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Speaker 1: These one bills Live, presented by called Light to Health. Hey,

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Speaker 1: how you be? Everybody? Chris Brown, Steve Tasker one bills Live.

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Speaker 1: It is a brand new week, the first day of spring.

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Speaker 1: Not that the tempts outside would convince you of anything

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Speaker 1: of the sort. Fake Spring one is what we have

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Speaker 1: undertaken here on March twenty one. There will be Fake

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Speaker 1: Spring two in early April, where famous Mother Nature will

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Speaker 1: once again try to dupe us. How long does fake

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Speaker 1: spring to last? Sometimes it can go a couple of weeks. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've seen it go like yeah, then we always get

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Speaker 1: that little one, last little right in the face before snow. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's not sticking on the ground, don't worry. My daughter,

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Speaker 1: My daughter was born May fifth, nineteen up, late eighties, um,

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Speaker 1: and we were living in the south of the South

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Speaker 1: Towns at the time. Fifteen inches, who wei. Well, I

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Speaker 1: remember during the first COVID year it snowed in May.

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Speaker 1: Now it didn't stick, you know, it just flakes on

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Speaker 1: the grass. It counts though, well, right, And we had

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Speaker 1: already we were already two months into COVID, and I'm

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Speaker 1: just like, do we really deserve this? Are we gonna

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Speaker 1: get handed this? In the second week in May. It

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Speaker 1: was like two days before Mother's Day, was stupid. We

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Speaker 1: were on a Florida vacation, a short one, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: We get down there and you're going to hear stuff

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Speaker 1: like somebody COVID in him, the European kind of China thing. Here,

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Speaker 1: you got some California. The first case gets caught in

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Speaker 1: Florida in like February ninth. Oh is that early something

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Speaker 1: like that. Maybe it's March ninth, I don't know whatever.

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Speaker 1: And we fly out the next day to come back

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Speaker 1: to Buffalo. Hey man, was it? And it yeah, and

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Speaker 1: it's snowed here and so it begins. So I am

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Speaker 1: not signing up for any of that here, ye hear ye,

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Speaker 1: I do declare no more snow for Western New York please.

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Speaker 1: Were cold three generational storms this Yeah, I think we've

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Speaker 1: had our fill. The two snow storms that the weekend

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Speaker 1: before Thanksgiving, the weekend of Christmas, and then the ice storm,

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Speaker 1: which was like that was like like six weeks ago. Yeah, done,

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Speaker 1: so bad done. Let's let's cap it here and move on.

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Speaker 1: Print Serfield's in town. I was talking it up like yeah,

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Speaker 1: he goes what and and his wife bless her heart.

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Speaker 1: She has a great question. If we have a drive

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Speaker 1: you know we're gonna have If we have a driveway,

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Speaker 1: do we have to get somebody to move the snow

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Speaker 1: I go? You know what a very good idea. Let

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Speaker 1: me tell you about the the snowplow industry here in

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Speaker 1: western New York. Yeah, way ahead of the game, Steve

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Speaker 1: mentioned it. Newest Buffalo bill signing just this past hour,

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Speaker 1: Trent Sherfield a one year contract. The former Dolphins receiver

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Speaker 1: last year, he's bounced around the league. Originally entered the

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Speaker 1: league as an undrafted rookie with the Arizona Cardinals, was

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Speaker 1: there for a few years, then went to San Francisco

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Speaker 1: before landing with Miami last year. He is a receiver

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Speaker 1: with a good dose of special teams experience, made it

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Speaker 1: the hard way in this league. We're gonna have him

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Speaker 1: here in studio in about fifteen minutes, so we look

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Speaker 1: forward to that conversation. That'll be good as we catch

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Speaker 1: up with Trent, who's coming off career highs in receptions,

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Speaker 1: receiving yards and receiving touchdowns. As Miami head coach Mike

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Speaker 1: McDaniel gave him a shot to play on offense last year,

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Speaker 1: and uh, he played pretty well when given the opportunity,

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Speaker 1: and he can fly. He can flat out fly. He's

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Speaker 1: one of only three receivers on that roster last year.

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Speaker 1: The Dolphins had eight touchdowns last season that hit over

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Speaker 1: twenty miles per hour. And that was the one that

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Speaker 1: our MSG viewers just watched, the one against San Francisco.

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Speaker 1: The other seven belonged to Jaylen Waddle and Tyreek Hill.

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Speaker 1: He um his special teams dude too. To leave it

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Speaker 1: to me to bring that up. We should We got

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Speaker 1: to ask. We were talking about this in whispers because

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Speaker 1: and the the Buffalo Bills. Dolphins win by what three nineteen

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Speaker 1: And during the game, they had the butt punt. It

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Speaker 1: was off Trent's back. It was off his butt in

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Speaker 1: I will say that the Dolphins were literally back up

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Speaker 1: it's because you hit the you hit the short pass,

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Speaker 1: and let's just do it. Let's just go over this

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Speaker 1: one more time. McKenzie puts his foot in the ground,

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Speaker 1: It was a fiasco. You had an eventful weekend as

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Speaker 1: sideshow hippopotamus at this one. Let me just say this

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Speaker 1: yesterday and I told you that yesterday Sunday, no church,

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Speaker 1: you what. It wasn't one of those lounge around let's

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Speaker 1: let the TV babysit. You know, you're the energy. It's yes,

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Speaker 1: A good weight to get into work today. I had

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Speaker 1: a much more leisurely weekend to a Knicks game. Look. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: The joker is unbelievable. You know, he's like an MVP candidate.

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Speaker 1: Kevin McHale. He's unrelievable and he's seven feet tall and

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Speaker 1: he's ridiculous. He's one of those total games. He's one

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Speaker 1: of those European guys that fundamental, Yeah, you know, does

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Speaker 1: everything well. So my wife, out of the goodness of

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Speaker 1: of decorum you know, you can't get excited, you can't

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Speaker 1: coldest airplane I have ever been on on the way back. Man,

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Speaker 1: Like it was just as cold inside the aircraft, which

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Speaker 1: we're not we're we're not a room temperature yet, but

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Speaker 1: And you know, everybody's talking about the Detroit Lions in

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Speaker 1: at making the bar so low that whatever they do

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Speaker 1: gets overblown into thinking, Wow, they've really turned the corner. No,

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Speaker 1: they had to do. They had to spend some money

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Speaker 1: on somebody because they were below the league minimum for

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Speaker 1: the salary cap floor last year. The bar is so

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Speaker 1: low in Chicago. Everybody's giddy over the fact that they

429
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Speaker 1: signed a couple of linebackers, one of whom was a

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Speaker 1: really good one, Tomaine Edmunds. I hate to say it,

431
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Speaker 1: there's an a linebacker in the league who's a difference

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Speaker 1: not an off the ball linebacker in the league who

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Speaker 1: is gonna be a difference maker for a club to

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Speaker 1: the degree that the Chicago Bears need them to be. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's why it's not considered by many to be a

436
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Speaker 1: premium position. That's right, it's not so I'm so. Yeah,

437
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Speaker 1: there's some teams that are out there, you know, making

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Speaker 1: some splashes, and you know, I like what the Detroit

439
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Speaker 1: Lions are doing. They're putting together what looks to be

440
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Speaker 1: at the early going, a second offseason that looks pretty good. Yeah,

441
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Speaker 1: a second one in a row. They're making Unlions like moves. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and kudos of Dan Campbell. They did a nice job

443
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Speaker 1: last year, but in a division where you know, the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings kind of ran off with it. Still, they

445
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Speaker 1: couldn't finished nine and eight right, beat the Packers in

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Speaker 1: their last regular season game, but didn't qualify for the

447
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Speaker 1: playoffs because they needed to help to get in and

448
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Speaker 1: they didn't get the help that they need had. Yeah,

449
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Speaker 1: Cowboys Steve choosing to improve their roster via the trade route.

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Speaker 1: So not only have they traded for cornerback Stefan Gilmour

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Speaker 1: in a deal with Indianapolis, but now they have acquired

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Speaker 1: wide receiver Brandon Cooks, who might be the most traded

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Speaker 1: wide receiver in the last forty years of football, for

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Speaker 1: just a fifth and a sixth round pick, pretty me

455
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Speaker 1: easily compensation. Now, the reason why the compensation was so

456
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Speaker 1: low was because this was somewhat of a salary dump

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Speaker 1: as well. The Houston Texans were so desperate to dump

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Speaker 1: Brandon Cook's salary, which I believe was around eighteen million

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Speaker 1: for this upcoming year, that they agreed to pay twelve

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Speaker 1: of it and the Cowboys are only on the hook

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Speaker 1: for six. That was just And let's not forget Brandon

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Speaker 1: Cook's last fall said I want out. He wanted to

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Speaker 1: get traded and was really disappointed when he wasn't moved

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Speaker 1: at the trade deadline right after Halloween last year. Here's

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Speaker 1: the thing, the Cowboys, you know they're they're getting these

466
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Speaker 1: guys in Brandon Cook's former first round draft pick Stefan Gilmour.

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Speaker 1: They traded for former first round draft pick, and people

468
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Speaker 1: are gonna wow. They you know they're doing it. It's

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Speaker 1: Jerry Jones. Kind of listen Jerry Jones and his philosophy.

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Speaker 1: To me, it reminds me a lot of Al Davis

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Speaker 1: back in the day, whereas the one thing they get

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Speaker 1: all these old first round draft they bring him in

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Speaker 1: the old first round draft. I think a ton of them.

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Speaker 1: There's a ton of guys that they've drafted in the

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Speaker 1: first round and also traded for who were first rounders

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Speaker 1: for other teams who didn't work out for whatever reason.

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Speaker 1: The reason that the Cowboys do that, we've said it

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Speaker 1: on this show a ton traits. All these guys are big,

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Speaker 1: fast and athletic, and that's the one thing that carries

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Speaker 1: over for all these guys that these teams are trading for,

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Speaker 1: like Brandon Cooks. And remember Steph Gilmour is a first

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Speaker 1: round draft pick of the Bills back in the day.

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Speaker 1: But he's older, but still he's got those measurables. That's

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Speaker 1: that's what Dallas covets. They want guys that when they

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Speaker 1: get off the bus, they look like a football team,

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Speaker 1: whether they can play or not. That's the way the

487
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Speaker 1: Raiders used to do business under Al Davis. They would

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Speaker 1: you know, notoriously, who's the fastest guy left on the board.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's that's a rate. That guy's a Raider.

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Speaker 1: He can't play football, that doesn't matter. He's the fastest

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Speaker 1: guy on the board. That's kind of the what it

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Speaker 1: used to look like with the Raiders. That's what it

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Speaker 1: is with the Cowboys. Their trade for these guys number

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Speaker 1: one draft picks, whether they can play or not. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I will say it is. It's a bit of a

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Speaker 1: different philosophy from what we've seen in the past because

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Speaker 1: Jerry usually pays top dollar for anybody, resigns somebody for

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Speaker 1: top dollar and then gets in cap jail and has

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Speaker 1: to maneuver his way out of it. I wonder if

500
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Speaker 1: his son, Stephen Jones and others are kind of in

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Speaker 1: his ear a little bit more now, saying, hey, we've

502
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Speaker 1: tried it your way for a while, what if we

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Speaker 1: try this and this with manageable salary for veteran players

504
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Speaker 1: that we know can get the job done. And they

505
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Speaker 1: were able to pull that off with the Gilmour and

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Speaker 1: Cook steals, We'll see if it pays dividends for them

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Speaker 1: come the regular season. I think the signal you might

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Speaker 1: be right, because for whatever reason, Jerry was enamored with it.

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Speaker 1: Zeke Elliott, Oh yeah, he would just throw money. They

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Speaker 1: just released him. Now, certainly the money is one thing,

511
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Speaker 1: but the fact that he got rid of the guy

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Speaker 1: to me, to me, it signals a white flaggy threw

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Speaker 1: up saying it's not work. Not with Pollard playing as

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Speaker 1: well as he did franchising him, they got it's just

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Speaker 1: a better guy. At this point, I think that's a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a surrender move by Jerry Jones saying, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we made a mistake, which a lot of people were

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Speaker 1: telling him that four years ago. Yeah, so I kind

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Speaker 1: of agree with you that, you know, maybe somebody's in

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Speaker 1: Jerry's ear, he's listening to for a change, right we uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're trying to ballpark the cap space for

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Speaker 1: the Bills. You know, for people that say, oh, why

523
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Speaker 1: didn't the Bills try to make a play for Brandon Cooks,

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Speaker 1: they really couldn't have afforded the salary that Cooks is getting.

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Speaker 1: Even if you only had to pay a third of it,

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Speaker 1: it would just cripple them a little too much because

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Speaker 1: they've got a draft class that you have to account

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Speaker 1: for with a rookie pool. And you know, as Steve

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Speaker 1: and I have explained before this time of year, it

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Speaker 1: is only you know, the top fifty one salaries that qualify.

