1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: Oh good time. Steve lasters Dome Dome down that time, 2 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 1: present ab a lot of health. Wednesday afternoon, we're back. 3 00:00:24,760 --> 00:00:27,600 Speaker 1: We're here for three hours, ready to entertain you in 4 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: some way, but with information and the discussion about the 5 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:33,360 Speaker 1: Buffalo bills. I'm John Murphy, Hello, Steam Tasker. How you 6 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,440 Speaker 1: doing Murph? I'm doing good. I got an actual uh, 7 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,159 Speaker 1: I actually got a ringing. Steve is too good. We 8 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 1: can't all my secrets are out. Um. I got a 9 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,400 Speaker 1: tweet last night that somebody said my microphone sounds really good. 10 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: We started yesterday with a with a you know, little 11 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: pat on the back for my new microphone and how 12 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: big it is. Somebody said it sounded good yesterday on Twitter. 13 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:58,400 Speaker 1: So I'm I'm pretty excited. I feel good about myself again. 14 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:02,120 Speaker 1: I don't want to go down that road and getting 15 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,760 Speaker 1: talking about your microphone. Why would a microphone make you 16 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: feel good about yourself? Because it sounds good. We are 17 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: on the radio, you know, is my microphone some standard. 18 00:01:11,800 --> 00:01:14,640 Speaker 1: There's a little echo in the back, you know, back 19 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,880 Speaker 1: there off the kitchen wall, but I do sound fifteen 20 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:20,560 Speaker 1: twenty ft over that way behind you. The glass counters 21 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:23,840 Speaker 1: the glass, you know. Tax records and with all your 22 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:28,959 Speaker 1: text tax records back there, whatever those are. Yeah, and 23 00:01:30,680 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: is that what they are? I think? So? All right, 24 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,399 Speaker 1: So I just happy. I was happy and because somebody 25 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: actually noticed and it made me feel good. What can 26 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,880 Speaker 1: I say? Well, yeah, it sounds good. It sounds real good, 27 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: and you paid a lot of money for it. It It 28 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: should sound good. I didn't pay anything for that's see. 29 00:01:46,440 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: This is another This is another thing that is a 30 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: you know, bonus for being Steve Tasker. Yeah, yeah, that's right. 31 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: You didn't pay a dime for it. One of the 32 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:57,840 Speaker 1: one of the uh well I told you. It was 33 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: the good friends at Buffalo adver Tizing and UH and 34 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:06,559 Speaker 1: Western Automotive. They banded together to push their pennies together 35 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: and bought me this, this microphone. It sounds good. It 36 00:02:09,639 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: does sound good. I think I sound fine too. But 37 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: you do sound fine? You do? You sound better than 38 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:17,359 Speaker 1: you did when the first started this fifteen weeks ago 39 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:19,799 Speaker 1: or what however many years it was. It was seven 40 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: weeks ago today day, yeah, today, anniversary. Maybe a little 41 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 1: while longer too. That we're radio only and we worked 42 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: from homes. We're not in the senecas, the Seneca Studio 43 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 1: these days. I'm all right with that. You know, I've 44 00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 1: gotten used to this. Then I think, don't you feel 45 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 1: that way? Don't say it? What oh the new normal? No, 46 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 1: don't say it. Charted water, uncharted waters, Yeah, don't say it. 47 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:51,839 Speaker 1: Uncertain times, don't say it. All three of the best 48 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: drinking game of all seven weeks. This is the particularly 49 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:58,600 Speaker 1: it's best drinking game, particularly since it starts at noon. 50 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 1: So the New normal means a three hour show on 51 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: radio only from our homes. We got a good guest lineup. 52 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:11,560 Speaker 1: Connor Or, who covers the NFL for Sports Illustrated MMQB, 53 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:16,280 Speaker 1: co host of the MMQB NFL podcast. He'll be joining 54 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: us at one. Ed Brown sports director w ro OCTV 55 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: and Rochester is going to join us at one thirty 56 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: schedule talk with him and two o'clock Harrison Phillips, Bill's 57 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: defensive tackle schedule to join us. One of our guests 58 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: yesterday got a lot of response. Steve. We had mel 59 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: kiper Junior. We've had Melon before. It wasn't the first 60 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 1: time we and you know, we get him a couple 61 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: of weeks after the draft ends, so it's not his 62 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:41,840 Speaker 1: busy season anymore. Mel said, I think one thing in particular, 63 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: got a lot of attention, at least on our Twitter site, 64 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: when he said he sees the Bills winning twelve games. 65 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 1: We've had people come on this show and offers similar prognostications, 66 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: but none of them got quite the kind of response 67 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: that mel Kiper did. What do you think it is 68 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: about mel Kiper that generates that much that much noise. 69 00:03:58,040 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. I don't know if 70 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: we've had anybody saying we're gonna win twelve games and 71 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: not in the last not in the last fifteen years, 72 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:06,920 Speaker 1: that's for sure. Okay, we've had people say they're gonna 73 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: win the division. Yeah, that's true. But twelve games, that's 74 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: a that's a big number. And listen, you and I 75 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: have been on the Bills bandwagon for you know, together 76 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 1: for going on now three years, and it's getting crowded. 77 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 1: I will say, yes'm I mean I said this last 78 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 1: year during you know, right after the Thanksgiving game, uh 79 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 1: for Buffalo, that my back was getting sore from pulling 80 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 1: people up onto the bandwagon because people were starting to 81 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: jump on. And it's and it has not stopped. And 82 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: mel Kiper Junior is just the newest guy Pete Prisco 83 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 1: was very high on the Bills yesterday. He said they're 84 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:48,960 Speaker 1: gonna win eleven. Um. So it's you know, the tide 85 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: is high, and you know, and I also said, there's 86 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 1: also and I put this out to you. I alerted 87 00:04:55,520 --> 00:04:58,839 Speaker 1: you and Jay to this. There's a um on CBS Sports. 88 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:01,200 Speaker 1: There is an article out there that you know, Bills 89 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: have a tie for the twenty second most difficult schedule, 90 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 1: at least by their metrics, which is win percentage of 91 00:05:07,520 --> 00:05:09,719 Speaker 1: your team this last year's win percentage of the teams 92 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: you're gonna face this year. Yeah, in other words, the 93 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:15,120 Speaker 1: tenth most difficult, right, yeah, yeah, we're top ten most 94 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: difficult one. But so I'm you know, I was yesterday 95 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: at the late in the show. Well, I was standing 96 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: on the brake pedal trying to get every you know, 97 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:28,200 Speaker 1: because we were headed were we were headed straight to 98 00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. Right, We're gonna do the show for six 99 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:34,160 Speaker 1: months from Tampa Bay getting ready for the Super Bowl. 100 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,360 Speaker 1: The Bills were gonna win, So we pumped the brakes 101 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:39,400 Speaker 1: a little bit on it. Yeah. Here's the thing. But 102 00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: the thing about yesterday, we don't get that kind of 103 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,359 Speaker 1: response from from you know, people who were blowing sunshine 104 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:49,359 Speaker 1: as we did from Mel Kiper people. For some reason, 105 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:53,000 Speaker 1: Kiper has a kind of a weird connection with fans. 106 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: A lot of people don't like them, Let's face it, 107 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 1: a lot of people are sick of them thirty seven years. 108 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 1: A lot of people trust what he says. I think 109 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:01,920 Speaker 1: he is a botify draft expert, and he spends his 110 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,360 Speaker 1: life for thirty seven years going over those draft prospects. 111 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 1: Do I think he's an expert on how teams playing 112 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: in the NFL? No, not more than anybody else, you 113 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:14,039 Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's not it's not. It'd be 114 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,880 Speaker 1: different if Mel predicted the Bills are gonna draft this guy, 115 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,320 Speaker 1: or the Bills drafted a good one here, a good 116 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: one there. That's fine. I'm not discounting what he said. 117 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:23,840 Speaker 1: I just don't give him as much credence. I think 118 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: it's a lot of it. I don't think Mel Kiper 119 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 1: is the be all and end all the NFL expertise. 120 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: I really don't draft. That's a different story. But the 121 00:06:30,880 --> 00:06:33,080 Speaker 1: NFL in general, I don't know. What do you think? 122 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:36,640 Speaker 1: The NFL regular season is not his? We try that's right, 123 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 1: you know, he's his wheelhouse right, He's just he watches 124 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:45,120 Speaker 1: the NFL. Obviously, he gets what teams need obviously, and 125 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: I mean all you gotta do is read the paper 126 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:48,840 Speaker 1: to find out the scores and stuff. But I think 127 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:51,480 Speaker 1: he's he's jumping on a little bit of the bandwagon 128 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:56,440 Speaker 1: of how good the Bills were a year ago, some 129 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:00,160 Speaker 1: of the guys he liked in free agency, and of 130 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 1: course the draft. He thinks the Bill's got to steal 131 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 1: in Epineza. He thinks Zach Moss is going to be 132 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:08,280 Speaker 1: a huge contributor. So those two guys alone, all of 133 00:07:08,320 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 1: a sudden, a couple of things in confluence seems to 134 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:13,240 Speaker 1: go with the Bill's way. And now he's got him 135 00:07:13,280 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: winning twelve games. You know, I don't know how much. Yeah, 136 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think he looked at the schedule 137 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills to make that, you know, to 138 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:23,400 Speaker 1: make that prediction. You and I were talking about that. 139 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: You look at the bill schedule. They got some pretty 140 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 1: traditionally good teams on that schedule, plus some teams that 141 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: were good lately, including the World champions and the other 142 00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:35,119 Speaker 1: team that was in the Super Bowl. So it's there's 143 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:37,040 Speaker 1: a lot of reasons for Bill's fans to like, Okay, 144 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: you know what, we're gonna have to play well to win, 145 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: you know, to you know, pump the brakes a little 146 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: bit on the twelve win prediction. Yeah, that's alone the division, right, 147 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: That's the thing that got my attention yesterday. We talked 148 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 1: about him briefly on the air yesterday. It didn't sound 149 00:07:49,680 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 1: like he was maybe he's aware of the Bill schedule. 150 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:55,200 Speaker 1: I don't want to discount that, But anybody who looks 151 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: at how the Bills won in the games they won 152 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,000 Speaker 1: last year and who their opponents were and compares them 153 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: to this year, as you said, tenth most difficult schedule 154 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:05,840 Speaker 1: based on last year's records, would say, wow, it could 155 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 1: be good and still only win ten games. But he 156 00:08:08,480 --> 00:08:10,480 Speaker 1: kind of blew right past that stop sign and said 157 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:13,800 Speaker 1: twelve wins. And again, what's fine for mel to say that? 158 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:17,720 Speaker 1: And I appreciated his expertise. I don't think he's an 159 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: expert on how teams playing the regular season. And yet 160 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:23,480 Speaker 1: if you measured the responses on Twitter, everybody's like, whoa 161 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: mel Kiper twelve wins? It was kind of evenly split. 162 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: Some people are like, wow, mel Kiper says we're gonna 163 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:31,239 Speaker 1: win twelve and the other half for like mel Kiper 164 00:08:31,280 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 1: doesn't know what he's talking about, you know, right, And 165 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:35,839 Speaker 1: it just struck me a he's kind of a polarizing 166 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: figure in many respects. Yeah, and there's and there's also 167 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:40,320 Speaker 1: all those people that say, you know, they put the 168 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: curse on us now and now there's no way we're 169 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 1: ever gonna win twelve games because somebody said it, you know, 170 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: like mel Kuiper comes out early, although you know next 171 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: week you and I will forget that. Mel Kuiper said 172 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: he wanted we're gonna win twelve games. But you know, 173 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: people have all kinds of views of it and that 174 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 1: which you know, talk about that. That's why we put 175 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: out this Twitter poll we put out today. You know, 176 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: how people view the Bills, how they what do they 177 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: like about if every you know, do Bills fans like 178 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 1: being on the favorite end of the tally rather than 179 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 1: the underdog? You know? And I always knew as a player, 180 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:15,960 Speaker 1: And we had this conversation a little bit off the 181 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: air we got off yesterday about the teams that I 182 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: was on in the nineties. You know, we were an 183 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:22,679 Speaker 1: underdog through the late eighties. A little bit maybe it's 184 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: then we went you go twelve and four and eighty eight, 185 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, that kind of you lose that, 186 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:29,120 Speaker 1: and we went to four straight Super Bowls and were 187 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 1: the conference champions for four straight years. And that underdog 188 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: thing doesn't play, you know, it just doesn't work. It's 189 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:42,960 Speaker 1: hard to get in that. So we took just the 190 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,320 Speaker 1: opposite of that in our team, and it worked well 191 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 1: for us when we did. So, Yeah, the underdog thing 192 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:52,280 Speaker 1: is a great way to motivate your team, But when 193 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:54,679 Speaker 1: that's not there, and when it's silly to even think 194 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:57,319 Speaker 1: about it being there, you gotta come up with a 195 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: different way to motivate, right, and mel Kiper yesterday just 196 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:02,400 Speaker 1: the latest and kind of a long line of people 197 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:05,680 Speaker 1: expecting big things from the Bills. We expecting big things 198 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:08,640 Speaker 1: from the Bills. Most of our listeners expect big things. 199 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:10,760 Speaker 1: But you're right, that is a Twitter poll today. Are 200 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:13,400 Speaker 1: the Bills ready to be the hunted rather than the hunter? 201 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 1: Peter Schreker on NFL Network Good Morning Football, kind of 202 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:20,480 Speaker 1: a start of this discussion among us, saying the other 203 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: day that the Bills are going to be, you know, 204 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:24,839 Speaker 1: the hunted. Now they've got a target on their back. 205 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: Rather than being the hunter. Which role do you prefer 206 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 1: for the Bills this season? Give us a call eight 207 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,680 Speaker 1: oh three five fifty toll three one eight eight eight 208 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. Do you like being an 209 00:10:35,480 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 1: underdog for the Bills or do you like being the favorite? 210 00:10:38,320 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: Early talis from the Twitter poll one hundred eighty votes 211 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: in so far, being the underdog sixty four percent, two 212 00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 1: out of every three. Bills Man says, I'd prefer to 213 00:10:47,040 --> 00:10:52,120 Speaker 1: be the underdog. Maybe it's because it's so comfortable. Thirty. Yeah, 214 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: we've been the underdog for years. I think people feel comfortable. 215 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: There's Steve. Yeah, it's the expectations are less. You know, 216 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: it's easier to exceed expectations when you're the underdog. If 217 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 1: you give him a good game, well you can still 218 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:06,079 Speaker 1: feel good about it, right because you weren't supposed to win. 219 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: The simple fact of the matter is if you've got 220 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:13,160 Speaker 1: a good team. Um. I think the predominant view is 221 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: for the NFL locker rooms is act like it. You know. Well, 222 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 1: here's where we're going to tap into your expertise. Would 223 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 1: you have nine years in the NFL? Steve thirteen thirteen, 224 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:25,280 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, give me the short change of those four years. 225 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 1: In those thirteen years, were you aware that you were 226 00:11:29,840 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 1: an underdog or a favorite or a heavy favorite? I mean, 227 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: were you were aware that you were a hunted team 228 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 1: as opposed to a hundred? Your team got good. You 229 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:39,760 Speaker 1: didn't start out good, but you got good. Did you 230 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:43,200 Speaker 1: notice a change in the way opponents approach the Buffalo 231 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 1: Bills once the Bills got good? Just yes, yeah, it doesn't, 232 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:51,959 Speaker 1: both both collectively and individually. Um, you got a guy 233 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: like Bruce, So, you got a guy like Andre, You 234 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:56,199 Speaker 1: got guys like Cornelius Bennett. You got some really good 235 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,560 Speaker 1: players James Lofton, when you got some really stellar guys 236 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 1: on your roster. Teams play your team differently than they 237 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:07,280 Speaker 1: do other teams. When you get on film, you have 238 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 1: to watch. You watch more of your own film as 239 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:14,040 Speaker 1: an offense than anybody else, even when you're trying to 240 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:17,439 Speaker 1: get ready for the other defense, because you'll watch film. 241 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 1: And I knew this as an individual too when I 242 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 1: took the field as a special teams player, I would 243 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:27,280 Speaker 1: never they would never run the same returns or coverage 244 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,320 Speaker 1: or return schemes against our team, or at least against 245 00:12:31,320 --> 00:12:34,959 Speaker 1: me individually, that they ran against everybody else. Bruce Smith 246 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,800 Speaker 1: would never get blocked by an offensive line the same 247 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:40,720 Speaker 1: way that they blocked everybody else. Because he was Bruce Smith. 248 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:42,720 Speaker 1: They would come up with different schemes that he couldn't 249 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: get on film. So what you would do is watch 250 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:51,960 Speaker 1: how other teams defended you and think that, yeah, other 251 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:53,959 Speaker 1: teams are going to try something similar to this. So 252 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:56,600 Speaker 1: it was almost it was almost crazy. You did go out. 253 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:58,800 Speaker 1: You'd watch all this film during the week of the 254 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 1: opponents and what they did here, what they did here, 255 00:13:00,840 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: and you get on the field and they never do 256 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:06,560 Speaker 1: that to you because you're different. Um now, okay, let 257 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 1: me just interrupt you because you were different or because 258 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,000 Speaker 1: you were perceived as being good. Because teams what I 259 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:17,200 Speaker 1: mean that teams mean teams adjust every opponent, right, yeah, exactly, 260 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: But when they come up against somebody they ain't got 261 00:13:20,440 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 1: them one on one matchup, they can win. They there's 262 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 1: a number of different ways they can do it. They 263 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: can double team you from here, double team me from there, 264 00:13:26,920 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 1: and they never get it. You never get a chance 265 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 1: to see him do that to anybody else. They don't 266 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:32,960 Speaker 1: treat anybody else the way they treat you, And and and 267 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:35,280 Speaker 1: it is a level and it is a sign of respect, 268 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:36,880 Speaker 1: no question about it. But it's no fun to try 269 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: and get ready for you know. So uh And as 270 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:44,720 Speaker 1: a team, you're very aware collectively of what what the 271 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: perception is of you by your fans and by other 272 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: fans and by the opponents. You get you get an 273 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 1: idea of what it's about, and before, during and after 274 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 1: the game, you get a chance to understand what they 275 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:01,200 Speaker 1: thought about you coming into the game, and you carry 276 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:03,360 Speaker 1: that around with you for sure, And it does affect 277 00:14:03,360 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 1: your preparation. Does it affect how teams play? You? Do 278 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 1: they play harder against a good team if you're the favorite? 279 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,319 Speaker 1: Do you think? I don't think they play harder, but 280 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: they prepare harder. You know, that makes a difference. It 281 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: seems like they're playing harder. They you certainly get their 282 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 1: best swing. Uh, certainly too. That are if they're a team. 283 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 1: There are teams who who aren't good, or don't have 284 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 1: a great culture, or don't prepare well. There they come 285 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:26,880 Speaker 1: in and they kind of give you their best punch. 286 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: And if you can take that punch and punch them back, 287 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: they fold up, you know, they go away. They continue 288 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: to go through But that you can they're going through 289 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: the motions. That kind of thing happens not not very 290 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:39,560 Speaker 1: often in the NFL, because you're playing against a bunch 291 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: of really prideful and guys who can really go, but 292 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 1: as a team they can't put it together. So you 293 00:14:45,280 --> 00:14:49,320 Speaker 1: do sense some fragility in their you know, in their 294 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: motivation and in their preparation. So when you do hit 295 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: him in the mouth, you do get up a touchdown 296 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:56,200 Speaker 1: on them, you can feel them kind of start to 297 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:58,000 Speaker 1: tighten up and you steal them, feel them starting to 298 00:14:58,040 --> 00:14:59,920 Speaker 1: press a little bit, and you know, you kind of 299 00:15:00,040 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 1: get on top of them. Other teams they're a handful. 300 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: They think they're gonna beat you. They can beat you. 301 00:15:07,200 --> 00:15:09,360 Speaker 1: They're out to prove they can beat you. They know 302 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: they're in for a battle. They know you're gonna get 303 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: a couple of good shots in on them. You're gonna 304 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:15,320 Speaker 1: score a touchdown here and there, You're gonna score a 305 00:15:15,320 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: certain amount of points. They're ready for it, and it 306 00:15:17,560 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: doesn't bother them when you do. Those are the kind 307 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 1: of games that are really great NFL games. You're playing 308 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 1: against an opponent that's got a chip on their shoulder 309 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:27,000 Speaker 1: with something to prove and they're good, which is the 310 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,360 Speaker 1: way we were when we were coming up. And that's 311 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:32,360 Speaker 1: the way we played in playoff games a lot of 312 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: the time, not so much in Super Bowls, but in 313 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: playoff games we were tough and the reason was we 314 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: felt like we had something to prove. One more question 315 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 1: for you about your experience as a player in this 316 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 1: in this particular area is Steve, which which did you prefer? 317 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:50,960 Speaker 1: Which is more fun being the hunter? You know, going 318 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:53,640 Speaker 1: after somebody, being the underdog or or being the top 319 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,440 Speaker 1: dog and you know, putting your best effort out there 320 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 1: knowing that you'd probably win. Which is more fun as 321 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: a player? Tough to say. I mean, it's, well, it's 322 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: fun being yet you're a great that's a great question. 323 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: Um Um, it's it's fun both ways when you win, 324 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: it's both fun. If you can carry it off both ways, 325 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: it's fun. Um, And nothing matters and no matter how 326 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 1: you feel about it if you lose. But we had 327 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: a lot of success in both ways, you know, as 328 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: an underdog and ash and as the favorite. It's fun 329 00:16:29,520 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: both ways when it works, so you know, and both 330 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: ways can be effective. And I we've said it. You know, 331 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 1: if you watched the thirty for thirty. But we're going 332 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 1: to our second or going to our third and fourth 333 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 1: super Bowls and people are like, yeah, we you know, 334 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 1: you guys are horrible. Get go away. You know, particularly 335 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 1: after the third super Bowl when we got beat and 336 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: turned it over nine times by the Dallas Cowboys got 337 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:56,240 Speaker 1: blown out, people are like, gh just go away. You know, 338 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:57,960 Speaker 1: we don't want you to the super Bowl. And we 339 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: were like, okay, you you want a piece of us, 340 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:02,560 Speaker 1: come get it. You want to you want us not 341 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:04,640 Speaker 1: to go to the super Bowl, come knock us out. 342 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:06,600 Speaker 1: Let's see if you got it. You know, that was 343 00:17:06,640 --> 00:17:09,360 Speaker 1: a big rallying point for us. We're gonna go again then, 344 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 1: you know. And when we did so, you know you 345 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,400 Speaker 1: can and you've seen it. Man. People players jump through 346 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:20,959 Speaker 1: hoops to motivate themselves. They conjure up. Some slight teams 347 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,160 Speaker 1: do that too, and it's and when it's effective, particularly 348 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:27,880 Speaker 1: when it's effective once Murph, you can bet they're gonna 349 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,159 Speaker 1: go back to the bag and pull that motivation, that 350 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 1: technique out again and do it again. Yeah. So it 351 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:36,440 Speaker 1: once it works once, it's gonna work forever. In your opinion, 352 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:38,040 Speaker 1: you know, you're just gonna keep going back to it, 353 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: all right, So we're asking Bills fans today. The fans perspective, 354 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:44,879 Speaker 1: so the Bills, mel Kiper yesterday and many of our 355 00:17:44,920 --> 00:17:47,400 Speaker 1: guests over the last few couple of weeks, they give 356 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:49,440 Speaker 1: the Bills a lot of credit. Some people have said 357 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 1: the Bills are the favorites to win the AFC East. 358 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:54,720 Speaker 1: That was unusual to hear the first time. Some people 359 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,159 Speaker 1: have said the Bills are the team to beat in 360 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,160 Speaker 1: the AFC East. That's unusual to hear. Mel Kiper said 361 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: the Bills are gonna win twelve games yesterday. Are the 362 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:05,679 Speaker 1: Bills fans ready to have their team be the hunted 363 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 1: rather than the hunt? What do you prefer for the 364 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:09,880 Speaker 1: Bills this year? Give us a call. Let's talk about 365 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:12,800 Speaker 1: eight oh three h five fifty toll free from outside 366 00:18:12,840 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 1: Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. 367 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 1: We're gonna read some of your tweets from the tweet get. 368 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:19,919 Speaker 1: You can tweet it in at One Bill's Life. You 369 00:18:19,960 --> 00:18:22,000 Speaker 1: can vote on the Twitter poll at One Bill's Life 370 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 1: two hundred waf so far being the underdog the preference 371 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:29,000 Speaker 1: of sixty three percent of our respondence being the favorite 372 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:31,440 Speaker 1: preferred by thirty seven percent. You know what, that's a 373 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:32,960 Speaker 1: much Twitter poll than I thought it would be. I 374 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:34,960 Speaker 1: gotta say steam, Yeah, it kind of it kind of 375 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,720 Speaker 1: forces you to think about what you like about being 376 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,399 Speaker 1: a Bills fan, right, did you nobody like you know, 377 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:43,359 Speaker 1: seventeen year playoff drought? But did you like it that 378 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: the Bills can sneak up on teams or would you 379 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:48,400 Speaker 1: prefer to have you know, a target on your back. 380 00:18:48,480 --> 00:18:51,160 Speaker 1: That's what we're asking fans now, right right, And it's 381 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:54,480 Speaker 1: and it and it also comes down to, you know, 382 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: the stress fans field Sometimes they want to bail out 383 00:18:57,560 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 1: this and I want to be the underdog, So I 384 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:01,080 Speaker 1: don't want to have that expectation where We've got to 385 00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:03,560 Speaker 1: beat this team or else. Everything is law, the whole 386 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: season goes down the tubes, that kind of thing, and 387 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:08,000 Speaker 1: it's and it's hard to get around that. You know, 388 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:09,440 Speaker 1: you just don't want to go to a game and 389 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,720 Speaker 1: be filled with tension the whole time. That's part of 390 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,400 Speaker 1: the fun of it, But it's only fun. Like I said, 391 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,280 Speaker 1: when your team wins and comes through, then it's the best. 392 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:22,240 Speaker 1: But man, living through that pressure of you know, caring 393 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 1: about your team so much and it's the same thing 394 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:26,159 Speaker 1: for players. It's caring about your team so much and 395 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 1: really wanting to play well and knowing it's going to 396 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: be a stressful, a stressful three hours. It's sometimes hard 397 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:35,879 Speaker 1: to live with. Yep, what do you prefer? Give us 398 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:39,120 Speaker 1: a call eight three fifty toll free one eight eight 399 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:42,840 Speaker 1: by fifty two five fifty Steve. The Bills and the 400 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:46,200 Speaker 1: rest of the NFL have released a policy the schedules 401 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:48,479 Speaker 1: coming out tomorrow. We talked about that. We'll talk more 402 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: about that today, but there's a policy now for a 403 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:55,760 Speaker 1: ticket refund plan for canceled games or games held without fans, 404 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:57,680 Speaker 1: and who knows where they're going with it. They're gonna 405 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 1: announce a schedule, gonna have sixteen games seventeen weeks, but 406 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:04,639 Speaker 1: obviously that is subject to a change. But the Commissioner 407 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,840 Speaker 1: Goodell sent a memo to all the thirty two teams yesterday. 408 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:10,880 Speaker 1: It's got a baseline for full refunds on any tickets 409 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,879 Speaker 1: purchased directly from the teams. And can I read you You 410 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:15,920 Speaker 1: You see what the Bills are announcing on this may 411 00:20:15,960 --> 00:20:18,880 Speaker 1: I please do, I will, and we can take calls 412 00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:22,080 Speaker 1: on this too. The Bills announcing their ticket refund policy. 413 00:20:22,119 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 1: It's similar to the rest of the NFL. Let me 414 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:27,880 Speaker 1: fire it up here. We have every expectation there will 415 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:30,880 Speaker 1: be a full NFL game schedule this year. But if 416 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:34,120 Speaker 1: a game is canceled and cannot be rescheduled, or if 417 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:36,880 Speaker 1: it is played under conditions that prohibit fans from attending. 418 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,439 Speaker 1: Ticket buyers who buy tickets directly from the club, like 419 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:44,360 Speaker 1: season tickets, group sales, and or partial season plans will 420 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 1: get the option of a full refund of their ticket 421 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: purchase price plus any fees for any impacted games, or 422 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:52,879 Speaker 1: they have the ability to apply the applicable amount to 423 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:56,120 Speaker 1: a future ticket purchase. So if you buy it from 424 00:20:56,160 --> 00:20:59,720 Speaker 1: the bills, for example, there's a refund policy. Single game 425 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:02,159 Speaker 1: tickets are not on sale yet, but they're scheduled to 426 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 1: go on sale, I believe tomorrow night once the schedule 427 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 1: is released. Um, there are refund policies for some UH 428 00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:13,879 Speaker 1: cancel games for ticket ticketmasters, seek and stub Hub. Season 429 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:17,719 Speaker 1: tickets still on sale and UH they're trying to. UH, 430 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,080 Speaker 1: you know, they they're trying to. It's the first step. 431 00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:22,520 Speaker 1: I guess it's easy to say, Steve the first step 432 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: towards maybe accommodating those who are going to be hurt 433 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:29,360 Speaker 1: when games start getting canceled or maybe the attendance is limited. Yeah, 434 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,240 Speaker 1: there's also additional information in there if you go to 435 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 1: the bills about about secondary like ticketmasters, seek geek s, 436 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:39,240 Speaker 1: dub Hub, all of those things. And there's different rules 437 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,679 Speaker 1: for some of of those national entities in different states 438 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:47,359 Speaker 1: as well. So, um, all of those refunds if you 439 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 1: get them through those outlets, there are different they're refund 440 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:52,840 Speaker 1: policies as well that you need to check out too. 441 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,600 Speaker 1: But the bills and like the NFL makes sense, right, Murph. 442 00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:57,199 Speaker 1: If they're not going to have the game, you can 443 00:21:57,240 --> 00:21:59,959 Speaker 1: have to either have your ticket price refunded fully or 444 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:01,800 Speaker 1: you can apply it to the next season or the 445 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:05,440 Speaker 1: next whatever, or whatever your bill might be or whatever 446 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 1: you want, right, So that makes some sense. They say 447 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:11,919 Speaker 1: that the dates for season ticket member pre sale, the 448 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:14,439 Speaker 1: group ticket on sale, and the full single game on 449 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 1: sale will be announced at a later date. They can 450 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:18,440 Speaker 1: wait on that, right because they don't know how many 451 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:20,520 Speaker 1: games are gonna be By the way, Steve, there's nothing 452 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:26,000 Speaker 1: in this announcement about increasing the ticket prices that you're 453 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 1: talking about. Our you talking about our thing yesterday. Yes, listen, 454 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: I wasn't. I wasn't I want to go in there. 455 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:35,800 Speaker 1: I wasn't advocating that they do that. But certainly if 456 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 1: they were to take the I'm saying, there's no ticket 457 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,640 Speaker 1: season tickets this year, we don't even know what we're 458 00:22:40,640 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 1: gonna do, no fans or whatever. They could do whatever 459 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,719 Speaker 1: they want. I don't think they would ever jack up 460 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:49,360 Speaker 1: the prices for the twenty five thousand people that are 461 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:52,880 Speaker 1: allowed to go in. I'm just saying, Um, you know, 462 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:55,760 Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't think that. You know, our guys 463 00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 1: wouldn't do that. But you know there's some like Mark 464 00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:01,840 Speaker 1: Davis in Vegas wouldn't check up the prices at home, 465 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:04,920 Speaker 1: you know, he would. You know that somebody's gonna try 466 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,679 Speaker 1: something crazy like that. I'm just I'm just bringing it 467 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 1: up because it would be a possibility if you take 468 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:13,479 Speaker 1: that season tickets out and say nobody has season tickets. 469 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:15,560 Speaker 1: You're set for next year. We don't know how many 470 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 1: people are going to be in and we're only gonna 471 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:23,280 Speaker 1: allow like a handful of people in the stadium. Um, 472 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 1: that would give him the freedom to, you know, charge 473 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:28,400 Speaker 1: whatever the market would bear. But how do you think 474 00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:32,000 Speaker 1: that's I agree, that's a bad look, man, It's a 475 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 1: really bad look, really bad. Mark Davis gonna do that 476 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:36,640 Speaker 1: in Las Vegas if he plans on never going out 477 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:40,000 Speaker 1: again and never going public again, I think people would rebel. 478 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 1: People would flip out. What in the face of all this, 479 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,640 Speaker 1: with everybody doing everything they can to accommodate others, you're 480 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: gonna raise your ticket prices? Excuse me if you were 481 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:55,040 Speaker 1: tickets to sell, tickets to sell yeah, yeah, and then, 482 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,359 Speaker 1: by the way, is not and they can if that 483 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 1: nobody's gonna do that. But they cry foul too. I mean, 484 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 1: the NFL say we're, we're, wow, We're it's killing us. 485 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 1: We yet seal days, we're you know, nobody would believe it, 486 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:11,119 Speaker 1: and rightfully, somebody would set it to right. And by 487 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: the way, there's nothing in today's announcement about that the 488 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 1: prospect and playing and people have legitimate, honest questions or 489 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: what do you mean what if there are only you know, 490 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:22,160 Speaker 1: twenty five percent of the UH seats available in newer 491 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:26,560 Speaker 1: Field eighteen thousand, folks, Well, who who decides who goes? 492 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:29,320 Speaker 1: And how do you decide? That's no no indication at 493 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:31,879 Speaker 1: all This is if the games are canceled um or 494 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,960 Speaker 1: if the games are limited from any fans attending, refunds 495 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 1: will be available again. As Steve said, you can find 496 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:39,960 Speaker 1: more details on that on our website, Buffalo Bills dot com. 497 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 1: What else is going on, Steve? Everything good, Everything's really good. Um, 498 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:50,840 Speaker 1: whether's kind of starting to edge toward warmth reached the 499 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 1: mid fifties today, which I am. Maybe it's because we 500 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 1: work usually and go in, you stay inside and you 501 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,920 Speaker 1: come back. Man, it's really getting me down. The chilliness 502 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 1: to the weather. It's ridiculous, you know, it really getting 503 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 1: me down. It's we're getting into it. You know, we're 504 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:08,919 Speaker 1: the past almost the first week of May. Forty eight 505 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 1: degrees today in Orchard Park, gonna get a high of 506 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,160 Speaker 1: fifty one. That's that's not gonna cut the muster. That's 507 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,840 Speaker 1: not gonna feed the captain's bulldogs. Steve, I've heard you say, 508 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 1: I've got to someday, I'm gonna get to the root 509 00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 1: of that phrase. I heard some of these that once 510 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 1: and I liked it. I just appropriated it. It was that, Yeah, 511 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:26,640 Speaker 1: that's not gonna feed the captain's bulldog. I have no idea. Yeah, 512 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: you're right. Yeah, the weather's not great, but that's okay. 513 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,520 Speaker 1: But other than that, it is getting better. So I'm 514 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 1: up for that. And now we're getting to the point too, 515 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:40,399 Speaker 1: where we've been isolated long enough members of my family 516 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 1: that we can get together as a group. There we 517 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 1: can start to we can start to babysit the grand 518 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:48,119 Speaker 1: kids again after they've been quarantine for fourteen We've been 519 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:53,280 Speaker 1: quarantine for fourteen and and nobody's doing anything any business anywhere, 520 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,359 Speaker 1: so we can actually do that give our kids a 521 00:25:56,400 --> 00:26:01,400 Speaker 1: break from being quarantined with their children. So that's a possibility. 522 00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,879 Speaker 1: I've got to look forward to. Yep, I'd use my 523 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:06,639 Speaker 1: new grill for the first time last night. That was 524 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,800 Speaker 1: a possible. That's so nice, huh. And you know what's bad? 525 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,480 Speaker 1: It gets its stainless steel right, beautiful sitting there and 526 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 1: never having been used. Once you use it, it's like, 527 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:18,640 Speaker 1: oh man, there's grease. All of course there is. You're 528 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 1: just cooked down. I just had fire. Now it looks 529 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: you know, it looks like a grill before it like 530 00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 1: a beautiful and now I'll tell you what part in 531 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 1: my yard. Total veteran move by you too. What's that 532 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:33,200 Speaker 1: you had? It assembled by the dealer. Oh yeah, come, 533 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 1: oh see, I would not have thought to do that 534 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:41,359 Speaker 1: unless and listen, note to all hardware dealers, you know, 535 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: and if if you can make sure you ask people, 536 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,600 Speaker 1: because anybody who's bought a grill before and assembled it 537 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,880 Speaker 1: themselves will take you up on the free assembly. Yeah 538 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 1: it's free. You know I did. I assembled my own 539 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:56,880 Speaker 1: grill once. This is probably ten fifteen years ago, sin 540 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 1: kind Webber grill, you know, a big guest grill. And 541 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:03,159 Speaker 1: I got to the house for Christmas, right, so I started. 542 00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:04,679 Speaker 1: You know, you want to get the little kids in bed. 543 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,320 Speaker 1: You don't want, you know, Santa broad a grill. I 544 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: don't want them to see their dad assembling the grill 545 00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: that Santa bout the night before. So I had to 546 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 1: wait till the kids went to bed nine o'clock or so. 547 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,320 Speaker 1: So I started assembling the grill at nine am Christmas Eve. 548 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:17,880 Speaker 1: Finished at about three thirty in the morning Christmas Day. 549 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,080 Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's not impossible, but it's involved. There's 550 00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:25,240 Speaker 1: any plus, it's you know, you're there's propane gas flowing 551 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:26,960 Speaker 1: through this thing. You don't want to you don't want 552 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:31,200 Speaker 1: a half asset, you know, you know, I don't want 553 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,040 Speaker 1: to come out with no eyebrows or anything, you know, 554 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,159 Speaker 1: you want to. And it's not that. It's not just 555 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 1: grills either. We had a swing set or other house 556 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:39,639 Speaker 1: that when it was a big one too. I got 557 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 1: it while I was playing, right, So we spent the 558 00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 1: extra cash and got this huge, huge wooden swing set 559 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: with a little perch up with a little house up 560 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:49,440 Speaker 1: at the top and the room, you know, all the 561 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,919 Speaker 1: stuff in the rock wall. And there's a big deal, right, 562 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,560 Speaker 1: So that thing shows up in this big truck unloads. 563 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,920 Speaker 1: I had to call in every friend I had and 564 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:03,520 Speaker 1: every tool they owned. There had to be There had 565 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 1: to be fifty thousand different pieces to that thing. Fifty 566 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:11,359 Speaker 1: thous I'm not exaggerating. Fifty thousand separate nuts, bolts, washers 567 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 1: and pieces of equipment and you know, parts to this thing. 568 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:18,760 Speaker 1: And it was a three day like half a dozen 569 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,800 Speaker 1: guys all the time rotating through because nobody can come 570 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:23,600 Speaker 1: and stay at my house out so I had guys 571 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 1: rotating through to help me, punching in the cloth like 572 00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,000 Speaker 1: yeah it was. I was like, yeah, you don't need 573 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:31,920 Speaker 1: to come, then come like three hours from now, because 574 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:33,679 Speaker 1: then two guys are gonna have to leave, you know, right. 575 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,640 Speaker 1: It was unbelievable, and we finally got and it's still 576 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,680 Speaker 1: standing in the exact same spot. We don't even own 577 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,680 Speaker 1: the house anymore. They can't. The most the most recent 578 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,920 Speaker 1: experience I had like that was, um, just last summer, 579 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,240 Speaker 1: let's spring rround this time of year. Um, we bought 580 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: a crib from Ikea and for our house, for our grandson. 581 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 1: It's a beautiful crib. Um. But I don't know if 582 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:03,040 Speaker 1: all of my Kia's products assembly required. Assembly was required, 583 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,240 Speaker 1: and the problem was the assemblyman was not in English. 584 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 1: That's yeah. It was hard. It took I got it done, 585 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,360 Speaker 1: and it's a perfect crib. I wish I could use 586 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:15,960 Speaker 1: it myself, but because it's really well built. But it 587 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,680 Speaker 1: took it. You know, it took, you know, four or 588 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 1: five hours to do it. Do it right, It takes 589 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:23,479 Speaker 1: four or five hours, even if you have the instructions too, 590 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 1: because the key is pretty good. I mean they're you know, 591 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:31,040 Speaker 1: it's pretty self explanatory. But it is foreign. Yeah, to 592 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 1: the United States. It's like Swedish, right yeah. And and 593 00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,400 Speaker 1: there's pictures, but you need you need like I need language, 594 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:40,160 Speaker 1: you know, right, pictures don't do it for me. And 595 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: some of the and some of the pieces that you 596 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:46,760 Speaker 1: used to assemble the stuff for my keya are not 597 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 1: normal looking, right, Like they have those quarter turn things 598 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 1: that you you go, you put it into a peg hole, 599 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 1: you turn it and it and it tightens. But it's 600 00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,480 Speaker 1: not a screw and it pulls the two people, you 601 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,640 Speaker 1: know what I mean. They're attached devices that aren't just screws, 602 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 1: nuts and bowls and those are those are you know? 603 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,280 Speaker 1: You gotta get used to those? Yes, all right, So 604 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,080 Speaker 1: enough home improvement from Steve and I. Today we've got 605 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 1: a full show. We've got the Connor Are from Sports 606 00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,560 Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated dot Com at one o'clock, Fed Brown from 607 00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 1: w r OCTV and Rochester at one thirty, and Bills 608 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 1: defensive tackle Harrison Phillips coming by at two fifteen. Got 609 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,480 Speaker 1: a pretty good Twitter poll. You're and we're asking for 610 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 1: your stance as a Bills fan? Are you ready to 611 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,480 Speaker 1: have your team be hunted by the rest of the 612 00:30:30,640 --> 00:30:33,400 Speaker 1: NFL rather than be the hunter? Which world do you preferred? 613 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,480 Speaker 1: You like being the underdog for the Bills? Are do 614 00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 1: you prefer to be the favorite? On Twitter? Sixty seven 615 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,800 Speaker 1: percent of respondent so far said you'd rather be the underdog. 616 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,080 Speaker 1: Thirty three percent say you like to be the favorite. 617 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:44,840 Speaker 1: Let's hear from you. Give us a call eight oh 618 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:47,600 Speaker 1: three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five 619 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,080 Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. We'll get to your calls and 620 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,520 Speaker 1: we'll read from the tweet cheeks some of our responses 621 00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 1: when we return. Just Getting going one, Bill's Live presented 622 00:30:55,320 --> 00:31:06,520 Speaker 1: by Collada Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. I'll go 623 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,280 Speaker 1: back to Bills Live. John Murphy's Team Tasker. Are getting 624 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,600 Speaker 1: going here on Wednesday afternoon. We got some good guests 625 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 1: coming up. We got a good Twitter poll today, and 626 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:15,840 Speaker 1: just think about how you feel as a Bills fan. 627 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,480 Speaker 1: Look the Bills. It's sort of the transition here. They're 628 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 1: going from underdogs to a team that people expect to win. 629 00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 1: Mel Kiper yesterday, he says they'll win twelve. We've had 630 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 1: people on our show. I can't get over it. Why 631 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:34,240 Speaker 1: it's just so unusual to have somebody outside of me 632 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,800 Speaker 1: and you and the guys in our buildings say we're 633 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,720 Speaker 1: gonna win twelve games, and to have somebody who's just 634 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 1: you know, casually says yeah, I think gonna win twelve games. 635 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,880 Speaker 1: I really do. And you know, I mean, I've never 636 00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: heard mel kaiper predict any team. I've never heard him. 637 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,680 Speaker 1: I never Maybe I don't listen when he talks about 638 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:53,960 Speaker 1: anything but the draft, you know what I mean, I 639 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:59,640 Speaker 1: really don't. He does a He did a weekend talk 640 00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 1: show on ESPN for a while, right, and other than 641 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 1: football season or even draft season, I wouldn't even pay 642 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 1: attention to him. I was like, what what did he say? 643 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,320 Speaker 1: Because I don't not that. I like, no, Cliper and 644 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:12,480 Speaker 1: Blade came out on the show. I appreciate this perspective, 645 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,520 Speaker 1: but he's not an expert on really anything but the draft, right, 646 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 1: isn't he? Well? I was, I'll tell you this, I 647 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:26,440 Speaker 1: am impressed with his knowledge of teams current rosters. You'd 648 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,000 Speaker 1: think that a guy who's about the draft would be 649 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:33,240 Speaker 1: and I think he is familiar with only college guys 650 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 1: coming out, you know, But it seemed in our conversation 651 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 1: with him yesterday, he really does keep track of these 652 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:42,080 Speaker 1: guys a year or two into the league. And I 653 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,120 Speaker 1: think maybe one of the reasons he does that is 654 00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,000 Speaker 1: so that he can refer back to him that in 655 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,480 Speaker 1: two years he'll refer back and say he, you know, 656 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 1: this running back is exactly like Zach Moss was when 657 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,480 Speaker 1: he was coming out out of Utah to the Buffalo Bill. 658 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:55,680 Speaker 1: You know, he'll do that a lot. So he does 659 00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:58,840 Speaker 1: have a handle on what is out there on NFL rosters. 660 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,800 Speaker 1: He had a handle on the Buffalo Bills free agent 661 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:06,360 Speaker 1: signings from the guys because he had, you know, guys 662 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,720 Speaker 1: that you know, like Quentin Jefferson. He said he was 663 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 1: the high first round draft pick, hasn't really lived up 664 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:12,720 Speaker 1: to it, you know, And so he knew these guys 665 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 1: from when they were drafted. And let's face at Murph, 666 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:17,920 Speaker 1: a ton of these guys to get drafted are the 667 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,080 Speaker 1: average guys in the NFL who have three and a 668 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:24,560 Speaker 1: half year careers, and melt Kuiper's kind of familiar with them. 669 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,960 Speaker 1: So for that, I think he does have a handle 670 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,320 Speaker 1: on what at least is on the roster for NFL 671 00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,280 Speaker 1: teams and there, and that's where he gets his you know, 672 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,920 Speaker 1: his prediction abilities from. And he's saying, no, listen, these 673 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:37,720 Speaker 1: guys have got a good and he does recognize the 674 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,600 Speaker 1: Bills is having a good roster like all of us do. 675 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:43,040 Speaker 1: How good they're gonna be? Though, I mean, his his 676 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 1: guess is as good as maybe not even as good 677 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:49,320 Speaker 1: as your mind. Right, Yeah, yeah, well that's what he said. 678 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:50,960 Speaker 1: He said, twelve Winds, what do you think are the 679 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,600 Speaker 1: Bills ready to be the hunted rather than the hunter? 680 00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,160 Speaker 1: Which Rolder you prefer? Give us a call? Full nine 681 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,240 Speaker 1: is open eight oh three five fifty toll free one 682 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,560 Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Let's go to 683 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:07,600 Speaker 1: the tweet sheet presented by Cargan Movie Cargan Moving Systems. 684 00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,520 Speaker 1: The official movies are The Buffalo Bills from Aaron. Aaron says, 685 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:14,279 Speaker 1: Buffalo finally has all the pieces in place to make 686 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,120 Speaker 1: another playoff run. Last year is lost to Houston will 687 00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,600 Speaker 1: be one of the motivating factors that coaches and players 688 00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,880 Speaker 1: will use to do extra reps which will eliminate the 689 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:27,040 Speaker 1: Bills from losing by a touchdown or less like last year. Okay, yeah, 690 00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 1: I would think the playoff lost to Houston, the fact 691 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,520 Speaker 1: that they had a sixteen to nothing lead in that game. 692 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:33,359 Speaker 1: I would think that those who were here last year 693 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,320 Speaker 1: will will lean on that a little bit, saying we 694 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,439 Speaker 1: can't let that happen against Steve. That could that could 695 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:43,359 Speaker 1: be right, Yeah, for sure? And it's who knows. I mean, 696 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:44,759 Speaker 1: I don't know what these guys are gonna be thinking 697 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,359 Speaker 1: when they when they when they come in, but um, 698 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,759 Speaker 1: certainly it could. And I'm it's just more comfortable for 699 00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:55,719 Speaker 1: everybody when you when you're not expected to win. You know, 700 00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:58,839 Speaker 1: it's more fun to go out and prove people wrong 701 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:01,960 Speaker 1: rather than fight off all the challengers. It's just more 702 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:05,200 Speaker 1: fun for fans. I think, let's go back to the 703 00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:06,960 Speaker 1: tweet sheet. What do you have on your tweet sheet? There? 704 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:12,160 Speaker 1: Let's hold on emmy. Here we go, and it's say, Buffalo, 705 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,040 Speaker 1: let's see, we're so used to being the underdog. This 706 00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:17,880 Speaker 1: is from Jack. We're so used to being the underdog. 707 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 1: It feels like always part of Buffalo's mentality is hard working, 708 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:25,600 Speaker 1: blue collar. Being underdog can also help shielda's from disappointment 709 00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:27,919 Speaker 1: and lead to great surprise when our teams are good. 710 00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,200 Speaker 1: That said, it'll be nice to be a favorite for 711 00:35:30,280 --> 00:35:33,320 Speaker 1: a change. That's a good perspective too. It's kind of 712 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:35,080 Speaker 1: nice to try it for a change. The Bills have 713 00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:36,880 Speaker 1: been it's been a long time since Bills have been 714 00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,720 Speaker 1: a favorite now. They were maybe a couple of games 715 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:44,000 Speaker 1: last year. I can't remember. Exactly which ones. Yeah, it 716 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:50,040 Speaker 1: wasn't very many. But to have that be the overwriting 717 00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:55,120 Speaker 1: characteristic or your team for the season, that's different for Buffalo. 718 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:57,560 Speaker 1: You know what, the Jet people will welcome it. You 719 00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,520 Speaker 1: know what Jet tweet says, which I think he's probably 720 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:01,840 Speaker 1: right now, I'm not sure if I like to hear it. 721 00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:04,840 Speaker 1: He goes, being an underdog can also help shield us 722 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:10,680 Speaker 1: from disappointment. Um, does it protect you from expecting too much? 723 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,799 Speaker 1: I think it may. You know, oh well, we weren't 724 00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,800 Speaker 1: supposed to win that game anyway. I mean, that's what 725 00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:16,399 Speaker 1: I was talking about when I was talking about stress 726 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,040 Speaker 1: reliaf You know, you go into the stage with all 727 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,920 Speaker 1: this angst and this pressure because your team may not 728 00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:22,400 Speaker 1: be good at it, you don't believe your team may 729 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,440 Speaker 1: be good enough. That's not how you become a champion. 730 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:26,640 Speaker 1: Stress release have nothing to do with being a champion. 731 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,760 Speaker 1: It comes from welcoming that, you know, from from welcoming 732 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:35,479 Speaker 1: the opportunity to chap not feeling Yeah, you don't feel 733 00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:37,400 Speaker 1: pressure from it. You feel like, man, this is what 734 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:41,520 Speaker 1: I've been working for, is this opportunity. That's the champions mentality. 735 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:46,520 Speaker 1: You welcome the fact that you've got some expectations on 736 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:48,399 Speaker 1: your plate. You know, you've got to come through because 737 00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:50,440 Speaker 1: it's what you've been working for. You've worked hard to 738 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,719 Speaker 1: be a good football player. You've worked hard to become 739 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:56,920 Speaker 1: a good football team, and to have it recognized. It's 740 00:36:56,960 --> 00:36:59,680 Speaker 1: what it's all about, you know. Of course the ultimate 741 00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,000 Speaker 1: way is by winning the championship, but also by being 742 00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,759 Speaker 1: favorite in a lot of your games is another way. Yeah, 743 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,279 Speaker 1: I just don't want Bills fans to kind of take 744 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,120 Speaker 1: the easy way out. Well, we weren't good for seventeen years, 745 00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:12,600 Speaker 1: so what you would be good now? Well, no, you 746 00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,600 Speaker 1: should be good. You should embrace that stress, that challenge, 747 00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,319 Speaker 1: that pressure. A tweet from Tiffany on the tweet Sheet 748 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:20,960 Speaker 1: brought to you by Cargan Moving Systems. The official moves 749 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,760 Speaker 1: are the Buffalo Bills. Tiffany says it's hard to ignore 750 00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,120 Speaker 1: all the positive changes that have occurred over the last 751 00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:30,360 Speaker 1: three seasons. Identifying talent through the draft, developing those players 752 00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,400 Speaker 1: at a high level, managing the salary camp, signing solid 753 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,320 Speaker 1: free agents. It's time to be the hunter and not 754 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,279 Speaker 1: the hunter. I think she's right. You know, we've had 755 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,360 Speaker 1: seventeen years of a playoff. Droute we got comfortable with 756 00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:45,960 Speaker 1: not being taken very seriously talking about Bills fans. Now 757 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,359 Speaker 1: now it's time to put the shoe on the other foot. 758 00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:49,840 Speaker 1: See what it's like to have pressure on you to 759 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,080 Speaker 1: win game, Steep I don't think there's anything wrong with that. 760 00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:55,239 Speaker 1: That's right, and it's part of it that goes with it. 761 00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:58,279 Speaker 1: You don't get off the hook for putting together a 762 00:37:58,840 --> 00:38:02,160 Speaker 1: really good team, having a couple of really good drafts, 763 00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:04,680 Speaker 1: by being in the playoffs two out of the last 764 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,640 Speaker 1: three years. You're not off the hook this year. You 765 00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,480 Speaker 1: gotta go out and do it again. And the expectations 766 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:12,719 Speaker 1: are that you should be able to, but you know, 767 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,360 Speaker 1: you've got to. You've got things that are work. You 768 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:17,120 Speaker 1: got thirty two other teams that are thirty one other 769 00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:18,719 Speaker 1: teams that are trying to get it done as well, 770 00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:20,239 Speaker 1: and you got to go out and play. And that's 771 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,040 Speaker 1: the thing. It's nice to be there. It's nice to 772 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,560 Speaker 1: think that, yeah, we're really good, but you still got 773 00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:29,600 Speaker 1: to play sixteen games. Yeah, and that's that's still gonna 774 00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,520 Speaker 1: come with its own challenges and all we gotta wait 775 00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,959 Speaker 1: until they happen. You know what I'll say, I think, Steve, 776 00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:37,680 Speaker 1: I think there's a slap in the face coming for 777 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,840 Speaker 1: Bills fans Tomorrow night, seven thirty eight o'clock when the 778 00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:43,160 Speaker 1: NFL schedule is going to be released. Look, we know 779 00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,600 Speaker 1: who they're gonna play. They're gonna play the AFC East. 780 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:50,080 Speaker 1: They've got Chargers, Chiefs, Ram, Steelers, Teahawks coming here. They've 781 00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:52,839 Speaker 1: got Cardinals, Broncos, Raiders, forty nine Ers, Titans on the road. 782 00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:56,000 Speaker 1: We know that, we appreciate that who they're playing. But 783 00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,759 Speaker 1: once you see those games line up and how they 784 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,120 Speaker 1: line up and the order in which they line up, 785 00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:03,640 Speaker 1: I'm not saying you came, but it's a slap in 786 00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:05,680 Speaker 1: the face and it's like, oh, we really gotta play 787 00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,160 Speaker 1: those guys, don't we. We gotta We really gotta play 788 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,400 Speaker 1: the Steelers the week after we play the Chiefs, you know. 789 00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,560 Speaker 1: And you know what I mean that kind of stuff. 790 00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,040 Speaker 1: I think it's a slap in the face coming. Tom 791 00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:16,839 Speaker 1: We all do the exact same thing. You go through 792 00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:18,799 Speaker 1: and say, Okay, which ones can we win? Which can 793 00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:20,759 Speaker 1: we lose? What about the schedule? What about home in 794 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:22,320 Speaker 1: a way? How do they stack up? Do we have 795 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,520 Speaker 1: a money night game Thursday night? What is that gonna be? 796 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,080 Speaker 1: And you start to get the whole thing as a total, 797 00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,280 Speaker 1: and you're gonna look for stretches that are tough, stretches 798 00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,239 Speaker 1: that are easier, and then you're gonna see there's not 799 00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:36,320 Speaker 1: too many easy stretches. Yeah, and it's gonna be like, 800 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:37,920 Speaker 1: how how are we gonna start off? We're gonna be 801 00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:39,360 Speaker 1: able to win a first couple of games, what's it 802 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:41,160 Speaker 1: gonna look like? It's like, what are we gonna look 803 00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:42,800 Speaker 1: like a month end of the season, It's like we 804 00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:46,640 Speaker 1: may be one in three, you know. Yeah, it's hard 805 00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:48,759 Speaker 1: to stand when you get to that point because you 806 00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:51,680 Speaker 1: all do it, and I think you're right, Murph, there's 807 00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:53,919 Speaker 1: gonna be a you're gonna have to like say, wow, 808 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:58,440 Speaker 1: we're really gonna have to play well to get to like, 809 00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,480 Speaker 1: you know what three and three right, Well, we don't 810 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,279 Speaker 1: know what. You don't know what it looks like. It 811 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,319 Speaker 1: could be. Oh, look at the stretch in December, that's 812 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:07,239 Speaker 1: gonna be that's gonna be a bear. We're gonna have 813 00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,200 Speaker 1: to build up some wins. You know, who knows it'll 814 00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,680 Speaker 1: look at exactly. Maybe it's the other way around. Oh, 815 00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:13,799 Speaker 1: it's a tough way to start. Maybe we can there's 816 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,520 Speaker 1: no coasting, but maybe up one second half it's it's 817 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:18,960 Speaker 1: gonna be sober in the face. It's yeah, it's sobering. 818 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:22,000 Speaker 1: It's just sobering and it's and you're gonna have to 819 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:25,239 Speaker 1: start to get your mind around it because then you know, 820 00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:28,680 Speaker 1: it's like now you gotta date. We gotta go. You know, 821 00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:31,439 Speaker 1: you gotta date in mind. You gotta start thinking, Okay, 822 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:35,279 Speaker 1: we're all right. On September thirteenth, we gotta help. We 823 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,480 Speaker 1: got a game we gotta get ready for. You know. 824 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:41,320 Speaker 1: That's that's it's gonna be big, and uh, it is. 825 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:43,480 Speaker 1: It's very it's gonna be very sobering. I think it's 826 00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,719 Speaker 1: gonna be the first time where you're gonna think, Okay, yeah, 827 00:40:47,719 --> 00:40:50,279 Speaker 1: it's the tenth toughest schedule, isn't it. Yeah, we know, 828 00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,480 Speaker 1: and I acknowledge, and I'll say it today and i'll 829 00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:54,719 Speaker 1: say it tomorrow Friday when we're doing the show after 830 00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,480 Speaker 1: the schedule comes out. What looks like tough games on 831 00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,760 Speaker 1: paper doesn't always translate into tough game games in reality. 832 00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:02,920 Speaker 1: Right it happens every year the teams that look like 833 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,919 Speaker 1: their toughest opponents don't turn out to be not so tough. 834 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,440 Speaker 1: All of a sudden for whatever reason. Injuries are just 835 00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,680 Speaker 1: the luck of the draw or how they're playing at 836 00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,839 Speaker 1: the time. But all we have right now is these 837 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,560 Speaker 1: games on paper. Yeah, and it's crazy, too, Murph, because 838 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,440 Speaker 1: even so you get these games, these teams that are 839 00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:21,359 Speaker 1: like wow, like the Bills, like the Cleveland Browns. Last 840 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:23,120 Speaker 1: year they looked like people were putting them in the 841 00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:25,359 Speaker 1: playoffs and the Super Bowl and all of that. They 842 00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:27,160 Speaker 1: struggled and they didn't have a good season, and they 843 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,759 Speaker 1: still beat the Bills, who were playoff teams. Right, So, 844 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,800 Speaker 1: even on a week to week basis during this season 845 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,960 Speaker 1: that we're about to find out about, forget it. You 846 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,040 Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna happen. No know which team's gonna 847 00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,239 Speaker 1: show up and play really well and your team's gonna 848 00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,640 Speaker 1: look bad that week. For one week, you know, the 849 00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:48,719 Speaker 1: Bills had one game. You know, the Browns were a 850 00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:50,600 Speaker 1: talented team and they were playing well, and you know 851 00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:53,040 Speaker 1: they struggled last year to get to the playoffs. They 852 00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:57,080 Speaker 1: didn't make it, but they were still very talented. And 853 00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,759 Speaker 1: then you get a team like Philly who comes into 854 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,359 Speaker 1: Buffalo and the Bills have a down day and Philadelphia 855 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:07,040 Speaker 1: lumps them up, but that the Bills are the playoff team, 856 00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:09,520 Speaker 1: you know, and the and Philly you know is you know, 857 00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:11,600 Speaker 1: I think they what are they scooch in the playoffs 858 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,239 Speaker 1: at the very end the last week of the season 859 00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,200 Speaker 1: they might have got in anyway, Um, it's on a 860 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:19,279 Speaker 1: week to week basis, sitting back here in May looking 861 00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:21,080 Speaker 1: at the full schedule and it's like, you know, you 862 00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,719 Speaker 1: get it's a roller coaster to look at and you think, wow, 863 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:25,760 Speaker 1: what's it's easy gonna be? Like, we have no idea. 864 00:42:26,000 --> 00:42:28,920 Speaker 1: There's absolutely no idea. We just know what day and 865 00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:31,439 Speaker 1: time the games are gonna be. But you're right, Murph, 866 00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:35,080 Speaker 1: it's gonna be sobering and it's also gonna be inspiring 867 00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,440 Speaker 1: at the same time, and you're gonna start getting your 868 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,439 Speaker 1: mind around what you're gonna be doing for the fall. 869 00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,959 Speaker 1: And of course then overriding all of that is like geez, 870 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,120 Speaker 1: I hope, I hope it all happens. Yeah, that's another thing. 871 00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:48,560 Speaker 1: All right, we gotta break here and then we're back. 872 00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:50,799 Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by a Lot of Health. We're 873 00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,080 Speaker 1: coming to you on the radio today. This is Buffalo 874 00:42:53,239 --> 00:43:02,799 Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome back. Because then about a lot of Health, 875 00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,160 Speaker 1: Chot Murphy, Steve Tasker. We've got a guest Connor Roar 876 00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,680 Speaker 1: coming up at one o'clock by Steve. We know this. 877 00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:11,840 Speaker 1: The schedule is coming out tomorrow at Tomorrow night, tomorrow 878 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:14,640 Speaker 1: evening seven thirty. It'll be available at Buffalo bills dot 879 00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:17,000 Speaker 1: com and on the bills of social media sites at 880 00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:20,120 Speaker 1: eight o'clock on NFL Network. And we did a poll yesterday, 881 00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:23,080 Speaker 1: you know about how many primetime games. What else would 882 00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:24,960 Speaker 1: you like to see from the schedule this year? Anything? 883 00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,120 Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I would like to see them. 884 00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:31,120 Speaker 1: The West Coast trips spaced apart from each other. You know, 885 00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,080 Speaker 1: I don't want back to back obviously, I don't want 886 00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,440 Speaker 1: two out of three weeks going out west to just 887 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:38,759 Speaker 1: for I think for the team's sake, you know, those 888 00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:41,399 Speaker 1: are those are bear you know, to go out west 889 00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,600 Speaker 1: to they have the long flight there, the long flight 890 00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:45,840 Speaker 1: home and impacts that game. It impacts the game the 891 00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:47,960 Speaker 1: next week too. I hope they space those out a 892 00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:49,680 Speaker 1: little bit. That's another thing I'd like to see in 893 00:43:49,719 --> 00:43:53,239 Speaker 1: the schedule tomorrow night, right, I mean it you can 894 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,520 Speaker 1: just see. I mean, it would be okay if they're 895 00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:57,720 Speaker 1: gonna have two out there. If you go to Vegas 896 00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:01,160 Speaker 1: and then Arizona, that'd be too close, and you know 897 00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,120 Speaker 1: that the team would probably stay out there for the 898 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,880 Speaker 1: entire week, right, it makes sense McDermott would probably do that. 899 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,319 Speaker 1: Who knows, I mean, it's so far away, but yeah, 900 00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:10,640 Speaker 1: they could do that, and that would Wouldn't it be 901 00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:14,160 Speaker 1: nice if you played in Vegas and Arizona on the 902 00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:18,560 Speaker 1: last two weeks of the season, right, just for Weather's sake, 903 00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:21,960 Speaker 1: Just for Weather's sake. Okay, yeah, and none, not that 904 00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,600 Speaker 1: it matters that much. But you also got San Francisco 905 00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:29,360 Speaker 1: and Denver out there. So San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver 906 00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:35,480 Speaker 1: and Arizona. That's four out west. It's a lot of traveling, man, 907 00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:37,360 Speaker 1: and it's gonna be hard. How are you gonna spade 908 00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,080 Speaker 1: us it out? You can have one every one a month. 909 00:44:40,960 --> 00:44:44,640 Speaker 1: There's no way that's gonna happen. No way you're gonna 910 00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:46,480 Speaker 1: get three weeks between each one of those. Say you 911 00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:50,399 Speaker 1: open up in Arizona, then the first you know, then 912 00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:52,839 Speaker 1: in mid oct late October you go to Denver, then 913 00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:55,040 Speaker 1: late November you go to the Raiders, and then the 914 00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:56,840 Speaker 1: last game of the year you go to San Francisco. 915 00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:01,000 Speaker 1: That's not gonna happen. Why not there? Just know they can't, 916 00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:04,319 Speaker 1: They won't, they won't get they won't care that much. 917 00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:08,560 Speaker 1: They won't care enough of a small potato. That's a 918 00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:11,439 Speaker 1: lot of travel. You know what starts me to your point? 919 00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:13,960 Speaker 1: And I think you know, I don't. I don't know 920 00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:15,440 Speaker 1: if it's a scientific point, but I don't know what 921 00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:17,160 Speaker 1: you're saying. But you know, every year it hits me 922 00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:20,520 Speaker 1: when you look at like airline miles traveled. How teams 923 00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,880 Speaker 1: like Arizona for example, and some of those Western teams 924 00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:26,919 Speaker 1: like two or three times the amount of air miles 925 00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:30,160 Speaker 1: traveled that the Buffalo Bills get usually, And it's because 926 00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:32,920 Speaker 1: of the AFC East primarily trip to New York, trip 927 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:34,880 Speaker 1: to New England. The Bills get a pretty you know, 928 00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:38,279 Speaker 1: when they're playing in Pittsburgh and Cleveland, they get it. 929 00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:39,799 Speaker 1: They get it pretty easy when it comes to air 930 00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:42,640 Speaker 1: miles travel. Don't you think on a regular base from Cleveland, 931 00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,680 Speaker 1: for Cleveland's faster to bust down there? With all the 932 00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:50,480 Speaker 1: transferring from airplane to bus, from bus to airplane, airplane 933 00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:52,840 Speaker 1: to bus, bus to hotel, you may as well just 934 00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:54,920 Speaker 1: get on a bus and drive there drive the hotel 935 00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:01,279 Speaker 1: last year. Um I'll tell you this though, it might 936 00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:03,839 Speaker 1: make some sense if you want to help the team 937 00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:08,719 Speaker 1: murph in a season like this, send them out to 938 00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:12,839 Speaker 1: Arizona opening day and then haven't played Las Vegas week two, 939 00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:17,480 Speaker 1: so you can go out there, bond, spend a week 940 00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,600 Speaker 1: together early in the season, get your team building done 941 00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:22,279 Speaker 1: in a season where you haven't been able to do 942 00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:24,759 Speaker 1: enough of that in the preseason. So if they want 943 00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:26,640 Speaker 1: to do the Bills a favor, send them on the 944 00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:29,600 Speaker 1: road for two weeks out west early on so they 945 00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:32,800 Speaker 1: can get their team building together, you know, idea, you know, 946 00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:35,640 Speaker 1: in place of like a going away for training camp. 947 00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:37,960 Speaker 1: Yet you'd have to practice before you play your first game, 948 00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:40,520 Speaker 1: but things to be kind of jumbled, and I think 949 00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:43,120 Speaker 1: you make a good point, and that may be. Yeah, 950 00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:44,560 Speaker 1: it might be something to root for it, you know, 951 00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,680 Speaker 1: West coast trip early on, and maybe two would be 952 00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:49,600 Speaker 1: even better. You know, not so much for the fans 953 00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:51,520 Speaker 1: or for you know you, because you'd had you know, 954 00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:55,160 Speaker 1: it'd blow your travel anyway too, but still it would 955 00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:56,719 Speaker 1: It might make some sense for the team to kind 956 00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:59,080 Speaker 1: of cheer for that, yeah, you know, cheer for a 957 00:46:59,160 --> 00:47:01,680 Speaker 1: two West Coast games right off the bat out way. 958 00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:03,080 Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if you want to start 959 00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:06,919 Speaker 1: out San Francisco. Well, yeah, but they're geographically that would 960 00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:09,479 Speaker 1: make sense. They have those two games to be there's 961 00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,440 Speaker 1: there's a couple of chances to have that opportunity, which 962 00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:15,319 Speaker 1: with the Denver's part of that, Arizona, Las Vegas or Denver, 963 00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:19,520 Speaker 1: those two, you know, you could stay sequestered or isolated 964 00:47:19,600 --> 00:47:21,759 Speaker 1: out there for a week between those two games if 965 00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:25,200 Speaker 1: they were on the roads, you know, in consecutive weeks. Um, 966 00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:28,520 Speaker 1: there might be something there that that that might be 967 00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,120 Speaker 1: an even better plan than spreading them out. Something to 968 00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:33,200 Speaker 1: look for. The schedule comes out tomorrow night. We'll talk 969 00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:35,440 Speaker 1: a lot about it on Friday night. Of course, we're 970 00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:38,960 Speaker 1: talking today about the expectations for the Bills, and as 971 00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:40,640 Speaker 1: a Bills fan, are you ready for your team to 972 00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:44,040 Speaker 1: be the favorite or the underdog? Sixty seven percent say 973 00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:47,360 Speaker 1: you'd prefer that they be the underdog. Thirty three percent 974 00:47:47,400 --> 00:47:49,040 Speaker 1: say you'd preferred that they're the favorite. Give us a 975 00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,799 Speaker 1: call phone lines open eight oh three five fifty toll 976 00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:54,520 Speaker 1: free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty 977 00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:57,200 Speaker 1: when we come back. Staff writer for Sports illustrated In 978 00:47:57,280 --> 00:47:59,799 Speaker 1: the Monday morning quarterback Connor Orr will join us live 979 00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:01,719 Speaker 1: on the line. Come on back for that One Does 980 00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,840 Speaker 1: Live presented by KLADA Health Radio Only today, This is 981 00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:14,880 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio Hills Radio Network Sports Update. The update 982 00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:17,200 Speaker 1: from One Bills Live. The schedules coming out tomorrow night 983 00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,640 Speaker 1: eight o'clock on the NFL Network seven thirty Tomorrow, the 984 00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:23,160 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills will release their schedule. Opponents are already known. 985 00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:25,279 Speaker 1: That was made clear at the end of last season, 986 00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:28,080 Speaker 1: but tomorrow we'll see the twenty twenty schedule unbailed with 987 00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:31,640 Speaker 1: times and dates. Meantime, the Bills and other NFL teams 988 00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:34,840 Speaker 1: preparing to play a full regular season schedule. The NFL 989 00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:37,719 Speaker 1: and the Bills have formulated a ticket refund policy for 990 00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:41,200 Speaker 1: canceled games or games held without fans. A MAMMO sent 991 00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:44,359 Speaker 1: out to thirty two teams by Commissioner Roger Goodell says 992 00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,480 Speaker 1: there's a uniform baseline for full refunds on any tickets 993 00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:51,719 Speaker 1: purchased directly from the clubs. Information on that is available 994 00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,320 Speaker 1: at Buffalo Bills dot com. Jets wide receiver Quincy and Nunwa, 995 00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,440 Speaker 1: who played only one game last year because of a 996 00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:00,279 Speaker 1: neck injury, will not play this year. Yesterday on the 997 00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,320 Speaker 1: physically unable to perform list. That was the expected outcome 998 00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:06,160 Speaker 1: for the twenty seven year old wide out, once promising 999 00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:08,839 Speaker 1: an NFL career could be over. Jets also put wide 1000 00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:12,200 Speaker 1: receiver Josh Bellamy on the season ending pup list. He's 1001 00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:15,000 Speaker 1: got a shoulder problem. Jack Deville Jaguars did not pick 1002 00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,759 Speaker 1: up Leonard Fournette's fifth year option, but they're going to 1003 00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:19,320 Speaker 1: be counting on him as being a big part of 1004 00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:22,399 Speaker 1: their offense this year. The Jags were shopping the fourth 1005 00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:25,399 Speaker 1: overall pick in twenty seventeen for more than a month 1006 00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:30,000 Speaker 1: without any serious trade offers. General manager Dave Caldwell said 1007 00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,880 Speaker 1: that Fournette is part of the team's plan moving forward. 1008 00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:36,000 Speaker 1: Jadeveon Clowney says he still wants to play. He says 1009 00:49:36,040 --> 00:49:38,120 Speaker 1: he wants to let people know that he is ready 1010 00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,280 Speaker 1: to play, going to be ready whenever the time comes. 1011 00:49:40,680 --> 00:49:43,400 Speaker 1: A Clowney to start defensive end played for CTLs season, 1012 00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,520 Speaker 1: said he thought he thought that time would come during 1013 00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:49,480 Speaker 1: free agency six weeks ago, but he says he's in 1014 00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,080 Speaker 1: no rush now and the Miami Dolphins too. A Tago 1015 00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:55,160 Speaker 1: Vieloa will wear the number one on his jersey. First 1016 00:49:55,239 --> 00:49:58,840 Speaker 1: quarterback in franchise history to do that. Tago Yoloa, drafted 1017 00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:00,960 Speaker 1: by the Dolphins with the number five overall, picked the 1018 00:50:01,040 --> 00:50:04,920 Speaker 1: most anticipated Dolphins quarterback since Dan Marino. He wore Tago 1019 00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:08,160 Speaker 1: Bayla War number thirteen in college in Alabama. Of course, 1020 00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:10,760 Speaker 1: that has been retired by the Dolphins. That's the former 1021 00:50:10,880 --> 00:50:14,160 Speaker 1: jersey of the great Dan Marino. And there you go. 1022 00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:17,520 Speaker 1: That is the update from one Bill Slide. John Murphy, 1023 00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:20,760 Speaker 1: Steve Tasker coming to you on this Wednesday afternoon talking 1024 00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:22,640 Speaker 1: about the Bills in the NFL. Who better to talk 1025 00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:25,160 Speaker 1: about the NFL than our next guest, staff writer for 1026 00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:28,200 Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated and Monday Morning Quarterback co host of Monday 1027 00:50:28,200 --> 00:50:31,640 Speaker 1: Morning Quarterback NFL podcast, Connor Or on the line with 1028 00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:34,240 Speaker 1: the Sullo Connor, John Murphy, Steve Tasker up here in Buffalo. 1029 00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:38,279 Speaker 1: Thanks coming on with usday. We appreciate it. Thanks for 1030 00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,560 Speaker 1: having me. Hey, wait, like Kevin jan thanks for coming on. Hey, 1031 00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:45,000 Speaker 1: you wrote a pretty interesting piece about you know, the 1032 00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:47,840 Speaker 1: schedule comes out tomorrow. There are fans all over the league, 1033 00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:50,480 Speaker 1: you know who are closely identified were their teams who 1034 00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:52,719 Speaker 1: are worried about going to games, how many games will 1035 00:50:52,719 --> 00:50:54,239 Speaker 1: be able to go to? You kind of took the 1036 00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:59,239 Speaker 1: survey as some of those so called super fans. Huh Yeah. 1037 00:50:59,320 --> 00:51:02,320 Speaker 1: Talk to a lot of people who's basically identity aligned 1038 00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:04,880 Speaker 1: with going to football games, and you know there's a 1039 00:51:04,920 --> 00:51:08,040 Speaker 1: super fan in every city and probably multiple super fans 1040 00:51:08,040 --> 00:51:10,640 Speaker 1: in every city who you know, that's how they see 1041 00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:12,840 Speaker 1: their family and their friends every week, That's how they 1042 00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:15,239 Speaker 1: kind of derive all their happiness. So I think this 1043 00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:18,040 Speaker 1: is a scary time for a lot of people, obviously 1044 00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:20,960 Speaker 1: with what's going on, but more about what the future 1045 00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:23,440 Speaker 1: is going to look like. And I think the NFL 1046 00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:27,040 Speaker 1: is moving ahead with everything as though will start on time, 1047 00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:29,080 Speaker 1: but I think a lot of people, including a lot 1048 00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:31,080 Speaker 1: of those super fans, they're starting to realize that that 1049 00:51:31,320 --> 00:51:35,000 Speaker 1: probably won't be the case. Is there anything unusual we 1050 00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:40,400 Speaker 1: can't expect from the schedule in your opinion? You know, 1051 00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:43,200 Speaker 1: I think that there's definitely going to be some protections 1052 00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,279 Speaker 1: built in, you know, and Kate, you know, and things 1053 00:51:46,360 --> 00:51:48,719 Speaker 1: that will probably make it easier to move or push 1054 00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:51,160 Speaker 1: back if they need to. But yeah, you know, I 1055 00:51:51,239 --> 00:51:53,040 Speaker 1: think it's going to be interesting. I mean, there was 1056 00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:56,560 Speaker 1: the report floating around um from co worker Albert Brewer 1057 00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,440 Speaker 1: that you know, it's going to cost these owners probably 1058 00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:03,480 Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars to host these games without fans, 1059 00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:06,560 Speaker 1: and it's gonna be hard to imagine them being able 1060 00:52:06,640 --> 00:52:09,080 Speaker 1: to have fans. Is the first week of September. So 1061 00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,359 Speaker 1: would they push back kickoff? Would they try to alter 1062 00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:15,239 Speaker 1: the schedule in any way. I'm fascinated to see what 1063 00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:17,319 Speaker 1: they're gonna do, because not a lot of leagues are, 1064 00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:19,520 Speaker 1: you know, kind of gung ho about being full seam 1065 00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:22,920 Speaker 1: ahead right now. Would Steve and It talked maybe a 1066 00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:25,879 Speaker 1: month or show ago Connor about how the NFL could 1067 00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:28,440 Speaker 1: watch and learn from other leagues and how they handle it. 1068 00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:31,640 Speaker 1: But I don't know nobody's nobody's come back to wife yet, 1069 00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:34,440 Speaker 1: NBA and HL, major League Baseball. I don't know if 1070 00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:36,760 Speaker 1: there's gonna be much time to pick up some clues 1071 00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,239 Speaker 1: on how to handle crowd control from the others pro 1072 00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:43,680 Speaker 1: sports leagues, you know what I mean? Absolutely yeah. I 1073 00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:47,600 Speaker 1: mean the only league that's really operating right now is UFC. 1074 00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:50,799 Speaker 1: I mean, they're going ahead with some fights, but they're 1075 00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:55,200 Speaker 1: kind of embracing that whole quarantine aspect where everybody's going 1076 00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:58,160 Speaker 1: to be separated and tested. And you know, we've seen 1077 00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:01,200 Speaker 1: Major League Baseball float a few proposals like that, and 1078 00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:04,000 Speaker 1: maybe Zelle be kind of out front with this in 1079 00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:06,799 Speaker 1: terms of, you know, how effective can this be, how 1080 00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:11,280 Speaker 1: regularly can you test somebody? And you know, how safe 1081 00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:14,239 Speaker 1: are you know these kind of close quarantine situations. So 1082 00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,879 Speaker 1: we'll see if the NFL is monitoring that. But it's 1083 00:53:17,920 --> 00:53:19,919 Speaker 1: just too early to tell, you know. Mike Gunt tells 1084 00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:22,239 Speaker 1: me that we will have football in some capacity in 1085 00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:25,000 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, but I'm not sure exactly what it's going 1086 00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:28,839 Speaker 1: to look like. Well, we do have, we're gonna roll 1087 00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:31,160 Speaker 1: ahead with at least at this point. We're gonna get 1088 00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:33,480 Speaker 1: the schedule and get to see who they play and when. 1089 00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:37,840 Speaker 1: And we had your your compadre Gary Grambling on yesterday. 1090 00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:40,040 Speaker 1: He mentioned how you were a huge Bills backer. You 1091 00:53:40,120 --> 00:53:42,359 Speaker 1: and him were guys who are always high on the Bills, 1092 00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:46,960 Speaker 1: particularly lately, and he ranked the Bills number five. How 1093 00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:49,520 Speaker 1: high did you rank the Bills? He said, you might 1094 00:53:49,560 --> 00:53:51,919 Speaker 1: have been more high on the Buffalo Bills than Gary 1095 00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:56,960 Speaker 1: Grambling was and he ranked him number five. What's your take? Yeah, 1096 00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,640 Speaker 1: I had them at number three, and you know, I 1097 00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:03,400 Speaker 1: got caught. In years past when we've done Power rankings, 1098 00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:06,320 Speaker 1: I've always ranked teams that I feel like other people 1099 00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:10,520 Speaker 1: are going to underrate much higher. It's in purpose to 1100 00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:13,080 Speaker 1: affect the average so that I would move the Bills 1101 00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:16,440 Speaker 1: up in our polls. Everything is averaged together. So I 1102 00:54:16,560 --> 00:54:18,480 Speaker 1: did this last year or two where I had them 1103 00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,479 Speaker 1: at one or two or three sometimes because I felt 1104 00:54:21,480 --> 00:54:24,279 Speaker 1: like the rest of my co workers weren't appreciating the 1105 00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:26,600 Speaker 1: progress as much. In us, I got to move them 1106 00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:29,440 Speaker 1: up the Power rankings, which is very satisfying to me. 1107 00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:31,960 Speaker 1: But I decided to finally come out and just admit 1108 00:54:32,000 --> 00:54:35,440 Speaker 1: it that I was the mystery Bills backer, and I'm 1109 00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:37,279 Speaker 1: continuing that this year. I think they did a good 1110 00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:40,200 Speaker 1: job in the draft and they deserve some props for that. 1111 00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:42,640 Speaker 1: Who do you have ahead of them? Who's one and 1112 00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:48,920 Speaker 1: two in your power rankings? I think Kansas City, obviously, 1113 00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:51,759 Speaker 1: you know, deserves the right to be number one there. 1114 00:54:51,800 --> 00:54:55,240 Speaker 1: I think they reloaded really well in the off season, 1115 00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:59,279 Speaker 1: and you know, I just think that they're continuously going 1116 00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:02,800 Speaker 1: to be a a hard team to beat. And you know, 1117 00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:05,719 Speaker 1: number two San Francisco for the same reason. Just that, 1118 00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:08,000 Speaker 1: you know, I think that the forty nine ers only 1119 00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:11,520 Speaker 1: got better this offseason. Yes, they lost a piece on 1120 00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:15,320 Speaker 1: their defensive line, but then they did really well in 1121 00:55:15,400 --> 00:55:18,120 Speaker 1: the draft and reloaded at that position. So I think 1122 00:55:18,120 --> 00:55:20,200 Speaker 1: they're going to be a scary team again. Yes, it's 1123 00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:22,400 Speaker 1: tough to get back to the Super Bowl after losing it, 1124 00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:24,920 Speaker 1: but I think they have a pretty good roster building 1125 00:55:25,000 --> 00:55:27,800 Speaker 1: strategy going on there. I think one of the surprising 1126 00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:30,720 Speaker 1: teams last year was the Baltimore Ravens with Lamar Jackson. 1127 00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:33,600 Speaker 1: He was the MVP and they rolled through the regular 1128 00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:35,600 Speaker 1: season but were one and done in the playoffs. How 1129 00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:38,479 Speaker 1: do you see them being able to sustain their type 1130 00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:40,600 Speaker 1: of offense and their philosophy. Are they going to have 1131 00:55:40,719 --> 00:55:45,839 Speaker 1: to evolve quickly in order to stay atop the conference? Well, 1132 00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:47,759 Speaker 1: I think it's building with it, right. I Mean, we 1133 00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:50,400 Speaker 1: saw the Eagles win a Super Bowl with an offense 1134 00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:53,320 Speaker 1: that teams just weren't prepared to stop. We saw the 1135 00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:55,920 Speaker 1: Rams make a Super Bowl with an offense the teams 1136 00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:58,759 Speaker 1: weren't prepared to stop. And that was the same deal 1137 00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:00,600 Speaker 1: with the Ravens last year. I mean, the NFL just 1138 00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:03,200 Speaker 1: wasn't built to contain what they have Now teams will 1139 00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:06,239 Speaker 1: be adjusting their personnel to try to stop it. And 1140 00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:08,360 Speaker 1: so the question is how do you evolve now with 1141 00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:10,360 Speaker 1: all the pieces that you have? And I think that 1142 00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:12,760 Speaker 1: the Ravens are definitely one of the more forward thinking 1143 00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:15,719 Speaker 1: organizations in the league. So I definitely have confidence that 1144 00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:18,360 Speaker 1: they're going to come out and it probably use what 1145 00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:20,800 Speaker 1: they did last year sort of a baseline, but definitely, 1146 00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:25,160 Speaker 1: you know, bring a different look and allow them Lamar 1147 00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:28,360 Speaker 1: Jackson to do some more stuff. We're with Connor or 1148 00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:31,759 Speaker 1: staff writers Sports Illustrated in MNQB. Connor, you said you 1149 00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:34,560 Speaker 1: got the Bills number three and your power rankings, and 1150 00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:38,040 Speaker 1: yet at quarterback your group Sports Illustrated dot Com has 1151 00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:41,400 Speaker 1: ranked the Bills quarterback group number twenty three in the league. 1152 00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:44,560 Speaker 1: That's the bottom quarter of the league. How do you 1153 00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:47,120 Speaker 1: put that together? If the quarterbacks are that bad, how 1154 00:56:47,160 --> 00:56:51,520 Speaker 1: can they be the third best team? Do you think? Well? 1155 00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:53,080 Speaker 1: I think they have a great running game and a 1156 00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:56,759 Speaker 1: great defense and a great offensive coordinator, which you know, 1157 00:56:56,920 --> 00:56:58,719 Speaker 1: is really what I was trying to get across there 1158 00:56:58,880 --> 00:57:02,680 Speaker 1: that I think that Brian Dable has done an exceptional 1159 00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:05,680 Speaker 1: job and scheming stuff up for Josh Allen and to 1160 00:57:05,840 --> 00:57:07,600 Speaker 1: get him to where he was. I don't know if 1161 00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:10,560 Speaker 1: Josh Allen would be where he was right now with 1162 00:57:10,719 --> 00:57:13,360 Speaker 1: a different offensive coordinator. And so I think that, you know, 1163 00:57:13,840 --> 00:57:15,759 Speaker 1: both of those things can be true. I think you 1164 00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:20,120 Speaker 1: can have a quarterback that's still developing or maybe it's 1165 00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,640 Speaker 1: still stuck into that middle or late tier, but also 1166 00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:25,800 Speaker 1: a team that's very good and who that understands maybe 1167 00:57:25,840 --> 00:57:27,800 Speaker 1: some of the deficiencies he has or where he needs 1168 00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:30,560 Speaker 1: to get better. But you know, the tools are there. 1169 00:57:30,960 --> 00:57:33,800 Speaker 1: I certainly think that there's still room to grow for 1170 00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:37,280 Speaker 1: Josh Allen, but you know right now and you have 1171 00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:40,760 Speaker 1: to decide what your evaluation is based off of. And 1172 00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:43,040 Speaker 1: for me, the eye test and the numbers they think 1173 00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:46,120 Speaker 1: are just still a little concerning to have him in 1174 00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:50,480 Speaker 1: that middle tier or upper middle tier of quarterback. What 1175 00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:53,120 Speaker 1: do you think the chances are that he does take 1176 00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:55,320 Speaker 1: another step forward this year? I mean, we've seen it, 1177 00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:58,120 Speaker 1: and Murph and I obviously are pretty high on Josh Allen. 1178 00:57:58,360 --> 00:57:59,760 Speaker 1: But what do you think how do you think that 1179 00:57:59,760 --> 00:58:02,320 Speaker 1: will manifest itself if he does take a step forward, 1180 00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:06,959 Speaker 1: What will it look like? Yeah, I mean I would 1181 00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:09,400 Speaker 1: say getting that completion percentage up. And you know, I 1182 00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:12,360 Speaker 1: would say the NFL dot Com has a great stat 1183 00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:15,760 Speaker 1: just you know, expected completion percentage and then you know 1184 00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:18,880 Speaker 1: kind of how how much better your completion percentage is 1185 00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:22,000 Speaker 1: compared to that? And so I think Josh Allen is 1186 00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:25,360 Speaker 1: of the lower end of the quarterbacks in that spectrum. 1187 00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:27,840 Speaker 1: So what kind of throws are he making? Big time 1188 00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:30,520 Speaker 1: throws in a consistent basis? Do you need to warm 1189 00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:33,080 Speaker 1: him up into games? Can you let him allow people 1190 00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:35,400 Speaker 1: to let it ripped from the opening snap? I mean 1191 00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:37,280 Speaker 1: a lot of that stuff, But I think that there 1192 00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:39,880 Speaker 1: is room for confidence. You know, a lot of people 1193 00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:42,480 Speaker 1: that I talked to last year mentioned the ownership that 1194 00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:45,240 Speaker 1: he took over the scheme, the confidence, and you could 1195 00:58:45,280 --> 00:58:49,439 Speaker 1: see that certainly, and so viewing that this year again, 1196 00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:52,040 Speaker 1: watching him take another step, I think that's going to 1197 00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:54,640 Speaker 1: be something that everybody's keeping an eye on. Conna or 1198 00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:56,960 Speaker 1: staff writers Sports Illustrated down the line with us kind 1199 00:58:56,960 --> 00:58:59,480 Speaker 1: of you as your group points out the bills of 1200 00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:04,040 Speaker 1: upgrade it around Josh Allen, you say an upgraded weapon set, 1201 00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:09,760 Speaker 1: you call it that you're talking about Stefan Diggs primarily, right, Yeah, 1202 00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:11,560 Speaker 1: And you know, I think that that's going to be 1203 00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:14,640 Speaker 1: both a good thing and a bad thing for Allen, Right, 1204 00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:16,600 Speaker 1: I mean, this is what happens with a lot of 1205 00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:19,440 Speaker 1: these quarterbacks who you're not really sure what they're going 1206 00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:21,360 Speaker 1: to be after their first two years. I mean, I 1207 00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:23,520 Speaker 1: remember covering the Jets a couple of years ago, back 1208 00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:26,240 Speaker 1: when Mark Sanchez was there and didn't start out with 1209 00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:28,320 Speaker 1: a lot of weapons. And then you add Braylon Edwards 1210 00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:31,960 Speaker 1: and then Santonio Homes and Plaxico Bursts, and the expectations rise. 1211 00:59:32,280 --> 00:59:34,440 Speaker 1: And so you're hoping that all the other you know, 1212 00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:38,160 Speaker 1: stats and whatever you use to judge that you know 1213 00:59:38,280 --> 00:59:40,880 Speaker 1: the quarterback skill set, you hope that they rise as well. 1214 00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:43,360 Speaker 1: And so this is going to be a big evaluation here. 1215 00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:46,640 Speaker 1: I think for Allen, Stephan Diggs is a great wide receiver. Um, 1216 00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:48,600 Speaker 1: he's going to be able to open up the offense 1217 00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:51,320 Speaker 1: a little bit more. They added some more strength in 1218 00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:53,920 Speaker 1: the running game. I think, so, um, it's I think 1219 00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:56,040 Speaker 1: it's a good thing for him, but also certainly a 1220 00:59:56,080 --> 00:59:58,000 Speaker 1: lot of pressure something that he's definitely gonna be a 1221 00:59:58,040 --> 01:00:03,360 Speaker 1: world The Bills have risen in national opinions and people 1222 01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:05,560 Speaker 1: are starting to get more positive about the possibility of 1223 01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:09,000 Speaker 1: them returning to the playoffs this year, and not much 1224 01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:10,800 Speaker 1: of it, although some of it has to do with 1225 01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:12,760 Speaker 1: Josh Allen, but most of it has to do with 1226 01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:16,240 Speaker 1: the roster that Sean McDermot and Brandon Bean have assembled. 1227 01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:19,480 Speaker 1: Sean McDermott has taken this team the playoffs two out 1228 01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:21,840 Speaker 1: of his first three years as head coach. What do 1229 01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:24,040 Speaker 1: you think the next step is for Sean McDermott. Is 1230 01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:29,120 Speaker 1: it's as simple as just winning a playoff game. Yeah, yeah, 1231 01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:31,040 Speaker 1: I think so. And I think that that, you know, 1232 01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:34,680 Speaker 1: would cement a lot of what people around the league 1233 01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:36,760 Speaker 1: already know about him. You know, I think that was 1234 01:00:36,840 --> 01:00:39,600 Speaker 1: not a you know, a quote unquote sexy head coaching 1235 01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:42,240 Speaker 1: higher at the time, but a way that he's been 1236 01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:45,040 Speaker 1: able to revamp this roster, you know, the way that 1237 01:00:45,120 --> 01:00:47,280 Speaker 1: he's been able to work with this general manager to 1238 01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:50,360 Speaker 1: put these pieces together has been really impressive. And I 1239 01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:52,960 Speaker 1: think just to cement that in the minds of everybody else, 1240 01:00:53,240 --> 01:00:55,360 Speaker 1: you certainly have to win a playoff game. Yeah, But 1241 01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:57,560 Speaker 1: at the same time, I think they deserve a lot 1242 01:00:57,600 --> 01:00:59,560 Speaker 1: of credit. This was a franchise and I think it 1243 01:00:59,600 --> 01:01:02,640 Speaker 1: was trend down certainly before he got there, and he's 1244 01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:05,760 Speaker 1: got them in a really good spot. Does Sean need 1245 01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:08,320 Speaker 1: a playoff win this year? Do you think, Connor? I mean, 1246 01:01:08,480 --> 01:01:14,400 Speaker 1: he's owing two in the wildcard route? Maybe. I mean, 1247 01:01:14,520 --> 01:01:16,920 Speaker 1: you know, it's tough, right. It's like the Marvin Lewis question, 1248 01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:19,640 Speaker 1: where I think, looking back on what Marvin Lewis did 1249 01:01:19,680 --> 01:01:21,520 Speaker 1: with the Bengals, I don't think there's any doubt that 1250 01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:24,960 Speaker 1: that was a herculean effort to revamp that roster. And 1251 01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:28,080 Speaker 1: I think that Sean McDermott has probably done a similar 1252 01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:31,680 Speaker 1: job in just changing the vibe there and upgrading everything, 1253 01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:34,640 Speaker 1: And so I don't think it anyone fault him necessarily 1254 01:01:34,760 --> 01:01:36,960 Speaker 1: for not being able to win a playoff game, But 1255 01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:41,040 Speaker 1: the expectations do change, especially when you know Tom Brady's 1256 01:01:41,040 --> 01:01:42,840 Speaker 1: out of the division all of a sudden you made 1257 01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:45,680 Speaker 1: the playoffs last year. The Jets, I don't think, in 1258 01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:49,600 Speaker 1: anybody's mind, have gotten significantly better. The Dolphins aren't going 1259 01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:52,520 Speaker 1: to have to probably for the start of the season, 1260 01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:54,720 Speaker 1: or at least until the midway point of the season, 1261 01:01:54,760 --> 01:01:57,040 Speaker 1: even though they're getting much better. So I think that 1262 01:01:57,160 --> 01:01:59,680 Speaker 1: a lot of fans will probably expect that they went 1263 01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:01,720 Speaker 1: up layoff games this year just based on what the 1264 01:02:01,840 --> 01:02:04,880 Speaker 1: landscape looks like. Yeah, the Pills aren't the only ones 1265 01:02:04,920 --> 01:02:07,280 Speaker 1: who have been active this offseason. The Miami Dolphins, as 1266 01:02:07,320 --> 01:02:10,200 Speaker 1: you said, had a ton of draft picks this year 1267 01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:12,960 Speaker 1: and also a team that last year was the darling 1268 01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:16,480 Speaker 1: of the offseason, the Cleveland Browns Odell Beckham came out. 1269 01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:19,080 Speaker 1: He says he thinks this will be his best year ever. 1270 01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:24,760 Speaker 1: Do you believe him? Well, you know, just by default, 1271 01:02:24,760 --> 01:02:27,080 Speaker 1: I believe every player that says that the first day 1272 01:02:27,080 --> 01:02:29,240 Speaker 1: of training camp, you know, in ten years is doing this. 1273 01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:31,720 Speaker 1: I think every player has showed up to training camp 1274 01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:33,600 Speaker 1: saying that they're the best shape of their life, and 1275 01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:36,080 Speaker 1: they know the playbook better than ever, and they like 1276 01:02:36,240 --> 01:02:39,320 Speaker 1: their teammates and coaches that ever had beforeest that renewed 1277 01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:42,560 Speaker 1: optimism and so you can't blame Odell Beckham for having 1278 01:02:42,600 --> 01:02:44,960 Speaker 1: it as much as anyone else. But I think it's uh, 1279 01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:47,240 Speaker 1: you know, kind of proved time for him in Cleveland 1280 01:02:47,280 --> 01:02:49,400 Speaker 1: a little bit that last year was a disaster, and 1281 01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:51,840 Speaker 1: while a lot of that was how the offense is 1282 01:02:51,880 --> 01:02:53,720 Speaker 1: schemed up, I think a lot of people are going 1283 01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:55,760 Speaker 1: to be looking for him to put up those numbers 1284 01:02:55,840 --> 01:02:58,240 Speaker 1: like he did in New York and we'll see, We'll 1285 01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:00,560 Speaker 1: see if if Kevin Steffans he has that in the 1286 01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:04,040 Speaker 1: cards for him. Connor, our staff writer for Sports illustrated 1287 01:03:04,080 --> 01:03:05,840 Speaker 1: on the line with this Connor, Andy Dalton made a 1288 01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:08,960 Speaker 1: big move to the Dallas Cowboys last weekend. Do you 1289 01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:12,000 Speaker 1: see Andy Dalton having a second act in the NFL? 1290 01:03:12,240 --> 01:03:13,880 Speaker 1: Or well he just kind of fade away. Do you 1291 01:03:13,960 --> 01:03:18,160 Speaker 1: think I think Gamey Dalton will get a second act 1292 01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:20,440 Speaker 1: in the NFL. I think Ryan Tannehill showed us that. 1293 01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:23,480 Speaker 1: You know, if they're coordinators with enough vision and you 1294 01:03:23,560 --> 01:03:25,920 Speaker 1: have a decent amount of talent on the roster, you 1295 01:03:25,960 --> 01:03:27,920 Speaker 1: can make it work with good quarterbacks. And you know, 1296 01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:30,680 Speaker 1: there was a season back in twenty fifteen when, by 1297 01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:32,960 Speaker 1: a lot of the metrics that people used to judge quarterbacks, 1298 01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:35,200 Speaker 1: Andy Dalton was a top five player, and while he 1299 01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:37,800 Speaker 1: hovered around kind of fifteen sixteen seventeen for the rest 1300 01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:41,880 Speaker 1: of his career, you know, anyone capable of playing that 1301 01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:44,840 Speaker 1: well and doing that well, I think could do it again. 1302 01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:46,840 Speaker 1: We saw that was Nick Foles as well, a player 1303 01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:49,600 Speaker 1: that kind of had a similar career trajectory. So you know, 1304 01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:52,080 Speaker 1: I think you always hope that someone like that can 1305 01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:54,280 Speaker 1: get another shot just because you don't want to go 1306 01:03:54,400 --> 01:03:57,400 Speaker 1: out in a certain way, and you know, rehabbing yourself 1307 01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:00,480 Speaker 1: with Mike McCarthy, who's a good quarterback mind, and you know, 1308 01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:03,800 Speaker 1: we'll see I would not be surprised to see him 1309 01:04:03,840 --> 01:04:06,920 Speaker 1: starting in the NFL at some point somewhere else. Certainly, 1310 01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:08,960 Speaker 1: Andy Dalton was one of the big name free agents 1311 01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:11,800 Speaker 1: left on the market. There's also some other big name 1312 01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:14,600 Speaker 1: free agents. One quarterback in Cam Newton is still out there. 1313 01:04:14,960 --> 01:04:17,160 Speaker 1: What are some of the other best remaining free agents 1314 01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:21,760 Speaker 1: and how do you see them shaking out? Well, I mean, 1315 01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:25,280 Speaker 1: I really liked m logan Ryan. I think that you know, 1316 01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:29,080 Speaker 1: I think that he's a really talented cornerback. In the 1317 01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:31,680 Speaker 1: thing is, you're always going to need to layer at 1318 01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:35,440 Speaker 1: that position. You're always going to need more papable pass defenders. 1319 01:04:35,520 --> 01:04:38,560 Speaker 1: And he came from a versatile system in Tennessee. He 1320 01:04:38,680 --> 01:04:41,040 Speaker 1: can plug into a lot of places on your defense 1321 01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:43,840 Speaker 1: in New England. So I think that he's a guy that, 1322 01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:46,240 Speaker 1: you know, if his price tag is in the ten 1323 01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:49,200 Speaker 1: to twelve million dollar range, I would feel comfortable spending that. 1324 01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:52,800 Speaker 1: I think that's a worthwhile upgrade. You know, some other 1325 01:04:52,880 --> 01:04:56,480 Speaker 1: interesting names, certainly j Debi and Clowney. You know, Damon 1326 01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:59,520 Speaker 1: Harrison is still out there, the defensive tackle from Detroit 1327 01:04:59,600 --> 01:05:01,640 Speaker 1: and New York. So I think a lot of pieces 1328 01:05:01,720 --> 01:05:05,000 Speaker 1: that could instantly upgrade your roster. It's just a matter 1329 01:05:05,160 --> 01:05:07,640 Speaker 1: of teams being able to evaluate, I think, what they 1330 01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:10,439 Speaker 1: have in person first and then deciding whether it's worth 1331 01:05:10,480 --> 01:05:13,280 Speaker 1: it to spend you know, that high end one or 1332 01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:17,320 Speaker 1: two year salary on a guy like that. A guess 1333 01:05:17,360 --> 01:05:22,400 Speaker 1: where Cam Newton may wind up this year. That's a 1334 01:05:22,440 --> 01:05:24,800 Speaker 1: good question. If I were the jab guars, I'd be 1335 01:05:24,920 --> 01:05:28,560 Speaker 1: beaten down Cam Newton's door and making sure that you know, 1336 01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:30,880 Speaker 1: the minute that he feels healthy enough to practice, he 1337 01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:33,360 Speaker 1: would be in my facility. To me, it makes no 1338 01:05:33,560 --> 01:05:36,520 Speaker 1: sense that almost any team wouldn't want to sign him, 1339 01:05:36,560 --> 01:05:39,440 Speaker 1: because even if he's not going to start for you, 1340 01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:42,920 Speaker 1: he's eventually going to get healthy. And when he gets healthy, 1341 01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:46,360 Speaker 1: he's going to be a really valuable trade commodity you 1342 01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:48,880 Speaker 1: could get, I think, better than whatever you would get 1343 01:05:48,960 --> 01:05:52,040 Speaker 1: in a compensatory by signing him and cutting him and 1344 01:05:52,160 --> 01:05:56,480 Speaker 1: signing him losing him. So I think he'd be a 1345 01:05:56,640 --> 01:05:59,320 Speaker 1: tremendous value somewhere. I mean, Jacksonville is really the only 1346 01:05:59,360 --> 01:06:02,680 Speaker 1: team left I think needs that sure obvious upgrade at quarterback. 1347 01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:05,120 Speaker 1: But who knows. You know, I think this is this 1348 01:06:05,280 --> 01:06:06,760 Speaker 1: is going to be an interesting off season. But if 1349 01:06:06,800 --> 01:06:09,680 Speaker 1: I were the Jaguars, I'd certainly be working the phone. 1350 01:06:10,840 --> 01:06:12,800 Speaker 1: How late in the off season do you think it 1351 01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:16,200 Speaker 1: will be before some of these players like Cam Lewis, 1352 01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:21,080 Speaker 1: Damon Harris, Jadevian Clowney will drop their perceived price just 1353 01:06:21,280 --> 01:06:23,520 Speaker 1: to get on the field. Well, the Bills have been 1354 01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:26,280 Speaker 1: a team that's been their philosophy that they were gonna 1355 01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:28,640 Speaker 1: they're gonna give guys prove it deals like just come 1356 01:06:28,680 --> 01:06:31,080 Speaker 1: in for one year, play here, prove that you can 1357 01:06:31,120 --> 01:06:32,760 Speaker 1: do it, and then you can go somewhere else and 1358 01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:35,840 Speaker 1: make a sign one more big contract. How long will 1359 01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:38,920 Speaker 1: it be before the players you're mentioning will say, you 1360 01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:40,600 Speaker 1: know what, it's time to just take what I can 1361 01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:43,040 Speaker 1: get and maybe sign a one year deal for maybe 1362 01:06:43,160 --> 01:06:46,160 Speaker 1: half or whatever of what they're asking on the open market. 1363 01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:51,160 Speaker 1: I think that still always a way. I think we 1364 01:06:51,280 --> 01:06:53,760 Speaker 1: have to get a better idea of when the season 1365 01:06:53,880 --> 01:06:55,840 Speaker 1: is going to start, when some of these workouts are 1366 01:06:55,880 --> 01:06:58,440 Speaker 1: going to start. You know, you have to remember that 1367 01:06:58,680 --> 01:07:01,280 Speaker 1: a lot of these guys, it's injury, right that maybe 1368 01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:04,600 Speaker 1: prompts teams to get desperate, and then you know, conversations 1369 01:07:04,920 --> 01:07:07,840 Speaker 1: sort of accelerate. And all these guys have good agents, 1370 01:07:07,920 --> 01:07:11,040 Speaker 1: you know, they understand their leverage. And to me, it 1371 01:07:11,080 --> 01:07:16,040 Speaker 1: wouldn't be necessarily one of those inevitabilities that Clowney waits 1372 01:07:16,080 --> 01:07:18,400 Speaker 1: for his price to drop, because a lot of these 1373 01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:20,160 Speaker 1: guys know that it's probably gonna be one of their 1374 01:07:20,240 --> 01:07:22,560 Speaker 1: last runs. And while Clowney is on the younger side, 1375 01:07:23,360 --> 01:07:26,560 Speaker 1: he's had a history of lower body injuries that are 1376 01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:29,240 Speaker 1: concerning to teams, and so I think he's looking to 1377 01:07:29,360 --> 01:07:31,400 Speaker 1: kind of cash in one or two more times. And 1378 01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:34,320 Speaker 1: you're you're definitely in that window where you need to 1379 01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:36,800 Speaker 1: do it now. Kind of I want to ask you 1380 01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:38,479 Speaker 1: a little bit about a post you wrote for Sports 1381 01:07:38,520 --> 01:07:40,800 Speaker 1: Illustrated about rookies guys who just came out on the 1382 01:07:40,880 --> 01:07:43,440 Speaker 1: draft two weeks ago under pressure. This year, you got 1383 01:07:43,960 --> 01:07:47,640 Speaker 1: Packers quarterback Jordan Love under pressure. He might not even 1384 01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:49,560 Speaker 1: see the field this year, right, what kind of pressure 1385 01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:54,080 Speaker 1: will he face? Well? I think that the team, you know, 1386 01:07:54,320 --> 01:07:57,640 Speaker 1: even though I do commend them for you know, not 1387 01:07:57,840 --> 01:08:01,680 Speaker 1: being afraid of the backlash, especially from Aaron Rodgers carries 1388 01:08:01,680 --> 01:08:04,720 Speaker 1: a lot of weight in that organization. You're putting Love 1389 01:08:04,800 --> 01:08:07,440 Speaker 1: in a really difficult situation right away. I mean, you know, 1390 01:08:07,480 --> 01:08:09,360 Speaker 1: this is a guy that you're going to expect is 1391 01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:12,280 Speaker 1: going to be asked every single day about replacing Aaron Rodgers. 1392 01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:15,040 Speaker 1: This is the guy who's going to be under a 1393 01:08:15,120 --> 01:08:17,759 Speaker 1: magnifying lens and practice. I mean, you know, I remember 1394 01:08:17,920 --> 01:08:21,960 Speaker 1: certain high profile quarterback battles, you know, charting their seven 1395 01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:24,519 Speaker 1: on seven during training camp practice, and you know, I 1396 01:08:24,600 --> 01:08:27,880 Speaker 1: think the emotional toll that that takes on someone at 1397 01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:31,320 Speaker 1: a young age is difficult, especially for a developmental player. 1398 01:08:31,479 --> 01:08:33,960 Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting. I mean, you know, I definitely 1399 01:08:34,000 --> 01:08:36,680 Speaker 1: feel for him, and you know, hopefully the Packers had 1400 01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:38,439 Speaker 1: a plan for how they were going to handle this, 1401 01:08:38,760 --> 01:08:42,080 Speaker 1: because once the season starts, I think things are going 1402 01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:45,280 Speaker 1: to get pretty hectic for them. What's another rookie that 1403 01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:48,120 Speaker 1: maybe under some pressure, that maybe under our radar from 1404 01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:53,679 Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. Well, I think certainly, you know Andrew 1405 01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:56,400 Speaker 1: Thomas with the Giants, And again, you know, I want 1406 01:08:56,439 --> 01:08:58,120 Speaker 1: to make clear that this is through no fault of 1407 01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:01,120 Speaker 1: their own. This is you know, a Giants team that 1408 01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:04,639 Speaker 1: has swung and missed at high profile left tackles before, 1409 01:09:04,760 --> 01:09:07,760 Speaker 1: whether it's in the draft or free agency, and Dave 1410 01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:11,360 Speaker 1: Gentleman is taking Thomas first. He didn't you know, trade 1411 01:09:11,400 --> 01:09:14,800 Speaker 1: back or really have the opportunity to first in a 1412 01:09:14,920 --> 01:09:17,600 Speaker 1: long line of tackles. You're basically saying that, you know, 1413 01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:20,400 Speaker 1: I'm staking the future of the franchise on the fact 1414 01:09:20,479 --> 01:09:23,679 Speaker 1: that I know this guy was better than Tristan Worth's 1415 01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:26,479 Speaker 1: or you know, any of the other really mckaybeck and 1416 01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:28,719 Speaker 1: any of the other really good tackles that were available 1417 01:09:28,760 --> 01:09:31,200 Speaker 1: in the draft. So that's going to be, um, you know, 1418 01:09:31,320 --> 01:09:33,760 Speaker 1: a big what if for the Giants? You know, is 1419 01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:35,719 Speaker 1: he going to be able to command the left side 1420 01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:38,640 Speaker 1: for the future and be that ten year starter at 1421 01:09:38,680 --> 01:09:42,840 Speaker 1: the position that they've been desperate to find for so long. Hey, Connor, 1422 01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:45,160 Speaker 1: thanks for all this. We appreciate it and we'll keep reading. 1423 01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:49,559 Speaker 1: You keep writing, good Buck, you stay healthy, all right, 1424 01:09:49,600 --> 01:09:53,120 Speaker 1: Thanks guys, you too. Thank you. Conna or staff writer 1425 01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:56,000 Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated in the MMQB, co host of the MMQB 1426 01:09:56,560 --> 01:09:59,040 Speaker 1: NFL podcast. We'll take a break here. It's one Bill's 1427 01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:01,800 Speaker 1: Life present a by Klata Health coming to him from home. 1428 01:10:01,840 --> 01:10:12,720 Speaker 1: We're in radio only. This is Buffalo Bills Radio of Health. 1429 01:10:12,760 --> 01:10:14,640 Speaker 1: John Murphy steam tanks you around the line now with 1430 01:10:14,800 --> 01:10:18,080 Speaker 1: Dan Brown, sports director at w r OCTV and Rochester 1431 01:10:18,479 --> 01:10:21,200 Speaker 1: those preseason sideline reporter. He's been around the Bills cover 1432 01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:23,800 Speaker 1: of the Bills since two thousand. Hello fan, thanks coming 1433 01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:26,120 Speaker 1: on with us today. We appreciate it. Thanks guys. How 1434 01:10:26,200 --> 01:10:27,720 Speaker 1: you guys doing. We're doing well. I don't know if 1435 01:10:27,720 --> 01:10:30,360 Speaker 1: we've had John since everything shutdown every head John since then. 1436 01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:32,160 Speaker 1: You're doing well though, you look healthy, you look well. 1437 01:10:32,760 --> 01:10:34,680 Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Well, there's more time to you know, 1438 01:10:34,800 --> 01:10:36,439 Speaker 1: ride the bike at home and go for runs. And 1439 01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:39,240 Speaker 1: I'm cleaning every single flower bed in my yard and 1440 01:10:39,320 --> 01:10:41,960 Speaker 1: adding mulch. So you know, I've been able to at 1441 01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:45,719 Speaker 1: least take advantage of that part of this quarantine slash pandemic. 1442 01:10:45,800 --> 01:10:47,400 Speaker 1: And now thanks. I appreciate I didn't lose actually lose 1443 01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:49,280 Speaker 1: a few pounds lead. Yeah good. I know. I know 1444 01:10:49,360 --> 01:10:51,519 Speaker 1: you had some time on your hands because you predicted 1445 01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:57,439 Speaker 1: forty eight primetime. Yeah that was awesome. Let me your 1446 01:10:57,479 --> 01:10:59,599 Speaker 1: hand with that. Bro. You've got a lot of time 1447 01:10:59,680 --> 01:11:01,640 Speaker 1: on your as you're going through the entire season. You 1448 01:11:01,880 --> 01:11:06,360 Speaker 1: and prognosticated forty eight primetime games for the NFL schedule 1449 01:11:06,439 --> 01:11:08,479 Speaker 1: that has not been released. How many do you think? 1450 01:11:08,560 --> 01:11:12,439 Speaker 1: What's the over under for correct calls? My baseline is 1451 01:11:12,520 --> 01:11:13,960 Speaker 1: I want to get at least two thirds, right, So 1452 01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:17,280 Speaker 1: thirty two is my number? Disappointed? Yeah? Well, I mean look, 1453 01:11:17,280 --> 01:11:19,519 Speaker 1: I mean how many these games are no brainers? I mean, 1454 01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:23,360 Speaker 1: Kansity Baltimore is gonna be on primetime. You know, m Dallas, 1455 01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:26,120 Speaker 1: Philadelphia is gonna be on primetime. So if I'm less 1456 01:11:26,120 --> 01:11:28,519 Speaker 1: than thirty two, I'd be disappointed. My goal is to 1457 01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:30,439 Speaker 1: get forty. I'd love to get forty. That'd be You're 1458 01:11:30,439 --> 01:11:32,479 Speaker 1: not You're just talking about actual primetime. I mean you're 1459 01:11:32,479 --> 01:11:34,800 Speaker 1: not talking about date and correct time to correct. Yeah. 1460 01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:38,200 Speaker 1: I didn't go into Sunday Monday Thursday, just the whole 1461 01:11:38,280 --> 01:11:41,040 Speaker 1: field of forty eight, and and even then I kind 1462 01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:44,559 Speaker 1: of distinguish. I'm not picking the Lions, Cowboys Thursday afternoon 1463 01:11:44,600 --> 01:11:47,759 Speaker 1: Thanksgiving games. I'm not picking any Saturday stuff, just Sunday, 1464 01:11:47,800 --> 01:11:51,160 Speaker 1: Monday Thursday. How many Bills games on primetime this year? 1465 01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:53,200 Speaker 1: At THAD, what did you have? I have him down 1466 01:11:53,280 --> 01:11:56,760 Speaker 1: for three and you know the Bills schedule this year 1467 01:11:56,880 --> 01:12:00,559 Speaker 1: is not conducive to getting these primetime games two reasons. 1468 01:12:00,680 --> 01:12:04,200 Speaker 1: Number one, because they're playing both West divisions. There are 1469 01:12:04,280 --> 01:12:06,280 Speaker 1: six games on their schedule where either the Bills or 1470 01:12:06,320 --> 01:12:08,920 Speaker 1: their opponent are going full cross country and those games 1471 01:12:08,960 --> 01:12:11,599 Speaker 1: are never gonna be on Thursday. So and last year 1472 01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:15,040 Speaker 1: there are only five such games across all the primetime windows. 1473 01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:17,240 Speaker 1: So you know, for the Bills to have six of 1474 01:12:17,280 --> 01:12:18,720 Speaker 1: them on their schedule off the bad it hurts. And 1475 01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:21,160 Speaker 1: then on top of that, their division is not interesting 1476 01:12:21,200 --> 01:12:23,000 Speaker 1: this year. I mean the Patriots and the Bills, and 1477 01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:24,879 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the Patriots and the Jets and the Dolphins 1478 01:12:25,160 --> 01:12:27,960 Speaker 1: are not you know, move the needle teams now. I 1479 01:12:28,000 --> 01:12:29,840 Speaker 1: think it'll help obviously that New England and the Jets 1480 01:12:30,040 --> 01:12:33,080 Speaker 1: are big market teams. But you've got six games there 1481 01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:36,240 Speaker 1: in six games you know, cross country, that's three quarters 1482 01:12:36,280 --> 01:12:38,479 Speaker 1: of the schedule to where you just don't see it 1483 01:12:38,560 --> 01:12:40,800 Speaker 1: as a likely primetime game. And on top of that, 1484 01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:42,880 Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to get the Chiefs game 1485 01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:46,240 Speaker 1: at home on primetime because the Chiefs have Baltimore, the Saints, 1486 01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:48,720 Speaker 1: and Tampa on the road, and to me, those three 1487 01:12:48,760 --> 01:12:51,280 Speaker 1: are no brainer you know, primetime games. So if the 1488 01:12:51,360 --> 01:12:53,720 Speaker 1: Chiefs get five, you know, four of those being on 1489 01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:56,240 Speaker 1: the road when Arrowhead Stadium is their home just doesn't 1490 01:12:56,240 --> 01:12:58,320 Speaker 1: make sense to me. So I've taken the Bill schedule 1491 01:12:58,600 --> 01:13:01,280 Speaker 1: and giving you really good reasons why thirteen of them 1492 01:13:01,760 --> 01:13:03,320 Speaker 1: are going to be hard to put on prime time. 1493 01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:05,599 Speaker 1: So I think three is a good, maybe a little 1494 01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:07,519 Speaker 1: bit of even an optimistic number for the Bills. We 1495 01:13:07,640 --> 01:13:10,559 Speaker 1: had somebody call in or actually tweet at us yesterday 1496 01:13:10,640 --> 01:13:12,920 Speaker 1: that he thought a really good aspect, And you're right 1497 01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:15,360 Speaker 1: that the division does lose some interest with Tom Brady 1498 01:13:15,439 --> 01:13:19,080 Speaker 1: going away and the Patriots kind of taking seemingly taking 1499 01:13:19,120 --> 01:13:22,320 Speaker 1: a step back. And that is the past the Torch 1500 01:13:22,439 --> 01:13:24,519 Speaker 1: game to the Buffalo Bills, where the Bills maybe go 1501 01:13:24,720 --> 01:13:27,479 Speaker 1: into Foxborough and win there for the first time in 1502 01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:31,280 Speaker 1: seventy five years and exactly, but you know what I mean, 1503 01:13:31,720 --> 01:13:34,400 Speaker 1: The past the Torch game would be a great moment 1504 01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:39,200 Speaker 1: for fans across the country who aren't necessarily Bills fans 1505 01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:42,000 Speaker 1: or Patriots fans, but are hating the Patriots because of 1506 01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:44,439 Speaker 1: their success over the last two decades. To see them 1507 01:13:45,040 --> 01:13:46,640 Speaker 1: kind of pass the torch to somebody else in the 1508 01:13:46,680 --> 01:13:49,960 Speaker 1: AFC East. I think there's some attractives to that, and 1509 01:13:50,080 --> 01:13:51,880 Speaker 1: the Patriots are gonna get primetime games, you know. I 1510 01:13:51,920 --> 01:13:53,719 Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna get the five they normally would 1511 01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:55,960 Speaker 1: get if Brady was there, but they're gonna be featured 1512 01:13:56,040 --> 01:13:57,760 Speaker 1: just to kind of, you know, from a curiosity point 1513 01:13:57,800 --> 01:13:59,680 Speaker 1: of view, to see, you know, what they're gonna be 1514 01:13:59,760 --> 01:14:01,360 Speaker 1: like this year. And I'll tell you what I don't. 1515 01:14:01,360 --> 01:14:03,360 Speaker 1: I don't think Bill's Patriots is going to be scheduled 1516 01:14:03,400 --> 01:14:06,360 Speaker 1: a primetime game, but I would be stunned if Bill's Patriots, 1517 01:14:06,479 --> 01:14:09,240 Speaker 1: especially in Foxborough, is not at least fourteen week fifteen 1518 01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:11,880 Speaker 1: week sixteen to where the NFL leaves it open if 1519 01:14:12,080 --> 01:14:14,879 Speaker 1: that's a division deciding game or if it's of playoff 1520 01:14:14,960 --> 01:14:16,840 Speaker 1: interest that you can flex it. In fact, if they're 1521 01:14:16,880 --> 01:14:18,880 Speaker 1: gonna go back to what they did last year with 1522 01:14:19,320 --> 01:14:21,800 Speaker 1: you know, taking five five games a week sixteen and 1523 01:14:21,920 --> 01:14:24,639 Speaker 1: saying of this five three week a flex to Saturday, 1524 01:14:24,840 --> 01:14:27,320 Speaker 1: I think Bill's Patriots is another prime candidate to be 1525 01:14:27,439 --> 01:14:29,320 Speaker 1: on that list. So I think I think the Bills 1526 01:14:29,400 --> 01:14:31,960 Speaker 1: my prediction they get scoeduled for three, but I think 1527 01:14:32,000 --> 01:14:34,400 Speaker 1: that Bill's Patriots game is left in a spot where 1528 01:14:34,439 --> 01:14:36,800 Speaker 1: it can be easily flexed. Shouldn't be interesting enough. We're 1529 01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:39,480 Speaker 1: live with Than Brown, sports director at w R ROCTV 1530 01:14:39,680 --> 01:14:43,080 Speaker 1: in Rochester at Than the schedules comes out tomorrow. The 1531 01:14:43,280 --> 01:14:47,040 Speaker 1: NFL and the Bills have issued kind of guidelines for 1532 01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:49,519 Speaker 1: how they would do ticket refunds or games you're canceled 1533 01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:51,800 Speaker 1: or if fans can come. What what do you think? 1534 01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:54,120 Speaker 1: I know, I'm asking you to take a shot in 1535 01:14:54,160 --> 01:14:56,400 Speaker 1: the dark here, but what do you think will happen 1536 01:14:56,520 --> 01:14:59,000 Speaker 1: with these games? I mean, it's a it's a sixteen 1537 01:14:59,040 --> 01:15:01,800 Speaker 1: game schedule coming up tomorrow over seventeen weeks. Are you 1538 01:15:01,880 --> 01:15:04,320 Speaker 1: certain that they're going to play sixteen games over seventeen 1539 01:15:04,360 --> 01:15:07,040 Speaker 1: weeks and starting on September tenth? I'm not. I'm not 1540 01:15:07,120 --> 01:15:09,519 Speaker 1: certain that Dan'll whole. What do you think? No, I 1541 01:15:09,960 --> 01:15:13,920 Speaker 1: would bet heavily against sixteen games starting September or tenth, 1542 01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:15,559 Speaker 1: or wherever that first week is. I think there will 1543 01:15:15,600 --> 01:15:18,920 Speaker 1: be some sort of delay and or interruption. I think 1544 01:15:18,960 --> 01:15:21,439 Speaker 1: there will be a football season. I think it could 1545 01:15:21,560 --> 01:15:23,840 Speaker 1: end in late February. I wouldn't be surprised, in fact, 1546 01:15:23,880 --> 01:15:26,120 Speaker 1: that I projected it out steven, since I got lost 1547 01:15:26,160 --> 01:15:27,560 Speaker 1: of time my hands. I did this too, if you 1548 01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:30,639 Speaker 1: back the season of six weeks and play it normal, 1549 01:15:30,800 --> 01:15:33,519 Speaker 1: even with one week between the conference championships and the 1550 01:15:33,560 --> 01:15:36,200 Speaker 1: Super Bowl. A six week delay put Super Bowl Sunday 1551 01:15:36,240 --> 01:15:38,479 Speaker 1: the same week as Selection Sunday, so it doesn't take 1552 01:15:38,600 --> 01:15:40,479 Speaker 1: much of a backup to really, you know, push this 1553 01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:43,280 Speaker 1: football season to late February in March. I think there 1554 01:15:43,320 --> 01:15:46,559 Speaker 1: will be a season. I think unlikely to see any 1555 01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:48,720 Speaker 1: fans all year. In fact, you know, I wonder how 1556 01:15:48,800 --> 01:15:50,720 Speaker 1: much media will be allowed to go obviously, you know, 1557 01:15:50,840 --> 01:15:54,040 Speaker 1: being part of my livelihood. But I think there will 1558 01:15:54,080 --> 01:15:56,040 Speaker 1: be a season. It just won't look the same it 1559 01:15:56,160 --> 01:15:58,720 Speaker 1: hasn't looked the last one hundred years. Do you think 1560 01:15:58,800 --> 01:16:02,680 Speaker 1: the schedule will be? And I don't know how this 1561 01:16:02,760 --> 01:16:04,600 Speaker 1: works in the NFL, but I would imagine they've had 1562 01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:07,840 Speaker 1: they've been doing this for months that the league has 1563 01:16:07,880 --> 01:16:10,519 Speaker 1: been behind the scenes putting together their regular sixteen game, 1564 01:16:10,560 --> 01:16:13,080 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty six game schedule for the regular season. 1565 01:16:13,560 --> 01:16:16,519 Speaker 1: Would you think that they would go back and redo 1566 01:16:17,040 --> 01:16:22,400 Speaker 1: a different fourteen game schedule or twelve game schedule. For me, 1567 01:16:22,479 --> 01:16:24,280 Speaker 1: it would be easy to go back and do it. 1568 01:16:24,360 --> 01:16:27,439 Speaker 1: Twelve fourteen game schedule because they could just take out 1569 01:16:27,520 --> 01:16:30,800 Speaker 1: the two interconference games outside of the division, and then 1570 01:16:30,840 --> 01:16:33,559 Speaker 1: you'd have, you know, you'd be playing your division games. 1571 01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:37,760 Speaker 1: You're out of conference the other division, and then the 1572 01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:40,880 Speaker 1: regular division. You've got to in conference outside of your own. 1573 01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:43,800 Speaker 1: So and without the two second place teams for the Bills, 1574 01:16:43,840 --> 01:16:46,040 Speaker 1: it would be the Tennessee Titans Pittsburgh Steelers. You take 1575 01:16:46,080 --> 01:16:47,960 Speaker 1: those two games out for every team, and it's an 1576 01:16:47,960 --> 01:16:51,160 Speaker 1: automatic fourteen game schedule. Would they do a whole schedule 1577 01:16:51,760 --> 01:16:54,599 Speaker 1: from the start to finish or would they just lop 1578 01:16:54,680 --> 01:16:56,200 Speaker 1: off a chunk of the schedule. What do you think 1579 01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:59,400 Speaker 1: is more likely? I think I think lopping. I think 1580 01:16:59,439 --> 01:17:01,920 Speaker 1: the first thing I would do is take those two 1581 01:17:01,960 --> 01:17:04,519 Speaker 1: games you're talking about the games within the conference, but 1582 01:17:04,680 --> 01:17:06,880 Speaker 1: not in division and not against the entire division. You're 1583 01:17:06,880 --> 01:17:09,200 Speaker 1: gonna play the Pittsburgh Tennessee for Buffalo this year. If 1584 01:17:09,240 --> 01:17:11,400 Speaker 1: I were the NFL, I would make those two games 1585 01:17:11,680 --> 01:17:13,880 Speaker 1: week one and week two for everybody. You should be 1586 01:17:13,960 --> 01:17:16,400 Speaker 1: able to make that work, you know, home and away wise, 1587 01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:18,439 Speaker 1: I would think to have those two games be the 1588 01:17:18,479 --> 01:17:20,760 Speaker 1: first two and then if you have to, like you said, 1589 01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:23,120 Speaker 1: you can just lop those off. After that, though, I 1590 01:17:23,200 --> 01:17:25,519 Speaker 1: think it gets hard to just take chunks of the 1591 01:17:25,560 --> 01:17:27,400 Speaker 1: schedule away. I think you'd have to redo the whole 1592 01:17:27,479 --> 01:17:30,720 Speaker 1: thing to reconfigure it if you had to. If I 1593 01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:33,240 Speaker 1: were the NFL, I'd have my normal sixteen game or 1594 01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:35,679 Speaker 1: ready to go for September, and then I would probably 1595 01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:38,639 Speaker 1: have a twelve gamer where no one plays out of conference, 1596 01:17:38,920 --> 01:17:40,880 Speaker 1: and the fourteen game where we just talked about, I'd 1597 01:17:40,880 --> 01:17:43,600 Speaker 1: have my back pocket ready to go. In addition, you know, 1598 01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:46,760 Speaker 1: if I had that problem, and the real problem isn't 1599 01:17:46,800 --> 01:17:49,000 Speaker 1: just which games are gone and how to make the 1600 01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:51,519 Speaker 1: schedule work, it's building availability, you know. I mean, you 1601 01:17:51,520 --> 01:17:53,960 Speaker 1: know we're gonna talk about right now. You know new 1602 01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:56,400 Speaker 1: air fields can be available for ten dates. Now. You 1603 01:17:56,479 --> 01:17:58,320 Speaker 1: know there's not eighteen million things going on there, but 1604 01:17:58,400 --> 01:18:00,240 Speaker 1: there are other things happening there to where you can't 1605 01:18:00,280 --> 01:18:02,400 Speaker 1: just say, oh, we'll take this game that was scheduled 1606 01:18:02,439 --> 01:18:05,120 Speaker 1: for October fourth and you know, bump it to January eighteenth. 1607 01:18:05,200 --> 01:18:06,720 Speaker 1: You know, you can't just do it off top of 1608 01:18:06,720 --> 01:18:08,200 Speaker 1: your head. You've got to have that arrange and set 1609 01:18:08,280 --> 01:18:09,880 Speaker 1: up and ready to go. And if I'm the NFL, 1610 01:18:09,920 --> 01:18:14,200 Speaker 1: I'm doing that right now and not waiting for July, September, November, 1611 01:18:14,280 --> 01:18:17,040 Speaker 1: whenever you know, this second wave of coronavirus comes to 1612 01:18:17,160 --> 01:18:19,360 Speaker 1: deal with it done, Dan Brown, It's with a sports 1613 01:18:19,400 --> 01:18:22,400 Speaker 1: director in Rochester at w ro OCTV than two weeks 1614 01:18:22,479 --> 01:18:25,120 Speaker 1: removed from the NFL Draft. How do you think the 1615 01:18:25,200 --> 01:18:26,840 Speaker 1: Bills did in the draft? How do you think they've 1616 01:18:26,880 --> 01:18:30,200 Speaker 1: done filling their their roster openings? Whatever? A few openings 1617 01:18:30,240 --> 01:18:33,040 Speaker 1: they may have had really good and really good. I mean, 1618 01:18:33,120 --> 01:18:37,519 Speaker 1: I really like the draft. A Vanessa in the second round, 1619 01:18:37,600 --> 01:18:39,880 Speaker 1: like everybody else says, is great value. I like Zach 1620 01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:42,040 Speaker 1: Moss more than a lot of people do. I really 1621 01:18:42,120 --> 01:18:45,560 Speaker 1: think Zach Moss can be a legit feature back in 1622 01:18:45,600 --> 01:18:47,599 Speaker 1: the NFL. I mean, not a star, but a guy 1623 01:18:47,680 --> 01:18:49,960 Speaker 1: who can carry the full load for you. Who can 1624 01:18:50,160 --> 01:18:51,880 Speaker 1: he can do more than just bang it between the 1625 01:18:51,920 --> 01:18:54,479 Speaker 1: tackles and run guys over. He's a good receiver, maybe 1626 01:18:54,520 --> 01:18:57,479 Speaker 1: sneaky good. He's got enough wiggle to be as elusive 1627 01:18:57,560 --> 01:18:59,800 Speaker 1: is Devin stating. Maybe not as elusive, but close. You know. 1628 01:18:59,840 --> 01:19:01,960 Speaker 1: I think he can be a really, really good player. 1629 01:19:02,280 --> 01:19:03,960 Speaker 1: And I love the fact that now the Bills have 1630 01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:06,120 Speaker 1: two backs that where as I'm sitting here right now, 1631 01:19:06,439 --> 01:19:08,479 Speaker 1: I feel like if they give fifteen carries the either guy, 1632 01:19:08,720 --> 01:19:10,920 Speaker 1: I feel good about their chances running the ball. So, 1633 01:19:11,240 --> 01:19:14,799 Speaker 1: you know, between those first two picks, obviously Stefan Diggs. 1634 01:19:15,040 --> 01:19:16,840 Speaker 1: You know, I really like the way that remade the 1635 01:19:16,880 --> 01:19:20,519 Speaker 1: defensive line, especially on the edges with Mario Addison, Quentin Jefferson. 1636 01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:23,840 Speaker 1: I mean, look, Brandon Breen, this just in He's good 1637 01:19:23,880 --> 01:19:26,479 Speaker 1: at his job, and he proved it again this offseason. Yeah, 1638 01:19:26,560 --> 01:19:28,720 Speaker 1: he is good at it. And they've gotten better at 1639 01:19:28,760 --> 01:19:30,599 Speaker 1: all spots in their roster over the last three years. 1640 01:19:30,680 --> 01:19:33,920 Speaker 1: This roster has been totally transformed into a roster that's 1641 01:19:33,960 --> 01:19:37,120 Speaker 1: kind of difficult to make. Who do you think would 1642 01:19:37,160 --> 01:19:40,280 Speaker 1: be the most notable name on the roster that you know, 1643 01:19:40,360 --> 01:19:43,680 Speaker 1: Bills fans love and respect to have to say goodbye to. 1644 01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:46,479 Speaker 1: Who do you think is in jeopardy of being someone 1645 01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:49,599 Speaker 1: that the Bills fans might be surprised does not make 1646 01:19:49,880 --> 01:19:53,080 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty Bills roster love and respect. I think 1647 01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:54,680 Speaker 1: Duke Williams is right at the top of that list. 1648 01:19:55,000 --> 01:19:56,680 Speaker 1: I find it hard to believe that that guy makes 1649 01:19:56,720 --> 01:19:58,639 Speaker 1: the roster this year. Now, I think he can still 1650 01:19:58,640 --> 01:20:01,080 Speaker 1: be a practice squad player and the the robster set up. Now, 1651 01:20:01,479 --> 01:20:03,400 Speaker 1: you could keep extra guys on the practice squad and 1652 01:20:03,479 --> 01:20:06,000 Speaker 1: elevate him periodically in the season, at least a couple 1653 01:20:06,040 --> 01:20:08,360 Speaker 1: of times in the season. But you look at you know, 1654 01:20:08,439 --> 01:20:12,759 Speaker 1: the top three receivers Beasley, Diggs, Brown, are Locks, Andrea Roberts. 1655 01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:14,160 Speaker 1: At this point, I think it's pretty safe. And you 1656 01:20:14,240 --> 01:20:16,920 Speaker 1: got two draft picks that you probably can't send to 1657 01:20:16,960 --> 01:20:20,080 Speaker 1: the practice squad in Hodges and Davis. That's six spots 1658 01:20:20,200 --> 01:20:22,920 Speaker 1: right there. You know. After that, I mean, Isaiah McKenzie 1659 01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:24,400 Speaker 1: is the only guy in this team that I see 1660 01:20:24,760 --> 01:20:27,240 Speaker 1: who is a likely candidate to be that end around guy, 1661 01:20:27,400 --> 01:20:29,839 Speaker 1: to be that gadget player. So now I've I've accounted 1662 01:20:29,880 --> 01:20:33,000 Speaker 1: for seven receivers who you know, you find hard, find 1663 01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:35,559 Speaker 1: difficult to get off the roster before we get the Duke. 1664 01:20:36,200 --> 01:20:38,200 Speaker 1: But in terms of best player, you know, I think 1665 01:20:38,240 --> 01:20:39,760 Speaker 1: Trent Murphy would be the guy that fall into that 1666 01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:43,000 Speaker 1: category for me. You know, he's a solid defensive end. 1667 01:20:43,680 --> 01:20:45,040 Speaker 1: I know, I think people, you know, a lot of 1668 01:20:45,080 --> 01:20:47,360 Speaker 1: fans dog him around here, but um, you know, he 1669 01:20:47,479 --> 01:20:50,080 Speaker 1: plays a pretty decent you know, there's a good job 1670 01:20:50,120 --> 01:20:52,160 Speaker 1: both against the past, against the run. I'm maybe not 1671 01:20:52,280 --> 01:20:55,040 Speaker 1: worth the contract he's getting. But with all that they've 1672 01:20:55,120 --> 01:20:57,680 Speaker 1: done on the edge, all the additions they've made, I 1673 01:20:57,800 --> 01:20:59,320 Speaker 1: find it hard to believe that he's going to be 1674 01:20:59,479 --> 01:21:01,479 Speaker 1: on the roster week one. He's gonna come to training 1675 01:21:01,520 --> 01:21:03,320 Speaker 1: camp and he's gonna be a candidate for one of 1676 01:21:03,360 --> 01:21:06,519 Speaker 1: those Brandon being you know, first day of September trades 1677 01:21:06,560 --> 01:21:08,360 Speaker 1: for a fifth round pick. But I don't think he's 1678 01:21:08,360 --> 01:21:10,400 Speaker 1: on the roster week one. Dad, You're okay with what 1679 01:21:10,479 --> 01:21:12,599 Speaker 1: they've got going on on the offensive line. They've really 1680 01:21:12,640 --> 01:21:15,680 Speaker 1: only made one addition on the offensive line. Do you 1681 01:21:15,720 --> 01:21:17,479 Speaker 1: think they're all set there based on what you saw 1682 01:21:17,640 --> 01:21:20,080 Speaker 1: last year? I like the way they've gone about it. 1683 01:21:20,120 --> 01:21:21,400 Speaker 1: I don't know if i'd go so far as to 1684 01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:23,640 Speaker 1: say all set. You know, I think right tackle is 1685 01:21:23,680 --> 01:21:25,320 Speaker 1: still a question, you know, couldy Ford's got a lot 1686 01:21:25,320 --> 01:21:28,560 Speaker 1: of improving to do. I like Quentin Spain and Fliciano. 1687 01:21:28,840 --> 01:21:31,160 Speaker 1: I think I've been surprised as this offseason's gone on 1688 01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:33,840 Speaker 1: at the national opinion of those two is is a 1689 01:21:33,920 --> 01:21:36,920 Speaker 1: little more lukewarm than I would think. But that being said, 1690 01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:39,639 Speaker 1: in an offseason that you know, maybe two weeks, maybe 1691 01:21:39,680 --> 01:21:42,080 Speaker 1: three weeks, you're gonna be very short on a team 1692 01:21:42,120 --> 01:21:45,640 Speaker 1: that has high aspirations this year, I think leaving the 1693 01:21:45,720 --> 01:21:48,880 Speaker 1: offensive line alone, having it come back and tack I mean, look, 1694 01:21:48,920 --> 01:21:51,280 Speaker 1: as a group, I think at worst we can safely 1695 01:21:51,360 --> 01:21:53,880 Speaker 1: call it a plus offensive line better than most, So 1696 01:21:54,040 --> 01:21:56,240 Speaker 1: to not mess with that, not rearrange it, I think 1697 01:21:56,360 --> 01:21:58,200 Speaker 1: was the right play for this offseason. I love bringing 1698 01:21:58,240 --> 01:22:01,240 Speaker 1: Quentin Spain back, especially the trick they got. And look, 1699 01:22:01,360 --> 01:22:02,960 Speaker 1: if they can get something out of Cody Ford and 1700 01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:05,240 Speaker 1: stay healthy, they're gonna be a plus offensive line again 1701 01:22:05,240 --> 01:22:08,320 Speaker 1: this year too. You mentioned Trent Murphy in the defensive line. 1702 01:22:08,360 --> 01:22:11,840 Speaker 1: They brought in a bunch of guys to replace Philip Jordan, Yeah, 1703 01:22:12,040 --> 01:22:16,120 Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips and Shack Lawson. What do you think about 1704 01:22:16,120 --> 01:22:18,439 Speaker 1: the guys that they brought in, starting with Mario Addison, 1705 01:22:18,560 --> 01:22:21,040 Speaker 1: Vernon Butler, and Quinton Jefferson, those three guys, two of 1706 01:22:21,120 --> 01:22:23,519 Speaker 1: them from Caroline and then Quintin Jefferson from Seattle. What 1707 01:22:23,560 --> 01:22:26,200 Speaker 1: do you think about those guys bringing in their versatility 1708 01:22:26,240 --> 01:22:28,560 Speaker 1: and how much that will go, how long far that 1709 01:22:28,600 --> 01:22:32,600 Speaker 1: will go towards making their defensive line as good or 1710 01:22:32,640 --> 01:22:35,400 Speaker 1: perhaps better, or maybe not as good. The word you 1711 01:22:35,439 --> 01:22:37,240 Speaker 1: brought up already as versatile that's the thing that that 1712 01:22:37,360 --> 01:22:39,840 Speaker 1: really surprises me. I mean, you watch Mario Addison on film. 1713 01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:41,680 Speaker 1: I know he joked with us a couple days ago 1714 01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:44,280 Speaker 1: about being primarily a right defensive end. That guy can 1715 01:22:44,360 --> 01:22:45,960 Speaker 1: rush from inside, he can go to the left side. 1716 01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:48,160 Speaker 1: He's done it. You know, Quintin Jefferson's a guy that's 1717 01:22:48,160 --> 01:22:50,280 Speaker 1: been able to go inside, attackle on and play defensive end. 1718 01:22:50,320 --> 01:22:53,519 Speaker 1: He's done both. So I think those two editions especially 1719 01:22:53,640 --> 01:22:56,720 Speaker 1: make this line a group that you can really rearrange. 1720 01:22:56,760 --> 01:22:58,600 Speaker 1: I mean, I think prior to this year, you know, 1721 01:22:58,720 --> 01:23:01,040 Speaker 1: you had four guys who played d end you know, 1722 01:23:01,280 --> 01:23:04,920 Speaker 1: is Shack and Jerry Hughes and Trent Murphy and Darryl Johnson, 1723 01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:06,560 Speaker 1: and then you had four guys in the middle. It 1724 01:23:06,680 --> 01:23:09,040 Speaker 1: was the Stars and the ed Oliver's and the Phillips 1725 01:23:09,240 --> 01:23:11,080 Speaker 1: and that was it. I think this year you're gonna 1726 01:23:11,120 --> 01:23:13,400 Speaker 1: be able to have a group that you really can mention, 1727 01:23:13,560 --> 01:23:16,040 Speaker 1: mix and match in different spots inside out. And I 1728 01:23:16,160 --> 01:23:18,680 Speaker 1: think the two ways it helps one if they catch 1729 01:23:18,720 --> 01:23:21,000 Speaker 1: an injury on the defensive line, it's not just one 1730 01:23:21,040 --> 01:23:23,360 Speaker 1: guys to step up. When Harrison Phillips went down, you know, 1731 01:23:23,439 --> 01:23:25,240 Speaker 1: they had to, you know, kind of go on the 1732 01:23:25,280 --> 01:23:27,200 Speaker 1: street and finally got to replace him this year. I 1733 01:23:27,240 --> 01:23:28,559 Speaker 1: don't think that's the case. I think you can move 1734 01:23:28,560 --> 01:23:30,559 Speaker 1: a guy inside if you lose a tackle, or move 1735 01:23:30,600 --> 01:23:32,760 Speaker 1: a guy outside if you lose an end. And the 1736 01:23:32,840 --> 01:23:34,160 Speaker 1: other thing that I think it helps him do is 1737 01:23:34,479 --> 01:23:36,920 Speaker 1: on pass rushing downs, they're gonna put the four best 1738 01:23:36,920 --> 01:23:38,360 Speaker 1: pass rushes on the field. It's not going to be 1739 01:23:38,400 --> 01:23:40,200 Speaker 1: the two best ends and the two best tackles and 1740 01:23:40,360 --> 01:23:42,400 Speaker 1: you know, get by or trying to, you know, put 1741 01:23:42,479 --> 01:23:45,000 Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander a type like that in there. Not that 1742 01:23:45,040 --> 01:23:47,000 Speaker 1: they didn't work. I loved it. But I think they 1743 01:23:47,040 --> 01:23:49,679 Speaker 1: can say, who are your four best pass rushing defensive 1744 01:23:49,680 --> 01:23:51,880 Speaker 1: lineman and that's my group on third and long as 1745 01:23:51,920 --> 01:23:54,160 Speaker 1: often as I can make it. If the last thing 1746 01:23:54,200 --> 01:23:56,439 Speaker 1: I have for you, and it's I'm asking you to 1747 01:23:56,479 --> 01:23:59,439 Speaker 1: speculate again here. I saw something in the Buffalo News 1748 01:23:59,520 --> 01:24:03,120 Speaker 1: the other day, people speculating that not likely that because 1749 01:24:03,160 --> 01:24:05,479 Speaker 1: of the circumstances this year, the Bills would have training 1750 01:24:05,560 --> 01:24:08,559 Speaker 1: camp in Rochester. That may be. I don't know. I'm 1751 01:24:08,560 --> 01:24:11,960 Speaker 1: just as the Rochester sports director at w ROC, and 1752 01:24:12,080 --> 01:24:15,200 Speaker 1: I know we've all become kind of las about going 1753 01:24:15,240 --> 01:24:17,840 Speaker 1: to Rochester for Camp. I still think there's value in 1754 01:24:17,920 --> 01:24:21,639 Speaker 1: that though, both in terms of expanding the Bills market share, 1755 01:24:21,960 --> 01:24:23,920 Speaker 1: in terms of giving their fans something fun to do 1756 01:24:24,080 --> 01:24:26,639 Speaker 1: to get ready for the season and for the team itself. 1757 01:24:26,800 --> 01:24:29,519 Speaker 1: And look, I know Sean McDermott has cut camp down 1758 01:24:29,600 --> 01:24:31,360 Speaker 1: to about two and a half three weeks last year, 1759 01:24:31,600 --> 01:24:33,559 Speaker 1: but still I think there's value in that. I'd hate 1760 01:24:33,560 --> 01:24:35,720 Speaker 1: to see that go away. What's what's the general the 1761 01:24:35,840 --> 01:24:39,200 Speaker 1: prevailing opinion in Rochester? Do you think the number one 1762 01:24:39,240 --> 01:24:40,880 Speaker 1: thing I'll say to that is everyone I talk to 1763 01:24:40,920 --> 01:24:42,880 Speaker 1: you in this town as a Bills fan when camp 1764 01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:44,920 Speaker 1: comes to town, they always tell me we're gonna go 1765 01:24:44,960 --> 01:24:47,840 Speaker 1: see this practice, you know, what's the schedule. I want 1766 01:24:47,840 --> 01:24:49,360 Speaker 1: to make sure I go see a practice, you know. 1767 01:24:49,520 --> 01:24:51,639 Speaker 1: And I think people there's a little bit of lase 1768 01:24:51,760 --> 01:24:53,519 Speaker 1: and this about it here too, because we're in year 1769 01:24:53,560 --> 01:24:55,920 Speaker 1: twenty one or whatever it is of camp coming up, 1770 01:24:56,240 --> 01:24:58,000 Speaker 1: and so it's a thing that's you know, we've all 1771 01:24:58,040 --> 01:25:00,439 Speaker 1: seen it, we've all done it, but it's still have 1772 01:25:00,520 --> 01:25:02,839 Speaker 1: interest here. Is still a source of pride in Rochester 1773 01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:04,920 Speaker 1: that the Bills, you know, feel like this city is 1774 01:25:05,000 --> 01:25:07,280 Speaker 1: worthy to hold one of their more important parts of 1775 01:25:07,280 --> 01:25:09,920 Speaker 1: their schedule here and it would hurt if it didn't 1776 01:25:09,920 --> 01:25:12,280 Speaker 1: happen here. I think everybody would understand this year if 1777 01:25:12,280 --> 01:25:14,599 Speaker 1: it didn't happen, especially if you know, like we've talked about, 1778 01:25:14,600 --> 01:25:16,560 Speaker 1: the season starts in mid October and training camp is 1779 01:25:16,600 --> 01:25:18,720 Speaker 1: not until September to where everybody's you know, kids are 1780 01:25:18,760 --> 01:25:21,360 Speaker 1: in school and things like that. But if camp left 1781 01:25:21,439 --> 01:25:25,080 Speaker 1: Rochester permanently, you know, I think it would it would 1782 01:25:25,360 --> 01:25:27,439 Speaker 1: make an impact, you know, in a negative way. Here. 1783 01:25:27,479 --> 01:25:30,280 Speaker 1: We would get over it, probably, but it's something that 1784 01:25:30,360 --> 01:25:32,880 Speaker 1: we that Rochesterians like and look forward to and we 1785 01:25:33,080 --> 01:25:35,280 Speaker 1: miss if it's gone. Yeah, the training camp is always 1786 01:25:35,280 --> 01:25:37,639 Speaker 1: such a huge part of building the team. And we've 1787 01:25:37,680 --> 01:25:40,680 Speaker 1: talked about this for at length, Fad Murph and I 1788 01:25:40,760 --> 01:25:45,000 Speaker 1: about how continuity this year may be a huge benefit 1789 01:25:45,080 --> 01:25:46,880 Speaker 1: for the teams that don't have a new head coach. 1790 01:25:46,920 --> 01:25:49,360 Speaker 1: It didn't switch coordinators, and I look down at the 1791 01:25:49,439 --> 01:25:52,160 Speaker 1: Bills opponents. They do not play a single team this 1792 01:25:52,320 --> 01:25:55,000 Speaker 1: year with a new head coach or first year head coach. 1793 01:25:55,800 --> 01:25:58,360 Speaker 1: Certainly some of them, like the Miami Dolphins, have switched 1794 01:25:58,439 --> 01:26:02,439 Speaker 1: coordinators offensive coordinator. But continuity that you build in training 1795 01:26:02,520 --> 01:26:06,120 Speaker 1: camp this year make camp for a lot, particularly if 1796 01:26:06,160 --> 01:26:08,320 Speaker 1: teams go in with a lot of their core players 1797 01:26:08,320 --> 01:26:11,720 Speaker 1: who have been in the system. The Bills don't look 1798 01:26:11,760 --> 01:26:13,760 Speaker 1: like they are getting a lot of benefit from that 1799 01:26:13,840 --> 01:26:15,880 Speaker 1: because they're not playing a team that's you know, totally 1800 01:26:15,960 --> 01:26:18,880 Speaker 1: revamped ever on the whole season schedule. But there are 1801 01:26:18,960 --> 01:26:20,800 Speaker 1: going to be some teams that do benefit from it, 1802 01:26:20,920 --> 01:26:23,560 Speaker 1: and this year maybe a time when they get the 1803 01:26:23,640 --> 01:26:26,200 Speaker 1: most benefit from it is that they don't have an 1804 01:26:26,200 --> 01:26:29,439 Speaker 1: off season. I totally agree, you know, and I think 1805 01:26:29,560 --> 01:26:31,400 Speaker 1: the thing that point I think you maybe you're bounced 1806 01:26:31,400 --> 01:26:33,280 Speaker 1: around a little bit, is that training camp is going 1807 01:26:33,320 --> 01:26:35,160 Speaker 1: to be much more vital than it has been, you know, 1808 01:26:35,479 --> 01:26:38,479 Speaker 1: in a lot other years because every other year, last fifteen, 1809 01:26:38,520 --> 01:26:40,920 Speaker 1: twenty thirty, whatever it is, you have OTAs, you have 1810 01:26:41,200 --> 01:26:43,439 Speaker 1: the mini camps, you have May and June where these 1811 01:26:43,479 --> 01:26:45,920 Speaker 1: guys are essentially practicing, and the way you know NFL 1812 01:26:45,960 --> 01:26:49,759 Speaker 1: teams practiced now, where full pads and full contact practices 1813 01:26:49,760 --> 01:26:52,080 Speaker 1: are almost entirely a thing of the past, your May 1814 01:26:52,160 --> 01:26:54,960 Speaker 1: and June sessions are almost as valuable as as your 1815 01:26:55,040 --> 01:26:59,160 Speaker 1: July and August ones are. So without that first two months, 1816 01:26:59,200 --> 01:27:01,640 Speaker 1: six weeks whatever is of mini camp and stuff to 1817 01:27:01,680 --> 01:27:03,840 Speaker 1: get ready. These teams are going to have to put 1818 01:27:03,880 --> 01:27:06,680 Speaker 1: a lot of work into that four or five or 1819 01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:08,840 Speaker 1: six week period whatever. We get a training camp this year, 1820 01:27:09,200 --> 01:27:12,200 Speaker 1: and that not only the head coaches, but the coordinators, 1821 01:27:12,240 --> 01:27:14,080 Speaker 1: the teams that know exactly how to get it downe 1822 01:27:14,160 --> 01:27:16,679 Speaker 1: what works for them, what works among their coaching staffs, 1823 01:27:16,880 --> 01:27:18,879 Speaker 1: I think is going to have an advantage. I'm surprised, 1824 01:27:19,000 --> 01:27:21,000 Speaker 1: you know, you knock on me about you know, having 1825 01:27:21,080 --> 01:27:24,000 Speaker 1: time to look at things. Steve figured out that they 1826 01:27:24,040 --> 01:27:26,880 Speaker 1: don't play a team with the head coach, but it's unusual. 1827 01:27:26,960 --> 01:27:30,120 Speaker 1: The Bills caught that this year, and I think, you know, 1828 01:27:30,280 --> 01:27:32,439 Speaker 1: not keeping your head coach is not going to be 1829 01:27:32,439 --> 01:27:34,400 Speaker 1: the only thing that counts were continuity. The coordinators matter 1830 01:27:34,439 --> 01:27:36,160 Speaker 1: a lot too, and I think the Bill still have 1831 01:27:36,200 --> 01:27:38,320 Speaker 1: a pretty big advantage with all the continuity they build 1832 01:27:38,360 --> 01:27:41,040 Speaker 1: up here. Hey Dad, thanks for this, Stay healthy. We'll 1833 01:27:41,080 --> 01:27:44,000 Speaker 1: talk again. Thank you. Hey you guys too. Man, Just good, 1834 01:27:44,040 --> 01:27:45,599 Speaker 1: you know, like Brandon Bean says, he's right, just good 1835 01:27:45,640 --> 01:27:49,800 Speaker 1: to see faces. Yeah right, thanks. D Brown Spots director 1836 01:27:49,960 --> 01:27:52,960 Speaker 1: w R OCTV and Rochester. He's on the sidelines for 1837 01:27:53,040 --> 01:27:56,360 Speaker 1: Bill's preseason broadcasts. He's covered the Bill since two thousand 1838 01:27:56,640 --> 01:27:58,920 Speaker 1: good guests, a lot of good thoughts or that it's 1839 01:27:58,960 --> 01:28:00,920 Speaker 1: hard to believe. Steve, You're right that he's gone through 1840 01:28:01,040 --> 01:28:04,880 Speaker 1: all prime time games and found a hole for every game, 1841 01:28:05,400 --> 01:28:08,080 Speaker 1: not necessarily which night it would be, but you know, 1842 01:28:08,280 --> 01:28:10,320 Speaker 1: just to identify that's a prime time game, that's prime 1843 01:28:10,360 --> 01:28:12,960 Speaker 1: time game. Maybe there's a chopper that at the league office. 1844 01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:15,599 Speaker 1: I'm doing that well. I don't know that. I don't 1845 01:28:15,600 --> 01:28:19,200 Speaker 1: know if he would be considered essential, but certainly they 1846 01:28:19,200 --> 01:28:21,760 Speaker 1: could find a spot form. Yeah, particularly how if he 1847 01:28:21,840 --> 01:28:24,880 Speaker 1: gets forty eight out of forty eight, then there would 1848 01:28:24,880 --> 01:28:26,960 Speaker 1: be got a break and then we're back one Bills 1849 01:28:27,000 --> 01:28:30,080 Speaker 1: I presented by Collada Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio 1850 01:28:36,920 --> 01:28:39,360 Speaker 1: coming out flor night. What do you think the Bills 1851 01:28:39,400 --> 01:28:42,519 Speaker 1: ready to be the hunted rather than the hunter? That's 1852 01:28:42,560 --> 01:28:45,360 Speaker 1: our Twitter poll today, which you prefer? We got six 1853 01:28:45,520 --> 01:28:48,160 Speaker 1: hundred votes in on the Twitter poll. Sixty six percent 1854 01:28:48,280 --> 01:28:50,439 Speaker 1: two thirds of you say you really rather have the 1855 01:28:50,439 --> 01:28:53,479 Speaker 1: Bills be the underdog. Thirty four percent say you'd prefer 1856 01:28:53,600 --> 01:28:55,400 Speaker 1: them being the favorite, which they're going to be a 1857 01:28:55,479 --> 01:28:57,360 Speaker 1: lot more this year, you would think, give us a 1858 01:28:57,439 --> 01:29:00,639 Speaker 1: call to discuss eight oh three h five fifty outside 1859 01:29:00,680 --> 01:29:04,280 Speaker 1: Buffalo toll free one eight eight five fifty two five fifty, 1860 01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:06,840 Speaker 1: go to one Bill's nive, voting our twitter poll, or 1861 01:29:06,880 --> 01:29:09,000 Speaker 1: sending a tweet for the tweet sheet. Let's get to 1862 01:29:09,040 --> 01:29:11,040 Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, Steve, I got a couple of tweets. 1863 01:29:11,040 --> 01:29:13,600 Speaker 1: I got one tweet. You're in particular that we absolutely 1864 01:29:13,680 --> 01:29:16,360 Speaker 1: cannot ignore. When we ask the question, are the Bills 1865 01:29:16,360 --> 01:29:19,400 Speaker 1: ready to be the hundred rather than the Hunter? Kevin says, 1866 01:29:20,320 --> 01:29:25,080 Speaker 1: as you well know, Steve, we had our best years 1867 01:29:25,080 --> 01:29:27,920 Speaker 1: of the franchise when we were the favorites. Kevin gets 1868 01:29:27,960 --> 01:29:31,120 Speaker 1: in a shot. Well, Steve tell us, as you well know, 1869 01:29:32,479 --> 01:29:34,640 Speaker 1: when you're the favorites, you're expected to win. And so 1870 01:29:34,840 --> 01:29:37,599 Speaker 1: you win, right, not why you win, but you're you're 1871 01:29:37,600 --> 01:29:39,560 Speaker 1: a favorite for a reason. You're a favorite for a 1872 01:29:39,600 --> 01:29:41,960 Speaker 1: reason because you're good, and that's a that's a fun 1873 01:29:42,040 --> 01:29:44,320 Speaker 1: team to cheer for, no question about it. You're right 1874 01:29:44,520 --> 01:29:48,360 Speaker 1: and the end and the team has the mentality of, um, 1875 01:29:49,520 --> 01:29:51,639 Speaker 1: we're favorite for a reason. You're gonna find out why. 1876 01:29:51,720 --> 01:29:53,320 Speaker 1: We're gonna show you that kind of thing, so you 1877 01:29:53,360 --> 01:29:56,320 Speaker 1: can you know, the team spins it into a positive, 1878 01:29:56,400 --> 01:29:58,759 Speaker 1: no question to get ready for it and as an underdog, 1879 01:29:59,640 --> 01:30:02,720 Speaker 1: the chance to overcome a great obstacle and get more 1880 01:30:02,760 --> 01:30:06,760 Speaker 1: credit for it is obvious. So um, yeah, as I 1881 01:30:06,880 --> 01:30:10,680 Speaker 1: well know, that's that's all. Both those sides of that 1882 01:30:10,800 --> 01:30:12,920 Speaker 1: argument are true. And we've seen yeah, I mean you've 1883 01:30:12,920 --> 01:30:14,640 Speaker 1: seen him, or if we've laughed, you and I have 1884 01:30:15,200 --> 01:30:17,720 Speaker 1: laughed at guys who have jumped through hoops to make 1885 01:30:17,800 --> 01:30:21,519 Speaker 1: themselves into this pathetic figure, you know, right like they're 1886 01:30:21,520 --> 01:30:24,320 Speaker 1: gonna over like who was it was? It was an 1887 01:30:24,400 --> 01:30:27,840 Speaker 1: Edelman last year, like nobody believes in us? And I'm like, 1888 01:30:27,920 --> 01:30:30,559 Speaker 1: come on, you know, we've seen guys jump through hoops 1889 01:30:30,600 --> 01:30:32,920 Speaker 1: like that to get themselves ready and that will never stop. 1890 01:30:33,280 --> 01:30:36,599 Speaker 1: Here's one interesting one from Matt. We're not the hunted yet. 1891 01:30:36,920 --> 01:30:39,800 Speaker 1: We have to win this year first. The Browns, he says, 1892 01:30:39,960 --> 01:30:42,639 Speaker 1: are the not so distant reminder of on paper champions. 1893 01:30:42,680 --> 01:30:44,040 Speaker 1: If we can have a great year this year with 1894 01:30:44,120 --> 01:30:46,320 Speaker 1: the schedule and tablan and all three phases on the roster, 1895 01:30:46,720 --> 01:30:48,839 Speaker 1: then we will be the hunted, which will be awesome. 1896 01:30:49,160 --> 01:30:52,240 Speaker 1: He brings up the specter of the Browns. He's right, 1897 01:30:52,479 --> 01:30:54,599 Speaker 1: it's good to remember that, Steve. It's good to remember 1898 01:30:54,640 --> 01:30:57,120 Speaker 1: that we were all over him last year. We thought, Wow, 1899 01:30:57,160 --> 01:30:58,800 Speaker 1: they are gonna be good. It's gonna be you know, 1900 01:30:58,880 --> 01:31:00,599 Speaker 1: a tough game and all that. And then they come 1901 01:31:00,640 --> 01:31:03,639 Speaker 1: out and and we all and we all have our 1902 01:31:03,720 --> 01:31:06,200 Speaker 1: theories as to why, and most of them center around 1903 01:31:06,240 --> 01:31:08,720 Speaker 1: Freddie Kitchens as head coach. It was just too much 1904 01:31:08,760 --> 01:31:11,320 Speaker 1: for him to handle. He wasn't ready for it, and 1905 01:31:12,320 --> 01:31:14,240 Speaker 1: it cost him their season. It cost him a really 1906 01:31:14,320 --> 01:31:18,320 Speaker 1: good chance to be a much better football team. Now 1907 01:31:18,960 --> 01:31:22,680 Speaker 1: they've changed head coaches once again, Baker Mayfield is on. 1908 01:31:22,880 --> 01:31:26,080 Speaker 1: Is this his fourth head kid? Is it's his fourth 1909 01:31:26,120 --> 01:31:31,519 Speaker 1: head coach, third head coach, and that's you know, you 1910 01:31:31,600 --> 01:31:33,720 Speaker 1: gotta get it together. Sometimes. I think the pressure is 1911 01:31:33,760 --> 01:31:35,719 Speaker 1: really on some of the guys that are in that building. 1912 01:31:35,760 --> 01:31:39,320 Speaker 1: You know, Baker Mayfield for one fourth, right because Greg 1913 01:31:39,360 --> 01:31:42,360 Speaker 1: Williams finished off his rookie years, that's right as an interim, 1914 01:31:42,840 --> 01:31:46,280 Speaker 1: as an interim, but yeah, it is this fourth guy 1915 01:31:46,320 --> 01:31:49,080 Speaker 1: who's acted as head coach for the Browns under Baker Mayfield. 1916 01:31:49,160 --> 01:31:51,760 Speaker 1: Josh Allen has had the same coordinator, same head coach, 1917 01:31:51,840 --> 01:31:55,560 Speaker 1: same defensive coordinator for all three of his years, and 1918 01:31:56,240 --> 01:31:59,040 Speaker 1: I think he's seeing the benefits of it. Certainly last 1919 01:31:59,120 --> 01:32:00,720 Speaker 1: year that was the case. What do you got on 1920 01:32:00,800 --> 01:32:02,960 Speaker 1: your tweet sheet though, Stevie? From Dave, he says, you 1921 01:32:03,000 --> 01:32:05,200 Speaker 1: don't want your team to be the underdog. You can't 1922 01:32:05,320 --> 01:32:07,960 Speaker 1: hide once you get good. I would rather be the 1923 01:32:08,040 --> 01:32:11,400 Speaker 1: team people fear playing. That means you're for real. Now, 1924 01:32:11,479 --> 01:32:15,000 Speaker 1: He's right, it's fun to be that team on the schedule. 1925 01:32:15,360 --> 01:32:16,880 Speaker 1: Other teams go down and look and saying, now, you 1926 01:32:16,920 --> 01:32:18,640 Speaker 1: gotta we gotta win, we gotta win there, We're gonna now, 1927 01:32:18,680 --> 01:32:22,479 Speaker 1: we're gonna lose it, Buffalo. You know, it's fun. It's 1928 01:32:22,520 --> 01:32:25,200 Speaker 1: fun to be that team. You know, it's fun to 1929 01:32:25,280 --> 01:32:27,600 Speaker 1: have guys who other teams like, Wow, I don't know 1930 01:32:27,640 --> 01:32:29,240 Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. I don't know what we're gonna 1931 01:32:29,280 --> 01:32:31,280 Speaker 1: do with Devin Singletary. I don't know what we're gonna 1932 01:32:31,280 --> 01:32:33,519 Speaker 1: do with Stefan digg Man. Those guys are real, you 1933 01:32:33,560 --> 01:32:35,560 Speaker 1: know what I mean. That's fun to have guys like that. 1934 01:32:36,840 --> 01:32:39,080 Speaker 1: And it's you wear that. I think fans were does 1935 01:32:39,080 --> 01:32:42,120 Speaker 1: a badge of honor. So I agree with Dave. Here's 1936 01:32:42,120 --> 01:32:45,040 Speaker 1: an interesting tweet on the tweet sheet from Anthony. He says, 1937 01:32:45,200 --> 01:32:47,200 Speaker 1: and this I think is you know, it's only thirty 1938 01:32:47,320 --> 01:32:49,800 Speaker 1: eight percent of whatever of our Twitter poll respondents. But 1939 01:32:49,840 --> 01:32:53,400 Speaker 1: Anthony says, our Buffalo Bills will always be the underdog. 1940 01:32:53,800 --> 01:32:55,960 Speaker 1: We may be getting noticed now that Brady left in 1941 01:32:56,000 --> 01:32:58,240 Speaker 1: the division is open, but will we ever be favored 1942 01:32:58,280 --> 01:33:02,040 Speaker 1: to beat Seattle, Sanford, Cisco, Kansas City, etc. People will 1943 01:33:02,040 --> 01:33:04,320 Speaker 1: still write us off and we will prove them wrong. 1944 01:33:04,640 --> 01:33:07,880 Speaker 1: There is an element of Bills fan belief Steve that 1945 01:33:08,600 --> 01:33:10,960 Speaker 1: they like being the underdog. Clearly they like the fact 1946 01:33:10,960 --> 01:33:13,439 Speaker 1: that people write them off. You know, chip on your shoulder, 1947 01:33:13,560 --> 01:33:15,639 Speaker 1: we proved you wrong. See we're better than you thought. 1948 01:33:15,680 --> 01:33:18,320 Speaker 1: I think some Gills fans enjoy that. Yeah, I think so. 1949 01:33:18,479 --> 01:33:20,640 Speaker 1: And from the looks of the schedule, Murph, when you're 1950 01:33:20,680 --> 01:33:22,960 Speaker 1: playing both teams in the Super Bowl from a year ago, 1951 01:33:23,040 --> 01:33:26,360 Speaker 1: and a couple of teams that are perennial playoff contenders, 1952 01:33:26,400 --> 01:33:29,280 Speaker 1: and you've got, you know, teams that are virtually always 1953 01:33:29,280 --> 01:33:33,400 Speaker 1: in contention like the Steelers, you know that there's gonna 1954 01:33:33,400 --> 01:33:34,920 Speaker 1: be some games on the schedule that you're not going 1955 01:33:35,000 --> 01:33:36,960 Speaker 1: to be favored, no matter how good you're playing. If 1956 01:33:37,000 --> 01:33:39,160 Speaker 1: you're playing those teams on the road, if you're going 1957 01:33:39,320 --> 01:33:44,360 Speaker 1: to if you're going to the forty nine Ers, you 1958 01:33:44,520 --> 01:33:47,240 Speaker 1: might not be favored. If you're going to New England 1959 01:33:47,280 --> 01:33:49,400 Speaker 1: with or without Tom Brady, you may not be favored 1960 01:33:49,439 --> 01:33:52,080 Speaker 1: depending on what time of year that games played. Tennessee Titans, 1961 01:33:52,120 --> 01:33:54,120 Speaker 1: a playoff team that made a hot run last year, 1962 01:33:54,400 --> 01:33:56,920 Speaker 1: you may not be favored in that game. You may 1963 01:33:57,000 --> 01:33:59,479 Speaker 1: not be favored at home against the Kansas City Chiefs. 1964 01:34:00,680 --> 01:34:02,800 Speaker 1: So there's a lot of times when you're still gonna 1965 01:34:03,040 --> 01:34:07,639 Speaker 1: be able to play that that underdog card going through 1966 01:34:07,720 --> 01:34:09,640 Speaker 1: this season for the Buffalo Bills, until they get to 1967 01:34:09,720 --> 01:34:11,760 Speaker 1: a point where they're a conference champion or a Super 1968 01:34:11,800 --> 01:34:15,639 Speaker 1: Bowl champion, or have gone deep into the playoffs, You're 1969 01:34:16,120 --> 01:34:18,080 Speaker 1: you're gonna meet a number of teams on your schedule 1970 01:34:18,120 --> 01:34:21,080 Speaker 1: that they are gonna be favored over you. Yep. Hey. 1971 01:34:21,120 --> 01:34:23,320 Speaker 1: One of the great stories on the twenty twenty Buffalo 1972 01:34:23,400 --> 01:34:26,599 Speaker 1: Bill is bound to be Harrison Phillips and his recovery 1973 01:34:26,680 --> 01:34:29,240 Speaker 1: from a pretty serious injury last year. Looks like he's 1974 01:34:29,320 --> 01:34:31,559 Speaker 1: right on schedule to come back. He's been working hard, 1975 01:34:31,800 --> 01:34:33,760 Speaker 1: He's been doing a lot in the community as well 1976 01:34:34,120 --> 01:34:37,479 Speaker 1: as he kind of helps out with the coronavirus recovery. 1977 01:34:37,520 --> 01:34:40,880 Speaker 1: Harrison Phillips schedule to join us next hour stuck around 1978 01:34:40,920 --> 01:34:42,800 Speaker 1: for that. It's One Bill's Live presenta back a lot 1979 01:34:42,880 --> 01:34:45,880 Speaker 1: of else radio only today. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. 1980 01:34:52,760 --> 01:34:55,360 Speaker 1: The update from One Bills Live Today. The schedule's coming 1981 01:34:55,400 --> 01:34:57,880 Speaker 1: out tomorrow. Buffalo Bills and the rest of the NFL 1982 01:34:58,000 --> 01:35:00,400 Speaker 1: waiting to find out where they play, when they play. 1983 01:35:00,479 --> 01:35:03,559 Speaker 1: When the schedule is released for teams all over the NFL. 1984 01:35:05,200 --> 01:35:07,719 Speaker 1: Opponents are already known, but the Home and the Ways 1985 01:35:07,920 --> 01:35:09,479 Speaker 1: and the Home and the Way schedule is known, but 1986 01:35:09,720 --> 01:35:12,839 Speaker 1: when those games actually take place still to be determined, 1987 01:35:13,080 --> 01:35:15,360 Speaker 1: and the league is ready to announce a sixteen game 1988 01:35:15,439 --> 01:35:19,560 Speaker 1: schedule over a seventeen week period starting in early September, 1989 01:35:19,640 --> 01:35:22,280 Speaker 1: so we'll see it tomorrow. While they plan to play 1990 01:35:22,280 --> 01:35:24,960 Speaker 1: a full regular season schedule, the league has formulated the 1991 01:35:25,040 --> 01:35:28,960 Speaker 1: ticket refund planning for canceled games or those help without fans. 1992 01:35:29,280 --> 01:35:31,840 Speaker 1: The Bills announced theres today. All clubs will have a 1993 01:35:31,920 --> 01:35:34,759 Speaker 1: place in a policy which, if a game is canceled 1994 01:35:34,840 --> 01:35:38,799 Speaker 1: or played under conditions that prohibit fans from attending, anyone 1995 01:35:38,920 --> 01:35:41,479 Speaker 1: purchasing the ticket directly from the club will have the 1996 01:35:41,560 --> 01:35:44,360 Speaker 1: option of either receiving a full refund or applying the 1997 01:35:44,400 --> 01:35:48,120 Speaker 1: amount toward a future ticket price ticket purchase from the club. 1998 01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:50,599 Speaker 1: The tails on that can be found at our website 1999 01:35:50,640 --> 01:35:54,719 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills dot com. Jets wide receiver Quincy and Nunua 2000 01:35:55,160 --> 01:35:56,679 Speaker 1: is out for the rest of the year. He played 2001 01:35:56,720 --> 01:35:58,519 Speaker 1: only one game last year with a neck injury. He 2002 01:35:58,560 --> 01:36:01,559 Speaker 1: will not play in twenty twenty. His once promising NFL 2003 01:36:01,680 --> 01:36:04,719 Speaker 1: career is in jeopardy. He missed the twenty seventeen season 2004 01:36:04,760 --> 01:36:08,639 Speaker 1: with next surgery. Reinjured the neck in the twenty nineteen opener, 2005 01:36:08,880 --> 01:36:10,519 Speaker 1: and when the season ended, he said he wanted to 2006 01:36:10,600 --> 01:36:13,799 Speaker 1: continue playing, but it wasn't sure if he'd be medically clear. Instead, 2007 01:36:13,840 --> 01:36:16,920 Speaker 1: he's been put on the pup list along with another 2008 01:36:17,000 --> 01:36:20,919 Speaker 1: Jets wide receiver, Josh Bellamy, who has the shoulder injury. Jacksonville. 2009 01:36:21,000 --> 01:36:23,760 Speaker 1: Jagubuar said even though they did not pick up Leonard 2010 01:36:23,800 --> 01:36:26,280 Speaker 1: Fournete's fifth year option, they are going to count on 2011 01:36:26,439 --> 01:36:28,080 Speaker 1: him to be a big part of their offense. They 2012 01:36:28,160 --> 01:36:30,479 Speaker 1: were shopping the fourth overall pick for more than a 2013 01:36:30,560 --> 01:36:33,880 Speaker 1: month without any serious trade offers, but they say that 2014 01:36:34,200 --> 01:36:38,320 Speaker 1: Fournette is part of the team's future moving forward. And 2015 01:36:38,479 --> 01:36:41,679 Speaker 1: two a Tago Vaaloa will wear number one first quarterback 2016 01:36:41,720 --> 01:36:44,320 Speaker 1: in Miami Dolphins history to do that. He wore number 2017 01:36:44,360 --> 01:36:47,200 Speaker 1: thirteen in college in Alabama. That number is retired by 2018 01:36:47,240 --> 01:36:50,720 Speaker 1: the Dolphins for Dan Marino. So Tagovayalloah drafted by the 2019 01:36:50,760 --> 01:36:53,320 Speaker 1: Dolphins with the fifth pick at last month, Straft is 2020 01:36:53,360 --> 01:36:55,560 Speaker 1: going to wear number one for the Miami Dolphins in 2021 01:36:55,640 --> 01:36:57,800 Speaker 1: the upcoming season. And there you go. That is the 2022 01:36:58,040 --> 01:37:01,320 Speaker 1: update from One Bill's Live. John Murphy Steve Tasker covered 2023 01:37:01,360 --> 01:37:04,000 Speaker 1: to year. We got one hour ago. We've got Harrison 2024 01:37:04,080 --> 01:37:07,519 Speaker 1: Phillips coming up on the Show'd be good to talk 2025 01:37:07,560 --> 01:37:09,559 Speaker 1: with him, Steve. He's putting a he's putting a lot 2026 01:37:09,600 --> 01:37:13,320 Speaker 1: of work during the soft season, getting recovered from his 2027 01:37:13,400 --> 01:37:16,479 Speaker 1: torn acl suffered early last year, and then everything was 2028 01:37:16,520 --> 01:37:20,040 Speaker 1: just cut short by the quarantine. I'm interested to see 2029 01:37:20,120 --> 01:37:24,000 Speaker 1: how that's gon form to have his whole rehab regiment 2030 01:37:24,080 --> 01:37:27,240 Speaker 1: kind of interrupted by the quarantine. Yeah, I imagine had 2031 01:37:27,320 --> 01:37:30,920 Speaker 1: kept doing some of it as well. I'm I'm just 2032 01:37:31,200 --> 01:37:33,080 Speaker 1: thinking about what you said the last little bit you 2033 01:37:33,160 --> 01:37:35,839 Speaker 1: said there on the update about two attack of Iloa. 2034 01:37:36,160 --> 01:37:38,519 Speaker 1: Do I I wonder if Bills fans really care what 2035 01:37:38,640 --> 01:37:40,760 Speaker 1: their opponent's numbers are gonna be. Does do you ever 2036 01:37:41,000 --> 01:37:43,040 Speaker 1: care about what number one I mean that sounds seems 2037 01:37:43,080 --> 01:37:45,600 Speaker 1: like a story because he wore number thirteen. Now that 2038 01:37:45,840 --> 01:37:50,240 Speaker 1: numbers taken, Oh, it's such a catastrophe. Come on, nobody 2039 01:37:50,280 --> 01:37:52,080 Speaker 1: cares what number you've got as long as you wear 2040 01:37:52,080 --> 01:37:54,280 Speaker 1: at the same, the same number every year. And even 2041 01:37:54,400 --> 01:37:57,320 Speaker 1: people were throwing a hissy fit over Cole Beasley changing 2042 01:37:57,400 --> 01:38:00,880 Speaker 1: too number eleven you know this year instead wearing number ten. 2043 01:38:02,320 --> 01:38:04,519 Speaker 1: Who just keep the same number. Nobody cares what number 2044 01:38:04,520 --> 01:38:07,200 Speaker 1: it is. Just get one. Why is it a big 2045 01:38:07,280 --> 01:38:10,200 Speaker 1: deal that what ta is gonna wear number one? Here 2046 01:38:10,280 --> 01:38:13,799 Speaker 1: the updates tomorrow, Steve No, I just think No, I agree. 2047 01:38:14,680 --> 01:38:18,080 Speaker 1: Why it's every No, You're right, it's everywhere. Everybody's talking 2048 01:38:18,120 --> 01:38:21,280 Speaker 1: about it on Twitter, on social media, all the art. 2049 01:38:21,439 --> 01:38:24,679 Speaker 1: There's articles being written about it. Why about tah wearing 2050 01:38:24,800 --> 01:38:28,000 Speaker 1: number one? Yeah? Well, I mean I don't think it's 2051 01:38:28,080 --> 01:38:31,479 Speaker 1: that big a deal. I do think, Well, wearing number 2052 01:38:31,479 --> 01:38:33,519 Speaker 1: one is sort of a symbol, right, isn't it a 2053 01:38:33,600 --> 01:38:35,679 Speaker 1: little bit? Well do you think of a Bill's player 2054 01:38:35,760 --> 01:38:38,840 Speaker 1: war number one? It must have been every other number 2055 01:38:38,920 --> 01:38:41,840 Speaker 1: taken number one? Yeah, number one is a little bit 2056 01:38:41,880 --> 01:38:44,200 Speaker 1: of a statement. It's like a goalie, you know, you 2057 01:38:44,280 --> 01:38:46,639 Speaker 1: can get see your goalie wearing number one. Okay, fine, 2058 01:38:46,680 --> 01:38:50,160 Speaker 1: but man, oh man skater, come on, come on, I'm 2059 01:38:50,240 --> 01:38:53,280 Speaker 1: you know, I'm number one. I yeah, it's a little 2060 01:38:53,320 --> 01:38:56,599 Speaker 1: bit of a thing. But yeah, why would why would 2061 01:38:56,640 --> 01:38:58,840 Speaker 1: he agree to that is my thing? Why would he 2062 01:38:58,920 --> 01:39:01,640 Speaker 1: pick number one? You know? Why not enough? If he 2063 01:39:01,680 --> 01:39:04,719 Speaker 1: wants to single digit, why not you know, three instead 2064 01:39:04,720 --> 01:39:07,040 Speaker 1: of I don't know, why do you take the number 2065 01:39:07,080 --> 01:39:09,360 Speaker 1: one in the thirteen? Why not pick the three? I 2066 01:39:09,439 --> 01:39:12,400 Speaker 1: don't know. I just number one is a difference, is 2067 01:39:12,400 --> 01:39:14,360 Speaker 1: a little bit of a difference. But you know, Tyler, 2068 01:39:14,680 --> 01:39:17,280 Speaker 1: Tyler Murray, I guess were last year, right, He's number one? 2069 01:39:17,640 --> 01:39:22,960 Speaker 1: Tyler Murray, Tyler Murray. Yeah, so you know, okay, fine, 2070 01:39:23,000 --> 01:39:26,720 Speaker 1: we're number one. Why you know, nobody's making a big 2071 01:39:26,800 --> 01:39:30,080 Speaker 1: deal by Joe Burrow's number? What is his number? First? 2072 01:39:30,600 --> 01:39:33,040 Speaker 1: Who cares? Nobody can that's just nobody cares I real 2073 01:39:34,160 --> 01:39:38,240 Speaker 1: either for that matter, just because it was just because 2074 01:39:38,280 --> 01:39:40,880 Speaker 1: his college number was a retired number. Yeah, that made 2075 01:39:40,880 --> 01:39:42,280 Speaker 1: it a bit of a story. And then he chose 2076 01:39:42,400 --> 01:39:45,200 Speaker 1: number one. You know, it's not a look. Nobody's stopping 2077 01:39:45,240 --> 01:39:48,360 Speaker 1: the presses to report this. Nobody's gonna win a pultre 2078 01:39:48,439 --> 01:39:52,240 Speaker 1: Prize reporting that two attack of yoloach is gonna wear 2079 01:39:52,360 --> 01:39:54,880 Speaker 1: number one, But it's worth I think it's a Miami thing, 2080 01:39:54,920 --> 01:39:57,400 Speaker 1: a South Florida thing. Anytime you can write an article 2081 01:39:57,479 --> 01:40:00,439 Speaker 1: and that has Dan Marino reference in it, it's it's 2082 01:40:00,439 --> 01:40:03,519 Speaker 1: a good thing, right. I guess since Marino's the guy 2083 01:40:03,560 --> 01:40:07,080 Speaker 1: that has his jersey retired. Sure, I think that's a stretch. 2084 01:40:07,120 --> 01:40:09,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna say honor for me. Hey, have you followed 2085 01:40:10,080 --> 01:40:12,519 Speaker 1: much speaking to the Dolphins of the uh? You know 2086 01:40:12,600 --> 01:40:14,920 Speaker 1: the last two days since Don Shula passed away there 2087 01:40:14,960 --> 01:40:18,240 Speaker 1: and there? You know the Dolphins, Uh, I guess you 2088 01:40:18,280 --> 01:40:22,240 Speaker 1: know they have pretty you know, well, yeah, it's unlike Buffalo. 2089 01:40:22,360 --> 01:40:26,040 Speaker 1: They have a long and they have a strong alumni 2090 01:40:26,160 --> 01:40:28,120 Speaker 1: list of guys who stay there in South Florida for 2091 01:40:28,320 --> 01:40:31,960 Speaker 1: weather obviously, and they all came out pretty strong for 2092 01:40:32,120 --> 01:40:34,519 Speaker 1: Don Shula this week, as you would expect. Right, everybody 2093 01:40:34,840 --> 01:40:37,080 Speaker 1: talked about how much he meant, how much would be missed. 2094 01:40:37,160 --> 01:40:39,639 Speaker 1: I was impressed by all that. Yeah, I was glad 2095 01:40:39,680 --> 01:40:41,840 Speaker 1: to see it. I I've had a chance during my 2096 01:40:42,000 --> 01:40:43,720 Speaker 1: time as a broadcast were going around and doing a 2097 01:40:43,760 --> 01:40:45,840 Speaker 1: couple of Miami games, both on the on the road, 2098 01:40:45,880 --> 01:40:47,519 Speaker 1: and in Miami get a chance to road and you 2099 01:40:47,600 --> 01:40:49,000 Speaker 1: have too. I mean, you go down. We play him 2100 01:40:49,000 --> 01:40:50,920 Speaker 1: twice a year, so you got you know, Joe Rose 2101 01:40:50,960 --> 01:40:53,880 Speaker 1: and those guys, their radio crew, and they're just a 2102 01:40:53,920 --> 01:40:57,280 Speaker 1: great bunch of guys, Bob Greasy, all of them. They 2103 01:40:57,320 --> 01:40:59,200 Speaker 1: just seem real personal. And I had a chance to 2104 01:40:59,240 --> 01:41:01,040 Speaker 1: sit down with a whole table full of them in 2105 01:41:01,439 --> 01:41:03,439 Speaker 1: Indianapolis when I did a game for them. I had 2106 01:41:03,479 --> 01:41:05,679 Speaker 1: a chance to sit down with just in a casual dinner. 2107 01:41:06,560 --> 01:41:08,920 Speaker 1: The GM was there, their broadcast crew was there, some 2108 01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:10,720 Speaker 1: of their notable alumni were there, and it couldn't have 2109 01:41:10,760 --> 01:41:13,120 Speaker 1: been a nicer environment. They were a great bunch of people, 2110 01:41:13,240 --> 01:41:19,240 Speaker 1: great stories to tell, really respectful of them of one another, 2111 01:41:19,479 --> 01:41:21,880 Speaker 1: and me being a Buffalo bill guy kind of hanging 2112 01:41:21,920 --> 01:41:24,960 Speaker 1: out they you know, was a good natured and that 2113 01:41:25,080 --> 01:41:28,000 Speaker 1: was really nice to see that from from the guys 2114 01:41:28,120 --> 01:41:30,640 Speaker 1: from Miami come out and I kind of expected him 2115 01:41:30,680 --> 01:41:33,479 Speaker 1: come out and really go to Batford. Don Shula's being one, 2116 01:41:33,680 --> 01:41:36,240 Speaker 1: you know, if one of, if not the greatest head 2117 01:41:36,280 --> 01:41:39,240 Speaker 1: coach of all time, he's certainly in the conversation. And 2118 01:41:39,880 --> 01:41:41,760 Speaker 1: I told you last week a couple of days ago 2119 01:41:41,880 --> 01:41:46,240 Speaker 1: that my interactions with him were. I was really impressed 2120 01:41:46,320 --> 01:41:49,240 Speaker 1: with him, so I was glad to see it. He 2121 01:41:49,320 --> 01:41:52,160 Speaker 1: deserved it, you know what. John Kidd mentioned it on 2122 01:41:52,280 --> 01:41:54,880 Speaker 1: our show two days ago, and I've seen it since 2123 01:41:54,920 --> 01:41:57,880 Speaker 1: then a number of places. I guess I overlooked to 2124 01:41:58,000 --> 01:42:01,400 Speaker 1: a certain extent how much of an icon Don Shula 2125 01:42:01,479 --> 01:42:03,559 Speaker 1: was in Miami. Not so much for the football, which 2126 01:42:03,640 --> 01:42:06,800 Speaker 1: was huge, but I mean he was a major He 2127 01:42:06,960 --> 01:42:09,519 Speaker 1: was a major figure in like the charitable endeavors in 2128 01:42:09,640 --> 01:42:11,920 Speaker 1: South Florida, at least maybe not so much a less 2129 01:42:12,000 --> 01:42:15,360 Speaker 1: two or three years, since he's obviously eighty eight, eighty nine, 2130 01:42:15,479 --> 01:42:18,400 Speaker 1: ninety years old, But I mean their name and they 2131 01:42:18,520 --> 01:42:21,559 Speaker 1: named the Interstate Highway after him, right, I mean it's 2132 01:42:21,640 --> 01:42:25,200 Speaker 1: kind of crazy. There's no Marv Levy Highway in western 2133 01:42:25,280 --> 01:42:28,040 Speaker 1: New York, you know what I mean. Yeah, it is 2134 01:42:28,040 --> 01:42:30,800 Speaker 1: a major figure in South Florida. Not you're just for 2135 01:42:30,880 --> 01:42:34,120 Speaker 1: his football. But and actually was it who wrote this? 2136 01:42:34,280 --> 01:42:38,320 Speaker 1: Was that our buddy Armanda. Somebody wrote that Miami as 2137 01:42:38,320 --> 01:42:41,960 Speaker 1: a pro sports town was nothing, absolutely nothing until Don 2138 01:42:42,000 --> 01:42:44,559 Speaker 1: Shula arrived. And I thought he's right, you know, right, 2139 01:42:45,000 --> 01:42:48,320 Speaker 1: you know, this is before the Miami Heat, before the Marylins, 2140 01:42:48,439 --> 01:42:51,479 Speaker 1: before there was anything else going on. It was South Florida. 2141 01:42:51,520 --> 01:42:54,200 Speaker 1: There was you of m stuff. And then the Dolphins 2142 01:42:54,280 --> 01:42:56,479 Speaker 1: arrived in what sixty six and they were playing high 2143 01:42:56,560 --> 01:42:59,840 Speaker 1: lie in Miami. That was right, and made them into 2144 01:43:00,240 --> 01:43:02,360 Speaker 1: kind of a major league talent. He really did so 2145 01:43:02,800 --> 01:43:05,920 Speaker 1: by himself, but he was he was the transition guy 2146 01:43:06,000 --> 01:43:09,280 Speaker 1: for the the and Miami got bigger obviously during his 2147 01:43:09,320 --> 01:43:12,439 Speaker 1: tenure there too. The population expanded a great deal. But 2148 01:43:12,560 --> 01:43:15,280 Speaker 1: he was the kind of the deal breaker. He turned 2149 01:43:15,320 --> 01:43:18,400 Speaker 1: everything around for South Florida, don't you think. Yeah, absolutely, 2150 01:43:18,479 --> 01:43:21,120 Speaker 1: he was probably the driving force well the success of 2151 01:43:21,160 --> 01:43:24,880 Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, was the driving force behind changing things 2152 01:43:24,960 --> 01:43:27,120 Speaker 1: for Miami and be putting them on the sports map. 2153 01:43:27,520 --> 01:43:29,400 Speaker 1: And Don Shula was the guy that made it happen. 2154 01:43:29,520 --> 01:43:32,640 Speaker 1: He built the teams. Um he coached him to you know, 2155 01:43:32,800 --> 01:43:36,559 Speaker 1: had two losing seasons his entire coaching career. Good grief, 2156 01:43:37,439 --> 01:43:41,120 Speaker 1: that's pretty amazing. Uh. And and to then hang out 2157 01:43:41,200 --> 01:43:43,720 Speaker 1: and be there for the remainder, you know, for the 2158 01:43:43,800 --> 01:43:47,640 Speaker 1: twenty five years subsequent to his retirement says a lot 2159 01:43:47,760 --> 01:43:49,720 Speaker 1: for what he meant to the community, what you know, 2160 01:43:49,800 --> 01:43:53,400 Speaker 1: and having not This isn't a street that was named 2161 01:43:53,439 --> 01:43:56,479 Speaker 1: after him. It's an interstate highway. Yeah right. I mean 2162 01:43:56,560 --> 01:43:59,479 Speaker 1: it's not like this little, you know, little little country 2163 01:43:59,560 --> 01:44:02,160 Speaker 1: lane somewhere that was named Don Shula Way. It was 2164 01:44:02,520 --> 01:44:05,799 Speaker 1: the Don Shula Highway. I mean. The thing is, he's prominent, 2165 01:44:06,680 --> 01:44:09,960 Speaker 1: and like John Kidd said too, he spent some time 2166 01:44:10,000 --> 01:44:12,960 Speaker 1: in South Florida after he finished playing, and if there 2167 01:44:13,040 --> 01:44:15,160 Speaker 1: was a charity event from somebody from you know, the 2168 01:44:15,280 --> 01:44:18,479 Speaker 1: nineteen nineties or the nineteen eighties who had a charitable event, 2169 01:44:18,560 --> 01:44:20,760 Speaker 1: Don Shula would be there. That takes a lot of 2170 01:44:20,840 --> 01:44:23,360 Speaker 1: energy from a guy who is as prominent as he is, because, 2171 01:44:23,400 --> 01:44:28,000 Speaker 1: you know, particularly certainly early after he got retired, the 2172 01:44:29,160 --> 01:44:32,240 Speaker 1: pull from him from a lot of different directions was great. 2173 01:44:32,320 --> 01:44:35,960 Speaker 1: I mean, he was wanted everywhere, to appear everywhere, and 2174 01:44:36,040 --> 01:44:37,439 Speaker 1: to take the time to do that for his former 2175 01:44:37,479 --> 01:44:39,639 Speaker 1: players says a lot about him. Yeah. I was thinking 2176 01:44:39,680 --> 01:44:43,360 Speaker 1: about not thinking about the demise of Bill Belichick, but 2177 01:44:43,439 --> 01:44:46,400 Speaker 1: I don't know if even Belichick will rise in the 2178 01:44:46,560 --> 01:44:50,880 Speaker 1: estimation of football fans the way Don Shula has will 2179 01:44:50,880 --> 01:44:53,840 Speaker 1: be treated the same. First of all, Belichick has kind 2180 01:44:53,880 --> 01:44:58,479 Speaker 1: of a bit tainted championship resume with the issues that 2181 01:44:58,640 --> 01:45:03,719 Speaker 1: the Patriots had you know Spygate, after all, him deflated football's. Secondly, 2182 01:45:03,760 --> 01:45:05,680 Speaker 1: he's just a different guy, you know. And I'm sure 2183 01:45:05,720 --> 01:45:08,400 Speaker 1: he does charitable endeavors. I'm not questioning that. But he 2184 01:45:08,760 --> 01:45:11,200 Speaker 1: doesn't seem to be as involved in the life of 2185 01:45:11,320 --> 01:45:14,680 Speaker 1: Boston as Shula was, as involved in the life of 2186 01:45:14,800 --> 01:45:16,760 Speaker 1: South Florida, you know what I mean. Yeah, he never 2187 01:45:16,840 --> 01:45:19,960 Speaker 1: seems to drop his guard and let him let the 2188 01:45:20,040 --> 01:45:24,120 Speaker 1: outside world into, you know, his his genuine nature. I've 2189 01:45:24,160 --> 01:45:25,840 Speaker 1: been in meetings with him where he did and he 2190 01:45:26,000 --> 01:45:28,960 Speaker 1: was great to be around. He's got a sense of humor. 2191 01:45:29,040 --> 01:45:32,439 Speaker 1: But yeah, he's more so than any head coach I've 2192 01:45:32,439 --> 01:45:35,560 Speaker 1: ever been associated with or had a chance to deal with. 2193 01:45:36,360 --> 01:45:41,200 Speaker 1: He is um. He has always got his guard up 2194 01:45:43,280 --> 01:45:45,200 Speaker 1: for whatever reason, it's the way he does it. And 2195 01:45:45,760 --> 01:45:48,280 Speaker 1: I think the public, I think he'll get some he'll 2196 01:45:48,520 --> 01:45:50,680 Speaker 1: I think the public doesn't like that too much, you know, 2197 01:45:50,760 --> 01:45:52,320 Speaker 1: and I think that they held it against him in 2198 01:45:52,400 --> 01:45:54,720 Speaker 1: some way. I don't I think he doesn't get some 2199 01:45:54,960 --> 01:45:57,479 Speaker 1: benefit of the doubt that other coaches do because they 2200 01:45:57,520 --> 01:46:00,680 Speaker 1: are more genuine, you know, And I think that I 2201 01:46:00,720 --> 01:46:02,439 Speaker 1: think I don't know if it'll hurt I don't think 2202 01:46:02,479 --> 01:46:04,120 Speaker 1: I don't know if that in and of itself will 2203 01:46:04,200 --> 01:46:07,120 Speaker 1: hurt Bill Belichick and his legacy, but certainly I think 2204 01:46:07,160 --> 01:46:10,080 Speaker 1: it affects his perception in these his in the times 2205 01:46:10,120 --> 01:46:12,800 Speaker 1: of he's coaching in this current day, and I think 2206 01:46:12,840 --> 01:46:15,960 Speaker 1: Belichick is the one who will, when his career is over, 2207 01:46:16,080 --> 01:46:20,080 Speaker 1: will be most closely compared to dun Shula, just for 2208 01:46:21,640 --> 01:46:23,880 Speaker 1: the sheer reason that the body of wins, the number 2209 01:46:23,920 --> 01:46:26,000 Speaker 1: of wins, and they were a championships in particular, right 2210 01:46:26,200 --> 01:46:28,599 Speaker 1: there's nobody coaching who can approach that right now. Yeah, 2211 01:46:28,680 --> 01:46:31,479 Speaker 1: Plus they were they were kind of in within the lifetime. 2212 01:46:31,920 --> 01:46:34,840 Speaker 1: People go back to George Hallis, Someone's like, well, that's 2213 01:46:34,880 --> 01:46:37,120 Speaker 1: before my time. I never knew, you know, I never 2214 01:46:37,200 --> 01:46:39,320 Speaker 1: knew him who he was, never saw him in public, 2215 01:46:39,479 --> 01:46:42,800 Speaker 1: never saw an interview with him live. Um. Same thing 2216 01:46:42,880 --> 01:46:45,559 Speaker 1: with obviously with Vince Lombardi, some of the great ones, 2217 01:46:45,720 --> 01:46:49,200 Speaker 1: Curly Lambeau, you know, some of these other great head 2218 01:46:49,240 --> 01:46:51,600 Speaker 1: coaches who built the foundation of the NFL as we 2219 01:46:51,720 --> 01:46:53,960 Speaker 1: know it, were great head coaches in their day, but 2220 01:46:54,560 --> 01:46:57,240 Speaker 1: none of us ever saw him live. Don Shula. There's 2221 01:46:57,240 --> 01:46:59,280 Speaker 1: still a large number of the population, me and you 2222 01:47:00,240 --> 01:47:02,360 Speaker 1: who were there with him. You know, and we watched 2223 01:47:02,439 --> 01:47:05,519 Speaker 1: him coach, and we watched Bill Belichick. So those two 2224 01:47:05,600 --> 01:47:08,519 Speaker 1: are always going to be compared because the people who 2225 01:47:08,560 --> 01:47:14,120 Speaker 1: are alive now saw him both and there's easy references. Yep. Interesting, 2226 01:47:14,200 --> 01:47:15,559 Speaker 1: all right, we'll keep an eye on that. We got 2227 01:47:15,640 --> 01:47:17,360 Speaker 1: a special guest on the lane with us now going 2228 01:47:17,400 --> 01:47:20,000 Speaker 1: into his third season with the Buffalo Bills, Bill's third 2229 01:47:20,040 --> 01:47:22,479 Speaker 1: ground draft pick in twenty eighteen. Happy to have defensive 2230 01:47:22,520 --> 01:47:25,679 Speaker 1: linement Harrison Phillips on the air with this Harrison, John 2231 01:47:25,720 --> 01:47:27,720 Speaker 1: Murphy's team tasker up here in Buffalo. Thanks coming on. 2232 01:47:27,840 --> 01:47:30,040 Speaker 1: Where are you? Are you in town? Are you at home? 2233 01:47:30,160 --> 01:47:33,880 Speaker 1: Are you in Nebraska? Where you at these days? Yes? 2234 01:47:34,320 --> 01:47:36,439 Speaker 1: So I appreciate you guys letting me come on with 2235 01:47:36,560 --> 01:47:39,800 Speaker 1: you today. I'm back in Omaha, Nebraska right now, staying 2236 01:47:39,840 --> 01:47:44,880 Speaker 1: in my mom and dad's place. Just quarantine here. But 2237 01:47:45,040 --> 01:47:48,519 Speaker 1: it sounds like I've got some planned scheduled to come 2238 01:47:48,560 --> 01:47:52,000 Speaker 1: back to Buffalo here real soon, even with you know, 2239 01:47:52,439 --> 01:47:55,000 Speaker 1: all of us possibly coming on the eighteenth, although we 2240 01:47:55,040 --> 01:47:58,560 Speaker 1: don't know how sure that really is. I'm gonna be 2241 01:47:58,680 --> 01:48:02,760 Speaker 1: up there fairly soon. With some you know, exemptions due 2242 01:48:02,800 --> 01:48:04,519 Speaker 1: to my rehab. It would allow me in the building. 2243 01:48:04,560 --> 01:48:07,120 Speaker 1: If other players wouldn't so excited to get back up 2244 01:48:07,160 --> 01:48:11,640 Speaker 1: in Western New York soon. How's your rehab going, You know, 2245 01:48:11,840 --> 01:48:15,040 Speaker 1: it's coming along pretty good. I've really made some strides 2246 01:48:15,080 --> 01:48:18,240 Speaker 1: in the last six weeks or so, um where I'm 2247 01:48:18,280 --> 01:48:20,160 Speaker 1: kind of feeling like a football player again. You know, 2248 01:48:21,040 --> 01:48:23,439 Speaker 1: I'm starting to do football drills as opposed to just 2249 01:48:24,040 --> 01:48:27,639 Speaker 1: straight line springing, running the hoop pass, rushing on air 2250 01:48:27,880 --> 01:48:33,120 Speaker 1: or on bags, things like that. So, you know, it's 2251 01:48:33,640 --> 01:48:36,479 Speaker 1: it's exciting to be out there moving again and feeling fluid. 2252 01:48:36,960 --> 01:48:39,080 Speaker 1: But I'm also very happy that I still got four 2253 01:48:39,120 --> 01:48:43,600 Speaker 1: months until season starts. There was reading you're kind of 2254 01:48:43,680 --> 01:48:46,280 Speaker 1: training with high school teammates right there in Omahan. You're 2255 01:48:46,320 --> 01:48:49,720 Speaker 1: training at a former high school teammates, Jim, I guess 2256 01:48:49,760 --> 01:48:53,080 Speaker 1: it adds in this house. Huh. Yeah. So I was 2257 01:48:53,240 --> 01:48:55,960 Speaker 1: fortunate enough that when I decided when everything went down 2258 01:48:56,000 --> 01:48:58,439 Speaker 1: in Buffalo, you know, I was up there and when 2259 01:48:58,520 --> 01:49:00,479 Speaker 1: the Bills didn't let us in the building and everything 2260 01:49:00,560 --> 01:49:02,439 Speaker 1: in the city was shutting down. I mean, I literally 2261 01:49:02,520 --> 01:49:04,960 Speaker 1: had zero access to a weight room. So I came 2262 01:49:05,040 --> 01:49:07,120 Speaker 1: back home knowing that one of my best friends here 2263 01:49:07,120 --> 01:49:10,960 Speaker 1: in Omaha has a full blown weight room in his basement. 2264 01:49:11,040 --> 01:49:13,760 Speaker 1: I mean, you know, rack thumbells up two hundreds and 2265 01:49:13,960 --> 01:49:18,920 Speaker 1: lappole downs, machines, cardio, all this fantastic stuff. And so 2266 01:49:19,160 --> 01:49:20,920 Speaker 1: I was able to use that. And I have the 2267 01:49:21,560 --> 01:49:24,919 Speaker 1: key to an indoor field, the soccer field that's indoors, 2268 01:49:25,000 --> 01:49:26,960 Speaker 1: so for the days that it's raining and cold here 2269 01:49:27,000 --> 01:49:30,000 Speaker 1: in Nebraska, I was given the access code to do 2270 01:49:30,080 --> 01:49:32,000 Speaker 1: my running stuff in there if I if I don't 2271 01:49:32,040 --> 01:49:35,120 Speaker 1: do it at just the outside high school. So I 2272 01:49:35,200 --> 01:49:37,680 Speaker 1: have a pretty good routine going. And uh, you know, 2273 01:49:38,040 --> 01:49:40,599 Speaker 1: I was very very nervous when this whole thing broke down, 2274 01:49:40,720 --> 01:49:43,240 Speaker 1: you know, thinking, hey, how am I gonna get myself 2275 01:49:43,320 --> 01:49:45,479 Speaker 1: ready for this? And as it turned out, you know, 2276 01:49:45,640 --> 01:49:49,640 Speaker 1: God had a way and been crossing and checking off 2277 01:49:49,680 --> 01:49:53,000 Speaker 1: a lot of boxes of my rehab here. Harrison. I 2278 01:49:53,200 --> 01:49:56,000 Speaker 1: remember seeing you in the field house rehabbing during the 2279 01:49:56,080 --> 01:49:58,280 Speaker 1: off season, early in the off season before we were 2280 01:49:58,320 --> 01:50:01,320 Speaker 1: all sequestered away in January to worry. And I got 2281 01:50:01,400 --> 01:50:03,439 Speaker 1: to be honest with you, and not for nothing. I 2282 01:50:03,560 --> 01:50:06,599 Speaker 1: was watching your work out and I couldn't tell which 2283 01:50:06,720 --> 01:50:08,920 Speaker 1: leg was injured. When I saw your running and doing 2284 01:50:08,960 --> 01:50:11,240 Speaker 1: your drills and stuff, you looked really good to me. 2285 01:50:12,240 --> 01:50:15,400 Speaker 1: Remind me you've been through this injury before, which knee 2286 01:50:15,479 --> 01:50:19,080 Speaker 1: is injured this time? And is it the same knee? Yeah, 2287 01:50:19,640 --> 01:50:22,840 Speaker 1: So I got hurt six years ago, I think it 2288 01:50:23,000 --> 01:50:25,080 Speaker 1: is five and a half years ago with my left 2289 01:50:25,120 --> 01:50:30,200 Speaker 1: al that was I retore that left ACL. So what 2290 01:50:30,360 --> 01:50:32,320 Speaker 1: made this one a little bit trickier in the rehab 2291 01:50:32,400 --> 01:50:35,240 Speaker 1: a little longer than your normal six seven eight months 2292 01:50:35,320 --> 01:50:38,240 Speaker 1: plan was that because it was my second tear, they 2293 01:50:38,320 --> 01:50:40,599 Speaker 1: had to go into my right leg, which had nothing 2294 01:50:40,680 --> 01:50:43,599 Speaker 1: wrong with it, to take out my Patel attendant because 2295 01:50:43,640 --> 01:50:46,000 Speaker 1: that's what I had used already five or six years ago. 2296 01:50:46,200 --> 01:50:49,120 Speaker 1: So I ended up having surgery on both of my knees. 2297 01:50:49,800 --> 01:50:52,439 Speaker 1: And that's why the rehab is so much longer. You know, 2298 01:50:52,520 --> 01:50:54,240 Speaker 1: if a normal person had to come in and do 2299 01:50:54,800 --> 01:50:57,439 Speaker 1: two hours of listing for their leg, while I was 2300 01:50:57,560 --> 01:51:00,280 Speaker 1: doing having to do almost four hours of lifting because 2301 01:51:00,280 --> 01:51:02,400 Speaker 1: I was rehabbing both of the legs as if it 2302 01:51:02,520 --> 01:51:06,000 Speaker 1: was an ACL injury. So definitely a lot of hours 2303 01:51:06,080 --> 01:51:08,120 Speaker 1: spent grinding and getting back and it's sure going to 2304 01:51:08,200 --> 01:51:13,360 Speaker 1: make this season a lot sweeter. Harrison. Guess Harrison unfortunate 2305 01:51:13,439 --> 01:51:15,680 Speaker 1: to get injured, and especially where you were at. You 2306 01:51:15,760 --> 01:51:17,479 Speaker 1: got hurt in the Bengals game, I believe, right the 2307 01:51:17,520 --> 01:51:19,639 Speaker 1: home opener last year. You were off to a great 2308 01:51:19,680 --> 01:51:22,439 Speaker 1: start against the Jets and the Giants, and it appeared 2309 01:51:22,479 --> 01:51:24,639 Speaker 1: that you had done a lot to get yourself Freddie 2310 01:51:24,760 --> 01:51:27,679 Speaker 1: last September for your second season in the NFL. They'd 2311 01:51:27,680 --> 01:51:29,560 Speaker 1: had to hurt a little bit to lose all that 2312 01:51:29,680 --> 01:51:33,479 Speaker 1: work with an injury like that. Huh absolutely, I mean, 2313 01:51:34,040 --> 01:51:35,680 Speaker 1: you know, I want to try to pride myself and 2314 01:51:35,760 --> 01:51:38,200 Speaker 1: being the hardest book on the team and doing always 2315 01:51:38,240 --> 01:51:40,639 Speaker 1: doing more. And you know, when the season stopped after 2316 01:51:40,760 --> 01:51:43,040 Speaker 1: my rookie year, I took less than one week off 2317 01:51:43,080 --> 01:51:45,759 Speaker 1: and started two a days and was, you know, lifting 2318 01:51:45,760 --> 01:51:48,040 Speaker 1: in the mornings, running in the afternoons, wrestling with my 2319 01:51:48,160 --> 01:51:51,559 Speaker 1: high school, helping them out, doing two and three days 2320 01:51:51,920 --> 01:51:54,800 Speaker 1: as early as like middle of January, and did that 2321 01:51:54,880 --> 01:51:58,240 Speaker 1: through the whole offseason. Did put myself in a really 2322 01:51:58,320 --> 01:52:01,240 Speaker 1: solid position to earn some of the significant playing time, 2323 01:52:01,320 --> 01:52:03,880 Speaker 1: you know, the third down rushes, and you know, getting 2324 01:52:03,920 --> 01:52:06,439 Speaker 1: my snap count up and up and playing sixty seventy 2325 01:52:06,479 --> 01:52:09,600 Speaker 1: percent of a game. And I really thought everything was 2326 01:52:09,680 --> 01:52:12,320 Speaker 1: coming together for me as a player. What's unfortunate for 2327 01:52:12,439 --> 01:52:16,040 Speaker 1: me is that I still just haven't found my feeling 2328 01:52:16,200 --> 01:52:18,960 Speaker 1: in the NFL. I just don't know how good of 2329 01:52:19,000 --> 01:52:21,800 Speaker 1: a player I can be. Obviously, you know those first 2330 01:52:21,840 --> 01:52:24,200 Speaker 1: two or three games, I put some good stuff on film, 2331 01:52:24,520 --> 01:52:26,360 Speaker 1: but I was just I mean, everyone knows you get 2332 01:52:26,400 --> 01:52:28,960 Speaker 1: better at the season goes on. Every every good player should, 2333 01:52:29,400 --> 01:52:32,920 Speaker 1: and so you know, it's it sucks, but it's also 2334 01:52:33,320 --> 01:52:35,280 Speaker 1: encouraging to me that I know that I could come 2335 01:52:35,320 --> 01:52:39,040 Speaker 1: back and be the player I showed, and that really myself, 2336 01:52:39,280 --> 01:52:42,800 Speaker 1: the coaches, other coaches, other players, no one really knows 2337 01:52:42,880 --> 01:52:45,120 Speaker 1: how good I can be. And there's some excitement to 2338 01:52:45,240 --> 01:52:47,719 Speaker 1: that knowing that this off season I'm working at everything 2339 01:52:47,800 --> 01:52:49,880 Speaker 1: I can and even through this season and in the 2340 01:52:50,000 --> 01:52:52,000 Speaker 1: next season, because you know, sometimes it takes more than 2341 01:52:52,040 --> 01:52:54,200 Speaker 1: a full year to get to your true self. So 2342 01:52:54,720 --> 01:52:57,400 Speaker 1: you know, for the next year or so, I'm super 2343 01:52:57,520 --> 01:53:00,200 Speaker 1: optimistic about you know, let's go find out how good 2344 01:53:00,200 --> 01:53:02,000 Speaker 1: of a football player Harrison Phillips can be for the 2345 01:53:02,000 --> 01:53:05,200 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Now, you mentioned a moment ago. May eighteenth 2346 01:53:05,400 --> 01:53:07,600 Speaker 1: is a kind of a penciled in date on the 2347 01:53:07,680 --> 01:53:11,160 Speaker 1: calendar worth they may let certain people back into the facility. 2348 01:53:11,240 --> 01:53:13,919 Speaker 1: You're talking about maybe the players coming back May eighteenth. 2349 01:53:14,360 --> 01:53:17,200 Speaker 1: In the NFL, you're coming back a little sooner. What 2350 01:53:17,479 --> 01:53:20,479 Speaker 1: is the level of optimism about how soon the team 2351 01:53:20,560 --> 01:53:25,839 Speaker 1: can get together. You know, it's tough because as coaches 2352 01:53:25,920 --> 01:53:28,720 Speaker 1: and anybody dealing with the NFL teams, you've got to 2353 01:53:28,800 --> 01:53:32,880 Speaker 1: keep guys, you know, anticipating our return. If we are 2354 01:53:32,960 --> 01:53:35,519 Speaker 1: back in the building full go, all ninety one of 2355 01:53:35,600 --> 01:53:38,479 Speaker 1: us or whatever on May eighteenth, well, guys better be 2356 01:53:38,560 --> 01:53:41,080 Speaker 1: doing their workouts now, better be running gasers, and better 2357 01:53:41,120 --> 01:53:42,760 Speaker 1: be getting in shape for getting on the field and 2358 01:53:42,840 --> 01:53:45,800 Speaker 1: doing football. And so that's really important for us to 2359 01:53:45,920 --> 01:53:49,360 Speaker 1: hear that, which is keeping us motivated and getting excited. 2360 01:53:50,320 --> 01:53:52,479 Speaker 1: But as you know, you can't have a competitive advantage. 2361 01:53:52,520 --> 01:53:54,680 Speaker 1: So that would mean all thirty two NFL teams need 2362 01:53:54,760 --> 01:53:56,640 Speaker 1: to be those cities need to be healthy enough to 2363 01:53:56,720 --> 01:54:00,240 Speaker 1: allow gatherings of ninety people. If that happens in the 2364 01:54:00,320 --> 01:54:01,800 Speaker 1: next two weeks, I think we're all going to be 2365 01:54:01,920 --> 01:54:04,800 Speaker 1: very happy. If it doesn't, well then, um, you know, 2366 01:54:04,880 --> 01:54:07,639 Speaker 1: the nfl PA and the NFL have already come together 2367 01:54:07,720 --> 01:54:10,760 Speaker 1: when we started the virtual OTA period and mentioned if 2368 01:54:10,840 --> 01:54:14,280 Speaker 1: that can't happen, we'll just resume with virtual OTAs for 2369 01:54:14,320 --> 01:54:17,680 Speaker 1: the remainder. I think it's great that the league is 2370 01:54:17,680 --> 01:54:19,840 Speaker 1: going to you know, release our schedule and start getting 2371 01:54:19,880 --> 01:54:25,080 Speaker 1: people really excited about season, you know, and I definitely 2372 01:54:25,120 --> 01:54:27,320 Speaker 1: hope that everything works out. But you know, the way 2373 01:54:27,400 --> 01:54:29,599 Speaker 1: that Brandon and Shawn are whatever way that we can 2374 01:54:30,000 --> 01:54:32,320 Speaker 1: get a competitive advantage, we will, And so if it's 2375 01:54:32,320 --> 01:54:35,400 Speaker 1: through these virtual OTAs, you know, we're still going to 2376 01:54:35,440 --> 01:54:37,240 Speaker 1: try to find a way to come together and build 2377 01:54:37,360 --> 01:54:41,520 Speaker 1: this year's team. Identity Harrison Phillips our guests, Bill's defensive 2378 01:54:41,560 --> 01:54:43,600 Speaker 1: tackle Bills have made a lot of changes, a lot 2379 01:54:43,640 --> 01:54:46,520 Speaker 1: of additions the personnel wise, in the last couple of months, Harrison, 2380 01:54:46,600 --> 01:54:49,120 Speaker 1: and I understand you've taken it upon yourself to kind 2381 01:54:49,120 --> 01:54:51,880 Speaker 1: of welcome those guys to the team. Tell me about that. 2382 01:54:51,960 --> 01:54:55,640 Speaker 1: How have you done that? Well, you know, when whenever 2383 01:54:55,840 --> 01:54:58,480 Speaker 1: we sign a free agent, I think, I, you know, 2384 01:54:58,600 --> 01:55:01,200 Speaker 1: go look them up obviously you or know, and follow 2385 01:55:01,280 --> 01:55:04,080 Speaker 1: them on social media and then I'll send them, you know, 2386 01:55:04,080 --> 01:55:06,440 Speaker 1: a little direct message can congratulating them to coming to 2387 01:55:06,520 --> 01:55:08,879 Speaker 1: the team with my phone number if they have any questions. 2388 01:55:08,960 --> 01:55:12,360 Speaker 1: And then through the draft process, I reach out with 2389 01:55:12,440 --> 01:55:15,000 Speaker 1: some of our our pr staff and uh you know, 2390 01:55:15,040 --> 01:55:16,880 Speaker 1: I did this since my even my rookie year. I 2391 01:55:16,920 --> 01:55:19,280 Speaker 1: wanted to get all the guys numbers like Josh and 2392 01:55:19,360 --> 01:55:22,800 Speaker 1: Tremaine and Terrence Surran, all those guys. Um. So you know, 2393 01:55:22,960 --> 01:55:24,840 Speaker 1: the day I got drafted that Friday night, I think 2394 01:55:24,880 --> 01:55:27,880 Speaker 1: I called the Latin you know, I called Saturday morning 2395 01:55:27,880 --> 01:55:29,480 Speaker 1: and said, Hey, any of these picks we have, can 2396 01:55:29,520 --> 01:55:32,120 Speaker 1: you send me their cell phone numbers and just you know, hey, 2397 01:55:32,280 --> 01:55:34,600 Speaker 1: excited to get to work with you. Um, you know, 2398 01:55:34,800 --> 01:55:36,760 Speaker 1: let's touch base. You know, let's let's let's set a 2399 01:55:36,800 --> 01:55:38,280 Speaker 1: phone call up so we can you know, get to 2400 01:55:38,360 --> 01:55:40,320 Speaker 1: meet each other and whatever. And then I did that 2401 01:55:40,400 --> 01:55:42,480 Speaker 1: the last two years as well with the new draft 2402 01:55:42,520 --> 01:55:45,760 Speaker 1: picks that we we get, and I think this year 2403 01:55:45,880 --> 01:55:49,960 Speaker 1: was the first time within probably by Sunday, every single 2404 01:55:50,000 --> 01:55:52,120 Speaker 1: one of our picks had message back to you know, 2405 01:55:52,240 --> 01:55:55,040 Speaker 1: eager and excited. Um. And so you know, just want 2406 01:55:55,040 --> 01:55:57,360 Speaker 1: to be a relationship, you know, be there for any 2407 01:55:57,440 --> 01:56:00,320 Speaker 1: relationships that can start. And you know it's tough being 2408 01:56:00,360 --> 01:56:02,960 Speaker 1: able to go into Buffalo if this is the case. 2409 01:56:03,040 --> 01:56:05,040 Speaker 1: So I want those guys to you know, vet out 2410 01:56:05,080 --> 01:56:06,840 Speaker 1: to me. Where do we live, what are the you know, 2411 01:56:06,880 --> 01:56:09,280 Speaker 1: what are some of the places to get cars or 2412 01:56:09,440 --> 01:56:12,720 Speaker 1: whatever it may be. Just want to be that resource 2413 01:56:12,800 --> 01:56:15,919 Speaker 1: for him and try to try to take off my leadership. 2414 01:56:17,000 --> 01:56:19,800 Speaker 1: It's not all been about football. This offseason, Harrison, you 2415 01:56:19,920 --> 01:56:22,120 Speaker 1: donated six hundred and fifty meals for those working on 2416 01:56:22,160 --> 01:56:24,800 Speaker 1: the front lines with Buffalo General Medical Center and Millard 2417 01:56:24,840 --> 01:56:29,840 Speaker 1: Fillmore Suburban Hospital. This also marks the beginning of Nurses Week. 2418 01:56:30,400 --> 01:56:32,800 Speaker 1: Why why is it so special or important to you 2419 01:56:33,320 --> 01:56:35,400 Speaker 1: to take care of the medical industry and the people 2420 01:56:35,400 --> 01:56:38,440 Speaker 1: who take care of so many of us. Well, I 2421 01:56:38,520 --> 01:56:40,720 Speaker 1: think first and foremost, like you said, you know, these 2422 01:56:40,760 --> 01:56:43,360 Speaker 1: guys are out there fighting on the front line. You know, 2423 01:56:43,480 --> 01:56:45,480 Speaker 1: doctors and nurses have been having a tusk of the 2424 01:56:45,600 --> 01:56:48,440 Speaker 1: last quite a while now, and so I wanted to 2425 01:56:48,480 --> 01:56:50,240 Speaker 1: get involved, and I wanted to figure out the best 2426 01:56:50,280 --> 01:56:53,720 Speaker 1: play for me to get involved. And like you mentioned it, well, 2427 01:56:53,840 --> 01:56:56,120 Speaker 1: you know I donated these meals and all the work 2428 01:56:56,200 --> 01:56:58,360 Speaker 1: I do in Buffalo. You know, I love doing my time. 2429 01:56:58,440 --> 01:57:01,760 Speaker 1: I love going places and you know, visiting the hospital. 2430 01:57:01,880 --> 01:57:03,920 Speaker 1: Whatever I can do to volunteer, I love to do. Well. 2431 01:57:03,960 --> 01:57:05,440 Speaker 1: This is one of those times where it was time 2432 01:57:05,480 --> 01:57:07,560 Speaker 1: to kind of get financially involved and do something. You know, 2433 01:57:07,800 --> 01:57:11,120 Speaker 1: a kind of donation, and so stepped up to the 2434 01:57:11,160 --> 01:57:13,320 Speaker 1: plate like some of the other guys in the organization. 2435 01:57:13,760 --> 01:57:15,720 Speaker 1: And the only thing that I would like to know 2436 01:57:15,840 --> 01:57:18,400 Speaker 1: too it's a little different, is I got my Playmakers involved, 2437 01:57:18,440 --> 01:57:20,440 Speaker 1: which is my nonprofit where I deal with kids with 2438 01:57:20,520 --> 01:57:24,040 Speaker 1: special needs and developmental differences. And so I sent out 2439 01:57:24,120 --> 01:57:26,560 Speaker 1: videos to all of them and their families encouraging them 2440 01:57:27,400 --> 01:57:30,360 Speaker 1: if you guys do a chore this week around the house, 2441 01:57:30,440 --> 01:57:32,280 Speaker 1: mom and dads, you pick it out, I'll pay you 2442 01:57:32,360 --> 01:57:35,920 Speaker 1: guys ten dollars to do that chore. However, that ten 2443 01:57:36,000 --> 01:57:37,400 Speaker 1: dollars is going to be in the form of a 2444 01:57:37,520 --> 01:57:39,880 Speaker 1: donation to help feed a doctor or a nurse. And 2445 01:57:40,000 --> 01:57:42,320 Speaker 1: so we got back over you know, fifty or seventy 2446 01:57:42,400 --> 01:57:45,480 Speaker 1: five videos from these families and pictures of kids doing 2447 01:57:45,520 --> 01:57:48,360 Speaker 1: the dishes, of kids folding their laundry, of kids mowing 2448 01:57:48,400 --> 01:57:51,440 Speaker 1: the lawn and dusting all these things around the house. 2449 01:57:51,720 --> 01:57:53,920 Speaker 1: So we're teaching these kids to pay it forward and 2450 01:57:53,960 --> 01:57:56,280 Speaker 1: to give back as well. And then the last thing 2451 01:57:56,440 --> 01:58:00,720 Speaker 1: is because it's nurses Week. You know, my aunt, my 2452 01:58:00,880 --> 01:58:03,120 Speaker 1: mom's sister, who lives here in Omaha, is a nurse 2453 01:58:03,160 --> 01:58:05,080 Speaker 1: and has done in the healthcare industry for over twenty 2454 01:58:05,120 --> 01:58:07,800 Speaker 1: five years, and so it does hit home for me 2455 01:58:07,880 --> 01:58:11,640 Speaker 1: as well. It's kind of amazing, Harrison, I gotta saying. 2456 01:58:11,640 --> 01:58:14,320 Speaker 1: And Sean McDermott, when he was on our show last week, 2457 01:58:14,400 --> 01:58:17,280 Speaker 1: made a point of saying how he's encouraging his players 2458 01:58:17,320 --> 01:58:20,520 Speaker 1: to quote find a way to get things done workouts 2459 01:58:20,560 --> 01:58:24,360 Speaker 1: and studying the playbook. You've found a way not just 2460 01:58:24,480 --> 01:58:26,320 Speaker 1: to do the football work, what to do all these 2461 01:58:26,360 --> 01:58:29,919 Speaker 1: other offseason things too, during the really difficult times. That's admirable. 2462 01:58:29,920 --> 01:58:33,040 Speaker 1: I salute you for that. Yeah, I appreciate him. We're 2463 01:58:33,320 --> 01:58:35,640 Speaker 1: actually doing it here in Omaha. I just spent out 2464 01:58:35,680 --> 01:58:39,680 Speaker 1: a video to my playmakers in Omaha today this morning, 2465 01:58:39,880 --> 01:58:42,120 Speaker 1: and they have the next week to send in any 2466 01:58:42,160 --> 01:58:44,480 Speaker 1: of their videos of them doing stuff and helping others, 2467 01:58:44,760 --> 01:58:47,280 Speaker 1: and then I'll be donating meals, a few hundred meals 2468 01:58:47,320 --> 01:58:51,200 Speaker 1: to two of the hospitals here in Omaha. Has one 2469 01:58:51,400 --> 01:58:53,840 Speaker 1: last thing, Harrison, have you had and getting back to 2470 01:58:53,920 --> 01:58:55,920 Speaker 1: the football line, just to wind it up here, have 2471 01:58:56,040 --> 01:58:58,560 Speaker 1: you had any interaction with your new defensive line coach 2472 01:58:58,680 --> 01:59:01,880 Speaker 1: Eric Washington? How's that reallyationship going and what are your 2473 01:59:02,560 --> 01:59:04,680 Speaker 1: what's your level of excitement to have a new voice 2474 01:59:04,680 --> 01:59:08,919 Speaker 1: in the room. Yeah. Well, you know, through these virtual OTAs, 2475 01:59:09,000 --> 01:59:11,040 Speaker 1: we've been able to meet, you know, four days a 2476 01:59:11,080 --> 01:59:13,440 Speaker 1: week for two hours. The majority of those meetings are 2477 01:59:13,520 --> 01:59:16,080 Speaker 1: with the defensive line. So we're in a zoom meeting 2478 01:59:16,240 --> 01:59:18,440 Speaker 1: with you know, all seventeen of us or whatever there is, 2479 01:59:19,280 --> 01:59:22,360 Speaker 1: and Coach Washington's leading them, and you know, talking about 2480 01:59:22,360 --> 01:59:24,600 Speaker 1: a guy who's been a defensive coordinator and worked his 2481 01:59:24,680 --> 01:59:27,400 Speaker 1: way up, you know, been all across the league, been 2482 01:59:27,480 --> 01:59:30,240 Speaker 1: in Pro Bowls, you know, the whole works. So, m 2483 01:59:30,360 --> 01:59:31,800 Speaker 1: it's great to have a new guy in and a 2484 01:59:31,840 --> 01:59:34,200 Speaker 1: whole new perspective. And you know, he had a phone 2485 01:59:34,240 --> 01:59:36,960 Speaker 1: call with me where you know, he told me, hey, look, 2486 01:59:37,240 --> 01:59:39,240 Speaker 1: with how powerful you are and how strong of a 2487 01:59:39,320 --> 01:59:41,560 Speaker 1: player you are, you know, we can really get your 2488 01:59:41,640 --> 01:59:44,080 Speaker 1: play even up from what I've seen on tape. And 2489 01:59:44,320 --> 01:59:46,400 Speaker 1: that just excited me and motivated me to have a 2490 01:59:46,480 --> 01:59:48,440 Speaker 1: guy come in and not pat me on the back 2491 01:59:48,480 --> 01:59:50,600 Speaker 1: and say, hey, you're a great player. I can't wait 2492 01:59:50,680 --> 01:59:53,120 Speaker 1: to work with you. But hey, you're a good player, 2493 01:59:53,160 --> 01:59:54,600 Speaker 1: but I'm going to make you a great player. And 2494 01:59:54,640 --> 01:59:57,880 Speaker 1: so to have that motivation and accountability in the room 2495 01:59:58,000 --> 02:00:01,320 Speaker 1: is super awesome. And also, you know, aside from a 2496 02:00:01,360 --> 02:00:03,720 Speaker 1: new defensive line coach, we have these new free agents, 2497 02:00:03,760 --> 02:00:06,640 Speaker 1: some guys who've played legitimate football and you know, earn 2498 02:00:06,720 --> 02:00:08,440 Speaker 1: the right to for their pay days, and so we 2499 02:00:08,560 --> 02:00:11,960 Speaker 1: have a lot of competition in the room. You know, 2500 02:00:11,960 --> 02:00:13,960 Speaker 1: I don't think anything is given at this point, so 2501 02:00:15,520 --> 02:00:18,440 Speaker 1: it's going to be a very fun competition and a 2502 02:00:18,600 --> 02:00:20,680 Speaker 1: very good brotherhood to be a part of Iron Sharp 2503 02:00:20,760 --> 02:00:24,000 Speaker 1: AND's Iron and we believe the defensive line is the 2504 02:00:24,040 --> 02:00:25,440 Speaker 1: tip of the spear, so we got to make sure 2505 02:00:25,480 --> 02:00:28,800 Speaker 1: we're in tip top shape and leading them. Harrison, it's 2506 02:00:28,800 --> 02:00:30,640 Speaker 1: good to hear your voice. It's good to know you're 2507 02:00:30,680 --> 02:00:32,920 Speaker 1: coming back soon, and hang in there, stay healthy in 2508 02:00:33,000 --> 02:00:36,040 Speaker 1: every way. Thank you coming on the show with us. Yeah, 2509 02:00:36,120 --> 02:00:37,800 Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys very much. It helps you to 2510 02:00:37,800 --> 02:00:41,920 Speaker 1: see you guys soon. There you go. Harrison Phillips defensive 2511 02:00:42,000 --> 02:00:44,240 Speaker 1: tackle for the Bill's third round pick in twenty eighteen. 2512 02:00:44,440 --> 02:00:46,720 Speaker 1: Pretty impressive, Steve, You know what I mean about not 2513 02:00:46,920 --> 02:00:49,360 Speaker 1: just keeping after the football stuff, finding a way to 2514 02:00:49,400 --> 02:00:51,120 Speaker 1: do that, but finding a way to continue to be 2515 02:00:51,240 --> 02:00:54,120 Speaker 1: charitable and to think about the doctors and nurses in 2516 02:00:54,200 --> 02:00:58,280 Speaker 1: Buffalo General and Millard fillmore suburban. I mean, it's kind 2517 02:00:58,280 --> 02:01:00,360 Speaker 1: of he's a whole package, isn't he, Harrison? He kind 2518 02:01:00,360 --> 02:01:02,720 Speaker 1: of is the whole pack. Yeah. Yeah, He's one of 2519 02:01:02,840 --> 02:01:06,440 Speaker 1: those guys that has the DNA that seanman Dermot has 2520 02:01:06,560 --> 02:01:08,760 Speaker 1: has for so long. I had a brief conversation with 2521 02:01:08,880 --> 02:01:11,240 Speaker 1: him late in the season at a local restaurant here 2522 02:01:11,280 --> 02:01:12,600 Speaker 1: where he was out to dinner, and you know, we 2523 02:01:12,680 --> 02:01:15,120 Speaker 1: just said up, friendly hello, and I could tell even 2524 02:01:15,200 --> 02:01:18,080 Speaker 1: then there's a guy who this team, the team was 2525 02:01:18,440 --> 02:01:21,480 Speaker 1: count was counting on they he was he had expanded 2526 02:01:21,560 --> 02:01:23,280 Speaker 1: his role. All the things he talked about, his his 2527 02:01:23,400 --> 02:01:25,680 Speaker 1: snap counts were up. He was in at crucial downs. 2528 02:01:26,360 --> 02:01:29,280 Speaker 1: They were depending on him to communicate some certain uh 2529 02:01:29,360 --> 02:01:31,880 Speaker 1: you know, the pass rush moves, all of that stuff 2530 02:01:31,960 --> 02:01:34,760 Speaker 1: had they had. Really he had really expanded into what 2531 02:01:34,920 --> 02:01:37,360 Speaker 1: they had hoped he would become. And he got hurt, 2532 02:01:37,800 --> 02:01:39,880 Speaker 1: and you know, as he was rehabbing him just after 2533 02:01:40,000 --> 02:01:42,600 Speaker 1: the surgery or whatever, he was still kind of moping around. 2534 02:01:43,000 --> 02:01:45,800 Speaker 1: You could tell He's like, Wow, he just was so 2535 02:01:46,120 --> 02:01:48,400 Speaker 1: hoping that the team didn't give up on him after 2536 02:01:48,440 --> 02:01:50,480 Speaker 1: he was hurt. And I kind of smiled, They're not 2537 02:01:50,560 --> 02:01:53,200 Speaker 1: giving up on you. Mean, they're wanting you to come back. 2538 02:01:53,640 --> 02:01:58,320 Speaker 1: It's the kind of you know, unselfishness and just desire 2539 02:01:58,400 --> 02:02:00,160 Speaker 1: to help and be a part of it that so 2540 02:02:00,280 --> 02:02:02,280 Speaker 1: prevalent in him. He was. He just wanted to be 2541 02:02:02,360 --> 02:02:04,480 Speaker 1: back and helping his teammates so badly. He hoped that, 2542 02:02:04,960 --> 02:02:06,680 Speaker 1: you know, the team didn't run off and leave him 2543 02:02:06,680 --> 02:02:09,440 Speaker 1: in behind because he was injured. It was he's really 2544 02:02:09,480 --> 02:02:11,920 Speaker 1: got the right attitude. Yeah, I don't think that's gonna 2545 02:02:11,960 --> 02:02:14,400 Speaker 1: happen for him. Hey, we're our Twitter poll is still up. 2546 02:02:14,400 --> 02:02:16,960 Speaker 1: We've got six hundred and fifty votes in what do 2547 02:02:17,040 --> 02:02:19,000 Speaker 1: you think would you rather have the Bills be the underdog, 2548 02:02:19,120 --> 02:02:22,280 Speaker 1: being the hunter or the hunted being the favorite? Sixty 2549 02:02:22,320 --> 02:02:24,839 Speaker 1: six percent Two thirds of you say being the underdog 2550 02:02:25,000 --> 02:02:27,280 Speaker 1: is better. Thirty four percent say being the favorite. Let 2551 02:02:27,360 --> 02:02:29,000 Speaker 1: us know what you think. Give us a call. Eight 2552 02:02:29,120 --> 02:02:31,520 Speaker 1: h three h five fifty toll free from outside Buffalo 2553 02:02:31,840 --> 02:02:34,240 Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty We're 2554 02:02:34,280 --> 02:02:37,040 Speaker 1: coming back. One Bills Live presented by Collada Health. This 2555 02:02:37,280 --> 02:02:45,400 Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Vote down the home stretch. Here 2556 02:02:45,480 --> 02:02:48,920 Speaker 1: one goes live, John Murphy, Steve Tasker, the Bills in 2557 02:02:49,000 --> 02:02:52,480 Speaker 1: the NFL put out a statement today about the ticket refunds, 2558 02:02:52,680 --> 02:02:55,560 Speaker 1: the memo that all thirty two teams got from Commission 2559 02:02:55,680 --> 02:02:59,120 Speaker 1: Roger Goodell yesterday and the bill sput it out today. Basically, 2560 02:02:59,520 --> 02:03:02,040 Speaker 1: the Bills and teams at a policy in place where 2561 02:03:02,520 --> 02:03:05,480 Speaker 1: if the game is canceled or it is playing under 2562 02:03:05,520 --> 02:03:09,360 Speaker 1: conditions that prohibit fans from attending, if you purchase a 2563 02:03:09,440 --> 02:03:12,840 Speaker 1: ticket directly from the club, like season tickets, group sales, 2564 02:03:12,920 --> 02:03:16,280 Speaker 1: partial season plans, you'll have the option of either receiving 2565 02:03:16,280 --> 02:03:18,760 Speaker 1: a full refund or applying the amount toward a future 2566 02:03:18,800 --> 02:03:21,080 Speaker 1: ticket purch just directly from the club. Basically, you can 2567 02:03:21,160 --> 02:03:24,520 Speaker 1: go online Buffalo bills dot com and find out all 2568 02:03:24,520 --> 02:03:28,080 Speaker 1: the details. It's pretty basic. Steep doesn't really address them, 2569 02:03:29,080 --> 02:03:31,680 Speaker 1: and it's too soon to address the central questions. Are 2570 02:03:31,720 --> 02:03:33,840 Speaker 1: you gonna play without fans? Are you gonna play with 2571 02:03:34,160 --> 02:03:37,040 Speaker 1: a portion of the fans? Right? Nobody has those answers yet, right, 2572 02:03:37,120 --> 02:03:40,800 Speaker 1: and that all that stuff remains to be seen. But 2573 02:03:42,120 --> 02:03:44,240 Speaker 1: I don't know it'll be It's gonna be interesting because 2574 02:03:44,280 --> 02:03:48,960 Speaker 1: the league is I mean, we've we've talked, and practically speaking, 2575 02:03:49,320 --> 02:03:53,720 Speaker 1: the NFL has made the fewest adjustments to the pandemic 2576 02:03:53,800 --> 02:03:56,040 Speaker 1: than any pro sports league because of the timing of 2577 02:03:56,080 --> 02:03:59,720 Speaker 1: it on the calendar. However, they have made adjustments. The 2578 02:03:59,800 --> 02:04:03,560 Speaker 1: draft was virtual there. The facilities are all shut down 2579 02:04:03,680 --> 02:04:06,600 Speaker 1: even though it's the off season. Uh, you me and 2580 02:04:06,840 --> 02:04:09,000 Speaker 1: all the you know whatever, one hundred and fifty people 2581 02:04:09,040 --> 02:04:12,000 Speaker 1: in the building are all working remotely. Nobody's allowed in 2582 02:04:12,040 --> 02:04:15,360 Speaker 1: the building. And now the schedule's coming out. It's been pushed. 2583 02:04:15,480 --> 02:04:18,680 Speaker 1: It's about what you think, three weeks late, Murph that 2584 02:04:18,800 --> 02:04:23,880 Speaker 1: the schedule is. Yeah, it's usually the week before the draft, right, 2585 02:04:23,960 --> 02:04:27,360 Speaker 1: isn't right? Right, So it's three weeks later weeks Yeah, 2586 02:04:27,400 --> 02:04:30,120 Speaker 1: so it's three weeks late. That's a small thing. Um. 2587 02:04:30,880 --> 02:04:34,280 Speaker 1: Training camps and preseason are in jeopardy. But you know, 2588 02:04:34,840 --> 02:04:41,080 Speaker 1: they're only starting to think about maybe adjusting the season now. Hockey, 2589 02:04:41,240 --> 02:04:48,920 Speaker 1: the NBA, PGA, everybody else, they you know, they're losing game. 2590 02:04:49,200 --> 02:04:51,320 Speaker 1: Everything's shut down for them right in the middle of 2591 02:04:51,360 --> 02:04:53,360 Speaker 1: their seasons or at the crucial part of their season. 2592 02:04:53,480 --> 02:04:57,280 Speaker 1: So the NFL, while it hasn't had anything functionally happened 2593 02:04:57,320 --> 02:05:01,120 Speaker 1: that fans would miss h certainly they're starting to get 2594 02:05:01,160 --> 02:05:02,640 Speaker 1: on the on the train and they're gonna have to 2595 02:05:02,680 --> 02:05:04,880 Speaker 1: make some huge adjustments. I don't. I would be really 2596 02:05:04,960 --> 02:05:09,440 Speaker 1: shocked if this pandemic happened in such a way that 2597 02:05:09,600 --> 02:05:13,840 Speaker 1: the NFL got off this scott free that that man, 2598 02:05:14,400 --> 02:05:17,400 Speaker 1: you know, Okay, the OTAs and the mini camps they're gone. Man, 2599 02:05:17,520 --> 02:05:19,840 Speaker 1: that was an ajustment, and the draft was virtual and 2600 02:05:20,040 --> 02:05:22,800 Speaker 1: all the things. Everybody was shut down for three months 2601 02:05:22,920 --> 02:05:26,560 Speaker 1: or four months or whatever. But the preseason happens, the 2602 02:05:26,680 --> 02:05:30,240 Speaker 1: regular season happens. Not a single thing other than that happened. 2603 02:05:30,360 --> 02:05:32,320 Speaker 1: I would be shocked if the NFL got out of 2604 02:05:32,400 --> 02:05:37,840 Speaker 1: this without without a scratch. I agree, And we're only 2605 02:05:37,920 --> 02:05:40,080 Speaker 1: guessing what the scratch might be. Right, We don't know where. 2606 02:05:40,280 --> 02:05:42,760 Speaker 1: I don't know what the damage it's gonna be, right, Yeah, 2607 02:05:42,840 --> 02:05:45,360 Speaker 1: what it looked like. That's the real question. It's gonna happen, 2608 02:05:45,400 --> 02:05:48,440 Speaker 1: you know, having this conversation, we know it's gonna happen somehow. Right, 2609 02:05:48,440 --> 02:05:52,080 Speaker 1: they're gonna get a dent at least. What's that gonna be? 2610 02:05:52,560 --> 02:05:54,560 Speaker 1: That's the question. Is it gonna be the preseason? Okay, 2611 02:05:54,600 --> 02:05:56,280 Speaker 1: I can live with that and no problem. But then 2612 02:05:56,360 --> 02:05:58,760 Speaker 1: you know, regular season knocking off some games that that 2613 02:05:58,920 --> 02:06:03,360 Speaker 1: kind of stinks, right, it does, and we keep it 2614 02:06:03,440 --> 02:06:05,680 Speaker 1: in perspective too. It does stink, but there's a lot 2615 02:06:05,760 --> 02:06:08,880 Speaker 1: worse things going on. People losing jobs, people losing lives. Yeah, 2616 02:06:09,160 --> 02:06:12,080 Speaker 1: thinking about the NBA, Yeah, the NBA, I mean goodness, 2617 02:06:12,120 --> 02:06:16,640 Speaker 1: Gragian hockey, I mean that just blew everything up for 2618 02:06:16,720 --> 02:06:18,840 Speaker 1: those sports. And you know, people who love those sports 2619 02:06:18,880 --> 02:06:21,720 Speaker 1: follow those sports, and not so much football. Man that 2620 02:06:23,160 --> 02:06:27,560 Speaker 1: twenty twenties the worst case scenario for them. Yep. Hey, 2621 02:06:27,640 --> 02:06:30,120 Speaker 1: Connor was on our show earlier today and he echoed 2622 02:06:30,160 --> 02:06:31,840 Speaker 1: what a lot of people are saying. The Bills are 2623 02:06:31,960 --> 02:06:34,040 Speaker 1: in good shape going into the season. We believe that, 2624 02:06:34,200 --> 02:06:36,280 Speaker 1: But are you, as a Bills fan, ready to be 2625 02:06:36,400 --> 02:06:39,160 Speaker 1: the hunted team rather than the team that hunts somebody down? 2626 02:06:39,440 --> 02:06:41,520 Speaker 1: What do you prefer to be the underdog or the favorite? 2627 02:06:41,680 --> 02:06:44,240 Speaker 1: That's our Twitter poll, six hundred fifty votes in so far, 2628 02:06:44,640 --> 02:06:47,120 Speaker 1: sixty six percent of you say you'd rather be the underdog. 2629 02:06:47,400 --> 02:06:50,160 Speaker 1: Thirty four percent say you'd rather be the favorite. Let's 2630 02:06:50,200 --> 02:06:54,040 Speaker 1: hear from you eight three fifty twelve three eight five 2631 02:06:54,200 --> 02:06:57,840 Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty phone lines wide open right now 2632 02:06:58,160 --> 02:06:59,920 Speaker 1: to talk about that, and let's go back to the 2633 02:07:00,080 --> 02:07:02,960 Speaker 1: tweet sheet brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems the 2634 02:07:03,080 --> 02:07:06,760 Speaker 1: official movers of the Buffalo Bills. The tweet sheet, UM 2635 02:07:07,840 --> 02:07:11,480 Speaker 1: on this question from Doug underdogg your favorite this year? 2636 02:07:12,000 --> 02:07:16,680 Speaker 1: Interesting dynamic going on? Um? Do we read this media? 2637 02:07:17,560 --> 02:07:19,600 Speaker 1: Media and fans of the Patriots don't know how to 2638 02:07:19,680 --> 02:07:23,160 Speaker 1: deal with their fallback to mediocrity while nobody knows how 2639 02:07:23,200 --> 02:07:25,120 Speaker 1: to deal with the Bills ascending to being an elite 2640 02:07:25,240 --> 02:07:28,280 Speaker 1: NFL team. Trust the process. He's right, That's why we 2641 02:07:28,360 --> 02:07:32,600 Speaker 1: asked this question. It's it's these are these are uncertain times, Steve. 2642 02:07:32,920 --> 02:07:37,960 Speaker 1: This is that's normal. That's right, It's you're right, it is. 2643 02:07:38,600 --> 02:07:42,040 Speaker 1: The world's on his head. I don't think Patriot fans. 2644 02:07:42,520 --> 02:07:44,800 Speaker 1: I don't think diehard Patriot fans, not you know, not 2645 02:07:44,920 --> 02:07:47,480 Speaker 1: the whatever fair Weather fans they are with the fair 2646 02:07:47,560 --> 02:07:49,400 Speaker 1: the weather has been good in New England for twenty years. 2647 02:07:49,480 --> 02:07:51,920 Speaker 1: But I don't think that that there's a lot of 2648 02:07:52,360 --> 02:07:54,480 Speaker 1: the New England fans over there thinking, you know what, 2649 02:07:54,640 --> 02:07:57,200 Speaker 1: everything's done. Now we're gonna we're gonna stink, will never 2650 02:07:57,320 --> 02:07:59,040 Speaker 1: go to the playoffs again. I don't just don't think 2651 02:07:59,040 --> 02:08:01,000 Speaker 1: there's too many people even that. I think there's a 2652 02:08:01,040 --> 02:08:03,320 Speaker 1: lot of faith in Bill Belichick and the way he 2653 02:08:03,440 --> 02:08:07,000 Speaker 1: runs the program over there, they've seen this team occasionally 2654 02:08:07,680 --> 02:08:11,080 Speaker 1: have success or at least moderate success with other quarterbacks 2655 02:08:11,120 --> 02:08:13,840 Speaker 1: other than Tom Brady for short periods of time. I 2656 02:08:13,960 --> 02:08:16,840 Speaker 1: just don't think there's that much panic in New England 2657 02:08:16,920 --> 02:08:19,320 Speaker 1: that this isn't a you know, another season where they're 2658 02:08:19,320 --> 02:08:21,360 Speaker 1: going to surprise people come out when there are a 2659 02:08:21,440 --> 02:08:24,960 Speaker 1: lot of ten games or whatever games. And I just 2660 02:08:25,040 --> 02:08:26,920 Speaker 1: think there's a lot of faith over there in New England. 2661 02:08:26,960 --> 02:08:30,640 Speaker 1: I don't I'm I don't think they care at all 2662 02:08:31,040 --> 02:08:33,960 Speaker 1: what the national perception is that their team that they've 2663 02:08:34,040 --> 02:08:36,400 Speaker 1: lost Tom Brady, didn't take a quarterback in the draft, 2664 02:08:36,920 --> 02:08:39,600 Speaker 1: and they lost a bunch of free agents and a 2665 02:08:39,680 --> 02:08:42,440 Speaker 1: good chunk of their defense. I just don't think there's 2666 02:08:42,440 --> 02:08:45,600 Speaker 1: a lot of panic over there. So I think their 2667 02:08:45,680 --> 02:08:50,400 Speaker 1: fans don't believe they're gonna fall back to mediocrity. And 2668 02:08:50,560 --> 02:08:52,640 Speaker 1: I don't think they believe that this Bill's team is 2669 02:08:52,640 --> 02:08:54,840 Speaker 1: going to put together good enough roster to outsmart and 2670 02:08:54,880 --> 02:08:57,680 Speaker 1: outplay their team, you know, in New England. So that 2671 02:08:57,800 --> 02:09:00,640 Speaker 1: you know, there's both sides of this sword where everybody's 2672 02:09:00,720 --> 02:09:04,360 Speaker 1: kind of thinking the Bills have done it right. You 2673 02:09:04,440 --> 02:09:06,240 Speaker 1: still have to play a full season to see how 2674 02:09:06,280 --> 02:09:08,360 Speaker 1: it falls out. I want to read one more from 2675 02:09:08,360 --> 02:09:10,600 Speaker 1: the tweet sheet, and this one is interesting from Albin 2676 02:09:10,920 --> 02:09:13,880 Speaker 1: who says some NFL analysts already have the Bills as 2677 02:09:13,920 --> 02:09:17,480 Speaker 1: a home playoff team and the Bills climb the power rankings. 2678 02:09:17,880 --> 02:09:19,640 Speaker 1: I don't think you can be the underdog, even if 2679 02:09:19,680 --> 02:09:22,680 Speaker 1: you wanted to be. That time has gone. Now it's 2680 02:09:22,680 --> 02:09:24,600 Speaker 1: the time to accept the next challenge and live up 2681 02:09:24,600 --> 02:09:28,240 Speaker 1: to the expectations. Albing says, regards from Germany, that's cool, 2682 02:09:28,440 --> 02:09:31,520 Speaker 1: German Bills fan checking it. There you go, Yeah, he's right. 2683 02:09:32,880 --> 02:09:36,240 Speaker 1: You may as well take what you've got, understand that 2684 02:09:36,320 --> 02:09:38,760 Speaker 1: you do have some things going for you, and expect 2685 02:09:38,840 --> 02:09:41,760 Speaker 1: those good things going for you to play well. You know, 2686 02:09:42,360 --> 02:09:45,680 Speaker 1: expect your coaching staff to get them prepared, coach well 2687 02:09:45,760 --> 02:09:47,520 Speaker 1: on game day and make great adjustments. I know your 2688 02:09:47,560 --> 02:09:50,880 Speaker 1: players to execute and play their abilities. You got to 2689 02:09:50,920 --> 02:09:54,520 Speaker 1: just trust that's going to happen. We saw it at 2690 02:09:54,560 --> 02:09:57,280 Speaker 1: times last year. Most of the time last year, it happened. 2691 02:09:57,760 --> 02:10:01,520 Speaker 1: And there's still some top end some young players like 2692 02:10:01,720 --> 02:10:04,280 Speaker 1: Josh Allen first and foremost some of those young guys 2693 02:10:04,320 --> 02:10:06,720 Speaker 1: that still have yet to spread their wings. Harrison Phillips 2694 02:10:06,840 --> 02:10:10,160 Speaker 1: is a great example he just missed. You know, if 2695 02:10:10,200 --> 02:10:11,840 Speaker 1: he doesn't get injured, you gotta think he's gonna have 2696 02:10:11,880 --> 02:10:15,680 Speaker 1: a really good year. And Josh Allen, you gotta think, wow, 2697 02:10:16,400 --> 02:10:19,160 Speaker 1: he's gonna take another If he takes another step, is 2698 02:10:19,520 --> 02:10:21,480 Speaker 1: what is he gonna look like? You know, he's gonna 2699 02:10:21,480 --> 02:10:24,480 Speaker 1: look like a pretty good quarterback. So there's a lot 2700 02:10:24,520 --> 02:10:26,000 Speaker 1: to look forward to. But you gotta count on that 2701 02:10:26,040 --> 02:10:28,720 Speaker 1: stuff happen, you know, for Bills fans, you count on 2702 02:10:28,800 --> 02:10:30,920 Speaker 1: that stuff happening, and you've got a pretty good football team. 2703 02:10:31,000 --> 02:10:34,760 Speaker 1: Alban's tweet from Germany calls the mind. We got a 2704 02:10:34,760 --> 02:10:38,040 Speaker 1: tweet from a listener in UK, Great Britain. I think 2705 02:10:38,120 --> 02:10:40,720 Speaker 1: yesterday we were talking the other day about how relieved 2706 02:10:40,760 --> 02:10:42,280 Speaker 1: we were the Bills don't have a game in London. 2707 02:10:42,320 --> 02:10:45,400 Speaker 1: He said, Hey, yeah, Bills fans over here too, we're disappointed. Okay, 2708 02:10:45,520 --> 02:10:47,600 Speaker 1: I get it. You're right. It isn't disappointment. We got 2709 02:10:47,680 --> 02:10:49,880 Speaker 1: a break here and we're back. One Bill's Life presented 2710 02:10:49,920 --> 02:10:52,240 Speaker 1: a by Collat of Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio 2711 02:10:58,560 --> 02:11:00,480 Speaker 1: wraps up with what we've learn and brought to you 2712 02:11:00,640 --> 02:11:03,440 Speaker 1: my Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company of the 2713 02:11:03,480 --> 02:11:06,920 Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. We had Connor oron. He is a NFL 2714 02:11:07,000 --> 02:11:11,520 Speaker 1: reporter for Sports Illustrated. He's got the Bills in the 2715 02:11:11,760 --> 02:11:14,400 Speaker 1: SIS Power Rankings as the fifteen. He says he vote 2716 02:11:14,440 --> 02:11:16,800 Speaker 1: him as the third best team in the NFL. Here's 2717 02:11:16,800 --> 02:11:19,840 Speaker 1: what Connor or said. Yeah, I had them at numbers three, 2718 02:11:20,120 --> 02:11:23,800 Speaker 1: and you know, I got caught. In years past when 2719 02:11:23,840 --> 02:11:26,760 Speaker 1: we've done Power rankings, I've always ranked teams that I 2720 02:11:26,880 --> 02:11:30,320 Speaker 1: feel like other people are going to underrate much higher. 2721 02:11:31,080 --> 02:11:33,680 Speaker 1: It's in purpose to affect the average so that I 2722 02:11:33,720 --> 02:11:36,440 Speaker 1: would move the Bills up. In our polls. Everything is 2723 02:11:36,440 --> 02:11:39,360 Speaker 1: averaged together. So I did this last year or two, 2724 02:11:39,560 --> 02:11:41,680 Speaker 1: or I had them at one or two or three 2725 02:11:41,800 --> 02:11:44,400 Speaker 1: sometimes because I felt like the rest of my co workers, 2726 02:11:44,880 --> 02:11:47,680 Speaker 1: we're appreciating the progress as much in us. I got 2727 02:11:47,760 --> 02:11:50,200 Speaker 1: to move them up to Power Rankings, which is very 2728 02:11:50,240 --> 02:11:53,000 Speaker 1: satisfying to me. But I decided to finally come out 2729 02:11:53,040 --> 02:11:56,240 Speaker 1: and just admit it that I was the mystery Buills backer. 2730 02:11:56,400 --> 02:11:58,640 Speaker 1: And I'm continuing that this year. I think they did 2731 02:11:58,640 --> 02:12:01,160 Speaker 1: a good job in the draft and they deserve some 2732 02:12:01,280 --> 02:12:04,080 Speaker 1: props for that. Okay, Connor Roy, we're talking about that 2733 02:12:04,160 --> 02:12:07,080 Speaker 1: we had Ed Brown on from w ro OCTV and Rochester. 2734 02:12:07,400 --> 02:12:10,600 Speaker 1: He's got the Bills down for three primetime games when 2735 02:12:10,600 --> 02:12:13,120 Speaker 1: the schedule comes out tomorrow. Here's what he said. I 2736 02:12:13,240 --> 02:12:16,040 Speaker 1: have him down for three. And you know, the bill 2737 02:12:16,160 --> 02:12:20,160 Speaker 1: schedule this year is not conducive to getting these primetime 2738 02:12:20,240 --> 02:12:23,080 Speaker 1: games for two reasons. Number one, because they're playing both 2739 02:12:23,200 --> 02:12:26,200 Speaker 1: West divisions. There are six games on their schedule where 2740 02:12:26,200 --> 02:12:28,600 Speaker 1: either the Bills or their opponent are going full cross 2741 02:12:28,640 --> 02:12:30,680 Speaker 1: country and those games are never gonna be on Thursday. 2742 02:12:30,920 --> 02:12:33,440 Speaker 1: On top of that, their division is not interesting this year. 2743 02:12:33,440 --> 02:12:35,480 Speaker 1: I mean the Patriots and the Bills, and so the 2744 02:12:35,480 --> 02:12:38,120 Speaker 1: Patriots and the Jets and the Dolphins are not you know, 2745 02:12:38,440 --> 02:12:40,800 Speaker 1: move the needle teams now. I think it'll help obviously 2746 02:12:40,800 --> 02:12:43,040 Speaker 1: that New England and the Jets are big market teams. 2747 02:12:43,120 --> 02:12:45,880 Speaker 1: But you've got six games there and six games you know, 2748 02:12:46,080 --> 02:12:49,520 Speaker 1: cross country. That's three quarters of the schedule to where 2749 02:12:49,560 --> 02:12:54,320 Speaker 1: you just don't see it as a likely primetime game. Interesting, Steve, 2750 02:12:54,360 --> 02:12:56,240 Speaker 1: we're just about out of time. We'll talk again tomorrow 2751 02:12:56,280 --> 02:12:58,280 Speaker 1: at noon. All right, good show, Murph, I'll talk to 2752 02:12:58,280 --> 02:13:02,000 Speaker 1: you tomorrow, okay. Production assistance from Kelly Rude, j j Rito, 2753 02:13:02,360 --> 02:13:05,360 Speaker 1: Kevin Cartius, James Robol, Board ops Brayton Wilson and Joe 2754 02:13:05,400 --> 02:13:08,440 Speaker 1: Debiance our producer Jay Harris. We're back tomorrow, twelve noon, 2755 02:13:08,560 --> 02:13:11,920 Speaker 1: one Bills Live presented by Kalada Health. This is Buffalo 2756 02:13:12,040 --> 02:13:16,200 Speaker 1: Bills Radio. All right,