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Speaker 1: Here once again, Steve task along with John Murphy on

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live. There's a post up today on NFL

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Speaker 1: make the playoffs in two and eighteen. We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: it at one o'clock. Now, at two o'clock, Mike ten

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Speaker 1: Year Bleacher Report's gonna come on. He's gonna tell us

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Speaker 1: which teams are the most underrated in two thousan eighteen.

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Speaker 1: He's also got some thoughts about some quarterbacks, Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 1: and Cam Newt. Of course, we want to hear from

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Speaker 1: you on the phones are on Twitter. Which AFC East

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Speaker 1: Now we're on until three o'clock. But One Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: starts right now, Ohio, Steve Tasker the touchdown touchdown Buckstown

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Speaker 1: westover time? Is this on? Because it's about to begin? Said,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the show, and One Bill's Live, John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker here until three, but it starts right now.

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Speaker 1: You like, welcome to the show. Yeah, yeah, we're until three,

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Speaker 1: but it starts right now. It really doesn't make a

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Speaker 1: new one. I'm gonna say that every time I say that. One.

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Speaker 1: We're until three, but we start right right now. Because

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Speaker 1: hours of Bill's talk with you today, John Murphy, Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker from our One Buffalo studio in Orchard Park, New York.

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Speaker 1: I'd say it every day now. But yet another beautiful day, Steve.

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Speaker 1: For as bad as it was back in April and March,

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Speaker 1: I'm completely distracted by weather. The weather and the the

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Speaker 1: Open Championships one, and every time I watch it on TV,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I want to go play, but you

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Speaker 1: because I shot the round of your life. I gotta

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Speaker 1: game now because I've I've kind of reached the pinnacle

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Speaker 1: of everything. You wouldn't say it yesterday on the air.

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Speaker 1: You said you didn't want to talk about it, but

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's just my counsel demeanor certainly isn't my shot?

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Speaker 1: Just having you in my life every day has made

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Speaker 1: green and orange, you know, so I you know which

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Speaker 1: team they're with. And I put the Bills in blue

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Speaker 1: or red or red and blue, whichever it happens to be.

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Speaker 1: So um, I don't really go any further than that

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Speaker 1: with my color coding. Man, that's complicated. You have to

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Speaker 1: put him in this restricted free agency. It just forces

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Speaker 1: you to consider where did this guy come from, what's

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Speaker 1: he doing on the rest or what's his place on

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Speaker 1: this rost. I got what you're looking for. The other

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Speaker 1: thing people always say, oh, those preseason games, ninety man roster,

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Speaker 1: that must make it really tough. Yes it does, but

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Speaker 1: you know it really makes preseason tough for me and

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Speaker 1: i'd be able to sit in your take on this

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Speaker 1: is the lack of cohesion to the game. You know,

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Speaker 1: it's not really a game. It's you know, one hundred

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Speaker 1: eighty different auditions going on simultaneously. So there's really very little,

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Speaker 1: you know, part of the game that looks like a

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Speaker 1: football game or acts like a football game. It's like,

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Speaker 1: here's this group, now, one of these guys, all these

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Speaker 1: guys trying to make plays. Who's standing out. It's not

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Speaker 1: like a real game. There's no cohesion, there's no you know,

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Speaker 1: game line, game storyline to it, and that tends to

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Speaker 1: the game's break down the longer they go preseason, and

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Speaker 1: that tends to make those games more difficult than ross.

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Speaker 1: I think for most people, we see it that way,

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Speaker 1: much more so than just a casual fan that would

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Speaker 1: see it, because we know too that the play selection,

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Speaker 1: the situational decisions that coaching staffs make are all skewed

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Speaker 1: because it's the most human part of football, because it's

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Speaker 1: the game that is not about the result, it's about

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Speaker 1: the players playing in it. And that's an amazing ripple

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Speaker 1: effect of how it affects the decisions that are made,

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Speaker 1: the plays that are called the formations that are called.

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Speaker 1: The people that are on the field, the limited number

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Speaker 1: of plays they have in the game, planned their zero

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Speaker 1: game plan, and it's really makes for a different kind

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Speaker 1: of feel when you watch these games. And I know

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Speaker 1: a lot of Bills fans who have watched these games.

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Speaker 1: They all know. But to try and articulate it's pretty

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Speaker 1: difficult because it comes from something that has nothing to

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Speaker 1: do with football. It's not the people playing it rather

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Speaker 1: than the result. Score doesn't matter and game situation doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: Where in a real game, you'll be like that's all that.

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Speaker 1: You can even tell the story with your voice, like, okay,

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Speaker 1: the Bills down by four, they have the football here

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter? Well in a preseason game, nobody. That's the

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Speaker 1: most difficult part. Now do we get down this path?

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Speaker 1: We haven't talked about the show yet. We are just

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Speaker 1: getting started. We're here until three. Mike ten Years going

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Speaker 1: to join us at two o'clock from bleacher Report. He's

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Speaker 1: kind of written a wide variety of articles about a

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Speaker 1: bunch of different things, although them interesting, Steve, I read

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Speaker 1: a bunch of them last night and this morning. Mike Tanyer,

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Speaker 1: who is a bleacher Report NFL national lead writer, a

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Speaker 1: couple of things he wrote about that I found very interesting.

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Speaker 1: The most underrated teams in the NFL zany football strategies

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Speaker 1: so crazy they might work. Here's the one that I

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Speaker 1: found interesting. The NFL and Millennials, the players who are

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Speaker 1: millennials and why the league should embrace them, And it

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Speaker 1: was very interesting. Take Tanyar wrote just about how the

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Speaker 1: younger players in the league now have a different way

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Speaker 1: of learning than the players who came up twenty years ago,

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Speaker 1: even your era. You know, they have a different way

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Speaker 1: of applying themselves, different way of learning, different I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to say, you know, a shorter attention span, but

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Speaker 1: let's face it, we all do have a shorter attention

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Speaker 1: span than we did twenty years ago. And Mike Tanyer

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Speaker 1: wrote a pretty interesting post on the Bleacher Report about

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Speaker 1: how coaches should adapt to that. Anyway, He's got a

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Speaker 1: wide road. I think some of them are. I mean,

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Speaker 1: now that you're using a lot, there's no playbooks anymore.

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Speaker 1: It's all on surface, that's all electronic. The technologies they

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Speaker 1: use in their teaching in the classrooms are way far

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Speaker 1: beyond anything they ever had back in you know, the

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Speaker 1: glory days of pro football back in the sixties and seventies,

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Speaker 1: it was it's all different and because and there was

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Speaker 1: articles coming out about the money that the packers released

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Speaker 1: their financial statement and that was splashed all over the internet.

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Speaker 1: So the league is doing fine financially and rumors about

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Speaker 1: its demise are greatly exaggerated. And so the money is

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Speaker 1: there for the teams to use the highest level of

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Speaker 1: technology to help their guys learn. So I think Mike

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Speaker 1: Tanier has a point in his articles saying that you

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Speaker 1: have to change the way you teach these guys because

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Speaker 1: they grew up in a different culture and a more

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Speaker 1: technologically advanced culture than anybody before them. But I think

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Speaker 1: the league is on top of it. It started all

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Speaker 1: the way back in my broadcasting career with Brian Billick

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Speaker 1: in Baltimore. He told us told me one time one

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Speaker 1: of the biggest things he did was incorporate technology into

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Speaker 1: their building, into the way that the players every day

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Speaker 1: meeting time with each other and with their position coaches.

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Speaker 1: It was all permeated with new technolog oology. So it's

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Speaker 1: it's coming and it's here for the most part. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I think teams are going to maximize it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So we'll talk with my tenure about that at two o'clock.

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Speaker 1: A lot more to talk about today, including our Question

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Speaker 1: of the day, our Twitter poll, which we'll get into

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Speaker 1: here in a couple of minutes with your phone calls.

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Speaker 1: But you look around now as teams approach training camp,

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Speaker 1: and we're about a week away from camps for most

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Speaker 1: of these teams AFC East where the Bills do their business.

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Speaker 1: Which AFC East teams team has the most question marks

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Speaker 1: heading into training camp? I think it's a valid question

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Speaker 1: because you watch these teams, you cover these teams. Even

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Speaker 1: the Patriots AFC champion Patriots have had I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to say a bad offseason, but there's been some bumps

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Speaker 1: in the road, right with the no fund Patriots, with

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Speaker 1: Balitchick and Brady kind of bad odds, Brady's absence from

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Speaker 1: some of the voluntary workouts. Even the Patriots have had

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Speaker 1: a bumpy road this offseason, along with the Jets, the Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: and the Bills. Which one has the most question marks?

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Speaker 1: What do you think? Give us a call. We'll get

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Speaker 1: your phone calls in a moment eight three fifty free

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight by fifty two five fifty. You

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Speaker 1: can do it on Twitter. At John Murphy Show. I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't make the rong rent. The Dolphins have probably had

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Speaker 1: them have the most question marks as they had to

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Speaker 1: training camp with some of the players they've lost and

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Speaker 1: what they're hoping to replace them with and sort of

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Speaker 1: the change in culture. It is our Twitter poll. Can

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Speaker 1: I read you the results? You might found this interesting.

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Speaker 1: Let's hear it on Twitter? Which AFC East team has

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Speaker 1: the most question marks? White majority? Fifty eight percent say

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Speaker 1: it's the Bills. And keep in mind who is listening

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Speaker 1: to this and following this. Bills fans think the Bills

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Speaker 1: have the most question marks. Okay, that's valid if you

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Speaker 1: believe that, give us a call. Twenty percent say it's

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins. That's be where I would vote. Eighteen percent

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Speaker 1: say the Jets, four percent say the Patriots. What would

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Speaker 1: you say, Steve? I would actually say the Dolphins. They've

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Speaker 1: got a situation down there where they lost You know

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Speaker 1: that they're a really good receiver went to Cleveland, j

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Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry and Dominican Sue left two years ago. They

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Speaker 1: lost Olivier Vernon who went to the Giants. They've lost

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Speaker 1: guys lost as they lost as many guys as the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills did last year in trades in free agency,

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Speaker 1: and they were talented players. Ryan Tannehill's coming back, their

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Speaker 1: starting quarterback, coming back after he was a good quarterback

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Speaker 1: they got to the playoffs two years ago if you remember,

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Speaker 1: but coming off an acl Ryan Tannehill has never been

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Speaker 1: considered an elite quarterback, an okay, starting quarterback. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: now he's bouncing back after a year where they had

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Speaker 1: to go to Jay Cutler. They said goodbye to Jay

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Speaker 1: Agi went to the Philadelphia Eagles. So they've got some

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Speaker 1: real question marks offensively as many as the Buffalo Bills do,

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Speaker 1: and defensively they lost some really good players. So I

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Speaker 1: think they've they've It's been said that Adam gas is

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Speaker 1: on the hot seat. This will be his third year

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Speaker 1: after a playoff year in his first year, a step

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Speaker 1: backwards last year. I think he's under the microscope. I

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Speaker 1: don't think he's on the hot seat, but I certainly

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Speaker 1: do think he's going to be evaluated as well how

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Speaker 1: well he bounces back with a roster that is less talented.

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Speaker 1: The results of our Twitter polls so far I find

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Speaker 1: really interesting. I mean, obviously, this is a show that

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Speaker 1: appeals to Bills fans. You would think our respondents are

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Speaker 1: Bills fans, and yet most of them fifty eight percent

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Speaker 1: say it's the Bills that have the most question marks.

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Speaker 1: I know why you might think that, but let me

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Speaker 1: hear you describe it to us. To give us a call.

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Speaker 1: Lines are open eight to three five fifty, toll free

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight by fifty two five fifty. Will

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Speaker 1: take a break, then we'll take your calls to get

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Speaker 1: him on the air or read your tweets. Which AFC

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Speaker 1: East team has the most question marks heading into training camp?

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Speaker 1: Fifty eight percent of you say it's the Bills. If so,

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Speaker 1: give us a call at eight o three five fifty

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Speaker 1: and toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty. John Murphy, Steve Tasker from One Bill's Drive.

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Speaker 1: It is One Bill's Live presented by Kalidah Health and

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Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bills Radio. He'll welcome back at One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Lives Steve Taske along with John Murphy. We're talking

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Speaker 1: about which AFC East team has the most approve or

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Speaker 1: has the most question marks heading into training camp. The

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills are running away with that. You might expect

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Speaker 1: because most people that listen to us, are you know

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Speaker 1: they know the Bills better than anybody, and so they're

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Speaker 1: they're like, I don't know, I mean maybe the Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: And there are question marks. Let's face it. First of all,

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Speaker 1: Buffalo's best player running back, Lashan McCoy. That's a question mark,

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Speaker 1: remains a question mark. Is he going to be there

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Speaker 1: for the start of the season. Is he going to

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Speaker 1: be there at all? Question mark? Is he gonna survived that?

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Speaker 1: Is he going to survive this this um situation with

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Speaker 1: his ex girlfriend, uh and the and what happened to

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Speaker 1: her in the home invasion. That's one. That's one question.

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Speaker 1: Question two for the Bills and it's it's pretty huge.

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Speaker 1: Who's going to be the starting quarterback? You're asking me

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Speaker 1: a huge I would guess a J McCarron, but maybe

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be Josh Allen. Maybe it'll be Nathan Peterman.

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Speaker 1: Big question. So that's two big question marks heading up

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Speaker 1: for the Bills. Middle of the offensive line would incognito gone,

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Speaker 1: There'll be new starters there. Now. I feel pretty good

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Speaker 1: about who they've got to back them up, but I

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Speaker 1: can see why people would have a question about that.

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Speaker 1: Ye wide receiver opposite Kelvin Benjamin question mark, Um, you

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Speaker 1: want to can Charles Clay stay healthy? Question mark? I

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Speaker 1: want to talk about defense. Is Trent Murphy going to

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Speaker 1: be ready to contribute right away? He isn't practiced yet

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Speaker 1: coming off his injury. Um. Starlot Lee should be an upgrad? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Can they get more sacks than they got last year?

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Speaker 1: They need him desperately. Is their linebacking corp going to

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Speaker 1: be better or less experienced with Termaine Edmonds in the

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Speaker 1: middle rookie middle linebacker. F The other thing that's a

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Speaker 1: solid start is that you know that you've got better

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Speaker 1: talent upfront on the defense, and you've got a returning secondary,

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Speaker 1: although you have replaced EJ. Gaines with m Vontae Davis,

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Speaker 1: so your secondary looks to be intact, and really the

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Speaker 1: lynchpin of your defense. And most of the question marks

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Speaker 1: for me lie on the offensive side of the football,

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Speaker 1: both and at every position group really, because they they've

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Speaker 1: changed out some guys on the offensive line shady. Now,

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Speaker 1: up until it wasn't it was the only non question mark.

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Speaker 1: And yet now that even that has has been thrown

639
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Speaker 1: into doubt. The wide receiver corps, I mean, all of it.

640
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Speaker 1: So it's the offense. But let's face it, they were

641
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Speaker 1: you know, they were not a good offense last year,

642
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Speaker 1: so it's not like the bar is really high for

643
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Speaker 1: them to be improved, right, So let us know what

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Speaker 1: you think. Fifty eight percent of you think the Bills

645
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Speaker 1: had the most question marks of any AFC East team

646
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Speaker 1: headed into camp next week. If you believe that, or

647
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Speaker 1: if you believe somebody else, give us a call. The

648
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: phone line is wide open. You'll get on eighth three

649
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Speaker 1: five fifty or toll free one eight eight eight five

650
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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. Fifty eight percent say the Bills,

651
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Speaker 1: Twenty one percent say the Dolphins, eighteen percent say the Jets.

652
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Speaker 1: We haven't talked about that, but the Jets have a

653
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Speaker 1: bit of a quarterback question. I think McCown probably likely

654
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Speaker 1: to start, but they have other questions as well. I

655
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Speaker 1: think the Jets maybe not quite as many as the Dolphins,

656
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Speaker 1: and only three percent say the Patriots. A lot of

657
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Speaker 1: what we're asking is what your expectation level is I

658
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Speaker 1: believe for these teams, right, yeah, exactly, And people, I

659
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: think indicated by the Twitter poll results have are doubtful

660
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Speaker 1: about high expectations for the bills and not so much

661
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Speaker 1: for the Patriots. I believe that's probably true. Yeah, we're

662
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Speaker 1: getting a lot of Most of our feedback comes from

663
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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, and Tiffany Daniels tweets in Miami looks

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Speaker 1: like a two and fourteen team on paper. They have

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Speaker 1: question marks at QB O line. They have moved on

666
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Speaker 1: from most of their talented players, Landry Pouncy, Sue and

667
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Speaker 1: Adam Gay's head coach is a lousy head coach, Tiffany

668
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Speaker 1: Daniels says, And it looked like most like he lost

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Speaker 1: his locker room last year. That's inferring a lot. But

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Speaker 1: I agree with Tiffany, Yeah, I think he did lose

671
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: that locker room. They were undisciplined right to the end,

672
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Speaker 1: and discipline when they played here in Buffalo earlier in December.

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Speaker 1: Question marks at quarterback with Ryan Tannehill coming off the

674
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Speaker 1: injury oline different. A lot of talented players have gone

675
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Speaker 1: and I just don't know. We'll see, but I don't

676
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Speaker 1: know that Adam Gaze is the answer for them. We'll see.

677
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Speaker 1: I think he's a play caller. I've said this before

678
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Speaker 1: in the show. I don't know if he's a head coach.

679
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Speaker 1: I think he's a play caller. Yeah, I agree, we'll

680
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Speaker 1: see it. Although they did. Let's face it, he came

681
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Speaker 1: in his first year and they went ten and six

682
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Speaker 1: and went to the playoffs. The guys and I've I've

683
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 1: told you this before, I kind of like him. I

684
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Speaker 1: mean I've I've worked with him and been in production me.

685
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Speaker 1: He's with him cover to Miami Dolphins under his head

686
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Speaker 1: coach there in Miami, and he's a young, energetic guy.

687
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Speaker 1: We had just a discussion just before the break about

688
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Speaker 1: how the league kind of has to change to talk

689
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Speaker 1: to him and teach the millennials. Gays does that. I mean,

690
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Speaker 1: he comes in with that kind of young energy and

691
00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: that that mindset and I think it spoke to his

692
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 1: players two years ago. But last year, there's no question

693
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Speaker 1: they took a step back. Most of it was because

694
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Speaker 1: Tannehill got hurt at the most interopportune time for them,

695
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Speaker 1: and he ended up having Jay Cutler, who you know,

696
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Speaker 1: it's not an easy guy to rally around. Plus they

697
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Speaker 1: had you know, Jay and JAYI checked out early, right,

698
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 1: they didn't take him on the road trip, and then

699
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Speaker 1: they traded him. And I just feel like Adam Gays

700
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Speaker 1: in some respects lost that team last year with the

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Speaker 1: Jedge thing and what he was trying to do. It's

702
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Speaker 1: almost like he tried to change the culture in the

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Speaker 1: middle of the season, which would be a bit of

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00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,680
Speaker 1: a mistake. Wandering Jack's tweet, you want to read that,

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Speaker 1: I think he is spot I'm here says it's the Bills.

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Speaker 1: As much as I hate to admit it, the only

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00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:24,200
Speaker 1: team that are the question those The only certainties are

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Speaker 1: left tackle, defensive tackle, and the secondary. That doesn't mean

709
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Speaker 1: they won't figure it out or have a good season,

710
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: but right now it's all up in the air. Quarterback,

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00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: wide receiver, running back with the shady issue, and the

712
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 1: rest of the old line, plus who will play defensive

713
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: end in linebackers. There's a ton of questions. And that's

714
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: from wondering Jack, and he's right, and that's why a

715
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:47,040
Speaker 1: lot of people you kind of write the Bills off

716
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Speaker 1: as just you know, they're going to be one of

717
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: those also ran teams. They may win a few games

718
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,479
Speaker 1: if if the strength of their team can can step up.

719
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Speaker 1: But I also think you know, I've told you this

720
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Speaker 1: and I still believe it. I'm not getting caught up

721
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 1: in in this. You know negativity of you know, they've

722
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,360
Speaker 1: got too many question marks because I see what they

723
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Speaker 1: were last year at the end of the season, what

724
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Speaker 1: their identity was, and this team is going to be

725
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: different than that. I know it is. Uh, there's two

726
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 1: things we're going to talk about this. There was an

727
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 1: article that came out Five Reasons is why why the

728
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Speaker 1: Bills will make the playoffs is by Mark Sessler of

729
00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: the NFL dot of nfl dot com. But it comes

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Speaker 1: down to this two things. For me. One, the defense

731
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Speaker 1: is going to be very competitive. I think it's gonna

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00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 1: be a top ten defense. And their ability last year

733
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 1: to get turnovers is really going to be a plus

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Speaker 1: for them. That's one reason. The other reason is Sean

735
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: McDermott and the program that they've installed is one that

736
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 1: I believe is on the rise. I don't think this

737
00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 1: is the kind of program or process that we're the

738
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Speaker 1: Bills are in right now that will take a big

739
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 1: step backwards. I think they're a team that's going to

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Speaker 1: take a step forwards. And I think that this roster,

741
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 1: particularly with an upgraded defense, is going to show show

742
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Speaker 1: through in a big way. Um. What I about Wandering

743
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: Jack's tweet and he did. He outlined the question marks

744
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: about the Bills, the certainties left tackles, certainly with Dean

745
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,399
Speaker 1: Dawkins defensive tackle, with Lotula lay added to the mix.

746
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 1: Now with Kyle Williams the secondary strong Here's what I

747
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: like about Wandering Jack's tweet. That doesn't mean they won't

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Speaker 1: figure it out and have a good season. I think

749
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Speaker 1: he's right. And what gives me encouragement that they'll figure

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Speaker 1: it out and have a good season is what you

751
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,280
Speaker 1: just talked about Steve, Sean McDermott, his leadership, his approach.

752
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 1: I don't think. Look, he knows where they're at. He

753
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 1: believe me. I'm telling you, he knows exactly what the

754
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 1: plan is with McCoy and what they want to do

755
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,879
Speaker 1: and what they're looking at there. And I'm sure he's

756
00:35:41,880 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: not backing down and say well, season's over if we

757
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: lose McCoy. He will figure it out. He'll figure out

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00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: a way. I have that kind of confidence based on

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00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: what I saw last year. I have that kind of

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00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: confidence that we've had this conversation too, Murphy and I

761
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott is probably he's not gonna tank. You know,

762
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Speaker 1: he's not gonna say, well, this is kind of gonna

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00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: be a wash season. The Sean McDermott may well be

764
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: the guy that steps up and says, you know what,

765
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,080
Speaker 1: we have to go in a different direction from Leshan

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00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: because of all of what's happened. It's going to be

767
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 1: too big a Distraction's gonna be too big a problem

768
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: for a team, or he's the commissioner's going to put

769
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: him on the exempt list reserve list for what's going

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00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:22,919
Speaker 1: on in Atlanta that he They're they're not gonna even

771
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: if they were to if that were to happen until

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00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:26,960
Speaker 1: Shan McCoy and he was not a part of the

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Speaker 1: team for the upcoming beginning of the season or forever.

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermot may be willing to say I'm gonna we're

775
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 1: gonna move on from him period. You know, it may

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00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: come to that. We don't know what's going to happen

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00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:43,800
Speaker 1: with all this. He's nothing phases him. They have complete

778
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: confidence in their ability to get the most out of

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00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 1: their roster. They're in a much better financial situation today

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00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: than they were when he took over as head coach,

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00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: and their their roster is going to be much more

782
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Speaker 1: talented than it was a year ago when they made

783
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Speaker 1: the playoffs. So yeah, I think they're going to be

784
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,839
Speaker 1: very optimistic going into this sea and I think they

785
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:03,000
Speaker 1: have every bit every right to be, and I think

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Speaker 1: they have every intention of being is high on their

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00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 1: players as they were last year. While we read the

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00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: tweets we should make mantreem, we had a couple of

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Speaker 1: tweets come in about problems with WGR Radios Radio dot

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Speaker 1: com app working on the problem. They hope they have

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Speaker 1: a resolution soon. You can download the MSG app to

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Speaker 1: watch our show live. You can catch the show on

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Speaker 1: demand later this afternoon, and Buffalo bills dot com. So

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Speaker 1: we apologize for the mistakes at the radio dot com app.

795
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Speaker 1: They're working on it. The tweet sheet is we talk

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Speaker 1: about which AFCA team as the most question marks heading

797
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: into camp from Jerry V Quarterback Battle eats talking about

798
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:41,760
Speaker 1: Buffalo quarterback battle involving three unproven quarterbacks, thin at white receiver,

799
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Speaker 1: patchwork offensive line, and what's going on with Shady Yeah,

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00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 1: that covers the that covers the uh, the waterfront. You

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00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: got it, Jerry V. You got it all right there.

802
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,520
Speaker 1: In a very short, very succinct tweet. Those are the

803
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: big questions about the Buffalo Bills. I don't have any

804
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 1: of the answers either. I don't know how it's gonna

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00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 1: work out any of Yeah, there's no question that. Here's

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00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 1: the thing too, that they when you look at what

807
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: at each question independently, and I'll just take us for

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00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 1: a second and talk about the offensive line. They traded

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00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 1: Cordy Glenn and people around the country or you know,

810
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: bringing their answering a lesson. You can't trade away your

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Speaker 1: franchise left tackle. What are you doing it? Well? Actually,

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00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,880
Speaker 1: he only played in six games last year, five and

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00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 1: a half, started six games, and he only didn't finish

814
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 1: the sixth one. And then when then Dion Dawkins stepped

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Speaker 1: in and deon Dawkins for eleven weeks of the season,

816
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: including the playoff game, was the left tackle for the

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00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:32,839
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. So there's your left tackle. I mean, that's

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00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:36,280
Speaker 1: that's all there is to it down inside. No question.

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Speaker 1: Richie Incognito had a good run here in Buffalo, absolutely

820
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:43,120
Speaker 1: no question. But even before the incident in Miami, and

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Speaker 1: even before he decided he wasn't going to come back,

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00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: the Bills were planning on probably making a serious run

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Speaker 1: of moving on without Richie not that he wasn't a

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00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:56,839
Speaker 1: good guy, wasn't a good player and didn't play well

825
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Speaker 1: for the team, because he did, but his season last

826
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: year wasn't up to the speed there was his real

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00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl you wage or two years, I think after

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Speaker 1: this season they were playing one after after twenty they

829
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 1: were they were lining their ducks in a row to

830
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Speaker 1: figure that a mid thirties year old offensive line was

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Speaker 1: gonna probably not gonna be around. So the thing that

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00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:19,240
Speaker 1: thinks that caught him off guard was Eric Wood. Nobody

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00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: saw that coming. And that's one that with the signing

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Speaker 1: of Russell bow Dyne from the Cincinnati Bengals, they made

835
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: a big, strong move to replace him. Now, Russell Bodine

836
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Speaker 1: didn't have his best year last year, but by the

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Speaker 1: same token, Russell bow Dyne played every single game of

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Speaker 1: his career four year career. He has never missed a

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Speaker 1: start at center for the Cincinnati Bengals, played in playoff games,

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00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:45,800
Speaker 1: played in the AFC North. He and there's no doubt

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00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: he did not have his best year last year. But

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Speaker 1: there's a guy with some experience and some dependability that's

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00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 1: going down inside and a guy who's for the this

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Speaker 1: far in his career who's it's been more than the

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Speaker 1: average career so far. He has never missed a start.

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Speaker 1: That goes a long way with and I think probably

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Speaker 1: towards this with his coaching staff. When you start talking

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Speaker 1: about guys being on the field and off the field,

849
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,360
Speaker 1: so those you talk about the offensive line starting just

850
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 1: from the left tackle going into the center, they've got

851
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 1: a pretty good plan as to what they're going to do.

852
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 1: One more from the tweet sheet this from Steve Noble,

853
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 1: who when we ask the question which AFC East team

854
00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:19,680
Speaker 1: has the most questions going into camp, Steve Noble says

855
00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: it's the Bills. But the questions are much better than

856
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: obvious holes, he says. He goes on to saying, I'm

857
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 1: sure New England will be good, and it's realistic that

858
00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: New York and Miami will not be. Nobody knows how

859
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 1: good the Bills will be. The defense will be much better.

860
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: The offensive line, I think he means to say, is

861
00:40:35,640 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 1: change and is unproven. Change always creates skepticism. I don't

862
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:44,360
Speaker 1: know that the fifty eight percent represents skepticism about the

863
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:48,520
Speaker 1: Bills as much as it represents uncertainty. Right. As Steve

864
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: Noble points out, we just don't know. And that's what

865
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 1: the nature of what we asked the question question marks.

866
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,320
Speaker 1: I don't know. The fifty eight percent of the respondents

867
00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: mean that they think the Bills are going to struggle.

868
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 1: I think what they're saying is, who knows. There are

869
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,759
Speaker 1: questions here. There certainly are questions. Are more unknowns with Buffalo. Yeah.

870
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: The one thing I think to look at this too,

871
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:08,800
Speaker 1: and I'm not I want to hear from you. I

872
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: want to hear you on the phone lines. If you prefer,

873
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 1: please eight oh three fifty toll free one eight eight

874
00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:17,000
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. I think it's important to

875
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:18,800
Speaker 1: keep in mind that some of the moves the Bills

876
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 1: made over this past offseason, we're not with twenty eighteen

877
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: at the front of the picture. I mean drafted moving up,

878
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,760
Speaker 1: sending out draft picks to move up and get Josh Allen.

879
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 1: That's not really twenty eighteen season move. That's a long

880
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: range quarterback of the future move that's important. That means

881
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,280
Speaker 1: that you might sacrifice a little bit. Yeah, people say

882
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: take a step back. Well, maybe not that they have

883
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:43,560
Speaker 1: articulated that. I believe that, but that's what you do

884
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,360
Speaker 1: when you trade away draft picks to position yourself to

885
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 1: get the guy that you believe is going to be

886
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:51,240
Speaker 1: the franchise quarterback. That means that this season twenty eighteen

887
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: is not on the front burner, which I think I've

888
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,480
Speaker 1: detected over the course of the last few months doing

889
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:59,759
Speaker 1: the show. I've detected that many Bills fans are all

890
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: right that they know that there's more at stake than

891
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 1: just you know, you're gonna make the playoffs again second

892
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:07,320
Speaker 1: straight year. I think people get that. Yeah, I agree totally,

893
00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 1: And I think also you have to remember too that

894
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 1: this is a club that when they hired Sean McDermott,

895
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: was in a little bit of a mess with a

896
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,240
Speaker 1: salary cap. They had some contracts they wanted to get

897
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:18,960
Speaker 1: out out of the way of they had some players

898
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: they weren't sure about that they were either going to

899
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 1: pay or franchise Tagger going to that transition period that

900
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:26,839
Speaker 1: you see all these guys going with the Levion Bell

901
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: situation in Pittsburgh that the Bills hadn't were on the

902
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: line on the hook for some of those guys coming up.

903
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,320
Speaker 1: They got all that straightened out, and this too, is

904
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: another consideration. Some of the changes that were made and

905
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 1: some of the things that are uncertainty were on schedule

906
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:44,320
Speaker 1: to be made anyway. Even if the Bills would have

907
00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 1: gone on and win the Super Bowl, some of these

908
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 1: changes would have been made anyway, so that some of

909
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: it is just natural transition in the course of an

910
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 1: NFL roster where you're going to change over even on

911
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 1: a year where in years past there were ten to

912
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 1: twelve or fifteen new players every year on the teams

913
00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 1: that I played on that we're going to the super

914
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: Bowl every year. It's that happens on every roster. So

915
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 1: a few of these we're gonna happen anyway. The left

916
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: tackle move for the Buffalo Bills with Dion Dawkins, that

917
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 1: was happening h Cordy Glenn was no longer going to

918
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,759
Speaker 1: be the left tackle of the Buffalo Bills. So those

919
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: kind of things happen. There's no doubt that the Buffalo

920
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 1: Bills we're gonna make some major changes on their offense

921
00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: or defensive front and go out and get some guys

922
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 1: plus And like I said, and the reason I started

923
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 1: talking about all this was this process is going to

924
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 1: go on even into this next year because, let's face

925
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: of the Bills have a ton of cap room coming

926
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 1: up in twenty nineteen, and that's a target year, a

927
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,640
Speaker 1: big time for the Bills to take a big step

928
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:50,320
Speaker 1: forward in this regime's tenure here. So I'm I'm looking

929
00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: forward to that. And you're right, Murph, some of the

930
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 1: things they have done aren't about this year, right, and

931
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:56,759
Speaker 1: that's something to keep in mind. But we're talking about

932
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 1: this year and which AFC East team has the most

933
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: question marks headed into training camp over the next week

934
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: to week or so. Give us a call, let us

935
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 1: know what you think. Full Night's open eight oh three

936
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: five fifty toll free one eight eight eight by fifty

937
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: two five fifty. John Murphy was Steve Tasker One Bill's Live,

938
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health from One Bill's Drive. And this

939
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio. One Goals Live is the name

940
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:31,040
Speaker 1: of our show. We're here until three o'clock today. We

941
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 1: are about nine days away, right, I have my dates

942
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 1: right from our first training camp show. Nine days away.

943
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: I'm third Thursday, July twenty six, Steve and I will

944
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 1: be there in Rochester. We got a great set up.

945
00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:42,319
Speaker 1: Do you ever see our set up last year at

946
00:44:42,320 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: training camp? I did first day, Yeah, I was on

947
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:48,359
Speaker 1: that platform overlooking Grounding stadium right as players come out

948
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:50,920
Speaker 1: to the field like you have to scram and yeah, yeah,

949
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: it's gonna be great. Oh yeah, state of the art,

950
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: it's gonna be great. Hey, our topic today, which AFC

951
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: East team do you believe has the most question marks

952
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,400
Speaker 1: headed into training camp? On Twitter? Fifty eight percent or so?

953
00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: Say it's the Bills. What do you think? Give us

954
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: a call eight h three five fifty and toll free

955
00:45:06,719 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: one eight eight fifty two five fifty Charlie on the

956
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,040
Speaker 1: west side of Buffalo. Go ahead, Charlie around the year.

957
00:45:12,239 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: Hello John, Hello, Steve, good afternoon. All right, ask the

958
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:19,040
Speaker 1: question and maybe maybe give a point. You feel Shack

959
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 1: Rawson and Zay Jones are going to be very magnified

960
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: in training camp more than any other players coming into

961
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: camp this ship because there were high picks and the

962
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: lots expected from him they have not delivered yet. Also,

963
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: I'd like to see about teams like Miami and New York.

964
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 1: There's a lot of pressure on those teams playing in

965
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: a big market city. Buffalo has always been treated like

966
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: the Rodney danger fields in sports in that division. We

967
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:44,480
Speaker 1: don't get the respect and nothing's expected from us, but

968
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 1: a team like New York, if they start losing, they're

969
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:48,919
Speaker 1: gonna put that young kid in there. And I hope

970
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 1: they don't ruin him, that young quarterback. I hope they

971
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: do actor having them guys to do something, and if

972
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:57,240
Speaker 1: they don't do nothing, they're going to change their rosters around.

973
00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:00,399
Speaker 1: And you guys, have a good day. No, thank you, Charlie. Thanks. Yeah,

974
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: And that's a good question. And you're right. The two

975
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 1: guys you really do want to watch, are you know,

976
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:08,359
Speaker 1: Zay Jones and Shack Lawson. Now here's the thing, though,

977
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:11,160
Speaker 1: Both those guys come in and they're gonna get a

978
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: chance to go out and practice with everybody, and you're

979
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:16,319
Speaker 1: gonna start to see them. And let's face it, it's

980
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:20,200
Speaker 1: gonna be hard to evaluate them until words starts coming

981
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 1: out about how they're doing in meetings and all that,

982
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: because there's so much that goes on too. You're gonna

983
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: see him practice once, you're gonna make and a lot

984
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,280
Speaker 1: of fans and us too, we're gonna see him practice

985
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: a couple of times. We're gonna see even if we're

986
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: there every day, there's so much more that goes into

987
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 1: the evaluation process, the guy's mindset, what how he interacts

988
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:38,720
Speaker 1: with his position, coaches, and then of course the preseason games.

989
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of evaluation that's going to go

990
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 1: into it. But I think early on you're gonna start

991
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:47,359
Speaker 1: to hear things from the coaching staff and from Sean

992
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:51,480
Speaker 1: McDermot about how those guys are doing, and you're gonna

993
00:46:51,760 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 1: see Zay Jones get a lot of opportunities to show

994
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 1: what he's done this offseason, to show how much better

995
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: he's gotten. They're installing a new offense, They've got all

996
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: this stuff going on with a new different three different

997
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:08,960
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that are competing to start. But these are quarterbacks

998
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: are the ones who are gonna throw the football. Supposedly,

999
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:13,920
Speaker 1: they're gonna throw the football better than the bi ball

1000
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: has been thrown for the last three years. They're gonna

1001
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 1: think it's gonna come out on time. You're gonna have

1002
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 1: an offense that's gonna be centered around throwing the football

1003
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:24,720
Speaker 1: rather than having a quarterback making plays. So I agree

1004
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: with you, Zay Jones and Shack Lawson are the two

1005
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: guys in the in the spotlight the most because of

1006
00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: most of which the expectations that are placed on their

1007
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 1: draft spot. Yeah. Secondly the fact that they didn't hit

1008
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:41,960
Speaker 1: it out of the park as rookies. Yeah. And Shack

1009
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:44,560
Speaker 1: Lawson is a two year player. I mean, his clock

1010
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 1: is really ticking, so I think he's even under more

1011
00:47:46,560 --> 00:47:50,000
Speaker 1: pressure than Zay Jones. Zack Shack Lawson a former first

1012
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:53,160
Speaker 1: round pick, Zay Jones former second round pick. It's interesting

1013
00:47:53,200 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 1: they both have brand new position coaches going into this year.

1014
00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:59,359
Speaker 1: You know, Shack Lawson has built tier linked and Zay

1015
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: Jones is terry robisky coaching receivers. Now, that might make

1016
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:04,879
Speaker 1: a difference. Really, that's the kind of thing that could

1017
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 1: make a difference. Right. You can't underestimate the value of

1018
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: a position coach. They're huge in this league. Coordinators make

1019
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: everything come together. And there's no doubt that coordinators, I think,

1020
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 1: in the big picture make a bigger difference because they

1021
00:48:18,360 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 1: you know, they have purview over more of what's going on.

1022
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: But those position coaches, you talk about individual guys shining

1023
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:27,879
Speaker 1: and emerging and blossoming into the player we always thought

1024
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 1: they could be or kind of you know, struggling. A

1025
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: lot of it has to do with the guy who

1026
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 1: coaches them up every day you're in meetings with these guys.

1027
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 1: I mean, they'll be in meetings with Terry Robisky the

1028
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:40,880
Speaker 1: receivers every day, and he'll be talking to him every

1029
00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 1: day and getting to know him, and they'll they'll become

1030
00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 1: like family. I wonder if Robisky, we don't know, this

1031
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:48,800
Speaker 1: is a total speculation on my part, does he demand

1032
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:51,600
Speaker 1: more from Zay Jones and film mcgaeon did last year

1033
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: McGee and they had the background with Zay Jones at college, right,

1034
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 1: But maybe Robisky, with all of his experience, all of

1035
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 1: his time in the league, is more demand Andy and

1036
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: z Jones. Maybe za Jones would benefit from it, Maybe

1037
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: he would thrive in that sort of situation. What do

1038
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: you think, Well, here's the thing. There's a lot of

1039
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 1: things at work. You think about Zay Jones coming in

1040
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 1: under a different with his college coach, running in a

1041
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:19,000
Speaker 1: different offense with a quarterback and an offense doesn't throw

1042
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 1: it that well, trying to play receiver and never getting

1043
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 1: any Like if you run a good route and Tyrod

1044
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: just decides he's not going to throw it or he

1045
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 1: you know you you know that window wasn't big enough

1046
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 1: for him to do it. You get negatively reinforced even

1047
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:35,919
Speaker 1: though you might have done everything correct and even better

1048
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:37,680
Speaker 1: than they thought you could do, you get a negative

1049
00:49:37,719 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 1: reinforcement for that because the quarterback isn't everything he should

1050
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 1: have been in the passing game. That's a struggle. You

1051
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 1: get a guy like Terry Rubiskion. Here's and I'll tell

1052
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 1: you the gut the sense I get from Terry. And

1053
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:53,920
Speaker 1: I've known him for twenty five years. He was coaching

1054
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:57,840
Speaker 1: when you were playing, Yes, I and he was yeah, yeah,

1055
00:49:57,960 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: I know him well, and I've talked to him since

1056
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:01,879
Speaker 1: he's been with other teams and during my broadcast days.

1057
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: He is a real, no nonsense, credible guy. He will

1058
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:08,319
Speaker 1: be honest with you. He'll give you listen, you're not

1059
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Speaker 1: doing you got to do this, you can't. You know.

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00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 1: That's what a coach is. You can criticize, you can

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00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 1: you can be raided, you can do all that, and

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00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: you can also encourage. And that's and that style or

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00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: whatever style Terry brings to the table is going to

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00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:24,480
Speaker 1: help or hurt Zay Jones. But I think the biggest thing,

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00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:26,439
Speaker 1: and I've said it before, that's so that's two things

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Speaker 1: at work. New offense, new quarterbacks, and a new coach.

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Speaker 1: That's three the three things that are different, and that's

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Speaker 1: you can't say Zay Jones may turn into whatever. We

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00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:42,480
Speaker 1: don't know because everything is different for him, right, And

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Speaker 1: that's I think that's really intriguing, and it's a position

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00:50:45,760 --> 00:50:47,839
Speaker 1: I played for a long time, so I'm I'm really

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Speaker 1: interested to see how he does. As for Zay, I

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00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 1: still maintain where I was at with him a year ago,

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Speaker 1: and that's all of that production in college has to

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00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,240
Speaker 1: mean something. He was a he was a pass catching

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00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:01,279
Speaker 1: machine in college, and that has to mean something number too. Yes,

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00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:04,320
Speaker 1: he had the setback whatever that was, in the middle

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00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:06,880
Speaker 1: of the offseason, but I do believe he's a quality

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Speaker 1: person with a good background and a good family structure

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Speaker 1: that will make I think he's gonna be a good

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Speaker 1: player in the NFL. That's what I'm trying to say.

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00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:18,279
Speaker 1: I think za Jones still, despite the disappointment of last

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00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:21,760
Speaker 1: year and some of the disappointment of injury and wayward

1084
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:24,839
Speaker 1: actions this offseason, I still believe that he has something

1085
00:51:24,880 --> 00:51:27,480
Speaker 1: to offer this team, something really good to offer the team,

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00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:29,359
Speaker 1: and I look forward to seeing him start to do

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00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,399
Speaker 1: that this summer a couple of weeks away. Yeah, and

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00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:34,280
Speaker 1: I think the change is gonna really that you talk about,

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00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 1: and I've said it a million times. The quarterback makes

1090
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: the receivers, not vice versa. You see it on Twitter

1091
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:42,840
Speaker 1: and you'll read on your mentions everybody's saying, listen, you

1092
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:45,359
Speaker 1: just wait till Tyrod Taylor goes down there and has

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00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 1: really good receivers and Josh Gordon and Jarvis Lander. You

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00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: just watch Tyrod Taylor's gonna light it up and throw

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00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:56,000
Speaker 1: for four thousand yards. Listen, it ain't gonna happen. It

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00:51:56,160 --> 00:52:00,760
Speaker 1: is not gonna happen. He is not gonna happen in Cleveland.

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00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 1: Quarterback makes the receivers, not vice versa. The quarterback makes

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00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:10,279
Speaker 1: the receiver. That's the way it works. Tyrod Taylor is

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Speaker 1: gonna be Tyrod Taylor no matter where he plays. And

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Speaker 1: that's the way it's gonna be. And so and that's

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Speaker 1: why it's so interesting about these three quarterbacks we have

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo. It's gonna be different. They're gonna throw the

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00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:26,399
Speaker 1: ball better than they did a year ago, no matter

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00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:29,320
Speaker 1: which one of the three plays. But there's gonna be

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00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 1: a tradeoff. And that's what you don't know. Are you

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00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna turn it over more than you score touchdowns. Yeah,

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00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:38,840
Speaker 1: Tyrod never turned it over. He was he was awesome.

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Speaker 1: That's one of the best things he did. Uh, you're

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00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 1: gonna throw it better. You're not gonna get as much

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00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 1: quality runs out of the quarterback position, no question about it.

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00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:51,880
Speaker 1: So you're gonna trade it off. And theoretically, and the

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00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,719
Speaker 1: thought is, the tradeoff is gonna be worth it because

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00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna get some plays that are always there or

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00:52:57,120 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 1: plays that all the quarterbacks can make in the league,

1115
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 1: but you're not going to get any of the ones

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00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: that only Tyrod can make. And that's the big trade off.

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00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 1: We are nine days away from the start of Bills

1118
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:09,319
Speaker 1: training camp and we're talking about which afcast team has

1119
00:53:09,360 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: the most question marks heading into camp. Our Twitter poll

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00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 1: says that our fans believe it's the Bills. What do

1121
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 1: you think, give us a call. The line's open eight

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Speaker 1: oh three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. We'll talk more about that

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Speaker 1: an hour. Number two plus. The case is made by

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Speaker 1: Mark Sessler around the NFL writer for NFL dot Com.

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Speaker 1: He has five reasons why the Bills will make the

1127
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:33,080
Speaker 1: playoffs again in twenty eighteen. We'll talk about that when

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Speaker 1: we return One Bill's Live. We're coming here from One

1129
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:48,800
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bills Radiofalo Bills Radio Network.

1130
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:52,799
Speaker 1: Sports Update comes from One Bill's Drive to Bills. Nine

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00:53:52,880 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 1: days away from training camp in Rochester. Former Bills quarterback

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00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 1: Jim Kelly, the Hall of Famer, was in Rochester today

1133
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 1: or a one day a quarterback for a one day

1134
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:03,880
Speaker 1: clinic for young football players. Kelly says he's scheduled to

1135
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:06,920
Speaker 1: have permanent dentures installed in his upper jaw in New

1136
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 1: York City after having a pair of surgeries earlier this

1137
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 1: year to deal with his oral cancer. Says he's going

1138
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 1: to see doctors ahead of that appointment after something came

1139
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:16,440
Speaker 1: up in his recovery. Kelly had his way to Los

1140
00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 1: Angeles now to receive the Jimmy V Awards at Wednesday's

1141
00:54:19,880 --> 00:54:24,240
Speaker 1: sp Award. Kelly is gonna get the Jimmy V Award

1142
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 1: for perseverance at his first round of cancer treatments after

1143
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:30,400
Speaker 1: the disease. Would diagnose and then declared cancer free in

1144
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 1: September fourteen. Jim Kelly says he needs a check up.

1145
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:37,000
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars have signed their first round draft pick twenty

1146
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 1: ninth overall pick of the draft. They have agreed to

1147
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:43,319
Speaker 1: terms with Taven Bryan the defensive tackle four year deal

1148
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 1: where ten point two million dollars five and a half

1149
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:49,839
Speaker 1: million dollars signing bonus reported. Marshal Yanda, the All Pro

1150
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,839
Speaker 1: guard for the Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo's opponents on opening day.

1151
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 1: Marshal Yanda is on the physically unable to performance for

1152
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:58,640
Speaker 1: the start of the Ravens training camp. Two time All

1153
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 1: Pro selection, six time role bowler continues to recover from

1154
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 1: a fractured ankle. Steelers in leby On Bell fail to

1155
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:07,879
Speaker 1: reach agreement on a contract extension yesterday before the four

1156
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: pm deadline. His agent says that means it's likely going

1157
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:14,440
Speaker 1: to be leby On Bell's final season with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

1158
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald says, no matter what, he will only play

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00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:20,239
Speaker 1: for the Arizona Cardinals in the NFL. Fitzgerald has no

1160
00:55:20,280 --> 00:55:23,279
Speaker 1: interest in playing anywhere else. He says Tara Lowens, soon

1161
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 1: to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame,

1162
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:27,920
Speaker 1: wants to play the season in the Canadian Football League.

1163
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:32,320
Speaker 1: He activated a procedural window that requires the Edmonton Eskimos,

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00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 1: who own his CFL rights, to offer him a contract

1165
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,840
Speaker 1: or release him from their negotiation list within ten days.

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Speaker 1: And the Major League Baseball All Star Game. It's tonight

1167
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:44,400
Speaker 1: in Washington. National's a Smack Cherzer will start for the

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00:55:44,480 --> 00:55:47,360
Speaker 1: National League on his home field. Red Sox ace Chris

1169
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:50,120
Speaker 1: Sale will start his third consecutive All Star Game for

1170
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: the American League. That is the update from One Bill's Drive.

1171
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Speaker 1: It is One Bill's Line presented by Collode Health, John Murphy,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Steve t O in the CFL could happen.

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00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,920
Speaker 1: He wants to, and he's forty four years old. Um,

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00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 1: he's got a ten day window to sign up there

1175
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:08,399
Speaker 1: and he's probably looking into it. I think it would be.

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00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:12,399
Speaker 1: I think it's the It's interesting if he starts playing

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00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:14,600
Speaker 1: the CFL, he's gonna be playing football at the time

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00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:17,120
Speaker 1: he's supposed to have that big induction party and wherever

1179
00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:19,480
Speaker 1: it is he's having it, other than other than the

1180
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:24,759
Speaker 1: Canton Soli, he'll be busy, you know. Yeah, you seem

1181
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 1: to have Thurman over the weekend. You see. Thurman had

1182
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:30,480
Speaker 1: some things to say. He wasn't a big fan of

1183
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 1: of Famer yeah, not too many people are a fan

1184
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 1: of it, because you know, he's like all things. He

1185
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:38,759
Speaker 1: Teo's famous for saying, I love me some me, and

1186
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 1: it is all about him, and um, he's bitter. Ostensibly,

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00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:44,880
Speaker 1: he's bitter about being made to wait a couple of

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00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:49,400
Speaker 1: years to get in the Hall of Fame. Um, I

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00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:51,560
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know. I mean, yeah, it's it'd

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00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: be it's an issue until you get in, but it

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00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 1: went you're in, You're in. I mean, I don't know. Uh,

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Speaker 1: there is, Uh, there is something to be said for

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00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:01,239
Speaker 1: first ballot Hall of Fame, but I think once you're in,

1194
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 1: that kind of gets washed away for most guys. And um,

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00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 1: you know Terrell Owens And now with this CFL thing,

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00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:10,800
Speaker 1: I think it's all about making sure that the universe

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00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:14,200
Speaker 1: continues to revolve around himself and as long as that happens,

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00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:19,000
Speaker 1: he'll be He's good and um yeah, but I don't

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Speaker 1: And I think he's really seriously thinking about it. I

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00:57:21,960 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 1: think he's seriously thinking about going up there and playing

1201
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 1: in the in the CFL. It'll be a tough transition

1202
00:57:27,160 --> 00:57:28,720
Speaker 1: there in the middle of this season. This is Week

1203
00:57:28,800 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 1: five of the season coming up This weekend, Hamilton faces

1204
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:36,960
Speaker 1: the team Edmonton coming up. No, it's Saskatchewan. I apologize.

1205
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 1: Hamilton plays Saskatchewan this weekend. Terrell Owens is under under

1206
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 1: the rights. His rights are with the Edmondson Eskimos. They

1207
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: got a game this weekend. I mean this is they're

1208
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:51,360
Speaker 1: on the fly there. T O has not played since

1209
00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:53,920
Speaker 1: two thy eleven. I forgot about this. He suited up

1210
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 1: for an Indoor Football League game, the Allen Wranglers. His

1211
00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:02,520
Speaker 1: agent tells TSN absolutely one percent is his level of

1212
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 1: interest in playing in the CFL. Here's the quote from

1213
00:58:04,840 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 1: agent Jason Strozik. He still feels like he has some

1214
00:58:07,400 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 1: football years left in him, just loves the game, wants

1215
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Speaker 1: to get back to playing, whether it's the CFL or

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Speaker 1: the NFL at age forty four man, okay, TiO, um yeah,

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Speaker 1: Thurman had something to say about that. I wonder one thing,

1218
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Speaker 1: and the Hall of Fame is what this It's two

1219
00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:25,120
Speaker 1: weeks away, right, the Hall of Fame game August fourth,

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00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:29,520
Speaker 1: Now it's three weeks away. Okay. I wonder how many

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00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:31,760
Speaker 1: references to TiO will be made by some of the

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00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:34,439
Speaker 1: other inductees, Like do you think Jerry Kramer has something

1223
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:36,120
Speaker 1: to say about him. Ray Lewis has something to say

1224
00:58:36,160 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 1: about TiO. I kind of doubt it. Randy Moss, I think, well,

1225
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 1: they all it's customary when the guy gets something, gives

1226
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:44,760
Speaker 1: him his expects acceptance speech, although some of them don't.

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Speaker 1: They always acknowledge the other guys that they came into

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00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:50,680
Speaker 1: the YA because they get do get thrown into an

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Speaker 1: induction class. So that sticks with them throughout the rest

1230
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Speaker 1: of their days as a as a Hall of Fame inductee.

1231
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Speaker 1: They you know, they're part of the class with this

1232
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:01,880
Speaker 1: guy and this guy and this guy. I think it's

1233
00:59:01,880 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: more important to them, really, more so than anybody else

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00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:06,200
Speaker 1: outside of it. But they I think they do kind

1235
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:10,160
Speaker 1: of have a kinship. They endure the not endure it,

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00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 1: but they celebrate the week together. Yeah, and you know,

1237
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Speaker 1: him not being there, maybe a couple of the players

1238
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:21,840
Speaker 1: will ignore him in their acknowledgements, but that'll be the

1239
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:23,959
Speaker 1: extent of it. I would imagine, say you called Ted

1240
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:26,360
Speaker 1: in West Seneca, Hello, Ted, welcome to the show. You're

1241
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:33,000
Speaker 1: on the air with us Ted in West Seneca, Ted.

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll today deals with the AFC East picture. You

1243
00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:40,280
Speaker 1: want to get your thoughts on this as we approach camp,

1244
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:42,040
Speaker 1: and now the Bills are just nine days away from

1245
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 1: training camp. Which AFC East team do you believe as

1246
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:48,160
Speaker 1: the most question marks headed into training camp? Is it,

1247
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 1: in fact the Bills? Is it the Dolphins, the Jets,

1248
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:53,320
Speaker 1: the Patriots? On Twitter, fifty nine percent of you say

1249
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:55,720
Speaker 1: the Bills have the most question marks heading into camp,

1250
00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:59,640
Speaker 1: twenty one percent say the Dolphins, seventeen percent say the Jets.

1251
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:01,920
Speaker 1: Three since say the Patriots. What do you think give

1252
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Speaker 1: us a call? Eight oh three five fifty and twelve

1253
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Speaker 1: three one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: I think it's the Dolphins. You do too, I believe Steve,

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01:00:10,880 --> 01:00:13,440
Speaker 1: I do um. Now there's no question the Jets are

1256
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:18,640
Speaker 1: in that same spot too, But I think both. I

1257
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:22,480
Speaker 1: think the Dolphins there, they're in year three and they

1258
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:27,080
Speaker 1: took you know, the proverbial step backwards last year. That's

1259
01:00:27,160 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 1: hard to get around. Plus they lost Pouncy, their center,

1260
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:33,720
Speaker 1: who was a Pro Bowl center in Dominican Sue who

1261
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 1: was an All World defensive tackle Jarvis Landry jay Agi,

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Speaker 1: and their starting corner quarterback is coming off an ACL

1263
01:00:40,680 --> 01:00:43,640
Speaker 1: injury in which he missed the entire season and was

1264
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:48,360
Speaker 1: never an elite quarterback to begin with. Yeah, they got

1265
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 1: some problems, they got issues, they got issues. Maybe the

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Speaker 1: Bills do as well. Let's try absolutely, I mean we acknowledge.

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Speaker 1: You got to acknowledge the Bills have some questions because

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01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: there's so much unknown and my contention, and if you

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Speaker 1: spin it the best possible light, you know, some of

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01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:02,920
Speaker 1: these things needed to be made and some of them

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01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:07,720
Speaker 1: were gonna be made anyway. So you know, for instance,

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01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:11,200
Speaker 1: the left tackle they made that change season, Yeah, that

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01:01:11,360 --> 01:01:15,040
Speaker 1: was done. And so you and I keep it means, like,

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Speaker 1: the reason I keep mentioning is because you talk about

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01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:19,560
Speaker 1: the national media, the one thing they always mention is

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01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:23,040
Speaker 1: that the Bills lost their left tackle. They didn't they

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01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:25,680
Speaker 1: found a better. Yeah, they lost their left tackle Week

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01:01:25,720 --> 01:01:27,280
Speaker 1: six to last year and then went to the playoffs

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01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:30,680
Speaker 1: without him. So um, yeah, that's not a bump in

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01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:32,840
Speaker 1: the road. Let's go to Ted. Let's try again with

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01:01:32,840 --> 01:01:38,400
Speaker 1: ten and west Seneca. Ted. Are you there now? Thomas here? Tom?

1282
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Speaker 1: How right? I got ted on my screen. That's my bad.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Tom, No Wonder, Tom No Wonder didn't answer,

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01:01:43,720 --> 01:01:45,960
Speaker 1: Sorry about that, No Wonder Tom didn't chime in when

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01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 1: we were talking. Tom's not I know him in the

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01:01:48,240 --> 01:01:51,360
Speaker 1: minority today, but I'm gonna go to three percent with

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Speaker 1: the Patriots because of my opinion what I saw Tom

1288
01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 1: Brady last year. Statistics were good, but I thought he

1289
01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:02,320
Speaker 1: wasn't getting bit of the balls as quick as he

1290
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:06,680
Speaker 1: used to, and I think that's plays an integral part

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Speaker 1: in the offense for the Patriots. And also I think

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01:02:11,960 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 1: he came into camp with a chip on his shoulder

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01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 1: and so didn't Grindkowski. And that being said, I had

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Speaker 1: one question for you guys. Supposedly the NFL has weighed

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01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:27,560
Speaker 1: in ays that anybody has intends to kneel during the

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01:02:27,640 --> 01:02:31,680
Speaker 1: national anthem, it's best that they stay in the locker room. Now,

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Speaker 1: if they were to come out and kneel, are there

1298
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:37,720
Speaker 1: consequences and that's pretty much it. I don't know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think there are. I don't think there are,

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01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:43,320
Speaker 1: Tom and Tommy's still there. Yes, do you lend any

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Speaker 1: credence to the other things that have been coming out

1302
01:02:45,360 --> 01:02:47,080
Speaker 1: of New England? I mean you're saying, you're you're thinking

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01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:50,000
Speaker 1: New England has more question marks, um, you know, with

1304
01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:53,160
Speaker 1: they're no fun to play for. Tom Brady and Bill

1305
01:02:53,200 --> 01:02:57,360
Speaker 1: Belichicker kind of given each other the cold shoulder. Rob

1306
01:02:57,400 --> 01:02:59,720
Speaker 1: Gronkowski was like, yeah, it is no fun to you

1307
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:01,920
Speaker 1: know that kind of thing. It's not really fun to

1308
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: be there. Didn't show up for some of the stuff

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01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:08,439
Speaker 1: only what was mandatory. Do you lend credence to any

1310
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:14,040
Speaker 1: of that? Yes, I do. I think it it causes

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01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:19,080
Speaker 1: some sort of well, your little concentration and I want

1312
01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:21,760
Speaker 1: your goal is to win games, and I think that

1313
01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:25,480
Speaker 1: it causes friction, and I think it does affect the team.

1314
01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:28,920
Speaker 1: All right, No, thanks for the call that it's interesting,

1315
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:32,200
Speaker 1: and I think, no question, there's some stuff coming out

1316
01:03:32,240 --> 01:03:33,680
Speaker 1: in New England. And I think one of the reasons

1317
01:03:33,760 --> 01:03:36,240
Speaker 1: it raises everybody's eyebrowsers because we never hear that stuff

1318
01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:37,960
Speaker 1: out of New England. We've never heard that kind of

1319
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:40,560
Speaker 1: thing before, with the exception of maybe the air in

1320
01:03:40,640 --> 01:03:45,160
Speaker 1: Hernandez case and the tragedy that became. But the simple

1321
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:47,200
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is you never hear problems, You

1322
01:03:47,240 --> 01:03:49,920
Speaker 1: never hear anything. It's it's like radio silence in New

1323
01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:52,800
Speaker 1: England usually. But now you've got guys who have been

1324
01:03:52,840 --> 01:03:54,280
Speaker 1: there now come out of there and say, man, that

1325
01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:56,800
Speaker 1: is no fun to play over there. It's a little

1326
01:03:56,840 --> 01:04:00,080
Speaker 1: bit of a grist mill atmosphere where you know guys

1327
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:01,880
Speaker 1: have got their nose on the grindstone. They don't raise

1328
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:05,680
Speaker 1: up and say hello, you know. And Gronkowski as fun

1329
01:04:05,720 --> 01:04:07,360
Speaker 1: loving as he is and kind of a he's a

1330
01:04:07,400 --> 01:04:10,760
Speaker 1: Buffalo guy and does his thing. We saw him spike

1331
01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:13,400
Speaker 1: of Bill's hat the other day at a wedding. He

1332
01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:15,920
Speaker 1: only showed up for what was mandatory in the offseason,

1333
01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:20,200
Speaker 1: that you know, and even those little things aren't what

1334
01:04:20,240 --> 01:04:22,680
Speaker 1: we're used to seeing. But this is a team that

1335
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:24,800
Speaker 1: is off a two straight Super Bowl appearances as well,

1336
01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:26,920
Speaker 1: And that goes to Tom's question, there is point about

1337
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:32,280
Speaker 1: Brady's performance declining. I didn't see it. Look I don't

1338
01:04:32,320 --> 01:04:34,640
Speaker 1: even when I look at Brady or even Aaron Rodgers,

1339
01:04:34,640 --> 01:04:36,720
Speaker 1: the great quarterbacks in the game. You're aware of what

1340
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:39,200
Speaker 1: the stats are. I know that, But most I look

1341
01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:41,320
Speaker 1: at mostly is is this guy a threat to make

1342
01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:44,560
Speaker 1: a play? And Tom Brady last year, I didn't see

1343
01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:47,080
Speaker 1: any any decline in that. He's always a threat to

1344
01:04:47,080 --> 01:04:49,320
Speaker 1: make a big play. And I think that's what I

1345
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:51,200
Speaker 1: would look at. You can look at it through stats

1346
01:04:51,280 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 1: or somewhere else. I think he's always a threat to

1347
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:56,880
Speaker 1: make a scoring play and to me, that makes him

1348
01:04:56,960 --> 01:05:00,320
Speaker 1: dangerous in the best best quarterback playing and mentally he

1349
01:05:00,440 --> 01:05:03,240
Speaker 1: is better than he's ever been. I think competitively he's

1350
01:05:03,280 --> 01:05:06,600
Speaker 1: better than he's ever been because that's what experience gives you,

1351
01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:09,240
Speaker 1: his depth of knowledge what he's doing. But I will

1352
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:16,080
Speaker 1: say this, Physically, he's forty. Yeah, he's forty, and I've

1353
01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:19,000
Speaker 1: you know, I don't. He seems to move with just

1354
01:05:19,080 --> 01:05:22,080
Speaker 1: a little less than he did eighteen months ago and

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01:05:22,200 --> 01:05:25,440
Speaker 1: twenty four months ago, and I'd be I'd be interested

1356
01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:26,960
Speaker 1: to see what he looks like coming out of the

1357
01:05:26,960 --> 01:05:29,960
Speaker 1: gate this year. He's gonna play as long as he

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01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:34,840
Speaker 1: can possibly play, and I think Bill Belichick will coach

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01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:39,800
Speaker 1: as long as Tom Brady's there. But I don't think

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01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:41,960
Speaker 1: there's any question that we're in the last handful of

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01:05:42,040 --> 01:05:43,880
Speaker 1: years that we're going to see these two coach and

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01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:46,680
Speaker 1: play together. And whether it is a full handful of

1363
01:05:46,720 --> 01:05:50,000
Speaker 1: five more years or whether it's just two or three,

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01:05:50,600 --> 01:05:53,439
Speaker 1: I think there's no question that from what we've seen

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01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:55,640
Speaker 1: and what we know about the NFL, you know, these

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01:05:55,640 --> 01:05:58,200
Speaker 1: guys are at the end of it, and they're they're

1367
01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:01,560
Speaker 1: sprinting to the finish. They've got two straight Super Bowl appearances.

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01:06:01,600 --> 01:06:04,240
Speaker 1: They won one of those, and they probably have their

1369
01:06:04,240 --> 01:06:06,560
Speaker 1: sights set on a third sat Another phone call. This

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Speaker 1: is Chris in Niagara Falls. Hello, Chris, welcome, you're on

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01:06:09,160 --> 01:06:12,160
Speaker 1: the air with this. Hey guys, it's Bill actually, but

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Speaker 1: that's okay, go all right, says Chris right on my screen.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Billy, that's alright. First off, the question, I

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01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:23,360
Speaker 1: think is a brilliant question. What's even more impressive to

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Speaker 1: me is the answers as you just read them off

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Speaker 1: from or for a few minutes ago, about the Bills

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Speaker 1: having the most and then the Miami and the Jets

1378
01:06:30,480 --> 01:06:32,280
Speaker 1: in New England. I agree with them one hundred percent.

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Speaker 1: I think the Bills do have the most question marks.

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01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:38,720
Speaker 1: I do think that Miami, though, has a significant number

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Speaker 1: of questions. You've got a quarterback coming back off of injury,

1382
01:06:41,240 --> 01:06:43,240
Speaker 1: you've gotten rid of you know, they've moved out their

1383
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:48,200
Speaker 1: top receiver, perhaps one of the most dominant defensive linemen.

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01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:52,400
Speaker 1: I just think they have a lot of challenges. I

1385
01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:54,800
Speaker 1: do think the Jets are also on the upswing and

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01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:57,280
Speaker 1: New England, you know what, they're a dynasty and let's

1387
01:06:57,400 --> 01:06:59,960
Speaker 1: just appreciate the fact that they are very good football

1388
01:07:00,120 --> 01:07:02,919
Speaker 1: team there, but you hate them, would love them. It's

1389
01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:05,760
Speaker 1: like watching Steve your teams back in the late eighties,

1390
01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:09,720
Speaker 1: in the early nineties and the mid nineties. Well, yeah, Bill,

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Speaker 1: A couple of things. Um. First of all, I don't

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01:07:12,400 --> 01:07:16,360
Speaker 1: want to appreciate the Patriots dynasty, and that's because they're

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01:07:16,400 --> 01:07:18,880
Speaker 1: they're they're tough to appreciate, and they are cheaters from

1394
01:07:18,920 --> 01:07:21,080
Speaker 1: time to time. And no, I don't want to appreciate them.

1395
01:07:21,120 --> 01:07:24,400
Speaker 1: I acknowledge their greatness, acknowledge what they've accomplished. I know

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01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:27,440
Speaker 1: they're you know, Brady and Belichick are among the best

1397
01:07:27,600 --> 01:07:30,560
Speaker 1: ever to demand their positions. But I don't need to

1398
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:33,240
Speaker 1: appreciate them at all. I'll go along with that, John,

1399
01:07:33,280 --> 01:07:35,720
Speaker 1: your words are better than mine. And the other thing

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Speaker 1: I want to say, Bill, And nobody Seeve has ever

1401
01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:42,000
Speaker 1: accused us of asking a brilliant question in a Twitter poll. Bill,

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01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:45,000
Speaker 1: you said brilliant, didn't you? Bill? I did. I said

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01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:46,960
Speaker 1: brilliant because I'm sitting here listening to it as I'm

1404
01:07:47,040 --> 01:07:49,440
Speaker 1: driving downtown from the office to get a cup of coffee,

1405
01:07:49,440 --> 01:07:52,440
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, that's a brilliant question. That was my

1406
01:07:52,480 --> 01:07:54,600
Speaker 1: Twitter poll. No, what's my Twitter p It wasn't mine.

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01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:56,560
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I was a pall that you

1408
01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:58,800
Speaker 1: came up with the Twitter question without me today, because

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01:07:58,800 --> 01:08:01,960
Speaker 1: it's always a risk. Bill. What makes what makes it

1410
01:08:02,080 --> 01:08:07,080
Speaker 1: brilliant in your mind? Bill? What makes that question brilliant?

1411
01:08:08,120 --> 01:08:11,720
Speaker 1: Because you're nine days away from camp? All right, let's

1412
01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:13,840
Speaker 1: be honest and want somebody's in trouble. There's not a

1413
01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:17,120
Speaker 1: whole lot of things to talk about. So I think

1414
01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:19,519
Speaker 1: from a brilliant point of view, it just touches on

1415
01:08:19,600 --> 01:08:22,040
Speaker 1: the fact that the Bills are nine days away. There's

1416
01:08:22,120 --> 01:08:26,280
Speaker 1: reason to be exciting excited. I just I don't know.

1417
01:08:26,320 --> 01:08:29,240
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm pumped by I'm amped up by your comment. Okay,

1418
01:08:29,400 --> 01:08:31,040
Speaker 1: and thank you for that. Let me just say and

1419
01:08:31,080 --> 01:08:33,040
Speaker 1: we'll get after to give our producer Jay Harris credit

1420
01:08:33,080 --> 01:08:34,639
Speaker 1: for this one. I think it's a good question too,

1421
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:36,880
Speaker 1: for part of what you said to Look, we're nine

1422
01:08:36,960 --> 01:08:39,880
Speaker 1: days away from training camp. Everybody. There are no perfect

1423
01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:43,000
Speaker 1: teams in the NFL. Some teams are less perfect than others.

1424
01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:45,880
Speaker 1: That I think is what this question gets to is, uh,

1425
01:08:46,040 --> 01:08:48,519
Speaker 1: you know, what are you missing? What's your what's your

1426
01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:50,439
Speaker 1: team look like? And I also want to go back

1427
01:08:50,439 --> 01:08:53,559
Speaker 1: to the earlier tweet from Wandering Jack, who says, yeah,

1428
01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:55,760
Speaker 1: the Bills he thinks have most question marks, but he

1429
01:08:55,800 --> 01:08:58,040
Speaker 1: goes on to say that doesn't mean they won't figure

1430
01:08:58,040 --> 01:09:00,200
Speaker 1: it out. And I like that part about this They

1431
01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:02,559
Speaker 1: won't figure it out. Wandering Jack says, I love that

1432
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:04,720
Speaker 1: part about this question. It's like, what are we worried

1433
01:09:04,760 --> 01:09:08,240
Speaker 1: about now? July seventeenth, nine days away from camp and

1434
01:09:08,520 --> 01:09:10,320
Speaker 1: plenty of time to figure it out, to find an

1435
01:09:10,320 --> 01:09:12,320
Speaker 1: answer to some of these questions. That's why. And I

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01:09:12,360 --> 01:09:14,639
Speaker 1: appreciate your comment. Thank you, Bill. We're we're having fun

1437
01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:19,240
Speaker 1: with you, but very much. Thanks. Thanks. I appreciate your

1438
01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:22,400
Speaker 1: comment though, because I think you see what we saw

1439
01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:24,880
Speaker 1: on this question, like not just you know, what do

1440
01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:26,760
Speaker 1: you think of this team, but what are they looking

1441
01:09:26,840 --> 01:09:29,360
Speaker 1: at and what can they fix between now and when

1442
01:09:29,360 --> 01:09:31,280
Speaker 1: the season begins, and there is still time to fix

1443
01:09:31,320 --> 01:09:33,160
Speaker 1: some of the stuff, right, And I think one of

1444
01:09:33,200 --> 01:09:36,439
Speaker 1: the interesting things is even so we've seen here, Murph

1445
01:09:36,479 --> 01:09:38,639
Speaker 1: and I've sat here and scrutinized every move the Bills

1446
01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:41,200
Speaker 1: have made over the course of leading up to the draft,

1447
01:09:41,280 --> 01:09:43,160
Speaker 1: the guys they picked in the draft, how good or

1448
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:45,479
Speaker 1: bad they might be, what the great things are about

1449
01:09:45,479 --> 01:09:47,840
Speaker 1: them and why they picked where they did. And then

1450
01:09:48,439 --> 01:09:51,120
Speaker 1: you got to know too, the New York Jets and

1451
01:09:51,120 --> 01:09:53,120
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins and New England Pages all are doing

1452
01:09:53,160 --> 01:09:57,559
Speaker 1: the same thing they and for as many hoops and

1453
01:09:58,760 --> 01:10:01,120
Speaker 1: moves that the Bills have made to make themselves better

1454
01:10:01,160 --> 01:10:03,120
Speaker 1: and the guys they picked to help them do that,

1455
01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:07,400
Speaker 1: so have the Miami Dolphins, and so have the New

1456
01:10:07,439 --> 01:10:09,479
Speaker 1: England Patriots and the New York Jets, those three, the

1457
01:10:09,520 --> 01:10:12,000
Speaker 1: other three other teams in the division. It is fun

1458
01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:15,120
Speaker 1: to think about and get in get into one of

1459
01:10:15,160 --> 01:10:17,439
Speaker 1: those teams and kind of you know, like Bills fans do.

1460
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:19,200
Speaker 1: I mean, it's you're a team, so you know why,

1461
01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:22,400
Speaker 1: and you can see the rationale behind it, and you

1462
01:10:22,439 --> 01:10:24,160
Speaker 1: think about what they did and the things that go

1463
01:10:24,240 --> 01:10:28,000
Speaker 1: into the radar. Like everybody mentions the offensive line. But

1464
01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:29,800
Speaker 1: they went out and got a guy who has never

1465
01:10:29,840 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 1: missed a start in his career. That's the kind of

1466
01:10:32,360 --> 01:10:34,280
Speaker 1: guy they want to put in, they want to plug in.

1467
01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:40,080
Speaker 1: They went out and traded, and let's face it, they

1468
01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:45,040
Speaker 1: traded their left tackle of two years ago for a

1469
01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:47,160
Speaker 1: chance to move up in the draft so that they

1470
01:10:47,160 --> 01:10:50,320
Speaker 1: could pick the guy that may be the franchise quarterback

1471
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Speaker 1: for the next ten or twelve or fifteen years. Theoretically,

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Speaker 1: all these things are moves that the Buffalo Bills and

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Speaker 1: made it all. Bills fans are very familiar with them.

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01:10:58,200 --> 01:11:01,080
Speaker 1: It's been a long, long and I'm thinking one of

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01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:05,080
Speaker 1: the most interesting off seasons in recent history. It's been

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01:11:05,120 --> 01:11:06,960
Speaker 1: a lot of fun to watch. And I think this

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01:11:07,080 --> 01:11:09,880
Speaker 1: question kind of echoes that now because the Bills fans

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01:11:09,920 --> 01:11:12,320
Speaker 1: know there's still a lot we don't know about our team,

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01:11:12,320 --> 01:11:14,040
Speaker 1: but you've got to know too, And I think a

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01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:15,800
Speaker 1: lot we've heard it even from national media and some

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01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:17,880
Speaker 1: one of the things we're talking about coming up about

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01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:20,880
Speaker 1: the five reasons the Bills may make the playoffs. People

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01:11:20,960 --> 01:11:23,240
Speaker 1: give Sean McDermott a lot of credit for having a

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01:11:23,240 --> 01:11:27,960
Speaker 1: really good plan and a really good set of circumstances

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01:11:28,040 --> 01:11:31,720
Speaker 1: that they've manufactured to get them in a better place

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01:11:31,720 --> 01:11:33,720
Speaker 1: than they were two years ago. And I think it's

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01:11:33,760 --> 01:11:35,400
Speaker 1: fun to be a part of it and watch it

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01:11:35,439 --> 01:11:37,719
Speaker 1: takes shape. And I think our Twitter poll today reflects

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01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:40,240
Speaker 1: the uncertainty about the Bills right And when we talk

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01:11:40,280 --> 01:11:42,639
Speaker 1: about who is the most question marks fact that fifty

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01:11:42,680 --> 01:11:44,759
Speaker 1: eight percent of the responding and say it's a Buffalo Bills,

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01:11:45,800 --> 01:11:48,840
Speaker 1: there is uncertainty, and I think it's a little different. Steve, look,

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01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:51,800
Speaker 1: put yourself back a couple of years when you envisioned, well,

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01:11:51,800 --> 01:11:54,599
Speaker 1: someday the Bills are going to end this ridiculous playoff

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01:11:54,640 --> 01:11:57,880
Speaker 1: drout and be good and move on. Well, they ended

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01:11:57,880 --> 01:12:01,679
Speaker 1: the ridiculous playoff drout, but it didn't really It hasn't

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01:12:01,680 --> 01:12:04,240
Speaker 1: really followed the pattern. You would think like, oh, good,

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01:12:04,240 --> 01:12:07,320
Speaker 1: playoff drout over. Now we're contenders. Were years away from

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01:12:07,320 --> 01:12:10,719
Speaker 1: being super Bowl contenders. Instead, Bills ended the playoff drout,

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Speaker 1: and we know how they did it last year, and

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01:12:12,680 --> 01:12:14,760
Speaker 1: now they have questions, you know, and they're resetting with

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01:12:14,800 --> 01:12:17,920
Speaker 1: a potential franchise quarterback that's number one year two of

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01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:21,120
Speaker 1: the brand new coach and a new general manager season two.

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01:12:21,520 --> 01:12:25,040
Speaker 1: So it's not like the traditional make the playoffs, move forward,

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01:12:25,120 --> 01:12:27,559
Speaker 1: keep stepping forward. No, for the Buffalo Bills, it's and

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01:12:27,760 --> 01:12:30,760
Speaker 1: make the playoffs and that's stupid drought. And then kind

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01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:33,040
Speaker 1: of it's a little bit of a reset. When you

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01:12:33,080 --> 01:12:35,400
Speaker 1: talk about a quarterback, a new quarterback, it happens every

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01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:39,360
Speaker 1: so often as well. You think about back before the

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01:12:39,400 --> 01:12:41,439
Speaker 1: Bills went to all those Super Bowls. In nineteen eighty eight,

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01:12:41,520 --> 01:12:43,479
Speaker 1: they were twelve and four, and out of nowhere were

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01:12:43,479 --> 01:12:47,080
Speaker 1: twelve and four. Jim Kelly emerged, and all of a sudden,

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01:12:47,080 --> 01:12:49,080
Speaker 1: he was his second year, a third year into it,

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01:12:49,400 --> 01:12:51,160
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Jim Kelly took a huge

1515
01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:53,720
Speaker 1: step forward. They drafted Thurman Thomas Bruce Smith was on

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01:12:53,760 --> 01:12:56,360
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the football. They had gotten Corney's

1517
01:12:56,400 --> 01:12:57,720
Speaker 1: been it was his first full year, and all of

1518
01:12:57,720 --> 01:13:00,360
Speaker 1: a sudden, the team exploded and went twelve and four

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01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:03,240
Speaker 1: and went to the championship game and got beat in Cincinnati.

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01:13:03,479 --> 01:13:05,240
Speaker 1: The next year they came back and it turned into

1521
01:13:05,280 --> 01:13:07,920
Speaker 1: the Bickering Bills. They barely squeaked into the playoffs and

1522
01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:10,519
Speaker 1: we're out in the first round after the Ronnie Harmon

1523
01:13:10,640 --> 01:13:12,479
Speaker 1: drop in Cleveland. You know, if you're a y of

1524
01:13:12,520 --> 01:13:15,519
Speaker 1: a certain vintage people Bills fans will remember all those

1525
01:13:15,560 --> 01:13:17,400
Speaker 1: things happening. So you go from a twelve and four

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01:13:18,400 --> 01:13:20,920
Speaker 1: like a rocket to the championship game with a bye

1527
01:13:20,920 --> 01:13:24,200
Speaker 1: week in the playoffs, the whole nine yards to just

1528
01:13:24,360 --> 01:13:29,439
Speaker 1: squeaking in kind of a controversial, no fun season for

1529
01:13:29,520 --> 01:13:32,759
Speaker 1: the fans. Everybody was at each other's throats, squeezing into playoffs,

1530
01:13:32,800 --> 01:13:35,040
Speaker 1: getting out in the first round, and then you come

1531
01:13:35,080 --> 01:13:37,280
Speaker 1: back though, and then you come back and explode again

1532
01:13:37,360 --> 01:13:40,120
Speaker 1: for four straight years and you're in it. So it

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01:13:40,240 --> 01:13:43,040
Speaker 1: is a roller coaster. And I'm not saying that this

1534
01:13:43,040 --> 01:13:45,400
Speaker 1: this team is going to do nothing but go up, up, up,

1535
01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:48,439
Speaker 1: up up up. But like I tell people all the time,

1536
01:13:48,479 --> 01:13:50,200
Speaker 1: people always ask me off there, you know, they're like

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01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:52,840
Speaker 1: in this, Like on the golf course and when I'm

1538
01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:55,000
Speaker 1: out shopping or when I'm doing something in the grist

1539
01:13:55,600 --> 01:13:57,800
Speaker 1: they always asked me like like they always whispered too.

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01:13:57,880 --> 01:14:00,679
Speaker 1: How are they gonna do it? Hell? Yeah, yeah, really,

1541
01:14:00,800 --> 01:14:02,680
Speaker 1: I always tell the truth. Listen, they could be a

1542
01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:04,880
Speaker 1: much better football team this year than they were a

1543
01:14:04,960 --> 01:14:07,960
Speaker 1: year ago and lose more games that make the playoffs.

1544
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:09,720
Speaker 1: They can not make the playoffs. They could be a

1545
01:14:09,720 --> 01:14:12,920
Speaker 1: better football team and have a worse record. That's just

1546
01:14:12,960 --> 01:14:15,600
Speaker 1: the way it is. I think it's funny how you

1547
01:14:15,640 --> 01:14:18,519
Speaker 1: talk about those Bill super Bowl teams and prior to that,

1548
01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:19,960
Speaker 1: like you weren't there. You were a part of that.

1549
01:14:20,479 --> 01:14:24,360
Speaker 1: You were a bickering bill that was quiet during the bickering,

1550
01:14:24,360 --> 01:14:25,760
Speaker 1: and I had much to bicker about it. I was

1551
01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:27,760
Speaker 1: just happy to be there. You were there, you were

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01:14:27,840 --> 01:14:31,439
Speaker 1: part of it. Though you talk about them like they did,

1553
01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:33,920
Speaker 1: you were there. It seems like another lifetime. It was

1554
01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:36,120
Speaker 1: a lifetime ago. It's nineteen eighty eight, I mean nineteen

1555
01:14:36,160 --> 01:14:38,799
Speaker 1: eighty nine. It was forever ago. It was thirty years.

1556
01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:41,360
Speaker 1: Which team in the afcast has the most question marks?

1557
01:14:41,360 --> 01:14:45,599
Speaker 1: A brilliant question according to Bill and Niagara Falls. So now, yeah,

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01:14:45,600 --> 01:14:47,320
Speaker 1: there have no reason not to phon us up eighth

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01:14:47,360 --> 01:14:50,000
Speaker 1: three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five

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01:14:50,120 --> 01:14:53,200
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty and Mark Sester of NFL dot

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01:14:53,200 --> 01:14:56,120
Speaker 1: Com has five, count them, five reasons why the Bills

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01:14:56,120 --> 01:14:58,320
Speaker 1: will make the playoffs this year. We'll talk more about

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01:14:58,360 --> 01:15:00,400
Speaker 1: that and take your phone calls when we return One

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01:15:00,439 --> 01:15:03,200
Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Collat of Health. We're at one.

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01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:17,400
Speaker 1: Bill's driving. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Coming up at

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01:15:17,439 --> 01:15:19,840
Speaker 1: two o'clock today, Mike Tanyure from Bleacher Report's going to

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01:15:19,960 --> 01:15:21,760
Speaker 1: join us. He's got a lot of different type things

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01:15:21,760 --> 01:15:25,200
Speaker 1: to talk about. Got some zany changes he'd like to

1569
01:15:25,200 --> 01:15:27,680
Speaker 1: see in the NFL. Zany whacky. We'll talk to him

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01:15:27,720 --> 01:15:29,759
Speaker 1: about that, coming up at two o'clock at I meantime,

1571
01:15:29,800 --> 01:15:32,160
Speaker 1: plenty to talk about as we look at the acas,

1572
01:15:32,160 --> 01:15:34,200
Speaker 1: try to figure out who's got the most question marks

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01:15:34,560 --> 01:15:36,720
Speaker 1: going into the season, going into this training camp, not

1574
01:15:36,840 --> 01:15:39,000
Speaker 1: into the season. We're still six or seven weeks away

1575
01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:41,600
Speaker 1: from season the season. If you have thoughts on that,

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01:15:41,840 --> 01:15:44,719
Speaker 1: give us a call eight oh three h five fifty

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01:15:45,080 --> 01:15:48,120
Speaker 1: or toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two

1578
01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:50,800
Speaker 1: five fifty, or you can devote on our Twitter poll

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01:15:50,840 --> 01:15:52,880
Speaker 1: and it's pretty one sided. It's more than half of

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01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:56,000
Speaker 1: you believe the Bills have the most question marks going

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01:15:56,000 --> 01:15:58,120
Speaker 1: into the season. Now, Steve thinks that's one of the

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01:15:58,120 --> 01:16:00,760
Speaker 1: reasons that is because we know the Bills, right, most

1583
01:16:00,760 --> 01:16:03,760
Speaker 1: of the focus here is on the Bills. Fifty nine

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01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:05,840
Speaker 1: percent of you say the Bills had the most question

1585
01:16:05,840 --> 01:16:08,080
Speaker 1: marks of any team in the division. Twenty one percent

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01:16:08,160 --> 01:16:11,200
Speaker 1: say the Dolphins, seventeen percent say the Jets, three percent

1587
01:16:11,240 --> 01:16:13,200
Speaker 1: say the Patriots, and folks are saying stuff on the

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01:16:13,240 --> 01:16:16,280
Speaker 1: tweet sheet about this. Steve, Yeah. Marcel Wilson says the

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01:16:16,320 --> 01:16:19,080
Speaker 1: Finns have the most questions. He says both sides of

1590
01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:21,760
Speaker 1: the ball, they lost more key contributors and who knows

1591
01:16:21,800 --> 01:16:23,680
Speaker 1: what Tannehill will look like after being out for the

1592
01:16:23,800 --> 01:16:26,839
Speaker 1: entire season. I think a poor season may even collect

1593
01:16:26,920 --> 01:16:30,439
Speaker 1: gas when it's all said and done. Jets have similar issues,

1594
01:16:30,439 --> 01:16:33,320
Speaker 1: but Darnald gives them more hope, and I agree with

1595
01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:35,240
Speaker 1: that if you think if Tannehill doesn't come back and

1596
01:16:35,280 --> 01:16:39,240
Speaker 1: doesn't play well, the Dolphins have nobody to play quarterbacks.

1597
01:16:39,479 --> 01:16:41,080
Speaker 1: And for the Jets, it's a little bit like what

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01:16:41,200 --> 01:16:44,559
Speaker 1: the point I made earlier about it's not all about

1599
01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:46,880
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen for the New York Jets, Right, they draft

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01:16:47,360 --> 01:16:50,160
Speaker 1: Sam Darneld, but third overall, So the Jets can look

1601
01:16:50,200 --> 01:16:52,600
Speaker 1: at these third or second anyway they can learn it

1602
01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:54,280
Speaker 1: was third. Yeah, they can look at him and say,

1603
01:16:54,479 --> 01:16:56,200
Speaker 1: all right, maybe not this year, but we have our

1604
01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:58,799
Speaker 1: quarterback in place. They hope they're right about that. Behind

1605
01:16:59,040 --> 01:17:03,280
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill quarter back for the Dolphins, Brockossweiler, David Fails,

1606
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:06,800
Speaker 1: and Bryce Petty former New York Chat You're not impressed.

1607
01:17:07,560 --> 01:17:09,040
Speaker 1: I can tell by the look on your face. You're

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01:17:09,040 --> 01:17:11,000
Speaker 1: not impressed. Nothing to be impressed about it. Yeah, I mean,

1609
01:17:11,040 --> 01:17:14,000
Speaker 1: are those guys going to turn into something they haven't been? Right?

1610
01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:16,880
Speaker 1: Is Tannehill going to turn into somebody? Has a been

1611
01:17:17,439 --> 01:17:20,639
Speaker 1: a tweet from Nick Blake which AFC East team has

1612
01:17:20,640 --> 01:17:23,040
Speaker 1: the most question marks? He says New England has the

1613
01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:25,400
Speaker 1: most to worry about. Will Brady be able to perform

1614
01:17:25,439 --> 01:17:28,759
Speaker 1: at the level he's known for a year older. Drama

1615
01:17:28,800 --> 01:17:34,920
Speaker 1: between front office and players equals disaster. And I think

1616
01:17:34,920 --> 01:17:38,000
Speaker 1: that drama was a little bit overplayed, Steve. I think

1617
01:17:38,000 --> 01:17:40,880
Speaker 1: it was attempts to get some kind of news out

1618
01:17:40,880 --> 01:17:43,479
Speaker 1: of a quiet offseason in New England. No, I don't

1619
01:17:43,479 --> 01:17:47,080
Speaker 1: think it was drama. Look the meaningful thing and I

1620
01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:48,680
Speaker 1: kept bringing it up to you, I think right, and

1621
01:17:48,720 --> 01:17:50,920
Speaker 1: you said, it doesn't matter to me. The most meaningful

1622
01:17:50,960 --> 01:17:54,200
Speaker 1: thing was the absence of Brady and Gronkowski from the

1623
01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:58,639
Speaker 1: voluntary offseason workouts. Not a deal breaker, not an earth

1624
01:17:58,880 --> 01:18:02,559
Speaker 1: shaking element in New England, but meaningful, you know for Brady,

1625
01:18:02,600 --> 01:18:05,960
Speaker 1: who was always the leader, always the guy, first man in,

1626
01:18:06,080 --> 01:18:08,880
Speaker 1: last man out, most prepared, you know, car in the

1627
01:18:08,920 --> 01:18:10,640
Speaker 1: parking lot at five thirty in the morning. For him

1628
01:18:10,680 --> 01:18:14,280
Speaker 1: not to even attend the voluntary workouts, to me, that

1629
01:18:14,400 --> 01:18:16,400
Speaker 1: was a signal. Is that enough to bring down the

1630
01:18:16,400 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 1: whole house of cards? Probably not. In fact, I don't

1631
01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:21,560
Speaker 1: even think. I don't even think it's gonna be a

1632
01:18:21,600 --> 01:18:24,920
Speaker 1: bump in the road in long term, when he shows up,

1633
01:18:24,960 --> 01:18:28,439
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna be engaged and committed and he

1634
01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:30,439
Speaker 1: is going to be setting the standard for guys and

1635
01:18:30,479 --> 01:18:32,000
Speaker 1: that's what they want to see. When he's not there,

1636
01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:33,840
Speaker 1: it's easy not to think about him because everybody's working

1637
01:18:33,880 --> 01:18:35,680
Speaker 1: their own thing, they're doing their own workouts, they're making

1638
01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:37,519
Speaker 1: their own practice, they running their own routes, doing all that.

1639
01:18:37,640 --> 01:18:40,519
Speaker 1: When he's there and he continues to set the standard

1640
01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:42,800
Speaker 1: inside the building, I don't think it's gonna be the

1641
01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:45,719
Speaker 1: new England Patriots won't miss a beat. The big question

1642
01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:49,519
Speaker 1: is going to be forty one at some point this season.

1643
01:18:49,680 --> 01:18:51,519
Speaker 1: I'm not sure when his birthday is, but he's forty

1644
01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:53,479
Speaker 1: one now, right, No, he's forty I believe. Is he

1645
01:18:53,560 --> 01:18:55,559
Speaker 1: gonna be forty or he's forty now, But he's gonna

1646
01:18:55,560 --> 01:18:57,639
Speaker 1: be forty one, right because he played something he played

1647
01:18:57,640 --> 01:19:02,000
Speaker 1: at forty years old last year. So all that stuff together.

1648
01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:05,599
Speaker 1: August third is his birthday, he'll be forty one. August thirty.

1649
01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:08,760
Speaker 1: He's gonna play the entire season at forty one years old.

1650
01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:11,400
Speaker 1: And that's a let me tell you, that's a big number.

1651
01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:18,000
Speaker 1: It's a big number. And I don't know that's that's

1652
01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:20,479
Speaker 1: gonna be. That's the thing. That's the thing that gives

1653
01:19:20,479 --> 01:19:22,920
Speaker 1: you long term concern if you're the Patriots, think about

1654
01:19:22,960 --> 01:19:26,640
Speaker 1: Brady missing the voluntary offseason workouts. I agree, it's not

1655
01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:30,680
Speaker 1: a huge deal, but Steve, but last year the Patriots

1656
01:19:30,680 --> 01:19:33,200
Speaker 1: opened up the season right with a difficult loss at

1657
01:19:33,280 --> 01:19:35,360
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Remember that, Oh they got crushed. If that

1658
01:19:35,439 --> 01:19:37,720
Speaker 1: should happen again early this season week one or some

1659
01:19:37,800 --> 01:19:40,519
Speaker 1: point down the road, you gotta believe that that question

1660
01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:43,479
Speaker 1: will be raised. Well, Brady, you know, skipped out on

1661
01:19:43,520 --> 01:19:46,400
Speaker 1: the voluntary workouts, didn't go to minicamp. Maybe they're feeling,

1662
01:19:46,479 --> 01:19:48,120
Speaker 1: you know, that will be now will it be real?

1663
01:19:48,439 --> 01:19:50,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that will be raised. That'll be

1664
01:19:50,200 --> 01:19:51,840
Speaker 1: a question that he will have to answer when you

1665
01:19:51,880 --> 01:19:54,200
Speaker 1: talk about question marks heading into camp, and all those

1666
01:19:54,280 --> 01:19:58,000
Speaker 1: questions marks are this. I mean, he's never done that before, right,

1667
01:19:58,040 --> 01:20:00,880
Speaker 1: And you gotta think at a certain point when you

1668
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:03,320
Speaker 1: get and I was there, I mean I retired when

1669
01:20:03,360 --> 01:20:06,479
Speaker 1: I was thirty five from the NFL. And he's after

1670
01:20:06,520 --> 01:20:09,040
Speaker 1: grinding it down and keep your nose down for you know,

1671
01:20:09,120 --> 01:20:11,840
Speaker 1: thirteen years, you kind of you sit up and you

1672
01:20:11,920 --> 01:20:16,200
Speaker 1: take a deep breath and kind of look around, and yeah,

1673
01:20:16,240 --> 01:20:18,760
Speaker 1: I think Tom Brady took a deep breath this offseason, said, man,

1674
01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:21,120
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can. I don't want to

1675
01:20:21,120 --> 01:20:23,880
Speaker 1: grind it out for six months. You know, I can

1676
01:20:23,920 --> 01:20:26,360
Speaker 1: give you four, but I don't want to grind it

1677
01:20:26,360 --> 01:20:29,439
Speaker 1: out and go in there in May and you know,

1678
01:20:29,640 --> 01:20:31,720
Speaker 1: have my head down trying to get these guys to

1679
01:20:31,800 --> 01:20:33,400
Speaker 1: play hard, and I don't want to do it. I

1680
01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:36,080
Speaker 1: need a break and I need antle extra time to

1681
01:20:36,160 --> 01:20:39,920
Speaker 1: get ready. And there's no doubt that that means something

1682
01:20:40,280 --> 01:20:42,280
Speaker 1: as to his future and how much he's got left

1683
01:20:42,280 --> 01:20:44,400
Speaker 1: in his tank. A couple more from the tweet sheet.

1684
01:20:44,479 --> 01:20:47,280
Speaker 1: Chris Rolec tweets in when we asked the question which

1685
01:20:47,320 --> 01:20:49,960
Speaker 1: AFC East team has the most question marks, Chris Rolex says,

1686
01:20:50,240 --> 01:20:52,080
Speaker 1: I have to pick the Bills on this one because

1687
01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:54,240
Speaker 1: of a few question marks I have. Who's going to

1688
01:20:54,280 --> 01:20:56,080
Speaker 1: be the starting quarterback? You they hold on to all

1689
01:20:56,080 --> 01:20:59,600
Speaker 1: three quarterbacks? Will mccoybe suspended at all? Zay Jones? You

1690
01:20:59,680 --> 01:21:02,439
Speaker 1: gotta Chris, that's the laundry list. You're right that those are.

1691
01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:05,800
Speaker 1: Jack Lawson, Yeah, there's more than you even add, Chris. Yeah,

1692
01:21:05,840 --> 01:21:08,479
Speaker 1: those are the questions that Bills fans have, which is

1693
01:21:08,479 --> 01:21:11,040
Speaker 1: why fifty nine percent of him say that's the answer.

1694
01:21:11,160 --> 01:21:16,720
Speaker 1: The right guard position, left guard position, center, Um, all

1695
01:21:16,760 --> 01:21:19,559
Speaker 1: of that. Charles Clay, who had trouble staying healthy, who

1696
01:21:19,640 --> 01:21:22,920
Speaker 1: has had trouble staying healthy in the last few season,

1697
01:21:22,920 --> 01:21:24,160
Speaker 1: have been on and off the field a little bit

1698
01:21:24,200 --> 01:21:27,160
Speaker 1: during the seasons. He's a huge contributor. He's a really

1699
01:21:27,160 --> 01:21:30,439
Speaker 1: good player, but he needs somebody to throw him the ball.

1700
01:21:30,840 --> 01:21:33,280
Speaker 1: Zay Jones and the Zay Jones thing. And I the

1701
01:21:33,320 --> 01:21:35,160
Speaker 1: more I spoke about this just in the last segment

1702
01:21:35,479 --> 01:21:40,080
Speaker 1: about what's changed for him, I'm kind of encouraged about

1703
01:21:40,160 --> 01:21:44,080
Speaker 1: how refurbished and how rejuvenated he'll be. You say rejuvenated

1704
01:21:44,080 --> 01:21:45,960
Speaker 1: for a young guy who came in and he's going

1705
01:21:46,040 --> 01:21:47,559
Speaker 1: into a second year. But it's going to be a

1706
01:21:47,600 --> 01:21:51,599
Speaker 1: big change for him, and hopefully it'll all be positive

1707
01:21:51,600 --> 01:21:54,679
Speaker 1: because it'll be a new offense, new quarterbacks throwing the football,

1708
01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:58,360
Speaker 1: a new position coach, and a new chance to catch

1709
01:21:58,439 --> 01:22:01,160
Speaker 1: up and and and play receiver like he's used to

1710
01:22:01,200 --> 01:22:03,840
Speaker 1: play in receiver. And I think I'm excited for him

1711
01:22:03,840 --> 01:22:05,559
Speaker 1: to come back and get a chance to do that.

1712
01:22:05,720 --> 01:22:08,280
Speaker 1: You mean favor you read the last tweet, Nick, because

1713
01:22:08,320 --> 01:22:10,360
Speaker 1: I know I get accused of being a Dolphins hater

1714
01:22:10,400 --> 01:22:14,760
Speaker 1: and a Gaze HATERA All right, here's a tweet. One

1715
01:22:14,760 --> 01:22:16,640
Speaker 1: could argue the Bills or the Jets because of the

1716
01:22:16,720 --> 01:22:20,360
Speaker 1: uncertainty at quarterback. I question the coaching. Miami has the

1717
01:22:20,439 --> 01:22:23,479
Speaker 1: weakest head coach in the division, Gays and his negative

1718
01:22:23,520 --> 01:22:27,519
Speaker 1: mannerisms on the sidelines affects player morale. Not to mention

1719
01:22:27,560 --> 01:22:30,519
Speaker 1: his press conferences throwing players under the bus, he's in

1720
01:22:30,680 --> 01:22:32,519
Speaker 1: reference to some of the things that happened last year.

1721
01:22:32,840 --> 01:22:34,960
Speaker 1: And let's face it, they made a big statement trading

1722
01:22:35,040 --> 01:22:38,479
Speaker 1: Jagi last year. Jagi is a quality running back and

1723
01:22:38,560 --> 01:22:40,559
Speaker 1: they let him go. They let go and Doma con

1724
01:22:40,640 --> 01:22:44,400
Speaker 1: sue they turned loose Mike Pouncey, who is an All

1725
01:22:44,439 --> 01:22:50,639
Speaker 1: Pro center, Jarvis Landry, who's as good as a dangerous

1726
01:22:50,720 --> 01:22:53,320
Speaker 1: slot receiver as there is in the NFL. All those

1727
01:22:53,360 --> 01:22:57,000
Speaker 1: guys are gone, and Gas made some dynamic moves last

1728
01:22:57,040 --> 01:22:59,240
Speaker 1: year during the season to make that happen, Jagi being

1729
01:22:59,240 --> 01:23:03,600
Speaker 1: the one most prominent. And yeah, there is something to

1730
01:23:03,600 --> 01:23:05,760
Speaker 1: be said about a coach who wears his emotions on

1731
01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:09,599
Speaker 1: his sleeve, particularly when things aren't going well, so, um, yeah,

1732
01:23:09,600 --> 01:23:12,000
Speaker 1: there's like we said that and we got a call

1733
01:23:12,080 --> 01:23:13,760
Speaker 1: and said, this is the most brill he said, this

1734
01:23:13,800 --> 01:23:18,800
Speaker 1: is the brilliant question to ask. It is because you know,

1735
01:23:18,840 --> 01:23:21,640
Speaker 1: you look at these other teams and maybe we're we

1736
01:23:21,720 --> 01:23:24,040
Speaker 1: get so wrapped up in the team we cover and

1737
01:23:24,120 --> 01:23:28,680
Speaker 1: the team we root for as Bills fans that you forget. Hey,

1738
01:23:28,720 --> 01:23:31,760
Speaker 1: every other team's got their problems. You know, nobody's rolling

1739
01:23:31,800 --> 01:23:34,240
Speaker 1: into this season. Man, this is it whoa You know,

1740
01:23:34,280 --> 01:23:37,120
Speaker 1: the La Rams may may be this may be the

1741
01:23:37,200 --> 01:23:39,120
Speaker 1: year they think that this is our year We're going

1742
01:23:39,160 --> 01:23:42,599
Speaker 1: because they've kind of accumulated all these guys and they

1743
01:23:42,640 --> 01:23:45,080
Speaker 1: are rolling the dice to win now or they're gonna

1744
01:23:45,080 --> 01:23:47,759
Speaker 1: pay the price in a couple of years. But everybody

1745
01:23:47,760 --> 01:23:50,639
Speaker 1: in the league is like you, why, gosh, I hope

1746
01:23:50,640 --> 01:23:53,120
Speaker 1: this works out in this you know, this particular position

1747
01:23:53,240 --> 01:23:55,760
Speaker 1: or this guy or these guys, I hope it works out.

1748
01:23:55,800 --> 01:23:59,120
Speaker 1: You know, every team has issues, and the Bills are

1749
01:23:59,120 --> 01:24:01,080
Speaker 1: no different. And all three he or three of the

1750
01:24:01,080 --> 01:24:03,559
Speaker 1: four teams in the AFC East are sitting right in

1751
01:24:03,600 --> 01:24:05,800
Speaker 1: that spot. Give us a call if you have thoughts

1752
01:24:05,800 --> 01:24:08,040
Speaker 1: on that. In the meantime, there's this to look at

1753
01:24:08,080 --> 01:24:12,160
Speaker 1: and everybody's you know covers the NFL looking at waste.

1754
01:24:12,120 --> 01:24:16,479
Speaker 1: To generate content, Mark Sessler and his partners at NFL

1755
01:24:16,600 --> 01:24:19,840
Speaker 1: dot Com have published you Know Reasons Adam Rank Mark

1756
01:24:19,840 --> 01:24:23,759
Speaker 1: Sesslor providing five reasons why every one of the thirty

1757
01:24:23,760 --> 01:24:25,600
Speaker 1: two teams in the NFL will make an appearance in

1758
01:24:25,600 --> 01:24:28,640
Speaker 1: the postseason This year. Mark Sesslor did the Buffalo Bills.

1759
01:24:28,680 --> 01:24:31,400
Speaker 1: Five reasons why the Bills will make the twenty eighteen playoffs.

1760
01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:34,200
Speaker 1: It's worth reading. It's on NFL dot Com. Number One

1761
01:24:34,200 --> 01:24:38,120
Speaker 1: reason especially he goes, I believe in Sean McDermott, the

1762
01:24:38,200 --> 01:24:40,600
Speaker 1: second year head coach tug Buffalo to the playoffs a

1763
01:24:40,640 --> 01:24:43,360
Speaker 1: year ago with the roster ifew believes in McDermott will

1764
01:24:43,400 --> 01:24:45,880
Speaker 1: be challenged to pull off another postseason birth this season

1765
01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:50,040
Speaker 1: with one of the league shake his offensive lineups, and

1766
01:24:50,080 --> 01:24:52,559
Speaker 1: then he finishes up his part on McDermott saying the

1767
01:24:52,640 --> 01:24:54,559
Speaker 1: road ahead is rugged, but the Bills finally have a

1768
01:24:54,560 --> 01:24:57,559
Speaker 1: coaching staff in front office that can work together. There's

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01:24:57,560 --> 01:25:00,000
Speaker 1: a future here. Number one reason he thinks the Bills

1770
01:25:00,040 --> 01:25:02,280
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. Sean McDermott, What do you think? He says?

1771
01:25:02,320 --> 01:25:04,600
Speaker 1: What he says what he trust is mcdermot's ability to

1772
01:25:04,640 --> 01:25:06,919
Speaker 1: maximize the guys on the defensive side of the football.

1773
01:25:06,960 --> 01:25:08,920
Speaker 1: We saw that last year in the first half of

1774
01:25:08,920 --> 01:25:11,559
Speaker 1: the season, the Bills secondary exploded onto the scene. They

1775
01:25:11,600 --> 01:25:14,759
Speaker 1: ended up with eighteen interceptions, and they've got their sights

1776
01:25:14,760 --> 01:25:18,439
Speaker 1: on Saturday even higher. They've believe, they believe have fixed

1777
01:25:18,439 --> 01:25:20,599
Speaker 1: their pass rush problems because last year they only had

1778
01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:25,000
Speaker 1: twenty seven sacks. They need to get thirty more sacks

1779
01:25:25,040 --> 01:25:26,960
Speaker 1: to get up to the top or upper echelon of

1780
01:25:26,960 --> 01:25:29,439
Speaker 1: the league. And that's a lot, and they're out to

1781
01:25:29,479 --> 01:25:32,280
Speaker 1: do it. They need more pass pressure, and you got

1782
01:25:32,280 --> 01:25:35,720
Speaker 1: to think if they get more pass pressure, the interceptions

1783
01:25:35,720 --> 01:25:38,280
Speaker 1: and turnovers are actually gonna go up. So if they

1784
01:25:38,280 --> 01:25:41,080
Speaker 1: can do that, and they've made every opera and made

1785
01:25:41,120 --> 01:25:43,840
Speaker 1: every effort to do that, this is a team that's

1786
01:25:43,880 --> 01:25:46,600
Speaker 1: gonna really be able to carry their team allah like

1787
01:25:46,680 --> 01:25:50,519
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars last year, who rode their defense all

1788
01:25:50,520 --> 01:25:53,479
Speaker 1: the way to the championship game against the New England Patriots.

1789
01:25:53,479 --> 01:25:56,479
Speaker 1: So I think that is a major reason why I

1790
01:25:56,520 --> 01:25:58,880
Speaker 1: agree that that is one of the reasons if you're

1791
01:25:58,880 --> 01:26:00,360
Speaker 1: looking for the Bills to make the play offs, you

1792
01:26:00,360 --> 01:26:02,320
Speaker 1: can hang your hat on their defense and the improvement

1793
01:26:02,360 --> 01:26:04,360
Speaker 1: they made on that side of the ball, given the

1794
01:26:04,360 --> 01:26:05,760
Speaker 1: fact that that's the side of the ball that carried

1795
01:26:05,840 --> 01:26:08,839
Speaker 1: him last year. The reason number two by Mark Sessler

1796
01:26:09,040 --> 01:26:12,160
Speaker 1: is the defense power upfront on defense is second reason

1797
01:26:12,200 --> 01:26:15,120
Speaker 1: why the Bills will make the playoffs. He mentions, obviously

1798
01:26:15,160 --> 01:26:18,080
Speaker 1: the additions to Trent Murphy and Starlotu la Lay. He

1799
01:26:18,120 --> 01:26:20,400
Speaker 1: says Jerry Hughes played okay last year, but he goes

1800
01:26:20,439 --> 01:26:22,800
Speaker 1: the key here his third year pass rush. Here is

1801
01:26:22,840 --> 01:26:28,320
Speaker 1: Shack Lawson breaking out after two down campaigns. The best

1802
01:26:29,000 --> 01:26:31,120
Speaker 1: the best case scenario would be to see the former

1803
01:26:31,160 --> 01:26:34,240
Speaker 1: first rounder who shed weight this offseason, finally live up

1804
01:26:34,240 --> 01:26:37,080
Speaker 1: to his pedigree. And number three, he's got talent in

1805
01:26:37,080 --> 01:26:39,679
Speaker 1: the secondary. He is on the two and three. Sessler

1806
01:26:39,920 --> 01:26:43,280
Speaker 1: as two numbers reasons two and three. It's kind of

1807
01:26:43,280 --> 01:26:45,919
Speaker 1: what you see, Steve. Just a really pretty solid Buffalo

1808
01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:48,120
Speaker 1: defense that might be their ticket if there is a

1809
01:26:48,120 --> 01:26:50,360
Speaker 1: postseason birth this year. Think it may be a top

1810
01:26:50,439 --> 01:26:54,880
Speaker 1: ten defense. He didn't say that anywhere here. I've been

1811
01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:57,519
Speaker 1: given for a month and a half about I think

1812
01:26:57,520 --> 01:26:59,559
Speaker 1: they can be a top ten defense, and you know

1813
01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:02,479
Speaker 1: that it's it's fairly obvious they're going to be an

1814
01:27:02,479 --> 01:27:05,680
Speaker 1: improved defense because they didn't get much pass rush last year.

1815
01:27:05,720 --> 01:27:07,400
Speaker 1: They had a lot of turnovers and that's what drove them.

1816
01:27:07,439 --> 01:27:09,719
Speaker 1: But they're gonna be much better. I'm saying, I'm setting

1817
01:27:09,800 --> 01:27:11,760
Speaker 1: up there at the top ten. Murf's not quite ready

1818
01:27:11,800 --> 01:27:13,800
Speaker 1: to go. That's a huge jump, but it is. If

1819
01:27:13,840 --> 01:27:16,920
Speaker 1: they're a top ten defense, are they in the playoffs?

1820
01:27:17,360 --> 01:27:21,080
Speaker 1: That might be there's no no, but top ten defense

1821
01:27:21,080 --> 01:27:23,680
Speaker 1: with what we know about their offense, that could be

1822
01:27:23,680 --> 01:27:27,879
Speaker 1: a playoff contenders, don't. We don't know anything about their offense.

1823
01:27:27,880 --> 01:27:30,240
Speaker 1: We know nothing, but we hope from their offense full

1824
01:27:30,360 --> 01:27:34,000
Speaker 1: point top ten defense with serviceable offense, that could be

1825
01:27:34,040 --> 01:27:36,280
Speaker 1: a playoff team in Buffalo. I think, but I don't

1826
01:27:36,280 --> 01:27:37,680
Speaker 1: know if they'll be top ten. I think I know

1827
01:27:37,720 --> 01:27:40,280
Speaker 1: they're going to be better, but that but his reasons

1828
01:27:40,280 --> 01:27:44,000
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott, the power of the the upgraded front seven

1829
01:27:44,000 --> 01:27:45,840
Speaker 1: of the defense, and the talent in the secondary. So

1830
01:27:45,880 --> 01:27:47,799
Speaker 1: there's two of the first three reasons are the defense

1831
01:27:48,200 --> 01:27:50,519
Speaker 1: and Sean McDermott being a defensive head coach, and get

1832
01:27:50,680 --> 01:27:52,920
Speaker 1: being able to maximize his roster. There's your first reason

1833
01:27:52,920 --> 01:27:55,160
Speaker 1: The fourth one is a really good point that he

1834
01:27:55,160 --> 01:27:57,559
Speaker 1: brings up, and that is the AFC East. Two of

1835
01:27:57,560 --> 01:27:59,760
Speaker 1: the three teams and there were we've seen it in

1836
01:27:59,800 --> 01:28:02,960
Speaker 1: this Twitter question. We've got two of these three. Three

1837
01:28:03,000 --> 01:28:05,040
Speaker 1: of the four teams have big question marks, the Bills

1838
01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:08,120
Speaker 1: among them, the Dolphins and the Jets. And the Bills

1839
01:28:09,439 --> 01:28:12,559
Speaker 1: swept the Dolphins last year. And the Dolphins, I don't

1840
01:28:12,560 --> 01:28:14,439
Speaker 1: think they can be as good as they were last year,

1841
01:28:15,040 --> 01:28:17,040
Speaker 1: except for Ryan Tannehill if he comes back and is

1842
01:28:17,040 --> 01:28:19,120
Speaker 1: the kind of player, because their quarterback didn't play well

1843
01:28:19,240 --> 01:28:23,519
Speaker 1: last year in Jay Cutler. But so that's another fourth

1844
01:28:23,560 --> 01:28:26,639
Speaker 1: reasons why the Bills could make some hay because their

1845
01:28:27,360 --> 01:28:30,280
Speaker 1: division is down Sessor rights in this NFL dot com post,

1846
01:28:30,600 --> 01:28:33,360
Speaker 1: the Buffalo can steal games from the Dolphins and the Jets.

1847
01:28:33,400 --> 01:28:36,200
Speaker 1: That's true. You know what else, The Dolphins and Jets

1848
01:28:36,200 --> 01:28:38,360
Speaker 1: can steal games from Buffalo. They all have over the

1849
01:28:38,400 --> 01:28:40,600
Speaker 1: last couple of years. They're all pretty much in the

1850
01:28:40,640 --> 01:28:44,200
Speaker 1: same barrel. Right, Yeah, Bills could take games from those two,

1851
01:28:44,400 --> 01:28:47,880
Speaker 1: sweep them both. The opposite could happen too. I think

1852
01:28:47,880 --> 01:28:50,479
Speaker 1: that's still on the table. Lastly, and this one, I

1853
01:28:50,520 --> 01:28:53,120
Speaker 1: hate this reason Sessor and his five reasons why the

1854
01:28:53,120 --> 01:28:57,320
Speaker 1: Bills basically just because, yeah, the unpredictable nature of professional

1855
01:28:57,360 --> 01:29:01,160
Speaker 1: sports will no kidding, right, nobody knows us. He says,

1856
01:29:02,439 --> 01:29:05,000
Speaker 1: the clear majority of predictions made by sports fans and

1857
01:29:05,040 --> 01:29:09,000
Speaker 1: analysts go terribly wrong. So he's got five reasons why

1858
01:29:09,000 --> 01:29:11,240
Speaker 1: the Bills will make the playoffs. And his fifth is

1859
01:29:11,280 --> 01:29:14,439
Speaker 1: because I don't know, because anything gonna happen. What kind

1860
01:29:14,479 --> 01:29:17,599
Speaker 1: of come on, man, you gotta be better than that. Yeah,

1861
01:29:17,640 --> 01:29:20,360
Speaker 1: I mean, I get that, but and it is because

1862
01:29:20,400 --> 01:29:23,120
Speaker 1: this is look at and his example is a good one.

1863
01:29:23,360 --> 01:29:26,320
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars. Last year, they came out of nowhere with

1864
01:29:26,320 --> 01:29:27,880
Speaker 1: one of the best defenses in the league, if not

1865
01:29:27,920 --> 01:29:29,960
Speaker 1: the best defense in the league, and got their team

1866
01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:33,080
Speaker 1: all the way to the championship game in the AFC.

1867
01:29:33,560 --> 01:29:37,960
Speaker 1: With Blake Bortles as quarterback, who he's not even in

1868
01:29:38,000 --> 01:29:41,000
Speaker 1: the midst of a playoff run, was not playing well. Yeah,

1869
01:29:41,040 --> 01:29:44,679
Speaker 1: and he was not the reason they were winning football games.

1870
01:29:45,520 --> 01:29:49,000
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette, a rookie running back out of LSU last year,

1871
01:29:49,160 --> 01:29:51,720
Speaker 1: came in and they had a big time running back,

1872
01:29:51,800 --> 01:29:55,040
Speaker 1: a good offensive line, a conservative offense to say the least,

1873
01:29:55,760 --> 01:29:59,200
Speaker 1: and a defense that was dominant. That was their recipe,

1874
01:29:59,280 --> 01:30:02,280
Speaker 1: and a lot of teams are had. The Seattle Seahawks

1875
01:30:02,320 --> 01:30:04,080
Speaker 1: went to a couple of Super Bowls with the legion

1876
01:30:04,080 --> 01:30:08,040
Speaker 1: of boom and their great defense and their quarterback who

1877
01:30:08,080 --> 01:30:11,679
Speaker 1: while he was on his rookie contract, gave them great value,

1878
01:30:11,720 --> 01:30:13,679
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. So they were able to get to the playoffs.

1879
01:30:13,760 --> 01:30:17,000
Speaker 1: But now they're having trouble keeping that going. Look for

1880
01:30:17,200 --> 01:30:20,920
Speaker 1: that is a reason why the Buffalo Bills could do it,

1881
01:30:20,960 --> 01:30:22,360
Speaker 1: but their defense is going to have to take a

1882
01:30:22,400 --> 01:30:24,479
Speaker 1: big step forward. They've made a lot of changes up

1883
01:30:24,520 --> 01:30:27,720
Speaker 1: front with draft picks and free agent signings, and this

1884
01:30:27,800 --> 01:30:31,360
Speaker 1: is a totally revamped defense in the front seven and

1885
01:30:31,560 --> 01:30:35,080
Speaker 1: with a new corner in the back end. So there's

1886
01:30:35,160 --> 01:30:37,280
Speaker 1: every reason to think the potential is there for them

1887
01:30:37,320 --> 01:30:39,400
Speaker 1: to take a huge step forward, But you know, it's

1888
01:30:39,680 --> 01:30:41,960
Speaker 1: still it's kind of a wait and see attitude. It's

1889
01:30:42,000 --> 01:30:44,519
Speaker 1: definitely worth reading. They do all thirty two teams, they

1890
01:30:44,560 --> 01:30:47,479
Speaker 1: do the Bills. Mark Seslo does five reasons why the

1891
01:30:47,520 --> 01:30:49,599
Speaker 1: Bills will make the playoffs in twenty eighteen. He's got

1892
01:30:49,600 --> 01:30:53,280
Speaker 1: four valid reasons. One is to sort of throw away, hey,

1893
01:30:53,360 --> 01:30:56,160
Speaker 1: Jim Kelly making news in Rochester Today's he gets set

1894
01:30:56,200 --> 01:30:59,080
Speaker 1: for the SP's tomorrow out West were here what he

1895
01:30:59,080 --> 01:31:00,840
Speaker 1: had to say and talk about that when we return

1896
01:31:01,120 --> 01:31:03,559
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive and this is

1897
01:31:03,600 --> 01:31:17,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. I'll come back to One Bill's Live.

1898
01:31:17,080 --> 01:31:19,200
Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker. We're here until three. What

1899
01:31:19,240 --> 01:31:21,719
Speaker 1: did you say? We're here until three, but we start

1900
01:31:21,800 --> 01:31:25,519
Speaker 1: right now. That's correct. You say that after every We

1901
01:31:25,560 --> 01:31:29,599
Speaker 1: can say that after every every Yeah, we're here until three,

1902
01:31:29,640 --> 01:31:32,599
Speaker 1: but we started at noon and coming up at two.

1903
01:31:32,680 --> 01:31:35,040
Speaker 1: Mike Tanier from Bleacher Reports going to join us. Jim

1904
01:31:35,160 --> 01:31:37,840
Speaker 1: Kelly was in Rochester today. He had a one day

1905
01:31:38,200 --> 01:31:41,799
Speaker 1: youth football clinic in Rochester today, right to Saint John Fisher,

1906
01:31:41,800 --> 01:31:44,040
Speaker 1: where the Bills will be in a week. Former Bill's

1907
01:31:44,120 --> 01:31:46,559
Speaker 1: quarterback talked about variety of topics. He's headed to Los

1908
01:31:46,600 --> 01:31:51,240
Speaker 1: Angeles for the SP's tomorrow. Kelly also talked about his health.

1909
01:31:51,280 --> 01:31:53,200
Speaker 1: He talked about it. He's got a check up coming

1910
01:31:53,280 --> 01:31:56,080
Speaker 1: up next week, just a couple of months after having

1911
01:31:56,080 --> 01:31:59,040
Speaker 1: surgery for oral cancer. Here's what Jim told reporters in

1912
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Speaker 1: Rochester John Fisher Today. Everybody changes. Um, I'm heading back

1913
01:32:06,040 --> 01:32:11,320
Speaker 1: to New York City uh, chethterd winklb Augus. Um, not

1914
01:32:11,439 --> 01:32:14,600
Speaker 1: sure what's going on. Um. I have some you know,

1915
01:32:14,640 --> 01:32:17,080
Speaker 1: some things that I want to have looked at, and

1916
01:32:17,120 --> 01:32:18,760
Speaker 1: then we'll go from there. I don't know whether I'm

1917
01:32:18,760 --> 01:32:21,120
Speaker 1: gonna be here for two days, four days or in

1918
01:32:21,240 --> 01:32:23,280
Speaker 1: and out. I mean you can see I still have

1919
01:32:23,320 --> 01:32:26,200
Speaker 1: a mouthful of sixers, and I'm sure they're gonna put

1920
01:32:26,200 --> 01:32:29,479
Speaker 1: a lot lows out and uh, we'll see. You know,

1921
01:32:29,640 --> 01:32:32,639
Speaker 1: something came up. Plus, you know what my doctors are

1922
01:32:32,640 --> 01:32:34,720
Speaker 1: in New York. I'm not there every day, so I

1923
01:32:34,720 --> 01:32:37,080
Speaker 1: want to make sure that everything is going on is

1924
01:32:37,560 --> 01:32:41,479
Speaker 1: going on for the right reasons. Um. And you know,

1925
01:32:41,680 --> 01:32:44,040
Speaker 1: just just like anybody you go through a broken lage

1926
01:32:44,120 --> 01:32:46,640
Speaker 1: or something, you gotta have check ups. And there's a

1927
01:32:46,640 --> 01:32:48,559
Speaker 1: little pen of here you think there shouldn't be here.

1928
01:32:48,600 --> 01:32:51,160
Speaker 1: He Douy didn't check. So Jim says he's headed back

1929
01:32:51,160 --> 01:32:53,120
Speaker 1: in New York in a couple of weeks in August

1930
01:32:53,160 --> 01:32:55,919
Speaker 1: for a check up. Something came up in his recovery,

1931
01:32:55,960 --> 01:32:58,759
Speaker 1: he says. Kelly also talked about his visit out West

1932
01:32:59,040 --> 01:33:02,800
Speaker 1: tomorrow for the ESPs by ESPN. He's getting the Jimmy

1933
01:33:02,840 --> 01:33:06,520
Speaker 1: B Award named after Jim Bombano an award for perseverance.

1934
01:33:06,520 --> 01:33:09,400
Speaker 1: Certainly Kelly has demonstrated that. And here's what Jim Kelly

1935
01:33:09,439 --> 01:33:12,760
Speaker 1: said today in Rochester about his ESP appearance coming up

1936
01:33:12,760 --> 01:33:18,320
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. You know what that's humbling for sure? Um,

1937
01:33:18,320 --> 01:33:20,160
Speaker 1: when I look at and I look at their prior

1938
01:33:20,640 --> 01:33:24,120
Speaker 1: um recipients, I know what they've been through in order

1939
01:33:24,160 --> 01:33:26,040
Speaker 1: to get to the ward. You gotta go through a lot.

1940
01:33:26,200 --> 01:33:31,120
Speaker 1: And Uh for me, Um, the cards and letters that

1941
01:33:31,320 --> 01:33:34,320
Speaker 1: people write to me makes me even have a bitter

1942
01:33:34,400 --> 01:33:38,320
Speaker 1: smile on my face. So I hope that the words

1943
01:33:38,320 --> 01:33:42,120
Speaker 1: that I say come out right, that I'm able to

1944
01:33:42,160 --> 01:33:45,280
Speaker 1: inspire people never to give up. That we all everybody

1945
01:33:45,400 --> 01:33:48,559
Speaker 1: here probably know the sun Ruth chancer, but the bomb

1946
01:33:48,560 --> 01:33:52,320
Speaker 1: Liners it's not always about chancer. It's about somebody that's

1947
01:33:52,360 --> 01:33:56,200
Speaker 1: not doing well or having a bad day. What that smiled?

1948
01:33:56,439 --> 01:33:59,800
Speaker 1: What's that hub? What's that incourage? Encourage? Your word will

1949
01:33:59,840 --> 01:34:03,400
Speaker 1: do sumbody? And here's so many people that I talked

1950
01:34:03,439 --> 01:34:08,400
Speaker 1: to that thereforns that just pause, they don't have kem suport,

1951
01:34:08,520 --> 01:34:12,840
Speaker 1: Come hug your mother? Why did you have a good day?

1952
01:34:13,200 --> 01:34:17,160
Speaker 1: What a hawk and dust smile? All talking about the

1953
01:34:17,320 --> 01:34:19,759
Speaker 1: SP so he'll be there for the Jimmy V Award.

1954
01:34:19,840 --> 01:34:22,599
Speaker 1: The Jimmy B Award for Perseverance, named after the former

1955
01:34:22,880 --> 01:34:25,760
Speaker 1: North Carolina State head coach Jim Valvano. Jim mentioned some

1956
01:34:25,800 --> 01:34:31,080
Speaker 1: of the earlier recipients. Kyo, former women's basketball coach, Um

1957
01:34:31,280 --> 01:34:33,880
Speaker 1: received the first Jimmy B Award in two thousand and seven.

1958
01:34:34,160 --> 01:34:37,759
Speaker 1: Kevin Everett, who had the unfortunate injury for the Buffalo

1959
01:34:37,800 --> 01:34:40,240
Speaker 1: Bills Bills tight end paralyzed for a while from the

1960
01:34:40,280 --> 01:34:42,920
Speaker 1: neck down, he got a Jimmy V Award. Who else?

1961
01:34:42,960 --> 01:34:46,160
Speaker 1: Some of the other George carl Great NBA ABA coach

1962
01:34:46,600 --> 01:34:49,680
Speaker 1: Eric legrand uh spinal cord injury in two thousand and

1963
01:34:49,720 --> 01:34:54,479
Speaker 1: ten playing football for Rutgers. Stewart Scott, a sportscaster for ESPN,

1964
01:34:54,680 --> 01:34:57,960
Speaker 1: got the Jimmy V Award in two thou fourteen. Craig

1965
01:34:58,080 --> 01:35:02,040
Speaker 1: Sager TNT Sports Report Order, who had leukemia in twenty fourteen.

1966
01:35:02,479 --> 01:35:04,880
Speaker 1: He was a previous recipient. And now it's Jim Kelly.

1967
01:35:05,120 --> 01:35:07,120
Speaker 1: He is in good company there, Steve, There's no question

1968
01:35:07,160 --> 01:35:10,080
Speaker 1: about it. Yeah. And how of course he's a friend

1969
01:35:10,080 --> 01:35:13,519
Speaker 1: of mine. I've known him for thirty years. How great

1970
01:35:13,600 --> 01:35:15,920
Speaker 1: inspiring is he? Just talking and answering a question or

1971
01:35:15,920 --> 01:35:17,760
Speaker 1: an interview. He says, it's about giving people. It's not

1972
01:35:17,800 --> 01:35:19,800
Speaker 1: about cancer. It's about people, you know, It's about the

1973
01:35:19,800 --> 01:35:22,559
Speaker 1: relationships we have. Jim is been one that people have

1974
01:35:22,600 --> 01:35:24,639
Speaker 1: always asked me how he's doing, But really it's it's been.

1975
01:35:25,080 --> 01:35:27,280
Speaker 1: The thing about Jim that makes him so inspiring is

1976
01:35:27,280 --> 01:35:29,080
Speaker 1: the fact that he is not afraid to share it.

1977
01:35:29,439 --> 01:35:31,200
Speaker 1: He knows what he's going through a rough time, he

1978
01:35:31,240 --> 01:35:33,920
Speaker 1: shares it with people, and uh, I think he's he's

1979
01:35:33,920 --> 01:35:37,719
Speaker 1: taught me stuff about my own life. It's it's easier

1980
01:35:37,720 --> 01:35:39,400
Speaker 1: to get through the tough times when you're sharing with

1981
01:35:39,439 --> 01:35:41,240
Speaker 1: people and they're helping you carry it, you know. And

1982
01:35:41,240 --> 01:35:44,320
Speaker 1: that's he has been. What a burden he has carried with,

1983
01:35:44,720 --> 01:35:47,400
Speaker 1: not only with his cancer battle of the last three

1984
01:35:47,439 --> 01:35:49,160
Speaker 1: or four years, but with the loss of his son

1985
01:35:49,280 --> 01:35:51,479
Speaker 1: Hunter and the and the life and legacy that he

1986
01:35:51,520 --> 01:35:54,559
Speaker 1: has left behind, and the burden it was then and

1987
01:35:54,680 --> 01:35:56,960
Speaker 1: the tragedy that turned into and his death, but also

1988
01:35:57,080 --> 01:35:58,880
Speaker 1: the you know, the great legacy that it left behind.

1989
01:35:58,960 --> 01:36:01,679
Speaker 1: So he has really taught a lot of people how

1990
01:36:01,680 --> 01:36:04,320
Speaker 1: to get through adversity by and the stuff about how

1991
01:36:04,320 --> 01:36:05,880
Speaker 1: he you know, how great it is just that he

1992
01:36:05,920 --> 01:36:09,080
Speaker 1: can encourage people. And he's one of the most encouraging

1993
01:36:09,120 --> 01:36:10,800
Speaker 1: guys you'll ever meet. And in the midst of what

1994
01:36:10,840 --> 01:36:13,880
Speaker 1: he's going through, um doing TV interviews where he's got

1995
01:36:13,920 --> 01:36:17,400
Speaker 1: an outfull of stitches, you know, it's hard to understand him. Um,

1996
01:36:17,600 --> 01:36:20,000
Speaker 1: you know how inspiring is it. It's awesome And you

1997
01:36:20,000 --> 01:36:23,439
Speaker 1: know he deserves every award you can possibly get because

1998
01:36:23,520 --> 01:36:25,479
Speaker 1: he earns it. I mean, he's a real inspiration to

1999
01:36:25,520 --> 01:36:27,840
Speaker 1: a lot of people. And he's he's he's made life

2000
01:36:27,880 --> 01:36:29,840
Speaker 1: better for a lot of people. You're right, some might

2001
01:36:29,920 --> 01:36:33,640
Speaker 1: shy away from a nationally televised public appearance with if

2002
01:36:33,640 --> 01:36:35,479
Speaker 1: they're speaking the way Jim is, with all of those

2003
01:36:35,840 --> 01:36:38,000
Speaker 1: stitches and all of that repaired to his mouth, and

2004
01:36:38,080 --> 01:36:42,000
Speaker 1: yet he's he's right out he does people laughing. I

2005
01:36:42,080 --> 01:36:44,080
Speaker 1: joke with him about tell him, I go, man, you

2006
01:36:44,080 --> 01:36:47,320
Speaker 1: are impossible to embarrass. I just think it's awesome and

2007
01:36:47,360 --> 01:36:49,320
Speaker 1: it is. He laughs too, and all you know, it's

2008
01:36:49,360 --> 01:36:52,519
Speaker 1: funny because he's It's true. He just shares everything he

2009
01:36:53,000 --> 01:36:55,200
Speaker 1: and it's a great and he's just as he's an

2010
01:36:55,240 --> 01:36:58,880
Speaker 1: inspiring guy for all the reasons he is. But that's

2011
01:36:58,920 --> 01:37:01,080
Speaker 1: one of the characteristics said, I think that he has

2012
01:37:01,200 --> 01:37:03,160
Speaker 1: more so than anybody I've ever seen or met or

2013
01:37:03,160 --> 01:37:07,000
Speaker 1: heard about. You can't embarrass him. He will share it

2014
01:37:07,479 --> 01:37:11,160
Speaker 1: and uh and and for that reason, we all feel

2015
01:37:11,200 --> 01:37:12,720
Speaker 1: like we're in it with him, and he gets really

2016
01:37:12,800 --> 01:37:15,400
Speaker 1: encouraging and as a gift. Must see TV tomorrow night,

2017
01:37:15,479 --> 01:37:19,320
Speaker 1: Jim Kelly at the SP's the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance.

2018
01:37:19,439 --> 01:37:24,320
Speaker 1: Isn't tonight The Bills? Yes Tonight on NFL Network. The

2019
01:37:24,400 --> 01:37:27,479
Speaker 1: Bills twenty seventeen Highlight film. That should be I've watched.

2020
01:37:27,520 --> 01:37:31,080
Speaker 1: I think I've watched every one of them for thirty years. Um,

2021
01:37:31,120 --> 01:37:33,479
Speaker 1: that should be one of the better ones. I eat

2022
01:37:33,520 --> 01:37:36,000
Speaker 1: it right, you'd have to say, just because of the

2023
01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:38,479
Speaker 1: way it ended, right with New Year's Eve in Miami

2024
01:37:38,560 --> 01:37:41,479
Speaker 1: and the Mayhem after the Bengals made their play. That's

2025
01:37:41,479 --> 01:37:43,160
Speaker 1: got to be part of the Bill's highlights too. I

2026
01:37:43,200 --> 01:37:45,759
Speaker 1: gotta put a thing in my phone when I get home, DVR.

2027
01:37:46,080 --> 01:37:48,840
Speaker 1: I hope. I hope somebody in my family's listening to

2028
01:37:48,880 --> 01:37:51,240
Speaker 1: this show so they can remember a DVR that tonight,

2029
01:37:51,240 --> 01:37:52,760
Speaker 1: because if I can't watch it, I want to We'll

2030
01:37:52,760 --> 01:37:55,559
Speaker 1: go back and watch it. I mean that's more so

2031
01:37:55,640 --> 01:37:58,880
Speaker 1: than any program in the last six months. I gotta

2032
01:37:58,880 --> 01:38:02,280
Speaker 1: see that six pm, two night, because you know, the

2033
01:38:02,400 --> 01:38:04,879
Speaker 1: fans are going to be a huge part of that one. Yeah,

2034
01:38:04,880 --> 01:38:10,120
Speaker 1: the Buffalo fans with you know, from the jumping on

2035
01:38:10,200 --> 01:38:14,559
Speaker 1: folding tables in Flames, to the time when the Bills

2036
01:38:14,760 --> 01:38:16,720
Speaker 1: fan base found out all at once that they're all

2037
01:38:16,760 --> 01:38:19,160
Speaker 1: going to the playoffs, that the team found out when

2038
01:38:19,160 --> 01:38:21,960
Speaker 1: it was going to the playoffs, the rep reception they

2039
01:38:21,960 --> 01:38:24,840
Speaker 1: got at one am or three am whenever that was it,

2040
01:38:25,000 --> 01:38:28,920
Speaker 1: when it's two degrees outside, the trip down to um

2041
01:38:29,120 --> 01:38:32,960
Speaker 1: Jacksonville that the team took, and how the stadium was

2042
01:38:33,120 --> 01:38:37,519
Speaker 1: literally a huge percentage Bills fans um, and the and

2043
01:38:37,680 --> 01:38:40,240
Speaker 1: the fact that the Jacksonville fans didn't like the Bills

2044
01:38:40,280 --> 01:38:42,599
Speaker 1: fans with the way they came into swept into town

2045
01:38:42,600 --> 01:38:45,760
Speaker 1: and drank them out of beer. The whole thing. It's

2046
01:38:45,800 --> 01:38:48,439
Speaker 1: all got to be a part of it, right Yeah, Yeah,

2047
01:38:48,479 --> 01:38:54,479
Speaker 1: I means that the game against the Cults football part

2048
01:38:54,520 --> 01:38:58,320
Speaker 1: of it. Absolutely. The play, you know Tredavious play in Atlanta,

2049
01:38:58,400 --> 01:39:00,800
Speaker 1: that's got to be a major play in this. In

2050
01:39:00,840 --> 01:39:03,200
Speaker 1: this series, I think there are only half hour shows.

2051
01:39:03,320 --> 01:39:06,479
Speaker 1: I think the Cult game in a foot of snow

2052
01:39:07,120 --> 01:39:10,880
Speaker 1: over time. The Tampa Bay game when for me and

2053
01:39:10,920 --> 01:39:13,400
Speaker 1: we talked about this, for me, that was the highlight

2054
01:39:13,479 --> 01:39:17,599
Speaker 1: of the ten year of Tyrod Taylor's time in Buffalo

2055
01:39:18,080 --> 01:39:20,760
Speaker 1: was the Tampa Bay game when they were down ten

2056
01:39:20,800 --> 01:39:22,639
Speaker 1: points with less than two minutes ago and they won

2057
01:39:22,720 --> 01:39:25,800
Speaker 1: that game. That to me was an absolute highlight. That's

2058
01:39:25,840 --> 01:39:28,559
Speaker 1: when I thought, Wow, they've they got a chance. They

2059
01:39:28,680 --> 01:39:31,800
Speaker 1: win over the Raiders was huge. Raiders can't all that stuff.

2060
01:39:32,280 --> 01:39:34,680
Speaker 1: There were so many football moments as well that got

2061
01:39:34,720 --> 01:39:37,200
Speaker 1: them to the point where they were sweating it out

2062
01:39:37,960 --> 01:39:41,360
Speaker 1: in late December's Eve from New Year's Eve. Yeah, I

2063
01:39:41,400 --> 01:39:43,360
Speaker 1: can't wait. I want to see it tonight six pm

2064
01:39:43,400 --> 01:39:46,360
Speaker 1: tonight on NFL Network. The Bills twenty seventeen Highlight Film,

2065
01:39:46,640 --> 01:39:48,679
Speaker 1: We come back. We're going to talk about twenty eighteen

2066
01:39:48,720 --> 01:39:51,679
Speaker 1: and some ideas from a pretty talented writer. Mike Tenure

2067
01:39:51,840 --> 01:39:55,200
Speaker 1: is the NFL national lead writer for Bleacher Reports. Got

2068
01:39:55,200 --> 01:39:57,080
Speaker 1: a lot going on. He's written a lot about the

2069
01:39:57,080 --> 01:39:59,800
Speaker 1: most underrated teams in the NFL. The Bills not on

2070
01:39:59,840 --> 01:40:03,240
Speaker 1: that list. Football strategy is so crazy that they just

2071
01:40:03,360 --> 01:40:06,320
Speaker 1: might work. Why the NFL should embrace millennials A lot

2072
01:40:06,360 --> 01:40:08,200
Speaker 1: of stuff with Mike tan Yere. He's going to join

2073
01:40:08,280 --> 01:40:09,719
Speaker 1: us when we come back for the third and final

2074
01:40:09,760 --> 01:40:12,840
Speaker 1: hour of the show, One Bill's Live, presented by Kalidah Health.

2075
01:40:12,960 --> 01:40:15,200
Speaker 1: We are coming here from One Bill's Drive. This is

2076
01:40:15,240 --> 01:40:31,240
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio, Hills Radio Network Stories estate from One

2077
01:40:31,280 --> 01:40:33,920
Speaker 1: Bill Drive. Counting down the days until training camp. We

2078
01:40:33,960 --> 01:40:36,400
Speaker 1: are eight days away until the Bills report to Saint

2079
01:40:36,479 --> 01:40:39,400
Speaker 1: John Fisher College for their training camp. The first practice

2080
01:40:39,960 --> 01:40:44,560
Speaker 1: is coming up on Thursday, July twenty six. It's a

2081
01:40:45,240 --> 01:40:48,800
Speaker 1: late afternoon practice on Thursday July twenty six. Meantime, former

2082
01:40:48,840 --> 01:40:51,400
Speaker 1: Bill's quarterback Jim Kelly was at Saint John Fisher today

2083
01:40:51,600 --> 01:40:54,240
Speaker 1: for a youth football clinic. Kelly told the media there

2084
01:40:54,240 --> 01:40:56,840
Speaker 1: he scheduled to have permanent dentures installed in his upper

2085
01:40:56,960 --> 01:40:59,680
Speaker 1: jaw in New York City after a couple of surgeries.

2086
01:40:59,680 --> 01:41:03,120
Speaker 1: This to address a recurrence of his oral cancer. He

2087
01:41:03,200 --> 01:41:05,720
Speaker 1: says he'll see doctors ahead of that in the next

2088
01:41:05,720 --> 01:41:08,040
Speaker 1: couple of weeks after something came up in his recovery.

2089
01:41:08,360 --> 01:41:10,479
Speaker 1: Kelly is on his way to receive the Jimmy V

2090
01:41:10,600 --> 01:41:13,719
Speaker 1: Award at s at the sb Awards coming up tomorrow

2091
01:41:13,800 --> 01:41:16,240
Speaker 1: night in Los Angeles. Kelly will get the Jimmy V

2092
01:41:16,320 --> 01:41:20,400
Speaker 1: Award for perseverance, but a check up for what he says,

2093
01:41:20,400 --> 01:41:22,400
Speaker 1: there's some other issues coming up in a couple of weeks.

2094
01:41:23,040 --> 01:41:25,760
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars signed their first round draft pick today, the

2095
01:41:25,760 --> 01:41:28,360
Speaker 1: twenty ninth overall pick of the first round. They agreed

2096
01:41:28,360 --> 01:41:31,240
Speaker 1: to terms with defensive tackle Tavin Bryant a four year

2097
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Speaker 1: deal worth ten point two million dollars five and a

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Speaker 1: half million dollars, signing Bonus Bill's opponent on opening Day,

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Speaker 1: September ninth, it's the Baltimore Ravens. The Ravens have begun

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Speaker 1: training camp without one of their top players. One of

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Speaker 1: the league's top offensive lineman are Marshal Yanda, among six

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Speaker 1: players put on the physically unable to perform list for

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Speaker 1: the start of Ravens training camp. A two time Pro

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Speaker 1: Bowl so a six time Pro bowler, two time All

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Speaker 1: Pro selection. The end is still recovering from a broken angle,

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01:41:58,320 --> 01:42:01,559
Speaker 1: which he suffered just two games into last season. Steelers

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01:42:01,560 --> 01:42:04,000
Speaker 1: and lebian Bell failed to reach an agreement on a

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01:42:04,000 --> 01:42:08,080
Speaker 1: contract extension before yesterday's franchise tag deadline. His agent says

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Speaker 1: that means it is likely this will be the running

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01:42:10,280 --> 01:42:13,720
Speaker 1: backs final season with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Six time Pro

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01:42:13,760 --> 01:42:17,360
Speaker 1: Bowl safety Earl Thomas used his Instagram account to push

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Speaker 1: the Seattle Seahawks and contract negotiations, saying the team should

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Speaker 1: trade him if an extension remains elusive. And Tara Low

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01:42:24,400 --> 01:42:26,120
Speaker 1: and CEO soon to go on the Pro Football Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame, wants to play this season in the Canadian

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01:42:28,680 --> 01:42:32,839
Speaker 1: Football League. The Edmonton Eskimos have his rights. That'll be interesting.

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Speaker 1: John Murphy Steve Tasker in our one Buffalo studio as

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Speaker 1: we approach Bill's training camp. We had our next guest

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Speaker 1: on a training camp. I think it was a couple

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Speaker 1: of years ago, but he has been prolific in the

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Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, generating all kinds of offseason content.

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Speaker 1: Very happy to have the Bleacher Report an NFL national

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Speaker 1: lead writer and the author of the Football Outsiders Almanac.

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Speaker 1: Mike Tan you're on the phone line with us, Mike,

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01:42:54,560 --> 01:42:56,680
Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve here in Buffalo. Thanks for joining us.

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01:42:56,680 --> 01:42:59,320
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. It's great to be on and boy

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Speaker 1: you later on I'm gonna be doing Edmonton radio and

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01:43:01,720 --> 01:43:03,920
Speaker 1: I can't wait to talk about nothing but to with

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01:43:04,040 --> 01:43:06,760
Speaker 1: the guys in Edmonton. Yeah, we were talking about that.

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01:43:06,880 --> 01:43:09,720
Speaker 1: Steve thinks it's for real and sounds like to is

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01:43:09,800 --> 01:43:13,160
Speaker 1: very serious about it. Doesn't it? It does. I'm sure

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01:43:13,160 --> 01:43:14,800
Speaker 1: he is serious. And I think I think we saw

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01:43:14,840 --> 01:43:17,080
Speaker 1: some video he was working out with Julio Jones. They

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01:43:17,120 --> 01:43:19,320
Speaker 1: showed him running. He can still run the four or five.

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01:43:19,800 --> 01:43:21,839
Speaker 1: I don't want to be pessimistic. I don't want to

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01:43:21,840 --> 01:43:24,280
Speaker 1: to remind people how the last season in Seattle ended

2137
01:43:24,360 --> 01:43:27,240
Speaker 1: up for Terrell. But I think you should scratch that

2138
01:43:27,320 --> 01:43:31,400
Speaker 1: itch with with golf or something else. But but you know,

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Speaker 1: I'd like to see him try and I'll be rooting

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01:43:33,240 --> 01:43:35,720
Speaker 1: for him up there. Yeah, Mike, you know this, and

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01:43:35,760 --> 01:43:38,320
Speaker 1: I used to for a minute. I played wide receiver

2142
01:43:38,520 --> 01:43:41,120
Speaker 1: once in a while and I practiced wide receiver a lot.

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01:43:41,160 --> 01:43:43,679
Speaker 1: It's not about being able to run fast. I'm telling

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01:43:43,680 --> 01:43:45,760
Speaker 1: you all these guys can run fast. The problem is

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01:43:45,800 --> 01:43:47,719
Speaker 1: when you get to be thirty five and in Terrell

2146
01:43:47,760 --> 01:43:52,519
Speaker 1: Owens the case, forty four, it's about stopping hard. That's

2147
01:43:52,520 --> 01:43:55,719
Speaker 1: what hurts. Yes, that's what hurts. And that quick twitch

2148
01:43:55,760 --> 01:43:57,960
Speaker 1: to get your hands up the way an NFL receiver

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01:43:58,040 --> 01:44:00,200
Speaker 1: has to do and get the ball quickly. That which

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01:44:00,240 --> 01:44:02,400
Speaker 1: starts to elude you a little bit. I think that

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01:44:02,479 --> 01:44:05,320
Speaker 1: was starting to elude to you can probably still run

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01:44:05,360 --> 01:44:07,320
Speaker 1: about as fast as you could, and you're playing days.

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01:44:07,479 --> 01:44:09,160
Speaker 1: That the last thing to go when you're a great

2154
01:44:09,200 --> 01:44:11,280
Speaker 1: athlete's running fast in the straight line. It's all the

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01:44:11,280 --> 01:44:13,439
Speaker 1: other stuff that unfortunately takes you out of the NFL.

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01:44:13,600 --> 01:44:17,360
Speaker 1: I cannot thank you for that, but no, Hey, Mike,

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01:44:17,360 --> 01:44:20,360
Speaker 1: do you have a Hall of Fame vote? Oh? I

2158
01:44:20,479 --> 01:44:23,880
Speaker 1: do not. I do not, but I write about it

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01:44:23,960 --> 01:44:25,439
Speaker 1: a lot, But no, I have not been given that.

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01:44:25,560 --> 01:44:27,200
Speaker 1: On a do you have a Hall of Fame? Take

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01:44:27,320 --> 01:44:29,519
Speaker 1: on Tio's decision to skip it this year and have

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01:44:29,560 --> 01:44:32,320
Speaker 1: its own ceremony. What do you think? You know what?

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01:44:32,439 --> 01:44:34,800
Speaker 1: Everybody has the right to do what they want. I

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01:44:34,880 --> 01:44:37,640
Speaker 1: wouldn't do it. I would prefer he hadn't do it,

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01:44:37,720 --> 01:44:40,240
Speaker 1: done it. You know. I think it's ironic that, you know,

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01:44:40,320 --> 01:44:43,719
Speaker 1: he's mad about a snub, A snub that came about

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01:44:43,800 --> 01:44:45,960
Speaker 1: because he had a reputation of sort of being me

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01:44:46,040 --> 01:44:49,599
Speaker 1: first of selfishness and have selfishness, and then to prove

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01:44:49,680 --> 01:44:52,959
Speaker 1: that he took his ball and went home on the ceremony.

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01:44:53,000 --> 01:44:55,080
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's a bad one to punch and

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Speaker 1: and I think we're seeing it right now. You know,

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01:44:56,960 --> 01:44:59,679
Speaker 1: yesterday I was on the conference calls with Robert Brazil,

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01:45:00,040 --> 01:45:02,400
Speaker 1: who waited what thirty years to make it into the

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. I was on a conference call with

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01:45:04,000 --> 01:45:08,120
Speaker 1: Randy Moss, a dynamic person. Brian Dawkins as talking today.

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01:45:08,120 --> 01:45:09,880
Speaker 1: In about an hour, I'm gonna be able to talk

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Speaker 1: to him or Ray Lewis tomorrow. We're talking about to

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Speaker 1: So you're upseaging guys, guys who are your peers, guys

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Speaker 1: who waited decades longer than you. I respect his right

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01:45:19,160 --> 01:45:21,080
Speaker 1: to do it. I'm not gonna fly all over him,

2181
01:45:21,080 --> 01:45:24,080
Speaker 1: but I personally would have not done it that way. Yeah.

2182
01:45:24,080 --> 01:45:26,120
Speaker 1: I think it's a mistake, no question about it. And

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01:45:26,160 --> 01:45:28,880
Speaker 1: then you know it's and I think that the Hall

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01:45:28,920 --> 01:45:30,640
Speaker 1: of Fame, as you would expect, got it right. I mean,

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01:45:30,680 --> 01:45:32,600
Speaker 1: they're just gonna say, okay, then they will kind of

2186
01:45:33,400 --> 01:45:36,439
Speaker 1: just glau not even just pass over him in the list.

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01:45:36,439 --> 01:45:38,040
Speaker 1: And when the guys get up there to give their

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01:45:38,080 --> 01:45:39,880
Speaker 1: speeches and that kind of thing, they just will not

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01:45:39,960 --> 01:45:43,400
Speaker 1: acknowledge him. They'll send him his gold jacket and his

2190
01:45:43,600 --> 01:45:45,640
Speaker 1: bust will go up when and when he's there, and

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01:45:46,360 --> 01:45:49,640
Speaker 1: but he will just get no fanfare. I appreciate that,

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01:45:49,720 --> 01:45:52,120
Speaker 1: and UM, you're right, it's his right to do it.

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01:45:52,400 --> 01:45:54,920
Speaker 1: That doesn't make it the right thing to do. So

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01:45:55,960 --> 01:45:58,400
Speaker 1: that's the way it is. I did want to ask you, though, Mike,

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01:45:58,760 --> 01:46:00,560
Speaker 1: some of the stuff you've been writing. He has some

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01:46:01,040 --> 01:46:04,160
Speaker 1: cool thing about football strategies that are really zany that

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01:46:04,439 --> 01:46:06,760
Speaker 1: you can't understand why they haven't been adopted. And you've

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01:46:06,760 --> 01:46:09,880
Speaker 1: got things, you know, taking penalties on purpose. Why not

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Speaker 1: have a sumo wrestler come in, you know, and talk

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Speaker 1: about a little bit about one of the ones that

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Speaker 1: you think maybe most might be the most likely to happen. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know, and some of them were kind of zenio

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01:46:20,479 --> 01:46:22,960
Speaker 1: on purpose. I think one reason you don't have sumo

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Speaker 1: wrestlers is because sumo wrestlers don't want to come to

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Speaker 1: the NFL. I think they like being sumo wrestlers. I

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01:46:28,439 --> 01:46:31,400
Speaker 1: did one in there about just dropping eleven defenders in

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01:46:31,479 --> 01:46:33,639
Speaker 1: the coverage once in a while and just like totally

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01:46:33,680 --> 01:46:36,960
Speaker 1: blowing the mind of some quarterback. And they go back

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Speaker 1: and it's it's not cover three, it's not cover four,

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01:46:40,040 --> 01:46:42,800
Speaker 1: it's cover of leaven But everyone has dropped back. And

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01:46:43,080 --> 01:46:44,760
Speaker 1: what has happened is, you know, the guys who really

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01:46:44,800 --> 01:46:47,080
Speaker 1: chart games, you see it once in a while, certainly

2213
01:46:47,080 --> 01:46:49,880
Speaker 1: on Hail Marys. Sometimes you'll see one defensive tackle kind

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01:46:49,880 --> 01:46:52,920
Speaker 1: of rushing the pastor and everybody drops back. But I'm

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01:46:52,960 --> 01:46:54,960
Speaker 1: surprised we don't see it more like as a wrinkle

2216
01:46:54,960 --> 01:46:58,200
Speaker 1: on You're thirtain fifteen, especially against you know, and an

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01:46:58,280 --> 01:47:01,439
Speaker 1: experienced quarterback or rookie somebody like that. Certainly not Cam Newton,

2218
01:47:01,479 --> 01:47:03,800
Speaker 1: who might scramble for a first down, but send all

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01:47:03,800 --> 01:47:06,599
Speaker 1: these guys back there have this Lackey coverage scheme, see

2220
01:47:06,600 --> 01:47:09,120
Speaker 1: if you can force a turnover. And I think teams

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01:47:09,120 --> 01:47:11,679
Speaker 1: are starting to experiment with kind of versions like that.

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01:47:11,720 --> 01:47:14,519
Speaker 1: There's been like a rush too, rush one. I think

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01:47:14,520 --> 01:47:16,880
Speaker 1: we might sometimes see sort of a rush zero tactic

2224
01:47:16,920 --> 01:47:18,560
Speaker 1: in the NFL, like Ken You're on the line with

2225
01:47:18,640 --> 01:47:21,400
Speaker 1: This from bleacher Report is one of his recent post

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01:47:21,479 --> 01:47:24,439
Speaker 1: football strategies. So zany they just might work. One of

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01:47:24,439 --> 01:47:26,640
Speaker 1: them might kind of made sense to me, and I

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01:47:26,680 --> 01:47:29,320
Speaker 1: got scared. I thought somebody might try this, and that's

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01:47:29,560 --> 01:47:33,160
Speaker 1: intentional penalties penalties on purpose. You laid it out pretty

2230
01:47:33,240 --> 01:47:35,479
Speaker 1: much in detail. That could work in a weird way,

2231
01:47:35,520 --> 01:47:38,040
Speaker 1: and it would probably be bad for the game. Uh

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01:47:38,080 --> 01:47:40,080
Speaker 1: it would, And you know, we don't want to say

2233
01:47:40,080 --> 01:47:42,800
Speaker 1: anything injurious obviously somebody say, well, if you just take

2234
01:47:42,840 --> 01:47:44,840
Speaker 1: a guy out of the game with an edgehot, no one,

2235
01:47:45,040 --> 01:47:48,040
Speaker 1: no one wants anything like that. But there are examples,

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01:47:48,080 --> 01:47:50,960
Speaker 1: like the college national championship game a couple of years ago,

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01:47:51,000 --> 01:47:52,960
Speaker 1: if you if you just hold on the last play

2238
01:47:53,000 --> 01:47:55,040
Speaker 1: of the game, you can guarantee that you don't allow

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01:47:55,120 --> 01:47:57,200
Speaker 1: a big play. You can make the time go down

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01:47:57,240 --> 01:47:59,120
Speaker 1: to zero, and you can force the other coaches. And

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01:48:00,000 --> 01:48:03,320
Speaker 1: there's a variety of versions of this. You know, you know,

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01:48:03,320 --> 01:48:05,559
Speaker 1: why don't you just you know, commit past interference on

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01:48:05,600 --> 01:48:07,800
Speaker 1: every player. One I didn't write in there is like,

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01:48:07,880 --> 01:48:11,360
Speaker 1: you know, have the have the defensive edge rusher just

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01:48:11,520 --> 01:48:14,120
Speaker 1: jump off side by like ten seconds on like third

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01:48:14,160 --> 01:48:16,880
Speaker 1: and eighteen and just sort of scare the least tackle

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01:48:16,920 --> 01:48:18,960
Speaker 1: a little bit and you get the five yard penalty.

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01:48:18,960 --> 01:48:20,280
Speaker 1: And of course you don't hit the quarterback. You just

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01:48:20,360 --> 01:48:22,680
Speaker 1: kind of run past them. But I'll guarantee there's a

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Speaker 1: there's a very good chance that you're going to have

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01:48:24,000 --> 01:48:26,280
Speaker 1: a skittish offense on the next play, and there's a

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01:48:26,280 --> 01:48:28,080
Speaker 1: lot of little ways you can do that. Some of

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01:48:28,120 --> 01:48:30,080
Speaker 1: them won't yeah, would be damaging to the game. Some

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01:48:30,160 --> 01:48:32,360
Speaker 1: of them it might be just a clever tactic that

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01:48:32,439 --> 01:48:34,920
Speaker 1: you can run. That Years ago, Buddy Ryan put like

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01:48:35,000 --> 01:48:38,000
Speaker 1: fifteen guys on his punt unit just to kind of

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01:48:38,000 --> 01:48:40,280
Speaker 1: waste a few seconds to see if they would get

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01:48:40,280 --> 01:48:42,040
Speaker 1: a penalty and waste a few seconds, and the penalty

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01:48:42,040 --> 01:48:44,120
Speaker 1: didn't get called, and he had fifteen guys on the field.

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01:48:44,280 --> 01:48:46,400
Speaker 1: So there's things you can do that that could be

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01:48:46,520 --> 01:48:49,760
Speaker 1: especially in late game situational strategies, be advantageous if tea,

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01:48:49,840 --> 01:48:52,679
Speaker 1: if teams adopted right, and it's all gog goes into

2263
01:48:52,680 --> 01:48:56,000
Speaker 1: the bin of you know, gamesmanship in that kind of scenario.

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01:48:56,040 --> 01:48:58,240
Speaker 1: One of the things that you mentioned that I've heard

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01:48:58,280 --> 01:49:01,960
Speaker 1: of before, why not go out to like, say, for instance,

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01:49:02,000 --> 01:49:04,320
Speaker 1: the NBA Summer League is going on, you get some

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01:49:04,320 --> 01:49:06,639
Speaker 1: of those guys who are seven foot tall or seven

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01:49:06,640 --> 01:49:09,479
Speaker 1: two or some of these freakishly tall guys. Why don't

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01:49:09,479 --> 01:49:11,400
Speaker 1: you get one of them and make him a specialist player,

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01:49:11,479 --> 01:49:14,759
Speaker 1: either a field goal blocker or maybe a red zone receiver.

2271
01:49:15,240 --> 01:49:16,840
Speaker 1: And when you get down close, you send the guy

2272
01:49:16,840 --> 01:49:19,479
Speaker 1: out there, just have him stand there and toss the

2273
01:49:19,520 --> 01:49:22,080
Speaker 1: ball up to him and give it. I know this too.

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01:49:22,720 --> 01:49:27,000
Speaker 1: Back in the sixties, Hank Stram brought Wilt Chamberlain to

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01:49:27,080 --> 01:49:29,000
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs for kicks and yeah, I don't

2276
01:49:29,000 --> 01:49:30,479
Speaker 1: know whether he's just visiting or whatever. They put him

2277
01:49:30,479 --> 01:49:31,519
Speaker 1: in the back of the end zone and you can

2278
01:49:31,560 --> 01:49:33,920
Speaker 1: throw it up all the way above the crossbar and

2279
01:49:33,960 --> 01:49:36,000
Speaker 1: you just go up and grab it with one hand.

2280
01:49:36,080 --> 01:49:39,720
Speaker 1: So that kind of thing when you talk about specialties

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01:49:39,720 --> 01:49:42,200
Speaker 1: and you bring sumo wrestlers over, you know nobody or

2282
01:49:42,720 --> 01:49:45,439
Speaker 1: And today the Eagles have got an Australian rules foot

2283
01:49:45,479 --> 01:49:47,840
Speaker 1: or rugby player coming over to play left tackle. But

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01:49:47,880 --> 01:49:50,120
Speaker 1: why not get one of these freakishly tall guys in

2285
01:49:50,200 --> 01:49:52,960
Speaker 1: and use him as a red zone receiver. You know,

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01:49:52,960 --> 01:49:55,040
Speaker 1: it's funny because you'll take like the six foot six

2287
01:49:55,120 --> 01:49:58,000
Speaker 1: power forward who's never played in the NFL, play played

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01:49:58,080 --> 01:50:00,280
Speaker 1: organized football, and play, oh maybe we can. They could

2289
01:50:00,280 --> 01:50:02,360
Speaker 1: pay the end out of you, and no one scoffs

2290
01:50:02,400 --> 01:50:05,000
Speaker 1: at that. But yeah, you take the seven footer and say, well,

2291
01:50:05,040 --> 01:50:06,720
Speaker 1: we're just going to maybe put you in the in

2292
01:50:06,760 --> 01:50:09,240
Speaker 1: the middle of the field to just try to block

2293
01:50:09,280 --> 01:50:12,960
Speaker 1: through breezes passes. Once a while, that's crazy talk. That's

2294
01:50:12,960 --> 01:50:15,240
Speaker 1: not real football. And granted, we can all see the

2295
01:50:15,280 --> 01:50:17,120
Speaker 1: reasons why guys like that wouldn't be out there for

2296
01:50:17,160 --> 01:50:19,920
Speaker 1: sixty staffs. The game they get, they get knocked in half,

2297
01:50:19,960 --> 01:50:22,320
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. But yeah, in the situations that

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01:50:22,439 --> 01:50:25,360
Speaker 1: you that you're talking about, and if the foot football

2299
01:50:25,360 --> 01:50:27,320
Speaker 1: have gotten so specialized anyway, you know, the guys at

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01:50:27,360 --> 01:50:31,559
Speaker 1: the bottom of the roster are sometimes he's highly specialized individuals. Uh.

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01:50:31,880 --> 01:50:35,320
Speaker 1: It's something that I'm surprised isn't considered more. It isn't

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01:50:35,320 --> 01:50:37,519
Speaker 1: done at least like during the mini camps and during

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01:50:37,520 --> 01:50:39,320
Speaker 1: the training camps. Hey, let's bring this guy in. Let's

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01:50:39,320 --> 01:50:42,200
Speaker 1: see if this is feasible. Uh, and then and then

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01:50:42,400 --> 01:50:44,040
Speaker 1: you know, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. We

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01:50:44,120 --> 01:50:46,320
Speaker 1: never even see that. And you talked about Wilt Chamberlain

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01:50:46,360 --> 01:50:49,320
Speaker 1: go into the Chiefs years ago. The Redskins brought Andre

2308
01:50:49,400 --> 01:50:52,040
Speaker 1: the Giant in more as a publicity stunt than anything else.

2309
01:50:52,080 --> 01:50:53,439
Speaker 1: But they brought on either a giant in and said

2310
01:50:53,479 --> 01:50:55,559
Speaker 1: that they were going to put him at defensive tackle.

2311
01:50:55,680 --> 01:50:57,200
Speaker 1: And that's something I think all of us would have

2312
01:50:57,240 --> 01:50:58,840
Speaker 1: loved to see. For a couple of days, Mike Keen

2313
01:50:58,920 --> 01:51:00,479
Speaker 1: years on the land with the spleet you report an

2314
01:51:00,560 --> 01:51:04,280
Speaker 1: NFL national lead writer. One of the you wrote recently about,

2315
01:51:04,760 --> 01:51:06,840
Speaker 1: I'm starting to get interested in the Baltimore Ravens because

2316
01:51:06,840 --> 01:51:09,559
Speaker 1: the bill's open with the Ravens September ninth, Mike, and

2317
01:51:09,800 --> 01:51:11,400
Speaker 1: the more you read and the Ravens have been in

2318
01:51:11,439 --> 01:51:13,400
Speaker 1: camp for a week two. By the way, you keep

2319
01:51:13,439 --> 01:51:16,960
Speaker 1: reading reports that the Ravens have a special offensive package

2320
01:51:17,000 --> 01:51:20,400
Speaker 1: that puts both Flacco and Lamar Jackson on the field

2321
01:51:20,439 --> 01:51:23,280
Speaker 1: at the same time. Jackson is sort of a gimmicky guy,

2322
01:51:23,320 --> 01:51:26,280
Speaker 1: a special package guy. You wrote a really interesting post

2323
01:51:26,439 --> 01:51:29,439
Speaker 1: in the recent weeks about how that's not gonna work.

2324
01:51:29,479 --> 01:51:31,479
Speaker 1: It's gonna fail the Ravens and that never works. Can

2325
01:51:31,520 --> 01:51:34,920
Speaker 1: you elaborate on that a little bit? Yeah, and more

2326
01:51:34,960 --> 01:51:37,880
Speaker 1: concerned of like the way it will work is that, Yeah,

2327
01:51:37,920 --> 01:51:40,480
Speaker 1: you'll get a couple of highlights from Lamar Jackson, You'll

2328
01:51:40,479 --> 01:51:43,120
Speaker 1: have some exciting plays on Sports Center and and things

2329
01:51:43,160 --> 01:51:45,439
Speaker 1: like that. So the in the short term it'll be exciting.

2330
01:51:45,479 --> 01:51:48,720
Speaker 1: But every time we see situations like this, we they

2331
01:51:48,880 --> 01:51:51,040
Speaker 1: end the same way and it winds up being more

2332
01:51:51,080 --> 01:51:54,920
Speaker 1: of a quarterback controversy. It often disrupts the rhythm of

2333
01:51:54,960 --> 01:51:58,160
Speaker 1: the offense where you know somebody like Joe Flacco or

2334
01:51:58,240 --> 01:52:01,240
Speaker 1: years ago as Mark Sanchez with Timbo, he's finally completing

2335
01:52:01,240 --> 01:52:03,400
Speaker 1: a couple of passes, he's got his rhythm, he's moving

2336
01:52:03,400 --> 01:52:05,479
Speaker 1: down the field. Let's run our trick play now and

2337
01:52:05,520 --> 01:52:08,000
Speaker 1: everybody has to run on the field and they run

2338
01:52:08,040 --> 01:52:10,080
Speaker 1: an option in the game's two yards and you can

2339
01:52:10,120 --> 01:52:13,680
Speaker 1: see it deflate everything in place. And plus, critically for

2340
01:52:14,120 --> 01:52:16,920
Speaker 1: a quarterback like Lamar Jackson, the more time you're running

2341
01:52:16,920 --> 01:52:20,040
Speaker 1: the specialized package where where you're running the single wing

2342
01:52:20,160 --> 01:52:22,680
Speaker 1: or the read option or the wildcat or whatever. The

2343
01:52:22,760 --> 01:52:24,800
Speaker 1: more time you're doing that stuff, the less time you're

2344
01:52:24,840 --> 01:52:27,840
Speaker 1: doing the things the quarterbacks, rookie quarterbacks are supposed to

2345
01:52:27,880 --> 01:52:30,040
Speaker 1: do that you're not doing the same kind of practice

2346
01:52:30,040 --> 01:52:33,880
Speaker 1: of that Sam Donald, Josh Rosen and Josh Allen and

2347
01:52:33,920 --> 01:52:36,120
Speaker 1: all of those guys are doing. That's not going to

2348
01:52:36,160 --> 01:52:38,320
Speaker 1: be good for your development the long run. It may

2349
01:52:38,360 --> 01:52:39,960
Speaker 1: look like it because you get on the field before

2350
01:52:40,000 --> 01:52:42,799
Speaker 1: those guys, but you're getting on the field playing slot receiver.

2351
01:52:43,080 --> 01:52:45,479
Speaker 1: You're not helping your quarterback career. And that's something I

2352
01:52:45,479 --> 01:52:47,439
Speaker 1: think that the Ravens have to take a long look

2353
01:52:47,439 --> 01:52:49,479
Speaker 1: at as they go down this road of saying, hey,

2354
01:52:49,560 --> 01:52:52,280
Speaker 1: let's create a slash player instead of let's create a

2355
01:52:52,320 --> 01:52:55,960
Speaker 1: quarterback of the future, really damages the quarterback you point out, right,

2356
01:52:56,000 --> 01:52:59,080
Speaker 1: I mean you point out it's hard for anyone, including

2357
01:52:59,120 --> 01:53:02,960
Speaker 1: that coaching staff, consider that so called package quarterback, bonified

2358
01:53:03,040 --> 01:53:06,280
Speaker 1: quarterback at any point in the future. After that, right, right,

2359
01:53:06,320 --> 01:53:08,599
Speaker 1: it becomes a label. And you know, for Tim Tebow,

2360
01:53:08,600 --> 01:53:10,880
Speaker 1: it became a label. For a lot of other guys,

2361
01:53:10,880 --> 01:53:13,200
Speaker 1: it becomes that label that that's what you do. And

2362
01:53:13,240 --> 01:53:14,840
Speaker 1: then you start the whole Well, why doesn't he stay

2363
01:53:14,880 --> 01:53:16,840
Speaker 1: in the pocket more? Doesn't he stay in the pocket more? Well,

2364
01:53:16,960 --> 01:53:19,400
Speaker 1: because you spent a year of his career teaching him

2365
01:53:19,400 --> 01:53:22,320
Speaker 1: to not be in in the pocket. So it's just

2366
01:53:22,439 --> 01:53:25,400
Speaker 1: not an ideal scenario. I think if you're if you

2367
01:53:25,479 --> 01:53:27,920
Speaker 1: take a first round quarterback, you know, maybe be different.

2368
01:53:27,920 --> 01:53:29,639
Speaker 1: It was a sixth round pick and you're you're you're

2369
01:53:29,640 --> 01:53:33,360
Speaker 1: just experimenting your first round quarterback should be should be

2370
01:53:33,400 --> 01:53:35,560
Speaker 1: your quarterback, should be trained to be your quarterback in

2371
01:53:35,600 --> 01:53:38,719
Speaker 1: the future. And if scrambling and options are part of that,

2372
01:53:38,720 --> 01:53:41,599
Speaker 1: that's fine, and he adopts those things when it's time

2373
01:53:41,600 --> 01:53:43,800
Speaker 1: for him to take over as the starter, not as

2374
01:53:44,000 --> 01:53:45,840
Speaker 1: as some kind of pinch hitter. We're talking with Mike

2375
01:53:45,880 --> 01:53:48,920
Speaker 1: Tanure NFL dot com talk a little bit. You had

2376
01:53:48,960 --> 01:53:53,000
Speaker 1: this uh An article also about millennials in the NFL

2377
01:53:53,040 --> 01:53:56,720
Speaker 1: and how that new generation of guys starting to matriculate

2378
01:53:56,800 --> 01:53:59,920
Speaker 1: into the National Football League and some of the things

2379
01:54:00,160 --> 01:54:03,920
Speaker 1: that it means for coaching staffs, the atmosphere of the

2380
01:54:04,000 --> 01:54:06,439
Speaker 1: locker room. Just talk a little bit about what your

2381
01:54:06,439 --> 01:54:08,400
Speaker 1: point was about bringing it up and why you think

2382
01:54:08,680 --> 01:54:11,799
Speaker 1: the way these millennials have changed the culture is important

2383
01:54:11,800 --> 01:54:15,120
Speaker 1: in the NFL. You know, it's funny. I started out,

2384
01:54:15,160 --> 01:54:17,120
Speaker 1: I wanted to write one of those articles like, you know,

2385
01:54:17,240 --> 01:54:21,320
Speaker 1: millennials are killing the chain restaurant, millennials are killing movie

2386
01:54:21,360 --> 01:54:23,680
Speaker 1: theaters or whatever millennials are killing this week, and I

2387
01:54:23,720 --> 01:54:25,800
Speaker 1: wanted to write when millennials are killing the NFL. And

2388
01:54:25,800 --> 01:54:27,880
Speaker 1: you know, the bosses are like, yeah, go for it.

2389
01:54:28,200 --> 01:54:30,240
Speaker 1: And I start doing interviews and I interview some college

2390
01:54:30,240 --> 01:54:33,440
Speaker 1: coaches and some NFL insiders that also some authors who

2391
01:54:33,440 --> 01:54:36,320
Speaker 1: write and like do consulting work for businesses who are

2392
01:54:36,400 --> 01:54:39,080
Speaker 1: hiring people in their twenties. And I was looking for

2393
01:54:39,200 --> 01:54:41,680
Speaker 1: that angle, and I didn't find it. I found something

2394
01:54:41,920 --> 01:54:45,040
Speaker 1: different as not as cool as a headline. But but

2395
01:54:45,520 --> 01:54:48,880
Speaker 1: that's more accurate. And that's and that's that millennials, especially

2396
01:54:49,000 --> 01:54:52,360
Speaker 1: these younger millennials, what they call second wave millennials, these

2397
01:54:52,400 --> 01:54:55,360
Speaker 1: twenty somethings that are entering the industry now, they're changing

2398
01:54:55,400 --> 01:54:58,600
Speaker 1: the NFL and they're changing business. They're changing my business,

2399
01:54:58,640 --> 01:55:02,080
Speaker 1: are changing your business and everything else. And what happens

2400
01:55:02,200 --> 01:55:05,120
Speaker 1: is NFL teams have to adjust because I guess we

2401
01:55:05,160 --> 01:55:08,000
Speaker 1: can use the young quarterback from Arizona, Josh Rosen as

2402
01:55:08,040 --> 01:55:10,840
Speaker 1: an example. He goes out there and questions things and

2403
01:55:11,000 --> 01:55:13,520
Speaker 1: brings his own input and his own ideas to what

2404
01:55:13,560 --> 01:55:15,800
Speaker 1: he wants to get done. And he's on the internet

2405
01:55:15,800 --> 01:55:17,960
Speaker 1: now talking about how things to fix the MC double A.

2406
01:55:18,040 --> 01:55:20,600
Speaker 1: And you wouldn't heard that twenty years ago from a

2407
01:55:20,680 --> 01:55:24,440
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback. And some coaches will bristle about that. And

2408
01:55:24,600 --> 01:55:26,839
Speaker 1: I think that happened in college that his coaches bristled

2409
01:55:26,840 --> 01:55:29,839
Speaker 1: a little bit. But coaches now are learning to adopt

2410
01:55:29,880 --> 01:55:32,920
Speaker 1: and change to the way a younger players are nowadays.

2411
01:55:32,920 --> 01:55:35,720
Speaker 1: And what I discovers that coaches are actually talking to

2412
01:55:35,800 --> 01:55:38,520
Speaker 1: experts and they're talking to business experts and owners and

2413
01:55:38,600 --> 01:55:41,640
Speaker 1: gms are doing that so they don't make mistakes on

2414
01:55:41,760 --> 01:55:43,680
Speaker 1: these players and say, the way this kid asked a

2415
01:55:43,760 --> 01:55:46,160
Speaker 1: lot of questions or thinks he's too big for his britches,

2416
01:55:46,240 --> 01:55:48,640
Speaker 1: I don't want that. A lot of NFL teams are

2417
01:55:48,680 --> 01:55:50,920
Speaker 1: learning to say, oh, that means this kid's really invested

2418
01:55:50,960 --> 01:55:53,440
Speaker 1: in his job. He's just a millennial who thinks his

2419
01:55:53,480 --> 01:55:55,720
Speaker 1: opinion matters more than it should, and you just have

2420
01:55:55,800 --> 01:55:57,400
Speaker 1: to kind of, you know, work with him a little

2421
01:55:57,400 --> 01:55:59,840
Speaker 1: bit and he'll become a great employee. So some teams

2422
01:55:59,840 --> 01:56:02,560
Speaker 1: are learning that and adapting. Now is every team learning

2423
01:56:02,560 --> 01:56:05,280
Speaker 1: and adapting? Of course not. That's not how any business works,

2424
01:56:05,280 --> 01:56:07,600
Speaker 1: that's not how the NFL works. But it was fascinating

2425
01:56:07,680 --> 01:56:10,960
Speaker 1: discovered that, yes, new players coming in are different, and yes,

2426
01:56:11,080 --> 01:56:14,680
Speaker 1: a lot of NFL insiders, experts, decision makers are trying

2427
01:56:14,680 --> 01:56:16,520
Speaker 1: to adapt to that so that they can work with

2428
01:56:16,560 --> 01:56:18,600
Speaker 1: these players better and make up better products in the

2429
01:56:18,640 --> 01:56:20,840
Speaker 1: long line. Hey, here's a recent post that you had

2430
01:56:20,880 --> 01:56:24,280
Speaker 1: that I really enjoyed the NFL's most underrated teams going

2431
01:56:24,280 --> 01:56:26,120
Speaker 1: to training camp. We're kind of doing a Twitter poll

2432
01:56:26,160 --> 01:56:29,600
Speaker 1: about AFC east on that ourselves today. But you have

2433
01:56:29,720 --> 01:56:32,640
Speaker 1: as your third most underrated team the team that I

2434
01:56:32,760 --> 01:56:37,080
Speaker 1: think is really being overlooked in a very competitive AFC West.

2435
01:56:37,120 --> 01:56:39,800
Speaker 1: I think the Oakland Raiders are still well situated with

2436
01:56:39,880 --> 01:56:42,320
Speaker 1: all the talent they still have from their playoff run

2437
01:56:42,360 --> 01:56:44,240
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. I think the Raiders are

2438
01:56:44,240 --> 01:56:46,080
Speaker 1: going to surprise some people out West, and I think

2439
01:56:46,120 --> 01:56:48,480
Speaker 1: there might be a force to be reckoned with this year.

2440
01:56:48,480 --> 01:56:51,200
Speaker 1: Do you feel the same? I do? And you know what,

2441
01:56:51,240 --> 01:56:53,320
Speaker 1: we all kind of started making the same jokes when

2442
01:56:53,400 --> 01:56:56,800
Speaker 1: when Gruden started signing older players, and I made the jokes,

2443
01:56:56,800 --> 01:56:58,760
Speaker 1: not even make the jokes in the article. It's like, yeah,

2444
01:56:58,880 --> 01:57:01,360
Speaker 1: they's not like fifty different guys when you go down

2445
01:57:01,360 --> 01:57:03,520
Speaker 1: the list, like this dudes in the thirties, This dudes

2446
01:57:03,520 --> 01:57:05,440
Speaker 1: in the thirties, these guys from a little older, Jordy

2447
01:57:05,560 --> 01:57:08,240
Speaker 1: Nelson and Doug Martin and all of them, and you

2448
01:57:08,360 --> 01:57:10,160
Speaker 1: make the joke and then you realize, well, in the

2449
01:57:10,200 --> 01:57:12,520
Speaker 1: short term, that's a lot of really good players. Yeah,

2450
01:57:12,600 --> 01:57:14,400
Speaker 1: and these and these are a lot of good players added,

2451
01:57:14,400 --> 01:57:16,760
Speaker 1: like you said to a roster at Khalil Mackey car

2452
01:57:16,760 --> 01:57:19,040
Speaker 1: and like a really good offensive line and some other

2453
01:57:19,080 --> 01:57:21,280
Speaker 1: pieces and when you put that all together, it looks

2454
01:57:21,320 --> 01:57:23,720
Speaker 1: like a playoff team with a coach that we know

2455
01:57:23,800 --> 01:57:26,400
Speaker 1: as an innovative coach. Now, if we're talking two or

2456
01:57:26,440 --> 01:57:28,320
Speaker 1: three years down the line, and we'll say, did the

2457
01:57:28,320 --> 01:57:30,600
Speaker 1: salary cap get screwed up? That they did they put

2458
01:57:30,640 --> 01:57:32,760
Speaker 1: too many old guys in and not develop young guys.

2459
01:57:33,000 --> 01:57:34,960
Speaker 1: All those things are possible a couple of years down

2460
01:57:35,040 --> 01:57:37,240
Speaker 1: the line, but you can't overlook now. So when you

2461
01:57:37,240 --> 01:57:39,919
Speaker 1: look at the team on paper, it's strong, the division

2462
01:57:40,000 --> 01:57:42,320
Speaker 1: is puple, it's manageable, and the Raiders could come out

2463
01:57:42,360 --> 01:57:45,160
Speaker 1: on top of it. And I like too the coaching change.

2464
01:57:45,200 --> 01:57:47,240
Speaker 1: And look, I know Gruden's been out for a little while,

2465
01:57:47,640 --> 01:57:49,880
Speaker 1: but I don't. Yeah, well, y'all are in a hurry

2466
01:57:49,920 --> 01:57:51,920
Speaker 1: to say, you know, the game has somehow passed him by.

2467
01:57:52,160 --> 01:57:55,280
Speaker 1: I think as an offensive strategist and as a play caller,

2468
01:57:55,520 --> 01:57:58,080
Speaker 1: he is a definite upgrade over what they had with

2469
01:57:58,120 --> 01:58:00,360
Speaker 1: what Todd downing the last couple of years here. I

2470
01:58:00,360 --> 01:58:03,280
Speaker 1: think he'll make a difference in a positive sense offensively

2471
01:58:03,320 --> 01:58:07,280
Speaker 1: for Oakland. Yeah. I was watching especially late season Raiders games,

2472
01:58:07,280 --> 01:58:10,040
Speaker 1: and they'd go into the spread formation. It's like I think,

2473
01:58:10,040 --> 01:58:11,840
Speaker 1: I know which of the three plays is coming here.

2474
01:58:12,400 --> 01:58:14,600
Speaker 1: They didn't have a lot of new innovations and wrinkles

2475
01:58:14,600 --> 01:58:16,840
Speaker 1: and Gruden's come in, and you know, Gruden has also

2476
01:58:16,920 --> 01:58:19,200
Speaker 1: provided some of his own red meat for those jokes.

2477
01:58:19,240 --> 01:58:21,320
Speaker 1: You know, he's gone out there and said, I'm bringing

2478
01:58:21,320 --> 01:58:23,120
Speaker 1: things back to nineteen ninety eight. I don't want to

2479
01:58:23,120 --> 01:58:25,800
Speaker 1: look at these stacks of analytics. And also he kind

2480
01:58:25,840 --> 01:58:28,600
Speaker 1: of created his own punchlines there. Sometimes he says that,

2481
01:58:28,640 --> 01:58:31,400
Speaker 1: and sometimes he talks about how he loves so many

2482
01:58:31,440 --> 01:58:33,840
Speaker 1: things he saw while doing while looking at college film

2483
01:58:33,840 --> 01:58:36,280
Speaker 1: and looking at Chip Kelly and looking at the Big

2484
01:58:36,320 --> 01:58:38,320
Speaker 1: twelve and on. He wants to incorporate all of that.

2485
01:58:38,560 --> 01:58:40,440
Speaker 1: And I think he's going to surprise people with this

2486
01:58:40,520 --> 01:58:43,280
Speaker 1: mix of older and new stuff, which again I don't

2487
01:58:43,280 --> 01:58:44,800
Speaker 1: know if the game has passed him by or not,

2488
01:58:44,840 --> 01:58:47,120
Speaker 1: but in the short term, it'll be an upgrade and

2489
01:58:47,160 --> 01:58:50,160
Speaker 1: there'll be enough new different ideas in there that's going

2490
01:58:50,240 --> 01:58:52,160
Speaker 1: to catch some opponents by surprise. What are some of

2491
01:58:52,200 --> 01:58:54,040
Speaker 1: the other teams that you think are going to overachieve

2492
01:58:54,120 --> 01:58:56,200
Speaker 1: or at least are being underrated at this point going

2493
01:58:56,240 --> 01:58:58,520
Speaker 1: into training camp, and I know there's like only four

2494
01:58:58,640 --> 01:59:00,360
Speaker 1: million things that are gonna change for all of these

2495
01:59:00,440 --> 01:59:02,960
Speaker 1: teams in the next three weeks. But you know, right now,

2496
01:59:03,080 --> 01:59:05,880
Speaker 1: it says who's under the radar right now that you think,

2497
01:59:05,960 --> 01:59:09,600
Speaker 1: you know what the like the Raiders, there's a lot

2498
01:59:09,640 --> 01:59:13,280
Speaker 1: of things that may turn out just right for this team. Well,

2499
01:59:13,280 --> 01:59:14,640
Speaker 1: there are a couple of them. I think no one

2500
01:59:14,680 --> 01:59:16,800
Speaker 1: talks about the Atlanta Falcons because as soon as we

2501
01:59:16,840 --> 01:59:19,080
Speaker 1: try to talk about the Atlanta Falcons, it's twenty eight

2502
01:59:19,080 --> 01:59:20,800
Speaker 1: to three in the Super Bowl. We started kind of

2503
01:59:21,040 --> 01:59:24,080
Speaker 1: kind of giggling a little bit about them, But you

2504
01:59:24,160 --> 01:59:26,520
Speaker 1: forget that that's another team that maybe didn't have the

2505
01:59:26,520 --> 01:59:29,440
Speaker 1: best play calling last year, didn't have some you know,

2506
01:59:29,480 --> 01:59:30,960
Speaker 1: kind of run into a buzz saw a little bit

2507
01:59:30,960 --> 01:59:33,040
Speaker 1: at the end of the season in Philadelphia, has a

2508
01:59:33,040 --> 01:59:35,800
Speaker 1: lot of talent, has made some upgrades still as Matt

2509
01:59:35,880 --> 01:59:37,640
Speaker 1: Ryan still has a great offensive line, sells a lot

2510
01:59:37,680 --> 01:59:40,000
Speaker 1: of weapons. You know, we assume Julio Jones is going

2511
01:59:40,040 --> 01:59:41,760
Speaker 1: to be like happy and ready to come for camp

2512
01:59:42,680 --> 01:59:45,520
Speaker 1: and away from his mini hold out, and I think

2513
01:59:45,560 --> 01:59:48,720
Speaker 1: that's a very strong team that teams overlook that people overlook.

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01:59:49,080 --> 01:59:51,560
Speaker 1: I look at the Washington Redskins and when you really

2515
01:59:51,600 --> 01:59:54,880
Speaker 1: look at their injury situation last year. It was ridiculous

2516
01:59:55,040 --> 01:59:57,120
Speaker 1: the amount of guys they lost. You can go position

2517
01:59:57,200 --> 02:00:00,960
Speaker 1: by position except for quarterback. They lost most their offensive line,

2518
02:00:01,000 --> 02:00:03,600
Speaker 1: most are defensive front seven, all of their running backs,

2519
02:00:03,600 --> 02:00:07,080
Speaker 1: et cetera, etc. If they get reasonable with their health

2520
02:00:07,320 --> 02:00:09,320
Speaker 1: and Alex Smith continues to do what Alex Smith has

2521
02:00:09,320 --> 02:00:10,840
Speaker 1: always done, which is kind of go out there and

2522
02:00:11,080 --> 02:00:14,040
Speaker 1: quietly and efficiently win a bunch of games, that's another

2523
02:00:14,120 --> 02:00:16,600
Speaker 1: team that's gonna be that's gonna be very strong, and

2524
02:00:16,640 --> 02:00:18,480
Speaker 1: no one's talking about them in the NFC East because

2525
02:00:18,520 --> 02:00:21,080
Speaker 1: the NFC East is full of the champions and all

2526
02:00:21,080 --> 02:00:23,560
Speaker 1: these other sort of whiz bang exciting teams to talk about.

2527
02:00:23,760 --> 02:00:26,000
Speaker 1: Mike ro about eight days and nine days away from

2528
02:00:26,080 --> 02:00:28,480
Speaker 1: the start of Bills camp is Pittsfurgh, New York Bills

2529
02:00:28,480 --> 02:00:31,240
Speaker 1: Training Camp on your schedule of training camp visits this year.

2530
02:00:32,360 --> 02:00:34,920
Speaker 1: I was hoping so, but we're still finally that as

2531
02:00:34,920 --> 02:00:36,360
Speaker 1: we speak. But I would love to get up there

2532
02:00:36,600 --> 02:00:39,120
Speaker 1: to New York. I love it up there, and I

2533
02:00:39,200 --> 02:00:40,840
Speaker 1: want I want to see the quarterbacks. I want to

2534
02:00:40,840 --> 02:00:44,600
Speaker 1: I got to see h Josh Allen at the Senior

2535
02:00:44,600 --> 02:00:46,320
Speaker 1: Bowl and again at the Combine. I'd love to get

2536
02:00:46,360 --> 02:00:47,560
Speaker 1: a chance to get up there and see him a

2537
02:00:47,600 --> 02:00:51,240
Speaker 1: little bit more in upstate New York. Yeah, we'd love

2538
02:00:51,240 --> 02:00:52,760
Speaker 1: to have you come on up. Thanks for this, Mike,

2539
02:00:52,800 --> 02:00:55,600
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. Always a pleasure to take care and

2540
02:00:55,680 --> 02:00:57,760
Speaker 1: enjoy the start of training camp. Thank you, we will.

2541
02:00:57,840 --> 02:01:00,560
Speaker 1: Mike tan Year, Bleacher Report, NFL national lead writer the

2542
02:01:00,600 --> 02:01:03,520
Speaker 1: author of the Football Outsiders Almanac, joining us on the

2543
02:01:03,520 --> 02:01:06,280
Speaker 1: Subway Fresh Tank Hotline, Subway Eat Fresh. There was a

2544
02:01:06,320 --> 02:01:07,720
Speaker 1: lot in there, I mean, going all the way at

2545
02:01:07,760 --> 02:01:09,640
Speaker 1: the beginning of the conversation when we had talking about

2546
02:01:09,680 --> 02:01:12,520
Speaker 1: getting basketball players. Could you imagine Andrea the Giant as

2547
02:01:12,520 --> 02:01:14,400
Speaker 1: a defense and I just want to see him. I

2548
02:01:15,000 --> 02:01:16,960
Speaker 1: want to see him, find pads for him. Yeah, and

2549
02:01:17,120 --> 02:01:20,080
Speaker 1: find shoulder pads for him. That's that's unbelievable. And there

2550
02:01:20,120 --> 02:01:21,840
Speaker 1: was a lot in there as well, all that stuff

2551
02:01:21,840 --> 02:01:23,960
Speaker 1: about John Gruden and the Oakland Raiders kind of flying

2552
02:01:24,040 --> 02:01:26,960
Speaker 1: under the radar um They've taken some criticism, a lot

2553
02:01:26,960 --> 02:01:29,360
Speaker 1: of people didn't like their draft, didn't see any cohesion

2554
02:01:29,400 --> 02:01:32,360
Speaker 1: to it. Gruden is a ten guy's tenure out. I

2555
02:01:32,360 --> 02:01:33,920
Speaker 1: know you've got a lot of you've got high hopes

2556
02:01:33,920 --> 02:01:35,800
Speaker 1: for him. I do though this it's gonna be fun

2557
02:01:35,800 --> 02:01:38,240
Speaker 1: to watch. I think, yeah, I think Gruden is going

2558
02:01:38,280 --> 02:01:40,160
Speaker 1: to come back, and he knows that he's got something

2559
02:01:40,240 --> 02:01:42,480
Speaker 1: to prove after being in the booth for ten years.

2560
02:01:42,480 --> 02:01:45,400
Speaker 1: So I think he's he's coming with all guns blazing,

2561
02:01:45,440 --> 02:01:48,360
Speaker 1: no question. Years ago, twenty five, thirty years ago, I

2562
02:01:48,440 --> 02:01:51,520
Speaker 1: was at the Adam Smart Hotel in downtown Buffalo, Andre

2563
02:01:51,680 --> 02:01:54,200
Speaker 1: the Giant in town for a wrestling show. Sitting at

2564
02:01:54,200 --> 02:01:57,320
Speaker 1: the hotel bar. I went up just to approach him,

2565
02:01:57,360 --> 02:01:59,840
Speaker 1: just to say Hi. Could not have been more rude.

2566
02:02:00,000 --> 02:02:02,120
Speaker 1: He just said nothing to say. Oh yeah, he was

2567
02:02:02,200 --> 02:02:04,360
Speaker 1: pretty much move along. Yeah. Yeah, I just want to

2568
02:02:04,400 --> 02:02:07,040
Speaker 1: say hello, welcome to buff How he was big, Yeah,

2569
02:02:07,080 --> 02:02:10,280
Speaker 1: it was intimidating big. Yeah yeah, stut I tell you

2570
02:02:10,360 --> 02:02:13,440
Speaker 1: that story. Yeah he's listen, that's the way. Yeah. When

2571
02:02:13,440 --> 02:02:15,560
Speaker 1: you're that like that, I mean, that's gotta be you

2572
02:02:15,680 --> 02:02:18,280
Speaker 1: gotta have filters right so you get you know, yeah,

2573
02:02:18,320 --> 02:02:20,240
Speaker 1: so you don't get bothered by people. But I wasn't

2574
02:02:20,240 --> 02:02:21,840
Speaker 1: gonna bother room. I just want to say, yo, I

2575
02:02:22,200 --> 02:02:25,000
Speaker 1: recognize you, Yo, I recognize Let me bother you for men,

2576
02:02:25,360 --> 02:02:28,600
Speaker 1: tell you gonna bother you? Tell me what your name is? Um?

2577
02:02:28,680 --> 02:02:31,400
Speaker 1: When we come back. NFL True or False is coming up?

2578
02:02:31,600 --> 02:02:34,480
Speaker 1: Plus let on bell, where does this future lie? Plus

2579
02:02:34,520 --> 02:02:36,160
Speaker 1: there was one other things I want to ask you see,

2580
02:02:36,240 --> 02:02:39,720
Speaker 1: Oh kickoff changes again. I thought you solve that problem.

2581
02:02:39,760 --> 02:02:43,440
Speaker 1: They're still gonna take and it's more about that. It's

2582
02:02:43,480 --> 02:02:45,160
Speaker 1: some of the stuff I saw. We'll talk about. We

2583
02:02:45,240 --> 02:02:46,920
Speaker 1: got time to talk about it quickly. Yeah, we'll talk

2584
02:02:46,920 --> 02:02:49,080
Speaker 1: about when we return. So come on back. One Bill's

2585
02:02:49,120 --> 02:02:52,240
Speaker 1: Live from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio

2586
02:03:03,320 --> 02:03:05,480
Speaker 1: is One Bills Live from One Bills Drive, John Murphy

2587
02:03:05,560 --> 02:03:08,280
Speaker 1: with Steve Casker. Steve, if you're gonna have the show,

2588
02:03:08,880 --> 02:03:11,280
Speaker 1: have the show um without me for a couple of days.

2589
02:03:11,280 --> 02:03:13,560
Speaker 1: I've got the family winning. My son's getting married this weekend,

2590
02:03:13,920 --> 02:03:16,040
Speaker 1: so you'll be you got Chris Brown coming in. Brown's

2591
02:03:16,080 --> 02:03:19,040
Speaker 1: coming in and then uh yeah and then he yeah,

2592
02:03:19,120 --> 02:03:20,800
Speaker 1: Andrew Peter's going to come on the show with me.

2593
02:03:21,080 --> 02:03:24,720
Speaker 1: Oh boy, oh boy, the Hockey Football Cocktail and that'll

2594
02:03:24,720 --> 02:03:28,960
Speaker 1: be Thursday. Yeah, okay, I'll make a point, make a

2595
02:03:29,040 --> 02:03:32,080
Speaker 1: point to be doing something else, but I'm out after

2596
02:03:32,240 --> 02:03:34,680
Speaker 1: this week and then we're back then. Congratulations. That's awesome.

2597
02:03:34,680 --> 02:03:37,080
Speaker 1: It's a big event, man. I love can't wait. Weddings

2598
02:03:37,080 --> 02:03:38,960
Speaker 1: are awesome. It should be a great family vasually when

2599
02:03:38,960 --> 02:03:40,840
Speaker 1: you're the father of the groom and not the bride.

2600
02:03:40,880 --> 02:03:43,120
Speaker 1: I have nothing to do. It's great. It's a perfect

2601
02:03:43,200 --> 02:03:45,320
Speaker 1: role for me. Absolutely nothing to do except to say

2602
02:03:45,560 --> 02:03:49,160
Speaker 1: the parties great. Yeah. I've got four four boys, three

2603
02:03:49,200 --> 02:03:51,920
Speaker 1: of them are married, right. My daughter is not married yet,

2604
02:03:52,600 --> 02:03:56,560
Speaker 1: so I've totally skated, you know, at the party. Yeah.

2605
02:03:56,560 --> 02:03:57,920
Speaker 1: So it's been great. I have nothing to do and

2606
02:03:57,960 --> 02:04:00,240
Speaker 1: it's perfect, perfect role for me. Good for you. Hey,

2607
02:04:00,400 --> 02:04:04,160
Speaker 1: Bill's camp next week. As we said, there are ticketed practices,

2608
02:04:04,160 --> 02:04:07,040
Speaker 1: including the first one a week from Thursday, July twenty six,

2609
02:04:07,080 --> 02:04:10,640
Speaker 1: five thirty practice at Saint John Fisher College. Those tickets

2610
02:04:10,920 --> 02:04:14,520
Speaker 1: the ticketed UH practices. The information on how to get

2611
02:04:14,520 --> 02:04:17,280
Speaker 1: tickets up right now on our website Buffalo bills dot com.

2612
02:04:17,280 --> 02:04:20,120
Speaker 1: The tickets are free, but you do need tickets. For

2613
02:04:20,200 --> 02:04:23,480
Speaker 1: six bills practice is you get four tickets per person

2614
02:04:23,920 --> 02:04:27,400
Speaker 1: and they're available starting tomorrow nine am tomorrow at Tops

2615
02:04:27,440 --> 02:04:31,200
Speaker 1: Friendly Markets in Penfield, New York, Tops on Broadway and

2616
02:04:31,280 --> 02:04:36,240
Speaker 1: Lancaster and Crosby Store in Farmington Down near Kennandagua. Bill's

2617
02:04:36,280 --> 02:04:39,280
Speaker 1: ticket distribution all the information up on our website, Buffalo

2618
02:04:39,360 --> 02:04:44,040
Speaker 1: Bills dot com. On our Twitter site is our Twitter

2619
02:04:44,080 --> 02:04:47,480
Speaker 1: poll today, Steve, let me grab a drink of water.

2620
02:04:47,440 --> 02:04:51,280
Speaker 1: Why don't you read this? The Twitter poll is which

2621
02:04:51,560 --> 02:04:53,840
Speaker 1: AFC East team has the most question marks head to

2622
02:04:53,840 --> 02:04:56,720
Speaker 1: get headed into training camp and why? And we've gotten

2623
02:04:57,120 --> 02:05:01,000
Speaker 1: a ton of feedback on it, and the the ratio

2624
02:05:01,320 --> 02:05:03,080
Speaker 1: is a little bit of a runaway because, as you

2625
02:05:03,080 --> 02:05:06,520
Speaker 1: would imagine, Bills fans who know the Bill's best, fifty

2626
02:05:06,520 --> 02:05:09,200
Speaker 1: eight percent of you say we've got we Bills fans

2627
02:05:09,440 --> 02:05:11,440
Speaker 1: have got the most question marks headed into camp. The

2628
02:05:11,480 --> 02:05:14,200
Speaker 1: Dolphins trail just ahead of the Jets, twenty one percent

2629
02:05:14,240 --> 02:05:16,960
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins, seventeen percent for the Jets. Fifty eight

2630
02:05:16,960 --> 02:05:19,200
Speaker 1: percent say the Bills have the most question marked. And

2631
02:05:19,240 --> 02:05:22,640
Speaker 1: of course the papers were only four percent given their

2632
02:05:22,640 --> 02:05:25,280
Speaker 1: offseason stories coming out of the aren't all honky dory.

2633
02:05:25,280 --> 02:05:27,480
Speaker 1: For the first time in memory, we had a caller

2634
02:05:27,520 --> 02:05:30,360
Speaker 1: who described our Twitter poll today. Our question is genius,

2635
02:05:30,680 --> 02:05:34,320
Speaker 1: not brilliant, not brilliant. However, if it's that one sided,

2636
02:05:34,440 --> 02:05:35,960
Speaker 1: can it really be brilliant? You know how we use

2637
02:05:35,960 --> 02:05:40,280
Speaker 1: the criteria. It fails. Yes, it's a good question. No, doubt,

2638
02:05:40,360 --> 02:05:45,880
Speaker 1: but it does. It fails in the percentage acid test

2639
02:05:46,440 --> 02:05:48,880
Speaker 1: because it should be like thirty three, thirty three or

2640
02:05:48,880 --> 02:05:51,240
Speaker 1: twenty five percent, twenty five percent, twenty five percent. Right,

2641
02:05:51,400 --> 02:05:53,440
Speaker 1: you want them close? I like them close. Under the

2642
02:05:53,440 --> 02:05:56,440
Speaker 1: heading of Twitter polls that weren't good enough to make it.

2643
02:05:57,120 --> 02:05:59,400
Speaker 1: Levi on Bell no long term deal with the Steelers.

2644
02:05:59,400 --> 02:06:01,680
Speaker 1: So he'll play there, they say, but probably be gone

2645
02:06:01,680 --> 02:06:05,120
Speaker 1: from Pittsburgh for twenty nineteen. Should the bills are the bills?

2646
02:06:05,200 --> 02:06:07,480
Speaker 1: Will the bills be interested in layby on Bell? That

2647
02:06:07,720 --> 02:06:11,120
Speaker 1: was a discussion in our control room earlier today. I'm

2648
02:06:11,200 --> 02:06:13,320
Speaker 1: voting no on that one. I am big. I don't

2649
02:06:13,320 --> 02:06:15,880
Speaker 1: want to pay running back fifteen and a half million

2650
02:06:15,960 --> 02:06:18,880
Speaker 1: bucks a year. And the reported deal was for five

2651
02:06:18,960 --> 02:06:21,080
Speaker 1: years seventy million. Is that what you heard too? Yeah?

2652
02:06:21,120 --> 02:06:23,920
Speaker 1: I got five years seventy million, an average of fifteen million,

2653
02:06:25,200 --> 02:06:27,919
Speaker 1: that is, you know, I got an average of thirteen

2654
02:06:27,960 --> 02:06:29,760
Speaker 1: point three million, at least in the beginning and going

2655
02:06:29,840 --> 02:06:34,360
Speaker 1: up slightly. And they guaranteed him thirty correct being for

2656
02:06:34,400 --> 02:06:37,040
Speaker 1: over two the first two years of that deal. Man,

2657
02:06:37,120 --> 02:06:39,360
Speaker 1: I think you're nuts not taking that deal as a

2658
02:06:39,440 --> 02:06:41,680
Speaker 1: running back in the NFL. His point was he would

2659
02:06:41,720 --> 02:06:44,680
Speaker 1: not take a contract worth less than fourteen and a

2660
02:06:44,680 --> 02:06:47,000
Speaker 1: half million dollars a year, and that's the TAG number

2661
02:06:47,000 --> 02:06:49,080
Speaker 1: this year. So that's his point. Why would I take

2662
02:06:49,080 --> 02:06:50,920
Speaker 1: a contract that would pay me less than the TAG?

2663
02:06:51,200 --> 02:06:52,840
Speaker 1: I could play this year on the TAG and make

2664
02:06:52,840 --> 02:06:55,960
Speaker 1: fourteen and a half million. Why would I settle for,

2665
02:06:55,960 --> 02:06:58,880
Speaker 1: for instance, one point two million less this year? Well,

2666
02:06:59,160 --> 02:07:02,320
Speaker 1: because of its guaranteed thirty in two years. Well, that

2667
02:07:02,560 --> 02:07:05,280
Speaker 1: there's your answer right there. It's a it's not a

2668
02:07:05,320 --> 02:07:07,960
Speaker 1: one year league. If particularly if they guarantee your money

2669
02:07:08,000 --> 02:07:10,840
Speaker 1: for two years. I mean, I get it. Now. Running

2670
02:07:10,840 --> 02:07:14,720
Speaker 1: back is the you know, and he's seventy over seventy

2671
02:07:14,720 --> 02:07:17,520
Speaker 1: percent of their offense and their rushing yards was came

2672
02:07:17,560 --> 02:07:19,520
Speaker 1: from the legs of Levion Bell. Last year, he didn't

2673
02:07:19,560 --> 02:07:21,360
Speaker 1: go to training camp. It was the same story last

2674
02:07:21,400 --> 02:07:23,880
Speaker 1: year as it is this year. He was under a

2675
02:07:24,000 --> 02:07:26,240
Speaker 1: contract dispute and they couldn't get a deal done, and

2676
02:07:26,320 --> 02:07:28,360
Speaker 1: he sat out training camp. Came in one week before

2677
02:07:28,400 --> 02:07:30,560
Speaker 1: their opener and they and I remember they handed it

2678
02:07:30,560 --> 02:07:32,960
Speaker 1: to him like thirty times in the opener. I mean

2679
02:07:33,000 --> 02:07:35,680
Speaker 1: they they started him from day one, and he went

2680
02:07:35,720 --> 02:07:38,120
Speaker 1: and he went hard the whole season. And was there

2681
02:07:38,360 --> 02:07:40,240
Speaker 1: and what it really was the engine behind their team

2682
02:07:40,240 --> 02:07:42,560
Speaker 1: getting to the point they did last season. So he's

2683
02:07:43,320 --> 02:07:45,280
Speaker 1: if there's a team who's got a guy who they

2684
02:07:45,360 --> 02:07:48,160
Speaker 1: need to play, well, it's the Pittsburgh Steelers and Levion Bell.

2685
02:07:48,280 --> 02:07:51,520
Speaker 1: But that you're just not going to get that as

2686
02:07:51,520 --> 02:07:53,600
Speaker 1: a running back, I think. I mean, he's getting it

2687
02:07:53,920 --> 02:07:57,160
Speaker 1: in a one year contract deal, but wow, what are

2688
02:07:57,160 --> 02:08:00,320
Speaker 1: you gonna do next year? All right here, I want

2689
02:08:00,320 --> 02:08:01,840
Speaker 1: to get to this because you were in on the

2690
02:08:01,880 --> 02:08:04,040
Speaker 1: ground floor back in what was in May when you

2691
02:08:04,080 --> 02:08:07,400
Speaker 1: went to New York with a bunch of coaches, special

2692
02:08:07,400 --> 02:08:10,560
Speaker 1: teams coaches and special teams performers or was it April?

2693
02:08:10,600 --> 02:08:12,160
Speaker 1: It was like a week after he started with us

2694
02:08:12,200 --> 02:08:16,280
Speaker 1: April or May April? Yeah, Yeah, to talk about kickoffs.

2695
02:08:16,320 --> 02:08:18,600
Speaker 1: They change the kickoff rule. We know that we've gone

2696
02:08:18,600 --> 02:08:21,000
Speaker 1: through that, and now, believe it or not, the league

2697
02:08:21,080 --> 02:08:25,440
Speaker 1: is thinking over additional changes to its redesigned kickoff. That's

2698
02:08:25,480 --> 02:08:27,320
Speaker 1: pretty late in the game. It happened because of the

2699
02:08:27,320 --> 02:08:31,480
Speaker 1: officiating clinic held last week and Plano, Texas Competition Committee

2700
02:08:31,560 --> 02:08:34,200
Speaker 1: Chairman Rich McKay was there and he said that he

2701
02:08:34,320 --> 02:08:37,320
Speaker 1: said that some officials think there will be aspects of

2702
02:08:37,320 --> 02:08:40,720
Speaker 1: the new kickoff rule that will be difficult to administrate consistently.

2703
02:08:41,120 --> 02:08:43,840
Speaker 1: One of the concerns is the decision to eliminate the

2704
02:08:43,880 --> 02:08:47,120
Speaker 1: two man wedge blocks, but not all double teams. Do

2705
02:08:47,200 --> 02:08:48,520
Speaker 1: you what do you know about this? See? What do

2706
02:08:48,560 --> 02:08:50,280
Speaker 1: you think of this? And isn't enough late to be

2707
02:08:50,320 --> 02:08:52,440
Speaker 1: some making up rules a little bit? But they're they're

2708
02:08:52,440 --> 02:08:54,360
Speaker 1: not really making up the rules. What they're doing is

2709
02:08:54,360 --> 02:08:56,480
Speaker 1: they're gonna make some minor tweaks to the language to

2710
02:08:56,520 --> 02:08:58,880
Speaker 1: clarify what the rule is, and they're trying to get

2711
02:08:58,920 --> 02:09:01,280
Speaker 1: the officials to understand and what it's supposed to be. Now,

2712
02:09:01,440 --> 02:09:05,640
Speaker 1: the new alignment is different than what it has ever

2713
02:09:05,680 --> 02:09:08,280
Speaker 1: been in the past, mostly for the return team. Now

2714
02:09:08,320 --> 02:09:10,120
Speaker 1: you have to have eight of your players of the

2715
02:09:10,160 --> 02:09:12,960
Speaker 1: eleven all the way up towards the football where they

2716
02:09:13,040 --> 02:09:15,200
Speaker 1: kick it, and the kickoff team is going to be

2717
02:09:15,240 --> 02:09:18,680
Speaker 1: standing still when the ball's kicked. So it's gonna look

2718
02:09:18,720 --> 02:09:21,240
Speaker 1: a little different. And a lot of people are saying, hey,

2719
02:09:21,240 --> 02:09:23,720
Speaker 1: they're turning it kind of into a punt, and my mind,

2720
02:09:23,800 --> 02:09:25,400
Speaker 1: that's not going to look anything like a punt. But

2721
02:09:25,440 --> 02:09:28,000
Speaker 1: that what they are saying is that the blocking techniques

2722
02:09:28,040 --> 02:09:30,520
Speaker 1: and the way the players on both teams are running

2723
02:09:30,560 --> 02:09:33,640
Speaker 1: under the kick to either block for the returner or

2724
02:09:33,680 --> 02:09:37,200
Speaker 1: cover the returner. They're going to be similar. The techniques

2725
02:09:37,200 --> 02:09:38,600
Speaker 1: and stuff are going to be similar to a punt,

2726
02:09:38,600 --> 02:09:41,440
Speaker 1: but that's where the resemblance will end. And I think

2727
02:09:42,000 --> 02:09:45,880
Speaker 1: a long time official in the NFL, Terry mcaulay has said,

2728
02:09:45,920 --> 02:09:48,120
Speaker 1: and this is a quote from him, it isn't getting

2729
02:09:48,200 --> 02:09:51,200
Speaker 1: much pressed, but the kickoff change, this may be the

2730
02:09:51,240 --> 02:09:55,120
Speaker 1: biggest change I've ever seen. People know so little about it.

2731
02:09:55,280 --> 02:09:57,680
Speaker 1: There are so many restrictions on what either side of

2732
02:09:57,680 --> 02:10:01,200
Speaker 1: the ball can do. I spoke with a special teams coordinator.

2733
02:10:01,400 --> 02:10:03,960
Speaker 1: This is Terry McAuley. Still I'm still quoting him, who

2734
02:10:04,120 --> 02:10:06,920
Speaker 1: is excited about it, and I know we all feel

2735
02:10:06,960 --> 02:10:10,000
Speaker 1: it can be great for the game, but officials have

2736
02:10:10,080 --> 02:10:12,840
Speaker 1: to wait and see. There are a lot of intricate terms,

2737
02:10:13,160 --> 02:10:16,480
Speaker 1: intricate rules and terms of what players can and cannot do.

2738
02:10:16,680 --> 02:10:18,480
Speaker 1: So the real issue that came out of the Plano

2739
02:10:18,480 --> 02:10:22,360
Speaker 1: Texas meetings, which was an officiating meeting anyway, was the

2740
02:10:22,440 --> 02:10:25,600
Speaker 1: language of the rule and how difficult it's going to

2741
02:10:25,720 --> 02:10:28,800
Speaker 1: be for them to incorporate and before their pre snap

2742
02:10:28,880 --> 02:10:33,320
Speaker 1: routine on a kickoff, to have the officials look around

2743
02:10:33,400 --> 02:10:35,920
Speaker 1: and make sure they know who is lined up back

2744
02:10:36,000 --> 02:10:37,960
Speaker 1: deep on the There'll be three guys back deep on

2745
02:10:37,960 --> 02:10:40,720
Speaker 1: the return. To know who those three guys are and

2746
02:10:40,760 --> 02:10:43,480
Speaker 1: remember them so that if they see them double team somebody,

2747
02:10:43,880 --> 02:10:46,120
Speaker 1: it will they'll know that it will be illegal. So

2748
02:10:46,240 --> 02:10:49,760
Speaker 1: that's they're trying to get the officials on board with it,

2749
02:10:49,800 --> 02:10:52,440
Speaker 1: and the officials are bucking a little bit and illustrating

2750
02:10:52,440 --> 02:10:55,920
Speaker 1: how difficult it's going to be to officiate this new rule.

2751
02:10:56,000 --> 02:11:01,000
Speaker 1: Because we always say, you know, the gets most of

2752
02:11:01,000 --> 02:11:03,400
Speaker 1: these things right, the NFL gets most of these new rights,

2753
02:11:04,320 --> 02:11:06,960
Speaker 1: but it takes him a long time. This is one

2754
02:11:07,040 --> 02:11:10,720
Speaker 1: that they are It is on an ultra lightspeed fast track.

2755
02:11:10,760 --> 02:11:13,120
Speaker 1: I mean, they're doing all this in one year, and

2756
02:11:13,440 --> 02:11:15,040
Speaker 1: they had meetings about it. They put it in the

2757
02:11:15,080 --> 02:11:18,400
Speaker 1: hands of the football people. And the obvious vibe that

2758
02:11:18,440 --> 02:11:21,160
Speaker 1: came out of this and it's still continuing now. The

2759
02:11:21,280 --> 02:11:24,480
Speaker 1: NFL really wants to save the kickoff. They want to

2760
02:11:24,560 --> 02:11:26,320
Speaker 1: keep it in the game, and they're willing to do

2761
02:11:26,360 --> 02:11:29,480
Speaker 1: just about anything to make sure that it does remain.

2762
02:11:29,680 --> 02:11:32,640
Speaker 1: I worry that we could be looking at chaos in

2763
02:11:32,680 --> 02:11:34,960
Speaker 1: the first week or two of preseason games. I was

2764
02:11:35,000 --> 02:11:36,200
Speaker 1: I was just talking to the guys out in the

2765
02:11:36,200 --> 02:11:40,120
Speaker 1: control room. It may be that every third kickoff goes

2766
02:11:40,120 --> 02:11:42,640
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. I mean that's or it may be

2767
02:11:42,840 --> 02:11:45,400
Speaker 1: that the guy catches these kicks and he might have

2768
02:11:45,480 --> 02:11:48,040
Speaker 1: fifteen guys around him. Yeah right, we don't. They don't

2769
02:11:48,080 --> 02:11:50,480
Speaker 1: know what the timing Now because the kickoff team is

2770
02:11:50,480 --> 02:11:54,040
Speaker 1: going to standing start, I think it's going to open

2771
02:11:54,080 --> 02:11:57,320
Speaker 1: it up. Even though they've taken a lot of the

2772
02:11:57,360 --> 02:12:00,240
Speaker 1: mainstay weapons of the return team away. You can't wedge lock,

2773
02:12:01,000 --> 02:12:03,080
Speaker 1: you can't double team from the back end of the

2774
02:12:03,560 --> 02:12:06,400
Speaker 1: return That's really basically the only two things that are

2775
02:12:06,440 --> 02:12:09,839
Speaker 1: everybody's gotta lined up up front. But for the kickoff

2776
02:12:09,840 --> 02:12:14,440
Speaker 1: team getting a standing start and having to run through

2777
02:12:14,480 --> 02:12:16,600
Speaker 1: all of that traffic. Of those guys lined up so

2778
02:12:16,640 --> 02:12:18,680
Speaker 1: close to the return team, lined up so close to you,

2779
02:12:19,200 --> 02:12:21,360
Speaker 1: I think it opens up a lot of problems for

2780
02:12:21,400 --> 02:12:26,840
Speaker 1: the coverage team. And that's just my take. So I

2781
02:12:26,920 --> 02:12:30,760
Speaker 1: know those nobody knows what's gonna look like. And that's

2782
02:12:31,440 --> 02:12:34,839
Speaker 1: that's Listen. When everybody says let's wait for the kickoff

2783
02:12:34,880 --> 02:12:36,880
Speaker 1: of the season and be there for that first one,

2784
02:12:36,960 --> 02:12:39,240
Speaker 1: KAT know what's gonna happen. Well, you got to imagine

2785
02:12:39,600 --> 02:12:41,720
Speaker 1: there are thirty two different ideas, right, we got to

2786
02:12:41,760 --> 02:12:45,040
Speaker 1: talk to Danny Craftsmo about it sometimes, Buffalo Special Teams coach.

2787
02:12:45,080 --> 02:12:47,280
Speaker 1: But there's got to be at this point with these

2788
02:12:47,320 --> 02:12:50,920
Speaker 1: new rules, thirty thirty two different approaches to kickoffs. Now,

2789
02:12:51,160 --> 02:12:53,720
Speaker 1: oh yeah, Now they had like nine of the guy

2790
02:12:53,880 --> 02:12:55,920
Speaker 1: nine of the thirty two were in the room and

2791
02:12:55,960 --> 02:12:58,800
Speaker 1: they were emailing and conference calling and talking to each

2792
02:12:58,800 --> 02:13:01,880
Speaker 1: other separately, and it's on sidebars, and you know, there

2793
02:13:01,880 --> 02:13:04,640
Speaker 1: were conversations all the way from February all the web

2794
02:13:04,680 --> 02:13:06,360
Speaker 1: through April when they had the meeting that I was

2795
02:13:06,400 --> 02:13:08,560
Speaker 1: a tent part of. So they had a good plan

2796
02:13:08,720 --> 02:13:10,880
Speaker 1: going in and they were all kind of on board.

2797
02:13:10,880 --> 02:13:12,680
Speaker 1: So they all kind of see it the same way.

2798
02:13:13,320 --> 02:13:14,880
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean they're all going to come up

2799
02:13:14,880 --> 02:13:17,760
Speaker 1: with the same plan. And not all of them have

2800
02:13:17,840 --> 02:13:21,400
Speaker 1: the same athletes to work with, and so yeah, they're

2801
02:13:21,760 --> 02:13:28,280
Speaker 1: thirty two different plans. Yeah, you don know, it'll worried. Yeah,

2802
02:13:28,280 --> 02:13:31,280
Speaker 1: and there's thirty two different coverage teams too. Man, who

2803
02:13:32,560 --> 02:13:34,600
Speaker 1: oh man, that's only a couple of weeks away. I

2804
02:13:34,640 --> 02:13:36,680
Speaker 1: mean the first preseason game, the Hall of Fame game

2805
02:13:36,800 --> 02:13:39,960
Speaker 1: is what August fifth? A couple of weeks away, last weekend,

2806
02:13:40,040 --> 02:13:42,840
Speaker 1: three weeks away, yeah, two weeks right, two weeks from

2807
02:13:42,880 --> 02:13:46,960
Speaker 1: this weekend? Yeah, yeah, first, yeah, we're inside of three weeks. Yeah.

2808
02:13:47,120 --> 02:13:49,480
Speaker 1: Time now for NFL True or False brought to you

2809
02:13:49,560 --> 02:13:51,880
Speaker 1: by Yancey's Fancy New York Soutus and Cheese. We've talked

2810
02:13:51,920 --> 02:13:54,320
Speaker 1: about Terrell Owens. We talked about it with Mike Tanier.

2811
02:13:54,520 --> 02:13:58,760
Speaker 1: The Edmonton Eskimos should sign Taryll Owens to a contract

2812
02:13:58,800 --> 02:14:01,960
Speaker 1: to says he's seriously about it. His agent says he's

2813
02:14:02,000 --> 02:14:05,120
Speaker 1: serious about it. He's forty four years old. Edmonton should

2814
02:14:05,120 --> 02:14:08,560
Speaker 1: sign Tarall Owens. I'll say true, especially if you know

2815
02:14:08,600 --> 02:14:10,560
Speaker 1: they're they're having a bad season and need to bump

2816
02:14:10,640 --> 02:14:12,800
Speaker 1: up ticket sales. Other than that, I can't see an

2817
02:14:12,840 --> 02:14:17,000
Speaker 1: upside tread. Yeah, I say sign him. You never know

2818
02:14:17,080 --> 02:14:19,080
Speaker 1: if and here's the thing, I don't know what they're risking,

2819
02:14:19,760 --> 02:14:21,560
Speaker 1: if they can make it work with their salary cap,

2820
02:14:21,600 --> 02:14:22,920
Speaker 1: if they can get him in there and get him

2821
02:14:22,920 --> 02:14:26,320
Speaker 1: acclimated to the NFL, to the CFL game so that

2822
02:14:26,360 --> 02:14:28,080
Speaker 1: he knows how to do the waggle, the and the

2823
02:14:28,080 --> 02:14:31,120
Speaker 1: emotion for the receivers. Certainly, he's a physical matchup still

2824
02:14:31,160 --> 02:14:33,200
Speaker 1: because just because of his size, we know he's got

2825
02:14:33,240 --> 02:14:36,880
Speaker 1: straight ahead speed. It'll be an adjustment. It'll take some

2826
02:14:36,960 --> 02:14:40,880
Speaker 1: time to get him acclimated. But put it. I'll tell

2827
02:14:40,880 --> 02:14:42,200
Speaker 1: you what what I wouldn't do is I put him

2828
02:14:42,200 --> 02:14:45,000
Speaker 1: through a workout. We'll see what you got, you know,

2829
02:14:45,200 --> 02:14:48,720
Speaker 1: and and go from there. But I would certainly certainly

2830
02:14:48,720 --> 02:14:51,680
Speaker 1: explore the possibility. You know, the CFL as well as anyone.

2831
02:14:52,040 --> 02:14:54,480
Speaker 1: CFL is not like some joke comedy league that we

2832
02:14:54,520 --> 02:14:57,080
Speaker 1: need attention, right if no, no, no no, no, they wouldn't

2833
02:14:57,080 --> 02:14:59,840
Speaker 1: have signed. It's a real profitable league. Yeah, it's real.

2834
02:15:00,040 --> 02:15:02,920
Speaker 1: It's got a longer history than the National Football significantly

2835
02:15:02,960 --> 02:15:06,400
Speaker 1: longer history than the NFL does, and it's got a

2836
02:15:07,680 --> 02:15:10,480
Speaker 1: tradition and a set of rules that are different than

2837
02:15:10,480 --> 02:15:13,480
Speaker 1: the NFL. And it's got a great following north of

2838
02:15:13,520 --> 02:15:18,760
Speaker 1: the border. It's got very committed and a long time fan,

2839
02:15:18,880 --> 02:15:22,160
Speaker 1: lifelong fans. And again they know that they know the

2840
02:15:22,240 --> 02:15:24,280
Speaker 1: league and they know the players, and they take it

2841
02:15:24,320 --> 02:15:26,920
Speaker 1: pretty very seriously. And I know that the players and

2842
02:15:26,960 --> 02:15:31,720
Speaker 1: the coaches up there. Yeah, it's a serious business up there,

2843
02:15:31,760 --> 02:15:34,280
Speaker 1: and it's it's for real and it's competitive, so it's

2844
02:15:34,520 --> 02:15:39,000
Speaker 1: it's fun to watch. And so yeah, it's Teo. If

2845
02:15:39,040 --> 02:15:41,080
Speaker 1: he goes up there, he's gonna be playing real football.

2846
02:15:41,720 --> 02:15:43,600
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see a forty four year old

2847
02:15:43,600 --> 02:15:45,320
Speaker 1: guy trying to do that at a skill position though

2848
02:15:45,440 --> 02:15:48,160
Speaker 1: NFL true or false apart, two NFL players should fight

2849
02:15:48,720 --> 02:15:52,280
Speaker 1: to abolish the franchise tag. This came out yesterday. This

2850
02:15:52,360 --> 02:15:55,520
Speaker 1: came about because of the four pm yesterday deadline for

2851
02:15:55,680 --> 02:15:58,480
Speaker 1: teams to sign a long term deal or let their

2852
02:15:58,480 --> 02:16:01,440
Speaker 1: players play under the franchise tag. Levion Bell most prominently

2853
02:16:02,640 --> 02:16:05,240
Speaker 1: of all the fights that NFL players might have in

2854
02:16:05,280 --> 02:16:08,600
Speaker 1: their next collective bargaining agreement, I don't know that abolition

2855
02:16:08,640 --> 02:16:10,240
Speaker 1: of the franchise tag would be up at the top.

2856
02:16:10,280 --> 02:16:12,680
Speaker 1: I'll say false. They got other stuff. They got of

2857
02:16:12,720 --> 02:16:15,839
Speaker 1: their fish to fry here. I don't think the franchise

2858
02:16:15,840 --> 02:16:18,520
Speaker 1: tag affects what one percent of all NFL players. It's

2859
02:16:18,560 --> 02:16:22,440
Speaker 1: not really a big deal. Guys who play on the

2860
02:16:22,440 --> 02:16:25,960
Speaker 1: franchise tag are not underpaid. They're not I don't think

2861
02:16:25,960 --> 02:16:29,440
Speaker 1: they suffer any sort of detriment at all to be

2862
02:16:29,440 --> 02:16:32,600
Speaker 1: on the franchise tag. I think teams would prefer not

2863
02:16:32,680 --> 02:16:35,080
Speaker 1: to have franchise tag, so players should fight to abolish

2864
02:16:35,080 --> 02:16:38,400
Speaker 1: the franchise tag. I say false. I say it's true

2865
02:16:39,280 --> 02:16:42,440
Speaker 1: for this reason. It's not about the money. It's about

2866
02:16:42,440 --> 02:16:45,039
Speaker 1: a guy like Levon Bell being a free agent and

2867
02:16:45,160 --> 02:16:47,360
Speaker 1: you plug him, you take him out, and you plug

2868
02:16:47,440 --> 02:16:49,520
Speaker 1: him in somewhere else because you can't keep him. You

2869
02:16:49,520 --> 02:16:51,879
Speaker 1: don't have the right to keep him. That's what it's about.

2870
02:16:52,160 --> 02:16:54,240
Speaker 1: It was about free agency. And you're right, there are

2871
02:16:54,280 --> 02:16:57,080
Speaker 1: some star players out there who got franchise. But can

2872
02:16:57,120 --> 02:17:00,360
Speaker 1: you imagine if you know that forces then and of

2873
02:17:00,400 --> 02:17:03,760
Speaker 1: the clubs to make a decision about a player and

2874
02:17:04,640 --> 02:17:07,360
Speaker 1: either roll the dice with him as their lead dog

2875
02:17:07,760 --> 02:17:10,959
Speaker 1: and overpay him in the marketplace to keep him there

2876
02:17:11,120 --> 02:17:15,279
Speaker 1: with a long term deal, or let a great legendary

2877
02:17:15,400 --> 02:17:18,480
Speaker 1: sometimes legendary player go to another team and end up

2878
02:17:18,520 --> 02:17:22,640
Speaker 1: facing him. It's not about the money, Murph. It's about

2879
02:17:24,120 --> 02:17:26,440
Speaker 1: a guy's ability to go to another team. For a

2880
02:17:26,440 --> 02:17:29,800
Speaker 1: guy like Tom Brady to leave, well, I remember Ben Roethlisberger,

2881
02:17:29,879 --> 02:17:31,600
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, they can leave. I was around and I

2882
02:17:31,600 --> 02:17:34,199
Speaker 1: remember talking to Bill Polian about the when free agency

2883
02:17:34,320 --> 02:17:38,279
Speaker 1: first came about in the nineties, franchise tag, transition tag

2884
02:17:38,360 --> 02:17:42,040
Speaker 1: were ways that ownership kind of reserved. Look, we don't

2885
02:17:42,040 --> 02:17:45,000
Speaker 1: want everybody to hit the market. This guy, he's our

2886
02:17:45,080 --> 02:17:47,560
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, he's our franchise player. We're gonna put the

2887
02:17:47,600 --> 02:17:49,959
Speaker 1: franchise tag on him, you know, just to get a

2888
02:17:49,959 --> 02:17:52,200
Speaker 1: couple of guys off the market. That's the way it

2889
02:17:52,240 --> 02:17:54,160
Speaker 1: has worked, I think for the most part. But beyond

2890
02:17:54,200 --> 02:17:56,800
Speaker 1: you know, back then, the fear was, well, it'll be rampant.

2891
02:17:56,879 --> 02:17:59,440
Speaker 1: You know people, you know, the great quarterbacks will be

2892
02:18:00,160 --> 02:18:01,959
Speaker 1: around from team to team. They're trying to avoid that.

2893
02:18:02,320 --> 02:18:06,720
Speaker 1: It instead has become a way to keep a guy

2894
02:18:06,840 --> 02:18:09,080
Speaker 1: for a year. But I think they're talking about Kirk

2895
02:18:09,080 --> 02:18:12,520
Speaker 1: Cousins is three years. Yeah, the incentive, Yeah, under the

2896
02:18:12,520 --> 02:18:14,240
Speaker 1: franchise tech, why do you got to aboloch it. He

2897
02:18:14,280 --> 02:18:16,680
Speaker 1: made tons of money in three years. So how did that?

2898
02:18:17,200 --> 02:18:19,680
Speaker 1: How did what was the detriment to the player? What

2899
02:18:19,720 --> 02:18:23,640
Speaker 1: did Kirk Cousins lose by being franchise about? Well, here's

2900
02:18:23,680 --> 02:18:25,320
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's not about the money that he

2901
02:18:25,360 --> 02:18:27,560
Speaker 1: gets paid. It's about the other thirty one teams who

2902
02:18:27,560 --> 02:18:30,080
Speaker 1: need a quarterback. Yeah, that's what it's about. I don't

2903
02:18:30,080 --> 02:18:32,440
Speaker 1: think it's important for players, but we disagree, all right.

2904
02:18:32,640 --> 02:18:34,920
Speaker 1: NFL true or false, You don't think get bitter about it?

2905
02:18:35,360 --> 02:18:38,760
Speaker 1: Better you're wrong. When you're wrong, you are wrong. NFL

2906
02:18:38,800 --> 02:18:41,359
Speaker 1: True or False brought you by Yancey's Fancy. We don't

2907
02:18:41,360 --> 02:18:43,000
Speaker 1: have any more fALS. We got one more, but we're

2908
02:18:43,000 --> 02:18:44,480
Speaker 1: out of time. All right, Okay, it's brought you by

2909
02:18:44,520 --> 02:18:47,440
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2910
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Speaker 1: One Goes Live from One Goes Drive. This is Buffalo

2911
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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. We wrap up the show with what have

2912
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2916
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Speaker 1: we learned? We had Mike Tanyer on the show with

2917
02:19:18,840 --> 02:19:21,600
Speaker 1: us from Bleacher Report. He had a lot of good

2918
02:19:21,600 --> 02:19:25,080
Speaker 1: ideas and a little couple of crazy ideas. Zany strategies

2919
02:19:25,800 --> 02:19:28,600
Speaker 1: to make the game a little bit more interesting, maybe

2920
02:19:28,600 --> 02:19:32,600
Speaker 1: win games. Mike Tanyers said. One of them is intentional penalties,

2921
02:19:32,640 --> 02:19:37,320
Speaker 1: and he talked to us about that. There are examples

2922
02:19:37,360 --> 02:19:40,240
Speaker 1: like the college national championship game a couple of years ago.

2923
02:19:40,600 --> 02:19:42,600
Speaker 1: If you just hold on the last player of the game,

2924
02:19:42,640 --> 02:19:44,960
Speaker 1: you can guarantee that you don't allow a big play.

2925
02:19:45,080 --> 02:19:47,039
Speaker 1: You can make the time go down to zero, and

2926
02:19:47,080 --> 02:19:49,480
Speaker 1: you can force the other coaches in. And there's a

2927
02:19:49,600 --> 02:19:52,760
Speaker 1: variety of versions of this. You know, you know, why

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Speaker 1: don't you just you know, commit pass interference on every player.

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Speaker 1: One I didn't write in there is like, you know,

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Speaker 1: have the have the defensive edge rusher just jumped off

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Speaker 1: sides by like ten seconds on like third and eighteen

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Speaker 1: and just sort of scare the least tackle a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But I'll guarantee there's a there's a very good chance

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Speaker 1: that you're gonna have a skittish offense on the next play.

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Speaker 1: And there's a lot of little ways you can do that.

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Speaker 1: Some of them will, yeah, it would be damaging to

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Speaker 1: the game. Some of them is might be just a

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Speaker 1: clever tactic that you can run it. Years ago, Buddy

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Speaker 1: Ryan put like fifteen guys on his punt unit just

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Speaker 1: to kind of waste a few seconds to see if

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Speaker 1: they would get a penalty and waste a few seconds.

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Speaker 1: And the time I didn't get called. He had fifteen

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Speaker 1: guys on the field. Mike Tan, you're from Bleacher Report.

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Speaker 1: It had some interesting comments about that. Steve and I've

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Speaker 1: talked a little bit about franchise tags, Mike and Buffalo

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Speaker 1: on the line with us as a thought on this

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Speaker 1: and Leabe on Bell Mike go ahead, all right, guys,

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Speaker 1: So I'm a big fan of the show. Thanks waite Um.

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Speaker 1: First off, Steve, you sit there and you say that

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Speaker 1: he's accounts for seventy percent of the offense rushing offense. Yeah, um, well,

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Speaker 1: you know, I personally feel it to do to get paid.

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Speaker 1: He's proved year in and year out that he's one

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Speaker 1: of the lead backs in the league. He's also great

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Speaker 1: at defunding for the quarterback. I mean, he doesn't when

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Speaker 1: he's on the field. There's rarely any sex. I don't

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Speaker 1: know the assistant's off to him, but I know for

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Speaker 1: a fact that he doesn't give up any sex when

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Speaker 1: he's out there. I mean, he brings so much dynamics

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Speaker 1: to that team. You can't let somebody accounts for that

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Speaker 1: much of your offense walk away without at least offering

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Speaker 1: him something that I feel, and I'm sure many other

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Speaker 1: people feel. He deserves, So I just I know, look,

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm gonna let Seem answer this because

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Speaker 1: you address it to Steve Mike. But my sense is,

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Speaker 1: Steve that you also agree that lebe On Bell has

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Speaker 1: a lot to offer his team and produces. It's basically,

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Speaker 1: aren't you saying the question is how much value do

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Speaker 1: you put in a running back? Isn't that what you're arguing?

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Speaker 1: Right exactly? And here's my point too. He is already

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Speaker 1: by far, the highest paid running back in the National

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Speaker 1: Football League. By far, It's not even close. He's like,

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Speaker 1: he's like five million ahead, so that's not an issue.

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Speaker 1: He's like four or five He's gonna make fourteen million anyway,

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Speaker 1: He's by far the most high the highest paid running

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Speaker 1: back in the National Football League. So I get telling

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Speaker 1: me he's not getting paid. I think it's crazy. I

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Speaker 1: think what he's I think where Levion made his mistake

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Speaker 1: was if the Steelers offered him a contract that was

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Speaker 1: five years long and two or three years of it,

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Speaker 1: two years of it was guaranteed. I think that's the

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Speaker 1: one thing that players always always crave. What happens if

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Speaker 1: he does make fourteen point five million this year and

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Speaker 1: is and makes more than what the Steelers offered him,

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Speaker 1: but then is out of the league next year because

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Speaker 1: he's injured. He has no recourse, he'll have no place

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Speaker 1: to go, and the Steelers don't have to even offer

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Speaker 1: him a contract. So and when he comes back, he'll

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Speaker 1: be twenty nine years old coming off a major injury.

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Speaker 1: If indeed that were to happen, otherwise, he would have

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Speaker 1: had another fifteen million dollar year coming to him and

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Speaker 1: he could sit on the couch and get it. So

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Speaker 1: I just think he made a mistake not taking guaranteed

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Speaker 1: money that the Steelers offered him. No question, he's the

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Speaker 1: best running back or he's the most important running back

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Speaker 1: to his team, at least in this in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: to this point in his career. But he's already paid better,

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Speaker 1: way better than any other running back in the league.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know what else he wants to do.

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Speaker 1: He's not gonna get quarterback money because he doesn't do

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Speaker 1: quarterback things. That's it. Okay, tomorrow, Steve, you got Chris

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Speaker 1: Brown into co host. You've got a couple of good guests.

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Speaker 1: Eric Winston is president of the NFL Players Association. Offensive

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Speaker 1: lineman Eric Winston. You could bring this up, in fact,

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Speaker 1: bring up the hit. Yeah, the franchise tag. You and

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Speaker 1: I the beginnings of a disagreement about that. I'd like

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Speaker 1: to see what we're gonna We're gonna talk about that

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Speaker 1: when we get back after the week. You and I, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about that franchise tag thing in free agency.

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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks on the show tomorrow at two o'clock. You

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Speaker 1: gottack of a show tomorrow without me. Well, we need

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Speaker 1: all the help we can get without you. That's all

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Speaker 1: I can tell you. You're the You're the engine the

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Speaker 1: engine man. Thanks hey, our production assistance, We thank them.

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Speaker 1: George Blast, Jeff Coltnick Thomas Hamilder, JJ Turito, Kevin Cargis,

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Speaker 1: and James Robel. Our producer is Jay Harris. Steve's Back

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