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Speaker 1: Oh, a good time of Steve Taskers dos Dos do time,

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Speaker 1: and then welcome to the show. Welcome to Wednesday, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to schedule release day around the National Football League. It's

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Speaker 1: a beautiful Sunday day in Orchard Park, New York. John

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Speaker 1: Murphy and Steve Tasker here with One Bills Live from

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Speaker 1: Pretty good show lined up with everybody breathlessly awaiting the

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Speaker 1: release of the schedule. Right The NFL schedule comes out

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Speaker 1: Hey Murph, It's good to be back. It's really right.

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Speaker 1: A little sunshine, a little warmer, but yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: back off the caffeine. Today and he goes, I haven't

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Speaker 1: I'm back in the saddle. The weather makes a difference, right,

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Speaker 1: it's fifty three degrees, A little sunshine which we haven't

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Speaker 1: And look, here's the thing. The schedule comes out officially

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Speaker 1: Some of them do, some of them I've seen. I've

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Speaker 1: eight and eight records. So it was just four years

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Speaker 1: ago Cowboys played up here and they did played late

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Speaker 1: in a year and sixteen to six. Is that what

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Speaker 1: he was looking forward? Beating the snot out of him?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if that qualified. I

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Speaker 1: think a win is a win, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: here's a call from Dan and Daytona. Dan, you're on

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Speaker 1: the air with this. How are you doing, guys? It's happy, Dad,

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Speaker 1: Just call me happy. I'm very excited about the schedule.

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Speaker 1: I agree that the players. But there's a game that

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Speaker 1: intrigues me that's got nothing to do with Buffalo. Who's that.

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Speaker 1: I would love to see New England versus New Orleans

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Speaker 1: on national television. They don't play each other this year. See,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't sure. Yeah, I'm not. Why is that generation? Why?

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Speaker 1: Because of what happened? It should have been New Orleans

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Speaker 1: against New England in the Super Bowl last year? Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got you be a game? Yeah yeah. The NFL

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Speaker 1: didn't even consider that. Well, well, they didn't have a choice.

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Speaker 1: The schedule locked, I mean your your opponents, I mean

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Speaker 1: the Bills right now, except for the divisions, they know

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Speaker 1: which division they're gonna play next year out of the

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Speaker 1: AFC East, in both the AFC and the NFC so

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Speaker 1: and it just comes down to who finishes first, second, third,

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Speaker 1: and fourth. So you can kind of project who they're

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Speaker 1: going to play. And they knew three years ago that

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Speaker 1: they weren't going to play the New Orleans Saints this year.

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Speaker 1: But that's kind of the way it is now. You

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Speaker 1: just finding out what day in time game to watch

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Speaker 1: after what happened last year in the play Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: get you, it's intriguing because there's a lot of but

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Speaker 1: I think it's different than playing them in Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: fifty three, is a little different than playing them on

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Speaker 1: Opening Day. I think the Saints have been legitimate Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl contenders the last two years, and in both cases

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Speaker 1: they were kind of shocked out of the playoffs right

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Speaker 1: last year with a bad call, the NKEL Robie Coleman call.

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Speaker 1: The year before with the play in Minnesota, the miracle

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Speaker 1: finish in the game in Minnesota right that the Vikings won.

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Speaker 1: I think the last two years the Saints have been

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl caliber, and they showed it when they beat

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Speaker 1: beat up on the Bills here two seasons ago. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: i'd like to see them, you know, the windows closing

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Speaker 1: for the New Orleans Saints, right, they got to know

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Speaker 1: that they've they've had really good teams for a couple

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Speaker 1: of years and have not gone deep, deep into the

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Speaker 1: playoffs with them. So I would I would be concerned

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Speaker 1: about that. Well, yeah, I mean they went deep last

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Speaker 1: year and they were on the cusp. They were one

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Speaker 1: play away from getting into the Super Bowl, and two

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Speaker 1: years ago they still would have had another game to play.

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Speaker 1: They would have had to get through Atlanta two years ago,

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Speaker 1: or was it Philadelphia Philadelphia two years ago with Carson

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Speaker 1: Wentz and that crew or Nick Foles and that crew.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, but you're right, Murph, I think the tensions

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Speaker 1: running high. They're a little bit like the Mike McCarthy

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers Packers, who you know, beat beat the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: on the Dez Bryant play and then couldn't get into

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl on the next weekend, you know, they

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Speaker 1: on the no catch, you know, and then they'd also

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Speaker 1: lost on what was it? What was it? They lost

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Speaker 1: on another one play to get into the super Bowl

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Speaker 1: or into the championship game as well. So you gotta

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Speaker 1: make the plays late and it's the details that get

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Speaker 1: you the Saints or certainly victims of that. But it's

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Speaker 1: funny we're talking about the schedule today, which of these

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Speaker 1: games at the end of the season. You hope you're

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Speaker 1: kind of your teams in that right the chance of

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Speaker 1: were that one play gets you to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: The schedule comes out and to get in or out,

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Speaker 1: and you think all the quirky things that are gonna

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Speaker 1: happen in this schedule that we don't even have any

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Speaker 1: idea about, you know, two years ago where the Bills

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Speaker 1: back into the schedule, because it just so happens that

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Speaker 1: Baltimore and Cincinnati have that game at the end of

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Speaker 1: the season where we all have that moment for as

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Speaker 1: Bills fans, where they getting it was one of the

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Speaker 1: all time moments of the franchise in my opinion, getting

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Speaker 1: into the playoffs two years ago. And stuff like that's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen in this schedule too, that we're gonna find

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Speaker 1: out tonight. It's fun to think about. But you know,

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Speaker 1: when you're getting selfish, you know, like you can today.

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Speaker 1: Here's what I want to see, and it's fun. It's

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Speaker 1: fun to think about. And he's got You know, that

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Speaker 1: game between Dallas and New Orleans ain't gonna have or

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Speaker 1: New England and New Orleans ain't gonna happen this year.

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Speaker 1: They'll never see it. A tweet from Steve Noble on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. I just want to see an even

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Speaker 1: distribution of home games throughout the season. The Bills had

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Speaker 1: a gauntlet of tough road games in a row to

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Speaker 1: start the season last year, and then a string of

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Speaker 1: meaningless home games to the end of the year. I

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Speaker 1: just want to see some balance with home games all year.

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Speaker 1: The Bills played two of their first three in the

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Speaker 1: road last year, five of their first eight, so five

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Speaker 1: of the first half of the season. Um, I get.

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Speaker 1: Were they meaningless at home at the end of the year? Jets,

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Speaker 1: Detroit and Miami three of the last four at home.

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Speaker 1: It depends on how you de find meaningless. Some people

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Speaker 1: look at home games at the end of the year

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Speaker 1: and think that's good. I know Steve's Super Bowl Bills

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Speaker 1: of the nineties used to love playing at home right

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Speaker 1: in December when it's too cold for them. It's just

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Speaker 1: right for us. Oh yeah, you lost that, I think

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Speaker 1: a little bit. And there's a that's different. I don't

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Speaker 1: have a problem with it. If you're playing good, you're

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Speaker 1: playing good. You don't care if it's earlier late. You

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Speaker 1: certainly would love to have late season. If you're winning

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Speaker 1: early in the season, Yeah, you want to play at

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Speaker 1: home late because it's better. You want to have some

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Speaker 1: home playoff games too. So I like home games late

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Speaker 1: because it takes for granted you're gonna win your games

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Speaker 1: earlier in the season, give you make those games significant.

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Speaker 1: And they weren't able to do that last year because

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Speaker 1: the first four teams they played last year were with

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Speaker 1: the exception of Minnesota, who was coming off an incredible year,

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Speaker 1: the year is supposed to be good. I mean yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it was a crusher those first that first

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Speaker 1: month of the season, and and that the Bills struggle

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Speaker 1: to find themselves early on, so you know, they got

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Speaker 1: them off to that slow start and then they had

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Speaker 1: you know, five three of their first eight at home

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Speaker 1: and five on the road, and it was a crusher. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So it was a rough stretch last year, no question

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Speaker 1: about it. I think this is a different team this year.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a different team. The teams they're playing

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Speaker 1: are going to be completely different than they were a

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Speaker 1: year before. So you know, there's some some thoughts we

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Speaker 1: have on how to you know, project what the schedule

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Speaker 1: is going to be like. But you know even what

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Speaker 1: you mean, well, you know everybody goes like as fans,

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Speaker 1: you and I both do this. You go down and

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Speaker 1: you said, when that schedule comes out, you always go

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Speaker 1: when when loss, when when when lost? Win? You know,

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Speaker 1: you do all that. You know, you kind of go through,

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Speaker 1: but that's based on what we know about them from

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Speaker 1: last year. The best way to do it this year

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Speaker 1: is to go to our boys, you know, is to

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Speaker 1: go to the wise guys in Vegas and say, okay,

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Speaker 1: here's their projected win total this year. Now go down

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Speaker 1: to do a win loss win loss, win loss. That's

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Speaker 1: the best way to do it, or the most accurate

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Speaker 1: or historically even those have aberrations. That's they're not really

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Speaker 1: all true, and so that's who does that. Man, I'd

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Speaker 1: never take the time to do that. We're gonna do that, though.

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Speaker 1: You and I are gonna do that. Okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna break, We're gonna come back. We want to

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Speaker 1: hear more from you. What are you looking for in

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Speaker 1: this year's bill schedule? Some details leaking out. We don't

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Speaker 1: know the veracity of those details. We'll talk about it though.

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Speaker 1: Give us a call eight three fifty toll free one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Send it

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Speaker 1: a tweet. We might read it on the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: At One Bills Live. John Murphy, Steam Tasker just getting

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Speaker 1: started up here. One Bills Live, presented by Kalada Health

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. And this is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back One Bill's Life from One Bill Drive. I'm

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Speaker 1: John Murphy. This is Deep Tasker, Bills Wall of Famer

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Speaker 1: joining us as the clost today. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: we got on that topic. Hey, we're talking to the

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Speaker 1: topic of the day is the schedule that comes out

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Speaker 1: officially at eight o'clock tonight. Some leagues coming out from

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Speaker 1: various sources about the bills, none of them from Buffalo sources.

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Speaker 1: Niche Meta covers the Jets for the New York Daily News.

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Speaker 1: He says the Bills will open at the Jets in

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Speaker 1: week one. He says the Bills finish against the Jets

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Speaker 1: here in Orchard Park in week seventeen. That's what Moniche says.

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Speaker 1: Jeff Howe covers the Patriots for the Athletic dot Com.

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Speaker 1: He says the Bills will play at New England week sixteen,

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Speaker 1: and he says the Patriots come here in week four.

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Speaker 1: None of that verified. Those are just reports, just leaks

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Speaker 1: out there. We want to know from you if as

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Speaker 1: the schedule approaches the release date, what are you hoping for?

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Speaker 1: What would you like to see in the schedule for

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Speaker 1: your purposes or the Bills? What would be if there's

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Speaker 1: one game you're looking for specific time or date. Is

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Speaker 1: there some schedule quirk that you're looking for, maybe more

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Speaker 1: home games at the front end of the season. If

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Speaker 1: you were at the back end the schedule coming out,

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Speaker 1: what would you like to see from this year's Bill schedule?

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Speaker 1: That's the question we have on the table eight h

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Speaker 1: three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. You can do it on Twitter

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Speaker 1: at one Bills Live on Twitter on the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: John dubec I would like to see no Thursday night games,

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Speaker 1: one Sunday night game early in the season, and then

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Speaker 1: have one of our late season games flex to Monday night.

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Speaker 1: One of those must be Cleveland. Wow, that's pretty specific. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we can't really project flexes right at least not at

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Speaker 1: this point. No Thursday night game, one Sunday night game.

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Speaker 1: It'd be a stretch, I believe for the Bills again

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Speaker 1: on Sunday Night. It'd be a great thing if they did.

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Speaker 1: It is the premiere game, the weekly game, but it's

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Speaker 1: a stretch I think given the Bills record over the

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Speaker 1: last several years and given the market sides right, they

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Speaker 1: want to put the big draws on Sunday Night football. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's why you always see you always see all four

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Speaker 1: NFC East teams on Monday Night Football. You see all

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Speaker 1: four of them because it's Philly, Washington, Dallas, and New

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Speaker 1: York and you'll probably now, particularly with the Rams being

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Speaker 1: back in LA, you'll always see them on Monday Night Football.

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Speaker 1: Plus the play the fact that they were in the

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Speaker 1: primetime games, so they'll probably get one of each if

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Speaker 1: they're playing well and those games get flexed late in

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Speaker 1: the season. The best thing you can hope for, I think,

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Speaker 1: if you want to projected out there is having a

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Speaker 1: late season Monday Night Football game flex out flexed in

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Speaker 1: so that because that means your team is somebody everybody

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Speaker 1: wants to seem. So if you if that's what you want,

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Speaker 1: if that's what you're looking for, that is a dead

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Speaker 1: giveaway that you're having a great season. When your team

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Speaker 1: is flexed into Monday night Football, that's because you're playing

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Speaker 1: great and you're a hot commodity and they want you

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Speaker 1: on TV, National TV, Flexed into Sunday night Football, flexed

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00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,640
Speaker 1: into money football. Sunday night football has become the game

639
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: that everybody watches more so even than Monday Night Football.

640
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:09,600
Speaker 1: So if your game gets flexed into one of those

641
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 1: prime game primetime slots late, that's that's a big plus

642
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: for your team. That tells you exactly where you're at

643
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:17,920
Speaker 1: in the season. And I've read this and heard this,

644
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:19,800
Speaker 1: and we're gonna talk about the schedule a lot tomorrow,

645
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 1: by the way, with Mike North, who puts together the

646
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: schedule for the NFL. A lot of what the league

647
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 1: does on Sunday on flex games. Flex games are more

648
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: the result of games that are trying to get out

649
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 1: of right then the games are trying to get into

650
00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: It's where flex games come from typically, and I believe

651
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: that to be the case. But it's also I mean

652
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: the networks are I'm let's face it, the networks. It's

653
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 1: a cooperation with the league, but by the networks are like, listen,

654
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,960
Speaker 1: I don't you know if you've got that team, it's like,

655
00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:46,280
Speaker 1: I don't want to give that game up. You can't

656
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:49,000
Speaker 1: have that. I want that game on my network at three.

657
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:50,840
Speaker 1: I want that to be my second game of the

658
00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: double head or you know what I'm saying. So they

659
00:30:53,520 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: don't want to give it up. So there are certain

660
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: games they protect. They can protect a couple, and they

661
00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 1: do it early on and then then when things go

662
00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: differently and this matchup on Sunday night Monday night football

663
00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: becomes a dud, you know, well, then they want to

664
00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: get out of it, and the league makes it happen.

665
00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: I know CBS has had to bite their lip on

666
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: a number of occasions when a good game taken out

667
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,480
Speaker 1: of their you know, they kind of growl at them,

668
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 1: but yeah, they do it because they want to be

669
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 1: a good partner. Nevertheless, the league has that power to

670
00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 1: do it. So that's kind of what you want. You

671
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: want your team to be one of those that everybody

672
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,560
Speaker 1: wants to see and takes the place of a dud matchup,

673
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden You've got this great matchup

674
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 1: because both teams are unexpectedly playing well late. What are

675
00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: you looking for when the schedule comes out at eight tonight,

676
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 1: Let's go to Frank and Rochester. Frank, what are you

677
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: looking for it? Hey, st I'm a guy in my

678
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: mid forties and my alarm goes off every morning at

679
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: four thirty in the morning. So anytime I see a

680
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 1: Monday night game, I cringe because I will have to

681
00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 1: stay out and then inevitably they will choke late or

682
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: even if they win, I'm all jacked up. So I'm

683
00:31:57,320 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: anti Monday night games, just as a working man who

684
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 1: not a young man anymore. How about the Dallas game,

685
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: the Cowboy game in particular, Yeah, ten years ago, So

686
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: that sticks with you? That one would stick with me?

687
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: Yeah you didn't stick. Yeah, that was a crusher man

688
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: Thursday night. I don't mind as much because you only

689
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: get a power through a day, but starting off the

690
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:25,320
Speaker 1: week on a few hours sleep is never a good

691
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: thing for me. Totally with you. So you're a big

692
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 1: Sunday at one o'clock in the afternoon guy, Right, I

693
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: love it. Yeah, I get it's a routine and it's

694
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: part of the its ritual of Western New York weekends.

695
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: So hey, I'm with you. I get it. And you're

696
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: not alone. I'm sure. I'm sure, Frank, you're not alone.

697
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: So thanks for that. I appreciate. And that's that's kind

698
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: of what you're after. I told you beginning show, be selfish.

699
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 1: What would you like? Yeah, that's the question. Yeah, and

700
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's probably pretty indicative of a lot of

701
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 1: people those Monday night games, even if they're at home,

702
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: well especially if they're at home, because you gotta go,

703
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,480
Speaker 1: and then you gotta get home, and then if they win,

704
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 1: you gotta get to sleep or lose. Yeah, I'll tell

705
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: you what. And I'm in agreement with Frank and this

706
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: and maybe you I would if every game was Sunday

707
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 1: at one pm kickoff, I'd be like, fine, good, let's

708
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: do it. I don't love the routine. Yeah, love it.

709
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: Love that routine everyone. And you know what, it doesn't

710
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: matter week one or week two. Have week one be

711
00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: your home opener, week three be the second game, week

712
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: five be the third game, Week seven, you know, all

713
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: the way through, and just every other week, every homer away.

714
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:33,880
Speaker 1: Just give it to us even down through the season.

715
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 1: That's fine, you know, so we don't have to like

716
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: four games in a row in November at home or

717
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: four games on the road, and it's like six weeks

718
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 1: before between one tailgate and the next. Right, let's take

719
00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 1: a call here from Dennis and Jamestown. Hello, Dennis, welcome

720
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,600
Speaker 1: to the show. Hey, how are you guys doing? Love

721
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: watching your guys, thanky, Dennis? Hey, Um, A couple of things, well,

722
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: a lot of good comments today. I'm all for that

723
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: Cleveland game in prime time. That would be the best.

724
00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: And but I have a question for Steve. Steve, a

725
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: lot of the coaches, a lot of people say that

726
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,760
Speaker 1: because of the collective bargaining agreement, some of the teams

727
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: aren't as sharp at the beginning of the year, maybe

728
00:34:09,080 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: as they used to be in your era. And I

729
00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 1: wonder if you think that's that's true, and how that

730
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: plays to the bill schedule disadvantage advantage we play New

731
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: England early, or maybe we're not ready to play him early.

732
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,160
Speaker 1: What do you think about that? Well, I take it

733
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,040
Speaker 1: you got to it's your team against their team under

734
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: the same conditions. It's fair as fair and some years

735
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: you can be good out of the gate, and other

736
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 1: years you can be bad out of the gate. So

737
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: there's no advantage or disadvantage there. You got to get

738
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: ready to play on week one, you know when it is.

739
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: It's not like they move it around and you say,

740
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,279
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you get caught off guard. Get

741
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: ready to play and play and show up. I don't

742
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: know if it's better to be on the road or

743
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 1: at home. Maybe if if you dodge a snowstorm late

744
00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:54,840
Speaker 1: in the season, because this game is here early and

745
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,279
Speaker 1: there later, like in Miami. Case of Miami. No, I

746
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 1: don't think there's any any advantage. It's certainly history. History

747
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 1: has shown me and Murph and some other people it

748
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: takes the Patriots a while to get their find themselves.

749
00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: I think that doesn't mean they're gonna lose a lot

750
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:10,960
Speaker 1: of games, but it certainly means they're not blowing guys

751
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:13,320
Speaker 1: out fifty to nothing like they did in OH seven

752
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: when they ran the table. It takes them a while

753
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:20,520
Speaker 1: to find themselves, I think, and find out who they are.

754
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 1: And I think that's the biggest key for me. When

755
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 1: I look at the Patriots and know what I know

756
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: about the way they do business. The Patriots success is

757
00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 1: about them knowing themselves better than anybody else and then

758
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 1: having the ability to be nimble and win a number

759
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 1: of different ways. You know, we talked about a ton

760
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: those guys and under Bill Belichick, one week they'll run

761
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: the ball fifty times. The next week they'll throw it

762
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:47,239
Speaker 1: fifty times. They can do that, but they don't know

763
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:48,879
Speaker 1: how they're going to be able to do it well

764
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:51,360
Speaker 1: until about a month end of the season. So you

765
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: can get them early in the season. That's historically, That's

766
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 1: what I think most of us see. But it doesn't

767
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: mean you're gonna beat them. It just means you might

768
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,919
Speaker 1: lose sixteen to thirteen instead of already six to six

769
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: right on. But do you think it's true about the

770
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 1: game's not as sharp part getting a little happier because

771
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 1: of the collective fire. I don't know. You know what

772
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,080
Speaker 1: strikes me and I see your point there, Dennis, But

773
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 1: teams are healthier at the start of the season than

774
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 1: they would be later in the season. So I wonder

775
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:17,839
Speaker 1: if that sort of balances itself out a little bit,

776
00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:19,320
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, You wouldn't have the grind

777
00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:21,839
Speaker 1: of all those injuries that you typically can get as

778
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: a season wears along, right wrong, That's true, Yeah, you bet,

779
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,080
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of it, some of the

780
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: sloppin us or the kind of like what are they

781
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,160
Speaker 1: doing here? Some of that is the fact that they

782
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: don't know themselves and they don't know each other. They

783
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,240
Speaker 1: don't know you know, they're flying a little bit blind,

784
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,560
Speaker 1: and you've got new pieces in place, and they're playing

785
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: with the volume all the way up, so to speak,

786
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: in intensity as a team that they've never done before.

787
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 1: The preseason doesn't give you that much of a rehearsal,

788
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,280
Speaker 1: and when you come out and you can do things

789
00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: in the game that nobody's ever seen, you've never shown

790
00:36:57,520 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: because it's you know, it's one of those things. They

791
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 1: keep all this stuffe grit in the preseason, then they

792
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 1: kind of unfurl it. Well, you know, teams get caught

793
00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: off card defensively and teams get caught off guard offensively

794
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:11,280
Speaker 1: as well. So there's a little bit of the sloppiness

795
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,839
Speaker 1: that you might see. There's you know, you get caught

796
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:15,800
Speaker 1: off guard and you look a little bad on some plays,

797
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: and you can do that to your opponent as well.

798
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 1: So I think there's a little bit of that. All right,

799
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna continue this discussion. What are you looking for

800
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:24,399
Speaker 1: in the Bill? Schedule comes out at eight o'clock tonight.

801
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,279
Speaker 1: We got to call on the line from fur Coat

802
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:32,399
Speaker 1: in Lackawanna. Is that your name? That's right, fur Coat? Yes? Yes,

803
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead, John, I want to know when

804
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: Bill's played the Eagles. If you have any idea or

805
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: try to set up an interview with Donald Jones or

806
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: Ron Jaworski you want, we can have him on the show.

807
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: That'd be great. What am I missing on Donald Jones? Why?

808
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:57,279
Speaker 1: What's his connection to the Eagles? Well, I thought he

809
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 1: left your shoulder to have a program. I'm down in Philadelphia. No, No,

810
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,439
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Donald's in New Home in Jersey. Yeah,

811
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: he's in je little podcast work in New York with

812
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:09,440
Speaker 1: Ruben Brown. But no, he's not in Philadelphia. I don't believe.

813
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: I don't believe he is. They hear from him again? Yeah,

814
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,520
Speaker 1: we should have him on. Yeah, we should comes back.

815
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: He comes back in a buffalo once in a while

816
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:20,879
Speaker 1: to get him on. All right, yeah, well think yeah,

817
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,200
Speaker 1: it's called from a Dan in Florida. Hello Dan, you're

818
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 1: on the air. Hey, guys, that was really quick. Thank you? Sure? So,

819
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I'm with the guy earlier today. And I'd

820
00:38:33,600 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: love to play the Patriots in the beginning of the year,

821
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 1: and I'd love to pay him weeks. I've been seen

822
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 1: that we have the best chance of winning those games. Um.

823
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 1: Outside of that, I just want to know what's going

824
00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,920
Speaker 1: on in September because I fly up with my boys

825
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: that go see a game. And that's the only reason

826
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: I care about the schedule. Outside of that, who cares?

827
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:56,400
Speaker 1: Where are you calling from? You fly up where you

828
00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: fly from Tampa? And when you say your boys, is

829
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: that your sons or your boys? No, my son's okay,

830
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:06,840
Speaker 1: all right, because some guys making a road trip with

831
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:08,640
Speaker 1: the guys and it's you know, they call them their boys.

832
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: So does it matter to you which you come up

833
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: for one game or do you try to come up

834
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,239
Speaker 1: for like two games in a row or what I

835
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 1: try and come up for one, Because you gotta understand,

836
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: I've got a third, I've got a daughter two So

837
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 1: on Southwest it's a thousand dollars just to fly up

838
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:29,640
Speaker 1: right that include the game, and then you know we

839
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,440
Speaker 1: usually get between cousin Matthew's uncles and everybody else, like

840
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:35,359
Speaker 1: twenty people to go to the game. And so you're

841
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 1: saying you'd rather hit game, you'd rather have an early

842
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: season game for that visit the Buffalo. Is that what

843
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:43,280
Speaker 1: you're saying? Yeah, I mean, any any team is fine.

844
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:45,399
Speaker 1: I just want to know what the September games are

845
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: at Father is a season. I'm sorry to give you

846
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: all this personal stuff. Oh no, please, we have more fun.

847
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,360
Speaker 1: There's a ton of people. Yeah, there's a ton of

848
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: people in your boat. I mean, there are a lot

849
00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 1: of people. Do exactly what you're talking about. So go ahead. Yeah,

850
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:02,160
Speaker 1: just like if there's two games, I want to know

851
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 1: which one that is. I got you, And you know what,

852
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 1: Dan and Steve makes just made this point too. That

853
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 1: really is I think one of the keys to what

854
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:11,439
Speaker 1: goes on to night at eight o'clock. People like you, Dan,

855
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 1: People like thousands who are waiting to make travel plans.

856
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 1: You know, Buffalo fans and other teams as well, Buffalo

857
00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: fans from elsewhere coming here as you are, Dan from Tampa,

858
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 1: and Buffalo fans who want to make a road trip

859
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: this year, maybe want to go to Nashville and maybe

860
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: want to go to Pittsburgh or Cleveland, someplace close. All

861
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:30,799
Speaker 1: of those plans on hold until eight o'clock tonight, which

862
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:32,919
Speaker 1: I think is what is one of the main things

863
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:36,240
Speaker 1: that makes the schedule release um special for people. Tonight

864
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:37,920
Speaker 1: you can make your plans for the rest of the year.

865
00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: And that's something, by the way, I get it, and

866
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 1: I agree. I mean, I believe you when you say

867
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. The players are going either way and they

868
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,240
Speaker 1: know they're gonna get there by the team. But for fans,

869
00:40:47,360 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: it means a great deal. Which game. You gotta book

870
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,799
Speaker 1: flights and they're cheaper when you do it early, and

871
00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,400
Speaker 1: you I mean, there are gonna be people watching that

872
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 1: getting up there and say, Okay, here's here's what we're

873
00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,040
Speaker 1: gonna do. We're gonna go, and they just start pushing

874
00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: the button on the flight reservations like right now to

875
00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:03,879
Speaker 1: get the cheapest flights and the cheapest hotels, set their

876
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,360
Speaker 1: plans and start telling their friends, you gotta come with us,

877
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 1: come on, let's go. So yeah, I mean it starts immediately.

878
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: I mean you'll be there'll be people making flight reservations

879
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: tonight at eight eight oh five. Yeah, you absolutely. So

880
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 1: it's expensive. The plane the tickets, the plane, everything. They

881
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,799
Speaker 1: start their wheels roll, and I'm totally I'm totally aware

882
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: that players families do that too. They used to be

883
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 1: when I'd go when I was playing and we go

884
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 1: back and play in Kansas City, I knew I was

885
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: gonna have to get tickets. I'm like, how many, you know,

886
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:38,719
Speaker 1: because it would happen now like I knew we were

887
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 1: gonna go to Kansas City. I so how many? And

888
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 1: they said, well, if it's on this weekend, we're only

889
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 1: gonna need this week this many, But if it's on

890
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 1: any other weekend, we need this many. You got to know,

891
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:52,680
Speaker 1: so you know, everybody's in it together. Here's an interesting

892
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:54,880
Speaker 1: tweet from the tweet sheet on our question what do

893
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: you want to see from the Bills schedule? Lewis Siegel

894
00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:59,720
Speaker 1: tweets this, and what about the Bills that the Browns

895
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:02,000
Speaker 1: is a third Thanksgiving game? You know, now, for the

896
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: last several years, there's the game in Detroit, the game

897
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: in Dallas, and the third Thursday Night Thanksgiving Night nationally Primetime,

898
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:11,960
Speaker 1: tell him's game? Why not the Bills at the Browns

899
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: Thursday Night Thanksgiving Night and both of them walking in

900
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: there undefeated well that's not Let's not get carried away.

901
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about it. Look, I would like

902
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:22,040
Speaker 1: I would like that. I will say from a personal sense,

903
00:42:22,080 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: I prefer if I'm doing the game, I prefer not

904
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: to be on the road on Thanksgiving Day the entire day,

905
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 1: leaving Wednesday night, staying there all day Thanksgiving. You get

906
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: but I'd get around that for a game like that,

907
00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 1: I would. I would. If they're both undefeated, you would

908
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:39,279
Speaker 1: be like, skip it, let's go right? Yeah? How how

909
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,840
Speaker 1: enormous would that be? Well? If there are two undefeated

910
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 1: teams playing on Thanksgiving Night, what are you asking me?

911
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 1: Will that be a big game? Yeah, it'll be a

912
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: huge number. Would that pull on over TV? Right? Yes?

913
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 1: On Thanksgiving Day? Oh my gosh, should be huge. All right,

914
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: a break here? What do you want to see from

915
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:54,879
Speaker 1: the Bill schedule? When it comes out to night at eight?

916
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,919
Speaker 1: We'll recap what we have heard anyway from the rumor

917
00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: mill about some of the Bills games. We only know

918
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 1: about three of them, but maybe we'll get more. Give

919
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 1: us a call, though, and shoot us a tweet. What

920
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:05,879
Speaker 1: are you looking for from the schedule tonight? It's John

921
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: Murphy and Steve tasker. One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida

922
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:22,839
Speaker 1: Health from One Bill's Drive says, Buffalo Bills Radio, Welcome back,

923
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 1: One Bills Live. We're gonna talk about the draft coming

924
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:26,760
Speaker 1: up a little bit, just a few minutes. Actually, Dane

925
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:30,200
Speaker 1: Brugler from the Athletic dot Com, who's got the Beast.

926
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,320
Speaker 1: He calls it his seven round mock draft, including Bills

927
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 1: picks through seven rounds. We'll talk with him about that

928
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,320
Speaker 1: at one o'clock. We're talking a lot about the schedule,

929
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: with the schedule coming out tonight at eight o'clock NFL Network,

930
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 1: the Bill schedule and the rest of the NFL couple

931
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,839
Speaker 1: of reports. Niche Meta of the New York Daily News

932
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 1: says the Bills and Jets will open the season at

933
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: New York week one, and then we'll close out the

934
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:56,400
Speaker 1: season in Buffalo week seventeen. And Jeff Howe from the

935
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,919
Speaker 1: Athletic New England says the Bills will play the paid

936
00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 1: It's here in Archer Park in week four and then

937
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: go to New England in week sixteen, which makes sense.

938
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,600
Speaker 1: I mean, again, those are not confirmed, those are not solid. Obviously,

939
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:12,480
Speaker 1: the league likes the schedule. Division arrivals in the last

940
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,920
Speaker 1: few weeks and there you go, Patriots Jets weeks that's

941
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:17,440
Speaker 1: seen in seven. That's a Roger Goodell trend. When he

942
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: started into his tenure, he started saying, you know, we

943
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 1: need to you know, leave the division games at the

944
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: beginning of the season to get things started and then

945
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 1: put him at the end of the year so that

946
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: we can have compelling matchups at the end when the

947
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: division line might well be on the line, division title

948
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 1: might well be on the line. So I think it's

949
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:40,479
Speaker 1: a good idea, and I don't you know, that's cool.

950
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: You know, Jets Patriots. At the end of the season.

951
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: Miami will be sprinkled in there as well, probably week

952
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: fourteen or fifteen, maybe thirteen, but you bet thirteen, fourteen

953
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,439
Speaker 1: or fifteen we'll have a Miami game one of those.

954
00:44:51,640 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: So our question of the day, what are you looking for?

955
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: What do you want to see from the bill schedule

956
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: before it comes out tonight at eight o'clock on the

957
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 1: line is Matt in Schenectady. Hollo, Matt, Go ahead, you're

958
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:04,960
Speaker 1: on the air, John. See how's how's it going? Great?

959
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 1: Very well? Go ahead? Uh? Yeah, So what I like

960
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:11,760
Speaker 1: to see? You know, I'm from Schenectady, So we travel

961
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 1: out there once a year. It's about a four and

962
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 1: a half hour drive, so we try to make weeks

963
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: out of it. But what I enjoy is football in October.

964
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 1: So I want to see more home games in October.

965
00:45:21,880 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 1: Last in November. I don't mind December weather. But the

966
00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:27,880
Speaker 1: more games in October, the more opportunities for me to

967
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:30,879
Speaker 1: go see a game better. It's just my view. Also,

968
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 1: the one o'clock I don't like primetime games. I like

969
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 1: the one o'clock game. I feel like when it's a

970
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 1: primetime game, it's, uh, it kind of feels like a

971
00:45:38,239 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: bye week to me when that Sunday rolls around. Interesting. Yeah,

972
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 1: because I don't know if you guys any thoughts, but yeah,

973
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:45,319
Speaker 1: and with the drive you have, I get it. How

974
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 1: you prefer Sunday at one o'clock. Last year, the Bill

975
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:50,560
Speaker 1: has played two home in October, two on the road

976
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:53,319
Speaker 1: in October. They played the first week of October. In

977
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,359
Speaker 1: the final week of October? Am I right there? At home?

978
00:45:57,040 --> 00:46:00,760
Speaker 1: Let me double check there? They played, um, Yeah, October

979
00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 1: seventh at home against Tennessee, went to Houston and Indian,

980
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:05,400
Speaker 1: then played at home against New England. But I know

981
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: when yeah, I get you. You know, when there's a

982
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 1: when it's a beautiful fall day in Orchard Park, New York,

983
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:13,879
Speaker 1: and the temperatures somewhere between fifty five and sixty five

984
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,400
Speaker 1: and the leaves are turning and there's a light, crisp,

985
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,959
Speaker 1: freshening breeze. I mean, that's the stuff you write poetry about, Steve.

986
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: But right, really, well, here's the thing we get, you know,

987
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: we get. We get crushed for our winners and stuff.

988
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,400
Speaker 1: Let me tell you something. The fall, the autumn in

989
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 1: western New York is spectacular, like elite around. This is

990
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: the place you want to be in the fall, over

991
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 1: the whole planet. So yeah, let people come see us

992
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,560
Speaker 1: when it's uh, you know, when it's beautiful and their

993
00:46:43,719 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 1: leaves are their peak and that's you know, spectacular. It's

994
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:48,760
Speaker 1: it is. It's the one of the it's the best

995
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 1: time of year. So let's get out and watch football.

996
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: And I get it. It's you're right. I love the

997
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: fall here too, the weather, the atmosphere. It's another thing

998
00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 1: I like about today, the release of the schedule. I

999
00:47:00,520 --> 00:47:03,359
Speaker 1: find myself projecting, Oh, what's that going to be like

1000
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: in November when so and so is here or that

1001
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:07,719
Speaker 1: what's that going to look like in December when the

1002
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: Bills are home against them, you know what I mean?

1003
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:11,320
Speaker 1: Or what's that gonna look like on the road, What'll

1004
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:13,959
Speaker 1: it look like in October when you're you know where

1005
00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:16,400
Speaker 1: in Nashville? What will Nashville be like in November? Right?

1006
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 1: You project out, you see the rest of your year.

1007
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:21,800
Speaker 1: That's why I love tonight's schedule. And you picture yourself,

1008
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:25,320
Speaker 1: you know, living your life in that atmosphere. That's fun.

1009
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 1: And you always, if you're in our jobs, and I

1010
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 1: think most Bills fans, you always picture a win at

1011
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,360
Speaker 1: the end of that day, whatever it is. Will that

1012
00:47:31,400 --> 00:47:33,280
Speaker 1: be like leaving New England with a win in October?

1013
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: That'd be great. You always do that. Oh yeah, we're

1014
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 1: gonna talk more about the schedule. Is the afternoon rolls along.

1015
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:40,840
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the draft as well. Speaking of schedules,

1016
00:47:40,840 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 1: the draft is just eight days away now, around one

1017
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 1: of the draft. Dane Brugler from the Athletic dot Com

1018
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 1: will join us when we return to talk about his

1019
00:47:48,760 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: seven round Monster Draft, the Monster Mock Draft from Dan Burglar,

1020
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:54,960
Speaker 1: and a couple of other draft observations that's coming up.

1021
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:57,439
Speaker 1: When we return One Bills Live from One Bills Drive

1022
00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bills Radio, Hills Radio Network Sports Date. The

1023
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: update from One Bill's Drive. The NFL schedule comes out

1024
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 1: tonight at eight o'clock. There are various reports about Bills

1025
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:23,760
Speaker 1: dates and times and scheduled opponents. Nothing confirmed, though until

1026
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:25,920
Speaker 1: eight o'clock tonight. The league did announce the dates for

1027
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: its five international games this morning, including four games in London,

1028
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 1: two at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, two at Wembley Stadium, and

1029
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: then a game in Mexico City on Monday, November eighteenth,

1030
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:39,720
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and the Chargers. The full twenty nineteen regular

1031
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 1: season schedule comes out tonight eight o'clock on NFL Network.

1032
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:45,279
Speaker 1: The Bill schedule and everybody else's schedule as well. Day

1033
00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 1: three of the offseason conditioning program here at One Bill's

1034
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:50,800
Speaker 1: Drive Today. One more day of voluntary conditioning this week,

1035
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: and then they're off until next Monday. Ed Oliver, defensive

1036
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 1: tackle from University of Houston, is reportedly in town to

1037
00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 1: meet with the Buffalo Bills today. He met with the

1038
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:02,799
Speaker 1: Jets yesterday. Oliver has not been lacking for interest. He

1039
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 1: may not be on the board when the Bills select

1040
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 1: at number nine in the first round. We'll talk about

1041
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 1: the draft with Dame Burglar, senior draft analysts for the Athletic.

1042
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,600
Speaker 1: Coming up next on the show, Bill's hosted former Jacksonville

1043
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: running back TJ. Yeldon on a free agent visit yesterday. Reportedly,

1044
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 1: according to ESPN, the twenty five year old veteran has

1045
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,920
Speaker 1: four years of NFL experience, second round pick of the

1046
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 1: Jaguars in twenty fifteen. In anticipation of the schedule release tonight,

1047
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Chargers announced the team switch to the

1048
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:34,920
Speaker 1: iconic Howder Blue jerseys as their primary home uniform for

1049
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:37,279
Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen season, and with the draft now eight

1050
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: days away, the Cardinals on the clock, but they have

1051
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: said they still have not made a decision on who

1052
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 1: they will make the first overall pick in the draft

1053
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:47,839
Speaker 1: next week. Stanley Cup playoffs three more games tonight, first

1054
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 1: round games Eastern Conference series between Boston and Toronto. It

1055
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 1: is game four tonight with the Toronto leading two games

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Speaker 1: to one. It is Game four of the Nashville Dallas series.

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Speaker 1: This game in Dallas tonight at eight and Nashville leads

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Speaker 1: to two games to one and out West to ten.

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Speaker 1: Tonight in Colorado. It's Calgary in Colorado, Game four. The

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Speaker 1: Colorado Avalanche lead in that series two games to one.

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Speaker 1: That's the update from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker in our one Buffalo studio. So we said, everybody

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Speaker 1: breathlessly awaiting the release of the schedule, but we're also

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Speaker 1: only eight days away from the NFL Draft and joining

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Speaker 1: us right now on the line man who covers the

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Speaker 1: draft to every day, doesn't matter when the schedule comes out,

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Speaker 1: you senior NFL Draft analyst NFL draft scout dot com,

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Speaker 1: the author of the twenty nineteen NFL Draft Guide. He

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Speaker 1: writes for The Athletic dot Com. Dane Burglar on the

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Speaker 1: line with us. Dane, good to talk to here. We

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Speaker 1: haven't seen you since the combine, I believe, and a

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Speaker 1: lot has happened since the combine as far as the draft, right, Yeah,

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00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:46,840
Speaker 1: it's hard to believe. You know, we're all ready here

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Speaker 1: single digit days away from the draft. But you know,

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Speaker 1: it's been an interesting process, and you know, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: it's uh. I've things heat up here and we get

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Speaker 1: closer and closer, things are going to be even more interesting.

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Speaker 1: I know how difficult and how hard you worked on

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Speaker 1: your your beast of a mock draft. You went through

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Speaker 1: all seven rounds, and I gotta get your honest to answer,

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00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 1: how many of these guys that you you projected in

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00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: this draft? How many do you think you're going to

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00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:14,040
Speaker 1: get to the right team, the right guy at the

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00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:19,000
Speaker 1: right team. What's your greatest hope? You know, it's hard

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Speaker 1: to say, because but honestly, doing something like this, like

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00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: if you're gonna do a seven round mock draft, do

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00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 1: it right. And that's what I tried to do. But

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Speaker 1: you try to match up not only team needs with players,

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00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 1: but tracking visits, tracking, you know, trends, what the teams

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Speaker 1: like to do, and so try to make it as

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Speaker 1: realistic as possible. But you know it's I didn't include

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Speaker 1: any trades in my mock draft, so we know trades

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Speaker 1: are certainly going to affect the actual draft and have

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00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 1: a domino effect. But you know, this is just one scenario,

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Speaker 1: one interesting look, and that's how I do mock draft.

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00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 1: It's not, yeah, the final mock draft, you know, the

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Speaker 1: day before the draft. That'll be more for accuracy. All

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00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:04,279
Speaker 1: these other mocks drafts more just trying to look at

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Speaker 1: a different scenario. You know how things could play out.

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Speaker 1: And really that's what NFL teams are doing. NFL teams

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Speaker 1: are doing mock drafts right now because they want to know. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's you know, to take the bills for example, eight

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Speaker 1: teams picking in front of them. You know, they want

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Speaker 1: to have a good idea of who might be available

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Speaker 1: for them if they what are there oftens, if they

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Speaker 1: trade back, trade up, So you want to have a

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Speaker 1: good idea of where all these players are going to go. Dan,

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Speaker 1: I wonder as you get through your monster draft, your

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Speaker 1: seven round mock draft, when you get in the late rounds,

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Speaker 1: say round six and seven, what are you trying to

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Speaker 1: do there? Just identify draft a bold prospects or are

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Speaker 1: you still looking to match needs and that sort of thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and you're looking for you know visits. What are these

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Speaker 1: teams looking to do later in the draft. They look

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Speaker 1: more towards trade you know, some teams, you know, really

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00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:55,799
Speaker 1: look at athleticism, you know guys that just test it

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00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: off the chart, and they'll take chances on those guys

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00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: later in the draft. Other teams teams look more towards

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00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,880
Speaker 1: a chance to round out their needs in the draft. So,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if there's a perfect formula

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Speaker 1: for doing something like that, but you know, it is

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Speaker 1: interesting to see when you're allen, it's all said and done,

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Speaker 1: you know, who are you left who didn't get drafted?

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Speaker 1: And you know there's only two hundred and fifty four picks,

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Speaker 1: and so we're gonna be left with a few players

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Speaker 1: that will be surprisingly not drafted. Well, as you said,

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Speaker 1: every mock draft, you got to start with a first

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Speaker 1: pick overall, how likely is it? And because I know

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Speaker 1: you said it yourself, it's a domino effect. If the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals do not pick Kyler Murray, the ripple effects

1131
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Speaker 1: are going to be vast. So how do you think

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00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 1: that's going to play out? Do you think Arizona does

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00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:44,239
Speaker 1: take Kyler Murray? I do? I mean, but at this

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Speaker 1: point last year, most of us thought Sam Darnold would

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Speaker 1: be the first pick to the brown So you know,

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Speaker 1: this is the time of the year where there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of misinformation. You know, you want to try to

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Speaker 1: block out all the noise. But it was around this

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00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:02,080
Speaker 1: timeline year when we started to hear I don't know,

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Speaker 1: the Browns really like Baker Mayfield. Maybe he's the first

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Speaker 1: pick and so of course that turned out to be

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Speaker 1: the case. This year, there's a little bit of chatter about,

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Speaker 1: you know, Kyler Murray is going on all these visits.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the Cardinals, you know, they came out yesterday and

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00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: said they're not sure what they're gonna do yet. I'm

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00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 1: I'm calling some don's smell right there. I think they

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00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,960
Speaker 1: know exactly what they're doing. I think that it's smart

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Speaker 1: of them to say what they did, because you know,

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Speaker 1: you want to keep your options open just in case

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Speaker 1: something were to change over this next week. But I

1151
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 1: think they they plan on taking Kyler Murray. And I

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00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 1: think there's also from the NFL standpoint, you know, I

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00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,839
Speaker 1: think they they probably told the Cardinals, hey, even if

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00:54:42,880 --> 00:54:44,920
Speaker 1: you know who you're going to take, just keep in

1155
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Speaker 1: your back pocket a little bit. We want to create

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Speaker 1: some intrigue for Draft night. There's there's a reason, you know,

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Speaker 1: a Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night, it's in prime time,

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00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: you know, these The NFL wants these teams to keep

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Speaker 1: it close to the vest. So there's a little bit

1160
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Speaker 1: of intrigue going in Draft night. Dank this Kyler Murray

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Speaker 1: merit the number one overall selection this year, I could

1162
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:07,879
Speaker 1: to understand it. You know, you worry about the size,

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00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: you worry about you know, you watch him on film

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Speaker 1: and there's uh, it's hard to you know, translate what

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00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 1: you see on film compared to what he's going to

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Speaker 1: see in the NFL. You watch him in a Big

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00:55:19,680 --> 00:55:23,600
Speaker 1: twelve where that offense was Taylor made for him in

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00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:25,359
Speaker 1: terms of what he was asked to do. He's played

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Speaker 1: behind the best offensive line in college football, and he

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Speaker 1: played in a conference that didn't have many impact pass rushers,

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00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of impact defenders period. So you

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Speaker 1: have to factor in the difficulty level of what he

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Speaker 1: was going up against at the college level compared to

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Speaker 1: the speed of the NFL and can he adapt? And

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Speaker 1: that's true of any quarterback going to the next level,

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Speaker 1: but especially a player like Kyler Murray, who he played

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Speaker 1: more on instinct than anything else, and so the site

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Speaker 1: line they're not going to be as profound at the

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00:55:57,680 --> 00:55:59,960
Speaker 1: next level. You know, there's going to be times where

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Speaker 1: going to take those hits. Can his body? I know

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00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:04,160
Speaker 1: he waited in at two oh seven, which is a

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Speaker 1: good number for him the combine, but it's playing weights

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Speaker 1: probably more in the one ninety five to two hundred

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Speaker 1: range can you hold up physically? So there are certainly questions.

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Speaker 1: But he's an instinctive player with a whip of an arm.

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Speaker 1: He looks like a mini Mahomes out there with a

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Speaker 1: lot of the plays that he makes. So there's plenty

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Speaker 1: of reasons to be optimistic about how he's going to

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Speaker 1: translate to the next level. But there's certainly questions. But hey,

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Speaker 1: I give the Cardinals credit if they do end up

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Speaker 1: going Kyler Murray and they think that he is an

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Speaker 1: upgrade over Josh Rosen, I give them credit because instead

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Speaker 1: of just resting on well in being stubborn and saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: we drafted this guy last year in the first round,

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Speaker 1: you know, but we have a chance to upgrade, they're

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Speaker 1: gonna do that, and so it's it's an unfortunate thing

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Speaker 1: for Josh Rosen. But at the same time, I give

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals credit because they're not going to be stubborn

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Speaker 1: and stay married to a pick that they might it

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Speaker 1: might be viewed as a mistake. They're gonna go get

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Speaker 1: the upgrade. Yeah, I was gonna ask you about Kyler

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Speaker 1: Murray and whether it's an up great or not. It

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Speaker 1: depends too that We've had guests on our show this

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Speaker 1: week who have said Kyler Murray is is a little

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Speaker 1: bit of a system quarterback that conference, that he played

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Speaker 1: in the system that they ran at Oklahoma, and that

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Speaker 1: he was successful a lot of for a lot of

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Speaker 1: the reasons that you mentioned, his great offensive line, the

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Speaker 1: fact that they didn't have any they don't play defense

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Speaker 1: in that conference. Just to exaggerate, to make the point

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Speaker 1: he's a system guy. Does a system come to the

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Speaker 1: NFL and and work because it has not been that

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Speaker 1: way in the past. I mean systems. If if there

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Speaker 1: was a system that worked in the NFL, everybody would

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Speaker 1: run it. Can he be successful if he is indeed

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Speaker 1: just a system quarterback. I'll be honest with you. I

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Speaker 1: think every quarterback is a system quarterback. And by what

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Speaker 1: I mean by that is, you know, it's the job

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Speaker 1: of the play caller to put the quarterback in the

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Speaker 1: best positions to succeed. I mean, you look at Baker

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Speaker 1: Mayfield last year and what Freddie Kitchens did. I mean

1222
00:57:56,040 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 1: they were running, you know, a lot of pistol diamond

1223
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:02,640
Speaker 1: formation and you know, he's really playing to his strengths,

1224
00:58:02,760 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 1: and so you know, I think Baker Mayfield. He's going.

1225
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 1: He's at his best when you know you use the

1226
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:11,400
Speaker 1: quick passing game and use the middle of the field.

1227
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 1: And Freddy Kitchens understood that and so a big reason

1228
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Speaker 1: why he's now the head coach of the Browns. So

1229
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Speaker 1: I think, you know, you look at Andy Reid and

1230
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Speaker 1: with hat Mahomes, what they're doing in Kansas City. They're

1231
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:24,040
Speaker 1: playing to his strength. And so every quarterback has strength

1232
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:26,920
Speaker 1: tized weaknesses, and so it's a job of the play

1233
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Speaker 1: caller to put the quarterback in position to succeed. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen Buffalo is no different. So with Haler Murray,

1235
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Speaker 1: it's the same thing. You want to have an offense

1236
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:40,120
Speaker 1: where you're going to incorporate a high percentage of sprints, boots,

1237
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:44,920
Speaker 1: option plays. Use his athleticism to his advantage to your

1238
00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:48,680
Speaker 1: offense is advantage to be productive and score point. So

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Speaker 1: I think there's no question that he can adapt to

1240
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Speaker 1: the NFL level, But it's going to take a willing

1241
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:57,600
Speaker 1: play caller to adapt to his strength, which I think

1242
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Speaker 1: is true for any quarterback. Burglar senior NFL draft analysts

1243
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Speaker 1: rights for the Athletic dot Com got a huge mock

1244
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:06,480
Speaker 1: draft seven round mock draft, and in the first round

1245
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:09,680
Speaker 1: game in your mock you have four quarterbacks schooling Kyler

1246
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:13,320
Speaker 1: Murray and who else goes in the first round next week? Yeah,

1247
00:59:13,360 --> 00:59:15,440
Speaker 1: I think we're definitely gonna have four quarterbacks in the

1248
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Speaker 1: first round. I'll be surprised if we don't. It's just

1249
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out where they're going to go is

1250
00:59:19,840 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 1: certainly it's the toughest part of doing a mock draft.

1251
00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:26,919
Speaker 1: Right now. I think we feel fairly confident about number

1252
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 1: one in Kyler Murray, but who's that second quarterback off

1253
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 1: the board and where does he go? The Giants at

1254
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 1: six are a little bit of a wild card having

1255
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Speaker 1: those two first round picks six and seventeen. Now, conventional

1256
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:41,240
Speaker 1: wisdom would say, if you're going to draft a quarterback

1257
00:59:41,240 --> 00:59:43,760
Speaker 1: at seventeen, well, then you should draft him at six,

1258
00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:47,520
Speaker 1: because quarterback, as we know, the most important position in sports.

