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Speaker 1: To the end. Backs Time, Backs, Down, Down Time Show.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to One Bill's Line. I'm John Murphy. I'm home.

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasks on the line. He's home. We're here on

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Speaker 1: the radio only for the next three hours to talk

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Speaker 1: about the Bills in the National Football League. Good afternoon, everybody, Steve.

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Speaker 1: How you doing out there? Today? Feels like gets February

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Speaker 1: all over again, doesn't it. Yeah, I saw something funny

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Speaker 1: March one hundred and forty seventh. Today it's seriously, we

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Speaker 1: got pretty serious snow and we're only three miles away.

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Speaker 1: We got pretty serious snow last night, didn't we. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's you know, at stinks. Yes, that's a gut punch

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Speaker 1: going through what we're going through. Right, it's like just

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Speaker 1: one more thing piled onto our little pro little little

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Speaker 1: But I feel like we're kind of in we're suspended animation,

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Speaker 1: Like nothing changes every day. Right, it'd be easy to

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Speaker 1: say groundhog Day, but actually the weather is a little

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Speaker 1: bit bit like February second, But it's just kind of

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Speaker 1: like nothing changes to say status quote. We're into our

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Speaker 1: fifth week of doing this show from our homes. The

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Speaker 1: weather is no better than it was when we started

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Speaker 1: back in mid March, maybe even a little bit worse

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Speaker 1: than it was when it started. This is you're saying,

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Speaker 1: this is day one of week five from Yeah, it

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Speaker 1: is right. Yeah, we started on a Wednesday. I know.

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Speaker 1: This is day two of weekday two of week five. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well that's cool. Yes, it's the new normal. It took

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Speaker 1: new normal? I think there's going to be a change

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Speaker 1: for the better someday soon. That's the only thing that

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Speaker 1: keeps me going. I think it's gonna happen, but not soon.

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Speaker 1: I don't think. I aink we're in here for you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know when. When are we ever going to

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Speaker 1: be considered essential again? You know, I don't even consider

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Speaker 1: myself essentially. I certainly don't essential. I'm barely essential in

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Speaker 1: my house, that's right, you know. So I'm thinking we

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Speaker 1: may be sitting here in our little in our little

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Speaker 1: skype calls once a day for the next you know, however, indefinite. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's indications that things are going to

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Speaker 1: change for the better. I was just watching Governor Cuomo.

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Speaker 1: I watch him maybe three days a week now. And

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Speaker 1: one thing about that guy, he's got it spelled out, like,

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Speaker 1: we're not doing this until this, this, this, I mean,

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Speaker 1: he kind of covers every angle. It really is an

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Speaker 1: informative base briefing. It gets me thinking about what's to come.

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Speaker 1: I'm not just singing the Governor's praises. I just singing

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Speaker 1: the praises of anybody who has a well thought out

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Speaker 1: plan for at least what look, we're all uncertain, but

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Speaker 1: what the next month or so I might look looked like.

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Speaker 1: And I appreciate that the Governor does that. Yeah, I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you it's it's interesting because none of us can

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Speaker 1: do anything or make any deceit, the Governor included. Nobody

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Speaker 1: can do it until we find out how this progresses.

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Speaker 1: You kind of wait, and it's almost like reading a

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Speaker 1: ticker tape every day to see how we're doing. And uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, we kind of for the foreseeable future. We're

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Speaker 1: not going anywhere for another you know a while. But well,

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Speaker 1: the Governor announced today the New York Pause, which is

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Speaker 1: they don't call it a shutdown, but New York pause,

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Speaker 1: which means us working from a home and everybody else

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Speaker 1: working from home extends to May fifteenth now, which is

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Speaker 1: about another month, so we're working at home for that

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Speaker 1: long another three weeks anyway. So yeah, it's it's the

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Speaker 1: I'm okay with it. I'm it's I understand the reasons

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Speaker 1: I just cannot complain about the my plight of having

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Speaker 1: There's a lot to consider there. And none of this

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Speaker 1: but concessions, ticket sales, parking, all of the stuff that

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Speaker 1: We're talking to him about playing without fans, what it

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Speaker 1: will be like, and he pointed out, you know, you're

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo, which is a kind of a different fan

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Speaker 1: experience and all the rest of the NFL. I think

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Speaker 1: he's out of something there, Steve. It would be a

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Speaker 1: different experience playing and watching sixteen NFL games without ever

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Speaker 1: getting the feeling of that new air field atmosphere. Right,

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Speaker 1: It could go on without it and fans would still

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Speaker 1: be interested. But I think you'd lose a lot without

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Speaker 1: that atmosphere in Orchard Park, I really do. Right, you

436
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Speaker 1: lose home field advantage, whatever it's worth, right, you lose

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Speaker 1: that vibe in the stadium. It's just another field and

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Speaker 1: be like a practice scrimmage. You wouldn't worry so much

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Speaker 1: about going on the road, that's for sure. The crowd's

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Speaker 1: not gonna bother you, the noise isn't gonna bother you.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna get any advantage for your defense to

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Speaker 1: snap count trying to jump off because the offense has

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Speaker 1: to go on a silent count. Yeah, all of that

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Speaker 1: goes away. But certainly players football players, and I heard

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Speaker 1: one of the players say this, As a player, you're

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Speaker 1: completely used to playing football in the quiet, because that's

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Speaker 1: what practice is. You play every day, you go through

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Speaker 1: the plays, you run through it. You know what it's

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Speaker 1: like to be out there without a cheering crowd. That

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Speaker 1: certainly you enjoy it more when people cheer every move

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Speaker 1: you make, but you practice every day without it, So

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Speaker 1: that to me would be probably less of an adjustment

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Speaker 1: for the players than you might think. But certainly fans,

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you can say that it's gonna

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Speaker 1: hurt ratings because people are gonna be so starved to

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Speaker 1: watch this stuff. Every game is gonna get Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: ratings in their local markets because everybody's gonna want to

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Speaker 1: see it because it's nothing else on unless you want

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Speaker 1: to unless you want another COVID press conference. Right. So, well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the PGA announced today they're resuming their schedule

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Speaker 1: in mid June, and maybe there'll be other sports available then,

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Speaker 1: so there might be other things on. Here's what you

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Speaker 1: know how people say things will never be the same again.

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Speaker 1: This is an example though. I mean, if you take

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Speaker 1: away the fans, and I'm not saying don't do it,

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Speaker 1: because it might be the smart way to do it,

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Speaker 1: but if you take away the fans, particularly here in

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Speaker 1: Buffalo in Orchard Park for one year, does it ever

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Speaker 1: get back to the way it used to be. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I'd worry about that a little bit. Maybe

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Speaker 1: it comes back even better, but how louder. But I

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Speaker 1: think maybe it becomes maybe the ticket maybe when when

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Speaker 1: can you imagine when they flipped the switch and let

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Speaker 1: people come back in opening day of say whatever, twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one, opening day finally the first time since since

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Speaker 1: January of two thousand nine or December of two thou nineteen. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you gotta go all the way till September of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one to get a lot, you know, to be

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Speaker 1: able to see the team play in live and in person.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any question the the atmosphere would

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Speaker 1: go off the charts. You couldn't get a ticket that game.

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Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, yeah, maybe maybe ongoing. I think long term,

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Speaker 1: I think people would love it again. I think it

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Speaker 1: would come back stronger than in a place like Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: I think it would come back stronger than ever. And

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Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. I'm not sure. Here's

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Speaker 1: a tweet from Russ and this is an interesting point,

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Speaker 1: and he's one of those who I think votes for

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Speaker 1: no games until virus is under control. Russ says, no

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Speaker 1: fans is untenable. Just delayed the start if necessary, eliminate

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Speaker 1: preseason game attendance, allow for teams to play with etiquette

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Speaker 1: testing for all players. In my opinion, no fans is untenable,

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Speaker 1: So just wait. There's an argument to be made, don't

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Speaker 1: play this game. Look, and I know, as I said

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Speaker 1: right off the top, fifteen percent of NFL revenue comes

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Speaker 1: from ticket sales. That's you know, you could live without that.

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Speaker 1: Could you live without that atmosphere though? Without that atmosphere

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Speaker 1: on TV? Can you imagine what an NFL game would

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Speaker 1: look like and sound like on TV with empty stands?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Steve would be tough. Yeah, it'd be different.

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Speaker 1: It would be different, and it's it's not optimal, no

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Speaker 1: question about it. The league has always prided itself on

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Speaker 1: stadiums being full. You know, the the blackout rule hasn't

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Speaker 1: gone anywhere, you know. I mean that they still prefer it,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure that they will continue to do that

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Speaker 1: after this is over. But yeah, I don't know. I

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Speaker 1: I just don't think. Let's face it, though, there is

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Speaker 1: an argument to be made. You make a good POINTMRF

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Speaker 1: that the NFL is a TV program, you know, and

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Speaker 1: the crowd is extras, and most of their revenue, like

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Speaker 1: you say, eighty five percent of it or seventy five

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Speaker 1: percent of it comes from people who turn on the

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Speaker 1: TV and sit at home and watch. There's something to

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Speaker 1: be said for reality television, and NFL Football is the

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Speaker 1: number one reality TV show there is. So when you

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Speaker 1: and if you go on without the production of value

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Speaker 1: that the crowd gives you, you run a risk two

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Speaker 1: of it being something other than what you planned on

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Speaker 1: it being or what it has been in the past.

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Speaker 1: It'd been affected in ways we don't understand yet. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that's part that. And look, we got to get

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Speaker 1: to a break here, and I'm sure the league is

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Speaker 1: considering this, but yeah, it's only fifteen percent of revenue,

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Speaker 1: but it enhances the seventy five percent of your revenue.

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Speaker 1: The crowd and always the color the atmosphere in these stadiums.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think it enhances it. It makes it

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Speaker 1: a better TV show, damn fans in the stands, and

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Speaker 1: maybe it makes it watchable. Maybe the league doesn't want

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Speaker 1: to be without that. I don't know. I don't have

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Speaker 1: answers to this. I know, and it's interesting to think

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Speaker 1: about it, because you're gonna nobody can go, so everybody

532
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Speaker 1: has to watch, right, so everybody tunes it in the ratings,

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Speaker 1: go through the roof at least in week one, just

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Speaker 1: to see what it's like without fans. And then over

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Speaker 1: the course of the season, do you become numb to

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Speaker 1: it and you watch anyway? Or does it take away

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Speaker 1: from your appetizing? Well, this isn't as much fun if

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Speaker 1: I'm not either there or if nobody else is there.

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Speaker 1: That comes the real question back to my point about

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Speaker 1: does it ever get back to the way it was?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Let's hear from you today the NFL,

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Speaker 1: considering its contingency plans. What should be the league's approach?

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Speaker 1: Give us a call eight oh three five fifty toll

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Speaker 1: free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty

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Speaker 1: Sending a tweet or voting our Twitter poll. It's up

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Speaker 1: right now. I'd love to hear your phone, your voice

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Speaker 1: on the phone, and we got plenty of time to

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Speaker 1: do that. Plenty of lines open coming up next though.

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Speaker 1: The draft is next week, a week from today around one.

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Speaker 1: The NFL is totally restaged this thing, taking away the

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas angle. The NFL's vice president of Events Strategy,

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Speaker 1: Matt Shapiro joining us next to talk about that. Come

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Speaker 1: on back. One Does Live presented by Collatta Health Radio

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Speaker 1: Only again today. Steve's at home. I'm at home. This

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Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: presented by Collatta Health Doing It from Home today, Radio

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Speaker 1: Only Today. Happy to have you with us, Happy to

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Speaker 1: have our guests with us. He is the NFL's vice

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Speaker 1: president of Events, Strategy and Integration. Matt Shapiro joins us. Hello, Matt,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve task Rupp here in Buffalo. Thanks coming

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Speaker 1: on with us. Hey, guys, thanks so much for having

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Speaker 1: me have a question for you. You. I'm guessing we're

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Speaker 1: had to be involved in the planning for the original

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Speaker 1: draft in Las Vegas, right, I was, yes, very closely.

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Speaker 1: You went from what was going to be one of

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Speaker 1: the most ridiculously gaudy drafts. You know, players on boats

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Speaker 1: going across the pool at the Bellagio to a totally

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Speaker 1: different kind of draft than the last month, Matt. They

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Speaker 1: had to be incredible switch for you. Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the the pace of change here has been

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Speaker 1: really remarkable. I mean it was literally a month ago

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Speaker 1: on March sixteenth when we kind of made the official

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Speaker 1: announcement of no public events in Las Vegas. Obviously, as

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Speaker 1: you guys, as the whole world has been observing, again,

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Speaker 1: the pace of that has been so rapid in that

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Speaker 1: last month. We've just been kind of working through all

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Speaker 1: the different contingencies because even within that timeframe, obviously a

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Speaker 1: lot has changed. As we were considering where would we

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Speaker 1: do this draft, was there an opportunity to bring people

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Speaker 1: together obviously to where we've gone today, which is the

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Speaker 1: right thing given where we are in the world of

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Speaker 1: being entirely virtual and remote. We do want to ask

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Speaker 1: you a lot about the actual draft next week, but

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Speaker 1: before we move on from Las Vegas. I've read where

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Speaker 1: the NFL draft next year's schedule for Cleveland, and there's

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Speaker 1: an open year the next year. I mean to say

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Speaker 1: that the draft will wind up in Las Vegas in

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Speaker 1: the next couple of years. There's probably, I would think

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Speaker 1: pretty accurate. How Man, I know there's no decision yet,

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Speaker 1: but we can anticipate that, right, Yeah, I mean I

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Speaker 1: think that that's right with the idea that there's been

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Speaker 1: no decision. We've got a great partner in Cleveland and

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, and then we've also announced Kansas

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Speaker 1: couple open years ahead of us over the next few

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Speaker 1: and Las Vegas is such an incredible partner. We worked

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Speaker 1: so closely with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority

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Speaker 1: with the Raiders. We were so excited to be there

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Speaker 1: to kind of usher in this new era of the

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Speaker 1: Raiders in Las Vegas. So we're we're excited to continue

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Speaker 1: working with them and hopefully we'll be able to lock

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Speaker 1: something very soon. Matt, what's the next big issue for

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Speaker 1: this draft? I mean, what's left to be done? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I know all the teams are scrambling around. We had

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Speaker 1: Brandon being the general manager of the Buffalo Bills on

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Speaker 1: yesterday kind of gave us a little bit of an idea. Well,

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Speaker 1: how it's going for him, But what's the next what's

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Speaker 1: left to be done for the league? For this draft? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, at this point, we've we've put a lot

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Speaker 1: of the pieces in play, you know, as I said,

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Speaker 1: it's it's been a busy month getting there. At this point,

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Speaker 1: the next week is really about fine tuning. It's about checking,

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Speaker 1: it's about making sure all of these connections, this incredibly

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Speaker 1: complex interwoven connectivity all works. Especially at the beginning of

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Speaker 1: next week, we'll start to run all of the kind

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Speaker 1: of quote mock drafts, and I know that that has

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Speaker 1: sort of a fun tone to it. It's less about

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Speaker 1: obviously putting names and spots and more about making sure

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Speaker 1: the connectivity works to all the clubs, to ESPN, to

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Speaker 1: NFL network. So at this point it's really fine tuning.

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Speaker 1: But I'll tell you, I mean, down to the very

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Speaker 1: last moment, I know that we'll be adjusting things, that

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Speaker 1: ideas with ESPN and NFL network at ABC. But at

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Speaker 1: this point, our goal is to really start putting the

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Speaker 1: finishing touches on things to make sure that we're ready

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Speaker 1: for the show in a week. Max Shapiro, NFL vice

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Speaker 1: president of Events Strategy, on the line with us. We

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Speaker 1: are told that the first round, anyway, we'll feature Roger Goodell,

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Speaker 1: NFL Commissioner in his basement. If you do it in

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Speaker 1: my basement, I'd have to move out the lawn furniture

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Speaker 1: and a bunch of other things. I would imagine you've

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Speaker 1: got a better set up there for the commissioner, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think I'll have a ton of furniture down there,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, it will be. It'll be really really powerful,

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Speaker 1: I think. You know, as we started to think about

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Speaker 1: where everyone involved thought, this is what made sense, and

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Speaker 1: I think it really is in keeping with the message

640
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: to the nation, which is stay home right now and

641
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 1: be safe. So fortunately we'll be able to bring this

642
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: setup we need and do everything, like everything we're doing

643
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,360
Speaker 1: here within kind of full CDC guidance. So I think

644
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: it'll be pretty impactful and obviously just hopefully a one

645
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 1: time thing that'll be special and memorable and looking forward

646
00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 1: to it. And what about the young guys that you're

647
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: going to be drafting. You know, there's gonna be a

648
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: roster about sixty five guys. How's the league communicating with

649
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: them and how has that process been going. Yeah. Absolutely,

650
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 1: So one of the biggest I would say lifts here

651
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: technology wise is making sure that all fifty eight of

652
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 1: the prospects who we've sort of invited to be part

653
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 1: of this almost virtual green room and virtual experience have

654
00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,360
Speaker 1: the right connectivity. So we've sent individual kits I would

655
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,360
Speaker 1: call them to all of the prospects, which include a camera, microphone,

656
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 1: some lighting, as well as these welcome kits that include

657
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: a number of kind of special things to have on

658
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: the night of So well, obviously it's not what we envisioned,

659
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 1: they're necessarily wanted or anticipated. The ability to be connected

660
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: with these fifty eight guys is actually almost double the

661
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: number that we would have been able to have in Vegas.

662
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 1: So by no means that this sort of fully replaced

663
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: the power of walking on that stage or walking you know,

664
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 1: across the stage and giving the commissioner that bear hug.

665
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:22,160
Speaker 1: We're doing everything we can to make sure that that

666
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: experience is replicated and that it's memorable and that we're

667
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: really celebrating these guys as ban to the league. So

668
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: fans at home, we'll see them on camera, will be

669
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 1: able to do interviews after and really make them feel connected.

670
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: And we're also working through some special ideas of how

671
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: they can directly interact with the commissioner given the inability

672
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: to have that physical interaction and man, obviously, the draft

673
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: is about more than just a first rounder. Steve and

674
00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:45,959
Speaker 1: I were talking a couple of weeks ago about players

675
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 1: down the line and you get you know, some first rounders,

676
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 1: but second, third, fourth round and beyond. One of the

677
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: great images of recent drafts has been those players at

678
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: home with their friends and family celebrating their selection. They're

679
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 1: kind of limited in doing that this year, right they are?

680
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: They are, And like I said, I think maybe it

681
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: wasn't the initial vision, but we'll be able to be

682
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: more connected to those guys as we get deeper into

683
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:12,800
Speaker 1: night two. Right, So having nearly sixty guys just obviously

684
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:14,840
Speaker 1: by the numbers, means we're going to be talking to

685
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,919
Speaker 1: those guys well beyond night one. So that'll actually create

686
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: a little bit more energy, I think, and actually make

687
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,280
Speaker 1: kind of the tail on this a little bit longer

688
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: and be able to have more interaction throughout the second

689
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 1: two days of this thing. So as we come to

690
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 1: the end of this draft, this draft, you put this

691
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 1: to bed and close the door on it. What's the

692
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: next thing on your agenda? I know May ninth you're

693
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:37,719
Speaker 1: trying to come out. You're going to come out with

694
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,400
Speaker 1: a full schedule. What are some of the contingencies that

695
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 1: you have to look forward to when the schedule comes

696
00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: out of May ninth. Yeah, So, I think there's a

697
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: lot of people in our office working incredibly diligently on

698
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:51,480
Speaker 1: what techn I will look like. Obviously, it's all going

699
00:34:51,520 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 1: to start with safety and working closely with the CDC

700
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:58,839
Speaker 1: and other infectious disease experts to make sure that we're

701
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:02,040
Speaker 1: doing everything totally in accordance with all the recommendations. So

702
00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: I know everyone's working through different scenarios and we're excited

703
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 1: to see how that plays out. I think, you know,

704
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: a lot of interesting things going on in terms of

705
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:14,160
Speaker 1: two new stadiums opening up this year in Las Vegas

706
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 1: and Los Angeles. Obviously, the Chiefs are an incredible story

707
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: coming out of there their Super Bowl win, so a

708
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,520
Speaker 1: lot a lot to celebrate at the beginning of the season,

709
00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 1: and we're looking forward to it. I assume about one

710
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 1: more thing about the draft mat. You know, one of

711
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,200
Speaker 1: the other great images in recent years has been the

712
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 1: draft room for each individual team. Most of those draft

713
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: rooms have been shifted to the general manager's house now

714
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: and many times it's going to be alone. How do

715
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: you think that will work? And is it just the

716
00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: one guy who will be available to talk about each team?

717
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:45,240
Speaker 1: Will you have any other images of for instance, Bill's

718
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,399
Speaker 1: personnel or any open teams personnel. Yeah. For the most part,

719
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: all gms and head coaches will have cameras at their home,

720
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:53,879
Speaker 1: so we'll be able to have a couple of those

721
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:57,399
Speaker 1: folks for each team. My anticipation is that will work

722
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: out great. Um. I think you know, our IT team

723
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: is working incredibly hard with the IT teams at all.

724
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: The clubs will have multiple redundancies in terms of internet, WiFi,

725
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: in terms of hardline setups, phones, so I think it'll

726
00:36:13,160 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: be great. Obviously, it'll be unique, and it's a time

727
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 1: that calls for sort of patience and flexibility. But I

728
00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 1: think the clubs have had that, and I think the

729
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 1: staff in our office has had that, So I think

730
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,359
Speaker 1: it's shaping up to be great. And the last thing

731
00:36:25,360 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: I would say is just you know, beyond just the

732
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: business of the draft, it's an incredibly exciting opportunity to

733
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:32,919
Speaker 1: do some good as well. So I know you guys

734
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: may have read a bit about our draft that's on event.

735
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: But in addition to the nearly fifty million dollars that

736
00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:41,120
Speaker 1: people around the NFL family have raised, the players, the coaches,

737
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: the owners, we're going to use these three days to

738
00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: put a spotlight on so many frontline workers, on those

739
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 1: who are helping us all get through this. So we're

740
00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 1: really excited to help benefit those those groups all going

741
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: through the NFL Foundation. So I know that the clubs

742
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 1: are going to get involved in that as well. And

743
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: just I think it's going to be a really special

744
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 1: a few days. What what's next and what's on the

745
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:06,280
Speaker 1: on the docket for contingencies about the schedule moving forward,

746
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: I know that nothing no absolutely no doubt that you

747
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 1: can't make any decisions at this point. But how flexible

748
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: can the NFL be regarding when and where it's games

749
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 1: take place this season? Um Well, as I said earlier,

750
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we're gonna just work incredibly closely

751
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 1: with all the experts on this. I think where we're

752
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,959
Speaker 1: we're not right now in a position where we're making

753
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: those decisions. Obviously, everyone will will watch this closely and

754
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,800
Speaker 1: we'll we'll work across um, not just kind of the

755
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 1: CDC experts and the infectious disease expert but also with

756
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: all the states and local government, so we will we

757
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 1: will be prepared um, no matter the situation. I'm confident

758
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: of that NFL caught a bit of a break that

759
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: it doesn't really play any games the meat of the

760
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 1: NFL year for another four months or so. Matt, you

761
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: must feel like you've had time to sort of comparatively

762
00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: speaking anyway, collect yourselves, even though you got these big events, right, Yeah,

763
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, I think that's right. I think

764
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: thinking about the draft, I mean, fortunately, unlike a game,

765
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: it can really be done in a way that's fully virtual,

766
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 1: can be done safely, fully within those guidelines. But the

767
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 1: technology that exists today and gives us that chance to

768
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,160
Speaker 1: celebrate prospects in their homes and create those great moments.

769
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:17,960
Speaker 1: So um, I think that's it's a fair point. I

770
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: think we've we've focused really hard on how the draft

771
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,719
Speaker 1: itself can be done in this world, and that's where

772
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: we're focused now. And then obviously we'll we'll, we'll have

773
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,880
Speaker 1: plenty of people um focused on what comes next. But

774
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 1: right now we're we're we've got a really big one

775
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: right in front of us. I think in many ways,

776
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: the draft has become sort of our second biggest event

777
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 1: of the year, UM and with just seven days to go,

778
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 1: where where we think we'll be able to do it

779
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:40,279
Speaker 1: in a in a special way, in a in a

780
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 1: in a competitively equitable way, and in a way that

781
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 1: kind of unifies people, gives them something to focus on

782
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,840
Speaker 1: in a tough time, but most importantly does some goods.

783
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 1: As a reference with the draft us on concept. One

784
00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 1: of the things Matt about this is, anytime something like

785
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: this happens, you're you work in maybe one of the

786
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 1: most competitive fields there is in pro football. Plus you're

787
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,840
Speaker 1: kind of over the top of thirty two different teams.

788
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: They're all trying to compete. And one of the things

789
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:09,600
Speaker 1: we're hearing coming out of the league when all this

790
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: happened was trying to keep the competitive balance there, like

791
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: not getting letting one team have people in their facilities

792
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:18,879
Speaker 1: and the other team not being able to have people

793
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 1: in their facilities. What kind of enforcement do you have,

794
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 1: what kind of pushback. Have you gotten from teams about

795
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 1: their ability to do things and not do things? And

796
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: because I know these guys are all competitive and they

797
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: want to get an edge on each other. So how

798
00:39:32,239 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: are you enforcing the competitive balance in this time when

799
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: everything is so up in the air. Sure, yeah, and

800
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 1: I think it's a it's a good question. It's been

801
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:44,120
Speaker 1: a huge focus of our number of departments, including our

802
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: football operations department and certainly the commissioner himself. Another commissioner

803
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:50,399
Speaker 1: was talking to a number of different owners and club

804
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,399
Speaker 1: executives and coaches to make sure that we were doing

805
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: everything in an incredibly sort of equal way because to

806
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 1: your point that that was the most important thing here.