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Speaker 1: But these days, your first round pick counts. He makes

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Speaker 1: enough money where he's going to be in that top

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Speaker 1: fifty one and probably your second round pick two. Right now,

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Speaker 1: spot Tracks got the Bills at two seventeen nine, so

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Speaker 1: it's about two eighteen, just shy. So that gives them

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Speaker 1: like six point under seven of cap space, and your

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Speaker 1: rookie pool needs about five at least. So I would

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Speaker 1: not really look for the Bills to do anything by

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Speaker 1: way of signings unless you here they've restructured some other

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Speaker 1: player on the roster or if necessary, released somebody. They

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Speaker 1: money's got to go out before it can come in

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Speaker 1: to pay for somebody else. So that's kind of where

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Speaker 1: they sit right now. And you know, kudos to the

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Speaker 1: front office for still being able to add players to

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Speaker 1: the roster like they did today with trencher Field despite

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Speaker 1: this tight cap situation. One of the things is coming up.

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Speaker 1: They've got this the top fifty. The top fifty one

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Speaker 1: puts them right at that two seventeen mark, and the

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Speaker 1: rookie class gets mixed into that, but only I think

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Speaker 1: the top like three players on the picks twenty seven

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Speaker 1: fifty nine to ninety one this year, of the sixth

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Speaker 1: that the Bills have, those are the only ones that

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Speaker 1: are gonna be high enough to count against the cap.

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Speaker 1: The other three rookies won't even go against the cap

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Speaker 1: because they won't be in the top fifty one so

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Speaker 1: the cap. So the draft class, while it will cost

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Speaker 1: them like seven million bucks, only four point nine of

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Speaker 1: it goes against the cap because it'll only be the

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Speaker 1: top three guys. They for whatever reason, they chop off

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Speaker 1: the last two guys of the of the roster and

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Speaker 1: that you don't have to you don't have to count them, right,

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Speaker 1: So there you go. I mean, that's they're right at it.

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Speaker 1: And right now, right now, they're at the number where

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Speaker 1: they kind of need to be just to do business

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Speaker 1: throughout the season because of injuries and all that. So

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Speaker 1: they're gonna have to three up even a little more

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Speaker 1: money in they've got some work to still do for sure.

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Speaker 1: Before we take a break, we want to throw the

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Speaker 1: topic out to you for you to comment on. What

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Speaker 1: is your assessment of the bills receiving core following. They

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Speaker 1: are most recent additions. Deante Hardy, Trent Scherfield. What say you?

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Speaker 1: Eight oh three five fifty the local number to get

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Speaker 1: on board one eight eight eight five fifty two five

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Speaker 1: fifty the toll free number if you're out of the

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Speaker 1: immediate calling area, or hit us up on the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: As always at one Bills Live, Steve and I take

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Speaker 1: a break here. Trent Scherfield coming your way, as we'll

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Speaker 1: have him in studio here soon on One Bills Live,

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

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Speaker 1: there we are, One Bills Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker.

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Speaker 1: It's a Monday, first day of spring. I'll believe it

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Speaker 1: when I see it. And I think Steve and I

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Speaker 1: are of the opinion, at least for now based on

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Speaker 1: cap space Trent Scherfield, barring other roster maneuvers like some

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00:31:55,840 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 1: contract restructures and the like, might be it for a

586
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: bit now. Something could change dramatically like we saw last

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00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: year where suddenly Von Miller was interested in playing for

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00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: the Bills and they got to work in a hurry

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00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 1: to move some stuff around and signed them. That's always

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Speaker 1: a possibility, and I moved some stuff around. Yeah, well

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Speaker 1: they quite literally did. They moved heaven and Earth quite frankly.

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Speaker 1: Million dollars. Yeah, you know, just move some stuff around.

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Speaker 1: But I but not to not to put the burden

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Speaker 1: on Brandon being by any means, I don't think that, um,

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Speaker 1: they will be making any moves of that variety because

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Speaker 1: that's just too big a number to get to with

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Speaker 1: the big contracts that they already have committed on the roster,

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Speaker 1: a couple of which they've already restructured in their own

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00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,160
Speaker 1: right to create some cap space to do what they

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Speaker 1: did this offseason so far. So it would be a

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Speaker 1: monumental effort to do something like that to swing big

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00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: a player, and most of the big money guys are

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00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: off the market now anyway. With Brandon cook Steve going

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Speaker 1: to the Cowboys, that would presumably take them out of

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Speaker 1: the running for Odell Beckham Junior, because I think you

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Speaker 1: could say, ceedee Lamb is there one, Brandon Cooks could

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Speaker 1: be there too, and then their three you know, remains

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Speaker 1: to be seen. I know they lost Noah Brown to

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Speaker 1: the Texans, and you know, Mary Cooper is long gone.

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Speaker 1: He's up in Cleveland now, so it'll be interesting to

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Speaker 1: see what level of pursuit there is for Beckham. You know,

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Speaker 1: he kind of stopped the season midway through when you know, oh,

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Speaker 1: I'm ready, let me, let me tour the NFL, let

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Speaker 1: me look at some team. Remember that beck And what

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00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 1: was that November? He's walking, you know, he's checking out teams.

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Speaker 1: He's down in Dallas, he's like here in Buffalo, right,

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Speaker 1: And then it was patently obvious that, you know, his

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Speaker 1: knee was in no condition to play after you know,

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Speaker 1: suffering the injury on the Super Bowl in mid February.

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Speaker 1: He didn't subject himself to a physical, which there's no

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Speaker 1: way a team's going to sign him unless he does.

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Speaker 1: And so it was obviously it was going to be

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Speaker 1: this season. It was. And I get a smart moved

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Speaker 1: by him. If there's somebody out there who wanted to

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Speaker 1: sign him, okay, and he'd take the money. If not,

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Speaker 1: you just get ready for this one and have a

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Speaker 1: pro day, and which he did, and he excelled at

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Speaker 1: He looked good and it's ready to go. I'm I

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Speaker 1: think that I can still play. Yeah, I would agree

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Speaker 1: with that. I think he can. By all accounts, his

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Speaker 1: workout went pretty well, that he had in front of

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Speaker 1: a bunch of teams that came to watch him work out.

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Speaker 1: The interesting thing was, we had heard through the grapevine

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Speaker 1: that the Cowboys wanted Beckham to come work out for

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Speaker 1: them privately, and I guess Beckham decided, no, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to do it in front of everybody, and why wouldn't you?

637
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, just do it for the

638
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: whole pool and put people there. We have to take

639
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: a break here because when we come back, we're gonna

640
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: be joined by Buffalo's newest wide receiver, one Trend Shurefield,

641
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,280
Speaker 1: will be on the air with us in studio next

642
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,399
Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live presented by Klota Health. It's

643
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back to One Bills Live.

644
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and please to be

645
00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: joined now in studio by your newest wide receiver on

646
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 1: the roster, one Trend Shurefield, who put pen to paper

647
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: like just what an hour and a half ago, just

648
00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:46,920
Speaker 1: got it done. And that begs the question, Trent, because

649
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: you know you put up some of the best numbers

650
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,439
Speaker 1: of your career as a receiver in Miami last year.

651
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,360
Speaker 1: I know you had a good rapport with Tuah, maybe

652
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,160
Speaker 1: just walk me through how this kind of unfolded and

653
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:03,280
Speaker 1: how Buffalo became your next yesterday, Yeah, man, free agency,

654
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,520
Speaker 1: it was it was wild for me. Um, you know

655
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:10,320
Speaker 1: the first week, um, or the first couple of days,

656
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: you know, we had some different teams interested. Um. You know,

657
00:36:13,719 --> 00:36:15,359
Speaker 1: my my agent had brought up the fact that he

658
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: had met with the Bills, you know, at the combine,

659
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,240
Speaker 1: and he said that they you know, that they were interested,

660
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 1: that they were you know, you know, really high on me.

661
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,560
Speaker 1: And um, you know after that, a couple of days

662
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 1: goes goes by. UM, don't really hear anything from them

663
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,319
Speaker 1: until I think about like maybe I think it was

664
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,120
Speaker 1: maybe Tuesday or somewhere around there, and last week and

665
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 1: Tuesday or last week, and um, you know, once once

666
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: they came into the picture, it was just it was

667
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 1: a no brainer to obviously put them at the top

668
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:45,880
Speaker 1: of the teams that I wanted to you know, uh

669
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: come to and UM, I just just it was a

670
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: no brainerd to no brainer. We watched, we watched from

671
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:57,359
Speaker 1: up here as last year after the Bills game, right

672
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: as a stretch when tour came back after Yeah, the

673
00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: Cincinnati concussion that he got right after the Bills game,

674
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,839
Speaker 1: short week, got out of the came back, and then

675
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: your offense down in Miami really caught fire. Yeah, we were.

676
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: It was like at the highest level of the league

677
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 1: for about a stretch, for about four or five six games,

678
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: about third of the season, you guys were really flying high.

679
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,720
Speaker 1: Did you notice and the difference, I mean, what happened

680
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:21,800
Speaker 1: in that little stretch there when Too was healthy and

681
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 1: you guys were clicking. I think, honestly, I think we

682
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: kind of because we were we were we were playing

683
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:30,280
Speaker 1: some pretty good ball early early on UM and obviously

684
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 1: with the system being so new. UM, I think that

685
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,280
Speaker 1: once we kind of got you know, towards the middle

686
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,360
Speaker 1: of the season, I think that we kind of started

687
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 1: to feel our groove a little bit. And once once

688
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,120
Speaker 1: once we hit those strides, it was like it was

689
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 1: like it was only because I feel like guys were

690
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: starting to figure out, you know, the plays tours, are

691
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: starting to get comfortable with the receivers um and everything

692
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: like that. So I think that's what that's that's what transpired.

693
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 1: You said, once the Bills came into the picture, it

694
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: was a no brainer. What what made it a no

695
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: brainer for you what was so appealing. I think I

696
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: see playing playing playing the Bills three times last year, um,

697
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 1: you know, getting the field you know, at the stadium,

698
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: and um having to you know when when the Bills

699
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 1: was on the schedule for the for the for the

700
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: you know, for that fault that week. You know, you

701
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: had to get up every single day and you had

702
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: to be ready. And I think that, um, that's something

703
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 1: that's intertwined in my DNA. And I think that everything

704
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 1: that the Bills stand for and the culture, um, the

705
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: blue collar noess of you know, of this team is

706
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: is something that I live by and that's why. And

707
00:38:29,719 --> 00:38:32,359
Speaker 1: then everything on top of that, this is the chair

708
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 1: on top with the offense, you know, Josh Allen and

709
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,560
Speaker 1: the explosiveness of the of the offense is something that's

710
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: really because the thing that happens here and you guys,

711
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 1: uh got McDaniel last year, and you know you got that.

712
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: Good coaches in the NFL play to their players strength

713
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: and the Dolphin offense is built around two and his strength.

714
00:38:50,719 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: Yea same thing here in Buffalo, but they're very different. Yeah,

715
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: So what do you got, you know, kind of articulate

716
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:57,799
Speaker 1: what you see as a player and what you know

717
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 1: when you're looking at the Bills coming into play, the

718
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: Bills and their offense and what it was like with

719
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 1: the Miami offense and the differences and what you expect

720
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 1: to be different for you as a receiver. Yeah, I know.

721
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: I know one thing for certain that I know that's

722
00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 1: going to be different is the timing. Miami was all timing,

723
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,360
Speaker 1: like you had to be in the rights or in

724
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 1: the right spout at the right time, and you know,

725
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:22,399
Speaker 1: quarterback was dropping back and he was letting the ball

726
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:24,280
Speaker 1: go like no matter if he was there, if you weren't,

727
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: Like it's just all timed and trust. And I know

728
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:28,839
Speaker 1: that that's still kind of the same thing here with

729
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:31,479
Speaker 1: Buffalo as well too. But I think with Josh allen

730
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: Wood his ability to extend plays and to be able

731
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,360
Speaker 1: to make nothing out of something. I think that what

732
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 1: I know that I have to be ready for is

733
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: that I can run a route and the ball might

734
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:42,879
Speaker 1: not come to me, but that doesn't mean the route

735
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:44,799
Speaker 1: is over. Like I have to be able to get

736
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: ready to you know, do scram with drill, you know,

737
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 1: find soft zones and you know, be quarterback friendly for Josh. So, yeah,

738
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 1: you mentioned the culture here, which I think for Bills

739
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: fans is well known. I'm curious, like from the outside

740
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:01,800
Speaker 1: looking in, which you were one of those people, because

741
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: you weren't here embedded with this team on a daily basis.

742
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 1: You're you know, just reading up on you. You're known

743
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 1: as a grinder, like you embraced the grind. It's not like,

744
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:15,720
Speaker 1: oh man, I got practice again today, You're like, let's go, Um,

745
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 1: that's gonna work. Really, I don't know how long you

746
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:24,319
Speaker 1: spent with coach McDermott, but that guy's a grinder with

747
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 1: a capital GS. So when you have a head coach

748
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 1: that you know has that kind of approach to the game,

749
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: how much does that encourage you? Knowing that, as you

750
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 1: said earlier, is part of your own DNA. Yeah, I

751
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: think it encouraged me. Encouraged me a lot. I think

752
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: that you know, with me, you know, coming from me,

753
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:46,359
Speaker 1: coming from Arizona. Um did three years in Arizona, did

754
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:48,880
Speaker 1: one year in Sarah Frere, and obviously just did one

755
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 1: year in Miami, and they coming here, it's like almost

756
00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: like finding the home, you know, and finding the right

757
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,200
Speaker 1: group of people, right coaching staff and somebody like you know,

758
00:40:57,239 --> 00:40:59,680
Speaker 1: coach McDermot, who did spent some time with. We had

759
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: a great conversation and you can just tell that we're

760
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 1: cut from the same cloth. And I just think that,

761
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: you know, with him having that mentality of you know, grinding,

762
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: because I believe that you don't get anything without work.

