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Speaker 1: NFL news and notes. More first round pick signing news today,

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Speaker 1: second overall pick Aiden Hutchinson has signed his rookie contract

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Speaker 1: you get a stack of cash in the bank, and

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Speaker 1: it's like, man, why am I? Why am I beatings?

428
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 1: I lived it. My last year in the NFL was

429
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,760
Speaker 1: my most difficult year of old time because you'd sit

430
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 1: there on a team that wasn't as good as the

431
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Speaker 1: teams I had been on. Yeah, and you gotta, man,

432
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:16,159
Speaker 1: I gotta play good today. We I really gotta. And

433
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,400
Speaker 1: you just don't know if you can do it right emotionally.

434
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Speaker 1: It's really difficult, man, commitment for sus you guys, it's

435
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,840
Speaker 1: just too easy to shy away from it. And man,

436
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,680
Speaker 1: oh man, guys, do it. Let's go to the phones

437
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Speaker 1: though at eight oh three oh five fifty one eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two, five fifty as we discuss with you,

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Speaker 1: where you think this Bill's Week two game, Monday Night

440
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Speaker 1: Football at high Mark Stadium against the Titans is going

441
00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:44,840
Speaker 1: to rank on the bills full twenty twenty two regular

442
00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,639
Speaker 1: season schedule when it comes out Thursday night. Where you

443
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 1: think it's gonna stack up against the other sixteen games.

444
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Speaker 1: Leading us off today is Greg and North Townawanda, Greg,

445
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? Year? On one Bill's Live, Hey, guys,

446
00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:59,560
Speaker 1: how you doing good? Good? Good to see it? Hey,

447
00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:03,080
Speaker 1: Steve Hall of Fame. I'm not gonna say anymore. Chris.

448
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 1: I think I saw you the other day at the

449
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:08,120
Speaker 1: yesterday at the country cottage for Mother's Day. I was there.

450
00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 1: I patted you on the back and said, Hi, Yes,

451
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 1: but there's another great from NT. I'm not that guy. Anyways. Um,

452
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,159
Speaker 1: it's what I asked, two quick questions and then make

453
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Speaker 1: comment one. I wanted to catch you on Mark's madness

454
00:25:23,800 --> 00:25:26,479
Speaker 1: because he acted as if your birthday was the day

455
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:31,159
Speaker 1: after Saint Patty's. It is, yep, so was mine. Okay,

456
00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 1: I always took off for work. It was so nice,

457
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:36,119
Speaker 1: school off Saint Patty's and then just hang out. But anyways, Um,

458
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 1: as far as the teams this year and what's going on,

459
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:42,680
Speaker 1: everybody gets better. The Jets looked better, for heaven's sakes,

460
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 1: the Broncos, the Jags even you know they drafted well,

461
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 1: they looked good. Some things in free agency, obviously the

462
00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:53,400
Speaker 1: Broncos with getting the quarterback and whatnot. But everybody gets better.

463
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,159
Speaker 1: Do you remember the days when the Bills were like

464
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Speaker 1: that where they were really kind of crappy, and of

465
00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,879
Speaker 1: course they got better. I'm not afraid of anybody this year.

466
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Speaker 1: That we play. I'm sorry, I don't want to sound

467
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: over jetic about this year, but we're gonna beat them all.

468
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:13,119
Speaker 1: I'm not worried about it. We're gonna have our off weeks.

469
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 1: It happens. I like the Tennessee Buffalo game. That's cool

470
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Speaker 1: that they release that, But I still think the Chiefs

471
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Speaker 1: and the Rams are going to be primetime games. Just

472
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Speaker 1: curious what you guys think. I'll hang up and listen

473
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Speaker 1: to your words. Yeah, okay, thanks Greg for collin. Appreciate it. Yeah,

474
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Speaker 1: I get it. You're right those those have a very

475
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Speaker 1: good chance to be primetime games. I think Greg is

476
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:36,120
Speaker 1: right about that they are road games. Does that take

477
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:38,800
Speaker 1: some of the luster off of those for Bills fans?

478
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 1: I wonder for Bills fans probably, But you think about this,

479
00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:45,800
Speaker 1: the name the game of all two hundred and sixty

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Speaker 1: games of a year ago. Name the game everybody is

481
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Speaker 1: talking about all off season. It's Buffalo in Kansas City

482
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 1: thirteen seconds. That's the game everybody's talking. So that has

483
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 1: monumental story lines, history, it has everything. That is the

484
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Speaker 1: game that I've dominated the conversation. I'm not gonna deny though.

485
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Speaker 1: The Rams game has a pretty interesting storyline too. Not

486
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Speaker 1: only is it defending Super Bowl champs, but you've got

487
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Speaker 1: the whole von Miller's storyline there. The guy made a

488
00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 1: decision that still has people in Los Angeles shaking their heads.

489
00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 1: He did not come back to the defending Super Bowl

490
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Speaker 1: champs to play in a city like Los Angeles, to

491
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Speaker 1: go to Buffalo. That's what everybody in LA is still saying,

492
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 1: a month after he made a decision. They can't believe it.

493
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 1: And that's so so think about that, the monumental storylines

494
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 1: around these games. The Titans doesn't even that's like the

495
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: Bills have played the Titans every year for four years,

496
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,240
Speaker 1: and that the Titans have gotten when the Bills beat

497
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 1: him a couple of years ago, but the Titans him

498
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: in nineteen down there, right, the Bills um have gotten

499
00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:01,600
Speaker 1: beat by the Titans last couple of years in Tennessee,

500
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 1: and Bills fans love going down there. Well now it's here,

501
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,119
Speaker 1: but man, oh man, you think about and you know

502
00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,199
Speaker 1: that that Rams game, You're right. The von Miller thing

503
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 1: adds that storyline is just that is a big spoon

504
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 1: and pitch network. That's a big stir right there. And

505
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,280
Speaker 1: then the Chiefs game I mean, I don't know how

506
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: you get. I mean, people, you'd have Cincinnati fans buying

507
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:33,199
Speaker 1: tickets of that, right, I mean they I mean everybody

508
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:37,280
Speaker 1: wants a ticket to that game. I mean they want

509
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,239
Speaker 1: everybody wants that Chief's Bills game to pick up right

510
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 1: where they left off. And we'll see. I mean, it's

511
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: probably gonna be just the opposite of that. Now it'll

512
00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:49,320
Speaker 1: be six to three, right, But no it won't right, No, No,

513
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 1: it probably won't punt twenty five times in that game.

514
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: Absolutely not out here. But that that I get that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why they release the Tennessee Monday night

516
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Speaker 1: game week two. What do they think? Why? Well, they're

517
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 1: doing this every day they're going to release a little

518
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 1: snippet of the twenty twenty two NFL schedule. They're doing

519
00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:12,200
Speaker 1: this slow burn. See if you know how the NFL works,

520
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:16,080
Speaker 1: Come on, you've seen this long enough. But that's a

521
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: Monday night game, week two. Who cares we're talking about

522
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,080
Speaker 1: it today? But I know, but they were talking about

523
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,720
Speaker 1: it on the national shows. It's may What else are

524
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 1: we gonna talk about? And that's exactly why they're doing it.

525
00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: It's just like Belichick said, the NFL has taken Belichick

526
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:38,480
Speaker 1: and turned it into a marketing ploy. No days off,

527
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 1: they are gonna sprinkle it all week little. You know

528
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: what this is, Steve. I mean, this is like Hansel

529
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 1: and Gretel with the breadcrumbs. Here's a breadcrumb trail. Yeah,

530
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, that's what they're doing. This

531
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: is breadcrumbs. They're bringing your logs. Do you think do

532
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 1: you think the Bills open up on the road in

533
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles? I think that possibility is a sit I

534
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: think that possibility still exists. It's just for the reasons

535
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 1: we just stated. It's it makes way too much sense.

536
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: If you're picked. You know, the defending Super Bowl champs

537
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 1: are going to be playing in the kickoff game. That's

538
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 1: happened what the last umpteen number of years? The Thursday

539
00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: kickoff game always has the defending Super Bowl champs against

540
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: some high profile team, right right, So, I mean, do

541
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 1: you get much more high profile than the Bills right now?

542
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: And you know there's superstar quarterback who's rocketed into the

543
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 1: top three among quarterbacks in the entire league. I mean,

544
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 1: how do you avoid that? I get and then the

545
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 1: von Miller's storyline on top of it. I mean, it

546
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 1: makes way too much sense. So it's made for Holly.

547
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 1: What it means is and you know, we'll chew this

548
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 1: up to if, if, and when it happens that the

549
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 1: Bills will play on the Thursday night game, not play

550
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: again for another twelve days, right, which is great coming

551
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 1: back from the West Coast, plenty of time to adjust

552
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: all that. You know. For me, it makes it way

553
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:04,760
Speaker 1: too much sense. And then week three, on a short week,

554
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,680
Speaker 1: they go to Kansas City. No, no, you know they'll

555
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: do it. No, They're not playing on a Monday night,

556
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,719
Speaker 1: no way. All right, we have to take a break here.

557
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:13,960
Speaker 1: Bessie and Buffalo, Judy and Buffalo, hang tight. We will

558
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: get to you in the next segment is we're taking

559
00:31:15,520 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: more of your phone calls. Where do you think this

560
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: week to Monday night home game against the Titans will

561
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: rank on the Bills schedule when the whole thing gets

562
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: released on Thursday night? Taking your phone call to open

563
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Speaker 1: line for you. We're back in a moment here on

564
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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Stay tuned, all right, welcome back to

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you. We're

566
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Speaker 1: gonna get to the phones in just one second. But

567
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: there is some NFL personnel news. We had talked about

568
00:31:56,640 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: this for a while. The Giants are in cap jail

569
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 1: and Joe Shane has some book cleaning up to do,

570
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:08,120
Speaker 1: and about to save them about ten million dollars in

571
00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: cap savings is the release of veteran cornerback James Bradberry.

572
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 1: According to NFL networks Ian Rappaport, that has now happened.

573
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: Giants have informed cornerback James Bradberry of his release and

574
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Speaker 1: it's going to save them about ten million dollars on

575
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 1: their twenty twenty two cap. They do incur almost twelve

576
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 1: million in dead money, but overall it's a savings and

577
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: he is formally of the Carolina Panthers, still a relatively

578
00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: young player, tall, long corner has played pretty well, has

579
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: had good production, steady production. So naturally the question is

580
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: are the Bills interested his rookie season with Sean mcdermot's

581
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: last defensive quarters in Carolina. So for all, remember we

582
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: went through this for the first four or five years,

583
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Speaker 1: still go through it with Sean McDermot. Yeah, the pipeline

584
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: from Carolina, this guy would beat would sort of fit

585
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: into that. Yeah, they had one year together and he's

586
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: I think the thing that's different is he's a he's

587
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: a long rangy corner, which is exactly what right now,

588
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:21,480
Speaker 1: like this stage of free agency, a lot of the

589
00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: money has dried up. We had Brandon being in here

590
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: on our set last week and asked him, you know,

591
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Speaker 1: looking forward, what kind of free agency maneuvering can you do?

592
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:36,640
Speaker 1: And he gave indication that they don't have a lot

593
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 1: of money to work with. He said, we're actually looking

594
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: to try to add money back underneath the cap. So

595
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:46,640
Speaker 1: if Bradberry's asking price is still pretty high, despite the

596
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: fact that a lot of clubs have already spent their

597
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: money in the free agent market, well then the Bills

598
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: probably are not going to be able to make anything happen.

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Speaker 1: But I would venture to guess that Brandon being will

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Speaker 1: lab a phone call to Bradberry's agent just to see

601
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 1: what they're asking price is for sure, um, he'll he'll

602
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: never leave a stone unturned without doing any homework, So

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00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:13,359
Speaker 1: I would I would at least anticipate they'll inquire, They'll

604
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: be exploratory interest. But I think his price tag will

605
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: go a long way in determining whether the Bills can

606
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 1: move on from that point because they don't have a

607
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,240
Speaker 1: lot of money to spend at this point in free agents.

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00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 1: I the yeah, you we'll see. It'll be interesting to

609
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,879
Speaker 1: see what Bradberry's willing to play for. Does he want

610
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,360
Speaker 1: to play for a truth contender? We're gonna is that important?

611
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: And we don't make no question, make no mistake. The

612
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:42,800
Speaker 1: Bills are going to have to do some wrangling with

613
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:44,800
Speaker 1: their contracts to free up some money at least have

614
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,280
Speaker 1: enough operating expenses to go through a season right alone

615
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:49,879
Speaker 1: signing a guy. So, as Brandon told us, he likes

616
00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:53,400
Speaker 1: to have about five million in cushion in case they

617
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: have to make a roster move because there's a rash

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00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 1: of injuries at a position. He has to sign somebody

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Speaker 1: out on the street, you know, in October or something. Yeah,

620
00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: they got He wants that flexibility to do that. So

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Speaker 1: they gotta do that. So they're gonna ostensibly rework some

622
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:08,879
Speaker 1: contrasts to get that done and sign the rookie pool.

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Speaker 1: Let's not forget that too. They probably Yeah, so they

624
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: got it. They got some work to do, math work,

625
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:20,359
Speaker 1: and so if they start doing that and they caught

626
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: us off guard with the von Miller thing. Let's make

627
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: no mistake about it. I mean that the deal they

628
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:28,320
Speaker 1: signed him too was a lightning bolt out of the blue.

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Speaker 1: I didn't you know how they worked it and how

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00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,000
Speaker 1: their cap space was gone. So they're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: do something like that to sign a guy like Bradbury.

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Speaker 1: Even if Bradbury were to sign for the veteran minimum,

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Speaker 1: which he ain't gonna do. Yeah, I don't think so,

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Speaker 1: he would probably Maybe then he's not in their top

635
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: fifty one at this point because they got eighty five guys.

636
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,399
Speaker 1: They got some guy he might be able to fit.

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Speaker 1: If they can fit a contract for less the veteran

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Speaker 1: minimum or a little above, if they pro rated and

639
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Speaker 1: go out, maybe they could sign him. Hard to do

640
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 1: at a premium position like cornerback, though that's a lot

641
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: of cap money, even if it's a small contract, and

642
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 1: then you sign him for one year deal. But man,

643
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: and maybe, and maybe the feelings here are different now

644
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: that you have Kayer Elam in the building. Yeah, as

645
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Speaker 1: your first round draft choice. Maybe if the Bills don't

646
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: get a corner and round one, this is a more

647
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 1: serious conversation about Bradberry's availability. But who knows. Maybe with

648
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: Elam in the building, now you know, the impetus to

649
00:36:29,400 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 1: go after somebody like brad Berry suddenly on the market

650
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: in the middle of May has waned here in buff

651
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,560
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm just I'm speculating. I'm just saying

652
00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,239
Speaker 1: Elam's in the building. Now you have Dane Jackson, you

653
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: have Dredevious White, you know, being said Dredevius has you know,

654
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: knock On Wood stayed on schedule with his rehab. So

655
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: you know, we don't know. With Elam in the building,

656
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 1: does it lessen the impetus to pursue somebody of brad

657
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 1: Berry's caliber. It might have more to do with what

658
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,359
Speaker 1: his asking price is than anything else. But we'll see

659
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: in due time what kind of market Bradberry has for

660
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: himself out there. But he's Yeah, as far as Bills

661
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:13,360
Speaker 1: fans go, there are others out there that you know,

662
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,279
Speaker 1: you don't have the hopeful list. But man, you talk

663
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: about guys who were like, oh man, that that's gonna help.

664
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Speaker 1: That would be a guy. He would help that guy,

665
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: He would help just about it. I don't know where

666
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 1: they're gonna put him. I mean, if Tredavius is not

667
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: ready or whatever, brad Burck. I mean they makes the

668
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:33,040
Speaker 1: situation different. Yeah, but if Tredavious is healthy and they

669
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 1: got Elam in the fold with tarn Johnson, I don't know.

670
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 1: I don't know. What are you doing? What do you need?

671
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,959
Speaker 1: The guy may not. He may not decide. You don't.

672
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: You may not. I mean they Let's not forget they

673
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 1: drafted two corners. You know it wasn't just Elim it

674
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: was Benford two granted late in the draft, but still,

675
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:52,879
Speaker 1: I mean, Dane Jackson made this roster as a seventh

676
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: round draft choice, So you know, who's to say Benford couldn't.

677
00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:58,400
Speaker 1: Let's go to the phones, though, because we're talking about

678
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: the Bills Week two Monday night home game that was

679
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 1: announced this morning by the league against the Titans. When

680
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:08,800
Speaker 1: the full schedule comes out on Thursday night, where do

681
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,760
Speaker 1: you think this game's gonna rank on Buffalo's twenty twenty

682
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Speaker 1: two regular season schedule. We want to know from you

683
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Speaker 1: eight three five fifty one eight eight five fifty two,

684
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Speaker 1: five fifty or on the tweet seat at one Bills Live.

685
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Speaker 1: Let's go to a patiently waiting Bessie in Buffalo. Wait, yeah,

686
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 1: first best eight, Hey, it's up guys, not much. I

687
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: think the home opener is going to be that game, Okay.

688
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 1: I think the Bills play the Rams and opening Day Thursday,

689
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:41,760
Speaker 1: come back twelve days later play the Bills and Tennessee,

690
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,800
Speaker 1: and then we go on to the regular season. And

691
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 1: so you already know this is a Monday night home game,

692
00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: which makes it exciting enough. How much does how much

693
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,720
Speaker 1: does it ratchet it up? If this is in fact

694
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: the home opener as well? Does it make it even bigger? Oh? Definitely? Right?

695
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:03,239
Speaker 1: That Motor Home Parking, Oh my god, it'll be full

696
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: for a week. Yeah, everybody's taking Monday off, maybe Tuesday,

697
00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:10,320
Speaker 1: and coming in here on Thursday before. Um, thanks for

698
00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 1: the call, Yeah, and thanks Bessie. Yeah, that'll be a'd

699
00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:19,640
Speaker 1: be a long day leading up to that money well, right,

700
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Speaker 1: especially if they play Thursday night as he indicated. Yeah,

701
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:24,359
Speaker 1: and if they go into Thursday night beat the world

702
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: champion Rams in their building on opening night, the opening

703
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 1: game and look good doing it. Yeah, the build up

704
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: for ten days, bro, that'll be so fun. It'll be

705
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:45,320
Speaker 1: so fun. It'll be so fun. And it's gonna be

706
00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: a fun year no matter what. It's gonna just be

707
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: an absolute blast. Of a year, so it will Yeah,

708
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:54,080
Speaker 1: so yeah that I kind of thought too. I thought, yeah,

709
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Speaker 1: it probably is the home opener then, right, that's what

710
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:57,799
Speaker 1: I kind of way. I thought they'll probably send him

711
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: to And I know the Bills ticket office sent out

712
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: an email to their season ticket members talking about a

713
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: pre sale the night the schedule does come out, which

714
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: will involve the home opener, but they didn't specify because

715
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:15,279
Speaker 1: they because the ticket office didn't specify the Bills Week

716
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:18,280
Speaker 1: two game, which is known to be against the Titans

717
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Speaker 1: at home on Monday night, because that wasn't specified as

718
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,919
Speaker 1: one and the same and being the home opener. People

719
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,280
Speaker 1: are wondering, well, as the Titans game the home opener,

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Speaker 1: or are they or do they have a home game

721
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Speaker 1: Week one and then the next week they're also home

722
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Speaker 1: against Tennessee. So people are like, what what does it mean?

723
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Speaker 1: What they didn't say it was the Titans game. Does

724
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Speaker 1: that mean we have a home game on Week one

725
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: as well? Or what does it mean? People are just

726
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:42,439
Speaker 1: they're they're losing themselves. Yeah, calm down, I mean, it's

727
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:47,919
Speaker 1: who knows. But it's been the league's way of doing

728
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:51,000
Speaker 1: things that they open up the seasons a lot of team.

729
00:40:51,200 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: Most teams have got division games, right, there aren't. Yeah,

730
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Speaker 1: there aren't. A tremendous amounts have opened up with the

731
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Speaker 1: Jets a ton there aren't. The league as a whole,

732
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: more often than not, keeps it all in conference week

733
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Speaker 1: one on the full slate, with a few exceptions. Right,

734
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Speaker 1: So we'll see, we'll see, and I get it to

735
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:13,800
Speaker 1: some of the football side of it. Some of the

736
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 1: teams are gonna listen, give us a chance to get

737
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:16,920
Speaker 1: a couple of games under our belt, then give us

738
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: the division. You know. But Commissioner Goodell when he took over,

739
00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 1: he said, listen, we need we're gonna kick it off.

740
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Speaker 1: We're gonna have important games at the front, at the front,

741
00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 1: right in week one, week two, week that we're gonna end.

742
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Speaker 1: And at the back, we're gonna have division games in

743
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Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks of the season because if

744
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: there's these races that are in doubt, there's gonna be

745
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:40,879
Speaker 1: some enormous interest generated by it. They made that change

746
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 1: about four or five years so with division games at

747
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 1: the end, because they didn't want teams throwing away games

748
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: and sitting players and all that stuff, and division games

749
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,839
Speaker 1: count a little bit more than the other ones. It's worked. Yeah,

750
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:56,239
Speaker 1: don't forget last year. Forget remember how it was last

751
00:41:56,320 --> 00:42:00,920
Speaker 1: year Wildcard weekend. It was an unbelievable weekendball games, and

752
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 1: it in large measure because of the run up of

753
00:42:03,040 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: the end of the regular season. So I'm you know,

754
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:08,719
Speaker 1: I'm thinking maybe the Bills having a Way Division game

755
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 1: on a Week one Yeah, you know, Judy and Buffalo,

756
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:13,719
Speaker 1: Ryan and Toronto. Sorry for our rambling there. We ran

757
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: out of time for this segment. We will get to

758
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Speaker 1: you in the next one. Here on One Bills Live,

759
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right,

760
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: welcome back to one Bills Live. Talking Bill's twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: two regular season schedule. We know they play the Titans

762
00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:42,839
Speaker 1: on Monday night of Week two. Where do you think

763
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: that will rank when the full schedule comes out on

764
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 1: the entire Bill's slate this fall. We go back to

765
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:50,719
Speaker 1: the phones at eight O three five fifty. We lead

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Speaker 1: off with Judy and Buffalo. What do you have first? Judy, Well,

767
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,880
Speaker 1: first of all, I can't believe that Steve has a

768
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,760
Speaker 1: less i fair attitude towards this game. If I'm not mistaken,

769
00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:04,760
Speaker 1: We've lost the last three times to the Tennessee Titans,

770
00:43:05,719 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 1: and last year among other britious losses. Had we beaten

771
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:13,520
Speaker 1: the Titans, we would have been playing Kansas City at home.

772
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:17,479
Speaker 1: My point is Buffalo has to be a change team.

773
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 1: They have to approach every game as all it means

774
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: super Bowl or nasts and Tennessee is going to sort

775
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 1: of be a harbinger of what is to come. All right,

776
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 1: a harbinger, Steve, what say you? And I was allowed

777
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: las fair about the game. Now I'm not las fair

778
00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 1: about the Tennessee Titans. Think about this. They were the

779
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:39,800
Speaker 1: number one seed last year and that's that gives this

780
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 1: this game all the juice you need for no question

781
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 1: about it. I would say as well, since it's going

782
00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: to be in Buffalo, uh, the Bills are gonna be

783
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be a big revenge

784
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: game for the Bills in the locker room guys who

785
00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:00,880
Speaker 1: were here last year. Um. Also, they don't play him

786
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:02,720
Speaker 1: this year, But if Tampa Bay was on the schedule,

787
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: that would be a revenge game. The Jacksonville game would

788
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:08,120
Speaker 1: be a revenge game. Yeah, And She's right, Judy's right.

789
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:13,760
Speaker 1: You've got to have a mentality every week that says, listen,

790
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: we gotta win this game. Marv had a great line

791
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: when we were playing and we were at our best

792
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 1: and we were playing a team that was down, like

793
00:44:22,360 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: last year's Jacksonville game. They were they hadn't won a

794
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: game or they'd won one game when the Bills played him,

795
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: and then they won. Ended up winning three in the year,

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00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 1: and one him was a Bills victory, a victory over

797
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 1: the Bills. Mark said, listen, he goes. The greatest pitcher

798
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 1: I ever saw was a guy named Sandy Kofax, and

799
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,719
Speaker 1: he said listen. And they asked him what was the

800
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 1: toughest guy to pitch to. He says, I always concentrate

801
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 1: the most on the other team's pitcher because I'm supposed

802
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:52,440
Speaker 1: to get him out. That's what the Bills have to

803
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,800
Speaker 1: feel like when they get these teams. You're supposed to

804
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: beat that team. You gotta be ready and show up

805
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 1: and get the wins you're supposed to get. If you

806
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 1: lose to a team like Kansas City or a team

807
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: like whoever, the Rams people say, all right, that's a

808
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 1: defending world champion that's got my homes. Okay, I get it,

809
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: but you gotta win games you're supposed to win. The

810
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:17,440
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans next year are a team the Bills should beat. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they are not the one seed from twenty twenty one.

812
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 1: They are a team that's gonna have Ryan Tannehill and

813
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 1: No A. J. Brown. You should beat that team and

814
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:31,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna be on Monday night at home. Yeah, don't

815
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Speaker 1: mess that up. She's right, I'm a little She's right.

816
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 1: This might date me considerably, and how long I've been

817
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 1: hanging around here. It kind of reminds me a little bit,

818
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:45,240
Speaker 1: not to the same degree, but close home run throwback

819
00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:49,839
Speaker 1: game Bills lose the wild card playoff in Tennessee. Next

820
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:56,360
Speaker 1: year's season opener is at home Sunday Night football Bills Titans,

821
00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: and that Wade Phillips Bills team in two thousand wanted

822
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 1: that game bad. Yeah, bad, and they wanted by the

823
00:46:07,239 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 1: skin of their teeth sixteen thirteen. But that was a

824
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 1: charged atmosphere here for that week one game Sunday night football,

825
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:18,319
Speaker 1: prime time. Jeff it was a Jeff Fisher coach team. Yep. Yeah,

826
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 1: that one was charged up. And that was Bill's Titans also,

827
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 1: So it's happened before, so it'll be interesting. And as

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Speaker 1: we heard from one of our other callers, if it

829
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Speaker 1: ends up being the home opener, ratcheted up another three

830
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 1: or four notches. For sure. Absolutely back to the piece,

831
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: right though, And I don't want to be lost. I

832
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: think there are other games with juice of your storylines

833
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 1: than the Titans, because even as the one seed last year,

834
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:50,839
Speaker 1: the Titans were like you know, um, So yeah, she's right,

835
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Speaker 1: And I don't want to belittle the game, the importance

836
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 1: of it, or how good the Titans have been. I

837
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: just think there are games that Chiefs game and that

838
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:04,439
Speaker 1: Rams game are giant to me. Then for sure. Let's

839
00:47:04,480 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: go back to the phones, though, and to Ryan and Toronto.

840
00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 1: What do you got first, Ryan than Chris? Um, I

841
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: don't you gotta talking about Week one um match of

842
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 1: Rams and Bills. I believe said earlier, all those Week

843
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:22,919
Speaker 1: one games has been all the same conference. Yeah. Yeah,

844
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: they tend to keep them in conference most of the time.

845
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 1: I remember the Week one Tampa game after they won

846
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:29,799
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, they played the Cowboys. It was an

847
00:47:29,920 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: NFC game, So yeah, you're right, they usually keep it

848
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: in conference. That would be the only thing that could

849
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,799
Speaker 1: get in the way of a Rams hosting Bills week

850
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: one kickoff you know season kickoff game. Right. The second

851
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:44,879
Speaker 1: thing I wanted calling on is I could I will

852
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: see your Sunday night game Bills Chiefs Sunday night. Yeah.

853
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 1: It's it's made for prime time, isn't it, Ryan, Yes,

854
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:54,440
Speaker 1: it is. It's gonna it's gonna be prime time. I

855
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 1: can see it being week one. Yeah, you think it

856
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:01,279
Speaker 1: could be week Sunday Sunday night game on one Bill

857
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 1: Bills Chiefs. No. One couldn't forget about it. You know

858
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:08,839
Speaker 1: what the seasons chief week one Sunday night, I might

859
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 1: have you know, right. It makes a lot of sense too,

860
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 1: because here you think about this, by the time, if

861
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,399
Speaker 1: you push that game back, if you're the Chiefs Bills game,

862
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: and you're gonna push it back off the front month

863
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 1: of the season and it's like Week five like it

864
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:22,600
Speaker 1: was last year or wherever it was it the teams

865
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: are different, then well the teams already because yeah because

866
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,520
Speaker 1: of Tyree but no, Tyreek Hill. They have juju now.

867
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 1: But but the even the differences in them, everybody'll have

868
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:34,959
Speaker 1: a handle on what they're gonna be. See the anticipation

869
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: of that game on a Sunday night opening the weekend,

870
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: and the season in the NFL taken off right where

871
00:48:40,000 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 1: it left off in twenty twenty one. Let's go, let's

872
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 1: keep that game going. That to me is, oh my gosh,

873
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:52,400
Speaker 1: it is just too tasty. Oh my gosh, just thirty

874
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:55,200
Speaker 1: two ounces, that big thirty two ounces take with a fork.

875
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: It's so tender, you've gotta have it. That's that game.

876
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:03,240
Speaker 1: The perception of that game will change as the season

877
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:06,040
Speaker 1: progresses away from last year. If you want to pick

878
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 1: up where you left off last year, that its stake

879
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: Chiefs Bill's Thursday Night. That's where everybody wants to see nobody,

880
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:15,480
Speaker 1: you know, the Sunday Night. I wouldn't be up opposed

881
00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: to Sunday Night either. He's right if you want to

882
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 1: the likely one good call Ryan that that game is

883
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 1: I don't I don't care if you're I don't care

884
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 1: if you're an NFC West team or fan base. You're

885
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: thinking about that Bill's Chiefs game. It's like right here

886
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:36,160
Speaker 1: where everybody just like right in the back of your

887
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:39,399
Speaker 1: head all season, you're like, man, those guys, those guys

888
00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:41,840
Speaker 1: are a problem. Well, what are we gonna do with

889
00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:44,399
Speaker 1: those guys? Are those guys that good. Is that gonna happen?

890
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 1: What's gonna happen? Everybody wants to see that. Well, it's

891
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:50,160
Speaker 1: not only that, Steve. It goes back to what when

892
00:49:50,239 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 1: we went to the NFL Combine in February, a month

893
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:58,239
Speaker 1: removed from the game, I had no less than a

894
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 1: half a dozen people tell me that's the best game

895
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. Yeah, so that's not lost on the

896
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 1: schedule makers in the NFL. So I think that's our

897
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 1: best call of the jay. And there's nothing none of

898
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 1: these rules and list of the thing and this is

899
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:16,719
Speaker 1: what you gotta And this is why it's intriguing. As

900
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:20,440
Speaker 1: much as the schedule release can be intriguing, none of

901
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 1: this stuff is set in stone. It is not set

902
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 1: in stone that the that the NFL Super Bowl champion

903
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: will be the first game of the next season. That's

904
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 1: not written in stone. Usually the case that has been

905
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: the case. Um so everything is on the table. But

906
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:41,359
Speaker 1: I'm saying this. You're right that Rams game with von

907
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 1: Miller on the Bills in LA in their building, juicy,

908
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:55,080
Speaker 1: the Chiefs game with Buffalo again, let's go that you

909
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 1: you I mean, that's gotta be it, man, That's that

910
00:50:58,360 --> 00:51:00,319
Speaker 1: is those two have to be in prime to a bill.

911
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:04,719
Speaker 1: The Bills opening weekend is they're gonna open up with

912
00:51:04,800 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 1: two primetime games, one weekend and week one. You already

913
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 1: know there's one in two and one in week two.

914
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:12,840
Speaker 1: I just when you put those things up against this

915
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:15,399
Speaker 1: Titans game, that's how That's how Judy called in. That's

916
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: how I got that laws A fair out of that.

917
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 1: Ain't nothing compared to the Rams Chiefs men label on you, right,

918
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: I mean, goodness, gracious that that Chief's Bills games that

919
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: got I'm talking about rules changes for goodness sake, right,

920
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 1: and got it changed. I mean it was hy. People

921
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:37,839
Speaker 1: couldn't get it just injected into their veins. Man, they

922
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:40,839
Speaker 1: couldn't get enough of it. We are up against a break,

923
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: so we have to break here. When we come back

924
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 1: from NFL Network, we are going to be joined by

925
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:48,560
Speaker 1: the one and only Mike Giardi, the guy that's covering

926
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:51,400
Speaker 1: the AFC East for NFL Network. He will join us.

927
00:51:51,440 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 1: We'll talk some schedule with him, along with a little

928
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:58,120
Speaker 1: bit of an AFC East outlook post draft. Mike Giardi

929
00:51:58,160 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 1: coming up next year on One Bill's Live, presented by

930
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:18,719
Speaker 1: a Lot of Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a

931
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:22,400
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker who has been all over the fields. Kind

932
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 1: of unique. He was kind of a dual role pleader

933
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: for Stave, Steve a blimp. We're not even in the

934
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 1: strated bere of normalcy alright, hour number two here on

935
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 1: a Monday NFL schedule release week, and we already know

936
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:46,680
Speaker 1: a little portion of the Bills schedule. Here to talk

937
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:49,399
Speaker 1: to us a little bit about that, along with maybe

938
00:52:49,800 --> 00:52:53,280
Speaker 1: putting a bow on the NFL draft is NFL Network

939
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 1: reporter Mike Giardi, who has his ear to the ground

940
00:52:56,239 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 1: on all things AFC East, and Mike, thanks for joining us. Second,

941
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: I want to start here because you know, the New

942
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 1: England Patriots, probably even for you know, a Buffalo guy

943
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:12,799
Speaker 1: like me, was probably the butt end of a few

944
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: too many jokes in terms of how they approached the draft,

945
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 1: and you know, watching how they do things, I was

946
00:53:19,160 --> 00:53:21,839
Speaker 1: kind of reminded of the old Sesame Street skit where

947
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:23,719
Speaker 1: they said one of these kids is doing his own thing.

948
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 1: That have four squares up on the screen, and one

949
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:27,719
Speaker 1: kid was doing something different than the other three. And

950
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:30,480
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of how the Patriots operate when

951
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 1: it comes to the draft. What is the best explanation

952
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:37,320
Speaker 1: you can give based on what you've heard from coach Belichick,

953
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:41,880
Speaker 1: their front office, etc. About how they handled the twenty

954
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:45,359
Speaker 1: twenty two draft. Well, I think one of the big

955
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 1: things that has come to light in the aftermath is

956
00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:52,480
Speaker 1: this relative athletics score rs and it's sort of a

957
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 1: new thing for media, but it hasn't really been a

958
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:57,359
Speaker 1: new thing for teams. And that's essentially just taking all

959
00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 1: your measurements and all your combine scores, test scores and

960
00:54:01,040 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 1: adding them up on a one to ten scale. And

961
00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:06,319
Speaker 1: what they did with Cole Strange, who was their first

962
00:54:06,400 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 1: round pick out of Chattanooga, the guard, he was at

963
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: nine point nine five on a scale of ten. So

964
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 1: you go back to when they've gone back to this

965
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven. So there's been thirteen hundred guards selected

966
00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:22,720
Speaker 1: from nineteen eighty seven until this year, and Cole Strange

967
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:27,800
Speaker 1: is the seventh best relative athletics score amongst that entire group.

968
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:32,239
Speaker 1: You heard Mac Brow talk about the idea that this

969
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:35,640
Speaker 1: is this is a freak. Basically, the guys that big

970
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:40,040
Speaker 1: long arms thirty one reps and two twenty five, like,

971
00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 1: those guys just don't grow on trees and that between

972
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:44,840
Speaker 1: that and the fact that he brings an element of

973
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:47,400
Speaker 1: toughness that they felt like they were lacking sort of

974
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: led them in that path. I would tell you The

975
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 1: other thing, just from a league view, is depending on

976
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:55,600
Speaker 1: what team you talk to, but generally the sense was

977
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:59,880
Speaker 1: they were thirteen to seventeen guys with first round grade

978
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:03,439
Speaker 1: across the board, like buying large. All these teams said,

979
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:06,359
Speaker 1: these guys are the first rounders. Well, that means there's

980
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:07,800
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys who are getting picked them the

981
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 1: first round that our first round picks greade wise, So

982
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 1: basically you're just doing what you feel is best for

983
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 1: your team. I think that part of it. Part of

984
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:18,759
Speaker 1: the equation for the Patriots as well, was, look, we

985
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:21,239
Speaker 1: don't have anybody that's on our board that's a first

986
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:24,080
Speaker 1: round pick at this point. This is a need we have.

987
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:26,359
Speaker 1: We're really impressed by this kid. Would we pick him

988
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:28,000
Speaker 1: in the second round if we stay at fifty four

989
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:29,920
Speaker 1: and he's there, Yeah, but we're not sure he's going

990
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 1: to be there, so let's just trade back, take him

991
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:35,040
Speaker 1: at twenty nine, and remind you that we're pretty good

992
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 1: when it comes to at least their drafts over the

993
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:40,120
Speaker 1: last five or six years haven't been great. Last year's

994
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:44,320
Speaker 1: probably the exception here. But when it comes to picking lineman,

995
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 1: in particular interior offensive lineman, that's something that they've been

996
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 1: pretty good at over the years. Yeah, and I would

997
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:51,160
Speaker 1: agree with that. And it's the other end of the

998
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 1: spectrums the skill positions that they've struggled with, particularly wide receiver,

999
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:58,399
Speaker 1: and why do you how do you reconcile that whole

1000
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:01,719
Speaker 1: and why did every other team? I mean you saw it.

1001
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 1: The Rams guys were laughing at it. They ere everybody

1002
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 1: thought this kid, cole Strange was gonna fall at least

1003
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,680
Speaker 1: till the second round, probably into the third, although you

1004
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:12,239
Speaker 1: know now, and it sounds to me a little bit

1005
00:56:12,280 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 1: like revisionist history with some of these things, where they said, no, no, no,

1006
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:17,720
Speaker 1: he wasn't that bad kind of a pick. But there

1007
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:20,880
Speaker 1: were teams openly gafawing at it. Why is it that

1008
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:24,440
Speaker 1: the Patriots have this blind spot where they struggle to

1009
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:28,440
Speaker 1: pick athletic wide receiver. They'll pick an athlete, but they

1010
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:31,800
Speaker 1: don't fit this mold as well as these offensive linemen do.

1011
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:35,480
Speaker 1: Seem to be eartly seemed to for the Patriots. Yeah,

1012
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:37,799
Speaker 1: they shouldn't have posted somebody from the Steelers staff, right,

1013
00:56:37,880 --> 00:56:39,360
Speaker 1: You know for all these years that the Steelers have

1014
00:56:39,440 --> 00:56:42,400
Speaker 1: been picking wide receivers and the number of hits they've gotten,

1015
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:45,799
Speaker 1: the way that they sort of managed that position versus

1016
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 1: the way the Patriots do. But look, they've tried. They've tried.

1017
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 1: They're big on the free cone drill, and that's usually

1018
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 1: for your smaller, quicker guys, the Edelman's, the Welkers, the Amendoleas,

1019
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 1: which Edelman was the only one they drafted, and when

1020
00:56:57,560 --> 00:56:59,479
Speaker 1: they drafted him, he wasn't a wide receiver. They weren't

1021
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:01,839
Speaker 1: sure what he was going to be played some defensive back.

1022
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:04,440
Speaker 1: Ended up becoming a really good s thought receiver for them.

1023
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:07,520
Speaker 1: The other guys, Welcore and Amandola where guys they signed

1024
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 1: in free agency. But that's usually where they tend to

1025
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 1: sort of drift when they make these selections. And you've

1026
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:18,479
Speaker 1: seen over the last couple drafts. When was Nikil Harry

1027
00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, which obviously hasn't worked out.

1028
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:23,560
Speaker 1: They went for more strength, and he's a little bit

1029
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:27,000
Speaker 1: bigger of a guy, more physical. He can't separate at

1030
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 1: the National Football League level, at least not consistently, so

1031
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:32,800
Speaker 1: that that was a strike one, two, and probably three

1032
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:35,360
Speaker 1: here at this point. And now the Taekwon Thornton thing,

1033
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 1: which is interesting because again, if you talk to people

1034
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 1: around the league, lots of teams thought he was a

1035
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:44,280
Speaker 1: fourth rounder or a fifth rounder. Now I've talked to

1036
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 1: some teams in the second round that said there might

1037
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:47,560
Speaker 1: have been a couple of teams lurking there at the

1038
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:49,760
Speaker 1: end of the second round for him because of the

1039
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: speed that he brings. I mean, he ran a four

1040
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:54,040
Speaker 1: two wade to the combine and I think when you

1041
00:57:55,120 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 1: when you look at the tape from Baylor, he's more

1042
00:57:57,480 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 1: than just a linear speed guy. So there is something there.

1043
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 1: But again it might be a reach. And they they

1044
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 1: know last year they were really slow at a lot

1045
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:09,600
Speaker 1: of different spots. We thought linebacker would be an issue

1046
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: that they would tackle. Would speed only via trade where

1047
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:14,880
Speaker 1: they got Mack Wilson from Cleveland? Did they do that?

1048
00:58:15,440 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 1: But receiver was another one where they just too many drives,

1049
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:21,720
Speaker 1: had to be ten, eleven, twelve play drives. And they're

1050
00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:25,240
Speaker 1: hoping that Thornton gives them a home run hitter. You know, look,

1051
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:28,240
Speaker 1: he's still a developmental guy because there's he's got to

1052
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: put on some weight, he's got to get stronger. But

1053
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:33,320
Speaker 1: I think the feeling is like you can't teach what

1054
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:36,640
Speaker 1: he has and now hopefully they can develop into him

1055
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 1: into an NFL receiver, which again, as Steve mentioned, has

1056
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:41,600
Speaker 1: not been something that had been very good at over

1057
00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 1: the years. And then just the AFC East as a

1058
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 1: whole mic with respect to the draft, obviously, the Jets

1059
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 1: had the most picked, so they had the opportunity to

1060
00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:54,080
Speaker 1: do the most good. And you know, Joe Douglas did

1061
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:56,920
Speaker 1: a tremendous job, you know, getting three first rounders and

1062
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 1: also getting arguably the best back in the in the

1063
00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 1: draft in round two. So they had the most swings

1064
00:59:03,200 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 1: at it, and it looks, at least on the surface

1065
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:10,720
Speaker 1: that they had some pretty good cuts. Did the Bills

1066
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:15,720
Speaker 1: kind of quietly have a pretty sneaky good draft too?

1067
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:19,200
Speaker 1: Or we suffer from Bill's myopius so we're buy it.

1068
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:21,520
Speaker 1: But that's why I'm asking you, like, what is the

1069
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:25,439
Speaker 1: what's the national perception of what the Bills did? Yeah?

1070
00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: Very much, So very impressed by what the Bills did.

1071
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:32,840
Speaker 1: You know, Elon was one of those guys that I

1072
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 1: think if you talked to at least some of those

1073
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:37,120
Speaker 1: teams that I mentioned that between thirteen and seventeen first

1074
00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 1: round grades on team on players, he was someone who

1075
00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: was on a lot of people's boards as the first

1076
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:44,320
Speaker 1: round picks. The fact that you were able to trade

1077
00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 1: up a couple of spots and grab him, you know, again,

1078
00:59:47,120 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 1: speaks to the player runs and how all those things

1079
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:52,800
Speaker 1: work during the course of the draft. But I also

1080
00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:56,520
Speaker 1: think it's an answer or a continued statement about how

1081
00:59:56,640 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 1: the rest of the league is going right where everybody's

1082
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:01,440
Speaker 1: throwing the ball talking it all over the place. We

1083
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:03,720
Speaker 1: saw what Miami did. They load up with Tyreek Hill.

1084
01:00:03,760 --> 01:00:06,760
Speaker 1: They have Jalen Waddle. We're still not sure about Tuam,

1085
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 1: but that they've put weapons around him to make that

1086
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:14,360
Speaker 1: offense more explosive. Obviously, you got to go through Kansas City,

1087
01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:16,680
Speaker 1: you think at some point Kansas City, even though they

1088
01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:19,840
Speaker 1: moved Hill still address that position in a number of ways,

1089
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:23,480
Speaker 1: either through free agency with Marcus Valdez, Scantling and Juju,

1090
01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:28,080
Speaker 1: and then obviously drafting Sky. More So, I like the

1091
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:32,200
Speaker 1: idea that, look, we know that that second corner position

1092
01:00:32,240 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 1: for us is important, especially considering Tredevious, and you know,

1093
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:38,920
Speaker 1: we'll see we continue to hear I'm sure as you

1094
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 1: guys have as well, that he's ahead of schedule. But

1095
01:00:41,200 --> 01:00:43,880
Speaker 1: until he gets out there and actually does it, you know,

1096
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:46,080
Speaker 1: you still have to consider that a slight question mark.

1097
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:48,360
Speaker 1: So I think he's a really good pick for them.

1098
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 1: It's a good player, he's aggressive. I love the story

1099
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:54,479
Speaker 1: already to put the put the playbook on the plane

1100
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:57,480
Speaker 1: like that's that says a lot about the kid and

1101
01:00:57,520 --> 01:01:00,040
Speaker 1: his character. You could be drinking this whole situation. And

1102
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:02,240
Speaker 1: I'm a first round pick. I'm gonna fly private. This

1103
01:01:02,360 --> 01:01:04,440
Speaker 1: is great. No no, no, no, give me the playbook.

1104
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:07,040
Speaker 1: I'm ready to learn. And then it's beyond that, it's

1105
01:01:07,120 --> 01:01:11,240
Speaker 1: adding playmakers, which is I think why we talked before

1106
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:13,320
Speaker 1: the draft about the idea that maybe at twenty five

1107
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:16,680
Speaker 1: they went offense just because we're explosive. Let's just just

1108
01:01:16,800 --> 01:01:19,840
Speaker 1: from more pieces at that offense to continue to be

1109
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:22,560
Speaker 1: something that no one can stop. Well, they were able

1110
01:01:22,600 --> 01:01:24,720
Speaker 1: to do that in the second round with Cook, who

1111
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:28,160
Speaker 1: you know, essentially because of the jdmkissic thing, can become

1112
01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:31,640
Speaker 1: the nice Makissic replacement. But then I love and a

1113
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:33,640
Speaker 1: lot of people are on the league really really like

1114
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 1: Khalil Shakir. I think he's NFL ready right now. So

1115
01:01:38,560 --> 01:01:40,680
Speaker 1: that's just another piece that you add to it, another

1116
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 1: layer of depth that you add to it, some insurance

1117
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:46,280
Speaker 1: for Jamison Crowder if his body doesn't hold up. It's

1118
01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:47,920
Speaker 1: just there's a whole bunch of good things to like

1119
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:50,440
Speaker 1: about this draft if you're the Buffalo Bills, just like

1120
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:51,880
Speaker 1: there's been a whole bunch of good things to like

1121
01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:55,280
Speaker 1: about this offseason and last offseason, and on and on

1122
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:58,120
Speaker 1: it goes for for Brandon Being and Sean McDermott. Yeah,

1123
01:01:58,160 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 1: one of the things about this draft, couple of the guys,

1124
01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:05,760
Speaker 1: particularly the James Cook pick, where you watch him and man,

1125
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:09,439
Speaker 1: he looks he did look even at Georgia, he looked

1126
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:11,280
Speaker 1: a cut above any of the guys they were playing.

1127
01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:13,760
Speaker 1: Coming out of the backfield. He was a matchup nightmare.

1128
01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 1: You don't know if that's going to translate right away

1129
01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 1: into the NFL, but you know, and he's he's got

1130
01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:20,520
Speaker 1: a long way to go before anybody's gonna mistake him

1131
01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 1: for Camara. But that's the kind of player. He kind

1132
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:27,720
Speaker 1: of is skill set coming out of the backfield as

1133
01:02:27,760 --> 01:02:30,200
Speaker 1: a receiver and to maximize Josh Allen, that's what they're

1134
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:32,960
Speaker 1: kind of looking at. Off He was off our radar

1135
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:35,760
Speaker 1: until Friday of the draft and we started talking about him,

1136
01:02:35,760 --> 01:02:37,680
Speaker 1: and the more I watched, the more I thought, Wow,

1137
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:39,880
Speaker 1: this is a guy that's kind of an NFL type

1138
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:43,680
Speaker 1: back in the way that the NFL is being played now. Yeah,

1139
01:02:43,720 --> 01:02:45,280
Speaker 1: and I think there are there are a lot of teams.

1140
01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:47,400
Speaker 1: You know, again, its beauties in the eye to be older, right,

1141
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:48,520
Speaker 1: but I think there are a lot of teams that

1142
01:02:48,600 --> 01:02:51,000
Speaker 1: thought Cook was the best running back in the draft,

1143
01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:53,400
Speaker 1: or at least the best as you mentioned the way

1144
01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:55,600
Speaker 1: we use running backs in the league now, not too

1145
01:02:55,640 --> 01:02:58,280
Speaker 1: many guys are getting twenty five thirty touches. But to

1146
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:00,840
Speaker 1: be an impact player in the passing game and then

1147
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:03,280
Speaker 1: still be able to get up in between the tackles,

1148
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that's where he wants to make his living,

1149
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: but it's not something that he can't do. It just

1150
01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:12,040
Speaker 1: it gives them some versatility there. And when you talk

1151
01:03:12,080 --> 01:03:17,360
Speaker 1: about defending their offense, obviously Stefan Biggs is gonna draw attention,

1152
01:03:17,720 --> 01:03:20,160
Speaker 1: whether it's the number one corner or whether teams are

1153
01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:22,600
Speaker 1: saying we're gonna shade somebody over to that side as well,

1154
01:03:22,600 --> 01:03:24,880
Speaker 1: and we're gonna have two people on him. Well, you know,

1155
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:26,880
Speaker 1: you continue to add these layers of depth and some

1156
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:30,520
Speaker 1: explosive players with obviously the sort of the growth of

1157
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 1: Gabe Davis as we saw late last year. Like that's

1158
01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:37,000
Speaker 1: gonna make life even more difficult for defense. Is if

1159
01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:39,640
Speaker 1: Cook can impact the passing game, whether as you mentioned,

1160
01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:41,840
Speaker 1: it's right away or whether it's Hey in the second

1161
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:43,640
Speaker 1: half of the year, he finally gets his legs under

1162
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:46,000
Speaker 1: him and he becomes this NFL guy who understands what

1163
01:03:46,080 --> 01:03:48,880
Speaker 1: teams are trying to do. Like, good luck with that.

1164
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:51,440
Speaker 1: Like that's a guy that I don't know that you

1165
01:03:51,480 --> 01:03:54,040
Speaker 1: can cover with a linebacker and then are you gonna

1166
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:55,840
Speaker 1: put a safety on him again? It just sort of

1167
01:03:56,640 --> 01:03:59,280
Speaker 1: it helps the math, I think from a defensive favor

1168
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:03,040
Speaker 1: in the Bills offensive favor with being able to roll

1169
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:06,240
Speaker 1: all these guys out there and all talking about the

1170
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:12,360
Speaker 1: division again with the Jets, Patriots, Bills and Jet and Dolphins,

1171
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:14,960
Speaker 1: which one of the other three and the Bills have

1172
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:18,400
Speaker 1: won the division, Which of the other three transformed themselves

1173
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:20,480
Speaker 1: a little bit more, maybe not to the point even

1174
01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:22,920
Speaker 1: to skipping the team ahead of them. Which of these

1175
01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:25,600
Speaker 1: teams are going to be the most changed after this draft.

1176
01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:28,080
Speaker 1: Coming into this year, you got Robert Saloon his second year,

1177
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:31,280
Speaker 1: You've got Mike McDaniel in his first year's head coach,

1178
01:04:31,320 --> 01:04:34,680
Speaker 1: and of course the Patriots as a stable an organization

1179
01:04:34,720 --> 01:04:38,520
Speaker 1: as there is in the NFL, with this draft under

1180
01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:41,080
Speaker 1: their belt and with last year in the rearview mirror,

1181
01:04:41,320 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 1: who is going to be a more different team of

1182
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:48,520
Speaker 1: those three? I think it's Miami, if only because one

1183
01:04:48,880 --> 01:04:51,240
Speaker 1: they brought in the head coach, as he mentioned McDaniel,

1184
01:04:51,320 --> 01:04:54,800
Speaker 1: who at least here at the outset is big on

1185
01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:59,120
Speaker 1: TA and clearly the previous regime, Brian Flores, they were

1186
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:02,760
Speaker 1: they were in down onto a and I think just

1187
01:05:03,120 --> 01:05:05,240
Speaker 1: we'll see what that does for too is confidence. Obviously,

1188
01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:07,200
Speaker 1: you still have to go out there and play, but

1189
01:05:07,320 --> 01:05:09,920
Speaker 1: coming from that Shanahan system, maybe there are some easier

1190
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:12,440
Speaker 1: throws that generate a little bit more yardage in the

1191
01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:14,800
Speaker 1: passing game than they were able to come up with

1192
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:17,800
Speaker 1: last year. And then you know, as we mentioned Tyree

1193
01:05:17,960 --> 01:05:20,160
Speaker 1: Hill and what he's capable of doing, you can you know,

1194
01:05:20,280 --> 01:05:22,880
Speaker 1: bump screen can turn into an ad yard play with him,

1195
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:25,120
Speaker 1: or a simple cross can turn into an AD yard

1196
01:05:25,160 --> 01:05:29,360
Speaker 1: play with him, and that's you know, Wattle is good.

1197
01:05:29,520 --> 01:05:31,920
Speaker 1: Wattle's not Hill on that level, at least not yet.

1198
01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:36,000
Speaker 1: And then Toron Armstead, I think he has to stay healthy,

1199
01:05:36,040 --> 01:05:37,800
Speaker 1: which has been his big problem because I think there

1200
01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:39,480
Speaker 1: was more money out there for him if he was

1201
01:05:39,480 --> 01:05:41,600
Speaker 1: a player who can stay healthy, and he wasn't. He

1202
01:05:41,680 --> 01:05:43,320
Speaker 1: still got a ton of money in free agency. But

1203
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:46,680
Speaker 1: that's the best left tackle that was on the market,

1204
01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:48,880
Speaker 1: and that's one of the best left tackles in football.

1205
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:52,360
Speaker 1: They had a really hard time defending rather protecting two

1206
01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:55,840
Speaker 1: a last year, and if Armstead can be in there

1207
01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:58,640
Speaker 1: and play the lion's share of the games, then there's

1208
01:05:58,680 --> 01:06:02,360
Speaker 1: no question that offensive line and just based on that improves.

1209
01:06:02,400 --> 01:06:04,840
Speaker 1: They added Conor Williams at guard as well. So I'm

1210
01:06:04,880 --> 01:06:07,520
Speaker 1: really curious to see how that offense looks and if

1211
01:06:07,600 --> 01:06:10,320
Speaker 1: TWA can take a step, because I think he's been

1212
01:06:10,400 --> 01:06:13,600
Speaker 1: sort of static to me, and you know, they're they're

1213
01:06:13,640 --> 01:06:16,360
Speaker 1: gonna be looking at Justin Herbert forever in a day.

1214
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:19,480
Speaker 1: If if TWA doesn't develop into the fifth overall pick

1215
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:21,680
Speaker 1: and the guy they thought could lead a franchise, if

1216
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:24,360
Speaker 1: if he just is this guy who just doesn't bring

1217
01:06:24,400 --> 01:06:26,680
Speaker 1: anything special to the table. They're going to be looking

1218
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:30,000
Speaker 1: at that justin Herbert pick for ten, fifteen, twenty years

1219
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:32,680
Speaker 1: down the line, saying and if we'd only gotten Herbert,

1220
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:34,960
Speaker 1: you know, maybe we're a different team. Maybe we bring

1221
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:37,840
Speaker 1: the Lombardi back to Miami instead. You know, they're they're

1222
01:06:37,840 --> 01:06:40,040
Speaker 1: sort of in this this middle ground where they've been

1223
01:06:40,080 --> 01:06:43,000
Speaker 1: a seven and nine, eight and nine, nine and eight team,

1224
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:46,880
Speaker 1: and I think clearly instead of going backwards this time,

1225
01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:48,920
Speaker 1: they said, we're gonna throw all our money. We're throwing

1226
01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:52,840
Speaker 1: all our picks into this. We're trying to win. Right now, Mike,

1227
01:06:52,880 --> 01:06:55,680
Speaker 1: I want you to put your NFL schedule head on

1228
01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:57,640
Speaker 1: here for a second. As we know, you know, the

1229
01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:00,680
Speaker 1: NFL is doing this slow burn till Thursday with this

1230
01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:03,600
Speaker 1: little you know, these breadcrumbs that lead to the full schedule.

1231
01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:06,600
Speaker 1: And we learned today about the Bills being part of

1232
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:09,080
Speaker 1: the Monday Night package in week two when they're going

1233
01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:11,960
Speaker 1: to host the Titans as part of a double header,

1234
01:07:12,960 --> 01:07:16,560
Speaker 1: Which do you think is more likely for the Bills

1235
01:07:16,840 --> 01:07:20,400
Speaker 1: in Week one because there are some tantalizing opponents on

1236
01:07:20,480 --> 01:07:22,800
Speaker 1: their schedule, as you know, do you think it's more

1237
01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:28,600
Speaker 1: likely they roll out Bills at Chiefs Week one, picking

1238
01:07:28,680 --> 01:07:31,800
Speaker 1: up where they left off from the incredible divisional playoff game.

1239
01:07:32,560 --> 01:07:39,240
Speaker 1: Or do you think Bills at Rams kickoff game Thursday

1240
01:07:39,560 --> 01:07:43,240
Speaker 1: with the von Miller's storylines against the defending Super Bowl champs.

1241
01:07:44,240 --> 01:07:45,800
Speaker 1: That's the one that makes the most sense to me.

1242
01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:49,240
Speaker 1: You know, I think buying large. I think everybody looks

1243
01:07:49,280 --> 01:07:51,200
Speaker 1: at the AFC, even though Mahomes is still in the

1244
01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:53,480
Speaker 1: AFC and says the Bills are now the team to

1245
01:07:53,600 --> 01:07:57,919
Speaker 1: beat and certainly generated well in each of the last

1246
01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:01,000
Speaker 1: two years, a ton of enthusiasm about the team and

1247
01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:04,360
Speaker 1: where they're headed. UM. For them to have the opportunity

1248
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:08,880
Speaker 1: to play um that opening night in LA makes all

1249
01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:11,040
Speaker 1: the sense in the world. Defending champs versus a team

1250
01:08:11,120 --> 01:08:13,640
Speaker 1: that maybe is the best team on paper right now

1251
01:08:13,720 --> 01:08:15,920
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. Sign me up for that.

1252
01:08:16,360 --> 01:08:19,040
Speaker 1: I would. I don't have any insight, but that would

1253
01:08:19,040 --> 01:08:20,880
Speaker 1: be my that would be my guest that we're gonna

1254
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:24,280
Speaker 1: see Bills at LA in that opening kickoff. Yeah, we've

1255
01:08:24,360 --> 01:08:26,400
Speaker 1: We've gone around and around, and I know that. You know,

1256
01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:29,160
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of games on Thanksgiving, there's a and

1257
01:08:29,200 --> 01:08:32,200
Speaker 1: there's a triple header on Christmas. The holiday, Christmas holiday

1258
01:08:32,280 --> 01:08:34,599
Speaker 1: this year, for the first time ever, there's a lot

1259
01:08:34,680 --> 01:08:39,640
Speaker 1: of standalone games available. Um. But yeah, I'm we've been

1260
01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:42,560
Speaker 1: thinking about it since, well since the Super Bowl that

1261
01:08:42,680 --> 01:08:45,599
Speaker 1: it might be and now with von Miller in the mix,

1262
01:08:46,479 --> 01:08:48,320
Speaker 1: Bill's Rams makes a lot of sense for that opening.

1263
01:08:48,360 --> 01:08:51,400
Speaker 1: The only reservation we have about that, Mike is and

1264
01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:53,760
Speaker 1: one of our callers actually point that pointed this out.

1265
01:08:54,400 --> 01:08:59,280
Speaker 1: The league very rarely goes interconference with that kickoff game.

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Speaker 1: They are usual really intraconference matchups. You know Bucks, you know,

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Speaker 1: Cowboys at Bucks. You know the year after Brady won

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl with the Bucks, they usually stay in conference.

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Speaker 1: That was the only thing that was giving us pause.

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01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:14,639
Speaker 1: But man, I mean the von Miller's storyline alone, um

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01:09:15,520 --> 01:09:17,519
Speaker 1: is enough to make me say, you know, stick that

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01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:21,519
Speaker 1: thing in Week one on Thursday and forget about it. Yeah,

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01:09:21,600 --> 01:09:23,800
Speaker 1: let's roll with it. And if you're the Bills, that's

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01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:25,559
Speaker 1: probably not the worst thing in the world. If you're

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01:09:25,600 --> 01:09:28,280
Speaker 1: coming back with the night game against the Titans like that,

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01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:31,080
Speaker 1: that from a scheduling perspective, would be pretty nice for them.

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01:09:31,640 --> 01:09:33,280
Speaker 1: You know, you put all your eggs in that and

1278
01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:36,519
Speaker 1: that you know, Thursday night bat basket and then you

1279
01:09:36,640 --> 01:09:39,320
Speaker 1: have plenty of time to sort of reshuffle the deck

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Speaker 1: and get ready for the Titans in week two. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can I can see where you're coming from him.

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01:09:45,720 --> 01:09:48,919
Speaker 1: Maybe Brady's return, you know, from his forty day retirement,

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01:09:49,240 --> 01:09:51,479
Speaker 1: maybe the changes the equation there as well. I mean,

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01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:53,840
Speaker 1: I think the stories flowed out there today that that

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01:09:54,320 --> 01:09:56,800
Speaker 1: they the schedule was done and then Brady came out

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01:09:56,840 --> 01:09:58,560
Speaker 1: of retirement and they had to go back to the

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01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:01,200
Speaker 1: drawing board. So maybe you put him an opening day,

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01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:04,760
Speaker 1: but you know, I'm gonna stick with my I'm gonna

1289
01:10:04,760 --> 01:10:07,960
Speaker 1: stick with my Josh Allen versus Matt Stafford in the open. Yeah,

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01:10:08,120 --> 01:10:10,439
Speaker 1: and it makes sense too because of that opening weekend,

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01:10:10,520 --> 01:10:12,880
Speaker 1: you can kind of tailor make your schedule leading up

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01:10:12,880 --> 01:10:16,080
Speaker 1: to it, with your last preseason game on the Thursday preceding,

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01:10:16,160 --> 01:10:18,040
Speaker 1: get a full week of preparation, even though it's a

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01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:21,200
Speaker 1: it would otherwise be a short week. You don't have

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01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:23,120
Speaker 1: to make it that way if if you get a

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01:10:23,200 --> 01:10:25,760
Speaker 1: chance to do that on opening weekend. So that's that's

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01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:27,360
Speaker 1: another way that it will be good for the Buffalo

1298
01:10:27,439 --> 01:10:29,200
Speaker 1: Bills not to get a short week on a Thursday

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01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:32,920
Speaker 1: night game and then, Mike, the last thing is for

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01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:35,800
Speaker 1: me with respect to the division. I know you feel

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01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:37,759
Speaker 1: like the Dolphins are going to be the most changed

1302
01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:41,720
Speaker 1: because of their additions, new head coach, etc. Do you

1303
01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:47,240
Speaker 1: think the deck shuffles in any surprising way? And I

1304
01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:50,040
Speaker 1: guess what I'm getting at there is, you know, people

1305
01:10:50,120 --> 01:10:54,439
Speaker 1: aren't all that overly impressed with what New England has

1306
01:10:54,520 --> 01:10:57,000
Speaker 1: done this offseason. I think many would argue there's been

1307
01:10:57,040 --> 01:11:00,120
Speaker 1: more subtraction than quality addition, at least in terms of

1308
01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:04,120
Speaker 1: what's going to help them right away. And then the Jets,

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01:11:04,160 --> 01:11:06,639
Speaker 1: with the draft they had, people could see them being

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01:11:06,720 --> 01:11:09,120
Speaker 1: a much tougher out this fall, and I would tend

1311
01:11:09,160 --> 01:11:12,880
Speaker 1: to agree. But could you see the pecking order behind

1312
01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:15,680
Speaker 1: the Bills changing in any dramatic way because of what

1313
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:19,640
Speaker 1: we've witnessed from those three teams this offseason? Yeah? The

1314
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:21,840
Speaker 1: only thing I could see is maybe in Miami taking

1315
01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:25,080
Speaker 1: the jump to number two over the Patriots. As you mentioned,

1316
01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:28,160
Speaker 1: I think the Patriots more good players went out the

1317
01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:31,080
Speaker 1: building than have come in the building. I think what

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01:11:31,200 --> 01:11:35,000
Speaker 1: they'll tell you internally is they're hoping, believing that they'll

1319
01:11:35,040 --> 01:11:37,800
Speaker 1: be a big jump from some of those second year guys.

1320
01:11:37,880 --> 01:11:40,240
Speaker 1: Free agency wise that they signed a year ago. You know,

1321
01:11:40,320 --> 01:11:43,320
Speaker 1: Jonas Smith was mostly missing on a milk carton on

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01:11:43,360 --> 01:11:45,639
Speaker 1: the side of the milk carton last year. They need

1323
01:11:45,720 --> 01:11:47,360
Speaker 1: more from him. They feel like they're going to get that.

1324
01:11:48,400 --> 01:11:51,160
Speaker 1: And whether it's Nelson aghilor taking a step up or

1325
01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:54,439
Speaker 1: in making the trade for DeVante Parker, getting more out

1326
01:11:54,479 --> 01:11:57,960
Speaker 1: of that outside receiver position is something that they believe in.

1327
01:11:58,520 --> 01:12:01,000
Speaker 1: And I think they think Kendrick Borne is an ascending player.

1328
01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:02,880
Speaker 1: Now does that mean he's an eighty five catch guy,

1329
01:12:03,280 --> 01:12:06,880
Speaker 1: Probably not, but that there's even more room for improvement there.

1330
01:12:06,960 --> 01:12:09,000
Speaker 1: So I think that's what they're hanging their hats on.

1331
01:12:09,439 --> 01:12:13,200
Speaker 1: I just I don't know if they've done enough from

1332
01:12:13,360 --> 01:12:15,880
Speaker 1: the defensive level, where you know, as you well know,

1333
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:17,760
Speaker 1: they haven't punted against the Bill. They couldn't make the

1334
01:12:17,800 --> 01:12:19,840
Speaker 1: Bills punt for two and a half games. I don't

1335
01:12:19,880 --> 01:12:22,360
Speaker 1: see any reason why that has gotten any better. I

1336
01:12:22,400 --> 01:12:24,760
Speaker 1: don't think they've gotten much faster at the linebacker level,

1337
01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:27,680
Speaker 1: and certainly I believe that they're not as good at

1338
01:12:27,720 --> 01:12:31,200
Speaker 1: the cornerback position without JC Jackson, so um, they're gonna

1339
01:12:31,200 --> 01:12:33,120
Speaker 1: be throwing a lot of darts at that position. Malcolm

1340
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:36,840
Speaker 1: Butler coming out of retirement. They signed Terrence Mitchell in

1341
01:12:36,880 --> 01:12:39,040
Speaker 1: free agency to a one year deal. He was with

1342
01:12:39,160 --> 01:12:42,760
Speaker 1: the Texans last year, and there's I think they're hoping

1343
01:12:42,800 --> 01:12:44,759
Speaker 1: they catch lightning at a bottle with one of those guys.

1344
01:12:45,600 --> 01:12:48,559
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if there's lightning left in the in those

1345
01:12:48,600 --> 01:12:51,479
Speaker 1: players at this point. So, um yeah, I just I

1346
01:12:51,560 --> 01:12:53,599
Speaker 1: don't see that from them. I don't think they're gonna

1347
01:12:53,600 --> 01:12:55,640
Speaker 1: take this big step back. But you know, if they

1348
01:12:55,760 --> 01:12:57,479
Speaker 1: if you told me they're NBA eight and nine, nine

1349
01:12:57,520 --> 01:12:59,040
Speaker 1: and eight at the end of the year of the Patriots,

1350
01:12:59,560 --> 01:13:01,559
Speaker 1: I'd will be saying that's about as good a place

1351
01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:04,200
Speaker 1: to put him. And the Jets clearly have made you know,

1352
01:13:04,439 --> 01:13:08,479
Speaker 1: I think they've improved the roster. It feels like, and

1353
01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:10,439
Speaker 1: I was there during the draft week, it feels like

1354
01:13:10,520 --> 01:13:13,000
Speaker 1: Joe Douglas and Robert Saler on the same page, which

1355
01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:15,400
Speaker 1: has been a problem in New York for a long

1356
01:13:15,479 --> 01:13:19,840
Speaker 1: time with the Jets coaches and general managers, and so

1357
01:13:19,960 --> 01:13:22,479
Speaker 1: there's a good synergy there. I think the big question

1358
01:13:22,560 --> 01:13:25,000
Speaker 1: for them is just, you know, well, Zach wasn't very

1359
01:13:25,040 --> 01:13:27,559
Speaker 1: good last year, and I think everybody looks at Josh

1360
01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:30,479
Speaker 1: Allen says, well, Josh made this massive leap after two years.

1361
01:13:30,920 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 1: You know, even after from a year one to year two.

1362
01:13:33,040 --> 01:13:35,200
Speaker 1: I remember talking to you guys, it's like fifty two

1363
01:13:35,240 --> 01:13:37,639
Speaker 1: percent completion percentage, and he went up to fifty nine.

1364
01:13:38,040 --> 01:13:41,200
Speaker 1: Zach was around fifty four last year. He's got to

1365
01:13:41,240 --> 01:13:43,920
Speaker 1: get in the sixties for that team and that offense

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01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:46,640
Speaker 1: to be someone that can compete in this division and

1367
01:13:46,760 --> 01:13:49,760
Speaker 1: give teams, you know, more fits than they certainly gave

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01:13:49,840 --> 01:13:52,640
Speaker 1: him last year. And look they're giving in pieces and

1369
01:13:52,680 --> 01:13:55,720
Speaker 1: they're getting better upfront, so they're sort of doing what

1370
01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:58,760
Speaker 1: Miami's done, like, Okay, we're doing what we can for you.

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01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:00,800
Speaker 1: Now you have to show us that you're worthy of it,

1372
01:14:01,200 --> 01:14:03,360
Speaker 1: or you know, maybe they find themselves in the same

1373
01:14:03,400 --> 01:14:07,360
Speaker 1: position where they're once again searching for a quarterback next year. Mike,

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01:14:07,479 --> 01:14:09,439
Speaker 1: thanks a lot. We really appreciate you spending some time

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01:14:09,479 --> 01:14:12,519
Speaker 1: with us anytime. Guys, always a pleasure catch up with

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01:14:12,560 --> 01:14:15,360
Speaker 1: you down the line. Mike, thanks again. Mike Giardi, NFL

1377
01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:17,560
Speaker 1: Network reporter, usually as his ear to the ground on

1378
01:14:17,600 --> 01:14:21,240
Speaker 1: the AFC East, but sometimes Widen's scope, wanted to get

1379
01:14:21,320 --> 01:14:23,880
Speaker 1: his thoughts post draft to put a Bow on that

1380
01:14:24,040 --> 01:14:26,800
Speaker 1: and then some NFL scheduling and what he kind of

1381
01:14:26,880 --> 01:14:29,800
Speaker 1: perceives at least right now as the pecking order for

1382
01:14:29,880 --> 01:14:34,719
Speaker 1: the AFC East behind the two time defending Division champion

1383
01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:37,479
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. We will take a break here more of

1384
01:14:37,520 --> 01:14:41,080
Speaker 1: your phone calls, though, when we come back about that

1385
01:14:41,280 --> 01:14:44,559
Speaker 1: Bill's NFL schedule for the twenty twenty two season. Where

1386
01:14:44,560 --> 01:14:47,360
Speaker 1: do you think this Week two Titans Monday night home

1387
01:14:47,439 --> 01:14:50,920
Speaker 1: game will rank when the full seventeen game schedule for

1388
01:14:51,000 --> 01:14:53,720
Speaker 1: Buffalo was released on Thursday, let us know open line

1389
01:14:53,760 --> 01:14:55,760
Speaker 1: for you at eight oh three oh five fifty one

1390
01:14:55,880 --> 01:14:58,040
Speaker 1: eighty eight five fifty two five fifty more of your

1391
01:14:58,080 --> 01:15:11,479
Speaker 1: phone calls next here on one Bill's Live State. All right,

1392
01:15:11,520 --> 01:15:13,639
Speaker 1: welcome back to one Bills five Chris Brown's teach after

1393
01:15:13,720 --> 01:15:16,599
Speaker 1: with you as always here on Monday on NFL schedule

1394
01:15:16,880 --> 01:15:19,720
Speaker 1: release week, and as we've mentioned, we already know the

1395
01:15:19,760 --> 01:15:22,679
Speaker 1: Week two matchup for the Bills. It's Bills versus Titans

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01:15:22,720 --> 01:15:27,080
Speaker 1: at home on Monday night football d d dun d D.

1397
01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:33,280
Speaker 1: So we're asking you, knowing that game on the schedule already,

1398
01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:36,280
Speaker 1: where do you think that thing ranks or will rank

1399
01:15:36,400 --> 01:15:38,360
Speaker 1: once the full schedule is out because there are some

1400
01:15:38,439 --> 01:15:45,040
Speaker 1: pretty darn good nationally televised game worthy opponents on Buffalo's schedule.

1401
01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:49,040
Speaker 1: Will this home one against Monday Night still rank is

1402
01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:51,719
Speaker 1: a top three game when all seventeen games are announced.

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01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:53,599
Speaker 1: That's what we want to know from you at eight three,

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01:15:53,840 --> 01:15:55,760
Speaker 1: five fifty. So back to the phones we go, and

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01:15:55,880 --> 01:16:00,320
Speaker 1: to Jeff on a sell What do you have first? Jeff, Hey, guys,

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01:16:00,479 --> 01:16:04,000
Speaker 1: how are you guys doing? Say? Uh, I just I

1407
01:16:04,120 --> 01:16:06,519
Speaker 1: just want to say, Look, the enthusiasm for the Bills

1408
01:16:06,640 --> 01:16:10,000
Speaker 1: these days around this area is as high as it's

1409
01:16:10,080 --> 01:16:14,120
Speaker 1: ever been, and you know, including during Steve's you know,

1410
01:16:14,240 --> 01:16:19,280
Speaker 1: heyday and uh, you know, I I think there are

1411
01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:21,800
Speaker 1: I don't know how many games. There's a there's a

1412
01:16:21,880 --> 01:16:24,840
Speaker 1: bunch of games out there ranking the Titans game in

1413
01:16:24,920 --> 01:16:28,479
Speaker 1: the top three. I think it's pretty tough. There's a

1414
01:16:28,880 --> 01:16:32,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got you You've got uh you know,

1415
01:16:32,439 --> 01:16:35,000
Speaker 1: the Rams game, of course, the Chiefs game, of course,

1416
01:16:35,560 --> 01:16:38,880
Speaker 1: the Bengals, you know, you know with the Burrow and Chase.

1417
01:16:39,040 --> 01:16:42,880
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's that's a show. Uh. Rogers and

1418
01:16:42,960 --> 01:16:45,240
Speaker 1: the Packers. I mean, you know, Rogers has talked about

1419
01:16:45,320 --> 01:16:49,920
Speaker 1: constantly all the time. Uh, he's he's you know, he's

1420
01:16:49,960 --> 01:16:53,920
Speaker 1: a show in himself. And what about Pittsburgh with me?

1421
01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:58,920
Speaker 1: And uh what the uh there's a couple other games

1422
01:16:58,960 --> 01:17:01,880
Speaker 1: in there, oh the uh. I would rank I would

1423
01:17:01,960 --> 01:17:05,080
Speaker 1: rank the Titans game somewhere around six or seven. Okay,

1424
01:17:05,720 --> 01:17:09,559
Speaker 1: even though it's a home Monday nighter. Okay, Well yeah,

1425
01:17:09,600 --> 01:17:11,439
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I don't care when it is.

1426
01:17:12,080 --> 01:17:14,160
Speaker 1: I don't care whether it's a home Monday nighter or

1427
01:17:14,479 --> 01:17:17,280
Speaker 1: you know, a one o'clock on Sunday game. They're all

1428
01:17:17,360 --> 01:17:20,360
Speaker 1: gonna be big games this year. Yeah, yeah, because everybody's

1429
01:17:20,360 --> 01:17:24,519
Speaker 1: gonna be watching them. You know, every TV in Western

1430
01:17:24,560 --> 01:17:26,960
Speaker 1: New York. Is it gonna be turned into tuned into

1431
01:17:27,040 --> 01:17:30,599
Speaker 1: that game, whatever game it is. Yeah, I would just think.

1432
01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:34,240
Speaker 1: I would just think, Jeff, for the fans that do

1433
01:17:34,439 --> 01:17:37,000
Speaker 1: go to the games, the fact that it's a Monday

1434
01:17:37,120 --> 01:17:40,560
Speaker 1: night home game, that that's going to resonate with the

1435
01:17:40,640 --> 01:17:45,760
Speaker 1: people that do go to the games. I agree with you, Chris. Yeah,

1436
01:17:46,880 --> 01:17:49,439
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if it gets ratcheted up even higher if

1437
01:17:49,520 --> 01:17:52,120
Speaker 1: we find out that it's the home opener. I mean,

1438
01:17:52,160 --> 01:17:54,760
Speaker 1: it could move up the chart even more if they're

1439
01:17:54,800 --> 01:17:57,080
Speaker 1: on the road week one, and that's the home opener

1440
01:17:57,520 --> 01:18:01,920
Speaker 1: in primetime on Monday night. Well, yeah, no, I understand that.

1441
01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:04,040
Speaker 1: I understand as far as as far as the guys,

1442
01:18:04,120 --> 01:18:07,200
Speaker 1: the people in the stands are concerned, But the people

1443
01:18:07,280 --> 01:18:10,400
Speaker 1: sitting at home watching the game on TV sounds like, Jeff,

1444
01:18:10,479 --> 01:18:12,360
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's gonna be a big game. The

1445
01:18:12,479 --> 01:18:15,360
Speaker 1: Tennessee game is a big game, no question about it.

1446
01:18:15,439 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 1: They're a good team. But you've got the Browns. I mean,

1447
01:18:19,240 --> 01:18:23,400
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen? You know if Deshaun Watson, yeah he

1448
01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:25,559
Speaker 1: might he could play, he may not play. We don't

1449
01:18:25,600 --> 01:18:28,400
Speaker 1: know is playing. I mean that, you know, think about

1450
01:18:28,439 --> 01:18:32,920
Speaker 1: the controversy that's gonna be created whenever they play them. Uh.

1451
01:18:33,640 --> 01:18:35,799
Speaker 1: And then you got the Ravens. I mean, Lamar Jackson's

1452
01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:39,160
Speaker 1: a show. Yeah. Uh you know, you know, so I

1453
01:18:39,160 --> 01:18:42,040
Speaker 1: would I would rank I would rank the Tennessee game

1454
01:18:42,120 --> 01:18:45,559
Speaker 1: somewhere around the uh around the Ravens. All right, well

1455
01:18:45,560 --> 01:18:48,680
Speaker 1: we all we always welcome against seven yeahs, Like you know,

1456
01:18:49,160 --> 01:18:53,560
Speaker 1: overall appeal for a national audience, I would say, you know,

1457
01:18:53,640 --> 01:18:55,600
Speaker 1: because the national audience doesn't care if the games in

1458
01:18:55,640 --> 01:19:00,240
Speaker 1: Buffalo or in Tennessee. Um, that's you know, as far

1459
01:19:00,280 --> 01:19:03,320
Speaker 1: as people in Seattle are concerned, they don't care. But

1460
01:19:03,720 --> 01:19:07,120
Speaker 1: people in Seattle, if they're playing, if Seattle is playing,

1461
01:19:07,280 --> 01:19:11,200
Speaker 1: you know, some random team, they might rather watch the

1462
01:19:11,280 --> 01:19:15,640
Speaker 1: Buffalo Kansas City game or the Buffalos about that, But

1463
01:19:15,880 --> 01:19:18,080
Speaker 1: because the hometown team is always gonna want to watch

1464
01:19:18,120 --> 01:19:20,400
Speaker 1: their club no matter who you're playing. So I mean,

1465
01:19:20,439 --> 01:19:22,840
Speaker 1: I get that, but no, Seattle is not gonna watch

1466
01:19:22,920 --> 01:19:25,000
Speaker 1: Buffalo instead of Seattle. If the Seattle is playing a

1467
01:19:25,040 --> 01:19:27,040
Speaker 1: bad team, that's not gonna happen. It's just like Buffalo.

1468
01:19:27,320 --> 01:19:31,559
Speaker 1: And but I get what you're saying. I don't agree

1469
01:19:31,640 --> 01:19:35,680
Speaker 1: with you that nobody cares outside of Buffalo where the

1470
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:37,559
Speaker 1: game is being played. I think they do. I think

1471
01:19:37,600 --> 01:19:40,400
Speaker 1: people really care because they give the edge to the

1472
01:19:40,479 --> 01:19:44,320
Speaker 1: home team. And if Buffalo is hosting, say the Rams,

1473
01:19:44,600 --> 01:19:47,280
Speaker 1: instead of the other way around, people say, hey, that's

1474
01:19:47,320 --> 01:19:48,680
Speaker 1: gonna be hard for the Rams, and when they're and

1475
01:19:48,760 --> 01:19:52,680
Speaker 1: beat that team, being at home on a Monday night,

1476
01:19:53,240 --> 01:19:56,519
Speaker 1: being at home on a Monday night is huge for

1477
01:19:56,720 --> 01:19:59,479
Speaker 1: most fan bases, and most people around the country take

1478
01:19:59,560 --> 01:20:01,680
Speaker 1: that into when they think about where they play. It's

1479
01:20:01,800 --> 01:20:06,040
Speaker 1: it's Giants, Giants Dallas. Where is it to New York

1480
01:20:06,120 --> 01:20:09,000
Speaker 1: nos in Dallas. Well, that's different. Um, it does make

1481
01:20:09,040 --> 01:20:11,559
Speaker 1: a difference. I think for Monday night games, we always

1482
01:20:11,600 --> 01:20:14,160
Speaker 1: welcome a discerning opinion, though, So thanks for the college aff.

1483
01:20:14,200 --> 01:20:16,240
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. He's only got it in his top

1484
01:20:16,320 --> 01:20:18,800
Speaker 1: six or seven games based on the other opponents he

1485
01:20:18,880 --> 01:20:21,519
Speaker 1: sees on the schedule. I get it. He's Green Bay.

1486
01:20:21,640 --> 01:20:24,760
Speaker 1: Green Bay's juicier. And you said it earlier, Steve Tennessee.

1487
01:20:25,560 --> 01:20:27,360
Speaker 1: You know they might be down a little this year.

1488
01:20:27,600 --> 01:20:30,719
Speaker 1: They've had They've had wholesale changes on their offensive line

1489
01:20:30,760 --> 01:20:33,920
Speaker 1: and haven't really reinvested in a major way with free

1490
01:20:33,960 --> 01:20:39,320
Speaker 1: agents up front. You know, they lost a j. Brown

1491
01:20:39,439 --> 01:20:43,800
Speaker 1: via trade, and Derrick Henry's a year older, and Ryan

1492
01:20:43,880 --> 01:20:46,040
Speaker 1: Tannehill has not gotten off on the best foot with

1493
01:20:46,160 --> 01:20:48,800
Speaker 1: the new quarterback in the door in Malique Willis not

1494
01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:52,080
Speaker 1: to mention the fact that he's never won a start

1495
01:20:52,479 --> 01:20:55,880
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. So there's that too. Yeah, there is chew

1496
01:20:55,960 --> 01:20:58,960
Speaker 1: on that one. Um, so yeah, there's there are a

1497
01:20:59,080 --> 01:21:00,800
Speaker 1: lot of They're all a lot of layers too, And

1498
01:21:00,880 --> 01:21:02,639
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna deny it for a second, But Jeff

1499
01:21:02,680 --> 01:21:05,360
Speaker 1: doesn't think it's gonna resonate as much as you know,

1500
01:21:05,400 --> 01:21:08,320
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs game, the Rams game, the Cincinnati game.

1501
01:21:08,360 --> 01:21:10,720
Speaker 1: He also mentioned Baltimore, and you know, I can, I

1502
01:21:10,800 --> 01:21:13,800
Speaker 1: can get on board with that opinion. Yeah, I respect it. Yeah,

1503
01:21:13,880 --> 01:21:16,200
Speaker 1: and I was only half joking. I mean the Mitch

1504
01:21:16,280 --> 01:21:20,360
Speaker 1: Trubisky game against Pittsburgh, Uh, is a little more interesting

1505
01:21:20,479 --> 01:21:22,599
Speaker 1: to me than I don't know, I think it's even

1506
01:21:22,680 --> 01:21:25,280
Speaker 1: more interesting to me than the Baltimore game with the

1507
01:21:25,360 --> 01:21:29,160
Speaker 1: former Room v p Lamar Jackson. Yeah, um, I think

1508
01:21:29,240 --> 01:21:30,920
Speaker 1: I think Baltimore is gonna be a really good team

1509
01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:34,280
Speaker 1: this year. Um, they might run it fifty times. Yeah,

1510
01:21:34,400 --> 01:21:36,479
Speaker 1: well that you know, you gotta you gotta play what

1511
01:21:36,600 --> 01:21:39,599
Speaker 1: they draft two. I think they drafted another tight end,

1512
01:21:39,640 --> 01:21:43,479
Speaker 1: another running two running backs, another tight end. People were joking,

1513
01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:46,719
Speaker 1: what are I gonna play fifteen personnel because they traded

1514
01:21:46,760 --> 01:21:49,800
Speaker 1: away Hollywood Brown, Right, they drafted like a tight end

1515
01:21:50,200 --> 01:21:52,000
Speaker 1: and two running backs that people are like, well, I

1516
01:21:52,080 --> 01:21:55,040
Speaker 1: gotta play fifteen personnel the all game. Yeah, that's true. Funny.

1517
01:21:55,080 --> 01:21:57,160
Speaker 1: It was a good tweet. And he's right, there are

1518
01:21:57,200 --> 01:22:03,760
Speaker 1: a lot of market Aaron Rodgers against Josh Allen. You know,

1519
01:22:03,840 --> 01:22:06,759
Speaker 1: the only one that's not a sexy in that group

1520
01:22:07,560 --> 01:22:12,599
Speaker 1: would be Chicago and Detroit. You know, those two games

1521
01:22:12,720 --> 01:22:15,599
Speaker 1: are the only ones that are like yeah. Ever, other

1522
01:22:15,680 --> 01:22:17,680
Speaker 1: than that, Josh Allen gives them some star power in

1523
01:22:17,720 --> 01:22:20,280
Speaker 1: any of these games and the matchups otherwise, particularly the

1524
01:22:20,400 --> 01:22:25,320
Speaker 1: Cleveland matchup, whether it's Baker Mayfield or Yeah or Deshaun Watson.

1525
01:22:26,000 --> 01:22:28,679
Speaker 1: Time for us to go to the tweet sheet presented

1526
01:22:28,680 --> 01:22:32,800
Speaker 1: by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of

1527
01:22:32,920 --> 01:22:35,120
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Where do you think the bills week

1528
01:22:35,200 --> 01:22:37,360
Speaker 1: to Monday night football game against the Titans will rank

1529
01:22:37,439 --> 01:22:42,120
Speaker 1: when the full schedules out? Nick says, anytime the Bills

1530
01:22:42,240 --> 01:22:46,400
Speaker 1: play the previous season top seeds, it should be ranked

1531
01:22:46,520 --> 01:22:49,040
Speaker 1: very high. You have to beat the best at home,

1532
01:22:49,400 --> 01:22:51,880
Speaker 1: and with the talented editions, I expect a bit of

1533
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:55,040
Speaker 1: a whooping to come from the Bills for this Monday nighter.

1534
01:22:55,439 --> 01:23:00,120
Speaker 1: Go Bills Bills Mafia. Seth says top five. But I

1535
01:23:00,160 --> 01:23:02,720
Speaker 1: think the Casey and Green Bay games will both be

1536
01:23:02,800 --> 01:23:05,600
Speaker 1: Sunday nighters. Probably get a Thursday night football game in

1537
01:23:05,680 --> 01:23:08,280
Speaker 1: there too. I'm thinking against Since and I still think

1538
01:23:08,360 --> 01:23:11,120
Speaker 1: we get the opener versus LA. You know, that's kind

1539
01:23:11,160 --> 01:23:13,040
Speaker 1: of in the ballpark. You know, we've had a couple

1540
01:23:13,120 --> 01:23:15,640
Speaker 1: of people on the tweet sheet and the call. We

1541
01:23:15,960 --> 01:23:18,880
Speaker 1: didn't mention the Packers game. I mean that's a quarterback

1542
01:23:19,479 --> 01:23:23,040
Speaker 1: head to header. It's tough to top. Yeah, you think

1543
01:23:23,040 --> 01:23:28,880
Speaker 1: about Kansas City Rogers and Allen since and LA. All

1544
01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:32,320
Speaker 1: of those games could could be primetime games. They could

1545
01:23:32,360 --> 01:23:34,120
Speaker 1: be Like I say, they keep saying, there's a lot

1546
01:23:34,160 --> 01:23:37,760
Speaker 1: of primetime games that are standalone games on holidays like

1547
01:23:37,840 --> 01:23:40,800
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and Christmas. This year, there's six games there that

1548
01:23:40,880 --> 01:23:43,360
Speaker 1: are up for grabs. I could see Bill's Packers in

1549
01:23:43,439 --> 01:23:45,680
Speaker 1: that four o'clock window. Can't you go to most of

1550
01:23:45,720 --> 01:23:50,800
Speaker 1: the country Bill's Packers and four o'clock Allen Rodgers, that's

1551
01:23:50,880 --> 01:23:55,400
Speaker 1: the monster Winyah Sunday Christmas Day o'clock game, Bills in

1552
01:23:55,479 --> 01:23:59,000
Speaker 1: green Ball, two small markets, all the big markets can

1553
01:23:59,040 --> 01:24:05,680
Speaker 1: stay home. That's yeah, yeah, that could happen. RJ on

1554
01:24:05,760 --> 01:24:08,600
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet says it's gonna rank number six for me.

1555
01:24:08,760 --> 01:24:12,120
Speaker 1: So he's in He's in Jeff's boat. There's other matchups

1556
01:24:12,160 --> 01:24:15,439
Speaker 1: that will be bigger Rams, Chiefs, Packers, Patriots, Dolphins, maybe

1557
01:24:15,479 --> 01:24:20,080
Speaker 1: even Bengals. Our schedule is tough, all caps, it is.

1558
01:24:20,360 --> 01:24:24,640
Speaker 1: It's a it's a barnburner man. Yeah, it's a barnburner

1559
01:24:24,640 --> 01:24:26,600
Speaker 1: of a schedule. It's not as tough as it was

1560
01:24:26,680 --> 01:24:29,080
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty when they plowed through that one, but

1561
01:24:29,840 --> 01:24:33,280
Speaker 1: it's difficult and there's a new complexion to the division.

1562
01:24:33,280 --> 01:24:35,360
Speaker 1: A couple of division games now, you know, with Tyreek

1563
01:24:35,960 --> 01:24:40,200
Speaker 1: Hill and my tehront Armstead new head coach in Miami,

1564
01:24:40,320 --> 01:24:43,439
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, that that game's got a different complexion on it.

1565
01:24:43,479 --> 01:24:47,519
Speaker 1: And with all the draft picks in New York, Jets

1566
01:24:47,560 --> 01:24:49,479
Speaker 1: are gonna be a tough out. I think they're gonna

1567
01:24:49,479 --> 01:24:51,760
Speaker 1: be plucky this year. I mean, they still might only

1568
01:24:51,800 --> 01:24:54,360
Speaker 1: win seven games, but they're gonna be a tougher out

1569
01:24:54,439 --> 01:24:57,040
Speaker 1: than people will give him credit for it. I got

1570
01:24:57,160 --> 01:25:00,320
Speaker 1: Jordan Whitehead to safety and free agency. If it weren't

1571
01:25:00,400 --> 01:25:03,479
Speaker 1: if it weren't listen to this, if it weren't for history,

1572
01:25:04,320 --> 01:25:06,120
Speaker 1: you'd think the Jets would beat the stew out of

1573
01:25:06,120 --> 01:25:08,800
Speaker 1: the Patriots this year. I'm telling you, I'm not. You

1574
01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:10,200
Speaker 1: know what I mean, I'm not putting it past the

1575
01:25:10,280 --> 01:25:12,960
Speaker 1: Jets to finish ahead of New England this year. Maybe

1576
01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:14,840
Speaker 1: go it's not with a little bit of luck. I

1577
01:25:14,920 --> 01:25:17,479
Speaker 1: know we had seven and ten. We had Mike Girardi on.

1578
01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:19,639
Speaker 1: He covered the Patriots for a lot of years before

1579
01:25:19,680 --> 01:25:23,040
Speaker 1: we got to the NFL network, and you know, talking

1580
01:25:23,080 --> 01:25:25,519
Speaker 1: about the Patriots draft and you know, kind of summon

1581
01:25:25,600 --> 01:25:28,200
Speaker 1: it up for us. It is hard to get excited

1582
01:25:28,200 --> 01:25:31,519
Speaker 1: about that draft that the Patriots put together. It's really

1583
01:25:31,640 --> 01:25:34,080
Speaker 1: hard to spend that and say, wow, okay, we're gonna

1584
01:25:34,120 --> 01:25:39,640
Speaker 1: be better now. Certainly the wide receiver um gives them

1585
01:25:39,720 --> 01:25:45,120
Speaker 1: some speed. That's one guy, and I don't know that.

1586
01:25:45,280 --> 01:25:47,760
Speaker 1: And I don't take your relative athletic scores and they

1587
01:25:47,880 --> 01:25:50,720
Speaker 1: have a value. I mean that every one of the

1588
01:25:50,800 --> 01:25:54,840
Speaker 1: Bill's draft choices had a relative athletics score over eight

1589
01:25:55,080 --> 01:26:00,360
Speaker 1: except for one player. So it matters, but you should

1590
01:26:00,400 --> 01:26:02,360
Speaker 1: not put that at the top of your priority list

1591
01:26:02,400 --> 01:26:04,840
Speaker 1: when you're drafting players. That's not You could have a

1592
01:26:04,880 --> 01:26:07,200
Speaker 1: guy that runs four to eight, But if you can't

1593
01:26:07,240 --> 01:26:09,479
Speaker 1: get separation, what the hell does it matter. That sounds

1594
01:26:09,520 --> 01:26:13,200
Speaker 1: like revisionist history to me. It's rationalizing it after the

1595
01:26:13,280 --> 01:26:17,080
Speaker 1: fact when people are like, because you got a head

1596
01:26:17,120 --> 01:26:20,679
Speaker 1: coach and a general manager of another team openly laughing

1597
01:26:21,600 --> 01:26:24,280
Speaker 1: at a at your first round draft pick. That's like

1598
01:26:24,439 --> 01:26:30,080
Speaker 1: the Jets when they took the fullback Roger Vick, that's

1599
01:26:30,320 --> 01:26:33,639
Speaker 1: or Kyle Brady. It's it's like twelve overall, not even

1600
01:26:33,800 --> 01:26:37,080
Speaker 1: not even Kyle Brady. Least it's a regular position, right,

1601
01:26:37,120 --> 01:26:42,920
Speaker 1: a fullback. That's and and this shy this year. This year,

1602
01:26:43,880 --> 01:26:49,480
Speaker 1: Sean McVay and Less Snead openly laughed, and we're incredulous

1603
01:26:50,840 --> 01:26:56,880
Speaker 1: at Cole Strange to the New England Patriots. You can

1604
01:26:56,960 --> 01:26:59,639
Speaker 1: spend any way you want, but man, that's you can't.

1605
01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:02,120
Speaker 1: You can't sit here today and tell me the Patriots

1606
01:27:02,200 --> 01:27:08,280
Speaker 1: defense is a faster or be better than it was

1607
01:27:08,439 --> 01:27:10,599
Speaker 1: last year. As a matter of fact, I would argue

1608
01:27:10,600 --> 01:27:12,479
Speaker 1: that it's going to be worse this year. And that's

1609
01:27:12,520 --> 01:27:14,519
Speaker 1: not a good recipe in this division. You started out

1610
01:27:14,560 --> 01:27:16,720
Speaker 1: the show saying, you know, Bradbury from the Giants, the

1611
01:27:16,800 --> 01:27:19,400
Speaker 1: cornerback from the Giants long told Patriots should be all

1612
01:27:19,439 --> 01:27:21,840
Speaker 1: over the Patriots. Maybe, I mean they they've already said

1613
01:27:21,920 --> 01:27:26,800
Speaker 1: last Las Vegas the Patriots and Dallas or was at Tampa.

1614
01:27:26,880 --> 01:27:29,680
Speaker 1: B No, it's one of the or Philly, one of

1615
01:27:29,720 --> 01:27:32,240
Speaker 1: the other nfct's teams should be jumping all over the guy.

1616
01:27:32,760 --> 01:27:37,200
Speaker 1: But yeah, the Patriots couldn't do that. And they'd get better. Man.

1617
01:27:37,240 --> 01:27:39,720
Speaker 1: Oh man, breaks have been that anytime you want, but

1618
01:27:39,800 --> 01:27:41,880
Speaker 1: you got to spin it. Yeah, break time for us here,

1619
01:27:41,960 --> 01:27:43,759
Speaker 1: Steve and I to close it up with an interesting

1620
01:27:43,880 --> 01:27:58,639
Speaker 1: DMV story. We'll tell you next, all right, we only

1621
01:27:58,680 --> 01:28:00,439
Speaker 1: have a minute, so we wanted to share this story

1622
01:28:00,560 --> 01:28:04,120
Speaker 1: very quickly. Steve with a DMV story courtesy of his mother.

1623
01:28:04,280 --> 01:28:06,720
Speaker 1: My mom ninety two butt dialed me today because she

1624
01:28:06,800 --> 01:28:09,040
Speaker 1: was trying to send me a text let me know. Uh.

1625
01:28:09,479 --> 01:28:11,479
Speaker 1: I called her, of course, and she said, I just

1626
01:28:11,560 --> 01:28:13,479
Speaker 1: want you to know I got my driver's license renewed.

1627
01:28:13,520 --> 01:28:15,840
Speaker 1: She's ninety two. Yeah. But the best part of the

1628
01:28:15,920 --> 01:28:19,280
Speaker 1: second part of there's no expiration date on on a license.

1629
01:28:21,560 --> 01:28:22,960
Speaker 1: They don't put it like you got to come back

1630
01:28:22,960 --> 01:28:25,040
Speaker 1: and redo it. She got it. Never has to take

1631
01:28:25,080 --> 01:28:27,960
Speaker 1: another driver's test. That I said, Mom, I said, I

1632
01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:30,160
Speaker 1: don't know whether to be proud of you or appalled

1633
01:28:30,240 --> 01:28:32,479
Speaker 1: at the DMV has given you. Ninety two year old,

1634
01:28:32,840 --> 01:28:38,320
Speaker 1: great state of Kansas is DMV no expiration date, Joanne.

1635
01:28:38,400 --> 01:28:41,000
Speaker 1: Just take your drivers, Just keep on truck, just keep going.

1636
01:28:41,160 --> 01:28:44,000
Speaker 1: My mom ninety two years old, congratulations, and my dad too,

1637
01:28:44,120 --> 01:28:47,599
Speaker 1: both up ninety two, got their licenses renewed. They don't expition.

1638
01:28:48,200 --> 01:28:50,160
Speaker 1: Does Dad have an expiration date on his know, they

1639
01:28:50,160 --> 01:28:54,800
Speaker 1: don't have why. I love it, bless their heart, so

1640
01:28:56,000 --> 01:28:58,240
Speaker 1: and I they don't drive much, so, you know, but

1641
01:28:58,360 --> 01:29:00,559
Speaker 1: I didn't know whether to be happy for. There's also

1642
01:29:00,640 --> 01:29:02,840
Speaker 1: not a whole lot of traffic out there either, is Yeah,

1643
01:29:02,880 --> 01:29:06,639
Speaker 1: well one lane in, one lane out left turn lane.

1644
01:29:07,760 --> 01:29:10,719
Speaker 1: She passed three. She said, she passed all the tests.

1645
01:29:10,800 --> 01:29:14,880
Speaker 1: That's for her, More power to her. We're gonna have

1646
01:29:15,000 --> 01:29:18,040
Speaker 1: dan Orlovsky joining us tomorrow. He's pretty high on the

1647
01:29:18,120 --> 01:29:20,120
Speaker 1: bills for twenty twenty two. We'll see it one