807
00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:00,360
Speaker 1: We knew that there might be different guideline going on

808
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,560
Speaker 1: at different state levels, but for us, it was incredibly

809
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 1: important to communicate clearly with everyone involved and be sure

810
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: that there was no question there. And I think ultimately, um,

811
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,320
Speaker 1: you know, over the over the last few weeks, we've

812
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:13,399
Speaker 1: gotten to that place where we know every club must

813
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 1: be sort of separate in their own homes in terms

814
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 1: of kind of enforcement. I you know, right now, we're

815
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 1: just focused on making sure everyone kind of follows those guidelines.

816
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: I think you're like we talked about earlier, there will

817
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 1: be those sort of cameras in everyone's home, So certainly

818
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: we'll we'll we'll see how everyone's looking in their homes,

819
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: we'll see how the prospects are looking. Because I think

820
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 1: for us, the most important thing is just being safe

821
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: and making sure that everyone is following those guidelines. As

822
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 1: we know, people need to say a certain distance apart.

823
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:40,719
Speaker 1: People really shouldn't be venturing too far out of their

824
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,279
Speaker 1: homes to interact with others. So we've been focused on

825
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,359
Speaker 1: the clarity of that message, and I think everyone has

826
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,680
Speaker 1: really has really been been very cooperative, very understanding the

827
00:40:48,760 --> 00:40:51,480
Speaker 1: need to be flexible. Um, So I think we'll we'll

828
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:52,799
Speaker 1: be in a good place there. But yes, it took

829
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 1: a lot of sort of communication across the board, but

830
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: ultimately seems like we've landed in a great place. Matt,

831
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:02,479
Speaker 1: good luck next week. Can gratulations on totally switching gears

832
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,839
Speaker 1: over the last month, and here's hoping everything goes well

833
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 1: next week. Thanks very much, Thank you guys, Thank you

834
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:10,200
Speaker 1: guys so much for as appreciate it. Okay, thanks Match Shapiro,

835
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: NFL Vice President of Events, Strategy and Integration, joining us

836
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 1: to talk about the plans for next week's NFL Draft,

837
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: A week from today is round one. You bring up

838
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:21,880
Speaker 1: a good point, Steve. I'll tell you what you'd have

839
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: to There's a special place in hell for an NFL

840
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: team that would that would cheat under these circumstances in

841
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:30,799
Speaker 1: the draft. And you're thinking about a team in Foxborough,

842
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 1: as am I. But come on, if you take advantage

843
00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:37,239
Speaker 1: of this, if you take advantage of this situation to

844
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,439
Speaker 1: try to get a competitive advantage over the other thirty

845
00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:45,839
Speaker 1: one teams, Seriously, that's beyond the pale. That's ridiculous. Yeah, yeah,

846
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what think about it, Murph. You

847
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: would what happens if they get caught exactly? Oh my gods, yeah,

848
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: particularly if it's the particularly if it is the Patriot

849
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 1: and they get caught doing that, Man oh man, that

850
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: would you should get thrown out of the league. Oh.

851
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: They would get so vilified by every thirty one other

852
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: fan bases. It would just be absolute. It would be unbelievable,

853
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: the venom that would come out, And it would be

854
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: and it would and I'll tell you what, you know,

855
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 1: this tumor whoever did that? Even forget the pages or

856
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 1: whatever team did that. It would kind of I think,

857
00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: probably expand beyond football, right, I mean, you'd get politics,

858
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 1: politicians to be chiming in, the medical industry to be

859
00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: chiming in, you know, everybody who couldn't care less about

860
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,759
Speaker 1: football all of a sudden would descend on whatever poor

861
00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: franchise decided to try and get an edge that way. Oh,

862
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 1: it would be ugly, it'd be amazing. I was I

863
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: wasn't getting back to our original comments with Matt. I

864
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 1: don't think you could conduct even a portion of the

865
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 1: draft in my basement right now. I don't know about

866
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 1: your basement, but I've got, you know, outdoor furniture stacked

867
00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:00,560
Speaker 1: up in there, all kinds of stuff him and cleaned

868
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 1: in months. I couldn't never my basement spotless has been

869
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: contasting plastic. But you've got a quarantine COVID patient down there. Yeah,

870
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:11,359
Speaker 1: you know if you checked out him, is your son

871
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: Jacok down there. I haven't heard from him today. He

872
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:17,840
Speaker 1: might be you know, he's gone, he's gone radio silence

873
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: this morning. But he leave the house. Does he leave

874
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 1: the house now? Now? He's he's hand on a great too.

875
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 1: I'm really proud of him, But he's got he's got

876
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,360
Speaker 1: no symptoms, you know, and he's and what do you do?

877
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 1: You lower basket down to him, put the lotion in

878
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:32,399
Speaker 1: the basket and yeah, a little bit like that. Yeah,

879
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 1: we know, no the basket. If a basket goes in there,

880
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: the basket stays in there. Nothing comes out. Only things

881
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: only go into the quarantine then never come out. So

882
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: no drafted. No, we're just your house. Yeah, we're less

883
00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 1: than a handful of days now gone to but where

884
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 1: he has left. So he'll be you know, this next weekend,

885
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:53,600
Speaker 1: After this next weekend, he'll he'll be out. So tell

886
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 1: us the truth. What did he do to get in

887
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:56,640
Speaker 1: that much trouble to be locked in your basement for

888
00:43:56,719 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: two weeks? Come up? He didn't come home. He didn't

889
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:00,840
Speaker 1: come home a month and you know, a month and

890
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:03,800
Speaker 1: a half ago. He learned his lesson. He's got he

891
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 1: learned his lesson. Right, we got a break here, we're

892
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,439
Speaker 1: coming back One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health from

893
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 1: our Homes again radio coverage only. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

894
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:24,000
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show. I'm John Murphy, Steve Tasker.

895
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,279
Speaker 1: We're coming to you from our Homes radio only today

896
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: with One Bill's Live. We just talked to it Matt

897
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 1: Shapiro about the plans for next week's NFL Draft. I

898
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,439
Speaker 1: would have to say, seem there's less It makes sense

899
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 1: because they don't have a first rounder, but there's less

900
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,359
Speaker 1: excitement about this draft in Bill's country then there has

901
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: been in a while. I think, no, what do you think? Yeah?

902
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 1: I think what was so much going on? Obviously you

903
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 1: can attribute it to whatever you want. I mean, certainly

904
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:49,760
Speaker 1: some of it is the COVID virus and the pandemic,

905
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 1: but some of it also is the fact that, man,

906
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:55,440
Speaker 1: if everything was as it was before, if there was

907
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:57,839
Speaker 1: no pandemic, I Bills fans be clamoring for the season

908
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,400
Speaker 1: to start right now. Yeah, you know think there's a

909
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: lot of optimism. You know, you kind of took a

910
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 1: big step forward last year. You want to see if

911
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 1: Josh can do it again this year, and if he does,

912
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 1: man oh man, let's let's bring it on. Let's go.

913
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:11,640
Speaker 1: And I think that's where most Bills fans are about

914
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 1: this draft, particularly seeing is how we gotta sit tight

915
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:16,760
Speaker 1: for the first round. That's why that's what makes today's

916
00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 1: Twitter poll. I think so I don't know if it's disturbing,

917
00:45:19,520 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: but it's certainly I've been thinking this for a few days.

918
00:45:21,640 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 1: We put it out there on Twitter. What should the

919
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: league's approach to the twenty twenty season b Should they

920
00:45:26,640 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: get ready to shorten up a season? Should they get

921
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 1: ready for a season with no fans in attendance? Should

922
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:33,360
Speaker 1: they not playing the games at all until the virus

923
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:35,560
Speaker 1: is under control? It's our Twitter poll. It is up.

924
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: You give us a call to discuss eight oh three,

925
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,840
Speaker 1: five fifty and outside Buffalo toll free at one eight

926
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:43,480
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. We know, we

927
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: know the draft is next week, and we're gonna come

928
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,760
Speaker 1: back and talk with Jim Nage, draft expert for ESPN.

929
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: He is the executive director of the Senior Bowl. He's

930
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: coming up when we return. One Bill's Live presented by

931
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:57,560
Speaker 1: Klata Health from our homes again in the Seneca studio.

932
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radios, Radio Network Sports Date. The

933
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:12,800
Speaker 1: National Football League may have a contingency plan for a

934
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 1: couple of different scenarios. The league scheduled to release its

935
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,399
Speaker 1: regular seat and scheduled around Many ninth, but there will

936
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 1: be unspecified contingency plans within that schedule. If the games

937
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:25,239
Speaker 1: don't start on time, the contingency plans will include the

938
00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: possibility of having a shortened season due to a delayed start,

939
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 1: the NFL pushing forward as if the season could begin

940
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:33,879
Speaker 1: as normal. They also may have a plan to play

941
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: without fans and playing without fully complete the full stadiums.

942
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 1: They do think they're gonna have fans in the stands.

943
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: They may have a stadiums partially full. All of this

944
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 1: on the table being discussed quietly by the NFL. No

945
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 1: plan yet. The twenty twenty draft coming up one week

946
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:51,320
Speaker 1: from today, the league's betting market has already begun taking shape.

947
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 1: The Buffalo Bills. Their win total, according to Las Vegas,

948
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 1: is nine. They are the plus one hundred favorite to

949
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,479
Speaker 1: win the AFC East. New England is at plus one forty.

950
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 1: Patriots win total is said to be eight point five

951
00:47:03,239 --> 00:47:05,840
Speaker 1: to teams, lowest since two thousand and three. According to

952
00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: the Wise Guys in Las Vegas, Ram Center, Brian Allen

953
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: tested positive for the coronavirus, he told Fox Sports. The

954
00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 1: Rams confirmed the diagnosis, say say Allan felt slight symptoms

955
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,319
Speaker 1: but is now doing better. At twenty four year old.

956
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 1: The first active NFL player to publicly acknowledge that he

957
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: tested positive for the virus. He told Fox Sports he

958
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 1: lost his sense of smell and taste and had a

959
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:29,280
Speaker 1: sore throat. He's expected to be cleared of the virus

960
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:33,760
Speaker 1: later this week, and the Cleveland Browns changed uniforms again yesterday.

961
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 1: The Browns announced that they have introduced new uniforms that

962
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 1: looked more like what they have worn for much of

963
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,719
Speaker 1: their history, not like the radical design that they came

964
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: up with in twenty ten. The PVH your announced plans

965
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:46,040
Speaker 1: at eighty to return in mid June withou revise slate

966
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 1: of events through Thanksgiving. They will start with the Charles

967
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 1: Schwab Challenge at Fort Worth, Texas June eleventh through the fourteenth,

968
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 1: assuming health and governmental officials allowing. And there you go.

969
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 1: That is the update from One Bill's Live. John Murphy

970
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: Steam Tasker Radio only again today, joining us on the line.

971
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 1: A qualified draft expert. He is an ESPN draft analyst

972
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: and executive director of the Reese's Senior Bowl. Happy to

973
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 1: have Jim Nay on the line with us. Jim, how

974
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: are you, John Murphy and Steam Tasker up here in Buffalo.

975
00:48:12,239 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 1: Thanks coming out. Yeah, Hey, John and Steve. Good to

976
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 1: be with you again. It's good to know that the

977
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 1: Draft will take place next week. For those of us

978
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:23,400
Speaker 1: looking for some sort of diversion. Your role will be watching.

979
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 1: Did I see you're involved in Day three coverage or

980
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:29,319
Speaker 1: will you do much more than that for ESPN? Uh? Yeah,

981
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 1: it's a little undetermined. I know I'm gonna be doing

982
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 1: a lot of Sports Center stuff and some of the

983
00:48:34,000 --> 00:48:37,320
Speaker 1: morning show stuff the mornings after, you know, the different

984
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 1: days of the draft, and then the only thing I

985
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 1: know for sure is Day three of the draft on

986
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:44,239
Speaker 1: ESPN Radio, which I know you guys do do a

987
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: lot of that up there in seven hours straight at

988
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: radio on Day three? It should be did it last

989
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: year and it was a really good time. I mean,

990
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: that's to me, that's my favorite part of the draft.

991
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,879
Speaker 1: It was you know, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh round guys.

992
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: That's the media football team. That's all you really built.

993
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,520
Speaker 1: As a former scot out, I love I love that

994
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,560
Speaker 1: day and I just like talking about those guys because

995
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: you know, the rest of the process, you're basically just

996
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:09,320
Speaker 1: talking about the quarterbacks and a couple other first rounders.

997
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: So this lets me talk about guys that we scouted

998
00:49:12,160 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 1: for the Senior Bowl, and guys that are are you know,

999
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:16,279
Speaker 1: are really gonna make up the meat and potatoes of

1000
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 1: a football team. Yeah, it's interesting you say that. I'm

1001
00:49:19,760 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 1: glad you said that you liked those late round guys

1002
00:49:21,840 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: because those seem to be maybe the guys that are

1003
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: going to be the most affected by the fact that

1004
00:49:26,600 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 1: they couldn't go out and see them. They couldn't know

1005
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 1: pro days. A lot of these guys didn't get to

1006
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 1: the Combine, or not all of them did. Um. There's

1007
00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:36,239
Speaker 1: just they don't know that much about these guys and

1008
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: this year more so than ever. How do you think

1009
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,400
Speaker 1: that is going to work out with the evaluation process

1010
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: and what's going to mean to those late rounders. Yeah,

1011
00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:46,319
Speaker 1: I think the guys that are really getting affected by

1012
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: this whole thing are the smaller school guys and the

1013
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:53,200
Speaker 1: non combine guys. So I do think, you know, I

1014
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:55,279
Speaker 1: do think the guys that came to the Senior Bowl

1015
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: and went to the Combine, I mean some guys even

1016
00:49:58,080 --> 00:50:00,359
Speaker 1: squeezed in a pro day Clemson and aubur and those

1017
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:03,520
Speaker 1: guys did. Um, They're aready huge advantage this year because,

1018
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:06,600
Speaker 1: like you said, just the familiarity with this. Um, it's

1019
00:50:06,680 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 1: human nature. I mean, these gems are gonna pick guys

1020
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 1: they feel like they know more about. And there's just

1021
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 1: a lot of missing data right now on teams, on

1022
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: teams draft boards, you know, depending on who you talk to,

1023
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:20,640
Speaker 1: between a third and a quarter of their board they

1024
00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,920
Speaker 1: have missing stuff on so UM. You know again like

1025
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,239
Speaker 1: the non combine guys, that it really hurts the small

1026
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:28,800
Speaker 1: school guys because if they if they don't go to

1027
00:50:28,880 --> 00:50:30,800
Speaker 1: an All Star game, and all star games are a

1028
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:33,839
Speaker 1: great way to measure, um, whether the guy's a really

1029
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 1: good small school player or if he's a legitimate pro prospect.

1030
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 1: You get him on the field with you get a

1031
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: D two or FCS guy on the field or a

1032
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 1: bunch of SEC guys in Big ten guys, and you can,

1033
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 1: you know, you can, you can make that judgment call.

1034
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:48,960
Speaker 1: It becomes a lot easier. And if they but if

1035
00:50:49,000 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: they don't go to an All Star game, those guys

1036
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 1: really need a pro day, um, because then they can

1037
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:57,279
Speaker 1: post some testing data that that can at least show

1038
00:50:57,360 --> 00:50:59,360
Speaker 1: that they stack up with what's playing in the league.

1039
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 1: There is there is a big difference between being a

1040
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:05,880
Speaker 1: really good small school player and being a legitimate NFL prospect.

1041
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:08,880
Speaker 1: So you know, if you're a small school wideout and

1042
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:11,399
Speaker 1: you didn't go to the Combine or All Star Game,

1043
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:14,800
Speaker 1: and you post that you run four four five and

1044
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,320
Speaker 1: you jump thirty eight inches in the vertical jump, and

1045
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:20,319
Speaker 1: you have a you know, a four or five short shuttle, well,

1046
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:22,160
Speaker 1: now all those numbers kind of line up with what's

1047
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 1: playing in the league. And that's where guys go from,

1048
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: you know, the undrafted board, the prior to free agent board,

1049
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 1: over into six or seventh round where teams feel better

1050
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:33,600
Speaker 1: about taking a shot because at least that gives them

1051
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: some kind of metrics that they measure up with. What's

1052
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:39,920
Speaker 1: you know, what's playing on Sundays. Yeah, if you say

1053
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,040
Speaker 1: taking a shot, it's interesting to mean. And I think

1054
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 1: I knew the answer to this. I'm gonna ask it anyway.

1055
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 1: Is there any kind of general manager worth his salt

1056
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:50,120
Speaker 1: these days that will say, you know what, I'm gonna

1057
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: roll the dice on this guy, even though I don't

1058
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:55,520
Speaker 1: know everything about him. I think, like the tape says this,

1059
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 1: or whatever we've heard, whatever scuttle butt or whatever partial

1060
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,680
Speaker 1: information we have about this guy. I mean, general managers

1061
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:04,479
Speaker 1: rarely rule the dice on somebody they don't know about.

1062
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:07,520
Speaker 1: They'll really take maybe a lesser guy that they know

1063
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: everything about, rather than rule the dice on a guy

1064
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:12,520
Speaker 1: that that may be a better athlete or may have

1065
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: more gifts or measurables that they just don't know about. Well,

1066
00:52:17,360 --> 00:52:19,799
Speaker 1: you know, and part part of the non combine thing

1067
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:22,960
Speaker 1: is also you don't have the medical information either. So

1068
00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:26,000
Speaker 1: if a guy pops, you know, some some really good

1069
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:28,640
Speaker 1: numbers that a pro day, you still have time to

1070
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:30,839
Speaker 1: get him in on a thirty visit and have your

1071
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:33,280
Speaker 1: medical people, you know, work him up on a physical

1072
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 1: and get that medical background. So so that's a big

1073
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:38,319
Speaker 1: part of it too. I mean that's really the biggest reason,

1074
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:40,279
Speaker 1: more so than what you're seeing on tape, is that

1075
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:42,719
Speaker 1: you know that that big blank in the in the

1076
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: report is the medical piece. And I can just draw

1077
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 1: on my experience with Seattle before I took this job,

1078
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: and we took a guy in the sixth round a

1079
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:55,080
Speaker 1: few years ago, Garrett Scott, a tackle from from Marshall

1080
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 1: and really cool developmental offensive lineman, good athlete, tested well,

1081
00:53:01,080 --> 00:53:02,879
Speaker 1: you know, we didn't get him out on a thirty

1082
00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 1: visit at our place. But you know one of the

1083
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:08,360
Speaker 1: teams that our general manager was quote with their general manager.

1084
00:53:08,480 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 1: What happens in the spring is, you know, you'll get

1085
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:12,879
Speaker 1: together with a group of guys that you've worked with before,

1086
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: are friendly with, and you'll each like pick a certain

1087
00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:17,920
Speaker 1: number of these non combined guys. You'll bring in and

1088
00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 1: give them their medical and then you'll swap that information. Well,

1089
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:24,240
Speaker 1: that's what we did in Seattle with Garrett Scott stuff.

1090
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:26,360
Speaker 1: And we got him up to Seattle after the draft

1091
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: and our medical staff owned a heart condition and he

1092
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:31,440
Speaker 1: couldn't play football ever again. So I mean, that's an

1093
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 1: extreme example, but that's a sixth round pick that you

1094
00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:37,319
Speaker 1: know he basically just wasted because you didn't have all

1095
00:53:37,360 --> 00:53:40,560
Speaker 1: the information. So so again, extreme example, but that's something

1096
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:43,520
Speaker 1: that can't happen. We'll live on the line with Jim Nagi,

1097
00:53:43,719 --> 00:53:46,879
Speaker 1: ESPN's Draft analysts, executive director of the Reese's Senior Bowl.

1098
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 1: Before that, Jim, you spend eighteen years in the league

1099
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 1: as a scout for various teams. I wonder if you

1100
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:55,839
Speaker 1: talk to any of your scouting colleagues and are they

1101
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,400
Speaker 1: saying that this year obviously, this year is different, but

1102
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:01,400
Speaker 1: what are they missing. I think they might miss the

1103
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 1: you know, the last couple of weeks, teams would be

1104
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 1: sitting down with all their scouts kind of compiling their

1105
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:09,720
Speaker 1: their draft board. They can do that, you know viya telephone,

1106
00:54:09,719 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: but it can't be the same when you can sit

1107
00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:13,359
Speaker 1: there and make an argument face to face with your

1108
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:15,839
Speaker 1: GM as to why this guy belongs higher on the board. Right,

1109
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:19,360
Speaker 1: are they saying they miss that? Yeah, it's it's definitely

1110
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:22,240
Speaker 1: changed the dynamic. Usually you're in the building in April.

1111
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,279
Speaker 1: I know, those guys up in Buffalo, you know, would

1112
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,800
Speaker 1: all be in there together and in hashing off these players.

1113
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: You know, April meetings are to get back together, reconvene

1114
00:54:30,280 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: and kind of tweak the board a little bit. You

1115
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:34,800
Speaker 1: never want to jacket around too much, but tweak it

1116
00:54:34,920 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 1: based off what you saw throwd A's or combine. You know.

1117
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:39,560
Speaker 1: The last time most of these teams met as a

1118
00:54:39,600 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 1: group was usually February. So yeah, you miss some of

1119
00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: that human interaction, you know. And I know fans don't

1120
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:48,680
Speaker 1: care about this as much, but you know, one of

1121
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:50,920
Speaker 1: the things for the guys is you go through this

1122
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 1: process together as a staff, and these guys there's a

1123
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:55,360
Speaker 1: lot of camaraderie there. I mean it's it's they're like

1124
00:54:55,440 --> 00:54:58,600
Speaker 1: their own little team and you know, it's like a

1125
00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:01,160
Speaker 1: subset of the of the team. And I know, you guys,

1126
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:04,439
Speaker 1: if you know playing sports, you can appreciate that. It's

1127
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:06,320
Speaker 1: just different. You just don't you know, the group's not

1128
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 1: together like it's always great when you make picks and

1129
00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 1: you know the group's altogether and you feel great about it.

1130
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:16,000
Speaker 1: So that's a little difference this year from a scouting end.

1131
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 1: I mean, what's really changed from a scouts perspective is, uh,

1132
00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: you know, you get pulled off the road and that

1133
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 1: really ends your recruiting. This is this is truly the

1134
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: one time of the year whereas a scout you become

1135
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:30,360
Speaker 1: a recruiter. Um. So you're going out and that you know,

1136
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 1: you're going out in March and these pro days and

1137
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:35,280
Speaker 1: you know you're getting all the numbers and that stuff's

1138
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:37,760
Speaker 1: important to and you're writing up little reports off the workout.

1139
00:55:37,840 --> 00:55:41,359
Speaker 1: But but what it's really important for is targeting those

1140
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:44,479
Speaker 1: guys that you have seventh round in priority free agent

1141
00:55:44,560 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 1: grades on and really you know, taking them out to

1142
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 1: dinner the night before the pro day or taking them

1143
00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:51,439
Speaker 1: a lunch after the pro day, you know, and really

1144
00:55:51,480 --> 00:55:54,480
Speaker 1: recruiting them up and loving them up. So when the

1145
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:57,239
Speaker 1: madness starts after the draft, you know, you have that

1146
00:55:57,360 --> 00:55:59,960
Speaker 1: relationship with a player, and if they're getting called by

1147
00:56:00,120 --> 00:56:02,239
Speaker 1: twenty five teams at one time, like you're the guy

1148
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 1: who's called, they'll pick up. So that whole recruiting aspect

1149
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: has gone, you know, strictly to these web conferences and

1150
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:11,600
Speaker 1: zooms and whatnot. So that's made that process a little

1151
00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:14,880
Speaker 1: bit differently to a different two So yeah's just I mean,

1152
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:17,399
Speaker 1: this world's kind of crazy for all of us right now,

1153
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:19,799
Speaker 1: but the scout's being at home, you know, the last

1154
00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: five weeks has really been difficult on them because it's

1155
00:56:22,719 --> 00:56:28,439
Speaker 1: just it's it's so polar opposite of what they're used to. Jim.

1156
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 1: One of the things that has been true the Bills organization.

1157
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:32,799
Speaker 1: Now they're out of the first round in this draft,

1158
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:34,640
Speaker 1: but in a couple of last few years since Sean

1159
00:56:34,719 --> 00:56:37,800
Speaker 1: McDermott has taken over, they have put heavy emphasis on

1160
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:41,879
Speaker 1: players who went to and played well or looked well,

1161
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 1: looked good in the Senior Bowl. To me, that seems

1162
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:48,880
Speaker 1: like a huge boost because they had they liked the

1163
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:51,720
Speaker 1: information they got there, and they used it their fullest benefit.

1164
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:54,480
Speaker 1: Do you did you get a sense at that time

1165
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:57,480
Speaker 1: that any other teams were maybe upping the anne with

1166
00:56:57,560 --> 00:56:59,279
Speaker 1: what they did in the Senior Bowl with this maybe

1167
00:56:59,360 --> 00:57:01,440
Speaker 1: on the horizonal though this was way out in front.

