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Speaker 1: Oh a great time watch Steve plasterers do fus do time.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to One Bill's Live. Steve Task, along with Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: prepare on a Thursday afternoon as the ever energetic Jay

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Speaker 1: Harris kicks us off into it. Brownie, how you doing?

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Speaker 1: How how's your day going? Is it raining at your

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Speaker 1: house yet? It's just the sky just opened up. It

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Speaker 1: is raining and it's coming down for sure. But yes,

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Speaker 1: Jay with the uh use the force. Luke Howard grabs thing.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what he was doing there. I think

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Speaker 1: he was trying to will the show onto the video

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Speaker 1: side again. I kind of I kind of missed it

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Speaker 1: a little bit. Steve that, Yeah, sooner or later we'll

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Speaker 1: get back on television. We'll get back into into the studio.

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Speaker 1: One Bill's dry, but obviously everything's still shut down. We

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Speaker 1: can at least do the radio side of it, you

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Speaker 1: and I but uh, and we'll probably get as much

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Speaker 1: go back on the air. So one day we'll just

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Speaker 1: appear magically and then that well, we'll stay like this

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Speaker 1: until it does, though, Steve Task all with Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be here till three o'clock. A lot going

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Speaker 1: on in the National Football League, A lot of a

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Speaker 1: lot of spying going on by the NFL about what

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball is gonna do about Bundesliga. Is that

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Speaker 1: am I saying that? Right? Bundesliga they're doing games and

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Speaker 1: stuff and occasionally they're getting, you know, a player two

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Speaker 1: or three or four, uh test positive for coronavirus, and

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Speaker 1: they got to deal with it, and the other leagues

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Speaker 1: will take their queue from how one other leg takes

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Speaker 1: it's the English Premier League. Steve just announced that their

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Speaker 1: first game dates, which I believe was June seventeenth, announced today,

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Speaker 1: So that's when the English Premier League, which is the

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Speaker 1: English soccer league and quite possibly the most popular league

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Speaker 1: state side of all the professional soccer leagues in Europe,

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Speaker 1: is going to get back up and running in mid

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Speaker 1: June here to finish their Premier League season, which so

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Speaker 1: for those that don't know, does not have a playoff system.

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Speaker 1: They just play thirty eight games and whoever is at

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Speaker 1: for them to worry about how many games have they

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Speaker 1: play out the string? How many games have they played

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Speaker 1: if any? Oh, I'd have to look it up, but

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Speaker 1: they so, let's see. They interrupted it in March, so

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Speaker 1: I would estimate that they only have fifteen or so

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Speaker 1: often can soccer players play twice a week three max

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Speaker 1: and I have every two weeks? Yeah, I haven't. I

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Speaker 1: haven't checked this yet, Steve, because I did see this

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Speaker 1: in the Bundesligua as a rule change, so knowing that

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Speaker 1: training was not what it was leading back up to

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Speaker 1: the restart of the Bundesliga. So normal professional soccer rules

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Speaker 1: are only three substitutions per match, so you have you're eleven,

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Speaker 1: The Bundesligua imposed two additional substitutions allowed, so it went

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Speaker 1: went from three substitutions to five, So give us six

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Speaker 1: I haven't looked up whether the English Premier League's doing

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Speaker 1: Even though it doesn't sound like much, it does not

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Speaker 1: why is that such a big deal? I mean, why,

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Speaker 1: why and why is that? Yeah? Why do the rulesmakers like, oh, okay,

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Speaker 1: eleven guys once. Yeah, I mean, and that's how that's

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Speaker 1: So that's how it usually works. So it's going to

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Speaker 1: are the crazy Hearing one, Bill's Live talking, Bundesligue and

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Speaker 1: I no, one o'clock. He's going to show up. Solomon

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Speaker 1: And we also have True False and maybe what's for lunch?

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Speaker 1: We may not get around to what's for lunch? But

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Speaker 1: out all the particulars with that. So I was right

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Speaker 1: Starting the sixth month of twenty twenty, I think we're

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Speaker 1: mean it's absolutely so. Yeah, big day. It was a

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Speaker 1: Joanne to the tasker, who's I think she reached her

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Speaker 1: She's now sub five foot now as she turns ninety yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Well that's right, Yeah, you told me she turned ninety. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: My mom and dad are about fed up with the restrictions.

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Speaker 1: nice facility, no question, But they said listen, no visitors,

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Speaker 1: So we're all thinking that, I don't know, is it

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Speaker 1: And so that was a big day yesterday. But on

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Speaker 1: last evening. Oh, final final, Yeah, I had, uh final

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Speaker 1: little celebration last night. Oh that's great. Yeah, getting getting

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Speaker 1: you've noticed this, but on social media, anytime they try

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Speaker 1: you said about let's just take a breath for a minute.

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Speaker 1: The officials get tweaked every year. They're trying to fix this.

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Speaker 1: They're trying to fix that, and it's a it's a

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Speaker 1: real slippery slope when they start to do that, and

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Speaker 1: we're still we're halfway down that thing, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we're still sliding down that hill. Now we've got rules

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Speaker 1: that were implemented one year and were a catastrophe, which

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Speaker 1: is how I would that's how I would characterize the

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Speaker 1: coach's ability to challenge a pass interference non call. So

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Speaker 1: given all of that stuff, yeah, I think it's great.

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Speaker 1: It's a great point you make. Let's just take a

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Speaker 1: breath for a minute. You know, if you want to

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Speaker 1: try something, let's experiment with a little bit. But here's

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Speaker 1: the thing, and here's the reason why you're right. It

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Speaker 1: may slow the game down. Murph and I had talked

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Speaker 1: about it and we thought it might speed it up.

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Speaker 1: But if you're gonna give a time frame to the

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Speaker 1: guy to use to stop everything for twelve seconds to

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Speaker 1: consider it, and then consider it after that twelve seconds,

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Speaker 1: you know, then stop, have the official come over and

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Speaker 1: consider what he's talking about. Of that, you're talking about

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Speaker 1: a massive slowdown. And here's one of the things that

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Speaker 1: you got to know when these guys and I've seen

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Speaker 1: it in a million you have too, Brownie. You watch

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Speaker 1: guys who know how to watch film, and officials would

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Speaker 1: do that. They watch a lot of film, and for instance,

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Speaker 1: we all watch a play on an all twenty two right,

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Speaker 1: Guys who do it for a living will pick out

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Speaker 1: three things on an All twenty two and say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: look at this, this is wrong, and they'll watch it

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Speaker 1: like once or twice and they say, wow, look at

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Speaker 1: this here, and you'll notice something you had no idea about,

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Speaker 1: and they'll look over here. You know, they can circle

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Speaker 1: a couple of things after watching that play twice that

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Speaker 1: are penalties or wrong or question marks. And that's what

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Speaker 1: you're talking about when you're talking about a sky judge.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna look at the play, rewind it real quick,

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Speaker 1: run it, and he'll notice a handful of stuff sometimes

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Speaker 1: that you got to think about. But that's I think

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Speaker 1: that's where they want to specify and delineate what he

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Speaker 1: is going to be looking at, because on any given play,

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Speaker 1: you can have a cornerback on the backside of the play,

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Speaker 1: thirty yards away from the football completely mugging a receiver

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Speaker 1: on the other side of the field. Well, does the

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Speaker 1: sky judge call down to the ref on a touchdown

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Speaker 1: play and say, well, you're gonna have to call this

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Speaker 1: back because you've got a corner and mugging a receiver

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Speaker 1: on the opposite side of the field had nothing to

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Speaker 1: do with the play and the outcome. But that happened

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Speaker 1: over there, and we know that's illegal under the letter

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Speaker 1: of the law, So we got to reverse this play.

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Speaker 1: Do you rule that out? Do you tell him he

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Speaker 1: can only address things that are around the ball and

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Speaker 1: impacted the play? Like, how fine are they going to

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Speaker 1: cut that? And I think because of those unanswered questions, said, hey, hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: let's just pump the brakes here. Let's try to shape

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Speaker 1: this in a way that reduces the unintended consequences to

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Speaker 1: a degree where we feel comfortable that we can move

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Speaker 1: forward with it. And it may not be this year,

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Speaker 1: maybe it's next year. But better to wait and get

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Speaker 1: it right or as right as you can than to

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Speaker 1: have another rush to judgment like you did when you

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Speaker 1: put in the past interference challenge rule. They're trying to

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Speaker 1: make it so that and there's always a balance, right Brownie.

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Speaker 1: I mean, everybody said, listen, we want the games. Nobody

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Speaker 1: wants a six hour football game, right, But there's a

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Speaker 1: level of accuracy and accountability with the players and the

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Speaker 1: guy and the coaches and the play calls and all

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Speaker 1: that staying within the rules. You got to have a

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Speaker 1: level of accountability within that, and you want the officials

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Speaker 1: to be accurate. You don't want them, but let's face it,

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Speaker 1: you want them. You don't want them to do what

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Speaker 1: you just said, call every single panel tea everywhere on

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Speaker 1: the field all the time, because it would it would

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Speaker 1: create a couple of things. One massive inconsistencies from one

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Speaker 1: officiating crew to the next. And two, it would create

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Speaker 1: a game that lasted six hours to play and the

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Speaker 1: players would never be able to adjust to that. And

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Speaker 1: he wants So what we're looking for is a balance.

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Speaker 1: Just get it accurate enough so it's not egregious. And

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Speaker 1: we you know, if we're going to argue about a call,

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Speaker 1: it's a pretty weak argument. That's what we want. We

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Speaker 1: want every play to strike the balance between what's acceptable

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Speaker 1: to both sides as a good play. Now, certainly every

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Speaker 1: time somebody breaks off a big run, there's somebody from

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Speaker 1: the other team gonna yell, yeah, they did it because

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Speaker 1: this guy had a penalty. Look at this hold, or

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Speaker 1: look at this clip, or look at this block in

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Speaker 1: the back. You know, and you're always going to have that,

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Speaker 1: but we're looking for a balance. Just let the game

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Speaker 1: play keep the guys from cheating you know, and getting

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Speaker 1: away with stuff acally on the egregious stuff and let

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Speaker 1: them play, but do it in a way that you

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Speaker 1: know that we can live with. That's really what the

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Speaker 1: league is looking for, that balance between being so particular

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Speaker 1: about the rules and then still letting them play football.

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Speaker 1: And they're still finding that because we see everything with

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Speaker 1: the six or eight cameras that are on the game,

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Speaker 1: we see it all, you know, we can see it all.

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Speaker 1: And so they got an answer to the people who

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Speaker 1: see stuff that they miss or don't call or you call.

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Speaker 1: I think the problem here, and it's an inherent problem,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's only gotten worse just the fact

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Speaker 1: that I think there's this expectation of perfection on the

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Speaker 1: part of the officiating and I think we all know,

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Speaker 1: I mean, common sense tells you that's unrealistic and there

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Speaker 1: is going to be human error. But there is just

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Speaker 1: so much on the line for these teams now that

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Speaker 1: not being perfect is unacceptable because it can cost people

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Speaker 1: their jobs in this league. So it's it's a it's

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Speaker 1: a tough line to really walk. And I don't envy

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Speaker 1: officials for a second, but I think there just has

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Speaker 1: to be this greater understanding that, yes, it's admirable that

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Speaker 1: you want to try to get as close to perfect

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Speaker 1: as you can, but the realistic side of this is

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Speaker 1: you're never ever going to get there as even I mean,

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Speaker 1: even if you go to robotic elements of officiating. You know,

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Speaker 1: we've talked about it on the show. Here, ball spotting

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Speaker 1: with an electronic eye like they do in tennis, determining

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Speaker 1: balls in or out and that kind of stuff. You

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Speaker 1: can get better, but it's never gonna be perfect. So

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Speaker 1: you just got to kind of live with some of

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Speaker 1: that human error, as tough as it might be to swallow. Right, intellectually,

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Speaker 1: you're right, intellectually, you know they're not going to be perfect.

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Speaker 1: But when you get into the emotion of the game,

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Speaker 1: oh my, and we watch it slow motion twice, you know,

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Speaker 1: then then it becomes unreasonable the expectation. Yeah, all right,

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Speaker 1: we gonna we'll continue this. Give us a call eight

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Speaker 1: h three oh five fifty or one fifty two five

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Speaker 1: fifty Steve Tasker, Chris Brown here on one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to Solomon Wilcots at one o'clock today.

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Speaker 1: We've got a lot going on other than Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: What offensive player on the Buffalo Bills roster has the

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Speaker 1: most approve this year? Give us a call or tweet.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to the tweet sheet and a lot more

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Speaker 1: right after this. This is Steve Tasker Chris Brown, One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live. And this is Buffalo Bills Radio, Steve Tashman

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown here at one bill Slive. Welcome back. We

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Speaker 1: are talking about the quarterbacks and some of the offensive

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Speaker 1: players that you're expecting. Not too much about Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: but besides him, which offensive player do you think has

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Speaker 1: the most approved in twenty twenty. We're talking about the

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Speaker 1: rules changes that are being considered by the NFL. We've

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Speaker 1: got Solomon Wilcots coming up at one o'clock. But over

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Speaker 1: the list last night or these last few days, our

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Speaker 1: good friend Dan Orlovsky wrote an article on ESPN and

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Speaker 1: what I was actually I think he was on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: This is a this is a SoundBite we're gonna play

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Speaker 1: where he ranked the AFC East quarterbacks and we'll let

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Speaker 1: you listen to it and see what you think and

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Speaker 1: react to it. Here it is dan Orlovsky on the

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Speaker 1: AFC East quarterbacks and why he ranked and why he

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Speaker 1: ranked Josh Allen behind to a tag of Vloa and

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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold. I want to see him get over sixty

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Speaker 1: percent completion percentage. He's never gonna be the sixty eight

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Speaker 1: sixty nine percent guy. That's deadly accurate. Nor should they

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Speaker 1: ask him too. And I want to see him go

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Speaker 1: over thirty five hundred yards passing. He's not done that.

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Speaker 1: I got to see him than the twenty touchdown passes

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Speaker 1: that like, there, there is the potential there with Josh Allen.

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Speaker 1: And again he is on this uptick. That's why people

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Speaker 1: who say this is a maker break year, it's not.

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Speaker 1: He's going to have a good season. Ben Roethlisbergerer's three

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Speaker 1: year through eighteen touchdowns and twenty three picks. It's not

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Speaker 1: a make or break year for Josh Allen. There you go.

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Speaker 1: You can hear what is You can hear his reasoning

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Speaker 1: around and he'd like, yeah, he likes Josh. He knows

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Speaker 1: he's got a lot of potential, but he wants to

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Speaker 1: see some numbers that back up those, you know, the expectations,

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Speaker 1: and he does expect Josh to have a good season,

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Speaker 1: But the kind of season he's talking about means Josh

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have to train into more of a pure

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Speaker 1: pass or do you agree, Brownie? Well, I think what

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Speaker 1: he's dismissing, though, and somewhat conveniently for him, is what

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Speaker 1: Josh brings to the table as a scorer on the ground.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yes, he only threw for twenty touchdowns, but

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Speaker 1: what did he run for seven eight last year? I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to check it right now to just make sure

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Speaker 1: I have my numbers right as I'm scrolling down on

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Speaker 1: the slowest computer on the planet. But I think he

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Speaker 1: had seven or eight rushing touchdowns last year, So for

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Speaker 1: me eight or No. Nine, he had nine. So he

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Speaker 1: passed for twenty ran for nine twenty nine touchdowns, a

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Speaker 1: pretty good year, especially for a second year quarterback. And

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Speaker 1: maybe they don't see him as the quarterback that they

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Speaker 1: want him to be because he only threw for twenty

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Speaker 1: and they want him to make more plays with his arm. Okay, fine,

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Speaker 1: that's your opinion. But I'm in this boat, Steve. I'm

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Speaker 1: in the boat about winning games. So yeah, he may

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Speaker 1: not be sixty eight percent completion passer, ever, and even

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Speaker 1: Orlovski admits that's not who he is as a quarterback.

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Speaker 1: And I would agree with that. But if he can

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Speaker 1: get to sixty two percent this year, you know, make

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Speaker 1: another jump, and he can still be two to one PET.

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Speaker 1: You know, if he can still be two to one

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Speaker 1: touchdown to interception ratio, which he was last year twenty

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Speaker 1: and nine, and he can run for another seven or eight,

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Speaker 1: I'm good with that. Uh. And I you can make

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Speaker 1: the argument that the number will probably go up, you know,

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Speaker 1: with enhanced weapons in the passing game and with another

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Speaker 1: year in the system. But as long as he's doing

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Speaker 1: the things to help me win games, I'm I'm fine

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Speaker 1: with that. I don't need him to become some juggernaut

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Speaker 1: passer who throws for forty touchdowns a year. I'd love

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Speaker 1: to have it. But if he can run for twenty,

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Speaker 1: if he can throw for twenty four and run for

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Speaker 1: another seven or eight, I mean, it's the total package

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Speaker 1: that I'm in for. And that's all fine by me

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Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned. He doesn't have to be

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. He can win games the way he plays, right,

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Speaker 1: You're right, And here's the thing for me, he is better.

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Speaker 1: He's one of those guys. And I said this a

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Speaker 1: ton and I've said it a Ton and I'm still

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00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 1: saying it. You can see him getting better even during

641
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: this last season. Remember it, in the first five, six,

642
00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: maybe seven weeks of the season, he was turning it

643
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: over all the time, you know, he threw a lot

644
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:40,280
Speaker 1: of interceptions. And then right after I think right around

645
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: the Tennessee game or a little bit thereafter, he stopped

646
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,879
Speaker 1: throwing in picks. He went like three games without throwing

647
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:51,920
Speaker 1: an interception, and he started scoring points. They scored about

648
00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:53,640
Speaker 1: the same number of points they did, but they didn't

649
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 1: turn it over, and that was a lot of a

650
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: lot of it was Josh. I think he had one

651
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,600
Speaker 1: stretch there where he was like twelve touchdown and two

652
00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: interceptions going into the last you know, part of the

653
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 1: portion of the season since week I think it was

654
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 1: like Week six, he had twelve tds and two interceptions

655
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: at one stretch in the in the year. That kind

656
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 1: of improvement is what's gonna Cata pulled him forward. And

657
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: I've also said that when there are a couple of

658
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 1: things about his game where if they change, there's going

659
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: to be an exponential growth in his game. And I

660
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: think it comes down to converting on third down and

661
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: a little bit on the in the red zone. If

662
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,959
Speaker 1: if he would finish a couple of drives one drive

663
00:35:34,120 --> 00:35:36,960
Speaker 1: more a game with a touchdown, this is a team

664
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: is much better offensively. If he could just raise his

665
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 1: third down percentage completion percentage by a couple of percentage board,

666
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: this is this team gets exponentially better because they take

667
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 1: the pressure off and already really good defense. So small

668
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:58,800
Speaker 1: improvements by Josh Allen mean big time improvement for the

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00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,959
Speaker 1: whole team. And I think with the inclusion of Steph

670
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: Diggs and the offensive line getting a little bit more

671
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 1: stout and a little bit having another year under its

672
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: belt and with some tweaks, maybe an upgrade here there,

673
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 1: maybe or maybe not. They were pretty good last year.

674
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary complimented by Zach Moss instead of Frank Gore.

675
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: You know, there's some stuff to be excited about here,

676
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 1: And I agree Josh needs to get up. I'm thinking

677
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,319
Speaker 1: if he makes the exact same jump he did last

678
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,800
Speaker 1: year and goes from fifty two to fifty eight and

679
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: goes from fifty eight this year to sixty three this year,

680
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: that's big. That is absolutely big, And that's the kind

681
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:41,320
Speaker 1: of that's the kind of steady improvement we've witnessed and

682
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: we have yet to see him not make that improvement

683
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 1: a year to year. Yeah, but what grind Spike years is.

684
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 1: I don't think these quarterback reviewers take his rushing touchdown

685
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 1: exploits into consideration. They still gravitate more towards the traditional

686
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: passing quarterback. And I don't know how you overlook seventeen

687
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns in the last two years by him. I mean,

688
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: that's huge production and no one can deny this. He

689
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:15,359
Speaker 1: is a weapon down there as a runner, and maybe

690
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 1: with Zach Moss in the fold now, who is an

691
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: excellent short yardage player, maybe he gets more of those

692
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 1: down close to the goal line than Josh does. To

693
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: protect Josh number one, But that element is a weapon

694
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: when Josh can just hold on to it and pull

695
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: it out and do something dangerous with his legs. And

696
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 1: Brian Dable recognize that and took advantage of that. And

697
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 1: you can't take that away from his game and say

698
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: I need him to be this and downgrade him as

699
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:50,399
Speaker 1: a quarterback in this division because of it. I think

700
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 1: that's really misguided. Let me ask you this, Brownie, do

701
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: you think some of the guys in the media guys

702
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: like us and guys like Dan Orlovsky and whatever you

703
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: want to men, and whichever one you want to mention,

704
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 1: do you think they're missing something? Let's not forget the

705
00:38:04,640 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: MVP last year was Lamar Jackson. Yeah, so the league

706
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: the quarterback for nothing, right? Not for nothing? That guy

707
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: can't throw outside the numbers, right, So my question is

708
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: is are we looking at a different kind of quarterback

709
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:22,399
Speaker 1: evaluation process that the media just hasn't caught up with yet. Yeah?

710
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: To me, Josh is a better better example of running

711
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 1: passing than even the Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson's a much

712
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,800
Speaker 1: better runner, but Josh is a better thrower, right, And

713
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:36,240
Speaker 1: I think the only reason that Lamar Jackson got legitimate

714
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: respect is because his team went fourteen and two and

715
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:41,640
Speaker 1: he was the MVP of the league. So well, I

716
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: can't discount the MVP even though he runs a lot

717
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 1: and does this and that, and he threw for more

718
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: touchdowns than Josh last year if memory serves, And that's fine,

719
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:56,479
Speaker 1: But to me, I think you're unfairly discounting what Josh

720
00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: brings to the table if you've got him third behind

721
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,200
Speaker 1: a guy who hasn't even played it down in the

722
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 1: league and had trouble staying healthy in college. Forget about

723
00:39:05,160 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: the pros where the bodies are bigger, stronger, and faster,

724
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: and a guy who still doesn't have enough talent around

725
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,479
Speaker 1: him to maybe truly show what he is and Sam

726
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:17,800
Speaker 1: Darnold but still hasn't done a lick in comparison to

727
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: what Josh has done. Josh had five come from behind

728
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 1: wins last year. Nobody had more than that in the

729
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 1: entire National Football League. Yeah, and there's a lot Listen,

730
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: we here in Buffalo see a lot to like about Josh,

731
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: no question, and he got to acknowledge that there. You know,

732
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:35,000
Speaker 1: there's a ton of throws throughout the season. They're just like, wow, Josh,

733
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: come on, there's a lot of that. You know, they

734
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:39,560
Speaker 1: go to the long ball that he couldn't he struggled

735
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 1: to hit. And I think some of it, and we

736
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 1: all talked about it during the season where they, you

737
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: know what, they are pounding him over the head not

738
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:52,520
Speaker 1: to throw interceptions anymore, and he's just overthrowing everybody. He

739
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: was not throwing those long balls with any chance to

740
00:39:55,680 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: get him completed, and I think that affected his completion percentage, sure,

741
00:40:01,719 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 1: but also his efficiency of being able to stay on

742
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,400
Speaker 1: the field on third down and keep drives alive and

743
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: take pressure off his defense and just extend drives enough

744
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 1: to give you another chance to score touchdown and get up,

745
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,960
Speaker 1: you know, and score more points that which is, you know,

746
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:18,759
Speaker 1: basically what they could not do last year, just score

747
00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:21,440
Speaker 1: enough points. So yeah, there's that to talk about. We

748
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 1: also and this that leads as while Josh, you know,

749
00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 1: while Josh Allen does have some things to prove, and

750
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:29,920
Speaker 1: as door Lofsy said, I don't think it's a make

751
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: or break here for Josh Allen. You want to see

752
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: him take another take another step forward. But it does

753
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 1: it does bring you to hit the people around Josh

754
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,359
Speaker 1: who's gonna help him get there? And other than Josh Allen,

755
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: which offensive player has the most approved in twenty twenty.

756
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: We've been asking you that you can give us a

757
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 1: call at eight to three oh five fifty or one

758
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. We've got a

759
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 1: lot of tweets on the tweet sheet from people chiming

760
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 1: in as well. Brownie, you said you thought it was

761
00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 1: Steph Diggs, right, Yeah, I just not because he is

762
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 1: an a proven player in the league. He unquestionably is

763
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,919
Speaker 1: I would argue he's an elite player in the league,

764
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 1: but there is a there's a challenge in front of

765
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:10,919
Speaker 1: him now to live up to the expectations of being

766
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: the true number one alpha dog receiver in this receiving corps,

767
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 1: do it in a new offense with a quarterback he's

768
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:23,319
Speaker 1: never played with, and make it happen. And so that's

769
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:26,399
Speaker 1: that's a lot to prove with a new team, as

770
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 1: I see it. So that was where my vote went.

771
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 1: But I think you can you can make an argument

772
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,359
Speaker 1: for a lot of these other guys on the list,

773
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: and even guys for that world famous other category that

774
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 1: we seem to have in ninety percent of our polls. Well,

775
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 1: were the other categories heads off the tweet sheet here

776
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 1: as we go to other guys who can need have

777
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 1: a lot to prove. Other than Josh Allen from pat

778
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: he says, I think Cody Ford has to play better

779
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,120
Speaker 1: this season. There's still room for improvement. Maybe the continuity

780
00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 1: this year will push him to a higher level. John

781
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: Brown shouldn't be double teams as much the year. With

782
00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:57,000
Speaker 1: Digs on board, Brown could make a difference this season

783
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 1: as well. Um, yeah, there's a lot of ways you

784
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: can go for this. Certainly the change dynamic. And I

785
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:03,960
Speaker 1: said this last year, we had such fun covering that

786
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:07,600
Speaker 1: team Brownie last year, watching them win ten games, winning

787
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: big dig games in Dallas, winning a big game in Pittsburgh,

788
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:15,719
Speaker 1: of shining really pretty brightly in the lights of primetime television,

789
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 1: and a standalone game on Thanksgiving. It was pretty fun

790
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:20,839
Speaker 1: to watch. And I was and I knew this. When

791
00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,720
Speaker 1: they lost the overtime game in the wildcard round in Houston,

792
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: it was a sad day for Bills fans. And I

793
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,359
Speaker 1: think for me it wasn't that the season was over.

794
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: I thought the season was great, it was fun. It

795
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 1: was everything we wanted it to be, except, you know,

796
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:35,239
Speaker 1: if ultimately you want to win the Super Bowl. But

797
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: pretty satisfying after the years we put behind us. But

798
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: the thing for me was, but that team's gone. The

799
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: point I'm trying to make that is not the team

800
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna see this year. Certainly, Josh is gonna be

801
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 1: there and some of these other guys we've got, But

802
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 1: now Steph Diggs is on board, Now Zach Moss is

803
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:56,200
Speaker 1: on board. Now you've got aj Epanezza on board, You've

804
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 1: got some guys that are it's a new team every

805
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 1: year and this is what gets laws. Yeah, there's still

806
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills and Sean mcdermots still their Brandon being

807
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: still there, Josh Allen still but it's a it's a

808
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:10,240
Speaker 1: different team and there's a lot of question marks, especially

809
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 1: with an offseason like the one we're experiencing. Yeah, no,

810
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,000
Speaker 1: no question about it. And just to response to Pat,

811
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:19,439
Speaker 1: I mean with the Cody forward reference, Yes, Cody Ford

812
00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 1: does have something to prove. They put him in a

813
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 1: platoon situation last year to try to keep him from

814
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: getting thrown into the deep end to the pool, and

815
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 1: he did. Okay. I think he had, you know, positives

816
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 1: and negatives to his game last year. I think there

817
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 1: were more more good than bad. But he's right. Here's

818
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:36,879
Speaker 1: the thing for Cody Ford. Can he prove he still

819
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 1: deserves to be the starter number one? And can he

820
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:42,320
Speaker 1: play so well and so consistent that tie and Secki

821
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:44,720
Speaker 1: is not a platoon guy with him at that position.

822
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 1: He is the sole starter at that position. That's what

823
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: he's got to prove. Yeah, and and and Secky's got

824
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: a lot to prove as well. He couldn't stay healthy

825
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 1: enough to be out there as much as they wanted him,

826
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 1: he wasn't. I don't even know if you could call

827
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 1: him a starter last year. You know, he was in

828
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 1: and out of games. He was rotating much, in my opinion,

829
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:06,000
Speaker 1: not just to develop Cody Forward, but also because in

830
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: Secy they couldn't trust him to stay healthy for fifteen

831
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 1: sixteen games and he didn't. He was He was dragging

832
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: around injuries for a second half of the year and

833
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: there's a lot of question marks for that, and that's

834
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:18,360
Speaker 1: I think it's one of the things Darryl Williams was

835
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 1: signed for. That's why they've got other guys. They spent

836
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: a lot of effort and capital getting some more offensive

837
00:44:25,120 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: line in there to compete in training camp. So it'll

838
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,279
Speaker 1: be interesting to see who lines up at right tackle,

839
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 1: whether it's Cody Ford and a combination of Feliciano and

840
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:36,279
Speaker 1: some other guys down inside, or whether they're going to

841
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,880
Speaker 1: go and slide Forward down inside and put a tackle

842
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:43,319
Speaker 1: in outside of him. It's all interesting to see. All right,

843
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 1: break tiwn, I think you're Steve right, all right, it's

844
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:47,839
Speaker 1: Jay losing his mind. I we are late, all right,

845
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: here we go, all right, we'll be back this Steve

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Chris Brown and One Bills Live. We got

847
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:54,239
Speaker 1: Solomon Wilcox's coming up at the top of the hour.

848
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 1: Stay with us. This is One Bills Live on Buffalo

849
00:44:56,760 --> 00:45:10,839
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill of Live. Steve

850
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:13,760
Speaker 1: task along with Chris Brown, we're talking about which offensive

851
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: player at the Buffalo Bill's roster as the most approved

852
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:18,560
Speaker 1: as we head into it. We've got Solomon Wilcot's coming

853
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:22,319
Speaker 1: up in just a couple of minutes. Brownie, what else

854
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: we got going on? Tweeteet a little bit more here?

855
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 1: Should do that. We got a lot of tweet We've

856
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 1: got a lot of people chiming in about that. Other

857
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 1: than Josh Allen, which offensive player has the most approved

858
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty? That you got, Brownie? Well from Jack here,

859
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 1: he's saying Dawson Knox needs to grow in year two.

860
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: The Bills really have never had an elite tight end.

861
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: He needs to show he's a consistent playmaker. But I

862
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: think my answer will go to Diggs. We know what

863
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:50,880
Speaker 1: he has done and what he is capable of. He

864
00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: was unhappy in Minnesota and now needs to show that

865
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: he is elite and the change he forced was deserved.

866
00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 1: So yeah, And like I said, Steve, this is a

867
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,920
Speaker 1: matter of interpretation. You know, if you're talking about a

868
00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 1: player who's got to prove himself as a capable NFL playmaker,

869
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 1: well then you can very easily lean towards Dawson Knox,

870
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 1: who showed some very encouraging flashes last year but couldn't

871
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: match the consistency of his game with those flashes. He's

872
00:46:18,239 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 1: got something to prove, I think most most definitely, but

873
00:46:22,239 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: Diggs might have more in light of what he's expected

874
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: to do, don't you think. Yeah, dude, what do you

875
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:34,439
Speaker 1: remember about Knox's season last year? What stands out so well? Yeah?

876
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 1: But I mean there were some incredibly athletic plays, some

877
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 1: incredibly physical plays like the one he had against Cincinnati

878
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: when he absolutely decleted the safety when he tried to

879
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:49,319
Speaker 1: make the tackle on him. I think he got an

880
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:53,720
Speaker 1: angry run award from any one again weeks the Angry

881
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 1: Run King this year. Yeah, So, but I think there

882
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:58,880
Speaker 1: were some stuff like that, But for me, it was,

883
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 1: you know, that was occasionally he'd have a drop. He

884
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 1: had a touchdown catch against New England in Week four

885
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 1: that I think might have tied the game or put

886
00:47:08,200 --> 00:47:11,359
Speaker 1: the Bills ahead. It was in the second half. I'm

887
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:12,920
Speaker 1: not gonna remember what the score was. I know the

888
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: Bills were down, but not by much because that game

889
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: finished but sixteen ten and he didn't hold on to it.

890
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 1: He was open in the end zone and Josh found

891
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:23,320
Speaker 1: him and he couldn't make the play. And that's just

892
00:47:23,440 --> 00:47:27,160
Speaker 1: a killer, you know, right, that's a crusher. It's a crusher.

893
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 1: But that's for me, for him. If if you're gonna

894
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: pick something he has to work on, that would be it.

895
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 1: He's a big, physical dude. Runs with he does really well.

896
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: I think he runs well without with the ball in

897
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 1: his hand, you know, after the catch, he seems to

898
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 1: be okay and good enough, if not really good at

899
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: the end of the line of scrimmage in the run

900
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 1: game and go ahead. And I was gonna say, Steve,

901
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 1: I've heard this from more than one person, both inside

902
00:47:56,719 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 1: and outside the building, that his chemistry with Josh is

903
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 1: very good for two players who have not been together

904
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: all that long. And when I first heard that, it

905
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: kind of puzzled me a little bit because I said

906
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:17,280
Speaker 1: to myself, well, why why is that? The one person

907
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: told me It's partly due to Dawson's background as a

908
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: high school quarterback, so he's capable of getting in the

909
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:28,719
Speaker 1: mind of how a quarterback thinks and knows what a

910
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 1: quarterback needs from him. Yeah, and so really, I think

911
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: the biggest thing he's got to overcome it's just concentration,

912
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 1: so he's pulling that ball in more often instead of

913
00:48:39,120 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 1: having those costly drops. Yeah. Other than Josh Allen, which

914
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill offensive player has the most approved in twenty

915
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 1: twenty from Tiffany? In my opinion, it's Cody Ford. Is

916
00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: he a guardtown The right side of the offensive line

917
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: has been missing a consistent presence at the right tackle

918
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:58,880
Speaker 1: position for several years. Cody has a high was a

919
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:00,960
Speaker 1: high second round pick. He needs to lock down the

920
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: right tackle job this training camp. And that's pretty interesting

921
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: that she says that that she thinks he's got to

922
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 1: be a tackle, right And you know, you mentioned that

923
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:16,160
Speaker 1: they signed Darryl Williams um you know in the off

924
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:19,800
Speaker 1: season here from Carolina, who I think his best position

925
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:23,040
Speaker 1: is guard, but he does have experience a tackle, and

926
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: I think in a perfect world, Daryl Williams is a

927
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 1: guard tackle swing guy and and Cody Ford's man in

928
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:33,680
Speaker 1: the starting job. But I think it's time to h

929
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 1: We gotta get ready for Solomon here, right he sorry,

930
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:39,400
Speaker 1: we gotta all right, yeah, we gotta get out of here.

931
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 1: Solomon Wilcops coming up at the top of the hour,

932
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Chris Brown. This is One Bills Live from

933
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,360
Speaker 1: not from but One Bill's Drive. But we're gonna be

934
00:49:49,440 --> 00:50:00,400
Speaker 1: back there soon. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Oh by

935
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 1: Steve Flaskers do time. Welcome back to One Bill's Life.

936
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:24,279
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker. Chris Brown here in Western New York, on

937
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:26,239
Speaker 1: on the line right now with us as a guy

938
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 1: who played safety in the National Football League for six seasons.

939
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 1: He played with Cincinnati, Minnesota, Pittsburgh. I think he makes

940
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: his home in Cincinnati. I'm not sure. Pro Football Focus

941
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 1: NFL analyst. He also hosts a serious XM NFL radio

942
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 1: and former NFL on CBS colleague of mine, Solomon Wilcox, Solomon,

943
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Chris Brown here on One Bill's Life. Thanks

944
00:50:45,640 --> 00:50:48,640
Speaker 1: for coming on with us, Steve, Chris say, great to

945
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 1: be on with you guys. Hope you're having a wonderful

946
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 1: gay Thanks. I know I know that you don't make

947
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:56,560
Speaker 1: your home here in western New York, but up here

948
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:00,560
Speaker 1: around Buffalo, we're pretty optimistic. We're pretty optimistic about our team.

949
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:02,880
Speaker 1: How do you view them from from your spot in

950
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:04,800
Speaker 1: the universe, So the Bills have a lot of reasons

951
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 1: to be optimistic. Yeah, from twenty thousand feet above, they

952
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,360
Speaker 1: look really good. And once you once you get planet

953
00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 1: in the middle of them, they still look good. I

954
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: love with Thomas Dervin has done with rebuilding that team.

955
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 1: You know, the defense I think is the core of

956
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: that football team. And like say the New England Pagers

957
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: and even a couple of other teams, I think the

958
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:32,360
Speaker 1: Bills are doing a great job of building their defense

959
00:51:32,400 --> 00:51:35,880
Speaker 1: from the back end to the front. Coverage comes first

960
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:38,320
Speaker 1: in today's National Football League, and I don't know it.

961
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 1: You can't let teams throw it over your head. You

962
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:44,600
Speaker 1: can't give up big plays. And this secondary is easily

963
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 1: one of the best in the NFL for the last

964
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: three years, and I think they continue to get better.

965
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 1: The offense has now added some pieces that we just love,

966
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:56,320
Speaker 1: and this is really good. Everybody talks about Josh Allen.

967
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 1: I's a good reason because they surrounded them with talent

968
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: and his season, that's going to start to see what

969
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:06,080
Speaker 1: you got. So Solomon, with that in mind, speaking of

970
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,400
Speaker 1: third seasons, this is the third season of you know,

971
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:12,279
Speaker 1: Sean McDermot and Brandon being building this thing and all

972
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 1: that hard work, might you know, reap some rewards finally

973
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 1: this year, maybe in the form of a division title,

974
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 1: we don't know. But when the way they built it though, uh,

975
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:28,120
Speaker 1: you know, relying on grinder type players, guys who they

976
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: know they're what they're going to get from them on

977
00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:33,279
Speaker 1: a Thursday in week seventeen is going to be the

978
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:35,759
Speaker 1: same thing they get from them week two on a Wednesday.

979
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:40,960
Speaker 1: What does that say about the culture that's been cultivated

980
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:45,160
Speaker 1: in Buffalo by those two men. It really just, you know,

981
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 1: it says that, hey, this is the kind of football

982
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 1: team we want you and Steve knows this. You got

983
00:52:50,239 --> 00:52:55,399
Speaker 1: to build a pulture and has just a wonderful fan base, right.

984
00:52:55,840 --> 00:52:58,319
Speaker 1: You want players who want to be there, who want

985
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: to be in that atmosphere, and they feed off the

986
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:05,359
Speaker 1: energy that the fans bring to that stadium. And when

987
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of like when they when you

988
00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 1: guys have it rolling in the eighties and early nineties,

989
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 1: when a team comes into play, it's a hard gone conclusion.

990
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:17,520
Speaker 1: You know, you close the door behind them and you

991
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:20,400
Speaker 1: just pull it on them. That's how cup it used

992
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:22,800
Speaker 1: to be to go in and play in Buffalo, and

993
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,320
Speaker 1: I think they're starting to restore some of that energy

994
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:27,880
Speaker 1: with the talent on the steel match the energy in

995
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:30,800
Speaker 1: the stands, and then the fans just blowed off the

996
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:34,600
Speaker 1: phenomenal performance that the players that give them. You've got

997
00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 1: that kind of roster. And to me, when you got

998
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: a defense that can go out and shut the opponent

999
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,520
Speaker 1: down and take the ball away to create a short

1000
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 1: steels for an offense with a young quarterback right who's

1001
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 1: just kind of come into his own, that's that, you know,

1002
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 1: complimentary football that you need to consider yourself to be

1003
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:56,120
Speaker 1: a really good football team. Well, and so much about

1004
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:59,439
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills and some of the expectations for them

1005
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 1: have happened not because of what the Bills have done,

1006
00:54:02,760 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: but because of what has happened around them. Which division

1007
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 1: do you think has been re vitalized the most heading

1008
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:11,480
Speaker 1: into twenty twenty, Like the Is it the AFC East

1009
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 1: because Tom Brady's not in anymore? Is it the NFC

1010
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:17,800
Speaker 1: South because Brady is in the NFC South, or is

1011
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 1: it something like the AFC North with Cleveland rebuilding, uh,

1012
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh coming back, getting Ben Roethlisberger back and having and

1013
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: then in Baltimore having the returning MVP of the league.

1014
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:29,799
Speaker 1: Which which of those divisions or is there another one

1015
00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:32,760
Speaker 1: that you think is the most revitalized coming into this season.

1016
00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:35,919
Speaker 1: I think it's a really good question. And I think

1017
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:39,919
Speaker 1: by far the NFC East, And yeah, it is Tom

1018
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:44,760
Speaker 1: Brady's absence, but it's think about the way their season

1019
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 1: ended last year. Miami beat them in the final week

1020
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: of the then one and done in the postseason. You

1021
00:54:51,640 --> 00:54:54,399
Speaker 1: can say that that team it's kind of come back

1022
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 1: down to earth a little bit. And Buffalo played them

1023
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:01,400
Speaker 1: very competitively in Miami, I sleep beat them and so

1024
00:55:02,400 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: and then with Buffalo kind of a city being in

1025
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:07,319
Speaker 1: a way, and you look at the Patriots and having

1026
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 1: seen the decline at least from their normal and so, yeah,

1027
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 1: I think it's it's wide open for the first time

1028
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,439
Speaker 1: it was two decades, the first time in twenty years.

1029
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 1: So I think you have to be energized by just

1030
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 1: the hopes of those other teams now having a chance

1031
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: they can really set their sights on a division title. Um,

1032
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:31,279
Speaker 1: there's no doubt the NFC South was Brady being in it,

1033
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 1: and you've got two future Hall of Fame quarterbacks and

1034
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 1: Breezes and Tom Brady, and then you can probably throw

1035
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan in the mix and tell us of how

1036
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:44,360
Speaker 1: stellar the quarterback play is in that division and what

1037
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:47,400
Speaker 1: Tampa sort of looks like. That's a team that's on

1038
00:55:47,560 --> 00:55:49,520
Speaker 1: the come. And you could have said that's been looking

1039
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:51,480
Speaker 1: at them in the final eight weeks of last year.

1040
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 1: So a team that's been dominated by the Saint. I

1041
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: think the Saint is still gonna be really good, but

1042
00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:01,800
Speaker 1: they've got some competitiveness now when I think it starts

1043
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:05,920
Speaker 1: with the you know with the AFC East and then

1044
00:56:05,960 --> 00:56:08,560
Speaker 1: when you look at the UNFC South, both of those

1045
00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:13,280
Speaker 1: visits playing with a great entry. Talking with Solomon Wilcots

1046
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 1: from Pro Football Focus, NFL analyst, Uh, Solomon, I know

1047
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:23,160
Speaker 1: you wrote a piece about how excited Specific fans should

1048
00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 1: be about, you know, the new quarterback that might be

1049
00:56:25,480 --> 00:56:29,560
Speaker 1: on their roster depending who they root for. Um, there's

1050
00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 1: a lot of uncertainty with just what they have in

1051
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:35,799
Speaker 1: New England and Jared Stidham, I think people feel they

1052
00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: have an idea and what the Dolphins have in Tua.

1053
00:56:38,719 --> 00:56:41,200
Speaker 1: But the Colts get a veteran guy in Philip Rivers.

1054
00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:44,680
Speaker 1: The Chargers may have Tyrode, they may have justin Herbert.

1055
00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:47,520
Speaker 1: We know the Bengals, one of your former teams, as

1056
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:51,080
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow U Nick Foles is probably going to be

1057
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 1: the starter in Chicago, Teddy Bridgewater in Carolina? What what?

1058
00:56:55,840 --> 00:57:01,479
Speaker 1: What one kind of has the most intrigue for you? Well,

1059
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:06,399
Speaker 1: you know, they all I think really good entry. That's

1060
00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 1: the reason why he wrote the article. But for me,

1061
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 1: you know, Joe Burrows so good right at LS so good.

1062
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 1: He is literally one of the greatest college football seasons

1063
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:21,600
Speaker 1: we've ever seen from a college quarterback in one hundred

1064
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Speaker 1: and fifty years of college football. And he did it

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00:57:24,240 --> 00:57:28,160
Speaker 1: by going through a gauntlet of top ten defenses. Seven

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00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 1: times he faced a top ten defense and he didn't

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00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:34,560
Speaker 1: flinch in every single week he answered any questions you

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00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,480
Speaker 1: had about him, He answered them, but he kept rising

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00:57:37,560 --> 00:57:40,760
Speaker 1: to the silence every single week. The bigger the games became,

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00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 1: the bigger he was. And some of the things that

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00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 1: we tracked with young quarterbacks coming out of college is

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00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:50,520
Speaker 1: how well do they play and what we call ideal situations.

