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Speaker 1: Oh, good time, Tasper Tex Down, Tex down Text down

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Speaker 1: over time. Welcome to Orchard Park, New York. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by a Lot of Health. Here's

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Speaker 1: what it looks like an OP today. A little snow overnight,

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Speaker 1: of the parking lot of here. We're warm and dry

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Speaker 1: inside the Seneca studio in front of the at Pro

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Speaker 1: Sports Training Center. Good afternoon, here to start our three

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Speaker 1: hour show. John Murphy alongside Chris Brown in for the

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Speaker 1: vacationing Steve Tasker today. Good to have you here, Chris.

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Speaker 1: Good to be here, Murph. It's Friday. Yes, what seems

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Speaker 1: like a long week. I know I was off last week,

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Speaker 1: it's only Friday. I don't know if I have an

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Speaker 1: I know, I know, but we do. It's a three

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Speaker 1: happy to have Chris Brown here. You want to start

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Speaker 1: with weather, That's what Steve and I usually start with. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just because we have nothing else to talk about. Dams

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Speaker 1: think this winter isn't going And what are they say

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Speaker 1: in March it goes out like a lamb or whatever.

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Speaker 1: So you think winner is not nearly over? Is gonna

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Speaker 1: be roaring for a while. Oh, I don't know about that.

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Speaker 1: I hope you. I hope you're wrong about that, So

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Speaker 1: do I because I'll take a mild winter any day

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Speaker 1: of the week. Right, it's been good so far. Well

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Speaker 1: weather just like me and uh happy to blige Steve Hey.

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Speaker 1: A couple of things about the Bills. The Bills have

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Speaker 1: added an assistant defensive line coach, Jacques Cesaire thirty nine

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Speaker 1: year old played nine years in the NFL with the Chargers.

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Speaker 1: Played college football at Southern Connecticut State. Came into the

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Speaker 1: Sizair the brand new Bills defense assistant defensive line coach.

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Speaker 1: Any thoughts on that, Well, I mean he's got some

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Speaker 1: he will be playing a support role, you know, to

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Speaker 1: It's a situation where coach McDermott doesn't have to kind

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Speaker 1: we just launched it a couple of minutes ago. Simple question.

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Speaker 1: and the camp start, right, simple question, what's the best

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Speaker 1: What is the best asset for the Bills this offseason?

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Speaker 1: A classic simple Twitter poll, Chris. We found that simple

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Speaker 1: Neil Reynolds, the host on Sky Sports NFL dot Com.

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Speaker 1: a Saturday and then another one on a Sunday. I

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Speaker 1: wonder how it's gonna go in the different venues that

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Speaker 1: they have. We already know they have an NFL Ready Stadium,

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Speaker 1: two NFL Ready stadiums in London, and you know, the

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Speaker 1: Tottenham Stadium and Wembley, and then from there, you know,

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Speaker 1: you just got to find your other places that that

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Speaker 1: fit the mold in terms of what you feel you

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Speaker 1: need With an international audience. On hand, I think that's coming.

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Speaker 1: I do think they're gonna play international games. I think

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Speaker 1: each team will have to play one of them a year,

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Speaker 1: and it would almost perfectly fit out the seventeen game schedule.

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Speaker 1: Multiple bye weeks not an issue, although what becomes an

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Speaker 1: issue is the extension with that and the expanded postseason,

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Speaker 1: probably having two more wildcard teams now have a longer postseason,

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Speaker 1: another week of postseason, and the football the Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: would be paid played in late February. Any problem, unless,

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Speaker 1: well unless you choose to start it before Labor Day.

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Speaker 1: I was talking about starting the week after. That was

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Speaker 1: the plan. Yeah, I mean, I don't anticipate they will

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Speaker 1: start before Labor Day because I know the league for

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Speaker 1: years has been against starting any season before Labor Day

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Speaker 1: because they know on Labor Day, everybody's getting their last

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Speaker 1: kick at summer and nobody's in their house watching football games.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's always been the deterrent to start

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Speaker 1: the season after Labor Day, and I would anticipate that continues. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so you're right. I mean you're talking about pushing pushing

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Speaker 1: it into mid to late February. You know, Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: might be President's Week, you know what I mean. So

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Speaker 1: let me get you to this question. And this is

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Speaker 1: not our topic today. It was yesterday's question. You didn't

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Speaker 1: have a chance to answer this question yesterday. But where

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Speaker 1: And I don't. I don't have an answer to this.

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Speaker 1: Where is the saturation point? If you run football right

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Speaker 1: through the end of February, you're trampling over college basketball season,

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Speaker 1: NBA season, NHL season. Um, where's the where's the saturation point?

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Speaker 1: Where do people say enough, I've had enough NFL football.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we're there. I don't think we're there.

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Speaker 1: If you've got a seventeen weeks season, you don't approach it.

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't either. I don't. I

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Speaker 1: don't feel good about that. Why don't you feel good

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Speaker 1: about I just think it's it's pushing too hard. It's

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Speaker 1: it's oh, forcing the NFL down people's throats a little bit.

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Speaker 1: There's gotta be a saturation. I don't know if they're

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Speaker 1: forcing it down anybody's throat that this country consumes this

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Speaker 1: game like nothing I've ever seen. Um, there's nothing like it.

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Speaker 1: It's a juggernaut, it really is. So I don't think

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Speaker 1: they're in any danger of cooking the golden goose here

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Speaker 1: at all. Seventeen one extra game. People are gonna be

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Speaker 1: all for it, especially especially now with the advent of

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Speaker 1: the betting on sports. Now, I think that's only going

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Speaker 1: to enhance people's desire to see more football. People don't

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Speaker 1: only love watching football, they love betting on football. And

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Speaker 1: now you're going to have a full blown marriage between

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Speaker 1: those two entities. Look Out, you see the note today

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Speaker 1: the league is hiring a betting expert to work in

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Speaker 1: New York. Yeah, I did see that. I told you.

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Speaker 1: It's coming faster than any of us even realize. With

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Speaker 1: all these states legalizing it, it just completely opened the floodgates.

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Speaker 1: And believe me, if there is an opportunity to generate

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Speaker 1: more revenue, the thirty two NFL owners will find a

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Speaker 1: way to maximize it. Yes they will, as they've done.

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Speaker 1: That's their legacy. Ye. So yeah, we can talk about that,

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Speaker 1: but we do have a Twitter poll today and we

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Speaker 1: have a couple of guests coming up the Twitter poll today.

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Speaker 1: What's the biggest asset that Bills having their back pocket

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Speaker 1: this offseason? What do you think it is? Is it,

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Speaker 1: in fact holding all those draft picks, nine draft picks

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Speaker 1: they have draft capital? Is that the biggest asset they have?

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Speaker 1: Is that the salary cap space they have there ninety

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Speaker 1: million dollars eighty five ninety million dollars in camp space.

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Speaker 1: Is it the continuity same coach, same coordinators, much of

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Speaker 1: the coaching staff in tech and pretty much the same

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Speaker 1: roster coming back or is it something else? Let's talk

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Speaker 1: about that. Give us a call eight oh three five

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

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Speaker 1: five fifty. A lot to talk about today. A couple

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Speaker 1: of good guests talk about it. We've got Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Bills Insider at Buffalo Bills dot com to talk about

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Speaker 1: it with. Come on back and join us. One Bills

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown is here. Four s tasker. We're here until three.

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Speaker 1: Got good guests coming up. Neil Reynolds from NFL covers

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Speaker 1: the league for in the United Kingdom. He'll join us

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Speaker 1: at one. Jeremy Fowler of ESPN joins us at one thirty.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about the Bill's biggest asset this offseason. What

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Speaker 1: is it? Is it the money to have in the

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Speaker 1: cabboud You look up eighty million the number you have

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Speaker 1: for the current cap space number for the Bills eighty

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Speaker 1: and change. Okay, is it the cap space they have?

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Speaker 1: Is it the draft picks they have, the fact that

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Speaker 1: they got continuity, they got most of the coaches and

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Speaker 1: players coming back. Is it something else? Let's talk about it.

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Speaker 1: Eight three fifty twelve three one eight eight five fifty two,

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Speaker 1: five fifty Bob and love Joy, Hello, Bob, go ahead. Hey,

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Speaker 1: how are you guys doing today? Good? I think I

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Speaker 1: think all the above is our greatest asset. We have

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Speaker 1: forty two players that are active under contract with twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty or twenty twenty, and the NFL is going to

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Speaker 1: raise the cap to almost two hundred million dollars a year.

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Speaker 1: And because we're under the cap, we have a rollover

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Speaker 1: of almost twenty seven million. That would give us almost

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Speaker 1: ninety million dollars in salary cap, which is estimated by

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Speaker 1: the NFL is fourth most in the NFL. That would

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Speaker 1: definitely give the coaches the availability to pick up a

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Speaker 1: really good person for whatever position they need and maybe

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Speaker 1: bringing a big name maybe, UM, I don't know. Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you for your call, Bob. I want to ask you, Chris,

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Speaker 1: do you think they are looking for a big splash

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Speaker 1: free agent or are they looking to add the type

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Speaker 1: of free agency to the year ago. I don't get

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Speaker 1: the sense that they're going to swing for the fences

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Speaker 1: on a player in free agency. I'm kind of thinking

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Speaker 1: they're gonna play it like they've played it the last

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Speaker 1: couple of years under Brandon Bean, and that is finding

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Speaker 1: you know, good value on the free agent market. I

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Speaker 1: think the comment that Brandon bed made and he made

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Speaker 1: it more than once in his end of season press

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Speaker 1: conference that leads me to believe they're not going to

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Speaker 1: swing for the fences on a free agent is when

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Speaker 1: he said we're not one player away. If you're one

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Speaker 1: player away, I think you're more willing to take some

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Speaker 1: risk and spend big on said player because you feel

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Speaker 1: this is the guy that's going to get us over

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Speaker 1: the top. If we have to spend a little more,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do it. Knowing that he as the general

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Speaker 1: manager of this team, does not feel that way. And

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Speaker 1: maybe they're a hand full of players away from truly

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Speaker 1: contending for a championship. I don't see them compromising their

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Speaker 1: cap situation, even as healthy as it is on a

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Speaker 1: single player where you're paying top of the market prices

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Speaker 1: for somebody. Would you agree with that? I mean I would,

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Speaker 1: and I also think they and based on just observation

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Speaker 1: of the way Brandon Bean has worked and handled the

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Speaker 1: salary cap in a couple of years now, I think

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Speaker 1: now that he's got it, you know, you know, with

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Speaker 1: eighty million, ninety million dollars, I don't think he ever

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Speaker 1: wants to get in a position again where he is

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Speaker 1: up against it with a salary cap, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. I think he always like to have a

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Speaker 1: healthy margin of you And he said it, and he

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Speaker 1: said that as well in his end to season press conference, saying,

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Speaker 1: we want to stay as cap strong for as long

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Speaker 1: as we can. And I think he knows, you know,

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Speaker 1: if Josh pans out the way they anticipate he will,

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Speaker 1: they know the day is gonna come where they're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to pay him that money, which was also another

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Speaker 1: development that we can get into with Jeremy Fowler when

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Speaker 1: we have him on At the top of the hour,

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Speaker 1: there were there were some news tidbits trickling out about

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Speaker 1: the possibility of a separate salary cap for quarterbacks. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and then another salary cap for the rest of your

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Speaker 1: roster about a couple of things trickling out, trickling out

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Speaker 1: on Twitter, and I didn't really see any formal write

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Speaker 1: ups on it pretty much because you have to believe

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Speaker 1: that the people that are reporting it only heard it

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Speaker 1: in like passing in a hallway conversation and don't really

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Speaker 1: have any concrete details as to what that could potentially entail.

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Speaker 1: I would anticipate through the course of the weekend and

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Speaker 1: maybe early next week more details may come from that

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Speaker 1: as leaks from whatever that proposal may have been are

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Speaker 1: some light shed on it. But it's it's compelling because

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Speaker 1: I think we know a lot of these teams when

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Speaker 1: it comes time to pay the piper and pay your

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Speaker 1: franchise quarterback, that it is restrictive in terms of addressing

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Speaker 1: the other areas of your roster that you wish to,

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Speaker 1: whether it's keeping a high profile player on the defensive

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Speaker 1: side of the ball or retaining that all pro cornerback

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Speaker 1: who's going to demand top dollar. And if you've got

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Speaker 1: a quarterback who's making forty I mean, that's you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean, that's that's a fifth of your sales,

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Speaker 1: twenty percent of your salary cap. So what's the benefit

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Speaker 1: for owners other than getting good players, which I know

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Speaker 1: they want to, But what they really want is to

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Speaker 1: not have more than fifty percent of salary tied up

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Speaker 1: in players. They're fifty percent of the revenue tied up

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Speaker 1: in players. So what's the benefit to the owners to

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Speaker 1: create a separate cap for quarterbacks because if you do,

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Speaker 1: you know salaries will go up, right, But I think

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Speaker 1: they figure salaries are going up every year anyway with

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Speaker 1: the way the cap is increasing. I wonder if if

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Speaker 1: that does come to pass, it wouldn't surprise me if

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Speaker 1: the salary cap for the rest of your roster, if

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Speaker 1: there are more restrictions on that. I think owners have

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Speaker 1: no problem paying the quarterbacks whatever they feel the market

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Speaker 1: value is, knowing that that in most cases is the

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Speaker 1: face of your franchise and also is the chief revenue

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Speaker 1: generator for you. I don't think they mind having a

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Speaker 1: separate cap for them for the rest of their roster, though.

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Speaker 1: It wouldn't shock me if the salary cap rules for

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Speaker 1: that are more restrictive in nature, more or held or

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Speaker 1: held down. Yeah, because you're taking the biggest, the biggest

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Speaker 1: cat out of that pool and putting them over here.

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Speaker 1: They'll there'll be a way around that. They're not proposing

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Speaker 1: that unless there's some benefit for them, we know. And

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Speaker 1: the report over the last weekend was it that the

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Speaker 1: report was owners had discussed this a separate salary. I

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Speaker 1: just saw it written, and I think it was only

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Speaker 1: in a social media outlet, you know. It wasn't like

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Speaker 1: a formal story and write up, because again I think

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Speaker 1: this is brand new and all for all we know,

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Speaker 1: it could just be hearsay. But it read that there

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Speaker 1: was talk of a proposal of a separate salary cap

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Speaker 1: four quarterbacks. So I was like, WHOA, that would be

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Speaker 1: a change. And if the owners the ones that propose that,

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Speaker 1: I have to believe they've already worked all the numbers

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Speaker 1: to determine this is a benefit for us. If we

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Speaker 1: can get these two separate entities with a quarterback cap

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Speaker 1: and then arrest of your roster cap. I'd like to

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Speaker 1: read more about that. I'd like to see more. I've

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Speaker 1: been trying to find it. All. Right, Let's let's get

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Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet for a moment, shall we. It's

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Speaker 1: the biggest asset the Bills have this offseason? What do

645
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: they have going for him? What do you think is

646
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: a good setup for the Bills this offseason? We on

647
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: the twitter we set it up in three ways, and

648
00:32:37,120 --> 00:32:39,160
Speaker 1: you can vote for a capital draft capital, you can

649
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: vote for salary cap space. Maybe it's continuity, same coaching staff,

650
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,960
Speaker 1: many of the same players, or anything else. Give us

651
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: a call if you'd like to talk about it. Eight

652
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,800
Speaker 1: oh three five fifty toll free one eight eight five

653
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,800
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty from the tweet sheet from Anthony

654
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 1: Continuity is an underrated component to building a contender every year.

655
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: I think I said that it continues. Not a lot

656
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 1: of teams succeed with moving pieces another year for josh In,

657
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: the system should do wonders. Most of the starters on

658
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 1: the defensive side will be returning, so our defense should

659
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 1: only get better. I agree continuity is an underrated component,

660
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: and I think maybe it's something that's just slowly being

661
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 1: appreciated more. Although you know, free agents make a difference.

662
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: Free agents can definitely go someplace and make a difference,

663
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 1: especially if you are a talent depleted team. But I

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00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 1: agree continuity is important, right, And I think there was

665
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 1: something to be learned about all the changes that the

666
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: Bills had to make on offense this past offseason. And yes,

667
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,200
Speaker 1: there were improvements that were made on that side of

668
00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 1: the ball this year, unquestionably, but all of that newness

669
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:49,200
Speaker 1: took time to come together. I mean, this team really

670
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 1: didn't start showing signs of discernible improvement on offense until

671
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:57,520
Speaker 1: you reach the second half of the season. I think

672
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 1: that's safe to say. And so knowing that that group

673
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 1: in large part is going to stay much more the

674
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: same than it did from eighteen to nineteen, I think

675
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: gives fans an encouraging feeling that the offense can kind

676
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: of make the same kind of strides they saw with

677
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:19,000
Speaker 1: the manifestation of the defense staying the same year one

678
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,439
Speaker 1: to year two to year three. I mean The only

679
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 1: departure this past year was Kyle Williams from the starting lineup,

680
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,720
Speaker 1: and we saw the defense retain its top five ranking

681
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 1: in the league, which is not an easy thing to

682
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: do because those windows are often short. Your best players

683
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: get out on the market and get top dollar and

684
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:42,440
Speaker 1: you can't bring him back. So I think on the

685
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,560
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball, what you're looking at there

686
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 1: is who Quentin Spain is a free agent and who

687
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 1: else on offense? Let's see here. I mean, you got

688
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: Frank Gore, but he may not even play anymore. Adrian

689
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:58,320
Speaker 1: Waddle who was on ir all year, and then Isaiah

690
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:02,160
Speaker 1: McKenzie who was a restricted free ag agent. So you know,

691
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:05,280
Speaker 1: you expect the exclusive rights guys to be back because

692
00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 1: it's a formality more than anything else with the exclusive

693
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:12,800
Speaker 1: rights tender. So the way I see that is, you know,

694
00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: fans are encouraged because they know they're not going to

695
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 1: have that kind of turnover on offense like they did

696
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: last year and should be able to hit the ground

697
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: running all the more. And you know that's something else

698
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 1: that Brandon being addressed in his end to season press conference.

699
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:25,719
Speaker 1: We're not going to have guys looking at each other

700
00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 1: in may saying, where do I line up on this one?

701
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: That's all going to be a foregone conclusion because it's

702
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 1: going to be known like the back of their hand,

703
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: and that's a benefit. Another response on the tweet sheet,

704
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 1: the biggest asset for the Bills this offseason dying that

705
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 1: tweets in all good answers, but I voted for continuity.

706
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 1: Seems like the best teams have long term staff and players.

707
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 1: Always some turnover, but working together knowing the system appears

708
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: to be a key component of winning. There is always turnover.

709
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: When how much do you have to win before people

710
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 1: start poaching coaches off your staff? You got to win

711
00:35:57,480 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 1: more than the Bills won this year. You gotta have

712
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,399
Speaker 1: a better I mean there was the potential to lose

713
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 1: some people this year. I mean Table interviewed for the

714
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 1: Cleveland head coaching job. So yeah, I mean one more

715
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: year of you know, make another playoff run this year

716
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: and you win a playoff game or maybe two. The

717
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:18,840
Speaker 1: fact is every year there are on average, five to

718
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: six head coaching positions open. I mean, coaches get whacked

719
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 1: every year, and so there's always this churn, and we

720
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: know how the league works. They pull from other teams

721
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,680
Speaker 1: who are successful, and so yeah, you can't you can't

722
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: rule that out, you know, knowing the team has made

723
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:38,239
Speaker 1: the playoffs two of the last three years, they make

724
00:36:38,280 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 1: the playoffs again in twenty twenty and make a little

725
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: bit of a run. Now that's playoffs three of the

726
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: last four years in a place that hasn't seen much

727
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: winning prior to Sean mcdermot's arrival. Yeah, they're gonna be

728
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,879
Speaker 1: NFL clubs looking to get a piece of that. When

729
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: you create a culture in a kind of an atmosphere

730
00:36:56,120 --> 00:37:00,080
Speaker 1: that McDermott and Bean have created here, doesn't that so

731
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: your coaching staff a little bit like guys aren't going

732
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: to be looking to get out. I can't imagine a

733
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 1: whole lot of coaches here are unhappy or saying I

734
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: gotta get out of Buffalo, I gotta get out of this, right.

735
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: But I think we also have to remember, and I'm

736
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 1: talking head coaching jobs here, when you're talking head coaching

737
00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: in the NFL, that is the peak of the profession

738
00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: for these guys. It's what a lot of them aspire

739
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: to be, you know, in the end. And so when

740
00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: that opportunity presents itself, I mean i'd be stunned. You're

741
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: talking ninety nine and a half out of a hundred

742
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:41,959
Speaker 1: guys are taking that interview. They're genuinely interested and would

743
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:45,320
Speaker 1: pursue a head coaching opportunity if it was offered in

744
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:48,320
Speaker 1: the form of an interview as a bona fide candidate.

745
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: And so as great as it is here, it's a

746
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: head coaching job. It's only thirty two of them. And

747
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 1: there's money to Chris. I mean, if you're a coordinator,

748
00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,480
Speaker 1: you good what go four times your coordinator salary to

749
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:04,360
Speaker 1: be a head coach? Yeah, and have in most cases

750
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 1: when you're a new head coach, you're talking to four

751
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: or five year contracts. So even if it doesn't work out,

752
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: you know, when you're bounced after two years, even if

753
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: you can't get another coaching job anywhere, you're getting paid

754
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:19,719
Speaker 1: a pretty penny for another three years. Yeah, you're right,

755
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: not that any of them usually work that way. They

756
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 1: try to find something else in the league to stay

757
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: in it. But man, I think that's why it's just

758
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,399
Speaker 1: it's rare air in the coaching profession, and I think

759
00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 1: just about everybody in this league aspires to be a

760
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 1: head And speaking of coaching and payment, any thoughts on

761
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 1: what happened with Rick Dennison in the New York Jets.

762
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: It's vaguely going after the Jets. I loved it does

763
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: that it's vaguely reminiscent of Wade Phillips trying to get

764
00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 1: his money after he was let go by the Bills, Right,

765
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 1: it's kind of similar to that. It is very similar,

766
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:59,240
Speaker 1: And it's just a shame that the Jets organization sees

767
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 1: this as a hill to die on the money that's

768
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 1: generated by this league and the time that's put in

769
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:12,760
Speaker 1: by NFL coaches, head coaches, assistant coaches, knowing the hours

770
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 1: that they grind to be arguing over what amounts to

771
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: what was it a million dollars? Right? Right? I mean

772
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:26,200
Speaker 1: for an NFL franchise to be haggling over you might

773
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 1: you might end up spending more than that in legal

774
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:30,320
Speaker 1: fees by the time you're done with this, Like, what

775
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:34,600
Speaker 1: what point are you trying to prove here? When it

776
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: doesn't even look like Rick Dennison is wrong on a

777
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:42,800
Speaker 1: technicality at all. It's it really just there is no

778
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: benefit to that. You can't it's such bad publicity, yes

779
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: for you as an organization, just because of the potential

780
00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: repercussions of wanting to bring in future coaches if you're

781
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,760
Speaker 1: if you're an aspiring coach and you've got these Jets,

782
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:03,880
Speaker 1: the Jets organization haggling with an assistant coach who was

783
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:07,919
Speaker 1: you know, dismissed or reassigned for a million dollars, It's

784
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:13,440
Speaker 1: just like whoa, man, whoa. That's just it's bad business.

785
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 1: And it was very telling that the personnel or executive

786
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: sources that Niche Meta from the Daily News who wrote

787
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:30,200
Speaker 1: that story sought out in his investigation of this, tried

788
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: to get the opinion of people in the business who

789
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: know how this stuff works and how when coaches are

790
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:39,239
Speaker 1: dismissed or reassigned, you know, the ins and outs of

791
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:42,880
Speaker 1: all of that. To see the quotes from more than

792
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: a couple of executives saying it's the Jets thing to do.

793
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 1: It's a very jetsy in thing to do. It's just like, Oh,

794
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 1: they can't get out of their own way down there,

795
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 1: they really can't. Somebody in that Jets front office seems

796
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: to have a knack for making bad decisions like that,

797
00:40:58,680 --> 00:40:59,839
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I don't know if it's

798
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: just one person either, I mean it's just it's it's

799
00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:10,000
Speaker 1: really it's a it's unfortunate. You know, Jets fans deserve better,

800
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 1: and they're just a franchise that has been horribly mismanaged

801
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: since I've been a kid. I mean, it's just NonStop.

802
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: It's just year after year, the same bungling, the same mismanagement,

803
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 1: the same poor decisions, the poor spending of salary cap dollars.

804
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:32,800
Speaker 1: And I don't know what it is, but it doesn't

805
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: seem to matter who's in the decision making role. It's

806
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 1: just I can't even there's no way to attach real

807
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 1: logic to a lot of what they do. There really isn't.

808
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:54,320
Speaker 1: And sometimes they make these decisions to get the headlines

809
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: on the back page. It seems like and this and

810
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 1: this is a thing that goes on and on in

811
00:41:58,320 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: New York, and having grown up and witnessed this, it's

812
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,879
Speaker 1: a real thing. There were times where the team that's

813
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 1: perceived as the second fiddle in New York, whether you're

814
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:10,440
Speaker 1: talking about baseball with the Yankees and the Mets being

815
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,200
Speaker 1: the second fiddle, or you're talking about football with the

816
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: Giants and then the Jets being the second fiddle, there

817
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 1: seemed to be this inherent desire on the part of

818
00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: the Mets for umpteen number of years and the Jets

819
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 1: for an umpteen number of years to win the back

820
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,719
Speaker 1: page of the papers, the tabloids in New York. And

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00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: I always, even as a young person, I just sat

822
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: there and said, Holy cow, man, if one of your

823
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 1: top priorities is to win the back page of the

824
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: sports section in the paper, what are you doing? What

825
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 1: are you doing to make yourself better as a franchise

826
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 1: on the field. It's just it defied logic for me,

827
00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:54,120
Speaker 1: and all of their other decisions defy logic as well.

828
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,360
Speaker 1: It's just the Jets being the Jets. Oh yet, we'll

829
00:42:57,440 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 1: talk more about that. And the Bills. Really, what's the

830
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 1: best I said, the Bills have going for him as

831
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:03,400
Speaker 1: they head into the offseason. Give us a call. We

832
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: got a call on the line. We'll get to that

833
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,239
Speaker 1: when we return. One goes Live, presented by a Lot

834
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Speaker 1: of Health from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. This

835
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio. One goes Live JEMRV and Chris Brown.

836
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: Chris is here in place of Sea Pasker. Really snowing

837
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 1: out there on Orchard Park right now, as a matter

838
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 1: of fact, and little pieces of ice on our stadium

839
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 1: camera getting nasty out there, Chris checking out a look that,

840
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: Who draws the short straw to clean off the icicles

841
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: on the stadium camera? Who's got Who's gotta walk over

842
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 1: there and not doing anything? Your scraper, Steve right, he

843
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:50,839
Speaker 1: works there in the Stadia's over there on that side. Yeah, yeah,

844
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:52,439
Speaker 1: there you go. That's what it looks like in Orchard

845
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: Park today. Let's take a phone call Mark in Buffalo.

846
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:58,359
Speaker 1: You're on the Earth the Hello Mark, go ahead, Hey,

847
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:01,320
Speaker 1: good afternoon, gentlemen. I think you just touched on it

848
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: about twenty minutes ago. I think the biggest thing, if

849
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 1: you want to say continuity, but the coaching staff and

850
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 1: mister Brandon Bean all the above. I think that's their

851
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: biggest asset where they need to be better on and

852
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:14,839
Speaker 1: we all know it, you know, as they can say

853
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 1: we need a big wide receiver or whatever. I don't

854
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 1: really believe that they can get by with what they have.

855
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 1: It would be nice. The offensive line has to play

856
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:24,879
Speaker 1: better and give Josh Allen the time. And when Josh

857
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,359
Speaker 1: Allen gets the time, he has to make the throw

858
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 1: he's supposed to make and the guys have to catch

859
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: the balls they should catch. How many times did we

860
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: see that this year? That's the biggest problem. Gentlemen, have

861
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:37,480
Speaker 1: a great day and enjoy the snow. Thank you, Mark.

862
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: You make a good point. And here's the thing, Brandon

863
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 1: Bean and Sean McDermott, Chris, they're not perfect, but they

864
00:44:44,719 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: are very realistic. They know that they need to get better,

865
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 1: and they won't think And Bean said it, as you said,

866
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: at the end of the season, we're not one player away.

867
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 1: They know they have several holes to fill, places to

868
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,920
Speaker 1: plug in players, areas where they can get better. They're really,

869
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:02,799
Speaker 1: let's think about it. They're not delusional about what makes

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00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: them good or what might make them better. I think

871
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:08,040
Speaker 1: that's a strong answer. Our callers said, well, they can

872
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:10,800
Speaker 1: get by there. The Bills, in no way, shape or

873
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 1: form in their philosophical approach, are looking to get by anywhere.

874
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: They're looking to upgrade. And Being said this at the

875
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,880
Speaker 1: end of the season two. He said, if we're not

876
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:23,800
Speaker 1: looking to upgrade everywhere on our roster, we're falling behind

877
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 1: because getting by is not the way this league works.

878
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 1: Not if you want to be in the upper echelon

879
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: of this league. You have to strive to get better

880
00:45:32,040 --> 00:45:37,560
Speaker 1: in every area of your football team, and not I'm

881
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: even talking about the defensive side of the ball. We're

882
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,480
Speaker 1: talking about a unit that's been top five the last

883
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 1: two years, and they're going through that side of the

884
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:46,840
Speaker 1: ball with a fine tooth comb to see where they

885
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:50,720
Speaker 1: can improve. They've got an outside linebacker who also doubled

886
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: as a pass rusher whose role they have to fill,

887
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 1: be it with one or maybe two players in Lorenzo Alexander.

888
00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:00,520
Speaker 1: You've got the first out, the first corner off the bench,

889
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: and Kevin Johnson not under contract. You've got Shack Lawson

890
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 1: not under contract. So there's a host of things that

891
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:09,279
Speaker 1: have to be addressed, even on a side of the

892
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:13,080
Speaker 1: ball that's been elite the last two years. And to

893
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: know that these guys go through all of it, you know,

894
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: almost with an ad nauseum type approach where they're you know,

895
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 1: you're almost sick over it. You've been through it so

896
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:28,600
Speaker 1: many times. This is a group that is overly methodical

897
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:32,560
Speaker 1: and not let letting anything slip through the cracks. And

898
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:36,640
Speaker 1: that's why this team is so well positioned going into

899
00:46:36,719 --> 00:46:39,439
Speaker 1: this offseason and into what will be the twenty twenty

900
00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 1: season in the fall. All right, we're gonna take a

901
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:42,759
Speaker 1: break here for the top of the hour. When we

902
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 1: come back, Neil Reynolds, NFL dot Com, Sky Sports, NFL

903
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 1: dot Com analyst based in England. He'll be joining us

904
00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: on the line. He's the host of the Inside the

905
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 1: Huddle podcast, Neil Reynolds on a variety of topics. We'll

906
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:56,160
Speaker 1: come on back and talk about that after the top

907
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 1: of the hour. Break One Builds Side presented by Kalata

908
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: Hell from the Seneca Studio and Orchard Park. This is

909
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio, Hills Radio Network Sports Date the update

910
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. The Bills add to their coaching

911
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:20,279
Speaker 1: staff today. They get some NFL playing experience as well.

912
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:23,839
Speaker 1: They're hiring Jacques is Air as the assistant defensive line coach.

913
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 1: He's thirty nine years old. He played for nine years

914
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,800
Speaker 1: in the NFL with the Chargers. He was a undrafted

915
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 1: free agent from Southern Connecticut State. He retired playing after

916
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: the twenty twelve season and worked for the last five

917
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:38,240
Speaker 1: years as an assistant with the University of San Diego.

918
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: Jacquess Air joins the Buffalo Bills as assistant defensive line

919
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 1: coach no CBA approval from the NFL Players Association Yesterday,

920
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:49,400
Speaker 1: they met for eight hours in Los Angeles, Snow. Decisions

921
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 1: were made regarding the approval of a new collective bargaining

922
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 1: agreement with the league. The players have been discussing it

923
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 1: over the last ten months between with the league and

924
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:00,360
Speaker 1: the one big issue in the new CBA allowed the

925
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: owners to expand the regular season from sixteen to seventeen

926
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 1: games in exchange for a number of financial and other

927
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:09,839
Speaker 1: concessions from the owners. But no vote yesterday, no word

928
00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 1: on when they meet again. Tennessee Titans announce they've hired

929
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:16,359
Speaker 1: veteran NFL coach Jim Haslett the coach there and linebackers.

930
00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 1: Hasslett brings twenty four years of coaching experience of the Titans.

931
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: He was most recently the inside linebackers coach from the Bengals.

932
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 1: He spent twelve years as a coordinator for the Steelers, Saints, Rams,

933
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 1: and Redskins. He played in the NFL for nine years,

934
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,839
Speaker 1: most of that time here in Buffalo. He was head

935
00:48:31,920 --> 00:48:33,879
Speaker 1: coach for the New Orleans Saints for a while as well.

936
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Speaker 1: Jim Hasslett back in the NFL as inside linebackers coach

937
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: for the Tennessee Titans. Vetter in NFL safety Eric Weddell

938
00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 1: announced his retirement yesterday. Played for thirteen years, one season

939
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:46,479
Speaker 1: left on his contract that he signed with the Rams

940
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,240
Speaker 1: last March. He acknowledged toward the end of the Rams

941
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 1: season that he was thinking about retirement and made an

942
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: official yesterday. And the Sabers are on the road tonight.

943
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,320
Speaker 1: They'll play the New York Rangers face off seven o'clock.

944
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 1: Last night, the Savers felled to the Red Wings four

945
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:03,880
Speaker 1: to three in a shootout. Jimmy v C, Scott Wilson,

946
00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: and Evan Rodriguez scored third period goals to help Buffalo

947
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,960
Speaker 1: earn the point last night. That is the update from

948
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:13,000
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. Welcome back to our two of our

949
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 1: show One Bills Live. John Murphy with Chris Brown Today

950
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with the day off today a special guest

951
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 1: on the line with us now. He is a host

952
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: of the Inside the Huddle podcast Sky Sports NFL dot

953
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:27,200
Speaker 1: com analyst based in the United Kingdom. He joins us

954
00:49:27,239 --> 00:49:31,240
Speaker 1: from his home in Rochester, England, just south of London.

955
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:33,799
Speaker 1: Happy to have Neil Reynolds on the line with us. Neil,

956
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:36,960
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on. We really appreciate it. Oh my pleasure.

957
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: Guys very happy and enjoining the early days of the offseason.

958
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:42,239
Speaker 1: But there's always lots to talk about when it comes

959
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 1: to the NFL. Yeah, especially it seems in regard to

960
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 1: international football, maybe even London football. Neil, with all the

961
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:50,040
Speaker 1: discussion on the West Coast here in the United States

962
00:49:50,080 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 1: about a seventeen game schedule, that has to be viewed

963
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:54,400
Speaker 1: as good news for those who want to see more

964
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:57,840
Speaker 1: NFL football in London. I would think, yeah, I think so.

965
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 1: I think we've talked for number of years now about

966
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 1: two possible options in terms of seeing more games in London.

967
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: One would be a franchise. Of course, that comes with

968
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:10,800
Speaker 1: a lot of logistical issues which have been much discussed.

969
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:14,320
Speaker 1: But another potentially easier way from a from a London

970
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:18,280
Speaker 1: point of view, is this seventeen game schedule. If it happens,

971
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 1: you know, you can then potentially put eight games in London,

972
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 1: play other neutral venue games around the United States, even

973
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:30,640
Speaker 1: around Mexico. Of course, the NFL is looking at Germany

974
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:34,880
Speaker 1: as a big option, so I think London would be

975
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 1: the first place to start with that, and I think

976
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 1: it would be an indication that would get even more games.

977
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:45,719
Speaker 1: The popularities not waning at all here. Games sell out

978
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:49,120
Speaker 1: in literally minutes. You know, I think we'll have another

979
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: four games coming up in twenty twenty, and I don't

980
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:57,160
Speaker 1: think we'll be having fewer than four games for a

981
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:01,839
Speaker 1: number of years. I really feel like fours that absolute baseline,

982
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 1: and we'll probably get a lot more than that. So

983
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 1: Neil John and I were discussing this in the first

984
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 1: hour of our show. We were talking about potential destinations

985
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 1: for these neutral, say games, should a seventeen game season

986
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 1: come to pass, and obviously we mentioned London. We did

987
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:21,160
Speaker 1: mention the affinity for football in Germany. Are there any

988
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:25,000
Speaker 1: other major hotbeds that we are just unaware of for

989
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: American football followings across Europe that maybe we're not familiar

990
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: with that you might have your ear to the ground

991
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:35,359
Speaker 1: a little bit better than we would on that. I mean,

992
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 1: the obvious ones you would look at first is where

993
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 1: the NFL Europe teams were sited, so Barcelona in Spain

994
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:46,760
Speaker 1: and that played host to American Bowl games, Amsterdam obviously

995
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:49,320
Speaker 1: in the Netherlands. But I actually think one of the

996
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:54,120
Speaker 1: one of the real potential places would be France, France

997
00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 1: have a number of academies for younger players, and then

998
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:00,359
Speaker 1: they're looking at the kind of grassroots level. Of course,

999
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 1: frances is one of the biggest countries in Europe, so

1000
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: I think that would be one. And actually in terms

1001
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 1: of the game being played over here in Europe, Scandinavia

1002
00:52:10,800 --> 00:52:14,440
Speaker 1: is is very big and very productive in terms of

1003
00:52:14,560 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 1: turning out top European players. So you know, you look

1004
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 1: at you look at Sweden, you look at Denmark, but

1005
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:23,200
Speaker 1: for me, it kind of starts with London. I would

1006
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 1: I would say absolutely, Germany is is very very positively

1007
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:29,400
Speaker 1: viewed by the NFL and is somewhere they're going to

1008
00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 1: look at getting into. And then I would go France

1009
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:37,320
Speaker 1: and then Scandinavia. Neil in London have the Jacksonville Jaguars

1010
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:39,080
Speaker 1: who are now going to play two games in London

1011
00:52:39,160 --> 00:52:43,240
Speaker 1: this year. Have they made any inroads into being London's team?

1012
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 1: And the second part of the question, how would the

1013
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 1: football fans in London would they rather have the Jaguars,

1014
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 1: you know, eight games or they take a smart sport

1015
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:57,719
Speaker 1: of eight different teams or sixteen different teams playing games there? Yeah,

1016
00:52:57,880 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 1: I mean the first part of your question is yes,

1017
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: they have made in roads. They were they were one

1018
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:05,000
Speaker 1: of the least supported teams in the UK when they

1019
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: first decided to play a game here in twenty thirteen.

1020
00:53:08,200 --> 00:53:10,080
Speaker 1: Now you're going to look at everything that Jags do

1021
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:13,000
Speaker 1: with their activities. They have flag football programs here, they

1022
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 1: have academies for players, they hold an academy camp every summer.

1023
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:21,279
Speaker 1: The Jags do. They've got on office in London, So

1024
00:53:21,360 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 1: they're up in the kind of top ten of UK

1025
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 1: franchises that are supported, you know, or franchises supported by

1026
00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:32,439
Speaker 1: UK fans. In terms of the second part of your question,

1027
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 1: it depends who you ask. There are a lot of

1028
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:38,800
Speaker 1: hardcore fans of other teams here in the UK, and

1029
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 1: they they're quite vocal in saying they don't care for

1030
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 1: a franchise. But there are also fans who are joining

1031
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 1: this sport year in and year out, you know, every

1032
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 1: year they're adding numbers to the fan base over here,

1033
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:54,880
Speaker 1: and those those new fans do have an interest in

1034
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:58,360
Speaker 1: seeing a franchise here. So I think if there was

1035
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:01,279
Speaker 1: a team put here, it would be aimed at the

1036
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 1: younger fans, the newer fans that are coming in, and

1037
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:05,760
Speaker 1: that would tie in with all of the flag football

1038
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: programs that the NFL and the Jags are putting on.

1039
00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 1: But he is a bit of a split at the moment.

1040
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: But then I kind of I've argued this many many times.

1041
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 1: You know, in Charlotte, before the Carolina Panthers were there,

1042
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:21,760
Speaker 1: there were fans of other NFL teams. Before the Jags

1043
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 1: were in Jacksonville, those fans in Jacksonville supported other NFL teams.

1044
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 1: I truly believe if a franchise moved here to London,

1045
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:33,360
Speaker 1: they would have the support that we we have a

1046
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 1: fan base that is ready for a franchise. Whether that

1047
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: happens or not obviously remains to be seen. But you know,

1048
00:54:40,239 --> 00:54:42,719
Speaker 1: I do think fans would get behind a London team.

1049
00:54:43,440 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 1: In a familiar face over there, at least to those

1050
00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:48,520
Speaker 1: that follow the rugby game. Is Christian Wade, who spent

1051
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:52,320
Speaker 1: the last year here trying to complete the crossover success story.

1052
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:54,759
Speaker 1: He was on the practice squad as you know, all

1053
00:54:54,880 --> 00:54:57,320
Speaker 1: year and is still on this roster now here in

1054
00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:59,279
Speaker 1: the off season, going to take another shot at it,

1055
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:01,360
Speaker 1: you know, through the course of the spring and summer

1056
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 1: again here in Buffalo. What do what do you feel

1057
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:10,800
Speaker 1: the potential holds for crossover type players like this. Should

1058
00:55:10,920 --> 00:55:13,239
Speaker 1: things come to pass for Christian Weed and he gets

1059
00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:15,760
Speaker 1: a real roster spot beard here in Buffalo or somewhere

1060
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:19,520
Speaker 1: else in the league, and make that prompt more of

1061
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:24,320
Speaker 1: these rugby players to take the same swing that Christian

1062
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 1: Wade's trying to take right now. Yeah, I think, I

1063
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 1: think absolutely well. I think we see a number of

1064
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 1: British players coming in a variety of ways, and one

1065
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:36,520
Speaker 1: of those ways is across over athlete. And we trust me,

1066
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 1: the United Kingdom stood up and took notice when Christian

1067
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 1: ran this touchdown in the preseason. I mean, when he

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Speaker 1: made those big plays in the summer, it was all

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00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:48,160
Speaker 1: across the news channels here, it was all across the

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Speaker 1: BBC Sport website, all over Sky Sports websites, all over

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00:55:52,080 --> 00:55:55,439
Speaker 1: the news channels. So you know, we're starting to see

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00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:59,520
Speaker 1: in roads of that. We've seen Alex Gray, who he

1073
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:03,640
Speaker 1: was the sevens rugby seven's captain at the Olympics for England.

1074
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:06,520
Speaker 1: He was with the Atlanta Falcons for a couple of years.

1075
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 1: Christians Scotland Williamson, a professional rugby player from the Premiership,

1076
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:13,360
Speaker 1: has spent the last two seasons on the practice squad

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00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:16,600
Speaker 1: of the Pittsburgh Steelers. So yeah, I think I think

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00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:20,400
Speaker 1: it's something that rugby players are looking at some of

1079
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:24,360
Speaker 1: the transferable skills. It's the most natural of our sports

1080
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:27,880
Speaker 1: to transfer across to American football. So I think what

1081
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:31,920
Speaker 1: Christian did, even in that sort of brief cameo last summer,

1082
00:56:32,760 --> 00:56:34,880
Speaker 1: I think it's made a few more probably sit up

1083
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: and take notice. You know, I managed to catch up

1084
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:40,880
Speaker 1: with Christian down in the Super Bowl in Miami, and

1085
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:44,360
Speaker 1: you know, his eyes are wide open. He's loving what

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00:56:44,440 --> 00:56:47,640
Speaker 1: he's doing. But it's hard, he said. You know, he

1087
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:50,480
Speaker 1: can handle the physical side of it. He knows how

1088
00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:52,480
Speaker 1: to run, he knows how to carry a football. It's

1089
00:56:52,520 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 1: learning all the mental side that is the trick. And

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00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:58,719
Speaker 1: that's the thing for rugby players who transfer across because

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00:56:58,760 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 1: they need to just play. They want to be thinking

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00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 1: and playing. So we'll see, but he's certainly helping the

1093
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 1: cause for sure. We're lying around the name with Neil Reynolds,

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00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:11,640
Speaker 1: Sky Sports ENNAFILM dot com analysts based in just outside London,

1095
00:57:11,920 --> 00:57:14,279
Speaker 1: talking about the NFL in London. What did you think

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00:57:14,280 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl Neil, and just any any lasting

1097
00:57:17,240 --> 00:57:19,760
Speaker 1: impressions from last week in Miami. What did you make

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00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 1: of the game? Yeah, I loved it. I absolutely loved it.

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00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 1: For me, it was actually one of the noisiest Super

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Speaker 1: Bowls that I'd been too. We had our Sky Sports

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00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:31,400
Speaker 1: studio there in the end zone, and you know, it

1102
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 1: was it was a challenge trying to hear the producer,

1103
00:57:34,800 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: trying to hear the people that you're talking with, and

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00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 1: it just reminded me how well, first of all, how

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00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:44,480
Speaker 1: brilliant Patrick Mahomes is. I mean, just he was running

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00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:46,400
Speaker 1: even in the first two or three quarters, he was

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00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 1: running for his life behind you know, behind that forty

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00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:54,160
Speaker 1: nine ers pass rush. They were coming after him. Anything

1109
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:56,920
Speaker 1: he got going in the first half of first three

1110
00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:00,360
Speaker 1: quarters was all kind of under duress, and he hung

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00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 1: around long enough and then he produced the goods. That's

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00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:06,200
Speaker 1: what the great ones do. So it was great to

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00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:09,000
Speaker 1: see Patrick Mahomes first time I've watched him play in

1114
00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 1: the in the flesh, and I also thought it was

1115
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 1: it was great to see what is clearly a really

1116
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 1: hungry fan base, um, you know, be rewarded with a

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00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:20,520
Speaker 1: with a Super Bowl win. And I've never been to

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00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 1: Arrowhead Stadium. Um. I said this on our commentary on

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00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 1: sky Sports. It's on the bucket list. But I felt

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00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:29,800
Speaker 1: like a bit of Arrowhead Stadium came to Miami last week,

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00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 1: so you know, I got to experience that a little bit,

1122
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm going to play to the home

1123
00:58:34,640 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: crowd here. It just reminded me that, you know, what,

1124
00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:38,840
Speaker 1: what if Buffalo do this? What if the Bills do this?

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00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:41,160
Speaker 1: With the Bills Matthew, I mean, there are certain fan

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00:58:41,240 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 1: bases that that will just it will just be off

1127
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:47,200
Speaker 1: the charts. So yeah, I mean it was it's great

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Speaker 1: to see a team that and a fan base that's

1129
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:52,920
Speaker 1: waited so long get that super Bowl, but also to

1130
00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:54,920
Speaker 1: see a bit of Patrick mahomes magic along the way.

1131
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:57,160
Speaker 1: It was very nice, right and when you see and

1132
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:01,160
Speaker 1: can't employed what Patrick Mahorne has done at just twenty

1133
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:03,640
Speaker 1: three years of age. And I'm sure after the game

1134
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:07,080
Speaker 1: you heard Andy Reid during the trophy ceremony saying, let's

1135
00:59:07,120 --> 00:59:10,520
Speaker 1: do it again next year, it really begs the question

1136
00:59:10,640 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 1: who comes close to touching what Pat Mahomes can do

1137
00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 1: for his team elsewhere in the league. I mean, I

1138
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 1: know there's a nice contingent of really really good quarterbacks

1139
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:22,720
Speaker 1: in this league, but for what he's doing at his

1140
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:26,360
Speaker 1: young age. I mean, who who comes close to touching

1141
00:59:26,400 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: them next year? So I think there's been a change

1142
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 1: in of the guard in terms of NFL quarterbacks, and

1143
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:36,080
Speaker 1: I think you have to have a quarterback who can

1144
00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:39,040
Speaker 1: move now. I think that's part of it. The athleticism.

