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Speaker 1: So a lot to talk about, Steve, and a lot

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Speaker 1: to the phone lines. Water calling me from Baltimore. Hello,

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame himself. So you got two really accomplished

426
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Speaker 1: running backs at that spot along with t. J. Yelden,

427
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Speaker 1: who's had a an okay, pro career was a fifty

428
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Speaker 1: catch receiver out of the backfield last year for a

429
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Speaker 1: Jacksonville team to didn't throw the football all that much.

430
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Speaker 1: So there's every reason to think that running back wasn't

431
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Speaker 1: going to be that high on the list. But what

432
00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:17,520
Speaker 1: happens in this situation if you if you didn't know this,

433
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Speaker 1: I mean, it becomes, you know, painfully obvious that if

434
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Speaker 1: you're going down, all these guys are coming off the board,

435
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Speaker 1: You've got these names on your board, and all of

436
00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:30,879
Speaker 1: a sudden, one guy you've got a rating on in

437
00:20:30,920 --> 00:20:33,200
Speaker 1: the third round or the second round, and everybody else

438
00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,160
Speaker 1: is gone, and everybody else on your board has got

439
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Speaker 1: a fourth, fifth or sixth round rating on him. And

440
00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:39,600
Speaker 1: here this guy is, You've got a second round grade

441
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Speaker 1: on him, and it's a third round and there's nobody

442
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Speaker 1: close to him. Well it's a running back. Well what

443
00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,399
Speaker 1: about wide receivers. Well, wide receivers are down here and

444
00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:51,040
Speaker 1: this guy's And that's what you gotta do. And it

445
00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:54,119
Speaker 1: takes discipline to do that. It takes somebody in the

446
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Speaker 1: room to be an adult and say no, you're not

447
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Speaker 1: going to spend your You're not going to spend your

448
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Speaker 1: lunch money on camp. You're gonna wait, you know, you're

449
00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:02,840
Speaker 1: gonna spend it on what you're supposed to spend it on.

450
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Speaker 1: And that's what they did. How many times have we

451
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Speaker 1: not seen that? Yeah, even in this draft with other teams,

452
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Speaker 1: I mean certainly not the Bills. They stuck to the

453
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Speaker 1: menu this time. A couple of tweets on this how

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Speaker 1: would you grade the Bills twenty nineteen draft? On the

455
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Speaker 1: tweet sheet from Brian he gives them an A and

456
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Speaker 1: he's got a good explanation. He said, we needed two

457
00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,600
Speaker 1: day one starters, one for each side in the trenches.

458
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Speaker 1: Accomplished right the top two at Oliver and Cody Ford.

459
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Speaker 1: He said, we also needed a tight end, got two

460
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Speaker 1: of them running back in the future, got Singletary and

461
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Speaker 1: Zoe's replacement and outside linebacker. We'll see. We hit all

462
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Speaker 1: that with the first five selections and did it while

463
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Speaker 1: sticking to the board. That really is a good explanation

464
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Speaker 1: of what they accomplished two day one. Starry. We remember

465
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Speaker 1: we talked last few weeks about the Bills draft pick

466
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Speaker 1: what they might do, and I was talking and others

467
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Speaker 1: and said it too best available, big man, That's what

468
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Speaker 1: they got in each of the first two rounds. Big

469
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Speaker 1: Ben starters in the trenches at Oliver on defense, Cody

470
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Speaker 1: Forward on offense. That's big. We'll see about the tight

471
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Speaker 1: end if he either of the tight ends, but in

472
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Speaker 1: particularly the third rounder Dawson Knox, we'll see if he

473
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Speaker 1: has enough to be a starter. He's got some competition

474
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Speaker 1: running back in the future. I guess that's what you

475
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Speaker 1: would consider Devin secretary, right, the possible running back of

476
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Speaker 1: the future, right. And I think the interesting thing about

477
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Speaker 1: this draft was everybody knew going in that it was

478
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Speaker 1: a heavy on the defensive front. The receivers weren't that good.

479
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Speaker 1: You saw that, and I mean none of them got

480
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Speaker 1: or maybe what one of them got picked in the Yeah,

481
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Speaker 1: the thirty second pick was a was the first wide

482
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Speaker 1: receiver off the board. So everybody kind of had the

483
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Speaker 1: same evaluation and they knew that offensive lineman. There was

484
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Speaker 1: a drop off as they got deeper into this draft,

485
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Speaker 1: the Bills, it was it was reported the Bills tried

486
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Speaker 1: to get back in to the top of the or

487
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Speaker 1: the back end of the first round to take Cody Forward.

488
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Speaker 1: The price was too high. And that's the discipline we're

489
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Speaker 1: talking about. It was too high, so well, we can't

490
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Speaker 1: do it. So they were gonna, we're gonna pass on

491
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Speaker 1: Cody Ford. And then he fell to them at thirty eight,

492
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Speaker 1: right as a thirty eighth they were picking. They moved

493
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Speaker 1: up to right, so they got him at thirty six. No,

494
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Speaker 1: they got him at thirty thirty eight. They were forty,

495
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Speaker 1: they were they were the fortieth pick, and they picked.

496
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Speaker 1: He fell, and they said, well, let's jump up now

497
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Speaker 1: and get him for two. We can get to do

498
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Speaker 1: that cheap. Gave two fourth rounders for him and got

499
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Speaker 1: their guy that they thought they were going to trade

500
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Speaker 1: into the back of the first round to get. And

501
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:28,399
Speaker 1: sure enough, they got exactly the guy they wanted. And

502
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Speaker 1: that discipline of not paying that high price to begin with,

503
00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 1: they still gave up two fourth rounders. Uh, but in

504
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Speaker 1: doing so they got they got as an offensive lineman

505
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Speaker 1: that a lot of people had a number one first

506
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Speaker 1: round grade on. So, um, kudos the Bills for staying discipline.

507
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Speaker 1: And Uh. The reason I got into on to this

508
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Speaker 1: point was that most of these team, well all thirty

509
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Speaker 1: two teams kind of saw this draft the same way.

510
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Speaker 1: And you've got to think two, this next draft has

511
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Speaker 1: a different personality than these teams are starting to evaluate

512
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Speaker 1: as well. So if you're gonna get an offensive lineman

513
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:05,600
Speaker 1: or defensive lineman, this is the draft to do it,

514
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 1: because next year the draft is not like that. It's

515
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a different profile in that draft. And

516
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Speaker 1: you know, you just gotta get the good players when

517
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,960
Speaker 1: you can get the good players in this draft, because

518
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 1: this next draft probably isn't going to be as deep

519
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Speaker 1: as this draft is. In big Men, I gotta say

520
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Speaker 1: I was disheartened by the the pretty precipitous drop by

521
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Speaker 1: TDK Metcalf, who I confess I fought into all the hype.

522
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Speaker 1: I was into all the hype and he wasn't a

523
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Speaker 1: first round or he was the last pick in the

524
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Speaker 1: second round by Seattle. UM. So yeah, we'll follow his career.

525
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Speaker 1: We'll see how he does. I think he And here's

526
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Speaker 1: this comes back to the disappointment for me about no

527
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Speaker 1: wide receiver pick for the Bills. Um, they need an

528
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Speaker 1: an all around wide receiver. Right. We talked about the

529
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Speaker 1: offensive line group. Uh, they had two great additions with

530
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Speaker 1: Beasley and John Brown, obviously Foster coming back, Zay Jones

531
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Speaker 1: coming back. There are people there. But if you look

532
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Speaker 1: at that group and you look for the guy who

533
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Speaker 1: can be the number one wide receiver. That guy has

534
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,159
Speaker 1: yet to emerge on the Buffalo roster. And apparently that

535
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Speaker 1: guy was not in this year's draft as far as

536
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Speaker 1: the Bill's concerns, and not enough to match up with

537
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Speaker 1: their what their grades were. So yeah, I'm disappointed. The Metcalf,

538
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Speaker 1: by the Bills estimation and by everybody's estimation twice through

539
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Speaker 1: the draft, was not the guy to look at when

540
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Speaker 1: you look for an all around wide receiver, one wide

541
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Speaker 1: receiver number one. I haven't been as I've thought they

542
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: were going to take a wide receiver, There's no question

543
00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:34,399
Speaker 1: about it. But I'm not as as panicky about the

544
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 1: guys they have on this roster. You can think about this.

545
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Speaker 1: You've got Cole Beasley, who is a proven slot receiver

546
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Speaker 1: in the NFL, and then you've got you've got enough.

547
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Speaker 1: You've got plenty of speed to throw out John Brown,

548
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:49,480
Speaker 1: Robert Foster and Isaiah McKenzie to get or that's a

549
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Speaker 1: lot of speed to throw onto the football field. Now

550
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Speaker 1: it's going to be up to somebody around there. Zay Jones,

551
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Speaker 1: Ray Ray McLeod, cam Phillips, Andre Roberts, Demari Scott, Duke Williams,

552
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Speaker 1: Victor Bolden. One of these guys has got to rise

553
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 1: up and be a different kind of target. And I

554
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,600
Speaker 1: do see what you're saying, though, Murph. They've got a

555
00:26:09,600 --> 00:26:11,959
Speaker 1: lot of guys who are kind of role player receivers

556
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Speaker 1: aside from the fact that they can throw out all

557
00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:16,679
Speaker 1: that speed onto the field. But you don't have this,

558
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 1: you know, that red zone target. You don't have that

559
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 1: big body, post up guy. You don't you know that

560
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:22,879
Speaker 1: kind of thing. So it's going to be interesting to

561
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 1: see how they utilize that. But the fact that they

562
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,280
Speaker 1: have got a ton of guys who can really fly

563
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:30,720
Speaker 1: does say something about what they do think they have.

564
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Speaker 1: We'll talk more about receivers as the afternoon rolls along.

565
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Speaker 1: We're here until three. We got Cody Ford standing by

566
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Speaker 1: to join us next builds a second round pick. Come

567
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Speaker 1: on back for that. It's One Bills Live from One

568
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Speaker 1: Goes Drive and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back

569
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Speaker 1: One Bill Slide from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy with

570
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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker. We're coming to you after the draft. Our

571
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Speaker 1: first shows since the draft completed over the weekend. Eight

572
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Speaker 1: selections by the Buffalo Bills. One of them, the second

573
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Speaker 1: one of them joins us right now on the line.

574
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Speaker 1: Happy to have him too. He is the Bill's second

575
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Speaker 1: round draft pick from Oklahoma, part of that heralded Oklahoma

576
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 1: offensive line. Happy to have offensive line and Cody forward

577
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 1: with US high Cody, John Murphy and Steave Tasker in Buffalo.

578
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us, sir, sir, you were here Saturday,

579
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 1: right visiting the complex. That was your first visit here

580
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 1: to uh to Buffalo in Western New York. Yeah, I

581
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,800
Speaker 1: came up Saturday. He was my first time there. What

582
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 1: do you think of the complex? What do you think

583
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: of Buffalo? And the brief look you had here Saturday?

584
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: I was really surprised most of the rotems don't have them.

585
00:27:43,119 --> 00:27:46,199
Speaker 1: I said, it looks like Buffalo Facility had. I was

586
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:50,200
Speaker 1: really surprised. Look like they are all the brand new.

587
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about what the conversation was

588
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,399
Speaker 1: like when you got here to have you started talking

589
00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:00,000
Speaker 1: about you've got this reputation for being a pretty good athlete.

590
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,400
Speaker 1: For as big as you are and as heavy as

591
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: you are, You're you're noted to be a really good athlete.

592
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,960
Speaker 1: You could play down inside or at tackle. Do you

593
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: have a preference inside or outside? My preferences outside. I

594
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:15,720
Speaker 1: like playing the tackle just a more guard. Uh So,

595
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Speaker 1: Like IM said, many times, I played wherever I gotta

596
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Speaker 1: play the help of team win ball games. Would you

597
00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: have like seven starts at guard a couple of years

598
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 1: ago and then fourteen starts at tackle last year? Is

599
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 1: that all broke down? Cody? Uh? Yeah, I'm sorry. I

600
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: had about seven seven give or take warrant at guard

601
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,720
Speaker 1: and then all last season was on at right tackle.

602
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Speaker 1: What did you like better about playing tackle? Why do

603
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: you like that better? I think it was just once

604
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Speaker 1: I got control of control of my my personal issue

605
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: as far as the wakes, I was able to go

606
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Speaker 1: out there and just play the way I can play,

607
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: you know, just physical, nashy, and just fast all the time.

608
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 1: I feel like that's why I was playing tackle with

609
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Speaker 1: my big ball. What you lost like fifteen pounds going

610
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Speaker 1: into your your final year there in Oklahoma? Uh So?

611
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Speaker 1: I came into the spring in twenty eighteen, I was

612
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Speaker 1: like three feet so you ended up playing the season

613
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Speaker 1: at three twenty five? Wow? Did could you tell a

614
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,160
Speaker 1: difference or was that just did you just tell the

615
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: coaches you could tell a difference. How tough was that

616
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Speaker 1: and and what kind of difference did that loss about

617
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five pounds make for you? Well, actually they

618
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,239
Speaker 1: know the difference between before me. Uh. They came up

619
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Speaker 1: to me, you know, halfway through the summer and it

620
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 1: was like we could sell at the weight loss is

621
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Speaker 1: really uh guiding you in the right the race and

622
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Speaker 1: if you just keep it up, we're gonna do win

623
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Speaker 1: ball games for sure, and we're gonna make make a

624
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: run at this thing. So so that was the biggest thing.

625
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: But I tell it to uh, I really didn't came

626
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: into the fall camp when I started playing strictly just tackling.

627
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 1: You came in and when you moved to tackle and

628
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Speaker 1: then the rest of the offensive line got it together.

629
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Speaker 1: You guys were really a heralded offensive line last year.

630
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Speaker 1: What do you think went into that and and was

631
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Speaker 1: that a big step forward from two years ago? Yeah,

632
00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: it was definitely a big step from two years ago.

633
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Speaker 1: One difference that I know this and a lot of

634
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:26,240
Speaker 1: the other guys notice two is that last year when

635
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: we played the game, we kind of just went out

636
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Speaker 1: there and played. We didn't think too much. We didn't

637
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 1: allow things to build up pressure on this. We kids,

638
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 1: I just went out there and then that thing, have

639
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: fun with it and just plays the hash. I know

640
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: years before we would always be thinking about just too

641
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: much going on, pre snapped and what can happen this

642
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 1: then the other We just like I said, last year,

643
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 1: we kind of just were out there and played and

644
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: just had fun. Cody, you spent the entire year blocking

645
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 1: for the Heisman Trophy winner and and Kyler Murray got

646
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: drafted number one overall to the Arizona Cardinals. What are

647
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: the Cardinals getting from your former teammate Kyler Murray? Well,

648
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 1: number one, they're gonna get a winner. Uh. You know,

649
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: all he does is win win ball games. That's that's

650
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: his greatest I said. Uh, he's a great leader, great guy,

651
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: great teammates. Uh. He's very loyal to his players, to

652
00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: his teammates. Uh, he's very respectful as well. Cody and

653
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,240
Speaker 1: Stevens talking to you about that great offensive line there,

654
00:31:31,280 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: winners of the Joe Moore Award the best offensive line

655
00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 1: unit in college football last year. And you have a

656
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: couple of teammates, Uh, Bobby Evans Drew Sarnia got drafted. Uh. Um,

657
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: one of them on Friday, one of them on Saturday,

658
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 1: and it had to be good to see how productive

659
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:47,680
Speaker 1: you guys were during the college season and how it

660
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 1: paid off over the weekend in the draft. Huh Oh,

661
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 1: it was an amazing seeing draft get drafted. Uh. You know,

662
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 1: we talked about it all throughout the draft process. Uh,

663
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 1: just seeing her to go, uh go to these different places.

664
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: We were hoping that one of us would get starting

665
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 1: with another guy. So, I mean, just seeing those guys

666
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: get drafted and picked up like that was just some

667
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:15,480
Speaker 1: amazing seeing all the how to work get get paid off. Yeah,

668
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: have the drift? Have the bills given you any idea

669
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:19,840
Speaker 1: about where they're gonna start you out at a tackle

670
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: or garden? So yeah, so for right now, from what

671
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: I heard from its other stats, is that they're gonna

672
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: start me to tackle right now or then I give

673
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,080
Speaker 1: me the first shot there and right tackle right That's

674
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: where you played in Oklahoma? Yes, sir, Hey, who's the

675
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 1: every time one of you Oklahoma offensive lineman we're drafted

676
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 1: over the weekend the network, I said, and the best

677
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: one of them all may be still at Oklahoma. Who

678
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: are they referring to? Who's still back there? Cody. So

679
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: they're talking about it sooner. He's a rest shot sophomore

680
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 1: this year. He's a sitting there. He's about six point

681
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:57,240
Speaker 1: three fifteen. Uh, he's from Oklahoma, and he is definitely

682
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: the best one still that probably had defense one still there.

683
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:04,800
Speaker 1: What's his name? First round? Is that pig? What's his

684
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: name is? Krei Humphry? Okay, that's that's pretty cool. And

685
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,640
Speaker 1: there's still another offensive it. Cody tells the story of

686
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: a Friday night, So you don't go in the first round.

687
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: It's early Friday night, draft starts at seven. You decided

688
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: to wait in what a hotel room your hotel area

689
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 1: in uh Nashville, and then go over to the to

690
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: the draft complex. Tell us about that whole process and

691
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 1: what that was like. Yeah, so I was in the

692
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: conference room at the hotel that they had put this

693
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: soon for further draft and I was just plainting the antebox, chilling, uh,

694
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:40,400
Speaker 1: trying to just keep my mind away from the draft

695
00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: so the thinking further and even just watch it. Uh.

696
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: So I'm in the middle of a getting Madden game

697
00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: and then my phone rings and uh, you know, I

698
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 1: get the call from Buffalo and uh, you know, I

699
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:56,200
Speaker 1: just went over there, walk across from stage. Uh, mister Jim,

700
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: there's all those things. And one of the reasons that

701
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 1: did that was just you know, I came here to

702
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 1: I went theater to do that process, you know, wess

703
00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:10,400
Speaker 1: the stage after hearing my name. So, uh, that was

704
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: what it was all about. You were emotional too, all right,

705
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: and even saw a nice piece of video I think

706
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,280
Speaker 1: Boast put out with your mom giving you a message

707
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 1: about you being drafted. It was kind of an emotional

708
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:25,840
Speaker 1: night for you, it appeared anyway. Oh yeah, it was

709
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 1: definitely emotional, Rightmotions was growing around for sure. What are

710
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: your short term goals? Cody, I would say this right now,

711
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 1: getting there, h show them what I can do. I'm

712
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,920
Speaker 1: gonna be able to start a few games and uh,

713
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 1: play about this season. And Cody, I read somewhere where um,

714
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: you are inspired by your late grandfather. Can you tell

715
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: us that story? Can you tell us about him? Yeah?

716
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: So you know he died in twenty fifteen. I never

717
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: got the chances to stay and die. So everything I

718
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: do for him, do right now is for him because

719
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 1: he started this process with me a long time ago,

720
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: and I want to make sure he knows I'm still

721
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 1: carrying on what he comes about. Cool and I also

722
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,319
Speaker 1: saw where you, um, you already have your degree right,

723
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 1: graduated last December with a degree in criminology. Correct, yes, sir,

724
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: I already had my degree. So the degree. Tell me

725
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: why that was important to you to get your degree

726
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 1: while you were an Oklahoma mainly because, I mean that

727
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 1: was one of the biggest things that we had comes

728
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: about me and him was making sure I got my

729
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,760
Speaker 1: education first to not leaving too. I got my education,

730
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: all right, Cody. Congratulations and welcome to the Buffalo Bills here, sir,

731
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you. Cody. Cody forward, Bill's second round

732
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 1: draft pick. Gonna play right tackle, line up and play

733
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: right tackle at least to begin here were the Buffalo Bills.

734
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: He'll be up here in about a week week and

735
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,520
Speaker 1: a half or so when the rookies report for the

736
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: rookie Minicamp. We thank Cody for joining us on the

737
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: phone today, just a couple of days after he was

738
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: drafted in the second round. Seems like a good guy,

739
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,399
Speaker 1: kind of a rounded, well rounded, h centered guy. It's

740
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 1: just like most offensive linemen. If you can get them

741
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: to talk, they're pretty articulate, you know, but they're usually

742
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 1: kind of quiet, yea. And once again he's one of them.

743
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: You asked him off the top and he said, you know,

744
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: and he did make he's one of those guys. He

745
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: made some trips around the NFL and some pre draft

746
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:32,840
Speaker 1: visits and and but he didn't visit Buffalo and he

747
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 1: said when he got here, he was you know, it's

748
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: favorably impressed, like something we've heard some of the other

749
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 1: guys say as well. Most NFL facilities aren't quite like

750
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 1: this one, and I think it's it's still still a

751
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:48,640
Speaker 1: good thing to have these guys be impressed when they

752
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 1: come in here and act like you know, when they

753
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 1: walk into the place, it feels top shelf all the

754
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: way around. It really is. It really is asking you know,

755
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: you got to be certain that Oklahoma has a good

756
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: set up there too. But so a guy who comes

757
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:02,839
Speaker 1: from that background here they're being pressed that says something

758
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,440
Speaker 1: about what we got going on here. You know. We've

759
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: heard some guys from college college colleges come in and

760
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:10,240
Speaker 1: say that, and also some of the free agent signings

761
00:37:10,280 --> 00:37:12,200
Speaker 1: from the Bills from the NFL, guys who've been in

762
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 1: the league for a couple of years come in and say, wow.

763
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,480
Speaker 1: So it's good to know that you're the team's um

764
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: got top notch facilities. The players notice it, h and

765
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 1: as a as a former player, you always think it.

766
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: It removes all the obstacles in your mindset for why

767
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 1: you know, why you should play well, you know, well,

768
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,000
Speaker 1: like I don't know if I'm getting They've got everything

769
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: you could possibly need. Uh, and the state of the

770
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:37,919
Speaker 1: heart of everything. Plus it's all man and they're they're

771
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 1: there to help you and there they've got people coach

772
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: you through the process of getting yourself healthy, keeping yourself sharp. Uh,

773
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,320
Speaker 1: it's really it's a it's a great atmosphere and I

774
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 1: think it's going to serve the team. Well, we'll see,

775
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 1: but uh, certainly it seems too right now. Cody Ford.

776
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: I was just looking at one of the draft magazines,

777
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 1: Lindy Sports I picked up several months ago in an

778
00:37:56,840 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 1: airport board. But you know, you look back and on

779
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: Cody four. They haven't listed as a number one guard

780
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:04,800
Speaker 1: in the draft. The Bills are interested in starting the

781
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 1: amount of tackle anyway, But the first sentence, Cody Ford

782
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:12,080
Speaker 1: possesses an excellent combination of size, strength, agility and footwork,

783
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,399
Speaker 1: kind of the whole package. It seems the Bills line

784
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: last year was was characterized by a lack of athleticism.

785
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 1: So when you see a guy like Cody Ford, who's

786
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: you know, good feet and strong, strong, and you know,

787
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:30,160
Speaker 1: and athletics, that's a response what you want your big

788
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,040
Speaker 1: guys do. It sounds crazy to have these three hundred

789
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: and twenty five pound guys that are considered athletes. Believe me,

790
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: they are. Yeah. Quickness, yeah, you get them out, You

791
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,120
Speaker 1: get them out on a basketball quarter or any other sport.

792
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: You can tell that they know what they're doing. They

793
00:38:41,239 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 1: can move around really well for as big as they are.

794
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 1: That's why they're at this level. All right, We thank

795
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: Cody Ford for joining us. We got Brandon Mean coming

796
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,279
Speaker 1: up at one o'clock and more time to talk with you.

797
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 1: Let's know what you think of the Bills draft. What

798
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 1: kind of a grade would you give it? Eight oh

799
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,759
Speaker 1: three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty or you can send in a

801
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 1: tweet weet read it on the tweet sheet. Come on back,

802
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo

803
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:19,239
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio I'll come back One Bill's Live from One

804
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. Brandon being going to join us one o'clock

805
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,840
Speaker 1: about ten minutes away. One of the significant things that

806
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 1: happened during the draft weekend was not a draft pick, Steve.

807
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: It was the Dolphins trade, and I think it was

808
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: masterfully executed by the Dolphins as they waited and waited

809
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:36,279
Speaker 1: and waited, waited until towards the end, the thirtieth pick

810
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: in the second round, and they traded that pick to Arizona,

811
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,880
Speaker 1: and they wound up Arizona chose Andy Isabella, pretty good

812
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: wide receiver, but the Dolphins get Josh Rose. And look,

813
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,840
Speaker 1: we said all along, Arizona wants more than a third rounder,

814
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: and they just barely got a little bit more than

815
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:56,120
Speaker 1: a third round or two picks before. But the Dolphins

816
00:39:56,640 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: didn't give up a whole lot. Got a quarterback who

817
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: was tent overall in the draft a year ago ahead

818
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: a rough year, we know that, but a guy who

819
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:06,760
Speaker 1: can probably walk into a Miami situation and start right away.

820
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: And he cost him like six hundred thousand dollars this

821
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: year because Arizona's gonna has already paid most of his salary.

822
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 1: I think it's it's a really good moment for the

823
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,959
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. They got a really good quarter a pretty

824
00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,320
Speaker 1: good quarterback prospect, and they're not paying that much for it,

825
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: yea like six hundred grand or something, and it's they're

826
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 1: not paying him anything, and they can go out and

827
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:26,640
Speaker 1: get a quarterback next year too if and he's still

828
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 1: really like he said, Murph, he's a really good prospect.

829
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Speaker 1: And the way he handled his exit from Arizona showed

830
00:40:34,719 --> 00:40:38,160
Speaker 1: a lot of class. He h. He was very quiet

831
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 1: during the process, U, And which is what you would think. Um,

832
00:40:43,239 --> 00:40:44,839
Speaker 1: it's what you really need to do if you're gonna

833
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:46,520
Speaker 1: do it right. Yeah, you don't want to scream and

834
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:49,440
Speaker 1: cry about it because there's nothing you're gonna be able

835
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 1: to change. I think he handled it extremely well. And

836
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: and when that deal came down and the Dolphins, i

837
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 1: mean they got Ryan Fitzpatrick down there, perfect guy to

838
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: mentor a young quarter back. Um. Certainly Miami is trying

839
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: to put together a better roster than they had a

840
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:06,840
Speaker 1: year ago, and we'll see if they can do that.

841
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:11,839
Speaker 1: But you're right, the Dolphins really pulled off a nice trade. Uh,

842
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 1: getting Josh Rosen number ten overall pick last year at quarterback,

843
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 1: come in, give him a chance to to and plus

844
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: there's not really that much pressure to play him right away, right,

845
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:26,239
Speaker 1: I mean you think probably maybe, But you know how

846
00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Fitzpatrick's gonna get in there and he's

847
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:31,560
Speaker 1: gonna know the offense. He's gonna he's gonna pick it

848
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 1: up very quickly. Rosen's gonna be there doing the same thing.

849
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: And plus it's perfect for fitz to go in there

850
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 1: and do what he does. He's gonna play really well

851
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,320
Speaker 1: at first, and then he's gonna throw it to the

852
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 1: wrong team and there then you can make the change.

853
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:48,320
Speaker 1: The Josh Rosen situation generated a lot of discussion, some

854
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:52,279
Speaker 1: of it here, but Steven Steve Smith, former Carolina wide

855
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:54,760
Speaker 1: receiver who's now in the NFL Network, it seemed felt

856
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: compelled to kind of rip Josh Rosen before the trade

857
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 1: was made. Just listen to this. This is Steve Smith

858
00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:05,440
Speaker 1: talking on NFL Network about and it was basically generated.

859
00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,359
Speaker 1: I think was a Friday or Thursday, even when Josh

860
00:42:08,440 --> 00:42:12,240
Speaker 1: Rosen decided to unfollow the Arizona Cardinals on social media,

861
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: and Steve Smith said this, it was amazing when things

862
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 1: don't go your way. You're gonna cry in the corner,

863
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: but guess what, They're gonna ship your home somewhere else

864
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,479
Speaker 1: and you can gonna cry and be their problem. Listen,

865
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: this is a man's game. Be a man and go

866
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 1: gets that man one on one. He gets ten place,

867
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: You get ten place. Do your deal. Ain't nobody given

868
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:36,680
Speaker 1: you nothing? The only thing you can get on this

869
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: stage right now there's a free airworp and everything else

870
00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:42,719
Speaker 1: you gotta work hard for. Steve Smith went off right.

871
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:45,480
Speaker 1: He ripped them and that's what they're paying for to do.

872
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:48,440
Speaker 1: I guess at NFL Network, Well, here's what a man

873
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:52,280
Speaker 1: sounds like. Here's Josh Rosen on Saturday after the trade

874
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: was executed late Friday night. Everyone, I just wanted to

875
00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 1: say a couple of things after Earth and it just happened.

876
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:00,840
Speaker 1: Cardinals fans, thank you so much for all of the

877
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:03,359
Speaker 1: continue support this past year. I know we didn't win

878
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 1: many games to be able to have hoped, but had

879
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: an unbelievable time the desperate. Unfortunately, my time here is

880
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 1: coming to an end. But you guys are really getting

881
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: an ell of a player in Kyler Murray, and he's

882
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,320
Speaker 1: gonna do great things for the Red Sea, Kyler, I

883
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: just want to congratulate you and your family are getting drafted.

884
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: Arizona is a really special place and you're gonna love

885
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 1: playing and living here. It's my teammates, staff, and everyone

886
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: who worked at the facility. I can't thank you enough

887
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 1: for all the support, great memories we've created its past year.

888
00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,080
Speaker 1: I'm really wishing all of the Arizona Cardinals the best

889
00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: of luck, movie forwards and Miami. I couldn't be more

890
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:37,320
Speaker 1: excited to become a Dolphin. I'm ready to attack the

891
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:39,760
Speaker 1: new chapter in my life and give you guys everything

892
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 1: I have each and every day. My bags are packed

893
00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 1: and I'm want to flight first thing tomorrow morning. So

894
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 1: get ready South Florida and go. Finns and Kyler. One

895
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: more thing. An awesome two bedroom an old town just

896
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:53,320
Speaker 1: came onto the market, So let me know if you're interested,

897
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 1: and I think I could get you a pretty good deal. Okay,

898
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:57,880
Speaker 1: sounds like a man, me, That sounds like man. He

899
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 1: handled He could not have handled that better. Right. He

900
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: was humble, He knew it's a business. He knows that

901
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,120
Speaker 1: he thanked all the people that Let's face it, he

902
00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: didn't have much to say about that. Process when when

903
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,000
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray came out that they were going to change

904
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: head coaches. Head coach is going to call his way

905
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 1: that it ceased to be his decision to make. He

906
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,080
Speaker 1: handled extremely well, just like the people in the building

907
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: at Arizona. You know, it's like like you and me

908
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: working here. They don't call us when they're gonna make

909
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: a trade. That doesn't mean we don't like the guy

910
00:44:26,719 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 1: that they're trade, and we liked. You know, you have

911
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 1: personal relationships. And he thanked all the people from the

912
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,200
Speaker 1: top of the organization, all the way through to the

913
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 1: bottom of the organization, the equipment guys, the training staff,

914
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 1: all the people that you work with day and day

915
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 1: out as a professional football player. And of course the

916
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:42,279
Speaker 1: thrill you get playing in front of a bunch of

917
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 1: really good fans that there are out in Arizona. He

918
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:47,600
Speaker 1: could not have handled that any better. And he went

919
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 1: out Saturday night, played in Larry Fitzgeral's charity softball game. Yeah,

920
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: had a home run, had won the home run derby,

921
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,360
Speaker 1: and was the MVP. And then he went to Miami

922
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:57,120
Speaker 1: and that was after he got traded, after he was

923
00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: treated and that, you know, and this Arizona fans gave

924
00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:02,360
Speaker 1: him a standing ovation. They appreciated his effort, and he

925
00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: just got ripped by Steve Smith for something that I

926
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:08,399
Speaker 1: don't I don't know. I don't know why he did.

927
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 1: But Steve Smith compiled the Cardinals right, Um, yeah, so

928
00:45:13,800 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: we thought we'd bring that up. I thought that was

929
00:45:16,440 --> 00:45:17,960
Speaker 1: it's the it's the I get, it's the day and

930
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: age in which we live. Where these guys, you know,

931
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: you get on that panel and you're on the draft

932
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: and you want to say something and Steve yeah, Steve

933
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: Smith ripped Josh Rosen and uh, to his credit, Josh

934
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: Rosen rose above it. Yeah. And by the way, and

935
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 1: we'll talk about this, what happened to the Dolphins tank?

936
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:39,839
Speaker 1: Does this affect the Dolphins tank strategy? I think in fact,

937
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 1: it was there, I would think. So we'll talk more

938
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 1: about that. We you and I were talking. Just you

939
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: think he's gonna play in front of Fitzpatrick right right away?

940
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 1: Or I do? He's a starter? What's he got fourteen

941
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 1: starts or at least eight or ten starts under his belt? Sure,

942
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: he's Look where are you going with fits? Right? Where

943
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:58,719
Speaker 1: are you going with Ryan Fitzpatricks? Where you going? Well?

944
00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 1: They are tanking. I guess I don't know if they

945
00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:03,439
Speaker 1: are anymore. All right, we got Brandon Meanstan, anybody joined

946
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,360
Speaker 1: us next to Bill's general manager. Come on back for that,

947
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:07,799
Speaker 1: Steve and I here till three one Bills Live from

948
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:21,120
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bills Radiolow Bills

949
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:25,399
Speaker 1: Radio Network Sports Days, the update from One Bill's Drive.

950
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 1: The aftermath of the NFL Draft. They got record ratings,

951
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:30,839
Speaker 1: they got record attendance. The league said today that more

952
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 1: than six hundred thousand people attended the draft in Nashville

953
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 1: over the three days, easily eclipsing the two hundred and

954
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: fifty thousand who came two years ago in Philadelphia, and

955
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,760
Speaker 1: Nielsen reports at the draft on ESPN, ABC and NFL

956
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 1: Network average six point one million viewers at any given

957
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: time over the three days average five and a half

958
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 1: million last year. Bills added eight new names of their

959
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: roster over draft weekend. Four players on defense, four on offense.

960
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:57,320
Speaker 1: They got two defensive linemen, one linebacker won safety on

961
00:46:57,440 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: defense on offense, two tight ends, one tackle, one running back.

962
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo also reportedly added about eight undrafted free agents, including

963
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 1: Ube quarterback Tyree Jackson Washburn University defensive back was killed

964
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:11,000
Speaker 1: in a shooting Sunday morning in Topeka, Kansas. The shooting

965
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 1: also injured his teammate, Corey Ballentine. He was drafted by

966
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 1: the Giants on Saturday in round six. According to police,

967
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 1: Valentine was taking a hospital with a non life threatening

968
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 1: gunshot wound. Back here in Orchard Park builds veterans into

969
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:26,080
Speaker 1: phase two of the offseason conditioning program for the next

970
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: three weeks. Veterans on the field four workouts with individual

971
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:32,319
Speaker 1: player instruction and drills. No life contact, no offense versus

972
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: defense yet, but they can practice as positional units along

973
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:39,680
Speaker 1: with continuing conditioning work in meaning time. Sebastian Janikowski he

974
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 1: says that after nineteen seasons, he's retiring from the NFL

975
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 1: at the age of forty one. He says his body

976
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:47,800
Speaker 1: could not take the rigors of kicking in the NFL.

977
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 1: Any Longer signed a one year deal with the Seahawks

978
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 1: last spring after spending the first eighteen years of his

979
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:57,040
Speaker 1: career with the Open Raiders, and the Miami Dolphins have

980
00:47:57,200 --> 00:48:00,719
Speaker 1: Josh Rosenow at quarterback. Dolphins GM Chris Greer says that

981
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 1: trading for rosen would not preclude Miami from drafting another

982
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: quarterback next year. Stanley Cup playoffs tonight just one game

983
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:10,360
Speaker 1: and it is game three of the Western Conference. Hereies

984
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 1: Saint Louis said Dallas eight o'clock face off in Dallas

985
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: to night. That series tied at one winnipiece and eight

986
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 1: games in seven days at home coming up with the

987
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:19,840
Speaker 1: Bisons just finished the seven game road string where they

988
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:22,920
Speaker 1: lost five or seven. A doubleheader later today at salin Field.

989
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: And that's the update from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy's

990
00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker joined in studio by Brandon Bean, the Bills

991
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:31,160
Speaker 1: general manager, joined us live here in studio. Happy to

992
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: have you here, Brandon. How do you how do you recover?

993
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: What do you do the day after the draft? What

994
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:37,040
Speaker 1: did you do yesterday? When I'm trying to say, you

995
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 1: know what? My parents came up this weekend and hung

996
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 1: out and actually brought my dad in the war room

997
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 1: for a couple of days just to sit in the

998
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: back and have you ever been there before? No, you've

999
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: never been in there, so seventy years old, it's cool

1000
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 1: for him to sit back. And brought Shawn's dad up

1001
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:54,319
Speaker 1: and invited him as well to sit in the back

1002
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 1: and just guess and oh, yeah, I'm sure they had

1003
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 1: their own draft board. I'm sure they were question. Yeah,

1004
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 1: I thought I raised you better than that. Now it was.

1005
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: It was cool. So my mother got to hang out

1006
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 1: with my kids and all that. So I took them

1007
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: to the airport this morning, and so yesterday we went

1008
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:14,399
Speaker 1: to launch and just hung out and we've been You've

1009
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,320
Speaker 1: been talking about it. We've been talking about it for weeks,

1010
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: and it happened over the weekend. It was a lot

1011
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:20,879
Speaker 1: of fun, a lot of excitement. But you go back

1012
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:22,880
Speaker 1: and rehash it. I don't want to really do the

1013
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: blow by blow like well I kind of do. But

1014
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:29,320
Speaker 1: when you when did you know, I know what, you

1015
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 1: can say it again because when the Raiders took Farrell

1016
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 1: Cleveland Farrell and then the Giants took their guy, Daniel Jones,

1017
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,600
Speaker 1: those were two very surprising picks to me, and I

1018
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:41,400
Speaker 1: didn't know if they were surprising to anybody else, but

1019
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:43,319
Speaker 1: I was like, that's not who I thought they were

1020
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:45,920
Speaker 1: gonna pick. So what then is when did you guys

1021
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 1: start to like fist bump and say, hey, we got

1022
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 1: a chance to get ed. Yeah, you know, um, we

1023
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 1: felt it definitely after you know them the Giants picked

1024
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:58,000
Speaker 1: a quarterback. You know, the things that I felt really

1025
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: good we were gonna get Ed or some one of

1026
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 1: his caliber was if three quarterbacks went, and so we

1027
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 1: got two and and then you know, it just it

1028
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 1: fell the way we wanted it to fall, and it

1029
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:13,800
Speaker 1: was more The biggest concern I was having at nine

1030
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:15,960
Speaker 1: was staying there and picking a guy that I was

1031
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 1: of Ed's caliber was if only one quarterback went, the

1032
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 1: odds were definitely better with two, and they were going

1033
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:24,800
Speaker 1: to be really good if it was three. So it

1034
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:28,359
Speaker 1: felt good and we were certainly excited that Ed fell

1035
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:31,200
Speaker 1: to us, and almost to me Cleveland Ferrell. He's a

1036
00:50:31,239 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: good player, and I think his high end is better

1037
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 1: than his maybe his spot in the draft, he maybe

1038
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 1: his upside might be. But he seems to me like

1039
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: one of those guys it could have been a quarterback there.

1040
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:42,160
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a guy that I didn't expect to

1041
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 1: be in the top ten, did you. Yeah, I mean,

1042
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:48,359
Speaker 1: everybody has their their rankings. And he's a very good player. Uh,

1043
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 1: he's leadership. There's a lot of things that he brings

1044
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:54,160
Speaker 1: intangibles beyond the play. And you know, I read some

1045
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 1: of what Mike said. You know, they wanted to really

1046
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 1: draft some foundational pieces, which I understand they're they're rebuilding

1047
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 1: that thing in Oakland, and that's kind of you know,

1048
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 1: they're probably trying. You know, he just got there. You know,

1049
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 1: I've been here a couple of years now, and so

1050
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 1: I think he really wanted to get obviously good talented players,

1051
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: and he is a talented player. But they got Josh

1052
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:19,040
Speaker 1: Jacobs and I can't remember the third when they added,

1053
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:23,240
Speaker 1: but they got some guys that they felt were important

1054
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 1: not only as players but culture culturally for what they

1055
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 1: were doing. Um, we know you like dead Oliver a lot.

1056
00:51:29,680 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 1: Were you prepare and things worked out to your metafit

1057
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:33,920
Speaker 1: you didn't have to make a move, But were you

1058
00:51:34,080 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: thinking you would have to make a move to get

1059
00:51:35,760 --> 00:51:38,200
Speaker 1: him at one point? Yeah? I mean, I you know,

1060
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 1: you do your due diligence. And I had talks with

1061
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:44,839
Speaker 1: GMS uh in front of us and behind us leading

1062
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: up to the draft because I wanted some bailout options,

1063
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,440
Speaker 1: you know, should no quarterbacks go or only one goal. Um,

1064
00:51:52,560 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 1: but I really did feel we were in an advantageous spot. Um,

1065
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,800
Speaker 1: maybe not to get ed necessarily, but to get a

1066
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: good player or we were going to have multiple options

1067
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: to go back, and I thought there was a lot

1068
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:08,160
Speaker 1: of talent that was going to be in the second

1069
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 1: and third round, which there was. So I'm like, okay, worst,

1070
00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: we'll slide back and we'll add a pick pick there,

1071
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,280
Speaker 1: which which would have been value too. I don't necessarily

1072
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:17,640
Speaker 1: want to move on to this, but you talk about,

1073
00:52:17,760 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 1: you know what, there's gonna be some good players in

1074
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 1: the second and third round. One of the things that

1075
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:23,879
Speaker 1: was surprising for a lot of people was the fact

1076
00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 1: that we knew this wasn't a heavy duty wide receiver class,

1077
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:31,799
Speaker 1: but it's I was surprised that everybody, all thirty two

1078
00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,759
Speaker 1: teams saw it that way. Nobody went high in the

1079
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:36,360
Speaker 1: first and the last pick of the first rounds and

1080
00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:38,840
Speaker 1: the first wide receiver goes We almost never see that

1081
00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:41,399
Speaker 1: these days in the league, and also in college where

1082
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:43,840
Speaker 1: they spread it out, they throw it everywhere, so you

1083
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: figured their churning these wide receivers out. But this year,

1084
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:49,440
Speaker 1: not only did the Bills not take one of the

1085
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:52,360
Speaker 1: first round or at all, everybody waited until the second,

1086
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 1: second round or later did that. I guess it doesn't

1087
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: surprise you, but to me, it seems very surprising that

1088
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 1: that position group was so thin in this draft. Yeah,

1089
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I think there were a lot of guys,

1090
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: but when you're you're when you hit the nail on

1091
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:08,280
Speaker 1: the head with the spread, and there's so many different

1092
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: there's so many flavors of all the positions, from size

1093
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 1: to speed, to slot only to outside only. There's just

1094
00:53:16,080 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: so many variables of what you want. And I think

1095
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:21,600
Speaker 1: people there was enough guys that people didn't think there

1096
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:25,799
Speaker 1: was the drop off like certain positions. If you want

1097
00:53:25,840 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 1: to get a three tech like Ed, there is a

1098
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 1: drop off after so many I felt that, and I

1099
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:33,440
Speaker 1: feel like others did that there was depth in the

1100
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 1: draft at receiver, but that maybe you could get a

1101
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:40,280
Speaker 1: guy in the fourth round that wasn't a huge difference

1102
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:42,320
Speaker 1: from a guy in you know, top of three or

1103
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:45,800
Speaker 1: late two. And so I think people were being patient

1104
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 1: there with with what was out there. And there were

1105
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:52,000
Speaker 1: some also some very good players at other positions that

1106
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 1: people you know, like us had to higher on our

1107
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:57,080
Speaker 1: board on the receivers. And you make an interesting point,

1108
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:01,080
Speaker 1: I guess Steve did two about um this specialization almost

1109
00:54:01,120 --> 00:54:03,000
Speaker 1: you know, different skill sets, is that where the game

1110
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 1: is going or is it just a function of this

1111
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:07,799
Speaker 1: year's draft that are we done with like the all

1112
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:09,720
Speaker 1: round receiver who can do a little bit of everything,

1113
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:11,800
Speaker 1: and now we're just he's a slide guy, he's a

1114
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:14,080
Speaker 1: flyer on the outside, or are there still going to

1115
00:54:14,160 --> 00:54:17,400
Speaker 1: be you know, receiver number one for teams done in

1116
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 1: the future. I think you still want you listen, you

1117
00:54:20,200 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 1: want a guy. It's like you want to draft an

1118
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 1: offensive lineman that's not just a one whole player. You

1119
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:26,280
Speaker 1: want him to be able to if he's a tackle

1120
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 1: like Cody slide into guard or if you draft a guard,

1121
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: maybe he can either slide out of tackle or go

1122
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:33,800
Speaker 1: and snap the ball for you. It helps you on

1123
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:36,880
Speaker 1: game day when you got that forty six. But I

1124
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:39,400
Speaker 1: think receivers, you still you want a guy who can

1125
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 1: play inside, can play outside, has some size, had some speed.

1126
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 1: But there's not very many of those in you know,

1127
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:49,879
Speaker 1: around anymore this year. Yeah, I mean, I don't think

1128
00:54:49,880 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 1: there was a lot of guys that could do all that,

1129
00:54:51,560 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 1: but there were some players that Again, there were some

1130
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:57,320
Speaker 1: guys that I thought if if if it fell to

1131
00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 1: the right place for us, that we could get that

1132
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:03,680
Speaker 1: would come in and probably compete to you know, contribute

1133
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:05,200
Speaker 1: a lot in year one. I don't want to say

1134
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:08,960
Speaker 1: start necessarily, but definitely compete. And so it just we

1135
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 1: truly followed our board, and I explained that to the

1136
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:14,120
Speaker 1: media the night, and it just when when we were

1137
00:55:14,160 --> 00:55:16,640
Speaker 1: on the clock, there were not receivers sticking out right.

1138
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:20,800
Speaker 1: And one more question about receivers. Were there times, I

1139
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:23,160
Speaker 1: mean seventy four you go to the running back from

1140
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,920
Speaker 1: Florida Atlantic, But were there times throughout let's say Friday

1141
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 1: night or even into Saturday when you thought, I probably

1142
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:31,520
Speaker 1: should look at a receiver here. But our boards just

1143
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:33,920
Speaker 1: you know, doesn't say that. Right now, I guess how

1144
00:55:33,960 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 1: many times were you looking into a situation like that? Yeah,

1145
00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:38,280
Speaker 1: I mean really, what you do is when it starts

1146
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:42,040
Speaker 1: getting close, unless there's a guy sticking out, you know,

1147
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 1: when you go back to Cody, Cody was sticking out

1148
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 1: on our board. So if a guy's sticking out, then

1149
00:55:47,120 --> 00:55:48,839
Speaker 1: you start going art. What does it cost? What does

1150
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:51,239
Speaker 1: it cost? All? Right, Oh that's a lot. Let's let's

1151
00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 1: be patient, let's see. And then at some point you go,

1152
00:55:54,040 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 1: I'm willing to give that up to get this guy

1153
00:55:56,080 --> 00:55:59,000
Speaker 1: who has that grade. And there was never a point

1154
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 1: in the draft where a receiver was sticking out on

1155
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:04,400
Speaker 1: our board, of how we valued them out like a

1156
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:06,759
Speaker 1: sore thumb, like I gotta go get them. And then

1157
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 1: the other part of that is when it was our

1158
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:12,440
Speaker 1: pick seventy four or you know wherever our next pick was,

1159
00:56:12,440 --> 00:56:14,399
Speaker 1: because we traded the Force one twelve and I can't

1160
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:16,719
Speaker 1: remember the other one, but there was just not a

1161
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 1: receiver there. I do think had we not traded up,

1162
00:56:21,360 --> 00:56:23,640
Speaker 1: there maybe have been one in the fourth, but we

1163
00:56:23,719 --> 00:56:25,279
Speaker 1: had some other guys that would have been there too.

1164
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 1: So if you have two guys even now, you do

1165
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:30,080
Speaker 1: kind of go for need. You know, if you got

1166
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:32,840
Speaker 1: a tight end and a receiver, similar grades are on

1167
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 1: the clock. If you feel you need a receiver more

1168
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 1: in tight end, then that's how you choose need. You

1169
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 1: know on the board you mentioned just a moment ago

1170
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 1: Cody Ford was sticking out on your board, and you've

1171
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 1: already said that you would were trying to trade into

1172
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:46,040
Speaker 1: the back of the first round to get him. Is

1173
00:56:46,040 --> 00:56:48,080
Speaker 1: that's how much you thought of him, and it was

1174
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:49,919
Speaker 1: just too steep to do it. And then, of course,

1175
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:53,399
Speaker 1: as we all know it, things fell and then two

1176
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 1: to three picks just before the thirty eight pick, thirty

1177
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:58,560
Speaker 1: six and thirty seven or thirty five, thirty six and

1178
00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:01,279
Speaker 1: thirty seven, two of them were tackles, and you did

1179
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:04,239
Speaker 1: that light of I mean you already thought, wow, this

1180
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: is a guy that's gonna fall. I mean, we got

1181
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:07,320
Speaker 1: a chance at it. But then when the two tackles

1182
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 1: went ahead of him, did that light of fire and

1183
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:10,920
Speaker 1: he say, hey, we now we gotta jump up and

1184
00:57:10,960 --> 00:57:13,719
Speaker 1: get him. Actually, the fire was lit from the time

1185
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 1: the second round started. I didn't sleep very well the

1186
00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:19,720
Speaker 1: night before because there were a couple of tackles there

1187
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:22,120
Speaker 1: and Cody was one of them that we were very

1188
00:57:22,160 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 1: excited about. And so you know, as that's a premium

1189
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:29,680
Speaker 1: position that people are gonna relook at the board, it

1190
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:32,040
Speaker 1: was one of those things Thursday night, I wanted to

1191
00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 1: go into the second round. Can we at least want

1192
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 1: to call Roger Goodell and say, can we at least

1193
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: get to our pick before people sit back and think

1194
00:57:39,000 --> 00:57:41,720
Speaker 1: about this, Because there were a couple of guys that

1195
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:44,840
Speaker 1: we're sitting there, including Cody, that we felt were first

1196
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:47,840
Speaker 1: round values, and so I knew they were probably going

1197
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 1: to go off early. As receivers and tackles were kind

1198
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 1: of what people were leaning to, it seemed like, And

1199
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:55,920
Speaker 1: so there were picks ahead of ours that we were

1200
00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:57,920
Speaker 1: trying to get to. I was even talking to San

1201
00:57:57,920 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 1: Francisco and they took Deebo Samuel there. I think they

1202
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 1: were getting nervous that he wouldn't be there if they

1203
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:06,240
Speaker 1: traded back for spots with us, so they didn't. They bailed,

1204
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: and we were talking to all those teams, and again

1205
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 1: they were the tackles were coming off, so we were

1206
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 1: definitely getting nervous that we were gonna lose Cody because

1207
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:18,440
Speaker 1: again it's like last year when when I was trying

1208
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:20,800
Speaker 1: to trade it for Josh. It takes a partner that

1209
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:23,160
Speaker 1: wants to move the pick and and you know you

1210
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:25,160
Speaker 1: don't want to, you know, give up way too much

1211
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:27,600
Speaker 1: to do it. With Brandon being the Bills general managers,

1212
00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:30,040
Speaker 1: we recapped the draft over the weekend, the Bills draft

1213
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 1: in particular, um, let's the player you got third round,

1214
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:36,840
Speaker 1: The running back Devin Singletary from Florida Atlantic. An interesting

1215
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 1: pick because we do evaluate need obviously you do as well,

1216
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:44,000
Speaker 1: and just because I didn't know much about him, I mean,

1217
00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 1: what can you tell us about him? And and the

1218
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 1: decision to go running back there or you know seventy four. Yeah,

1219
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 1: you know, we had a couple of guys there, but uh,

1220
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 1: we just felt he's a playmaker and he was the

1221
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 1: highest running back on our board, and like I said,

1222
00:58:56,600 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 1: he was Uh there was one other player that was

1223
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 1: in a similar um spot on the board that we

1224
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:04,320
Speaker 1: could have gone either way, but we just felt that

1225
00:59:04,680 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 1: he was two talented. He had sixty six career touchdowns.

1226
00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:10,280
Speaker 1: That doesn't happen by accident at any level. He's very

1227
00:59:10,320 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 1: elusive player. Um. He's not a speed home run, take

1228
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:17,240
Speaker 1: the top off type type of runner. He's not gonna

1229
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:20,440
Speaker 1: but he is very elusive. Um. You know, he's a

1230
00:59:20,480 --> 00:59:22,840
Speaker 1: guy that I think guys missed him in a phone booth.

1231
00:59:22,920 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 1: There were some plays where we paused him where there

1232
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:27,680
Speaker 1: were three or four guys around him and said, look

1233
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:29,400
Speaker 1: do you think he's gonna get out of this? And

1234
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 1: you you hit un paused and go and he finds

1235
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 1: a way out of it. He's um, you know, he

1236
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 1: has some Lashawn McCoy and him a little bit just

1237
00:59:37,680 --> 00:59:40,880
Speaker 1: hard to tackle. Um, he's a competitor. They didn't use

1238
00:59:40,960 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 1: him a lot in the pass game, but we sent

1239
00:59:42,800 --> 00:59:45,680
Speaker 1: um skipped down to work him out and had him

1240
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:47,880
Speaker 1: really concentrate on throwing the ball to him. We thought

1241
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:49,520
Speaker 1: he did a solid job there on a day where

1242
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 1: it was raining down in Florida. So, um, I think

1243
00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:54,320
Speaker 1: he'll come up here and we'll focus first on the

1244
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 1: run stuff, but I do think he will add an element,

1245
00:59:57,760 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 1: you know, as a third down player as well. And

1246
00:59:59,480 --> 01:00:03,840
Speaker 1: forgot he he's five to seven, but he's two hundred pounds,

1247
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:06,720
Speaker 1: so he's put together well enough. I was interested too,

1248
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:09,160
Speaker 1: and Murph and I had this conversation like, gosh, Florida Lang.

1249
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:12,400
Speaker 1: But if you take a guy out of a school

1250
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:14,920
Speaker 1: of the level of Florida Atlantic, if he dominates, that

1251
01:00:15,120 --> 01:00:17,120
Speaker 1: tells you a lot more about what he's going to

1252
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 1: be at the next level. I mean, it's okay if

1253
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:21,520
Speaker 1: he competes, but if he comes out and scores sixty

1254
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: six touchdowns and has seven hundred touches and he's a

1255
01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:27,400
Speaker 1: bell cow and he's all of that, you got to

1256
01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:29,880
Speaker 1: think he's going to be able to translate at least

1257
01:00:29,880 --> 01:00:31,360
Speaker 1: a good portion of that to the next level. And

1258
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:32,840
Speaker 1: that's kind of what you have to do, right. I mean,

1259
01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:36,360
Speaker 1: you can't tell because it's Division two. Yeah, I mean

1260
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:38,240
Speaker 1: a lot of times you're looking to see are these

1261
01:00:38,280 --> 01:00:41,080
Speaker 1: guys running through clear holes or because we know that

1262
01:00:41,240 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 1: the holes here they don't stay open long, they tightened quicker,

1263
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:47,480
Speaker 1: and you didn't see that he was not running Some

1264
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:50,120
Speaker 1: runners are running through wide open holes that we all

1265
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:52,960
Speaker 1: could run through. And so the one thing about him

1266
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:55,400
Speaker 1: was I thought he created on his own when there

1267
01:00:55,480 --> 01:00:58,320
Speaker 1: was many times where he made a seven yard run

1268
01:00:58,480 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 1: where he should have lost three, should have lost four.

1269
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:03,080
Speaker 1: And he is a guy that you know he will

1270
01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:06,160
Speaker 1: have some negative runs. He thinks he can he can

1271
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,640
Speaker 1: really make a play every time, and he makes a

1272
01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:11,480
Speaker 1: lot of his runs the front side shut off, he

1273
01:01:11,640 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 1: cuts to the back, the backside end will have to

1274
01:01:14,040 --> 01:01:17,680
Speaker 1: be disciplined. If he's not, he'll burn him. He does

1275
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:19,880
Speaker 1: a nice job too for a guy, and he's not small.

1276
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:23,439
Speaker 1: He's short, right, so he does a nice job after

1277
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:25,680
Speaker 1: contact as well. He seems to shrug a lot of

1278
01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:29,400
Speaker 1: tackles off for a guy who is small in stature.

1279
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:34,080
Speaker 1: He seems to run with enough balance and awareness to

1280
01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:36,120
Speaker 1: shrug a lot of tackles off. He gets a lot

1281
01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:39,080
Speaker 1: of yards after contact, which to me is surprising for

1282
01:01:39,120 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 1: a guy who is five to seven. Yeah, I mean

1283
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:42,960
Speaker 1: the things he's got a thicker lower you were talking

1284
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:45,040
Speaker 1: about short is what I would say, not small, but

1285
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:49,080
Speaker 1: he's over two hundred pounds. His contact balance is very good.

1286
01:01:49,360 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 1: His vision is what I would say, is rare. He

1287
01:01:52,880 --> 01:01:55,200
Speaker 1: had the best vision of any back you know in

1288
01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:58,800
Speaker 1: this draft, of just seeing stuff that some guys only

1289
01:01:58,840 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 1: can see what's in front of him. I mean, he

1290
01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:02,880
Speaker 1: felt guys way in his periphery. They go, how did

1291
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:06,160
Speaker 1: he see that guy? And he's a very instinctual player.

1292
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 1: He just feels it. You get that ball holes are closing. Um.

1293
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:12,040
Speaker 1: You know, the coach can tell you to do this

1294
01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:14,920
Speaker 1: and do that, but that happens like that, and he

1295
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:17,920
Speaker 1: has a natural feel for where that hole's going and

1296
01:02:18,160 --> 01:02:19,919
Speaker 1: when to cut it up and when to keep it wide.

1297
01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 1: Going through the draft with Bills GM, Brandon me and

1298
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:23,560
Speaker 1: I want to ask you about both tight ends. Let's

1299
01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:26,280
Speaker 1: start with the the late third rounder Dawson Knox, who

1300
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:28,520
Speaker 1: you thought enough of to give up two picks, two

1301
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:30,800
Speaker 1: fourth rounders, and it was not a ton of production

1302
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:32,800
Speaker 1: right for him at old miss. Just tell us about

1303
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:34,560
Speaker 1: him and why he was worth that that kind of

1304
01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:37,440
Speaker 1: big move up there for fourth to third you know, Um,

1305
01:02:37,560 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 1: there were the tight end depth. There was some death

1306
01:02:40,320 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 1: in this draft, and we talked about it before the draft,

1307
01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 1: and obviously the two guys went in the first and

1308
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:49,920
Speaker 1: and then you know one or two in the second. Yeah, so, um,

1309
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 1: they started to after we it was you know, it's

1310
01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:55,919
Speaker 1: perfectly well. They started to peel off after we took

1311
01:02:56,040 --> 01:02:58,360
Speaker 1: Devin in the third. Uh, they started to be a

1312
01:02:58,360 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 1: little run and so we were just going, Man, I

1313
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:04,160
Speaker 1: don't know if if Dawson you know, is going to

1314
01:03:04,200 --> 01:03:07,000
Speaker 1: fall to one twelve for us, maybe would maybe wouldn't

1315
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:09,280
Speaker 1: have Talking to some others, I don't think he would have.

1316
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:11,680
Speaker 1: And we just we felt like he could come in

1317
01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: and play and contribute. He's a very good athlete. He's

1318
01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:17,640
Speaker 1: very smart. He's a former quarterback walk on Um. He

1319
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:21,200
Speaker 1: played in an offense with DK Metcalf, with A. J. Brown.

1320
01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:24,520
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lodge was also um, you know at the combine.

1321
01:03:24,640 --> 01:03:27,440
Speaker 1: So he played with a lot of weapons and I

1322
01:03:27,520 --> 01:03:31,000
Speaker 1: think that's part of his production. Yeah. He he had

1323
01:03:31,280 --> 01:03:33,160
Speaker 1: um some you know, a couple of injuries that that

1324
01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:35,480
Speaker 1: held him back to and I think that was part

1325
01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:36,880
Speaker 1: of it. You know, he's one of the guys I

1326
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:39,720
Speaker 1: was able to see live this year and uh, you know,

1327
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:43,040
Speaker 1: he showed you know enough stuff that you know, I

1328
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:45,200
Speaker 1: think we'll translate to our game. I do think he's

1329
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:47,640
Speaker 1: a dual player. He's not just a pass receiver. He's

1330
01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:50,040
Speaker 1: not just a blocker. I think he's a guy that

1331
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:54,000
Speaker 1: will improve with rob Boris working on his fundamentals in

1332
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:56,480
Speaker 1: the run game. He you know, again we worked him out,

1333
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 1: and then also he'll be able to stretch the field.

1334
01:03:59,320 --> 01:04:02,200
Speaker 1: You know, he did very well. He's got speed and

1335
01:04:02,320 --> 01:04:04,480
Speaker 1: I think as he's continuing to grow out, you know,

1336
01:04:04,560 --> 01:04:07,840
Speaker 1: I like where he's heading. Seventh rounder Sweeney Boston College. Yes,

1337
01:04:07,920 --> 01:04:11,320
Speaker 1: either we saw Tommy at a senior Bowl and just

1338
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:16,840
Speaker 1: he's a gritty, gutty, smart, tough player. Um, he's not flashy. U.

1339
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:18,800
Speaker 1: He would be a why tight end for us. He's

1340
01:04:18,840 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 1: gonna be in line and be a blocker first, but

1341
01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:24,959
Speaker 1: not a throwaway in the past game. But I would

1342
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:27,440
Speaker 1: say he'll come in and compete. You saw some guys

1343
01:04:28,320 --> 01:04:31,520
Speaker 1: this year in the free agent market that were run

1344
01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 1: run blockers first, as tight ends that gots paid some money,

1345
01:04:35,160 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 1: and I think Tommy falls in that category. I have

1346
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 1: a question about a couple of other Day three guys,

1347
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:42,160
Speaker 1: and in this respect, and I'm talking about the linebacker

1348
01:04:42,200 --> 01:04:45,160
Speaker 1: of a Sean Joseph and the safety Jakwan Johnson. Which

1349
01:04:45,200 --> 01:04:47,040
Speaker 1: of those two I guess if you want to limited

1350
01:04:47,080 --> 01:04:49,640
Speaker 1: those two as the most potentially contribute on special teams

1351
01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:52,440
Speaker 1: because typically Day three guys have a big chance to

1352
01:04:52,480 --> 01:04:54,120
Speaker 1: do that. Right, Yeah, I think both of those guys

1353
01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:56,600
Speaker 1: I think you nailed at Um. You know, it'll be

1354
01:04:56,720 --> 01:04:59,080
Speaker 1: whoever gets a jersey, but UM, I think both of

1355
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:01,960
Speaker 1: them could be up. You know, I had Heath M Farwell,

1356
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:06,320
Speaker 1: our special teams coach, give me his rankings of one

1357
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:09,440
Speaker 1: about twenty five, twenty six of any position, and then

1358
01:05:09,520 --> 01:05:11,960
Speaker 1: break them down by position. You know, here's who's your

1359
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:14,760
Speaker 1: favorite corner, who's your favorite receiver, who's your favorite linebacker?

1360
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:17,439
Speaker 1: And both of these guys stood out on his list,

1361
01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:20,840
Speaker 1: very high up there of guys he thought, and so

1362
01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:23,400
Speaker 1: those were part of our focus. But um, I do

1363
01:05:23,560 --> 01:05:25,160
Speaker 1: think they will have a line of scrimmage value. These

1364
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:28,560
Speaker 1: are not just guys who are special teams first. Um,

1365
01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:31,720
Speaker 1: they may be in year one, but Foshawn Joseph made

1366
01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:35,240
Speaker 1: a lot of plays for Florida, you know as a linebacker,

1367
01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:37,480
Speaker 1: and UM, I think this is a good set up

1368
01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:39,560
Speaker 1: for him to come in. There's no pressure to start

1369
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:42,760
Speaker 1: right away, learn from Zoe and those guys, and then

1370
01:05:42,920 --> 01:05:46,160
Speaker 1: and focus on special teams and then in year two, Um,

1371
01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:48,800
Speaker 1: you know, maybe he'll compete to start. Yeah, Heath would

1372
01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:51,320
Speaker 1: probably your special teams coach. Heath would probably look at

1373
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:53,120
Speaker 1: these guys and said, these are the athletes that I

1374
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:55,320
Speaker 1: that I kind of want on my They got good speed,

1375
01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:58,680
Speaker 1: good balance, they're aggressive the defensive side of the football.

1376
01:05:59,080 --> 01:06:01,720
Speaker 1: That's based the skeleton that you look for when you're

1377
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:04,320
Speaker 1: looking for a special teams guy. And then that's that's

1378
01:06:04,360 --> 01:06:07,640
Speaker 1: why they're up there. And Joseph, but Seawan, Joseph has

1379
01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:09,840
Speaker 1: a reputation for being an elite athlete and one of

1380
01:06:09,840 --> 01:06:12,720
Speaker 1: those guys a little inconsistent on the defense. But man man,

1381
01:06:12,760 --> 01:06:14,640
Speaker 1: when he knows what he's supposed to do, he's he's

1382
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:17,360
Speaker 1: all of that. Yeah, he plays uh with a what

1383
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:20,200
Speaker 1: I call a dog mentality. He is he is running

1384
01:06:20,400 --> 01:06:23,000
Speaker 1: hair on fire, you know, earspent back and and he

1385
01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:24,840
Speaker 1: loves it. And that's the first thing I said to him.

1386
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:27,320
Speaker 1: We called him on the phone, Um, hey, I want

1387
01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:29,520
Speaker 1: you to learn his linebacker. But first thing I want

1388
01:06:29,560 --> 01:06:31,560
Speaker 1: you to, you know, to kick ass on teams, and

1389
01:06:32,120 --> 01:06:34,360
Speaker 1: he was all about his life, you know, a coach,

1390
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 1: I'm ready, I'm ready eat picks and then some undrafted uh.

1391
01:06:37,880 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 1: And I know you got to get guys in for

1392
01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:43,280
Speaker 1: physicals and and get contract signed. But word leaks out

1393
01:06:43,360 --> 01:06:45,560
Speaker 1: and you got Tyree Jackson, the quarterback from you be

1394
01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:49,200
Speaker 1: reportedly U signing on to come here and try to

1395
01:06:49,240 --> 01:06:51,560
Speaker 1: win a spot on the roster. And you said over

1396
01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:53,280
Speaker 1: the weekend you were surprised that he was available. I'm

1397
01:06:53,280 --> 01:06:54,680
Speaker 1: surprised that he didn't get drafted. What do you think

1398
01:06:54,720 --> 01:06:57,560
Speaker 1: happened there? Yeah, you know, I don't know. Um, you know,

1399
01:06:57,720 --> 01:07:00,760
Speaker 1: we didn't spend uh, we didn't do the full process

1400
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:04,720
Speaker 1: with him like other clubs that were in the quarterback market,

1401
01:07:04,800 --> 01:07:06,720
Speaker 1: so to speak. So I don't know if there was

1402
01:07:06,760 --> 01:07:09,520
Speaker 1: anything there that gave people pause. I'm not sure we

1403
01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:11,480
Speaker 1: were able to spend time with him. He came here

1404
01:07:11,520 --> 01:07:13,880
Speaker 1: for our local day, we watched him in his pro day,

1405
01:07:14,240 --> 01:07:17,360
Speaker 1: and he is a physically gifted young man. He was

1406
01:07:17,440 --> 01:07:20,120
Speaker 1: on our board, and he's a guy that I felt

1407
01:07:20,320 --> 01:07:22,920
Speaker 1: was worthy of being drafted. And as you get into

1408
01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:25,080
Speaker 1: seventh round, you're going, man, and I still felt like

1409
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:27,320
Speaker 1: somebody was going to take him. But it's like, if

1410
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:29,520
Speaker 1: he doesn't, then we need to jump on that quickly.

1411
01:07:29,600 --> 01:07:32,400
Speaker 1: And it's a no brainer in my mind to bring

1412
01:07:32,560 --> 01:07:35,560
Speaker 1: him here. And it's especially cool that he played at

1413
01:07:35,600 --> 01:07:38,400
Speaker 1: Buffalo and we love the affiliation with their program. Yeah,

1414
01:07:38,400 --> 01:07:40,200
Speaker 1: it's not so much that he played at Buffalo, although

1415
01:07:40,240 --> 01:07:41,960
Speaker 1: that's kind of a plus. I think it's more the

1416
01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:44,640
Speaker 1: fact that you've got a starting quarterback that's a big, tall,

1417
01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:47,080
Speaker 1: rangy athlete with a big arm, and that's exactly what

1418
01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:50,560
Speaker 1: Tyree is. So let me spend it. I mean, let

1419
01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:52,440
Speaker 1: him sit for just let him learn for a year

1420
01:07:52,480 --> 01:07:54,520
Speaker 1: on the practice quad or whatever. Just keep him around

1421
01:07:54,560 --> 01:07:56,920
Speaker 1: and then when you want to rotate your quarterback room,

1422
01:07:56,960 --> 01:07:59,360
Speaker 1: he's a perfect piece. You don't have to change anything

1423
01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:01,160
Speaker 1: if he comes in for Josh. If Josh has a

1424
01:08:01,200 --> 01:08:04,400
Speaker 1: hangnail or whatever, and it's a perfect fit for a

1425
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:09,320
Speaker 1: guy who's just be that kind of athlete to be on,

1426
01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:11,800
Speaker 1: you know, to have a chance to go in and

1427
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:14,160
Speaker 1: just be the same guy that you're starting quarterback Josh

1428
01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:16,719
Speaker 1: Allen Right, ye one percent. He has the physical tools

1429
01:08:16,800 --> 01:08:18,360
Speaker 1: to play. He's got a play of arm, he's big.

1430
01:08:18,439 --> 01:08:20,880
Speaker 1: He's size, like you said, so he's got all that.

1431
01:08:22,040 --> 01:08:23,599
Speaker 1: He's still got raw and a sent his game again.

1432
01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:25,320
Speaker 1: I talked to Jordan Palmer when he was here for

1433
01:08:25,360 --> 01:08:28,200
Speaker 1: the Pro Day and I asked him a lot. Josh

1434
01:08:28,520 --> 01:08:30,720
Speaker 1: has been with him out there training as well. And

1435
01:08:30,880 --> 01:08:33,720
Speaker 1: just asked Josh what his preparation was like and you know,

1436
01:08:33,840 --> 01:08:35,439
Speaker 1: some of the things that I would not be able

1437
01:08:35,439 --> 01:08:37,479
Speaker 1: to see on film. And he said, you know, he

1438
01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:40,280
Speaker 1: told me he loves ball. He's out there, he works hard.

1439
01:08:41,240 --> 01:08:44,439
Speaker 1: You know, again, he's still cleaning up some fundamentals. Josh

1440
01:08:44,520 --> 01:08:46,960
Speaker 1: was cleaning up some stuff last year and still continues

1441
01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:49,160
Speaker 1: to do that, as as they all should every year.

1442
01:08:49,240 --> 01:08:52,080
Speaker 1: But this gives him a chance, no pressure, come in

1443
01:08:52,240 --> 01:08:55,519
Speaker 1: here and watch. You know, the guys above him learned

1444
01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:58,120
Speaker 1: from Ken Dorsey, from Brian day Ball, and you know,

1445
01:08:58,200 --> 01:09:00,479
Speaker 1: let's see what we got. Brandy were a week and

1446
01:09:00,479 --> 01:09:02,160
Speaker 1: a half, two weeks away from him, and the rookies

1447
01:09:02,200 --> 01:09:03,920
Speaker 1: come in here, I think, and I was, I was

1448
01:09:04,000 --> 01:09:07,400
Speaker 1: thinking in your position. One of your predecessors, many years ago,

1449
01:09:07,479 --> 01:09:10,519
Speaker 1: John Butler favorite day of the year was Draft weekend.

1450
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:12,680
Speaker 1: The second favorite day was the day when all those

1451
01:09:12,760 --> 01:09:14,840
Speaker 1: draft picks and rookies came in to get ready to

1452
01:09:14,880 --> 01:09:16,760
Speaker 1: go to work. He loved that day. You get like that,

1453
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:18,559
Speaker 1: You get excited when the new guys come in. Yes,

1454
01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:20,640
Speaker 1: Christmas morning, right, you know you got you got some

1455
01:09:20,760 --> 01:09:23,960
Speaker 1: new prizes. You worked all year, a lot of energy

1456
01:09:24,040 --> 01:09:26,080
Speaker 1: from our staff. And we talked about that after the draft, Like,

1457
01:09:26,479 --> 01:09:28,800
Speaker 1: think of all the hours of take between us, We've

1458
01:09:28,840 --> 01:09:31,519
Speaker 1: all watched or travel to get to see all these

1459
01:09:31,560 --> 01:09:34,320
Speaker 1: guys that got selected, and you only get so many

1460
01:09:34,400 --> 01:09:36,320
Speaker 1: of them. You know, there's so many more you'd love

1461
01:09:36,400 --> 01:09:38,840
Speaker 1: to go. You know I really wanted that guy or

1462
01:09:38,920 --> 01:09:41,559
Speaker 1: you know whatever, but you only get one pick per round,

1463
01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:44,080
Speaker 1: and you know, you fight for some guys after the draft.

1464
01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:46,240
Speaker 1: I do like some of the guys that that will

1465
01:09:46,320 --> 01:09:47,920
Speaker 1: end up being here as long as they come in

1466
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:51,320
Speaker 1: and past physicals. But uh no, to me, it's Christmas morning.

1467
01:09:51,320 --> 01:09:53,240
Speaker 1: You got new new presents, and you want to see

1468
01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:55,720
Speaker 1: how they fit, how they look, and and start to

1469
01:09:55,760 --> 01:09:57,240
Speaker 1: get to know them a little bit. I heard you

1470
01:09:57,479 --> 01:09:59,120
Speaker 1: talk about they want to see that buffalo on the

1471
01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:03,479
Speaker 1: side of their home. It's my guy. Yeah, right, interesting too,

1472
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:06,519
Speaker 1: because this never stops. I mean, you guys now you

1473
01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 1: still have to hang onto the board, and because some

1474
01:10:09,000 --> 01:10:10,960
Speaker 1: of these guys are going to get released from the

1475
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:13,400
Speaker 1: teams that drafted him or signed as rookie three agents.

1476
01:10:13,439 --> 01:10:15,360
Speaker 1: I mean, you still keep track of all these guys.

1477
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:17,599
Speaker 1: Even though you've got your your list of eight guys

1478
01:10:17,640 --> 01:10:20,320
Speaker 1: that you got, there's still a list of one hundred

1479
01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:22,879
Speaker 1: and fifty guys on your board that may come available

1480
01:10:22,920 --> 01:10:25,519
Speaker 1: over the next six months. And so I mean you

1481
01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:27,599
Speaker 1: got to keep your finger on the pulse of everything

1482
01:10:27,640 --> 01:10:29,280
Speaker 1: that's going on. Is that I mean, is that the

1483
01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:31,519
Speaker 1: next step? What's what's the next thing now that this

1484
01:10:31,640 --> 01:10:34,040
Speaker 1: is this monumental thing is over the draft that you

1485
01:10:34,120 --> 01:10:36,519
Speaker 1: focus toward. I know, it's a big belly flop me

1486
01:10:36,560 --> 01:10:38,160
Speaker 1: and take put your feet up for like ten minutes.

1487
01:10:38,280 --> 01:10:39,880
Speaker 1: What do you do and what's going on now? Well,

1488
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:42,280
Speaker 1: now you know, we brought the pro scouts in late

1489
01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:44,080
Speaker 1: in the process, which I think is important so that

1490
01:10:44,880 --> 01:10:47,280
Speaker 1: they can start hearing these names, especially the guys later

1491
01:10:47,360 --> 01:10:48,920
Speaker 1: in the draft. You know, you're you're not going to

1492
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:52,040
Speaker 1: see a lot of first through fourth rounders released right away,

1493
01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:53,960
Speaker 1: but when you get in the fifth, sixth, seveth. Every year,

1494
01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:57,400
Speaker 1: there's some fifth rounders, sixth rounders, and definitely seventh rounders

1495
01:10:57,439 --> 01:11:00,200
Speaker 1: that get released and then he's free agents. So, um,

1496
01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:02,400
Speaker 1: this is a chance for these guys with us to

1497
01:11:02,479 --> 01:11:05,120
Speaker 1: catch them up on what to be looking for. Because

1498
01:11:05,160 --> 01:11:07,760
Speaker 1: when we get in late August, you said exactly, Steve,

1499
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 1: some of these guys are going to come back available,

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01:11:09,880 --> 01:11:11,920
Speaker 1: and we want to We want our pro guys to

1501
01:11:11,960 --> 01:11:13,920
Speaker 1: be up on the guys that we liked and felt

1502
01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:16,479
Speaker 1: fit what we do, and we'll be tracking them all

1503
01:11:16,520 --> 01:11:19,439
Speaker 1: and again. The other part of this now is guys

1504
01:11:19,479 --> 01:11:22,519
Speaker 1: have been added on teams that maybe it was a

1505
01:11:22,640 --> 01:11:24,519
Speaker 1: position that was not of need, but the guy was

1506
01:11:24,560 --> 01:11:26,640
Speaker 1: sticking out on their board, they took him. And now

1507
01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:28,519
Speaker 1: maybe they got a guy down there below that's making

1508
01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:30,960
Speaker 1: a lot of money and they say, hey, let me

1509
01:11:31,280 --> 01:11:32,720
Speaker 1: let me move on from him, let me let me

1510
01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:35,160
Speaker 1: release him or whatever. So guys are going to come

1511
01:11:35,240 --> 01:11:39,200
Speaker 1: back over the next few weeks that will be good players.

1512
01:11:39,240 --> 01:11:41,439
Speaker 1: You'll see him. It happens every year in May, and

1513
01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:44,400
Speaker 1: then you know again, some guys come available in June

1514
01:11:44,439 --> 01:11:48,599
Speaker 1: and July. Also, no vacation yet. Yeah, Brandon, thanks real

1515
01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:52,519
Speaker 1: appreciating weekend. Appreciate it Brandon being the Bills general manager,

1516
01:11:52,560 --> 01:11:54,599
Speaker 1: Steph and I coming back with more One Goes Live

1517
01:11:54,680 --> 01:12:07,240
Speaker 1: from One Goes Drive on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back

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01:12:07,280 --> 01:12:09,240
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy was

1519
01:12:09,240 --> 01:12:11,320
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker. We just said goodbye to a Brandon being

1520
01:12:11,360 --> 01:12:15,280
Speaker 1: the Bill's GM. Answer the questions Stephen and look, we

1521
01:12:15,479 --> 01:12:17,879
Speaker 1: spent a lot of the time early on talking about receivers.

1522
01:12:18,400 --> 01:12:20,439
Speaker 1: It's not as if we forgot to get a receiver.

1523
01:12:20,600 --> 01:12:24,840
Speaker 1: But he has a legitimate logical explanation why they passed

1524
01:12:24,880 --> 01:12:27,200
Speaker 1: on some of those receivers just because I think I look,

1525
01:12:27,240 --> 01:12:30,040
Speaker 1: I think it was it was totally the way their

1526
01:12:30,080 --> 01:12:34,680
Speaker 1: board was set up, and it was also I do think,

1527
01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:39,680
Speaker 1: um receivers, it's a different position, right, I mean, I

1528
01:12:39,800 --> 01:12:41,960
Speaker 1: think there's a heat set it. I think maybe set

1529
01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:46,280
Speaker 1: it up the air, you know, receivers hystins, bus, highest bus.

1530
01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:48,280
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no other way to put it. First

1531
01:12:48,360 --> 01:12:51,760
Speaker 1: round receivers. Plus it's easy for here's the thing too,

1532
01:12:51,880 --> 01:12:54,160
Speaker 1: that that's crazy, and I know, I don't know if

1533
01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:58,639
Speaker 1: nobody believes me when I talk about this. Receivers are

1534
01:12:58,760 --> 01:13:01,640
Speaker 1: so tied to the success and the ability of their

1535
01:13:01,760 --> 01:13:04,559
Speaker 1: quarterback to get them the football, and their offensive coordinator

1536
01:13:04,600 --> 01:13:07,000
Speaker 1: and their offensive line and the running game to compliment

1537
01:13:07,040 --> 01:13:09,559
Speaker 1: the passing game. Even even though it's a throwing league,

1538
01:13:10,280 --> 01:13:12,000
Speaker 1: you need to have the threat of a run game

1539
01:13:12,080 --> 01:13:13,960
Speaker 1: to make sure you can throw the football whenever you

1540
01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:16,320
Speaker 1: want to and not just when you have to and

1541
01:13:16,479 --> 01:13:19,439
Speaker 1: you want to. You got to have As a receiver,

1542
01:13:19,640 --> 01:13:22,280
Speaker 1: you want to be an option at least you know once,

1543
01:13:22,320 --> 01:13:24,040
Speaker 1: and will actually want to be the number one option

1544
01:13:24,120 --> 01:13:26,519
Speaker 1: all the time if you're a good wide receiver right

1545
01:13:26,560 --> 01:13:28,960
Speaker 1: where you can't be right. So all this stuff plays

1546
01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:31,639
Speaker 1: into being a good receiver. The accuracy of the quarterback,

1547
01:13:31,720 --> 01:13:34,400
Speaker 1: the frequency of your targets, the quality of your offensive line,

1548
01:13:34,640 --> 01:13:38,040
Speaker 1: all that stuff. And when when none of that stuff

1549
01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:41,880
Speaker 1: is going your way, you get they get frustrated really fast,

1550
01:13:42,040 --> 01:13:44,840
Speaker 1: and so they start to have these you know, these

1551
01:13:45,680 --> 01:13:49,759
Speaker 1: blow ups. Unless they're really well grounded, really put together

1552
01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:55,240
Speaker 1: well mentally, they start to pop fuses, and it starts

1553
01:13:55,240 --> 01:13:58,080
Speaker 1: to sabotage their ability to you know, their quarterback, you know,

1554
01:13:58,320 --> 01:14:00,839
Speaker 1: thrown at them to keep them quiet, or he's refusing

1555
01:14:00,880 --> 01:14:02,600
Speaker 1: to throw at him because he made him mad, and

1556
01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:04,400
Speaker 1: then it starts into this drama and you think, and

1557
01:14:04,479 --> 01:14:06,280
Speaker 1: I'm not just making this up, that happened. It happens

1558
01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:09,000
Speaker 1: a lot. It happens a lot. It happened when I

1559
01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:12,439
Speaker 1: was playing, It happens this, it happened before I was playing,

1560
01:14:12,479 --> 01:14:15,679
Speaker 1: and it still happens today. And you know. So it's

1561
01:14:16,680 --> 01:14:20,320
Speaker 1: it's easy to take a wide receiver high, but you

1562
01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:24,760
Speaker 1: got all these variables and outside of his abilities that

1563
01:14:25,400 --> 01:14:28,040
Speaker 1: go into him being successful. So it's hard to get

1564
01:14:28,080 --> 01:14:30,160
Speaker 1: a guy, even if he's a good guy, to get

1565
01:14:30,240 --> 01:14:32,200
Speaker 1: him to be successful on your team because so many

1566
01:14:32,240 --> 01:14:33,840
Speaker 1: other things have to be in place. Yeah, I get it.

1567
01:14:33,920 --> 01:14:36,000
Speaker 1: I'm still disappointed. I was looking for a receiver in

1568
01:14:36,080 --> 01:14:39,439
Speaker 1: the draft, but we'll see. You know, the worst possible

1569
01:14:39,520 --> 01:14:43,080
Speaker 1: scenario now is that DK Metcalf catches seventeen hundred yards

1570
01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:47,000
Speaker 1: of receiving one hundred and twenty five cat passes for

1571
01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:50,800
Speaker 1: fifteen hundred and thirty yards todown. I mean teams passed

1572
01:14:50,800 --> 01:14:52,759
Speaker 1: on him twice, right, didn't go end of the second

1573
01:14:53,600 --> 01:14:55,640
Speaker 1: everybody passed on him. Yeah, for whatever, you know? I

1574
01:14:55,680 --> 01:15:00,639
Speaker 1: mean you know that I saw one guy tweet he said,

1575
01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:04,800
Speaker 1: why do we even watch this combine because all these

1576
01:15:04,920 --> 01:15:07,639
Speaker 1: guys good point we see him, Oh he looks a wow,

1577
01:15:07,720 --> 01:15:10,680
Speaker 1: look at this guy got zero percent body fat he's

1578
01:15:11,240 --> 01:15:13,880
Speaker 1: it's like guy gets drafted in the fourth round. It's

1579
01:15:13,880 --> 01:15:16,560
Speaker 1: almost as if that's a really good question. Ask yourself that.

1580
01:15:16,920 --> 01:15:18,680
Speaker 1: And it's almost as if you watch a combine and

1581
01:15:18,760 --> 01:15:21,240
Speaker 1: you get a little tiny bit of the information the

1582
01:15:21,280 --> 01:15:24,160
Speaker 1: teams get, but maybe not the most important information. But

1583
01:15:24,320 --> 01:15:27,760
Speaker 1: we make decisions and observations and judgments based on what

1584
01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:29,560
Speaker 1: we see at the combine. What were these times? What

1585
01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:32,960
Speaker 1: were those measurements? How many two twenty fives have they

1586
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:34,880
Speaker 1: put up in the bench press And we only get

1587
01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:38,200
Speaker 1: a little tiny piece of the big volume of information

1588
01:15:38,280 --> 01:15:41,080
Speaker 1: that these teams get. It is my new mantra, why

1589
01:15:41,120 --> 01:15:45,320
Speaker 1: do we watch a combine? No, we only know part

1590
01:15:45,439 --> 01:15:48,680
Speaker 1: of half the story. Yeah, we only know part of

1591
01:15:48,920 --> 01:15:52,240
Speaker 1: half the story. That's and it's the same way when

1592
01:15:52,240 --> 01:15:54,240
Speaker 1: I talk about the media, they criticize all this stuff.

1593
01:15:54,280 --> 01:15:56,400
Speaker 1: They know part of half the story. So when you

1594
01:15:56,479 --> 01:15:59,760
Speaker 1: watch this on TV, you're you're seeing what the like.

1595
01:15:59,840 --> 01:16:02,599
Speaker 1: In the case of DK Metcalf, he was probably working

1596
01:16:02,680 --> 01:16:04,720
Speaker 1: out obviously for a month or two or a couple

1597
01:16:04,760 --> 01:16:07,439
Speaker 1: of months or as long as he could getting ready

1598
01:16:07,479 --> 01:16:09,840
Speaker 1: for the NFL combine, so he could and he was

1599
01:16:09,960 --> 01:16:12,600
Speaker 1: focusing his workouts to peak right at that minute, So

1600
01:16:12,640 --> 01:16:14,840
Speaker 1: he probably tapered in the last week and a half

1601
01:16:14,960 --> 01:16:17,639
Speaker 1: or two weeks, ten days to fourteen days, they probably

1602
01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:20,360
Speaker 1: tapered off, started to rest a little bit, get so

1603
01:16:20,600 --> 01:16:23,400
Speaker 1: when he hit them combine, he was fresh, ready to

1604
01:16:23,520 --> 01:16:27,680
Speaker 1: go and blew the top off it. That's all we

1605
01:16:27,840 --> 01:16:31,400
Speaker 1: see is that one or two day workout by this

1606
01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:33,600
Speaker 1: guy who has focused for a couple of months on

1607
01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:36,240
Speaker 1: getting to that exact point. You don't see him when

1608
01:16:36,280 --> 01:16:39,160
Speaker 1: he's you know, on a Wednesday when he didn't have class,

1609
01:16:39,280 --> 01:16:40,720
Speaker 1: you know or whatever, you know, all this stuff, when

1610
01:16:40,760 --> 01:16:43,679
Speaker 1: he didn't have anything else to do. So you see

1611
01:16:43,720 --> 01:16:46,519
Speaker 1: part of it. You see a little window and it's

1612
01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:49,719
Speaker 1: a job interview, and it's the guys are these guys

1613
01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:52,120
Speaker 1: of the combine are putting their best foot forward, absolutely

1614
01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:55,599
Speaker 1: the best foot forward, and in some cases, like Kyler Murray,

1615
01:16:55,680 --> 01:16:57,400
Speaker 1: they're only showing you what they want you to see.

1616
01:16:57,800 --> 01:17:00,840
Speaker 1: He came in, stood against the wall. They may he left.

1617
01:17:03,120 --> 01:17:05,560
Speaker 1: It's it's it's hard to make evaluations to do that,

1618
01:17:05,680 --> 01:17:07,200
Speaker 1: but we all did it. You and I've been doing

1619
01:17:07,240 --> 01:17:10,120
Speaker 1: it for weeks. Yep. On that little window, Ye, the

1620
01:17:10,240 --> 01:17:12,240
Speaker 1: draft has complete. How would you grade the Bills draft

1621
01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:14,640
Speaker 1: class and why why is the most important part of

1622
01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:17,320
Speaker 1: that question. It's our Twitter poll, more than fifteen hundred

1623
01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:19,680
Speaker 1: votes in so far. Almost two thirds of you give

1624
01:17:19,720 --> 01:17:22,680
Speaker 1: them an A. That's high. Sixty three percent give the

1625
01:17:22,760 --> 01:17:26,000
Speaker 1: Bills an A for their draft class. You're doing that's high?

1626
01:17:26,280 --> 01:17:28,880
Speaker 1: Come on, man, sixty two thirds of the people think

1627
01:17:28,920 --> 01:17:31,160
Speaker 1: they get they get an we're talking to Bills fans.

1628
01:17:31,240 --> 01:17:33,040
Speaker 1: Thirty four percent give him a B. So we had

1629
01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:35,120
Speaker 1: that up. Ninety seven percent say they get an A

1630
01:17:35,240 --> 01:17:39,040
Speaker 1: R B A. One percent gives him a D. What

1631
01:17:39,120 --> 01:17:41,920
Speaker 1: do you think we're gonna be so good? Take a

1632
01:17:41,960 --> 01:17:44,360
Speaker 1: phone call here, Rick in Albany, how about Rick? Go ahead,

1633
01:17:44,400 --> 01:17:47,120
Speaker 1: you're on the air. Hey, thank you, Jovin. How are

1634
01:17:47,120 --> 01:17:50,800
Speaker 1: you good? Rick? What's up? Heye? I had a really

1635
01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:54,080
Speaker 1: interesting when we were we're having our draft party at

1636
01:17:54,120 --> 01:17:57,560
Speaker 1: my mom's house in Western New York. Um. I was

1637
01:17:57,680 --> 01:18:01,120
Speaker 1: noticing that Josh Allens fell and he was he was

1638
01:18:01,400 --> 01:18:04,000
Speaker 1: going down, and I was asking her own room, And

1639
01:18:04,080 --> 01:18:06,080
Speaker 1: this is where I really wanted to get out and

1640
01:18:06,160 --> 01:18:09,439
Speaker 1: ask mister Bean about would have been the decision if

1641
01:18:09,800 --> 01:18:14,000
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Ed Oliver would have been able at

1642
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:17,240
Speaker 1: which he was the seventh so he was two picks ahead.

1643
01:18:17,280 --> 01:18:18,960
Speaker 1: You know. I asked that question to a couple of

1644
01:18:19,040 --> 01:18:21,960
Speaker 1: trusted people, UM the other day, and they told me

1645
01:18:22,080 --> 01:18:24,920
Speaker 1: they were again. Once they realized they could get ed

1646
01:18:24,960 --> 01:18:26,920
Speaker 1: Oliver at nine, they were all in on ed Oliver

1647
01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:30,360
Speaker 1: ahead of Josh Allen, ahead of the tight ends because

1648
01:18:30,360 --> 01:18:32,360
Speaker 1: they think ed Oliver gives him something on the and

1649
01:18:32,439 --> 01:18:34,720
Speaker 1: the positional thing. He can play the three technique. And

1650
01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:37,760
Speaker 1: it was and they're both very high level athletes, very

1651
01:18:37,880 --> 01:18:41,200
Speaker 1: high skilled, but ed Oliver would have filled a gaping need.

1652
01:18:41,320 --> 01:18:43,240
Speaker 1: Not a gaping need, but it's certainly a need that

1653
01:18:43,360 --> 01:18:46,200
Speaker 1: they had. UM. Now, Josh Allen is a great player,

1654
01:18:46,439 --> 01:18:48,439
Speaker 1: but I think for the Bills at this at the

1655
01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:52,519
Speaker 1: current little little pin point in history, they are ed

1656
01:18:52,600 --> 01:18:55,439
Speaker 1: Oliver was the perfect piece of the puzzle right where

1657
01:18:55,439 --> 01:18:58,759
Speaker 1: they needed him, and he's a perfect type of player

1658
01:18:58,880 --> 01:19:01,720
Speaker 1: they want at that three time technique. So I'm with

1659
01:19:01,800 --> 01:19:04,040
Speaker 1: you or if I think, and I don't know, because

1660
01:19:04,080 --> 01:19:06,559
Speaker 1: we'll never know, I think that they would have taken

1661
01:19:07,120 --> 01:19:10,760
Speaker 1: at Oliver anyway, Go ahead, Rick, No, No, I was

1662
01:19:10,800 --> 01:19:13,080
Speaker 1: just saying that's why I wanted. I wanted the pinpoint. See,

1663
01:19:13,160 --> 01:19:15,320
Speaker 1: you know, right hair from his horse's mouth. Do you

1664
01:19:15,400 --> 01:19:17,479
Speaker 1: think the horse would have told you? Do you think

1665
01:19:17,800 --> 01:19:21,760
Speaker 1: mister Bean would have said Probably wouldn't have said that. Yeah,

1666
01:19:22,400 --> 01:19:23,720
Speaker 1: I don't know if he would have, he would have

1667
01:19:23,760 --> 01:19:26,160
Speaker 1: answered that directly. Thanks Rick, thanks for listening, Thanks for

1668
01:19:26,240 --> 01:19:28,760
Speaker 1: calling Tom on the line, and Tonawanda. Hello, Tom, you're

1669
01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:31,719
Speaker 1: on the air. Yeah, thanks for having me on. Sure

1670
01:19:32,280 --> 01:19:35,680
Speaker 1: I give the score I get to build a B plus. Um,

1671
01:19:36,080 --> 01:19:38,840
Speaker 1: I really, I think it's on the side of, you know,

1672
01:19:39,120 --> 01:19:41,439
Speaker 1: very good. I don't know that we got any for

1673
01:19:41,560 --> 01:19:44,200
Speaker 1: sure home on hitters, not that there's any guarantees in

1674
01:19:44,240 --> 01:19:46,720
Speaker 1: the draft to begin with, but um, it's like, I

1675
01:19:46,800 --> 01:19:49,439
Speaker 1: think we had a lot of good shape picks and

1676
01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:52,000
Speaker 1: if we can hit on half of those, which I

1677
01:19:52,080 --> 01:19:55,720
Speaker 1: think we will, a B plus is a pretty good score. Okay, Yeah,

1678
01:19:55,720 --> 01:19:58,240
Speaker 1: I think I think that's what I give him too. Yeah, Tom,

1679
01:19:58,360 --> 01:20:00,920
Speaker 1: how many if you're still there, how many guys out

1680
01:20:00,960 --> 01:20:02,640
Speaker 1: of this draft class do you think are gonna be

1681
01:20:02,840 --> 01:20:06,200
Speaker 1: Day one starters? So right now, I'm kind of just

1682
01:20:06,320 --> 01:20:11,200
Speaker 1: thinking the top two picks, you know, Oliver and Ford. Right,

1683
01:20:12,040 --> 01:20:13,840
Speaker 1: I think it could go. It could go as high

1684
01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:16,200
Speaker 1: as four, and it's probably your right. It's probably two

1685
01:20:16,320 --> 01:20:19,080
Speaker 1: for sure. I'm thinking maybe one of the tight depending

1686
01:20:19,120 --> 01:20:20,680
Speaker 1: on what package, one of the tight ends might be

1687
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Speaker 1: in the top rotation. Uh and depending on you know,

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01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:26,840
Speaker 1: what other things happened, it could be one of the

1689
01:20:26,920 --> 01:20:29,080
Speaker 1: other one of the other parts, like the running back

1690
01:20:29,120 --> 01:20:32,200
Speaker 1: could could elevate given a package or whatever. But I

1691
01:20:32,560 --> 01:20:34,639
Speaker 1: still think Lashawn McCoy is gonna be day one starter.

1692
01:20:34,720 --> 01:20:38,040
Speaker 1: I think it'll have to be something really weird happens.

1693
01:20:38,280 --> 01:20:42,080
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe maybe if a Sean Joseph could sneak into

1694
01:20:42,120 --> 01:20:44,839
Speaker 1: a starting lineup, if he gets into a battle of linebacker,

1695
01:20:44,880 --> 01:20:46,760
Speaker 1: but because there's just not that many guys at that

1696
01:20:46,880 --> 01:20:50,680
Speaker 1: position in camp. So but I think for sure, you're right.

1697
01:20:50,720 --> 01:20:52,559
Speaker 1: I think there's two guys. I think those top two

1698
01:20:52,600 --> 01:20:56,680
Speaker 1: guys are definitely day one starters. What else I was

1699
01:20:56,760 --> 01:20:59,280
Speaker 1: kind of thinking, you know, just the most impact you're

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01:20:59,320 --> 01:21:01,120
Speaker 1: going to see is in two years. You know, I

1701
01:21:01,200 --> 01:21:04,160
Speaker 1: think the son Joseph has a whole lot of potential,

1702
01:21:04,680 --> 01:21:06,519
Speaker 1: and especially the running back. You know, once we can

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01:21:06,520 --> 01:21:09,200
Speaker 1: get mccauy off the books, I think he's really gonna

1704
01:21:09,760 --> 01:21:12,280
Speaker 1: fill the void pretty well. Thank you very much, We

1705
01:21:12,360 --> 01:21:15,000
Speaker 1: appreciate it time. Thanks for Tom on the tweet sheet.

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01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:17,840
Speaker 1: We're asking you to grade the Bills draft this year,

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01:21:18,760 --> 01:21:22,400
Speaker 1: Jay frezz One tweets in great value at every pick

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01:21:22,479 --> 01:21:26,200
Speaker 1: and excellent diversity in positions for offense for defense. I

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01:21:26,280 --> 01:21:28,439
Speaker 1: got it going into the draft, he says, the Bills

1710
01:21:28,479 --> 01:21:31,920
Speaker 1: were looking solid everywhere but needed playmakers. They accomplished that

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01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:35,840
Speaker 1: with several exciting prospects. Breakouts from Lawson and Foster make

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01:21:35,920 --> 01:21:40,240
Speaker 1: this team a contender. Go Bills. Who are the playmakers

1713
01:21:40,280 --> 01:21:43,400
Speaker 1: in this eight man draft class? Who are the big

1714
01:21:43,479 --> 01:21:46,880
Speaker 1: offensive playmakers? Well, Scott, I'm thinking he's thinking Devin Singletary

1715
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:49,040
Speaker 1: and one of the tight ends. Maybe I don't think

1716
01:21:49,080 --> 01:21:51,240
Speaker 1: you could say, you know, you can't. I mean you can.

1717
01:21:51,920 --> 01:21:55,519
Speaker 1: You could say Ed Oliver, that's the kind of player

1718
01:21:55,520 --> 01:21:57,760
Speaker 1: he's going to be. But offensively, you know, there's only

1719
01:21:57,800 --> 01:22:01,639
Speaker 1: two tight ends and a running back, So I'm pretty

1720
01:22:01,640 --> 01:22:03,400
Speaker 1: sure Cody Ford is not going to be a playmaker,

1721
01:22:04,240 --> 01:22:07,400
Speaker 1: even if he's starting. So yeah, well, I think we'd

1722
01:22:07,479 --> 01:22:09,560
Speaker 1: I think every I would be shocked, not shocked. I

1723
01:22:09,600 --> 01:22:13,759
Speaker 1: would be surprised if one of those tight ends turns.

1724
01:22:14,240 --> 01:22:16,000
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised. They're training too good players. But

1725
01:22:16,040 --> 01:22:18,160
Speaker 1: if if you know, as far as Dawson Knox or

1726
01:22:18,360 --> 01:22:23,880
Speaker 1: Tommy Sweeney turning into Travis Kelsey. I mean that's an

1727
01:22:23,920 --> 01:22:27,200
Speaker 1: outside chance of that, but I don't think anybody's projecting

1728
01:22:27,240 --> 01:22:29,880
Speaker 1: in there be that that kind of tight end. Sir. Hey, Yeah,

1729
01:22:29,920 --> 01:22:32,160
Speaker 1: we'll talk more about this. Give your give us your

1730
01:22:32,200 --> 01:22:34,519
Speaker 1: grade for the Bills twenty nineteen draft. More draft talk

1731
01:22:34,560 --> 01:22:36,719
Speaker 1: when we return. I want to remind you this Saturday,

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01:22:36,800 --> 01:22:39,200
Speaker 1: you can join Units and the Buffalo Bills at the

1733
01:22:39,240 --> 01:22:42,200
Speaker 1: annual Blood Drive here in New Airfield. Every blood donor

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01:22:42,280 --> 01:22:45,400
Speaker 1: receives a pair of preseason game tickets. Drive takes place

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01:22:45,439 --> 01:22:49,120
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01:22:49,200 --> 01:22:51,679
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01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:54,200
Speaker 1: to four pm. To sign up, go to Units dot org.

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01:22:54,400 --> 01:22:58,360
Speaker 1: The Bills Blood Drive to benefit UNITS Upstate New York

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01:22:58,400 --> 01:23:01,519
Speaker 1: transplant Services coming up this today ten am to four

1740
01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:03,960
Speaker 1: pm at the dun Tire Club. Steve and I coming

1741
01:23:04,000 --> 01:23:06,080
Speaker 1: back with more One Bills Live from One Bills Drive.

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01:23:06,439 --> 01:23:21,680
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back One Bill's Live,

1743
01:23:21,760 --> 01:23:24,360
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, John Murphy, your company Live from One Bill's Drive.

1744
01:23:24,720 --> 01:23:28,200
Speaker 1: Great cosll from NFL matchup ESPN's NFL matchup is going

1745
01:23:28,240 --> 01:23:30,040
Speaker 1: to join instituted over the Bills picks and some of

1746
01:23:30,080 --> 01:23:32,439
Speaker 1: the other draft issues. You're welcome to join us as well.

1747
01:23:32,479 --> 01:23:35,559
Speaker 1: Phone lines are wide open eight three five fifty toll

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Speaker 1: free one eight eight by fifty two five fifty. Looking

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01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:41,920
Speaker 1: for your grade of the Bills twenty nineteen NFL Draft.

1750
01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:45,559
Speaker 1: The maybe the predominant story of the Draft Weekend. Steve

1751
01:23:45,680 --> 01:23:48,040
Speaker 1: goes back to Thursday night when the New York Giants,

1752
01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:50,000
Speaker 1: and it worked to the benefit of the Bills. They

1753
01:23:50,400 --> 01:23:52,759
Speaker 1: with the six pick in the first round. The Giants

1754
01:23:52,920 --> 01:23:57,519
Speaker 1: chose the duke quarterback Daniel Jones. Dave Gentleman, Giants general manager,

1755
01:23:57,560 --> 01:23:59,720
Speaker 1: spent some time here in Buffalo years and years ago.

1756
01:24:00,160 --> 01:24:02,080
Speaker 1: Good guy. I know him. He's been on the show

1757
01:24:02,120 --> 01:24:06,280
Speaker 1: several times over the years. He has been ripped from

1758
01:24:06,320 --> 01:24:09,759
Speaker 1: all quarters of the NFL world about that pick, About

1759
01:24:09,800 --> 01:24:12,599
Speaker 1: that move he spoke. There are two articles I read.

1760
01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:16,200
Speaker 1: One of them Albert Breer MMQB. Peter King talked to

1761
01:24:16,240 --> 01:24:18,400
Speaker 1: him as well. Some of the quotes from Gentleman says,

1762
01:24:18,560 --> 01:24:20,920
Speaker 1: in three years, we'll find out how crazy I am.

1763
01:24:21,160 --> 01:24:24,960
Speaker 1: He says, I agonized using the six pick. Before the draft.

1764
01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:27,960
Speaker 1: We discussed it thoroughly. Obviously we had great regard for

1765
01:24:28,200 --> 01:24:29,760
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. But the one thing I've learned is you

1766
01:24:29,800 --> 01:24:32,800
Speaker 1: don't fool around with a quarterback. Most people, I think

1767
01:24:33,080 --> 01:24:36,080
Speaker 1: the consensus is, Okay, you liked the quarterback Daniel Jones,

1768
01:24:36,120 --> 01:24:38,040
Speaker 1: you had two first round picks, you didn't need to

1769
01:24:38,120 --> 01:24:40,880
Speaker 1: use your six over him. Gentleman's responses, you don't fool

1770
01:24:40,880 --> 01:24:42,840
Speaker 1: around if your quarterback his quote, if he's your guy,

1771
01:24:43,200 --> 01:24:45,679
Speaker 1: you take him. If you put thirty two general managers

1772
01:24:45,720 --> 01:24:48,880
Speaker 1: in a room and gave them true serum, every single

1773
01:24:48,920 --> 01:24:50,120
Speaker 1: one of them will tell you the story of how

1774
01:24:50,160 --> 01:24:52,200
Speaker 1: they got cute in a draft. They cost him a

1775
01:24:52,200 --> 01:24:55,679
Speaker 1: player if they want it. That's his justification. Which having

1776
01:24:55,720 --> 01:24:59,439
Speaker 1: read Albert Breer this morning and he talked to Dave Gentleman,

1777
01:24:59,479 --> 01:25:01,200
Speaker 1: I thought, Okay, I get it. I get what he

1778
01:25:01,320 --> 01:25:04,200
Speaker 1: was thinking. It's not indefensible as what I'm trying to say. No,

1779
01:25:04,920 --> 01:25:07,759
Speaker 1: if you're if hits the guy you want, particularly Murphy,

1780
01:25:07,760 --> 01:25:10,400
Speaker 1: you know this. At that position, it's not just like

1781
01:25:10,479 --> 01:25:12,719
Speaker 1: you're not just taking an edge rusher or an offensive

1782
01:25:12,760 --> 01:25:17,120
Speaker 1: guard or a safety or at someplace else. It's a quarterback.

1783
01:25:17,600 --> 01:25:21,560
Speaker 1: So there's no reason if because if you hit it

1784
01:25:21,680 --> 01:25:25,439
Speaker 1: big on a quarterback, the entire course of the franchise changes.

1785
01:25:26,360 --> 01:25:28,680
Speaker 1: If you so, you gotta get that guy if he

1786
01:25:28,800 --> 01:25:31,599
Speaker 1: thinks if you think there's a chance he is that guy.

1787
01:25:31,720 --> 01:25:33,840
Speaker 1: So he jumped. He took him at six and has

1788
01:25:33,880 --> 01:25:38,880
Speaker 1: gotten vilified by the Giants fan base because they didn't

1789
01:25:38,880 --> 01:25:41,400
Speaker 1: think they thought he could. Probably if there's something, they'll

1790
01:25:41,400 --> 01:25:42,960
Speaker 1: tell you, they could have got him in the third round.

1791
01:25:43,920 --> 01:25:48,560
Speaker 1: There's no reason to do that. But and we go

1792
01:25:48,680 --> 01:25:50,240
Speaker 1: through this too, murf. We went through it a little

1793
01:25:50,280 --> 01:25:52,559
Speaker 1: bit last year. A lot of the Giants fans are

1794
01:25:52,680 --> 01:25:56,519
Speaker 1: upset because he didn't take their guy Haskins or their

1795
01:25:56,600 --> 01:25:58,920
Speaker 1: guy a different quarterback in this draft. You know, they

1796
01:25:58,960 --> 01:26:01,000
Speaker 1: just it's just not the right name. They don't care

1797
01:26:01,040 --> 01:26:03,439
Speaker 1: if he took a quarterback, well, why that one. So

1798
01:26:03,600 --> 01:26:07,360
Speaker 1: there's that as well. But if i'm I'm I know,

1799
01:26:07,520 --> 01:26:10,840
Speaker 1: get I'm with you. If that's the guy you wanted

1800
01:26:10,880 --> 01:26:13,679
Speaker 1: at that position, you take him when he's there. Don't wait,

1801
01:26:14,080 --> 01:26:17,200
Speaker 1: don't wait. Gentleman is defensive about this. You know, he said,

1802
01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:20,519
Speaker 1: I've been around good quarterbacks, Jim Kelly, Year, John Elway,

1803
01:26:20,600 --> 01:26:23,759
Speaker 1: Kerry Collins, Eli Manning, Cam Newton. But he gets defensive

1804
01:26:23,760 --> 01:26:26,320
Speaker 1: and he talks, you know, people really are It's been

1805
01:26:26,360 --> 01:26:28,519
Speaker 1: pretty rough for Gentleman since Thursday night, and he says

1806
01:26:28,560 --> 01:26:31,680
Speaker 1: this resumes matter every once in a while, I wish

1807
01:26:31,760 --> 01:26:33,640
Speaker 1: the people taking the shots would take a minute and

1808
01:26:33,720 --> 01:26:36,240
Speaker 1: look at my resume. I've been a part of teams

1809
01:26:36,280 --> 01:26:38,160
Speaker 1: that went to seven Super Bowls. I had a hand

1810
01:26:38,240 --> 01:26:40,320
Speaker 1: in some of them. But today he says there's no

1811
01:26:40,439 --> 01:26:43,719
Speaker 1: patience and there's no room for civil discourse in our society,

1812
01:26:43,800 --> 01:26:46,479
Speaker 1: which I find said, I get what he's saying, right,

1813
01:26:46,640 --> 01:26:48,960
Speaker 1: he's getting beat up. He's getting beat up, bad, bad,

1814
01:26:49,479 --> 01:26:51,479
Speaker 1: and you can imagine it. And people here in Buffalo,

1815
01:26:51,560 --> 01:26:54,200
Speaker 1: I mean, over the course of the years, has it

1816
01:26:54,439 --> 01:26:56,760
Speaker 1: been a roller coaster here at times, has gotten gotten

1817
01:26:56,800 --> 01:26:59,560
Speaker 1: pretty tough to be positive about the team over in

1818
01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:03,800
Speaker 1: decade past. It's bad bad in New York right about now, Yeah,

1819
01:27:03,960 --> 01:27:05,960
Speaker 1: it was, it was, and plus in this day and

1820
01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:10,040
Speaker 1: age with social media the way it is is, yeah,

1821
01:27:10,120 --> 01:27:11,960
Speaker 1: you can't even you can't even pick up here. I

1822
01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:13,760
Speaker 1: want to see how this plays out, because again, I've

1823
01:27:13,840 --> 01:27:16,880
Speaker 1: known David Gentleman for more than twenty years. I like him.

1824
01:27:16,880 --> 01:27:19,040
Speaker 1: I think he's smart, I think he's a good football guy. Yes,

1825
01:27:19,080 --> 01:27:21,760
Speaker 1: he's old school, probably fits right in exactly what the

1826
01:27:21,800 --> 01:27:24,479
Speaker 1: owners are expecting from him. Take a call here from

1827
01:27:24,560 --> 01:27:27,040
Speaker 1: Charlie and Buffalo. Hello, Charlie, you're on the air by

1828
01:27:27,200 --> 01:27:29,160
Speaker 1: John High Steve. I want to ask the question. There

1829
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:32,880
Speaker 1: was a kid, young man on ESPN Sunday morning. He

1830
01:27:33,080 --> 01:27:36,240
Speaker 1: was a big time quarterback prodigy. Since he was a kid,

1831
01:27:37,640 --> 01:27:40,880
Speaker 1: He got hurt and he went to West Virginia, played

1832
01:27:40,920 --> 01:27:43,639
Speaker 1: wide receiver. The Bills picked him up over the weekend

1833
01:27:43,640 --> 01:27:45,439
Speaker 1: as a free agent. Do you know anything about him?

1834
01:27:45,520 --> 01:27:47,240
Speaker 1: And that's all I got to Yeah, David Sills. And

1835
01:27:47,320 --> 01:27:50,200
Speaker 1: they haven't announced any of their free agent signings yet. Um,

1836
01:27:50,280 --> 01:27:51,639
Speaker 1: they have to wait till they get in ear past

1837
01:27:51,680 --> 01:27:54,280
Speaker 1: their physical, signed their contract. But he's coming to Buffalo,

1838
01:27:54,439 --> 01:27:57,599
Speaker 1: David Sills, And you're right. He was a quarterback prospect

1839
01:27:57,640 --> 01:28:00,720
Speaker 1: who went to West Virginia. He was the youngest. This

1840
01:28:00,880 --> 01:28:02,799
Speaker 1: is I do know about him. I did some research

1841
01:28:03,080 --> 01:28:05,520
Speaker 1: the youngest player to be offered a Division one scholarship.

1842
01:28:05,960 --> 01:28:09,520
Speaker 1: USC's Line Kiffin recruited him as a thirteen year old quarterback.

1843
01:28:10,520 --> 01:28:13,200
Speaker 1: He eventually signed with West Virginia, moved to wide receiver.

1844
01:28:14,479 --> 01:28:16,960
Speaker 1: He transferred to a junior college for a year and

1845
01:28:17,000 --> 01:28:20,679
Speaker 1: then ditch that and went back to West Virginia. Not drafted,

1846
01:28:20,720 --> 01:28:22,920
Speaker 1: I know he was. The Bills were interested in David

1847
01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:25,280
Speaker 1: Sills late in the draft. They didn't use a pick

1848
01:28:25,320 --> 01:28:27,880
Speaker 1: on him. But he's coming here as an undrafted rookie

1849
01:28:27,960 --> 01:28:30,760
Speaker 1: free agent. Second in West Virginia history with thirty five

1850
01:28:30,800 --> 01:28:34,120
Speaker 1: touchdown catches. He was a one of the three Best

1851
01:28:34,439 --> 01:28:36,920
Speaker 1: three finalists for the bullet Nikoff Award. So this guy

1852
01:28:37,000 --> 01:28:39,800
Speaker 1: can play David Sills and Buffalo. And he's six four,

1853
01:28:39,880 --> 01:28:41,880
Speaker 1: two twelve. He's a big tall you know, he's built

1854
01:28:41,920 --> 01:28:43,439
Speaker 1: like a quarterback. He was a he was a young

1855
01:28:43,560 --> 01:28:48,960
Speaker 1: quarterback and switched positions, so he's got a big frame,

1856
01:28:49,880 --> 01:28:54,679
Speaker 1: tracks the ball well, good hands. We'll have to see, obviously,

1857
01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:57,200
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys. And I don't want to

1858
01:28:57,200 --> 01:28:59,519
Speaker 1: sound like a bitter short guy. He's six four, so

1859
01:28:59,560 --> 01:29:02,400
Speaker 1: he's getting get a shot, particularly at wide receiver, if

1860
01:29:02,439 --> 01:29:04,439
Speaker 1: he can run it all, get catch the ball. If

1861
01:29:04,479 --> 01:29:07,560
Speaker 1: he can run good routes, he's certainly fast enough to

1862
01:29:07,600 --> 01:29:10,840
Speaker 1: get separation. I think it's a misnomer, and take it

1863
01:29:10,920 --> 01:29:15,160
Speaker 1: from a guy who who played a little in the NFL.

1864
01:29:15,680 --> 01:29:20,760
Speaker 1: Four five is plenty fast enough. It really is more

1865
01:29:20,800 --> 01:29:23,280
Speaker 1: speeds fine, but four or five is good enough because

1866
01:29:23,400 --> 01:29:27,080
Speaker 1: then you can get separation. It's about changing direction, and

1867
01:29:27,200 --> 01:29:29,320
Speaker 1: it's not about out running people in the NFL, even

1868
01:29:29,360 --> 01:29:32,120
Speaker 1: if you're fast, it's about fooling them. And when you

1869
01:29:32,160 --> 01:29:34,560
Speaker 1: can do that, and when you run good routes, you

1870
01:29:34,640 --> 01:29:37,639
Speaker 1: can play at this level or any other. So we'll

1871
01:29:37,640 --> 01:29:39,360
Speaker 1: get we'll get a chance. It'll be fun to see

1872
01:29:39,439 --> 01:29:41,720
Speaker 1: David Sills come in, get a look at him and

1873
01:29:42,120 --> 01:29:45,080
Speaker 1: see if he can find himself a roster spot. Two

1874
01:29:45,160 --> 01:29:49,479
Speaker 1: thousand receiving yards at West Virginia twenty ninety seven, eighth

1875
01:29:49,560 --> 01:29:52,320
Speaker 1: in West Virginia history. Seven games with over one und

1876
01:29:52,479 --> 01:29:56,679
Speaker 1: yards receiving. He's been productive for the Mountaineers. Interesting backstory,

1877
01:29:56,760 --> 01:30:00,479
Speaker 1: you know, recruited at age thirteen by Plane Kiffin, former quarterback,

1878
01:30:00,920 --> 01:30:03,720
Speaker 1: left Morgantown to go play Juco and then came back

1879
01:30:03,720 --> 01:30:06,960
Speaker 1: to Morgantown. I think he probably expected to be drafted.

1880
01:30:07,000 --> 01:30:08,439
Speaker 1: He was not in the Bills jumped right down on

1881
01:30:08,920 --> 01:30:12,000
Speaker 1: Saturday night. Reportedly not confirmed yet. All right, when we

1882
01:30:12,040 --> 01:30:14,599
Speaker 1: come back, we're gonna talk with Great Cosal from NFL

1883
01:30:14,880 --> 01:30:17,920
Speaker 1: Matchup on ESPN about the Bills picks about the NFL

1884
01:30:17,960 --> 01:30:20,320
Speaker 1: weekend Draft weekend. You're welcome to join us as well.

1885
01:30:20,400 --> 01:30:22,519
Speaker 1: Plenty of time to talk in our number three Come

1886
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01:30:24,800 --> 01:30:33,719
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bills Radio, Hills Radio

1888
01:30:33,840 --> 01:30:37,800
Speaker 1: Network storys date the update from One Bill's Drive. The

1889
01:30:37,920 --> 01:30:40,840
Speaker 1: NFL Draft complete and did late Saturday. The draft threw

1890
01:30:40,920 --> 01:30:43,960
Speaker 1: record numbers both on the air and in the stands

1891
01:30:44,400 --> 01:30:46,200
Speaker 1: over the weekend. The league said today that more than

1892
01:30:46,240 --> 01:30:49,200
Speaker 1: six hundred thousand people attended the draft over the three

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Speaker 1: days in Nashville, easily surpassing the two hundred fifty thousand

1894
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Speaker 1: and became a couple of years ago to Philadelphia and

1895
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Speaker 1: Nielsen says the draft on ESPN, ABC and NFL Network

1896
01:30:57,840 --> 01:31:00,519
Speaker 1: average six point one million viewers at any given time

1897
01:31:00,800 --> 01:31:03,080
Speaker 1: over the three years average five and a half million viewers.

1898
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Speaker 1: Last year, Bills added eight new names to their roster

1899
01:31:05,720 --> 01:31:08,400
Speaker 1: over the weekend. They picked four players on defense, four

1900
01:31:08,520 --> 01:31:12,479
Speaker 1: on offense. Buffalo also reportedly added about eight undrafted free agents,

1901
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Speaker 1: including UB quarterback Tyree Jackson and West Virginia wide receiver

1902
01:31:16,240 --> 01:31:20,439
Speaker 1: Davis Sills. The fifth also over the weekend. Here in

1903
01:31:20,560 --> 01:31:23,080
Speaker 1: Orchard Park, Bill's veterans returning today to get into phase

1904
01:31:23,120 --> 01:31:26,080
Speaker 1: two of the offseason conditioning program. For the next three weeks,

1905
01:31:26,120 --> 01:31:29,120
Speaker 1: the veterans on the field for workouts with individual player

1906
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Speaker 1: instruction and drills. No live contact yet no team offense

1907
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Speaker 1: versus defense drills. They can practice as positional units however,

1908
01:31:36,280 --> 01:31:39,200
Speaker 1: now and they continue the conditioning work and spending time

1909
01:31:39,479 --> 01:31:43,360
Speaker 1: in the meeting room. Sebastian Janikowski told ESPN yesterday that

1910
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Speaker 1: after nineteen seasons, he's retiring from the NFL at the

1911
01:31:46,640 --> 01:31:48,479
Speaker 1: age of forty one. He says he had a good run,

1912
01:31:48,920 --> 01:31:52,280
Speaker 1: still thinks of the Super Bowl the Oakland Raiders forty

1913
01:31:52,439 --> 01:31:54,880
Speaker 1: twenty when lost to Tampa Bay. He says he told

1914
01:31:54,880 --> 01:31:56,640
Speaker 1: the ESPN and thought his body could not take the

1915
01:31:56,720 --> 01:32:01,599
Speaker 1: riggers of kicking in the NFL anymore. Miami Dolphins GM

1916
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Speaker 1: Mike Chris Greer told MMQB that training for Josh Rosen

1917
01:32:06,280 --> 01:32:10,000
Speaker 1: does not preclude Miami from drafting another quarterback next year.

1918
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Speaker 1: The Dolphins shipped the second round pick on Friday and

1919
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Speaker 1: a fifth round pick to the Cardinals for Josh Rosen,

1920
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Speaker 1: who became superfluous in Arizona after the Cardinals use a

1921
01:32:18,680 --> 01:32:21,439
Speaker 1: number one overall pick on Kyler Murray Danny Cup Playoffs

1922
01:32:21,479 --> 01:32:25,479
Speaker 1: tonight just one game Western Conference second Round, Game three

1923
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Speaker 1: of the Saint Louis Dallas series has side at one

1924
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Speaker 1: winnipiece based off eight o'clock tonight in Dallas, and the

1925
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Speaker 1: Bison's at home now for eight games and seven days.

1926
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Speaker 1: Doubleheader later today at home against Pawtucket two seven eighty

1927
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Speaker 1: games first one, five five tonight. That's the update from

1928
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Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive, John Murphy, Steve Tasker in our one

1929
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Studio. Gonna have a rare Monday visit from our

1930
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Speaker 1: buddy Greg Cosell. He is the executive producer analyst for

1931
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Speaker 1: NFL Matchup on ESPN, longtime senior producer at NFL Films.

1932
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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Greg, good to talking. You just got back

1933
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Speaker 1: from Nashville, right. I was in Nashville. Really enjoyed it.

1934
01:33:00,040 --> 01:33:02,080
Speaker 1: It was a lot of fun. I was actually working

1935
01:33:02,160 --> 01:33:04,760
Speaker 1: pretty much from first thing in the morning till the

1936
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Speaker 1: end of the draft. But it was a good trip.

1937
01:33:06,479 --> 01:33:09,519
Speaker 1: Really enjoyed Nashville. What if you look back at the

1938
01:33:09,680 --> 01:33:12,040
Speaker 1: draft and you see think about what the Bills did,

1939
01:33:12,160 --> 01:33:16,840
Speaker 1: what's the overall arching impression you get to the Bills draft. Well,

1940
01:33:16,880 --> 01:33:19,599
Speaker 1: I liked the Bills draft. I think they addressed specific

1941
01:33:19,720 --> 01:33:22,800
Speaker 1: needs with really good prospects. Now, again that's based on

1942
01:33:22,960 --> 01:33:26,639
Speaker 1: my evaluation of the prospects, but I think they addressed

1943
01:33:26,680 --> 01:33:31,040
Speaker 1: the D line. Obviously Kyle Williams retired, they definitely needed

1944
01:33:31,040 --> 01:33:34,240
Speaker 1: to continue to address O line, and therefore they did

1945
01:33:34,320 --> 01:33:36,920
Speaker 1: that in the second round. I really liked the tight

1946
01:33:37,080 --> 01:33:40,560
Speaker 1: end they picked, so I mean to me, they addressed

1947
01:33:40,960 --> 01:33:45,040
Speaker 1: needs with players that I liked on tape. Greg, We

1948
01:33:45,120 --> 01:33:46,439
Speaker 1: want to get into some of these picks with you,

1949
01:33:46,560 --> 01:33:49,360
Speaker 1: But just overall, the lack of a wide receiver pick

1950
01:33:49,439 --> 01:33:51,320
Speaker 1: in this draft. Does that say something about the wide

1951
01:33:51,360 --> 01:33:54,040
Speaker 1: receivers available this year in the draft or is it

1952
01:33:54,120 --> 01:33:55,600
Speaker 1: more about just the way the board fell for the

1953
01:33:55,640 --> 01:34:01,280
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Well, there were a bunch of wide receivers

1954
01:34:01,520 --> 01:34:04,040
Speaker 1: that were not drafted that I thought could have easily

1955
01:34:04,120 --> 01:34:07,960
Speaker 1: been drafted. But I guess teams either did not feel

1956
01:34:08,000 --> 01:34:10,200
Speaker 1: they were good enough to be drafted, or they had

1957
01:34:10,240 --> 01:34:13,679
Speaker 1: players rated more highly when it came to be their turn.

1958
01:34:14,160 --> 01:34:19,000
Speaker 1: But overall, again, I think they felt like they addressed

1959
01:34:19,040 --> 01:34:22,280
Speaker 1: the wide receiver position with John Brown. I think they

1960
01:34:22,400 --> 01:34:28,840
Speaker 1: probably feel that Foster is an ascending talent. So you know, again,

1961
01:34:28,920 --> 01:34:31,160
Speaker 1: it's always hard to know. It's always easy to say

1962
01:34:31,240 --> 01:34:32,920
Speaker 1: murph as you well know you've been doing this for

1963
01:34:33,000 --> 01:34:36,160
Speaker 1: a long time. It's always easy to say what a

1964
01:34:36,280 --> 01:34:39,400
Speaker 1: team should have done, but we never know exactly what

1965
01:34:39,520 --> 01:34:43,240
Speaker 1: a team's draft board looks like. And when they draft players,

1966
01:34:43,560 --> 01:34:46,400
Speaker 1: they obviously feel pretty good about the player that they

1967
01:34:46,520 --> 01:34:49,240
Speaker 1: drafted at that point and better than a player they

1968
01:34:49,280 --> 01:34:51,880
Speaker 1: didn't draft. Well, so I'm always a wait and see

1969
01:34:51,920 --> 01:34:53,479
Speaker 1: guy when it comes to that. I'm not one of

1970
01:34:53,520 --> 01:34:57,160
Speaker 1: those guys that said they should have done this instead. Well,

1971
01:34:57,240 --> 01:34:58,920
Speaker 1: it's a lot of fun to think about the top ten,

1972
01:34:59,000 --> 01:35:01,439
Speaker 1: and we always watched these rast because everybody knows who

1973
01:35:01,479 --> 01:35:03,160
Speaker 1: the best players are, and at the top of this

1974
01:35:03,280 --> 01:35:06,160
Speaker 1: draft wasn't There wasn't too many shifting around, not like

1975
01:35:06,280 --> 01:35:08,559
Speaker 1: we saw a year ago where there's multiple moves inside

1976
01:35:08,600 --> 01:35:11,519
Speaker 1: the top ten, just the Steelers jumping up to number ten.

1977
01:35:11,920 --> 01:35:14,960
Speaker 1: But give us an idea of what you thought about,

1978
01:35:15,760 --> 01:35:19,080
Speaker 1: maybe the Raiders going with their guy and the quarterback

1979
01:35:19,160 --> 01:35:20,960
Speaker 1: taken by the Giants, and how it got to the

1980
01:35:21,000 --> 01:35:24,960
Speaker 1: point where the Bills could select ed Oliver. Well, you know,

1981
01:35:25,040 --> 01:35:27,240
Speaker 1: it's funny. I think that the Raiders draft really bore

1982
01:35:27,280 --> 01:35:30,880
Speaker 1: the stamp of Mike Mayock, because again people say, well,

1983
01:35:30,960 --> 01:35:34,960
Speaker 1: Cleveland Farrell was taken too high. They obviously had him

1984
01:35:35,040 --> 01:35:39,200
Speaker 1: raided highly, and they're looking for glue players. Their defense

1985
01:35:39,320 --> 01:35:41,200
Speaker 1: was among the worst in the NFL a year ago.

1986
01:35:41,600 --> 01:35:46,360
Speaker 1: They're not looking for high ceiling risk type players. They

1987
01:35:46,400 --> 01:35:49,280
Speaker 1: are looking for glue guys. Cleveland Farrell might not be

1988
01:35:49,439 --> 01:35:52,320
Speaker 1: Khalil Mack, but he lines up and plays the same

1989
01:35:52,479 --> 01:35:55,639
Speaker 1: snap after snap after snap, and you can count haunt

1990
01:35:55,800 --> 01:35:59,920
Speaker 1: him every play, so you know they're looking for glue guys.

1991
01:36:00,200 --> 01:36:03,120
Speaker 1: In my opinion, in the first round, the Raiders probably

1992
01:36:03,200 --> 01:36:06,960
Speaker 1: got three starting players. They got Cleland Farrell, Josh Jacobs,

1993
01:36:07,000 --> 01:36:10,120
Speaker 1: and Jonathan Abram, the safety from Mississippi State, And I

1994
01:36:10,240 --> 01:36:13,240
Speaker 1: think they're all important pieces as they're trying to build,

1995
01:36:13,439 --> 01:36:16,560
Speaker 1: and there's nothing wrong with getting glue players who you

1996
01:36:16,720 --> 01:36:19,800
Speaker 1: know will line up and play and be consistent snap

1997
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Speaker 1: after snap. Greg The other interesting pick before the Bills

1998
01:36:23,560 --> 01:36:26,519
Speaker 1: chose number nine came to the Giants the quarterback Daniel Jones,

1999
01:36:26,560 --> 01:36:29,200
Speaker 1: a duke quarterback, and look, Dave Getleman has been getting

2000
01:36:29,320 --> 01:36:32,840
Speaker 1: raped for that selection, but I think he can justify it.

2001
01:36:33,040 --> 01:36:35,920
Speaker 1: I mean, he likes the quarterback, he said over the weekend.

2002
01:36:35,960 --> 01:36:37,679
Speaker 1: You know, he didn't want to wait to get his quarterback,

2003
01:36:37,680 --> 01:36:39,479
Speaker 1: didn't want to take that chance. What do you think

2004
01:36:39,520 --> 01:36:40,479
Speaker 1: of the pick and what do you think of the

2005
01:36:40,520 --> 01:36:45,360
Speaker 1: criticism being fired at Dave Gettleman these days. Well, look,

2006
01:36:45,720 --> 01:36:51,000
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones to me was not necessarily a sixth pick

2007
01:36:51,120 --> 01:36:54,120
Speaker 1: in a draft as far as pure talent. But I

2008
01:36:54,280 --> 01:36:57,599
Speaker 1: know the way Dave Gettleman thinks, and Dave Gettleman thinks

2009
01:36:57,720 --> 01:37:00,120
Speaker 1: of an entire team. He doesn't think of a U

2010
01:37:00,280 --> 01:37:04,000
Speaker 1: back as being the singular force of a team. And

2011
01:37:04,600 --> 01:37:07,240
Speaker 1: he obviously believes that Daniel Jones can be a very

2012
01:37:07,320 --> 01:37:10,839
Speaker 1: consistent player as part of an offense that will probably

2013
01:37:10,960 --> 01:37:14,439
Speaker 1: feature say Quon Barkley as the driving force. He wants

2014
01:37:14,479 --> 01:37:17,880
Speaker 1: to build the rest of the team. I believe they did.

2015
01:37:17,920 --> 01:37:20,280
Speaker 1: They take Dexter Lawrence later in the first round. I

2016
01:37:20,360 --> 01:37:23,040
Speaker 1: believe they did, and then they traded back into the

2017
01:37:23,080 --> 01:37:26,080
Speaker 1: first round and drafted DeAndre Baker. So he's trying to

2018
01:37:26,160 --> 01:37:29,240
Speaker 1: build a team, and his view of the quarterback position

2019
01:37:29,400 --> 01:37:32,640
Speaker 1: is not that everything revolves around him, but that he

2020
01:37:32,840 --> 01:37:37,360
Speaker 1: is a piece of a larger puzzle. You know, Obviously

2021
01:37:37,479 --> 01:37:40,519
Speaker 1: people last year ripped him as well for taking sae

2022
01:37:40,640 --> 01:37:43,120
Speaker 1: Quon Barkley. What will be interesting to see and nobody

2023
01:37:43,200 --> 01:37:45,920
Speaker 1: knows the answer to this is where they'll be in

2024
01:37:46,000 --> 01:37:48,280
Speaker 1: two or three years with Daniel Jones and say Quon

2025
01:37:48,360 --> 01:37:52,160
Speaker 1: Barkley versus let's say Sam Darnald and who knows what back.

2026
01:37:52,560 --> 01:37:56,479
Speaker 1: So you know, obviously people are praising Sam Darnald right now.

2027
01:37:56,560 --> 01:37:58,720
Speaker 1: It seems as if people have Sam Donald in the

2028
01:37:58,800 --> 01:38:00,800
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. But you have to wait and see

2029
01:38:00,840 --> 01:38:03,639
Speaker 1: how all this plays out. What was a big surprise?

2030
01:38:03,680 --> 01:38:06,639
Speaker 1: I mean, you can see the rationale of the Raiders

2031
01:38:07,000 --> 01:38:09,719
Speaker 1: picking Cleveland Ferrell, and you can, you know, talk about

2032
01:38:09,800 --> 01:38:13,120
Speaker 1: Dave Getleman in New York and the thought process behind

2033
01:38:13,160 --> 01:38:15,800
Speaker 1: that quarterback. Is there anything that did surprise you about

2034
01:38:15,840 --> 01:38:21,360
Speaker 1: this draft? I guess what surprised me to some degree

2035
01:38:21,880 --> 01:38:24,320
Speaker 1: without looking at the players, because again it comes down

2036
01:38:24,360 --> 01:38:27,400
Speaker 1: to who the specific players are in any draft. But

2037
01:38:27,520 --> 01:38:30,559
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, DeAndre Baker was the only corner

2038
01:38:30,680 --> 01:38:33,120
Speaker 1: taken in the first round, and he went late to

2039
01:38:33,200 --> 01:38:36,680
Speaker 1: the Giants, who traded back in to get him, and

2040
01:38:36,840 --> 01:38:40,360
Speaker 1: in a league in which corners are viewed as critically important,

2041
01:38:40,760 --> 01:38:44,880
Speaker 1: with the influx of eleven personnel, meaning three wide receivers.

2042
01:38:45,280 --> 01:38:49,080
Speaker 1: Normally corners are really big, but there was a run

2043
01:38:49,160 --> 01:38:51,800
Speaker 1: on corners in the second round, so that's where the

2044
01:38:51,880 --> 01:38:54,439
Speaker 1: corners were taken off the board. So it was clearly

2045
01:38:54,520 --> 01:38:59,160
Speaker 1: a case in which corners were not seen as being

2046
01:38:59,560 --> 01:39:03,759
Speaker 1: top flight guys relative to specific to this specific draft.

2047
01:39:04,280 --> 01:39:06,160
Speaker 1: We're on the line with Greg Cosell on a busy

2048
01:39:06,240 --> 01:39:08,720
Speaker 1: day for him in New Jersey. Executive producer, analyst of

2049
01:39:08,840 --> 01:39:13,120
Speaker 1: NFL Matchup on ESPN, Senior producer at NFL Films. Right,

2050
01:39:13,200 --> 01:39:15,960
Speaker 1: let's get into the bills picks, Ed, Oliver, Here's why

2051
01:39:16,000 --> 01:39:18,200
Speaker 1: I like to pick Greg. I'm curious to your take.

2052
01:39:18,600 --> 01:39:20,519
Speaker 1: It was a position of need. He can step right

2053
01:39:20,560 --> 01:39:23,400
Speaker 1: in and start, and they didn't have to spend any

2054
01:39:23,479 --> 01:39:25,479
Speaker 1: extra assets. They were at nine and they got him

2055
01:39:25,479 --> 01:39:29,160
Speaker 1: at nine. I like that about him. No, And then Oliver, look,

2056
01:39:29,720 --> 01:39:31,240
Speaker 1: you know, if you go back a year at Oliver

2057
01:39:31,320 --> 01:39:33,200
Speaker 1: Rose viewed it's a top three pick in the draft

2058
01:39:33,280 --> 01:39:35,320
Speaker 1: and whatever happened this year or none of us know that,

2059
01:39:35,800 --> 01:39:37,840
Speaker 1: but his tape is what I look at. I don't

2060
01:39:37,880 --> 01:39:40,320
Speaker 1: know Ed Oliver. You guys, I'm sure I've met him

2061
01:39:40,360 --> 01:39:43,040
Speaker 1: now that he's been up there. He's an elite athlete,

2062
01:39:43,200 --> 01:39:46,439
Speaker 1: no question. He's got an off the charts profile of

2063
01:39:46,600 --> 01:39:51,640
Speaker 1: foot quickness, agility, fluidity, explosion, hand usage. Plus he's a

2064
01:39:51,760 --> 01:39:55,479
Speaker 1: high level effort and competitive guy. I mean, if you

2065
01:39:55,640 --> 01:39:58,719
Speaker 1: just watch the tape and see the traits, he's really

2066
01:39:58,800 --> 01:40:03,360
Speaker 1: an explosive, explosive player. Now, as we all do when

2067
01:40:03,400 --> 01:40:05,960
Speaker 1: we evaluate players leading up to the draft, we knitpick.

2068
01:40:06,280 --> 01:40:08,160
Speaker 1: So people look at his weight and they say, can

2069
01:40:08,240 --> 01:40:11,559
Speaker 1: he hold up inside? At probably two hundred and eighty pounds,

2070
01:40:12,600 --> 01:40:15,760
Speaker 1: you know, he's clearly a gap player. He's not going

2071
01:40:15,840 --> 01:40:19,400
Speaker 1: to hand fight offensive lineman. He's a gap player. You

2072
01:40:19,479 --> 01:40:21,760
Speaker 1: want him to penetrate, you want him to use that

2073
01:40:21,880 --> 01:40:26,439
Speaker 1: explosive athletic ability. But he's got special traits for a

2074
01:40:26,520 --> 01:40:29,639
Speaker 1: defensive tackle. And in fact, they moved him around quite

2075
01:40:29,640 --> 01:40:31,760
Speaker 1: a bit at Houston. There were times they stood him up.

2076
01:40:32,040 --> 01:40:34,160
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see what Sean McDermott and

2077
01:40:34,280 --> 01:40:37,439
Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier do. Yeah, there's no question they've they've talked

2078
01:40:37,479 --> 01:40:39,600
Speaker 1: a lot about using him in the three technique and

2079
01:40:39,680 --> 01:40:41,360
Speaker 1: give him a chance just to try and play on

2080
01:40:41,400 --> 01:40:43,360
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the football. You know, get through

2081
01:40:43,439 --> 01:40:46,240
Speaker 1: into the backfield and wreak havoc that way, and that

2082
01:40:46,360 --> 01:40:49,160
Speaker 1: seems to be what. He played a lot on the

2083
01:40:49,240 --> 01:40:52,160
Speaker 1: nose at Houston, and everybody has just said, you know,

2084
01:40:52,280 --> 01:40:54,800
Speaker 1: Houston didn't use him the proper way, did you that

2085
01:40:54,840 --> 01:40:56,920
Speaker 1: what you saw? I would agree with that. I mean

2086
01:40:56,960 --> 01:40:59,280
Speaker 1: he played a lot of what we call zero technique,

2087
01:40:59,320 --> 01:41:01,760
Speaker 1: which means he would head up on the center, and

2088
01:41:01,880 --> 01:41:05,040
Speaker 1: he played that nose shade as well. I think ultimately

2089
01:41:05,880 --> 01:41:08,439
Speaker 1: he's a three technique. Now, Houston did a lot of slanting,

2090
01:41:08,479 --> 01:41:12,640
Speaker 1: which I obviously played to Oliver's high level athleticism, but

2091
01:41:12,800 --> 01:41:15,160
Speaker 1: I think in the NFL he's a three technique, meaning

2092
01:41:15,200 --> 01:41:17,240
Speaker 1: he's going to line up on the outside shade of

2093
01:41:17,280 --> 01:41:20,479
Speaker 1: the offensive guard and you want to let him be

2094
01:41:20,600 --> 01:41:25,840
Speaker 1: a penetrating player. Use that explosive quickness and athleticism and

2095
01:41:26,040 --> 01:41:29,080
Speaker 1: explosion off the ball. That's what he is and he

2096
01:41:29,200 --> 01:41:32,280
Speaker 1: can be I think a really disruptive player. Well. As

2097
01:41:32,280 --> 01:41:34,200
Speaker 1: the first round came to a close, the Buffalo Bills

2098
01:41:34,200 --> 01:41:36,120
Speaker 1: tried to get back into the end of the first

2099
01:41:36,200 --> 01:41:38,360
Speaker 1: round to get their second pick, Cody Ford, and the

2100
01:41:38,439 --> 01:41:41,120
Speaker 1: price was too high, and lo and behold, he fell

2101
01:41:41,240 --> 01:41:43,479
Speaker 1: down to almost to where they were at forty. They

2102
01:41:43,600 --> 01:41:47,320
Speaker 1: flip flopped with a trade and got Cody Ford, the

2103
01:41:47,360 --> 01:41:50,000
Speaker 1: tackle from Oklahoma at with the thirty eighth pick. What

2104
01:41:50,080 --> 01:41:52,599
Speaker 1: do you think about Cody Ford as a tackle, guard

2105
01:41:52,920 --> 01:41:55,519
Speaker 1: or whatever the Bills may use him as. Yeah, have

2106
01:41:55,600 --> 01:41:57,559
Speaker 1: they talked about how they see him in there at

2107
01:41:57,640 --> 01:42:00,599
Speaker 1: this point the right tackle. Yeah, they're gonna star him

2108
01:42:00,600 --> 01:42:02,760
Speaker 1: a tackle. I start using him at tackle to begin

2109
01:42:02,840 --> 01:42:06,240
Speaker 1: with with the understanding it that's what he played, That's

2110
01:42:06,280 --> 01:42:08,920
Speaker 1: what he played. I think he's a really strong right

2111
01:42:08,960 --> 01:42:12,040
Speaker 1: tackle prospect. He's got great upside to me as a

2112
01:42:12,080 --> 01:42:17,400
Speaker 1: punishing run blocker. He's a quality edge pass protector. You know.

2113
01:42:17,479 --> 01:42:20,160
Speaker 1: I think that he's he's a tempo setter on an

2114
01:42:20,200 --> 01:42:24,200
Speaker 1: offensive line. He's got a punishing attitude, he's competitive. I

2115
01:42:24,360 --> 01:42:26,439
Speaker 1: think he's a The more I watched him, and he

2116
01:42:26,560 --> 01:42:29,960
Speaker 1: required me to watch a lot, because the more I

2117
01:42:30,040 --> 01:42:32,559
Speaker 1: watched him, the more I thought that he had well

2118
01:42:32,680 --> 01:42:36,599
Speaker 1: above average athleticism. He was a good edge pass protector.

2119
01:42:36,960 --> 01:42:40,640
Speaker 1: I liked Cody for it a lot, and you know,

2120
01:42:40,720 --> 01:42:44,000
Speaker 1: I think ultimately that he's a tackle, and I have

2121
01:42:44,120 --> 01:42:46,200
Speaker 1: no problem with that at all. I think that's where

2122
01:42:46,280 --> 01:42:48,120
Speaker 1: he can play. He can line up on the outside

2123
01:42:48,400 --> 01:42:50,840
Speaker 1: with no problem. Not a lot of guys got around

2124
01:42:50,920 --> 01:42:54,960
Speaker 1: him on the edge. What traits differentiate a tackle prospect

2125
01:42:55,040 --> 01:42:59,040
Speaker 1: from a guard In your mind, great, well, I'll tackle

2126
01:42:59,560 --> 01:43:02,360
Speaker 1: more off and then not does not have help especially

2127
01:43:02,439 --> 01:43:05,600
Speaker 1: our versus in edge rush. You know, when you're playing inside,

2128
01:43:06,000 --> 01:43:08,840
Speaker 1: you've got people next to you, and it's a different

2129
01:43:08,960 --> 01:43:12,719
Speaker 1: game when you're on the outside. When you get challenged

2130
01:43:12,800 --> 01:43:16,520
Speaker 1: on the edge and stressed on the edge us by formation,

2131
01:43:16,600 --> 01:43:19,040
Speaker 1: there's a tight end there, or unless you're being helped

2132
01:43:19,120 --> 01:43:22,040
Speaker 1: by a back chipping, you're one on one. You have

2133
01:43:22,240 --> 01:43:25,559
Speaker 1: to prevent the edge from being taken by the pass rusher.

2134
01:43:25,960 --> 01:43:31,120
Speaker 1: So there's lateral movement, there's your hands and your feet

2135
01:43:31,200 --> 01:43:34,000
Speaker 1: have to work together, really, really well. One of the

2136
01:43:34,040 --> 01:43:36,840
Speaker 1: issues that a lot of tackle prospects have that come

2137
01:43:36,880 --> 01:43:39,080
Speaker 1: into the NFL, and they can get away with it

2138
01:43:39,160 --> 01:43:41,560
Speaker 1: in college, but they won't in the NFL is that

2139
01:43:41,680 --> 01:43:44,719
Speaker 1: they tend to lunge and over extend with their hands

2140
01:43:44,760 --> 01:43:48,479
Speaker 1: and their arms before their feet are in position. Hands

2141
01:43:48,560 --> 01:43:51,200
Speaker 1: and feet must work together. The mantra of a lot

2142
01:43:51,280 --> 01:43:54,680
Speaker 1: of old line coaches is feet before hands, and you

2143
01:43:54,760 --> 01:43:58,200
Speaker 1: can get away with hands before feet in college, but

2144
01:43:58,400 --> 01:44:00,880
Speaker 1: not in the NFL, which great go sell from NFL

2145
01:44:00,960 --> 01:44:03,120
Speaker 1: Matchup on ESPN. As we go through the Bills picks

2146
01:44:03,320 --> 01:44:06,200
Speaker 1: the third round pick seventy fourth overall. I guess it

2147
01:44:06,479 --> 01:44:08,400
Speaker 1: was a bit of a surprise both in that they

2148
01:44:08,479 --> 01:44:11,160
Speaker 1: chose a running back rag which didn't appear to be

2149
01:44:11,400 --> 01:44:14,120
Speaker 1: a position of need, and they went to you know,

2150
01:44:14,200 --> 01:44:16,880
Speaker 1: small school FAU to get Devin Singletary. What did you

2151
01:44:16,920 --> 01:44:20,280
Speaker 1: make of that pick? Yeah, I mean Singletary carried the

2152
01:44:20,320 --> 01:44:23,080
Speaker 1: ball over seven hundred times in his career, so he

2153
01:44:23,320 --> 01:44:28,160
Speaker 1: was a volume, workhorse back. I saw him as a

2154
01:44:28,200 --> 01:44:33,559
Speaker 1: complimentary back. He's a decisive, determined downhill runner. He's got

2155
01:44:33,760 --> 01:44:36,680
Speaker 1: very good contact balance, He's got really good elusiveness and

2156
01:44:36,800 --> 01:44:41,840
Speaker 1: change of direction. There's a playmaking dimension to his game. Now,

2157
01:44:42,000 --> 01:44:46,160
Speaker 1: he's not a even though he's determined and relentless, he's

2158
01:44:46,240 --> 01:44:51,360
Speaker 1: not powerful. There's a difference between physical and powerful. You

2159
01:44:51,479 --> 01:44:55,800
Speaker 1: can be physical without being powerful, So he's not powerful.

2160
01:44:57,200 --> 01:44:59,920
Speaker 1: You know. I think that he's got a smaller than

2161
01:45:00,120 --> 01:45:03,200
Speaker 1: desired lower body, So he's not going to be a

2162
01:45:03,240 --> 01:45:05,519
Speaker 1: back that you intend to give the ball to fifteen

2163
01:45:05,560 --> 01:45:07,880
Speaker 1: twenty times a game. But they're not going to do

2164
01:45:08,040 --> 01:45:11,160
Speaker 1: that right now. They have four backs. I'd be surprised

2165
01:45:11,200 --> 01:45:14,080
Speaker 1: if all four are on the opening day roster because

2166
01:45:14,080 --> 01:45:17,560
Speaker 1: they've got McCoy Gore yelled at and singletary one of

2167
01:45:17,600 --> 01:45:21,240
Speaker 1: those backs will not be on the roster. During the break,

2168
01:45:21,439 --> 01:45:23,200
Speaker 1: we talked to you and he said that one of

2169
01:45:23,240 --> 01:45:26,839
Speaker 1: the tight ends of the Bill's got Tyson Dawson Knox

2170
01:45:27,120 --> 01:45:29,920
Speaker 1: from Old Miss. You liked him a lot. Why is

2171
01:45:29,960 --> 01:45:33,000
Speaker 1: it that he stood out to you. I think he's

2172
01:45:33,040 --> 01:45:36,280
Speaker 1: a really intriguing prospect. You know, given that he didn't

2173
01:45:36,320 --> 01:45:38,200
Speaker 1: have many receptions, but he was also on an Old

2174
01:45:38,240 --> 01:45:42,040
Speaker 1: Miss team with a lot of receivers. I thought he

2175
01:45:42,120 --> 01:45:45,559
Speaker 1: showed excellent receiving traits. He's got speed, he's got movement

2176
01:45:45,640 --> 01:45:48,200
Speaker 1: to be effective at all three levels of the defense.

2177
01:45:48,720 --> 01:45:52,479
Speaker 1: He's clearly a plus athlete. He's got that strong tight

2178
01:45:52,600 --> 01:45:56,439
Speaker 1: end profile of size, speed, hands, run after catch. I

2179
01:45:56,560 --> 01:45:58,920
Speaker 1: think he can stress linebackers. I think he can stress

2180
01:45:59,000 --> 01:46:03,080
Speaker 1: safeties vertically. I think he's just scratching the surface. Steve.

2181
01:46:03,280 --> 01:46:05,519
Speaker 1: I think this guy has a chance to be a

2182
01:46:05,640 --> 01:46:09,120
Speaker 1: really good tight end. And as a blocker, he was competitive,

2183
01:46:09,200 --> 01:46:11,679
Speaker 1: He had a finishing mentality. You know, he didn't really

2184
01:46:11,760 --> 01:46:14,640
Speaker 1: line up on the line of scrimmage. But blocking, as

2185
01:46:14,680 --> 01:46:18,040
Speaker 1: you know, is about being competitive and battling. You can

2186
01:46:18,080 --> 01:46:21,320
Speaker 1: be taught technique as long as you're willing and tough

2187
01:46:21,439 --> 01:46:24,800
Speaker 1: and competitive, you can be taught the technique and the fundamentals.

2188
01:46:25,160 --> 01:46:30,879
Speaker 1: So you know, he was to me. He's not t J. Hockinson,

2189
01:46:30,920 --> 01:46:33,200
Speaker 1: So don't get me wrong, but I think he possesses

2190
01:46:33,240 --> 01:46:37,479
Speaker 1: a similar athletic and mentality profile as Hockinson and has

2191
01:46:37,720 --> 01:46:41,080
Speaker 1: all the necessary tools to eventually become, you know, a

2192
01:46:41,200 --> 01:46:43,680
Speaker 1: tight end one in the NFL. Not a ton of

2193
01:46:43,760 --> 01:46:45,800
Speaker 1: production from him at Old Misses at a function of

2194
01:46:46,280 --> 01:46:48,519
Speaker 1: all the other weapons they had there, would you think? Yeah?

2195
01:46:48,560 --> 01:46:50,160
Speaker 1: And I think you have to be careful about that.

2196
01:46:50,560 --> 01:46:53,439
Speaker 1: You know, George Kittle caught twenty passes in each of

2197
01:46:53,520 --> 01:46:55,960
Speaker 1: his final two seasons at Iowa, and we saw what

2198
01:46:56,040 --> 01:46:58,280
Speaker 1: he did this past year with the forty nine ers.

2199
01:46:58,320 --> 01:47:01,400
Speaker 1: So I think the production is a function of many,

2200
01:47:01,479 --> 01:47:04,559
Speaker 1: many things, none of which have to do with Knox's traits.

2201
01:47:05,760 --> 01:47:08,800
Speaker 1: With great gosal from es Men's NFL matchup the rest

2202
01:47:08,840 --> 01:47:12,840
Speaker 1: of the Bill's draft. Any thoughts on Vashan Joseph the

2203
01:47:12,920 --> 01:47:15,720
Speaker 1: linebacker Joan Johnson, Yeah, tell us about Bashan Joseph. What

2204
01:47:15,760 --> 01:47:19,560
Speaker 1: do you think? Joseph is a speed and range linebacker.

2205
01:47:19,640 --> 01:47:21,559
Speaker 1: He's sort of the new breed. I mean, he's about

2206
01:47:21,600 --> 01:47:24,040
Speaker 1: six one. I guess he came into the combine at

2207
01:47:24,040 --> 01:47:26,120
Speaker 1: two thirty. On tape, he looked like he weighed about

2208
01:47:26,120 --> 01:47:30,280
Speaker 1: two fifteen. He's got the build of his safety. You know.

2209
01:47:30,360 --> 01:47:33,760
Speaker 1: I think initially he's a special teams player. Maybe he's

2210
01:47:33,800 --> 01:47:36,360
Speaker 1: a sub linebacker, you know. I guess that would all

2211
01:47:36,400 --> 01:47:38,920
Speaker 1: depend on who else is there. I mean, Milano got

2212
01:47:39,000 --> 01:47:41,200
Speaker 1: hurt at the end of the season. Milano is their

2213
01:47:41,280 --> 01:47:44,320
Speaker 1: sub linebacker along with Edmonds. I don't think he's gonna

2214
01:47:44,320 --> 01:47:48,200
Speaker 1: beat Milano out if he's healthy, but I think his

2215
01:47:48,320 --> 01:47:51,720
Speaker 1: best opportunity for early playing time would be in a

2216
01:47:51,800 --> 01:47:55,360
Speaker 1: sub package. Whether that happens this year, Like I said,

2217
01:47:55,400 --> 01:47:58,720
Speaker 1: that remains to be seen. He'll he'll be, you know.

2218
01:47:58,840 --> 01:48:00,840
Speaker 1: My guess is a they'll try to make him a

2219
01:48:00,920 --> 01:48:04,760
Speaker 1: core special teams guy. He's an explosive athlete though. That's

2220
01:48:04,840 --> 01:48:08,479
Speaker 1: one thing that stands out. He's got great speed and range,

2221
01:48:08,640 --> 01:48:10,240
Speaker 1: and it speaks to this, to the fact that he

2222
01:48:10,320 --> 01:48:12,960
Speaker 1: can He'll probably be a special teams player covering kicks

2223
01:48:13,080 --> 01:48:15,479
Speaker 1: until he learns the ropes. But you're right, the Bills

2224
01:48:15,479 --> 01:48:17,519
Speaker 1: were a little bit light at the position, just in

2225
01:48:17,600 --> 01:48:21,000
Speaker 1: sheer numbers, so we thought they might grab a linebacker,

2226
01:48:21,080 --> 01:48:22,920
Speaker 1: and it makes sense that they would grab really a

2227
01:48:23,000 --> 01:48:26,920
Speaker 1: top flight athlete rather than an accomplished linebacker. You know, guys.

2228
01:48:27,000 --> 01:48:29,439
Speaker 1: The guy that that fascinated me, and this is what

2229
01:48:29,560 --> 01:48:31,680
Speaker 1: I love doing when I know nothing about players and

2230
01:48:31,760 --> 01:48:34,400
Speaker 1: it's virgin territory. Is when I watched the kid from

2231
01:48:34,439 --> 01:48:36,920
Speaker 1: North Carolina, A and T obviously a small school kid,

2232
01:48:37,400 --> 01:48:42,400
Speaker 1: but he's long, he's athletic. You know, I think that

2233
01:48:42,640 --> 01:48:45,920
Speaker 1: he's got that size length, he's got natural quickness to him.

2234
01:48:46,280 --> 01:48:48,439
Speaker 1: There are some concerns he has a tendency to play

2235
01:48:48,560 --> 01:48:51,760
Speaker 1: high that needs to be cleaned up, but the baseline

2236
01:48:51,760 --> 01:48:55,879
Speaker 1: traits are there for him to develop into an effective

2237
01:48:55,960 --> 01:48:58,240
Speaker 1: edge pass rusher. And I think it was a good

2238
01:48:58,479 --> 01:49:00,760
Speaker 1: look when you draft a guy what that the sixth round?

2239
01:49:00,880 --> 01:49:03,559
Speaker 1: Was it? Seventh round? First pick in seventh round? Yeah, look,

2240
01:49:03,800 --> 01:49:05,120
Speaker 1: we all know when you draft a guy in the

2241
01:49:05,160 --> 01:49:08,200
Speaker 1: seventh round, there's no expectation. I mean, let's be honest,

2242
01:49:08,520 --> 01:49:11,720
Speaker 1: but I think it was an intriguing pick given that

2243
01:49:11,840 --> 01:49:14,800
Speaker 1: they still need edge rushers and not that this guy's

2244
01:49:14,800 --> 01:49:16,840
Speaker 1: going to step in day one, you know, and be

2245
01:49:16,880 --> 01:49:19,200
Speaker 1: a great, great player. That's not my point, but the

2246
01:49:19,280 --> 01:49:23,760
Speaker 1: baseline traits are there for a developmental player. You could

2247
01:49:23,800 --> 01:49:25,680
Speaker 1: also be cut at the end of training camp. We

2248
01:49:25,840 --> 01:49:28,960
Speaker 1: know how that works with seventh round picks, but given

2249
01:49:29,080 --> 01:49:32,320
Speaker 1: what their needs are, I think it was an interesting pick.

2250
01:49:33,280 --> 01:49:35,120
Speaker 1: You know, Great, We've been talking about the Bills and

2251
01:49:35,200 --> 01:49:36,840
Speaker 1: you said that you kind of like what the Bills

2252
01:49:36,880 --> 01:49:38,920
Speaker 1: did with their picks and got some some players that

2253
01:49:38,960 --> 01:49:41,000
Speaker 1: you think are going to contribute. Did you look around

2254
01:49:41,040 --> 01:49:42,560
Speaker 1: the league? I don't know if you've done this. Have

2255
01:49:42,680 --> 01:49:45,719
Speaker 1: you have kind of stood up and looked around the league?

2256
01:49:45,800 --> 01:49:47,920
Speaker 1: Is there any team out there that, maybe I don't

2257
01:49:47,960 --> 01:49:49,320
Speaker 1: want to say had a bad rap, but makes you

2258
01:49:49,360 --> 01:49:51,200
Speaker 1: scratch your head, like you don't really see what their

2259
01:49:51,240 --> 01:49:53,040
Speaker 1: plan was or did they did some things that were

2260
01:49:53,080 --> 01:49:54,800
Speaker 1: unexpected to you? If is there a team like that

2261
01:49:54,920 --> 01:49:57,120
Speaker 1: out there? You know, Steve, it's funny. I don't really

2262
01:49:57,200 --> 01:49:59,040
Speaker 1: look at the teams, you know, because for me, the

2263
01:49:59,080 --> 01:50:01,120
Speaker 1: fun of this is a value waiting the players. So

2264
01:50:01,280 --> 01:50:03,640
Speaker 1: when the draft's over, I don't necessarily look at each

2265
01:50:03,680 --> 01:50:05,519
Speaker 1: team and say, oh, how what did I think of

2266
01:50:05,600 --> 01:50:08,760
Speaker 1: their drafts. So that's a hard question for me to answer. Um,

2267
01:50:09,520 --> 01:50:11,560
Speaker 1: you know, there's always picks I like because I like

2268
01:50:11,720 --> 01:50:14,680
Speaker 1: the players when I evaluated them. So you know that

2269
01:50:14,840 --> 01:50:18,720
Speaker 1: that's Look, everybody who's on TV, you know, whether it

2270
01:50:18,840 --> 01:50:22,320
Speaker 1: was ESPN or the NFL network, they're making their evaluations

2271
01:50:22,360 --> 01:50:26,600
Speaker 1: based on they're judging, you know, team's drafts based on

2272
01:50:27,000 --> 01:50:31,280
Speaker 1: their evaluation of the players without any knowledge whatsoever of

2273
01:50:31,360 --> 01:50:34,479
Speaker 1: what a team's draft board looks like. So you know,

2274
01:50:34,760 --> 01:50:38,640
Speaker 1: all we're doing is is talking about how we evaluated

2275
01:50:38,680 --> 01:50:43,200
Speaker 1: the players on tape, right, Greg, you know the names

2276
01:50:43,240 --> 01:50:45,439
Speaker 1: of the undrafted rookies that the Bills are involved with

2277
01:50:45,680 --> 01:50:47,599
Speaker 1: leaking out a little bit that won't make an official

2278
01:50:47,680 --> 01:50:49,760
Speaker 1: till they all pass their physicals, but we know that,

2279
01:50:49,840 --> 01:50:52,360
Speaker 1: you be, Buffalo quarterback Tyree Jackson is one of them

2280
01:50:52,400 --> 01:50:54,280
Speaker 1: coming to the Bills, and I thought the fact that

2281
01:50:54,320 --> 01:50:56,479
Speaker 1: he went undrafted and it's great that he signed with

2282
01:50:56,520 --> 01:50:59,000
Speaker 1: the Bills, but it's sort of indicative of how far

2283
01:50:59,080 --> 01:51:01,240
Speaker 1: he has to go, right, And you saw that when

2284
01:51:01,280 --> 01:51:03,479
Speaker 1: you looked at his tape. Tyree Jackson, Right, he's got

2285
01:51:03,720 --> 01:51:06,160
Speaker 1: he's got some ground to make up here, doesn't he? Yeah,

2286
01:51:06,200 --> 01:51:08,640
Speaker 1: And again to be honest with you, I was not

2287
01:51:08,840 --> 01:51:12,960
Speaker 1: surprised he went undrafted. Guys, you know, I think that

2288
01:51:13,960 --> 01:51:16,280
Speaker 1: when you watch him play, I mean there's a lot

2289
01:51:16,400 --> 01:51:19,800
Speaker 1: of moving parts in his delivery, there's a consistent lack

2290
01:51:19,880 --> 01:51:23,000
Speaker 1: of balance in you know, in his base. I mean,

2291
01:51:23,080 --> 01:51:25,640
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that need work. People just

2292
01:51:25,760 --> 01:51:28,200
Speaker 1: assumed because he was a big guy who could throw

2293
01:51:28,320 --> 01:51:31,200
Speaker 1: it with some strength in his arm, that he'd automatically

2294
01:51:31,240 --> 01:51:35,360
Speaker 1: be drafted. But I mean there was a lot about

2295
01:51:35,479 --> 01:51:38,800
Speaker 1: him that was problematic. He was very loose, very undisciplined

2296
01:51:38,840 --> 01:51:42,120
Speaker 1: as a player, just you know, there were things that

2297
01:51:42,400 --> 01:51:45,519
Speaker 1: that really needed to be worked on. And as I said,

2298
01:51:45,560 --> 01:51:47,720
Speaker 1: I was not surprised he was not drafted. No, give

2299
01:51:47,760 --> 01:51:49,080
Speaker 1: him a chance to work on it. I would think

2300
01:51:49,120 --> 01:51:51,280
Speaker 1: here right, anybody who knows how a summer his training

2301
01:51:51,320 --> 01:51:53,160
Speaker 1: camp works out, but this is not a bad situation

2302
01:51:53,240 --> 01:51:57,200
Speaker 1: for him to be in a familiar, comfortable setting here

2303
01:51:57,240 --> 01:51:59,360
Speaker 1: and get a chance to work on those aspects of

2304
01:51:59,439 --> 01:52:02,439
Speaker 1: his game. No, exactly. I mean that's you know, when

2305
01:52:02,479 --> 01:52:04,360
Speaker 1: you draft well, and he wasn't drafted, but when you

2306
01:52:04,400 --> 01:52:07,080
Speaker 1: bring in a guy like that, you're acknowledging that there's

2307
01:52:07,479 --> 01:52:10,080
Speaker 1: some things that you like about him, but there's a

2308
01:52:10,160 --> 01:52:14,120
Speaker 1: ways to go. And then that's Look, when guys don't

2309
01:52:14,160 --> 01:52:17,080
Speaker 1: get drafted, it's usually for a reason. And then he

2310
01:52:17,400 --> 01:52:20,080
Speaker 1: didn't get drafted for the reasons we discussed and one

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01:52:20,120 --> 01:52:22,200
Speaker 1: more undrafted? Did we ask you? We talked off the

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Speaker 1: ear about Devin Sills from West Virginia, but we didn't

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01:52:24,400 --> 01:52:26,160
Speaker 1: talk about him on the ear yet, have we no

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01:52:26,360 --> 01:52:29,120
Speaker 1: David Sills? You're right, he's got that great story. As

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01:52:29,160 --> 01:52:32,000
Speaker 1: a thirteen years old, he was offered a scholarship to

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01:52:32,160 --> 01:52:35,400
Speaker 1: USC by Lane Kiffin as a quarterback, and he's obviously

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01:52:35,479 --> 01:52:39,000
Speaker 1: made the transition to wide receiver. You know, it's funny

2318
01:52:39,240 --> 01:52:43,000
Speaker 1: because here was my final line in my transition when

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01:52:43,040 --> 01:52:46,160
Speaker 1: I finished watching Sills, I said, overall, Sills is not

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01:52:46,240 --> 01:52:49,000
Speaker 1: a high level athlete for the wide receiver position, and

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01:52:49,120 --> 01:52:52,719
Speaker 1: teams must decide of his other traits. Ball skills, contested

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01:52:52,800 --> 01:52:56,839
Speaker 1: catches can compensate and overcome that. So apparently they decided

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01:52:56,880 --> 01:52:58,840
Speaker 1: they couldn't overcome that. And he was and he's a

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01:52:58,880 --> 01:53:01,560
Speaker 1: free agent. Now that doesn't mean he can't make it.

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01:53:02,160 --> 01:53:05,599
Speaker 1: But he wasn't a particularly good rounde runner. He didn't

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01:53:05,640 --> 01:53:09,559
Speaker 1: really separate and win consistently versus man coverage, So now

2327
01:53:09,680 --> 01:53:12,360
Speaker 1: you have to decide what he is. Can he win

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01:53:12,479 --> 01:53:14,880
Speaker 1: over the top in the NFL. That's what he did

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01:53:14,920 --> 01:53:17,880
Speaker 1: a lot of in college, and teams obviously felt he

2330
01:53:18,080 --> 01:53:20,519
Speaker 1: wasn't a good enough vertical dimension to do that in

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01:53:20,600 --> 01:53:23,439
Speaker 1: the league, or he would have been drafted. So you

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01:53:23,600 --> 01:53:25,000
Speaker 1: just take the next couple of months off. Is that

2333
01:53:25,120 --> 01:53:28,840
Speaker 1: how it goes? Greg? No, I don't need that. I'll

2334
01:53:28,880 --> 01:53:31,519
Speaker 1: take some time off, but no, I'm not. I'm not

2335
01:53:31,560 --> 01:53:33,080
Speaker 1: going to be in the South of France with my

2336
01:53:33,160 --> 01:53:35,920
Speaker 1: feet up. Believe me, I knew that. I'm just teasing Greg.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for this. Good to talk to us, very very much,

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01:53:38,439 --> 01:53:42,360
Speaker 1: appreciate it, guys, great cosal executive producer analysts NFL Matchup

2339
01:53:42,400 --> 01:53:45,439
Speaker 1: on ESPN's a long time senior producer at NFL Films

2340
01:53:45,479 --> 01:53:47,639
Speaker 1: on the Bills, draft and the rest of the NFL.

2341
01:53:48,240 --> 01:53:50,439
Speaker 1: David Shills is interesting, Steve, we talked about him a

2342
01:53:50,479 --> 01:53:54,120
Speaker 1: little bit before, you know, the descriptions of them, the

2343
01:53:54,360 --> 01:53:56,479
Speaker 1: video of them that we've seen. You know, he reminds

2344
01:53:56,520 --> 01:53:59,320
Speaker 1: me of Brandon Riley who couldn't really catch on with

2345
01:53:59,400 --> 01:54:02,439
Speaker 1: the Bill Adam feeling. Oh well that's the upside. Yeah,

2346
01:54:02,760 --> 01:54:04,760
Speaker 1: that'd be the that would be what you would I

2347
01:54:04,760 --> 01:54:08,400
Speaker 1: would think that a guy like uh like Davis Sills

2348
01:54:09,080 --> 01:54:12,040
Speaker 1: would be in the running with a guy like the

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01:54:12,080 --> 01:54:14,120
Speaker 1: Bills have on the roster and Duke Williams. Those two,

2350
01:54:14,200 --> 01:54:17,320
Speaker 1: they're the big bodied guys. Both of them have pluses

2351
01:54:17,400 --> 01:54:19,680
Speaker 1: their game, minuses their game. It will be how they

2352
01:54:19,800 --> 01:54:22,160
Speaker 1: battle it out there the same type of receiver, a

2353
01:54:22,400 --> 01:54:26,280
Speaker 1: big bodied guy who lacks a vertical threat, but also

2354
01:54:26,360 --> 01:54:27,960
Speaker 1: has some other things in their toolbox that they can

2355
01:54:28,000 --> 01:54:30,000
Speaker 1: bring to the team. It'll be interesting to see those

2356
01:54:30,040 --> 01:54:32,280
Speaker 1: guys play. Steve and I have compiled a list of

2357
01:54:32,640 --> 01:54:35,960
Speaker 1: surprises from the draft, great picks from the draft who

2358
01:54:35,960 --> 01:54:38,080
Speaker 1: will have the most immediate impact. We'll get to some

2359
01:54:38,200 --> 01:54:40,280
Speaker 1: of that plus NFL True or False when we come

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01:54:40,320 --> 01:54:42,520
Speaker 1: back here on the show. Come on back, One Bill's Live,

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01:54:42,560 --> 01:54:44,640
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health from One Bill's Drive and this

2362
01:54:44,800 --> 01:55:01,680
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bill's Radio, John Murphy, Steve Tasker. The show

2363
01:55:01,840 --> 01:55:05,200
Speaker 1: is flying by today. Steve, I don't care what you say. Then,

2364
01:55:05,240 --> 01:55:08,360
Speaker 1: I won't say anything about that. No, here's we got

2365
01:55:08,440 --> 01:55:11,000
Speaker 1: so much content from the weekend. We're going through it all.

2366
01:55:11,040 --> 01:55:13,440
Speaker 1: We'll do more of it tomorrow. Chris Simms is going

2367
01:55:13,480 --> 01:55:15,640
Speaker 1: to join us on the show tomorrow from NBC Sports.

2368
01:55:15,880 --> 01:55:17,880
Speaker 1: He'll have draft content for us. Maybe we'll get another

2369
01:55:17,920 --> 01:55:20,080
Speaker 1: draft pick on the show tomorrow if we get lucky,

2370
01:55:20,400 --> 01:55:23,040
Speaker 1: and yeah, it's gonna be a good week. Yeah it is.

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01:55:23,080 --> 01:55:24,960
Speaker 1: We're gonna be busy. How would you grade the Bills

2372
01:55:24,960 --> 01:55:26,680
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen draft? What do you think? Give us a

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01:55:26,680 --> 01:55:29,280
Speaker 1: call eight oh three oh five fifty toll free from

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Speaker 1: outside Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty,

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01:55:33,000 --> 01:55:35,160
Speaker 1: or sending a tweet. We'll read it from the tweet sheet.

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01:55:35,400 --> 01:55:37,960
Speaker 1: Take a call from Dan and Youngstown. Hello, Dan, go ahead,

2377
01:55:37,960 --> 01:55:43,800
Speaker 1: you're on the air with us. Hey doing great good. Um,

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01:55:45,320 --> 01:55:49,200
Speaker 1: I love the draft. I had a couple of things. Um,

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01:55:49,400 --> 01:55:52,840
Speaker 1: that's Still's guy. Um. You had a caller earlier about

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01:55:52,920 --> 01:55:57,320
Speaker 1: him sivils. Yeah he makes it. Um that thirteen year

2381
01:55:57,320 --> 01:56:00,760
Speaker 1: old I got drafted by or he a drafted but

2382
01:56:00,840 --> 01:56:03,320
Speaker 1: he went to USC blah blah blah. Right. I hope

2383
01:56:03,360 --> 01:56:06,840
Speaker 1: we made it. Um. But the question I have is

2384
01:56:07,120 --> 01:56:14,800
Speaker 1: um the third rounder singletary? Um, I don't know. I

2385
01:56:14,880 --> 01:56:16,600
Speaker 1: wish they would have got the guy from Michigan, the

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01:56:17,200 --> 01:56:19,240
Speaker 1: defensive lineman, the guy in the long blond here. I

2387
01:56:19,320 --> 01:56:22,440
Speaker 1: forget what his name starts. For the wyep. Um, I

2388
01:56:22,520 --> 01:56:25,640
Speaker 1: wish you would have got I think they would have

2389
01:56:25,680 --> 01:56:29,240
Speaker 1: been better off there. But besides that, I love the

2390
01:56:29,360 --> 01:56:34,960
Speaker 1: draft and uh, what what you're thinking? Yes? Yeah, who

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01:56:35,040 --> 01:56:40,640
Speaker 1: went two picks after I'm sorry, three picks after Devin Singletary? Yes, yes,

2392
01:56:40,760 --> 01:56:42,960
Speaker 1: I think I thought we could have got him. Um,

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01:56:43,680 --> 01:56:47,880
Speaker 1: I mean, why do we haven't needed for another running

2394
01:56:47,880 --> 01:56:50,760
Speaker 1: back yet? I don't I don't know. I didn't understand that. Yeah,

2395
01:56:50,840 --> 01:56:53,080
Speaker 1: that's the question. We talked about it at length with

2396
01:56:53,400 --> 01:56:55,360
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean, which, by the way, you can catch on

2397
01:56:55,440 --> 01:56:59,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills dot com. Um, look, I again, Need, I

2398
01:56:59,240 --> 01:57:01,360
Speaker 1: don't think played a bigger role in this Bill's draft.

2399
01:57:01,520 --> 01:57:03,760
Speaker 1: Is the way the board lined up. I think that's

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01:57:03,800 --> 01:57:05,680
Speaker 1: why Singletary went where he did. I mean, if you're

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01:57:05,720 --> 01:57:07,960
Speaker 1: drafting for Need, you would have found a wide receiver

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01:57:08,040 --> 01:57:11,640
Speaker 1: there somewhere, and they, as Brandon being said, it never

2403
01:57:11,720 --> 01:57:15,040
Speaker 1: matched up. Yeah, they're looking at receivers, but they're down here,

2404
01:57:15,120 --> 01:57:16,880
Speaker 1: our boards up here at this point, and they didn't

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01:57:16,880 --> 01:57:18,600
Speaker 1: feel like reaching again them. You could probably say the

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01:57:18,640 --> 01:57:20,560
Speaker 1: same thing about any of those bigs. Yeah, And that's

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01:57:20,840 --> 01:57:22,600
Speaker 1: that's just the way it came down and I think,

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01:57:23,200 --> 01:57:27,720
Speaker 1: and I'm like you, I really admire the Bills Brandon being,

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01:57:27,800 --> 01:57:33,400
Speaker 1: in particular his ability to stay disciplined and what they

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01:57:33,480 --> 01:57:36,280
Speaker 1: wanted to do. In the lead up to the draft,

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01:57:36,360 --> 01:57:39,600
Speaker 1: they talked through every scenario and they tell themselves over

2412
01:57:39,680 --> 01:57:41,760
Speaker 1: and over like, listen, let's stay with let's stay in

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01:57:41,800 --> 01:57:44,120
Speaker 1: our lane. Make sure we don't reach on anybody, because

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01:57:44,400 --> 01:57:46,440
Speaker 1: let's face it, when you tend, you reach on somebody,

2415
01:57:46,960 --> 01:57:50,840
Speaker 1: and odds are it's not gonna work. You gave the

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01:57:50,880 --> 01:57:52,360
Speaker 1: guy a chance, and you got a player that was

2417
01:57:52,440 --> 01:57:54,480
Speaker 1: maybe at a need that you had, but he's just

2418
01:57:54,600 --> 01:57:56,960
Speaker 1: not good enough to go where you thought. So the

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01:57:57,080 --> 01:57:59,440
Speaker 1: Bills did it. They stayed very disciplined. They did not

2420
01:57:59,600 --> 01:58:01,880
Speaker 1: step outside the bounds. And I guess here's the thing

2421
01:58:02,480 --> 01:58:04,880
Speaker 1: when you look back at it, that's maybe what you're

2422
01:58:04,920 --> 01:58:07,520
Speaker 1: afraid of if you do stay within your board. Did

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01:58:07,560 --> 01:58:09,400
Speaker 1: you go through the draft and well, we didn't even

2424
01:58:09,440 --> 01:58:11,680
Speaker 1: get a wide receiver we thought we might need one.

2425
01:58:11,720 --> 01:58:13,640
Speaker 1: We've still got a need, We've got enough guys, but

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01:58:13,880 --> 01:58:15,920
Speaker 1: you know, we'd like to upgrade there, but there was

2427
01:58:15,960 --> 01:58:18,200
Speaker 1: just nobody there to take. So you run the risk

2428
01:58:18,680 --> 01:58:21,480
Speaker 1: of going through a whole three day draft and never

2429
01:58:21,640 --> 01:58:24,360
Speaker 1: picking one of the positions that you thought you had

2430
01:58:24,400 --> 01:58:26,040
Speaker 1: a need to get. So which is why when the

2431
01:58:26,120 --> 01:58:28,480
Speaker 1: draft end, you go out and signed David Still. That's right,

2432
01:58:28,520 --> 01:58:30,400
Speaker 1: you sign you sign a couple of guys to do that.

2433
01:58:30,520 --> 01:58:33,800
Speaker 1: So that's but that's the risk you run. But theoretically,

2434
01:58:34,040 --> 01:58:37,840
Speaker 1: and if and if it's a perfect world, the guys

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01:58:37,880 --> 01:58:39,680
Speaker 1: you take instead of those receivers and one of the

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01:58:39,760 --> 01:58:41,360
Speaker 1: tight ends, maybe two of the tight ends, and the

2437
01:58:41,400 --> 01:58:43,880
Speaker 1: safety and the linebacker, they make the team because they're

2438
01:58:43,920 --> 01:58:46,760
Speaker 1: better football players. Actual a call, one more call before

2439
01:58:46,760 --> 01:58:48,760
Speaker 1: we get to our thing here, Steve. This one comes

2440
01:58:48,840 --> 01:58:51,160
Speaker 1: from Corey in Tonawanda High. Corey, you go ahead, you're

2441
01:58:51,200 --> 01:58:54,680
Speaker 1: on the air with us. Good after tasker, mister Murphy,

2442
01:58:55,400 --> 01:58:58,960
Speaker 1: quick question and I'll be gone. We have four running

2443
01:58:59,000 --> 01:59:02,040
Speaker 1: backs right now, and all the running backs that we

2444
01:59:02,120 --> 01:59:04,400
Speaker 1: have are really great. But is there a possibility that

2445
01:59:05,160 --> 01:59:08,200
Speaker 1: Shady McCoy maybe the odd man out? I think it

2446
01:59:08,200 --> 01:59:10,040
Speaker 1: would probably be the way. There's more than four? Can

2447
01:59:10,080 --> 01:59:13,000
Speaker 1: I just throw that in there? McCoy, Gore, Keith Ford,

2448
01:59:13,080 --> 01:59:17,040
Speaker 1: Marcus Murphy, Sonaris Perry, TJ. Yelden, and of course, uh,

2449
01:59:17,800 --> 01:59:21,200
Speaker 1: you know the guy drafted on Friday night, right, singletary. Yeah,

2450
01:59:21,240 --> 01:59:23,400
Speaker 1: so that's seven. There's seven running backs on the round. Yeah,

2451
01:59:23,400 --> 01:59:25,680
Speaker 1: they've got a bunch of them, yelled a Christian Wade

2452
01:59:25,800 --> 01:59:28,200
Speaker 1: is on the on the didn't include him. You're right,

2453
01:59:28,320 --> 01:59:30,240
Speaker 1: So they've they've got a lot of guys. I think

2454
01:59:30,280 --> 01:59:33,040
Speaker 1: if you're looking at the top, there's gonna they'll keep three,

2455
01:59:33,560 --> 01:59:39,560
Speaker 1: probably four running backs, maybe three full back in uh

2456
01:59:40,160 --> 01:59:45,720
Speaker 1: DeMarco and yeah, Patrick DeMarco and that may be in.

2457
01:59:45,800 --> 01:59:48,440
Speaker 1: They might keep four, uh and keep go with five

2458
01:59:48,520 --> 01:59:50,880
Speaker 1: and then you know, activate three on game day. But

2459
01:59:50,960 --> 01:59:53,280
Speaker 1: they'll probably have five on the roster, maybe one or

2460
01:59:53,320 --> 01:59:55,720
Speaker 1: two on the practice squad as well. So there's gonna

2461
01:59:55,720 --> 01:59:58,400
Speaker 1: be enough guys around. And um, I think if you're

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01:59:58,400 --> 02:00:00,960
Speaker 1: looking for somebody who's gonna struggle make it, I don't

2463
02:00:01,000 --> 02:00:04,960
Speaker 1: know that Lashaw McCoy's where i'd start, right, They said Friday,

2464
02:00:05,080 --> 02:00:08,680
Speaker 1: you're set. When when was it Friday night? They said?

2465
02:00:08,800 --> 02:00:10,800
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean said he's our starting running back and we'd

2466
02:00:10,840 --> 02:00:13,240
Speaker 1: line up and play tomorrow. He's the starter. So I

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02:00:13,280 --> 02:00:16,640
Speaker 1: wouldn't think, Um, I wouldn't like Steve just said, I

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02:00:16,640 --> 02:00:18,880
Speaker 1: wouldn't look for him to be the one that's left

2469
02:00:18,920 --> 02:00:21,560
Speaker 1: off the list. I lied one more call Gary on

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Speaker 1: a cell phone. Hello, Gary, go ahead, you're running here?

2471
02:00:23,960 --> 02:00:34,280
Speaker 1: Hey guys? Good? Uh? What right? Yea glad I can't

2472
02:00:34,320 --> 02:00:36,480
Speaker 1: hear him. Yeah, three four months to seat? Yeah, go ahead?

2473
02:00:36,520 --> 02:00:42,760
Speaker 1: Can you speak up? Gary? Go ahead? We don't we

2474
02:00:42,840 --> 02:00:46,640
Speaker 1: could get a receiver plade or something. That boy act

2475
02:00:46,720 --> 02:00:49,400
Speaker 1: like we can't find anybody else to make its way.

2476
02:00:50,440 --> 02:00:52,600
Speaker 1: Like you guy said there there was nobody there at

2477
02:00:52,640 --> 02:00:54,440
Speaker 1: the pick that was great and higher than the other

2478
02:00:54,480 --> 02:00:57,000
Speaker 1: players was rated. I give him a pep spot. They

2479
02:00:57,040 --> 02:01:02,000
Speaker 1: did great. Okay, okay. I think one of the things

2480
02:01:02,080 --> 02:01:05,240
Speaker 1: he said that there's gonna be some good players available

2481
02:01:05,280 --> 02:01:06,600
Speaker 1: at the end of this training camp, at the end

2482
02:01:06,600 --> 02:01:09,440
Speaker 1: of this postseason, as are a preseason as well, so

2483
02:01:09,800 --> 02:01:11,720
Speaker 1: you might you're always going to keep your ear to

2484
02:01:11,800 --> 02:01:16,480
Speaker 1: the ground for that and listen. If this wide receiving

2485
02:01:16,560 --> 02:01:20,320
Speaker 1: corps doesn't work out and some of these other players

2486
02:01:20,400 --> 02:01:26,520
Speaker 1: become available, I don't they want a chance to play.

2487
02:01:26,760 --> 02:01:28,480
Speaker 1: This would be the place where you go, right, I mean,

2488
02:01:28,520 --> 02:01:30,440
Speaker 1: this is a place where they're looking for wide receivers.

2489
02:01:30,480 --> 02:01:32,560
Speaker 1: This isn't like you're gonna go to the Atlanta Falcons

2490
02:01:32,600 --> 02:01:34,160
Speaker 1: and want to be their number one receiver. It's not

2491
02:01:34,160 --> 02:01:37,400
Speaker 1: gonna happen because they got Julio Jones. Same thing in Cincinnati,

2492
02:01:37,440 --> 02:01:39,640
Speaker 1: the same thing in Houston with DeAndre Hopkins, same thing

2493
02:01:40,040 --> 02:01:44,240
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis. They've got t Y Hilton. So they've got

2494
02:01:44,440 --> 02:01:46,760
Speaker 1: you know, there's these teams that have those guys out there.

2495
02:01:48,120 --> 02:01:50,720
Speaker 1: When good players at the end of training camp and

2496
02:01:50,760 --> 02:01:53,640
Speaker 1: the end of the preseason become available, they're gonna look

2497
02:01:53,680 --> 02:01:56,280
Speaker 1: for spots to land, and the Bills will be enticing

2498
02:01:56,320 --> 02:01:58,240
Speaker 1: for that reason, a young quarterback. They're gonna start throwing

2499
02:01:58,240 --> 02:02:00,400
Speaker 1: the football. They've upgraded their offensive line, They've done a

2500
02:02:00,440 --> 02:02:02,520
Speaker 1: lot of really good things, and they'll have another solid

2501
02:02:02,600 --> 02:02:06,680
Speaker 1: defense this year. So yeah, they there's no question that

2502
02:02:07,440 --> 02:02:10,040
Speaker 1: one of the receivers that may be on the roster

2503
02:02:10,160 --> 02:02:12,680
Speaker 1: for the Bills to start as an active wide receiver

2504
02:02:12,800 --> 02:02:17,040
Speaker 1: may not be on the roster until late August. Okay, Hey,

2505
02:02:17,080 --> 02:02:20,840
Speaker 1: a couple of questions. A couple of questions seem as

2506
02:02:20,880 --> 02:02:23,360
Speaker 1: we recap the draft. What was Stephen? I got three

2507
02:02:23,400 --> 02:02:25,360
Speaker 1: or four questions we want to pose to each other

2508
02:02:25,760 --> 02:02:30,040
Speaker 1: the biggest surprise of this Bill's draft? What do you

2509
02:02:30,120 --> 02:02:34,480
Speaker 1: think me? First? I can go first? Go ahead, you

2510
02:02:34,520 --> 02:02:37,280
Speaker 1: go first, I go first. It was drafting a Singletary

2511
02:02:37,360 --> 02:02:39,760
Speaker 1: in the third round. Didn't see it coming. I agree

2512
02:02:39,880 --> 02:02:41,760
Speaker 1: with what did I just counting him up seven or

2513
02:02:41,760 --> 02:02:44,160
Speaker 1: eight running backs on the seven on the roster already

2514
02:02:45,000 --> 02:02:48,040
Speaker 1: an addition a couple of additions through free agency. Yeldon

2515
02:02:48,080 --> 02:02:52,160
Speaker 1: and Frank Gore didn't see it as a need. I

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02:02:52,320 --> 02:02:56,920
Speaker 1: get Devin Singletary, appreciate his college production, all those touchdowns,

2517
02:02:57,000 --> 02:02:59,040
Speaker 1: and people seem to like him as a prospect. But

2518
02:02:59,160 --> 02:03:01,720
Speaker 1: that surprised me when that happened on the Friday night. Well,

2519
02:03:01,840 --> 02:03:03,560
Speaker 1: the thing that surprised me was the same thing that

2520
02:03:03,560 --> 02:03:05,520
Speaker 1: we've been talking about that they didn't even get a

2521
02:03:05,640 --> 02:03:09,720
Speaker 1: single wide receiver in this draft. It just fell in

2522
02:03:09,880 --> 02:03:12,280
Speaker 1: such a way they didn't want to reach for one.

2523
02:03:12,800 --> 02:03:15,280
Speaker 1: Uh And when they every time their pick came around

2524
02:03:15,600 --> 02:03:17,720
Speaker 1: at every number you can you can pick or you

2525
02:03:17,800 --> 02:03:20,040
Speaker 1: can think of, it just wasn't time to pick one.

2526
02:03:20,080 --> 02:03:22,680
Speaker 1: There wasn't the one that warranted that pick, and they

2527
02:03:22,760 --> 02:03:25,200
Speaker 1: stayed disciplined. So I think that's the thing that surprised me.

2528
02:03:26,680 --> 02:03:28,840
Speaker 1: After the first two, the number nine and the thirty

2529
02:03:28,840 --> 02:03:30,880
Speaker 1: eight pick, it was a forty to begin with. You

2530
02:03:30,960 --> 02:03:32,680
Speaker 1: can you can kind of knew they had those knees,

2531
02:03:32,680 --> 02:03:34,760
Speaker 1: and they took care of it. But then seventy four,

2532
02:03:34,960 --> 02:03:38,000
Speaker 1: ninety six, seven eighty one, none of those picks had

2533
02:03:38,000 --> 02:03:39,680
Speaker 1: a wide receiver at the top, and in fact, they

2534
02:03:39,720 --> 02:03:42,760
Speaker 1: took a safety on a team where they've got two

2535
02:03:42,840 --> 02:03:47,480
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl caliber safeties already on the roster. It says

2536
02:03:47,520 --> 02:03:50,240
Speaker 1: something about the receivers in this draft as well, But

2537
02:03:50,440 --> 02:03:53,160
Speaker 1: I think that's surprising that none of them were good

2538
02:03:53,280 --> 02:03:55,360
Speaker 1: enough at a point when the Bills picked to warrant

2539
02:03:55,360 --> 02:03:57,560
Speaker 1: the pick, warn't them taking him. Question number two, what

2540
02:03:57,960 --> 02:04:01,760
Speaker 1: was the best pick on Day three Saturday for the Bills?

2541
02:04:01,920 --> 02:04:04,600
Speaker 1: Best Day three pick for the Bills Saturday picks? They

2542
02:04:04,680 --> 02:04:06,880
Speaker 1: had four of them on Saturday. You wanna go first,

2543
02:04:06,960 --> 02:04:08,720
Speaker 1: you want me to go first, I can go first.

2544
02:04:08,720 --> 02:04:12,080
Speaker 1: So I think it was Tommy Tommy Sweeney. Um, he's

2545
02:04:12,400 --> 02:04:14,560
Speaker 1: got the right kind. It is the last guy they picked.

2546
02:04:15,400 --> 02:04:19,640
Speaker 1: H He's a second tight end, and to me, he's

2547
02:04:20,600 --> 02:04:25,440
Speaker 1: he's not gonna He's just the right type of tight

2548
02:04:25,600 --> 02:04:28,360
Speaker 1: end to come in and make the ball club. He's

2549
02:04:28,400 --> 02:04:30,240
Speaker 1: gonna give somebody a run for their money. I think

2550
02:04:30,280 --> 02:04:32,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna see him stick around if he doesn't make

2551
02:04:32,080 --> 02:04:33,720
Speaker 1: the fifty three men roster. I think he does make

2552
02:04:33,760 --> 02:04:36,400
Speaker 1: the practice squad because he's the right type of guy.

2553
02:04:36,800 --> 02:04:41,120
Speaker 1: He blocks a little bit, catches a little bit, good routes, uh,

2554
02:04:41,280 --> 02:04:43,680
Speaker 1: he can flex out a little bit. He's just a

2555
02:04:43,880 --> 02:04:46,480
Speaker 1: kind of one of those all around tight ends. Does

2556
02:04:46,560 --> 02:04:48,840
Speaker 1: everything pretty good. And I think the fact that he's

2557
02:04:48,840 --> 02:04:50,560
Speaker 1: the last guy they picked two hundred and twenty eighth

2558
02:04:50,600 --> 02:04:53,200
Speaker 1: overall would make him a big surprise to do that.

2559
02:04:53,480 --> 02:04:55,560
Speaker 1: But I think he has a chance to um best

2560
02:04:55,680 --> 02:04:57,920
Speaker 1: Day three pick for the Bills. You took mine, so

2561
02:04:58,040 --> 02:05:01,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. Yeah, I'm gonna go with Vashon Joseph,

2562
02:05:02,040 --> 02:05:04,960
Speaker 1: the linebacker they got, and there's a lot of good

2563
02:05:05,000 --> 02:05:07,480
Speaker 1: things that great KOs Help just said about him. Look,

2564
02:05:07,520 --> 02:05:11,600
Speaker 1: he's undersized, I get that, But in a specialized role, um,

2565
02:05:11,840 --> 02:05:14,520
Speaker 1: I think Vashon Joseph might be a guy the guy

2566
02:05:14,600 --> 02:05:16,560
Speaker 1: from Florida might be a guy who finds a role

2567
02:05:16,600 --> 02:05:19,120
Speaker 1: on special teams initially and and can come out and

2568
02:05:19,560 --> 02:05:21,600
Speaker 1: maybe be a player, you know, maybe a challenge for

2569
02:05:21,680 --> 02:05:23,680
Speaker 1: his more playing time. So I'd go with him special

2570
02:05:23,720 --> 02:05:25,480
Speaker 1: teams with a key for him. All Right, how about this?

2571
02:05:25,720 --> 02:05:29,000
Speaker 1: Which player will have the most immediate impact you go first.

2572
02:05:29,000 --> 02:05:30,360
Speaker 1: I want to see if you pick my guy again.

2573
02:05:30,800 --> 02:05:33,280
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know who's gonna have the media impacts?

2574
02:05:33,480 --> 02:05:35,640
Speaker 1: Ed Oliver. I think he's gonna be a train wrecker,

2575
02:05:36,160 --> 02:05:38,360
Speaker 1: a game wrecker for for this defense. I think he's

2576
02:05:38,360 --> 02:05:41,920
Speaker 1: gonna he's gonna raise the level of intensity up front.

2577
02:05:42,160 --> 02:05:45,320
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna do wonders for Starlotu Lelay, who

2578
02:05:45,600 --> 02:05:48,160
Speaker 1: who had a very productive and quality season last year,

2579
02:05:48,200 --> 02:05:51,720
Speaker 1: because you know, his job is to soak up blockers

2580
02:05:51,760 --> 02:05:53,560
Speaker 1: and let guys run to the football. He did a

2581
02:05:53,640 --> 02:05:55,960
Speaker 1: really nice job of that. I think ed Oliver is

2582
02:05:56,000 --> 02:05:57,920
Speaker 1: going to change a lot of things up front, not

2583
02:05:58,120 --> 02:06:01,720
Speaker 1: just for him elf, not that he's gonna make some plays,

2584
02:06:01,800 --> 02:06:04,200
Speaker 1: but I think other players are going to benefit from

2585
02:06:04,280 --> 02:06:07,880
Speaker 1: his effort level, his explosion at the front, and his

2586
02:06:08,000 --> 02:06:10,120
Speaker 1: penetration on the defensive line. So I think it's at

2587
02:06:10,120 --> 02:06:11,920
Speaker 1: all of them, all right, who will have the most

2588
02:06:11,960 --> 02:06:13,840
Speaker 1: immediate impact. I'll go with the number two. Then I'll

2589
02:06:13,840 --> 02:06:15,800
Speaker 1: go with Cody Ford, who I think is going to

2590
02:06:15,840 --> 02:06:17,600
Speaker 1: step in and play. They got him already penciled in

2591
02:06:17,680 --> 02:06:20,200
Speaker 1: the lineup at right tackle, and I think he'll probably

2592
02:06:20,200 --> 02:06:22,000
Speaker 1: wind up staying there as a matter of fact, I

2593
02:06:22,080 --> 02:06:25,640
Speaker 1: think we talked to him today. Seems smart, he seems

2594
02:06:26,160 --> 02:06:28,320
Speaker 1: Brandon me was talking about how intense he is, how

2595
02:06:28,800 --> 02:06:31,360
Speaker 1: you know, don't be confused by his mild mannered conversation.

2596
02:06:31,440 --> 02:06:34,120
Speaker 1: He is very intense. So he's on a great offensive

2597
02:06:34,160 --> 02:06:36,880
Speaker 1: line in Oklahoma that had great success. I think Cody

2598
02:06:36,920 --> 02:06:38,520
Speaker 1: Ford will step in and be a starter and hopefully

2599
02:06:38,560 --> 02:06:41,600
Speaker 1: a long term starter for the Buffalo Bills. Which here's

2600
02:06:41,640 --> 02:06:44,560
Speaker 1: the last of these questions. Which position group is most

2601
02:06:44,640 --> 02:06:48,600
Speaker 1: improved by the draft for the Bill Steve I go first, Yeah,

2602
02:06:48,800 --> 02:06:51,440
Speaker 1: tight end. Tight end, and they got a couple of them,

2603
02:06:51,720 --> 02:06:55,240
Speaker 1: obviously the third rounder and the seventh rounder. But they

2604
02:06:55,480 --> 02:06:57,240
Speaker 1: went into the draft, which is three tight ends on

2605
02:06:57,280 --> 02:07:00,600
Speaker 1: the roster, Tyler Craft, Jason Crewm and Fisher the conversion

2606
02:07:00,640 --> 02:07:03,880
Speaker 1: project from offensive line, I think they got two. I

2607
02:07:03,960 --> 02:07:05,880
Speaker 1: think Dawson Knox has a chance to be a major

2608
02:07:05,960 --> 02:07:08,640
Speaker 1: contributor in his first year. The old miss tight end

2609
02:07:08,680 --> 02:07:10,680
Speaker 1: who came to the Bills late in round three. And

2610
02:07:10,760 --> 02:07:12,880
Speaker 1: you talked about Tommy Sweeney, a guy who's you know,

2611
02:07:12,920 --> 02:07:15,000
Speaker 1: played at a pretty high level of BC. I think

2612
02:07:15,040 --> 02:07:17,000
Speaker 1: tight end is the most improved position for the Bills

2613
02:07:17,040 --> 02:07:18,720
Speaker 1: after the draft. Do I have to pick something different

2614
02:07:18,800 --> 02:07:21,840
Speaker 1: or can I just rubber stamp you can think you

2615
02:07:21,880 --> 02:07:23,520
Speaker 1: know I'm right? Yeah, I think you are right in

2616
02:07:23,640 --> 02:07:26,440
Speaker 1: this case. I think those two guys are gonna be

2617
02:07:27,120 --> 02:07:30,879
Speaker 1: just the right mix of you know, grit and polish

2618
02:07:31,320 --> 02:07:34,240
Speaker 1: to you know, to help that that crew. I think

2619
02:07:34,720 --> 02:07:38,160
Speaker 1: um Knox is gonna be big and physical enough to

2620
02:07:38,200 --> 02:07:41,600
Speaker 1: stay down inside and push people around in the run game. Uh.

2621
02:07:41,680 --> 02:07:43,440
Speaker 1: And I think that's a big plus for him. And

2622
02:07:43,480 --> 02:07:45,680
Speaker 1: I think both those guys have enough in both sides

2623
02:07:45,720 --> 02:07:49,240
Speaker 1: of the tight end equation to cause some problems, some

2624
02:07:49,360 --> 02:07:51,080
Speaker 1: some matchup problems, and might give him a chance to

2625
02:07:51,120 --> 02:07:52,840
Speaker 1: go to tight ends a little more often this year.

2626
02:07:52,880 --> 02:07:54,800
Speaker 1: A little bit of draft recap from us? How about

2627
02:07:54,840 --> 02:07:56,920
Speaker 1: from you Alvin and the Bronx. Hello Alvin, go ahand

2628
02:07:56,920 --> 02:07:59,280
Speaker 1: you're on the air with this. Hey are you doing?

2629
02:07:59,320 --> 02:08:01,400
Speaker 1: God's get off the how's other things good? How are

2630
02:08:01,400 --> 02:08:04,640
Speaker 1: you doing? Actually? I'm excited. I think they did well.

2631
02:08:04,720 --> 02:08:08,680
Speaker 1: And most importantly, if anything, I've benna die for with

2632
02:08:08,720 --> 02:08:10,760
Speaker 1: twenty years, and I'll tell you one thing, I've never

2633
02:08:10,840 --> 02:08:13,320
Speaker 1: been more excited, if anything, Even though we were second

2634
02:08:13,360 --> 02:08:15,680
Speaker 1: guessing this while receiver, while we can get a selection,

2635
02:08:16,000 --> 02:08:18,200
Speaker 1: if anything. We just trust being the guy has shown

2636
02:08:18,720 --> 02:08:21,360
Speaker 1: and it's two drafts they's been worth and his three

2637
02:08:21,480 --> 02:08:23,200
Speaker 1: drafts like he's doing with us too, they're gonna do

2638
02:08:23,280 --> 02:08:26,440
Speaker 1: everything possible to hope this team wins. Yeah, I listen,

2639
02:08:26,520 --> 02:08:28,520
Speaker 1: I'm on board with that. I think Brandon Bean, and

2640
02:08:28,600 --> 02:08:32,360
Speaker 1: not just the drafts, his overall roster building has been methodical.

2641
02:08:32,720 --> 02:08:36,080
Speaker 1: It's been smart, it's been m not afraid to take

2642
02:08:36,200 --> 02:08:38,880
Speaker 1: risks and be bold at times. And I don't think

2643
02:08:38,920 --> 02:08:41,520
Speaker 1: they were particularly bold this past weekend, but that's okay.

2644
02:08:41,600 --> 02:08:43,800
Speaker 1: They had a plan, they stayed with the plane. So yeah,

2645
02:08:43,840 --> 02:08:46,120
Speaker 1: I get the confidence of people that having Brandon Bean.

2646
02:08:46,240 --> 02:08:47,840
Speaker 1: I agree, And I think the thing about it too

2647
02:08:48,440 --> 02:08:50,600
Speaker 1: is and Alvin you brought it up. He does make

2648
02:08:50,640 --> 02:08:53,200
Speaker 1: some bold moves, but he also he checks out the

2649
02:08:53,240 --> 02:08:55,360
Speaker 1: moves he wants to make, and if they're too pricey,

2650
02:08:55,480 --> 02:08:57,960
Speaker 1: like the one this Cody Ford, they were gonna trade

2651
02:08:58,040 --> 02:08:59,320
Speaker 1: up into the first round to get him. It was

2652
02:08:59,360 --> 02:09:02,000
Speaker 1: too pricey. They waited and then did move up only

2653
02:09:02,080 --> 02:09:04,200
Speaker 1: two slots in the second round to get him. So

2654
02:09:04,560 --> 02:09:07,880
Speaker 1: they stayed on top of it every moment throughout those

2655
02:09:07,920 --> 02:09:09,720
Speaker 1: first couple of rounds of the draft. Well, all seven

2656
02:09:09,840 --> 02:09:12,600
Speaker 1: rounds of the draft, they were really on every move

2657
02:09:13,320 --> 02:09:17,480
Speaker 1: and when it came time to pull the trigger, they

2658
02:09:17,600 --> 02:09:19,800
Speaker 1: did trade two fourth rounders to get up into the

2659
02:09:19,920 --> 02:09:22,120
Speaker 1: third and it paid off for him and getting the

2660
02:09:22,160 --> 02:09:23,560
Speaker 1: guy they want. So I like the fact that they

2661
02:09:23,600 --> 02:09:25,840
Speaker 1: have guys targeted that they like and they have the

2662
02:09:25,880 --> 02:09:28,360
Speaker 1: wherewithal to be patient enough yet still make sure they

2663
02:09:28,400 --> 02:09:30,880
Speaker 1: get him. I agree with you, Alvin. I think Brandon

2664
02:09:30,960 --> 02:09:33,200
Speaker 1: Bean deserves a lot of kudos for the way he's

2665
02:09:33,200 --> 02:09:35,960
Speaker 1: handled both the last year's draft and this one. All Right,

2666
02:09:36,080 --> 02:09:37,480
Speaker 1: draft talk a lot of it, and we've got a

2667
02:09:37,480 --> 02:09:39,360
Speaker 1: little more to come. Come on back. One Bill's Live,

2668
02:09:39,440 --> 02:09:42,040
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health from One Bill's Drive. This is

2669
02:09:42,120 --> 02:09:58,520
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. So what do we learn from today's show.

2670
02:09:58,560 --> 02:10:01,600
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02:10:01,640 --> 02:10:04,440
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02:10:04,920 --> 02:10:07,280
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2673
02:10:07,320 --> 02:10:09,800
Speaker 1: What have we learned? Brandon Bean was here in studio.

2674
02:10:10,720 --> 02:10:13,120
Speaker 1: We asked him the question everybody's asking, why no wide

2675
02:10:13,160 --> 02:10:16,880
Speaker 1: receiver in this year's draft. Here's what he said. There

2676
02:10:16,960 --> 02:10:18,840
Speaker 1: was enough guys that people didn't think there was the

2677
02:10:18,960 --> 02:10:23,160
Speaker 1: drop off like certain positions. If you want to get

2678
02:10:23,200 --> 02:10:26,000
Speaker 1: a three tech like Ed, there is a drop off

2679
02:10:26,000 --> 02:10:28,760
Speaker 1: after so many I felt that, and I feel like

2680
02:10:28,840 --> 02:10:31,839
Speaker 1: others did that there was depth in the draft at receiver,

2681
02:10:32,400 --> 02:10:34,720
Speaker 1: but that maybe you could get a guy in the

2682
02:10:34,840 --> 02:10:37,760
Speaker 1: fourth round that wasn't a huge difference from a guy

2683
02:10:37,960 --> 02:10:40,240
Speaker 1: in you know, top of three or late two. And

2684
02:10:40,440 --> 02:10:44,200
Speaker 1: so I think people were being patient there with what

2685
02:10:44,400 --> 02:10:46,840
Speaker 1: was out there, and there were some also some very

2686
02:10:46,920 --> 02:10:50,440
Speaker 1: good players at other positions that people, you know, like

2687
02:10:50,640 --> 02:10:53,400
Speaker 1: us had to hire on our board. Also today, what

2688
02:10:53,480 --> 02:10:56,160
Speaker 1: have we learned? Great? Go Sell joined us from NFL

2689
02:10:56,240 --> 02:10:59,320
Speaker 1: Matchup ESPN's NFL Matchup. He has some good thoughts on

2690
02:10:59,440 --> 02:11:02,360
Speaker 1: the bills for around pick, defensive tackle, and Oliver. Here's

2691
02:11:02,400 --> 02:11:06,560
Speaker 1: what he said. He's an elite athlete, no question. He's

2692
02:11:06,600 --> 02:11:12,040
Speaker 1: got an off the chart profile a foot quickness, agility, fluidity, explosion,

2693
02:11:12,520 --> 02:11:16,160
Speaker 1: hand usage. Plus he's a high level effort and competitive guy.

2694
02:11:17,360 --> 02:11:19,480
Speaker 1: I mean, if you just watch the tape and see

2695
02:11:19,520 --> 02:11:24,920
Speaker 1: the traits, he's really an explosive, explosive player. Now, as

2696
02:11:25,000 --> 02:11:27,400
Speaker 1: we all do when we evaluate players leading up to

2697
02:11:27,400 --> 02:11:29,920
Speaker 1: the draft, we knitpick. So people look at his weight

2698
02:11:30,000 --> 02:11:32,760
Speaker 1: and they say, can he hold up inside? At probably

2699
02:11:32,800 --> 02:11:36,080
Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty pounds. You know, he's clearly a

2700
02:11:36,320 --> 02:11:40,080
Speaker 1: gap player. He's not going to hand fight offensive lineman.

2701
02:11:40,400 --> 02:11:43,320
Speaker 1: He's a gap player. You want him to penetrate, you

2702
02:11:43,400 --> 02:11:47,000
Speaker 1: want him to use that explosive athletic ability. But he's

2703
02:11:47,000 --> 02:11:51,800
Speaker 1: got special traits for a defensive tackle. Now. We also

2704
02:11:51,880 --> 02:11:54,000
Speaker 1: learned from Greg Coselda. Every once in a while he'll

2705
02:11:54,040 --> 02:11:55,480
Speaker 1: throw me a bone and say, yeah, as you know,

2706
02:11:55,600 --> 02:11:58,520
Speaker 1: mur he did that today, first time ever. Must have

2707
02:11:58,600 --> 02:12:00,760
Speaker 1: been he must have been mistakes. Star meant to say,

2708
02:12:01,040 --> 02:12:04,240
Speaker 1: stars were aligned. You meant to tell you that, you know, Yeah,

2709
02:12:04,320 --> 02:12:08,360
Speaker 1: it was a mistake by him. Yeah, thanks, great, I

2710
02:12:08,400 --> 02:12:10,240
Speaker 1: appreciate that. It was good. A lot of draft cut.

2711
02:12:10,280 --> 02:12:11,680
Speaker 1: We'll do more of this this week. Right, you're done.

2712
02:12:11,680 --> 02:12:13,320
Speaker 1: I'm not done talking about the draft yet, are you.

2713
02:12:13,440 --> 02:12:16,440
Speaker 1: I mean, there's more. They're still. They're back at it today.

2714
02:12:17,000 --> 02:12:20,160
Speaker 1: It's phase two of the offseason working. They started today

2715
02:12:20,200 --> 02:12:22,280
Speaker 1: and you can sell that, you know, one step up.

2716
02:12:22,320 --> 02:12:24,960
Speaker 1: They had you guys walking around on the field and

2717
02:12:25,240 --> 02:12:27,760
Speaker 1: lining up and looking at things, and I'm eager to

2718
02:12:27,840 --> 02:12:30,560
Speaker 1: get to I'm eager to get to fans thoughts on

2719
02:12:30,720 --> 02:12:32,800
Speaker 1: what's missing from the roster now, right we we're through,

2720
02:12:32,920 --> 02:12:35,880
Speaker 1: we're finished with free agency, we're finished with the draft.

2721
02:12:36,560 --> 02:12:39,320
Speaker 1: They're probably I haven't done the numbers yet, and you

2722
02:12:39,360 --> 02:12:41,040
Speaker 1: know how many people on the roster, but we're probably

2723
02:12:41,080 --> 02:12:43,080
Speaker 1: pretty close to the limit. And I just wonder what

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Speaker 1: fans think is missing? What would you do now before

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Speaker 1: you get the camp and camps what two and a

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Speaker 1: half months away? Now the roster is pretty much built.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think the guys are gonna be on

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Speaker 1: the fifty three are in the building now probably for

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Speaker 1: the most part. But now that all the draft is done,

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Speaker 1: we've looked at all these guys. We've got some really

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Speaker 1: cool piece is that we got in the draft, some

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Speaker 1: great players, some good people, some maybe some flyers, some

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Speaker 1: guys that might contribute. And now it all comes down

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Speaker 1: to Murph. It's a guy we drafted last year. Josh. Josh,

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Speaker 1: you gotta be good. Yeah, Josh has to be good.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll talk about that as the week goes along.

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