1168
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: The pandemic was way away from us, it seemed like

1169
00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:07,560
Speaker 1: back when the Senior Bowl took place. But how much

1170
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:09,160
Speaker 1: of an advantage could that be for a team like

1171
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:11,759
Speaker 1: the Bills, particularly when they don't have a first rounder

1172
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 1: and they got a lot of late rounders. Yeah, and

1173
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: I don't want to sound self starving in any way,

1174
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 1: but Senior Senior Bowl week is huge and I can

1175
00:57:21,760 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 1: just rely on my experience and going back on the

1176
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:26,480
Speaker 1: teams I worked for and some of the players we

1177
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:29,520
Speaker 1: missed on. It wasn't so much we missed on the

1178
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 1: player to me watching the tape, the longer you do it, um,

1179
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 1: that's the easier part. The harder part is really figuring

1180
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 1: out the person you know, and what changes with this

1181
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:40,560
Speaker 1: guy when he's got a lot more time on his

1182
00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:42,480
Speaker 1: hands and a lot more money in his pockets. And

1183
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 1: you know, Steve, I know you've seen it in your

1184
00:57:45,160 --> 00:57:47,840
Speaker 1: locker room. Talented guys come in and and don't make

1185
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:50,520
Speaker 1: it for whatever reason. So, you know, the great thing

1186
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:53,200
Speaker 1: about Senior Bowl Week is it's a it's a week

1187
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:56,720
Speaker 1: long thing. It's more relaxed than the combine. The teams

1188
00:57:56,800 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 1: have more time, the players have more time, So you know,

1189
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:03,080
Speaker 1: the teams really feel like they get to know these guys.

1190
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 1: And it's really a short process when you think about it.

1191
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 1: When you're trying to make million dollar decisions on these guys,

1192
00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 1: you don't know them great. I mean, you really have

1193
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:15,040
Speaker 1: to rely on your relationship at the schools and what

1194
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 1: the people at the schools are telling you about these players.

1195
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:20,560
Speaker 1: So spending a week in mobile it gives these guys

1196
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 1: a comfort level like, Okay, we know this guy. We

1197
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 1: know this guy a lot better than we know some

1198
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,200
Speaker 1: of these other guys. So to me, I think it's

1199
00:58:27,240 --> 00:58:29,440
Speaker 1: smart that you know, the Bills are definitely one of

1200
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 1: those teams that come down here and enroll their sleeves up.

1201
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:34,439
Speaker 1: They've got a great staff up there. They really they've

1202
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 1: put together a great staff. I've worked with a bunch

1203
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 1: of those guys in that scouting department. They're all really

1204
00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: good at what they do. They kind of got an

1205
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: all star collection of guys up there, and they did.

1206
00:58:43,680 --> 00:58:46,360
Speaker 1: They take advantage of it every year, So I would

1207
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 1: expect a lot a lot of our players going even

1208
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:52,920
Speaker 1: more than you know. We had ninety three players drafted

1209
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:55,120
Speaker 1: last year and ten first round picks. I don't know

1210
00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:57,280
Speaker 1: if we'll get to that ten ten first round pick

1211
00:58:57,360 --> 00:59:00,360
Speaker 1: number this year, but I could see us the passing

1212
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:03,240
Speaker 1: one hundred for the first time, just because these teams

1213
00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 1: really feel like they know our players. With Jim Nagee,

1214
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:09,920
Speaker 1: executive director of the Reese's Senior Bowl ESPN Draft Animlets

1215
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 1: let me ask you about some of the players, some

1216
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:14,920
Speaker 1: of the receivers you had in Mobile this past spring. Jim,

1217
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:19,040
Speaker 1: and I know we talked with you about Claypool. Chase

1218
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:21,360
Speaker 1: Claypool at the combine back of the end of February.

1219
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:24,440
Speaker 1: His stock has done nothing but go up even since then.

1220
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 1: He had such a good combine. You're seeing now a

1221
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 1: first rounder and could he be available at fifty four

1222
00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 1: when the Bills get their first crack Adam, You know,

1223
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 1: the interesting thing John, with the wide up position this

1224
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:38,520
Speaker 1: year is that it is so deep that I think

1225
00:59:38,560 --> 00:59:41,040
Speaker 1: the interesting thing will be when does the run happen?

1226
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:44,360
Speaker 1: You know, if some of these guys don't go off

1227
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 1: the board and the teams and it's getting pushed back

1228
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 1: into the twenties, well then you know, guys like Claypool,

1229
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:51,320
Speaker 1: you know, won't go in the first. I mean, I

1230
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 1: think it's kind of a long shot right now. I

1231
00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 1: think I think there's a better chance of him being

1232
00:59:55,320 --> 00:59:56,920
Speaker 1: there for the bills than there is him going in

1233
00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 1: the first. Even though he had he's had such a

1234
00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:02,680
Speaker 1: great spring. He had a great Senior Bowl. Like you said,

1235
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 1: he was sick four two hundred and thirty eight pounds

1236
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 1: and ran four three eight and four four zero, which

1237
01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:10,240
Speaker 1: is which is crazy. And then you know, I was

1238
01:00:10,280 --> 01:00:11,919
Speaker 1: talking to some of the other day at Notre Dame

1239
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 1: and it made me even think more highly a Chase

1240
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:15,680
Speaker 1: is that, you know, he really kind of put it

1241
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:18,520
Speaker 1: together a senior year. He was a guy that you know,

1242
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 1: coasting isn't the right word, but he wasn't. You know,

1243
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:22,720
Speaker 1: he wasn't. He didn't have a lot of urgency about

1244
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:24,920
Speaker 1: what he was always doing. And he comes out of

1245
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 1: senior year and they felt like he really broke through

1246
01:00:27,600 --> 01:00:29,800
Speaker 1: and like it really clicked for him and he was

1247
01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 1: their best special teams player. I mean, there's just there's

1248
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:35,400
Speaker 1: so much upside with that kid. So in a draft

1249
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:39,080
Speaker 1: where we're talking about Judy and Ruggs and Ceedee Lamb

1250
01:00:39,160 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 1: and these guys in the middle of the first to me,

1251
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:44,040
Speaker 1: there's so much depth, you're better off waiting until you

1252
01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:46,160
Speaker 1: know the second third. You can get a starter into

1253
01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 1: the third round this year. So if the Bills need one,

1254
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:51,520
Speaker 1: that's a great position of need this year because it

1255
01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 1: is so deep. I had one more receiver to ask

1256
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:55,720
Speaker 1: you about, and I think you had him at the

1257
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl Arizona stage. Brandon. I think it's pronounced a yu, right,

1258
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:02,000
Speaker 1: is that? I say, are you? Yeah, Brandon? I you

1259
01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:04,520
Speaker 1: What do you know about him? What did you see

1260
01:01:04,560 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 1: from him in Mobile in February? Yeah, So Brandon Brandon

1261
01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:10,760
Speaker 1: came down here and spent a few days in Mobile,

1262
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:12,880
Speaker 1: but he had a core muscle injury that we flagged

1263
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:15,040
Speaker 1: him with on his in his medical so he couldn't

1264
01:01:15,080 --> 01:01:17,840
Speaker 1: go through practice. But he did spend some time, you know,

1265
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:20,360
Speaker 1: interviewing with teams and spending a lot of good time

1266
01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:22,720
Speaker 1: that way. He's he's really kind of a hot name

1267
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:24,680
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, I think he's got a better

1268
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:27,680
Speaker 1: chance of sneaking into the first than Chase does. He's

1269
01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 1: a he's a really unique body type. The kid is

1270
01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:32,040
Speaker 1: like five to eleven in change, but he's got a

1271
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:35,200
Speaker 1: six nine wingspan. He's got like an eighty one inch

1272
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:38,440
Speaker 1: wingspan or something really abnormal, so a huge catch radius.

1273
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:41,440
Speaker 1: He's really good with the ball in his hands. He's explosive,

1274
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 1: he's got a lot of playmaking ability. So you know,

1275
01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:46,760
Speaker 1: a year after you see the forty nine ers really

1276
01:01:46,840 --> 01:01:49,800
Speaker 1: hit on a guy like Deebo Samuel, everyone's kind of

1277
01:01:49,840 --> 01:01:52,320
Speaker 1: looking for that guy now. Everyone saw how you know,

1278
01:01:52,400 --> 01:01:55,320
Speaker 1: they schemed him up there. Kyle Shanahan steamed up um

1279
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:57,520
Speaker 1: Divo to get him involved as a rookie. I think

1280
01:01:57,600 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 1: that uh Brandon's Brandon is that guy this year. I

1281
01:02:00,440 --> 01:02:02,360
Speaker 1: think a lot of receiver of coaches that I've talked

1282
01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:04,640
Speaker 1: to in the last week, he's kind of their guy.

1283
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:06,840
Speaker 1: He's the guy that the receiver's coaches are all pounding

1284
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:09,440
Speaker 1: the table for because they know they know he's got

1285
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:14,000
Speaker 1: great playmaking ability. We're live on the line with Jim Nagi,

1286
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:16,920
Speaker 1: the executive producer of Reese's Senior Bowl, talking about some

1287
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:20,440
Speaker 1: of the players he had in the Senior Bowl back

1288
01:02:20,520 --> 01:02:23,320
Speaker 1: in February. It seems like a long time ago, Steve,

1289
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:25,320
Speaker 1: I think you have a question. Yeah, I gotta ask him.

1290
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:27,560
Speaker 1: We're up here and we've been talking about this for

1291
01:02:27,640 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 1: weeks about trying to figure out at fifty four. There's

1292
01:02:31,600 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 1: so many things that can happen ahead of the Bills,

1293
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:34,880
Speaker 1: and we're trying to figure out if they got the

1294
01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:37,200
Speaker 1: best player available or whatever, and what would the Bill,

1295
01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:39,760
Speaker 1: what need would fit the Bills. And we keep kind

1296
01:02:39,800 --> 01:02:44,120
Speaker 1: of circling back to cornerback. If there was a first

1297
01:02:44,200 --> 01:02:46,720
Speaker 1: round cornerback or how many first round cornerbacks are there,

1298
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 1: is there a possibility one could slip into the second

1299
01:02:49,120 --> 01:02:51,520
Speaker 1: round and give the Bills a chance of getting a

1300
01:02:51,600 --> 01:02:54,800
Speaker 1: kid that maybe could start in the NFL and further

1301
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 1: strengthen the secondary that really carries the team and drives

1302
01:02:57,760 --> 01:03:00,160
Speaker 1: a really great defense. What about a cornerback in this

1303
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:04,400
Speaker 1: draft of fifty four. Is they're one who may fall? Yeah,

1304
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:06,200
Speaker 1: I think there's a group. I don't think you'll have

1305
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:08,600
Speaker 1: to trade up out of that spot unless unless the

1306
01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:12,080
Speaker 1: Bill staff that's really got enamored with one guy. To me,

1307
01:03:12,440 --> 01:03:14,880
Speaker 1: it's it's there's a huge shelf at that position that

1308
01:03:15,000 --> 01:03:17,760
Speaker 1: the two positions where I think there's a big callum

1309
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:20,600
Speaker 1: cliffs or ledges or um. You know, where there's a

1310
01:03:20,680 --> 01:03:25,600
Speaker 1: drop off defensive tackle after Derek Brown and Javon Kinlaw

1311
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:28,000
Speaker 1: from South Carolina, there's there's a little cliff there, and

1312
01:03:28,080 --> 01:03:32,200
Speaker 1: then at corner. You know, the everyone's consensus top two

1313
01:03:32,280 --> 01:03:35,800
Speaker 1: in one order is Jeff Riocuda from Ohio State and CJ.

1314
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:39,040
Speaker 1: Henderson from Florida. And then there's there's just a glut

1315
01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:41,720
Speaker 1: of name that you know, depending on which team you

1316
01:03:41,840 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 1: talk to. I mean that the order is all over

1317
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:45,960
Speaker 1: the place. You can stick him in a hat or

1318
01:03:46,040 --> 01:03:48,240
Speaker 1: throw darts at a board. I mean they're really they're

1319
01:03:48,240 --> 01:03:50,200
Speaker 1: all good players, but it just depends on if they

1320
01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:52,600
Speaker 1: kind of fit your culture or fit your scheme. So

1321
01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:56,200
Speaker 1: you know, guys like Jeff Gladney from TCU was supposed

1322
01:03:56,200 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 1: to come down here to the Senior Bowl, UM, but

1323
01:03:58,200 --> 01:03:59,760
Speaker 1: I got hurt. He had an injury late in the

1324
01:03:59,840 --> 01:04:02,919
Speaker 1: year that how to get fixed. But super competitive, really

1325
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:06,600
Speaker 1: good ball skills, um. You know, there there's just a

1326
01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:11,200
Speaker 1: number of them. Christin Fulton from from LSU, aj Terrell

1327
01:04:11,320 --> 01:04:13,920
Speaker 1: from Clemson who Davos Queen. He told me he's the

1328
01:04:13,960 --> 01:04:16,520
Speaker 1: best one he's ever had. So there there's gonna be

1329
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:19,040
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a group. I think one of those guys.

1330
01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:22,400
Speaker 1: I think, without talking to those guys in Buffalo about

1331
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:25,360
Speaker 1: the position, I think there'll be one there um that

1332
01:04:25,520 --> 01:04:27,240
Speaker 1: they'll like that they won't have to try it up

1333
01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:30,640
Speaker 1: for Hey, we're with Jim Nagi. He is director of

1334
01:04:30,680 --> 01:04:32,960
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowling He of course is on ESPN the

1335
01:04:33,080 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 1: Draft Analysts. We had Brandon Bean on our show yesterday,

1336
01:04:36,200 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 1: Jim and I made Steve a Bett and the way

1337
01:04:38,600 --> 01:04:42,240
Speaker 1: he sounded, I think, I think the Bean is gonna

1338
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:44,480
Speaker 1: be so aunty about not having a first round pick.

1339
01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 1: He's gonna reevaluate things. Obviously Friday, before round two begins,

1340
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:51,000
Speaker 1: he sounded like he was talking about scenarios that would

1341
01:04:51,000 --> 01:04:53,800
Speaker 1: take to move up into the top, you know, four

1342
01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:55,840
Speaker 1: or five of the second round. What do you think

1343
01:04:55,920 --> 01:04:57,280
Speaker 1: he's looking at? What do you think he has an

1344
01:04:57,320 --> 01:04:59,440
Speaker 1: eye on there? He'd have to give up obviously a

1345
01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:01,480
Speaker 1: second and third and maybe more than that, they move

1346
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 1: up fifteen spots or so, from fifty four to thirty

1347
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:06,880
Speaker 1: five or forty. But what do you think what do

1348
01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:08,600
Speaker 1: you think will float his boat? What do you think

1349
01:05:08,640 --> 01:05:12,880
Speaker 1: gets them excited. You know, that's that's a hard question.

1350
01:05:13,080 --> 01:05:15,920
Speaker 1: But but that is always one of the more fun

1351
01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:19,320
Speaker 1: times of the draft processes. That night, the night between

1352
01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:22,080
Speaker 1: the rounds is a lot of fun because you sit

1353
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:24,360
Speaker 1: there as a group and you're staring at the board

1354
01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:26,680
Speaker 1: and you're seeing what's left after day one and you

1355
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:28,680
Speaker 1: know you're kind of going over, Okay, who's going at

1356
01:05:28,720 --> 01:05:30,360
Speaker 1: that top of two? Is there someone we want to

1357
01:05:30,360 --> 01:05:33,280
Speaker 1: trade up for? Um? And in every team that's really

1358
01:05:33,320 --> 01:05:35,480
Speaker 1: a fun part of it. But the meat of this

1359
01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:37,680
Speaker 1: draft is in the second and the third round. I've

1360
01:05:37,720 --> 01:05:40,280
Speaker 1: talked to a bunch of gms that are actually looking

1361
01:05:40,320 --> 01:05:42,840
Speaker 1: to move out of the first round because and I

1362
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:44,760
Speaker 1: agree with this, I feel like you can get the

1363
01:05:44,840 --> 01:05:47,120
Speaker 1: same player in the forties and fifties that you that

1364
01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:50,040
Speaker 1: you can get in the twenties. Um, it's really it's

1365
01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:52,800
Speaker 1: really different that way. So um, and then and then

1366
01:05:52,840 --> 01:05:54,720
Speaker 1: there's then there's a little drop off after that. The

1367
01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:57,880
Speaker 1: fourth is decent, and then you know as you get later, UM,

1368
01:05:58,120 --> 01:05:59,880
Speaker 1: I know there's there's some feeling that you know that

1369
01:06:00,120 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 1: the later part of the draft isn't as strong, so

1370
01:06:02,520 --> 01:06:05,880
Speaker 1: teams really want to you know, stockpile though second and thirds.

1371
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:09,160
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting, but that happens every year.

1372
01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:11,320
Speaker 1: You kind of stare there and there's always a couple

1373
01:06:11,360 --> 01:06:13,760
Speaker 1: of surprises. You know, there'll be a couple of guys

1374
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:16,200
Speaker 1: that they probably have first round grades on that might

1375
01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:18,760
Speaker 1: slide out, and those are the guys if you're sticking

1376
01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:20,960
Speaker 1: to your board, then you those are the guys you

1377
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:23,200
Speaker 1: really talk about. Okay, now you know we saw this

1378
01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:25,640
Speaker 1: guy as the first round or let's what are we

1379
01:06:25,680 --> 01:06:27,080
Speaker 1: gonna have to do to get up there? And that's

1380
01:06:27,080 --> 01:06:28,920
Speaker 1: when you start getting on the phone with the team's

1381
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 1: drafting up there at the top of day two and

1382
01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:34,400
Speaker 1: just start seeing what it's going to take for them

1383
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:38,160
Speaker 1: to move Talk about the top of day two, what

1384
01:06:38,240 --> 01:06:40,000
Speaker 1: about the top of day one? Do you expect any

1385
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:43,280
Speaker 1: movement in the top five? Is particularly with Tuah and Herbert,

1386
01:06:44,040 --> 01:06:46,640
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, the quarterbacks. I know they're all treated a

1387
01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:49,320
Speaker 1: little bit differently and it depends on who's picking, But

1388
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:51,600
Speaker 1: how do you see those top five, top ten people?

1389
01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:53,360
Speaker 1: Is there gonna be a lot of movement and which

1390
01:06:53,440 --> 01:06:56,800
Speaker 1: how do you see the quarterbacks going? I mean, I

1391
01:06:56,880 --> 01:06:59,160
Speaker 1: could see Detroit really trying to get out of that

1392
01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:02,960
Speaker 1: third pick Um. You know, they they they've got a

1393
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:05,520
Speaker 1: lot of needs. And again just talking about the corners,

1394
01:07:05,560 --> 01:07:08,080
Speaker 1: a lot of people have Jeffrey Akuta, you know, locked

1395
01:07:08,120 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 1: into them the corner from Ohio State. Well, the more

1396
01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:13,920
Speaker 1: people you talk to are on the league, um people,

1397
01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:16,240
Speaker 1: there's a lot of teams that think, um, T. J.

1398
01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:19,120
Speaker 1: Henderson's a better player. So why wouldn't you try to

1399
01:07:19,160 --> 01:07:21,160
Speaker 1: move out of there and get CJ. Henderson at eight

1400
01:07:21,280 --> 01:07:24,200
Speaker 1: or nine or ten? Um? So there there, those are,

1401
01:07:24,360 --> 01:07:27,280
Speaker 1: Those are discussions that are being had. You know, um,

1402
01:07:28,160 --> 01:07:29,760
Speaker 1: you know, you're you you're kind of you have the

1403
01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:31,840
Speaker 1: cards right now on the quarterback thing, because I do

1404
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:35,320
Speaker 1: think Washington will we'll stick put and take Chase Young

1405
01:07:35,680 --> 01:07:38,680
Speaker 1: the defense event from Ohio State, and then the quarterback thing.

1406
01:07:38,760 --> 01:07:41,000
Speaker 1: Steve is that's the that's the biggest intrigue in the

1407
01:07:41,080 --> 01:07:43,960
Speaker 1: sole draft is you know, where does two A go? What? What?

1408
01:07:44,120 --> 01:07:46,280
Speaker 1: How does this injury affect where he gets? Where he

1409
01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:49,280
Speaker 1: gets taken? Where does where does Jordan Love go? I mean,

1410
01:07:49,360 --> 01:07:51,200
Speaker 1: I think Justin Herbert is going to go in the

1411
01:07:51,280 --> 01:07:54,440
Speaker 1: top five somewhere. Um, but where do those two other

1412
01:07:54,520 --> 01:07:57,320
Speaker 1: guys go? How much does the injury affect to uh?

1413
01:07:57,400 --> 01:08:01,480
Speaker 1: In how do teams reconcile that difference? In tape from

1414
01:08:01,520 --> 01:08:05,400
Speaker 1: eighteen to nineteen on Jordan's Love, He's got vast talent.

1415
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:08,680
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy has talented off the chart, but

1416
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:11,760
Speaker 1: there were some head scratcher plays in nineteen and the

1417
01:08:11,880 --> 01:08:14,480
Speaker 1: interception numbers were up, So he's a little bit of

1418
01:08:14,520 --> 01:08:16,840
Speaker 1: a polarizing guy. So I just can't wait to see

1419
01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:20,000
Speaker 1: where those two guys end up. I got one more

1420
01:08:20,040 --> 01:08:22,360
Speaker 1: guy to ask you about, and he was a quarterback.

1421
01:08:22,720 --> 01:08:25,280
Speaker 1: You hit him the twenty nineteen senior Bill Jarret's didn't

1422
01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:29,120
Speaker 1: out of Auburn. Do you think the Patriots can realistically

1423
01:08:29,240 --> 01:08:31,400
Speaker 1: go with him? And you you were you worked with

1424
01:08:31,479 --> 01:08:33,439
Speaker 1: the Patriots as a scout for a while. What do

1425
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:35,640
Speaker 1: they first haven't had to look for a quarterback in

1426
01:08:35,680 --> 01:08:38,000
Speaker 1: twenty years, But what do you think matters to them

1427
01:08:38,040 --> 01:08:42,120
Speaker 1: in quarterback evaluation? Yeah? I think I think he will

1428
01:08:42,200 --> 01:08:44,479
Speaker 1: get the shot. You know, knowing those guys up there,

1429
01:08:44,560 --> 01:08:47,680
Speaker 1: they really liked Jared a lot. I mean, yeah, I

1430
01:08:47,760 --> 01:08:49,640
Speaker 1: tweeted something out a couple of months ago when it

1431
01:08:49,720 --> 01:08:52,479
Speaker 1: was when Tom left that you know, Jared should be

1432
01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:55,000
Speaker 1: the heir apparent. He is not. He is not a

1433
01:08:55,080 --> 01:08:57,679
Speaker 1: typical fourth round pick. He is so much more talented

1434
01:08:57,720 --> 01:09:00,559
Speaker 1: than a typical fourth rounder. If you just stack up,

1435
01:09:00,800 --> 01:09:03,600
Speaker 1: you know, talent on talent, he should have been a

1436
01:09:03,680 --> 01:09:05,960
Speaker 1: late first round pick or mid first round pick. Year

1437
01:09:06,040 --> 01:09:08,599
Speaker 1: before he just you know, they struggled a little bit

1438
01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:12,040
Speaker 1: offensively there at Auburn his junior year. Um, you know,

1439
01:09:12,320 --> 01:09:14,760
Speaker 1: they had their offensive coordinator took a took a head

1440
01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:17,400
Speaker 1: job somewhere, and Gus Melson took over the play calling

1441
01:09:17,479 --> 01:09:20,000
Speaker 1: for the bowl game. And you know, Jared put up

1442
01:09:20,040 --> 01:09:22,680
Speaker 1: fifty six points in the first half against Perdue, which

1443
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:25,799
Speaker 1: is an all time Bowl record. So he's he throws

1444
01:09:25,840 --> 01:09:28,599
Speaker 1: one of the prettiest balls you'll ever see. He's accurate

1445
01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:33,000
Speaker 1: to all levels. He's extremely mature. He's a total Jim Rat.

1446
01:09:33,520 --> 01:09:35,639
Speaker 1: He's been through a lot of adversity in his life,

1447
01:09:35,840 --> 01:09:38,280
Speaker 1: so he's he's you know, he's gone through that. He's

1448
01:09:38,360 --> 01:09:41,920
Speaker 1: mentally tough. Um. He looks great in the preseason, and

1449
01:09:42,240 --> 01:09:45,320
Speaker 1: but that's the you know, preseason's preseason. So now they

1450
01:09:45,400 --> 01:09:47,080
Speaker 1: just gotta they just gotta let him go, you know,

1451
01:09:47,120 --> 01:09:49,200
Speaker 1: and he's probably gonna have his his rough patches like

1452
01:09:49,320 --> 01:09:53,400
Speaker 1: all first year quarterbacks do. Um, but he's he's more

1453
01:09:53,479 --> 01:09:57,400
Speaker 1: than talented enough to to be the quarterback of the future.

1454
01:09:57,600 --> 01:09:59,680
Speaker 1: And I'll just going back to my time. There are

1455
01:09:59,720 --> 01:10:03,320
Speaker 1: the guy as we drafted, like Matt Castle, Brian Hoyer,

1456
01:10:03,760 --> 01:10:07,400
Speaker 1: Jacobe Brisette, Jimmy Garoppolo. I've scouted all those guys and

1457
01:10:07,439 --> 01:10:09,479
Speaker 1: they've all started at you know, at times in their

1458
01:10:09,520 --> 01:10:11,040
Speaker 1: career and a lot of them a lot of games,

1459
01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:14,640
Speaker 1: and just from a baseline talent standpoint, Jared Stidham is

1460
01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:19,120
Speaker 1: more talented than all those guys. Wow, that's impressive. Hey, Jim,

1461
01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:20,920
Speaker 1: I have a great week next week, have fun on

1462
01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:24,439
Speaker 1: ESPN and hopefully you stay healthy and we'll get to

1463
01:10:24,479 --> 01:10:26,800
Speaker 1: talk to you sometime in the next well before the

1464
01:10:26,840 --> 01:10:29,680
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl next year. Thanks very much, I hope so

1465
01:10:29,880 --> 01:10:31,800
Speaker 1: thanks for having me on. Guys, stay safe up there.

