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Speaker 1: to Downside Afternoon Bills fans, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with

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Speaker 1: you for another exciting week of one Bills Live as

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Speaker 1: we talk to you about anything Bills football, anything football related,

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Speaker 1: college football. It's football, It's all the time. We're talking

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Speaker 1: get into all of that with a jam Pack show today,

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Speaker 1: lot of the developments going on with college football. So

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Speaker 1: that should be a very interesting conversation with players in

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Speaker 1: So that'll be a very interesting conversation with him at

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Speaker 1: two o'clock. But at the top of the list today, Steve,

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Speaker 1: Yes we do. You're talking about you, right? Oh? Is

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Speaker 1: that is? Yeah? I think so. Congratulations for those of

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Speaker 1: our close listeners are faithful listeners. Will. Brownie has now

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Speaker 1: been given and I has been promoted to or been

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Speaker 1: You know, we've been moving back and forth. One week

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Speaker 1: I think, uh, Brownie is now going to host the

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be awesome. Congratulations. Yeah, do you know something

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Speaker 1: some guys are more vocal thanother. Some guys, you know,

428
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Speaker 1: lead by with some guys lead this way or the

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Speaker 1: other way. Um. But I think just communicating with the

430
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Speaker 1: guys throughout the off season, and you know, whether it's

431
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Speaker 1: like I said, just continue to have conversation. It might

432
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Speaker 1: not even be about ball. You just might be wondering

433
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Speaker 1: how the other guys doing, just to show them that

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Speaker 1: you care. Because I really think that off the field, Um,

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Speaker 1: that off the field camaraderie leads leads onto the field,

436
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Speaker 1: which is what I said. Virginia was a huge deal

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Speaker 1: for our defense because we were able to go there

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00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:30,359
Speaker 1: connect on the field on a level, you know, on

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Speaker 1: a football level. But then when we were off the field,

440
00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:36,240
Speaker 1: it was more of a personal level of you know,

441
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Speaker 1: meeting you know, seeing people out of eye, meeting each

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00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:41,840
Speaker 1: other out of eye and speaking at a personal level.

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Speaker 1: And so I really think that that carries over onto

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Speaker 1: the field. UM. And you know, like I said, I

445
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Speaker 1: think that we have so many leaders on this team

446
00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:50,960
Speaker 1: that lead in so many different ways. You can't really

447
00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:53,960
Speaker 1: point you know, a specific one or two guys, you know,

448
00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,000
Speaker 1: and that's what's great about this football team. There's guys.

449
00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:01,840
Speaker 1: You see, leaders from all sorts of every position group. UM.

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Speaker 1: And so you know, my job, you know, I just

451
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,880
Speaker 1: want to continue to build guys up, um. And and

452
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Speaker 1: you know hopefully that when you know that they see

453
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Speaker 1: me down one day, that I you know, I can

454
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Speaker 1: trust them to build me up, because that's just what

455
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Speaker 1: you know, that's what a hungry team. What's what a

456
00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,159
Speaker 1: good team does? You know, Guys building each other up,

457
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Speaker 1: guys continued. You know, obviously we're all fighting for the

458
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Speaker 1: same jobs. But at the same time, you know, we're

459
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Speaker 1: all still building each other up, trying to become the

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Speaker 1: best that we can be. Um. You know, this window

461
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:32,320
Speaker 1: of football isn't very long, and and you know, it's

462
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Speaker 1: a race to a championship. And and to me, you know,

463
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Speaker 1: this is this is another year that we can race

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Speaker 1: through championship. So why not why not build that? Why

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Speaker 1: not you know, build that especially during these times. There's

466
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Speaker 1: tough times. Everybody's going through it. So Um and I

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Speaker 1: it's really cool to see and to hear, you know,

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Speaker 1: I said, Sean and Less calling on me to be

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Speaker 1: that guy. Um. You know, I've worked extremely hard to

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Speaker 1: be in this position right here to me talking to

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Speaker 1: you guys right now. So I want to continue to

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Speaker 1: do that and continue to you know, like I said,

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Speaker 1: I'm not the only one. There's so many guys in

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Speaker 1: the slow team that our leaders and that are going

475
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Speaker 1: to lead us to really big names this season in

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Speaker 1: all right. So that's Jordan Poyer, Bill's safety who's on

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Speaker 1: with the Western New York Media as we speak on

478
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Speaker 1: a zoom call doing an interview. As you know, they're

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Speaker 1: trying to make players available to the media in a

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Speaker 1: much different way than we've ever had to before. Due

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Speaker 1: to the COVID restrictions, there really won't be any face

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Speaker 1: to face interviews, Steve between a reporter and a player

483
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Speaker 1: for the foreseeable future. This is all going to have

484
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Speaker 1: to be done virtually to ensure proper social distancing and

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Speaker 1: to keep the number of people the players are exposed

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Speaker 1: to limited. So this is how these interviews are going

487
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Speaker 1: to be taken place for as long as it takes

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Speaker 1: before a vaccine or you know, maybe even an anecdote.

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Speaker 1: Who knows, but that's the way it's going to go.

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Speaker 1: But I think the biggest takeaway here from Jordan. Much

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Speaker 1: like the offensive players organized their own personal workouts in

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Speaker 1: South Florida during the offseason, it sounds like the defense

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00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 1: did the same exact thing in Virginia where they got together.

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Speaker 1: So kudos to them and player's part of that leadership group.

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Speaker 1: He and Micah Hyde and Tremaine Edmonds are some of

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Speaker 1: the foremost leaders on that side of the ball now

497
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Speaker 1: with Lorenzo Alexander and Kyle Williams lost to retirement each

498
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: of the last two years. So good to see that

499
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:29,160
Speaker 1: that side of the ball was doing the same thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: no question that you knew that they would take some

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Speaker 1: time to get together or do something. You know that

502
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Speaker 1: everybody's working out at least, and to have them get

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Speaker 1: together it makes a lot of sense. And as far

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Speaker 1: as you know these interviews. Yeah, we're the only ones

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Speaker 1: that care how the interviews are conducted. Nobody, I mean

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Speaker 1: nobody cares. I mean certainly don't see the guy's face anymore.

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Speaker 1: We're not going to see these guys faces on our

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Speaker 1: newscasts and on our web feeds and all our websites

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Speaker 1: that we visit and Twitter sites that we visit. We're

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Speaker 1: not going to get as much you know, at the

511
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Speaker 1: locker video, you won't have one, right So it's all

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Speaker 1: gonna be voiced. It's all gonna be radio this season.

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00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 1: These guys are gonna be very much off the camera

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00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: in a way that we haven't been four since before

515
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 1: I started playing. You know, thirty year, thirty plus years ago,

516
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,960
Speaker 1: thirty five years ago. You know, he just just doesn't happen.

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Speaker 1: So it's gonna be a different year. But I still

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Speaker 1: think you're gonna get as much media content. If you

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00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:31,920
Speaker 1: want to know about your team, you're gonna be There's

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00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 1: gonna be plenty of places to do it. But it's

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00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 1: gonna be gathered in a completely new way as we're

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Speaker 1: as we're seeing and as much as the players will

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Speaker 1: be adjusting to how things change on the practice field.

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Speaker 1: Our Twitter poll looks a little bit further into the

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Speaker 1: future as we're asking you the biggest way you think

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Speaker 1: the on field product will be different at the start

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Speaker 1: of this season. Could it be a lack of offensive execution,

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Speaker 1: b rash of injuries, see a different broadcast presentation, or

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Speaker 1: d something else. Let us know where you feel the

530
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 1: on field product for the NFL will be most different

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Speaker 1: at the start of the season on September thirteenth. September

532
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: tenth is the kickoff game, but everybody else will be

533
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 1: getting started September thirteenth, including the Bills when they play

534
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Speaker 1: against the Jets. We're gonna step aside and take a break,

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Speaker 1: but when we come back, we're going to hear from

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott and Brandon being both of them spoke with

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Speaker 1: the media over the weekend. Had a lot to say

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Speaker 1: about the adjustments in the building to COVID and the

539
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:38,119
Speaker 1: challenge of evaluating a roster and picking the right fifty

540
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Speaker 1: three players. Well, they haven't even seen half of these

541
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Speaker 1: guys in a helmet until today. That and a whole

542
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Speaker 1: lot more news than notes from the NFL coming up.

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Speaker 1: On the other side, This is one Bill's live presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. Here on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Back on

545
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 1: one Wheels Live, Chris Draft seats Tasker with you as

546
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 1: we motor our way through outur number one of a

547
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: jam pack show we have coming up. At one o'clock,

548
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Speaker 1: Ben Voland from the Boston Globe covers the page gets. Obviously,

549
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 1: we'll be talking to him about the myriad of opt

550
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: outs that that team has had unusually high number in

551
00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,919
Speaker 1: comparison to the rest of the league, and they had

552
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Speaker 1: another one over the weekend with their young tight end

553
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Speaker 1: Matt Lacosse. He opted out over the weekend, So we'll

554
00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,359
Speaker 1: talk to Ben about that, along with some news around

555
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,239
Speaker 1: the league as well as Ben covers the league at

556
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:35,360
Speaker 1: large in addition to the Patriots. And then at two

557
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:40,040
Speaker 1: o'clock Sports Business Journals Michael Smith, who covers the college

558
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: football beat college sports in general, but college football chiefly

559
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:46,919
Speaker 1: with all of the stuff that is coming down. If

560
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Speaker 1: you think the NFL has adjusted to a lot of

561
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: things that are different now amidst COVID, what do you

562
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: see what college football and its Power five conferences are

563
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,920
Speaker 1: trying to do and the players reacting in kind, particularly

564
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Speaker 1: in the PAC twelfth with a letter to the Players

565
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:05,240
Speaker 1: Tribune making a series of demands to their conference, saying

566
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Speaker 1: we won't be coming to practice or doing anything, let

567
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Speaker 1: alone playing games unless you meet these demands. We'll get

568
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Speaker 1: into those in the two o'clock hour with Michael Smith's

569
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 1: some fascinating stuff as it looks like the Power five

570
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,879
Speaker 1: conferences in the NCAA itself maybe heading for a split,

571
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,639
Speaker 1: so interesting developments there on the college football landscape that

572
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,880
Speaker 1: we'll be covering with him. But chief of importance right

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Speaker 1: now is the Twitter poll which we mentioned just before

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Speaker 1: the break. The biggest way you think the on field

575
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,240
Speaker 1: product will be different at the start of this season.

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00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: Lack of offensive execution, a rash of injuries, different broadcast presentation,

577
00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: or something else. So be sure to chime in at

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Speaker 1: one Bill's Live and hit us up on the poll

579
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Speaker 1: and leave a comment for us as well, because we'll

580
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:53,040
Speaker 1: be get into the tweet sheet real soon here. But Steve,

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Speaker 1: as you know, both Sean McDermott and Brandon Bean were

582
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Speaker 1: made available to the media over the weekend on Sunday

583
00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: in back to back zoom calls, and I was on

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Speaker 1: those live along with the rest of the media, and

585
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,200
Speaker 1: we were asking them a whole host of different things,

586
00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: but I'm sure you're not surprised to know that the

587
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: main focus was how they are adjusting on site in

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Speaker 1: the building to all of these COVID restrictions as the

589
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Speaker 1: players are now returning. And I have to give them credit.

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Speaker 1: They've done a heck of a job in the building,

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Speaker 1: having been in there myself, and they have commended the

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Speaker 1: infection control response team in the building forgetting everything buttoned

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Speaker 1: up to the letter, because as you know, it's a

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Speaker 1: laundry list of protocols that they have to adhere to

595
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 1: and police even after they get them up and run it. Yeah,

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00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: it's it's an unbelievable job they've done. I mean, the

597
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 1: entire building has been outfitted, it's been set up so

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Speaker 1: that guys have few contact points. If there are contact points,

599
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:07,640
Speaker 1: those points are you know, routinely sanitized so that if

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Speaker 1: they do get one guy who makes it into the

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Speaker 1: building without symptoms but test positive, they can eject him

602
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Speaker 1: without getting him into contact with anybody else. All the

603
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 1: players are six feet apart all the time in the building,

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00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 1: and all of that stuff is in place. And we've

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00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:23,680
Speaker 1: said this from the get go to Brownie I don't

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Speaker 1: inside the building. I don't worry about these guys. Really yeah,

607
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 1: it's what they do outside the building, and that's where

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00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: the rubber is going to meet the road. As far

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Speaker 1: as the success of this NFL season, right and coach

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Speaker 1: McDermott and Brandon Being both addressed that as well in

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Speaker 1: the comments that they made in their press availability, both

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Speaker 1: of them saying that the internal players driven leadership combined,

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Speaker 1: and Brandon Being was saying coach McDermott has been great

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Speaker 1: at the from the outset in pushing the messaging to

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Speaker 1: his players and his coaches for that matter, that everyone

616
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 1: has to be selfless. No one can be selfish here

617
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: and make a selfish decision when you're away from the facility,

618
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: like don't say, well, I'd really like to get a

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Speaker 1: meal out in a restaurant, you know, not that you

620
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: can really eat inside restaurants all that much around here anyway,

621
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: but you know, contactless delivery of food, you know, don't

622
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: take a handoff, have the guy leave it at the door,

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Speaker 1: pick it up after he's gone, and certainly a lot

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Speaker 1: more than six feet away from you. Because even though

625
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: the infection rate is so low in this state right now,

626
00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:36,640
Speaker 1: all it takes is one and then you have a

627
00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 1: whole host of issues after that, especially if you're bringing

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00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: that into the building. So that's been the messaging. And

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Speaker 1: I know Brandon Bean was given coach McDermott a huge

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Speaker 1: amount of kudos because first team meeting with the entire

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Speaker 1: roster happened over the weekend, and coach McDermott, even though

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Speaker 1: he was on a zoom call with all of his players,

633
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 1: you know, not standing directly in front of them, he

634
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: had a mask on the entire time, even though he

635
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,959
Speaker 1: was talking to them on a zoom call. And Brandon

636
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 1: Bean said, that's just an example of coach McDermott demonstrating

637
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 1: how serious this is and how much they have to

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00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 1: adhere to all the protocols to ensure that they can

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00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: keep playing football with as many of their players as possible.

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Speaker 1: Is it going to be one hundred percent, Probably not,

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Speaker 1: But if they can be ninety eight, they're probably going

642
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Speaker 1: to be a lot further ahead than probably thirty one

643
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,320
Speaker 1: other teams in the league. Yeah, and there's no question

644
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:39,959
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna have a trickle down effect when you

645
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: see and let's face it, the NFL is full of

646
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: head coaches who are really great leaders. Sean McDermott's one

647
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: of them, Bill Belichick, Mike Tomlin. You can go down

648
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: the list. These guys know how to motivate guys. John Harball,

649
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,480
Speaker 1: They know what affects the mind of these guys. Coach

650
00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:01,800
Speaker 1: wearing a mask on a zoom meeting. Players aren't going

651
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: to forget that when they leave. They're gonna listening. I

652
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: know he's he's he didn't have to. He did it anyway.

653
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 1: It's harder to wear a mask. We all know what

654
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: it is, and he still did it to show up.

655
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm jumping on board with that. That's that's what

656
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 1: leadership is, and that's you know, this league is full

657
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: of guys like that, not just the coaching level obviously,

658
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 1: but players as well as we've seen. So it does

659
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: give you some hope that guys will latch onto it,

660
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: and I know a ton of them will. A ton

661
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:35,400
Speaker 1: of them will. And the way that they have run

662
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: and structured their building and their culture respectively kind of

663
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 1: set you up to think, Yeah, they've got enough guys

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Speaker 1: in there that are gonna do it this way. They're

665
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Speaker 1: gonna take it to heart. But it's a big roster,

666
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Speaker 1: and there are a lot of guys whom you signed late. Um,

667
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: you know, we picked up two guys over the weekend

668
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: as a response to E. J. Gaines opt out. We

669
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 1: picked up another corner king from Seattle who's played in

670
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Speaker 1: twenty seven you know, NFL games. So you've got these

671
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: guys coming in and whether or not they have the

672
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 1: right DNA is one of the things you have to

673
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Speaker 1: find out when they get here, and if they don't,

674
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:14,640
Speaker 1: one of the things that about them that speaks to

675
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: the fact that they're are at the right DNA is

676
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: not mining their p's and ques when they're away from

677
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 1: the building. So it's it's all you know, you're at

678
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: the mercy of the guy next to you and his

679
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: discipline when he's outside the building, and it's it's not

680
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: going to go away. But it's a great move by

681
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott going the extra mile wearing a mask on

682
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Speaker 1: a zoom meeting too. Point. Yeah, to illustrate how serious

683
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,600
Speaker 1: you gotta take it. Yeah. The roster currently sits at

684
00:34:43,640 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: eighty one, counting international player Christian Wade, so they are

685
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Speaker 1: at the required eighty and that's due mainly because of

686
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Speaker 1: the players that are on the COVID list, which is

687
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 1: technically an IR designation, so they're at the number they

688
00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:00,800
Speaker 1: need to be right now. Now. As those COVID players

689
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 1: come off the list and recover, you know they'll have

690
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 1: to make some roster adjustments. But there are several challenges

691
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Speaker 1: with roster juggling that GM Brandon, being in his personnel department,

692
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Speaker 1: are going to have to deal with. And it was

693
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Speaker 1: just one of the things that Buffalo's general manager addressed

694
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Speaker 1: in his Zoom call on Sunday. So let's listen in

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Speaker 1: to what Brandon said about the challenges with roster juggling.

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Speaker 1: When you just talk about preseason games usually you know

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Speaker 1: those are those are four benchmarks through the course of

698
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Speaker 1: the of the off seat of the preseason where we

699
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 1: can get a real, real strong evaluation of well. Even

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Speaker 1: last night, we were meeting as coaches to put our

701
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: collective heads together to come up with a good plan

702
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 1: for today and making sure we're making the most of

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Speaker 1: each and every opportunity that we have with the players.

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Speaker 1: That's a challenge I've never been around either. It's like

705
00:35:54,239 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: every every day there's a new challenge. And obviously, when

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Speaker 1: those games got canceled, Josh, that's frustrating for me. I

707
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: know it's frustrating for some of our players. I talked

708
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Speaker 1: to a few of them that looking for that chance

709
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: to prove their worth to either make this roster or

710
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 1: to you know, to win a starting spot, you know,

711
00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: or a special team spot, whatever it is. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: Sean and I've talked about it, and I think Sean's

713
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 1: got some great ideas of we got to come up

714
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: with various ways to create competition and um some situations

715
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Speaker 1: in games, high high impact, high pressure moments the best

716
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,400
Speaker 1: week and make them here. You know. Now we're not

717
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: in Pad yet or anything like that. We're still you know,

718
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: all over two weeks away. But as we get closer

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Speaker 1: to that first game, we are going to have to

720
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: try and you know, and when we have to cut

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Speaker 1: this roster down, we're gonna have to come up with

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00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: as many ways to simulate preseason games. Yeah, that's Sean

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Speaker 1: McDermott and Brandon being talking about the challenge of not

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Speaker 1: having a preseason and the impact that has on their

725
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Speaker 1: evaluation process. We actually have a story that I put

726
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Speaker 1: together over the weekend on that very topic. How Sean

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00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: McDermott and Brandon Bean are kind of resetting their process

728
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Speaker 1: of properly evaluating this roster and all the talent on

729
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:15,800
Speaker 1: it to get to the fifty three that they want,

730
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 1: even though the amount of time they're gonna see these

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Speaker 1: guys actually play football in a realistic game like setting

732
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: is going to be severely limited in this run up

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Speaker 1: to the regular season. Steve, how did those comments from

734
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: those two guys grab you? Because you know you don't

735
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: have four games to go off of now, and you've

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Speaker 1: got some hardcore competitions. A perfect example is the is

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Speaker 1: the kicker and punter battle? Steve, You've got Stephen Hausky

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Speaker 1: against Tyler Bass. How is Tyler Bass going to show

739
00:37:44,840 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: you he's a clutch kicker. They're gonna have to create

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00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,000
Speaker 1: these kind of game situations. Brandon Bean even said, we

741
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: may have to create a practice situation where we tell

742
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Speaker 1: Bass as he's lining up for a fifty two yarder

743
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 1: in practice, hey, if you hit this, we've got no

744
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: pads for practice tomorrow for the rest of the guys.

745
00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,439
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the only way you can really set

746
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Speaker 1: up some kind of pressure to see what you got

747
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: in the kid. You know there, you've got a fewer

748
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: game like opportunities. You've got to conjure up different ways

749
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: to have some things dependent on the kid like and

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00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,399
Speaker 1: that's that's I've seen it done on a ton of ways,

751
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: like you said, like the whole team gets rewarded or

752
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 1: penalized depending on how he does on this kick. I've

753
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:25,239
Speaker 1: also seen it that, you know, most kickers, they go

754
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: off on the other side of the you know field,

755
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 1: and they kick, and they run onto the field and

756
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:31,640
Speaker 1: everybody else is getting a drink of water and they're

757
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 1: milling around, and they know, they run through the operation

758
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,439
Speaker 1: with the field goal, field goal defense, maybe even unit,

759
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 1: or you know, they just walk through it. They run

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00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,320
Speaker 1: the guy on there, he kicks a couple of times,

761
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,240
Speaker 1: they move around, moving back five yards, move the other hash,

762
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: and they just run through a bunch of these. I've

763
00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 1: also seen a coach take that and when he has

764
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 1: the kicker come out to kick, the entire team stands

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00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 1: just out of his just out of his way. I mean,

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00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: everybody's huddle around him as he kicks, and they're all

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00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: watching him in dead silence. So he's he's making kicks

768
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 1: with the entire squad standing on his back almost right

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Speaker 1: So there he knows everybody's watching him and literally they

770
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 1: are literally breathing down his neck, and so stuff like

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00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 1: that you conjure up to give these guys get him

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Speaker 1: into the mental point of where this kick means something

773
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:29,840
Speaker 1: I can impress some people with this kick, or I

774
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: can you know, this kick is a make or break

775
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 1: kind of kick. So they conjure that up anyway that

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00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: they can. But nevertheless, the mechanics of saying, listen, the

777
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,600
Speaker 1: clock's running, it's on fifteen seconds, you gotta get a

778
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:43,880
Speaker 1: kickoff before it runs out. Let's go and running you

779
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: and all your guys out there, getting your mark backing

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00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,319
Speaker 1: up and not worrying about anybody else and just going

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00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 1: through with a kick. You know, all that stuff. You know,

782
00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:52,719
Speaker 1: just you can run through it in practice. But like

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00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,240
Speaker 1: I said, you know it's practice. You know, in a game,

784
00:39:55,280 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: it's different. So it is gonna be You're right, the

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00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:06,680
Speaker 1: evaluation and the snaps and reps and situations that Sean

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00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 1: McDermott and his staff are going to have to evaluate

787
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 1: these players is going to be a fraction of what

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Speaker 1: it normally would be a fraction, and you're it just

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00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 1: means everything that you do get to see means all

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00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: that much more. Yeah, no question about it. And they've

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00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: got to do more with less. They got to do

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00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: their usual bang up job of evaluation with a lot

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00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 1: less information to go off of. That is the challenge,

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00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: and they just got to do their level best with

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00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 1: the information they have at their disposal. Maybe they're pouring

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Speaker 1: over practice tape for an extra couple of hours, you know,

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Speaker 1: whatever the case might be, they've got to find a

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Speaker 1: way to make it work, you know, coach McDermott said,

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Speaker 1: find a way. Well, it's just as much on the

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Speaker 1: coaches and the personnel department as it is on the players.

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Speaker 1: Find a way to get the job that you usually

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00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 1: get done every year this time of year, done with

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Speaker 1: a lot less information to go on. Eight oh three

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

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Speaker 1: If you want to call and join us on the

806
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Speaker 1: show here as our Twitter poll today, is the biggest

807
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 1: way you think the on field NFL product will be

808
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 1: different at the start of this season. Will it be

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00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,399
Speaker 1: lack of offensive execution because of lack of practice time

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00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: through the off season, a rash of injuries due to

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Speaker 1: the long layoff, a different broadcast presentation, or something else,

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Speaker 1: we'll see where you guys are weighing in early on that.

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Speaker 1: When we come back on the other side, Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you. It's one Bill's Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back

816
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 1: to Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you as

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Speaker 1: we motor home in this first hour of the program.

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Speaker 1: We're with you till three pm. Coming up at one o'clock,

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Speaker 1: we'll be Ben Volan from the Boston Globe. We'll talk

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00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: to him about the Patriots, which he covers on a

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Speaker 1: regular basis for the Boston Globe, and we'll also talk

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Speaker 1: to him about some of the topics of the NFL,

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Speaker 1: including the opt outs, with the Patriots having a higher

824
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Speaker 1: percentage than just about anybody else in the league. But

825
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 1: more names keep trickling out. Denver right tackle Juwan James

826
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: has reportedly just opted out of the season for the Broncos.

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Speaker 1: We also saw a second year outside linebacker for the Panthers,

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Speaker 1: Christian Miller, opt out. He was a high risk candidate,

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Speaker 1: so an easy decision for him there, or at least

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00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: an easier decision. So we'll talk to Ben about that

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Speaker 1: and a whole lot more going on around the league

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Speaker 1: amidst all these COVID protocols and restrictions at the top

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Speaker 1: of the hour, but we did want to get to

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet with our Twitter poll today, which is

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Speaker 1: what is the biggest way the NFL's on field product

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00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: will be different at the start of this season. Will

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Speaker 1: there be lack of offensive execution, a rash of injuries,

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00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 1: a change in the broadcast presentation, or something else and

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00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: relatively balanced to this point, Steve rash of injuries right

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00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: now leading the way at thirty six point seven percent,

841
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: lack of offense execution at almost thirty percent, a different

842
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:07,440
Speaker 1: broadcast presentation at about twenty percent, and thirteen percent of

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00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: the vote going to something else. So I think the

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Speaker 1: reason people are predicting rash of injuries is because that's

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Speaker 1: some of what we saw after the lockout in two eleven.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe I'm just speculating, but people tend

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Speaker 1: to go with what they know sometimes, and they know

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00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 1: there was an increase in the number of injuries after

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Speaker 1: that twenty eleven lockout where there was no offseason work either. Yeah,

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00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: but I think that's something that people kind of live

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00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 1: with with football it is, you know, it is still

852
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 1: the game they and they know that footballs are more

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00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 1: normal thing. I don't think that's out of the ordinary

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00:43:39,440 --> 00:43:41,440
Speaker 1: when you see guys go down, or particularly when you

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Speaker 1: hear about guys getting injured in practice, which is kind

856
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 1: of what the deal was in twenty eleven. We get

857
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,479
Speaker 1: one from Kyle from the tweet sheet. He says, other

858
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: with all the opt outs on certain teams and no preseason,

859
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: the lack of chemistry for some guys on both sides

860
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: of the ball would be different. Maybe it will lead

861
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:01,799
Speaker 1: for higher scoring games everywhere. I know you're kind of

862
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:03,879
Speaker 1: a different opinion, Steve. I mean, you kind of think

863
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: the defense has a better chance to dominate here. Right

864
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 1: right on offense, everybody's got to do the right thing

865
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 1: if some you know, everybody's got to be on the

866
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 1: same page. Offensively, it's more choreograph defense. If one guy

867
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 1: makes a play, it doesn't matter if everybody else falls down.

868
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:20,680
Speaker 1: So defenders can get away with it because it's read

869
00:44:20,719 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 1: and react, And if the more aggressive they are, the

870
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: more they can take advantage of any hesitation on the offense.

871
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,920
Speaker 1: And you know guys are going to be not quite

872
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 1: as second nature running their offense that they have been

873
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 1: in years past, So I think the defenses will be

874
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 1: way ahead of the offense is to begin with in

875
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 1: these in these early regular season games from Bills and

876
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 1: Mets fan, no fans in the stands is going to

877
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,760
Speaker 1: be so strange. Sports and fans go together like peanut

878
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,959
Speaker 1: butter and jelly. I can't wait to watch our Bills play,

879
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,279
Speaker 1: but I'd rather be there in person. Yeah, well, you're

880
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: not alone there, Bills a Mets fan for sure, And

881
00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: the broadcast presentation will be different because you're gonna see

882
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: the fact that there are no fans in the stands.

883
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: You're gonna see tarps with advertising and signage on them

884
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: instead of people jumping up and down or swinging a

885
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:09,280
Speaker 1: shirt over their head with no shirt on a twenty

886
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 1: degree weather. So you might see the broadcasters back in,

887
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:14,799
Speaker 1: you may never see them. They may be in a

888
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:18,600
Speaker 1: studio in New York or even in their own house.

889
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:22,080
Speaker 1: They may just hang out and not go to the

890
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:25,839
Speaker 1: game physically, So you may not get that pregame on

891
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: camera where you get to see Tony Romo and Jim

892
00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 1: Nance or Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. You don't ever

893
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 1: see those guys, they'll just be voices and the game

894
00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 1: will go on. They'll be doing it from different locations.

895
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,320
Speaker 1: All that's going to look different. Yeah, no question about,

896
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,840
Speaker 1: it might look different. And also from the tweet sheet

897
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 1: from you want to go ahead? Go ahead from Jack,

898
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:48,480
Speaker 1: this is a tough one. He says, it will look

899
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 1: it will all look different. But I'm going with execution

900
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 1: on offense. Every year we hear in camp the offenses

901
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: behind the defense. With no preseason games, offenses will have

902
00:45:57,719 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: much less time to do installs and work out the kinks.

903
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,600
Speaker 1: To expect a lot of sloppy play in September. I

904
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 1: think he's right. I think that goes right down right

905
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 1: in their hip pockets there. Right, It's it's right down

906
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: the road of logic and reason, and I've seen it

907
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,880
Speaker 1: a gazillion times. It never fails. A first couple of

908
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: days of padded practice, the offense can't get it and

909
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,680
Speaker 1: can't even make a yard. I mean, they just they

910
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:23,320
Speaker 1: stink because it's just so difficult to get it right. Yeah,

911
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 1: So keep chi chiming in on the tweet sheet. We'll

912
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:28,760
Speaker 1: be happy to read your comments on how you think

913
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,040
Speaker 1: or what you think the biggest way the NFL's on

914
00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:33,800
Speaker 1: field product will be different at the start of this season,

915
00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: whether it's lack of offensive execution or rash of injuries,

916
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,839
Speaker 1: or a change in the broadcast presentation or something else.

917
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 1: So feel free to comment on the tweet sheet or

918
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:45,319
Speaker 1: even call us up if you want. Eighth three five

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Speaker 1: fifty fifty two five fifty. We're gonna step aside here,

920
00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 1: but coming up on the other side at the top

921
00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 1: of the hour, Ben Volan from the Boston Globe Patriots

922
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 1: beat reporter and an NFL reporter at large. We'll be

923
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 1: discussing the opt outs with him, including new ones across

924
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 1: the league, and some of the other interesting news and notes,

925
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 1: including how football might be reacting to what's going on

926
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,400
Speaker 1: with baseball right now with a couple of outbreaks in

927
00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: that league over the last week. So we'll be talking

928
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 1: with Ben Bolan on the other side. But for now,

929
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Speaker 1: this is One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health here

930
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:28,800
Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bills Radio, Oh Green time, I'll watch Steve

931
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: lasper Us down us down to donno time. Welcome back

932
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:51,400
Speaker 1: our number two of one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve

933
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:54,839
Speaker 1: Tasker with you as we get started here on our

934
00:47:54,960 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 1: number two of the program and as promised, joining us

935
00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:00,239
Speaker 1: on the show right now, nice enough to do so

936
00:48:00,320 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: and lend us some of his time. Boston Globes national

937
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:05,759
Speaker 1: NFL reporter who's covered the NFL on the Patriots for

938
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 1: the Globes since twenty thirteen. You can follow him at

939
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:11,840
Speaker 1: Ben voland on Twitter. V O L I N it

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00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: has one Ben voland Ben thanks for joining us here

941
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:17,840
Speaker 1: on the program. Appreciate your time, Thanks for having me.

942
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 1: I hope you guys are doing okay and having this

943
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:23,399
Speaker 1: summer we are, and hope you and your family are

944
00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: healthy as well. You know, during this crazy time that

945
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 1: we're all living through, it's got to feel I'm just

946
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: trying to put myself in the shoes of the Patriots fan.

947
00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: They've they've enjoyed an unprecedented two decades of tremendous success.

948
00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:44,319
Speaker 1: But first Tom Brady leaves and even though they get

949
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,840
Speaker 1: Cam Newton back in the fold, here these opt outs,

950
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:50,239
Speaker 1: how have they gripped the fan base there in New

951
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 1: England Because it's an it's an unusually high percentage compared

952
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 1: to the other teams in the league. No question, the

953
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:01,880
Speaker 1: fans have become really I guess the word would be

954
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 1: despondent at about the face of the Patriots right now.

955
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:09,839
Speaker 1: With High Tower and Patrick Chung both opting out, and

956
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:13,759
Speaker 1: right tackle Marcus Cannon as well. Eight players so far

957
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 1: have opted out. That's about one fifth of the league's

958
00:49:16,880 --> 00:49:19,719
Speaker 1: total just come from the Patriots. Many of those guys

959
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 1: are kind of backups from special teams guys and roster

960
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:25,800
Speaker 1: bubble guys, so it's not like they lost eight starters,

961
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,360
Speaker 1: but don't they Hyge Tower and Patrick Chung are arguably,

962
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: if not these biggest names who have opted out, certainly

963
00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 1: two of the biggest names to out down in the

964
00:49:34,760 --> 00:49:37,279
Speaker 1: NFL so far. And you hang on top of what

965
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 1: the Patriots lost in free agency, I mean they've lost

966
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:44,240
Speaker 1: all three of their starting linebackers from last year. Jamie

967
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:47,280
Speaker 1: Collins left in free agency, Calivan Nooi went to Miami

968
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 1: and that done. High Tower opting out, and two of

969
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:53,280
Speaker 1: their three safeties, Patrick Chung opts out and they traded

970
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:55,399
Speaker 1: away to Ron Harmon. So they were the number one

971
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,719
Speaker 1: defense in the NFL last year, and a lot of

972
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,879
Speaker 1: people were thinking that the offense was gonna hopefully kind

973
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:03,799
Speaker 1: of carry the Patriots again this year. As I figure

974
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 1: out if Cam Newton's the quarterback, or maybe Jared's did him,

975
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:08,400
Speaker 1: maybe the offense is gonna be a little bit of

976
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: a work in progress, but major transition year in Fox

977
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: for a no question about it. They have significant roster

978
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:19,840
Speaker 1: holes in the first team is six six weeks away,

979
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 1: and they need a right tackle and a couple of

980
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:25,399
Speaker 1: linebackers and a safety. So Belichick has his work cut

981
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: out for him. There was definitely a lot of excitement

982
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 1: when Cam Newton came aboard, but these opt outs have

983
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 1: certainly gold that optimism, and there's also the thought that

984
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:37,680
Speaker 1: there could be more coming. I still think Kevin mccordy

985
00:50:37,719 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 1: is gonna be on the fence maybe if he opts out.

986
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: Jason mccordy, his brother, also opts out. There are other

987
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 1: players that we probably have no idea what's going on

988
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:48,920
Speaker 1: behind the scene. So it's eight guys so far that

989
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 1: have opted out for the Patriots, and there probably will

990
00:50:51,239 --> 00:50:55,360
Speaker 1: be more. Is there any generalization you can make between

991
00:50:55,360 --> 00:50:57,759
Speaker 1: the I know everybody's story is different, but is there

992
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 1: any generalization that you can make why the Patriots would

993
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:06,399
Speaker 1: have so many guys opt out? Um, you know, it's

994
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: a lot of guys, as you mentioned have their own

995
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:12,080
Speaker 1: personal situation and a lot several of them are had

996
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:15,160
Speaker 1: to do his family and having children, like Patrick Chung

997
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,359
Speaker 1: has a baby coming aboard during the season. Same with

998
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,760
Speaker 1: Matt Lacosse, who's a tight end who opted out yesterday.

999
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: Stay Hi Tower has a baby who's now three weeks old.

1000
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: So for those guys, I think, you know, they at

1001
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:32,320
Speaker 1: the same time, they've played a long careers already, They've

1002
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 1: made their impact on the Super Bowl, made their money.

1003
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:38,440
Speaker 1: I think that because maybe the Patriots do have a

1004
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 1: more veteran team, they do have more thoughtful guys and

1005
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:45,640
Speaker 1: guys who have more reason to think about beyond football

1006
00:51:45,680 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: and just focusing on their career right now. So, um,

1007
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:52,120
Speaker 1: but like Marcus Cannon, U is a cancer survivor, So

1008
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:55,319
Speaker 1: I think people maybe sold that one coming. Um, you

1009
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 1: know why why some of the other guys opted out,

1010
00:51:58,080 --> 00:51:59,919
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure again they're you know, a guy

1011
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 1: like Marquis Lee is a wide receiver on a minimum

1012
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:06,399
Speaker 1: contract fighting for a roster spot. I could absolutely see

1013
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:08,880
Speaker 1: why he would just you know, feel that it's not

1014
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:10,839
Speaker 1: worth it right now. So I definitely don't think there's

1015
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:14,680
Speaker 1: a common print other than guys just realized thing that's

1016
00:52:14,719 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: more likely the football and that you know, it's just

1017
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 1: not worth it for them this year. We're talking to

1018
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:23,640
Speaker 1: Ben Vollen from the Boston Globe, NFL and Patriots Reporter

1019
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: for that five publication. Ben, you know, on a league

1020
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: wide scale, and I know the mccordys have been vocal

1021
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 1: about this in terms of the date potentially getting moved up.

1022
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 1: Both sides have not signed off on, you know, the

1023
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:46,359
Speaker 1: opt out deadline, and I think the mccordys essentially is

1024
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 1: insinuated that the league's owners are concerned about more players

1025
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:52,799
Speaker 1: opting out, so they may move the deadline up to

1026
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:56,319
Speaker 1: the middle of this week to choose to opt out

1027
00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:59,319
Speaker 1: or not. So do you first, I guess, do you

1028
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:02,880
Speaker 1: where do you see it landing maybe based on some

1029
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 1: of the people you've talked to around the league in

1030
00:53:05,239 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 1: terms of where they opt out lands by way of

1031
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: a deadline. And then second, do you see a mad

1032
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 1: rush to more opt outs once that thing's finalized? Yes see,

1033
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:20,840
Speaker 1: I think that is what kind of an interesting aspect

1034
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:23,360
Speaker 1: right now is forty plus guys have opted out and

1035
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:27,880
Speaker 1: the agreement isn't even finalized. It's I'm kind of amazed

1036
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 1: they opened training camps and they announced this deal. It

1037
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:33,120
Speaker 1: was almost ten days ago at this point. The two

1038
00:53:33,160 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 1: sides struck a deal, but there were still several items

1039
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:38,320
Speaker 1: that they left open, one of which was the opt

1040
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 1: out and many details of the opt out and what

1041
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:43,319
Speaker 1: Devin mccarrey is talking about the deadline, I think it's

1042
00:53:43,320 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 1: just one aspect of this multilayered negotiations still going on

1043
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 1: between the owners and the players about you know, like,

1044
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:55,160
Speaker 1: like to me, a big issue that they're still working out.

1045
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:58,200
Speaker 1: What happens if there's a Marling situation and one team

1046
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:00,720
Speaker 1: gets the big outbreak, Well, the NFL just canceled games.

1047
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:04,000
Speaker 1: Well they're still negotiating that right now. If the owners

1048
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:06,000
Speaker 1: get nervous and they shut down to see them for

1049
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: a week one, I believe they're still negotiating that right now.

1050
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 1: So the opt out, initially it's supposed to be seven

1051
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:16,440
Speaker 1: days after when the agreement is finally finalized. When I

1052
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:18,279
Speaker 1: think the NFL wants to do is make it three

1053
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 1: or four days after that instead of seventies. So, you know,

1054
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:24,920
Speaker 1: the agreements not finally yet, so it's gonna be probably

1055
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 1: probably forties or whatever, you know, right now. I guess

1056
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:30,960
Speaker 1: that earliest would be Thursday or Friday for guys to

1057
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:33,359
Speaker 1: opt out, And I do think you'll see more guys

1058
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 1: do it because they just want to see the language,

1059
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 1: the language of it. They want to see what exactly

1060
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 1: at all entailed before deciding whether to play football or not.

1061
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: This year, so forty guys have already decided to opt

1062
00:54:43,960 --> 00:54:47,400
Speaker 1: out without even knowing fully what the details are, and

1063
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 1: I think several more will be happening once the deal

1064
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:58,120
Speaker 1: is finally finalized. Steve, Yeah, I mute there, sir, Oh,

1065
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Speaker 1: Steve's disconnected. They hold on all right, So Ben. The

1066
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Speaker 1: other aspect that I wanted to discuss with you was

1067
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Speaker 1: what you already touched on there, the Marlins situation. We

1068
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:10,760
Speaker 1: know the positives that we saw with the Saint Louis Cardinals.

1069
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:14,200
Speaker 1: They were awaiting further test results today to determine whether

1070
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:17,359
Speaker 1: or not they can continue and go to Detroit and

1071
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:20,520
Speaker 1: play the Tigers in their upcoming four game series up there.

1072
00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:24,280
Speaker 1: How do you think, I mean, you have to believe

1073
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:28,120
Speaker 1: that the NFL as a whole is keeping a watchful

1074
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:30,920
Speaker 1: eye on how things unfold with Major League Baseball. How

1075
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:35,240
Speaker 1: much do you anticipate that impacting where they come down

1076
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:39,040
Speaker 1: in finalizing the language of some of what still has

1077
00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 1: to be settled with their agreeing with the players union,

1078
00:55:42,440 --> 00:55:44,799
Speaker 1: no question. I think a worst case scenario for the

1079
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:47,880
Speaker 1: NFL is having a Marlins type situation where a team gets,

1080
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:50,800
Speaker 1: you know, ten positives on the Saturday or Sunday of

1081
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:53,520
Speaker 1: the game, and what are we going to do? Unlike

1082
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, though, I feel like the NFL is

1083
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 1: going to have a large reserve of players. The practice

1084
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 1: squad is going to be sixteen, I R is gonna

1085
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:03,920
Speaker 1: be unlimited guys can bring back. So I think they

1086
00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:07,800
Speaker 1: just happy to negotiate as much roster flexibility as possible

1087
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 1: because you're gonna have seventy plus guys in the building,

1088
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:14,920
Speaker 1: and you know, but certainly you're gonna have to account

1089
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:18,719
Speaker 1: also what happens if all three of your quarterbacks get it.

1090
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:21,719
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, if one position has hit hard.

1091
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:24,759
Speaker 1: You're talking about like health and safety issues too, because

1092
00:56:24,760 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 1: you're talking about guys who aren't ready to play football

1093
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 1: getting thrown in there and having to face whatever, and

1094
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 1: poor poor play usually leads to injuries, so that can

1095
00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:35,959
Speaker 1: lead to a health and safety thing. So they're gonna

1096
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:39,240
Speaker 1: have to you know, and I think canceling or postponing,

1097
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,000
Speaker 1: or moving a game to the worst case of the area.

1098
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:44,640
Speaker 1: But they have to consider it. Just given the circumstances

1099
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: of this year. I wonder if they'll consider neutral site games,

1100
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:52,440
Speaker 1: maybe not during the week, sending teams, you know, allowing

1101
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 1: teams to stay home, but at least playing games in

1102
00:56:54,960 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 1: areas that don't have that aren't high risk, like taking

1103
00:56:57,160 --> 00:56:59,160
Speaker 1: teams out of Florida and having to play games in

1104
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:02,799
Speaker 1: the Northeast where the virus is doing better than in

1105
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:05,279
Speaker 1: other parts of the country. They just have to come

1106
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:09,000
Speaker 1: up with a lot of contingencies because you know, this

1107
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:13,120
Speaker 1: is such an unusual a situation for everyone, and if

1108
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:15,440
Speaker 1: they're serious about it getting in their football, they have

1109
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 1: to plan and prepare for situations that they never had

1110
00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:23,480
Speaker 1: to deal with before. Ben, how nimble do you think

1111
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:26,000
Speaker 1: the NFL can actually be when it comes to adjusting

1112
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:30,080
Speaker 1: the schedule, delaying games, canceling games, changing the schedule, changing

1113
00:57:30,080 --> 00:57:35,160
Speaker 1: the playoff format, you know, shifting by weeks, pushing the

1114
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:38,080
Speaker 1: Super Bowl back three weeks, all this kind of stuff

1115
00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 1: that seems on the table. How nimble can the league

1116
00:57:40,480 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 1: actually be? Yeah, it's difficult because you cancel one game

1117
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:46,480
Speaker 1: and it's got that big ripple effect. You can't just

1118
00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:50,320
Speaker 1: like move games around. So no question, it's difficult, and

1119
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:52,880
Speaker 1: I think it's the worst case scenario to postpone the game,

1120
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 1: which is why I think they need to do whatever

1121
00:57:54,880 --> 00:57:57,320
Speaker 1: they can to sell as much flexibility into the roster

1122
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:00,200
Speaker 1: to ensure that teams can just call this guy eyes

1123
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:02,200
Speaker 1: or filled positions, or do what they need to do

1124
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:05,760
Speaker 1: to have forty six or forty eight guys just to

1125
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: play the game. I mean three hours, like just play

1126
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:10,760
Speaker 1: the game, get it done with and crossing off the

1127
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 1: schedule and move on and you know, kind of worry

1128
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:17,080
Speaker 1: about the outbreak containing it later, I guess. But you know,

1129
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 1: to me, they they have to do flexibility. But you're right,

1130
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough on a Saturday that just snap

1131
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:26,760
Speaker 1: your fingers and move a game probably not possible. Um,

1132
00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: so I think they have to. It's really about just

1133
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:33,400
Speaker 1: building the flexibility into roster will to make sure that

1134
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:37,120
Speaker 1: doesn't have to come to that. Talking with Ben Voland

1135
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 1: from the Boston Globe, NFL and Patriots reporter for them,

1136
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:44,640
Speaker 1: and I understand that Coach Belichick met with the media

1137
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:48,920
Speaker 1: over the weekend and he was asked, probably extensively about

1138
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 1: the quarterback situation, knowing Cam Newton's now on the roster

1139
00:58:51,800 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 1: along with Jared Stidham, Um, can you just kind of

1140
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:59,200
Speaker 1: fill us in on the ground he covered and if

1141
00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 1: he was if he was revealing anything, because we know

1142
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 1: how close to the vest. Well, I don't have to

1143
00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:07,120
Speaker 1: tell you how close to the vest he plays it,

1144
00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:11,560
Speaker 1: but where he kind of came down on the quarterback situation.

1145
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:15,840
Speaker 1: Four Now you'll be shocked to hear that he did

1146
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:19,400
Speaker 1: not hand Cam Newton the starting job. It is a

1147
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 1: you know, why whine open competition. You know, they haven't

1148
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:26,120
Speaker 1: even really bet Can Newton yet, even he's been in

1149
00:59:26,120 --> 00:59:28,960
Speaker 1: the building for testing a little bit, but they haven't

1150
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:31,920
Speaker 1: worked with him yet. Cam Newton just been throwing with

1151
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:35,120
Speaker 1: receivers on his own that you know play places around

1152
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 1: the country and here in Boston. So it's definitely gonna

1153
00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:40,680
Speaker 1: be a competition, and it will be cost for Ken

1154
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:44,080
Speaker 1: Newton in the sense that there's only like three weeks

1155
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:47,360
Speaker 1: of practice and no preseason games that he's coming in

1156
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:50,600
Speaker 1: fresh with not really knowing the playbook and knowing the

1157
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:54,200
Speaker 1: teammates so well. But I think if he's healthy, he's

1158
00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:56,560
Speaker 1: the quarterback. I mean, I think he's physically much more

1159
00:59:56,640 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 1: talented in Jared Stidham. Is U. Stidham might know the

1160
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 1: playbook well, but you know he was a fourth round

1161
01:00:03,720 --> 01:00:06,960
Speaker 1: pick fool reason, and fourth ront takes generally aren't franchise

1162
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:10,720
Speaker 1: quarterbacks right out of the shoot. So I think, you know,

1163
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:14,200
Speaker 1: the Patriots brought Newton in because they believe that he

1164
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:16,680
Speaker 1: can be an upgraded position. And I believe Cam Newton

1165
01:00:16,720 --> 01:00:19,360
Speaker 1: came to New England because he feels confident he can

1166
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:22,840
Speaker 1: beat out Jared Stidham in a quarterback composition. So it's

1167
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:25,920
Speaker 1: gonna be unlike anything we've ever seen. Much like everything

1168
01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 1: else with this season, We're not gonna get preseason games.

1169
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:30,920
Speaker 1: We're not really gonna get to see how Can is

1170
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 1: practicing and doing. But I still expect him to be

1171
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 1: a quarterback, assuming he's healthy, and that's still a big

1172
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:40,440
Speaker 1: one the card. But I think time will have benefited

1173
01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:42,600
Speaker 1: him with his shoulder and his foot. Now I'm expecting

1174
01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:46,000
Speaker 1: Cam to be healthy and fact it's pretty close to

1175
01:00:46,040 --> 01:00:48,200
Speaker 1: what he used to be as an athlete, and I

1176
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:51,760
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be the Patriots starting quarterbacks this year. Now,

1177
01:00:51,840 --> 01:00:54,200
Speaker 1: what's your gut tell? You about how Bill Belichick would

1178
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:57,120
Speaker 1: feel about it if say, Jared Stidham has the offense

1179
01:00:57,200 --> 01:00:59,280
Speaker 1: under his belt, can call the plays, can run the

1180
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:02,400
Speaker 1: offensive actively. Cam Newton just but as Cam Newton is

1181
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:06,400
Speaker 1: just so far physically superior and brings so many different

1182
01:01:06,480 --> 01:01:09,560
Speaker 1: levels of play to his game that his mobility, his

1183
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:13,080
Speaker 1: ability to run the football, his arm strength, all of

1184
01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:18,840
Speaker 1: that stuff. What's your gut feeling tell you about Bill

1185
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:24,040
Speaker 1: Belichick's you know where would he lean in regards to,

1186
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:28,240
Speaker 1: you know, letting Cam Newton carry the show or letting

1187
01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:30,800
Speaker 1: Jared Stidham lean on the rest of the roster and

1188
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 1: try and win games that way. Yeah, I think Belichick

1189
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 1: understands it's a player's game, and he said that many times,

1190
01:01:37,560 --> 01:01:42,400
Speaker 1: and he's they've raved about Cam Newton over the years.

1191
01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:44,680
Speaker 1: And Cam Newton was two and all against the Patriots

1192
01:01:44,720 --> 01:01:48,640
Speaker 1: as a starter, and that's two very impressive wins, especially

1193
01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:51,480
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago in Fox Burugh come from behind,

1194
01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:54,040
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, you know, last second field goal type of

1195
01:01:54,040 --> 01:01:57,080
Speaker 1: win to beat the Patriots. Kim Newton is a very

1196
01:01:57,120 --> 01:02:01,360
Speaker 1: compt football player and Bill Belichick is always admired him. So, yeah,

1197
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:03,600
Speaker 1: even if he doesn't have the system down perfectly as

1198
01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:08,960
Speaker 1: he's not hurting the Patriots. I absolutely believe Belichick would

1199
01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:11,560
Speaker 1: play Can Newton over Jared that. I'm just for a

1200
01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:15,560
Speaker 1: physical talent. Again, you know, not hurting the Patriots, that's

1201
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:19,120
Speaker 1: a big thing. Um he can make plays, but Belichick

1202
01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:22,160
Speaker 1: does believe firtainly and just you know, don't mess up.

1203
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 1: And that's been a big reason for the Patriots success

1204
01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:26,880
Speaker 1: over the last point he is they just wait for

1205
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:30,400
Speaker 1: the other team to mess up. However, I do think Newton,

1206
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:32,920
Speaker 1: assuming he's healthy, and again that's the biggest something that

1207
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:35,440
Speaker 1: we don't know, but I assume he's healthy. I think

1208
01:02:35,440 --> 01:02:39,040
Speaker 1: he's a far physically superior quarterback at Jared sim He's

1209
01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:43,400
Speaker 1: a proven player, a former MVP, a lot to prove,

1210
01:02:43,680 --> 01:02:46,840
Speaker 1: very hungry this year, one year minimum contract, playing for

1211
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:50,480
Speaker 1: his career. I definitely think Ken Newton is primed to

1212
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 1: be the Patriots starting quarterback. Last one I've got for you,

1213
01:02:54,160 --> 01:02:57,960
Speaker 1: Ben with respect to him, is while he is all

1214
01:02:57,960 --> 01:03:00,800
Speaker 1: of those things, there's also a sizeable ego that comes

1215
01:03:00,800 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 1: along with him. There's got to be enough room for

1216
01:03:06,200 --> 01:03:09,560
Speaker 1: Cam's ego usually, but I know that runs counter to

1217
01:03:09,600 --> 01:03:12,040
Speaker 1: the way Bill Belichick does business. With his team. I

1218
01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:14,840
Speaker 1: mean a countless number of Patriots players over the year

1219
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:16,560
Speaker 1: say you better check your ego at the door if

1220
01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:19,160
Speaker 1: you're going to be here. So I don't know if

1221
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 1: that subject has been broached all that much because well,

1222
01:03:21,720 --> 01:03:24,040
Speaker 1: quite frankly, you guys probably haven't even had an opportunity

1223
01:03:24,040 --> 01:03:26,480
Speaker 1: to talk to Cam about that. But I think we

1224
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:28,640
Speaker 1: all know he's got a lot of pride and a

1225
01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:31,320
Speaker 1: lot of self pride and a giant ego. How do

1226
01:03:31,400 --> 01:03:34,200
Speaker 1: you see that blending with the way that coach Belichick

1227
01:03:34,320 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 1: usually likes to handle his roster, which is basically everybody's

1228
01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:40,919
Speaker 1: treated the same, no matter who the heck you are. Yeah,

1229
01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:44,520
Speaker 1: I really see very little issue with Cam Newton fitting

1230
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:47,760
Speaker 1: in with the Patriots Belichick. I mean, they brought in

1231
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:50,960
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown last year, They've had they had drunk, a

1232
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:56,440
Speaker 1: big personality. They brought in Albert Haynesworth and Corey hill Sinko.

1233
01:03:56,720 --> 01:04:01,600
Speaker 1: And I'm not worried about Ken Newton. You know, his

1234
01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:06,120
Speaker 1: flashy outfits to the postgame press conference, Like Bill doesn't

1235
01:04:06,120 --> 01:04:08,120
Speaker 1: care about that. Do you show up when you need

1236
01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:11,480
Speaker 1: to do, you work hard, you do your job, or

1237
01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:14,080
Speaker 1: you're a good Patriot and I'm not worried about Kem

1238
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:17,000
Speaker 1: doing that, and the Patriots got a perfect situation because

1239
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 1: it's a one year contract, minimum salary. He's got some intentives,

1240
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:22,720
Speaker 1: but he's really fighting you to prove that he still

1241
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:25,320
Speaker 1: deserves to be a starting quarterback, whether it's with New

1242
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 1: England or any other team. So if Can Newton wants

1243
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:30,520
Speaker 1: to continue his career, he'll just come to work every

1244
01:04:30,600 --> 01:04:34,040
Speaker 1: day and work hard and not be all about himself.

1245
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 1: And I absolutely expect that just because of his circumstances.

1246
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:39,840
Speaker 1: I think the Patriots were smart to get a very

1247
01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:42,800
Speaker 1: hungry and motivated player, someone coming off injuries and with

1248
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:45,360
Speaker 1: a lot to prove right now. And I have zero

1249
01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:49,000
Speaker 1: worry that Ken's gonna fit in, And I don't think

1250
01:04:49,080 --> 01:04:53,080
Speaker 1: Belichick's gonna care one iota about whatever Ken's wearing to

1251
01:04:53,160 --> 01:04:57,440
Speaker 1: the press conference as long as Can is playing well. Yeah, Ben,

1252
01:04:57,520 --> 01:04:59,920
Speaker 1: As we all talk about our players and the roster

1253
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:02,560
Speaker 1: and training camps opening up and all this football talk,

1254
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:05,960
Speaker 1: what did you think over the weekend of Major League Baseball,

1255
01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:11,960
Speaker 1: of the NHL of hockey and the NBA moving the

1256
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:14,959
Speaker 1: NBA NHL, and of course Major League Baseball going ahead

1257
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:17,000
Speaker 1: and playing games. How do you think that's going and

1258
01:05:17,040 --> 01:05:19,720
Speaker 1: how do you think what they're learning will affect the

1259
01:05:19,840 --> 01:05:23,400
Speaker 1: NFL going forward this season. Yeah, there's no question the

1260
01:05:23,480 --> 01:05:26,600
Speaker 1: NFL is learning. I think it probably more from Baseball

1261
01:05:26,680 --> 01:05:28,440
Speaker 1: than the other two sports, because the other two are

1262
01:05:28,520 --> 01:05:31,720
Speaker 1: are really unique, and that they're holding a bubble and

1263
01:05:31,760 --> 01:05:35,040
Speaker 1: it's self contained, and they're testing guys hundreds of times,

1264
01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:38,520
Speaker 1: and I think hockey and basketball are completely clear of

1265
01:05:38,560 --> 01:05:41,480
Speaker 1: the virus. So they did a great job and hopefully

1266
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:43,400
Speaker 1: they can keep it going. And it's not, as you know,

1267
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:44,800
Speaker 1: for most of those guys are gonna be in the

1268
01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:46,480
Speaker 1: bubble for like maybe a month, I think, and then

1269
01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:48,840
Speaker 1: they go home and there's only a couple of teams

1270
01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:50,360
Speaker 1: that are going to have to go the whole way through.

1271
01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 1: So I never felt a bubble was realistic for NFL.

1272
01:05:54,080 --> 01:05:56,600
Speaker 1: It's just too large, too long, it was seasoned, and

1273
01:05:56,760 --> 01:05:59,040
Speaker 1: you know, with guys getting hurt and players coming and going,

1274
01:05:59,080 --> 01:06:02,320
Speaker 1: it's way too difficult to do a bubble. I get

1275
01:06:02,320 --> 01:06:05,360
Speaker 1: the sense from Baseball that neither the owners or players

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Speaker 1: are like it sounds weird to say, but it doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem like they really care about playing. They have a

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Speaker 1: very kind of laid back attitude about you know, going

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Speaker 1: out and getting the virus and just canceling games left

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Speaker 1: and right. And I know that they probably want to

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Speaker 1: get to the postseason because that's where they make a

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Speaker 1: good amount of their money, but it doesn't seem like

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Speaker 1: they really care all that much about the regular season.

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Speaker 1: And I think the NFL's cares a little more. You

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Speaker 1: see the system they set up of testing and tracing,

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Speaker 1: and guys are wearing monitors all day around the facility

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Speaker 1: that all these protocols they came up with, and I

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01:06:38,840 --> 01:06:42,280
Speaker 1: just think the NFL is taking it very seriously. You know,

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01:06:42,400 --> 01:06:44,920
Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be very tough to track

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Speaker 1: with God, I's living at home at night and living

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Speaker 1: in places like Florida and Texas and Arizona where the

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Speaker 1: virus is doing very poorly. So guys are gonna get it.

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Speaker 1: But I think the NFL is cautiously hopeful that guys

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Speaker 1: will take it seriously enough and that the testing will

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Speaker 1: be good enough to catch guys right away to prevent

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Speaker 1: spread and somehow somewhere we'll just be able to get

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Speaker 1: through the season. You know, that's kind of what they're

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Speaker 1: hoping for right now. It's no one really does with

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Speaker 1: the future holds. But I just I definitely get the

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01:07:15,320 --> 01:07:17,439
Speaker 1: sense that the NFL but care is a lot more

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Speaker 1: than Major League Baseball thoughts about getting through the season, Ben,

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Speaker 1: thanks very much for the time. We appreciate your insight

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01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:26,760
Speaker 1: here on the program today. I would normally say, we'll

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01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:28,880
Speaker 1: see you down the road at some point during the season,

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01:07:28,920 --> 01:07:31,000
Speaker 1: knowing the Patriots and Bills are supposed to play each

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01:07:31,000 --> 01:07:33,600
Speaker 1: other twice, but heck, we don't even know if we're traveling,

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01:07:33,640 --> 01:07:37,840
Speaker 1: so stay safe and be well. All right, thanks a lot,

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Speaker 1: you guys too. All Right. Holing from the Boston Globe

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01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:44,080
Speaker 1: covers the Patriots as well as the league in general.

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Speaker 1: Does a good job up there for that paper. And

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Speaker 1: interesting that Belichick actually said it's nobody's job right now.

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01:07:53,600 --> 01:07:55,480
Speaker 1: I guess you would expect him to say that about

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01:07:55,480 --> 01:07:59,040
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. Doesn't like handing anything to anybody, So

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01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:04,920
Speaker 1: I guess that's as revelatory as he's gonna be. Steve, Yeah,

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01:08:04,960 --> 01:08:07,840
Speaker 1: and I would be. I would not be shocked if

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01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:12,600
Speaker 1: we see Bill Belichick do or carry himself in a

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01:08:12,680 --> 01:08:15,600
Speaker 1: much different way this year. I would say, if he

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01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:18,400
Speaker 1: feels he needs to change as a head coach, change

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01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:20,880
Speaker 1: the way they do business every day, change his personality,

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01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:24,439
Speaker 1: you know, not his personality, but certainly his temperament around

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01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:27,479
Speaker 1: his players. I would not be surprised if Bill, if

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01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:29,840
Speaker 1: we see a different kind of Bill Belichick this year.

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Speaker 1: Knowing how how willing he has been over the years

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01:08:34,880 --> 01:08:37,320
Speaker 1: to do things differently and to learn and to do

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01:08:37,360 --> 01:08:40,840
Speaker 1: whatever it takes, this is gonna be a different year.

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01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:43,240
Speaker 1: It's gonna take different type of coaching, a different type

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01:08:43,280 --> 01:08:45,120
Speaker 1: of attitude. And I wouldn't be surprised if we hear

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01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:48,040
Speaker 1: stories coming out of New England that Bill Belichick is

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01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:52,880
Speaker 1: doing something completely different this year. Yeah, it's really I mean,

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01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:56,519
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna have to adjust a little bit. Belichick doesn't

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01:08:56,520 --> 01:08:59,400
Speaker 1: really bend all that much, so I don't, right, I

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01:08:59,439 --> 01:09:02,640
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know how much that's gonna really be.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's gonna be noticeable. I think

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01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:07,360
Speaker 1: it's gonna be minuscule in the way it may change.

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01:09:07,400 --> 01:09:10,080
Speaker 1: He's got a formula that he believes in and it's

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01:09:10,080 --> 01:09:14,679
Speaker 1: proven successful. I can't see him changing it, even amidst

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01:09:14,720 --> 01:09:18,800
Speaker 1: the pandemic. With the possible exception of you know, all

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01:09:18,840 --> 01:09:21,960
Speaker 1: the roster shuffling that he's probably gonna have to do,

1339
01:09:22,160 --> 01:09:25,479
Speaker 1: which is generally more than any coach would be willing

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01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:28,120
Speaker 1: to undertake during the course of a season. But that's

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01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:31,040
Speaker 1: the situation all these coaches are dealing with, so that

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01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:33,200
Speaker 1: will have to change. It doesn't have any choice really

1343
01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:37,160
Speaker 1: in that matter. Eight three five fifty one eight eight

1344
01:09:37,240 --> 01:09:39,599
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty to get on board

1345
01:09:39,600 --> 01:09:43,360
Speaker 1: with us as we are discussing what we think the

1346
01:09:43,439 --> 01:09:47,479
Speaker 1: start of the NFL season will look like and where

1347
01:09:47,680 --> 01:09:50,840
Speaker 1: it might be most different, and that's that's the topic

1348
01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:52,960
Speaker 1: we're discussing on the tweet sheets, so be sure to

1349
01:09:53,040 --> 01:09:55,599
Speaker 1: chime in with us on that. Whether you think it's

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01:09:55,640 --> 01:09:59,240
Speaker 1: going to be the lack of timing and offensive execution,

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01:09:59,640 --> 01:10:01,160
Speaker 1: whe I think there's going to be a rash of

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01:10:01,160 --> 01:10:03,400
Speaker 1: injuries because of the long layoff, Whether you think the

1353
01:10:03,479 --> 01:10:07,040
Speaker 1: broadcast presentation is going to look dramatically different, or whether

1354
01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:09,760
Speaker 1: you think it's something else. Eight oh three five fifty one,

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01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:13,479
Speaker 1: eight eight fifty two five fifty I did want to

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01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:16,640
Speaker 1: get back to the tweet sheet, which is brought to

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01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:19,799
Speaker 1: you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company

1358
01:10:19,840 --> 01:10:23,479
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills, and we left off with Jeremy,

1359
01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:26,400
Speaker 1: who said, I feel that the league is going to

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01:10:26,439 --> 01:10:29,400
Speaker 1: experience a ton of injuries, just like the Lockout season.

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01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:32,160
Speaker 1: On top of that, I am hoping they figure out

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01:10:32,200 --> 01:10:34,799
Speaker 1: a way to use crowd noise to make it actually

1363
01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:37,320
Speaker 1: feel like a game and not practice. Now I can

1364
01:10:37,439 --> 01:10:41,160
Speaker 1: tell you Steve that I believe Fox as a network

1365
01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:45,760
Speaker 1: is going to pump in fake crowd noise for the broadcast,

1366
01:10:46,400 --> 01:10:50,479
Speaker 1: but not the stadium. That's going to be a pure

1367
01:10:50,560 --> 01:10:53,920
Speaker 1: production from the truck going to homes. It's not going

1368
01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:56,400
Speaker 1: to be something that takes place at stadium. But he

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01:10:56,520 --> 01:10:59,760
Speaker 1: thinks injuries. He thinks we're going to have something much

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01:10:59,800 --> 01:11:01,479
Speaker 1: like we saw on the Lockout where there were a

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01:11:01,479 --> 01:11:05,200
Speaker 1: lot more soft tissue injuries and a lot more achilles

1372
01:11:05,280 --> 01:11:08,320
Speaker 1: tendon injuries. I know that one showed a sharp spike

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01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:11,920
Speaker 1: in two eleven. Well we'll see it. Though. They're they're

1374
01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:14,640
Speaker 1: following the medical the advice of medical experts, and the

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01:11:14,720 --> 01:11:18,080
Speaker 1: experiences and lessons they learned from two th eleven in

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01:11:18,120 --> 01:11:21,040
Speaker 1: this ramp up period where they start slowly and get

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01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:25,000
Speaker 1: into what they're gonna do on the football field. Although

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01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:29,880
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm not a medical expert. I'm not.

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01:11:30,160 --> 01:11:35,160
Speaker 1: I'm not, but it seems to me it's gonna be

1380
01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 1: difficult to anticipate how these soft injuries happen. It seems

1381
01:11:38,960 --> 01:11:42,120
Speaker 1: if you're going to ramp up slowly. But surely, certainly

1382
01:11:42,160 --> 01:11:44,360
Speaker 1: that's different than the players coming in. I think the

1383
01:11:44,400 --> 01:11:51,200
Speaker 1: only difference is this Brownie. Usually, usually when the seasons start,

1384
01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:53,920
Speaker 1: these guys come, they do what they can to get

1385
01:11:53,920 --> 01:11:55,640
Speaker 1: ready to play. And I don't know what happened in

1386
01:11:55,680 --> 01:11:58,040
Speaker 1: the lockout that was different than that that maybe they

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01:11:58,080 --> 01:12:00,600
Speaker 1: got a little short notice of when the play was

1388
01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:03,639
Speaker 1: gonna start again, right, So I think they came back

1389
01:12:03,680 --> 01:12:07,240
Speaker 1: and they ramped up way too fast. Well, this is

1390
01:12:07,320 --> 01:12:09,719
Speaker 1: much different, and they think that's the key of ramping

1391
01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:14,080
Speaker 1: up really slowly and then starting in. We'll see how

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01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:17,160
Speaker 1: that works. Hopefully it will, And maybe because of the

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01:12:17,160 --> 01:12:20,960
Speaker 1: way they run this, they'll get fewer injuries because of

1394
01:12:21,040 --> 01:12:24,240
Speaker 1: the not because of anything they learned, but because the

1395
01:12:24,320 --> 01:12:27,760
Speaker 1: COVID forced them to start slow. Wouldn't that be something

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01:12:27,800 --> 01:12:30,880
Speaker 1: if they end up going through a season with significantly

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01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:33,120
Speaker 1: less injuries, all of a sudden, the preseason games go

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01:12:33,160 --> 01:12:36,120
Speaker 1: away forever. Yeah, Well, and they're already going down to

1399
01:12:36,280 --> 01:12:38,759
Speaker 1: three next year under the new CBA, so they're already

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01:12:38,760 --> 01:12:40,439
Speaker 1: going to be going from four to three to begin with.

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01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:43,519
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean if the data from this ramp

1402
01:12:43,600 --> 01:12:48,240
Speaker 1: up period proves positive with fewer injuries after a long layoff,

1403
01:12:48,320 --> 01:12:50,680
Speaker 1: yet that may gain some traction. You could be right.

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01:12:51,120 --> 01:12:53,679
Speaker 1: Eight oh three, five fifty one eight eight five fifty

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01:12:53,720 --> 01:12:56,400
Speaker 1: two five fifty to join us as we discussed the

1406
01:12:56,479 --> 01:12:59,680
Speaker 1: start of the NFL season and what it would look like.

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01:12:59,720 --> 01:13:01,800
Speaker 1: Steve and I step aside here, but we'll be back

1408
01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:03,960
Speaker 1: with more on the other side, including some interesting news

1409
01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:06,640
Speaker 1: and notes from around the league, and a note on

1410
01:13:06,680 --> 01:13:08,719
Speaker 1: the two news signings, and we'll hear more from Brandon

1411
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:12,040
Speaker 1: Being and Sean McDermott all of that after this break.

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Speaker 1: Here on Buffalo Bill's Radio, it's One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalid to Health. I got One Bills Live, Chris Brown,

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01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:28,720
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you as we are halfway through the

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01:13:28,720 --> 01:13:33,040
Speaker 1: program here on this Monday Bills players on site at

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01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:38,439
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive in totality that according to Brandon Bean

1417
01:13:38,560 --> 01:13:41,519
Speaker 1: on a zoom call yesterday said everybody is in that

1418
01:13:41,920 --> 01:13:45,560
Speaker 1: has not opted out obviously and that are being quarantine

1419
01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:49,000
Speaker 1: on the IR COVID list, so all players on hand

1420
01:13:49,080 --> 01:13:52,679
Speaker 1: and strength and conditioning works and walk through work begins

1421
01:13:52,680 --> 01:13:56,479
Speaker 1: today as the acclamation period begins as they ramp back

1422
01:13:56,560 --> 01:14:00,320
Speaker 1: up to full speed football here in August. It will

1423
01:14:00,360 --> 01:14:04,240
Speaker 1: be one of the most unusual training camps we have seen,

1424
01:14:04,360 --> 01:14:07,240
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, Steve and I and the rest of

1425
01:14:07,240 --> 01:14:09,280
Speaker 1: the media, it'll probably be the least amount of training

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01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:14,080
Speaker 1: camp we've ever seen as well. So, I mean it's

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01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:16,719
Speaker 1: like it's like an event on the cauldary, like schedule

1428
01:14:17,200 --> 01:14:20,920
Speaker 1: vacation and family stuff around it. You don't let you

1429
01:14:20,920 --> 01:14:22,880
Speaker 1: don't go to weddings, you don't do you know, the

1430
01:14:22,960 --> 01:14:25,439
Speaker 1: media and the people who work outside the foot you know,

1431
01:14:25,960 --> 01:14:29,840
Speaker 1: all of us in the content business, the business development people,

1432
01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:35,320
Speaker 1: the entire organization and everybody who works in it. Yeah,

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01:14:35,439 --> 01:14:38,320
Speaker 1: their whole our whole life changes during training camp, right.

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01:14:38,360 --> 01:14:42,720
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's like full immersion and you know,

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01:14:42,720 --> 01:14:46,400
Speaker 1: it's training myopia. Right, it's just like nothing else is

1436
01:14:46,439 --> 01:14:48,760
Speaker 1: going to happen, and it's not gonna happen this year.

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01:14:48,760 --> 01:14:52,679
Speaker 1: It just goes away. And yeah, it's wow, it's for us.

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01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:55,920
Speaker 1: This is probably when you and I and the people

1439
01:14:56,040 --> 01:14:58,760
Speaker 1: who are like in all our co workers in one

1440
01:14:58,760 --> 01:15:02,080
Speaker 1: of Bill's Live and in the building. This is when

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01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:05,240
Speaker 1: the year is really going to go haywire, because I

1442
01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:08,759
Speaker 1: can't tell you here on this show, on one Bill's

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01:15:08,800 --> 01:15:10,760
Speaker 1: Live in on Buffalo bills dot com, we will be

1444
01:15:10,880 --> 01:15:13,360
Speaker 1: doing our level best to give you as much coverage

1445
01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:17,000
Speaker 1: as we possibly can within the COVID restrictions to keep

1446
01:15:17,040 --> 01:15:19,840
Speaker 1: you up to date on the team's developments. And we're

1447
01:15:19,840 --> 01:15:21,920
Speaker 1: actually going to do some of that here right now

1448
01:15:22,080 --> 01:15:26,639
Speaker 1: now as much as we are dealing with restrictions. GM

1449
01:15:26,720 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean on his zoom call with the media yesterday,

1450
01:15:29,600 --> 01:15:34,280
Speaker 1: really spelled out how he and his personnel department are

1451
01:15:34,439 --> 01:15:38,280
Speaker 1: going to be restricted in terms of filling roster holes. Steve,

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01:15:38,479 --> 01:15:43,720
Speaker 1: this is unprecedented. I mean, so we saw it reported

1453
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:47,439
Speaker 1: earlier last week how they were having a Keen King,

1454
01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:51,000
Speaker 1: the free agent quarterback cornerback in for a visit. There're

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01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:53,080
Speaker 1: a couple other players that were trickling in that they

1456
01:15:53,120 --> 01:15:56,679
Speaker 1: were looking at and people were thinking, oh, a signing

1457
01:15:56,840 --> 01:15:59,360
Speaker 1: is imminent, you know, something to that effect, because you know,

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01:15:59,520 --> 01:16:02,040
Speaker 1: usually guy comes in, he visits, he takes a physical,

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01:16:02,120 --> 01:16:04,599
Speaker 1: he passes it, they talk turkey and bang a deal

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01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:08,320
Speaker 1: is usually done, especially this time of year, transactions usually

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01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:10,360
Speaker 1: take place rather quickly because they want to get the

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01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:12,679
Speaker 1: guy on the field, get him up to speed, YadA, YadA, YadA.

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01:16:13,479 --> 01:16:17,439
Speaker 1: So Brandon Bean says, yeah, it's not like that anymore.

1464
01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:20,760
Speaker 1: So I'm going to give Brandon being the floor here

1465
01:16:20,840 --> 01:16:23,519
Speaker 1: as he explains not only getting the roster down to

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01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:26,240
Speaker 1: eighty players, but the issues that he and his pro

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01:16:26,400 --> 01:16:28,400
Speaker 1: personnel staff are going to be dealing with this year

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Speaker 1: with the COVID restrictions for roster juggling. We got a

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Speaker 1: few guys on the COVID list and then we got

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01:16:33,760 --> 01:16:37,160
Speaker 1: these opt outs. You know, we just put us down

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Speaker 1: to that number. So the rule in place sal is that,

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Speaker 1: you know, normally, let's say we lost John Fliciano, which

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Speaker 1: we talked about. Normally, any other year, I'd bring in

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01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:52,400
Speaker 1: two three linemen to work out and Sue's in the

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01:16:52,479 --> 01:16:55,040
Speaker 1: best shape, who fits what we're looking for, who can

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Speaker 1: pass a physical Well, the current rules state that I

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01:16:59,400 --> 01:17:02,960
Speaker 1: can't bring anyone in if we don't have a roster spot.

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Speaker 1: So if we're at eighty, I have to get to

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Speaker 1: seventy nine just to bring a player into to visit.

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Speaker 1: And when I say visit, they can't come in the facility.

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01:17:12,360 --> 01:17:15,080
Speaker 1: They have to have a negative test before we can

1482
01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:19,439
Speaker 1: physical them, and that physical is outside our building. And

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Speaker 1: so I can't bring three linemen in. I could bring

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Speaker 1: one in if I get to seventy nine. So it's

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Speaker 1: very hard. I understand the reason for the rules or

1486
01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:34,160
Speaker 1: trying to limit travel and the spread of this across

1487
01:17:34,240 --> 01:17:36,920
Speaker 1: our country, but it makes it very hard. The other

1488
01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:40,200
Speaker 1: part of that is it's basically five days. You know.

1489
01:17:40,439 --> 01:17:42,400
Speaker 1: I know one of you guys put out about a

1490
01:17:42,439 --> 01:17:45,360
Speaker 1: couple of players that were in town. Well, those guys

1491
01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:48,400
Speaker 1: are still going through the process of testing. We got

1492
01:17:48,479 --> 01:17:52,280
Speaker 1: to get negative tests multiple days, get them a physical,

1493
01:17:52,880 --> 01:17:55,320
Speaker 1: and then get them signed. And we're in the middle

1494
01:17:55,320 --> 01:17:57,720
Speaker 1: of that. But even when we get them signed, they're

1495
01:17:57,760 --> 01:18:01,360
Speaker 1: still gonna be days from coming in our building. Just

1496
01:18:01,479 --> 01:18:04,360
Speaker 1: through this protocol, it's it's about a five day process

1497
01:18:06,040 --> 01:18:08,559
Speaker 1: from them getting to Buffalo before we can get them

1498
01:18:08,600 --> 01:18:11,720
Speaker 1: into our facility. So how about that, Steve, I mean

1499
01:18:12,200 --> 01:18:14,360
Speaker 1: that you have an opening on the rock, you have

1500
01:18:14,520 --> 01:18:17,040
Speaker 1: to create an opening. You might have a guy that's injured,

1501
01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:21,479
Speaker 1: you know, and so you're you got your pro personnel people.

1502
01:18:21,520 --> 01:18:24,479
Speaker 1: Steve right on the phone, Hey, call these three guys,

1503
01:18:24,600 --> 01:18:27,200
Speaker 1: Let's get them in here, make arrangements, fly them in,

1504
01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:29,599
Speaker 1: We'll have them all take a physical, we'll have them

1505
01:18:29,600 --> 01:18:32,439
Speaker 1: all work out, and then we'll decide, you know, which

1506
01:18:32,479 --> 01:18:36,880
Speaker 1: one we're gonna sign. Not only that, you have to

1507
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:40,800
Speaker 1: clear a roster spot before you can bring anybody in.

1508
01:18:41,560 --> 01:18:44,280
Speaker 1: And then they're not even coming to your building. They

1509
01:18:44,360 --> 01:18:47,280
Speaker 1: have to they have to have a negative test and

1510
01:18:47,439 --> 01:18:50,960
Speaker 1: then go through all of the protocols, take a physical

1511
01:18:51,400 --> 01:18:55,800
Speaker 1: off site, and then you go through the process. So

1512
01:18:55,920 --> 01:18:57,960
Speaker 1: you think about so think about this, Steve. All the

1513
01:18:58,040 --> 01:19:00,559
Speaker 1: reports we saw earlier in the weekly this week about

1514
01:19:00,560 --> 01:19:04,000
Speaker 1: a king King, people are thinking, oh, he was here.

1515
01:19:04,080 --> 01:19:08,519
Speaker 1: He came into town on Monday, he'll be signed by Wednesday.

1516
01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:12,960
Speaker 1: That didn't happen until Sunday. So yeah, he and and

1517
01:19:13,880 --> 01:19:17,080
Speaker 1: he's presumably here now because you know E. J. Gaines

1518
01:19:17,160 --> 01:19:19,519
Speaker 1: is opting out, so they're down a corner and that's

1519
01:19:19,560 --> 01:19:24,360
Speaker 1: why he was at it. But my god, like it's crazy.

1520
01:19:25,439 --> 01:19:26,840
Speaker 1: I don't know how they're going to be able to

1521
01:19:26,880 --> 01:19:30,240
Speaker 1: do business like that. Yeah. Usually, usually these things are

1522
01:19:30,840 --> 01:19:33,920
Speaker 1: only limited by how fast a jet can travel. As

1523
01:19:34,000 --> 01:19:36,040
Speaker 1: soon as the guy's wheels are down in the city,

1524
01:19:36,120 --> 01:19:38,360
Speaker 1: he's at the facility. He didn't leave the facility. I mean,

1525
01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:40,680
Speaker 1: he's that's the difference. Not only can he not get in,

1526
01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:43,400
Speaker 1: it used to be he couldn't, he wouldn't leave. He'd

1527
01:19:43,479 --> 01:19:47,559
Speaker 1: stay there morning through night, study in watching film, talking

1528
01:19:47,600 --> 01:19:52,519
Speaker 1: to coaches, getting verbiage down, getting checks something down, you know, adjustments, checks,

1529
01:19:52,920 --> 01:19:57,160
Speaker 1: learning all the words for formations and motions, play calls,

1530
01:19:57,360 --> 01:20:00,920
Speaker 1: all that a cadence, all of that stuff. He spends

1531
01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:03,320
Speaker 1: all day, every day doing it, and now he can't

1532
01:20:03,400 --> 01:20:08,120
Speaker 1: get in the building at all, and let alone to

1533
01:20:08,160 --> 01:20:11,599
Speaker 1: sign a contract right where they feel good about actually

1534
01:20:11,960 --> 01:20:15,240
Speaker 1: letting him in on all that verbiage. Yeah, So just

1535
01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:19,360
Speaker 1: think about that during the season, Steve, think about that

1536
01:20:19,439 --> 01:20:22,519
Speaker 1: scenario during the season. If you have an injury in

1537
01:20:22,600 --> 01:20:25,880
Speaker 1: a game on Sunday and you're suddenly short at a

1538
01:20:25,920 --> 01:20:29,600
Speaker 1: position that maybe you don't have the proper depth for

1539
01:20:29,880 --> 01:20:32,920
Speaker 1: on your practice squad and you have to go out

1540
01:20:32,960 --> 01:20:37,680
Speaker 1: and find somebody you can call him on Monday and

1541
01:20:38,040 --> 01:20:40,639
Speaker 1: put whatever player on IR because maybe as a season

1542
01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:43,000
Speaker 1: ending injury or what have you to create the roster spot.

1543
01:20:43,360 --> 01:20:46,919
Speaker 1: You may call a guy and he may come to Buffalo,

1544
01:20:47,800 --> 01:20:49,920
Speaker 1: but he's got a PAS he's got to be negative

1545
01:20:49,960 --> 01:20:54,120
Speaker 1: on a test, he's got to take a physical. You

1546
01:20:54,280 --> 01:20:57,679
Speaker 1: may have to sign a guy that may not set

1547
01:20:57,800 --> 01:21:01,559
Speaker 1: foot on the practice field the entire hire week, who's

1548
01:21:01,560 --> 01:21:05,160
Speaker 1: just gonna be meeting with his coaches virtually because he's

1549
01:21:05,160 --> 01:21:07,360
Speaker 1: got to come through negative and physical and all that.

1550
01:21:07,560 --> 01:21:09,720
Speaker 1: It's gonna I mean, Brandon bead said, it's gonna take

1551
01:21:09,760 --> 01:21:12,439
Speaker 1: five days. You signed a guy on Tuesday, he might

1552
01:21:12,520 --> 01:21:15,280
Speaker 1: not put a helmet on until Saturday, and then they

1553
01:21:15,360 --> 01:21:19,120
Speaker 1: have to play Sunday. It's strange. As you said, I

1554
01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:23,920
Speaker 1: forgot all about this until just this very moment that

1555
01:21:24,040 --> 01:21:27,639
Speaker 1: happened to me. That's how I became a Buffalo Bill.

1556
01:21:28,800 --> 01:21:34,080
Speaker 1: I got notified Friday night, showed up on Saturday, did

1557
01:21:34,200 --> 01:21:37,080
Speaker 1: not practice, did not suit up, did not walk through,

1558
01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:40,720
Speaker 1: did had a physical, and played in the game on

1559
01:21:40,880 --> 01:21:43,559
Speaker 1: Sunday the next day. That was Marv Levy's first game

1560
01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:46,320
Speaker 1: as head coach. Happy birthday, Mark. It was his first

1561
01:21:46,400 --> 01:21:50,439
Speaker 1: game as head coach. Wow. And that's how it worked

1562
01:21:50,520 --> 01:21:54,920
Speaker 1: for me. Now, granted I wasn't starting quarterback. I was

1563
01:21:55,000 --> 01:21:59,479
Speaker 1: just chasing kicks, but you know, it's not unprecedented, and

1564
01:21:59,520 --> 01:22:01,840
Speaker 1: I would have in in and I don't know. If

1565
01:22:01,920 --> 01:22:03,880
Speaker 1: maybe I didn't take a rep it wide out in

1566
01:22:03,920 --> 01:22:05,640
Speaker 1: that game, I don't haven't. I can't remember a thing.

1567
01:22:06,040 --> 01:22:10,720
Speaker 1: But it's not unprecedented for that to happen. And it

1568
01:22:10,880 --> 01:22:14,080
Speaker 1: was structured and in fact, it was worked by the

1569
01:22:14,360 --> 01:22:17,840
Speaker 1: Oilers at that time. When they waived me for twenty

1570
01:22:17,880 --> 01:22:20,360
Speaker 1: four they were going to activate me. They weren't. They

1571
01:22:20,400 --> 01:22:23,120
Speaker 1: weren't like cutting me. They put me on the street

1572
01:22:23,200 --> 01:22:25,240
Speaker 1: siege or waivers. They did it so late in the

1573
01:22:25,280 --> 01:22:28,160
Speaker 1: week because the rules said if somebody picked me up,

1574
01:22:28,200 --> 01:22:30,519
Speaker 1: they had to suit me up and play me. So

1575
01:22:30,680 --> 01:22:32,240
Speaker 1: they thought if they did it later in the week,

1576
01:22:32,280 --> 01:22:35,320
Speaker 1: well somebody that wants right, we're playing Sunday. We can't

1577
01:22:35,479 --> 01:22:41,479
Speaker 1: bring this guy in it. Well, the Bills were in

1578
01:22:41,520 --> 01:22:44,200
Speaker 1: the midst. They were in the midst of their third

1579
01:22:44,360 --> 01:22:47,760
Speaker 1: straight two and fourteen season, which didn't happen. Actually I

1580
01:22:47,840 --> 01:22:51,760
Speaker 1: think they won four or five games. Uh, but you

1581
01:22:51,840 --> 01:22:54,840
Speaker 1: know they they said, forget it, we need we need bodies,

1582
01:22:55,040 --> 01:22:57,200
Speaker 1: so they brought me in. So it didn't work. But

1583
01:22:57,840 --> 01:23:00,840
Speaker 1: it's not unprecedented if if you just need a guy

1584
01:23:00,960 --> 01:23:03,400
Speaker 1: to suit up and chase kicks, that's what happened to me.

1585
01:23:03,720 --> 01:23:09,040
Speaker 1: But yeah, we're talking about a corner or somebody, anybody

1586
01:23:09,080 --> 01:23:11,439
Speaker 1: who you don't know how this how badly you're gonna

1587
01:23:11,479 --> 01:23:14,120
Speaker 1: need this guy. That's why I'm still of the belief Brownie.

1588
01:23:14,200 --> 01:23:17,080
Speaker 1: And I don't think I can't wait and practice squad

1589
01:23:17,200 --> 01:23:19,040
Speaker 1: is enough, do you? I don't I don't think. I

1590
01:23:19,080 --> 01:23:22,720
Speaker 1: don't think I think you need all eighty guys all year. Yeah,

1591
01:23:23,080 --> 01:23:25,479
Speaker 1: and why not keep them in your facility where you

1592
01:23:25,560 --> 01:23:27,479
Speaker 1: know they're not out and about in all different parts

1593
01:23:27,520 --> 01:23:29,080
Speaker 1: of the country where you have to fly them in,

1594
01:23:29,479 --> 01:23:33,000
Speaker 1: have more on hand. Right If if they're on the

1595
01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:36,480
Speaker 1: active roster, they get their game, they get their contract.

1596
01:23:36,600 --> 01:23:39,120
Speaker 1: If they're off the ass active roster, they get you know,

1597
01:23:39,760 --> 01:23:42,120
Speaker 1: a few grand a week, but they're still on the team,

1598
01:23:42,600 --> 01:23:45,200
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Oh, I know whatever. So

1599
01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:49,680
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just and it goes same thing

1600
01:23:49,720 --> 01:23:52,160
Speaker 1: goes for the COVID too, I mean just you know,

1601
01:23:52,320 --> 01:23:54,519
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's but I just don't think they're

1602
01:23:54,520 --> 01:23:56,599
Speaker 1: gonna have enough warm bodies to get on the field

1603
01:23:56,680 --> 01:24:01,479
Speaker 1: sometimes maybe, Yeah, Speaking of filling spots, Sean McDermott, when

1604
01:24:01,520 --> 01:24:05,240
Speaker 1: we come back, we'll address filling the right guard spot

1605
01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:08,439
Speaker 1: and where Cody Ford fits into all of this. Is

1606
01:24:08,520 --> 01:24:10,439
Speaker 1: he a right tackle or a right guard in the

1607
01:24:10,479 --> 01:24:15,280
Speaker 1: wake of the John Feliciano torn peck injury that's coming

1608
01:24:15,360 --> 01:24:17,799
Speaker 1: up after the break. This is One Bills Live presented

1609
01:24:17,800 --> 01:24:31,240
Speaker 1: by Kalida Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Back at One

1610
01:24:31,280 --> 01:24:34,479
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and as

1611
01:24:34,560 --> 01:24:38,120
Speaker 1: we discussed right before the break, along with the Twitter

1612
01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:43,200
Speaker 1: poll which is asking you how you think the NFL

1613
01:24:43,320 --> 01:24:45,639
Speaker 1: product on the field will look different at the start

1614
01:24:45,680 --> 01:24:48,200
Speaker 1: of the season amidst all these COVID restrictions and no

1615
01:24:48,360 --> 01:24:51,920
Speaker 1: offseason and ramp up. We're also talking about some of

1616
01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:55,200
Speaker 1: what GM Brandon Bean and head coach Sean McDermott had

1617
01:24:55,240 --> 01:24:57,479
Speaker 1: to say over the weekend when they were made available

1618
01:24:57,520 --> 01:24:59,679
Speaker 1: to the Western New York media for the first time

1619
01:25:00,479 --> 01:25:04,439
Speaker 1: since the players started trickling back into the building, and

1620
01:25:05,560 --> 01:25:09,439
Speaker 1: one area of note, not surprisingly, was that of the

1621
01:25:09,560 --> 01:25:14,160
Speaker 1: right guard position now with John Feliciano out indefinitely with

1622
01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:17,680
Speaker 1: the torn pectoral that he suffered weightlifting just a day

1623
01:25:17,800 --> 01:25:20,800
Speaker 1: or two before reporting to the team, kind of an

1624
01:25:20,840 --> 01:25:24,080
Speaker 1: accidental thing and he had to undergo surgery, so he

1625
01:25:24,280 --> 01:25:27,760
Speaker 1: is out indefinitely. So it begs the question where does

1626
01:25:27,920 --> 01:25:30,719
Speaker 1: the team go with respect to the right guard position,

1627
01:25:31,320 --> 01:25:36,960
Speaker 1: and is Cody Ford a consideration for right guard as

1628
01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:40,080
Speaker 1: opposed to right tackle. So we know that a lot

1629
01:25:40,120 --> 01:25:42,680
Speaker 1: of people are of the opinion that Cody Ford is

1630
01:25:43,120 --> 01:25:46,400
Speaker 1: seen as a potential Pro Bowl type player at guard,

1631
01:25:46,920 --> 01:25:49,240
Speaker 1: even though we would be certainly an above average player

1632
01:25:49,280 --> 01:25:51,920
Speaker 1: at tackle at the very least. But here was a

1633
01:25:52,040 --> 01:25:55,720
Speaker 1: head coach Sean McDermott this morning on wgr's Morning Show

1634
01:25:55,800 --> 01:25:59,760
Speaker 1: with Howard Simon and Jeremy White, laying out just that

1635
01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:03,160
Speaker 1: scenario and how Cody might factor in. I'd like to

1636
01:26:03,200 --> 01:26:05,960
Speaker 1: get him spend at one position and let him develop.

1637
01:26:06,840 --> 01:26:09,200
Speaker 1: In this case, you know, we're moving some things around

1638
01:26:09,280 --> 01:26:13,280
Speaker 1: with John's absence and moving Cook Cody down inside and

1639
01:26:13,560 --> 01:26:16,759
Speaker 1: with some other people inside and have Cody stay outside

1640
01:26:16,840 --> 01:26:18,280
Speaker 1: some reps as well. So we're going to take a

1641
01:26:18,320 --> 01:26:20,200
Speaker 1: look at some things that we get started here today.

1642
01:26:22,320 --> 01:26:26,679
Speaker 1: So you heard where he started, Steve. He basically started saying,

1643
01:26:26,840 --> 01:26:29,160
Speaker 1: in an ideal world, we have Cody just stay in

1644
01:26:29,240 --> 01:26:32,880
Speaker 1: one spot and he perfects that, But it looks like

1645
01:26:33,040 --> 01:26:36,880
Speaker 1: circumstance is going to have him vacillate back and forth

1646
01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:39,719
Speaker 1: between right guard and right tackle. As they get started

1647
01:26:39,800 --> 01:26:44,559
Speaker 1: here with on field walkthroughs. That's what they did last

1648
01:26:44,600 --> 01:26:46,599
Speaker 1: year as well. You remember they couldn't decide on where

1649
01:26:46,600 --> 01:26:49,759
Speaker 1: they're doing. And I think, I mean we've we've talked

1650
01:26:49,800 --> 01:26:53,559
Speaker 1: about it at length in this offseason about the offensive

1651
01:26:53,600 --> 01:26:59,160
Speaker 1: line statistically seemed more productive when Tye and Secki was

1652
01:26:59,439 --> 01:27:02,200
Speaker 1: at right tackle Cody Ford was down inside, which leads

1653
01:27:02,240 --> 01:27:05,639
Speaker 1: us all to believe Cody Ford's a better guard than

1654
01:27:05,720 --> 01:27:09,600
Speaker 1: he is tackle. And the fact that you know, just

1655
01:27:10,120 --> 01:27:11,960
Speaker 1: you got it's harder to play tackle. You need a

1656
01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:14,559
Speaker 1: better you need a good tackles. And I think one

1657
01:27:14,600 --> 01:27:16,960
Speaker 1: of the things too is I think people get caught

1658
01:27:17,080 --> 01:27:19,519
Speaker 1: up in, you know, the fact that Cody Ford was

1659
01:27:19,520 --> 01:27:21,360
Speaker 1: a high draft pick, was the highest pick in the

1660
01:27:21,479 --> 01:27:24,120
Speaker 1: draft for the Bills last year. They feel like he's

1661
01:27:24,160 --> 01:27:27,160
Speaker 1: got to play a more premier position. I don't know

1662
01:27:27,240 --> 01:27:29,160
Speaker 1: that that's the case. And I certainly don't think Sean

1663
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:31,519
Speaker 1: McDermot or Brandon Bean are sitting there since, you know,

1664
01:27:32,240 --> 01:27:34,439
Speaker 1: saying we've got to get the most out of that pick,

1665
01:27:34,479 --> 01:27:37,320
Speaker 1: so he's got to play tackle. I't doing that. Yeah,

1666
01:27:37,360 --> 01:27:39,360
Speaker 1: I don't think they're doing that. Yeah, they're not wringing

1667
01:27:39,400 --> 01:27:41,880
Speaker 1: their hands over this. I think there are more than

1668
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:45,799
Speaker 1: enough options, including Darryl Williams who they signed from Caroline

1669
01:27:45,800 --> 01:27:48,639
Speaker 1: and free agency having bam is capable of playing guard.

1670
01:27:49,120 --> 01:27:52,040
Speaker 1: But the question here, and they've always asked themselves this question,

1671
01:27:52,080 --> 01:27:54,360
Speaker 1: who are the best five? So if they think the

1672
01:27:54,439 --> 01:27:59,839
Speaker 1: best five are dawk in Spain, Morse Ford, and Insecki,

1673
01:28:00,120 --> 01:28:01,920
Speaker 1: well then that's how it's gonna end up. If they

1674
01:28:02,000 --> 01:28:04,960
Speaker 1: think the best five after you get past Morris on

1675
01:28:05,040 --> 01:28:09,120
Speaker 1: the right side, is Darryl Williams and Cody Ford, well

1676
01:28:09,160 --> 01:28:11,160
Speaker 1: then that's gonna be the five. But I think they

1677
01:28:11,240 --> 01:28:14,040
Speaker 1: want to explore all options. But again, Steve, we're dealing

1678
01:28:14,080 --> 01:28:17,679
Speaker 1: with a situation here where time is literally of the essence.

1679
01:28:18,000 --> 01:28:20,920
Speaker 1: You only got a finite number of reps to get

1680
01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:24,559
Speaker 1: this thing settled, a finite amount of time on the field,

1681
01:28:24,920 --> 01:28:29,519
Speaker 1: and no preseason games to test drive it right. The

1682
01:28:29,640 --> 01:28:33,280
Speaker 1: question is is the coaching staff gonna find out enough

1683
01:28:34,479 --> 01:28:36,360
Speaker 1: before they just say, you know what, we're gonna plug

1684
01:28:36,439 --> 01:28:38,000
Speaker 1: these guys in where they were last year and we're

1685
01:28:38,000 --> 01:28:40,600
Speaker 1: gonna go because we can't tell whether it's going to

1686
01:28:40,680 --> 01:28:43,120
Speaker 1: be better or worse yet, or we can't these guys.

1687
01:28:43,120 --> 01:28:45,200
Speaker 1: We think this guy like for instance, So we think

1688
01:28:45,240 --> 01:28:47,519
Speaker 1: Bates is gonna be a pretty good tacker, but we

1689
01:28:47,560 --> 01:28:50,799
Speaker 1: can't get him there in this limited amount of snaps.

1690
01:28:50,840 --> 01:28:55,439
Speaker 1: This I don't feel confident enough that we're gonna make

1691
01:28:55,479 --> 01:28:57,840
Speaker 1: the switch right away, you know what I'm saying. And

1692
01:28:58,000 --> 01:29:00,200
Speaker 1: the other argument there too is Steve and I know

1693
01:29:00,280 --> 01:29:02,160
Speaker 1: a lot of coaches over the years have had this

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01:29:02,400 --> 01:29:06,120
Speaker 1: as just a general philosophy. I'm not changing two positions

1695
01:29:06,200 --> 01:29:10,000
Speaker 1: to satisfy one and with this limited amount of time,

1696
01:29:10,680 --> 01:29:12,720
Speaker 1: maybe you don't want to do that. Maybe you just

1697
01:29:13,040 --> 01:29:16,240
Speaker 1: leave everything else alone. No one, you at least would

1698
01:29:16,240 --> 01:29:20,000
Speaker 1: have four out of five starters returning Feliciano's out of

1699
01:29:20,040 --> 01:29:23,120
Speaker 1: the mix for now. Let's just plug that hole and

1700
01:29:23,320 --> 01:29:26,360
Speaker 1: leave everything else alone. Yeah, you don't want You don't

1701
01:29:26,360 --> 01:29:29,560
Speaker 1: want to change two spots to fix one spot, and

1702
01:29:29,840 --> 01:29:32,720
Speaker 1: because by fixing the one, you might have unfixed the

1703
01:29:32,840 --> 01:29:38,639
Speaker 1: other exactly. And that's this offensive line chemistry, and it's

1704
01:29:38,720 --> 01:29:41,760
Speaker 1: the same thing on the defensive line. Rotation given whatever

1705
01:29:41,840 --> 01:29:46,760
Speaker 1: situation they're trying to defend. Is exactly what the preseason's

1706
01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:49,599
Speaker 1: all about. It's exactly what happens through during the run

1707
01:29:49,720 --> 01:29:51,599
Speaker 1: up to the first two weeks of training camp up

1708
01:29:51,600 --> 01:29:54,840
Speaker 1: to the first preseason game and then beyond. You find

1709
01:29:54,920 --> 01:29:57,840
Speaker 1: out what guys can do. And it's not always in

1710
01:29:57,880 --> 01:29:59,439
Speaker 1: the preseason games. A lot of it is in the

1711
01:29:59,520 --> 01:30:04,960
Speaker 1: padded practices as well. But you gotta find out. It's

1712
01:30:05,240 --> 01:30:08,840
Speaker 1: it's you know, human nature. Some guys have a click,

1713
01:30:09,000 --> 01:30:12,479
Speaker 1: they click together, they work better together, they're more productive together.

1714
01:30:12,840 --> 01:30:15,400
Speaker 1: And when you can get that right, the right combination

1715
01:30:16,120 --> 01:30:20,320
Speaker 1: with either offensive linemen or defensive linemen, that's what that

1716
01:30:20,640 --> 01:30:24,800
Speaker 1: whole scenario and training camps designed to find out. Yeah,

1717
01:30:25,000 --> 01:30:27,840
Speaker 1: and now it's you know, they're just gonna have to like, yeah,

1718
01:30:27,920 --> 01:30:31,000
Speaker 1: they're gonna be like, Okay, let's just do this. You know,

1719
01:30:31,560 --> 01:30:33,679
Speaker 1: we have no choice. We're stuck with it. And plus,

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01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:36,200
Speaker 1: even if they do find that, there's no guarantee the

1721
01:30:36,320 --> 01:30:38,400
Speaker 1: line up because Tie and Secky could get hurt and

1722
01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:42,400
Speaker 1: Cody Ford couldn't get hurt or whatever, so um, that

1723
01:30:42,520 --> 01:30:44,600
Speaker 1: could throw a wrench on what they are able to

1724
01:30:44,680 --> 01:30:47,000
Speaker 1: find out. All right, Steve and I have to take

1725
01:30:47,000 --> 01:30:48,560
Speaker 1: a break. We're at the top of the hour, but

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01:30:48,720 --> 01:30:51,759
Speaker 1: coming up after the break will be Business of College

1727
01:30:51,760 --> 01:30:54,840
Speaker 1: sports reporter for the Sports Business Journal one Michael Smith,

1728
01:30:55,160 --> 01:30:57,400
Speaker 1: who has had his ear to the ground on all

1729
01:30:57,600 --> 01:31:03,360
Speaker 1: of the well size developments in college sports and college football.

1730
01:31:03,439 --> 01:31:05,880
Speaker 1: Chiefly is the Power five conferences try to figure out

1731
01:31:05,920 --> 01:31:07,639
Speaker 1: what the heck they're going to do this fall amid

1732
01:31:07,760 --> 01:31:12,120
Speaker 1: COVID and the possible scenario in which the Power five

1733
01:31:12,200 --> 01:31:17,000
Speaker 1: Conference Power five Conferences may separate entirely from the NCAA.

1734
01:31:17,160 --> 01:31:19,240
Speaker 1: We will be talking with Michael about that. On the

1735
01:31:19,360 --> 01:31:22,200
Speaker 1: other side. This is One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida

1736
01:31:22,280 --> 01:31:31,240
Speaker 1: Health here on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Oh What Time by

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01:31:31,320 --> 01:31:51,320
Speaker 1: Steve Claspers, Down Down, Tex Down t wellcome back to

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01:31:51,439 --> 01:31:54,120
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Our number three of the program, Steve

1739
01:31:54,200 --> 01:31:58,040
Speaker 1: Tasker Chris Brown with you and joining us now to

1740
01:31:59,120 --> 01:32:03,599
Speaker 1: share the seismic developments that are happening on the college

1741
01:32:03,600 --> 01:32:06,400
Speaker 1: sports landscape is Business of College Sports, reporter for the

1742
01:32:06,439 --> 01:32:10,400
Speaker 1: Sports Business Journal One Michael Smith, who you can follow

1743
01:32:10,479 --> 01:32:15,479
Speaker 1: on Twitter at Smitty SBJ. Michael, thanks for joining the program.

1744
01:32:15,520 --> 01:32:18,479
Speaker 1: It's good to have you on with us. Hey, it's

1745
01:32:18,520 --> 01:32:20,479
Speaker 1: great to be on with you. I'm a big fan

1746
01:32:20,600 --> 01:32:24,600
Speaker 1: of Steve from back in his playing days, and so

1747
01:32:24,640 --> 01:32:26,920
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool to be on with you guys. Oh,

1748
01:32:27,080 --> 01:32:29,040
Speaker 1: great to have you. Yeah. Well, Steve's got a lot

1749
01:32:29,080 --> 01:32:31,120
Speaker 1: of fans. But I'll let Steve talk to you in

1750
01:32:31,240 --> 01:32:34,479
Speaker 1: just one second, because where I want to start is

1751
01:32:34,680 --> 01:32:36,720
Speaker 1: the thing that opened my eyes the most, and that

1752
01:32:36,960 --> 01:32:40,759
Speaker 1: is what the athletes of the PAC twelve did, chiefly

1753
01:32:40,840 --> 01:32:45,040
Speaker 1: football players, in threatening to opt out of PAC twelve

1754
01:32:45,160 --> 01:32:48,800
Speaker 1: fall camp and games unless their demands were met that

1755
01:32:48,880 --> 01:32:52,759
Speaker 1: I believe they posted on the players Tribune. What kind

1756
01:32:52,880 --> 01:32:57,240
Speaker 1: of legs do you think those demands can realistically have

1757
01:32:57,720 --> 01:33:02,479
Speaker 1: for those athletes? Well, this has been the scenario that, uh,

1758
01:33:03,000 --> 01:33:07,280
Speaker 1: that has been discussed and uh, you know, people who

1759
01:33:07,280 --> 01:33:10,320
Speaker 1: have been curious about for quite some time in terms

1760
01:33:10,360 --> 01:33:14,479
Speaker 1: of how how players should best go about trying to

1761
01:33:14,560 --> 01:33:17,800
Speaker 1: exercise the rights that they have, exercise the leverage that

1762
01:33:17,920 --> 01:33:20,599
Speaker 1: they have, because they do have some even though they're

1763
01:33:20,920 --> 01:33:25,519
Speaker 1: obviously unpaid students, and so you know, it's been discussed

1764
01:33:25,560 --> 01:33:28,920
Speaker 1: as a as a scenario, you know, could could the

1765
01:33:29,080 --> 01:33:33,560
Speaker 1: basketball players boycott the final four or you know what

1766
01:33:33,800 --> 01:33:36,600
Speaker 1: what exactly would be the right platform in order to

1767
01:33:37,520 --> 01:33:40,920
Speaker 1: you know, state their case for some level of compensation

1768
01:33:41,000 --> 01:33:44,080
Speaker 1: beyond what they're getting with the scholarship and the cost

1769
01:33:44,120 --> 01:33:49,560
Speaker 1: of attendance typend And so it's interesting that that you know,

1770
01:33:49,840 --> 01:33:54,560
Speaker 1: it's been during this pandemic that players got together and

1771
01:33:54,680 --> 01:33:59,960
Speaker 1: we're talking about um the different working and practice condition

1772
01:34:00,040 --> 01:34:02,680
Speaker 1: and at the different schools in the Pact twelve, and

1773
01:34:02,800 --> 01:34:07,840
Speaker 1: that led to the discussions about compensation. And so the

1774
01:34:08,000 --> 01:34:12,840
Speaker 1: players that I've read about are really looking at this

1775
01:34:13,040 --> 01:34:19,640
Speaker 1: as two issues that really belong together. The conditions that

1776
01:34:19,760 --> 01:34:26,960
Speaker 1: they're expected to compete in during the pandemic and also

1777
01:34:27,680 --> 01:34:31,840
Speaker 1: the fact that they're unpaid students. They're not employees like

1778
01:34:33,080 --> 01:34:37,559
Speaker 1: like you'd find in the NFL. Michael is a close

1779
01:34:37,600 --> 01:34:41,840
Speaker 1: observative of college sports, and certainly much closer than I'm

1780
01:34:41,960 --> 01:34:45,519
Speaker 1: able to do watching the NFL like I do. How

1781
01:34:45,920 --> 01:34:49,280
Speaker 1: what kind of leadership has the NCA tried to provide?

1782
01:34:49,479 --> 01:34:52,280
Speaker 1: What are they limited by? And what would you have

1783
01:34:52,400 --> 01:34:54,680
Speaker 1: liked to see them do that they didn't do in

1784
01:34:54,760 --> 01:34:56,960
Speaker 1: regards to how these athletes are treated coming back from

1785
01:34:57,320 --> 01:35:01,240
Speaker 1: during the pandemic. Well, that's a good question because right

1786
01:35:01,360 --> 01:35:06,760
Speaker 1: now the leadership of college athletics looks completely splintered. You

1787
01:35:06,880 --> 01:35:10,360
Speaker 1: have the NCUBA, which is led by Mark Emmert. I

1788
01:35:11,160 --> 01:35:13,519
Speaker 1: don't think i've heard anything from the NCUBLEA in weeks.

1789
01:35:14,240 --> 01:35:16,840
Speaker 1: I think they're supposed to meet tomorrow with the Board

1790
01:35:16,840 --> 01:35:20,600
Speaker 1: of Governors meeting to talk about fall sports championships. But

1791
01:35:20,760 --> 01:35:23,599
Speaker 1: we've heard very little from the ncuble A on any

1792
01:35:23,680 --> 01:35:29,599
Speaker 1: of the issues of surrounding racial injustice, and really nothing

1793
01:35:30,040 --> 01:35:33,400
Speaker 1: along the lines of compensation. And then you've got the

1794
01:35:33,600 --> 01:35:38,160
Speaker 1: Power five commissioners who are trying to present themselves as

1795
01:35:38,200 --> 01:35:41,519
Speaker 1: a unified front and the leadership of college football. But

1796
01:35:41,760 --> 01:35:43,880
Speaker 1: what we saw over the last three weeks or so

1797
01:35:44,280 --> 01:35:48,880
Speaker 1: was five conferences going five different directions as far as

1798
01:35:48,960 --> 01:35:50,840
Speaker 1: making out their schedule and how they're going to proceed

1799
01:35:50,920 --> 01:35:54,680
Speaker 1: with the college football season. And so that really I

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01:35:54,760 --> 01:35:57,400
Speaker 1: think highlights one of the issues that you have with

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01:35:57,479 --> 01:36:01,200
Speaker 1: college athletics is is a leadership is spread across so

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01:36:01,280 --> 01:36:03,559
Speaker 1: many different areas and it's so easy to be fractured

1803
01:36:04,400 --> 01:36:09,360
Speaker 1: that it becomes really ineffective. I think. Yeah, So, Michael,

1804
01:36:09,439 --> 01:36:12,360
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, I mean, you've got the Power five conferences,

1805
01:36:12,439 --> 01:36:14,439
Speaker 1: which I think if they could find a way to

1806
01:36:14,479 --> 01:36:17,200
Speaker 1: ban together and you know, whether they have to appoint

1807
01:36:17,240 --> 01:36:22,120
Speaker 1: a commissioner a chancellor of the Power five, like you said,

1808
01:36:22,160 --> 01:36:24,400
Speaker 1: they're going to the opposite direction. They've all put together

1809
01:36:24,479 --> 01:36:27,840
Speaker 1: their conference football schedules and I think three of them

1810
01:36:27,880 --> 01:36:30,360
Speaker 1: are all starting at different times. I mean PAC twelve

1811
01:36:30,520 --> 01:36:33,599
Speaker 1: is September twenty six. I think there's another conference it's

1812
01:36:33,640 --> 01:36:36,160
Speaker 1: three weeks prior to that, starting in August twenty ninth.

1813
01:36:36,240 --> 01:36:38,719
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you could look more divided

1814
01:36:39,160 --> 01:36:43,599
Speaker 1: if you're trying to unify and break away from the NCAA, right, right,

1815
01:36:43,680 --> 01:36:46,320
Speaker 1: And how legitimate is your season if you have all

1816
01:36:46,400 --> 01:36:50,040
Speaker 1: these different conditions. You know, Oklahoma scheduled to open August

1817
01:36:50,080 --> 01:36:53,680
Speaker 1: twenty ninth, like you said, and some of the other

1818
01:36:53,720 --> 01:36:57,360
Speaker 1: conferences as latest September twenty six. At the end of

1819
01:36:57,400 --> 01:36:59,360
Speaker 1: the season, I think there's a pretty good chance if

1820
01:36:59,439 --> 01:37:03,120
Speaker 1: they're able to continue playing that some schools play six

1821
01:37:03,240 --> 01:37:05,679
Speaker 1: or seven games, other schools will play nine or ten games.

1822
01:37:06,520 --> 01:37:08,720
Speaker 1: It's it's going to be really disjointed. It's going to

1823
01:37:08,760 --> 01:37:13,519
Speaker 1: be really hard to determine how legitimate conference champions are,

1824
01:37:14,360 --> 01:37:16,600
Speaker 1: you know, how legitimate the four teams that they end

1825
01:37:16,680 --> 01:37:19,560
Speaker 1: up picking for the playoff will be. There's lots of

1826
01:37:19,760 --> 01:37:22,960
Speaker 1: you know, just lots of questions and lots of inequities

1827
01:37:23,280 --> 01:37:27,160
Speaker 1: in the system that they have now, and so you know,

1828
01:37:27,280 --> 01:37:33,040
Speaker 1: how they go about you know, fixing that is. You know,

1829
01:37:33,520 --> 01:37:35,479
Speaker 1: I've sent out a tweet a few minutes ago saying,

1830
01:37:36,040 --> 01:37:38,160
Speaker 1: maybe it's just time for them to shut down twenty

1831
01:37:38,280 --> 01:37:43,360
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one as a season and just work on

1832
01:37:43,520 --> 01:37:46,920
Speaker 1: fixing the model of college athletics to get to a

1833
01:37:46,960 --> 01:37:51,560
Speaker 1: point where it fits this generation and you know, with

1834
01:37:51,920 --> 01:37:54,000
Speaker 1: you know, with the revenue of everything being what it is,

1835
01:37:54,880 --> 01:37:56,880
Speaker 1: and and just come back in twenty one with a

1836
01:37:56,960 --> 01:38:00,960
Speaker 1: new model that will work, because it definitely doesn't feel

1837
01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:04,360
Speaker 1: like the current model is working, either for the players

1838
01:38:04,520 --> 01:38:08,920
Speaker 1: or for the schools. Michael, that brings up a good point.

1839
01:38:08,960 --> 01:38:11,360
Speaker 1: As you were answering that question, it just crossed my

1840
01:38:11,439 --> 01:38:14,080
Speaker 1: mind if you go down further and further down this

1841
01:38:14,360 --> 01:38:19,680
Speaker 1: kind of rabbit hole of fixing college sports. You know,

1842
01:38:19,720 --> 01:38:22,120
Speaker 1: a lot of people we've criticized, I mean included, have

1843
01:38:22,200 --> 01:38:25,679
Speaker 1: criticized the NCAA and the decision of the decisions they've

1844
01:38:25,720 --> 01:38:31,280
Speaker 1: made over the years. Some seemed arbitrary, some seemed patently unfair. Certainly,

1845
01:38:31,680 --> 01:38:34,400
Speaker 1: the case for compensation of players and their likenesses and

1846
01:38:34,439 --> 01:38:37,720
Speaker 1: their names while there the university seems to be making

1847
01:38:38,000 --> 01:38:42,560
Speaker 1: money off of them seems unfair and not right. But

1848
01:38:42,720 --> 01:38:45,360
Speaker 1: then again, I go down that rabbit hole and I think, well, wait,

1849
01:38:45,400 --> 01:38:47,240
Speaker 1: a minute. If they want to do away with the

1850
01:38:47,360 --> 01:38:50,400
Speaker 1: NCA or fix everything, it may be one of those

1851
01:38:50,439 --> 01:38:53,080
Speaker 1: situations where you might want to be careful of what

1852
01:38:53,200 --> 01:38:56,320
Speaker 1: you ask for because you just might get it. What

1853
01:38:56,640 --> 01:39:01,080
Speaker 1: ultimately might college sports look like, Well, you know, there's

1854
01:39:01,120 --> 01:39:04,320
Speaker 1: some other radical ideas out there. I mean, you know,

1855
01:39:04,800 --> 01:39:07,840
Speaker 1: one idea is to do away with athletic scholarships so

1856
01:39:08,160 --> 01:39:11,840
Speaker 1: that the players who are out there on the field

1857
01:39:11,880 --> 01:39:16,040
Speaker 1: for the schools are truly students in the sense that

1858
01:39:17,640 --> 01:39:23,720
Speaker 1: you know, they're they're not really treated completely differently than

1859
01:39:23,760 --> 01:39:25,760
Speaker 1: the rest of the student body like they are now.

1860
01:39:26,439 --> 01:39:29,280
Speaker 1: The other way is to go you know completely well,

1861
01:39:29,640 --> 01:39:31,560
Speaker 1: let me finish that thought. If you go without the

1862
01:39:31,600 --> 01:39:34,439
Speaker 1: athletic scholarships, that would leave the NFL up to you know,

1863
01:39:35,000 --> 01:39:36,720
Speaker 1: leave it up to the NFL to create its own

1864
01:39:36,800 --> 01:39:39,280
Speaker 1: minor league system, because obviously that's what college football has

1865
01:39:39,320 --> 01:39:42,000
Speaker 1: been for so long. The other side of the spectrum

1866
01:39:42,720 --> 01:39:45,880
Speaker 1: would be to go to an employer or employee model

1867
01:39:46,800 --> 01:39:50,080
Speaker 1: where the athletes, instead of being paid a scholarship so

1868
01:39:50,200 --> 01:39:53,400
Speaker 1: to speak, would be paid an actual salary based on

1869
01:39:53,560 --> 01:39:56,719
Speaker 1: some type of revenue share agreement like you you would

1870
01:39:56,760 --> 01:39:59,479
Speaker 1: have with the NFL and the players Union, you know,

1871
01:40:00,320 --> 01:40:02,519
Speaker 1: some kind of like fifty percent split of revenue and

1872
01:40:02,560 --> 01:40:06,120
Speaker 1: that sort of things. But you know, the reason I

1873
01:40:06,200 --> 01:40:08,920
Speaker 1: said just shut it down for twenty twenty one and

1874
01:40:09,760 --> 01:40:13,080
Speaker 1: work on getting it right now is because they keep

1875
01:40:13,240 --> 01:40:18,479
Speaker 1: going through these smaller steps of resetting the market with

1876
01:40:19,200 --> 01:40:23,400
Speaker 1: with the with the college model, and instead of just

1877
01:40:23,560 --> 01:40:25,800
Speaker 1: doing this and making it last so long over time,

1878
01:40:26,680 --> 01:40:28,680
Speaker 1: go ahead and shut it down for for one year,

1879
01:40:29,720 --> 01:40:31,760
Speaker 1: get it right, and then come back in twenty one

1880
01:40:32,040 --> 01:40:37,000
Speaker 1: with the new model to debut, because you know, we're

1881
01:40:37,080 --> 01:40:40,880
Speaker 1: going through a resetting of college athletics, college football specifically,

1882
01:40:41,640 --> 01:40:45,360
Speaker 1: and it's feels like it's not going to go very

1883
01:40:45,400 --> 01:40:48,479
Speaker 1: well based on what it's seemed so far. Right and

1884
01:40:48,760 --> 01:40:53,000
Speaker 1: and the we're talking to Michael Smith, the college sports

1885
01:40:53,080 --> 01:40:58,360
Speaker 1: business reporter for the Sports Business Journal, And the thing

1886
01:40:58,439 --> 01:41:01,599
Speaker 1: that is the fly in the ointment here, Michael, obviously,

1887
01:41:01,720 --> 01:41:04,240
Speaker 1: is the fact that these institutions also have to conduct

1888
01:41:04,320 --> 01:41:08,200
Speaker 1: classes and teach students, which is obviously something that professional

1889
01:41:08,240 --> 01:41:10,880
Speaker 1: sports doesn't have to do. So depending on the size

1890
01:41:10,880 --> 01:41:12,639
Speaker 1: of the school, you got an extra ten twenty thousand

1891
01:41:13,040 --> 01:41:16,719
Speaker 1: people in close proximity to your athletes, you know, trapes

1892
01:41:16,760 --> 01:41:19,320
Speaker 1: and around on campus. But In some cases, the decision

1893
01:41:19,360 --> 01:41:21,599
Speaker 1: has already been made, as I understand it. Packed twelve,

1894
01:41:21,680 --> 01:41:25,280
Speaker 1: for example, Washington State says all classes remotely online for

1895
01:41:25,360 --> 01:41:29,960
Speaker 1: the fall Stanford, as you guys have outlined in your publication,

1896
01:41:30,600 --> 01:41:33,320
Speaker 1: two class years on campus at a time, So I'm

1897
01:41:33,360 --> 01:41:36,800
Speaker 1: guessing that's freshman and sophomores, you know, one day, I

1898
01:41:36,840 --> 01:41:39,160
Speaker 1: don't know if they're alternating, and then cal is all

1899
01:41:39,280 --> 01:41:42,640
Speaker 1: remote learning for the fall semester. So you know, I

1900
01:41:42,760 --> 01:41:45,479
Speaker 1: know you're you're talking about just push it all to

1901
01:41:45,560 --> 01:41:48,240
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one and figure it out then. But you know,

1902
01:41:48,360 --> 01:41:51,439
Speaker 1: the business that these Power five conferences are, and the

1903
01:41:51,600 --> 01:41:54,200
Speaker 1: money and the revenue that they generate, can you foresee

1904
01:41:54,320 --> 01:41:58,160
Speaker 1: any possible way that they don't go. They're gonna have

1905
01:41:58,200 --> 01:42:00,600
Speaker 1: to get kicked and dragged to twenty twenty one with

1906
01:42:00,680 --> 01:42:05,400
Speaker 1: no sports, right, Yeah, you know, it wasn't that long ago,

1907
01:42:05,479 --> 01:42:07,680
Speaker 1: maybe a couple months ago. I remember Jane Smith, the

1908
01:42:07,720 --> 01:42:09,640
Speaker 1: athlete director at HI, to say, sin, if it's not

1909
01:42:09,760 --> 01:42:13,120
Speaker 1: safe enough on campus for regular students to be there

1910
01:42:13,320 --> 01:42:17,360
Speaker 1: for class, it's not safe enough for athletes to be there. Well,

1911
01:42:18,200 --> 01:42:19,960
Speaker 1: I guess that kind of went out the window, right,

1912
01:42:20,000 --> 01:42:22,920
Speaker 1: because we're seeing We're seeing plenty of campuses that are

1913
01:42:23,000 --> 01:42:25,960
Speaker 1: not going to have in person classes, They're going to

1914
01:42:26,200 --> 01:42:30,200
Speaker 1: be teaching remotely, but they're still planning on playing football.

1915
01:42:31,320 --> 01:42:34,519
Speaker 1: And so, you know, I think the bottom line is

1916
01:42:35,439 --> 01:42:38,320
Speaker 1: obviously it's it's money, it's revenue, but the bottom line

1917
01:42:38,400 --> 01:42:41,839
Speaker 1: is that there are there are people in athletics who

1918
01:42:41,840 --> 01:42:45,000
Speaker 1: have made this their professional life who we're going to

1919
01:42:45,040 --> 01:42:50,200
Speaker 1: lose their jobs because of the revenue loss. That of

1920
01:42:50,840 --> 01:42:56,000
Speaker 1: the college athletic departments are getting ready to face and

1921
01:42:56,360 --> 01:42:58,600
Speaker 1: UM and I think I think what we're seeing is

1922
01:42:58,640 --> 01:43:03,519
Speaker 1: we're seeing schools scramble and conferences scramble to put together

1923
01:43:04,040 --> 01:43:05,920
Speaker 1: some kind of a season to salvage some of this

1924
01:43:06,560 --> 01:43:12,479
Speaker 1: TV rights revenue to help prop up the flete department

1925
01:43:12,520 --> 01:43:15,160
Speaker 1: to try to get to next year. You know, they

1926
01:43:15,200 --> 01:43:17,640
Speaker 1: know they're going to take a hit some estimate ten

1927
01:43:17,720 --> 01:43:20,840
Speaker 1: to twenty percent, maybe even more, but they're trying to

1928
01:43:20,920 --> 01:43:24,240
Speaker 1: salvage as much as they can. And now we're starting

1929
01:43:24,280 --> 01:43:27,840
Speaker 1: to see the athletes to push back. Yeah, it's going

1930
01:43:27,920 --> 01:43:30,519
Speaker 1: to be very interesting. Michael. We thank you very much

1931
01:43:30,560 --> 01:43:33,320
Speaker 1: for your insight. That's Business of College Sports. Reporter for

1932
01:43:33,360 --> 01:43:35,799
Speaker 1: the Sports Business Journal, Michael Smith joining us on the program.

1933
01:43:35,920 --> 01:43:37,840
Speaker 1: Glad you had a chance to talk to Steve, and

1934
01:43:37,920 --> 01:43:42,880
Speaker 1: again we appreciate your insight. Thanks a lot, guys, All right,

1935
01:43:42,960 --> 01:43:46,360
Speaker 1: take care, Mike, I appreciate you. That's Michael Smith joining

1936
01:43:46,439 --> 01:43:49,360
Speaker 1: us from the Sports Business Journal. He and his colleagues

1937
01:43:49,400 --> 01:43:52,719
Speaker 1: they really have their ear to the ground on where

1938
01:43:52,840 --> 01:43:55,000
Speaker 1: all of this is headed, and it's going in a

1939
01:43:55,200 --> 01:43:59,160
Speaker 1: ton of different directions depending on which conference you're dealing with, Steve,

1940
01:43:59,320 --> 01:44:02,400
Speaker 1: it is. I mean, it's a hot mess. It is

1941
01:44:02,479 --> 01:44:06,120
Speaker 1: a hot mess. I mean you have the ACC, the SEC,

1942
01:44:06,680 --> 01:44:09,240
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve, and the Big twelve. They've all kind

1943
01:44:09,280 --> 01:44:13,160
Speaker 1: of unveiled conference schedules in one form or another. Ten games,

1944
01:44:13,200 --> 01:44:16,639
Speaker 1: eleven games based on however many teams they have. Three

1945
01:44:16,720 --> 01:44:19,720
Speaker 1: of them have different start dates, like as you heard

1946
01:44:19,800 --> 01:44:22,439
Speaker 1: Michael say, Oklahoma in the Big twelve they opened August

1947
01:44:22,479 --> 01:44:25,080
Speaker 1: twenty ninth. The PAC twelve schedule doesn't start until Friday,

1948
01:44:25,120 --> 01:44:28,800
Speaker 1: September twenty six. It's like a month later. Rights, I mean,

1949
01:44:28,880 --> 01:44:32,160
Speaker 1: it's unprecedented. Here's the thing, and this is you going

1950
01:44:32,240 --> 01:44:34,840
Speaker 1: back into the history of the national of the NCAA.

1951
01:44:36,120 --> 01:44:41,280
Speaker 1: It was begun by FDR in the thirties when they

1952
01:44:41,360 --> 01:44:43,840
Speaker 1: said they had college football back then. It was a

1953
01:44:43,960 --> 01:44:46,040
Speaker 1: mess back then, and you had guys, you had kids

1954
01:44:46,120 --> 01:44:48,920
Speaker 1: dying on the field of governing body, right, and the

1955
01:44:49,280 --> 01:44:51,759
Speaker 1: President of the United States FDR I think it was FDR.

1956
01:44:51,840 --> 01:44:53,680
Speaker 1: Maybe it's Teddy Roosevelt one of them. I don't know,

1957
01:44:54,439 --> 01:44:56,280
Speaker 1: but the President stepped in and said, listen, you better

1958
01:44:56,320 --> 01:44:59,960
Speaker 1: fix it, or I will. So the NCAA was an institute,

1959
01:45:00,720 --> 01:45:03,680
Speaker 1: and that's how it got into existence because it was

1960
01:45:03,760 --> 01:45:07,640
Speaker 1: for the safety of the athletes in regards to the

1961
01:45:07,680 --> 01:45:09,360
Speaker 1: sports that they played. They had to govern the sport,

1962
01:45:09,400 --> 01:45:11,799
Speaker 1: they had to clean the sport itself up, let alone

1963
01:45:11,880 --> 01:45:14,560
Speaker 1: how the sport operated behind the scenes, and scholarships and

1964
01:45:14,640 --> 01:45:17,439
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. But the nca was begun because

1965
01:45:17,479 --> 01:45:21,320
Speaker 1: of that. And now you know, everything's different now. It's

1966
01:45:21,439 --> 01:45:26,559
Speaker 1: it's seventy five eighty years different, now, ninety years different.

1967
01:45:26,640 --> 01:45:29,680
Speaker 1: So it's billions of dollars in revenue now, which I

1968
01:45:29,720 --> 01:45:33,040
Speaker 1: don't think they even foresaw back then. That's right, and

1969
01:45:33,360 --> 01:45:36,080
Speaker 1: so the whole landscape is different, and I think it's

1970
01:45:36,200 --> 01:45:39,840
Speaker 1: time for a big reset going forward. I think Michael

1971
01:45:39,840 --> 01:45:42,519
Speaker 1: Smith just told us. I think he's right. They should

1972
01:45:42,600 --> 01:45:46,840
Speaker 1: use this hiatus as a way to you know, chart

1973
01:45:46,880 --> 01:45:49,240
Speaker 1: a new course, chart a new course and take a

1974
01:45:49,320 --> 01:45:53,360
Speaker 1: different philosophy, maybe look at their fundamental mode of operating,

1975
01:45:53,600 --> 01:45:56,439
Speaker 1: and you know, help these kids in more ways than

1976
01:45:56,560 --> 01:46:00,280
Speaker 1: just trading a free education for their serve on the

1977
01:46:00,320 --> 01:46:02,920
Speaker 1: football field for an athletic department. And they're asking for

1978
01:46:03,040 --> 01:46:05,400
Speaker 1: it already. I mean, I was impressed with the demands

1979
01:46:05,439 --> 01:46:07,400
Speaker 1: of these Pack twelve athletes and what they listed here.

1980
01:46:07,439 --> 01:46:09,960
Speaker 1: I think some of it's a pipe dream. I don't

1981
01:46:09,960 --> 01:46:12,479
Speaker 1: think they're getting everything on this list, but hey, if

1982
01:46:12,520 --> 01:46:16,479
Speaker 1: you're asking, why not, right, So here's just a few

1983
01:46:16,520 --> 01:46:19,559
Speaker 1: of the things, Steve. They want a fifty fifty revenue

1984
01:46:19,600 --> 01:46:25,160
Speaker 1: split among athletes, guaranteed medical expense coverage including COVID. They

1985
01:46:25,240 --> 01:46:28,559
Speaker 1: want six year A scholarships. I don't think they're getting

1986
01:46:28,600 --> 01:46:32,160
Speaker 1: that two percent of conference revenue to go to financial

1987
01:46:32,200 --> 01:46:35,679
Speaker 1: aid for low income black players, community initiatives and development programs.

1988
01:46:35,720 --> 01:46:39,560
Speaker 1: I can get behind that. No loss of scholarship or

1989
01:46:39,680 --> 01:46:42,760
Speaker 1: college eligibility if a player chooses to opt out this year.

1990
01:46:43,640 --> 01:46:49,200
Speaker 1: Increased testing for COVID, because apparently that is not nearly

1991
01:46:49,320 --> 01:46:52,000
Speaker 1: what it is at the professional level with pro sports,

1992
01:46:52,880 --> 01:46:55,720
Speaker 1: aim image and likeness rights as they have discussed ad

1993
01:46:55,880 --> 01:46:59,320
Speaker 1: nauseum over the last six months, and not to have

1994
01:47:00,240 --> 01:47:03,920
Speaker 1: to waive their rights with a liability form, which, according

1995
01:47:04,000 --> 01:47:06,160
Speaker 1: to the reports we've seen in the Sports Business Journal,

1996
01:47:06,479 --> 01:47:09,519
Speaker 1: has already happened at a lot of these institutions. Oh, here,

1997
01:47:09,600 --> 01:47:11,920
Speaker 1: sign this, It's just a liability form. Don't worry about it.

1998
01:47:12,320 --> 01:47:15,439
Speaker 1: Correct where if they come down with COVID and god forbid,

1999
01:47:15,560 --> 01:47:19,400
Speaker 1: have an adverse reaction or permanent lung damage and can't

2000
01:47:19,439 --> 01:47:22,320
Speaker 1: play sports ever again. You know, think about this, Steve,

2001
01:47:22,360 --> 01:47:25,800
Speaker 1: You've got You've got a high level college athlete who's

2002
01:47:25,800 --> 01:47:28,479
Speaker 1: got a chance at an NFL career. He decides to

2003
01:47:28,560 --> 01:47:33,200
Speaker 1: play in the fall this year, contracts COVID has permanent

2004
01:47:33,320 --> 01:47:35,880
Speaker 1: lung damage. That could be the difference between him having

2005
01:47:35,920 --> 01:47:39,320
Speaker 1: an NFL career or not. So I mean, and you're

2006
01:47:39,360 --> 01:47:41,759
Speaker 1: gonna let him sign. You're gonna sign a liability form

2007
01:47:41,800 --> 01:47:46,400
Speaker 1: and you know, completely indemnify your college institution. No way, Jose,

2008
01:47:46,720 --> 01:47:49,880
Speaker 1: Yeah you can. You can construe, you know, the circumstances

2009
01:47:49,960 --> 01:47:53,160
Speaker 1: into any any form you want. The simple fact of

2010
01:47:53,200 --> 01:47:57,000
Speaker 1: the matter is there's so much unknown out there, how

2011
01:47:57,200 --> 01:48:00,559
Speaker 1: how serious the COVID virus would affect each individual person,

2012
01:48:01,000 --> 01:48:04,799
Speaker 1: is in question. Uh. The virulent nature of the virus

2013
01:48:04,920 --> 01:48:07,639
Speaker 1: means everybody's in danger if somebody on the team comes

2014
01:48:07,720 --> 01:48:12,760
Speaker 1: down with it. It's incredibly contagious. The question marks surrounding

2015
01:48:12,800 --> 01:48:20,800
Speaker 1: it are mind bogglingly high. And you you're asking these

2016
01:48:20,840 --> 01:48:23,880
Speaker 1: guys to go out and play football. And my question

2017
01:48:23,960 --> 01:48:26,439
Speaker 1: would be why, because you gave him a free education.

2018
01:48:27,560 --> 01:48:30,320
Speaker 1: Listen to football seasons. It's not their fault. The football

2019
01:48:30,360 --> 01:48:34,559
Speaker 1: season's done. And to have these guys, have these kids

2020
01:48:35,400 --> 01:48:39,760
Speaker 1: like give up a scholarship because I come on, what

2021
01:48:39,880 --> 01:48:43,040
Speaker 1: are you? What are you out a dorm room that

2022
01:48:43,080 --> 01:48:45,519
Speaker 1: you're not gonna rent to anybody else anyway? And what

2023
01:48:45,640 --> 01:48:49,960
Speaker 1: a meal plan? Give me a break. Yeah, and these

2024
01:48:50,120 --> 01:48:54,760
Speaker 1: these athletes should not pay any penalty in any regard way,

2025
01:48:54,800 --> 01:48:59,360
Speaker 1: shape or form. They've already lost a season probably and

2026
01:49:00,000 --> 01:49:03,080
Speaker 1: to come in and you're asking them to risk their health,

2027
01:49:03,760 --> 01:49:06,519
Speaker 1: I don't care. If it's a common coal, you got

2028
01:49:06,600 --> 01:49:08,760
Speaker 1: no right to do it. Yeah, you have no right

2029
01:49:08,800 --> 01:49:12,040
Speaker 1: to do it and profit off of them because it's

2030
01:49:12,040 --> 01:49:14,160
Speaker 1: above and beyond what was agreed to when they signed

2031
01:49:14,160 --> 01:49:17,720
Speaker 1: their scholarship. Yeah, it doesn't matter. It's it's above and

2032
01:49:17,760 --> 01:49:21,280
Speaker 1: beyond what the deal has been over when when I

2033
01:49:21,400 --> 01:49:23,599
Speaker 1: was on scholarship, when every guy after me and before

2034
01:49:23,640 --> 01:49:26,280
Speaker 1: me was on scholarship. This is above and beyond so

2035
01:49:27,400 --> 01:49:29,120
Speaker 1: that you're just gonna have to take it on the change.

2036
01:49:29,520 --> 01:49:33,880
Speaker 1: You're a state run institution anyway, good grief, Yeah, I mean,

2037
01:49:34,000 --> 01:49:37,240
Speaker 1: and takes me crazy. And on a much larger level,

2038
01:49:37,760 --> 01:49:39,840
Speaker 1: you know, it's even separate from the athletes are all

2039
01:49:40,000 --> 01:49:43,519
Speaker 1: are these Power five conferences getting too big for their

2040
01:49:43,560 --> 01:49:46,920
Speaker 1: britches and challenging the NCAA to the point where there's

2041
01:49:47,160 --> 01:49:49,479
Speaker 1: you know, the SI dot Com reported this last week

2042
01:49:50,400 --> 01:49:55,240
Speaker 1: over the weekend, where they may decide to split away

2043
01:49:55,280 --> 01:49:59,120
Speaker 1: from the NCAA and do their own thing. But that's

2044
01:49:59,160 --> 01:50:01,960
Speaker 1: been I've heard rumors of that for for a long

2045
01:50:02,080 --> 01:50:06,040
Speaker 1: time years now. They're so because they can. They'll govern

2046
01:50:06,160 --> 01:50:08,800
Speaker 1: themselves right, because they don't want to share the fun,

2047
01:50:08,920 --> 01:50:13,120
Speaker 1: the revenue, um, you know. And on top of that, um,

2048
01:50:14,080 --> 01:50:17,000
Speaker 1: there are a number of different issues that are at

2049
01:50:17,040 --> 01:50:21,799
Speaker 1: play there because while they do have their own staging

2050
01:50:21,960 --> 01:50:25,800
Speaker 1: for the college football playoff, the Power five conferences, the

2051
01:50:26,000 --> 01:50:29,680
Speaker 1: NCAA stage is all the other sporting championships, you know, volleyball,

2052
01:50:29,920 --> 01:50:34,640
Speaker 1: oh yeah, basketball, baseball, you know, in Omaha where you

2053
01:50:34,840 --> 01:50:37,680
Speaker 1: name it. They stage all those other things. I think

2054
01:50:37,720 --> 01:50:41,240
Speaker 1: it's sixty five others championships between the spring, winter and

2055
01:50:41,360 --> 01:50:45,080
Speaker 1: fall and spring, winter and fall, So you want to

2056
01:50:45,160 --> 01:50:48,000
Speaker 1: undertake all that. I don't know. The Power five would

2057
01:50:48,000 --> 01:50:51,160
Speaker 1: be the Power five Football Conference. There are other sports

2058
01:50:51,240 --> 01:50:54,960
Speaker 1: would probably be, you know, they they would probably go.

2059
01:50:55,320 --> 01:50:57,519
Speaker 1: If you're not, if you're not, yeah, if you're not,

2060
01:50:58,200 --> 01:51:01,679
Speaker 1: if you're not a money sport, everything else there's three.

2061
01:51:02,439 --> 01:51:06,120
Speaker 1: Everything else's Division three. No scholarships, no help, no nothing.

2062
01:51:06,200 --> 01:51:07,880
Speaker 1: You can come to Ohio State, but if you want

2063
01:51:07,920 --> 01:51:10,559
Speaker 1: to play on the golf team, you know you're gonna

2064
01:51:10,600 --> 01:51:13,560
Speaker 1: you're gonna pay your own way. You know, that's just

2065
01:51:13,640 --> 01:51:16,240
Speaker 1: the way it will be. Could be a very but

2066
01:51:16,360 --> 01:51:20,120
Speaker 1: then again, an animal. Don't don't forget this. The impact

2067
01:51:20,280 --> 01:51:24,960
Speaker 1: that boosters have on college sports even now is enormous.

2068
01:51:25,400 --> 01:51:28,839
Speaker 1: They're the ones who pay the coaches eight million dollars salary,

2069
01:51:29,280 --> 01:51:31,720
Speaker 1: you know, they're the ones who set who you know,

2070
01:51:32,720 --> 01:51:37,440
Speaker 1: you know, foot the bill for the multimillion dollar facilities

2071
01:51:37,520 --> 01:51:39,839
Speaker 1: these guys enjoy. It's not the it's not the college

2072
01:51:39,880 --> 01:51:42,320
Speaker 1: that does it's the boosters that do it. So you

2073
01:51:42,400 --> 01:51:44,600
Speaker 1: could have an you know, an Ohio State alum like

2074
01:51:44,720 --> 01:51:47,000
Speaker 1: Jack Nicholas could say yes, and I'm all endowed three

2075
01:51:47,080 --> 01:51:50,160
Speaker 1: scholarships a year for your golf team. You know that

2076
01:51:50,360 --> 01:51:53,080
Speaker 1: kind of thing. But that's how That's basically how it's

2077
01:51:53,120 --> 01:51:56,000
Speaker 1: done in football this these days. Except for the money

2078
01:51:56,120 --> 01:52:02,759
Speaker 1: generated by TV and and uh the NCAA and bowl games.

2079
01:52:03,040 --> 01:52:07,519
Speaker 1: You know, the money isn't like it is in the

2080
01:52:07,560 --> 01:52:11,320
Speaker 1: pro football world. It comes from different sources. It comes

2081
01:52:11,360 --> 01:52:15,280
Speaker 1: from very different sources. It's multi The college football landscape

2082
01:52:15,439 --> 01:52:18,679
Speaker 1: is so multilayered in comparison to the NFL. You can't

2083
01:52:18,760 --> 01:52:21,240
Speaker 1: keep track of all the tentacles. You really can't. But

2084
01:52:21,360 --> 01:52:23,080
Speaker 1: that's part of the reason why we wanted to get

2085
01:52:23,120 --> 01:52:26,479
Speaker 1: Michael Smith on to kind of lay out what the

2086
01:52:26,640 --> 01:52:30,599
Speaker 1: landscape is like here in college football. Because as as

2087
01:52:30,720 --> 01:52:33,920
Speaker 1: fascinating as it's going to be to watch the NFL

2088
01:52:34,479 --> 01:52:37,280
Speaker 1: try to ramp up and prepare for a regular season

2089
01:52:37,320 --> 01:52:43,400
Speaker 1: amidst this pandemic college football, it's more than just will

2090
01:52:43,520 --> 01:52:46,840
Speaker 1: they play. The second question is will it ever look

2091
01:52:46,920 --> 01:52:50,400
Speaker 1: the same again? Based on what these Power five conferences

2092
01:52:50,520 --> 01:52:53,640
Speaker 1: want to do and what the NCAA is trying to

2093
01:52:53,760 --> 01:52:57,479
Speaker 1: keep intact, it is it is fascinating. Here's the difference, Brownie.

2094
01:52:58,000 --> 01:53:01,960
Speaker 1: The NFL badly wants to get back to normal because

2095
01:53:02,080 --> 01:53:06,679
Speaker 1: their business model is a monster. It works perfect, it's airtight.

2096
01:53:06,760 --> 01:53:10,000
Speaker 1: I mean that that baby is you can blow it

2097
01:53:10,120 --> 01:53:12,479
Speaker 1: up with whatever gas you want. It's gonna hold it right.

2098
01:53:12,560 --> 01:53:16,080
Speaker 1: I mean this that thing is is is a machine.

2099
01:53:16,160 --> 01:53:21,280
Speaker 1: It's a cash cow now NCAA. It's busted and busted bad.

2100
01:53:22,120 --> 01:53:26,720
Speaker 1: And this is something that's gonna not only accentuate how

2101
01:53:26,840 --> 01:53:30,880
Speaker 1: broken it is, it also accentuates the value system that

2102
01:53:31,040 --> 01:53:33,960
Speaker 1: is in place that it runs off of, which is

2103
01:53:34,000 --> 01:53:38,439
Speaker 1: a skew to say the least. And it's it's the

2104
01:53:38,600 --> 01:53:42,519
Speaker 1: perfect opportunity for it to, like you said, just go

2105
01:53:42,720 --> 01:53:45,599
Speaker 1: off in another whole direction and get a big, huge

2106
01:53:45,680 --> 01:53:48,320
Speaker 1: reset the way it did back in the early nineteenth century.

2107
01:53:48,800 --> 01:53:51,360
Speaker 1: That this is the perfect time for that. If there

2108
01:53:51,479 --> 01:53:56,800
Speaker 1: was leadership with the juice and the will to put

2109
01:53:56,840 --> 01:53:59,280
Speaker 1: it out there and make it happens, it's gonna be

2110
01:53:59,400 --> 01:54:02,200
Speaker 1: fascinating to watch on multiple levels. So that's why we

2111
01:54:02,280 --> 01:54:04,360
Speaker 1: wanted to touch on that subject on today's show. So

2112
01:54:04,479 --> 01:54:07,320
Speaker 1: thanks to Michael Smith for helping explain some of that

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Speaker 1: and some of what's going on and we'll go on

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Speaker 1: for the face of college football, in the future of

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Speaker 1: college football in the NCAA going forward. Chris Brown, Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker with you. Got a break here at the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the hour, but some interesting NFL true false to

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Speaker 1: get to on the other side, which involves some NFL quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: And we'll reset and check in with the Twitter poll

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Speaker 1: to see where you folks are coming down on how

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Speaker 1: you think the NFL product on the field will be

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Speaker 1: different at the start of the twenty twenty season. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you here on One Bill's Live presented

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Speaker 1: by Collid to Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Okay, we'll

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Speaker 1: beginning to true falls here the final half hour program

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Speaker 1: in just a minute, but not before we check back

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Speaker 1: in with our here fills not you see where you

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Speaker 1: guys stand with respect to what you think the NFL's

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01:55:09,480 --> 01:55:12,000
Speaker 1: hanfield product will look like at the start of this season.

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01:55:12,480 --> 01:55:14,920
Speaker 1: What is the biggest way that it might be different

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Speaker 1: with all of the adjustment that these teams have to make.

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Speaker 1: No offseason practices up until well about ten days from now.

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Speaker 1: Even now, they're just doing walkthroughs and strength and conditioning work.

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Speaker 1: No real football yet. Even out of pads to this point,

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Speaker 1: do you think it's going to be lack of offensive execution,

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Speaker 1: a rash of injuries, a change in the broadcast presentation,

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Speaker 1: or something else, And right now the leader, but not

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Speaker 1: by much, Steve is rash of injuries, which is where

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Speaker 1: things were at the start of the early voting, and

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Speaker 1: right behind them behind it lack of offensive execution, which

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Speaker 1: is where I voted Steve, and I think you were

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Speaker 1: in the same boat, right yeah, I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: all these things are going to be a little different,

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Speaker 1: but I think the biggest difference is gonna be that

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Speaker 1: offense is gonna struggle to score points for a month.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna literally is gonna be able long right, Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean it'll be incremental growth, you know, but I

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Speaker 1: think there's just gonna be a lot of problems with God,

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Speaker 1: with teams trying to move the football against the defense.

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Speaker 1: He's just gonna put its tears back and come after him.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know what happens is early in the season, Brownie,

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Speaker 1: and think about it. You got you're on a new team,

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01:56:27,000 --> 01:56:29,480
Speaker 1: You got all these intricacies, and you gotta you learn

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01:56:29,560 --> 01:56:31,760
Speaker 1: the new language, and then all of a sudden you

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01:56:31,840 --> 01:56:33,440
Speaker 1: get in and all of a sudden, they're bringing guys

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Speaker 1: from tim Buck two on a blitz, you know, or

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Speaker 1: a safety blitz. They got defensive tackles dropping out into coverage.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're you're thinking, Aaron Donald, You're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to bear up and step into him and get him

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Speaker 1: before he gets going. And all of a sudden, he

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Speaker 1: backs out in the corner, goes right by your ear

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Speaker 1: and hit your quarterback in the mouth. So all that

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Speaker 1: stuff happens early, and you guys just aren't ready for it.

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Speaker 1: They don't get enough reps with it. And offensive lineman

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Speaker 1: don't know you know exactly when a guy gets a

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Speaker 1: late call on a line call, when the defense of line,

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Speaker 1: defensive line shifts laid in the snap count, you know

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Speaker 1: all that stuff. You look bad. I mean I've gone through.

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Speaker 1: I was a part of that k gun offense in

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Speaker 1: the nineties and in early in training camps, we look horrible. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and we had Hall of famers everywhere. We looked horrible

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Speaker 1: because the defense just you know, I'm supposed I'm gonna go,

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Speaker 1: you know, and it's it is ugly brown and it

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Speaker 1: is and it's everywhere everywhere. I don't care. If you're

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Speaker 1: Drew Brees and Sean Payton, the defense makes you look

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Speaker 1: horrible in the first, you know, week or two of

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Speaker 1: two weeks of practice and plus building as defenses. They

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Speaker 1: got zero film on zero Yes, not even the vanilla

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Speaker 1: stuff from the preseason. You can't even look how a

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Speaker 1: guy moves on film. Yeah, you don't have any of that,

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Speaker 1: none of it. Yeah, you're probably right. It probably will

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Speaker 1: go a month or so. Uh let's take let's check

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Speaker 1: back in with the tweet sheet from Tiffany. She says,

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Speaker 1: with limited football contact, I believe injuries will have the

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Speaker 1: biggest impact this season. The offseason is designed to ramp

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Speaker 1: up football activity and get players ready to play the

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Speaker 1: most physical game on the planet. Teams are going to

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Speaker 1: need deep, flexible rosters to survive. And this is where

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Speaker 1: our majority has been sitting today. They fear that there

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Speaker 1: will be a rash of injuries. And look, I don't

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Speaker 1: care what kind of acclamation period you have when you

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Speaker 1: don't have four preseason games. While I understand the need

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Speaker 1: to reduce the exposure for COVID, totally get it, but

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Speaker 1: as far as the football product, the absence of four

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Speaker 1: preseason games is going to dramatically impact the execution that

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Speaker 1: you see on the field, and as Tiffany points out,

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Speaker 1: you're probably gonna have a few more injuries because well,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I've ever talked to you about

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Speaker 1: this subject, Steve, but I've talked to dozens of players

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Speaker 1: about this, and the majority of them are the vast

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Speaker 1: opinion that or the popular opinion that you have to

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Speaker 1: callous your body up for regular season football in training

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Speaker 1: camp in the preseason. I don't know where you come

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Speaker 1: down on that, but most of the players I've talked

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Speaker 1: to over the years have said, yeah, you kind of gotta.

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Speaker 1: You gotta develop almost that callous, thick skin for the

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Speaker 1: kinds of impacts you're gonna be dealing with on Sundays.

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Speaker 1: I get it, and you're right, I think that for me,

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Speaker 1: and I'm just I'm just going with the medical experts

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Speaker 1: and the union too. Well. Yeah, and what the data

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Speaker 1: said from the twenty eleven lockout, right, they're saying a

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Speaker 1: slow start ramping up is the way to go because

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Speaker 1: so many players come in and I know I've did

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Speaker 1: this too. You know you're gonna get tested when you

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01:59:51,800 --> 01:59:53,680
Speaker 1: get to the facility, right, You're gonna have to do

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Speaker 1: a bench press test, You're gonna have to do a

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Speaker 1: vertical jump or what it bodies that conditioning tests and

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Speaker 1: all that. So, you know, guys would come into training camp,

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Speaker 1: they would have rested for ten days, they'd be in

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Speaker 1: really tiptop shape, and then they peak. They just kind

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Speaker 1: of stay limber and flexible and then show up to

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Speaker 1: training camp and explode trying to blow those doors like

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Speaker 1: the combine. Right, Well, okay, that's great for that, but

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Speaker 1: then the next day when you go out on the

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Speaker 1: field and start hitting and wearing pads and stuff, you

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Speaker 1: ain't ready, you know, so instead of preshenda wing into it,

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Speaker 1: you kind of hit it like a you kind of

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Speaker 1: hit it like a one time shot, you know, you

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Speaker 1: like a marathon runner tapers is training the last couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks before the race, and they've got all this

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Speaker 1: pent up energy and then they just release it all

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Speaker 1: on game day. Football players can't do that because something pops,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know they Liz Frank spraying Achilles pops,

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02:00:50,120 --> 02:00:53,120
Speaker 1: your hamstring, goes your quad, your hip flex or your whatever.

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Speaker 1: Because it's such a short period explosion sport, right, you know,

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Speaker 1: so something gives because there is no, you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: you've you've laid dormant for a week or two weeks,

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Speaker 1: and now to give one hundred and ten percent plus

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Speaker 1: having the stress of you know, leaning on somebody. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it. That's what happens. So I think with this

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Speaker 1: run up with it, with the experts on top of it,

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Speaker 1: knowing what they know from twenty eleven, I think that

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Speaker 1: might be alleviated a little bit. Not not to say

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Speaker 1: there's not gonna be any injuries, because there will, but

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Speaker 1: there won't be like last year where we had you know,

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Speaker 1: Mitch Morris popped a hammy Day one, you know, Quentin

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Speaker 1: Spain popped a hammy Day four. We had three offensive

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Speaker 1: linemen out in the first four days of training camp

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Speaker 1: for like three or four weeks. So I don't think

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Speaker 1: we'll see that this year. But that doesn't mean we're

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Speaker 1: gonna go injury completely injury free. Last one here from Jayden,

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Speaker 1: who voted for other all the opt outs, we'll put

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Speaker 1: an asterisk on this season. When the Bills win the division,

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Speaker 1: everyone will say it's because c. J. Mosley opted out

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Speaker 1: for the Jets or because all the Patriots opted out.

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Speaker 1: I'll still take a division win but no one outside

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Speaker 1: Bill's mafia will give the Bills any credit. So he

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Speaker 1: thinks it's the opt outs that are gonna shape the

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Speaker 1: start of the season and make it look different. And

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Speaker 1: you know, we're up to forty something players, so it'll

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Speaker 1: certainly impact some rosters, Patriots chief among them. But I

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Speaker 1: don't know now because the Bills are expected to win,

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Speaker 1: so it's, you know, I think it's more of a

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Speaker 1: self fulfilling prophecy. They have every reason to think they're

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Speaker 1: going to be good. They have every reason to think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be able to live up to the expectations.

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Speaker 1: Their coaching staff is intact, if not better than it

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Speaker 1: was a year goos Sean McDermott has said as much.

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Speaker 1: It's exactly the kind of staff he wanted to put

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Speaker 1: together through ty years ago, and he had to wait

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Speaker 1: on contracts to you know, to change and all of that.

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Speaker 1: Now he's got the staff he wanted in place, the

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Speaker 1: kind of staff he wanted in place, if not the

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Speaker 1: exact guys. He's got a group of players that have

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Speaker 1: been built up over three years. He's got youth, he's

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Speaker 1: got leadership, he's got key players in place, he's got

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Speaker 1: continuity from the in the system offensively and defensively. He's

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Speaker 1: got the right type of defenders in the spots he wants.

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Speaker 1: And I just think all of the and I just

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Speaker 1: think all of those things together because of the fact

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Speaker 1: that they've played well together at a top flight defense.

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Speaker 1: You know, this is a team that should win the division.

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Speaker 1: And if they win it, it won't be because things

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Speaker 1: didn't go as people expected it to. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: the Bills will get credit boarded. Yeah, I think they'll

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Speaker 1: get credit I don't think the opts outs will. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the Bills lost the starter and star, so I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know that's only one and the Patriots have lost

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Speaker 1: three starters, but still in all it's it's a loss.

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Speaker 1: And E J. Gaines joined that group over the weekend,

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Speaker 1: so now you're down a corner. So yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: every team is making these adjustments to opt outs, and

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Speaker 1: there could be more as a matter of fact, you know,

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Speaker 1: based on what we talked about with Ben voland for

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Speaker 1: the Boston Globe, there will be more, especially as we

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Speaker 1: get closer to whatever the deadline is, when they finalize

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Speaker 1: that we've got to take a break, We're gonna have

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Speaker 1: to table NFL True Falls for tomorrow, which is brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Yancy's Fancy New York's Artists and Cheese.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to that tomorrow because we are at a

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Speaker 1: time right now. Steve and I for one more segment

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Speaker 1: when we come back, as we will find out what

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Speaker 1: we have learned from today's program, as we covered an

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Speaker 1: awful lot of ground, so we'll get to that. On

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Speaker 1: the other side, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you One

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Speaker 1: We did a live listen in to Jordan Poyter's Zoom

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Speaker 1: Call with the Western New York Media live on the

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Speaker 1: show today and he commented on the leadership on the

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Speaker 1: team and how they organize things this offseason. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: just continue to have conversation. It might not even be

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Speaker 1: about ball. You just might be wondering how the other

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Speaker 1: guy's doing, just to show them that you care. Because

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Speaker 1: I really think that off the field, that off the

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Speaker 1: field camaraderie leads leads onto the field which is what

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Speaker 1: I said. Virginia was a huge deal for our defense

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Speaker 1: because we were able to go there connect on the

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Speaker 1: field on a level, you know, on a football level,

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Speaker 1: but then when we were off the field, it was

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Speaker 1: more of a personal level of you know, meeting you know,

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Speaker 1: seeing people out of eye, meeting each other out of

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Speaker 1: eye and speaking at a personal level. And so I

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Speaker 1: really think that that carries over onto the field. And

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Speaker 1: you know, like I said, I think that we have

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Speaker 1: so many leaders on this team that lead in so

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Speaker 1: many different ways you can't really point, you know, a

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Speaker 1: specific one or two guys, you know, and that's what's

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Speaker 1: great about this football teams. We all so spoke with

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Speaker 1: Ben Volan, the NFL and Patriots reporter for the Boston

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Speaker 1: Globe about situations involving the opt outs, knowing that New

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Speaker 1: England has eight of them already, maybe even nine last

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Speaker 1: I counted, But he also talked about why the opt

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Speaker 1: out deadline hasn't been set between the league and the union.

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Speaker 1: Despite having a deadline, like, to me, a big issue

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Speaker 1: that they're still working out what happens if there's a

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Speaker 1: marling situation and one team gets the big outbring well,

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Speaker 1: the NFL just canceled game. Well, they're still negotiating that

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Speaker 1: right now. If the owners get nervous and they shut

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Speaker 1: down to see them for a week one, I believe

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Speaker 1: they're still negotiating that right now. So the opt out

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Speaker 1: initially are supposed to be seven days after when the

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Speaker 1: agreement is finally firelized. When I think the NFL wants

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Speaker 1: to do is make it three or four days after

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Speaker 1: that instead of seventies. So you know, the agreements not

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Speaker 1: finally yet, so it's gonna be probably forties or whatever

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Speaker 1: right now. I guess that earliest would be Thursday or

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Speaker 1: Friday for guys to opt out, and I do think

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Speaker 1: you'll see more guys do it because they just want

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Speaker 1: to see the language, the language of it. They want

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Speaker 1: to see what exactly at all entailed before deciding whether

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Speaker 1: to play football or not this year. So that has

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Speaker 1: been Volan from the Boston Globe helping us to spell

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Speaker 1: out all that for you with COVID and how it's

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Speaker 1: impacting even the newest agreement between the union and the league,

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Speaker 1: and there is some NFL news and notes as well.

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Speaker 1: Tight End Jordan Read, a free agent formally of the

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Speaker 1: Washington Football team, has now signed with the forty nine ers,

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Speaker 1: so some developments there. He's also been he's got a

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Speaker 1: long concussion history, Steve. I mean if he has won,

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Speaker 1: his career might be over. So to think you have

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Speaker 1: some risk of COVID think about another You mentioned the

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Speaker 1: Washington football team. Have you have you been keeping track

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Speaker 1: of Alex Smith and how quickly it is that he

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Speaker 1: may get back on the field. That would be one

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Speaker 1: of the optimis tape it this way. I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: to Vegas and put this on a prop bet that

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Speaker 1: Alex Smith's story gets put it made into a movie. Ah,

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Speaker 1: that's a that's a done deal. That's a done deal, Lucile. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that guy almost lost his legs. It's an amazing story,

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Speaker 1: a comeback story, just to be able to walk on

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Speaker 1: that thing again. So yeah, great job by him. That's

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Speaker 1: gonna do it. For our first edition of this new

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Speaker 1: permanent arrangement, we got here with Steve Tasker and yours truly,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown on One Bills Live. We look forward to

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Speaker 1: growing the program as we go. But for all of

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Speaker 1: our staff, including our intrepid producer Jay Harris. This is

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown for Steve Tasker, saying thanks for joining us here.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back tomorrow with Moore, including some commentary from

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen on One Bills Live