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00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:53,640
Speaker 1: That's when they're throwing in the rhythm, there was no pressure,

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00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:58,040
Speaker 1: and say, you really should look good in those situations

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00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 1: when it's a clean pocket and you going in rhythm.

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00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 1: While he was off the touch, but he was also

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00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:07,640
Speaker 1: phenomena when facing pressure defenses. When teams came after him

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00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 1: to blitz him, he carved him up every single time.

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00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 1: He made him pay for his time and time again.

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00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 1: So here was a guy that played at a very

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00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 1: high level. Nice you know of the Bengals, an offensive

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00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:22,439
Speaker 1: line that's given up more sacks than any other team

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00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 1: over the last four seasons. So that's why you have

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00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 1: this great entry. We're gonna find out how good this

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00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:31,240
Speaker 1: young man is right away. And it's tough for a

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00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback that lifted entire franchise and carry them on

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00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:37,200
Speaker 1: their backs. But he does has some talent in a

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00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 1: j Green and Joe Mixon. So I think for me

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00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:43,439
Speaker 1: that's the most interesting. I think Philip Rivers also going

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00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 1: to indeed because while while he's done a new team,

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00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 1: he's playing in the same system because TRP White guys,

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00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 1: someone you guys know very well, that system was coached

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00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:56,040
Speaker 1: Vilip Rivers as the offensive coordinator when he was with

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00:58:56,120 --> 00:58:59,640
Speaker 1: the Charges brought that game system to Andy. Frank has

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00:58:59,680 --> 00:59:02,640
Speaker 1: done it good job since he's become the head coach

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00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 1: of that football team, and they have argibly one of

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00:59:05,360 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 1: the best offensive line. So I think it's very interesting

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00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 1: to see if Philip Rivers still has he gone to

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00:59:11,080 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 1: take a team far deep into the playoffs considering he's

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00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:17,840
Speaker 1: going to be well protected by that offensive block. Yeah.

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00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:19,440
Speaker 1: I think one of the great stories saw him in

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00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:21,560
Speaker 1: about this season is going to be watching Joe Burrow.

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00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 1: And we've heard other quarterbacks that came through the Boomeris

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00:59:24,240 --> 00:59:26,720
Speaker 1: size and has always had tongue in cheek attitude towards

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00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals and Carson Palmer has not been shy

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00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:36,600
Speaker 1: about throwing hot coals onto his relationship with the Cincinnati

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00:59:36,680 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 1: Bengals Zach Taylor, their head coach. He's going to go

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00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:41,360
Speaker 1: into his second year now he's got Joe Burrow. What

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00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:43,800
Speaker 1: kind of culture is he trying to instill and what

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Speaker 1: kind of success has do you anticipate him having and

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00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 1: what do you think he needs to be successful that

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00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:52,400
Speaker 1: hasn't been there in the past. Well, yeah, I think

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00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:56,960
Speaker 1: you know the accountability of just expecting players at big

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00:59:57,080 --> 01:00:00,360
Speaker 1: games and in big moments to not shoot them selves

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Speaker 1: in the ship right, to really pump through a team

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Speaker 1: that's poised. They've They've had some talented teams over the

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Speaker 1: last decade. They've gotten the playoffs five times in the

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Speaker 1: last ten years, and in many of those games they

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Speaker 1: fell flat. In many of those games, they beat themselves.

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Speaker 1: And so when you are one up star team, I

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Speaker 1: think the Bills are going to be entering this kind

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01:00:23,240 --> 01:00:26,520
Speaker 1: of territory, right saw him get to the playoffs last year,

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Speaker 1: get a lead and not be able to hold it.

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Speaker 1: When you're a young team and a young coach and

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Speaker 1: build the coachure, you've got to find a way to

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Speaker 1: overcome those two at first moments in the biggest games

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Speaker 1: where really it comes down and Steve you notice it

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01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:45,280
Speaker 1: comes down to those fifty three guys in that coaching step,

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Speaker 1: but just the people in that building believing we can

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Speaker 1: do this. You shouldn't have to have all these setbacks

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Speaker 1: and all these moments of failure after going through a

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Speaker 1: regular season of winning to take it on the team

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01:00:57,560 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 1: so many times, and then it hurts your confidence believe it.

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01:01:00,640 --> 01:01:02,880
Speaker 1: You could ever get over the hump. So, you know,

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01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 1: young coaches and young teams have to find a way

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01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:09,840
Speaker 1: to win thoroughly, to really begin to delete, to build

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Speaker 1: that culture of believability, believing in themselves when maybe no

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01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 1: one else does. And that's a huge speak, right, but

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Speaker 1: I think that's what Zach Taylor is facing, and that's

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Speaker 1: what the Bailers are facing because they do have talent,

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01:01:22,920 --> 01:01:25,040
Speaker 1: and now they have a real talent at Quartabat that

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01:01:25,120 --> 01:01:27,040
Speaker 1: they've got to begin to get him off to a

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01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:29,000
Speaker 1: good start so that he can grow the kind of

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01:01:29,040 --> 01:01:33,240
Speaker 1: career that many expect. But Solomon, how how do you?

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01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:38,080
Speaker 1: How do you cultivate that in an offseason that is

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01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 1: filled with nothing but uncertainty and a demonstrable lack of

1147
01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:48,440
Speaker 1: ability to set firm timelines and plans to kind of

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01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:51,520
Speaker 1: cultivate that even if even for a guy like Zach

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01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:54,840
Speaker 1: Taylor in year two, let alone for someone like a

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01:01:54,920 --> 01:01:57,920
Speaker 1: first year head coach like Joe Judge in Carolina or

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01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:00,240
Speaker 1: Matt or Matt Ruling Carolina or Joe Joe ug in

1152
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:03,280
Speaker 1: New York with the Giants, what might be the first

1153
01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:06,320
Speaker 1: thing you look for from them when we do get

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01:02:06,400 --> 01:02:09,480
Speaker 1: back to football. That might be a telltale sign as

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01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:13,160
Speaker 1: to whether they kind of have things going in the

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01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:16,800
Speaker 1: right direction early despite all the adversity that people in

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01:02:16,880 --> 01:02:20,280
Speaker 1: those positions are now facing with this offseason. I think

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01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:22,440
Speaker 1: you've got to find a way to manufacture wams. You

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01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 1: got to find a way of stale victories. Special teams

1160
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:29,320
Speaker 1: and Steve knows there's probably better than anyone. Special teams

1161
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:31,800
Speaker 1: is an animal. When you can you can come out

1162
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 1: and you can steal some games. You can block punt

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01:02:35,000 --> 01:02:39,560
Speaker 1: you can you can block kicks, you can return kicks

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Speaker 1: to set field position for a young quarterback. Defensively, to

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01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:48,080
Speaker 1: typically you go to training camp, the defense is allays

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Speaker 1: ahead of the offense, right because offense is very hard

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01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:54,960
Speaker 1: to got holding a glass and have the timing with

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01:02:55,160 --> 01:02:58,360
Speaker 1: all eleven guys doing the right thing. You know, one

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01:02:58,440 --> 01:03:00,959
Speaker 1: guy does something wrong on offense to play as a buff,

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01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:03,480
Speaker 1: one guy on defense maybe can break down and it

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01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:06,280
Speaker 1: won't really hurt. In defense tends to be ahead of

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Speaker 1: the offense in the early phase of building a team

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01:03:09,160 --> 01:03:11,640
Speaker 1: and putting a team together. When it comes to going

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01:03:11,680 --> 01:03:14,760
Speaker 1: out and playing with great efficiency, I think you's got

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Speaker 1: to be able to give your players a plan that

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01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:19,880
Speaker 1: you can execute you shouldn't maybe try it if you

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01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:22,560
Speaker 1: got a young quarterback, So maybe you don't try to

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01:03:22,640 --> 01:03:26,400
Speaker 1: see horn everything again. Maybe you figure here's five to

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01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:29,200
Speaker 1: ten things that we can do very well. We're gonna

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01:03:29,280 --> 01:03:31,959
Speaker 1: lean on our veteran players to get those things done,

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01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:36,040
Speaker 1: and then you expect high level of execution with veteran

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01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:40,160
Speaker 1: players with a plan that's clear and definable, Wyant. That's

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Speaker 1: how you got to be able to do it. From that,

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01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:45,200
Speaker 1: you can build a great deal of confidence in your operation.

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01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:48,960
Speaker 1: So now listen, there's some coaches out there that better

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01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:51,440
Speaker 1: mind as high doing and so they've got to be

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Speaker 1: able to figure it out during some maybe ab normal times.

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01:03:56,960 --> 01:03:59,200
Speaker 1: We're a Solomon will Cost play safety in the NFL

1189
01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:02,280
Speaker 1: for six seasons as a Pro Football Focus NFL Analysts

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01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:04,840
Speaker 1: also hosts Serious x M NFL Radio. Was a former

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01:04:04,920 --> 01:04:07,560
Speaker 1: colleague of mine at CBS Sports A Song. We've talked

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01:04:07,600 --> 01:04:10,200
Speaker 1: a lot about the young quarterbacks and these teams are

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01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:12,120
Speaker 1: going to try and get them get their feet under them.

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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about a guy who's had

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Speaker 1: a pretty good year last year, maybe well his best

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Speaker 1: season as a pro Dak Prescott. How do you think

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Speaker 1: that's gonna play out in Dallas. Certainly, Dak has been

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Speaker 1: reported to like being asked he's asking for north of

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Speaker 1: forty minute. Wait, let me just say it with a

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Speaker 1: straight face. Forty million dollars north of forty million for

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01:04:32,720 --> 01:04:35,080
Speaker 1: a you know, full for a five year deal. I mean,

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Speaker 1: is Dallas gonna come across with that? I mean, how

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01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:39,680
Speaker 1: do you think this is gonna play out? Will Dak

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01:04:39,720 --> 01:04:43,840
Speaker 1: him his time? I mean, what's gonna happen? Well, here's

1205
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:46,960
Speaker 1: a deal. Cowboys should have probably got this deal done

1206
01:04:47,080 --> 01:04:51,040
Speaker 1: last year. Carson Wins and Jared Goff did that deal right,

1207
01:04:51,760 --> 01:04:55,560
Speaker 1: and at that time the agents were asking right around

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01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:58,200
Speaker 1: the same about thirty million a year. Dallas said, you

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01:04:58,280 --> 01:05:00,680
Speaker 1: gotta go out and prove it. Dad went out and

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01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 1: proved it. Now almost five thousand yards of passing. He

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01:05:03,360 --> 01:05:08,280
Speaker 1: had a phenomenal season, and now the price just goes up. Right,

1212
01:05:08,520 --> 01:05:12,760
Speaker 1: salary cap goes up, the market goes up, and now

1213
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:16,720
Speaker 1: they wish they could happen for thirty million. They really could. Yeah,

1214
01:05:16,920 --> 01:05:21,760
Speaker 1: So I think forty is totally north of twenty percent

1215
01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:25,960
Speaker 1: of the salary cap. It's been proven any quarterback making

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01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:29,280
Speaker 1: over eighteen percent that cap has not had a team

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01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 1: good enough around him to go out and win a

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl. If they do pay them that contract, they're

1219
01:05:34,920 --> 01:05:36,919
Speaker 1: gonna end up cutting a lot of guys this time

1220
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Speaker 1: next year. So I think they've got to come somewhere

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Speaker 1: in between thirty five and forty. If I'm a family

1222
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:45,800
Speaker 1: member of that prescott, I'm gonna take him, sit him

1223
01:05:45,840 --> 01:05:49,200
Speaker 1: down and say, listen, you're gonna get enough money to

1224
01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:51,360
Speaker 1: be well taken care for the rest of your life,

1225
01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:53,919
Speaker 1: which was a goal when you began playing the game.

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Speaker 1: You're you're the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys. Even if

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Speaker 1: they pay you, say, two million dollars less than what

1228
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:03,200
Speaker 1: you're asking, don't you think you can make that up

1229
01:06:03,240 --> 01:06:06,920
Speaker 1: in endorsements as a quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys and

1230
01:06:07,360 --> 01:06:09,680
Speaker 1: you're trying to work with one of the best coaches,

1231
01:06:10,160 --> 01:06:12,680
Speaker 1: and Mike McCarthy has been known to move the needle

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01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:16,240
Speaker 1: in a positive direction and quarterback development. So let's not

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Speaker 1: stop the train. Let's keep this thing going, and let's

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01:06:20,240 --> 01:06:23,480
Speaker 1: figure out a number that you are comfortable with but

1235
01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:26,080
Speaker 1: still allows them to build a really good team around

1236
01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:28,240
Speaker 1: you know these quarterbacks, Aaron Rodgers, you know what I'm

1237
01:06:28,280 --> 01:06:31,000
Speaker 1: saying that, Hey, I need help. I need players around me.

1238
01:06:31,360 --> 01:06:34,320
Speaker 1: None of them talk about needing help when they're signing

1239
01:06:34,600 --> 01:06:38,080
Speaker 1: and negotiating a contract and taking alliance share the salad cap,

1240
01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:40,080
Speaker 1: and then when teams don't have the money to get

1241
01:06:40,120 --> 01:06:43,200
Speaker 1: them help, then they're acting like it's the team's fault.

1242
01:06:43,280 --> 01:06:46,240
Speaker 1: So I think the player have to at least strike

1243
01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:50,240
Speaker 1: some kind of balance and really go back to a

1244
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:52,440
Speaker 1: simpler time when they really had the love for the

1245
01:06:52,560 --> 01:06:55,440
Speaker 1: game and say, hey, would you ever thought that you

1246
01:06:55,480 --> 01:06:57,960
Speaker 1: would turn down thirty seven million a year, even though

1247
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:00,919
Speaker 1: it's three million dollars a year eye of what you want?

1248
01:07:00,960 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 1: It probably would have said no, I'm gonna go ahead

1249
01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:07,520
Speaker 1: and move forward. I think calmer heads should prevail in

1250
01:07:07,640 --> 01:07:12,120
Speaker 1: the dat Prescott's camp. But Solomon, how much do you

1251
01:07:12,360 --> 01:07:20,600
Speaker 1: feel this offseason and the forecasted lack of revenue, whether

1252
01:07:20,680 --> 01:07:24,160
Speaker 1: it's coming from lack of fans in the stands and

1253
01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:29,800
Speaker 1: the future salary cap probably taking a hit in twenty

1254
01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:32,560
Speaker 1: twenty one, how much of that is a factor. Do

1255
01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:34,920
Speaker 1: you think in the budgeting that Dallas is trying to

1256
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:39,120
Speaker 1: do with respect to Prescott's contract. No, I think initially

1257
01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:41,560
Speaker 1: it had nothing to do with it. I think in

1258
01:07:41,760 --> 01:07:46,960
Speaker 1: recent weeks, right it has to because if as any

1259
01:07:47,040 --> 01:07:50,840
Speaker 1: company would have to do projection and try to figure out, Okay,

1260
01:07:50,840 --> 01:07:52,560
Speaker 1: if we're not going to have fans in the stands,

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01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:55,560
Speaker 1: what does that look like to us economically? And we

1262
01:07:55,720 --> 01:07:59,000
Speaker 1: are headed in too, you know, with COVID nineteen, yers

1263
01:07:59,040 --> 01:08:03,120
Speaker 1: are headed and we are currently, I think um facing

1264
01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:06,920
Speaker 1: some economic uncertainties. And for the first time in the

1265
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:09,760
Speaker 1: history of our league, since we've had a salary cap

1266
01:08:09,880 --> 01:08:12,800
Speaker 1: going back to the mid nineties, every single year it's

1267
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:15,280
Speaker 1: gone up, and I think this could be one year

1268
01:08:15,680 --> 01:08:18,040
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one we could do that number come down.

1269
01:08:18,120 --> 01:08:22,120
Speaker 1: Because it's all based on revenue streams, right, and so

1270
01:08:22,320 --> 01:08:26,519
Speaker 1: if your forecast is projecting that number is going to decline,

1271
01:08:27,080 --> 01:08:30,160
Speaker 1: then the cap number is going to decline. That cap

1272
01:08:30,320 --> 01:08:32,960
Speaker 1: number is basically the number that you use the divide

1273
01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:37,360
Speaker 1: up that that budget amongst your players. So I think

1274
01:08:37,439 --> 01:08:39,240
Speaker 1: that if that number, streams are probably gonna have to

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Speaker 1: trim salary anyway, and so you're certainly not going to

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01:08:42,600 --> 01:08:46,040
Speaker 1: sign contracts projecting it out the future when you know

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01:08:46,200 --> 01:08:49,479
Speaker 1: that that CAT number could dimind it it could be diminished,

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01:08:49,520 --> 01:08:51,560
Speaker 1: you could decline, and that could put teams in a

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01:08:51,800 --> 01:08:56,320
Speaker 1: very difficult position or with Solomon willcast alm Ice got

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01:08:56,360 --> 01:08:59,519
Speaker 1: one last thing to ask you about last preseason. I

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01:08:59,560 --> 01:09:02,080
Speaker 1: think we were with the Bills down practicing against the

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01:09:02,160 --> 01:09:05,599
Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers, and during the week we were camped out

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01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:07,720
Speaker 1: at our hotel and we had a guest on that

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01:09:08,040 --> 01:09:11,599
Speaker 1: you know really well, and uh we had Sam Weishan.

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01:09:11,720 --> 01:09:14,720
Speaker 1: He came down, drove this, drove the distance to come

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01:09:14,760 --> 01:09:16,200
Speaker 1: down be on our show with us. He had a

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01:09:16,240 --> 01:09:18,800
Speaker 1: doctor's appointment, and of course, because we know Sam has

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01:09:18,880 --> 01:09:20,920
Speaker 1: since passed away, do you have any thoughts about what

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01:09:21,000 --> 01:09:23,800
Speaker 1: it was like to play for Sam wish a guy

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01:09:23,880 --> 01:09:27,880
Speaker 1: who really built a long and really productive career, was

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01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:30,080
Speaker 1: coach of the Year in nineteen eighty eight in the NFL.

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01:09:31,280 --> 01:09:35,360
Speaker 1: Do you have any thoughts on Sam? He was I'm

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01:09:35,439 --> 01:09:38,080
Speaker 1: telling you allowed of fun to play for. He really was,

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01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:40,680
Speaker 1: And yeah I can remember. I mean an eight and

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01:09:40,800 --> 01:09:43,919
Speaker 1: round pick University of Colorado. They have drafted four defensive

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01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:47,000
Speaker 1: backs that year and I was the fourth of the four.

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01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:50,599
Speaker 1: And you know, I was never coming to rookie camp.

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01:09:51,280 --> 01:09:53,519
Speaker 1: We had a practice and then I'm heading back to campus,

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01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:56,200
Speaker 1: back the University of Colorado. He pulled me in his

1300
01:09:56,320 --> 01:09:59,240
Speaker 1: offers he says, hey, you know, you're a better football

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01:09:59,280 --> 01:10:02,360
Speaker 1: player than any of the scott Like what you do.

1302
01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, You're gonna have every chance to

1303
01:10:04,960 --> 01:10:08,439
Speaker 1: make this team. That's all any rookie could ever hope for. Now.

1304
01:10:08,720 --> 01:10:12,360
Speaker 1: You know, when you're you know you're not a high

1305
01:10:12,439 --> 01:10:16,360
Speaker 1: draft pick and you're coach. After a few days of

1306
01:10:16,520 --> 01:10:19,800
Speaker 1: practice and two days and ziy Camp, he pulls it

1307
01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:22,120
Speaker 1: to the side and to have that conversation, it just

1308
01:10:22,280 --> 01:10:25,800
Speaker 1: blows tremendous wind in your sale. And when you think

1309
01:10:25,840 --> 01:10:30,439
Speaker 1: about what coaches are, they're teachers, right, any teacher fact

1310
01:10:30,479 --> 01:10:34,400
Speaker 1: can motivate and energize a pupil and a player in

1311
01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:37,920
Speaker 1: this case, to give them a sense of a believability.

1312
01:10:38,280 --> 01:10:40,160
Speaker 1: That Cramp did that with everyone. I mean if you

1313
01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:42,880
Speaker 1: talked to Stamford Jennings, if he talked to any of

1314
01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:45,639
Speaker 1: the players, I mean he took he took a liking

1315
01:10:45,720 --> 01:10:48,719
Speaker 1: to players, and he had a way of communicating with players,

1316
01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:53,000
Speaker 1: and it just made planes to fall fun. You know,

1317
01:10:53,080 --> 01:10:55,120
Speaker 1: it was work and he could be tough on you. Now.

1318
01:10:55,160 --> 01:10:58,400
Speaker 1: I remember him just blasting us. We had our secondary

1319
01:10:58,439 --> 01:11:01,080
Speaker 1: it's called a flat team. We go out to play

1320
01:11:01,120 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 1: the papers of six and Ozero and eighty eight, and

1321
01:11:03,360 --> 01:11:06,160
Speaker 1: we lose to him. We had these flatfool T shirts

1322
01:11:06,240 --> 01:11:09,600
Speaker 1: and sweatshirts and we had this poster and doing commercials,

1323
01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:13,080
Speaker 1: and he just ripped into us team. I don't want

1324
01:11:13,120 --> 01:11:15,360
Speaker 1: to see another T shirt. I don't want, you know,

1325
01:11:15,479 --> 01:11:19,679
Speaker 1: he David. And then we beat Seattle in the playoffs

1326
01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:21,920
Speaker 1: and we had a great game. And then he come

1327
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:25,160
Speaker 1: in and said, hey, guys, you know fucking to all

1328
01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:28,679
Speaker 1: the commercials. You want to all the autograph side and well,

1329
01:11:28,760 --> 01:11:31,800
Speaker 1: sees are these are the spoils of victory. This is

1330
01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:34,439
Speaker 1: what it's all about, you know. And so he could

1331
01:11:34,880 --> 01:11:37,120
Speaker 1: he could go from a guy who's showing you out

1332
01:11:37,200 --> 01:11:40,000
Speaker 1: one moment and then smoking in lemon is a nat right,

1333
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:43,519
Speaker 1: and you know he kept you on your toes. But

1334
01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:46,880
Speaker 1: he knew all the right moments and all the right

1335
01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:50,479
Speaker 1: time when to do that. And I just know that

1336
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:53,760
Speaker 1: I enjoyed playing for him after you know, getting getting

1337
01:11:53,840 --> 01:11:56,080
Speaker 1: chewed out every day in college, you know how college

1338
01:11:56,120 --> 01:11:59,000
Speaker 1: ball is. Ain't ride you man, and then coming to

1339
01:11:59,080 --> 01:12:02,519
Speaker 1: an NFL coach had a much easier way about him,

1340
01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:05,720
Speaker 1: still demanding, but had that great set of balance. That's

1341
01:12:05,720 --> 01:12:07,519
Speaker 1: what Sam brought to the table when he was very

1342
01:12:07,560 --> 01:12:10,599
Speaker 1: innovative too. I haven't even talk about that part because

1343
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:14,320
Speaker 1: he was highly innovative and very very smart, and we

1344
01:12:14,439 --> 01:12:17,120
Speaker 1: had a very smart team, and that's what I loved

1345
01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:21,040
Speaker 1: about Solomon. Thanks for coming on with us. Really appreciate

1346
01:12:21,040 --> 01:12:24,439
Speaker 1: its great talking to you anytime, Steve, You're the best man.

1347
01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:27,680
Speaker 1: Take care of yourself. Solomon Wilcox played safety in the

1348
01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:31,320
Speaker 1: National Football League for six seasons with Cincinnati, Minnesota, Pittsburgh

1349
01:12:31,360 --> 01:12:34,559
Speaker 1: Pro Football focused the NFL Analyst. He also hosts NFL

1350
01:12:34,880 --> 01:12:38,400
Speaker 1: sirius XM NFL Radio. He's a former colleague of mine

1351
01:12:38,439 --> 01:12:41,400
Speaker 1: when we worked together at CBS. Solomon a great guy

1352
01:12:41,520 --> 01:12:44,880
Speaker 1: and one of the guys that I occasionally would call

1353
01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:46,640
Speaker 1: and ask advice of. And you can tell he's a

1354
01:12:46,720 --> 01:12:50,640
Speaker 1: real well fought, real articular guy. I'd asked Solomon for

1355
01:12:50,680 --> 01:12:55,640
Speaker 1: advice occasionally. A analyst, it was fun guy to be with.

1356
01:12:56,400 --> 01:12:58,560
Speaker 1: I was gonna tease him because he was, you know,

1357
01:12:58,720 --> 01:13:01,559
Speaker 1: singing the praises of how the Bills built their defense

1358
01:13:01,640 --> 01:13:03,960
Speaker 1: and he said they were so smart and building it

1359
01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:06,200
Speaker 1: back to front there and I'm just like, oh boys,

1360
01:13:06,200 --> 01:13:10,880
Speaker 1: spoken like a true safety here in the former safety

1361
01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:14,280
Speaker 1: so do it all right, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, We're

1362
01:13:14,360 --> 01:13:16,040
Speaker 1: one Bills Live. We're gonna come back at the bottom

1363
01:13:16,040 --> 01:13:17,759
Speaker 1: of the hour. We've got this thing. We're gonna tries.

1364
01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:20,160
Speaker 1: Am I gonna get this right? Brownie? It's Tasker's teammate.

1365
01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:24,200
Speaker 1: That's right, Yes, all right, you're gonna first version this

1366
01:13:24,360 --> 01:13:27,720
Speaker 1: is we're challenging Steve and we'll get into it more

1367
01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:29,920
Speaker 1: on the other side here. But we are challenging Steve

1368
01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:33,880
Speaker 1: in his illustrious career. He has had hundreds of teammates.

1369
01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:37,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna see how well he can move himself and

1370
01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:40,000
Speaker 1: his brain through the rolodecks of teammates in his career

1371
01:13:40,360 --> 01:13:43,120
Speaker 1: when we come back. All right, that and more coming

1372
01:13:43,240 --> 01:13:45,320
Speaker 1: up after the bottom of the hour. Steve Tasker, Chris Brown,

1373
01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:54,960
Speaker 1: One Bills Live, and this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome

1374
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:57,560
Speaker 1: back to one Bills Live, First Bounds and Tasker with

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01:13:57,680 --> 01:14:02,080
Speaker 1: you on a rainy Thursday here in Buffalo. And as

1376
01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:04,360
Speaker 1: we begin the bottom half of the hour here and

1377
01:14:04,439 --> 01:14:08,280
Speaker 1: hour number two, we are still taking your Twitter comments

1378
01:14:08,360 --> 01:14:10,719
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet at one Bills Live on Twitter.

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01:14:11,520 --> 01:14:14,400
Speaker 1: For who besides Josh Allen is the offensive player with

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01:14:14,479 --> 01:14:16,920
Speaker 1: the most approved for the Bills in twenty twenty. Some

1381
01:14:17,080 --> 01:14:19,840
Speaker 1: of the choices deon Dawkins to find Digs, Dawson, Knox

1382
01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:23,080
Speaker 1: or some other player of your choosing, So way in

1383
01:14:23,200 --> 01:14:24,960
Speaker 1: on the poll there and feel free to call us

1384
01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:27,559
Speaker 1: at eight three fifty one eight eight eight five fifty

1385
01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:30,360
Speaker 1: two five fifty, especially if you have somebody else in mind.

1386
01:14:30,800 --> 01:14:34,599
Speaker 1: We've had a couple of entries for Cody Ford over

1387
01:14:34,680 --> 01:14:37,519
Speaker 1: at the right tackle position for next season. That's been

1388
01:14:37,520 --> 01:14:40,720
Speaker 1: a popular choice on the tweet sheet. But before we

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01:14:40,800 --> 01:14:43,840
Speaker 1: get back to that topic at hand, we have the

1390
01:14:44,080 --> 01:14:48,800
Speaker 1: debut of a new segment and this is going to

1391
01:14:48,920 --> 01:14:52,280
Speaker 1: put one Steve Tasker somewhat on the spot. But it's

1392
01:14:52,320 --> 01:14:57,519
Speaker 1: a new edition called Tasker's Teammate. Steve Tasker played fourteen

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01:14:58,160 --> 01:15:02,599
Speaker 1: total years the NFL thirteen okay, thirteen years in the NFL.

1394
01:15:03,160 --> 01:15:07,680
Speaker 1: Had hundreds of teammates over that spam, and it is

1395
01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:12,920
Speaker 1: now Steve's job to try to guess which of those

1396
01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:16,800
Speaker 1: hundreds of teammates I am describing in the clues I

1397
01:15:16,880 --> 01:15:19,960
Speaker 1: am about to provide Steve with. So, Steve, are you ready?

1398
01:15:21,120 --> 01:15:24,200
Speaker 1: Does this conclude? Training camp? Rosters and stuff now are

1399
01:15:24,280 --> 01:15:27,200
Speaker 1: just here? No, it doesn't No, we're talking regular season

1400
01:15:27,439 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 1: roster teammates over the course of your career, and the

1401
01:15:32,120 --> 01:15:35,080
Speaker 1: clues might be somewhat vague at the beginning, but they

1402
01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:37,680
Speaker 1: will get more specific as we go. And you have

1403
01:15:37,840 --> 01:15:40,599
Speaker 1: a limited number of guesses. A. Right, Well, that's good

1404
01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:42,639
Speaker 1: because I don't want to make light of a serious subject.

1405
01:15:42,720 --> 01:15:45,200
Speaker 1: But you know, I've had concussions, so I can't right,

1406
01:15:45,479 --> 01:15:47,519
Speaker 1: So I can't remember what I had for breakfast three

1407
01:15:47,600 --> 01:15:49,760
Speaker 1: hours ago, So right, the Rolodex may not make it

1408
01:15:49,800 --> 01:15:52,120
Speaker 1: all the way back to V or W or something

1409
01:15:52,200 --> 01:15:56,519
Speaker 1: like that. Corey Lucci and all those guys, So all right,

1410
01:15:56,560 --> 01:16:03,000
Speaker 1: So clue number one. Steve I was a teammate casters

1411
01:16:03,040 --> 01:16:06,400
Speaker 1: for a total of two NFL seasons in Buffalo. I

1412
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:10,320
Speaker 1: played in all thirty two games those two seasons, making

1413
01:16:10,560 --> 01:16:16,799
Speaker 1: eighteen starts. So a guy that was only a teammate

1414
01:16:16,840 --> 01:16:21,840
Speaker 1: of yours for a short period of time, Steve two years, yes,

1415
01:16:24,439 --> 01:16:28,040
Speaker 1: but only started eighteen. I started half of them. I'm

1416
01:16:28,040 --> 01:16:35,120
Speaker 1: gonna say, Mickey Washington, Mickey Washington, Okay, So on to

1417
01:16:35,320 --> 01:16:40,400
Speaker 1: clue number two. Like Steve, I also played my college

1418
01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:44,240
Speaker 1: ball in the Big Ten Conference. I earned First team

1419
01:16:44,720 --> 01:16:48,840
Speaker 1: All Big Ten Conference honors my senior year before I

1420
01:16:49,000 --> 01:16:53,439
Speaker 1: became a third round draft choice. But that doesn't mean

1421
01:16:53,479 --> 01:16:55,360
Speaker 1: he was a third round draft pick for the Bills. Right,

1422
01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:59,680
Speaker 1: that's correct. Okay, I'm a season and I'll help you.

1423
01:17:00,120 --> 01:17:03,000
Speaker 1: He wasn't a third round draft pick of the Bills, right,

1424
01:17:03,479 --> 01:17:11,920
Speaker 1: Uh from Iowa? Right you said, I said he also

1425
01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:15,439
Speaker 1: played his college ball in the Big Ten Conference, the

1426
01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:18,479
Speaker 1: first team All Big Ten Conference honors. Iowa is a

1427
01:17:18,600 --> 01:17:20,640
Speaker 1: team in the Big Ten Conference. I thought, I was

1428
01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:32,719
Speaker 1: thinking my mind exactly. Okay, bu no, uh m hmmm,

1429
01:17:34,520 --> 01:17:37,640
Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll move on Clue three. Do we

1430
01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:39,479
Speaker 1: have our game show music playing? I can't hear it.

1431
01:17:39,479 --> 01:17:41,600
Speaker 1: If we do, it is playing, Okay, I don't know

1432
01:17:41,640 --> 01:17:44,920
Speaker 1: if it is. I played for two other NFL clubs

1433
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:48,960
Speaker 1: before joining Steve on Buffalo's roster. The first team I

1434
01:17:49,080 --> 01:17:52,280
Speaker 1: played for was also in the AFC, and the second

1435
01:17:52,840 --> 01:17:57,000
Speaker 1: was in the NFC. So that's before coming to Buffalo.

1436
01:17:57,439 --> 01:18:01,479
Speaker 1: Corbin Lisina, it was not corp Been Lissena. Although that's

1437
01:18:01,680 --> 01:18:04,679
Speaker 1: that's a good guess. So so at this point, Steve,

1438
01:18:04,920 --> 01:18:07,720
Speaker 1: you've got it narrow down because you know it's a

1439
01:18:07,760 --> 01:18:10,400
Speaker 1: guy that only played with you for two seasons, right,

1440
01:18:10,600 --> 01:18:12,760
Speaker 1: third round draft picked by somebody else. He came out

1441
01:18:12,800 --> 01:18:16,439
Speaker 1: of the Big ten, right, and he played for two

1442
01:18:16,520 --> 01:18:21,559
Speaker 1: other teams before playing with you. Okay, so that Wayne

1443
01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:30,160
Speaker 1: Wayne Champagne Wayne, what's Wayne? Lastnaysh from Wayne. It's not Wayne. Okay,

1444
01:18:30,200 --> 01:18:33,320
Speaker 1: so we'll go to clue four. In addition to football,

1445
01:18:34,320 --> 01:18:38,600
Speaker 1: I also practiced martial arts for years and after my

1446
01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:46,280
Speaker 1: football career, I taught martial arts to children. Wow, I

1447
01:18:46,360 --> 01:18:50,559
Speaker 1: should know that. That's that's pretty specific. You don't get

1448
01:18:50,600 --> 01:18:55,600
Speaker 1: yea martiall Larsen. I had a kid in college. It

1449
01:18:55,680 --> 01:18:58,960
Speaker 1: was a black belt, a front buddy of mine. Yeah. Um,

1450
01:19:02,360 --> 01:19:05,240
Speaker 1: Andre Tippetts a black belt. I never played with him. No,

1451
01:19:07,600 --> 01:19:09,439
Speaker 1: all right, so they move on to clear You gotta

1452
01:19:09,479 --> 01:19:14,479
Speaker 1: move on again. Number five. My jersey number was one

1453
01:19:14,560 --> 01:19:19,120
Speaker 1: away from Steve's number eighty nine. So it's one or

1454
01:19:19,160 --> 01:19:24,760
Speaker 1: two numbers. Butch Roll it is not butch Roll's way.

1455
01:19:24,920 --> 01:19:26,600
Speaker 1: He was here for a long time. Couldn't have been

1456
01:19:26,720 --> 01:19:29,599
Speaker 1: hitch Roll eighty eight. Pete couldn't been Pete Metzler. Oh,

1457
01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:33,800
Speaker 1: I know, I know who it is. Quinn Early. You

1458
01:19:34,320 --> 01:19:38,200
Speaker 1: got its skate, well done. Quinn Early is the correct

1459
01:19:38,360 --> 01:19:43,080
Speaker 1: answer where number eighty eight Yes, played his college football

1460
01:19:43,120 --> 01:19:46,200
Speaker 1: at Iowa, where he was first team All Big Ten

1461
01:19:46,360 --> 01:19:50,280
Speaker 1: Conference as a senior third round draft pick of the Chargers.

1462
01:19:51,040 --> 01:19:55,479
Speaker 1: So he played for the Chargers and then the Saints. Right, Um, Quinn,

1463
01:19:57,479 --> 01:19:59,880
Speaker 1: Yeah ninety five. I believe he came here in ninety

1464
01:20:02,600 --> 01:20:06,519
Speaker 1: But you left, great guy. Quinn was a great dude, great,

1465
01:20:06,800 --> 01:20:10,200
Speaker 1: really good player. You know. I remember about Quinn as well. Um,

1466
01:20:11,920 --> 01:20:14,240
Speaker 1: not for another like ten years after we finished. Jim

1467
01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:16,519
Speaker 1: has this flag football thing up. But you be with

1468
01:20:16,640 --> 01:20:18,840
Speaker 1: Dan Marino and a bunch of all stars, remember that

1469
01:20:19,479 --> 01:20:21,840
Speaker 1: Quinn Early comes back and Quinn was like twenty five.

1470
01:20:22,400 --> 01:20:24,840
Speaker 1: He'd done into a time machine. All of us were

1471
01:20:24,880 --> 01:20:26,920
Speaker 1: out there limping, right, you know, we're all decrepit and

1472
01:20:27,080 --> 01:20:29,400
Speaker 1: kind of just you know, having fun with it. Quinn

1473
01:20:29,439 --> 01:20:34,160
Speaker 1: Early comes back and he looks like a like And yeah,

1474
01:20:34,200 --> 01:20:38,880
Speaker 1: he looks like a third round draft pick. He was great.

1475
01:20:39,400 --> 01:20:42,040
Speaker 1: So that's what I remember about him. He aged very well. Yeah,

1476
01:20:42,320 --> 01:20:46,760
Speaker 1: and when Jersey numbers are almost always a dead giveaway. Yeah.

1477
01:20:46,760 --> 01:20:48,360
Speaker 1: But yeah, so when I got that, I knew it

1478
01:20:48,400 --> 01:20:50,479
Speaker 1: wasn't Phil. The only ninety I could think of was

1479
01:20:50,560 --> 01:20:53,519
Speaker 1: Phil Hanson. He didn't fit the bill. Quinn Early was

1480
01:20:53,560 --> 01:20:55,760
Speaker 1: the guy. Yeah, that's it, yea. So he had two

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01:20:55,960 --> 01:20:59,559
Speaker 1: fifty catch seasons for the Bills, nine touchdowns in those

1482
01:20:59,560 --> 01:21:03,280
Speaker 1: two years he played with you, and then he was

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01:21:03,600 --> 01:21:05,360
Speaker 1: when the Bill signed him, he was coming off the

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01:21:05,439 --> 01:21:08,200
Speaker 1: best year of his career because in ninety five with

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01:21:08,320 --> 01:21:11,200
Speaker 1: the Saints eighty one for one thousand and eighty seven

1486
01:21:11,280 --> 01:21:13,439
Speaker 1: yards and eight touchdowns was the only thousand yards season

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01:21:13,479 --> 01:21:15,880
Speaker 1: of his career. And then Steve, I don't know if

1488
01:21:15,880 --> 01:21:19,040
Speaker 1: you know this. After he was done playing, he spent

1489
01:21:19,240 --> 01:21:23,320
Speaker 1: time as a Hollywood stunt man. Did you know that? Really?

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01:21:23,920 --> 01:21:27,439
Speaker 1: For who? I don't know. He was doing some motion pictures.

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01:21:27,479 --> 01:21:29,600
Speaker 1: I guess. I don't know if they were Like he

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01:21:29,760 --> 01:21:31,920
Speaker 1: was fit. I told you he was fit. Well, yeah,

1493
01:21:31,920 --> 01:21:33,400
Speaker 1: and he was doing the martial arts, so I guess

1494
01:21:33,400 --> 01:21:35,840
Speaker 1: he could flip around and do stuff, right, he could

1495
01:21:35,840 --> 01:21:38,680
Speaker 1: probably do some fight scenes and stuff. Yeah, now here

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01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:41,519
Speaker 1: here's the one. Here's the one other interesting fact about

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01:21:41,600 --> 01:21:43,880
Speaker 1: Quinn Early. He's a Long Island native and he went

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01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:47,720
Speaker 1: to the same high school as me. Really, yes, now

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01:21:47,840 --> 01:21:51,120
Speaker 1: he's old working now and went he went to Iowa,

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01:21:51,320 --> 01:21:53,320
Speaker 1: So I get out Long Island going on to Iowa.

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01:21:53,439 --> 01:21:56,840
Speaker 1: So yeah, okay, and he was. He was my contemporary

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01:21:56,840 --> 01:21:59,160
Speaker 1: a little later than me, right, I mean he played

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01:21:59,200 --> 01:22:00,720
Speaker 1: how many years did he played? Do you know that

1504
01:22:01,320 --> 01:22:04,720
Speaker 1: played eleven or twelve seasons? Yeah, he was. He was

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01:22:04,840 --> 01:22:08,360
Speaker 1: probably coming into Iowa just as I was leaving, or

1506
01:22:08,479 --> 01:22:10,920
Speaker 1: maybe he came in a couple of years after I left.

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01:22:11,120 --> 01:22:14,240
Speaker 1: Senior year at Iowa was eighty seven. Oh, yeah, he

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01:22:14,360 --> 01:22:16,840
Speaker 1: was there. I was. My senior year was eighty the

1509
01:22:16,960 --> 01:22:19,240
Speaker 1: last the season of the fall of eighty four. And

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01:22:19,800 --> 01:22:21,679
Speaker 1: he could run. Man. He was on the track team

1511
01:22:21,680 --> 01:22:24,000
Speaker 1: at Iowa two. He was like a four or three guy,

1512
01:22:24,560 --> 01:22:27,479
Speaker 1: you know in college. So yeah, he could really fly.

1513
01:22:27,880 --> 01:22:31,879
Speaker 1: Quick story about him from high school because I remember

1514
01:22:32,200 --> 01:22:34,160
Speaker 1: watching him as a middle school kid, just sitting in

1515
01:22:34,240 --> 01:22:38,479
Speaker 1: the stands. So he was obviously the whole team. The

1516
01:22:38,560 --> 01:22:40,719
Speaker 1: team at my high school was not very good at football.

1517
01:22:41,800 --> 01:22:44,160
Speaker 1: We were more of it with fun physical specimens like

1518
01:22:44,280 --> 01:22:46,439
Speaker 1: yourself to choose for. How could that be? We were

1519
01:22:46,479 --> 01:22:51,400
Speaker 1: more of a track school, soccer school, debate team kind

1520
01:22:51,439 --> 01:22:54,120
Speaker 1: of school. Well maybe a little bit, but in any

1521
01:22:54,160 --> 01:22:56,000
Speaker 1: of that. So he was the whole football team. So

1522
01:22:56,080 --> 01:22:59,559
Speaker 1: they have him back kick return, So they kick him

1523
01:22:59,600 --> 01:23:02,559
Speaker 1: the ball and he takes it back like ninety eight

1524
01:23:02,680 --> 01:23:07,160
Speaker 1: yards for a touchdown, but there's a flag, so they

1525
01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:11,720
Speaker 1: call it back. Okay, so they kick it to him

1526
01:23:11,760 --> 01:23:15,479
Speaker 1: again and he takes it back again like ninety six

1527
01:23:15,600 --> 01:23:18,599
Speaker 1: yards or something. High level coaching strategy. Oh my god,

1528
01:23:18,680 --> 01:23:20,880
Speaker 1: yeah it was. I'll never forget it though. He was.

1529
01:23:21,320 --> 01:23:23,120
Speaker 1: He was a man amongst boys in high school, and

1530
01:23:23,280 --> 01:23:26,360
Speaker 1: it's even pretty good in college. But yeah, So that's

1531
01:23:26,400 --> 01:23:29,200
Speaker 1: the first edition of Tasker's Teammate. We'll have another edition

1532
01:23:29,280 --> 01:23:30,880
Speaker 1: the next time I'm on in a couple of weeks,

1533
01:23:31,200 --> 01:23:33,800
Speaker 1: because I think this could be fun and if if

1534
01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:35,559
Speaker 1: we if we get to a point, maybe we can

1535
01:23:35,600 --> 01:23:37,479
Speaker 1: even include a caller to kind of compete with you,

1536
01:23:37,560 --> 01:23:39,600
Speaker 1: to see if they can name your teammate before you do.

1537
01:23:40,160 --> 01:23:46,559
Speaker 1: Oh that we can't do that, because that might work. Yeah, happened, Quinner.

1538
01:23:46,600 --> 01:23:48,800
Speaker 1: I got. I'm glad I got Quinn though. That's good. Yeah.

1539
01:23:48,960 --> 01:23:51,960
Speaker 1: I figured I'd start you off with a relatively easy one,

1540
01:23:52,040 --> 01:23:55,200
Speaker 1: someone in your position group and right and go that way.