763
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:12,319
Speaker 1: You know, you don't get anything without putting the right,

764
00:41:12,400 --> 00:41:14,320
Speaker 1: the right, the right, the right amount of work in

765
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: and being processed oriented. And I can feel that you

766
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: know from Sean, and I know that because I've seen

767
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: the way that these guys play, played against them three times,

768
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:27,879
Speaker 1: and it's just when you're in the league and you see, uh,

769
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: these teams and you feel these teams that you're playing against,

770
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,439
Speaker 1: it all goes predicated back to what what, how they're

771
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: being coached, and you can just tell I didn't even

772
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: have to meet Sean. I already knew what type of

773
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: guy who was because of the way that these guys

774
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:45,879
Speaker 1: play here. So you came out undrafted rookie free agent

775
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:47,759
Speaker 1: in Arizona. You kind of found out the hard way

776
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:50,919
Speaker 1: what it's like to be an UDF RFA, right because

777
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 1: you had some draft picks ahead of the same year

778
00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 1: as you and you hadn't played behind him and then

779
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:58,359
Speaker 1: you got caught up in that. UM went to San

780
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: Francisco after that and a year in Miami. Give us

781
00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: a night and plus earlier on your your quarterback. Yeah,

782
00:42:05,320 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: my high school. You started out in high school quarterback.

783
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,239
Speaker 1: So give us give us that brief synopsis of beat

784
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 1: going from undrafted uh back and forth between defensive back

785
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: and quarter and wide receiver in college at Vanderbilt. Yeah,

786
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:20,920
Speaker 1: so it took a while to settle down. Yeah, it did,

787
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 1: it did. Um. Even when I when I was coming

788
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:26,440
Speaker 1: out of school, I played dB and I was playing quarterbacks.

789
00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: Some teams wanted to offer for me, offer me as

790
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:31,359
Speaker 1: a quarterback. Some teams wanted to offer me as a dB, UM,

791
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: but none of them wanted to offer me as a receiver.

792
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 1: On my go to Vandy, UM, I got offered. I

793
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: was committed under James Franklin UM at the time, and Um,

794
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 1: they see me as a dB. But in the middle

795
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 1: of you know, my transition and going to school, they

796
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 1: would like, no, we want to switch you to receiver. Obviously,

797
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: James Franklin leaves and then Mason comes in. Coach Derek Mason,

798
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 1: he comes in, takes over the job, and he's like, no,

799
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 1: we see you as a dB. So okay, now I'm

800
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:57,879
Speaker 1: going back to dB. So we go from my official visit,

801
00:42:58,040 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: I sit down and I talk winning face to face.

802
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,840
Speaker 1: He says that we're dB. He wants me to, you know,

803
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:05,319
Speaker 1: play dB a couple of weeks ago by Hatred who

804
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: wants you to go to receiver? Okay, so go to receiver. UM,

805
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: go through that. You know, I was horrible my freshman

806
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 1: or I had no idea what I was doing because

807
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: I never played the position. Um that with coach Hankton

808
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: quartet Hanton, who's UM with LSU right now. Um, he

809
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: developed my game, you know, gave me some porters. And

810
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:26,800
Speaker 1: then I get to Arizona and I'm with Larry Fitzgerald. Um,

811
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: and I'm spending a lot of time with him, Larry Fitzgerald,

812
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 1: Andre Roberts. I was spending a lot of time with

813
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: those guys over the summer training and adopted some of

814
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 1: the things that Larry does when he was training, and um,

815
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 1: it's kind of taking my game to the next level.

816
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,439
Speaker 1: You feel like you've kind of got Do you feel

817
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,200
Speaker 1: like a wide receiver now? Because I know it's like

818
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: you switched back and forth. It's like, yeah, you know

819
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: it was my home. You don't even feel comfortable. Yeah, yeah, no,

820
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:52,880
Speaker 1: I definitely, I definitely, um, definitely feel like I'm a

821
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:55,399
Speaker 1: wide receiver for sure. I think that. Um. I'm so

822
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 1: grateful that, you know, I had the opportunity to play

823
00:43:57,600 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: last year, to really put some great things on tape.

824
00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 1: I'm just so excited to just continue to just keep

825
00:44:03,040 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 1: busting through ceilings because I know that last year what

826
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,920
Speaker 1: I did was only just a just a scratch of

827
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 1: the scratch of the surface of what I can do.

828
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 1: I noticed way more out there for me, So I'm

829
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,879
Speaker 1: excited too. You mentioned a lot of your mentors there,

830
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 1: Derek Mason, NFL receiver, Cortez Hankton, Jordan Matthews, I know

831
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: another Vandy guys, guy that's in your ears. Sometimes they're

832
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 1: helping you out all the time. You know, he actually

833
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 1: spent a little time here near the end of his career.

834
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: And then you mentioned Larry Fitzgerald Hall of Famer, and

835
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: Wes Welker, who you had in San France. Yeah, that's

836
00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:39,000
Speaker 1: a pretty good list. Like how much did you try

837
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 1: to You know, you're your own man, you're your own receiver.

838
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 1: But still there's stuff you can pull from each one

839
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 1: of those guys. Do you have Do you feel like

840
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 1: now you're pretty much a veteran now, do you feel

841
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: like you have a full toolbox you know, to work

842
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: with now at receiver? No, absolutely, I feel like I

843
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 1: definitely feel like I do. I think that one thing

844
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: that I always made sure of is that I kind

845
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:06,360
Speaker 1: of backtracking a little bit. I feel like my mentors

846
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 1: and everybody that I've kind of encountered with in my

847
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:11,080
Speaker 1: in the league and stuff like that has been It's been.

848
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 1: It's been a blessing because I've been able to play

849
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:16,600
Speaker 1: with such great receivers. I've been able to play with

850
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,200
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald, I've been able to play with Tyreek Hill.

851
00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 1: You know, now I'm gonna be able to get the

852
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:23,360
Speaker 1: chance to play with Stefan Diggs. Like these are receivers

853
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: are going to be talked about, you know, forever, you know,

854
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 1: and so UM, I always try to make sure that

855
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:31,840
Speaker 1: my ears are opened and always listening because they've they've

856
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: done things that you know, they've been in this league longer,

857
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,760
Speaker 1: They've seen things, and um, they've you know, done different

858
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 1: things that you know, I have to you know, be

859
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 1: you know, be attentive to and listen to, because um,

860
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 1: you know I don't have all the answers, and I

861
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 1: know I don't have all the answers, and um, you know,

862
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:50,280
Speaker 1: I'm just always making sure I'm ready to readily, inaccessible,

863
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: you know, to learn. And um, I feel like I

864
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: got a pretty good toolbox, but it's always open to

865
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: you know, take something out and you know, put put

866
00:45:57,200 --> 00:45:59,439
Speaker 1: something in there and what has whatever give us your

867
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: idea you're if you can or insight is you know,

868
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: I know you've talked to your coaches. You know, what

869
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 1: are they telling you about your role here? What it's

870
00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 1: gonna be like for you into the beginning. Yeah, I

871
00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:10,840
Speaker 1: mean I think that they they're bringing well I was

872
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: lated to hear that, you know, they're they They're not

873
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: bringing me here just for special teams. They want me

874
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,760
Speaker 1: to come and play offense, you know, play receiver, and um,

875
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:19,319
Speaker 1: you know they're gonna give me, give me a chance.

876
00:46:19,360 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: I think more more so, it's gonna be more in

877
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: the slot. And I'm excited about that because I feel like,

878
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 1: you know, playing in the slot, being a bigger body

879
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 1: in the slot and being able to run and you know,

880
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:30,880
Speaker 1: do all those different things. And I feel like the

881
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 1: nickel versus the receiver you know, in this league is

882
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: a mismatch, you know, because being able to run, being

883
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 1: big and being decisive for routes, and then you just

884
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 1: add that and just playing with Josh Allen and you know,

885
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:44,399
Speaker 1: with the plays that we have, it's just it's gonna

886
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. So I'm excited. Nothing is guaranteed. Well,

887
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: obviously I got to go out and work for it

888
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:49,960
Speaker 1: and earn my job and earn my stripes and so

889
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 1: ready you're gonna you're gonna get used to scramble, drip.

890
00:46:54,960 --> 00:47:00,600
Speaker 1: Absolutely perspective. Yeah, this is a perspective question. You're a

891
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 1: new dad. Congrats trend Junior. Right just yea hands and

892
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 1: kissing baby for a minute. He was like gonna you know,

893
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:12,919
Speaker 1: he wasn't gonna have time for but he was good.

894
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:15,359
Speaker 1: He put up with me. Fine, yeah for him. So

895
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: the question here is, you know, you you're you're gunning

896
00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 1: for this career and you're grinding and you're doing all

897
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:24,440
Speaker 1: of this, and you know you're you're you're staying in

898
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:28,400
Speaker 1: the league. You've established yourself and now you're a dad. Ye,

899
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 1: just maybe walk me through as you're getting ready for

900
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:36,080
Speaker 1: your first season as your dad. How has your perspective change?

901
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:38,239
Speaker 1: Because I know you didn't have the easiest upbringing. You

902
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 1: had a lot of obstacles putting your way coming up.

903
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:44,799
Speaker 1: I imagine you want none of those kinds of obstacles

904
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,400
Speaker 1: for your own kids. So how has your perspective as

905
00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 1: a professional player changed now that you're a new dad?

906
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 1: It changed a lot. I mean I think that, um,

907
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 1: you know. For for one, I think that you know,

908
00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 1: football used to always be number one. It was always

909
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: like a it was, it was before everything, you know.

910
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:06,480
Speaker 1: And um, I say that carefully because I always put God,

911
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,080
Speaker 1: God first always in my life for you know, number one.

912
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:12,759
Speaker 1: But um, you know, I think that I've kind of

913
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 1: realized that, you know, now I have a son, and

914
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 1: I think that you know, not to take away from

915
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 1: you know, what I do on the you know what

916
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: I do, you know for football, but I think that

917
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: you know, having my son and you know, thinking about

918
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 1: the things like you just like you mentioned, you know

919
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:27,120
Speaker 1: the way that I grew up and you know, raising

920
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: him the right way and doing those things come first now,

921
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 1: you know. Um, making sure that you know when I'm

922
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:35,359
Speaker 1: done with football, now I'm coming home and football is over,

923
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 1: like it's off my mind. It's you know, I'm not

924
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not concerned about what happened at work

925
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:41,399
Speaker 1: or whatever it may be. You know. So I kind

926
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: of adopted this, this little thing that I do. You know,

927
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:46,360
Speaker 1: you know, when I go home or get in the shower,

928
00:48:46,960 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 1: you know, I wash everything off from the day. And

929
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 1: now you know, I'm now being a dad, Now I'm

930
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 1: being a husband. You know, those things exactly right, you know,

931
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:56,359
Speaker 1: because I struggle with that for a little bit before

932
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:59,399
Speaker 1: we even had my son. You know, it was because

933
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 1: I was working hard and I was getting you know, shorthanded,

934
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:04,399
Speaker 1: and I was like, man, well why doesn't this happened?

935
00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 1: Why isn't this happened or whatever it may be. But

936
00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 1: I just kind of have to learn just to embrace

937
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 1: the process. And this is my story. And you know,

938
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 1: I'm not the only one that's had this story, you know.

939
00:49:13,080 --> 00:49:15,720
Speaker 1: And I find little positives in my in my store.

940
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 1: You know, I've I've I've been undrafted, but you know,

941
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 1: I've never been cut. I've never been you know, on

942
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: the practice squad. I've made the team every single year. Um,

943
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: you know, I've always played, you know, I've only been inactive,

944
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:29,080
Speaker 1: you know, my my rookie year. Every other year I've

945
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,720
Speaker 1: I've dressed out, you know, So those type of things

946
00:49:31,840 --> 00:49:34,600
Speaker 1: give me the motivation to keep going. And now having

947
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 1: my son gets me that too. You're having a family.

948
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 1: A family can be a plus for your kiss. You know,

949
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:42,399
Speaker 1: you can say that work like all of a sudden,

950
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:45,799
Speaker 1: you gotta do some others. Actually, it's gives you a

951
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 1: greater sense of motivation and also a greater purpose for

952
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 1: what you do. I actually I can relate to that. Yeah,

953
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 1: for sure. Awesome, man's crazy. Thanks for coming on graduation.

954
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,759
Speaker 1: Glad you're here, absolutely thanks to having me. Yeah, good luck.

955
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 1: Getting ready to go around everyone play. That is Bill's

956
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:06,000
Speaker 1: newest wide receiver, Tran Scherfield joining us here in studio

957
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live. Our number two coming up after

958
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 1: these messages. Stay tuned. This is One Bill's Live, presented

959
00:50:57,640 --> 00:51:01,440
Speaker 1: by called Light of Health. Alrighty, then here we are

960
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: on our number two on a Monday, One Bills Live.

961
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:06,880
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve tasking with you a good conversation we

962
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 1: just had with Tren Shurfield. If you missed it, you

963
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:13,880
Speaker 1: can always pick up the show on re rack. Another

964
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 1: one of those guys that's it seems we didn't, you know,

965
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:19,399
Speaker 1: I've spent ten minutes with him a couple of hours ago.

966
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 1: We were talking to him and his family and his

967
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 1: family and just one more guy that's going to be

968
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:27,560
Speaker 1: so fun to root for, you know, He's just one

969
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 1: of those guys. It's interesting if you look at the

970
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 1: cross section of the receivers that they have signed to

971
00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:39,000
Speaker 1: this point. You got an former undrafted guy in tren

972
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: Shirfield who has literally fought his way from the bottom

973
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:47,880
Speaker 1: up just to scratch and claw to get on rosters

974
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:50,319
Speaker 1: and to get playing time on Sundays. As you heard

975
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 1: him say, he's never been inactive, never been on a

976
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:59,160
Speaker 1: practice squad, and a guy that just totally embraces the

977
00:51:59,239 --> 00:52:02,280
Speaker 1: grind every single day. And then you have Deontay Hardy,

978
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:06,759
Speaker 1: who was a Division two player and his five six,

979
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy pounds and was probably laughed at

980
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 1: more than once when he talked about playing in the NFL.

981
00:52:12,960 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 1: And for some reason, players like that more often than

982
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:22,680
Speaker 1: not thrive under Sean McDermott and his staff and to

983
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:26,520
Speaker 1: what degree we'll see, and a lot like Surefield has

984
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 1: done so far, I think, and this is one of

985
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 1: the things that have been a hallmark about McDermott and

986
00:52:32,840 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 1: being signings a little bit like this too, if you

987
00:52:35,040 --> 00:52:37,960
Speaker 1: get what I mean. They haven't reached the top end yet.

988
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:40,919
Speaker 1: I mean, Surefields still getting better. He had his best

989
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:44,000
Speaker 1: year as a pro last year. Yeah, And you know

990
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 1: in that AF he's playing behind Hill and Waddle and

991
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 1: the you know, the word has it too that when

992
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:52,040
Speaker 1: he was with Arizona he got caught up in the

993
00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 1: politics of oh yeah, of a poorly run franchise. Well,

994
00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 1: they drafted three drafted he came in, They drafted three receivers.

995
00:53:00,320 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 1: He comes in and out plays at least a couple

996
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: of them, if not all of them. And because the

997
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:09,840
Speaker 1: GM doesn't want to look like a goof yeah, he

998
00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:11,800
Speaker 1: tells them, you know, not to play. There's no longer

999
00:53:11,840 --> 00:53:14,319
Speaker 1: there by the way, right, So then he goes there,

1000
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 1: He goes to San Francisco for a year and then

1001
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:19,680
Speaker 1: pops over to Miami and makes the team as like

1002
00:53:19,719 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 1: the number three behind Waddle and Hill. Yes, I mean,

1003
00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 1: let's not forget. In the last two years the Dolphins

1004
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:31,319
Speaker 1: have traded away. In the last calendar year, they've traded

1005
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:36,719
Speaker 1: away DeVante Parker. They did not resign Preston Williams, who

1006
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 1: was at six sixth receiver who could actually run a

1007
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:43,240
Speaker 1: little bit too, and they got rid of Albert Wilson,

1008
00:53:43,440 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 1: a veteran receiver. Surefield, in their mind, was better than

1009
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 1: all of them. Yeah, and what I found most interesting

1010
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 1: and I didn't want to make him too uncomfortable, but

1011
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 1: like you read some stories at the end of the

1012
00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 1: season about the Dolphins team, even after the season was over,

1013
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 1: and two is like, yeah, we'd love to have him back.

1014
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 1: He made a difference for us. Yeah, we're going places

1015
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 1: with him in our offense. And now he's not there.

1016
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:14,480
Speaker 1: Yeah he's playing for your division rival. Yeah. You really

1017
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 1: feel like he's one of those signs. I'm not saying

1018
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 1: it's transformational or anything for the Bill's offense, but you

1019
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:24,799
Speaker 1: get a notch better here in Buffalo, and there's no

1020
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:29,359
Speaker 1: question Miami gets a notch worse because this guy made

1021
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:33,759
Speaker 1: some plays for them. Yeah, and uh yeah, so it's

1022
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 1: you know, not for nothing that counts for something as well.

1023
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:40,320
Speaker 1: But if you read up and then read this guy's story,

1024
00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:46,279
Speaker 1: you know he's he's got some work gloves. Yeah, he's

1025
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 1: he really puts in some time and has really made

1026
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:50,880
Speaker 1: himself into what he has become as a five year

1027
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,920
Speaker 1: veteran in the NFL. There's nothing to sneeze at right.

1028
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:57,719
Speaker 1: We're taking your phone calls at eight oh three five

1029
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:01,399
Speaker 1: fifty one eight fifty two fifty number to get on board.

1030
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 1: What is your assessment of this bill's receiving core following

1031
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:09,799
Speaker 1: the recent editions of Hardy and Sherefield. You knew the

1032
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:12,440
Speaker 1: bills we're going to have to be cost conscious. They

1033
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:14,279
Speaker 1: weren't gonna be able to swing for the fences in

1034
00:55:14,320 --> 00:55:17,200
Speaker 1: free agency, as Brandon being outlined way back in January

1035
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 1: after the season was over, and here we are now.

1036
00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:22,359
Speaker 1: It made a couple of additions. What do you think

1037
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:26,360
Speaker 1: of the receiving corps as a whole? Following those ads

1038
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:28,880
Speaker 1: in free agency? Eight oh three oh five fifty the

1039
00:55:28,920 --> 00:55:32,319
Speaker 1: local number to get on board toll free one eight

1040
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:35,440
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. We go to

1041
00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:38,120
Speaker 1: the phones and leading us off in the second hour

1042
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 1: is Ron in north Tonawanda. What you got for us? Ron?

1043
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 1: You're on one bills live Hi, Chris and Steve. I

1044
00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:46,880
Speaker 1: think you guys are doing a great job. Thank you,

1045
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:52,279
Speaker 1: And going back to a number two receiver to really

1046
00:55:52,320 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 1: think we need, and I think if we got them,

1047
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 1: we'd have two number ones not on one, and a

1048
00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:03,040
Speaker 1: two would be first of all trade at Oliver and

1049
00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:05,279
Speaker 1: maybe either a fifth and a sixth if it took

1050
00:56:05,280 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 1: it to get DeAndre Hopkins from Arizona, because my understanding

1051
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:16,439
Speaker 1: is he's willing to renegotiate his contract, and I think

1052
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 1: on a Surefield signing, I think that was great because

1053
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:24,240
Speaker 1: I think we need somebody that can push Gabe Davis.

1054
00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:29,960
Speaker 1: Yeah that I mean Cape Capez. You know, great spots,

1055
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 1: but he's not consistent. Yeah, the week to week consistency. Yeah, yeah,

1056
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:38,319
Speaker 1: sure Field is a guy that can push him. But

1057
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:40,640
Speaker 1: going back to I think Hopkins would be a great

1058
00:56:40,680 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 1: fit here. Yeah, well, you know what, Hopkins would be

1059
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:46,960
Speaker 1: a great fit on any team that he goes to,

1060
00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 1: including the Arizona Cardinals where he's at right now. The

1061
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:57,800
Speaker 1: guy can really go. He is unbelievable. How it's almost

1062
00:56:57,880 --> 00:57:00,520
Speaker 1: impossible to throw him a ball he can't catch, that's

1063
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:03,839
Speaker 1: how good his hands are. He's big enough, fast enough,

1064
00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 1: he's very savvy. He's he's an incredible player on a

1065
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 1: contested ball, no question about it. And he's a four

1066
00:57:11,239 --> 00:57:14,359
Speaker 1: time All pro right, Ron, He's here's no question about it,

1067
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:17,840
Speaker 1: trading Ed Oliver for DeAndre Hopkins. There's a lot of

1068
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 1: moving parts into that. First and foremost would be there's

1069
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:24,680
Speaker 1: no way Arizona's gonna trade DeAndre Hopkins for ed Oliver

1070
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 1: because Ed Oliver's Yeah, it's not gonna happen straight up,

1071
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:29,960
Speaker 1: because ed Oliver's on the last year of his contract

1072
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 1: coming up. So if Arizona can rework ed Oliver's contract

1073
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:40,880
Speaker 1: and Buffalo can fit DeAndre Hopkins under their cap somehow way,

1074
00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:43,480
Speaker 1: shape or form and rework that deal, plus come to

1075
00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 1: compensation terms on some if it's Ed Oliver plus okay,

1076
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:49,680
Speaker 1: what is the plus? Okay? Is it gonna be plus

1077
00:57:49,680 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: a five and a six plus a five plus all

1078
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 1: of that. There's a lot of moving parts, and certainly

1079
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 1: that's what you pay GMS for, is to walk through

1080
00:57:57,560 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. And we're in the no time

1081
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 1: constraints here. Get it done if they can be done.

1082
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:06,560
Speaker 1: But if it's not happening, it's because either Arizona is

1083
00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 1: asking too much or Buffalo is not offering enough whatever.

1084
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 1: So there's your there's your problem. Certainly, that conversation has

1085
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 1: without question taken place, because that's what these gems do.

1086
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 1: I mean they talk to each other, and I mean

1087
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:27,320
Speaker 1: you kick the tires if you hear DeAndre Hopkins is available.

1088
00:58:27,760 --> 00:58:31,000
Speaker 1: It's malpractice if you don't check out what the asking

1089
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 1: price is. So you can bet those have happened, and

1090
00:58:33,960 --> 00:58:37,520
Speaker 1: if it hasn't happened yet, there's a really good reason why.

1091
00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:43,240
Speaker 1: And it's got to do with compensation both ways. Right,

1092
00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 1: So as as late as March, as recently as March ninth,

1093
00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 1: of course, you know per Ron's comment about Hopkins being

1094
00:58:52,360 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 1: willing to renegotiate his current contract. There was thought that

1095
00:58:58,360 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, because there was talked down there, Oh they're

1096
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:05,280
Speaker 1: trying to trade for a veteran wide receiver. Everybody assumed

1097
00:59:05,280 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 1: it was DeAndre Hopkins. It wound up being Brandon Cooks.

1098
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:14,040
Speaker 1: So there was there were questions being raised, Hey, would

1099
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:18,960
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins rework his contract for a potential trade, and

1100
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 1: the general consensus was that he would be knowing the

1101
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:28,880
Speaker 1: teams probably wouldn't want to spread his money out because

1102
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 1: his base salary this year is nineteen four five, so

1103
00:59:34,960 --> 00:59:38,040
Speaker 1: and then the next year it's fourteen nine. Bills can't

1104
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:41,280
Speaker 1: accommodate something like that, So you would have to get

1105
00:59:42,120 --> 00:59:44,400
Speaker 1: a lot of that base money put into a bonus,

1106
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:46,600
Speaker 1: and then you're probably gonna have to tack on another

1107
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:49,560
Speaker 1: year on that contract or two or two. And now

1108
00:59:49,600 --> 00:59:52,000
Speaker 1: you're getting into his age thirty three and age thirty

1109
00:59:52,000 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 1: four season, and that's I mean, he's the he's the

1110
00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 1: same agor a year older than he's thirty one, a

1111
00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:04,120
Speaker 1: year older. You're older than Diggs already. Um yeah, there's

1112
01:00:04,120 --> 01:00:06,720
Speaker 1: a lot in that, And I don't know that. I

1113
01:00:06,760 --> 01:00:09,680
Speaker 1: don't think it's smart for the Bill. I know it's

1114
01:00:09,800 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 1: great you he's a player that you'd love and he's available.

1115
01:00:13,280 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 1: So it's like Obj. You know he's available and he's

1116
01:00:15,520 --> 01:00:18,560
Speaker 1: a player, but the compensation you gotta give him doesn't

1117
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:20,480
Speaker 1: fit with where your team's at and where your roster's

1118
01:00:20,480 --> 01:00:23,120
Speaker 1: at right now. And it's frustrating not to be able

1119
01:00:23,160 --> 01:00:25,960
Speaker 1: to just go out and buy these guys. But you

1120
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:29,400
Speaker 1: have to have discipline as well. Um, ob j is awesome,

1121
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:35,240
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins is awesome. You know, you gotta you gotta

1122
01:00:35,400 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 1: somebody gotta turn the spicket off once and numbers. You

1123
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:41,480
Speaker 1: gotta work it with the numbers and not every not

1124
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:43,680
Speaker 1: every guy that's available is going to be able to,

1125
01:00:43,920 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 1: you know, be on your shopping list. Um. Now, don't

1126
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:51,800
Speaker 1: get me wrong, those guys are great, and there's some

1127
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:55,520
Speaker 1: difference makers or have been in the past and could

1128
01:00:55,520 --> 01:00:58,320
Speaker 1: be in the future. But man, oh man, you gotta

1129
01:00:58,400 --> 01:01:01,800
Speaker 1: get guys that are gonna outre form their contracts. And

1130
01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:05,160
Speaker 1: if DeAndre Hopkins is looking at that coming to Buffalo,

1131
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:07,760
Speaker 1: he may be good, but he would have a hard

1132
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 1: time living up to the numbers on that contract as

1133
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:13,760
Speaker 1: it currently sits, no matter how well he played, given

1134
01:01:13,840 --> 01:01:16,920
Speaker 1: Digs is going to be there, and you know Josh

1135
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 1: and all that, you know, they the weapons at the

1136
01:01:18,560 --> 01:01:21,680
Speaker 1: other weapons on the offense. As far as what the

1137
01:01:21,800 --> 01:01:26,000
Speaker 1: Cardinals are reportedly asking for, they are interested in draft picks,

1138
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:30,560
Speaker 1: primarily builds on a half six of them. Yeah. So

1139
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:33,680
Speaker 1: some reports are claiming that the Cardinals are only asking

1140
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 1: for a second round pick. Others are saying a conditional

1141
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:41,160
Speaker 1: pick or a player in addition to a second round

1142
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:45,800
Speaker 1: pick for Hopkins. So I think, yeah, I mean, I

1143
01:01:45,840 --> 01:01:48,320
Speaker 1: would we always talk about this, How fun would it be?

1144
01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:52,480
Speaker 1: I mean, would you say, all right, we'll take Hopkins

1145
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:55,880
Speaker 1: and give you a two but you gotta take half

1146
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:59,640
Speaker 1: his salary, you know what I mean. Yeah, you gotta

1147
01:01:59,680 --> 01:02:02,640
Speaker 1: take you gotta pay, you gotta pay some. We'll take

1148
01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:05,040
Speaker 1: half of the two years in that contract, not all

1149
01:02:05,080 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 1: of them, you know what I'm saying. And I don't

1150
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:09,880
Speaker 1: know that Arizona would be like, no, they're not doing that.

1151
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:13,640
Speaker 1: So then there were you at So yeah, it all

1152
01:02:13,680 --> 01:02:15,720
Speaker 1: sounds great until you start getting down to the nitty

1153
01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:18,240
Speaker 1: gritty and somebody has to get paid and if you

1154
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:21,840
Speaker 1: don't want to be the one to pay him. There

1155
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:30,200
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, yeah, it's not easy. It's a tough one. Yeah,

1156
01:02:30,200 --> 01:02:33,440
Speaker 1: I'm with the fans. I mean, DeAndre Hopkins gets awesome,

1157
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:36,040
Speaker 1: but he's a little older than he was the last

1158
01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:38,480
Speaker 1: time around with this, you know when he was out

1159
01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 1: there when he got traded from Houston. He's a little

1160
01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:45,720
Speaker 1: older than that. It's making a ton of cash and

1161
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:48,120
Speaker 1: I don't know that he would be and I think

1162
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:51,120
Speaker 1: he'd help, no question, But I don't know if it's

1163
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:53,720
Speaker 1: it's not worth that money. I know that I don't

1164
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:56,880
Speaker 1: think it's not worth that money. In those draft picks, yeah,

1165
01:02:57,000 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 1: it's not worth the money. So I know it's not

1166
01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:01,000
Speaker 1: worth the money. Plus the draft picksure get up. Yeah,

1167
01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:05,160
Speaker 1: But NFL Networks and Rappaport did report last week that

1168
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:09,360
Speaker 1: Hopkins would be open to adjusting the last two years

1169
01:03:09,360 --> 01:03:12,400
Speaker 1: of his deal, which I already outlined for you. He's

1170
01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:17,400
Speaker 1: basically got almost nineteen and a half in base salary

1171
01:03:17,520 --> 01:03:22,880
Speaker 1: this year and almost fifteen next year, and NFL Networks

1172
01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:25,720
Speaker 1: I and Rappaport was reporting that Hopkins would be open

1173
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:28,680
Speaker 1: to adjusting the last two years of his deal rather

1174
01:03:28,760 --> 01:03:31,160
Speaker 1: than demand the new top of the market contract upon

1175
01:03:31,200 --> 01:03:33,280
Speaker 1: being traded to a new team. So I think he

1176
01:03:33,360 --> 01:03:36,800
Speaker 1: knows where he's at in his career too. And hey, dude,

1177
01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:38,640
Speaker 1: you want to go to a winner or a team

1178
01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:40,800
Speaker 1: you could help put over the top, Yeah, think about that.

1179
01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:44,400
Speaker 1: Rework your deal be a little bit more affordable so

1180
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:47,840
Speaker 1: you can go to one of those teams. Because invariably

1181
01:03:47,880 --> 01:03:49,840
Speaker 1: you want to play with a top quarterback, you're probably

1182
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 1: gonna have to make a couple of concessions on your

1183
01:03:51,640 --> 01:03:53,720
Speaker 1: own salary, knowing how much of the cap that guy's

1184
01:03:53,760 --> 01:03:57,320
Speaker 1: gobbling up wherever he is. That's right, It's it's going

1185
01:03:57,360 --> 01:04:00,480
Speaker 1: to come down to af. DeAndre Hopkins somehow, some way

1186
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:03,000
Speaker 1: made it known that he was really going to cut

1187
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:08,920
Speaker 1: all his money in half or more to move to

1188
01:04:09,040 --> 01:04:13,720
Speaker 1: a contender. Maybe it's different, you know, But then again,

1189
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:16,360
Speaker 1: if he's willing to do that, it's not just Buffalo

1190
01:04:16,440 --> 01:04:19,160
Speaker 1: that's on his list. It's Buffalo, it's Kansas City, at Cincinnati,

1191
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 1: it's San Francisco, you know, all these other teams that

1192
01:04:23,960 --> 01:04:28,320
Speaker 1: come into the mix, all those teams that, Yeah, you'd

1193
01:04:28,320 --> 01:04:31,560
Speaker 1: think it sounds great. It's easier said than done. And

1194
01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:33,520
Speaker 1: right now, with where the Bills are on the cap,

1195
01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:36,960
Speaker 1: I think it would they would have to. You gotta

1196
01:04:37,000 --> 01:04:39,960
Speaker 1: move players off the roster to make room for him,

1197
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:43,160
Speaker 1: even on a reworked deal. As I see, it's that

1198
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:45,640
Speaker 1: they can't. Yeah, even if they rework his deal, you

1199
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:52,800
Speaker 1: gotta they gotta jettison some money. So yeah, it's gonna

1200
01:04:52,840 --> 01:04:56,480
Speaker 1: be tough. Safe to say, we're taking your phone calls

1201
01:04:56,560 --> 01:04:59,840
Speaker 1: eight oh three five fifty one, eight fifty two five

1202
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:02,640
Speaker 1: fifty number to get on board. What is your assessment

1203
01:05:02,680 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 1: of the Bills receiving corps following the recent free agent

1204
01:05:06,880 --> 01:05:11,840
Speaker 1: additions Deonte Hardy and Trencherfield. You let us know at

1205
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:15,480
Speaker 1: eight oh three five fifty fifty two five fifty got

1206
01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:17,880
Speaker 1: an open line for you there if you want to

1207
01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:20,800
Speaker 1: get on board, we are going to begin with the

1208
01:05:20,800 --> 01:05:23,240
Speaker 1: tweet sheet today. Tweet sheet brought to you by Corrigan

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01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:27,160
Speaker 1: Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills,

1210
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:32,840
Speaker 1: and Phil says not moving the needle. A few additions

1211
01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:36,960
Speaker 1: that add some speed and yards after the catchability. Maybe

1212
01:05:37,600 --> 01:05:42,720
Speaker 1: downgrade again at position Overall, so far out is Brown, Beasley,

1213
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:49,080
Speaker 1: Crowder dirty in two young vets with limited production. Those

1214
01:05:49,080 --> 01:05:54,919
Speaker 1: are facts. There's no debating that. Brown and Beasley. We're

1215
01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:57,520
Speaker 1: at the end already. They couldn't get a job. Yeah,

1216
01:05:57,600 --> 01:05:59,960
Speaker 1: they're still they were brought back here. I mean they're

1217
01:06:00,080 --> 01:06:04,720
Speaker 1: brought back here on the practice squad. Yeah. Crowder is

1218
01:06:04,800 --> 01:06:08,000
Speaker 1: interesting because he was I went back and watched early

1219
01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:11,840
Speaker 1: games last year before he was starting to he was

1220
01:06:11,920 --> 01:06:14,360
Speaker 1: starting to catch the ball and Josh was finding him

1221
01:06:14,360 --> 01:06:16,800
Speaker 1: in the slot and he was doing some stuff in

1222
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:19,240
Speaker 1: the slot position last year in Crowder had really been

1223
01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:21,680
Speaker 1: a really the best player on the Jets offense up

1224
01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:24,400
Speaker 1: until you know the time. He was while while he

1225
01:06:24,440 --> 01:06:26,760
Speaker 1: was there, and the Bills were interested in him the

1226
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:29,760
Speaker 1: first go round before he signed with the Jets. So

1227
01:06:30,480 --> 01:06:34,240
Speaker 1: you know, maybe they waited, waited out signed him back

1228
01:06:34,600 --> 01:06:40,960
Speaker 1: to compete again. Um, but Brown and Beasley right now,

1229
01:06:41,520 --> 01:06:43,360
Speaker 1: as much as well as they played for the Bills

1230
01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:47,560
Speaker 1: in the past, nobody's beating their door down. I mean

1231
01:06:47,560 --> 01:06:50,600
Speaker 1: they're they're I think they're used up there. They're just

1232
01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:55,320
Speaker 1: guys now, Um, Isaiah McKenzie, you can you can say

1233
01:06:55,720 --> 01:06:58,000
Speaker 1: what you want. I mean, the Hardy seems to be

1234
01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:02,560
Speaker 1: an upgrade from Isam McKenzie, at least production wise, So

1235
01:07:02,680 --> 01:07:06,360
Speaker 1: we'll see. But yeah, it's going to be a different crew.

1236
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:08,480
Speaker 1: We knew that going into the offseason. They're gonna be

1237
01:07:08,480 --> 01:07:10,800
Speaker 1: some new faces and some new names. There's probably going

1238
01:07:10,840 --> 01:07:13,200
Speaker 1: to be a draft pick or two on that side

1239
01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:18,520
Speaker 1: of the ball as well, so they're not finished yet. Yeah.

1240
01:07:18,560 --> 01:07:21,080
Speaker 1: I think the only thing that is different about this

1241
01:07:21,160 --> 01:07:24,320
Speaker 1: group than the group last year was we know less

1242
01:07:24,360 --> 01:07:29,040
Speaker 1: about this group than we've seen from that group that

1243
01:07:29,160 --> 01:07:32,480
Speaker 1: they went into camp with last year, right, And we

1244
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:34,720
Speaker 1: don't really know what the pecking order is going to

1245
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:36,960
Speaker 1: look like. We heard Brandon being say last week he

1246
01:07:37,040 --> 01:07:41,760
Speaker 1: sees Deonte Hardy as a four in this system, which

1247
01:07:42,160 --> 01:07:45,080
Speaker 1: you would understand because of his return ability. You're figuring

1248
01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:47,680
Speaker 1: he's going to factor into the return game presumably as

1249
01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:50,440
Speaker 1: a punt returner. That would leave nihem Hines as your

1250
01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:53,479
Speaker 1: kick returner. And so if he's doing that on special teams,

1251
01:07:53,480 --> 01:07:55,960
Speaker 1: he's probably not playing as much on the offensive side

1252
01:07:55,960 --> 01:07:57,840
Speaker 1: of the ball. So the role of the number four

1253
01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:01,800
Speaker 1: kind of makes sense for Hardy. Shrefield is probably gonna

1254
01:08:01,800 --> 01:08:03,640
Speaker 1: have some kind of a role on special teams in

1255
01:08:03,680 --> 01:08:07,959
Speaker 1: some capacity, but maybe not to the degree that Hardy does,

1256
01:08:08,720 --> 01:08:10,720
Speaker 1: And it sounds as though he's going to have a

1257
01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:14,240
Speaker 1: even greater opportunity to factor in on the offensive side

1258
01:08:14,240 --> 01:08:17,280
Speaker 1: of the ball. Think about this, questions like, if they

1259
01:08:17,280 --> 01:08:20,600
Speaker 1: would have brought Shrefield in last offseason, you would have

1260
01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:22,960
Speaker 1: had question marks about him. But I'll say this, the

1261
01:08:23,040 --> 01:08:25,280
Speaker 1: questions that you might have had about him last year

1262
01:08:25,320 --> 01:08:28,559
Speaker 1: seem to have been answered by the year he had

1263
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Speaker 1: in Miami. He played well for Miami. Certainly he was

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01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:37,439
Speaker 1: down the pecking order for them, but he was on

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01:08:37,479 --> 01:08:39,799
Speaker 1: the field and he was a contributor for a Miami

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01:08:39,840 --> 01:08:43,240
Speaker 1: team that made it to the playoffs. And he was

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Speaker 1: doing it on a team that had like what two

1268
01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:51,920
Speaker 1: number ones and Waddle and Hill. Yeah. Yeah, I think

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01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:54,960
Speaker 1: there are fewer questions about the way Shrefield can play

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01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:56,720
Speaker 1: than some of the other guys we've seen come in

1271
01:08:56,800 --> 01:08:59,559
Speaker 1: here in years past, even when John Brown Cole Beasley

1272
01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:02,960
Speaker 1: came in. Beasley maybe not so much, but John Brown

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01:09:03,080 --> 01:09:07,360
Speaker 1: probably certainly. You probably feel better about Shurefield now that

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01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:09,280
Speaker 1: I've started looking at him and watching his tape and

1275
01:09:09,320 --> 01:09:11,920
Speaker 1: looking at his statistics and all that and read his story.

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01:09:12,400 --> 01:09:15,280
Speaker 1: I like him at this point better than I like

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01:09:15,400 --> 01:09:18,320
Speaker 1: John Brown when they signed him three or four years

1278
01:09:18,320 --> 01:09:22,320
Speaker 1: ago off you know, off the free agent market, right. Yeah,

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01:09:22,360 --> 01:09:25,640
Speaker 1: I mean John Brown was fast. So Shurefield, Yeah, he

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01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:30,080
Speaker 1: can move so and he's bigger, bigger and stronger, and

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01:09:30,080 --> 01:09:32,200
Speaker 1: he's and he's also going to be there talking to

1282
01:09:32,280 --> 01:09:34,360
Speaker 1: him about moving down inside as well a little bit.

1283
01:09:34,360 --> 01:09:37,880
Speaker 1: I Yeah, So I'm I'm pretty high on Shrefield. And

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01:09:37,920 --> 01:09:41,240
Speaker 1: we just heard from the guys from New Orleans last

1285
01:09:41,560 --> 01:09:44,360
Speaker 1: week at the end of last week about Hardy and

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01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:48,200
Speaker 1: they're like, going, man, this guy is he's a dynamic

1287
01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:52,479
Speaker 1: And that was from somebody that was like covering the team, right,

1288
01:09:54,520 --> 01:09:59,880
Speaker 1: So I'm yeah, I'm kind of getting excited about these

1289
01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:03,880
Speaker 1: you guys coming in. And while well it's always my

1290
01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:09,080
Speaker 1: nature to spend this stuff positive, this reeks of a

1291
01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:15,040
Speaker 1: quintessential Brandon being fined well right. And here's the thing

1292
01:10:15,080 --> 01:10:16,920
Speaker 1: you got to remember too. When you're on a budget,

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01:10:18,920 --> 01:10:22,040
Speaker 1: you can't you can't bank on your money in the

1294
01:10:22,120 --> 01:10:24,759
Speaker 1: bank and spend that because you don't have it to spend.

1295
01:10:25,400 --> 01:10:28,200
Speaker 1: You have to bank on potential plus to get a

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01:10:28,240 --> 01:10:32,000
Speaker 1: better value. So instead of banking with literal dollars and

1297
01:10:32,080 --> 01:10:34,400
Speaker 1: cents because you don't have that, with a lack of

1298
01:10:34,479 --> 01:10:37,519
Speaker 1: cap space, you've got to find the diamonds in the rough.

1299
01:10:38,000 --> 01:10:41,559
Speaker 1: That's just as big a risk as signing a thirty

1300
01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:44,759
Speaker 1: one year old that may be on the decline instead

1301
01:10:44,760 --> 01:10:47,960
Speaker 1: of the ascent. So if you have to budget yourself

1302
01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:54,040
Speaker 1: and you know, basically find value in the free agent market,

1303
01:10:54,840 --> 01:10:58,040
Speaker 1: more often than not, you're going to be getting the

1304
01:10:58,120 --> 01:11:01,880
Speaker 1: affordable value with a potential su type player, a player

1305
01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:05,320
Speaker 1: that maybe hasn't peaked yet or is on the ascent

1306
01:11:05,800 --> 01:11:09,040
Speaker 1: or is ready to peek. And you know, as you

1307
01:11:09,160 --> 01:11:11,719
Speaker 1: heard Transcherfield here in studio with us just ten minutes

1308
01:11:11,720 --> 01:11:15,680
Speaker 1: ago or twenty minutes ago, he was saying, I think

1309
01:11:15,680 --> 01:11:18,880
Speaker 1: I'm just scratching the surface. I finally got consistent playing

1310
01:11:18,920 --> 01:11:21,120
Speaker 1: time on the offensive side of the ball last season,

1311
01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:23,400
Speaker 1: and I put some good tape out there, and he did.

1312
01:11:23,520 --> 01:11:25,439
Speaker 1: I mean, there's some good stuff on tape from him

1313
01:11:25,800 --> 01:11:28,000
Speaker 1: in his thirty catch season, which I know doesn't sound

1314
01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:29,639
Speaker 1: like much. And you're like, well, how's this guy gonna

1315
01:11:29,720 --> 01:11:32,719
Speaker 1: change the dynamics of our passing game? Right? I said

1316
01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:35,160
Speaker 1: that he catches sixty balls this year? Who knows? It's

1317
01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:39,120
Speaker 1: a quintessential Brandon being signed. The guy just you read

1318
01:11:39,160 --> 01:11:40,960
Speaker 1: about him and where he's been and what he's doing

1319
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:43,680
Speaker 1: and how he's his career has progressed. He is he

1320
01:11:43,840 --> 01:11:49,519
Speaker 1: just oozes oozes growth mindset. Oh my god, right, he's

1321
01:11:49,560 --> 01:11:53,400
Speaker 1: a poster child. McDermott is exactly the kind of guy

1322
01:11:53,479 --> 01:11:56,160
Speaker 1: Sean mcdermot's like, one, Yeah, this is that's the guy

1323
01:11:56,280 --> 01:11:58,840
Speaker 1: right there, you know, and just pick him out of

1324
01:11:58,840 --> 01:12:03,120
Speaker 1: a lineup, because everything about his personality, about his story,

1325
01:12:03,560 --> 01:12:05,439
Speaker 1: about the way he has played, and his and his

1326
01:12:05,520 --> 01:12:08,760
Speaker 1: physical gifts. I mean, I mean, this is this was

1327
01:12:09,160 --> 01:12:11,000
Speaker 1: If I would have known then what I what we

1328
01:12:11,080 --> 01:12:12,559
Speaker 1: found out since, I would have been like, oh, well

1329
01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:17,680
Speaker 1: they're du exactly right. Yeah. I mean, it's just so

1330
01:12:17,840 --> 01:12:20,040
Speaker 1: it seems so obvious now because it's so hard to

1331
01:12:20,080 --> 01:12:21,680
Speaker 1: keep track all these hundreds of guys out there on

1332
01:12:21,680 --> 01:12:23,479
Speaker 1: the free agent mark. I didn't know Trent shure Field

1333
01:12:23,479 --> 01:12:25,800
Speaker 1: even though he's in the division, and then you start

1334
01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:27,960
Speaker 1: reading about him, was like, Oh, somebody's doing Oh somebody

1335
01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:30,800
Speaker 1: knew about this guy. We ran out of time when

1336
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:33,519
Speaker 1: we had him here in studio because I was gonna

1337
01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:35,400
Speaker 1: ask him about it. He's got a tattoo on his

1338
01:12:35,479 --> 01:12:42,200
Speaker 1: right arm says failure is not an option. Yeah, that's

1339
01:12:42,240 --> 01:12:44,200
Speaker 1: the cloth that guy's cut from. Well, you know what

1340
01:12:44,240 --> 01:12:46,800
Speaker 1: I mean. Yeah, let's go back to the phones and

1341
01:12:46,840 --> 01:12:48,720
Speaker 1: we go to Joe and Clarence next. What do you

1342
01:12:48,720 --> 01:12:51,639
Speaker 1: got for us? Joe, you're on one bills live. Hey, guys,

1343
01:12:51,640 --> 01:12:55,720
Speaker 1: how are you going to go? Before I go out

1344
01:12:55,720 --> 01:13:00,679
Speaker 1: and sign one of these big names, um Sievers, I'd

1345
01:13:00,760 --> 01:13:06,280
Speaker 1: rather see them look into a stead rock pounding back.

1346
01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:09,760
Speaker 1: Somebody's going to bring the safeties up, open up the

1347
01:13:09,800 --> 01:13:11,479
Speaker 1: middle of the field for the receivers that we got

1348
01:13:11,479 --> 01:13:18,080
Speaker 1: with the additions show Field and Party yeah and Hardy Yeah,

1349
01:13:18,120 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 1: and take the pressure off of Josh from having to

1350
01:13:21,439 --> 01:13:24,720
Speaker 1: run the rock all the time. Yeah, I mean I

1351
01:13:24,760 --> 01:13:29,040
Speaker 1: can respect that. And we heard Brandon being say himself

1352
01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:32,519
Speaker 1: and thanks for the call. Joe appreciated. We heard Brandon

1353
01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:35,920
Speaker 1: Being say himself last week after the first week of

1354
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:38,479
Speaker 1: free agency had kind of come to a close. He

1355
01:13:38,640 --> 01:13:42,800
Speaker 1: himself said, they are looking for a bigger back to

1356
01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:46,160
Speaker 1: have a different dimension in the running back room to

1357
01:13:46,200 --> 01:13:49,200
Speaker 1: what they currently have in James Cook and Niheim Hines.

1358
01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:52,120
Speaker 1: So it would seem like they are on that trail.

1359
01:13:53,479 --> 01:13:57,639
Speaker 1: What talent level you're pursuing in terms of a bigger

1360
01:13:57,680 --> 01:14:00,559
Speaker 1: back is what is most interesting to me. Are you

1361
01:14:00,680 --> 01:14:04,000
Speaker 1: just looking for a guy that convert, that can convert

1362
01:14:04,040 --> 01:14:06,439
Speaker 1: a third and one for you, or are you looking

1363
01:14:06,479 --> 01:14:10,439
Speaker 1: for some kind of dynamo you know, whether it's like

1364
01:14:10,479 --> 01:14:14,000
Speaker 1: a Bijean Robinson or even his teammate Roshan Johnson. He's

1365
01:14:14,040 --> 01:14:18,479
Speaker 1: no small potato either. There are options in the draft.

1366
01:14:19,360 --> 01:14:22,879
Speaker 1: It's a matter of whether or not you can afford

1367
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:26,959
Speaker 1: to make an early round investment in such a position,

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01:14:27,680 --> 01:14:33,320
Speaker 1: which history has said does not represent great value because

1369
01:14:33,360 --> 01:14:34,840
Speaker 1: by the time they get to the end of their

1370
01:14:34,920 --> 01:14:41,080
Speaker 1: rookie contract, you're probably moving on. That would not speak

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01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:45,800
Speaker 1: to or behoove you drafting one that early if it's

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01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:49,280
Speaker 1: only a one contract player. The players you draft in

1373
01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:52,040
Speaker 1: round one, you want to be generational or at the

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01:14:52,200 --> 01:14:57,280
Speaker 1: very least two contract players, and if you don't get

1375
01:14:57,320 --> 01:15:02,760
Speaker 1: that out of a first round pick, especially, it's considered

1376
01:15:02,840 --> 01:15:06,280
Speaker 1: an issue. Now, there are exceptions where you have a

1377
01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:10,759
Speaker 1: player that does so well that he prices himself off

1378
01:15:10,760 --> 01:15:13,400
Speaker 1: of your roster. We just saw that with Tremaine Edmonds.

1379
01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:15,800
Speaker 1: Guy had a good first five years with the Bills.

1380
01:15:15,800 --> 01:15:17,760
Speaker 1: They would have loved to have kept him, but their

1381
01:15:17,760 --> 01:15:20,920
Speaker 1: cap situation prevented them from doing that because. Oh also,

1382
01:15:21,040 --> 01:15:23,040
Speaker 1: by the way, in that same draft, they got a

1383
01:15:23,080 --> 01:15:27,080
Speaker 1: generational quarterback, so there was no way for them to

1384
01:15:27,080 --> 01:15:31,520
Speaker 1: pay those two first round draft choices both gigantic second contracts,

1385
01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:32,880
Speaker 1: in light of all the other ones that they have

1386
01:15:32,880 --> 01:15:36,000
Speaker 1: on the roster too, Von Miller, Stefan Diggs, etc. Etc.

1387
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:42,280
Speaker 1: But the point I'm making is, can you justify drafting

1388
01:15:42,360 --> 01:15:46,360
Speaker 1: or running back in round one that is so special

1389
01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:49,599
Speaker 1: he would be beyond a one contract player at the position.

1390
01:15:50,040 --> 01:15:53,679
Speaker 1: And then you have to fight declining value because once

1391
01:15:53,680 --> 01:15:57,599
Speaker 1: those players hit age twenty eight, the analytics will show

1392
01:15:57,600 --> 01:16:00,720
Speaker 1: you the production takes a precipitous down to turn in

1393
01:16:00,840 --> 01:16:04,320
Speaker 1: ninety five percent of the cases. There are exceptions. Adrian

1394
01:16:04,360 --> 01:16:07,799
Speaker 1: Peterson is one. There have been others but the vast

1395
01:16:07,880 --> 01:16:11,559
Speaker 1: majority of players they take it down turn at age

1396
01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:14,400
Speaker 1: twenty eight, not to mention the fact that if you

1397
01:16:14,439 --> 01:16:17,720
Speaker 1: are a passing offense, yeah, it's great to have a

1398
01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:19,799
Speaker 1: big back, but is he getting more than eight carries

1399
01:16:19,840 --> 01:16:21,920
Speaker 1: a game or at least or I should say eight

1400
01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:24,680
Speaker 1: touches a game? And if not, is it because he

1401
01:16:24,720 --> 01:16:26,840
Speaker 1: can't catch the football? Because if he can't, then you

1402
01:16:26,840 --> 01:16:28,720
Speaker 1: have a whole other problem because now you have a

1403
01:16:28,760 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 1: limited player, and every time he steps on the field,

1404
01:16:31,479 --> 01:16:33,400
Speaker 1: the opponent knows what you're gonna call. I don't think

1405
01:16:33,439 --> 01:16:35,280
Speaker 1: there's inquit. Yeah, I'm up for it. I'm up for

1406
01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:37,080
Speaker 1: a big back. If he if he brings what you

1407
01:16:37,080 --> 01:16:39,200
Speaker 1: need to help the offense in a different way than

1408
01:16:39,200 --> 01:16:41,360
Speaker 1: you've been able to be helped, I'm all about it.

1409
01:16:41,880 --> 01:16:43,400
Speaker 1: But those are the questions you have to Yeah, you

1410
01:16:43,479 --> 01:16:45,120
Speaker 1: got he's got to be the right guy, that's all

1411
01:16:45,320 --> 01:16:47,439
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'm not I'm not a verse to it.

1412
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:50,040
Speaker 1: I don't want it in the first round, preferably not,

1413
01:16:50,320 --> 01:16:53,280
Speaker 1: but it would be okay if we're all fixed up

1414
01:16:53,320 --> 01:16:56,200
Speaker 1: at all the other spots. I'm fine with. But I'm

1415
01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:58,439
Speaker 1: you know, I'm softening my stance on jumping on the

1416
01:16:58,479 --> 01:17:00,880
Speaker 1: table saying no running back in the first round. I'm

1417
01:17:00,920 --> 01:17:05,479
Speaker 1: not off it by not saying no, because I don't

1418
01:17:05,520 --> 01:17:07,439
Speaker 1: think they should. But if they do, it will be

1419
01:17:07,439 --> 01:17:09,600
Speaker 1: because the rosters in the spot where they're comfortable doing it,

1420
01:17:09,640 --> 01:17:12,800
Speaker 1: and the guy's special. If it's the right guy, it's

1421
01:17:12,840 --> 01:17:15,080
Speaker 1: always the right guy. I mean, there's no get him.

1422
01:17:15,280 --> 01:17:16,880
Speaker 1: It's fine. I don't know what the Giants are trying

1423
01:17:16,880 --> 01:17:19,200
Speaker 1: to do with, say, Quon Barkley, Like he's at the

1424
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:22,640
Speaker 1: end of his fifth year option. They had to franchise him.

1425
01:17:22,800 --> 01:17:25,760
Speaker 1: You want to franchise a quarterback with a running back

1426
01:17:25,800 --> 01:17:28,280
Speaker 1: with a major knee injury. I mean, he's super dynamic,

1427
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:30,320
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. It's one of the five best

1428
01:17:30,320 --> 01:17:33,920
Speaker 1: backs in the league. But it gets complicated really fast

1429
01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:36,240
Speaker 1: at those running back positions because you worry about the

1430
01:17:36,320 --> 01:17:39,160
Speaker 1: decline in production after that first contracts up. We have

1431
01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:40,720
Speaker 1: to take a break here, but we'll get back to

1432
01:17:40,760 --> 01:17:42,640
Speaker 1: more of your phone calls when we return. Doug on

1433
01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:44,680
Speaker 1: a cell. Hang tight, you're gonna lead us off in

1434
01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:46,760
Speaker 1: the next segment. Here on One Bill's Live, presented by

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01:17:46,800 --> 01:18:01,080
Speaker 1: Kellid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All Right, back

1436
01:18:01,120 --> 01:18:03,639
Speaker 1: here on one Bills Live, Chris Brown Steve Tasker with you,

1437
01:18:03,960 --> 01:18:08,759
Speaker 1: discussing with you your assessment of the Bills receiving corps

1438
01:18:08,760 --> 01:18:11,519
Speaker 1: in light of the recent editions in free agency through

1439
01:18:11,560 --> 01:18:15,600
Speaker 1: the first week plus namely Deontay Hardy and Trent Scherfield.

1440
01:18:15,800 --> 01:18:18,599
Speaker 1: Today give us your thoughts at eight to three, five

1441
01:18:18,720 --> 01:18:21,160
Speaker 1: fifty one eight eight five fifty two five fifty the

1442
01:18:21,240 --> 01:18:22,800
Speaker 1: number to get on board, or you can hit us

1443
01:18:22,840 --> 01:18:25,120
Speaker 1: up on the tweet sheet at one Bills Live. But

1444
01:18:25,240 --> 01:18:27,720
Speaker 1: we lead off with Doug on a sell wait got

1445
01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:30,680
Speaker 1: for us. Doug, thanks guys for having me on. I

1446
01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:34,920
Speaker 1: really think it's an upgrade because both guys play special teams.

1447
01:18:35,400 --> 01:18:37,679
Speaker 1: You had some yards are for the catch, some speed,

1448
01:18:37,840 --> 01:18:39,760
Speaker 1: so I'm really happy about it. I think they got

1449
01:18:39,760 --> 01:18:44,759
Speaker 1: their first five guys in in the wide receiver corps

1450
01:18:45,720 --> 01:18:48,720
Speaker 1: pending free agency, in the draft and what have you.

1451
01:18:48,760 --> 01:18:52,200
Speaker 1: But thanks for taking my call. Yeah, thanks, Doug, appreciate it.

1452
01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:55,840
Speaker 1: Speed has definitely been added. I don't think there's any

1453
01:18:55,880 --> 01:18:58,840
Speaker 1: question about that. I mean, Deontay Hardy can absolutely fly,

1454
01:18:59,479 --> 01:19:02,880
Speaker 1: and sure Field it's not far behind. Yeah, you look

1455
01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:07,280
Speaker 1: at the highlights from Surefield just from last year, and yeah,

1456
01:19:07,280 --> 01:19:09,760
Speaker 1: he was running away from jokers on that. I ran

1457
01:19:09,840 --> 01:19:12,200
Speaker 1: the San Francisco secondary. Last I checked, that was the

1458
01:19:12,280 --> 01:19:16,000
Speaker 1: number one defense in football. Yeah and yeah, so I'm

1459
01:19:16,200 --> 01:19:18,559
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see, No question that you always

1460
01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:22,200
Speaker 1: look forward at that position, but they seem to have

1461
01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:25,599
Speaker 1: found it with those two guys. So you have five. Now,

1462
01:19:25,800 --> 01:19:27,120
Speaker 1: that's not what you're going to go to camp with.

1463
01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:32,719
Speaker 1: You'll have more. Usually question is like eleven or twelve

1464
01:19:32,920 --> 01:19:37,200
Speaker 1: wideouts in camp. Yeah, Usually the question is do they

1465
01:19:37,360 --> 01:19:42,120
Speaker 1: draft one? I mean, you still have free agency to

1466
01:19:42,160 --> 01:19:46,160
Speaker 1: go here. They could add another, you know, relatively affordable

1467
01:19:46,240 --> 01:19:50,920
Speaker 1: value on the free agent market still, but I think

1468
01:19:50,920 --> 01:19:53,320
Speaker 1: they're probably going to draft one. I think so, not

1469
01:19:53,360 --> 01:19:56,800
Speaker 1: necessarily early per se. I mean, if the right value

1470
01:19:56,800 --> 01:20:00,240
Speaker 1: falls in the lap. Sure they drafted Shakure last year

1471
01:20:00,080 --> 01:20:02,439
Speaker 1: year in the fifth round, they'll they'll get a guy.

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01:20:02,560 --> 01:20:05,280
Speaker 1: They're gonna get a guy, and uh yeah, I think

1473
01:20:05,280 --> 01:20:08,400
Speaker 1: they'll draft at least one, and then they'll probably have

1474
01:20:08,439 --> 01:20:10,719
Speaker 1: a couple of undrafted You think about how the draft's

1475
01:20:10,760 --> 01:20:13,920
Speaker 1: going today as syracuses Pro Day, the Bills are over there,

1476
01:20:13,920 --> 01:20:21,000
Speaker 1: Aaron Kromer is putting this guy Burson. Oh, I like him.

1477
01:20:21,120 --> 01:20:24,400
Speaker 1: He's Cromer's over there running him through the grin. He's grinding,

1478
01:20:24,800 --> 01:20:27,080
Speaker 1: grinding him down. I guess at the power in shape

1479
01:20:27,080 --> 01:20:31,439
Speaker 1: are you? And I'll say this, there's nothing you get

1480
01:20:31,439 --> 01:20:34,280
Speaker 1: these pro coaches. And I've had guys I've talked I obviously,

1481
01:20:34,360 --> 01:20:37,400
Speaker 1: I've run up against a ton of coaches who spent

1482
01:20:37,479 --> 01:20:41,040
Speaker 1: their attire adult life as a professional football coach, some

1483
01:20:41,080 --> 01:20:43,280
Speaker 1: of them at the NFL level, some of the college level.

1484
01:20:44,120 --> 01:20:46,599
Speaker 1: But the good coaches, the ones who've been around a while,

1485
01:20:46,600 --> 01:20:48,960
Speaker 1: they run these guys through their paces and they'll give,

1486
01:20:50,360 --> 01:20:54,120
Speaker 1: I mean, a spot on evaluation of what that guy

1487
01:20:54,240 --> 01:20:57,040
Speaker 1: is right now, what you can expect him to become,

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01:20:57,960 --> 01:21:00,800
Speaker 1: and how his career is gonna go. Barring in catastrophic

1489
01:21:00,880 --> 01:21:02,880
Speaker 1: thing that goes off the rails, like something off the

1490
01:21:02,880 --> 01:21:06,639
Speaker 1: field or his or an injury on the field, they

1491
01:21:06,640 --> 01:21:10,519
Speaker 1: can give you a spot on evaluation. So you can

1492
01:21:10,600 --> 01:21:14,920
Speaker 1: bet that Chromer knows exactly how good this Bergeron kid

1493
01:21:14,920 --> 01:21:17,840
Speaker 1: from Syracuse is gonna be. Yeah, you know, he played

1494
01:21:17,960 --> 01:21:22,240
Speaker 1: left tackle, and you know Daniel Jeremiah, who we had

1495
01:21:22,240 --> 01:21:24,639
Speaker 1: on our show at the Combine, believes he's got left

1496
01:21:24,680 --> 01:21:28,040
Speaker 1: tackle feet. Some teams would like to kick him into guard,

1497
01:21:28,080 --> 01:21:31,320
Speaker 1: believing he could be like an all pro guard if

1498
01:21:31,320 --> 01:21:35,240
Speaker 1: the Bills draft him, he's probably a competitor at tackle

1499
01:21:35,360 --> 01:21:38,679
Speaker 1: here because you just signed Connor mc governed in free agency.

1500
01:21:38,760 --> 01:21:41,439
Speaker 1: Your guards are I mean, I'm not saying they're setting stone.

1501
01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:43,559
Speaker 1: But and here's the thing too. You get these guys

1502
01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:45,920
Speaker 1: like a Bergeron or whatever and say, yeah, you could play,

1503
01:21:46,400 --> 01:21:50,320
Speaker 1: and the coaches will tell the kid this, and they'll

1504
01:21:50,760 --> 01:21:55,879
Speaker 1: and everything. They'll they'll say, listen, you could probably struggle

1505
01:21:55,920 --> 01:21:58,960
Speaker 1: along at tackle and putter your way along to a

1506
01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:04,360
Speaker 1: pretty okay career at playing left tackle or right tackle.

1507
01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:09,160
Speaker 1: And then they'll say, but if you want, you could

1508
01:22:09,200 --> 01:22:14,639
Speaker 1: be an an absolute stud at guard. Dominate. You could

1509
01:22:14,640 --> 01:22:17,120
Speaker 1: be a dominant guard. You're never gonna make the high

1510
01:22:17,200 --> 01:22:19,680
Speaker 1: end cash you make it left tackle, but you're never

1511
01:22:19,720 --> 01:22:22,000
Speaker 1: gonna see that money anyway, my friend, because if you're

1512
01:22:22,000 --> 01:22:24,720
Speaker 1: playing left you're doing pretty good. You're not gonna right,

1513
01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:26,840
Speaker 1: but you're not gonna make that eighty million dollars for

1514
01:22:27,040 --> 01:22:30,599
Speaker 1: year contract as a as a guard. But you may

1515
01:22:30,680 --> 01:22:35,000
Speaker 1: make twelve or thirteen with a fifty million dollar guarantee,

1516
01:22:35,040 --> 01:22:38,160
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So you could be a

1517
01:22:38,240 --> 01:22:40,680
Speaker 1: dominant guard and have a chance to be an All

1518
01:22:40,760 --> 01:22:45,240
Speaker 1: Pro guard and play for a dozen years and do

1519
01:22:45,320 --> 01:22:47,800
Speaker 1: that and be great if you want to play guard.

1520
01:22:47,800 --> 01:22:49,160
Speaker 1: But some of the and I'm telling you, some of

1521
01:22:49,200 --> 01:22:51,040
Speaker 1: these young guys, he's gonna no, no, man, I won't

1522
01:22:51,080 --> 01:22:52,760
Speaker 1: be I'm a left tackle. I'm a left tackle. I'm

1523
01:22:52,760 --> 01:22:54,559
Speaker 1: a left tackle. Then he gets up there and starts

1524
01:22:54,560 --> 01:22:57,799
Speaker 1: getting his head handed to him by these edge rushers,

1525
01:22:58,720 --> 01:23:03,200
Speaker 1: and they, you know, they and they make wrong decisions. People,

1526
01:23:04,720 --> 01:23:07,320
Speaker 1: all right, I don't I'm gonna take a deep breath.

1527
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:10,479
Speaker 1: People don't listen to football guys. And I'm not saying

1528
01:23:10,520 --> 01:23:12,320
Speaker 1: I'm one of them. I'm saying I do know this.

1529
01:23:12,479 --> 01:23:15,160
Speaker 1: Listen to the football guys. If the offensive line coach

1530
01:23:15,200 --> 01:23:18,759
Speaker 1: and now tells the Bills that the guy's a guard,

1531
01:23:18,800 --> 01:23:22,080
Speaker 1: he can be a twelve year All Pro guard. Don't

1532
01:23:22,160 --> 01:23:24,280
Speaker 1: let that kid play tackle. And if he wants to

1533
01:23:24,320 --> 01:23:28,840
Speaker 1: play tackle, send him someplace else. Because the kids too

1534
01:23:28,840 --> 01:23:31,240
Speaker 1: stupid to listen to football people too. You gotta be

1535
01:23:31,280 --> 01:23:35,000
Speaker 1: able to yetta, listen and trust that they got your coat.

1536
01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:39,240
Speaker 1: Listen to the people who know, because when the kids

1537
01:23:39,280 --> 01:23:42,280
Speaker 1: sitting there. As a college senior, he thinks they're talking

1538
01:23:42,280 --> 01:23:45,120
Speaker 1: to him and it's all about him. The coach is saying, listen,

1539
01:23:46,280 --> 01:23:48,599
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna you're not gonna be a left tackle.

1540
01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:50,719
Speaker 1: And if you come here and want to play left tackle,

1541
01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:54,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna stink. And it's gonna be on me. Yeah,

1542
01:23:54,200 --> 01:23:56,960
Speaker 1: if you play guard, you're gonna be awesome. I promise you.

1543
01:23:57,160 --> 01:23:59,280
Speaker 1: It's on him too, because he's got to coach the

1544
01:23:59,360 --> 01:24:02,519
Speaker 1: kid and it can happen, make it happen. He's gonna

1545
01:24:02,560 --> 01:24:05,240
Speaker 1: tell you you know so, and these you can't get

1546
01:24:05,240 --> 01:24:07,639
Speaker 1: it through to him. It's just like telling a kid, listen,

1547
01:24:08,360 --> 01:24:10,599
Speaker 1: you're not gonna play in the NFL unless you're gonna

1548
01:24:10,640 --> 01:24:14,080
Speaker 1: chase punts. If you want to be a punt coverage guy,

1549
01:24:14,200 --> 01:24:19,320
Speaker 1: kickoff coverage guy, punt return kickoff return guy, you could

1550
01:24:19,320 --> 01:24:21,519
Speaker 1: carve out a nice little career in the NFL. If

1551
01:24:21,560 --> 01:24:24,200
Speaker 1: you don't. If you're not willing to do that, you will.

1552
01:24:24,479 --> 01:24:27,680
Speaker 1: You'll be here in training camp and then cut. Then

1553
01:24:27,680 --> 01:24:29,479
Speaker 1: you'll be here in training camp and you'll be cut,

1554
01:24:29,520 --> 01:24:32,320
Speaker 1: and then you won't be signed. And guys just don't

1555
01:24:32,320 --> 01:24:35,840
Speaker 1: believe it. So that's why these pro days they come

1556
01:24:35,840 --> 01:24:38,480
Speaker 1: out here and these coaches get a handle on these guys.

1557
01:24:38,520 --> 01:24:43,880
Speaker 1: Every team knows virtually without exception, how good a guy

1558
01:24:43,960 --> 01:24:47,360
Speaker 1: is gonna be or can be the only thing that

1559
01:24:47,439 --> 01:24:49,880
Speaker 1: changes it or what happens between a guy's ears, between

1560
01:24:49,880 --> 01:24:52,439
Speaker 1: the now and the draft. They could either enhance it

1561
01:24:52,560 --> 01:24:55,759
Speaker 1: or blow it up. Let's go back to the phones

1562
01:24:55,800 --> 01:24:57,560
Speaker 1: and we go to Bob in South Carolina. What do

1563
01:24:57,600 --> 01:25:01,080
Speaker 1: you got for us? Bob here? You thanks for feeding

1564
01:25:01,200 --> 01:25:05,200
Speaker 1: us Bill's junkies every day, because I listened to you

1565
01:25:05,240 --> 01:25:08,160
Speaker 1: guys every day. As far as the receivers go, I

1566
01:25:08,720 --> 01:25:12,120
Speaker 1: totally agree with you guys. We've added speed, and there's

1567
01:25:12,120 --> 01:25:13,799
Speaker 1: only so much we can do with the cap space.

1568
01:25:14,320 --> 01:25:16,960
Speaker 1: I'm wandering with the cap space, and I'm hoping you

1569
01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:18,800
Speaker 1: guys can clear my head a little bit. I can

1570
01:25:18,800 --> 01:25:22,439
Speaker 1: get off these thoughts, my dreams. I guess the big

1571
01:25:22,479 --> 01:25:28,479
Speaker 1: back I mean Ezekiel Elliotts, Leonard four Nette. Those two

1572
01:25:28,520 --> 01:25:33,120
Speaker 1: are available right now. Bobby Wagner is available right now.

1573
01:25:34,160 --> 01:25:38,320
Speaker 1: Are there any of those with maybe taking some of

1574
01:25:38,320 --> 01:25:40,720
Speaker 1: these guys that haven't really performed all that great at

1575
01:25:40,760 --> 01:25:43,720
Speaker 1: least up to the expectations that maybe I'm setting. But

1576
01:25:44,040 --> 01:25:46,800
Speaker 1: like an AGFA doesn't a boogie bashup, I haven't really

1577
01:25:46,840 --> 01:25:49,400
Speaker 1: been impressed by either of those guys. But and Oliver

1578
01:25:49,479 --> 01:25:52,800
Speaker 1: has been talked about off about trades and this and that.

1579
01:25:52,920 --> 01:25:57,080
Speaker 1: But on those three guys, do we know if we

1580
01:25:57,120 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 1: could afford any of them? Yeah, I mean it's to

1581
01:26:00,280 --> 01:26:02,160
Speaker 1: say because you don't know what the price tag is.

1582
01:26:02,320 --> 01:26:04,280
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we can all agree that Ezekiel

1583
01:26:04,320 --> 01:26:07,840
Speaker 1: Elliott was grossly overvalued by the Dallas Cowboys, especially the

1584
01:26:07,880 --> 01:26:10,519
Speaker 1: last couple of years. They finally came to their senses

1585
01:26:10,520 --> 01:26:12,439
Speaker 1: and franchise the guy that's probably going to help their

1586
01:26:12,439 --> 01:26:16,439
Speaker 1: team more in Tony Pollard and through Ezekiel Elliot overboard.

1587
01:26:17,280 --> 01:26:21,000
Speaker 1: No coincidence Ezekiel Elliot's closing in on his twenty eighth birthday.

1588
01:26:21,120 --> 01:26:25,040
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette already is twenty eight, And as we said earlier,

1589
01:26:25,080 --> 01:26:27,439
Speaker 1: that's when the decline starts for a lot of running

1590
01:26:27,439 --> 01:26:31,879
Speaker 1: backs in this league, especially running backs that are bigger

1591
01:26:32,040 --> 01:26:35,480
Speaker 1: and take a lot more hits because they're not the elusive,

1592
01:26:36,040 --> 01:26:39,320
Speaker 1: you know, scatback type, even in today's NFL where their

1593
01:26:39,400 --> 01:26:41,880
Speaker 1: number of carries are far lesser than they used to be.

1594
01:26:42,680 --> 01:26:49,680
Speaker 1: And that gives NFL clubs pause. And so if we're

1595
01:26:49,720 --> 01:26:51,920
Speaker 1: a week or two away from where we are now

1596
01:26:52,000 --> 01:26:55,080
Speaker 1: and those two guys are still unsigned. Well, then suddenly

1597
01:26:55,080 --> 01:26:58,040
Speaker 1: those two guys might be more affordable. I would lean

1598
01:26:58,120 --> 01:27:01,200
Speaker 1: more Fournette than you're talking Ellie. You're talking about who

1599
01:27:01,240 --> 01:27:04,360
Speaker 1: you can afford. Bobby Wagner, Leonard Fournette, Z Kelly and

1600
01:27:04,479 --> 01:27:07,680
Speaker 1: all these guys and DeAndre Hopkins. We've had gone down

1601
01:27:07,760 --> 01:27:10,800
Speaker 1: the list of guys who have been out there. O

1602
01:27:10,920 --> 01:27:15,400
Speaker 1: b J. Here's what you're looking at, down to a nutshell,

1603
01:27:15,439 --> 01:27:18,120
Speaker 1: and well not down to a nutshell, but in huge

1604
01:27:18,200 --> 01:27:22,400
Speaker 1: general terms, maybe the Bills could work some stuff around,

1605
01:27:22,439 --> 01:27:24,519
Speaker 1: move some stuff around, and fit some of these guys

1606
01:27:24,560 --> 01:27:26,719
Speaker 1: on the roster, one or two of them or whatever.

1607
01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:31,760
Speaker 1: Here's what happens, though, sooner or later the blow up

1608
01:27:32,120 --> 01:27:33,760
Speaker 1: and when you have to tear it apart. You have

1609
01:27:33,800 --> 01:27:35,720
Speaker 1: to get rid of really good guys that you want

1610
01:27:35,720 --> 01:27:38,040
Speaker 1: to keep in the future. You're gonna have to get

1611
01:27:38,120 --> 01:27:39,720
Speaker 1: rid of them because you have to. You have so

1612
01:27:39,840 --> 01:27:42,040
Speaker 1: much dead cap space in the future because you've got

1613
01:27:42,080 --> 01:27:44,960
Speaker 1: these guys and you tried to afford them. I'm I am.

1614
01:27:45,360 --> 01:27:49,439
Speaker 1: This roster the way it was last year was I've

1615
01:27:49,479 --> 01:27:51,439
Speaker 1: said at it and I'll say it again. They were

1616
01:27:51,479 --> 01:27:53,240
Speaker 1: good enough to go to and win the Super Bowl

1617
01:27:53,320 --> 01:27:58,240
Speaker 1: last year for situations and circumstances that were out of

1618
01:27:58,280 --> 01:28:00,880
Speaker 1: their control. It didn't have for them. Some of it

1619
01:28:00,920 --> 01:28:02,519
Speaker 1: was in their control. Yeah, it always is, and I

1620
01:28:02,560 --> 01:28:05,840
Speaker 1: get it. They dropped three games in the regular season,

1621
01:28:05,840 --> 01:28:10,720
Speaker 1: but only three. But they've got a roster that was

1622
01:28:10,760 --> 01:28:13,920
Speaker 1: good enough to go to and win it, and so

1623
01:28:14,040 --> 01:28:18,599
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not really scared to bring back as

1624
01:28:18,680 --> 01:28:21,400
Speaker 1: many of guys as maybe more guys than most people

1625
01:28:21,439 --> 01:28:24,800
Speaker 1: are willing to do in free agency when they see

1626
01:28:24,840 --> 01:28:26,360
Speaker 1: all these shiny things on the shelf and all these

1627
01:28:26,360 --> 01:28:28,080
Speaker 1: other players, and they kind of get greedy and want

1628
01:28:28,080 --> 01:28:29,759
Speaker 1: to bring all these great names that they know about.

1629
01:28:30,280 --> 01:28:32,519
Speaker 1: These guys that they've already got are really, really good,

1630
01:28:32,560 --> 01:28:34,479
Speaker 1: good enough to go thirteen and three, and the three

1631
01:28:34,560 --> 01:28:40,280
Speaker 1: losses were jokes. So there's no reason to think they

1632
01:28:40,320 --> 01:28:42,760
Speaker 1: got to blow anything up or change the chemistry or

1633
01:28:42,840 --> 01:28:47,840
Speaker 1: really wash the entire roster out to get better or

1634
01:28:48,360 --> 01:28:50,360
Speaker 1: to even go back to and have another chance at

1635
01:28:50,360 --> 01:28:53,559
Speaker 1: winning it. So the more they do guys like DeAndre Hopkins,

1636
01:28:53,600 --> 01:28:57,880
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette's Zeke, the more they're gonna be less competitive

1637
01:28:57,920 --> 01:28:59,280
Speaker 1: in the future years. And they don't want to do that.

1638
01:28:59,320 --> 01:29:01,599
Speaker 1: They want to do it every single year, and they can,

1639
01:29:01,840 --> 01:29:04,400
Speaker 1: even with the group they had last year. Break time

1640
01:29:04,439 --> 01:29:06,320
Speaker 1: for us. Steve and I wrap it up next here

1641
01:29:06,360 --> 01:29:23,840
Speaker 1: on one Bills Live. All right, if you missed our

1642
01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:27,120
Speaker 1: interview with new Bills wide receiver Trancherfield here on the

1643
01:29:27,120 --> 01:29:30,519
Speaker 1: show today, you can catch it on the Bills YouTube channel,

1644
01:29:31,520 --> 01:29:33,960
Speaker 1: and it will also get re racked on Buffalo bills

1645
01:29:34,000 --> 01:29:36,360
Speaker 1: dot Com about a half hour from now. Steve and

1646
01:29:36,400 --> 01:29:39,120
Speaker 1: I are back tomorrow. We'll have Maddie Glabin studio as well.

1647
01:29:39,280 --> 01:29:47,920
Speaker 1: We'll see it one