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Speaker 1: Oh, one time. Steve Tasker sacks times times over time

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Speaker 1: in overtime. Good afternoon. Welcome, John Murphy, see Tasker, Welcome

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Speaker 1: to Archard Park. Got a little light coating of snow

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Speaker 1: overnight inch or two we're got. It's all good. Here.

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Speaker 1: We're coming to you from One Bill's Drive. It's One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live for the next three hours covering the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills in the NFL. John Murphy, Steve Tasker, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show. Everybody. Welcome. Good to have you here with

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Speaker 1: us today on this uh February afternoon where um, I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna say the football world is quiet, Steve, but

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Speaker 1: football world, the Bills world is definitely quiet, right, there's

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Speaker 1: only yeah, you'd think that you can see kind of

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Speaker 1: also that the boating industry would be quiet and not so.

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Speaker 1: Steve has a beef with the boat show, which is

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Speaker 1: see let's begin. Well, first of all, we almost can't

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Speaker 1: they got jet skis. Yeah, I had to front of

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Speaker 1: it some jet skis around. Here's the deal. I'm willing

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Speaker 1: Or a boat. Leave a boat and park further away

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Speaker 1: So yes, the boating world, unlike the NFL, is not quiet.

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Speaker 1: February nineteenth, twenty nineteen. In other words, welcome boat show,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Uh the here's the thing. They they look

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Speaker 1: Jet skis they got jet skis big enough to toe

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Speaker 1: big party boats. Oh my gosh, it looks so fun.

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Speaker 1: Then they got cabin cruiser where you go down and

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Speaker 1: too big, isn't it. You want to boat that big

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Speaker 1: What happens? And you know? The only boat I get on?

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Speaker 1: Or is it kayak? We hadn't have kayak. I go

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Speaker 1: I don't get ssick on a kayak. I get csick

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Speaker 1: the news that a Posto has a concussion, now that's

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Speaker 1: the value for what you're going to spend. And the

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Speaker 1: fact that the Bills have so much money to spend,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna spend in a bunch of different places for

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Speaker 1: a bunch of different players, and that's the challenge. Now,

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Speaker 1: getting the draft right I think takes care of itself.

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Speaker 1: And Josh Allen I think's off the table for the

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Speaker 1: Bills for now. He's not in there he's not in

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Speaker 1: the building. Certainly, they're gonna keep tabs on him. Certainly

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Speaker 1: they've communicated to Josh how important it is for him

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Speaker 1: to keep on keeping on to get better, and they're

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Speaker 1: gonna be in constant contact with him, hopefully to stay

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Speaker 1: on top of what he's supposed to be doing, what

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Speaker 1: they want him to do, where they want the offense

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Speaker 1: to go, what they want them to be working on,

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Speaker 1: and all that. So I think my perception of where

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Speaker 1: the challenges are this offseason for the Bills are right

441
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Speaker 1: in line with the percentages here. Well, I disagree him.

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Speaker 1: I do think starting mid April, when the players come

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Speaker 1: back for the offseason workouts, that's when the laser focus

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Speaker 1: will be and should be on Josh Allen. That's one

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Speaker 1: and two. I think you undersell the importance of the

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Speaker 1: draft and the money. You're right, the money is inconsequential

447
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Speaker 1: when it comes to the draft, But and it's the

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Speaker 1: evaluation of the players, identifying the players who fits, who

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Speaker 1: fits in our scheme, what we want to do, how

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Speaker 1: we want to play, who fits in our culture. That's

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Speaker 1: part of it too. I think that's an important part

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Speaker 1: of the next couple of months here. The next couple

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Speaker 1: of months that we get through the draft. It's not

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Speaker 1: even it's not even who fits in the system for

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. It also got to decide which one

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Speaker 1: of those draft packs can play. Yeah, which one's going

457
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Speaker 1: to transfer, which one's gonna come up and make his

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Speaker 1: first little check that has a couple of zeros behind

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Speaker 1: it and take it out of gear and coast. You

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Speaker 1: don't think, you know, you get these guys, and it

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Speaker 1: really is. And there a there was a great little thing.

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Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get to it today. But somebody asked Tim

463
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Speaker 1: Tebow at a podium yesterday Mets training camp about people

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Speaker 1: who hate you know, who dog him all the time

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Speaker 1: about not being a good quarterback, not being a grant

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Speaker 1: And he's only in Mets training camp because he he

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Speaker 1: sells tickets and he's kind of at attention. Grab and

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Speaker 1: asked him how he handled all the negative stuff that's

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Speaker 1: said about him, even though he's been a positive guy

470
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Speaker 1: and had some success as a professional athlete. His response

471
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Speaker 1: was awesome, and it all had to do with the

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Speaker 1: goals you set for yourself and what defines you. He says, Listen,

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Speaker 1: don't let them tell you what makes you happy. Don't

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Speaker 1: let them tell you how you should live your life,

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Speaker 1: or what you should go after, what dreams you should have.

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Speaker 1: You get to pick your dreams, and you get to

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Speaker 1: pursue your dreams, and you get to define how successful

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Speaker 1: you want to be. And it was really an eloquent

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Speaker 1: way he said it. And for me, you see a

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Speaker 1: lot of professional athletes do that, particularly in the NFL,

481
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Speaker 1: come in. They have these goals that quite frankly, these dreams,

482
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Speaker 1: hopes and dream the dreams are not big enough. They

483
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Speaker 1: don't dream big enough. Some of these young football players,

484
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Speaker 1: they don't dream big enough. Look, you got a dream

485
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Speaker 1: like to be the best ever. You have to dream

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Speaker 1: something that's almost unattainable so that you never run out

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Speaker 1: of motivation to get better. You have to be as

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Speaker 1: good you want. Your goal has to be as good

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Speaker 1: as you can be, to be as great as you

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Speaker 1: can be, to be the best ever, so that there's

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Speaker 1: no end point to it. You get some of these

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Speaker 1: young players today, I want to play in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I want to play in the NFL. I want to

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Speaker 1: play in the NFL. They get drafted, make a roster,

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Speaker 1: a practice squad. Well, their goal has been met and

496
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Speaker 1: now there's nothing out there. Yeah, there's no motivation for

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Speaker 1: them to work out in March April May. There's no

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Speaker 1: motivation for them to eat right, to stay away from

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Speaker 1: from bad influences, to you, to be disciplined in their

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Speaker 1: personal life. They lose all the motivation. And that's the

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Speaker 1: kind of guys you got to find in these drafts.

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Speaker 1: And that's why what you said is right. The draft

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Speaker 1: is important because it's not only who fits, but who's

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Speaker 1: not going to be changed. Yeah, and it has long

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Speaker 1: term consequences too. Oh yeah, all right, So what do

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Speaker 1: you think what's the biggest challenge to the Bills this offseason?

507
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Speaker 1: Getting the draft right, getting the spending right in free agency,

508
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Speaker 1: developing Josh Allen, something else. Give us a call, let

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Speaker 1: us know what you think. A couple of other notes today,

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Speaker 1: Today is the first day that teams can designate the

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Speaker 1: franchise tag or the transition tag. It's a two week

512
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Speaker 1: window that closes March fifth. Not anticipated the Bills will

513
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Speaker 1: use any one of their tags. Tag players have until

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Speaker 1: four o'clock on July fifteenth to negotiate a multi year

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Speaker 1: contract with their team. After July fifteenth, the player might

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Speaker 1: only send a one year contract, so we are in

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Speaker 1: tag season starting today. Again, we do not anticipate any

518
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Speaker 1: tag activity for the Buffalo Bills, but we've been surprised before.

519
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Speaker 1: And Antonio Brown back in the news back tweeting this

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Speaker 1: one has some substance. It appears the All Pro receiver

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Speaker 1: met with Steelers President Art Rooney the second today and

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Speaker 1: his tweet had a great meeting when mister Rooney today,

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Speaker 1: we discussed a lot of things, and we cleared the

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Speaker 1: air on several issues. We both agree. This is what

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Speaker 1: he says, It's what Antonio Brown says. We both agreed

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Speaker 1: it is time to move on, but I'll always have

527
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Speaker 1: gratitude and appreciation towards the Rooney family and the Steelers organization.

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Speaker 1: His agent, Drew Rosenhous was in the meeting. Steelers GM

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Speaker 1: Kevin Colbert and another executive in the meeting as well.

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Speaker 1: Reports are the meeting was cordial. Everyone agreed, a source

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Speaker 1: told Adam Schefter. Everyone agreed the trade will a trade

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Speaker 1: will be for the best. So Antonio Brown successfully, he appears,

533
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Speaker 1: campaigned his way into a trade. Steve interesting interesting in

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Speaker 1: a couple of respects, including who wants him now? Is

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Speaker 1: he talented? You bet? But what he just did to

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Speaker 1: the Steelers forcing the trade. I would think that would

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Speaker 1: give pause to teams that care about, you know, where

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Speaker 1: their team is going and what kind of people they're bringing. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: He also had a tweet or on Instagram that said, hey,

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Speaker 1: any if your team has guaranteed money, call me. You know,

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Speaker 1: so he wants he wants a deal, that's crazy talk.

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Speaker 1: If you want if you're gonna get traded, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: get traded for the money you're making on this deal.

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Speaker 1: And if you want extra money, that's too bad. And

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Speaker 1: it just made it harder for That's right. And also

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Speaker 1: the team that the Steelers are doing business with are

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Speaker 1: gonna have to talk to his representation say hey, here's

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Speaker 1: the deal we're trading for him. Is he gonna play

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Speaker 1: for us? And if the agent says, well, he'll trade,

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Speaker 1: He'll play for you if you guarantee some more money.

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Speaker 1: If you give him and they're like, no, you're not

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Speaker 1: gonna guarantee that pot any more money. He's just absolutely

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Speaker 1: he'd dragged the Pittsburgh Steelers and then Art Rooney through

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Speaker 1: the Mike Tomlin through the mud. An organizations won six

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Speaker 1: Super Bowls. It is parentially one of the most respected

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Speaker 1: not just teams and franchise, but also one of the

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Speaker 1: most respected ownership families in the NFL. He just dragged

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Speaker 1: him through the mud. Yeah, I don't want any part

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Speaker 1: of that. No, I wouldn't. Maybe you would get and

560
00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:26,640
Speaker 1: call us on that. We got a couple of things

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Speaker 1: to talk about Antonio Brown. We can talk about Charles

562
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Speaker 1: Clay ready to sign with the Arizona Cardinals. You might

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Speaker 1: have thoughts on that. And what's the biggest challenge for

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Speaker 1: the Bills this offseason is a free agency the draft

565
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Speaker 1: development for Josh Allen. Give us a call eight oh

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Speaker 1: three five fifty toll free from Outside Buffalo one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty sending a tweet.

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Speaker 1: We got a couple to read when we come back.

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Speaker 1: Just getting started here. It's One Bill's Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalaida Health from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome, Welcome,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. And One Bill's Live. We call

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Speaker 1: it from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy, Steve Tasker here

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Speaker 1: until three good. Did I give the guest lineup? I

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Speaker 1: don't think I did. I think he did. Mike Clay

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Speaker 1: from ESPN I guess they did. It's going to join us. Armando, Salgaro, Selgaro.

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Speaker 1: It's not sell Guero. Are we sure? Can we get?

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Speaker 1: I think it's sell Guero, but I'm being told it's

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Speaker 1: sell Garo, which is the anglization anglicization of a Hispanic name.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure a proud Hispanic name for Armando. I will

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Speaker 1: ask him face to face two o'clock today, voice to voice,

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Speaker 1: voice to voice, Twitter, Pole, why don't you join the

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Speaker 1: conversation the biggest challenge for the Bills this offseason? What

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Speaker 1: do you think it is? On Twitter? We put up

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Speaker 1: a couple of choices for you. Are is the biggest challenge?

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Speaker 1: The biggest thing the Bill's gotta get done? Is it

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Speaker 1: get the money right? In free agency? They got money

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Speaker 1: to spend, but can they get it all right? Is

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Speaker 1: it Josh Allen's development? Thirty three percent of you say yes,

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Speaker 1: that's it? Is it free agency spending? Forty two percent

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Speaker 1: of you say that's the one. Is it getting the

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Speaker 1: draft right? Only twenty three percent say getting the draft right?

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Speaker 1: What's the biggest challenge for the Bills this offseason? Look,

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's easy to get the draft right. Steve.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you've got a franchise here that almost is

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Speaker 1: the uh over the decades has proven it's not all

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Speaker 1: easy to get the draft right. Well, I do only

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Speaker 1: twenty three percent say that's important. I think it's critically

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Speaker 1: important to draft to get the right guys, figure out

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Speaker 1: where you need him and and and get him, go

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Speaker 1: get him. I think that theory is. My theory is

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Speaker 1: I think most fans it's easy. Well, no, I think

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Speaker 1: the theory is most fans don't think the draft picks

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Speaker 1: are going to contribute that much anyway right away. I

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Speaker 1: don't care what I mean. Yeah, that be here four

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Speaker 1: or five, six years, But I think that's what it means.

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Speaker 1: I think that's that's where the thought process comes from.

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Speaker 1: And get it right. Okay, but they're not going to

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Speaker 1: be that much help anyway. So let's you know, let's

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Speaker 1: do this stuff that's gonna help us right now. I

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Speaker 1: think that's one of the things, one of the things

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Speaker 1: that goes into that twenty five percent or whatever it is.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, but I a free agency spending. We've for

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Speaker 1: one thing too, the free agency spending. We've been talking

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Speaker 1: about that for weeks two years. Oh, I mean, right,

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Speaker 1: they're getting the cap ride, they're getting rid of all

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Speaker 1: this dead cap space. We went through that season. This

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Speaker 1: another season. Now we kind of now we got it. Now,

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Speaker 1: we got it where we want it. Now. We've been

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Speaker 1: looking for this and it was like ninety million ounce

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Speaker 1: eighty seven ounce ninety one, and it's fluctuating around ninety

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Speaker 1: million dollars to spend in this offseason. It's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is it, this is our spot. Yeah, but here's

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Speaker 1: the thing and I'll look forward to that. This is

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Speaker 1: what distresses me slightly about that approach. Free agency typically

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Speaker 1: does not solve your problems. It doesn't really solve your problems.

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Speaker 1: Drafting can solve your problems long term, but free agency

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Speaker 1: I look at it as more of a short term

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Speaker 1: fix and so to invest them. You know, forty percent

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Speaker 1: say free agency spending is the number one thing this offseason.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know about that. I'd rather draft

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Speaker 1: well and fix things long term and fix things that

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Speaker 1: they are going to stay fixed for a while. Let'sten

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Speaker 1: think about this though. There's some pretty pretty crucial guys

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Speaker 1: on the bills that were all free agents, Hide and Poyer, Starlotu,

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Speaker 1: Lela Lorenzo Alexander. You know, there were some guys. There's

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Speaker 1: some guys. There's some guys there that were pretty important.

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Speaker 1: Charles Clay was pretty important while he was being productive

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Speaker 1: when he was healthy. I would submit that Trent Murphy

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Speaker 1: was a little bit of a disappointment, but mostly because

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Speaker 1: of injury. Um, you know, so that's I would submit.

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Speaker 1: The more important roster editions have been draft picks for

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Speaker 1: Davis White, Josh Allen, Forman, Edmonds Milano. Um, I just

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Speaker 1: think the more important editions are the ones that you

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Speaker 1: draft and they are more stable to Harrison Phillips goes

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Speaker 1: into that, Yeah, into that, Uh, Tarren Johnson goes into that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's some guys. There's no question. Um, you got a

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Speaker 1: lot of roster spots to fill. You got to fill

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Speaker 1: them from everything free agency and from the draft. And

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Speaker 1: it's interesting to you know which one he thinks more important,

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Speaker 1: particularly this offseason. It'll be But that's our twitter pole,

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Speaker 1: so you can ask us if you want or chime in.

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Speaker 1: We got some people right off the top. Murph the

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Speaker 1: first thing on the tweet sheet. Yeah, I love this question,

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Speaker 1: which always gives me. It gives me some comfort to

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Speaker 1: know that you know, we picked a good Twitter poll. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, you picked a good Twitter Thank you. I

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Speaker 1: will take the lion share the credit for this one.

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Speaker 1: That's not how we all right. I love that, Brian Cook.

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Speaker 1: I love this question. To me, Alan's development is tied

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Speaker 1: to the other two. If the Bills can get value

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Speaker 1: for their money and draft stock, Alan will have the

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Speaker 1: weapons and protection he needs to take the next step

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Speaker 1: as a passer. But free agency can have more immediate impact.

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Speaker 1: So he hits all the bases on that. Just like

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Speaker 1: we've been talking about, it's really tough to discern which

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Speaker 1: one's gonna you know, I think, what what will happen? Murph?

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Speaker 1: Will you go back to well, we'll forget all about

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Speaker 1: this Twitter pole and about three day. But if he

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Speaker 1: came back to it and like what's today three month out?

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Speaker 1: Like in three months? Yeah, and you say, you know what,

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Speaker 1: it was the draft that really made the biggest impression

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Speaker 1: or the biggest difference for this last offseason. It was

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Speaker 1: really free agency that made the biggest difference for this

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Speaker 1: last time. We won't know and we'll be this is

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Speaker 1: one of those switter posts. We'll be go back and

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Speaker 1: be able to check and actually the most meaningful check

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Speaker 1: will come after the twenty nineteen season. Yeah, which you

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Speaker 1: had the biggest impact. Yeah, it'd be eleven months from now.

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Speaker 1: Sipping the kool a tweets This in free agent spending

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Speaker 1: exclamation point. As many holes as possible need to be

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Speaker 1: filled in free agency. The draft should be used for

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Speaker 1: developing depth, with the exception of two or three picks

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Speaker 1: that may have immediate starting impact. This is a great

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Speaker 1: year to use the draft to stock the cupboard with

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Speaker 1: the answers the future needs. They have immediate needs that

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Speaker 1: can be solved and addressed in the draft. Are you

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Speaker 1: pooh pooing sipping the kool Aid's tweet? I thought it

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Speaker 1: was actually I thought it was I thought that was

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Speaker 1: actually well thought out and well articulated. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: the draft usually is he get these young guys in

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Speaker 1: and let him develop, even if it is even if

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Speaker 1: they are if you do find a guy in the

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Speaker 1: first three rounds or even in the first five rounds

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Speaker 1: that all of a sudden after a half a season,

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Speaker 1: steps in and all of a sudden, he's like, Wow,

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Speaker 1: this is awesome. You know that kind of guy. Development

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean he's gonna take three years. Sometimes it means

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Speaker 1: he's gonna take three games, you know. So that's and

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Speaker 1: that's basically what you know when you get when you

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Speaker 1: draft a guy, it's gonna take him a little bit

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Speaker 1: to get acclimated. Once in a while you'll see guys

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Speaker 1: jump in now. Tremaine Edmonds. Man, you can say, hey,

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Speaker 1: he had a great year, but man, he had no choice.

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Speaker 1: They plugged him in day one, middle linebacker Buffalo Bill's defense.

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Speaker 1: And it was on a defense and ended up being

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Speaker 1: top two or three in the league this last year.

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Speaker 1: So you can say whatever development he needed or was

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Speaker 1: waiting on, you know, the weight was over pretty quickly.

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Speaker 1: But he got he got thrown in head first. I

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Speaker 1: mean he got picked up on the dock and thrown

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Speaker 1: into the water right right at training camp and otash

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Speaker 1: and he he made it. I mean he did it.

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Speaker 1: Really eat a nice job. It takes a phone call here,

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Speaker 1: I believe on this topic. As soon as I can

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Speaker 1: punch it up, there we go. Ronnie and Idaho. Hello, Ronnie,

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Speaker 1: Idaho's a long way away, Ronnie. Ronnie, Oh so long

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Speaker 1: that Ronnie couldn't even stay in the line this long. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Ronnie and Idaho. Okay, back to the tweet sheet from

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Speaker 1: Anthony Siminelli. I think the biggest challenge is free agency spending,

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Speaker 1: because if you spend too much money on the wrong guys,

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Speaker 1: he could send you back, set you back in multiple years,

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Speaker 1: as opposed to Josh Allen's development, which only set you

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Speaker 1: back one year. Huh, I don't know about Josh Allen's developments. Listen,

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Speaker 1: if Josh Allen gets if Josh Allen flops, that set

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Speaker 1: you back a decade or five years. It'll take you

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Speaker 1: that long to recover from flopping on a number number

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Speaker 1: one pick at a quarterback spot, because you get you're

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Speaker 1: gonna give Josh Allen multiple, multiple chances, and if he

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Speaker 1: turns out not to be the right guy, all those

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Speaker 1: years you spent on multiple multiple chances or wasted? Am

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Speaker 1: I right? No? I think you're overstating it. Not ten years,

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Speaker 1: not ten five. I'm saying, ok I retracted the ten

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Speaker 1: I went to five. Okay, but you're right, But that's

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Speaker 1: that's yeah. So I think that Anthony's wrong on that one,

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Speaker 1: because I listen, you'll it takes a long time to

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Speaker 1: dig out of that hole. If Josh Allen turns out

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Speaker 1: to be a guy that doesn't play here for into

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Speaker 1: his second contract. Now. Wandering Jack's tweets frequent tweeter yea,

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Speaker 1: and mostly we use his tweets because he makes sense.

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Speaker 1: I think I agree with everything he's saying here. I'm

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Speaker 1: already yet here it goes unrestricted free agents come and go.

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Speaker 1: The draft will happen, and sure it's important to get

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Speaker 1: good players, but most important is making sure Alan remains focused,

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Speaker 1: is in the film room and is working with staff

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Speaker 1: to correct some of his foot work and accuracy. If

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Speaker 1: he becomes the franchise QB, the rest will work out.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot in that. It's hard to argue with it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because if listen, if Josh is a superstar, you're in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs perennially, I mean you're in. You're in the

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Speaker 1: conversation in week fifteen, week sixteen, weeks seventeen of getting

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Speaker 1: into the playoffs. If not home field advantage, if he's

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Speaker 1: the guy, you've got to really mess it up around him,

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Speaker 1: if you get the right if you got the right guy,

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Speaker 1: you know. Among many things I like about Wandering Jack's

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Speaker 1: tweet is the perspective that he brings to it. Just

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Speaker 1: by starting out UFA's come and go unrestricted free agents

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Speaker 1: come and go. You know, there's a lot of mature

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00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 1: perspective that goes into that because many Bills fans have

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00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,840
Speaker 1: been around. Oh they got Mario Williams. Oh, our troubles

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00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 1: are over. No, they weren't. No, they weren't not even close.

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Speaker 1: And you can go back over history and even the

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Speaker 1: last well maybe twenty years when free agency really became

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Speaker 1: a big factor in the NFL and point to any

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Speaker 1: number of free agent signings and saying, well, that was

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Speaker 1: the one that we anticipated would change everything, and they don't.

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Speaker 1: And I'll give you typically don't make significant changes free

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Speaker 1: agent signings. You plug holes. I'll give you one. I

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Speaker 1: love that perspective from ye. I'll give you one free

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Speaker 1: agent that was just the opposite of that, and it's

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Speaker 1: and it bolsters your point. Drew Brees the quarterback. He

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Speaker 1: left San Diego, and he made every bit of difference.

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Speaker 1: The quarterback is the guy that makes the difference. If

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Speaker 1: you found a guy like that on the free agent market,

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Speaker 1: that changed the conversation. But everybody else, like, you know, okay,

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Speaker 1: he was good. He was a good running back, he

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Speaker 1: was a good defensive man. I mean, Mario Williams came

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Speaker 1: that a top five defense for a year or two

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Speaker 1: while he was here with with Schwartz as their coordinator.

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Speaker 1: Had a good run with Mario. But then you know,

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Speaker 1: they didn't get in the playoffs, they didn't make a

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Speaker 1: run at it. You just don't do that with anything

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Speaker 1: but a great quarterback. You gotta have a guy that's

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Speaker 1: playing quarterback to be good. And and even you look

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Speaker 1: two years ago when Jacksonville, when the Bills went down

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Speaker 1: and play Jacksonville in the playoffs, they had Blake Bortles

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Speaker 1: and maybe as the best well without question, the best

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Speaker 1: defense in the league. They were good, and all they

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Speaker 1: needed from their quarterback was just don't get in the way. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: don't mess it up for us, hand it off, take

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Speaker 1: the easy completion, and get off the field with a

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Speaker 1: field goal. So it's interesting to see that, you know,

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Speaker 1: on this Twitter poll of ours, yeah, Josh Allen's development,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's second place to free agency spending. But man,

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Speaker 1: oh man, we still I think, does that say that

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Speaker 1: a lot of people think that's a given that Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen's the guy, it's a given he's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: franchise quarterback that poll, Yet I don't think so we

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Speaker 1: got that might be the we have not. We have not.

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Speaker 1: It's on its ads, in there, it's in there. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna pull that out later, and it's gonna be four

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Speaker 1: four topics. It's gonna be four choices. Yes, why do that?

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Speaker 1: Why we're waiting for let's scrap Yes, probably probably not

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Speaker 1: or no? Yeah, see that's the Twitter pole about? Is

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Speaker 1: he the man? Yeah, that's we waited. We're gonna wait

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Speaker 1: on that. We're pulling that one out. We're pulling that

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Speaker 1: one out. When are we gonna pull that one out tomorrow? No?

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Speaker 1: We need on a dark day when there's nothing going on.

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Speaker 1: We got today, We got Antonio Brown, I mean, he's tweeter.

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Speaker 1: We got stuff to talk about. This is a good

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Speaker 1: This is a good pole today. Don't find Twitter poll,

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Speaker 1: don't don't disparage your Twitter poll. Don't disparage your Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: You see the guy Twitter poll is a great one.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm sorry Listeners, if you're a frequent listener,

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Speaker 1: you hear us debate about the merits of Twitter poles

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Speaker 1: on an almost daily basis, and we all take pride

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Speaker 1: of ownership when we come up with the one that

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Speaker 1: has actually used, and the and the and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: it's really bad. The evaluation process of the Twitter poll

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Speaker 1: is all about the listeners and their percentages. We want

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Speaker 1: a horse race. We don't want one that's ninety ten,

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Speaker 1: right right, This one's pretty good. This is thirty three,

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Speaker 1: forty one, twenty four. That's pretty good. Yeah, that's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: And the question is what's the biggest challenge for the

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Speaker 1: Bills this off seas? Yesterday's was pretty good. We don't

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00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: even remember. Yes, I know, with us like I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you today's listen. We can listen. We can pull the

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen Twitter poll out anytime we want and use

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Speaker 1: it once a week. I could have used it today

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Speaker 1: around eleven forty five. And we're still struggling with this one.

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Speaker 1: Break here, we're gonna talk more about this. The biggest

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Speaker 1: challenge facing the Bills in this offseason free agency, the draft,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen, development, or something else. We got phone lines

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00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,359
Speaker 1: open for you eight three five fifty and toll free

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Speaker 1: one eight eight five fifty two five fifty. John Murphy

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Speaker 1: Steep Tansker coming back with more from One Bill's Drive

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Speaker 1: on Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to the show. Just

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Speaker 1: settling in here. We had a long drawn out conversation

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Speaker 1: about the merits of the Twitter poll we didn't use.

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Speaker 1: Do you notice how it's like twenty degrees warmer in

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Speaker 1: the control room than Yeah, it's uncomfortable in there. I

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00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 1: know it's it's uncomfortable in there. And here we could

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Speaker 1: hang meat like a butcher shop. Yeah, I like it

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Speaker 1: like this. Are you cold? No? Because I've gotten used

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Speaker 1: to it and I've started I've started wear long John's

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Speaker 1: to work now, so you know I'm acclimated to my

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Speaker 1: work environment. Phone call on the line here from Brian

847
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: and Buffalo. Hello, Brian and Buffalo, welcome to the show.

848
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Speaker 1: I don't think we're having a five. We having a

849
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:19,960
Speaker 1: problem again. See we had this problem last week when

850
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: we had wanted to get callers on and then you

851
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 1: think somebody would let us know. I don't know, Brian,

852
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 1: last chance? Are you there, Brian, he's not. I hope

853
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:30,960
Speaker 1: we can solve that problem. I apologize. Yeah, we need to. Uh,

854
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,160
Speaker 1: the next conversation in our next break won't be about

855
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,479
Speaker 1: It would be quite as warm and fussy. There won't

856
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 1: be so many pats on the back. Great job, great job,

857
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:48,319
Speaker 1: great noet oh yeah, wait, let me here start writing

858
00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: some notes down about what I'm gonna say. Tweet cheat

859
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:52,799
Speaker 1: from Ryan Thomas. Biggest challenge for the Bills of this

860
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: offseason is all the above and accepted choice. Not really, Ryan,

861
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 1: we do have rules about these. Is all the above

862
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 1: and accepted choice all are equally important to this team

863
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: taking the next step. Spending smart finding a veteran center,

864
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 1: drafting right, finding playmakers at wide receiver and tight end,

865
00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:10,400
Speaker 1: while showing up the right guard and right tackle spots,

866
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:14,759
Speaker 1: and looking for running back depth Josh improving accuracy. Well yeah,

867
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:16,319
Speaker 1: but we want you to kind of rank them and

868
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 1: pick one. That's how we construct these RANDI. You can't

869
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 1: just like ride the fence. You got to get in

870
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: the game, make a stand, have an opinion, do something. Yeah,

871
00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:28,080
Speaker 1: I get it. You just repeated our choices back to us. Right,

872
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:31,040
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Jed Forrest last one on

873
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. Other the biggest challenge is fixing the

874
00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:36,799
Speaker 1: O line, whether through free agency or the draft. And

875
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 1: that guy's getting pinpoint accurate there. Jed Forrest saying, hey, listen,

876
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. All of that stuff doesn't matter. Somehow,

877
00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 1: some way, you got to fix what's in front of

878
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, forget the forget wide receivers, running back, the depth,

879
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,480
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. That's the most important thing. And

880
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: I like it. I mean, that's you can make a

881
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:54,720
Speaker 1: great case for that. That that's the biggest challenge because

882
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 1: it's the hardest thing to fix. If you've been watching

883
00:42:56,920 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 1: any other football like the AAF and some of the

884
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: other football teams in the National Football League, and if

885
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: I were going to be a head coach Murph and

886
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,359
Speaker 1: the ownership said where what's your priority on your side

887
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,040
Speaker 1: of the ball, You say, of course, it's the quarterback

888
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:12,760
Speaker 1: and that kind of thing. But what happened. What's next?

889
00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: It is the offensive line. Any team with a really

890
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: good offensive line is going to be able to run

891
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:21,799
Speaker 1: the football. Your quarterback gets better, your running backs are better,

892
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 1: your passing game gets better, your defense gets better. Your

893
00:43:25,160 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: offensive line is the spot where I would spend capital

894
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 1: in the draft and free agency every single year possible,

895
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 1: because it's such a huge percentage of the guys you

896
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: have on the field on offense. Every play, every single play,

897
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,640
Speaker 1: you've got at least five of those guys. You gotta

898
00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 1: have them right. And that's and teams just kind of

899
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:50,279
Speaker 1: take them for granted. They start getting to this point

900
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: where they plugged this guy in or pull this guy

901
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 1: and plug that guy in. You cannot function without a

902
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 1: good offensive line, and if you've got five really good ones,

903
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,439
Speaker 1: it almost gets to the point where it can override

904
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: any of the other defension deficiencies you have on your offense.

905
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: Let me try and get on the phones. Brian in Buffalo. Brian,

906
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:10,479
Speaker 1: are you there now, Yes, thanks for waiting on us, Brian,

907
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: what's up? All right? Thank thank you for taking my call. Guys. Um,

908
00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 1: I'm just like my thing about Brown is earlier it

909
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 1: was said that you know, he didn't you guys with

910
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: Steve said he didn't want nothing to do with how

911
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 1: he dragged you know, the franchise and the team and

912
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,239
Speaker 1: the owners through the mud with his you know, the

913
00:44:32,239 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 1: way he was being. Why why not have just an

914
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 1: NFL teams just not hire him for a little bit

915
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: and let him, you know, become humble again instead of

916
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 1: you know, acting like a child basically, well, because you

917
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: can't get it's illegal. Uma. The second thing is, Um,

918
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: if you start, and I'll say this in his defense,

919
00:44:56,560 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 1: in Antonio Brown's defense, it's the only way he could

920
00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 1: get out of Pittsburgh. He's got to be such a

921
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 1: headache that they don't want him. If he came to

922
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:11,160
Speaker 1: him quietly, if he came to the Pittsburgh Steelers and

923
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 1: quietly said I want out, I don't want to be here.

924
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: If you start this season and don't trade me, I

925
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:21,239
Speaker 1: will not show up all of that stuff. I think

926
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:24,480
Speaker 1: the way he did it week seventeen was it's not

927
00:45:24,560 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: the desirable way. I think if he'd have done it quietly,

928
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:28,840
Speaker 1: I don't know that he would. He feels like he

929
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,319
Speaker 1: would have gotten the same results. The Steelers might have said,

930
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: nine now, we're gonna work things out, and they would

931
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 1: have forced him to do it next year. But a

932
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 1: lot of players feel like this is their only recourse

933
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:40,759
Speaker 1: if they don't want to play on the team they're on.

934
00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:43,400
Speaker 1: They got to find a way to get off. And

935
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:46,239
Speaker 1: I think Antonio Brown wanted off. I think he's been

936
00:45:46,280 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 1: there nine years. He's gonna be thirty one this season.

937
00:45:50,920 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 1: That's long in the tooth. He's made a pile of money,

938
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:58,640
Speaker 1: and maybe he wants to just live in a different city.

939
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. He mayne Once you

940
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 1: get away from Ben. I think him and Ben have

941
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: had it. They've had enough of each other, and there

942
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: you have it. I mean, but I know what you mean.

943
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:14,120
Speaker 1: You'd like to teach him a lesson about how awful

944
00:46:14,160 --> 00:46:16,959
Speaker 1: this makes him look. I don't know that Antonio Brown

945
00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:18,959
Speaker 1: cares what any of us think about how he looks.

946
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:20,640
Speaker 1: All right, a break care. When we come back, We're

947
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:24,400
Speaker 1: gonna talk with Mike Clay from ESPN, they renowned ESPN

948
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,960
Speaker 1: Pro football expert. He will join us to talk about

949
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,879
Speaker 1: free agency. He's got his free agency cheat sheet up

950
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,440
Speaker 1: and available. That's coming up when we return. One Bill's

951
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:46,720
Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio, Hello

952
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:51,839
Speaker 1: Hills Radio Network. Sports dafting comes from One Bill's Drive.

953
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: News from Arizona. Former Bills tight end Charles Clay. You're

954
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: gonna sign a one year deal worth up to three

955
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 1: point two five million dollars with the Arizona Card. The

956
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: signing comes just three days after Clay was released by

957
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. The deal includes a three hundred and

958
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars signing bonus with Arizona. According to sources,

959
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 1: Clay was going into the last year of a five

960
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:14,359
Speaker 1: year free agency contract he signed with the Bills back

961
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen. Charles Clay to the Arizona Cardinals. The

962
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:20,359
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown trade saga is getting a little bit more

963
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 1: clarity today, Antonio Brown saying that both sides have agreed

964
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,399
Speaker 1: it is time to move on. Brown met today with

965
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: Art Rooney, the third or Art Rooney, the second Steelers owner.

966
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:34,280
Speaker 1: They met in Florida. The meeting cordial and everyone agreed

967
00:47:34,280 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: the trade will be for the best. According to Adam Schefter, so, Brown,

968
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 1: who first requested a trade in late January, appears to

969
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 1: have gotten what he was looking for. Buffalo Sabers on

970
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 1: the road today Savers announcing that forward Kyla Posto has

971
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: been diagnosed with a concussion. He is out indefinitely. The

972
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:53,240
Speaker 1: Savers road trip continues tonight when they play the Panthers

973
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:56,280
Speaker 1: in Florida. Buffalo looking for his first win at Florida

974
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: since two fifteen. A win tonight would give them win

975
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 1: and consecutive matchups with the Panthers for the first time

976
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,800
Speaker 1: since they won three and ago a row in twenty eleven.

977
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:08,800
Speaker 1: Sabers seven o'clock face uff to night in Florida against

978
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:11,839
Speaker 1: the Panthers and the UB Bulls in action tonight with

979
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:15,240
Speaker 1: the twenty fifth ranking and the Associated Press Ball. The Bulls,

980
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 1: coming off a two game road sweep of Acron and Toledo,

981
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: are back home to open a season long three game

982
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,799
Speaker 1: homestand tonight they host Ohio University of Alumni Arena, the

983
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 1: first of two meetings in the next couple of weeks

984
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:28,800
Speaker 1: between the Bulls and the Ohio You Bobcats. You'll be

985
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:31,839
Speaker 1: with twenty two wins, three losses, twenty two straight wins

986
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,760
Speaker 1: at Alumni Arena, tied for the third longest home winning

987
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:38,280
Speaker 1: street in college basketball. You be tips off seven o'clock

988
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 1: tonight at Alumni Arena against Ohio University. And that is

989
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:45,040
Speaker 1: the update from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy, Steve Tasker

990
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,840
Speaker 1: in our One Buffalo Studio, Thanks very much for tuning

991
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 1: in with us talking about the advent of NFL free agency.

992
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:54,400
Speaker 1: Now it is just a couple of weeks away March thirteenth,

993
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 1: opening day of free agency. Here to talk about for

994
00:48:56,760 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: agency with us is ESPN's NFL Fantasy Football and List

995
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 1: the host of the next level Fantasy Football show on

996
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:05,879
Speaker 1: Serious Sex. M I remember the Pro Football Writers Association

997
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,319
Speaker 1: habit to have Mike Clay on the Subway fresh take

998
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 1: countline with us. Hello, Mike, thanks for joining us. We

999
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Hey, fella's good to be here. How are

1000
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 1: you a good John Murphy Steve Tasker up here in Buffalo?

1001
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: Question for you, and it's it's late breaking news within

1002
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:20,080
Speaker 1: the last hour, but just your thoughts on Charles Clay.

1003
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 1: Charles Clay's move from the Bills release last Friday to

1004
00:49:23,800 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals on a one year deal. What do

1005
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 1: you make of that? Yeah, it's been disappointing a couple

1006
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 1: of seasons for Clay, obviously, but Arizona has kind of

1007
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:34,879
Speaker 1: been just that talent collection mode right now, whether it's

1008
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 1: season veterans or scooping up some younger guys off waivers

1009
00:49:38,600 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 1: late in the season. But you know, we've seen a

1010
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 1: few guys. They bring in Charles Clay, who's probably an

1011
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:45,759
Speaker 1: upgrade honestly on their current situation with Ermaine Gresham there

1012
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,279
Speaker 1: who could be cut loose. And Ricky Steel shown a

1013
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 1: converted receiver who didn't pan out, but they bring him

1014
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 1: him in. They're bringing Robert Alfred. They've been looking for

1015
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 1: a number two perimeter corner for a long time. He's

1016
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: a clearly an upgrade, Brooks read on the edge. I mean,

1017
00:49:58,719 --> 00:50:02,239
Speaker 1: Arizona obviously just kind of in a talent collection mode

1018
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 1: right now. We'll see if any of these guys pan

1019
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 1: out for them. Hey, Like, I'll say this my partner

1020
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 1: Steve here last hour that a lot of what goes

1021
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 1: on in free agency is uh I mean, for lack

1022
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: of a better I notice is a Hackney phrase, but

1023
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 1: one team's trash is another one's treasure. Another words, Bills

1024
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: fans are like and we're not gonna miss Charles Clay

1025
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,240
Speaker 1: and the Arizona Cardinals were saying, hey, we got Charles Clay.

1026
00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:23,239
Speaker 1: He was productive a couple of years ago. That'll happen

1027
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,120
Speaker 1: again and again over the next couple of weeks, won't it.

1028
00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:28,960
Speaker 1: No question? I mean, you know, I just put out

1029
00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: a list on Twitter of all the top free agents.

1030
00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 1: But as you mentioned, a lot of guys are gonna

1031
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:34,279
Speaker 1: get cut to, right, So we're gonna have a lot

1032
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 1: of guys added added to this group, whether it is

1033
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 1: a guy like Jermaine Gresham or perhaps a you know,

1034
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:43,360
Speaker 1: a Tory Smith or maybe a Michael Krabsory DeVante Parker

1035
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: could get trade Laquon Treadwall maybe somebody takes a chance

1036
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:50,160
Speaker 1: on him. You're gonna see a lengthy list of veterans,

1037
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:51,839
Speaker 1: some with a lot of talent, some that are kind

1038
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:54,279
Speaker 1: of sneaky names that they get scooped up and make

1039
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 1: a lot of noise elsewhere. I think about the Super

1040
00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:59,560
Speaker 1: Bowl winning Patriots, right they dream Clayborne, they scoop him up.

1041
00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 1: He played in nice rotational role on the edge, as

1042
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: well as Danny Shelton, who Cleveland just kind of gave

1043
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,799
Speaker 1: away to them. They did made some savvy under the

1044
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 1: radar offseason moves last year. Trent Brown, how about him

1045
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:12,840
Speaker 1: at less tackle? What I want to move? That was?

1046
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: I mean, that's how championship teams are made. It's not

1047
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 1: just the superstars' it's filling in those boys across your roster.

1048
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 1: And that's why he likes Cleveland made a leap last year,

1049
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 1: and certainly the Saint Pilton Boys last offseason, and obviously

1050
00:51:25,120 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: New England does that each and every offseason. So so

1051
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:28,879
Speaker 1: you're right, you have to keep an eye in those

1052
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:32,160
Speaker 1: those intermediate moves of smaller moves as well as a

1053
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:34,320
Speaker 1: big one. Yeah, he mentioned Arizona being in a talent

1054
00:51:34,320 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: collection mode. That's what a lot every team right now

1055
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:39,319
Speaker 1: is they're either collecting the talent or evaluating it. And

1056
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 1: now you've got great name, great players like Antonio Brown

1057
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:45,840
Speaker 1: out there, who came out Today's He and the Steelers

1058
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:47,880
Speaker 1: have agreed that there's going to be a trade. But

1059
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,879
Speaker 1: the problem is, I think, is his contract. I mean,

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00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 1: don't you have to be a team that not only

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00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 1: has the assets to trade for him, but also the

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00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,439
Speaker 1: money to pay him. Doesn't that narrow the field quite

1063
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 1: a bit? Yeah? I think so. I mean, the implications

1064
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: won't be too bad for them. It's pretty much gonna

1065
00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:08,319
Speaker 1: be a wash for the Steelers. But I mean, yeah,

1066
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: you're right there. There's teams that have cap room others

1067
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:12,440
Speaker 1: that don't, and that's going to be a factor here.

1068
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:14,040
Speaker 1: But I think the teams you've heard a lot about

1069
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:16,759
Speaker 1: have some cap space, right so, I think about the

1070
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:19,080
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine years they could They could obviously

1071
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:22,320
Speaker 1: make it happen. They declined an option on Pierre Garson.

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00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: They have some cap space, and obviously they need an

1073
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 1: impact player, a wide receiver for Jimmy Garoppolos. So they

1074
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 1: make sense. The team I'd love to see, guys, and

1075
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 1: maybe it's wishful thinking, but just as a football fan

1076
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: wanting to watch explosive offense will be the cult. I mean,

1077
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 1: imagine putting him opposite to Tehy Hilton, with Eric Ebron

1078
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:41,560
Speaker 1: and Jack Oil inside, Marlon Mack in the backfield, and

1079
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:44,200
Speaker 1: obviously Andrew Lust drowing the football. I mean, that would

1080
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 1: be so fun. But and and of course the Colts.

1081
00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:49,600
Speaker 1: I mentioned them because they are overwhelmed with cap space.

1082
00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:51,520
Speaker 1: It's going to be really interesting to see what they do.

1083
00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 1: But h yeah, I think there's there's suitors out there

1084
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:55,359
Speaker 1: that have the money and we'll be able to get

1085
00:52:55,360 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 1: a deal done. Hey, Mike, how much, if at all,

1086
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:03,799
Speaker 1: has Antonio Brown poisoned the the trade waters are regarding him? Um?

1087
00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:05,279
Speaker 1: I think a little bit. I mean you've seen the

1088
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 1: reports out there that some teams are just not interested

1089
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:09,719
Speaker 1: right now, and I don't know how much truth is

1090
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 1: so that. Um, you know, the thing I would look

1091
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,680
Speaker 1: at is really his age. I mean he's over age thirty.

1092
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 1: Now do we start to see him come back to

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00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:18,319
Speaker 1: earth a little bit in production? That would be the

1094
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: thing I look at, or that I would be studying.

1095
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 1: If I was looking to trade Frantonio Brown, I'd be

1096
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 1: more concerned with that. Is he gonna about to fall off?

1097
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 1: You know? Are we gonna get that superstar? Are we

1098
00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 1: gonna get a guy's eighty percent of that or seventy percent?

1099
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 1: You know, the guy that that's gonna get injured? Now?

1100
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:33,880
Speaker 1: You know, that's the thing that's kind of being overlooked,

1101
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:35,759
Speaker 1: is the fact that he could be on the way down,

1102
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:37,960
Speaker 1: you know, but you don't hear anything about that. It's

1103
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:41,399
Speaker 1: almost being overlooked. And maybe that's marked by him. People

1104
00:53:41,400 --> 00:53:42,800
Speaker 1: are thinking, you know what, we could deal with the

1105
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 1: locker room stuff, the off field stuff. You know, well,

1106
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 1: we'll take that chance because he's talented. But is he

1107
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 1: really at that level right now? Or if he is,

1108
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 1: how much longer does he ask? Well, there's a ton

1109
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:55,839
Speaker 1: of guys coming out and and you know, over there's

1110
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:57,440
Speaker 1: gonna be a couple one hundred guys that hit the

1111
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: free agent market who are already on the free agent marketer,

1112
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:04,040
Speaker 1: are gonna come on, Do you see any notable names

1113
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 1: that are just about to be kicked to the curb

1114
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:10,239
Speaker 1: by the club that with which they've made their name with?

1115
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 1: Are there any big name free agents that we don't

1116
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:17,839
Speaker 1: know about just yet? Guys? So guys that are are

1117
00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: that have not been cut loose yet, So you think

1118
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 1: guys that are about to be added to the pool, right, Yeah? Absolutely.

1119
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 1: M You know, I think we've heard de Sean Jackson's

1120
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 1: name a bunch of times. He could either be cut

1121
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 1: loose or traded. That's the name I mentioned. Michael Crabtree.

1122
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 1: Imanuel Sanders is hurt. So I don't know if that

1123
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 1: will happen in Denver. But that's the team who moved

1124
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 1: on from to mary As Thomas last season. He's actually

1125
00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:41,480
Speaker 1: there now. To Marry Thomas is actually in the pool now.

1126
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:44,080
Speaker 1: He was he was cut Louis by Houston. So that's

1127
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 1: a name steep an eye on for sure. On the

1128
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:49,320
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, guys a lot of potential

1129
00:54:49,360 --> 00:54:53,279
Speaker 1: star power here, Malik Jackson and Gerald McCoy at defensive tackle.

1130
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 1: How about ever seen Griffin on the edge. A bunch

1131
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:59,800
Speaker 1: of linebackers, Sean Lee, Vance's erfic, Jamie Collins, Zach Brown.

1132
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:02,879
Speaker 1: Those are some names to watch their corner. Jimmy Smith,

1133
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 1: Davia Rhodes and safety Andrews and Dajoe in Minnesota and

1134
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: Morgan Burnett and Pittsburgh and Burnett wants out, you know,

1135
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 1: per his comments late in the season. So there's a

1136
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:14,399
Speaker 1: lot of talent, especially on the defensive side of the ball.

1137
00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 1: And it's already a very good class on the defensive side,

1138
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:20,319
Speaker 1: especially on the edge. When you talk about guys like

1139
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:23,560
Speaker 1: to Marcus Lawrence and Clowney and Flowers, Brandon Graham, p

1140
00:55:23,680 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 1: for it, I mean, Frank Clark, There's there's just a

1141
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 1: lengthy list of talented players out there on that side

1142
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:30,319
Speaker 1: of the ball. So, uh yeah, well, we'll keep an

1143
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 1: eye in this in the next couple of weeks. Hey,

1144
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:34,920
Speaker 1: my god. On the other side, tag season is open now.

1145
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:37,239
Speaker 1: Anybody coming off the friege in Market do you think?

1146
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:39,359
Speaker 1: Who do you anticipate it's gonna get tagged and come

1147
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 1: off the friege of Market? Yeah, it doesn't sound like.

1148
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like there's gonna be a ton right now,

1149
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 1: or at least the reports suggests teams are kind of

1150
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:49,839
Speaker 1: on defense with a few of these guys. I mean,

1151
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 1: you're hearing reports about kickers, you know, compete the top

1152
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:55,880
Speaker 1: guys getting tagged. But you know, I think to Marcus

1153
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:59,960
Speaker 1: Lawrence is a very a very likely one in Dallas

1154
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:01,879
Speaker 1: if they can't come to a long term agreement. That's

1155
00:56:02,040 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 1: that's when i'd keep an eye on. I'm not sure

1156
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:06,759
Speaker 1: about Clowney. I'm not sure if they would tag him

1157
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 1: right now. You've heard a little about Trey Flowers. He

1158
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 1: probably won't be tagged, and I think with like a

1159
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:14,400
Speaker 1: guy like t J. Moseley who kind of leads the linebackers,

1160
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:16,439
Speaker 1: it sounds like they'll probably come to a long term

1161
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 1: deal with him, and that might be it. I mean,

1162
00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:21,600
Speaker 1: Marcus Joiner was tag last season by the Rams. I

1163
00:56:21,640 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna happen again. It is a good

1164
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:26,320
Speaker 1: safety class plane and Collins for the for the Giants

1165
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:29,359
Speaker 1: is a candidate for sure, So I'm not sure it's

1166
00:56:29,360 --> 00:56:31,239
Speaker 1: gonna be not sure we're gonna get a ton of

1167
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 1: them Alas in terms of the super high paid superstar players,

1168
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 1: might see one kind of flying under the radar on

1169
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:39,839
Speaker 1: special teams, like at the kicker position, but those are

1170
00:56:39,880 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 1: the top guys to keep an eye for sure. One

1171
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 1: of the things you talk about in your articles is

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00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:48,360
Speaker 1: you think, maybe you're thinking Davante Parker goes to the

1173
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:51,399
Speaker 1: Colts and Jacoby Brissette moves on. What do you think

1174
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:55,120
Speaker 1: that could happen or how likely, is it now? Um yeah,

1175
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 1: I'm just well Ryan Tannehill. I didn't mention him, but

1176
00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:00,400
Speaker 1: he's another guy that is supposedly or reportedly going to

1177
00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 1: be cut by the Dolphins, and if that happens, they

1178
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:04,319
Speaker 1: don't have a quarterback, so they're going to be in

1179
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:07,719
Speaker 1: that market for sure. And I thought that connection kind

1180
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:09,279
Speaker 1: of makes sense. I mean, if you look at the

1181
00:57:09,680 --> 00:57:12,480
Speaker 1: coaching changes down there in Miami, you bring in Brian

1182
00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: Flores and chat o'she is the offensive coordinator. Well, those

1183
00:57:16,120 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 1: guys were with the Patriots when they drafted to Kobe Burssett.

1184
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 1: And now of course he was shipped to the Cults

1185
00:57:22,560 --> 00:57:25,000
Speaker 1: when the season Andrew Luck was out. But he's going

1186
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:27,120
Speaker 1: to be a freeze and after this season, and Andrew

1187
00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 1: Luck is a starter there in Indianapolis, so potentially he

1188
00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 1: could be moved. We know that Vat Parker fell out

1189
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 1: of favor last season with Miami, was kind of kind

1190
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 1: of driven down through the bottom of the depth start

1191
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:39,680
Speaker 1: and he's going to be a freege and after the season,

1192
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 1: So perhaps connection there Proseccos to work with coaches that

1193
00:57:43,880 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 1: he knows down there in Miami could compete the start

1194
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:48,400
Speaker 1: maybe with a rookie there, and then you ship Parker

1195
00:57:48,440 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 1: for a kind of a fresh start there with a

1196
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 1: Colts opposite Ty Hilton. So yeah, that was just kind

1197
00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:54,760
Speaker 1: of a we all team up at the trade. That

1198
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 1: kind of makes sense for full sides and that one

1199
00:57:57,800 --> 00:57:59,880
Speaker 1: let's fly a little under the radar, but but obviously

1200
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 1: make a big impactable team. Talk in the NFL free

1201
00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 1: agency with Mike Clay ESPN NFL Football analyst. He's on

1202
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: the subway for estate coutline. How about quarterbacks moving in

1203
00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 1: free agency? Mike, who do you see likely candidates to

1204
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 1: move around a little bit? Bridgewater, Nick Foles, Ryan Fitzpatrick,

1205
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 1: how do you see that play out? Yeah, I'm not

1206
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:20,760
Speaker 1: sure there's a ton of clear path to starting jobs,

1207
00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:22,920
Speaker 1: all right, I mean even the one, Even the teams

1208
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 1: that have voys at the quarterback positions or maybe are

1209
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:28,920
Speaker 1: on the low end of the quarterback position if we

1210
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:30,800
Speaker 1: were to rank them one the thirty two, they sell

1211
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:33,840
Speaker 1: of young players that they want to give a shot to. Obviously,

1212
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: Denver filled theirs with Joe Black opeace team that has

1213
00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:40,040
Speaker 1: become available. But Washington, they have a big name Jacksonville

1214
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:41,920
Speaker 1: is going to move on to Blake Bortles, they do

1215
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:45,760
Speaker 1: Miami already mentioned and past that, I mean guys, I

1216
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 1: don't know if we have any any starting jobs open.

1217
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 1: So where does Nick Foles go? Teddy Bridgewater, you have

1218
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 1: a couple of rookies. You would think Kyler Murray will

1219
00:58:53,760 --> 00:58:57,160
Speaker 1: be starting pretty quickly. Dwayne Haskins as well, those guys.

1220
00:58:57,200 --> 00:58:59,760
Speaker 1: He's in the landing spots. Y Rod Taylor's out there,

1221
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:02,600
Speaker 1: and I mentioned some guys that will be cut louse

1222
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 1: teams available. Ryan Tannehill mentioned Bortles, maybe Anthy mccaren, j

1223
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:12,320
Speaker 1: Kobe Brissett. There's more. There's more. There's more quarterbacks we'll

1224
00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:14,280
Speaker 1: say that are available than there are spots. So it's

1225
00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:16,880
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see where these guys landing, if

1226
00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:20,400
Speaker 1: they end up summenting themselves into a clear number one job. Yeah,

1227
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:24,760
Speaker 1: it's no question that with you, we're kind of entrenched

1228
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:27,200
Speaker 1: here in the AFC East. It's gonna be interesting to

1229
00:59:27,240 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 1: see who takes a snap for the Miami Dolphins under

1230
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 1: Brian Flores. I don't think it's gonna be Ryan Tannehill.

1231
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:34,840
Speaker 1: It could be a guy like Teddy Bridgewater, or it

1232
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 1: could be any one of those names you know, who

1233
00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 1: could be Ryan Fitzpatrick or Tyrod Taylor, Josh mccowney, any

1234
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:43,560
Speaker 1: of those teams. But one thing I did want to

1235
00:59:43,560 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 1: ask you too about is the running back spot. Levion

1236
00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:50,480
Speaker 1: Bell has been in limbo for over a year and

1237
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:55,240
Speaker 1: he's maybe one of the best running backs available, active

1238
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:58,960
Speaker 1: or inactive. Where is he gonna end up? Oh? Where

1239
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:03,360
Speaker 1: are you putting me on the spot? Right? Um? I listen.

1240
01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:05,640
Speaker 1: I think the team I've had kind of the most

1241
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 1: fun connecting the dot here is Oakland. You know, I

1242
01:00:09,560 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 1: just think it just seems to make sense to me.

1243
01:00:11,720 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 1: I feel like it's the kind of splash move that

1244
01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:16,560
Speaker 1: Mike Mayock and and John Gruden will make. They obviously

1245
01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:19,320
Speaker 1: have a major void at running back. Marshall Lynch is

1246
01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:21,160
Speaker 1: a free agent, as is Doug Martin. Really, they only

1247
01:00:21,160 --> 01:00:23,280
Speaker 1: have Dylan Richard right now, and he's more of a

1248
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:25,320
Speaker 1: scat pack at a nice teason last year. But they

1249
01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:27,640
Speaker 1: have a void there. Could use a twenty five touch

1250
01:00:27,680 --> 01:00:29,720
Speaker 1: sort of player, and they don't not much at wide receiver.

1251
01:00:29,800 --> 01:00:32,360
Speaker 1: And Jared cookser free agent. You know, they need somebody

1252
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:35,240
Speaker 1: to touch the ball quite a bit on the offensive

1253
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:36,959
Speaker 1: side of the ball. I could see them spending money

1254
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 1: they have a lot of that to spend. So m

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01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:42,000
Speaker 1: Oakland's the team I've connected them too. But there's there's

1256
01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 1: other spots obviously out there, including a team like Tampa

1257
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:50,000
Speaker 1: Bay or you know, perhaps Miami. That's probably a long shot,

1258
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 1: but there are a few voids Philadelphia. I doubt that

1259
01:00:53,040 --> 01:00:56,120
Speaker 1: one as well, but they're certainly openings out there. Mike

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01:00:56,120 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 1: players there a guest from ESPN on the top. But

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Speaker 1: topic of free agency, Mike, I have in my hand,

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Speaker 1: you're twenty nineteen NFL free agency cheat sheet. How can

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Speaker 1: we I'm going to keep this over the next month

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Speaker 1: or two, But what's the best way to use this

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Speaker 1: and what's the best way to evaluate what you put

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Speaker 1: out here in terms of positions and the players listing

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Speaker 1: under each position. Yeah, I keep track of it pretty closely,

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Speaker 1: the free agent status and I do unich or a

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Speaker 1: year round, just kind of grating teams. It's a good

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Speaker 1: way to find out teams that are being overlooked or

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Speaker 1: are overrated across the league. It's how you find teams

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Speaker 1: like cleave them last year and the year before Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: came in High, the Chargers team in High, the Jags

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Speaker 1: that breakout season, they were high too, So it's just

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Speaker 1: a fun exercise and that that gives an idea where

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Speaker 1: teams are strong, where teams are weak, and obviously if

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Speaker 1: they're weak, it's it's likely that they'll address those positions

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Speaker 1: using all the other players I have listed here, which

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Speaker 1: is a list of the top free agentstead each position.

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Speaker 1: So it's just a resource printed out. I'll keep updating

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Speaker 1: and I'll over on Twitter at my play NFL and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, to keep an eye on who the top

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Speaker 1: guys are. And you know, if you're a Bill fan

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Speaker 1: or another team, it'll give you an idea of foods

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Speaker 1: out there, who's available, and and uh, you know if

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Speaker 1: if you know, if if it dries up and there's

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Speaker 1: nothing there at that position, it might be time to

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Speaker 1: look forward to draft for some of these positions. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: your unigrades are very interesting. And you've got the Bills

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Speaker 1: with rank twenty ninth overall in the NFL personnel wise

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Speaker 1: h fifth defensively in terms of all the units put

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Speaker 1: together and how well they play and dead last thirty

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Speaker 1: second on offense. Tell me how you compile those unigrades

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Speaker 1: and what they tell us if you wouldn't, Mike, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just always gonna be a little bit of a subjective nature.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I'm looking through rite resources, I'm using

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Speaker 1: my football since I'm just looking over the rosters. I

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Speaker 1: mean it really anyone can do this. You just have

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Speaker 1: to put time aside. You pull out the cree agents

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Speaker 1: and then you just compare every roster basically rank them

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Speaker 1: one the thirty two essentially, or grade them on a

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Speaker 1: one to ten scale like I do. Uh, and then

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Speaker 1: just do a all map and total them up intense.

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01:02:51,400 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 1: Who has metas roster out there? So yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: I've been hard in the Bills the past couple of years.

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Speaker 1: I thought they were an extremely strong candidate to kind

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Speaker 1: of fall back to earth last season and missed the

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01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:04,280
Speaker 1: playoffs that did in fact happen. But uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: admittedly I was a little long to the defense. To

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Speaker 1: mc dermott has done an outstanding job on that side

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Speaker 1: of the ball, not just finding good players, but you know,

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Speaker 1: taking seemingly replacement level are average players and making them

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Speaker 1: look like above average or are off front players, Like

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Speaker 1: You've done such a triff job. Look at that. Look

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Speaker 1: at a safety group. Unbelievable. Two guys that were barely

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Speaker 1: in the league, and Jordan Employer and Mike A. Micah Hyde,

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Speaker 1: and both guys are playing at a pro Bowl level.

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Speaker 1: It's incredible. So I'm really excited for then taking the

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Speaker 1: next step defensively, and I really want to see what

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Speaker 1: they do offensively. They have to get some weapons here

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Speaker 1: for Josh Allen. Give him a fair good I mean,

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Speaker 1: I've been a hard on him for sure, and I'm

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Speaker 1: seriously about it accuracy, but he also didn't have a

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Speaker 1: great supporting cast. Get him at aline, get him some

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Speaker 1: guys to throw too, and we'll see what he can

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Speaker 1: do at the NFL level here in twenty nineteen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they kind of attention. You're unit grade for the Bill's

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Speaker 1: quarterback group two point seven and only three other NFL

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Speaker 1: teams have a lower grade at quarterback. Are you saying

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen was the fourth worst quarter back in the

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Speaker 1: NFL last year? Well, not not necessarily last year, saying

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Speaker 1: going forward, so yeah, I again, I'm definitely, very very

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Speaker 1: concerned about what he brings to the table of quarterback.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he ad he added a lot with his

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Speaker 1: legs last season. We know that tremendous production. We can

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Speaker 1: overlook that, but is that the scene of a long

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Speaker 1: term and can make Can he make plays with his arm? Yes,

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01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:22,400
Speaker 1: he didn't make a few last year, but he also

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Speaker 1: had a very high off target right. He also completed

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Speaker 1: well below sixty percent of his I mean, some of

1341
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Speaker 1: the concerns we had with him coming into the NFL

1342
01:04:31,480 --> 01:04:34,160
Speaker 1: and did carry over. But again, if he takes the

1343
01:04:34,160 --> 01:04:36,000
Speaker 1: step forward, he throws the ball a little bit better,

1344
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:38,240
Speaker 1: continues to run, they get am more weapons to defense,

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01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:40,120
Speaker 1: holds up. I'll be wrong. You know. This is a

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Speaker 1: team that will compete for eight wins, nine wins and

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Speaker 1: maybe get into the playoffs. So all we can do

1348
01:04:44,880 --> 01:04:47,960
Speaker 1: is evaluate what's there now. I'm comparing their current situation

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Speaker 1: to the other thirty one teams, and that's just where

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Speaker 1: I feel they fall. But I guess, yeah, it won't

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01:04:53,600 --> 01:04:56,640
Speaker 1: be perfect, but it's been a good it's been a

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Speaker 1: good exercise over the past few years. I get the hey,

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Speaker 1: last before you step, putting you on the spot earlier.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it here. Free agency opens March thirteenth.

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Speaker 1: Do they by the way, do they open at midnight

1356
01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:08,240
Speaker 1: or they wait till four pm? How does that work

1357
01:05:08,280 --> 01:05:11,040
Speaker 1: these days? I don't even know. You know, Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, four pm. But they do have that campering

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01:05:13,400 --> 01:05:16,120
Speaker 1: period that's right days. So we'll get a bunch of

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Speaker 1: reports when free agency opens. Who's the first big name

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Speaker 1: to make a move. It's a guess. Throw a dart here?

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Speaker 1: You are for me on the spot. I'm gonna I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna go with Volume here, and I'll go with

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Speaker 1: one of these add rushers. So pick your poison, I'll say. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Brandon Graham from Philadelphia signed somewhere. I don't even know where.

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01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:39,960
Speaker 1: I have thought about. Uh, maybe how about I'll throw

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01:05:40,000 --> 01:05:43,760
Speaker 1: a dart here. Brandon Graham signs with the Rams about

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01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:46,320
Speaker 1: that one? All right? They need Well, you're right, Volume,

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01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 1: there's so many edge rushers seemingly going to be available

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Speaker 1: March thirteenth, that would be the logical way to go, right, Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: there you go. That could work for sure. Maybe the

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Speaker 1: Jets per Graham. You know, I may see states in

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01:05:58,080 --> 01:06:00,600
Speaker 1: the Northeast they you know, they're switching up there defensive

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01:06:00,760 --> 01:06:04,080
Speaker 1: defensive scheme there. So yeah, that the end rushers are

1375
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:05,720
Speaker 1: going to be fun to watch, especially if a guy

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01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:08,440
Speaker 1: like Everything Griffin gets added to that pile as well.

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Speaker 1: Ye hey Mike, thanks for this good talking with you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Thanks Mike, and any time of fellas,

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Speaker 1: take care. Mike Clay ESPN NFL Football Analysts does a

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Speaker 1: lot of work on fantasy football. Joining us on the

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Speaker 1: Subway fresh State Kountline presented by Subway Restaurants, proud to

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Speaker 1: be locally owned and operated. You know, it's interesting because

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Speaker 1: we always you kind of get your hackles up when

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Speaker 1: the guys start calls in. Any kind of is hard

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Speaker 1: on the Bills, Ruster, But you think about this, think

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01:06:30,720 --> 01:06:32,960
Speaker 1: of all the free They've got three starting offensive linemen

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Speaker 1: from a bad offensive lineman that are free agents. There's

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01:06:37,240 --> 01:06:40,480
Speaker 1: there's zero offensive lineman. They just signed one Spencer Long.

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Speaker 1: Then you look at the wide receivers. You got two

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Speaker 1: guys coming back who were just you know, Zay Jones

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01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:47,400
Speaker 1: coming into was in his second year, who was left

1392
01:06:47,480 --> 01:06:49,840
Speaker 1: high and dry by the number one receiver Kelvin Benjamin.

1393
01:06:49,840 --> 01:06:54,320
Speaker 1: They got rid of him. Now Foster, Robert Foster is there. Now.

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Speaker 1: They got wide receivers that are unproven and unproductive. They

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Speaker 1: got a rookie quarterback coming off a rookie season when

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Speaker 1: he was injured for four games. Lashawn McCoy is didn't

1397
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:06,240
Speaker 1: have none of the running backs had a productive view.

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01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:07,760
Speaker 1: So you look at the offensive side of the ball

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Speaker 1: with the Bills, plus you know the guys that are

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Speaker 1: gone from that, they have like nobody to play and

1401
01:07:13,880 --> 01:07:16,080
Speaker 1: you can even actually say or even on the team. Yeah,

1402
01:07:16,120 --> 01:07:18,240
Speaker 1: it's easy to put the Bills way down the list

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01:07:18,720 --> 01:07:23,440
Speaker 1: for teams that are you know, sitting right now, sitting

1404
01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:26,720
Speaker 1: where they want to be. But as we've been talking

1405
01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:30,360
Speaker 1: about here of old day, they've got tons of cap

1406
01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:33,480
Speaker 1: space and tons of draft picks to fill that up.

1407
01:07:33,520 --> 01:07:36,280
Speaker 1: And you would think while they are going to probably

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01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:38,480
Speaker 1: address a couple of needs on the other side of

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01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:41,120
Speaker 1: the ball, maybe get an edge rusher that's basically maybe

1410
01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:43,960
Speaker 1: an edge rusher and one defensive tackle replace Kyle Williams,

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01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:47,280
Speaker 1: everything else, every other I think assets going to be

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Speaker 1: spent on that side of the football offense, Yeah, every

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Speaker 1: asset except for one maybe to get an edge rusher

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Speaker 1: and a defensive tackle. But I think most of the

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Speaker 1: assets left of the twelve draft picks or ten draft

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Speaker 1: picks and the ninety million, eighty seven million dollars they

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Speaker 1: got to spend, they I mean, they're looking at nothing

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Speaker 1: but the offensive side of the football, right, Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean I would think, Yeah, mostly I think on offense

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Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah, So that's a big queue. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of question marks that I have to come together

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Speaker 1: for the offense to even feel about like it could

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Speaker 1: spread its wings. In twenty nineteen, we got a lot

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Speaker 1: of question marks for you, a lot of questions for

1425
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Speaker 1: you about how the Bills get going on this. That's

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Speaker 1: our Twitter poll. We got more than a thousand responses

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Speaker 1: so far. What's the biggest challenge for the Bills this offseason?

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Speaker 1: You know what the lineup is, and what's the biggest

1429
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Speaker 1: challenge they have right now? Thirty nine percent of you

1430
01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:36,040
Speaker 1: say it's free agency spending. That numbers coming down a

1431
01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:38,400
Speaker 1: little bit. Thirty three percent of you say it is

1432
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Speaker 1: Josh Allen's development. Twenty five percent of you saying getting

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Speaker 1: the draft right is the Bill's biggest challenge, three percent

1434
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Speaker 1: of something else in mind. Give us a call. We'll

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Speaker 1: read some of your tweets in a moment, but we'd

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Speaker 1: love to talk you down the air about it. Eight

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

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. The biggest challenge facing the

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Speaker 1: Bills this offseason is it Josh's development? Spending in free.

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Speaker 1: Just see you're getting the draft right. The draft of

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Speaker 1: course coming up the end of April, and we are

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Speaker 1: a week away from the combine. That's where we will

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Speaker 1: be starting one week from tomorrow. Our coverage of the

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Speaker 1: NFL Scouting Combine begins next Wednesday, February twenty seventh, runs

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Speaker 1: through Friday, March first. Steve and I'll be there live

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Speaker 1: and Radio Row. We were informed today we have a

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Speaker 1: spot on Radio Row. Steve, we got our confirmation of

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Speaker 1: our space. Yes, looking forward to that. Also at about

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Speaker 1: thirteen hundred other radio stations jammed into the Indianapolis Convention Center.

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Speaker 1: Live coverage from the NFL Combine starts next Wednesday, February

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Speaker 1: twenty seventh. Make sure you stick around for that. Coming

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Speaker 1: back with morna moment. Let's hear from your phone lines

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

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Speaker 1: eighty fifty two five fifty one Bills Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalida Health from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. We're up to John Murphy, Team Gaster up

1457
01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:02,599
Speaker 1: for more. All that you can give us, we will

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01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:06,200
Speaker 1: take it today. Talking about why are you laughing? It's

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Speaker 1: like we're in a bar fight. Yeah, we'll take it.

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Speaker 1: Take that bunch. What's the biggest challenge for the Bills

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Speaker 1: of this offseason? Let us know what you think. Let's

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01:10:14,920 --> 01:10:17,880
Speaker 1: take a call here, Steve. Ronnie in Idaho. We tried earlier. Ronnie,

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Speaker 1: thank for hanging with us. I believe you're on the

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Speaker 1: air with us now right, Yes, Hi, Ronnie, go ahead, Ronnie?

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Speaker 1: Where are you in Idaho? Kurt Elaine Boise? Okay, I

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01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:32,679
Speaker 1: just like saying Kurt Eline. So I had a person

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Speaker 1: question and but also a story. Yesterday I was listening

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Speaker 1: to the show and Steve, you had mentioned the number

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01:10:38,880 --> 01:10:44,519
Speaker 1: of the mount of mail that you received requesting autographs. Well,

1470
01:10:44,520 --> 01:10:47,920
Speaker 1: it just reminded me that I had sent a Jim

1471
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:52,240
Speaker 1: Kelly football card to the stadium requesting an autograph. That

1472
01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:54,599
Speaker 1: was about twenty five thirty years ago. I'm still waiting

1473
01:10:54,600 --> 01:10:58,599
Speaker 1: for that car. Good luck. Don't hold your breath there, Ronnie. Yeah,

1474
01:10:58,640 --> 01:11:04,639
Speaker 1: I'm starting to give up, starting to have doubts. What

1475
01:11:04,680 --> 01:11:08,120
Speaker 1: else you got, Well, there's a lot of talk about

1476
01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:12,840
Speaker 1: adding wide receivers to the team, and based on what

1477
01:11:12,880 --> 01:11:15,080
Speaker 1: we saw last year in the emergence of Foster towards

1478
01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:17,760
Speaker 1: the end of the year development of Allen as well.

1479
01:11:18,200 --> 01:11:20,880
Speaker 1: I just wonder if the offense would be okay with

1480
01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:23,719
Speaker 1: the group that we have now, if we can strengthen

1481
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:28,160
Speaker 1: the offense, the offensive line. M yeah, I mean there's

1482
01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:32,519
Speaker 1: no question Robert Foster. I mean, there's every reason to

1483
01:11:32,520 --> 01:11:34,840
Speaker 1: think Robert Foster will probably kind of be on the

1484
01:11:34,880 --> 01:11:37,920
Speaker 1: team again this year. I don't know that they'll bolster

1485
01:11:37,960 --> 01:11:41,560
Speaker 1: the wide receiver corps so much that they'll make him expendable.

1486
01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:44,840
Speaker 1: They'll bring four or five guys up that are gonna

1487
01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:50,080
Speaker 1: make Robert Foster Foster go away. And he did. He

1488
01:11:50,120 --> 01:11:52,320
Speaker 1: got better and better and better. In fact, it was

1489
01:11:52,400 --> 01:11:57,080
Speaker 1: his development and his development alone. I think that caused

1490
01:11:57,160 --> 01:12:01,719
Speaker 1: them to finally think that Kelvin Benjamin was expendable. They thought,

1491
01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:05,160
Speaker 1: you know what, Robert Foster's ready, Calvin's not given us anything,

1492
01:12:05,240 --> 01:12:09,400
Speaker 1: Let's let him go. I think that's what happened. I

1493
01:12:09,439 --> 01:12:12,200
Speaker 1: think I'm with you though. In one respect. The offensive

1494
01:12:12,200 --> 01:12:14,880
Speaker 1: line I think is the absolute number one priority. I

1495
01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:19,640
Speaker 1: don't think anything else comes before that. And for this offseason,

1496
01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:23,840
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is is gonna get as good as he's

1497
01:12:23,840 --> 01:12:28,120
Speaker 1: gonna get without practicing. He's going to be working hard

1498
01:12:28,160 --> 01:12:31,200
Speaker 1: in the offseason. All that is a given. You hope

1499
01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:34,160
Speaker 1: it is. But for the team and the decisions they

1500
01:12:34,200 --> 01:12:37,320
Speaker 1: have to make, that's got to be their number one priority.

1501
01:12:37,360 --> 01:12:40,479
Speaker 1: They've got three guys that started for them at certain

1502
01:12:40,520 --> 01:12:42,720
Speaker 1: times during the year that are all free agents, and

1503
01:12:42,760 --> 01:12:46,200
Speaker 1: they've got they've got to get better up front. And

1504
01:12:46,280 --> 01:12:48,800
Speaker 1: so I'm totally with you on that. I don't know

1505
01:12:48,920 --> 01:12:51,920
Speaker 1: that they're you know, they're absolutely going to bring in

1506
01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:55,240
Speaker 1: more wide receivers because they need him to field a team.

1507
01:12:56,160 --> 01:12:58,160
Speaker 1: And how good those guys are, well, we'll see. That

1508
01:12:58,240 --> 01:13:00,360
Speaker 1: remains to be seen. But I'm with you a percent.

1509
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:02,479
Speaker 1: I think the offensive line is the absolute number one

1510
01:13:02,520 --> 01:13:05,439
Speaker 1: priority for building the roster from here at this point forward.

1511
01:13:05,479 --> 01:13:07,320
Speaker 1: Not to say that there aren't other holes, because there are,

1512
01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:10,000
Speaker 1: but I think that is the one thing they've got

1513
01:13:10,000 --> 01:13:12,040
Speaker 1: to get right. I agree, But I do want to

1514
01:13:12,080 --> 01:13:15,400
Speaker 1: see them get better at a receiver. Oh yeah, people ed,

1515
01:13:15,400 --> 01:13:18,880
Speaker 1: people ed good people quality, and there's I mean, we've got,

1516
01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:22,360
Speaker 1: you know, the the cheat sheet here for guests last

1517
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:23,920
Speaker 1: hour White and let me just read down some of

1518
01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:25,400
Speaker 1: the wide receivers. There's a bunch of them. So I'm

1519
01:13:25,400 --> 01:13:26,920
Speaker 1: not gonna do all of them, but I'll give you

1520
01:13:26,920 --> 01:13:29,479
Speaker 1: the top ten or fifteen names. It starts with Golden Tastes,

1521
01:13:29,600 --> 01:13:33,680
Speaker 1: Terrell Williams, Damarius Thomas, Devin Funchis, John Brown, that's the

1522
01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:38,280
Speaker 1: guy you like, Murphy Jamison, Crowder, Adam Humphries, Randall Cobb,

1523
01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:43,360
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, Dez Bryant, Chris Hogan, Dante Moncrief, Mike Wallace.

1524
01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:46,959
Speaker 1: So you go, you know, go down, Martevious Bryant, Pierre Garson,

1525
01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:52,639
Speaker 1: Cordurell Patterson, dontrelle Inman, Rashad Perryman. You know, all these guys,

1526
01:13:52,680 --> 01:13:55,400
Speaker 1: they're all and that that plus that many more are

1527
01:13:55,439 --> 01:13:59,480
Speaker 1: already out there available. Um, you gotta sift through them,

1528
01:13:59,520 --> 01:14:01,479
Speaker 1: and there's and most of those guys are gonna get

1529
01:14:01,479 --> 01:14:04,040
Speaker 1: a shot somewhere. You know. I don't know that des

1530
01:14:04,160 --> 01:14:06,880
Speaker 1: Bryant's going to be on a roster, but there's gonna

1531
01:14:06,880 --> 01:14:09,639
Speaker 1: be some of those guys that get a chance, no question. Thanks, Ronny.

1532
01:14:09,680 --> 01:14:12,439
Speaker 1: Here's a call from Eric in Connecticut. Hello, Eric, Welcome

1533
01:14:12,439 --> 01:14:15,479
Speaker 1: to the show. Hey guys, thanks for having me. Really

1534
01:14:15,520 --> 01:14:19,080
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Sure, yeah, so real quick. I wanted a

1535
01:14:19,200 --> 01:14:23,360
Speaker 1: really touch base about the development of Alan, especially with

1536
01:14:23,400 --> 01:14:25,880
Speaker 1: you two guys, because you're so well in the media.

1537
01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:28,679
Speaker 1: My one question is someone compared to Lamar Jackson where

1538
01:14:28,920 --> 01:14:30,760
Speaker 1: he was on such a great team and he ran

1539
01:14:30,840 --> 01:14:33,600
Speaker 1: the ball and passed less than Alan. What is it

1540
01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:36,320
Speaker 1: where people are forgetting when the Bills first played? What

1541
01:14:36,360 --> 01:14:38,280
Speaker 1: was after week two? We weren't even supposed to be

1542
01:14:38,320 --> 01:14:41,320
Speaker 1: Alabama for the worst team. No one should even have

1543
01:14:41,439 --> 01:14:44,800
Speaker 1: Alan in the game. That will ruin his development. And

1544
01:14:44,840 --> 01:14:46,840
Speaker 1: he comes in, he uses and speak first, and then

1545
01:14:46,840 --> 01:14:49,479
Speaker 1: he starts getting in touch with Foster. And my point

1546
01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:51,400
Speaker 1: is he keeps getting better, and I know you're not

1547
01:14:51,400 --> 01:14:53,960
Speaker 1: going to be a Bill's homer around the media, around

1548
01:14:54,040 --> 01:14:56,479
Speaker 1: nationally that he's amazing, But I feel like, do you

1549
01:14:56,479 --> 01:14:58,639
Speaker 1: guys know he's not even getting credit. That's like, wow,

1550
01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:01,240
Speaker 1: he wasn't even supposed to play this year and the

1551
01:15:01,360 --> 01:15:05,120
Speaker 1: things we've seen so far. Once darkly that Anderson got involved,

1552
01:15:05,400 --> 01:15:07,479
Speaker 1: it really seems like there's some development here. But I

1553
01:15:07,520 --> 01:15:10,759
Speaker 1: feel like he gets no love at all, Like nationally,

1554
01:15:11,280 --> 01:15:12,880
Speaker 1: you know, Eric gets funny you mentioned it because our

1555
01:15:12,960 --> 01:15:15,120
Speaker 1: last guests who you know. I appreciate him coming on,

1556
01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:18,439
Speaker 1: but I thought he underplayed how much value Josh Allen

1557
01:15:18,479 --> 01:15:21,000
Speaker 1: has he had the Bill say, is that what fourth

1558
01:15:21,479 --> 01:15:25,080
Speaker 1: worst quarterback unit in the NFL behind several teams who

1559
01:15:25,080 --> 01:15:28,000
Speaker 1: I think they are further ahead of. Look, I know

1560
01:15:28,120 --> 01:15:29,640
Speaker 1: there's an awful lot of work to be done by

1561
01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:32,559
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, which is why on our Twitter poll today

1562
01:15:32,880 --> 01:15:34,800
Speaker 1: that's one of the issues like what should be the

1563
01:15:34,840 --> 01:15:38,400
Speaker 1: bills most biggest concern this offseason? Development of Josh Allen.

1564
01:15:38,479 --> 01:15:40,320
Speaker 1: I think if that's not number one, it's a close

1565
01:15:40,400 --> 01:15:42,960
Speaker 1: to number one. I think that's critically important. He's got

1566
01:15:42,960 --> 01:15:45,559
Speaker 1: a lot of room for improvement. But he did improve

1567
01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:48,040
Speaker 1: last year, and that, to me is the most encouraging thing.

1568
01:15:48,080 --> 01:15:50,760
Speaker 1: He did get better from week when he started playing

1569
01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:52,800
Speaker 1: in Week two to the end of the season, and

1570
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:55,559
Speaker 1: if you project that out to a full season and

1571
01:15:55,600 --> 01:15:59,200
Speaker 1: a full offseason as the number one quarterback, I anticipate

1572
01:15:59,240 --> 01:16:01,479
Speaker 1: good things ahead for Josh Hellen. Yes, I agree. I

1573
01:16:01,479 --> 01:16:05,040
Speaker 1: think some people nationally have missed out on the season

1574
01:16:05,080 --> 01:16:08,840
Speaker 1: that Josh Hallen had last year. Not great, certainly not

1575
01:16:08,920 --> 01:16:11,599
Speaker 1: statistically great, And I think some people are still caught

1576
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:14,839
Speaker 1: up in their pre draft evaluation. What was a fifty

1577
01:16:15,040 --> 01:16:17,639
Speaker 1: eight percent complete percentage? Go ahead? What you have to say,

1578
01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:20,560
Speaker 1: Eric A really quick question because you ask Steve Bolts. So,

1579
01:16:20,640 --> 01:16:22,880
Speaker 1: one thing I've been yelling at friends. I watched the

1580
01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:25,000
Speaker 1: All twenty two. You guys watched every play, and the

1581
01:16:25,040 --> 01:16:26,519
Speaker 1: one thing I got to know because is it just

1582
01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:28,960
Speaker 1: from the draft and what they heard. I know he's

1583
01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:32,360
Speaker 1: not the most accurate quarterback, but I've watched every single path.

1584
01:16:32,840 --> 01:16:36,680
Speaker 1: He's throwing the ball in there pretty well consistently, and

1585
01:16:36,720 --> 01:16:40,200
Speaker 1: there's been so many ridiculous drops and he's getting rushed

1586
01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:42,760
Speaker 1: in throwing it away as you watched being the play

1587
01:16:42,800 --> 01:16:46,559
Speaker 1: by play guy, What is with this inaccuracy that he's

1588
01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:49,400
Speaker 1: the worst inaccurate quarterback there is when I feel every

1589
01:16:49,439 --> 01:16:51,920
Speaker 1: time I watched, I'm like, wait, he's making so many

1590
01:16:51,920 --> 01:16:54,080
Speaker 1: great throws. Why does everyone think he's the most inaccurate

1591
01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:57,160
Speaker 1: quarterback in this draft? You know what I think, Eric,

1592
01:16:57,360 --> 01:16:59,360
Speaker 1: I don't think he's the most accurate quarterback, not buying

1593
01:16:59,400 --> 01:17:01,599
Speaker 1: long shot in the NFL. But I think people look

1594
01:17:01,600 --> 01:17:04,519
Speaker 1: at the numbers and they immediately look at the completion

1595
01:17:04,560 --> 01:17:07,040
Speaker 1: percentage and say, ah, yeah, I knew he couldn't throw.

1596
01:17:07,040 --> 01:17:10,520
Speaker 1: I knew he was inaccurate that number. That completion percentage

1597
01:17:10,560 --> 01:17:13,160
Speaker 1: is a function of the type of passes they tried.

1598
01:17:13,200 --> 01:17:15,800
Speaker 1: To throw last year when they dialed it down in

1599
01:17:15,880 --> 01:17:18,400
Speaker 1: the season finale against Miami, Jost said right over there

1600
01:17:18,400 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 1: and said, oh yeah, we went for completions this game,

1601
01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:23,160
Speaker 1: and he got him. He completed sixty's on percent of

1602
01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:25,559
Speaker 1: his passes in the final game of Miami. Not a

1603
01:17:25,600 --> 01:17:27,680
Speaker 1: finished product by any means, not close to being the

1604
01:17:27,720 --> 01:17:30,280
Speaker 1: finished product, but on the right track. And I do

1605
01:17:30,360 --> 01:17:34,000
Speaker 1: think his inaccuracy numbers, his completion percentage number is a

1606
01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:37,160
Speaker 1: direct function, Steve, of the passes there, the players they

1607
01:17:37,160 --> 01:17:39,559
Speaker 1: were calling, the passes they were attempting. Eric, I'm on

1608
01:17:39,640 --> 01:17:41,559
Speaker 1: board with you, and I know we watched Josh and

1609
01:17:41,600 --> 01:17:43,720
Speaker 1: we tend to hope for the best, you know, and

1610
01:17:44,000 --> 01:17:46,920
Speaker 1: and we do. We do spend positive a lot of

1611
01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:49,200
Speaker 1: things that happen. He's not the most accurate guy in

1612
01:17:49,200 --> 01:17:51,360
Speaker 1: the league, but I don't he doesn't strike me as

1613
01:17:51,360 --> 01:17:52,840
Speaker 1: a guy that you go out there and say, wow,

1614
01:17:52,840 --> 01:17:56,840
Speaker 1: he's he's like Tim Tebow inaccurate and he's not. Here's

1615
01:17:56,840 --> 01:17:58,960
Speaker 1: one of the issues, Eric, and here and you touched

1616
01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:01,920
Speaker 1: on a basic When he was at Wyoming, he had

1617
01:18:01,960 --> 01:18:06,880
Speaker 1: a fifty three completion percentage, mainly because the offense he

1618
01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:09,800
Speaker 1: was running. He ran it like he did early here

1619
01:18:09,840 --> 01:18:13,880
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. He was trying to make the deep, hard

1620
01:18:14,120 --> 01:18:17,880
Speaker 1: throw all too often. He tries it, he likes doing it.

1621
01:18:18,400 --> 01:18:21,920
Speaker 1: He throws those passes a lot. He doesn't take easy

1622
01:18:21,960 --> 01:18:24,679
Speaker 1: completions in Wyoming. And I had one of the guys

1623
01:18:24,720 --> 01:18:28,000
Speaker 1: I trust and love and respect in the NFL, one

1624
01:18:28,000 --> 01:18:30,439
Speaker 1: of the evaluates, one of the analysts I know, he

1625
01:18:30,560 --> 01:18:33,400
Speaker 1: told me he goes. One of the things about Josh's

1626
01:18:33,400 --> 01:18:35,960
Speaker 1: offense in Wyoming was that he never had an outlet

1627
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:37,960
Speaker 1: that wasn't like a twelve yard out on the far

1628
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:40,519
Speaker 1: side of the field. They were given him impossible throws

1629
01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:42,559
Speaker 1: to make because he was the only guy in the

1630
01:18:42,560 --> 01:18:45,639
Speaker 1: whole country who could make those throws at the college level,

1631
01:18:45,680 --> 01:18:47,880
Speaker 1: so they wanted him to try and do it. Josh

1632
01:18:48,040 --> 01:18:49,760
Speaker 1: loves to throw the deep ball. We saw it here

1633
01:18:49,800 --> 01:18:52,519
Speaker 1: in his time here in Buffalo. Now that's one of

1634
01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:56,240
Speaker 1: the reasons he has a lower percentage of completions because

1635
01:18:56,320 --> 01:18:59,479
Speaker 1: he even here in Buffalo for the first five, six,

1636
01:18:59,560 --> 01:19:02,280
Speaker 1: seven games he played, he was trying to make those

1637
01:19:02,360 --> 01:19:06,559
Speaker 1: tough throws all the time. This lad and we all

1638
01:19:06,680 --> 01:19:09,120
Speaker 1: saw him, who watched him every week, We saw him

1639
01:19:09,200 --> 01:19:11,679
Speaker 1: get better at different parts of his game every week.

1640
01:19:11,760 --> 01:19:14,200
Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons there was an enormous buzz

1641
01:19:14,240 --> 01:19:18,400
Speaker 1: in Buffalo about this guy. One week, he's hurdling guys

1642
01:19:18,439 --> 01:19:20,599
Speaker 1: and he's running out of bounds, he's twisting guys around,

1643
01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:22,639
Speaker 1: turning him around. Then the next week he's getting out

1644
01:19:22,640 --> 01:19:24,639
Speaker 1: of bounds and he's slide and he's not taking any hits.

1645
01:19:24,920 --> 01:19:27,160
Speaker 1: He got better and better and better as we all

1646
01:19:27,200 --> 01:19:29,759
Speaker 1: watched him, And at the last game of the season,

1647
01:19:29,880 --> 01:19:33,559
Speaker 1: when as Murph said, their plan was just get the completions, well,

1648
01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:35,840
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, he did complete sixty percent

1649
01:19:35,880 --> 01:19:38,439
Speaker 1: of his passes and they hung forty two points on

1650
01:19:38,479 --> 01:19:42,559
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. So we all saw him week by week

1651
01:19:42,680 --> 01:19:48,879
Speaker 1: become a very different quarterback throughout one or three quarters

1652
01:19:48,920 --> 01:19:52,280
Speaker 1: of one season of football, and it's reason for a

1653
01:19:52,280 --> 01:19:56,439
Speaker 1: lot of optimism around him. So I get that they

1654
01:19:56,560 --> 01:19:58,160
Speaker 1: look at his out and numbers say, hey, he's still

1655
01:19:58,200 --> 01:20:00,400
Speaker 1: completing that kind of number of percentage of pass But

1656
01:20:00,520 --> 01:20:04,880
Speaker 1: that is, in my opinion, not the whole story. Thanks

1657
01:20:05,360 --> 01:20:08,599
Speaker 1: That call comes from Connecticut. The call before that came

1658
01:20:08,640 --> 01:20:11,600
Speaker 1: from Idaho. This call comes from North Carolina. Lou in

1659
01:20:11,680 --> 01:20:14,519
Speaker 1: North Carolina. Where are you in Carolina? Loup no, no, no,

1660
01:20:14,760 --> 01:20:19,799
Speaker 1: John north Tonawanda, I'm a jack. My board says Carolina.

1661
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:22,160
Speaker 1: Why don't you just tell people you're in North Carolina,

1662
01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:25,519
Speaker 1: You're at Pinehurst. You you got the ball teat up

1663
01:20:25,520 --> 01:20:29,479
Speaker 1: on the fourteenth at pine Hurst. There you go go ahead. Oh.

1664
01:20:29,520 --> 01:20:32,559
Speaker 1: I think you guys are very courteous and you take

1665
01:20:32,680 --> 01:20:35,360
Speaker 1: questions from people who don't know everything like me, and

1666
01:20:35,439 --> 01:20:38,519
Speaker 1: I do appreciate it. Some of your counterparts on talk

1667
01:20:38,680 --> 01:20:41,200
Speaker 1: radio they booted me off the air once because I

1668
01:20:41,280 --> 01:20:44,080
Speaker 1: made a comparison to about Sonny Jurgensen. I don't think

1669
01:20:44,080 --> 01:20:48,679
Speaker 1: you think Sonny Jurkinson was. My point is. I think

1670
01:20:48,920 --> 01:20:51,599
Speaker 1: I'm a static as a Bill's fan, and I think

1671
01:20:51,720 --> 01:20:53,760
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is the real deal, and I think we're

1672
01:20:53,800 --> 01:20:57,920
Speaker 1: making too much of putting components around him. He's gonna

1673
01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:01,280
Speaker 1: make people great around him. I grew up watching unitis

1674
01:21:01,760 --> 01:21:06,240
Speaker 1: lend John Hayde'll name it. They made. They just gravitated

1675
01:21:06,439 --> 01:21:09,160
Speaker 1: and made people better around them. I think it'd be

1676
01:21:09,320 --> 01:21:12,640
Speaker 1: just big shame. So use a nice overall pick to

1677
01:21:12,760 --> 01:21:16,120
Speaker 1: get an alignment, because I'm all the confidence of the world.

1678
01:21:16,400 --> 01:21:19,120
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is going to prevail in this league. He's

1679
01:21:19,120 --> 01:21:22,880
Speaker 1: got a Canada an arm and he's like alp Made

1680
01:21:23,040 --> 01:21:26,479
Speaker 1: trying to tackle an alchemist open in the open field.

1681
01:21:26,520 --> 01:21:29,840
Speaker 1: That's what he reminds me of. All right, that's good stuff, Louke.

1682
01:21:29,920 --> 01:21:33,160
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of people, there's a lot of

1683
01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:36,360
Speaker 1: people that are as optimistic as you. I mean, you're right,

1684
01:21:36,439 --> 01:21:39,280
Speaker 1: he's got all of that physical talent. And I think

1685
01:21:39,320 --> 01:21:43,720
Speaker 1: the thing that it makes me the most optimistic about

1686
01:21:43,800 --> 01:21:49,200
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is the tangible stuff you can see. Forget

1687
01:21:49,240 --> 01:21:51,800
Speaker 1: the all twenty two, forget the you know that runs

1688
01:21:51,840 --> 01:21:54,519
Speaker 1: the passes of the hurling over guys. The stuff that

1689
01:21:54,560 --> 01:21:56,519
Speaker 1: you saw him do one week that you wish he

1690
01:21:56,520 --> 01:21:59,960
Speaker 1: wouldn't do. The next week he didn't do. And then

1691
01:22:00,040 --> 01:22:02,200
Speaker 1: next week the stuff you saw him in the week

1692
01:22:02,240 --> 01:22:04,640
Speaker 1: that even proved do some things you still wish he

1693
01:22:04,680 --> 01:22:07,360
Speaker 1: didn't do. He didn't do those. The next week he

1694
01:22:07,479 --> 01:22:10,760
Speaker 1: got better and better and better. As with each passing week.

1695
01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:13,519
Speaker 1: I thought Brian Dayball did a phenomenal job of giving

1696
01:22:13,560 --> 01:22:16,200
Speaker 1: him more and more to do, better things to do.

1697
01:22:16,439 --> 01:22:18,920
Speaker 1: When they started putting, and they told us when they

1698
01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:22,400
Speaker 1: wanted some speed on the football field, this coaching staff

1699
01:22:22,439 --> 01:22:25,800
Speaker 1: cut belt Calvin Benjamin loose. They plugged Robert Foster in

1700
01:22:25,880 --> 01:22:28,880
Speaker 1: and they started going deep and it started working and

1701
01:22:28,880 --> 01:22:32,080
Speaker 1: giving Josh Allen a little more room to operate. When

1702
01:22:32,080 --> 01:22:34,759
Speaker 1: we saw when there was his critics said, well, he's

1703
01:22:34,840 --> 01:22:38,519
Speaker 1: running so much. He doesn't, he doesn't never stands in

1704
01:22:38,560 --> 01:22:40,639
Speaker 1: the pocket and reads the defense. Well, then the next

1705
01:22:40,680 --> 01:22:43,400
Speaker 1: week you'd see him standing there except a hit and

1706
01:22:43,520 --> 01:22:46,280
Speaker 1: make the throw just before he got hit and complete

1707
01:22:46,320 --> 01:22:50,400
Speaker 1: the pass. Every week you could see instances of him

1708
01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:54,680
Speaker 1: doing things that even a casual fan would notice as

1709
01:22:54,760 --> 01:22:57,559
Speaker 1: being better than the week before. That's why there's so

1710
01:22:57,600 --> 01:23:00,519
Speaker 1: much optism and lou you just you know from North

1711
01:23:00,560 --> 01:23:05,320
Speaker 1: Tiawana slash Carolina calling in. You can see it and

1712
01:23:05,400 --> 01:23:08,280
Speaker 1: it makes you excited about this team and what can happen.

1713
01:23:09,240 --> 01:23:12,639
Speaker 1: Let me and let me tell you something. Everything, the everything,

1714
01:23:12,720 --> 01:23:15,639
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, wide, receivers, running back, everything would get better

1715
01:23:15,680 --> 01:23:18,200
Speaker 1: if they get offensive linemen up there, if they in

1716
01:23:18,240 --> 01:23:20,639
Speaker 1: front of him, If that offensive line starts to play better,

1717
01:23:20,760 --> 01:23:24,360
Speaker 1: and the running game starts to be a factor without

1718
01:23:24,439 --> 01:23:27,519
Speaker 1: Josh Allen having to lead the team in rushing. If

1719
01:23:27,600 --> 01:23:30,000
Speaker 1: Lashawn McCoy can lead the team in rushing, get eleven

1720
01:23:30,120 --> 01:23:34,360
Speaker 1: hundred yards rushing over the course of the season, everything's

1721
01:23:34,360 --> 01:23:38,240
Speaker 1: gonna get better. It will be a mushroom effect and

1722
01:23:38,320 --> 01:23:41,120
Speaker 1: an exponential effect on the offense in a positive way.

1723
01:23:41,400 --> 01:23:44,519
Speaker 1: But I am with you. I think the sky is

1724
01:23:44,520 --> 01:23:46,680
Speaker 1: the limit for Josh. He's got a long way to go.

1725
01:23:46,800 --> 01:23:50,360
Speaker 1: There's still a million things that could derail him. But

1726
01:23:50,520 --> 01:23:52,640
Speaker 1: for now, I'm I like where he's at and I

1727
01:23:52,680 --> 01:23:54,479
Speaker 1: like what I've seen. Take one more call before we

1728
01:23:54,560 --> 01:23:57,000
Speaker 1: hit the break, Dana in Buffalo, Go ahead, Danny, Welcome

1729
01:23:57,040 --> 01:24:02,240
Speaker 1: to the show. Hey, thank you, How you doing good.

1730
01:24:02,479 --> 01:24:05,280
Speaker 1: I want to ask you guys about the double run

1731
01:24:05,320 --> 01:24:07,519
Speaker 1: game we have right now with McCoy Ivory. I think

1732
01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:10,160
Speaker 1: we're getting rid of Ivory, But what do you guys

1733
01:24:10,240 --> 01:24:12,960
Speaker 1: thoughts on that are we Should we stay with the

1734
01:24:13,080 --> 01:24:16,680
Speaker 1: McCoy or go with the Ivory, you know, combo and

1735
01:24:16,760 --> 01:24:18,920
Speaker 1: get a new line so the run game is better.

1736
01:24:19,520 --> 01:24:22,400
Speaker 1: Or should we just rely on the new line and

1737
01:24:22,479 --> 01:24:24,519
Speaker 1: we're going to draft or pick up where we're going

1738
01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:26,639
Speaker 1: to get that rolling To rely on the running game

1739
01:24:26,640 --> 01:24:29,360
Speaker 1: to get better, well, it depends on how much how

1740
01:24:29,360 --> 01:24:31,400
Speaker 1: hard you think it is to find a great running back,

1741
01:24:31,479 --> 01:24:34,200
Speaker 1: or at least a good running back. Certainly most teams

1742
01:24:34,280 --> 01:24:37,240
Speaker 1: now and I'm trying to think of one that doesn't.

1743
01:24:37,640 --> 01:24:41,519
Speaker 1: Maybe the Giants a team that doesn't have two running

1744
01:24:41,520 --> 01:24:44,200
Speaker 1: backs that they use on a regular basis. Most teams do,

1745
01:24:44,600 --> 01:24:48,280
Speaker 1: and every team is looking to get all forty five

1746
01:24:48,400 --> 01:24:52,000
Speaker 1: or forty seven guys on game day contributing in some way,

1747
01:24:52,040 --> 01:24:54,040
Speaker 1: shape or form. They got guys on the roster, they

1748
01:24:54,080 --> 01:24:55,559
Speaker 1: want to get them all on the field in some

1749
01:24:56,160 --> 01:24:58,880
Speaker 1: role that they can excel, give them something that they

1750
01:24:58,920 --> 01:25:00,799
Speaker 1: do really well. And if puts a lot of pressure

1751
01:25:00,840 --> 01:25:04,320
Speaker 1: on their opponent to combat that with you by asking

1752
01:25:04,320 --> 01:25:08,360
Speaker 1: their opponent to defend it or to attack it in

1753
01:25:08,400 --> 01:25:11,360
Speaker 1: a way, maybe they're not so good at. So that's

1754
01:25:11,439 --> 01:25:14,200
Speaker 1: what you can count on. There's no question Leshan McCoy's

1755
01:25:14,200 --> 01:25:15,920
Speaker 1: gonna have to have a running mate in the backfield.

1756
01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:18,439
Speaker 1: He's going to be thirty one thirty two years old

1757
01:25:19,120 --> 01:25:23,080
Speaker 1: this season. They need somebody to help him carry the load.

1758
01:25:23,800 --> 01:25:25,639
Speaker 1: The offensive line is going to be a big help

1759
01:25:25,680 --> 01:25:28,160
Speaker 1: to Leshan. Murph and I both have seen one of

1760
01:25:28,200 --> 01:25:30,559
Speaker 1: the things I thought that started to wear on Leashan

1761
01:25:30,680 --> 01:25:33,960
Speaker 1: this year. He started shying away from contact because it

1762
01:25:34,080 --> 01:25:36,000
Speaker 1: was happening so quick in the backfield. He was trying

1763
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:38,320
Speaker 1: to bounce everything out trying to get a bigger play.

1764
01:25:38,360 --> 01:25:40,320
Speaker 1: He's trying to make something happen for a running game

1765
01:25:40,360 --> 01:25:43,000
Speaker 1: that just wasn't working, and he started to shy away

1766
01:25:43,040 --> 01:25:46,080
Speaker 1: from the tough, hard nosed two yard run because it

1767
01:25:46,200 --> 01:25:49,080
Speaker 1: just wasn't worth it to him. That's kind of a problem.

1768
01:25:49,439 --> 01:25:51,400
Speaker 1: I'd like to see that goal away. If he starts

1769
01:25:51,400 --> 01:25:53,760
Speaker 1: to have more room, then he will get He'll get

1770
01:25:53,840 --> 01:25:56,160
Speaker 1: acclimated to him being able to get those tough runs

1771
01:25:56,200 --> 01:25:58,800
Speaker 1: and tough yards. But that's why Chris Ivory was so

1772
01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:01,840
Speaker 1: much more effective this year. This year, he stuck his

1773
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:04,360
Speaker 1: nose in there and just kind of took the hard yards.

1774
01:26:06,240 --> 01:26:08,759
Speaker 1: That's not Leshawn's forte never has been. He was willing

1775
01:26:08,800 --> 01:26:10,639
Speaker 1: to do it when he was everything else was going well.

1776
01:26:11,080 --> 01:26:13,320
Speaker 1: But when nothing's going well, why get those hard two

1777
01:26:13,400 --> 01:26:15,080
Speaker 1: or three yards if it's not going to help that much.

1778
01:26:15,120 --> 01:26:17,120
Speaker 1: So you can bet they're gonna have a couple of

1779
01:26:17,200 --> 01:26:20,679
Speaker 1: running backs back there and they'll find somebody who's productive.

1780
01:26:20,760 --> 01:26:22,880
Speaker 1: I don't think it's that difficult of a thing to do,

1781
01:26:23,080 --> 01:26:26,559
Speaker 1: because I think running backs are out there to be had,

1782
01:26:27,200 --> 01:26:29,280
Speaker 1: and you can get him as rookie free agents. You

1783
01:26:29,280 --> 01:26:30,960
Speaker 1: can get him late rounds of the draft. You can,

1784
01:26:31,120 --> 01:26:35,240
Speaker 1: and there'll be a contributors. But I think you're right,

1785
01:26:35,320 --> 01:26:37,080
Speaker 1: Leshaun's gonna be here, and I think he's got still

1786
01:26:37,120 --> 01:26:38,639
Speaker 1: got some gas in his tank. I think he's gonna

1787
01:26:38,640 --> 01:26:40,680
Speaker 1: be okay. We spent a lot of time yesterday and

1788
01:26:40,960 --> 01:26:44,679
Speaker 1: considerable time last week talking about the Alliance of American Football.

1789
01:26:44,800 --> 01:26:48,040
Speaker 1: All good news, right, No, maybe some bad news, A

1790
01:26:48,120 --> 01:26:50,360
Speaker 1: little dark cloud out on the horizon. We'll talk about

1791
01:26:50,400 --> 01:26:52,760
Speaker 1: that when we come back. John Murphy, Steve Tasker, one

1792
01:26:52,840 --> 01:26:55,559
Speaker 1: Bills Live from One Bill's Drive, And this is Buffalo

1793
01:26:55,640 --> 01:27:14,559
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Welcome back, John murphyc Tasker one Bills Live

1794
01:27:14,720 --> 01:27:16,800
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. What do we got coming up with? Two? Steve?

1795
01:27:16,840 --> 01:27:20,200
Speaker 1: We got Armando Salgaro from the Miami Herald who's going

1796
01:27:20,240 --> 01:27:22,120
Speaker 1: to join us to talk about the Dolphins. They are

1797
01:27:22,600 --> 01:27:25,040
Speaker 1: fascinating to me. Are they in fact in tank mode?

1798
01:27:25,040 --> 01:27:28,479
Speaker 1: We'll ask Armando. Well, Steve, we spent considerable time the

1799
01:27:28,560 --> 01:27:31,120
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks really talking about the Alliance of

1800
01:27:31,120 --> 01:27:33,960
Speaker 1: American Football. The ratings look pretty good, at least from

1801
01:27:33,960 --> 01:27:37,920
Speaker 1: the first week. The football looks okay, looks like you know,

1802
01:27:38,160 --> 01:27:43,320
Speaker 1: preseason football, a little bit some big plays, and yet Steve,

1803
01:27:43,439 --> 01:27:45,200
Speaker 1: this shocked me this morning. This is the most shocking

1804
01:27:45,280 --> 01:27:49,200
Speaker 1: thing I read all day. The owner of the NHL's

1805
01:27:49,240 --> 01:27:51,800
Speaker 1: Carolina Hurricanes made a two hundred and fifty million dollar

1806
01:27:51,880 --> 01:27:55,080
Speaker 1: investment into the Alliance America of American Football. He will

1807
01:27:55,080 --> 01:27:59,360
Speaker 1: become the new chairman of the AAF. The athletic website

1808
01:27:59,360 --> 01:28:01,519
Speaker 1: The Atlantic ports the league was in danger of not

1809
01:28:01,760 --> 01:28:05,640
Speaker 1: making payroll on Friday before the investment. Now that has

1810
01:28:05,640 --> 01:28:08,840
Speaker 1: been dismissed by AAF co founder Charlie Ebersol says the

1811
01:28:08,880 --> 01:28:11,320
Speaker 1: league was getting a financial who said, not true, the

1812
01:28:11,439 --> 01:28:14,519
Speaker 1: league was getting a financial bailout. The team kicked off

1813
01:28:14,640 --> 01:28:18,559
Speaker 1: just two weeks ago. Ten game regular season culminates April

1814
01:28:18,560 --> 01:28:23,160
Speaker 1: twenty seventh in the championship game. CBS broadcast a couple

1815
01:28:23,160 --> 01:28:26,240
Speaker 1: of games already. The league says over six million people

1816
01:28:26,280 --> 01:28:28,800
Speaker 1: watch the AAF, and yet they needed a two hundred

1817
01:28:28,800 --> 01:28:32,240
Speaker 1: and fifty million dollar investment from this hockey owner, Tom

1818
01:28:32,439 --> 01:28:36,880
Speaker 1: Dundon of Carolina to stay afloat. I'm shocked and I

1819
01:28:36,960 --> 01:28:39,240
Speaker 1: am distressed to hear that. Steve. I thought, look, we

1820
01:28:39,320 --> 01:28:43,880
Speaker 1: were talking about how much the AAF was succeeding. Apparently, not. Maybe, yeah,

1821
01:28:44,040 --> 01:28:47,000
Speaker 1: that's true, and who know, and if they were going

1822
01:28:47,040 --> 01:28:50,040
Speaker 1: to make payroll, that's that's not good obviously. Now that

1823
01:28:50,280 --> 01:28:56,840
Speaker 1: also now the Ebersol, the guy who runs the team,

1824
01:28:56,880 --> 01:28:59,960
Speaker 1: and is it Charlie Ebersolt runs the league, runs the league.

1825
01:29:00,640 --> 01:29:05,280
Speaker 1: Um this they're saying that this infusion of cash, you're

1826
01:29:05,280 --> 01:29:07,240
Speaker 1: going to carry them for a long time. They had

1827
01:29:07,280 --> 01:29:09,160
Speaker 1: six million people watch it on when it was on

1828
01:29:09,240 --> 01:29:12,200
Speaker 1: the broadcast network. It out drew the NBA, so all

1829
01:29:12,240 --> 01:29:15,960
Speaker 1: of a sudden, I don't know, mister Dundon, who owns

1830
01:29:16,000 --> 01:29:21,400
Speaker 1: the Carolina Hurricanes, I don't know if he's the kind

1831
01:29:21,400 --> 01:29:23,320
Speaker 1: of guy that throws two hundred fifty million bucks down

1832
01:29:23,320 --> 01:29:26,400
Speaker 1: the drain, doesn't think he's gonna get it back for

1833
01:29:26,560 --> 01:29:29,120
Speaker 1: something for whatever reason, Maybe it was the TV numbers,

1834
01:29:29,160 --> 01:29:32,600
Speaker 1: Maybe it's the technology and that they're gonna use this

1835
01:29:32,760 --> 01:29:34,960
Speaker 1: money to promote and to and all the other stuff.

1836
01:29:34,960 --> 01:29:39,080
Speaker 1: They're gonna use it for pay pay paychecks. But I

1837
01:29:39,160 --> 01:29:41,519
Speaker 1: don't know that. There's a lot of people that were

1838
01:29:41,560 --> 01:29:47,479
Speaker 1: pleasantly surprised how this league started. No question, um that

1839
01:29:48,880 --> 01:29:51,360
Speaker 1: you and I I mean, I was, yeah, it's the

1840
01:29:51,600 --> 01:29:55,679
Speaker 1: it's the best alternative to the NFL. On pro football

1841
01:29:55,760 --> 01:29:57,400
Speaker 1: that there has ever been, and there's been a ton

1842
01:29:57,479 --> 01:30:04,840
Speaker 1: of options, NFL, Europe, USF, FELL, World Football is uh yeah,

1843
01:30:05,160 --> 01:30:07,960
Speaker 1: you know why because it's not in competition with the NFL,

1844
01:30:08,040 --> 01:30:11,120
Speaker 1: it's in concert with it. They the NFL's pulling for

1845
01:30:11,200 --> 01:30:14,040
Speaker 1: this league, and I think which makes it shocking that

1846
01:30:14,160 --> 01:30:16,240
Speaker 1: they need cash, you know what I mean? Yeah, and

1847
01:30:16,320 --> 01:30:18,719
Speaker 1: I think the NFL's backing. Why are you in trouble?

1848
01:30:18,720 --> 01:30:20,200
Speaker 1: Why didn't need to Yeah, that's the thing I don't

1849
01:30:20,240 --> 01:30:21,960
Speaker 1: get because I thought they had it going on with

1850
01:30:22,080 --> 01:30:24,160
Speaker 1: the with the television rights and all that. I met

1851
01:30:24,200 --> 01:30:26,280
Speaker 1: the rights pay much of anything. Yeah, but I'll tell

1852
01:30:26,280 --> 01:30:28,439
Speaker 1: you what, that's gonna go up if they can get

1853
01:30:28,479 --> 01:30:30,800
Speaker 1: one of the networks to put it on regular air TV.

1854
01:30:30,880 --> 01:30:34,280
Speaker 1: It's four hours. It's it's like five hours of programming

1855
01:30:34,439 --> 01:30:38,400
Speaker 1: per over both days of a weekend. So it's ten

1856
01:30:38,479 --> 01:30:41,240
Speaker 1: hours over a weekend of live sports at a time

1857
01:30:41,280 --> 01:30:43,720
Speaker 1: when it's kind of dead on the AIRWA. I think

1858
01:30:43,720 --> 01:30:45,840
Speaker 1: it's gonna I think they're gonna be all right. But still,

1859
01:30:48,560 --> 01:30:50,360
Speaker 1: if you're not missing payrolls, you're not gonna be around

1860
01:30:50,360 --> 01:30:52,880
Speaker 1: at all long at all. It's gonna be interesting to

1861
01:30:52,920 --> 01:30:57,120
Speaker 1: see if it's a race between new rights deals and

1862
01:30:57,560 --> 01:31:01,920
Speaker 1: making payroll or gosh, it's troubling. Guy's bumming me out

1863
01:31:01,960 --> 01:31:06,120
Speaker 1: because I'm liking this league. Yeah, but yeah, but there's

1864
01:31:06,120 --> 01:31:08,040
Speaker 1: no question they had to get a little help to

1865
01:31:08,160 --> 01:31:11,200
Speaker 1: make it through. As you know, maybe there's a lot

1866
01:31:11,240 --> 01:31:13,360
Speaker 1: of maybe that's what happens in startup businesses that they

1867
01:31:13,400 --> 01:31:15,640
Speaker 1: all kind of do that. But I don't know, I

1868
01:31:15,680 --> 01:31:17,960
Speaker 1: don't know. It's not good. But it was a little

1869
01:31:18,000 --> 01:31:20,080
Speaker 1: bit of a shock, and of course the the AF

1870
01:31:20,600 --> 01:31:22,800
Speaker 1: downplayed it, said, Hey, this is just this is going

1871
01:31:22,840 --> 01:31:25,320
Speaker 1: to carry us for a long time. This money two

1872
01:31:25,439 --> 01:31:27,519
Speaker 1: or fifty million bucks will go a long way. It's

1873
01:31:27,560 --> 01:31:30,280
Speaker 1: going to carry us for a long time. It'll give

1874
01:31:30,360 --> 01:31:33,760
Speaker 1: us some peace of mind. And also they're gonna use

1875
01:31:33,800 --> 01:31:38,080
Speaker 1: some of the money to uh let's see it just

1876
01:31:38,240 --> 01:31:44,439
Speaker 1: heard they said it. The technologies in the Econic the

1877
01:31:44,479 --> 01:31:47,400
Speaker 1: alliance is stunning growth in stadium and across TV, mobile,

1878
01:31:47,439 --> 01:31:50,240
Speaker 1: social media in just the first couple of weeks. Um.

1879
01:31:50,479 --> 01:31:53,839
Speaker 1: They're going to expand their football operations and technology business

1880
01:31:55,640 --> 01:31:57,600
Speaker 1: and this guy Dundune is a big part of that.

1881
01:31:57,680 --> 01:31:59,720
Speaker 1: He's done that before in his other businesses, which is

1882
01:31:59,760 --> 01:32:01,960
Speaker 1: why he's so wealthy, wealthy enough to throw two hundred

1883
01:32:01,960 --> 01:32:04,680
Speaker 1: fifty million bucks at this. He's had some experience in

1884
01:32:04,720 --> 01:32:06,639
Speaker 1: some of these businesses that are trying to make inroads

1885
01:32:06,640 --> 01:32:08,960
Speaker 1: into So the technology is where the future is with

1886
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:14,120
Speaker 1: this league, right. We talked with here yesterday, um Cynthia

1887
01:32:14,200 --> 01:32:17,519
Speaker 1: Freeland about it, and she is a technology expert, and

1888
01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:20,240
Speaker 1: she she says, you know, it's it's the app that

1889
01:32:20,320 --> 01:32:22,640
Speaker 1: people can put on their phone. It's the prospect of

1890
01:32:22,760 --> 01:32:26,479
Speaker 1: somewhere down the line involving gambling, right, real time gambling

1891
01:32:26,560 --> 01:32:29,519
Speaker 1: on aaf games. That's where the future lies, it would

1892
01:32:29,520 --> 01:32:32,559
Speaker 1: seem for this league, um, not really attendance and maybe

1893
01:32:32,600 --> 01:32:36,200
Speaker 1: not even television ratings, but the fact that they're two

1894
01:32:36,240 --> 01:32:39,080
Speaker 1: weeks in needing an infusion of cash. I think that's alarming.

1895
01:32:39,160 --> 01:32:40,920
Speaker 1: Do you think that there's something out there that they're

1896
01:32:40,960 --> 01:32:43,400
Speaker 1: trying to get to, like maybe this this app's kind

1897
01:32:43,400 --> 01:32:46,240
Speaker 1: of go full go gaming. Yeah, I think it's they're

1898
01:32:46,280 --> 01:32:50,760
Speaker 1: probably they probably on this mister Dirton done what's his name,

1899
01:32:51,200 --> 01:32:53,400
Speaker 1: They probably sold him because he is a technology guy

1900
01:32:53,439 --> 01:32:55,519
Speaker 1: and said, hey, we get this cash, we're gonna stay

1901
01:32:55,520 --> 01:32:57,160
Speaker 1: alive and we're gonna eventually you get to a place

1902
01:32:57,200 --> 01:33:00,599
Speaker 1: where our app, our technology becomes a brand new revenue

1903
01:33:00,600 --> 01:33:03,800
Speaker 1: source and U and not to mention the use of

1904
01:33:03,840 --> 01:33:07,200
Speaker 1: the app and gambling. Right when enough places, if they

1905
01:33:07,240 --> 01:33:09,320
Speaker 1: can legalize game, if they can patent their app to

1906
01:33:09,680 --> 01:33:12,840
Speaker 1: gaming and casinos, everybody buys that and then all of

1907
01:33:12,880 --> 01:33:14,400
Speaker 1: a sudden, it's a home run. It's a financial home

1908
01:33:14,479 --> 01:33:17,160
Speaker 1: run for everybody involved. So they may have sold him

1909
01:33:17,200 --> 01:33:19,840
Speaker 1: on that. Maybe that's what the pot at the end

1910
01:33:19,840 --> 01:33:21,800
Speaker 1: of this rain two hundred fifty million dollars rainbow is

1911
01:33:21,880 --> 01:33:23,479
Speaker 1: for him. That's a lot it is. It is a

1912
01:33:23,560 --> 01:33:25,160
Speaker 1: lot of monchs alarming. We got a break here. When

1913
01:33:25,200 --> 01:33:27,320
Speaker 1: we come back, go to talk some Dolphins football. We

1914
01:33:27,400 --> 01:33:29,880
Speaker 1: know how much we all love the Dolphins. Right, We're

1915
01:33:29,920 --> 01:33:33,640
Speaker 1: gonna talk about Miami's issues this offseason with Armando Salgaro

1916
01:33:33,760 --> 01:33:35,880
Speaker 1: of the Miami Herald. That's coming up next. Come on back.

1917
01:33:36,080 --> 01:33:38,960
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Collata Health. I'm Buffalo Bill's

1918
01:33:38,960 --> 01:33:56,280
Speaker 1: Reading Hills Radio Network Stories update update from One Bill's Drive.

1919
01:33:56,360 --> 01:33:58,720
Speaker 1: Former Bills tight end Charles Clay, just released by the

1920
01:33:58,760 --> 01:34:01,320
Speaker 1: team last Friday, has found a new home in the NFL.

1921
01:34:01,400 --> 01:34:04,280
Speaker 1: The report from ESPN's Adam Schefter, Clay's going to sign

1922
01:34:04,320 --> 01:34:06,599
Speaker 1: a one year deal with the Arizona Cardinals, a contract

1923
01:34:06,640 --> 01:34:09,240
Speaker 1: worth up to three point two five million dollars and

1924
01:34:09,280 --> 01:34:12,240
Speaker 1: includes a three to fifty thousand dollars signing bonus. Clay

1925
01:34:12,320 --> 01:34:14,640
Speaker 1: was headed into the last year of his five year

1926
01:34:14,720 --> 01:34:17,160
Speaker 1: deal with the Buffalo Bills, and the Bills elected to

1927
01:34:17,280 --> 01:34:19,760
Speaker 1: part ways with him last Friday after a season in

1928
01:34:19,840 --> 01:34:22,680
Speaker 1: which he suffered several injuries and didn't get much practice time.

1929
01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:26,439
Speaker 1: Charles Clay ready to sign on with the Arizona Cardinals

1930
01:34:26,479 --> 01:34:29,320
Speaker 1: a one year deal. Antonio Brown ready to move on

1931
01:34:29,400 --> 01:34:32,120
Speaker 1: from the Pittsburgh Steelers. The All Pro wide receiver met

1932
01:34:32,160 --> 01:34:35,240
Speaker 1: with Steelers President Art Rooney the second earlier today. They

1933
01:34:35,280 --> 01:34:38,160
Speaker 1: had a good meeting, both side says. Both side say

1934
01:34:38,439 --> 01:34:41,519
Speaker 1: it was a cordial meeting and everyone agreed the trade

1935
01:34:41,680 --> 01:34:43,800
Speaker 1: of Antonio Brown will be for the best. So the

1936
01:34:43,840 --> 01:34:47,000
Speaker 1: Steelers agree with Antonio Brown that he should be traded.

1937
01:34:47,320 --> 01:34:50,080
Speaker 1: Also at the meeting, Brown's agent Drew Rosenhouse and Steelers

1938
01:34:50,360 --> 01:34:54,240
Speaker 1: general manager Kevin Colbert. Brown first requested a trade in January.

1939
01:34:54,560 --> 01:34:57,280
Speaker 1: He said today's meeting they cleared the air on several issues.

1940
01:34:57,600 --> 01:35:00,240
Speaker 1: He's been campaigning for a trade hard for the last

1941
01:35:00,280 --> 01:35:03,920
Speaker 1: few weeks. Buffalo Sabers announced today that after further evaluation,

1942
01:35:04,240 --> 01:35:07,960
Speaker 1: forward Kylocoso has been diagnosed with the concussion. He is

1943
01:35:08,000 --> 01:35:11,400
Speaker 1: out indefinitely. Our Cooso got hurt last Friday in a

1944
01:35:11,479 --> 01:35:14,120
Speaker 1: game in Buffalo did not play in the game in

1945
01:35:14,280 --> 01:35:17,320
Speaker 1: New Jersey. Savers road trip continues tonight when they take

1946
01:35:17,400 --> 01:35:20,320
Speaker 1: on the Panthers in Florida seven o'clock, face up Buffalo,

1947
01:35:20,439 --> 01:35:23,240
Speaker 1: looking for at first win at Florida since November of

1948
01:35:23,280 --> 01:35:27,400
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. You beat Basketball Bulls in action tonight. Coming

1949
01:35:27,439 --> 01:35:30,360
Speaker 1: off a two games road sweep and Akron and Toledo,

1950
01:35:30,640 --> 01:35:33,599
Speaker 1: the Bulls now open a three game homestand the longest

1951
01:35:33,880 --> 01:35:37,120
Speaker 1: homestand they'll play this season. They host Ohio University tonight

1952
01:35:37,360 --> 01:35:40,360
Speaker 1: at seven o'clock Buffalo. With twenty two wins three losses,

1953
01:35:40,400 --> 01:35:43,479
Speaker 1: they are twenty fifth ranked in the country. Still and

1954
01:35:43,680 --> 01:35:46,639
Speaker 1: the ub Bulls enter a three game homestand with twenty

1955
01:35:46,680 --> 01:35:48,920
Speaker 1: two straight wins at Alumni Arena, tied for the third

1956
01:35:49,000 --> 01:35:53,280
Speaker 1: longest home winning street in college basketball. And that's the

1957
01:35:53,360 --> 01:35:56,040
Speaker 1: update from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy's Steve Tasker third

1958
01:35:56,080 --> 01:35:57,920
Speaker 1: and final hour of the show, We Keep an Eye

1959
01:35:57,920 --> 01:35:59,519
Speaker 1: in the Bills here. Obviously, we try to keep an

1960
01:35:59,560 --> 01:36:01,760
Speaker 1: eye on the rest of the AFC East, and one

1961
01:36:01,800 --> 01:36:05,120
Speaker 1: of the fascinating stories is underway in Miami where the

1962
01:36:05,160 --> 01:36:07,400
Speaker 1: Dolphins have a new coach and looks like they're gonna

1963
01:36:07,400 --> 01:36:09,200
Speaker 1: have a lot of new players. Joining us on the

1964
01:36:09,240 --> 01:36:11,360
Speaker 1: subway Fresh take countline to talk about it. One of

1965
01:36:11,400 --> 01:36:13,920
Speaker 1: our favorite guest Dolphins reporter for the Miami Herald, Pro

1966
01:36:14,040 --> 01:36:16,000
Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame voter. He's covered in Miami in

1967
01:36:16,000 --> 01:36:19,600
Speaker 1: the NFL since nineteen ninety. Happy to have Armando Salgarow

1968
01:36:19,680 --> 01:36:21,400
Speaker 1: on the line with us. Armando, John Murphy, and Steve

1969
01:36:21,479 --> 01:36:23,040
Speaker 1: up here in Buffalo. Thanks for coming on with us.

1970
01:36:23,680 --> 01:36:26,120
Speaker 1: I'm glad to know that you guys think I'm one

1971
01:36:26,200 --> 01:36:29,479
Speaker 1: of your favorite guests. You absolutely are. I mean, it's

1972
01:36:29,479 --> 01:36:34,400
Speaker 1: a long list, Armando, don't know. That was my next question.

1973
01:36:34,560 --> 01:36:36,679
Speaker 1: What does it take to be in the top five

1974
01:36:36,880 --> 01:36:40,360
Speaker 1: favorite guests? Oh, it has takes. You have to be

1975
01:36:40,439 --> 01:36:43,840
Speaker 1: in the AFC East. Yeah, yeah, so you're on the

1976
01:36:43,960 --> 01:36:46,040
Speaker 1: right track. We like your takes. We like your takes

1977
01:36:46,080 --> 01:36:48,639
Speaker 1: on the Dolphins that you know why. And I'm gonna

1978
01:36:48,680 --> 01:36:50,960
Speaker 1: speak for Steve here because I never get the sense

1979
01:36:51,000 --> 01:36:54,080
Speaker 1: that you'd take the Dolphins very seriously, at least not recently,

1980
01:36:54,320 --> 01:36:56,640
Speaker 1: in terms of how good they are, how good they

1981
01:36:56,760 --> 01:36:59,719
Speaker 1: might be. Is that is that accurate to say that, Armando, Well,

1982
01:36:59,800 --> 01:37:04,360
Speaker 1: I take the facts of what I've seen seriously, and

1983
01:37:04,720 --> 01:37:08,240
Speaker 1: therefore it's hard to take what the team is doing

1984
01:37:08,400 --> 01:37:13,760
Speaker 1: sometimes seriously. You got to understand, the Miami Dolphins were

1985
01:37:13,880 --> 01:37:17,240
Speaker 1: one Charles Clay catch away from getting swept by the

1986
01:37:17,280 --> 01:37:22,800
Speaker 1: Buffalo bill and so that is not how it was

1987
01:37:22,880 --> 01:37:25,960
Speaker 1: supposed to go for the Miami Dolphins in twenty eighteen,

1988
01:37:26,560 --> 01:37:29,240
Speaker 1: and obviously that's one of the reasons that they're going

1989
01:37:29,320 --> 01:37:32,920
Speaker 1: in a totally different direction for twenty nineteens. Talk a

1990
01:37:32,920 --> 01:37:35,120
Speaker 1: little bit about that direction. You've got Brian Flores. What

1991
01:37:35,200 --> 01:37:39,360
Speaker 1: are the early returns on the former Patriots defensive coordinator

1992
01:37:39,439 --> 01:37:41,400
Speaker 1: and what he's been doing in his first few weeks

1993
01:37:41,439 --> 01:37:46,000
Speaker 1: on the job, right, So, you know, Steve, one of

1994
01:37:46,080 --> 01:37:49,320
Speaker 1: the things that make good head coaches is they have

1995
01:37:49,439 --> 01:37:52,799
Speaker 1: to have leadership. They have to be able to command

1996
01:37:52,880 --> 01:37:55,400
Speaker 1: a room, they have to get players to buy in,

1997
01:37:56,320 --> 01:38:01,120
Speaker 1: they have to be able to somehow convince other people

1998
01:38:01,200 --> 01:38:04,760
Speaker 1: to come along with their plan. And based off of

1999
01:38:04,840 --> 01:38:08,559
Speaker 1: what I've seen and again, is the early result he's

2000
01:38:08,600 --> 01:38:13,639
Speaker 1: got those things. But one of the formulas for being

2001
01:38:13,680 --> 01:38:17,439
Speaker 1: a great head coaches you need great players. And if

2002
01:38:17,520 --> 01:38:20,800
Speaker 1: you don't have great players, you're never gonna be a

2003
01:38:20,880 --> 01:38:23,479
Speaker 1: great head coach. You look at the Hall you guys

2004
01:38:23,520 --> 01:38:27,960
Speaker 1: mentioned how I'm on the Hall of Fame selector committee.

2005
01:38:28,000 --> 01:38:31,040
Speaker 1: You look at the coaches in the Hall of Fame.

2006
01:38:31,880 --> 01:38:36,040
Speaker 1: Guess what they had Hall of Fame players playing for them.

2007
01:38:36,920 --> 01:38:40,439
Speaker 1: They didn't get there with middling, middle of the pack

2008
01:38:41,600 --> 01:38:45,960
Speaker 1: players doing things for them. They got there with true

2009
01:38:46,920 --> 01:38:51,400
Speaker 1: Hall of famers. And the Miami Dolphins they've been sorely

2010
01:38:51,520 --> 01:38:54,200
Speaker 1: lacking in that department for years and years and I

2011
01:38:54,280 --> 01:38:58,000
Speaker 1: don't see that changing based off of the roster that

2012
01:38:58,040 --> 01:39:01,000
Speaker 1: I've seen the last couple of years. So he's got

2013
01:39:01,040 --> 01:39:04,320
Speaker 1: a lot of work to do and it all depends

2014
01:39:04,400 --> 01:39:08,439
Speaker 1: on how much quality he gets on the roster as

2015
01:39:08,520 --> 01:39:11,040
Speaker 1: to whether he'll succeed or not. Imander, what do you

2016
01:39:11,120 --> 01:39:14,519
Speaker 1: think it is in Brian Flora's background that leads the

2017
01:39:14,640 --> 01:39:17,639
Speaker 1: Dolphin decision makers to think that he is their guy?

2018
01:39:17,720 --> 01:39:20,840
Speaker 1: He's what thirty six years old? Is that it? Yeah,

2019
01:39:20,960 --> 01:39:24,600
Speaker 1: he's I think he's thirty seven, which, of course, you

2020
01:39:24,680 --> 01:39:30,440
Speaker 1: know that changes everything from thirty six. But so obviously

2021
01:39:30,520 --> 01:39:33,639
Speaker 1: he comes from a winning program. He's been fifteen years

2022
01:39:33,720 --> 01:39:35,760
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and each one of those he's worked

2023
01:39:35,800 --> 01:39:38,080
Speaker 1: for the New England Patriots. And as you know, the

2024
01:39:38,200 --> 01:39:42,160
Speaker 1: New England Patriots have won more AFC East titles than

2025
01:39:42,320 --> 01:39:47,599
Speaker 1: God the last you know, fifteen eighteen years and he's

2026
01:39:47,640 --> 01:39:54,080
Speaker 1: been part of that. And interestingly enough, he has shown

2027
01:39:54,320 --> 01:39:58,320
Speaker 1: from what I've heard and what I've gathered talking to

2028
01:39:58,439 --> 01:40:02,719
Speaker 1: people within the Patriots oranization, he has shown an ability

2029
01:40:02,800 --> 01:40:06,519
Speaker 1: to get players to buy in and do things his

2030
01:40:06,720 --> 01:40:09,759
Speaker 1: way and you know, learn what he's teaching and apply

2031
01:40:09,920 --> 01:40:14,200
Speaker 1: those things on the field. So those are good things.

2032
01:40:14,400 --> 01:40:19,200
Speaker 1: It surely beats, you know, hiring a coach from a

2033
01:40:19,360 --> 01:40:22,120
Speaker 1: losing program. The Dolphins didn't want to do that. They

2034
01:40:22,160 --> 01:40:25,080
Speaker 1: didn't want to do the retread coach and go that

2035
01:40:25,280 --> 01:40:30,719
Speaker 1: route because by definition, a retread coach is a coach

2036
01:40:30,840 --> 01:40:35,120
Speaker 1: that has failed before. So that's what they're thinking, was

2037
01:40:35,640 --> 01:40:42,400
Speaker 1: do I totally buy into it? Guys, Brian Flores could

2038
01:40:42,520 --> 01:40:47,040
Speaker 1: be a great coach and we'll never find out, because,

2039
01:40:48,720 --> 01:40:51,800
Speaker 1: you know, it's about the quarterback. The Dolphins don't have one.

2040
01:40:52,640 --> 01:40:55,640
Speaker 1: It's about the talent. The Dolphins are breast of a

2041
01:40:55,720 --> 01:40:59,080
Speaker 1: lot of talent, and they're probably gonna jettison some that

2042
01:40:59,200 --> 01:41:05,120
Speaker 1: they already had. It's a rebuild job, and most coaches

2043
01:41:05,240 --> 01:41:09,840
Speaker 1: that enter a rebuild job many don't survive. Yeah, you're

2044
01:41:09,880 --> 01:41:11,920
Speaker 1: exactly right, Armando, And one of the things I want

2045
01:41:11,920 --> 01:41:14,200
Speaker 1: to ask you about was one of the you got

2046
01:41:14,320 --> 01:41:17,000
Speaker 1: to have other sailors on your ship before it sinks.

2047
01:41:17,000 --> 01:41:21,320
Speaker 1: And he brought in Reggie McKenzie to help evaluate talent.

2048
01:41:21,439 --> 01:41:24,679
Speaker 1: And also Jim Caldwell, former head coach in the league,

2049
01:41:25,479 --> 01:41:27,439
Speaker 1: took the Colts to the Super Bowl and then was

2050
01:41:27,479 --> 01:41:29,720
Speaker 1: a head coach of the Detroit Lions as well. What

2051
01:41:29,840 --> 01:41:31,280
Speaker 1: are some of the other members of his staff. I

2052
01:41:31,400 --> 01:41:34,599
Speaker 1: know Danny Croftsman is a special teams coach. What has

2053
01:41:34,720 --> 01:41:38,479
Speaker 1: been the opinion around Miami about his staff and how

2054
01:41:38,520 --> 01:41:43,120
Speaker 1: he's putting it together? Well. Also, you forgot to mention

2055
01:41:43,240 --> 01:41:45,720
Speaker 1: Marvin Allen, who was working for the Bills as well

2056
01:41:45,840 --> 01:41:48,040
Speaker 1: in the personnel department. I think that was a good

2057
01:41:48,160 --> 01:41:54,479
Speaker 1: hire as well. Marvin has a lot of experience both

2058
01:41:54,520 --> 01:41:58,200
Speaker 1: at Kansas City and Atlanta, and so that's a good

2059
01:41:58,320 --> 01:42:02,639
Speaker 1: hire for them. I have a problem with the following.

2060
01:42:03,080 --> 01:42:06,840
Speaker 1: Brian Flores is the first time head coach, and he

2061
01:42:07,080 --> 01:42:12,400
Speaker 1: is going to have a first time defensive coordinator in

2062
01:42:12,520 --> 01:42:16,920
Speaker 1: Patrick Graham and a first time offensive coordinator as well.

2063
01:42:17,600 --> 01:42:20,240
Speaker 1: And while both of those guys come in from the

2064
01:42:21,000 --> 01:42:23,559
Speaker 1: you know, the Patriot way, so to speak, and they've

2065
01:42:23,640 --> 01:42:27,519
Speaker 1: had they've been trained up in the Patriot way, there's

2066
01:42:27,880 --> 01:42:33,040
Speaker 1: there's no h there's no substitute for experience. And what

2067
01:42:33,240 --> 01:42:36,800
Speaker 1: you have with those three guys, the head coach, the

2068
01:42:36,960 --> 01:42:41,479
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, and the offensive coordinator is first time guy

2069
01:42:42,040 --> 01:42:45,880
Speaker 1: and that's you know that. It doesn't make you think

2070
01:42:45,920 --> 01:42:49,759
Speaker 1: that it's going to be a failure, but it poses

2071
01:42:49,800 --> 01:42:54,240
Speaker 1: a question. I got a question, Romando, what is it

2072
01:42:54,560 --> 01:42:58,559
Speaker 1: what constitutes the Patriot Way? Other than the greatest quarterback

2073
01:42:58,600 --> 01:43:00,479
Speaker 1: in league history and one of the great top two

2074
01:43:00,560 --> 01:43:03,599
Speaker 1: or three coaches in NFL history, Isn't that the Patriot Way?

2075
01:43:04,400 --> 01:43:07,240
Speaker 1: That's a great question. I think it goes beyond that.

2076
01:43:07,479 --> 01:43:11,320
Speaker 1: And definitely those are the that's the first rung of

2077
01:43:11,400 --> 01:43:13,400
Speaker 1: the ladder and the second rung of the ladder. And

2078
01:43:13,520 --> 01:43:15,240
Speaker 1: by the way, both of those guys will be in

2079
01:43:15,280 --> 01:43:20,240
Speaker 1: the all of the game obviously, yeah, together, but it

2080
01:43:20,400 --> 01:43:25,840
Speaker 1: also means you go with smart players, you go with

2081
01:43:26,040 --> 01:43:30,040
Speaker 1: players who can from week to week do different things.

2082
01:43:30,800 --> 01:43:34,479
Speaker 1: The NFL is too multiple now and on offense and

2083
01:43:34,680 --> 01:43:37,360
Speaker 1: defense to whereas if you're asking your players to do

2084
01:43:37,479 --> 01:43:40,640
Speaker 1: the same thing every week, and you come with the

2085
01:43:40,760 --> 01:43:44,160
Speaker 1: attitude of we're gonna do what we do no matter what,

2086
01:43:44,760 --> 01:43:47,200
Speaker 1: and we'll just do that one thing really well so

2087
01:43:47,360 --> 01:43:50,439
Speaker 1: that no one can stop us. People will stop you.

2088
01:43:51,200 --> 01:43:57,080
Speaker 1: And so what the Dolphins are hoping is that they

2089
01:43:57,160 --> 01:44:00,800
Speaker 1: can sort of copy what the Patriots do, where one

2090
01:44:00,840 --> 01:44:03,840
Speaker 1: week they're running the ball a lot, one week they're

2091
01:44:03,880 --> 01:44:06,640
Speaker 1: passing the ball a lot, one week they're playing the

2092
01:44:06,680 --> 01:44:11,120
Speaker 1: four three, one week they're you know, they're in nickel.

2093
01:44:11,280 --> 01:44:14,160
Speaker 1: One week they spend most of the time in a

2094
01:44:14,280 --> 01:44:18,599
Speaker 1: three four, or they switch up in games and they

2095
01:44:18,720 --> 01:44:26,040
Speaker 1: take away segments of the opponent's strength so that the

2096
01:44:26,120 --> 01:44:29,560
Speaker 1: opponent will have to beat them with something else. It

2097
01:44:29,720 --> 01:44:33,360
Speaker 1: takes smart players to do that. The Dolphins have been

2098
01:44:33,560 --> 01:44:36,519
Speaker 1: on the back end of the most penalized team in

2099
01:44:36,560 --> 01:44:43,360
Speaker 1: the NFL category for a while. That speaks to discipline intelligence.

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01:44:44,280 --> 01:44:46,720
Speaker 1: I think they want to clean that up a little bit.

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01:44:47,400 --> 01:44:50,400
Speaker 1: What are the what is the you know, in general terms,

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01:44:50,439 --> 01:44:53,400
Speaker 1: I guess what is the plan for rebuilding the Miami Dolphins.

2103
01:44:53,439 --> 01:44:56,160
Speaker 1: There's no question that you're right. It does seem to

2104
01:44:56,240 --> 01:44:58,320
Speaker 1: be from up here in Buffalo, seems like they're in

2105
01:44:58,360 --> 01:45:03,320
Speaker 1: total rebuild mode. What's their first step. The first step is,

2106
01:45:04,400 --> 01:45:09,559
Speaker 1: you know, they're gonna suck for a while. They're gonna

2107
01:45:09,680 --> 01:45:13,599
Speaker 1: they're gonna think for a while, and like I said before,

2108
01:45:13,640 --> 01:45:16,400
Speaker 1: they're gonna probably get rid of some guys that are

2109
01:45:16,680 --> 01:45:21,240
Speaker 1: solid players so that in twenty twenty when the draft

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01:45:21,320 --> 01:45:23,400
Speaker 1: comes around, they've got a good draft pick. And I'm

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01:45:23,760 --> 01:45:26,920
Speaker 1: you know, I've kind of jabbed them a little bit

2112
01:45:27,040 --> 01:45:29,719
Speaker 1: calling it a tank. They don't call it a tank.

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01:45:30,000 --> 01:45:32,840
Speaker 1: They're gonna go more organic than that. But at the

2114
01:45:32,920 --> 01:45:36,360
Speaker 1: same time, let's call it what it is. They're they're

2115
01:45:36,400 --> 01:45:38,800
Speaker 1: not gonna go all out to win this year. And

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01:45:38,920 --> 01:45:41,320
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, the owner, Stephen Ross, said

2117
01:45:41,360 --> 01:45:43,559
Speaker 1: that one of the reasons that they fired Adam Gates,

2118
01:45:43,600 --> 01:45:46,840
Speaker 1: the head coach, was, and I kid you not, he

2119
01:45:46,960 --> 01:45:49,639
Speaker 1: said this out of his mouth. He wants to win

2120
01:45:50,720 --> 01:45:56,320
Speaker 1: and so, uh yeah, yeah, it's one of the reasons

2121
01:45:56,360 --> 01:45:58,479
Speaker 1: you're firing your head coaches because he wants to win.

2122
01:46:00,040 --> 01:46:03,040
Speaker 1: What does that tell me about you? Yeah, who makes

2123
01:46:03,080 --> 01:46:06,160
Speaker 1: the calls for the Dolphins, Armando, is it Chris Greer.

2124
01:46:06,680 --> 01:46:09,280
Speaker 1: Tannenbaum's still there, but he's out of football, right It

2125
01:46:10,120 --> 01:46:13,360
Speaker 1: is it Reggie McKenzie who's making the ultimate football decisions.

2126
01:46:13,600 --> 01:46:16,680
Speaker 1: Chris Greer is the general manager and actually the guy

2127
01:46:16,800 --> 01:46:21,439
Speaker 1: that's running the showy Brian Flores answers to him, and

2128
01:46:21,680 --> 01:46:25,800
Speaker 1: he answers only to the owner, Stephen Ross. So he's

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01:46:25,840 --> 01:46:27,960
Speaker 1: the guy in charge from top to bottom. Well, that's

2130
01:46:27,960 --> 01:46:30,400
Speaker 1: not a huge change, Rain, I mean, Greer's been down there,

2131
01:46:30,479 --> 01:46:34,960
Speaker 1: what a little while several years at least huh twenty years. Yeah,

2132
01:46:37,040 --> 01:46:39,759
Speaker 1: So the narrative is he's been here for twenty years,

2133
01:46:39,880 --> 01:46:42,280
Speaker 1: but he hasn't been in charge for twenty years. And

2134
01:46:42,479 --> 01:46:44,880
Speaker 1: even the last three years when he's been the general manager,

2135
01:46:45,040 --> 01:46:48,080
Speaker 1: he wasn't in charge all the way. Then Adam Gaze

2136
01:46:48,200 --> 01:46:51,800
Speaker 1: had control over the fifty three man roster. So what

2137
01:46:51,920 --> 01:46:53,880
Speaker 1: I would say to you is, Chris Greer gets a

2138
01:46:54,000 --> 01:46:59,240
Speaker 1: chance to be like King Greer. He is wearing the

2139
01:46:59,320 --> 01:47:01,800
Speaker 1: crown right now now, and we'll see what he does

2140
01:47:01,960 --> 01:47:05,840
Speaker 1: and what does he need to get from McKenzie. Well,

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01:47:06,080 --> 01:47:09,599
Speaker 1: I mean, Reggie mackenzie's got some you know, he's got

2142
01:47:09,640 --> 01:47:12,000
Speaker 1: some pelts on the wall. He's got some skins on

2143
01:47:12,080 --> 01:47:14,840
Speaker 1: the wall. He's been through seven drafts, he's done this,

2144
01:47:15,120 --> 01:47:18,840
Speaker 1: he's been there. So I'm hoping, and I assume that

2145
01:47:18,920 --> 01:47:22,240
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are hoping, that he's gonna help and lend

2146
01:47:22,360 --> 01:47:26,960
Speaker 1: experience and offer a fresh set of eyes. Mackenzie was

2147
01:47:27,640 --> 01:47:32,080
Speaker 1: pretty good with the Green Bay Packers and getting that

2148
01:47:32,240 --> 01:47:35,559
Speaker 1: team back to sort of elite status in the mid nineties.

2149
01:47:36,120 --> 01:47:40,280
Speaker 1: So whatever he did, then do that. Yeah, we've gone

2150
01:47:40,320 --> 01:47:42,320
Speaker 1: this far into the interview and not asked you yet

2151
01:47:42,360 --> 01:47:46,360
Speaker 1: about the future of the Dolphins quarterback positioned. If you're gone,

2152
01:47:47,520 --> 01:47:49,720
Speaker 1: all right, but who's gonna play? Who would line up

2153
01:47:49,760 --> 01:47:53,240
Speaker 1: and play for them in September? You got any suggestions?

2154
01:47:53,960 --> 01:47:56,160
Speaker 1: Well that you know, we're approaching the time of year

2155
01:47:56,200 --> 01:47:58,000
Speaker 1: where the Dolphins have to make a decision here right

2156
01:48:00,200 --> 01:48:04,400
Speaker 1: right next month, and really, if you talk to them,

2157
01:48:04,520 --> 01:48:07,160
Speaker 1: they don't really have to make a decision for a while.

2158
01:48:10,080 --> 01:48:13,040
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting when you see free agency start

2159
01:48:13,200 --> 01:48:16,720
Speaker 1: and then onto the draft how the Dolphins handle that.

2160
01:48:17,640 --> 01:48:20,759
Speaker 1: If they're being typical Dolphins and trying to be aggressive

2161
01:48:20,840 --> 01:48:23,559
Speaker 1: and this and that, then you'll know that nothing's changed.

2162
01:48:23,680 --> 01:48:26,200
Speaker 1: But when you see that they don't bring in any

2163
01:48:26,320 --> 01:48:32,479
Speaker 1: high price players that they don't that in the draft

2164
01:48:33,040 --> 01:48:35,519
Speaker 1: needing a quarterback, they may or may not take one

2165
01:48:35,560 --> 01:48:38,559
Speaker 1: in the first round. Now you'll know that the tank

2166
01:48:38,720 --> 01:48:41,320
Speaker 1: is on. Now if they go and they pick a

2167
01:48:41,439 --> 01:48:45,600
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray or something like that, that's gonna be a

2168
01:48:45,640 --> 01:48:49,639
Speaker 1: little wacky. But from what I've been told, the idea

2169
01:48:49,880 --> 01:48:55,560
Speaker 1: is twenty twenty. Tuah, he's gonna be available, and you

2170
01:48:55,720 --> 01:48:58,160
Speaker 1: got to be in a spot to whereas he's gonna

2171
01:48:58,439 --> 01:49:00,840
Speaker 1: be available to you, and that's going to be in

2172
01:49:00,880 --> 01:49:03,840
Speaker 1: the top five. So and to do that, you have

2173
01:49:04,000 --> 01:49:07,280
Speaker 1: to have a pretty bad record to get there. Can

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01:49:07,400 --> 01:49:10,200
Speaker 1: you point Armando and you you've talked about how you

2175
01:49:10,280 --> 01:49:13,400
Speaker 1: are openly talking about a Miami Dolphins tank. As a

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01:49:13,520 --> 01:49:16,599
Speaker 1: tank ever been successful in the NFL? Can you point

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01:49:16,640 --> 01:49:18,320
Speaker 1: to an instance where it really worked for a team.

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01:49:19,000 --> 01:49:23,600
Speaker 1: I really can't, nor can I. I mean, the the

2179
01:49:23,720 --> 01:49:28,160
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts did it organically in that you know, Peyton

2180
01:49:28,200 --> 01:49:32,720
Speaker 1: Manning got hurt, hurt, and then um what happened was

2181
01:49:35,200 --> 01:49:38,599
Speaker 1: just in time for Andrew luck, right, So that worked

2182
01:49:38,680 --> 01:49:42,000
Speaker 1: for them. But other than that, I don't remember that

2183
01:49:42,080 --> 01:49:45,600
Speaker 1: at all. Yeah, Well, it sounds like Miami's in for

2184
01:49:45,680 --> 01:49:48,840
Speaker 1: a rough another eighteen months, but and we'll try and

2185
01:49:49,200 --> 01:49:52,240
Speaker 1: you know, keep our sympathies to a minimum. Can I

2186
01:49:52,560 --> 01:49:55,120
Speaker 1: say this, And I'm going to come off sound like

2187
01:49:55,160 --> 01:49:58,240
Speaker 1: a sanctimonious a jerk here, but for the sake of

2188
01:49:58,320 --> 01:50:01,479
Speaker 1: the game, I hope that that tank fails miserably. I

2189
01:50:01,600 --> 01:50:03,839
Speaker 1: do not want to see that happen in the NFL.

2190
01:50:04,360 --> 01:50:07,360
Speaker 1: Do I sound like a sanctimonist? What do you think

2191
01:50:07,400 --> 01:50:09,040
Speaker 1: our mother? You know what I mean? I don't want

2192
01:50:09,040 --> 01:50:12,920
Speaker 1: to see a tank be successful. The idea is always look,

2193
01:50:13,280 --> 01:50:15,680
Speaker 1: tank is something that people do when they don't have

2194
01:50:15,800 --> 01:50:19,920
Speaker 1: a philosophy and they don't have things that believe work

2195
01:50:20,200 --> 01:50:22,760
Speaker 1: year after year after year. Tank is a is a

2196
01:50:23,280 --> 01:50:26,800
Speaker 1: hail Mary. And that's what we're seeing. Yeah. Well, one

2197
01:50:26,880 --> 01:50:28,600
Speaker 1: other thing, one other topic I want to bring up

2198
01:50:28,640 --> 01:50:30,800
Speaker 1: to you, and it came across our desk this morning.

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01:50:30,880 --> 01:50:33,559
Speaker 1: As as the AAF is in its second week of play,

2200
01:50:33,600 --> 01:50:38,360
Speaker 1: they got a little well bailed out by Tom Tom Dundon,

2201
01:50:38,840 --> 01:50:41,240
Speaker 1: who invested two nd fifty million dollars in the AAF.

2202
01:50:41,439 --> 01:50:44,080
Speaker 1: Just when we up here thought the AAF was pretty

2203
01:50:44,120 --> 01:50:47,479
Speaker 1: competitive and fun to watch, it seems like they're struggling

2204
01:50:47,520 --> 01:50:49,560
Speaker 1: to make It's what's your take on the AF and

2205
01:50:49,600 --> 01:50:54,480
Speaker 1: the situation they're in. I hope that they succeed. Obviously

2206
01:50:54,600 --> 01:50:59,360
Speaker 1: it's not the quality that we're expecting from from Sundays

2207
01:50:59,360 --> 01:51:04,360
Speaker 1: in the NFL. But I mean, there's nothing wrong with

2208
01:51:04,520 --> 01:51:08,000
Speaker 1: minor leagues. Minor leagues are fun, Minor leagues are cool.

2209
01:51:08,840 --> 01:51:13,920
Speaker 1: But I don't know that. I don't know that it's

2210
01:51:13,960 --> 01:51:17,200
Speaker 1: gonna be a thing. We'll see. Yeah, there was a

2211
01:51:17,280 --> 01:51:19,559
Speaker 1: lot of It does seem The only thing I could

2212
01:51:19,600 --> 01:51:22,120
Speaker 1: say is that it's been competitive. The games been fun

2213
01:51:22,200 --> 01:51:26,479
Speaker 1: to watch. You can tell that there is something missing

2214
01:51:26,760 --> 01:51:29,200
Speaker 1: from the guys who are wearing those uniforms. There's just

2215
01:51:29,479 --> 01:51:34,280
Speaker 1: not the same level of ability. But it is competitive

2216
01:51:34,400 --> 01:51:37,960
Speaker 1: and it does seem to be getting people to watch

2217
01:51:38,080 --> 01:51:40,559
Speaker 1: it on whatever form they can find it in, mostly

2218
01:51:41,400 --> 01:51:45,400
Speaker 1: cable television. But it does seem competitive. But how what

2219
01:51:45,560 --> 01:51:48,320
Speaker 1: kind of percentage of these guys do you think will

2220
01:51:48,400 --> 01:51:50,679
Speaker 1: end up getting a chance to be in an NFL

2221
01:51:50,760 --> 01:51:54,760
Speaker 1: training camp. Well, Kurt Warner played in NFL Europe and

2222
01:51:55,040 --> 01:52:00,120
Speaker 1: in the minor league, so there will be stories. There

2223
01:52:00,120 --> 01:52:03,040
Speaker 1: will be guys. I don't know who those are right now,

2224
01:52:03,320 --> 01:52:05,599
Speaker 1: but there will be a guy or two or three

2225
01:52:05,680 --> 01:52:07,800
Speaker 1: that will come out and the story will be great night,

2226
01:52:08,080 --> 01:52:11,840
Speaker 1: and I'm rooting for him. I really am too. Thank

2227
01:52:11,880 --> 01:52:13,720
Speaker 1: you very much, it's great talking to You're moving up

2228
01:52:13,760 --> 01:52:18,839
Speaker 1: the rankings with every all right, well thanks. Armando Sargero,

2229
01:52:18,960 --> 01:52:21,479
Speaker 1: Dolphins reporter for the Miami Harold joining us on the

2230
01:52:21,479 --> 01:52:25,120
Speaker 1: Subway Fresh Take hotline, presented by subway restaurants, probably locally

2231
01:52:25,160 --> 01:52:28,000
Speaker 1: owned and operated. He says it's a tank. Others have

2232
01:52:28,120 --> 01:52:30,760
Speaker 1: said that too. Armando has looked at what they're doing,

2233
01:52:30,880 --> 01:52:33,280
Speaker 1: he said, and this is critical. I think he says,

2234
01:52:33,360 --> 01:52:35,479
Speaker 1: you'll know for sure whether it's a tank when you

2235
01:52:35,560 --> 01:52:39,320
Speaker 1: see who they wind up signing in free agency at quarterback.

2236
01:52:39,400 --> 01:52:41,840
Speaker 1: Maybe it's somebody, maybe it's it's said nobody, in which

2237
01:52:41,880 --> 01:52:43,800
Speaker 1: case it's a tank. And I really mean it. I

2238
01:52:43,960 --> 01:52:46,559
Speaker 1: if they are going to take that path, I hope

2239
01:52:46,560 --> 01:52:49,840
Speaker 1: they fail miserably and are bad for decades to come

2240
01:52:49,880 --> 01:52:53,839
Speaker 1: after that. I don't think there's I get the Colts example,

2241
01:52:54,160 --> 01:52:56,599
Speaker 1: the Colts had Peyton Manning hurt, so they were awful.

2242
01:52:56,640 --> 01:52:58,759
Speaker 1: They were terrible. I don't think they were deliberately losing

2243
01:52:58,840 --> 01:53:01,800
Speaker 1: to get Andrew Luck, but there were accusations of that

2244
01:53:01,920 --> 01:53:04,519
Speaker 1: back then. I just hope they are miserable for decades

2245
01:53:04,560 --> 01:53:06,840
Speaker 1: to come if they in fact deliberately try to lose

2246
01:53:06,880 --> 01:53:10,000
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Yeah, and I it's it's not like

2247
01:53:10,160 --> 01:53:12,559
Speaker 1: you said, I've never heard of it working in this sport.

2248
01:53:13,520 --> 01:53:16,160
Speaker 1: And it's telling that he said it came out of

2249
01:53:16,160 --> 01:53:18,040
Speaker 1: the owner's mouth that they got rid of Adam Gates

2250
01:53:18,040 --> 01:53:20,720
Speaker 1: because he wanted to win. You can't have that around here.

2251
01:53:20,800 --> 01:53:23,880
Speaker 1: Let's get rid of that guy. Yeah, it believes he's speechless. Yeah,

2252
01:53:24,439 --> 01:53:33,400
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Yeah, you can't. You can't compare,

2253
01:53:33,920 --> 01:53:36,840
Speaker 1: particularly at the highest levels. You cannot compare having a

2254
01:53:37,000 --> 01:53:40,400
Speaker 1: team in one sport like hockey. And you've got instances

2255
01:53:40,439 --> 01:53:43,200
Speaker 1: where it's worked in hockey, where they've been they've stunk

2256
01:53:43,280 --> 01:53:45,360
Speaker 1: for a couple of years, come back and then ran

2257
01:53:45,720 --> 01:53:49,639
Speaker 1: a really good string for eight ten years. Let's Chicago Blackhawks,

2258
01:53:49,680 --> 01:53:54,200
Speaker 1: for instance. It's you can't compare that to an NFL

2259
01:53:54,320 --> 01:53:58,639
Speaker 1: team in a different sport like the Philadelphia seventy six

2260
01:53:58,720 --> 01:54:02,120
Speaker 1: ers with Joeli embiid and and Simmons, those young players

2261
01:54:02,120 --> 01:54:05,760
Speaker 1: who are under twenty five, who are now, as you know,

2262
01:54:05,840 --> 01:54:08,559
Speaker 1: putting together a really good run for the Philadelphia seventy

2263
01:54:08,560 --> 01:54:11,759
Speaker 1: six ers. It doesn't work in every sport. Just because

2264
01:54:11,760 --> 01:54:13,840
Speaker 1: it works in over there, it's not going to work

2265
01:54:14,040 --> 01:54:16,960
Speaker 1: over here. The NFL has too many moving parts and

2266
01:54:17,040 --> 01:54:19,719
Speaker 1: there are too many things that have to be working

2267
01:54:19,840 --> 01:54:23,360
Speaker 1: in concert together to think that you can get them

2268
01:54:23,400 --> 01:54:27,240
Speaker 1: all going from a zero to one hundred miles per

2269
01:54:27,320 --> 01:54:31,519
Speaker 1: hour all at once. You've got to do it stair

2270
01:54:31,600 --> 01:54:34,360
Speaker 1: stepping it along the way. Look at the bills. They're

2271
01:54:34,440 --> 01:54:37,800
Speaker 1: doing it the whole their whole philosophy. And the reason

2272
01:54:37,960 --> 01:54:41,160
Speaker 1: that that Sean McDermott was able to sell his philosophy

2273
01:54:41,280 --> 01:54:44,560
Speaker 1: was that it would be sustainable. It would be something

2274
01:54:44,640 --> 01:54:46,640
Speaker 1: that you could do year after year after Certainly you

2275
01:54:46,720 --> 01:54:48,800
Speaker 1: have down years and up years, but it would be

2276
01:54:48,880 --> 01:54:53,080
Speaker 1: sustainably competitive year after year after year. And it starts

2277
01:54:53,240 --> 01:54:55,960
Speaker 1: by stair stepping. You get your cap set, you find

2278
01:54:56,040 --> 01:54:58,760
Speaker 1: your quarterback, you put fix one side of the ball

2279
01:54:58,840 --> 01:55:01,280
Speaker 1: your defense to get it competitive, and then you start

2280
01:55:01,360 --> 01:55:04,160
Speaker 1: filling in around this franchise quarterback. And now you can

2281
01:55:04,280 --> 01:55:07,800
Speaker 1: keep things. You can keep all this stuff moving because

2282
01:55:07,920 --> 01:55:12,360
Speaker 1: none of it expires or comes into its full potential

2283
01:55:12,680 --> 01:55:16,400
Speaker 1: at the same time it all is working in concert together.

2284
01:55:16,640 --> 01:55:20,240
Speaker 1: You can't just blow everything up and expect to build

2285
01:55:20,240 --> 01:55:22,240
Speaker 1: it up. You don't have time to do that. Your

2286
01:55:22,360 --> 01:55:24,800
Speaker 1: coaches are gonna be gone, nobody will want to come

2287
01:55:24,840 --> 01:55:27,280
Speaker 1: here to play. No, you know, it just doesn't work

2288
01:55:27,360 --> 01:55:30,160
Speaker 1: that way in this sport. And I'm you're right, Murph,

2289
01:55:31,680 --> 01:55:33,960
Speaker 1: it ain't gonna work for the Dolphins. If that's what

2290
01:55:34,040 --> 01:55:36,160
Speaker 1: they're gonna do. You can certainly there have been rebuilds,

2291
01:55:36,160 --> 01:55:38,080
Speaker 1: but it's more about the financial end of the cap

2292
01:55:38,120 --> 01:55:40,520
Speaker 1: getting out of whack with guys who are not living

2293
01:55:40,600 --> 01:55:42,960
Speaker 1: up to a contract or impossible to live up to

2294
01:55:43,000 --> 01:55:47,760
Speaker 1: a contract, or spending draft picks frivolously. You can't do

2295
01:55:47,920 --> 01:55:50,280
Speaker 1: that or what ends up being frivolously. You can't miss

2296
01:55:50,640 --> 01:55:53,280
Speaker 1: so many times that you don't have a down period.

2297
01:55:53,880 --> 01:55:55,440
Speaker 1: But by the same token, you've got to have a

2298
01:55:55,560 --> 01:55:58,960
Speaker 1: plan for being competitive year after year after year. We'll

2299
01:55:58,960 --> 01:56:00,680
Speaker 1: see how it plays out. On my ammy the Bills.

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Speaker 1: You'll recall we're accused of tanking a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 1: and they won nine games and went to the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: They were accused of tanking. They were accused of being

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Speaker 1: thirty two. This year they end up winning. Well, yeah,

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01:56:10,360 --> 01:56:13,280
Speaker 1: but not by design. Two years ago it was like, oh, there,

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Speaker 1: they traded Sammy Watkins, they're ready, Marcel Darius, they're tanking

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Speaker 1: and they went to the playoffs. Wasn't the case? Hey?

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Speaker 1: Our Twitter poll today, what's the biggest challenge for the

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Speaker 1: Bills this offseason? Got a pretty good race and we

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01:56:25,320 --> 01:56:28,160
Speaker 1: got thirteen hundred votes on Twitter so far. The biggest

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Speaker 1: challenge for the Bills in this offseason? Thirty nine percent

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01:56:30,760 --> 01:56:33,880
Speaker 1: of you say free agency spending. I don't know about that.

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Speaker 1: Thirty three percent of you say Josh Adams development. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I agree with that. Twenty five percent of you say

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Speaker 1: getting the draft right. What do you think? Give us

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Speaker 1: a call eight oh three five fifty toll free one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. We will

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Speaker 1: resume that discussion when we come back. We also, I

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Speaker 1: want to we want to talk a little bit about

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01:56:53,520 --> 01:56:57,360
Speaker 1: an amazing financial deal in Major League Baseball today. The

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Speaker 1: numbers will stun you. They've stunned me. That's all coming

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Speaker 1: back when we return. One Bill's Live, coming to you

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01:57:02,760 --> 01:57:21,800
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Driving. This is Buffalo Bills Radio segment

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01:57:21,880 --> 01:57:24,400
Speaker 1: with Armando Sargara. We thank him again for joining us.

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Speaker 1: He's not optimistic about the Dolphins, tank or not, he's

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01:57:27,800 --> 01:57:31,040
Speaker 1: not optimistic about their future, the direction they're headed. He

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01:57:31,200 --> 01:57:34,160
Speaker 1: makes a good point about Brian Flora's He might be impressive,

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01:57:34,240 --> 01:57:37,040
Speaker 1: and he certainly got a nice background, but how long

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01:57:37,120 --> 01:57:39,160
Speaker 1: is it gonna be around? If they're gonna really stink

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01:57:39,240 --> 01:57:41,160
Speaker 1: for a couple of years. As Armando said, I think

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Speaker 1: he used another word as well. After a while, people say, well,

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01:57:44,920 --> 01:57:46,560
Speaker 1: that coach has got to go too, right, They get

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01:57:46,600 --> 01:57:49,240
Speaker 1: tired of looking at him. They start equating that lack

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01:57:49,320 --> 01:57:52,280
Speaker 1: of success with him rather than with what was there

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01:57:52,320 --> 01:57:56,800
Speaker 1: before he got there, and they you've got to show

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01:57:57,760 --> 01:58:01,480
Speaker 1: I think, tangible signs of improvement at every level before

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01:58:01,560 --> 01:58:04,080
Speaker 1: you kind of keep getting a pass to stay there

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01:58:04,120 --> 01:58:08,480
Speaker 1: and live through the rebuild. I mean, Hugh Jackson didn't

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01:58:08,480 --> 01:58:11,760
Speaker 1: get a survived that rebuild. Jack del Rio didn't survive

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01:58:11,840 --> 01:58:13,600
Speaker 1: the rebuild. Of course, he was there for a twelve

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01:58:13,640 --> 01:58:20,240
Speaker 1: and fourth season in Oakland. Name another guys. You know,

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01:58:20,320 --> 01:58:22,680
Speaker 1: you look through all the coaches that are there and

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01:58:22,800 --> 01:58:26,720
Speaker 1: gone at all these teams, it's just if you don't

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01:58:26,760 --> 01:58:31,160
Speaker 1: start winning within a year or two, you don't survive it, right,

2344
01:58:31,240 --> 01:58:35,440
Speaker 1: no matter what the no matter what the intention was, like,

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01:58:35,520 --> 01:58:37,560
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna stink and get this guy in

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01:58:37,600 --> 01:58:40,320
Speaker 1: the draft, and still the coaches fall victim of that,

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01:58:40,400 --> 01:58:42,840
Speaker 1: don't you think? Very much so, very much so, and

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01:58:43,280 --> 01:58:47,400
Speaker 1: servedly so to some extent, no question, But because you know,

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01:58:47,520 --> 01:58:50,720
Speaker 1: we've seen a guy like Sean mcvaigh. He came in,

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01:58:50,840 --> 01:58:53,040
Speaker 1: took over virtually the same roster with the same main

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01:58:53,200 --> 01:58:55,720
Speaker 1: quarterback who was considered a bust, and all of a sudden,

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01:58:55,760 --> 01:58:58,080
Speaker 1: now they're good. So you get that feeling that, Wow,

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01:58:58,160 --> 01:59:00,520
Speaker 1: maybe it is like hockey in that respect. One coach

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01:59:00,640 --> 01:59:02,520
Speaker 1: does make a difference when he comes in and changes

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01:59:02,560 --> 01:59:04,960
Speaker 1: the fibe. I don't know, though, I think that's I

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01:59:05,000 --> 01:59:07,360
Speaker 1: think that's an exception. A lot of topics on the

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01:59:07,400 --> 01:59:09,080
Speaker 1: table today, and you are welcome to join us at

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01:59:09,120 --> 01:59:11,840
Speaker 1: eight oh three five fifty or from outside Buffalo towel

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

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01:59:15,040 --> 01:59:18,000
Speaker 1: Charles Clay, released by the Bills last Friday, agrees to

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01:59:18,200 --> 01:59:20,520
Speaker 1: terms and on one year deal with the Arizona Cardinals.

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01:59:20,600 --> 01:59:23,800
Speaker 1: That happened today. Antonio Brown met with Steelers president Aren't

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01:59:23,880 --> 01:59:26,360
Speaker 1: Rooney the second today. Both sides have agreed that it's

2364
01:59:26,400 --> 01:59:28,880
Speaker 1: time for him to move on. They've agreed to trade

2365
01:59:28,920 --> 01:59:32,360
Speaker 1: will be the best for everyone involved. We can talk

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01:59:32,400 --> 01:59:34,360
Speaker 1: about any of that. We can talk about our topic

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Speaker 1: of the day. The biggest challenge for the Bills this

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01:59:36,360 --> 01:59:40,240
Speaker 1: offseason is that Josh Allen's development, free agency spending, getting

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01:59:40,240 --> 01:59:42,600
Speaker 1: the draft right, something else. Let us know. You can

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01:59:42,600 --> 01:59:44,320
Speaker 1: call us up. We're gonna read some tweets on that.

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Speaker 1: But this came up during the course of the afternoons,

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01:59:47,480 --> 01:59:52,280
Speaker 1: even just the sheer numbers. It's baseball, which is obviously

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01:59:52,400 --> 01:59:54,720
Speaker 1: not your favorite. Manny Machado, one of the top three

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01:59:54,760 --> 01:59:57,640
Speaker 1: agents of free agents available on the market, has reached

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01:59:57,680 --> 01:59:59,840
Speaker 1: a deal with the San Diego Padres, acquiting to ESPN

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02:00:00,040 --> 02:00:02,520
Speaker 1: four time All Star, two time Gold Club Winner third

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02:00:02,560 --> 02:00:06,040
Speaker 1: baseman's played some shortstop made sixteen million dollars between the

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02:00:06,120 --> 02:00:09,720
Speaker 1: Dodgers and the Orioles last season. Last season, at two

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02:00:09,880 --> 02:00:12,440
Speaker 1: ninety seven thirty seven homers, one hundred and seven RBIs

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02:00:12,840 --> 02:00:16,839
Speaker 1: clearly one of the most productive players in baseball, according

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02:00:16,880 --> 02:00:21,600
Speaker 1: to Ken Rosenthal from Fox, A source confirms many Machado

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Speaker 1: to the Padres ten years, three hundred million dollars, three

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02:00:28,960 --> 02:00:31,880
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars over ten years. Something's got to be

2384
02:00:31,920 --> 02:00:35,640
Speaker 1: wrong with those numbers right, something inflated, something like misinterpreted.

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02:00:36,000 --> 02:00:40,160
Speaker 1: He was a third overall pick, you know, I don't know.

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02:00:40,280 --> 02:00:42,440
Speaker 1: He spent a lot of time at shortstop. He prefers

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02:00:42,440 --> 02:00:45,720
Speaker 1: to play shortstop, middle infielder, or maybe a third baseman.

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02:00:46,080 --> 02:00:48,480
Speaker 1: But three hundred million dollars, I mean, you just you

2389
02:00:48,560 --> 02:00:51,280
Speaker 1: can't even get your look. A team should not be

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02:00:51,360 --> 02:00:53,440
Speaker 1: worth three hundred million dollars. How can one player be

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02:00:53,480 --> 02:00:55,560
Speaker 1: worth three hundred million dollars? You know what I'm saying?

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02:00:56,360 --> 02:01:01,280
Speaker 1: Ten years and it's all guaranteed too. It's baseball. That's insane.

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02:01:01,600 --> 02:01:05,760
Speaker 1: I would absolutely crash my car trying to get there

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02:01:05,840 --> 02:01:11,440
Speaker 1: to sign that deal. It's insane, right, And baseball Baseball

2395
02:01:11,480 --> 02:01:13,600
Speaker 1: gets a ton of money from their local TV deals.

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02:01:13,880 --> 02:01:16,920
Speaker 1: They don't have the national television contract like football. Um,

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02:01:17,280 --> 02:01:19,720
Speaker 1: and every team is different in baseball too, They don't

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02:01:19,800 --> 02:01:23,240
Speaker 1: share the revenue like the NFL. Thiss, So some franchises

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02:01:23,840 --> 02:01:25,760
Speaker 1: have the money to spend on guys like that, and

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02:01:25,880 --> 02:01:28,720
Speaker 1: some of them just don't. Three hundred million over ten years.

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02:01:29,120 --> 02:01:31,760
Speaker 1: Hopefully those numbers are wrong or inflated, because it's just

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02:01:32,160 --> 02:01:34,600
Speaker 1: it is mind boggling, isn't It isn't a little mind boggling.

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Speaker 1: It is very It's like winning the lottery. Yeah, just

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02:01:41,640 --> 02:01:43,600
Speaker 1: for the player, but just that a team that a

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02:01:43,680 --> 02:01:47,640
Speaker 1: team could value anybody, any player like that, not that. Yeah,

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02:01:48,200 --> 02:01:49,760
Speaker 1: good for you. Okay, how do you equate? How do

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02:01:49,840 --> 02:01:51,200
Speaker 1: you get that value out of him? How do you

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02:01:51,200 --> 02:01:52,920
Speaker 1: get three and a million dollars worth it? What does

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02:01:52,960 --> 02:01:56,760
Speaker 1: the team get for that? I don't know. They player

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Speaker 1: one of the best players in the game. Do they

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02:01:58,320 --> 02:02:00,839
Speaker 1: sell ten percent more tickets over the life of the contract?

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02:02:00,920 --> 02:02:03,280
Speaker 1: Fifteen percent more tickets over the life of the contract?

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02:02:03,360 --> 02:02:05,600
Speaker 1: Do they have so many more television viewers and get

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02:02:05,680 --> 02:02:08,760
Speaker 1: more from advertising revenue because more TV viewers? You just

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02:02:08,840 --> 02:02:11,120
Speaker 1: wonder how they get to that valuation. Yeah, that's crazy.

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02:02:11,280 --> 02:02:13,760
Speaker 1: That's pretty amazing. All right, biggest challenge for the Bills

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Speaker 1: this offseason. That's our poll today. A couple of responses

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02:02:17,040 --> 02:02:20,000
Speaker 1: on Twitter. Tiffany Daniels is in with this the backboat

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02:02:20,000 --> 02:02:22,880
Speaker 1: of our franchise comes via the draft and smart rookie

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02:02:22,960 --> 02:02:25,400
Speaker 1: free agent editions after the draft. Good point, Tiffany, we

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02:02:25,400 --> 02:02:27,600
Speaker 1: didn't mention that. She goes on to say, players that

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02:02:27,760 --> 02:02:30,560
Speaker 1: fit your system, guys like Robert Foster Lee By Wallace

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02:02:30,840 --> 02:02:34,800
Speaker 1: became Sunday starters. Splashy names past their prime rarely impacts

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02:02:34,880 --> 02:02:37,920
Speaker 1: the team's success. So Tiffany answers in in terms of saying,

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02:02:38,160 --> 02:02:41,280
Speaker 1: concentrating on the draft and rookie free agents, don't worry

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02:02:41,320 --> 02:02:43,680
Speaker 1: about the you know, the free agent signing. So that's

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02:02:43,680 --> 02:02:47,200
Speaker 1: an interesting take. Yeah, and then and it's well thought out,

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02:02:47,240 --> 02:02:49,320
Speaker 1: and she's right. We've seen it on a number of

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02:02:49,360 --> 02:02:51,160
Speaker 1: occasions here in Buffalo where you get a rookie free

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02:02:51,200 --> 02:02:52,840
Speaker 1: agent after the draft who comes in. It's like, wow,

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02:02:52,880 --> 02:02:54,600
Speaker 1: where do they find this guy? You know? And you

2432
02:02:54,680 --> 02:02:57,240
Speaker 1: can go down the list and there's always that guy

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02:02:57,280 --> 02:02:58,960
Speaker 1: that he comes kind of a fan favor because he

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02:02:59,000 --> 02:03:01,400
Speaker 1: does come out of nowhere. Also from the tweet sheet,

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02:03:01,440 --> 02:03:06,000
Speaker 1: Michael Newsom quarterback, one easy answer. I'm drinking the kool aid.

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02:03:06,000 --> 02:03:07,840
Speaker 1: I've seen enough ready to see him take this team

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02:03:07,840 --> 02:03:10,360
Speaker 1: to another level build through the draft and free agency.

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02:03:10,440 --> 02:03:13,000
Speaker 1: This team is not far away from a championship level football,

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02:03:13,840 --> 02:03:16,920
Speaker 1: not as far away from championship level football as some

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02:03:17,200 --> 02:03:21,240
Speaker 1: may think that from Michael Newsom. Yeah, there's there's a

2441
02:03:21,280 --> 02:03:23,280
Speaker 1: lot of optimism surrounding this team, and some of it

2442
02:03:23,480 --> 02:03:25,760
Speaker 1: is warrant. Most of it I see it and it

2443
02:03:26,160 --> 02:03:28,720
Speaker 1: revolves around the guy taking snaps. They saw him get better,

2444
02:03:29,040 --> 02:03:30,880
Speaker 1: and it's fun to watch the team. All of a

2445
02:03:30,920 --> 02:03:34,160
Speaker 1: sudden you didn't care who they were playing. You felt

2446
02:03:34,200 --> 02:03:36,680
Speaker 1: like that a shot at it. And that's that's different.

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02:03:37,360 --> 02:03:40,200
Speaker 1: That's very different. Let's take a call here from Joe

2448
02:03:40,400 --> 02:03:43,480
Speaker 1: in Bradford, Pennsylvania. Joe, help help us think through that

2449
02:03:43,560 --> 02:03:46,960
Speaker 1: Manny Machado contract, will you please? Yeah, so, Murph, I

2450
02:03:47,080 --> 02:03:49,360
Speaker 1: just wanted to you know how you said, maybe he's

2451
02:03:49,400 --> 02:03:52,360
Speaker 1: not worth it, and trust me, I definitely agree with that.

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02:03:53,520 --> 02:03:56,600
Speaker 1: But you know, Alex Rodriguez signed a contract with the

2453
02:03:56,680 --> 02:03:58,880
Speaker 1: Texas Rangers, I believe in two thousand and three or

2454
02:03:58,920 --> 02:04:01,880
Speaker 1: two thousand and four for two hundred and fifty million,

2455
02:04:02,080 --> 02:04:04,400
Speaker 1: and I mean compared with inflation now, that's got to

2456
02:04:04,440 --> 02:04:08,000
Speaker 1: be closer to four hundred. So I mean in terms

2457
02:04:08,040 --> 02:04:11,040
Speaker 1: of inflation and how these contracts were signed so large

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02:04:11,200 --> 02:04:14,600
Speaker 1: even you know, ten now fifteen years ago, could maybe

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02:04:14,680 --> 02:04:16,640
Speaker 1: he'd be worth it. I mean, what do you think.

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02:04:17,000 --> 02:04:18,880
Speaker 1: I don't know the Ranger. He didn't end up playing

2461
02:04:18,960 --> 02:04:20,800
Speaker 1: getting all that money from the Rangers. I know that

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02:04:22,080 --> 02:04:23,640
Speaker 1: he got a lot more. He got most of it

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02:04:23,720 --> 02:04:27,240
Speaker 1: from the Yankees. He ended up finishing out that contract,

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02:04:27,280 --> 02:04:29,400
Speaker 1: and then he signed another one for ten year, two

2465
02:04:29,520 --> 02:04:32,320
Speaker 1: fifty again with the Yankees in two thousand and what

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02:04:33,280 --> 02:04:35,680
Speaker 1: I mean he restructured it so we got eighteen years

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02:04:35,720 --> 02:04:37,920
Speaker 1: out of it, Joey, and that you have hit the

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02:04:38,360 --> 02:04:43,120
Speaker 1: question that the evaluation of these players is what puzzles me.

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02:04:43,240 --> 02:04:44,880
Speaker 1: I don't know how they get to three hundred million

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02:04:45,000 --> 02:04:47,080
Speaker 1: or in your example, two hundred and fifty million for

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02:04:47,160 --> 02:04:50,240
Speaker 1: a Rod fifteen years ago. Tom and Rochester thoughts on

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Speaker 1: this time, go ahead, you're on the air. Thanks Murph.

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Speaker 1: Here's the point. I think Chirk Cousins mates almost thirty

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02:04:57,920 --> 02:05:00,760
Speaker 1: million this year and Vikings fans got the m eight times.

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02:05:01,200 --> 02:05:05,280
Speaker 1: The Padres fans are going to see this kid eighty times. Yeah,

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02:05:05,440 --> 02:05:07,840
Speaker 1: you got eight gamet eight home games? How many? How

2477
02:05:07,880 --> 02:05:10,160
Speaker 1: many people are gonna buy a ticket just because he's there?

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02:05:11,240 --> 02:05:16,520
Speaker 1: I think for ten years? Yeah? Yeah. The evaluation, uh, Tom,

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02:05:16,600 --> 02:05:18,840
Speaker 1: I mean that the ratings won't be as good in

2480
02:05:18,960 --> 02:05:22,200
Speaker 1: San Diego for Padres baseball is I'm pretty certain, pretty

2481
02:05:22,200 --> 02:05:27,320
Speaker 1: competent saying that Vikings games on TV in Minnesota would

2482
02:05:27,360 --> 02:05:32,040
Speaker 1: probably be higher valued than Padres games. I get there's

2483
02:05:32,080 --> 02:05:35,040
Speaker 1: eighty two and oranges there. To me, I'm more shocked

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02:05:35,440 --> 02:05:39,960
Speaker 1: Cousins ticket thirty million a year than Manning Machado. No,

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02:05:40,080 --> 02:05:44,560
Speaker 1: I'm not Manny. He's not even batting three hundred get

2486
02:05:44,600 --> 02:05:48,120
Speaker 1: thirty seven home runs with one hundred and seven rbi. Yeah, yeah,

2487
02:05:48,160 --> 02:05:49,960
Speaker 1: I mean, but here's the thing. It's harder to find

2488
02:05:50,040 --> 02:05:53,000
Speaker 1: a guy doing what Kirk Cousins does than Manny Machado.

2489
02:05:54,000 --> 02:05:57,840
Speaker 1: And again, time NFL is just worth more NFL contracts,

2490
02:05:58,000 --> 02:06:01,600
Speaker 1: NFL ratings. It's just there's more value there. And look,

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02:06:01,640 --> 02:06:04,120
Speaker 1: I agree with you, Kirk Cousins making an amount of

2492
02:06:04,160 --> 02:06:06,840
Speaker 1: money was a little bit ridiculous last year, But the

2493
02:06:07,040 --> 02:06:09,240
Speaker 1: NFL's here. In baseball is somewhere down and it's a

2494
02:06:09,360 --> 02:06:12,080
Speaker 1: it's a function of free agency too. You've got a

2495
02:06:12,120 --> 02:06:14,640
Speaker 1: bunch of people bidding for the same thing, and somebody's

2496
02:06:14,680 --> 02:06:16,920
Speaker 1: gonna get it, and one team that's in a position

2497
02:06:17,000 --> 02:06:18,920
Speaker 1: to do it is gonna jump higher than a team

2498
02:06:18,920 --> 02:06:21,680
Speaker 1: that's not. And whether that's whether it's worth it or not,

2499
02:06:22,000 --> 02:06:23,680
Speaker 1: I'm sure it works the same in baseball as a

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02:06:23,720 --> 02:06:25,880
Speaker 1: dozen football. It's one thing you can compare, and that's

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02:06:26,000 --> 02:06:30,240
Speaker 1: is that is that somebody's gonna overpay for the guy. Yeah,

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02:06:30,480 --> 02:06:31,840
Speaker 1: I just I don't get it. I don't know how

2503
02:06:31,880 --> 02:06:34,440
Speaker 1: baseball works like that. All right, let's continue on this

2504
02:06:34,520 --> 02:06:37,080
Speaker 1: team as we moved to NFL. Too or false. Brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Yancy's Fancy New York's artists and Cheese. First.

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes will be the first two hundred million dollars quarterback.

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02:06:45,280 --> 02:06:48,000
Speaker 1: True false. I think you gotta say true. Right, he's

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02:06:48,000 --> 02:06:49,800
Speaker 1: still got a couple of years before he gets there

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02:06:50,800 --> 02:06:53,280
Speaker 1: two an a million contract extension. He is eligible for

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02:06:53,440 --> 02:06:58,280
Speaker 1: negotiations next offseason. That this year, Yeah, I would think

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02:06:58,320 --> 02:07:01,240
Speaker 1: he'd probably approached two hundred million dollars eight year, twenty

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02:07:01,280 --> 02:07:05,600
Speaker 1: five million a year. There you go. I'm saying, yeah, probably. Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that he may not. He may not

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02:07:07,160 --> 02:07:08,720
Speaker 1: make every scent of it, but he may sign a

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02:07:08,800 --> 02:07:11,120
Speaker 1: contract that is at the end of it, uh and

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02:07:11,760 --> 02:07:14,280
Speaker 1: with incentives and all that signed two hundred million, I say, yeah,

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02:07:14,280 --> 02:07:18,040
Speaker 1: I'd say that's true. I'd say that's true. Um at

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02:07:18,160 --> 02:07:22,800
Speaker 1: his age. That's because you know, as soon as is possible,

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02:07:23,120 --> 02:07:27,440
Speaker 1: they will extend him. Now, whether it is by that much,

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02:07:28,760 --> 02:07:32,040
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a big one, and two hundred million

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02:07:32,120 --> 02:07:35,040
Speaker 1: might be the number one more from NFL True or

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02:07:35,080 --> 02:07:38,280
Speaker 1: False the Colts rookie class twenty eighteen the best in

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02:07:38,400 --> 02:07:40,600
Speaker 1: the NFL. This is a post that was put up

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Speaker 1: by Stampede Blue dot Com, which is a Colts site.

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02:07:45,000 --> 02:07:48,000
Speaker 1: Rookie class though the best in the NFL. I'd go

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Speaker 1: with the Browns, I think. I think I'd go with

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02:07:50,120 --> 02:07:51,960
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. I'm gonna say false to this. He

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02:07:52,000 --> 02:07:53,680
Speaker 1: I'd say false too. I mean it's you know, they

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02:07:53,800 --> 02:07:55,720
Speaker 1: certainly are in the conversation. But the two guys I

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02:07:55,800 --> 02:08:03,200
Speaker 1: think of, Quentin Nelson and Darius Leonard. Yep, very good. Great, Yeah,

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02:08:03,400 --> 02:08:07,640
Speaker 1: I'd say false. Bill's got a starting quarterback in the

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02:08:07,800 --> 02:08:10,880
Speaker 1: rookie draft class and a starting middle linebacker. We also

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02:08:10,960 --> 02:08:15,040
Speaker 1: got us. Yeah, they got a starting nickel back too,

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02:08:15,080 --> 02:08:18,280
Speaker 1: and tarn Johnson. No, I wouldn't say the Colts are then,

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Speaker 1: but then, yeah, you look at the Cleveland Browns. They

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02:08:21,440 --> 02:08:26,320
Speaker 1: got Baker Mayfield, Nick Chubby. So yeah, that's a good conversation,

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02:08:26,600 --> 02:08:28,440
Speaker 1: and maybe certainly the Colts are in it, but I

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02:08:28,480 --> 02:08:31,040
Speaker 1: don't think you can give it to them. Okay. NFL

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Speaker 1: two or False brought to you by Yancey's Fancy New

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Speaker 1: York's artists and cheese m one more call, let's squeeze

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02:08:37,920 --> 02:08:40,360
Speaker 1: in one more Kevin and Hamburg. Hello, Kevin, welcome, you're

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Speaker 1: on the air with this, okay, Um, I'd like to

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02:08:43,360 --> 02:08:46,400
Speaker 1: see us get a good tight end now the Clay's gone.

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02:08:47,080 --> 02:08:49,720
Speaker 1: Our tight ends in the past, some of them couldn't

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02:08:49,760 --> 02:08:52,640
Speaker 1: catch a cold naked an Alaska. They were terrible, some

2546
02:08:52,840 --> 02:08:54,960
Speaker 1: of them. You know, it's an interesting question, Kevin and See.

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02:08:55,240 --> 02:08:57,560
Speaker 1: One of our staffers brought this up. Where do you

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02:08:57,680 --> 02:09:01,200
Speaker 1: put tight end on the list of the bills person priorities?

2549
02:09:01,280 --> 02:09:03,600
Speaker 1: Now with Clay gone, and even before claim was gone,

2550
02:09:03,640 --> 02:09:05,080
Speaker 1: I think we all knew they had to get better there.

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02:09:05,120 --> 02:09:07,920
Speaker 1: But where is it? I mean you said earlier today,

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02:09:07,960 --> 02:09:12,000
Speaker 1: offensive line probably top priority, wide receiver number two priority.

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02:09:12,680 --> 02:09:15,480
Speaker 1: What next I put pass rusher number to rush our

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02:09:15,600 --> 02:09:18,720
Speaker 1: next yeah, and maybe tight end in the top five

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02:09:19,360 --> 02:09:21,880
Speaker 1: six of the maybe running back death and then tight

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Speaker 1: end Yeah. Yeah, Because here's the thing. Tight end. Certainly,

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02:09:25,880 --> 02:09:27,200
Speaker 1: if you got a good one, you play him. If

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02:09:27,240 --> 02:09:28,640
Speaker 1: you don't have a good one, if you got one

2559
02:09:28,640 --> 02:09:29,840
Speaker 1: that's not very good at all. If you don't have

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02:09:29,920 --> 02:09:31,680
Speaker 1: any of them, you just put three wides on and

2561
02:09:31,720 --> 02:09:35,840
Speaker 1: two backs. You get by without it. So certainly if

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02:09:35,880 --> 02:09:38,360
Speaker 1: you've got one, and the reason you've got one that's

2563
02:09:38,400 --> 02:09:42,000
Speaker 1: really good is one reason, a couple of reasons. One

2564
02:09:42,440 --> 02:09:44,880
Speaker 1: is he's a matchup nightmare for a defense. Look at

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02:09:44,960 --> 02:09:49,600
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski, Travis Kelsey, all these really good ones. They're

2566
02:09:49,640 --> 02:09:52,080
Speaker 1: so big and so fast you don't have anybody that

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02:09:52,120 --> 02:09:53,520
Speaker 1: can stay with him. If you've got somebody that can

2568
02:09:53,560 --> 02:09:55,400
Speaker 1: stay with them, they're not big enough to tackle the guy.

2569
02:09:55,760 --> 02:09:57,560
Speaker 1: And if they're big enough to tackle the guy, they're

2570
02:09:57,560 --> 02:09:59,760
Speaker 1: not fast enough to stay with him. So you got

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02:09:59,840 --> 02:10:02,200
Speaker 1: to double him right away. So that takes two guys

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02:10:02,240 --> 02:10:04,400
Speaker 1: out of your defensive backfield that you got to look at.

2573
02:10:04,440 --> 02:10:08,480
Speaker 1: With his good tight end, that's the reason. And there's

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02:10:08,560 --> 02:10:10,520
Speaker 1: another reason he like him is because if you do

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02:10:10,640 --> 02:10:13,040
Speaker 1: run the football, he's like an offensive tackle. He's a

2576
02:10:13,160 --> 02:10:15,640
Speaker 1: really good blocker, a guy that can push people around,

2577
02:10:15,960 --> 02:10:18,480
Speaker 1: get up to the second level and beat a linebacker

2578
02:10:19,400 --> 02:10:22,680
Speaker 1: in one on one pass protection or run blocking. So

2579
02:10:23,240 --> 02:10:25,160
Speaker 1: if you got a guy like that, of course you're

2580
02:10:25,200 --> 02:10:27,320
Speaker 1: gonna love it. You wish you had him. But here's

2581
02:10:27,360 --> 02:10:29,400
Speaker 1: the thing. They're not very many of them out there,

2582
02:10:29,480 --> 02:10:31,960
Speaker 1: and if you get one, it's usually because you stumbled

2583
02:10:32,000 --> 02:10:36,360
Speaker 1: onto him, or because you stole him from somebody free agency,

2584
02:10:36,720 --> 02:10:39,200
Speaker 1: he can't. He fell into your lap somehow, some way.

2585
02:10:39,320 --> 02:10:41,200
Speaker 1: He's out there. Charles Clay did that with the Bills.

2586
02:10:41,280 --> 02:10:43,320
Speaker 1: He was one of those guys that's really good and

2587
02:10:43,520 --> 02:10:45,480
Speaker 1: he put together some good years for the Bills, but

2588
02:10:45,560 --> 02:10:48,800
Speaker 1: then age and health got in the way of his

2589
02:10:48,880 --> 02:10:52,440
Speaker 1: productivity and now he's gone. So if you didn't follow them,

2590
02:10:52,480 --> 02:10:54,320
Speaker 1: I mean, they were pretty aggressive and going out right,

2591
02:10:54,440 --> 02:10:55,680
Speaker 1: and they had to be because he was one of

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02:10:55,720 --> 02:10:58,280
Speaker 1: those guys. And that's the whole point. Either steal him

2593
02:10:58,440 --> 02:11:00,720
Speaker 1: or you stumble onto him. All Right, a break. We're

2594
02:11:00,760 --> 02:11:02,880
Speaker 1: coming back with more One Bill's Live from One Bill's

2595
02:11:02,960 --> 02:11:17,080
Speaker 1: Drive and this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Well, it's time

2596
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Speaker 1: for what have we learned from today's show. It has

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02:11:19,120 --> 02:11:22,760
Speaker 1: brought to you my advanced Alarm providing Western New York's

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02:11:22,960 --> 02:11:25,760
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Speaker 1: theater the preferred Alarm, a home theater provider of the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. We had renowned ESPN sportscaster Mike Clay on

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02:11:32,280 --> 02:11:34,560
Speaker 1: the show, and one of the earlier segments today, we

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02:11:34,600 --> 02:11:36,440
Speaker 1: asked them right off the bat about the news today

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02:11:36,520 --> 02:11:39,720
Speaker 1: that Charles Clay Bills tenn End, released last Friday, has

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02:11:39,760 --> 02:11:41,880
Speaker 1: been signed by the Arizona Cardinals. We asked Mike Clay

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Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, it's been disappointing a couple of seasons

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02:11:47,200 --> 02:11:50,000
Speaker 1: for play, obviously, but Arizona has kind of been just

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02:11:50,120 --> 02:11:53,400
Speaker 1: that talent collection mode right now, whether it's seasoned veterans

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02:11:53,640 --> 02:11:56,200
Speaker 1: or scooping up some younger guys off waivers late in

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02:11:56,240 --> 02:11:58,000
Speaker 1: the season. But you know, we've seen a few guys

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Speaker 1: that bring in Charles Clay, who probably an upgrade honestly

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02:12:01,080 --> 02:12:03,480
Speaker 1: on their current situation with Jermaine Gresham there who could

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02:12:03,520 --> 02:12:06,560
Speaker 1: be cut loose. And Ricky Fields Jones, a converted receiver

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02:12:06,640 --> 02:12:08,440
Speaker 1: who didn't pan out, but they bring him him in.

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02:12:08,720 --> 02:12:10,520
Speaker 1: They bring in Robert Alfred. They've been looking for a

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02:12:10,600 --> 02:12:13,480
Speaker 1: number two perimeter corner for a long time. He's a

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02:12:13,520 --> 02:12:16,000
Speaker 1: clearly an upgrade Brook to read on the edge. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Arizona obviously just kind of been a talent collection mode

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Speaker 1: right now. We'll see if any of these guys can

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Speaker 1: out for them. Mike Clay on Arizona signing Charles Clay.

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Speaker 1: Armando Salgaro from Miami Harold joined us Earlier this hour,

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02:12:29,640 --> 02:12:32,280
Speaker 1: Steve asked him about new Dolphins head coach Brian Flores

2622
02:12:32,360 --> 02:12:34,720
Speaker 1: and the impression he's made in the early going so far.

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02:12:36,760 --> 02:12:39,560
Speaker 1: One of the things that makes good head coaches is

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02:12:39,680 --> 02:12:43,240
Speaker 1: they have to have leadership. They have to be able

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02:12:43,280 --> 02:12:45,840
Speaker 1: to command a room, they have to get players to

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02:12:46,000 --> 02:12:50,880
Speaker 1: buy in, they have to be able to somehow convince

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Speaker 1: other people to come along with their plan. And based

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Speaker 1: off of what I've seen and again is that early result,

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02:12:59,240 --> 02:13:04,280
Speaker 1: he's got those thing. But one of the formulas for

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02:13:04,400 --> 02:13:07,560
Speaker 1: being a great head coach is you need great players.

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02:13:08,080 --> 02:13:11,400
Speaker 1: And if you don't have great players, you're never going

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02:13:11,480 --> 02:13:13,920
Speaker 1: to be a great head coach. So he's got a

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02:13:14,000 --> 02:13:17,320
Speaker 1: lot of work to do and it all depends on

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02:13:18,120 --> 02:13:21,720
Speaker 1: how much quality he gets on the roster to whether

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02:13:21,800 --> 02:13:24,720
Speaker 1: he'll succeed or not. Armando does not hold out much

2636
02:13:24,760 --> 02:13:27,800
Speaker 1: hope for that. Our Twitter poll today was pretty interesting.

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02:13:27,880 --> 02:13:30,960
Speaker 1: The biggest challenge for the Bills this offseason. Thirty nine

2638
02:13:31,000 --> 02:13:33,600
Speaker 1: percent of you say it's free agency spending. I disagree.

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02:13:33,880 --> 02:13:36,400
Speaker 1: Thirty three percent of you say it's John h Allen's development,

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02:13:36,720 --> 02:13:39,440
Speaker 1: twenty five percent say getting the draft right, two percent

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02:13:39,520 --> 02:13:41,160
Speaker 1: of something else in mind, But I think there was

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02:13:41,520 --> 02:13:44,640
Speaker 1: a late tweet didn't quite make it to the tweet

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02:13:44,680 --> 02:13:48,080
Speaker 1: sheet that I think explains it all. Ronnie Easton tweets,

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02:13:48,080 --> 02:13:49,480
Speaker 1: and I think most fans are caught up in the

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02:13:49,560 --> 02:13:52,440
Speaker 1: here and now, which is reflective of what free agency

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02:13:52,520 --> 02:13:55,040
Speaker 1: is about. The draft is long term and helps further

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02:13:55,160 --> 02:13:58,320
Speaker 1: lay that foundation for long term success. Yes, I believe

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02:13:58,360 --> 02:14:01,160
Speaker 1: that That's why I think people voted so strongly for

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Speaker 1: free agent. In conclusion, let me salute you for your

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Speaker 1: outstanding Twitter per Turn tomorrow there but great? Yeah, might

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02:14:07,000 --> 02:14:09,880
Speaker 1: turn tomorrow. I got one, Okay, Josh Allen, The Guy.

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Speaker 1: The Guy. Production assistants George Blast, Jeff Colton, Thomas Hamilder,

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Speaker 1: Kelly Rude, j J Turto, Kevin Cardis, Teams, robot our

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Speaker 1: producer Jay Harris. We'll be back tomorrow with Noon with

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Speaker 1: Steve's Twitter poll on One Bill's Live on Buffalo, Bill's

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Speaker 1: Bread