1145
00:59:39,120 --> 00:59:42,440
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna sounds sacrilege, but I'm not

1146
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:47,040
Speaker 1: putting Tom Brady out to pasture. But those kind of stacks, yeah,

1147
00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:51,800
Speaker 1: we won't stop you here in Buffalo. Those kind of

1148
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:55,200
Speaker 1: quarterbacks who just sit in the pocket and can't move,

1149
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:57,240
Speaker 1: I don't know how you're going to survive in today's

1150
00:59:57,360 --> 00:59:59,920
Speaker 1: NFL with that. So I look at the AFC at

1151
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 1: actually as where this is going to come from in

1152
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 1: terms of challenges to Patrick Mahomes. Look at the quarterbacks

1153
01:00:05,760 --> 01:00:10,520
Speaker 1: who can run around and create excitement. DeShawn Watson, Lamar Jackson,

1154
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:13,680
Speaker 1: Josh Allen even this year getting the Buffalo Bills to

1155
01:00:13,720 --> 01:00:17,160
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Obviously he needs to develop further, but those

1156
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:19,240
Speaker 1: are the types of quarterbacks I think that we have

1157
01:00:19,400 --> 01:00:22,240
Speaker 1: to see now what Mahomes did in the Super Bowl.

1158
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,560
Speaker 1: You can't do if you're just a pure pocket passer

1159
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:28,200
Speaker 1: who cannot move. You have to be able to improvise.

1160
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 1: You have to be able to survive under a fierce rush.

1161
01:00:31,440 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 1: So I think the biggest challenges to Kansas City come

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01:00:33,840 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 1: from their own conference. And yeah, Andy Reid's already called

1163
01:00:37,960 --> 01:00:41,360
Speaker 1: his shots, says they'll be right back there next year,

1164
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:43,400
Speaker 1: So we'll see, but I think there'll be some challenges.

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01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:46,320
Speaker 1: Those Chiefs fans certainly enjoyed the celebration as well. We

1166
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:48,560
Speaker 1: had one guy falling out of a tree. We had

1167
01:00:48,640 --> 01:00:51,520
Speaker 1: one guy run into a parking meet to katrine a

1168
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 1: pass from Patrick Mahomes, and there was a police car chase.

1169
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:57,760
Speaker 1: So it's pretty specially it was almost as if Ped

1170
01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:00,600
Speaker 1: Holmes so I'd come and you had occasionally review him

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01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:04,280
Speaker 1: last spring, and he almost predicted the fact that the

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01:01:04,360 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 1: Chiefs would have to win three in a roll, right

1173
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:09,600
Speaker 1: coming from behind. Yeah, I was going through some I

1174
01:01:09,680 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 1: was writing up a special feature for a different magazine,

1175
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:17,400
Speaker 1: Guidiron Magazine, and I was picking excerpts from interviews that

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01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:19,480
Speaker 1: I've done with quarterbacks over the years, some of the

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Speaker 1: great ones I've spoken to, And so I went back

1178
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 1: through my notebook to look at picking out just one

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01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:27,280
Speaker 1: quote from Patrick Mahomes, and I found this one saying

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01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 1: the beauty of football is being a competitor. You're never

1181
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:31,720
Speaker 1: going to be out of any game. You can find

1182
01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:34,080
Speaker 1: a way to win at the end. And I was like, wow,

1183
01:01:34,200 --> 01:01:36,360
Speaker 1: that was in May. That was in May, and look

1184
01:01:36,400 --> 01:01:39,200
Speaker 1: what he went and did in February. I mean, it's funny.

1185
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:41,960
Speaker 1: I go through my notebook and find all these old

1186
01:01:42,080 --> 01:01:44,720
Speaker 1: quotes and there was one from Aaron Rodgers about how

1187
01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:48,480
Speaker 1: he you know, he hears the criticism and he uses

1188
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 1: it as motivation. I thought, well, sometimes people say Aaron

1189
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:54,640
Speaker 1: Rodgers a thin skinned I've got quotes from players from

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01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:57,280
Speaker 1: four or five years ago that actually relates to kind

1191
01:01:57,320 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 1: of how you see them play now. It's very interesting

1192
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:01,000
Speaker 1: to dig back through something. Yeah, and I know there

1193
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:03,800
Speaker 1: was another quarterback that you were able to run down

1194
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:06,200
Speaker 1: this week or down at the Super Bowl, I should say,

1195
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 1: in Ryan Fitzpatrick, who's still finally remembered up here even

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01:02:09,680 --> 01:02:12,160
Speaker 1: though he plays for an enemy team in the Miami Dolphins,

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01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:14,720
Speaker 1: and looks like you'll be back there again in twenty twenty.

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01:02:15,800 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 1: You've had some pretty memorable interactions with fits but maybe

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01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,680
Speaker 1: why don't we start at least with your most recent

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01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 1: interaction with him, and maybe where his head's at I

1201
01:02:24,320 --> 01:02:26,200
Speaker 1: know he still wants to play and intends to be

1202
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:30,080
Speaker 1: there in twenty twenty. Right, Yeah, the thing's fits placed

1203
01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:31,720
Speaker 1: for a lot of enemies now because he's played for

1204
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:34,120
Speaker 1: a quarter of the league, so at some point is

1205
01:02:34,160 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 1: a rivalry if somebody else. He's one of the nicest guys.

1206
01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:43,600
Speaker 1: I would say the most unspoilt by NFL's success of

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01:02:43,800 --> 01:02:45,800
Speaker 1: anyone I've ever met, just a down Twarth guy. We

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01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:48,600
Speaker 1: met on the rooftop pool in a hotel in Miami

1209
01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:52,680
Speaker 1: to record a feature for Sky Sports, and he walks

1210
01:02:52,680 --> 01:02:55,320
Speaker 1: out into the swimming pool area and just looks at

1211
01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:57,320
Speaker 1: me and goes, are we taking T shirts off for this?

1212
01:02:57,400 --> 01:02:58,840
Speaker 1: I was like, no, fits, We're just going to be

1213
01:02:58,920 --> 01:03:01,760
Speaker 1: a regular interview. I don't know anywhere he's been where

1214
01:03:01,760 --> 01:03:04,520
Speaker 1: he hasn't been loved and being a complete fan favorite.

1215
01:03:05,160 --> 01:03:08,080
Speaker 1: And I think the fact that he just summed him up.

1216
01:03:08,120 --> 01:03:12,320
Speaker 1: He just doesn't care about about his body, doesn't care

1217
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:15,840
Speaker 1: about you know, how he plays. He was the Dolphins

1218
01:03:15,920 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 1: leading Russia this year. He said he got hit more

1219
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:20,040
Speaker 1: than any other quarterback in the league. And he just

1220
01:03:20,200 --> 01:03:25,240
Speaker 1: keeps rolling. And I just think he's so unspoiled by

1221
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:28,600
Speaker 1: his success. He's the most down to earth guy and

1222
01:03:28,720 --> 01:03:30,960
Speaker 1: he never takes himself too seriously and I love him

1223
01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:32,840
Speaker 1: for that. We got one clip to play and this

1224
01:03:33,040 --> 01:03:36,360
Speaker 1: is Neil your interview with Ryan Fitzpatrick. This happened last week.

1225
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:39,920
Speaker 1: Neil Reynolds, our guest talking to Ryan Fitzpatrick. Listen to this.

1226
01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:44,600
Speaker 1: I screw around sometimes a lot of stuff in here.

1227
01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:47,400
Speaker 1: You know, I do pencils all the time, and so on.

1228
01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:49,680
Speaker 1: One day I was trying to see how many baby

1229
01:03:49,800 --> 01:03:54,280
Speaker 1: carrots I could fit. And I actually think it was

1230
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:56,920
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving or it was it was over some holiday meal

1231
01:03:57,560 --> 01:04:00,200
Speaker 1: and I thought I took him all out, and uh,

1232
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:13,720
Speaker 1: we're get a little romantic later the night. That was

1233
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:16,240
Speaker 1: last year, Fitz, He's got the Bucks gear. That was

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01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:18,080
Speaker 1: last year. Was still pretty funny, Neil, that was an

1235
01:04:18,080 --> 01:04:22,160
Speaker 1: amazing moment. It was last year we did a tour

1236
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:25,240
Speaker 1: around the UK and Fitz was the absolute star of

1237
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 1: the show. And yeah, he was telling that story. So yeah,

1238
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:32,440
Speaker 1: it's always a fond moment. And yeah, I just texted

1239
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:34,120
Speaker 1: him saying can we hook up in Miami? And he

1240
01:04:34,200 --> 01:04:36,160
Speaker 1: said yes. I asked him the very last question I

1241
01:04:36,240 --> 01:04:39,000
Speaker 1: asked him was are you going to be back with

1242
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:41,680
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, and he said, oh, well, you know, we'll see.

1243
01:04:41,720 --> 01:04:44,760
Speaker 1: I've got another year on my on my contract, but um,

1244
01:04:45,280 --> 01:04:47,320
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see what. We'll see what comes at it.

1245
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:50,000
Speaker 1: You know, a few weeks into the only just into

1246
01:04:50,120 --> 01:04:53,720
Speaker 1: the off season, and I just ended by saying we

1247
01:04:53,800 --> 01:04:56,280
Speaker 1: could the whole NFL could use a little more fitz magic.

1248
01:04:56,880 --> 01:04:58,560
Speaker 1: And he went and I said there must be a

1249
01:04:58,600 --> 01:05:01,560
Speaker 1: little bit more fitz magic in there, and he said, yeah,

1250
01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:02,880
Speaker 1: there is. So. I mean, it's not that it's not

1251
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:05,840
Speaker 1: one hundred percent confirmation, but if I was a betting man,

1252
01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:07,560
Speaker 1: I'd say that he's going to be back this year

1253
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:10,000
Speaker 1: and back for the Dolphins, and if they draft a quarterback,

1254
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:13,000
Speaker 1: he's the perfect guy to learn from from a year

1255
01:05:13,120 --> 01:05:15,320
Speaker 1: or so. So I love this. I love this clip

1256
01:05:15,400 --> 01:05:17,800
Speaker 1: of him. I literally put the team on his back.

1257
01:05:17,840 --> 01:05:19,160
Speaker 1: That's what he did. That's what he did in the

1258
01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:22,280
Speaker 1: second half of the season with the Dolphins. To be honest,

1259
01:05:22,280 --> 01:05:23,840
Speaker 1: he could play for anyone in the league and I'd

1260
01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:25,600
Speaker 1: love him. I think he's a great guy. Yep, and

1261
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:27,919
Speaker 1: many people feel that way. One more thing, Yester about Neil.

1262
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:30,960
Speaker 1: We're with Neil Reynolds, Sky Sports, NFL dot Com analyst.

1263
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:33,320
Speaker 1: You wrote a lot about the Super Bowl and NFL

1264
01:05:33,400 --> 01:05:35,760
Speaker 1: dot com, and you wrote about your final thought dealt

1265
01:05:35,800 --> 01:05:39,600
Speaker 1: with an encounter that you and your partner Jeff Rainbold

1266
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:42,200
Speaker 1: had with the Emmanuel Sanders forty nine ers receiver. We

1267
01:05:42,280 --> 01:05:44,760
Speaker 1: always talk about the victors, but the losers you have

1268
01:05:44,800 --> 01:05:46,520
Speaker 1: a story to tell too, and you found a good

1269
01:05:46,520 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 1: one there, right. Yeah, And just by chance, myself Jeff

1270
01:05:51,040 --> 01:05:55,760
Speaker 1: Ryan Bold, Rob Bryan and Josh Norman were walking out

1271
01:05:55,760 --> 01:05:58,000
Speaker 1: of the stadium that was our crew on Sky Sports

1272
01:05:58,200 --> 01:06:01,400
Speaker 1: on Sunday night at Super Bowl Sunday, and Josh just

1273
01:06:01,520 --> 01:06:05,320
Speaker 1: shouts out, are you straight? And then we see like

1274
01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:08,919
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders go past on a golf cart and Josh

1275
01:06:08,960 --> 01:06:11,080
Speaker 1: and Emmanuel have been friends for a long time. Jeff

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Speaker 1: Rhin Bold coached Emmanuel at SMU and I knew Emmanuel

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Speaker 1: from again one of those tours we did around the UK,

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Speaker 1: Josh and Emmanuel came around the UK with me, so

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Speaker 1: we all had a connection to him. And he stopped

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Speaker 1: the golf cart. He got off, but he couldn't speak,

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01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:30,480
Speaker 1: and it was like literally you just could see he

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Speaker 1: was broken and we had nothing we could say to

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Speaker 1: him because he was he was devastated because, you know,

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Speaker 1: he had this play to win the Super Bowl. He'd

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01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:44,320
Speaker 1: done his part, he'd split the coverage, he'd got open,

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Speaker 1: and he needed a pass from Jimmy Garoppolo to win

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl for the San Francisco forty nine ers.

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Speaker 1: We couldn't say anything to him, he could barely speak.

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01:06:52,640 --> 01:06:54,960
Speaker 1: All we did was take it in turns to give

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Speaker 1: him a hug. He got back on the golf cart

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01:06:57,680 --> 01:07:00,400
Speaker 1: and they drove away, and it's it's just one of

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01:07:00,440 --> 01:07:02,320
Speaker 1: those things where you see him and you see the

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01:07:02,400 --> 01:07:05,800
Speaker 1: guys at the press conference podium. You see you know,

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01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:08,000
Speaker 1: I've been in losing locker rooms. They're the worst place

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01:07:08,040 --> 01:07:10,000
Speaker 1: to be in the world. You know, you don't know

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01:07:10,080 --> 01:07:12,600
Speaker 1: what to say. You're frightened to make a noise. But

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01:07:12,720 --> 01:07:14,960
Speaker 1: this was outside the stadium and he was just heading

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01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:17,680
Speaker 1: to the bus. But you just get that that raw

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01:07:17,880 --> 01:07:21,560
Speaker 1: kind of pain of defeat. You know, we didn't know

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Speaker 1: what to say, so we just gave him a hug

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Speaker 1: and then he was on his way. Pretty amazing. One

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Speaker 1: more thing I here for you, and we know this

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01:07:26,560 --> 01:07:28,560
Speaker 1: from a couple of times we've talked with Jeff Rainbold.

1304
01:07:28,840 --> 01:07:31,360
Speaker 1: He raves about the Bills fans, the Bills backers in

1305
01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:34,160
Speaker 1: the United Kingdom. It's it's significant the number of fans

1306
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:37,600
Speaker 1: of Bills here over there, right, Yes, it is. Yeah,

1307
01:07:37,640 --> 01:07:39,840
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's one of the most popular teams here. And

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01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:42,960
Speaker 1: that goes back to one of my favorite people I've

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01:07:43,000 --> 01:07:45,720
Speaker 1: ever worked with and all the NFL stuff I've done

1310
01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:47,600
Speaker 1: over here, and that goes back to Jim Kelly. It

1311
01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:50,920
Speaker 1: goes back to coach Marv Levy, who I've had the

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Speaker 1: privilege to interview. What a gentleman. He was a big

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01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:57,920
Speaker 1: lover of Winston Churchill, so you know there was connections

1314
01:07:57,960 --> 01:07:59,880
Speaker 1: there to the UK. The Bills are one of the

1315
01:08:00,240 --> 01:08:02,840
Speaker 1: most popular teams over here because of everything they did

1316
01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:06,680
Speaker 1: in the nineties and also they're just one of the

1317
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:09,480
Speaker 1: teams I think that moves the needle in America. I

1318
01:08:09,560 --> 01:08:13,920
Speaker 1: remember covering the the the big events taking over the

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01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:16,400
Speaker 1: center of London when the Bills came over and played

1320
01:08:16,439 --> 01:08:18,880
Speaker 1: here against the Jags, and yeah, we have a few

1321
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:22,800
Speaker 1: fans that travel, but wow, that was like the Bills

1322
01:08:22,920 --> 01:08:25,479
Speaker 1: Matthew was out in force right in the center of

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01:08:25,560 --> 01:08:28,760
Speaker 1: London on Regent Street. I was I was shocked how

1324
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:32,360
Speaker 1: many of them traveled. Yeah, It's just one of those

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01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:34,920
Speaker 1: teams that you just love to see that passion of

1326
01:08:35,080 --> 01:08:38,240
Speaker 1: the fans that there are some teams that don't have that.

1327
01:08:39,479 --> 01:08:41,680
Speaker 1: That team that fits is playing for right now, they

1328
01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:44,960
Speaker 1: struggled to fill that. That's not the case in Buffalo

1329
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Speaker 1: and Neil, thanks for this. It was great catching Upody.

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01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:49,439
Speaker 1: We hope to do it again sometime. Thank you very much.

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01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:53,679
Speaker 1: Always always my pleasure anytime, goes Neil Reynold Sky Sports

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01:08:53,680 --> 01:08:56,400
Speaker 1: tenefeld dot com annals based in the United Kingdom, host

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01:08:56,439 --> 01:08:58,920
Speaker 1: of the Inside the Huddle podcast. Just back from the

1334
01:08:58,960 --> 01:09:01,599
Speaker 1: super Bowl in Miami. We're had a number of encounters

1335
01:09:01,760 --> 01:09:04,880
Speaker 1: and it's funny. I was thinking we talk about fits

1336
01:09:04,960 --> 01:09:07,120
Speaker 1: like that. He talks about Ryan Fitzpatrick like that, who

1337
01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:11,679
Speaker 1: doesn't everywhere he's been, he's got fans, media fans. It's amazing.

1338
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:15,360
Speaker 1: It's got a very affable personality. Yeah, and he's hilarious, So,

1339
01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:20,200
Speaker 1: I mean it just it endears him to teammates, to acquaintances,

1340
01:09:20,960 --> 01:09:26,360
Speaker 1: to friends. I mean, he's the ultimate entertainer and he's

1341
01:09:26,400 --> 01:09:28,960
Speaker 1: not even really trying half the time. What a guy.

1342
01:09:29,200 --> 01:09:30,960
Speaker 1: And Neil's a good guy too. Our thanks him for

1343
01:09:31,040 --> 01:09:33,000
Speaker 1: joining us, all right, We come back. We're gonna be

1344
01:09:33,080 --> 01:09:36,679
Speaker 1: talking in just a moment with Jeremy Fowler from ESPN.

1345
01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:39,639
Speaker 1: He picks the Bills and Seattle for the Super Bowl

1346
01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:42,719
Speaker 1: in Tampa next year. You're buying it? Well, ask Jeremy

1347
01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:44,880
Speaker 1: what he sees there that's coming up. One Goes Live,

1348
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Speaker 1: presented by Kalada Health from the Seneca Studio on Archard Park.

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01:09:48,439 --> 01:10:05,760
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back. This is one

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01:10:05,840 --> 01:10:08,080
Speaker 1: Bills five. I'm John Murphy. This is Chris Brown. He's

1351
01:10:08,080 --> 01:10:11,840
Speaker 1: in for what's his name, Steve Tansker. I'm just getting

1352
01:10:12,160 --> 01:10:14,760
Speaker 1: Steve's off. He'll be back Monday, I believe, and he'll

1353
01:10:14,800 --> 01:10:16,640
Speaker 1: be good and we'll have a little start to tell us.

1354
01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:19,640
Speaker 1: I'm sure. Um. We just got off the line with

1355
01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:23,960
Speaker 1: Neil Reynolds on the line with us now another observer

1356
01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:26,439
Speaker 1: at last week's Super Bowl. He is an ESPN NFL

1357
01:10:26,520 --> 01:10:30,080
Speaker 1: senior reporter, contributed to ESPN's Get Up and Sports Center shows.

1358
01:10:30,080 --> 01:10:32,560
Speaker 1: He's been with ESPN since twenty fourteen. Happy to have

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01:10:32,680 --> 01:10:34,760
Speaker 1: Jeremy Fowler on the line. Hello, Jeremy, Thanks coming on

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01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:38,439
Speaker 1: with us. We appreciate it anytime, guys appreciate him. You

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01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:42,280
Speaker 1: have already you're on a limb picking the next super Bowl,

1362
01:10:42,360 --> 01:10:44,479
Speaker 1: super Bowl fifty five, and you got the Bills there

1363
01:10:44,479 --> 01:10:47,880
Speaker 1: against Seattle. How'd you come to that conclusion, Jeremy, Well,

1364
01:10:47,920 --> 01:10:53,519
Speaker 1: that's the only natural pick, right, you know. I just

1365
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:56,439
Speaker 1: I like to mess it up for one and two

1366
01:10:56,960 --> 01:10:59,280
Speaker 1: with him in the playoffs. As we saw a Tennessee

1367
01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:01,760
Speaker 1: you can get hot at the right time, and you

1368
01:11:01,840 --> 01:11:04,639
Speaker 1: have a good formula and stick with it, it can work.

1369
01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:07,720
Speaker 1: And so with Buffalo, I see a team that increasingly

1370
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:10,639
Speaker 1: is running the ball better, has a defense that doesn't

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01:11:10,680 --> 01:11:13,280
Speaker 1: give up big plays. And when you can do those

1372
01:11:13,320 --> 01:11:15,519
Speaker 1: two things, you really have a chance in every game,

1373
01:11:15,720 --> 01:11:17,479
Speaker 1: you know. So it'll come down to Josh Allen making

1374
01:11:17,520 --> 01:11:20,000
Speaker 1: just enough the rows. I'm banking on him making a

1375
01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:23,120
Speaker 1: little bit of a year three jump, and you know

1376
01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:24,680
Speaker 1: the Chips will have to fall a right, maybe they

1377
01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:27,320
Speaker 1: get New England or another team in the in the

1378
01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:30,320
Speaker 1: AFC Championship game instead of the Chiefs. How much do

1379
01:11:30,439 --> 01:11:32,640
Speaker 1: you make and how much do you pay attention to,

1380
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:37,120
Speaker 1: Jeremy to you know the upcoming schedule for respective teams.

1381
01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:38,800
Speaker 1: I mean, when you're making a pick like this. The

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01:11:38,880 --> 01:11:41,000
Speaker 1: only reason I asked that is because you know, the

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01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:43,360
Speaker 1: Bills are lined up to play the AFC West and

1384
01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:47,360
Speaker 1: NFC West next year, and those were two pretty competitive divisions,

1385
01:11:47,439 --> 01:11:50,360
Speaker 1: and obviously the two Super Bowl participants came out of

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01:11:50,400 --> 01:11:53,920
Speaker 1: those divisions as well. I know teams have a lot

1387
01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:56,559
Speaker 1: of turnover in the offseason and change on average twenty

1388
01:11:56,600 --> 01:11:59,400
Speaker 1: five to thirty percent, but still in all this looks

1389
01:11:59,439 --> 01:12:02,080
Speaker 1: like a much more challenging schedule for Buffalo. So how

1390
01:12:02,160 --> 01:12:04,200
Speaker 1: much do you factor that in when you're making a

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01:12:04,240 --> 01:12:07,360
Speaker 1: pick like this. It's a part of it, but I

1392
01:12:07,520 --> 01:12:10,320
Speaker 1: try not to focus too much on that because you know,

1393
01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:13,479
Speaker 1: it's not like in college football, where you know, okay,

1394
01:12:13,479 --> 01:12:16,200
Speaker 1: if you have to play Alabama and LSU in the

1395
01:12:16,240 --> 01:12:18,000
Speaker 1: same year in the SEC, it's gonna be tough. You know,

1396
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:22,000
Speaker 1: the NFL there's such a parody where every year they're

1397
01:12:22,040 --> 01:12:23,640
Speaker 1: gonna be teams that won four or five games that

1398
01:12:23,720 --> 01:12:25,720
Speaker 1: win twelve the next you know, or at least make

1399
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:27,720
Speaker 1: the playoffs. We saw that with San Francisco a year ago,

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01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:30,080
Speaker 1: and so I try not to put too much stock

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01:12:30,120 --> 01:12:34,240
Speaker 1: in that. And so you know, in AFC East, beating

1402
01:12:34,280 --> 01:12:37,759
Speaker 1: the Dolphins is going to be, you know, relatively easy.

1403
01:12:37,760 --> 01:12:40,479
Speaker 1: I want to say, it's based on recent history, the

1404
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:43,560
Speaker 1: Patriots are not the same team, so there's room for

1405
01:12:43,640 --> 01:12:46,759
Speaker 1: growth in that division more so than ever. I think Jeremy,

1406
01:12:46,800 --> 01:12:49,280
Speaker 1: in your selection of the Bills as a possible super

1407
01:12:49,360 --> 01:12:52,480
Speaker 1: Bowl team, you talk about josh Allen making a sizeable

1408
01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:56,960
Speaker 1: year three leap. The size of that leap really holds

1409
01:12:57,000 --> 01:12:58,760
Speaker 1: the key to what the Bills do next season, don't

1410
01:12:58,760 --> 01:13:02,759
Speaker 1: you think he does? But it comes down to pieces

1411
01:13:02,800 --> 01:13:05,519
Speaker 1: around him too. You know you can tell and everybody

1412
01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:10,080
Speaker 1: knows that they need a bigger, true outside receiver to

1413
01:13:10,200 --> 01:13:13,120
Speaker 1: compliment Ol Beasley and John Brown. You know, I think

1414
01:13:13,160 --> 01:13:15,120
Speaker 1: that would go a long way. He saw it a

1415
01:13:15,160 --> 01:13:18,200
Speaker 1: little bit in shape Duke Williams, but they need more there.

1416
01:13:18,200 --> 01:13:20,880
Speaker 1: I mean, there's to me, there's no other team that's

1417
01:13:20,880 --> 01:13:24,120
Speaker 1: a no brainer slam dunk to get a top end

1418
01:13:24,280 --> 01:13:26,479
Speaker 1: receiver in the first round in Buffalo. It's a very

1419
01:13:26,520 --> 01:13:28,920
Speaker 1: deep class. They should be able to get that done

1420
01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:31,519
Speaker 1: and that will help josh um And so you know,

1421
01:13:31,640 --> 01:13:34,080
Speaker 1: you saw in the playoff game their moments of brilliance

1422
01:13:34,800 --> 01:13:36,800
Speaker 1: U and their moments that you'd like to have back,

1423
01:13:37,040 --> 01:13:39,840
Speaker 1: or the moments that you're just kind of discussion. So um,

1424
01:13:40,160 --> 01:13:42,320
Speaker 1: I think he will clean some of that up. He's

1425
01:13:42,320 --> 01:13:45,559
Speaker 1: a hard worker, which is half the battle of that position. Um,

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01:13:45,760 --> 01:13:47,439
Speaker 1: the question is going to become, you know, Kenny, read

1427
01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:50,400
Speaker 1: all the coverages effectively, get to a second and third

1428
01:13:50,439 --> 01:13:55,519
Speaker 1: read consistently and we'll see. With respect to the news,

1429
01:13:55,720 --> 01:13:59,439
Speaker 1: you know, NFL news now, which is obviously circling around

1430
01:13:59,479 --> 01:14:02,240
Speaker 1: the cb A and a potential new agreement between the

1431
01:14:02,280 --> 01:14:05,280
Speaker 1: owners and the PA. You know, we know that the

1432
01:14:05,400 --> 01:14:08,960
Speaker 1: PA people were poring over the proposal yesterday. Nothing came

1433
01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:14,400
Speaker 1: out of that of any serious measure. But what kind

1434
01:14:14,439 --> 01:14:18,280
Speaker 1: of how do you weed your way through the posturing

1435
01:14:18,479 --> 01:14:23,000
Speaker 1: that is omnipresent in situations like this and try to

1436
01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:26,000
Speaker 1: try to find a landing spot as to where things

1437
01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:32,200
Speaker 1: end up, especially with the seventeen game schedule. Jeremy right, Well,

1438
01:14:32,800 --> 01:14:35,200
Speaker 1: the issue is the players want to take their time

1439
01:14:35,240 --> 01:14:36,960
Speaker 1: with us. They don't want to rush it through. But

1440
01:14:37,560 --> 01:14:40,720
Speaker 1: the reality is they're not going to lock out for

1441
01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:42,840
Speaker 1: two years, or if they held out or two years,

1442
01:14:42,880 --> 01:14:45,320
Speaker 1: that's the only way they truly get all the twenty

1443
01:14:45,400 --> 01:14:47,960
Speaker 1: things that they want, the perfect benefits, the perfect revenue share,

1444
01:14:48,360 --> 01:14:50,519
Speaker 1: guaranteed contracts, all that stuff. They're not going to get

1445
01:14:50,640 --> 01:14:52,760
Speaker 1: all of them. So I think what they're weighing now,

1446
01:14:52,880 --> 01:14:54,880
Speaker 1: is it worth taking the seventeen games. No, And we

1447
01:14:54,960 --> 01:14:58,120
Speaker 1: can fight for four or five things and get those done,

1448
01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:01,719
Speaker 1: including if you do the seventeen game, the revenue share

1449
01:15:01,800 --> 01:15:04,200
Speaker 1: has to be spot on. They have to be compensated

1450
01:15:04,280 --> 01:15:06,280
Speaker 1: well for that game. I think you're going to see

1451
01:15:06,280 --> 01:15:09,760
Speaker 1: reduced playing time, I'm sorry, practice time once again. We

1452
01:15:09,800 --> 01:15:11,880
Speaker 1: saw last time, you'll see it again. Players will have

1453
01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:15,400
Speaker 1: less hitting and practice, more time off, and they're hoping

1454
01:15:15,479 --> 01:15:18,920
Speaker 1: for better benefits overall. What do you think they'll get

1455
01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:21,559
Speaker 1: something done? And I guess I mean imminently. They're talking

1456
01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:25,360
Speaker 1: about it. Well, yeah, go ahead, Yeah, I don't think

1457
01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:28,439
Speaker 1: in the next week. But you know, look, you have

1458
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Speaker 1: an executive director and Eric Winston whose term ends in March,

1459
01:15:33,479 --> 01:15:37,160
Speaker 1: and he's overseen these meetings along with de Maury Smith,

1460
01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:42,120
Speaker 1: the executive president. So if if he's steering the ship

1461
01:15:43,160 --> 01:15:45,200
Speaker 1: and he hasn't set him to get it done as

1462
01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:48,879
Speaker 1: his last order of business before March, it's very possible

1463
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Speaker 1: if he can get enough people on his side. Seventeen

1464
01:15:51,640 --> 01:15:54,000
Speaker 1: game schedule creates some issues. I don't know if there

1465
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:56,400
Speaker 1: are problems, but what do you think the biggest issues

1466
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Speaker 1: with the seventeen game regular season schedule might be Jeremy, Well,

1467
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Speaker 1: it's making sure they get compensated enough for it and

1468
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Speaker 1: how they split the money and and it's no guarantee

1469
01:16:05,400 --> 01:16:08,000
Speaker 1: that TV even once the seventeenth game. I assume they will.

1470
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Speaker 1: But that's a big part of this is can the

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Speaker 1: league go back to the networks and make sure that

1472
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Speaker 1: the revenue would be there enough they might not have it,

1473
01:16:16,320 --> 01:16:18,479
Speaker 1: and so, you know, but I think the league feels

1474
01:16:18,479 --> 01:16:20,320
Speaker 1: pretty good about that. So the issue is just the

1475
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Speaker 1: wear and tear with the veteran players. But we talked

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01:16:23,600 --> 01:16:26,880
Speaker 1: to Chiefs defensive end Frank Clark today on our get

1477
01:16:26,960 --> 01:16:28,920
Speaker 1: up show and he said, look, if it's more money,

1478
01:16:28,960 --> 01:16:31,040
Speaker 1: I'm all for it. I'll play the seventeenth game. You know,

1479
01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:34,439
Speaker 1: I think most guys would come around on that, right.

1480
01:16:34,640 --> 01:16:37,519
Speaker 1: And then just and this we saw like little bits

1481
01:16:37,560 --> 01:16:40,760
Speaker 1: and pieces of this on social media. I haven't really

1482
01:16:40,840 --> 01:16:44,040
Speaker 1: been able to find a full blown written report on

1483
01:16:44,120 --> 01:16:46,360
Speaker 1: this in any way, shape or form, but there were

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01:16:46,439 --> 01:16:51,280
Speaker 1: some rumblings about NFL owners discussing a separate quarterback salary

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Speaker 1: cap in the new cbace and then you know, another

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01:16:55,040 --> 01:16:58,559
Speaker 1: cap for the rest of your roster how I mean,

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01:16:58,640 --> 01:17:01,800
Speaker 1: have you heard that number one, number two? What kind

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01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:05,160
Speaker 1: of legs does something like that have do you think? Yeah,

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01:17:05,240 --> 01:17:09,080
Speaker 1: well that came from me actually, and I yeah so.

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01:17:09,200 --> 01:17:12,240
Speaker 1: But it's funny because I've reported that before, even months ago,

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01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:14,800
Speaker 1: but I said it on our show again because we

1492
01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:17,439
Speaker 1: were talking about the Patrick Mahomes money and how crazy

1493
01:17:17,520 --> 01:17:19,120
Speaker 1: it was going to get, and so I was like, well,

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01:17:19,720 --> 01:17:23,360
Speaker 1: the league and the owners in particular brought it to

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01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:26,400
Speaker 1: the players recently. This is according to a player rep

1496
01:17:26,439 --> 01:17:28,559
Speaker 1: who told me this that, you know, if this is early,

1497
01:17:28,640 --> 01:17:31,920
Speaker 1: like even in August and September, brought the idea of

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01:17:32,080 --> 01:17:35,559
Speaker 1: trying to get the quarterback money under control a little

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01:17:35,560 --> 01:17:37,439
Speaker 1: bit where you can pay those guys. Maybe it's like

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01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:40,400
Speaker 1: a max contract like you see in the NBA, or

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01:17:41,080 --> 01:17:43,760
Speaker 1: make it separate where you can still pay the key

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01:17:43,840 --> 01:17:47,519
Speaker 1: positions and keep your salary cap fairly modest and so

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01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:49,640
Speaker 1: on paper, it sounds great, Hey, you know you can

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01:17:49,680 --> 01:17:51,960
Speaker 1: still keep the salary cap at one hundred and eighty

1505
01:17:51,960 --> 01:17:54,960
Speaker 1: million dollars for all the non quarterbacks, right, But I

1506
01:17:55,040 --> 01:17:59,120
Speaker 1: think there will be some skepticism over whether the league

1507
01:17:59,120 --> 01:18:00,680
Speaker 1: would say true to its work and still pay the

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01:18:00,720 --> 01:18:04,920
Speaker 1: middle class and it was a convoluted issue enough where

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01:18:04,960 --> 01:18:06,800
Speaker 1: it didn't really take off. It was on the idea board,

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01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:09,639
Speaker 1: but it was discussed between the owners and the players

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01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:12,040
Speaker 1: for sure. Hey, Jeremy, another thing to ask you about

1512
01:18:12,080 --> 01:18:14,960
Speaker 1: where which Jeremy Fowler from ESPN on the line with

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01:18:15,040 --> 01:18:17,280
Speaker 1: us Right now, Antonio Brown is sort of on a

1514
01:18:17,360 --> 01:18:20,439
Speaker 1: bit of an apology tour now, right He's apologized to

1515
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:23,720
Speaker 1: the Steelers and the fans in Pittsburgh. He's apologized to

1516
01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:26,960
Speaker 1: football fans. I wonder do you see this ending? Well?

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01:18:27,120 --> 01:18:29,920
Speaker 1: Is there another chance for Antonio? And especially in relation

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01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:31,760
Speaker 1: to a really good post you put up on the

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01:18:31,920 --> 01:18:35,720
Speaker 1: ESPN dot com about the rise and fall of Antonio Brown. Now, yeah,

1520
01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:39,360
Speaker 1: this guy's gonna be interesting to follow, isn't he. Yeah?

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01:18:39,360 --> 01:18:40,920
Speaker 1: I don't know what more there is to follow, to

1522
01:18:40,960 --> 01:18:43,280
Speaker 1: be honest, I mean, I don't see him getting a

1523
01:18:43,400 --> 01:18:48,080
Speaker 1: chance right now, and less the league decides on a suspension,

1524
01:18:48,200 --> 01:18:51,280
Speaker 1: which they really have no leasling to do right now,

1525
01:18:51,360 --> 01:18:54,920
Speaker 1: because even before his recent troubles and the arrest, he

1526
01:18:55,000 --> 01:18:56,759
Speaker 1: had that he was looking at at least six games.

1527
01:18:57,200 --> 01:18:59,160
Speaker 1: Now they have to reevaluate all that and look at

1528
01:18:59,160 --> 01:19:02,120
Speaker 1: the rest reports that new So it could take a while.

1529
01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:05,360
Speaker 1: I just don't see it. But you know, he's a

1530
01:19:05,439 --> 01:19:07,960
Speaker 1: high level talent, and we know in this league, the

1531
01:19:08,040 --> 01:19:11,439
Speaker 1: high level talent does not get ignored. So perhaps, you know,

1532
01:19:11,640 --> 01:19:13,639
Speaker 1: mid to late next year, if he gets more clarity

1533
01:19:13,640 --> 01:19:16,000
Speaker 1: on a situation, somebody will jump in. But you know

1534
01:19:16,080 --> 01:19:18,680
Speaker 1: it's bad when Drew Rosenhouse fires you and everybody else

1535
01:19:18,760 --> 01:19:22,639
Speaker 1: fires your lawyers til you it's pretty close to rock bottom.

1536
01:19:23,560 --> 01:19:27,280
Speaker 1: And then Jeremy obviously with the quarterbacks in the free

1537
01:19:27,360 --> 01:19:30,240
Speaker 1: agent market, along with quarterbacks who could be moving on,

1538
01:19:30,800 --> 01:19:34,679
Speaker 1: you know, like a Andy Dalton and Cincinnati who could

1539
01:19:34,680 --> 01:19:37,880
Speaker 1: be moved off that roster. Cam Newton is really an

1540
01:19:37,920 --> 01:19:41,880
Speaker 1: interesting case here because it's clear at the Panthers organization,

1541
01:19:41,960 --> 01:19:45,000
Speaker 1: with their new owner and their new coach, probably want

1542
01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:50,160
Speaker 1: to rebuild. But do you do that devoid of a

1543
01:19:50,280 --> 01:19:53,240
Speaker 1: quarterback and move Cam Newton or do you stick with

1544
01:19:53,360 --> 01:19:55,479
Speaker 1: him and hope he can kind of carry you through that?

1545
01:19:56,200 --> 01:19:59,120
Speaker 1: How do you kind of see that shaping up? Right?

1546
01:19:59,280 --> 01:20:01,080
Speaker 1: So from what I'm told, you know they want to

1547
01:20:01,080 --> 01:20:03,240
Speaker 1: at least give him a chance in early March to

1548
01:20:03,360 --> 01:20:05,720
Speaker 1: see where his health is. And you know he's going

1549
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:08,559
Speaker 1: to have that loost Frank injury. Healed up by then

1550
01:20:09,360 --> 01:20:12,280
Speaker 1: and probably before free agency, so they can gauge where

1551
01:20:12,320 --> 01:20:15,599
Speaker 1: he's at. You know, they can then gauge the trade

1552
01:20:15,640 --> 01:20:17,519
Speaker 1: market if they want, or they can decide to keep him,

1553
01:20:17,520 --> 01:20:19,400
Speaker 1: and I'm told that is a realistic option because he

1554
01:20:19,479 --> 01:20:22,719
Speaker 1: only has one more year left. Matt ruled a new coach,

1555
01:20:23,600 --> 01:20:26,760
Speaker 1: even though he's in a reset, I'd call it not

1556
01:20:26,840 --> 01:20:29,640
Speaker 1: a complete rebuild, but a reset. He still wants to

1557
01:20:29,720 --> 01:20:31,680
Speaker 1: win some games to keep her respectable. I don't think

1558
01:20:31,680 --> 01:20:35,080
Speaker 1: they want to totally tank, unless I hear differently here soon.

1559
01:20:35,240 --> 01:20:40,040
Speaker 1: But my understanding is that Cam returning for the last

1560
01:20:40,120 --> 01:20:42,360
Speaker 1: year of his contract on nineteen one point one million

1561
01:20:42,400 --> 01:20:45,479
Speaker 1: dollars cap hit is an option on the table and

1562
01:20:45,640 --> 01:20:48,680
Speaker 1: so but that's the big number they can get off

1563
01:20:48,680 --> 01:20:50,679
Speaker 1: their books too. I don't think he's going to garner

1564
01:20:50,720 --> 01:20:53,000
Speaker 1: a first round pick, though, that's part of the problem.

1565
01:20:53,120 --> 01:20:55,080
Speaker 1: You know, if it was a slam dunk to get

1566
01:20:55,080 --> 01:20:57,920
Speaker 1: a one, maybe you trade him. I don't get the

1567
01:20:57,960 --> 01:20:59,840
Speaker 1: sense asking other people around the league that he would

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01:20:59,840 --> 01:21:02,640
Speaker 1: be that right now. Interesting. Hey Jeremy, thanks for this.

1569
01:21:02,760 --> 01:21:04,519
Speaker 1: Thanks for carving out some time for us today. We

1570
01:21:04,560 --> 01:21:09,439
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Hey, anytime, guys, Thank you. Jeremy Fowler, ESPN,

1571
01:21:09,560 --> 01:21:12,400
Speaker 1: NFL senior reporter, contributed to their get up shows and

1572
01:21:12,640 --> 01:21:16,080
Speaker 1: Sports Center, of course, has been with them since twenty fourteen.

1573
01:21:16,120 --> 01:21:19,160
Speaker 1: He's got the Bills and the Seahawks in next year's

1574
01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:22,160
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, a little bit of a tongue in cheek prediction,

1575
01:21:22,200 --> 01:21:25,080
Speaker 1: I think on his part. No, I think he genuinely

1576
01:21:25,200 --> 01:21:28,640
Speaker 1: believes that the Bills have a chance to win the

1577
01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:31,679
Speaker 1: division in twenty twenty. And because of that, and because

1578
01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:33,799
Speaker 1: of that, I think that's why he is as encouraged

1579
01:21:33,840 --> 01:21:36,799
Speaker 1: as he is about Buffalo's prospects. I think he sees

1580
01:21:37,160 --> 01:21:41,320
Speaker 1: the Patriots falling off, the Dolphins not ready to really

1581
01:21:41,400 --> 01:21:45,479
Speaker 1: contend yet, and the Jets are the Jets, as we

1582
01:21:45,600 --> 01:21:49,160
Speaker 1: address last hour. So you look at all of that,

1583
01:21:49,360 --> 01:21:52,559
Speaker 1: and even though the schedule could very well be challenging

1584
01:21:52,720 --> 01:21:56,519
Speaker 1: for the Bills, playing the AFC West, playing the NFC West,

1585
01:21:57,000 --> 01:21:59,920
Speaker 1: which as I mentioned, included the two Super Bowl part

1586
01:22:00,000 --> 01:22:04,280
Speaker 1: disticipants from this year, there is still a division to

1587
01:22:04,400 --> 01:22:07,280
Speaker 1: be won. And if you win the division, whether you're

1588
01:22:07,320 --> 01:22:10,840
Speaker 1: ten and six or something even better, but if ten

1589
01:22:10,880 --> 01:22:13,400
Speaker 1: and six gets you the division, you might be all

1590
01:22:13,439 --> 01:22:15,720
Speaker 1: the more battle tested because you went against those two

1591
01:22:15,800 --> 01:22:18,679
Speaker 1: divisions and maybe you can make a run in the playoffs. Yeah,

1592
01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:20,599
Speaker 1: you know, made a really good point on our show,

1593
01:22:20,760 --> 01:22:24,880
Speaker 1: totally apropole, well somewhat apropole. Ross Tucker the other day

1594
01:22:24,920 --> 01:22:27,920
Speaker 1: talking about the chief Super Bowl run, and he said,

1595
01:22:27,960 --> 01:22:32,000
Speaker 1: if the earlier mentioned Ryan Fitzpatrick does an engineer that

1596
01:22:33,800 --> 01:22:36,880
Speaker 1: Dolphins upset win at New England the final game, then

1597
01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:38,599
Speaker 1: maybe that you know, it'd be different for the Chiefs.

1598
01:22:38,640 --> 01:22:41,000
Speaker 1: They three games, not to they'd have to play at

1599
01:22:41,080 --> 01:22:43,479
Speaker 1: least one of those games, most likely on the road,

1600
01:22:43,880 --> 01:22:46,479
Speaker 1: instead of two straight at home. It's just interesting, I'm

1601
01:22:46,520 --> 01:22:48,439
Speaker 1: trying to think, because they played the Titans, which would

1602
01:22:48,479 --> 01:22:50,559
Speaker 1: have been a home game no matter what if they're

1603
01:22:50,600 --> 01:22:55,040
Speaker 1: in the wild card round, yes, and then after that

1604
01:22:55,479 --> 01:22:59,200
Speaker 1: who advanced, Well, it's hard to say because the Titans

1605
01:22:59,280 --> 01:23:01,240
Speaker 1: end up playing Array and you don't really know, right,

1606
01:23:01,360 --> 01:23:04,320
Speaker 1: but yeah, there's a chance they would have played a

1607
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:07,240
Speaker 1: one road game there because somebody else would have been

1608
01:23:07,439 --> 01:23:11,920
Speaker 1: the number one seed, not them. Yeah, um yeah, I

1609
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:14,000
Speaker 1: mean it changes in the dynamics. I don't think there's

1610
01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:16,759
Speaker 1: any questions about Baltimore in New England won two seeds.

1611
01:23:16,800 --> 01:23:19,120
Speaker 1: They they've had they wouldn't play the first game on

1612
01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:20,840
Speaker 1: the road. The wild card game, they'd be home. But

1613
01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:24,160
Speaker 1: you probably so, you would assume Baltimore. Is it probably

1614
01:23:24,200 --> 01:23:25,960
Speaker 1: the team they're playing in the second round, and that's

1615
01:23:26,400 --> 01:23:28,599
Speaker 1: that's a different ball games. That's a that's a much

1616
01:23:28,680 --> 01:23:31,439
Speaker 1: more physical team you'd be going against and a team

1617
01:23:31,479 --> 01:23:33,720
Speaker 1: that can grind it out on the ground. Yeah, it

1618
01:23:33,760 --> 01:23:36,439
Speaker 1: would have been interesting. Yep. Hey, our question of the

1619
01:23:36,520 --> 01:23:38,600
Speaker 1: day looks at next season for the Bills. What's the

1620
01:23:38,640 --> 01:23:41,519
Speaker 1: biggest asset they have going on looking ahead to next year?

1621
01:23:41,560 --> 01:23:42,800
Speaker 1: What do you think it is? We got phone lines

1622
01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:44,880
Speaker 1: wide open to talk about this. You can send it

1623
01:23:44,960 --> 01:23:46,880
Speaker 1: a tweet for the tweet sheet. Is that the salary

1624
01:23:46,920 --> 01:23:49,760
Speaker 1: cap room, they have, the surplus of draft picks. Is

1625
01:23:49,800 --> 01:23:51,559
Speaker 1: it just the fact that they've got everybody coming back?

1626
01:23:51,640 --> 01:23:53,680
Speaker 1: Coaches primarily? What do you think? Maybe you got a

1627
01:23:53,720 --> 01:23:56,280
Speaker 1: better idea. What's the biggest asset for the twenty twenty

1628
01:23:56,320 --> 01:23:59,320
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills the biggest asset this offseason? Give us a

1629
01:23:59,360 --> 01:24:01,479
Speaker 1: call to discus sending a tweet or voting in the

1630
01:24:01,520 --> 01:24:03,760
Speaker 1: Twitter poll. We'll talk about that when we return. One

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01:24:03,800 --> 01:24:06,880
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Speaker 1: Chris Brown Bills Insider from Buffalo bills dot Com. I

1635
01:24:26,439 --> 01:24:28,120
Speaker 1: always ask you this, what's up on the website? I

1636
01:24:28,120 --> 01:24:29,880
Speaker 1: got a story to write for the website I'm a

1637
01:24:29,920 --> 01:24:31,960
Speaker 1: little bit late with. But what else is going up

1638
01:24:31,960 --> 01:24:33,960
Speaker 1: on the website these days? Well, as I was telling you,

1639
01:24:34,120 --> 01:24:36,960
Speaker 1: we're you know, there's a lot of optimism for the Bills.

1640
01:24:37,000 --> 01:24:39,160
Speaker 1: As we just heard Jeremy Fowler's got him in the

1641
01:24:39,200 --> 01:24:42,240
Speaker 1: Super Bowl for twenty twenty. And so we're going to

1642
01:24:42,280 --> 01:24:46,600
Speaker 1: be taking a dive into why that is. And I

1643
01:24:46,680 --> 01:24:50,479
Speaker 1: think a lot of the national analysts that feel that way,

1644
01:24:51,800 --> 01:24:55,679
Speaker 1: they're only pointing to coach McDermott and to Josh Allen,

1645
01:24:55,760 --> 01:24:58,599
Speaker 1: and I understand why. There's certainly two of the biggest

1646
01:24:58,640 --> 01:25:01,639
Speaker 1: assets that the franchise had. But it goes a lot

1647
01:25:01,760 --> 01:25:05,280
Speaker 1: deeper than that. And so we're taking a deeper look

1648
01:25:05,479 --> 01:25:09,240
Speaker 1: at that early next week. And then I know, I

1649
01:25:09,360 --> 01:25:12,560
Speaker 1: tease the other story we're working on right now. You know,

1650
01:25:12,640 --> 01:25:16,519
Speaker 1: the extra layer that the pro personnel department has this

1651
01:25:16,640 --> 01:25:21,160
Speaker 1: year in terms of their scouting duties and how they've

1652
01:25:21,240 --> 01:25:24,599
Speaker 1: got to layer those extra responsibilities into what they normally

1653
01:25:24,680 --> 01:25:26,600
Speaker 1: do this time year. I mean, they've been up in

1654
01:25:26,640 --> 01:25:28,840
Speaker 1: the office the better part of the last two weeks

1655
01:25:30,080 --> 01:25:35,479
Speaker 1: delving deep, taking deep dives into the free agent players

1656
01:25:35,520 --> 01:25:37,080
Speaker 1: who are going to be on the market or are

1657
01:25:37,160 --> 01:25:39,639
Speaker 1: expected to be on the market, provided they're not resigned

1658
01:25:39,680 --> 01:25:44,640
Speaker 1: by their current clubs, and you know, doing full in

1659
01:25:44,800 --> 01:25:48,559
Speaker 1: depth profiles on all of those guys to determine who

1660
01:25:48,680 --> 01:25:54,840
Speaker 1: they might deem legitimate targets to pursue, you know, when

1661
01:25:54,920 --> 01:25:59,680
Speaker 1: March sixteenth hits and the negotiating window opens, and now

1662
01:25:59,760 --> 01:26:03,240
Speaker 1: they're is going to be another layer to their offseason duties, uh,

1663
01:26:03,600 --> 01:26:06,479
Speaker 1: you know, because of the XFL. So it's gonna be

1664
01:26:06,520 --> 01:26:09,479
Speaker 1: interesting to see how they layer that in, how they

1665
01:26:09,560 --> 01:26:11,840
Speaker 1: work the respective calendars of all the guys they're going

1666
01:26:11,920 --> 01:26:13,720
Speaker 1: to have to mobilize at this time of year when

1667
01:26:14,360 --> 01:26:16,840
Speaker 1: most of them are just crossing t's and dot and

1668
01:26:16,920 --> 01:26:19,400
Speaker 1: eyes on perspective free agent targets. You got the same

1669
01:26:19,439 --> 01:26:21,840
Speaker 1: sheet I do, right, cheat, I do have that there

1670
01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:24,840
Speaker 1: are some names missing from that laser there should mention. Yeah, yeah,

1671
01:26:25,040 --> 01:26:26,519
Speaker 1: I was looking for anything to get me a start

1672
01:26:26,600 --> 01:26:28,160
Speaker 1: on this. Yeah, is there a name on there that

1673
01:26:28,240 --> 01:26:30,720
Speaker 1: jumps out? Are you're like, oh, he could fit here? Um?

1674
01:26:31,360 --> 01:26:34,519
Speaker 1: I mean Jeremy Powler says they're clearly looking for a receiver,

1675
01:26:34,880 --> 01:26:38,040
Speaker 1: which is right. I'm not super high on the free

1676
01:26:38,080 --> 01:26:41,920
Speaker 1: agent receiving class. Yeah, I don't know that there will be. Um,

1677
01:26:43,040 --> 01:26:44,880
Speaker 1: there's a couple of alignment that I liked in the

1678
01:26:44,920 --> 01:26:48,400
Speaker 1: guard category. Um, I'd let to see him get a tackle.

1679
01:26:48,479 --> 01:26:51,400
Speaker 1: I think Chris Well, that would be nice and move

1680
01:26:51,479 --> 01:26:53,560
Speaker 1: Cody forward in and maybe but you know, you're you

1681
01:26:53,640 --> 01:26:55,640
Speaker 1: know you're paying big money for that, if you're if

1682
01:26:55,640 --> 01:26:57,880
Speaker 1: you're going to do that. Guards make money. No, there

1683
01:26:57,920 --> 01:27:00,400
Speaker 1: were a couple of interior centers mate money now right

1684
01:27:01,280 --> 01:27:03,679
Speaker 1: of money? Nope, you're right. And then I was trying

1685
01:27:03,720 --> 01:27:07,519
Speaker 1: to look for like a veteran defensive lineman. You know

1686
01:27:07,640 --> 01:27:10,320
Speaker 1: that they still believe has some gas in the tank

1687
01:27:10,880 --> 01:27:13,120
Speaker 1: that would come at a cheaper price than Jordan Phillips,

1688
01:27:13,160 --> 01:27:15,599
Speaker 1: who I just think is going to command money that's

1689
01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:18,840
Speaker 1: just going to be too rich for Buffalo's blood. I

1690
01:27:18,960 --> 01:27:21,880
Speaker 1: just see some team throwing money at him, and the

1691
01:27:22,040 --> 01:27:24,639
Speaker 1: Bills are not a club that gets into bidding wars,

1692
01:27:24,640 --> 01:27:27,280
Speaker 1: So you're looking into edge rusher or no more of

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Speaker 1: an interior guy. I'm hoping that they resign shack or

1694
01:27:30,640 --> 01:27:33,760
Speaker 1: can get fined in agreement that's suitable to shack. And

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01:27:34,400 --> 01:27:36,840
Speaker 1: you know, I look at a guy like Shelby Harris,

1696
01:27:37,160 --> 01:27:39,640
Speaker 1: you know, who had a nice year for Denver last year,

1697
01:27:39,800 --> 01:27:42,479
Speaker 1: still pretty young. He might command too much money. I

1698
01:27:42,520 --> 01:27:45,160
Speaker 1: don't know, but you know Vernon Butler down in Carolina.

1699
01:27:45,439 --> 01:27:48,120
Speaker 1: Even an earl Mitchell, you know for San Francisco, a

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01:27:48,200 --> 01:27:49,920
Speaker 1: guy that's a little long in the tooth but can

1701
01:27:49,960 --> 01:27:53,120
Speaker 1: still play and still help you. Um, you know, is

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01:27:53,160 --> 01:27:56,240
Speaker 1: that one of those value kind of signings that we've

1703
01:27:56,280 --> 01:27:59,680
Speaker 1: seen the Bills, you know do the last couple of

1704
01:27:59,760 --> 01:28:02,840
Speaker 1: all seasons. It's it's fun to kind of pick and

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01:28:02,960 --> 01:28:05,760
Speaker 1: choose and see, well this is where the Bills would lean.

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01:28:05,880 --> 01:28:07,960
Speaker 1: Does this kind of fit what they look for? One

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01:28:08,600 --> 01:28:11,240
Speaker 1: Bean thinks about this, right right, that's what we're doing,

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01:28:11,720 --> 01:28:14,880
Speaker 1: Bean thinking one on one. Take a quick call here

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01:28:14,960 --> 01:28:16,840
Speaker 1: from Don and Eden. Hello, Don, you're on the air

1710
01:28:16,880 --> 01:28:21,640
Speaker 1: with this, Yes, um yeah, I just wanted to make this. Uh.

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01:28:22,400 --> 01:28:24,800
Speaker 1: I know you guys were saying that the Bills are

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01:28:24,840 --> 01:28:27,679
Speaker 1: playing both of the Super Bowl participants. Actually, they're playing

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01:28:27,720 --> 01:28:31,639
Speaker 1: the Tennessee so they're playing three of the four teams

1714
01:28:31,640 --> 01:28:35,920
Speaker 1: that were in the championship this year round. Yeah and yeah,

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01:28:35,920 --> 01:28:40,240
Speaker 1: I'm playing the Seattle next year playing you know, they've

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01:28:40,240 --> 01:28:42,320
Speaker 1: got a tough schedule, There's no question about it. They're

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01:28:42,400 --> 01:28:46,879
Speaker 1: much tougher than this year. They're playing Sam Frandons, playing Tennessee,

1718
01:28:46,920 --> 01:28:49,200
Speaker 1: and they're playing in the Kansas City. So I think

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01:28:49,200 --> 01:28:51,280
Speaker 1: they're the only team that's playing all they're playing three

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01:28:51,320 --> 01:28:54,320
Speaker 1: different ones, you know, of the of the participants in

1721
01:28:54,400 --> 01:28:57,280
Speaker 1: the championship rounds? Are you predicting doom and gloom? Don

1722
01:28:57,360 --> 01:29:01,800
Speaker 1: for what you think? I'm hoping they keep every I'm

1723
01:29:01,840 --> 01:29:04,799
Speaker 1: hoping they keep the I hope they give the culting

1724
01:29:04,880 --> 01:29:07,360
Speaker 1: staff what they need. Yeah, just seem to get a

1725
01:29:07,400 --> 01:29:10,800
Speaker 1: big running back. But for the tough yard, you know,

1726
01:29:11,600 --> 01:29:13,080
Speaker 1: I like what I like the way they're going, and

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01:29:14,040 --> 01:29:16,120
Speaker 1: they keep that Culting step together. I get time to

1728
01:29:16,120 --> 01:29:18,880
Speaker 1: just teach you. They are going to have to graduate, Chris,

1729
01:29:19,000 --> 01:29:21,080
Speaker 1: take a step up because the schedule takes a step

1730
01:29:21,160 --> 01:29:24,320
Speaker 1: up this year. I look, you play who you're assigned

1731
01:29:24,360 --> 01:29:26,320
Speaker 1: to play. I get that. But there's no question the

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01:29:26,400 --> 01:29:28,400
Speaker 1: bill has caught a break with last year's schedule, right,

1733
01:29:28,439 --> 01:29:31,960
Speaker 1: they really did. Yeah, I think the I mean, the

1734
01:29:32,120 --> 01:29:36,080
Speaker 1: rotational schedule is the rotational schedule, but I think they

1735
01:29:36,160 --> 01:29:38,320
Speaker 1: did catch a couple of teams in some down years

1736
01:29:38,800 --> 01:29:42,800
Speaker 1: in terms of their own development. And you know, you

1737
01:29:42,880 --> 01:29:45,200
Speaker 1: look at some of the quarterback teams with the quarterbacks

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01:29:45,240 --> 01:29:47,960
Speaker 1: that they put out there on the field, and Josh Allen,

1739
01:29:48,040 --> 01:29:52,000
Speaker 1: even though he was only in his second NFL season,

1740
01:29:52,200 --> 01:29:54,160
Speaker 1: was clearly the better quarterback on the field and many

1741
01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:56,760
Speaker 1: of the games that they played last season, so you

1742
01:29:56,840 --> 01:29:59,439
Speaker 1: know that half the battles one right there. When you

1743
01:29:59,479 --> 01:30:02,519
Speaker 1: can say that at next year, that is not going

1744
01:30:02,560 --> 01:30:05,519
Speaker 1: to be the case in many situations, whether you're playing

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01:30:05,600 --> 01:30:08,760
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, whether you're playing Pat Mahomes. And that's not

1746
01:30:08,840 --> 01:30:11,840
Speaker 1: a knock on Josh, it's just you got much more

1747
01:30:11,920 --> 01:30:16,040
Speaker 1: experienced guys, much more battle tested guys, and guys that

1748
01:30:16,200 --> 01:30:18,920
Speaker 1: have you know, look at the numbers, they've been more productive.

1749
01:30:18,960 --> 01:30:21,360
Speaker 1: Now that's not to say that Josh can't reach that level,

1750
01:30:21,439 --> 01:30:24,680
Speaker 1: but going into the twenty twenty season, he's not at

1751
01:30:24,720 --> 01:30:27,479
Speaker 1: that level yet, and so that makes it a big

1752
01:30:27,640 --> 01:30:30,920
Speaker 1: challenge for sure. There are three bills opponents next year

1753
01:30:30,960 --> 01:30:32,679
Speaker 1: who I think you can say right off the bat

1754
01:30:33,080 --> 01:30:35,680
Speaker 1: probably have better quarterbacks than the Bills, right. I think

1755
01:30:35,800 --> 01:30:39,719
Speaker 1: Kansas City is one, Seattle is one, and New England

1756
01:30:39,840 --> 01:30:43,080
Speaker 1: is one, and if if Roethlisberger comes back healthy, Pittsburgh

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01:30:43,200 --> 01:30:44,920
Speaker 1: might be one as well. There are a number of

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01:30:45,000 --> 01:30:48,880
Speaker 1: others with question marks. Who's a better quarterback Chargers, Philip

1759
01:30:48,960 --> 01:30:51,280
Speaker 1: Rivers is there? Now? Is Philip Rivers better than Josh

1760
01:30:51,400 --> 01:30:53,439
Speaker 1: and all indications or he's not going to be back?

1761
01:30:53,600 --> 01:30:56,760
Speaker 1: Right Rams, I think I put a question mark next

1762
01:30:56,800 --> 01:31:02,599
Speaker 1: to that one. Vegas. I think Josh is probably better

1763
01:31:02,640 --> 01:31:05,040
Speaker 1: than carry. I think he gives you more than Car

1764
01:31:05,200 --> 01:31:08,120
Speaker 1: does Arizona. But there stalk that the Raiders might be

1765
01:31:08,200 --> 01:31:10,560
Speaker 1: after a veteran quarterback too, which there was just a

1766
01:31:10,640 --> 01:31:14,759
Speaker 1: report today where they were saying the Raiders are quietly

1767
01:31:15,600 --> 01:31:18,880
Speaker 1: seeking better options at the quarterback position. And we know

1768
01:31:19,400 --> 01:31:25,320
Speaker 1: John Gruten's affinity for extremely mature quarterbacks. I mean, you

1769
01:31:25,360 --> 01:31:26,720
Speaker 1: can go all the way back to his days when

1770
01:31:26,760 --> 01:31:30,400
Speaker 1: he was, you know, working with rich Gannett in Oakland

1771
01:31:30,720 --> 01:31:33,960
Speaker 1: and say, you know, this guy likes those veteran guys

1772
01:31:34,000 --> 01:31:37,400
Speaker 1: that he doesn't have to teach a to z. You know,

1773
01:31:37,520 --> 01:31:40,519
Speaker 1: the league and plays and how it works and all that.

1774
01:31:40,680 --> 01:31:43,240
Speaker 1: He likes working with guys that are along in the tooth,

1775
01:31:43,320 --> 01:31:45,120
Speaker 1: So it wouldn't shock me if he takes a swing

1776
01:31:45,160 --> 01:31:47,320
Speaker 1: at one of these veteran qbs. You would expect Josh

1777
01:31:47,400 --> 01:31:49,920
Speaker 1: will be better than the Arizona's Kyler Murray next year,

1778
01:31:49,960 --> 01:31:52,040
Speaker 1: but I don't think that's guarante. Yeah, I think Murray.

1779
01:31:52,479 --> 01:31:55,280
Speaker 1: I think Murray was had a nice rookie season. Not

1780
01:31:55,360 --> 01:31:57,679
Speaker 1: a great rookie season, but he had a nice rookie season.

1781
01:31:57,760 --> 01:32:01,120
Speaker 1: There weren't too many hit ups, there weren't too many

1782
01:32:01,200 --> 01:32:03,519
Speaker 1: bone headed plays, and I think that's a byproduct of

1783
01:32:03,560 --> 01:32:05,400
Speaker 1: the fact that he walked into the same offense that

1784
01:32:05,479 --> 01:32:08,600
Speaker 1: he ran in college. That certainly helped him. Where it

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01:32:08,720 --> 01:32:11,639
Speaker 1: goes from here, though, I think is the big question.

1786
01:32:11,760 --> 01:32:14,840
Speaker 1: What is Kyler murray ceiling? I think is the big

1787
01:32:14,960 --> 01:32:19,120
Speaker 1: question mark for that franchise. Obviously they're hoping there's another

1788
01:32:19,200 --> 01:32:23,240
Speaker 1: couple of levels for him to reach. Yeah, he's a

1789
01:32:23,240 --> 01:32:26,080
Speaker 1: pretty good player and the last one on the San

1790
01:32:26,120 --> 01:32:28,120
Speaker 1: Francisco I don't know if Josh is better than Garoppolo

1791
01:32:28,280 --> 01:32:30,960
Speaker 1: or not. I think most people Garoppolo hands down, Well,

1792
01:32:31,000 --> 01:32:33,040
Speaker 1: I don't know about that. I don't know about that.

1793
01:32:33,200 --> 01:32:38,400
Speaker 1: There are some inconsistencies in Garoppolo's game, namely the deep ball.

1794
01:32:40,560 --> 01:32:42,519
Speaker 1: There are some times where you scratch your head with

1795
01:32:42,600 --> 01:32:44,800
Speaker 1: some of his decisions. But who does that sound a

1796
01:32:44,840 --> 01:32:49,839
Speaker 1: lot like? It sounds like Josh. So now the difference

1797
01:32:49,920 --> 01:32:52,759
Speaker 1: there is Josh is a twenty three year old quarterback

1798
01:32:52,760 --> 01:32:55,200
Speaker 1: and Jimmy Garoppolo's a twenty eight year old quarterback. So

1799
01:32:56,760 --> 01:32:58,920
Speaker 1: he still has some of the some of the issues

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01:32:58,960 --> 01:33:01,519
Speaker 1: that Josh is dealing with as a quarterback five years

1801
01:33:01,600 --> 01:33:04,760
Speaker 1: his junior. So you would logic would tell you the

1802
01:33:04,840 --> 01:33:07,040
Speaker 1: ceiling on Josh and where he's hoping to take his

1803
01:33:07,200 --> 01:33:09,599
Speaker 1: game will be in a far better place when he's

1804
01:33:09,600 --> 01:33:11,800
Speaker 1: twenty eight years of age compared to where Garoppolo is

1805
01:33:11,880 --> 01:33:14,479
Speaker 1: now at twenty eight years of age. But they both

1806
01:33:14,560 --> 01:33:18,439
Speaker 1: benefited from top five defenses, and they both benefited from

1807
01:33:18,479 --> 01:33:20,760
Speaker 1: pretty strong running games, although Josh was a big part

1808
01:33:20,800 --> 01:33:23,680
Speaker 1: of that running game here in Buffalo. So I think

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01:33:23,720 --> 01:33:26,160
Speaker 1: that's a dead heat between those two guys going into

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01:33:26,240 --> 01:33:29,040
Speaker 1: next year. So the schedule the quarterbacks they played will

1811
01:33:29,040 --> 01:33:30,960
Speaker 1: be a factor. What's the biggest asset the Bills have

1812
01:33:31,080 --> 01:33:33,760
Speaker 1: as they approached this offseason. What can they count on

1813
01:33:34,520 --> 01:33:36,320
Speaker 1: to get ready for next year? As they get ready

1814
01:33:36,360 --> 01:33:38,320
Speaker 1: for next year, we'll talk more about that when we return.

1815
01:33:38,479 --> 01:33:40,599
Speaker 1: We'll take phone calls at eight h three oh five

1816
01:33:40,720 --> 01:33:43,960
Speaker 1: fifty and outside Buffalo one eight eight eight five fifty

1817
01:33:44,000 --> 01:33:46,840
Speaker 1: two five fifty. We'll talk a little bit about the

1818
01:33:46,880 --> 01:33:48,760
Speaker 1: combine and the Draft. You're welcome to call us and

1819
01:33:48,800 --> 01:33:51,320
Speaker 1: talking about whever you'd like. One Bill's Live presented by

1820
01:33:51,400 --> 01:33:54,320
Speaker 1: Kalata Health from the Seneca Studio in Orchard Park. This

1821
01:33:54,479 --> 01:34:09,439
Speaker 1: is Buffalo Bills Radio, Hill Suadio Network Sports Estate from

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01:34:09,439 --> 01:34:11,719
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. The Bills made a coaching move today.

1823
01:34:11,800 --> 01:34:15,800
Speaker 1: They've added a coach. They're hiring Jaquess Air as assistant

1824
01:34:15,880 --> 01:34:18,639
Speaker 1: defensive line coach. He's thirty nine years old. He played

1825
01:34:18,680 --> 01:34:21,400
Speaker 1: in the NFL entire nine year NFL career playing with

1826
01:34:21,520 --> 01:34:24,800
Speaker 1: the Chargers. He was an undrafted free agent out of

1827
01:34:24,840 --> 01:34:29,400
Speaker 1: Southern Connecticut State. Jackeson's. Air retired after the two twelve season.

1828
01:34:29,479 --> 01:34:31,719
Speaker 1: He has spent the last five years as a football

1829
01:34:31,720 --> 01:34:34,400
Speaker 1: assistant at the University of San Diego. Now he's coming

1830
01:34:34,439 --> 01:34:37,280
Speaker 1: to Buffalo Jacks. Air comes to the Bills to coach

1831
01:34:37,360 --> 01:34:40,680
Speaker 1: the defensive line. The assistant defensive line coach after a

1832
01:34:40,960 --> 01:34:44,600
Speaker 1: ten year playing career with the Chargers. NFL players Association

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01:34:44,720 --> 01:34:48,000
Speaker 1: representatives and members of their Ejecuve committee that for about

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01:34:48,040 --> 01:34:50,960
Speaker 1: eight hours yesterday in Los Angeles, no decisions were made

1835
01:34:51,240 --> 01:34:54,040
Speaker 1: regarding the approval of a new collective bargaining agreement. The

1836
01:34:54,160 --> 01:34:57,000
Speaker 1: players have been discussing a new CBA proposal that's been

1837
01:34:57,080 --> 01:34:59,920
Speaker 1: negotiated over about a ten month period between the league

1838
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:03,560
Speaker 1: in the NFLPA. The main focus would allow owners to

1839
01:35:03,640 --> 01:35:07,000
Speaker 1: expand the regular season from sixteen to seventeen games and

1840
01:35:07,120 --> 01:35:10,600
Speaker 1: exchange the players get a number of financial and other concessions,

1841
01:35:10,720 --> 01:35:14,200
Speaker 1: ranging from reduced training camp practice time and changes to

1842
01:35:14,280 --> 01:35:16,960
Speaker 1: the drug and discipline policies, and an increased share of

1843
01:35:17,040 --> 01:35:18,800
Speaker 1: league gravigand who going to the players that would be

1844
01:35:18,920 --> 01:35:21,720
Speaker 1: forty seven and a half percent. Several players have been

1845
01:35:21,800 --> 01:35:24,920
Speaker 1: outspoken to the plan to expand the season, but no

1846
01:35:25,080 --> 01:35:28,120
Speaker 1: word yet on how they talks went yesterday. Coaching move

1847
01:35:28,200 --> 01:35:30,519
Speaker 1: in Tennessee, the Titans have hired Ventnor and NFL coach

1848
01:35:30,600 --> 01:35:33,920
Speaker 1: Jim Haslett to coach their inside linebackers. He spends He

1849
01:35:34,080 --> 01:35:37,120
Speaker 1: brings twenty four years of NFL coaching experience to Tennessee.

1850
01:35:37,439 --> 01:35:41,000
Speaker 1: He had been the Bengals inside linebackers coach from two

1851
01:35:41,520 --> 01:35:45,200
Speaker 1: sixteen the twenty eighteen. Spent twelve seasons as a coordinator

1852
01:35:45,479 --> 01:35:48,280
Speaker 1: with the Steelers, Saints, Rams, and Redskins was a head

1853
01:35:48,320 --> 01:35:52,720
Speaker 1: coach for the Saints. He also and the actually the

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01:35:53,160 --> 01:35:54,880
Speaker 1: Saints and the Rams. As a matter of fact, that

1855
01:35:54,920 --> 01:35:57,400
Speaker 1: he played in the NFL for nine years. Of course, Hasslett,

1856
01:35:57,600 --> 01:36:01,000
Speaker 1: former Bills linebacker, played year better in NFL. Safety Eric

1857
01:36:01,040 --> 01:36:03,560
Speaker 1: Weddell announced his retirement yesterday, and the Savers on the

1858
01:36:03,640 --> 01:36:06,160
Speaker 1: road tonight to play the New York Rangers seven o'clock.

1859
01:36:06,240 --> 01:36:08,160
Speaker 1: Face up and we go to an hour three Now,

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01:36:08,280 --> 01:36:11,360
Speaker 1: John Murphy or Chris Brown, Chris is here for steam tasker,

1861
01:36:11,400 --> 01:36:13,880
Speaker 1: who is off today talking about a variety of topics

1862
01:36:14,000 --> 01:36:16,000
Speaker 1: or want to hear from you. What's the biggest asset

1863
01:36:16,080 --> 01:36:18,400
Speaker 1: the Bills have going into this soft season? What do

1864
01:36:18,479 --> 01:36:20,400
Speaker 1: they have in their pocket that no one else has.

1865
01:36:20,520 --> 01:36:22,800
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the Twitter poll and get

1866
01:36:22,840 --> 01:36:25,200
Speaker 1: you updated on how that's going. That's our Twitter question.

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01:36:25,520 --> 01:36:28,320
Speaker 1: What's the best asset for the Bills this offseason? Fifty

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01:36:28,360 --> 01:36:30,599
Speaker 1: eight percent that you say it's the salary cap space

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01:36:30,640 --> 01:36:33,160
Speaker 1: they have that's big. Fifty eight percent say that's it.

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01:36:33,560 --> 01:36:36,639
Speaker 1: Twenty eight percent say it's the continuity they have coaching

1871
01:36:36,760 --> 01:36:40,439
Speaker 1: staff coming back, many players coming back. Thirteen percent say

1872
01:36:40,479 --> 01:36:44,519
Speaker 1: it's draft capital. They have nine draft picks this year,

1873
01:36:44,880 --> 01:36:47,280
Speaker 1: most of them in the fourth and fifth rounds. But

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01:36:47,439 --> 01:36:50,120
Speaker 1: they do have nine draft picks, and about one percent

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01:36:50,160 --> 01:36:52,200
Speaker 1: say it's something else. Let's hear from you eight oh

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01:36:52,240 --> 01:36:55,360
Speaker 1: three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five

1877
01:36:55,520 --> 01:36:58,160
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty vote the Twitter poll, send that

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01:36:58,160 --> 01:37:00,200
Speaker 1: it's a tweet for the tweet sheet or of us

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01:37:00,200 --> 01:37:02,000
Speaker 1: a call. Let's go to Fred and Hamburg. Hello, Fred,

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01:37:02,040 --> 01:37:05,720
Speaker 1: you're on the air. Yeah, Murf, I wanted to know

1881
01:37:06,600 --> 01:37:09,960
Speaker 1: if you have had any idea about this is going

1882
01:37:10,000 --> 01:37:13,040
Speaker 1: to the stadium. Are they gonna be putting anybody on

1883
01:37:13,200 --> 01:37:16,720
Speaker 1: the wall of same? Um, I don't know that. I know,

1884
01:37:16,880 --> 01:37:18,600
Speaker 1: I don't have any idea about that. I don't know

1885
01:37:18,640 --> 01:37:20,360
Speaker 1: if that's in the works this year or not. Last

1886
01:37:20,439 --> 01:37:23,040
Speaker 1: year they did not put anybody on, right, I went

1887
01:37:23,120 --> 01:37:25,600
Speaker 1: on hiatus. Yeah, and the year before they had the

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01:37:25,680 --> 01:37:28,559
Speaker 1: Bruce Smith was that last year or two years ago?

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01:37:28,640 --> 01:37:32,439
Speaker 1: Number retirement? Yeah, that was two years ago? Right? Yeah?

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01:37:33,240 --> 01:37:36,519
Speaker 1: My vote if it matters. I'd like to see Budd

1891
01:37:36,600 --> 01:37:39,680
Speaker 1: Harpinger put on there. It's a good vote. Yeah, long

1892
01:37:39,760 --> 01:37:41,680
Speaker 1: time trainer for the bills. That'd be that somebody can

1893
01:37:41,760 --> 01:37:46,160
Speaker 1: consider absolutely what else you got today, Fred, That's that's

1894
01:37:46,200 --> 01:37:49,880
Speaker 1: about all. But thanks for taking my call. Thank you, Fred.

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01:37:51,080 --> 01:37:54,280
Speaker 1: Now that's it. I'm good. Let's go to Joey, Joey

1896
01:37:54,320 --> 01:37:57,439
Speaker 1: and Buffalo. Go ahead, Joey, you're on the air. How

1897
01:37:57,479 --> 01:38:00,840
Speaker 1: are you doing? Uh? I have a cushion for you.

1898
01:38:01,400 --> 01:38:04,080
Speaker 1: You seem they should get a good addition to the

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01:38:04,600 --> 01:38:10,120
Speaker 1: tight end from from from from killing Ian greg Olsen,

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01:38:10,200 --> 01:38:12,800
Speaker 1: Greig Olsen, he's talking about. Ye. Do I think they

1901
01:38:12,800 --> 01:38:14,880
Speaker 1: should get him? I don't know, Chris, we didn't. I

1902
01:38:14,880 --> 01:38:16,760
Speaker 1: haven't talked to you about that. Greig Olson was here

1903
01:38:17,240 --> 01:38:20,920
Speaker 1: visiting the other day. Thirty four years of age, He's

1904
01:38:21,240 --> 01:38:25,920
Speaker 1: just two years removed from pretty serious foot injuries. I'd

1905
01:38:25,960 --> 01:38:28,200
Speaker 1: be careful with him because of his age and his

1906
01:38:28,800 --> 01:38:31,080
Speaker 1: recent injury history. I guess yeah, I don't know if

1907
01:38:31,120 --> 01:38:33,800
Speaker 1: I'm I'm ready to make a big commitment to him.

1908
01:38:33,840 --> 01:38:35,920
Speaker 1: We want to talk one year contract. I could see

1909
01:38:36,000 --> 01:38:39,439
Speaker 1: that he did come back and playing fourteen games last year,

1910
01:38:39,560 --> 01:38:43,040
Speaker 1: so that's a positive. At least that gives you some

1911
01:38:43,240 --> 01:38:46,280
Speaker 1: evidence that he's over those foot problems. But at age

1912
01:38:46,320 --> 01:38:48,160
Speaker 1: thirty four, we know the wear and tear that's been

1913
01:38:48,240 --> 01:38:51,960
Speaker 1: on his body, especially at a demanding position like tight end.

1914
01:38:52,040 --> 01:38:54,479
Speaker 1: But he's certainly a guy that can still make plays

1915
01:38:54,479 --> 01:38:57,559
Speaker 1: for you in this league. So and he loves the game.

1916
01:38:57,760 --> 01:39:03,040
Speaker 1: I mean the guy he sleeps and breeds football coach's son.

1917
01:39:03,680 --> 01:39:07,160
Speaker 1: So I think if you brought him in and you know,

1918
01:39:07,439 --> 01:39:10,120
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott know him certainly a lot

1919
01:39:10,160 --> 01:39:12,240
Speaker 1: better than we do, having worked with him on a

1920
01:39:12,360 --> 01:39:15,120
Speaker 1: day by day basis for the better part of six years.

1921
01:39:15,240 --> 01:39:19,880
Speaker 1: So you know, they did their due diligence. Yesterday the visit.

1922
01:39:20,160 --> 01:39:22,479
Speaker 1: The visit wrapped up and now he's going to go

1923
01:39:22,600 --> 01:39:26,120
Speaker 1: visit Washington. He's also scheduled to visit Seattle. So we'll

1924
01:39:26,160 --> 01:39:27,760
Speaker 1: have to see where they come down on this, and

1925
01:39:28,400 --> 01:39:31,240
Speaker 1: you know, whether it comes down to needing to get

1926
01:39:31,320 --> 01:39:36,840
Speaker 1: into a competitive bidding situation for him or whether they

1927
01:39:36,960 --> 01:39:39,160
Speaker 1: present him with an offer. But as we know, the

1928
01:39:39,280 --> 01:39:42,720
Speaker 1: way Brandon Being operates in free agency is we set

1929
01:39:42,800 --> 01:39:45,880
Speaker 1: a value on people and we stick to that value.

1930
01:39:46,400 --> 01:39:49,599
Speaker 1: We rarely deviate from it because we don't like chasing people.

1931
01:39:49,920 --> 01:39:52,439
Speaker 1: We determine what we feel the proper value is on

1932
01:39:53,160 --> 01:39:57,800
Speaker 1: player X, player Y, player Z, and if that is

1933
01:39:57,960 --> 01:40:00,920
Speaker 1: something that the player is also happy with, well, then

1934
01:40:00,960 --> 01:40:03,080
Speaker 1: a deal happens. And that's pretty much how it's going

1935
01:40:03,160 --> 01:40:05,120
Speaker 1: to play out. I think what we did talk to

1936
01:40:05,120 --> 01:40:08,200
Speaker 1: you about this briefly Tuesday, I guess this week, maybe Wednesday,

1937
01:40:08,200 --> 01:40:10,400
Speaker 1: when you were here. What would the addition of Greg

1938
01:40:10,400 --> 01:40:12,680
Speaker 1: Olson to the roster? If that happens, what could it

1939
01:40:12,800 --> 01:40:15,360
Speaker 1: mean to Dawson Knox do you think, because I'd be

1940
01:40:15,479 --> 01:40:18,559
Speaker 1: reluctant to do it. Also, if it took away meaningful snaps,

1941
01:40:18,680 --> 01:40:23,640
Speaker 1: meaningful playing time, important consequential snaps for Dawson Knox. I

1942
01:40:23,680 --> 01:40:26,360
Speaker 1: think he needs to develop. I think he is enormous potential.

1943
01:40:26,680 --> 01:40:28,960
Speaker 1: You and I had a little disagreement the other day.

1944
01:40:29,240 --> 01:40:31,720
Speaker 1: You thought he was a little bit not ready for

1945
01:40:31,800 --> 01:40:33,559
Speaker 1: the league. I don't. I didn't see that as a problem.

1946
01:40:33,800 --> 01:40:37,400
Speaker 1: Did you say something like that? What I said was yeah.

1947
01:40:37,640 --> 01:40:41,439
Speaker 1: What I said was his lack of time on the

1948
01:40:41,560 --> 01:40:47,880
Speaker 1: field in college contributed to him not being ready for

1949
01:40:48,040 --> 01:40:50,559
Speaker 1: all of the big moments he was thrust into as

1950
01:40:50,600 --> 01:40:52,960
Speaker 1: a pro as a rookie and I think we saw

1951
01:40:53,040 --> 01:40:56,160
Speaker 1: evidence of that. That's not to say he's incapable of

1952
01:40:56,240 --> 01:40:59,120
Speaker 1: eventually getting to a place where he can make those plays.

1953
01:40:59,720 --> 01:41:02,760
Speaker 1: And I think your argument is a legitimate one. You

1954
01:41:02,880 --> 01:41:06,320
Speaker 1: could be stunting his growth with a player of Olsen's

1955
01:41:06,360 --> 01:41:11,680
Speaker 1: caliber on the roster. So there are some decisions to

1956
01:41:11,760 --> 01:41:15,400
Speaker 1: be made where you say, oh, we have Olson on

1957
01:41:15,439 --> 01:41:18,080
Speaker 1: the roster, we're better and that should count a number one.

1958
01:41:18,680 --> 01:41:21,439
Speaker 1: But some of those unintended consequences that could come up

1959
01:41:21,640 --> 01:41:24,760
Speaker 1: is you compromise the growth of the guy who is

1960
01:41:24,880 --> 01:41:28,040
Speaker 1: probably his most likely successor in the form of Dawson Knox.

1961
01:41:28,160 --> 01:41:31,599
Speaker 1: So those are things you have to weigh out and decide.

1962
01:41:32,400 --> 01:41:35,439
Speaker 1: What is goal number one in twenty twenty. If it's

1963
01:41:35,479 --> 01:41:37,639
Speaker 1: to go for a you know, a super Bowl title,

1964
01:41:38,040 --> 01:41:40,080
Speaker 1: well then you're probably bringing Olson in and you're probably

1965
01:41:40,080 --> 01:41:42,960
Speaker 1: playing him a good deal, knowing full well it could

1966
01:41:43,000 --> 01:41:47,320
Speaker 1: be at the expense of Dawson Knox's growth. Okay, again,

1967
01:41:47,400 --> 01:41:50,080
Speaker 1: that makes me less eager to have him on the roster.

1968
01:41:50,439 --> 01:41:52,400
Speaker 1: I think Dawson Knox has a chance to be really good,

1969
01:41:52,640 --> 01:41:55,640
Speaker 1: really good, but we'll find out. Yeah, player development is

1970
01:41:55,680 --> 01:41:58,680
Speaker 1: good here, but this current coaching staff, player development is

1971
01:41:58,760 --> 01:42:01,280
Speaker 1: good and rob Us is a good tight ends coach.

1972
01:42:01,360 --> 01:42:05,880
Speaker 1: So logic would say that Knox, provided he continues to

1973
01:42:05,920 --> 01:42:07,840
Speaker 1: do all the right things and he's given us no

1974
01:42:07,960 --> 01:42:11,160
Speaker 1: indication through his rookie season that he wouldn't should take

1975
01:42:11,160 --> 01:42:14,120
Speaker 1: a step forward in his development. Knows the offense. The

1976
01:42:14,240 --> 01:42:17,200
Speaker 1: offense is staying the same. That helps him. He's got

1977
01:42:17,280 --> 01:42:19,280
Speaker 1: a decent rapport with Josh. I think he's just got

1978
01:42:19,400 --> 01:42:22,040
Speaker 1: to make more plays, that's all, and be a little

1979
01:42:22,040 --> 01:42:25,040
Speaker 1: bit more consistent in his catch in his catch ability.

1980
01:42:25,080 --> 01:42:26,800
Speaker 1: You know, his drop rate was probably higher than he

1981
01:42:26,840 --> 01:42:29,559
Speaker 1: would have liked last year, so that's got to get fixed.

1982
01:42:30,080 --> 01:42:34,000
Speaker 1: And provided it does and his development continues, yeah, he

1983
01:42:34,040 --> 01:42:35,840
Speaker 1: should be a promising player next year. Let's go to

1984
01:42:35,960 --> 01:42:38,200
Speaker 1: Maureen with a call from Clarence. Hello, Maureen, you're on

1985
01:42:38,240 --> 01:42:40,240
Speaker 1: the air with this, Oh John and John. I've been

1986
01:42:40,280 --> 01:42:42,759
Speaker 1: listening to you since I gave my kids their backs

1987
01:42:42,840 --> 01:42:44,320
Speaker 1: when they were little, and you used to be on this.

1988
01:42:44,479 --> 01:42:47,720
Speaker 1: Larry Felzer, Yeah, oh wow, one of those kids like

1989
01:42:47,800 --> 01:42:51,240
Speaker 1: adults now with their own kids. I'm older than you.

1990
01:42:51,600 --> 01:42:57,439
Speaker 1: Oh good, you're the one. I M listening to the

1991
01:42:57,520 --> 01:42:59,800
Speaker 1: gentleman that gatto the phone that I think that we

1992
01:43:00,040 --> 01:43:02,719
Speaker 1: are in the best shape in terms of our coaching

1993
01:43:02,960 --> 01:43:08,479
Speaker 1: and um administration. Between Dean and McDonough, they are the

1994
01:43:08,600 --> 01:43:14,160
Speaker 1: best team we've had probably since Marv Levy and Pollian right,

1995
01:43:15,120 --> 01:43:18,280
Speaker 1: and I think that they learned so much to the

1996
01:43:18,320 --> 01:43:20,760
Speaker 1: credibility of the team. When they're looking for players to

1997
01:43:20,840 --> 01:43:23,559
Speaker 1: come in, they seem to know how to pick players.

1998
01:43:24,080 --> 01:43:26,479
Speaker 1: They might not be the top of the line player

1999
01:43:26,520 --> 01:43:29,000
Speaker 1: that everybody else is in and ah about, but somehow

2000
01:43:29,080 --> 01:43:31,960
Speaker 1: we've managed to build a really good team that's young,

2001
01:43:32,320 --> 01:43:35,960
Speaker 1: that is growing. They're not getting arrested off the field.

2002
01:43:36,040 --> 01:43:39,960
Speaker 1: They're not They're they're getting engaged in the community. I

2003
01:43:40,080 --> 01:43:42,920
Speaker 1: think I read somewhere that Josh has been talking with

2004
01:43:43,000 --> 01:43:47,200
Speaker 1: a sports psychologist, which does seem to be a trend

2005
01:43:47,439 --> 01:43:50,160
Speaker 1: in in sports as far as you know, the pressures

2006
01:43:50,200 --> 01:43:52,320
Speaker 1: that get placed on these guys and they're so young,

2007
01:43:52,560 --> 01:43:55,599
Speaker 1: they are so young, and they need to they need

2008
01:43:55,640 --> 01:43:57,479
Speaker 1: to be able to talk to somebody maybe who's not

2009
01:43:57,720 --> 01:44:02,040
Speaker 1: quite in their field per se, but somebody that can

2010
01:44:02,240 --> 01:44:04,800
Speaker 1: they can verbalize some of the things that they feel

2011
01:44:04,880 --> 01:44:07,600
Speaker 1: in terms of the pressure. I just think that the

2012
01:44:07,680 --> 01:44:10,160
Speaker 1: team is really making the right kind of moves and

2013
01:44:10,280 --> 01:44:12,640
Speaker 1: has done what I would expect. Sure, it would have

2014
01:44:12,680 --> 01:44:14,879
Speaker 1: been great to go further in the in the playoffs,

2015
01:44:14,960 --> 01:44:17,760
Speaker 1: but I thought it was interesting watching the Super Bowl.

2016
01:44:18,720 --> 01:44:21,599
Speaker 1: I thought some of mahomes moves looked similar to things

2017
01:44:21,640 --> 01:44:23,840
Speaker 1: that Josh does in terms of his running. And I

2018
01:44:23,920 --> 01:44:26,840
Speaker 1: don't I think we criticize Josh for running too much

2019
01:44:27,280 --> 01:44:30,040
Speaker 1: when he actually has done a lot of good things.

2020
01:44:30,120 --> 01:44:32,840
Speaker 1: When he's run, it's not like he's running backwards. He's

2021
01:44:33,080 --> 01:44:37,439
Speaker 1: going he's heading north. He's not He's not making stupid plays.

2022
01:44:37,520 --> 01:44:40,080
Speaker 1: He's trying. He's trying to get to the to the

2023
01:44:40,160 --> 01:44:42,960
Speaker 1: point where either it's a first down, get out of bounds,

2024
01:44:43,439 --> 01:44:46,559
Speaker 1: avoid a big hit. And I just I just feel

2025
01:44:46,640 --> 01:44:50,400
Speaker 1: like he's a smart kid who has so much, so

2026
01:44:50,560 --> 01:44:53,080
Speaker 1: much energy, and so much love for the game. He

2027
01:44:53,240 --> 01:44:55,280
Speaker 1: wants to be He doesn't want to be the best

2028
01:44:55,360 --> 01:44:57,120
Speaker 1: one on the team. He wants to be a good

2029
01:44:57,240 --> 01:45:00,760
Speaker 1: teammate to the kids, to be called kids because they are,

2030
01:45:01,080 --> 01:45:03,920
Speaker 1: to the young guys on this team. They really have

2031
01:45:04,160 --> 01:45:06,479
Speaker 1: such a you know, you see him at the Sabers game,

2032
01:45:06,520 --> 01:45:09,000
Speaker 1: you see him out in the community. They really care

2033
01:45:09,160 --> 01:45:11,599
Speaker 1: about being a good teammate. And I don't think Kid's

2034
01:45:11,640 --> 01:45:13,560
Speaker 1: head is too big. I don't think he's headed and

2035
01:45:13,640 --> 01:45:16,680
Speaker 1: I don't think big. Thanks, Maureen. Interesting, you covered a

2036
01:45:16,720 --> 01:45:19,120
Speaker 1: lot of territories. They do have a sports psychologist on staff,

2037
01:45:19,400 --> 01:45:22,760
Speaker 1: so there is an outlet for players to check in

2038
01:45:23,479 --> 01:45:26,760
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe verbalize a lot of the things

2039
01:45:26,800 --> 01:45:28,680
Speaker 1: that are running through their head or the pressures that

2040
01:45:28,760 --> 01:45:31,599
Speaker 1: they feel. So you know, they have that in place

2041
01:45:31,720 --> 01:45:34,240
Speaker 1: here in the building. And they have a very good

2042
01:45:34,320 --> 01:45:37,840
Speaker 1: player support staff here that takes care helps them take

2043
01:45:37,880 --> 01:45:40,240
Speaker 1: care of a lot of the off the field things

2044
01:45:40,320 --> 01:45:43,200
Speaker 1: that are pulling at them at times, whether it's family

2045
01:45:43,240 --> 01:45:47,840
Speaker 1: members looking for tickets or you know, setting up housing

2046
01:45:48,000 --> 01:45:50,720
Speaker 1: for them if they're new to the team. They do

2047
01:45:50,840 --> 01:45:54,280
Speaker 1: a good job here in terms of lightening the load

2048
01:45:55,120 --> 01:45:58,280
Speaker 1: so that the players can focus on football, and they

2049
01:45:58,360 --> 01:46:00,439
Speaker 1: do a good job with that here. Chris Brown studio

2050
01:46:00,520 --> 01:46:02,479
Speaker 1: with us. You're welcome to give us a call. Eight

2051
01:46:02,560 --> 01:46:05,080
Speaker 1: oh three five fifty toll free one eight eight eight

2052
01:46:05,439 --> 01:46:08,320
Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. What's the biggest asset the

2053
01:46:08,400 --> 01:46:10,439
Speaker 1: Bills have going into this offseason? What do you think

2054
01:46:10,479 --> 01:46:12,240
Speaker 1: it is? And Chris, I know you do the sort

2055
01:46:12,520 --> 01:46:16,400
Speaker 1: you solicit fan mail, fan questions regularly. Right when I

2056
01:46:16,479 --> 01:46:18,680
Speaker 1: go on periscope and yeah, yeah, we do like some

2057
01:46:18,840 --> 01:46:20,880
Speaker 1: live Q and a's and they kind of bounce stuff

2058
01:46:20,880 --> 01:46:23,280
Speaker 1: off me. I was doing them after games too through

2059
01:46:23,320 --> 01:46:25,120
Speaker 1: the course of the season. So yeah, we're gonna do

2060
01:46:25,120 --> 01:46:26,559
Speaker 1: a little bit of that with you today. We got

2061
01:46:26,640 --> 01:46:29,040
Speaker 1: to tweet in here from Dean. He says, it's the

2062
01:46:29,080 --> 01:46:33,760
Speaker 1: appointment of Cesari Jacques Sasari is defensive line coach. S Sara,

2063
01:46:33,800 --> 01:46:37,719
Speaker 1: how do you think you say it's it's Cezar Sezare?

2064
01:46:37,880 --> 01:46:41,360
Speaker 1: Sezzare is the appointment of Cesarre as assistant d line

2065
01:46:41,400 --> 01:46:44,640
Speaker 1: coach a new position? Does the answer to Eric Washington?

2066
01:46:44,920 --> 01:46:48,080
Speaker 1: Does it foretell anything for the draft, alignment and free agency?

2067
01:46:48,200 --> 01:46:50,760
Speaker 1: That's three questions and total. I believe I don't think

2068
01:46:50,800 --> 01:46:54,320
Speaker 1: it foretells anything about the draft. It is not a

2069
01:46:54,400 --> 01:46:59,280
Speaker 1: new position. He is replacing Aaron White Cotton, the former

2070
01:46:59,320 --> 01:47:02,760
Speaker 1: assistant to sensive line coach, who reports are saying is

2071
01:47:02,880 --> 01:47:06,639
Speaker 1: going to be taking an assistant job with the San

2072
01:47:06,680 --> 01:47:10,320
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine Ers. I know he and Niners defensive

2073
01:47:10,360 --> 01:47:14,400
Speaker 1: coordinator Robert Slay worked in Jacksonville together, so that's the

2074
01:47:14,439 --> 01:47:17,400
Speaker 1: connection out there. But I have not seen anything official

2075
01:47:17,479 --> 01:47:21,040
Speaker 1: from the forty nine ers. Club, but reporters who cover

2076
01:47:21,120 --> 01:47:22,760
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers are saying that he will be

2077
01:47:22,880 --> 01:47:25,080
Speaker 1: joining their staff on the defensive side of the ball.

2078
01:47:25,280 --> 01:47:28,880
Speaker 1: They lost their assistant D line coach to the Cleveland Browns,

2079
01:47:29,520 --> 01:47:33,160
Speaker 1: Chris Kiffin. That's right, Yes, yes he was. Yeah, he

2080
01:47:33,240 --> 01:47:37,040
Speaker 1: was assistant D line coach slash pass rush coordinator or

2081
01:47:37,040 --> 01:47:39,000
Speaker 1: whatever they call it now, but I mean your assistant

2082
01:47:39,080 --> 01:47:41,799
Speaker 1: D line coach. But yeah, he did go to Cleveland,

2083
01:47:41,840 --> 01:47:43,920
Speaker 1: so there is an opening there, so that would make

2084
01:47:44,000 --> 01:47:46,679
Speaker 1: sense that that would be the void that white Cotton

2085
01:47:46,720 --> 01:47:49,519
Speaker 1: would fill. And as far as answering, you're just going

2086
01:47:49,600 --> 01:47:52,720
Speaker 1: to work in concert with Eric Washington and that's how

2087
01:47:52,760 --> 01:47:54,360
Speaker 1: it's going to go on that side of the ball.

2088
01:47:54,479 --> 01:47:57,920
Speaker 1: So it's not a new position. It's not a real

2089
01:47:58,120 --> 01:48:00,639
Speaker 1: answer to anybody. You're just kind of do your job

2090
01:48:01,000 --> 01:48:04,000
Speaker 1: and that's basically how it works there. Here's one from Thomas.

2091
01:48:04,120 --> 01:48:06,400
Speaker 1: He goes, I've been meaning to ask you this. I

2092
01:48:06,400 --> 01:48:09,000
Speaker 1: don't know who he's been meaning to ask you, Me, Steve,

2093
01:48:10,080 --> 01:48:12,640
Speaker 1: anyone willing to answer. I know it's early into this

2094
01:48:12,840 --> 01:48:15,880
Speaker 1: and injuries are always an unknown, but the AFC East

2095
01:48:15,920 --> 01:48:19,920
Speaker 1: teams have the most difficult schedule to upcoming season, it's

2096
01:48:20,000 --> 01:48:22,400
Speaker 1: like the only one team, the division winner, that will

2097
01:48:22,439 --> 01:48:26,040
Speaker 1: make the playoffs. Yes, I think that's a distinct possibility

2098
01:48:26,200 --> 01:48:28,200
Speaker 1: that there's only one team from the AFC East in

2099
01:48:28,240 --> 01:48:30,599
Speaker 1: the playoff picture next year, and it obviously would only

2100
01:48:30,640 --> 01:48:34,040
Speaker 1: be the division winner that in such a scenario, And

2101
01:48:34,200 --> 01:48:38,720
Speaker 1: so winning the division becomes of paramount importance just by

2102
01:48:38,800 --> 01:48:42,160
Speaker 1: virtue of the fact that you're facing the AFC West

2103
01:48:42,200 --> 01:48:46,200
Speaker 1: and the NFC West, and then even the Bills crossover

2104
01:48:46,320 --> 01:48:49,599
Speaker 1: games are tough. I mean, they got Pittsburgh in Tennessee,

2105
01:48:50,160 --> 01:48:53,800
Speaker 1: so that is a tough road to hoe. And I

2106
01:48:53,920 --> 01:48:58,800
Speaker 1: know teams change and injuries happen, and the caliber of

2107
01:48:58,880 --> 01:49:01,679
Speaker 1: the opponent could change through the course of the season.

2108
01:49:01,720 --> 01:49:03,800
Speaker 1: As Murph likes to say, it's a week to week league,

2109
01:49:04,600 --> 01:49:11,760
Speaker 1: and it is. But I don't think your scenario is

2110
01:49:11,880 --> 01:49:14,439
Speaker 1: unlikely at all. In fact, I think it's probably better

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Speaker 1: than fifty fifty that only one AFC East team makes

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Speaker 1: the playoffs and that will be the division winner. So

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Speaker 1: and that division winner might not have fourteen ten yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe even nine. Who knows, it could be

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Speaker 1: a nine or ten wins that gets you the AFC

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Speaker 1: East title. And I think the Bills are probably one

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Speaker 1: of the two teams that people are going to peg

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Speaker 1: to be division chants. It's them or the Patriots. And

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are of the opinion

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Speaker 1: that the Patriots are going to take a step back

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, and I think we'd all love to

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Speaker 1: see that. Here's a question from Joe. Let me skip

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Speaker 1: one here and go to Joe. This is in regard

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Speaker 1: to the combine. Why don't the participants wear full gear

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Speaker 1: at the combine? Sure they can run faster, jump higher,

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01:49:56,040 --> 01:49:58,920
Speaker 1: jump further without the gear, but with the gear would

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Speaker 1: be a better judgment how well they can't of how

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Speaker 1: well they can't perform. Just wondering. I think Joe and

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Speaker 1: I want to hear Chris on this. They're doing things

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Speaker 1: that they won't normally do in a football game, right,

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01:50:09,280 --> 01:50:12,760
Speaker 1: nobody's trying to set a record in the high jump

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Speaker 1: or or you know, trying to lift weights. I mean,

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01:50:15,680 --> 01:50:17,400
Speaker 1: they want them to perform at their best in an

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Speaker 1: athletic competition, the combine. And by the way, that the

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01:50:20,600 --> 01:50:22,760
Speaker 1: focus of the combine really is on the medical test

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01:50:22,840 --> 01:50:26,639
Speaker 1: and to a lesser extent, slightly lesser the individualized interviews

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01:50:26,680 --> 01:50:29,360
Speaker 1: the players get the physical testing is done, but it's

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Speaker 1: mostly just kind of getting making sure that these guys

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Speaker 1: meet the baseline right for their positions right and well,

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Speaker 1: I think right now, while I like the idea, I

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Speaker 1: think it'ssaraiinly making a whole lot more interesting, especially the

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Speaker 1: positional drills. You know, when you've got linebackers dropping into coverage,

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01:50:48,600 --> 01:50:51,440
Speaker 1: cornerbacks flipping their hips, turning and running to the far sideline,

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01:50:51,920 --> 01:50:54,280
Speaker 1: making a play along the sideline you know, high point

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01:50:54,320 --> 01:50:57,599
Speaker 1: in the ball, or even lineman getting through those bags

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01:50:57,680 --> 01:51:00,720
Speaker 1: carrying extra ten pounds of pans on them, Maybe it

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01:51:00,840 --> 01:51:03,920
Speaker 1: creates a better picture. Here's the problem with that idea.

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Speaker 1: You've got such a long history of doing the combine

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01:51:10,240 --> 01:51:17,680
Speaker 1: in SPANDEX that I think owners personnel departments do not

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01:51:17,960 --> 01:51:21,280
Speaker 1: want to change the dynamic of the combine because they

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01:51:21,360 --> 01:51:24,960
Speaker 1: want to use all those comps from years past against

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01:51:25,000 --> 01:51:28,360
Speaker 1: the guys that are running and testing and jumping this year.

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01:51:29,000 --> 01:51:31,280
Speaker 1: And if you put pads on them, all of that

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01:51:31,479 --> 01:51:34,400
Speaker 1: historical data goes out the window and you can no

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01:51:34,520 --> 01:51:36,920
Speaker 1: longer use it as an accurate comp because you've got

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Speaker 1: guys carrying ten extra pounds of pads and a helmet

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Speaker 1: and that's probably why, although I like the idea, I

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Speaker 1: don't see it ever come into fruition. Okay, it's fine

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Speaker 1: if you like the idea, But Joe and I think

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Speaker 1: it's important to note that the combine isn't really testing

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Speaker 1: your physical It's not really a football test. It's an

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Speaker 1: athleticism test, you know what I mean. I don't mind

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Speaker 1: that they wear spandex as you said, or you know,

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Speaker 1: shorts and a T shirt, because it's an athletic test

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Speaker 1: more than a football test, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know, it's an athletic test. But in the end,

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Speaker 1: when you're watching the especially the football drills a forty

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Speaker 1: time go running in shorts. I don't care. But when

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Speaker 1: you're doing some of those football positions specific drills that

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Speaker 1: they do, you know, usually like the second day of

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01:52:17,640 --> 01:52:21,560
Speaker 1: on fieldwork, you gotta know how they're gonna move in

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Speaker 1: pads and a helmet in those kinds of things like

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01:52:24,400 --> 01:52:26,200
Speaker 1: can you drop and get to the spot on time

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Speaker 1: if you're carrying to I mean, it's probably an incremental

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Speaker 1: difference inability. I mean, what are we really talking? You know,

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Speaker 1: Oh the guy couldn't get there with the pads. On

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Speaker 1: if a guy's an athlete, a guy's an athlete. So

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Speaker 1: I understand your point, and it's probably mood to even

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Speaker 1: contemplate that change happening, because, as I said, the historical

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01:52:46,560 --> 01:52:49,120
Speaker 1: data is too valuable to use as a comper guys

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Speaker 1: that are testing this year. There is change coming to

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Speaker 1: the Combine, though, and the Combine is three weeks away.

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Speaker 1: Our show will be there on Tuesday, February twenty fifth

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Speaker 1: through Friday, February twenty eighth. We're doing shows at the

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Speaker 1: Combine and it's changing, Chris, I want to get your

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01:53:02,439 --> 01:53:05,200
Speaker 1: take on this. They're moving basically the workouts on field

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01:53:05,240 --> 01:53:08,800
Speaker 1: workouts that really are the centerpiece as far as the

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01:53:08,840 --> 01:53:11,960
Speaker 1: television of the Combine, moving those two late afternoon and

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Speaker 1: evening and so it starts Thursday, February twenty seven. They'll

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Speaker 1: be on the air for seven hours from the Combine

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01:53:17,520 --> 01:53:20,360
Speaker 1: NFL Network and they have quarterbacks, wide receivers in tight

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01:53:20,439 --> 01:53:23,080
Speaker 1: end starting at four going till eleven o'clock. It's a

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01:53:23,280 --> 01:53:25,720
Speaker 1: it's a TV show and by the way that flips it.

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Speaker 1: Usually they wait until the weekend. They have waited until

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01:53:28,840 --> 01:53:32,920
Speaker 1: what's Saturday to get quarterbacks and wide receivers on the field, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and then another point of I think it finishes with

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Speaker 1: defensive packs every year. Well, and well, I'll go through

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Speaker 1: it on Friday running backs, offensive linemen, and special teams,

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Speaker 1: four pm to seven pm. On Saturday, February twenty ninth,

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Speaker 1: five hours of defensive backs. No, I'm sorry. On Saturday

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Speaker 1: is defensive linemen and linebackers. And on Sunday, March first

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Speaker 1: defensive backs. So it's a big TV show. It only

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01:53:55,320 --> 01:53:58,000
Speaker 1: five hours show on Sunday, seven hours the other nights.

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Speaker 1: It's a TV show, the combine for fans, and they're

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Speaker 1: making it into a better TV show, making it a

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Speaker 1: better time to the day and highlighting the skill position.

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01:54:06,640 --> 01:54:10,880
Speaker 1: And when the ratings have clearly presented the league and

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01:54:11,040 --> 01:54:14,439
Speaker 1: the network with numbers that indicated to them it is

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Speaker 1: worth moving to prime time, feeling obviously the numbers will

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01:54:19,400 --> 01:54:22,320
Speaker 1: be even better if that, you know, the numbers had

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01:54:22,360 --> 01:54:25,080
Speaker 1: to be encouraging enough to say, dang, we should move

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01:54:25,120 --> 01:54:27,439
Speaker 1: this to prime time. We could charge even higher AD

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Speaker 1: revenue and we'll get better viewerships. So you know, they're

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Speaker 1: not doing this. It's not an ad hoc decision kind

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Speaker 1: of like what happened with the drafts. Draft used to

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Speaker 1: be ten or eleven in the morning Tuesday. Now it's

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Speaker 1: a big weekend. It's all about prime time. So now

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Speaker 1: we get prime time, Dion Sanders in prime time, Tell

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Speaker 1: me that's not going to be said about ten times

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Speaker 1: with the coverage that they'll have for that. I like

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Speaker 1: this question here from from Jeremiah that we got to.

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Speaker 1: He's asking about Ryan Bates. What do you think of

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Speaker 1: Ryan Bates potentially developing into a starter offensive tack They

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01:55:00,520 --> 01:55:02,200
Speaker 1: seem to be really high on him, and he jumped

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Speaker 1: right in when needed and did well. I mean for

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Speaker 1: those that forget, I mean they picked him up from

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Speaker 1: Philly and three days later he was lining up at

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Speaker 1: starting center just because of some injuries and such, and

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Speaker 1: you know Mitch Morris being out of the lineup in

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Speaker 1: concussion protocol for as long as he was, and I know,

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01:55:26,360 --> 01:55:30,280
Speaker 1: talking to Bobby Johnson, the offensive line coach, they believe

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Speaker 1: he is an offensive lineman who can line up at

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Speaker 1: all five positions, and provided his player development comes along,

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01:55:37,960 --> 01:55:39,560
Speaker 1: you can be in the league for ten years with

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01:55:39,680 --> 01:55:42,920
Speaker 1: that kind of versatility, whether you're a starter or not. Now,

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Speaker 1: can it be a starter at tackle that might be

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Speaker 1: a little rich, But I think this is a guy

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Speaker 1: that could be a guard center starting option in a

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Speaker 1: year or two if he continues to develop as a player.

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Speaker 1: Super smart dude. I've talked to him a few times,

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Speaker 1: and I just think he's a guy that's got a

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01:55:59,760 --> 01:56:03,520
Speaker 1: lot of potential and room for growth, and I think

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01:56:03,560 --> 01:56:05,160
Speaker 1: he could be on a roster for a long time

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01:56:05,240 --> 01:56:07,960
Speaker 1: in this league. I just don't know if he's quite

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Speaker 1: good enough to be a starting tackle in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I know he played I don't know if he's long enough.

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Speaker 1: He played tackle at Penn State, you know, which is

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01:56:15,360 --> 01:56:18,880
Speaker 1: nothing to sneeze at. But I think ideally he's he's

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Speaker 1: a guard and I think he could be a very

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Speaker 1: good guard. Just super smart kid and has enough athleticism

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Speaker 1: and so I think he definitely has a future in

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Speaker 1: this league. But where he ends up a little tough

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Speaker 1: to say. I don't see it a tackle. I think

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Speaker 1: he could play tackle in a pinch, but starting there

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Speaker 1: every week, I don't know if I see him there.

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Speaker 1: I see him as more of a guard player. Some

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Speaker 1: of the sampoline questions from our Friday fan mail here

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Speaker 1: on the show, We'll take a breakcare. We're coming back.

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Speaker 1: We got true false coming up, right, We're gonna do

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Speaker 1: true false NFL. Absolutely yeah, we got true false coming up.

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Speaker 1: Plus more of your phone calls if you'd like eight

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Speaker 1: by a Lot of Health from Seneca Studio. This is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Chris Brown finishes the week with US

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Speaker 1: in Force Deep Castri today. If I forget at the

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Speaker 1: top of the hour, Chris, it's always a pleasure of

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Speaker 1: heavy in here. Thank you very much for doing it.

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Speaker 1: Happy to be here, man. You know, I believe you

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Speaker 1: are I think you are right. I show it's fun.

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Speaker 1: It is fun. Our Twitter poll today has been fun.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get back to that a little bit here.

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Speaker 1: What do you think the Bills? What's their biggest asset? Now,

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Speaker 1: They've got a lot of things set up well for him,

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01:57:36,640 --> 01:57:38,640
Speaker 1: But what's number one on the list of things that

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01:57:38,720 --> 01:57:41,040
Speaker 1: they are doing well and they will take advantage of

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01:57:41,120 --> 01:57:44,200
Speaker 1: this offseason? The biggest asset for the Bills this offseason

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01:57:44,440 --> 01:57:46,600
Speaker 1: is it the fact that they've got so much cap

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01:57:46,640 --> 01:57:50,320
Speaker 1: space right eighty to ninety million dollars. It's not set yet,

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01:57:50,360 --> 01:57:54,440
Speaker 1: but they've got draft cap space, salary cap space. Fifty

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Speaker 1: nine percent of you say that set. Twenty eight percent

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Speaker 1: of you say it's a continuity they bring into this year,

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01:57:59,200 --> 01:58:02,120
Speaker 1: the fact that the coaching staff remains mostly in tech,

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01:58:02,440 --> 01:58:05,280
Speaker 1: the roster will remain pretty similar. It's twenty eight percent

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Speaker 1: of you say that's what counts the most. Twelve percent

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Speaker 1: say it's the draft capital. Nine draft picks, A lot

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Speaker 1: of them in the later half of the draft. But

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Speaker 1: still those draft picks means something. One percent have something

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Speaker 1: else in mind. Give us a call to discuss eight

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Speaker 1: oh three five fifty toll free from outside Buffalo one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty and some

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Speaker 1: tweets on this. We'll go back to the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: brought to you by Corgan Moving Systems, the official movers

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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. What thank you there there? It is,

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Speaker 1: okay from Karen taking what Bean has said about prioritizing

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Speaker 1: resigning players over paying for free agents. Draft capital is

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01:58:42,040 --> 01:58:45,120
Speaker 1: the clear cut answer. I don't know about that, so

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01:58:45,400 --> 01:58:47,480
Speaker 1: I guess what she's saying is she's expecting them to

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Speaker 1: use cap dollars to resign most of their own free agents,

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Speaker 1: and thereby that means they're going to need that draft

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Speaker 1: capital to upgrade and add talent. That's what I'm deciphering

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Speaker 1: from comment. I don't know if I agree with that,

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01:59:01,640 --> 01:59:03,720
Speaker 1: but yeah, I don't know if I do either, because

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're going to resign everybody. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you've got a healthy number of free agents, some of

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Speaker 1: whom are going to compare command top money on the

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Speaker 1: open market. Chief among them is Jordan Phillips. Based on

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Speaker 1: the season that he had, I think, Shack you have

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Speaker 1: a chance of getting him back because I don't think

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Speaker 1: he's going to be getting giant money somewhere, and hopefully

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Speaker 1: they can make him a competitive offer because with Jerry

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Speaker 1: Hughes in his age thirty two season and Trent Murphrey

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Speaker 1: entering the last year of his contract, I think you

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Speaker 1: want a young veteran in the fold there for future years,

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Speaker 1: you know. So I think getting lost in back is

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Speaker 1: as good a season as Jordan Phillips had, and he

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Speaker 1: had a very very good season. I just think the

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Speaker 1: money is going to get out of control for him

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Speaker 1: based on the nine and a half. I mean, he

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Speaker 1: led the AFC in sacks for defensive tackles. I think

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01:59:55,640 --> 01:59:57,960
Speaker 1: the only guy that had more than him was Aaron Donald.

2322
01:59:58,480 --> 02:00:00,800
Speaker 1: And you know what Aaron Donald's making. And I'm not

2323
02:00:00,840 --> 02:00:04,000
Speaker 1: saying Jordan Phillips is getting Aaron Donald money, but he's

2324
02:00:04,040 --> 02:00:06,640
Speaker 1: gonna be up there. And so I just don't know

2325
02:00:06,720 --> 02:00:09,560
Speaker 1: if if the Bills want to, that might be too

2326
02:00:09,680 --> 02:00:12,280
Speaker 1: rich for their blood. Bigga Sassett the Bills have from

2327
02:00:12,360 --> 02:00:15,960
Speaker 1: Jack on the tweet sheet, he says, it's cap space, idiots. No,

2328
02:00:16,040 --> 02:00:18,080
Speaker 1: I put the idiots in what he says, it's half

2329
02:00:18,120 --> 02:00:21,360
Speaker 1: space being in company work so hard before last offseason

2330
02:00:21,400 --> 02:00:23,720
Speaker 1: to fix the cap and get rid of bad contracts

2331
02:00:23,720 --> 02:00:26,480
Speaker 1: so they could extend their best players and add quality

2332
02:00:26,520 --> 02:00:28,840
Speaker 1: at the positions of need. I don't expect them to

2333
02:00:28,920 --> 02:00:31,040
Speaker 1: spend willy nilly this year, but I like that they

2334
02:00:31,120 --> 02:00:35,480
Speaker 1: can surprise the NFL with a few nice signings. Yeah,

2335
02:00:35,520 --> 02:00:38,200
Speaker 1: it's calf space, and it's wise use of cap space.

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02:00:38,240 --> 02:00:40,720
Speaker 1: I guess I'm an agreement with that. Yeah, wise use

2337
02:00:40,760 --> 02:00:43,440
Speaker 1: of cap space. Though, because again I do not look

2338
02:00:43,480 --> 02:00:45,000
Speaker 1: for them. We said this right off the top of

2339
02:00:45,040 --> 02:00:47,000
Speaker 1: the show today. I don't look for them to have

2340
02:00:47,080 --> 02:00:49,640
Speaker 1: a big splash free agent signing. You you know, I

2341
02:00:49,720 --> 02:00:51,280
Speaker 1: don't look for them to go out and sign a

2342
02:00:51,480 --> 02:00:54,840
Speaker 1: J Green or who else I see on this list,

2343
02:00:55,520 --> 02:00:58,920
Speaker 1: who the big Amari Cooper, Derek Henry. They're not signing

2344
02:00:58,960 --> 02:01:01,440
Speaker 1: these guys if they're availak. I don't think they're not

2345
02:01:01,480 --> 02:01:03,240
Speaker 1: gonna make a big splash. They're gonna do a smart

2346
02:01:03,600 --> 02:01:06,440
Speaker 1: signing and they'll use their money wise or even Jadevian

2347
02:01:06,520 --> 02:01:12,040
Speaker 1: Clowney list too, not those kinds of don't look signings. Yeah,

2348
02:01:12,080 --> 02:01:13,960
Speaker 1: I would agree with that, And yeah, they're going to

2349
02:01:14,000 --> 02:01:17,160
Speaker 1: be fiscally responsible in free agency as they have been.

2350
02:01:17,560 --> 02:01:20,000
Speaker 1: They're going to try to maximize value for the dollar

2351
02:01:20,600 --> 02:01:24,760
Speaker 1: that they're going to spend, and they've done a pretty

2352
02:01:24,800 --> 02:01:27,360
Speaker 1: good job of that on the whole the last couple

2353
02:01:27,400 --> 02:01:29,200
Speaker 1: of off seasons. When you think about the guys that

2354
02:01:29,200 --> 02:01:32,320
Speaker 1: they've plugged in, Kevin Johnson is a perfect example. One year,

2355
02:01:32,440 --> 02:01:35,240
Speaker 1: four million dollar contract for Kevin Johnson last year, who

2356
02:01:35,360 --> 02:01:40,080
Speaker 1: helped this team and played a platoon role with Levi Wallace.

2357
02:01:40,440 --> 02:01:43,480
Speaker 1: So you think about what they got from a starting

2358
02:01:43,560 --> 02:01:47,080
Speaker 1: cornerback position. They got Kevin Johnson on a one year,

2359
02:01:47,120 --> 02:01:49,839
Speaker 1: four million dollar deal and Levi Wallace on an undrafted

2360
02:01:49,920 --> 02:01:54,880
Speaker 1: rookie contract. That's pretty good value. I mean that's called

2361
02:01:55,000 --> 02:01:59,520
Speaker 1: maximizing value for the performance that you're getting. And I

2362
02:02:00,240 --> 02:02:03,560
Speaker 1: them to continue to try to find those kinds of

2363
02:02:03,720 --> 02:02:06,760
Speaker 1: player values on the open market. And he also and

2364
02:02:06,880 --> 02:02:09,280
Speaker 1: as you point this out, Jack says, and you made

2365
02:02:09,280 --> 02:02:11,760
Speaker 1: it the point two, they can extend their best players.

2366
02:02:11,880 --> 02:02:13,760
Speaker 1: That's true, right, That's how the cap will be used,

2367
02:02:14,480 --> 02:02:16,160
Speaker 1: and they're going to want to do that. It's the

2368
02:02:16,240 --> 02:02:20,080
Speaker 1: only reason that things could get a little tricky with

2369
02:02:20,560 --> 02:02:23,200
Speaker 1: that effort that I think it's pretty clear they want

2370
02:02:23,200 --> 02:02:26,040
Speaker 1: to undertake that when you're talking about players like Milano,

2371
02:02:26,440 --> 02:02:32,560
Speaker 1: Trey White, Dion Dawkins. I think the only fly in

2372
02:02:32,640 --> 02:02:35,800
Speaker 1: the ointment with that is this last year of the CBA.

2373
02:02:36,640 --> 02:02:40,600
Speaker 1: I think most teams in a situation much like the Bills,

2374
02:02:40,640 --> 02:02:43,040
Speaker 1: where you want to retain some of these guys entering

2375
02:02:43,080 --> 02:02:46,040
Speaker 1: the last years of their rookie contracts. I think they're

2376
02:02:46,040 --> 02:02:48,600
Speaker 1: going to hold their water to a certain extent through

2377
02:02:48,680 --> 02:02:52,040
Speaker 1: the early stages of free agency and maybe even the spring,

2378
02:02:52,600 --> 02:02:56,720
Speaker 1: hoping that a new CBA is finalized so that they

2379
02:02:56,840 --> 02:03:00,480
Speaker 1: have a roadmap for how they can negotiate those deals

2380
02:03:00,760 --> 02:03:03,560
Speaker 1: with a clearer picture for the future, if you know

2381
02:03:03,600 --> 02:03:05,240
Speaker 1: what I'm saying in terms of how business is going

2382
02:03:05,280 --> 02:03:07,480
Speaker 1: to be conducted, how the salary cap is going to

2383
02:03:07,520 --> 02:03:10,560
Speaker 1: be formulated, and all the rules they're in with respect

2384
02:03:10,600 --> 02:03:14,080
Speaker 1: to contracts likely to be earned, incentives, etc. Etc. So

2385
02:03:15,200 --> 02:03:17,720
Speaker 1: I'm expecting them to kind of wait as long as

2386
02:03:17,800 --> 02:03:20,120
Speaker 1: they feel they can in the hopes that there's a

2387
02:03:20,160 --> 02:03:22,440
Speaker 1: clear picture on what the CBA is going to look

2388
02:03:22,480 --> 02:03:25,160
Speaker 1: like beyond twenty twenty one. All right, let's switch gears here,

2389
02:03:25,240 --> 02:03:28,120
Speaker 1: let's pay a little Yancey's fancy NFL tur or false.

2390
02:03:28,160 --> 02:03:30,440
Speaker 1: You're ready, Chris, I am ready ready. Here we go

2391
02:03:30,600 --> 02:03:32,480
Speaker 1: two or false. The forty nine ers should look to

2392
02:03:32,640 --> 02:03:37,320
Speaker 1: upgrade from Jimmy Garoppolo. Upgrade from Jimmy Garoppolo. They're financially

2393
02:03:37,360 --> 02:03:40,240
Speaker 1: committed to Garoppolo, but there are better options out there?

2394
02:03:40,400 --> 02:03:43,400
Speaker 1: Are there for Kyle Shanahan and San Francisco? True? False?

2395
02:03:43,480 --> 02:03:45,000
Speaker 1: What do you think? I think there could be some

2396
02:03:45,200 --> 02:03:50,080
Speaker 1: potentially enticing options. You know, if let's say the Carolina

2397
02:03:50,120 --> 02:03:52,920
Speaker 1: Panthers work out Cam Newton and then say, well, let's

2398
02:03:52,960 --> 02:03:56,080
Speaker 1: move him. He's got an affordable cap number with a

2399
02:03:56,120 --> 02:03:58,680
Speaker 1: gear left on his contract at nineteen million. But I

2400
02:03:58,960 --> 02:04:02,440
Speaker 1: don't see this happen only because you just went to

2401
02:04:02,520 --> 02:04:05,240
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl with Garoppolo. You can argue eight ways

2402
02:04:05,320 --> 02:04:08,200
Speaker 1: to Sunday on whether he was a primary part of

2403
02:04:08,280 --> 02:04:14,120
Speaker 1: that run or not. But I think I think the

2404
02:04:14,240 --> 02:04:18,640
Speaker 1: reason this is getting stirred up as a potential thing

2405
02:04:20,040 --> 02:04:24,000
Speaker 1: to seek out perhaps better options is because his cap

2406
02:04:24,120 --> 02:04:28,320
Speaker 1: figure balloons to twenty six twenty six point six million

2407
02:04:29,080 --> 02:04:31,880
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, and so people are saying to themselves, wow,

2408
02:04:32,040 --> 02:04:34,480
Speaker 1: is he really a twenty six point six million dollars quarterback?

2409
02:04:34,760 --> 02:04:37,080
Speaker 1: And I think because there are some NFL analysts out

2410
02:04:37,120 --> 02:04:40,200
Speaker 1: there who doubt that I probably would put myself in

2411
02:04:40,280 --> 02:04:43,840
Speaker 1: that camp, they're looking to say, can you do better?

2412
02:04:44,600 --> 02:04:47,080
Speaker 1: And maybe there are going to be some guys on

2413
02:04:47,160 --> 02:04:52,080
Speaker 1: the market where you can The thing that I the

2414
02:04:52,200 --> 02:04:54,920
Speaker 1: reason why I think when it's all weighed out, that

2415
02:04:55,040 --> 02:04:57,200
Speaker 1: it's going to be Garoppolo again in twenty twenty is

2416
02:04:57,240 --> 02:05:00,640
Speaker 1: because if if Drew Brees plays a anywhere, it's going

2417
02:05:00,680 --> 02:05:04,440
Speaker 1: to be in New Orleans. I think the prevailing opinion

2418
02:05:04,560 --> 02:05:06,840
Speaker 1: is Brady will be back in New England, although I'm

2419
02:05:06,880 --> 02:05:11,720
Speaker 1: not convinced of that. Do you take on Philip Rivers

2420
02:05:11,760 --> 02:05:15,000
Speaker 1: at thirty eight. I don't think you do. So. There's

2421
02:05:15,000 --> 02:05:18,240
Speaker 1: a lot of enticing names out there. Is Teddy Bridgewater

2422
02:05:18,360 --> 02:05:23,920
Speaker 1: a better quarterback than Jimmy Garoppolo Maybe maybe? So, you know,

2423
02:05:23,960 --> 02:05:25,680
Speaker 1: it's bird in the hand versus two in the bush

2424
02:05:25,760 --> 02:05:28,200
Speaker 1: kind of situation here. And the money. I don't think

2425
02:05:28,200 --> 02:05:29,600
Speaker 1: the money is going to be all that different. Now

2426
02:05:29,640 --> 02:05:31,880
Speaker 1: when you're dealing with open market quarterbacks, you could argue

2427
02:05:31,880 --> 02:05:33,920
Speaker 1: you're going to pay more. I'm gonna say false to

2428
02:05:34,040 --> 02:05:36,440
Speaker 1: this as well. And I'm not a big Garoppolo fan,

2429
02:05:36,560 --> 02:05:38,880
Speaker 1: but they just went to the Super Bowl. They came

2430
02:05:38,920 --> 02:05:42,040
Speaker 1: pretty close to winning a Super Bowl. Maybe next year

2431
02:05:42,120 --> 02:05:44,120
Speaker 1: you look at it again, you look at it every year.

2432
02:05:44,160 --> 02:05:46,480
Speaker 1: I guess right, he's a He's a bona fide player

2433
02:05:46,520 --> 02:05:48,080
Speaker 1: you keep an eye on. I don't think they should

2434
02:05:48,520 --> 02:05:50,280
Speaker 1: buy in and think we've got him for the rest

2435
02:05:50,320 --> 02:05:52,640
Speaker 1: of his NFL life. But they've got a pretty good

2436
02:05:52,720 --> 02:05:54,880
Speaker 1: quarterback who took him to a super Bowl. I think

2437
02:05:55,040 --> 02:05:58,200
Speaker 1: they shouldn't look this offseason to upgrade from Jimmy Garoppolo.

2438
02:05:58,280 --> 02:06:01,160
Speaker 1: That's what I think, all right, NFL were false. Part two.

2439
02:06:01,280 --> 02:06:03,280
Speaker 1: At the other end of the quarterback spectrum, Joe Burrow

2440
02:06:03,360 --> 02:06:05,600
Speaker 1: coming out of LSU, he should want to play for

2441
02:06:05,720 --> 02:06:09,320
Speaker 1: the Dolphins instead of the Cincinnati Bengals. He and his

2442
02:06:09,400 --> 02:06:12,080
Speaker 1: family have been talking about the Bengals. We're fine playing

2443
02:06:12,120 --> 02:06:15,520
Speaker 1: with the Bengals. World. That's called damage control. Yeah, they

2444
02:06:15,560 --> 02:06:18,720
Speaker 1: don't really have a choice, right, No, you don't get

2445
02:06:18,760 --> 02:06:20,440
Speaker 1: to pick where you want to go unless your name

2446
02:06:20,520 --> 02:06:24,960
Speaker 1: is Eli Manning. So but who very much did for

2447
02:06:25,080 --> 02:06:26,640
Speaker 1: us a move? But what are they going to do?

2448
02:06:26,760 --> 02:06:29,480
Speaker 1: They're probably going to the Cincinnati It makes sense for

2449
02:06:29,560 --> 02:06:32,880
Speaker 1: them not to bad mount that plan, I think. And Steve,

2450
02:06:33,040 --> 02:06:34,880
Speaker 1: I'm glad he's not here for this reason. He would

2451
02:06:35,200 --> 02:06:37,720
Speaker 1: jump me on this. He thinks the Bengals are a joke.

2452
02:06:37,760 --> 02:06:40,160
Speaker 1: I don't think they are. With the right quarterback and

2453
02:06:40,200 --> 02:06:42,040
Speaker 1: a couple of other players, the Bengals will be all right.

2454
02:06:42,080 --> 02:06:43,560
Speaker 1: I think they will be all right. They are a

2455
02:06:43,640 --> 02:06:48,960
Speaker 1: franchise that is notoriously known for cutting financial corners wherever

2456
02:06:49,040 --> 02:06:52,240
Speaker 1: they can. They've had one of the best they've had

2457
02:06:52,280 --> 02:06:55,160
Speaker 1: one of the worst playing services in the league that

2458
02:06:55,360 --> 02:06:58,600
Speaker 1: needed to be replaced probably ten years ago. And players

2459
02:06:58,680 --> 02:07:01,720
Speaker 1: can plain about it all the time, and they're right

2460
02:07:02,120 --> 02:07:05,920
Speaker 1: because I mean, what is the cost of changing out

2461
02:07:05,960 --> 02:07:09,440
Speaker 1: your turf. So it's those kinds of financial decisions that

2462
02:07:09,720 --> 02:07:14,600
Speaker 1: have created a reputation for Cincinnati not investing in their

2463
02:07:14,640 --> 02:07:19,200
Speaker 1: players in a multitude of ways. And there is some

2464
02:07:19,320 --> 02:07:21,720
Speaker 1: validity to that. I'm not going to dispute it for

2465
02:07:21,760 --> 02:07:25,600
Speaker 1: a second, But the bottom line is this, Joe Burrow

2466
02:07:26,800 --> 02:07:28,800
Speaker 1: is fit to be the first pick in the draft.

2467
02:07:30,160 --> 02:07:34,640
Speaker 1: He's an Ohio native. I mean, the world is your

2468
02:07:34,680 --> 02:07:36,920
Speaker 1: oyster if you go to the Bengals as an Ohio

2469
02:07:37,080 --> 02:07:40,240
Speaker 1: native and the quarterback of the caliber of Joe Burrow.

2470
02:07:40,600 --> 02:07:44,760
Speaker 1: So put a little bit of faith in the Bengals

2471
02:07:44,800 --> 02:07:48,040
Speaker 1: doing right by you and getting some assets to put

2472
02:07:48,080 --> 02:07:51,320
Speaker 1: around you that will allow you to be successful. And

2473
02:07:52,040 --> 02:07:56,600
Speaker 1: if it doesn't work, when you leave, you're twenty six,

2474
02:07:57,560 --> 02:08:00,520
Speaker 1: twenty seven years old. You got more and half your

2475
02:08:00,560 --> 02:08:04,840
Speaker 1: career left at the quarterback position, and if you're productive enough,

2476
02:08:05,280 --> 02:08:08,200
Speaker 1: you'll make bookoo bucks for some other club and worry

2477
02:08:08,200 --> 02:08:12,120
Speaker 1: about it then, right, So, so I'm saying false. Finally,

2478
02:08:12,120 --> 02:08:14,720
Speaker 1: another quarterback, Tom Brady, another Dolphins any closer to the

2479
02:08:14,760 --> 02:08:17,960
Speaker 1: Super Bowl than the Bengals right now? No, another quarterback.

2480
02:08:18,040 --> 02:08:20,640
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's decision is the biggest storyline in the NFL

2481
02:08:20,760 --> 02:08:23,680
Speaker 1: this offseason. True false. I say true as much as

2482
02:08:23,680 --> 02:08:26,760
Speaker 1: I want to vomit over this storyline because I'm just

2483
02:08:26,960 --> 02:08:30,720
Speaker 1: sick of him. Just stop having a polarizing effect on

2484
02:08:30,800 --> 02:08:36,040
Speaker 1: the league. Please just go Yes, do you watch any

2485
02:08:36,160 --> 02:08:39,520
Speaker 1: national program on the NFL if I mean if Brady

2486
02:08:39,640 --> 02:08:42,120
Speaker 1: Seal you saw them? How about the post last week?

2487
02:08:42,640 --> 02:08:44,480
Speaker 1: Who is he walking into the tunnel or out of

2488
02:08:44,520 --> 02:08:48,920
Speaker 1: the tunnel? Oh my god, he's leaving. I mean, how

2489
02:08:48,960 --> 02:08:51,720
Speaker 1: many people you know? We're ready to jump off a

2490
02:08:51,760 --> 02:08:55,680
Speaker 1: bridge in New England last week? With that a just

2491
02:08:55,920 --> 02:08:58,800
Speaker 1: and a half. Just go about it, Just go away.

2492
02:08:59,280 --> 02:09:01,800
Speaker 1: Is the biggest. Yes, that's why people are going to

2493
02:09:02,120 --> 02:09:05,280
Speaker 1: say it is the biggest storyline the all time, maybe

2494
02:09:05,280 --> 02:09:08,360
Speaker 1: the best quarterback to ever play fine free agent. Yeah,

2495
02:09:08,680 --> 02:09:10,680
Speaker 1: it is the biggest story Yes it is. Okay, I

2496
02:09:10,760 --> 02:09:13,440
Speaker 1: mean I hate that it is all right, It's true.

2497
02:09:13,480 --> 02:09:15,280
Speaker 1: We go NFL. True or false? Brought to you by

2498
02:09:15,600 --> 02:09:18,240
Speaker 1: Yancey's fancying. I was good Artistan Chief. We only spent

2499
02:09:18,320 --> 02:09:20,920
Speaker 1: twenty five seconds on Tom Brady. That's a victory on

2500
02:09:21,080 --> 02:09:22,960
Speaker 1: this show and any other. We'll take a break. We're

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02:09:23,000 --> 02:09:25,240
Speaker 1: coming back. One bill slide presented by Collat of Health

2502
02:09:25,440 --> 02:09:41,960
Speaker 1: from the Seneca Studio. This is Buffalo Bills Radio. So

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02:09:42,200 --> 02:09:43,920
Speaker 1: what do we learned from today's show. It has brought

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02:09:43,920 --> 02:09:47,320
Speaker 1: to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company

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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills. A great conversation with Neil Reynolds

2506
02:09:50,320 --> 02:09:53,560
Speaker 1: on he is a host on sky Cable in the

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02:09:53,640 --> 02:09:57,080
Speaker 1: United United Kingdom covering the NFL. I think it's sky Cable,

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Speaker 1: sky Sports, sky Sports. That's it. Thank you very much,

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02:10:00,040 --> 02:10:03,120
Speaker 1: Neil Reynolds. He said he had a meeting he met

2510
02:10:03,200 --> 02:10:06,400
Speaker 1: with Christian Wade, Bill's running back practice squad running back,

2511
02:10:06,440 --> 02:10:09,280
Speaker 1: the international player from UK last year. Met him at

2512
02:10:09,280 --> 02:10:11,400
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl last week and he talked about how

2513
02:10:11,560 --> 02:10:13,840
Speaker 1: difficult it is for players like Christian Weed to cross

2514
02:10:13,920 --> 02:10:18,640
Speaker 1: over to the NFL from a sport like rugby. I mean,

2515
02:10:18,720 --> 02:10:21,920
Speaker 1: when he made those big plays in the summer, it

2516
02:10:22,120 --> 02:10:24,040
Speaker 1: was all across the news channels here, it was all

2517
02:10:24,040 --> 02:10:27,640
Speaker 1: across the BBC Sport website, all over sky sports websites.

2518
02:10:28,560 --> 02:10:31,640
Speaker 1: You know, we're starting to see in roads of that. Yeah.

2519
02:10:31,680 --> 02:10:34,280
Speaker 1: I think I think it's something that rugby players are

2520
02:10:34,440 --> 02:10:38,360
Speaker 1: looking at. They see some of the transferable skills. It's

2521
02:10:38,440 --> 02:10:42,280
Speaker 1: the most natural of our sports to transfer across to

2522
02:10:42,360 --> 02:10:44,760
Speaker 1: American football. So I think what Christian did, even in

2523
02:10:44,840 --> 02:10:49,200
Speaker 1: that sort of brief cameo last summer, I think it's

2524
02:10:49,280 --> 02:10:52,120
Speaker 1: made a few more probably sit up and take notice.

2525
02:10:53,000 --> 02:10:55,480
Speaker 1: Neil Reynolds and Christian Weed. We also had a chat

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02:10:55,560 --> 02:10:58,280
Speaker 1: with Jeremy Fowler of ESPN. He was at the Super

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Speaker 1: Bowl last week as well. Jeremy Fowler talked to us

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Speaker 1: about a number of issues in New CBA and also

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Speaker 1: about the fact that he predicted next year's Super Bowl

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Speaker 1: will be Seattle and the Bills. Here's what Jeremy Fowler said.

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Speaker 1: You know, I just I like to mix it up

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Speaker 1: for one and two. When you in the playoffs, as

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Speaker 1: we saw a kind of tea. You can get hot

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Speaker 1: at the right time and you have a good formula

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Speaker 1: and stick with it, it can work. And so with Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: I see a team that increasingly is running the ball better,

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Speaker 1: has a defense that doesn't give up big plays. And

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Speaker 1: when you can do those two things, you really have

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Speaker 1: a tan in every game. You know, still come down

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Speaker 1: to Josh Allen making just an up the roads. So

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Speaker 1: I'm banking on him making a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: year three jump, and you know, the chips will have

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Speaker 1: to fall a right, maybe they get New England or

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Speaker 1: another team in the in the AFC Championship Game instead

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Speaker 1: of the Chiefs. Interesting, Jeremy Fowler has the Bills in

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Well that's a long way off. But

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Speaker 1: this weekend the XFL starts up play Chris. The XFL

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Speaker 1: eight teams. So they play a ten game schedule and

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Speaker 1: it starts February eighth, which is Sunday, right, No, tomorrow

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Speaker 1: they start with games tomorrow. You gonna watch? You care?

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Speaker 1: I might channel surf over there and catch a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: I think the most interesting thing about this iteration of

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Speaker 1: the XFL and I read this, so I'm taking them

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Speaker 1: at their word. The difference the second time around for

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Speaker 1: Vince McMahon that he took as a lesson from the

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Speaker 1: first failed version of this is he came to the

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Speaker 1: realization that he had to build an on field product

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Speaker 1: and a league first, and a television program second. He

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Speaker 1: flipped those two things. The first time around, he thought,

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Speaker 1: if I just put on a good television program, this

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Speaker 1: will work, and the football side of it he kind

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Speaker 1: of left to its own devices and it failed. And

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Speaker 1: now putting the football product together first, knowing the TV

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Speaker 1: side can handle itself with television partners like ABC, ESPN,

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Speaker 1: and Fox where these games are going to air. He

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Speaker 1: set himself up to make this a more successful version

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Speaker 1: the second time. I'm eager to see what the different

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Speaker 1: rules will look like. Right, They've got some interesting rules

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Speaker 1: on extra points, in particular, no punts, no punts. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it'll be fun. The game start tomorrow Seattle and the

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Speaker 1: DC Defenders Tomorrow two pm on ABC. Another game tomorrow

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Speaker 1: at five pm the Los Angeles Wildcats and the Houston Roughnecks.

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Speaker 1: The Roughnecks, I'm rooting for the Roughnecks. Chris, thanks for this,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for coming in here doing We appreciate it. Chris

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Speaker 1: Brown in for Steve Tasker. Steve will be back on Monday.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back on Monday. Have a great weekend, everybody.

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Speaker 1: Production assistance from George Blast, Jeff Colt, Nick Thomas Hollander,

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Speaker 1: Kelly Rude, JJ Territo, Kevin Cargis, James robol Our, producer

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Speaker 1: Jay Harris. We'll see him Monday at noon with One

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