1541
01:23:55,240 --> 01:23:58,080
Speaker 1: It didn't want to make it completely impossible, and you know,

1542
01:23:58,400 --> 01:24:00,519
Speaker 1: you said, Corey Lucci. I was like, oh my god,

1543
01:24:00,520 --> 01:24:02,760
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not going that far. Well, here's the

1544
01:24:02,840 --> 01:24:04,920
Speaker 1: thing I don't know. Was a friend of mine? Love

1545
01:24:05,000 --> 01:24:07,639
Speaker 1: the guy? It was Greg Corbyn Lacina. The guy guy

1546
01:24:07,680 --> 01:24:09,559
Speaker 1: said the same thing. But I couldn't tell you where

1547
01:24:09,600 --> 01:24:11,800
Speaker 1: they went to college or where they were a draft

1548
01:24:11,880 --> 01:24:14,320
Speaker 1: pick or a rookie for I could not talk. I

1549
01:24:14,400 --> 01:24:17,639
Speaker 1: couldn't say anything about where they're I don't know why

1550
01:24:17,840 --> 01:24:20,559
Speaker 1: I know this. And this is what drives my wife

1551
01:24:20,640 --> 01:24:23,000
Speaker 1: nuts because this is the stuff I remember, and then

1552
01:24:23,040 --> 01:24:25,880
Speaker 1: I can't remember to take out the garbage. Um, but

1553
01:24:26,160 --> 01:24:30,080
Speaker 1: Corbyn Lacina went to Augustana College. I don't know why

1554
01:24:30,200 --> 01:24:32,800
Speaker 1: that is in my head. Yeah, you're a goner. Yeah,

1555
01:24:33,400 --> 01:24:35,760
Speaker 1: but you're right though. That kind of stuff floats to

1556
01:24:35,800 --> 01:24:37,599
Speaker 1: the tops, like, oh yeah, I look at that right.

1557
01:24:37,840 --> 01:24:40,679
Speaker 1: It's yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I'm pretty

1558
01:24:40,680 --> 01:24:46,000
Speaker 1: good at trivial pursuit games. Well, let's take a break here, um,

1559
01:24:46,360 --> 01:24:49,599
Speaker 1: and we'll reset the tweet sheet because responses are coming

1560
01:24:49,640 --> 01:24:51,680
Speaker 1: in and we got to get to those on who

1561
01:24:51,840 --> 01:24:54,760
Speaker 1: you think has the most approved on the offensive side

1562
01:24:54,800 --> 01:24:56,840
Speaker 1: of the ball for the Bills in twenty twenty. Besides,

1563
01:24:57,040 --> 01:24:58,760
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, if you want to call and give us

1564
01:24:58,800 --> 01:25:00,800
Speaker 1: a suggestion as well, we're into that. At eight oh

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01:25:00,880 --> 01:25:04,600
Speaker 1: three five fifty Steve and I coming right back after this.

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01:25:05,120 --> 01:25:15,680
Speaker 1: It's One Bills Live on Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back

1567
01:25:15,680 --> 01:25:17,400
Speaker 1: to One of Bills Live Steve task along with Chris

1568
01:25:17,520 --> 01:25:21,160
Speaker 1: brown We just had our first ever rendition of Tasker's teammates, Chrissy.

1569
01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:25,960
Speaker 1: Chris Brownie gave me a bunch of clues about an

1570
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:28,880
Speaker 1: old teammate of mine up from my thirteen year career

1571
01:25:29,120 --> 01:25:31,640
Speaker 1: and didn't make it all that easy on me. But

1572
01:25:31,640 --> 01:25:33,920
Speaker 1: it turned out to be Quinn early good, good choice

1573
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:35,519
Speaker 1: there by the way you got it on the fifth

1574
01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:38,080
Speaker 1: clue there, that was good. All right, That's that's pretty

1575
01:25:38,120 --> 01:25:41,639
Speaker 1: good and well and maybe the top of the hour

1576
01:25:42,120 --> 01:25:44,840
Speaker 1: after this next break, will we can start taking some

1577
01:25:44,920 --> 01:25:47,120
Speaker 1: phone calls. We get back to our tweet sheet as well.

1578
01:25:48,200 --> 01:25:52,559
Speaker 1: We got ton of votes in people have been calling

1579
01:25:52,600 --> 01:25:56,519
Speaker 1: in who's which offensive player in the Bills roster has

1580
01:25:56,560 --> 01:25:59,040
Speaker 1: the most approven twenty twenty Aside from Josh Allen, who

1581
01:25:59,080 --> 01:26:01,840
Speaker 1: do you think it's gonna bet? Forty percent of you

1582
01:26:01,920 --> 01:26:05,360
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be Dawson Knox, thirty five percent say

1583
01:26:05,400 --> 01:26:07,760
Speaker 1: it's Steph Diggs, the wide receiver they sign, and of

1584
01:26:07,840 --> 01:26:12,360
Speaker 1: course seventeen percent say, Dion Dawkins, and then eight percent

1585
01:26:12,439 --> 01:26:14,559
Speaker 1: of you think somebody else has something that has more

1586
01:26:14,600 --> 01:26:16,760
Speaker 1: to prove than anybody else, And we've gotten a lot

1587
01:26:16,800 --> 01:26:19,200
Speaker 1: of votes for Cody Ford in that slot of other

1588
01:26:19,400 --> 01:26:21,600
Speaker 1: not that there isn't another name you could come up

1589
01:26:21,600 --> 01:26:23,120
Speaker 1: with as well. Give us a call if you want

1590
01:26:23,160 --> 01:26:25,240
Speaker 1: at the top of the hour. We may spend maybe

1591
01:26:25,240 --> 01:26:27,080
Speaker 1: a lot of time in the last in that half

1592
01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:29,400
Speaker 1: hour from two to two thirty just answering questions. You

1593
01:26:29,439 --> 01:26:31,280
Speaker 1: can call us at eight oh three oh five fifty

1594
01:26:31,680 --> 01:26:33,759
Speaker 1: or one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty

1595
01:26:33,760 --> 01:26:35,240
Speaker 1: if you want to talk about who you think has

1596
01:26:35,280 --> 01:26:37,040
Speaker 1: the most to prove or any of the other things

1597
01:26:37,080 --> 01:26:39,760
Speaker 1: we've spoken about. Solomon Wilcox joined us at the one

1598
01:26:39,800 --> 01:26:42,040
Speaker 1: o'clock hour and had a lot to say about why

1599
01:26:42,120 --> 01:26:44,400
Speaker 1: he has he's optimistic about the Buffalo Bills, about some

1600
01:26:44,479 --> 01:26:46,800
Speaker 1: of the young quarterbacks, and which teams should be really

1601
01:26:46,880 --> 01:26:51,160
Speaker 1: happy about their new quarterback, and some pretty interesting stuff

1602
01:26:51,200 --> 01:26:56,720
Speaker 1: from him. Brownie, I thought about, you know, we've talked

1603
01:26:56,720 --> 01:26:59,000
Speaker 1: about it a little bit, but man, oh man, there's

1604
01:26:59,080 --> 01:27:01,160
Speaker 1: quarterbacks every we're out there. You got a guy like

1605
01:27:01,280 --> 01:27:04,280
Speaker 1: Cam Newton, a former MVP who's coming on. You know,

1606
01:27:04,360 --> 01:27:06,960
Speaker 1: he albeit he's coming off shoulder surgery. Man, it's you know,

1607
01:27:07,840 --> 01:27:10,040
Speaker 1: it's the United States. You can get shoulder surgery in

1608
01:27:10,040 --> 01:27:12,559
Speaker 1: the United States. Didn't work. I just think I think

1609
01:27:12,560 --> 01:27:15,160
Speaker 1: he's gonna be healthy. Yeah. I think the troubling thing

1610
01:27:15,280 --> 01:27:18,599
Speaker 1: for him is not being in an environment right now

1611
01:27:18,680 --> 01:27:21,920
Speaker 1: where he can work out in front of you know,

1612
01:27:22,320 --> 01:27:25,800
Speaker 1: coaches or what have you and prove, hey, look, the

1613
01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:30,000
Speaker 1: shoulders fine. You know, I can throw a fifteen yard

1614
01:27:30,040 --> 01:27:32,599
Speaker 1: out from the far hash and it's not a problem.

1615
01:27:33,960 --> 01:27:36,719
Speaker 1: Because there were issues with that shoulder through the course

1616
01:27:36,760 --> 01:27:39,240
Speaker 1: of last season where he just couldn't chuck it downfield,

1617
01:27:39,280 --> 01:27:42,479
Speaker 1: and it got to a point where defensive coordinators noticed

1618
01:27:42,520 --> 01:27:46,400
Speaker 1: that on film and structured their game plan defensively around

1619
01:27:46,520 --> 01:27:50,920
Speaker 1: that because they were basically convinced after about six or

1620
01:27:51,040 --> 01:27:55,080
Speaker 1: seven games that he just couldn't do it. And then

1621
01:27:55,120 --> 01:27:58,280
Speaker 1: he had the foot on top of that, and you're thinking, well,

1622
01:27:58,400 --> 01:28:00,400
Speaker 1: with Cam Newton and what he is, if he doesn't

1623
01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:02,680
Speaker 1: have his mobility is even less of what he is.

1624
01:28:03,360 --> 01:28:06,479
Speaker 1: And so I think, yeah, the proof is in the

1625
01:28:06,520 --> 01:28:11,320
Speaker 1: pudding right now, and without being able to check the

1626
01:28:11,400 --> 01:28:14,160
Speaker 1: pudding out, so to speak. Yeah, I don't think anybody

1627
01:28:14,200 --> 01:28:16,280
Speaker 1: wants to take the risk right now. Yeah, that's right.

1628
01:28:16,320 --> 01:28:17,760
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of quarterbacks out there. You know,

1629
01:28:17,840 --> 01:28:20,080
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater just signed with Carolina and you know, so

1630
01:28:20,120 --> 01:28:22,400
Speaker 1: they had all these guys out there. Jamis Winston found

1631
01:28:22,400 --> 01:28:27,320
Speaker 1: a home, I guess, and it's Joe Flacco. So you've

1632
01:28:27,360 --> 01:28:29,599
Speaker 1: got had some guys kind of this glut of guys

1633
01:28:29,640 --> 01:28:32,000
Speaker 1: who had had some moments more than moments for some

1634
01:28:32,160 --> 01:28:34,600
Speaker 1: of them, uh in the NFL at quarterback, but they

1635
01:28:34,640 --> 01:28:36,439
Speaker 1: were out there. Cam Newton's the most notable one that's

1636
01:28:36,439 --> 01:28:38,400
Speaker 1: still kind of standing there without a chair to sit in.

1637
01:28:38,880 --> 01:28:41,280
Speaker 1: Both Solomon Wilcost shared with us his thoughts on why

1638
01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:44,519
Speaker 1: these teams with new quarterbacks like Indianapolis, like Tampa Bay

1639
01:28:45,160 --> 01:28:49,280
Speaker 1: uh and and something that's the Carolina Panthers, uh, the

1640
01:28:49,840 --> 01:28:51,840
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals. You know, you can go down the list

1641
01:28:52,360 --> 01:28:53,920
Speaker 1: why some of them should be really happy with what

1642
01:28:54,000 --> 01:28:56,080
Speaker 1: they gotten. Some of them maybe have some questions. But

1643
01:28:56,200 --> 01:28:58,280
Speaker 1: we talked about that. You can call in about that

1644
01:28:58,360 --> 01:29:00,320
Speaker 1: if you want to as well. Eight or three fifty

1645
01:29:01,720 --> 01:29:04,839
Speaker 1: fifty At the top of the hour, about two o'clock,

1646
01:29:04,920 --> 01:29:06,600
Speaker 1: we'll start taking calls and we're also going to go

1647
01:29:06,640 --> 01:29:08,120
Speaker 1: back to the tweet sheet and read some of the

1648
01:29:08,320 --> 01:29:12,519
Speaker 1: responses we've gotten from that as well. Anything we're missing Brownie.

1649
01:29:12,880 --> 01:29:16,240
Speaker 1: I'm just surprised with the feedback that we've gotten on

1650
01:29:16,360 --> 01:29:19,200
Speaker 1: Cody Ford. I thought he might be in the mix

1651
01:29:19,320 --> 01:29:21,640
Speaker 1: somewhat in that other category, and the tweet sheet has

1652
01:29:21,680 --> 01:29:24,760
Speaker 1: certainly indicated that he is. In the eyes of Bills fans.

1653
01:29:24,800 --> 01:29:27,600
Speaker 1: I thought he was an interesting choice in terms of

1654
01:29:27,680 --> 01:29:30,599
Speaker 1: proving things. I thought he had a decent rookie season.

1655
01:29:30,680 --> 01:29:33,280
Speaker 1: It wasn't perfect by any means, but you know, for

1656
01:29:33,360 --> 01:29:35,240
Speaker 1: a guy that had to play a pretty prominent role

1657
01:29:35,320 --> 01:29:38,040
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, you know, I think he performed

1658
01:29:38,240 --> 01:29:41,679
Speaker 1: pretty well all things considered. I don't think anybody's expecting

1659
01:29:41,720 --> 01:29:43,800
Speaker 1: a second round pick to have it mastered in year

1660
01:29:43,880 --> 01:29:47,839
Speaker 1: one by any stretch. I'm surprised there's not more support

1661
01:29:47,920 --> 01:29:53,519
Speaker 1: for Dion Dawkins, knowing he's in a contract year, you know,

1662
01:29:53,640 --> 01:29:57,519
Speaker 1: and is in line for that big second contract. Maybe

1663
01:29:57,560 --> 01:30:00,840
Speaker 1: they don't see it as having to prove he can

1664
01:30:00,920 --> 01:30:03,760
Speaker 1: play that position. Maybe it's more, hey, he's just got

1665
01:30:03,880 --> 01:30:05,439
Speaker 1: to be lights out this year if he wants to

1666
01:30:05,479 --> 01:30:07,519
Speaker 1: have a giant contract. So maybe it's not a proven

1667
01:30:07,600 --> 01:30:11,800
Speaker 1: situation so much as a play at your best situation. Yeah,

1668
01:30:12,000 --> 01:30:15,560
Speaker 1: I think that's it more than anything, And it's you know,

1669
01:30:15,680 --> 01:30:18,080
Speaker 1: what's he got to do? You know, give up zero

1670
01:30:18,160 --> 01:30:20,880
Speaker 1: sacks for the year? Lead a team that runs for

1671
01:30:21,360 --> 01:30:23,880
Speaker 1: you know, has you know, two thousand, three hundred yards

1672
01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:26,560
Speaker 1: rushing behind them? You know that kind of thing. I

1673
01:30:26,680 --> 01:30:29,800
Speaker 1: don't know. But for offensive linemen, I think for most people,

1674
01:30:29,920 --> 01:30:32,880
Speaker 1: the casual fans and some media members like us alike,

1675
01:30:33,360 --> 01:30:37,240
Speaker 1: it's hard to die. It's hard to evaluate how good

1676
01:30:37,280 --> 01:30:39,240
Speaker 1: those guys are unless you see the guy get flat

1677
01:30:39,240 --> 01:30:41,880
Speaker 1: out beat on a pass rush. Yeah, you don't know

1678
01:30:41,920 --> 01:30:43,640
Speaker 1: how he's performing in the run game, and you know

1679
01:30:43,760 --> 01:30:46,360
Speaker 1: he's and certainly none of these guys get bowled over

1680
01:30:46,520 --> 01:30:48,400
Speaker 1: like they can't play. But do they step to the

1681
01:30:48,520 --> 01:30:51,479
Speaker 1: right guy? Are they communicating well? Are they are they

1682
01:30:51,560 --> 01:30:54,639
Speaker 1: hitting there the marks during the week. There's so much

1683
01:30:54,680 --> 01:30:56,800
Speaker 1: that the coaches have to evaluate that we don't we

1684
01:30:56,880 --> 01:30:59,160
Speaker 1: aren't aware of. And Plus because it was a platoon

1685
01:30:59,280 --> 01:31:02,519
Speaker 1: situation last year with Ty and Secky, I think that

1686
01:31:02,760 --> 01:31:06,320
Speaker 1: gives fans reason to wonder, you know, hey, is this

1687
01:31:06,439 --> 01:31:09,080
Speaker 1: guy really the goods? He had to platoon with a

1688
01:31:09,120 --> 01:31:11,720
Speaker 1: guy last year? As a rookie, does he really have

1689
01:31:11,920 --> 01:31:13,720
Speaker 1: what it takes to be the full time starter? So

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Speaker 1: I think fans are openly wondering too, just based on

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01:31:16,520 --> 01:31:19,000
Speaker 1: how the playing time went last year. Yeah, we had

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01:31:19,200 --> 01:31:21,720
Speaker 1: when Solomon Wilcos was on at one o'clock. He we

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01:31:21,760 --> 01:31:23,519
Speaker 1: went down a list of some of these guys. You

1694
01:31:23,600 --> 01:31:25,280
Speaker 1: can go back and listen to that if you want one.

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01:31:25,320 --> 01:31:27,320
Speaker 1: Bills Live at Airs, you know, obviously from twelve to

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01:31:27,400 --> 01:31:29,400
Speaker 1: three on WGR where we are now. You can also

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01:31:29,479 --> 01:31:31,800
Speaker 1: stream the show live on the Buffalo Bills app. Have

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01:31:31,920 --> 01:31:34,160
Speaker 1: you ever done that, Brownie? Yeah, yeah, I've done it

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01:31:34,240 --> 01:31:36,800
Speaker 1: from time. Yeah. It works pretty good, doesn't Yeah. If

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01:31:36,800 --> 01:31:39,280
Speaker 1: I'm nowhere near my laptop and I can't pull it

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01:31:39,360 --> 01:31:41,880
Speaker 1: in there, yeah, if I'm driving around the car, I'll

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01:31:41,920 --> 01:31:44,040
Speaker 1: pop it on my phone. I'm glad that works. And

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01:31:44,320 --> 01:31:47,200
Speaker 1: we also you can do it as a podcast work.

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01:31:47,560 --> 01:31:54,800
Speaker 1: What's that? I've had the words said to me a

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01:31:54,960 --> 01:31:56,840
Speaker 1: lot in my life where the guy looks at he says,

1706
01:31:56,840 --> 01:31:58,880
Speaker 1: you know what I hate to say about his user error, right,

1707
01:31:59,000 --> 01:32:01,360
Speaker 1: So it could be me. So I'm just glad that

1708
01:32:01,520 --> 01:32:03,599
Speaker 1: the Bills dot Com app works, and then that Buffalo

1709
01:32:03,640 --> 01:32:05,800
Speaker 1: Bills a Buffalo Bills dot Com. Obviously you can get

1710
01:32:05,840 --> 01:32:07,880
Speaker 1: on a laptop, Spotify, you can go back and see

1711
01:32:07,920 --> 01:32:10,800
Speaker 1: it as a podcast, Google Play and Apple podcast as well.

1712
01:32:11,080 --> 01:32:13,519
Speaker 1: And then when we're back on TV, the YouTube channel,

1713
01:32:14,160 --> 01:32:16,360
Speaker 1: you can get it on there as well under the

1714
01:32:16,400 --> 01:32:18,519
Speaker 1: one Bills Live playlist. So there's a lot of ways

1715
01:32:18,520 --> 01:32:19,760
Speaker 1: you can catch this, and I know a lot of

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01:32:19,800 --> 01:32:22,320
Speaker 1: people do. We get a lot of comp feedback from

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01:32:22,360 --> 01:32:25,879
Speaker 1: people around the country, from you know, from Hawaii, from Germany,

1718
01:32:26,040 --> 01:32:29,599
Speaker 1: from you know, Bills fans who are scattered far and wide.

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01:32:29,680 --> 01:32:32,519
Speaker 1: They pick up the show. And I've a fan that

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01:32:32,600 --> 01:32:36,599
Speaker 1: watches it in Japan, so who's a friend of our family,

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01:32:36,680 --> 01:32:39,840
Speaker 1: So she watches it and I hear from her on

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01:32:39,920 --> 01:32:42,120
Speaker 1: Twitter once in a while. So you can pick it

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01:32:42,240 --> 01:32:44,439
Speaker 1: up a number of different ways. We had Solomon Wheelcots

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01:32:44,479 --> 01:32:46,080
Speaker 1: on today. You're gonna be able to catch large portions

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01:32:46,080 --> 01:32:48,960
Speaker 1: of the show there as well. We're gonna come back

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01:32:49,040 --> 01:32:51,800
Speaker 1: and after the top of the hour. Europe for taking

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01:32:51,840 --> 01:32:55,040
Speaker 1: phone calls, right, Brownie, we'll see, we'll see if we

1728
01:32:55,120 --> 01:32:56,920
Speaker 1: have phone calls to take eight or three oh five

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Speaker 1: fifty or one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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01:32:59,280 --> 01:33:01,320
Speaker 1: You can talk about need the stuff we've been talking about,

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01:33:01,479 --> 01:33:04,080
Speaker 1: or the Twitter poll. We'll take those and we're also

1732
01:33:04,120 --> 01:33:05,800
Speaker 1: going to go down the tweet sheet and talk about

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01:33:05,840 --> 01:33:07,840
Speaker 1: all the feedback we've been getting there. This is Steve

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01:33:07,920 --> 01:33:10,960
Speaker 1: Tasker Chris Brown on One Bills Live. This is Buffalo

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01:33:11,040 --> 01:33:21,759
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Oh Break Time by Steve Taster Done text

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01:33:22,520 --> 01:33:37,680
Speaker 1: Tex Dow Tex down buff At All Time. Welcome back

1737
01:33:37,720 --> 01:33:39,960
Speaker 1: to One Bill's Live. Steve Tasker along with Chris Brown.

1738
01:33:39,960 --> 01:33:41,800
Speaker 1: We're here till three o'clock. We're gonna be taking your

1739
01:33:41,840 --> 01:33:43,720
Speaker 1: phone calls this half hour if you have anything you

1740
01:33:43,800 --> 01:33:45,560
Speaker 1: want to talk about what we've been talking about on

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01:33:45,640 --> 01:33:48,760
Speaker 1: this show. The Twitter poll for today is, aside from

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01:33:48,840 --> 01:33:51,040
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, which player on the Buffalo Bills has the

1743
01:33:51,120 --> 01:33:53,400
Speaker 1: most approved? Chime in and tell us what you think.

1744
01:33:53,439 --> 01:33:56,040
Speaker 1: We also had Solomon Wilcott's on the program as well.