1259
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Speaker 1: And if you're comfortable drafting me at seventeen, then you

1260
00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:52,760
Speaker 1: shouldn't mess around. You take him at six, and you

1261
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:55,320
Speaker 1: don't just hope that he folds you at seventeen, and

1262
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 1: if you really like another player, well then you use

1263
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Speaker 1: that seventeenth pick and you go up and get that

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Speaker 1: player as well. But which of these quarterbacks do they're like,

1265
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Speaker 1: do they like any of these quarterbacks as the long

1266
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Speaker 1: term future behind Eli Manning? You know, that's something we

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Speaker 1: don't really know, and you can you can throw conventional

1268
01:00:10,840 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 1: wisdom out the window with the Giants and the quarterback

1269
01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:15,760
Speaker 1: situation that you know should have drafted one last year

1270
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:17,840
Speaker 1: and they didn't, so you know who knows them. I

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Speaker 1: think the Bengals Dwayne Haskins at number eleven, That's where

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Speaker 1: I went in that mock draft. I think it'd be

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Speaker 1: a perfect fit. I don't know if they're necessarily ready

1274
01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 1: to move on from Andy Dalton. You have a first

1275
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Speaker 1: year head coach and Zach Taylor. I think that his

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01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:35,120
Speaker 1: background as an offensive coach, it's the kind of the

1277
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 1: innovations he's looking to bring to Cincinnati. I'd love to

1278
01:00:38,040 --> 01:00:41,080
Speaker 1: see that fit. Dwayne Haskins can sit, learn develop at

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Speaker 1: his own pace. I think that'd be a fantastic situation

1280
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Speaker 1: for him. And then the other kind of wrinkle in

1281
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:50,200
Speaker 1: the conversation about where's these quarterbacks go in the first

1282
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 1: round is Josh Rosen. If Kyler Murray doesn't end up

1283
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:56,000
Speaker 1: being the first pick, well, then there's almost You can

1284
01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:58,400
Speaker 1: almost add another quarterback to the mix here that we

1285
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:02,240
Speaker 1: have to talk about because there's quarterback needy teams that

1286
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Speaker 1: might instead of a Drew Locke or a Daniel Jones,

1287
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Speaker 1: maybe they go after a Josh Rosen and it won't

1288
01:01:07,680 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 1: cost a first round pick, likely a second rounder. And

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Speaker 1: I think the Redskins a fifteen a prime candidate. They

1290
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 1: just they acquired Case Keenum this offseason package Case Keenum

1291
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Speaker 1: and a second rounder next year to Arizona, and it

1292
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:23,960
Speaker 1: works out for everybody. Arizona, Cliff Kingsbury and Keith Keenum

1293
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:26,480
Speaker 1: have a connection back from their days in college at Houston.

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Speaker 1: So the Cardinals have their veteran quarterback just in case

1295
01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:33,160
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray is not ready to go from day one

1296
01:01:33,280 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 1: or gets injured, and the Redskins not only gets a

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01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 1: short term quarterback, but hopefully for the long term as well,

1298
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Speaker 1: Josh Rosen. So that's another interesting dynamic in the whole

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Speaker 1: first round quarterback conversation. Do you think that's thee I was,

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Speaker 1: and I agree with you. I think that's the likely

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01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 1: scenario for Josh Rosen if they do indeed take Kyler

1302
01:01:50,480 --> 01:01:52,520
Speaker 1: Murray to the number one pick, all of a sudden

1303
01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:56,200
Speaker 1: on draft Day, that's when Josh Rosen makes his move,

1304
01:01:56,240 --> 01:01:58,960
Speaker 1: and one of these other teams moves for him, and

1305
01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 1: it happens league probably at the top or the middle

1306
01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:04,720
Speaker 1: of the first round. I think that's probably the most

1307
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:09,440
Speaker 1: likely scenario. But the Cardinals, it'll be interesting because you know,

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01:02:09,560 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 1: in the asking price, we know what the Cardinals spent

1309
01:02:12,800 --> 01:02:15,720
Speaker 1: last year, a top ten pick, plus they used draft

1310
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:18,440
Speaker 1: capital to move up into the top ten to get him.

1311
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:20,640
Speaker 1: Now they're not going to get that full value back.

1312
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:23,480
Speaker 1: But are they going to be a little stubborn about

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01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 1: getting the best possible value. Maybe they wait until after

1314
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Speaker 1: the draft, and you know, there might be a team

1315
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:31,960
Speaker 1: that's kind of left on the outside looking in didn't

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01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:34,560
Speaker 1: get their quarterback, and maybe they're a little bit more

1317
01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:38,000
Speaker 1: desperate to give up a little more and draft compensation

1318
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:41,000
Speaker 1: for next year in order to get Josh Rosen, just

1319
01:02:41,040 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 1: because there is that a little bit of desperation. But

1320
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:47,560
Speaker 1: you know, it's Josh Rosen. You know that his value

1321
01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:49,919
Speaker 1: is really it's only what the team's willing to pay

1322
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:51,720
Speaker 1: for him. You know, it doesn't really matter what the

1323
01:02:52,040 --> 01:02:54,680
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals paid to get him last year. Whatever a

1324
01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:56,840
Speaker 1: team is willing to pay for him this year. That's

1325
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:58,920
Speaker 1: what it's going to cost, and so it'll be interesting

1326
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:01,360
Speaker 1: to see how the Cardinals work it because everybody knows

1327
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:04,560
Speaker 1: they have to trade him. Can't go into a training camp,

1328
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:07,520
Speaker 1: even mini camp with those two quarterbacks. So all the

1329
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:10,400
Speaker 1: pressures on the Cardinals to try to get the best offer,

1330
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 1: and we'll see if teams trying to play hardball. Dane

1331
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:15,080
Speaker 1: Bugler from the Athletic dot Com on the line with

1332
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Speaker 1: us in your mock draft. At ninth in the first round,

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Speaker 1: first round, you have the Bills going with the Michigan

1334
01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:21,960
Speaker 1: man Rashan Gary defensive end. What can you tell us

1335
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:25,600
Speaker 1: about him and why do you put those two together? Well,

1336
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:28,120
Speaker 1: I think there's a good chance that this pick for

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01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 1: the Bills is in the trenches, either offensive line defensive line.

1338
01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:34,840
Speaker 1: You know, on the offensive line, I think Joan and

1339
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:37,920
Speaker 1: Williams or Andre Dillards would be a terrific pick, you know,

1340
01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:41,480
Speaker 1: a chance to add debt at a position that's really

1341
01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:43,280
Speaker 1: going to help the rest of your offense. But if

1342
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:44,800
Speaker 1: they go in the defense inside of the ball and

1343
01:03:44,840 --> 01:03:48,640
Speaker 1: the defensive line, Rashawn Garry will certainly be appealing. He

1344
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:51,480
Speaker 1: has the traits that you're looking for for a player

1345
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:54,360
Speaker 1: that two hundred and eighty pounds. He just moves differently

1346
01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:57,640
Speaker 1: than most guys. He has terrific length and can convert

1347
01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:00,760
Speaker 1: speed to power and he just the is okay, Well,

1348
01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:04,240
Speaker 1: why didn't the production match ten and a half sacks

1349
01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:07,400
Speaker 1: over his career? There are eight pass rushers in this

1350
01:04:07,920 --> 01:04:11,960
Speaker 1: draft class who had more sacks in two eighteen compared

1351
01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:14,560
Speaker 1: to Rashaan Gary's career. So the production is not there.

1352
01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:18,040
Speaker 1: But the NFL they drafted traits, not production, And with

1353
01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:20,400
Speaker 1: Rashaun Gary, all the traits are there as long as

1354
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:23,480
Speaker 1: you're comfortable with you know, the emotional maturity is you're

1355
01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:26,720
Speaker 1: comfortable with the durability, and you think you can develop him.

1356
01:04:26,840 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 1: I think he's going to go somewhere in those top

1357
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:31,680
Speaker 1: fifteen picks. But there's certainly reasons to be a little

1358
01:04:32,280 --> 01:04:35,320
Speaker 1: hesitant about Rashaun Gary, and so he's a little bit

1359
01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:37,480
Speaker 1: of a wild card on draft draft weekend. But I

1360
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:39,760
Speaker 1: know the Bills they've shown interest and so there might

1361
01:04:39,800 --> 01:04:41,440
Speaker 1: be a connection there. Yeah. And one of the reasons

1362
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:43,480
Speaker 1: they may go with Rashawn Garry's because you know, if

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01:04:43,480 --> 01:04:45,720
Speaker 1: you look at the top of this draft You've got

1364
01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:48,960
Speaker 1: him as perhaps maybe the third or fourth edge rusher

1365
01:04:49,080 --> 01:04:53,240
Speaker 1: slash defensive lineman to go, Nick Bosa, Josh Allen, Quinnin

1366
01:04:53,320 --> 01:04:58,800
Speaker 1: Williams at all, Yeah, Monta sweat. All those guys will

1367
01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:01,080
Speaker 1: be gone by the time he it's down to number nine.

1368
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 1: You really, you really think that the top ten of

1369
01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:07,760
Speaker 1: this draft is going to be packed with defensive front players. Yeah.

1370
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Speaker 1: I think you could even include maybe the top twenty.

1371
01:05:09,920 --> 01:05:12,560
Speaker 1: I mean, the top twenty is going to be maybe

1372
01:05:12,640 --> 01:05:16,640
Speaker 1: eight percent defensive line, offensive line, and quarterback. You know,

1373
01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:19,280
Speaker 1: we might not see a wide receiver, we might not

1374
01:05:19,400 --> 01:05:22,520
Speaker 1: see a corner or a defensive back in the top

1375
01:05:22,560 --> 01:05:24,760
Speaker 1: twenty picks. So it's going to be heavy in the trenches.

1376
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:27,200
Speaker 1: And you know a big part of that is teams

1377
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:29,760
Speaker 1: are going to look at the depths at tight ends

1378
01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:31,960
Speaker 1: and say, you know, we could get t. J. Hawkins

1379
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:34,480
Speaker 1: in here, but we feel really good about you know,

1380
01:05:34,480 --> 01:05:36,600
Speaker 1: the handful of tight ends that will be available on

1381
01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 1: Day two, or the same thing in a corner or

1382
01:05:39,080 --> 01:05:40,920
Speaker 1: some of these other positions. They're going to look to

1383
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:43,480
Speaker 1: go in the offensive line, defensive line, or one of

1384
01:05:43,520 --> 01:05:48,240
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks, positions that maybe aren't as deep in rounds two, three,

1385
01:05:48,280 --> 01:05:50,840
Speaker 1: and four and get those guys early, and then they

1386
01:05:50,880 --> 01:05:53,760
Speaker 1: do warrant that early consideration. So the top of the

1387
01:05:53,840 --> 01:05:56,360
Speaker 1: draft it's going to be heavy defensive line, offensive line,

1388
01:05:56,360 --> 01:05:59,600
Speaker 1: and quarterbacks. I want to skip down to your third

1389
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:02,560
Speaker 1: round mock selection for the Bills, a wide receiver from

1390
01:06:02,560 --> 01:06:05,880
Speaker 1: Stanford J j R. Saya Whiteside. There's a lot to

1391
01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:08,120
Speaker 1: like about him, but he is not among the elite

1392
01:06:08,120 --> 01:06:10,520
Speaker 1: wide receivers if there are any in this draft. Isn't

1393
01:06:10,520 --> 01:06:13,560
Speaker 1: it correct game? Yeah, I mean, I think that's fair

1394
01:06:13,600 --> 01:06:15,400
Speaker 1: to say, but I think there's a lot to like

1395
01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:18,360
Speaker 1: about what he does. He's a little specialized because he's

1396
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:21,640
Speaker 1: basically a basketball player on grass. He's at his best

1397
01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:26,120
Speaker 1: where he can box out, high point rebound the football,

1398
01:06:26,360 --> 01:06:28,600
Speaker 1: and that's where you know he's so valuable in the

1399
01:06:28,640 --> 01:06:31,680
Speaker 1: red zone or on third down, those money downs where

1400
01:06:31,720 --> 01:06:34,680
Speaker 1: you need to play. He can extend plays because even

1401
01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:37,400
Speaker 1: when he's not open, he's open and he's not a

1402
01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:39,600
Speaker 1: guy that's going to run complex routes. And you know

1403
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:42,640
Speaker 1: he needs to get better just with his separation, quickness

1404
01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:46,880
Speaker 1: and seasoning at the position, but his ability to go

1405
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:49,400
Speaker 1: up and come down to football, it's something that he

1406
01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:52,200
Speaker 1: thrived a at Stanford. He had fourteen touchdown catches his

1407
01:06:52,320 --> 01:06:55,320
Speaker 1: past year led to pack twelve. I think there's a

1408
01:06:55,320 --> 01:06:56,920
Speaker 1: lot to like about him, and he'll grow as a

1409
01:06:57,000 --> 01:06:59,600
Speaker 1: route runner. He'll get better in that area. If he

1410
01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:02,160
Speaker 1: makes it to the Bills in the third round, I

1411
01:07:02,200 --> 01:07:04,400
Speaker 1: think that'd be a no brainer. How and you said

1412
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:06,560
Speaker 1: that you think the top twenty the draft, you may

1413
01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:10,440
Speaker 1: not see a wide receiver or a dB or somebody

1414
01:07:10,480 --> 01:07:12,840
Speaker 1: like that. You've got, you know, what are your top

1415
01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:16,040
Speaker 1: wide receivers? Which wide receiver do you think will go first?

1416
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:20,240
Speaker 1: For instance, You've got you Dk Metcalf, Marquis Brown, AJ Brown,

1417
01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:23,720
Speaker 1: Paris Campbell, these guys. You know what's the range where

1418
01:07:23,720 --> 01:07:25,320
Speaker 1: those guys are going to get drafted? Is it the

1419
01:07:25,320 --> 01:07:27,520
Speaker 1: middle of the first all the way down to the

1420
01:07:27,520 --> 01:07:29,400
Speaker 1: middle of the second or are they going to be

1421
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:32,840
Speaker 1: spread out over a wider range than that. There are

1422
01:07:32,920 --> 01:07:36,480
Speaker 1: so many varying opinions when you talk to people around

1423
01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:39,720
Speaker 1: the league on these receivers. Some teams believe DK Metcalf's

1424
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:43,480
Speaker 1: top receiver. Some believe it's Hollywood Brown, Some even like

1425
01:07:43,560 --> 01:07:46,680
Speaker 1: a J. Brown or Paris Campbell. So opinions are all

1426
01:07:46,760 --> 01:07:50,520
Speaker 1: over the map, and not only you know the rankings,

1427
01:07:50,760 --> 01:07:52,200
Speaker 1: but where are they're going to end up. I mean,

1428
01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:54,360
Speaker 1: I think there's a very good chance that we don't

1429
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:56,640
Speaker 1: see a receiver go in the top twenty pick, and

1430
01:07:56,680 --> 01:07:59,800
Speaker 1: then you have, you know, Baltimore at twenty two, maybe

1431
01:07:59,840 --> 01:08:03,680
Speaker 1: the Raiders at twenty four, the Eagles at twenty five

1432
01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:06,720
Speaker 1: could possibly be looking at a Hollywood Brown type of playmaker.

1433
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:10,240
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of interesting scenarios in that late

1434
01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:13,520
Speaker 1: first round where maybe you could see a Hollywood Brown

1435
01:08:13,640 --> 01:08:16,400
Speaker 1: or a DK metcalf or and a J Brown. Even

1436
01:08:16,400 --> 01:08:18,840
Speaker 1: in Paris. Campbell he has a lot of fans around

1437
01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:21,280
Speaker 1: the league, wouldn't if he was the first receiver off

1438
01:08:21,280 --> 01:08:23,879
Speaker 1: the board, say to Baltimore at twenty two, that wouldn't

1439
01:08:23,880 --> 01:08:26,320
Speaker 1: be a surprise. So I think there's a lot of

1440
01:08:26,400 --> 01:08:29,880
Speaker 1: intrigue at this wide receiver group because there's no consensus

1441
01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:32,160
Speaker 1: on the rankings, who will be the first one draft

1442
01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:34,800
Speaker 1: and where that will be. It makes for a really

1443
01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:37,519
Speaker 1: interesting scenario on draft weekend. I just say, I'm kind

1444
01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:40,280
Speaker 1: of fast forwarding to you know, Thursday night of the draft,

1445
01:08:40,320 --> 01:08:43,120
Speaker 1: eight days awaye Dane and man if DK metcalf is

1446
01:08:43,160 --> 01:08:45,400
Speaker 1: there and we're in the last third of the first round,

1447
01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:48,479
Speaker 1: you know, twenty one and beyond, and I know about

1448
01:08:48,479 --> 01:08:50,240
Speaker 1: the negatives. You know, he was hurt a little bit,

1449
01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:54,519
Speaker 1: He had some bad you know, agility drills at the combine.

1450
01:08:55,479 --> 01:08:57,559
Speaker 1: I get all that. But if he's there, you know,

1451
01:08:57,680 --> 01:08:59,719
Speaker 1: after the twentieth pick in the first round, there's gonna

1452
01:08:59,720 --> 01:09:01,360
Speaker 1: be a lot of pressure on somebody in need of

1453
01:09:01,360 --> 01:09:03,800
Speaker 1: a receiver to jump on him, right, just because of

1454
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:06,280
Speaker 1: the potential. I know it's not proven yet, but there's

1455
01:09:06,280 --> 01:09:09,040
Speaker 1: a ton of potential They would Metcalf, isn't it. There's

1456
01:09:09,080 --> 01:09:11,559
Speaker 1: no question in the upside six three and a half,

1457
01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:14,320
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty pounds, a four to three athlete

1458
01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:20,479
Speaker 1: with just unbelievable physical skills. But you know, wide receiver

1459
01:09:20,640 --> 01:09:23,960
Speaker 1: is such a technically proficient position. You know, you look

1460
01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:26,559
Speaker 1: at the top guys in the NFL. Yes, Julio Jones

1461
01:09:26,600 --> 01:09:29,679
Speaker 1: as a monster. Calvin Jones or Calvin Johnson was a monster,

1462
01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:34,240
Speaker 1: but their abilities as route runners certainly played a part

1463
01:09:34,240 --> 01:09:36,680
Speaker 1: in that as well. And so for DK Metcalf, it's

1464
01:09:36,680 --> 01:09:40,759
Speaker 1: a projection in terms of being able to hone his footwork.

1465
01:09:41,360 --> 01:09:43,639
Speaker 1: You know, it's a dance with him and corners being

1466
01:09:43,640 --> 01:09:46,439
Speaker 1: able to win that dance because in the NFL, some

1467
01:09:46,520 --> 01:09:48,360
Speaker 1: of these corners are going to make it really tough

1468
01:09:48,360 --> 01:09:51,080
Speaker 1: on a guy like DK metcalfs So I believe that

1469
01:09:51,120 --> 01:09:53,880
Speaker 1: the physical trades are going to be awfully appealing. But

1470
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:57,519
Speaker 1: again it's I think people expecting DK metcalf to come

1471
01:09:57,560 --> 01:10:00,120
Speaker 1: in and be that Julio Jones type of player. I

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Speaker 1: just don't think it's going to happen, especially not his

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Speaker 1: rookie year. It's going to take some time for him

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Speaker 1: to adjust, and because there's going to be that learning curve,

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01:10:07,920 --> 01:10:10,800
Speaker 1: it might scare teams away. But all it takes is

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01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:13,800
Speaker 1: one to believe in the traits and upside. I get it.

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Speaker 1: And just briefly, the correlaty to that. Do you recall

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01:10:16,960 --> 01:10:19,840
Speaker 1: when Julio Jones came out or some of these other

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01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:23,120
Speaker 1: great receivers where there are any similar type of concerns like, hey,

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01:10:23,160 --> 01:10:25,439
Speaker 1: this guy might not be ready right away, we have

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01:10:25,479 --> 01:10:27,839
Speaker 1: to wait, we have to develop. Were there not similar

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01:10:27,840 --> 01:10:31,120
Speaker 1: concerns for those guys. I don't know. I don't think

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01:10:31,120 --> 01:10:32,960
Speaker 1: that with the Julio Jones or AJ Green. It's not

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01:10:33,080 --> 01:10:35,639
Speaker 1: these elite receivers, but I mean there's always a lot

1485
01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:38,840
Speaker 1: of these you know, some of these receivers, you know

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01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:41,280
Speaker 1: because a lot of them. To me, that's the longest.

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01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:43,439
Speaker 1: There's the position that takes the longest to adjust the

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01:10:43,520 --> 01:10:47,120
Speaker 1: NFL just because the chemistry, the steps, the coverage is better,

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01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:49,160
Speaker 1: so it is tough. A lot of these guys aren't

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01:10:49,240 --> 01:10:51,880
Speaker 1: used to press coverage. So there is a big learning

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01:10:51,880 --> 01:10:54,000
Speaker 1: curve for most of these receivers, and I don't think

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01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:57,080
Speaker 1: it'll be any different for dk metcal I get it. Hey, Dane,

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01:10:57,120 --> 01:11:00,920
Speaker 1: it's great work. The monster mock draft is amazing. Uh,

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01:11:01,040 --> 01:11:03,519
Speaker 1: it's gonna fulfill. It's gonna fill many nights now in

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01:11:03,520 --> 01:11:05,519
Speaker 1: the next eight days. We thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: joining us city to talk about to keep up the

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Speaker 1: good works. Dane Brugler, senior NFL Draft analyst for The

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01:11:11,400 --> 01:11:14,200
Speaker 1: Athletic dot Com. That's we can find his Monster or

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Speaker 1: seven round mock draft. The author of the twenty nineteen

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Speaker 1: NFL Draft Guide Draft Guide from NFL draftscount dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Dane Brugler, all right, go ahead. You're gonna start looking

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01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:26,360
Speaker 1: at me like I'm promoting dk Metcalf here, which I'm not.

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01:11:27,120 --> 01:11:28,880
Speaker 1: But all I'm saying is, if you're late in the

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01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:31,760
Speaker 1: first round, and he's still sitting out there with what

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01:11:31,840 --> 01:11:34,880
Speaker 1: he did at the combine and his potential. I don't

1506
01:11:34,920 --> 01:11:37,200
Speaker 1: know how you just sit there and not jump on him.

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01:11:37,240 --> 01:11:40,840
Speaker 1: I get all those issues, you know, the questions health.

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01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:44,120
Speaker 1: The last couple of years, he's had some significant injury issues, UM,

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01:11:44,280 --> 01:11:46,760
Speaker 1: the agility drills did not test well, although he got

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01:11:46,760 --> 01:11:48,960
Speaker 1: better on his Pro day. I get all that. And

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01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:50,960
Speaker 1: the body of work is a little bit light, yes,

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01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:55,200
Speaker 1: small production, you're right, but the potential to get a

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01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:59,760
Speaker 1: game breaking UM impact receiver and maybe not making an

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01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:01,840
Speaker 1: back in his first round. I understand that in the

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01:12:01,880 --> 01:12:03,840
Speaker 1: first year, but still I don't know how you walk

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01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:05,639
Speaker 1: away from it. I'm not talking about the Bills. I'm

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01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:07,880
Speaker 1: talking about anybody in need of a wide receipt and that.

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01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:10,200
Speaker 1: And it all comes down to that, Murph. Do you

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01:12:10,200 --> 01:12:13,680
Speaker 1: you weigh what he could be against a guy in

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01:12:13,720 --> 01:12:17,320
Speaker 1: another position like an offensive tackle or an edge rusher

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01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:21,000
Speaker 1: or a linebacker or whatever whatever position you want to say,

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01:12:21,200 --> 01:12:23,160
Speaker 1: over a guy that you know is going to be

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01:12:23,400 --> 01:12:25,720
Speaker 1: a guy at a different position where you don't need

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01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:28,280
Speaker 1: a year to get acclimated, where a corner can come in,

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01:12:28,320 --> 01:12:30,559
Speaker 1: and because of his athletic ability, can start playing right

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01:12:30,560 --> 01:12:34,200
Speaker 1: away and contribute. Ah Tredavious White two years ago. You know,

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01:12:34,320 --> 01:12:36,400
Speaker 1: guys like that. You got to weigh that in this draft.

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01:12:36,439 --> 01:12:39,160
Speaker 1: Who else is there that you like? And who knows

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01:12:39,200 --> 01:12:41,120
Speaker 1: about all these teams? We don't even know about our

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01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:45,400
Speaker 1: own team, right, You're right? Yeah, nobody. Nobody's allowed in

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01:12:45,439 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 1: these rooms, and nobody can get inside the head even

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01:12:48,479 --> 01:12:49,920
Speaker 1: if they're in the room, they can't get in the

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01:12:49,920 --> 01:12:53,040
Speaker 1: side ahead of their own GM. And there's disinformation at

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01:12:53,040 --> 01:12:56,040
Speaker 1: work right now. Two teams deliberately putting out bad information.

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01:12:56,080 --> 01:12:58,360
Speaker 1: And you've also got guys inside the room that that

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01:12:58,479 --> 01:13:00,599
Speaker 1: will say you're twenty eight in the draft. So you've

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01:13:00,600 --> 01:13:02,160
Speaker 1: got a ton of guys that have already gone your

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01:13:02,200 --> 01:13:04,479
Speaker 1: twenty seventh pick in draft or what have you. I'm

1539
01:13:04,479 --> 01:13:06,160
Speaker 1: just picking that out of out of I don't even

1540
01:13:06,200 --> 01:13:07,880
Speaker 1: know who the twenty seventh pick of the draft is.

1541
01:13:08,200 --> 01:13:11,080
Speaker 1: But you get down to there to that guy, and

1542
01:13:11,080 --> 01:13:13,479
Speaker 1: and you've got one of your trusted scouts or a

1543
01:13:13,560 --> 01:13:17,879
Speaker 1: veteran guy. You've got Gil Brandt standing on the table

1544
01:13:18,439 --> 01:13:21,439
Speaker 1: over a guy that's not DK Metcalf. You know what

1545
01:13:21,520 --> 01:13:25,280
Speaker 1: I mean. There's all these dynamics at work and all

1546
01:13:25,320 --> 01:13:27,120
Speaker 1: the work that has gone into all of these guys.

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01:13:27,160 --> 01:13:30,000
Speaker 1: You say, yeah, DK's there, but it's a might be

1548
01:13:30,160 --> 01:13:33,639
Speaker 1: with DK Metcalf. This guy is an absolute camp. He's

1549
01:13:33,680 --> 01:13:36,080
Speaker 1: not gonna be an all pro, but we're gonna plug

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01:13:36,200 --> 01:13:40,000
Speaker 1: him in at defensive tackle and we'll forget about him

1551
01:13:40,000 --> 01:13:41,479
Speaker 1: for ten years. Or we're gonna put him at a

1552
01:13:41,479 --> 01:13:43,599
Speaker 1: guard and we'll forget about him at ten years. So

1553
01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:48,479
Speaker 1: that's I think, might be. Yeah, really I know this.

1554
01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:50,799
Speaker 1: This left guard is not going to score us any touchdown.

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01:13:50,840 --> 01:13:54,800
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf score may score fifteen a year, Yeah, plus

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01:13:54,800 --> 01:13:57,880
Speaker 1: a year next year. Yeah, I get it. And that's

1557
01:13:57,880 --> 01:14:01,120
Speaker 1: when that's when this that's the real question of how

1558
01:14:01,160 --> 01:14:05,920
Speaker 1: you work in NFL draft. Does this left tackle does

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01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:12,320
Speaker 1: his potential and his certainty outweigh this wide receiver's potential

1560
01:14:12,360 --> 01:14:15,640
Speaker 1: and certainty upside? Yeah, it's a tough one. Wow, and

1561
01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:19,240
Speaker 1: our need you know, hell? Yeah, oh my gosh, All right,

1562
01:14:19,240 --> 01:14:21,760
Speaker 1: A breatcare. We're coming back more schedule talk. It comes

1563
01:14:21,760 --> 01:14:23,720
Speaker 1: out tonight at eight o'clock. When we return, Steve and

1564
01:14:23,760 --> 01:14:25,080
Speaker 1: I will talk more about that and want to get

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01:14:25,080 --> 01:14:27,080
Speaker 1: your input too. What are you looking for from the

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Speaker 1: bill schedule tonight one Bill's Live, presented by Kalaida Health

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome

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01:14:45,120 --> 01:14:46,640
Speaker 1: back One Bill's Live. I'm John mur If you're the

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01:14:46,680 --> 01:14:49,120
Speaker 1: Steve Task Here. We are halfway through the show. Got

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01:14:49,160 --> 01:14:51,160
Speaker 1: another hour and a half to go. More draft coming

1571
01:14:51,240 --> 01:14:53,519
Speaker 1: up at two o'clock with our buddy Andy Benoit from

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01:14:54,040 --> 01:14:57,160
Speaker 1: MMQB dot SI dot com, Sports hillis Rated dot com

1573
01:14:57,200 --> 01:14:59,280
Speaker 1: and Evenoit we'll join us to talk about the draft.

1574
01:14:59,320 --> 01:15:02,080
Speaker 1: We've got a couple of you're seeing the posts up recently,

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01:15:02,120 --> 01:15:05,439
Speaker 1: including the traits that are important to each position as

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01:15:05,439 --> 01:15:09,599
Speaker 1: you evaluate the draft schedule comes out tonight. Stuff sleeking.

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01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:11,920
Speaker 1: We don't know how much credence to put into it.

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01:15:12,439 --> 01:15:16,000
Speaker 1: Here's what we Here's what we has been reported. I

1579
01:15:16,000 --> 01:15:17,400
Speaker 1: don't know if we even know this, but here's what

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01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:21,920
Speaker 1: has been reported on the Bill schedule. The Jets reporter

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01:15:21,960 --> 01:15:24,040
Speaker 1: from the New York Daily News, Benish Meida, says the

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01:15:24,080 --> 01:15:27,040
Speaker 1: Bills and Jets will open their seasons on week one.

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01:15:28,280 --> 01:15:30,840
Speaker 1: I guess it's Sunday, right, we know what the prime time, well,

1584
01:15:30,840 --> 01:15:32,320
Speaker 1: we don't know what the well, you know the Sunday

1585
01:15:32,320 --> 01:15:34,080
Speaker 1: of the weekend, but you don't know which games are

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01:15:34,080 --> 01:15:37,160
Speaker 1: going to be Thursday, Sunday Monday, rights other will we

1587
01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:41,800
Speaker 1: know Thursday and we know Sunday night. But he's got

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01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:44,160
Speaker 1: the Bills in the Jetsmennish Meida does week one in

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01:15:44,200 --> 01:15:46,320
Speaker 1: New York. He's got the Bills in the Jets week

1590
01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:48,960
Speaker 1: seventeen here in Buffalo. Minische Metta from the New York

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01:15:49,000 --> 01:15:52,040
Speaker 1: Daily News. This is a new one from Giants Reporter

1592
01:15:52,160 --> 01:15:54,880
Speaker 1: Art Stapleton reports that the Bills will play at the

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01:15:54,960 --> 01:15:57,240
Speaker 1: Giants in week two. More on that in a moment.

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01:15:57,400 --> 01:16:00,000
Speaker 1: Jeff Howe, who covers the Patriots for the Athletic dot Com,

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01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:02,719
Speaker 1: says the Bills will host the Patriots in week four

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01:16:03,120 --> 01:16:06,320
Speaker 1: and the Bills will go to New England in week sixteen. Okay,

1597
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:08,559
Speaker 1: but let's look at the top end of these. These

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01:16:08,560 --> 01:16:11,920
Speaker 1: are only reports. We'll talk about authoritatively tomorrow, and we've

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01:16:11,920 --> 01:16:13,600
Speaker 1: got the man who puts it together, Mike North, on

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01:16:13,600 --> 01:16:16,519
Speaker 1: the show with us tomorrow. But if these reports are right,

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01:16:17,040 --> 01:16:19,439
Speaker 1: the Bills open at the Jets in week one and

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01:16:19,600 --> 01:16:21,559
Speaker 1: go right back to the Metal Ends in week two

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01:16:21,600 --> 01:16:25,320
Speaker 1: to play at the Giants. That's so crazy, you know,

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01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:28,559
Speaker 1: that's not bad. They spend the week there in practice

1605
01:16:28,600 --> 01:16:30,960
Speaker 1: at Montclair State, New Jersey for the week. No, not

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01:16:31,040 --> 01:16:33,880
Speaker 1: in that sure to avoid the thirty five minute fla.

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01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:36,720
Speaker 1: That's actually good, it's actually it is. Tell me why

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01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:41,160
Speaker 1: it's routine. It's a routine. Here we are back at

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01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:43,880
Speaker 1: the Metal Ends. Yeah, that's exactly right. It's gonna be Hey,

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01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:45,519
Speaker 1: we're gonna be at the same hotel. You're gonna get

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01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:47,160
Speaker 1: the same room. It's gonna be a routine. You're gonna

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01:16:47,200 --> 01:16:48,840
Speaker 1: get it going, you're gonna feel comfortable, and you're gonna

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01:16:48,840 --> 01:16:51,559
Speaker 1: go out and play play well. That Week two is

1614
01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:53,760
Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit more familiar. It's not gonna

1615
01:16:53,760 --> 01:16:55,400
Speaker 1: feel like such an away game. You're gonna be in

1616
01:16:55,400 --> 01:16:57,839
Speaker 1: the same meeting rooms. You're gonna be in the same hotel.

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01:16:58,120 --> 01:17:00,559
Speaker 1: It's all gonna be a routine. It's gonna are really good,

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01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:02,559
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a positive for the Bills. I

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01:17:02,560 --> 01:17:05,439
Speaker 1: think two winnable games. You would think too, Jets, Giants,

1620
01:17:05,560 --> 01:17:08,320
Speaker 1: they're all winnable. Murph, don't forget you know what I mean.

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01:17:09,400 --> 01:17:11,320
Speaker 1: Winnable for the fans based on what they've seen in

1622
01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:14,200
Speaker 1: the past. Yes, okay, which is meaningless, but yes, okay,

1623
01:17:14,400 --> 01:17:15,920
Speaker 1: if you want, if you want to live in that world.

1624
01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:18,000
Speaker 1: Go ahead. I want to think that the Bills are

1625
01:17:18,000 --> 01:17:20,639
Speaker 1: good enough to beat the Jets maybe twice this year.

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01:17:20,640 --> 01:17:21,920
Speaker 1: And I want to think that they're good enough to

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01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:26,960
Speaker 1: beat the Giant. Yeah, got to beat anybody, mon frere Okay,

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01:17:27,040 --> 01:17:30,120
Speaker 1: he's telling about undefeated on Thanksgiving. Well here and and

1629
01:17:30,200 --> 01:17:32,519
Speaker 1: the the and for those of you interested, you get

1630
01:17:32,520 --> 01:17:36,080
Speaker 1: down deep into the season. The Sunday of the Christmas

1631
01:17:36,200 --> 01:17:39,800
Speaker 1: is on the twenty second, So Christmas this year falls

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01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:43,280
Speaker 1: on a Wednesday, so that's gonna be that holiday. The

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01:17:43,320 --> 01:17:45,400
Speaker 1: twenty second is going to be the Sunday of that week.

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01:17:45,520 --> 01:17:49,679
Speaker 1: The twenty third will be a Monday, so the Christmas

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01:17:49,800 --> 01:17:53,600
Speaker 1: holiday will fall on Wednesday this year. Uh. And the

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01:17:54,320 --> 01:18:00,240
Speaker 1: Sunday of November twenty fourth will be the Thanksgiving week end,

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01:18:00,760 --> 01:18:05,760
Speaker 1: so week twelve that is um. So it's those are all,

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01:18:05,800 --> 01:18:07,880
Speaker 1: you know, kind of the for all we're talking about

1639
01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:09,880
Speaker 1: with the fans and how you plan your holiday season,

1640
01:18:09,960 --> 01:18:15,240
Speaker 1: what trips you're gonna take, um, weeks one through weeks

1641
01:18:15,320 --> 01:18:18,800
Speaker 1: number four or eighth through the nineteenth or the twenty

1642
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:21,479
Speaker 1: ninth of September. Then it's the sixth of October through

1643
01:18:21,520 --> 01:18:25,240
Speaker 1: the twenty seventh of October, So, uh, Halloween is gonna

1644
01:18:25,280 --> 01:18:27,240
Speaker 1: fall later in the week. It's like a Wednesday Thursday

1645
01:18:27,280 --> 01:18:29,840
Speaker 1: that week, so none of the holidays are going to

1646
01:18:29,880 --> 01:18:31,840
Speaker 1: fall over the weekends of these games. Tell me when

1647
01:18:31,880 --> 01:18:38,559
Speaker 1: Canadian Thanksgiving? This that just makes you mad. No, I

1648
01:18:38,560 --> 01:18:41,960
Speaker 1: don't know in the holiday win but it's we are talking.

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01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:44,840
Speaker 1: We are talking to bills, fans and these and we're

1650
01:18:44,880 --> 01:18:47,360
Speaker 1: talking about the schedule. You don't think that Thanksgiving weekend

1651
01:18:47,439 --> 01:18:51,720
Speaker 1: is important? I get it not, but I don't know

1652
01:18:51,760 --> 01:18:56,880
Speaker 1: when that is. You're making fun of the important time

1653
01:18:56,920 --> 01:19:01,719
Speaker 1: places on those holidays. Everybody is when Christmas is. People

1654
01:19:01,760 --> 01:19:04,680
Speaker 1: can figure that out. Yeah, but for now, when you

1655
01:19:04,720 --> 01:19:06,519
Speaker 1: know you're gonna know it's you know, you don't have

1656
01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:08,639
Speaker 1: to worry about that. You don't have to worry about

1657
01:19:08,640 --> 01:19:16,400
Speaker 1: having a Monday night game when it's Christmas Day. Just now,

1658
01:19:16,439 --> 01:19:18,679
Speaker 1: he's laughing. I was in trouble there for a minute.

1659
01:19:18,960 --> 01:19:20,439
Speaker 1: What do you think? What are you looking for from

1660
01:19:20,439 --> 01:19:22,760
Speaker 1: the bill schedule? Drop us a line on Twitter. We

1661
01:19:22,840 --> 01:19:24,400
Speaker 1: may read it on the tweet sheet or give us

1662
01:19:24,400 --> 01:19:28,599
Speaker 1: a call. Eight three fifty to three one five fifty

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01:19:28,680 --> 01:19:31,200
Speaker 1: two five fifty Bob. Bob is on the line from

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01:19:31,479 --> 01:19:35,040
Speaker 1: Orchard PARKO ahead, Bob, you're on the air. Yeah, John

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01:19:35,240 --> 01:19:37,680
Speaker 1: Steve's nice talking to you guys. Thanks for coming on.

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01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:47,479
Speaker 1: I definitely absolutely prefer home games on Sunday at one o'clock. Yep,

1667
01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:51,920
Speaker 1: tell us why. My reason for that is I live

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01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:56,640
Speaker 1: It's twofold. I live right across from the stadium. Number one. Okay,

1669
01:19:56,800 --> 01:20:02,559
Speaker 1: you sell them parking in the front line, lawn, back line. Okay,

1670
01:20:03,320 --> 01:20:06,080
Speaker 1: you have a financial interest in this. That's fine. So

1671
01:20:06,120 --> 01:20:08,200
Speaker 1: what's the difference for you between the Sunday one a

1672
01:20:08,200 --> 01:20:16,040
Speaker 1: game and something else? Night games are a nightmare. People

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01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:21,840
Speaker 1: are bad enough on a Sunday afternoon the way they

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01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:26,040
Speaker 1: drive and park and everything else. You compound that with

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01:20:26,120 --> 01:20:31,120
Speaker 1: a night game, especially if it's a more of a

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01:20:31,200 --> 01:20:36,479
Speaker 1: local opponent like the Jets or Cleveland or Pittsburgh where

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01:20:36,520 --> 01:20:41,120
Speaker 1: you have a lot of fans from those teams coming in.

1678
01:20:42,760 --> 01:20:47,639
Speaker 1: They go into the stadium when it's still daylight. They

1679
01:20:47,680 --> 01:20:52,080
Speaker 1: come out of the stadium and it's dark. They have

1680
01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:57,120
Speaker 1: no idea where they are, where they parked, where they're going.

1681
01:20:58,600 --> 01:21:02,639
Speaker 1: Plus the Elk Hall seems to kick in worse at

1682
01:21:02,720 --> 01:21:05,280
Speaker 1: night than it does during the day for some reason. Yeah,

1683
01:21:05,320 --> 01:21:07,320
Speaker 1: I get you. And those are all good reasons, and

1684
01:21:07,360 --> 01:21:09,400
Speaker 1: you're and that's exactly why we had to ask this

1685
01:21:09,520 --> 01:21:12,080
Speaker 1: question today. Everybody's got their own vested interest on how

1686
01:21:12,120 --> 01:21:14,320
Speaker 1: this schedule thing turns out. But Bob, you don't have

1687
01:21:14,400 --> 01:21:16,559
Speaker 1: to have people park in your line if it's that

1688
01:21:16,640 --> 01:21:20,040
Speaker 1: much of a hassle. Right, Oh, no, I love it.

1689
01:21:20,200 --> 01:21:23,760
Speaker 1: I've I've made so many friends over the years. It

1690
01:21:23,760 --> 01:21:26,800
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like it sounds like your friends are all

1691
01:21:26,840 --> 01:21:30,160
Speaker 1: drunken fools. Sounds like you're ready to kick these people

1692
01:21:30,240 --> 01:21:36,840
Speaker 1: off your property. That's great. And also from a security standpoint,

1693
01:21:37,200 --> 01:21:41,000
Speaker 1: because I also do security at the stadium. Okay, all right,

1694
01:21:41,080 --> 01:21:43,160
Speaker 1: good for you, you're business. I appreciate it. Thanks, Bob,

1695
01:21:43,200 --> 01:21:45,400
Speaker 1: I'm glad. Yeah, thanks for calling. And you're right. I

1696
01:21:45,400 --> 01:21:47,080
Speaker 1: think I've seen a lot of people, not just people

1697
01:21:47,120 --> 01:21:50,240
Speaker 1: who sell, you know, parking or you know, vend stuff

1698
01:21:50,280 --> 01:21:52,240
Speaker 1: at the stadium or work at the stadium on game day.

1699
01:21:52,600 --> 01:21:54,760
Speaker 1: A lot of regular fans like it. When it's just

1700
01:21:54,800 --> 01:21:56,760
Speaker 1: a one o'clock on Sunday, you can you don't have

1701
01:21:56,800 --> 01:21:59,160
Speaker 1: to like throw it oh today when is oh, it's

1702
01:21:59,200 --> 01:22:01,760
Speaker 1: not you know, there's a lot of that. People love

1703
01:22:01,880 --> 01:22:04,439
Speaker 1: the routine. They're like a little like the players in

1704
01:22:04,439 --> 01:22:07,200
Speaker 1: that respect. It's it's great to have something you can

1705
01:22:07,240 --> 01:22:09,360
Speaker 1: count on every week and it's gonna go well, and

1706
01:22:09,400 --> 01:22:11,120
Speaker 1: you can get into a groove where you know it's

1707
01:22:11,120 --> 01:22:13,800
Speaker 1: gonna be fun Monday nights like lash. I hope it

1708
01:22:13,800 --> 01:22:15,280
Speaker 1: turns out good, you know, because it's gonna be latehen

1709
01:22:15,280 --> 01:22:16,759
Speaker 1: we get out of there and there's all this unknown

1710
01:22:16,800 --> 01:22:19,920
Speaker 1: stuff that's not the routine. So I get it. It

1711
01:22:19,920 --> 01:22:23,080
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. Call here from Dick into Pew. Hello, Dick,

1712
01:22:25,400 --> 01:22:29,479
Speaker 1: Dick intope, we waited for you. Let's go to a

1713
01:22:29,560 --> 01:22:35,760
Speaker 1: Cannon Orchard Park. Hello Ken, Hello, how's it going good? Hi? Ken? Um?

1714
01:22:36,080 --> 01:22:40,559
Speaker 1: You know I found yesterday and I you know, this

1715
01:22:40,840 --> 01:22:44,120
Speaker 1: team has been searching for you know, people saying we

1716
01:22:44,200 --> 01:22:47,679
Speaker 1: need a tight end for so long. And I made

1717
01:22:47,680 --> 01:22:51,000
Speaker 1: a list of all these tight ends in the past,

1718
01:22:51,200 --> 01:22:54,360
Speaker 1: you know, going way back to the sixth season. You

1719
01:22:54,400 --> 01:22:57,880
Speaker 1: know you got shocked. You threat our band as Christensen,

1720
01:22:58,160 --> 01:23:05,120
Speaker 1: Charlie sim or Dick though Witt viral John Ken Ken, Ken,

1721
01:23:05,200 --> 01:23:07,360
Speaker 1: I get it. What's your point? Though? I can't. I

1722
01:23:07,360 --> 01:23:09,040
Speaker 1: can't just let you go through the rock through of

1723
01:23:09,160 --> 01:23:11,960
Speaker 1: NFL tight end. Go ahead? What's so? What about these

1724
01:23:12,040 --> 01:23:15,839
Speaker 1: tight ends. Ken Well, I think it would be smart

1725
01:23:15,920 --> 01:23:20,160
Speaker 1: for the Bills to pick Howkinson at number nine because

1726
01:23:20,160 --> 01:23:25,280
Speaker 1: they why Because why? I pointing, You've done so much

1727
01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:29,240
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, and I think you're killing two

1728
01:23:29,320 --> 01:23:32,800
Speaker 1: birds with one stone. You're not only getting a great receiver,

1729
01:23:33,640 --> 01:23:37,160
Speaker 1: you're also getting a formable blocker. So you're thinking the

1730
01:23:37,200 --> 01:23:41,120
Speaker 1: tight end is the key position this year for the

1731
01:23:41,160 --> 01:23:43,639
Speaker 1: Bills anyway, and maybe on any football team. It sounds

1732
01:23:43,640 --> 01:23:45,320
Speaker 1: like you're sayings like that's what he says, and I

1733
01:23:45,360 --> 01:23:47,200
Speaker 1: don't look, and I hear a lot of people say

1734
01:23:47,280 --> 01:23:49,320
Speaker 1: little Bills have never had a dominant tight end. You

1735
01:23:49,400 --> 01:23:51,639
Speaker 1: so have a lot of other teams and teams win

1736
01:23:51,760 --> 01:23:55,320
Speaker 1: championships without a dominant game breaking tight end. They do,

1737
01:23:55,560 --> 01:23:58,519
Speaker 1: they do? I don't know. They look they made pick

1738
01:23:58,600 --> 01:24:01,200
Speaker 1: Hockinson in at nine, probably be a little high, but

1739
01:24:01,240 --> 01:24:03,599
Speaker 1: they may do it. They may pick no offense somewhere

1740
01:24:03,640 --> 01:24:05,840
Speaker 1: in the first round. I don't know. I don't feel

1741
01:24:05,880 --> 01:24:11,240
Speaker 1: comfortable choosing putting that much faith and um putting that

1742
01:24:11,320 --> 01:24:13,599
Speaker 1: much temperances on the tight end. I really don't. And

1743
01:24:13,640 --> 01:24:17,160
Speaker 1: it certainly should have nothing to do with history, right,

1744
01:24:17,200 --> 01:24:19,200
Speaker 1: you know, draft based we've never had a good tight end.

1745
01:24:19,280 --> 01:24:21,160
Speaker 1: Let's get a good tight end, Chris, What do you

1746
01:24:21,160 --> 01:24:22,720
Speaker 1: need now or what do you want to build for

1747
01:24:22,760 --> 01:24:24,800
Speaker 1: the future? Right, that's how you draft. You don't draft

1748
01:24:24,840 --> 01:24:27,559
Speaker 1: because oh well we always wanted a good tighten, we

1749
01:24:27,600 --> 01:24:31,440
Speaker 1: never had one. Let's pick one. Come on, yeah, Gronkowski, Gronkowski,

1750
01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:35,960
Speaker 1: Tony Gonzalez, Mike Ditka. You know, are you going to

1751
01:24:36,040 --> 01:24:38,400
Speaker 1: read off all all those guys he named, None of

1752
01:24:38,439 --> 01:24:42,160
Speaker 1: them have anything to do with this draft class and

1753
01:24:42,200 --> 01:24:46,880
Speaker 1: the tight ends in it. I doubt as good as

1754
01:24:47,200 --> 01:24:50,360
Speaker 1: Hockinson may have been, as no offense may have been,

1755
01:24:50,400 --> 01:24:52,720
Speaker 1: all these guys in college, as good as they were,

1756
01:24:52,880 --> 01:24:54,960
Speaker 1: I doubt than any of them are going to the

1757
01:24:54,960 --> 01:24:59,360
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. They may, but they're not. It's gonna

1758
01:24:59,400 --> 01:25:01,559
Speaker 1: take more than just that guy to go, because it

1759
01:25:01,600 --> 01:25:05,000
Speaker 1: takes a quarterback and a team and some success and

1760
01:25:05,120 --> 01:25:07,400
Speaker 1: a lot of things that none of those these guys

1761
01:25:07,439 --> 01:25:10,120
Speaker 1: know anything about. Yet. It takes a lot of that

1762
01:25:10,240 --> 01:25:14,240
Speaker 1: to do it, and it's all unknown. I've heard this

1763
01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:16,120
Speaker 1: a lot. I'm sorry to interrupt you ahead, I've heard

1764
01:25:16,240 --> 01:25:17,560
Speaker 1: a lot in the last couple of years. Well, the

1765
01:25:17,560 --> 01:25:20,559
Speaker 1: Bills should draft a tight end. Hockinson most notably because

1766
01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:24,160
Speaker 1: they've never really had a dominant tight end. Why what

1767
01:25:24,240 --> 01:25:26,400
Speaker 1: does that have to do with this year's team, this NFL?

1768
01:25:27,280 --> 01:25:29,360
Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with it. Really, you don't

1769
01:25:29,439 --> 01:25:31,200
Speaker 1: draft guys because, well, we never had a really good

1770
01:25:31,280 --> 01:25:33,639
Speaker 1: left tackle. Maybe we should get a left tackle. Maybe

1771
01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:36,000
Speaker 1: that's what we were missing. No, you're missing quarterback for

1772
01:25:36,120 --> 01:25:39,040
Speaker 1: most of the sixteen seventeen year playoffter out. You're missing

1773
01:25:39,120 --> 01:25:42,600
Speaker 1: quarterback play Nobody did anybody everything the Bills had the

1774
01:25:42,600 --> 01:25:44,360
Speaker 1: seventeen year play after rout because they didn't have a

1775
01:25:44,400 --> 01:25:46,760
Speaker 1: good tight end. How many good who would make How

1776
01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:49,040
Speaker 1: many tight ends would have been made great if they'd

1777
01:25:49,040 --> 01:25:51,679
Speaker 1: have been playing with Philip Rivers? How many Titans would

1778
01:25:51,680 --> 01:25:54,439
Speaker 1: have been made great if they were playing with Tom Brady?

1779
01:25:54,720 --> 01:25:56,439
Speaker 1: How many tight ends would have been made great if

1780
01:25:56,439 --> 01:25:59,519
Speaker 1: they were playing with you name the quarter the Hall

1781
01:25:59,560 --> 01:26:02,519
Speaker 1: of Fame and Marino. You know Miami never had a

1782
01:26:02,520 --> 01:26:08,320
Speaker 1: great tight end while he was playing, so it's irrelevant. Yeah,

1783
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:11,160
Speaker 1: the quarterback will make those guys great. And if the

1784
01:26:11,240 --> 01:26:14,320
Speaker 1: quarterback has a guy he trusts, he's gonna look for

1785
01:26:14,360 --> 01:26:15,880
Speaker 1: him more often and throw him the ball more often,

1786
01:26:15,920 --> 01:26:17,960
Speaker 1: and the guy's gonna get more opportunity. He's probably gonna

1787
01:26:17,960 --> 01:26:22,120
Speaker 1: make more catches, more touchdowns, all of that stuff. So yeah,

1788
01:26:22,400 --> 01:26:25,439
Speaker 1: the fact that the historic nature of the Bill's position

1789
01:26:25,479 --> 01:26:28,760
Speaker 1: to tight end hasn't been one that has produced a

1790
01:26:28,840 --> 01:26:32,960
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame player has nothing to do with the

1791
01:26:33,120 --> 01:26:37,879
Speaker 1: playoff drought or the quality of the guys they drafted.

1792
01:26:37,920 --> 01:26:40,920
Speaker 1: It has to do with the team that's it, and

1793
01:26:41,240 --> 01:26:43,519
Speaker 1: if the guy's worthy of it in this draft, take him.

1794
01:26:43,600 --> 01:26:45,280
Speaker 1: But you don't know if he's gonna be or not,

1795
01:26:45,320 --> 01:26:48,479
Speaker 1: And that's not going to be the missing in my opinion.

1796
01:26:48,560 --> 01:26:50,240
Speaker 1: He may be, but he's not probably not gonna be

1797
01:26:50,320 --> 01:26:53,240
Speaker 1: the missing ingredient. Then we get this tight end bang

1798
01:26:54,439 --> 01:26:57,000
Speaker 1: problems solved. Our offense is going to score thirty five

1799
01:26:57,040 --> 01:26:59,680
Speaker 1: points a game, and we are off and running. You know,

1800
01:26:59,720 --> 01:27:01,240
Speaker 1: It's just it's not gonna happen like that either. We're

1801
01:27:01,240 --> 01:27:03,120
Speaker 1: gonna take a break though, talk more about the draft,

1802
01:27:03,520 --> 01:27:05,519
Speaker 1: more about the schedule when we come back. One Bill's Live,

1803
01:27:05,600 --> 01:27:08,280
Speaker 1: presented by Callida Health from One Bill's Drive. This is

1804
01:27:08,320 --> 01:27:23,599
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back One Bill's Live. John Murphy's

1805
01:27:23,640 --> 01:27:25,880
Speaker 1: Deep Tasker. It's been an interesting day, Steve. You've come

1806
01:27:25,920 --> 01:27:29,000
Speaker 1: in with a certain spark of energy today that is

1807
01:27:29,080 --> 01:27:34,360
Speaker 1: have a seat that is uh interesting, doesn't really doesn't

1808
01:27:34,400 --> 01:27:36,560
Speaker 1: even it's you're being nice, I'm going to wonder what

1809
01:27:36,600 --> 01:27:39,599
Speaker 1: I've done to offend you. But here's the thing. We're

1810
01:27:39,640 --> 01:27:42,200
Speaker 1: in this and we live in the building which we

1811
01:27:42,280 --> 01:27:46,960
Speaker 1: may as well be downtown, but all over the league,

1812
01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:50,000
Speaker 1: all over the league, stuff leaks out. And now you've

1813
01:27:50,000 --> 01:27:53,519
Speaker 1: got like Amy Trask on Twitter and social media has

1814
01:27:53,600 --> 01:27:57,280
Speaker 1: leaked out. The Broncos put their schedule out on their

1815
01:27:57,320 --> 01:27:59,680
Speaker 1: website and got ratted out. I think they might be

1816
01:27:59,840 --> 01:28:02,160
Speaker 1: might have taken it down now, but I'm not sure.

1817
01:28:02,200 --> 01:28:04,800
Speaker 1: So you know that the lead the teams have been

1818
01:28:05,040 --> 01:28:08,759
Speaker 1: notified of what the schedule is now for whatever reason

1819
01:28:08,800 --> 01:28:11,160
Speaker 1: they do that, like it like it makes a big difference.

1820
01:28:12,760 --> 01:28:16,000
Speaker 1: But nobody else knows right ostensibly. So now it's all

1821
01:28:16,040 --> 01:28:20,360
Speaker 1: a question of who in whatever building leaks this stuff out.

1822
01:28:22,680 --> 01:28:24,720
Speaker 1: And by our account, the bills are tight as a

1823
01:28:24,760 --> 01:28:29,360
Speaker 1: drum because they're not leaguing anything. Okay, we don't know anything,

1824
01:28:29,439 --> 01:28:31,120
Speaker 1: and neither do any of our guys in the in

1825
01:28:31,160 --> 01:28:34,599
Speaker 1: the control room. So and all the stuff that's coming

1826
01:28:34,600 --> 01:28:36,200
Speaker 1: out popping out, you don't know if it's true or

1827
01:28:36,200 --> 01:28:37,960
Speaker 1: not because it's coming out from all these different sources

1828
01:28:38,120 --> 01:28:40,719
Speaker 1: being tweeted, and even some of the people we trust,

1829
01:28:40,960 --> 01:28:43,559
Speaker 1: they're not tweeting it. They're retweeting it from somebody else.

1830
01:28:43,560 --> 01:28:46,320
Speaker 1: So it's not even their report, which in the world

1831
01:28:46,360 --> 01:28:49,880
Speaker 1: of ethics and journalism, you can't take credit for something

1832
01:28:49,880 --> 01:28:51,800
Speaker 1: you just retweet, right, So it's not the it's not

1833
01:28:51,840 --> 01:28:54,439
Speaker 1: their problem if it's inaccurate, which is why I would

1834
01:28:54,479 --> 01:28:56,840
Speaker 1: like to stick to kind of our fan pole. What

1835
01:28:56,840 --> 01:28:58,640
Speaker 1: are you looking to see from the schedule? What do

1836
01:28:58,640 --> 01:29:00,000
Speaker 1: you want to see from the schedule? That's what we

1837
01:29:00,080 --> 01:29:02,400
Speaker 1: got up on Twitter and a tweet response on our

1838
01:29:02,400 --> 01:29:04,639
Speaker 1: tweet sheet from Brian, he says, I hope to see

1839
01:29:04,680 --> 01:29:08,920
Speaker 1: a home primetime game other than a Thursday, which means

1840
01:29:08,920 --> 01:29:11,479
Speaker 1: what a Sunday or a Monday. I'm also interested to

1841
01:29:11,479 --> 01:29:13,800
Speaker 1: see where all our division games fit in. Hopefully we

1842
01:29:13,800 --> 01:29:16,840
Speaker 1: can again have some meaningful division games in December, but

1843
01:29:16,920 --> 01:29:19,960
Speaker 1: one Patriots game in September, because that is when they're

1844
01:29:19,960 --> 01:29:23,400
Speaker 1: most vulnerable. That's a reasonable request. I think, Brian, Patriots

1845
01:29:23,400 --> 01:29:26,760
Speaker 1: game in September when they do appear to take a

1846
01:29:26,800 --> 01:29:30,280
Speaker 1: little while to get warmed up. Divisional games in December

1847
01:29:30,439 --> 01:29:32,760
Speaker 1: hopefully meaningful. There's nothing that can come out of the

1848
01:29:32,760 --> 01:29:36,400
Speaker 1: schedule to ensure the meaningfulness of those games. But yeah,

1849
01:29:36,400 --> 01:29:38,680
Speaker 1: I like that, and yeah, Monday nights, Sunday night, I'd

1850
01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:40,120
Speaker 1: be up for that at home, any one of those.

1851
01:29:40,240 --> 01:29:41,840
Speaker 1: I just want to see it, all right. We're taking

1852
01:29:41,840 --> 01:29:43,280
Speaker 1: a break when we come back. More on the draft.

1853
01:29:43,320 --> 01:29:47,000
Speaker 1: Andy Benoit from MMQB dot SI dot com, Sports Illustrated

1854
01:29:47,080 --> 01:29:49,200
Speaker 1: dot Com. He's got some thoughts on the draft. He's

1855
01:29:49,200 --> 01:29:51,240
Speaker 1: got some thoughts on what characteristic do you need to

1856
01:29:51,240 --> 01:29:53,680
Speaker 1: look at from different position groups in the draft that's

1857
01:29:53,680 --> 01:29:56,120
Speaker 1: coming up when we return. One Bill's Live presented by

1858
01:29:56,160 --> 01:29:58,080
Speaker 1: a Lot of Health from One Bill's Drive. This is

1859
01:29:58,120 --> 01:30:13,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio, Hello Hills Radio Network. Sports Update. The

1860
01:30:13,960 --> 01:30:16,439
Speaker 1: update from One Bill's Drive. The NFL schedule is coming

1861
01:30:16,520 --> 01:30:18,519
Speaker 1: and it it will be out by eight pm tonight. Released

1862
01:30:18,560 --> 01:30:22,160
Speaker 1: officially on NFL Network. The league today announced the dates

1863
01:30:22,200 --> 01:30:25,240
Speaker 1: for five international schedule games coming up this year, four

1864
01:30:25,240 --> 01:30:27,880
Speaker 1: of them in London, starting Sunday, October sixth, when the

1865
01:30:27,920 --> 01:30:30,720
Speaker 1: Bears play the Raiders at Tottenham Stadium, and they'll do it.

1866
01:30:30,760 --> 01:30:32,760
Speaker 1: They'll have a game at Tottenham the following week as well.

1867
01:30:33,040 --> 01:30:35,400
Speaker 1: Carolina and Tampa Bay, then they moved to Wembley for

1868
01:30:35,520 --> 01:30:38,280
Speaker 1: the Bengals in Rams Sunday, October twenty seven, and the

1869
01:30:38,360 --> 01:30:42,200
Speaker 1: Texans and Jaguars on the Sunday, November thirty game in Mexico.

1870
01:30:42,439 --> 01:30:45,639
Speaker 1: Monday November eighteenth, Monday night game in Mexico, Kansas City,

1871
01:30:45,720 --> 01:30:48,920
Speaker 1: and Los Angeles. The full twenty nineteen regular season schedule

1872
01:30:49,000 --> 01:30:51,439
Speaker 1: comes out tonight eight o'clock, with the Bills today in

1873
01:30:51,520 --> 01:30:54,400
Speaker 1: Orchard Park, day three the offseason conditioning program. One more

1874
01:30:54,479 --> 01:30:57,720
Speaker 1: day of voluntary conditioning this week tomorrow, then they're off

1875
01:30:57,800 --> 01:31:01,760
Speaker 1: until next Monsday. Some pre draft visits and Oliver the

1876
01:31:01,800 --> 01:31:04,760
Speaker 1: defensive tackle from the University of Houston, said to be

1877
01:31:04,840 --> 01:31:07,160
Speaker 1: in town today to meet with the Buffalo Bills. Bills

1878
01:31:07,439 --> 01:31:09,559
Speaker 1: may be interested in him with their ninth overall pick,

1879
01:31:09,720 --> 01:31:12,240
Speaker 1: and yesterday the Bills reportedly had a veteran running back

1880
01:31:12,320 --> 01:31:14,760
Speaker 1: end t j yelden in on a visit. Twenty five

1881
01:31:14,840 --> 01:31:16,840
Speaker 1: year old veteran yelled in a second round pick of

1882
01:31:16,880 --> 01:31:19,559
Speaker 1: the Jaguars in twenty fifteen to free agent. Now as

1883
01:31:19,560 --> 01:31:22,080
Speaker 1: the schedule comes out, the Los Angeles Chargers have announced

1884
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Speaker 1: that they are going with their iconic powder blue jerseys

1885
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Speaker 1: as their primary home uniform for the upcoming season. The

1886
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Speaker 1: draft eight days away. We'll talk about it in just

1887
01:31:30,760 --> 01:31:35,160
Speaker 1: a moment with our guest on the show, Andy Benoit.

1888
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Speaker 1: The Arizona Cardinals, with the first overall picks, say they're

1889
01:31:37,640 --> 01:31:39,800
Speaker 1: not yet ready to say who they will pick with

1890
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Speaker 1: their first selection in the draft. Stanley Cup Playoffs last night,

1891
01:31:43,640 --> 01:31:46,760
Speaker 1: a shocking finish to the season for the Tampa Bay

1892
01:31:46,840 --> 01:31:49,720
Speaker 1: Lightning swept in the series in four games by Columbus.

1893
01:31:49,720 --> 01:31:52,120
Speaker 1: The eight knocks out the one and the four games suite.

1894
01:31:52,400 --> 01:31:54,639
Speaker 1: The team that tied the NHL record for most wins

1895
01:31:54,640 --> 01:31:58,160
Speaker 1: in the season was eliminated in four straight games. Another sweep.

1896
01:31:58,360 --> 01:32:00,720
Speaker 1: The Penguins swept out by the There's four games and

1897
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Speaker 1: none of the monitors in the second round of the

1898
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Speaker 1: playoffs for just the second time in twenty six years.

1899
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Speaker 1: Three more games tonight, Boston to Toronto, Nashville at Dallas,

1900
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Speaker 1: in Calgary at Colorado. That's the update from One Bill's Drive,

1901
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Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker in our One Buffalo Studio.

1902
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Speaker 1: The draft comes up in eight days and joining us

1903
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Speaker 1: right now on the line is the columnist for the

1904
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Speaker 1: MMQB who covers the NFL Sports illustrator, NFL writer and

1905
01:32:23,479 --> 01:32:25,840
Speaker 1: analyst Andy Benoit on the line with us. Hello, Andy,

1906
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Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker up here in Buffalo. How

1907
01:32:27,760 --> 01:32:30,320
Speaker 1: are you doing. Hey, guys, I'm doing well. How are you?

1908
01:32:30,439 --> 01:32:32,920
Speaker 1: We're great, great. Yeah. I know this is a busy

1909
01:32:32,960 --> 01:32:34,439
Speaker 1: time of the year for you, so we're really glad

1910
01:32:34,439 --> 01:32:38,680
Speaker 1: to get you on the air with us today. You

1911
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Speaker 1: guys always always enjoy your show. John, you know that,

1912
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Speaker 1: I know that. Thank you. I appreciate you hearing that.

1913
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you one thing you wrote the other day

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Speaker 1: which got our attention a lot, Andy, was the most

1915
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Speaker 1: important trade at every position in football and how it

1916
01:32:50,400 --> 01:32:53,919
Speaker 1: impacts NFL draft scouting. The more I talked to scouts

1917
01:32:53,960 --> 01:32:56,200
Speaker 1: over the years, the more I hear people talk about

1918
01:32:56,240 --> 01:32:59,679
Speaker 1: traits player traits. That really is the key for many

1919
01:32:59,720 --> 01:33:01,760
Speaker 1: NFL teams as far as who they draft and who

1920
01:33:01,800 --> 01:33:04,679
Speaker 1: they're interested in drafting, isn't it. I think there are

1921
01:33:04,760 --> 01:33:08,600
Speaker 1: certain traits at certain positions that are key, and I

1922
01:33:09,080 --> 01:33:12,280
Speaker 1: would bet that not everybody in the NFL sees it

1923
01:33:12,360 --> 01:33:16,280
Speaker 1: that way, but I would also bet that every head

1924
01:33:16,320 --> 01:33:18,479
Speaker 1: coach and every coordinator does see it that way. There

1925
01:33:18,479 --> 01:33:22,759
Speaker 1: are certain traits you need we're talking superstar first round potential,

1926
01:33:22,840 --> 01:33:25,880
Speaker 1: that kind of deal, or at least you need a

1927
01:33:25,960 --> 01:33:28,280
Speaker 1: form of that trade. We can get into them if

1928
01:33:28,280 --> 01:33:30,400
Speaker 1: you want. But the other thing John that gets overlooked

1929
01:33:30,400 --> 01:33:33,400
Speaker 1: a lot this time of year is schematic fit. And

1930
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Speaker 1: one thing I'm always talking about with player or coaches

1931
01:33:36,920 --> 01:33:40,200
Speaker 1: around the NFL is how often do the scouts where

1932
01:33:40,200 --> 01:33:43,360
Speaker 1: a team understand their own team scheme. Because in the

1933
01:33:43,479 --> 01:33:45,800
Speaker 1: scouting world, you get so dialed in that looking at

1934
01:33:45,800 --> 01:33:48,920
Speaker 1: traits like we're talking about that you don't really have

1935
01:33:49,040 --> 01:33:51,799
Speaker 1: time to learn the nuances and details of a scheme.

1936
01:33:52,320 --> 01:33:54,320
Speaker 1: And that to me is a big deal. And that's

1937
01:33:54,400 --> 01:33:56,599
Speaker 1: that's why teams like the Patriots that make sure they're

1938
01:33:56,640 --> 01:33:59,120
Speaker 1: scouting department and their coaches see it the same way.

1939
01:33:59,280 --> 01:34:02,200
Speaker 1: I think they've got a huge advantage. So it's it's

1940
01:34:02,560 --> 01:34:05,639
Speaker 1: it's certain traits you look for. But then also at

1941
01:34:05,680 --> 01:34:08,559
Speaker 1: the next level of traits, what's the second most important

1942
01:34:08,560 --> 01:34:11,639
Speaker 1: group of traits. That's where it gets into understanding your scheme,

1943
01:34:11,640 --> 01:34:14,120
Speaker 1: and I think that's where some teams really separate themselves.

1944
01:34:14,240 --> 01:34:16,960
Speaker 1: Is there a trait that is a common denominator for

1945
01:34:17,000 --> 01:34:22,120
Speaker 1: the elite players? Probably flexibility, I would say like, I

1946
01:34:22,120 --> 01:34:25,559
Speaker 1: think that's as a pass rusher, especially in edge rusher,

1947
01:34:25,880 --> 01:34:30,320
Speaker 1: that's the most important trait you can get into. Then

1948
01:34:30,400 --> 01:34:33,680
Speaker 1: a cornerback, you know, there might be other traits with them,

1949
01:34:33,680 --> 01:34:36,280
Speaker 1: but ultimately you have to be flexible to react to

1950
01:34:36,320 --> 01:34:39,200
Speaker 1: the rout seeing. Remember, a cornerback doesn't know what a

1951
01:34:39,240 --> 01:34:42,080
Speaker 1: wide receiver is about to run most of the time,

1952
01:34:42,120 --> 01:34:45,720
Speaker 1: so it's a totally reactionary position. You're in a reactionary

1953
01:34:45,760 --> 01:34:49,920
Speaker 1: position as a pass blocker. So the more flexible you are,

1954
01:34:49,960 --> 01:34:54,599
Speaker 1: the more pliable physically pliable, the better athleticism you're going

1955
01:34:54,640 --> 01:34:57,599
Speaker 1: to play with. Hey, the one thing, well, there are

1956
01:34:57,600 --> 01:34:59,519
Speaker 1: many things that got my interest in this, but one

1957
01:34:59,520 --> 01:35:02,400
Speaker 1: of the things where the traits for wide receivers, perimeter

1958
01:35:02,560 --> 01:35:05,719
Speaker 1: wide receivers. Andy, and you say that the most important

1959
01:35:05,720 --> 01:35:08,360
Speaker 1: trait for a perimeter wide receiver an outside guy is

1960
01:35:08,400 --> 01:35:11,240
Speaker 1: beating press coverage. What got my attention? You say, who

1961
01:35:11,280 --> 01:35:14,479
Speaker 1: has this trait? Odell Beckham junior, who doesn't Kelvin Benjamin,

1962
01:35:14,479 --> 01:35:16,920
Speaker 1: a former first round pick, a former Buffalo bill. Pretty

1963
01:35:16,920 --> 01:35:19,200
Speaker 1: stark difference between those two. You can see it right there.

1964
01:35:19,360 --> 01:35:21,760
Speaker 1: Who is who can beat perimeter coverage and who can't

1965
01:35:21,760 --> 01:35:24,960
Speaker 1: write or press coverage on a perimeter. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

1966
01:35:25,240 --> 01:35:27,200
Speaker 1: I mean, if we wanted to nitpick, you could probably

1967
01:35:27,200 --> 01:35:30,040
Speaker 1: say I needed to drill further in that trade and

1968
01:35:30,200 --> 01:35:32,760
Speaker 1: actually explain what goes into beating press coverage, what are

1969
01:35:32,880 --> 01:35:35,880
Speaker 1: the physical demands behind And Steve Tasker obviously could speak

1970
01:35:35,920 --> 01:35:38,960
Speaker 1: to this ten times better than I could. But a

1971
01:35:38,960 --> 01:35:41,439
Speaker 1: lot of it comes down to your release technique and

1972
01:35:41,520 --> 01:35:44,320
Speaker 1: the way you stem your route off the line of screens.

1973
01:35:44,400 --> 01:35:47,160
Speaker 1: What do you do in your first two or three steps,

1974
01:35:47,160 --> 01:35:49,320
Speaker 1: how do you line up to get ready for those

1975
01:35:49,320 --> 01:35:53,040
Speaker 1: two or three steps? And I'd love to hear Steve's thoughts.

1976
01:35:53,040 --> 01:35:54,680
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's a lot of footwork, but I'm sure

1977
01:35:54,720 --> 01:35:56,600
Speaker 1: there's a lot more of your hands involved than we

1978
01:35:56,600 --> 01:35:59,720
Speaker 1: would guess. And you can see right if you can't

1979
01:35:59,760 --> 01:36:02,640
Speaker 1: get off press coverage though, that not only makes you

1980
01:36:02,720 --> 01:36:05,600
Speaker 1: a problem and the offense you're easy to defend, but

1981
01:36:05,760 --> 01:36:08,080
Speaker 1: and a lot of schemes, a well designed schemes that's

1982
01:36:08,080 --> 01:36:12,280
Speaker 1: going to compromise other people's routes because an outside receiver,

1983
01:36:12,439 --> 01:36:14,679
Speaker 1: especially if he's not if he's on the strong side

1984
01:36:14,680 --> 01:36:17,160
Speaker 1: where there are other players, his route is going to

1985
01:36:17,200 --> 01:36:19,559
Speaker 1: be built into the timing of other people's routes, and

1986
01:36:19,560 --> 01:36:22,160
Speaker 1: if you disrupt that timing early in the down, you

1987
01:36:22,240 --> 01:36:24,920
Speaker 1: take the whole playoff schedule, and now life is hard

1988
01:36:24,960 --> 01:36:26,960
Speaker 1: on your quarterback. Yeah, and it's one of the key

1989
01:36:27,040 --> 01:36:31,400
Speaker 1: things that happens when players evolve from college football into

1990
01:36:31,439 --> 01:36:34,160
Speaker 1: the pros into the pros is it's the techniques at

1991
01:36:34,160 --> 01:36:37,000
Speaker 1: every position that they have to learn. Learning how to

1992
01:36:37,400 --> 01:36:40,040
Speaker 1: combat press coverage is something they don't see as much

1993
01:36:40,040 --> 01:36:42,720
Speaker 1: in college and it takes a little adjustment and some

1994
01:36:42,800 --> 01:36:45,559
Speaker 1: guys you have to learn the techniques that work for you.

1995
01:36:45,680 --> 01:36:50,200
Speaker 1: It's different techniques for different guys. Or the guys you mentioned,

1996
01:36:50,240 --> 01:36:52,960
Speaker 1: Kelvin Benjamin had to use completely different technique to beat

1997
01:36:52,960 --> 01:36:56,000
Speaker 1: press coverage than Odell Beckham Junior does And one guy

1998
01:36:56,040 --> 01:36:58,439
Speaker 1: with successful at one guy is not so successful. So

1999
01:36:58,800 --> 01:37:00,559
Speaker 1: you're right, and I think it's still continues to be

2000
01:37:00,560 --> 01:37:02,439
Speaker 1: one of the things that these young players that we're

2001
01:37:02,439 --> 01:37:05,160
Speaker 1: talking about in this draft are going to have to learn.

2002
01:37:05,200 --> 01:37:07,519
Speaker 1: And that's how important technique is at every position. One

2003
01:37:07,560 --> 01:37:13,200
Speaker 1: thing I want to ask you, though, is about we've

2004
01:37:13,200 --> 01:37:15,080
Speaker 1: been taking calls of the Bills. We've got these needs.

2005
01:37:15,120 --> 01:37:17,479
Speaker 1: You know, Bills have some needs. Even though they've addressed

2006
01:37:17,479 --> 01:37:19,400
Speaker 1: a lot of them in free agency. You think their

2007
01:37:19,439 --> 01:37:21,599
Speaker 1: biggest need is still the guys we've been talking about

2008
01:37:21,640 --> 01:37:24,840
Speaker 1: these wide receivers at number nine. Do you think that's

2009
01:37:24,920 --> 01:37:28,040
Speaker 1: the obvious choice. Do you think they stick with that

2010
01:37:28,120 --> 01:37:30,519
Speaker 1: and address that need at the top of this draft

2011
01:37:30,680 --> 01:37:32,280
Speaker 1: or that could they trade down and still get a

2012
01:37:32,280 --> 01:37:36,320
Speaker 1: guy they like. Well, that's that's where it gets interesting,

2013
01:37:36,439 --> 01:37:39,400
Speaker 1: is because you know, it gets into how you interpret

2014
01:37:39,439 --> 01:37:42,200
Speaker 1: the player and everything that we're talking about. The conversation

2015
01:37:42,280 --> 01:37:47,719
Speaker 1: that Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott, that's what they're talking about.

2016
01:37:48,080 --> 01:37:50,120
Speaker 1: Brian Dable, I would hope would have a voice in

2017
01:37:50,160 --> 01:37:54,519
Speaker 1: that conversation because you have to see how does the

2018
01:37:54,560 --> 01:37:57,439
Speaker 1: player fit our scheme? And then are there other players

2019
01:37:57,439 --> 01:38:01,639
Speaker 1: that can fit our scheme? And so we think about, okay,

2020
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Speaker 1: if they take a wide receiver, how do they view

2021
01:38:03,400 --> 01:38:05,320
Speaker 1: that guy? But we also have to consider how do

2022
01:38:05,360 --> 01:38:07,799
Speaker 1: they view the other three, four or five wide receivers

2023
01:38:07,800 --> 01:38:10,800
Speaker 1: in the draft. And that's why expenses, that's why a

2024
01:38:10,880 --> 01:38:13,800
Speaker 1: draft process takes a while, that extensive scouting man. And

2025
01:38:13,800 --> 01:38:16,400
Speaker 1: then the other ending you have to consider is we

2026
01:38:16,479 --> 01:38:19,320
Speaker 1: need a receiver, but we could also use a tight end.

2027
01:38:19,320 --> 01:38:22,120
Speaker 1: And if we love one of the Iowa tight ends,

2028
01:38:22,200 --> 01:38:25,400
Speaker 1: and we like but don't love one of the wide receivers.

2029
01:38:25,400 --> 01:38:27,799
Speaker 1: Even though a wide receiver might be a slightly bigger

2030
01:38:27,840 --> 01:38:30,400
Speaker 1: need because we signed Tyler Croft, is it a big

2031
01:38:30,520 --> 01:38:32,720
Speaker 1: enough need to offset the difference in talent there? So

2032
01:38:32,880 --> 01:38:36,200
Speaker 1: you're comparing positions and then guys at positions. It's a

2033
01:38:36,240 --> 01:38:38,680
Speaker 1: hard deal. And then you get into the draft, the

2034
01:38:38,720 --> 01:38:41,599
Speaker 1: depth of the draft, and maybe we think we can

2035
01:38:41,600 --> 01:38:44,000
Speaker 1: get a guy at third round, fourth round, and does

2036
01:38:44,000 --> 01:38:46,920
Speaker 1: that impact your fourth round pick? And theoretically should it

2037
01:38:47,000 --> 01:38:49,320
Speaker 1: impact your first round pick? And these are all the

2038
01:38:49,360 --> 01:38:52,040
Speaker 1: conversations that are taking place, and to try to understand

2039
01:38:52,200 --> 01:38:53,920
Speaker 1: to why you got to take these mock drafts with

2040
01:38:53,960 --> 01:38:56,400
Speaker 1: a grain of salt, to try to think that we

2041
01:38:56,479 --> 01:38:59,800
Speaker 1: can know how every team views that situation. You know,

2042
01:39:00,280 --> 01:39:02,720
Speaker 1: there's a certain amount of guesswork that goes into that.

2043
01:39:03,040 --> 01:39:05,760
Speaker 1: Andy Venoid from sports Celestrated dot Com on the line

2044
01:39:05,760 --> 01:39:08,479
Speaker 1: with us. He's written about the twenty nineteen draft needs

2045
01:39:08,479 --> 01:39:11,200
Speaker 1: for all thirty two teams, including the Buffalo Bills, and

2046
01:39:11,280 --> 01:39:13,040
Speaker 1: the greatest need for the Bills. He points out he

2047
01:39:13,080 --> 01:39:15,559
Speaker 1: believes his wide receiver and you write this, Yes, the

2048
01:39:15,600 --> 01:39:18,880
Speaker 1: Bills have signed John Brown and Cole Beasley, and they're

2049
01:39:18,880 --> 01:39:20,920
Speaker 1: in a much better receiving spot than they were a

2050
01:39:20,960 --> 01:39:23,240
Speaker 1: year ago at this time, Andy, but there's still no

2051
01:39:23,320 --> 01:39:25,960
Speaker 1: top guy to build around. I think I think most

2052
01:39:26,000 --> 01:39:29,160
Speaker 1: Bills fans acknowledge that and don't quite know how to

2053
01:39:29,200 --> 01:39:32,720
Speaker 1: address that and whether that is addressable. And with one

2054
01:39:32,760 --> 01:39:35,160
Speaker 1: of the premium picks in this draft next week, what

2055
01:39:35,200 --> 01:39:38,360
Speaker 1: do you think, Well, it's going to be tempting for

2056
01:39:38,400 --> 01:39:40,920
Speaker 1: them to try to I would hope they wouldn't force

2057
01:39:41,000 --> 01:39:43,160
Speaker 1: it to be addressable, but they think about if you're

2058
01:39:43,160 --> 01:39:46,559
Speaker 1: in Buffalo's position, and Josh Allen, who is very very

2059
01:39:46,640 --> 01:39:49,479
Speaker 1: much a work in progress right now, you know that

2060
01:39:49,560 --> 01:39:52,160
Speaker 1: you're probably reducing parts of your offense from me. You're

2061
01:39:52,160 --> 01:39:54,160
Speaker 1: not giving them the Patriots system and saying hey, Josh,

2062
01:39:54,240 --> 01:39:56,920
Speaker 1: go out and make a play. You're going to simplify things.

2063
01:39:56,960 --> 01:39:59,240
Speaker 1: You're going to spread the field to clarify a lot

2064
01:39:59,280 --> 01:40:02,560
Speaker 1: of his reading, give a more scrambling space. Anytime you

2065
01:40:02,640 --> 01:40:05,439
Speaker 1: do that sort of thing, you're asking your wide receivers

2066
01:40:05,479 --> 01:40:07,760
Speaker 1: to win one on one. Who's gonna win one on

2067
01:40:07,760 --> 01:40:09,720
Speaker 1: one there? But then Basiley can win one on one

2068
01:40:09,760 --> 01:40:11,719
Speaker 1: in sight, but you're not You don't build your offense

2069
01:40:11,760 --> 01:40:16,360
Speaker 1: around to slot receiver running option routes. Uh. And you

2070
01:40:16,360 --> 01:40:19,519
Speaker 1: you can't just ask John Brown or Robert Foster, who

2071
01:40:19,520 --> 01:40:22,840
Speaker 1: I happen to love to just go run by everybody.

2072
01:40:22,880 --> 01:40:25,200
Speaker 1: That's that's not enough of an offense. Somebody has to

2073
01:40:25,200 --> 01:40:27,720
Speaker 1: win at the intermediate levels. They have to win on

2074
01:40:27,840 --> 01:40:31,240
Speaker 1: digs and posts and slamp patterns. And that guy's not

2075
01:40:31,320 --> 01:40:34,000
Speaker 1: on the roster. And now's why they looked into Antonio Brown,

2076
01:40:34,040 --> 01:40:35,519
Speaker 1: who's one of the best in the league at that

2077
01:40:35,960 --> 01:40:40,720
Speaker 1: that area. So do they if DK Metcalf sitting there

2078
01:40:40,720 --> 01:40:43,840
Speaker 1: still on the board, do they force that a little bit?

2079
01:40:43,880 --> 01:40:46,800
Speaker 1: Because the book on Metcalf is, you know, he's he's

2080
01:40:46,840 --> 01:40:49,679
Speaker 1: not the most pliable guy. He's a straight line mover,

2081
01:40:50,000 --> 01:40:51,800
Speaker 1: but oh my goodness, look at his body, look at

2082
01:40:51,840 --> 01:40:54,800
Speaker 1: his measurables. We can teach him to go over the middle. Now,

2083
01:40:54,880 --> 01:40:57,120
Speaker 1: that's that's what you have to decide, is walk the

2084
01:40:57,160 --> 01:41:00,280
Speaker 1: fine line. I tend to think guys that these it's

2085
01:41:00,280 --> 01:41:03,040
Speaker 1: hard because these draft players, they're all prospects, and they're

2086
01:41:03,040 --> 01:41:05,720
Speaker 1: all going to be coached and changed, and they're going

2087
01:41:05,800 --> 01:41:07,759
Speaker 1: to be different players in the r in a few years.

2088
01:41:08,400 --> 01:41:11,160
Speaker 1: And yet I think because of the value of certain

2089
01:41:11,240 --> 01:41:14,400
Speaker 1: traits to a certain degree, they also are what they are.

2090
01:41:14,640 --> 01:41:18,360
Speaker 1: And if hekt the calf doesn't look pliable to you,

2091
01:41:18,360 --> 01:41:20,599
Speaker 1: you're not gonna make him pliable in the NFL. So

2092
01:41:21,360 --> 01:41:23,760
Speaker 1: you have to be realistic about Yeah, we can coach

2093
01:41:23,800 --> 01:41:26,320
Speaker 1: him up, but we can only coach them to within

2094
01:41:26,400 --> 01:41:28,720
Speaker 1: the context of what they're able to do, and we

2095
01:41:28,760 --> 01:41:31,160
Speaker 1: have to understand what that context is. Yeah, we're getting

2096
01:41:31,160 --> 01:41:34,040
Speaker 1: a lot of calls as well about people who and

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01:41:34,040 --> 01:41:36,840
Speaker 1: we have throughout the offseason, and you mentioned it in

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01:41:36,880 --> 01:41:38,920
Speaker 1: your article. You're saying the Bills are also looking for

2099
01:41:38,960 --> 01:41:40,559
Speaker 1: a tight end. We've had We just took a call

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01:41:40,640 --> 01:41:42,840
Speaker 1: or a few minutes ago who thinks that the Bill

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01:41:42,920 --> 01:41:44,920
Speaker 1: should take a They think the tight end is the

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01:41:45,000 --> 01:41:48,200
Speaker 1: key to the whole situation and that a great tight

2103
01:41:48,320 --> 01:41:51,719
Speaker 1: end could change the entire dynamic of the Bill's offense,

2104
01:41:52,160 --> 01:41:54,759
Speaker 1: particularly with a young some people because he's a young quarterback.

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01:41:54,800 --> 01:41:58,719
Speaker 1: I think Josh Allen needs a quote safety valve or

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01:41:59,040 --> 01:42:02,160
Speaker 1: this intermediate route runner that you're speaking of should be

2107
01:42:02,200 --> 01:42:03,840
Speaker 1: a tight end. You know, what do you think about

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01:42:03,880 --> 01:42:06,240
Speaker 1: the Bills getting a tight end high in the draft

2109
01:42:06,280 --> 01:42:09,000
Speaker 1: and do you think that could be the key to

2110
01:42:09,200 --> 01:42:11,960
Speaker 1: the puzzle for the Buffalo Bills. Yeah, I do. I

2111
01:42:11,960 --> 01:42:14,439
Speaker 1: think that could be a real important piece to that

2112
01:42:14,520 --> 01:42:17,040
Speaker 1: puzzle for them, because not only is a tight end,

2113
01:42:17,400 --> 01:42:19,719
Speaker 1: if you have a good one, he's a receiving target

2114
01:42:19,720 --> 01:42:22,439
Speaker 1: once the ball is snapped. But those guys can be

2115
01:42:22,520 --> 01:42:26,400
Speaker 1: tremendous sources of information before the snap based on how

2116
01:42:26,400 --> 01:42:28,599
Speaker 1: you use them and line them up. If you've got

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01:42:28,600 --> 01:42:31,840
Speaker 1: a tight end that as an expansive route runner, that

2118
01:42:32,000 --> 01:42:35,000
Speaker 1: defense is fear. You can put him in certain parts

2119
01:42:35,000 --> 01:42:37,679
Speaker 1: in the formation and the defense has to reveal itself

2120
01:42:37,680 --> 01:42:40,360
Speaker 1: as either man or zone coverage. And then if the

2121
01:42:40,400 --> 01:42:42,920
Speaker 1: coaching staff's doing the right job, they teach a quarterback

2122
01:42:43,000 --> 01:42:45,479
Speaker 1: dad then say okay, now it's manners own and if

2123
01:42:45,479 --> 01:42:47,479
Speaker 1: the safety's here or there, it's going to be this

2124
01:42:47,600 --> 01:42:49,640
Speaker 1: kind of man and this kind of zone, and all

2125
01:42:49,680 --> 01:42:52,160
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the quarterback is he knows the coverage

2126
01:42:52,200 --> 01:42:54,639
Speaker 1: almost before the ball is snap. That's why Tom Brady's

2127
01:42:54,680 --> 01:42:56,400
Speaker 1: so good enough. Brady's so good he can do it

2128
01:42:56,920 --> 01:42:59,360
Speaker 1: and just about any fashion. He doesn't need a Rob

2129
01:42:59,479 --> 01:43:02,280
Speaker 1: Runcouse in order to do that. But we've seen over

2130
01:43:02,320 --> 01:43:05,360
Speaker 1: the years what having a rob Bronkowski did for Brady Still,

2131
01:43:05,760 --> 01:43:08,559
Speaker 1: so the tight end has become a really valuable chess

2132
01:43:08,600 --> 01:43:11,400
Speaker 1: piece to the teams that scheme it really well. And

2133
01:43:11,479 --> 01:43:13,960
Speaker 1: you don't have to have an expansive scheme to make

2134
01:43:14,040 --> 01:43:16,080
Speaker 1: your tight end valuable either. You just have to have

2135
01:43:16,120 --> 01:43:20,439
Speaker 1: a guy that can win outside as a receiver. If

2136
01:43:20,479 --> 01:43:23,320
Speaker 1: you've got that, you can move him around the formation

2137
01:43:23,880 --> 01:43:25,320
Speaker 1: and do a lot of the Other thing is if

2138
01:43:25,360 --> 01:43:28,160
Speaker 1: you have Tyler Croft, now you've got two tight ends

2139
01:43:28,160 --> 01:43:30,160
Speaker 1: who are good enough to be on the field, and

2140
01:43:30,240 --> 01:43:32,400
Speaker 1: you're probably a run first team. That's why you've been

2141
01:43:32,840 --> 01:43:35,120
Speaker 1: invested in your offensive line this year. That's why you've

2142
01:43:35,120 --> 01:43:38,719
Speaker 1: got multiple veteran running backs you feel good about. Well,

2143
01:43:38,800 --> 01:43:40,599
Speaker 1: so now the defense they have to be in their

2144
01:43:40,680 --> 01:43:44,200
Speaker 1: run defense looks. And the more run defense oriented you are,

2145
01:43:44,560 --> 01:43:47,839
Speaker 1: the more predictable you've become for a number of reasons.

2146
01:43:48,160 --> 01:43:50,479
Speaker 1: So all of this stuff. Having a tight end can

2147
01:43:50,520 --> 01:43:53,559
Speaker 1: do a whole lot to simplify the game for your

2148
01:43:53,560 --> 01:43:55,640
Speaker 1: young quarterback where you're trying to develop, you know, on

2149
01:43:55,760 --> 01:43:57,559
Speaker 1: the top of your tight ends. Andy, back to the

2150
01:43:57,560 --> 01:44:01,000
Speaker 1: trades for a minute. You're most important traded every NFL position.

2151
01:44:01,080 --> 01:44:04,000
Speaker 1: I'd love the observation you made about the most port

2152
01:44:04,000 --> 01:44:07,160
Speaker 1: trait for inline tight end. You say it's tracking the ball.

2153
01:44:07,280 --> 01:44:09,880
Speaker 1: Ball tracking. You write an inline tight end MS see

2154
01:44:09,880 --> 01:44:12,479
Speaker 1: and catch the ball at weird angles. I've never thought

2155
01:44:12,479 --> 01:44:15,400
Speaker 1: about that before. Can you elaborate what you mean there? Yeah,

2156
01:44:15,439 --> 01:44:20,599
Speaker 1: because an inline tight end, oftentimes they're gonna run steam routes,

2157
01:44:20,640 --> 01:44:23,800
Speaker 1: and some variation at steam routes, they're gonna run seams

2158
01:44:23,920 --> 01:44:26,479
Speaker 1: or spade routes to the sideline because if you're lining

2159
01:44:26,560 --> 01:44:29,080
Speaker 1: up in line near the tackles, there's not a lot

2160
01:44:29,120 --> 01:44:31,240
Speaker 1: of room for you to run crossing patterns. There's not

2161
01:44:31,320 --> 01:44:34,400
Speaker 1: enough field left, so you run outbreaking routes and you

2162
01:44:34,479 --> 01:44:37,720
Speaker 1: run vertical routes. And just think about the geometry of

2163
01:44:37,760 --> 01:44:40,479
Speaker 1: a tight end working down the seam and having to

2164
01:44:40,520 --> 01:44:43,040
Speaker 1: look over the shoulder to locate the ball. That's right.

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01:44:43,120 --> 01:44:45,200
Speaker 1: Marcus Colston, who was not a tight end, but he

2166
01:44:45,240 --> 01:44:49,040
Speaker 1: was a Saints receiver, a seventh round pick for the Saints,

2167
01:44:49,320 --> 01:44:53,320
Speaker 1: had a very lucrative, productive career because Drew Brees is

2168
01:44:53,320 --> 01:44:56,120
Speaker 1: great at throwing steam balls and Colston was great at

2169
01:44:56,160 --> 01:44:58,640
Speaker 1: tracking them. If you can catch the ball at a

2170
01:44:58,680 --> 01:45:02,559
Speaker 1: weird angle down the middle the field, Yeah, that often

2171
01:45:02,600 --> 01:45:04,679
Speaker 1: will make you a viable receiver. And it's not about

2172
01:45:04,760 --> 01:45:08,240
Speaker 1: speed or quickness necessarily, because the quarterback he's thrown to

2173
01:45:08,360 --> 01:45:10,639
Speaker 1: an area of the field on the steam ball's eighteen

2174
01:45:10,680 --> 01:45:14,040
Speaker 1: to twenty two yards down field. So in the most

2175
01:45:14,080 --> 01:45:16,360
Speaker 1: guys seem get to that area on time. So it's

2176
01:45:16,400 --> 01:45:19,320
Speaker 1: about the ability to bring the ball in once you

2177
01:45:19,360 --> 01:45:22,400
Speaker 1: do get to that area. Yeah. Also, I wanted to

2178
01:45:22,400 --> 01:45:25,040
Speaker 1: ask you as well. The offensive coordinator here in Buffalos

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01:45:25,040 --> 01:45:27,560
Speaker 1: Brian Dable, and earlier in his career when he was

2180
01:45:27,560 --> 01:45:31,040
Speaker 1: with New England he coached tight ends and kind of

2181
01:45:31,120 --> 01:45:33,000
Speaker 1: learned how to use that. Do you see that as

2182
01:45:33,040 --> 01:45:36,880
Speaker 1: coordinators around the league when they've had experience or do

2183
01:45:36,960 --> 01:45:39,439
Speaker 1: that do they have a say, a larger voice in

2184
01:45:39,479 --> 01:45:42,599
Speaker 1: the draft room maybe about hey, I've used this guy,

2185
01:45:42,600 --> 01:45:44,960
Speaker 1: I've seen a guy like that, let's get him. Is

2186
01:45:45,240 --> 01:45:48,120
Speaker 1: there an effect that that can have on a team's

2187
01:45:48,360 --> 01:45:51,599
Speaker 1: desire to draft a player and maybe take a reach

2188
01:45:51,640 --> 01:45:54,320
Speaker 1: on a guy who maybe wouldn't have been on their

2189
01:45:54,320 --> 01:45:56,840
Speaker 1: board as high as they take him, but because they've

2190
01:45:56,840 --> 01:45:58,759
Speaker 1: got a coach who thinks he can really get something

2191
01:45:58,800 --> 01:46:01,000
Speaker 1: out of him, that they'll go that direction. Like Brian

2192
01:46:01,080 --> 01:46:03,760
Speaker 1: day Ball and tight ends and the t J. Hockenson's

2193
01:46:03,800 --> 01:46:06,280
Speaker 1: of the world. Yeah, sure, I would hope that that

2194
01:46:06,280 --> 01:46:08,559
Speaker 1: would be the case. I think that's a smart way

2195
01:46:08,560 --> 01:46:11,439
Speaker 1: to play it. What's interesting, and I'm trying to understand

2196
01:46:11,520 --> 01:46:14,760
Speaker 1: why this is and so many of the great tight

2197
01:46:14,840 --> 01:46:16,920
Speaker 1: ends in the NFL, they were not first round picks.

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01:46:16,920 --> 01:46:18,760
Speaker 1: Tight Ends do not go in the first round very

2199
01:46:18,800 --> 01:46:22,639
Speaker 1: often still, even though so many offenses are built around them.

2200
01:46:22,640 --> 01:46:26,479
Speaker 1: But Travis Kelsey, Jordan Read, those guys were mega athletes

2201
01:46:26,560 --> 01:46:28,680
Speaker 1: taken in the middle of the draft, and there were

2202
01:46:28,720 --> 01:46:31,800
Speaker 1: several like that. Gronkowski's an exceptionc he had back injuries,

2203
01:46:32,040 --> 01:46:34,960
Speaker 1: but he was a mid second round pick, if I recall,

2204
01:46:35,439 --> 01:46:39,320
Speaker 1: so teams it's an important position, but they're finding guys.

2205
01:46:39,400 --> 01:46:42,719
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham's another one, the athletic guys. Saw I guess

2206
01:46:43,439 --> 01:46:47,160
Speaker 1: I'd love to ask Brian Dable. It's the tight end position,

2207
01:46:47,160 --> 01:46:50,519
Speaker 1: in his opinion, is a little bit more of one

2208
01:46:50,560 --> 01:46:54,479
Speaker 1: that you can develop versus other positions. Is it's something

2209
01:46:54,479 --> 01:46:56,280
Speaker 1: that can be not that you can teach a guy

2210
01:46:56,360 --> 01:47:00,439
Speaker 1: to play football outright, but can you mold that clay

2211
01:47:00,560 --> 01:47:04,439
Speaker 1: and a little more variations than you can at other spots.

2212
01:47:04,680 --> 01:47:06,839
Speaker 1: Just a couple of minutes left with Andy Benoit Coultumness

2213
01:47:06,880 --> 01:47:10,519
Speaker 1: for MMQB Sports Illustrated NFL writer and analysts. Andy, you

2214
01:47:10,680 --> 01:47:13,400
Speaker 1: have done this evaluation of the team's draft needs. I

2215
01:47:13,479 --> 01:47:15,080
Speaker 1: want to ask you about some of the Bills AFC

2216
01:47:15,200 --> 01:47:17,600
Speaker 1: East Division rivals. What are the Patriots needs? What's the

2217
01:47:17,600 --> 01:47:21,160
Speaker 1: Patriots biggest need going into this draft? Oh Man, Probably

2218
01:47:21,160 --> 01:47:23,519
Speaker 1: wide receiver. I guess it would be the obvious one

2219
01:47:23,600 --> 01:47:27,080
Speaker 1: that jumps off. Their defense is in pretty decent shape

2220
01:47:27,080 --> 01:47:30,040
Speaker 1: because of the way they teach their scheme. It's a

2221
01:47:30,120 --> 01:47:33,160
Speaker 1: less talented defense now than it was at the end

2222
01:47:33,200 --> 01:47:35,200
Speaker 1: of the season because they've lost some guys, So I

2223
01:47:35,200 --> 01:47:38,000
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised that they found a big defensive linemen

2224
01:47:38,080 --> 01:47:42,200
Speaker 1: that they like. But wide receiver, they've got to find

2225
01:47:42,280 --> 01:47:46,559
Speaker 1: someone to play with there. And then tight end also

2226
01:47:46,600 --> 01:47:48,719
Speaker 1: would be their biggest need because of all the stuff

2227
01:47:48,720 --> 01:47:51,080
Speaker 1: that we've been talking about. So it's interesting. I don't

2228
01:47:51,120 --> 01:47:55,720
Speaker 1: think I've seen New England's passing game and such destitute

2229
01:47:55,800 --> 01:47:59,880
Speaker 1: at the receiving positions. You would think the Dolphins would

2230
01:47:59,880 --> 01:48:02,120
Speaker 1: be interested in the quarterback, but maybe not this year.

2231
01:48:02,240 --> 01:48:05,439
Speaker 1: What do you think, Indy, Well, I don't believe the

2232
01:48:05,479 --> 01:48:08,439
Speaker 1: Dolphins are tanking. I truly do not believe that, But

2233
01:48:08,880 --> 01:48:12,000
Speaker 1: I also don't believe that they're foolish. And if they

2234
01:48:12,040 --> 01:48:16,240
Speaker 1: are sitting in their conference room, top brass, honest moment,

2235
01:48:16,280 --> 01:48:19,040
Speaker 1: looking at the roster, Brian floores, the first year coach

2236
01:48:19,080 --> 01:48:21,160
Speaker 1: has a several years on his Contie's got a lot

2237
01:48:21,200 --> 01:48:24,240
Speaker 1: of time. It's got a big contract, so they've got

2238
01:48:24,280 --> 01:48:27,120
Speaker 1: time to rebuild, and they probably realize they're changing the

2239
01:48:27,200 --> 01:48:30,040
Speaker 1: scheme on both sides of the ball, big changes. So

2240
01:48:30,080 --> 01:48:33,360
Speaker 1: they probably realize about half the roster here now, it's

2241
01:48:33,400 --> 01:48:36,040
Speaker 1: not going to be here next year anyway. So if

2242
01:48:36,040 --> 01:48:38,560
Speaker 1: we get it keeping, we're developing and we're not necessarily

2243
01:48:38,640 --> 01:48:41,040
Speaker 1: developing him for what we want them to actually become,

2244
01:48:41,120 --> 01:48:42,680
Speaker 1: because we're not going to be what we want to

2245
01:48:42,720 --> 01:48:46,120
Speaker 1: be for at least another year or so. So do

2246
01:48:46,200 --> 01:48:48,240
Speaker 1: we want to reach for a quarterback now? If we

2247
01:48:48,400 --> 01:48:50,960
Speaker 1: love one of them, Sure, we love Dwayne Haskins, will

2248
01:48:50,960 --> 01:48:53,559
Speaker 1: do that, But from what you hear, I don't think

2249
01:48:53,640 --> 01:48:56,320
Speaker 1: very many teams love every one of these quarterbacks in

2250
01:48:56,360 --> 01:49:00,000
Speaker 1: the draft. And next year's class is purportedly a straw

2251
01:49:00,040 --> 01:49:03,000
Speaker 1: on class, So that's you're thinking, if you're Miami Is.

2252
01:49:03,160 --> 01:49:06,599
Speaker 1: We're gonna overhaul the roster. We all come from the Patriots.

2253
01:49:06,600 --> 01:49:08,479
Speaker 1: We know what a good roster looks like. This one's

2254
01:49:08,479 --> 01:49:11,760
Speaker 1: probably a five and eleven team at best. Maybe we

2255
01:49:11,960 --> 01:49:14,280
Speaker 1: pass on the QB and live with the results for now,

2256
01:49:14,400 --> 01:49:16,680
Speaker 1: knowing we'll probably draft top ten next year and have

2257
01:49:16,720 --> 01:49:18,880
Speaker 1: a crack at one. And finally, the Jets, who spend

2258
01:49:18,960 --> 01:49:21,240
Speaker 1: so much money, we're so active in free agency, what's

2259
01:49:21,360 --> 01:49:24,200
Speaker 1: left for them? What do they need? Yeah, they have

2260
01:49:24,320 --> 01:49:29,120
Speaker 1: sent a lot of money in free agency. They on

2261
01:49:29,200 --> 01:49:31,479
Speaker 1: paper they need an edge rusher, and I would understand

2262
01:49:31,479 --> 01:49:32,800
Speaker 1: if they took one of them. Is a lot of

2263
01:49:32,840 --> 01:49:35,800
Speaker 1: good ones in this year's draft. The way they play,

2264
01:49:35,840 --> 01:49:39,559
Speaker 1: the way Greg Williams plays their new defensive coordinator, he

2265
01:49:39,680 --> 01:49:42,360
Speaker 1: like he's gonna blitz. He can't help himself. He blitz

2266
01:49:42,400 --> 01:49:45,880
Speaker 1: is more than any coordinator in the league statistically. So

2267
01:49:46,080 --> 01:49:47,920
Speaker 1: when you blitz, you have to be able to play

2268
01:49:47,920 --> 01:49:50,639
Speaker 1: one on one coverage outside, especially the way Williams does

2269
01:49:50,640 --> 01:49:52,840
Speaker 1: it well. He'll bring guys from depth. He'll bring a

2270
01:49:52,920 --> 01:49:55,840
Speaker 1: safety on a blitz eight yards off the ball rather

2271
01:49:55,880 --> 01:49:59,320
Speaker 1: than a linebacker. You need one on one corners. That's

2272
01:49:59,320 --> 01:50:01,759
Speaker 1: why the Browns. Last year when Williams was their coordinator,

2273
01:50:01,800 --> 01:50:04,880
Speaker 1: they surprised some people by taking Denzel Ward the corner

2274
01:50:04,920 --> 01:50:07,759
Speaker 1: at number four, But I don't think they surprise football

2275
01:50:07,800 --> 01:50:11,280
Speaker 1: people with that because Williams needs cover corners. The other

2276
01:50:11,320 --> 01:50:13,720
Speaker 1: thing is Tremaine Johnson was terrible for him last year,

2277
01:50:13,760 --> 01:50:16,280
Speaker 1: and if he plays that way again, they're gonna dump

2278
01:50:16,360 --> 01:50:19,120
Speaker 1: his big contract after this season, so they'll be in

2279
01:50:19,120 --> 01:50:21,080
Speaker 1: the need for two corners because right now they don't

2280
01:50:21,120 --> 01:50:23,840
Speaker 1: even have a number two corner opposite him. Andy. I

2281
01:50:23,840 --> 01:50:25,400
Speaker 1: just want to get back to one thing we were

2282
01:50:25,439 --> 01:50:27,479
Speaker 1: talking about Miami and how the fact that they probably

2283
01:50:27,479 --> 01:50:30,559
Speaker 1: will not take a quarterback this year. They're probably trying

2284
01:50:30,560 --> 01:50:32,519
Speaker 1: to build their roster and get ready for a quarterback

2285
01:50:32,560 --> 01:50:34,960
Speaker 1: next year. There's also a team that has maybe too

2286
01:50:34,960 --> 01:50:38,320
Speaker 1: many quarterbacks instead of none. Arizona Cardinals looked like they're

2287
01:50:38,320 --> 01:50:40,320
Speaker 1: going to take the number one overall pick and Kyler

2288
01:50:40,400 --> 01:50:42,240
Speaker 1: Murray and they still got a number one pick from

2289
01:50:42,320 --> 01:50:45,880
Speaker 1: last year and Josh Rosen on their roster. What happens

2290
01:50:45,880 --> 01:50:50,400
Speaker 1: in Arizona with the quarterbacks, Well, if they are truly

2291
01:50:50,400 --> 01:50:54,400
Speaker 1: in love with Murray, then you do that and you

2292
01:50:54,439 --> 01:50:56,960
Speaker 1: don't worry about the sun cost of it. But let's

2293
01:50:57,080 --> 01:51:00,640
Speaker 1: also understand Josh Rosen in and of himself is not

2294
01:51:00,760 --> 01:51:03,719
Speaker 1: a sunk cost. He's a sunk cost relative to Murray

2295
01:51:03,760 --> 01:51:06,760
Speaker 1: if you think Murray is potentially a better version of

2296
01:51:06,840 --> 01:51:11,640
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson or a Baker Mayfield, but Josh Rosen is

2297
01:51:11,640 --> 01:51:15,200
Speaker 1: a jury. It's just barely begun deliberating about him. He

2298
01:51:15,200 --> 01:51:18,800
Speaker 1: had no offensive line, no receivers, and they changed coordinators

2299
01:51:18,800 --> 01:51:21,160
Speaker 1: and systems in the middle of lost season. It's not

2300
01:51:21,240 --> 01:51:23,840
Speaker 1: a rookie in the history of Planet Earth that would

2301
01:51:23,880 --> 01:51:27,599
Speaker 1: have succeeded under those circumstances. So this move would be

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01:51:27,680 --> 01:51:32,240
Speaker 1: strictly about Murray and very little about Rosen, and I

2303
01:51:32,320 --> 01:51:36,640
Speaker 1: don't It's a hard one to decide, guys, because you

2304
01:51:36,720 --> 01:51:38,439
Speaker 1: know that, how do you tell a team not to

2305
01:51:38,479 --> 01:51:40,559
Speaker 1: take a QB they love at number one overall? I

2306
01:51:40,600 --> 01:51:43,320
Speaker 1: guess I can understand that, But they're not going to

2307
01:51:43,400 --> 01:51:46,120
Speaker 1: get equal value back for trading Rosen, which is why

2308
01:51:46,160 --> 01:51:48,200
Speaker 1: I'm shocked he hasn't been traded yet. If I was

2309
01:51:48,240 --> 01:51:51,840
Speaker 1: a Washington Redskins, I would have offered up my mid

2310
01:51:51,880 --> 01:51:55,160
Speaker 1: first round pick weeks ago for Josh Rosen. Let's see

2311
01:51:55,160 --> 01:51:58,160
Speaker 1: any the draft as much as we don't have the

2312
01:51:58,200 --> 01:52:00,920
Speaker 1: you know, the first round quarterbacks yet a year ago,

2313
01:52:01,120 --> 01:52:03,360
Speaker 1: as we approach it eight days away, there's no doubt

2314
01:52:03,439 --> 01:52:04,880
Speaker 1: this is gonna be fun and there is going to

2315
01:52:04,960 --> 01:52:07,760
Speaker 1: be quarterback intrigue in the first round and beyond with

2316
01:52:07,840 --> 01:52:11,519
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen, right, Oh, I would hope, so absolutely. Remember

2317
01:52:11,560 --> 01:52:15,040
Speaker 1: if Josh Rosen were coming out now, we'd be debating

2318
01:52:15,080 --> 01:52:17,400
Speaker 1: whether it's Tim or Kyler Murray on number one on

2319
01:52:17,479 --> 01:52:20,880
Speaker 1: most teams board? Yeah, right, right? How does he stack

2320
01:52:21,000 --> 01:52:23,200
Speaker 1: up with Haskins? Now, Haskins is more of a pro

2321
01:52:23,280 --> 01:52:26,479
Speaker 1: type quarterback, standing in the pocket, big, you know, accurate arm,

2322
01:52:26,560 --> 01:52:28,320
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. He's more of the He's more

2323
01:52:28,360 --> 01:52:31,519
Speaker 1: of a comparison to Josh Rosen than Kyler Murray. How

2324
01:52:31,520 --> 01:52:33,240
Speaker 1: do those two stack up against each other? If you

2325
01:52:33,240 --> 01:52:37,240
Speaker 1: can kind of extrapolate one year to the next. Yeah, well,

2326
01:52:37,240 --> 01:52:39,639
Speaker 1: you know, my knowledge of Haskins is pretty limited. I've

2327
01:52:39,640 --> 01:52:42,360
Speaker 1: seen a few games, but it wasn't on coach's film.

2328
01:52:42,360 --> 01:52:44,400
Speaker 1: I wasn't slowing it down or reading the coverage, you

2329
01:52:44,439 --> 01:52:46,479
Speaker 1: know why. I'm just watching the guy in his traits

2330
01:52:46,560 --> 01:52:48,479
Speaker 1: to kind of get a feel for him. So I

2331
01:52:48,520 --> 01:52:51,519
Speaker 1: don't know a whole lot about Haskins stylistically. I do

2332
01:52:51,640 --> 01:52:54,440
Speaker 1: know the NFL there's always a place for pocket passers.

2333
01:52:54,880 --> 01:52:57,320
Speaker 1: With Rosen in his case who and he is a

2334
01:52:57,320 --> 01:52:59,880
Speaker 1: pocket passer, and he moves well. He moves better than Haskins.

2335
01:53:00,840 --> 01:53:04,120
Speaker 1: But he's also a timing and a rhythm player, and

2336
01:53:04,400 --> 01:53:07,880
Speaker 1: usually timing and rhythm quarterbacking works very well in just

2337
01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:11,760
Speaker 1: about every system, and especially the highly scheme systems. Kirk

2338
01:53:11,800 --> 01:53:14,280
Speaker 1: Cousins is an example of a timing and rhythm player.

2339
01:53:14,560 --> 01:53:17,519
Speaker 1: He ran a highly schemed offense in Washington for several years.

2340
01:53:17,560 --> 01:53:20,120
Speaker 1: He now does it in Minnesota. Now. I think Rosen

2341
01:53:20,280 --> 01:53:23,160
Speaker 1: is a much better, more talented version of Kirk Cousins.

2342
01:53:23,439 --> 01:53:25,960
Speaker 1: But we're talking style of player and what you can

2343
01:53:26,000 --> 01:53:28,960
Speaker 1: do with them, and Cousins who who I would say

2344
01:53:29,040 --> 01:53:31,200
Speaker 1: is probably about the eighteenth or nineteen best to be

2345
01:53:31,280 --> 01:53:34,599
Speaker 1: in the league. There's not a coordinator in the NFL

2346
01:53:34,680 --> 01:53:36,559
Speaker 1: that wouldn't see. I can live with that if that's

2347
01:53:36,560 --> 01:53:38,360
Speaker 1: what I have, though, because at least I can scheme

2348
01:53:38,400 --> 01:53:40,920
Speaker 1: around him. I think you can run just about any

2349
01:53:41,000 --> 01:53:44,280
Speaker 1: kind of scheme with Josh Rosen. I don't know if

2350
01:53:44,320 --> 01:53:48,360
Speaker 1: everyone would feel that way about Haskins yet. Andy. Thanks

2351
01:53:48,360 --> 01:53:50,519
Speaker 1: for this. I love that stuff about the traits at

2352
01:53:50,520 --> 01:53:53,160
Speaker 1: each position and the draft needs for each team. Thank

2353
01:53:53,160 --> 01:53:55,840
Speaker 1: you for this and we'll talk soon. Okay, thanks guys.

2354
01:53:55,880 --> 01:53:58,799
Speaker 1: Thanks Andy. Andy Benois Sports Illustrated an NFL writer analyst.

2355
01:53:58,840 --> 01:54:02,520
Speaker 1: You can catch him on the MMQB dot SI dot com.

2356
01:54:02,520 --> 01:54:05,080
Speaker 1: Really good stuff about the individual traits. I never considered

2357
01:54:05,120 --> 01:54:07,280
Speaker 1: that tracking the ball is the most important thing in

2358
01:54:07,360 --> 01:54:09,599
Speaker 1: inline tight end can do. Do you ever think about that? Yeah,

2359
01:54:09,920 --> 01:54:13,080
Speaker 1: I guess because they're always in traffic when they catch it,

2360
01:54:13,160 --> 01:54:14,519
Speaker 1: you know, run, they got to throw it over the

2361
01:54:14,520 --> 01:54:17,360
Speaker 1: linebackers or around a guy and they and it's hard

2362
01:54:17,360 --> 01:54:19,320
Speaker 1: to You got to track the ball through traffic a

2363
01:54:19,320 --> 01:54:21,400
Speaker 1: lot more as a tight end than you do maybe

2364
01:54:21,400 --> 01:54:24,000
Speaker 1: as a perimeter receiver. So yeah, I get it makes sense.

2365
01:54:24,000 --> 01:54:26,000
Speaker 1: And I'm like you, I never really thought about it.

2366
01:54:26,000 --> 01:54:27,640
Speaker 1: I just you just kind of take a friend of

2367
01:54:27,680 --> 01:54:29,920
Speaker 1: that's what those guys do, and you didn't know that

2368
01:54:29,920 --> 01:54:32,120
Speaker 1: that was a trait that you could actually discern. Yeah,

2369
01:54:32,160 --> 01:54:35,320
Speaker 1: I know. Really cool. And even one of our favorite guests, Hey,

2370
01:54:35,320 --> 01:54:37,360
Speaker 1: the schedule comes out tonight. We want to know from you.

2371
01:54:37,680 --> 01:54:40,280
Speaker 1: What are you looking for for the bills in their

2372
01:54:40,320 --> 01:54:42,960
Speaker 1: schedule for twenty nineteen, Give us a call. Full nine

2373
01:54:43,000 --> 01:54:45,360
Speaker 1: is open eight oh three oh five fifty toll free

2374
01:54:45,440 --> 01:54:48,520
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty eight

2375
01:54:48,600 --> 01:54:51,280
Speaker 1: days away from the NFL draft. How many players you think?

2376
01:54:51,320 --> 01:54:52,680
Speaker 1: You know? What did you say? Two hundred fifty four

2377
01:54:52,720 --> 01:54:54,600
Speaker 1: is the number that will be drafted? I believe so. Yeah.

2378
01:54:54,600 --> 01:54:57,280
Speaker 1: How many players of that two fifty four or three

2379
01:54:57,360 --> 01:54:59,120
Speaker 1: hundred or whatever the prospects are? How many do you

2380
01:54:59,160 --> 01:55:02,160
Speaker 1: think are aftable players for the Buffalo Bills? What would

2381
01:55:02,160 --> 01:55:04,520
Speaker 1: you guess? Brandon being talked about it the other day.

2382
01:55:04,520 --> 01:55:06,040
Speaker 1: We'll let you know what he thinks when we come back.

2383
01:55:06,200 --> 01:55:08,640
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo

2384
01:55:08,680 --> 01:55:24,600
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. We'll go back One Goes Live from One Drive.

2385
01:55:25,520 --> 01:55:27,440
Speaker 1: It took me three hours, but I can finally chuckle,

2386
01:55:27,560 --> 01:55:31,040
Speaker 1: finally laughed, he laughed. Yeah, I was worried about you

2387
01:55:31,160 --> 01:55:32,760
Speaker 1: this morning. I don't know what happened. What did you

2388
01:55:32,760 --> 01:55:35,080
Speaker 1: get into a little traffic jam? You know, Here's the

2389
01:55:35,120 --> 01:55:38,200
Speaker 1: thing I hadn't anticipated before I came in today, that

2390
01:55:38,320 --> 01:55:41,240
Speaker 1: there's actually people around the NFL. I can't believe that.

2391
01:55:41,800 --> 01:55:44,839
Speaker 1: Here's what we suspect. All the teams know their schedules.

2392
01:55:44,920 --> 01:55:46,720
Speaker 1: Now this afternoon, they're starting to get it a little

2393
01:55:46,720 --> 01:55:48,400
Speaker 1: bit ahead. The league's letting it out to the teams,

2394
01:55:48,840 --> 01:55:51,600
Speaker 1: and so, you know, here's the you know, all the

2395
01:55:51,680 --> 01:55:54,160
Speaker 1: Twitter and the social media and all the stuff that about.

2396
01:55:54,320 --> 01:55:59,400
Speaker 1: You know, these reporters, sports reporters and journalists from around

2397
01:55:59,400 --> 01:56:02,680
Speaker 1: the league, all these different cities have sources and there's

2398
01:56:02,680 --> 01:56:04,640
Speaker 1: you know, everybody wants to be the guy who gets

2399
01:56:04,680 --> 01:56:08,040
Speaker 1: the schedule first before eight o'clock. And yet so all

2400
01:56:08,080 --> 01:56:10,760
Speaker 1: the stuff's coming up. I had I had not anticipated

2401
01:56:10,960 --> 01:56:13,840
Speaker 1: that being a thing. I'm still you know, I had

2402
01:56:13,920 --> 01:56:16,000
Speaker 1: not anticipate because I figured, yeah, we don't have any

2403
01:56:16,280 --> 01:56:19,600
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna know. Well, you know that's probably not that.

2404
01:56:19,760 --> 01:56:21,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the case or not. I know,

2405
01:56:22,720 --> 01:56:26,600
Speaker 1: like like any we're not we don't have anything to

2406
01:56:26,600 --> 01:56:28,760
Speaker 1: talk about because we don't really don't know anything. But

2407
01:56:28,800 --> 01:56:31,200
Speaker 1: we're going around and all these other teams that are

2408
01:56:31,200 --> 01:56:34,600
Speaker 1: on our schedule are saying, yeah, here's I think the Bill.

2409
01:56:34,920 --> 01:56:36,760
Speaker 1: Who was it? Who is that guy that's saying the

2410
01:56:36,800 --> 01:56:39,880
Speaker 1: Bills are starting opening the season in the Jets. And

2411
01:56:39,920 --> 01:56:42,600
Speaker 1: then and then there's a different guy saying the Bills

2412
01:56:42,600 --> 01:56:44,760
Speaker 1: not only are opening up with the Jets in the Meadowlands.

2413
01:56:44,800 --> 01:56:47,040
Speaker 1: The next week they're coming right back and playing the Giants.

2414
01:56:47,280 --> 01:56:48,760
Speaker 1: So we don't know if any of this is true.

2415
01:56:48,800 --> 01:56:50,960
Speaker 1: If that is true, yeah, even if it's true, it's

2416
01:56:51,000 --> 01:56:55,160
Speaker 1: kind of funny life than the two occupants. And here's

2417
01:56:55,520 --> 01:56:58,400
Speaker 1: for us, sitting over here in Buffalo. We know that

2418
01:56:58,520 --> 01:57:01,120
Speaker 1: in New York nobody keeps a secret, So maybe that

2419
01:57:01,240 --> 01:57:03,240
Speaker 1: is true. I have no idea, and I could not

2420
01:57:03,520 --> 01:57:07,040
Speaker 1: possibly care less about the Jets and Giants, but it

2421
01:57:07,080 --> 01:57:10,400
Speaker 1: involves us. Yeah, so we gotta we gotta say, well, gosh,

2422
01:57:10,440 --> 01:57:13,520
Speaker 1: maybe it is true. Probably not, but who knows. The Draft.

2423
01:57:13,640 --> 01:57:15,160
Speaker 1: I didn't know that was a thing though, the leaking.

2424
01:57:15,280 --> 01:57:17,560
Speaker 1: I had not even given out us a thought until

2425
01:57:17,600 --> 01:57:20,520
Speaker 1: I got in here today and started finding out there

2426
01:57:20,560 --> 01:57:23,240
Speaker 1: was a thing. It's ridiculous. It is kind of stupid.

2427
01:57:23,440 --> 01:57:25,360
Speaker 1: We'll find out. We'll find out for and we are right.

2428
01:57:25,480 --> 01:57:29,520
Speaker 1: We are neck deep and stupid. That's the other theme

2429
01:57:29,520 --> 01:57:32,000
Speaker 1: of our show. In fact, that'd be a good slogan

2430
01:57:32,000 --> 01:57:36,120
Speaker 1: for our show. The Draft. We know that's eight days away.

2431
01:57:36,120 --> 01:57:38,120
Speaker 1: Around one of the Draft coming up a week from tomorrow.

2432
01:57:39,040 --> 01:57:41,520
Speaker 1: Brandon bean Bill's GM spoke with everybody. The other day.

2433
01:57:41,720 --> 01:57:44,160
Speaker 1: We were lucky enough to have some microphones there, and

2434
01:57:44,200 --> 01:57:47,080
Speaker 1: he talked about he was asked about the Bills draft board.

2435
01:57:47,120 --> 01:57:49,440
Speaker 1: The draft board has got to be finalized by now right,

2436
01:57:49,640 --> 01:57:52,560
Speaker 1: being said, they're doing some mock drafts next Monday, Tuesday,

2437
01:57:52,600 --> 01:57:55,160
Speaker 1: early next week. But who is on that draft board.

2438
01:57:55,240 --> 01:57:57,240
Speaker 1: We don't know how many are on that draft board.

2439
01:57:57,360 --> 01:57:59,160
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean was okay to talk about that. He was

2440
01:57:59,200 --> 01:58:01,480
Speaker 1: asked how many players around his final draft board, and

2441
01:58:01,520 --> 01:58:05,600
Speaker 1: here's what he had to say. Well, let's say it's

2442
01:58:05,640 --> 01:58:08,920
Speaker 1: the third round. Okay, let's say what pick do we have.

2443
01:58:08,960 --> 01:58:13,200
Speaker 1: We're like pick seventy four. I think so if we're

2444
01:58:13,200 --> 01:58:16,920
Speaker 1: in the third round and we're getting close to our pick,

2445
01:58:18,000 --> 01:58:22,240
Speaker 1: and let's say we're five six away, and we've got

2446
01:58:22,240 --> 01:58:26,280
Speaker 1: a guy rated high in the second round and he's

2447
01:58:26,320 --> 01:58:29,040
Speaker 1: sticking out like a sore thumb, and we've done our

2448
01:58:29,080 --> 01:58:32,840
Speaker 1: due diligence. Our board is telling us, let's try and

2449
01:58:32,880 --> 01:58:36,000
Speaker 1: go get this guy. We think he's significantly better than

2450
01:58:36,480 --> 01:58:39,160
Speaker 1: the player. If he's gone, then we're gonna be choosing

2451
01:58:39,200 --> 01:58:41,200
Speaker 1: from if the rest of our guys are in the

2452
01:58:41,240 --> 01:58:45,560
Speaker 1: third round. Does that make sense sense? But makes some sense?

2453
01:58:45,600 --> 01:58:48,480
Speaker 1: What Bean was talking about, though, is how many players

2454
01:58:48,560 --> 01:58:50,120
Speaker 1: end up on his final draft board. That was the

2455
01:58:50,200 --> 01:58:52,160
Speaker 1: question he was asked. Here's what he had to say.

2456
01:58:56,240 --> 01:58:58,880
Speaker 1: Probably as low as one fifteen, probably as high as

2457
01:58:58,920 --> 01:59:03,880
Speaker 1: one forty, somewhere somewhere in there. Um, it depends on

2458
01:59:03,920 --> 01:59:07,840
Speaker 1: how nice the doctors are to us medically. That that usually, um,

2459
01:59:07,880 --> 01:59:09,560
Speaker 1: you know our guys that have been in trouble, but

2460
01:59:09,840 --> 01:59:11,600
Speaker 1: I got a good feel for any of the guys

2461
01:59:11,640 --> 01:59:15,160
Speaker 1: that we would have trouble concerns. It's really the The

2462
01:59:15,240 --> 01:59:18,360
Speaker 1: medical rechecks were just last week, so I've already saw

2463
01:59:18,400 --> 01:59:20,720
Speaker 1: the dock in the cafeteria while Ago told him don't

2464
01:59:20,760 --> 01:59:29,000
Speaker 1: bring his red pen. Be easy on us all um.

2465
01:59:29,920 --> 01:59:33,960
Speaker 1: When when we start with the board in December, that

2466
01:59:34,000 --> 01:59:38,200
Speaker 1: board is high three hundreds to pushing four hundred. But

2467
01:59:38,240 --> 01:59:41,680
Speaker 1: there's also some guys on there that we are hearing

2468
01:59:41,760 --> 01:59:45,800
Speaker 1: smoke about as underclassmen. So you know, it's not like

2469
01:59:45,840 --> 01:59:47,800
Speaker 1: you can wait until you can declare and decide to

2470
01:59:47,840 --> 01:59:50,840
Speaker 1: go watch him live. So I would rather error on

2471
01:59:51,240 --> 01:59:54,080
Speaker 1: at least getting one live look on an underclassman in

2472
01:59:54,080 --> 01:59:56,120
Speaker 1: case he does declare. And there were some guys here

2473
01:59:56,480 --> 01:59:59,720
Speaker 1: this year that we really didn't feel should have declared,

2474
01:59:59,760 --> 02:00:02,560
Speaker 1: but they did, like every year for whatever reason. So

2475
02:00:04,120 --> 02:00:06,840
Speaker 1: you know, then you have that and then you pare

2476
02:00:06,880 --> 02:00:09,480
Speaker 1: it down in February once the guys have been declared,

2477
02:00:09,520 --> 02:00:13,400
Speaker 1: plus we start eliminating guys pre end for various reasons.

2478
02:00:13,640 --> 02:00:15,400
Speaker 1: That surprised you, Steve when he says one hundred and

2479
02:00:15,440 --> 02:00:17,480
Speaker 1: fifteen as well as one fifteen, maybe as high as

2480
02:00:17,520 --> 02:00:20,480
Speaker 1: one forty the number of basically draftable players on the

2481
02:00:20,520 --> 02:00:22,360
Speaker 1: Bills drafting. Yeah, I think it does surprise me a

2482
02:00:22,400 --> 02:00:24,320
Speaker 1: little bit, because you know, they're drafted into one hundred

2483
02:00:24,320 --> 02:00:26,040
Speaker 1: and one hundred and fifties, two hundreds. You know, they've

2484
02:00:26,040 --> 02:00:28,360
Speaker 1: got some guys deep in the draft. Now, that doesn't

2485
02:00:28,360 --> 02:00:30,880
Speaker 1: mean that all one hundred and fifteen to those guys

2486
02:00:30,920 --> 02:00:33,560
Speaker 1: on the Bills board that are available are available for

2487
02:00:33,600 --> 02:00:36,280
Speaker 1: the same reasons that they're available on others, and that

2488
02:00:36,320 --> 02:00:39,080
Speaker 1: some of the guys that they're drafting are not unavailable

2489
02:00:39,120 --> 02:00:41,480
Speaker 1: to other teams. You know, they picked the guys they want,

2490
02:00:41,680 --> 02:00:43,960
Speaker 1: and as you know as well as I, they pick

2491
02:00:44,080 --> 02:00:46,840
Speaker 1: them for character and for lack of trouble as well

2492
02:00:46,880 --> 02:00:49,000
Speaker 1: as athletic ability and all this other stuff they've got

2493
02:00:49,200 --> 02:00:52,560
Speaker 1: he's considering. He mentioned a couple of them that gets

2494
02:00:52,880 --> 02:00:55,240
Speaker 1: lost by the wayside is the medicals that he didn't.

2495
02:00:55,280 --> 02:00:56,800
Speaker 1: You know, there must be a lot of guys that

2496
02:00:56,840 --> 02:01:00,840
Speaker 1: are disqualified because of former injuries they had at the

2497
02:01:00,840 --> 02:01:04,000
Speaker 1: collegiate or high school level that are just disqualifying factors,

2498
02:01:04,000 --> 02:01:06,640
Speaker 1: which are amazing. It amazes me that there's could be

2499
02:01:06,720 --> 02:01:11,040
Speaker 1: that many. But it doesn't amaze me that the guys

2500
02:01:11,040 --> 02:01:13,840
Speaker 1: at the highest level who play the most football, like

2501
02:01:14,000 --> 02:01:18,200
Speaker 1: seniors and juniors in college, who have played a bunch

2502
02:01:18,240 --> 02:01:21,880
Speaker 1: for their teams there they got to be like pros.

2503
02:01:21,960 --> 02:01:23,800
Speaker 1: I mean, there's gonna be a litany of things, you know,

2504
02:01:24,280 --> 02:01:27,000
Speaker 1: you know, broken finger here, twisted angled here, a knee

2505
02:01:27,040 --> 02:01:30,440
Speaker 1: operation or scope there, things that they have to get

2506
02:01:30,440 --> 02:01:32,880
Speaker 1: through with the medical and sometimes those guys didn't come

2507
02:01:32,880 --> 02:01:36,120
Speaker 1: out of those injuries unscathed like you'd hope they would.

2508
02:01:36,440 --> 02:01:39,360
Speaker 1: And I guess I guess I knew this. I'm surprised though,

2509
02:01:39,360 --> 02:01:41,920
Speaker 1: when he said the way Brandon being talked about the

2510
02:01:42,200 --> 02:01:46,200
Speaker 1: medical evaluation and how how much import that has, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he says, hope he doesn't use his red pen.

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02:01:48,280 --> 02:01:51,480
Speaker 1: In other words, Brandon Bean is saying that the medical tests,

2513
02:01:51,560 --> 02:01:54,640
Speaker 1: the doctors, the physicals can basically rule a prospect right

2514
02:01:54,680 --> 02:01:56,680
Speaker 1: off the draft board. I guess I knew that, but

2515
02:01:56,720 --> 02:01:59,040
Speaker 1: I'm surprised that it's well, they have that much authority.

2516
02:01:59,280 --> 02:02:02,560
Speaker 1: I don't know that the medical well, they do, but

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02:02:02,960 --> 02:02:04,760
Speaker 1: that's not what they're saying. I mean, the medical guys

2518
02:02:04,760 --> 02:02:07,400
Speaker 1: will just say, well, if if this guy's got this

2519
02:02:07,400 --> 02:02:09,960
Speaker 1: problem and this problem, you can anticipate a B and C.

2520
02:02:10,440 --> 02:02:12,080
Speaker 1: They don't rule them out. And let's say the medical

2521
02:02:12,080 --> 02:02:14,240
Speaker 1: doctors don't come in and say, hey, don't draft this guy.

2522
02:02:14,360 --> 02:02:16,640
Speaker 1: This is dad. They'll say, here's what his problems are,

2523
02:02:16,640 --> 02:02:19,520
Speaker 1: and here's the probabilities, and here's what happens. And then

2524
02:02:19,560 --> 02:02:22,880
Speaker 1: the team decides what to do with that information, and

2525
02:02:23,200 --> 02:02:25,040
Speaker 1: Brandon gives you an insight some of I'm gonna say,

2526
02:02:25,040 --> 02:02:26,720
Speaker 1: you know what, that's too big a risk. You're out.

2527
02:02:27,160 --> 02:02:29,720
Speaker 1: And because of the doctor's recommendation, they take him off

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02:02:29,760 --> 02:02:31,520
Speaker 1: the board. It's not like the doctors say, do not

2529
02:02:31,640 --> 02:02:34,360
Speaker 1: draft this guy. They just give you an objective report.

2530
02:02:34,640 --> 02:02:37,880
Speaker 1: And that's the way it works. And it unfortunately, that's

2531
02:02:37,920 --> 02:02:41,000
Speaker 1: that's the nature of the game that they're part of.

2532
02:02:41,160 --> 02:02:43,000
Speaker 1: It's just that there's gonna be a certain number of

2533
02:02:43,040 --> 02:02:46,040
Speaker 1: guys who are disqualified because the physically are too much

2534
02:02:46,080 --> 02:02:48,280
Speaker 1: of a risk. Going forward, a couple of draft questions.

2535
02:02:48,280 --> 02:02:50,480
Speaker 1: With the draft just eight days away, let's go to

2536
02:02:50,600 --> 02:02:53,520
Speaker 1: Josh and Perry New York. Collow, Josh, hi, and that's

2537
02:02:53,520 --> 02:02:55,280
Speaker 1: to be on again with you guys. A lease, Josh,

2538
02:02:55,520 --> 02:02:58,360
Speaker 1: talk about a player that I don't think a whole

2539
02:02:58,360 --> 02:03:01,200
Speaker 1: lot of people are talking about, and for those interested

2540
02:03:01,240 --> 02:03:04,640
Speaker 1: in defensive tackle talent, I think he's just a hair

2541
02:03:04,760 --> 02:03:07,960
Speaker 1: below Quinnon Williams, and I think that he's better than

2542
02:03:08,000 --> 02:03:11,000
Speaker 1: at Oliver and I understand the issues, but I think

2543
02:03:11,000 --> 02:03:14,879
Speaker 1: he's been a little mislabeled even though he's absolutely guilty

2544
02:03:15,520 --> 02:03:18,960
Speaker 1: of some character concerns. So I'm talking about Jeffrey Simmons,

2545
02:03:18,960 --> 02:03:22,360
Speaker 1: defensive tackle out of Mississippi State. The kids have stud

2546
02:03:22,720 --> 02:03:25,480
Speaker 1: and he's the only way that we could drop down

2547
02:03:27,240 --> 02:03:30,800
Speaker 1: maybe between nine and twenty, pick up extra picks, and

2548
02:03:30,800 --> 02:03:32,800
Speaker 1: then get back into the first round and have a

2549
02:03:32,880 --> 02:03:36,200
Speaker 1: top three talent. I believe right, I don't know much

2550
02:03:36,200 --> 02:03:37,920
Speaker 1: about him, But what do you know about the character

2551
02:03:37,960 --> 02:03:39,960
Speaker 1: concerns and how much of a concern would that be

2552
02:03:40,280 --> 02:03:43,800
Speaker 1: do you think, Josh? Okay? So I'm not condoning what

2553
02:03:43,880 --> 02:03:47,920
Speaker 1: he did. But I think that three or four seconds

2554
02:03:47,960 --> 02:03:50,920
Speaker 1: of a man's life doesn't make that person. And I

2555
02:03:50,960 --> 02:03:54,840
Speaker 1: think it's a little weird the situation. So anyone that

2556
02:03:54,920 --> 02:03:56,400
Speaker 1: wants to check it out can go to twenty four

2557
02:03:56,480 --> 02:03:58,960
Speaker 1: seven Sports and they have a great article and video

2558
02:03:59,000 --> 02:04:01,160
Speaker 1: of the altercation. That was a high school thing, right,

2559
02:04:02,400 --> 02:04:05,000
Speaker 1: he was just turned eighteen, So yeah, I believe he

2560
02:04:05,000 --> 02:04:07,800
Speaker 1: wasn't high school. Okay, Yeah, there's more. I'll look at

2561
02:04:07,880 --> 02:04:11,040
Speaker 1: him deeper. Okay, there was a video. Yeah, there's a

2562
02:04:11,080 --> 02:04:15,080
Speaker 1: video where he punched a girl repeatedly. Um, oh that's

2563
02:04:15,080 --> 02:04:18,680
Speaker 1: a problem. That's that's a problem. Yeah, that's a problem.

2564
02:04:18,720 --> 02:04:21,000
Speaker 1: And he was And you're right, it was in two thousand.

2565
02:04:21,080 --> 02:04:22,480
Speaker 1: It was three years ago, so it was when he

2566
02:04:22,520 --> 02:04:24,680
Speaker 1: was eighteen nineteen, maybe a freshman. I'm not even sure

2567
02:04:24,680 --> 02:04:27,640
Speaker 1: if he was at Mississippi State, but um yeah, and

2568
02:04:29,160 --> 02:04:31,520
Speaker 1: you can be. And here's the problem. You go in

2569
02:04:31,560 --> 02:04:33,480
Speaker 1: and talk to these guys, and there there are college

2570
02:04:33,480 --> 02:04:35,240
Speaker 1: coaches are going to do nothing but tell you what

2571
02:04:35,280 --> 02:04:38,240
Speaker 1: a great guy he is. Uh, it's hard to get

2572
02:04:38,280 --> 02:04:40,320
Speaker 1: to the bottom of it. And if you don't feel

2573
02:04:40,320 --> 02:04:43,480
Speaker 1: like you're getting a straight shot from his college coaches

2574
02:04:43,600 --> 02:04:45,560
Speaker 1: or do you think or this college coaching staff at

2575
02:04:45,560 --> 02:04:50,000
Speaker 1: Mississippi State, it has a reputation for, you know, pumping

2576
02:04:50,040 --> 02:04:52,920
Speaker 1: their guys up and just to make their program look better.

2577
02:04:53,600 --> 02:04:56,600
Speaker 1: Or if they're a program like Alabama, who they give

2578
02:04:56,640 --> 02:05:00,840
Speaker 1: you a hundred percent accurate evaluate of what the guys

2579
02:05:01,000 --> 02:05:03,840
Speaker 1: really like and have earned a reputation of telling you

2580
02:05:03,920 --> 02:05:06,240
Speaker 1: the truth, then you take that okay. They if they

2581
02:05:06,240 --> 02:05:08,960
Speaker 1: say he's okay, and he's been okay for three years,

2582
02:05:10,080 --> 02:05:13,640
Speaker 1: then he's okay. But yeah, he's got some issues, and

2583
02:05:13,680 --> 02:05:16,080
Speaker 1: you can bet with a background like the one I

2584
02:05:16,160 --> 02:05:19,360
Speaker 1: just described, no matter how good he is or what

2585
02:05:19,440 --> 02:05:21,520
Speaker 1: potentially has, they're going to be some teams, not just

2586
02:05:21,560 --> 02:05:24,560
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills or if they did that take him

2587
02:05:24,560 --> 02:05:27,120
Speaker 1: off the board for that reason. And that's just just

2588
02:05:27,160 --> 02:05:29,520
Speaker 1: this harsh reality of the world we live in. And

2589
02:05:30,320 --> 02:05:33,920
Speaker 1: so there you go. I think he was squeaky clean

2590
02:05:34,040 --> 02:05:38,120
Speaker 1: before and after. Again, there's a lot of good information

2591
02:05:38,160 --> 02:05:41,040
Speaker 1: if anyone wants to go into detail on that article.

2592
02:05:41,400 --> 02:05:45,920
Speaker 1: And I think it was a little weird because his

2593
02:05:46,040 --> 02:05:49,960
Speaker 1: sister kind of got into the mix with this woman

2594
02:05:50,160 --> 02:05:53,120
Speaker 1: and he jumped in. I just think at that age,

2595
02:05:54,040 --> 02:05:56,240
Speaker 1: you know, your brain's not fully developed. I'm not making

2596
02:05:56,280 --> 02:06:00,280
Speaker 1: excuses for him, but how I interpret the situation is

2597
02:06:00,320 --> 02:06:03,960
Speaker 1: he had an emotional reaction and this happens to millions

2598
02:06:03,960 --> 02:06:06,120
Speaker 1: of people where they don't even remember what they did,

2599
02:06:06,920 --> 02:06:09,360
Speaker 1: and yeah, I get it. And he's had no incidents

2600
02:06:09,360 --> 02:06:13,400
Speaker 1: at all at Mississippi State at Starksville, so he's been

2601
02:06:13,560 --> 02:06:15,560
Speaker 1: very I guess he's been a good kid and a

2602
02:06:15,600 --> 02:06:18,680
Speaker 1: good student when he since he's been at Mississippi State.

2603
02:06:18,840 --> 02:06:22,320
Speaker 1: And we'll see if that incident in involving the people

2604
02:06:22,360 --> 02:06:27,760
Speaker 1: you say did follows him. But he is rated by

2605
02:06:27,800 --> 02:06:30,160
Speaker 1: the draft site that I'm as a six point six

2606
02:06:30,280 --> 02:06:33,720
Speaker 1: seven Pro Bowl caliber player, and on a scale I

2607
02:06:33,760 --> 02:06:39,160
Speaker 1: think of maybe seven, he's They think this guy's ability

2608
02:06:39,280 --> 02:06:40,880
Speaker 1: puts him in a chance to become a Pro Bowl

2609
02:06:40,920 --> 02:06:44,560
Speaker 1: caliber player at defensive tackle. So you're right. He's six

2610
02:06:44,560 --> 02:06:47,240
Speaker 1: feet four, three hundred and one pounds, got thirty four

2611
02:06:47,240 --> 02:06:50,480
Speaker 1: inch arms, And we'll see what happens with him. And

2612
02:06:51,160 --> 02:06:52,920
Speaker 1: there may be a lot of people who agree with

2613
02:06:53,000 --> 02:06:55,640
Speaker 1: you that he may be a steal because of his

2614
02:06:55,720 --> 02:06:59,400
Speaker 1: personal life causes him to drop in the draft. Hey

2615
02:06:59,440 --> 02:07:01,040
Speaker 1: time out for NFL. True or False Brought to you

2616
02:07:01,120 --> 02:07:04,000
Speaker 1: by Yancey's fancy New York artisan cheese. True or false.

2617
02:07:04,360 --> 02:07:07,920
Speaker 1: The NFL drafts easiest choice easiest choice is picking a

2618
02:07:07,960 --> 02:07:11,000
Speaker 1: pass rusher. True or false. That's what ESPN said. The

2619
02:07:11,040 --> 02:07:14,600
Speaker 1: easiest pick to make is a pass rusher in this draft.

2620
02:07:14,640 --> 02:07:16,840
Speaker 1: I guess is what they're going all right? True or false?

2621
02:07:16,880 --> 02:07:18,760
Speaker 1: What do you think? I think it's true. There's a

2622
02:07:18,840 --> 02:07:20,680
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of them. And here's the thing. When

2623
02:07:20,680 --> 02:07:23,160
Speaker 1: you it's easy because you don't there's a bunch of

2624
02:07:23,200 --> 02:07:25,240
Speaker 1: guys on the draft board this year. Because of the

2625
02:07:25,280 --> 02:07:28,040
Speaker 1: depth of the draft at that position, there's a lot

2626
02:07:28,040 --> 02:07:29,960
Speaker 1: of guys that you don't have to say, well, who's

2627
02:07:30,240 --> 02:07:33,120
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna say, oh, who's this guy? You know, if

2628
02:07:33,160 --> 02:07:35,280
Speaker 1: you're there and you pick one of the guys that

2629
02:07:35,400 --> 02:07:40,440
Speaker 1: on the list that we're showing on from Nick Boza,

2630
02:07:40,520 --> 02:07:44,680
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Montes Sweat, Brian Burns, Clellen Farrell, Jalen Fergus

2631
02:07:44,720 --> 02:07:47,200
Speaker 1: and these guys that are junior seniors and these draft picks,

2632
02:07:47,600 --> 02:07:51,720
Speaker 1: you don't have to really justify the pick. It's not

2633
02:07:51,760 --> 02:07:54,480
Speaker 1: like everybody's gonna say, Wow, you're really reaching for this guy.

2634
02:07:54,680 --> 02:07:56,040
Speaker 1: So I think it's true. It is going to be

2635
02:07:56,080 --> 02:07:57,960
Speaker 1: an easy draft to do that that you're not going

2636
02:07:58,000 --> 02:08:00,760
Speaker 1: to take a lot of criticism for these picks, and

2637
02:08:00,800 --> 02:08:03,080
Speaker 1: then if they're bust or boom, it's it's not on you.

2638
02:08:03,080 --> 02:08:04,920
Speaker 1: You had good reason to pick them and you can justify.

2639
02:08:05,000 --> 02:08:07,040
Speaker 1: So for that reason, I say, yeah, it's easy because

2640
02:08:07,280 --> 02:08:09,000
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of risk with these guys. I'd

2641
02:08:09,000 --> 02:08:11,200
Speaker 1: say true as well. A great quote in that article

2642
02:08:11,240 --> 02:08:14,640
Speaker 1: that proposed that from von Miller who said, if you

2643
02:08:14,680 --> 02:08:17,040
Speaker 1: can get quarterback sex in college, you can get them

2644
02:08:17,040 --> 02:08:19,720
Speaker 1: in the NFL. You would know he's done both. Finally,

2645
02:08:19,720 --> 02:08:22,360
Speaker 1: the NFL True or False Part two. The Chargers Los

2646
02:08:22,400 --> 02:08:26,200
Speaker 1: Angeles Chargers were correct to change to powder blue? Is

2647
02:08:26,200 --> 02:08:29,160
Speaker 1: their primary uniform? Can I confess something I thought they

2648
02:08:29,200 --> 02:08:31,320
Speaker 1: had already had? I did? I thought they were, but

2649
02:08:31,360 --> 02:08:33,080
Speaker 1: I guess I guess the dark they weren't. That was

2650
02:08:33,120 --> 02:08:36,640
Speaker 1: there that were alternate. Yeah, they're all powder blue. You

2651
02:08:36,640 --> 02:08:39,840
Speaker 1: think of the Chargers, that's what you think of. Yeah, absolutely,

2652
02:08:39,840 --> 02:08:42,000
Speaker 1: that's the right move. They look great. I gotta admit

2653
02:08:42,160 --> 02:08:44,840
Speaker 1: that's a it's a great looking uniform. Although it doesn't

2654
02:08:44,920 --> 02:08:48,960
Speaker 1: really kind of take aggression, you know, it's it's a

2655
02:08:49,040 --> 02:08:53,720
Speaker 1: kind of a beachwear kind of thing. Right. They look comfortable.

2656
02:08:53,800 --> 02:08:56,320
Speaker 1: I know that. So and the players when they came

2657
02:08:56,320 --> 02:08:58,080
Speaker 1: out and said that they had some quotes from some

2658
02:08:58,120 --> 02:09:00,800
Speaker 1: of their players. The players love them. The Powder Blues

2659
02:09:00,840 --> 02:09:03,640
Speaker 1: look great, and so there you have. I don't have

2660
02:09:03,680 --> 02:09:06,800
Speaker 1: a problem with it. If as long as from here,

2661
02:09:06,800 --> 02:09:08,880
Speaker 1: sitting back here in Western New York, as as long

2662
02:09:08,920 --> 02:09:13,080
Speaker 1: as that it helps them to the subachieving level that

2663
02:09:13,120 --> 02:09:15,080
Speaker 1: they've been for twenty years, then night. I'm all for

2664
02:09:15,240 --> 02:09:18,360
Speaker 1: the Powder Blue flaf win last year. Yeah, all right,

2665
02:09:18,480 --> 02:09:20,600
Speaker 1: that's NFL true or false, brought to you by Yancey's

2666
02:09:20,640 --> 02:09:22,840
Speaker 1: Fancy New York's artist in chief Stephen I. Coming back

2667
02:09:22,880 --> 02:09:26,120
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive, says Buffalo Bill's Radio.

2668
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Speaker 1: What have we learned from today's show? Presented by Advanced

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Speaker 1: home theater provider with the Buffalo Bills. What do we learned?

2672
02:09:53,240 --> 02:09:58,640
Speaker 1: We had Dame Brugler from NFL I'm sorry, Game Brugler

2673
02:09:58,680 --> 02:10:01,480
Speaker 1: from the Athletic dot Com who's got a seven round

2674
02:10:02,240 --> 02:10:05,160
Speaker 1: monster mock draft, and we talked to him about the Bills.

2675
02:10:05,160 --> 02:10:06,760
Speaker 1: He says, the Bills in the first round, we'll go

2676
02:10:06,800 --> 02:10:09,800
Speaker 1: with defensive end Rashaan Gary from Michigan. Here's what he said.

2677
02:10:11,600 --> 02:10:13,280
Speaker 1: If they go in the defense, inside the ball, in

2678
02:10:13,320 --> 02:10:17,120
Speaker 1: the defensive line, Rashawn Gary will certainly be appealing. He

2679
02:10:17,200 --> 02:10:19,960
Speaker 1: has the traits that you're looking for for a player

2680
02:10:20,000 --> 02:10:22,839
Speaker 1: that two hundred and eighty pounds. He just moves differently

2681
02:10:23,000 --> 02:10:26,120
Speaker 1: than most guys. He has terrific length. They can convert

2682
02:10:26,160 --> 02:10:29,240
Speaker 1: speed to power and he just the question is, okay, well,

2683
02:10:29,240 --> 02:10:32,640
Speaker 1: why didn't the production match ten and a half stacked

2684
02:10:32,680 --> 02:10:35,880
Speaker 1: over his career. There are eight pass rushers in this

2685
02:10:36,360 --> 02:10:40,400
Speaker 1: draft class who had more stacked in two eighteen compared

2686
02:10:40,440 --> 02:10:43,040
Speaker 1: to Rashaan Gary's career. So the production is not there.

2687
02:10:43,320 --> 02:10:46,440
Speaker 1: But the NFL they dropped traits, not production, And with

2688
02:10:46,560 --> 02:10:48,840
Speaker 1: Rashaun Gary, all the traits are there as long as

2689
02:10:48,840 --> 02:10:51,920
Speaker 1: you're comfortable with you know, the emotional maturity is you're

2690
02:10:51,920 --> 02:10:57,160
Speaker 1: comfortable with the durability and you think you can develop him.

2691
02:10:57,280 --> 02:10:59,800
Speaker 1: That's Dane Burglar. Also on the show today, we had

2692
02:10:59,800 --> 02:11:02,760
Speaker 1: to Andy Venoit on earlier this hour. Andy Venoit from

2693
02:11:02,760 --> 02:11:05,440
Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated dot Com says the Bill's biggest need going

2694
02:11:05,480 --> 02:11:10,160
Speaker 1: into the draft is at wide receiver. Somebody has to

2695
02:11:10,160 --> 02:11:12,680
Speaker 1: win at the intermediate level. They have to win on

2696
02:11:12,800 --> 02:11:16,200
Speaker 1: digs and posts and flamt patterns. And that guy's not

2697
02:11:16,280 --> 02:11:19,000
Speaker 1: on the roster. Announce why they looked into Antonio Brown,

2698
02:11:19,000 --> 02:11:21,880
Speaker 1: who's one of the best in the league at that area.

2699
02:11:22,120 --> 02:11:26,000
Speaker 1: So do they if DK metcalf sending they're still on

2700
02:11:26,040 --> 02:11:29,080
Speaker 1: the board, do they force that a little bit? Because

2701
02:11:29,080 --> 02:11:32,080
Speaker 1: the book on metcalf is, you know, he's not the

2702
02:11:32,080 --> 02:11:35,280
Speaker 1: most pliable guy. He's a straight line mover, but oh

2703
02:11:35,320 --> 02:11:37,480
Speaker 1: my goodness, look at his body, look at his measurables.

2704
02:11:37,480 --> 02:11:40,280
Speaker 1: We can teach him to go over the middle and

2705
02:11:40,560 --> 02:11:43,839
Speaker 1: venoit with some of his thoughts about DK metcalf end receivers.

2706
02:11:43,880 --> 02:11:45,640
Speaker 1: You know what it strikes me about the draft, Steve,

2707
02:11:45,680 --> 02:11:50,080
Speaker 1: with the eight days left, People's expectations for the Bills,

2708
02:11:50,120 --> 02:11:54,000
Speaker 1: their prediction for the Bills all over the board, defense, offense,

2709
02:11:54,440 --> 02:11:56,640
Speaker 1: tight end. By the way, we're not anti tight end guys.

2710
02:11:56,680 --> 02:11:59,360
Speaker 1: By the way. Here's the thing. We bite people's heads

2711
02:11:59,360 --> 02:12:02,160
Speaker 1: off because they call in and say this is who

2712
02:12:02,160 --> 02:12:04,960
Speaker 1: they should take. If they don't, they stink well or

2713
02:12:05,000 --> 02:12:06,840
Speaker 1: if they don't yeah, on the tight end issue. What

2714
02:12:07,040 --> 02:12:09,120
Speaker 1: got me and I've heard it, not just on our show,

2715
02:12:09,200 --> 02:12:11,120
Speaker 1: but people say, well, the Bills have never had a

2716
02:12:11,200 --> 02:12:12,960
Speaker 1: dominant tight end, so that's why they should draft a

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Speaker 1: tight end. No, that's not why. Maybe they should draft

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Speaker 1: a tight end. Maybe Howkinson is in their estimation a

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Speaker 1: really good tight end. If so, and if they think

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Speaker 1: he's the guy, they should draft him. But you don't

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Speaker 1: draft him because you've never had a dominant tight end.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right, that's just foolish, it right, and not

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Speaker 1: what you're saying. And none of them need, not a

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Speaker 1: single one of these guys is gonna be the final

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Speaker 1: missing piece of the puzzle, and the Bills are going

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Speaker 1: to go to you know, they're gonna rock it through.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna contribute, and the best you can hope for

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Speaker 1: is just they they're everything you hope they're gonna be

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Speaker 1: that you hope. They're a quality guy who's gonna contribute,

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Speaker 1: gonna get better, going to be the type of guy

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Speaker 1: that gets better and better and better. Yes, certainly you'd

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Speaker 1: love to grab a Hall of Famer out of this class,

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Speaker 1: but that's a roll of the dice, Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: and that's that's where you're at. So they may they

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Speaker 1: may pick a a tight end, or an offensive tackle,

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Speaker 1: or an edge rusher, or a defensive tackle, or a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver, or a running back or a linebacker those

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Speaker 1: inside linebacker. I don't know who they're gonna pick. I

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Speaker 1: just hope he's the right guy and can contribute. So

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Speaker 1: eight o'clock tonight, popcorn popping at the Tasker household. They're

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Speaker 1: all gonna gather around the television and watch the NFL schedule.

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Speaker 1: What I probably will not watch that. As riveting as

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Speaker 1: that is probably gonna be, I'm probably just gonna say

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Speaker 1: I just we'll look at it when I get in

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Speaker 1: the offices tomorrow morning. You know, don't tell me what

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Speaker 1: is it. Don't tell me about the labor pain, Show

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Speaker 1: me the baby. That's what you're saying. As far as

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Speaker 1: the schedule, that is such a chauvinistic thing to say.

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Speaker 1: But I would say that one. Yes, he did. So

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Speaker 1: we'll talk about the schedule tomorrow. Good Show tomorrow. Lorenzo

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Speaker 1: a Legando's gonna join us tomorrow, Great Cosal, A little

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Speaker 1: pre drafted analysis with him. Kyle Brandt from the NFL Network,

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Speaker 1: Mike North, who puts together the schedule, all of that

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Speaker 1: on tomorrow show twelve noon. Production assistants George Blastf Colton There,

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Speaker 1: Jeff Colton That, Thomas Hollander, Kelly Rude, jj Teredo, Kevin Gardis,

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Speaker 1: James robell Our, producer Jay Harrisy. Tomorrow at noon One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio