hey, real quick, just looking

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Speaker 1: at the Bill's opening regular season against the super Bowl Rams,

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01:13:01,720 --> 01:13:03,800
Speaker 1: I think it's a perfect game. I think it's the

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01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:07,160
Speaker 1: game in September that should have been played in February. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're not You're not the first person to say that. Well,

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01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:15,120
Speaker 1: and you know, I would think any of the repeat

1334
01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:20,320
Speaker 1: players from the last year, they're gonna go at these

1335
01:13:20,439 --> 01:13:24,720
Speaker 1: guys like crazy just to prove a point that they

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01:13:24,760 --> 01:13:27,720
Speaker 1: should have been there. And if they had been there, uh,

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01:13:28,280 --> 01:13:31,559
Speaker 1: they'd be super Bowl champs. That's just my take on it. Yeah,

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01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:33,920
Speaker 1: hopefully there are men on a mission for sure. Thanks

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01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:37,320
Speaker 1: for the call, Marty, appreciate it. Um. Yeah, I think

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01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:39,680
Speaker 1: there might be some of those feelings resurfacing. If this,

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01:13:39,800 --> 01:13:43,320
Speaker 1: in fact is the kickoff game, you know, week one,

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01:13:43,760 --> 01:13:46,439
Speaker 1: Thursday night, September, it will be very hard for a

1343
01:13:46,479 --> 01:13:48,680
Speaker 1: lot of Bills fans not to think, hey, you know,

1344
01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:50,880
Speaker 1: this could have been the super Bowl seven months ago.

1345
01:13:52,720 --> 01:13:55,160
Speaker 1: They'll get those questions when it comes up. No question

1346
01:13:55,200 --> 01:13:57,840
Speaker 1: about if the game does happen in the opening game,

1347
01:13:57,920 --> 01:13:59,840
Speaker 1: that it'll be the question of the story of the week.

1348
01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:02,719
Speaker 1: Could this have been the Super Bowl. YadA, YadA, YadA.

1349
01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:05,360
Speaker 1: It's not gonna matter because it's gonna be a different

1350
01:14:05,360 --> 01:14:08,240
Speaker 1: team on both sides of the ball. Yeah, so yeah,

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01:14:08,280 --> 01:14:10,519
Speaker 1: it sounds good now two weeks after the last season

1352
01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:14,559
Speaker 1: was over, but the wounds are still fresh, Steve. Yeah,

1353
01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:19,280
Speaker 1: so yeah, just beat him. I mean, you gotta go

1354
01:14:19,320 --> 01:14:20,640
Speaker 1: out there and play, and it's going to be a

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01:14:20,720 --> 01:14:22,559
Speaker 1: new season and get off to a better start than

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01:14:22,640 --> 01:14:25,280
Speaker 1: did last year. All right, break time for us here

1357
01:14:25,479 --> 01:14:27,200
Speaker 1: when we come back, we'll get some of your thoughts

1358
01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:30,320
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet, and we hope to be joined

1359
01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:32,920
Speaker 1: in the final half hour of the show by NFL

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01:14:33,000 --> 01:14:36,479
Speaker 1: Networks A D D. King Kawalla, who is busy covering

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01:14:36,640 --> 01:14:40,960
Speaker 1: some stuff with the Steelers today, which includes the hiring

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01:14:41,160 --> 01:14:44,679
Speaker 1: of former Dolphins head coach Brian Flores and a press

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01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:48,680
Speaker 1: conference withoutgoing Pittsburgh JM. Kevin Colbert. We'll see what she

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01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:51,479
Speaker 1: has for us when we catch up with her in

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01:14:51,560 --> 01:14:54,120
Speaker 1: the not too distant future. Here Later in the show's

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Speaker 1: one Bill's Live, Stay tuned, und you want to Real

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01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:14,000
Speaker 1: Live for Crowns After Week You Sports Business Journals, John

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01:15:14,080 --> 01:15:17,639
Speaker 1: Allaran was talking about the strong possibility that the Bills

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01:15:17,640 --> 01:15:20,120
Speaker 1: would be the season kickoff game against the Rams, the

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Speaker 1: defending Super Bowl champs, Week one in La at Sofi.

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Speaker 1: What do you say? You like it, you don't like it?

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01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:29,200
Speaker 1: Be the best? You gotta beat the best. You gotta

1373
01:15:29,200 --> 01:15:30,720
Speaker 1: see what we think about that. We'll get to some

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01:15:30,840 --> 01:15:33,560
Speaker 1: comments on the tweet sheet very shortly, but before we

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01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:36,519
Speaker 1: do that, please to be joined now by NFL Network

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01:15:36,600 --> 01:15:41,360
Speaker 1: reporter and host of the NFL Explained podcast that dd

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01:15:41,479 --> 01:15:43,439
Speaker 1: King Kaball is going to be joining us here shortly,

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01:15:45,080 --> 01:15:47,000
Speaker 1: so we'll be talking with her. And the reason we're

1379
01:15:47,040 --> 01:15:50,120
Speaker 1: getting her on is because she's on the Pittsburgh Beat today, Steve.

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01:15:50,760 --> 01:15:53,439
Speaker 1: And as you know, the Bills are playing the AFC

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01:15:53,640 --> 01:15:57,280
Speaker 1: North next season, the entire division top to bottom, including

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01:15:57,320 --> 01:16:00,360
Speaker 1: the AFC champion Cincinnati Bengals, where she was camp out

1383
01:16:00,680 --> 01:16:04,360
Speaker 1: for the better part of January um covering that team's

1384
01:16:04,400 --> 01:16:06,680
Speaker 1: playoff run. So we wanted to get her thoughts on that,

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01:16:07,640 --> 01:16:11,120
Speaker 1: and then also uh the Pittsburgh Steelers where she was

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01:16:11,240 --> 01:16:14,200
Speaker 1: very busy today. So I think we have a DDY

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01:16:14,240 --> 01:16:17,400
Speaker 1: with us now, so add thanks for joining us. How

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01:16:17,520 --> 01:16:21,280
Speaker 1: are things in Pittsburgh? GM Kevin Colbert talking today right,

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01:16:22,280 --> 01:16:24,920
Speaker 1: he was he He used a lot of words, but

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01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:28,840
Speaker 1: he didn't really say much. Oh, that tends to happen. Talk,

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01:16:30,120 --> 01:16:32,360
Speaker 1: that does tend to happen. Why do I feel so big?

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01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:34,680
Speaker 1: Why is my head so much bigger than your head? No,

1393
01:16:34,800 --> 01:16:37,120
Speaker 1: it's not. Feel like I've stood next to you. You're not.

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01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:38,720
Speaker 1: You're just as sall as me. And I'm not a

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01:16:38,760 --> 01:16:41,200
Speaker 1: big person. D D. That's the way we want it. Um.

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01:16:43,040 --> 01:16:45,519
Speaker 1: Give us what you drinking, Steve, Are you drinking a

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01:16:45,560 --> 01:16:47,760
Speaker 1: beer right now? Yes? I am, And it's no, I'm not.

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01:16:48,080 --> 01:16:51,439
Speaker 1: Is that it's no, it's the sweet one. Um, give

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01:16:51,520 --> 01:16:53,959
Speaker 1: us an idea of what the tenor was in Pittsburgh.

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01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:57,759
Speaker 1: They hired Brian Flores as an assistant, the senior defensive assistant,

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01:16:57,840 --> 01:17:01,000
Speaker 1: and and the GM came out and had some things

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01:17:01,040 --> 01:17:04,040
Speaker 1: to say about it. Well, sure, okay, So first, I

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01:17:04,120 --> 01:17:06,439
Speaker 1: think the thing to establish is that Kevin Colbert, after

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01:17:06,600 --> 01:17:08,519
Speaker 1: this many years I believe it's twenty two years with

1405
01:17:08,600 --> 01:17:12,040
Speaker 1: the Steelers, is indeed stepping aside. He said that last

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01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:15,760
Speaker 1: May he told Mike Tomlin and Art Rooney, team owner

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01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:18,240
Speaker 1: and president Art Rooney that this would be his final season.

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01:17:18,360 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 1: But for the last few years Kevin has been on

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01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:24,439
Speaker 1: a one year contract, and he's privately at least said

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01:17:24,520 --> 01:17:26,280
Speaker 1: that he was tying his career to the end of

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Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger's career, So we knew Roethlisberger was coming back

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01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:31,920
Speaker 1: for one year, Kevin was coming back for one year.

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01:17:32,120 --> 01:17:36,320
Speaker 1: There you go. But Kevin Colbert is indeed staying through

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01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 1: the draft. And I very specifically asked him because I

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01:17:39,320 --> 01:17:41,559
Speaker 1: was thinking about the Ravens and Ozzie Newsom a few

1416
01:17:41,680 --> 01:17:45,760
Speaker 1: years ago, where we knew Ozzie Newsome was stepping back

1417
01:17:46,080 --> 01:17:49,920
Speaker 1: in some way, but that Eric da Costa was succeeding him,

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01:17:50,320 --> 01:17:52,800
Speaker 1: and the two kind of worked together. There will not

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01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:55,160
Speaker 1: be a fourth voice for the Steelers. The Steelers do

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01:17:55,360 --> 01:17:59,400
Speaker 1: not plan on naming their Kevin Colbert's successor, So you've

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01:17:59,479 --> 01:18:02,920
Speaker 1: got aren't Rooney, Mike Tomlin and Kevin Colbert picking a

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01:18:03,040 --> 01:18:06,240
Speaker 1: team that Kevin Colbert will not be the general manage

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01:18:06,240 --> 01:18:11,280
Speaker 1: for manager for in the fall. However, this has always

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01:18:11,280 --> 01:18:13,880
Speaker 1: been a very collaborative effort, So it's not as if

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01:18:14,360 --> 01:18:16,800
Speaker 1: Kevin Colbert is going to go out there and choose

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01:18:16,840 --> 01:18:19,800
Speaker 1: a quarterback that he will then saddle his successor with

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01:18:20,479 --> 01:18:23,719
Speaker 1: any choice, any selection. Anything that happens in the draft

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Speaker 1: or free agency, will of course have heavy, heavy, heavy

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Speaker 1: input from Mike Tomlin. So what's interesting here Steeler's quarterback

1430
01:18:34,080 --> 01:18:36,840
Speaker 1: is currently Mason Rudolph, who's been here for four years,

1431
01:18:36,960 --> 01:18:40,479
Speaker 1: who's shown us exactly who he is in four years.

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01:18:40,640 --> 01:18:44,040
Speaker 1: Although he has said that perhaps having ownership of the

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01:18:44,160 --> 01:18:47,280
Speaker 1: room and not being Ben Roethlisberger's understudy may help him

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01:18:47,360 --> 01:18:50,559
Speaker 1: to some degree, still, it's not as if Mason Rudolph

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01:18:50,600 --> 01:18:52,880
Speaker 1: has set the world a fire. Then you've also got

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01:18:53,040 --> 01:18:55,960
Speaker 1: former first round picked Dwayne Haskins here who's got all

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01:18:56,000 --> 01:18:59,559
Speaker 1: the talent in the world but could never push Mason Rudolph.

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Speaker 1: And today Kevin Colbert said, if the season were to

1439
01:19:03,439 --> 01:19:07,800
Speaker 1: start today, Mason Rudolph would be our starter. The Steers are, however,

1440
01:19:07,920 --> 01:19:10,680
Speaker 1: going to bring in two more quarterbacks. So why am

1441
01:19:10,720 --> 01:19:13,160
Speaker 1: I bringing this back to Brian Flores? Because, of course,

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01:19:13,200 --> 01:19:15,479
Speaker 1: Brian Flores, even though he's a defensive coach, did have

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01:19:15,600 --> 01:19:20,120
Speaker 1: sort of an interesting play and who his quarterbacks should

1444
01:19:20,160 --> 01:19:22,120
Speaker 1: be or should not be, or what he thought, and

1445
01:19:22,280 --> 01:19:26,640
Speaker 1: that was part of his genesis of maybe being not

1446
01:19:27,160 --> 01:19:29,800
Speaker 1: the best fit in Miami. Right, guys, you maybe notice

1447
01:19:29,800 --> 01:19:31,920
Speaker 1: a little bit better than I do. Since you covered

1448
01:19:31,960 --> 01:19:35,519
Speaker 1: that division. You're right, Yeah, there's been lots of rumblings.

1449
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:37,920
Speaker 1: He wasn't completely sold on TA did the best with

1450
01:19:38,040 --> 01:19:41,160
Speaker 1: what he had and he certainly played a little bit

1451
01:19:41,200 --> 01:19:43,880
Speaker 1: of yo yo two years ago in twenty twenty with

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01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:47,400
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick and Tuah. So yeah, and we heard rumblings

1453
01:19:47,439 --> 01:19:50,280
Speaker 1: behind the scenes too that he didn't want to in

1454
01:19:50,400 --> 01:19:54,720
Speaker 1: the first place, and ownership he wanted justin hurt. And

1455
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Speaker 1: then since then, as we've been hearing about whether Brian

1456
01:19:57,680 --> 01:20:03,400
Speaker 1: Flores was indeed encouraged to lose games. Part of that

1457
01:20:03,800 --> 01:20:06,880
Speaker 1: was because could Joe Burrow be available? But here's the saying,

1458
01:20:06,960 --> 01:20:08,920
Speaker 1: here's the thing about Brian Flores, and here's what he's

1459
01:20:08,920 --> 01:20:12,840
Speaker 1: been consistent on. He felt his number one job was

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01:20:12,880 --> 01:20:15,120
Speaker 1: winning games and that was that. And I can't tell

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01:20:15,160 --> 01:20:17,880
Speaker 1: you how many coaches I've spoken to about this, not

1462
01:20:18,080 --> 01:20:20,240
Speaker 1: just in the Flores situation, but even as we talk

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01:20:20,280 --> 01:20:22,960
Speaker 1: about the Steelers, if you recall, the Steelers kind of

1464
01:20:23,040 --> 01:20:25,439
Speaker 1: backed into the playoffs on the final day of the

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01:20:25,520 --> 01:20:28,120
Speaker 1: season and there was some talk that they would be

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Speaker 1: left out if the Raiders and the Chargers finished in

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Speaker 1: a tie in that crazy Sunday night game. There is

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Speaker 1: not one coach that I spoke to in the NFL

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Speaker 1: that actually thought that that game would end in a tie,

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Speaker 1: that the two teams would throw up their hands and

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01:20:41,320 --> 01:20:44,080
Speaker 1: say that. And one of the coaches that I spoke

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Speaker 1: too probably put it the most cleanly when he said,

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01:20:46,240 --> 01:20:49,040
Speaker 1: how could you possibly do that when every single day

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01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:52,000
Speaker 1: the number one thing that you teach is you sell

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01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:55,280
Speaker 1: out in every way possible to win. So then how

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01:20:55,360 --> 01:20:57,080
Speaker 1: do you keep that locker room and how do you

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01:20:57,240 --> 01:21:00,120
Speaker 1: keep that team if you do anything that is not

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01:21:00,280 --> 01:21:03,120
Speaker 1: to win. So to that point, you have to admire

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01:21:03,200 --> 01:21:06,880
Speaker 1: the fact that no matter what, Brian Flores will stay

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01:21:06,920 --> 01:21:09,880
Speaker 1: true to that. Brian Flores is obviously way, way, way

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01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:14,040
Speaker 1: overqualified then to be a linebackers coach and a senior

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01:21:14,160 --> 01:21:18,400
Speaker 1: defensive assistant here in Pittsburgh. But as GM Kevin Colbert

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01:21:18,400 --> 01:21:21,000
Speaker 1: said today, what is this great statement that the Steelers

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01:21:21,040 --> 01:21:26,160
Speaker 1: are making in offering Brian Flores a job when he could,

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01:21:26,360 --> 01:21:30,639
Speaker 1: in theory be facing much backlash? And Kevin Colbert didn't

1486
01:21:30,640 --> 01:21:32,400
Speaker 1: want to play that game. He's the only statement that

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01:21:32,439 --> 01:21:34,800
Speaker 1: we're making is that we hired a really, really good,

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01:21:35,280 --> 01:21:39,240
Speaker 1: high quality defensive coach who we believe is going to

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01:21:39,400 --> 01:21:43,120
Speaker 1: help us win games. Now, of course, as everybody knows

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01:21:43,160 --> 01:21:46,160
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, it's Mike Tomlin who designs and runs and

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01:21:46,320 --> 01:21:49,280
Speaker 1: calls this defense. So now he's got Terrell Austin, who

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01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:52,000
Speaker 1: also has been a very successful defensive coordinator in this

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01:21:52,120 --> 01:21:54,559
Speaker 1: league and should be a head coaching candidate and has been.

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01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:57,360
Speaker 1: And he's got Brian Flores who has been a successful

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01:21:57,439 --> 01:22:00,760
Speaker 1: head coach and has run defenses success fully. Now he's

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01:22:00,760 --> 01:22:03,759
Speaker 1: got these voices in the room. How does that change

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01:22:03,760 --> 01:22:05,960
Speaker 1: what the Steelers do? Does that get more out of

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01:22:06,040 --> 01:22:08,920
Speaker 1: the Steelers players? Does it get more out of this defense?

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01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:11,360
Speaker 1: Does it push Mike Tomlin as a coach in certain ways?

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Speaker 1: And all things that we'll find out this season. Yeah,

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01:22:14,960 --> 01:22:18,960
Speaker 1: and I realized too. You know, Mike Tomlin doesn't worry

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01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:23,439
Speaker 1: about outside influences impacting the decisions that he feels are

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01:22:23,479 --> 01:22:26,439
Speaker 1: best for his football team. So when I saw this happen,

1504
01:22:27,040 --> 01:22:28,960
Speaker 1: you know, the first thing I thought of, you might

1505
01:22:29,000 --> 01:22:32,759
Speaker 1: be bringing a little extra distraction to your club, knowing

1506
01:22:32,880 --> 01:22:35,400
Speaker 1: you're going to have national reporters swooping in every week

1507
01:22:35,479 --> 01:22:40,040
Speaker 1: and asking questions about the flora is higher, the impact, etc. Etc.

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01:22:41,680 --> 01:22:45,880
Speaker 1: Knowing Mike Tomlin like you do. What are you anticipating

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01:22:46,040 --> 01:22:48,880
Speaker 1: his answers to be to those kinds of questions when

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01:22:48,920 --> 01:22:54,240
Speaker 1: they inevitably come up, you know, training camp, the fall, etc. Guys,

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01:22:54,280 --> 01:22:57,920
Speaker 1: I'm laughing because, luck, there is nobody in my life

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01:22:58,000 --> 01:23:00,599
Speaker 1: that I have ever met. In twelve years of covering

1513
01:23:00,600 --> 01:23:03,679
Speaker 1: the National Football League and in forty years of being alive,

1514
01:23:04,040 --> 01:23:07,200
Speaker 1: I have never met anybody who is better at not

1515
01:23:07,479 --> 01:23:11,040
Speaker 1: answering a question he doesn't want to answer than Mike Tomlin.

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01:23:11,600 --> 01:23:14,360
Speaker 1: So if Mike Tomlin doesn't want to talk about it,

1517
01:23:14,439 --> 01:23:16,519
Speaker 1: if Mike Talalin doesn't want to address it, if Mike

1518
01:23:16,600 --> 01:23:20,880
Speaker 1: Tomlin doesn't want to make it a sidelight of a story,

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01:23:21,400 --> 01:23:24,559
Speaker 1: he won't. So it's just this is a very very

1520
01:23:24,680 --> 01:23:31,360
Speaker 1: good club at eliminating what should be external distractions or

1521
01:23:31,439 --> 01:23:35,600
Speaker 1: what could be external distractions. So that almost is not

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01:23:36,240 --> 01:23:39,120
Speaker 1: to me. The far more intriguing storyline is how much

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01:23:39,160 --> 01:23:41,559
Speaker 1: of a voice does TA have in the meeting room?

1524
01:23:41,640 --> 01:23:45,080
Speaker 1: How much of a voice does Brian Flores have? Brian

1525
01:23:45,120 --> 01:23:47,559
Speaker 1: Flores and Minca Fitzpatrick, who of course is the Steelers

1526
01:23:47,640 --> 01:23:52,960
Speaker 1: star free safety, didn't exactly have the best divorce, let's

1527
01:23:53,000 --> 01:23:56,360
Speaker 1: call it from Miami. How does that play itself out.

1528
01:23:57,200 --> 01:23:59,640
Speaker 1: Devin Bush, who the Steelers moved up for in the

1529
01:23:59,720 --> 01:24:02,320
Speaker 1: draft a few years ago and just fresh off of

1530
01:24:02,400 --> 01:24:05,120
Speaker 1: ACL surgery a year ago, is a little bit disappointing.

1531
01:24:05,400 --> 01:24:09,040
Speaker 1: Does he indeed have a monster year this year? Improved

1532
01:24:09,240 --> 01:24:12,120
Speaker 1: that he is on the same page as a Devin White.

1533
01:24:12,280 --> 01:24:14,720
Speaker 1: You know what, these are far more intriguing questions to

1534
01:24:14,840 --> 01:24:18,680
Speaker 1: me than how the Steelers handle Brian Floor as being

1535
01:24:18,720 --> 01:24:20,519
Speaker 1: a member of their staff. Right, here's my que I've

1536
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:23,200
Speaker 1: been holding off as my final question for you, I think,

1537
01:24:23,320 --> 01:24:25,360
Speaker 1: and it's always been my thought. There's a ton of

1538
01:24:25,439 --> 01:24:27,559
Speaker 1: respect from Mike Tomlin around the league. And I saw

1539
01:24:27,680 --> 01:24:29,879
Speaker 1: a little bit of a video exchange when the Pittsburgh

1540
01:24:29,880 --> 01:24:33,240
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers played the Green Bay Packers from he and

1541
01:24:33,320 --> 01:24:35,960
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers exchanging a little glad face and laugh at

1542
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:38,439
Speaker 1: each other because Rogers had him and he called a

1543
01:24:38,479 --> 01:24:40,760
Speaker 1: time out before Rogers could take advantage of it. And

1544
01:24:40,880 --> 01:24:46,080
Speaker 1: the little exchange between two guys eye level thinkers. Steelers

1545
01:24:46,120 --> 01:24:50,240
Speaker 1: got some cap space, got some cachet around the league,

1546
01:24:50,320 --> 01:24:53,200
Speaker 1: and you know all that, and some receivers and some receivers,

1547
01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:58,439
Speaker 1: what are they to me? They are the perfect landing

1548
01:24:58,560 --> 01:25:01,280
Speaker 1: spot for Aaron rod Jersey, if the Green Bay Packers

1549
01:25:01,320 --> 01:25:03,639
Speaker 1: going to make a trade, he's at a conference over

1550
01:25:03,720 --> 01:25:05,960
Speaker 1: into another division, they won't see him. It's you know

1551
01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:08,400
Speaker 1: what I mean, all of that stuff. The Steelers can

1552
01:25:08,479 --> 01:25:10,400
Speaker 1: afford him if they so desire. It would be a

1553
01:25:10,400 --> 01:25:12,960
Speaker 1: seamless transition from one Hall of Fame quarterback to another.

1554
01:25:13,360 --> 01:25:16,760
Speaker 1: Handicapin yeah, and he and they wouldn't have to They

1555
01:25:16,760 --> 01:25:19,280
Speaker 1: could sign him to whatever can Aaron Rodger, did you

1556
01:25:19,320 --> 01:25:21,840
Speaker 1: see a scenario and how unlikely or likely do you

1557
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:24,640
Speaker 1: think that that could happen? I think it's perfect. Like

1558
01:25:24,720 --> 01:25:26,800
Speaker 1: he did say that he loves that Pittsburgh accent, right,

1559
01:25:26,920 --> 01:25:29,599
Speaker 1: Michaelcarthy was his head coach for a long time. Alex Vanpel,

1560
01:25:29,680 --> 01:25:32,639
Speaker 1: also from Pittsburgh, was his quarterbacks coach. You know, guys,

1561
01:25:32,720 --> 01:25:34,560
Speaker 1: I just this is one of those things. And this

1562
01:25:34,680 --> 01:25:36,880
Speaker 1: is another thing that Kevin Colbert was asked about today.

1563
01:25:37,640 --> 01:25:39,880
Speaker 1: There's more cap room, just as you said, than the

1564
01:25:39,920 --> 01:25:43,639
Speaker 1: Steelers have ever had in Colbert's tenure. But he also said,

1565
01:25:43,840 --> 01:25:46,479
Speaker 1: I just don't view us as being that front of

1566
01:25:46,520 --> 01:25:49,679
Speaker 1: the line, hyper aggressive team when it comes to free agency.

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01:25:50,080 --> 01:25:52,080
Speaker 1: Does that mean that they can? Does that they mean

1568
01:25:52,160 --> 01:25:55,080
Speaker 1: that they wouldn't know. It just doesn't seem like it's

1569
01:25:55,160 --> 01:25:57,920
Speaker 1: really in the realm of possibility. And look, the Steelers

1570
01:25:58,000 --> 01:26:00,479
Speaker 1: need to rebuild their offensive line, they need to shore

1571
01:26:00,560 --> 01:26:02,840
Speaker 1: up their defensive front. They need to find themselves another

1572
01:26:02,920 --> 01:26:06,679
Speaker 1: inside linebacker, they need to get themselves another corner. There

1573
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:09,680
Speaker 1: are a lot of needs here. So it's hard to

1574
01:26:09,800 --> 01:26:12,360
Speaker 1: say that they're just going to throw everything in the quarterback,

1575
01:26:12,439 --> 01:26:15,200
Speaker 1: even if that quarterback is indeed Aaron Rodgers. It's just

1576
01:26:15,479 --> 01:26:20,320
Speaker 1: hard to see that happening in this moment. You know,

1577
01:26:20,400 --> 01:26:23,200
Speaker 1: I don't I don't see them taking hometown hero Kenny Pickett.

1578
01:26:23,360 --> 01:26:25,160
Speaker 1: But it's almost like I see Kenny Pickett as being

1579
01:26:25,200 --> 01:26:27,559
Speaker 1: more likely than Aaron Rodgers. Wow, you guys really think

1580
01:26:27,600 --> 01:26:29,720
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is leaving Green Bay or is it? Well, no,

1581
01:26:29,960 --> 01:26:32,920
Speaker 1: not at this point, but Steve had had early, early

1582
01:26:33,040 --> 01:26:35,920
Speaker 1: designs on him going there, and I would think I

1583
01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:39,519
Speaker 1: would say that, I think it's more likely in this

1584
01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:42,320
Speaker 1: point in history in the NFL than it's ever been

1585
01:26:42,360 --> 01:26:44,479
Speaker 1: for a franchise guy like that. But I would say

1586
01:26:44,520 --> 01:26:49,160
Speaker 1: this as well, despite the whatever acrimony there may be,

1587
01:26:49,320 --> 01:26:53,360
Speaker 1: whether it's deep seated and irreparable or not, between Aaron

1588
01:26:53,439 --> 01:26:58,040
Speaker 1: Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers. I can't imagine a franchise,

1589
01:26:58,200 --> 01:27:01,320
Speaker 1: even the Packers, who are publicly owned, trading away at

1590
01:27:01,360 --> 01:27:06,400
Speaker 1: two time, two time consecutive MVP. And it's I don't

1591
01:27:06,520 --> 01:27:10,800
Speaker 1: easier to win in the NFC North than the AFC North. Yeah. Well,

1592
01:27:10,840 --> 01:27:12,880
Speaker 1: and that's so interesting that you say that. Okay, so

1593
01:27:13,040 --> 01:27:15,000
Speaker 1: do you have a pick in the AFC North? I mean,

1594
01:27:15,080 --> 01:27:18,120
Speaker 1: are the Bengals the automatic favorite or after seeing Joe

1595
01:27:18,200 --> 01:27:22,839
Speaker 1: Burrow absolutely demolished the way that he was seventy sacks,

1596
01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:24,960
Speaker 1: do you sit here and say no. I think that

1597
01:27:25,800 --> 01:27:29,760
Speaker 1: if the Ravens get healthy, they're challenging the Bengals. Absolutely,

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01:27:29,920 --> 01:27:31,960
Speaker 1: I think it could. I mean, look, the Bengals were

1599
01:27:32,080 --> 01:27:34,920
Speaker 1: what the last place team in twenty twenty, and they

1600
01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:38,880
Speaker 1: flipped the script on everybody that that divisions so competitive,

1601
01:27:38,960 --> 01:27:40,639
Speaker 1: and I think it's such a tight raise I ain't

1602
01:27:40,680 --> 01:27:44,559
Speaker 1: could flip again very easily. Very Cleveland's not getting less talented,

1603
01:27:44,760 --> 01:27:48,479
Speaker 1: so we'll see. Yeah. Yeah, it's very interesting to see

1604
01:27:48,520 --> 01:27:51,400
Speaker 1: what happens at the quarterback position. Though the Browns do

1605
01:27:51,680 --> 01:27:55,200
Speaker 1: need wide receivers for sure, But is Baker the guy?

1606
01:27:55,360 --> 01:27:58,760
Speaker 1: Does Baker bounced back as Andrew Berry said, or do

1607
01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:00,880
Speaker 1: the Browns make a break from I think that that's

1608
01:28:00,920 --> 01:28:03,280
Speaker 1: an intriguing storyline in the division as well. Yeah, and

1609
01:28:03,360 --> 01:28:05,880
Speaker 1: you and Buffalo should be so deliriously happy that you

1610
01:28:06,000 --> 01:28:08,599
Speaker 1: have your guy. People are pretty over the moon. Yes,

1611
01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:12,360
Speaker 1: but add unfortunately we are out of time. We thank

1612
01:28:12,439 --> 01:28:15,800
Speaker 1: you for making some time for us today, So thanks

1613
01:28:15,840 --> 01:28:17,760
Speaker 1: for wedging us in. We know you were busy. We

1614
01:28:17,840 --> 01:28:20,120
Speaker 1: will be sure to pick up this conversation later on

1615
01:28:20,200 --> 01:28:23,040
Speaker 1: this offseason. We'll catch up with you soon. Can't wait.

1616
01:28:23,120 --> 01:28:24,920
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for having me. All Right, that's a

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01:28:24,960 --> 01:28:28,160
Speaker 1: d D King Kabwala from NFL Network joining us. We'll

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01:28:28,200 --> 01:28:30,559
Speaker 1: probably catch up with her sometime down the line as promised,

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01:28:30,720 --> 01:28:32,559
Speaker 1: But for now we break. We're back in a second

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01:28:32,600 --> 01:28:45,280
Speaker 1: here on one Bill's Lot, brought to you by Corrigan

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Speaker 1: Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company the Buffalo Bills.

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01:28:48,400 --> 01:28:50,439
Speaker 1: JT says, Yes, put us in the stadium we should

1623
01:28:50,439 --> 01:28:53,120
Speaker 1: have been in on February thirteenth. We would have smoked

1624
01:28:53,160 --> 01:28:55,240
Speaker 1: either team in the Super Bowl. Neither team would have

1625
01:28:55,280 --> 01:28:58,000
Speaker 1: been a match for our high power point stacking offense.

1626
01:28:58,360 --> 01:29:00,800
Speaker 1: Start the season off beating the Super Bowl champs. The

1627
01:29:00,840 --> 01:29:03,880
Speaker 1: week after that, bring on the Chiefs, and then NICKI,

1628
01:29:03,920 --> 01:29:07,439
Speaker 1: in a very selfish manner, says, heck no, I'm not

1629
01:29:07,479 --> 01:29:09,280
Speaker 1: gonna try go into that game. That's way too early

1630
01:29:09,320 --> 01:29:11,080
Speaker 1: in the season to make it happen. I gotta get

1631
01:29:11,120 --> 01:29:15,080
Speaker 1: to the game. Forget you guys. It's about me nick

1632
01:29:15,120 --> 01:29:16,920
Speaker 1: He's a little bit on my wavelength, right, That's all

1633
01:29:16,920 --> 01:29:18,720
Speaker 1: about it. We'll see you tomorrow at once