1745
01:33:56,080 --> 01:33:59,160
Speaker 1: He talked about it. There's some situations with the quarterbacks

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01:33:59,160 --> 01:34:01,719
Speaker 1: around the league, all new guys that are on different teams,

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01:34:01,760 --> 01:34:05,160
Speaker 1: Guys from the differences between Teddy Bridgewater and Philip Rivers,

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01:34:05,240 --> 01:34:08,120
Speaker 1: the veterans who've moved around, and to the guys like

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01:34:08,479 --> 01:34:13,000
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert and Joe Burrow and two attack of Ioloa,

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01:34:13,400 --> 01:34:15,200
Speaker 1: all of those guys who were around. Uh, he had

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01:34:15,240 --> 01:34:19,679
Speaker 1: some pretty interesting thoughts on those. And what were overall, Brownie,

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01:34:19,760 --> 01:34:22,320
Speaker 1: what were your impressions of you know what Solomon had

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01:34:22,400 --> 01:34:25,559
Speaker 1: to say about you know, you know guys like Philip

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01:34:25,680 --> 01:34:28,559
Speaker 1: Rivers and Teddy Bridgewater, the veterans who found a spot

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01:34:28,680 --> 01:34:32,840
Speaker 1: like and U Jameis Winston as well. I mean, guys

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01:34:32,880 --> 01:34:36,720
Speaker 1: who had who have found a spot to land and

1757
01:34:37,160 --> 01:34:39,400
Speaker 1: what it means and should their fans be really excited

1758
01:34:39,439 --> 01:34:42,519
Speaker 1: about it? Well, I mean, I think it's certainly changed

1759
01:34:42,560 --> 01:34:45,519
Speaker 1: the dynamics for a lot of teams. Um, you know,

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01:34:45,680 --> 01:34:49,479
Speaker 1: Carolina had a franchise quarterback in Can Newton, but they

1761
01:34:49,560 --> 01:34:51,720
Speaker 1: clearly decided it was better to move on from him,

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01:34:51,760 --> 01:34:56,880
Speaker 1: and they invested wholeheartedly in Teddy Bridgewater to kind of

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01:34:56,920 --> 01:35:00,519
Speaker 1: carry them into the next era under Matt rule. Philip

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01:35:00,640 --> 01:35:05,760
Speaker 1: Rivers in Indianapolis, I think is tremendously intriguing because even

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01:35:05,840 --> 01:35:08,639
Speaker 1: in a truncated offseason here, this is a guy who's

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01:35:08,640 --> 01:35:11,320
Speaker 1: already played in that offensive scheme and you would think

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01:35:11,360 --> 01:35:14,559
Speaker 1: could hit the ground running and may give Indianapolis an

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01:35:14,600 --> 01:35:16,720
Speaker 1: early season edge over some of these other teams with

1769
01:35:16,800 --> 01:35:19,360
Speaker 1: new quarterbacks. So those are the things that I kind

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01:35:19,400 --> 01:35:21,960
Speaker 1: of pulled from Solomon, and I should mention Steve. We

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01:35:22,120 --> 01:35:25,040
Speaker 1: do have some breaking NFL news with respect to the

1772
01:35:25,120 --> 01:35:29,360
Speaker 1: rules proposals from NFL Networks. Tom Pella sero the NFL

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01:35:29,400 --> 01:35:32,840
Speaker 1: owners have tabled the fourth and fifteen alternative to the

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01:35:32,960 --> 01:35:36,720
Speaker 1: onside kick. He said he's being told that further discussion

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01:35:36,960 --> 01:35:39,920
Speaker 1: is needed as the owners see it, So no vote

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01:35:40,000 --> 01:35:44,439
Speaker 1: on that today at all. That's crazy talk. So that's

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01:35:44,479 --> 01:35:48,360
Speaker 1: been tabled. Why put that in? I don't know. I'm

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01:35:48,400 --> 01:35:50,000
Speaker 1: a special teams guy, and I don't want to see

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01:35:50,040 --> 01:35:52,760
Speaker 1: an onside kick. I want to see a fourth and fifteen. Yeah,

1780
01:35:53,080 --> 01:35:55,160
Speaker 1: and I thought it had a better chance of getting

1781
01:35:55,200 --> 01:35:59,160
Speaker 1: approved after they made it a play that would happen

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01:35:59,240 --> 01:36:03,960
Speaker 1: on an untime time down. So right, you know, if

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01:36:04,000 --> 01:36:06,640
Speaker 1: you're down seven, you know, if you're down fifteen in

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01:36:06,680 --> 01:36:09,360
Speaker 1: the last two minutes, you get a touchdown and now

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01:36:10,360 --> 01:36:13,680
Speaker 1: you know on side's kick or fourth and fifteen, Well,

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01:36:13,720 --> 01:36:17,280
Speaker 1: if you only have seven seconds on the clock, you know,

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01:36:17,680 --> 01:36:20,360
Speaker 1: the fourth and fifteen doesn't rob you of any time.

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01:36:20,479 --> 01:36:22,720
Speaker 1: It's an untimed down now, so you could if you

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01:36:23,080 --> 01:36:25,880
Speaker 1: get the first down on fourth and fifteen. Now you've

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01:36:25,920 --> 01:36:29,000
Speaker 1: got another seven seconds to make a second play and

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01:36:29,160 --> 01:36:33,160
Speaker 1: maybe getting scoring territory to do something. So I thought

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01:36:33,200 --> 01:36:35,960
Speaker 1: that gave it an enhanced chance of passing, but they've

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01:36:36,040 --> 01:36:38,880
Speaker 1: decided to table it and believe it needs more time.

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01:36:39,000 --> 01:36:42,080
Speaker 1: Now here's an interesting one though. A by law change

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01:36:42,240 --> 01:36:45,040
Speaker 1: increasing the number of players that may be designated to

1796
01:36:45,120 --> 01:36:50,000
Speaker 1: return from injured reserve goes from two to three players. Now.

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01:36:50,240 --> 01:36:53,280
Speaker 1: That was approved today, So that's interesting, and I think

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01:36:53,360 --> 01:36:55,840
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. I know that the there was

1799
01:36:55,880 --> 01:36:59,519
Speaker 1: always this concern that people would manipulate the injured reserve

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01:37:00,520 --> 01:37:04,000
Speaker 1: designation with this, but how many times have we seen

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01:37:04,040 --> 01:37:06,960
Speaker 1: it over the years where a guy doesn't necessarily have

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01:37:07,240 --> 01:37:11,200
Speaker 1: a season ending injury, but maybe they've had eight weeks,

1803
01:37:11,760 --> 01:37:14,120
Speaker 1: maybe they've had a couple of injuries at one position,

1804
01:37:14,200 --> 01:37:16,919
Speaker 1: and his is the most serious and they need bodies,

1805
01:37:17,400 --> 01:37:19,920
Speaker 1: so they have to use his roster spot to get

1806
01:37:19,920 --> 01:37:22,560
Speaker 1: a healthy let's just say receiver for lack of a

1807
01:37:22,600 --> 01:37:25,240
Speaker 1: better example, on the roster, and so the only choice

1808
01:37:25,320 --> 01:37:28,040
Speaker 1: is to put him on IR. So knowing you can

1809
01:37:28,120 --> 01:37:30,920
Speaker 1: have three such players return from IR this year instead

1810
01:37:30,960 --> 01:37:34,160
Speaker 1: of two, I think will help a lot of teams. Yeah,

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01:37:34,280 --> 01:37:37,519
Speaker 1: and there'll be specific there'll be specific situations where just

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01:37:37,680 --> 01:37:40,360
Speaker 1: like you describe where it'll be a roster problem and

1813
01:37:40,439 --> 01:37:42,880
Speaker 1: it's not really something that fans would be that into,

1814
01:37:43,080 --> 01:37:45,120
Speaker 1: but it's true. It does make a difference for the

1815
01:37:45,160 --> 01:37:47,519
Speaker 1: football people because sometimes they get into a pinch where

1816
01:37:47,520 --> 01:37:51,400
Speaker 1: they just don't have enough guys to get on the field.

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01:37:51,439 --> 01:37:54,000
Speaker 1: So that's because of that. I think that's a good rule.

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01:37:54,200 --> 01:37:56,200
Speaker 1: And let's face it, they got they would limit that

1819
01:37:56,320 --> 01:37:59,880
Speaker 1: because teams did exploit that loophole. You know, they go

1820
01:38:00,160 --> 01:38:02,960
Speaker 1: down in the last preseason games like, oh, now he's

1821
01:38:03,040 --> 01:38:04,760
Speaker 1: not only is he on the practice squad, he's on

1822
01:38:04,840 --> 01:38:07,760
Speaker 1: ir which is virtually a practice squad thing, so they

1823
01:38:07,800 --> 01:38:09,920
Speaker 1: can keep him around and protect him from other teams.

1824
01:38:10,280 --> 01:38:14,360
Speaker 1: So three rules change proposals submitted by teams were approved.

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01:38:15,320 --> 01:38:19,679
Speaker 1: One of them make permanent expansion of automatic replay reviews

1826
01:38:19,800 --> 01:38:25,439
Speaker 1: to include scoring plays and turnovers negated by fouls. So

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01:38:25,600 --> 01:38:28,320
Speaker 1: if there's a touchdown play and there's a flag that

1828
01:38:28,479 --> 01:38:33,240
Speaker 1: negates it, those can be those will be automatically reviewed

1829
01:38:34,200 --> 01:38:38,080
Speaker 1: to almost pick the flag up. Yeah, so they'll be

1830
01:38:38,120 --> 01:38:39,800
Speaker 1: able to pick the flag up, is what you're saying.

1831
01:38:39,960 --> 01:38:42,240
Speaker 1: That's what it looks like make permanent expansion of automatic

1832
01:38:42,320 --> 01:38:47,439
Speaker 1: replay reviews to include scoring plays, slash turnovers negated by fouls.

1833
01:38:48,640 --> 01:38:52,120
Speaker 1: So right to me. That reads review the replay and

1834
01:38:52,200 --> 01:38:56,280
Speaker 1: determine whether you need to pick the flag up. Expands

1835
01:38:56,520 --> 01:39:02,960
Speaker 1: defensive player protection on kick and punt returns, so returns, yeah, yeah,

1836
01:39:03,000 --> 01:39:06,680
Speaker 1: probably yeah. And then the last one is the one

1837
01:39:06,760 --> 01:39:08,680
Speaker 1: that I know was a bone of contention for a

1838
01:39:08,760 --> 01:39:12,120
Speaker 1: lot of coaches, preventing the manipulation at the game clock

1839
01:39:12,240 --> 01:39:15,560
Speaker 1: with multiple dead ball fouls when you're facing injury or

1840
01:39:15,800 --> 01:39:18,760
Speaker 1: doing how how awesome was it when Tennessee did that

1841
01:39:18,840 --> 01:39:22,720
Speaker 1: to New England last year? I know, Bill Belichick was

1842
01:39:22,760 --> 01:39:25,120
Speaker 1: as hot as I've ever seen him during He was

1843
01:39:25,200 --> 01:39:28,559
Speaker 1: just stood you could just see the steam coming out

1844
01:39:28,560 --> 01:39:32,680
Speaker 1: of And Rabel did it to him too, man, He

1845
01:39:32,920 --> 01:39:36,280
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, you know this, do it behind a

1846
01:39:36,400 --> 01:39:39,519
Speaker 1: play calling cards, I mean with the chesshire cat smile

1847
01:39:39,600 --> 01:39:44,360
Speaker 1: and laughing. Oh my gosh, that was delicious. But going

1848
01:39:44,400 --> 01:39:46,760
Speaker 1: back to the fourth and fifteen, I don't here's the

1849
01:39:46,880 --> 01:39:48,840
Speaker 1: thing you and you you you touched on it when

1850
01:39:48,840 --> 01:39:50,640
Speaker 1: you start talking about it as an untime down and

1851
01:39:50,920 --> 01:39:54,840
Speaker 1: instead of having a an onside kick, they're gonna you know,

1852
01:39:54,960 --> 01:39:58,240
Speaker 1: they're going to do this fourth and fifteen thing, Well,

1853
01:39:58,320 --> 01:40:00,720
Speaker 1: let me give let's just give them our fans here,

1854
01:40:00,800 --> 01:40:05,240
Speaker 1: the listeners a little chance to hear why you know

1855
01:40:05,360 --> 01:40:07,360
Speaker 1: it's a problem or why they think they got to

1856
01:40:07,400 --> 01:40:10,640
Speaker 1: fix it. In twenty thirteen to two thousand and seventeen,

1857
01:40:11,280 --> 01:40:14,160
Speaker 1: they got before they changed the on side kick rule,

1858
01:40:14,320 --> 01:40:17,880
Speaker 1: forty nine of two hundred and ninety nine on side

1859
01:40:17,960 --> 01:40:22,840
Speaker 1: kicks were recovered. That's sixteen point three percent. That's it's

1860
01:40:22,920 --> 01:40:25,120
Speaker 1: pretty good percentage of kind of where they want it.

1861
01:40:26,240 --> 01:40:30,040
Speaker 1: Twelve and now, in twenty eighteen to nineteen, there were

1862
01:40:30,080 --> 01:40:33,080
Speaker 1: one hundred and fourteen on side kicks and only got

1863
01:40:33,160 --> 01:40:36,120
Speaker 1: twelve of them, which is ten percent. So they cut

1864
01:40:36,200 --> 01:40:41,040
Speaker 1: it almost by a third the number of onside kicks

1865
01:40:41,080 --> 01:40:45,920
Speaker 1: that they were able to recover. So when you think

1866
01:40:45,960 --> 01:40:49,599
Speaker 1: about that, and then when you flip that over, say

1867
01:40:49,680 --> 01:40:51,640
Speaker 1: they Okay, we're gonna fix that. We're gonna get it

1868
01:40:51,680 --> 01:40:56,920
Speaker 1: back up to whatever. Incidentally, fourth and fifteen plays are

1869
01:40:57,000 --> 01:40:59,800
Speaker 1: picked up at just about sixteen percent, right where the

1870
01:41:00,040 --> 01:41:03,360
Speaker 1: old on site kick percentages were. That's why they picked

1871
01:41:03,439 --> 01:41:06,280
Speaker 1: fifteen yards. And when you start to go down that

1872
01:41:06,360 --> 01:41:09,880
Speaker 1: thing about the untimed down. They also said this was

1873
01:41:10,000 --> 01:41:13,840
Speaker 1: not going to be available to a team in overtime, right,

1874
01:41:15,520 --> 01:41:21,760
Speaker 1: which to me, it's crazy to think about, why would

1875
01:41:21,840 --> 01:41:26,680
Speaker 1: you do that in overtime. So, for instance, overtime is

1876
01:41:26,720 --> 01:41:28,800
Speaker 1: over if you score a touchdown, so obviously a team

1877
01:41:28,960 --> 01:41:31,559
Speaker 1: kicks a field goal, then they choose one of their

1878
01:41:31,600 --> 01:41:34,080
Speaker 1: options to say, okay, we're gonna take the fourth and

1879
01:41:34,200 --> 01:41:40,240
Speaker 1: fifteen play. So if they get it and they go

1880
01:41:40,360 --> 01:41:42,320
Speaker 1: down and score another field goal, the other team never

1881
01:41:42,400 --> 01:41:46,560
Speaker 1: gets the ball anyway, right, or if they get it

1882
01:41:46,640 --> 01:41:48,559
Speaker 1: and don't get it, they put their team the other

1883
01:41:48,640 --> 01:41:50,880
Speaker 1: team in field goal range right away. I mean, I

1884
01:41:50,920 --> 01:41:53,920
Speaker 1: don't get why that would be. You'd have to drive

1885
01:41:54,040 --> 01:41:57,720
Speaker 1: the field again, you know, to get to score even

1886
01:41:57,800 --> 01:42:01,679
Speaker 1: after a fourth and fifteen play, because you know, it's

1887
01:42:01,720 --> 01:42:04,160
Speaker 1: not like you've scored again, and you have to give

1888
01:42:04,240 --> 01:42:07,080
Speaker 1: the other team the opportunity to possess, and an offensive

1889
01:42:07,120 --> 01:42:11,040
Speaker 1: play does not do that right And over time too,

1890
01:42:11,120 --> 01:42:13,200
Speaker 1: if each team has had one possession and you don't

1891
01:42:13,240 --> 01:42:15,760
Speaker 1: get it, that other teams stepping onto the field and

1892
01:42:15,840 --> 01:42:19,800
Speaker 1: kicking a field goal and the game's over. Yeah, yeah,

1893
01:42:19,840 --> 01:42:22,120
Speaker 1: I don't know why they said it was just for regulations,

1894
01:42:22,160 --> 01:42:25,200
Speaker 1: so that and I think it's just a shying away

1895
01:42:25,320 --> 01:42:29,160
Speaker 1: of unintended consequences, right, I mean there's stuff they don't believe.

1896
01:42:29,240 --> 01:42:31,400
Speaker 1: They can think of all the different options that can

1897
01:42:31,439 --> 01:42:34,760
Speaker 1: go and somebody's going to take advantage of them. Um, yeah,

1898
01:42:35,000 --> 01:42:38,680
Speaker 1: I think they're They've they've completely swung the other way

1899
01:42:38,720 --> 01:42:41,880
Speaker 1: in terms of being overly conscious now after the way

1900
01:42:42,960 --> 01:42:46,479
Speaker 1: you know, being able to you know, ram roding through

1901
01:42:46,680 --> 01:42:50,920
Speaker 1: the edition, of being able to challenge past interference calls

1902
01:42:50,960 --> 01:42:55,479
Speaker 1: and non calls last season, uh and and probably doing

1903
01:42:55,560 --> 01:42:58,880
Speaker 1: it in a knee jerk type fashion, they've gone complete

1904
01:42:58,880 --> 01:43:01,559
Speaker 1: They've done a complete one now where they're just putting

1905
01:43:01,560 --> 01:43:04,160
Speaker 1: the brakes on just about everything. So now you can

1906
01:43:04,240 --> 01:43:05,840
Speaker 1: join us if you want eight oh three oh five

1907
01:43:05,920 --> 01:43:08,200
Speaker 1: fifty or one eighty eight five fifty two five fifty

1908
01:43:08,200 --> 01:43:10,240
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Chris Brown here one of bills like we're

1909
01:43:10,240 --> 01:43:12,479
Speaker 1: here till three o'clock. We had this Twitter poll today

1910
01:43:12,560 --> 01:43:16,360
Speaker 1: that we'll get back to, I guess right now. Other

1911
01:43:16,479 --> 01:43:20,719
Speaker 1: than Josh Allen, who's the offensive player for the Buffalo

1912
01:43:20,800 --> 01:43:24,559
Speaker 1: Bills that has the most approved in twenty twenty, We've

1913
01:43:24,600 --> 01:43:28,920
Speaker 1: got some responses here from people who are listening, and

1914
01:43:29,040 --> 01:43:31,800
Speaker 1: from Matt, he says, we know what Diggs is. The

1915
01:43:34,680 --> 01:43:37,679
Speaker 1: choices we gave you were Dion Dawkins left tackle, Steph Diggs,

1916
01:43:37,720 --> 01:43:40,240
Speaker 1: the new wide receiver, Dawson Knox the second year tight end,

1917
01:43:40,360 --> 01:43:43,639
Speaker 1: or other you can pick somebody else. And from Matt,

1918
01:43:43,720 --> 01:43:47,160
Speaker 1: he says, we know what Stefan Diggs is. Dawson Knox

1919
01:43:47,320 --> 01:43:49,200
Speaker 1: is a second year player that we hope makes a

1920
01:43:49,280 --> 01:43:52,000
Speaker 1: step or takes a step like Josh Allen did last year.

1921
01:43:52,280 --> 01:43:55,120
Speaker 1: Dion Dawkins, although a great teammate, has to prove his

1922
01:43:55,240 --> 01:43:59,120
Speaker 1: struggles with speed rushers as to improve his struggles with

1923
01:43:59,240 --> 01:44:04,040
Speaker 1: speed rushers. Well, Matt doesn't make a choice, does he.

1924
01:44:04,600 --> 01:44:11,200
Speaker 1: I'm guessing he's picking Dawkins because he's well he's saying

1925
01:44:11,360 --> 01:44:15,559
Speaker 1: Knocks has to take a step, Dawkins has to improve.

1926
01:44:16,360 --> 01:44:19,120
Speaker 1: So maybe he's kind of hedging between those two. Yeah,

1927
01:44:19,439 --> 01:44:21,559
Speaker 1: I think so. And he also says Steph Diggs doesn't

1928
01:44:21,560 --> 01:44:25,760
Speaker 1: have anything to prove. We know him. Yeah. I think

1929
01:44:25,800 --> 01:44:29,240
Speaker 1: the Dawkins thing is interesting only because it is a

1930
01:44:29,320 --> 01:44:33,040
Speaker 1: contract year, and so I think he's really got to sement.

1931
01:44:33,439 --> 01:44:37,679
Speaker 1: I think the organization does think a lot of Dion Dawkins.

1932
01:44:37,760 --> 01:44:40,240
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any question about that. But to

1933
01:44:40,439 --> 01:44:45,800
Speaker 1: cement his status and likelihood of getting a big second contract,

1934
01:44:46,960 --> 01:44:49,800
Speaker 1: I think it would certainly help for him to put

1935
01:44:49,880 --> 01:44:53,920
Speaker 1: together his best year this year and cement himself as

1936
01:44:54,040 --> 01:44:56,920
Speaker 1: the left tackle for the long term. Well, one of

1937
01:44:57,000 --> 01:45:00,040
Speaker 1: the things as well that you gotta talk about with

1938
01:45:00,120 --> 01:45:02,840
Speaker 1: this Browne is, you know, says Dion Dawkins has this

1939
01:45:02,960 --> 01:45:07,160
Speaker 1: great left tackle year, and Josh Allen takes another step forward.

1940
01:45:07,360 --> 01:45:10,120
Speaker 1: You know, he's completing sixty three or sixty five percent

1941
01:45:10,200 --> 01:45:13,760
Speaker 1: of his passes, and and Tremaine Edmonds is leading a

1942
01:45:13,880 --> 01:45:16,439
Speaker 1: defense that's another top one or two defense in the league,

1943
01:45:16,479 --> 01:45:19,520
Speaker 1: and he gets three interceptions on the year, five interceptions

1944
01:45:19,600 --> 01:45:23,280
Speaker 1: on the year, something like that. And you got Turdavious

1945
01:45:23,320 --> 01:45:25,880
Speaker 1: White sitting there, Who's like, who's all Pro for the

1946
01:45:25,920 --> 01:45:31,759
Speaker 1: second year in the row? Whoa who They're gonna extend

1947
01:45:32,200 --> 01:45:37,040
Speaker 1: because they're starting to line up, And the issue is like,

1948
01:45:37,240 --> 01:45:39,080
Speaker 1: of course the Bills want to extend all those guys.

1949
01:45:39,160 --> 01:45:41,200
Speaker 1: They want to sign those guys to deals and get

1950
01:45:41,240 --> 01:45:43,040
Speaker 1: them done. But you know, the simple fact of the

1951
01:45:43,080 --> 01:45:45,000
Speaker 1: matter is this, there's a good chance that next year

1952
01:45:45,080 --> 01:45:47,559
Speaker 1: the salary cap for the National Football league is going

1953
01:45:47,600 --> 01:45:49,600
Speaker 1: to be smaller than it is this year, so you

1954
01:45:49,720 --> 01:45:51,920
Speaker 1: have less money to spend on these guys. It years

1955
01:45:51,960 --> 01:45:54,280
Speaker 1: where they're gonna be in line to make a lot

1956
01:45:54,360 --> 01:45:59,880
Speaker 1: of money. That's gonna be interesting to see the league,

1957
01:46:00,040 --> 01:46:03,000
Speaker 1: the Union, the team's players, agents, all they're they're should

1958
01:46:03,080 --> 01:46:05,040
Speaker 1: they should be. They're all bracing for a hit on

1959
01:46:05,160 --> 01:46:08,280
Speaker 1: the salary cap. And that means these i'm and you

1960
01:46:08,400 --> 01:46:11,600
Speaker 1: talk about bad luck for a guy like like a

1961
01:46:11,680 --> 01:46:13,800
Speaker 1: Dion doctsh it comes up, he's up, he's great for,

1962
01:46:13,920 --> 01:46:17,680
Speaker 1: he's up, ripe for to become a free agent and

1963
01:46:17,800 --> 01:46:19,320
Speaker 1: to hit a home run, and all of a sudden

1964
01:46:19,320 --> 01:46:22,000
Speaker 1: he's It's in a year where the salary cap, the

1965
01:46:22,040 --> 01:46:25,639
Speaker 1: floor is dropped out, you know it contracts by twenty

1966
01:46:25,720 --> 01:46:29,400
Speaker 1: percent or six or fifteen percent or even ten percent

1967
01:46:30,120 --> 01:46:33,519
Speaker 1: um because of what's happened with the with the COVID virus.

1968
01:46:34,320 --> 01:46:37,200
Speaker 1: That's that's got to give Brandon being a lot of

1969
01:46:37,280 --> 01:46:40,160
Speaker 1: hesitation about getting these guys lined up and starting to

1970
01:46:40,200 --> 01:46:45,160
Speaker 1: sign them to extensions. Don't you think, well, it's gonna

1971
01:46:45,200 --> 01:46:52,080
Speaker 1: be more difficult um because they probably forecasted their budgeting

1972
01:46:52,880 --> 01:46:55,840
Speaker 1: based on the average increase in the salary cap each year,

1973
01:46:56,720 --> 01:46:59,240
Speaker 1: and now there's a chance that the twenty twenty one

1974
01:46:59,240 --> 01:47:02,760
Speaker 1: salary cap go the other way. Yeah, and that's going

1975
01:47:02,800 --> 01:47:08,440
Speaker 1: to complicate managing what are expected to be pretty sizable contracts.

1976
01:47:08,479 --> 01:47:11,720
Speaker 1: And you know, Matt Milano is another guy that's got

1977
01:47:11,800 --> 01:47:13,400
Speaker 1: to throw into this mix too. I mean, the guy

1978
01:47:13,479 --> 01:47:17,880
Speaker 1: that's playing on arguably a Pro Bowl level. He was

1979
01:47:17,960 --> 01:47:21,639
Speaker 1: getting some Pro Bowl consideration as early as twenty eighteen

1980
01:47:21,880 --> 01:47:23,439
Speaker 1: when he got hurt at the end of the year

1981
01:47:23,520 --> 01:47:25,720
Speaker 1: and kind of fell off the Pro Bowl map, and

1982
01:47:25,800 --> 01:47:28,080
Speaker 1: then last year put together a solid season as well.

1983
01:47:28,120 --> 01:47:30,040
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a guy that's entering a contract

1984
01:47:30,120 --> 01:47:37,519
Speaker 1: year two, so you have to wonder how they're going

1985
01:47:37,640 --> 01:47:41,280
Speaker 1: to prioritize. You still have time on Josh because he

1986
01:47:41,479 --> 01:47:43,799
Speaker 1: was in the eighteen draft. He's not in the seventeen

1987
01:47:43,920 --> 01:47:47,400
Speaker 1: draft class like Milano, Dawkins, and White are. But I

1988
01:47:47,520 --> 01:47:50,439
Speaker 1: think White you have to take care of first and

1989
01:47:50,760 --> 01:47:53,160
Speaker 1: square that away after you now have picked up that

1990
01:47:53,280 --> 01:47:58,360
Speaker 1: fifty year option to buy yourself a little time. Milano

1991
01:47:58,400 --> 01:48:00,599
Speaker 1: and Dawkins are going to be tough, and it may

1992
01:48:00,760 --> 01:48:04,040
Speaker 1: very well hinge on who has the better season that

1993
01:48:04,520 --> 01:48:07,080
Speaker 1: steps up higher in the pecking order. Yeah, it's a

1994
01:48:07,200 --> 01:48:10,200
Speaker 1: huge question, big deal. It's a huge question for Jams,

1995
01:48:10,240 --> 01:48:12,400
Speaker 1: and they don't have any answers yet. Nobody has any

1996
01:48:12,439 --> 01:48:14,320
Speaker 1: answers to what this season's gonna look like, what the

1997
01:48:14,360 --> 01:48:16,800
Speaker 1: revenue is gonna look like, what the television contracts are

1998
01:48:16,840 --> 01:48:18,920
Speaker 1: gonna look like. All that stuff is up in the air,

1999
01:48:19,280 --> 01:48:22,919
Speaker 1: and certainly for the first time in your since its inception,

2000
01:48:24,000 --> 01:48:25,960
Speaker 1: the cap has a chance to go down, not for

2001
01:48:26,040 --> 01:48:28,160
Speaker 1: anything that the league has done wrong, but because of

2002
01:48:28,240 --> 01:48:31,880
Speaker 1: a pandemic that hit and has everybody doors closed and

2003
01:48:31,960 --> 01:48:36,080
Speaker 1: you can't have fans in the stands. Huge financial hit

2004
01:48:36,160 --> 01:48:41,160
Speaker 1: for the league. It's it's big, and I think that's

2005
01:48:41,200 --> 01:48:43,559
Speaker 1: going to affect, you know, what these guys are going

2006
01:48:43,600 --> 01:48:46,040
Speaker 1: to be able to command when when the league does

2007
01:48:46,120 --> 01:48:48,240
Speaker 1: start signing them to these contracts. I mean, you do, guys.

2008
01:48:48,479 --> 01:48:50,360
Speaker 1: That's in the midst of that is Dak Prescott. We

2009
01:48:50,400 --> 01:48:53,760
Speaker 1: spoke to Solomon Wilcot's about that as well, Solomon Wilcot's,

2010
01:48:53,800 --> 01:48:57,800
Speaker 1: I mean, Dak Prescott's asking for forty million plus a year, Right,

2011
01:48:58,600 --> 01:49:01,800
Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen if the salary cap goes from

2012
01:49:01,840 --> 01:49:05,280
Speaker 1: two hundred million to one eighty. Yeah, And that's part

2013
01:49:05,320 --> 01:49:07,000
Speaker 1: of the reason why I ask Sell and how much

2014
01:49:07,120 --> 01:49:10,760
Speaker 1: of a factor do you think this lost revenue in

2015
01:49:11,200 --> 01:49:15,280
Speaker 1: twenty twenty is impacting those negotiations? Right now? How do

2016
01:49:15,360 --> 01:49:18,559
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys budget for a thirty seven to forty

2017
01:49:18,600 --> 01:49:21,880
Speaker 1: million dollars per year quarterback when there's a chance that

2018
01:49:22,000 --> 01:49:24,439
Speaker 1: that salary cap could slide back as much as ten

2019
01:49:24,479 --> 01:49:27,400
Speaker 1: to twelve million dollars from what it is right now.

2020
01:49:27,880 --> 01:49:30,360
Speaker 1: He could be as much as you know, and he

2021
01:49:30,640 --> 01:49:33,719
Speaker 1: and Solomon Wilcos said, that's you know, the forty millions,

2022
01:49:33,760 --> 01:49:36,640
Speaker 1: like twenty percent of the cap, and no team with

2023
01:49:36,760 --> 01:49:39,080
Speaker 1: a quarterback making more than eighteen percent of their cap

2024
01:49:39,120 --> 01:49:42,200
Speaker 1: has ever won a Super Bowl? How big is his

2025
01:49:42,280 --> 01:49:45,920
Speaker 1: percentage going to be? If he makes forty million on

2026
01:49:46,040 --> 01:49:48,280
Speaker 1: one hundred It's a math problem, and I don't want

2027
01:49:48,320 --> 01:49:49,880
Speaker 1: to take a shot at it, But you know, what's

2028
01:49:50,080 --> 01:49:51,920
Speaker 1: forty million out of one hundred and eighty million? What

2029
01:49:52,080 --> 01:49:55,960
Speaker 1: percentage is that? Actually, it's unbelievable how big a percentage

2030
01:49:56,040 --> 01:50:00,679
Speaker 1: that is for one guy. It's just it's it's gonna

2031
01:50:00,960 --> 01:50:03,760
Speaker 1: it would cripple the franchise for the length of the deal,

2032
01:50:03,840 --> 01:50:06,840
Speaker 1: for the entire length of the deal. Not you're right, Yeah,

2033
01:50:06,880 --> 01:50:08,760
Speaker 1: so I don't think they're gonna do it. Hey, with

2034
01:50:09,040 --> 01:50:13,120
Speaker 1: respect to the tweet sheet, there's one that's jumping out

2035
01:50:13,160 --> 01:50:16,880
Speaker 1: at me like a sore thumb here, all right, in

2036
01:50:17,080 --> 01:50:20,799
Speaker 1: terms of offensive players, besides Josh Allen with the most approved,

2037
01:50:21,080 --> 01:50:22,680
Speaker 1: this is a different take, which is why it was

2038
01:50:22,920 --> 01:50:25,880
Speaker 1: sticking out to me, Steve. But it's from Jeremiah. He

2039
01:50:26,040 --> 01:50:28,680
Speaker 1: went with other and his pick was Robert Foster. So

2040
01:50:28,880 --> 01:50:33,880
Speaker 1: much physical ability and potential, which he's right about. But

2041
01:50:34,560 --> 01:50:37,479
Speaker 1: this is a guy that's got to prove he's deserving

2042
01:50:37,520 --> 01:50:41,600
Speaker 1: of a roster spot. Forget about proving that, you know,

2043
01:50:41,880 --> 01:50:46,120
Speaker 1: he can be a regular contributor on offense. This guy's

2044
01:50:46,160 --> 01:50:48,680
Speaker 1: fighting for his roster life this year, isn't he right?

2045
01:50:49,439 --> 01:50:52,320
Speaker 1: I agree with that he's I'll tell you this, If

2046
01:50:52,439 --> 01:50:56,960
Speaker 1: Robert Foster makes the Bill's roster this year, forget that

2047
01:50:57,240 --> 01:50:59,040
Speaker 1: rookie year two years ago when he was catching all

2048
01:50:59,080 --> 01:51:01,000
Speaker 1: the long Bowls and he was a rookie free agent,

2049
01:51:01,120 --> 01:51:04,360
Speaker 1: and that will be the greatest accomplishment of his young career.

2050
01:51:04,840 --> 01:51:07,880
Speaker 1: Just making the roster this year. Yeah, this year, just

2051
01:51:08,160 --> 01:51:11,920
Speaker 1: making the roster will be an enormous accomplishment for for

2052
01:51:12,080 --> 01:51:16,000
Speaker 1: Robert foster for Isaiah McKenzie and Duke Williams, those guys,

2053
01:51:16,000 --> 01:51:19,400
Speaker 1: those three guys, it'll be a monumental task for one

2054
01:51:19,400 --> 01:51:21,200
Speaker 1: of those guys to get on the active roster. Now.

2055
01:51:21,240 --> 01:51:23,519
Speaker 1: I don't know how many wide receivers they're planning on keeping,

2056
01:51:23,600 --> 01:51:27,200
Speaker 1: because you know that number seems to be edging up

2057
01:51:27,320 --> 01:51:30,880
Speaker 1: higher and higher as the year's pass. But it's this

2058
01:51:31,080 --> 01:51:34,360
Speaker 1: is a tough roster to get on, especially at that spot.

2059
01:51:34,880 --> 01:51:40,000
Speaker 1: I've done roster position breakdowns when the first fifty three

2060
01:51:40,080 --> 01:51:43,400
Speaker 1: man roster has been said, probably over the last ten years,

2061
01:51:44,000 --> 01:51:47,160
Speaker 1: and I don't believe at any point in time have

2062
01:51:47,280 --> 01:51:50,120
Speaker 1: they ever carried more than six receivers on the initial

2063
01:51:50,840 --> 01:51:53,760
Speaker 1: fifty three man roster. There maybe one exception in there

2064
01:51:53,760 --> 01:51:57,000
Speaker 1: when they carried seven because one of them had a

2065
01:51:57,080 --> 01:51:59,200
Speaker 1: long term injury but they didn't want to put him

2066
01:51:59,200 --> 01:52:04,479
Speaker 1: on irum. But six has typically been the max. And

2067
01:52:05,400 --> 01:52:07,800
Speaker 1: you know the top three are already lock Stock and

2068
01:52:07,880 --> 01:52:12,360
Speaker 1: Barrel with Diggs, Brown and Beasley, So where to go

2069
01:52:12,560 --> 01:52:15,240
Speaker 1: from there is going to be some of the most

2070
01:52:15,320 --> 01:52:18,000
Speaker 1: intense competition I think we've seen at that position in

2071
01:52:18,120 --> 01:52:21,960
Speaker 1: quite some time. I would agree with that. I would

2072
01:52:22,000 --> 01:52:24,559
Speaker 1: agree that's it's it's going to be the most intriguing

2073
01:52:24,600 --> 01:52:27,000
Speaker 1: battle of training camp. Those receivers don't know who's gonna

2074
01:52:27,040 --> 01:52:30,719
Speaker 1: make it. Yeah, those and you're right. If you're gonna

2075
01:52:30,800 --> 01:52:32,639
Speaker 1: ask for guys, you got it to prove. It depends

2076
01:52:32,680 --> 01:52:34,120
Speaker 1: on what you think they have to prove. Some of

2077
01:52:34,120 --> 01:52:35,600
Speaker 1: them have to prove they just deserve to be on

2078
01:52:35,680 --> 01:52:37,960
Speaker 1: the team. And that's all of those too. So we'll

2079
01:52:38,000 --> 01:52:40,839
Speaker 1: see Steve Tasker, Chris Brown. We're here till three o'clock.

2080
01:52:40,920 --> 01:52:44,760
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive, One Bills Live. Not from One Bill's Drive.

2081
01:52:45,439 --> 01:52:47,360
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Come back and join us

2082
01:52:47,360 --> 01:52:48,800
Speaker 1: and give us a call eight oh three oh five

2083
01:52:48,880 --> 01:52:51,400
Speaker 1: fifty or one eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

2084
01:52:51,520 --> 01:53:04,360
Speaker 1: We're here till three and we'll take your calls. Welcome

2085
01:53:04,400 --> 01:53:06,080
Speaker 1: back to one of those lives Tief Tasks Along with

2086
01:53:06,200 --> 01:53:10,200
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, it's time for true False Brownie NFL True false,

2087
01:53:10,600 --> 01:53:14,200
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2088
01:53:14,439 --> 01:53:19,559
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2089
01:53:19,600 --> 01:53:22,840
Speaker 1: Here we go right True NFL True false. Number one.

2090
01:53:22,880 --> 01:53:26,080
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick should be a favorite to win Coach of

2091
01:53:26,160 --> 01:53:30,439
Speaker 1: the Year in twenty twenty. Isn't this guy always a favorite?

2092
01:53:31,760 --> 01:53:35,840
Speaker 1: I don't know. Now here's the thing, do you right,

2093
01:53:36,280 --> 01:53:38,200
Speaker 1: is your favorite to win the Coach of the year

2094
01:53:38,360 --> 01:53:43,800
Speaker 1: the guy who's gonna have the worst team or the

2095
01:53:43,960 --> 01:53:50,040
Speaker 1: guy who's gonna have the best team. Yeah, here's the thing.

2096
01:53:50,400 --> 01:53:54,559
Speaker 1: I fear that Belichick will be your favorite to win

2097
01:53:54,680 --> 01:53:57,720
Speaker 1: Coach of the Year because everybody and their brother know

2098
01:53:57,840 --> 01:54:02,040
Speaker 1: what he lost, know what he's lost in Tom Brady,

2099
01:54:02,760 --> 01:54:07,160
Speaker 1: so they're automatically handicapping him because he doesn't have his

2100
01:54:07,800 --> 01:54:10,920
Speaker 1: All World quarterback. So if he can win eight games

2101
01:54:11,000 --> 01:54:15,840
Speaker 1: this year, he might be in the running. So I

2102
01:54:15,960 --> 01:54:19,560
Speaker 1: don't I disagree with the statement Bill Belichick should be

2103
01:54:19,680 --> 01:54:21,680
Speaker 1: a favorite to win Coach in the Air in twenty twenty. No,

2104
01:54:21,800 --> 01:54:25,439
Speaker 1: that's false, But he probably will be because everybody knows

2105
01:54:25,479 --> 01:54:28,880
Speaker 1: what he lost, which is an All World quarterback and

2106
01:54:30,240 --> 01:54:33,200
Speaker 1: four out of the four out of the seven starters

2107
01:54:33,240 --> 01:54:35,800
Speaker 1: from a number one defense as well, Yeah, including three

2108
01:54:35,880 --> 01:54:39,680
Speaker 1: starting linebackers. So he'll he'll get the he'll get the

2109
01:54:39,720 --> 01:54:44,560
Speaker 1: sympathetic vote. So it might happen, but he shouldn't. There's

2110
01:54:44,600 --> 01:54:47,000
Speaker 1: nobody gonna be sympathetic that guy. Are you kidding him.

2111
01:54:47,040 --> 01:54:50,080
Speaker 1: But I will say this, and let me just ask

2112
01:54:50,120 --> 01:54:52,160
Speaker 1: you this. What do you think the over under unwins

2113
01:54:52,240 --> 01:54:57,240
Speaker 1: for the Patriots is this year? I'm gonna say seven

2114
01:54:57,280 --> 01:55:01,240
Speaker 1: and a half. Yeah, why do you do you think

2115
01:55:01,280 --> 01:55:04,840
Speaker 1: that's generous? No, I'm I'm picking to win ten games. Ten.

2116
01:55:05,240 --> 01:55:08,280
Speaker 1: Oh you're gonna kill me if that that can't happen.

2117
01:55:08,440 --> 01:55:13,040
Speaker 1: Come on, listen. They've been doing it with Division two

2118
01:55:13,160 --> 01:55:15,320
Speaker 1: athletes for years. Why what makes you think they can't

2119
01:55:15,360 --> 01:55:17,520
Speaker 1: do it without Tom Brandy? All right, here we go.

2120
01:55:17,880 --> 01:55:19,400
Speaker 1: I don't need it. I don't want it to happen.

2121
01:55:19,560 --> 01:55:22,480
Speaker 1: All right. I would say, you saying it's true, you're

2122
01:55:22,520 --> 01:55:26,800
Speaker 1: saying it's false because he right, Okay, but he will be.

2123
01:55:27,320 --> 01:55:31,320
Speaker 1: Uh Well, if you're trying to predict, you're saying, yeah,

2124
01:55:31,360 --> 01:55:34,280
Speaker 1: he should be. If you're saying whether it's true or not,

2125
01:55:34,440 --> 01:55:37,720
Speaker 1: you're saying it shouldn't be. Yeah. Right. I'm gonna say,

2126
01:55:37,760 --> 01:55:41,160
Speaker 1: if you're gonna predict it, I'm gonna say you're probably right.

2127
01:55:41,240 --> 01:55:43,680
Speaker 1: He is. He is the best coach. He is the

2128
01:55:43,720 --> 01:55:45,680
Speaker 1: best candidate to get Coach of the Year because everybody

2129
01:55:45,680 --> 01:55:49,040
Speaker 1: else expects their teams to be better. Right, they're the

2130
01:55:49,120 --> 01:55:51,320
Speaker 1: only ones now that are like you're looking at going, eh,

2131
01:55:51,840 --> 01:55:55,760
Speaker 1: I don't know, Right, the team comes out of the

2132
01:55:55,800 --> 01:56:00,280
Speaker 1: woodwork and goes thirteen and three, you know, then that's

2133
01:56:00,320 --> 01:56:04,440
Speaker 1: probably the only thing that that could trump of Belichick

2134
01:56:04,720 --> 01:56:07,200
Speaker 1: nine or ten win season with what he's got, I

2135
01:56:07,320 --> 01:56:09,920
Speaker 1: get you, all right, So yeah, we both kind of

2136
01:56:09,960 --> 01:56:12,360
Speaker 1: agree on the Bill Belichick whinny, he probably is going

2137
01:56:12,400 --> 01:56:14,320
Speaker 1: to be Coach of the Year or best candidate to

2138
01:56:14,400 --> 01:56:16,560
Speaker 1: win it early in the season because of all he's

2139
01:56:16,600 --> 01:56:19,040
Speaker 1: lost in the fact that if they can win enough games,

2140
01:56:19,120 --> 01:56:21,520
Speaker 1: that'll give it to him, all right, Number NFL true

2141
01:56:21,600 --> 01:56:25,800
Speaker 1: or false? Number two Jadeveon Clowney is only hurting himself

2142
01:56:25,920 --> 01:56:29,320
Speaker 1: by waiting to sign with a team. Yeah, I'm kind

2143
01:56:29,360 --> 01:56:32,560
Speaker 1: of puzzled by this whole thing. I understand that at

2144
01:56:32,560 --> 01:56:36,120
Speaker 1: the outset it was about meeting his contract demands and

2145
01:56:36,200 --> 01:56:40,080
Speaker 1: the money that he wanted. But when that initial market softened,

2146
01:56:41,200 --> 01:56:42,920
Speaker 1: you got to go find the best one year deal

2147
01:56:42,960 --> 01:56:46,760
Speaker 1: you can get and reset it for next year. Especially

2148
01:56:47,800 --> 01:56:50,400
Speaker 1: in the climate of the off season that we currently have.

2149
01:56:51,400 --> 01:56:55,480
Speaker 1: I can't believe a player of his caliber, who all

2150
01:56:55,520 --> 01:57:02,120
Speaker 1: indications are is healthy, is still there. You know, you

2151
01:57:02,280 --> 01:57:07,400
Speaker 1: understand why cam Newton is still available. You understand why

2152
01:57:07,520 --> 01:57:10,840
Speaker 1: some of these other guys coming off injury still took

2153
01:57:10,880 --> 01:57:15,120
Speaker 1: a long time. Yeah, you understand why they're still twisting

2154
01:57:15,200 --> 01:57:17,480
Speaker 1: in the wind right now because they can't get into

2155
01:57:17,600 --> 01:57:21,400
Speaker 1: NFL facilities, get in front of that team's doctors, and

2156
01:57:21,600 --> 01:57:23,240
Speaker 1: you know, get it once over in terms of a

2157
01:57:23,280 --> 01:57:28,040
Speaker 1: physical But clowny man, this one's puzzling to me, so

2158
01:57:28,280 --> 01:57:30,400
Speaker 1: I would say true, I think he is hurting himself

2159
01:57:30,480 --> 01:57:32,680
Speaker 1: because I don't see how he's gonna do much better.

2160
01:57:32,840 --> 01:57:34,720
Speaker 1: He's gonna be coming in on a bargain basement deal

2161
01:57:34,760 --> 01:57:36,760
Speaker 1: no matter where he sizes. At this point, he's got

2162
01:57:36,800 --> 01:57:39,480
Speaker 1: money left. Well, here's the thing, Cleveland offered him a

2163
01:57:39,520 --> 01:57:42,680
Speaker 1: pretty good deal. I guess he balked it going taking

2164
01:57:42,760 --> 01:57:44,800
Speaker 1: the deal from Cleveland. They were the most aggressive with

2165
01:57:44,920 --> 01:57:49,680
Speaker 1: him financially, is what Adam Schefter said. And for whatever reason,

2166
01:57:49,800 --> 01:57:53,360
Speaker 1: and you can take your guess, Clowney did more playing Cleveland.

2167
01:57:54,280 --> 01:57:56,680
Speaker 1: He doesn't believe Cleveland's gonna turn it around. I guess

2168
01:57:58,080 --> 01:58:01,240
Speaker 1: it's not sable playing opposite Miles Jarett, though, I know

2169
01:58:01,840 --> 01:58:04,480
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get doubled every down. Like, my question is,

2170
01:58:04,600 --> 01:58:08,000
Speaker 1: what are you doing, I just go there for a year.

2171
01:58:09,280 --> 01:58:12,280
Speaker 1: He's hurting himself. I agree. I think it's true. He

2172
01:58:12,440 --> 01:58:16,760
Speaker 1: is hurting himself, even if nobody else he's If you've

2173
01:58:16,760 --> 01:58:19,360
Speaker 1: got a deal one year or not or five years

2174
01:58:19,360 --> 01:58:23,080
Speaker 1: at whatever signing, you know. I still can't believe the

2175
01:58:23,920 --> 01:58:25,560
Speaker 1: news we heard at the top of the hour that

2176
01:58:26,120 --> 01:58:29,280
Speaker 1: DeVante Freeman might sit the year out and come back

2177
01:58:29,400 --> 01:58:36,000
Speaker 1: next year. Uh. That defies logic for the running back position,

2178
01:58:36,400 --> 01:58:39,000
Speaker 1: maybe more than any other. I mean, how did that

2179
01:58:39,080 --> 01:58:40,800
Speaker 1: work out for Levy and Bell when he did that.

2180
01:58:42,160 --> 01:58:45,240
Speaker 1: I don't understand why DeVante Freeman would even entertain that

2181
01:58:45,960 --> 01:58:50,320
Speaker 1: Levion Bell left fifteen It's it's widely accepted that Levion

2182
01:58:50,440 --> 01:58:53,680
Speaker 1: Bell left fifteen million dollars on the table because of

2183
01:58:53,760 --> 01:58:57,640
Speaker 1: that um Andy law. But you don't have to play

2184
01:58:57,760 --> 01:59:01,400
Speaker 1: but a year of your career at the running position, Like,

2185
01:59:02,280 --> 01:59:04,400
Speaker 1: I don't know that there are too many running backs

2186
01:59:04,440 --> 01:59:08,000
Speaker 1: in the league that are ready to squander that and

2187
01:59:08,360 --> 01:59:11,240
Speaker 1: just sit on the sideline. That's just that was mind

2188
01:59:11,280 --> 01:59:13,440
Speaker 1: blowing to me when I heard that. Right, I think

2189
01:59:13,520 --> 01:59:15,400
Speaker 1: you got to get a contract if you're a player,

2190
01:59:15,600 --> 01:59:18,680
Speaker 1: and you get a good deal, a good not if

2191
01:59:18,720 --> 01:59:20,560
Speaker 1: it's not a great deal. Good, you gotta sign that

2192
01:59:21,360 --> 01:59:23,800
Speaker 1: because right now, say they call it a free agent,

2193
01:59:23,960 --> 01:59:27,280
Speaker 1: what it really is is unemployed and the job market

2194
01:59:27,400 --> 01:59:29,800
Speaker 1: is dried up. So now what are you gonna do? Well, yeah,

2195
01:59:29,800 --> 01:59:33,839
Speaker 1: what are you waiting around for? There's not some magical

2196
01:59:34,000 --> 01:59:36,080
Speaker 1: bucket of cash that's gonna fall out of a tree

2197
01:59:36,120 --> 01:59:38,880
Speaker 1: somewhere and hit you on the head. Yeah, you gotta

2198
01:59:38,920 --> 01:59:40,720
Speaker 1: take the best one year deal you can find in

2199
01:59:40,760 --> 01:59:42,720
Speaker 1: a situation where you feel you can rack up some

2200
01:59:42,880 --> 01:59:45,320
Speaker 1: stats so you can enter the free agent market next

2201
01:59:45,400 --> 01:59:49,400
Speaker 1: spring and cash in, because it's not happening this. To

2202
01:59:49,560 --> 01:59:51,800
Speaker 1: earn money in the NFL, you gotta be on the field.

2203
01:59:52,160 --> 01:59:54,120
Speaker 1: You gotta have be under contract. You gotta be on

2204
01:59:54,200 --> 01:59:56,680
Speaker 1: the field and in this and if you're not on

2205
01:59:56,760 --> 01:59:58,360
Speaker 1: a team, you can't get on the field. And in

2206
01:59:58,480 --> 02:00:02,320
Speaker 1: this unusual set circumstances that we have in this offseason,

2207
02:00:02,720 --> 02:00:06,920
Speaker 1: where owners are legitimately concerned about the revenue streams, do

2208
02:00:07,080 --> 02:00:09,560
Speaker 1: you really think anybody's paying you big money right now?

2209
02:00:09,680 --> 02:00:12,760
Speaker 1: I mean no more than ever with a capital INN

2210
02:00:12,840 --> 02:00:15,600
Speaker 1: and a capital oz. Alright, come on, clowney, So we

2211
02:00:15,720 --> 02:00:18,480
Speaker 1: both think it's tram here. We think that's true Davian

2212
02:00:18,560 --> 02:00:20,880
Speaker 1: Connie is hurting himself by waiting to sign with a team.

2213
02:00:20,880 --> 02:00:22,800
Speaker 1: All right, NFL number three is the last one week,

2214
02:00:22,840 --> 02:00:27,160
Speaker 1: and there's a lot to chew on here, Brownie, NFL

2215
02:00:27,200 --> 02:00:31,800
Speaker 1: true false number three. The NFL needs a developmental league

2216
02:00:31,920 --> 02:00:36,960
Speaker 1: now more than ever. One hundred one thousand percent true.

2217
02:00:39,360 --> 02:00:42,760
Speaker 1: I had a long conversation on this show. It went

2218
02:00:42,840 --> 02:00:45,520
Speaker 1: for about an hour. We had Jim Kelly in studio

2219
02:00:46,160 --> 02:00:48,640
Speaker 1: and I was talking to him about a developmental league

2220
02:00:48,680 --> 02:00:51,560
Speaker 1: for football, and we talked about the demise of NFL

2221
02:00:51,680 --> 02:00:55,000
Speaker 1: Europe and what a great feeder system it was for

2222
02:00:55,120 --> 02:00:58,320
Speaker 1: the NFL for the ten twelve years it was in existence,

2223
02:00:58,960 --> 02:01:03,120
Speaker 1: and when that went away, the league suffered from a

2224
02:01:03,240 --> 02:01:08,960
Speaker 1: developmental standpoint because coaching staffs in the league weren't as

2225
02:01:09,600 --> 02:01:15,120
Speaker 1: stringently built to teach and develop. And it took some

2226
02:01:15,240 --> 02:01:17,960
Speaker 1: adjusting by a lot of these teams across the league

2227
02:01:18,360 --> 02:01:22,240
Speaker 1: to have more teaching type coaches on their staff, recognizing

2228
02:01:22,600 --> 02:01:26,240
Speaker 1: the gap in player development as the college and pro

2229
02:01:26,400 --> 02:01:30,200
Speaker 1: game separated and separated and separated one from the other

2230
02:01:30,280 --> 02:01:34,440
Speaker 1: all the more in terms of types of play. It

2231
02:01:34,560 --> 02:01:37,000
Speaker 1: was a different era. It was a different era. Yeah,

2232
02:01:37,040 --> 02:01:39,600
Speaker 1: And admittedly what you're and what you're saying is is

2233
02:01:39,680 --> 02:01:41,480
Speaker 1: this and here's the way it was. You're you're right

2234
02:01:42,600 --> 02:01:44,600
Speaker 1: back in the day when I came in and got

2235
02:01:44,680 --> 02:01:47,440
Speaker 1: and before me and for a while after me, before NFL.

2236
02:01:47,480 --> 02:01:50,080
Speaker 1: You'repen all that. You would come into the NFL and

2237
02:01:50,160 --> 02:01:52,320
Speaker 1: they say, Okay, here's our concepts, here's what you're gonna

2238
02:01:52,320 --> 02:01:55,640
Speaker 1: do and whatever, and go do it um now, and

2239
02:01:56,040 --> 02:01:57,280
Speaker 1: they and the guys would come in and if you

2240
02:01:57,400 --> 02:02:00,919
Speaker 1: had learned enough or if you were gifted enough to dominate,

2241
02:02:01,680 --> 02:02:04,320
Speaker 1: that's how you would play, if you were gifted or

2242
02:02:04,400 --> 02:02:06,000
Speaker 1: better than the other guy they had on the roster.

2243
02:02:06,200 --> 02:02:09,680
Speaker 1: Now you've got it's down to the fact where it's

2244
02:02:10,120 --> 02:02:12,360
Speaker 1: all about technique. Not only do you have to know

2245
02:02:12,520 --> 02:02:14,480
Speaker 1: the concepts, you have to know where to line up

2246
02:02:14,520 --> 02:02:16,840
Speaker 1: and know what route to run. You've got to have

2247
02:02:17,040 --> 02:02:22,120
Speaker 1: techniques to unveil and to use against the defenses that

2248
02:02:22,200 --> 02:02:24,320
Speaker 1: are and the guy that's playing you hand to hand

2249
02:02:24,400 --> 02:02:28,840
Speaker 1: combat as a defensive lineman. Footwork, stance, with of stance,

2250
02:02:28,880 --> 02:02:30,960
Speaker 1: with of splits. All of this stuff is you know,

2251
02:02:31,120 --> 02:02:34,240
Speaker 1: shade outside, shade inside, inside, shade, which hand you want

2252
02:02:34,240 --> 02:02:36,440
Speaker 1: on the ground on a certain down. All of that

2253
02:02:36,600 --> 02:02:40,800
Speaker 1: stuff nobody was teaching it because they didn't. It wasn't

2254
02:02:40,840 --> 02:02:42,760
Speaker 1: the way they were wired in the NFL. And then,

2255
02:02:43,800 --> 02:02:45,480
Speaker 1: you know, so you get these guys that can hang

2256
02:02:45,520 --> 02:02:47,160
Speaker 1: around for a year or two. Then they develop and

2257
02:02:47,320 --> 02:02:49,520
Speaker 1: some of the older players start to they watch it

2258
02:02:49,560 --> 02:02:52,360
Speaker 1: and they're smart enough to learn. That's how they became

2259
02:02:52,480 --> 02:02:58,560
Speaker 1: great and productive players with a with a developmental league.

2260
02:02:59,520 --> 02:03:02,840
Speaker 1: Now you've the NFL's changed as well. Now they've got

2261
02:03:02,880 --> 02:03:05,320
Speaker 1: teachers league at like Sean McDermott's staff. Oh my, you know,

2262
02:03:05,400 --> 02:03:08,640
Speaker 1: they develop players. They are very good at it, and

2263
02:03:08,720 --> 02:03:11,600
Speaker 1: it served them well. More and more teams are doing that,

2264
02:03:12,080 --> 02:03:16,160
Speaker 1: so that kind of negates than this the need for

2265
02:03:16,240 --> 02:03:19,680
Speaker 1: a developmental league. But that's only the only guys that

2266
02:03:19,760 --> 02:03:21,880
Speaker 1: are getting developed are the ones that actually get draft

2267
02:03:21,960 --> 02:03:24,400
Speaker 1: and signed and having you know, we're on a practice squad.

2268
02:03:25,240 --> 02:03:28,720
Speaker 1: And I think that whatever population outside the NFL and

2269
02:03:28,800 --> 02:03:31,440
Speaker 1: those rosters is out there, those are the guys that

2270
02:03:31,480 --> 02:03:33,760
Speaker 1: are missing out and never get a play. I just

2271
02:03:33,880 --> 02:03:38,080
Speaker 1: read something yesterday saying there was an opinion column and

2272
02:03:38,160 --> 02:03:42,960
Speaker 1: the writer was saying the NFL should buy the XFL

2273
02:03:43,480 --> 02:03:46,720
Speaker 1: and make it their developmental league. You got an eight

2274
02:03:46,760 --> 02:03:50,160
Speaker 1: team league, you have player allocations, just like you did

2275
02:03:50,200 --> 02:03:55,320
Speaker 1: with NFL Europe, where NFL clubs can allocate certain players

2276
02:03:55,400 --> 02:03:57,880
Speaker 1: to play there in the spring and summer. They'll still

2277
02:03:57,880 --> 02:03:59,880
Speaker 1: be able to come to training camp and get back

2278
02:04:00,000 --> 02:04:03,400
Speaker 1: in your systems, you know, come the NFL season and

2279
02:04:03,840 --> 02:04:05,840
Speaker 1: granted that might be a long year for them, but

2280
02:04:06,400 --> 02:04:08,480
Speaker 1: if they have a chance to make it because they've

2281
02:04:08,520 --> 02:04:11,120
Speaker 1: developed for a couple of years in the XFL, well,

2282
02:04:11,200 --> 02:04:16,280
Speaker 1: now you've created a valuable pipeline and you put coaches

2283
02:04:16,320 --> 02:04:20,320
Speaker 1: in that league that coach more pro style than that

2284
02:04:20,400 --> 02:04:23,520
Speaker 1: maybe wide open college where you have guys here and

2285
02:04:23,600 --> 02:04:26,360
Speaker 1: plays in the huddle. They're not getting plays from the sideline.

2286
02:04:27,400 --> 02:04:29,800
Speaker 1: They're running a full rou tree. If they're a receiver,

2287
02:04:30,920 --> 02:04:34,560
Speaker 1: you can cater it to the things that you need

2288
02:04:34,600 --> 02:04:37,680
Speaker 1: your players to be able to do. There's more control there,

2289
02:04:38,280 --> 02:04:40,600
Speaker 1: and I think it makes a ton of sense. Now,

2290
02:04:40,960 --> 02:04:44,360
Speaker 1: maybe the timing is bad because of this COVID nineteen

2291
02:04:44,680 --> 02:04:49,280
Speaker 1: mess that we're in here market, it's a buyer's market

2292
02:04:49,320 --> 02:04:52,480
Speaker 1: if you've got the cash to get it. They're in bankruptcy.

2293
02:04:52,720 --> 02:04:54,840
Speaker 1: The xfls in bankruptcy. You can pick it up for

2294
02:04:54,920 --> 02:04:56,480
Speaker 1: the But the problem is this, and I'll read this

2295
02:04:56,640 --> 02:04:59,600
Speaker 1: from CBS Sports. I'm not sure of who the author is,

2296
02:05:00,360 --> 02:05:04,480
Speaker 1: but from CBS sports dot com, the XFL is a

2297
02:05:04,560 --> 02:05:08,080
Speaker 1: perfect fit to improve the league's diversity. Depth interested in

2298
02:05:08,080 --> 02:05:11,160
Speaker 1: the defunct XFL is quite high. According to reports, there

2299
02:05:11,200 --> 02:05:15,120
Speaker 1: are dozens of motivated and qualified parties looking to purchase

2300
02:05:15,200 --> 02:05:18,480
Speaker 1: the league in bankruptcy proceedings, with an eye to relaunching

2301
02:05:18,520 --> 02:05:21,360
Speaker 1: it as soon as February, according to The Athletic. That's

2302
02:05:21,480 --> 02:05:26,240
Speaker 1: according CBS quoting The Athletic that BIGS. One obvious question

2303
02:05:26,320 --> 02:05:29,720
Speaker 1: is why not the NFL. Well, why doesn't the NFL

2304
02:05:29,880 --> 02:05:34,120
Speaker 1: just scoop it up, incorporated into use their players and

2305
02:05:34,480 --> 02:05:39,720
Speaker 1: others to run that league, sell tickets, sell TV rights

2306
02:05:39,760 --> 02:05:42,560
Speaker 1: in the spring, and all of a sudden, you've got

2307
02:05:42,640 --> 02:05:44,760
Speaker 1: the NFL in the fall and stuff, and you don't

2308
02:05:44,800 --> 02:05:46,600
Speaker 1: have to go year round. Then then you've got a

2309
02:05:46,680 --> 02:05:49,720
Speaker 1: league of your own, a developmental league that takes you

2310
02:05:49,840 --> 02:05:53,560
Speaker 1: through the off season, and your TV rights don't get small,

2311
02:05:53,640 --> 02:05:55,840
Speaker 1: they get big, right, And I'm going to take it

2312
02:05:55,920 --> 02:05:59,080
Speaker 1: a step further. I'll give you a secondary benefit. With

2313
02:05:59,280 --> 02:06:02,120
Speaker 1: all that they're trying to do to increase the rate

2314
02:06:02,200 --> 02:06:09,200
Speaker 1: of minority hires, here's another another place to groom legitimate

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Speaker 1: future head coaching candidates by giving them a ton more

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Speaker 1: responsibility in running football teams in the XFL, you want

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Speaker 1: to fast track some minority candidates to the head coaching

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Speaker 1: ranks in the NFL, have a developmental league to develop

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Speaker 1: them as coaches as well. It's exactly right. It's a

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Speaker 1: great idea, and you know, and you can. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how. It's in bankruptcy, you know. Vince McMahon was

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Speaker 1: accused of trying to buy his own league back in bankruptcy.

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Speaker 1: He said he doesn't want it, and it'll be interesting

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Speaker 1: to see what happens with it. But that's an intriguing

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Speaker 1: option for the NFL that I had not given any

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Speaker 1: thought to at all. I love it, I think, and

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Speaker 1: I think it has to happen well, frankly, because and yes,

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Speaker 1: some of what college football has become has migrated to

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Speaker 1: the NFL, maybe more so in the last three or

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Speaker 1: four years than certainly in the previous five. So it

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Speaker 1: is changing and going that way. But the best thing

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Speaker 1: about a developmental league is you can shape it and

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Speaker 1: mold it to fit the developmental properties you wanted to have,

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Speaker 1: So you have a pipeline of plug and play type players.

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Speaker 1: What kind of player would Robert Foster be now entering

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Speaker 1: his third NFL season if he was a regular starter

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Speaker 1: for twenty games the last two years in the XFL,

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Speaker 1: he'd be a better player than he is now because

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Speaker 1: he's playing in real games, live action, you know, making

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Speaker 1: sight adjusts and all that other stuff. That's where it's at.

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Speaker 1: I think they've got to really explore that for a

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Speaker 1: number of reasons. I agree that's NFL true false. Brought

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Speaker 1: Chris Browns, t tasperhel till three will be right back.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. This is One Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: brought light of Health. What do We Learned? Brought to

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Speaker 1: you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company of

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. We had Solomon Wilcot's on our show

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Speaker 1: earlier today. He had a lot to talk about, particularly

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Speaker 1: with young quarterbacks and also with the optimism surrounding the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Here's what Solomon had to say about that optimism.

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Speaker 1: I love what Shamservin has done with rebuilding that team.

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Speaker 1: You know, the defense I think is the core of

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Speaker 1: that football team, and like say the New England Pacers

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Speaker 1: and even a couple of other teams, I think the

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Speaker 1: Bills are doing a great job of building their defense

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Speaker 1: from the back end to the front. Coverage comes first

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Speaker 1: and today's National Football Ague and I don't know it.

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Speaker 1: You can't let teams throw it over your head. You

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Speaker 1: can't give up big plays. And this secondary is easily

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Speaker 1: one of the best in the NFL for the last year,

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Speaker 1: and I think they continue to get better. The offenses

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Speaker 1: now added some pieces that we just love, and this

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Speaker 1: is really good. Everybody talks about Josh Allen and for

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Speaker 1: good reason, because they surrounded him with talent and in

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Speaker 1: his third season, that's when you start to see what

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Speaker 1: you got. That was Solomon Wilcotson. What we learned brought

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Speaker 1: rental of rental company of the Buffalo Bills. Brownie There's

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Speaker 1: We had a Twitter poll as well, other than Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: which offensive player on the Bills roster has the most

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Speaker 1: approved in twenty twenty. Dawson Knox won it with thirty

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Speaker 1: eight thirty nine percent of the vote. Stefan Diggs was

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Speaker 1: second with thirty six percent of the vote, and Dion

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Speaker 1: Dawkins was third, and every eight percent said somebody else.

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Speaker 1: So I guess it's no big surprise there. Those guys

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Speaker 1: are pretty obvious candidates. Yeah, Knox is interesting, you know,

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Speaker 1: as we were talking about yesterday, He's kind of an

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Speaker 1: under the radar type weapon that could be on the

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Speaker 1: come and be a bigger contributor than I think many

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Speaker 1: outside observers are expecting with all the focus being put

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Speaker 1: on Diggs, Brown and Beasley, so he's going to see

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Speaker 1: a lot of one on ones. There's going to be

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Speaker 1: times where he has favorable matchups on linebackers or even

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Speaker 1: some safeties just because of his pure athleticism and size,

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Speaker 1: and if he can make his catch rate a little

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Speaker 1: bit more consistent, it's another weapon in Josh Allen's toolbox

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Speaker 1: to take advantage of Steve. There is one update on

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Speaker 1: that fourth and fifteen proposal that ultimately was not even

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Speaker 1: voted on, so it says this is from Tom Palaceero

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Speaker 1: from NFL Network. There was no official vote on the

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Speaker 1: fourth and fifteen proposal, but they did take a virtual

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Speaker 1: show of hands during the call and it did not

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Speaker 1: have the support to pass at this time, so it

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Speaker 1: would have needed twenty four thirty two votes, as you know,

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Speaker 1: and it didn't have it, so they didn't vote on it.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's it. Thanks Jay Harris, Thanks Kelly Rude,

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Speaker 1: Thanks Joe de Biasi. We'll be back tomorrow One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live from Home just Radio for the next coming weeks.

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Speaker 1: As for the obvious reasons, thanks everybody for joining us.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow.