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Speaker 1: down over time. Welcome to One Bill Slive. I'm John

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Speaker 1: Murphy next to Steve Tasker. We are radio only today.

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Speaker 1: Why we don't have enough staff on the job to

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Speaker 1: do a TV show? Know what are you leaving about it?

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Speaker 1: That's true, we don't have enough people. It's me and

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do it for three hours on the radio only.

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Speaker 1: So if you used to seeing this on MSG today,

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Speaker 1: you won't and you probably won't until further notice. I

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Speaker 1: You know they'll do really your impression of your parents, Wow, wow,

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Speaker 1: I gotta. I gotta do that before I text him

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Speaker 1: and tell us start listening on radio so I don't.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, that um, yes, I get the thumbs up.

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Speaker 1: And now we got Now we got Jay in the

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Speaker 1: Harris all day. We're in a different room at one

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. It's not the Seneca Studio anymore. It's what

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Speaker 1: The what's it called the prominence? No, no, what's the

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Speaker 1: be weird for all that's going on in the football world, Murph,

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Speaker 1: A lot. This is a lot. I mean, we've been

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Speaker 1: our We have our loyal listeners that have repeatedly raised

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Speaker 1: so much about Tom Brady last week. Well, here we

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Speaker 1: about Tom Brady today. The guy's gone apologize and the

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Speaker 1: Wicked Witch is dead and he's going someplace now. The

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Speaker 1: Bills trade for Stephan Diggs overnight. They signed a couple

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Speaker 1: to this. This is the thing. Omari Cooper, the guy

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Speaker 1: that everybody, all the Bills fans, a lot of Bills

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Speaker 1: fans thought, man, let's get let's get a Maray Cooper.

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Speaker 1: He'd be great if we could get him. Well, he

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Speaker 1: signed for twenty million dollars a year with the Cowboys.

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Speaker 1: We got Steph Diggs for eleven that's a pretty good deal.

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Speaker 1: Pretty good, pretty good deal. And some draft picks. We

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Speaker 1: about Tom Brady today, and if you're one of those

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Speaker 1: Because that's the story of probably the decade in the NFL, right,

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Speaker 1: That's for Sean Brady, after twenty seasons with the Patriots,

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Speaker 1: the daily commitment to winning and creating a winning culture.

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Speaker 1: AFC in the NFL. The Bills made a big splash

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Speaker 1: last night. What time is it? Ten thirty? Last night?

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Speaker 1: They acquired Stefan Diggs from the Minnesota Vikings for multiple

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Speaker 1: as a little guy who played. It's a world of

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Speaker 1: big men. Jordan Phillips is a big man. He was

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Speaker 1: six three plus and way over three hundred pounds. Uh,

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Speaker 1: I might have a six five plus. He's a big dude.

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Speaker 1: He's a big body down inside. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: that makes me feel good about your ability to stand

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Speaker 1: up against the run when you've got big bodies down there.

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Speaker 1: Now he's six six three forty one. The guy is huge,

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Speaker 1: So that kind of yeah, you're gonna need a big man.

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Speaker 1: You need some big guys. Star Lotulele is a great

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Speaker 1: example of that. All these guys down inside, and Harrison

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Speaker 1: Phillips is big, he ain't that big, you know. I

437
00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:54,720
Speaker 1: think they need some more big bodies down inside to

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Speaker 1: stand up against the run. I think they may get

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Speaker 1: pushed around at times, um if they keep getting these

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Speaker 1: guys that are like Ed Oliver and Mario Now I

441
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:12,119
Speaker 1: can't remember Mario Addison, so you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of an easy about that be in busy

443
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Speaker 1: twenty four hours around here at one Bills Tribe, the

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Speaker 1: Bills made one signing that I'm really excited about. I

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Speaker 1: liked this guy when he I saw him at the

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Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. I liked him with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He

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Speaker 1: is a limited guy. He's not gonna line up and start.

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Speaker 1: If he does, you're probably not doing too well. But

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Speaker 1: Tyler Madeckevic, former tempo linebacker, former Steelers linebacker, a seventh

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Speaker 1: round pick entering his fifth pro season, the Bills have

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Speaker 1: added him. He is a special teamer. You talk about

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Speaker 1: how do they replace Lorenzo Alexander. I think somebody made

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Speaker 1: the point on the show last week. We'll get into

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Speaker 1: this with Chris Brown. It may take a couple of

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Speaker 1: guys to replace him because of the various roles he had.

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Speaker 1: Here's a guy that can step in and replace, maybe

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Speaker 1: take over the strong role that Lorenzo Alexander had on

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Speaker 1: special teams. Tyler Madeckevic. He's twenty seven years old. In

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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, he led the Steelers with fourteen special teams

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Speaker 1: to tackles, block two punts twenty eighteen, ten tackles, sixteen

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Speaker 1: special teams tackles. This past year, Julian Stanford designed the

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Speaker 1: open market as a free agent, UH and Tyler Matakevitch

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Speaker 1: I think might be his replacement. The deal said to

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Speaker 1: be two years, maximum of nine million dollars. I really

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Speaker 1: like Tyler Matakevich a lot. I think that's a really

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Speaker 1: good signing. Yeah, I think you've got to have a

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Speaker 1: bunch of guys like that, and particularly guys I like

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Speaker 1: guys who have had success. You know, it's easy enough

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Speaker 1: to sign you know, bodies, but Matakevich is a proven

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Speaker 1: special teams contributor, and obviously he falls inside the Bills

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Speaker 1: search for that right DNA as well. They want guys

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Speaker 1: who can come in be good teammates. And so he's

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Speaker 1: these And I said this yesterday too, Murphy, and you

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Speaker 1: heard it. We knew the Bills were going to sign

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Speaker 1: some guys that weren't household names and weren't you know,

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Speaker 1: didn't make you get all warm and fuzzy like the

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Speaker 1: Stefan Digg's trade. But these guys are going to be

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Speaker 1: real contributors, and uh, it's Metakevich is exactly the kind

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Speaker 1: of guy is going to elevate maybe a couple of

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Speaker 1: guys around him as well on kick coverage. Another guy

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Speaker 1: who replaced Lorenz who Alexander signed last night, former Sits

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Speaker 1: linebacker AJ Klein. He gets a three year deal, three years,

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Speaker 1: eighteen million. I would think he would replace you know,

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Speaker 1: the fifty percent of the snaps that Lorenzo Alexander was

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Speaker 1: getting defensively for the Bills. Started forty four games with

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Speaker 1: the Saints over the last three seasons. He played as

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Speaker 1: an every down middle linebacker in signal caller two years ago,

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Speaker 1: played about seventy five percent of their snaps on the

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Speaker 1: strong side of the last two years. I think A. J.

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Speaker 1: Klein is a good, solid edition. He's not gonna light

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Speaker 1: it up. It'll be twenty nine before they go to

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Speaker 1: camp this year or when they go to camp. Former

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Speaker 1: fifth round pick of the Panthers did play for the

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Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers for Sean McDermott, which is a plus. There's

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Speaker 1: no way you're on that. Yeah. But he also he

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Speaker 1: played better for McDermott than he did for the Saints

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, and I've heard some people report that

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Speaker 1: and he and I think once again, McDermott has this

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Speaker 1: idea about certain types of athletes really thrive under him.

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Speaker 1: And you've seen it with Josh Josh not Josh Gordon,

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Speaker 1: Josh Norman, the corner who he brought who had hit

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Speaker 1: the home run with Washington. Now he's back with Sean McDermott.

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Speaker 1: You've seen other guys come up here of really mesh

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Speaker 1: in and it's a it's a type of cornerback and

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Speaker 1: a type of defender who fit what Sean McDermott and

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Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier do in their defense. And it does seem

507
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Speaker 1: to be specific guys. It's not just everybody who can

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Speaker 1: plug in and fit. And when they get the right guys,

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Speaker 1: obviously you have a defense that ends up in the

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Speaker 1: top three like it did last year. Yeah, we've gone

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Speaker 1: the first whole first segment and kind of limited the

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Speaker 1: Brady talk. People should be happy with that. Yeah, listen,

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00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,200
Speaker 1: think about this Murph and this will give you a

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Speaker 1: little warm and fuzzy feeling inside. We're gonna be talking

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Speaker 1: about him all that much from now on. We'll see,

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Speaker 1: We'll see where you go. Now. I think he's going

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Speaker 1: to the Chargers. I maintaining that, and I think even

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Speaker 1: so we Oh, they'll be here, won't they? Howbout if

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00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 1: they come here for an opening day? A couple of tweaks, Wow,

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00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 1: I r Sean tweets and I knew John Murphy would

521
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:07,880
Speaker 1: be salty today. One of a few people to think

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Speaker 1: the Bills didn't need to start Wide Receiver Edition go bills. No,

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Speaker 1: that's not it was me. It was me, not Murphy.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead and thank what you want, Sean. I'm not

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00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 1: gonna argue with anybody today. I'm not gonna argue with anybody.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Steve, I will you get argue with me. I'm

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Speaker 1: the one who said that guy wasn't going to be

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Speaker 1: the magic one and elixir that' kind of fixed all

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Speaker 1: the bills offensive problems. Murph's was saying. Murph was picking

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Speaker 1: guys out. We both were. We thought that kid Claypool

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00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: chased Claypool from no other way. Why isn't he a fector? Now?

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Speaker 1: Of course he is second rounder, dirt round. There's the

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Speaker 1: big guy here, he climbing out a limb there. I

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00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,800
Speaker 1: think he could be here. I know they liked him.

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Speaker 1: I think he could be here. Why not him? Why not?

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Speaker 1: Why not? Our twitter pole? We should get to that

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Speaker 1: before we throwed a break. We got Chris Brown standing by.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to make Chris right. I'm sure he's

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00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 1: very busy today, but he'll wait for a second or two.

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Speaker 1: Our twitter pole deals with what's going on here. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Brady's a part of it. Certainly, Stefan Diggs is a

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Speaker 1: part of it and all the other editions of Bills

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Speaker 1: have made. Here's our Twitter post. Stefan Diggs headed to Buffalo.

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00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's out in New England. How do you feel

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00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: today as a Bills's all we want to know? It's

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Speaker 1: all we want to know. Got nine hundred outs in already,

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00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:15,880
Speaker 1: and fifty seven percent of you say you're freaking out.

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00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 1: The Bills are gonna win the FC East, the tops

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Speaker 1: in the AFC East. Thirty four percent say I'm tempering

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00:27:22,440 --> 00:27:26,120
Speaker 1: my expectations and nine percent say the Patriots aren't done yet.

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Speaker 1: You can win in on that. Give us a call.

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00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,920
Speaker 1: The phone line's open eighth three fifty toll free one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Brady's out.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel Stefan Diggs coming to Buffalo? Who's

555
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: in charge? Who's the king of the AFC East? Now,

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Speaker 1: let us know what you think. We're gonna talk with

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown in a moment from Buffalo bills dot Com,

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00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:46,480
Speaker 1: Bills Insider at bills dot com, Chris Brown. When we return,

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Speaker 1: It's one Bills Live presented by a kalidah Health on

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. We are radio only today. I would apologize,

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00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:06,360
Speaker 1: but I don't think I don't feel a need to apologize.

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Speaker 1: We're radio only sorry. That's all we can do today.

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Speaker 1: Our crew is down in numbers and happy to be

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Speaker 1: on with your radio, happy to be talking about the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Um I Rappaport just twe tweeted this out. The Panthers

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Speaker 1: are finalizing that the Carolina Panthers finalizing to deal with

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Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater to be their starting quarterback. New Panthers offensive

568
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 1: coordinator Joe Brady gets a new quarterback and Teddy Bridgewater.

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Speaker 1: There is a basic agreement. Earlier today, like I mean

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Speaker 1: an hour ago, the Panthers made it clear that they

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Speaker 1: gave Cam Cam Newton permission to see ka trade. Cam

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Speaker 1: doesn't look happy about it, according to his tweets. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he says, it wasn't me. They gave me permission to

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Speaker 1: seek trade. They told me I was out, you're out,

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00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 1: and you have permission to see Yeah, so go find somebody.

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00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 1: We'll take what we can get for you. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: get it. New coach, new set up in Carolina. Cam's

578
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,320
Speaker 1: being a little sensitive to that, but that I mean,

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Speaker 1: because they had That's the way you should handle it,

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00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 1: say Camp, if you want to go out there see

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00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:03,320
Speaker 1: if you can get somebody pick your team. Basic is

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00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: what they're telling him that I don't know. Well's I

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00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: do know why it is because it's Cam Newton. Yeah

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00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: you see the font of his tweet. Yeah good, we're

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00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: too old to Yeah. Here's the thing. Cam has been

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00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: good for them nine years he's been there, um, but

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00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: he's had such a string of serious injuries that I

588
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:22,960
Speaker 1: can't blame him. A brand new head coach and Carolina

589
00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: saying let's get a first start. Let's get Teddy Bridgewater right,

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00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: it makes sense. Yep. We haven't talked much about Brady,

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00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: but we will. In fact, maybe we'll get our next

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00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: guest to do that. He's on the line with us

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Speaker 1: right now. Chris Brown Bills inside or Buffalo Bills dot Com,

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Speaker 1: Home and healthy and Hi Chris, how are you? I'm

595
00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: doing well? Guys? How are you pick it up a notch?

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00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 1: We need more energy, Chris. It's just a happy day there.

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Speaker 1: You go. A lot going on today, Chris. Where do

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Speaker 1: you want to begin, Bills or Brady? Let's start with

599
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: the bills here? Okay, okay, what do you think? Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: what do you think about the step Stefan Digstrade, tell

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Speaker 1: give us your opening thoughts. Wow, that is a difference

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Speaker 1: making move, There's no question about it. I don't think

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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs has played on the national platform that makes

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Speaker 1: him as understood league wide as to just what kind

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Speaker 1: of talent he is. I'm not overstating this guy's The

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Speaker 1: Bills got themselves a top five receiver in the entire league.

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Speaker 1: That's how good Stefon Diggs is. By the way, Chris,

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Speaker 1: who comes to Buffalo to get on a national platform?

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Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Well, I'm just saying that

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Speaker 1: league wide, who do you see every week on the

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Speaker 1: nationally you know, the games that cover the majority of

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Speaker 1: the country. Minnesota is not one of those teams. And

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Speaker 1: so I think in terms of household names and getting

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Speaker 1: a true appreciation for the kind of player that Stefan

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Speaker 1: Diggs is is not something that's happened to the course

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Speaker 1: of the last couple of years. And so because of that,

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Speaker 1: I don't think people even though people know Stefon Digg

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Speaker 1: is a very good receiver, I don't think they know

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Speaker 1: how good this guy is. Elite elite. He is a

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Speaker 1: top five receiver in the entire league, and his best

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Speaker 1: football is still in front of him. He's twenty six

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Speaker 1: years old. He's under contract at an affordable price for

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Speaker 1: the next four years, although that's obviously subject to change

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Speaker 1: if he and his agent want to talk about, you know,

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Speaker 1: a new contract, maybe as soon as next offseason. You know,

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Speaker 1: that's up to them. But guys, the reason this makes

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Speaker 1: so much sense for the Bills is this. What have

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Speaker 1: we heard both Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott say in

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Speaker 1: this offseason. Both of them has said it multiple times.

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Speaker 1: They need to score more points on offense. Okay, So,

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Speaker 1: Dives has scored twenty three touchdowns over the last three seasons,

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Speaker 1: that's fifth most in the league over that span. Do

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Speaker 1: you know who he's tied with. He's tied with players

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00:32:01,560 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: like Travis Kelsey and Michael Thomas in New Orleans. Just

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Speaker 1: to give people a greater perspective on the type of

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Speaker 1: talent that Stefon Diggs is, he is elite and he

637
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Speaker 1: will help put points on the board for this offense.

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00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: This guy might be the best route runner that the

639
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:23,080
Speaker 1: Bills as a franchise have ever seen since Andre Read Okay,

640
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,080
Speaker 1: I mean wait, so I got it. So I'm gonna

641
00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: let Murph give you our Twitter poll today, and I

642
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: want you to answer honestly, Brownie, because it's it sounds

643
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 1: like it sounds like you're option A Stefan Diggs with

644
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,959
Speaker 1: the Bills and Tom Brady leaves the Patriots. How are

645
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,240
Speaker 1: you feeling today as a Bills fan? Option one? I'm

646
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 1: freaking out. The Bills are on top of the AFC East.

647
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: Is that where you're at? Chris? I know you're not.

648
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: You're more just you're more judicial than that, aren't you. Yeah,

649
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not gonna be making predictions or anything

650
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: like that. There's a lot of free agency to cover,

651
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 1: there's a lot of draft to cover in the course

652
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: of the off season. But I would say after the

653
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: Dig's trade happened, I was kind of like Rick Flair,

654
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,959
Speaker 1: how about that? Yeah? I mean that's that. I had

655
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: the same reaction. I sat on my phone last night

656
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: and I texted these two, our producer Jay Harrison, Steve,

657
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 1: and I said the same three letter word you did, Chris. Wow. Well,

658
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: I had to sleep on I had to think about it.

659
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:18,720
Speaker 1: It was a big it's a big deal. It is

660
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: a big deal, but look, none of us. It's great

661
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: and I think the Bills are better today than they

662
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 1: were yesterday. And I got a lot of trust in

663
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: in Sean mcdermot's ability to lead this group. But the

664
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:31,360
Speaker 1: last thing you want to do is turn into the

665
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen Cleveland Browns, where you got all these good

666
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: players and you live things like that all of a

667
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: sudden and then you turn out, you go into a

668
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: home wrecker of a schedule and you're disappointing. You know,

669
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: you don't want to turn into that. And it's too

670
00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:47,480
Speaker 1: early to tell. But certainly, and I told this to

671
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: Murph and I'll say it again, Certainly, no matter what happens,

672
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: the Bills are a better offensive football team today than

673
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: they were yesterday. Right, And you're only incorporating one major

674
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,400
Speaker 1: piece into this offense, not the wholesale changes we saw

675
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: last offseason, so there's less to fit together to make

676
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: it work. And that that was not the case in

677
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: Cleveland last year. They assembled all these different pieces and

678
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,799
Speaker 1: they couldn't blend them together. The Bills did a better

679
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 1: job of blending on offense last year than the Browns did,

680
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: and they had far less talent to do that with.

681
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 1: You know, granted they did have a favorable schedule. Cleveland

682
00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,720
Speaker 1: had a tougher schedule last year, admittedly, and the Bills

683
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: are facing that this season. I don't think there's any

684
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: question about it. But you cannot deny that Diggs is

685
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,360
Speaker 1: one of the best route runners the Bills offense has

686
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:39,839
Speaker 1: has seen, certainly in the last decade. He's a consistent separator.

687
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: He is a big, big play threat. I'm gonna give

688
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 1: you some next gen stats, guys, and I know you

689
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: don't want to get too deep in the weeds with

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Speaker 1: this stuff, but they led the end of Diggs led

691
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 1: the NFL last year in deep receptions. He had the

692
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 1: highest catch rate on deep receptions, and we all know

693
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: how connecting on deep balls was a problem last year

694
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:04,000
Speaker 1: this offense. He also led the NFL in yards per

695
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: target at twenty four yards. His eighteen yards per reception

696
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: last season was not only a single season career best

697
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,880
Speaker 1: for him, it was tied for fourth in the NFL.

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00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: Last year. Only five receivers in the league guys had

699
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: more twenty plus yard receptions than the twenty that Diggs

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00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:22,480
Speaker 1: had last season, and five of those went for touchdowns,

701
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 1: which was tied for the second most in the league.

702
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 1: The guy is a point producer that was the number

703
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: that I mean, I'm telling you, I'll be shocked if

704
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean says says, you know, whenever he's available for

705
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 1: tom En that that was not the number one factor

706
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 1: in what attracted him to Diggs. The guy puts points

707
00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: on the board plane and simple, I'm trying to think.

708
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 1: I don't want to dwell on Diggs because we only

709
00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: got a few minut stuff with you, Chris, But you

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00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:53,200
Speaker 1: said route running, What else are his characteristics his traits

711
00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 1: that have made him so productive. You can't argue with

712
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,439
Speaker 1: the production, you can't argue with the numbers, the next

713
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: gen statue you just cited. But what do you think

714
00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: how does he do that? Aside from running good routes?

715
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: What else does he have? But I mean, he's got speed.

716
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,280
Speaker 1: He ran a four or four or six at the combine.

717
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: He's got leaping ability. You know, he's got a thirty

718
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 1: seven and a half inch vertical So even though he's

719
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 1: five to eleven or six foot, you know, he could

720
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,399
Speaker 1: still out jump people. And the guy's a tough son

721
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: of a gun. You know, it's a guy that will battle.

722
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: You know, he's he's cut from the cloth that I

723
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 1: think Sean McDermott looks for in players. He's a guy

724
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: that plays angry and you don't always get that at

725
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: the wide receiver position, and I think he does that.

726
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 1: And you know, I think people might have some level

727
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: of concern with some of the some of the issues

728
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: that were at play in Minnesota, and I get that,

729
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 1: but I think the rub there was Minnesota can never

730
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Speaker 1: decide who their number one wide receiver was, whether it

731
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:56,439
Speaker 1: was him or Adam Stealing, and I think I think

732
00:36:56,440 --> 00:37:00,040
Speaker 1: that was somewhat of an issue there. There was I

733
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: wanted to run the ball last year, and I don't

734
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: think they wanted to tell yeah, And there's that element

735
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: as well, but I don't think there was ever a

736
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: clear delineation in the pecking order in Minnesota. And you know,

737
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 1: you would say, well, that shouldn't be an issue in

738
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:15,920
Speaker 1: a Campion issue here where it's a team first focus,

739
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 1: and I get all that, but I'm sorry, Stefan Diggs

740
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: walks in the door here at Buffalo and that guy

741
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,480
Speaker 1: is going to be targeted eight to ten times a week,

742
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 1: and to me, that's the definition of a number one

743
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 1: wide receiver. He is going to be the primary target

744
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: when they need a play to be made in the

745
00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,719
Speaker 1: passing game, whether it's red zone, backed up in their

746
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 1: own end, they're looking for him primarily. That doesn't mean

747
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: he's gonna get the ball every single time, but a

748
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 1: lot of plays are going to be drawn up for

749
00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: that guy. I got a couple other digs questions for you,

750
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Chris Brown, Bills Insider, Buffalo Bills dot Com

751
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 1: on the line with us, what are we to make

752
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: of what happened around four or five weeks into the

753
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: season last year when he was fined by the Vikings

754
00:37:54,640 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: and reportedly missed some practices. Those are serious serious. I

755
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: know it might not have been happy with the offense, Okay,

756
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: I get that, But what are we to make of that?

757
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 1: And how much do you think the Bills took a

758
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,719
Speaker 1: look at that incident last year four or five weeks

759
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,000
Speaker 1: into the year. Oh, I'm sure they went through with

760
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:13,920
Speaker 1: a fine two's calm. I mean, I don't think there's

761
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: any question that everything that both Brandon Bean and Sean

762
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 1: McDermott too is very methodical, very thorough, almost painstakingly thorough.

763
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:28,040
Speaker 1: And they do that for a reason. It's so they

764
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: can make the best decisions for this team, and they're

765
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 1: not going to half ask anything. For lack of a

766
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:40,399
Speaker 1: better term, they do everything to the letter and then

767
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 1: go through it again, and it's paid off for this

768
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 1: franchise in terms of where they've positioned this team in

769
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: three years. And that's not an issue. That's not a

770
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,279
Speaker 1: big deal, anything to worry about. I think. I guess

771
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,919
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is, I think they've vetted it out

772
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,879
Speaker 1: to the point where they feel comfortable with it, and

773
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: to us to a further extent, guys, I think they

774
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,760
Speaker 1: feel that the locker room that they have been able

775
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 1: to build from a family and tight knit standpoint is

776
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 1: enough to absorb a player who might get a little

777
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: bent out of shape every once in a while and

778
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:19,600
Speaker 1: keep him on the straight and narrow. I'm not going

779
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:22,360
Speaker 1: to say for a second that this guy's never going

780
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: to get disappointed or frustrated. That's impossible to predict, and

781
00:39:26,040 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: his history would indicate that it will probably happen again.

782
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,200
Speaker 1: But I think there is a structure in place in

783
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,359
Speaker 1: that locker room and with that coaching staff that's going

784
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 1: to lend itself to keep those things, at worst at

785
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,719
Speaker 1: a simmer where they don't boil over and create other

786
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 1: problems for this football team. Well, I'll be honest with you,

787
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:50,319
Speaker 1: I think a lot of I think the root of

788
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 1: where Diggs gets been out of shape is because I

789
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: think he believes he can help a football team more

790
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 1: and never really had a true opportunity to do that

791
00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:03,960
Speaker 1: enough on a consistent basis in Minnesota. Well, I'll tell

792
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,479
Speaker 1: you this too. If you're talking about an elite wide

793
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 1: receiver like Steph Diggs and you you obviously believe that

794
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 1: he's exactly that brownie, it's hard to find those guys

795
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: who are categorized as elite and not have them be

796
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:22,399
Speaker 1: a little bit of an emotional wreck. It is part,

797
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: it's almost part, it's almost part of the job description

798
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:28,240
Speaker 1: for them nowadays. I mean they if they don't believe

799
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,440
Speaker 1: they can win every single time that the balls in

800
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 1: the air, they're not what they are who they are

801
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 1: supposed to be. So you're going to get some of

802
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:39,760
Speaker 1: that from every great wide receiver At times when a

803
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 1: critical third down or a critical second down, or a

804
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,440
Speaker 1: critical drive and they don't get an opportunity or more

805
00:40:45,480 --> 00:40:48,040
Speaker 1: than one opportunity, they're gonna be a little disappointed and

806
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,759
Speaker 1: frustrated and uh so that's that's to me as not

807
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: a scary proposition to have a guy like that, because

808
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: that's part of what makes them who they are, right,

809
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: And I'm sure the question was asked, and maybe maybe

810
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: they got an opportunity to talk. I mean, I got

811
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: to look through the rules again, and they may not

812
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: have been able to talk to you directly, but I

813
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 1: think the people that know him or you know, they

814
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,640
Speaker 1: probably got in touch with people that know him and said,

815
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: what is at the root of diggs frustration in Minnesota?

816
00:41:17,640 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: And if at the root of the frustration is for

817
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:24,280
Speaker 1: his being put off by the fact that he felt

818
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: he could do more for that team and wasn't given

819
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 1: an opportunity to do so, I think that's a frustration

820
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:32,919
Speaker 1: that a team like the Bills can certainly live with. Yeah, hey,

821
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 1: Chris you, how are you doing? For time? Because I

822
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:37,920
Speaker 1: have one more Diggs question? What you good? Can we

823
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 1: keep you to the top of the hour? Sure? All right,

824
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 1: let me ask you one more Diggs question and then

825
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 1: I'll get the other stuff after the break. Here's what

826
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 1: I think I meant to say this at the top

827
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: of our show, we're a little bit scrambly today. We

828
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 1: Steve and I publicly wondered what the next step would

829
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,160
Speaker 1: look like for the Pills. You know, a team that's

830
00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:59,799
Speaker 1: been good about getting quality players, good citizens, a hard

831
00:41:59,800 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 1: workers kind and not that Stefan Diggs is not. But this,

832
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 1: to me is indicative of a new step forward for

833
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 1: the Bills by Brandon Bean saying, yes, we're willing to

834
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: take a risk on a player. Maybe we're willing to

835
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: take a high price player, not extremely high price, but

836
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: a high price player in an effort to take the

837
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: next step. I think it's a good sign that Bean

838
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,160
Speaker 1: did this. It answers the question to me, what does

839
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,320
Speaker 1: he have for this next step to get the Bills

840
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: from a playoff contention team to a championship contention team.

841
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 1: Going out and trading for Stefan Diggs. Giving up a

842
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 1: first round pick to get Stefan Diggs indicates that he

843
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: knew he was ready to make a move, and I

844
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 1: really liked that. I liked that a lot, right, And

845
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:40,200
Speaker 1: you know, you can call it, you can assess the

846
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: risk however you want. I see it as low risk personally,

847
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 1: and the reason why is because you look at his

848
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:51,400
Speaker 1: age twenty six, I still think his best football is

849
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Speaker 1: in front of him. He's just entering the prime of

850
00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 1: his career and he's only now putting up consistent year

851
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: over year production. I anticipate that that is going to continue.

852
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 1: You're doing it at an affordable price, that is not

853
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,839
Speaker 1: breaking your bank and enabling you to stick to your philosophy,

854
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 1: is staying as cap strong as possible with an eleven

855
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:13,839
Speaker 1: and a half to twelve million dollars cap figure each

856
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: of the next four years. Did anybody see Did anybody

857
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:20,879
Speaker 1: see what Amari Cooper just got? Oh yeah, you got

858
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,839
Speaker 1: almost double with Stefan Diggs is slated to make each

859
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: of the next three or four years. So you look

860
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: at that, and then you look at his unquestioned deep

861
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: ball ability and scoring ability. It just made too much sense.

862
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:38,040
Speaker 1: And you know, people say, oh, you gave up your

863
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: pick at twenty two. It's pretty obvious to me that

864
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 1: the Bills were not going to get a receiver who

865
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:45,320
Speaker 1: was going to instantly step into the league and be

866
00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 1: a top five player at this position in this league,

867
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: like Stefan Digs is. Right now, that was we got

868
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: more for you, Chris, stick around. We're coming back with more.

869
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Speaker 1: One does Live presented by Collata Health. This is Buffalo

870
00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: Bills Radio, Welcome back one of Bills livetime, Murphy and

871
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker in a what do we call this back

872
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: we needed? We had a name for it last year,

873
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 1: the side Room. Oh it was the Stevaspasto Studios, Stevensposto

874
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 1: Memorial studio, that's what. Even though we see him all

875
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 1: the time, it's a different studio for us. And we're

876
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: radio only. And we got Chris Brown Bills inside from

877
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills dot Com on the line for about five

878
00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 1: more minutes. Are you still there, Brownie? I am here.

879
00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 1: Let's get it all right, Let's get to some of

880
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,400
Speaker 1: the other Bills moves. Can we start? This is personal?

881
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: Uh favorite for me. I love the acquisition of Tyler Mandaicabba.

882
00:44:39,719 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: I've admired his play in a limited role for the

883
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 1: Steelers for five years. I think he's a really good player.

884
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:48,359
Speaker 1: I like the fact that he's a target and he's

885
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:51,759
Speaker 1: apparently signed by the Bills. What do you think. I'm

886
00:44:51,800 --> 00:44:54,239
Speaker 1: surprised Steve isn't just as excited due to some of

887
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: the special teams exploits that Manicavich is put on tape

888
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: the last four years. So you know, this is a

889
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: guy that is going to be a core special teamer

890
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 1: for the Bills going forward. I think it's kind of

891
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 1: flown under the radar a little bit, but one of

892
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 1: their core special teamers, Julian Stanford, is a free agent

893
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: also plays at the linebacker position. Ye with this signing,

894
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 1: I don't anticipate that Stanford will be back in the fold.

895
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 1: So made Keevich can fill multiple roles on special teams

896
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: for you. And I think, knowing you had lost Lorenzo

897
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:28,520
Speaker 1: Alexander to retirement, potential loss to Julian Stanford, you needed

898
00:45:28,560 --> 00:45:31,719
Speaker 1: a player like this to add to the fold. And

899
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: I think it's a guy that can, you know, spot

900
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 1: start for you should you succumb to injuries at the

901
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:41,359
Speaker 1: linebacker position. So it's a kind of role player that

902
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,719
Speaker 1: every NFL team needs. And a guy like Tyler made

903
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 1: Keevich is going to be in this league for ten

904
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 1: years because of his ability to do that. Pro Football

905
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:51,880
Speaker 1: Reference has his nickname on their page for him. You

906
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:57,400
Speaker 1: know what it is, Dirty Red Dirty. He's a red head,

907
00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: a big red beard too. So yeah, CHRISTI made the

908
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:01,879
Speaker 1: point on our show. I think it was last week

909
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: about replacing Lorenzo Alexander and I think you were absolutely

910
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:07,400
Speaker 1: correct that it would probably take more than one man.

911
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: So if Matti Kevage picks up the slack for the

912
00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: special team's work that Lorenzo did, AJ Klein could pick

913
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 1: up the strong side linebacker work, right, Yeah, I would

914
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 1: agree with that. You know, I know A. J. Klein

915
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 1: played a good deal in the middle for New Orleans

916
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:27,840
Speaker 1: in their scheme, but when he was with Carolina, he

917
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 1: played all across the second level of the defense, chiefly

918
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,280
Speaker 1: as a as a backup at the beginning of his career.

919
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: And you know, he played strong side, he played week side,

920
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:43,840
Speaker 1: He backed up Luke Keekley. The guy knows the defense

921
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:46,839
Speaker 1: that the Bills play inside and out. He will be

922
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: right back on the same page rather quickly, and I

923
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:51,640
Speaker 1: think he'll be able to hit the ground running in

924
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 1: that game. And it wouldn't shock me if we get

925
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: to September and the starting linebacker unit in the team's

926
00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 1: base package, you know, is Matt Milano, Tremaine Edmonds, and

927
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 1: AJ Klein. I think that's how it will work. So

928
00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:09,359
Speaker 1: as far as replacing Lorenzo Alexander in the team's base

929
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:12,240
Speaker 1: package at linebacker, I think it's probably a J. Klein,

930
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 1: and then when you talk about pass rush packages, there's

931
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 1: a very good chance you're talking about Mario Addison the

932
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:24,759
Speaker 1: other edition, who again is wholly familiar with the defensive

933
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 1: scheme that they play here in Buffalo. So again another

934
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:29,480
Speaker 1: player who is going to be able to hit the

935
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:34,399
Speaker 1: ground running and will be, you know, intimately familiar with

936
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,359
Speaker 1: what new defensive line coach Eric Washington wants to do,

937
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 1: having had him as his defensive coordinator last two years

938
00:47:40,360 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: down in Carolina as well as his defensive line coach. Well,

939
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 1: now that you've got those guys Stefan Diggs, AJ Klein, Metakevich,

940
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 1: Mario Addison, and the Bills, it cost the Bills at

941
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:56,600
Speaker 1: the very outset the twenty two pick. Overall, what's next

942
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 1: for the Bills? I mean, what do you what do

943
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: you see as their next personnel move? They kind of

944
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: wouldn't you think they'd have to kind of turn their

945
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 1: sights on their own roster and maybe start thinking about

946
00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 1: you know, Tredavious White and poorer in Hide and the

947
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 1: young guys they've got under contract that maybe they want

948
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: to extend. Yeah, I mean I think that I think

949
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 1: that becomes a little bit more of a priority. It's

950
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:20,439
Speaker 1: going to be very interesting to see how they handle

951
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: this twenty seventeen draft class of theirs, chiefly you know, Dawkins,

952
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: Milano and White. You know, do they choose to address

953
00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: that first, or do they choose to get one of

954
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 1: their veteran free agents or veteran players extended. You know,

955
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: you mentioned Jordan Poyer is going into the last year

956
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: of his deal. You know, do they address something with him?

957
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 1: You know, how does it all factor in? I think

958
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: it's going to be very interesting to see how they

959
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,399
Speaker 1: approach this. You would like to think that Trudevious White

960
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,879
Speaker 1: is priority number one, knowing he's about you know, he's

961
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 1: on the cusp of becoming a superstar player, and you

962
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:57,720
Speaker 1: certainly want to keep that guy in the fold because

963
00:48:57,760 --> 00:49:01,360
Speaker 1: he is every He's a representative and the personification of

964
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 1: everything that Sean McDermott wants his players to be, even

965
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:07,840
Speaker 1: the most talented guys on our roster do things the

966
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:10,759
Speaker 1: right way. I mean, he's the personification of that. Yeah,

967
00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:13,319
Speaker 1: all must like to think. I would like to think

968
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 1: that that happens. But at the same time, there are

969
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 1: still some holes to fill here. I think with the

970
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 1: additions that have been made, I think what you're looking

971
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 1: at going forward is the offensive tackle position, whether that's

972
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:30,120
Speaker 1: finding a budget priced free agent in a couple of

973
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 1: weeks or addressing that in the draft. I think you

974
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:38,520
Speaker 1: also are looking at adding some use at the cornerback position.

975
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 1: And I think you have to still consider defensive tackle,

976
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: whether it's a bargain free agent or whether that's in

977
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:50,719
Speaker 1: the draft. And guys, we cannot ignore the fact that

978
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: size is still something that's needed at the wide receiver spot.

979
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:56,239
Speaker 1: What do you think do you think the Bills? I

980
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:58,359
Speaker 1: know there's lots to be done and they're still got

981
00:49:58,360 --> 00:49:59,879
Speaker 1: to fill out their roster. Do you think they're done

982
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 1: over this tampering period before free agency starts? Do you

983
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 1: think there's going to be other names popping up? How

984
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 1: busy do you think they're going to be because all

985
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:07,920
Speaker 1: of us have been sitting around what are they going

986
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: to do first? You know, are they going to do

987
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:11,440
Speaker 1: this first or that? For now that they've made these

988
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: moves off the bat, do you think they're done? I

989
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:18,000
Speaker 1: think the big spending first wave of free agency type

990
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,879
Speaker 1: stuff is done. You never know what could potentially come

991
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 1: down the pike in terms of a trade or maybe

992
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 1: some surprise player release, which could change the conversation. But

993
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:35,280
Speaker 1: I would be under the impression that the first wave

994
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:39,399
Speaker 1: big free agent spending for the Bills is probably done

995
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 1: at this point. And then this is where you see

996
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:46,440
Speaker 1: Brandon Being and his pro personnel staff, the work that

997
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 1: they put in, This is where it's going to pay off,

998
00:50:49,320 --> 00:50:51,920
Speaker 1: going into the second and third week of free agency

999
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 1: and really getting into all the nooks and crannies of

1000
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:59,439
Speaker 1: the market and finding those value signings that are really

1001
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: going to help the back half of their roster in

1002
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 1: terms of depth and in terms of somebody that's going

1003
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:07,319
Speaker 1: to be able to perform for you at an affordable price.

1004
00:51:07,400 --> 00:51:10,279
Speaker 1: This is where Brandon Being in his staff do, in

1005
00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:12,760
Speaker 1: my opinion, some of their best work in the weeks

1006
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:14,880
Speaker 1: to come. Hey, before I let you go, Chris, the

1007
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:18,520
Speaker 1: Bills have suffered a couple of notable losses. Jordan Phillips

1008
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:22,920
Speaker 1: signs on with Arizona check Lawson reportedly signing on with

1009
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:26,879
Speaker 1: the Dolphins for average of ten million each sets way

1010
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 1: above what I believe the Bills are ready to spend

1011
00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:32,239
Speaker 1: on those two to keep them right. Yeah, I think

1012
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: I think they realized very quickly that the market was

1013
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 1: going to get too rich for them, and I think

1014
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:40,560
Speaker 1: Brandon being just from his comments at the combine, had

1015
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 1: resigned himself to the fact that Lawson and Phillips were

1016
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: going to hit the market, and once that happened, the

1017
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 1: chances of retaining them dropped significantly. And so you've already

1018
00:51:51,560 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 1: seen them respond in one fashion, you know, with the

1019
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 1: term that they agreed to with Addison to kind of

1020
00:51:58,840 --> 00:52:01,600
Speaker 1: fill the loss and role. And then we'll have to

1021
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:04,040
Speaker 1: see where it goes at defensive tackle, where they choose

1022
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:07,120
Speaker 1: whether they choose to find, you know, an affordable free

1023
00:52:07,120 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: agent in the weeks to come, or whether they decide

1024
00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:13,320
Speaker 1: to go via the draft to fill that which is

1025
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: very possible. It's a very strong defensive tackle class this year.

1026
00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 1: It's also a very strong cornerback class this year. So

1027
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:23,120
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if they choose to go with

1028
00:52:23,160 --> 00:52:25,359
Speaker 1: an influx of youth at those two positions on the

1029
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball. And then you know, focus

1030
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: on offense from here on out. You know, offensive tackle,

1031
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 1: you need some running back depth and again, you know,

1032
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:38,360
Speaker 1: you got to look at size for the receiver position.

1033
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:41,360
Speaker 1: Maybe you find that in a young player in the draft. Somewhere.

1034
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get you on tomorrow and talk some more

1035
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: about this stuff. Chris, you're good. What do you got

1036
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:47,400
Speaker 1: a busy day tomorrow? You're going shopping or hanging out

1037
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: with a couple hundred people. You definitely not doing that. Heck,

1038
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 1: I'm not even hanging out with ten people, right and

1039
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 1: then as the rule now, so yeah, I'm available for comment.

1040
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:00,439
Speaker 1: Just just plug me in, man, I'll be ready to go. Thanks,

1041
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Bills inside a Buffalo Bills dot com. When

1042
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:05,400
Speaker 1: we come back, the Dolphins signed check. They signed a

1043
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: couple of other notable wide receivers. We'll talk with our

1044
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:11,200
Speaker 1: man Armando sell Garo of the Miami Herald about that

1045
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:13,879
Speaker 1: coming up when we return. And also we're gonna talk

1046
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: a little bit more about Stefan Diggs. We'll talk with

1047
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:19,960
Speaker 1: Pete Bursage, color analysts on the Vikings Radio Network. All

1048
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 1: of that when we return. One Bills Live presented by

1049
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 1: Kalida Health from our makeshift studio in Orchard Park. Today.

1050
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio, John Murphy and Steve Tasker

1051
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:34,720
Speaker 1: in our one Buffalo studio and joining us on the line,

1052
00:53:35,040 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 1: our buddy Armando sell Garrow from Miami who joined us

1053
00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:40,919
Speaker 1: to talk about all the Dolphins moves. The Dolphins made

1054
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: the ton of moves. Armando, thanks for coming on the

1055
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:45,080
Speaker 1: show with us. Ye here today. What a twenty four

1056
00:53:45,120 --> 00:53:47,600
Speaker 1: hour period this has been in the NFL. Right, it's

1057
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:51,360
Speaker 1: been awesome. It's a new day in the afcast. That's yere.

1058
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Speaker 1: Did you sing Ding Dong, the which is dead in

1059
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 1: Miami like folks here in Buffalo did. Yes. You know

1060
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:04,520
Speaker 1: what's funny is Steve Ross is a big Michigan man,

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00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:10,520
Speaker 1: and for weeks the Dolphins have been denying any interest

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00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:17,120
Speaker 1: in Tom Brady and they continue to deny the interest.

1063
00:54:18,120 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: But everybody here is holding their breath because Steve Ross

1064
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:26,840
Speaker 1: is a Michigan man and he has the pensiont for

1065
00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:32,080
Speaker 1: some time looking at shiny objects and wanting to buy them,

1066
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 1: like you know, large buildings in New York City and

1067
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 1: franchises in Miami and hotels in Palm Beach and things

1068
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,839
Speaker 1: like that, and you know places in Ann Arbor and

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00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 1: maybe a former Michigan quarterback. So folks here are holding

1070
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:53,040
Speaker 1: their breath because that's the only way it would happen

1071
00:54:53,800 --> 00:55:00,080
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins. As if Steve Ross suddenly decides yeah,

1072
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:05,000
Speaker 1: I'm changing my mind. I like Tom Brady. Wow, yeah,

1073
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:07,879
Speaker 1: you just you're you're throwing a bucket of cold water

1074
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:11,279
Speaker 1: on us up here. Armando by by suggesting that tom

1075
00:55:11,320 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 1: Brady might end up in Miami. But nevertheless, even if

1076
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:17,839
Speaker 1: it does or doesn't happen, the dolphins have been busy

1077
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 1: and it has to be well received down there, all

1078
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 1: the things they're moving. But I mean, are you is

1079
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 1: that a serious remark about Tom Brady? And is I

1080
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 1: know that you know you keep an eye on Twitter

1081
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:32,239
Speaker 1: And some of the people who who have tended to

1082
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:34,319
Speaker 1: know that Tom Brady what he's doing, and what he's

1083
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 1: gonna do, and what some of the things behind the

1084
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:39,479
Speaker 1: scenes with him, they don't. It seems like they don't

1085
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 1: know what he's gonna do. All the people that usually

1086
00:55:41,800 --> 00:55:43,879
Speaker 1: kind of have an idea, they don't know what he's

1087
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:51,640
Speaker 1: gonna do. So he's still may be shopping right well seriously, so,

1088
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:57,440
Speaker 1: based on what I've been told, he's gone dark. He

1089
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:02,319
Speaker 1: has a couple of teams that he knows they want him.

1090
00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:07,279
Speaker 1: But this is just logic. Once it was announced, and

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00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:11,440
Speaker 1: once he announced, by the way, that I'm not going

1092
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 1: back to the New England Patriots it's on now and

1093
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:18,400
Speaker 1: it's a real thing, and that is the kind of

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00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:22,000
Speaker 1: thing that spurs other teams to action. And I'm not

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00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:25,480
Speaker 1: saying that there are other teams that are flocking to him.

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00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:28,480
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I doubt that there are

1097
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: a lot of teams that make sense for him and

1098
00:56:31,920 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 1: him for them. But I would tell you that there

1099
00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:38,280
Speaker 1: are a couple of teams that kind of fit into

1100
00:56:38,360 --> 00:56:42,680
Speaker 1: what he wants to do. Unfortunately, the Dolphins are one

1101
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:47,080
Speaker 1: of them. And if they want to do it, they can,

1102
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 1: they can pause and think. Starting today and up until today,

1103
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 1: the Dolphins have said, no, this is not something we're

1104
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:02,279
Speaker 1: interested in. This is not something we're going to do.

1105
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 1: We're going to rebuild. We're going to draft a quarterback.

1106
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 1: But again, the wild card, and it is a wild card,

1107
00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:15,600
Speaker 1: is that Stephen Ross like the out of the box

1108
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 1: outside you know, the norm type moves, and if he

1109
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:24,480
Speaker 1: wants it, you know, the guys that work for him

1110
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 1: have to kind of try to do it. That's the

1111
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:30,800
Speaker 1: only wild card, and it is a wild card. It's unlikely,

1112
00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to just dismiss it out of hand.

1113
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:37,880
Speaker 1: Steve's right arounder that was totally take the air out

1114
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:41,480
Speaker 1: of the whole balloon here in Buffalo. But I'm Brady,

1115
00:57:41,520 --> 00:57:43,600
Speaker 1: What would a forty two year old Tom Brady mean

1116
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 1: practically for the Miami Dolphins is they try to rebuild

1117
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:50,040
Speaker 1: from last year? Is he a good answer for them? Yeah?

1118
00:57:50,080 --> 00:57:51,960
Speaker 1: That's the thing. It doesn't make a whole lot of

1119
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:55,880
Speaker 1: sense because they still want to draft there forever quarterback,

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00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 1: you know, in the draft here. But let me put

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00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 1: it to you this way, who's better Tom Brady or

1122
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick? Because Ryan Fitzpatrick is on this team and

1123
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 1: he's gonna be more than likely they're starting quarterback this

1124
00:58:11,720 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 1: year because the new guy, the rookie, is gonna come

1125
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 1: in and he's gonna have to compete, and they're gonna

1126
00:58:19,320 --> 00:58:23,320
Speaker 1: be running a chan gaily offense that Ryan Fitzpatrick is

1127
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:27,520
Speaker 1: familiar with, that Ryan Fitzpatrick ran in Buffalo, that Ryan

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00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick ran with the New York Jets to a tongue

1129
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:35,400
Speaker 1: of Valoa or Justin Herbert. Aren't gonna beat out Ryan Fitzpatrick,

1130
00:58:36,200 --> 00:58:40,320
Speaker 1: at least not right away. And so I'm looking at this,

1131
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 1: and all Dolphin fans are looking at this and going, so,

1132
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick is our guy in twenty twenty. Really, when

1133
00:58:49,440 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is out there, why is this happening? And

1134
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:57,680
Speaker 1: the other thing is the Dolphins, who were terrible last year,

1135
00:58:58,600 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 1: they've just yesterday alone, they just committed over two hundred

1136
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:09,960
Speaker 1: million dollars in contracts to five guys and today they

1137
00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:13,680
Speaker 1: added another guy. And that's over one hundred million dollars

1138
00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:17,560
Speaker 1: in guaranteed money. They're not playing. And by the way,

1139
00:59:17,560 --> 00:59:21,720
Speaker 1: they've got fourteen draft picks coming up, including five in

1140
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:26,280
Speaker 1: the first two rounds. Ran, let me ask you this.

1141
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:28,400
Speaker 1: Let me all right, let me since we're spitballing, Letten,

1142
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:30,120
Speaker 1: let me talk to you about this. Here's what I

1143
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:33,080
Speaker 1: so say Tom Brady it gets in and picks up

1144
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:36,920
Speaker 1: the phone and calls Stephen Ross and says, all right,

1145
00:59:36,920 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. If you push your schedule back

1146
00:59:39,080 --> 00:59:42,520
Speaker 1: one year, give me the money that I want. Let

1147
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 1: me be the starting quarterback for the next two years,

1148
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:47,960
Speaker 1: maybe three. You get in on your quarterback sweek stakes

1149
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:50,720
Speaker 1: next year with Trevor Lawrence on the market, trade your

1150
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:54,000
Speaker 1: draft picks this year and get draft capital next year

1151
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:56,360
Speaker 1: so you can trade up and get your guy next year.

1152
00:59:57,040 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 1: And I'll be your quarterback for two years and I'll

1153
00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:03,040
Speaker 1: mentor the third for my last year in the league.

1154
01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:07,520
Speaker 1: I'll take Trevor Lawrence under my wing and we'll move

1155
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 1: on from there. What do you think, I mean, what

1156
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:14,680
Speaker 1: if Tom Brady makes demands like that? Yeah? That well,

1157
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:20,000
Speaker 1: some of those demands probably don't you know, they don't

1158
01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:25,040
Speaker 1: matter to Stephen Ross others, or just not what I

1159
01:00:25,040 --> 01:00:28,840
Speaker 1: would say realistic, because I think the Dolphins have already

1160
01:00:28,880 --> 01:00:32,200
Speaker 1: found out this year. No matter how much draft capital

1161
01:00:32,320 --> 01:00:36,800
Speaker 1: you have, you're not necessarily going to convince the other

1162
01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:40,600
Speaker 1: guy to give you that number one overall pick. And

1163
01:00:40,680 --> 01:00:43,959
Speaker 1: it's very hard to do it if you're coming from

1164
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:46,520
Speaker 1: way back in the pack. The Dolphins are number five

1165
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 1: overall right now, and it's almost unimpossible for them to

1166
01:00:53,280 --> 01:00:57,840
Speaker 1: get to number one to draft Joe Burrow. Why it's

1167
01:00:57,880 --> 01:01:00,040
Speaker 1: not because they don't have the draft capital again, and

1168
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:02,919
Speaker 1: they've got three first round I picked this year, they've

1169
01:01:02,920 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 1: got two next year. And you present that to the

1170
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:09,800
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals for Joe Burrow and they're likely to say no,

1171
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 1: thank you very much. So no matter how much draft

1172
01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:19,120
Speaker 1: capital you can you can offer, it takes you know,

1173
01:01:19,160 --> 01:01:23,160
Speaker 1: the other guy to agree. And the Dolphins are already

1174
01:01:23,240 --> 01:01:26,800
Speaker 1: learning the lesson that the other guy doesn't normally agree,

1175
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:32,440
Speaker 1: especially when you know that you're coming from Tom Brady

1176
01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:36,960
Speaker 1: played for us and we were okay, if not pretty good,

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01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:42,080
Speaker 1: and we're coming from way back in the pack. We're

1178
01:01:42,120 --> 01:01:45,200
Speaker 1: on the line with Armando Saugero, Miami Herald COLUMNUS Radio

1179
01:01:45,240 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 1: dot Com, NFL Insider. I gotta get our feet on

1180
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:49,480
Speaker 1: the ground here in mind there and talk about some

1181
01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:52,200
Speaker 1: of the I know it's great. It's fun to speculate

1182
01:01:52,240 --> 01:01:55,560
Speaker 1: about Brady, but the Dolphins have made some practical moves.

1183
01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:58,840
Speaker 1: Shack Lawson thirty million over three years. What's the hope

1184
01:01:58,880 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 1: for shot down there? Bill's first round draft pick? What

1185
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 1: what are they expecting to get? Yeah, they expect to

1186
01:02:05,160 --> 01:02:08,160
Speaker 1: get what he gave the Buffalo Bills. He's he was

1187
01:02:08,160 --> 01:02:12,600
Speaker 1: a solid player. He's a you know, a good not

1188
01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:16,320
Speaker 1: great pass rusher. Last year he was good against the run.

1189
01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:22,240
Speaker 1: He's versatile, and they they believe he fits the culture

1190
01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:26,400
Speaker 1: and and that is it's a force multiplier. When you

1191
01:02:26,520 --> 01:02:30,080
Speaker 1: signed him from the Buffalo Bills, when you signed Kyle

1192
01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:34,520
Speaker 1: van Noy from the New England Patriots. Now you've not

1193
01:02:34,640 --> 01:02:38,720
Speaker 1: only helped yourself to a degree, but you've weakened to

1194
01:02:38,960 --> 01:02:42,520
Speaker 1: division rivals. And oh, by the way, the Dolphins might

1195
01:02:42,520 --> 01:02:45,440
Speaker 1: not be done trying to do that because they're trying

1196
01:02:45,480 --> 01:02:48,880
Speaker 1: to They're talking to Ted Carriss, who is a center

1197
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:53,280
Speaker 1: for the Patriots, so they you know, they're plucking guys

1198
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:56,040
Speaker 1: off of their rivals. And I get it. The Bills

1199
01:02:56,080 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 1: are all in and they they've helped themselves this offseason,

1200
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:02,560
Speaker 1: but I think the Dolphins have done just as much.

1201
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:05,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I would agree, and it doesn't seem like

1202
01:03:05,960 --> 01:03:08,080
Speaker 1: they're done. But I'm with you too. They've got a

1203
01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:09,920
Speaker 1: lot of money and in fact, I was doing it

1204
01:03:09,960 --> 01:03:11,840
Speaker 1: for the first four guys they signed us like fifty

1205
01:03:11,880 --> 01:03:15,959
Speaker 1: million bucks. On this year's cap, they're going to start

1206
01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 1: to tie their hands a little bit financially in their

1207
01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:22,000
Speaker 1: ability to go further in free agency this year, are

1208
01:03:22,000 --> 01:03:27,200
Speaker 1: they not. They had ninety two million dollars to start

1209
01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:30,480
Speaker 1: and they could still make some move to create some

1210
01:03:30,520 --> 01:03:33,520
Speaker 1: more money. It would be crazy if they had to

1211
01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 1: go and create some more money when you have the

1212
01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:40,880
Speaker 1: most salary cap space of anyone at the start of

1213
01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:44,439
Speaker 1: free agency. That would be a spending spree that would

1214
01:03:44,480 --> 01:03:50,440
Speaker 1: be unprecedented in the NFL. But again, all of this

1215
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:54,960
Speaker 1: happens when you have an owner that doesn't mind spending.

1216
01:03:55,760 --> 01:03:58,280
Speaker 1: All of this happens when you have a you know,

1217
01:03:59,120 --> 01:04:04,280
Speaker 1: a relative successful facility that is a moneymaker. You have

1218
01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:07,720
Speaker 1: an owner that is deep pocketed, and you have a

1219
01:04:07,760 --> 01:04:12,760
Speaker 1: desire for people to win. You gotta understand the dolphins

1220
01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 1: stump last year. They were they bad. They're pretty bad. Yeah, yeah, well, um,

1221
01:04:23,960 --> 01:04:28,920
Speaker 1: people down here don't like that very much. And you

1222
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:31,919
Speaker 1: do that one year, you better you better come back

1223
01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:35,360
Speaker 1: the next year with a pretty good answer for why

1224
01:04:35,560 --> 01:04:38,680
Speaker 1: people went through all the pain the year before. And

1225
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:42,200
Speaker 1: so twenty twenty is supposed to be a significant amount

1226
01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:45,720
Speaker 1: of gain um, and they're trying to do that. Obviously,

1227
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:47,480
Speaker 1: I got you. We gotta let you go on. You

1228
01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:50,280
Speaker 1: got to go back and continue your Tom Brady novena.

1229
01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:52,280
Speaker 1: I guess right down there in South Florida, Oh my god,

1230
01:04:52,600 --> 01:04:55,200
Speaker 1: I'm hoping it doesn't happen. But you know why, why

1231
01:04:55,200 --> 01:04:56,840
Speaker 1: do you think? Why are you hoping it doesn't happen.

1232
01:04:56,880 --> 01:04:58,520
Speaker 1: I don't think it's the right thing. I don't think

1233
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:00,920
Speaker 1: you signed forty three year old orderbacks when you're a

1234
01:05:00,960 --> 01:05:04,720
Speaker 1: building in the building process. I don't think you those

1235
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:07,280
Speaker 1: fits and starts were building. Oh no, we're gonna go

1236
01:05:07,280 --> 01:05:09,920
Speaker 1: good right. Yeah, Well, good for you, Armando for not

1237
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:12,640
Speaker 1: getting clouded by the name that's involved in all this.

1238
01:05:12,880 --> 01:05:16,000
Speaker 1: Uh you know this speculation, but you're right, it's a

1239
01:05:16,160 --> 01:05:18,040
Speaker 1: I think it would be a bad move for the Dolphins,

1240
01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:20,960
Speaker 1: and and uh, congratulations to him because they seemed like

1241
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:24,600
Speaker 1: they've gotten better over the last twenty four hours. All right, man,

1242
01:05:25,000 --> 01:05:29,680
Speaker 1: thank you, Armando Sagaro Radio dot Com, NFL Insider columnists

1243
01:05:29,680 --> 01:05:32,080
Speaker 1: for the Miami Herald. Uh, he threw a twist in

1244
01:05:32,120 --> 01:05:34,680
Speaker 1: our Oh my gosh, I wasn't ready for that. I

1245
01:05:35,360 --> 01:05:37,160
Speaker 1: should have thought about it, but yeah, I almost got

1246
01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:41,040
Speaker 1: a little twinge of nausea. Miami. Who's we haven't talked

1247
01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:44,840
Speaker 1: much about Brady despite our reputation. Uh, who's in the

1248
01:05:45,680 --> 01:05:50,680
Speaker 1: hunt here? Miami, Tampa Chargers? Anybody else? Are we missing?

1249
01:05:50,680 --> 01:05:53,760
Speaker 1: Somebody obvious? That's I got a guy on Twitter telling

1250
01:05:53,800 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 1: me the Bill should get him delete. I mean, who

1251
01:05:57,720 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 1: are we missing? Is there anybody else? I'm thinking anybody? Yeah?

1252
01:06:00,840 --> 01:06:03,760
Speaker 1: And I never thought Miami because because they're building. You know,

1253
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:06,000
Speaker 1: you don't start a building project with a forty two

1254
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:09,760
Speaker 1: euro quarterback, like Armando said, and my only yeah, my

1255
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:11,880
Speaker 1: only rationale for it was if they were using him

1256
01:06:11,880 --> 01:06:13,960
Speaker 1: as a stopcap for a couple of years until next

1257
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:16,040
Speaker 1: year when they get Trevor Lawrence or somebody like that.

1258
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:18,200
Speaker 1: They've got enough draft capital this year. If they trade

1259
01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:20,360
Speaker 1: her around getting maybe they get higher next year, and

1260
01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:22,640
Speaker 1: maybe one of the people they trade with ends up

1261
01:06:22,680 --> 01:06:26,920
Speaker 1: stinking and they do get a high draft pick. So yeah,

1262
01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:28,880
Speaker 1: that's the only way I can I can justify it.

1263
01:06:28,920 --> 01:06:32,440
Speaker 1: I mean, certainly got the money to spend, but that

1264
01:06:32,560 --> 01:06:34,880
Speaker 1: hurt makes my brain hurt. We're way over the Brady

1265
01:06:35,320 --> 01:06:38,080
Speaker 1: allocation of minutes a lot of Let's talk about him

1266
01:06:38,080 --> 01:06:40,680
Speaker 1: in this hour, maloney, We're gonna talk about him a lot.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about Stefan Diggs. Coming up next with

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Speaker 1: the guy who's done a Vikings radio for the last

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Speaker 1: several years. He has color analysts on the Vikings Radio network.

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Speaker 1: Our buddy Pete Bersich will join us when we return

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Speaker 1: and talk about Diggs. Come on back with us. One

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Speaker 1: Bill slide presented by a lot of health from the

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Speaker 1: Seneca what's left of the Seneca studio here in Archer Park.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio Open Negotiation Session in free agency.

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Speaker 1: The real stuff starts tomorrow at four. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: anti climactic, isn't it. Everybody's all the good players are

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Speaker 1: gonna be gone. Bills will be done by four tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: I think I do think you asked Chris this a

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Speaker 1: little while ago. By the way, Sean Murphy and Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker and one Buffaloes doing the show on the radio.

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Speaker 1: Only you asked Chris the Bills done. I think they'd

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Speaker 1: like to get one warm move done. I really, I

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Speaker 1: just in my gut there's somebody out there, yes, And

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Speaker 1: I think, like Chris said, it could be an offensive lineman,

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Speaker 1: a tackle, it could be a defensive lineman and maybe

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Speaker 1: not a big name, but they they're kind of thin

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Speaker 1: on defensive lineman. Now. I would think somebody in either

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Speaker 1: one of those two areas is next stuff for the Bills,

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Speaker 1: and I think likely to happen in the next twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours. Yeah, that's just my gut. I think it

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Speaker 1: may be longer than that. But I think you're right.

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Speaker 1: I think there's some guys that have their names on

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Speaker 1: their their eyes on and they're gonna let them ste

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Speaker 1: a little bit. You know. I don't think they're gonna

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Speaker 1: come out and say hey, but they'll come to them later.

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Speaker 1: I'd like they did Quentin Spain last year. Let him

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Speaker 1: sit for two weeks on the open market. Um, they'll

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Speaker 1: be guys like that out there that they'll come in

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Speaker 1: and they'll and they'll have the And this is I'm

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Speaker 1: all right now, I'm getting really specific about my little

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Speaker 1: prediction here. They're gonna there's a guy out there that's

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Speaker 1: gonna have the right DNA, that's gonna want to do it,

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna be bitter about not being picked up

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Speaker 1: by anybody, and the Bills are gonna come to them

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01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:28,640
Speaker 1: say listen, you think nobody wants you, I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: what you can prove it to everybody with this one

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Speaker 1: year deal. Let's see what you got. And they've used

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Speaker 1: in the past, and it'll be a guy like that,

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Speaker 1: and it'll be a week or two weeks into free

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Speaker 1: agency and then they'll sign a guy and he'll turn

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Speaker 1: out being a contributor. That's their strategy, and I think

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Speaker 1: I see if it works again because it has worked

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Speaker 1: for them in the past. A guy that I was

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Speaker 1: hoping the Bills would get involved with, and certainly they've

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Speaker 1: committed money to other in other areas, but Robert Quinn

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Speaker 1: defensive end for the Dallas Cowboys. The Bears are gonna

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Speaker 1: sign Robert Quinn five years, seventy million other contract, thirty million,

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Speaker 1: fully guaranteed. That's what his agent says. That's a big

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Speaker 1: move for the Bears. And he's a good player. I

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Speaker 1: think Robert Quinn will help them. Yeah, he's gonna help somebody.

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Speaker 1: He's a good player, and we'll just you just have

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Speaker 1: to wait and see. I mean, Robert Quinn's a guy

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Speaker 1: you thought the last yesterday. Yes, man, that's the guy

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Speaker 1: we want to jump on it. Yeah, been part of

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Speaker 1: a really good organization, has been well look at it.

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Speaker 1: Five years, seventy million dollars contract, he's been a good player. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you don't just pay guys off the street like.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of money. Man, That's what the Bills

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Speaker 1: would have had to pay to get him. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I'd have been up for that. I agree.

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Speaker 1: I say that every year freed and see though, right,

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Speaker 1: I'm shocked that Check Lawson gets ten million average per year.

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Speaker 1: I'm shocked that Jordan Phillips is gonna average ten million

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Speaker 1: year for Arizona and at least Robert Quinn has more

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Speaker 1: production than those guys, right, But I say that every year.

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Speaker 1: Is that fourteen million dollars a year for five years?

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Speaker 1: Five years? Yes, yeah, it's a lot of money. I

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Speaker 1: say it every year though I don't know what you know.

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Speaker 1: I'm always off, I'm always falling behind and where the

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Speaker 1: money's going. He's gonna be thirty in a month. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Robert Quinny's older than that, didn't he twenty nine? He'll

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Speaker 1: be thirty and four days. Okay, you know he's twenty

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Speaker 1: nine years old, three hundred and four days old. Okay,

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Speaker 1: twenty nine. So he's gonna be thirty by the time

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Speaker 1: the season starts. So you're gonna be paying a thirty

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Speaker 1: four year old guy fourteen million dollars at the end

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Speaker 1: of that contract. The Bills made a big move last night.

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Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs acquired in a trade, the huge trade with

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings on the line with US color analysts

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Speaker 1: on the Vikings radio network. He played linebacker for the Vikings.

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Speaker 1: Former Vikings defensive coach happy to have Pete Bursus on

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Speaker 1: the line with us. Pete, how are you thanks? Coming

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Speaker 1: on with us? Today. Thank you. I'm doing great, beautiful day.

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Speaker 1: I'm in Chicago right now to get back in Florida. Wow,

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Speaker 1: you know it's uh, it's nice. Yeah, great, great day.

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Speaker 1: We need to know about Stefan Diggs. What can you

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Speaker 1: tell us top of your head? Stefan Diggs? What do

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Speaker 1: you think an unbelievably talented young man? Um? He does

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Speaker 1: what he possessed the ability to get to get behind

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Speaker 1: the defense. And by that I mean he has the

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Speaker 1: speed and the moves and if you've seen any of

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Speaker 1: the highlights on Twitter, you see how good of a

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Speaker 1: route runner he can be. UM. But he's he he

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Speaker 1: has that extra dimension, you know, you look at it,

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Speaker 1: Adam feeling like we've had. Um doesn't maybe doesn't have

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Speaker 1: He has the underneath quickness, but doesn't have that speed.

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Speaker 1: And that's what Stefon Diggs has. He has the speed

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Speaker 1: to get behind the safety and if you fall asleep

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Speaker 1: on him. And I like what you guys are doing

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Speaker 1: with your receiving corps up there in Buffalo, because defenses

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Speaker 1: are gonna have a hard time picking out which guy

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Speaker 1: that they're gonna want to stop. What are your thoughts

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Speaker 1: on what went wrong or what the problem was and

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Speaker 1: why Steph Diggs all of a sudden wanted out in Minnesota?

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Speaker 1: What what was the issue? And how how deep does

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Speaker 1: it go? Well, I you know, how deep does it go?

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Speaker 1: I think it kind of goes throughout the entire NFL.

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Speaker 1: I mean it's, um, it's not it's it's not team

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Speaker 1: first anymore. In a lot of cases, it's kind of

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Speaker 1: a me first deal, you know what I mean. And

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Speaker 1: if I'm not happy, then nobody's I mean. And you know,

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, you know, the chemistry maybe wasn't there.

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Speaker 1: He just wasn't happy with his situation. And you know, unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: there was a time when when you weren't happy, you

1385
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Speaker 1: could voice those things in the locker room and you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe to the other guys. And nowadays with the social

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Speaker 1: media and everything else, Um, when a guy decides to

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Speaker 1: have a you know, meltdown a little bit and not

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Speaker 1: be happy about something, than the entire world notes. So, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, how do you keep a guy like him happy?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, you know what I mean? I mean,

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Speaker 1: what more do you do for him than for any

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Speaker 1: other player on the team to make him happy? But um,

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Speaker 1: I think sometimes in the course of a guy's career.

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Speaker 1: They need to change of scenery. They need a new

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Speaker 1: locker room, they need a new coach. They just need

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Speaker 1: a change of scenery and that alone will invigorate them

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Speaker 1: a little bit. Hopefully he'll use that work harder. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind keep his mouth shut about certain things

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, kind of go from there. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's it's it's a bit of an enigma here as

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Speaker 1: far as what is it about this place that he

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01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:13,680
Speaker 1: wasn't very happy about? What would you say, we're with

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Speaker 1: Pete Bursis, by the way, who there's a color analyst

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Speaker 1: for the Vikings Radio Network. Was Stefan Diggs difficult to

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Speaker 1: keep happy? Would you say, Pete, is that what you're saying?

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Speaker 1: I know, I don't think he. I don't you know,

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Speaker 1: difficult to keep happy? I think, Um, I don't. I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't say that. I don't think he demanded more U

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Speaker 1: or his you know, demands were let's say, you know,

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Speaker 1: out of out of whack. It's just for some reason

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Speaker 1: he wasn't just very happy with the current situation. And

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, with in from a football standpoint,

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Speaker 1: because that's about the only way I can look at

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Speaker 1: things is you know, there were many times that he

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Speaker 1: was open, and I think his issue was, I mean,

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Speaker 1: certain receivers are good enough that if no one's clearly open,

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Speaker 1: and Kirk is a system guy, meaning he's gonna throw

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Speaker 1: that football where it's supposed to go based on the

1420
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Speaker 1: routes and based on the coverage. Even throughout the year,

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Speaker 1: he said he needs to just throw some more fifty

1422
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Speaker 1: fifty balls up to a guy like Stefan Diggs and

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Speaker 1: he'll come down with a lot of them. And that's

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Speaker 1: gonna be Josh Allen's men that if if everybody looks covered,

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Speaker 1: or if it's a one on one situation, we need

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Speaker 1: to still get him the ball or get it his way,

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Speaker 1: because he's gonna come down with most of them. And

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Speaker 1: I believe as the receiver, he feels he can do that,

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Speaker 1: and when he's not given that opportunity, he's gonna feel underutilize.

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Speaker 1: And I mean, if you want to talk about the

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Speaker 1: basis of an half of the unhappiness, I think that

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Speaker 1: would be that would be it to the core that, hey, Kirk,

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Speaker 1: when things are looking covered everywhere, just throw me the

1434
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Speaker 1: damn ball. I played with a guy named Chris Carter

1435
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Speaker 1: exact same way, like one in doubt, throw me the

1436
01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:55,800
Speaker 1: damn ball, Randy Moss. One in doubt, throw me the

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Speaker 1: damn ball, you know, and I'm gonna come trust me

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Speaker 1: to come down with it. So I think that I

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Speaker 1: think that's kind of that's really the the crux of

1440
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Speaker 1: of that situation. Yeah, I just want you guys who

1441
01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:11,240
Speaker 1: say throw me the damn ball. Interceptions don't go on

1442
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Speaker 1: their ledger, So that's why they say that. No, it's

1443
01:15:14,800 --> 01:15:17,479
Speaker 1: absolutely right, and that's that's the job of the quarterback.

1444
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, and I'm excited to see what

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Speaker 1: your quarterback does this year because I think that the

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Speaker 1: Easton game in the playoffs was it was a defining moment.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that kid showed some guts and he's either

1448
01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:30,559
Speaker 1: going to go one way or the other. That game

1449
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Speaker 1: is going to either propel him to be more mature

1450
01:15:33,840 --> 01:15:37,080
Speaker 1: and be more of a leader or you know, or

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Speaker 1: it's going to send him the other way. And I

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Speaker 1: liked what I saw to him from a competitive standpoint.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not talking, you know, I'm sure you

1454
01:15:44,439 --> 01:15:46,120
Speaker 1: know there are throws and different things he could have

1455
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Speaker 1: done better, but the kid competed. He did not give

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Speaker 1: up and I like that about him, and I think

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Speaker 1: he's I think he guys had yourself, you know, a

1458
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Speaker 1: pretty good quarterback. I know people like to tease him

1459
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Speaker 1: with accuracy and things like that, but I think the

1460
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Speaker 1: leadership man is at that position is something that's uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, under util I say, under underappreciated. Let's say

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Speaker 1: in the NFL. Well, and and he comes in, Steph

1463
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Speaker 1: Diggs gets stuck into a team that already has John

1464
01:16:14,640 --> 01:16:18,040
Speaker 1: Brown who had seventy two catches last year and Cole

1465
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Speaker 1: Beezy had sixty seven catches. It's a it's an offense

1466
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Speaker 1: that wants to score more points. They struggled to do

1467
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Speaker 1: that last year. In your experience, and you know, from

1468
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Speaker 1: covering the NFL, what do you think adding a guy

1469
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Speaker 1: like Steph Diggs to that group who's already some proven production.

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Speaker 1: You know, what's what's he give them and what can

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Speaker 1: you expect? And how big a percentage of difference is

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Speaker 1: one guy gonna make to a passing offense like that. Well,

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01:16:42,760 --> 01:16:46,120
Speaker 1: let's let's just say this about Stefan Diggs. When two

1474
01:16:46,200 --> 01:16:49,559
Speaker 1: years ago he averaged about ten yards a catch, last

1475
01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:54,320
Speaker 1: year he averaged over seventeen, So that seven yard difference

1476
01:16:54,439 --> 01:16:59,040
Speaker 1: in average of catch led the NFL, So that means

1477
01:16:59,400 --> 01:17:03,240
Speaker 1: he was just a more explosive receiver. And so when

1478
01:17:03,320 --> 01:17:08,400
Speaker 1: you have guys who are getting the numbers and are

1479
01:17:08,439 --> 01:17:10,840
Speaker 1: getting the underneath throws and getting the short throws and

1480
01:17:10,880 --> 01:17:14,000
Speaker 1: those kinds of things, that's gonna allow a guy like

1481
01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:17,120
Speaker 1: Stefid Diggs to be your quote unquote big play receiver.

1482
01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:19,760
Speaker 1: The thing is is he's you know, I think when

1483
01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:23,320
Speaker 1: he comes into this situation, he can already see that

1484
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:26,200
Speaker 1: it wasn't a situation where you have to understand he

1485
01:17:26,280 --> 01:17:29,280
Speaker 1: was a fifth round pick here and Adam Feeling was

1486
01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:33,960
Speaker 1: an undrafted free agent, and so he's only known this area.

1487
01:17:34,720 --> 01:17:36,439
Speaker 1: So now he's gonna come into Buffalo and see a

1488
01:17:36,479 --> 01:17:39,360
Speaker 1: couple of guys on the roster who have a lot

1489
01:17:39,360 --> 01:17:42,800
Speaker 1: of production, and you know, I don't think he can

1490
01:17:42,840 --> 01:17:44,760
Speaker 1: step in as a man and be like, you know what,

1491
01:17:44,880 --> 01:17:47,160
Speaker 1: those seventy throws that are going to that guy are

1492
01:17:47,160 --> 01:17:49,679
Speaker 1: going to go to me. Now he's gonna say where

1493
01:17:49,720 --> 01:17:52,880
Speaker 1: do I fit in this whole scheme? And if you

1494
01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:56,320
Speaker 1: have some underneath and some you know, the shorter routes

1495
01:17:56,360 --> 01:17:58,760
Speaker 1: and the possession type routes are going to go to

1496
01:17:58,880 --> 01:18:03,200
Speaker 1: player Air and player B that seventeen yards per reception

1497
01:18:04,120 --> 01:18:06,320
Speaker 1: is going to be huge for Buffalo, and that's what

1498
01:18:06,400 --> 01:18:08,800
Speaker 1: you need. You got it. You have to be explosive,

1499
01:18:09,280 --> 01:18:11,040
Speaker 1: you have to be able to bull the top off

1500
01:18:11,080 --> 01:18:13,400
Speaker 1: of the defense, and Diggs gives you that weapon. So

1501
01:18:13,920 --> 01:18:16,680
Speaker 1: for Buffalo fans, I mean, you guys should be very,

1502
01:18:16,760 --> 01:18:18,800
Speaker 1: very excited because now you have a deep threat. Now

1503
01:18:18,840 --> 01:18:22,679
Speaker 1: you have a guy that can that can definitely blow

1504
01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:25,400
Speaker 1: the top off the defense. The only the only negative

1505
01:18:25,400 --> 01:18:27,240
Speaker 1: thing I saw this year was he was fumbling a

1506
01:18:27,280 --> 01:18:29,320
Speaker 1: little bit. He had about four He had four fumbles

1507
01:18:29,320 --> 01:18:33,320
Speaker 1: this year after catches, and that was probably more than usual.

1508
01:18:33,800 --> 01:18:36,599
Speaker 1: Uh you know, is that a blip in the radar? Hopefully?

1509
01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:40,000
Speaker 1: I think. But he's definitely gonna be able to, like

1510
01:18:40,040 --> 01:18:43,240
Speaker 1: I say, if he becomes your big play receiver. Got

1511
01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:46,240
Speaker 1: He's in a perfect spot. We're on the line with

1512
01:18:46,280 --> 01:18:50,000
Speaker 1: the Vikings radio color analyst Pete Bursach, former Vikings linebacker,

1513
01:18:50,080 --> 01:18:53,000
Speaker 1: talking about the Bill's acquisition of Stefan Diggs in the

1514
01:18:53,040 --> 01:18:56,040
Speaker 1: Big Trade last night. Pete, is Digg's gonna need a

1515
01:18:56,040 --> 01:18:58,519
Speaker 1: new contract? I heard some people suggest that he just

1516
01:18:58,600 --> 01:19:01,800
Speaker 1: got an extension, right, You're yeah, he did. He just

1517
01:19:01,800 --> 01:19:06,000
Speaker 1: got an extension. So you know, as far as again,

1518
01:19:06,080 --> 01:19:07,960
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's one of those things you want

1519
01:19:07,960 --> 01:19:10,880
Speaker 1: to pull him aside. Say, dude, one thing at a time, right,

1520
01:19:11,040 --> 01:19:14,160
Speaker 1: you know you wanted out in Minnesota, and we got

1521
01:19:14,200 --> 01:19:16,960
Speaker 1: you out in Minnesota. We paid you know, we paid

1522
01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:18,840
Speaker 1: a good price. I mean, if you look at what's

1523
01:19:18,840 --> 01:19:21,880
Speaker 1: going on with DeAndre Hopkins and some of those other things,

1524
01:19:22,160 --> 01:19:24,240
Speaker 1: you know, you guys they want you know. The point

1525
01:19:24,360 --> 01:19:26,720
Speaker 1: is Heath you can look at them and say, you

1526
01:19:26,760 --> 01:19:29,679
Speaker 1: are wanted here, my friend. You know what I mean,

1527
01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:32,519
Speaker 1: You are wanted here. We're not going to give all

1528
01:19:32,560 --> 01:19:35,880
Speaker 1: of this up and then not reward you if you

1529
01:19:35,920 --> 01:19:38,720
Speaker 1: perform well. So now the onus is on you. You

1530
01:19:38,760 --> 01:19:40,960
Speaker 1: are where you're wanted. The onus is on you to

1531
01:19:40,960 --> 01:19:43,559
Speaker 1: put up some unbelievably good numbers this year and then

1532
01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:47,040
Speaker 1: we'll talk contract extension. It's not it can't it can't be.

1533
01:19:47,560 --> 01:19:50,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna trade all of this just to get you

1534
01:19:50,120 --> 01:19:52,599
Speaker 1: here and then and then say yeah, okay, great, now

1535
01:19:52,600 --> 01:19:55,080
Speaker 1: I'm here and now let's talk about my contract extension.

1536
01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:57,960
Speaker 1: It's like no, no, no, You've got to do your

1537
01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:02,559
Speaker 1: part and earn a contract extension here in Buffalo. Yeah,

1538
01:20:02,600 --> 01:20:04,840
Speaker 1: and how do you think this is gonna look? And

1539
01:20:05,439 --> 01:20:08,400
Speaker 1: for the Minnesota Vikings, because they didn't get nothing out

1540
01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:10,839
Speaker 1: of this deal, they got some draft picks and and

1541
01:20:10,840 --> 01:20:13,960
Speaker 1: and you know they lost a really good player. What

1542
01:20:14,080 --> 01:20:18,439
Speaker 1: houses play in Minnesota. Well, I think it leaves it

1543
01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:23,840
Speaker 1: leaves a pretty pretty big void. Which fortunately, you have

1544
01:20:24,040 --> 01:20:27,640
Speaker 1: twelve draft picks going into the draft this year and

1545
01:20:27,640 --> 01:20:29,920
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to find a way to fill them.

1546
01:20:30,040 --> 01:20:32,960
Speaker 1: The unfortunate part if you look at Vikings history and

1547
01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:36,879
Speaker 1: drafting wide receivers, I mean, we've had had Randy Mosses

1548
01:20:36,880 --> 01:20:39,479
Speaker 1: and Percy Harvins and some other things. But you know,

1549
01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:41,600
Speaker 1: you have a luck Kuan Treadwell thrown in there. We

1550
01:20:41,680 --> 01:20:47,800
Speaker 1: haven't had the greatest of luck with high draft picks.

1551
01:20:47,960 --> 01:20:50,360
Speaker 1: You looked at if you looked at our top three

1552
01:20:50,360 --> 01:20:53,000
Speaker 1: wide receivers as we went into the playoffs, we had

1553
01:20:53,000 --> 01:20:56,200
Speaker 1: a fifth rounder, a seventh rounder, and an undrafted creation

1554
01:20:56,320 --> 01:20:59,080
Speaker 1: at that position. So we've we've done a much better

1555
01:20:59,200 --> 01:21:03,600
Speaker 1: job late in the draft and getting wide receivers. But

1556
01:21:03,720 --> 01:21:06,080
Speaker 1: the problem is is the guy that we need is

1557
01:21:06,120 --> 01:21:07,960
Speaker 1: a guy like Digs who has some speed and can

1558
01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:12,000
Speaker 1: get behind the defense. And you know this is if

1559
01:21:12,400 --> 01:21:15,559
Speaker 1: if you're a if you're a speed guy, those numbers

1560
01:21:15,560 --> 01:21:17,519
Speaker 1: tend to get you drafted higher. So they may have

1561
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:20,800
Speaker 1: to spend a first or second round pick on a

1562
01:21:20,840 --> 01:21:23,439
Speaker 1: guy and then you kind of, you know, keep our

1563
01:21:23,439 --> 01:21:26,000
Speaker 1: fingers crossed that he's not another Laquon Treadwell who was

1564
01:21:26,040 --> 01:21:29,040
Speaker 1: a first round pick and didn't really do anything for us.

1565
01:21:29,040 --> 01:21:31,679
Speaker 1: He caught twenty five passes I think his entire four

1566
01:21:31,800 --> 01:21:35,760
Speaker 1: years that he was here. Yeah, he's a head scratcher, right. Hey, Pete,

1567
01:21:35,800 --> 01:21:37,240
Speaker 1: thanks for this, great to talk to you. Thank you

1568
01:21:37,320 --> 01:21:39,880
Speaker 1: very much, No problem, guys, good luck. And you know what,

1569
01:21:39,960 --> 01:21:43,200
Speaker 1: you guys got yourself a hell of a player. And

1570
01:21:43,280 --> 01:21:44,880
Speaker 1: if you again, if you turn him in, if he

1571
01:21:44,920 --> 01:21:47,479
Speaker 1: becomes your big time he should be your big player receiver.

1572
01:21:48,160 --> 01:21:50,960
Speaker 1: And you know, and Josh Allen is going to have

1573
01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:54,280
Speaker 1: some options deep now, and you know, I think all

1574
01:21:54,360 --> 01:21:56,320
Speaker 1: you guys should be some very excited to have him

1575
01:21:56,320 --> 01:22:00,280
Speaker 1: this part of the team. Thanks Pete, appreciate it. From

1576
01:22:00,280 --> 01:22:02,559
Speaker 1: the Vikings Radio network on the line with us, that's

1577
01:22:02,600 --> 01:22:05,400
Speaker 1: kind of what our Twitter question is today. What did

1578
01:22:05,439 --> 01:22:08,400
Speaker 1: the trade of Diggs and the move it appears of

1579
01:22:08,479 --> 01:22:11,240
Speaker 1: Tom Brady the AFC East. What does that mean? Jim Rome?

1580
01:22:11,320 --> 01:22:12,599
Speaker 1: You ever hear him? He used to do a radio

1581
01:22:12,640 --> 01:22:14,760
Speaker 1: show at this time on the station. Jim Rome just

1582
01:22:14,760 --> 01:22:16,920
Speaker 1: tweeted out him a while ago. Should we just crown

1583
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:22,479
Speaker 1: the Bills AFC East champs right now? Sure? Go ahead,

1584
01:22:22,600 --> 01:22:25,400
Speaker 1: romy there's a hot take for you. Yeah, go ahead,

1585
01:22:25,600 --> 01:22:28,120
Speaker 1: crown him and then you can follow up this fall

1586
01:22:28,160 --> 01:22:30,840
Speaker 1: when they start actually playing games. That means something. But yeah,

1587
01:22:31,040 --> 01:22:33,679
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs headed to the Buffalo, Bills Tom Brady headed

1588
01:22:33,680 --> 01:22:35,760
Speaker 1: away from New England. How do you feel into a

1589
01:22:35,840 --> 01:22:38,559
Speaker 1: Bills fan? Are you freaking out? Bills are tops in

1590
01:22:38,600 --> 01:22:40,720
Speaker 1: the AFC East? Fifty six percent of you say that's

1591
01:22:40,720 --> 01:22:45,200
Speaker 1: where you are? Are you tempering your expectations like the good, safe, solid,

1592
01:22:45,280 --> 01:22:47,960
Speaker 1: mature fan you should be thirty five percent of you are?

1593
01:22:48,360 --> 01:22:50,400
Speaker 1: Or do you think, hey, the Patriots aren't done yet?

1594
01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:52,920
Speaker 1: Only nine percent say that. That means ninety one percent

1595
01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:56,400
Speaker 1: or wishing the Patriots are done. Here's a call. We've

1596
01:22:56,560 --> 01:22:58,559
Speaker 1: we got phone lines open now. We'd love to discuss

1597
01:22:58,640 --> 01:23:01,800
Speaker 1: with you. Eight three fifty toll free one eight eight

1598
01:23:01,960 --> 01:23:04,880
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty Yep, we're doing the show.

1599
01:23:05,000 --> 01:23:07,639
Speaker 1: Here today it is One Bill's Live presented by klat

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01:23:07,680 --> 01:23:18,479
Speaker 1: of Health, and this is Buffalo Bills Radio Today. It

1601
01:23:18,640 --> 01:23:21,200
Speaker 1: is right Tom Brady leaving New England. The Bills get

1602
01:23:21,240 --> 01:23:24,000
Speaker 1: Stefan Dicks late last night. We're doing we're doing our

1603
01:23:24,040 --> 01:23:26,800
Speaker 1: show in a separate studio here and we're radio only

1604
01:23:27,120 --> 01:23:30,599
Speaker 1: apologize that we inconvenienced anybody to do just a radio show.

1605
01:23:30,880 --> 01:23:33,479
Speaker 1: So what happens to Tom Brady? The odds on Brady

1606
01:23:33,560 --> 01:23:36,800
Speaker 1: going to other teams right now, the Chargers are the

1607
01:23:36,920 --> 01:23:40,479
Speaker 1: prohibitive favorite as the next landing spot for Tom Brady.

1608
01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:43,640
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay is second, the Colts are third, and then

1609
01:23:43,760 --> 01:23:46,400
Speaker 1: other teams are in the mix as well, maybe the Dolphins.

1610
01:23:46,439 --> 01:23:49,160
Speaker 1: As Armando Saugaro said, I'll tell you what Steve, if

1611
01:23:49,160 --> 01:23:51,599
Speaker 1: he goes to the Bucks, one guy's gonna be happy,

1612
01:23:51,640 --> 01:23:56,040
Speaker 1: as Sarah Soota resident Dick Vitale. Dick Vitale just posted

1613
01:23:56,040 --> 01:23:59,479
Speaker 1: a his own little plea for Tom Brady on Twitter.

1614
01:23:59,520 --> 01:24:02,920
Speaker 1: Let's let's it, hey, anybody knows Tom Brady, please send

1615
01:24:02,960 --> 01:24:06,320
Speaker 1: them to the video. Tom. We need you in Tampa Bay,

1616
01:24:06,520 --> 01:24:10,720
Speaker 1: great beaches. You'd love living here. It's unbelievable. And let

1617
01:24:10,720 --> 01:24:13,400
Speaker 1: me give you some reasons why. Number One, we got

1618
01:24:13,680 --> 01:24:18,000
Speaker 1: unbelievable coach for you. He's a quarterback guru. He understands,

1619
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:21,080
Speaker 1: Bruce arians what it takes to be a great quarterback,

1620
01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:23,639
Speaker 1: and he can help you. You're the greatest of all time,

1621
01:24:23,880 --> 01:24:26,800
Speaker 1: but he can guide you with the unbelievable receivers we have.

1622
01:24:27,200 --> 01:24:30,639
Speaker 1: We got great receivers and want to challenge Tom. Think

1623
01:24:30,680 --> 01:24:33,560
Speaker 1: about it, the challenge to take us to the playoffs

1624
01:24:33,600 --> 01:24:35,720
Speaker 1: and the super Bowl. I've been a season to take

1625
01:24:35,760 --> 01:24:38,280
Speaker 1: it over for years. I want to win. Baby. We

1626
01:24:38,360 --> 01:24:42,000
Speaker 1: need your Tom. I bang you, I plead with you. Please,

1627
01:24:42,160 --> 01:24:45,280
Speaker 1: mister Brady, come to Tampa me. I'll be your chauffeur

1628
01:24:45,320 --> 01:24:47,960
Speaker 1: if you want me. I'll carry your backs. I'll do anything.

1629
01:24:48,200 --> 01:24:54,680
Speaker 1: We got to get you Tom. They got the cash too, baby.

1630
01:24:54,960 --> 01:24:58,000
Speaker 1: Any wonder why Vic Taal was so ordinary as a

1631
01:24:58,040 --> 01:25:00,759
Speaker 1: college basketball coach If that was his typical recruity player.

1632
01:25:00,880 --> 01:25:03,040
Speaker 1: Can you imagine the play said, Oh sure, I'm in right.

1633
01:25:03,320 --> 01:25:05,960
Speaker 1: That's not much of a Hey, baby, come on, we

1634
01:25:06,040 --> 01:25:08,679
Speaker 1: need you. I mean that's basically what Fight Tall is saying. Yeah,

1635
01:25:08,720 --> 01:25:11,320
Speaker 1: who knows where Brady's going, Let's who knows who's gonna

1636
01:25:11,320 --> 01:25:13,719
Speaker 1: play quarterback? In New England. Let's take a call Jim

1637
01:25:13,720 --> 01:25:16,280
Speaker 1: and Jamestown. Hello, Jim, you're on the air. Yeah, it

1638
01:25:16,360 --> 01:25:18,679
Speaker 1: was only what your guys thoughts were of New England

1639
01:25:18,760 --> 01:25:22,040
Speaker 1: taking a look at Cam Newton. Yeah, I think they could.

1640
01:25:22,080 --> 01:25:23,880
Speaker 1: I mean they might kick the tires. I think they're

1641
01:25:23,880 --> 01:25:27,719
Speaker 1: also talking about trading down to Cincinnati for Andy Dalton.

1642
01:25:27,760 --> 01:25:29,639
Speaker 1: I think they like him. I think some I've heard

1643
01:25:29,680 --> 01:25:33,880
Speaker 1: reports out of New England for more than just this

1644
01:25:33,960 --> 01:25:37,040
Speaker 1: last week that Belichick has always had a little bit

1645
01:25:37,040 --> 01:25:40,559
Speaker 1: of respect for Andy Dalton and what he's done. So

1646
01:25:41,320 --> 01:25:44,160
Speaker 1: you could see him do that. Cam Newton is out there.

1647
01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:46,240
Speaker 1: You know Cam Newton will be calling up there. I mean,

1648
01:25:46,280 --> 01:25:48,880
Speaker 1: wouldn't you if you were his representations? Cam Newton seemed

1649
01:25:48,880 --> 01:25:52,160
Speaker 1: like a fit. Can you imagine him getting dressed up

1650
01:25:52,200 --> 01:25:55,880
Speaker 1: in his postgame costumes at a Patriots news conference? Can

1651
01:25:55,880 --> 01:25:58,000
Speaker 1: you imagine that? Could you imagine? As it's been reported

1652
01:25:58,000 --> 01:26:00,600
Speaker 1: that every Monday after the game, he starts with the

1653
01:26:00,680 --> 01:26:03,599
Speaker 1: quarterback and be rates everybody on the roster. But can

1654
01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:06,240
Speaker 1: Cam gonna handle that? I don't know, But I don't

1655
01:26:06,280 --> 01:26:10,000
Speaker 1: think it'll be Cam Newton. I don't um. I don't

1656
01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:12,240
Speaker 1: think that. I don't think the postgame costumes would go

1657
01:26:12,240 --> 01:26:15,720
Speaker 1: over that wells. But anyway, aside from that, I think

1658
01:26:15,720 --> 01:26:19,040
Speaker 1: there are more likely candidates out there than Cam Newton,

1659
01:26:19,080 --> 01:26:22,600
Speaker 1: although it's their markets drying up a little bit. Um.

1660
01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:24,360
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a done deal now with the

1661
01:26:24,400 --> 01:26:26,960
Speaker 1: Tom Brady thing fallen. If he is not gonna be

1662
01:26:27,080 --> 01:26:31,480
Speaker 1: a Patriot, I think Philip Rivers comes into the equation.

1663
01:26:31,960 --> 01:26:36,880
Speaker 1: He's been linked to the Indianapolis Colts. Um. But let's

1664
01:26:36,920 --> 01:26:39,400
Speaker 1: face it, there are a lot of people out there,

1665
01:26:39,400 --> 01:26:43,599
Speaker 1: and quarterbacks notwithstanding, who think I'd like to go there

1666
01:26:43,600 --> 01:26:45,840
Speaker 1: and give it a shot of being a championship you know,

1667
01:26:46,080 --> 01:26:48,840
Speaker 1: and being the guy that is, you know, driving that

1668
01:26:48,920 --> 01:26:51,720
Speaker 1: car to see what it's like behind They've had so

1669
01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:53,320
Speaker 1: much success, let me see if I can be a

1670
01:26:53,360 --> 01:26:55,680
Speaker 1: part of it. Um. I think that'll hold as much

1671
01:26:55,680 --> 01:26:59,080
Speaker 1: intrigue for quarterbacks out there as it does any other player. UM.

1672
01:26:59,680 --> 01:27:02,040
Speaker 1: I think Philip Rivers would be added into the conversation

1673
01:27:02,120 --> 01:27:04,840
Speaker 1: when Tom Britt when that Tom Brady shoe falls. Teddy

1674
01:27:04,840 --> 01:27:08,599
Speaker 1: Bridgewater is off the list of options for knowing them

1675
01:27:08,640 --> 01:27:11,960
Speaker 1: now as he has agreed to turns with Carolina. Jamis Winston,

1676
01:27:12,240 --> 01:27:15,920
Speaker 1: former Bucks quarterback, could he thrive in knowing them nick

1677
01:27:15,960 --> 01:27:19,759
Speaker 1: Foles that require a trade. Maybe Cam Newton. I guess

1678
01:27:20,479 --> 01:27:23,080
Speaker 1: Jared Stidham might be their best option, the backup to

1679
01:27:23,120 --> 01:27:27,760
Speaker 1: Brady last year. Yeah, maybe, but I think those other

1680
01:27:27,880 --> 01:27:29,360
Speaker 1: one of those other quarterbacks would do it. And you

1681
01:27:29,360 --> 01:27:32,280
Speaker 1: think about where they're at in their career. Would Philip

1682
01:27:32,320 --> 01:27:34,800
Speaker 1: Rivers need thirty million bucks or would he need more

1683
01:27:34,840 --> 01:27:37,320
Speaker 1: like the Patriots number, like a twenty million dollars deal,

1684
01:27:37,360 --> 01:27:40,200
Speaker 1: twenty two million dollars deal with the Patriots, Andy Dawns

1685
01:27:40,400 --> 01:27:43,679
Speaker 1: get they trade for him. He's only making seventeen million bucks.

1686
01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:47,519
Speaker 1: He would fall inside the financial parameters the Patriots are

1687
01:27:47,560 --> 01:27:51,320
Speaker 1: notorious for. You know, look at the other quarterbacks that

1688
01:27:51,360 --> 01:27:53,120
Speaker 1: are available. Would any of those guys fit in that

1689
01:27:53,280 --> 01:27:55,439
Speaker 1: Nick Foles? I don't know. If he goes for twenty

1690
01:27:55,439 --> 01:27:57,479
Speaker 1: million bucks to the Patriots, maybe he would if they

1691
01:27:57,479 --> 01:27:59,840
Speaker 1: could make work that deal. I don't know what his

1692
01:28:00,080 --> 01:28:02,759
Speaker 1: number is with the Jaguars. There's gonna be like twenty

1693
01:28:02,760 --> 01:28:05,360
Speaker 1: five and with a cap going up, maybe the Patriots

1694
01:28:05,360 --> 01:28:07,720
Speaker 1: could make that deal for him. There are guys out

1695
01:28:07,720 --> 01:28:09,680
Speaker 1: there who are in the mix, and they're for the

1696
01:28:09,800 --> 01:28:13,479
Speaker 1: right price as well, So I would say Jared Stidham.

1697
01:28:13,479 --> 01:28:16,400
Speaker 1: While they may like him, I think they're gonna bring

1698
01:28:16,439 --> 01:28:18,040
Speaker 1: somebody in to see if they can get a more

1699
01:28:18,080 --> 01:28:22,120
Speaker 1: experienced guy and win now. And I think there's a

1700
01:28:22,120 --> 01:28:23,640
Speaker 1: little something minute for Bill. But I think there is

1701
01:28:23,680 --> 01:28:25,519
Speaker 1: a little something in there. Bill Belichick wants to win

1702
01:28:25,560 --> 01:28:28,599
Speaker 1: without Brady and vice versa. Your theory that it's Belichick

1703
01:28:28,640 --> 01:28:31,360
Speaker 1: and that Brady that leads to New England success will

1704
01:28:31,400 --> 01:28:33,679
Speaker 1: be put to a test. And I think on both sides.

1705
01:28:33,920 --> 01:28:36,680
Speaker 1: I think and Brady going down to Tampa Bay, I

1706
01:28:36,680 --> 01:28:38,439
Speaker 1: think there'll be some pressure on him there. That's the

1707
01:28:38,880 --> 01:28:40,760
Speaker 1: spot where people said, yeah he could be he could

1708
01:28:40,760 --> 01:28:43,160
Speaker 1: succeed there. If he goes to La Chargers, yeah he

1709
01:28:43,160 --> 01:28:46,320
Speaker 1: could could succeed there. If he doesn't, what's it looked

1710
01:28:46,320 --> 01:28:50,000
Speaker 1: like and why they'll be under some scrutiny for that.

1711
01:28:50,200 --> 01:28:52,080
Speaker 1: So both those guys are you know, they want to

1712
01:28:52,120 --> 01:28:55,200
Speaker 1: win without the other and both have probably have reasons

1713
01:28:55,200 --> 01:28:57,760
Speaker 1: in their heart to think they can. It's gonna be

1714
01:28:57,800 --> 01:28:59,800
Speaker 1: interesting to see who does it. Is a Red Letter

1715
01:29:00,320 --> 01:29:03,000
Speaker 1: Saint Patrick's Day. Happy St. Patrick's Day, Steve, Oh yeah

1716
01:29:03,040 --> 01:29:06,400
Speaker 1: you too, Red Letter Saint Patrick's Day. Stefan Diggs is

1717
01:29:06,439 --> 01:29:08,880
Speaker 1: headed to Buffalo. Tom Brady is out in New England.

1718
01:29:08,920 --> 01:29:10,640
Speaker 1: How are you feeling today as a Bills fan? Let

1719
01:29:10,680 --> 01:29:13,479
Speaker 1: us know what you think. Phone lines open eight fifty,

1720
01:29:13,520 --> 01:29:16,400
Speaker 1: toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

1721
01:29:16,560 --> 01:29:18,800
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk with Mike Lombardi when we come back,

1722
01:29:19,000 --> 01:29:21,960
Speaker 1: host of the GM Shuffle podcast on Radio dot Com,

1723
01:29:22,040 --> 01:29:24,679
Speaker 1: former Browns GM and an NFL writer for the Athletic

1724
01:29:24,720 --> 01:29:27,080
Speaker 1: dot Com. Mike Lombardi when we return, like to get

1725
01:29:27,120 --> 01:29:28,840
Speaker 1: some of your phone calls in as well. Come on back.

1726
01:29:29,040 --> 01:29:31,879
Speaker 1: One Bills Live presented by Klaida Health from the Seneca

1727
01:29:31,920 --> 01:29:41,719
Speaker 1: Studio in Archer Park on Buffalo Bills Radio. The update

1728
01:29:41,760 --> 01:29:43,840
Speaker 1: from One Bills Live. The Bills made a big move

1729
01:29:43,920 --> 01:29:46,799
Speaker 1: last night, acquiring wide receivers Stephan Diggs from the Minnesota

1730
01:29:46,880 --> 01:29:49,880
Speaker 1: Vikings for multiple draft picks. The Bills send four picks

1731
01:29:49,880 --> 01:29:52,960
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, a first, the fifth, and a sixth this year,

1732
01:29:53,000 --> 01:29:55,479
Speaker 1: a fourth and twenty twenty one. In exchange, they get

1733
01:29:55,560 --> 01:29:58,840
Speaker 1: Diggs and a seventh rounder in twenty twenty. Diggs had

1734
01:29:58,840 --> 01:30:02,280
Speaker 1: sixty three catches, touchdowns eleven hundred thirty yards. Last year

1735
01:30:02,280 --> 01:30:04,720
Speaker 1: from Minnesota, they had one hundred and two career best

1736
01:30:04,720 --> 01:30:07,200
Speaker 1: one under two catches in twenty eighteen. He's in the

1737
01:30:07,240 --> 01:30:10,400
Speaker 1: second year of a five year, seventy two million dollars contract.

1738
01:30:10,600 --> 01:30:13,360
Speaker 1: Former Bills defensive tackle Jordan Phillips as a new home

1739
01:30:13,360 --> 01:30:16,240
Speaker 1: in the NFL. He's reaching agreement with the Arizona Cardinals

1740
01:30:16,240 --> 01:30:18,880
Speaker 1: a three year, thirty million dollars deal. He turned in

1741
01:30:18,920 --> 01:30:21,479
Speaker 1: his career year last year with nine sacks for the

1742
01:30:21,479 --> 01:30:24,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Bill's busy in free agency over the last

1743
01:30:24,400 --> 01:30:27,559
Speaker 1: twenty four hours. They added a linebacker and major special

1744
01:30:27,560 --> 01:30:31,240
Speaker 1: teams player by signing Tyler Mankevich. Former Steelers linebacker played

1745
01:30:31,240 --> 01:30:33,920
Speaker 1: college football at Temple. He's twenty seven years old. He

1746
01:30:33,960 --> 01:30:36,559
Speaker 1: was a reserve linebacker, but he has led the Steelers

1747
01:30:36,560 --> 01:30:38,960
Speaker 1: in special teams tackles for about the last three years.

1748
01:30:39,200 --> 01:30:42,240
Speaker 1: Former Saints linebacker A. J. Klein signed a three year,

1749
01:30:42,280 --> 01:30:45,519
Speaker 1: eighteen million dollars deal with the Bills. He previously played

1750
01:30:45,760 --> 01:30:48,559
Speaker 1: under Sean McDermott with the Carolina Panthers. The Bills are

1751
01:30:48,600 --> 01:30:51,760
Speaker 1: making another free agent signing. Defensive end Mario Addison, who

1752
01:30:51,760 --> 01:30:54,240
Speaker 1: will be thirty three years old in September, has been

1753
01:30:54,240 --> 01:30:57,080
Speaker 1: signed by the Bills. A former Carolina Panthers defender. The

1754
01:30:57,080 --> 01:30:59,400
Speaker 1: big news in the NFL. Tom Brady announces he will

1755
01:30:59,439 --> 01:31:02,400
Speaker 1: not be journeying to the New England Patriots after twenty

1756
01:31:02,439 --> 01:31:06,320
Speaker 1: seasons there. He announced on social media his football journey

1757
01:31:06,479 --> 01:31:08,559
Speaker 1: will take place else here. Where is that going to be?

1758
01:31:08,760 --> 01:31:11,640
Speaker 1: There's plenty of speculation about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the

1759
01:31:11,720 --> 01:31:14,840
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers, maybe even the Miami Dolphins. Who will

1760
01:31:14,880 --> 01:31:18,599
Speaker 1: replace Brady? Is the Patriots quarterback? Maybe it's Jared Stidham,

1761
01:31:18,720 --> 01:31:21,160
Speaker 1: who sits as the top in house candidate. Maybe it's

1762
01:31:21,680 --> 01:31:24,599
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston. Maybe it's Andy Dalton, still to be determined.

1763
01:31:24,880 --> 01:31:27,200
Speaker 1: Maybe it's Cam Newton. The Panthers have allowed Cam Newton

1764
01:31:27,200 --> 01:31:30,560
Speaker 1: to seek a trade. His representatives and Cam say that

1765
01:31:30,560 --> 01:31:32,760
Speaker 1: that's not what they asked for. But the Panthers made

1766
01:31:32,800 --> 01:31:34,720
Speaker 1: that move and then the Panthers followed it up by

1767
01:31:36,520 --> 01:31:42,240
Speaker 1: signed Did they sign a quarterback? Now I'm confused. Bridgewater Bridgewater? Yeah, Bridge,

1768
01:31:42,360 --> 01:31:45,320
Speaker 1: that's what I thought. Yeah, why do I got to talk? Oh?

1769
01:31:45,360 --> 01:31:48,639
Speaker 1: This two days old report? Yeah, Bridgewater. Talks are ongoing

1770
01:31:48,720 --> 01:31:53,280
Speaker 1: between Teddy Bridgewater in the Carolina Panthers. Just too much,

1771
01:31:53,400 --> 01:31:55,880
Speaker 1: there's too much to keep track of. Maari Cooper signs

1772
01:31:55,880 --> 01:31:58,200
Speaker 1: a five year, one hundred million dollars deal with the Cowboys.

1773
01:31:58,200 --> 01:32:00,600
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota agrees to term with the Raiders, and the

1774
01:32:00,600 --> 01:32:05,040
Speaker 1: Giants have signed X Packers linebacker Blake Martinez. Panthers finalizing

1775
01:32:05,040 --> 01:32:08,200
Speaker 1: the deal with quarterback Teddy Bridgewater to be there starting quarterback.

1776
01:32:08,800 --> 01:32:11,919
Speaker 1: The new offensive coordinator gets a new quarterback in Teddy Bridgewater.

1777
01:32:12,160 --> 01:32:15,559
Speaker 1: There is basic agreement, according to Ian Rappaport of rap Sheet,

1778
01:32:15,600 --> 01:32:18,800
Speaker 1: and that is the update from One Bill's Drive, John

1779
01:32:18,880 --> 01:32:22,479
Speaker 1: Murphy Steve Tasker in our one Buffalo studio. Man, there's

1780
01:32:22,479 --> 01:32:24,120
Speaker 1: a lot going on. I'm sorry to getting lost in

1781
01:32:24,120 --> 01:32:25,559
Speaker 1: the middle of that, Steve. You want to take over?

1782
01:32:26,120 --> 01:32:28,080
Speaker 1: That's all You're doing good. I had something teat up

1783
01:32:28,080 --> 01:32:29,800
Speaker 1: here to talk about Bridgewater, but it says talks are

1784
01:32:29,840 --> 01:32:32,000
Speaker 1: underway between the Bears and Teddy brow. You didn't sign

1785
01:32:32,040 --> 01:32:34,360
Speaker 1: with the Bears. He signed with Caroline. That was it

1786
01:32:34,840 --> 01:32:37,240
Speaker 1: moves too fast, too fast for me. Too fast. Bro.

1787
01:32:37,280 --> 01:32:38,559
Speaker 1: We got a guy who's gonna sort of out for

1788
01:32:38,640 --> 01:32:40,439
Speaker 1: us on the line right now. He's an NFL writer

1789
01:32:40,520 --> 01:32:42,759
Speaker 1: for The Athletic dot Com, the host of the GM

1790
01:32:42,760 --> 01:32:46,479
Speaker 1: Shuffle podcast on Radio dot Com. Former Brown's GM Mike

1791
01:32:46,520 --> 01:32:48,559
Speaker 1: Lombardi on the line with US solo Mike, John Murphy

1792
01:32:48,560 --> 01:32:51,080
Speaker 1: and Steave Tasker here in Buffalo. I can't even keep up, Mike,

1793
01:32:51,120 --> 01:32:53,639
Speaker 1: that's how quickly things are moving. John, I will say

1794
01:32:53,640 --> 01:32:57,920
Speaker 1: that Teddy Bridgewater will sign will Cam Newton. You all,

1795
01:32:58,200 --> 01:32:59,920
Speaker 1: you just kind of kind of got stumbled in there.

1796
01:33:00,000 --> 01:33:04,000
Speaker 1: It happens the best of us job. They're gonna trade

1797
01:33:04,000 --> 01:33:06,800
Speaker 1: Cam Newton too, Mike. Now that's a great question. I

1798
01:33:06,840 --> 01:33:08,960
Speaker 1: don't know, you know, I think that that's a fair

1799
01:33:09,520 --> 01:33:11,760
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, first of all, you can't you

1800
01:33:11,840 --> 01:33:14,880
Speaker 1: can't give him a physical, right, So how you going

1801
01:33:14,920 --> 01:33:16,800
Speaker 1: to trade for Cam Newton without a physical I mean

1802
01:33:16,840 --> 01:33:18,840
Speaker 1: he was stile a walking boot as of a month ago.

1803
01:33:19,600 --> 01:33:22,280
Speaker 1: So I don't know, you know. And it's not really

1804
01:33:22,280 --> 01:33:25,519
Speaker 1: fair to Cam to judge his season based on last year.

1805
01:33:25,560 --> 01:33:27,679
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, his hanging back off the shoulders

1806
01:33:27,680 --> 01:33:29,799
Speaker 1: show and even he hurts his foot in the Patriot

1807
01:33:29,880 --> 01:33:32,439
Speaker 1: preseason game. I mean it's a little bit tough on

1808
01:33:32,600 --> 01:33:35,559
Speaker 1: that one. I'm a little can, you know. I think, Look,

1809
01:33:35,680 --> 01:33:37,400
Speaker 1: Matt Rule is gonna do what Matt Rule does, and

1810
01:33:37,479 --> 01:33:39,600
Speaker 1: he's gonna rebuild a program like he always has a

1811
01:33:39,680 --> 01:33:42,400
Speaker 1: temple or Baylor, and Cam's probably not a part of it.

1812
01:33:42,479 --> 01:33:44,320
Speaker 1: But I think Cam's gonna get a breadth of a

1813
01:33:44,400 --> 01:33:47,320
Speaker 1: fresh air and try something else. Yeah, and I would

1814
01:33:47,320 --> 01:33:49,519
Speaker 1: agree with that, And I think he'll probably show up

1815
01:33:49,560 --> 01:33:52,080
Speaker 1: healthy enough to play and play well. The other guy

1816
01:33:52,120 --> 01:33:53,760
Speaker 1: And when I can't remember his name, the guy in

1817
01:33:53,880 --> 01:33:56,120
Speaker 1: New England, Tom Brady, where do you think he's gonna

1818
01:33:56,120 --> 01:33:58,880
Speaker 1: have that guy? Yeah? You know, that's a great question,

1819
01:33:59,520 --> 01:34:01,400
Speaker 1: you know, and the best answer that I can give

1820
01:34:01,439 --> 01:34:03,639
Speaker 1: you the most. I don't know. I mean, I think

1821
01:34:04,120 --> 01:34:10,160
Speaker 1: I can't imagine him operating in nothing against Bruce Arians' offense,

1822
01:34:10,240 --> 01:34:12,479
Speaker 1: but I just don't that doesn't fit them. I mean

1823
01:34:12,600 --> 01:34:15,680
Speaker 1: what fits him is the Chargers where he can kind

1824
01:34:15,680 --> 01:34:18,200
Speaker 1: of go out there and they've got the skilled players

1825
01:34:18,280 --> 01:34:21,120
Speaker 1: around them to really make a difference. And if they

1826
01:34:21,240 --> 01:34:23,840
Speaker 1: get that offensive line going and if they can repair that,

1827
01:34:23,960 --> 01:34:25,920
Speaker 1: which is what they have to do. I mean, it's

1828
01:34:25,920 --> 01:34:28,479
Speaker 1: what almost killed Philip Urbs last year, was that offensive

1829
01:34:28,520 --> 01:34:31,800
Speaker 1: line there with that defense. Now, with that defense, they

1830
01:34:31,840 --> 01:34:34,280
Speaker 1: can compete. And Tom's not the kind of guy who's

1831
01:34:34,280 --> 01:34:35,880
Speaker 1: gonna say, well, I don't want to go into the

1832
01:34:35,920 --> 01:34:38,680
Speaker 1: same division as Patrick Maholmes, you know, he's not going

1833
01:34:38,760 --> 01:34:40,559
Speaker 1: to be like that. I think he's gonna be fairly.

1834
01:34:41,800 --> 01:34:43,600
Speaker 1: I mean, he's gonna be willing to say, you know what,

1835
01:34:43,720 --> 01:34:45,679
Speaker 1: I can do that. And so with the skilled players

1836
01:34:45,720 --> 01:34:49,200
Speaker 1: they have, they've signed accular to an extension. You know,

1837
01:34:49,360 --> 01:34:51,880
Speaker 1: they got the Hunter Henry they signed, They've got they've

1838
01:34:51,880 --> 01:34:53,600
Speaker 1: got to repair the line, Like I said, but with

1839
01:34:53,800 --> 01:34:56,360
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, Hunter Henry, they've got the skilled

1840
01:34:56,360 --> 01:34:58,800
Speaker 1: players to make the huge difference. My god, I listened

1841
01:34:58,840 --> 01:35:01,320
Speaker 1: to a portion of the GMS Shuffle podcast that you

1842
01:35:01,400 --> 01:35:04,200
Speaker 1: do on radio dot Com, and you said the Patriots

1843
01:35:04,760 --> 01:35:07,120
Speaker 1: ultimately decided that they're ready to take the next step

1844
01:35:07,160 --> 01:35:10,240
Speaker 1: into the future with the Jared's did hum huh? Well,

1845
01:35:10,280 --> 01:35:12,200
Speaker 1: I think there's no doubt. I mean, looks that's the

1846
01:35:12,280 --> 01:35:14,880
Speaker 1: Patriot way, right, I mean, the Patriot way is all

1847
01:35:14,880 --> 01:35:17,200
Speaker 1: about trying to find young players develop them. I mean

1848
01:35:17,320 --> 01:35:20,880
Speaker 1: Belichick and Charlie Munger or Warren Buffett are the same guy.

1849
01:35:21,240 --> 01:35:23,439
Speaker 1: I mean, they buy low, they develop, and then they

1850
01:35:23,520 --> 01:35:26,040
Speaker 1: sell high. And look, I think this was the perfect

1851
01:35:26,080 --> 01:35:30,400
Speaker 1: time for them to split. Tom obviously is in position

1852
01:35:30,439 --> 01:35:33,000
Speaker 1: to make a lot of money. The Patriots really can't

1853
01:35:33,080 --> 01:35:35,920
Speaker 1: satisfy the needs. Right, they can't say, Okay, Tom, he's

1854
01:35:35,920 --> 01:35:38,080
Speaker 1: thirty five million, but we don't have any million. We

1855
01:35:38,160 --> 01:35:40,280
Speaker 1: don't have any more money to go spend on free agents.

1856
01:35:40,560 --> 01:35:42,400
Speaker 1: You know, it's a little bit of a problem. And

1857
01:35:42,600 --> 01:35:45,080
Speaker 1: so what are we going to do? And probably what

1858
01:35:45,240 --> 01:35:47,920
Speaker 1: they did was they just disagreed on where the trajectory

1859
01:35:47,960 --> 01:35:50,839
Speaker 1: of the organization was going to go. With mutual respect

1860
01:35:51,360 --> 01:35:54,360
Speaker 1: and life goes on. He'll always be a patriot. I mean, look,

1861
01:35:54,520 --> 01:35:56,960
Speaker 1: Ronnie Lotte plays for the Jets. Does anybody remember that

1862
01:35:57,400 --> 01:36:00,600
Speaker 1: Joe Montana was with the Chiefs? You know, you know

1863
01:36:00,760 --> 01:36:02,960
Speaker 1: we've seen it. Willie Mays played for the Mats. I mean,

1864
01:36:03,360 --> 01:36:07,519
Speaker 1: it happens in sports. We'll get over it. Hey, I

1865
01:36:07,600 --> 01:36:10,000
Speaker 1: want to get into this specifics of buffalose moves, but

1866
01:36:10,720 --> 01:36:12,240
Speaker 1: you know what they've done, and we'll talk about that.

1867
01:36:12,360 --> 01:36:15,759
Speaker 1: But Brady leaving New England and the moves the Bills

1868
01:36:15,800 --> 01:36:18,880
Speaker 1: have made, how does that change the AFC East, How

1869
01:36:18,920 --> 01:36:21,400
Speaker 1: the ACA stacks up? Do you think? Oh? I think

1870
01:36:21,439 --> 01:36:23,799
Speaker 1: the AFC East. Look, I think I have great respect

1871
01:36:23,880 --> 01:36:26,439
Speaker 1: for McDermott, have great respect for being what they've done.

1872
01:36:26,439 --> 01:36:29,360
Speaker 1: They built the culture. I think the reality here has

1873
01:36:29,360 --> 01:36:31,960
Speaker 1: all comes down to one guy made up, gave up

1874
01:36:31,960 --> 01:36:33,880
Speaker 1: a lot of assets to get stuff on Dix, who's

1875
01:36:33,880 --> 01:36:36,080
Speaker 1: a fabulous player, second year of a five year contract.

1876
01:36:36,439 --> 01:36:38,880
Speaker 1: Here's the key, and I'm gonna give you some numbers.

1877
01:36:38,920 --> 01:36:42,080
Speaker 1: And you've witnessed every one of these throws. But in

1878
01:36:42,200 --> 01:36:44,560
Speaker 1: the last in his career, Josh Allen is six for

1879
01:36:44,720 --> 01:36:48,760
Speaker 1: fifty on throws over thirty yards, six for fifty, six

1880
01:36:48,960 --> 01:36:52,840
Speaker 1: for fifty and on throws between twenty and thirty yards,

1881
01:36:52,920 --> 01:36:56,680
Speaker 1: he's twenty one for seventy six, twenty one for seventy six,

1882
01:36:56,800 --> 01:37:00,679
Speaker 1: one interception, one touchdown on throws over thirty three touchdowns,

1883
01:37:00,720 --> 01:37:04,719
Speaker 1: three interceptions. If that doesn't improve, if then it doesn't

1884
01:37:04,720 --> 01:37:07,599
Speaker 1: do any good to have steff on Dick's. It doesn't

1885
01:37:07,600 --> 01:37:10,240
Speaker 1: do any good to have anything else. If that doesn't improve,

1886
01:37:10,680 --> 01:37:13,160
Speaker 1: then where are they that has to improve? That was

1887
01:37:13,240 --> 01:37:16,560
Speaker 1: a concern of Josh Allen coming out of college accuracy

1888
01:37:16,600 --> 01:37:19,960
Speaker 1: with the football. And he's got unique skills as an athlete,

1889
01:37:20,120 --> 01:37:22,760
Speaker 1: He's got an incredible arm. But if he is going

1890
01:37:22,840 --> 01:37:26,120
Speaker 1: to have so many long foul balls as six for

1891
01:37:26,320 --> 01:37:28,840
Speaker 1: fifty on throws over thirty yards, then it's going to

1892
01:37:28,880 --> 01:37:31,479
Speaker 1: be hard, right, and I think it comes down to you.

1893
01:37:31,520 --> 01:37:33,720
Speaker 1: They got to build a team that is Taylor made

1894
01:37:33,800 --> 01:37:35,559
Speaker 1: for him and his skill set. They did it last

1895
01:37:35,640 --> 01:37:37,880
Speaker 1: year with a defense that was in the top three

1896
01:37:37,920 --> 01:37:39,760
Speaker 1: of the league, and they tried to give him some

1897
01:37:39,880 --> 01:37:41,880
Speaker 1: possession receivers to get him a thrown. They got his

1898
01:37:42,280 --> 01:37:45,200
Speaker 1: completion rate from fifty two to fifty eight. Is there

1899
01:37:45,240 --> 01:37:47,400
Speaker 1: another step do you see that he can make, maybe

1900
01:37:47,479 --> 01:37:50,479
Speaker 1: get to sixty five percent completions and cut down the

1901
01:37:50,520 --> 01:37:54,080
Speaker 1: interceptions earlier in the season. I don't think it's about Steve.

1902
01:37:54,120 --> 01:37:56,840
Speaker 1: I really think it's really about no more long foul balls.

1903
01:37:57,240 --> 01:37:59,519
Speaker 1: I think I could live with fifty eight percent completion

1904
01:37:59,680 --> 01:38:02,840
Speaker 1: if he was if he was twenty for fifty on

1905
01:38:02,960 --> 01:38:06,200
Speaker 1: throws over thirty yards, if we had more of those

1906
01:38:06,320 --> 01:38:09,160
Speaker 1: completions down the field, you can forgive the You know,

1907
01:38:09,280 --> 01:38:12,719
Speaker 1: percentage of completions is really insignificant. It's yards per attempt

1908
01:38:12,800 --> 01:38:15,920
Speaker 1: that matters the most. And I really think if he's

1909
01:38:16,000 --> 01:38:18,240
Speaker 1: able to make some of those throws down the field,

1910
01:38:18,520 --> 01:38:21,240
Speaker 1: then the Bills walk away with the division. But if

1911
01:38:21,320 --> 01:38:24,560
Speaker 1: he has improven, to me, the first half of the

1912
01:38:24,720 --> 01:38:26,720
Speaker 1: Texans game, he was proven it. To me, I'm like,

1913
01:38:26,800 --> 01:38:29,280
Speaker 1: who is this guy, right, who is this player? I

1914
01:38:29,320 --> 01:38:31,599
Speaker 1: haven't seen this guy all here? And then the second

1915
01:38:31,640 --> 01:38:34,240
Speaker 1: half and the third, especially the fourth quarter, he went

1916
01:38:34,280 --> 01:38:36,479
Speaker 1: back to the Josh Allen that I remember. The key

1917
01:38:36,520 --> 01:38:40,240
Speaker 1: to the season is on him. You know, nobody knows

1918
01:38:40,320 --> 01:38:42,000
Speaker 1: for sure, Mike, I will tell you. He had a

1919
01:38:42,040 --> 01:38:45,960
Speaker 1: great conversation at the Combine with his offseason quarterback guru,

1920
01:38:46,160 --> 01:38:48,800
Speaker 1: Jordan Palmer, who told us exactly what they're doing to

1921
01:38:48,880 --> 01:38:52,120
Speaker 1: fix the deep pass problem. And I'm encouraged. And again,

1922
01:38:52,439 --> 01:38:53,800
Speaker 1: you don't know until you see it, right, but it

1923
01:38:53,880 --> 01:38:56,640
Speaker 1: sounds like he's identified that is his issue and he's

1924
01:38:56,680 --> 01:38:59,479
Speaker 1: working on it. So I'm encouraged by that. Well, it

1925
01:38:59,640 --> 01:39:01,720
Speaker 1: was been a issue's coming out. I mean, that's what

1926
01:39:01,880 --> 01:39:03,720
Speaker 1: Jordan's gonna pay to do it. He's paid to tell

1927
01:39:03,760 --> 01:39:08,840
Speaker 1: you that everything's gonna be okay. He tells anything, Yeah,

1928
01:39:09,080 --> 01:39:11,679
Speaker 1: well he's he's working for Josh. You know he's gonna

1929
01:39:11,680 --> 01:39:14,000
Speaker 1: tell you if he's gonna be okay. You know, it's

1930
01:39:14,040 --> 01:39:15,479
Speaker 1: one thing that you know, how many times are you

1931
01:39:15,479 --> 01:39:17,519
Speaker 1: going out to the driving range and it just drives

1932
01:39:17,560 --> 01:39:20,160
Speaker 1: straight down the middle. It's when pressure comes in and

1933
01:39:20,240 --> 01:39:22,200
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you've got to move react and

1934
01:39:22,280 --> 01:39:24,760
Speaker 1: make throws. Hey, I'm not saying he can't do it.

1935
01:39:24,960 --> 01:39:27,720
Speaker 1: I'm just saying he's got to do it. Well, let's

1936
01:39:27,720 --> 01:39:29,360
Speaker 1: talk about some of the other stuff that's going on

1937
01:39:29,479 --> 01:39:32,080
Speaker 1: today in the in the NFL. About where do you

1938
01:39:32,120 --> 01:39:34,479
Speaker 1: think we talked about Brady? We talked about Teddy Bridgewater

1939
01:39:34,520 --> 01:39:36,840
Speaker 1: going to Carolina? Where does Philip Rivers land? Where does

1940
01:39:36,960 --> 01:39:39,920
Speaker 1: Nick Foles end up? If he's not in Jacksonville. Andy

1941
01:39:40,000 --> 01:39:42,640
Speaker 1: Dalton's on the trade block in Cincinnati. There's a lot

1942
01:39:42,720 --> 01:39:46,000
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks and Marcus Mariota we found out, is going

1943
01:39:46,080 --> 01:39:48,559
Speaker 1: to be a backup in Vegas. You know, all these

1944
01:39:48,600 --> 01:39:50,559
Speaker 1: guys are starting to sift through. What do you think

1945
01:39:50,600 --> 01:39:52,880
Speaker 1: the next big shoe to drop after Brady is? Where

1946
01:39:52,920 --> 01:39:55,439
Speaker 1: does Philip Rivers land? Where does Andy Dalton end up?

1947
01:39:55,760 --> 01:39:59,080
Speaker 1: And I'm surprised that you don't think that the Patriots

1948
01:39:59,120 --> 01:40:01,800
Speaker 1: won't pick up one of the veterans, you know, I

1949
01:40:01,960 --> 01:40:06,160
Speaker 1: think I really think that, you know, the Colts are

1950
01:40:06,200 --> 01:40:08,080
Speaker 1: the front runners for Rivers. Now, it's not a done

1951
01:40:08,160 --> 01:40:09,920
Speaker 1: deal as of yesterday and as of today, and I

1952
01:40:10,000 --> 01:40:13,360
Speaker 1: haven't checked within the last two hours if it's done,

1953
01:40:13,400 --> 01:40:16,080
Speaker 1: But I think I think ultimately that's really where it's

1954
01:40:16,120 --> 01:40:20,720
Speaker 1: got to go. And you know, and so I think

1955
01:40:20,840 --> 01:40:23,880
Speaker 1: he's there. I don't know what happens to Bridgewater. I mean,

1956
01:40:24,200 --> 01:40:26,240
Speaker 1: excuse me, I don't know what happens with Winston. If

1957
01:40:26,280 --> 01:40:30,160
Speaker 1: Brady goes to Tampa, then what does happen? I think

1958
01:40:30,160 --> 01:40:32,600
Speaker 1: if Brady doesn't go to the Chargers, Let's say I

1959
01:40:32,680 --> 01:40:35,519
Speaker 1: think the Chargers draft one in the first round. I

1960
01:40:35,600 --> 01:40:37,600
Speaker 1: think the Chargers draft one if Brady goes there, I

1961
01:40:37,680 --> 01:40:40,519
Speaker 1: think they'll draft an offensive tackle. They've got ty Rod

1962
01:40:40,560 --> 01:40:42,320
Speaker 1: Teller to be the backup. But I'm sure they'll draft

1963
01:40:42,360 --> 01:40:45,000
Speaker 1: one down the road as well. So there's a lot

1964
01:40:45,080 --> 01:40:47,080
Speaker 1: of moving pieces. There is going to be a quarterback

1965
01:40:47,200 --> 01:40:49,400
Speaker 1: left without a dance car. It might be Cam Newton. Now,

1966
01:40:49,840 --> 01:40:52,840
Speaker 1: it could be Cam Newton, you know, and we just

1967
01:40:52,920 --> 01:40:54,599
Speaker 1: got to wait and see how those things plays out.

1968
01:40:54,640 --> 01:40:56,880
Speaker 1: We'll see what Brady does in the next forty eight hours.

1969
01:40:57,280 --> 01:40:59,639
Speaker 1: It might be Cam Newton. Because of the health questions,

1970
01:40:59,720 --> 01:41:02,960
Speaker 1: right is correct? Correct? I mean until he can pass

1971
01:41:03,000 --> 01:41:05,960
Speaker 1: a physical, who knows what he's gonna do. Right, until

1972
01:41:06,040 --> 01:41:08,160
Speaker 1: he can pass, until you can say this, here's what

1973
01:41:08,280 --> 01:41:10,240
Speaker 1: I do know. I do know the Bears have a

1974
01:41:10,360 --> 01:41:12,880
Speaker 1: legitimate chance to compete for a Super Bowl if they

1975
01:41:13,120 --> 01:41:15,080
Speaker 1: decide to make a change of quarterback. As long as

1976
01:41:15,120 --> 01:41:17,800
Speaker 1: they keep MVP Mitchell on the roster, they've got no chance.

1977
01:41:18,280 --> 01:41:21,479
Speaker 1: Right they're in deep conversations with Jacksonville. I'd be surprised

1978
01:41:21,520 --> 01:41:24,040
Speaker 1: if it didn't happen today they traded for either Andy

1979
01:41:24,120 --> 01:41:27,120
Speaker 1: Dalton or Nick Foles. Nick Foles played for John d

1980
01:41:27,200 --> 01:41:30,320
Speaker 1: Filippo a Jacksonville. Last year. He played for d Philippo

1981
01:41:30,520 --> 01:41:34,280
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. He's been with Bill Laser before. We also

1982
01:41:34,439 --> 01:41:37,479
Speaker 1: know that Matt Naggie and Andy Reid are really close,

1983
01:41:37,520 --> 01:41:41,799
Speaker 1: and Andy Reid has been singing the praises of Nick Foles,

1984
01:41:41,920 --> 01:41:44,639
Speaker 1: even though it's fifteen million Jacksonville. To me, it seems

1985
01:41:44,720 --> 01:41:47,599
Speaker 1: really clear they're in the Trevor Lawrence twenty and twenty

1986
01:41:47,640 --> 01:41:49,960
Speaker 1: one first pick in the draft situation. I mean, that's

1987
01:41:49,960 --> 01:41:52,160
Speaker 1: what they're they're tearing down there because they usually they

1988
01:41:52,280 --> 01:41:55,799
Speaker 1: love to participate in free agency. Remember this about Jacksonville.

1989
01:41:55,960 --> 01:41:58,400
Speaker 1: They haven't had a commenced story a pick in this decade,

1990
01:41:59,120 --> 01:42:01,600
Speaker 1: right they haven't, So now they're not even participating. What

1991
01:42:01,640 --> 01:42:03,280
Speaker 1: does that tell you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes

1992
01:42:03,320 --> 01:42:05,960
Speaker 1: to figure that one out, right, So let's talk about

1993
01:42:06,000 --> 01:42:07,600
Speaker 1: some of the teams that have gotten better in this

1994
01:42:07,720 --> 01:42:10,559
Speaker 1: free agent market. Who has jumped out at you as

1995
01:42:10,680 --> 01:42:13,360
Speaker 1: being you know, obviously the teams with the most salary

1996
01:42:13,439 --> 01:42:17,000
Speaker 1: caps get off for the fastest start. Who's really helped themselves? Well, I,

1997
01:42:17,280 --> 01:42:19,439
Speaker 1: you know, I like I like the Forest Buckner. I

1998
01:42:19,520 --> 01:42:21,760
Speaker 1: think he's a really good inside penetrator. Look, the all

1999
01:42:21,840 --> 01:42:23,280
Speaker 1: in the AFC is you're gonna have to deal with

2000
01:42:23,360 --> 01:42:25,439
Speaker 1: this mahomeskid, right, You're gonna have to beat him. The

2001
01:42:25,479 --> 01:42:27,719
Speaker 1: only way going to beat him is through inside pressure.

2002
01:42:27,760 --> 01:42:30,400
Speaker 1: You've got to rebuild your defensive line. You've got to

2003
01:42:30,439 --> 01:42:32,559
Speaker 1: do that, you know. I like the Aja Client signing

2004
01:42:32,600 --> 01:42:34,400
Speaker 1: for Buffalo. I think that's a really good signing. The

2005
01:42:34,520 --> 01:42:37,519
Speaker 1: special team linebacker, I think those are really good signings. Look,

2006
01:42:37,600 --> 01:42:39,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo is improving their football team, and now they need

2007
01:42:39,920 --> 01:42:42,000
Speaker 1: to replace Jordan Phillips, who was a really good player

2008
01:42:42,040 --> 01:42:44,639
Speaker 1: for him last year. You know, Jordan Phillips had always

2009
01:42:44,680 --> 01:42:47,280
Speaker 1: been one of those guys high low, high low, but

2010
01:42:47,479 --> 01:42:49,280
Speaker 1: last year he was all high. They're gonna have to

2011
01:42:49,320 --> 01:42:51,680
Speaker 1: get another defensive lineman in there to help him in

2012
01:42:51,800 --> 01:42:54,080
Speaker 1: that situation. In all of a first round pick. But

2013
01:42:54,320 --> 01:42:57,160
Speaker 1: for me, as you looked over the league, I think

2014
01:42:57,200 --> 01:42:59,799
Speaker 1: the teams that haven't done as much yet are probably

2015
01:42:59,800 --> 01:43:01,960
Speaker 1: a head of the curve because they haven't overpaid for anybody.

2016
01:43:02,200 --> 01:43:04,240
Speaker 1: I like what the Colts have done. I think the

2017
01:43:04,320 --> 01:43:07,760
Speaker 1: forty nine ers losing Buckner's hurts them. Signing Armstead's great,

2018
01:43:08,040 --> 01:43:11,200
Speaker 1: but Buckner was their force inside. So and then you

2019
01:43:11,280 --> 01:43:13,200
Speaker 1: look at like teams like the Rams. I think the

2020
01:43:13,320 --> 01:43:16,160
Speaker 1: Rams are losing players, that their cap situation is so

2021
01:43:16,360 --> 01:43:18,920
Speaker 1: bad and I've set it for two years now that

2022
01:43:19,040 --> 01:43:21,400
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be even more problematic. We're

2023
01:43:21,479 --> 01:43:23,640
Speaker 1: on the line with Mike Lombardi, NFL writer for the

2024
01:43:23,720 --> 01:43:26,640
Speaker 1: Athletic dot Com, former Browns general manager. The big move

2025
01:43:26,720 --> 01:43:28,760
Speaker 1: the Bills made was the trade, not free agency, and

2026
01:43:28,840 --> 01:43:31,799
Speaker 1: I wonder what you think of the trade for Stefan Diggs,

2027
01:43:31,840 --> 01:43:34,400
Speaker 1: in particular, on a day which saw a lot of

2028
01:43:34,439 --> 01:43:37,960
Speaker 1: wide receivers move. I think the Bills gave up considerably

2029
01:43:38,240 --> 01:43:41,599
Speaker 1: to get Stefon Diggs, right compared to say what Houston

2030
01:43:41,680 --> 01:43:44,400
Speaker 1: got for their guy. Yeah, no doubt. They paid a

2031
01:43:44,439 --> 01:43:46,160
Speaker 1: heavy price, and it's going to be a great price

2032
01:43:46,240 --> 01:43:49,080
Speaker 1: if Alan can could beat those passes. But look, you know,

2033
01:43:49,240 --> 01:43:51,360
Speaker 1: here's what you have to understand. When people say this

2034
01:43:51,479 --> 01:43:54,080
Speaker 1: is a great wide receiver draft, what they're telling you

2035
01:43:54,200 --> 01:43:57,200
Speaker 1: is it's not a great draft because you know what

2036
01:43:57,360 --> 01:43:59,760
Speaker 1: we've now seen by clubs who know what's going on

2037
01:44:00,040 --> 01:44:03,400
Speaker 1: the draft. We've seen teams trade for receivers, veteran receivers.

2038
01:44:03,520 --> 01:44:06,280
Speaker 1: Every veteran receivers available. You can get Beckham if you

2039
01:44:06,320 --> 01:44:08,960
Speaker 1: want them right now. Receivers are available in the NFL

2040
01:44:09,080 --> 01:44:12,000
Speaker 1: because there are some there's there's quality within the depth

2041
01:44:12,439 --> 01:44:13,800
Speaker 1: of the draft where you can get a guy in

2042
01:44:13,840 --> 01:44:15,559
Speaker 1: the second of the third round that perhaps can come

2043
01:44:15,600 --> 01:44:18,000
Speaker 1: in and play at a decent level where you're not

2044
01:44:18,160 --> 01:44:21,679
Speaker 1: paying all that money on the other end wide receiver market.

2045
01:44:21,720 --> 01:44:24,400
Speaker 1: And Marie Cooper gets five years one hundred million dollars,

2046
01:44:24,560 --> 01:44:27,479
Speaker 1: the Bills get Stefan Diggs for eleven million per year.

2047
01:44:27,840 --> 01:44:30,960
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's right. I don't know, pay the

2048
01:44:31,040 --> 01:44:32,519
Speaker 1: hell of a They pay the hell of a price

2049
01:44:32,600 --> 01:44:34,879
Speaker 1: for the contract. Now here's the problem. You know Hopkins.

2050
01:44:34,960 --> 01:44:39,120
Speaker 1: Everybody said they you know the Texans got raped, right, Well,

2051
01:44:39,160 --> 01:44:41,960
Speaker 1: the Texans been shopping Hopkins for over year. I've said

2052
01:44:41,960 --> 01:44:44,360
Speaker 1: it on my podcast last summer. The reality of it

2053
01:44:44,520 --> 01:44:46,880
Speaker 1: is Hopkins once twenty million a year. He wanted it

2054
01:44:47,000 --> 01:44:49,439
Speaker 1: before Marie Cooper got twenty million a year. He's gonna

2055
01:44:49,479 --> 01:44:51,680
Speaker 1: want it after more. He's gonna want more after. That's

2056
01:44:51,720 --> 01:44:56,439
Speaker 1: gonna be Arizona's problem. Let's talk about the Houston Texans.

2057
01:44:56,680 --> 01:44:59,200
Speaker 1: Is there? I mean, it seems like they're struggling now,

2058
01:44:59,360 --> 01:45:01,439
Speaker 1: trying to pay the prices for the moves they've made

2059
01:45:01,479 --> 01:45:04,200
Speaker 1: to make that run last offseason just a couple of

2060
01:45:04,280 --> 01:45:06,320
Speaker 1: months ago. Are they gonna be able to keep on

2061
01:45:06,479 --> 01:45:10,160
Speaker 1: keeping on? Or is Deshaun Watson out there by himself? No.

2062
01:45:10,320 --> 01:45:11,840
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna keep on, but I think they

2063
01:45:11,880 --> 01:45:13,519
Speaker 1: had to get their capital order. Look, they're gonna have

2064
01:45:13,520 --> 01:45:15,240
Speaker 1: to give the money. They're gonna have to give the

2065
01:45:15,320 --> 01:45:17,680
Speaker 1: money to Watson, There's no doubt about. They're gonna give

2066
01:45:17,680 --> 01:45:19,280
Speaker 1: it the tounsel and Watson. They're gonna give it to

2067
01:45:19,360 --> 01:45:21,040
Speaker 1: the left tackle in the quarterback. They got to do that,

2068
01:45:21,200 --> 01:45:24,839
Speaker 1: right Clowney. For all the talk about Clowney, Look Clowney

2069
01:45:24,880 --> 01:45:26,960
Speaker 1: has a hard time practice in every single day. He

2070
01:45:27,120 --> 01:45:29,559
Speaker 1: isn't even signed with anybody in free agency. He wants

2071
01:45:29,600 --> 01:45:32,719
Speaker 1: a boatload of money. They liquidated that. I think Hopkins

2072
01:45:32,800 --> 01:45:35,800
Speaker 1: wanted more money. They made the decision, look, let's get

2073
01:45:35,840 --> 01:45:39,240
Speaker 1: another player in here and will replace who's satisfied with

2074
01:45:39,320 --> 01:45:41,479
Speaker 1: this contract and get rid of one who's not. And

2075
01:45:41,600 --> 01:45:43,120
Speaker 1: I think that's what they did. I think Look, as

2076
01:45:43,160 --> 01:45:45,000
Speaker 1: long as you got a quarterback and you got a

2077
01:45:45,080 --> 01:45:47,120
Speaker 1: left tackle that can protect like they do with Counsel,

2078
01:45:47,400 --> 01:45:49,120
Speaker 1: you got a chance. They've got a lot of holes

2079
01:45:49,160 --> 01:45:51,519
Speaker 1: on that team. JJ Watson not getting any younger, They're

2080
01:45:51,520 --> 01:45:54,439
Speaker 1: gonna have to fix that team. As name before, Mike Lessing,

2081
01:45:54,520 --> 01:45:58,759
Speaker 1: I have for you, and I will acknowledge your issues

2082
01:45:58,840 --> 01:46:01,400
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen hitting the deep passage. Yes, he's got

2083
01:46:01,520 --> 01:46:03,679
Speaker 1: to fix that. But it's pretty clear that the Digs

2084
01:46:03,720 --> 01:46:05,200
Speaker 1: trade last night and then some of the other moves

2085
01:46:05,240 --> 01:46:08,120
Speaker 1: of Bills have made. Well, maybe it's not there. You

2086
01:46:08,240 --> 01:46:10,200
Speaker 1: tell me what message are the Bills sending the rest

2087
01:46:10,240 --> 01:46:14,000
Speaker 1: of the NFL. Are they competing for a championship? Now? Yeah,

2088
01:46:14,160 --> 01:46:16,559
Speaker 1: I definitely think they are. Look, and again, it all

2089
01:46:16,640 --> 01:46:20,360
Speaker 1: comes out to the quality of consistent play with the quarterback, right,

2090
01:46:20,520 --> 01:46:23,200
Speaker 1: I mean, that's who wins championships. Championships are done by

2091
01:46:23,240 --> 01:46:25,960
Speaker 1: guys who play well quarterback. That's the reality of it,

2092
01:46:26,240 --> 01:46:28,280
Speaker 1: and he's just got to take his game. He doesn't

2093
01:46:28,280 --> 01:46:30,600
Speaker 1: have to get fifty percent better, he doesn't have to

2094
01:46:30,680 --> 01:46:33,280
Speaker 1: get thirty percent better. He's gonna get ten percent better.

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Speaker 1: And if he does that, they're going to compete. And

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01:46:35,800 --> 01:46:37,840
Speaker 1: they've got to play the same way they played last year.

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Speaker 1: On defense. They've got to be opportunistic. They've got to

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01:46:39,840 --> 01:46:41,800
Speaker 1: turn the ball over. They don't give up any throws.

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Speaker 1: We haven't talked about Josh Norman. He fits their scheme.

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Speaker 1: He's not a man to man coverage guy, but he

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Speaker 1: does fit what they want to do. Hey, Mike, thanks

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Speaker 1: for this. Great to talk with you on this music day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Thanks Mike. Mike Lombardi, NFL writer

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01:46:55,560 --> 01:46:59,000
Speaker 1: for The Athletic dot com former Brown's GM twenty thirteen

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Speaker 1: and fourteen in the Whole so the GM Shuffle podcast

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Speaker 1: on Radio dot Com. We thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 1: We'll take your thoughts on the Stephan Diggs trade, that

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01:47:07,439 --> 01:47:10,360
Speaker 1: Tom Brady departure from New England. Got phone lines wide

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Speaker 1: open at eight O three fifty and toll free one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. I respect

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Speaker 1: Mike Lombardi. I think um and maybe just I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you the conversation we had with Jordan Palmer and Indie

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. I'm not saying it convinced me,

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01:47:25,080 --> 01:47:26,960
Speaker 1: but it led me to believe that that is going

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Speaker 1: to be fixed. The misconnection on deep passes for Josh

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01:47:30,439 --> 01:47:32,880
Speaker 1: Allen is going to be fixed only because I've seen

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01:47:32,960 --> 01:47:35,599
Speaker 1: Josh fixes is fall. I'm not saying he'll light it up.

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01:47:35,880 --> 01:47:37,519
Speaker 1: I'm saying it will be much better this year. I

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Speaker 1: believe that. Michael says, don't you know he's paid to

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Speaker 1: say that. I agree, But we've seen that before with Josh.

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01:47:43,760 --> 01:47:46,479
Speaker 1: He made a big leap forward and doing large part.

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01:47:46,600 --> 01:47:48,439
Speaker 1: And you talk about go back to when we do

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Speaker 1: our shows from training camp. The coaching staff said early

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01:47:51,520 --> 01:47:53,559
Speaker 1: on that when Josh came back to training camp started

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01:47:53,600 --> 01:47:55,840
Speaker 1: working out and doing all this stuff, they were like, wow, okay,

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01:47:55,920 --> 01:47:59,080
Speaker 1: he's been working on some stuff. The improvement was evident

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01:47:59,360 --> 01:48:02,960
Speaker 1: and that's on Josh and that hasn't changed. So whatever

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01:48:03,080 --> 01:48:05,080
Speaker 1: he needed to work on it, and you say being fixed,

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01:48:05,080 --> 01:48:07,960
Speaker 1: you're right. If he's what Lombardi said, six for fifty,

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01:48:08,880 --> 01:48:11,240
Speaker 1: you know, all you need to do is get to twenty.

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01:48:11,520 --> 01:48:14,479
Speaker 1: You know, hit, hit, just you know, one out of

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01:48:14,520 --> 01:48:17,120
Speaker 1: every you know, one out of every more five balls

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01:48:17,479 --> 01:48:20,680
Speaker 1: you know or whatever. You don't have to hit every

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01:48:20,760 --> 01:48:22,640
Speaker 1: one of those, but she's got to hit more of them.

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Speaker 1: And I think there's no question it'll be improved. How

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01:48:25,560 --> 01:48:28,280
Speaker 1: much it improves, and how everything else around it changes,

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01:48:28,560 --> 01:48:30,479
Speaker 1: how the offensive line plays, Is the running game a

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01:48:30,520 --> 01:48:33,320
Speaker 1: little bit better, a little bit more dominant? Is their

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01:48:33,360 --> 01:48:36,000
Speaker 1: screen pass game, you know, a little bit more prevalent?

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01:48:36,560 --> 01:48:39,160
Speaker 1: Do they hit you know, more higher percentage of throws

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01:48:39,200 --> 01:48:42,320
Speaker 1: other than the deep ball as well? And his play

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01:48:42,360 --> 01:48:44,320
Speaker 1: action to come and all this stuff is in the mix.

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01:48:44,800 --> 01:48:49,679
Speaker 1: So every improvement you make is gonna have a positive effect.

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01:48:50,200 --> 01:48:54,080
Speaker 1: And where those happen, certainly they all start an end

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01:48:54,120 --> 01:48:56,280
Speaker 1: with Josh and how hard he's worked in the offseason,

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01:48:56,400 --> 01:48:58,720
Speaker 1: and it'll and the evidence will you know, we may

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01:48:58,800 --> 01:49:01,080
Speaker 1: only know it next year in January, next year in

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01:49:01,120 --> 01:49:03,519
Speaker 1: February is to how much it's changed. It's a call

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Speaker 1: here Gary on a cell phone, Hello Gary, around the year,

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01:49:07,080 --> 01:49:10,760
Speaker 1: Hey guys, how y'all doing good? Good dude? Goody Uh.

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01:49:10,880 --> 01:49:14,360
Speaker 1: I'm pretty happy. I mean, obviously digs big, but um,

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01:49:14,840 --> 01:49:17,760
Speaker 1: gigs is big. Like I'd like to get out the

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01:49:17,880 --> 01:49:21,360
Speaker 1: running back. We need that. I just think he's a

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01:49:21,400 --> 01:49:23,760
Speaker 1: power more power back we need. Sorry, who do you

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01:49:23,800 --> 01:49:27,880
Speaker 1: want to get? Oh, Jordan Howard running back in the Eagles. Yeah, okay,

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01:49:28,479 --> 01:49:31,800
Speaker 1: Carlos Hide interested in Carlos Hide at all? Yeah? I

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01:49:31,880 --> 01:49:33,160
Speaker 1: mean I know what I was there. Yeah, I mean

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01:49:33,200 --> 01:49:35,599
Speaker 1: it's not what the money is obviously, you know, sure,

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Speaker 1: But if I had my choice, I want hour if

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01:49:37,600 --> 01:49:39,680
Speaker 1: the money's not the same, but it's the money's a

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Speaker 1: lot different. Yeah, I'll be a five. I want to,

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01:49:42,320 --> 01:49:44,240
Speaker 1: you know, a power back, kind of like you're saying, John,

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01:49:44,240 --> 01:49:46,320
Speaker 1: I know you've been talking about that the last couple

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01:49:46,360 --> 01:49:48,640
Speaker 1: of days. I'll get five high. But we need we

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Speaker 1: need a downhill run and running back, and Howard bits that.

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Speaker 1: In my eyes, DeVante Freeman doesn't fit the bill. You're saying, Yes,

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Speaker 1: of a power back, I guess, or maybe that offense

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01:49:59,640 --> 01:50:02,800
Speaker 1: is pretty Yeah, how Jordan Howard's a six foot two

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01:50:03,000 --> 01:50:05,439
Speaker 1: d and twenty five pound guys. So he's big, and

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Speaker 1: he is a downhill runner. He's only eighty five, he's

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01:50:09,280 --> 01:50:13,040
Speaker 1: only twenty five years old, and you know he only

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01:50:13,120 --> 01:50:15,200
Speaker 1: rushed for one hundred and nineteen tries last year. So

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01:50:15,320 --> 01:50:18,160
Speaker 1: it's you know, you know, like six or seven eight

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Speaker 1: carries a game on average, which is he was underutilized.

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01:50:21,840 --> 01:50:23,719
Speaker 1: If he comes to Buffalo, you can bet he'll probably

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01:50:23,760 --> 01:50:25,800
Speaker 1: get more than that, And given the way that they

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01:50:25,920 --> 01:50:28,360
Speaker 1: run their offense, if he starts having a good day,

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01:50:29,080 --> 01:50:32,679
Speaker 1: he'll get a lot more carries than that. So it'll

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Speaker 1: be interesting to see where they go. I don't think

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Speaker 1: I think I'm with you, though. I think they are

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01:50:36,920 --> 01:50:39,479
Speaker 1: going to get another guy at that position, whether it's

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Speaker 1: in the draft, free agency, and or maybe it's late

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01:50:42,560 --> 01:50:45,320
Speaker 1: in the game in free agency. I'm not gonna necessarily

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01:50:45,400 --> 01:50:47,360
Speaker 1: say that it's going to happen today or tomorrow in

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01:50:47,439 --> 01:50:50,320
Speaker 1: this tampering period, but I would say it's probably one

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01:50:50,320 --> 01:50:52,120
Speaker 1: of those, like one likely as one of those guys

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Speaker 1: that I was mentioned earlier in the show. It'll happen

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01:50:54,680 --> 01:50:58,240
Speaker 1: a week or ten days into free agency. I think

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01:50:58,240 --> 01:51:01,200
Speaker 1: they're gonna sign one more free agent in the next

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01:51:01,240 --> 01:51:03,880
Speaker 1: twenty four hours. Whether it's a back I talked about

2191
01:51:03,880 --> 01:51:06,519
Speaker 1: offensive lineman or defensive lineman earlier, I don't know, but

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01:51:06,600 --> 01:51:08,400
Speaker 1: I do think they're going to add it back, probably

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01:51:08,439 --> 01:51:10,800
Speaker 1: in free agency, and maybe it comes in the next

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours. Maybe it is Jordan Howard. Thanks you

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Speaker 1: for your call. Let's go to Roger in Connecticut. Hello, Roger,

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01:51:15,479 --> 01:51:20,800
Speaker 1: you're in the air. But hey, Bernie, how you guys doing? Bernie?

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, John, Hey, just want to say, man, what

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Speaker 1: wonderful moves. You know. I'm happy sitting over here at Connecticut,

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Speaker 1: but great the thing that I yeah, can you hear me? Okay,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, Bernie, Okay, No, I just wanted to say,

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Speaker 1: love you guys. Man, Steve Hall of Fame in my book, Man,

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame on my wall, and John you're already

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01:51:42,600 --> 01:51:44,920
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer man, you got doing great things.

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01:51:45,439 --> 01:51:47,880
Speaker 1: I just want to say, I really think that Buffalo

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01:51:48,000 --> 01:51:50,040
Speaker 1: is doing the right moves. I look at the cost,

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01:51:50,160 --> 01:51:52,160
Speaker 1: look at everything that we're doing. We're thinking still for

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Speaker 1: the future. I just want to say, I really wish

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01:51:55,720 --> 01:51:59,240
Speaker 1: we can really start signing our guys and sign that

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Speaker 1: head coach we got for years to come. I'll hang

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01:52:03,280 --> 01:52:05,600
Speaker 1: up and let's listen to your guys comment. Okay, thank you.

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01:52:06,080 --> 01:52:09,400
Speaker 1: We've heard that before and casual conversations and off the

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01:52:09,439 --> 01:52:11,840
Speaker 1: air and on the air about you know you think

2213
01:52:11,840 --> 01:52:13,840
Speaker 1: about it. Sean McDermott, I think is in the third

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01:52:13,920 --> 01:52:17,559
Speaker 1: year for five year deal, and two out of three

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01:52:17,640 --> 01:52:21,760
Speaker 1: years they've been with the team, they've been in the playoffs. Yeah,

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01:52:21,880 --> 01:52:24,000
Speaker 1: maybe you do. Yeah, I mean, maybe it's time you're

2217
01:52:24,040 --> 01:52:26,240
Speaker 1: gonna start having that conversation. You've got a lot of

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01:52:26,280 --> 01:52:28,360
Speaker 1: guys lined up due to the success they've had in

2219
01:52:28,479 --> 01:52:33,160
Speaker 1: recent years, getting ready to get paid. And I'm totally

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01:52:33,200 --> 01:52:35,040
Speaker 1: with you too about the moves they've made thus far

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Speaker 1: in free agency. I do trust Sean McDermott to kind

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01:52:38,880 --> 01:52:41,160
Speaker 1: of mold that into a team and move forward. I

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01:52:41,200 --> 01:52:42,920
Speaker 1: think it's gonna look a little different than it did

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01:52:43,040 --> 01:52:46,200
Speaker 1: last year. It's gonna be a new team. That's why

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01:52:46,200 --> 01:52:47,599
Speaker 1: I said at the end of this last year how

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01:52:47,680 --> 01:52:49,880
Speaker 1: fun it was to ride that team to ten wins

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01:52:50,479 --> 01:52:53,240
Speaker 1: and go to the playoffs and be living in that

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01:52:53,320 --> 01:52:56,040
Speaker 1: world like we were. It's gonna be hard to say

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01:52:56,080 --> 01:52:58,559
Speaker 1: goodbye to that team. We were bitter when they lost

2230
01:52:58,600 --> 01:53:00,559
Speaker 1: in overtime to Houston in the play us. We were

2231
01:53:00,680 --> 01:53:02,719
Speaker 1: you know, we went down a list of twenty different

2232
01:53:02,760 --> 01:53:04,519
Speaker 1: plays that could have made a difference in that game.

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01:53:04,760 --> 01:53:06,840
Speaker 1: It was hard to let go of that team. And

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01:53:07,040 --> 01:53:10,000
Speaker 1: this team hopefully will be brand new. It's gonna look

2235
01:53:10,080 --> 01:53:13,960
Speaker 1: different and we'll get to that place again with this group.

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Speaker 1: But I trust Sean McDermot to do that. And I

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01:53:16,400 --> 01:53:18,640
Speaker 1: think the moves that they have made this far in

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01:53:18,960 --> 01:53:22,120
Speaker 1: this early point of the of the tampering period, I

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01:53:22,280 --> 01:53:25,200
Speaker 1: agree with you. I'm loving what they're doing. Let's take Stocker,

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01:53:25,240 --> 01:53:27,639
Speaker 1: where the Bills are more than twenty four hours into

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01:53:27,680 --> 01:53:30,760
Speaker 1: open negotiation. They've made the big trade for Digs on

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01:53:30,880 --> 01:53:33,960
Speaker 1: one player on offense. They've signed three players for defense,

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01:53:34,040 --> 01:53:37,360
Speaker 1: a Meta Kevic aj Klein and Mario Addison and the

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01:53:37,439 --> 01:53:40,400
Speaker 1: corner and Josh Norman. Josh, sure that was last week,

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01:53:40,400 --> 01:53:43,040
Speaker 1: but yeah, I'll give you that. And they've lost They've

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01:53:43,120 --> 01:53:46,000
Speaker 1: lost two we're talking about additions or subtractions to the roster.

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01:53:46,400 --> 01:53:49,639
Speaker 1: They've lost two fairly important defensive players. I think they've

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01:53:49,640 --> 01:53:52,040
Speaker 1: done all right. And they also always signed Quentin Spain. Yeah,

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01:53:52,120 --> 01:53:54,160
Speaker 1: but that's not an addition nor a subtraction. I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about new faces on the roster. But here's the thing.

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01:53:56,920 --> 01:54:00,000
Speaker 1: They have done more, I mean free and begins tomorrow.

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01:54:00,200 --> 01:54:03,360
Speaker 1: Open negotiation started to fourteen hours ago. They've done more

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01:54:03,400 --> 01:54:05,559
Speaker 1: than I thought they would in this first period, most

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01:54:05,600 --> 01:54:07,439
Speaker 1: of it because of the trade. And that's kind of

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01:54:07,479 --> 01:54:09,600
Speaker 1: a function of free agency. I gotta tell you're right.

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01:54:09,760 --> 01:54:15,479
Speaker 1: That trade came down and you could you know it

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01:54:15,560 --> 01:54:17,400
Speaker 1: was ten thirty one a happen or whatever that was.

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01:54:17,640 --> 01:54:20,800
Speaker 1: And I was like, by and I and Jay Bird,

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01:54:20,840 --> 01:54:24,000
Speaker 1: our producer, you know, gave me the quick two word

2260
01:54:24,080 --> 01:54:25,960
Speaker 1: test like, oh, it's all you know, the whatever it was.

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01:54:26,080 --> 01:54:28,920
Speaker 1: He was like, ah, you know, And all of a sudden,

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01:54:28,960 --> 01:54:30,679
Speaker 1: it was like a mushroom cloud. All of a sudden,

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01:54:30,680 --> 01:54:32,840
Speaker 1: you couldn't read about anything else. Everybody was texting me

2264
01:54:32,920 --> 01:54:35,640
Speaker 1: and the five presidents and all the whole nine yards. Man,

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01:54:35,920 --> 01:54:41,240
Speaker 1: my phone started blowing up. And I think that was indicative,

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01:54:41,280 --> 01:54:42,960
Speaker 1: not just that we all thought it was a he's

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01:54:42,960 --> 01:54:44,520
Speaker 1: a great player and it's gonna be fun to watch

2268
01:54:44,600 --> 01:54:47,280
Speaker 1: him play in a Bill's uniform, but it kind of

2269
01:54:47,320 --> 01:54:50,200
Speaker 1: came out of left field for us trading for that guy. Yeah,

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01:54:50,720 --> 01:54:53,880
Speaker 1: and a guy like that, although it had been mentioned

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01:54:53,960 --> 01:54:55,880
Speaker 1: for sure weeks. Yeah, maybe the Bills get interested in

2272
01:54:55,880 --> 01:54:57,160
Speaker 1: and stuff. But you know what that's like, It's like

2273
01:54:57,240 --> 01:55:00,920
Speaker 1: that's a Pike dream. Yeah, bro, I didn't see it coming.

2274
01:55:00,960 --> 01:55:02,680
Speaker 1: I didn't either. I think that's the fun of it.

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01:55:02,800 --> 01:55:05,920
Speaker 1: Right on our text lesson ten forty three pm, producer

2276
01:55:06,040 --> 01:55:08,600
Speaker 1: Jay Harris to you and you and me, boys, this

2277
01:55:08,800 --> 01:55:11,720
Speaker 1: is big and I meet. I didn't even read it.

2278
01:55:11,960 --> 01:55:14,000
Speaker 1: You'd said I feel straight to I just went straight

2279
01:55:14,080 --> 01:55:15,920
Speaker 1: to I'd said good deal, and I went straight to

2280
01:55:15,960 --> 01:55:18,000
Speaker 1: Twitter and tried to find out I had a three

2281
01:55:18,120 --> 01:55:22,760
Speaker 1: letter response wow. And then I went to sleep right right.

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01:55:23,160 --> 01:55:25,320
Speaker 1: It was fun. It was fun. It was fun. We're

2283
01:55:25,320 --> 01:55:27,720
Speaker 1: gonna take more phone calls, gonna have more discussion about this.

2284
01:55:27,760 --> 01:55:30,240
Speaker 1: Should we take the break now? Yeah, yeah you should. Okay,

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01:55:30,320 --> 01:55:33,200
Speaker 1: we will, Uh, We're gonna take a break, coming back

2286
01:55:33,200 --> 01:55:35,520
Speaker 1: to talk more about the addition to Stefan Diggs. We'll

2287
01:55:35,560 --> 01:55:37,760
Speaker 1: talk if you want about Tom Brady leaving the division,

2288
01:55:37,800 --> 01:55:40,880
Speaker 1: apparently leaving the New England Patriots. Eight O three five

2289
01:55:40,960 --> 01:55:42,880
Speaker 1: fifty the number to call. We got wide open phones

2290
01:55:42,960 --> 01:55:44,480
Speaker 1: right now. We can talk about a lot of stuff.

2291
01:55:44,760 --> 01:55:48,720
Speaker 1: Eight three fifty uh in outside Buffalo, toll free call

2292
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Speaker 1: at one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

2293
01:55:51,800 --> 01:55:54,600
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Taker coming back. We are radio only

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Speaker 1: for the foreseeable future. It's one Bill's Live presented by

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Speaker 1: Gollida Health from the Seneca Studio, out your Park on

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01:56:00,680 --> 01:56:12,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio welcome back. It's one of those live

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Speaker 1: John Murphy and Seacansker Radio only today tomorrow as well,

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Speaker 1: Radio only. All right with that, Steve, take much money

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Speaker 1: you're gonna save on makeup? Right, it's perfect. I don't

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Speaker 1: have to put on my costume, gotcha? Gotcha? Great to

2301
01:56:26,480 --> 01:56:28,240
Speaker 1: be ready to do it. Just stayed six feet away

2302
01:56:28,280 --> 01:56:30,920
Speaker 1: and we're We're all good. I'm never never I never

2303
01:56:31,040 --> 01:56:35,240
Speaker 1: felt closer to you than the last three hours. I've

2304
01:56:35,800 --> 01:56:37,280
Speaker 1: felt a lot more comfortable than I do at this

2305
01:56:37,400 --> 01:56:39,080
Speaker 1: moment with you. But now, what are you talking about?

2306
01:56:39,080 --> 01:56:40,640
Speaker 1: You're making me These are good seats. We're in a

2307
01:56:40,680 --> 01:56:42,840
Speaker 1: good place. This is These are better seats and we'll

2308
01:56:42,840 --> 01:56:44,360
Speaker 1: be in a good place tomorrow. I think we'll be

2309
01:56:44,440 --> 01:56:48,200
Speaker 1: on the air tomorrow noon to three. Right, that's the plan. Listen, Diggs,

2310
01:56:48,320 --> 01:56:50,600
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs is in, Tom Brady is out. How you

2311
01:56:50,720 --> 01:56:52,720
Speaker 1: feeling as a Bills fan? Give us a call eight

2312
01:56:52,840 --> 01:56:55,240
Speaker 1: oh three h five fifty two three one eight eight

2313
01:56:55,400 --> 01:56:59,160
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty Um, we'll take your calls.

2314
01:56:59,200 --> 01:57:01,400
Speaker 1: We'll read some tweet. Let's go to the phone calls first,

2315
01:57:01,680 --> 01:57:03,800
Speaker 1: anything at all about Brady Digs Where the Bills are

2316
01:57:03,840 --> 01:57:06,760
Speaker 1: at what's next in free agency? Let's go to Steve

2317
01:57:06,880 --> 01:57:10,560
Speaker 1: in Syracuse. Hello Steve, you're on the air. Yeah, thanks guys.

2318
01:57:11,040 --> 01:57:13,320
Speaker 1: Just a quick question of as you see here on

2319
01:57:13,400 --> 01:57:15,840
Speaker 1: the radio only they watch you every day on TV.

2320
01:57:16,480 --> 01:57:18,520
Speaker 1: Turn it out of his hockey on there you're on

2321
01:57:18,600 --> 01:57:20,880
Speaker 1: the radio, or what's going on. Well, here's what's going on.

2322
01:57:21,000 --> 01:57:24,080
Speaker 1: We got a crew that we're keeping away from people

2323
01:57:24,160 --> 01:57:26,240
Speaker 1: working today. They're working from home, so we're keeping them

2324
01:57:26,280 --> 01:57:28,920
Speaker 1: away so we don't infect one another. So we're down

2325
01:57:28,960 --> 01:57:31,240
Speaker 1: to a skeleton crew here of four people. Meet Steve

2326
01:57:31,320 --> 01:57:34,200
Speaker 1: and two others instead of meet Steve and six others.

2327
01:57:34,400 --> 01:57:39,440
Speaker 1: That's what's going on, answered, John, Apologize, apologize films. They're

2328
01:57:39,480 --> 01:57:41,680
Speaker 1: going to need a run stuff in defensive tackles. You

2329
01:57:41,760 --> 01:57:44,280
Speaker 1: think the free agency, I don't think they're going to

2330
01:57:44,360 --> 01:57:46,960
Speaker 1: have family or be able to get it in the draft. Well,

2331
01:57:47,120 --> 01:57:49,880
Speaker 1: here's the thing. I think what they'll do basically is

2332
01:57:50,360 --> 01:57:53,320
Speaker 1: they'll get one bit won't be until later in free agency.

2333
01:57:53,360 --> 01:57:54,840
Speaker 1: It's going to go on for another, you know, well

2334
01:57:54,920 --> 01:57:57,600
Speaker 1: until in the draft. So I think you can bet

2335
01:57:57,720 --> 01:58:00,400
Speaker 1: that they'll they've got some they had their set on

2336
01:58:00,520 --> 01:58:03,040
Speaker 1: some really important people and they'll probably move down their

2337
01:58:03,160 --> 01:58:07,440
Speaker 1: list as free agency approaches and then gets going, Yeah,

2338
01:58:07,560 --> 01:58:09,280
Speaker 1: they've got a lot of spots. They've still got to

2339
01:58:09,280 --> 01:58:11,920
Speaker 1: fill a lot of roster spots and positions that they

2340
01:58:11,960 --> 01:58:13,400
Speaker 1: got to fill. You can bet they're going to fill

2341
01:58:13,440 --> 01:58:16,360
Speaker 1: them up with people that they've got on their radar already. Hey,

2342
01:58:16,840 --> 01:58:19,280
Speaker 1: can I read you some of the names on Mike

2343
01:58:19,360 --> 01:58:21,800
Speaker 1: Clay's lists of unrestricted free agents available? Can I do

2344
01:58:21,920 --> 01:58:24,040
Speaker 1: that for you? Number one on this list is DJ

2345
01:58:24,240 --> 01:58:27,800
Speaker 1: Reader from Houston, Gerald McCoy. These are interior defensive lineman.

2346
01:58:27,800 --> 01:58:31,080
Speaker 1: Gerald McCoy Carolina is second, and Damackinsue at Tampa Bay

2347
01:58:31,200 --> 01:58:33,760
Speaker 1: is third. No, thanks, Michael Pierce of Baltimore is fourth.

2348
01:58:33,840 --> 01:58:36,080
Speaker 1: Lyn Valve Joseph I've heard his name linked to the

2349
01:58:36,120 --> 01:58:39,600
Speaker 1: Bills from Minnesota is fit, and Marcel Darius at Jacksonville

2350
01:58:39,680 --> 01:58:42,800
Speaker 1: is six. So those would be the top six interior

2351
01:58:42,920 --> 01:58:45,720
Speaker 1: defensive linemannovailable on the free agent market at this point. Yeah,

2352
01:58:45,760 --> 01:58:47,400
Speaker 1: we'll see if the Bills jump on one of them.

2353
01:58:47,920 --> 01:58:49,720
Speaker 1: It's important to keep in mind too, how they use

2354
01:58:49,800 --> 01:58:52,400
Speaker 1: defensive lineman Steve. They don't need a guy to play

2355
01:58:52,480 --> 01:58:55,240
Speaker 1: ninety percent of the snaps. They didn't lose that guy.

2356
01:58:55,640 --> 01:58:58,960
Speaker 1: You know, they lost a guy who in Jordan Phillips,

2357
01:58:58,960 --> 01:59:01,720
Speaker 1: who was playing what fift and you can be And

2358
01:59:01,880 --> 01:59:04,680
Speaker 1: here's the thing too, I'm not I'm not really an

2359
01:59:04,720 --> 01:59:08,960
Speaker 1: expert on defensive line play um or offensive line play,

2360
01:59:09,080 --> 01:59:12,520
Speaker 1: but I know this that it's really big inside one

2361
01:59:12,600 --> 01:59:15,600
Speaker 1: Bills drive where you get guys who fit the system.

2362
01:59:16,000 --> 01:59:19,760
Speaker 1: And I don't have any idea what Sean McDermott and

2363
01:59:19,960 --> 01:59:23,080
Speaker 1: Leslie Frazier look for an interior defensive lineman, because they've

2364
01:59:23,080 --> 01:59:25,080
Speaker 1: got them both. They've got ed Oliver, who's a small,

2365
01:59:25,440 --> 01:59:29,760
Speaker 1: high motor, uh fast athletic defensive lineman. They've got Starlow

2366
01:59:29,840 --> 01:59:33,040
Speaker 1: two Leley and Harrison Phillips who are not that uh.

2367
01:59:33,160 --> 01:59:37,600
Speaker 1: They just signed another guy like Ed Oliver from He's

2368
01:59:37,680 --> 01:59:40,000
Speaker 1: Defense Carolina, but he's a defensive end. But he's a

2369
01:59:40,000 --> 01:59:42,840
Speaker 1: six three two sixty high motor gu So I think

2370
01:59:42,920 --> 01:59:45,200
Speaker 1: what they're doing is they'll have their sights set on

2371
01:59:45,320 --> 01:59:49,400
Speaker 1: guys they have their people have seen on film that

2372
01:59:49,560 --> 01:59:52,320
Speaker 1: can do play the role that the Bills want them

2373
01:59:52,360 --> 01:59:55,440
Speaker 1: to play in the defensive system the Bills play, and

2374
01:59:55,760 --> 01:59:59,440
Speaker 1: those guys aren't prevalent or apparent to go. You know,

2375
01:59:59,560 --> 02:00:02,280
Speaker 1: Layman like me and Murph and all of us watching.

2376
02:00:02,640 --> 02:00:04,800
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking there's gonna be a guy we don't know,

2377
02:00:05,880 --> 02:00:08,840
Speaker 1: like you know, the guy they signed from Carolina. So

2378
02:00:09,840 --> 02:00:12,720
Speaker 1: I think all of that stuff in the mix is

2379
02:00:12,760 --> 02:00:16,000
Speaker 1: what you're gonna see. There's I think there's as big

2380
02:00:16,520 --> 02:00:19,240
Speaker 1: a skill set they're searching for as there was when

2381
02:00:19,280 --> 02:00:21,800
Speaker 1: they signed Josh Norman, you know, and as a guy

2382
02:00:21,920 --> 02:00:26,360
Speaker 1: that they signed when when they signed what you name it.

2383
02:00:26,640 --> 02:00:29,240
Speaker 1: It's a skill set that they look for, like step

2384
02:00:29,560 --> 02:00:32,120
Speaker 1: Steph Diggs. They're looking for a guy with a certain

2385
02:00:32,160 --> 02:00:34,360
Speaker 1: skill set that will fit their system, and I think

2386
02:00:34,560 --> 02:00:36,720
Speaker 1: that's who they're going to sign on the defensive line. Thanks,

2387
02:00:36,800 --> 02:00:38,640
Speaker 1: Even many people would also tell you they need an

2388
02:00:38,720 --> 02:00:40,680
Speaker 1: edge guy too, and edge rusher guy different than a

2389
02:00:40,720 --> 02:00:44,440
Speaker 1: defensive tackle. Here's a call from j B in Rochester.

2390
02:00:44,600 --> 02:00:47,800
Speaker 1: Hello JB, Hey, guys, first time call the Hello are

2391
02:00:47,840 --> 02:00:50,960
Speaker 1: you guys? Good? Great? Thanks? Hey t one of my

2392
02:00:51,000 --> 02:00:53,200
Speaker 1: favorite Bills that are I'm forty one, guys, I've been there,

2393
02:00:53,280 --> 02:00:55,320
Speaker 1: been spoiled by the Bills off through the nineties and

2394
02:00:55,440 --> 02:00:58,000
Speaker 1: you know obviously the heartbreakers, but uh, thanks, I just

2395
02:00:58,040 --> 02:01:00,160
Speaker 1: want to touch on a few things, um to bear

2396
02:01:00,240 --> 02:01:02,560
Speaker 1: with me. I just wanted to do quickly. On Stefon Diggs.

2397
02:01:03,000 --> 02:01:05,280
Speaker 1: I think it's a real good deal. I agree a

2398
02:01:05,320 --> 02:01:07,600
Speaker 1: little bit about how much we gave up. I was

2399
02:01:07,600 --> 02:01:09,880
Speaker 1: just looking around in veterans and went to pay what

2400
02:01:09,960 --> 02:01:12,120
Speaker 1: we're paying other than the draft pick. I think it

2401
02:01:12,240 --> 02:01:14,160
Speaker 1: evens out you're not gonna bring in a first round guy.

2402
02:01:14,240 --> 02:01:16,760
Speaker 1: Maybe with his statue right away, it's not Maybe luck

2403
02:01:16,840 --> 02:01:20,000
Speaker 1: out second sounds pretty deep, you know. Also maybe snag

2404
02:01:20,040 --> 02:01:22,520
Speaker 1: guy there. Now, I guess what my question is, and

2405
02:01:22,680 --> 02:01:24,080
Speaker 1: maybe you guys can help me up to this. After

2406
02:01:24,160 --> 02:01:26,320
Speaker 1: I'm done talking to you guys, I'll listen. But with

2407
02:01:26,520 --> 02:01:29,720
Speaker 1: our free agents we've lost, I'm really interested in sign

2408
02:01:29,840 --> 02:01:31,200
Speaker 1: some of these guys that are coming up, Like you

2409
02:01:31,280 --> 02:01:33,640
Speaker 1: touched on the Milanos and then the court. I'm not

2410
02:01:34,360 --> 02:01:38,160
Speaker 1: our tackle Dawkins, but free agent wise, what is the

2411
02:01:38,240 --> 02:01:41,200
Speaker 1: odds of us bringing guys back like Cordy, Glenn and

2412
02:01:41,440 --> 02:01:44,080
Speaker 1: Darius to fill some of these spots. Do you guys

2413
02:01:44,120 --> 02:01:50,200
Speaker 1: think that's a possibility or no? Probably probably not. I

2414
02:01:50,360 --> 02:01:52,640
Speaker 1: think some of the reasons. I mean, because this is

2415
02:01:52,680 --> 02:01:54,880
Speaker 1: a regime that doesn't let good guys get out the door,

2416
02:01:55,000 --> 02:01:57,360
Speaker 1: and guys who fit in with their with their culture

2417
02:01:57,360 --> 02:01:59,680
Speaker 1: and all that, and there's that's also a reason they

2418
02:01:59,760 --> 02:02:01,320
Speaker 1: let some of these guys go. And I'm not saying

2419
02:02:01,400 --> 02:02:04,240
Speaker 1: all these guys, but some of them aren't here because

2420
02:02:04,600 --> 02:02:07,960
Speaker 1: they didn't fit that DNA. Certainly there's a chance that

2421
02:02:08,040 --> 02:02:11,640
Speaker 1: somebody could return on a lesser deal than they laughed,

2422
02:02:11,720 --> 02:02:14,240
Speaker 1: or for the right price, but I don't know that

2423
02:02:14,360 --> 02:02:16,560
Speaker 1: any of those guys fit that description, whether they are

2424
02:02:16,680 --> 02:02:18,920
Speaker 1: culture fit or for the right price at this point.

2425
02:02:19,280 --> 02:02:23,440
Speaker 1: Those two you mentioned in particular, Cordy Glenn and Marcel Darius,

2426
02:02:23,520 --> 02:02:25,960
Speaker 1: I think are very unlikely to come back, just knowing

2427
02:02:26,040 --> 02:02:28,440
Speaker 1: what I know about the culture they built. I think

2428
02:02:28,480 --> 02:02:31,360
Speaker 1: the culture they have built is totally opposite the way

2429
02:02:31,400 --> 02:02:34,240
Speaker 1: those two played for the currency. I agree with someone

2430
02:02:34,320 --> 02:02:36,400
Speaker 1: what Marcel pulled off the field, but I will admit this,

2431
02:02:36,520 --> 02:02:39,360
Speaker 1: all the years of train Cap and Rochester, we're still

2432
02:02:39,400 --> 02:02:41,200
Speaker 1: splowed that up here. But he was one of the

2433
02:02:41,280 --> 02:02:43,760
Speaker 1: nicest guys that Matt. Oh. Absolutely, he's a great guy. Right,

2434
02:02:43,880 --> 02:02:46,280
Speaker 1: it's a great guy. Right. I'm not saying thing, it's

2435
02:02:46,320 --> 02:02:48,960
Speaker 1: enough personal. It's just the fit that they want in

2436
02:02:49,000 --> 02:02:53,080
Speaker 1: their players. Thanks very much, Thanks, Jabe. Take more phone calls.

2437
02:02:53,120 --> 02:02:55,640
Speaker 1: Few minutes left, eight oh three oh five fifty toll

2438
02:02:55,720 --> 02:02:58,840
Speaker 1: free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

2439
02:02:58,920 --> 02:03:02,040
Speaker 1: What do you think about the Bills? Stefan Diggs is in,

2440
02:03:02,120 --> 02:03:03,800
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is out of New England. What do you

2441
02:03:03,920 --> 02:03:05,880
Speaker 1: think are feeling that it's a Bills fan? Let's go

2442
02:03:05,960 --> 02:03:08,320
Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet, brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

2443
02:03:08,560 --> 02:03:11,840
Speaker 1: the official movers of the Buffalo Bills. From Rick, the

2444
02:03:11,920 --> 02:03:14,160
Speaker 1: Bills have a good shot at becoming the AFC East

2445
02:03:14,240 --> 02:03:16,840
Speaker 1: champs for years to come. They have the potential to

2446
02:03:16,920 --> 02:03:19,120
Speaker 1: do so, they just need to execute on the field

2447
02:03:19,520 --> 02:03:25,400
Speaker 1: years to come. One's not enough, Steve, bump the brakes.

2448
02:03:25,400 --> 02:03:27,560
Speaker 1: Where's the brake? Pedal? Pump it just a little bit,

2449
02:03:27,800 --> 02:03:33,160
Speaker 1: just a little bit, Yeah right, yeah, let's just try

2450
02:03:33,400 --> 02:03:37,040
Speaker 1: get one exactly. Let's just get one from Frederick. Yes, yes, yes,

2451
02:03:37,160 --> 02:03:40,080
Speaker 1: all for today and forget tomorrow. Finally, it's about time.

2452
02:03:40,160 --> 02:03:42,400
Speaker 1: Every fan should be happy. The line in the sand

2453
02:03:42,480 --> 02:03:45,200
Speaker 1: has been drawn and now onto the Lombardi trophy. Man,

2454
02:03:45,200 --> 02:03:48,480
Speaker 1: I didn't read these earlier. Wow, yeah, people are people

2455
02:03:48,480 --> 02:03:50,240
Speaker 1: are jumper on the Bami. It's good for them. They're

2456
02:03:50,440 --> 02:03:52,360
Speaker 1: people are having fun with it. I get glad there

2457
02:03:52,400 --> 02:03:55,960
Speaker 1: and why not? Yeah? Why not? From Jack? I'm trying

2458
02:03:56,000 --> 02:03:59,800
Speaker 1: to temper my excitement, but man, with all this good news,

2459
02:04:00,000 --> 02:04:03,160
Speaker 1: I'm pretty darn excited. The hoodie is still in New England,

2460
02:04:03,400 --> 02:04:06,000
Speaker 1: Miami is spending like crazy. We still could use the

2461
02:04:06,080 --> 02:04:08,920
Speaker 1: top pass rusher, but there's no question we are better today.

2462
02:04:09,000 --> 02:04:11,840
Speaker 1: Sad we don't have a first rounder, but man, I'm pumped.

2463
02:04:12,160 --> 02:04:17,440
Speaker 1: That's from Jack. Wow. Man, it's irrational enthusiasm, but that's okay. Yeah,

2464
02:04:17,560 --> 02:04:20,120
Speaker 1: we need a little bit of that. What would happen

2465
02:04:20,200 --> 02:04:24,360
Speaker 1: to all that enthusiasm if um Brady decides that Miami's

2466
02:04:24,400 --> 02:04:28,000
Speaker 1: the place, says, I mean, it doesn't deflate everything, right,

2467
02:04:28,080 --> 02:04:30,240
Speaker 1: I was kidding when I said that, but it would

2468
02:04:30,280 --> 02:04:32,600
Speaker 1: certainly slow people down a little bit, right, Oh, we

2469
02:04:32,800 --> 02:04:35,360
Speaker 1: would play Brady twice again? Right, it would be It

2470
02:04:35,400 --> 02:04:37,600
Speaker 1: would be the weirdest, you know, It would be fitting

2471
02:04:37,640 --> 02:04:39,840
Speaker 1: for all the disorientation we're going through in our in

2472
02:04:39,880 --> 02:04:43,200
Speaker 1: our personal lives now away from football, to have that happen,

2473
02:04:43,320 --> 02:04:46,440
Speaker 1: Have Tom Brady still show up here twice with the

2474
02:04:46,560 --> 02:04:49,560
Speaker 1: fish jumping through a fire hoop on his helmet, right,

2475
02:04:50,080 --> 02:04:53,080
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you talk about you talk about a

2476
02:04:53,120 --> 02:04:56,240
Speaker 1: bucket of cold water, thrown on on our optimism. That

2477
02:04:56,240 --> 02:05:01,840
Speaker 1: would be it. But still you'd better than seeing him

2478
02:05:01,880 --> 02:05:04,360
Speaker 1: suit up for New England, at least in my opinion,

2479
02:05:04,880 --> 02:05:07,920
Speaker 1: not much better, but better. Another you got your tweet, cheater?

2480
02:05:07,960 --> 02:05:10,120
Speaker 1: Or should I keep I don't have any tweet? Is

2481
02:05:10,160 --> 02:05:11,720
Speaker 1: that on? Oh yeah, okay, I got you. I'll keep

2482
02:05:11,760 --> 02:05:16,920
Speaker 1: reading from NICKI we ask Stefan Diggs comes to Buffalo

2483
02:05:17,000 --> 02:05:18,600
Speaker 1: and Brady leaves New England. What do you think now?

2484
02:05:18,640 --> 02:05:21,560
Speaker 1: Bills fans, Nikki says, I think Diggs will be perfect

2485
02:05:21,640 --> 02:05:23,480
Speaker 1: for Alan, but I'm a little worried about not having

2486
02:05:23,520 --> 02:05:25,840
Speaker 1: a first round pick. I know we signed some guys,

2487
02:05:25,920 --> 02:05:28,400
Speaker 1: but we could still use help with other positions. It'll

2488
02:05:28,440 --> 02:05:30,760
Speaker 1: be harder to find guys in round two since non

2489
02:05:30,800 --> 02:05:33,680
Speaker 1: wide receiver positions are not that deep. Okay, that's fair,

2490
02:05:33,760 --> 02:05:37,040
Speaker 1: fair to say, true, it's true. Let me talk about

2491
02:05:37,080 --> 02:05:39,160
Speaker 1: that for a second and again, I'm right back to

2492
02:05:39,200 --> 02:05:40,760
Speaker 1: where I wanted to start, and I forgot about it

2493
02:05:40,840 --> 02:05:43,960
Speaker 1: until about forty minutes into the show. That trade last

2494
02:05:44,040 --> 02:05:47,920
Speaker 1: night is to me and Brandon Bean has been solid

2495
02:05:48,360 --> 02:05:50,360
Speaker 1: now in his a third draft of the Bills, and

2496
02:05:50,480 --> 02:05:52,280
Speaker 1: he's turned the page a little bit. This is not

2497
02:05:52,640 --> 02:05:56,960
Speaker 1: about painstaking, patiently building a roster, cutting the cap, getting

2498
02:05:57,040 --> 02:05:59,360
Speaker 1: right fits for the roster. Not that Stefan Diggs is

2499
02:05:59,400 --> 02:06:01,880
Speaker 1: not a fit, but it's a it's a splash. It

2500
02:06:02,240 --> 02:06:04,360
Speaker 1: is a splash. It's not a free aident splash. It's

2501
02:06:04,360 --> 02:06:06,440
Speaker 1: a trade splash. But they made a big splash. And

2502
02:06:06,560 --> 02:06:09,800
Speaker 1: I think it's indicative of where they believe. And it's

2503
02:06:09,840 --> 02:06:11,480
Speaker 1: only what they believe. They haven't done it yet, but

2504
02:06:11,520 --> 02:06:13,720
Speaker 1: where being and McDermott believe this team has headed. They

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02:06:13,840 --> 02:06:17,760
Speaker 1: immediately they signaled to me, Hey, we're for real, we're

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02:06:17,800 --> 02:06:19,920
Speaker 1: contenders now. By making that trade last night, it is

2507
02:06:20,080 --> 02:06:23,040
Speaker 1: it is anytime you trade a number one draft pick,

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02:06:23,120 --> 02:06:25,200
Speaker 1: it's a big deal. You know how much you think

2509
02:06:25,240 --> 02:06:27,520
Speaker 1: about this, Hey, you're getting this guy. Okay, who is he? Well,

2510
02:06:27,560 --> 02:06:31,920
Speaker 1: he's an elite wide receiver on a very affordable deal

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02:06:32,040 --> 02:06:35,720
Speaker 1: that he's got four years left on. That to me

2512
02:06:36,080 --> 02:06:39,040
Speaker 1: is enormous. It's one plus four, five and six. I

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02:06:39,080 --> 02:06:42,440
Speaker 1: believe you get a seventh back whatever. It's a big deal.

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02:06:42,520 --> 02:06:45,120
Speaker 1: It's a splashy deal. But it's a receiver who's affordable

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02:06:45,280 --> 02:06:48,160
Speaker 1: and you've got locked in for four years, and and

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02:06:48,280 --> 02:06:51,160
Speaker 1: it's at a spot where wow, that's exactly the kind

2517
02:06:51,160 --> 02:06:52,840
Speaker 1: of spot you needed to get a guy in, and

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02:06:53,000 --> 02:06:55,040
Speaker 1: you've got one of the top five guys in the league.

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02:06:56,200 --> 02:06:58,520
Speaker 1: I'm with you. It makes you go, It makes you

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02:06:58,600 --> 02:07:01,320
Speaker 1: take a deep breath real quick, like wait a minute, right,

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02:07:01,800 --> 02:07:04,520
Speaker 1: I mean it is like a hey, what it's big

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02:07:04,680 --> 02:07:06,480
Speaker 1: And I think that's the way it hit Bills fans

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02:07:06,600 --> 02:07:08,800
Speaker 1: last night. That's the way it hit me. Yea our boy.

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02:07:08,880 --> 02:07:12,720
Speaker 1: Kyle Brandt, NFL Network Good Morning Football has an interesting tweet.

2525
02:07:13,680 --> 02:07:15,160
Speaker 1: He's got a factor. What kind of whale is that?

2526
02:07:15,280 --> 02:07:19,040
Speaker 1: He's got a whale jumping? Is that? Aha? Whale? Humpback,

2527
02:07:19,080 --> 02:07:22,760
Speaker 1: whale jumping, breaching, breaching. The Bills made a big splash.

2528
02:07:23,280 --> 02:07:27,280
Speaker 1: Proud of them. Hell yes, firepower, Kyle brancis kind of

2529
02:07:27,280 --> 02:07:30,640
Speaker 1: the way I feel. And again, we talked when free

2530
02:07:30,640 --> 02:07:32,800
Speaker 1: agency began about a month ago, so we're talking about

2531
02:07:33,240 --> 02:07:35,680
Speaker 1: are the Bills ready to approach things differently now because

2532
02:07:35,720 --> 02:07:39,360
Speaker 1: they're close to being championship contenders. A significant answer in

2533
02:07:39,400 --> 02:07:42,360
Speaker 1: the affirmative last night from Brandon Bean, Yes, we're different.

2534
02:07:42,440 --> 02:07:44,760
Speaker 1: This is different. We're making a splash. We're getting a

2535
02:07:44,880 --> 02:07:49,040
Speaker 1: big time, top five receiver, top five player at his position,

2536
02:07:49,080 --> 02:07:51,360
Speaker 1: any position, and we're going for it. And I think

2537
02:07:51,400 --> 02:07:54,120
Speaker 1: that was a message they sent last night. I do. Yeah. Sure,

2538
02:07:54,240 --> 02:07:55,880
Speaker 1: Now I got to back it up with wins, all right,

2539
02:07:55,960 --> 02:07:58,320
Speaker 1: you gotta win and against a tougher schedule and a

2540
02:07:58,360 --> 02:08:01,680
Speaker 1: tougher division out of the conference, to vision opponents everything.

2541
02:08:03,760 --> 02:08:08,480
Speaker 1: But man oh man, all we've been talking about for weeks,

2542
02:08:08,560 --> 02:08:10,600
Speaker 1: Murph is like, well, we gotta get a number one receiver.

2543
02:08:10,720 --> 02:08:12,600
Speaker 1: And I was kind of I was like, well, he's

2544
02:08:12,640 --> 02:08:14,880
Speaker 1: not gonna be this eliicsory again. But man oh man,

2545
02:08:14,960 --> 02:08:17,560
Speaker 1: they got one. Yeah, And I mean, don't get me

2546
02:08:17,640 --> 02:08:20,360
Speaker 1: going down the number one. What doesn't matter. Call him

2547
02:08:20,400 --> 02:08:23,120
Speaker 1: what you want. It doesn't matter. You got Steph Diggs, yes,

2548
02:08:23,360 --> 02:08:25,480
Speaker 1: so call him whatever you want. He's one of the

2549
02:08:25,520 --> 02:08:28,640
Speaker 1: top five guys in the league. And you along with

2550
02:08:28,800 --> 02:08:33,160
Speaker 1: John Brown, Cole Beasley, Devin Singletary, Dawson Knox, Tyler Croft

2551
02:08:33,400 --> 02:08:35,760
Speaker 1: and the rest of it, and you got the same

2552
02:08:35,880 --> 02:08:37,920
Speaker 1: offensive line, and you're gonna try and get better. I

2553
02:08:37,960 --> 02:08:41,440
Speaker 1: would think an offensive line as well. I mean, goodness, gracious,

2554
02:08:42,680 --> 02:08:45,640
Speaker 1: let's go bro. I mean, that's where Bills fans are

2555
02:08:45,800 --> 02:08:48,040
Speaker 1: right now. Sounds like it as we read through the

2556
02:08:48,640 --> 02:08:52,320
Speaker 1: tweet sheet and folks send in their thoughts on what

2557
02:08:52,440 --> 02:08:54,080
Speaker 1: the deal means. I think it means a lot, and

2558
02:08:54,160 --> 02:08:56,120
Speaker 1: I think we're getting that from some of the people

2559
02:08:56,480 --> 02:08:59,200
Speaker 1: ascending in tweets on the tweet sheets, people saying I'm

2560
02:08:59,200 --> 02:09:01,120
Speaker 1: trying to temper my probably not to be excited, but

2561
02:09:04,120 --> 02:09:06,760
Speaker 1: Dinah tweets this and trying to temper my expectations with

2562
02:09:06,880 --> 02:09:10,240
Speaker 1: limited success. This could be our year. But it's too

2563
02:09:10,320 --> 02:09:13,880
Speaker 1: soon to start counting chickens. Nobody's counting chicken jet Dinah. Yeah,

2564
02:09:14,400 --> 02:09:16,760
Speaker 1: but that was a big move. It's a kind of

2565
02:09:16,800 --> 02:09:18,640
Speaker 1: move I was waiting, I guess, to see do they

2566
02:09:18,680 --> 02:09:20,000
Speaker 1: have an in him? Do they have an in him

2567
02:09:20,040 --> 02:09:22,640
Speaker 1: to take a risk. It's a risk. The guy had

2568
02:09:22,720 --> 02:09:25,720
Speaker 1: some issues off the field at Minnesota. The guy is

2569
02:09:25,840 --> 02:09:29,160
Speaker 1: highly paid eleven million dollars a year. The guy was

2570
02:09:29,600 --> 02:09:31,640
Speaker 1: unhappy and made his unhappy. That's known a couple of

2571
02:09:31,640 --> 02:09:33,840
Speaker 1: times in Minnesota. In that sense, it's a bit of

2572
02:09:33,880 --> 02:09:36,680
Speaker 1: a risk. We'll see if it works. Yeah, it's a

2573
02:09:36,760 --> 02:09:41,040
Speaker 1: lot to think about, but it's certainly it changes the

2574
02:09:41,280 --> 02:09:47,160
Speaker 1: landscape of the Bills off season overnight. Yeah, literally and

2575
02:09:47,920 --> 02:09:50,720
Speaker 1: every and they go from twenty two pick in the

2576
02:09:50,800 --> 02:09:53,160
Speaker 1: draft to fifty four. But they gets to fond Biggs

2577
02:09:53,680 --> 02:09:57,000
Speaker 1: on their wide receiver corps and he goes, You'd have

2578
02:09:57,040 --> 02:09:59,680
Speaker 1: a hard time convincing anybody around the National Football League

2579
02:09:59,680 --> 02:10:01,840
Speaker 1: that he does and go in above John Brown and

2580
02:10:01,920 --> 02:10:04,760
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley immediately in the Bill's offense. Whether he does

2581
02:10:04,880 --> 02:10:06,680
Speaker 1: or not, you can say whatever you want, but you've

2582
02:10:06,760 --> 02:10:08,960
Speaker 1: got three pretty good guys there that are a handful

2583
02:10:09,040 --> 02:10:10,920
Speaker 1: of cover and that's what you want to give your

2584
02:10:10,960 --> 02:10:15,200
Speaker 1: young quarterback. You got a rookie running back coming off

2585
02:10:15,200 --> 02:10:17,320
Speaker 1: to his second year in Devin Singletary, who's now going

2586
02:10:17,360 --> 02:10:19,320
Speaker 1: to be the league I mean, and you just signed

2587
02:10:19,360 --> 02:10:23,440
Speaker 1: your left guard, who is the only significant free agent upfront. Yeah,

2588
02:10:23,520 --> 02:10:26,480
Speaker 1: that's now. You gotta sit back and really got a

2589
02:10:26,520 --> 02:10:28,720
Speaker 1: mack around. Okay, what do we do next? Right now? Right?

2590
02:10:28,800 --> 02:10:31,200
Speaker 1: That's fun, it's pretty fun. Take a break here. It's

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Speaker 1: one Bill's Live from Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. This

2592
02:10:35,120 --> 02:10:47,120
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, finishing things up, Steve

2593
02:10:47,240 --> 02:10:49,160
Speaker 1: Good Show today. How about this? How about we have

2594
02:10:49,160 --> 02:10:51,320
Speaker 1: another night like last night when everything goes on and

2595
02:10:51,400 --> 02:10:52,840
Speaker 1: we come in and clean it up tomorrow? Would you

2596
02:10:52,840 --> 02:10:54,320
Speaker 1: be up for the at twelve nut, I'll bring my

2597
02:10:54,360 --> 02:10:56,640
Speaker 1: broom and all start sweeping. It's been great, it's been

2598
02:10:56,680 --> 02:10:59,640
Speaker 1: really fun. Buy We thank you for listening. We encourage

2599
02:10:59,640 --> 02:11:01,280
Speaker 1: you to stay healthy and do the right things, and

2600
02:11:01,360 --> 02:11:03,200
Speaker 1: we'll be trying to be back tomorrow at twelve noon.

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Speaker 1: We want to salute our production assistant, some of whom

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Speaker 1: are here, some of whom are not. George Blast, Jeff Colton,

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2604
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Speaker 1: rob with our producer Jay Harris. Take care of yourself, everybody.

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Speaker 1: Steve and I are back tomorrow at twelve noon. We

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