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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Time to talk weather for the next three hours. Snow.

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Speaker 1: We're not talking weather. We opened yesterday talking about weather.

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Speaker 1: But the picture has changed. If you're watching on MSc,

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Speaker 1: the picture has changed. The entire field covered in snow

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Speaker 1: Greg Oldsome left town. Yeah, get about bye, Greg. I'd

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Speaker 1: of guys, I talked to you this morning. I shovel

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Speaker 1: And I don't And the dear plow guy come today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: It's a quiet day in the NFL, but for this,

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Speaker 1: they're getting very close to approving the seventeen game regular

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Speaker 1: also obviously ask for Okay, we need a bigger roster.

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Speaker 1: increase your share of revenue? Right, and it's like forty

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Speaker 1: one eight eight five fifty two five fifty. You can

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Speaker 1: tweet for the tweet sheet let's talk about it. Let's

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Speaker 1: take a call right away from Anthony and Hamburg. Anthony,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air, Hi, Anthony, Hey, guys, um,

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Speaker 1: I think this is a I think you know there's

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Speaker 1: a scene that says get fat, yeah, and Hollas gets slaughtered,

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Speaker 1: and the NFL is special. And the reasons they don't

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Speaker 1: understand the reason for their popularity a lot has to

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Speaker 1: do with their schedule. If you start making this a

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Speaker 1: season from September February, I could tell you right now.

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Speaker 1: I mean trying to tell your your wife, Hey, I

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Speaker 1: want to you know, I'm taking another month to watch football.

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Speaker 1: Things like that. They don't. I mean the other the

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Speaker 1: other aspect is this, you know, watch and NBA and

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Speaker 1: NHL regular seasons. They have eight teams per conference making

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Who watched them? Nobody even cares anymore? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and where where it is right now? Every you're fighting

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Speaker 1: that playoff spot. They you know, they might start at seven.

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Speaker 1: They want to get to eat there's no doubt it.

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Speaker 1: They might want to start at seventeen. They want to

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Speaker 1: get the eighteen games. And I think they're they need

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Speaker 1: to be very very cautious because at some point people

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Speaker 1: are gonna be like, this isn't it doesn't have that

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Speaker 1: special Every game matters, Anthony, I know what you're saying,

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Speaker 1: and I agree with much about you're saying. But if

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Speaker 1: you're an NFL owner looking to make more money, all

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Speaker 1: you have to do is look at recent history and say, well, shoot,

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Speaker 1: they said, um, you know we had Sunday Night Football,

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Speaker 1: it might delute the product. No it didn't. It's the

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Speaker 1: number one show on TV. Or they said, if we

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Speaker 1: put games on Saturdays and Sundays, you know late in

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Speaker 1: the season, Saturday games, maybe that's too much. You know,

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Speaker 1: they have yet to reach the saturation point. In fact,

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Speaker 1: every time they expand NFL exposure, mostly televised through fans,

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Speaker 1: people eat it up. So if I'm an owner, I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking I hear what you're saying, but there's no evidence

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Speaker 1: to support that. You know what I'm saying, Anthony, I

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Speaker 1: would I would say that, um that the I think

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Speaker 1: the expanse of the schedule would make you know, extra

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Speaker 1: football games have have had somewhat of an impact. I

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Speaker 1: mean what I would say the extra games really is

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Speaker 1: where it really I mean, if you've got seven and

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Speaker 1: nine teams and six and ten teams making six ten,

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Speaker 1: but seven and nine teams making playoffs. As an AC

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Speaker 1: you're not even given a given a top team a

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Speaker 1: buy anymore, or the or the top two teams a buy.

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Speaker 1: And more importantly, I just I think that there's there

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Speaker 1: is that that is what makes the NFL so much

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Speaker 1: different than every other sport. I think the schedule is

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Speaker 1: what makes it. It's one game a week that you

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Speaker 1: gotta watch your team. And if it just if they

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Speaker 1: expand it to this, to this level, I think that

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Speaker 1: it's going to have an effect. I really do. And well,

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Speaker 1: it's going to happen. Like you said, there, they're looking

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Speaker 1: to expand looking to do it. And I can tell

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Speaker 1: you right now, businesses do that all the time. They're

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Speaker 1: always looking to make more money. But you have to

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Speaker 1: be careful that you're not, you know, hurting your client

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Speaker 1: in the same same aspect. Yeah, I get Anthony, and

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Speaker 1: you're right, there isn't There is going to be some

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Speaker 1: sort of effect on the fan, and whether it's positive

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Speaker 1: or negative remains to be seen. They think it's going

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Speaker 1: to be positive because everything they've tried has been a positive.

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Speaker 1: Now there's always this chiming in the background. About Thursday

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Speaker 1: Night football or Thursday football and I and it's easy.

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Speaker 1: It's it's cherry picking for broadcasters and media people to say, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's dangerous. Well, you know what, it's no more dangerous

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Speaker 1: statistically than any other game. They've proven that time and

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Speaker 1: time again. The players have said I've seen a couple

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Speaker 1: of prominent players say yeah, but it's still fair because

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Speaker 1: the other teams short and then we get a couple

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Speaker 1: of days off after them, which is gold in the

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Speaker 1: National Football League. I think the extra buys the players

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Speaker 1: are really looking forward to. The free time during the

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Speaker 1: regular season is huge. And if you're gonna go in

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Speaker 1: and play, why not play instead of just practice, like

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Speaker 1: in two preseason games where you got these guys practicing

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Speaker 1: for two weeks and then in the game comes, they're

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Speaker 1: standing on the sidelines with a baseball cap on watching

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Speaker 1: guys who aren't going to make the team play. So

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Speaker 1: cut out the two preseason games. Give them an extra

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Speaker 1: regular season game and go I don't think at this

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Speaker 1: point they've played. And I get it. The schedule's great,

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Speaker 1: you like it, you're used to it, but people watch

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Speaker 1: because the game is fun to watch. You've got big

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Speaker 1: freakishly strong, fast athletes banging into each other at full speed.

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Speaker 1: It's a compelling game to watch, and it's a bunch

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Speaker 1: of really big, strong guys competing at the highest level.

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Speaker 1: That's why people watch. It's not because it happens in

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Speaker 1: the fall. They don't watch just because it happens in

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Speaker 1: the fall. They watch because it's compelling to watch, and

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Speaker 1: that's why this league grows. So I don't think they've

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Speaker 1: reached a point, like Murph says, that they've saturated it,

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Speaker 1: that they've done something with it that's gonna be allow.

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Speaker 1: Now it's now they're playing into the last part of February.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna watch or I'm gonna turn off. I don't

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Speaker 1: think they've reached that point yet, and I don't think

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Speaker 1: this change that we're talking about would put it over

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Speaker 1: that edge. They might see some signs of it, but

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Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna have it. This league's gonna

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Speaker 1: drop off the cliff because of this. Thanks Anthony, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna take a break. We'll come back and talk more

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Speaker 1: about this. It is the seventeen game regular season proposal.

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Speaker 1: A lot of different implications on this, and they're all

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Speaker 1: being discussed today. Nfl PA NFL Players Association meeting today

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles to discuss maybe they improve it today.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk with you about it. Let's hear what you

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Speaker 1: think the impact of a seventeen game regular season if

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Speaker 1: it comes true? What would it mean to you. It's

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Klata Health from the Asseneca

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Speaker 1: Studio in Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. So

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Speaker 1: the NFLPA meeting in Los Angeles today, they're talking about

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Speaker 1: the seventeen game regular season. What do you think the

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Speaker 1: implications are. It's our Twitter poll today, n E U

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Speaker 1: t R A L neutral one, neutral or international site games.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna hammer Jay Harris for misspelling and we can't.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna blame he said, you can blame me him. No,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna blame me. I didn't type in me and

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Speaker 1: so we But here's the thing. We can't fix it

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Speaker 1: because you can't put you. We'd have to pull the

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Speaker 1: pole down, start from scratch. And we got like hundreds

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Speaker 1: of voters voting in already, and they'd have to, you know,

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Speaker 1: so we leave three hundred and seventy one voters. I'd

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Speaker 1: say we pull the down start over. What do you think?

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Speaker 1: Give us a call? Eight three fifty to three one

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. Let's go to David

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Speaker 1: and Rochester. Hello David, you're on the air. Hi, guys,

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Speaker 1: it's been great to watch your show. Thanks David and talk.

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Speaker 1: I've been talking about you, guys, UM to UM to

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Speaker 1: increase the games to you know, the from seventeen to

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Speaker 1: Steve even said possibly eighteen. The thing about that is,

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Speaker 1: I've always been saying this for a long time and

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Speaker 1: wanting to call that they couldn't increase the roster by

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Speaker 1: actually you said two, I would say at least fifteen,

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Speaker 1: and that would be like adding five more people to

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Speaker 1: the roster, uh, to the practice squad and adding more

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Speaker 1: people to the actual um the roster the fifty two

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Speaker 1: men and bring it up there. I think the NFL

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Speaker 1: needs to UM they that uh, the NFL players should

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Speaker 1: have have a little more break because of act is

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Speaker 1: that there's a lot of teams that have just their starters,

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Speaker 1: and once their starters get hurt, they don't really have

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Speaker 1: any backup. They give the NFL more substance and if

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Speaker 1: he had a deeper roster overall, then they would able

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Speaker 1: to have better play. I mean, we've seen it ourselves.

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Speaker 1: You know. Our cornerback goes down, we put another cornerback in,

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Speaker 1: but he's not anywhere like the second cornerback. Yes, more

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Speaker 1: money to pay these people, but the people paying for

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Speaker 1: tickets are paying a lot of money for tickets in

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Speaker 1: game day situations that we should deserve something like that.

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Speaker 1: So I creasing the roster on both sides. More on

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Speaker 1: the fifty two man roster, which would increase that two

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Speaker 1: more on the development. Yeah, I get you, David, and

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Speaker 1: I hear you about the depth. It would add something

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Speaker 1: to the depth. But here's what would what I would anticipate. Say,

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Speaker 1: for instance, you give the team's fifty seven guys when

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Speaker 1: you give him fifty guys on game day, which would

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Speaker 1: add like five guys. Basically, what would happen is you

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Speaker 1: would have more specialized football. You'd have different player packages,

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Speaker 1: You'd have guys you know, and a lot more guys

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Speaker 1: that would be available to play special teams as part

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Speaker 1: of their every day, every week role with the team.

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Speaker 1: You could specialize it way down the line. And it

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Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily mean that the next cornerback you're putting in

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Speaker 1: they're gonna keep the best guys they've got active anyway,

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Speaker 1: And it doesn't mean that you get five extra guys.

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Speaker 1: The five extra guys you keep are not going to

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Speaker 1: be as good as the first forty five that you keep.

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Speaker 1: They're going to be the guys you add onto. Now

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Speaker 1: they may develop into that something better, but that's why

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Speaker 1: the guys are on. It's harder to make a forty

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Speaker 1: five man roster than it is a fifty two man roster.

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Speaker 1: So what, I don't know why you think that adding

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Speaker 1: better than the ones you would have kept anyway. That

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Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense to me, you know what. And

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Speaker 1: a couple of people have tweeted this in and I

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Speaker 1: believe this. If you expand the roster size, that'll that'll

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Speaker 1: be good. But it's important that on Sundays you don't

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Speaker 1: have inactive players, right, or at least not as many

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Speaker 1: inactive players. You know, everybody should be eligible to play

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Speaker 1: on Sunday if he's on your roster, and they do

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Speaker 1: that in an effort to. It's sort of a holdover

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Speaker 1: from another time in the NFL when you didn't want

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Speaker 1: players kind of stashed on the roster. But man if ever,

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Speaker 1: if you're active, if you're an active fifty two man

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Speaker 1: on a fifty two man roster, you should be active

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Speaker 1: on Sundays. That's got a change. I don't get the

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Speaker 1: they didn't have enough healthy bodies. And it becomes a

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Speaker 1: and put bodies into uniforms. So it becomes because the

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Speaker 1: there are times when we're barely got forty five healthy bodies.

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Speaker 1: That's been an issue, and that's and That's why you

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Speaker 1: don't want one team that comes in there, shows up

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Speaker 1: They've got fifty guys on their roster and the other

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Speaker 1: team has forty. It gives them a competitive advantage. They

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Speaker 1: were the team that the league wants that to get,

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Speaker 1: not to go away, and that was where it came from.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that would still be as big

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Speaker 1: an issue now with the player's safety that they've instilled

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Speaker 1: and guys staying healthier, and particularly a team like the

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Speaker 1: Bills who stayed so healthy this past two years. But

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Speaker 1: that's where it came from. It's important to note that

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Speaker 1: the Yeah, there are proposals. There's been talking about an

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Speaker 1: eighteen game regular season schedule. What they're talking about in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles today the NFL Players Association is a seventeen

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Speaker 1: game regular season. I mean there are concrete proposals. Now

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Speaker 1: we're not talking pieing this guy. You know, what do

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Speaker 1: you think about an eighteen getting No, we're talking about

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Speaker 1: a seventeen game regular season schedule, and that's what they're

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Speaker 1: talking about. Let's take a call here from Don and Corfu.

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Don, you're on the air. Hello, Yes, Don,

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Speaker 1: you're on the air. Yeah, I think you should eliminate

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Speaker 1: the preseason all the way and just go to the

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Speaker 1: eighteen games and have nine games at the beginning, and

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Speaker 1: then add the All Star break in the middle with

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Speaker 1: the All Pro Game, because there's something about a flag

656
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Speaker 1: football game now anyway, and then continue with the nine

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Speaker 1: games at the end and go to the playoffs in

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. I could do that. Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: know about the All Star Game. Stuck in the middle

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Speaker 1: of that there, you'd have zero guys who wanted to

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Speaker 1: play in that thing in the middle of the season. Zero,

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Speaker 1: I mean zero. You couldn't pay guy. You couldn't pay

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Speaker 1: guys to go and play in an exhibition game like that. Well,

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Speaker 1: you'd have to pay him big money. But I'm with you.

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Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with an eighteen game schedule,

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Speaker 1: and I don't have a problem with the the preseason.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't sell tickets. Just you can

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Speaker 1: have games and stuff, but you've got to have some

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Speaker 1: way of getting these guys ready. And I would say,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna do a way with the preseason, they'd

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Speaker 1: do part of the proposal that's on the table now,

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Speaker 1: or it seems to be, they would they would allow

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Speaker 1: the teams to keep a larger roster through the first

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks of the regular season, and because of that,

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Speaker 1: they would have the chance to evaluate them and then

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Speaker 1: hone their rosters down as the season wore on, rather

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Speaker 1: than doing it all at once and then taking their

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Speaker 1: chances with what's left. I think I don't have a

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Speaker 1: problem with that. That makes good sense one thing, And

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Speaker 1: we want your input on this. We want people to

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Speaker 1: weigh in on what they think. But we're not looking

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Speaker 1: for pie in the sky like I think they should

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Speaker 1: play a game in you know, you know what may right.

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Speaker 1: There's a concrete proposal on the table today for NFL

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Speaker 1: Players Association Executive Committee and player reps to look at

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Speaker 1: to maybe vote on today. It includes a increase in

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Speaker 1: the share of revenue from forty seven percent to forty

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Speaker 1: eight and a half percent. It includes a window from

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one to twenty twenty three to execute an

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Speaker 1: option to expand the season to twenty one games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can come up with a better plan, Sure you can.

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Speaker 1: We're not talking about that, and our Twitter pole is

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Speaker 1: not talking about that. Our Twitter poll is, Uh, what's

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Speaker 1: the biggest incentive? What would be the biggest reason for

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Speaker 1: an seventeen game schedule in the NFL? What would be

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Speaker 1: the biggest uh? What word am I looking for here?

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Speaker 1: What would be the biggest thing you'd see change if

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Speaker 1: there was the seventeenth regular season game, biggest change in

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Speaker 1: the seventeen game regular season? What would you notice as

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Speaker 1: a fan? I think it's got the thing you'd notice

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Speaker 1: as a fan. There's gotta be right up there. It's

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Speaker 1: got to be the preseason and what happens to it.

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Speaker 1: We don't even enough, you know, on Twitter, there's not

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Speaker 1: enough options to give people right and we didn't. We

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Speaker 1: didn't give you another option today, but we got a lot.

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Speaker 1: We're getting a lot of feedback on our on the feet,

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Speaker 1: on the on the comments, but we all know what

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Speaker 1: it looks like, and it's really easy to get your

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Speaker 1: mind around. How where would the Bills neutral site be?

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Speaker 1: You know, we were having this discussion. Is it gonna

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Speaker 1: be a place like Columbus or is it gonna be

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Speaker 1: a place like Toronto again? Or is it gonna go

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Speaker 1: to London or are they gonna go to Berlin or

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Speaker 1: Paris or Mexico? Are they gonna play in an NFL

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Speaker 1: an American city? Like Columbus, Ohio, or Tuscaloosa or Birmingham

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Speaker 1: or someplace like that. Like the Bills. I even played

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Speaker 1: a game in Memphis before they had their stadium in Nashville.

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Speaker 1: So there's plenty of stadiums in the in the country.

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Speaker 1: You go to Iowa and play a game at the

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Speaker 1: Hawkeye Stadium or any of these other stadiums as well. Um,

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Speaker 1: there's you know, you could even if you want to

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Speaker 1: go this, go like this. You could have the Bills

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Speaker 1: and another team play in an NFL stadium in another city.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm there's all kinds of possibilities. You could

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Speaker 1: have two division teams play in the third division teams stadium,

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Speaker 1: like the Bills Jets play in Miami, that kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: There's all of those kind of possibilities, and you could

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Speaker 1: put all these neutral side games could be in destination cities,

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Speaker 1: you know, Vegas, La, New Orleans. You know, all of

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Speaker 1: these places are up for grabs and they could have

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Speaker 1: extra games in those cities, so you could have you

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Speaker 1: could have Miami and Tampa Bay play in Buffalo in January.

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Speaker 1: Do what you want. Yeah, I guess, you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: but but that's what we're talking about Uh, those neutral

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Speaker 1: side games would be your team playing playing someplace else,

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Speaker 1: like Jacksonville is playing in London twice this year this

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Speaker 1: coming season. Is that a big deal? It doesn't seem

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Speaker 1: like it is to most people. Thirteen percent of people

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Speaker 1: see that's the biggest thing. Think on the Twitter poll anyway,

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Speaker 1: think that having a fewer preseason games would be the

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Speaker 1: biggest impact. Well, I don't think so. I think that

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Speaker 1: should happen even if they play a sixteen game regular

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Speaker 1: season schedule. Most of these people in the forty seven

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Speaker 1: percent have never had to broadcast the fourth three season games.

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Speaker 1: You'd be rich sitting right with me and Murph. I

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Speaker 1: imagine many of them, maybe not Bay bought a ticket

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Speaker 1: to preseason game number four. That's tough. That's a tough

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Speaker 1: ticket to buy. You. That's a tough game to watch.

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Speaker 1: Murph and I are sitting here. You can't kick those

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Speaker 1: last two Prisons game. You can't kick those of the

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Speaker 1: curb fast enough. Those need to go Those needed to

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Speaker 1: go away twenty five years and the league knows that,

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Speaker 1: the owners know that, the commissioner has said that a

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Speaker 1: good representation of our product. It's a constant conversation all right,

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Speaker 1: we got a break here. It's the biggest change that

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Speaker 1: would you would see? I don't know, I feel like

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Speaker 1: we don't have this phrase right. What would be the

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Speaker 1: biggest impact of a seventeen game regular season schedule? How

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Speaker 1: about that? Give us a call eight fifty twelve three

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Speaker 1: Bills Live. John rurpc tasker talking about big picture today.

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Speaker 1: Greg Olson was in yesterday. No word his plan, original

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Speaker 1: plan was to continue on to Washington and Seattle, maybe

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Speaker 1: even Chicago. He didn't sign anything, but he was in

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Speaker 1: yesterday according to a report. So it's about all that's

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Speaker 1: going on around here. It's very quiet here at One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Drive today. Yeah, nobody's hunkered down in the deep

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Speaker 1: winter months now. Yea kind of recovering from the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl rush and gives us a chance to talk about

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Speaker 1: the seventeen game schedule, the proposal that NFL Players Association,

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Speaker 1: reps and leadership talking about today in Los Angeles. They

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Speaker 1: may vote on it or getting your calls on it.

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Speaker 1: What do you think the impact would be the biggest impact,

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Speaker 1: the most meaningful impact. Here's a call from Gary. Gary

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Speaker 1: on the line, Gary, Hello, Hey, how you doing good? Good?

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Speaker 1: I hope everybody shoveled out and got some work with

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Speaker 1: no problems this morning. Everybody's back is good. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're good. Yeah. So with a seventeen game schedule, we

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Speaker 1: could go to the ideal of what everybody wants is

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Speaker 1: that the super Bowl happens a Sunday before President's Day. Hey,

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Speaker 1: when does presidents say this year the twenty It's it's

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Speaker 1: the seventeenth. I think. So, yeah, you'd go beyond that.

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Speaker 1: I mean that they're talking about the schedule would go

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Speaker 1: the super Bowl be played late February, maybe the last

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Speaker 1: week in February. This goes back to Steve's idea he

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Speaker 1: talked about last summer or last fall, is to start

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Speaker 1: have a couple of games before Labor Day and then

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Speaker 1: have Labor Day off. They're not talking about that though, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's talking about the deal that the season, the schedule

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Speaker 1: would start the weekend after Labor Day. Yeah, they're accommodating TV.

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Speaker 1: They're not listening to me, Gary, but they should though.

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Speaker 1: I know, because a couple more Monday night games in there,

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Speaker 1: everybody get a day off. It's a win win Gary.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you what your plan. Yeah, I think it's

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Speaker 1: a great idea. We dropped the plan of yours that

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Speaker 1: have players in sixteen. Yah, yeah, drop that. I just

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Speaker 1: did that because I knew it would fly right through.

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Speaker 1: But now that they now that they got the players

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Speaker 1: on the hood for seventeen despite what Richard Sherman says,

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Speaker 1: we had that conversation in the break too. But here's

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Speaker 1: what let's talk about that. Richard Sherman and Russell Okun,

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Speaker 1: both of the is that always Russell Okun and Richard Sherman,

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Speaker 1: I expect you to be there today. They have publicly

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Speaker 1: both of them and others have too, but they have

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Speaker 1: publicly voiced their concerns about the effects on a regular

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Speaker 1: season game with an extra regular season game, what have

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Speaker 1: on player of health and safety? Is that a real concern?

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Speaker 1: Steve one more game, seventeen games as opposed to sixteen.

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Speaker 1: I think it's posturing by the players. He said that,

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Speaker 1: you know, the owners have obviously put a price on

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Speaker 1: player's safety. I think it's hypocritical of the owners to

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Speaker 1: put a seventeen game schedule on the on the table.

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Speaker 1: Given what they've said about player's safety, you don't mean

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Speaker 1: set this straight. And this is my opinion about it.

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Speaker 1: I got a lot of respect for Richard Sherman's smart.

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Speaker 1: Guy is very passionate, and he's done some really good

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Speaker 1: things in the league, and he's a champion. The guy's great.

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Speaker 1: I disagree with him on the fact that the owners

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Speaker 1: have set a price on players safety. The owners have

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Speaker 1: never set a price on player's safety. The players set

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Speaker 1: the price on player's safety. The simple fact of the

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Speaker 1: matter is the players sign the contract of what the

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Speaker 1: owners offer. The players more so than anybody, more than

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Speaker 1: the owners, more than anybody else. Players know the risks

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Speaker 1: they're taken when they step on the field. There's nobody

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Speaker 1: hiding what this game is all about from guys who

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Speaker 1: actually play it. So when they signed their deal there

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Speaker 1: they set the price for their own safety, each and

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Speaker 1: every one of them. That's the price of players safety.

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Speaker 1: The owners could set an NFL schedule with twenty five

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Speaker 1: games on it, they would have no problem filling out

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Speaker 1: their rosters with players. For every guy who says no

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Speaker 1: to the NFL, there's a thousand that will say yes.

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Speaker 1: And everybody wants to play in the league because because

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Speaker 1: the players who know the risks and who live with

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Speaker 1: those risks during those regular season games, who get up

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Speaker 1: sore and hurt and whatever, and spend the offseason getting

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Speaker 1: ready through surgeries, whatever, they're perfectly willing to come back.

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Speaker 1: I can take the money that they were making, they'll

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Speaker 1: sign another contract. They know that the risks are well

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Speaker 1: worth it. I believe it, and I'm pretty sure that

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Speaker 1: the guys who have signed contracts with the NFL believe

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Speaker 1: it too. Now there's some guys who may regret it now,

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Speaker 1: but at the time, they were certainly willing to take

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Speaker 1: the risks. And the owners are running a business and

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Speaker 1: there and there's big money to be made, and there's

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Speaker 1: big opportunities on and off the football field. As a

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Speaker 1: result of your affiliation of your affiliation with the NFL,

851
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,240
Speaker 1: there's a thousand guys ready to step into your shoes.

852
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 1: And that's where this player's safety thing when they say, hey,

853
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 1: the owners don't care what you know what the players

854
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:35,600
Speaker 1: sign the deals. If you don't want to play, if

855
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: you think it's too dangerous, just say no. And that's

856
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: where you find out who really sets the price for

857
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 1: player's safety is the guys who say yes. And there's

858
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: a lot of guys out there who will say yes

859
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: to whatever the league proposes. So don't put this on

860
00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: the owners that the owners don't care about their players.

861
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: The owners are sitting it out there saying, listen, we'd

862
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 1: like to do this. If you don't want to play

863
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 1: as a player, don't. If you think it's that dangerous,

864
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: don't play. But you can't blame somebody else for signing

865
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 1: the contract. That's your name, that's your agreement, and you

866
00:44:06,560 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: can say, well it's a dangerous Well they're paying in.

867
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 1: This is the offer. If you don't want to play,

868
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,160
Speaker 1: don't play. So don't say it the song. It's their fault.

869
00:44:13,239 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: You're the one to say, yeah, you know what, I

870
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:16,440
Speaker 1: know the risk, I'm gonna do it. Can I be

871
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: Devil's advocate here? Absolutely? On behalf of Richard Sherman and others.

872
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 1: There's what I think what he means is, Look, the

873
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:27,280
Speaker 1: owners make a big deal out of this rule changes

874
00:44:27,320 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 1: for player's safety, and this is for player's safety, and

875
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: yet they're willing to expand the schedule when some people

876
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 1: and I don't believe seventeen sixteen games will be enough

877
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: of an impact to make a difference, but eighteen games

878
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:41,800
Speaker 1: more than that, you're getting to a point where you know,

879
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: if you're a player, you're saying, wait a minute, don't

880
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 1: tell me you're about players safety when you're expanding the

881
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:47,880
Speaker 1: number of games we've got to play. That I think

882
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 1: might be Richard Sherman's point. Well, I think the fact

883
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 1: is you can make an argument now that the game

884
00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: has become so much safer than it was because of

885
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: the rules, in the way they're the way they're officiated.

886
00:44:59,719 --> 00:45:02,279
Speaker 1: The game is much more safe, much more safe than

887
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: it was now. Decades ago, it's night and day. You

888
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 1: wouldn't even recognize as being the same sport. In some cases,

889
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: it was absolutely brutal back in the day. Now it's

890
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:16,360
Speaker 1: it's not that way. It's a lot safer, it's a

891
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: lot better. The practices the teams, the recovery processes, the

892
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,160
Speaker 1: way it's officiated, the rules that are in place, and

893
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:27,439
Speaker 1: the way they're officiated, the game is way more safe

894
00:45:27,480 --> 00:45:29,720
Speaker 1: than it is now. The way the kickoffs, the special

895
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 1: team summit, that has been the way they're they're you know,

896
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 1: changing the game for players safety. They've made more than

897
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: just token efforts to keep the players safe and keep

898
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 1: them as healthy as they can in the number of

899
00:45:40,880 --> 00:45:43,360
Speaker 1: games played. Is not making it safer, No, it's not.

900
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:45,840
Speaker 1: But they've done enough on the other side of it

901
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: to make it. Certainly, eighteen games, isn't the risk that

902
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: it was ten years ago? You probably right, fifteen years ago.

903
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: I think that. I think that's I think it's a

904
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 1: fair swing of the pendulum back the other way. Okay,

905
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 1: talking about the mansion of the schedule, they're talking about

906
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: a seventeen game schedule in the NFL. We'll talk more

907
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 1: about that. We'll talk with Jenny Brentoss in a moment.

908
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:09,719
Speaker 1: She is a staff reporter for Sports Illustrated dot com.

909
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,439
Speaker 1: She covers the NFL for Sports Illustrated. Written a couple

910
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 1: of interesting things, including about the Chiefs in their Super

911
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: Bowl win. We'll talk with Jenny Brentoss about that when

912
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:19,839
Speaker 1: we come back. One Bill's Live presented by a Lot

913
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: of Health from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. This

914
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio Hills Radio Network Sports Update from

915
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. The NFL Player Reps and Executive Committee

916
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: meeting today in Los Angeles. It is unlikely there'll be

917
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:50,760
Speaker 1: a vote on the owner's current proposal to the Collective

918
00:46:50,760 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 1: of bargaining Agreement, but they are going to discuss the

919
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 1: seventeen game regular season, and right now there is a

920
00:46:56,200 --> 00:47:00,359
Speaker 1: lot of opposition among players. Among the SBA proposed those

921
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,320
Speaker 1: they share of league revenue to the players would go

922
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:05,240
Speaker 1: from forty seven percent to forty eight and a half percent.

923
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 1: The league could begin a seventeen game regular season as

924
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: early as twenty twenty one. There'd be a three year

925
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 1: winner to do that. The new proposal, it is said,

926
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: would mean an extra five billion dollars in revenue to

927
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:17,839
Speaker 1: the players over the life of the deal. That would

928
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:21,160
Speaker 1: also include changes to the drug policy, punishments for marijuana

929
00:47:21,239 --> 00:47:24,719
Speaker 1: nearly eliminated, and the discipline policy. No word yet on

930
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 1: how those talks are going, but their meeting today in

931
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:30,439
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Pittsburgh Steelers with a couple of moves today.

932
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:33,280
Speaker 1: General manager Kevin Colbert will be back for another season.

933
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: The team announced that has signed the vice president and

934
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: general manager to a one year contract extension. The extension

935
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 1: comes weeks after the Steelers president Art Rooney offered optimism

936
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:47,320
Speaker 1: that Colbert would return for twenty twenty. Meantime, former Steelers

937
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,959
Speaker 1: wide receiver Antonio Brown issued a public apology to the team,

938
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: telling the radio station in Pittsburgh he was sorry that

939
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:56,520
Speaker 1: he became a distraction. I apologize to those guys for

940
00:47:56,600 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 1: the distractions. Wanted attention. I probably caused those guys. Antonio

941
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:04,919
Speaker 1: Brown continues a series of apologies over the last several

942
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:07,959
Speaker 1: weeks or so. New Cleveland Browns general manager Andrew Barry

943
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,760
Speaker 1: said yesterday he's already met with both running back Kareem

944
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:14,080
Speaker 1: Hunt and wide receiver Odell Beckham Junior regarding their recent

945
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: offseason incidents that drew headlines. Hunt pulled over in late

946
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: July by police who found marijuana in the backpack of

947
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: the back seat of his car. He served in eight

948
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:26,240
Speaker 1: game suspension last season for violating the NFL's substance Abuse

949
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:30,759
Speaker 1: Personal Contact Policy. Meantime, Beckham faced temporarily faced and arrest

950
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:33,800
Speaker 1: warrant in New Orleans. The Savers home tonight against Detroit

951
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: seven o'clock faceoff at Key Bank Center. That's the update

952
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. John Murphy Steve Tasker in our

953
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:42,359
Speaker 1: One Buffalo Studio, joined on the line by a woman

954
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 1: who just is returned from covering the Super Bowl and

955
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 1: covering the NFL, trying to take a little break, and

956
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: we interrupt her vacation for a discussion with us. She

957
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: is Sports Illustrated and MMQB senior writer, a contributor to

958
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: the MMQB podcast. Jenny Brentass on the line with us. Jenny, Hello,

959
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:00,719
Speaker 1: it's John Murphy and Steve Tasker, Upper Buffalo. Thanks for

960
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: joining us. Yeah, hi guys, great to talk to you today.

961
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,120
Speaker 1: Are you getting some downtime now that the season's over?

962
00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:09,319
Speaker 1: I hope, yeah, hopefully a couple of weeks. I guess

963
00:49:09,360 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 1: before the combine. Yeah, yeah, I read. Yeah. He had

964
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:17,719
Speaker 1: a great long long form article about Andy Reid and

965
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 1: his philosophy and his road to the Super Bowl. And

966
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:23,439
Speaker 1: one of the things Murph and I were talking about

967
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 1: was Kansas City. I mean, they let Kareem Hunt walk.

968
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: They also extended Tyreek Hill. Andy Reid's experience with his

969
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: own son and their addiction problems, and his addiction problems

970
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:37,439
Speaker 1: kind of leads him to a guy coach that kind

971
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:40,360
Speaker 1: is all about second chances and and that's one of

972
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:42,719
Speaker 1: the reasons people and his players love him so much.

973
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:44,640
Speaker 1: But it's also one of the things that people have

974
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 1: a hard time time reconciling, even even giving Michael Vick

975
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 1: a contract when he's with Philly. What did you find that,

976
00:49:50,120 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: How did you find that to be the case, and

977
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 1: how it played out in the Super Bowl and they're

978
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 1: run towards it. Yeah, absolutely, it's definitely a part of

979
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,040
Speaker 1: the chief story. We included it in the story about

980
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: the reference that I wrote with Grant Bishop. You know,

981
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:08,000
Speaker 1: they had Piary Hill, who had was investigated for child

982
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:12,320
Speaker 1: abuse last spring and summer. The district attorney ultimately decided

983
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 1: not to file charges, though he did say he believed

984
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: a crime was committed. They just couldn't determine who had

985
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 1: committed the crime. And then the chiefs ultimately decided to

986
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 1: stick with him and then give him an extension. And

987
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:27,800
Speaker 1: while he was being investigated, they also made the decision

988
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 1: to trade for Frank Clark, who in college was kicked

989
00:50:31,200 --> 00:50:35,200
Speaker 1: off the Michigan team for a domestic violence incidents. Later

990
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 1: pleaded down to that charge and had no issues during

991
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:41,920
Speaker 1: his first four seasons in Seattle. But definitely they have

992
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: in building their roster, been willing to take chances on

993
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:49,680
Speaker 1: places or players with serious issues in their past and

994
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: you know, it's kind of a it's you don't want

995
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:57,320
Speaker 1: to speak in generalities. Every situation is different. They consider

996
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 1: all the information differently, and certainly Andy Reid does come

997
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 1: at it with a point of he saw that his

998
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: sons received second chances as they were battling addiction. That

999
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 1: was certainly a factor that he mentioned at the time

1000
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:13,240
Speaker 1: and signing Michael Vick. You do want to be careful

1001
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:16,959
Speaker 1: not to draw the direct line or conflate violent acts

1002
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 1: with addiction. Obviously they're two separate things, and it's possible,

1003
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:23,799
Speaker 1: certainly to look at those incidents and say you don't

1004
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:25,840
Speaker 1: agree with them, you don't agree with them holding on

1005
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 1: to a player like Hill perhaps other teams in the

1006
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,400
Speaker 1: league might not have, or to say, hey, these were

1007
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 1: football decisions and they put aside the serious issues. And

1008
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:36,959
Speaker 1: it's also possible to look at them and say Andy

1009
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:39,840
Speaker 1: Reid really does believe that he can help, and that

1010
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 1: he relied on his personal relationship with Hill, They had

1011
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 1: done homework on Clark, talk to people they knew in

1012
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:48,920
Speaker 1: the Seahawks front office. I think all of those things

1013
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: are true, and I think it's a little bit of

1014
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:53,359
Speaker 1: a difficult subject to kind of talk about because it's

1015
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: not necessarily one thing. There's a lot of factors that

1016
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 1: go into play. But certainly Hill was a big part

1017
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: of the Chiefs championship and he caught that third and

1018
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 1: fifteen pass and really turned things around for the Chiefs.

1019
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,680
Speaker 1: They made a decision to keep him and it paid

1020
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:12,080
Speaker 1: off for them in a football sense. We're with Jenny

1021
00:52:12,120 --> 00:52:15,880
Speaker 1: Brents of Sports Illustrated dot Com. She's written Kingdom Comeback,

1022
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 1: The chief seven year Journey to a Super Bowl Title,

1023
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:20,839
Speaker 1: And it occurred to me, Jenny reading the piece, how

1024
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 1: much of their journey, their seven year journey was born

1025
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 1: out of tragedy. And yeah, Steve mentioned the death of

1026
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:30,160
Speaker 1: Garrett Reid, Andy Reid's son, and there's also the death

1027
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 1: of Javon Belcher right in the Arrowhead Stadium parking lot.

1028
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:35,400
Speaker 1: I mean, things were not good for Reid or the

1029
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 1: Chiefs not that long ago. That was a pretty big

1030
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 1: comeback for him and the Kansas City Chiefs. Yeah, if

1031
00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: you look at this championship as a high point for

1032
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 1: Andy Reid and for the Chiefs organization, really been a

1033
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:48,919
Speaker 1: deer was seven years ago. You know, Andy Reid lost

1034
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,600
Speaker 1: his son, Garrett, as you mentioned to an accidental drug

1035
00:52:51,680 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: overdose and training camp of twenty twelve. In December of

1036
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: twenty twelve, Belcher kills his girlfriend and the mother of

1037
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:03,719
Speaker 1: their child, and then kills himself in the parking lot

1038
00:53:03,800 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 1: of the Chiefs practice facility. And so in January twenty thirteen,

1039
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 1: when the Chiefs are meeting with Andy Reid, he's just

1040
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:15,800
Speaker 1: been fired from Philadelphia, He's gone through this personal tragedy.

1041
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: They're still reeling from this unthinkable tragedy as well, and

1042
00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 1: as Andy put it, there was kind of a healing process.

1043
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 1: Then they came together, and I think for the Chiefs

1044
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 1: they were looking for somebody who was not just a

1045
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 1: good football coach. Of course that was important, but Clark

1046
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:34,720
Speaker 1: Hunt had to consider other things. He had to consider

1047
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:38,439
Speaker 1: somebody who could walk into that situation and who could

1048
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 1: build relationships with people, who was mature enough to kind

1049
00:53:41,760 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 1: of handle and navigate some of the emotional turmoil. And

1050
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:47,759
Speaker 1: really they came to the conclusion that Andy was the

1051
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 1: right guy on a lot of levels, and that was

1052
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:52,319
Speaker 1: kind of the start of this road to the point

1053
00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 1: or that what was the start of the road to

1054
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:56,720
Speaker 1: the point that we saw that the championship. Their decision

1055
00:53:56,760 --> 00:53:59,320
Speaker 1: to bring Andy Reid in him saying I'm ready to

1056
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 1: move forward. I want to be around the game. That

1057
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:05,560
Speaker 1: will be my best form of therapy as I continue

1058
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 1: to process the grief of losing my son, and then

1059
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:12,160
Speaker 1: also taking an organization that had experienced something unthinkable and

1060
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 1: helping the players and the organization people who worked there

1061
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:19,320
Speaker 1: move forward. And then your peace, Jenny, I like the

1062
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:21,840
Speaker 1: fact that you point out how, yes, Andy Reid at

1063
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 1: a remarkable comeback story. Right over the seven years, he

1064
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: had a lot of help from very many good friends.

1065
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,800
Speaker 1: Obviously he's earned very many good friends, but even his

1066
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:33,080
Speaker 1: old childhood buddies back in southern California. We're kind of

1067
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 1: on his side and helping him get through the difficult times. Yeah,

1068
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 1: it's pretty interesting. Everyone saw this as a defining moment

1069
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 1: for Andy Reid, and of course it will be his

1070
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:46,120
Speaker 1: resume and his legacy. This will be the super Bowl

1071
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:48,800
Speaker 1: that he won that you know, finally check that box.

1072
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,480
Speaker 1: But all along and he's been saying and we kind

1073
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 1: of brush it aside. You know, he's not just playing

1074
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:56,840
Speaker 1: coaching for himself, right, It's about the players, It's about

1075
00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 1: the assistant coaches, all the people he's worked with through

1076
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,680
Speaker 1: the years, all the people back in Los Angeles who

1077
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:03,839
Speaker 1: he grew up with who helps him through the loss

1078
00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: of his son, who were there for them. He had

1079
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:09,240
Speaker 1: a childhood friend who had planted a tree in memory

1080
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:13,440
Speaker 1: of Garrett, his son, and that childhood friend of Andy's

1081
00:55:13,440 --> 00:55:16,080
Speaker 1: passed away in September. So his friends back in Los

1082
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: Angeles were also saying Super Bowl for Tony, which was

1083
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:21,719
Speaker 1: Andy's friend. So Andy was looking at all of this

1084
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 1: two weeks before the Super Bowl, and he's a guy

1085
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:26,120
Speaker 1: I can't really, I can't. I can't let my mind

1086
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:28,879
Speaker 1: go to all of the things that this game would mean.

1087
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:31,440
Speaker 1: But you knew that it was there, Like he felt

1088
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 1: it right. He knew that there were a lot of

1089
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 1: legs to a Super Bowl championship with the Chiefs that

1090
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 1: went well beyond football and well beyond just the current team.

1091
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: And so I think that was why to see him

1092
00:55:43,560 --> 00:55:47,319
Speaker 1: finally Hostelmbari Trophy and relish in that moment for more

1093
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:50,000
Speaker 1: than an hour he stayed on the field after the game,

1094
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:53,440
Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty remarkable. Yeah, And also he

1095
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:56,560
Speaker 1: also had people within the Chiefs organization that followed him.

1096
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:59,239
Speaker 1: Brett Vich, who's now the GM was a guy who

1097
00:55:59,320 --> 00:56:02,000
Speaker 1: got elevated to that position after just following you know,

1098
00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 1: Andy Reid called him said he wanted him to come

1099
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:05,840
Speaker 1: with him. He did, and he got elevated to the

1100
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:09,319
Speaker 1: GM spot there in Kansas City. He was there to enjoy.

1101
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:12,440
Speaker 1: And so I guess one of the things as far

1102
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 1: as us here in Buffalo and other organizations who look

1103
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 1: at the Chiefs and how they did it over seven years,

1104
00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 1: it takes a lot of moving parts and a lot

1105
00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:22,920
Speaker 1: of things coming together to put together a squad that

1106
00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:24,440
Speaker 1: can do what the Chiefs have done over the last

1107
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:27,400
Speaker 1: two or three years. Yeah, and absolutely, you know, I

1108
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 1: think one of the things with Andy is he has

1109
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:34,560
Speaker 1: brought so many people along in this business, including Sean McDermott, right,

1110
00:56:34,640 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: So he has this very successful coaching tree. And I

1111
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 1: think what you brought up about Beach was a great example.

1112
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:43,840
Speaker 1: Beach was really on Mahomes. You know, multiple people, of

1113
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:46,399
Speaker 1: course are setting tape, but he loved Mahomes the first

1114
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:48,880
Speaker 1: time he watched him, he scouted him, He pastored Andy

1115
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 1: about him, and their relationship began when Andy brought him

1116
00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:54,160
Speaker 1: in as like a coach's assistant, which is a low

1117
00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:58,239
Speaker 1: level position in the Eagles organization. Andy gets fired, and

1118
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:01,480
Speaker 1: the night before Andy's officially fire, Beach says that I

1119
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 1: want to go with you wherever you go take me,

1120
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 1: and Andy does, and he ultimately plays a huge role

1121
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:09,680
Speaker 1: in finding him the quarterback that wins him a championship.

1122
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:12,640
Speaker 1: So I think the reason that people were so happy

1123
00:57:12,719 --> 00:57:14,759
Speaker 1: for Andy Reeves, I think for a long time he's

1124
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:17,040
Speaker 1: really done it the right way and that his relationships

1125
00:57:17,080 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 1: are so valuable for him. And I think that's why

1126
00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 1: his coaching tree is so successful is because he invests

1127
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:24,920
Speaker 1: in the people around him. And so I think for

1128
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 1: someone like Brett Beach to feel like he helps deliver

1129
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 1: him the quarterback that won him a championship, I think

1130
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:33,480
Speaker 1: that's meaningful for him and everyone who helps Andy get

1131
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:35,360
Speaker 1: to that point. On the line with Jenny Wrent Test

1132
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated, an MMQB senior writer talking about the Super Bowl,

1133
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 1: we had this discussion on our show the other day. Jenny, So,

1134
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 1: what about the future for the Kansas City Chiefs. Are

1135
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:47,920
Speaker 1: we looking at the start of a substantial NFL dynasty here?

1136
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 1: What do you think? Yeah? I know at the parade

1137
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 1: they were already talking about winning next year, and I

1138
00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 1: think that team really feels like they would have won

1139
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:59,320
Speaker 1: last year were it not for the d Ford offside penalty.

1140
00:57:59,360 --> 00:58:02,919
Speaker 1: Obviously there were some references to that at the parade too.

1141
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 1: I think the reason the AFC Championship game against the

1142
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 1: Patriots last year was so hard. Friends of Andy said

1143
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 1: that one's stuck with him more than losses normally does,

1144
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 1: because I think he knew what he had. He has

1145
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 1: this quarterback where you can draw any play up on

1146
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 1: the whiteboard, and we all know that Andy is like

1147
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:23,200
Speaker 1: this beautiful mind withdrawing offensive plays. Now he's a quarterback

1148
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 1: who can do anything that he draws up, which is

1149
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 1: a really rare asset. And I think seeing them, you know,

1150
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:32,720
Speaker 1: last year fall just short, there was a confidence in

1151
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:35,720
Speaker 1: the belief that they could get back there. And this

1152
00:58:35,880 --> 00:58:39,440
Speaker 1: season was bumpy, but they made it through. They rallied

1153
00:58:39,480 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 1: back from deficits. Now, of course, they have other things

1154
00:58:42,280 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 1: that they're going to have to worry about. You know,

1155
00:58:43,960 --> 00:58:47,840
Speaker 1: Mahomes was reliance eligible now for our contract extension that'll

1156
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 1: happen in the next year or so, so that of

1157
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 1: course takes up more salary cap. But I think the

1158
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:56,960
Speaker 1: feeling around the team is that anything is possible when

1159
00:58:57,000 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 1: you have Mahomes and Andy together and you know, jun

1160
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 1: pieces sure around them, but I think those two can

1161
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:06,000
Speaker 1: kind of do anything. And we saw in the playoffs

1162
00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:08,720
Speaker 1: and the Homes really could do anything, and no deficit

1163
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:11,320
Speaker 1: was too large for him. Joe Banner, who worked with

1164
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:15,040
Speaker 1: Andy and Philly and their close friends, said he thinks

1165
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 1: like in a decade, we'll look back and it'll be

1166
00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:19,919
Speaker 1: crazy that Andy had never won a championship, because he'll

1167
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:22,520
Speaker 1: have won a bunch in a row. Now, of course

1168
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:24,480
Speaker 1: that's the easier said, been done. And of course it's

1169
00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:25,920
Speaker 1: easy to look at a team and say, if this

1170
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 1: is the beginning of a dynasty, and we thought, you know,

1171
00:59:29,160 --> 00:59:32,439
Speaker 1: maybe you know Eagles, Falcons, other teams in past years,

1172
00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:34,600
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, the roster it's so well positioned, and

1173
00:59:34,880 --> 00:59:37,000
Speaker 1: didn't work out that way. But I do think there's

1174
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:41,120
Speaker 1: something special about Mahomes, like truly a generational passer and

1175
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:43,400
Speaker 1: with a coach that is one of the best of

1176
00:59:43,480 --> 00:59:46,880
Speaker 1: his era. So I think there is that potential more

1177
00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:50,080
Speaker 1: than perhaps other situations. And there's one more layer to

1178
00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:54,120
Speaker 1: this Kansas City Championship that shouldn't go unnoticed. That Clark Hunt,

1179
00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:57,320
Speaker 1: whose father's name is on the Trophy for the AFC

1180
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 1: brought that back fifty years after their first Super Bowl?

1181
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:03,960
Speaker 1: What and you mentioned, you know the process that and

1182
01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 1: it seemed like a fairly quick and straightforward process of

1183
01:00:06,720 --> 01:00:09,480
Speaker 1: hiring Andy Reid? Did Clark did Clark Hunt? In the

1184
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:12,640
Speaker 1: Hunt family kind of just get lucky at having Andy

1185
01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: Read available at the same time they did? And what

1186
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:18,479
Speaker 1: kind of role did they play after they hired Andy

1187
01:00:18,520 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 1: Reid And how much did they help him during the

1188
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:23,080
Speaker 1: seven years it took to win the championship? Yeah, I mean,

1189
01:00:23,120 --> 01:00:25,960
Speaker 1: I do think there is some element of luck saying that,

1190
01:00:26,120 --> 01:00:29,760
Speaker 1: like a coach with Andy's experience and track record of success,

1191
01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:31,720
Speaker 1: even though he never won a Super Bowl in Philly,

1192
01:00:31,760 --> 01:00:34,440
Speaker 1: they were always excellent teams, right, So for that kind

1193
01:00:34,480 --> 01:00:37,680
Speaker 1: of coach to be available when the Chiefs were hiring

1194
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:40,760
Speaker 1: a coach, there is some element of luck. But I

1195
01:00:40,840 --> 01:00:44,680
Speaker 1: think they also identified the characteristics that they needed. And

1196
01:00:45,560 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: Andy had a short list of owners that he really

1197
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:50,200
Speaker 1: wanted to work for that he said, he knows who

1198
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:52,440
Speaker 1: ever had a chance to work for these families in

1199
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:55,040
Speaker 1: the NFL, and the Hunts were on that list. Because

1200
01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:58,840
Speaker 1: of the way that Lamar had treated coaches, had treated players,

1201
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 1: through the years, there was a futation of I think

1202
01:01:01,400 --> 01:01:04,640
Speaker 1: Carl Peterson, who been with the Chiefs for about two decades,

1203
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:08,120
Speaker 1: said that, you know, they always said two things. You know,

1204
01:01:08,160 --> 01:01:09,840
Speaker 1: you go to the Super Bowl every year, because that

1205
01:01:09,920 --> 01:01:11,920
Speaker 1: was normal Hunts tradition. You have to get a physical

1206
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:14,560
Speaker 1: every year. So they really cared about the people, and

1207
01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:17,360
Speaker 1: so they had like a little bit of an advantage

1208
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:20,600
Speaker 1: going into that interview. And because Andy had thought this

1209
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:22,480
Speaker 1: is a family that I would want the chance to

1210
01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:25,480
Speaker 1: work for, So I think that speaks to their ability

1211
01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:28,400
Speaker 1: to land him even though they're a smaller market team.

1212
01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:31,919
Speaker 1: And then of course I think the over the last

1213
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:34,640
Speaker 1: seven years, the way and he described it was, you know,

1214
01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 1: they strengthened each other through difficult circumstances. And Clark Hunt

1215
01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:43,200
Speaker 1: said the turning point for them to get to this

1216
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:46,240
Speaker 1: point was hiring Andy. Andy changed the culture as soon

1217
01:01:46,280 --> 01:01:48,880
Speaker 1: as they walked in the door. But it credits him

1218
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:53,680
Speaker 1: for recognizing that. And also when they first met with Reid,

1219
01:01:54,640 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 1: they said to him, are you ready for this? Like

1220
01:01:57,000 --> 01:02:00,200
Speaker 1: Clark and Andy met one on one at the start

1221
01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:02,200
Speaker 1: of the interview just to make sure that Andy was

1222
01:02:02,240 --> 01:02:05,520
Speaker 1: ready to you know, he'd been Philadelphia for so long,

1223
01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:08,400
Speaker 1: it hadn't ended well. He'd lost his son four months earlier.

1224
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:11,400
Speaker 1: Are you ready for this? And Andy said absolutely, and

1225
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:14,440
Speaker 1: they trusted him and they moved forward together. I've on

1226
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:18,040
Speaker 1: the line with Jenny Brentas from Sports Illustrated an MMQB. Hey, Jenny,

1227
01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:20,960
Speaker 1: want to change direction a little bit here. You're in

1228
01:02:21,040 --> 01:02:23,400
Speaker 1: Foxboro just about a month ago when the Patriot season

1229
01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:27,040
Speaker 1: ended with that loss of the Tennessee Titans, everybody speculating

1230
01:02:27,120 --> 01:02:30,040
Speaker 1: on Tom Brady's future. It does seem, and we followed

1231
01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:32,520
Speaker 1: Brady pretty closely here in Buffalo, it does seem that

1232
01:02:32,600 --> 01:02:34,640
Speaker 1: things are a little bit different now for Brady and

1233
01:02:34,800 --> 01:02:38,360
Speaker 1: his analysis and maybe kind of people are seeing different

1234
01:02:38,440 --> 01:02:41,560
Speaker 1: signs and what they've seen from Brady in recent years. Yes, no,

1235
01:02:41,720 --> 01:02:44,520
Speaker 1: what do you see? Yeah, it was definitely that game

1236
01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:46,800
Speaker 1: was a weird feeling. You know, there was a sense

1237
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:49,520
Speaker 1: in the stadium at the very least that this could

1238
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:53,800
Speaker 1: be Brady's last game, you know, So walking into Gelatte

1239
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:56,840
Speaker 1: Stadium where there's that sense is something that you know,

1240
01:02:56,960 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 1: I've never experienced. So it was a little bit weird,

1241
01:02:59,720 --> 01:03:02,320
Speaker 1: you know. And he goes back on the field for

1242
01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:05,200
Speaker 1: one last ditch drives and he doesn't really have a

1243
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: chance at that point to win him in huge odds, right,

1244
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:10,280
Speaker 1: And but you can feel like everyone in the stadium

1245
01:03:10,360 --> 01:03:12,160
Speaker 1: is kind of thinking, like, is this the last time

1246
01:03:12,200 --> 01:03:14,240
Speaker 1: we can see Brady? He could snap, you know, in

1247
01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 1: a Patriots uniform and Gillette Stadium when he left at night,

1248
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:21,400
Speaker 1: like so many questions were unanswered, I really felt like

1249
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 1: there was a great scree of uncertainty. And while on

1250
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:26,760
Speaker 1: the one hand, Brady does have a choice for the

1251
01:03:26,880 --> 01:03:30,960
Speaker 1: first time in his career, it's also not entirely in

1252
01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:34,200
Speaker 1: his control. You know, it depends on what Bill Belichick wants, right.

1253
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:35,960
Speaker 1: I mean, Craft has made it clear he would like

1254
01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:38,720
Speaker 1: Brady back. He doesn't want to see Brady in another uniform,

1255
01:03:38,960 --> 01:03:41,760
Speaker 1: but both Brady and Belichick have to want that too.

1256
01:03:41,920 --> 01:03:44,360
Speaker 1: I still think that's the likeliest outcome. I still think

1257
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:48,400
Speaker 1: the likeliest situation is that Brady is back in Foxborough,

1258
01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:50,520
Speaker 1: because I do think it's kind of hard at this point,

1259
01:03:50,680 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 1: where could you go that you could drop in and

1260
01:03:52,680 --> 01:03:58,160
Speaker 1: instantly have the kind of organizational structure and the capability

1261
01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:00,400
Speaker 1: to have the same kind of success for having the

1262
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:02,120
Speaker 1: same kind offics, And where else can you go that

1263
01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:04,560
Speaker 1: things are just set up the way you like it

1264
01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:06,880
Speaker 1: that would even allow you to have that success. And

1265
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:09,840
Speaker 1: I think it's a very small list and a lot

1266
01:04:09,880 --> 01:04:12,760
Speaker 1: of those teams aren't looking for quarterbacks, right. So that's

1267
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:14,920
Speaker 1: why I still think it's the most likely thing that

1268
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:17,320
Speaker 1: he goes back there. But I think that there's things

1269
01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:19,640
Speaker 1: that He's gonna want, there's things that Bill's gonna want,

1270
01:04:19,680 --> 01:04:21,600
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have to be on the same page. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I hear what you're saying, and I hear people talk

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Speaker 1: about you know, if everybody gets into reading tea leaves

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Speaker 1: about what Brady said or what he did in this

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Speaker 1: commercial or you know, selling houses. Could this come down

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Speaker 1: to just money like like it often does when we

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Speaker 1: talk about NFL players. Maybe just wants a little more

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Speaker 1: money from New England. Well it's interesting because it's for

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Speaker 1: so long we're used to him thinking less and that's

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Speaker 1: been such a huge part of their team building in

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Speaker 1: New England. So if he does come in and say

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Speaker 1: I'm not taking less anymore, is that something that Patriots

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Speaker 1: are willing to do. The other thing that we've seen

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Speaker 1: floated a lot or hinted at a lot, is he

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Speaker 1: wants more weapons brought around him that he felt like

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Speaker 1: he didn't have enough last season, and you could certainly

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Speaker 1: see that frustration, and you could read between the lines

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Speaker 1: and some of his commons last year about feeling frustrated.

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Speaker 1: And I mean, I do think there are plenty of

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Speaker 1: examples throughout his career where you know, you could say, like, wow,

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Speaker 1: how did they make a championship out of this roster?

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Speaker 1: But that's what Freddy does and that's why he's been

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Speaker 1: so special for them. And also they offensive system and

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Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels and the way they designed things, and this

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Speaker 1: year they just but they didn't. They couldn't reach that threshold,

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Speaker 1: even a lower than usual threshold of making something out

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Speaker 1: of an offense. They didn't have enough for that. So

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Speaker 1: I think those are probably going to be interesting to

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Speaker 1: see how they resolve both of those two things, money

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Speaker 1: and who they put around him. Well, one last thing,

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Speaker 1: I've got to ask you two things. One, it came

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Speaker 1: out during Super Bowl Weave that Joe Montana, who legendary

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Speaker 1: quarterback of the forty nine ers, advised Tom Bray said listen,

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Speaker 1: don't do it. Joe. Joe Montana spent four years at

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Speaker 1: Kansas City. At the end of his career ended his

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Speaker 1: career there. He advised Tom Brady not to do it,

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Speaker 1: and then you look at Brady and he didn't have

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Speaker 1: very many weapons around him. It was a tough year

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Speaker 1: offensively for the Patriots, but they won twelve games. And

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Speaker 1: how bad. I mean it seems crazy for the rest

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Speaker 1: of us, but for them, if it doesn't look right,

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Speaker 1: twelve games isn't enough. I mean, I think when push

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Speaker 1: comes to chef, they know, they all they were as

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Speaker 1: good a team as they've ever been this last year

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Speaker 1: they just weren't as good offensively, and if it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a different team this year, I think when push

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Speaker 1: comes to shove, I don't. I'm with you, Jenny. I

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Speaker 1: think Tom Brady's going to be in New England Patriot

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Speaker 1: or he's not gonna be anywhere. Winning twelve games is

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Speaker 1: not something you walk away from. It's so true. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about this like disappointing season. I mean, because

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Speaker 1: they're not used to seeing them play in the wild

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Speaker 1: card round, much less losing the Wildcurrent round, Like these

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Speaker 1: things are foreign in Foxborow. But you're right, they still

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Speaker 1: want twelve games, and so if they have a couple,

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Speaker 1: you know, a player that can make a couple more plays,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe Nicky Harry develops a little bit more

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Speaker 1: into here too, and then he is a player that

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Speaker 1: could be a difference maker in some of those situations

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Speaker 1: that they didn't seem to have. So it's not a

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Speaker 1: big margin. I agree with that. So it is interesting

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Speaker 1: to hear some of these comments. And there's certainly been

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Speaker 1: reports that Brady wants them to load up more on weapons.

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Speaker 1: But what what does he need exactly? I think that's

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01:07:19,200 --> 01:07:22,320
Speaker 1: a little unclear at this point in time. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: are the other options going to be appealing enough for

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01:07:25,600 --> 01:07:28,919
Speaker 1: him to you know, you still might have a better

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01:07:29,080 --> 01:07:31,040
Speaker 1: chance in New England even if they don't give you

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Speaker 1: all the weapons that you want, then you would anywhere else.

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Speaker 1: Oh great, this is Buffalo, Jenny, you know that. That's great.

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Speaker 1: You're right. I mean, what if I say, you know,

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01:07:42,520 --> 01:07:44,480
Speaker 1: don't could win the division? This is the end of

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Speaker 1: the Patriots after Jenny, thanks for the combine a couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks. All right, sounds good. Thanks for helping. Jenny

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Speaker 1: brenta Sports Illustrated MMQB senior writer, contributed to the MMQB podcast.

1345
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Speaker 1: One of the most thoughtful observers in the NFL. She

1346
01:08:02,360 --> 01:08:04,320
Speaker 1: she's a deep thinker about stuff, which is why I

1347
01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:06,120
Speaker 1: like talking to her. I recommend her stuff. The long

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01:08:06,360 --> 01:08:08,160
Speaker 1: piece that she wrote about Andy Reid and and the

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01:08:08,240 --> 01:08:12,040
Speaker 1: odyssey that he and the Chiefs went through, both personally

1350
01:08:12,120 --> 01:08:14,320
Speaker 1: on the field and the relationships behind it, and it's

1351
01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:17,200
Speaker 1: it was really good piece that they wrote, really insightful.

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01:08:17,200 --> 01:08:19,880
Speaker 1: I mean, thinking yesterday we had Dan Pompeian who spent

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Speaker 1: last week with the Chiefs. That was a good story.

1354
01:08:22,160 --> 01:08:24,040
Speaker 1: What went on last week with the Super Bowl champion

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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. Here's Jenny with a story about the

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Speaker 1: last seven years with Kansas City. It's it's great. It's

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Speaker 1: great background. Yeah, and it is there is more to

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Speaker 1: it than just you know, this team put it together.

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01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 1: It's it's a little bit deeper than say, for instance,

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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles for the last year, that was more

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Speaker 1: about their fans suffering for so long. But this is

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Speaker 1: about the relationships inside of over at Arrowhead Stadium and

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Speaker 1: how Andy Reid got there and why they are unique

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Speaker 1: and why he's a unique coach and how many lives

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Speaker 1: he's touched. A good read. I totally forgot about Javon Belcher,

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Speaker 1: you know, shooting killing his girlfriend, right, and Romeo Cronelle

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Speaker 1: was the head coach, the interim head coach there at

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Speaker 1: the time, or with a head coach. That's a major

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01:09:00,479 --> 01:09:02,920
Speaker 1: happened in front of him and Scott and Scott Pioli

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Speaker 1: who is the GM. And it is tragic and that's that's,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of the state that they were in. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: when they were looking for a head coach, and to

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01:09:12,680 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 1: bring Andy Reid in, who's the guy who's about you know,

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Speaker 1: second chances and giving guys who other teams are like, wow,

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Speaker 1: I don't want that guy on our roster and he

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01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:22,439
Speaker 1: brings them in. He's you know, he's got this heart

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01:09:22,560 --> 01:09:25,519
Speaker 1: for thinking he can help these guys, make them better

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Speaker 1: men and better players and and win football games with them.

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Speaker 1: And then and he did it. He won a world

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Speaker 1: championship that way, and a lot of people that we

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01:09:34,200 --> 01:09:37,360
Speaker 1: it's come to be obvious from all the media attention

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Speaker 1: through the Super Bowl week and after that, there are

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Speaker 1: a lot of people who feel indebted to him for

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Speaker 1: all he's done for them. So it's it's a really

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Speaker 1: good story and well written by Jenny Rerentest. We thank

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Speaker 1: her for joining us we will see her at the

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Speaker 1: Combine because we're going to the Combine on Tuesday, February

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Speaker 1: twenty eighteenth, seventeent If that's what I said, it is, okay,

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Speaker 1: you better check your schedule. I'm gonna get sir. We

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01:10:06,720 --> 01:10:10,160
Speaker 1: got four days of Combine covered starting Tuesday, February twenty

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Speaker 1: fifth through that Friday, whatever that Friday is, and we'll

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Speaker 1: be live at the Combine in Indianapolis once again. So

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Speaker 1: we're looking forward to that. All right. Topic of the

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Speaker 1: day NFL Players Association reps, player reps from each team

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Speaker 1: and the Executive Committee meeting in Los Angeles right now

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Speaker 1: as we speak talking about a seventeen game regular season schedule.

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Speaker 1: It's getting close. What would be the biggest change we

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01:10:30,800 --> 01:10:33,519
Speaker 1: would feel as fans, as observers of the league in

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Speaker 1: a seventeen game regular season schedule. Let's hear from you

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Speaker 1: full nine's wide open eight O three five fifty toll

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Speaker 1: free from outside Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty

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Speaker 1: two five fifty got a Twitter poll. We will re

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Speaker 1: check that in a moment. We'll read some of the

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Speaker 1: tweets we're getting on the tweet sheet as well. The

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Speaker 1: biggest change the biggest outgrowth of a seventeen game regular

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Speaker 1: season in the NFL. What might it be? We'll talk

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Speaker 1: about it. One Bill's Live presented by Kalada Health from

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Speaker 1: the Seneca Studio. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tansker, One Bills Live from One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Drive from the Seneca Studio. Here, it's comfortable in here today.

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Speaker 1: Night temperature, it's a little snowy outside. Might have to

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Speaker 1: tinker with thermostat if it gets any chillier. But okay,

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Speaker 1: so I was comfortable. Hey, give us a call. Let

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Speaker 1: us know what you think. The NFL and the NFL

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Speaker 1: Player Association today right now talking about the proposal for

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Speaker 1: a seventeen game regular season. Can we give us some

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Speaker 1: of the parameters of that. Let us know what you

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Speaker 1: think of these seventeen game regular season would start in

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Speaker 1: the week after Labor Day, just as it does now,

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Speaker 1: would go through the entire month of February. They would

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Speaker 1: make the in exchange for increasing the schedule, the owners

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Speaker 1: would make some changes favorable changes for the players in

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Speaker 1: relation to the player discipline and drug policies. They probably

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Speaker 1: make marijuana violation it's less punitive. They would add increase

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Speaker 1: restrictions to offseason workouts and team sanctioned practices, or the

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Speaker 1: biggest thing they do would be increased the players share

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Speaker 1: of league revenue from forty seven percent to forty eight

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Speaker 1: and a half percent. This is the new CBA being

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Speaker 1: discussed by the player repson by the NFLPA Executive Committee

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Speaker 1: right now. In exchange, they give them a seventeen game

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Speaker 1: regular season with two bye weeks in the middle. There.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, we've been talking about some of the outcome.

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Speaker 1: Let's look at our Twitter poll and this is by

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Speaker 1: no means everything that would happen. But we're wondering, when

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Speaker 1: you look at this, what do you think would be

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Speaker 1: the biggest impact on you as a fan if the

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Speaker 1: Bills and the NFL goes to a seventeen game regular season.

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Speaker 1: What would be the biggest change for a seventeen game

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Speaker 1: regular season. Forty eight percent of you say, yes, there

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Speaker 1: would be fewer preseason games they add if they cut

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Speaker 1: if they add one more regular season game, they'd cut

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Speaker 1: it down to three preseason games. But forty eight percent

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Speaker 1: say that's the biggest change. I think that's the one

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Speaker 1: fans would notice most. I think that's what they're thinking.

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Speaker 1: I think that's the one that would be the biggest

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Speaker 1: impact on the fans ability to watch the games. Less preseason,

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Speaker 1: let's get straight to the regular season. I think that's

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Speaker 1: I can buy that. And the neutral site games though,

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Speaker 1: I think that's big. That's you say that would be big.

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Speaker 1: Twenty percent increase roster size, twenty percent, multiple bye weeks,

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Speaker 1: I mean, nobody's going to notice the roster sizes. It's

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Speaker 1: still extra names and name you wouldn't even know, right,

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Speaker 1: multiple bye weeks, all right, that might mean something. It

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01:13:23,720 --> 01:13:26,120
Speaker 1: would be a longer season in terms of weeks, but

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Speaker 1: a neutral site maybe probably an international site game. I mean, look,

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Speaker 1: they're talking about every team would play international game, maybe

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Speaker 1: more than one, and they'd have a regular eight game

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Speaker 1: schedule going on in London. That's a pretty big change

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Speaker 1: in the way the game is. Tweet Joke chimes in

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Speaker 1: on that. He says, I can see two preseason games,

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Speaker 1: seventeen regular season, one additional wildcard, fifty fifty two players

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Speaker 1: active on game day, two bye weeks. I think it's

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Speaker 1: difficult to come up with sixteen neutral venues that would

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Speaker 1: support teams with no rooting interest. So I prefer one

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Speaker 1: extra home game every other year, So every other year

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Speaker 1: you'd get nine home games eight away games. In the

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Speaker 1: next year, you'd have eight home games and nine away games, right,

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Speaker 1: I can see that. But the news he's right though,

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Speaker 1: sixteen neutral venues, Well, it be actually seventeen, right, I

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Speaker 1: mean seventeen different ones. Look, no, it'd be more than

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Speaker 1: you have a game in London like a regular team.

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Speaker 1: They'd just be two different teams. Or Jacksonville played there twice,

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Speaker 1: but the Bills will play there. I mean, so that's

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Speaker 1: one right there. You got Mexico City, you got Berlin,

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Speaker 1: you got Toronto. Um, I mean there's I do. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if that be that. Yeah, for Seattle could

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Speaker 1: play a game up there, you got Look, the league

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Speaker 1: has talked for years about expanding international sendoff teams to Hawaii,

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Speaker 1: where they used to play the Pro Bowl in Japan.

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Speaker 1: You could send two West Coast teams to Japan. Yeah,

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01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:43,040
Speaker 1: that's true. I don't think they'll have any trouble doing that,

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01:14:43,160 --> 01:14:45,439
Speaker 1: although getting it up and run and getting it going

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01:14:45,520 --> 01:14:48,000
Speaker 1: would be Yeah. They'll send people to China. They'll send

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Speaker 1: games to China too, I mean they'll do that as well. Yeah, Yeah,

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01:14:52,680 --> 01:14:56,120
Speaker 1: it depends on where the games are obviously, but these

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Speaker 1: neutral site games, but I don't think there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: any lack of appetite for the game abroad there. There

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01:15:04,760 --> 01:15:06,720
Speaker 1: hasn't been, and they would look to grow it, right,

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01:15:06,800 --> 01:15:10,240
Speaker 1: introduce the World Football that's the big idea, and then

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01:15:10,600 --> 01:15:13,360
Speaker 1: it'd be it'd be interesting to see what the appetite

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01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:16,720
Speaker 1: would be for having these places clamoring for their own team,

1492
01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:20,720
Speaker 1: you know, and then what would happen. Think about what

1493
01:15:20,800 --> 01:15:24,040
Speaker 1: would happen if you know, say London to begin with

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01:15:25,240 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 1: throws together an enormous financial package to lure a team

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01:15:28,479 --> 01:15:32,200
Speaker 1: to come over there and just leave. You know, it

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01:15:32,280 --> 01:15:34,880
Speaker 1: could be happening with Jacksonville. Yeah, I mean that's that's

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01:15:34,920 --> 01:15:36,679
Speaker 1: not how the rum of possibility, and that's what would

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01:15:36,680 --> 01:15:38,360
Speaker 1: it would be. London would get a group to the

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Speaker 1: committee together and say, listen, we've got like a billion

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01:15:40,800 --> 01:15:43,080
Speaker 1: dollars we'll drop in your lap if you come play

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01:15:43,080 --> 01:15:44,599
Speaker 1: in our stadium. We'll give you this, and we'll give

1502
01:15:44,640 --> 01:15:46,639
Speaker 1: you we'll give you a stadium, we'll give you a facility.

1503
01:15:47,040 --> 01:15:49,880
Speaker 1: We'll give you a nine hundred million bucks aside from

1504
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:54,160
Speaker 1: that over a five year period if you permanently reside

1505
01:15:54,200 --> 01:15:57,000
Speaker 1: here and give us ten home games or you know whatever,

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01:15:57,080 --> 01:16:02,559
Speaker 1: eight home games a year. You know, yeah, that could

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01:16:02,560 --> 01:16:04,240
Speaker 1: be a thing. That's what the league's looking to do.

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01:16:04,280 --> 01:16:06,120
Speaker 1: They're looking to go internationale let's get there are a

1509
01:16:06,120 --> 01:16:07,800
Speaker 1: few more tweets from the tweets she brought to you

1510
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:11,000
Speaker 1: by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers of the Buffalo

1511
01:16:11,080 --> 01:16:14,920
Speaker 1: Bills from Scott. Having an increased roster would allow teams

1512
01:16:14,960 --> 01:16:17,519
Speaker 1: to be more competitive when you get to the final

1513
01:16:17,640 --> 01:16:19,679
Speaker 1: roster cuts some of these bubble guys that you really

1514
01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:22,479
Speaker 1: like but can't keep with current roster limitations. Now you

1515
01:16:22,560 --> 01:16:24,360
Speaker 1: can keep them on the active roster and you have

1516
01:16:24,439 --> 01:16:28,000
Speaker 1: a deeper roster of talent, deeper better, I don't know.

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01:16:28,720 --> 01:16:30,519
Speaker 1: I mean, who do you think is getting released? You're

1518
01:16:30,560 --> 01:16:33,519
Speaker 1: getting you right now. You're releasing guys who can't make

1519
01:16:33,560 --> 01:16:36,360
Speaker 1: your team, and many of them don't make any teams.

1520
01:16:36,439 --> 01:16:38,719
Speaker 1: That's how it got to. That's how they the practice

1521
01:16:38,720 --> 01:16:41,360
Speaker 1: squads got in. They they got these guys. Well, like

1522
01:16:41,760 --> 01:16:44,280
Speaker 1: for instance here in Buffalo, Christian Wade, they get a

1523
01:16:44,360 --> 01:16:46,760
Speaker 1: guy who needs them development think, wow, he's you know,

1524
01:16:46,840 --> 01:16:48,920
Speaker 1: this is a guy that could could do something for us.

1525
01:16:49,320 --> 01:16:50,840
Speaker 1: But he's not ready yet, and we don't want to

1526
01:16:50,880 --> 01:16:53,040
Speaker 1: let him go, so you can hang on to him.

1527
01:16:53,080 --> 01:16:55,000
Speaker 1: And then instead of throwing him out on the street

1528
01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:56,960
Speaker 1: and hoping he stays in shape, you keep him in

1529
01:16:57,040 --> 01:16:58,760
Speaker 1: the house. He practices, he gets to know your team,

1530
01:16:58,800 --> 01:17:00,880
Speaker 1: gets to know your system, gets to know how to play.

1531
01:17:01,439 --> 01:17:03,479
Speaker 1: And then when he rolled him out, he's got a

1532
01:17:03,560 --> 01:17:06,479
Speaker 1: chance to make your team, whereas otherwise he's on his own,

1533
01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:09,000
Speaker 1: doesn't know the system, has to stay in shape on

1534
01:17:09,080 --> 01:17:11,479
Speaker 1: his own, maybe goes someplace. I was another team, another

1535
01:17:11,520 --> 01:17:14,280
Speaker 1: team poaches him because they have more room than you

1536
01:17:14,400 --> 01:17:17,120
Speaker 1: do or whatever, and you know they don't. They're not

1537
01:17:17,200 --> 01:17:19,560
Speaker 1: a setup well enough for him to be successful. So

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01:17:19,640 --> 01:17:21,040
Speaker 1: you lose the guy and he never gets a chance

1539
01:17:21,080 --> 01:17:24,200
Speaker 1: to play because of that. That's why practice rosters are

1540
01:17:24,240 --> 01:17:27,280
Speaker 1: in place. And if fifty three guys on your regular roster,

1541
01:17:27,439 --> 01:17:30,439
Speaker 1: he got ten more on the practice squad. That's sixty

1542
01:17:30,520 --> 01:17:35,559
Speaker 1: three guys for every NFL team. That's a lot. Yeah,

1543
01:17:35,960 --> 01:17:40,519
Speaker 1: I think you know what are we talking about. I

1544
01:17:40,640 --> 01:17:42,439
Speaker 1: don't think the guys get a lot of guys. They're

1545
01:17:42,479 --> 01:17:44,800
Speaker 1: not going to make that much of a difference in

1546
01:17:44,920 --> 01:17:47,640
Speaker 1: talent around the league. I just don't think so. One

1547
01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:50,360
Speaker 1: more tweet from go Billers. I'd like the idea of

1548
01:17:50,479 --> 01:17:53,760
Speaker 1: having one new neutral game. NFL fans are everywhere. I'd

1549
01:17:53,800 --> 01:17:55,760
Speaker 1: like to know how they would match up teams for

1550
01:17:55,880 --> 01:17:59,200
Speaker 1: that one extra game outside of normal rotation. Maybe against

1551
01:17:59,200 --> 01:18:02,200
Speaker 1: an equal rank team from another conference. Maybe, I guess

1552
01:18:02,280 --> 01:18:05,040
Speaker 1: that's a legitimate question. Yeah, where's the matchup come from?

1553
01:18:05,439 --> 01:18:07,679
Speaker 1: Do you just play if you're playing the other conference

1554
01:18:07,760 --> 01:18:09,679
Speaker 1: and that it'll say, for instance, next year the Bills

1555
01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:13,320
Speaker 1: are playing the NFC West, do you just play all

1556
01:18:13,400 --> 01:18:16,160
Speaker 1: four teams instead of the top three or the bottom three?

1557
01:18:16,680 --> 01:18:19,200
Speaker 1: You know, because the last place team in the East,

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01:18:20,439 --> 01:18:23,760
Speaker 1: whoever that was a Dolphins this year, they'll play Arizona

1559
01:18:23,840 --> 01:18:26,639
Speaker 1: and they won't play San Francisco. They'll play the top

1560
01:18:26,720 --> 01:18:29,880
Speaker 1: three teams out of conference. Right, and then you see,

1561
01:18:29,880 --> 01:18:32,360
Speaker 1: because the Bills are not playing Arizona, they play the

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01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:35,760
Speaker 1: other three teams. They play all four teams. Okay, what

1563
01:18:35,840 --> 01:18:38,000
Speaker 1: am I talking about? Don't you know what I mean?

1564
01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:39,880
Speaker 1: You'd have to you have to figure out where that

1565
01:18:39,960 --> 01:18:43,280
Speaker 1: matchups coming from. You play the first place schedule or

1566
01:18:43,320 --> 01:18:45,400
Speaker 1: you play the fourth place schedule, and you're and however

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01:18:45,479 --> 01:18:48,479
Speaker 1: that is, it would change, It would change that way.

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01:18:49,000 --> 01:18:51,080
Speaker 1: So I don't, you know, because the Bills are playing Denver,

1569
01:18:52,120 --> 01:18:56,320
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, the Raiders, and the Chargers, and they're playing

1570
01:18:56,400 --> 01:19:00,280
Speaker 1: the Niners, the Cardinals, the Rams, and the sea Hawks.

1571
01:19:00,280 --> 01:19:02,599
Speaker 1: And then there are other two in conferences Tennessee Titans,

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01:19:03,120 --> 01:19:06,120
Speaker 1: and who's the other one, Steelers. They're playing one team

1573
01:19:06,160 --> 01:19:08,200
Speaker 1: from each of the other from two of the other

1574
01:19:09,240 --> 01:19:12,040
Speaker 1: second place AFC team second place teams. So you know

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01:19:12,120 --> 01:19:14,479
Speaker 1: that's gonna be where. That's where that's seventeenth game or

1576
01:19:14,520 --> 01:19:18,040
Speaker 1: the next game is gonna be. You know, take a

1577
01:19:18,080 --> 01:19:21,760
Speaker 1: phone call here, let's go to Joe in Rochester. Hello, Joe,

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01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:26,960
Speaker 1: you're on the air of this. Go ahead, Joe, Yeah, yeah,

1579
01:19:27,040 --> 01:19:28,920
Speaker 1: tell me all right, all right, thanks for taking my call. Guys.

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01:19:29,080 --> 01:19:32,800
Speaker 1: Yep um um. You know, maybe well two things. One

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01:19:32,840 --> 01:19:34,559
Speaker 1: I remember not a year ago there was talking about

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01:19:34,600 --> 01:19:36,760
Speaker 1: the players really being against the Thursday night games for

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01:19:37,160 --> 01:19:39,240
Speaker 1: some obvious reasons when they have short off weeks. Was

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01:19:39,280 --> 01:19:41,960
Speaker 1: that every consideration for coming off the table for longer schedule,

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01:19:42,080 --> 01:19:45,479
Speaker 1: eliminating Thursday Night. No, that's never been that's never been

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01:19:45,560 --> 01:19:48,240
Speaker 1: mentioned as a thing. And I think ultimately I don't

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01:19:48,280 --> 01:19:50,640
Speaker 1: think the players care that much because the time, on

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01:19:50,720 --> 01:19:53,800
Speaker 1: the other side, is valuable to them. I believe that,

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01:19:54,560 --> 01:19:56,240
Speaker 1: you know what else, Joe and that, Look, I'm not

1590
01:19:56,320 --> 01:19:59,040
Speaker 1: crazy about Thursday night games, but there is no evidence

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01:19:59,120 --> 01:20:01,519
Speaker 1: that there are more injuries in a Thursday night game

1592
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:04,000
Speaker 1: because of the short week. Yeah, there's just not nothing

1593
01:20:04,040 --> 01:20:06,960
Speaker 1: to indicate that that's a factor. But I'm not I

1594
01:20:07,000 --> 01:20:08,640
Speaker 1: don't like Thursday nights, but there they are. They're not

1595
01:20:08,680 --> 01:20:11,280
Speaker 1: going away. I think it's certain of the week a

1596
01:20:11,320 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 1: little bit kind of fun. Yeah, on the injury front, um,

1597
01:20:16,600 --> 01:20:19,800
Speaker 1: I just the thing about the players, and hey, you

1598
01:20:19,880 --> 01:20:22,640
Speaker 1: know they're just saying no, the owners don't have an

1599
01:20:22,680 --> 01:20:27,479
Speaker 1: obligated to create these overly, you know, cautious sort of

1600
01:20:27,520 --> 01:20:30,519
Speaker 1: work environments. Are plenty of guys would step in. I

1601
01:20:30,640 --> 01:20:34,280
Speaker 1: just don't think that the same logic applies anywhere else

1602
01:20:34,640 --> 01:20:38,720
Speaker 1: in uh, you know, US industry, whether it's manufacturing or

1603
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:42,719
Speaker 1: the mining industry. I mean, employers are obligated to create

1604
01:20:42,840 --> 01:20:45,960
Speaker 1: safe working environments. Just because there are employees willing to

1605
01:20:46,720 --> 01:20:50,600
Speaker 1: take a paycheck in exchange for less than ethical and

1606
01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:54,680
Speaker 1: in some instances legal work environments doesn't mean it's an

1607
01:20:54,760 --> 01:20:58,400
Speaker 1: excuse that for the NFL too, or any other industry

1608
01:20:58,479 --> 01:21:02,519
Speaker 1: too to maintain uh less than standard you know, the

1609
01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:05,120
Speaker 1: standard safe work environment for an American worker. Well, here's

1610
01:21:05,160 --> 01:21:10,360
Speaker 1: the thing safe is I mean, I don't buy that

1611
01:21:10,680 --> 01:21:15,240
Speaker 1: safety is related to an extra week of work during

1612
01:21:15,280 --> 01:21:17,640
Speaker 1: the work year. I mean big you know what I mean.

1613
01:21:17,760 --> 01:21:21,800
Speaker 1: I mean one extra game to me, is is not

1614
01:21:23,600 --> 01:21:26,559
Speaker 1: out of control. I mean if it's safe this week,

1615
01:21:26,600 --> 01:21:29,320
Speaker 1: why isn't it safe next week? Well, because this is

1616
01:21:29,479 --> 01:21:31,640
Speaker 1: just are isn't the biggest risk? Not sort of a

1617
01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:35,880
Speaker 1: one time event, is sort of the chronic repeats you

1618
01:21:36,040 --> 01:21:40,559
Speaker 1: think carpal tunnel think. You know, the more you do something,

1619
01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:43,439
Speaker 1: the more likely an enemy sort of chronic where and

1620
01:21:43,760 --> 01:21:45,360
Speaker 1: at the point listen, I'll tell you this too, Joe.

1621
01:21:45,439 --> 01:21:47,120
Speaker 1: The only reason the NFL has to make any of

1622
01:21:47,160 --> 01:21:50,439
Speaker 1: these changes because of the union, uh you know, and

1623
01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:53,519
Speaker 1: and the Collective Barney Agreement. Because they have to be

1624
01:21:53,720 --> 01:21:57,120
Speaker 1: reasonable because the union has unionized and said listen, you're

1625
01:21:57,600 --> 01:21:59,680
Speaker 1: you're going to do some things that make it good

1626
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:01,880
Speaker 1: for us. Otherwise no industry would have to do it.

1627
01:22:02,120 --> 01:22:03,639
Speaker 1: So there's you know, you can say what you want,

1628
01:22:03,640 --> 01:22:06,080
Speaker 1: whether you're a union, pro union guy or anti union guy.

1629
01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:10,160
Speaker 1: If you turn this into it, everybody's just an independent contractor.

1630
01:22:10,960 --> 01:22:14,960
Speaker 1: You know, guys will still be wearing canvas helmets. Absolutely,

1631
01:22:15,680 --> 01:22:17,600
Speaker 1: so there has been some good out of it, and

1632
01:22:17,720 --> 01:22:19,519
Speaker 1: I don't think the players are completely out of line.

1633
01:22:20,200 --> 01:22:23,880
Speaker 1: But I don't think this is a hill that I

1634
01:22:23,920 --> 01:22:27,559
Speaker 1: would die on. No, I don't disagree with that at all,

1635
01:22:27,600 --> 01:22:29,479
Speaker 1: And I haven't got a really good point. I just

1636
01:22:29,920 --> 01:22:34,080
Speaker 1: I think it's very easy for our country because I mean, really,

1637
01:22:34,080 --> 01:22:37,000
Speaker 1: in football is a very emotional issue for our country

1638
01:22:37,040 --> 01:22:38,479
Speaker 1: as a whole. It's part of the fabric of who

1639
01:22:38,520 --> 01:22:42,720
Speaker 1: we are. We're much more invested in what goes on

1640
01:22:42,960 --> 01:22:45,600
Speaker 1: in this labor environment than we are. I think the

1641
01:22:45,640 --> 01:22:48,360
Speaker 1: average person is a mining Are we interested in the

1642
01:22:48,439 --> 01:22:51,559
Speaker 1: mining industry or the roofing industry, or the manufacturing industry.

1643
01:22:51,560 --> 01:22:53,640
Speaker 1: And I don't think that we should, because of our

1644
01:22:53,680 --> 01:22:57,040
Speaker 1: emotional attachment, think of it as any different than any

1645
01:22:57,080 --> 01:22:59,920
Speaker 1: other industry in the United States. Okay, that's really much.

1646
01:23:00,200 --> 01:23:02,400
Speaker 1: Thank you, Joe, Thanks for calling. It's good point. We're

1647
01:23:02,439 --> 01:23:04,519
Speaker 1: gonna take a break. It's One Bill's Live presented by

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1649
01:23:08,640 --> 01:23:26,160
Speaker 1: Nothing comes close One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive

1650
01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:29,120
Speaker 1: from the Senate studios here, John Murphy, Steve Tasker. When

1651
01:23:29,240 --> 01:23:30,880
Speaker 1: we got off the here yesterday, Steve, I don't know,

1652
01:23:30,960 --> 01:23:32,519
Speaker 1: I think you did we did you watch it? We

1653
01:23:32,600 --> 01:23:34,800
Speaker 1: did a little bit. The h was it yesterday? Yeah?

1654
01:23:34,800 --> 01:23:38,800
Speaker 1: The Super Bowl Parade, the super celebrations, the city. It

1655
01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:41,840
Speaker 1: was interesting and of course the natural reaction for those

1656
01:23:41,880 --> 01:23:44,400
Speaker 1: of us here in Buffalo is wow, what would that

1657
01:23:44,520 --> 01:23:47,800
Speaker 1: be like here? Yeah, it'll be crazy here, but it's

1658
01:23:47,840 --> 01:23:50,439
Speaker 1: crazy everywhere, right. I would say it's kind of the

1659
01:23:50,520 --> 01:23:54,920
Speaker 1: lowest form of entertainment to watch the Super Bowl parade?

1660
01:23:54,960 --> 01:23:57,040
Speaker 1: What's the parade? Typically it's a bunch of trucks with

1661
01:23:57,160 --> 01:23:59,400
Speaker 1: players on the back. Then they go and get an

1662
01:23:59,400 --> 01:24:03,240
Speaker 1: adult bridges the players included. The players get out of

1663
01:24:03,320 --> 01:24:05,720
Speaker 1: stage and just bellow for oh my gosh. They just

1664
01:24:05,760 --> 01:24:08,120
Speaker 1: screamed for an and you know, Clark Hunt made a

1665
01:24:08,160 --> 01:24:10,840
Speaker 1: few had a few prepared remarks, you know, the executives

1666
01:24:10,840 --> 01:24:13,559
Speaker 1: and all the suits, you suits had all prepared remarks.

1667
01:24:13,600 --> 01:24:16,400
Speaker 1: The players, No, no, they were not prepared. They just

1668
01:24:16,520 --> 01:24:18,560
Speaker 1: got up and start shouting. You need evidence. We have

1669
01:24:18,640 --> 01:24:21,960
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey on stage yesterday in Kansas City. He wasn't

1670
01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:23,600
Speaker 1: making a whole lot of sense, but people seem to

1671
01:24:23,680 --> 01:24:28,559
Speaker 1: enjoy it. Twenty one years about how about that? I'm

1672
01:24:28,560 --> 01:24:31,679
Speaker 1: gonna walked as well? How about twenty one years? Y'all

1673
01:24:31,760 --> 01:24:34,240
Speaker 1: know what that means. Everybody here is thinking, Oh, that's

1674
01:24:34,240 --> 01:24:36,400
Speaker 1: when I can you know what I mean, legally get

1675
01:24:36,479 --> 01:24:41,960
Speaker 1: a drink? Yeah? No, twenty one years, that's how That's

1676
01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:46,599
Speaker 1: how long it's just been turning from my guy, Andy Reid,

1677
01:24:48,680 --> 01:24:54,040
Speaker 1: It's just been turning and turning and turning. Hey, what

1678
01:24:54,320 --> 01:24:57,800
Speaker 1: we do? What we do? We at least I can't

1679
01:24:57,840 --> 01:25:02,600
Speaker 1: a whoop ass on every pot twenty four nothing, I

1680
01:25:02,640 --> 01:25:06,639
Speaker 1: ain't trying to hear it. Child ten, I ain't trying

1681
01:25:06,720 --> 01:25:12,439
Speaker 1: to hear it. Fourth quarter six and whatever left on

1682
01:25:12,560 --> 01:25:24,519
Speaker 1: the clock, downten, We got Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid? Baby,

1683
01:25:24,960 --> 01:25:31,040
Speaker 1: how about Sammy Watkins? Whoa? How about Damian Williams? Whoa?

1684
01:25:32,280 --> 01:25:35,639
Speaker 1: How about my dog? Five? Five? And he ain't all

1685
01:25:35,720 --> 01:25:45,320
Speaker 1: side freight CLR? What's done? There? You go? Travis Kelsey,

1686
01:25:45,520 --> 01:25:48,120
Speaker 1: who obviously auditioning for the job of narrating the Chiefs

1687
01:25:48,160 --> 01:25:51,760
Speaker 1: Highlight film R. What is he saying? You know, just

1688
01:25:51,880 --> 01:25:54,120
Speaker 1: making noises? My grandson sounds like that some of the

1689
01:25:54,200 --> 01:25:57,160
Speaker 1: noises he made whatever. You know, have fun, guys has

1690
01:25:57,200 --> 01:26:01,720
Speaker 1: happy times. Man, I guess I let's do better. When

1691
01:26:01,720 --> 01:26:03,880
Speaker 1: the Bills went a Super Bowl, let's say have a couple.

1692
01:26:03,920 --> 01:26:05,360
Speaker 1: If you don't have anything to say, If you just

1693
01:26:05,400 --> 01:26:07,400
Speaker 1: wanting to get up there and make noises, don't don't

1694
01:26:07,400 --> 01:26:09,800
Speaker 1: do it. Am I asking for too much? Steve? You

1695
01:26:09,920 --> 01:26:12,439
Speaker 1: might be. I don't want to see these guys. I

1696
01:26:12,520 --> 01:26:14,920
Speaker 1: like these guys. I'm sure the chief fans love those Chiefs.

1697
01:26:15,160 --> 01:26:16,519
Speaker 1: I just don't want to see him on stage. You're

1698
01:26:16,520 --> 01:26:20,439
Speaker 1: making noises and belloween and just just tell you guys

1699
01:26:20,520 --> 01:26:22,920
Speaker 1: that guys just having something on that's fine. Yeah, let's

1700
01:26:23,200 --> 01:26:25,559
Speaker 1: one speaker. Let's get one somebody who has not had

1701
01:26:25,560 --> 01:26:28,400
Speaker 1: a beer. Well, I don't even care about beer, but

1702
01:26:28,520 --> 01:26:31,280
Speaker 1: come on, Yeah, it's it's a dangerous game because we

1703
01:26:31,640 --> 01:26:34,479
Speaker 1: blanked it out because you know, they curse and what

1704
01:26:34,760 --> 01:26:38,160
Speaker 1: they do, yeah, and all of that. So it gets

1705
01:26:38,560 --> 01:26:41,840
Speaker 1: it's I get it. It's your Super Bowl parade. So

1706
01:26:41,960 --> 01:26:44,360
Speaker 1: it's kind of out of hand anyway, right. I mean,

1707
01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:46,200
Speaker 1: that's if you're gonna get out of hand, that's when

1708
01:26:46,240 --> 01:26:48,160
Speaker 1: you do it. They they were even didn't have jerseys

1709
01:26:48,200 --> 01:26:51,240
Speaker 1: on or anything. They had all these um ski goggles

1710
01:26:51,280 --> 01:26:53,680
Speaker 1: they were wearing for some reason. It was chili And

1711
01:26:53,760 --> 01:26:55,760
Speaker 1: I'm not anti fun. I just don't see how much

1712
01:26:55,760 --> 01:26:58,519
Speaker 1: fun that is. How much fun was that Kelsey was

1713
01:26:58,600 --> 01:27:01,559
Speaker 1: having fun? Yes, the guy just sort of act out

1714
01:27:01,640 --> 01:27:05,439
Speaker 1: on stage, making noises, ballowing into a microphone. It's smart

1715
01:27:05,479 --> 01:27:07,920
Speaker 1: move though, only a two mile parade route. Just you

1716
01:27:07,960 --> 01:27:10,639
Speaker 1: don't need a five or ten miles. Just keep it short.

1717
01:27:10,760 --> 01:27:13,000
Speaker 1: And what we said, we just have something here in

1718
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:16,479
Speaker 1: the stadium. Just have people tailgate in the morning, show

1719
01:27:16,600 --> 01:27:20,320
Speaker 1: up on a Saturday afternoon. And in fact, we haven't

1720
01:27:20,320 --> 01:27:22,479
Speaker 1: talked about this with a seventeen game. Show play the

1721
01:27:22,520 --> 01:27:25,360
Speaker 1: super Bowl on a Saturday. Yeah, put the super Bowl

1722
01:27:25,439 --> 01:27:27,840
Speaker 1: on Saturday, so everybody, you just take a deep breath

1723
01:27:27,880 --> 01:27:29,479
Speaker 1: before they jump back into the work. Did you have

1724
01:27:29,600 --> 01:27:31,920
Speaker 1: that discussion anywhere this week this past weekend. I did

1725
01:27:32,000 --> 01:27:33,960
Speaker 1: with my wife. Yes. Would you think if the game

1726
01:27:34,040 --> 01:27:36,160
Speaker 1: was Saturday and they all look at it? Oh, that's brilliant.

1727
01:27:36,200 --> 01:27:38,280
Speaker 1: It is a great idea because nobody thinks about the

1728
01:27:38,360 --> 01:27:41,080
Speaker 1: TV thing. I think, right, TV audience is this much

1729
01:27:41,160 --> 01:27:44,040
Speaker 1: on Sunday otherwise Saturday. Right, it would be perfect for

1730
01:27:44,120 --> 01:27:46,679
Speaker 1: a Saturday super Bowl on a Saturday. Perfect it's yeah,

1731
01:27:47,200 --> 01:27:49,600
Speaker 1: now it moves. If this plan goes through to be

1732
01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:54,479
Speaker 1: later in February the last, we'd still be deep in it. Yeah.

1733
01:27:55,000 --> 01:27:58,680
Speaker 1: What would an NFL season playoffs in February do to

1734
01:27:58,800 --> 01:28:03,120
Speaker 1: other sports or for since XFL or college basketball or NBA,

1735
01:28:03,200 --> 01:28:06,040
Speaker 1: what would it or NHL? It would hurt them, right.

1736
01:28:06,080 --> 01:28:09,880
Speaker 1: If the NFL is captivating the headlines and dominating the

1737
01:28:09,960 --> 01:28:11,880
Speaker 1: television stings through the month, that makes it tougher on

1738
01:28:11,960 --> 01:28:14,200
Speaker 1: a league like the XFL. I mean they're already are

1739
01:28:14,280 --> 01:28:16,600
Speaker 1: trying to find players and that kind you expand the

1740
01:28:16,720 --> 01:28:19,200
Speaker 1: NFL rosters. But if you go from sixty three guys,

1741
01:28:19,439 --> 01:28:21,280
Speaker 1: you know, the fifty three and then the ten, if

1742
01:28:21,280 --> 01:28:25,280
Speaker 1: you go to seventy and that's you know, it's yeah,

1743
01:28:27,120 --> 01:28:29,240
Speaker 1: just that many more guys that are they're What about

1744
01:28:29,280 --> 01:28:32,240
Speaker 1: the rest of the sports, though, do we care? I

1745
01:28:32,320 --> 01:28:34,320
Speaker 1: mean not that the NFL has to care. Look all

1746
01:28:34,360 --> 01:28:36,680
Speaker 1: they care about is I mean, you got money, there's

1747
01:28:36,720 --> 01:28:39,599
Speaker 1: some more money. Yeah, I mean that's a good point.

1748
01:28:39,720 --> 01:28:42,120
Speaker 1: I mean there's only so many, so much to go around,

1749
01:28:42,160 --> 01:28:45,439
Speaker 1: and there's the pie can't be cut too many more ways. Um,

1750
01:28:45,840 --> 01:28:49,320
Speaker 1: the other sports will be right now they're relegated to

1751
01:28:49,479 --> 01:28:52,479
Speaker 1: kind of going around the NFL schedule, right, I mean,

1752
01:28:52,560 --> 01:28:54,720
Speaker 1: nobody wants any piece of going up ahead head to

1753
01:28:54,760 --> 01:28:57,439
Speaker 1: head with a football game, So it would it would

1754
01:28:57,479 --> 01:28:59,880
Speaker 1: expand that the tentacles would go deeper into this cow.

1755
01:29:00,360 --> 01:29:03,200
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's just less less and less room for

1756
01:29:03,240 --> 01:29:05,720
Speaker 1: everything else. So yeah, and we're gonna talk about the

1757
01:29:05,800 --> 01:29:08,880
Speaker 1: proposal to go to seventeen regular season games that's being

1758
01:29:08,960 --> 01:29:12,080
Speaker 1: discussed today in Los Angeles by members of the NFL

1759
01:29:12,200 --> 01:29:15,920
Speaker 1: Players Association and their reps and their executive committee. What

1760
01:29:15,960 --> 01:29:17,640
Speaker 1: do you think of that? Give us a call eight

1761
01:29:18,479 --> 01:29:21,360
Speaker 1: fifty twenty three one eight eight eight by fifty two

1762
01:29:21,400 --> 01:29:23,960
Speaker 1: five fifty. We will recheck our Twitter poll and go

1763
01:29:24,080 --> 01:29:26,240
Speaker 1: back to this issue. The biggest change you would see

1764
01:29:26,560 --> 01:29:29,400
Speaker 1: in a seventeen game regular season in the NFL. Come

1765
01:29:29,479 --> 01:29:31,920
Speaker 1: on back One Doll's Live, presented by Kalida Health from

1766
01:29:32,000 --> 01:29:35,360
Speaker 1: the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. This is Buffalo Bills Radio,

1767
01:29:44,720 --> 01:29:50,479
Speaker 1: Hello Hills Radio Network Sports Stop Date. Future scheduling in

1768
01:29:50,520 --> 01:29:53,559
Speaker 1: the NFL is being discussed today in Los Angeles. Player

1769
01:29:53,640 --> 01:29:57,559
Speaker 1: representatives from the NFL Players Association and the Executive Committee

1770
01:29:57,840 --> 01:30:01,720
Speaker 1: of the NFLPA meeting in LA. They're discussing they may

1771
01:30:01,800 --> 01:30:04,759
Speaker 1: even vote on the owner's current proposal on the collective

1772
01:30:04,800 --> 01:30:09,200
Speaker 1: Bargaining Agreement. Last week, the owners mentioned that they getting

1773
01:30:09,240 --> 01:30:11,080
Speaker 1: close to an agreement and players may or may not

1774
01:30:11,200 --> 01:30:15,120
Speaker 1: be involved in a expanded seventeen game regular season. The

1775
01:30:15,320 --> 01:30:17,240
Speaker 1: report is that the players are not interested in that,

1776
01:30:17,360 --> 01:30:19,719
Speaker 1: but they made discuss it this week. The new CBA

1777
01:30:19,800 --> 01:30:21,679
Speaker 1: would be a ten year deal, would raise the player's

1778
01:30:21,680 --> 01:30:24,559
Speaker 1: share of league revenue from forty seven percent to forty

1779
01:30:24,600 --> 01:30:27,240
Speaker 1: eight and a half percent possibility to go higher if

1780
01:30:27,320 --> 01:30:30,920
Speaker 1: and when the regular season expands the seventeen games. The

1781
01:30:31,040 --> 01:30:34,720
Speaker 1: new proposal would mean an extra five billion dollars in

1782
01:30:34,880 --> 01:30:36,720
Speaker 1: revenue to the players over the life of the deal.

1783
01:30:37,000 --> 01:30:39,519
Speaker 1: That new CBA is the topic of discussion today right

1784
01:30:39,600 --> 01:30:43,679
Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live. The Pittsburgh Steelers have resigned

1785
01:30:43,720 --> 01:30:46,240
Speaker 1: general manager Kevin Colbert. He'll be back for another season.

1786
01:30:46,479 --> 01:30:49,160
Speaker 1: The vice president general manager gets a one year extension.

1787
01:30:49,479 --> 01:30:52,040
Speaker 1: It was last week when Steelers President Art Rooney the

1788
01:30:52,080 --> 01:30:55,240
Speaker 1: Second said he was optimistic that Colbert would remain for

1789
01:30:55,320 --> 01:30:58,599
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Colbert sixty three years old. This new deal

1790
01:30:58,680 --> 01:31:00,960
Speaker 1: gives him a contract at least through the twenty twenty

1791
01:31:01,000 --> 01:31:04,280
Speaker 1: one draft, and Tony o'brown issued a public apology to

1792
01:31:04,400 --> 01:31:06,479
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers, his old team. He told a radio

1793
01:31:06,560 --> 01:31:09,320
Speaker 1: station in Pittsburgh this morning he was sorry he was

1794
01:31:09,400 --> 01:31:12,400
Speaker 1: a distraction to the team. His comments continue a series

1795
01:31:12,439 --> 01:31:15,000
Speaker 1: of apologies he's made over the last week. Last Friday,

1796
01:31:15,040 --> 01:31:17,920
Speaker 1: he apologized to the NFL as a whole. In an

1797
01:31:17,960 --> 01:31:22,400
Speaker 1: interview with ESPN Cleveland, Brown's new general manager, Andrew Barry,

1798
01:31:22,479 --> 01:31:24,679
Speaker 1: says he has already met with both running back Kareem

1799
01:31:24,760 --> 01:31:28,000
Speaker 1: Hunt and wide receiver Odell Beckham Junior, regarding their recent

1800
01:31:28,320 --> 01:31:31,960
Speaker 1: offseason incidents. That drew headlines Hunted pulled over by police,

1801
01:31:32,400 --> 01:31:34,360
Speaker 1: and it was Beckham who got in trouble in New

1802
01:31:34,479 --> 01:31:38,160
Speaker 1: Orleans on a misdemeanor complaintive simple battery, he says. The

1803
01:31:38,240 --> 01:31:40,200
Speaker 1: new GM Andrew Barry says he talked to both of

1804
01:31:40,240 --> 01:31:43,960
Speaker 1: them about their misbehavior and the Buffalo Savers played Detroit tonight.

1805
01:31:44,080 --> 01:31:46,960
Speaker 1: Jack cho fourteen points in twelve games against the Red

1806
01:31:47,000 --> 01:31:50,400
Speaker 1: Wings since the beginning of the twenty sixteen twenty seventeen season.

1807
01:31:50,680 --> 01:31:53,400
Speaker 1: Seven o'clock face off at Keybank Center Welcome Back One

1808
01:31:53,479 --> 01:31:57,160
Speaker 1: Day's Live, John Murphy Steve Tasker in the Where are

1809
01:31:57,200 --> 01:31:59,640
Speaker 1: we the senatea Buffalo studio in Orchard Park. How are

1810
01:31:59,640 --> 01:32:04,720
Speaker 1: you doing good? Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're trying to keep

1811
01:32:04,760 --> 01:32:07,599
Speaker 1: track of the seventeen game thing. And it'll be interesting

1812
01:32:07,640 --> 01:32:09,840
Speaker 1: to see if the players. There's thirty two guys that

1813
01:32:10,000 --> 01:32:14,040
Speaker 1: the players associate the player reps, thirty two each team

1814
01:32:14,080 --> 01:32:16,679
Speaker 1: has one, and they're all at this meeting, and it'll

1815
01:32:16,720 --> 01:32:20,000
Speaker 1: be interesting to see because it's significant that the Executive

1816
01:32:20,040 --> 01:32:22,280
Speaker 1: Council thought it was at a time to bring them

1817
01:32:22,320 --> 01:32:24,760
Speaker 1: together to maybe even vote on this. There must be

1818
01:32:24,840 --> 01:32:27,840
Speaker 1: a proposal on the table that is worthy of their time.

1819
01:32:28,160 --> 01:32:31,080
Speaker 1: They don't do this just because they're closer, because they

1820
01:32:31,120 --> 01:32:32,519
Speaker 1: got some things they want to run by them. If

1821
01:32:32,560 --> 01:32:35,639
Speaker 1: there's a proposal on the table that the Executive Council

1822
01:32:35,760 --> 01:32:37,439
Speaker 1: thinks is worthy of them, they bring them in and

1823
01:32:37,479 --> 01:32:40,120
Speaker 1: they give it to them, say what you think. Twenty

1824
01:32:40,160 --> 01:32:44,679
Speaker 1: two of the thirty two reps have to vote yes

1825
01:32:45,280 --> 01:32:48,760
Speaker 1: two thirds and then if if they say yeah, then

1826
01:32:48,800 --> 01:32:50,280
Speaker 1: twenty one or twenty two. I don't know what the

1827
01:32:50,320 --> 01:32:53,280
Speaker 1: math is. Um. They got to put it to the

1828
01:32:53,360 --> 01:32:55,519
Speaker 1: rank and file, which is all nineteen hundred guys who

1829
01:32:55,560 --> 01:32:57,720
Speaker 1: were who are in the union and active players, and

1830
01:32:57,720 --> 01:32:59,280
Speaker 1: then they'll have to vote on it, say yes, thumbs

1831
01:32:59,360 --> 01:33:01,439
Speaker 1: up or thumbs down. But it's been my experience and

1832
01:33:01,640 --> 01:33:04,240
Speaker 1: observation that when the Executive Council in the player reps

1833
01:33:04,960 --> 01:33:07,720
Speaker 1: bring it to the vote, they're good with it and

1834
01:33:07,760 --> 01:33:09,280
Speaker 1: they want you to they want you to accept it.

1835
01:33:09,920 --> 01:33:13,680
Speaker 1: There's a debate, you know, the league had said that

1836
01:33:13,800 --> 01:33:16,599
Speaker 1: March eighteenth was the deadline to get an answer from

1837
01:33:16,640 --> 01:33:18,519
Speaker 1: the players. Now the league wants to get this done

1838
01:33:18,520 --> 01:33:20,720
Speaker 1: as soon as possible so they can make plans for

1839
01:33:20,760 --> 01:33:23,479
Speaker 1: a seventeen game schedule in twenty twenty one. There are

1840
01:33:23,600 --> 01:33:26,120
Speaker 1: reports coming out even as the meetings go on that

1841
01:33:26,439 --> 01:33:28,760
Speaker 1: there is no deadline, and I'm sure if I'm an

1842
01:33:29,120 --> 01:33:33,360
Speaker 1: NFL Player Association official or even a member of the NFLPA,

1843
01:33:33,600 --> 01:33:35,920
Speaker 1: I'm saying, hey, you're not going to hold a gun

1844
01:33:35,960 --> 01:33:37,640
Speaker 1: to our head. We'll sign this if we want to.

1845
01:33:38,040 --> 01:33:40,640
Speaker 1: March eighteenth doesn't mean anything to us. That was an

1846
01:33:40,720 --> 01:33:43,240
Speaker 1: initial report that came out. They're talking about a schedule

1847
01:33:43,280 --> 01:33:46,040
Speaker 1: that would start at the same time week after Labor

1848
01:33:46,120 --> 01:33:49,320
Speaker 1: Day and would continue with playoffs right through the end

1849
01:33:49,360 --> 01:33:52,280
Speaker 1: of February, so there'd be an extension of the schedule.

1850
01:33:52,320 --> 01:33:54,800
Speaker 1: They're talking about and what are the players getting in return?

1851
01:33:54,840 --> 01:33:56,960
Speaker 1: They'd get an increase in the revenue from the league

1852
01:33:57,160 --> 01:33:59,240
Speaker 1: forty seven percent to forty eight and a half percent.

1853
01:34:00,120 --> 01:34:04,200
Speaker 1: They would get maybe relaxed marijuana laws, punishments for testing

1854
01:34:04,280 --> 01:34:08,959
Speaker 1: positive for marijuana, relaxed discipline policy, improvements to player benefits.

1855
01:34:10,040 --> 01:34:12,880
Speaker 1: They would have higher minimum cash bending floors for the team,

1856
01:34:13,000 --> 01:34:15,559
Speaker 1: some structural changes, all of that to get a seventeen

1857
01:34:15,600 --> 01:34:18,560
Speaker 1: game schedule. We have a Twitter poll up about this.

1858
01:34:18,880 --> 01:34:20,640
Speaker 1: We're asking you what impact would it have on you

1859
01:34:20,760 --> 01:34:22,200
Speaker 1: the fan? What do you think would be the biggest

1860
01:34:22,200 --> 01:34:25,559
Speaker 1: thing you would see from a seventeen game NFL regular

1861
01:34:25,600 --> 01:34:29,400
Speaker 1: season schedule? Right now, fewer preseason games is the leading

1862
01:34:29,760 --> 01:34:32,719
Speaker 1: thing that folks are voting for. A little bit puzzling,

1863
01:34:32,760 --> 01:34:34,200
Speaker 1: but I guess Steve, you're right. You know, that'd be

1864
01:34:34,280 --> 01:34:37,599
Speaker 1: the most practical things that people would see. They'd see, Hey,

1865
01:34:37,840 --> 01:34:40,600
Speaker 1: let's because if they add one regular season game, they

1866
01:34:40,680 --> 01:34:43,160
Speaker 1: get to seventeen games, they'd take one preseason game away.

1867
01:34:43,439 --> 01:34:46,160
Speaker 1: There's a report that the plan includes two preseason games

1868
01:34:46,479 --> 01:34:50,840
Speaker 1: and one free open scrimmage two team scrimmage in the

1869
01:34:50,880 --> 01:34:53,760
Speaker 1: stadium like the Bills and whoever. Cleveland would scrimmage, So

1870
01:34:53,840 --> 01:34:56,320
Speaker 1: maybe that's it. But forty eight forty nine percent you

1871
01:34:56,400 --> 01:34:59,880
Speaker 1: say fewer preseason games, twenty percent say increased roster size

1872
01:35:00,040 --> 01:35:03,120
Speaker 1: probably have to happen with seventeen regular season games, nineteen

1873
01:35:03,200 --> 01:35:05,479
Speaker 1: percent say multiple bye weeks would be a big change

1874
01:35:05,520 --> 01:35:08,400
Speaker 1: for you, and only thirteen percent say one neutral or

1875
01:35:08,479 --> 01:35:11,519
Speaker 1: international site game, which is likely to happen too. As

1876
01:35:11,520 --> 01:35:13,880
Speaker 1: a former player, one thing you've got to ask is, Okay,

1877
01:35:14,080 --> 01:35:16,879
Speaker 1: now I signed my contract with a sixteen game schedule

1878
01:35:16,920 --> 01:35:19,320
Speaker 1: in mind. If you're going to add a game, am

1879
01:35:19,360 --> 01:35:22,479
Speaker 1: I gonna get an extra game check? Because that's the

1880
01:35:22,479 --> 01:35:25,559
Speaker 1: way it works. They divide your salary into the weeks

1881
01:35:25,600 --> 01:35:28,080
Speaker 1: of the season, and they pay you one seventeenth of

1882
01:35:28,200 --> 01:35:30,040
Speaker 1: your salary because of the bye. You get paid on

1883
01:35:30,040 --> 01:35:32,599
Speaker 1: the bye week two I think, Or if you don't,

1884
01:35:32,640 --> 01:35:34,639
Speaker 1: you don't. It's they divide it up into the games

1885
01:35:34,680 --> 01:35:35,920
Speaker 1: that you play, and they give you a check for

1886
01:35:36,000 --> 01:35:38,840
Speaker 1: each game. If there's an extra game there, do they

1887
01:35:38,920 --> 01:35:41,479
Speaker 1: divide it the same money seventeen ways or do they

1888
01:35:41,479 --> 01:35:44,160
Speaker 1: add a seventeenth game onto the end of it because

1889
01:35:44,160 --> 01:35:46,120
Speaker 1: they are giving you extra work? You know what I'm saying.

1890
01:35:46,920 --> 01:35:49,519
Speaker 1: That'll be an interesting quirk as to how they work

1891
01:35:49,640 --> 01:35:53,560
Speaker 1: that out, because certainly the TV rights are going to

1892
01:35:53,640 --> 01:35:55,960
Speaker 1: reflect that they're not going to let the TV guys

1893
01:35:56,040 --> 01:35:58,439
Speaker 1: have more product without having to pay for it. So

1894
01:35:58,720 --> 01:36:01,439
Speaker 1: where does that money go? And that's something I'll have

1895
01:36:01,479 --> 01:36:04,160
Speaker 1: to be worked out because all these contracts go past this, right.

1896
01:36:04,479 --> 01:36:07,479
Speaker 1: You got guys that are just signing extensions and their money,

1897
01:36:07,560 --> 01:36:10,280
Speaker 1: you know, that goes into the future, past this CBA

1898
01:36:10,360 --> 01:36:13,519
Speaker 1: where the rules change. It'll be interesting to see how

1899
01:36:13,560 --> 01:36:15,639
Speaker 1: that works. Let's go to Mike on the cell phone.

1900
01:36:15,680 --> 01:36:19,280
Speaker 1: Mike Helo, you're on the air. Yeah, my question, or

1901
01:36:19,520 --> 01:36:22,640
Speaker 1: I say, concerned is and maybe the NFL is too

1902
01:36:22,720 --> 01:36:27,240
Speaker 1: different now compared to what I'm talking about. But when

1903
01:36:27,320 --> 01:36:32,160
Speaker 1: Ralph Wilson was voted, him and one of the Ohio

1904
01:36:32,280 --> 01:36:35,280
Speaker 1: teams voted against the new CBA because they said the

1905
01:36:35,320 --> 01:36:36,840
Speaker 1: players were going to get too much, and in my

1906
01:36:37,000 --> 01:36:40,320
Speaker 1: mind that number was forty eight percent because it hurts

1907
01:36:40,760 --> 01:36:45,599
Speaker 1: a smaller market teams too much. They that CBA passed.

1908
01:36:46,280 --> 01:36:49,040
Speaker 1: Owners agreed to it, and then they went backwards later

1909
01:36:49,160 --> 01:36:51,479
Speaker 1: on when they realized they were giving the players too much.

1910
01:36:52,120 --> 01:36:54,320
Speaker 1: Is that the same thing we're looking at now where

1911
01:36:54,360 --> 01:36:56,120
Speaker 1: maybe they're going to be paid too much or was

1912
01:36:56,400 --> 01:36:58,760
Speaker 1: am I remembering that the number was actually higher than that.

1913
01:36:59,120 --> 01:37:01,320
Speaker 1: I don't remember the details of what you're talking about it.

1914
01:37:01,360 --> 01:37:05,439
Speaker 1: I do remember that happening, and you're right, they did

1915
01:37:05,520 --> 01:37:08,519
Speaker 1: backpedal on that, and that's where this last CBA came from.

1916
01:37:08,600 --> 01:37:11,920
Speaker 1: I don't know that the numbers will be different if

1917
01:37:12,520 --> 01:37:15,320
Speaker 1: the pie is bigger, if there's you know, but if

1918
01:37:15,360 --> 01:37:19,240
Speaker 1: the percentages go up and the pie gets bigger, that's

1919
01:37:19,479 --> 01:37:22,120
Speaker 1: that's a plus plus for the players Association. But it's

1920
01:37:22,160 --> 01:37:23,800
Speaker 1: also a plus plus for the owners as well. I

1921
01:37:24,280 --> 01:37:27,000
Speaker 1: always gets bigger, right, Yeah, but you get what I'm

1922
01:37:27,000 --> 01:37:29,360
Speaker 1: saying though. There the pie is with one hundred percent

1923
01:37:29,400 --> 01:37:31,200
Speaker 1: of your product. Now you're gonna have one hundred and

1924
01:37:31,240 --> 01:37:33,040
Speaker 1: five or one hundred five and a half percent of

1925
01:37:33,120 --> 01:37:36,639
Speaker 1: that product, and but you're gonna give a bigger chunk

1926
01:37:36,680 --> 01:37:39,360
Speaker 1: of it away to the players. Still is a plus

1927
01:37:39,439 --> 01:37:43,000
Speaker 1: for the owners. I mean, yeah, I'm I don't We'll see.

1928
01:37:43,040 --> 01:37:44,479
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know the details. That's a

1929
01:37:44,560 --> 01:37:46,439
Speaker 1: that's a really good question, Mike, and I don't know

1930
01:37:46,520 --> 01:37:48,559
Speaker 1: the answer to it. But you're right. I do remember

1931
01:37:48,640 --> 01:37:51,400
Speaker 1: that vote, and it was kind of people raising their

1932
01:37:51,439 --> 01:37:53,000
Speaker 1: eyebrows and going Gali, do you really want to be

1933
01:37:53,040 --> 01:37:56,559
Speaker 1: associated in the same vote with the Bengals who are

1934
01:37:56,640 --> 01:38:00,439
Speaker 1: against all of this? So um yeah, I kind of

1935
01:38:00,439 --> 01:38:02,559
Speaker 1: remember that, but I cannot remember the details of that vote.

1936
01:38:02,760 --> 01:38:05,200
Speaker 1: Thanks for your call. Let's take this call here. Hi,

1937
01:38:05,280 --> 01:38:09,960
Speaker 1: you're on the air. Who am I speaking with? Tyler? Hi? Tyler? Hey,

1938
01:38:10,040 --> 01:38:13,360
Speaker 1: I's gone good. What I think would affect the most

1939
01:38:13,439 --> 01:38:15,799
Speaker 1: would be if they got rid of the preseason altogether.

1940
01:38:16,880 --> 01:38:19,240
Speaker 1: I'm a father of two. I have a ten in

1941
01:38:19,520 --> 01:38:21,759
Speaker 1: seven year old, and those are the games I usually

1942
01:38:21,960 --> 01:38:24,360
Speaker 1: can bring my kids too because it's you know, on

1943
01:38:24,479 --> 01:38:27,439
Speaker 1: a a top dollar for two seeds or anything like that,

1944
01:38:27,560 --> 01:38:29,240
Speaker 1: So it would kind of take away from that for me.

1945
01:38:30,560 --> 01:38:32,720
Speaker 1: I brought him to one regular season game and it

1946
01:38:32,920 --> 01:38:35,439
Speaker 1: ended up being the snow game against Indianapolis and we

1947
01:38:35,520 --> 01:38:38,760
Speaker 1: didn't even make it a half time. So I think

1948
01:38:38,800 --> 01:38:40,880
Speaker 1: that would be affecting me the most. Yeah, do you

1949
01:38:40,960 --> 01:38:45,040
Speaker 1: think there's thanks Tyler. Do you think more families would

1950
01:38:45,040 --> 01:38:46,600
Speaker 1: be shut out of games if they couldn't get a

1951
01:38:46,640 --> 01:38:49,559
Speaker 1: cheap ticket to a preseason game? I think so, Because

1952
01:38:49,760 --> 01:38:51,800
Speaker 1: you're not gonna we had a preseason game, it doesn't

1953
01:38:51,840 --> 01:38:53,479
Speaker 1: get as rowdy as it does that you know, a

1954
01:38:53,560 --> 01:38:55,720
Speaker 1: home opener against New England or something like that. So

1955
01:38:56,080 --> 01:38:57,680
Speaker 1: it's a lot easier to bring your kids to and

1956
01:38:57,760 --> 01:39:00,800
Speaker 1: not have to worry as much. Now you know what

1957
01:39:00,880 --> 01:39:03,799
Speaker 1: we're talking about here. Seventeen game regular season schedule includes

1958
01:39:04,040 --> 01:39:07,360
Speaker 1: two preseason games. They're talking about one home preseason games,

1959
01:39:07,400 --> 01:39:11,040
Speaker 1: so they're not talking about eliminating preseason right right, But

1960
01:39:11,120 --> 01:39:13,880
Speaker 1: then it would, um, you only have really one chance

1961
01:39:13,920 --> 01:39:15,720
Speaker 1: to go, and I think that the thickets would be

1962
01:39:15,720 --> 01:39:17,599
Speaker 1: a little bit higher and a little bit more demand,

1963
01:39:17,760 --> 01:39:19,720
Speaker 1: and if you know you might have something going on

1964
01:39:19,880 --> 01:39:22,400
Speaker 1: that night, Yeah, I got you a little bit harder conflict. Yeah,

1965
01:39:22,400 --> 01:39:25,639
Speaker 1: it's just fewer choices, you're right. Um, Still it would

1966
01:39:25,640 --> 01:39:27,280
Speaker 1: be out there though, and if and the schedule will

1967
01:39:27,320 --> 01:39:28,840
Speaker 1: come out, you'll have plenty of time to kind of

1968
01:39:28,920 --> 01:39:30,760
Speaker 1: ramp up forward and clear your schedule. But yeah, if

1969
01:39:30,800 --> 01:39:32,280
Speaker 1: you really want to take your kids to a game

1970
01:39:32,360 --> 01:39:35,080
Speaker 1: like that, a preseason game, this this cuts your chances

1971
01:39:35,080 --> 01:39:37,840
Speaker 1: in half. I've never let anybody say I need more

1972
01:39:37,920 --> 01:39:41,719
Speaker 1: preseason games. And remember remember the kids Night, the kids

1973
01:39:41,800 --> 01:39:44,920
Speaker 1: game that they always have that sometimes it sells out.

1974
01:39:45,760 --> 01:39:48,760
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's a big deal. I mean, it's a

1975
01:39:49,160 --> 01:39:51,000
Speaker 1: it's a different kind of crowd. I've not mentioned it

1976
01:39:51,080 --> 01:39:52,960
Speaker 1: on the TV broadcast a number of times, how the

1977
01:39:53,080 --> 01:39:55,639
Speaker 1: roar of the crowd is higher pitched. They don't sell out,

1978
01:39:55,680 --> 01:39:57,320
Speaker 1: do they? They have in the path. They had a

1979
01:39:57,360 --> 01:39:59,040
Speaker 1: couple of times they did right when they first started

1980
01:39:59,080 --> 01:40:00,800
Speaker 1: because they got a they got the okay from the

1981
01:40:00,880 --> 01:40:03,360
Speaker 1: league to chop the ticket prices. And when they did that,

1982
01:40:03,479 --> 01:40:06,640
Speaker 1: it sold out and everybody was bringing their kids, and

1983
01:40:06,800 --> 01:40:09,040
Speaker 1: you could tell that it was a bunch of little

1984
01:40:09,080 --> 01:40:10,960
Speaker 1: kids cheering. You could tell the difference in the crowd

1985
01:40:11,040 --> 01:40:13,840
Speaker 1: noise it was. And I thought that was a great idea,

1986
01:40:13,920 --> 01:40:15,519
Speaker 1: and I think some people have taken a queue from

1987
01:40:15,560 --> 01:40:17,200
Speaker 1: that is maybe that's a great time to get your

1988
01:40:17,280 --> 01:40:19,400
Speaker 1: kids out. The weather's always nice. You don't run into

1989
01:40:19,400 --> 01:40:22,679
Speaker 1: the snow game problem. They're talking about having an open

1990
01:40:22,840 --> 01:40:25,240
Speaker 1: I mean part of the seventeen game regular season schedule

1991
01:40:25,280 --> 01:40:29,800
Speaker 1: would include what what they say, two preseason games and

1992
01:40:30,040 --> 01:40:34,599
Speaker 1: one open practice scrimmage and bringing the team, have officials

1993
01:40:34,680 --> 01:40:38,360
Speaker 1: play a scrimmage game, don't charge anything EVID free. Maybe

1994
01:40:38,400 --> 01:40:39,960
Speaker 1: that's the way to go. I think that would solve

1995
01:40:40,040 --> 01:40:43,000
Speaker 1: that problem. Thanks for caring. Let's go to Tom in Buffalo. Hello,

1996
01:40:43,080 --> 01:40:47,560
Speaker 1: time you're on the air. Yeah, So I want to

1997
01:40:47,640 --> 01:40:52,240
Speaker 1: tell you I'm dead against the seventeen games. First and foremost,

1998
01:40:53,080 --> 01:40:56,720
Speaker 1: who is television rice gonna go up? I think they're

1999
01:40:57,080 --> 01:41:00,960
Speaker 1: matched out now money wise, the televis people. Yeah, I'm

2000
01:41:01,000 --> 01:41:03,160
Speaker 1: sure they wouldn't pay more to get another game, don't

2001
01:41:03,200 --> 01:41:05,519
Speaker 1: you think? How can you say that they're maxed out?

2002
01:41:05,560 --> 01:41:08,040
Speaker 1: How do you know that time? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, they're

2003
01:41:08,120 --> 01:41:11,600
Speaker 1: maxed out? And I think how high can you go?

2004
01:41:11,920 --> 01:41:18,600
Speaker 1: Mister Murphy really enjoy I'm dead against it. Are the

2005
01:41:18,720 --> 01:41:22,120
Speaker 1: players going to get paid for seventeen? Like mister Chasker said,

2006
01:41:23,240 --> 01:41:28,120
Speaker 1: seventeen suffer chats? Or are they gonna give my bonus chats?

2007
01:41:28,160 --> 01:41:30,240
Speaker 1: So what do you think? What is your big what

2008
01:41:30,439 --> 01:41:32,120
Speaker 1: is your problem with going to seventeen? What do you

2009
01:41:32,160 --> 01:41:34,120
Speaker 1: think is the major change? Is it just because the

2010
01:41:34,200 --> 01:41:36,280
Speaker 1: TV people are gonna pay too much for the product?

2011
01:41:36,920 --> 01:41:40,400
Speaker 1: It's the product you're runing the product? Okay, all right,

2012
01:41:40,479 --> 01:41:43,400
Speaker 1: that's you made. Yeah, the chance that's a problem. And

2013
01:41:43,520 --> 01:41:45,479
Speaker 1: plus and here's that And I said this earlier in

2014
01:41:45,479 --> 01:41:47,400
Speaker 1: the show. You get an extra buy weekend there, so

2015
01:41:47,479 --> 01:41:50,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna have two weekends a year when certain teams

2016
01:41:50,040 --> 01:41:52,080
Speaker 1: aren't going to be playing, and that means it's going

2017
01:41:52,120 --> 01:41:54,800
Speaker 1: to overlap with other teams that aren't playing. And when

2018
01:41:54,880 --> 01:41:57,400
Speaker 1: those weekends get thin on a lineup, you're gonna be

2019
01:41:57,479 --> 01:42:00,439
Speaker 1: having games that they're gonna be people in certain parts

2020
01:42:00,439 --> 01:42:02,120
Speaker 1: of the country, there is not going to be a

2021
01:42:02,200 --> 01:42:04,200
Speaker 1: game on that interests you at all. You're not gonna

2022
01:42:04,200 --> 01:42:06,360
Speaker 1: have any skin in any of the games. Your division

2023
01:42:06,640 --> 01:42:09,040
Speaker 1: opponents aren't going to be playing, your rivals aren't going

2024
01:42:09,120 --> 01:42:11,720
Speaker 1: to be playing, whatever. Any game that is going on

2025
01:42:12,160 --> 01:42:13,680
Speaker 1: doesn't have that much to do with you or your

2026
01:42:13,720 --> 01:42:17,120
Speaker 1: team in the standings, and TV people don't like it

2027
01:42:17,160 --> 01:42:20,719
Speaker 1: when the numbers go down, and sometimes in the bye weeks,

2028
01:42:20,880 --> 01:42:25,080
Speaker 1: when you've got a dilute, a thin lineup of games,

2029
01:42:25,200 --> 01:42:27,639
Speaker 1: that happens. You think they don't. You think they've tested

2030
01:42:27,760 --> 01:42:29,040
Speaker 1: to see what it would do. I think they have.

2031
01:42:29,360 --> 01:42:32,360
Speaker 1: Maybe they're not fooling around. There's millions of dollars at stake. Yeah,

2032
01:42:32,360 --> 01:42:35,880
Speaker 1: they should know what they're getting into. Yeah, and they

2033
01:42:35,960 --> 01:42:38,439
Speaker 1: gotta go back. And because I remember it, there's got

2034
01:42:38,520 --> 01:42:40,320
Speaker 1: to be and I know there's owners that they're around

2035
01:42:40,360 --> 01:42:42,600
Speaker 1: them know what they're doing. So I'm wondering how that

2036
01:42:42,720 --> 01:42:44,680
Speaker 1: what they're gonna they're thinking about players. There's money to

2037
01:42:44,960 --> 01:42:47,479
Speaker 1: get from a you know, streaming video too. That's a

2038
01:42:47,520 --> 01:42:50,760
Speaker 1: whole new Yeah, that's a different landscape, that's for sure. Hey, um,

2039
01:42:50,800 --> 01:42:52,559
Speaker 1: what do you think the biggest change you would feel

2040
01:42:52,640 --> 01:42:55,600
Speaker 1: from a seventeen game regular season schedule? Give us a

2041
01:42:55,680 --> 01:42:59,559
Speaker 1: call to discuss eight three five fifty toll free from

2042
01:42:59,600 --> 01:43:02,760
Speaker 1: outside Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

2043
01:43:03,040 --> 01:43:04,920
Speaker 1: Let's check the tweet sheet. It is brought to you

2044
01:43:05,000 --> 01:43:08,160
Speaker 1: by Cargan Moving Systems, the official movers of the Buffalo Bills.

2045
01:43:08,439 --> 01:43:11,280
Speaker 1: Eric Osterreicher tweets in from Paris, France. I think he's

2046
01:43:11,280 --> 01:43:14,000
Speaker 1: in Paris. I know he's in France, Eric Ostreicher, Hello

2047
01:43:14,280 --> 01:43:17,800
Speaker 1: Western New York. One less preseason game, two bye weeks.

2048
01:43:18,080 --> 01:43:21,080
Speaker 1: Players allowed to play sixteen games only. We'll get back

2049
01:43:21,120 --> 01:43:23,640
Speaker 1: to that. Would the players, Would the players seek for

2050
01:43:23,680 --> 01:43:26,840
Speaker 1: a salary increase? The priority would be not to push

2051
01:43:26,880 --> 01:43:29,840
Speaker 1: players at full speed for seventeen games. Might impair a

2052
01:43:29,960 --> 01:43:32,439
Speaker 1: lot of them and therefore the quality of the game.

2053
01:43:33,160 --> 01:43:36,880
Speaker 1: Okay um, I would not be in favor of players

2054
01:43:37,040 --> 01:43:40,560
Speaker 1: being allowed to play sixteen games only. Steve, the so

2055
01:43:40,720 --> 01:43:43,640
Speaker 1: called tasker player made virus it won't go away, the

2056
01:43:43,760 --> 01:43:46,040
Speaker 1: tasker plan made famous on this show about a year

2057
01:43:46,080 --> 01:43:48,479
Speaker 1: or so ago. I don't think anybody's talking about that

2058
01:43:48,680 --> 01:43:51,519
Speaker 1: seventeen games. Nobody's talking about players sitting down and I

2059
01:43:51,640 --> 01:43:53,640
Speaker 1: and if they and I agree, I mean, if you

2060
01:43:53,640 --> 01:43:55,960
Speaker 1: can get it done without doing that, do it. There's

2061
01:43:55,960 --> 01:43:59,920
Speaker 1: no there's no reason for And the reason I brought

2062
01:44:00,160 --> 01:44:03,519
Speaker 1: that up as an option was that there's no way

2063
01:44:03,720 --> 01:44:06,600
Speaker 1: the Players Association could oppose it then, because it's the

2064
01:44:06,640 --> 01:44:09,439
Speaker 1: same same schedule and you get more players on the

2065
01:44:09,560 --> 01:44:12,160
Speaker 1: roster to cover for the guys who were inactive for

2066
01:44:12,240 --> 01:44:14,120
Speaker 1: that week because it's time for them to sit down

2067
01:44:14,200 --> 01:44:16,280
Speaker 1: for a game or I had two games a thing.

2068
01:44:16,680 --> 01:44:19,400
Speaker 1: But if you can get it done without having players sit, oh,

2069
01:44:19,479 --> 01:44:23,080
Speaker 1: please do that instead. And here's a tweet from the

2070
01:44:23,200 --> 01:44:26,519
Speaker 1: United Kingdom. Jamie I voted a. Being a UK Bills fan,

2071
01:44:26,600 --> 01:44:28,360
Speaker 1: I would love to see a few more games at

2072
01:44:28,360 --> 01:44:31,040
Speaker 1: a neutral site. Sorry guys, but if there's more chance

2073
01:44:31,080 --> 01:44:33,760
Speaker 1: of me taking my two girls, Sophie and Emily to

2074
01:44:33,840 --> 01:44:36,640
Speaker 1: a Bills game in London, I'm all for it. And

2075
01:44:36,800 --> 01:44:39,000
Speaker 1: here's a point, and you can argue about you know,

2076
01:44:39,439 --> 01:44:43,800
Speaker 1: London or not. There is an an international appetite for

2077
01:44:44,000 --> 01:44:47,360
Speaker 1: NFL football, and the league has has tested it. Right

2078
01:44:47,600 --> 01:44:50,439
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars certainly the forefront of that test. The

2079
01:44:50,520 --> 01:44:53,040
Speaker 1: league has studied it and they have found out people

2080
01:44:53,080 --> 01:44:55,640
Speaker 1: in London will respond to NFL football. Maybe they'll do

2081
01:44:55,720 --> 01:44:58,200
Speaker 1: it in a couple of other international cities. The Bills

2082
01:44:58,240 --> 01:45:01,160
Speaker 1: played in Toronto a couple of years. The league has

2083
01:45:01,240 --> 01:45:04,760
Speaker 1: been for ten or fifteen years talking about, you know,

2084
01:45:05,320 --> 01:45:08,479
Speaker 1: establishing an international profile. Here's a chance to do it

2085
01:45:09,000 --> 01:45:11,920
Speaker 1: by having a seventeen game regular season. Maybe they play

2086
01:45:11,960 --> 01:45:14,439
Speaker 1: a game every other week, or you know, eight home

2087
01:45:14,520 --> 01:45:17,560
Speaker 1: games in London, So eight games in London. Maybe the

2088
01:45:17,640 --> 01:45:20,000
Speaker 1: Bills play anybody in London. Doesn't have to be Jacksonville,

2089
01:45:20,040 --> 01:45:22,040
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be a home team. But the league

2090
01:45:22,040 --> 01:45:25,519
Speaker 1: has been interested in establishing an international profile for a while.

2091
01:45:26,320 --> 01:45:28,080
Speaker 1: Look I think this. I don't know if I'm in

2092
01:45:28,120 --> 01:45:30,200
Speaker 1: favor of seventeen game schedule. I don't feel like a

2093
01:45:30,360 --> 01:45:32,200
Speaker 1: need to get it. But when you look at this

2094
01:45:32,320 --> 01:45:35,160
Speaker 1: plan the seventeen game regular season, Steve seems to me

2095
01:45:35,200 --> 01:45:37,479
Speaker 1: they've addressed a lot of things here and they've they've

2096
01:45:37,800 --> 01:45:41,799
Speaker 1: addressed all the concerns that people have, including the demand

2097
01:45:41,920 --> 01:45:44,599
Speaker 1: for international football. Check, we're gonna move a lot more

2098
01:45:44,640 --> 01:45:48,880
Speaker 1: games internationally, seventeen instead of eighteen games to prevent you

2099
01:45:48,960 --> 01:45:51,639
Speaker 1: know that the health issues on players. Check. Gonna play

2100
01:45:51,720 --> 01:45:55,720
Speaker 1: seventeen not eighteen. We're gonna increase revenue for the players. Yes,

2101
01:45:55,800 --> 01:45:57,920
Speaker 1: we're gonna do that. I just think there's a lot

2102
01:45:58,400 --> 01:46:02,040
Speaker 1: going on here in the seventeen game plan that looks

2103
01:46:02,080 --> 01:46:03,920
Speaker 1: to me like they've thought it through pretty well and

2104
01:46:04,000 --> 01:46:06,200
Speaker 1: they've come up with a plan that sort of addresses

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01:46:06,479 --> 01:46:08,880
Speaker 1: all the issues that many of us said have raised

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01:46:08,920 --> 01:46:11,920
Speaker 1: over the last several years. Yeah, should this, Should I

2107
01:46:12,000 --> 01:46:17,120
Speaker 1: get into my ultimate plan? And afraid, I'm afraid. You

2108
01:46:17,120 --> 01:46:20,080
Speaker 1: remember what it is, the NFL City. This is a

2109
01:46:20,160 --> 01:46:23,680
Speaker 1: step towards closer to NFL City. They'll put their own

2110
01:46:23,760 --> 01:46:27,760
Speaker 1: stadium somewhere like San Juan or someplace or some destination.

2111
01:46:28,560 --> 01:46:31,000
Speaker 1: They'll put their own stadium there. They'll have neutral site

2112
01:46:31,080 --> 01:46:33,839
Speaker 1: games there every week. It'll be a destination. They'll have hotels,

2113
01:46:33,880 --> 01:46:37,920
Speaker 1: they'll have golf courses, water parks, amusement parks, shopping restaurants,

2114
01:46:38,160 --> 01:46:40,000
Speaker 1: and it'll all be under the NFL and it'll be

2115
01:46:40,080 --> 01:46:43,360
Speaker 1: like Disney World with the NFL shield instead of mouse ears.

2116
01:46:43,720 --> 01:46:45,800
Speaker 1: They'll have that. They'll have a neutral site game there

2117
01:46:45,880 --> 01:46:48,320
Speaker 1: every week. It'll be a destination. People from Buffalo will

2118
01:46:48,320 --> 01:46:50,320
Speaker 1: flock down there to go to their game. The people

2119
01:46:50,400 --> 01:46:53,160
Speaker 1: from Seattle will flock down there to be a destination.

2120
01:46:53,240 --> 01:46:55,360
Speaker 1: And that'll be where they have their eighteenth game. And

2121
01:46:55,400 --> 01:46:58,920
Speaker 1: they'll start putting up of this city that's just for them,

2122
01:46:59,200 --> 01:47:01,760
Speaker 1: and that's and they'll have They can have the Super

2123
01:47:01,800 --> 01:47:03,439
Speaker 1: Bowl there once in a while, or they can have

2124
01:47:03,520 --> 01:47:05,400
Speaker 1: Playoff games there once or whatever. You know, you can

2125
01:47:05,520 --> 01:47:09,559
Speaker 1: name your name, your venue. But they'll put up an

2126
01:47:09,720 --> 01:47:15,640
Speaker 1: NFL stadium for every football team, for every franchise, and

2127
01:47:15,680 --> 01:47:18,160
Speaker 1: they'll split the money thirty two ways. Kind of in

2128
01:47:18,280 --> 01:47:20,320
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, you're kind of going in that direction. Think

2129
01:47:20,360 --> 01:47:22,760
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, and Vegas could have been Vegas could

2130
01:47:22,760 --> 01:47:24,360
Speaker 1: have been there, you know what I'm saying. They could

2131
01:47:24,400 --> 01:47:25,760
Speaker 1: have had you know, the money that they would have

2132
01:47:25,880 --> 01:47:27,640
Speaker 1: brought in. But here's the thing too. You think of

2133
01:47:27,760 --> 01:47:29,679
Speaker 1: all the money and we heard about it, the people

2134
01:47:29,720 --> 01:47:32,519
Speaker 1: that flocked to Miami. It's it's a couple of hundred

2135
01:47:32,560 --> 01:47:35,479
Speaker 1: million dollars of impact for the Bowl, for the Super

2136
01:47:35,520 --> 01:47:37,720
Speaker 1: Bowl for the city of Miami. What would happen if

2137
01:47:37,760 --> 01:47:39,800
Speaker 1: the league owned the city too, and they got all

2138
01:47:39,840 --> 01:47:41,680
Speaker 1: that money back into their pockets, they share it with

2139
01:47:41,760 --> 01:47:44,400
Speaker 1: the players, with themselves. They put up a city in

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01:47:44,520 --> 01:47:48,280
Speaker 1: someplace and put games there. People go and then and

2141
01:47:48,439 --> 01:47:50,800
Speaker 1: you know, I'm telling you you don't think that hasn't

2142
01:47:50,800 --> 01:47:53,400
Speaker 1: crossed their mind either. I just wonder where where the

2143
01:47:53,560 --> 01:47:55,200
Speaker 1: end is. And it kind of goes back to our

2144
01:47:55,240 --> 01:47:58,519
Speaker 1: last caller, right, wondering, you know, talking about too much

2145
01:47:58,600 --> 01:48:02,479
Speaker 1: TV and too many games on TV. Where the wheat?

2146
01:48:03,360 --> 01:48:06,720
Speaker 1: That's a that's a good thatsferent question. But I think

2147
01:48:06,800 --> 01:48:09,280
Speaker 1: this that I don't think the league, and this is

2148
01:48:09,320 --> 01:48:11,240
Speaker 1: why the league has gotten bigger and bigger and bigger,

2149
01:48:11,280 --> 01:48:12,960
Speaker 1: and it continues to get bigger and bigger and bigger,

2150
01:48:13,000 --> 01:48:16,320
Speaker 1: because it doesn't it's not a changing league, although it

2151
01:48:16,680 --> 01:48:20,160
Speaker 1: evolves so and it's and they change it all the time.

2152
01:48:20,280 --> 01:48:22,680
Speaker 1: They're always changing it and tinkering with it to make

2153
01:48:22,720 --> 01:48:26,559
Speaker 1: it better. And certainly today's game speaks to the people

2154
01:48:26,600 --> 01:48:28,519
Speaker 1: who watch it now, and this they're trying to get

2155
01:48:28,600 --> 01:48:31,479
Speaker 1: younger people involved. They're reaching out to young people and

2156
01:48:31,680 --> 01:48:35,000
Speaker 1: you know, getting them involved in viewing it this game

2157
01:48:35,360 --> 01:48:39,560
Speaker 1: now today. If you showed the people who watch it

2158
01:48:39,640 --> 01:48:42,600
Speaker 1: today what it was like in the nineteen sixties, they

2159
01:48:42,640 --> 01:48:45,920
Speaker 1: wouldn't like it, you know, it would be something that

2160
01:48:46,040 --> 01:48:48,840
Speaker 1: was too foreign to them. But because the league is

2161
01:48:48,880 --> 01:48:54,120
Speaker 1: ever changing and ever evolving, it stays relevant, it grows continually,

2162
01:48:54,920 --> 01:48:57,599
Speaker 1: and because of their willingness to you know, the game

2163
01:48:57,720 --> 01:49:00,960
Speaker 1: is not sacred to the owners. That's that's not their

2164
01:49:01,000 --> 01:49:05,040
Speaker 1: sacred cow, the ownership of the NFL. Their sacred cow

2165
01:49:05,200 --> 01:49:09,000
Speaker 1: is fan interest. That's what they're sacred. They're holy grail

2166
01:49:09,160 --> 01:49:11,519
Speaker 1: is So that's why this league grows and grows and

2167
01:49:11,560 --> 01:49:13,679
Speaker 1: grows and grows. And you've got it. And I always

2168
01:49:13,840 --> 01:49:16,679
Speaker 1: bust on baseball. That's why baseball is a little bit stagnant.

2169
01:49:16,680 --> 01:49:19,960
Speaker 1: Because they the game is sacred to them. It's not,

2170
01:49:20,320 --> 01:49:23,040
Speaker 1: and it's it's that's the center of their universe. How

2171
01:49:23,120 --> 01:49:25,439
Speaker 1: the game is and how you can you can compare,

2172
01:49:25,960 --> 01:49:29,320
Speaker 1: you can compare a Rod and Derek Jeter to Ty

2173
01:49:29,479 --> 01:49:33,000
Speaker 1: Cobb and Willie Mays because the game is the same

2174
01:49:33,080 --> 01:49:35,720
Speaker 1: for all of those guys. But here in this day

2175
01:49:35,760 --> 01:49:39,360
Speaker 1: and age in football, it's hard to do that. Yeah,

2176
01:49:39,479 --> 01:49:41,200
Speaker 1: but the game is so still fun to watch. And

2177
01:49:41,240 --> 01:49:44,160
Speaker 1: the people are ultimately interested in the game's growing across

2178
01:49:44,200 --> 01:49:48,120
Speaker 1: the ocean. So I think wherever it goes, where there's

2179
01:49:48,120 --> 01:49:50,280
Speaker 1: an eighteen game schedule, and whether there's gonna be this

2180
01:49:50,479 --> 01:49:52,920
Speaker 1: NFL city that I see on the horizon where you're

2181
01:49:52,920 --> 01:49:54,880
Speaker 1: gonna go down there and you're gonna have like Monday

2182
01:49:54,960 --> 01:49:57,080
Speaker 1: night football. It's gonna be an NFL city every week.

2183
01:49:57,200 --> 01:49:59,080
Speaker 1: You know, it'll be a home you know, a neutral

2184
01:49:59,120 --> 01:50:01,400
Speaker 1: sight game for everybody, and everybody will fly down there

2185
01:50:01,439 --> 01:50:03,479
Speaker 1: to it, or maybe the Thursday night game will be

2186
01:50:03,560 --> 01:50:05,240
Speaker 1: an NFL city so they can everybody can have a

2187
01:50:05,320 --> 01:50:08,479
Speaker 1: long weekend in that destination city, right, So that would

2188
01:50:08,479 --> 01:50:11,200
Speaker 1: be more money, you know, And that's what it's all about.

2189
01:50:11,960 --> 01:50:15,200
Speaker 1: The game is. That's why you and I sit here, Murph.

2190
01:50:18,320 --> 01:50:23,400
Speaker 1: The teams haven't. They're so they got their own radio shows, right,

2191
01:50:23,479 --> 01:50:25,680
Speaker 1: they got this whole broadcast, they got social media, they

2192
01:50:25,720 --> 01:50:28,240
Speaker 1: got public relations, they got media relations, they got community relations,

2193
01:50:28,280 --> 01:50:30,960
Speaker 1: they got business development. It used to be like six

2194
01:50:31,120 --> 01:50:34,439
Speaker 1: guys in the whole building, and now they got three

2195
01:50:34,600 --> 01:50:38,280
Speaker 1: hundred and that every team does it because that's how

2196
01:50:38,320 --> 01:50:41,040
Speaker 1: big the league is, and that's where it's headed. Yeah,

2197
01:50:41,200 --> 01:50:43,240
Speaker 1: that's the thing I don't know if it just keeps evolving,

2198
01:50:43,360 --> 01:50:47,679
Speaker 1: keeps growing. Yeah, there's the appetite for NFL football seems

2199
01:50:47,720 --> 01:50:50,840
Speaker 1: limitless these days, and they give it content twelve months

2200
01:50:50,880 --> 01:50:53,280
Speaker 1: a year. Yeah, we got we're three weeks away from

2201
01:50:53,520 --> 01:50:56,240
Speaker 1: the biggest We do three hours a day, day and

2202
01:50:57,080 --> 01:51:01,920
Speaker 1: after the game, after the season's over. Unbelievable, it is.

2203
01:51:02,040 --> 01:51:06,800
Speaker 1: And it's it's amazing because you get glimpses of you

2204
01:51:06,920 --> 01:51:09,559
Speaker 1: kind of get snapshots of history today. We get one

2205
01:51:09,760 --> 01:51:13,439
Speaker 1: with this meeting with the player reps that are talking

2206
01:51:13,479 --> 01:51:16,960
Speaker 1: about a seventeen games it used to be fourteen, remember sure,

2207
01:51:17,760 --> 01:51:21,080
Speaker 1: and it's seventeen game schedule, and how it's gonna look.

2208
01:51:21,520 --> 01:51:24,200
Speaker 1: And you start getting a glimpse into the numbers of

2209
01:51:24,280 --> 01:51:26,120
Speaker 1: the percentages and what the players are gonna get in

2210
01:51:26,120 --> 01:51:27,320
Speaker 1: and what the owners are gonna get and how they're

2211
01:51:27,320 --> 01:51:29,120
Speaker 1: gonna split in the TV revenue that's going to be

2212
01:51:29,200 --> 01:51:32,200
Speaker 1: involved in and how that's gonna change, and where that

2213
01:51:32,640 --> 01:51:35,000
Speaker 1: where these games are even gonna be held home or

2214
01:51:35,040 --> 01:51:38,040
Speaker 1: away well way or home or neutral sight. That's amazing.

2215
01:51:38,520 --> 01:51:40,680
Speaker 1: It's amazing where we're at this point in history, how

2216
01:51:40,720 --> 01:51:42,960
Speaker 1: this game's changing. You never played in a fourteen game

2217
01:51:43,040 --> 01:51:46,080
Speaker 1: regular season. I did know. I'm looking here. I did

2218
01:51:46,160 --> 01:51:49,800
Speaker 1: not know this thing. It started in the late six

2219
01:51:50,000 --> 01:51:53,600
Speaker 1: was fourteen seventy seven was fourteen games. Seventy eight was

2220
01:51:53,680 --> 01:51:56,120
Speaker 1: the first sixteen game regue. So it was seven years ago,

2221
01:51:56,200 --> 01:51:58,479
Speaker 1: seven years before I started playing. Yeah, so what's at

2222
01:51:58,560 --> 01:52:01,240
Speaker 1: forty years ago? Almost four, you know, thirty five years ago.

2223
01:52:01,240 --> 01:52:03,360
Speaker 1: I think of how set in stone that is sixteen

2224
01:52:03,400 --> 01:52:06,920
Speaker 1: game regular season. By the way, records throw them out right,

2225
01:52:07,040 --> 01:52:10,200
Speaker 1: seventeen game regular season. It makes a difference. Records will

2226
01:52:10,200 --> 01:52:12,639
Speaker 1: be broken because it's an extra game. Oh sure, yeah,

2227
01:52:12,720 --> 01:52:16,160
Speaker 1: oh sure. Nobody cares about that. They don't care, they

2228
01:52:16,200 --> 01:52:17,559
Speaker 1: don't care. Don't get in the way of the money.

2229
01:52:17,920 --> 01:52:21,320
Speaker 1: Those guys listen, I they listen, Joe Montana, Joe Namath

2230
01:52:21,600 --> 01:52:24,120
Speaker 1: that they're not making any money for the league. Pat

2231
01:52:24,200 --> 01:52:27,559
Speaker 1: Mahomes is yeah, you know, Lamar Jackson is, Josh Allen,

2232
01:52:28,160 --> 01:52:30,519
Speaker 1: you know, Deshaun Watson. Yeah, yeah, those guys. We'll do

2233
01:52:30,600 --> 01:52:32,760
Speaker 1: anything we can to pump those guys up, because you

2234
01:52:32,840 --> 01:52:35,439
Speaker 1: know that's where the league is right now. We should

2235
01:52:35,439 --> 01:52:37,400
Speaker 1: have put that on our Twitter poll. The biggest change

2236
01:52:37,400 --> 01:52:40,360
Speaker 1: for a seventeen game regular season schedule all the records

2237
01:52:40,400 --> 01:52:43,800
Speaker 1: are get thrown out. Yeah, asterisks all over the place

2238
01:52:43,880 --> 01:52:47,639
Speaker 1: for records. Yeah, it'll be impossible to or more difficult

2239
01:52:47,720 --> 01:52:52,559
Speaker 1: to compare guy's careers. The tweet sheet. The biggest change

2240
01:52:52,600 --> 01:52:55,240
Speaker 1: for you in a seventeen game regular season, Nathan tweets.

2241
01:52:55,320 --> 01:52:57,680
Speaker 1: And it just doesn't make sense. They have an unbalanced

2242
01:52:57,800 --> 01:53:00,920
Speaker 1: number of home and away games. Okay, so neutral would

2243
01:53:00,920 --> 01:53:02,960
Speaker 1: have to happen, and that would feed into the NFL's

2244
01:53:03,000 --> 01:53:05,640
Speaker 1: interest to go overseas. I think you're right. I'd like

2245
01:53:05,760 --> 01:53:08,759
Speaker 1: to see for American neutral site games in those little

2246
01:53:08,800 --> 01:53:11,519
Speaker 1: college towns that have huge stadiums. There are some of those,

2247
01:53:11,560 --> 01:53:16,320
Speaker 1: like Clemson. Do they do they want NFL football? Do

2248
01:53:16,439 --> 01:53:19,760
Speaker 1: they want competition for their ticket buying public? And that's

2249
01:53:19,760 --> 01:53:21,479
Speaker 1: a good question, you know, I don't know that they do.

2250
01:53:21,520 --> 01:53:23,560
Speaker 1: It'd be up to those universities to say, I don't know,

2251
01:53:23,680 --> 01:53:25,559
Speaker 1: do you what do you think? You know? When are

2252
01:53:25,560 --> 01:53:28,400
Speaker 1: we got a pretty good thing going on? Think about it.

2253
01:53:28,439 --> 01:53:30,080
Speaker 1: It would be in the middle of their season two

2254
01:53:30,360 --> 01:53:33,960
Speaker 1: or maybe just after or before, you know, and if

2255
01:53:33,960 --> 01:53:35,560
Speaker 1: they're headed to a bowl game or what do you

2256
01:53:35,680 --> 01:53:38,120
Speaker 1: you know? I don't know. That's that's an interesting question.

2257
01:53:38,600 --> 01:53:40,760
Speaker 1: Do you want you know Columbus Ohio. First of all,

2258
01:53:40,800 --> 01:53:42,960
Speaker 1: would the NFL sell there? Would and would you want

2259
01:53:43,320 --> 01:53:46,439
Speaker 1: an NFL state? People to Hio State want an NFL game.

2260
01:53:46,479 --> 01:53:48,920
Speaker 1: I don't know that they would. Yeah, and think about it.

2261
01:53:49,000 --> 01:53:52,040
Speaker 1: When would it be? You'd like to wait until after

2262
01:53:52,120 --> 01:53:55,439
Speaker 1: the college season was over, but sometime before the bowl

2263
01:53:55,479 --> 01:53:57,759
Speaker 1: games are played. Don't you got to get those neutral

2264
01:53:57,800 --> 01:53:59,760
Speaker 1: site games in something? You can't wait and put all

2265
01:53:59,760 --> 01:54:03,479
Speaker 1: of them in between November December January. You can't put

2266
01:54:03,560 --> 01:54:06,240
Speaker 1: them in all there ye one more from the tweet sheet.

2267
01:54:06,360 --> 01:54:10,080
Speaker 1: MSB seventeen or eighteen week season with expanded playoffs sound great.

2268
01:54:10,160 --> 01:54:13,639
Speaker 1: Hopefully the NFLPA will get rid of Thursday games useless

2269
01:54:13,680 --> 01:54:16,360
Speaker 1: and disruptive of team planning. I don't think Thursday night

2270
01:54:16,400 --> 01:54:18,800
Speaker 1: games are going away. I said that earlier in the show.

2271
01:54:18,800 --> 01:54:21,840
Speaker 1: I don't think they are expanded playoffs. So if you

2272
01:54:21,920 --> 01:54:25,080
Speaker 1: have fourteen teams instead of twelve teams, you got seven

2273
01:54:25,160 --> 01:54:28,080
Speaker 1: per conference, what would happen? I would think the number

2274
01:54:28,120 --> 01:54:30,680
Speaker 1: one instead of two buys two teams getting to buy.

2275
01:54:31,040 --> 01:54:32,680
Speaker 1: The top team would get a buy. The other six

2276
01:54:32,720 --> 01:54:34,720
Speaker 1: teams in each conference would play. Right, you have six

2277
01:54:34,800 --> 01:54:37,680
Speaker 1: games on the first wildcard weekend two versus seven, three

2278
01:54:37,760 --> 01:54:41,400
Speaker 1: versus six, four verses five, So one team would it's

2279
01:54:41,400 --> 01:54:44,400
Speaker 1: a change, that's a change that would make good. Yeah.

2280
01:54:45,000 --> 01:54:46,360
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a lot of different ways

2281
01:54:46,360 --> 01:54:49,160
Speaker 1: they could go, but they're talking about it today. That's

2282
01:54:49,200 --> 01:54:52,360
Speaker 1: why we're talking about it. Twenty NFL player Reps and

2283
01:54:52,480 --> 01:54:55,879
Speaker 1: the Executive Committee for the NFL meaning in Los Angeles

2284
01:54:55,960 --> 01:54:59,160
Speaker 1: to talk about the CBA, which includes a seventeen game

2285
01:54:59,200 --> 01:55:01,160
Speaker 1: regular season. You can talk more about that. You can

2286
01:55:01,360 --> 01:55:03,320
Speaker 1: join us. Give us a call eight oh three oh

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Speaker 1: two five fifty one goes Live presented by KLADA Health

2289
01:55:09,520 --> 01:55:12,200
Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studio in Archard Park. This is Buffalo

2290
01:55:12,280 --> 01:55:27,520
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome back, John Murphy's Team Tasker one Bills

2291
01:55:27,560 --> 01:55:30,040
Speaker 1: Live from Seneca Studio in Archard Park. Happy to have

2292
01:55:30,160 --> 01:55:31,680
Speaker 1: you with us. Got a little bit of time left here,

2293
01:55:31,920 --> 01:55:34,040
Speaker 1: Got time left to talk about our Twitter poll topic,

2294
01:55:34,120 --> 01:55:37,480
Speaker 1: the biggest change that a seventeen game NFL schedule would

2295
01:55:37,480 --> 01:55:39,560
Speaker 1: mean for you. Give us a call eight O three

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01:55:39,760 --> 01:55:42,480
Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two

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01:55:42,520 --> 01:55:44,640
Speaker 1: five fifty. You know we're just in the other room

2298
01:55:44,680 --> 01:55:47,120
Speaker 1: watching with the sound down some I think it was

2299
01:55:47,240 --> 01:55:49,680
Speaker 1: NFL Network about and it's been up on a couple

2300
01:55:49,720 --> 01:55:52,440
Speaker 1: of different venues this week, a couple of different websites.

2301
01:55:52,680 --> 01:55:56,680
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins and the possibility of that Watkins may sit

2302
01:55:56,760 --> 01:56:02,280
Speaker 1: a year out talking about possible retiring or at least

2303
01:56:02,320 --> 01:56:05,080
Speaker 1: taking a year off. He's just getting started. What is

2304
01:56:05,120 --> 01:56:08,520
Speaker 1: he thinking, Steve? He played here and was hurt. Okay,

2305
01:56:08,640 --> 01:56:10,760
Speaker 1: you're hurt. Didn't play a lot when he was here,

2306
01:56:11,080 --> 01:56:13,240
Speaker 1: didn't play well for the most part when he was here,

2307
01:56:13,880 --> 01:56:16,240
Speaker 1: gave uneven effort when he was here, and now he's

2308
01:56:16,280 --> 01:56:18,600
Speaker 1: talking about taking a year off. What does he think.

2309
01:56:18,680 --> 01:56:20,440
Speaker 1: He's won a super Bowl, He played well in the

2310
01:56:20,480 --> 01:56:23,720
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, making fourteen million bucks a year. That's the problem,

2311
01:56:25,320 --> 01:56:27,160
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, I think I think the Chiefs

2312
01:56:27,200 --> 01:56:30,000
Speaker 1: are gonna move on from him because this is his

2313
01:56:30,080 --> 01:56:33,240
Speaker 1: contract year. He and he. I think they'll move on

2314
01:56:33,440 --> 01:56:36,360
Speaker 1: from him after this season to get some cap room,

2315
01:56:36,440 --> 01:56:39,360
Speaker 1: cap space. And now, let's face it, he's like the

2316
01:56:39,560 --> 01:56:46,800
Speaker 1: third fourth option there. It's Tyree Kill, Travis Kelsey and

2317
01:56:46,920 --> 01:56:50,920
Speaker 1: then Sammy. And that's to say nothing of Damian Williams.

2318
01:56:51,320 --> 01:56:56,080
Speaker 1: So I didn't miss him. I know they're they're gonna

2319
01:56:56,160 --> 01:56:58,320
Speaker 1: keep on keeping on. Now. Sammy's talented, no question, and

2320
01:56:58,360 --> 01:57:00,160
Speaker 1: we all know how talented he is. But you're right,

2321
01:57:00,200 --> 01:57:02,600
Speaker 1: when he was hearing Buffalo was his effort was uneven.

2322
01:57:03,200 --> 01:57:07,040
Speaker 1: He didn't play the same. Uh And this kind of

2323
01:57:07,080 --> 01:57:09,000
Speaker 1: goes to my point about the quarterbacks kind of making

2324
01:57:09,000 --> 01:57:11,520
Speaker 1: the receiver. He did not play the same with Tyrod

2325
01:57:11,600 --> 01:57:14,720
Speaker 1: Taylor taking snaps as he does with Patrick Mahomes taking snaps.

2326
01:57:15,600 --> 01:57:19,560
Speaker 1: His effort is much greater with Mahomes m Tyrod Taylor.

2327
01:57:20,400 --> 01:57:22,640
Speaker 1: It wasn't there all the time. And you know, so,

2328
01:57:23,240 --> 01:57:25,960
Speaker 1: I don't know why he would consider as he like

2329
01:57:27,040 --> 01:57:30,440
Speaker 1: burned out, tired, what I mean, I'd like to hear

2330
01:57:30,520 --> 01:57:34,320
Speaker 1: his reasoning behind it, other than I need a break

2331
01:57:34,440 --> 01:57:36,840
Speaker 1: or anything. Come on, he's been it's his third team.

2332
01:57:37,480 --> 01:57:40,280
Speaker 1: He went from Buffalo to La the Rams, remember, and

2333
01:57:40,440 --> 01:57:43,000
Speaker 1: then they didn't resign him and he ends up in

2334
01:57:43,080 --> 01:57:47,160
Speaker 1: Kansas City. I wonder why. I wonder what atmosphere. Maybe

2335
01:57:47,160 --> 01:57:49,240
Speaker 1: he can credit Andy Reid for this too. We've been

2336
01:57:49,360 --> 01:57:52,160
Speaker 1: kind of singing his praises all show. Maybe he has

2337
01:57:52,240 --> 01:57:55,640
Speaker 1: something to do with Sammy Watkins flourishing there in that offense,

2338
01:57:55,840 --> 01:57:59,200
Speaker 1: you know, but what culture would he put? What what

2339
01:57:59,280 --> 01:58:02,280
Speaker 1: cultural thing? Because he's been with that's his third head coach,

2340
01:58:02,360 --> 01:58:04,440
Speaker 1: third system. I don't get it. I don't understand that.

2341
01:58:04,880 --> 01:58:06,920
Speaker 1: Here's a really good tweet on the tweet sheet about

2342
01:58:06,960 --> 01:58:10,120
Speaker 1: a topic of the day. Um, Jack d I'm not

2343
01:58:10,200 --> 01:58:12,879
Speaker 1: a fan of seventeen game idea. We don't need neutral

2344
01:58:12,920 --> 01:58:15,880
Speaker 1: sight games. It's an American sports set up around American

2345
01:58:15,960 --> 01:58:18,600
Speaker 1: time schedules. Here's the important part. He says, waking up

2346
01:58:18,600 --> 01:58:21,720
Speaker 1: at nine to watch a game is just dumb. The

2347
01:58:21,840 --> 01:58:24,280
Speaker 1: wanting to explore the seventeen games is just the NFL

2348
01:58:24,360 --> 01:58:28,320
Speaker 1: wanting more cash, no question about that. The schedule is fine, Um,

2349
01:58:28,680 --> 01:58:32,720
Speaker 1: lose something in play. Um, the schedule is fine, but

2350
01:58:32,960 --> 01:58:35,080
Speaker 1: it looks like they're going to a seventeen game schedule.

2351
01:58:35,280 --> 01:58:37,720
Speaker 1: It is about the NFL wanting more cash. It is

2352
01:58:38,000 --> 01:58:41,560
Speaker 1: that's that's really seasons. We lose the press, preseason, lose preseason,

2353
01:58:41,600 --> 01:58:44,920
Speaker 1: and play okay. Um, he's running out of characters. His

2354
01:58:45,120 --> 01:58:47,800
Speaker 1: point about watching an early morning game, whether it's in

2355
01:58:47,880 --> 01:58:50,480
Speaker 1: London or wherever, and Bill's fans experience had a couple

2356
01:58:50,520 --> 01:58:52,680
Speaker 1: of years ago, when the Bill's played in London. I

2357
01:58:52,760 --> 01:58:55,160
Speaker 1: get that, you know, you don't want to. It's one

2358
01:58:55,200 --> 01:58:57,320
Speaker 1: thing to set up your whole week around an NFL

2359
01:58:57,400 --> 01:58:59,360
Speaker 1: game your favorite team plays. Do you really want to

2360
01:58:59,400 --> 01:59:02,000
Speaker 1: start playing game games in the mornings or you know,

2361
01:59:02,160 --> 01:59:05,720
Speaker 1: I don't know. Just I'm gonna sound old fashioned, but

2362
01:59:05,800 --> 01:59:07,839
Speaker 1: the game is meant to be played on Sunday afternoon.

2363
01:59:08,120 --> 01:59:10,920
Speaker 1: Anything else should be special and rare. You start playing

2364
01:59:10,960 --> 01:59:13,000
Speaker 1: a game every week at nine on the Sunday morning,

2365
01:59:13,880 --> 01:59:15,560
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you start playing at nine, then

2366
01:59:15,600 --> 01:59:18,920
Speaker 1: it won, then at four, then at eight. Yeah, that's

2367
01:59:19,360 --> 01:59:24,440
Speaker 1: a long day. Yeah, certainly. I don't know what the

2368
01:59:24,520 --> 01:59:26,360
Speaker 1: TV people think about it, even though I worked in

2369
01:59:26,440 --> 01:59:28,400
Speaker 1: that industry, or we we're gonna now, but I mean

2370
01:59:28,800 --> 01:59:32,120
Speaker 1: when I was broadcasting the games for so long, the

2371
01:59:32,920 --> 01:59:35,480
Speaker 1: more football the better at this at certain points because

2372
01:59:35,600 --> 01:59:37,600
Speaker 1: they know it's gonna pull a better number than anything

2373
01:59:37,640 --> 01:59:41,160
Speaker 1: else they can possibly put on. But they needed to

2374
01:59:41,240 --> 01:59:44,800
Speaker 1: pull big numbers because they pay big money to put

2375
01:59:44,840 --> 01:59:48,920
Speaker 1: it on. So because of that, they want, you know,

2376
01:59:48,960 --> 01:59:51,080
Speaker 1: they want Super Bowl type numbers. You know, they want

2377
01:59:51,240 --> 01:59:53,400
Speaker 1: you know, millions and millions of people watching every one

2378
01:59:53,400 --> 01:59:55,880
Speaker 1: of these games, particularly these standalone games. You get one

2379
01:59:56,000 --> 01:59:58,800
Speaker 1: game in a time slot. They need that number. They

2380
01:59:58,880 --> 02:00:01,360
Speaker 1: need that game to pull a big number, and maybe

2381
02:00:01,400 --> 02:00:04,520
Speaker 1: it would, but I'm pretty sure they had projections. It'll

2382
02:00:04,520 --> 02:00:06,720
Speaker 1: tell them exactly what they can expect and I don't.

2383
02:00:06,760 --> 02:00:10,400
Speaker 1: And they're going ahead with this, and I'm sure, I'm

2384
02:00:10,480 --> 02:00:14,320
Speaker 1: sure the league has shot this idea across the bow

2385
02:00:14,400 --> 02:00:18,160
Speaker 1: of the networks Fox and CBS and NBC and ESPN

2386
02:00:18,240 --> 02:00:23,720
Speaker 1: and everybody you know ABC as well. Yeah, yeah, we'll see.

2387
02:00:23,920 --> 02:00:26,720
Speaker 1: Here's a call from John on the west side of Buffalo. Hello, John,

2388
02:00:26,720 --> 02:00:30,520
Speaker 1: you're on the air. No, it's Tom, Tom Tom, Sorry Tom,

2389
02:00:30,960 --> 02:00:34,800
Speaker 1: John to see good to talk here again. Okay, thanks listening.

2390
02:00:35,080 --> 02:00:37,280
Speaker 1: I've been mowing this over and I think if they

2391
02:00:37,360 --> 02:00:40,040
Speaker 1: go to a seventeen game schedule and you're worried about

2392
02:00:40,080 --> 02:00:45,240
Speaker 1: them skewing the statistics on the games and all the stats,

2393
02:00:45,880 --> 02:00:49,200
Speaker 1: what they ought to do is give each player three

2394
02:00:49,320 --> 02:00:52,080
Speaker 1: weeks off and that way you get to see the

2395
02:00:52,160 --> 02:00:57,640
Speaker 1: backup quarterbacks and it because I'm a chance to shine. Yeah,

2396
02:00:58,520 --> 02:01:01,400
Speaker 1: you can counter an injury week as a week off

2397
02:01:02,360 --> 02:01:06,320
Speaker 1: or if you have to play, you sent them Tom,

2398
02:01:06,760 --> 02:01:08,400
Speaker 1: is the task. Here's what you need to do. You

2399
02:01:08,480 --> 02:01:10,840
Speaker 1: need to go to your to your clinic and get

2400
02:01:11,000 --> 02:01:14,360
Speaker 1: vaccinated against the virus, that is, the tasker player tom

2401
02:01:14,440 --> 02:01:17,040
Speaker 1: virus is spreading out. Who in the right mind would

2402
02:01:17,120 --> 02:01:20,440
Speaker 1: rather see Jared Stidham play than Tom Brady. Yeah, but

2403
02:01:20,560 --> 02:01:23,400
Speaker 1: it's like a paid day off. Yeah for the players,

2404
02:01:23,440 --> 02:01:25,839
Speaker 1: it is, Well, the guys who paid buy the tickets.

2405
02:01:25,880 --> 02:01:27,800
Speaker 1: What about the guy who paid three hundred grand for

2406
02:01:27,880 --> 02:01:31,200
Speaker 1: the suite? Yeah? Oh good, it's Jared Stidham today, not Brady.

2407
02:01:31,320 --> 02:01:35,920
Speaker 1: Oh thank you. Half might have another go ahead? What

2408
02:01:36,480 --> 02:01:39,120
Speaker 1: more players, so it'll pull the salary cap down. You

2409
02:01:39,160 --> 02:01:40,360
Speaker 1: can as many as you want. None of them are

2410
02:01:40,360 --> 02:01:42,560
Speaker 1: gonna be Tom Brady. That idea Tom, But you can

2411
02:01:42,680 --> 02:01:45,800
Speaker 1: subscribe to the tip and getting beat a website. I should,

2412
02:01:46,080 --> 02:01:47,840
Speaker 1: I should, I could be getting I could be making

2413
02:01:47,880 --> 02:01:51,080
Speaker 1: some advertising money. But yeah, I'm telling you, if it's

2414
02:01:51,080 --> 02:01:55,280
Speaker 1: a virus, it's gonna keep coming recovered. Well you recovered?

2415
02:01:55,560 --> 02:02:00,360
Speaker 1: Yeah right. I am kind of cured of it because

2416
02:02:01,520 --> 02:02:04,080
Speaker 1: that plan. You know what I'm talking about. I've said

2417
02:02:04,120 --> 02:02:06,680
Speaker 1: this to you at gazillion times. The reason I thought

2418
02:02:06,720 --> 02:02:09,240
Speaker 1: it would be easy to do an eighteen game schedule

2419
02:02:09,280 --> 02:02:11,560
Speaker 1: with that players only playing sixteen games, because then the

2420
02:02:11,720 --> 02:02:14,520
Speaker 1: union would have all the reason to do it right,

2421
02:02:14,600 --> 02:02:17,080
Speaker 1: Because it's safer, and it's spread out over time. They

2422
02:02:17,120 --> 02:02:19,160
Speaker 1: get more free time in the regular season, cut the

2423
02:02:19,160 --> 02:02:22,440
Speaker 1: preseason down just like we're doing, and there'd be more

2424
02:02:22,760 --> 02:02:27,840
Speaker 1: all the things that they got without more games. But

2425
02:02:28,040 --> 02:02:29,440
Speaker 1: now they're gonna do it now. It looks like I'm

2426
02:02:29,440 --> 02:02:31,760
Speaker 1: gonna push it through without having them say again, to

2427
02:02:31,880 --> 02:02:35,200
Speaker 1: my point, this plan, which is being considered maybe voted

2428
02:02:35,240 --> 02:02:37,200
Speaker 1: on by the NFL, has nothing to do with that. No,

2429
02:02:37,320 --> 02:02:40,240
Speaker 1: and it almost has something for everyone, right saying the players,

2430
02:02:40,320 --> 02:02:42,480
Speaker 1: we're not going to play eighteen, but maybe seventeen. Could

2431
02:02:42,480 --> 02:02:44,520
Speaker 1: you deal with seventeen? How about if we give you

2432
02:02:44,640 --> 02:02:47,120
Speaker 1: more revenue, if we increase the revenue share. How about

2433
02:02:47,120 --> 02:02:50,000
Speaker 1: if we do away with a marijuana discipline and the

2434
02:02:50,400 --> 02:02:53,080
Speaker 1: and the players, you know, the player behavior disciplin You

2435
02:02:53,120 --> 02:02:55,320
Speaker 1: know what I mean, they're kind of personal conduct. Yes, yeah,

2436
02:02:55,320 --> 02:02:57,480
Speaker 1: they're kind of trying to work everything out here. I

2437
02:02:57,520 --> 02:02:59,600
Speaker 1: don't know. I think it might I think it might pass.

2438
02:02:59,680 --> 02:03:03,600
Speaker 1: Let's go to Matt in Orchard Park. Hello, Matt, Hello Steve,

2439
02:03:03,640 --> 02:03:06,800
Speaker 1: your talents are being wasted. You should be a negotiator, right,

2440
02:03:07,720 --> 02:03:10,720
Speaker 1: do you communicate this plan very well? Multiple times so

2441
02:03:10,880 --> 02:03:13,160
Speaker 1: far this year, You've done a great job you're on

2442
02:03:13,240 --> 02:03:16,000
Speaker 1: board with a plan, then Matt, No, I don't like,

2443
02:03:16,280 --> 02:03:20,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the virus. Go ahead, man, what's your what's

2444
02:03:20,960 --> 02:03:24,080
Speaker 1: your what's your point? The reason that I called, honestly

2445
02:03:24,480 --> 02:03:27,440
Speaker 1: I don't typically call, would be I'm surprised you guys

2446
02:03:27,520 --> 02:03:31,560
Speaker 1: don't know this. But Sammy was asked on Monday, which

2447
02:03:32,440 --> 02:03:36,440
Speaker 1: how he was the only sober person on his Monday UM,

2448
02:03:36,520 --> 02:03:39,280
Speaker 1: I have no idea, but he did a very quiet,

2449
02:03:39,400 --> 02:03:42,080
Speaker 1: well thought out piece with moving the chains on the

2450
02:03:42,200 --> 02:03:45,840
Speaker 1: NFL network and they asked him, why did you say that?

2451
02:03:46,440 --> 02:03:50,040
Speaker 1: And he said, I'm not saying that I wouldn't step

2452
02:03:50,080 --> 02:03:53,880
Speaker 1: away or take some time, meaning maybe OTAs I'll miss,

2453
02:03:53,960 --> 02:03:56,040
Speaker 1: maybe the beginning of training camp, I'll miss, just to

2454
02:03:56,200 --> 02:03:58,800
Speaker 1: let my mind and my body get right and to

2455
02:03:58,880 --> 02:04:00,880
Speaker 1: spend enough time with my amy. But he said, what

2456
02:04:01,040 --> 02:04:04,560
Speaker 1: I was doing when I said that was I was

2457
02:04:04,720 --> 02:04:06,640
Speaker 1: just josh and with the guy that said it to me,

2458
02:04:07,040 --> 02:04:09,800
Speaker 1: because I was offended that he took that time, right

2459
02:04:09,880 --> 02:04:12,200
Speaker 1: when we were talking about winning the Super Bowl to

2460
02:04:12,360 --> 02:04:15,400
Speaker 1: ask me such a stupid, selfish question. Yeah, but Sammy

2461
02:04:15,440 --> 02:04:17,440
Speaker 1: has said though, and I know I've said those time.

2462
02:04:17,480 --> 02:04:19,960
Speaker 1: But Sammy has said that he believes he might need

2463
02:04:20,040 --> 02:04:24,120
Speaker 1: some downtime, not necessarily retirement, but downtime, just mental health,

2464
02:04:24,280 --> 02:04:27,120
Speaker 1: days off or something. Right, didn't he say that, Steve?

2465
02:04:27,280 --> 02:04:30,000
Speaker 1: I think Steve, no one knows better than you guys,

2466
02:04:30,120 --> 02:04:32,600
Speaker 1: but I know that one of the common narratives. I'm

2467
02:04:32,680 --> 02:04:35,080
Speaker 1: forty five years old. I was here for all the

2468
02:04:35,160 --> 02:04:38,000
Speaker 1: Super Bowl teams, and I remember that they used to say,

2469
02:04:38,120 --> 02:04:42,440
Speaker 1: specifically Jim and Bruce and Andre and Marv, how hard

2470
02:04:42,520 --> 02:04:45,280
Speaker 1: it is to go so late insta season every single

2471
02:04:45,360 --> 02:04:47,520
Speaker 1: year and then have to jump right back into it.

2472
02:04:47,840 --> 02:04:49,960
Speaker 1: So you would think that there would be a plan

2473
02:04:50,040 --> 02:04:52,400
Speaker 1: in place by teams that win with as much history,

2474
02:04:52,640 --> 02:04:55,640
Speaker 1: with as much analytics as there abits available, to say, hey,

2475
02:04:55,680 --> 02:04:57,640
Speaker 1: we won the Super Bowl. I'm not saying we don't

2476
02:04:57,640 --> 02:05:00,480
Speaker 1: have to practice, but maybe we need to push back

2477
02:05:00,840 --> 02:05:03,120
Speaker 1: a week or two. Maybe we need to start our

2478
02:05:03,160 --> 02:05:06,040
Speaker 1: OTAs in a different timetable. Now. I don't know if

2479
02:05:06,080 --> 02:05:08,120
Speaker 1: that's collectively bargained. I don't know if they could even

2480
02:05:08,160 --> 02:05:10,800
Speaker 1: do that, but there's got to be some time because

2481
02:05:10,920 --> 02:05:14,080
Speaker 1: now all these guys, can you imagine Kelsey and Patrick

2482
02:05:14,200 --> 02:05:18,320
Speaker 1: Mahomes and the amount of their personal time that's going

2483
02:05:18,360 --> 02:05:20,720
Speaker 1: to go towards things that are non football related. Now,

2484
02:05:21,040 --> 02:05:22,840
Speaker 1: the way people are going to be offering them things,

2485
02:05:22,920 --> 02:05:25,560
Speaker 1: throwing money at them, taking up their time, they're not

2486
02:05:25,640 --> 02:05:27,880
Speaker 1: going to be able to concentrate on football and OTAs,

2487
02:05:27,880 --> 02:05:31,920
Speaker 1: which is what April may. Right. Yeah, and your point's

2488
02:05:31,960 --> 02:05:33,760
Speaker 1: well taken. I mean, and I get it. If Sammy

2489
02:05:33,920 --> 02:05:37,080
Speaker 1: was backtracking or was just kidding about taking or retiring,

2490
02:05:37,120 --> 02:05:39,640
Speaker 1: I get it. But and your point's well taken. I

2491
02:05:39,760 --> 02:05:43,200
Speaker 1: remember the season seems sure, we're there was times when

2492
02:05:43,240 --> 02:05:46,680
Speaker 1: we were playing twenty two sixteen regular season games, five

2493
02:05:46,800 --> 02:05:50,960
Speaker 1: preseason games, and two or three or four playoff games.

2494
02:05:51,000 --> 02:05:53,280
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of games during the season. You

2495
02:05:53,360 --> 02:05:57,240
Speaker 1: do need some time off, but you know, so take

2496
02:05:57,320 --> 02:06:00,680
Speaker 1: some time off, right. But the but the simple fact

2497
02:06:00,680 --> 02:06:04,640
Speaker 1: of the matter is you're right that the teams that

2498
02:06:04,760 --> 02:06:06,800
Speaker 1: go to the Super Bowl and play and then come

2499
02:06:06,840 --> 02:06:08,760
Speaker 1: back and they're playing in the Hall of Fame game

2500
02:06:09,240 --> 02:06:11,480
Speaker 1: or something like that, or playing in an overseas game

2501
02:06:11,520 --> 02:06:14,760
Speaker 1: in the preseason, it's a short offseason and you got

2502
02:06:14,880 --> 02:06:17,560
Speaker 1: to handle it right. And sometimes it's difficult. What about

2503
02:06:17,600 --> 02:06:20,800
Speaker 1: team driven to say we acknowledge that we the winner

2504
02:06:20,880 --> 02:06:24,840
Speaker 1: and the loser, can't have OTAs and bring all of

2505
02:06:24,920 --> 02:06:28,240
Speaker 1: our guys back on the normal schedule because they played

2506
02:06:28,440 --> 02:06:30,920
Speaker 1: and the things were stretched out two three weeks past

2507
02:06:31,000 --> 02:06:33,680
Speaker 1: everyone else. And then for the winner, it's even worse

2508
02:06:33,840 --> 02:06:36,960
Speaker 1: because of all the draws on you as a team

2509
02:06:37,000 --> 02:06:38,960
Speaker 1: and on you as an individual. Well, Matt, let me

2510
02:06:39,000 --> 02:06:41,880
Speaker 1: tell you something. The tasker plan hasn't a caveat as well,

2511
02:06:42,000 --> 02:06:45,320
Speaker 1: because here's what I would I would propose that I'm

2512
02:06:45,360 --> 02:06:48,920
Speaker 1: here after every you what's that I'm here to consult

2513
02:06:48,960 --> 02:06:51,200
Speaker 1: with you on the tasker plan. Here it is here,

2514
02:06:51,240 --> 02:06:53,840
Speaker 1: it is a little bit all right. Here it is

2515
02:06:54,520 --> 02:06:56,600
Speaker 1: what happens is it would be a league rule that

2516
02:06:56,720 --> 02:06:59,520
Speaker 1: whenever your season ended, there would be a window like

2517
02:06:59,560 --> 02:07:00,880
Speaker 1: if you're Sason in it on the last day of

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02:07:00,880 --> 02:07:04,240
Speaker 1: the regular season, there would be like three months or

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02:07:04,280 --> 02:07:06,120
Speaker 1: four months when you name it, however long it is

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02:07:06,240 --> 02:07:09,280
Speaker 1: where it's a no touch, no consult, no talk to,

2521
02:07:09,920 --> 02:07:13,960
Speaker 1: no nothing, totally hands off by the clubs. And that

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02:07:14,040 --> 02:07:16,400
Speaker 1: would go and commensurate with how deep you went into

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02:07:16,480 --> 02:07:19,640
Speaker 1: the season. So for most of the league, the four

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02:07:19,760 --> 02:07:22,760
Speaker 1: month period after the regular season was over would be

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02:07:22,880 --> 02:07:24,760
Speaker 1: totally hands off, and then they would all start at

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02:07:24,760 --> 02:07:27,160
Speaker 1: the same time, and then the next week it would

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02:07:27,160 --> 02:07:30,000
Speaker 1: be the Wildcard teams who lost, and the week after

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02:07:30,120 --> 02:07:32,400
Speaker 1: that it would be the wild the Vision teams who lost,

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02:07:32,680 --> 02:07:34,240
Speaker 1: and then the week after that it would be the

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02:07:34,360 --> 02:07:37,000
Speaker 1: championship round of the playoffs and the two teams who lost,

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02:07:37,040 --> 02:07:39,040
Speaker 1: and then of course the Super Bowl would be after that,

2532
02:07:39,120 --> 02:07:40,640
Speaker 1: and it would be a stretch of four or five

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02:07:40,720 --> 02:07:44,200
Speaker 1: weeks after. The teams who are done at the end

2534
02:07:44,200 --> 02:07:46,520
Speaker 1: of the regular season they could get started right away,

2535
02:07:47,120 --> 02:07:49,640
Speaker 1: and then the Super Bowl teams would have to wait

2536
02:07:49,680 --> 02:07:52,400
Speaker 1: an extra four or whatever long the playoffs last, and

2537
02:07:52,560 --> 02:07:55,440
Speaker 1: then but the regular season still is barreling down the tracks,

2538
02:07:55,880 --> 02:07:57,960
Speaker 1: and it would be it would come at the same time.

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02:07:58,040 --> 02:08:00,240
Speaker 1: They would just have that much less time time to

2540
02:08:00,240 --> 02:08:03,040
Speaker 1: get ready, so that would be give them the free

2541
02:08:03,080 --> 02:08:05,280
Speaker 1: time they wanted, but it still wouldn't be like, you know,

2542
02:08:05,320 --> 02:08:06,640
Speaker 1: you come to training camp and all of a sudden

2543
02:08:06,640 --> 02:08:09,000
Speaker 1: you're playing. You'd still have OTAs and stuff, but it

2544
02:08:09,040 --> 02:08:11,520
Speaker 1: would be pushed back commensurate with when your season ended.

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02:08:12,080 --> 02:08:13,680
Speaker 1: That's part of the task or plan too, Murph. I

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02:08:13,720 --> 02:08:15,680
Speaker 1: don't know if you knew that. I'll write it up

2547
02:08:15,920 --> 02:08:18,320
Speaker 1: all right. You do that, let's get the tasker plane

2548
02:08:18,360 --> 02:08:20,680
Speaker 1: going again. Thanks Matt, Thanks very much for your call.

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02:08:21,240 --> 02:08:23,280
Speaker 1: One more call here, let's take the call from Zach

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02:08:23,320 --> 02:08:27,680
Speaker 1: and Wheatfield. Hello, Zach, Hi, guys, how are you doing okay?

2551
02:08:28,640 --> 02:08:32,400
Speaker 1: So this seventeen games, this seventeen game schedule here, I'm

2552
02:08:32,400 --> 02:08:34,320
Speaker 1: not really a fan of it at all, But if

2553
02:08:34,360 --> 02:08:35,640
Speaker 1: it is going to happen, and it is gonna go

2554
02:08:35,680 --> 02:08:37,320
Speaker 1: and go forward, I think one of the things that

2555
02:08:37,400 --> 02:08:39,240
Speaker 1: I was thinking about, you know, what's going to happen

2556
02:08:39,360 --> 02:08:41,400
Speaker 1: is who's the seventeenth opponent going to be? And I

2557
02:08:41,440 --> 02:08:43,360
Speaker 1: don't know if you've talked about that by chance before,

2558
02:08:43,400 --> 02:08:45,080
Speaker 1: but you know, right now, they've got a pretty methodical

2559
02:08:45,120 --> 02:08:47,440
Speaker 1: system in a year by year basis. But who are

2560
02:08:47,440 --> 02:08:49,320
Speaker 1: they going to put in? Yeah, we're talked about it briefly.

2561
02:08:49,400 --> 02:08:51,680
Speaker 1: We don't have any answer, no answers, talk about, no

2562
02:08:51,800 --> 02:08:54,520
Speaker 1: idea who's going to be? Well, would you suggest any suggestions? Zach?

2563
02:08:55,600 --> 02:08:58,840
Speaker 1: So the thing is thinking about it. You got the

2564
02:08:58,840 --> 02:09:00,640
Speaker 1: Bills who finished in second right in the division, so

2565
02:09:00,640 --> 02:09:02,440
Speaker 1: they're going to play the other two opponents. And I

2566
02:09:02,560 --> 02:09:04,440
Speaker 1: was thinking about, well, what if they play a team

2567
02:09:04,520 --> 02:09:07,960
Speaker 1: that came in second from the NFC as as the opponent?

2568
02:09:08,080 --> 02:09:12,000
Speaker 1: But I'm not sure um how that would work. Yeah,

2569
02:09:12,040 --> 02:09:14,680
Speaker 1: which division in the NFCRE great because on a year

2570
02:09:14,680 --> 02:09:17,520
Speaker 1: about your basis, you play one division from the NFC.

2571
02:09:17,760 --> 02:09:20,280
Speaker 1: So then what if you're sector the extra opponent you're

2572
02:09:20,280 --> 02:09:22,440
Speaker 1: supposed to play is from say the NFC North, but

2573
02:09:22,520 --> 02:09:24,680
Speaker 1: you're already scheduled to play the NFC North that year,

2574
02:09:24,720 --> 02:09:25,880
Speaker 1: So now what now what do you do? Now? You

2575
02:09:25,920 --> 02:09:27,440
Speaker 1: got to play someone else and that throws off the

2576
02:09:27,440 --> 02:09:30,480
Speaker 1: whole schedule for everybody else, Right, it would probably be, um,

2577
02:09:30,880 --> 02:09:33,360
Speaker 1: the Bills are playing the AFC West and the NFC

2578
02:09:33,520 --> 02:09:36,320
Speaker 1: West next year. What would probably happen is they would

2579
02:09:36,360 --> 02:09:40,560
Speaker 1: add um add a team from one of the other

2580
02:09:40,640 --> 02:09:42,720
Speaker 1: two conferences that they're not playing sprints as they're playing

2581
02:09:42,720 --> 02:09:49,840
Speaker 1: the Steelers and they're playing the chart Steelers and the

2582
02:09:50,480 --> 02:09:52,680
Speaker 1: who is it the Broncos they're playing the Steelers in

2583
02:09:52,720 --> 02:09:56,640
Speaker 1: the oh no, that's not right. Who is it? Tennessee Titans.

2584
02:09:56,760 --> 02:09:59,720
Speaker 1: They're playing Tennessee and the Pittsburgh Steelers. So the other

2585
02:10:00,440 --> 02:10:03,640
Speaker 1: object it would be to they're playing the play one

2586
02:10:03,760 --> 02:10:07,640
Speaker 1: more game from one of those two divisions within your conference,

2587
02:10:07,800 --> 02:10:10,640
Speaker 1: or another team from one of the divisions on the

2588
02:10:10,720 --> 02:10:13,280
Speaker 1: other side of the on the other conference. So that's

2589
02:10:13,360 --> 02:10:16,120
Speaker 1: probably what would happen. It would be a third out

2590
02:10:16,200 --> 02:10:18,760
Speaker 1: of division out of conference or a third out of

2591
02:10:18,800 --> 02:10:22,440
Speaker 1: division in conference opponent. So I don't know where it

2592
02:10:22,440 --> 02:10:24,640
Speaker 1: would come from, but it would be a set formula.

2593
02:10:25,480 --> 02:10:27,960
Speaker 1: I don't know how they set that formula, but maybe

2594
02:10:28,000 --> 02:10:29,760
Speaker 1: I'm not thinking through it. I don't know. Hey, this

2595
02:10:29,960 --> 02:10:32,000
Speaker 1: just came in. The Tennessee Titans have named a new

2596
02:10:32,120 --> 02:10:36,000
Speaker 1: inside linebackers coach. Got Buffalo connection. Jim Hasselett, former Bill's

2597
02:10:36,000 --> 02:10:38,360
Speaker 1: second round draft pick who was out of coaching last

2598
02:10:38,440 --> 02:10:40,760
Speaker 1: year after twenty four years coaching in the league, hired

2599
02:10:40,800 --> 02:10:44,560
Speaker 1: his Tennessee's new inside linebackers coach. Good for him, Big

2600
02:10:44,640 --> 02:10:46,960
Speaker 1: fan got a break Here One Bill's Live, presented by

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02:10:46,960 --> 02:10:49,320
Speaker 1: a Collada Health from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park.

2602
02:10:49,600 --> 02:11:07,720
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. So what have we learned

2603
02:11:07,800 --> 02:11:10,080
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Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. What have we learned? We

2606
02:11:17,000 --> 02:11:20,200
Speaker 1: had Jenny brentass On from MMQB and Sports Illustrated. She's

2607
02:11:20,200 --> 02:11:22,320
Speaker 1: talking about Andy Reid twenty one years as a head

2608
02:11:22,360 --> 02:11:25,720
Speaker 1: coach in the NFL finally wins the Super Bowl last Sunday,

2609
02:11:25,960 --> 02:11:27,520
Speaker 1: and how big it was for him and all of

2610
02:11:27,600 --> 02:11:29,800
Speaker 1: his fans and friends all over the country. Years with

2611
02:11:29,920 --> 02:11:34,640
Speaker 1: Jenny Brenta said, He's not just coaching for himself, right,

2612
02:11:34,680 --> 02:11:37,680
Speaker 1: It's about the players, It's about the assistant coaches, all

2613
02:11:37,680 --> 02:11:39,320
Speaker 1: the people he's worked for through the years, all the

2614
02:11:39,400 --> 02:11:41,520
Speaker 1: people back in Los Angeles who he grew up with,

2615
02:11:41,720 --> 02:11:43,680
Speaker 1: who helped him through the loss of his son, who

2616
02:11:43,720 --> 02:11:46,960
Speaker 1: were there for them. He had a childhood friend who

2617
02:11:47,080 --> 02:11:50,280
Speaker 1: had planted a tree in memory of Garrett, his son,

2618
02:11:50,560 --> 02:11:53,720
Speaker 1: and that childhood friend of Andy's passed away in September.

2619
02:11:53,800 --> 02:11:56,520
Speaker 1: So his friends back in Los Angelos were also saying

2620
02:11:56,840 --> 02:12:00,040
Speaker 1: Super Bowl for Tony, which was Andy's friend. And he

2621
02:12:00,160 --> 02:12:01,720
Speaker 1: was looking at all of this two weeks before the

2622
02:12:01,760 --> 02:12:03,920
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and he's a guy I can't really, I can't.

2623
02:12:04,360 --> 02:12:06,960
Speaker 1: I can't let my mind go to all the things

2624
02:12:07,040 --> 02:12:09,200
Speaker 1: that this game would mean. But you knew that it

2625
02:12:09,280 --> 02:12:11,560
Speaker 1: was there, like he felt it, right. He knew that

2626
02:12:11,640 --> 02:12:13,800
Speaker 1: there were a lot of legs to a Super Bowl

2627
02:12:13,960 --> 02:12:17,720
Speaker 1: championship with the Chiefs that went well beyond football and

2628
02:12:18,120 --> 02:12:22,360
Speaker 1: well beyond just the current team. There you go Jenny

2629
02:12:22,400 --> 02:12:25,000
Speaker 1: Wrent has joined us. Steve will not join us tomorrow, right,

2630
02:12:25,000 --> 02:12:27,240
Speaker 1: you got tomorrow off? Yeah, I got stuff going. I'll

2631
02:12:27,320 --> 02:12:30,160
Speaker 1: let you know on Monday. Can you be a little

2632
02:12:30,200 --> 02:12:33,280
Speaker 1: more specific? No, you can't. Fun family stuff, I gotta go.

2633
02:12:33,720 --> 02:12:37,280
Speaker 1: I won't be in tomorrow. No, I'm just gonna let

2634
02:12:37,280 --> 02:12:39,800
Speaker 1: it be quiet here and people. Yeah, I'll tell y'all,

2635
02:12:39,840 --> 02:12:41,640
Speaker 1: let you know on Monday. I'll be fun, though. I

2636
02:12:41,640 --> 02:12:43,600
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thanks for giving me the day tomorrow I got.

2637
02:12:43,960 --> 02:12:46,240
Speaker 1: You're welcome, though I would leave anyway. Amy day off,

2638
02:12:46,840 --> 02:12:48,480
Speaker 1: give him the day off. Chris Brown is here for

2639
02:12:48,960 --> 02:12:51,680
Speaker 1: You're the best of Thanks. Hey, what do you think?

2640
02:12:52,840 --> 02:12:55,120
Speaker 1: I don't know? You look back at our discussion today

2641
02:12:55,120 --> 02:12:58,160
Speaker 1: about the seventeen game regular season, and here's the thing.

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02:12:58,240 --> 02:12:59,880
Speaker 1: We gotta say, we don't know what it's gonna look like,

2643
02:13:00,240 --> 02:13:02,040
Speaker 1: but it's time to start thinking about what it looks like.

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02:13:02,160 --> 02:13:04,600
Speaker 1: It's gonna happen. Is that Yeah, it's happening, and the

2645
02:13:04,760 --> 02:13:07,400
Speaker 1: league got play associations are talking about it right now,

2646
02:13:07,680 --> 02:13:10,640
Speaker 1: not this year, but it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen,

2647
02:13:10,840 --> 02:13:12,440
Speaker 1: which is what got us into it, I think. And

2648
02:13:12,760 --> 02:13:15,480
Speaker 1: the Twitter poll was I think a little bit misguided,

2649
02:13:15,520 --> 02:13:17,440
Speaker 1: and again I think we're just getting our arms wrapped

2650
02:13:17,440 --> 02:13:20,000
Speaker 1: around what it might mean. Almost half of you said

2651
02:13:20,040 --> 02:13:22,440
Speaker 1: fewer preseason game is the biggest change. Well, I don't

2652
02:13:22,480 --> 02:13:24,720
Speaker 1: think it'll be, but I could be wrong. Twenty percent

2653
02:13:24,800 --> 02:13:27,560
Speaker 1: say increased roster size will be the biggest thing. You see,

2654
02:13:27,800 --> 02:13:31,520
Speaker 1: maybe nineteen percent multiple bye weeks, which they will probably be.

2655
02:13:32,040 --> 02:13:35,960
Speaker 1: Maybe only thirteen percent say in international or neutral site

2656
02:13:36,040 --> 02:13:37,880
Speaker 1: game would be a big change. Maybe that might be

2657
02:13:37,920 --> 02:13:40,200
Speaker 1: a signal towards the fact that people are really confident

2658
02:13:40,240 --> 02:13:42,840
Speaker 1: in this this But we don't have that specter hanging

2659
02:13:42,920 --> 02:13:45,240
Speaker 1: over the top of the city where the team might leave,

2660
02:13:45,320 --> 02:13:49,160
Speaker 1: or something that's out off that's off the table. You

2661
02:13:49,400 --> 02:13:52,200
Speaker 1: thanks for our production assistants, George Blast, Jeff Colton, like

2662
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Speaker 1: Thomas Donald or Kelly Rude, Jjjurto, Kevin Cartis, James Robot,

2663
02:13:56,160 --> 02:13:58,840
Speaker 1: our producer Jay Harris. Steve will be off tomorrow. I'll

2664
02:13:58,840 --> 02:14:01,560
Speaker 1: be here tomorrow for one Bills slide presented by Kalaida

2665
02:14:01,640 --> 02:14:04,240
Speaker 1: Health from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. This is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's radio