1 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:10,039 Speaker 1: At a Steve Tasker who has been all over the 2 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 1: fields kind of unique. He was kind of a dual 3 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:18,639 Speaker 1: role player for you, Steve, a blimp. We're not even 4 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: in the strategyre of normalcy here, Hello, Bills fans on 5 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: a Monday. That feels a little different coming off of 6 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,560 Speaker 1: what was a tragic weekend here in Buffalo. We're gonna 7 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:36,519 Speaker 1: try to be upbeat for you because we know, in 8 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: the grand scheme of things, our ultimate role here is 9 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: to serve as an entertainment vehicle sometimes be a distraction 10 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:48,199 Speaker 1: from the terrible things that can drag us down by 11 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: talking football. But we don't want to be a complete 12 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: distraction in this case, because everyone in Buffalo and across 13 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: the country needs to be laser focused on what happened 14 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 1: here in our city last weekend. Our city, Buffalo was, 15 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:09,120 Speaker 1: as I see it, under attack by an allegedly radicalized outsider. 16 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 1: The black community was most directly affected by this senseless tragedy, 17 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:16,720 Speaker 1: and we will support the black community going forward. But 18 00:01:17,319 --> 00:01:21,120 Speaker 1: this kind of stuff cannot continue, not anywhere, but certainly 19 00:01:21,160 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: not in our city here. Steve, and I don't know 20 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 1: if you want to weigh in a little bit, but 21 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: absolutely it was. It's a tragedy and it makes you sick. 22 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 1: And one of the things that, as we have said 23 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: on and off here, is one of the things that 24 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: makes Buffalo different is the affection we have for each 25 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 1: other as Bills fans, certainly, and that's one of the 26 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: things that we talk about all the time on this 27 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:44,760 Speaker 1: show obviously, is about the affection Bills fans have for 28 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,360 Speaker 1: each other, not only their team. And this flies in 29 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:51,080 Speaker 1: the face of everything that you know, so many Buffalonians 30 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:53,440 Speaker 1: and people here in Western New York, you know, hold 31 00:01:53,480 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: so close and in such high regard as is the 32 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: community of people. Buffalo is a great city. It's a 33 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 1: great and base for our teams that we rally around, 34 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: and this um is something that is contrary to that 35 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:17,360 Speaker 1: and in no well starkly in in contrast to that UM. 36 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 1: And I think the tragedy is, you know, it's almost 37 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:26,920 Speaker 1: unspeakable in the senselessness of it. UM. But yeah, you 38 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 1: and I have you know, obviously we're sitting around getting 39 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: ready for the show today wondering how you and I 40 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:33,320 Speaker 1: were going to handle this because it's it's an uncomfortable 41 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:38,519 Speaker 1: topic for us to even have to address. UM When 42 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 1: you sit here in tragedy and you've got you know, 43 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:44,800 Speaker 1: I'm looking right here at you know, ten names. Um. 44 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,880 Speaker 1: I don't have to have met them to understand the 45 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:54,800 Speaker 1: loss that our community is feeling. Um. You know, in 46 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:56,519 Speaker 1: this world, you and I talk about all the time, 47 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:58,359 Speaker 1: how you know you go on social media and it's 48 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,079 Speaker 1: just you know, it's a little bit vile and hate field. 49 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: I've never been one to be able to hate someone 50 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 1: I've never met or even talk badly about them, let 51 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:15,680 Speaker 1: alone to go in someplace and to gun down strangers. 52 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: That's evil and that's not who we as a city are, 53 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: You and I or anybody that we can even relate to. 54 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:27,040 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna leave it at that. Um, there's a 55 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 1: number of ways, and if you just do a modicum 56 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: of research, there's a ton of companies and people. My 57 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: good friend Thurman Thomas and his wife Patty have put 58 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: together a way to give and to give to the 59 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 1: families have affected by this. The company one of the 60 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 1: other companies I worked for, west Hurst, has jumped on. 61 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 1: They were part of the Micah Hyde Softball Tournament, a 62 00:03:47,640 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 1: small softball game yesterday that I was at. Um, you 63 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: can talk about that. That was and Mica Hyde had 64 00:03:52,760 --> 00:03:55,960 Speaker 1: a moment of silence. There's a lot of things going on. 65 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: All of us have come out and you know all 66 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:02,720 Speaker 1: you know, Buffalonians have obviously woken up two ways, and 67 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: that's what it's great about it. We woken up to 68 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 1: a way and asking for a way to help and 69 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 1: to get involved. Certainly some of us are a million 70 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: miles away from the tragedy and you wish you could help. 71 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 1: And it doesn't mean it doesn't isn't important to us, 72 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:19,440 Speaker 1: but it's so overwhelming of just you know, where do 73 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:25,279 Speaker 1: you start? Right, So be that as it may. I M. Yeah, 74 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 1: We're gonna be as sensitive as we can know what's 75 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:29,600 Speaker 1: going on, what happened over the weekend. We know that 76 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: we all have to stop and notice and take notice 77 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:40,359 Speaker 1: and take part in the recovery from this and move better, 78 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:42,800 Speaker 1: move forward in a better way and in a better direction. 79 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: So that's what we'll try to do today. Yeah, And 80 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:46,719 Speaker 1: as Steve mentioned, there's already a number of those in 81 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:49,000 Speaker 1: our community who have stepped forward to provide support for 82 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 1: the families of the victims and the surrounding community. As 83 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 1: Steve already mentioned, Micah Hide at his charity Softball game 84 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: for his Imagine for Youth Foundation, which was already on 85 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,760 Speaker 1: the schedule at Sale and Field as it has been 86 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: for the last few years, but it was happening a 87 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:09,000 Speaker 1: day after this tragic shooting. They decided to donate a 88 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 1: portion of their proceeds raised to the victims family, So 89 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:15,800 Speaker 1: we applaud the Hides for doing that. Micah Hyde did 90 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:19,520 Speaker 1: address the media after the game and how the families 91 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:25,279 Speaker 1: of the victims were on everyone's mind yesterday, So we'll 92 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: we'll get to his comments on that in just a second. Um. 93 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:32,640 Speaker 1: So here is Micah Hyde addressing the media after the 94 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: game and how the families of the victims were on 95 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:39,760 Speaker 1: everyone's mind yesterday. Simply shocked. Still I still can't believe it. Um, 96 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:42,400 Speaker 1: But uh, you know, when there's when there's hate in 97 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 1: the world, um, you know, you kind of erase it 98 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 1: with love and coming out here today and you know, 99 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 1: showing the community love and um, you know, love to 100 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 1: the youth, loves the community, love to the foundation. Um. 101 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:55,000 Speaker 1: I guess that's the way to to to combat it. 102 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:58,840 Speaker 1: And know, we had a bunch of conversations yesterday into 103 00:05:58,880 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: this morning, and uh, you know, yes, I'm gonna be 104 00:06:01,240 --> 00:06:03,400 Speaker 1: honest we didn't feel right even having this game, but 105 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:06,719 Speaker 1: then you know, having conversations with with some people, UM, 106 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:08,520 Speaker 1: you know, we felt it was important to to you know, 107 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: get the community out, puts the smiles in the face, 108 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:12,720 Speaker 1: get the players in front of them, and we're doing 109 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 1: it for for good calls. Is that the reason, I mean, 110 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 1: not the reason decisionally is that the conversation where you 111 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:19,479 Speaker 1: guys also had resets, let's go ahead and donate some 112 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:22,280 Speaker 1: of the problems to the families A thousand per seen 113 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:25,760 Speaker 1: thousand saying you know, we're you know, obviously generating a 114 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: lot of money for for the foundation UM and for 115 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: the youth and western Western New York, and obviously when 116 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: something like that happens UM, you know, we just want 117 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:35,160 Speaker 1: to help. So that was that was where that decision 118 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,360 Speaker 1: came in. I know you said that you guys were 119 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: talking for a little bit about whether you should have 120 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 1: the game and the decisions going to that. But it 121 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,160 Speaker 1: also feels like now, at the time that the community 122 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: needs to come together on a hundred duds to be healing, 123 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: does this feel like the perfect setting for maybe that, 124 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:52,560 Speaker 1: because you are bringing people together, ten ten thousand plus 125 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:56,039 Speaker 1: fans coming here today Um, you know the Bisons are 126 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,480 Speaker 1: going to do an amazing job. You know, our sponsors 127 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,080 Speaker 1: did an amazing job getting the word out there, and 128 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:02,960 Speaker 1: you know the players are gonna do awesome coming out here. 129 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:04,720 Speaker 1: And just you know, it's pending smiles on people's face. 130 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: It's gonna have a good time. Um. Like I said, 131 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 1: I'm still kind of I think everybody, everybody that you 132 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 1: know was heard the news, Um yesterday was just shocked 133 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: and you know it saddened and um, you know it's 134 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: just uh, I just I just feel bad for the 135 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: for the families and for the community. And you know 136 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: what better way to come outre with a smile on 137 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 1: people's faces again, you know, set kind of with that 138 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: and mind people feel so helpless, you know what these 139 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: things can exactly the name and what can you do? 140 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 1: Do you feel that too? Thousand and I'm just like 141 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: everybody else, Um, you know coming here today. You know 142 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: I'm driving in with my family and you know, fortunate 143 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:44,920 Speaker 1: um to be with him on this day and be 144 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: with Bill's mafia. So like I said, it's just all 145 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: about love. Um, We're gonna spread love today. Um, you know, 146 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: for the youth. And like I said, once of New York. 147 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,240 Speaker 1: But on top of that, the families that you know, 148 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,320 Speaker 1: unfortunately to go tell you that yesterday, what are your 149 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: thoughts on hatred? You know in reference obviously there's no 150 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:02,320 Speaker 1: no no room for it. Um, you know, we always 151 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:05,200 Speaker 1: just try to spread love and um. You know, like 152 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: I just said, if if fall the hate in this world, UM, 153 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 1: you know, if we stopped and canceled everything because of hate, 154 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:15,480 Speaker 1: we wouldn't you know, we wouldn't move forward. Um, there's 155 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 1: a lot of it. And all I think all you 156 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: can do is just like I said, spread love and um, 157 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 1: love one another. And you know, I think that you know, 158 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:25,000 Speaker 1: it was big throughout the last couple of years of society, 159 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: you know, obviously going to the COVID and and all 160 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,200 Speaker 1: that type of stuff to to really just reach out 161 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:32,680 Speaker 1: help each other and and love on each other. But 162 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:34,679 Speaker 1: I think it would you say that it puts it 163 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,680 Speaker 1: into perspective, is that these things continue to keep happy. 164 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,439 Speaker 1: That you go grocery shopping, your wife goes grocery shopping. 165 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:42,559 Speaker 1: There's eight year old that's hid even the cooler, yeah, 166 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,160 Speaker 1: that could have been your child. And knowing that these 167 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: things are happening because of the color of someone's skinner darker. 168 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:51,680 Speaker 1: I can't even I can't even wrap my head around that, Like, 169 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:56,880 Speaker 1: that's that's uh, I mean, it's it's that's beyond beyond 170 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: my thought process. I can't even you know. That's why 171 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:01,080 Speaker 1: I say, I'm still shocked that someone can even um 172 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:03,160 Speaker 1: have that much hate in their in their and their 173 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 1: and themselves to go and do something like that. And um, 174 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 1: I think the order I get h you know, obviously 175 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 1: having kids and putting myself in that situation. Obviously this 176 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: which I just mentioned eight year old Hiden, Like, that's 177 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: just that's sad. That's that's beyond side, that's you know, 178 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:21,080 Speaker 1: there's that should never happened. So there's some of Mike 179 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:24,320 Speaker 1: Hyde's thoughts in the wake of his charity softball game. 180 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:28,719 Speaker 1: Great turnout. Steve was there, um, I know coach McDermott 181 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: was there as well. Uh throughout the first pitch, YEP, 182 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,600 Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of fans too, ten thousand. 183 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 1: It was a great turnout. It was a phenomenal turnout. 184 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: I think it speaks to the need for the community 185 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 1: to kind of come together and in some way, shape 186 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:45,839 Speaker 1: or form, and a lot of people felt good doing that. 187 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,240 Speaker 1: Yesterday yeah, it was, and it was a great atmosphere. Um, 188 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 1: it was a fun event, a really fun event to 189 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 1: be at. Um of course the Bills, you know, Josh 190 00:09:55,920 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 1: was there, Josh and Micah, Jordan Poyer was there. Um 191 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: to me, Edmunds even you know, the at one point 192 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:04,719 Speaker 1: it was great because one of the real one of 193 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 1: the guys that got the biggest ovation because he was 194 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 1: a surprise introduction, was Tredavious White. Nobody knew he stepped 195 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 1: out and you know, he didn't participate in the game, 196 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:17,440 Speaker 1: but late in the game they said, oh and by 197 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 1: the way, we wanted to hear see one guy didn't 198 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:21,320 Speaker 1: get introduced was Tavius Why he stepped out of the defense, 199 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 1: dugout of the place. Went crazy because it's so good 200 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:26,680 Speaker 1: because we hadn't seen him. You knew what I've you know, 201 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 1: I've been seeing him, James, right, he's been rehabbing here, 202 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 1: but no, you know, nobody's seen him out in public. 203 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,280 Speaker 1: It's like the last time you saw him, he got 204 00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:36,120 Speaker 1: you know, carted off the field and it's like they 205 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 1: you know, they put him in quarantine for eight months, right, 206 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 1: So to have him step out of the dugout and 207 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,040 Speaker 1: give a nice little fun and happy wave like he's 208 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:49,200 Speaker 1: having a great time. Really did the crowd wonders he 209 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:51,360 Speaker 1: got a great ovation, So it was fun to see that. 210 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 1: I heard great event. I heard there was a certain 211 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: comment by Josh too as the offense won the softball game, 212 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: right and he was holding the trophy, certain something basically said, 213 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:06,960 Speaker 1: this is serving as a placeholder for the trophy we 214 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,960 Speaker 1: wanted to be holding in February. Did he use the 215 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:10,960 Speaker 1: Super Bowl the SB term. I don't know if he 216 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: did or not for the trophy for everything, for the 217 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:15,559 Speaker 1: thing that we want in February I think was happening. 218 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:19,080 Speaker 1: I don't think it was specifically named. Um. Josh Allen 219 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: did also though, share his thoughts on the terrible mass 220 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 1: shooting after participating in the charity softball game yesterday. It's 221 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:32,080 Speaker 1: still still hard to wrap my head around it. Um, 222 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 1: I'm absolutely I tweeted it, you know, just the heartbreak, 223 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: the sense of this, this weird feeling that I have, 224 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,120 Speaker 1: and my heart goes out, you know, to the victims 225 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: and their families, and you know, we we really haven't 226 00:11:45,920 --> 00:11:47,640 Speaker 1: talked as a team yet. We'll be in the building 227 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:50,079 Speaker 1: tomorrow and I'm sure we'll talk about it and figure 228 00:11:50,080 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 1: out a way to help, you know, the situation, help 229 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:56,560 Speaker 1: the families out. Um, it's something that you know, it's 230 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: you never think it's gonna happen in your in your community, 231 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 1: and when it does, you know, it hits home. And 232 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: I was sick to my stomach all day yesterday. I 233 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: was flying back from my sister's graduation and it was 234 00:12:08,559 --> 00:12:11,960 Speaker 1: just it's gut wrenching, it really is. And again, we'll 235 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:13,839 Speaker 1: talk as a team tomorrow and kind of figure out 236 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:15,920 Speaker 1: what we want to do. But you know, there's no 237 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:18,200 Speaker 1: doubt that we're going to do something. Yeah, So the 238 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:22,040 Speaker 1: players are getting together they as we understand it, or 239 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: organizing their own efforts, which I trust they'll bring to 240 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:28,760 Speaker 1: light at the appropriate time. We know the Bills organization 241 00:12:28,920 --> 00:12:32,719 Speaker 1: is also meeting with local officials as they, along with 242 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:36,079 Speaker 1: everyone else I think, want to get this right because 243 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:38,880 Speaker 1: I think in the past, Steve, there's been a great 244 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:43,520 Speaker 1: positive response to terrible incidents like this. But then as 245 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 1: we get further away from the horrible event, the response 246 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: and the lasting lesson we should all take from it. 247 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,319 Speaker 1: You know, just by virtual human nature, the news cycle, 248 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:58,439 Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, it fades and inevitably 249 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: we experience it's the same heartbreak again as we just 250 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 1: did this past weekend. I mean, from my God, there 251 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:10,240 Speaker 1: was another shooting in California yesterday, right, you know, at 252 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 1: a Presbyterian church, a day after the incident here in Buffalo. 253 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:20,320 Speaker 1: So I think the aim here by the Bills Organization, 254 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:26,240 Speaker 1: you know, city, county, state officials, is to find a 255 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 1: way to foster lasting change that goes beyond the support 256 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:34,840 Speaker 1: that is unquestionably needed right now for the people in 257 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 1: that immediate community around that grocery store, and obviously to 258 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: the black community. So stay tuned for that. We'll bring 259 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:44,920 Speaker 1: it to you as soon as we have more information 260 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: on behalf of the Bills and the players in the 261 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 1: coming days. So fostering lasting change is not going to 262 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,040 Speaker 1: be easy, but I think it's it's one hundred percent 263 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: necessary to have void. It pains me to say this, 264 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:07,880 Speaker 1: but I feel like we as a country are on 265 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 1: a wash, rinse, repeat cycle with these shootings. There's got 266 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: to be a way to foster lasting change, and I 267 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 1: think that's what I think. That's why the Bills Organization, 268 00:14:20,480 --> 00:14:23,040 Speaker 1: people in the city, county and state levels are trying 269 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 1: to find a way to like, Okay, let's respond to 270 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 1: the people that need our help, but let's also try 271 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: to find a way to get ourselves to a place 272 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:35,320 Speaker 1: where we don't always have to come in and wrap 273 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 1: our arms around a community because it's something senseless like this. Yeah, exactly, 274 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 1: And it's a hart. It's a difficult question with a 275 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 1: ton of layers, and it's complex because there's so many, 276 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: so many things that seem self evident, that are that 277 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: seemed to be off the table for solutions. You know, 278 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: you can talk, and you know we you know, you 279 00:14:57,640 --> 00:14:59,240 Speaker 1: can go as deep in the weeds as you want 280 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:01,680 Speaker 1: to go with every every fast of the topic. But 281 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:04,360 Speaker 1: the simple fact the matter is, you know, for most 282 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 1: of us, like you and me, Brownie, and the people 283 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:09,320 Speaker 1: at that softball game yesterday, and and the people who 284 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:13,960 Speaker 1: live in the neighborhood where the the incident occurred, the 285 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: best we can do is to get our arms around 286 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 1: each other and and um and move forward together um 287 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:24,920 Speaker 1: in the environment that we live in. UM. You know, 288 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 1: it's and it's I mean, that's not very helpful thing 289 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:31,840 Speaker 1: to say, but on the other hand, it's it's it's 290 00:15:31,880 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: what we can all do all the time. And I 291 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:37,880 Speaker 1: think you know, you start where you're at and go 292 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:43,040 Speaker 1: from there and work and hope for a better change. Yeah, 293 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: so we we will leave that there at this time. Obviously, 294 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:49,840 Speaker 1: if you feel the need to weigh in, you can 295 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: do that at eight oh three five fifty and we're 296 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:54,920 Speaker 1: here to listen if you need to address it or 297 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:59,080 Speaker 1: you know, expand upon it. Um, we're here for that. 298 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: But we all so know that we're also here to 299 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: entertain you, and that's what we're going to try to 300 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:09,120 Speaker 1: do now as we move forward, knowing full well that 301 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 1: the events of this past week and have not left 302 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: our consciousness, but we're trying to fill our roles and 303 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:19,440 Speaker 1: be what we're supposed to be for you. So we 304 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:23,960 Speaker 1: will move forward with that now and just say that 305 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 1: you know, what happened over the weekend hasn't lost our 306 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: stream of consciousness. We're just trying to fill our roles 307 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: as entertainers for you. And so we begin Steve with 308 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 1: the first of all, the NFL schedule came out and 309 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 1: I had to take some time off. Do you get 310 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: a chance to weigh in on that? Oh my gosh, 311 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:47,080 Speaker 1: and I know you guys were, you know, wall to 312 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 1: wall with it. My first question to you, Steve is 313 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:54,040 Speaker 1: what was the general response from the fan base on it. Well, 314 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: they were the prime time games jumped out of everybody. 315 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:02,880 Speaker 1: There's no question the league, the national media, other fan 316 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:05,480 Speaker 1: bases are also expecting the Bills to be the guy. 317 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:07,840 Speaker 1: They expect the Bills to be the team to beat. 318 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: And you know, obviously we've seen it here and we 319 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 1: kind of got sidetractors the draft team, and we saw 320 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 1: like the Jets had a great draft, the Patriots had 321 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 1: a questionable draft, the Dolphins didn't have that much draft 322 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:20,040 Speaker 1: from it, but they seem to have gotten better. And 323 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:22,240 Speaker 1: all these teams around the league are saying, wow, we 324 00:17:22,359 --> 00:17:24,840 Speaker 1: really helped ourselves. We filled some holes, we got some needs, 325 00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:26,679 Speaker 1: we got these really good players. And you know what, 326 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:29,640 Speaker 1: they're all still chasing the Bills. Yeah, they're all still 327 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:35,240 Speaker 1: chasing the Bills. And the schedule screams it the Bills. 328 00:17:35,280 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 1: Everybody wants to see the Bills, watch the Bills, take 329 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,400 Speaker 1: interest in the Bills. They want to see how their 330 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: team measures up to the Bills, so that it's a 331 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:47,480 Speaker 1: different place for an entire generation of Bill And we've 332 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:49,160 Speaker 1: had a good team for a couple of years now, 333 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 1: but to be this team. Well, it's been a long time. 334 00:17:54,359 --> 00:17:57,240 Speaker 1: I mean I had to do a write up for 335 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:59,800 Speaker 1: Buffalo bills dot com, you know, ten things to know 336 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,159 Speaker 1: out the Bill schedule, and the biggest thing that it 337 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 1: said to me was the Bills are a verified marquee 338 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 1: event when they play. That's what the schedule said to me. 339 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:12,000 Speaker 1: I mean, five primetime games, another standalone game on Thanksgiving 340 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:16,160 Speaker 1: against Detroit. Best part about the season kickoff game though, 341 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 1: Steve being a part of that, going out to La 342 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:21,880 Speaker 1: to play the Rams on the Thursday before the Week 343 00:18:21,880 --> 00:18:25,160 Speaker 1: one schedule goes full bore on Sunday. They get their 344 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:27,960 Speaker 1: longest road trip out of the way in Week one 345 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 1: and then they have nine days to recover before playing 346 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:33,560 Speaker 1: the following week on Monday night against the Titans here 347 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Yeah, the next longest that is that is 348 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 1: a huge benefit after the Rams their longest road trips Miami, Yeah, 349 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:46,040 Speaker 1: and then Kansas City after that. So that is a 350 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: huge benefit that should not go overlooked. Getting your longest 351 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 1: road trip out of the way when your body feels 352 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 1: the best it's going to feel all season, and then 353 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:57,120 Speaker 1: have nine days at rest to reacclimate to the time 354 00:18:57,200 --> 00:18:59,639 Speaker 1: change and everything to play Monday night at home. That 355 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: is huge. It's huge, And there's another there's another rest 356 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:06,800 Speaker 1: component to the schedule also that I noticed Steve, like, 357 00:19:07,080 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 1: you have a tough game against the Chiefs on the road, 358 00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:11,880 Speaker 1: then you get your buy before you play another tough 359 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 1: game at home against the Packers. Just getting that downtime 360 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: in between two pivotal, gigantic, difficult opponent games like that, 361 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 1: that that's valuable what struck me as well as right 362 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 1: after the Packers they come back and play the Packers 363 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 1: and whatever they're green, whatever their record would be after 364 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:35,439 Speaker 1: those first seven games, they go, this is the stretch 365 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: of the next eight games. They got the Jets, the Vikings, 366 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:43,000 Speaker 1: the Browns, the Lions, three division game, Patriots, the Jets, 367 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:49,159 Speaker 1: Miami and Chicago. To me, and I know you can 368 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,680 Speaker 1: say whatever you want, that's an eight or nine game 369 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 1: winning streak if you if you if this team plays 370 00:19:55,160 --> 00:20:01,520 Speaker 1: the Jets twice, Detroit, Cleveland and Minnesota, well you're better 371 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,119 Speaker 1: than those teams and Miami and Miami in New English 372 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:07,400 Speaker 1: in Chicago. Division games tend to get a little tricky sometimes. Yeah, 373 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 1: none the division games are a problem. And I know 374 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:11,959 Speaker 1: the girls think too that they've got eleven and one 375 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: the light it's been and they got the game they 376 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: lost was a forty mile an hour thing where they 377 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:18,320 Speaker 1: you know, the offense couldn't get it, couldn't throw the 378 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 1: football because of the wind. But you know, this is 379 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,159 Speaker 1: a team that's won lost one game, that lost to 380 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:26,679 Speaker 1: the VIC to the Patriots, and the forty mile an 381 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:29,040 Speaker 1: hour wins is the only loss they've taken in the 382 00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 1: division in two years. Right, So I get it. It's 383 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 1: gonna someday and some teams get they're gonna beat them. 384 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:40,640 Speaker 1: And maybe it's the Dolphins this year, maybe it's the Patriots, 385 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 1: maybe it's the Chets. I don't know. I have a 386 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 1: hard time seeing all three of them are going three 387 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:49,280 Speaker 1: and three in the division. But that is a stretch 388 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:52,399 Speaker 1: of games where the Bills are gonna be able to 389 00:20:52,440 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: position themselves in the standings. And the start of the 390 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:57,880 Speaker 1: schedule is no piece of cake. I mean it's three 391 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,440 Speaker 1: of the first four on the road, and you're playing 392 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:02,640 Speaker 1: quality teams. I mean you're playing the Rams, you're playing 393 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:05,920 Speaker 1: the Titans, you're playing the Ravens. Two of those three 394 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:10,760 Speaker 1: on the road. So that's right away, you know, front 395 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:12,960 Speaker 1: end of the schedule. Four of your first six games 396 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,920 Speaker 1: on the road at Rams, at Ravens, at Chiefs or 397 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,080 Speaker 1: three of them. Those aren't easy, So there should be 398 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,399 Speaker 1: a stretch where the schedule gets a little bit softer. 