1466
01:10:32,880 --> 01:10:36,800
Speaker 1: Thank you. Jim Magi, executive director of Reese's Senior Bowl.

1467
01:10:36,880 --> 01:10:38,680
Speaker 1: He's gonna be on the ESPN next week as a

1468
01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:42,200
Speaker 1: draft analyst. Spent eighteen years in the NFL as a scout. Yes,

1469
01:10:42,320 --> 01:10:46,000
Speaker 1: or Steven did that just kind of stab you in

1470
01:10:46,040 --> 01:10:49,000
Speaker 1: the heart when he said Jared stid him well, more

1471
01:10:49,040 --> 01:10:51,800
Speaker 1: talented than any player they've at that position. They've drafted

1472
01:10:51,880 --> 01:10:54,320
Speaker 1: in twenty years. Um, I gotta think of it. No,

1473
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:58,000
Speaker 1: not a stab in the heart. We'll see. I mean

1474
01:10:58,080 --> 01:11:00,560
Speaker 1: he can more talented, he said. I mean, so what,

1475
01:11:00,720 --> 01:11:03,599
Speaker 1: He's more talented than Brian Hoyer, Big deal. He's more

1476
01:11:03,640 --> 01:11:06,880
Speaker 1: talented than Matt Castle. Again, big deal. More talented than

1477
01:11:06,960 --> 01:11:10,120
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo. That that would be interesting to see. I

1478
01:11:10,120 --> 01:11:12,280
Speaker 1: don't know if that's true. He's a scout, he might know.

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Speaker 1: And again, you know, scouts look at guys, they look

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Speaker 1: at traits, and you know, yeah, because he fit the position,

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01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:20,240
Speaker 1: we'll see. Did his stab you in the heart? A

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01:11:20,320 --> 01:11:23,599
Speaker 1: little bit? Except except for the fact that I called

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01:11:23,640 --> 01:11:28,760
Speaker 1: it already here, you're gonna be a winning Listen, it's

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01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:31,080
Speaker 1: not gonna be great. They're not gonna be great. The

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01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:33,760
Speaker 1: thing I had on the update about the sports books

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01:11:33,800 --> 01:11:36,280
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas, they put the Patriots are gonna win

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Speaker 1: eight and a half games, the Bills are gonna win

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01:11:37,880 --> 01:11:41,120
Speaker 1: night eight half. Is not great. Wait a minute. They

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01:11:41,200 --> 01:11:44,200
Speaker 1: had the Bills winning six last year. That's right. That's

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01:11:44,240 --> 01:11:47,120
Speaker 1: a sports book. But I get it. I get it.

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01:11:47,280 --> 01:11:50,360
Speaker 1: They're seeing what you see and I'm seeing what I feel.

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01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:55,280
Speaker 1: I just I will say this, uh, and I said

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01:11:55,320 --> 01:11:59,880
Speaker 1: it before to the Patriots drafted quarterbacks throughout Tom Brady's career.

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01:12:00,160 --> 01:12:02,599
Speaker 1: You remember all the guys like Matt, like Matt Castle,

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01:12:02,640 --> 01:12:05,799
Speaker 1: like Horrior, like Jimmy Garoppolo, and like this Jared Stidham.

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Speaker 1: And there's another guy they had in there as well,

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01:12:07,800 --> 01:12:12,120
Speaker 1: big tall guy, a second round pick. Yeah, yeah, the knucklehead.

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01:12:12,400 --> 01:12:15,320
Speaker 1: Yeah I got. I started in Michigan and wound up

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01:12:15,360 --> 01:12:18,960
Speaker 1: in Arkansas. Yeah, I can't remember anybody, So all those guys.

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Speaker 1: So here's my my question was. My point was that

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01:12:22,120 --> 01:12:25,760
Speaker 1: the Patriots drafted those guys. There's no way any of

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01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:28,680
Speaker 1: those guys were gonna take Tom Brady's job. But what

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01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:32,120
Speaker 1: the Patriots got good at was evaluating and finding out

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01:12:32,479 --> 01:12:35,439
Speaker 1: how those guys were when they got in their building,

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01:12:36,080 --> 01:12:38,240
Speaker 1: where they were right, where they were wrong about him

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01:12:38,680 --> 01:12:42,320
Speaker 1: and short. I think the Patriots really honed there. Because

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01:12:42,360 --> 01:12:45,000
Speaker 1: of the stability they have in that building, they were

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01:12:45,040 --> 01:12:49,519
Speaker 1: able to hone their their scouting ability at that position.

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01:12:49,880 --> 01:12:52,200
Speaker 1: They I think they know how to pick quarterbacks now.

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01:12:52,240 --> 01:12:54,519
Speaker 1: And Mallett is the guy you're talking to, ask the

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01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:58,320
Speaker 1: guy right, and regis that guy. He couldn't even keep

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01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:00,280
Speaker 1: his head out straight. They didn't there I think it

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01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:01,800
Speaker 1: was part of the learning. I think it's part of

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01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:03,240
Speaker 1: the learning curve. I get a guy got caught up

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01:13:03,240 --> 01:13:05,800
Speaker 1: in Jacobs had a similar learning curve. I mean, well,

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01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:08,080
Speaker 1: I think I'm thinking, no, no, no, no, not his

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01:13:08,280 --> 01:13:10,320
Speaker 1: not his learning curve. I'm talking about their learning curve.

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01:13:10,360 --> 01:13:11,800
Speaker 1: I think that was just a guy they pulled out

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01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:13,720
Speaker 1: and listen to pull out. He's got the traits. Let's

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01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:14,960
Speaker 1: see what he can do, is see if we can

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01:13:15,040 --> 01:13:17,240
Speaker 1: mold him. And the guy who's a knucklehead, you can't.

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01:13:17,360 --> 01:13:20,759
Speaker 1: You know, They've tried that with Antonio Brown, with Josh Gordon.

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01:13:20,800 --> 01:13:22,559
Speaker 1: They do that at other positions as well. But I'm

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01:13:22,560 --> 01:13:25,760
Speaker 1: just saying they drafted a lot of quarterbacks over the

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01:13:25,840 --> 01:13:28,680
Speaker 1: last twenty years, and they got the same people in

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01:13:28,760 --> 01:13:31,080
Speaker 1: the building evaluating them. I think that gives them an

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01:13:31,160 --> 01:13:34,679
Speaker 1: edge basically, and edge over the Bills and everybody else

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01:13:34,720 --> 01:13:38,439
Speaker 1: forever and ever, well until they change the people in

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01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:41,639
Speaker 1: that building. Yeah, that doesn't mean any but nobody else

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01:13:41,680 --> 01:13:43,560
Speaker 1: knows how to evaluate a player. That's not That's not

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01:13:43,640 --> 01:13:46,680
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Here's the other thing impressive. I mean,

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01:13:46,760 --> 01:13:49,559
Speaker 1: that guy got my attention. Are talking about Barrett Stidham

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01:13:49,600 --> 01:13:52,240
Speaker 1: Jim Nage, how about calling the Bill Scouting staff an

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01:13:52,240 --> 01:13:55,600
Speaker 1: all star crew. I don't think there's adequate appreciation for

1535
01:13:55,720 --> 01:13:58,080
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bill Scouting Steff he said they're all stars.

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01:13:58,439 --> 01:14:01,040
Speaker 1: You know, he's probably right, by the way, we need

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01:14:01,080 --> 01:14:03,479
Speaker 1: to get some of those all stars, Dan Morgan, et cetera,

1538
01:14:03,560 --> 01:14:05,240
Speaker 1: and some of those guys, we need to get them

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01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:07,200
Speaker 1: on our show. But they are all stars. According to

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01:14:07,320 --> 01:14:10,680
Speaker 1: an eighteen year NFL scout who's worked with many of them,

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01:14:10,720 --> 01:14:13,519
Speaker 1: and a guy who runs the Senior Bowl, that was impressive. True. True,

1542
01:14:13,520 --> 01:14:14,920
Speaker 1: Because we sit here, you and I sit here and

1543
01:14:15,000 --> 01:14:18,720
Speaker 1: talk about Brandon Bean and we talked about Sean McDermott.

1544
01:14:19,080 --> 01:14:23,160
Speaker 1: But all those guys behind him, like Malik and Dan

1545
01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:29,960
Speaker 1: and you know and Joe, Joe, Shane, all these guys,

1546
01:14:29,960 --> 01:14:32,880
Speaker 1: all those they're killing it. Those are the guys responsible

1547
01:14:32,960 --> 01:14:35,120
Speaker 1: for the guys that putting that board up and saying, hey, Brandon,

1548
01:14:35,200 --> 01:14:37,479
Speaker 1: this is the guy. Or you know that those guys

1549
01:14:37,560 --> 01:14:40,080
Speaker 1: that that whole crew in there is going way under

1550
01:14:40,080 --> 01:14:41,599
Speaker 1: the raider or a lot of like the medical crew

1551
01:14:41,680 --> 01:14:43,760
Speaker 1: we talked about it yesterday and having a team that's

1552
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:47,799
Speaker 1: that's so healthy all the time. I mean, they I'm surprised.

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01:14:47,840 --> 01:14:51,040
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised. It's nice to hear somebody besides you

1554
01:14:51,160 --> 01:14:53,840
Speaker 1: and me who kind of you know, got some skin

1555
01:14:53,920 --> 01:14:55,280
Speaker 1: in the game and say, yeah, you know what, those

1556
01:14:55,320 --> 01:14:57,560
Speaker 1: guys are really really doing well over there on the

1557
01:14:57,600 --> 01:15:01,760
Speaker 1: scouting side of it, that they're here. Yeah, it's fun

1558
01:15:01,840 --> 01:15:03,800
Speaker 1: to hear. Yeah, all right, we got a break here,

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01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:05,479
Speaker 1: We're coming back. We gotta really. I think it's a

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01:15:05,520 --> 01:15:08,599
Speaker 1: good Twitter poll and we're getting good response on Twitter,

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01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:10,400
Speaker 1: and we'll get to those on the tweet sheet. But

1562
01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:12,479
Speaker 1: you can call us up. I love to hear your voice.

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01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:15,000
Speaker 1: Give us your response to this. What should be the

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01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:17,880
Speaker 1: NFL's approach to the twenty twenty seasons. Should they shorten

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01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:21,320
Speaker 1: the season, Should they have games with no fans and attendance,

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01:15:21,560 --> 01:15:23,439
Speaker 1: Should they have no games at all until the virus

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01:15:23,560 --> 01:15:25,720
Speaker 1: is under control? Something else? Give us a call eight

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Speaker 1: three fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

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01:15:29,120 --> 01:15:31,880
Speaker 1: two five fifty. We will reset the Twitter poll, we

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01:15:31,960 --> 01:15:33,920
Speaker 1: will go to the tweet sheet, maybe take some phone

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01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:36,559
Speaker 1: calls when we come back. One Bill Slide presented by

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01:15:36,640 --> 01:15:40,000
Speaker 1: Kalida Health Radio Only today. This is Buffalo Bill's radio

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01:15:48,360 --> 01:15:50,639
Speaker 1: time on One Bill slide. We're halfway through the show.

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01:15:50,680 --> 01:15:52,559
Speaker 1: Happy to have you with us here today. Radio Only

1575
01:15:52,920 --> 01:15:54,800
Speaker 1: just can't get our group back together again. I don't

1576
01:15:54,840 --> 01:15:57,519
Speaker 1: think we're allowed to buy New York state law. And

1577
01:15:57,640 --> 01:16:00,639
Speaker 1: in fact, the governor today extended the New York until

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01:16:01,000 --> 01:16:03,320
Speaker 1: May fifteen, so it'll be a while. Radio Only, happy

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01:16:03,360 --> 01:16:04,839
Speaker 1: to do it, Happy to have it in the audience,

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01:16:05,120 --> 01:16:06,720
Speaker 1: Happy to have you give us a call eight oh

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01:16:06,840 --> 01:16:09,599
Speaker 1: three oh five fifty and toll free from outside Buffalo

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01:16:09,680 --> 01:16:12,559
Speaker 1: one eight eight five fifty two five fifty. I think

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01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:15,120
Speaker 1: this is an excellent topic and excellent Twitter pole. Steve.

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01:16:15,320 --> 01:16:19,120
Speaker 1: The NFL considering contingency plans for the season. What should

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01:16:19,160 --> 01:16:23,519
Speaker 1: the league do? Should they shorten a season? Seven percent?

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01:16:23,640 --> 01:16:26,120
Speaker 1: That's all seven percent of I responded say, Nancy answer,

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01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:29,560
Speaker 1: Should they put a season with no fans in attendance?

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01:16:30,120 --> 01:16:32,200
Speaker 1: Fifty percent say that's the right answer. I don't know

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01:16:32,240 --> 01:16:34,599
Speaker 1: about that. Should they have no games at all until

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01:16:34,640 --> 01:16:37,000
Speaker 1: the virus is under control? Twenty eight percent say that,

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01:16:37,520 --> 01:16:40,519
Speaker 1: fifteen percent say something else eight hundred thirty two votes

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01:16:40,560 --> 01:16:45,200
Speaker 1: in so far, it's interesting that fans are half of

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01:16:45,280 --> 01:16:47,240
Speaker 1: them anyway on our Twitter pole, and maybe that's not

1594
01:16:47,439 --> 01:16:50,080
Speaker 1: you know, an accurate representation. But half of them are

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01:16:50,160 --> 01:16:53,600
Speaker 1: willing to have a season without fans in attendance. I

1596
01:16:53,680 --> 01:16:58,080
Speaker 1: find that interesting, Steve. Yeah, at least those fifty, they

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01:16:58,080 --> 01:16:59,720
Speaker 1: still want the season to go on. They just don't

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01:16:59,760 --> 01:17:01,960
Speaker 1: want to have to show up. I mean, right, yeah,

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01:17:02,520 --> 01:17:05,240
Speaker 1: I mean that's basically what they're saying. And I get it.

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01:17:07,960 --> 01:17:09,840
Speaker 1: Let the league take the risks, you know, let me

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01:17:09,920 --> 01:17:12,000
Speaker 1: just sit at home and watch, give me some entertainment

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01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:14,240
Speaker 1: and uh and go with it. It's just it's it

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01:17:14,360 --> 01:17:16,200
Speaker 1: shouldn't be that big a risk. If they can figure

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01:17:16,240 --> 01:17:18,880
Speaker 1: out the logistics that Murph and all the quarantining and

1605
01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:21,320
Speaker 1: testing and all that stuff and get that ironed out.

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01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:23,200
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if the league was very willing

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01:17:23,240 --> 01:17:26,680
Speaker 1: to do that given the TV revenues. But it's a

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01:17:26,720 --> 01:17:28,600
Speaker 1: long way off. It's a long way off. Yeah, we

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01:17:28,640 --> 01:17:30,320
Speaker 1: don't have to make this decision today, but we'd like

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01:17:30,400 --> 01:17:33,639
Speaker 1: to hear your decision. You're leaning anyway today on the show,

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01:17:33,960 --> 01:17:35,960
Speaker 1: give us a call eight O three five fifty or

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01:17:36,240 --> 01:17:39,240
Speaker 1: outside Buffalo twelve three at one eight eight five fifty

1613
01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:41,560
Speaker 1: two five fifty. You can send it into tweet to

1614
01:17:41,680 --> 01:17:44,519
Speaker 1: one Bills Live. Let's check the tweet sheet rout here

1615
01:17:44,600 --> 01:17:48,240
Speaker 1: by Corgan Moving Systems, the official moving systems of the

1616
01:17:48,280 --> 01:17:49,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. What do you have on the tweet sheets?

1617
01:17:49,920 --> 01:17:52,920
Speaker 1: To what should the NFL's contingency Plan B for the

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01:17:52,960 --> 01:17:56,240
Speaker 1: twenty twenty season, Tiffany says this, I love nothing more

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01:17:56,280 --> 01:17:58,519
Speaker 1: than sitting in my seats at the stadium. There's no

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01:17:58,640 --> 01:18:03,799
Speaker 1: better experience than attend our home games. The atmosphere is electric. However,

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01:18:04,040 --> 01:18:06,360
Speaker 1: I would rather be able to watch games from home

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01:18:06,800 --> 01:18:11,360
Speaker 1: than having the season canceled. Everyone's safety is the main priority,

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01:18:11,479 --> 01:18:13,400
Speaker 1: everyone other than the players and coaches. I guess she's

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01:18:13,439 --> 01:18:16,120
Speaker 1: talking about but yeah, but maybe they thought maybe that's

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01:18:16,160 --> 01:18:19,080
Speaker 1: where the fifty comes from. Huh right, the other half

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01:18:19,080 --> 01:18:23,720
Speaker 1: of the of the players and the coaches, don't. No,

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01:18:23,920 --> 01:18:27,000
Speaker 1: I'm with her. I mean, everybody loves to be there.

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01:18:27,080 --> 01:18:29,599
Speaker 1: It's a fun day at the stadium, the tail gaining,

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01:18:29,600 --> 01:18:33,240
Speaker 1: it's an all day affair. But when push comes to show,

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01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:34,760
Speaker 1: you still want those games to be going on. You

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01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:36,519
Speaker 1: want them to be available even if you can't go

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01:18:36,640 --> 01:18:39,439
Speaker 1: to the games. And let's space of the vast majority

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01:18:39,439 --> 01:18:41,360
Speaker 1: of Bills fans can't go to the games every week.

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01:18:41,960 --> 01:18:46,400
Speaker 1: Most well, everybody watches these games on TV. That wouldn't

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01:18:46,479 --> 01:18:49,479
Speaker 1: change too much for everybody. Certainly that the atmosphere of

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01:18:49,479 --> 01:18:51,559
Speaker 1: the stadum wouldn't appear to be the same because there's

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01:18:51,600 --> 01:18:54,600
Speaker 1: no fans, and the broadcast would reflect it. But the

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01:18:54,680 --> 01:18:56,519
Speaker 1: game is what's important, and I think a lot of

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01:18:56,560 --> 01:18:59,400
Speaker 1: people would watch, and I think people would rather see

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01:18:59,479 --> 01:19:03,040
Speaker 1: the game go on without fans than to have the

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01:19:03,080 --> 01:19:06,479
Speaker 1: whole thing canceled or even a shortened season. I guess so.

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01:19:06,680 --> 01:19:10,799
Speaker 1: I do think those broadcasts will be missing something, the energy,

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01:19:11,240 --> 01:19:14,519
Speaker 1: the color, the emotion, the noise of the fans. Somebody

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01:19:15,000 --> 01:19:16,840
Speaker 1: senting the tweet about they can pipe in noise. Yeah,

1645
01:19:16,880 --> 01:19:19,360
Speaker 1: they could artificial noise. They can pipe in the laugh track.

1646
01:19:19,439 --> 01:19:24,400
Speaker 1: You know, somebody fumbles it. But I think you'll miss

1647
01:19:24,479 --> 01:19:27,120
Speaker 1: something without that energy that comes from the fans. Players

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01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:29,760
Speaker 1: There are a certain extent, but even television viewers will

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01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:31,360
Speaker 1: miss that, I believe, Steve, and they're one of the

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01:19:31,479 --> 01:19:33,560
Speaker 1: things you know this Murph. I mean, I worked with

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01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:38,080
Speaker 1: CBS for twenty twenty one years, and when you show

1652
01:19:38,160 --> 01:19:42,080
Speaker 1: an NFL game, part of the deal with the director

1653
01:19:42,120 --> 01:19:46,040
Speaker 1: and the producer and the guys in the booth, they

1654
01:19:46,200 --> 01:19:48,200
Speaker 1: know that the crowd is a lot of what makes

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01:19:48,240 --> 01:19:51,960
Speaker 1: it work. Yeah, and when a touchdown happens, you'll notice

1656
01:19:52,680 --> 01:19:55,960
Speaker 1: the play by play guy shuts up, the analyst shuts up,

1657
01:19:56,240 --> 01:19:58,960
Speaker 1: and all you do is see different shots of the

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01:19:59,080 --> 01:20:02,280
Speaker 1: home crowd reacting if it's a you know, if your

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01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:05,200
Speaker 1: team scores, especially at a hometown, when the home home game,

1660
01:20:05,439 --> 01:20:08,719
Speaker 1: When your home team scores, they show the people cheering

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01:20:08,960 --> 01:20:12,559
Speaker 1: all over the stadium, the sidelines, guys slapping high fives,

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01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:15,840
Speaker 1: the stands, people jumping up and down. It's just it's

1663
01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:19,320
Speaker 1: broadcast one oh one. When the home team scores, you

1664
01:20:19,479 --> 01:20:22,759
Speaker 1: lay out and the director in the trucks starts showing

1665
01:20:22,800 --> 01:20:28,919
Speaker 1: you everything that's being celebrated, the fans, the confetti, the band, whatever.

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01:20:29,760 --> 01:20:32,400
Speaker 1: That's just part of it. There's a way if no

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01:20:32,560 --> 01:20:34,720
Speaker 1: fans of it. You're right, Stephen, and part of the

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01:20:34,760 --> 01:20:36,800
Speaker 1: broadcast too. And I get it might have to change.

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01:20:36,800 --> 01:20:39,120
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I wouldn't stand for it, but there

1670
01:20:39,160 --> 01:20:43,080
Speaker 1: are certain shots that are instantly identifiable. You watch football.

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01:20:43,080 --> 01:20:45,479
Speaker 1: I watch a lot of football. Certain times they'll take

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01:20:45,560 --> 01:20:47,920
Speaker 1: a shot of a fan or a crowd scene and

1673
01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:50,920
Speaker 1: you know exactly where it is. You know exactly where

1674
01:20:50,920 --> 01:20:52,840
Speaker 1: the game is, even if you turn down in the middle,

1675
01:20:52,880 --> 01:20:56,000
Speaker 1: like in Buffalo, they'll always show Elvis, you know, in

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01:20:56,080 --> 01:20:58,479
Speaker 1: his end zone seats with the phony guitar. They'll show

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01:20:58,520 --> 01:21:01,400
Speaker 1: the chefs. But every stadium has that, you know, the

1678
01:21:01,479 --> 01:21:04,759
Speaker 1: fireman in New York City at Jets games. Every stadium

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01:21:04,840 --> 01:21:08,040
Speaker 1: has a certain look and whether it's fan it is

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01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:10,439
Speaker 1: fans for the most part. How the fans dress, how

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01:21:10,520 --> 01:21:12,920
Speaker 1: they sound, how they act. That I think will be

1682
01:21:13,000 --> 01:21:14,880
Speaker 1: missed if the NFL as he goes without fans. And

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01:21:14,960 --> 01:21:17,280
Speaker 1: I know, I let me say again, I appreciate that

1684
01:21:17,439 --> 01:21:18,880
Speaker 1: might be the way to go, but I do think

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01:21:18,960 --> 01:21:21,639
Speaker 1: something will be missing from from the telecast. I do. Yeah,

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01:21:21,840 --> 01:21:24,200
Speaker 1: it'll be different, no question, But I'm with you, Murph.

1687
01:21:24,680 --> 01:21:29,400
Speaker 1: I would be hard pressed to be shown without graphics

1688
01:21:29,520 --> 01:21:31,680
Speaker 1: or anything. And an aerial view of any stadium in

1689
01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:34,639
Speaker 1: the NFL, I think I can name it. You know, yeah,

1690
01:21:35,200 --> 01:21:36,760
Speaker 1: you know what they look like, you know what it's

1691
01:21:36,840 --> 01:21:38,920
Speaker 1: like inside of it. You know what the fans are like,

1692
01:21:39,080 --> 01:21:40,720
Speaker 1: you know how they enter an egret. You know, I

1693
01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:43,559
Speaker 1: even know what the outside parking lots and stuff are

1694
01:21:43,600 --> 01:21:45,280
Speaker 1: like when you walk up to that place. You know,

1695
01:21:46,920 --> 01:21:49,240
Speaker 1: they're all kind of the same, but each one is different,

1696
01:21:49,400 --> 01:21:53,519
Speaker 1: you know, So there is gonna be something that goes away.

1697
01:21:54,439 --> 01:21:58,400
Speaker 1: And like you said that, I don't know how or

1698
01:21:58,520 --> 01:22:01,120
Speaker 1: why it would, but you're right. It may never recover

1699
01:22:01,240 --> 01:22:04,560
Speaker 1: the same way again. You know, it may not be

1700
01:22:04,800 --> 01:22:08,280
Speaker 1: ever be the same. If you start having games without fans,

1701
01:22:10,720 --> 01:22:13,920
Speaker 1: you know, be careful what you ask for, you know. Um. Then,

1702
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:17,439
Speaker 1: in my opinion, what should the lead's contingency plan be

1703
01:22:17,640 --> 01:22:19,960
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty season? Give us a call lines open,

1704
01:22:20,240 --> 01:22:24,400
Speaker 1: eight fifty toll free one eight eight five fifty two

1705
01:22:24,520 --> 01:22:27,240
Speaker 1: five fifty which should it be a shortened season, no fans?

1706
01:22:27,240 --> 01:22:29,200
Speaker 1: Should it be no games at all until the virus

1707
01:22:29,280 --> 01:22:32,600
Speaker 1: is under control? On our tweet sheet from Bill's and

1708
01:22:32,680 --> 01:22:36,000
Speaker 1: Mets fan says probably all of the above. I hope

1709
01:22:36,040 --> 01:22:38,160
Speaker 1: that the world will be somewhat factor normal by the

1710
01:22:38,200 --> 01:22:40,479
Speaker 1: fall because Bill's football is so important to US fans,

1711
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:44,479
Speaker 1: but everyone's health and safety comes first, follow the lead

1712
01:22:44,520 --> 01:22:48,240
Speaker 1: of medical experts they know best. Think that's a pretty

1713
01:22:48,439 --> 01:22:51,639
Speaker 1: uh adult like view of it, quite frankly, you know, yeah,

1714
01:22:52,080 --> 01:22:54,719
Speaker 1: I think that I think the basic questions this, Murph,

1715
01:22:55,600 --> 01:23:01,479
Speaker 1: what will the experts say is safe to do? Can

1716
01:23:01,560 --> 01:23:05,280
Speaker 1: you get enough? Can you get of NFL game going

1717
01:23:06,040 --> 01:23:08,759
Speaker 1: safely with all the people that it takes without fans.

1718
01:23:09,040 --> 01:23:10,840
Speaker 1: You know, there ever whatever a couple hundred people in

1719
01:23:10,880 --> 01:23:13,080
Speaker 1: the stadium that it takes to do that without fans.

1720
01:23:13,360 --> 01:23:16,080
Speaker 1: Can you do that safely? If you can, you can

1721
01:23:16,160 --> 01:23:18,840
Speaker 1: bet it'll happen. But the medical experts are really going

1722
01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:21,000
Speaker 1: to hold all the cards and if they say no,

1723
01:23:21,280 --> 01:23:24,360
Speaker 1: you can't. We can't risk that, or we can't get

1724
01:23:24,400 --> 01:23:26,599
Speaker 1: it done, because you could if you could get all

1725
01:23:26,640 --> 01:23:29,759
Speaker 1: these people virus free, or make sure that they were quarantined,

1726
01:23:29,880 --> 01:23:31,760
Speaker 1: or we could all make sure if we had enough

1727
01:23:31,840 --> 01:23:34,680
Speaker 1: testing and accurate and quickly enough testing, yeah we might

1728
01:23:34,720 --> 01:23:36,519
Speaker 1: be able to do it. But that stuff's not available.

1729
01:23:36,840 --> 01:23:39,360
Speaker 1: All of that is on the table and it's gonna come.

1730
01:23:39,520 --> 01:23:43,240
Speaker 1: That's gonna be the real question, Murph, Right, what's safe

1731
01:23:44,040 --> 01:23:46,519
Speaker 1: and what can they get done within those boundaries? And

1732
01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:48,439
Speaker 1: we have no idea what either one of those you know,

1733
01:23:48,800 --> 01:23:52,080
Speaker 1: and you know, I know every sport, major sport is different.

1734
01:23:52,640 --> 01:23:56,479
Speaker 1: But teams are taking those leagues are taking those first

1735
01:23:56,600 --> 01:23:59,600
Speaker 1: few steps towards returning right. The PGA Tour as a

1736
01:23:59,640 --> 01:24:03,080
Speaker 1: schedule will now set to start in mid June. Hockey

1737
01:24:03,160 --> 01:24:06,760
Speaker 1: and professional basketball still hanging out there. Nobody knows what's

1738
01:24:06,760 --> 01:24:09,120
Speaker 1: gonna happen to college football. But I think, well, let

1739
01:24:09,160 --> 01:24:11,639
Speaker 1: me let me read this tweet because Jack A said

1740
01:24:11,680 --> 01:24:14,760
Speaker 1: this other he says business as usual at least for now.

1741
01:24:15,080 --> 01:24:17,519
Speaker 1: There's time until decisions need to be made. If it's

1742
01:24:17,520 --> 01:24:21,040
Speaker 1: not clear by late July, they should shorten delay camps.

1743
01:24:21,160 --> 01:24:24,280
Speaker 1: That said, the NFL needs to have contingency plans, so

1744
01:24:24,400 --> 01:24:27,679
Speaker 1: make three schedules. A sixteen game start on time, fourteen

1745
01:24:27,760 --> 01:24:31,080
Speaker 1: games start in October, or twelve game season puts back further.

1746
01:24:31,360 --> 01:24:33,040
Speaker 1: There's a lot to chew on there. I think the

1747
01:24:33,160 --> 01:24:35,880
Speaker 1: end of that about three different schedules, it is kind

1748
01:24:35,920 --> 01:24:38,040
Speaker 1: of the model that people are talking about. The NFL

1749
01:24:38,520 --> 01:24:40,960
Speaker 1: is likely to release on maynight. They may even announce

1750
01:24:41,040 --> 01:24:43,360
Speaker 1: it it and I think they will announce it as

1751
01:24:43,400 --> 01:24:46,360
Speaker 1: according to Chris Mortenson, as a sixteen game schedule, but

1752
01:24:46,439 --> 01:24:49,040
Speaker 1: it may be tailored so that, yeah, at sixteen games,

1753
01:24:49,080 --> 01:24:51,000
Speaker 1: but if you have to lose these top four games,

1754
01:24:51,160 --> 01:24:53,120
Speaker 1: we could work with that. Right, maybe no division games

1755
01:24:53,160 --> 01:24:55,519
Speaker 1: in the first four right exactly, they may keep. They

1756
01:24:55,600 --> 01:24:57,520
Speaker 1: may put it to where you have out of conference,

1757
01:24:57,720 --> 01:25:00,200
Speaker 1: out of division games on the first four months, the

1758
01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:02,240
Speaker 1: first month of the season, right, they make try and

1759
01:25:02,360 --> 01:25:04,559
Speaker 1: tilt it that way so that every team, if it's

1760
01:25:04,600 --> 01:25:09,160
Speaker 1: a fourteen game schedule, you still have your six division games. Uh,

1761
01:25:09,360 --> 01:25:13,519
Speaker 1: that kind of thing, right, Maybe that's you know, they'll

1762
01:25:13,600 --> 01:25:15,160
Speaker 1: do that as best they can. But you can imagine

1763
01:25:15,200 --> 01:25:17,360
Speaker 1: all the permutations and the problems with that home in

1764
01:25:17,439 --> 01:25:19,960
Speaker 1: a way, who plays who and who has to play

1765
01:25:19,960 --> 01:25:23,200
Speaker 1: it here? And this becomes impossible because of these three

1766
01:25:23,280 --> 01:25:26,280
Speaker 1: games over here. All that you know, it's it's you know,

1767
01:25:26,680 --> 01:25:29,960
Speaker 1: that's juggling two hundred and fifty six items from an

1768
01:25:30,080 --> 01:25:34,400
Speaker 1: NFL schedule and and getting it done. That's they'll try,

1769
01:25:34,800 --> 01:25:36,960
Speaker 1: and they'll probably do it if they can just say, hey,

1770
01:25:37,000 --> 01:25:39,240
Speaker 1: we're not going to start until October. The first three

1771
01:25:39,280 --> 01:25:40,920
Speaker 1: weeks of the season are gone, or the first two

1772
01:25:41,000 --> 01:25:43,400
Speaker 1: weekends of the season are gone, we're just taking off that.

1773
01:25:43,920 --> 01:25:47,559
Speaker 1: That seems easy enough. If they can work the schedule

1774
01:25:47,640 --> 01:25:49,519
Speaker 1: like that, What do you think? What should the league do?

1775
01:25:49,600 --> 01:25:51,960
Speaker 1: Give us a call eight oh three fifty toll free

1776
01:25:52,000 --> 01:25:55,320
Speaker 1: one eight five fifty two five fifty back with more

1777
01:25:55,400 --> 01:25:58,200
Speaker 1: conversation about this Doug flute coming up at two one

1778
01:25:58,280 --> 01:26:01,280
Speaker 1: goes Li'd presented by KLAIDA Health Radio only on Buffalo

1779
01:26:01,400 --> 01:26:07,599
Speaker 1: Bills Radio one to Go five. John Murphy teams hask

1780
01:26:07,640 --> 01:26:09,800
Speaker 1: your company on radio only today, coming to you from

1781
01:26:09,800 --> 01:26:11,800
Speaker 1: our homes. Happy to have you with us here today.

1782
01:26:12,040 --> 01:26:14,680
Speaker 1: Take a couple of phone calls about the scenario. Is

1783
01:26:14,720 --> 01:26:17,160
Speaker 1: what the league can do to get itself back together?

1784
01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:19,439
Speaker 1: Maybe up and running here in the Joe and Rochester,

1785
01:26:19,560 --> 01:26:24,200
Speaker 1: Hello Joe, you're on the air with us. Hey guys, Umyda,

1786
01:26:24,280 --> 01:26:25,880
Speaker 1: I think you should do whatever it takes to have

1787
01:26:26,000 --> 01:26:28,639
Speaker 1: a full schedule, and even if like the first maybe

1788
01:26:28,640 --> 01:26:30,519
Speaker 1: even if like the first half of the season has

1789
01:26:30,600 --> 01:26:34,320
Speaker 1: to have no fans. I mean the technologies here, like

1790
01:26:34,400 --> 01:26:37,639
Speaker 1: why not have certain fits like for the home team,

1791
01:26:37,720 --> 01:26:41,639
Speaker 1: have like cameras in the houses of like the chef guy,

1792
01:26:42,080 --> 01:26:46,760
Speaker 1: the Elvis guy. Maybe certain could write it and try

1793
01:26:46,840 --> 01:26:49,040
Speaker 1: to get to write into the team and explain why

1794
01:26:49,080 --> 01:26:50,360
Speaker 1: they need to be one of the fans that the

1795
01:26:50,439 --> 01:26:53,080
Speaker 1: cameras are at. You know, you have some idiot's jumping

1796
01:26:53,200 --> 01:26:56,559
Speaker 1: yeah here in their backyard whatever, you know what I mean? Yeah,

1797
01:26:56,600 --> 01:26:59,519
Speaker 1: I hear so. I mean you can still have some fans,

1798
01:26:59,600 --> 01:27:01,519
Speaker 1: like I hear you, Joe, your phone's kind of cutting

1799
01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:04,080
Speaker 1: out a little bit, Okay, But I think we could

1800
01:27:04,080 --> 01:27:06,880
Speaker 1: still do it at home. But yeah, Joe, the phone's

1801
01:27:06,880 --> 01:27:09,360
Speaker 1: cutting out. But I hear you, and on the topic

1802
01:27:09,439 --> 01:27:12,719
Speaker 1: of no fans in attendance or limited fans in attendance,

1803
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:14,799
Speaker 1: and I get that, and I get why people wouldn't

1804
01:27:14,800 --> 01:27:16,280
Speaker 1: want that, Steve, But you brought it up, and I

1805
01:27:16,400 --> 01:27:19,519
Speaker 1: think you're right on the same by the same token.

1806
01:27:19,600 --> 01:27:22,920
Speaker 1: Even if you have no fans, you've got forty seven

1807
01:27:23,080 --> 01:27:26,240
Speaker 1: forty eight active players that day and twenty man coaching

1808
01:27:26,320 --> 01:27:30,040
Speaker 1: staffs and all kinds of support personnel. They all have

1809
01:27:30,200 --> 01:27:33,280
Speaker 1: to be cleared I guess somehow from coronavirus. They may

1810
01:27:33,360 --> 01:27:38,320
Speaker 1: have to be isolated and quarantined leading up to the game. Um, Steve,

1811
01:27:38,400 --> 01:27:42,320
Speaker 1: you've played. There's plenty of spit flying around during a game, right,

1812
01:27:42,439 --> 01:27:45,479
Speaker 1: I mean, plenty of opportunity to contaminate one another during

1813
01:27:45,520 --> 01:27:48,360
Speaker 1: the game from a player's standpoint, right WHOA yeah you

1814
01:27:48,479 --> 01:27:51,360
Speaker 1: kid me? Yeah, well you may as well give him

1815
01:27:51,360 --> 01:27:55,320
Speaker 1: a big wet kiss. Yes, I mean yeah, I mean

1816
01:27:55,400 --> 01:27:59,240
Speaker 1: you're these guys are face to face breathing on each

1817
01:27:59,280 --> 01:28:02,400
Speaker 1: other and know, yeah, got you know, guys get cut

1818
01:28:03,880 --> 01:28:06,720
Speaker 1: all of that. So, I mean that's the part of

1819
01:28:06,760 --> 01:28:09,320
Speaker 1: the no fans and attendance. That's fine, no fans. So

1820
01:28:09,560 --> 01:28:12,680
Speaker 1: sixty seventy thousand people aren't exposed to each other, but

1821
01:28:12,800 --> 01:28:15,720
Speaker 1: there's still the one hundred or so guys involved in

1822
01:28:15,760 --> 01:28:18,600
Speaker 1: the game itself would be extremely exposed to one another. Right.

1823
01:28:18,760 --> 01:28:23,240
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean yeah, absolutely. That's why it's it's

1824
01:28:23,280 --> 01:28:27,200
Speaker 1: so important and it's non negotiable. Everybody's got to be

1825
01:28:27,400 --> 01:28:29,599
Speaker 1: virus free, and they've got to be verified, and they

1826
01:28:29,640 --> 01:28:32,519
Speaker 1: got to be kept that way. Yeah, there's your problem.

1827
01:28:33,280 --> 01:28:35,760
Speaker 1: If you can get that done. Sure, yeah, I don't

1828
01:28:35,760 --> 01:28:37,680
Speaker 1: know if you can get that done. Here's Sean on

1829
01:28:37,760 --> 01:28:39,639
Speaker 1: the line with us. Hello, Sean, welcome, go ahead, you're

1830
01:28:39,680 --> 01:28:43,600
Speaker 1: on the air. Hey, So this is gonna be unpopular

1831
01:28:43,640 --> 01:28:47,000
Speaker 1: and irresponsible, but I'm gonna go ahead and tell you anyway.

1832
01:28:47,160 --> 01:28:49,360
Speaker 1: So I think you do a team game season cut

1833
01:28:49,400 --> 01:28:52,439
Speaker 1: out the preseason. As far as the attendance of fans,

1834
01:28:52,920 --> 01:28:56,439
Speaker 1: I think what they should do is put like cardboard

1835
01:28:56,439 --> 01:28:59,519
Speaker 1: cutouts or mannequins every six feet and then allow fans

1836
01:28:59,560 --> 01:29:01,720
Speaker 1: would probably already the season ticket holders, to still at

1837
01:29:01,760 --> 01:29:05,280
Speaker 1: ten games. Um. Not likely, I know, but I think

1838
01:29:05,280 --> 01:29:06,760
Speaker 1: it would be kind of funny to see on TV.

1839
01:29:07,439 --> 01:29:12,280
Speaker 1: UM And uh yeah, that was my idea how many.

1840
01:29:12,479 --> 01:29:14,320
Speaker 1: I can't recalling the number. I used to know how

1841
01:29:14,320 --> 01:29:16,280
Speaker 1: when he seen ticket holders to the Bills have Steve

1842
01:29:16,400 --> 01:29:20,920
Speaker 1: you know, fifty it wasn't fifty fifty plus fifty. Yeah,

1843
01:29:20,960 --> 01:29:23,000
Speaker 1: if it was fifty seven at the record when they

1844
01:29:23,160 --> 01:29:27,080
Speaker 1: when they did that, and then it's probably varied around there. Um,

1845
01:29:27,720 --> 01:29:30,280
Speaker 1: so you mean one sixth of that, it would be

1846
01:29:30,560 --> 01:29:34,720
Speaker 1: one sixth of the total seats in the stadium, right,

1847
01:29:35,800 --> 01:29:38,920
Speaker 1: so it would be ten thousand people, maybe fifty you

1848
01:29:39,000 --> 01:29:41,600
Speaker 1: know what happened to be about twelve thousand people. H

1849
01:29:41,600 --> 01:29:44,240
Speaker 1: twelve thousand people, and so you know, and they got

1850
01:29:44,360 --> 01:29:46,880
Speaker 1: to sit six feet apart, so when the Bills score,

1851
01:29:46,960 --> 01:29:49,519
Speaker 1: they can hug each other in high five. So yeah,

1852
01:29:49,920 --> 01:29:52,120
Speaker 1: I'm having trouble seeing the plus side of this. Now

1853
01:29:52,240 --> 01:29:56,439
Speaker 1: right about now right we are we are way down

1854
01:29:56,520 --> 01:30:00,720
Speaker 1: the Rabbi And because of that, I and reluctant to

1855
01:30:00,880 --> 01:30:02,760
Speaker 1: do this topic or this type of topic for the

1856
01:30:02,840 --> 01:30:05,840
Speaker 1: last month or so. But with the Watchington Post report

1857
01:30:05,920 --> 01:30:11,519
Speaker 1: that the league is discussing, you know, various scenarios of

1858
01:30:11,600 --> 01:30:14,000
Speaker 1: how to get back playing, I thought and our producer

1859
01:30:14,120 --> 01:30:16,360
Speaker 1: Jay Harris thought this was a good poll. I think

1860
01:30:16,400 --> 01:30:18,400
Speaker 1: it is a good pole. I'll tell you what. I

1861
01:30:18,439 --> 01:30:21,200
Speaker 1: think it's time for fans to start thinking about could

1862
01:30:21,240 --> 01:30:23,439
Speaker 1: you live with a shortened season, could you live never

1863
01:30:23,520 --> 01:30:25,559
Speaker 1: going to games? Should you not have any games at

1864
01:30:25,600 --> 01:30:28,000
Speaker 1: all until the virus is under control? I think these

1865
01:30:28,040 --> 01:30:30,640
Speaker 1: are legitimate questions, I really do it right now, they

1866
01:30:30,640 --> 01:30:33,720
Speaker 1: are and I think you got to get yourself your

1867
01:30:33,760 --> 01:30:38,759
Speaker 1: mind around it as to what what has to happen

1868
01:30:39,360 --> 01:30:43,479
Speaker 1: for the season to go on without a hitch or

1869
01:30:43,920 --> 01:30:46,840
Speaker 1: with or without fans. What's it gonna take for the season.

1870
01:30:46,880 --> 01:30:49,240
Speaker 1: And we're a long way from that, you know. With

1871
01:30:49,439 --> 01:30:51,760
Speaker 1: even without fans, we're long well, you and I've been

1872
01:30:51,800 --> 01:30:55,280
Speaker 1: talking about, we're a long way from anything happening. Without fans.

1873
01:30:55,800 --> 01:30:59,439
Speaker 1: You can't have training camp, You certainly can't have games.

1874
01:31:00,680 --> 01:31:03,920
Speaker 1: None of this is possible right now. The question is

1875
01:31:04,640 --> 01:31:09,360
Speaker 1: what is the minimum safety level we can reach during

1876
01:31:09,400 --> 01:31:12,640
Speaker 1: a pandemic that would allow you to even hold a

1877
01:31:12,760 --> 01:31:17,479
Speaker 1: game of the nature of football. And it's to me

1878
01:31:17,600 --> 01:31:19,920
Speaker 1: it almost gets to an all or nothing. I mean,

1879
01:31:19,960 --> 01:31:22,280
Speaker 1: if you've got enough, if you've got to, if it's

1880
01:31:22,320 --> 01:31:24,200
Speaker 1: safe enough to have all those guys on the field,

1881
01:31:24,240 --> 01:31:26,439
Speaker 1: and all those coaches and them playing and all of

1882
01:31:26,479 --> 01:31:29,720
Speaker 1: that it's because you have testing and proof positive that

1883
01:31:30,000 --> 01:31:35,400
Speaker 1: nobody's affected or that nobody can be. And once you

1884
01:31:35,439 --> 01:31:37,920
Speaker 1: get up to you know, a couple hundred people, I mean,

1885
01:31:38,000 --> 01:31:40,439
Speaker 1: what's the different? You know what I mean? More? More's

1886
01:31:40,479 --> 01:31:44,040
Speaker 1: the same? You know? So I don't know. I think

1887
01:31:44,120 --> 01:31:50,519
Speaker 1: the baseline problem is how virus free or how much

1888
01:31:50,640 --> 01:31:54,000
Speaker 1: past the pandemic do we have to be for them

1889
01:31:54,080 --> 01:31:58,200
Speaker 1: even to stage a game with or without fans, because

1890
01:31:58,200 --> 01:32:01,160
Speaker 1: it's not much different one way or the other. Clearly

1891
01:32:01,200 --> 01:32:03,560
Speaker 1: it's too early to make a decision now, but the

1892
01:32:03,680 --> 01:32:07,000
Speaker 1: league is considering different scenarios. I think that's what sparked

1893
01:32:07,000 --> 01:32:09,920
Speaker 1: our discussions. Name we'll continue that discussion in the third

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Speaker 1: and final hour of the show when we come back.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk with Doug Flutey, former Bills quarterback, who's got

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Speaker 1: a way to raise some money for coronavirus relief. That's

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Speaker 1: coming up, and we come back One Bill's Life, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalaida Health on the radio only. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills by the NFL. It's ched Joe's schedule to come

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Speaker 1: out May ninth, at least by May ninth, and it

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Speaker 1: may have some contingencies for a delayed start. That, according

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Speaker 1: to a report in The Washington Post for Mark Manski,

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Speaker 1: they may include the possibility of having a shortened season

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Speaker 1: due to a delayed start. NFL still pushing forward as

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Speaker 1: if the season could begin as normal in early September,

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01:32:48,680 --> 01:32:53,479
Speaker 1: but maybe impossible, especially with stadiums full of fans. One

1907
01:32:53,560 --> 01:32:56,240
Speaker 1: source told the Washington Post the NFL is planning for

1908
01:32:56,439 --> 01:32:59,720
Speaker 1: everything from playing without fans, playing with full stadiums and

1909
01:32:59,800 --> 01:33:02,360
Speaker 1: maybe partially full stadiums. It's all up in the air,

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Speaker 1: but it is being discussed by the National Football League

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Speaker 1: and discussed by us here on the show today. The

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty NFL Draft is one week away, still on

1913
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Speaker 1: the horizon that's not going anywhere. Oddsmakers think that Wingdam

1914
01:33:13,560 --> 01:33:16,360
Speaker 1: Patriots are really going to miss. Tom Brady Caesar's sports

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Speaker 1: Book release NFL win totals and playoff odds for all

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Speaker 1: thirty two teams. They've got the Patriots at eight and

1917
01:33:22,720 --> 01:33:25,759
Speaker 1: a half wins, the team's lowest total since two thousand

1918
01:33:25,760 --> 01:33:28,439
Speaker 1: and three. The Buffalo Bills have a win total of nine.

1919
01:33:28,720 --> 01:33:31,200
Speaker 1: They're the plus one hundred favorite to win the afcast

1920
01:33:31,479 --> 01:33:35,839
Speaker 1: at Caesar's sports Book am Center. Brian Allen tested positive

1921
01:33:35,880 --> 01:33:38,840
Speaker 1: for the coronavirus, he told Fox Sports. Twenty four year old,

1922
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Speaker 1: the first active NFL player to publicly acknowledge that he

1923
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Speaker 1: tested positive. Alan says he lost his sense of smell

1924
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Speaker 1: and taste and had a sore throat. He had fatigue

1925
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Speaker 1: and headaches, but he is expected to be cleared of

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Speaker 1: the virus by later this week, and the PGA Tour

1927
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Speaker 1: announced plans to return in mid June with the revised

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Speaker 1: slate of events that run through Thanksgiving. It'll start on

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01:33:59,120 --> 01:34:01,760
Speaker 1: the weekend of June eleven through the fourteenth with the

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Speaker 1: Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas, assuming that health

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Speaker 1: and government officials allow it considering the coronavirus pandemic. And

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Speaker 1: there you go. That is the update from one Bill's Life.

1933
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Speaker 1: John Murphy Steve Tasker on the Line with US now

1934
01:34:14,720 --> 01:34:18,040
Speaker 1: former Buffalo Bill's quarterback nineteen ninety eight or two thousand,

1935
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Speaker 1: twelve seasons in the National Football League, the nineteen eighty

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Speaker 1: four Hinzman Trophy winner from Boston College. Happy to have

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Speaker 1: Doug Flutey on the line with us. Hello, Doug Flutie,

1938
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Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker upper in Buffalo. Thanks coming

1939
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Speaker 1: on with us. Hey, Johnny Steve. I'm down in Florida.

1940
01:34:34,840 --> 01:34:37,120
Speaker 1: The weather is a little nicer, but we're getting ready

1941
01:34:37,280 --> 01:34:39,960
Speaker 1: to hit the bulk of this Corona thing too. It's

1942
01:34:40,000 --> 01:34:42,600
Speaker 1: on its way here. It hasn't been bad here, but

1943
01:34:43,080 --> 01:34:46,160
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be bad for the next two weeks. Well,

1944
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Speaker 1: you've you've kind of geared up the Flute Foundation to

1945
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Speaker 1: battle coronavirus, especially the Flute Foundation for Autism, and you're

1946
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Speaker 1: providing support for families who have an autistic child. I

1947
01:34:58,120 --> 01:35:00,840
Speaker 1: guess I tell us what you have in mind there, Doug. Well,

1948
01:35:01,040 --> 01:35:03,679
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of families are financially strapped anyway,

1949
01:35:03,960 --> 01:35:09,439
Speaker 1: and then in this situation, families with autism, um, you know,

1950
01:35:09,479 --> 01:35:13,920
Speaker 1: there's a lot of other expenses incurred. So those in partentions,

1951
01:35:15,479 --> 01:35:18,320
Speaker 1: I think them direct funding to them through true dift

1952
01:35:18,360 --> 01:35:20,639
Speaker 1: cards and you know where their trough groceries every day

1953
01:35:20,720 --> 01:35:22,960
Speaker 1: needs whatever to help them through this time period. The

1954
01:35:23,040 --> 01:35:27,040
Speaker 1: other aspect of that is, you know, children with autism

1955
01:35:27,439 --> 01:35:34,400
Speaker 1: thrive more on routine, and this definitely has disrupted everyone's routine. So, uh,

1956
01:35:34,720 --> 01:35:38,280
Speaker 1: the state at home schooling is a lot more difficult.

1957
01:35:39,040 --> 01:35:42,240
Speaker 1: So we're also supplying technical support so they can continue

1958
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Speaker 1: their programs from home, as well as a number of

1959
01:35:45,840 --> 01:35:50,800
Speaker 1: other things. How prevalent is homeschooling when the autism community, Doug,

1960
01:35:50,880 --> 01:35:53,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I suppose it depends on where they fall

1961
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Speaker 1: on the spectrum. But how you know how many families,

1962
01:35:58,880 --> 01:36:03,439
Speaker 1: either by choice or or just other circumstances or forced

1963
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Speaker 1: to either force to or would rather educate their kids

1964
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Speaker 1: at home, particularly the ones who are who have autism. Well,

1965
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Speaker 1: when we first started out, a lot of families did it.

1966
01:36:14,560 --> 01:36:17,680
Speaker 1: A lot of families would try. I mean, obviously it's

1967
01:36:17,960 --> 01:36:21,439
Speaker 1: very very expensive. It probably cost US sixty grand a

1968
01:36:21,520 --> 01:36:25,000
Speaker 1: year to have someone working with Dougy for three or

1969
01:36:25,000 --> 01:36:28,760
Speaker 1: four hours a day, and that was when he was little.

1970
01:36:29,120 --> 01:36:32,120
Speaker 1: Then more programs have been developed, more schooling is there,

1971
01:36:32,280 --> 01:36:35,200
Speaker 1: so it's not as prevalent now, but a lot of

1972
01:36:35,280 --> 01:36:37,880
Speaker 1: people do have one on one tutoring at home, you know,

1973
01:36:37,960 --> 01:36:39,920
Speaker 1: for a few hours a week or on the side

1974
01:36:40,080 --> 01:36:44,360
Speaker 1: or whatever. This has created a situation where the only

1975
01:36:44,439 --> 01:36:46,320
Speaker 1: way you can do it is to home school yourself

1976
01:36:48,400 --> 01:36:51,320
Speaker 1: or have the tech support to do it through their

1977
01:36:51,400 --> 01:36:55,800
Speaker 1: regular tutors and teachers. And you know that that worked

1978
01:36:55,800 --> 01:36:58,080
Speaker 1: with them on a regular basis, but do it through

1979
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Speaker 1: a laptop to a tablet, which is even more difficult

1980
01:37:01,960 --> 01:37:06,559
Speaker 1: when you're talking about children with autism. Has it been

1981
01:37:06,560 --> 01:37:08,720
Speaker 1: a big step forward now that maybe the school more

1982
01:37:08,800 --> 01:37:14,920
Speaker 1: school systems are ready ready to accommodate an into great

1983
01:37:15,320 --> 01:37:18,560
Speaker 1: autistic kids into the regular mainstream system. Is that a

1984
01:37:18,760 --> 01:37:22,160
Speaker 1: much better place that you're in now? Oh? No, no question.

1985
01:37:22,240 --> 01:37:24,599
Speaker 1: I mean leaps and bounds where you were twenty years ago,

1986
01:37:24,720 --> 01:37:27,760
Speaker 1: ten years ago, five years ago, No doubt. There's more

1987
01:37:27,800 --> 01:37:32,240
Speaker 1: support and more opportunity. They're all over, so the programs

1988
01:37:32,280 --> 01:37:36,479
Speaker 1: can continue to increase. It's it's it's at least there's

1989
01:37:36,560 --> 01:37:40,960
Speaker 1: a at least there's something in place that we can

1990
01:37:41,040 --> 01:37:43,960
Speaker 1: work with that when you come to a time period

1991
01:37:44,040 --> 01:37:45,840
Speaker 1: like this and you have to adjust, at least you're

1992
01:37:45,880 --> 01:37:50,240
Speaker 1: just adjusting and rather starting from scribes. Doug Flutey our

1993
01:37:50,280 --> 01:37:52,760
Speaker 1: guests talking about the Flutey Foundation and what they're doing

1994
01:37:52,840 --> 01:37:58,360
Speaker 1: in the coronavirus pandemic era to help families with autistic issues.

1995
01:37:58,600 --> 01:38:00,599
Speaker 1: I did see where the flute found each and launched

1996
01:38:00,640 --> 01:38:03,479
Speaker 1: a Facebook live show twice a week trying to help

1997
01:38:03,520 --> 01:38:05,800
Speaker 1: out families. Tell us about that if you can doe, Yeah,

1998
01:38:05,880 --> 01:38:08,000
Speaker 1: we started doing that, getting out there so we can

1999
01:38:08,040 --> 01:38:10,840
Speaker 1: be a little more interactive with those in need and

2000
01:38:10,960 --> 01:38:14,800
Speaker 1: those that follow us and want to know what's going

2001
01:38:14,880 --> 01:38:17,000
Speaker 1: on with the foundation and what's the next step, and

2002
01:38:17,240 --> 01:38:20,519
Speaker 1: and just to be in touch and and you know everything.

2003
01:38:20,600 --> 01:38:22,680
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we've all learned our lesson that.

2004
01:38:23,560 --> 01:38:26,360
Speaker 1: And look at Network TV right now that there are

2005
01:38:26,400 --> 01:38:29,000
Speaker 1: other ways you can do reach people. M you know,

2006
01:38:29,200 --> 01:38:32,519
Speaker 1: studios are shut down basically, but everybody's doing their broadcast

2007
01:38:32,600 --> 01:38:35,560
Speaker 1: live from home. And it's a great little lave and

2008
01:38:36,240 --> 01:38:39,360
Speaker 1: to be able to reach people. And I think I

2009
01:38:39,439 --> 01:38:43,200
Speaker 1: want to also throw out that the Bills backers of

2010
01:38:43,479 --> 01:38:46,360
Speaker 1: Orlando of giving us great donations, as well as Power

2011
01:38:46,479 --> 01:38:50,120
Speaker 1: Foundation up there in Buffalo have given donations to help

2012
01:38:50,200 --> 01:38:54,040
Speaker 1: us in this effort to help support these families in

2013
01:38:54,120 --> 01:38:57,519
Speaker 1: this time and also in returning you've made it known

2014
01:38:57,640 --> 01:39:00,240
Speaker 1: today that any donations you get today are gonna if

2015
01:39:00,280 --> 01:39:03,759
Speaker 1: people are listening here, Buffalo Bills Fans, the donations today

2016
01:39:03,800 --> 01:39:06,720
Speaker 1: we'll go to Buffalo autism organizations and families. Is that

2017
01:39:06,920 --> 01:39:10,439
Speaker 1: right correct? We'll go directly. Yeah. We've tried to do

2018
01:39:10,560 --> 01:39:12,840
Speaker 1: that from day one. From from the areas that the

2019
01:39:12,920 --> 01:39:14,599
Speaker 1: money comes in, we try to put it right back

2020
01:39:14,600 --> 01:39:17,400
Speaker 1: out to those areas. So if there are donations today,

2021
01:39:17,520 --> 01:39:20,800
Speaker 1: we'll go right back into the Buffalo area. This is

2022
01:39:20,880 --> 01:39:25,479
Speaker 1: a trying time for everyone. You know, I give if

2023
01:39:25,520 --> 01:39:28,920
Speaker 1: you can. If not, I it's completely understandable right now.

2024
01:39:28,960 --> 01:39:31,400
Speaker 1: And what's going on. I mean there's there's people just

2025
01:39:31,479 --> 01:39:33,280
Speaker 1: trying to worry about paying a bill to put food

2026
01:39:33,320 --> 01:39:37,400
Speaker 1: on the table right now. Doug flew to our guests

2027
01:39:37,439 --> 01:39:40,479
Speaker 1: former Bills quarterback, long time NFL quarterback. Hey, Doug, we

2028
01:39:40,560 --> 01:39:43,080
Speaker 1: haven't talked to you since you were back in Buffalo.

2029
01:39:43,160 --> 01:39:45,840
Speaker 1: I think it was before the at the Baltimore game,

2030
01:39:45,920 --> 01:39:49,000
Speaker 1: right last second week in December, December eighth. You got

2031
01:39:49,040 --> 01:39:51,000
Speaker 1: a really good response. And I know you you met

2032
01:39:51,040 --> 01:39:53,400
Speaker 1: fans in the field house and we're injured on the field.

2033
01:39:53,600 --> 01:39:55,639
Speaker 1: What was your favorite part about that weekend? You spent

2034
01:39:55,680 --> 01:39:57,120
Speaker 1: the whole weekend here, What did you think of that?

2035
01:39:58,400 --> 01:40:00,840
Speaker 1: It was absolutely amazing. And I say this all the time.

2036
01:40:00,880 --> 01:40:03,160
Speaker 1: I told Jim Kelly this when we were all hand

2037
01:40:03,320 --> 01:40:05,280
Speaker 1: because I played three years and I played twenty one

2038
01:40:05,360 --> 01:40:07,639
Speaker 1: years of professional football. I spent three years in Buffalo

2039
01:40:07,680 --> 01:40:10,160
Speaker 1: and it was special to me, but they treated me

2040
01:40:10,240 --> 01:40:12,120
Speaker 1: like it was Jim Kelly for crying out loud it was.

2041
01:40:12,760 --> 01:40:14,720
Speaker 1: I was, Yeah, it was. It was like a big

2042
01:40:14,800 --> 01:40:17,679
Speaker 1: warm hug, I said. We set up in our autograph

2043
01:40:17,720 --> 01:40:19,559
Speaker 1: fashion over at the field House. I think got signed

2044
01:40:19,600 --> 01:40:21,280
Speaker 1: for two hours and we had to cut the line

2045
01:40:21,320 --> 01:40:24,760
Speaker 1: off and people still had all the flute flakes memorabilia

2046
01:40:24,800 --> 01:40:27,320
Speaker 1: and all that and people wearing jerseys and you know,

2047
01:40:27,400 --> 01:40:29,360
Speaker 1: I come out, walked out of the tunnel down by

2048
01:40:29,439 --> 01:40:32,280
Speaker 1: the field there in pregame and just the interaction with

2049
01:40:32,360 --> 01:40:34,880
Speaker 1: the fan, it was. It was amazing and well maybe

2050
01:40:34,920 --> 01:40:37,599
Speaker 1: one of my favorite moments. When I was there. Douggie

2051
01:40:37,640 --> 01:40:39,360
Speaker 1: had been diagnosed and we were trying to get them

2052
01:40:39,600 --> 01:40:41,679
Speaker 1: school in and get everything straightened out. So my wife

2053
01:40:41,720 --> 01:40:45,000
Speaker 1: stayed in Boston and Dudgeons and then would come up

2054
01:40:45,040 --> 01:40:47,080
Speaker 1: for games, come up on weekends. We would see each

2055
01:40:47,080 --> 01:40:49,800
Speaker 1: other when we could. So I was there by myself

2056
01:40:49,840 --> 01:40:51,720
Speaker 1: a lot. So I'd go to Uncle Joe's diner down

2057
01:40:51,760 --> 01:40:53,880
Speaker 1: the road, and I mean, I need two meals a

2058
01:40:54,000 --> 01:40:59,080
Speaker 1: day there, sometimes three. And yeah, and so the people

2059
01:40:59,120 --> 01:41:01,960
Speaker 1: at Uncle Joe's knew that I was in town and

2060
01:41:02,080 --> 01:41:04,200
Speaker 1: they were waiting for me to swing by. So it

2061
01:41:04,320 --> 01:41:07,040
Speaker 1: was actually Saturday morning before the Fieldhouse saying I'd like

2062
01:41:07,280 --> 01:41:09,880
Speaker 1: made the people that I was. I made them stop

2063
01:41:09,920 --> 01:41:12,360
Speaker 1: because I had had to stop and just say hi,

2064
01:41:12,760 --> 01:41:15,040
Speaker 1: and they didn't get it. They didn't understand. And I

2065
01:41:15,160 --> 01:41:17,840
Speaker 1: went in and and actually three people were in there

2066
01:41:17,920 --> 01:41:22,320
Speaker 1: that were working there twenty years ago. And it was

2067
01:41:22,439 --> 01:41:24,679
Speaker 1: really cool because they started yelling at me for not coming.

2068
01:41:24,760 --> 01:41:26,840
Speaker 1: You always coming on Friday nights and gives your turkey

2069
01:41:26,880 --> 01:41:28,880
Speaker 1: dinner and then a milkshaking. You weren't here on Friday night.

2070
01:41:28,920 --> 01:41:30,519
Speaker 1: We expect you to be here on Friday night. Why

2071
01:41:30,520 --> 01:41:33,640
Speaker 1: weren't you? So it was it was pretty cool. It

2072
01:41:33,760 --> 01:41:38,040
Speaker 1: was really cool. Just um. Also Dennis Depolo over Delio

2073
01:41:38,080 --> 01:41:40,719
Speaker 1: de Polo. I mean, I just on a win, decided

2074
01:41:40,800 --> 01:41:42,800
Speaker 1: I had I was free for dinner. I want just

2075
01:41:42,960 --> 01:41:45,880
Speaker 1: swung by And again it was like like I played

2076
01:41:45,920 --> 01:41:49,960
Speaker 1: in Buffalo forever and never left. Um. It's just um

2077
01:41:50,760 --> 01:41:54,760
Speaker 1: really special. They're really special. One of the great things

2078
01:41:54,840 --> 01:41:56,880
Speaker 1: that happened while you were here, and everybody still talks

2079
01:41:56,880 --> 01:41:59,120
Speaker 1: about it, was the Jaguars game when you in your

2080
01:41:59,160 --> 01:42:02,120
Speaker 1: bootlegged in the wind were do you have a couple mate,

2081
01:42:02,160 --> 01:42:04,120
Speaker 1: not even a handful of one or two memories that

2082
01:42:04,640 --> 01:42:06,720
Speaker 1: I mean, you played twenty one years You've got to

2083
01:42:06,760 --> 01:42:10,639
Speaker 1: have a laundry list of great moments, the plus winning

2084
01:42:10,640 --> 01:42:12,439
Speaker 1: you know, you won the Heisman before you ever started

2085
01:42:12,520 --> 01:42:14,800
Speaker 1: your pro career. Give us some highlights of your time

2086
01:42:14,840 --> 01:42:16,679
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. What were a handful of the memories

2087
01:42:16,720 --> 01:42:19,360
Speaker 1: that made it so special on the field rather than

2088
01:42:19,439 --> 01:42:22,720
Speaker 1: just some people off it. Yeah, in the field, that

2089
01:42:23,160 --> 01:42:25,400
Speaker 1: that bootleg, that drive. We had no timeout, so I

2090
01:42:25,479 --> 01:42:27,800
Speaker 1: had to go sixty seventy yards and under a minute

2091
01:42:27,800 --> 01:42:30,640
Speaker 1: with no timeouts, and you're running into the ends and

2092
01:42:30,720 --> 01:42:32,680
Speaker 1: it's actually a bust at play because it was a

2093
01:42:32,800 --> 01:42:34,400
Speaker 1: chuck with me and I checked to the pitch and

2094
01:42:34,640 --> 01:42:38,200
Speaker 1: Thurman ran to dive, So it actually worked a great bootlegs.

2095
01:42:38,240 --> 01:42:40,559
Speaker 1: Look where he dove in. Everybody sucked in. We've blocked

2096
01:42:40,600 --> 01:42:43,920
Speaker 1: the corner, and I just walked around the end. So

2097
01:42:44,080 --> 01:42:46,160
Speaker 1: that's a great moment. But you know what was really

2098
01:42:46,240 --> 01:42:48,560
Speaker 1: special to me was very first game. We're out in

2099
01:42:48,600 --> 01:42:52,080
Speaker 1: San Diego and I was just happy to make the

2100
01:42:52,240 --> 01:42:54,479
Speaker 1: roster and I'm, you know, fighting my tail off to

2101
01:42:54,520 --> 01:42:58,160
Speaker 1: get back into the NFL. And Rob goes down late

2102
01:42:58,200 --> 01:43:01,600
Speaker 1: in the game, third quarter whatever it was, and I

2103
01:43:01,760 --> 01:43:03,880
Speaker 1: go in and I wound up throwing a couple of

2104
01:43:03,920 --> 01:43:06,439
Speaker 1: touchdown passes they kick a fifty five yard field goal

2105
01:43:06,479 --> 01:43:08,880
Speaker 1: that hits the cross bar and goes over to take

2106
01:43:08,960 --> 01:43:11,519
Speaker 1: the lead with thirty seconds with the game, and I

2107
01:43:11,640 --> 01:43:13,959
Speaker 1: hit maybe two or three passes, we got an interference

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01:43:14,040 --> 01:43:17,240
Speaker 1: call and we got a field goal, rings we missed

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01:43:17,280 --> 01:43:20,200
Speaker 1: the field goal, and we lose the game. But that

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01:43:20,400 --> 01:43:25,160
Speaker 1: fourth quarter that let me know that, Okay, this is

2111
01:43:25,200 --> 01:43:29,479
Speaker 1: gonna happen, this is I'm gonna I'm comfortable, it's just

2112
01:43:29,760 --> 01:43:33,200
Speaker 1: football again, and we're gonna have some fun here in

2113
01:43:33,240 --> 01:43:36,240
Speaker 1: Buffaloe because I knew then that I was back to

2114
01:43:36,320 --> 01:43:38,800
Speaker 1: stay and that it was going to work out well.

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01:43:38,880 --> 01:43:41,200
Speaker 1: Not for nothing, Doug, but I was in the booth

2116
01:43:41,240 --> 01:43:43,960
Speaker 1: for CBS for that game, and not only did you

2117
01:43:44,080 --> 01:43:46,120
Speaker 1: get in the game, but that was Ryan Lee's first

2118
01:43:46,160 --> 01:43:50,120
Speaker 1: game as a pro, and their backup, all four quarterbacks

2119
01:43:50,200 --> 01:43:52,400
Speaker 1: that we're in that we're active in that game got

2120
01:43:52,479 --> 01:43:54,240
Speaker 1: on the field. And I remember saying this in the

2121
01:43:54,320 --> 01:43:56,080
Speaker 1: booth that when you got in the way you played,

2122
01:43:56,120 --> 01:43:59,320
Speaker 1: I said, you rob Johnson a big contract, Ryan Leaf

2123
01:43:59,400 --> 01:44:01,559
Speaker 1: number one over all pick. And I can't even remember

2124
01:44:01,600 --> 01:44:05,200
Speaker 1: who Ryan Leaf's backup was. Was Charlie Whitehurst or somebody

2125
01:44:05,280 --> 01:44:07,720
Speaker 1: like that, but I said, you know, Doug Flutie was

2126
01:44:07,760 --> 01:44:09,680
Speaker 1: the best quarterback on the field today out of the

2127
01:44:09,760 --> 01:44:13,599
Speaker 1: four guys. The big contract and the number one overall

2128
01:44:13,680 --> 01:44:15,720
Speaker 1: pick and the early in the season and stuff, and

2129
01:44:15,840 --> 01:44:17,479
Speaker 1: you came in you almost did get it done. I

2130
01:44:17,520 --> 01:44:20,240
Speaker 1: will I'll never forget that. It was the only game

2131
01:44:20,280 --> 01:44:22,080
Speaker 1: I think I ever did in my career where all

2132
01:44:22,200 --> 01:44:26,200
Speaker 1: four quarterbacks on the field got in the game, uh

2133
01:44:26,720 --> 01:44:28,599
Speaker 1: uh and had to play. And it was a really

2134
01:44:28,720 --> 01:44:31,120
Speaker 1: probably a pretty close game there at into week one

2135
01:44:31,200 --> 01:44:34,599
Speaker 1: of the of the season in nineteen ninety eight. Yeah, yeah,

2136
01:44:34,680 --> 01:44:37,360
Speaker 1: and along those lines of that kind of a moment

2137
01:44:37,520 --> 01:44:40,519
Speaker 1: where yeah, the high price quarterbacks was supposed to be

2138
01:44:40,640 --> 01:44:44,160
Speaker 1: all this, and we went to Indianapolis and I don't know,

2139
01:44:44,280 --> 01:44:46,760
Speaker 1: I think it was Peyton Manning's rookie year. You know,

2140
01:44:46,960 --> 01:44:50,800
Speaker 1: Peyton signs his big deal, and Roberts signed a huge

2141
01:44:50,840 --> 01:44:53,720
Speaker 1: deal with Buffalo, and like I said before, I was

2142
01:44:53,800 --> 01:44:57,280
Speaker 1: happy to be on the roster. Rob goes down early

2143
01:44:57,600 --> 01:44:59,880
Speaker 1: in the game at indeed, and I have a great

2144
01:45:00,200 --> 01:45:02,799
Speaker 1: I have a really good day. We beat Indianapolis handily,

2145
01:45:03,400 --> 01:45:05,640
Speaker 1: and you know, I didn't say anything, Pump, but in

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01:45:05,720 --> 01:45:07,640
Speaker 1: the back of my mind I was thinking exactly the

2147
01:45:08,200 --> 01:45:10,800
Speaker 1: exactly that, you know, the high price guys blah blah

2148
01:45:10,800 --> 01:45:12,600
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, and I had a good day. So

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01:45:12,960 --> 01:45:15,120
Speaker 1: I mean, those are the things that motivates and those

2150
01:45:15,160 --> 01:45:17,080
Speaker 1: are the things that drive you on a daily basis.

2151
01:45:17,200 --> 01:45:20,160
Speaker 1: And there there, I mean, there's a thousand great moments.

2152
01:45:20,240 --> 01:45:23,519
Speaker 1: I mean, or in my you know, guys that you

2153
01:45:23,640 --> 01:45:27,000
Speaker 1: played with Eric molds He's you know, so many big

2154
01:45:27,040 --> 01:45:29,120
Speaker 1: plays with Eric. He and I had a great relationship

2155
01:45:29,200 --> 01:45:33,160
Speaker 1: on the field, just understanding. He knew when the ball

2156
01:45:33,240 --> 01:45:34,680
Speaker 1: was coming. If you were one of the one with Eric,

2157
01:45:34,680 --> 01:45:36,960
Speaker 1: I don't care it was against leverage or not. Balls

2158
01:45:37,080 --> 01:45:39,400
Speaker 1: coming and he would make a play on it. And

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01:45:40,479 --> 01:45:42,280
Speaker 1: I just got off call. Yesterday was a bunch of

2160
01:45:42,320 --> 01:45:45,760
Speaker 1: the guys and it was fun and reminisce and Dug.

2161
01:45:45,800 --> 01:45:47,760
Speaker 1: I wonder if you look back on your career twenty

2162
01:45:47,800 --> 01:45:50,479
Speaker 1: one years playing football, twelve a dozen years in the NFL,

2163
01:45:51,080 --> 01:45:53,200
Speaker 1: were the three years in Buffalo, Maybe when you broke

2164
01:45:53,360 --> 01:45:55,719
Speaker 1: through in the NFL you got a chance to start

2165
01:45:55,800 --> 01:45:57,920
Speaker 1: and play and played out some pretty good teams with

2166
01:45:58,080 --> 01:46:00,320
Speaker 1: those of the breakthrough years for you in your NFL career,

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01:46:01,400 --> 01:46:05,400
Speaker 1: i'd really I'd say so definitely, m I was labeled

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01:46:05,400 --> 01:46:07,519
Speaker 1: as a backup for my first five years, and I

2169
01:46:07,840 --> 01:46:10,519
Speaker 1: had some moments back with New England early on and

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01:46:11,040 --> 01:46:12,479
Speaker 1: in the late eighties and all that, and then I

2171
01:46:12,520 --> 01:46:14,479
Speaker 1: went to Canada for eight years, and what it did

2172
01:46:14,640 --> 01:46:17,040
Speaker 1: was reinstill the confidence and put the fund back in

2173
01:46:17,080 --> 01:46:19,840
Speaker 1: football for me, and I started to learn to trust

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01:46:19,960 --> 01:46:23,320
Speaker 1: my own judgment and be a little more hands on

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01:46:23,479 --> 01:46:25,200
Speaker 1: with the game planning and be a part of it.

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01:46:25,320 --> 01:46:28,720
Speaker 1: And so when I came to Buffalo, um, you know,

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01:46:28,880 --> 01:46:30,880
Speaker 1: a lot of question marks were in me in my head,

2178
01:46:32,160 --> 01:46:34,920
Speaker 1: but I thought, if I'm gonna do this, if I'm

2179
01:46:34,920 --> 01:46:36,599
Speaker 1: going to crash and burn, I'm gonna crash and burn

2180
01:46:36,720 --> 01:46:41,080
Speaker 1: my way. And I just I think Joe Pendry did

2181
01:46:41,120 --> 01:46:44,080
Speaker 1: a great job as an offensive coordinator, catering to what

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01:46:44,240 --> 01:46:46,880
Speaker 1: I did well and put me in a position to

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01:46:46,960 --> 01:46:50,960
Speaker 1: be successful. And you know, it would have been nice

2184
01:46:50,960 --> 01:46:54,000
Speaker 1: to see, you know, the you had had a really

2185
01:46:54,080 --> 01:46:58,400
Speaker 1: nice three year run there, but you know, you move

2186
01:46:58,479 --> 01:47:02,120
Speaker 1: on because Rob was seen the future quarterback of the

2187
01:47:02,200 --> 01:47:04,120
Speaker 1: franchise from the day I got there. He was seeing

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01:47:04,160 --> 01:47:07,080
Speaker 1: as the future. And the frustrating part was that I

2189
01:47:07,200 --> 01:47:11,400
Speaker 1: played another five years after I left there, so you know,

2190
01:47:11,479 --> 01:47:14,040
Speaker 1: we could have had a good eight year run and

2191
01:47:14,439 --> 01:47:16,519
Speaker 1: or you know, maybe okay, at the end at least

2192
01:47:16,560 --> 01:47:19,880
Speaker 1: a six year run. And that's the frustrating part to

2193
01:47:19,960 --> 01:47:22,840
Speaker 1: me is that you know, throughout my NFL career that

2194
01:47:22,920 --> 01:47:26,080
Speaker 1: I never really had whether you got the keys to

2195
01:47:26,120 --> 01:47:29,320
Speaker 1: the car and it's your team and you go well,

2196
01:47:29,360 --> 01:47:31,519
Speaker 1: in the current situation, we're stating here in the midst

2197
01:47:31,560 --> 01:47:34,400
Speaker 1: of a pandemic, and you know, there's all kinds of

2198
01:47:34,479 --> 01:47:37,000
Speaker 1: scenarios that we're trying to foresee and everybody's got these

2199
01:47:37,520 --> 01:47:40,559
Speaker 1: you know, what ifs and maybes and all this kind

2200
01:47:40,600 --> 01:47:42,600
Speaker 1: of stuff. Do you think you could play or what

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01:47:42,880 --> 01:47:45,240
Speaker 1: would it be like for you to maybe play in

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01:47:45,280 --> 01:47:47,760
Speaker 1: an NFL game if the stadium was empty, because that's

2203
01:47:47,760 --> 01:47:49,479
Speaker 1: what they're you know, kind of talking about that. That

2204
01:47:49,520 --> 01:47:53,400
Speaker 1: would kind of change things all the way around, wouldn't Well,

2205
01:47:53,439 --> 01:47:56,280
Speaker 1: it changes communication on the field. Snap count becomes a

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01:47:56,360 --> 01:47:59,080
Speaker 1: factor again. You can actually draw people offside and do

2207
01:47:59,280 --> 01:48:03,320
Speaker 1: some of the things you do audibilizing, and people could

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01:48:03,400 --> 01:48:04,920
Speaker 1: yell from the sideline, you know, if you're in a

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01:48:05,000 --> 01:48:07,920
Speaker 1: wrong formation, you can get corrections from the you know,

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01:48:08,320 --> 01:48:10,560
Speaker 1: think of a practice field, you know, the stuff that

2211
01:48:10,600 --> 01:48:12,840
Speaker 1: gets yelled out across the practice field. That's what it

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01:48:12,880 --> 01:48:15,600
Speaker 1: would feel like. Or when you had that scrimmage for

2213
01:48:15,680 --> 01:48:18,040
Speaker 1: scrimmage of training camp and you're in the stadium, I

2214
01:48:18,120 --> 01:48:23,519
Speaker 1: mean empty stadium. I think players now, players today are

2215
01:48:23,520 --> 01:48:25,400
Speaker 1: a little different. They do get juiced up by the

2216
01:48:25,520 --> 01:48:27,560
Speaker 1: crowd and the crowd noise in the music playing in

2217
01:48:27,600 --> 01:48:29,320
Speaker 1: the stadium and all that. I used to think, you

2218
01:48:29,360 --> 01:48:31,519
Speaker 1: know that that was kind of irrelevant to me, that

2219
01:48:31,920 --> 01:48:33,840
Speaker 1: you were just so locked in and fired up. But

2220
01:48:35,640 --> 01:48:38,360
Speaker 1: the emotional level of the game at times, I'm sure

2221
01:48:38,400 --> 01:48:43,759
Speaker 1: would be completely different watching it on TV. The address.

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01:48:43,840 --> 01:48:46,160
Speaker 1: You even get an adrenaline rush off seeing the fans,

2223
01:48:46,360 --> 01:48:49,400
Speaker 1: you know, watching it on TV. So you know, the

2224
01:48:49,479 --> 01:48:51,840
Speaker 1: game would still be the game, It could still get done,

2225
01:48:51,960 --> 01:48:54,920
Speaker 1: but it would definitely be different. We're on the line

2226
01:48:54,920 --> 01:48:58,160
Speaker 1: with Doug Fluti, who's got his flute foundation doing some

2227
01:48:58,320 --> 01:49:02,400
Speaker 1: work for coronavirus relief for families with autism in the family.

2228
01:49:02,560 --> 01:49:04,519
Speaker 1: Hey Doug, we're a week away from the NFL draft.

2229
01:49:04,560 --> 01:49:06,600
Speaker 1: On I asked you, you know you were affiliated with

2230
01:49:06,680 --> 01:49:09,240
Speaker 1: the Notre Dame broadcast on Network TV for a while.

2231
01:49:09,680 --> 01:49:11,080
Speaker 1: Can I ask you about a couple of Notre Dame

2232
01:49:11,120 --> 01:49:14,000
Speaker 1: prospects in this draft, I get more and more interested

2233
01:49:14,000 --> 01:49:17,080
Speaker 1: in Chase Claypool, the big wide receiver for the Fighting Irisha.

2234
01:49:17,280 --> 01:49:20,000
Speaker 1: How do you think his skills will translate into the NFL.

2235
01:49:21,000 --> 01:49:23,880
Speaker 1: I think will be great. I think he'll transform very well.

2236
01:49:23,960 --> 01:49:28,679
Speaker 1: He's a big body guy, great leaping ability to phenomenal hands.

2237
01:49:30,160 --> 01:49:35,400
Speaker 1: His big issue, I mean, his big issue was immaturity

2238
01:49:35,720 --> 01:49:39,920
Speaker 1: his freshman sophomore years and getting issues off the field,

2239
01:49:40,680 --> 01:49:45,960
Speaker 1: and then coming into his last year complete turnaround the kidney.

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01:49:46,200 --> 01:49:50,120
Speaker 1: He matured. He was driven and from the first game

2241
01:49:50,160 --> 01:49:52,960
Speaker 1: of the year, the first ball he caught, he felt

2242
01:49:53,040 --> 01:49:55,040
Speaker 1: like he was going to score. Every time he touched

2243
01:49:55,080 --> 01:49:59,920
Speaker 1: the ball, breaking tackles, fighting, his mental toughness just really

2244
01:50:00,080 --> 01:50:02,879
Speaker 1: he came through in this past year. It was amazing

2245
01:50:02,960 --> 01:50:05,760
Speaker 1: to see it. Seriously, every time he touched the ball,

2246
01:50:06,520 --> 01:50:08,759
Speaker 1: it looked like he was going to break every tackle.

2247
01:50:08,800 --> 01:50:10,479
Speaker 1: It didn't matter how many guys were on the field.

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01:50:11,040 --> 01:50:14,720
Speaker 1: So I think the maturity level came around the athleticism,

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01:50:15,200 --> 01:50:18,200
Speaker 1: the abilities on the field. That's always been effort Chase,

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01:50:18,800 --> 01:50:21,960
Speaker 1: and I think he's going to really I think he'll

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01:50:22,000 --> 01:50:24,320
Speaker 1: be very good and I think he'll improved as he

2252
01:50:24,400 --> 01:50:30,960
Speaker 1: does because he played with a quarterback that didn't throw

2253
01:50:31,040 --> 01:50:33,720
Speaker 1: the ball well early on, and then when Ian Book

2254
01:50:33,800 --> 01:50:35,800
Speaker 1: took over, it was more of an efficient passing game.

2255
01:50:35,880 --> 01:50:40,879
Speaker 1: And so finally he and the other receivers started to improve.

2256
01:50:41,520 --> 01:50:44,200
Speaker 1: And then you add that with his maturity level improving.

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01:50:44,320 --> 01:50:46,000
Speaker 1: I think he's I think he's got a lot of

2258
01:50:46,080 --> 01:50:48,280
Speaker 1: room for improvement as well from where he is right now.

2259
01:50:49,920 --> 01:50:51,960
Speaker 1: I ask you about one more prospect. Cole came at

2260
01:50:52,080 --> 01:50:53,760
Speaker 1: the big tight end who missed the early part of

2261
01:50:53,800 --> 01:50:56,599
Speaker 1: the season with an injury. He only played one year.

2262
01:50:56,640 --> 01:50:58,280
Speaker 1: I think it not a namer started one year. What

2263
01:50:58,400 --> 01:51:01,400
Speaker 1: kind of an NFL player would he be? He's he's

2264
01:51:01,439 --> 01:51:03,519
Speaker 1: got the size, he's got the speed at the tight

2265
01:51:03,640 --> 01:51:06,639
Speaker 1: end position. You're like, I think he'll translate. Well, Um,

2266
01:51:07,439 --> 01:51:10,679
Speaker 1: he's not a fire at tight end, but he runs

2267
01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:14,040
Speaker 1: very well. Um, you know there's there's some freaky tight

2268
01:51:14,160 --> 01:51:15,479
Speaker 1: ends that are just I don't I don't know what

2269
01:51:15,560 --> 01:51:20,000
Speaker 1: his time in the forty is, but Cole blocks extremely well.

2270
01:51:20,040 --> 01:51:23,880
Speaker 1: He catches the ball. He's a route runner. Um, he's

2271
01:51:23,920 --> 01:51:26,479
Speaker 1: a multi athlete in baseball. He's a pitcher. He was

2272
01:51:26,479 --> 01:51:28,600
Speaker 1: in ninety two nine from Hot Our Fastball. He was

2273
01:51:28,600 --> 01:51:31,560
Speaker 1: there closer in baseball, So he was going over to

2274
01:51:31,600 --> 01:51:34,920
Speaker 1: baseball closing a game, then coming over to spring practice.

2275
01:51:35,640 --> 01:51:40,280
Speaker 1: He really he's a guy that doesn't stay injured. He

2276
01:51:40,479 --> 01:51:44,600
Speaker 1: had a nasty ankle sprain, uh and they were anticipating

2277
01:51:44,600 --> 01:51:48,040
Speaker 1: a four to six week thing. He played the following week. Um.

2278
01:51:48,600 --> 01:51:52,519
Speaker 1: He he just has a knack for pain tolerance. I

2279
01:51:52,600 --> 01:51:54,679
Speaker 1: guess and fight. He fought to a few different injuries

2280
01:51:54,720 --> 01:51:57,960
Speaker 1: at different times, so his his toughness is there as well.

2281
01:51:58,479 --> 01:52:00,800
Speaker 1: And he's one of those guys I when we would

2282
01:52:00,800 --> 01:52:03,160
Speaker 1: have him in production meetings, I'd love talking to so

2283
01:52:03,880 --> 01:52:08,600
Speaker 1: I I think he'd be very existent successful. Kenny be

2284
01:52:08,720 --> 01:52:11,040
Speaker 1: as dominated as a guy like Gronk was. I don't

2285
01:52:11,120 --> 01:52:18,640
Speaker 1: know Kelsey, those guys he's he's maybe a schmidge not

2286
01:52:18,800 --> 01:52:23,200
Speaker 1: as athletic, but he's real close, real close. What can

2287
01:52:23,240 --> 01:52:25,400
Speaker 1: you tell us about maybe some of the defensive lineman

2288
01:52:25,400 --> 01:52:28,760
Speaker 1: there's a two of them. Start with Julian Aquara. What

2289
01:52:28,920 --> 01:52:31,160
Speaker 1: kind of athlete is he and what is his skill set?

2290
01:52:32,439 --> 01:52:37,080
Speaker 1: Julian he was like when you looked at him when

2291
01:52:37,120 --> 01:52:40,040
Speaker 1: he was young, he was an undersized defense. Ths like,

2292
01:52:40,040 --> 01:52:41,960
Speaker 1: this guy's gonna get They're gonna run the ball down

2293
01:52:42,080 --> 01:52:47,360
Speaker 1: his throat, and he was all finesse, and he's got moves,

2294
01:52:47,400 --> 01:52:51,280
Speaker 1: he's got hands, he's got quickness. And as a youngster,

2295
01:52:51,360 --> 01:52:53,040
Speaker 1: you get in there on third down and rushed the

2296
01:52:53,120 --> 01:52:56,759
Speaker 1: pass there like nobody's business, and all of a sudden

2297
01:52:56,960 --> 01:53:00,439
Speaker 1: you realized a year later, you know he's moved and people.

2298
01:53:00,640 --> 01:53:05,200
Speaker 1: He's a lot more physically strong and and thrown together

2299
01:53:05,320 --> 01:53:11,320
Speaker 1: than his body type would indicate. The coaches rape. No

2300
01:53:11,400 --> 01:53:14,000
Speaker 1: one could block them. I mean they had all NFL

2301
01:53:14,120 --> 01:53:17,479
Speaker 1: caliber offensive linemen at Notre Dame and nobody could block them.

2302
01:53:17,600 --> 01:53:20,800
Speaker 1: He had great pass rush, moves quick around the edge,

2303
01:53:21,479 --> 01:53:25,920
Speaker 1: uses his hands well, and he's much more physical than

2304
01:53:26,000 --> 01:53:32,040
Speaker 1: you would think looking at him. Hey, Doug, just give

2305
01:53:32,120 --> 01:53:34,519
Speaker 1: us a recap. If folks want to donate to the

2306
01:53:34,600 --> 01:53:39,720
Speaker 1: Flute Foundation, especially families with someone affected by autism, where

2307
01:53:39,720 --> 01:53:41,599
Speaker 1: do they go? How can they help? And I think

2308
01:53:41,600 --> 01:53:43,640
Speaker 1: you pointed out the money donates and eight comes right

2309
01:53:43,680 --> 01:53:47,200
Speaker 1: back here to agencies in Buffalo, right, yes, correct, So

2310
01:53:47,400 --> 01:53:49,280
Speaker 1: Flutie Foundations out of Work is where you can go

2311
01:53:49,400 --> 01:53:53,320
Speaker 1: to make donations. And like I said, right now, we're

2312
01:53:53,320 --> 01:53:55,200
Speaker 1: in a position where there's a lot of families that

2313
01:53:55,800 --> 01:53:59,559
Speaker 1: have been disrupted that maybe financially strapped, that can't even

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Speaker 1: pay the bills or put foot on the table. And

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Speaker 1: we're reaching out to those families with autism in those

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01:54:06,080 --> 01:54:09,000
Speaker 1: situations and then helping them out as well as technology

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01:54:09,040 --> 01:54:11,960
Speaker 1: to help the kids at home. UM so reaching out

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Speaker 1: to the Flute Foundation dot to work for your donations

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01:54:14,600 --> 01:54:18,400
Speaker 1: you can, If you can help, we appreciate it. Thanks

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Speaker 1: to Chappy, Doug. Thank you great talking with you, Thank you,

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Doug. Doug Flutie twelve years in the NFL

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01:54:26,560 --> 01:54:28,320
Speaker 1: as a quarterback, three of those years with the Bills.

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01:54:28,360 --> 01:54:31,880
Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty four, Heisman Trophy winner at Boston College.

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01:54:32,000 --> 01:54:34,200
Speaker 1: He's certainly got a lot going on. By the way,

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Speaker 1: if you want to know how to help out the

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01:54:35,960 --> 01:54:39,680
Speaker 1: Flute Foundation and their work with families with autism involved,

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01:54:40,160 --> 01:54:42,640
Speaker 1: we tweeted it out a link to donate, but you

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01:54:42,720 --> 01:54:45,360
Speaker 1: can also go, as he said, the Flute Foundation dot org.

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01:54:45,720 --> 01:54:48,200
Speaker 1: Doug Flutie, UM, a lot of good things to say

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Speaker 1: about those Notre Dame by player Steve Claypool and cool

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01:54:51,040 --> 01:54:53,920
Speaker 1: comet and the defensive linement. That was good. It was

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01:54:54,080 --> 01:54:56,240
Speaker 1: and you know what, I don't want to say anything,

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01:54:56,320 --> 01:54:59,600
Speaker 1: but last year who was a guy. H Yeah, Dk Metcalf.

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Speaker 1: Uh we saw him at the senior bowling at the

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Speaker 1: Combine and from that moment on you you had, you

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01:55:06,240 --> 01:55:07,880
Speaker 1: kind of set your sights on him. He didn't become

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01:55:07,920 --> 01:55:09,680
Speaker 1: a Buffalo Bill, but he came to Seattle Seahog and

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01:55:09,720 --> 01:55:12,600
Speaker 1: had a great year. That's how I feel about Chase

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01:55:13,160 --> 01:55:16,120
Speaker 1: Claypool this year. I think he is a guy that

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01:55:16,320 --> 01:55:19,800
Speaker 1: is going to contribute right away for whatever NFL team

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01:55:19,880 --> 01:55:21,760
Speaker 1: grabs him. I don't know that he's in the cards

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01:55:21,800 --> 01:55:25,280
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills, but that's the guy that caught

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01:55:25,360 --> 01:55:27,560
Speaker 1: my eye more so than any other at the Combine,

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01:55:27,760 --> 01:55:31,240
Speaker 1: and I'm really interested to see how he how he

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01:55:31,560 --> 01:55:35,200
Speaker 1: uh you know, transitions into the NFL and who gets him.

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01:55:35,240 --> 01:55:39,000
Speaker 1: And I'm you know, just like Dk Metcalf last year,

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01:55:39,080 --> 01:55:42,320
Speaker 1: Claypool was a guy I knew nothing about before the

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01:55:42,400 --> 01:55:45,360
Speaker 1: Combine and now it's he's like all I can think

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01:55:45,360 --> 01:55:47,680
Speaker 1: about when it when it comes to those guys, I

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01:55:47,720 --> 01:55:49,240
Speaker 1: just want to see where that guy goes and how

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01:55:49,320 --> 01:55:51,440
Speaker 1: he plays. I'll tell you what, if the Bills had

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01:55:51,520 --> 01:55:54,000
Speaker 1: not made the trade for Stefan Diggs a few weeks ago,

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01:55:54,360 --> 01:55:57,560
Speaker 1: I'd be all over Claypool they got you'd be standing

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01:55:57,600 --> 01:56:00,760
Speaker 1: on the desk, I know, but now I've come off

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01:56:00,840 --> 01:56:02,520
Speaker 1: that a little bit. I thought it was interesting that

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01:56:02,840 --> 01:56:05,480
Speaker 1: Jim Nage from the Senior Bowl told us that because

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01:56:05,520 --> 01:56:09,360
Speaker 1: there's so many good receivers, Claypool might be there in

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01:56:09,400 --> 01:56:11,760
Speaker 1: the second round at fifty four. Or maybe he's the

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01:56:11,800 --> 01:56:13,640
Speaker 1: guy you know we talked about Brandon Bean might want

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01:56:13,680 --> 01:56:16,080
Speaker 1: to move up to the top thirty five, top forty.

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01:56:16,200 --> 01:56:18,000
Speaker 1: Maybe Claypool's a guy that got their eye on. I

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01:56:18,000 --> 01:56:20,000
Speaker 1: don't know. I think it's going to be a corner

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01:56:20,280 --> 01:56:22,680
Speaker 1: before I think it'll be a wide out I think.

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01:56:23,560 --> 01:56:26,640
Speaker 1: Don't ask me why. I just think if they can

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01:56:26,720 --> 01:56:31,320
Speaker 1: continue with the current recipe for how this team is

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01:56:31,400 --> 01:56:35,600
Speaker 1: built before they start to evolve away from it, like

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01:56:36,240 --> 01:56:38,320
Speaker 1: like we always go back to, like how the Seattle

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01:56:38,400 --> 01:56:43,440
Speaker 1: Seahawks developed or evolved away from the legion of Boom

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01:56:43,480 --> 01:56:45,880
Speaker 1: and winning the World Championship and going to a second

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01:56:45,920 --> 01:56:50,919
Speaker 1: Super Bowl and almost winning with that great dominating defense,

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01:56:51,000 --> 01:56:53,520
Speaker 1: and then they evolved away as they gave their quarterback

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01:56:53,640 --> 01:56:55,960
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson a big contract. Now they're winning games and

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01:56:56,040 --> 01:56:57,920
Speaker 1: in the playoffs for a different reason in a different

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01:56:57,960 --> 01:57:01,000
Speaker 1: way with a different kind of recipe. Well, the Bills

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01:57:01,440 --> 01:57:04,080
Speaker 1: I think can still ride this recipe for a while.

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01:57:04,680 --> 01:57:06,800
Speaker 1: And that's why I think grabbing a corner in this

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01:57:06,960 --> 01:57:09,280
Speaker 1: draft is not out of the realm of possibility, and

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01:57:09,320 --> 01:57:12,600
Speaker 1: it could set them up for an even longer stint

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01:57:12,680 --> 01:57:14,920
Speaker 1: with a defense that played as well or better than

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01:57:14,920 --> 01:57:17,600
Speaker 1: anybody else's defense last year. I got more draft talk

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01:57:17,640 --> 01:57:21,120
Speaker 1: coming up on the show tomorrow. Greg Cosell from ESPN

2382
01:57:21,280 --> 01:57:24,000
Speaker 1: NFL Matchup joined us at one. Maybe we get him

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01:57:24,040 --> 01:57:26,240
Speaker 1: to take us through some of the cornerbacks that might

2384
01:57:26,280 --> 01:57:28,600
Speaker 1: be available to the Bills in round two. He's coming

2385
01:57:28,680 --> 01:57:30,400
Speaker 1: up tomorrow. We've got more of this show to common.

2386
01:57:30,440 --> 01:57:32,760
Speaker 1: We'd like to get your thoughts on our Twitter poll today.

2387
01:57:33,000 --> 01:57:37,960
Speaker 1: We've got more than how many votes? Six votes, so

2388
01:57:38,080 --> 01:57:39,600
Speaker 1: people are into it. Let's hear from you on the

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Speaker 1: phone lines eight h three oh five fifty Outside Buffalo

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. The

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01:57:45,200 --> 01:57:48,880
Speaker 1: NFL looking over contingency plans for the season. What should

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01:57:48,880 --> 01:57:51,800
Speaker 1: their approach be? Shorten it up, don't allow fans in

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01:57:51,880 --> 01:57:53,800
Speaker 1: the stadium, don't have any games at all until the

2394
01:57:54,240 --> 01:57:56,120
Speaker 1: virus is under control. Let us know what you think

2395
01:57:56,280 --> 01:57:58,360
Speaker 1: we'll get the phone calls. We'll get to NFL true

2396
01:57:58,360 --> 01:58:00,880
Speaker 1: and false when we come back. One slide presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalada Health Radio Only Day. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Back one built Live, John Murphy, Steve Tansko. Yeah,

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01:58:17,840 --> 01:58:21,560
Speaker 1: a little loose, little rough around the edges today, Steve. No,

2400
01:58:21,960 --> 01:58:26,800
Speaker 1: we're buttoned up. Fifth week, fifth week, We're totally buttoned up.

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01:58:27,000 --> 01:58:29,040
Speaker 1: I think we almost came on button there a minute ago.

2402
01:58:29,280 --> 01:58:32,640
Speaker 1: Nothing to see here. The ball show is gonna be killer.

2403
01:58:32,720 --> 01:58:35,920
Speaker 1: Matty Glad will join us from our own staff, Greg Cosal.

2404
01:58:36,280 --> 01:58:38,880
Speaker 1: We've got Thurman Thomas I believe on tomorrow show right,

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01:58:38,920 --> 01:58:42,400
Speaker 1: Thurman's coming ons coming on baby and Matt Barnaby or

2406
01:58:42,440 --> 01:58:45,560
Speaker 1: Matt Barnaby, Matt Barkley, can we read my own notes?

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01:58:45,800 --> 01:58:47,960
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley will join us, Bills back up quarterback. So

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01:58:48,080 --> 01:58:49,440
Speaker 1: tomorrow we'll be a good show too. A good way

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01:58:49,440 --> 01:58:52,040
Speaker 1: to close out the week, right, Yeah, very nice. It's

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01:58:52,120 --> 01:58:54,560
Speaker 1: a little short week. Had the long weekend for the

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01:58:54,720 --> 01:58:59,040
Speaker 1: Easter holiday when we had nothing to do, and then uh,

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Speaker 1: this the whole week on the air. It's good be

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01:59:01,880 --> 01:59:04,760
Speaker 1: tomorrows a short week. Some now you can't quick got

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01:59:04,800 --> 01:59:06,520
Speaker 1: a good show today, and we got a good topic

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Speaker 1: here with more than al munts one thousand votes. NFL

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Speaker 1: is considering contingency plans for this season. What should the

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01:59:12,600 --> 01:59:15,160
Speaker 1: league's approach to be you? Should it be a shortened season?

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01:59:15,520 --> 01:59:17,680
Speaker 1: Only seven percent of you on our Twitter poll say

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01:59:17,680 --> 01:59:19,600
Speaker 1: that's a way to go. Should there be no fans

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01:59:19,640 --> 01:59:21,840
Speaker 1: in attendance? Forty nine percent of you say that's a

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01:59:21,880 --> 01:59:23,840
Speaker 1: way to go. Should there be no games at all

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01:59:23,920 --> 01:59:26,680
Speaker 1: until the virus has under control? Twenty eight percent of

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01:59:26,680 --> 01:59:28,840
Speaker 1: you say that's the way to go, or should there's

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Speaker 1: be something else? Sixteen percent say other? Give us a

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Speaker 1: call eight h three five fifty toll free one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty sending a tweet,

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Speaker 1: But the calls now in the last half hour are

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Speaker 1: most important. Tim in lake View, Hello, Tim, You're on

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01:59:41,720 --> 01:59:48,120
Speaker 1: the air. Hi, John Steve, worst Gate scenario. I think

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01:59:48,240 --> 01:59:50,480
Speaker 1: that there should be no fans in the stand. They

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01:59:50,520 --> 01:59:54,280
Speaker 1: should at least have a season and televise for two reasons. One,

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01:59:54,600 --> 01:59:57,120
Speaker 1: being a healthcare worker, we risk our lives every day

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01:59:57,400 --> 01:59:59,920
Speaker 1: and don't get make millions of dollars. So I think

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Speaker 1: the limited the risk that the players and the coaches

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02:00:02,520 --> 02:00:05,480
Speaker 1: will have would be limited, and you know, I'm sure

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Speaker 1: the NFL would make sure that. And two, I think

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Speaker 1: it would be a great for the public psyche. I

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Speaker 1: believe that being cooped up all these days and all

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Speaker 1: these weeks, having a season and being able to watch

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Speaker 1: it and then being able to call your family and

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Speaker 1: friends and talk about the games, I think will do

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Speaker 1: great for people's morale. Yeah, I have a question for Jim.

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Speaker 1: Why would it be not that great a risk for

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Speaker 1: players to be on the field. Well, because I think

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02:00:31,400 --> 02:00:34,800
Speaker 1: they have some of the best doctors in the United States,

2446
02:00:34,880 --> 02:00:38,080
Speaker 1: and I believe that by making sure that you know,

2447
02:00:38,200 --> 02:00:43,480
Speaker 1: checking temperatures and screening people, the risk will be very limited.

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Speaker 1: To where we go out every day and we are

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Speaker 1: at risk every day in with the public, and we

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02:00:49,120 --> 02:00:51,600
Speaker 1: don't know until it's too late that this person might

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02:00:51,720 --> 02:00:55,160
Speaker 1: have signs or symptoms. I get it, and I appreciate

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Speaker 1: the risk and thank you for the risk that you

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Speaker 1: and other healthcare workers take. Interesting question, Yeah, go ahead,

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02:01:01,720 --> 02:01:05,640
Speaker 1: because yeah, because it would you know, and I don't

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Speaker 1: know that anybody would or rightfully would, but you know,

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Speaker 1: would the players could just ask the players say listen,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna take every precaution we can. Would you be

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Speaker 1: willing to come in and work and play? Interesting to

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Speaker 1: see what the feedback was from the players themselves. I

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Speaker 1: think I probably would have taken the risk and come in,

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Speaker 1: and I probably would have wanted to play. I think

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Speaker 1: players would probably want to play if there was sufficient,

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02:01:30,560 --> 02:01:33,680
Speaker 1: you know, sufficient safeguards in place, or if and certainly

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02:01:33,760 --> 02:01:35,880
Speaker 1: if the pandemic was in a different situation than it

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02:01:36,000 --> 02:01:39,680
Speaker 1: is now. That's an interesting question. Certainly I agree with him.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna overblow the importance of the NFL. That

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02:01:42,400 --> 02:01:44,720
Speaker 1: would be crazy to talk, but I do think it

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02:01:44,760 --> 02:01:49,080
Speaker 1: would help morale, the national morale, having something that that

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02:01:49,240 --> 02:01:52,600
Speaker 1: would further unify us rather than just the fact that

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Speaker 1: we have to stay separate together. Yeah, I mean, let

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02:01:56,480 --> 02:01:58,240
Speaker 1: me just sit and jump in here quickly. That's four

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Speaker 1: months away. I mean, hopefully we're not separated like this

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02:02:01,680 --> 02:02:04,200
Speaker 1: in four months. Maybe we will be, but certainly there

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02:02:04,200 --> 02:02:06,440
Speaker 1: will be. I would help other things jump into the

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02:02:06,480 --> 02:02:08,800
Speaker 1: fray in the next four months before the NFL could

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02:02:08,800 --> 02:02:10,760
Speaker 1: start playing games again. Right where we think where we

2477
02:02:10,840 --> 02:02:13,640
Speaker 1: were four months ago, you know, we we were this

2478
02:02:13,800 --> 02:02:16,400
Speaker 1: was it wasn't a blip on our radar, right right,

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02:02:16,560 --> 02:02:19,720
Speaker 1: it was even you know, six weeks ago. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: a blip on ours. There was a footnote on the newscast. Um,

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02:02:25,600 --> 02:02:28,040
Speaker 1: I don't know that it will go away that fast

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02:02:28,200 --> 02:02:31,880
Speaker 1: or that completely in four months, you know, I don't

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02:02:31,880 --> 02:02:33,760
Speaker 1: know if it'll go away that fast. Maybe it will

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02:02:34,240 --> 02:02:36,080
Speaker 1: as fast as it won't go away as fast as

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02:02:36,160 --> 02:02:40,000
Speaker 1: it escalated though, right, you would think not. The other

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02:02:40,080 --> 02:02:41,640
Speaker 1: thing about what Tim and Lake you had to say,

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02:02:41,680 --> 02:02:45,040
Speaker 1: which I think is important, is um, Yeah, the risk,

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02:02:45,680 --> 02:02:49,320
Speaker 1: but here's it is an individual risk. But I think

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02:02:49,360 --> 02:02:53,440
Speaker 1: more than that, if one player gets content contaminated with

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02:02:53,520 --> 02:02:57,440
Speaker 1: the virus um and he you know, he risks the

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02:02:57,640 --> 02:02:59,880
Speaker 1: entire roster, I think that would be a consideration for

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02:03:00,040 --> 02:03:02,280
Speaker 1: the league. You can't have one guy on the on

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02:03:02,400 --> 02:03:06,400
Speaker 1: the team being contaminated and he said, they have tests

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02:03:06,440 --> 02:03:08,640
Speaker 1: and they do the tests. Oh, our running back has

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02:03:08,880 --> 02:03:11,200
Speaker 1: uh COVID nineteen. Well, what does that do to the

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02:03:11,280 --> 02:03:13,320
Speaker 1: rest of the roster. They're all exposed on two, right,

2497
02:03:13,480 --> 02:03:15,360
Speaker 1: doesn't that kind of ruin the whole break up, the

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02:03:15,360 --> 02:03:21,640
Speaker 1: whole thing. It's it's an an incredibly, it's it's a domino,

2499
02:03:22,080 --> 02:03:26,320
Speaker 1: and when one falls, that's it. Everything goes. There's just

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02:03:26,560 --> 02:03:30,520
Speaker 1: no way around it. That team is completely off the record.

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02:03:30,600 --> 02:03:32,440
Speaker 1: That means they can't play their game this week. That

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02:03:32,560 --> 02:03:35,840
Speaker 1: means they forfeit their game whatever. You know. And if

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02:03:35,960 --> 02:03:40,640
Speaker 1: that team has played in the last what three days,

2504
02:03:41,480 --> 02:03:46,720
Speaker 1: two weeks, that team that it played is quarantined, right

2505
02:03:47,680 --> 02:03:49,800
Speaker 1: you know that. I mean, there's just no end to

2506
02:03:49,920 --> 02:03:52,080
Speaker 1: the to the ripple effect of one guy getting in

2507
02:03:52,120 --> 02:03:54,720
Speaker 1: an NFL locker room. Thanks for a call. Let's go

2508
02:03:54,760 --> 02:03:57,400
Speaker 1: to Andrew in Stafford, New York. Hello Andrew, you're on

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02:03:57,480 --> 02:04:00,920
Speaker 1: the air. Hello. I was just calling to weigh in

2510
02:04:01,080 --> 02:04:04,880
Speaker 1: on the Twitter poll. I said they should do the

2511
02:04:06,080 --> 02:04:08,520
Speaker 1: playing without fans in the stadium, but one thing they

2512
02:04:08,520 --> 02:04:12,080
Speaker 1: should look at is centralizing the teams and maybe playing

2513
02:04:12,240 --> 02:04:16,480
Speaker 1: three games a day with teams on certain days, like say,

2514
02:04:16,760 --> 02:04:19,200
Speaker 1: everyone gets together in Dallas. I just want to hear

2515
02:04:19,240 --> 02:04:23,120
Speaker 1: your thoughts on that. It's an interesting idea that's been

2516
02:04:23,160 --> 02:04:26,000
Speaker 1: brought up before, and baseball talked about doing it in Arizona.

2517
02:04:26,040 --> 02:04:28,000
Speaker 1: I saw an interesting quote. Even Mike Frout, one of

2518
02:04:28,040 --> 02:04:30,600
Speaker 1: the best players in baseball, was talking about it, and

2519
02:04:30,760 --> 02:04:32,920
Speaker 1: he was talking about how he doesn't know if he's

2520
02:04:32,960 --> 02:04:36,040
Speaker 1: willing to leave his family, or even take his family

2521
02:04:36,120 --> 02:04:39,200
Speaker 1: to Phoenix, Arizona for six months to try to get

2522
02:04:39,240 --> 02:04:42,000
Speaker 1: a baseball season and to be quarantined in a hotel

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Speaker 1: with your teammates for six months. And I think you

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02:04:44,240 --> 02:04:46,680
Speaker 1: can almost think play that out to football, Steve. The

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02:04:47,120 --> 02:04:50,320
Speaker 1: NFL players want to go as a group, all fifty

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02:04:50,400 --> 02:04:53,920
Speaker 1: three players put coaching stamp plus support personnel. They want

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02:04:53,960 --> 02:04:55,880
Speaker 1: to go somewhere for four or five months and play

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02:04:55,920 --> 02:04:57,800
Speaker 1: a season away from their families. I don't know. I

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02:04:57,840 --> 02:05:02,080
Speaker 1: don't know. It's a lot to ask, well, I don't

2530
02:05:02,280 --> 02:05:05,440
Speaker 1: not for nothing, And I hate to sound like this

2531
02:05:06,040 --> 02:05:08,400
Speaker 1: because it makes me not like myself very much. This

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Speaker 1: is gonna be good, Mike. Mike Trout's money's one hundred

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02:05:12,280 --> 02:05:16,680
Speaker 1: percent guaranteed. Oh, I don't if they don't have a season,

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02:05:16,720 --> 02:05:18,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the case. Isn't His money's

2535
02:05:18,560 --> 02:05:21,000
Speaker 1: one hundred percent guaranteed. If they don't play a season,

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02:05:21,120 --> 02:05:24,200
Speaker 1: he's still getting paid. I don't know, one hundred percent guaranteed.

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02:05:24,960 --> 02:05:29,120
Speaker 1: So what are you trying to say, Well, you dangle,

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02:05:30,520 --> 02:05:33,000
Speaker 1: you dangle Mike Trout money like twenty seven million bucks

2539
02:05:33,040 --> 02:05:35,000
Speaker 1: a year out in front of a kid that's just

2540
02:05:35,160 --> 02:05:39,760
Speaker 1: got drafted the NFL. Yeah, he'll go out and Seequester himself.

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02:05:39,880 --> 02:05:41,480
Speaker 1: Mike Trout may have a wife and family. There's a

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02:05:41,480 --> 02:05:43,360
Speaker 1: lot of guys who play NFL football that are single.

2543
02:05:44,240 --> 02:05:46,640
Speaker 1: They good money in the NFL too. Are they going

2544
02:05:46,680 --> 02:05:49,400
Speaker 1: to do that? Yeah? Well that even going to leave

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02:05:49,480 --> 02:05:51,400
Speaker 1: his wife and kids and go to live in a

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02:05:51,480 --> 02:05:55,320
Speaker 1: hotel somewhere. It's a different dynamic. And and believe me,

2547
02:05:55,360 --> 02:05:57,480
Speaker 1: it'll be. There's two thousand guys, and I'm sure Mike

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02:05:57,560 --> 02:06:00,280
Speaker 1: Trout doesn't. He may speak for all the NFL have

2549
02:06:00,680 --> 02:06:04,200
Speaker 1: the Major League Baseball players, but Tom Brady certainly doesn't

2550
02:06:04,200 --> 02:06:06,200
Speaker 1: speak for all the NFL players. We saw that in

2551
02:06:06,280 --> 02:06:09,920
Speaker 1: the in the players CBA vote to a month ago. Um,

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02:06:10,200 --> 02:06:11,920
Speaker 1: I don't think Mike Trout speaks for all the players,

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02:06:11,960 --> 02:06:14,800
Speaker 1: But I'm saying it's a reasonable It is a reasonable

2554
02:06:14,840 --> 02:06:17,400
Speaker 1: objection made by a baseball player. And I'm in the

2555
02:06:17,800 --> 02:06:22,920
Speaker 1: reasonable rebundal is they're paying you seven figures, do what

2556
02:06:23,000 --> 02:06:25,760
Speaker 1: you're told. Let me all right, you played in the league,

2557
02:06:25,760 --> 02:06:27,920
Speaker 1: didn't make seven well you did almost, but maybe he

2558
02:06:27,960 --> 02:06:30,320
Speaker 1: made seven figures. Maybe he didn't. Would you at with

2559
02:06:30,680 --> 02:06:32,480
Speaker 1: Sarah and all those little kids growing up? Would you

2560
02:06:32,480 --> 02:06:34,960
Speaker 1: have said by Sarah it's August thirty first, I'll see

2561
02:06:35,000 --> 02:06:37,560
Speaker 1: you December thirty. First. I can't, I can't be together.

2562
02:06:37,600 --> 02:06:39,200
Speaker 1: We can't be together for the next four months. You've

2563
02:06:39,200 --> 02:06:42,440
Speaker 1: done that. You're doing all right with that? Wait, let

2564
02:06:42,520 --> 02:06:43,760
Speaker 1: me stick my head out the door and make sure

2565
02:06:43,840 --> 02:06:48,360
Speaker 1: she's not listening. Not murf, but in a word, yep,

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02:06:49,200 --> 02:06:52,800
Speaker 1: really yeah, because you know what, murph, we have we have.

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02:06:53,080 --> 02:06:55,240
Speaker 1: We have a large, loving family. And I would have

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02:06:55,520 --> 02:06:58,840
Speaker 1: had relative her mom my mom would have people move

2569
02:06:58,880 --> 02:07:01,480
Speaker 1: into the house help her. They would They would have

2570
02:07:01,520 --> 02:07:04,200
Speaker 1: made the best of it and for them, and particularly

2571
02:07:04,320 --> 02:07:07,120
Speaker 1: for the kind for life changing money that the players

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02:07:07,200 --> 02:07:12,560
Speaker 1: signed for. Uh, it would be not much different. Uh well,

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02:07:12,560 --> 02:07:15,800
Speaker 1: it would be much better than a guy deploying in

2574
02:07:15,880 --> 02:07:22,080
Speaker 1: the military for a tenth of that money. Um right,

2575
02:07:22,320 --> 02:07:26,080
Speaker 1: So you're I think that's crazy talk to think a

2576
02:07:26,160 --> 02:07:29,200
Speaker 1: guy won't leave home to go guys do it, to

2577
02:07:29,280 --> 02:07:31,320
Speaker 1: go up in the oil fields and work for weeks

2578
02:07:31,360 --> 02:07:38,480
Speaker 1: at a time, um, for less money. Um yeah, I think, yeah,

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02:07:38,600 --> 02:07:40,360
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem asking guys to do that.

2580
02:07:40,400 --> 02:07:42,280
Speaker 1: And certainly they'll raise a stink about it and all that,

2581
02:07:42,360 --> 02:07:46,160
Speaker 1: but when push comes to shove, they're making life changing

2582
02:07:46,280 --> 02:07:52,000
Speaker 1: money and we're in we're in unprecedented times. It's something

2583
02:07:52,080 --> 02:07:56,960
Speaker 1: that's never happened and and no question, it's a very

2584
02:07:57,120 --> 02:08:01,480
Speaker 1: unfortunate development, and it would be an annoy frmously big

2585
02:08:01,680 --> 02:08:07,920
Speaker 1: sacrifice that nobody actually signed up for. But unreasonable. I

2586
02:08:08,000 --> 02:08:10,600
Speaker 1: don't know. I can't get that far. Certainly, it would

2587
02:08:10,640 --> 02:08:13,600
Speaker 1: be unprecedented and it would be a big ask. I

2588
02:08:13,640 --> 02:08:16,960
Speaker 1: don't know if I would. I couldn't ask. I couldn't say. No.

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02:08:18,240 --> 02:08:21,120
Speaker 1: I think many people could. Many players could. Yeah, I'm

2590
02:08:21,120 --> 02:08:25,320
Speaker 1: sure they are. I'm sure get there. Well, you got

2591
02:08:25,320 --> 02:08:27,680
Speaker 1: a lot of guys now that's calling at quits, you know,

2592
02:08:27,760 --> 02:08:29,760
Speaker 1: after they signed the big cong you know what I mean. So,

2593
02:08:30,680 --> 02:08:34,040
Speaker 1: but that's because they've got their money. So there's a

2594
02:08:34,080 --> 02:08:37,080
Speaker 1: lot of guys that don't who would do it? So

2595
02:08:38,040 --> 02:08:40,200
Speaker 1: it's interesting. I don't know. But here's the thing. You're

2596
02:08:40,240 --> 02:08:42,520
Speaker 1: you're not gonna You're not gonna have the NFL play

2597
02:08:42,960 --> 02:08:45,440
Speaker 1: and Tom Brady sit out this year. They you know,

2598
02:08:45,880 --> 02:08:47,680
Speaker 1: you're not gonna play. The NFL is not gonna have

2599
02:08:47,760 --> 02:08:51,720
Speaker 1: a season, and have all the elite players say no,

2600
02:08:51,960 --> 02:08:53,960
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it, and then have the league

2601
02:08:54,000 --> 02:08:56,000
Speaker 1: go on I don't think that will happen. You gotta

2602
02:08:56,040 --> 02:08:58,520
Speaker 1: get everybody on board with it. I think it would

2603
02:08:58,560 --> 02:09:00,280
Speaker 1: be difficult. We're gonna take a break. We're come back.

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Life presented by Kalata Health Radio. Only today

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02:09:03,400 --> 02:09:18,560
Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bills Radio. So whatever we learned from

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02:09:18,600 --> 02:09:21,320
Speaker 1: today's show brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction

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02:09:21,360 --> 02:09:23,840
Speaker 1: equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. First hour of

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02:09:23,880 --> 02:09:26,800
Speaker 1: the show, we had Matted Shapiro on NFL vice President

2609
02:09:26,840 --> 02:09:30,000
Speaker 1: of Events. He talked about the challenge of getting everybody

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Speaker 1: connected up for the fifty eight prospects who will go

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Speaker 1: in the draft next weekend. Here's Matt Shapiro. The biggest

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Speaker 1: I would say left here technology wise, is making sure

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Speaker 1: that all fifty eight of the prospects who we've sort

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Speaker 1: of invited to be part of this almost a virtual

2615
02:09:45,400 --> 02:09:48,440
Speaker 1: green room and virtual experience, have the right connectivity. So

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02:09:48,520 --> 02:09:51,480
Speaker 1: we've sent individual kits I would call them to all

2617
02:09:51,520 --> 02:09:54,360
Speaker 1: of the prospects, which include a camera, microphone, some lighting,

2618
02:09:55,000 --> 02:09:57,360
Speaker 1: as well as these welcome hits that include a number

2619
02:09:57,400 --> 02:09:59,360
Speaker 1: of kind of special things for them to have on

2620
02:09:59,520 --> 02:10:03,720
Speaker 1: the night. So well, obviously it's not what we envisioned

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02:10:03,840 --> 02:10:06,720
Speaker 1: or necessarily wanted or anticipated. The ability to be connected

2622
02:10:06,800 --> 02:10:09,400
Speaker 1: with these fifty eight guys is actually almost double the

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02:10:09,520 --> 02:10:11,400
Speaker 1: number that we would have been able to have in Vegas.

2624
02:10:11,480 --> 02:10:14,000
Speaker 1: So by no means that this sort of fully replaced

2625
02:10:14,080 --> 02:10:16,560
Speaker 1: the power of walking on that stage or walking you know,

2626
02:10:16,640 --> 02:10:18,720
Speaker 1: across the stage. And given the commissioner that bear hug,

2627
02:10:18,880 --> 02:10:20,640
Speaker 1: we're doing everything we can to make sure that that

2628
02:10:20,840 --> 02:10:23,480
Speaker 1: experience has replicated him that as memorable and that we're

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02:10:23,720 --> 02:10:25,960
Speaker 1: we're really celebrating these guys as van to the league

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02:10:27,280 --> 02:10:30,360
Speaker 1: that's met Shapiro. Also on the show today Jim Nage

2631
02:10:30,520 --> 02:10:33,240
Speaker 1: from ESPN. He's covering the draft next week for ESPN.

2632
02:10:33,320 --> 02:10:35,920
Speaker 1: He's executive director of the Senior Bowl. He talked about

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02:10:35,960 --> 02:10:39,280
Speaker 1: how the coronavirus pandemic has effective evaluation and prospects from

2634
02:10:39,640 --> 02:10:42,080
Speaker 1: small schools guys who did not go to the combine

2635
02:10:42,160 --> 02:10:44,080
Speaker 1: or have a pro day. He says it is a

2636
02:10:44,200 --> 02:10:48,640
Speaker 1: disadvantage to them. It really hurts the small school guys

2637
02:10:48,720 --> 02:10:50,880
Speaker 1: because if they if they don't go to an all

2638
02:10:50,960 --> 02:10:53,080
Speaker 1: star game, and all star games are a great way

2639
02:10:53,120 --> 02:10:56,440
Speaker 1: to measure whether the guy's a really good small school

2640
02:10:56,520 --> 02:10:59,320
Speaker 1: player or if he's a legitimate pro prospect. You get

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02:10:59,400 --> 02:11:01,600
Speaker 1: him on the field with you get a D two

2642
02:11:01,760 --> 02:11:03,520
Speaker 1: or FCF guy on the field, or a bunch of

2643
02:11:03,600 --> 02:11:06,360
Speaker 1: SEC guys and Big ten guys, and you can, you

2644
02:11:06,440 --> 02:11:08,440
Speaker 1: know you can, you can make that judgment call. It

2645
02:11:08,560 --> 02:11:10,840
Speaker 1: becomes a lot easier. And if they but if they

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02:11:10,880 --> 02:11:13,200
Speaker 1: don't go to an All Star game, those guys really

2647
02:11:13,320 --> 02:11:16,280
Speaker 1: need a pro day because then they can post some

2648
02:11:16,440 --> 02:11:19,320
Speaker 1: testing data that that can at least show that they

2649
02:11:19,400 --> 02:11:23,600
Speaker 1: stack up with what's playing in the league. That's a

2650
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Speaker 1: Jim Nagi h Steve our Twitter poll today, and we're

2651
02:11:26,560 --> 02:11:28,640
Speaker 1: just kind of dipping our toe in the water how

2652
02:11:28,680 --> 02:11:31,440
Speaker 1: the NFL should approach a twenty twenty season. But almost

2653
02:11:31,480 --> 02:11:33,960
Speaker 1: half of our respondents in the Twitter post, says Uh

2654
02:11:34,120 --> 02:11:36,560
Speaker 1: say the league's approach should be no fans in attendance.

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02:11:36,640 --> 02:11:39,720
Speaker 1: I am fascinated by that. I think that's interesting. Yeah,

2656
02:11:39,720 --> 02:11:41,360
Speaker 1: I don't. I think everybody's used to seeing it on

2657
02:11:41,440 --> 02:11:45,080
Speaker 1: TV and they I think most people, And I'm just

2658
02:11:45,880 --> 02:11:48,880
Speaker 1: guessing what people are thinking. Generalizing, I think they say,

2659
02:11:49,040 --> 02:11:51,280
Speaker 1: I think they think we can be safe enough with

2660
02:11:51,960 --> 02:11:53,360
Speaker 1: as few of people as you can put in the

2661
02:11:53,400 --> 02:11:56,280
Speaker 1: stadium to put on a game. They're comfortable with that

2662
02:11:56,480 --> 02:11:59,080
Speaker 1: risk and go ahead and do it. Just don't put

2663
02:11:59,120 --> 02:12:01,680
Speaker 1: the public at risk. And that's a fair I guess

2664
02:12:01,720 --> 02:12:04,200
Speaker 1: it's a fair point of view. Yeah, the discussion has

2665
02:12:04,240 --> 02:12:06,400
Speaker 1: begun and it will continue on for a while. We

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02:12:06,520 --> 02:12:09,520
Speaker 1: know that schedules schedule to come out May night. I

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Speaker 1: want to thank our production assistants Kelly Rude, JJ Turto,

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Speaker 1: Kevin carg James Robel, our board ops to Day, Brighton Wilson,

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Speaker 1: Joe de Biance, and our producer Jay Harris. You got

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Speaker 1: a good show Tomorrow's team looking forward to it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it'll be fun. That's finally hints show of the week

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Speaker 1: every coming on tomorrow. Maybe I think so, but you

2673
02:12:25,160 --> 02:12:28,560
Speaker 1: never know, You never know. We are twelve noon. We

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Speaker 1: start One Bill's Live presented by Kalida Health Radio only tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio.