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Speaker 1: most night operation exactly. And they do You've done all

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Speaker 1: the investments, stadium building, facility constructions, whatever, and then they're gone.

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Speaker 1: The behind the the behind the scenes story about the

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Speaker 1: palms being greased, like the Atlanta Olympics way back and

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Speaker 1: then was just it was like what they what they

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Speaker 1: what they asked for? What? You know, the Olympic Committee

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Speaker 1: is made up of people from all over the world

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Speaker 1: who nonprofit, right, so there they sell their votes, so

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Speaker 1: to speak, right for a limb, you know, to get

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Speaker 1: the Olympics played there. And then you know it's just

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Speaker 1: crazy what goes on there. So you know, nobody's losing

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Speaker 1: any sleep over that. But now you've got this where

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Speaker 1: the Olympic Committee's going, you know what, We're putting these

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Speaker 1: on no matter what, and we're you're you're out, you're out,

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Speaker 1: you're out. But with the games are going on, I mean,

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Speaker 1: it just looks bad. Yeah, I'll keep an eye on it.

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Speaker 1: It's it's gonna draw enough of my attention to see

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Speaker 1: how they pull it off. Because it's one thing to

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Speaker 1: run a league through a pandemic, but to run an

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Speaker 1: event for two and a half weeks, the scale of

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Speaker 1: the Olympic, the scope is unbelieved. It is a much

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Speaker 1: different thing. It's a multi event, multi site operation involving

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Speaker 1: tens of thousands of people, and I'm not even talking

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Speaker 1: about the athletes. So trying to do that in the

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Speaker 1: midst of a pandemic, also knowing that a lot of

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Speaker 1: the people and the athletes are going to have to

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Speaker 1: be criss crossing the country in Japan because sites changed,

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Speaker 1: I mean, not everybody's in the same place. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's it is a gargantan lift. It is

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Speaker 1: hopefully they can pull it off. We're a little bit

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Speaker 1: in the weez about the Olympics or something. We'll probably

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Speaker 1: take a break here, but I want to talk you

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Speaker 1: about this. Go back to the Jerry Jones press conference

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Speaker 1: and what Stephen Jones said about Dak Prescott. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: really interesting stuff going around the NFL. This is you know,

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Speaker 1: they started their training camp a week early. The Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys play a football game like

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Speaker 1: a week from tomorrow, Is that right? Or is it

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Speaker 1: two weeks from tomorrow? So it's always to your first

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Speaker 1: preseason game is always two weeks from your first day

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Speaker 1: of training camp, right, So it would be presumably at

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Speaker 1: least a week from today or two weeks from today,

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Speaker 1: today or tomorrow, two weeks I believe, so, right, that

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Speaker 1: would make sense because henas Yeah, okay, but that's that's

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Speaker 1: coming up. That's coming up. Minor news on the Steelers front.

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Speaker 1: They're veteran linebacker Vince Williams announced his retirement thirty one

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Speaker 1: years old and just said, right as the team's reporting

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Speaker 1: to camp. Yeah, you know what, I'm I'm gonna hang

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Speaker 1: it up. I'm not gonna bother I'm out um. And

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Speaker 1: that's a team that's already trying to fill holes with

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Speaker 1: new people, and that's going to be another one. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Vince Williams announces his retirement, just to give you the

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Speaker 1: lineup today. Coming up in the second hour of our show,

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Speaker 1: we'll be talking to NFL dot COM's Adam Rank, NFL

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Speaker 1: media writer an analyst, and he's been doing his State

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Speaker 1: of the Franchise series on NFL dot Com. He's gotten

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Speaker 1: up to the bills already and he's asking that question

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen's team ready to take the next step. Question

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Speaker 1: Mark also did a write up on ta who's been

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Speaker 1: a subject of our consternation from time to time, and

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Speaker 1: he's kind of looked around the AFC East and that

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Speaker 1: is where our Twitter poll also lives today, So we

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Speaker 1: thought it'd be good to get Adam on for the

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Speaker 1: second hour of the show. But we're asking you today

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Speaker 1: on the Twitter poll, what is the biggest question mark

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Speaker 1: in the AFC East for you? It might be bills related,

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Speaker 1: it might not be. It might have something to do

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Speaker 1: with the rest of the division, the other three teams,

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Speaker 1: so you know, just think about it for a second

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Speaker 1: fire off what you feel is your biggest question mark

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Speaker 1: in the division as we get ready for the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one camp pain eight oh three, five fifty one,

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two, five fifty or on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet at one Bills Live, do you think the

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Speaker 1: biggest question is not bills related. I think the biggest

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Speaker 1: question is yeah. The biggest unknown is yeah, bills not

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Speaker 1: bills related. I think it has more to do with

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Speaker 1: the new England quarterback or Tuah or what's gonna happen

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Speaker 1: with the Jets and how big a step forward they

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Speaker 1: can possibly take with the rookie quarterback and rookie head coach.

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Speaker 1: But I think for Bills fans, I think the biggest

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Speaker 1: question marks aren't Howard their own team's gonna play, is

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Speaker 1: what the Patriots are going to offer up and what

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins are going to offer up. It's like, we

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Speaker 1: know we're good, what's everybody else gonna look like exactly?

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Speaker 1: And who's who's going to be the guy that makes

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Speaker 1: him look that way? Yeah? I ya. The closer we get,

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Speaker 1: the more I'm looking sideways at the Patriots going on.

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Speaker 1: I don't know Cam again, I don't know how good

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Speaker 1: can how good can mac Jones get in about the

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Speaker 1: next month and a half. I understand why there's a

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Speaker 1: healthy respect for Belichick and what he can do with

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Speaker 1: I mean, he does more with less. He's good at that,

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Speaker 1: but I just don't think there's enough that measures up there.

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Speaker 1: I think their defense will be good, but I just

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Speaker 1: don't see the point production coming on offense at all.

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Speaker 1: So unless your defense is super lockdown and they were

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Speaker 1: number one in the league two years ago, I just

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Speaker 1: don't know that they are. I don't know if the

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Speaker 1: game get back to that again, to the point where

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Speaker 1: they're winning games, you know, seventeen, fourteen, sixteen, ten. I mean,

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Speaker 1: those days in the NFL are long gone, right, long gone.

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Speaker 1: And if he can manufacture that somehow, well, hats off

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Speaker 1: to him again. But I just think I think that's

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Speaker 1: a tough way to try to win football games. Your

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Speaker 1: margin for error is razor thin, yes, and and I

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Speaker 1: don't think you give him out on the right side

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Speaker 1: of that enough to win more games than you lose.

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Speaker 1: You give up two bad you give two mistakes, and

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Speaker 1: you're down two touchdowns. You have no shot. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: that's hard and sadly that's how the Bills played for

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Speaker 1: a long time in the two twenty nineteen they did

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Speaker 1: that too with Josh, with Josh and his you know,

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Speaker 1: when he was a rook you know, coming were averaging

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Speaker 1: nineteen points a game. They were averaging nineteen points a game,

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Speaker 1: and then that was it, man, and the defense had

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Speaker 1: to rise up. It was hard. It's a hard way

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Speaker 1: to live. Now. They won ten games doing it, but

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Speaker 1: they at the scrape and claw though, Josh playing lights

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Speaker 1: out at you know, as a young player running all

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Speaker 1: over the place, a young, healthy, strong arm job. They

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Speaker 1: didn't have Cam Newton at you know, with a lot

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Speaker 1: of miles on him, So I'm yeah, that's hard road.

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Speaker 1: Open lines for you. Eight oh three five fifty one,

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two, five fifty. What's the biggest

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Speaker 1: question mark for you in the AFC East as we

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Speaker 1: get ready for this twenty twenty one season? Open lines

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Speaker 1: for the next half hour before we talked to Adam

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Speaker 1: Rank an hour number two. We'll be back in a

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Speaker 1: minute here on One Bills Live, presented by collid to Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you as we are motoring

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Speaker 1: through a Thursday here and asking you what is the

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Speaker 1: biggest question mark in the a FC East for the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one season. Let us know at eight o

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Speaker 1: three five fifty one, eighty eight five fifty two, five

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

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Speaker 1: And quite frankly, it doesn't even have to be bills related.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of us would agree that there

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Speaker 1: are far more questions afoot for the other three teams

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Speaker 1: in this division than there are here in Buffalo. Not

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Speaker 1: to say that the Bills are devoid of questions, as

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Speaker 1: they entered the season. But I think it's safe to

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Speaker 1: say that there are far more question marks facing the

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Speaker 1: other three teams in this division. Eight O three five

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Speaker 1: fifty the number to get on board, open line for

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Speaker 1: you there, But we lead off on the phones with

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Speaker 1: Kevin and Rochester. Kevin, what do you have for us?

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Speaker 1: You're on one bills live. I think at uh the

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Speaker 1: other three teams because there's two rookies that and there's

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Speaker 1: and New England's got well, they drafted a rookie and

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Speaker 1: they got h Cam. I think the question is is

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Speaker 1: how well the other quarterbacks will adjust and how they

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Speaker 1: will play. And as far as the other day you

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Speaker 1: had a question about about on the defense or what

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Speaker 1: players do you think will come up, uh show improvement?

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Speaker 1: And I think some of the draft choices next year

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Speaker 1: might push some of the players who have been around

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Speaker 1: more who have contracts coming up, like like Hughes, that

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Speaker 1: they might say we'll go with the younger guy and

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Speaker 1: goodbye mister Hughes. All right, Kevin, fair enough. I mean

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Speaker 1: I doubt that they'll say goodbye to Jerry Hughes, not

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Speaker 1: this year, but yeah, but um, but I do think

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Speaker 1: the draft ship picks are there brought and they're going

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Speaker 1: to be able to compete. I think those guys are

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Speaker 1: kind of come in and be physically really gifted, and

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Speaker 1: that's gonna give them something that maybe some of the

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Speaker 1: veterans do not have. The veterans who have got by

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Speaker 1: on intelligence and technique. If a young, gifted, talented player

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Speaker 1: comes in and he learned some techniques pretty quickly, those

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Speaker 1: are hard guys to keep off the field. The quarterback

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Speaker 1: question is obviously a giant one for all three teams

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Speaker 1: besides the Bills in this division, and answering that is

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Speaker 1: going to be hard to do. I think two of

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Speaker 1: the teams know who they're going with, namely the Jets

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Speaker 1: and the Dolphins, you know, with Zach Wilson, and two

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Speaker 1: a tongue of Ioloa the Pats. Still it's still up

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Speaker 1: in the air. Looks like it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: full out competition, you know between Mac Jones and Cam Newton.

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Speaker 1: But by virtue of that fact alone, that unknown for

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Speaker 1: those other three teams. That's why everybody's on the Bills,

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Speaker 1: BA and Wagon to repeat as division champs. The funny

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Speaker 1: thing is Steve and I were kicking this around not

609
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 1: too long ago. We were looking at each other saying,

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Speaker 1: the Bills don't only have the best quarterback in the division,

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Speaker 1: they have the two best quarterbacks in the division. When

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Speaker 1: you think about it, I mean Alan and Trubiskyisky's got

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Speaker 1: a winning I would put up against any other quarterback

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Speaker 1: on any other roster in this division. Trubisky's got like

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Speaker 1: fifty starts and he's got a winning record. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it's fifty. I don't know what the number is. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's fifty. He's I believe he is like twenty eight

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Speaker 1: and twenty three or twenty eight and twenty two, something

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Speaker 1: like that. I think he's I think he's twenty nine

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Speaker 1: and twenty one. I believe that's his career record as

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Speaker 1: a starter, and at this point in his career he's

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Speaker 1: going into his fourth year. Yeah, I think about this.

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Speaker 1: Think about this. Would the Dolphins trade like if they

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Speaker 1: had it straight up a competition, would Trubisky beat out

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Speaker 1: tah I don't know, would he beat out would he

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Speaker 1: beat out Zach Wilson. I mean, based on the investment

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Speaker 1: that was made into it, it's hard to say that

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Speaker 1: that would be. Well think about I'm talking, That's what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying if it was all in a vacuum, Oh,

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Speaker 1: in a vacuum, yes, I think he would. Drabisky beats

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Speaker 1: him better moment. What about what about Zach arm Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that he has a better arm than

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Speaker 1: Zach Wilson, but the experience factor. Um again, mobility probably

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Speaker 1: be hard pressed to say that. Say that and mac

635
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Speaker 1: Wilson's Mac Jones saying kind of the same thing. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: better athlete for experience and um now Cam Newton, Now, okay,

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Speaker 1: it depends on how Cam can throw it. Cam's done. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: but it beats him out too, right, So that's when

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Speaker 1: you can say this too, though Jacoby Jacoby Brissette is

640
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Speaker 1: behind tuah, and Jacoby has some chops as well, but

641
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: he's limited. But yeah, saying the Bills have the best

642
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks in the ANFC East. Nobody's gonna look at

643
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,800
Speaker 1: you sideways for w Yeah. I mean you'll get some

644
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:10,359
Speaker 1: you'll get some argument from a bunch of people, but

645
00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 1: you know, from Patriot and Dolphin fans and maybe even

646
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:19,920
Speaker 1: Jet fans. But you can back it up with some

647
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 1: well yeah, because there's there are results there. Yeah, there's

648
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: production there. Yeah. This the thing I was going to

649
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 1: talk to you about. Before we went to the break

650
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: last time, we were talking about Jerry Jones and Hard

651
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 1: Knocks is coming on. You know, they're gonna be on

652
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: a Hard Knocks this year on HBO, and we thought

653
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: that Jerry was, you know, doing some things to give

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Speaker 1: them some content. At his press conference yesterday, Stephen Jones,

655
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: his son, said something interesting. He said one of them

656
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: they talked about how they messed it up with Jimmy

657
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 1: Johnson when he left years and years ago, back when

658
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: I was still in the league. And then they also

659
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 1: went and said one of the worst decisions they have made,

660
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: one of the worst moves they had ever made as

661
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 1: a front office, was waiting to sign Dak Prescott. Yeah,

662
00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 1: they should have gotten it done much earlier and all

663
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: of that, and I got thinking, well, that's good, and

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00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 1: I thought, well, wait a minute, we're sitting in the

665
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: exact same spot they were two or three years ago

666
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Speaker 1: with Josh Allen, and we've said that, you know, we

667
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,439
Speaker 1: all think there's it's it's a matter of when, not if.

668
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: Three or four years ago with Dak Prescott, there was

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a question of a little more

670
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Speaker 1: of a question, a little more not win. But I

671
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,680
Speaker 1: think when when you look at what Dak Prescott did

672
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Speaker 1: as a Cowboys and maybe I'm maybe it's maybe it's

673
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: systemic with the Cowboys. It's like Tony Romo, a ton

674
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,719
Speaker 1: of good good, you know, a ton of favor with

675
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 1: the Cowboy fans, wins a lot of games. The offense

676
00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,760
Speaker 1: looks unbelievable when he's out there, but they they're not winning.

677
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 1: They don't win. And how much you lay at the

678
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: feet of Dak Well, he went ten and six in

679
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, started all sixteen games, completed almost sixty eight

680
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: percent of his passes eight hundred yards, twenty two touchdowns,

681
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 1: eight picks. He also thirty eight hundred yards and completed

682
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:09,760
Speaker 1: sixty almost seventy percent of his passes sixty eight percent.

683
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Speaker 1: And he only went and he only went for thirty

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Speaker 1: eight hundred yards. Yeah, twenty eight touchdown passes against eight picks,

685
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Speaker 1: and I think he ran four. Let me see, twenty eighteen,

686
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:24,319
Speaker 1: he ran for six touchdowns as well, So thirty four

687
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 1: total touchdowns against eight picks. And they decided, well, we'll

688
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 1: just franchise him for a year. The next year he

689
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 1: goes eight and eight complete sixty five percent of his passes,

690
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,760
Speaker 1: but throws for forty nine hundred yards, thirty touchdowns, eleven picks,

691
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,879
Speaker 1: So numbers are up across the board through almost six

692
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: hundred passes in sixteen years because because Zeke was hurt,

693
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:54,880
Speaker 1: right I believe so, so thirty touchdown passes, so that

694
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:58,880
Speaker 1: spikes to eight. That goes up by eight. And then

695
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: he runs four or another six touchdowns or sorry, he

696
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 1: runs for three touchdowns in twenty nineteen, so thirty four

697
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:09,959
Speaker 1: total touchdowns, which mirrors what he did the year or

698
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 1: is a little bit higher than what he did the

699
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Speaker 1: year before. And yeah, they go eight night, so they

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Speaker 1: franchise him again. And then last year he goes two

701
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: and three because they have no defense, but complete sixty eight.

702
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:27,239
Speaker 1: But they were leading the league. They were leading the

703
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,919
Speaker 1: league in offense. And after five games, right or yeah,

704
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: whatever it was, and he got his leg snapped broken

705
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 1: and which and then they signed him to the long term.

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Speaker 1: It sounds crazy, Well they did that right before the

707
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: leg broke, No, they did it after after. It sounds crazy.

708
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Speaker 1: But as a as a player and being strictly dispassionate

709
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Speaker 1: about it and not having it and even a drop

710
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,840
Speaker 1: of empathy, it's a good thing. He broke it and

711
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:56,160
Speaker 1: didn't blow his knee. The bone, your bone heals better

712
00:40:56,200 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: than your ligaments do. Your soft tissue. You'll feel more

713
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: normal after that injury then you would have if you'd

714
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:05,960
Speaker 1: have blown your acl like a sa Quon Barkley. He'll

715
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 1: feel better coming back from that than he would have

716
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:13,959
Speaker 1: had it been a soft tissue. So I think Dak's

717
00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 1: going to come back and just knock it out of

718
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: the park statistically. But as we said, you know, there's

719
00:41:19,719 --> 00:41:26,640
Speaker 1: there's some reason the Dallas quarterbacks just I mean, they

720
00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: just don't win. Like Tony Romo had a phenomenal career

721
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 1: in Marble. Yeah, they just Wilt and Dak and Ezekiel

722
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: Elliott and those guys they played well together. They're you know,

723
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 1: they're kind of joined at the hip. They came in

724
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:44,680
Speaker 1: the same and they had those great years that you

725
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 1: know ten and six going to play. But they just

726
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 1: you know, that's it. That's there seems to be a

727
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:53,760
Speaker 1: hard ceiling there, and a lot of times you'll find

728
00:41:55,239 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: people like US media people or whatever, Dallas critics, maybe

729
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 1: some fans that say, you know, the ceiling is because

730
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: of the quarterback. Is that fair? Put it? All on him.

731
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Because

732
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: they trumpet him as a fantastic leader. I agree, I

733
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:12,799
Speaker 1: think he is. I think he has all of that.

734
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Speaker 1: But here's and here's another thing too. I mean, when

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Speaker 1: you look at it, and let's let's extrapolate this whole

736
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:21,839
Speaker 1: scenario right here to one Bill's drive. You can't wait

737
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:26,399
Speaker 1: to sign Josh oh no no. And I think this

738
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: organization is sure about what they have that obviously the

739
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: Cowboys were with what they had, So yeah, I think

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00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,800
Speaker 1: it will be in short At the latest, it's next offseason.

741
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 1: At the earliest it's in a month. Yeah. I think

742
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,880
Speaker 1: the Bills are more sure about what they have than Baltimore,

743
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:42,919
Speaker 1: sure about how far they can go with what they've got,

744
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 1: and Cleveland is for sure about what they've got with

745
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 1: their guy and their roster. I think they're more sure

746
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: here than they are maybe anywhere with any kind of

747
00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:57,440
Speaker 1: quarterback that hasn't been established. As much. Break time for

748
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Speaker 1: us here, But when we come back, we'll get to

749
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Speaker 1: some of your comments on the tweet sheet and Adam

750
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: Rank from NFL dot Com coming up in the second

751
00:43:04,000 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 1: hour of the program. All coming up shortly here on

752
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Speaker 1: One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

753
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: So there's good news on the vaccination front as far

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00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,240
Speaker 1: as the entire league is concerned. According to Judy Bautista,

755
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: friend of the show, more than seventy eight percent of

756
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 1: players league wide have at least one vaccination shot fourteen

757
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: teams now. Tom Pellisero reported last week, as we mentioned

758
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:41,399
Speaker 1: at the top of the show, that thirteen teams had

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00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 1: reached the eighty five percent player vaccination threshold. Judy Bautista

760
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,320
Speaker 1: from NFL Network now reporting that is up to fourteen teams,

761
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: so close to half the league closing in on half

762
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: the league the teams reaching the vaccination threshold, So there

763
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,359
Speaker 1: are still halves and have nots in terms of having

764
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Speaker 1: to adhere to the COVID protocols. If you don't reach

765
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,800
Speaker 1: that threshold. We'll see if the numbers increase between now

766
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:12,400
Speaker 1: and next Tuesday, when the bulk of the league will

767
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:19,720
Speaker 1: report for training camp. There is also an interesting story

768
00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 1: concerning doctor Dre, which I mentioned to Steve during the break.

769
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Speaker 1: It's a little bit outside of our purview, but Rapper,

770
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:33,920
Speaker 1: an entrepreneur. Doctor Dre, has been ordered to pay three

771
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Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars a month a month to his ex

772
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:43,719
Speaker 1: wife in spousal support, which for those of you non

773
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: math majors, comes out to three point six million dollars

774
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: a year. Now, I know doctor Dre is rolling in it,

775
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: but those numbers, like you can knock me over with

776
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: a feather with that stuff. Holy count, that's a big number.

777
00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:11,879
Speaker 1: It's a very big number. Um well, yeah, yeah, that's

778
00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:14,839
Speaker 1: too bad. Too bad they couldn't work it out. Well, right,

779
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 1: it's not good, but it could be worse. And the

780
00:45:21,960 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 1: reason I say that is because there was a man

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Speaker 1: in Alaska who was stranded in the wilderness. Apparently he's

782
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Speaker 1: a hunter, so he set up this little it's even

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00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: smaller than a trailer park structure. It's got this little shack, right,

784
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:46,760
Speaker 1: and you know, he's out hunting in the wilderness, and

785
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 1: unfortunately he crossed paths with a grizzly bear, who proceeded

786
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Speaker 1: to stake him out for a series of days, Like

787
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 1: he would stalk him for a while, and he'd chase

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Speaker 1: him off with his gun, you know, you know, trying

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00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 1: to keep him away. He apparently the guy wasn't hunting

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Speaker 1: for bear. He was hunting for other stuff, cariboo and whatever. Okay,

791
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: so he's not really interested in killing the bear. Um.

792
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:19,840
Speaker 1: So this goes on, This goes on for a few days,

793
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: Um to the point where this guy was sleep deprived.

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00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: Because if you're being stalked by a grizzly bear, you're

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Speaker 1: probably not getting really good sleep. Yeah, particularly if you're

796
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: not living in something that's bear proof. Um. Right. And

797
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: they said that he had scrawled on the roof of

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00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:43,080
Speaker 1: his shanty like need help grizzly bear SOS, you know whatever,

799
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 1: hoping like because a lot of people fly seaplanes as

800
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 1: you knows the plane. Yeah, so he's down to his

801
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:59,160
Speaker 1: last rounds of ammunition, sleep deprived, he's got a leg injury,

802
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 1: so he can't don't really move around at this point. Uh.

803
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 1: Fortunately a helicopter cruise saw his sos on the roof

804
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: of his shanty and touched down and picked him up.

805
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:14,399
Speaker 1: But it was apparently a three day ordeal. Imagine being

806
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 1: stocked by a grizzly bear for three days. Suddenly, I'm

807
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 1: happily you know, three hundred thousand dollars a month to

808
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:23,280
Speaker 1: espousal support. Right. I have family members who live in Alaska,

809
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:27,840
Speaker 1: and at fact, my daughter's getting married in Alaska and

810
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 1: you know, coming up, so I spent a lot of

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00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:33,600
Speaker 1: time up there or some time up there. Yeah, that's real.

812
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 1: It's it's the last Frontier. My my wife just got

813
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 1: just went to visit, came back and they before she

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00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: got on the plane that day was late night, you know,

815
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Speaker 1: he kept getting on a plane like seven thirty. And

816
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 1: I hope she doesn't mind me telling this, but they

817
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 1: were just on a hike, going to hike around Anchorage

818
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Speaker 1: and stuff. Because at the edge of town in Alaska,

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00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 1: it's vast wilderness. It's not like then you go to

820
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Speaker 1: the suburbs, then you hit a wall. Town is like

821
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Speaker 1: a movie scene. You walk in, you kind of dis here, right,

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Speaker 1: it's like the corne right, and so, and it is

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Speaker 1: very commonplace in Alaska, as you might imagine that if

824
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:10,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna want to hike, you gotta have a gun. Yeah,

825
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: I mean, and it's not just and it's not for show.

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00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 1: I mean, it is for real. And so that's a

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00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 1: it's very it's a real problem. Everybody I've met in Alaska,

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Speaker 1: and there's been dozens and dozens of people over the years,

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00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:26,960
Speaker 1: has a bear story. And if they don't have a

830
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Speaker 1: if they have a bear story, they also have a

831
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Speaker 1: moose story, which is even more scary for them. Kenby

832
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,320
Speaker 1: the door got ripped off of his shanty by the bear,

833
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 1: so he's basically using the gun to kind of and

834
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: apparently he did not have a big enough gun to

835
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:44,479
Speaker 1: kill the bear. I mean unless you got a perfect

836
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: shot and you hit him between the eyes or something. Yeah,

837
00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,879
Speaker 1: that's an issue. Um, that's and that's that's usually you're

838
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: just waiting for that guy to come back every I mean,

839
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: it's firearms are a way of life up there. It's not.

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00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: It has nothing to do with political persuasion. Has been safe,

841
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: personal safety, and you don't want to get caught without

842
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: the right caliber. Yes, fortunately you got picked up, so

843
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: it ended well. But let me tell you something. That

844
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 1: guy's gonna have some nightmares for a few months. It is.

845
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Speaker 1: It is absolutely horrifyingly frightening. I mean it is like

846
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: because you think, yeah, you see him on team, you

847
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:27,880
Speaker 1: have no idea how big they are and how powerful

848
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:30,759
Speaker 1: they are and how fast they can one swing of

849
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 1: their front arm they can take your head right off

850
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: your should. They can get they can get to you

851
00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:39,799
Speaker 1: before you can draw a weapon. You gotta have it out.

852
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: It is so scary. And didn't it to be caught

853
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: trying to sleep and they ripped the door off. Oh

854
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 1: my gosh, there's a barrel over there is that is

855
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 1: not good. That is a that is a fortunate ending.

856
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: That is a movie. That is you can't even watch

857
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: because it's so tense. Oh my gosh. We have to

858
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 1: take a break here. I'm staying in the hotel when

859
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:10,799
Speaker 1: we go away on the third floor, right exactly. We

860
00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: have to take a break here. But when we come

861
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 1: back from NFL dot Com, it is Adam Rank who

862
00:50:16,520 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 1: has done some rankings of his own and some predicting

863
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: of his own concerning the twenty twenty one season the

864
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills and whether this team will be able to

865
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,279
Speaker 1: take the next step to get to the ultimate game.

866
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:30,720
Speaker 1: Talk with him next here on One Bill's Live presented

867
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:49,280
Speaker 1: by Collida Health with Buffalo Bills Radio. At a Steve

868
00:50:49,560 --> 00:50:52,800
Speaker 1: Tasker who has been all over the field, kind of unique.

869
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:55,080
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role player for you, Steve,

870
00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:01,359
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the strategy here

871
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:08,319
Speaker 1: of normalcy. Here our number two here one Bills Live

872
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 1: Thursday edition. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and please

873
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:14,720
Speaker 1: to be joined now by NFL dot Com writer, fantasy

874
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 1: analyst and host of the Adam Rank Podcast. It is

875
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: Adam Rank joining us here on one Bills Live. Adam,

876
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,480
Speaker 1: thanks for taking some time here as we are ramping

877
00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:25,600
Speaker 1: up for training camp, as I'm sure you are as well.

878
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 1: And look at you doing the State of the Bills

879
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 1: for us, just gift wrapping it, putting it out on

880
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 1: a silver platter on NFL dot Com. State of the

881
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:36,680
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one Buffalo Bills. Josh Allen's team ready to

882
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 1: nake take the next step? Question mark? Obviously, Steve and

883
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: I have read that front to back, but why don't

884
00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 1: you share with our listening audience where you stand on

885
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: that very question. Well, I think a lot of what

886
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:53,000
Speaker 1: the article touches on is the development of Josh Allen.

887
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:55,319
Speaker 1: And going back to last season when I was doing

888
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: this piece, I stood out there and stumped for Josh Allen.

889
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: I had a lot of belief in him, thought that

890
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:04,920
Speaker 1: he could be a really good quarterback in the NFL.

891
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 1: And I think the biggest takeaway from last season is

892
00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: it we can now put that to bet we can

893
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:13,200
Speaker 1: now talk like Josh Allen's a good NFL quarterback. I

894
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:17,240
Speaker 1: don't think nationally anybody can dispute that what we're really

895
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:20,399
Speaker 1: looking at now is how good can he be? Can

896
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 1: he get to that next level? And as sure as

897
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:24,840
Speaker 1: I am that I'm wearing a blue World Order shirt

898
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:27,280
Speaker 1: right now, trying to represent trying to pander to the crowd.

899
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:29,879
Speaker 1: Of course, Listen, I'm coming out here. I'm getting cheap heat.

900
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here with Steve Tasker, a man who should

901
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:34,359
Speaker 1: be in the Hall of Fame. If you don't think

902
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: that I'm going to take the opportunity to get some

903
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 1: cheap heap, You're mistaken. But I really do believe that

904
00:52:38,640 --> 00:52:40,799
Speaker 1: this Bill's team is ready to take that next step.

905
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:43,160
Speaker 1: It's like watching a professional wrestler. I think the analogy

906
00:52:43,200 --> 00:52:45,840
Speaker 1: that I used in that piece was Daniel Bryan before

907
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:49,320
Speaker 1: WrestleMania thirty, where so many people had written him off.

908
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:52,279
Speaker 1: It was now his time to take the throne, to

909
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: take the crown. And I think outside of the teams

910
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 1: of the late eighties early nineties, this is the closest

911
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:01,319
Speaker 1: the Bills have been to the Super Bowl, and I

912
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:03,600
Speaker 1: think they're ready for it. Yeah, it's interesting too because

913
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 1: we talked about Josh Allen and if you take his

914
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:09,200
Speaker 1: numbers from last year, they're better than the average in

915
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:12,400
Speaker 1: the last five MVPs put together. I mean, if he's there,

916
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 1: and we were laughing, if he takes a step in

917
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:18,680
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, the length of which he took in

918
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:21,520
Speaker 1: twenty twenty we've never seen a quarterback play that well,

919
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 1: So it's it's almost impossible for him to take another

920
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:29,200
Speaker 1: giant leap to that. And certainly even if he stays

921
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: the same, he's still at an MVP level. What else

922
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:34,360
Speaker 1: has to happen because obviously last year he was runner

923
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:38,879
Speaker 1: up in the MVP voting. That wasn't enough. What else

924
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 1: has to happen around him? He's the only one who

925
00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:45,799
Speaker 1: who has put up those type of numbers, who is

926
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:49,839
Speaker 1: not one MVP forty six touchdowns last season, Like, it's

927
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:52,560
Speaker 1: impossible to think that there's a player who had forty

928
00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:55,919
Speaker 1: six touchdowns did not win MVP, similar to like Sean

929
00:53:56,000 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 1: McDermott not being the Coach of the Year, Like, and

930
00:53:59,719 --> 00:54:01,480
Speaker 1: I know it comes off as as kind of a

931
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:04,560
Speaker 1: gag as I'm writing this, I just just wrote down

932
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:06,680
Speaker 1: like he was the Coach of the Year and I

933
00:54:06,719 --> 00:54:08,920
Speaker 1: went and I'm like, I should double check that, and

934
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:11,760
Speaker 1: then I was like, oh, yeah, Stefanski. Because the Browns

935
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 1: just made the playoffs, I guess that was worth it.

936
00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:17,360
Speaker 1: But in any event, I think for Josh Allen and

937
00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 1: really statistically, there's nothing more he can do. I think

938
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: that it's just a matter of making the plays and

939
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,799
Speaker 1: showing a little growth. And I think that if you

940
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:30,799
Speaker 1: look back to the buff or the Buffalo Buffalo, your

941
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:34,880
Speaker 1: guys playoff game against the Texans two years ago, Josh

942
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:38,200
Speaker 1: made some mistakes and he looked like perhaps he wasn't

943
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: quite there for the moment, which is fine. He's a

944
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:44,239
Speaker 1: young quarterback. He's getting his feet underneath him. And I

945
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 1: think last year in the AFC Championship Game, you're going

946
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 1: up against the World champions, a former MVP Andy Reid,

947
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:54,640
Speaker 1: one of the best coaches of all time. Perhaps the

948
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:57,839
Speaker 1: Bills were a little, you know, not ready for the moment,

949
00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:00,520
Speaker 1: which is fine. I don't think that's a detriment. I

950
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:02,839
Speaker 1: think a lot of it just comes down to experience.

951
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 1: There is nothing anything Josh can do statistically or anything

952
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:09,239
Speaker 1: like that that's going to improve. And I think for

953
00:55:09,320 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 1: fantasy enthusiasts, we might want to see a couple more

954
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:14,239
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns, maybe a little bit of that, but then

955
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 1: that's that's being greedy. I just think that it just

956
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 1: comes with experience and being ready for the moment, and

957
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:21,880
Speaker 1: I think that that's what it comes down to with

958
00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 1: this team. And that's why I really like they brought

959
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 1: in Emmanuel Sanders, a player who was with that forty

960
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:29,520
Speaker 1: nine Ers team a couple of years ago when they

961
00:55:29,560 --> 00:55:32,960
Speaker 1: finally took that step. Those small little tweaks are something

962
00:55:32,960 --> 00:55:36,280
Speaker 1: that can help push this team over the top. So

963
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:40,440
Speaker 1: when you look at you know, you mentioned Sanders, you

964
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:45,160
Speaker 1: also mentioned a guy that probably still is under the radar,

965
00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:48,960
Speaker 1: at least nationally, in the form of Gabriel Davis, and

966
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: you pointed to a seven touchdown catches three. He had

967
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:54,719
Speaker 1: three others that were called back either on penalty right

968
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 1: or some other situation. I mean, the kid could have

969
00:55:56,480 --> 00:55:59,680
Speaker 1: had ten touchdowns. And you know, now with Sanders here,

970
00:55:59,719 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 1: he probably still is an afterthought for most defenses who

971
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 1: have to deal with Diggs, Beasley and Sanders. So if

972
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:11,319
Speaker 1: you know, another year of experience, what are we looking

973
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: at for Gabriel Day? I know you're you're a fantasy

974
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 1: analyst also, and I don't want to get carried away

975
00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:18,400
Speaker 1: on that end with him, but I mean, Davis is

976
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 1: going to see a lot of one on ones, oh

977
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 1: unbelievably so. And it's it's one of those things that

978
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 1: selfishly and this always bleeds through when I'm writing these pieces,

979
00:56:27,920 --> 00:56:30,759
Speaker 1: there are some times that I'm taking a fantasy bend,

980
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 1: but just as a good football player and somebody who

981
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 1: is surrounded like just somebody on a good football team.

982
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:40,399
Speaker 1: And you think of championship ball clubs over the course

983
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 1: of the last number of years, like they always have

984
00:56:43,560 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 1: those guys who aren't necessarily the stars. Like we know

985
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:50,400
Speaker 1: that Stefon Diggs is a star, you know, like Andre

986
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 1: Reid was a star. It was the other guys who

987
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:56,920
Speaker 1: also come in and contribute. And that's who Gabe Davis is.

988
00:56:56,920 --> 00:56:59,560
Speaker 1: Is somebody who's gonna come in and frustrate you if

989
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:02,800
Speaker 1: you're a fan of the Chiefs, of the Browns, of

990
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:05,360
Speaker 1: the Patriots, whoever it is, as much as you know,

991
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:07,920
Speaker 1: like you know, going into a game like Stefan Diggs

992
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:09,880
Speaker 1: is going to get close to one hundred yards, But

993
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:13,240
Speaker 1: when Gabriel Davis is making those catches on third and nine,

994
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:16,280
Speaker 1: when he catches a touchdown, those are the backbreakers, and

995
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 1: I think that that's going to be a huge thing

996
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 1: this season. And again with Emmanuel Sanders out there, this

997
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:23,240
Speaker 1: is an opportunity for Gabe Davis to break out. And

998
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:26,840
Speaker 1: this team is just brimming with talent, and even without

999
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 1: having a like a traditional running game, it doesn't seem

1000
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 1: to matter because there are so many options available for

1001
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 1: Allan Well. One of the things that Bills fans thinks

1002
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: really matters is the Bills defense taking a step backward

1003
00:57:40,120 --> 00:57:42,520
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, a year when they won thirteen games

1004
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 1: and the defense wasn't anything like it was in twenty nineteen,

1005
00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 1: where it was a top one or two defense in

1006
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: the league, and then it didn't match up to that

1007
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty. It doesn't seem like the Bills were

1008
00:57:53,480 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 1: happy about it. They went out and drafted a couple

1009
00:57:55,160 --> 00:57:58,000
Speaker 1: of defensive guys right off the top. They brought in

1010
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:04,040
Speaker 1: some depth at defensive line, and they resigned, you know,

1011
00:58:04,320 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 1: their best in one of their best coverage linebackers in

1012
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 1: Matt Milana, which nobody thought they could do. So they

1013
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:12,800
Speaker 1: didn't stand pat thinking it was just going to be

1014
00:58:12,800 --> 00:58:15,520
Speaker 1: all honky doory. What do you think can happen with

1015
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:17,680
Speaker 1: this Bill's defense and if they can get back to

1016
00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:19,960
Speaker 1: that level they were in two nineteen, how much it

1017
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:23,240
Speaker 1: would help an offense of this caliber. Well, they kind

1018
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:25,080
Speaker 1: of did at the end of the season. Now, over

1019
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 1: the course of last year, they allowed an average of

1020
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 1: seven points per game, more than they had the previous season.

1021
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 1: But over those last couple of weeks, from about week

1022
00:58:33,520 --> 00:58:36,920
Speaker 1: eleven on, we saw that Bill's defense really start to

1023
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 1: step up a little bit, make stops when they needed

1024
00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 1: to make it. And I think that's the big thing.

1025
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,919
Speaker 1: I don't know, like this is probably a simpleton's way

1026
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:46,560
Speaker 1: of looking at it. When your offense is so good

1027
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:49,480
Speaker 1: and the Bills were averaging over thirty points per game,

1028
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 1: like you're blowing teams out, which means that you're going

1029
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 1: to allow like you allow more things to happen. I

1030
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:57,480
Speaker 1: know the Rams game, if you throw that one out.

1031
00:58:57,480 --> 00:59:00,479
Speaker 1: But when you're crushing a team like they're in a rally,

1032
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: at some point you give up. You're like, Okay, you're

1033
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:05,439
Speaker 1: playing software coverages and everything. But I think that there

1034
00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:07,560
Speaker 1: was one thing to be concerned about. It's what you've

1035
00:59:07,600 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 1: touched on is that they weren't getting to the quarterback enough.

1036
00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:12,920
Speaker 1: So they went out and they addressed it in the draft,

1037
00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 1: and they went out there and they got guys who

1038
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:18,440
Speaker 1: can get to the quarterback. Both draft picks are guys

1039
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:21,880
Speaker 1: who are very proficient in at the college level for

1040
00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:24,640
Speaker 1: good schools at getting to the quarterback. And not only

1041
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 1: does that help out, it helps out Tredavious White. Like

1042
00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:30,400
Speaker 1: Tredavious White went from allowing a passer raiding somewhere around

1043
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:33,120
Speaker 1: the forties, it was in the nineties last year. But

1044
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,360
Speaker 1: if they can put some pressure on the quarterback, take

1045
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:37,440
Speaker 1: a little bit of heat off guys like Trdavious White,

1046
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:41,000
Speaker 1: I think that this defense goes back to being pretty good.

1047
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:43,640
Speaker 1: They were They were second overall two years ago. There

1048
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:46,400
Speaker 1: were sixteenth last year. So let's not act like they

1049
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:49,240
Speaker 1: went they were thirty first. It wasn't the Falcons defense

1050
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:51,200
Speaker 1: or anything like that. They just got to get back

1051
00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 1: into the top ten and then this team will be

1052
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:57,200
Speaker 1: nearly unstoppable looking at the rest of the division. Adam,

1053
00:59:57,240 --> 00:59:58,920
Speaker 1: I know you took a deep dive on the Dolphins

1054
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:02,680
Speaker 1: also this week in your columns. As you go team

1055
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 1: by team here and Steve and I just the outsider's

1056
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 1: view here. You know, we don't suffer from Dolphins myopia,

1057
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:13,440
Speaker 1: but we keep an eye on things and it's a

1058
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:17,400
Speaker 1: little disconcerting for me about things that we feel are

1059
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:20,840
Speaker 1: working against two A's development. Number one is the fact

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Speaker 1: that they're going to have co offensive coordinators in George

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01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:28,800
Speaker 1: Godzi and Eric Studisville, and even Charlie Fry, the quarterbacks coach,

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Speaker 1: is supposedly going to have some input on the planning

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Speaker 1: during the course of the week. That's number one. Number two,

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01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:39,120
Speaker 1: Brian Flores, for whatever reason, has jettisoned five of their

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01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:42,160
Speaker 1: eight captains from last year's team. I have to imagine

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01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:45,160
Speaker 1: that sends a ripple effect through a locker room when

1067
01:00:45,240 --> 01:00:49,120
Speaker 1: something like that happens to the player driven leadership. And

1068
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:52,480
Speaker 1: there are other things at play here with a lot

1069
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 1: of new pieces that he has to get accustomed to.

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01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:58,800
Speaker 1: What do you see as a roadmap to success for

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01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:03,640
Speaker 1: Tua to overcome some of those things that I mentioned. Yeah,

1072
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:06,360
Speaker 1: there's a lot of interesting things about this Miami Dolphins

1073
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:09,680
Speaker 1: team and looking at it, the offensive coordinator situation with

1074
01:01:09,840 --> 01:01:12,880
Speaker 1: chan Gailey resigning was something that stands out to me.

1075
01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:15,560
Speaker 1: The development of Tua. You know, I don't want to

1076
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:18,920
Speaker 1: get too bogged down by what happened last season. He

1077
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 1: was coming off a major hip injury. It was a

1078
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:25,360
Speaker 1: limited off season, So okay, I'll grant him a mulligan

1079
01:01:25,400 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 1: because we really liked his talent when he was at Alabama.

1080
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:31,760
Speaker 1: But they really need their playmakers to show up. It's

1081
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:35,960
Speaker 1: so surprising to me that a squad that won ten games,

1082
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:39,520
Speaker 1: if you opened up their Pro Football Reference and you

1083
01:01:39,560 --> 01:01:42,160
Speaker 1: look at their offensive players or running backs and receivers,

1084
01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:45,720
Speaker 1: there's no commas, Like nobody got a thousand yards. Like

1085
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:49,840
Speaker 1: how do they win games? Is the biggest thing to me, Like,

1086
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:52,560
Speaker 1: you know, I know Savan Akhmed came in off the

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01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:55,920
Speaker 1: bench and replaced Miles Gaskin at some point, and DeVante

1088
01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:58,640
Speaker 1: Parker has his games here and there, So it really

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01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:01,440
Speaker 1: isn't they really need the guys that they are bringing

1090
01:02:01,480 --> 01:02:04,920
Speaker 1: in to step up Will Fuller when he's healthy and

1091
01:02:04,960 --> 01:02:07,360
Speaker 1: available and on the field. There aren't a lot of

1092
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:10,440
Speaker 1: receivers who are better than him. Jalen Waddle another great

1093
01:02:10,480 --> 01:02:13,120
Speaker 1: receiver who should come in and help. I don't know,

1094
01:02:13,520 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 1: it's tough to really figure out what's going on with

1095
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:18,920
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins with Brian Flores, you expect the defense

1096
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:21,800
Speaker 1: to be good. It is. Maybe it's a testament to him.

1097
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:24,960
Speaker 1: You know that this team has played so well because

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01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 1: two years ago when he took over, they got rid

1099
01:02:27,360 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 1: of a ton of people and then yet still managed

1100
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:32,920
Speaker 1: to win what five of their last seven or somewhere

1101
01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 1: out there, Finnish strong, and then they won ten games

1102
01:02:35,640 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 1: last year. So doing it without a lot of big

1103
01:02:38,400 --> 01:02:40,520
Speaker 1: name stars, not really getting a lot out of your

1104
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 1: quarterback position. So it's interesting to me what's going to

1105
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:46,160
Speaker 1: happen with the Dolphins because I don't know, they need

1106
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:49,959
Speaker 1: to see their quarterback develop. I'm torn on what we're

1107
01:02:50,000 --> 01:02:52,240
Speaker 1: getting with the Miami Dolphins. And if you're looking at

1108
01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:54,640
Speaker 1: a team and there's always one who is good the

1109
01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:58,080
Speaker 1: previous year who steps back, Miami is the one that

1110
01:02:58,200 --> 01:03:00,280
Speaker 1: stands out to me of like, yeah, that could be

1111
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 1: the one that doesn't quite live up to the expectations.

1112
01:03:03,000 --> 01:03:07,840
Speaker 1: What do you think happens with Xavian Howard. Yeah, that's

1113
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 1: a huge one because that's a huge ripple effect as well.

1114
01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:12,440
Speaker 1: And the Dolphins have gotten a lot of draft picks

1115
01:03:12,440 --> 01:03:14,920
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years, and they've spent a

1116
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:18,960
Speaker 1: lot of resources trying to rebuild that secondary. To me,

1117
01:03:19,440 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 1: they really need to find a way to get him back,

1118
01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:24,040
Speaker 1: Like it's surprising, Like it's one thing to see Aaron

1119
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:27,120
Speaker 1: Rodgers go out there and what he's going through. Zavin

1120
01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:31,480
Speaker 1: Howard is in the fourth like he's he just recently

1121
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:35,360
Speaker 1: signed his extension. He signed it in twenty nineteen, Like

1122
01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:38,760
Speaker 1: you're through one year of this five year extension. That

1123
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:43,320
Speaker 1: shows me that this isn't necessarily about the money, because

1124
01:03:43,320 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 1: it's not like his contracts coming up. You're paid a

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01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:47,680
Speaker 1: lot of money for a long time with a lot

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01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:50,240
Speaker 1: of guaranteed money. To me, it kind of speaks to

1127
01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:53,440
Speaker 1: the situation that could be happening in Miami and maybe

1128
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:56,320
Speaker 1: there's something there that's happening that we're not aware of.

1129
01:03:56,560 --> 01:03:58,680
Speaker 1: Where these guys want to get out. As you mentioned,

1130
01:03:58,680 --> 01:04:02,120
Speaker 1: five captains are gone, Howard wants to leave, Like it's

1131
01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 1: it is alarming. If I'm if I'm if I'm a

1132
01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:06,480
Speaker 1: fan of the Dolphins, I'm a little concerned right now.

1133
01:04:07,160 --> 01:04:09,200
Speaker 1: Moving on to the Patriots. You know, I know you

1134
01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:11,600
Speaker 1: did a deep dive on them as well, and obviously

1135
01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:14,160
Speaker 1: the quarterback situation is going to be polarizing for them

1136
01:04:14,160 --> 01:04:16,040
Speaker 1: in training camp as it looks like it's going to

1137
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:20,120
Speaker 1: be a competition of some kind where it's Cam's job

1138
01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:24,720
Speaker 1: to lose. Presumably we saw enough of Cam last year

1139
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:29,640
Speaker 1: where I'm I'm comfortable saying I don't think he can

1140
01:04:29,680 --> 01:04:33,000
Speaker 1: do it anymore. I mean, bounce passes on twelve yard outs.

1141
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 1: I mean, how many times do we see that last year? Um,

1142
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:38,480
Speaker 1: I just don't know that he has the arm strength

1143
01:04:38,480 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 1: anymore after shoulder surgeries, and he's taken a lot of

1144
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:43,520
Speaker 1: hits over the years with his you know, running style

1145
01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:46,840
Speaker 1: and etc. I just don't know. And Steve and I

1146
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:49,760
Speaker 1: have discussed this too, Adam, you couldn't get two more

1147
01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:53,400
Speaker 1: opposite style quarterbacks than Mac Jones and Cam Newton. So

1148
01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:56,240
Speaker 1: where does this end up at the end of training

1149
01:04:56,240 --> 01:04:59,840
Speaker 1: camp for them? Yeah? That's that to me is always

1150
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:02,280
Speaker 1: most interesting thing. And I think I pointed this out

1151
01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:04,520
Speaker 1: in my piece too with the Bills, is like, I

1152
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 1: like the fact that they went out and got Mitch Rubiski,

1153
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:09,480
Speaker 1: who obviously is not as good as Josh Allen, but

1154
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:11,680
Speaker 1: kind of compares like checks a lot of the same

1155
01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:14,440
Speaker 1: boxes of like strong armed can run to where if

1156
01:05:14,440 --> 01:05:16,800
Speaker 1: he had to go in the offense doesn't have to

1157
01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:19,600
Speaker 1: change too much. It's like, okay, that's perfect. These two

1158
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:23,200
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in New England, as you said, are polar opposites

1159
01:05:23,280 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 1: and you have to run different style of offense. Is

1160
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:28,520
Speaker 1: it not that Josh McDaniels is an up to it,

1161
01:05:28,840 --> 01:05:31,600
Speaker 1: But it does concern me. Now, if you're the optimist

1162
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:33,640
Speaker 1: and you look at what happened in the first three

1163
01:05:33,680 --> 01:05:36,840
Speaker 1: games of last year with Cam Newton, he was fantastic,

1164
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:39,920
Speaker 1: like that team was putting up points. Cam looked like

1165
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:42,520
Speaker 1: the Cam of old, and then he missed a game

1166
01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:45,760
Speaker 1: because of COVID and never really recovered. Now, is that

1167
01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:47,640
Speaker 1: something where you give him the benefit of the doubt,

1168
01:05:47,680 --> 01:05:50,360
Speaker 1: like COVID is difficult for people to overcome, and maybe

1169
01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:52,920
Speaker 1: in a full offseason he's able to go out there

1170
01:05:52,920 --> 01:05:55,440
Speaker 1: and recapture some of the magic. Perhaps he doesn't get

1171
01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:58,080
Speaker 1: back to twenty fifteen, but if he can get back

1172
01:05:58,080 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 1: to a reasonable facsimile of that, then okay, then that

1173
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:04,560
Speaker 1: could be good. Otherwise they're gonna have to go to

1174
01:06:04,600 --> 01:06:07,800
Speaker 1: the quarterback and mac Jones does not run the same

1175
01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:10,600
Speaker 1: style of offense. So to me, I feel like it

1176
01:06:10,680 --> 01:06:14,120
Speaker 1: probably would have worked out better for the Patriots just

1177
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:16,160
Speaker 1: to figure out what you want to do, Like, do

1178
01:06:16,200 --> 01:06:18,680
Speaker 1: you want to commit to a young quarterback rebuild? I

1179
01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:21,560
Speaker 1: know that's not in Bill Belichick's nature. They've done this

1180
01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:23,960
Speaker 1: over the course of two decades where they seemingly get

1181
01:06:24,040 --> 01:06:26,840
Speaker 1: rid of everybody and they go along their married business,

1182
01:06:27,040 --> 01:06:29,720
Speaker 1: which is fine when your quarterback is Tom Brady. A

1183
01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:33,400
Speaker 1: little bit different now. So I feel like the Patriots

1184
01:06:33,400 --> 01:06:35,920
Speaker 1: are in a situation where they can't commit, you know

1185
01:06:35,960 --> 01:06:38,360
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like they're like, okay, you're you want

1186
01:06:38,360 --> 01:06:40,800
Speaker 1: to be good, and you know they need to rebuild.

1187
01:06:40,880 --> 01:06:42,720
Speaker 1: There don't want to commit to either one of them

1188
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:45,040
Speaker 1: do one of it. It's fine. I think that you've

1189
01:06:45,040 --> 01:06:48,800
Speaker 1: built up enough equity over the last two decades that

1190
01:06:48,880 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 1: if you told your fans, hey, look we're gonna go

1191
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:54,720
Speaker 1: with this young quarterback Mac Jones, we're gonna get rid

1192
01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:57,560
Speaker 1: of everybody and we're just gonna start over. I think

1193
01:06:57,560 --> 01:06:59,680
Speaker 1: the fans would go along with that. But I think

1194
01:06:59,680 --> 01:07:01,640
Speaker 1: you would have to what do you think the likelihood

1195
01:07:01,680 --> 01:07:03,800
Speaker 1: of that is from the word go, I don't. I

1196
01:07:04,920 --> 01:07:07,080
Speaker 1: don't think that they. I think they're still gonna stubbornly

1197
01:07:07,120 --> 01:07:08,800
Speaker 1: try to keep winning, right, And I think they're going

1198
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:10,880
Speaker 1: to continue. I don't think that you can convince Bill

1199
01:07:10,880 --> 01:07:13,080
Speaker 1: Belichick that he needs to rebuild. I think the heat's

1200
01:07:13,080 --> 01:07:15,320
Speaker 1: just gonna be like, Nope, we're fixing up this car.

1201
01:07:15,360 --> 01:07:17,840
Speaker 1: We're gonna keep it going right there. We're not We're

1202
01:07:17,880 --> 01:07:20,320
Speaker 1: not going We're not going to the automall to get

1203
01:07:20,320 --> 01:07:21,920
Speaker 1: a new model. We're just gonna go and try to

1204
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:24,080
Speaker 1: keep this one running. How do you think the opt

1205
01:07:24,120 --> 01:07:27,240
Speaker 1: outs coming back will help? And also the resigning of

1206
01:07:27,320 --> 01:07:29,800
Speaker 1: Kyle van Noy. You get Ted Carris back for all

1207
01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:33,000
Speaker 1: both those guys from the Dolphins, Mac Judon, They've got

1208
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:34,920
Speaker 1: They've brought some a lot of guys on that side

1209
01:07:34,920 --> 01:07:37,160
Speaker 1: of the ball back, and they got some new additions

1210
01:07:37,200 --> 01:07:40,040
Speaker 1: that are there. It looks like their defense might be

1211
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:43,920
Speaker 1: like the defenses we've seen Bill Belichick field before. Yeah,

1212
01:07:43,960 --> 01:07:45,960
Speaker 1: that's what makes it so difficult is that they will

1213
01:07:46,040 --> 01:07:48,400
Speaker 1: be able to win games with their defense. And I

1214
01:07:48,480 --> 01:07:51,560
Speaker 1: think the opt outs was something that was completely overlooked

1215
01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:54,240
Speaker 1: last year because they were still like a competitive team

1216
01:07:54,560 --> 01:07:56,840
Speaker 1: with a number of people that we're opting out. With

1217
01:07:56,920 --> 01:08:00,880
Speaker 1: Cam Newton not playing well after Week three, still very competitive,

1218
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:03,480
Speaker 1: still sort of in the mix for the playoffs. They

1219
01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:04,960
Speaker 1: weren't going to go to the super Bowl by any

1220
01:08:04,960 --> 01:08:07,840
Speaker 1: stretch of the imagination, but still very competitive and I

1221
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:11,080
Speaker 1: guess that's probably what fuels Bill Belichick. And if they

1222
01:08:11,080 --> 01:08:13,840
Speaker 1: can go out there and play good defense, they're gonna

1223
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:15,440
Speaker 1: have to do it the old fashioned way, you know,

1224
01:08:15,480 --> 01:08:18,400
Speaker 1: where they're gonna play good defense and they're gonna rely

1225
01:08:18,479 --> 01:08:21,439
Speaker 1: on a run game and keep games tight. The only

1226
01:08:21,479 --> 01:08:24,880
Speaker 1: difference is it's a it's a high wire act that

1227
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:28,040
Speaker 1: you have to walk and you can't have any margin

1228
01:08:28,560 --> 01:08:30,719
Speaker 1: for air. Like it was cool, Like when you have,

1229
01:08:31,120 --> 01:08:34,360
Speaker 1: you know, a strong defense and you're a little outmanned,

1230
01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:37,080
Speaker 1: it's fine to do that. If you have Tom Brady.

1231
01:08:37,320 --> 01:08:40,440
Speaker 1: Tom Brady will win you some games. You don't necessarily

1232
01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:43,720
Speaker 1: have a quarterback right now that can win you some games.

1233
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:45,720
Speaker 1: Like that's where it's switched. I think to me, that's

1234
01:08:45,800 --> 01:08:49,240
Speaker 1: the biggest thing that's switched in the AFC. East. Buffalo

1235
01:08:49,360 --> 01:08:51,519
Speaker 1: is in a situation where if things aren't going right,

1236
01:08:51,800 --> 01:08:54,320
Speaker 1: if there was more regression on the defense, you would

1237
01:08:54,400 --> 01:08:58,280
Speaker 1: still walk into every game saying, Okay, well, Josh could

1238
01:08:58,280 --> 01:09:01,000
Speaker 1: win us this game. Like it's very sievable. Josh can

1239
01:09:01,000 --> 01:09:03,080
Speaker 1: go out there and pull a miracle. We saw it

1240
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:05,400
Speaker 1: last year in Week three against the Rams, where things

1241
01:09:05,400 --> 01:09:08,320
Speaker 1: broke down. Josh drove you down the field he found

1242
01:09:08,760 --> 01:09:12,960
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft game over. The Patriots aren't in that mode anymore,

1243
01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:15,200
Speaker 1: and that's the most difficult thing for them is that

1244
01:09:15,439 --> 01:09:18,040
Speaker 1: if something goes wrong with them, Cam Newton's not going

1245
01:09:18,080 --> 01:09:21,040
Speaker 1: to probably rally them, and the mac Jones is not

1246
01:09:21,040 --> 01:09:23,200
Speaker 1: going to rally them either. So they're in a very

1247
01:09:23,240 --> 01:09:26,200
Speaker 1: tough spot. So they'll be competitive and the defense will

1248
01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:28,040
Speaker 1: be very good. I just don't think they're going to

1249
01:09:28,080 --> 01:09:31,200
Speaker 1: be a threat for the super Bowl again. Adam, thanks

1250
01:09:31,320 --> 01:09:34,000
Speaker 1: very much for the time. We appreciate the insight. We'll

1251
01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:37,160
Speaker 1: keep an eye on your State of the NFL Team

1252
01:09:37,240 --> 01:09:39,639
Speaker 1: series that you're doing right now. It's been pretty good

1253
01:09:39,640 --> 01:09:41,960
Speaker 1: so far. We look forward to future editions. Thanks very much,

1254
01:09:42,040 --> 01:09:44,719
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Well, thank hey, thank you so much. Anytime

1255
01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:47,000
Speaker 1: again that I get to don this T shirt and

1256
01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:49,599
Speaker 1: come on and hang out with you and Steve, it's

1257
01:09:49,600 --> 01:09:51,640
Speaker 1: an amazing day. So thank you so much for having me.

1258
01:09:52,040 --> 01:09:55,799
Speaker 1: We'll tell Mitch Drubisky you said, Hi, I love Mitch.

1259
01:09:55,960 --> 01:09:58,840
Speaker 1: I love him, but you're a Bears fans, right, So

1260
01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:02,640
Speaker 1: what am I gonna We'll tell him you said Hi,

1261
01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:06,680
Speaker 1: it's out of frame. Thanks Adam. That's NFL media wright

1262
01:10:06,760 --> 01:10:09,559
Speaker 1: Adam Ranked joining us here does some good stuff on

1263
01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:13,080
Speaker 1: NFL dot com. Good to chat with him. There is

1264
01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:18,599
Speaker 1: some huge news coming from Tom Pella Sero of NFL Network,

1265
01:10:18,640 --> 01:10:23,840
Speaker 1: who has just tweeted recently. The NFL just informed clubs

1266
01:10:23,880 --> 01:10:28,000
Speaker 1: that if a game cannot be rescheduled during the eighteen

1267
01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:31,360
Speaker 1: week season in twenty twenty one due to a COVID

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Speaker 1: outbreak among unvaccinated players, the team with the outbreak will

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Speaker 1: forfeit and be credited with a loss for playoff seating.

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Speaker 1: According to sources, this is another example Steve of the

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Speaker 1: league trying to incentivize players getting vaccinated, because what does

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Speaker 1: this do. This basically points the finger at unvaccinated players

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01:10:56,320 --> 01:10:58,960
Speaker 1: and says, if you cause an outbreak with this team,

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Speaker 1: you're going to cost your team game potentially if they

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Speaker 1: can't reschedule it. I mean, are they not turning over

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01:11:05,800 --> 01:11:09,720
Speaker 1: every rock possible to try to prod they're doing unvaccinated

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Speaker 1: players and everything they can to co werse guys into

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Speaker 1: getting vaccinated, No question. I don't know, course it might

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Speaker 1: be a strong word, but they're pretty close to that,

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Speaker 1: making it tough not to that's for sure. An he

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Speaker 1: kind of figured they was gonna happen. I mean, I would.

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Speaker 1: I think the really interesting part about this is one

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Speaker 1: will never know about men till later on, is what

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Speaker 1: kind of conversations go on in the locker room. Because

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this as as you know, we have

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Speaker 1: social media now and you see guys bantering back and

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Speaker 1: forth on social media with people. The conversations in the

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01:11:39,640 --> 01:11:44,839
Speaker 1: locker room are far more detailed and far more prevalent,

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Speaker 1: and far more ongoing than any you can imagine on

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Speaker 1: social media. Yeah, it is because in a healthy locker room,

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Speaker 1: one which like the Bills have and other teams around

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01:11:54,479 --> 01:11:56,719
Speaker 1: the league have a healthy locker room, nothing's off limits.

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01:11:57,520 --> 01:12:00,800
Speaker 1: The guys will think nothing. I'm saying, hey, okay, wait, dude,

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01:12:00,840 --> 01:12:03,000
Speaker 1: what about this? How you why are you not doing this?