399 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 1: First six games are rough, no question. So there's no 400 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,760 Speaker 1: gimmis there the first six weeks of the season in 401 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,199 Speaker 1: my opinion. I mean because the Dolphins games on the 402 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 1: road right exactly. You know, it's hard to know what 403 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:38,280 Speaker 1: the Steelers are going to because their quarterback situations so muddled. 404 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: But it's still a top five defense that's led the 405 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:43,000 Speaker 1: league in sacks each of the last two years. So 406 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 1: don't sleep on the Steelers either. They came in here 407 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: last year in Week one and one, so you know, 408 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:52,080 Speaker 1: with a rag arm thirty eight year old quarterback. So 409 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: so just things to keep in mind. There. The other 410 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:59,480 Speaker 1: thing too, that I liked about the schedule, Steve last 411 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:02,200 Speaker 1: three division games for the Bills, all at home in 412 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 1: the last five weeks of the season. Yeah, three of 413 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:11,040 Speaker 1: the last five at home and three of them divisions. 414 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,440 Speaker 1: All three of them division games. You go to Cincinnati 415 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:16,280 Speaker 1: and two Chicago in a row. So I it's it's 416 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 1: interesting to me. You got it, stretches, different stretches in 417 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:23,840 Speaker 1: the season. You got two on the road, two at home, 418 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,880 Speaker 1: two on the road, two at home, two on the road. 419 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,280 Speaker 1: You know, it's like Minnesota, Cleveland at home, Detroit, New 420 00:22:31,320 --> 00:22:34,320 Speaker 1: England on the road, New York, Miami at home, Chicago, 421 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,159 Speaker 1: Cincinnati on the road. So it's two and two and 422 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,520 Speaker 1: two and two for a stretch of the season, which 423 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 1: is a little bit unusual. You don't have. They don't 424 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,200 Speaker 1: have a stretch of three games home or away at 425 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 1: all during this season, and that's that's it's hard to do. 426 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:55,439 Speaker 1: I think that's more happenstance than anything. But still, this 427 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 1: is a schedule. I'm gonna be excited to this team 428 00:22:57,320 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 1: to play if they can, and the first five or 429 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 1: six weeks of the season are absolutely critical. First six weeks, 430 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: first seven games, eight weeks critical. I mean, that's where 431 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 1: it happens. Now they can recover, but like I said 432 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:16,080 Speaker 1: after that, after that Green Bay game, if they're hitting 433 00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,120 Speaker 1: on all cylinders, I don't know if there's anybody left 434 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:21,560 Speaker 1: on their schedule that can beat them, including Cincinnati. Other 435 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 1: NFL news and notes, NFL officials, this just came down 436 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 1: shortly a short time ago. NFL officials are going to 437 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 1: meet with Brown's quarterback to Shaun Watson in Texas this week. 438 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 1: So it was first reported by CBS Sports Josina Anderson. 439 00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport of NFL Network reported it there after confirming, 440 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: as we know, Watson faces twenty two civil lawsuits alleging 441 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:49,400 Speaker 1: sexual assault and misconduct stemming from massage therapy sessions. He's 442 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:52,920 Speaker 1: under NFL investigation for violating the league's personal conduct policy 443 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,920 Speaker 1: and his subject to league issued suspension. The league said 444 00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:58,240 Speaker 1: in a statement, we will decline comment as the review 445 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,199 Speaker 1: is active and ongoing. It's gonna be very interesting to 446 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 1: see what the impetus is for the league to conduct 447 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:08,560 Speaker 1: this Now. Does this mean they're concluding their investigation prior 448 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:13,159 Speaker 1: to any legal outcomes on the civil front after he 449 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 1: was exonerated on a criminal basis? Is too grand Juries 450 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,920 Speaker 1: declined to indict him on criminal charges. So I don't 451 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: know if this means the league's investigation is coming to 452 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:26,160 Speaker 1: an end, but it certainly is ongoing. Yeah, I don't 453 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:27,920 Speaker 1: think it's ended. It's not going to be ended until 454 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 1: he comes back from whatever suspension is handed, right, That's 455 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 1: the end of it for him anyway. It Bears watching 456 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:43,080 Speaker 1: because you know, from the football side of it, without 457 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, with Bacon Rayfield, the Browns are just another team. Yeah, 458 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:50,679 Speaker 1: there's just another team. Now. I'm not saying just because Deshaun. 459 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:52,760 Speaker 1: I mean, we got to see some things from Deshaun 460 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,800 Speaker 1: coming back after a hiatus and all the stuff that's 461 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,439 Speaker 1: gone on with him and all the things he has 462 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:03,480 Speaker 1: to deal with legally, person and professionally. Who knows if 463 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:05,080 Speaker 1: he can come back and be the same guy he was, 464 00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:08,200 Speaker 1: But if he does, the Browns are a different team, 465 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:12,920 Speaker 1: a much different team than they've been. And however long 466 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,800 Speaker 1: that suspension is and whatever happens because of it, that 467 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 1: says a lot about where the Browns are going to 468 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,440 Speaker 1: be at the end of this season. And nobody knows 469 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 1: the answer to that, and I don't even think the 470 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:26,359 Speaker 1: commissioner knows. I think there's still I think there's still 471 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,840 Speaker 1: neck deep and uncertain. Yeah, it's gonna be very interesting 472 00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,200 Speaker 1: to see where that goes. And we don't have any 473 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,240 Speaker 1: defined answers. We're just getting these little breadcrumbs of clues 474 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,720 Speaker 1: as to how the league is handling it, but their 475 00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,480 Speaker 1: timetable is completely unknown at this point. We've got a 476 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 1: couple of NFL signings to bring your way. We also 477 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,560 Speaker 1: have to review rookie Minicamp which took place for the 478 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 1: Bills over the weekend. Steve and I will get to 479 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 1: those as we take a break here, but come back 480 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,320 Speaker 1: with that and much more here on a Monday on 481 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 1: One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo 482 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 1: Bills Radio. All right, welcome back to One Bill's Live. 483 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:14,880 Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve tasking with you here on a Monday, 484 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 1: and Bill's Rookie Mini Camp concluded over the weekend. And 485 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,159 Speaker 1: the cool thing now is now the rookies and the 486 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:28,240 Speaker 1: Vets will be together going forward. You know, they've got 487 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:31,640 Speaker 1: Phase two of the offseason conditioning program going on now, 488 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 1: and you know, the rookies and the Vets were all 489 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:40,680 Speaker 1: mixed together as one big roster. But as you know, Steve, 490 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:45,840 Speaker 1: the advantage of the rookie mini camp is there's more 491 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:51,119 Speaker 1: time for individual, one on one type instruction from the 492 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 1: position coaches. You know, they can spend a little bit 493 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: more time with the rookies kind of schooling them up, 494 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,399 Speaker 1: getting them up to speed, because they're not coaching an 495 00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:03,440 Speaker 1: entire position group, right that's the real benefit of Yes, 496 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,760 Speaker 1: plus onboarding p Yeah, the onboarding thing is is crucial. 497 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:10,199 Speaker 1: Plus they started getting them acclimated to the verbiage of 498 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,919 Speaker 1: what they're talking about on the field, the way you know, 499 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,760 Speaker 1: the Bills call plays both offensively and defensively. You can 500 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 1: imagine as a freshman in college walking in and you're 501 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,719 Speaker 1: thrown into a PhD course. That's what you're looking at 502 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,720 Speaker 1: when you come into an NFL building. You got three 503 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,080 Speaker 1: or four of you got you know, twenty five thirty 504 00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:31,399 Speaker 1: guys who are PhDs in the offense or defense that 505 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,920 Speaker 1: you're running and you're walking in. You don't even know 506 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:38,040 Speaker 1: how to read the cover of the book. So it's 507 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,400 Speaker 1: a problem. And so to get them acclimated, get them 508 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 1: up to speed at least with the verbiage, let alone 509 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:46,760 Speaker 1: the concepts. It's hugely it's it really gives them a 510 00:27:46,840 --> 00:27:49,639 Speaker 1: chance to like take at least one big breath before 511 00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: they immerse themselves into it. I thought that punter Matt 512 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:59,160 Speaker 1: arises comments from the weekend encapsulated what is running through 513 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,360 Speaker 1: a rookies head as they step onto the field as 514 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,679 Speaker 1: a professional now at a rookie mini camp, and he 515 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:11,159 Speaker 1: basically said just getting here today and being in this environment, 516 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:14,880 Speaker 1: you can tell how much more serious it is at 517 00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 1: the professional level because there is no well, I got 518 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:23,040 Speaker 1: a duck out five minutes early because I got class, 519 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,399 Speaker 1: you know at such and such a time, or you know, 520 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:32,200 Speaker 1: we can only spend twenty hours a week practicing because 521 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 1: of NCAA rules. It's all football, all the time, and 522 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 1: it's super important and you better get your stuff right. Yeah, 523 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:46,320 Speaker 1: And I thought he reflected and encapsulated how rookies are 524 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 1: feeling now because they're those jitters are there because this 525 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 1: is the real deal. This is your job now. I 526 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:56,280 Speaker 1: went over a local kid got signed for the rookie 527 00:28:56,280 --> 00:29:00,960 Speaker 1: mini camp and I actually he's from EA, and I 528 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:02,719 Speaker 1: went over and said hello to him because I knew him. 529 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,360 Speaker 1: I've known him since he was a kid. Yeah, so 530 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 1: it's a big moment for him. A lot of people 531 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:09,960 Speaker 1: are really proud of um, of him, and uh so 532 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:12,800 Speaker 1: I went over to say hi to he's a long snapper. 533 00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:15,680 Speaker 1: So he's over there and they're working with a rizah 534 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:18,280 Speaker 1: and they're they're over there and sitting there listening to 535 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 1: Matt Smiley talk about you know, outside the numbers, this 536 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:24,719 Speaker 1: yard is that that the nuances of where the snap is, 537 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,320 Speaker 1: where the field position is why you know it is 538 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:34,840 Speaker 1: it was PhD stuff. Yeah, uh for the punter, let 539 00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:37,960 Speaker 1: alone the long snapper. So it it's uh, it's a 540 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,800 Speaker 1: world different, a world different, and a world apart from 541 00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:42,920 Speaker 1: what some of these guys and what it's been what 542 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 1: I've seen um in the past. So yeah, you can 543 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: bet some of these guy's eyes were were opened to 544 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 1: what's ahead of them and and the and the mountain 545 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,440 Speaker 1: they've got to climb. So it's uh, yeah, it was. 546 00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 1: It was fun to see those guys, and it's really 547 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,160 Speaker 1: a great idea that they can come in and know 548 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 1: that they're with a group of guys that are in 549 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,040 Speaker 1: the same exact position they are without having to look 550 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 1: at a guy like Josh Allen to watch him, you know, 551 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 1: decipher what's going on from his actions. That's that's a 552 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:15,840 Speaker 1: lot to ask. In other NFL news, Drew Brees done 553 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 1: after one year at NBCUM not going to pretend to 554 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:25,520 Speaker 1: know all the ins and outs of that. But there 555 00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:31,000 Speaker 1: are some former players who are a natural in transitioning 556 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,440 Speaker 1: to the booth, and there are some that you know, 557 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 1: need a little more training coaching schooling, or there are 558 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:41,120 Speaker 1: some that it just doesn't flat out work, you know, Steve, 559 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,840 Speaker 1: Fortunately for you, you you know, you had the good 560 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,560 Speaker 1: sense to kind of get your feet wet on the 561 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 1: broadcasting side of things even before you retired, and it 562 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:52,440 Speaker 1: probably helped. I don't want to speak for you, but 563 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,360 Speaker 1: I would imagine that helped a lot for you as 564 00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 1: you kind of transition to network television. Yeah, I mean 565 00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,680 Speaker 1: that's a big jump. It is a big jump. I 566 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:05,960 Speaker 1: started working at being a broadcaster four or five oh 567 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:09,160 Speaker 1: actually yeah, yeah, six or seven, eight years before I 568 00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 1: actually had to make a living doing it. And you know, 569 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: you always get and you you're due to this too. 570 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,480 Speaker 1: You got kids coming to you for advice. How do 571 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,280 Speaker 1: you get started? What are you doing? Because your path 572 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,479 Speaker 1: was much different than mine. I always tell them all, 573 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,560 Speaker 1: if you can play for thirteen years, it's a good start, 574 00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,320 Speaker 1: you know, and then go into the business because it 575 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 1: kind of gives you a different perspective. But yeah, learn 576 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 1: how to broadcast is difficult and it's and I knew 577 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:37,840 Speaker 1: this as well. They're no guarantees. It is unlike but 578 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 1: unlike football, broadcasting is a very subjective industry. You know, 579 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 1: some people want to listen to our shown. I'm sure 580 00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,920 Speaker 1: we're gonna get shout outs on Twitter for what I'm 581 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:53,320 Speaker 1: about to say. We get shout outs where people think 582 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,080 Speaker 1: we stink and where they can't believe you and I 583 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 1: are actually on the air working. And then you also 584 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: get people who don't miss a show. It's a subjective industry. 585 00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,840 Speaker 1: Some people. You show him one of my games that 586 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 1: I did in the booth for CBSNA, Man, that's pretty good. 587 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 1: I like that game, I like the way he sounds, 588 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:12,200 Speaker 1: like the way he sounds, And you get a bunch 589 00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 1: of other people and think, how does that guy get 590 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:17,520 Speaker 1: that job? You know? And it's just the way of 591 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:22,000 Speaker 1: the business. That's why broadcasting is so different than football 592 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,400 Speaker 1: and football. Listen, they don't if you're throwing for five 593 00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,680 Speaker 1: touchdowns and no picks in four hundred and twenty five 594 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:31,000 Speaker 1: yards a week, nobody cares. If you can't speak English, 595 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,680 Speaker 1: they really don't. So it's a it's a results based 596 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:39,080 Speaker 1: business in broadcasting and not so much how do you look, 597 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,280 Speaker 1: how do you sound? How do I feel when I 598 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 1: listen to you? That's right, that's right. So yeah, you 599 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,280 Speaker 1: get great football players. Some of them make that transition 600 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,800 Speaker 1: as smooth as silk and others. It never seems to 601 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:56,080 Speaker 1: come easy for him. And that's and I shall we 602 00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: say it together. It rarely ends well for the great ones, 603 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,720 Speaker 1: and Drew Brees was a great one. Yeah, a really 604 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,000 Speaker 1: great one. So he has opened the door to a 605 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,040 Speaker 1: number of things that he may do in the future. 606 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,960 Speaker 1: He also included playing football again, but there are those 607 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:17,760 Speaker 1: around him who believe that that part of his comment 608 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:19,920 Speaker 1: was made in jest and that he does not really 609 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 1: consider it a serious thing, especially since he's just had 610 00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:29,640 Speaker 1: shoulder surgery recently. So I don't know that that's in 611 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:33,080 Speaker 1: the cards. Even though he put that in a Twitter post. 612 00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:36,240 Speaker 1: You played college competitive soccer. Yeah, tell me did you 613 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 1: ever have to have your knee done or your elbow? 614 00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:42,160 Speaker 1: Or I was fortunate enough to never have a major injury. 615 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:45,000 Speaker 1: I mean I I had a bunch of them. Yeah, 616 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,320 Speaker 1: And let me tell you something, after you had and 617 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,480 Speaker 1: a lot of people out listening to his lay, you 618 00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,880 Speaker 1: get your shoulder worked on, or your knee worked on, 619 00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:55,560 Speaker 1: or you break an arm or whatever. And you know, 620 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:58,240 Speaker 1: I've got a whole laundry list of stuff that happened 621 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:03,400 Speaker 1: to me. There are times after after the post surgery 622 00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:05,440 Speaker 1: where you think, I don't know if I'm ever gonna 623 00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,600 Speaker 1: feel like playing again ever, you know, And I was 624 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,759 Speaker 1: at the time, I was like twenty four, let alone 625 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,560 Speaker 1: sixty now twenty four year old. You know you got 626 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:18,880 Speaker 1: all you got all kinds of vigor. Yeah, and you 627 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:20,960 Speaker 1: know it's just it's like he's think, there is no 628 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:23,600 Speaker 1: way I'm ever gonna run, let alone feel good again. 629 00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,200 Speaker 1: And and it's and at him at forty three getting 630 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:31,040 Speaker 1: his shoulder worked on. Yeah, I was lucky. You had 631 00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:34,560 Speaker 1: a lot of muscular you know, muscle tissues, soft tissue injuries, 632 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,759 Speaker 1: a lot of ankle stuff, so much cutting, you roll 633 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:43,880 Speaker 1: your ankles like a ton of time, roin injuries, hamstrings, squads, 634 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,560 Speaker 1: all that stuff. But yeah, fortunately no major knee or ye, 635 00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,200 Speaker 1: I had all that like I consider major like labor 636 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:53,640 Speaker 1: in tears. Yeah, yeah, ACL's achilles those are major, even 637 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:55,680 Speaker 1: you know, nice scopes or even major you know all 638 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,080 Speaker 1: that stuff. Um, yeah, yeah, you talk about that was 639 00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:01,479 Speaker 1: me just getting up going to the bathroom this morning. 640 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:05,480 Speaker 1: Was that pulled hamstrings and twisted ankles. But I get 641 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:07,839 Speaker 1: what you're saying. These guys like Drew Brees and these 642 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:10,840 Speaker 1: guys are and I've said it too that most of 643 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 1: the really truly great players that I've been around, even 644 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,359 Speaker 1: the guys I played with, the Hall of Fame guys 645 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,480 Speaker 1: that were on my teams, and the other Hall of 646 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,640 Speaker 1: famers that I know about, and guys in other sports 647 00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:26,399 Speaker 1: who were really those really gifted, great ones, they're so 648 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:29,920 Speaker 1: immersed in it and and so far out in front 649 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,399 Speaker 1: of what other players and other guys and other people 650 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:36,359 Speaker 1: in other industries are it's hard to transition out of it, 651 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,879 Speaker 1: even if you do something as subtle as going from 652 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:40,839 Speaker 1: the field to the booth in the same game. Yeah, 653 00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:44,799 Speaker 1: it's different, which is what Tom Brady might do for all, 654 00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:47,560 Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, your life is Your life is different, right, 655 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,480 Speaker 1: is different. Your your day to day life is different. 656 00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:54,759 Speaker 1: Your routines are different, your priorities are different. And for 657 00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:59,840 Speaker 1: some guys, those things are too much to handle so quickly. 658 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,640 Speaker 1: It's a hard transition to make for anybody, you know, 659 00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:07,239 Speaker 1: even if you've been doing it for fifty years and 660 00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,080 Speaker 1: you're sixty five and you're ready to quit. It's hard 661 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:14,240 Speaker 1: to change your life that drastically. Other NFL news and notes, 662 00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,480 Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry, the wide receiver who has been a free 663 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:22,359 Speaker 1: agent since March of the Cleveland Browns has signed with 664 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:26,520 Speaker 1: the Saints. It's a one year deal, three million up front, 665 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:31,959 Speaker 1: three million in incentives. So he's going back to Louisiana 666 00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:34,600 Speaker 1: where he played his college ball obviously at LSU. So 667 00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:37,440 Speaker 1: we'll see what he can give and inject into the 668 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,960 Speaker 1: Saints offense down there. I mean he did. He has 669 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,800 Speaker 1: been to five Pro Bowls, not for nothing. Possession receiver, 670 00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:48,120 Speaker 1: high catch volume guy, so we'll see what he does 671 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:53,920 Speaker 1: for Jamis Winston down there. And then Melvin Ingram Steve 672 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:58,600 Speaker 1: has reportedly reached a deal with the Dolphins as they 673 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,920 Speaker 1: look to augment their pass rush. He was obviously a 674 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,080 Speaker 1: nice shot in the arm for the Kansas City Chiefs 675 00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:09,280 Speaker 1: defense last season after he got moved in a trade 676 00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:14,040 Speaker 1: from Pittsburgh to Kansas City midseason last year. So he's 677 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:15,600 Speaker 1: going to see if he can do the same thing 678 00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,400 Speaker 1: for a Dolphins team that keeps trying to add some 679 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:22,680 Speaker 1: pieces here in the offseason. So interesting development there. We'll 680 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:26,279 Speaker 1: see what Ingram has in the tank. And I would 681 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,640 Speaker 1: anticipate this is a specialized role, you know, pass rush 682 00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:32,840 Speaker 1: specialist guy coming on the field and obvious pass rushings. 683 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:34,879 Speaker 1: I don't see him playing a full time role there 684 00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:39,560 Speaker 1: in a eighteen week season at age thirty four three. Yeah, 685 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,160 Speaker 1: and I don't know, I know, I have a hard 686 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,399 Speaker 1: I get it. I see it the exact same way 687 00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:48,280 Speaker 1: you do, except for this. I know a lot of players, 688 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:51,239 Speaker 1: a lot of teams grab guys like that, and even 689 00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,120 Speaker 1: if it's an affordable deal. Yeah, they bring him in 690 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:59,040 Speaker 1: and they realize plus or minus that they're deficient at 691 00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:00,600 Speaker 1: that spot and all of the suff and he starts 692 00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:02,960 Speaker 1: taking eighty five percent of the snaps, ninety percent of 693 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,640 Speaker 1: the snaps because he's just their best option, you know 694 00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:08,520 Speaker 1: what I mean, He's just and he goes until all 695 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,080 Speaker 1: of a sudden, after eight games of that, he's done. 696 00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:14,439 Speaker 1: That's what happened to Frank Gore here if you remember right, 697 00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,839 Speaker 1: because it gets to Kevin Singletary in his rookie year, 698 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:22,200 Speaker 1: pulls his hamstring and misses four games, and Frank Gore, 699 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,080 Speaker 1: who was supposed to be a compliment, is suddenly he's 700 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,799 Speaker 1: the guy. He's yeah, he's the bell cow. And at 701 00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,759 Speaker 1: age thirty seven here he was good for about four 702 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,160 Speaker 1: weeks and then his productivity fell off a cliff on 703 00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:34,920 Speaker 1: the back half of the season and that's because he's 704 00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,399 Speaker 1: thirty seven years old player running back, and Melvin Ingram 705 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:38,960 Speaker 1: could be the same thing for the Dolphins. Now he's 706 00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,280 Speaker 1: gonna get that guy can still play, don't no question. 707 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,879 Speaker 1: I don't know how long or how far it's gonna 708 00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,080 Speaker 1: go into this season, but they're gonna be moments when 709 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,040 Speaker 1: Melvin Ingram will remind you of what the kind of 710 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,600 Speaker 1: player he has been in this league. The question is 711 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,839 Speaker 1: are there going to be times when he's gonna look 712 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:57,920 Speaker 1: like ordinary ordinary at or worse he's going to be 713 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,600 Speaker 1: on the sidelines and street clothes because he's heard or whatever. 714 00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:03,920 Speaker 1: Or Yeah, it could go either way. Yeah, I mean 715 00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:07,200 Speaker 1: he could. He could the guy. I'm not saying it's 716 00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,879 Speaker 1: going to happen, but he could go. That's a wide 717 00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:13,759 Speaker 1: band of possibility with Melvin. The high end is very 718 00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:17,439 Speaker 1: high and the low end is zero. Where you have 719 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,840 Speaker 1: the Carl Lawson kind of thing where you go to 720 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,040 Speaker 1: the Jets and you end up not playing it down. 721 00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,520 Speaker 1: It could It's that whole spectrum he could go from. 722 00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:27,920 Speaker 1: He could go from Pro Bowl caliber player and be 723 00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:31,839 Speaker 1: voted into the Pro Bowl again to not playing it down. 724 00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,520 Speaker 1: That's what happens when you get to that mid thirties 725 00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:41,200 Speaker 1: at playing of high volume, high high intensity, very physical 726 00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:45,000 Speaker 1: position on the football field. We've seen the wide receiver 727 00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:49,719 Speaker 1: market get reset in a big way this offseason, with 728 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:52,320 Speaker 1: Tyree Hill signing for thirty million a year and a 729 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:55,720 Speaker 1: sign and trade deal between Kansas City and Miami earlier 730 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:59,319 Speaker 1: this offseason. We have now seen the cornerback market get 731 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:02,680 Speaker 1: reset all the not at nearly as great an increase 732 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:07,600 Speaker 1: as we saw a wide receiver, thankfully, but Green Bay 733 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:13,000 Speaker 1: cornerback Jaire Alexander has signed a four year, eighty four 734 00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:17,600 Speaker 1: million dollar extension with the Packers, making him the highest 735 00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:21,240 Speaker 1: paid corner in the league at an average annual value 736 00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:25,520 Speaker 1: of twenty one million per year. Now, immediately I saw 737 00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:28,520 Speaker 1: this on social media Steve and had some Bills fans 738 00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,239 Speaker 1: worried that Tredevious White is going to need to have 739 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,959 Speaker 1: his contract adjusted since he's at seventeen and a half 740 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:39,280 Speaker 1: million per year. I think there's time for the Bills 741 00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:43,840 Speaker 1: to address this, mainly due to the fact that Tredevius 742 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:47,960 Speaker 1: is coming off a major injury, and I think taking 743 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:51,280 Speaker 1: the weight and sea approach here is wise because Tredevius 744 00:40:51,360 --> 00:40:54,000 Speaker 1: is signed through the twenty twenty five season on the 745 00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,200 Speaker 1: extension he signed just over a year ago. So that's 746 00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:02,160 Speaker 1: step one. Step two is not going to redo somebody's 747 00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:05,759 Speaker 1: contract who's coming off a major injury. Like you, you 748 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:10,080 Speaker 1: owe it to the club you represent to say, let's 749 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,560 Speaker 1: make sure he's still Trey. And it's not that they 750 00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:16,759 Speaker 1: doubt it or doubt Trey because he's done everything right 751 00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:19,120 Speaker 1: every step of the way here. But business is business, 752 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:24,719 Speaker 1: and the smart business move here is to wait and see. Absolutely, So, 753 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,719 Speaker 1: I mean, I think the Bills organization would be all 754 00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:32,399 Speaker 1: too happy to readjust this contract once he proves he's 755 00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:35,200 Speaker 1: every bit the Trey White he has always been coming 756 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,480 Speaker 1: off of the ACL injury, and there's no indications to 757 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,840 Speaker 1: say that he won't. But as a good business model, 758 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,759 Speaker 1: you wait and see. Yeah. I mean, in this day 759 00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:47,279 Speaker 1: and age, it used to be ACL injuries were you know, 760 00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,080 Speaker 1: the death sentence for an athlete's career, asked Gail Sayers. 761 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,359 Speaker 1: You know, and yeah, all that happened to him. Then 762 00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:56,560 Speaker 1: slowly over the you know, through the sixties, seventies, eighties, 763 00:41:56,560 --> 00:42:00,239 Speaker 1: he got better better. Now ACLS you got guy used 764 00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:03,480 Speaker 1: to be a full calendar year before the guy at 765 00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:05,560 Speaker 1: least right then it was it was two years, then 766 00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:08,080 Speaker 1: it was a full calendar year, then it was seven 767 00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,319 Speaker 1: and nine, and now it's getting less and less, and 768 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,279 Speaker 1: you can expect guys to come back at a higher 769 00:42:12,360 --> 00:42:15,520 Speaker 1: level when they do come back. Um, so there's no 770 00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,400 Speaker 1: reason to think to Davious White, isn't gonna come back 771 00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:19,440 Speaker 1: and just jump right in where he left off. Certainly 772 00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:21,520 Speaker 1: he's got some he'll have some rust and some things 773 00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,840 Speaker 1: to work through in his own in his own mind, 774 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:26,560 Speaker 1: but it's physically he should be back to where he was. 775 00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,360 Speaker 1: That's the way the state of the of the recovery 776 00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:33,920 Speaker 1: process looks in today's professional sports world. So but like 777 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:38,680 Speaker 1: you said, even though that's probably the case, you gotta 778 00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:40,600 Speaker 1: prove it. I mean, you gotta you gotta come out 779 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,279 Speaker 1: and do it. Uh say, they're now the injuries that 780 00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:46,080 Speaker 1: are the most catastrophic it was now they're starting is 781 00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:49,000 Speaker 1: the Achilles rupture. That used to be like you're done, 782 00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:51,640 Speaker 1: but then you know, then it happened to Kobe Bryant, 783 00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:55,120 Speaker 1: happening to Emmanuel Samuel Sanders, and five more years how 784 00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,239 Speaker 1: it's happened to guys and they have been able to 785 00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:59,120 Speaker 1: come back and be productive and play at a high level. 786 00:42:59,160 --> 00:43:01,879 Speaker 1: So even those injuries, the ones that you know were 787 00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:06,719 Speaker 1: once catastrophic, are starting to be not so yeah. So yeah. 788 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,360 Speaker 1: Injuries are have always been a part of the league, 789 00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:14,480 Speaker 1: and now sports science and the medical profession catching up 790 00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:17,799 Speaker 1: to the kind of injuries that players sustain has given 791 00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:19,600 Speaker 1: them a chance to continue their career to high level. 792 00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:24,920 Speaker 1: But we're not at the point where nobody just takes 793 00:43:24,920 --> 00:43:28,520 Speaker 1: it from where anybody just takes it for granted. It's 794 00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,120 Speaker 1: there's always a question mark after you come back from 795 00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,160 Speaker 1: an injury of the magnitude, at least at this point 796 00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,319 Speaker 1: in history. Yeah, break time for us here when we 797 00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:41,239 Speaker 1: come back. What former Bills player is taking on a 798 00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:44,839 Speaker 1: boxing career that got off to a flying start this 799 00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,480 Speaker 1: past weekend. We'll tell you who when we return here 800 00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:49,680 Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live, presented by Collid to Health. It's 801 00:43:49,719 --> 00:44:06,080 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back. And there was 802 00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:10,480 Speaker 1: a former Bill's player who made his pro boxing debut 803 00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:14,280 Speaker 1: over the weekend on his thirty eighth birthday of all dates. 804 00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:22,160 Speaker 1: Steve frank Gore, who lost an amateur fight to former 805 00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:27,640 Speaker 1: NBA player Deron Williams earlier this year, had his first 806 00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:32,839 Speaker 1: pro fight in Jackson Mississippi on Saturday night and he 807 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,879 Speaker 1: fought hold on. I've got the guy's name here. It's 808 00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,960 Speaker 1: a long name, so bear with me. Yah yah. Olo 809 00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:44,160 Speaker 1: runs solo much taller, had a reach advantage on Frank, 810 00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:46,480 Speaker 1: but Frank had the last laugh, gets him with a 811 00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:52,240 Speaker 1: right cross and timber. Yeah, he is out on his feet, Steve, 812 00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:54,840 Speaker 1: I gotta tell you watched that. And we've had a 813 00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:56,879 Speaker 1: chance to talk to Frank here in the show when 814 00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:58,600 Speaker 1: he was here with the Bills and what kind of 815 00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:01,600 Speaker 1: the stellar guy he and I know that, you know, 816 00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,920 Speaker 1: everybody takes great pride in their own careers and stuff, 817 00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:06,160 Speaker 1: and I know it was you know a lot of 818 00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:11,279 Speaker 1: football players are you know, you're courageous. It takes it 819 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,040 Speaker 1: takes a It takes some courage to step into a 820 00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:17,359 Speaker 1: ring with a dude and start swinging. Yeah, just here 821 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,719 Speaker 1: we go, and you know he's training, ready to and 822 00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:21,760 Speaker 1: they you know it's coming, and here there's no getting 823 00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:23,920 Speaker 1: out of man it. And Frank went in there at 824 00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:28,760 Speaker 1: thirty eight and hit the guy with a little combination 825 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,080 Speaker 1: then one last uppercut. I think at least I think 826 00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:35,040 Speaker 1: it was front. Yeah, the position of cross, right cross, 827 00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,680 Speaker 1: and that guy was he he went down stiff as 828 00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:43,320 Speaker 1: a tree, and it was timber sitting his knees. The 829 00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:48,240 Speaker 1: guy's knees locked down, arms before he's out on his feet, 830 00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:53,600 Speaker 1: and Frank, I gotta say, walking off, leaving the guy 831 00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,600 Speaker 1: standing there walking to a neutral corner like he's walking 832 00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:00,880 Speaker 1: back to the huddle. I gotta say, though, knowing getting 833 00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:02,880 Speaker 1: the opportunity to know Frank in the season that he 834 00:46:02,960 --> 00:46:10,640 Speaker 1: was here, he has the mental fortitude, discipline, toughness, just 835 00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:13,279 Speaker 1: his whole approach to football. I think Cater's very well 836 00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:16,560 Speaker 1: to boxing because it's just you out there. You know 837 00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:18,560 Speaker 1: the thing, it's just you. You know what strikes me 838 00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:23,319 Speaker 1: about that most fighters, even when they knocked the guy out, 839 00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:26,480 Speaker 1: they back away and still look at the guy, you know, 840 00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:28,680 Speaker 1: they're like they're bouncing away and looking at him, watching 841 00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:30,000 Speaker 1: to make sure he's not getting up and all that. 842 00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,200 Speaker 1: Frank didn't, didn't even give the guy a second. He 843 00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:34,759 Speaker 1: just turned his back and walked off. I mean, if 844 00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:38,759 Speaker 1: that's a total fight best viewers saw the video from 845 00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:43,080 Speaker 1: the fight for our radio listening audience in Buffalo on 846 00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:47,959 Speaker 1: WGR and in Rochester on ninety seven five. A fan. 847 00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:54,440 Speaker 1: The guy's arms are at his side, before he hits 848 00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,960 Speaker 1: the camp. I mean he is out on his feet. 849 00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:59,719 Speaker 1: Even when he hits the canvas, his feet kind of 850 00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:03,880 Speaker 1: pop up like because everything is limp and dead. He 851 00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:06,640 Speaker 1: didn't break his out, He didn't really break his fall. 852 00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:08,439 Speaker 1: He just kind of broke his fall with his face. 853 00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,680 Speaker 1: Get his hands down. Yeah, he was out and it 854 00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:14,520 Speaker 1: was there was that get that fight was not going 855 00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:17,920 Speaker 1: to continue. Um, there's a certain but you know what 856 00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:19,920 Speaker 1: I'm saying, like, there's a certain you got to have 857 00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:24,440 Speaker 1: a certain mentor and discipline within yourself to go in 858 00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:26,799 Speaker 1: a ring like that and just start swinging haymakers at 859 00:47:26,800 --> 00:47:29,279 Speaker 1: each other. And there's you know, there's a discipline to 860 00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:32,920 Speaker 1: the training. Also. Yeah, Frank used boxing is a training 861 00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:37,160 Speaker 1: tool across right while he was playing. And you can 862 00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:38,880 Speaker 1: see why. If you've ever tried to hit a heavy 863 00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:41,439 Speaker 1: bag for three minutes, like I tried it like once 864 00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:44,520 Speaker 1: or twice, it's like, forget it. I'd you know, just 865 00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:48,040 Speaker 1: hit me with a stick it. You know it was hard, 866 00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:49,680 Speaker 1: but you know to do and that's why you train 867 00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,120 Speaker 1: that way. The harder it is, the better shape you getting. 868 00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:55,800 Speaker 1: Frank was, uh, he eats that for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 869 00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:59,200 Speaker 1: His montality. He's got one of those mentalities that is 870 00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:02,319 Speaker 1: just you know, like it's like iron. You know, I'll 871 00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:04,640 Speaker 1: give you a quick store flinching. This is my only 872 00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:09,880 Speaker 1: Frank Gore's story. So the Bills are down in Spartanburg, 873 00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,800 Speaker 1: South Carolina, are gonna do joint practices with the Carolina 874 00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:17,120 Speaker 1: Panthers in summer twenty nineteen. It's late August's hottest heck 875 00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:21,600 Speaker 1: down there. And I get up early to get a 876 00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:23,839 Speaker 1: workout in at the hotel gym before I go down 877 00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:27,080 Speaker 1: to practice. You know, practice is at like nine o'clock whatever. 878 00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:30,680 Speaker 1: So I'm in the gym at like six thirty. The 879 00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,279 Speaker 1: hotel play you know, it's nothing's fancy or anything. I 880 00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:36,799 Speaker 1: go in there at six thirty. Frank Gore's in there 881 00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:40,640 Speaker 1: and he's on the elliptical machine and I mean it 882 00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:43,680 Speaker 1: is just rolling off him and he is sweating bullets. 883 00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,839 Speaker 1: He's clearly been there for a while. And I'm thinking 884 00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:50,719 Speaker 1: to myself, this guy's got two practices today in what's 885 00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:52,960 Speaker 1: going to be about one hundred degree heat on the field. 886 00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:58,520 Speaker 1: He's thirty six, and he's on the elliptical sweating bullets 887 00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:03,759 Speaker 1: in a water wait jacket and like I was there. 888 00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:07,200 Speaker 1: I was only there for forty five minutes, maybe an hour, 889 00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:09,919 Speaker 1: and he was there for more than half the time 890 00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:11,520 Speaker 1: I was. And I knew he got there a long 891 00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:13,439 Speaker 1: time before I did. And I'm just sitting there going 892 00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:17,560 Speaker 1: does this guy really need the extra pt at thirty six? 893 00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:19,960 Speaker 1: Like you would think, like a thirty six year old 894 00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:23,600 Speaker 1: running back is saving himself, you know what I mean, 895 00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:26,640 Speaker 1: like saving yourself for the day of work. Don't wear 896 00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:29,000 Speaker 1: yourself out before the season. He was. That's just that 897 00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:31,720 Speaker 1: just was not his approach to football or his training 898 00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:34,520 Speaker 1: regiment at all. And you think worked for him. Yeah, 899 00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:38,719 Speaker 1: I mean, I can't think of another running back who 900 00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:40,600 Speaker 1: had a career as long as he did. I mean, 901 00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:44,840 Speaker 1: Walter played a long time, but Ward played thirteen thirteen seasons. 902 00:49:44,960 --> 00:49:48,520 Speaker 1: Who wouldn't Frank play more than that? Sixteen six, sixteen? Yeah, 903 00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:51,520 Speaker 1: that's like a career long. Emmitt Smith played a long time. 904 00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:53,719 Speaker 1: Did he play sixteen? He played close to that? I 905 00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:56,239 Speaker 1: want to say he played like fourteen, fifteen, fifteen? Maybe, 906 00:49:56,520 --> 00:50:00,040 Speaker 1: But Frank is you think about that? How hard? And 907 00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,279 Speaker 1: you know maybe? And that's the key, I guess. You know, 908 00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:04,719 Speaker 1: you got to stay in shape all the time and 909 00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:06,399 Speaker 1: it's your old bed has played a long time. I'll 910 00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:10,319 Speaker 1: say he played thirteen fourteen years. It's and sixteen's hard 911 00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:13,520 Speaker 1: at that sixteen in any positions hard, let alone that 912 00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:20,680 Speaker 1: running back. Yeah, and it's it's unbelievable to think about 913 00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:26,399 Speaker 1: how hard he trained for so long. Let me see 914 00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:28,960 Speaker 1: if I can well, yeah, you want to look that up, 915 00:50:28,960 --> 00:50:31,279 Speaker 1: that's fine. We gotta take a break here. Anyway, we'll 916 00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:34,359 Speaker 1: try to see if anybody went at running back as long. 917 00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:38,040 Speaker 1: I mean, Adrian Peterson was getting up Jim Oh No, no, no, no, 918 00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,440 Speaker 1: Jim Brown, No, no, Adrian Peterson got up there. But 919 00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:41,799 Speaker 1: we'll try to see if we can find a list 920 00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:46,040 Speaker 1: of guys they played as long as Frank heck of 921 00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:49,840 Speaker 1: a career and still relatively productive even in his later years. 922 00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:53,279 Speaker 1: And now he's embarking on a boxing career. We'll see 923 00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:54,880 Speaker 1: where that goes. I don't know if he's gonna be 924 00:50:54,920 --> 00:50:57,160 Speaker 1: boxing as long as he was a running back. That's 925 00:50:57,160 --> 00:51:00,520 Speaker 1: probably not advisable either for your brain health. We take 926 00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:02,839 Speaker 1: a break here. Our number two coming your way. Next. 927 00:51:02,920 --> 00:51:04,799 Speaker 1: You're on One Bill's Live, presented by Collid to Health. 928 00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:26,319 Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve tasker who has 929 00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:28,680 Speaker 1: been all over the fields. Kind of unique. He was 930 00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:32,440 Speaker 1: kind of a dual role player for you. St Steve 931 00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:38,239 Speaker 1: a blimp. We're not even in the stratgere of normalcy, 932 00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:45,360 Speaker 1: all right. So in a little bit of elementary research, 933 00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:47,759 Speaker 1: that's Steve and I did through the break. I'm the 934 00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:54,680 Speaker 1: worst searcher, the worst search on the internet. Um yeah, 935 00:51:54,719 --> 00:51:57,399 Speaker 1: we're we're far from pro level, but we can find 936 00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:02,560 Speaker 1: a few things. Uh. Frank Gorey is the longest tenured 937 00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:08,920 Speaker 1: running back in for a professional career sixteen seasons. Adrian Peterson, 938 00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:10,680 Speaker 1: if he can land with a team this year, would 939 00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:14,759 Speaker 1: tie that mark. He has played for fifteen seasons in 940 00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:18,520 Speaker 1: the NFL. Played for a few teams last year, so 941 00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:21,280 Speaker 1: he's got fifteen years under his belt. Hall of Famer 942 00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:27,320 Speaker 1: Marcus Allen fifteen seasons and It's Smith fifteen seasons. Can't 943 00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:30,200 Speaker 1: find anybody with fourteen right now, Steve. Although I'm sure 944 00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:33,440 Speaker 1: there's some pass catching running back out there that's probably 945 00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:35,200 Speaker 1: done it. You know, somebody that didn't take as much 946 00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:40,319 Speaker 1: wear and tear y, you know, like a Keith Buyers hut. Yeah, 947 00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:43,040 Speaker 1: you know, didn't take a lot of lickers. Yeah, yeah, 948 00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,840 Speaker 1: some of those guys. I gotta check Jerome Bettis. I 949 00:52:45,920 --> 00:52:49,640 Speaker 1: forgot to check him. And then you got Walter Payton 950 00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:54,440 Speaker 1: at thirteen years, Marshall Falk at twelve years. Yeah, Jerome 951 00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:58,279 Speaker 1: Bettis looks like it was thirteen. Nope, let me see here. 952 00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:03,560 Speaker 1: It might be fourteen thirteen seasons for Jerome Bettis. So 953 00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:12,120 Speaker 1: he's on the longevity list also Law of Famer. Um. So, yeah, 954 00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,359 Speaker 1: there's there's a long list of guys. I'm sure we're 955 00:53:14,360 --> 00:53:18,000 Speaker 1: missing some too, but z oh my gosh, Jerry Rice 956 00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:20,680 Speaker 1: played from eighty five to twenty fourteen. Well, yeah, but 957 00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:23,080 Speaker 1: he's not a running back. Um. There's a lot of guys, 958 00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:25,480 Speaker 1: and there's a lot of kickers on this list as yeah, 959 00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:28,839 Speaker 1: as you would expect. One of the guys that played 960 00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:31,560 Speaker 1: the longest. I remember that George Blanda played until he 961 00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:35,040 Speaker 1: was forty five years old. I think that was the 962 00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:38,960 Speaker 1: record at the time. Still still is. Uh, Brady may 963 00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:44,680 Speaker 1: break that m But yeah, there's a lot of yeah, 964 00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:47,560 Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of guys that played a 965 00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:50,640 Speaker 1: long time, but none of them that played running back. Nobody. No. 966 00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:55,439 Speaker 1: There is another bit of NFL news that just went 967 00:53:55,520 --> 00:54:01,520 Speaker 1: down this afternoon. Sean Payton, who we you know, retired 968 00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:05,719 Speaker 1: as head coach of the New Orleans Saints. He has 969 00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:09,479 Speaker 1: a new job. He is going to fill a few 970 00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:13,480 Speaker 1: roles with Fox Sports. So I think a lot of 971 00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:19,000 Speaker 1: people anticipated he might move to the broadcast realm, whether 972 00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:22,759 Speaker 1: it was his studio you know, commentator, you know that 973 00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:25,360 Speaker 1: they go to a pregame, halftime, postgame, or whether he 974 00:54:25,440 --> 00:54:27,960 Speaker 1: was going to be a color analyst for games. He 975 00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:30,880 Speaker 1: will be going to Fox Sports and will serve a 976 00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:33,880 Speaker 1: few roles, So that to me means he'll probably be 977 00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:39,480 Speaker 1: in studio in some capacity and then probably have him 978 00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:41,359 Speaker 1: do some other stuff too. Maybe he'll do some games 979 00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:44,040 Speaker 1: as well. I think he'd be very valuable as a 980 00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:46,520 Speaker 1: color analyst because he knows exactly what he's looking at. 981 00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:50,520 Speaker 1: He'd be good as an analyst. You would think head 982 00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:52,360 Speaker 1: coaches are great because they have so many things that 983 00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:55,200 Speaker 1: cross their desk they have to address as a head coach, 984 00:54:55,239 --> 00:54:57,839 Speaker 1: and for particularly one that was doing it for as 985 00:54:57,880 --> 00:54:59,560 Speaker 1: long as he did and at the level that he 986 00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:05,120 Speaker 1: did it at um plus his plus, head coaches are 987 00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:06,960 Speaker 1: come up kind of through the ranks. I mean there 988 00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:09,200 Speaker 1: are it's an apprentice ship business. He started as a 989 00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:12,120 Speaker 1: quality control guy all the web through as a coordinator, 990 00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:14,120 Speaker 1: play caller, and then you know obviously a head coach 991 00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:18,040 Speaker 1: and won a world champion championship. To hear them speak 992 00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:21,359 Speaker 1: about the game is a little bit like you know, 993 00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:26,239 Speaker 1: listening listening to a pro golfer talk about how they 994 00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:28,480 Speaker 1: walk through around and listening to their thought process. It's 995 00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:31,920 Speaker 1: completely different, right, It's completely different. It's really interesting to 996 00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:33,960 Speaker 1: hear these guys speak about it because they see the 997 00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:37,000 Speaker 1: game from such a high level but also such a level. 998 00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:41,560 Speaker 1: It's great stuff. And uh and he's a good communicator, 999 00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:43,600 Speaker 1: a really good communicator, so it would be really interesting 1000 00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:47,480 Speaker 1: to see him do that. But that that's a grind, bro, Yeah, 1001 00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:49,520 Speaker 1: I don't know a guy that of his stature that 1002 00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:52,480 Speaker 1: want to hit the road. It can't be a more 1003 00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:56,239 Speaker 1: of a grind than coaching. That's a good point, right, 1004 00:55:56,480 --> 00:56:00,560 Speaker 1: I mean good pointing he was doing. You know, wherever 1005 00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:02,360 Speaker 1: you live and however close you are to the building, 1006 00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:05,960 Speaker 1: you're like there all the time, you know, except you're 1007 00:56:06,320 --> 00:56:08,759 Speaker 1: working all the time. You're not away, but you're still 1008 00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:11,879 Speaker 1: traveling the same amounting and be traveling as travel three 1009 00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:14,279 Speaker 1: times more as a as an analyst than you do 1010 00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:17,360 Speaker 1: as a coach, half the games are at home. Oh 1011 00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:20,279 Speaker 1: that's a good point. Every game, every game's on the road. 1012 00:56:20,320 --> 00:56:23,480 Speaker 1: When you're an analyst, you're traveling every week, so you 1013 00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:27,120 Speaker 1: travel three times as much. Plus you're on you're gone 1014 00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:29,520 Speaker 1: for a bigger stretch. You know. In football, head coach 1015 00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:32,759 Speaker 1: and the team, they're there one night, they go in Saturday, 1016 00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:37,439 Speaker 1: stay Saturday night, they're home Sunday night after For analysts, 1017 00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:40,239 Speaker 1: typically they go in Friday morning, they watch the home 1018 00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:44,759 Speaker 1: team practice, talk to them, hang around Saturday, watch film 1019 00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:48,440 Speaker 1: or whatever happen team and they come in and then 1020 00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:51,319 Speaker 1: you stay for Sunday the game, and then you go 1021 00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:55,439 Speaker 1: to the airport. You gotta wait on a flight. You know. Yeah, 1022 00:56:55,440 --> 00:56:59,200 Speaker 1: it's a grind, bro, I don't know. I still might 1023 00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:02,680 Speaker 1: argue that coach is, oh listen, more of a grind. 1024 00:57:03,080 --> 00:57:05,560 Speaker 1: And it's it's a little bit like a b I've 1025 00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:09,680 Speaker 1: said this before. It's one of the it's a lifestyle. Um. 1026 00:57:09,719 --> 00:57:12,000 Speaker 1: The analyst thing is one of those jobs where it's 1027 00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:14,319 Speaker 1: never it's never done. You're never done getting ready for 1028 00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:16,440 Speaker 1: the game. You can watch, you can there's always some 1029 00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:18,160 Speaker 1: more film to watch. There always one more guy you 1030 00:57:18,200 --> 00:57:20,120 Speaker 1: need to talk to. There's always one more question you'd 1031 00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:22,920 Speaker 1: like answer to the story nor story you want to 1032 00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:25,720 Speaker 1: get familiar with. You just never you just never enough 1033 00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:27,520 Speaker 1: time to get it done. Just a little bit like 1034 00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:35,280 Speaker 1: coaching in that respect. But studio it's different. Um, those 1035 00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:37,200 Speaker 1: guys have an agenda when they go win. They know 1036 00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:39,000 Speaker 1: the matchups of the week and they know they got 1037 00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:44,040 Speaker 1: to speak for thirty five seconds on four different matchups. 1038 00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:48,080 Speaker 1: So that's a little bit different animal than trying to 1039 00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:51,600 Speaker 1: figure out who's gonna win any certain game. Yeah, we 1040 00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:56,240 Speaker 1: have a little time here, Steve, to find out what's 1041 00:57:56,680 --> 00:57:59,120 Speaker 1: for lunch? Are all right? Yeah? Well you know it's 1042 00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:01,000 Speaker 1: it's It might be a late lunch for some, but 1043 00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,600 Speaker 1: we're gonna do it. Nonetheless, presented by Independent Health, You 1044 00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:09,400 Speaker 1: deserve the red Shirt treatment number one on the menu today, Steve. 1045 00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:14,280 Speaker 1: Who will win the rushing title in twenty twenty two? 1046 00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:20,560 Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor or Derreck Henry. Which AFC South running back 1047 00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:27,320 Speaker 1: will win the rushing title? Jonathan Taylor without question? Wow, 1048 00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:30,640 Speaker 1: I don't without questions. I don't think well between those two, 1049 00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:36,840 Speaker 1: I'm saying Jonathan Taylor, I would say Derrick Henry won't 1050 00:58:36,840 --> 00:58:41,600 Speaker 1: play enough games. You're predicting another injury for Derrick Henry, 1051 00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:43,920 Speaker 1: the costs of games like a major one. I don't 1052 00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:46,000 Speaker 1: know about major, but he's not gonna play enough game. 1053 00:58:46,040 --> 00:58:47,520 Speaker 1: I mean, he missed the last eight weeks of the 1054 00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:50,120 Speaker 1: season last year. Yeah, I think he's I think it's 1055 00:58:50,120 --> 00:58:52,560 Speaker 1: that kind of the body's starting to break down. You think, yeah, 1056 00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:55,360 Speaker 1: it's only twenty I think he turns twenty eight before 1057 00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:58,520 Speaker 1: the season's over. Yeah, but which is the magic number? 1058 00:58:58,520 --> 00:59:03,600 Speaker 1: And he's got miles on the tires now, Mike Vrabel 1059 00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:05,800 Speaker 1: may have something to say about that. He may start, 1060 00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:07,400 Speaker 1: you know, they may bring guys and say, all right, 1061 00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:09,640 Speaker 1: let's let's take him out for a series here or there, 1062 00:59:09,680 --> 00:59:12,040 Speaker 1: you know, not giving the ball back off the workload 1063 00:59:12,080 --> 00:59:13,360 Speaker 1: a bit. Yeah, they may not give him the ball 1064 00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:17,120 Speaker 1: three hundreds, but he's unbelievable. He's a different cat, no 1065 00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:21,400 Speaker 1: question about it. But that's my thought. Okay, I think 1066 00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:24,160 Speaker 1: I don't think Derek Henry will get enough attempts. I 1067 00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:27,960 Speaker 1: think Jonathan Taylor, between these two, will probably have a 1068 00:59:27,960 --> 00:59:31,200 Speaker 1: better shot at the rushing title for some of the 1069 00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:35,120 Speaker 1: reasons that you stated, But I think he also has 1070 00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:38,160 Speaker 1: a better team around him. And what I mean by 1071 00:59:38,200 --> 00:59:43,560 Speaker 1: that is, he's playing in an offense that isn't solely 1072 00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:47,080 Speaker 1: dependent upon him. You can make the argument in Tennessee, 1073 00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:50,320 Speaker 1: especially after losing A. J. Brown in a trade on 1074 00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:55,360 Speaker 1: Draft Day, this Tennessee offense might be as dependent upon 1075 00:59:55,480 --> 00:59:57,960 Speaker 1: Derrick Henry as it has ever been in his career. 1076 00:59:58,120 --> 01:00:00,800 Speaker 1: Think about that. Yeah, I don' It's had three hundred 1077 01:00:00,800 --> 01:00:04,000 Speaker 1: and fifty carries a season for probably the better part 1078 01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:06,880 Speaker 1: of the last four seasons in which he was healthy 1079 01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:10,120 Speaker 1: to play every game. Now he's on a roster with 1080 01:00:10,200 --> 01:00:13,760 Speaker 1: a thirty five year old Ryan Tannehill, no a J. Brown, 1081 01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:17,000 Speaker 1: and an offensive line that has been weakened precipitously due 1082 01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:21,520 Speaker 1: to subtractions and free agency and elsewhere. Jonathan Taylor has 1083 01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:25,840 Speaker 1: the better quarterback, the better offensive line, and a more 1084 01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:29,720 Speaker 1: balanced offense. And I would argue a better offensive play 1085 01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:34,720 Speaker 1: caller and Frank Reich so all things. And he's younger, 1086 01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:37,760 Speaker 1: He's four or five years younger than Derrick Henry. So yes, 1087 01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:40,240 Speaker 1: to me, it's Jonathan Taylor is the answer here. That 1088 01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:42,720 Speaker 1: has the easy answer. You know, it doesn't say either 1089 01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:45,080 Speaker 1: one of us would be right, but yeah, right from 1090 01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:47,800 Speaker 1: this end of it, though, that's the that's the way 1091 01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:50,080 Speaker 1: and I get it too. We can see a guy 1092 01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:52,400 Speaker 1: plays so well, like we've seen Derreck Henry play at 1093 01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:54,680 Speaker 1: such a high level, you kind of get tired of 1094 01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:58,760 Speaker 1: thinking he can do it all the time. He is, 1095 01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:02,040 Speaker 1: he is really, he is a guy. She's good. So 1096 01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:05,240 Speaker 1: you know, he's superhuman. He could he could bust out 1097 01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:08,040 Speaker 1: and have another great year in rush for thirteen hundred yards. 1098 01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:10,360 Speaker 1: But if he starts to go on that track, you 1099 01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:12,640 Speaker 1: can bet Mike Rabel's not gonna like take his foot 1100 01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:16,439 Speaker 1: off the gas. Yeah, he'll feed him. Next up on 1101 01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:23,560 Speaker 1: What's for Lunch, better QB battle the Steelers or the Falcons. 1102 01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:26,840 Speaker 1: And to give you the primary players here, Steve, the 1103 01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:31,560 Speaker 1: Steelers obviously have Mitch Trubisky and top draft choice Kenny Pickett, 1104 01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:34,760 Speaker 1: who are the primary players in that competition. Mason Rudolph 1105 01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:40,720 Speaker 1: is also there. Or the Falcons who have Marcus Mariota 1106 01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:49,080 Speaker 1: and Desmond Ritter, the quarterback from Cincinnati, which one, No, 1107 01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:51,640 Speaker 1: I think that's Trubisky Pickett? I think, yeah, I would. 1108 01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:54,439 Speaker 1: It's a higher I think that's a higher level right there. 1109 01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:58,240 Speaker 1: Pickett and Trubisky are better, both better quarterbacks than Mariota 1110 01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:01,120 Speaker 1: and Ritter respect well. Mariota is better than pick It, 1111 01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:03,640 Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, Trubisky is better than 1112 01:02:03,680 --> 01:02:08,560 Speaker 1: Mariota and Pike. It is better than Ridder. I think, Okay, 1113 01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:11,960 Speaker 1: you can make a case where Mariota and pick It 1114 01:02:12,840 --> 01:02:15,560 Speaker 1: might be a really interesting battle. Yeah, and you have 1115 01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:20,840 Speaker 1: the added storyline of you know, pick It being from 1116 01:02:20,880 --> 01:02:25,640 Speaker 1: pitt So there's that's interesting extra little familiarity, maybe a 1117 01:02:25,680 --> 01:02:28,640 Speaker 1: little favoritism on the part of Pittsburgh fans sure for 1118 01:02:28,840 --> 01:02:34,600 Speaker 1: the young kid. I think both those players, both Trubisky 1119 01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:39,520 Speaker 1: and pick It. First of all, the you know, even 1120 01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:42,560 Speaker 1: Bills fans can acknowledge how what a stable and quality, 1121 01:02:42,600 --> 01:02:45,720 Speaker 1: top notch organization the Pittsburgh Steelers have been over the years, 1122 01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:48,280 Speaker 1: No question about it there. And you know from if 1123 01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:49,520 Speaker 1: you listen to the show at all, you know how 1124 01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:52,640 Speaker 1: much respect we have meet me and personally have from 1125 01:02:52,640 --> 01:02:56,240 Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin, the work he does. I think both those quarterbacks, 1126 01:02:56,240 --> 01:02:59,520 Speaker 1: Trubisky and Pickett can know this. They're both going to 1127 01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:01,919 Speaker 1: get a shot at it, a fair shot, and they're 1128 01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:04,440 Speaker 1: not gonna get lied to. They're not going to come 1129 01:03:04,480 --> 01:03:06,360 Speaker 1: in thinking one thing and that like I'll bet you 1130 01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:08,760 Speaker 1: Trubisky knew that they were thinking about picking in the draft. 1131 01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:12,560 Speaker 1: Before he signed the contract, they knew, they were well 1132 01:03:12,560 --> 01:03:15,080 Speaker 1: aware of what was going to happen. That goes a 1133 01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:17,000 Speaker 1: long way, and so I think both those guys are 1134 01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:19,400 Speaker 1: benefiting from being with an organization that's gonna let him 1135 01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:24,960 Speaker 1: compete fair and square. Looking at the Falcons QB battle, though, 1136 01:03:26,040 --> 01:03:28,000 Speaker 1: I would agree with you, I think the more interesting 1137 01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:34,680 Speaker 1: one is the Steelers one. The Falcons, Mariota, I mean 1138 01:03:35,040 --> 01:03:39,200 Speaker 1: he is a total placeholder here. I mean he is 1139 01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:41,640 Speaker 1: a bridge guy in every sense of the word. And 1140 01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:44,400 Speaker 1: I realized there might be something that I believed Trubisky 1141 01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:48,280 Speaker 1: could be, the very same thing Truisky's on two years. 1142 01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:57,280 Speaker 1: To me, Mariota, he doesn't have a full skill set 1143 01:03:58,080 --> 01:04:03,320 Speaker 1: that convinces me he's better than Desmond Ritter from a 1144 01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:07,960 Speaker 1: skill set standpoint. You know, what is your resume of skills? 1145 01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:10,919 Speaker 1: I don't think they're far and away better than those 1146 01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:14,920 Speaker 1: of Ritter. Obviously he has the experience edge, you know, 1147 01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:19,360 Speaker 1: being a veteran player. But as long as Ritter doesn't 1148 01:04:19,360 --> 01:04:23,720 Speaker 1: fall flat on his face in training camp, I could 1149 01:04:23,720 --> 01:04:26,320 Speaker 1: see him getting some consideration as early as week four 1150 01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:29,600 Speaker 1: or five or six, provided he doesn't fall on his face. 1151 01:04:29,640 --> 01:04:33,280 Speaker 1: And look completely lost, and Mariota isn't exactly lighten the 1152 01:04:33,320 --> 01:04:35,360 Speaker 1: world on fire. I could see Ritter on the fields 1153 01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:41,200 Speaker 1: as early as October. Arthur Smith, head coach of the Falcons, 1154 01:04:41,200 --> 01:04:45,840 Speaker 1: smart guy, and he was in large measure due you know, 1155 01:04:45,960 --> 01:04:50,440 Speaker 1: and responsible for the for the success Ryan Tannehill and 1156 01:04:50,480 --> 01:04:52,600 Speaker 1: Derrick Henry all those guys had in Tennessee before he 1157 01:04:52,640 --> 01:04:57,360 Speaker 1: went to become that head coach. It all comes down 1158 01:04:57,400 --> 01:05:02,640 Speaker 1: to this, can Ritter have a wide enough menu of 1159 01:05:02,720 --> 01:05:06,320 Speaker 1: options offensively? Now? I'm not talking about who to throw 1160 01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:08,919 Speaker 1: it to. I'm talking about what he can handle, what 1161 01:05:09,000 --> 01:05:12,040 Speaker 1: kind of reads he can handle, what kind of responsibilities 1162 01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:16,920 Speaker 1: they can give him pre snap post snap. Can he 1163 01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:18,960 Speaker 1: handle all that stuff? And how much of that he 1164 01:05:19,000 --> 01:05:21,960 Speaker 1: can handle? We'll say whether they feel like he gives 1165 01:05:22,040 --> 01:05:23,640 Speaker 1: him enough to have a chance early in his career, 1166 01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:25,080 Speaker 1: to give him a chance because he's gonna be able 1167 01:05:25,080 --> 01:05:27,280 Speaker 1: to master more and more and more. Can he get 1168 01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:30,080 Speaker 1: good enough fast up? Because you're right, he's gonna be 1169 01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:33,240 Speaker 1: better than Mariota in a lot of respects. Marcus Mariota 1170 01:05:33,480 --> 01:05:41,960 Speaker 1: is a quality guy, a quiet guy, a leader, experienced. 1171 01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:44,760 Speaker 1: It's not gonna be too much for him. He's gonna 1172 01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:46,200 Speaker 1: be able to step in there and take snaps. It's 1173 01:05:46,200 --> 01:05:48,480 Speaker 1: not gonna be a thing for him now, Ritter, I 1174 01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:50,280 Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe it'll be the same for him, But 1175 01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:53,600 Speaker 1: I think it comes down to Mariota's ability and exposure 1176 01:05:53,640 --> 01:05:56,240 Speaker 1: to every facet of what an NFL offense could be. 1177 01:05:56,680 --> 01:05:59,200 Speaker 1: In his time in Tennessee as a first pick or 1178 01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:01,360 Speaker 1: number three overall pick of the draft, and then his 1179 01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:05,160 Speaker 1: time in Vegas with the Raiders and all that Gruden 1180 01:06:05,240 --> 01:06:08,640 Speaker 1: and subsequently the other guys gave to him and backing 1181 01:06:08,720 --> 01:06:11,920 Speaker 1: up Derek Carr. He's got all of that going for him, 1182 01:06:11,920 --> 01:06:18,320 Speaker 1: but he's he's a backup for a reason. And that's 1183 01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:21,200 Speaker 1: where the door opens for Ritter. Can he step through 1184 01:06:21,200 --> 01:06:23,520 Speaker 1: that and say listen, I'm gone the guy here? And 1185 01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:24,920 Speaker 1: I think it has as much to do with their 1186 01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:26,600 Speaker 1: personality and what they bring to the table and what 1187 01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:28,080 Speaker 1: they can get out of their teammates as it does 1188 01:06:28,080 --> 01:06:31,640 Speaker 1: about their own personal skill set. Next on the menu 1189 01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:36,520 Speaker 1: on What's for lunch, better wide receiver duo Cooper Cup 1190 01:06:36,560 --> 01:06:40,680 Speaker 1: and Alan Robinson, who some people forget is now with 1191 01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:47,400 Speaker 1: the Rams or DeVante Adams and Hunter Renfro. I don't 1192 01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:49,880 Speaker 1: know if anybody know Hunter Renfro busted out last year, 1193 01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:55,400 Speaker 1: really good player, slot receiver. That's a tough question, Isn't 1194 01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:58,720 Speaker 1: that a tough one? Because Alan Robinson is a really 1195 01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:02,840 Speaker 1: good player. But you know, I would argue Alan Robinson 1196 01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:06,280 Speaker 1: is an elite wide receiver who was in no man's 1197 01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:09,960 Speaker 1: land in Chicago. Yeah, let's put him with a top five, 1198 01:07:10,560 --> 01:07:15,760 Speaker 1: top ten, top ten quarterback like Matthew Stafford, with a 1199 01:07:15,800 --> 01:07:18,120 Speaker 1: guy on the other side the caliber of Cooper Cup. 1200 01:07:19,800 --> 01:07:24,360 Speaker 1: They're one two of Cup and Robinson because probably better 1201 01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:27,360 Speaker 1: than Cup and Woods was last year, right, And some 1202 01:07:27,440 --> 01:07:30,080 Speaker 1: of this, some of this comes down to Derek Carr 1203 01:07:30,880 --> 01:07:36,680 Speaker 1: and Matt Stafford two all right, But I don't know. 1204 01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:38,960 Speaker 1: It's hard to walk away from Davante Adams as good 1205 01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:41,080 Speaker 1: as it was in Green Bay, and I don't know. 1206 01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:43,160 Speaker 1: End Let's face it, he was with Aaron Rodgers in 1207 01:07:43,240 --> 01:07:45,400 Speaker 1: Green Bay, so a little bit of that's Aaron as well. Yeah, 1208 01:07:45,400 --> 01:07:48,040 Speaker 1: so does a little bit of luster come off at Davanta? 1209 01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:51,440 Speaker 1: I think it probably does. Even though he played with 1210 01:07:51,720 --> 01:07:55,400 Speaker 1: car in college at Fresno. Oh, they were college teammates, 1211 01:07:57,040 --> 01:07:58,480 Speaker 1: does that change it a little bit? I'll tell you. 1212 01:07:58,560 --> 01:08:01,640 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I think. It's my feeling that 1213 01:08:01,880 --> 01:08:04,919 Speaker 1: it's hard for teams to Certainly the Rams are gonna 1214 01:08:04,920 --> 01:08:06,760 Speaker 1: be a good football team, but just by rolling out 1215 01:08:06,800 --> 01:08:10,000 Speaker 1: there with the guys they got. But I think winning 1216 01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:14,880 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl in LA, I think they're gonna they're 1217 01:08:14,880 --> 01:08:17,400 Speaker 1: gonna be a little bit sleepy coming out of the gate. 1218 01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:20,040 Speaker 1: Oh do you think there's gonna be a hangover? Yeah? 1219 01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:22,839 Speaker 1: They not for nothing, Steve. They also have the toughest 1220 01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:25,200 Speaker 1: schedule in the league in terms of opponent winning percentage 1221 01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:27,200 Speaker 1: from the previous year. And I realized teams change, and 1222 01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:30,200 Speaker 1: that doesn't know his whole water, but it's a thing 1223 01:08:31,320 --> 01:08:33,400 Speaker 1: to me. So I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say, I'm 1224 01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:35,600 Speaker 1: gonna say, Vegas, you're going Adams. I'm gonna go to 1225 01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:40,240 Speaker 1: Adams and Renfro or Renfro Right, Yeah, I think I'm 1226 01:08:40,280 --> 01:08:44,439 Speaker 1: going Cup and Robinson here. And here's why, if you 1227 01:08:44,560 --> 01:08:47,920 Speaker 1: put my feet to the fire, I would argue that 1228 01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:50,759 Speaker 1: Davante Adams is the best receiver in the entire league, 1229 01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:53,439 Speaker 1: just in terms of all the things he can do 1230 01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:56,840 Speaker 1: and all the different ways he can beat you. You know, 1231 01:08:56,960 --> 01:09:00,120 Speaker 1: Cup is a technician, and that's how he wins. If 1232 01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:04,320 Speaker 1: Davante Adams get he can win with technical route running ability, 1233 01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:06,679 Speaker 1: but if he gets into a mash it up game 1234 01:09:06,680 --> 01:09:08,320 Speaker 1: with a physical corner, that just says, I'm going to 1235 01:09:08,400 --> 01:09:09,920 Speaker 1: knock him around all the game and see if I 1236 01:09:09,920 --> 01:09:11,920 Speaker 1: can get him off his game. He'll still beat you 1237 01:09:12,280 --> 01:09:14,799 Speaker 1: with physicality because he's big enough to do that. Also, 1238 01:09:15,280 --> 01:09:18,839 Speaker 1: so because of his versatility, I would say that Adams 1239 01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:23,519 Speaker 1: is probably the best receiver in the league. But think 1240 01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:26,519 Speaker 1: about this, though, Cooper Cup had like the triple Crown 1241 01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:29,320 Speaker 1: last well, yeah, more yards than anybody. He was whatever 1242 01:09:29,400 --> 01:09:33,920 Speaker 1: Davanta Adams did, Cooper Cup was better last year, more consistent. Yeah, so, 1243 01:09:34,560 --> 01:09:36,880 Speaker 1: and they knew they knew as much about Cooper Cup 1244 01:09:36,920 --> 01:09:38,840 Speaker 1: being the number one guys that did Davanta Adams being 1245 01:09:38,880 --> 01:09:40,360 Speaker 1: the number one game. I have all the respect in 1246 01:09:40,400 --> 01:09:42,719 Speaker 1: the world for Adams in his game, and I respect 1247 01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:45,240 Speaker 1: Renfrow too for the way he was able to raise 1248 01:09:45,360 --> 01:09:49,040 Speaker 1: his game this past season. But I still think Cooper 1249 01:09:49,080 --> 01:09:53,760 Speaker 1: Cup and Alan Robinson, both of them don't get the 1250 01:09:53,880 --> 01:09:58,960 Speaker 1: respect they deserve as professional talents. I mean, Cup has 1251 01:09:59,439 --> 01:10:01,400 Speaker 1: proved it last year, I mean he was the most 1252 01:10:01,400 --> 01:10:05,160 Speaker 1: productive receiver in football. And Alan Robinson when he plays 1253 01:10:05,160 --> 01:10:09,320 Speaker 1: with a quarterback worth his salt is dynamic and top 1254 01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:11,840 Speaker 1: ten worthy as well. Yeah, Alan Robinson, So I'm going 1255 01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:14,920 Speaker 1: with those two. I'll say this too, and I'm you 1256 01:10:14,960 --> 01:10:17,639 Speaker 1: know you're gonna laugh at me if you want. I'm 1257 01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:21,080 Speaker 1: not saying I'll just say it. The Rams in the 1258 01:10:21,120 --> 01:10:26,360 Speaker 1: division with the Niners, good defense, Seattle, good football team Arizona. Yeah, 1259 01:10:26,439 --> 01:10:27,599 Speaker 1: not as good as they used to be, but still 1260 01:10:27,680 --> 01:10:30,479 Speaker 1: quality teams that are competitive and have designs on playoffs 1261 01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:34,720 Speaker 1: a lot, and with good quarterbacks. Um, Davante Adams been 1262 01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:38,719 Speaker 1: playing in a division with the Lions and the Bears, right, 1263 01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:41,840 Speaker 1: so you get some you get some weeks off in 1264 01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:47,080 Speaker 1: that division because those two teams are half the team 1265 01:10:47,200 --> 01:10:49,439 Speaker 1: half the time. Most of the time, those two teams 1266 01:10:49,439 --> 01:10:51,880 Speaker 1: are dumpster fires. Steve and I were laughing about this 1267 01:10:51,960 --> 01:10:54,880 Speaker 1: today because Steve often makes the Bears and the Lions 1268 01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:58,880 Speaker 1: organizations the butt of his jokes. Um. We saw this 1269 01:10:59,160 --> 01:11:05,479 Speaker 1: tweet today where there is a sign at the O'Hare 1270 01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:11,719 Speaker 1: Airport in Chicago advertising the Chicago Bears, the players featured 1271 01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:14,719 Speaker 1: in the print ad poster size thing. It's a big 1272 01:11:14,800 --> 01:11:17,000 Speaker 1: just like just like you see Steve in the poster 1273 01:11:17,080 --> 01:11:19,800 Speaker 1: size ads. At the Buffalo Airport. They've got one of 1274 01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:23,240 Speaker 1: the Chicago it's gigantic of the Chicago Bears. The three 1275 01:11:23,320 --> 01:11:28,519 Speaker 1: players still featured in the ad right now today at 1276 01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:32,280 Speaker 1: the O'Hare Airport. If you're flying there today or Midway sorry, 1277 01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:36,559 Speaker 1: Midway Airport, you'll see it. The players featured in the 1278 01:11:36,640 --> 01:11:45,280 Speaker 1: Chicago Bears ad are Khalil Mack, Alan Robinson, and Tarik Cohen. 1279 01:11:46,280 --> 01:11:52,759 Speaker 1: Mitch Trubisky, that's right, who's in his second team from Chicago. 1280 01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:57,120 Speaker 1: He's twice removed from like a year gone. Well, no, 1281 01:11:57,160 --> 01:11:59,840 Speaker 1: he got traded this offseason. At least he got traded 1282 01:11:59,840 --> 01:12:03,640 Speaker 1: this to the Chargers. And then Tarik Cohen who was 1283 01:12:03,680 --> 01:12:06,720 Speaker 1: released and didn't even play last year because of injury. 1284 01:12:07,760 --> 01:12:10,360 Speaker 1: Three guys on the on the ad. None of them 1285 01:12:10,360 --> 01:12:12,479 Speaker 1: are with the Chicago Bears. Yeah, you got to stay 1286 01:12:12,479 --> 01:12:14,720 Speaker 1: on top of that as a marketing department, don't you. 1287 01:12:15,640 --> 01:12:20,200 Speaker 1: What are you doing? The Midway Airport has something to 1288 01:12:20,200 --> 01:12:26,200 Speaker 1: be proud of Chicago. The monsters of the Midway step 1289 01:12:26,240 --> 01:12:28,599 Speaker 1: for these three guys who don't play for us anymore. Yes, 1290 01:12:29,720 --> 01:12:32,280 Speaker 1: along with a host of others. Listen, I went to 1291 01:12:32,320 --> 01:12:35,080 Speaker 1: school at Northwestern. It's right, it's right. The North shore Ship. 1292 01:12:35,160 --> 01:12:37,360 Speaker 1: We're just in the northern suburb along Lake from Chicago 1293 01:12:37,479 --> 01:12:40,720 Speaker 1: to the dynamite city. Chicago is a dynamite city. And 1294 01:12:40,800 --> 01:12:46,679 Speaker 1: they've got an absolute tire fire of an NFL franchise. Oh, 1295 01:12:46,840 --> 01:12:52,679 Speaker 1: just unbelievable. Poor Justin Fields. He's got no shot. He's 1296 01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:55,080 Speaker 1: got no shot. Do you think he's got any shots 1297 01:12:55,080 --> 01:12:58,840 Speaker 1: to succeed as an NFL quarterback playing for that Organizam No, no, 1298 01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:01,080 Speaker 1: not at all. The only one who's ever had music, 1299 01:13:01,120 --> 01:13:03,439 Speaker 1: said Jim McMahon. You know what he called, Chicago bears 1300 01:13:03,479 --> 01:13:07,000 Speaker 1: a lace where quarterbacks go to die. Die. Quarterbacks go 1301 01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:11,880 Speaker 1: there to die. That's from a quarterback that played there 1302 01:13:13,600 --> 01:13:16,160 Speaker 1: when they were good. He wanted. Yeah, he won a 1303 01:13:16,200 --> 01:13:21,680 Speaker 1: world championship with them. Oh, Justin Fields, we hardly knew you. 1304 01:13:21,880 --> 01:13:23,800 Speaker 1: And so that's why Devon, that's why we get onto 1305 01:13:23,800 --> 01:13:26,240 Speaker 1: this because Davante Adams, you can, you can take a 1306 01:13:26,240 --> 01:13:27,920 Speaker 1: little bit of this shine off what he did because 1307 01:13:28,120 --> 01:13:30,760 Speaker 1: for the four of his games, for his game every year, 1308 01:13:30,800 --> 01:13:34,559 Speaker 1: we're against those two franchise, and the other one was Minnesota, 1309 01:13:34,760 --> 01:13:43,560 Speaker 1: which is the marriage adding it's right addling Mediocre is 1310 01:13:43,560 --> 01:13:48,320 Speaker 1: is their middle name. They middle it Minnesota mediocre Vikings. 1311 01:13:50,120 --> 01:13:53,080 Speaker 1: All right, so there's there's six of his games every year, 1312 01:13:54,000 --> 01:13:58,840 Speaker 1: and so okay, say what you want, and I've taken 1313 01:13:58,880 --> 01:14:01,000 Speaker 1: the other two guys. YEA interesting to see what his 1314 01:14:01,040 --> 01:14:03,880 Speaker 1: production level is this year now that he's in a 1315 01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:08,800 Speaker 1: powerhouse AFC division like the AFC West. Not that the 1316 01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:11,840 Speaker 1: defenses in the AFC West are dominant by any means, 1317 01:14:11,840 --> 01:14:14,680 Speaker 1: but they're certainly better than what he was facing up 1318 01:14:14,680 --> 01:14:19,640 Speaker 1: in the NFC North every week. Good God, that is 1319 01:14:19,680 --> 01:14:21,920 Speaker 1: a That's not just a place where quarterbacks go to 1320 01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:26,240 Speaker 1: get die Chicago. The NFC North is a barren wasteland 1321 01:14:26,280 --> 01:14:36,160 Speaker 1: of competitive football, and that may be the reason why 1322 01:14:36,200 --> 01:14:38,519 Speaker 1: they've had Green Bay's head to back to back to 1323 01:14:38,520 --> 01:14:41,519 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame quarterbacks. Yeah. I was just thinking to myself, 1324 01:14:41,840 --> 01:14:47,000 Speaker 1: does Aaron Rodgers have the Lions, Bears and Vikings to 1325 01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:49,559 Speaker 1: thank for back to back MVP awards? I mean, are 1326 01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:52,880 Speaker 1: they the main reason why he's that productive? Probably not, 1327 01:14:53,000 --> 01:14:56,920 Speaker 1: but they didn't hurt. They've certainly they boosted his credibility 1328 01:14:56,960 --> 01:15:01,200 Speaker 1: as an MVP candidate. They have been they have contributed 1329 01:15:01,520 --> 01:15:04,599 Speaker 1: in large measure to his consists. The rest of the 1330 01:15:04,720 --> 01:15:10,000 Speaker 1: NFC North is Aaron Rodgers Superpack for being names MVP 1331 01:15:10,200 --> 01:15:13,840 Speaker 1: in the league back to back. Here's there is Chief Lobbyists. 1332 01:15:14,560 --> 01:15:17,960 Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. It's yeah, it's crazy. All right. Well, that 1333 01:15:18,160 --> 01:15:21,599 Speaker 1: is What's for Lunch, presented by Independent Health. You deserve 1334 01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:24,160 Speaker 1: the red cheer treatment. Steve and I take a break here. 1335 01:15:25,439 --> 01:15:28,200 Speaker 1: But Steve, you know it could be on tap next 1336 01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:32,559 Speaker 1: a little NFL true false. It could happen when we 1337 01:15:32,640 --> 01:15:36,280 Speaker 1: return here on Here on one Bills Live presented by 1338 01:15:36,320 --> 01:15:54,320 Speaker 1: Kalida Health. You're not lying. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio, the 1339 01:15:54,479 --> 01:15:58,240 Speaker 1: final half hour of the show here on Monday, and uh, 1340 01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:03,280 Speaker 1: we just finished a menu of things with What's for Lunch. 1341 01:16:03,280 --> 01:16:04,760 Speaker 1: There were some others. We'll get to him at a 1342 01:16:04,840 --> 01:16:10,920 Speaker 1: later date, but we have time now, Steve, for one 1343 01:16:10,920 --> 01:16:13,360 Speaker 1: of our favorite segments of the show that we don't 1344 01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:16,800 Speaker 1: always have time to do, but we do today. And 1345 01:16:16,880 --> 01:16:19,759 Speaker 1: it is NFL True Falls brought to you by Yancy's 1346 01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:27,040 Speaker 1: Fancy New York's Artisan Cheese. And it's so funny that 1347 01:16:27,120 --> 01:16:29,680 Speaker 1: we mentioned the Bears quarterback. I'll get to him in 1348 01:16:29,720 --> 01:16:33,280 Speaker 1: a second, okay, but this is a very quarterback centric 1349 01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:38,439 Speaker 1: NFL true false and NFL True false question Number one, 1350 01:16:39,520 --> 01:16:44,719 Speaker 1: Malik Willis will unseat Ryan Tannehill as the Titans starting 1351 01:16:44,800 --> 01:16:49,800 Speaker 1: quarterback in twenty twenty two. True true, Malik Willis will 1352 01:16:49,840 --> 01:16:53,559 Speaker 1: start games for them when well, I don't know. You 1353 01:16:53,560 --> 01:16:56,120 Speaker 1: didn't say that, do you think right out of the gate? Na, 1354 01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:58,280 Speaker 1: not right out of that, but he will at some 1355 01:16:58,320 --> 01:17:00,479 Speaker 1: point during the season. I think this is gonna be 1356 01:17:00,479 --> 01:17:02,400 Speaker 1: a year where this Titans are gonna have to take 1357 01:17:02,400 --> 01:17:06,000 Speaker 1: a deep take a step back. Derrick Henry couldn't finish 1358 01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:09,519 Speaker 1: the season last year. He's not younger, he's older. Ryan 1359 01:17:09,560 --> 01:17:13,120 Speaker 1: Tannehill's older. AJ Brown is gone. Their offensive line is 1360 01:17:13,120 --> 01:17:15,840 Speaker 1: a little bit different. I'm not gonna say worse or better. 1361 01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:18,879 Speaker 1: It looks like different. Is means you got different starters. 1362 01:17:21,200 --> 01:17:24,080 Speaker 1: You know they're they're in transition a little bit, I think, 1363 01:17:24,120 --> 01:17:26,080 Speaker 1: And I think it's gonna show up. And if you've 1364 01:17:26,120 --> 01:17:30,080 Speaker 1: got a Ryan Tannehill on your team and you need 1365 01:17:30,120 --> 01:17:34,880 Speaker 1: a spark, it's the next guy up. That's what I think. 1366 01:17:34,920 --> 01:17:37,000 Speaker 1: I think. At some point he's gonna he's gonna be 1367 01:17:37,040 --> 01:17:38,599 Speaker 1: in there and they're gonna find out what they got 1368 01:17:38,600 --> 01:17:43,120 Speaker 1: in him. And the way this question is phrased, Steve, 1369 01:17:44,040 --> 01:17:47,360 Speaker 1: it gives indication that Tannehill will not be back in 1370 01:17:47,400 --> 01:17:51,639 Speaker 1: the lineup because it says Malik Willis will unseat Ryan 1371 01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:55,200 Speaker 1: Tannehill is the Titans starting QB. I could very easy, does. 1372 01:17:55,240 --> 01:17:57,600 Speaker 1: I think once he gets in there, it's because the 1373 01:17:57,640 --> 01:18:00,599 Speaker 1: season's either a lost right or tanna Hill is playing 1374 01:18:00,600 --> 01:18:02,760 Speaker 1: God awful. They're gonna live and they're gonna live and 1375 01:18:02,880 --> 01:18:05,080 Speaker 1: live and die with whatever the kid does. Yeah, so 1376 01:18:05,120 --> 01:18:07,320 Speaker 1: I'm kind of that's where I'm at. I think if 1377 01:18:07,360 --> 01:18:13,080 Speaker 1: that happens, it's not happening until they're eliminated from playoff contention. 1378 01:18:13,160 --> 01:18:16,880 Speaker 1: That may not happen until about week thirteen or fourteen, 1379 01:18:17,680 --> 01:18:20,479 Speaker 1: but that still leaves four games for the rookie, or 1380 01:18:20,479 --> 01:18:22,280 Speaker 1: if they go through a stretch where they just can't 1381 01:18:22,280 --> 01:18:23,960 Speaker 1: get over the hump, if they go through a two 1382 01:18:24,040 --> 01:18:27,200 Speaker 1: or three or four game losing streak or something like that, 1383 01:18:27,200 --> 01:18:32,599 Speaker 1: that plug will be pulled. The knock on Malik Willis 1384 01:18:32,680 --> 01:18:37,439 Speaker 1: is he played in a very simplified offensive system at Liberty, 1385 01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:40,240 Speaker 1: which was basically one read and then run around and 1386 01:18:40,280 --> 01:18:44,599 Speaker 1: make something happen, which has me a little concerned. I'm 1387 01:18:44,640 --> 01:18:47,840 Speaker 1: not saying he can't learn, but because he hasn't learned 1388 01:18:47,840 --> 01:18:51,320 Speaker 1: it prior, the learning curve is naturally steeper, whether he's 1389 01:18:51,320 --> 01:18:52,840 Speaker 1: a quick study or not, you know what I mean. 1390 01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:59,280 Speaker 1: So I would say, true, this could happen, but not 1391 01:18:59,479 --> 01:19:04,000 Speaker 1: until I'm thinking, like week fourteen. I think they're gonna 1392 01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:07,360 Speaker 1: hang around because the AFC South is another garbage division. 1393 01:19:08,120 --> 01:19:11,720 Speaker 1: It's the Colts. The Titans are good, not great, and 1394 01:19:11,760 --> 01:19:14,920 Speaker 1: then you know you got Jacksonville and Houston still trying 1395 01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:18,600 Speaker 1: to figure things out right, So to me, playing it's 1396 01:19:18,640 --> 01:19:21,760 Speaker 1: just like the NFC North. I mean, those two teams, 1397 01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:24,840 Speaker 1: of which are four of the Titans games may keep 1398 01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:28,960 Speaker 1: them afloat right. So I will say true and go 1399 01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:30,719 Speaker 1: along with you, but I don't think it's happened until 1400 01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:34,040 Speaker 1: like week fourteen or fifteen, maybe even later. Yeah. Yeah, 1401 01:19:34,080 --> 01:19:36,040 Speaker 1: So both of us think it's only a question of when, 1402 01:19:36,160 --> 01:19:39,680 Speaker 1: not if. Yeah, because I think because we kind of 1403 01:19:39,720 --> 01:19:41,600 Speaker 1: share a similar opinion as to where we think the 1404 01:19:41,600 --> 01:19:44,600 Speaker 1: Titans season is going to grow, exactly some point is 1405 01:19:44,600 --> 01:19:46,599 Speaker 1: going to happen. Taking a quick look at the Titans 1406 01:19:46,640 --> 01:19:51,200 Speaker 1: schedule home against the Giants at Buffalo, Home against Las 1407 01:19:51,280 --> 01:19:56,640 Speaker 1: Vegas at Indy at Washington by that is not a 1408 01:19:56,760 --> 01:20:03,280 Speaker 1: gauntlet of a first five week schedule, at all. Then 1409 01:20:03,280 --> 01:20:07,160 Speaker 1: they have India at home at Houston at Kcy tough 1410 01:20:07,680 --> 01:20:13,639 Speaker 1: home against Denver tough a green Bay tough, Cincinnati at home. 1411 01:20:14,080 --> 01:20:19,599 Speaker 1: There's the stretch. That's the stretch right there. So Week nine, two, 1412 01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:26,000 Speaker 1: Week thirteen at Casey home against Denver at green Bay Home, 1413 01:20:26,080 --> 01:20:31,000 Speaker 1: Cincinnati at Philly. That's the stretch where Tannehill probably loses 1414 01:20:31,040 --> 01:20:34,040 Speaker 1: his job to Malik Willis. As I see it, they'll 1415 01:20:34,080 --> 01:20:37,000 Speaker 1: get you know, it might have for me if they 1416 01:20:37,000 --> 01:20:39,400 Speaker 1: don't look good going to the Giants of Bills, Raiders, 1417 01:20:39,400 --> 01:20:42,560 Speaker 1: Colts and Commanders those first five games, they get a 1418 01:20:42,640 --> 01:20:47,400 Speaker 1: bye week. Oh you're going with the proverbial bye week, quarterback, Chaine, 1419 01:20:47,960 --> 01:20:49,880 Speaker 1: because you're gonna come out and play that. You're gonna 1420 01:20:49,880 --> 01:20:54,120 Speaker 1: play the Colts once and all right, Let's say they 1421 01:20:54,120 --> 01:20:55,840 Speaker 1: get their heads caved in by the Colts in the 1422 01:20:55,880 --> 01:20:59,599 Speaker 1: first meeting, play the Washington Commanders, and he maybe even 1423 01:20:59,640 --> 01:21:02,840 Speaker 1: win or just kind of barely struggle through Tannehill doesn't 1424 01:21:02,880 --> 01:21:04,760 Speaker 1: do much. You go into that thing and say, you 1425 01:21:04,760 --> 01:21:07,720 Speaker 1: know what, you've seen the Colts. Now, once we've seen him, 1426 01:21:07,720 --> 01:21:10,560 Speaker 1: we're gonna give them a curveball offensively, put him a 1427 01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:12,400 Speaker 1: leak in and do what we can do, see if 1428 01:21:12,400 --> 01:21:14,599 Speaker 1: we can make them. Hey, you come out, he plays 1429 01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:17,680 Speaker 1: well against the Colts, probably gets beat though. Then you 1430 01:21:17,720 --> 01:21:19,840 Speaker 1: get the Houston Texans and you go through that stretch 1431 01:21:19,880 --> 01:21:21,920 Speaker 1: with your your quarterback. The only reason I like the 1432 01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:25,920 Speaker 1: late season switch better is because after that gauntlet of 1433 01:21:25,920 --> 01:21:28,880 Speaker 1: a stretch. Here are the last five games for Tennessee 1434 01:21:29,240 --> 01:21:33,559 Speaker 1: home against Jacksonville at the Chargers, tough game home against Houston, 1435 01:21:34,040 --> 01:21:36,920 Speaker 1: home against Dallas at jackson You got Jacksonville twice in 1436 01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:39,519 Speaker 1: Houston once in the last five weeks. That's a good 1437 01:21:39,560 --> 01:21:42,080 Speaker 1: way for a rookie quarterback to learn on the job. Yeah, 1438 01:21:42,080 --> 01:21:45,599 Speaker 1: it is, and so somewhere in there. But you're right, 1439 01:21:45,680 --> 01:21:50,960 Speaker 1: that stretch in the middle between nine weeks nine, that's yeah, 1440 01:21:51,120 --> 01:21:53,880 Speaker 1: they and and I'll say that you're right. You'd love 1441 01:21:53,920 --> 01:21:56,599 Speaker 1: a guy that has some experience under his belt getting 1442 01:21:56,600 --> 01:22:02,240 Speaker 1: you through that. But I know this too, when you 1443 01:22:02,280 --> 01:22:06,920 Speaker 1: get into the season, every week seems big. We'll see, um, 1444 01:22:07,000 --> 01:22:10,559 Speaker 1: we'll see, But at some point I'm with you, he's 1445 01:22:10,560 --> 01:22:13,760 Speaker 1: gonna be the guy. Yeah. NFL true false Number two. 1446 01:22:14,280 --> 01:22:20,599 Speaker 1: The aforementioned Bears quarterback Justin Fields would be justified asking 1447 01:22:20,760 --> 01:22:23,880 Speaker 1: for a trade out of Chicago. Is this is this 1448 01:22:23,960 --> 01:22:26,599 Speaker 1: on a silver platter for Steve who came up with 1449 01:22:26,640 --> 01:22:33,840 Speaker 1: this one? Talk about catering to my broadcast partner, Lord, 1450 01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:38,120 Speaker 1: I don't know he's so let's well, let's run down 1451 01:22:38,120 --> 01:22:40,880 Speaker 1: what's happened? Would take that's what's Let's run down what's happened? 1452 01:22:41,439 --> 01:22:50,360 Speaker 1: Coaching change, offensive scheme change, new GM No, Alan Robinson, no, 1453 01:22:50,479 --> 01:22:56,200 Speaker 1: Khalil Mack, No, Tarik Cohen doesn't. Tarik Cohen's career is 1454 01:22:56,200 --> 01:22:57,920 Speaker 1: a bit up in the air in terms of his health. 1455 01:22:57,960 --> 01:23:00,519 Speaker 1: So I'm not blaming them for that. But these are 1456 01:23:00,520 --> 01:23:03,320 Speaker 1: all changes that have happened. Now. They have tried to 1457 01:23:03,360 --> 01:23:07,840 Speaker 1: fortify the offensive line. They have made some moves to 1458 01:23:07,920 --> 01:23:12,720 Speaker 1: improve the receiving corps after losing Alan Robinson traded Khalil Mack. 1459 01:23:13,160 --> 01:23:19,280 Speaker 1: Traded Khalil Mack correct. So is Justin Fields justified after 1460 01:23:19,560 --> 01:23:23,080 Speaker 1: one year in Chicago asking for a try I would 1461 01:23:23,080 --> 01:23:26,639 Speaker 1: probably say no. Could he do worse if he asked 1462 01:23:26,680 --> 01:23:29,479 Speaker 1: for a trade and was granted it then playing for 1463 01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:35,760 Speaker 1: the Bears? No? Actually he put it that way. No, 1464 01:23:36,120 --> 01:23:41,440 Speaker 1: right where he goes worse? Carolina? Not bad? Not bad? Yeah? 1465 01:23:41,200 --> 01:23:45,360 Speaker 1: Who else is looking for a quarterback? Seattle they got some, 1466 01:23:45,439 --> 01:23:47,559 Speaker 1: they got some, they have a pedigree, and they got 1467 01:23:47,560 --> 01:23:49,040 Speaker 1: a running game. Yeah, they got a Yeah, and they 1468 01:23:49,080 --> 01:23:51,439 Speaker 1: got a head coach who's done it. I like that 1469 01:23:51,520 --> 01:23:56,000 Speaker 1: better too. So even if he's not justified, could he 1470 01:23:56,080 --> 01:23:58,439 Speaker 1: do worse? I don't know if he could. Where else 1471 01:23:58,439 --> 01:24:02,200 Speaker 1: would he go? Denver's not looking for a guy anymore? Nope? 1472 01:24:03,439 --> 01:24:09,839 Speaker 1: You know, would New England be interested an upgrade? Washington's 1473 01:24:09,840 --> 01:24:13,000 Speaker 1: not gonna go to Washington? Would the Dolphins be interested? 1474 01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:19,960 Speaker 1: The Dolphins think about what about Tampa Bay? You know, 1475 01:24:20,439 --> 01:24:23,080 Speaker 1: he's only playing one more year. Going to the broadcast 1476 01:24:23,080 --> 01:24:26,000 Speaker 1: that right there, Tampa Bay might reach out and say, 1477 01:24:26,040 --> 01:24:29,479 Speaker 1: you know what, we'll take that kid. Yep, that's see 1478 01:24:29,479 --> 01:24:31,599 Speaker 1: that to me, that's interesting because then he could like 1479 01:24:31,600 --> 01:24:34,240 Speaker 1: take a deep breath learning the offense at this Because 1480 01:24:34,280 --> 01:24:37,080 Speaker 1: this was a's gimmy question for Steve Tasker trade out 1481 01:24:37,080 --> 01:24:39,960 Speaker 1: of Chicago? Yes, please? Right, I was too easy for you, 1482 01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:43,640 Speaker 1: so I had to put a twist. Yeah, So Seattle, 1483 01:24:43,800 --> 01:24:47,559 Speaker 1: whether she's justified or Nampa Bay, Tampa Bay is really intrigued. 1484 01:24:47,600 --> 01:24:50,080 Speaker 1: That's a good call by you, brownie, whether he's justified 1485 01:24:50,200 --> 01:24:55,120 Speaker 1: or not. Just what about a Land playing quarterback in Atlanta, Oh, 1486 01:24:55,320 --> 01:24:57,920 Speaker 1: Mariota and go there you go, yeah too, that's a 1487 01:24:57,920 --> 01:25:00,320 Speaker 1: good yeah. I mean they drafted Ridder but whatever, Well 1488 01:25:00,320 --> 01:25:03,599 Speaker 1: that's true. Yeah, yeah, so that's not you know, that's 1489 01:25:03,600 --> 01:25:05,200 Speaker 1: the thing. At this time of year, everybody's kind of 1490 01:25:05,240 --> 01:25:07,400 Speaker 1: settled in. They got a guy, they're gonna hope. There's 1491 01:25:07,400 --> 01:25:11,400 Speaker 1: at least a ray of hope in the room. Um. 1492 01:25:11,720 --> 01:25:14,120 Speaker 1: I don't know if he would be justified so because 1493 01:25:14,120 --> 01:25:16,640 Speaker 1: of the phrasing, Because of the phrasing of it, I 1494 01:25:16,640 --> 01:25:20,760 Speaker 1: would say false. He just got there. But man, if 1495 01:25:20,800 --> 01:25:23,800 Speaker 1: you if you believe in the Chicago ownership the way 1496 01:25:23,840 --> 01:25:27,479 Speaker 1: Steve Tasker does, you'd be wise to get the heck 1497 01:25:27,520 --> 01:25:30,000 Speaker 1: out of Dodge. You couldn't do worse in a lot 1498 01:25:30,040 --> 01:25:33,760 Speaker 1: of other places. If you were me, this would be 1499 01:25:34,120 --> 01:25:36,400 Speaker 1: you would pull a John Elway. I'm not playing that. 1500 01:25:36,600 --> 01:25:38,240 Speaker 1: I would they would have been six months ago. I've 1501 01:25:38,240 --> 01:25:41,439 Speaker 1: been saying, Hey, I'm out, get me, get me out 1502 01:25:41,479 --> 01:25:45,040 Speaker 1: of here. I would not playing for the waiting until 1503 01:25:45,040 --> 01:25:47,120 Speaker 1: watch them. I wouldn't have waited until they lit this 1504 01:25:47,160 --> 01:25:51,880 Speaker 1: offseason on fire again before I ask the trade. Right, 1505 01:25:52,160 --> 01:25:55,360 Speaker 1: I fight this so entertaining, I mean, I'm out. Thanks 1506 01:25:55,520 --> 01:25:58,120 Speaker 1: Thanks for thanks for the for the minute. I'm done. 1507 01:25:58,439 --> 01:26:00,479 Speaker 1: All right, here's another one of your favorites real quick 1508 01:26:00,479 --> 01:26:03,439 Speaker 1: before we go to break. Cardinals should trade quarterback Kyler 1509 01:26:03,520 --> 01:26:07,000 Speaker 1: Murray before the start of the season. True or false? No, 1510 01:26:07,680 --> 01:26:10,840 Speaker 1: that's false. False, there's no way. Yeah. I think it's 1511 01:26:10,840 --> 01:26:14,679 Speaker 1: false too. They've bent over backward. Oh it's a little 1512 01:26:14,720 --> 01:26:18,960 Speaker 1: swap Murray for Fields. Would you do it him? Yes? 1513 01:26:19,400 --> 01:26:22,360 Speaker 1: If if you're Arizona, do you do it? Yes? Yeah, 1514 01:26:22,439 --> 01:26:24,600 Speaker 1: I would too. He's a mean guy. Yes, he's a 1515 01:26:24,640 --> 01:26:27,560 Speaker 1: mean guys. I don't think Field did. He's a disengaged 1516 01:26:28,840 --> 01:26:32,320 Speaker 1: me guy. Yeah. Um yeah, he's not a vocal leader. 1517 01:26:32,439 --> 01:26:34,519 Speaker 1: And that would be just the move that Chicago would 1518 01:26:34,520 --> 01:26:39,320 Speaker 1: accept that, right, that would be that there would be 1519 01:26:39,560 --> 01:26:43,160 Speaker 1: there would be a mushroom cloud over Chicago when when 1520 01:26:43,200 --> 01:26:46,599 Speaker 1: that mix went together, when that chemistry set came to town. Yeah, 1521 01:26:46,640 --> 01:26:48,960 Speaker 1: I would say false, because they've bent over backwards to 1522 01:26:48,960 --> 01:26:51,200 Speaker 1: make him happy. Then they're just gonna jettison him. I 1523 01:26:51,280 --> 01:26:53,559 Speaker 1: don't think that's happening, So I will say false. All right, 1524 01:26:53,560 --> 01:26:57,080 Speaker 1: that's NFL true false. Presented by Yancy's Fancy New York's 1525 01:26:57,120 --> 01:26:58,760 Speaker 1: artist and Chee Steve and I will take a break 1526 01:26:58,760 --> 01:27:00,559 Speaker 1: back in a second here on one Bills Line presented 1527 01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:17,680 Speaker 1: by Collot of Health It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. So we 1528 01:27:18,000 --> 01:27:20,680 Speaker 1: found out that the entire draft class signed like the 1529 01:27:20,800 --> 01:27:24,679 Speaker 1: day rookie Minicamp was starting last Friday. We also found 1530 01:27:24,680 --> 01:27:28,559 Speaker 1: out about the nine undrafted rookie free agents that they 1531 01:27:28,600 --> 01:27:31,960 Speaker 1: signed as well. The guy that really intrigues me, Steve 1532 01:27:32,160 --> 01:27:34,840 Speaker 1: is the Texas A and M tight end Jalen Widermeyer 1533 01:27:35,479 --> 01:27:39,439 Speaker 1: had a very productive career for the Aggies tight end 1534 01:27:39,560 --> 01:27:43,400 Speaker 1: six five two fifty five. The tape looks like he 1535 01:27:43,479 --> 01:27:47,680 Speaker 1: runs well, but apparently he had a crummy workout. He 1536 01:27:47,800 --> 01:27:51,519 Speaker 1: ran like a five flat forty time, although it doesn't 1537 01:27:51,560 --> 01:27:54,160 Speaker 1: look like that's his speed on tape, which you hear 1538 01:27:54,200 --> 01:27:59,479 Speaker 1: sometimes from scouts. But all SEC second team, three years 1539 01:27:59,479 --> 01:28:03,759 Speaker 1: in a row, twenty and twenty one one eighteen career catches, 1540 01:28:03,800 --> 01:28:07,760 Speaker 1: fourteen hundred and sixty eight yards, sixteen receiving touchdowns. John 1541 01:28:07,840 --> 01:28:16,599 Speaker 1: Mackey Award finalists last year. Second in the SEC among 1542 01:28:16,680 --> 01:28:19,800 Speaker 1: tight ends in receiving yards and second on the team 1543 01:28:19,920 --> 01:28:23,000 Speaker 1: in receiving touchdowns. It's a pretty good resume for an 1544 01:28:23,040 --> 01:28:27,120 Speaker 1: undrafted rookie. There's a lot of those guys out there, Yeah, 1545 01:28:27,760 --> 01:28:32,400 Speaker 1: which is why in this league there are more undrafted 1546 01:28:32,439 --> 01:28:36,720 Speaker 1: rookie free agents that make rosters than draft choices. Now 1547 01:28:36,760 --> 01:28:39,519 Speaker 1: there are a lot more of them. Yeah, it's hard 1548 01:28:39,520 --> 01:28:42,439 Speaker 1: to foot they make it sometimes and stick. It's hard 1549 01:28:42,439 --> 01:28:46,120 Speaker 1: to find them in plus Innately, a lot of times 1550 01:28:46,120 --> 01:28:50,080 Speaker 1: they're more highly motivated, that's true. Yea, they're more They 1551 01:28:50,120 --> 01:28:51,840 Speaker 1: got a chip on their shoulder. They go for it 1552 01:28:51,880 --> 01:28:54,080 Speaker 1: and when they take every opportunity and knock it out 1553 01:28:54,080 --> 01:28:56,200 Speaker 1: of the park. You can't cut guys like that. I 1554 01:28:56,360 --> 01:28:59,880 Speaker 1: can't cut them. Tomorrow's show, we're gonna dig a little 1555 01:29:00,120 --> 01:29:04,760 Speaker 1: bit deeper into that kickoff game, the Thursday night er 1556 01:29:05,200 --> 01:29:07,920 Speaker 1: to kick off the twenty twenty two schedule between the 1557 01:29:07,960 --> 01:29:11,439 Speaker 1: Bills and Rams in Los Ange. Heles, we'll dive into 1558 01:29:11,479 --> 01:29:13,960 Speaker 1: that more tomorrow. We'll see you then. Happy birthday to 1559 01:29:14,040 --> 01:29:14,839 Speaker 1: Thurman Thomas