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Speaker 1: This is One Bills Live presented by called La Health.

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Speaker 2: What's up? Everybody?

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Speaker 3: Welcome into a Monday edition of One Bill's Live, where

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Speaker 3: the news is flowing and flowing. We can't stop it

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Speaker 3: because Free agency Frenzy is here. I'm Addie Glapp and

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Speaker 3: I'm joined by Steve Tasker today as Chris Brown is

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Speaker 3: out for the next couple of days, but don't worry,

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Speaker 3: he'll be back for the start of the new league

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Speaker 3: year when all these players come into One Bill's Drive

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Speaker 3: and sign their new contracts. And exciting time because it

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Speaker 3: signals the start of the new season. Free agency frenzy.

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Speaker 3: Let's the games begin.

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Speaker 1: It's already started. Started. The legal tampering things started an

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Speaker 1: hour ago at noon. And yeah, it's it's happening people. Nevertheless,

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Speaker 1: we got to start out. I went to the Saves

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we start We got to start there.

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Speaker 1: It was one of the most I gotta say, the Sabers.

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Speaker 1: It was one of the most exciting sporting events I've

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Speaker 1: ever been.

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Speaker 4: To as a fan.

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Speaker 1: As a fan, I've played in a bunch of stuff,

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Speaker 1: but as a fan and I've worked a couple of

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Speaker 1: you know, Super.

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Speaker 4: Bowls and all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: How was it is unbelievable. Now, I've been in town

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Speaker 1: for all forty years, forty four decades when i've been

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Speaker 1: some even save stuff. I've been to all the five

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Speaker 1: you know, the whole thing, the Hash years. And we've

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Speaker 1: got a whole generation of people in there, like mid

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Speaker 1: last time. Maybe they do remember as kids or whatever,

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Speaker 1: but now that they're of age, it's like the Bills

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Speaker 1: when they when the Sabs are good, it's kind of

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Speaker 1: it's kind of the same vibe.

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Speaker 4: Everybody's talking about it.

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Speaker 1: You know, you get it, but it gets turned up

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Speaker 1: for the Sabers, like like it in a different way

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Speaker 1: than it does for the Bills. There's a couple of reasons. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: certainly the vibe last night in that that arena was unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: The second is the thing that you get to remember,

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Speaker 1: Sabers are playing again tomorrow night, so you get I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's like, come on, let's go, let the schedules dnse.

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Speaker 1: So we're gonna be hooting and hollering, you know, every

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Speaker 1: other day for another month. Right, So that's one thing,

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Speaker 1: and then when the playoffs start it's not like it

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Speaker 1: is with the Bills, because it's in December January. It's

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Speaker 1: a different vibe here than it is now in April,

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Speaker 1: May and June. It's great outside. And the games happened

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Speaker 1: every the playoff. It's not a one game playoff game,

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Speaker 1: win or lose, the winner take all a set. It's

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Speaker 1: a series. And you get home games where everybody's going

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Speaker 1: absolutely crazy down at the arena, and then watch parties

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Speaker 1: on the away games. Oh my gosh, let's go that thing.

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Speaker 1: Like I lost my voice last night. I can't remember

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Speaker 1: the last time I was screaming. So it was it's absolutely.

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Speaker 2: Eight goals scored two, there's lots of I was laughing.

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Speaker 1: I was sitting in the seas. I was going, you know, Uko, Peca, Lucanan,

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Speaker 1: seven goals. He was pretty good last night and.

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Speaker 4: He gave up seven. I was like, he's played good.

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Speaker 1: And somebody asked, and I thought, oh wow, that maybe

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Speaker 1: Lindy in the post game about hey, you know, did

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Speaker 1: you think about taking having Luca sit down Uko? And

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Speaker 1: he was like, oh no, you know, they weren't. The

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Speaker 1: So I was, I was, I thought, you know, Lucan

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Speaker 2: Getting giving up seven still pretty good.

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Speaker 1: It was unbelievable that that game was. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: like the moment regular season. To me, it was a

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Speaker 1: little bit like the moment when the Bills broke the

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Speaker 1: this playoff drought and like the Bills playoff drought, and

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Speaker 1: then you have that moment where wow, it's last night.

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Speaker 1: Was kind of that moment. You're beating the Tampa Bay

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Speaker 1: the Saves weren't having it. They bounced back after two

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Speaker 1: It really was a moment, and I'm I'm allible I'm

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Speaker 1: It was a moment a lot like the Bill's drought break,

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Speaker 1: because that was that last night. I mean, even for

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Speaker 3: And once the drought breaks, once you have that game

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Speaker 3: like they did last night against the Lightning, it's like

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Speaker 3: the floodgates are open and we are here. Come watch us,

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Speaker 3: come join the fun.

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Speaker 1: Now. Yes, now you have the right as a Buffalonian

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Speaker 1: and in western and Erie County right now you can

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Speaker 1: talk about the Sabers to anybody, even people who don't

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Speaker 2: Now you can bring it up first in the Atlantic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know you don't like hockey, but did you

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Speaker 1: see the game last night? And everybody's like I on nine,

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Speaker 1: None of that. Now it's Sabers are like right in

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Speaker 1: the center. Now they are a topic for everybody to

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Speaker 3: I wasn't at the game because I was flying home

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Speaker 3: from California last night and on my final flight from

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Speaker 3: Boston to Buffalo, of course, lots of bills and Sabers

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Speaker 3: fans on the flight and people were hooting and hollering

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Speaker 1: I could not believe it that I noticed the difference.

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Speaker 1: When we all we stood for the anthems, they shouldered

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Speaker 1: a crowd. It wasn't like big, hey, nice crowd tonight.

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Speaker 2: Hey we're just casual fans here.

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Speaker 1: People were packed in, they were into it. It was

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Speaker 3: Last night, you showed me the video from the scoreboard

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Speaker 1: There's ten guys, like nine or ten guys in the

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Speaker 1: it was unbelievable. It was really good, and it was

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Speaker 1: it was one of those games you rarely see because

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Speaker 1: fights happened in the NHL, but not like last night.

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Speaker 2: A lot of stoppage of play.

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Speaker 1: The first period took an hour. It was a three

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Speaker 1: full three hour game. It took forever to play that game,

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Speaker 1: and it was worth every minute of it. I you know,

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Speaker 1: I it was all about. It was an amazing night

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Speaker 4: I equate it to twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 2: I like it when you.

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Speaker 1: Know, we were all all bill stands were watching that

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Speaker 1: Raven Cincinnati Bengals game finish up in Baltimore and Andy

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Speaker 4: Bengals win. Bills are in the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: And Giant after.

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Speaker 1: A seventeen year playoff drought, and uh, same kind of

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay's a good team. I mean, there's no two days,

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Speaker 1: against the Sabers. Uh Sabers jumping out to a big lead. Wow,

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Speaker 1: It's just I can't say enough about him. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: a lot. This week, I'm there tomorrow night. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: I share my season tickets with a bunch of guys, right,

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Speaker 1: and so I we kind of went back end heavy

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Speaker 4: So Ominique's good.

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Speaker 2: All right, all right, first save Hey, they deserve it.

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Speaker 1: They deserve it.

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Speaker 3: It's awesome and it's so fun to see. We have

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Speaker 3: so many friends that work for the Sabers, and I

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Speaker 3: love to celebrate their successes. So I'm excited for this

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Speaker 3: they've they've had a great you know, last couple of months.

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Speaker 3: So excited for what's to come. The Sabers are back.

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Speaker 3: Like we said, free agency frenzy is here. I want

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Speaker 3: to set the table for what to expect the rules

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Speaker 3: of the game of free agency are as follows. So

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Speaker 3: today at noon, the window officially opened for teams to

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Speaker 3: that are set to become free agents. That window ends

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Speaker 3: at three point fifty nine on Wednesday, four o'clock on Wednesday,

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Speaker 3: so a free agency signing period officially begins, signaling the

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Speaker 2: Knew this season a new role. Pretty cool.

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Speaker 3: Teams can have a one hour phone call or video

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Speaker 3: call with up to five different players who are set

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Speaker 3: to become free agents, and they can do that with

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Speaker 3: through an agent.

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Speaker 2: To talk to that player. That's big time.

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Speaker 3: That is kind of cool because all of this is

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Speaker 3: supposed to go through agencies.

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Speaker 1: Now every player's got an agent. Almost every player's got

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Speaker 1: and cut to brass tacks, just say, hey, what about it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, here's what we're thinking. This is the role

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Speaker 1: for where the guy's really interested.

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Speaker 4: Moving on from the team he's at now.

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Speaker 1: In this last hour, two guys are and in the

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Speaker 1: last day or so, teams all over the league are

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Speaker 1: resigning their guys. I mean, you go down that, you

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Speaker 1: on and on and on, and it's like tight end.

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Speaker 1: Kate Otton re signed, Jalen Watson re signed. Kenneth Walker

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Speaker 1: with the Raiders. Alec Pierce, the wide receiver for the

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Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen million dollars to stay, he resigned with

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Speaker 1: the Colts. Draymond Jones he resigned. I mean all these guys,

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Speaker 1: these early free agent resignings, Jaguars, Cowboys, Bears, Broncos, Steelers, Vikings, Texans,

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Speaker 3: According to Ian Rappaport, the Bills are trading defensive back

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he will definitely add to that defense. A contract

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Speaker 3: be focused on infusing competition across the roster and establishing

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Speaker 3: a strong foundation for this team. Well, competition is already

436
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Speaker 3: headed to Miami because, according to Ian Rappaport, the Dolphins

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Speaker 3: are going to sign quarterback Malik Willis on a three year,

438
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Speaker 3: sixty seven and a half million dollar deal with forty

439
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Speaker 3: five guaranteed. Malik Willis was the biggest name in free agency.

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Speaker 1: Played well for the Packers this year, yep.

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Speaker 2: In the moments he got for the.

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Speaker 1: Packers limited body of work, he.

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Speaker 3: Rose to the top of the chart and is now

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Speaker 3: heading to Miami with a.

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Speaker 2: Pocket full of cash.

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Speaker 3: I was thinking about that this morning while I was

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Speaker 3: getting ready. Just how important it is to shine in

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Speaker 3: the small moments that you get and it can change

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Speaker 3: the rest of your NFL career.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if Malik.

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Speaker 3: Willis didn't perform in those opportunities, dude wouldn't have been

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Speaker 3: the biggest name in free agency. He wouldn't be going

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Speaker 3: to the Dolphins on a three year, sixty seven and

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Speaker 3: a half million dollar deal with forty five guarantees.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing. Yes, you're right, Maddie, it's amazing what happens

456
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Speaker 1: to these guys when they stay ready. Yeah, they never

457
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Speaker 1: know when it's gonna happen. And Malik didn't know if

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Speaker 1: you know, he'd get a chance to play at the

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Speaker 1: end of the year. You know, in a game, there's whatever,

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Speaker 1: and you guys like Kirk Cousins, who was a fourth

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Speaker 1: round draft pick, draft pick, and these guys just by

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Speaker 1: their time they get a chance, they shine, show a

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Speaker 1: little something and all of a sudden.

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Speaker 2: And he started in one game last year.

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Speaker 1: H he looked good doing it. He was on a

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Speaker 1: good team, no question, he's on a good team. And

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Speaker 1: he was on a really good had a really good

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Speaker 1: coaching staff, a head coach that was a good quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Whisper mm hmm. Forty five million dollars. Uh, you know

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Speaker 1: what is it? Ten weeks later? Yeah, something like that.

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Speaker 1: Just an absolute unbelievable turn of events and and a

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Speaker 1: change in the guy's you know, turns it over and

473
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Speaker 1: think about think about two is done, I mean not done,

474
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Speaker 1: but he's he's made enough money now he's like, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's in a tire on a beach somewhere right, and.

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Speaker 3: Well, the Falcons are expected to pursue him because they're

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Speaker 3: looking for a veteran because Junior is still recovering from

478
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Speaker 3: his ACL tears. So that could come to fruition today

479
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Speaker 3: where we see that two a tongue of Iilo is

480
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Speaker 3: heading to the Falcons on a deal.

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Speaker 2: But you're right, he's made so much cashole.

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Speaker 1: Uh, Malik Willi is a testament to everybody man. Just

483
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Speaker 1: stay ready in your job. Just be ready if something happens,

484
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Speaker 1: you can hit it out of the park. When you

485
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Speaker 1: get a chance, everything changes, the way people perceive you changes.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: It's uh, it's unbelievable. I'm these guys getting signed to

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Speaker 1: these deals. I'm surprised Miami decided to do that with

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Speaker 1: Malik Willis. You would think with a with a heavy

490
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Speaker 1: cap hit like they're gonna take this year. They did

491
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Speaker 1: it before where they tanked for Tua right five years ago,

492
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Speaker 1: six years ago, whatever it was, and.

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Speaker 4: They didn't do a good enough job of it. They didn't.

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Speaker 1: That was the year. That was the year Joe Burrow

495
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Speaker 1: came out. They were trying to tank for Tua and

496
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Speaker 1: they had too much talent, They had too much talent

497
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Speaker 1: on their squad, right, and you know this, that whole

498
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Speaker 1: thing is still going on, right. Uh So, I'm just

499
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Speaker 1: it's it's an amazing spot to be in. For your

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Speaker 1: telling me.

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Speaker 3: That the Dolphins are going to try and tank twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty six.

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Speaker 1: I think they're not going to now with Malik right,

504
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 1: they signed him, and they're they're paying their quarterback position over.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, forty five guaranteed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well it's not forty five all guaranteed this year,

507
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Speaker 1: but yeah, over the next few years plus, they're paying

508
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Speaker 1: to a forty five million dollars both those years. That's crazy.

509
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Speaker 4: That's that's so much money.

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Speaker 2: Figure it out.

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Speaker 3: Some wide receiver news that came across our timelines about

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Speaker 3: an hour ago. The Colts are trading wide receiver Michael

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Speaker 3: Pittman Junior to the Steelers.

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Speaker 2: He was a hot name.

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Speaker 3: And uh Pittman Junior will be a new three year,

516
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Speaker 3: fifty nine million dollar deal, according to sources reported by

517
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Speaker 3: Mike Garriffolo. Yeah, but the Colts did, yeah, sign one

518
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 3: of their own wide receivers to a new deal. Alec Pierce,

519
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:08,920
Speaker 3: one of the biggest wide receiver names in free agency,

520
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Speaker 3: is returning to Indy with a four year, one hundred

521
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 3: and sixteen million dollars deal, that's about twenty nine a year.

522
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Speaker 3: Had his first one thousand yard season last year for

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Speaker 3: the Colts. Forty seven catches, one thousand and three yards,

524
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Speaker 3: six touchdowns, average twenty one yards per catch, About to

525
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Speaker 3: enter his fifth year in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's wild you forty year forty seven Yeah,

527
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Speaker 1: forty seven catches. He had this last year for just

528
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Speaker 1: over one thousand yards, and he was a long ball threat.

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Speaker 1: But I think Michael Pittman for the Colts was considered

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Speaker 1: a much better all around wide receiver and the so

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Speaker 1: the Steelers have to trade for Pittman. So the Colts

532
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Speaker 1: keep the deep thread over the top guy who only

533
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Speaker 1: had forty seven catches, and let Pittman go to the

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Speaker 1: Steelers a trade Pittman.

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Speaker 3: Pittman had eighty catches last year. Yeah, in comparison, that

536
00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 3: catches for seven and eighty four years.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I do not touchdown.

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Speaker 1: I do not like that strategy for the Colts. Pittman's

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Speaker 1: a better player and he can do more. Yeah, I

541
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Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe maybe Pierce there's more under his tank

542
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Speaker 1: than we're giving him credit. For but only had forty

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Speaker 1: seven catches.

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Speaker 3: And last year was his best year as a pro,

545
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Speaker 3: and people are thinking, what what can you turn into

546
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Speaker 3: that what you've done.

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Speaker 2: In four years?

548
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 3: Last year you really come onto the scene. Other teams

549
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 3: are intrigued by what you can offer. We might as

550
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 3: well pay you and have you stay here. But it'll

551
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Speaker 3: be interesting to see what Michael Pittman Junior does for

552
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Speaker 3: the Steelers.

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Speaker 1: Then right with whoever their quarterback might be. That's yeah,

554
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 1: that well there you go. I the strategies and I

555
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 1: mean every every team had. That's what you kind of

556
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: sign up for. When you're in the front office for

557
00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:05,040
Speaker 1: an NFL team. You got to at this time of year,

558
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: the pieces on the board move fast and the plans

559
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 1: and the philosophies become evident, which in a in a

560
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Speaker 1: an environment, well, we didn't know, and we didn't know

561
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Speaker 1: what the bills really thought about David Edwards and Connor mcgovernor,

562
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Speaker 1: And all of a sudden they give Connor mc govern

563
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Speaker 1: a really nice contract, you know, they give all the

564
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Speaker 1: contracts come out and people have to put their money

565
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Speaker 1: where their mouth is, and sometimes you find out they've

566
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Speaker 1: been talking out of both sides of their mouth.

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Speaker 4: Yea, the Dolphins come.

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Speaker 1: On the Colts there, the Pittman's gone and they re

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Speaker 1: signed Peers. Yeah, I don't know. Malik Willis is going to.

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Speaker 2: The Dolphins, yep, on a three year deal.

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Speaker 1: They're not getting rid of him now. They're gonna try

572
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Speaker 1: and win games with a ninety nine million dollar dead

573
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: cap on one player.

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Speaker 2: That's what you do. That's crazy.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, I don't know.

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00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 2: Well, you know, we're here to talk about it.

577
00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: Let's go.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we've got several other teams to catch up

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Speaker 3: on who have done deals from.

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Speaker 2: Last weekend.

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Speaker 1: Conversation.

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Speaker 3: Question for you, what is your roadmap for the Bills

583
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 3: and free agency?

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Speaker 2: Tweet at us.

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Speaker 3: We'll be answering those questions later on the show and

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Speaker 3: coming up at two o'clock. Mike Jinnitty from spat Track

587
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 3: joins us, giving us the latest on all these figures

588
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 3: we're seeing coming across our timelines, helping us make sense

589
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 3: of it all. So stay here on One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 3: We're presented by Clyde Help. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 3: It's the start of free agency Frenzy starting at noon today.

593
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 3: The floodgates open because contract negotiations can happen with agents.

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Speaker 3: Teams and agents can engage in talking about who they

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00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 3: want to add to their team, who they're interested in it,

596
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 3: and new as of this year, teams can do a

597
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 3: one hour video or phone call with up to five

598
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 3: players who are said to become free agents.

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Speaker 2: Here they don't have to go through the agency.

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Speaker 1: So this is the open what do they call it,

601
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: the pre free agent free agency? It's negotiating time, right,

602
00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,280
Speaker 1: it used to be the start of free agency was

603
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 1: the start of free agency, and then free agency hits,

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Speaker 1: and there's like twenty deals that are announced like ten

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Speaker 1: minutes into it, like you just they were only allowed

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Speaker 1: to talk to them once free agency began. But ten

607
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,240
Speaker 1: minutes in, everybody's got these deals ironed out on that.

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Speaker 1: So the league says, all right, now we're going to

609
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Speaker 1: tampering the legal period, the legal tampering deal. So three

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Speaker 1: days before free agency they up a window so everybody

611
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Speaker 1: starts at the same time and they get so now

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Speaker 1: the free agent, the legal tampering. Now we got deals

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Speaker 1: ten minutes into that. So it's like it's whatever, it's

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Speaker 1: so crazy, So that's fine. That's what we're doing.

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Speaker 3: It's a good day to be a Kenneth because those

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Speaker 3: two are heading two new teams. Running Back Kenneth Gainwell

617
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 3: is signing a signing a deal with the Tampa Bay

618
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Speaker 3: Bucks on a two year, fourteen million dollar deal with

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Speaker 3: ten guaranteed per Jordan Schultz game ball, coming off an

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Speaker 3: impressive one thousand, totally guard season eight touchdowns with the

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Speaker 3: Pittsburgh Steelers this past year. And then Kenneth Walker, the

622
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Speaker 3: Super Bowl MVP, who we watch run all over the Patriots,

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Speaker 3: is heading to the Chiefs.

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Speaker 2: We knew the Chiefs.

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Speaker 3: Wanted to shake up their running back room find a

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Speaker 3: difference maker as a running back, so they're adding Kenneth

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Speaker 3: Walker to a three year, four forty five million dollars

628
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Speaker 3: deal with the Chiefs. That is big money for running back.

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Speaker 4: Right, and he's going to the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: So the Chiefs trying to get better at that spot

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Speaker 1: around Pat Mahomes. I think everybody was shocked. Guys, the

632
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Speaker 1: Super Bowl MVP and they let him go. Great year

633
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Speaker 1: for him in Seattle. I'm and the Chiefs, you know,

634
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Speaker 1: they're reloading. That's a good guy to get, but that's

635
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Speaker 1: a big number.

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Speaker 2: A little bit of a super Bowl hangover.

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Speaker 1: That's a little bit of a that's a Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: a that's a big number for a running.

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Speaker 2: Back average fifteen per year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's more than more than our guy James Cook.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, he lands with a team that would probably

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Speaker 1: be expecting to contend again and the Chiefs when Mahomeie

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Speaker 1: gets healthy.

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Speaker 2: Sticking with the Chiefs.

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Speaker 3: According to Ian Rappaport, Titan Travis Kelcey is expected to

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Speaker 3: return to Kansas City in twenty twenty six for his

647
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 3: fourteenth season if he wanted to test the market. Sure,

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00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,560
Speaker 3: teams were willing to pay him top dollar, but Kelsey

649
00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 3: would rather stay with the Chiefs than stay with Patrick

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Speaker 3: Maholmes and have another chance at winning another Super Bowl.

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Speaker 3: He had eight hundred and fifty one receiving yards last

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Speaker 3: season with five touchdowns. His last one thousand yard season

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Speaker 3: with the Chiefs was in twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's not gonna go somebody's play. He kind

655
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 1: of figures and he's had you know him. You can

656
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: imagine him talking to Andy Reid and Mahomes and all

657
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: the guy he's Kelsey said, listen, if I'm gonna play

658
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 1: I'm coming back to you, but I haven't decided yet.

659
00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: And so now that he has decided, he's or he

660
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,600
Speaker 1: will decide. Yeah, he's gonna be back if they want

661
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 1: him back and they want to want him to come

662
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 1: back and play well, He's gonna.

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Speaker 4: Play well for him.

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Speaker 1: And it's at this point it's as much about his

665
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:52,800
Speaker 1: personality and what his presence is as it is about

666
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 1: him being a great tight end. Yeah, he's certainly smart

667
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: enough to do it with guile. He did it that

668
00:35:58,600 --> 00:35:59,439
Speaker 1: way last year.

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Speaker 2: He's like a coach at this point.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and Mahome.

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Speaker 1: You know how badly Mahomes would love him to stick around, right,

672
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: So got Yeah, that's that is not a surprise.

673
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 4: I'm and I'm all. I'm good with it.

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Speaker 1: I hang out and play as long as he Yeah,

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00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 1: you're good too.

676
00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,799
Speaker 2: It's good for the productively, as much as you.

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00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 1: Hate to play against guys like him. Yeah, it's good

678
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 1: for the league.

679
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:23,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm okay, I think so too.

680
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 3: The Rams are creating one of the top secondaries in

681
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 3: the NFL as we speak. They're signing former Chiefs cornerback

682
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 3: Jalen Watson to a three year, fifty one million dollar

683
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 3: deal with thirty four million guaranteed. And this comes right

684
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 3: after they've been working on a new deal with new

685
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 3: cornerback Trent McGuffey, who agreed McDuffie, who had agreed to

686
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 3: terms on a trade with the Chiefs last week. So

687
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 3: McDuffie moving on from the Chiefs going to the Rams

688
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 3: on a record four year, one hundred and twenty four

689
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 3: million dollars deal that includes one hundred guaranteed to make

690
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:07,320
Speaker 3: him the highest paid cornerback in NFL history at thirty one.

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00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 2: Million per year.

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00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:14,000
Speaker 3: That's a huge number for a cornerback. McDuffie is one

693
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 3: of the best in the league right now, still very

694
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 3: young at his position, and has produced with Kansas City.

695
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,680
Speaker 2: He's a player that you have to account for.

696
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 3: And the Rams adding another former Chief in Jalen Watson

697
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 3: to their secondary, that's going to be a tough secondary

698
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Speaker 3: to go up against.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it is, and that's it keeps stacking it up

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00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 1: over it and that's an interesting signing. It will give

701
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 1: them something to compliment the brilliance of their offensive play

702
00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: calling and they're you know, defending Super Bowl or defending

703
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: NFL MVP and Matt Stafford, Sean McVay they'll have some

704
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 1: guys to you know, balance that out. Also for those

705
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,920
Speaker 1: of you who are one of the guys I had

706
00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 1: my eye on for the Bills and guy I've liked

707
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 1: ever since he came out with Jalen Phillips, the guy

708
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: who came out of the University of Miami the same

709
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 1: year that Greg Russeau came out. He's picked out ahead

710
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: of Rousseau in the draft by the Dolphins, popped his achilles,

711
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:15,800
Speaker 1: came back the next year, then was traded to Philly.

712
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 1: Now he's a free agent. He just signed with the Panthers,

713
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: or was about to sign with the Panthers on one

714
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty million dollars deal for eighty million, eighty

715
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: million dollars guaranteed. So Jalen Phillips, the pass rusher came

716
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 1: who was with Philly this last year going to the

717
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers. Yeah, it's an expensive place in the NFL.

718
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: Coming back off of that torn acl I.

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Speaker 4: Thought he popped.

720
00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: He popped his achilles, then towards a cl and then

721
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 1: he went to Philly and now he's coming back and

722
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: that guy is making forty million dollars a year.

723
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 2: Not to shit, No, it's not.

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00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 1: No, it's not. The stuff just keeps happening. It's as

725
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: fast as we can spew it out.

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00:39:04,239 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's hit some of the defensive linemen who are

727
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 3: set to head to different places. We heard earlier the

728
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 3: Raiders agreeing to trade five time Pro Bowler defensive end

729
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,360
Speaker 3: Max Crosby to the Ravens in exchange for twenty twenty

730
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 3: six and twenty twenty seven first round pick. You figured

731
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 3: it would take multiple ones, and it actually did. Wow,

732
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:32,840
Speaker 3: the Ravens are getting a talented player in Max Crosby.

733
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 3: If I was a GM for a team, I would

734
00:39:35,200 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 3: run with my two first to go grab a player

735
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 3: like that. I know he's somebody that Bill's fans have

736
00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 3: thought for years bring him to Buffalo.

737
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: Was also a reporter Brandon Bean and the Bills we're

738
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: in on that conversation. And because the Bills draft pick

739
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: is number twenty six this year and the Cowboys and

740
00:39:54,080 --> 00:40:00,319
Speaker 1: the Ravens are number twelve and fourteen, respectively, Bills were

741
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 1: out of the conversation. Uh so you know that their

742
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: two ones weren't the same.

743
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:06,760
Speaker 2: You're a little too good.

744
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:10,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the same thing that happened last year or

745
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,359
Speaker 1: two years ago. When the Bills were trying to get

746
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:16,320
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle from Miami and they offered the most of anybody,

747
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: and Miami said no because obviously it was a division opponent.

748
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,439
Speaker 1: So Brandon being out there trying to wheel and deal

749
00:40:21,480 --> 00:40:23,440
Speaker 1: and nobody wants to do business.

750
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 2: They are too good. Sorry.

751
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:30,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Max Crosby, that's a guy that to me,

752
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: and he was he was out there to be had

753
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 1: by anybody, right, and he was openly being shopped. They

754
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 1: knew he wasn't going to come back to the Raiders.

755
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,879
Speaker 1: He himself said I'm not doing it. So the Raiders said, Okay,

756
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 1: we're going to find the best deal we can get

757
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 1: for us. Uh, that's a guy everybody wanted. That is

758
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:54,000
Speaker 1: the guy this offseason and he changed hands. Now everybody

759
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: wants to get in on that, and the Bills were

760
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: in on it.

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00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,080
Speaker 2: But of course he's going to an AFC.

762
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:05,800
Speaker 1: Right, he's going to Baltimore. Yeah, that's yeah. He's a

763
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:09,680
Speaker 1: great player, great effort guy, smart player, he's everything. He's

764
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: got everything right, and yeah he's going to be a raven.

765
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 3: Two more quick that happened earlier this weekend. Defensive tackle

766
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 3: Jordan Davis and the Eagles agreed to terms on a

767
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 3: three year extension for seventy eight million, sixty five guaranteed,

768
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,800
Speaker 3: making him the highest paid nose tackle in NFL history.

769
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 3: Enters his fifth season and had eight sacks and twelve

770
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 3: quarterback hits in the last four years and then last one,

771
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:34,880
Speaker 3: three times All Pro Edge rusher Khalil Mack is staying

772
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:38,640
Speaker 3: with the Chargers. Agrees to terms on a one year,

773
00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 3: eighteen million dollar deal that's fully guaranteed and he's set

774
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 3: to play in his thirteenth season. Had eleven and a

775
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 3: half sacks in the last two years. So good for

776
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 3: Khalil Max staying with the Chargers. We're going to take

777
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 3: a break, but when we return, reading some tweets off

778
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 3: the tweet sheet. Next on One Bill's Ive were presented

779
00:41:56,160 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 3: by clydealth on Buffalo Bills Radio. Look back to One

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00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 3: Bill's Live. A mega mega, mega mega.

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00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:19,000
Speaker 2: Deal just happened for the Raiders.

782
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 3: They they believe in centers and they believe in the

783
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:25,640
Speaker 3: power of an offensive line because they're closing in on

784
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 3: a deal for Ravens Pro Bowl center Tyler Linderbaum three years,

785
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 3: eighty one million dollars. That's twenty seven per year is

786
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 3: what the Raiders are willing to pay for a starting center.

787
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 3: It makes Linderbaum the highest paid interior offensive lineman in

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00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:46,919
Speaker 3: NFL history, according to.

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Speaker 1: Each You've got Tyler Linderbaum the center for the Ravens

790
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:54,359
Speaker 1: going to the Raiders, making twenty seven million dollars a year.

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00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:57,919
Speaker 1: The Bills resigned Connor mcgovernor, a move which most people

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00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,720
Speaker 1: didn't think, Ah, that's not gonna have for teen million

793
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 1: dollars a year. They got mcgoverned for four years for

794
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,800
Speaker 1: thirteen million. Linderbaum is a three year deal for twenty

795
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: seven a year. Yeah, I like that.

796
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 4: You would have to.

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00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying anything about Linderbaum.

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00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 4: He's great.

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00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: He's an absolutely fantastic player, but so is Connor McGovern

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00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:20,240
Speaker 1: He's been a plug and play absolutely in the lineup.

801
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 1: Iron Man. I I don't know how, if there's no

802
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:29,919
Speaker 1: way a cat you can convince me a casual fan

803
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: or even maybe an enthusiastic fan could watch film and

804
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,960
Speaker 1: tell the difference between Tyler Linderbaum and Connor mc governy,

805
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 1: because so much what they do is nuance, and so

806
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,400
Speaker 1: much what we talked about is their personality and their

807
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:47,560
Speaker 1: ability to communicate. I don't know that the Bills, you know,

808
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:50,960
Speaker 1: don't have a center that they just signed that's every

809
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,880
Speaker 1: bit as good as Tyler Linderbaum. It's hard to know

810
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,280
Speaker 1: that you may get some football that's say, oh, yes, absolutely, okay,

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00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: that's fine.

812
00:43:57,760 --> 00:43:58,320
Speaker 2: Hey, you played.

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00:43:58,360 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: I'm happy with Conor McGoo know, I'm really happy that

814
00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: we signed Connor McGovern to a deal. Yeah, And you

815
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 1: don't sign him to a deal eight. He's not making

816
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: thirteen million on the open market.

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00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 2: He's making eighty's me give us some more. Yeah.

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00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 3: And after a deal like this comes out, the Tyler

819
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 3: Linderbaum three year, eighty one million dollar deal that's been

820
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 3: reported right now, that's when you get the influx of

821
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 3: tweets that say, good job, baller Bean, big baller Bean.

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00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:28,799
Speaker 2: It's at it again.

823
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 4: It's like.

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00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,439
Speaker 1: It seems too that you can go back and James Cook.

825
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 1: Now that James Cook deal last year in the pre

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00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: that didn't he didn't get that done early. He pushed

827
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,840
Speaker 1: it till training camp and all of that. And but

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00:44:41,920 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 1: now you look at the deals that other guys are signing.

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00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 1: It's he led the league in rushing and he's pretty

830
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 1: good making a good buck, but he's not like Saquon Barkley.

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Speaker 3: So if you want to know what the gap is

832
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 3: in the highest paid centers year to year, So you

833
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 3: have Tyler Linderbaum at twenty seven million right now, and

834
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:05,759
Speaker 3: then number two in the league is Create Humphrey at eighteen.

835
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 3: Next is Cam Jurgens at sixteen, and then after that

836
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:14,360
Speaker 3: so fourth overall is Connor McGovern at thirteen. So you

837
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 3: have almost a ten million dollar gap in what the

838
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 3: highest paid center is compared to the second highest paid center.

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00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 1: Right That's that's a market center there. So Linderbaum is

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00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: highly obviously highly regarded all over the league. But you've

841
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:32,800
Speaker 1: also got a team out in Vegas with one hundred

842
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: ten million dollars to spend in free agency, So the

843
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:38,839
Speaker 1: money's not the thing for them. They got to get

844
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:43,160
Speaker 1: the guys they want and certainly trading Max Crosby getting

845
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: a lot of draffic. They are in a total rebuild

846
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:50,320
Speaker 1: mode right now, and it's man o man.

847
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 3: New coaching staff, trying to make new decisions, trying to

848
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,280
Speaker 3: do new things with players that are out on the market.

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00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 3: Tyler Linderbaum is the latest one to land with that.

850
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,360
Speaker 3: The Ravens made a push and made an offer, but

851
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 3: it was not as sweet as the one that Vegas offered.

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00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:12,680
Speaker 3: Wow whoo, that is very very interesting, all right, coming

853
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 3: up at two pm today, So just in a few minutes,

854
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 3: Mike Jannitti is joining us to give us the latest

855
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 3: on all of these figures we're seeing and be reported.

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00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:25,480
Speaker 3: We're of course going to ask him about Tyler Linderbond

857
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:28,800
Speaker 3: because it is a market setter, like you said, Steve,

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00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 3: and we're also going to cover a lot more that's

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00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:34,640
Speaker 3: happened over the last few days in relation to free agency,

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00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 3: and hey, who knows if some news is going to

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00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 3: break while he's on with us, we're talking about it

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00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:41,480
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Speaker 3: Health on Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Calledlida Health.

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Speaker 3: to worry about that agent. The official start of the

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00:47:56,560 --> 00:48:00,239
Speaker 3: new league year begins Wednesday at four pm, and that's

871
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 3: when the free agency signing period begins as well, when

872
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:06,399
Speaker 3: all of this is made official, when guys come into

873
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 3: the building put pen to paper on a deal with

874
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 3: their new teams to talk about it all. And what

875
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 3: we've seen in the last twenty four hours, several teams

876
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,759
Speaker 3: re signing players, several teams adding new players. We have

877
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:21,880
Speaker 3: a founder and managing editor of SPA Track, Mike Jinnitti,

878
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 3: joining us right now.

879
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:24,320
Speaker 2: Mike, thanks for taking.

880
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:27,759
Speaker 5: The time, my pleasure. Thanks for having me all right.

881
00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,239
Speaker 3: I want to start with where we're at with the

882
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:33,400
Speaker 3: salary cap at in twenty twenty six. The official number

883
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 3: is three h one point two million. That's up from

884
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:40,799
Speaker 3: twenty two from the twenty twenty five cap. The three

885
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:43,840
Speaker 3: to oh one that teams can work with this season.

886
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 3: When it was first reported, were you expecting a lower

887
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 3: number around that or higher?

888
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think we were pushing more towards three h

889
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,840
Speaker 6: four just based on some of the more recent percentage increases.

890
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:58,360
Speaker 6: But you know, anything over the three hundred mark I

891
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:00,359
Speaker 6: think was going to be on the button. And that's

892
00:49:00,360 --> 00:49:02,359
Speaker 6: certainly where the league is. It's as healthy as it's

893
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:03,440
Speaker 6: ever been, and the.

894
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 3: Bills had to do some moves and we'll continue to

895
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:09,799
Speaker 3: move some things around to get cap compliant. Something that

896
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 3: we already saw come across our timelines was restructuring ed

897
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:17,799
Speaker 3: Oliver's contract. Can you give us the details on what

898
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 3: that looks like and how that saves Buffalo money.

899
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 6: Yeah, at Oliver was basically looking, you know, heading into

900
00:49:24,200 --> 00:49:26,839
Speaker 6: the second last deal of his contract here. It's kind

901
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:28,760
Speaker 6: of a make or break in terms of what comes next.

902
00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 6: So it was either going to be an extension or

903
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 6: some sort of salary conversion. They chose the ladder this

904
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 6: year in Buffalo, which freed up you know, significant cap

905
00:49:36,760 --> 00:49:39,319
Speaker 6: space to put them closer to that that line they

906
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:41,279
Speaker 6: want to be at. On Wednesday, it freed up a

907
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 6: little bit over ten million specifically with that move, so

908
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,799
Speaker 6: certainly locks in his position right now in terms of

909
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:50,240
Speaker 6: twenty twenty six, but we'll be looking at an expiring

910
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 6: contract for ed Oliver in twenty twenty seven now, yeah.

911
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:56,839
Speaker 1: Right. And it's also the Bills are thirteen some odd

912
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 1: thirteen and a half million over right now, they're actually

913
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 1: the thirty first ranked team. The Dallas is further over

914
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: there's sixteen million, and of course then you've got you know,

915
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:07,960
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, who's got one hundred and ten million dollars

916
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 1: of cap space.

917
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 4: You know, it goes and.

918
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:13,240
Speaker 1: Everybody else is somewhere in between that. Certainly, the bills

919
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 1: last year they were in worse shape than they are

920
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 1: this year now. I mean they could wave a magic

921
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:23,399
Speaker 1: wand and Josh Allen's contract alone could free up more

922
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:28,759
Speaker 1: than enough space. What is what are the constraints? Is

923
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:30,920
Speaker 1: it simply a matter of just having the cash on

924
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:34,960
Speaker 1: hand to pay these guys, because certainly the salary cap

925
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:39,879
Speaker 1: can be massaged to, I mean, whatever number they really want,

926
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 1: if it's taught you if you're talking about cash.

927
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 5: Right, yeah, no question.

928
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 6: You know there's a there's a cash element to it,

929
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:48,080
Speaker 6: there's a there's a want element to it. But I

930
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:52,560
Speaker 6: should also make notes, Steve, we're including DJ Moore on

931
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 6: this roster right now, right because you know obviously that's

932
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,799
Speaker 6: coming down the pipelin that can't be official until at

933
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:02,280
Speaker 6: least Wednesday, And that's an important factor here because timings

934
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:05,279
Speaker 6: of the essence, if Buffalo wants to wait on that

935
00:51:05,719 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 6: in processing that move, that's twenty four and change on

936
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 6: the cap. So you know, without that contract, they're in

937
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 6: the green with cap space. So you know, you wait,

938
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:18,760
Speaker 6: you make some moves, you convert Josh's salary, like you mentioned,

939
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,879
Speaker 6: now you're in the twenties, maybe you do a little

940
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,760
Speaker 6: damage and then you bring djmore officially onto the books.

941
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,880
Speaker 6: So there is some wiggle room just with that process alone.

942
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 6: Then you start talking about some of your other moves.

943
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 6: You know you've already converted Spencer Brown. There's a Dion

944
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:37,279
Speaker 6: Dawkins conversation to be had here about extensions, conversions and

945
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:41,359
Speaker 6: maybe something else. But look, it's it's one of those

946
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,440
Speaker 6: positions where you've structured contracts to not really give you

947
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:47,239
Speaker 6: a ton a ton of flexibility. Whereas some teams can

948
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 6: open up seventy eighty ninety million at times in the

949
00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 6: off season, that's not how Buffalo sort of operates right now.

950
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 6: So I wouldn't say they're in a position where they

951
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 6: can open up, you know, a significant amount of cap

952
00:51:57,640 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 6: space to become super aggressive in that regard. But there's

953
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 6: other ways to bring players onto this roster.

954
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 5: As you well know.

955
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 3: We're on with the founder managing editor of SPA Track,

956
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:10,720
Speaker 3: Mike JENNETI, what are some common mixed conceptions that fans

957
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 3: have as it relates to this negotiating period or free

958
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:18,560
Speaker 3: agency or getting cap compliant. Things that we're talking about

959
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:19,800
Speaker 3: frequently this week.

960
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:22,839
Speaker 5: Well, I'll say if agents have been doing some very

961
00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:23,319
Speaker 5: quick work.

962
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:26,360
Speaker 6: Let's put it that way with some of these signings today,

963
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:28,440
Speaker 6: you know the misconcept.

964
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 5: Well, one of the easier ones just to speak out

965
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:31,920
Speaker 5: is what I've just alluded to, which.

966
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:34,919
Speaker 6: Is nothing's official until Wednesday. In terms of these free

967
00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:37,919
Speaker 6: agent deals. Certainly the extensions can hit the books right now,

968
00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 6: but none of the trades, none of the free agent

969
00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:43,839
Speaker 6: agreements can actually fully processed until Wednesday. And we do

970
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:47,360
Speaker 6: see changes, We do see players pull back, change course,

971
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:50,719
Speaker 6: we see contract adjustments, things like that happen leading up

972
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:53,720
Speaker 6: to that march of eligventh windows. So you know, buyer

973
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 6: beware at least. But in terms of what you're not

974
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,760
Speaker 6: not only believing, but you know, kind of taking stock

975
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:01,360
Speaker 6: in for the next forty eight hours, even though I

976
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:03,959
Speaker 6: think we're at, you know, near a billion dollars worth

977
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,920
Speaker 6: of agreements just in free agency alone right now over

978
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:08,560
Speaker 6: the course of really two hours.

979
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:11,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, and what and if you look at the bills roster,

980
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:13,919
Speaker 1: it starts with Josh, then Dion Dawkins, and of course

981
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:16,399
Speaker 1: you plug in DJ Moore. Those are the top three guys,

982
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:19,400
Speaker 1: and then Dawson Knox, who's been can't you know people

983
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:23,720
Speaker 1: have been speculating about his future with the Bills. What

984
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:25,319
Speaker 1: what does your gut tell you about what they're going

985
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:26,320
Speaker 1: to do with Dawson Knox.

986
00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:30,319
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it's a good sign for him and

987
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:33,319
Speaker 6: some of the fans that he's not released yet, that

988
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 6: he hasn't been removed out of this contract. There's no

989
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,920
Speaker 6: question that, you know, the cap, the cash part of

990
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:39,640
Speaker 6: it is a little bit high based on where things

991
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:42,400
Speaker 6: stand and where the roster currently sits. My guess is

992
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 6: they're still just trying to hammer out some sort of agreement,

993
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 6: whether that's a redo.

994
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:46,920
Speaker 5: Whether that's just a straight pay cut.

995
00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 6: We've seen, you know, a bunch of those things happen

996
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:52,320
Speaker 6: over the past few offseasons here in Buffalo, and certainly

997
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:53,560
Speaker 6: Dawson's a candidate for that.

998
00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:54,680
Speaker 5: But look, if it gets.

999
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:56,879
Speaker 6: To you know, if push becomes shoved here by March

1000
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,399
Speaker 6: eleventh and there's room to be freed up, I would

1001
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 6: expect them to at least move off of this current

1002
00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:05,239
Speaker 6: contract and take a look elsewhere, at least momentarily.

1003
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:10,400
Speaker 3: You mentioned some other restructurings that could happen for Buffalo.

1004
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:13,760
Speaker 3: You mentioned that Spencer Brown had already happened. You mentioned

1005
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 3: Dion Dawkins being a part of the conversation that at

1006
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:20,399
Speaker 3: Oliver restructure. Is there anything else that you would think

1007
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:24,360
Speaker 3: happens on Buffalo's roster in terms of restructuring or moving

1008
00:54:24,440 --> 00:54:27,920
Speaker 3: on and with relation to becoming cap compliant.

1009
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 6: Well, obviously the Tarren Johnson trade, which will become official

1010
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 6: on Wednesday, helps a little bit about two million.

1011
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:35,719
Speaker 5: Worth of savings there.

1012
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 6: There's a few smaller cap conversions that can happen with

1013
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:43,880
Speaker 6: Greg Russau and Josh Palmer, maybe even Christian Benford, but

1014
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 6: again those are kind of baked into the initial contract structures.

1015
00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 6: And then you start talking about, you know, extensions for

1016
00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:53,239
Speaker 6: Cyrus Torrance, maybe a Dawkins extension to go with that,

1017
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:57,279
Speaker 6: But not a ton of cap saving moves as we

1018
00:54:57,360 --> 00:55:00,279
Speaker 6: get towards that Wednesday finish line here in terms of it,

1019
00:55:00,360 --> 00:55:03,319
Speaker 6: might be some maybe a shocking release or two, but

1020
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:04,719
Speaker 6: I wouldn't expect too many of those.

1021
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:05,680
Speaker 5: Leading up to Wednesday.

1022
00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 1: We've talked about how you know, it's not really a

1023
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 1: heavy lift to get under the cap, but it might

1024
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:13,160
Speaker 1: be a little heavier if they want to spend it right?

1025
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:16,839
Speaker 1: Is there? Are you looking at this list? You know,

1026
00:55:17,600 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 1: spot tracks great, you can look at the rankings you see. However,

1027
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:22,640
Speaker 1: is there a team out there that you're looking at, going, Man,

1028
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do. They're a roster

1029
00:55:24,520 --> 00:55:27,160
Speaker 1: like the Dolphins. I mean, they're gonna wave to and

1030
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 1: take you know, that is a big gulp to swallow

1031
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 1: that dead cap space. But is there a team that

1032
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:36,320
Speaker 1: you're looking at that you're like going, I don't know

1033
00:55:36,320 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 1: how they're gonna do it, or they're gonna really have

1034
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 1: be a different team this year than they were.

1035
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 6: For sure Miami and I'm not even sure they're done right.

1036
00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 6: There's a Brandy Hubb conversation. I think we'll get ourselves

1037
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:49,680
Speaker 6: to a jail and Wottle conversation at some point there,

1038
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:52,480
Speaker 6: because they are really ripping this band aid off, even

1039
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 6: though they've already signed or agreed to their new QB

1040
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:57,799
Speaker 6: one and Milik willis so there's a bit of a

1041
00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 6: back and forth happening there in that front office. I

1042
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:03,000
Speaker 6: say it every year, and every year I just wait

1043
00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 6: and find out how they're gonna make it work. But

1044
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:08,839
Speaker 6: Philly really does seem more stuck than usual this time

1045
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 6: around number one, because I don't think they have any

1046
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 6: any consciousness to extend Jalen Hurts right now, even though

1047
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,760
Speaker 6: that would help them a little bit. The aj Brown stuff.

1048
00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 6: You know, obviously, I'm sure you've had conversations here. It's

1049
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:23,520
Speaker 6: attractive and it makes sense from a football standpoint, maybe

1050
00:56:23,520 --> 00:56:27,080
Speaker 6: from you know, the players standpoint, but they're eating cap

1051
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 6: to do to make that move right now, and that's

1052
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:32,520
Speaker 6: kind of the case with most of their roster, and

1053
00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:36,800
Speaker 6: you're seeing many of their pending free agents heading elsewhere

1054
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 6: right now. They're being out big kind of left and

1055
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 6: right here because they just don't have that flexibility that

1056
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 6: they're used to having an off seasons past. So that's

1057
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 6: a team I'm looking at, you know, maybe not to

1058
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:47,839
Speaker 6: drop down too far in the standings, but they're gonna

1059
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 6: be in some trouble to rebuild this roster quickly, and

1060
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:53,279
Speaker 6: then you're gonna look at some other ones down the

1061
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 6: line here like Cleveland, who are setting themselves up for

1062
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 6: historic numbers with Deshaun Watson next year and might actually

1063
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:01,759
Speaker 6: end up playing him into twenty six despite that. But

1064
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,920
Speaker 6: they're looking at a situation where they have an expensive

1065
00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 6: defense and a lot of contracts that they're both either

1066
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:09,719
Speaker 6: trying to get off the books or already dealing with

1067
00:57:09,760 --> 00:57:10,279
Speaker 6: having been.

1068
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:10,800
Speaker 5: Off their books.

1069
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:16,720
Speaker 3: You mentioned the tu a tongue of Iloa releasing him

1070
00:57:16,960 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 3: and paying ninety nine million in dead cap or in

1071
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 3: dead money over the next two years.

1072
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:25,560
Speaker 2: What do teams learn from a deal like that.

1073
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 6: You know, if it wasn't a quarterback, there'd be I

1074
00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:32,520
Speaker 6: think a lot more people, you know, screaming this, screaming

1075
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 6: out a lot about this one. But I just think

1076
00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:37,120
Speaker 6: we're at a point now where if you're even close

1077
00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 6: to being the guy, you're getting the contract. You know,

1078
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 6: if you look back at when he signed this contract,

1079
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 6: he had a great year. He had the three D

1080
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:45,600
Speaker 6: concussion year, and then he came back and he was

1081
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 6: healthy and he was productive. It was forty five hundred yards,

1082
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 6: it was a really good touchdown interception ratio, and you

1083
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:54,240
Speaker 6: can kind of kind of understand them getting themselves into

1084
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:58,440
Speaker 6: this situation. You know, obviously, hindsight is twenty twenty. The

1085
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 6: number that that shocks me isn't the dead cab. It's

1086
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 6: the fifty four million guaranteed that they're going to pay him.

1087
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 6: That is that's a staggering amount of money to take

1088
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:09,959
Speaker 6: on in one season. But number I'll say two things.

1089
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:12,720
Speaker 6: I get it because this is a position you just

1090
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 6: can't fool with if you don't think this is the

1091
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 6: right player. So they're moving on quickly to Malik Willis.

1092
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 6: And I'm going to give them credit for this. There's

1093
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 6: not a lot of owners in any of these sports

1094
00:58:21,600 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 6: that would rip this band aid off like this from

1095
00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:26,360
Speaker 6: a cash perspective. You know, we saw Denver do this

1096
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 6: with Russell Wilson, but that was about thirty five million cash.

1097
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:31,960
Speaker 6: This is a significant amount more money coming out of

1098
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:34,760
Speaker 6: the pocket of the owner to not only admit the

1099
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 6: mistake but fix it as quickly as possible. And I

1100
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:38,960
Speaker 6: don't think there's too many teams that would go this.

1101
00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: For up a couple of things. One of the things

1102
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: while we've been talking here, Bill's guard David Edwards, looks

1103
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: like he's agreed to a contract with the Saints for

1104
00:58:45,960 --> 00:58:51,600
Speaker 1: four years, sixty one million, another big contract for that.

1105
00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:56,240
Speaker 1: And the Saints, who are perennially have been in cab jail.

1106
00:58:56,320 --> 00:59:00,200
Speaker 1: I mean, it's like it's their job to have you know,

1107
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:02,680
Speaker 1: dead cap space. But you know, David Edwards going down

1108
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 1: to New Orleans to continue his career, all of that happens,

1109
00:59:07,600 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 1: which you know with his deadline, exactly what's gonna happen?

1110
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:14,880
Speaker 1: What can we expect when Wednesday comes around? And Wednesday's

1111
00:59:14,880 --> 00:59:18,240
Speaker 1: the day? Right, did you know March eleventh? What do

1112
00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:21,120
Speaker 1: you expect to happen league wide? With you know, the

1113
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 1: salary cap on that's the deadline. Everybody's got to be clean,

1114
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:26,320
Speaker 1: with a clean bill of health, a cap above the cap.

1115
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 4: What do you expect?

1116
00:59:28,520 --> 00:59:30,760
Speaker 1: You know, what's the biggest moves?

1117
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:30,920
Speaker 5: Like?

1118
00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 4: League wide?

1119
00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:32,920
Speaker 1: Everybody's got to do this?

1120
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:33,600
Speaker 4: What is it?

1121
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:37,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're gonna see the run up of signings over

1122
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:39,200
Speaker 6: the next twenty four or so, right, so you're seeing

1123
00:59:39,200 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 6: some of these names falling into into places and fall

1124
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:45,520
Speaker 6: into place. What we'll see is then a counteract, which

1125
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:50,240
Speaker 6: is releases, pay cuts, certainly of those conversions we're talking about,

1126
00:59:50,240 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 6: to sort of combat what they've just done, and that

1127
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:55,919
Speaker 6: will lead to I think a second wave of really

1128
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:59,920
Speaker 6: nice trades across the league. I'd expect six to seven

1129
01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:03,680
Speaker 6: more significant trades across the league, not only for football purposes,

1130
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:07,440
Speaker 6: but in some cases just for financial reasons. And that

1131
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:11,160
Speaker 6: becomes fun because so much of the big names have

1132
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 6: already sort of fallen off the board here on a Monday.

1133
01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:17,440
Speaker 6: I think Wednesday will become the shocking trade moves to

1134
01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:19,960
Speaker 6: sort of combat and make a second wave of free agency.

1135
01:00:20,000 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 5: Again.

1136
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 3: You mentioned to a tongue of Iiloa and that year

1137
01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:25,480
Speaker 3: that he got that contract, saying, hey, you had a

1138
01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:28,400
Speaker 3: good year. If you have a good year and it's

1139
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:31,160
Speaker 3: time to get paid, you're likely going to get paid.

1140
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 3: It makes me think of a wide receiver who agreed

1141
01:00:34,120 --> 01:00:37,600
Speaker 3: to terms on a four year deal with the Indianapolis

1142
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:41,080
Speaker 3: Colts and Alec Pierce four years, one hundred and sixteen

1143
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 3: million dollars. Pierce just had his first one thousand yard

1144
01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:46,600
Speaker 3: season last year.

1145
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:49,440
Speaker 2: Have the good year and you get paid.

1146
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:52,160
Speaker 3: Does a deal like that make sense for Alec Pierce,

1147
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:55,600
Speaker 3: who's sort of kind of a one hit wonder right now,

1148
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:58,560
Speaker 3: you're wondering what is it going to be coming off

1149
01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:00,160
Speaker 3: of your first one thousand yard seat.

1150
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 5: In Yeah, no question, it's risky.

1151
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:05,280
Speaker 6: And I think you're going to compile that with Daniel

1152
01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:08,320
Speaker 6: Jones contract too, which is maybe even more risky right now,

1153
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:11,080
Speaker 6: all things considered. But I think what we've learned about

1154
01:01:11,120 --> 01:01:13,680
Speaker 6: Alec Pearson, his skill set is that it's somewhat unique,

1155
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:16,520
Speaker 6: and it's why so many teams had him on the

1156
01:01:16,520 --> 01:01:18,440
Speaker 6: big board, and we knew the numbers were going to

1157
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:20,640
Speaker 6: kind of shoot up on him, and it took Indy

1158
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:22,760
Speaker 6: quite a contract to keep him in house and kind

1159
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:25,280
Speaker 6: of keep him off the open market. You just don't

1160
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:26,920
Speaker 6: have those guys that can get down the field and

1161
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 6: win those kind of one v ones as consistently as

1162
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:32,720
Speaker 6: he's shown he's head and that doesn't necessarily lead to

1163
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:36,720
Speaker 6: big stats, big numbers, you know, so statistical models aren't

1164
01:01:36,760 --> 01:01:38,960
Speaker 6: going to favor him too much over the course of

1165
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,680
Speaker 6: his first four seasons. But there's a reason that so

1166
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 6: many of the big contending teams have this guy in

1167
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:46,760
Speaker 6: the list. And I think it's a nice move by Indianapolis,

1168
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:48,400
Speaker 6: but it did cost them Michael Pittman Jr.

1169
01:01:48,440 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 5: Who has reportedly.

1170
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:52,960
Speaker 6: Been moved to Pittsburgh because they certainly just couldn't keep

1171
01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:55,680
Speaker 6: all three of these big players together. And there's five

1172
01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:58,240
Speaker 6: or six more contracts in Indianapolis have to get addressed

1173
01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:02,120
Speaker 6: this offseason because of expirations coming up here. So that's

1174
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:04,080
Speaker 6: a team to watch in terms of finances that could

1175
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:06,400
Speaker 6: get really fun, really chaotic here over the next few weeks.

1176
01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 1: Is offensive line kind of the hot position or is

1177
01:02:09,120 --> 01:02:10,920
Speaker 1: that just the time of year we're at. I mean,

1178
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 1: it seems like we're talking a lot about guard centers.

1179
01:02:13,800 --> 01:02:16,000
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just because the Buffalo Bills have some interior

1180
01:02:16,080 --> 01:02:19,080
Speaker 1: linemen who have been really contributed, big contributors on a

1181
01:02:19,120 --> 01:02:22,280
Speaker 1: really good offensive line, on a really good offense, whose

1182
01:02:22,320 --> 01:02:25,160
Speaker 1: contracts are up. But is that it strikes me as

1183
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:29,480
Speaker 1: a little bit wider scale than just our inability to

1184
01:02:29,480 --> 01:02:31,720
Speaker 1: see you other rosters other than the Bills. Is that true?

1185
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 6: It's been skyrocketing for the past half a decade or so.

1186
01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:39,360
Speaker 6: But two things kind of combined. Number One, if you

1187
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:42,280
Speaker 6: haven't seen the Tyler Linnenbaum contract yet, yeah, find out

1188
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:43,240
Speaker 6: way to find that one.

1189
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 1: We saw it.

1190
01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:47,200
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's three for eighty one, which is twenty seven

1191
01:02:47,240 --> 01:02:49,640
Speaker 6: a year, which not only surpasses the center market, it

1192
01:02:49,680 --> 01:02:53,600
Speaker 6: surpasses the guard market. So I'm going to piggyback two

1193
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:56,640
Speaker 6: points into one here. That's the Raiders identifying that they

1194
01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:59,120
Speaker 6: have a rookie quarterback coming in and they have to

1195
01:02:59,120 --> 01:03:00,960
Speaker 6: do everything humanly pot hospital to make sure that the

1196
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:04,520
Speaker 6: interier of that offensive line is secure and nobody knows

1197
01:03:04,520 --> 01:03:06,880
Speaker 6: that more than one of his owners and Tom Brady right.

1198
01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 6: So that's what's happening is we're seeing centers and guards

1199
01:03:11,200 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 6: specifically push way forward financially speaking, even more so than

1200
01:03:15,840 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 6: on an average percentage basis than the tackles have been

1201
01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:21,840
Speaker 6: of late. It's why we had Connor McGovern and David

1202
01:03:21,960 --> 01:03:25,280
Speaker 6: Edwards valued where we did and both kind of came

1203
01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:26,280
Speaker 6: in around in our numbers.

1204
01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:27,240
Speaker 5: That's just where we're going.

1205
01:03:27,280 --> 01:03:30,200
Speaker 6: The interior offensive line is one of the most skyrocketing

1206
01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:33,640
Speaker 6: markets in football, and Linderbaum has sort of put the

1207
01:03:33,680 --> 01:03:36,600
Speaker 6: exclamation point on that today with his Raiders contracts.

1208
01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:40,120
Speaker 3: I remember looking at where you guys valued David Edwards

1209
01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:42,560
Speaker 3: and Connor McGovern toward the end of the season, just

1210
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:45,600
Speaker 3: kind of planning and thinking, Okay, what will this cost

1211
01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:47,720
Speaker 3: for Buffalo if they decide to do a deal with

1212
01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:50,479
Speaker 3: one of them, And just seeing that figure per year

1213
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:53,720
Speaker 3: is just wow, they're going to demand this much money

1214
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 3: on the open market. And you see the Bills and

1215
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 3: Connor McGovern agree to terms on a four year deal

1216
01:03:59,040 --> 01:04:02,600
Speaker 3: worth fifty two, and then quickly after you see Tyler

1217
01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:07,400
Speaker 3: Linderbaum agree to terms on three year eighty one. How surprised,

1218
01:04:07,440 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 3: were you by that figure?

1219
01:04:10,160 --> 01:04:13,600
Speaker 6: Yeah, the mcgovernment contract makes a lot of sense. Certainly

1220
01:04:13,600 --> 01:04:16,120
Speaker 6: he wanted to be here because the overall you know,

1221
01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:18,640
Speaker 6: average sellar there looks phenomenal now after.

1222
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:19,360
Speaker 5: All things consider.

1223
01:04:19,480 --> 01:04:21,640
Speaker 6: But even the guarantee structure, right it is two for

1224
01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:24,439
Speaker 6: thirty two, which is pretty much where our model says

1225
01:04:24,480 --> 01:04:25,000
Speaker 6: he should be.

1226
01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:26,680
Speaker 5: That makes sense to me as well.

1227
01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:30,960
Speaker 6: The numbers we're going to see today and free agency

1228
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:33,440
Speaker 6: will do that, you know, it'll do that. In all sports,

1229
01:04:33,880 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 6: there's a premium to pay, and when there's multiple teams involved,

1230
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:40,920
Speaker 6: that premium becomes a double premium. So for these players,

1231
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:42,880
Speaker 6: if you just look at where they were in their

1232
01:04:42,960 --> 01:04:45,120
Speaker 6: last contract versus where they're going to be right now,

1233
01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:47,160
Speaker 6: it's going to tell the story we're talking about here,

1234
01:04:47,200 --> 01:04:50,680
Speaker 6: which is obviously these players have improved. They're on teams

1235
01:04:50,760 --> 01:04:53,880
Speaker 6: that are good and are properly spotlight and showcasing them,

1236
01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:56,720
Speaker 6: so they've got a different sort of avenue towards free agency.

1237
01:04:56,760 --> 01:05:00,960
Speaker 6: But these positions have really taken steps forward, and it's

1238
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:02,400
Speaker 6: good to see it because I think all five of

1239
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:05,880
Speaker 6: those offensive line positions are worthy of being able to

1240
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:07,520
Speaker 6: do what they have to do to keep their fifty

1241
01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:09,520
Speaker 6: to sixty million dollars quarterbacks healthy.

1242
01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:11,800
Speaker 1: Right, And one of the things it's a natural evolution.

1243
01:05:11,840 --> 01:05:14,000
Speaker 1: I mean the salary caps now with over three hundred.

1244
01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:16,200
Speaker 1: I remember I was part of the league when it

1245
01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:20,120
Speaker 1: first started. It was thirty eight million in nineteen ninety four,

1246
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:22,960
Speaker 1: first salary cap, right, So now it's three. Right, So

1247
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:25,400
Speaker 1: this is this a natural evolution? I mean, you know,

1248
01:05:25,960 --> 01:05:30,680
Speaker 1: some positions, it takes a great player to set the market,

1249
01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:34,320
Speaker 1: no question, and there's not a great player at every

1250
01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:38,120
Speaker 1: position available every year. So we're is this kind of

1251
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:39,880
Speaker 1: a natural evolution, and this is kind of one of

1252
01:05:39,880 --> 01:05:44,320
Speaker 1: the big steps in bringing every position up to its

1253
01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:45,120
Speaker 1: max value.

1254
01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:48,600
Speaker 6: You're right, it is kind of cyclic claw a little bit, right,

1255
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:50,400
Speaker 6: and you kind of have to hit it on the

1256
01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:53,720
Speaker 6: nose with having a player who either a is willing

1257
01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:55,840
Speaker 6: to become an available free agent to really push that

1258
01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:57,120
Speaker 6: market like Linderbaumb just did.

1259
01:05:57,200 --> 01:05:57,280
Speaker 1: Right.

1260
01:05:57,360 --> 01:06:01,000
Speaker 6: Right, that's an all inclusive situation for that center market.

1261
01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:03,880
Speaker 6: And we'll see how long he remains the top figure

1262
01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:07,680
Speaker 6: at that point too. So, but also it's the cap,

1263
01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:10,520
Speaker 6: it's the cash situation, it's the streaming money, it's the

1264
01:06:10,520 --> 01:06:14,000
Speaker 6: gambling money. There's just a lot of ways to find,

1265
01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:16,680
Speaker 6: you know, to give agents power to go out there

1266
01:06:16,720 --> 01:06:19,360
Speaker 6: and get players bigger contracts. And at the end of

1267
01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:20,920
Speaker 6: the day, one of the things we're doing, one of

1268
01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:23,400
Speaker 6: the metrics we're following pretty closely, is, you know, how

1269
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:25,320
Speaker 6: do these deals rank in terms of the percentage of

1270
01:06:25,360 --> 01:06:29,280
Speaker 6: this salary cap. If everything's sliding up properly from a

1271
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:32,520
Speaker 6: percentage standpoint, you know, then everybody's going to be happy

1272
01:06:32,560 --> 01:06:34,680
Speaker 6: and nobody's going to be complaining. But if players are

1273
01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:37,520
Speaker 6: actually falling behind here in terms of where this salary

1274
01:06:37,520 --> 01:06:39,440
Speaker 6: cap is, then you know, you'll start to see some

1275
01:06:39,520 --> 01:06:42,240
Speaker 6: rumblings come out of agents and things like that, as

1276
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:44,080
Speaker 6: we've seen with some of these other sports, you know,

1277
01:06:44,120 --> 01:06:46,120
Speaker 6: specifically a basketball a few years ago during the last

1278
01:06:46,160 --> 01:06:47,120
Speaker 6: CBA innerations.

1279
01:06:47,560 --> 01:06:51,400
Speaker 3: You follow so many different metrics. Are there any trends

1280
01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:54,680
Speaker 3: that you're seeing with teams as it relates to how

1281
01:06:54,800 --> 01:06:59,040
Speaker 3: deals are getting done, how they're structured year over year

1282
01:06:59,320 --> 01:07:04,440
Speaker 3: in terms of allowing years to help a team become

1283
01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:08,640
Speaker 3: cap compliant over the last five years. Let's say, have

1284
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:11,320
Speaker 3: you seen any trends as it relates to how teams

1285
01:07:11,400 --> 01:07:12,440
Speaker 3: kind of do their business?

1286
01:07:13,680 --> 01:07:16,320
Speaker 6: Yeah, to kind of key in more on what Buffalo

1287
01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:19,080
Speaker 6: is doing, and it's becoming the norm, which is, you know,

1288
01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:21,880
Speaker 6: we're not going to wait around for salary conversions in

1289
01:07:21,920 --> 01:07:24,480
Speaker 6: February March. We're going to bake it in immediately to

1290
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:28,520
Speaker 6: how these contracts are structured with signing bonuses, adoption bonuses,

1291
01:07:28,560 --> 01:07:31,840
Speaker 6: and ways to spread the cap out immediately because we

1292
01:07:31,880 --> 01:07:33,560
Speaker 6: need it today, we're going to need it tomorrow.

1293
01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:34,840
Speaker 5: Let's just do this now.

1294
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:37,960
Speaker 6: That's how Philadelphia operates and the Saints operate, and many

1295
01:07:38,040 --> 01:07:41,640
Speaker 6: of these massive, massive, blockbuster contracts we're talking about just say,

1296
01:07:41,720 --> 01:07:42,480
Speaker 6: let's just push.

1297
01:07:42,320 --> 01:07:43,280
Speaker 5: It down the line today.

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Speaker 6: And then conversely, with some cash stuff, we're seeing sort

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Speaker 6: of a Baseball element being brought to football, which is,

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Speaker 6: we know we have to guarantee more money in these contracts. Okay,

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Speaker 6: and I'm speaking from a front office standpoint that you know,

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01:07:56,040 --> 01:07:58,400
Speaker 6: the pressure is on, there's money to be made, the

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01:07:58,440 --> 01:08:00,520
Speaker 6: cap is big. We know we have to offer more

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01:08:00,520 --> 01:08:03,360
Speaker 6: guaranteed money, but that doesn't mean we have to pull

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01:08:03,960 --> 01:08:06,560
Speaker 6: all of that guaranteed money up into the first, you know,

1306
01:08:06,560 --> 01:08:09,200
Speaker 6: two or three seasons on these big contracts. So what

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01:08:09,240 --> 01:08:12,640
Speaker 6: we're seeing is guarantees being built into sort of later years.

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01:08:12,720 --> 01:08:14,960
Speaker 6: Even a one year contract or a two year contract

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Speaker 6: with one year guaranteed, has some money in that second

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01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:20,800
Speaker 6: year that is fully guaranteed at signing. It's kind of

1311
01:08:20,840 --> 01:08:23,599
Speaker 6: being treated like a baseball buyout, where we don't really

1312
01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:26,040
Speaker 6: plan on having you that second year, and we're willing

1313
01:08:26,040 --> 01:08:28,360
Speaker 6: to pay you this cash to walk away. And it's

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Speaker 6: actually a pretty unique metric because what happens is there's

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01:08:31,880 --> 01:08:34,600
Speaker 6: offset language. So this player gets paid by us, he

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01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:37,879
Speaker 6: goes and signs a contract somewhere else, and maybe half

1317
01:08:38,000 --> 01:08:40,760
Speaker 6: all of that guaranteed money we just paid you now

1318
01:08:40,800 --> 01:08:42,840
Speaker 6: comes off our books the next year because you made

1319
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Speaker 6: it somewhere else. So there's there's a little bit of

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01:08:44,960 --> 01:08:47,360
Speaker 6: chess being played with some of these guarantee structures that

1321
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:49,679
Speaker 6: you know, the player's still getting paid, the agent's still

1322
01:08:49,680 --> 01:08:51,800
Speaker 6: getting paid, and the team gets the benefit with a

1323
01:08:51,800 --> 01:08:53,280
Speaker 6: little bit of an offset situation.

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Speaker 1: What's so there's labor unity now and they've got a

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01:08:57,320 --> 01:08:59,080
Speaker 1: lot of labor piece, what do you think is the

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01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:01,880
Speaker 1: next bargaining for the team, for the teams and for

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01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:04,360
Speaker 1: the players association. We talk a lot about an eighteenth

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01:09:04,439 --> 01:09:07,400
Speaker 1: game schedule, right, an eighteen game regular schedule, You talk

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01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:10,879
Speaker 1: about maybe another percentage for the players Union being squeezed

1330
01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:13,320
Speaker 1: out of the revenue sharing instead of going I think

1331
01:09:13,320 --> 01:09:15,160
Speaker 1: it's like forty eight and a half or forty nine

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01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:17,719
Speaker 1: percent of the play you know, as a salary cap

1333
01:09:18,320 --> 01:09:21,120
Speaker 1: is squeezing out another percentage to the players Union in

1334
01:09:21,240 --> 01:09:23,760
Speaker 1: exchange for an eighteen game. That kind of thing. What

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01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:26,160
Speaker 1: do you think the next step is in this you know,

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01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:27,439
Speaker 1: salary cap era.

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Speaker 6: No question though, they'll want to slide that needle a

1338
01:09:31,000 --> 01:09:33,720
Speaker 6: little bit more. You know, maybe you also slide up

1339
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:37,200
Speaker 6: the three year spending floor that exists right now. It's

1340
01:09:37,240 --> 01:09:39,639
Speaker 6: at about eighty nine cents or eighty nine percent over

1341
01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:41,680
Speaker 6: a three year span. Can we get that into the

1342
01:09:41,760 --> 01:09:44,240
Speaker 6: nineties to make sure that teams that are flesh with

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01:09:44,320 --> 01:09:47,640
Speaker 6: cap space are using you know a significant amount of

1344
01:09:47,640 --> 01:09:49,280
Speaker 6: it over a two to three year window. I think

1345
01:09:49,320 --> 01:09:51,519
Speaker 6: that's something to keep in mind as everything continues to

1346
01:09:51,560 --> 01:09:54,200
Speaker 6: grow at you know, nine to ten percent rates per year.

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01:09:55,320 --> 01:09:57,879
Speaker 6: I do think the franchise tag stuff might get addressed

1348
01:09:57,960 --> 01:09:59,920
Speaker 6: this time around. If players need more things they have

1349
01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:02,120
Speaker 6: their hat on a little bit. Not that the numbers

1350
01:10:02,120 --> 01:10:06,320
Speaker 6: are low. I think the calculations work, but the idea

1351
01:10:06,439 --> 01:10:08,760
Speaker 6: of them might be kind of outgrowing themselves a little

1352
01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:11,840
Speaker 6: bit here. The positional stuff that's attached to them, and

1353
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:14,640
Speaker 6: fifty year options for first front picks seem to have

1354
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:17,120
Speaker 6: been become outdated a little bit now with so many

1355
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:20,960
Speaker 6: hybrid defensive systems and things like that. So there's some

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01:10:21,000 --> 01:10:22,840
Speaker 6: small things like that that we're finding. But I got

1357
01:10:22,840 --> 01:10:24,599
Speaker 6: to tell you guys, in the grand scheme of things,

1358
01:10:24,640 --> 01:10:26,120
Speaker 6: I'm doing a lot of work on baseball right now

1359
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:28,479
Speaker 6: as they head towards their CBA mess.

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Speaker 5: Football is in pretty good shape.

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Speaker 6: It's a pretty healthy situation, I think, and of players

1362
01:10:32,680 --> 01:10:35,240
Speaker 6: and agents for the most part, are pretty pleased, and

1363
01:10:35,320 --> 01:10:38,519
Speaker 6: obviously ownership has to be happy with both the on

1364
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:43,080
Speaker 6: field situation and the valuation process from the backside as well.

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Speaker 1: Explain a little bit further detailed just this last thing

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Speaker 1: about this three year window of spending. What do you

1367
01:10:48,439 --> 01:10:50,680
Speaker 1: mean when you say like eighty nine percent of their

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01:10:50,720 --> 01:10:53,920
Speaker 1: spendable income, so whatever, whatever.

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01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:56,639
Speaker 6: The three year cap total is over a three year span,

1370
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Speaker 6: so it's actually twenty twenty four to twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 6: This is the final year of the current three year

1372
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Speaker 6: window that exists in the CBA. Teams have to spend

1373
01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:07,679
Speaker 6: eighty nine percent cash wise of whatever that cap number

1374
01:11:07,760 --> 01:11:10,160
Speaker 6: is over a three year span. It's just making sure

1375
01:11:10,160 --> 01:11:13,240
Speaker 6: that there's nobody out there completely tanking, completely mailaded in

1376
01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:15,519
Speaker 6: for two to three years that load up on top

1377
01:11:15,680 --> 01:11:18,800
Speaker 6: draft picks and sort of game the system a little bit.

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Speaker 6: It's great that it exists. Many of these sports that

1379
01:11:20,840 --> 01:11:23,280
Speaker 6: don't have that. I just wonder if the players can

1380
01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:26,200
Speaker 6: push that further even more to make sure that the

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Speaker 6: middle class gets continues to get paid and things like

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Speaker 6: that as we push into bigger paydays.

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Speaker 3: Very interesting, Mike, Thank you so much for taking the

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Speaker 3: time to explain a lot of these contracts that are

1385
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:38,760
Speaker 3: coming together over the last twenty four hours and the

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01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:41,240
Speaker 3: ones that will continue to come together over the next

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Speaker 3: couple days.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Mike, My pleasure.

1390
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Speaker 5: Guys.

1391
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Speaker 3: All right, that was managing editor and founder of SPA Track,

1392
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:51,720
Speaker 3: Mike Jannitti joining us and giving us the lay of

1393
01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:55,719
Speaker 3: the land on how this comes together, on the salary

1394
01:11:55,720 --> 01:11:59,479
Speaker 3: cap situation, the number for this season, how teams are

1395
01:12:00,240 --> 01:12:03,440
Speaker 3: getting under the cap to become cap compliant.

1396
01:12:03,040 --> 01:12:05,920
Speaker 1: And it is fascinating and because like I.

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01:12:05,800 --> 01:12:08,040
Speaker 2: Want to go to school during this time to learn.

1398
01:12:08,120 --> 01:12:10,640
Speaker 1: We've been we've been talking about if for me it

1399
01:12:10,720 --> 01:12:12,720
Speaker 1: hits a little lands a little differently than it does

1400
01:12:12,760 --> 01:12:15,280
Speaker 1: for fans because I was part of it. And you

1401
01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:17,800
Speaker 1: know that they're talking, we're talking about percentages and this,

1402
01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:21,040
Speaker 1: you know that free agency and it's guys lives man,

1403
01:12:21,280 --> 01:12:23,559
Speaker 1: and like a guy like Connor McGovern, he's already signed

1404
01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:26,080
Speaker 1: one contract, but this is you know, David Edwards has

1405
01:12:26,080 --> 01:12:33,599
Speaker 1: signed a life changing deal four years, sixty one million, that's.

1406
01:12:32,520 --> 01:12:34,240
Speaker 2: Worth upwards of fifteen million a year.

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01:12:34,320 --> 01:12:37,760
Speaker 1: That's big. And these guys lives change. And you know,

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01:12:37,800 --> 01:12:40,680
Speaker 1: we're we talk about these grand schemes with the CBA

1409
01:12:40,880 --> 01:12:43,280
Speaker 1: and the players union and the ownership and the NFL

1410
01:12:43,320 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 1: itself and the language of these contracts that it's you know,

1411
01:12:48,520 --> 01:12:51,680
Speaker 1: it's it's important. I mean, it's really important stuff for

1412
01:12:51,720 --> 01:12:53,439
Speaker 1: how the league functions. Is nice to hear a guy

1413
01:12:53,520 --> 01:12:57,599
Speaker 1: like Janetti who does this for all the Major League Baseball,

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01:12:57,640 --> 01:13:01,479
Speaker 1: the NBA, the NFL, the w n b A, he

1415
01:13:01,560 --> 01:13:03,760
Speaker 1: does it for all of the MSL, he does it

1416
01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:06,519
Speaker 1: for all of these other sports as well, And to

1417
01:13:06,560 --> 01:13:09,160
Speaker 1: say and have him say, the NFL's in pre this

1418
01:13:09,360 --> 01:13:11,480
Speaker 1: just in the NFL is in pretty good shape.

1419
01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:13,120
Speaker 4: Financially, Yeah, okay, I get it.

1420
01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:17,799
Speaker 1: But to have it work as well as it does,

1421
01:13:19,280 --> 01:13:20,320
Speaker 1: it's kind of nice to see.

1422
01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:22,679
Speaker 2: I couldn't imagine doing them for multiple leagues.

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01:13:22,920 --> 01:13:23,599
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.

1424
01:13:23,840 --> 01:13:26,160
Speaker 3: One league with all those numbers is enough to handle,

1425
01:13:26,400 --> 01:13:29,360
Speaker 3: more than enough to handle. And he kind of floated

1426
01:13:29,360 --> 01:13:32,000
Speaker 3: the MLB not in a good situation. It'll be interesting

1427
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:33,800
Speaker 3: to see what happens with the MLBA.

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01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:38,960
Speaker 1: NHL, WNBA, golf, all of it. They handle, all of that.

1429
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:44,760
Speaker 1: They crazy, It is crazy. So yeah, but it has

1430
01:13:44,800 --> 01:13:46,200
Speaker 1: been for a while and it looks like it's going

1431
01:13:46,200 --> 01:13:47,160
Speaker 1: to continue to be, at least for.

1432
01:13:47,160 --> 01:13:47,760
Speaker 2: The short term.

1433
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:50,400
Speaker 3: We got to take a break when we return, dipping

1434
01:13:50,439 --> 01:13:53,920
Speaker 3: into the tweets sheet answering or reading off your answers

1435
01:13:53,920 --> 01:13:57,200
Speaker 3: to our question, how would you navigate free agency if

1436
01:13:57,240 --> 01:14:00,320
Speaker 3: you were a part of the Bills scouting department saying

1437
01:14:00,320 --> 01:14:02,040
Speaker 3: that next year. On One Bill's Live, We're presented by

1438
01:14:02,080 --> 01:14:14,439
Speaker 3: Clyde Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1439
01:14:17,960 --> 01:14:19,639
Speaker 2: We're back here on One Bill's Live.

1440
01:14:19,680 --> 01:14:22,800
Speaker 3: And as we go to break a new deal happens

1441
01:14:22,920 --> 01:14:27,200
Speaker 3: according to Adam Schefter and Rapport and all those guys

1442
01:14:27,240 --> 01:14:32,479
Speaker 3: who are doing so much work today, Wide receiver Mike

1443
01:14:32,560 --> 01:14:35,320
Speaker 3: Evans is heading to the forty nine ers on a

1444
01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:39,400
Speaker 3: three year deal. We don't have any of the numbers yet,

1445
01:14:39,439 --> 01:14:42,800
Speaker 3: but we expect it to be a pretty happy It'll

1446
01:14:42,840 --> 01:14:44,760
Speaker 3: be a big number to get a wide receiver like

1447
01:14:44,800 --> 01:14:46,679
Speaker 3: Mike Evans, who is spent.

1448
01:14:48,640 --> 01:14:59,000
Speaker 1: I'm surprised he's not young, right, No, so we'll see.

1449
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:01,840
Speaker 1: We don't know the numbers yet, so I'm not gonna

1450
01:15:01,880 --> 01:15:03,519
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna speculate.

1451
01:15:03,040 --> 01:15:06,040
Speaker 2: But gonna be a future Hall of Famer.

1452
01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:11,800
Speaker 1: Get twelve years. It will be his twelfth year, thirteenth, thirteenth.

1453
01:15:11,320 --> 01:15:14,240
Speaker 2: Played his entire year with the Tampa Bay Bucks.

1454
01:15:14,360 --> 01:15:17,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, entire career. And this is the guy. Now, this

1455
01:15:17,400 --> 01:15:19,639
Speaker 1: is the guy that has a thousand yard year every

1456
01:15:19,720 --> 01:15:21,760
Speaker 1: year of his career except last year when he only

1457
01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:22,679
Speaker 1: played eight games. Yep.

1458
01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:27,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's three.

1459
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:31,040
Speaker 1: Years for a thirty two year old. There'd be thirty

1460
01:15:31,080 --> 01:15:31,559
Speaker 1: three year.

1461
01:15:31,479 --> 01:15:35,280
Speaker 3: Old who still still knows how to play, still produces

1462
01:15:35,320 --> 01:15:37,000
Speaker 3: and last years only.

1463
01:15:37,120 --> 01:15:39,679
Speaker 1: Okay, they may not want him to play every down either,

1464
01:15:39,760 --> 01:15:43,320
Speaker 1: but I don't know. You three year deal. I'll be

1465
01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:47,200
Speaker 1: interested to seeing the structure of this going going forward.

1466
01:15:47,240 --> 01:15:51,880
Speaker 1: I don't we'll see. Yeah, this this free agent thing

1467
01:15:51,960 --> 01:15:55,280
Speaker 1: I mean, we've got Jalen Watson the corner going to

1468
01:15:55,360 --> 01:15:58,200
Speaker 1: the Rams for fifty one millions. Jalen Walker's going to

1469
01:15:58,240 --> 01:16:01,880
Speaker 1: the Chiefs for forty three million. Isaiah Likely the tight

1470
01:16:01,960 --> 01:16:05,160
Speaker 1: end from Baltimore's going to the Giants for forty million.

1471
01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:09,880
Speaker 1: Safety Cody Bryant is going from the Seahawks to the

1472
01:16:09,880 --> 01:16:14,240
Speaker 1: Bears for forty million. The Ravens are sending Draymont Jones

1473
01:16:14,240 --> 01:16:18,080
Speaker 1: to the Patriots for thirty nine million. And there's there's

1474
01:16:18,120 --> 01:16:20,240
Speaker 1: a lot of names money out there. There's a lot

1475
01:16:20,280 --> 01:16:23,080
Speaker 1: of names on this. Kenneth Gainwell, you said that the

1476
01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:27,719
Speaker 1: running back from the Steelers to the Bucks for fourteen

1477
01:16:27,760 --> 01:16:32,320
Speaker 1: million over two years. So it's happening. And that's like,

1478
01:16:32,560 --> 01:16:36,120
Speaker 1: that was like ninety minutes into free age. It's crazy,

1479
01:16:36,439 --> 01:16:37,200
Speaker 1: two and a half hours.

1480
01:16:37,479 --> 01:16:39,719
Speaker 3: One team in the AFC East who's spending some money

1481
01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:43,920
Speaker 3: today is the Jets. Miami and the Jets agreed to

1482
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:48,520
Speaker 3: a trade earlier today, the Dolphins sending safety Mega Fitzpatrick

1483
01:16:48,560 --> 01:16:51,439
Speaker 3: to the Jets for twenty twenty six seventh round pick.

1484
01:16:51,840 --> 01:16:54,160
Speaker 3: Jets will sign Fitzpatrick to a three year, forty million

1485
01:16:54,200 --> 01:16:57,280
Speaker 3: dollar deal. Per Drew Rosenhaus. In the eight year, vet

1486
01:16:57,880 --> 01:17:00,880
Speaker 3: has one hundred and fifteen stars on under his belt.

1487
01:17:00,920 --> 01:17:06,280
Speaker 3: And it's not just Fitzpatrick. According to reports, linebacker to

1488
01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:08,960
Speaker 3: Mario Davis is also signing with the Jets on a

1489
01:17:09,000 --> 01:17:12,360
Speaker 3: two year, twenty two million dollar deal, and then the

1490
01:17:12,439 --> 01:17:15,639
Speaker 3: Jets also agreeing to terms with the veteran defensive tackle

1491
01:17:16,040 --> 01:17:19,240
Speaker 3: David Onyamata on a one year, ten and a half

1492
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:23,000
Speaker 3: million dollar deal. Aaron Glenn is doing some work.

1493
01:17:22,920 --> 01:17:26,000
Speaker 1: Right, Kingsle barri is going over there for a one year, ten.

1494
01:17:25,880 --> 01:17:27,840
Speaker 2: Million defense is going to be okay.

1495
01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:30,760
Speaker 1: Next Joseph Osai, the edge rusher from the Bengals, is

1496
01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:33,160
Speaker 1: going there for thirty six million dollars three year deal.

1497
01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:36,680
Speaker 1: So they are spending some money, not really you know,

1498
01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:41,519
Speaker 1: splashy deals like the Max Crosby deal, but certainly they are.

1499
01:17:42,000 --> 01:17:43,920
Speaker 1: They are filling out their roster with guys they have

1500
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:47,360
Speaker 1: scouted out and it'll be interesting to see how that

1501
01:17:47,560 --> 01:17:50,599
Speaker 1: roster comes together in Aaron Glenn's second year. There.

1502
01:17:51,400 --> 01:17:54,120
Speaker 3: All right, our question for you today, what's the roadmap

1503
01:17:54,240 --> 01:17:57,719
Speaker 3: for the Bills in free agency? What is your roadmap

1504
01:17:57,720 --> 01:18:00,240
Speaker 3: for how the Bills should operate over the next couple

1505
01:18:00,240 --> 01:18:00,519
Speaker 3: of weeks.

1506
01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:01,479
Speaker 2: Let's go to the tweets sheet.

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Speaker 3: It's brought to you by the Corgan Moving Systems, the

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Speaker 3: official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills, and first

1509
01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:11,280
Speaker 3: from Andy. I respect draft picks, but the windows now

1510
01:18:11,400 --> 01:18:14,639
Speaker 3: cook didn't break out until year four, Alan until year three.

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01:18:14,960 --> 01:18:17,600
Speaker 3: Just two of many who take time. I've talked to

1512
01:18:17,640 --> 01:18:20,479
Speaker 3: friends who are RAMS fans. They don't regret going all

1513
01:18:20,520 --> 01:18:24,559
Speaker 3: in if it costs multiple first for Miles Garrett, do it.

1514
01:18:26,160 --> 01:18:28,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well that's the philosophy.

1515
01:18:29,240 --> 01:18:30,280
Speaker 4: Go all in and do it.

1516
01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:35,840
Speaker 1: You can only trade threes, three ones. You can only

1517
01:18:35,840 --> 01:18:38,240
Speaker 1: trade your one first round draft pick for three years

1518
01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:40,840
Speaker 1: this year, next year, ten years, and can do your

1519
01:18:40,920 --> 01:18:44,559
Speaker 1: ten multiple and three ones from Buffalo might not get

1520
01:18:44,560 --> 01:18:49,559
Speaker 1: it done. Yeah, So there you have it. It might

1521
01:18:49,600 --> 01:18:51,000
Speaker 1: not get done even if you do that. And I

1522
01:18:51,040 --> 01:18:53,040
Speaker 1: get it. Miles Garrett is is a once in a

1523
01:18:53,080 --> 01:18:56,200
Speaker 1: lifetime talent, no question about it. He's once in a

1524
01:18:56,240 --> 01:19:00,760
Speaker 1: generation player. I don't know that even would pick up

1525
01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:05,720
Speaker 1: the phone. Yeah, because the price they ask from some

1526
01:19:05,880 --> 01:19:08,479
Speaker 1: teams is less than the price they ask from other teams.

1527
01:19:08,520 --> 01:19:11,360
Speaker 1: Because they think the Buffalo Bill's number one pick is

1528
01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:13,720
Speaker 1: going to be twenty six or higher. They think if

1529
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:17,000
Speaker 1: they do the deal with the Raiders or the Cardinals

1530
01:19:17,360 --> 01:19:18,280
Speaker 1: or one of the other teams.

1531
01:19:18,320 --> 01:19:20,400
Speaker 4: Their number one pick is gonna be top ten.

1532
01:19:20,520 --> 01:19:22,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'd rather have their top ten pick.

1533
01:19:22,840 --> 01:19:28,320
Speaker 1: Whether they have Miles Garrett or not. So that's yeah.

1534
01:19:28,600 --> 01:19:32,240
Speaker 1: And I'm not a guy, particularly with the success they've had.

1535
01:19:33,160 --> 01:19:37,080
Speaker 1: And I'm not in the Brandon Bean hater club, obviously.

1536
01:19:37,840 --> 01:19:38,600
Speaker 2: I'm glad you're not.

1537
01:19:39,160 --> 01:19:42,160
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1538
01:19:41,720 --> 01:19:44,559
Speaker 1: I look at the way the Bills seasons have ended

1539
01:19:45,280 --> 01:19:49,400
Speaker 1: over the last six seven years, eight years, and I

1540
01:19:49,400 --> 01:19:54,160
Speaker 1: have a hard time getting myself in the mental mindset

1541
01:19:54,200 --> 01:19:57,320
Speaker 1: that they didn't have the talent to win it. I

1542
01:19:57,360 --> 01:19:59,840
Speaker 1: think they have. I think they have been good enough

1543
01:19:59,840 --> 01:20:02,000
Speaker 1: to I've said it a bunch of times. I think

1544
01:20:02,040 --> 01:20:04,320
Speaker 1: the Bills have been good enough, talented enough to go

1545
01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:07,360
Speaker 1: to and win the whole thing for five, six seven

1546
01:20:07,439 --> 01:20:10,360
Speaker 1: years now. And you know, you look at all the quirky,

1547
01:20:10,640 --> 01:20:13,880
Speaker 1: unbelievable ways those playoff games have ended that into the

1548
01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:16,400
Speaker 1: Bill's seasons. I have a hard time getting my mind

1549
01:20:16,439 --> 01:20:19,960
Speaker 1: around thinking it's a talent issue. A lot of people do,

1550
01:20:20,280 --> 01:20:23,679
Speaker 1: and they've spent a lot of time, you know, bashing

1551
01:20:23,800 --> 01:20:27,519
Speaker 1: the roster and Brandon Bean's management of it. I'm not

1552
01:20:27,560 --> 01:20:33,560
Speaker 1: in that camp. Certainly they've missed on draft picks. But I'm,

1553
01:20:32,880 --> 01:20:37,040
Speaker 1: as Brownie likes to say, our Bill's myopia here doesn't

1554
01:20:37,080 --> 01:20:38,840
Speaker 1: extend the point that I can't look around and see

1555
01:20:38,880 --> 01:20:41,679
Speaker 1: other gms missing on draft picks too. Everywhere, every year,

1556
01:20:41,760 --> 01:20:44,920
Speaker 1: all the time. The batting averages are what they are.

1557
01:20:46,080 --> 01:20:50,680
Speaker 1: So I get it. A lot of people feel it's

1558
01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:52,439
Speaker 1: a talent issue that has kept the Bills out of

1559
01:20:52,479 --> 01:20:55,000
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. I'm not in that camp. They've been

1560
01:20:55,040 --> 01:20:57,240
Speaker 1: good enough. Certainly there have been times when they think, man,

1561
01:20:57,280 --> 01:20:58,800
Speaker 1: that guy would have been better than this guy. Yet,

1562
01:20:58,800 --> 01:20:59,519
Speaker 1: and we can do that.

1563
01:21:00,040 --> 01:21:01,240
Speaker 2: You can get that every single year.

1564
01:21:01,320 --> 01:21:03,800
Speaker 1: Thirty you can do thirty two teams every day of

1565
01:21:03,840 --> 01:21:07,320
Speaker 1: every year. But so I'm I have a hard time

1566
01:21:07,360 --> 01:21:12,920
Speaker 1: getting my mind around that. So going all in is

1567
01:21:12,960 --> 01:21:15,240
Speaker 1: not part of my DNA. I mean, I'm as a player,

1568
01:21:15,240 --> 01:21:16,720
Speaker 1: I was all about Lee, I go get that guy.

1569
01:21:16,760 --> 01:21:18,559
Speaker 1: But you know, I never thought that if they go

1570
01:21:18,640 --> 01:21:20,400
Speaker 1: all in that means I don't have it. They cut

1571
01:21:20,439 --> 01:21:22,120
Speaker 1: me right, and they went all in it right, So

1572
01:21:22,200 --> 01:21:25,000
Speaker 1: I uh, I never really got that mind around that either.

1573
01:21:25,040 --> 01:21:29,880
Speaker 1: So I'm I like where they're at. I'm we'll see,

1574
01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:33,360
Speaker 1: We'll see. I think they're going to be right there

1575
01:21:33,400 --> 01:21:35,200
Speaker 1: again this year, and we'll see how. We'll see how

1576
01:21:35,240 --> 01:21:38,000
Speaker 1: this season and whether it's the right way or another

1577
01:21:38,040 --> 01:21:40,200
Speaker 1: one of these losses that we've seen too many of.

1578
01:21:40,439 --> 01:21:41,479
Speaker 2: Hope not we can.

1579
01:21:41,560 --> 01:21:45,719
Speaker 3: Warrior Golf says, in order of priority, Knox restructure, first

1580
01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:51,280
Speaker 3: one year extension, along with that, starting linebacker, nose tackle, safety,

1581
01:21:51,560 --> 01:21:56,439
Speaker 3: finding a rotational edge linebacker, grabbing some cornerback, defensive line

1582
01:21:56,439 --> 01:22:02,320
Speaker 3: in safety, depth and competition pieces wherever you can get them.

1583
01:22:02,680 --> 01:22:05,519
Speaker 1: This may be one of the few weekend Warrior Golf

1584
01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:09,160
Speaker 1: this tweet from him that doesn't have a wide receiver

1585
01:22:09,680 --> 01:22:13,960
Speaker 1: on the list. You're right, I never this may be.

1586
01:22:13,960 --> 01:22:15,519
Speaker 1: This is the first time in like two years we've

1587
01:22:15,520 --> 01:22:19,000
Speaker 1: had one of these with didn't have any receive everything

1588
01:22:19,280 --> 01:22:23,120
Speaker 1: pieces all that there's no wide receiver on. That's the

1589
01:22:23,160 --> 01:22:25,080
Speaker 1: first one in two years that we haven't had.

1590
01:22:25,240 --> 01:22:28,679
Speaker 3: Well, But I mean the points that we can, Warrior

1591
01:22:28,720 --> 01:22:31,439
Speaker 3: Golf makes make a lot of sense. You would guess

1592
01:22:31,520 --> 01:22:36,360
Speaker 3: that they're going to find some rotational play at that

1593
01:22:36,560 --> 01:22:40,439
Speaker 3: edge rusterer outside linebacker position. They're gonna go get depth

1594
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:43,759
Speaker 3: in the cornerback and defensive line room and and find

1595
01:22:44,439 --> 01:22:46,960
Speaker 3: some pieces to add to their defensive line who could

1596
01:22:46,960 --> 01:22:50,160
Speaker 3: maybe be starters in the twenty twenty sixth season. Tim

1597
01:22:50,240 --> 01:22:53,639
Speaker 3: says work on reducing Dawson Knox's cap hit for the season,

1598
01:22:53,960 --> 01:22:58,679
Speaker 3: restructures for both Josh and Dion. In free agency, focus

1599
01:22:58,720 --> 01:23:06,879
Speaker 3: on Levis kush All, Sebastian Joseph Day, very good players

1600
01:23:06,920 --> 01:23:10,599
Speaker 3: at affordable contracts. In the draft, pick best player available

1601
01:23:10,640 --> 01:23:14,679
Speaker 3: in each round as there are needs across the board.

1602
01:23:17,520 --> 01:23:25,560
Speaker 3: Okay Leoshanall, the linebacker. Leoshanall from Kansas City, the linebacker.

1603
01:23:26,160 --> 01:23:27,080
Speaker 4: He has been.

1604
01:23:28,600 --> 01:23:31,720
Speaker 1: Targeted by a lot of people because not only the

1605
01:23:31,720 --> 01:23:34,479
Speaker 1: Bills play against him and he's shown up for them,

1606
01:23:36,040 --> 01:23:37,880
Speaker 1: but he seems to play with a little bit of grit,

1607
01:23:39,040 --> 01:23:40,880
Speaker 1: a little bit of aggression, a little bit of anger,

1608
01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:43,240
Speaker 1: and that's something the Bills have in a lot of

1609
01:23:43,240 --> 01:23:46,880
Speaker 1: people's minds lacked in recent years, and you need a

1610
01:23:46,920 --> 01:23:47,519
Speaker 1: little bit of that.

1611
01:23:48,080 --> 01:23:48,679
Speaker 2: Neil says.

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01:23:48,680 --> 01:23:51,519
Speaker 3: My roadmap would be let the people overpay for the

1613
01:23:51,560 --> 01:23:54,760
Speaker 3: top market talent, then get some pieces the next tier

1614
01:23:54,840 --> 01:23:57,120
Speaker 3: down to add depth. Also, you need to find a

1615
01:23:57,160 --> 01:23:59,760
Speaker 3: replacement for Wrap on the back end. Go grab an

1616
01:23:59,840 --> 01:24:03,320
Speaker 3: edge rusher and a linebacker in the draft. The Bills

1617
01:24:03,360 --> 01:24:05,599
Speaker 3: have seemed like, I mean, over the past few years,

1618
01:24:05,680 --> 01:24:10,160
Speaker 3: they're a team who is not drafting a first round

1619
01:24:10,200 --> 01:24:12,839
Speaker 3: pick in the top ten because of where they finished

1620
01:24:13,439 --> 01:24:16,880
Speaker 3: in the playoffs. They're a team who has to pay

1621
01:24:16,880 --> 01:24:20,040
Speaker 3: their quarterback and a left tackle and some other positions.

1622
01:24:20,040 --> 01:24:24,360
Speaker 3: So they're not a team who has so much cap

1623
01:24:24,400 --> 01:24:26,920
Speaker 3: space to work with that's making these big moves and

1624
01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:29,160
Speaker 3: deals on the first couple of days of free agency.

1625
01:24:29,240 --> 01:24:31,160
Speaker 3: They have been a team the last couple of years

1626
01:24:31,240 --> 01:24:34,320
Speaker 3: who you see those big deals happen, and then you

1627
01:24:34,360 --> 01:24:36,920
Speaker 3: see the teams who have won a lot of games

1628
01:24:36,960 --> 01:24:39,800
Speaker 3: come in next and sign some of those solid players

1629
01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:40,719
Speaker 3: that are still available.

1630
01:24:40,800 --> 01:24:43,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, some of the guys that they've got on the roster.

1631
01:24:43,200 --> 01:24:44,800
Speaker 1: You get an edge rusher in the draft, and you

1632
01:24:44,800 --> 01:24:46,800
Speaker 1: get a linebacker in the draft, they're going to come

1633
01:24:46,840 --> 01:24:51,960
Speaker 1: in and they're going to compete with guys like Rousseau

1634
01:24:52,520 --> 01:24:58,800
Speaker 1: and the rest. Yeah, you're not going to get one

1635
01:24:58,800 --> 01:25:01,799
Speaker 1: of the top elite town balance draft in twenty sixth

1636
01:25:01,920 --> 01:25:05,120
Speaker 1: and nobody's going to want to trade up unless you

1637
01:25:05,200 --> 01:25:07,360
Speaker 1: trade one of your pieces that you don't want to trade,

1638
01:25:07,479 --> 01:25:08,160
Speaker 1: and usually.

1639
01:25:07,960 --> 01:25:09,880
Speaker 2: To trade up in the first round, it costs a lot,

1640
01:25:11,080 --> 01:25:11,760
Speaker 2: a lot.

1641
01:25:12,520 --> 01:25:15,519
Speaker 1: So yeah, it sounds good. Get an edge. They probably

1642
01:25:15,640 --> 01:25:17,519
Speaker 1: they will take an edge rusher. They probably will take

1643
01:25:17,560 --> 01:25:20,400
Speaker 1: a safety and a linebacker in this draft. It'll probably

1644
01:25:20,479 --> 01:25:23,599
Speaker 1: be in large measure, a draft much like last year's

1645
01:25:23,600 --> 01:25:25,719
Speaker 1: where they took out of the seven picks they had,

1646
01:25:25,960 --> 01:25:28,800
Speaker 1: they took five defenders, four of which were in the

1647
01:25:28,800 --> 01:25:32,599
Speaker 1: first five picks, right, So I'm I'm thinking it will

1648
01:25:32,680 --> 01:25:35,240
Speaker 1: be a little bit like that. Maybe the positions will

1649
01:25:35,280 --> 01:25:37,840
Speaker 1: be different, and maybe it won't. Maybe they'll go linebacker

1650
01:25:37,880 --> 01:25:41,320
Speaker 1: first then edge, or safety first then linebacker then edge

1651
01:25:41,400 --> 01:25:44,200
Speaker 1: or something like that, but it remains to be seen.

1652
01:25:44,280 --> 01:25:48,920
Speaker 1: I'm yes, I would expect at this current moment the

1653
01:25:48,960 --> 01:25:50,920
Speaker 1: Bills are going to go heavy defensive side of the

1654
01:25:50,920 --> 01:25:52,479
Speaker 1: ball in the draft.

1655
01:25:52,479 --> 01:25:56,040
Speaker 3: One more Mark has done his homework. Knocks, pay Cut, Extend,

1656
01:25:56,160 --> 01:26:00,400
Speaker 3: re sign Milano, Thompson, White, Cooks, Hardman, Lewis and Raider,

1657
01:26:00,840 --> 01:26:05,000
Speaker 3: sign Hendrickson and schnel Cut Bass Coleman, Palmer draft in

1658
01:26:05,120 --> 01:26:08,920
Speaker 3: round one, trade up for Keldrick Falk, round three, trade

1659
01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:13,559
Speaker 3: up for Chris Bell in round five. Go get hikem Williams. Wow,

1660
01:26:14,240 --> 01:26:17,040
Speaker 3: doing your homework all the way into round five of

1661
01:26:17,120 --> 01:26:17,960
Speaker 3: the NFL Draft.

1662
01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:18,679
Speaker 2: Way to go Mark.

1663
01:26:18,800 --> 01:26:22,240
Speaker 1: I think Mark's I suspect he's in at least one

1664
01:26:22,280 --> 01:26:23,360
Speaker 1: fantasy league.

1665
01:26:24,439 --> 01:26:25,519
Speaker 2: Maybe at least four.

1666
01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:30,519
Speaker 3: Good, good, good, All right, We're gonna take a break,

1667
01:26:30,520 --> 01:26:32,680
Speaker 3: but when we return, closing up things here on one

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01:26:32,720 --> 01:26:49,200
Speaker 3: Bills Live, we're presented by Clyde hallithon Buffalo Bills Radio.

1669
01:26:51,320 --> 01:26:52,880
Speaker 2: Welcome back to one Bills Live.

1670
01:26:52,920 --> 01:26:57,559
Speaker 3: We got some figures out on this Mike Evans deal,

1671
01:26:58,280 --> 01:27:00,800
Speaker 3: agreeing to terms on a three three year deal with

1672
01:27:00,840 --> 01:27:04,160
Speaker 3: the forty nine ers. Apparently it is a three year

1673
01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:07,719
Speaker 3: deal worth up to sixty point four million dollars according

1674
01:27:07,760 --> 01:27:10,719
Speaker 3: to Adam Schefter, So that puts him at about twenty

1675
01:27:10,960 --> 01:27:16,040
Speaker 3: million per year. I figured, okay, if Alca Pierce is

1676
01:27:16,080 --> 01:27:19,719
Speaker 3: making twenty nine million per year, yes, away, younger player

1677
01:27:19,760 --> 01:27:23,439
Speaker 3: who's early in his NFL career, could the one thousand

1678
01:27:23,560 --> 01:27:24,680
Speaker 3: yard master.

1679
01:27:24,680 --> 01:27:28,519
Speaker 2: Garner more than twenty million? I thought, yes, But he

1680
01:27:28,640 --> 01:27:29,880
Speaker 2: is up.

1681
01:27:29,880 --> 01:27:31,880
Speaker 1: There is a he's gonna be thirty three when the

1682
01:27:31,920 --> 01:27:36,200
Speaker 1: season kicks off. He's he has been an absolutely great player,

1683
01:27:36,240 --> 01:27:38,040
Speaker 1: and they're they're referring to him as a future Hall

1684
01:27:38,080 --> 01:27:40,559
Speaker 1: of Famer. So that's the kind of career he has had.

1685
01:27:40,680 --> 01:27:42,600
Speaker 2: Thirteenth year until.

1686
01:27:42,120 --> 01:27:43,040
Speaker 4: This past year.

1687
01:27:43,160 --> 01:27:46,559
Speaker 1: Mike Evans has been an absolute iron man. This last

1688
01:27:46,600 --> 01:27:48,960
Speaker 1: year he only played in eight games, but he has

1689
01:27:49,000 --> 01:27:55,080
Speaker 1: been he has played in you know, every game. Well, actually,

1690
01:27:55,240 --> 01:27:58,240
Speaker 1: here's the thing. Last twenty twenty four he missed three games.

1691
01:28:00,200 --> 01:28:03,800
Speaker 1: He missed two games, so you know, he missed one.

1692
01:28:03,920 --> 01:28:05,719
Speaker 1: He misses one or two games a year. But the

1693
01:28:05,800 --> 01:28:11,200
Speaker 1: last year he missed nine. So yeah, and he's thirty,

1694
01:28:11,439 --> 01:28:13,759
Speaker 1: gonna be thirty three, So yeah, that's usually what happens.

1695
01:28:13,800 --> 01:28:15,519
Speaker 1: The older you get, the more games you miss because

1696
01:28:15,520 --> 01:28:17,599
Speaker 1: of injuries and all eight don't bounce back like you did.

1697
01:28:18,760 --> 01:28:23,439
Speaker 1: But twenty million dollars a year, that's a that's a

1698
01:28:23,479 --> 01:28:26,439
Speaker 1: big number for a thirty three year old guy for

1699
01:28:26,560 --> 01:28:27,280
Speaker 1: three years.

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01:28:28,840 --> 01:28:29,040
Speaker 5: Yep.

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01:28:29,240 --> 01:28:31,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if any of it is guaranteed. If

1702
01:28:31,080 --> 01:28:32,960
Speaker 1: none of it's guaranteed, then it's a different story.

1703
01:28:33,280 --> 01:28:33,759
Speaker 2: We'll see.

1704
01:28:33,920 --> 01:28:39,680
Speaker 3: We'll see other news that's coming out. Devin Bush agreeing

1705
01:28:39,760 --> 01:28:42,080
Speaker 3: to a deal with the Bears.

1706
01:28:42,160 --> 01:28:43,960
Speaker 2: Let me grab the money on that one.

1707
01:28:44,280 --> 01:28:46,400
Speaker 1: Devin Years a three year, thirty million dollar deal. The

1708
01:28:46,439 --> 01:28:49,679
Speaker 1: deal includes twenty one million dollar guaranteed twenty one million

1709
01:28:49,680 --> 01:28:52,799
Speaker 1: dollars daring guaranteed for Devin Bush to the Bears, Bears,

1710
01:28:52,920 --> 01:28:55,760
Speaker 1: obviously saying goodbye to Tremaine Edmund's former Bills draft pick.

1711
01:28:57,520 --> 01:28:59,240
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's the Bear's kind of.

1712
01:28:59,160 --> 01:29:02,480
Speaker 3: Retting linebacker room.

1713
01:29:02,560 --> 01:29:03,759
Speaker 2: It is just the beginning.

1714
01:29:03,760 --> 01:29:06,559
Speaker 3: It's all kicked off at twelve o'clock today and there

1715
01:29:06,640 --> 01:29:09,080
Speaker 3: is much more to come for the start of free

1716
01:29:09,120 --> 01:29:13,320
Speaker 3: agency frenzy. But it has been a busy three hours

1717
01:29:13,360 --> 01:29:16,719
Speaker 3: here as we've watched a lot of these deals come together.

1718
01:29:18,000 --> 01:29:22,599
Speaker 3: Players get released, teams re sign their own, teams add

1719
01:29:22,640 --> 01:29:27,160
Speaker 3: new players. Of course, none of this is official until Wednesday.

1720
01:29:26,680 --> 01:29:27,639
Speaker 2: At four pm.

1721
01:29:27,760 --> 01:29:30,200
Speaker 3: That's when the new league year begins and the free

1722
01:29:30,200 --> 01:29:34,240
Speaker 3: agency signing period begins. So this is all agreed to

1723
01:29:34,520 --> 01:29:37,760
Speaker 3: terms and becomes official later in the week.

1724
01:29:37,880 --> 01:29:41,120
Speaker 1: It's official, not official until they actually file it. But yes,

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Speaker 1: done deals for the most part.

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Speaker 3: Well, thanks for tuning into One Bills Live today for Maddie,

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Speaker 3: for Steve Pasker. I'm Maddi Glab We'll be back tomorrow

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Speaker 3: from one to three with a lot more NFL news

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Speaker 3: come your way.