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01:12:03,280 --> 01:12:04,600
Speaker 1: And he'll say I'm not doing it because of this?

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01:12:04,960 --> 01:12:06,280
Speaker 1: What about this? And he said, well what about that?

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01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:08,479
Speaker 1: You know, it's an and it will it will be

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01:12:08,520 --> 01:12:12,519
Speaker 1: an ongoing conversation that will not stop, that will not stop,

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Speaker 1: particularly if it can be construed as this can be

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01:12:17,840 --> 01:12:21,080
Speaker 1: when you mess with guy's paychecks or win loss records,

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01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:24,120
Speaker 1: or how about a thirty two year old veteran player

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01:12:24,160 --> 01:12:26,760
Speaker 1: who's been playing for twelve years, like Jerry Hughes wants

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01:12:26,760 --> 01:12:28,679
Speaker 1: to get those trying to get to the super Bowl

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01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:32,040
Speaker 1: and win a championship before his career is over. Yeah,

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01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:34,120
Speaker 1: and you miss, and you mess it up for him,

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01:12:34,160 --> 01:12:36,720
Speaker 1: and you miss the home field advantage because of a

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01:12:36,800 --> 01:12:40,400
Speaker 1: loss you had to forfeit in week whatever, that's hard.

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Speaker 1: I mean. Pello Sero has acquired aspects of the memo

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Speaker 1: that was sent to the thirty two teams by the league,

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Speaker 1: and it basically says, and I'm quoting from Tom Pealosero's tweet,

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01:12:55,800 --> 01:12:59,920
Speaker 1: we do not anticipate adding a nineteenth week to accommodate

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01:13:00,200 --> 01:13:03,960
Speaker 1: games that cannot be rescheduled within the current eighteen weeks

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01:13:04,000 --> 01:13:07,400
Speaker 1: of the regular season. Tom Pella Sero basically says what

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01:13:07,439 --> 01:13:11,360
Speaker 1: this means is play on time or don't play. They

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01:13:11,520 --> 01:13:14,479
Speaker 1: suffer a forfeit. The league's stance is, wow, if you're not,

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Speaker 1: if you're if you get COVID outbreak, it's you know,

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01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:21,639
Speaker 1: it's because you didn't get vaccinated. And if you did

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Speaker 1: get vaccinated, they're looking at a five percent difference, you know,

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01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:28,280
Speaker 1: five percent chance that somebody with the vaccination is going

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Speaker 1: to get the disease. And even so they'll say, we're

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Speaker 1: playing the percentages, and if you're not going to get vaccine,

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01:13:36,600 --> 01:13:40,160
Speaker 1: it's your choice. You're taking the risk, not us. Whatever

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01:13:40,280 --> 01:13:44,400
Speaker 1: money it costs us last year to finangle the schedule

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Speaker 1: with our television part, we're not going to put them

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Speaker 1: through that or us. It's your choice. If you get COVID,

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Speaker 1: it's on you, not us. You're going to forfeit the game,

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Speaker 1: and that I think that is a result of the

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01:13:56,880 --> 01:13:59,920
Speaker 1: current status we have a you know, everybody being eligible

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Speaker 1: to get vaccinated. And secondly, they know the bottom line

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Speaker 1: of what it costs them to start moving games around

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01:14:05,800 --> 01:14:08,080
Speaker 1: last year, and I'm telling you it didn't make them money.

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Speaker 1: It costs them money, and they won't put up with that,

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna put it on the clubs themselves to

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Speaker 1: meet the threshold. Here's how the entire bullet point reads

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Speaker 1: in the memo sent to all thirty two teams by

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Speaker 1: the league today. If a game cannot be rescheduled within

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Speaker 1: the current eighteen week scheduled and is canceled due to

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Speaker 1: a COVID outbreak among non vaccinated players on one of

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01:14:33,400 --> 01:14:37,040
Speaker 1: the competing teams. The club with the outbreak will forfeit

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01:14:37,080 --> 01:14:40,480
Speaker 1: the contest and will be deemed to have played sixteen

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01:14:40,560 --> 01:14:44,559
Speaker 1: games for purposes of draft waiver priority, etc. But for

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01:14:44,600 --> 01:14:48,640
Speaker 1: the purposes of playoff seating, the forfeiting team will be

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01:14:48,640 --> 01:14:51,000
Speaker 1: credited with a loss and the other team will be

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01:14:51,040 --> 01:14:54,000
Speaker 1: credited with a win. So they're knocking them a loss

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01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:57,040
Speaker 1: and the number of games they played, which gets into

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Speaker 1: the winning percentage of draft order. Ye. So yeah, it's big,

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01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:05,760
Speaker 1: that's big. And this percentage is they're saying, of the

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Speaker 1: current COVID cases, the new cases are unvaccinated people, so

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Speaker 1: five percent of the cases are people who've gotten the

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01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:14,280
Speaker 1: vaccination are still getting it, which is kind of one

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Speaker 1: of the fears that people who don't get bring up,

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01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:20,599
Speaker 1: say you can still get it. So that's a So

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01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:23,000
Speaker 1: what the league says, that's a ninety five percent chance

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01:15:23,640 --> 01:15:26,240
Speaker 1: that we're gonna get through without getting somebody who's been

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01:15:26,280 --> 01:15:30,680
Speaker 1: vaccinated get the disease have a breakout. So that but

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01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:33,240
Speaker 1: think about this, though Steve doesn't clear him completely, the

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01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:37,320
Speaker 1: forfeit counts against you in playoff seating, but it's not

1358
01:15:37,400 --> 01:15:39,800
Speaker 1: going to help you in getting a higher draft choice

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01:15:39,920 --> 01:15:43,200
Speaker 1: right or higher spot in the waiver claim process. The

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01:15:43,400 --> 01:15:51,160
Speaker 1: rare lose lose scenario. Holy cow, wow. I mean that

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01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:54,840
Speaker 1: is that is a bold step being taken here by

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Speaker 1: the league, and it's just you know, wow. Seven we've

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01:15:59,120 --> 01:16:01,599
Speaker 1: heard this to seven percent of the NFL players around

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01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:05,719
Speaker 1: the league have gotten at least one shot right. And

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Speaker 1: that's not time. Less than half the league has reached

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Speaker 1: a team wise has reached the eighty five percent vaccination threshold.

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Speaker 1: The order to Judy Battista, the latest says there's fourteen

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Speaker 1: teams now that have reached the eighty five percent of

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Speaker 1: vaccination rate. Yeah, so we will take a break here.

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Speaker 1: We've got callers on the line that want to react

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Speaker 1: to this. We want your thoughts on what you think

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Speaker 1: about the NFL's memo to teams today outlining that if

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Speaker 1: a COVID outbreak is your team's issue due to unvaccinated

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01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:42,400
Speaker 1: players and you don't have enough players to field or

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01:16:42,800 --> 01:16:45,639
Speaker 1: because of that outbreak you can't play, you will now

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01:16:45,720 --> 01:16:48,760
Speaker 1: forfeit the game. Let us know what you think about that.

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Speaker 1: Eighth three five fifty one eight eight eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty back with your phone calls. Next here

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Speaker 1: on one Bills Live, presented by Collida Health. It's Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. All right, So we thought it was enough

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01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:15,479
Speaker 1: that NFL Networks Tom Pellisio was reporting how the NFL,

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01:17:15,560 --> 01:17:17,880
Speaker 1: through a memo, informed their thirty two clubs that if

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01:17:17,880 --> 01:17:21,599
Speaker 1: a game cannot be rescheduled during the eighteen weeks due

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01:17:21,640 --> 01:17:24,960
Speaker 1: to a COVID outbreak, I'm up unvaccinated players, hell teams

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01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:27,200
Speaker 1: will actually have to forfeit the game. There is more,

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01:17:27,360 --> 01:17:29,920
Speaker 1: tell us, tell us, brownie, what's going to happen? So

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01:17:30,080 --> 01:17:33,040
Speaker 1: to recap if an out this is directly from Tom Pellisio.

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01:17:33,439 --> 01:17:36,320
Speaker 1: If an outbreak of unvaccinated NFL players causes a game

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01:17:36,360 --> 01:17:40,200
Speaker 1: to be canceled, infected team forfeits, takes a loss for

1390
01:17:40,280 --> 01:17:45,720
Speaker 1: playoff seating. Now also will face financial penalties and possible

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01:17:45,800 --> 01:17:51,120
Speaker 1: additional sanctions if protocols are violated, and players on both

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01:17:51,160 --> 01:17:58,439
Speaker 1: teams additionally will not be paid. Holy, So think about this. So,

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01:17:58,520 --> 01:18:03,880
Speaker 1: because one of your guys gets COVID and it spreads

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01:18:04,360 --> 01:18:05,960
Speaker 1: and you can't play the game, or they have to

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01:18:05,960 --> 01:18:08,320
Speaker 1: postpone the game or whatever whatever, whatever, the four fot

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01:18:08,360 --> 01:18:11,160
Speaker 1: the game. Now, a guy, listen to this. A guy

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01:18:11,880 --> 01:18:17,600
Speaker 1: who's making in seventeen game schedule, he's making three point

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01:18:17,720 --> 01:18:21,519
Speaker 1: five million dollars as a salary, which most guys are

1399
01:18:21,560 --> 01:18:24,559
Speaker 1: above that, a lot of guys. It's gonna cost him

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01:18:25,439 --> 01:18:33,840
Speaker 1: two hundred thousand dollars for his teammate getting COVID. Yeah,

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01:18:33,880 --> 01:18:36,040
Speaker 1: and this would have that's for a guy made a

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01:18:36,040 --> 01:18:39,360
Speaker 1: few point five What if you're making seventeen it's costing

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01:18:39,479 --> 01:18:42,680
Speaker 1: Trey White a million bucks. I'm just gonna tell you

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01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:47,840
Speaker 1: right now. If we are the Tennessee Titans situation this year,

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01:18:48,760 --> 01:18:53,720
Speaker 1: they did violate mask wearing protocols in their building. They

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01:18:53,439 --> 01:19:00,760
Speaker 1: that team this year would have taken the loss financial

1407
01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:04,880
Speaker 1: penalties and probably like a loss of draft picks or

1408
01:19:04,920 --> 01:19:09,479
Speaker 1: something because they violated mask wearing protocols in their own building. Now,

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01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:11,000
Speaker 1: let me just head this off at the past, because

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01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:13,679
Speaker 1: I know we're gonna get people calling us um and

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01:19:13,680 --> 01:19:17,760
Speaker 1: and going off on the on the NFL for overstepping

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01:19:17,800 --> 01:19:20,479
Speaker 1: their bounds. They're gonna get off in the NFL for

1413
01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:23,920
Speaker 1: and the NLA and the NFL pa is should come

1414
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:28,679
Speaker 1: after the NFL all this this is a this lawsuit, lawsuit, lawsuit,

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01:19:28,760 --> 01:19:31,280
Speaker 1: he said. She said they can't do this. You can't

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01:19:31,280 --> 01:19:33,080
Speaker 1: do that. It's illegal. Dada, dada. Let me just tell

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01:19:33,120 --> 01:19:39,000
Speaker 1: you this. This happened now for a reason because the

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01:19:39,120 --> 01:19:43,160
Speaker 1: league would not do this, would not make these claims,

1419
01:19:43,240 --> 01:19:45,800
Speaker 1: would not put these rules into effect, would not come

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01:19:45,800 --> 01:19:49,120
Speaker 1: out with this statement, wouldn't think to even do something

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01:19:49,120 --> 01:19:52,240
Speaker 1: of this nature if they hadn't already checked it out.

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01:19:52,439 --> 01:19:55,760
Speaker 1: Whether they could get away with it or not, they can,

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01:19:58,040 --> 01:20:00,559
Speaker 1: they can't. Whether you like it or not is irrelevant.

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01:20:00,560 --> 01:20:04,320
Speaker 1: The reason why is because they're not mandating anything. It's right.

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01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:07,000
Speaker 1: They're just telling you if you have unvaccinated players and

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01:20:07,080 --> 01:20:09,880
Speaker 1: they cause an outbreak, here are the repair repercussions that

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01:20:09,880 --> 01:20:12,920
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to take. That's all they're doing. Yeah anything, Yeah,

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01:20:12,920 --> 01:20:14,680
Speaker 1: they'll tell you there. We're not forcing guys to get

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01:20:14,720 --> 01:20:17,120
Speaker 1: the vaccine, but we have to take precautions about our

1430
01:20:17,160 --> 01:20:19,960
Speaker 1: business in case it happens this. Protecting their infants is

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01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:22,840
Speaker 1: what we have to do. And that's where they're out

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01:20:23,080 --> 01:20:25,360
Speaker 1: is and so we can. You know, there will be

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01:20:25,400 --> 01:20:29,519
Speaker 1: some fans who are absolutely livid that a business would

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01:20:29,520 --> 01:20:31,479
Speaker 1: be able to do this to their employees, and so

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01:20:31,520 --> 01:20:34,639
Speaker 1: to speak, they're belivid that a union would not do

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01:20:34,760 --> 01:20:39,200
Speaker 1: something to protect its employ to it and protect its constituency,

1437
01:20:39,320 --> 01:20:43,040
Speaker 1: like the NFLPA doing for the Players Association. I'm telling

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01:20:43,080 --> 01:20:47,000
Speaker 1: you this in the state of currently it is in

1439
01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:49,639
Speaker 1: the NFL. The league wouldn't do this if they hadn't

1440
01:20:49,640 --> 01:20:51,519
Speaker 1: already checked it out. Whether they get away with it

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01:20:51,600 --> 01:20:54,160
Speaker 1: or not, and they can. So, whether you like it

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01:20:54,280 --> 01:20:56,000
Speaker 1: or not is one thing. And none of all of

1443
01:20:56,080 --> 01:20:58,360
Speaker 1: us are like even Brownie and I are like, oh man,

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01:20:59,320 --> 01:21:02,240
Speaker 1: it's an eyebrow our raisor yeah, this is right. I

1445
01:21:02,320 --> 01:21:04,600
Speaker 1: was saying. This is not an epening salvo. This is

1446
01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:06,760
Speaker 1: a shot right between the eyes, like, hey, wake up

1447
01:21:06,760 --> 01:21:09,680
Speaker 1: every It's a broadside. It's a broadside. This is a

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01:21:09,680 --> 01:21:11,960
Speaker 1: wake up call. And it's so it's so you can

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01:21:12,120 --> 01:21:13,960
Speaker 1: you can call us to say, hey, they've overs the

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01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:16,959
Speaker 1: leagues out of control. They're you're they're not that. Yeah, okay,

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01:21:17,080 --> 01:21:22,000
Speaker 1: but they can do it because they're really not. They're incentive.

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01:21:22,080 --> 01:21:25,559
Speaker 1: What they're saying is basically, to put as simply as possible,

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01:21:26,200 --> 01:21:31,720
Speaker 1: they're incentive. They're incentivizing getting the vaccine. Yeah, and they

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01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:36,519
Speaker 1: are protecting their inventory and their business in case COVID

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01:21:37,040 --> 01:21:41,960
Speaker 1: strikes them again. In twenty twenty one. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: go to the phones, and we begin with Patrick in Geneva. Patrick,

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01:21:45,479 --> 01:21:47,360
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's life. Oh,

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01:21:48,160 --> 01:21:50,599
Speaker 1: there's too much to talk about with this, But if

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01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:53,640
Speaker 1: you look around right now, UM, there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: cases of COVID popping up with vaccinated Um. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm myself vaccinated, and UM, there's still a risk of

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Speaker 1: getting COVID, And I just feel like it's what they're

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01:22:03,040 --> 01:22:07,160
Speaker 1: creating is medical apartheid in terms of like saying people

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01:22:07,160 --> 01:22:10,360
Speaker 1: that don't want to have the vaccine and have the vaccine.

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01:22:10,439 --> 01:22:12,280
Speaker 1: So it's, UM, I don't know. I just feel like

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Speaker 1: the NFL is in a strange place. But when you

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Speaker 1: were saying the players, you know, can't do anything, and

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01:22:16,479 --> 01:22:18,760
Speaker 1: they couldn't whatever, the ultimate thing would be just for

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01:22:18,840 --> 01:22:20,280
Speaker 1: them to be like, hey, we're gonna sit out this

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Speaker 1: year until we all figure it out. Maybe it's unsafe

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Speaker 1: for us, But I don't know, it's um, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's I don't not get too conspiratorial, but those Fauci

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01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:32,360
Speaker 1: emails they said the masks don't work. I mean that,

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Speaker 1: you know, the virus particles are one one thousands of

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01:22:36,320 --> 01:22:38,720
Speaker 1: like a smoke particle and you could like you know,

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01:22:38,960 --> 01:22:42,120
Speaker 1: hit a nicotine vaporizer through your mask and it doesn't work.

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01:22:42,880 --> 01:22:45,000
Speaker 1: Here's the and here's the think Patt. Yeah, there are

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01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:47,760
Speaker 1: there are some. There are cases of people with the vaccine,

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Speaker 1: who got the vaccine who got COVID, But statistically speaking,

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01:22:50,680 --> 01:22:52,960
Speaker 1: it's five percent of the cases that are being had

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01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:56,519
Speaker 1: right now. Five percent of the COVID cases that are

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01:22:56,680 --> 01:22:59,639
Speaker 1: new are with people who got the vaccine, which means

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01:22:59,720 --> 01:23:01,679
Speaker 1: ninety five of the percent of the cases are people

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01:23:01,680 --> 01:23:05,960
Speaker 1: who don't. So yes, there are COVID cases of people

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01:23:05,960 --> 01:23:08,960
Speaker 1: who've gotten the vaccine, but in large measure the reason.

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01:23:09,160 --> 01:23:11,519
Speaker 1: One of the benefits of the vaccine, they'll tell you,

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01:23:12,200 --> 01:23:15,600
Speaker 1: is that because they got the vaccine, the COVID symptoms

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01:23:15,600 --> 01:23:21,439
Speaker 1: are minimal. It saves your life. You're gonna go, you're

1489
01:23:21,439 --> 01:23:23,920
Speaker 1: gonna get Yeah, you don't get seriously ill. You get COVID,

1490
01:23:24,040 --> 01:23:26,240
Speaker 1: but you test positive, you don't even realize you have it.

1491
01:23:26,360 --> 01:23:28,880
Speaker 1: Like some people are almost asymptomatic. Like yeah, like some

1492
01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:32,160
Speaker 1: people got it during COVID and had that same thing

1493
01:23:32,240 --> 01:23:33,720
Speaker 1: happened to him. They got it, but they didn't know

1494
01:23:33,760 --> 01:23:36,360
Speaker 1: they had it, or they didn't show any symptoms. Now

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01:23:36,720 --> 01:23:39,600
Speaker 1: every not everybody, but vast majority. Ninety five percent of

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01:23:39,640 --> 01:23:42,120
Speaker 1: the people who get COVID now after the vaccine, it's

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01:23:42,240 --> 01:23:45,120
Speaker 1: not even a bump in the road. And five percent

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01:23:45,200 --> 01:23:48,200
Speaker 1: of the new cases are from actually from people who

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01:23:48,200 --> 01:23:51,080
Speaker 1: got the vaccine. Ninety five percent of the cases of

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01:23:51,120 --> 01:23:54,000
Speaker 1: people who are getting a new case of COVID or

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01:23:54,040 --> 01:23:57,000
Speaker 1: people who don't didn't get the vaccine. So yeah, while

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01:23:57,000 --> 01:24:00,200
Speaker 1: you're you're right, there are cases of COVID with the vaccine,

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01:24:00,760 --> 01:24:03,920
Speaker 1: it's only five percent of the cases that we're actually seeing.

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01:24:04,080 --> 01:24:09,240
Speaker 1: So the statistics and with the effect that the vaccine

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01:24:09,240 --> 01:24:11,799
Speaker 1: has on those who actually do get the COVID virus,

1506
01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:15,840
Speaker 1: even after they get the vaccine, the symptoms are minuscule.

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01:24:15,960 --> 01:24:19,439
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's no guarantee you're not gonna get COVID,

1508
01:24:20,080 --> 01:24:21,720
Speaker 1: but there does seem to be a guarantee that you're

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01:24:21,720 --> 01:24:24,920
Speaker 1: probably not gonna die from it, and that's kind of

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01:24:24,920 --> 01:24:29,960
Speaker 1: important a little bit. Yeah, and you're one hundred percent

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01:24:30,200 --> 01:24:34,000
Speaker 1: bang on that. You know, the League went through this

1512
01:24:34,080 --> 01:24:36,960
Speaker 1: memo with a fine tooth comb with their legal department

1513
01:24:36,960 --> 01:24:39,240
Speaker 1: to make so they weren't overstepping. And I'll tell you this,

1514
01:24:39,320 --> 01:24:41,479
Speaker 1: to air bounds in any way, shape or form. And

1515
01:24:41,560 --> 01:24:44,519
Speaker 1: the bottom line is this too, they just sign mega

1516
01:24:44,960 --> 01:24:49,559
Speaker 1: media deals with an extra regular season game. There is

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01:24:49,640 --> 01:24:53,640
Speaker 1: less room to maneuver now with an eighteen game or

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01:24:53,680 --> 01:24:57,600
Speaker 1: excuse me, eighteen week seventeen game regular season. Yes, you

1519
01:24:57,640 --> 01:25:02,599
Speaker 1: have a bye week to work with, but they don't

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01:25:02,640 --> 01:25:08,240
Speaker 1: want to reschedule games, right, playing and simple. Not only that, now,

1521
01:25:09,120 --> 01:25:13,160
Speaker 1: unlike last year, you got a stadium full of people

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01:25:13,160 --> 01:25:16,080
Speaker 1: you gotta wrangle as well, and you can't like move

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01:25:16,080 --> 01:25:20,120
Speaker 1: the game from Sunday afternoon to one to Tuesday at five. Well, yes,

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01:25:20,320 --> 01:25:22,920
Speaker 1: that is another huge point because now you're not only

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01:25:22,960 --> 01:25:26,720
Speaker 1: affecting the two teams you know, most notably the team

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01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:29,559
Speaker 1: that's traveling and has to make travel arrangements, hotel arrangements,

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01:25:29,600 --> 01:25:31,560
Speaker 1: all of that. I'll tell you what, Now you're affecting

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01:25:31,920 --> 01:25:34,439
Speaker 1: upwards of seventy thousand fans. There's a lot of those

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01:25:34,479 --> 01:25:36,600
Speaker 1: seventy thousand fans. I can't make a Tuesday night at

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01:25:36,640 --> 01:25:39,160
Speaker 1: five o'clock game. You're gonna give me my money back, period,

1531
01:25:39,479 --> 01:25:41,800
Speaker 1: And the clubs, what's the club gonna do? You kind

1532
01:25:41,800 --> 01:25:43,479
Speaker 1: of gotta go along with the fans on that one.

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01:25:44,000 --> 01:25:47,120
Speaker 1: And that's like, because it's not their fault, you change

1534
01:25:47,160 --> 01:25:49,000
Speaker 1: the game. That's lots of money that you're given back,

1535
01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:51,160
Speaker 1: and that nobody wants to know NFL team wants to

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01:25:51,240 --> 01:25:55,519
Speaker 1: do that. So yeah, I my point stands. You know

1537
01:25:55,560 --> 01:25:57,960
Speaker 1: that the NFL went to their legal team, said what

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01:25:58,040 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 1: about it, and they said, yeah, technically you can do it,

1539
01:26:00,320 --> 01:26:02,879
Speaker 1: and they probably gave I'm telling you this, they probably

1540
01:26:04,560 --> 01:26:06,880
Speaker 1: picked up the phone and called the NFLPA said here,

1541
01:26:06,920 --> 01:26:09,360
Speaker 1: this is coming down the pipe. And I don't know

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01:26:09,400 --> 01:26:11,920
Speaker 1: that the NFLPA would have said don't do it, or

1543
01:26:12,120 --> 01:26:18,560
Speaker 1: you know what's kind of a good idea, you'd be surprised. Yeah,

1544
01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:22,160
Speaker 1: Patrick on the tweet sheets says, the NFL makes the

1545
01:26:22,240 --> 01:26:25,799
Speaker 1: rules and this is just another way of them flexing

1546
01:26:25,840 --> 01:26:28,839
Speaker 1: their muscles with this new rule of a COVID outbreak.

1547
01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:32,360
Speaker 1: It's their way of saying they don't want anyone unvaccinated.

1548
01:26:32,400 --> 01:26:35,040
Speaker 1: I understand, it's a business and it's to make money,

1549
01:26:35,479 --> 01:26:39,200
Speaker 1: not lose it. Yeah, this is not just an opportunity

1550
01:26:39,240 --> 01:26:43,840
Speaker 1: to flex, it's a business decision. Oh yeah, they're not

1551
01:26:43,880 --> 01:26:47,479
Speaker 1: just flexing. Yeah, I mean they just had I mean,

1552
01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:50,840
Speaker 1: did teams still make money last year in this league? Yes?

1553
01:26:51,240 --> 01:26:53,479
Speaker 1: I mean The NFL is a cash count. We know that,

1554
01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:57,960
Speaker 1: but there were revenue shortfalls that they haven't seen in

1555
01:26:58,200 --> 01:27:02,840
Speaker 1: twenty years. So they don't want another year like that.

1556
01:27:03,040 --> 01:27:05,360
Speaker 1: And that was with get playing all two hundred and

1557
01:27:05,360 --> 01:27:07,760
Speaker 1: fifty six games. Right now, you've got two hundred and

1558
01:27:07,760 --> 01:27:12,439
Speaker 1: seventy eight games of inventory. They're getting them played, and

1559
01:27:12,479 --> 01:27:15,080
Speaker 1: they want them played with full stadiums, and they're gonna

1560
01:27:15,120 --> 01:27:18,799
Speaker 1: do press whatever buttons they need to within their legal

1561
01:27:19,479 --> 01:27:23,360
Speaker 1: rights to make that hassolute. And and you know, you

1562
01:27:23,400 --> 01:27:27,120
Speaker 1: come down to this and you figure it's funny because

1563
01:27:27,120 --> 01:27:32,479
Speaker 1: at one point eight months ago, everybody was like, Wow,

1564
01:27:32,479 --> 01:27:34,040
Speaker 1: I wish we had a vaccine. When is that vaccine

1565
01:27:34,040 --> 01:27:38,960
Speaker 1: gonna happen? And I'm shocked that there's this larger percentage

1566
01:27:38,960 --> 01:27:42,559
Speaker 1: of people who are, you know, against it or now

1567
01:27:42,560 --> 01:27:45,439
Speaker 1: it's now it's like, I don't know or have questions

1568
01:27:45,479 --> 01:27:47,880
Speaker 1: about it, And I get it. They're legitimate. Everybody's got

1569
01:27:47,880 --> 01:27:50,559
Speaker 1: to be convinced, and I have no problem with that,

1570
01:27:51,680 --> 01:27:53,720
Speaker 1: but it's it's like the other side of a coin

1571
01:27:53,760 --> 01:27:56,880
Speaker 1: that I didn't I didn't know that that existed, and

1572
01:27:57,760 --> 01:28:00,680
Speaker 1: it's it's interesting to see it play out the way

1573
01:28:00,720 --> 01:28:03,400
Speaker 1: it has and how it's in its effect. And I

1574
01:28:03,439 --> 01:28:07,519
Speaker 1: guess now we know that this little I don't say little,

1575
01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:11,160
Speaker 1: but this confrontation now between a league that wants to

1576
01:28:11,200 --> 01:28:16,280
Speaker 1: get two hundred fifty six games played and the vaccination debate,

1577
01:28:17,160 --> 01:28:20,480
Speaker 1: that tension came to the forefront today with this announcement.

1578
01:28:20,520 --> 01:28:22,879
Speaker 1: The rope just got a whole lot tighter. Yeah, between

1579
01:28:22,880 --> 01:28:25,320
Speaker 1: the two sides. For sure, we have to take a

1580
01:28:25,320 --> 01:28:27,519
Speaker 1: break here, But when we come back, more of your

1581
01:28:27,520 --> 01:28:30,840
Speaker 1: thoughts on this latest memo sent by the league to

1582
01:28:30,880 --> 01:28:35,600
Speaker 1: their thirty two teams. If you have unvaccinated players that

1583
01:28:35,680 --> 01:28:38,720
Speaker 1: cause an outbreak and your team that forces you to

1584
01:28:38,760 --> 01:28:41,120
Speaker 1: not be able to play on your schedule date to

1585
01:28:41,160 --> 01:28:44,160
Speaker 1: face another opponent on your schedule, you will have to

1586
01:28:44,240 --> 01:28:47,559
Speaker 1: forfeit that game. They are not going to be rescheduling games.

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01:28:48,000 --> 01:28:49,720
Speaker 1: Let us know what you think. We'll be back in

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01:28:49,800 --> 01:28:51,840
Speaker 1: a moment here on One Bills Live, presented by Colloid

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01:28:51,840 --> 01:29:06,639
Speaker 1: of Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to one

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01:29:06,640 --> 01:29:08,960
Speaker 1: Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you if you're

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01:29:08,960 --> 01:29:11,760
Speaker 1: just joining us. The NFL. According to NFL Networks, Tom

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01:29:11,840 --> 01:29:15,880
Speaker 1: Hillasio has informed its thirty two member clubs via a

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01:29:15,960 --> 01:29:20,000
Speaker 1: memo that if a game this season cannot be rescheduled

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01:29:20,080 --> 01:29:22,840
Speaker 1: during the eighteen week season twenty twenty one due to

1595
01:29:22,880 --> 01:29:26,840
Speaker 1: a COVID outbreak among unvaccinated players, the team with the

1596
01:29:26,880 --> 01:29:30,200
Speaker 1: outbreak will forfeit and be credited with a loss for

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01:29:30,280 --> 01:29:34,879
Speaker 1: playoff seating. Additionally, they will not be given a benefit

1598
01:29:34,880 --> 01:29:38,600
Speaker 1: of that loss by way of draft pick order or

1599
01:29:38,880 --> 01:29:47,720
Speaker 1: waiver priority. In addition, infected teams could face financial penalties,

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01:29:48,360 --> 01:29:52,280
Speaker 1: possible additional sanctions if they find that protocols at the

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01:29:52,320 --> 01:29:58,320
Speaker 1: team facility have been violated, and probably most importantly, players

1602
01:29:58,400 --> 01:30:00,320
Speaker 1: on both teams in the event of a or it

1603
01:30:00,640 --> 01:30:04,439
Speaker 1: would not get paid. Now, I think Steve and I

1604
01:30:04,479 --> 01:30:10,000
Speaker 1: will tell you that this stems primarily from a protect

1605
01:30:10,080 --> 01:30:14,280
Speaker 1: our inventory standpoint to provide this. Here's a more legal

1606
01:30:14,320 --> 01:30:19,599
Speaker 1: look at it from Michael McCann. He says NFL cities sites,

1607
01:30:19,760 --> 01:30:23,599
Speaker 1: NFL sites that the league constitution and by laws which

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01:30:23,640 --> 01:30:28,160
Speaker 1: all teams are contractually obligated to follow, and parenthetical side

1609
01:30:28,160 --> 01:30:33,479
Speaker 1: he says and cannot viably change in court, noting there

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01:30:33,560 --> 01:30:36,439
Speaker 1: is no right to postpone a game and to failure

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01:30:36,479 --> 01:30:41,160
Speaker 1: to have a team ready is to conduct is conduct detrimental. Well,

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01:30:41,320 --> 01:30:45,479
Speaker 1: the memo says if a game cannot be rescheduled, They're

1613
01:30:45,479 --> 01:30:49,680
Speaker 1: not saying they won't reschedule it. They're saying if circumstances

1614
01:30:49,760 --> 01:30:52,519
Speaker 1: prevent us from rescheduling it. So it doesn't sound like

1615
01:30:52,560 --> 01:30:55,200
Speaker 1: the league is outright saying we're not going to reschedule

1616
01:30:55,240 --> 01:30:59,760
Speaker 1: a game no matter what. But you got an unvaccinated

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01:30:59,760 --> 01:31:02,120
Speaker 1: player that leads to an outbreak, you're talking upwards of

1618
01:31:02,560 --> 01:31:05,479
Speaker 1: twelve fifteen players probably. I mean, what did the Titans have?

1619
01:31:05,560 --> 01:31:10,040
Speaker 1: They had twenty four players and they had to move

1620
01:31:10,080 --> 01:31:13,000
Speaker 1: a game against the Steelers back to a bye week

1621
01:31:13,360 --> 01:31:16,639
Speaker 1: like five weeks later or four weeks later, and they

1622
01:31:16,640 --> 01:31:19,960
Speaker 1: had to push their game the following week back another

1623
01:31:20,720 --> 01:31:23,880
Speaker 1: what was it? They moved it to the following Tuesday

1624
01:31:24,040 --> 01:31:27,080
Speaker 1: between the Bills and the Titans after changing it back

1625
01:31:27,120 --> 01:31:29,600
Speaker 1: and forth between the Bills, Chiefs and Bells for the

1626
01:31:29,640 --> 01:31:34,439
Speaker 1: Bill schedule right. Yes, this also Tom Pelisaro. Pelisaro also

1627
01:31:34,520 --> 01:31:38,680
Speaker 1: has this. In addition, this is another competitive aspect of

1628
01:31:38,720 --> 01:31:43,320
Speaker 1: today's memo. This is from his tweet. Vaccinated individuals who

1629
01:31:43,320 --> 01:31:47,360
Speaker 1: test positive and are asymptomatic can return to duty after

1630
01:31:47,400 --> 01:31:50,800
Speaker 1: two negative tests twenty four hours apart. That means a

1631
01:31:50,840 --> 01:31:54,599
Speaker 1: maximum of twenty four hours or minimum of twenty four

1632
01:31:54,640 --> 01:31:56,800
Speaker 1: hours away. You can come back in the building after

1633
01:31:56,800 --> 01:32:01,160
Speaker 1: you test negative, or perhaps if they retest you right

1634
01:32:01,200 --> 01:32:03,960
Speaker 1: away and then a day later test you in your negative.

1635
01:32:04,320 --> 01:32:06,320
Speaker 1: If both tests are negative, you're back in the building. Now.

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01:32:06,600 --> 01:32:12,880
Speaker 1: Unvaccinated individuals still are subject to a mandatory ten day

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01:32:12,960 --> 01:32:15,720
Speaker 1: isolation period. So if you don't have the vaccination, you're

1638
01:32:15,720 --> 01:32:19,080
Speaker 1: out for ten days, no matter what. But if you're vaccinated,

1639
01:32:19,680 --> 01:32:21,679
Speaker 1: you could be back in as little as two days

1640
01:32:21,800 --> 01:32:26,240
Speaker 1: or less than two days. Yeah, because I'm guessing the

1641
01:32:26,280 --> 01:32:30,439
Speaker 1: consecutive positives or consecutive negative tests come into play there.

1642
01:32:32,640 --> 01:32:36,440
Speaker 1: So yeah, But the thing here is it's a mandatory

1643
01:32:36,520 --> 01:32:41,760
Speaker 1: ten day isolation period. So if you're unvaccinated, you could

1644
01:32:42,040 --> 01:32:47,920
Speaker 1: test positive for COVID, it's ten days automatic. Yeah. While

1645
01:32:48,000 --> 01:32:52,040
Speaker 1: I think everybody at first Plush will say this is

1646
01:32:52,040 --> 01:32:56,400
Speaker 1: a decision rooted in money, and I don't know if

1647
01:32:56,400 --> 01:32:58,120
Speaker 1: Steve or I are even going to come close to

1648
01:32:58,200 --> 01:33:01,280
Speaker 1: denying that because they're trying to check their on field product.

1649
01:33:01,760 --> 01:33:05,519
Speaker 1: They don't want games compromised because there's an outbreak due

1650
01:33:05,520 --> 01:33:10,720
Speaker 1: to unvaccinated people walking around the building. I think the

1651
01:33:10,800 --> 01:33:13,759
Speaker 1: important thing here to remember that the NFL is trying

1652
01:33:13,800 --> 01:33:16,760
Speaker 1: to demonstrate. And you can say it's about the money

1653
01:33:16,800 --> 01:33:21,960
Speaker 1: all you want, and it probably is. It's also a

1654
01:33:22,000 --> 01:33:28,120
Speaker 1: reminder here that hello, it's a pandemic we're all immersed

1655
01:33:28,120 --> 01:33:33,599
Speaker 1: in for over a year now, and that your personal decision,

1656
01:33:34,960 --> 01:33:38,519
Speaker 1: if you're a member of a football team, impacts more

1657
01:33:38,680 --> 01:33:43,880
Speaker 1: than just you. It impacts the people in the locker

1658
01:33:44,000 --> 01:33:46,120
Speaker 1: room with you, the people on your roster, the coaching

1659
01:33:46,160 --> 01:33:50,040
Speaker 1: staff you work with every day. And now, based on

1660
01:33:50,080 --> 01:33:54,639
Speaker 1: the NFL's new memo, it's going to affect the players

1661
01:33:54,680 --> 01:33:57,080
Speaker 1: on your team and the money they make, and the

1662
01:33:57,120 --> 01:33:59,559
Speaker 1: players on the other team and the money they make.

1663
01:34:00,080 --> 01:34:03,040
Speaker 1: This case wouldn't make I spoke earlier about the conversations

1664
01:34:03,080 --> 01:34:05,120
Speaker 1: that you know, there's nothing's off limited good in all

1665
01:34:05,120 --> 01:34:07,080
Speaker 1: the good locker room, they'll talk about this. And you

1666
01:34:07,120 --> 01:34:10,559
Speaker 1: can bet that if if you know, when money starts

1667
01:34:10,560 --> 01:34:12,760
Speaker 1: to get involved, like at the amount that we're talking

1668
01:34:12,760 --> 01:34:14,799
Speaker 1: about where some of these guys, it will get heated.

1669
01:34:16,200 --> 01:34:18,200
Speaker 1: It will get heated in some locker rooms over this.

1670
01:34:20,280 --> 01:34:24,519
Speaker 1: And that's that's gonna get sticky. Yeah, I mean absolutely,

1671
01:34:24,520 --> 01:34:29,519
Speaker 1: it's gonna get absolutely And that is like if if

1672
01:34:29,560 --> 01:34:31,800
Speaker 1: you're a fan of any team in this league. Yeah,

1673
01:34:31,840 --> 01:34:33,640
Speaker 1: people are saying, you know, people are calling it. Hey,

1674
01:34:33,680 --> 01:34:35,960
Speaker 1: the players are gonna sue and fight back. They can't sue.

1675
01:34:36,520 --> 01:34:40,760
Speaker 1: They're they're totally at the mercy of the league, and

1676
01:34:40,760 --> 01:34:42,519
Speaker 1: they don't have If they don't want to get the shot,

1677
01:34:42,520 --> 01:34:45,240
Speaker 1: they don't have to get the shot. But there are

1678
01:34:45,360 --> 01:34:50,880
Speaker 1: business percussions, concussions that are legally acquired and legally implemented

1679
01:34:51,160 --> 01:34:53,519
Speaker 1: by the NFL. So you can say what you want about,

1680
01:34:53,840 --> 01:34:56,880
Speaker 1: you know, if if you're an anti vactor, and it's fine.

1681
01:34:57,400 --> 01:35:00,120
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that this business is going to to

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01:35:00,200 --> 01:35:05,439
Speaker 1: do some things. If indeed the vaccine the COVID virus

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01:35:05,520 --> 01:35:07,920
Speaker 1: causes them to lose business, They've got some repercussions they

1684
01:35:07,960 --> 01:35:09,960
Speaker 1: can take and some course of action they can take

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01:35:09,960 --> 01:35:12,760
Speaker 1: in order to cut their losses, and it's probably gonna

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01:35:12,800 --> 01:35:16,880
Speaker 1: go like this, Steve, in the hypothetical situation where God forbid,

1687
01:35:16,880 --> 01:35:18,880
Speaker 1: there is a v there is an outbreak due to

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01:35:18,920 --> 01:35:24,479
Speaker 1: unvaccinated players on Team A in the NFL, and they

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01:35:24,520 --> 01:35:26,960
Speaker 1: have an outbreak the extent of which we saw with

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01:35:27,040 --> 01:35:29,240
Speaker 1: the Titans last year, where I think there was upwards

1691
01:35:29,280 --> 01:35:31,040
Speaker 1: of twenty players. They couldn't get in on it for

1692
01:35:31,080 --> 01:35:33,320
Speaker 1: about a week because upwards of twenty players where they

1693
01:35:33,360 --> 01:35:36,479
Speaker 1: just kept getting positive after positive after positive after positive.

1694
01:35:37,000 --> 01:35:40,439
Speaker 1: And that happens on a Monday or a Tuesday, and

1695
01:35:40,560 --> 01:35:43,800
Speaker 1: they've got upwards of sixteen players out of the mix

1696
01:35:43,840 --> 01:35:46,719
Speaker 1: for Sunday's game, and the league comes to them and says,

1697
01:35:47,080 --> 01:35:51,599
Speaker 1: can you play Monday night? No? Can you play Tuesday? No,

1698
01:35:51,640 --> 01:35:54,320
Speaker 1: we won't have enough players. I'm sorry. You forfeit, right,

1699
01:35:54,680 --> 01:35:57,479
Speaker 1: That's how it's gonna go. That's how it's gonna go.

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01:35:57,720 --> 01:36:00,439
Speaker 1: You forfeit, You take a loss, and we're you're now

1701
01:36:00,520 --> 01:36:04,880
Speaker 1: under investigation, and if we find that you're COVID protocols

1702
01:36:05,200 --> 01:36:09,559
Speaker 1: were not adhered to, particularly by your unvaccinated players, there

1703
01:36:09,560 --> 01:36:12,680
Speaker 1: will be further repercussions in the form of financial penalties.

1704
01:36:12,920 --> 01:36:15,719
Speaker 1: Who knows. We're only speculating here, but maybe draft picks.

1705
01:36:16,360 --> 01:36:21,759
Speaker 1: Um I mean, And oh, by the way, your players

1706
01:36:21,800 --> 01:36:24,600
Speaker 1: aren't getting paid, right, and neither of the players on

1707
01:36:24,640 --> 01:36:26,760
Speaker 1: the opponent. Can you imagine the phone calls from the

1708
01:36:26,800 --> 01:36:29,639
Speaker 1: other the team as head coach standing up in front

1709
01:36:29,640 --> 01:36:35,120
Speaker 1: of them and telling them that, let me, they're guys.

1710
01:36:35,320 --> 01:36:39,439
Speaker 1: Especially when you think Steve about the investment of time

1711
01:36:40,320 --> 01:36:44,679
Speaker 1: and energy from players and coaches that go into a season,

1712
01:36:44,920 --> 01:36:49,720
Speaker 1: I mean every game, every week, the planning about how

1713
01:36:49,760 --> 01:36:53,000
Speaker 1: about the pain and suffering of trying to get ready

1714
01:36:53,040 --> 01:36:57,280
Speaker 1: for it and having it all the games you've won

1715
01:36:57,360 --> 01:36:59,439
Speaker 1: up to that point, or kind of hanging in there

1716
01:36:59,479 --> 01:37:01,880
Speaker 1: trying to get with it and gut out some wins.

1717
01:37:01,880 --> 01:37:04,479
Speaker 1: And then this happens, like say week eighteen, where you

1718
01:37:04,560 --> 01:37:07,720
Speaker 1: gotta win to get in. Worst possible case scenario, you

1719
01:37:07,760 --> 01:37:10,599
Speaker 1: win and get in and you and your team comes

1720
01:37:10,600 --> 01:37:14,000
Speaker 1: down with a COVID outbreak after jumping through all the

1721
01:37:14,080 --> 01:37:16,720
Speaker 1: COVID hoops you've done because you've got you're not that

1722
01:37:16,840 --> 01:37:19,280
Speaker 1: the threshold. You got a chance to win and get in.

1723
01:37:19,360 --> 01:37:21,400
Speaker 1: You get stuck with this at the end of the season.

1724
01:37:21,840 --> 01:37:26,640
Speaker 1: Guy's pain, pain, walking around hurt and then having that

1725
01:37:26,720 --> 01:37:31,400
Speaker 1: happen forfeiting the game you're out. Yeah, that that would

1726
01:37:31,400 --> 01:37:34,280
Speaker 1: get ugly in that team meeting. We're in a big hurry,

1727
01:37:34,439 --> 01:37:37,160
Speaker 1: in a big hurry that and that's that's absolutely spinning

1728
01:37:37,200 --> 01:37:41,360
Speaker 1: it negative upon negative upon fifteen bad things have to happen,

1729
01:37:41,439 --> 01:37:43,960
Speaker 1: but it's got out of the realm of possibility now,

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01:37:44,080 --> 01:37:48,639
Speaker 1: especially knowing only fourteen teams have reached the eighty five

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01:37:48,680 --> 01:37:52,400
Speaker 1: percent vaccinated threshold, and that's no guarantee for them either,

1732
01:37:52,560 --> 01:37:55,840
Speaker 1: because while they can conduct business as usual, they still

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01:37:55,880 --> 01:37:58,600
Speaker 1: have unvaccinated players walking around. Eighteen teams are in that

1734
01:37:58,640 --> 01:38:01,000
Speaker 1: pool that are not haven't reached. And that doesn't mean

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01:38:01,080 --> 01:38:04,120
Speaker 1: that the fourteen teams that are at the vaccination threshold

1736
01:38:04,120 --> 01:38:08,479
Speaker 1: now are will remain there after they cut down, right,

1737
01:38:08,640 --> 01:38:11,879
Speaker 1: because it might be their older veteran population of players

1738
01:38:11,880 --> 01:38:13,920
Speaker 1: who are not vaccinated who are actually really going to

1739
01:38:14,000 --> 01:38:16,960
Speaker 1: make the team, and all the young first year guys

1740
01:38:17,000 --> 01:38:18,760
Speaker 1: who you know, were kind of trying to do what

1741
01:38:18,800 --> 01:38:22,160
Speaker 1: they're told get vaccinated. When they cut all those guys,

1742
01:38:22,240 --> 01:38:25,640
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're below the threshold again, you know.

1743
01:38:26,320 --> 01:38:29,080
Speaker 1: So we could see that number fourteen, who of the

1744
01:38:29,080 --> 01:38:32,200
Speaker 1: teams that are eighty five percent vaccinated, go up and down,

1745
01:38:32,320 --> 01:38:35,840
Speaker 1: fluctuate a little bit, fluctuate, and you get deep into

1746
01:38:35,840 --> 01:38:41,280
Speaker 1: a season where that forfeited game keeps you from a

1747
01:38:41,520 --> 01:38:44,640
Speaker 1: getting a game check, be making the playoffs after investing

1748
01:38:44,840 --> 01:38:46,880
Speaker 1: an off season and a year of your career, and

1749
01:38:46,920 --> 01:38:49,640
Speaker 1: on costing the draft order to follow the drafting. Oh

1750
01:38:49,720 --> 01:38:52,919
Speaker 1: my gosh, it would it would be really really hostile.

1751
01:38:53,000 --> 01:38:55,559
Speaker 1: Ripple effects are lengthy. It would be a hostile team

1752
01:38:55,560 --> 01:38:59,120
Speaker 1: meeting break time for us here. But more on this

1753
01:38:59,280 --> 01:39:02,600
Speaker 1: breaking news is in the NFL as they have informed

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01:39:02,680 --> 01:39:06,520
Speaker 1: their thirty two member clubs. You have you have a

1755
01:39:06,560 --> 01:39:10,120
Speaker 1: COVID outbreak due to unvaccinated players on your roster. You

1756
01:39:10,200 --> 01:39:14,480
Speaker 1: run the risk of forfeiting games, financial penalties, other sanctions,

1757
01:39:14,880 --> 01:39:19,040
Speaker 1: and not having your players get paid or the team

1758
01:39:19,160 --> 01:39:21,080
Speaker 1: or the other team with their players get paid even

1759
01:39:21,120 --> 01:39:23,360
Speaker 1: if they're fully healthy and ready to play. If you can't,

1760
01:39:23,760 --> 01:39:26,320
Speaker 1: those are some of the repercussions. We'll discuss more and

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01:39:26,360 --> 01:39:28,760
Speaker 1: when we return. You're on One Bills Live, presented by

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01:39:28,800 --> 01:39:48,519
Speaker 1: collid to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. At a Steve

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01:39:48,800 --> 01:39:52,040
Speaker 1: tester who has been all over the fields. Kind of unique.

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01:39:52,080 --> 01:39:54,320
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual role players for state.

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01:39:55,680 --> 01:40:01,120
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the are of

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01:40:01,200 --> 01:40:08,840
Speaker 1: normalcy here our number three on a Thursday. Welcome back

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01:40:08,880 --> 01:40:12,040
Speaker 1: to One Bill's Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you who

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01:40:12,640 --> 01:40:15,560
Speaker 1: And there was some breaking NFL news here in the

1769
01:40:15,640 --> 01:40:20,439
Speaker 1: last half hour, as the league has informed their thirty

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01:40:20,439 --> 01:40:26,840
Speaker 1: two NFL clubs that if a game cannot be rescheduled

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01:40:26,880 --> 01:40:30,559
Speaker 1: within the current eighteen week scheduled and is canceled due

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01:40:30,600 --> 01:40:34,880
Speaker 1: to a COVID outbreak among non vaccinated players on one

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01:40:35,000 --> 01:40:38,880
Speaker 1: of the competing teams. The club with the outbreak will

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01:40:38,960 --> 01:40:42,000
Speaker 1: forfeit the game. They will be deemed to have played

1775
01:40:42,040 --> 01:40:46,400
Speaker 1: sixteen games for purposes of draft and waiver priority winning percentage,

1776
01:40:46,640 --> 01:40:49,559
Speaker 1: and for the purposes of playoff seating. The forfeitting team

1777
01:40:49,560 --> 01:40:52,200
Speaker 1: will be credited with a loss and the other team

1778
01:40:52,479 --> 01:40:56,000
Speaker 1: will be credited with a win. Further, the league memo

1779
01:40:56,160 --> 01:41:00,439
Speaker 1: stated neither of the team's players will be paid in

1780
01:41:00,479 --> 01:41:05,960
Speaker 1: a forfeited game scenario, and the team with the unvaccinated

1781
01:41:06,000 --> 01:41:11,120
Speaker 1: player outbreak will then be investigated for violation of COVID protocols,

1782
01:41:11,160 --> 01:41:14,880
Speaker 1: and if violations are found, there will be fines for

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01:41:14,920 --> 01:41:20,240
Speaker 1: those clubs, along with sanctions of other kinds that have

1784
01:41:20,400 --> 01:41:24,719
Speaker 1: not yet been spelled out. It is a seismic move

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01:41:25,360 --> 01:41:31,200
Speaker 1: by the NFL. It's clear. It's a clear message, unvarnished message,

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01:41:31,240 --> 01:41:33,920
Speaker 1: that we want our players vaccinated, all of them. We

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01:41:33,960 --> 01:41:35,680
Speaker 1: don't want to have to go through the protocols we

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01:41:35,720 --> 01:41:38,240
Speaker 1: did last year. It was too time consuming, too expensive,

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01:41:38,280 --> 01:41:43,640
Speaker 1: and it caused too many not just inconveniences, but expenses,

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01:41:44,479 --> 01:41:47,040
Speaker 1: and it compromised our ability to get on the field

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01:41:47,040 --> 01:41:49,280
Speaker 1: in a timely manner. We had games but that were rescheduled.

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01:41:49,280 --> 01:41:50,960
Speaker 1: They played a game I believe on every game every

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01:41:51,040 --> 01:41:53,960
Speaker 1: day of the week last year. Now you know they

1794
01:41:54,000 --> 01:41:55,920
Speaker 1: don't want to do that again. Now, to be clear,

1795
01:41:56,560 --> 01:41:59,439
Speaker 1: the league is not saying they will not try to

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01:41:59,600 --> 01:42:03,479
Speaker 1: re edule a game should such a scenario surface. They

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01:42:03,479 --> 01:42:07,640
Speaker 1: have said that they will make every reasonable effort, consistent

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01:42:07,760 --> 01:42:11,599
Speaker 1: with underlying health and safety principles to complete the full

1799
01:42:11,920 --> 01:42:16,000
Speaker 1: regular season schedule within the current eighteen weeks. They are

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01:42:16,040 --> 01:42:19,519
Speaker 1: not pushing the schedule back for anybody. If there are

1801
01:42:19,560 --> 01:42:21,280
Speaker 1: two teams that happen to share a bye week, that

1802
01:42:21,320 --> 01:42:23,400
Speaker 1: works well, and then maybe they reschedule it for that.

1803
01:42:23,800 --> 01:42:26,479
Speaker 1: So there are scenarios where a rescheduling of a game

1804
01:42:26,680 --> 01:42:30,080
Speaker 1: could happen, but it's very clear they're not going to

1805
01:42:30,160 --> 01:42:33,640
Speaker 1: be bending over backwards and playing games on Tuesdays or Wednesdays,

1806
01:42:33,680 --> 01:42:36,599
Speaker 1: like Steve was outlining earlier, that is probably not going

1807
01:42:36,640 --> 01:42:40,719
Speaker 1: to happen, and under the protocols, as Steve pointed out earlier,

1808
01:42:41,200 --> 01:42:44,720
Speaker 1: ten days isolation automatic. Yeah, I'll say this too, and

1809
01:42:44,720 --> 01:42:48,320
Speaker 1: you've got Even guys like former player Christian Fourier says, yeah,

1810
01:42:48,400 --> 01:42:50,360
Speaker 1: good luck with that NFL. There's going to be lawyers.

1811
01:42:50,640 --> 01:42:53,920
Speaker 1: I don't not so much, bro. I'm pretty sure the

1812
01:42:53,960 --> 01:42:56,559
Speaker 1: lawyers have checked up and the lawyers have already signed

1813
01:42:56,560 --> 01:42:58,680
Speaker 1: off on that little thing. Yet the league can do

1814
01:42:58,720 --> 01:43:01,360
Speaker 1: whatever it wants with its rule. You can say what

1815
01:43:01,439 --> 01:43:03,080
Speaker 1: you want about the union doing this and that, and

1816
01:43:03,080 --> 01:43:06,160
Speaker 1: the other union had no Listen, the league said we're

1817
01:43:06,200 --> 01:43:08,200
Speaker 1: doing eighteen games. You know what the union could say

1818
01:43:08,200 --> 01:43:12,000
Speaker 1: about it. Nothing. So you don't think the league can

1819
01:43:12,040 --> 01:43:13,960
Speaker 1: do whatever they want with the scheduling and who they're

1820
01:43:13,960 --> 01:43:16,080
Speaker 1: gonna pay and who they don't pay because they did

1821
01:43:16,160 --> 01:43:21,120
Speaker 1: or did not play. It's it's absolutely within their rights

1822
01:43:21,160 --> 01:43:23,639
Speaker 1: to do all this. You know it, because there's nothing

1823
01:43:23,680 --> 01:43:28,679
Speaker 1: in here in this memo that mandates that players get vaccinated. No,

1824
01:43:28,760 --> 01:43:30,840
Speaker 1: it's just telling it what the repercussions are if you

1825
01:43:30,880 --> 01:43:34,880
Speaker 1: have an unvaccinated player outbreak, if we have to, if

1826
01:43:34,920 --> 01:43:36,920
Speaker 1: we have to for for a game, we can't reschedule

1827
01:43:36,920 --> 01:43:40,400
Speaker 1: a game. Here's the repercussions. Here's here's why. And you

1828
01:43:40,439 --> 01:43:43,800
Speaker 1: can say it's it's forcing players to get the vaccine. Well, no,

1829
01:43:43,880 --> 01:43:47,479
Speaker 1: it's not, but it's outlining the consequences if they have

1830
01:43:47,560 --> 01:43:51,519
Speaker 1: COVID outbreak, right basically, and if and if you're if

1831
01:43:51,560 --> 01:43:54,040
Speaker 1: the consequences are different for those who are vaccinated than

1832
01:43:54,080 --> 01:44:00,160
Speaker 1: it is for those who are not vaccinated. That's it. Yeah,

1833
01:44:00,200 --> 01:44:01,960
Speaker 1: let's go back to the phones. We go to Tom

1834
01:44:02,080 --> 01:44:04,240
Speaker 1: in West Seneca, who's been waiting patiently. Tom, what do

1835
01:44:04,280 --> 01:44:07,040
Speaker 1: you have for us? You're on one Bill's life, Chris Steve,

1836
01:44:07,200 --> 01:44:09,280
Speaker 1: thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it.

1837
01:44:10,000 --> 01:44:12,280
Speaker 1: First of all, I do think we're ready to take

1838
01:44:12,320 --> 01:44:15,920
Speaker 1: that next step towards the Super Bowl this year, now

1839
01:44:16,320 --> 01:44:19,639
Speaker 1: getting into the COVID situation. This has been a concern

1840
01:44:19,720 --> 01:44:23,280
Speaker 1: of mine right along. I think that the repercussions that

1841
01:44:23,439 --> 01:44:27,519
Speaker 1: have been laid down by the NFL our summari retrain

1842
01:44:27,800 --> 01:44:34,200
Speaker 1: complicated and not so complicated. Let's just call it ambiguity,

1843
01:44:34,439 --> 01:44:39,519
Speaker 1: ambiguity squared divided by the gullibility of each listener. And

1844
01:44:39,560 --> 01:44:44,599
Speaker 1: I think that the players, I respect their opinions, if

1845
01:44:44,600 --> 01:44:50,440
Speaker 1: they were not to get the vaccination and they become infected,

1846
01:44:50,880 --> 01:44:53,120
Speaker 1: and we were to lose two, it regains as a

1847
01:44:53,160 --> 01:44:57,080
Speaker 1: result of that. I think that's doing a disservice to

1848
01:44:57,160 --> 01:45:03,719
Speaker 1: our team. But again I risk player's opinions, but I

1849
01:45:03,760 --> 01:45:09,360
Speaker 1: would highly recommend that they get vaccinators. We don't want

1850
01:45:09,360 --> 01:45:11,280
Speaker 1: to lose two or three games to be knocked out

1851
01:45:11,280 --> 01:45:14,960
Speaker 1: of Super Bowl because of COVID. That's pretty much this guys,

1852
01:45:15,000 --> 01:45:16,680
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, and to have a great even game.

1853
01:45:16,880 --> 01:45:20,040
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call, Tom, and a good one at that. Yeah,

1854
01:45:20,080 --> 01:45:25,400
Speaker 1: and that's what I said earlier, Steve. This. While the

1855
01:45:25,479 --> 01:45:29,880
Speaker 1: aim of the NFL is pretty clear with this memo,

1856
01:45:31,600 --> 01:45:35,439
Speaker 1: the other thing that this memo is reminding everybody who

1857
01:45:35,439 --> 01:45:38,640
Speaker 1: plays in the NFL of is that while it is

1858
01:45:38,680 --> 01:45:42,000
Speaker 1: a personal decision on whether to get vaccinated or not,

1859
01:45:43,160 --> 01:45:45,960
Speaker 1: this is a stark reminder by the NFL to its

1860
01:45:46,000 --> 01:45:51,200
Speaker 1: player rank and file that your decision affects other people,

1861
01:45:52,479 --> 01:45:55,320
Speaker 1: and it's going to affect other people in terms of

1862
01:45:55,920 --> 01:46:02,839
Speaker 1: playing on a given game date, they're income, and their health.

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01:46:04,000 --> 01:46:10,439
Speaker 1: So there is a there is an initial aim with

1864
01:46:10,479 --> 01:46:13,880
Speaker 1: this memo, but it's also a stark reminder that while

1865
01:46:13,920 --> 01:46:17,720
Speaker 1: it is a personal choice, that personal choice when you're

1866
01:46:17,720 --> 01:46:20,439
Speaker 1: a member of a football team is going to impact

1867
01:46:20,520 --> 01:46:23,720
Speaker 1: other people right more than just their health. There But

1868
01:46:24,240 --> 01:46:26,080
Speaker 1: I will say this though, having said all of this,

1869
01:46:27,200 --> 01:46:32,960
Speaker 1: and it does, it does put front and center the vaccination.

1870
01:46:34,000 --> 01:46:37,400
Speaker 1: But even in this harsh reality the NFL is putting

1871
01:46:37,439 --> 01:46:39,360
Speaker 1: forth here this this shot across the bow as you

1872
01:46:39,400 --> 01:46:41,280
Speaker 1: said it, and I put them more like a broadside,

1873
01:46:43,000 --> 01:46:46,600
Speaker 1: they still leave it open for players not to get vaccinated.

1874
01:46:47,720 --> 01:46:49,160
Speaker 1: If they don't want to get vaccinator, they don't have

1875
01:46:49,160 --> 01:46:53,600
Speaker 1: to get vaccinated, and there will be no repercussions to

1876
01:46:53,760 --> 01:46:57,120
Speaker 1: that effect except the ones outlined because of the effect

1877
01:46:57,120 --> 01:47:00,479
Speaker 1: they have on their team, on the gut people around them. Now,

1878
01:47:00,600 --> 01:47:03,799
Speaker 1: let's face it, if if if you're an anti vactor,

1879
01:47:03,880 --> 01:47:05,840
Speaker 1: you can still make the point if you want to,

1880
01:47:06,520 --> 01:47:09,640
Speaker 1: that even if one hundred percent of the players on

1881
01:47:09,680 --> 01:47:12,560
Speaker 1: your team are vaccinated, you could still have a COVID outbreak,

1882
01:47:13,680 --> 01:47:16,200
Speaker 1: and people who have gotten the vaccination, as we've seen,

1883
01:47:17,000 --> 01:47:21,439
Speaker 1: could still get have an outbreak of COVID and it

1884
01:47:21,439 --> 01:47:25,959
Speaker 1: could still happen to a team that's one hundred percent vaccinated. Okay,

1885
01:47:27,040 --> 01:47:29,920
Speaker 1: And that's the point that I guess, a point that

1886
01:47:30,000 --> 01:47:32,400
Speaker 1: the anti vactor would make, because even if you have

1887
01:47:32,439 --> 01:47:35,479
Speaker 1: one hundred percent of your players vaccinated, you could get

1888
01:47:35,520 --> 01:47:39,479
Speaker 1: a string of like six guys, fifteen guys whatever that

1889
01:47:39,680 --> 01:47:43,400
Speaker 1: get positive tests at the wrong time, at the wrong

1890
01:47:43,439 --> 01:47:45,519
Speaker 1: time of the week or whatever, and they would have

1891
01:47:45,560 --> 01:47:50,920
Speaker 1: to go through the two negative twenty four hours apart tests.

1892
01:47:51,320 --> 01:47:55,679
Speaker 1: So that from an anti vactions standpoint means it is

1893
01:47:56,040 --> 01:48:01,760
Speaker 1: goes to the point of this that the consequences are

1894
01:48:01,760 --> 01:48:05,000
Speaker 1: there for everybody, whether you're vaccinated or not. And if

1895
01:48:05,000 --> 01:48:10,559
Speaker 1: you think the vaccination is ineffective or or dangerous or unproven, okay,

1896
01:48:12,760 --> 01:48:15,719
Speaker 1: but we have hard evidence that the virus is dangerous.

1897
01:48:15,720 --> 01:48:17,600
Speaker 1: We've had a pandemic for the last fourteen months, and

1898
01:48:17,760 --> 01:48:21,439
Speaker 1: there are consequences both ways. Whether you get vaccinated or not,

1899
01:48:21,520 --> 01:48:25,320
Speaker 1: the consequences are are going to be there. So if

1900
01:48:25,320 --> 01:48:28,679
Speaker 1: you want to get vaccinated there and you're talking about

1901
01:48:28,680 --> 01:48:30,599
Speaker 1: over a half a million people in this country who

1902
01:48:30,600 --> 01:48:32,640
Speaker 1: have perished. That's right at the hands of COVID. And

1903
01:48:32,680 --> 01:48:34,960
Speaker 1: now we've got you know, two weeks ago there were

1904
01:48:34,960 --> 01:48:37,599
Speaker 1: thirteen thousand new cases. This week they're thirty seven thousand

1905
01:48:37,640 --> 01:48:43,840
Speaker 1: new cases. So and depending on who you believe, and

1906
01:48:43,880 --> 01:48:45,680
Speaker 1: there are people out there who don't believe that the

1907
01:48:46,360 --> 01:48:49,439
Speaker 1: ninety five percent of the new cases are unvaccinated people.

1908
01:48:49,479 --> 01:48:53,040
Speaker 1: They think people are lying, you know, the people, you know, whatever,

1909
01:48:53,760 --> 01:49:00,240
Speaker 1: whatever that is. But they're spiking, and the league's breaking

1910
01:49:00,320 --> 01:49:04,280
Speaker 1: for it, absolutely bracing for that. Tom Pella, Sero of

1911
01:49:04,400 --> 01:49:07,000
Speaker 1: NFL Network, who has been all over this from the beginning,

1912
01:49:07,479 --> 01:49:11,000
Speaker 1: adds this for those that might be up in arms

1913
01:49:11,000 --> 01:49:14,360
Speaker 1: in this, including the players, the NFL and the Players

1914
01:49:14,400 --> 01:49:18,719
Speaker 1: Association did agree in twenty twenty that players on both

1915
01:49:18,760 --> 01:49:22,320
Speaker 1: teams would not be paid for any canceled games should

1916
01:49:22,320 --> 01:49:25,080
Speaker 1: they come to pass. Last year, Now, as we know,

1917
01:49:25,400 --> 01:49:27,639
Speaker 1: all two hundred and fifty six were played, some were

1918
01:49:27,640 --> 01:49:31,320
Speaker 1: moved around, but the bold type in today's memo, he

1919
01:49:31,360 --> 01:49:35,080
Speaker 1: says that the NFL doesn't anticipate adding a week nineteen

1920
01:49:35,160 --> 01:49:39,080
Speaker 1: to make up games. Makes clear what is at stake

1921
01:49:39,600 --> 01:49:42,200
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. So the players Association in the

1922
01:49:42,280 --> 01:49:46,120
Speaker 1: league already agreed last year that players on both teams

1923
01:49:46,240 --> 01:49:50,120
Speaker 1: won't be paid for canceled games. Now, going into this year,

1924
01:49:50,280 --> 01:49:56,760
Speaker 1: it seems like there will be less maneuvers made to

1925
01:49:56,880 --> 01:49:59,840
Speaker 1: get a game in right. They're not going to jump

1926
01:49:59,840 --> 01:50:01,640
Speaker 1: through the fiery hoops they did a year ago. So

1927
01:50:02,040 --> 01:50:04,519
Speaker 1: you know, the point is, and vaccinated or not, there

1928
01:50:04,560 --> 01:50:07,559
Speaker 1: could still you know, if if you're vaccinated or not.

1929
01:50:07,600 --> 01:50:09,840
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter whether you're vaccinated or not if if

1930
01:50:09,880 --> 01:50:14,559
Speaker 1: there's an outbreak on your team, they're gonna move forward. So,

1931
01:50:14,880 --> 01:50:17,040
Speaker 1: like I said, if you had one hundred percent vaccination

1932
01:50:17,600 --> 01:50:19,720
Speaker 1: on your team and you still got outbreaks, you know,

1933
01:50:19,760 --> 01:50:22,640
Speaker 1: you're still under the same penalties as the teams that

1934
01:50:22,800 --> 01:50:27,240
Speaker 1: are unvaccinated. The real question is how easy is it

1935
01:50:27,280 --> 01:50:30,160
Speaker 1: for teams to get prepared to play an NFL football

1936
01:50:30,160 --> 01:50:33,720
Speaker 1: game while still adhering to the protocols of the of

1937
01:50:34,080 --> 01:50:38,360
Speaker 1: the virus. Last year, no doubt, Brownie, everybody was fully

1938
01:50:38,360 --> 01:50:40,519
Speaker 1: on board. I mean they were getting tested every day

1939
01:50:40,560 --> 01:50:43,640
Speaker 1: they were. The test results were coming back at like

1940
01:50:43,840 --> 01:50:46,120
Speaker 1: just after midnight of the day they took the test.

1941
01:50:46,240 --> 01:50:48,360
Speaker 1: Of the next day that they took the test, you know,

1942
01:50:48,360 --> 01:50:50,120
Speaker 1: it was less. It was like a fifteen or sixteen

1943
01:50:50,120 --> 01:50:54,719
Speaker 1: hour turnaround. And they were all on board, socially distanced,

1944
01:50:54,720 --> 01:50:57,360
Speaker 1: wearing masks everything that on the field that the only

1945
01:50:57,360 --> 01:50:59,640
Speaker 1: time they were together is on the field. And and

1946
01:50:59,680 --> 01:51:02,560
Speaker 1: they through two hundred and fifty six games with some hiccups,

1947
01:51:03,720 --> 01:51:06,800
Speaker 1: and the league is doing all it can now, I

1948
01:51:06,920 --> 01:51:11,559
Speaker 1: think to make sure that they got the wherewithal not

1949
01:51:11,640 --> 01:51:14,479
Speaker 1: to have to go through those hoops again to get

1950
01:51:14,479 --> 01:51:18,320
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty six games in Yeah, Paul on

1951
01:51:18,360 --> 01:51:24,320
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet asks will teams risk carrying unvaccinated players

1952
01:51:24,360 --> 01:51:29,280
Speaker 1: on the roster? It could destroy your season. Now, Tom

1953
01:51:29,280 --> 01:51:31,920
Speaker 1: and West Seneca, our last caller, mentioned that too, like

1954
01:51:34,000 --> 01:51:37,880
Speaker 1: this is a big year for this team, and Tom

1955
01:51:37,920 --> 01:51:41,360
Speaker 1: said it himself, our last caller. He said, boy, I'd

1956
01:51:41,400 --> 01:51:45,800
Speaker 1: hate to see an unvaccinated outbreak cost us two or

1957
01:51:45,840 --> 01:51:49,960
Speaker 1: three games and cost us a playoff seating or a

1958
01:51:50,000 --> 01:51:54,800
Speaker 1: home playoff game. I mean that's going to impact your

1959
01:51:54,800 --> 01:51:58,880
Speaker 1: team's chances of getting all the way to the ultimate game.

1960
01:51:59,040 --> 01:52:03,360
Speaker 1: I mean there's no two ways about it. I mean, yeah,

1961
01:52:03,400 --> 01:52:08,080
Speaker 1: it could be disastrous, especially if you're one of these

1962
01:52:08,120 --> 01:52:11,439
Speaker 1: eighteen current teams in the league who have not met

1963
01:52:11,479 --> 01:52:14,719
Speaker 1: the vaccination threshold of eighty five percent to conduct business

1964
01:52:14,760 --> 01:52:17,400
Speaker 1: as usual on a day to day basis without COVID protocol.

1965
01:52:17,439 --> 01:52:20,160
Speaker 1: We always have this conversation. I said it earlier. You know,

1966
01:52:20,200 --> 01:52:22,240
Speaker 1: if you get to that last week of the season,

1967
01:52:22,360 --> 01:52:24,720
Speaker 1: and like Miami Dolphins last year coming to Buffalo and

1968
01:52:24,800 --> 01:52:26,600
Speaker 1: I didn't go their way here in Buffalo, but what

1969
01:52:26,720 --> 01:52:28,439
Speaker 1: if you know, they needed that game to win, and

1970
01:52:28,600 --> 01:52:30,439
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen guys came down with COVID and they

1971
01:52:30,439 --> 01:52:32,080
Speaker 1: had to play the game with thirty three guys or

1972
01:52:33,000 --> 01:52:35,640
Speaker 1: a different forty forty seven guys, and they thought they

1973
01:52:35,640 --> 01:52:37,879
Speaker 1: were going to have you know, I got eight starters

1974
01:52:37,880 --> 01:52:40,000
Speaker 1: out of the game. That kind of thing. You're always

1975
01:52:40,040 --> 01:52:42,680
Speaker 1: spinning the worst positive scenario. Last year we did the

1976
01:52:42,720 --> 01:52:45,360
Speaker 1: same thing when they said, hey, if somebody gets if

1977
01:52:45,400 --> 01:52:47,960
Speaker 1: one or two players are down, they're out and they

1978
01:52:47,960 --> 01:52:49,719
Speaker 1: have to be out for a remainder. And that happened

1979
01:52:49,720 --> 01:52:52,000
Speaker 1: to New England. Cam Newton was out for one of

1980
01:52:52,000 --> 01:52:53,840
Speaker 1: their games, did not get a chance to play. That

1981
01:52:53,920 --> 01:52:55,840
Speaker 1: was their top quarterback, and we all said, what happens

1982
01:52:55,840 --> 01:52:58,519
Speaker 1: if Josh goes down. It never happened to the Bills,

1983
01:52:58,520 --> 01:53:01,080
Speaker 1: but it did happen to other teams. So every you know,

1984
01:53:01,160 --> 01:53:04,360
Speaker 1: for the worst case scenario possible. It doesn't happen to

1985
01:53:04,400 --> 01:53:06,800
Speaker 1: happen for everybody, but it could happen for one team

1986
01:53:06,880 --> 01:53:10,280
Speaker 1: or two teams. One thing that's getting lost in this

1987
01:53:10,360 --> 01:53:13,320
Speaker 1: we're talking so much about vaccinated and unvaccinated players and

1988
01:53:14,439 --> 01:53:19,240
Speaker 1: the consequences for the team. The negative consequences for a

1989
01:53:19,240 --> 01:53:24,040
Speaker 1: team for having to forfeit a game because of an

1990
01:53:24,040 --> 01:53:26,880
Speaker 1: outbreak is the exact same, whether they're one hundred percent

1991
01:53:26,960 --> 01:53:30,120
Speaker 1: vaccinated or whether they have nobody vaccinated. If they have

1992
01:53:30,160 --> 01:53:33,240
Speaker 1: an outbreak on their club that forces the league to

1993
01:53:33,360 --> 01:53:38,920
Speaker 1: change things or to reschedule, then the consequences for a

1994
01:53:38,920 --> 01:53:41,160
Speaker 1: team that's not vaccinated are the exact same for a

1995
01:53:41,160 --> 01:53:44,320
Speaker 1: team that is vaccinated. You don't get an out. The

1996
01:53:44,360 --> 01:53:46,320
Speaker 1: only difference would be that if you're if you have

1997
01:53:46,360 --> 01:53:50,360
Speaker 1: all these players that are vaccinated that get the test

1998
01:53:50,400 --> 01:53:54,240
Speaker 1: positive for the virus, they can come back a little

1999
01:53:54,320 --> 01:53:58,040
Speaker 1: quicker because they they'll get all they need is two

2000
01:53:58,280 --> 01:54:01,200
Speaker 1: negative tests over twenty four hour, whereas a person that's

2001
01:54:01,240 --> 01:54:05,559
Speaker 1: unvaccinated is the same as it's been throughout the pandemic

2002
01:54:05,560 --> 01:54:07,200
Speaker 1: as a ten day window where you got to stay

2003
01:54:07,200 --> 01:54:09,840
Speaker 1: away from everybody and stay at home behind closed doors,

2004
01:54:10,200 --> 01:54:13,120
Speaker 1: and then pass your two negative tests after that. Yeah,

2005
01:54:13,120 --> 01:54:15,360
Speaker 1: so that's really the only difference there is between a

2006
01:54:15,439 --> 01:54:19,040
Speaker 1: vaccinated team and an unvaccinated team is the content. But

2007
01:54:19,200 --> 01:54:20,880
Speaker 1: if fourth of the game, fourth of the game doesn't

2008
01:54:20,880 --> 01:54:23,360
Speaker 1: matter if you're vaccinated or not. Right, But we saw

2009
01:54:23,520 --> 01:54:26,280
Speaker 1: how it spread through the Titans last year. I mean

2010
01:54:26,439 --> 01:54:29,560
Speaker 1: there were seven or eight players initially that tested positive,

2011
01:54:30,439 --> 01:54:33,480
Speaker 1: and then two days later there were three more, and

2012
01:54:33,560 --> 01:54:35,720
Speaker 1: two days later there were five more, and two days

2013
01:54:35,800 --> 01:54:38,320
Speaker 1: later there were two more, and it just kept going

2014
01:54:38,440 --> 01:54:41,240
Speaker 1: and going and going for the better part of two weeks.

2015
01:54:42,040 --> 01:54:43,760
Speaker 1: And I think the total at the end was it

2016
01:54:43,800 --> 01:54:47,320
Speaker 1: was over twenty nineteen twenty one. Yeah, yeah, I mean

2017
01:54:47,760 --> 01:54:50,840
Speaker 1: it was it was something else. I mean, they couldn't

2018
01:54:50,880 --> 01:54:52,840
Speaker 1: get a handle on it. Yeah, and then they found

2019
01:54:52,840 --> 01:54:56,400
Speaker 1: out that they were mask wearing violations of the COVID protocols.

2020
01:54:59,040 --> 01:55:02,360
Speaker 1: Something like that happens this year. It's amazing that there

2021
01:55:02,440 --> 01:55:04,640
Speaker 1: don't know how team is going to have enough guys

2022
01:55:04,640 --> 01:55:06,120
Speaker 1: to put on the field. There's some team and the

2023
01:55:06,120 --> 01:55:08,480
Speaker 1: Bills got hit by it too, you know, Tommy Sweeney

2024
01:55:08,560 --> 01:55:11,840
Speaker 1: had it. I think there was Dawson. There's a handful

2025
01:55:11,880 --> 01:55:14,280
Speaker 1: of guys that that got it. But they put a

2026
01:55:14,360 --> 01:55:17,680
Speaker 1: lit on it really quick quickly, and some teams you know,

2027
01:55:17,720 --> 01:55:20,200
Speaker 1: skated through and nobody ever got There was one or

2028
01:55:20,200 --> 01:55:22,720
Speaker 1: two teams that had nobody. I think the Seattle Seahawks

2029
01:55:22,760 --> 01:55:25,120
Speaker 1: was a team that did have any COVID positives last year.

2030
01:55:25,240 --> 01:55:27,680
Speaker 1: So it you know, it really does come down to

2031
01:55:27,760 --> 01:55:31,680
Speaker 1: personal you know, accountability and doing things exactly the right

2032
01:55:31,720 --> 01:55:35,440
Speaker 1: way and and probably some good fortune, you know, sneaks

2033
01:55:35,440 --> 01:55:37,720
Speaker 1: in there somewhere. But you know, there's a reason some

2034
01:55:37,760 --> 01:55:41,280
Speaker 1: teams stayed healthier last year and then some others, and

2035
01:55:41,320 --> 01:55:46,200
Speaker 1: it was because of the protocols. But it's uh but yeah,

2036
01:55:46,280 --> 01:55:49,880
Speaker 1: like like there we said that. You know, everybody's up

2037
01:55:49,880 --> 01:55:52,600
Speaker 1: in arms over their ability to do this, and the

2038
01:55:52,640 --> 01:55:56,560
Speaker 1: structure of the league, the by laws of the league,

2039
01:55:56,880 --> 01:56:00,360
Speaker 1: the freedom that the league has within their agree with

2040
01:56:00,440 --> 01:56:05,720
Speaker 1: the NFLPA, all of that allow gives them the freedom

2041
01:56:05,760 --> 01:56:09,360
Speaker 1: to make this announcement today about the penalties and the

2042
01:56:09,400 --> 01:56:11,520
Speaker 1: protocols that are going to happen if indeed they're not

2043
01:56:11,560 --> 01:56:15,080
Speaker 1: able to reschedule a game because of COVID and they

2044
01:56:15,160 --> 01:56:18,480
Speaker 1: made the penalties sharp. But I'll say this after you know,

2045
01:56:18,480 --> 01:56:20,080
Speaker 1: when you think this and we chew on this, and

2046
01:56:20,360 --> 01:56:26,560
Speaker 1: remember sitting through this, they worked really hard to reschedule

2047
01:56:26,560 --> 01:56:29,440
Speaker 1: those games last year. Yeah, and they know what a

2048
01:56:29,480 --> 01:56:32,680
Speaker 1: heavy lift it was, right, So I think there, I'm

2049
01:56:32,680 --> 01:56:35,040
Speaker 1: pretty confident that even if there is an outbreak for

2050
01:56:35,080 --> 01:56:37,960
Speaker 1: a team that's not at the threshold, they're gonna push

2051
01:56:38,000 --> 01:56:40,960
Speaker 1: hard to get that game in anyway. They don't want

2052
01:56:40,960 --> 01:56:44,680
Speaker 1: to do that, but they're putting that game check and

2053
01:56:44,720 --> 01:56:47,120
Speaker 1: the forefoot and the draft order and all that out there,

2054
01:56:47,280 --> 01:56:49,400
Speaker 1: knowing that that will be a little bit of an incentive.

2055
01:56:49,440 --> 01:56:51,800
Speaker 1: But I know that that if they got two hundred

2056
01:56:51,800 --> 01:56:53,880
Speaker 1: and fifty six games and the playoffs in last year,

2057
01:56:54,680 --> 01:56:56,680
Speaker 1: they're gonna do it again this year. There's less wiggle

2058
01:56:56,760 --> 01:56:58,480
Speaker 1: room though, because it looks like you don't want to

2059
01:56:58,520 --> 01:57:00,680
Speaker 1: move the calendar because they know there's seasons one week

2060
01:57:00,760 --> 01:57:04,120
Speaker 1: longer already. Yeah, they'd take one. They took the extreme.

2061
01:57:04,200 --> 01:57:07,280
Speaker 1: They took the atomic bomb off the table at the end,

2062
01:57:07,320 --> 01:57:09,480
Speaker 1: so like just pushing the season out. They took that

2063
01:57:09,520 --> 01:57:10,880
Speaker 1: off the table. But they never had to go there

2064
01:57:10,960 --> 01:57:13,200
Speaker 1: last year, So why would they think they'd have to

2065
01:57:13,240 --> 01:57:15,680
Speaker 1: do that this year? Particularly we're saying if they do,

2066
01:57:15,760 --> 01:57:19,320
Speaker 1: they're not doing it right. They're playing week. But they

2067
01:57:19,360 --> 01:57:21,560
Speaker 1: played a game on every single day of the week

2068
01:57:21,640 --> 01:57:24,280
Speaker 1: last year and because of that, they got to feel

2069
01:57:24,320 --> 01:57:28,120
Speaker 1: confident they can do it again this year. So I

2070
01:57:28,160 --> 01:57:31,040
Speaker 1: think they put that out there kind of as window dressing. Yeah,

2071
01:57:31,120 --> 01:57:36,080
Speaker 1: all the major stuff, but they I'll say it again,

2072
01:57:36,120 --> 01:57:38,240
Speaker 1: and you and people are up in arms, and you know,

2073
01:57:38,320 --> 01:57:41,360
Speaker 1: former players, they were totally within their rights to do.

2074
01:57:41,440 --> 01:57:46,320
Speaker 1: It's the way the contract reads. You may not like it,

2075
01:57:47,800 --> 01:57:49,760
Speaker 1: but you know you don't have a leg to stand

2076
01:57:49,760 --> 01:57:51,760
Speaker 1: on legally. And I'm telling you this, the league doesn't

2077
01:57:51,760 --> 01:57:55,600
Speaker 1: make announcements like this, Yeah, unless it's been scoured through

2078
01:57:55,680 --> 01:57:57,960
Speaker 1: by not only their lawyers but also probably can some

2079
01:57:58,040 --> 01:58:01,440
Speaker 1: consultants as well and the union. As far as the

2080
01:58:01,520 --> 01:58:03,680
Speaker 1: union goes. For those of us out there who are

2081
01:58:03,680 --> 01:58:06,480
Speaker 1: familiar with that, they signed off on this exact thing

2082
01:58:06,560 --> 01:58:11,280
Speaker 1: last year for the pandemic. If they for for the game,

2083
01:58:11,320 --> 01:58:16,040
Speaker 1: they lose their game checks. They knew it. You think

2084
01:58:16,040 --> 01:58:17,800
Speaker 1: the union, You think the Union's gonna be all up

2085
01:58:17,800 --> 01:58:21,280
Speaker 1: in arms about that this year. Probably not. Yeah, Nick

2086
01:58:21,360 --> 01:58:24,000
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet says this is dumb. Everyone who

2087
01:58:24,000 --> 01:58:26,320
Speaker 1: wants to protect themselves with the vaccine can get it,

2088
01:58:26,360 --> 01:58:28,920
Speaker 1: and everyone who doesn't get it is on their own.

2089
01:58:28,960 --> 01:58:32,160
Speaker 1: As far as their health is concerned. Everyone plays. If

2090
01:58:32,200 --> 01:58:34,920
Speaker 1: they're too sick to play, that's their problem. Play all

2091
01:58:34,960 --> 01:58:36,960
Speaker 1: games is scheduled. Well, the problem is if you have

2092
01:58:36,960 --> 01:58:39,320
Speaker 1: an outbreak, you don't have enough players available to play

2093
01:58:39,320 --> 01:58:43,280
Speaker 1: a game. That's the issue here that the NFL is

2094
01:58:43,320 --> 01:58:45,920
Speaker 1: pointing out with their memo. If you have an unvaccinated

2095
01:58:45,920 --> 01:58:49,760
Speaker 1: player outbreak, and now you like, let's just say, hypothetically,

2096
01:58:50,120 --> 01:58:53,400
Speaker 1: you have an outbreak on a Friday, you know, you're

2097
01:58:54,040 --> 01:58:57,160
Speaker 1: eight or nine unvaccinated players come in, they test, and

2098
01:58:57,200 --> 01:59:01,320
Speaker 1: they're all positive. So already you're past the number of

2099
01:59:01,360 --> 01:59:04,800
Speaker 1: players you would put on your an active list for

2100
01:59:04,840 --> 01:59:08,360
Speaker 1: a game. And then if you find out Saturday that's

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Speaker 1: some vaccinated players have tested positive because of the unvaccinated

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Speaker 1: outbreak and their exposure to them, well, now you're really

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01:59:15,560 --> 01:59:18,960
Speaker 1: up a creek, and sure, could you have practice squad

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01:59:18,960 --> 01:59:20,960
Speaker 1: call ups? Yeah, but they might not be at all

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Speaker 1: the positions that you need them to play at. Right,

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Speaker 1: So there could very easily be a scenario where you've

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Speaker 1: got upwards of nine or ten players that have to

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Speaker 1: be isolated for ten days, and they're not only missing

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Speaker 1: that game Sunday, they might miss the game the next

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Speaker 1: week too because they haven't reached the ten day window.

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Speaker 1: If they test a positive Friday, that's right. So that's

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Speaker 1: the problem that's being discussed here, and that's why you

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Speaker 1: can't just say, well, only you tested positive, you don't play.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna still play the game. Well, like I said,

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Speaker 1: the thirty six players, how are we gonna do that?

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Speaker 1: Like I said, the vaccinated teams, and the unvaccinated teams

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Speaker 1: are gonna have the same consequences if one of them

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Speaker 1: gets an outbreak and has to you know, have a

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Speaker 1: game postponed or forfeited. It doesn't matter whether the vaccinated

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Speaker 1: or not. If they get the outbreak and can't get

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Speaker 1: over it in time to get a team on the field,

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Speaker 1: they suffer the same consequences as the unvaccinated guys. So

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Speaker 1: it's it's just like that. The only difference is this

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Speaker 1: how fast the vaccinated guys can get back on the field.

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Speaker 1: That's a difference. But that was the same. That was

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Speaker 1: the same as it was when it when we were

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Speaker 1: back six months back in the twenty twenty regular season.

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Speaker 1: If a guy had two negative tests back to back

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Speaker 1: over twenty four hour period, he could get back on

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Speaker 1: the field. That seemed and but for and that was

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Speaker 1: when nobody was vaccinated, right, But there also had to

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Speaker 1: be there was also a window there. Um, there's also

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Speaker 1: a window of isolation there that you have. You can't

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Speaker 1: come to work during that time, so there the only

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Speaker 1: difference is the ten day quarantine that you have to

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Speaker 1: go through if you're not vaccinated. But if you're asymptomatic,

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Speaker 1: you can start getting tested right away. We'll see break time.

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Speaker 1: There's really no difference between They're not treating vaccinated and

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Speaker 1: unvaccinated players differently at all. Yeah, break time for us here.

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Speaker 1: We'll come back with more on this and maybe a

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Speaker 1: little NFL true false to take a break from this topic.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back in a second here on One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Collid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Back

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you.

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Speaker 1: In the wake of the memo sent by the league

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Speaker 1: to its thirty two member clubs and reported on by

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Speaker 1: Tom Pella Sero that if your team has an unvaccinated

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Speaker 1: player outbreak of COVID and it forces a game to

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Speaker 1: be rescheduled and a rescheduling is not possible, your team

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Speaker 1: will forfeit the game. You'll be charged with a loss

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Speaker 1: as pertains to playoff, seating your team and your opponent.

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Speaker 1: The players will not be paid and an investigation will

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Speaker 1: ensue from there. And if it's deemed that an unvaccinated

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Speaker 1: player outbreak was caused by a violation of COVID protocols,

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02:02:14,320 --> 02:02:19,480
Speaker 1: there will be sanctions, financial penalties, and other possible repercussions.

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Speaker 1: This was just announced about an hour ago, or reported

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Speaker 1: i should say, by NFL Networks, Tom Pella, Sero, and

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Speaker 1: we're just kind of reacting to it. Getting your thoughts

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Speaker 1: on it. Frank on the tweet sheet says on vaccination,

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Speaker 1: do you think players will see their teammates as selfish

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Speaker 1: for not getting vaccinated if they continue to hold out

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Speaker 1: on getting vaccinated? Sadly? I think yes. Well, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: said earlier on there's going to be some conversation. There's

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Speaker 1: nothing off limits in the locker room. This is potentially

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Speaker 1: locker room dividing. Yeah, well, yeah, I'm sure there'll be

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Speaker 1: some heated conversations about why, why not the consequences and

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Speaker 1: why they are, why they're not getting vaccinated, or why

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Speaker 1: they are getting vaccinated and why some aren't. Yes, particularly

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Speaker 1: if it comes down to harsher consequences than just staying

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Speaker 1: separate and wearing masks. Everybody did that all last year,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, they may be tired of it, but you know,

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Speaker 1: everybody will probably go along with that pretty easily, particularly

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Speaker 1: if they're not the only team there's in this case,

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Speaker 1: there will be eighteen at least at this point, eighteen

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Speaker 1: other teams are gonna be doing the same thing you are.

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Speaker 1: So it's not you know what I mean, We'll overcome it.

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Speaker 1: But if it comes to the point where all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, we've got to we've got to four for

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Speaker 1: the game and we're not getting paid, the conversation will

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Speaker 1: come up again. Well, yes, because now you're not only

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Speaker 1: talking about your personal decision, You're talking about a decision

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Speaker 1: that affects your team's chances of getting to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: You're talking about your your fellow teammates source of income,

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02:03:52,200 --> 02:03:57,640
Speaker 1: primary source of income being compromised. If you ask any

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Speaker 1: player why they play this game, you know, at their

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02:04:02,560 --> 02:04:06,560
Speaker 1: core it is one of those two reasons. Though to

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Speaker 1: support my family or because I want to win a championship.

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Speaker 1: It's easy for fans, I mean, and we've we've seen,

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Speaker 1: you know, Twitter is alive with this debate, you know,

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Speaker 1: even among players and fans and all that stuff. I

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Speaker 1: get it, But let me just say this. I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: back to when I was on in a locker room

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Speaker 1: and when there were heated discussions about all kinds of stuff,

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Speaker 1: from politics to religion, to family, to raising kids, to

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Speaker 1: being a football player, being a professional athlete. All that

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Speaker 1: everything was on the table, like I've like I've said,

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Speaker 1: and this would no doubt fall into those categories. So

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Speaker 1: my point is this about the bills locker room, I

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Speaker 1: would anticipate. I don't know. I don't I'm not in there.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. But a healthy locker room is like this.

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Speaker 1: If you've got a guy's a group of guys over

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Speaker 1: here who just do not want to do a certain

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Speaker 1: thing or they think this profoundly, you'll have conversations with

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Speaker 1: them about it, up and down and back and forth

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Speaker 1: and all that. At the end of the day, and

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Speaker 1: this is where a football team is, why a football

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Speaker 1: team is so fun and special to be around. At

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, you still love each other.

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Speaker 1: Those guys will still, you know, put their arm around

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Speaker 1: each other's neck, and they'll still fight and claw and

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Speaker 1: scratch and work hard for each other, whether they agree

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Speaker 1: on everything about life or not. That's one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons football is one of these utopian societies inside a

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Speaker 1: locker room, because you've got guys from everywhere, from every background,

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Speaker 1: from with every belief and with every experience, and they

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Speaker 1: come together and they and they put their arms around

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Speaker 1: each other and they and they work hard together to

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Speaker 1: accomplish something. This vaccination and debate which will rage in

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Speaker 1: every locker room around the National Football League will be

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Speaker 1: one that probably does get heated once in a while,

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Speaker 1: and there will be some some laughing, and some scratching,

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Speaker 1: and some yelling and some you know, all of that.

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Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, of the time,

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Speaker 1: at the end of it, whether they agree or not,

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02:05:59,760 --> 02:06:01,560
Speaker 1: whether they've talked each other into one side of the

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02:06:01,640 --> 02:06:04,160
Speaker 1: argument or the other or not, they'll hug each other

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02:06:04,200 --> 02:06:08,080
Speaker 1: and they'll move on. Let's go, let's go play. So, yes,

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Speaker 1: this is a conversation that will happen in locker rooms

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Speaker 1: much like here in Buffalo. But at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, their their friends and family foremost and first,

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Speaker 1: and then they will never turn their back on a

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Speaker 1: guy over something of this nature, as profound and serious

2233
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Speaker 1: and overarching as it is to our society. You're okay,

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Speaker 1: So you think the bonds in the locker room won't

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Speaker 1: absolutely get it, won't push it that absolutely, because when

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Speaker 1: you get on the field, you can overcome everything. When

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Speaker 1: you get on the practice. Why did you have enough

2238
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Speaker 1: players available to play the game? Yeah? That you're right,

2239
02:06:39,800 --> 02:06:42,520
Speaker 1: you're right, But that's what you sign up for and

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Speaker 1: when you when you have the conversation, you'll know it.

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Speaker 1: You'll talk about it coming down the road. Hold on

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Speaker 1: a second, will, While while I generally believe with the

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Speaker 1: utopian society that you describe in a football locker room,

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Speaker 1: on a in a healthy environment, with a team that's successful,

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02:06:58,200 --> 02:07:01,920
Speaker 1: with everybody pulling on the rope, you don't think there

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02:07:01,920 --> 02:07:05,960
Speaker 1: are gonna be some hard feelings if a game has

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02:07:06,000 --> 02:07:09,960
Speaker 1: to be forfeited because X number of players didn't get

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Speaker 1: vaccinated and there was an outbreak and now it's cost

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Speaker 1: you the opportunity to play a game, add a win

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Speaker 1: to your overall record, and cost you seating in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: In in that scenario, yes there will be hard changes, right,

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Speaker 1: But as I said, that is never gonna happen. You

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Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna get there ever. Why because as

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Speaker 1: big as as blustery as the league is today saying hey,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna forfeit game check, you're gonna forefeit

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Speaker 1: the game. You're gonna forfeit. They just got off two

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six games last year, and you've got

2258
02:07:45,440 --> 02:07:48,200
Speaker 1: you'll have both of those clubs before a vaccine exists

2259
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Speaker 1: before a vaccine, is it, But the vaccine and the

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Speaker 1: unvaccinated is irrelevant in the scenario. You can say, we

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Speaker 1: can all sit here and discuss about how if they're unvaccinated,

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Speaker 1: they're for sure going to get a breakout. But it

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. On the other side of it, what if

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Speaker 1: most of the guys who got vaccinated are part of

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Speaker 1: the percentage that do get it again, it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: That's beside the point. They got two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: six games in under the worst of scenarios, and they

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Speaker 1: jumped through fiery hopes to do it. Now if it

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Speaker 1: comes down to it and say, hey, we're losing guys here,

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Speaker 1: can you get a game field on? Yes, we can.

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Speaker 1: We are gonna put a team on the field. You're

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Speaker 1: not gonna forfeit this game for us, the club and

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Speaker 1: the other club. Both clubs will go to the wall

2274
02:08:32,160 --> 02:08:35,240
Speaker 1: saying you gotta schedule this game. They won't let the

2275
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Speaker 1: league do it. They'll say we can, we will field

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Speaker 1: a team. Because I'll tell you this, when I wasn't

2277
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Speaker 1: playing the league limit, I think it was forty three

2278
02:08:43,960 --> 02:08:45,840
Speaker 1: or forty five guys on the game day when I

2279
02:08:45,880 --> 02:08:48,520
Speaker 1: first came in the league eighty five San Francisco played

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Speaker 1: a game with thirty three guys well, and they won.

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Speaker 1: I will say this knowing that forfeit is the other

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02:08:58,960 --> 02:09:03,360
Speaker 1: option I would see teams we're gonna agreeing to play with.

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02:09:03,560 --> 02:09:06,520
Speaker 1: We're gonna be four players, your third quarter best, your

2284
02:09:06,560 --> 02:09:09,160
Speaker 1: third quarterback is going to be active. He's gonna be right,

2285
02:09:09,240 --> 02:09:13,120
Speaker 1: and he's made covering kicks. They'll get it done. So

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02:09:13,240 --> 02:09:15,520
Speaker 1: this this is all well and good, and I know

2287
02:09:15,560 --> 02:09:17,600
Speaker 1: it sounds awful, and the game checks are gonna be on,

2288
02:09:17,680 --> 02:09:21,280
Speaker 1: but that the teams will not forfeit the game though,

2289
02:09:21,320 --> 02:09:23,600
Speaker 1: at least even the team that try to play, even

2290
02:09:23,640 --> 02:09:26,200
Speaker 1: the team that's crippled, let's say, listen, just give us

2291
02:09:26,200 --> 02:09:28,680
Speaker 1: a chance. That's the way they think, because it's better

2292
02:09:28,760 --> 02:09:33,560
Speaker 1: than forfeit. That's the way they think. Mark asks with today, Well,

2293
02:09:33,560 --> 02:09:35,680
Speaker 1: it's not really a question with today's discussion on the

2294
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Speaker 1: NFL COVID memo. The most important ability of a player

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02:09:38,600 --> 02:09:43,960
Speaker 1: is always availability to his team. That's true. Um, I

2296
02:09:44,000 --> 02:09:46,080
Speaker 1: don't know what he's getting at by saying that, as

2297
02:09:46,120 --> 02:09:49,760
Speaker 1: he's saying that an unvaccinated player is not adhering to

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Speaker 1: what should be his number one priority, which is being available.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Um, I'm not sure what Mark is

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02:09:57,560 --> 02:10:00,480
Speaker 1: getting at with that, but I mean it's more of

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02:10:00,520 --> 02:10:03,520
Speaker 1: a statement than anything. The most important ability is availability.

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Speaker 1: I mean we know that already. That would exist even

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02:10:05,720 --> 02:10:09,879
Speaker 1: in a non pandemic environment, which can't always be controlled

2304
02:10:09,920 --> 02:10:13,520
Speaker 1: in this league due to injury, probably even more so

2305
02:10:13,680 --> 02:10:18,480
Speaker 1: than pandemic situations. And this is somebody's asking too. The

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02:10:18,520 --> 02:10:21,280
Speaker 1: opt out option is not available anymore. No, it is not,

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Speaker 1: So you can't dodge it again this year. There are

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Speaker 1: no stipends to be had. Yeah, if you're if you

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Speaker 1: opt out, that means you just retire for a year.

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Speaker 1: So it is not available as it once was. And

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Speaker 1: so the league and the union are treating the vaccine

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Speaker 1: as magic bullet. Whether it is or not, whether you

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Speaker 1: believe it or not, whatever, the opinion of the league

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Speaker 1: and the players union is that the vaccination gives us

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Speaker 1: a ticket to get our game in without too many restrictions.

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Speaker 1: Additional note from NFL Networks Town Pelisaria, who has been

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Speaker 1: all over this. The full memo, which he has now

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Speaker 1: posted on his Twitter account, also says the team responsible

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Speaker 1: for a canceled game because of an outbreak among unvaccinated

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Speaker 1: players slash staff. So this includes the coaching staff too.

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Speaker 1: That's an important distinction to be made. It means you

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Speaker 1: and me in this building. Well right, the team responsible

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Speaker 1: for a canceled game because of an outbreak among unvaccinated

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Speaker 1: players or staff will be responsible for financial losses and

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Speaker 1: subject to potential discipline from the commissioner. So so the

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Speaker 1: club is going to like so if your team's the

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Speaker 1: reason for the outbreak, you're the reason for the team.

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Speaker 1: So here's what for the game being canceled. You're going

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Speaker 1: to pay all the financial losses they're in for not

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Speaker 1: only your team, here's the other team the league, and

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Speaker 1: who knows, maybe even Here's here's what I'm hearing. Game

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Speaker 1: gets forfeited and you're on the road. Say the Bills

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Speaker 1: are on the road in Kansas City. The Bills are

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Speaker 1: on the hook for all the ticket income for Kansas

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Speaker 1: City and the broadcast rights. Wow, it's heavy stuff. Steve

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Speaker 1: and I back to close it up here on a

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Speaker 1: very newsworthy NFL Day one Bills Live presented by Kalid

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Speaker 1: to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. What have we learned

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Speaker 1: from today's show? Presented by Skyworks, the official construction equipment

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Speaker 1: renal company, and the Buffalo Bills. Well, we learned that

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02:12:38,760 --> 02:12:40,840
Speaker 1: the NFL is not messing around when it comes to

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Speaker 1: encouraging their players to get vaccinated, as they sent a

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Speaker 1: memo to all thirty two clubs today which basically said

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Speaker 1: if a game cannot be rescheduled due to the during

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Speaker 1: the eighteen week season due to a COVID outbreak among

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Speaker 1: unvaccinated players, the team with the outbreak will forfeit and

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Speaker 1: be credited with a loss for playoff seatings. There whole

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Speaker 1: and whole lot of other layers to that, and not

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Speaker 1: credited with playing a game at all. Well when it

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Speaker 1: comes to draft position or waiver order, and the club

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Speaker 1: is also on the hook for the ticket sales and

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Speaker 1: the broadcast rights for that game as well home lost

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Speaker 1: revenue to the league and to their opponent. That's big money. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: But on the positive side of it, Doctor Alan Sills,

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Speaker 1: the chief medical officer for the league, who has been

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Speaker 1: on the forefront of this COVID effort on their part,

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Speaker 1: said he is pleased with where player vaccinations are right now.

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Speaker 1: They are at more than seventy eight percent league wide. However,

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Speaker 1: there are only fourteen of the thirty two clubs that

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Speaker 1: have reached the eighty five percent threshold to do business

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Speaker 1: as usual without COVID protocols in place at their respective facilities.

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Speaker 1: Still eighteen teams outstanding, Big Show tomorrow, Packed Taskers, Teammate

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Speaker 1: makes a return, It makes a triumphant return. Triumph also

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Speaker 1: have Mark Miller joining us. It's a Jam Pact show.

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Speaker 1: You don't want to miss it tomorrow, and we'll see

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Speaker 1: if there are any other ripple effects from today's announcement

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Speaker 1: by the League. Steve Asker, Chris Brown, one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow