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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you as always and joining us in

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Speaker 1: that ceiling. And we feel like this class that very

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Speaker 1: confident that pretty much all these guys are going to

430
00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 1: come in here and be pros and and really ascend.

431
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Speaker 1: You know, as time goes on, some will not have

432
00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:02,240
Speaker 1: to play right away, some will and we'll just we'll

433
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Speaker 1: see how it goes when they get in here. Well,

434
00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 1: does this roster fills out and you get deeper into

435
00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:08,920
Speaker 1: the offseason, what do you know about what that's gonna

436
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,440
Speaker 1: look like. We've already we had just a brief conversation

437
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:15,960
Speaker 1: before you came on. Juan Juan James, the right tackle

438
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,439
Speaker 1: for the Broncos, popped as Achilles working out by himself,

439
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,640
Speaker 1: because you know there's all this stuff about opting out

440
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,439
Speaker 1: and all of that. What about the voluntary nature the

441
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,280
Speaker 1: workouts coming in? When's that gonna start? What do you anticipate?

442
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,240
Speaker 1: What are you and Sean anticipate the Buffalo Bill's offseason

443
00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:34,120
Speaker 1: to look like? And when's it gonna start? Yeah, I mean,

444
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,440
Speaker 1: we're we're still in phase one, and I think most

445
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: of our guys are choosing to work out like a

446
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,440
Speaker 1: lot of the league, you know, last year, remotely. And

447
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 1: you know, our guys have done a great job in

448
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,720
Speaker 1: the meeting rooms and they've they've you know, that's still

449
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,400
Speaker 1: all voluntary, and you know they've been working with Eric

450
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,320
Speaker 1: Siano on the workout plan. We would love for him

451
00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:57,080
Speaker 1: to be here. We do have guys here, and the

452
00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 1: guys that are here are getting great attention from our staff.

453
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 1: They're getting more attension than they even normally would because

454
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 1: because you only have so few here. But we're hoping,

455
00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 1: you know, that we get into phase two, Steve, that

456
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 1: that more will start to show up as as we

457
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,440
Speaker 1: can now, the rules will change that you can start

458
00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 1: to get on the grass with them. It's limited rules,

459
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,879
Speaker 1: but uh, and then we'd love to have you know,

460
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Speaker 1: we'd love to have everybody, uh, you know, by phase

461
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:27,600
Speaker 1: three because you can't replace those reps. But it is

462
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 1: voluntary in nature, and you know, there's nothing you can

463
00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 1: do about it. That's a CBA deal. And you know,

464
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 1: we still don't know who and how many are going

465
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 1: to show up, but our doors are open and we'll keep,

466
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,199
Speaker 1: you know, hoping that that one by one they trickle

467
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,680
Speaker 1: in here, you know, the rest of May and hopefully

468
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:49,399
Speaker 1: by June. Talking to Bills, JM, Brandon, Bean and Brandon,

469
00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,359
Speaker 1: I know you guys picked up the fifth year options

470
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Speaker 1: on both Tremaine and Josh, and you've been very upfront,

471
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:59,239
Speaker 1: I think publicly about the fact that the organization and

472
00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 1: Josh and you, you're all on the same page. You

473
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,119
Speaker 1: want to get an extension done in due course. The

474
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:08,440
Speaker 1: question here is the stuff, I don't even want to

475
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,160
Speaker 1: call it a stumbling block. Um. The thing that's out

476
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: there that is unknown is what the CAP's gonna look

477
00:25:14,280 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 1: like next year and there's still some uncertainty behind that.

478
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 1: How much of an issue is that in your guys

479
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,439
Speaker 1: budgeting and figuring everything out, because this is this is

480
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:28,439
Speaker 1: not a simple extension, This is a this is a

481
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 1: you know, a franchise quarterback we're talking about. I know

482
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,040
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you anything you don't know, but uh,

483
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,119
Speaker 1: how how imperative is it to have at least a

484
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,440
Speaker 1: firm grasp as to what that number is going to

485
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:43,640
Speaker 1: be to get things done with Josh? Yeah, I mean

486
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 1: we'll probably you know, until we get into the fall

487
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,040
Speaker 1: and see how many people are in these seats. You know,

488
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,920
Speaker 1: are they have full? Three quarters full? What it? What

489
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,280
Speaker 1: it is? Um, you know, it should definitely be better

490
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 1: than than this past year, but that could affect whether

491
00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:04,680
Speaker 1: the numbers one ninety two or two hundred and so

492
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 1: they're still gonna be. We're probably gonna have to hopefully

493
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,240
Speaker 1: find a structure if we're able to reach some type

494
00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: of agreement where there's some flexibility in your in next

495
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: season's cap number for Josh, and that's where you know,

496
00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:25,439
Speaker 1: hopefully his representatives will work with us understanding the hurdle,

497
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:28,399
Speaker 1: the unknown hurdle that we're facing right now. And again

498
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 1: I mentioned it on the radio the other day, of

499
00:26:31,960 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 1: this is hard picking up two guys at thirty six

500
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:39,160
Speaker 1: million because when we drafted them, the CBA was different,

501
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:44,359
Speaker 1: and these guys both got increases of what we anticipated

502
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:47,679
Speaker 1: their fifth year number to be based on making Pro Bowls,

503
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,400
Speaker 1: and you know, we're proud of them, we love them

504
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,639
Speaker 1: doing that, but fitting two in when the cap goes

505
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:57,240
Speaker 1: down has made it really hard for us to navigate that.

506
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Speaker 1: So it definitely will be important in the structure. It

507
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: won't be it won't mess with the API or the guarantee, Chris,

508
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:07,120
Speaker 1: but it will be important how we structure these first

509
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Speaker 1: few years to make sure we can, you know, as

510
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 1: this cap works this way back to where it should

511
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:15,040
Speaker 1: be hopefully by twenty three, twenty four, just on the horizon.

512
00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: We just it was misreported by Aaron Besseker that baseball's reopening,

513
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: and the governor of New York State says that vaccinated

514
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 1: people can have normal capacity and normal seating at stadium.

515
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:28,639
Speaker 1: So if they're doing that for baseball, for baseball, so

516
00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,480
Speaker 1: if they're doing that in New York State here in May,

517
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 1: you got to think by September you're going to be

518
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:36,919
Speaker 1: able to sell out the home games and have it

519
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,119
Speaker 1: more back to normal, which will help the cap. And

520
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 1: you know, it's all, it all goes into the pot

521
00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,239
Speaker 1: for what you've got to get done financially with your

522
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 1: players but that's it's going to be a much different

523
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,280
Speaker 1: landscape coming into this next season than it was during

524
00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: the pandemic. You've got to have real optimistic hopes about that. Yeah,

525
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:57,159
Speaker 1: I'm excited that where we're at now from a fan standpoint,

526
00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 1: you know, a year ago talking to you guys, there

527
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: was uncertainty whether there'd be a season, you know, and

528
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: and that the league did a heck of a job,

529
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,920
Speaker 1: the players, everybody to pull off the two fifty six

530
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:13,520
Speaker 1: plus the playoffs. So it's exciting, you know, just shoot,

531
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: the six sixty seven hundred fans we had for those

532
00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:19,640
Speaker 1: playoff games was exciting. So now we're talking about if

533
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: you're vaccinated, you know, the potential that you can not

534
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 1: have to social distance at games. That's huge and hopefully,

535
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: you know, fortunately we still have until August for preseason

536
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,280
Speaker 1: and in September to really counts, so I hope we

537
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 1: have every seat field here. I realized Brandon, you guys

538
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: are probably still waiting for some undrafted free agent contracts

539
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: to come back before everybody's signed, sealed and delivered. But

540
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:45,959
Speaker 1: is your number, you know, based on what you had

541
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 1: said about you know, how it might be a little

542
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 1: more difficult to recruit guys. Do you have your numbers

543
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: where you want them for the most part in terms

544
00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: of that portion of your roster here no one rookie

545
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,840
Speaker 1: camps about a week away. Yeah, I mean, I think

546
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:02,719
Speaker 1: we're probably you know, these guys will have to come

547
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 1: in and take physicals. We've got some workouts lined up

548
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 1: next week. We'll probably be by the end of the

549
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: mini camp I'd say eighty four to eighty seven, depending

550
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: on these guys, and we'll be able to go up

551
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,880
Speaker 1: to ninety one because of the Christian Way to exception.

552
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 1: One of the things we're doing research on is, you know,

553
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 1: last year the league made us in the Union to

554
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: reduce our rosters down to eighty to start camp instead

555
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 1: of ninety. There's been some uncertainty whether you know, it

556
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 1: could be a different number than ninety. Is it eighty five,

557
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 1: is it eighty. So we're going to try and monitor

558
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: that before we push the roster up to ninety as well. Yeah,

559
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 1: because I saw there was a right up out of

560
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: New England that the Patriots really aren't participating much at

561
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: all in signing undrafted rookie free agents right away, so

562
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: it seems like they're kind of holding their water on

563
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 1: that too. It's very that's a very interesting development. You

564
00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 1: gotta it seems like they're changing stuff on you guys

565
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 1: all the time, and you gotta pivot, like at the

566
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 1: drop of a hat. Yeah, it's well, I mean, a

567
00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: lot of teams wasted money signing some of these, you know,

568
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: these these young players after the draft last year. And

569
00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate because there were some players that we thought

570
00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 1: had we been able to keep them around. I mean, fortunately,

571
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: like Antonio Williams, we had to cut him right away

572
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:24,200
Speaker 1: to get down and just from a number standpoint, but

573
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,239
Speaker 1: fortunately we were able to get him back. But there

574
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,360
Speaker 1: were some that we weren't able to get back. And

575
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: you know, obviously selfishly we wanted all ninety, but I

576
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: felt really bad for some of these kids that you

577
00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: talking ten a club that three hundred twenty players. I

578
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 1: guarantee there's some players in there that, had they been

579
00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 1: able to go to camp, would have made a roster

580
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: And it's just I hope for the league that we

581
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 1: keep it at ninety. It's it's very important. And this

582
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 1: year we're gonna be playing preseason games, right and last

583
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: year we weren't doing that. Injuries will happen. We know

584
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: that when you're when you're playing those games. So going

585
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: with eighty this year could be very problematic because all

586
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you get a run on injuries at

587
00:31:06,320 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 1: a position, you've got to either injury settle and replace them,

588
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 1: or you've got to play starters longer. So I hope

589
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,240
Speaker 1: that they come to a resolution at some point and

590
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: we get it up to ninety. But we'll see how

591
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:24,560
Speaker 1: that goes. What do you anticipate the protocols to be

592
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: going through? There? Are you guys gonna be testing every day?

593
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: Like it? I mean it was it was like getting

594
00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 1: up and brushing your teeth in the morning. You were

595
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 1: getting getting tested. I mean it was, it was. It

596
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 1: was amazing. And you're right, I think the biggest the

597
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,719
Speaker 1: biggest win for the NFL last year was getting all

598
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 1: of two hundred and fifty six games. And I've said it,

599
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: I think it was the most underrated accomplishment and all

600
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: of professional sports was the league getting it all in.

601
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: But how much of that's going to carry over to

602
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: this year and how tough is it going to be

603
00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: just to get up and rolling again? Yeah, I mean,

604
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: the early indications are that if you're vaccinated, and that

605
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,360
Speaker 1: means fully vaccine. It means you've been two weeks since

606
00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: your second shot, that you're going to have to probably

607
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,720
Speaker 1: test once a week, but if you're not, then you'd

608
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: have to test every day like we did last year.

609
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 1: Still unsure about the masking how that will go. I

610
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: think there's gonna be some incentives to if you have

611
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: X number of percent of your players and staff vaccinated,

612
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: you can live normal. Let's just call it back to

613
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: the old days. If you don't, it's going to look

614
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: more like last year. Social distant meetings encourages meaning to

615
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 1: be virtual, mask in the building, maybe even mask on

616
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: the sideline. You know, a lot of that still to

617
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:45,520
Speaker 1: be determined, but I hope that, you know, if those

618
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:47,800
Speaker 1: are the rules, that we'll be able to get enough

619
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 1: people vaccinated and not have to deal with with all

620
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: the headaches. Right, So, if you're one, if you're one

621
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: player away from the ratio from living normal or having

622
00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,800
Speaker 1: everybody to be tested, do you just cut a guy

623
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:03,640
Speaker 1: that's not pass the name? Wow? Yeah, right, yeah, I

624
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:09,160
Speaker 1: would because it being advantaged. Absolutely, we're laughing. But uh,

625
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: you know, the these meetings were not as as productive

626
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: as before because we had. I mean, you guys saw

627
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: it in the field house. We had three and four

628
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: meetings going on, and you sometimes you're talking over each other,

629
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:24,000
Speaker 1: but it was the only way to pull it off

630
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 1: and be socially distant. So it would be an advantage

631
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 1: to cut a player and fall under that umbrella. Last

632
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:33,959
Speaker 1: one for me, and I know this is you know,

633
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,520
Speaker 1: a little bit out off the radar. It's in the

634
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: back burner right now. But the twenty twenty two draft class,

635
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: as compared to this one, this one was we've got accounts,

636
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: was small. It was like six hundred guys coming out

637
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: kind of eligible. Next year you're gonna have like nine

638
00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:52,160
Speaker 1: thousand guys in the draft pool. So those draft picks

639
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,400
Speaker 1: seemed to me would be a little bit more valuable.

640
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 1: But what are your thoughts about next year's draft, what

641
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,160
Speaker 1: that's gonna look like in the wake of what we've

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Speaker 1: seen over the last day eighteen months. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I still feel like and this is early. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know a lot about this class, to be

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Speaker 1: honest with you, other than some guys that we were

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Speaker 1: looking at that we thought may come out and that

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Speaker 1: went back. But the guys that were getting back grades

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Speaker 1: top three four rounds they came out this year, so

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Speaker 1: I don't think that number is going to be different.

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Speaker 1: I think the third day draft picks though, those fifth, sixth, seventh,

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Speaker 1: and free ages, I think there's gonna be a lot

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Speaker 1: in that pool. Which listen, you can you can still

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Speaker 1: find very good players. You look at it every year.

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Speaker 1: I think I saw stat the other day that in

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Speaker 1: the conference championship games, the four teams had twenty eight

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Speaker 1: starters from the fifth through seventh round, you know, something

657
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Speaker 1: like that, which was as many or more than any

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Speaker 1: other any other round. So it's just I do think

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Speaker 1: it'll be a heavier volume of players. We've got to

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Speaker 1: work through and get situated. I don't know if the

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Speaker 1: first two days we'll get moved a lot. Brandon has

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Speaker 1: always thanks for the time. We hope the weather and

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Speaker 1: proves for you so you can get some well deserved

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Speaker 1: time off and hit him straight out there on the tracks.

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Speaker 1: I know I gotta catch Steve. I know he's well

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Speaker 1: ahead on me right now. You owe me money, all right, Thanks,

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Speaker 1: I always do, Thanks Brandon. All right, Thanks guys, that's

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Speaker 1: Bills GM. Brandon being putting a kapper on the draft

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Speaker 1: for US interesting that he thinks day three is where

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Speaker 1: the value will be. Yeah, in twenty twenty two draft,

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Speaker 1: and Steve file that one away for next year. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: if you if you're if the ratio is the same,

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Speaker 1: like if there's ten percent of those guys of the

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Speaker 1: of the players on the board or guys who could

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Speaker 1: make it. But that pool is now twice as big.

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Speaker 1: There's gonna be more guys that you can find in

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Speaker 1: the fifth, sixth, seventh round. They're gonna be able to

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Speaker 1: make teams. Yeah, it's just a bigger pool of players. Um,

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Speaker 1: and like you said, there's just gonna be more guys.

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Speaker 1: A lot of guys went back, and I think that

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Speaker 1: strengthens the pool next year. Yeah, I was not aware

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Speaker 1: that he said. You know, top three four rounds, those

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Speaker 1: guys largely came out. So yeah, the value is going

684
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Speaker 1: to be at the back end. So those fifth, sixth,

685
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Speaker 1: seventh round picks, they're gonna be hot commodities, especially for

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Speaker 1: teams that are looking to fill the back end to

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Speaker 1: their roster. You know, maybe you have expiring contracts and

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Speaker 1: or you have a big quarterback contract on your roster

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Speaker 1: and you need, for lack of a better term, cheap labor.

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Speaker 1: We got a break, but when we come back, we'll

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Speaker 1: dive into that a little bit more. And don't forget

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Speaker 1: about twenty minutes away. One Greg Rousseau, Buffalo's top draft choice,

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Speaker 1: will be joining us here on One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Collot of Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radium. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to One Bills Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker. I thank

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Speaker 1: to GM Brandon Bean for joining us kind of shedding

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Speaker 1: some light on his thoughts on the draft now that

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Speaker 1: it is done, as well as the Josh Allen contract extension,

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Speaker 1: which will happen sometime in the not too distant future.

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Speaker 1: Sounds like he wants to get a better handle though

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Speaker 1: on the salary cap and what it will look like

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. We said it won't affect the

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Speaker 1: average annual value of the contract extension, but it will

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Speaker 1: impact how they structure it, right, And that's why I

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Speaker 1: was That's why I asked him the question, because I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to put myself in his shoes, and I'm saying

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Speaker 1: to myself, if you don't even know what the number is,

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Speaker 1: how do you map out the best way to structure

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Speaker 1: the contract. It's it's very difficult. I mean you can

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Speaker 1: make we know, all front offices make their projections as

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Speaker 1: to what the cap will be. Oh, we think it'll

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Speaker 1: go up this percent. You don't know what it's going

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Speaker 1: to do. It could go sideways. It's very simple. It's

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Speaker 1: like buying the most expensive thing in the store without

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Speaker 1: knowing how much you got in a bank. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: that easy. And that's and it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: significant portion of whatever it is, you know, and so

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Speaker 1: you might have to sell all the rest of your

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Speaker 1: stuff to afford that the shiny thing in the store.

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Speaker 1: We we thought we'd have a little fun with you,

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Speaker 1: the listeners and viewers of One Bills Live, by tweeting

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Speaker 1: out a sentence for all of you to finish. And

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Speaker 1: what we handed you guys to finish in, you know,

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Speaker 1: knowing we were going to have Brandon on today was

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Speaker 1: Brandon bean is blank. And we wanted some of your

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Speaker 1: answers to that sentence filling the end of the sentence there,

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Speaker 1: and we got a lot of naturally, we were expecting this.

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Speaker 1: We had a lot of positive responses pretty much start

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Speaker 1: to finish after we put this out this morning. So

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Speaker 1: we wanted to read a few here for you. So

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Speaker 1: this one from Kevin Connors, who's actually a Big Bills

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Speaker 1: fan and an ESPN Sports Center host, says, Brandon Bean

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Speaker 1: is the GM and leader of the best fans. That

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Speaker 1: the GM and leader the best fans in sports deserve. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: I butchered that the first time. No, that's good. You

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Speaker 1: want to take the next one here from Lee, she says,

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Speaker 1: Brandon Bean is looking lean. Did he win that weight

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Speaker 1: loss challenge? He's also just doing a phenomenal job in

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Speaker 1: his growth mindset is evident in his deliverables to the

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Speaker 1: team and organizations, So glad to have him. Josh took

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Speaker 1: it in another direction. He said, Brandon Bean is welcome

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Speaker 1: to my dinner table any night he chooses. How about that.

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Speaker 1: It's like a dinner certificate, man. And this is more

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Speaker 1: along the lines of one Bills Live and what we

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Speaker 1: talk about from JR. Brandon Bean is gonna shock us

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Speaker 1: again before the start of the season. So there is

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Speaker 1: still more work to be done. And I'm that's what

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Speaker 1: I want to know. What the rest of these guys

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Speaker 1: are gonna be, you know, is there going to be

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Speaker 1: another veteran corner added to the roster? Is it going

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Speaker 1: to be a name that we recognize, a guy that

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Speaker 1: we're gonna look forward to seeing. That's that's a real

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Speaker 1: question that I'd like to answer from Andreas. She says,

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Speaker 1: Brandon Bean is a godsend. He's planning two to three

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Speaker 1: years ahead. Give us all the negative draft grades you want.

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Speaker 1: He's got another eye on the salary cap. Brandon Bean

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Speaker 1: is methodical. And then someone decided to have a little fun.

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Speaker 1: Steve Josh not only filled in the blank, he provided

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Speaker 1: a video as well. Did you see this one? I

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Speaker 1: did not? Oh well, Josh says, Brandon Bean is letting

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Speaker 1: the dogs out, and he supplemented his post with the

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Speaker 1: following our MSG viewers, we'll see this. They've got Brandon

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Speaker 1: basically singing the song. I don't know how you do this.

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Speaker 1: I am not an app but yeah, I'm not skilled

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Speaker 1: enough to. Uh. That's that. For those of you are

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Speaker 1: wondering that it was an actual just like a headshot

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Speaker 1: of Brandon Bean singing and dancing to that song. He's

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Speaker 1: singing the song. Uh, it's I wish I could be

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Speaker 1: that creative. It's we just heard too that and it

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Speaker 1: looks like and we don't know anything about anything. We

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Speaker 1: all hope that the fans are going to be back

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Speaker 1: in the stands, and I just think it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: one of the most memorable opening days in this franchise's history, right,

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Speaker 1: And we'll find out when they are opening a week

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Speaker 1: from day today, Steve at eight o'clock at night. Week

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Speaker 1: a week and what a week in seven hours and

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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. That's right. We have to break here. But

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Speaker 1: when we return, we will talk a little bit more

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Speaker 1: about what Steve was talking about. Yankee Stadium and City

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00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 1: Field have a new incentive for fans to get vaccinated.

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00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:20,000
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that. We know New Jersey is offering

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00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: free beer to anybody who wants to get vaccinated. The

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Speaker 1: Yankees and the Mets are taking it in a different direction.

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Speaker 1: We'll let you know how when we return on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Colloid to help. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown,

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00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, And as Steve and I mentioned in the

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Speaker 1: previous segment, we are a week away from the NFL

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Speaker 1: schedule release and Steve and a Tasker, there's already momentum brewing.

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Speaker 1: I heard momentum brewing for Bill's Bucks as a possible

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Speaker 1: season opener on Thursday night, Kickoff Night, America. There was

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Speaker 1: a rite up on NFL dot Yeah, there was a

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Speaker 1: right up on NFL dot com where they pulled some

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Speaker 1: of the people that work for NFL Network, you know

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Speaker 1: the analysts and such Mark Ross, Scott Pioli, uh Nate Burlison,

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Speaker 1: Joe Thomas, Maurice Jones, Drew, Charlie Casserley and there is.

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Speaker 1: It's basically all those guys they basically picked between two

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Speaker 1: possible matchups Cowboys Bucks, return of Dak. You know, Cowboys

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Speaker 1: still dry balls, you know all that. It's between Cowboys

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Speaker 1: Bucks and basically Bill's Bucks. Those are like the two

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Speaker 1: main choices of all of these analysts. So here is

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Speaker 1: what Scott Pioli said. I'd like to see the Bucks

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Speaker 1: host the Bills in the NFL's kickoff game, a matchup

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Speaker 1: against another top team in the NFL like the Bills.

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Speaker 1: We'll get the twenty twenty one season started with a bang.

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Speaker 1: The storylines are endless, but more importantly, it would be

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Speaker 1: great showcase of two teams that should be very good

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Speaker 1: again next season. I also like what Charlie Cassidy Casserly said,

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Speaker 1: but my Twitter, Yeah, it's the best game on papers

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Speaker 1: Bills at Bucks. Tampa returns all of its starters, while

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Speaker 1: Buffalo retained most of them. There's several storylines that turn

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Speaker 1: that surround both teams headed twenty twenty one campaign. He

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Speaker 1: can't wait to see them all play out. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: Joe Thomas said, the NFL has to open the season

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Speaker 1: with Bills Mafia making their way down to Raymond James Stadium.

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Speaker 1: He's talking about the fan base before the team. How

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Speaker 1: about that The Bills are the top team on the

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Speaker 1: Bucks home schedule in twenty twenty one, making this clash

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Speaker 1: of two of the most intriguing teams in the league

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Speaker 1: a perfect way to get the season rolling. Now, my

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Speaker 1: question is, Steve, do you want that game in Week

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Speaker 1: one again? The defending Super Bowl champs? Bring it on.

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Speaker 1: We'll be hold a lot of second there's by a billion.

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, that would be such a fun fun built

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Speaker 1: on a Thursday night. Yeah, you have the both teams

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Speaker 1: obviously would have the element of the unknown. Sure. Week

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Speaker 1: one is the biggest guessing game week for coordinators in

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Speaker 1: terms of game plan and scheming and all of that stuff.

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Speaker 1: You can really kind of that's the best week to

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Speaker 1: pull the wool over the eyes of the opponent. Um

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Speaker 1: Devin White and Lavonte David Man. That is, those guys

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Speaker 1: cover a lot of ground. They cover a lot of

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Speaker 1: They were so weren't they so impressive in the Super Bowl?

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Speaker 1: They really were. Those are two thoroughbreds. Man. They are good.

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Speaker 1: They're so good. Yeah. Wait wait till yeah, wait till

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Speaker 1: they end up starts the season and one. What do

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Speaker 1: you think that? How good do you think the odds

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Speaker 1: are that we see Bills Bucks week on? What? I

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Speaker 1: think it's probably for some of these teams, it's one

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Speaker 1: and eight For the Bills. I think it's one and two.

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Speaker 1: Maybe one in three. Yeah, I think they're I think

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Speaker 1: but at worst a thirty three percent chance. I think

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Speaker 1: that if they're a Week one participant, if they're not

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Speaker 1: a Week one on Thursday Night, if they're not Week

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Speaker 1: one Thursday Night, I'll bet you they're a Monday night

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Speaker 1: game Week one. No, not Week one, but that Thursday

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Speaker 1: night kickoff in Tampa. If they're not Thursday night, you

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Speaker 1: think they're Monday night week They're no, not meet Week

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Speaker 1: one or perhaps no, because Tampa's gonna kick it. Oh,

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Speaker 1: you're talking about the Bucks specific the Bucks game with

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Speaker 1: the Bills. If it's not that Thursday night game coming

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Speaker 1: on the game that the Bills do play the Bucks

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Speaker 1: in Tampa, it will be a Monday night game or

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00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:43,759
Speaker 1: a Sunday night game. I was thinking it thinking of

855
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 1: it differently. I was thinking just week one specifically. I

856
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 1: think if the Bills are not Thursday night Week one,

857
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 1: they'll be there probably Sunday night or Monday night Week one. Maybe, Yeah, maybe,

858
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: I think there's a good chance. That's a good call,

859
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,399
Speaker 1: that's good. Might they might be open, If they might

860
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: open the sea, they might open the season in Kansas

861
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:03,879
Speaker 1: City on Sunday night, And that's a team you'd want

862
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:06,160
Speaker 1: to put in prime time sooner rather than later. Do

863
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: you even think because you weren't anything and multiple times

864
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 1: as well? What they have primetime games last year, I

865
00:46:10,960 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 1: think they'll probably be in line for another four this year. Yeah.

866
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 1: I think they'll be opening weekend primetime. If it's not

867
00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 1: that opening game against the Bucks, it'll probably be in

868
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,799
Speaker 1: Kansas City against the Chiefs on Sunday night or Monday night.

869
00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 1: Another team that's probably going to see an uptick in

870
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 1: primetime games is Cleveland. Yeah, that team is gonna think

871
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: people want to see those guys. That's gonna be to

872
00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:32,439
Speaker 1: watch them. I think that's gonna be a tough team

873
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, oh yeah, another good draft class, did

874
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 1: some things in free agency. I mean they were what

875
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:40,680
Speaker 1: an eleven win team last year or twelve? How good?

876
00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 1: Does the AFC team North look? Right? With Baltimore Lamar Jackson.

877
00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:46,359
Speaker 1: Here's the other things. Here's the other thing we forget

878
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:49,440
Speaker 1: about Cleveland. What were they eleven wins last year? I

879
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 1: think they were eleven or twelve. I can't remember now,

880
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 1: but I do know this. They finished in third place,

881
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 1: So they're like an eleven twelve win team playing a

882
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: third place schedule. Steve Right, it's a good point. I

883
00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:04,319
Speaker 1: mean that can make a difference. We'll see. It's gonna

884
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: be a fun year. I can't wait away from tonight.

885
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: We're gonna find out. Yeah, break time here. When we return,

886
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:13,320
Speaker 1: it is time for us to talk with the Bills

887
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 1: top draft choice one, Greg Rousseau will be joining us

888
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:19,720
Speaker 1: on the line when we return here on one Bills

889
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:38,279
Speaker 1: Live presented by killot to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio

890
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: at a Steve Tasker who has been all over the fields,

891
00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 1: kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

892
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 1: player for you. Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even

893
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 1: in the strategyre of normalcy. We're number two of a

894
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 1: Wednesday edition of One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

895
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:01,479
Speaker 1: here with you, and we don't want to wait any

896
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: longer as we made the promise to bring him to you,

897
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 1: and he is here to talk with us and for

898
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 1: you to listen to it is Bill's top draft choice,

899
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 1: Greg Russo joining us, the pride of the University of Miami. Greg,

900
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us here. We know you've done a

901
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: lot of these interviews, so we'll try to come up

902
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 1: with different questions so you're not giving the same answers,

903
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: but we appreciate the time. Nonetheless, thank you. You've been

904
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:27,400
Speaker 1: like a You've been like a media mogul here the

905
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:31,239
Speaker 1: last week since you got picked backs Jack, what I've

906
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: been joining every minute of it is awesome. What is

907
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:35,919
Speaker 1: your what's your schedule like in the next couple of weeks?

908
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:37,839
Speaker 1: Are you gonna Are you in Buffalo right now? Are

909
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 1: you coming back to Buffalo at any point or area?

910
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: Rookie camp coming up? Yeah, rookie camp tell us about

911
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:43,720
Speaker 1: where you're gonna be up to the next couple of weeks.

912
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:47,400
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm just working out down here in South Florida,

913
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna be back in Buffalo. I'm leaving on

914
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: the twelfth, so I'll be back there for rookie camping.

915
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: I can't wait to get up there to start learning.

916
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: You know, getting me by the teammates and get us

917
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 1: to the coaches is already just like get just get

918
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 1: into everybody in the entire building. So Greg, I don't

919
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: I know that. You know, you young guys are all

920
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:06,279
Speaker 1: over the place on social media, so I don't know

921
00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:10,120
Speaker 1: if you spotted this, but a former fellow alum of

922
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 1: yours from Miami, Klais Campbell, put a tweet out in

923
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,720
Speaker 1: support of you. There were, you know, some national media

924
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:20,440
Speaker 1: people saying, you know, the evaluation on Greg Russeau might

925
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,359
Speaker 1: be difficult because he opted out last year, and some

926
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,919
Speaker 1: people are wondering can he put on waiting? Kalais put

927
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:27,879
Speaker 1: this out. He said, I wonder what the scouts were

928
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: saying when I was coming out, not athletic enough, not

929
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 1: strong enough. I'm not a scout, and I know they

930
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:34,800
Speaker 1: have a tough job, but I hope they don't overthink

931
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 1: this one. Greg Russeau can play football. He is a playmaker,

932
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:42,479
Speaker 1: shows up in both the run and the pass game.

933
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:46,880
Speaker 1: Have you ever spoken to Kalaias at all? Do you

934
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:48,720
Speaker 1: know him at all? But you know with the fellow

935
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:52,399
Speaker 1: alumni network going on there, Yeah, I know. He keep

936
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 1: to a few presses in Miami in a few games.

937
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:56,800
Speaker 1: I'll talk in time to time, and also we text

938
00:49:57,239 --> 00:49:58,880
Speaker 1: every now and then. He's always given me device and

939
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: stuff like that to take everything in from him. You know,

940
00:50:01,719 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 1: he's a pro bowler, probably a future Hall of Famer.

941
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 1: Also went to the you of course, Yeah, any even

942
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 1: if they got a pro bowl er, any person who's

943
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:11,800
Speaker 1: who's in the position that I'm about to be in,

944
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:13,799
Speaker 1: and try to soak up as much knowledge from them

945
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: as I can and just learn, you know, So, what

946
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 1: would you say is some of the more valuable advice

947
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 1: that he's kind of passed and poured into you. Just

948
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 1: really telling me, you know, how to read into everything.

949
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:27,719
Speaker 1: You know, just control and I control, work hard every

950
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:30,600
Speaker 1: single day, just worry about you, worry about getting better,

951
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 1: and worry about the team. And that's exactly what I'm

952
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: gonna do my first things first though, for me, the

953
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,360
Speaker 1: really important thing are you okay with the number fifty

954
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,360
Speaker 1: or did you have to settle for the number fifty?

955
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 1: What's your thing? I mean is this? Is that a

956
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 1: big step? Because I know numbers are kind of a

957
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:47,359
Speaker 1: big deal for some guys. What about you? Now? For me?

958
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:50,759
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I like number fifty actually, and I

959
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: also like fifteen At Miami. When I'm on the field,

960
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 1: I'm not really thinking about my numbers. So you know,

961
00:50:55,320 --> 00:50:57,440
Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna make it look good, and that's

962
00:50:57,440 --> 00:50:59,800
Speaker 1: what it's all about. Anyways. Yeah, so you were you

963
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:03,800
Speaker 1: were fifteen at the U and our our crack staff

964
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 1: here at one Bills Live, we've come to learn you

965
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 1: were number five in high school? Is that correct? Because

966
00:51:09,560 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 1: we've got some footage here of someone playing a little

967
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: wide receiver and someone bringing the wood at safety. Let's

968
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 1: roll that beautiful footage, guys. Uh, A lot of go

969
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: route a lot of go routes here, Greg, and a

970
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 1: lot of fade balls. How many routes did you run

971
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:32,880
Speaker 1: in high school? Probably about three? Yeah. If it's not broke,

972
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 1: don't fix it, right, don't fix it. Don't fix it?

973
00:51:36,400 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 1: So yeah, are you gonna beat You gotta be, you

974
00:51:38,640 --> 00:51:41,359
Speaker 1: gotta get in the ear of the coaching staff, say

975
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:43,319
Speaker 1: you know, red zone target or whatever you could be.

976
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 1: You could have three sacks and three touchdowns in the game,

977
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:49,320
Speaker 1: maybe the only guy ever to have three t D

978
00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:51,800
Speaker 1: receptions and three sacks in the same game. Or a

979
00:51:51,840 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: sack at a TD reception facts facts, I'll be dope. Yeah,

980
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:04,160
Speaker 1: what do you think do you receivers are completely different animal.

981
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 1: I'm just curious because, like you're up at the line

982
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:09,399
Speaker 1: of scrimmage now, obviously at your current position, is there

983
00:52:09,440 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 1: anything that viewing the field defensively from that deep spot

984
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:15,840
Speaker 1: at safety in your high school days, And I realize

985
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:18,800
Speaker 1: schemes are a whole lot more complex at this level,

986
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 1: but I'm just curious your view of the game, how

987
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:23,799
Speaker 1: the angles are so much different from being way back

988
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:26,760
Speaker 1: there and now up on the line. Is there anything

989
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 1: that that that viewpoint still? Is it still something you

990
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:33,560
Speaker 1: carry with you even now that you're up close to

991
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:35,799
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. I'm just wondering if that experience

992
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 1: helps you at all now up close to the line.

993
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:41,480
Speaker 1: I think it helped me the way it helped me,

994
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:43,400
Speaker 1: just you know, just knowing how to safety things and

995
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:45,880
Speaker 1: knowing how else a linebacker thinks and just when it

996
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:47,920
Speaker 1: comes to like feeling different gaps and what base seeing

997
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:49,919
Speaker 1: what I see helped me kind of this bring those

998
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 1: two things together. You know. Yeah, you said that you

999
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 1: kind of learned it by you know, the terminology and

1000
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:59,360
Speaker 1: some of the concepts by playing a video game. How now,

1001
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 1: when you get out there and you're and you're playing,

1002
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:03,479
Speaker 1: you know all that's probably you know, way in the past,

1003
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 1: because you've got specific things you're thinking about. What do

1004
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:07,520
Speaker 1: you when you look at now when you just line

1005
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:09,799
Speaker 1: up and you get your hand in the dirt, you know,

1006
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:12,480
Speaker 1: what is your mindset when you you know, you get

1007
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 1: in your stance you look up, particularly how it changes

1008
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 1: from when you're inside over the nose as opposed to

1009
00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 1: outside on the end. What are some of the differences

1010
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:24,879
Speaker 1: that because you were really effective from both spots. Yeah, well,

1011
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:28,200
Speaker 1: first and foremost, I'm always I feel like before the snap,

1012
00:53:28,280 --> 00:53:30,799
Speaker 1: no matter what I always taught at Miami, like see

1013
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:32,520
Speaker 1: a lot and then see a little with the ball snap.

1014
00:53:32,560 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 1: So before the snap, I want to see as much

1015
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:37,320
Speaker 1: as possible, whether it's the backfield set, the any tells

1016
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 1: that the on linemen are giving me something. I'm trying

1017
00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:40,880
Speaker 1: to see a lot before the snap, but once the

1018
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:42,440
Speaker 1: balls back be snap, I'm sing a little bit and

1019
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:44,479
Speaker 1: I'm just focusing on like get off at that point.

1020
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:46,600
Speaker 1: And what thing I can say is that when you're inside,

1021
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:48,480
Speaker 1: things happened a lot quicker. You know, you have to

1022
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:50,320
Speaker 1: work your hands a lot faster because you're gonna be

1023
00:53:50,360 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 1: right up on the guard or seeing it just like that,

1024
00:53:52,120 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 1: like in the snap of a finger, you know. So

1025
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:56,719
Speaker 1: I feel like in the inside, whether it's zero three,

1026
00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:58,880
Speaker 1: things happened a lot quicker. On the outside, you have

1027
00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:00,759
Speaker 1: a little bit more time to this kind of catch

1028
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 1: your stride and then throw your move, you know what

1029
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 1: I mean. Yeah, right, So we've mentioned it on the

1030
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:07,480
Speaker 1: air here that you know, a lot of this tape

1031
00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:11,319
Speaker 1: and college film that fans have you tried to check

1032
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:13,480
Speaker 1: out on YouTube after you were made the bills picked.

1033
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 1: This is from twenty nineteen when you were probably two

1034
00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:20,320
Speaker 1: forty five ish, right, and now you know you're about

1035
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:24,120
Speaker 1: two sixty six. First and foremost, what did you do

1036
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:27,360
Speaker 1: to kind of change your body composition? What was the

1037
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: regimen to kind of pack on another twenty pounds and

1038
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,400
Speaker 1: then second, how does it feel carrying it on your frame?

1039
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:37,440
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I packed it on my just you know,

1040
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 1: it's working hard in the weight room, you know, hitting

1041
00:54:39,120 --> 00:54:41,440
Speaker 1: the weights all the time, but also eating the right

1042
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:43,360
Speaker 1: you know, not eating the wrong things, because you get it,

1043
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:45,399
Speaker 1: it's easy to gain weight, but it's hard to gain

1044
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 1: like actual good way, you know, weight that's gonna make

1045
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:49,919
Speaker 1: you a better player, and that's gonna make you feel better.

1046
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 1: So I definitely made sure I was gaining the right weight,

1047
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 1: you know, by just being real careful with my nutrition

1048
00:54:54,920 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 1: in my diet. And I said, I feel great with it.

1049
00:54:57,680 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: You know, I feel like I ran pretty well with

1050
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:01,880
Speaker 1: that day. And it's the drills I've been doing to

1051
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 1: you work I've been I've been feeling good in my

1052
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:05,279
Speaker 1: body for service. I don't feel like the way from

1053
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 1: the slowly dot at all. Yeah, it's been one of

1054
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:10,280
Speaker 1: the things that is becoming now kind of one of

1055
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:12,720
Speaker 1: the mantras for a lot of people. You can never

1056
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 1: out train your diet. So if you're gonna as hard

1057
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:18,720
Speaker 1: as you work, it's easy to eat yourself out of shape.

1058
00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:21,520
Speaker 1: And it's and I remember too, I was one who

1059
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:23,760
Speaker 1: always I tried to put on weight during my college

1060
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:29,399
Speaker 1: career as well, and the hardest part is gaining it

1061
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:31,759
Speaker 1: the right way, because you know, you can't just eat

1062
00:55:31,800 --> 00:55:37,960
Speaker 1: ice cream all day exactly exactly. So yeah, right, a

1063
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:41,719
Speaker 1: lot of chicken and fish, right. Um. So, Greg, you

1064
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:44,960
Speaker 1: know you told the story about how your parents lived

1065
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:49,759
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo prior to you being born, and you know,

1066
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:52,799
Speaker 1: I know you've said great things about Buffalo yourself. My

1067
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:56,120
Speaker 1: question is this, When you guys were touring One Bill's Drive,

1068
00:55:56,200 --> 00:55:58,759
Speaker 1: you had your family in tow with you. What was

1069
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 1: your mom and dad saying, you know, as you guys

1070
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:04,520
Speaker 1: were kind of back here in Buffalo. For them, I

1071
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:07,879
Speaker 1: had to imagine it, it's very full circle for them,

1072
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:10,880
Speaker 1: not necessarily for you. But what were they saying as

1073
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 1: you guys were like touching down here in Buffalo driving

1074
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 1: out to the stadium. I'm just curious what your mom

1075
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:18,799
Speaker 1: and dad, what was coming out of their mouths? What

1076
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:20,879
Speaker 1: were they thinking? You know, when you guys were touring

1077
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:24,320
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. Well, man, it's it's such a blessing,

1078
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:25,960
Speaker 1: you know, for me to be in Buffalo for them

1079
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:28,120
Speaker 1: to also be back back, so they're really just like

1080
00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:31,160
Speaker 1: pointing everything out, like, oh I remember this, We used

1081
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 1: to be here, that used to be there. It was

1082
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 1: really like it's probably really nostalgic for them, So it

1083
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:38,359
Speaker 1: was a really cool experience and they enjoyed every single

1084
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:40,399
Speaker 1: second of it. They're gonna be back real soon, are

1085
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: they gonna? Are they gonna accompany you up here? Are you?

1086
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:44,759
Speaker 1: I mean, what's gonna what's it gonna look like when

1087
00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:48,200
Speaker 1: this regular season kicks off? You're gonna, you know, go

1088
00:56:48,239 --> 00:56:50,440
Speaker 1: back to rooming with some of your college buddy. I mean,

1089
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:52,439
Speaker 1: you're gonna have some guys room together. Are you gonna

1090
00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 1: have your family up? What's your Have you thought about that?

1091
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 1: What it's gonna look like when this season rolls on?

1092
00:56:57,160 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 1: You kind of gotta make your way as a pro athlete. Yeah,

1093
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna go up there by myself at

1094
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:04,400
Speaker 1: first of the rook them medica and stuff. But when

1095
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:07,200
Speaker 1: I settled in, um, I know, my my girlfriend will

1096
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:09,719
Speaker 1: probably stayed with me, and awesome. I know my family

1097
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 1: is gonna be visiting me real frequently. So we have

1098
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 1: a real tight knit family. So they're always gonna be

1099
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 1: visiting me. I'm sure. But yeah, I remember on Draft night,

1100
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 1: you're you're on the phone with the Bills as they're

1101
00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:24,760
Speaker 1: telling you you're gonna make the pick, and we only

1102
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:27,800
Speaker 1: saw this after the fact. You're you're talking, I think

1103
00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 1: to the owner, Terry Pogoula, and you're telling him my

1104
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:34,440
Speaker 1: brother almost tackled me, and then we saw a video

1105
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 1: off it. He almost took you out. He knocked you

1106
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 1: right into the partition. Uh yeah, which brother was that?

1107
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 1: And what I mean? I know he's excited, but careful, man,

1108
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 1: I know right it was my one of my older

1109
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:49,520
Speaker 1: brothers and my younger brother, like one, they're both were

1110
00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:51,720
Speaker 1: trying to tapple me. I don't know why. No. Yeah,

1111
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:53,440
Speaker 1: is there anybody else like you at home? I mean

1112
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 1: you got your younger brothers? Are are they you know,

1113
00:57:55,440 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 1: next in line to get drafted? They play? Tell me

1114
00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 1: about them? Yeah? I have a younger brother's team. He

1115
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,040
Speaker 1: plays at Monarch High School down here in South Florida,

1116
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:04,800
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be a real good player for sure.

1117
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:08,480
Speaker 1: He plays like receiver, as a linebacker, safety, He kind

1118
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 1: of does it all. Is he tall like you? At

1119
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:15,280
Speaker 1: his age? He's about five to nine five nine right now? Yeah,

1120
00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 1: he's fourteen. What was your what was your biggest growth spurt? Greg? Like, like,

1121
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 1: where what year was it? And what you shoot up

1122
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:27,280
Speaker 1: like four inches six inches? What was the biggest spurt

1123
00:58:27,320 --> 00:58:31,400
Speaker 1: for you? I'd say I grew like probably about two inches,

1124
00:58:32,520 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 1: uh like two and a half inches from my software

1125
00:58:35,800 --> 00:58:37,800
Speaker 1: junior year in high school. So that's why I really

1126
00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:41,240
Speaker 1: got a pretty good growth spurt. Yeah, two inches on you.

1127
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: It is like spitting the bucket. I mean you're like

1128
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 1: nine thousand feet that you had. You had to grow

1129
00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:50,560
Speaker 1: two inches a month at some point in your life.

1130
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:52,920
Speaker 1: Also in middle school too, there's a big one when

1131
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 1: I was like, I think about another two inches, yeah,

1132
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 1: because all that is like steadily I was tall growing up. Yeah,

1133
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:04,080
Speaker 1: you're always tall, Okay. And then I'm sure you've you've

1134
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 1: been You've been hit up on social media and maybe

1135
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:09,360
Speaker 1: even got a few phone calls when the photo went

1136
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 1: out when you were touring One Bills Live and you were,

1137
00:59:12,040 --> 00:59:14,720
Speaker 1: you know, shaking hands with Coach McDermott and Brandon Bean

1138
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:18,360
Speaker 1: and people are looking at this photo and they are astounded.

1139
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 1: They're like, somebody doctored this photo. There's no way this

1140
00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 1: is real. And then the fact that you're eleven and

1141
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 1: one eighth inch hand is pretty much blocking out almost

1142
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:31,080
Speaker 1: the entire head of Brandon Bean. People were going nuts

1143
00:59:31,120 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 1: about this. Have you gotten a lot of feedback on

1144
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:37,000
Speaker 1: this photo? Yeah, I've heard about. I've heard about it's funny.

1145
00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 1: But I am a big dude in person. I am

1146
00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 1: pretty tall. Yeah. And with and with that in mind,

1147
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:46,200
Speaker 1: you've got two draft classmates who are just as big

1148
00:59:46,240 --> 00:59:51,800
Speaker 1: as you, uh in Spencer Brown and in uh yeah,

1149
00:59:51,840 --> 00:59:55,880
Speaker 1: Tommy Doyle. So I think they're gonna have you guys

1150
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:58,200
Speaker 1: first off the bus for away games, man, because that's

1151
00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 1: gonna be an intimidating Look, what do you think about that?

1152
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:04,680
Speaker 1: That's facts, that's facts. Definitely were some big duds for sure.

1153
01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:06,760
Speaker 1: And I can't wait to get in there and start working,

1154
01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 1: you know. And I'm just I'm so excited. I'm so

1155
01:00:09,440 --> 01:00:11,240
Speaker 1: excited to be part of those ball fields. How I

1156
01:00:11,280 --> 01:00:13,600
Speaker 1: can't wait. How much do you think it'll help you, Greg,

1157
01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 1: Because there's probably a pretty good chance that, you know,

1158
01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:18,360
Speaker 1: you're going to be looking a lot at you know,

1159
01:00:18,400 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 1: your fellow draft classmate Spencer Brown and and uh Tommy Doyle.

1160
01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 1: In practice to have guys with similar length as you

1161
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:28,480
Speaker 1: to go against, You're not you know, you're not facing

1162
01:00:28,520 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 1: you know, thirty two inch arm guys. Now you've got

1163
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 1: guys with arms just as long as you. I think

1164
01:00:32,720 --> 01:00:35,400
Speaker 1: that presents a good challenge for you in practice to

1165
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:38,920
Speaker 1: kind of improve and get better, right, Yeah, I think

1166
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 1: so too, you know. And the harder practice is easier.

1167
01:00:41,680 --> 01:00:43,640
Speaker 1: It makes game days, you know. So it's always great

1168
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 1: to get pushed in practice and to be going against

1169
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:47,480
Speaker 1: the best of the best. So I'm super excited. Yea.

1170
01:00:47,560 --> 01:00:49,960
Speaker 1: And when you come back, when you do make your

1171
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:52,640
Speaker 1: way back up here, tell us a little bit about

1172
01:00:52,720 --> 01:00:54,600
Speaker 1: you know, what you've been told by the coaching staff.

1173
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:56,600
Speaker 1: What are what plans do they have? I know there's

1174
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 1: you know, there's a long way to go before they

1175
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:01,280
Speaker 1: know find out what you're good at, what you're gonna

1176
01:01:01,280 --> 01:01:03,080
Speaker 1: be really good at in the pros that kind of thing.

1177
01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:04,960
Speaker 1: What have they told you about your role and what

1178
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:08,520
Speaker 1: they expect from you? They told me they expect big

1179
01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:10,720
Speaker 1: things for me, for sure, But as far as my role,

1180
01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:12,080
Speaker 1: they haven't told me much. But I just know that

1181
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:14,880
Speaker 1: coming there, you know, just be humble, hungry, you know,

1182
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:17,360
Speaker 1: in this work artist in one day pushed myself with compete.

1183
01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:18,640
Speaker 1: So that's all I'm gonna do. I'm gonna give it

1184
01:01:18,680 --> 01:01:21,080
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty percent. You know, I'm gonna go

1185
01:01:21,160 --> 01:01:23,600
Speaker 1: as hard as I can, and I'm I'm gonna prove

1186
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:25,800
Speaker 1: that I'm there for a reason and last one for me, Greg,

1187
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:29,240
Speaker 1: and we appreciate the time. You've got a fellow acc

1188
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:31,720
Speaker 1: pass rusher who's gonna be coming up here with you

1189
01:01:32,160 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 1: in Bookie Basham. How how nice will it be to

1190
01:01:36,480 --> 01:01:40,800
Speaker 1: have somebody in a similar position role kind of learning

1191
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 1: alongside you, Like you know, you're you might be a

1192
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:46,520
Speaker 1: little crossed up on some kind of technique or something,

1193
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:48,720
Speaker 1: you know, and maybe you don't want to ask the

1194
01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 1: coach right away, you can kind of pick your your

1195
01:01:50,880 --> 01:01:52,760
Speaker 1: fellow rookies brain and say, hey, did you get this

1196
01:01:52,840 --> 01:01:55,160
Speaker 1: all right? Ley? Just having that guy next to you,

1197
01:01:55,320 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 1: it's like a wingman at your position who's going through

1198
01:01:57,800 --> 01:01:59,760
Speaker 1: the same things that you are every single day. How

1199
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 1: how much does that make like the learning curve that

1200
01:02:03,120 --> 01:02:06,280
Speaker 1: much easier. I feel like it's going to really help

1201
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:08,520
Speaker 1: us out, you know, like in really just both ways

1202
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:10,160
Speaker 1: if I need help, where if he needs help, we're

1203
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:11,800
Speaker 1: gonna our shoulder to lean on. So and we can

1204
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:14,280
Speaker 1: also learn from each other, learn from each other's mistakes,

1205
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:16,320
Speaker 1: learn from the things that we're doing great and things

1206
01:02:16,320 --> 01:02:18,040
Speaker 1: that we're doing good. So I feel it's gonna be

1207
01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:20,040
Speaker 1: awesome that somebody who's in the same situation with me

1208
01:02:20,480 --> 01:02:22,440
Speaker 1: it also played the same position. I feel like it's

1209
01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:25,320
Speaker 1: gonna be great, all right, Greg, as always, uh, we

1210
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:27,920
Speaker 1: thank thank you for the time. Congrats once again. I

1211
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:30,440
Speaker 1: know it's been a whirlwind week. I'm sure we appreciate

1212
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:32,760
Speaker 1: you giving us some time and letting some of our

1213
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:34,720
Speaker 1: listeners and viewers get a chance to know you a

1214
01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 1: little bit better. So thanks and good luck, and we

1215
01:02:36,520 --> 01:02:38,480
Speaker 1: look forward to seeing you up here rookie Minicamp next week.

1216
01:02:38,480 --> 01:02:40,320
Speaker 1: We'll look forward to see you in person. Greg, thanks

1217
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 1: for sure, Thank you anytime. All right. That's Greg Rousseau,

1218
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:48,640
Speaker 1: Bill's top draft choice from the twenty twenty one NFL

1219
01:02:48,720 --> 01:02:51,720
Speaker 1: Draft this past week. I really think like having a

1220
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 1: fellow rookie, especially a draft pick guy that playing in

1221
01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:57,440
Speaker 1: your conference, like knows what knows what the college game

1222
01:02:57,520 --> 01:03:00,840
Speaker 1: was like in your conference, played a similar position, is

1223
01:03:00,840 --> 01:03:02,720
Speaker 1: probably gonna line up in much the same way that

1224
01:03:02,760 --> 01:03:04,800
Speaker 1: he is going to be taught the same things by

1225
01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:07,440
Speaker 1: the same position coach. I don't want to call it

1226
01:03:07,520 --> 01:03:09,520
Speaker 1: peace of mind, but it's got to be reassuring knowing

1227
01:03:09,520 --> 01:03:11,280
Speaker 1: you got a fellow rookie alongside you that you can

1228
01:03:11,360 --> 01:03:13,560
Speaker 1: lean on when you need to. Yeah, and you and

1229
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:16,560
Speaker 1: I both know as well. And if I wouldn't want

1230
01:03:16,560 --> 01:03:18,960
Speaker 1: to touch on any touchy or anything but him having

1231
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:22,240
Speaker 1: a close knit family. Yeah, and I know this too,

1232
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:24,520
Speaker 1: that they'll be up here all as much as often

1233
01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:26,480
Speaker 1: as they came. And I was the same way. I

1234
01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:28,400
Speaker 1: had the same thing going for me when I was

1235
01:03:28,440 --> 01:03:30,920
Speaker 1: a young player, although I was kind of on my

1236
01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:34,600
Speaker 1: own got sent off and um, but I remember too,

1237
01:03:34,640 --> 01:03:37,280
Speaker 1: it was it was great as as the you know,

1238
01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:38,920
Speaker 1: I got into the early nineties with the bills and

1239
01:03:39,040 --> 01:03:41,880
Speaker 1: came up here in mid eighties. My family made every

1240
01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:45,840
Speaker 1: effort to come up and to have them there while

1241
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:48,640
Speaker 1: you know, after you get settled and you know, my

1242
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:50,440
Speaker 1: wife and I were kind of entrenched here then it

1243
01:03:50,520 --> 01:03:52,400
Speaker 1: was then it was more like you know, you need

1244
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:54,880
Speaker 1: how many tickets? You know, that kind of But in

1245
01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:59,480
Speaker 1: the beginning, it's really it really helps you thrive in

1246
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:01,160
Speaker 1: a new and roment when you know that every so

1247
01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:02,800
Speaker 1: often you're gonna get a touch base with some people

1248
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:04,960
Speaker 1: who are pretty important to you, know, you who for

1249
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 1: who you are, and you can air out some things,

1250
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:10,400
Speaker 1: you know, and find out see what they think about it.

1251
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:12,120
Speaker 1: And it's nice to have them grounded. So good for

1252
01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:16,360
Speaker 1: Greg Russau. That's really going to serve him well, trying

1253
01:04:16,360 --> 01:04:18,440
Speaker 1: to make the transition from being a college kid into

1254
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:21,040
Speaker 1: a professional athlete. Yeah, so good to talk to him.

1255
01:04:21,040 --> 01:04:23,400
Speaker 1: We hope you enjoyed that. I think you can see

1256
01:04:23,440 --> 01:04:28,400
Speaker 1: how down to earth he is. This is what you know,

1257
01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:32,120
Speaker 1: the scouting department and the personnel department. This is what

1258
01:04:32,440 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 1: they pull from players when they're trying to assess character.

1259
01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:37,680
Speaker 1: How does he interact with people? Like, what's he like

1260
01:04:37,760 --> 01:04:41,400
Speaker 1: in an interview setting. They're doing that all through the fall.

1261
01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:43,520
Speaker 1: They do that at the Senior Bowl, they do it

1262
01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:46,600
Speaker 1: at the Combine. You know, this is us For us,

1263
01:04:46,680 --> 01:04:48,800
Speaker 1: this is like our first exposure to him. For them,

1264
01:04:49,400 --> 01:04:51,480
Speaker 1: they've been through this time and time and time again

1265
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:54,760
Speaker 1: with him. They've spent this time with him, and I

1266
01:04:54,760 --> 01:04:57,600
Speaker 1: think you could see right away why they feel like,

1267
01:04:57,880 --> 01:05:00,000
Speaker 1: you know, this is a kid that Scott builds. It's

1268
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:02,520
Speaker 1: it's much easier to be a really good teammate when

1269
01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:06,280
Speaker 1: you have really good communication skills. Um. Greg actually, you

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01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 1: know obviously has really the abilities speaking that doesn't mean

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01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:12,080
Speaker 1: it's you know, if you can't, if you're if you're

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01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:14,600
Speaker 1: not really don't speak well or not comfortable in front

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01:05:14,640 --> 01:05:16,400
Speaker 1: of the camp, that doesn't mean you're not a good teammate.

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01:05:16,480 --> 01:05:19,320
Speaker 1: There's a ton of guys that are right, that are

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01:05:19,680 --> 01:05:23,840
Speaker 1: phenomenal guys. But it does mean more guys can you know, community,

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01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:26,400
Speaker 1: you can communicate and better, and you're more outgoing that

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01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:28,720
Speaker 1: kind of thing. It gives you more of a personality

1278
01:05:28,720 --> 01:05:30,680
Speaker 1: and a more of a way for your teammates to

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01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:33,439
Speaker 1: latch onto and you become your friend. So seeing him

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01:05:33,720 --> 01:05:36,760
Speaker 1: be as you know, articulate as he is, I think

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01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:38,919
Speaker 1: it also sets him up for success at that level

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01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:43,000
Speaker 1: and it's good to see. And I also like that. Yeah,

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01:05:43,000 --> 01:05:45,400
Speaker 1: that's why I asked him, how does the weight feel

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01:05:45,600 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 1: on you? I mean, I certainly think we can all

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01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:51,760
Speaker 1: agree he's got the frame that would afford him the

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01:05:51,840 --> 01:05:55,680
Speaker 1: opportunity to add you know, bulk and strength at six

1287
01:05:55,680 --> 01:05:59,080
Speaker 1: to seven. You know, with a wingspan of about seven feet,

1288
01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:03,000
Speaker 1: there's plenty of places to add good weight. And it

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01:06:03,040 --> 01:06:06,000
Speaker 1: sounds like he went about it the right way, going

1290
01:06:06,040 --> 01:06:08,880
Speaker 1: from two forty five to two sixty six at his

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01:06:08,960 --> 01:06:11,280
Speaker 1: pro day and he's right around there right now. And

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Speaker 1: I know we talked to his college coach, Manning Diaz,

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01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:16,280
Speaker 1: who said, yeah, his ideal playing way and it's probably

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01:06:16,320 --> 01:06:19,520
Speaker 1: somewhere between two sixty five and two seventy. And he's

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01:06:19,560 --> 01:06:22,760
Speaker 1: there now, and did it the right way, because as

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01:06:22,800 --> 01:06:24,520
Speaker 1: you were pointing out, and you know, you have more

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01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:27,560
Speaker 1: experience with this than I do, you got to add

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01:06:27,600 --> 01:06:30,840
Speaker 1: the right weight. There's such a thing as lean muscle

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01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:34,840
Speaker 1: mass and then fat and unwanted weight. I'll give you

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01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:37,600
Speaker 1: an example of how easy it is sometimes you're trying

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01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:40,120
Speaker 1: to do it the right way. I remember playing a

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01:06:40,160 --> 01:06:43,160
Speaker 1: game as a rookie. We played a preseason game, so

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01:06:43,200 --> 01:06:47,200
Speaker 1: it was the heat of summer in Texas when I

1304
01:06:47,240 --> 01:06:49,600
Speaker 1: was with the Oilers, and we had a guy who

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01:06:49,720 --> 01:06:54,880
Speaker 1: was a nose guard. He lost twenty five pounds during

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01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:59,480
Speaker 1: the game. What twenty five pounds he's wail over three

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01:06:59,560 --> 01:07:02,520
Speaker 1: hundred pound. Yeah, so but you could tell even in

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01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:05,120
Speaker 1: his face. I was like, wow, you look, you look bad,

1309
01:07:05,320 --> 01:07:07,160
Speaker 1: and you know it was because he was dehydrated, and

1310
01:07:07,200 --> 01:07:10,240
Speaker 1: that kind of thing played the whole game. And and

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01:07:10,280 --> 01:07:13,800
Speaker 1: so for a guy like Greg Rousseau who's right now,

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01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:18,560
Speaker 1: he's at two let's say two seventy and you're saying, well,

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01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:21,720
Speaker 1: his perfect weight would be two eighty five. Well you're

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01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:25,640
Speaker 1: talking about the difference between that would be a guy

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01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:30,400
Speaker 1: like me putting on seven pounds. Yeah, you know, I

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01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:33,720
Speaker 1: mean it's just not that much weight. Yeah, but a

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01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:36,320
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of it's water, right, like there's

1318
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:40,760
Speaker 1: a well, not when you're when it's you know, it's

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01:07:41,320 --> 01:07:44,000
Speaker 1: it depends, I mean depended. Every guy's different, but some

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01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:47,040
Speaker 1: of it is. Yeah, And guys drop us, particularly the

1321
01:07:47,040 --> 01:07:50,360
Speaker 1: big heavy guys, drop a significant amount of weight during

1322
01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:54,440
Speaker 1: a game, but it's all within parameters of their of

1323
01:07:54,480 --> 01:07:56,880
Speaker 1: their body composition, that the amount of fat and pro

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01:07:57,120 --> 01:07:59,080
Speaker 1: and muscle that they have in their frame, and how

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01:07:59,160 --> 01:08:02,440
Speaker 1: much a percentage of weight that it is. It's and

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01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:05,160
Speaker 1: I'm the last guy to speak science about, you know,

1327
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:09,000
Speaker 1: exercise science. But they keep track of all of that.

1328
01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:14,800
Speaker 1: That's why, especially for the big guys, not only do

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01:08:14,880 --> 01:08:17,880
Speaker 1: they weigh in, they also wear the GPS thing, and

1330
01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:21,479
Speaker 1: they know exactly how far and how fast they've moved,

1331
01:08:21,560 --> 01:08:24,400
Speaker 1: every moment of the calories they've burned. They know the

1332
01:08:24,840 --> 01:08:27,080
Speaker 1: weight load, they know their their heart rate, they know

1333
01:08:27,160 --> 01:08:30,800
Speaker 1: all of that stuff and and they extrapolate all that

1334
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:33,000
Speaker 1: information into the best way to keep them forward. And

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01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:35,519
Speaker 1: I'll say this, that's also one of the ways, one

1336
01:08:35,520 --> 01:08:38,479
Speaker 1: of the reasons why this organization and the way they

1337
01:08:38,520 --> 01:08:41,720
Speaker 1: handle that information and handle the rest and all the

1338
01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:44,280
Speaker 1: other recovery stuff is why this team was very healthy

1339
01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:46,759
Speaker 1: last year and the year before and under de Sean McDermott,

1340
01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:49,600
Speaker 1: they've been extremely healthy. So you don't get any of

1341
01:08:49,640 --> 01:08:53,800
Speaker 1: those ancilliary snapped hammy here. Soft tissue, soft tissue muscle.

1342
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:55,479
Speaker 1: They do. I mean, they happen once in a while,

1343
01:08:55,600 --> 01:08:57,920
Speaker 1: it's just not nearly as often. It's just not nearly

1344
01:08:57,920 --> 01:09:00,240
Speaker 1: as often. Plus, the recovery time for these guys have

1345
01:09:00,400 --> 01:09:03,800
Speaker 1: been great. They they've done a really good job with that.

1346
01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:06,639
Speaker 1: And you know, it's it's not easy. It's a science,

1347
01:09:06,680 --> 01:09:08,680
Speaker 1: and they're always learning more and more about how to

1348
01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:11,200
Speaker 1: do it better. All Right, we are going to take

1349
01:09:11,200 --> 01:09:13,280
Speaker 1: a break here, but when we come back, we're going

1350
01:09:13,360 --> 01:09:16,280
Speaker 1: to talk to you about the bills to due list

1351
01:09:16,400 --> 01:09:19,800
Speaker 1: with respect to their roster post draft. We want your

1352
01:09:19,840 --> 01:09:22,040
Speaker 1: thoughts on that. At eight oh three, five fifty one

1353
01:09:22,200 --> 01:09:25,000
Speaker 1: eighty eight five fifty two, five fifty and on the

1354
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:27,000
Speaker 1: tweet sheet at one Bills Live. We'll get into that

1355
01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:40,920
Speaker 1: when we return in just a moment under the one

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01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:43,160
Speaker 1: Bills Live second half of the show under way here

1357
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:45,920
Speaker 1: on a Wednesday, Chris Brown Steve Jasker with you, and

1358
01:09:46,000 --> 01:09:47,880
Speaker 1: we want to get into this conversation and we have

1359
01:09:48,080 --> 01:09:49,840
Speaker 1: the time to do it. Open lines for you at

1360
01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:53,400
Speaker 1: eight three five fifty You heard from Brandon Bean in

1361
01:09:53,439 --> 01:09:55,400
Speaker 1: the first hour of our show. He's talking about the

1362
01:09:55,479 --> 01:09:59,479
Speaker 1: draft at Josh Allen Extension. But what is next on

1363
01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:02,880
Speaker 1: your bill to do list following the draft? Besides that

1364
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:07,040
Speaker 1: Josh Allen Extension? A find another corner, b ad beef

1365
01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:11,040
Speaker 1: on the defensive interior, see add one more offensive weapon

1366
01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:14,559
Speaker 1: or something else. Let us know on the tweet sheet

1367
01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:16,679
Speaker 1: at one Bills Live or give us a call. Open

1368
01:10:16,720 --> 01:10:18,720
Speaker 1: lines for you at eight o three oh five fifty

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01:10:18,720 --> 01:10:23,000
Speaker 1: one eighty eight five fifty two five fifty Did you vote?

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01:10:24,160 --> 01:10:27,519
Speaker 1: I did? What do you vote? With the majority? Um?

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01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:30,080
Speaker 1: I knew people were going to go that way anymore,

1372
01:10:30,120 --> 01:10:33,120
Speaker 1: so you like, so I went with my second choice,

1373
01:10:33,240 --> 01:10:37,880
Speaker 1: which would be beef on the defensive interior. Ye wouldn't

1374
01:10:37,880 --> 01:10:40,479
Speaker 1: mind seeing another guy in there for competition. I think

1375
01:10:40,479 --> 01:10:42,120
Speaker 1: you can make an argument for every single one of

1376
01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:44,679
Speaker 1: these though, quite frankly absolutely, I mean, corner is easy.

1377
01:10:44,720 --> 01:10:47,400
Speaker 1: You didn't draft one high. You have Rashad wild Goose

1378
01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:50,679
Speaker 1: that you took in the sixth round. You got five corners.

1379
01:10:50,720 --> 01:10:54,280
Speaker 1: Presumably there'll be other corners on the undrafted free agent

1380
01:10:54,320 --> 01:10:57,719
Speaker 1: list coming into You got five corners on the roster

1381
01:10:57,880 --> 01:11:03,599
Speaker 1: Trdavious tarn Johnson, Levi Wallace, le cam Lewis, oh Dane

1382
01:11:03,680 --> 01:11:06,679
Speaker 1: Jackson and now wild Goose. So you got six. Yeah,

1383
01:11:06,760 --> 01:11:11,400
Speaker 1: and uh, you know that's enough. If they're good, that's enough.

1384
01:11:11,920 --> 01:11:14,240
Speaker 1: But what do you want a competition? Well, they are

1385
01:11:14,240 --> 01:11:17,920
Speaker 1: in competition. Five of them are well, right, So I'm

1386
01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:22,479
Speaker 1: if you're probably keeping at least five, maybe six with

1387
01:11:22,520 --> 01:11:24,920
Speaker 1: all the with all the spread formations that the league

1388
01:11:24,960 --> 01:11:26,720
Speaker 1: plays in this league, and that's a good point. You're

1389
01:11:26,760 --> 01:11:28,360
Speaker 1: gonna have to. You have six guys hanging around the

1390
01:11:28,360 --> 01:11:30,479
Speaker 1: building anyway, that's what I mean, practice squad or whatever.

1391
01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:33,479
Speaker 1: So yeah, you're probably right. Adding beef on the d

1392
01:11:33,560 --> 01:11:36,559
Speaker 1: line to me, Yeah, that's a that's a twenty four

1393
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:39,880
Speaker 1: hour day thing, and you always can do that. Bigger,

1394
01:11:39,920 --> 01:11:41,800
Speaker 1: better guys on the front line make you bigger and

1395
01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:45,479
Speaker 1: better everywhere else. So, um, you could do that as well,

1396
01:11:45,560 --> 01:11:49,240
Speaker 1: and then you know, an offensive weapon. To me, that's

1397
01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:52,960
Speaker 1: a little bit trendy. That's where we're at. That's you

1398
01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:55,040
Speaker 1: want to get on that trend. And we've done that.

1399
01:11:55,120 --> 01:11:59,439
Speaker 1: I mean they you know, I think, uh, Stevenson's gonna

1400
01:11:59,439 --> 01:12:02,880
Speaker 1: help as Stevenson, No the other Yeah, Marcus Marquest, Stevenson's

1401
01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:05,360
Speaker 1: gonna help with that. But they've got guys they haven't

1402
01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:08,280
Speaker 1: tapped into. I cannot wait to see what I see

1403
01:12:08,400 --> 01:12:10,519
Speaker 1: from Isaiah Hodgess. He I don't even know what that

1404
01:12:10,520 --> 01:12:12,479
Speaker 1: guy looks like in the field. I meant to ask

1405
01:12:12,600 --> 01:12:16,000
Speaker 1: Brandon about that, and we ran out of time. But

1406
01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:21,519
Speaker 1: if if if he viewed Isaiah Hodgins almost as a

1407
01:12:21,640 --> 01:12:24,080
Speaker 1: red shirt twenty twenty one draft choice, do you know

1408
01:12:24,080 --> 01:12:25,720
Speaker 1: what I mean? Because absolutely he never got on the

1409
01:12:25,760 --> 01:12:30,599
Speaker 1: field for them, essentially red shirted. He's like an extra

1410
01:12:30,680 --> 01:12:34,000
Speaker 1: bonus at the receiver position this year. Yeah, I think

1411
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:35,880
Speaker 1: about it. I don't know what they see in him.

1412
01:12:35,920 --> 01:12:37,679
Speaker 1: They watched him for a whole year and they practiced

1413
01:12:37,680 --> 01:12:40,120
Speaker 1: with him. We never got to look at him and

1414
01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:42,639
Speaker 1: never saw him on the field in the games, right,

1415
01:12:42,760 --> 01:12:46,360
Speaker 1: so I don't know he was making plays those first

1416
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:48,200
Speaker 1: couple of weeks of training camp, and then the shoulder

1417
01:12:48,280 --> 01:12:50,920
Speaker 1: thing came up, and now the shoulder things from from

1418
01:12:50,920 --> 01:12:54,519
Speaker 1: a while bay it wasn't didn't happen to a point

1419
01:12:54,520 --> 01:12:56,479
Speaker 1: where it had to be addressed, and they got to

1420
01:12:56,479 --> 01:12:59,719
Speaker 1: the point where, okay, well, when Gabe Gabriel Davis started

1421
01:12:59,720 --> 01:13:02,720
Speaker 1: playing like he was. Digs is who he is. M

1422
01:13:02,960 --> 01:13:05,600
Speaker 1: Beasley is who he is, John Brown is who he is.

1423
01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:08,599
Speaker 1: We're not going to need him this year, so let's

1424
01:13:08,600 --> 01:13:10,800
Speaker 1: get let's let's shut him down with a shoulder for

1425
01:13:10,840 --> 01:13:12,880
Speaker 1: this season, red shirt him and bring him back next

1426
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:16,880
Speaker 1: years and maybe he'll help us. Um, it's the right

1427
01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:19,160
Speaker 1: thing to do. But like you and I are sitting

1428
01:13:19,160 --> 01:13:21,640
Speaker 1: here going to wonder how good he is. I think

1429
01:13:22,280 --> 01:13:24,920
Speaker 1: I liked this college tape an awful lot. I was

1430
01:13:24,960 --> 01:13:27,720
Speaker 1: excited when they picked him in the sixth round. UM

1431
01:13:28,840 --> 01:13:31,320
Speaker 1: did a story on him for Buffalo Bills dot com

1432
01:13:31,880 --> 01:13:36,639
Speaker 1: because his dad is UM. James Hodgens, the former NFL

1433
01:13:36,680 --> 01:13:39,639
Speaker 1: fullback who played for the Rams won a Super Bowl

1434
01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:45,000
Speaker 1: with them, and talking to Isaiah, the way he trained

1435
01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:48,920
Speaker 1: him and his brother was so intense on the front

1436
01:13:49,000 --> 01:13:52,600
Speaker 1: lawn that neighbors would be walking by like staring with

1437
01:13:52,640 --> 01:13:54,760
Speaker 1: their mouths hanging open, like what is he doing with

1438
01:13:54,880 --> 01:13:57,120
Speaker 1: his kids over here? This is pretty intense stuff, like

1439
01:13:57,200 --> 01:14:01,759
Speaker 1: what's going on? And and you know, like I said, Steve,

1440
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:04,920
Speaker 1: when we were you know, doing the draft prep and

1441
01:14:05,280 --> 01:14:08,120
Speaker 1: even leading into the draft last Thursday, when we were

1442
01:14:08,160 --> 01:14:11,120
Speaker 1: on the show here and Friday, we were talking about

1443
01:14:12,080 --> 01:14:14,920
Speaker 1: all the corners in this class that had dads who

1444
01:14:14,920 --> 01:14:17,120
Speaker 1: had played in the NFL, and how a lot of

1445
01:14:17,320 --> 01:14:21,439
Speaker 1: NFL scouting and personnel departments put value in that. Stock

1446
01:14:21,520 --> 01:14:24,679
Speaker 1: take stock in that because they know the kid has

1447
01:14:24,720 --> 01:14:28,880
Speaker 1: been around the NFL environment knows provided they're old enough,

1448
01:14:29,240 --> 01:14:32,160
Speaker 1: they get they get an idea of the investment of

1449
01:14:32,280 --> 01:14:35,320
Speaker 1: time and commitment that it takes because they saw their

1450
01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:38,479
Speaker 1: dad go through it, and Isaiah saw his dad go

1451
01:14:38,560 --> 01:14:43,880
Speaker 1: through that. Meanwhile, his brother is at Oregon State. They

1452
01:14:43,880 --> 01:14:46,080
Speaker 1: went to school together, and I think he's a year

1453
01:14:46,160 --> 01:14:47,880
Speaker 1: or two behind Isaiah, So I don't know if he

1454
01:14:48,280 --> 01:14:50,360
Speaker 1: probably be in next year's draft pool. I believe he's

1455
01:14:50,360 --> 01:14:54,200
Speaker 1: a defensive tackle, so him and his brother could not

1456
01:14:54,280 --> 01:14:58,080
Speaker 1: look more different in terms of body type. It's like

1457
01:14:58,160 --> 01:15:01,240
Speaker 1: Popeye and Bluto, you know what I mean. It's crazy

1458
01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:04,960
Speaker 1: to see that, but clearly his younger brother as his

1459
01:15:05,080 --> 01:15:08,040
Speaker 1: dad's body type, you know, knowing he was an NFL fullback,

1460
01:15:08,080 --> 01:15:10,920
Speaker 1: and Isaiah is more like his mom. You know, she's

1461
01:15:11,479 --> 01:15:13,559
Speaker 1: she's tall and slender and he's a tall drink of

1462
01:15:13,560 --> 01:15:15,160
Speaker 1: water as we saw on tape there. I mean he's

1463
01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:18,280
Speaker 1: six two and probably two fifteen to twenty on a

1464
01:15:18,280 --> 01:15:21,760
Speaker 1: good day. So that you know. The so the Twitter pool,

1465
01:15:21,800 --> 01:15:25,080
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you could always add another if you

1466
01:15:25,120 --> 01:15:27,840
Speaker 1: can add another elite weapon, of course you do. But

1467
01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:32,439
Speaker 1: they've got a ton of them, um, and you can

1468
01:15:32,479 --> 01:15:36,120
Speaker 1: only play so many guys at one time. Certainly depth

1469
01:15:36,200 --> 01:15:37,519
Speaker 1: is going to be an issue. But they've got some

1470
01:15:37,640 --> 01:15:43,000
Speaker 1: you know, Kumerow, Duke Williams, Isaiah Hodgins to name just three,

1471
01:15:43,360 --> 01:15:47,840
Speaker 1: along with the draft pick Stevenson and Isaiah McKenzie. Yeah,

1472
01:15:47,880 --> 01:15:51,160
Speaker 1: those guys don't play regular down, none of them. That's

1473
01:15:51,160 --> 01:15:53,640
Speaker 1: not even into your top four yet. So that's that's

1474
01:15:53,680 --> 01:15:56,599
Speaker 1: a pretty good group, I think. So what is next

1475
01:15:56,680 --> 01:15:59,360
Speaker 1: on your bills to do list? Aside from a Josh

1476
01:15:59,400 --> 01:16:02,000
Speaker 1: Allen extent following the draft? Eight oh three oh five

1477
01:16:02,120 --> 01:16:05,240
Speaker 1: fifty one eighty eight five fifty two five fifty open

1478
01:16:05,280 --> 01:16:07,920
Speaker 1: line for you and time to talk with us here

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Speaker 1: on one Bills Live. You can also hit us up

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01:16:09,960 --> 01:16:12,639
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet at one bills Live as well.

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01:16:13,240 --> 01:16:17,000
Speaker 1: And let's take some of those comments now in terms

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01:16:17,040 --> 01:16:19,479
Speaker 1: of what's next on your to do list, and we

1483
01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:21,040
Speaker 1: go to the tweet sheet, which is brought to you

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01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:23,960
Speaker 1: by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving company of

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01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:27,160
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, and Jack says can have to go

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01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:30,400
Speaker 1: with a adding a veteran corner on a modest one

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01:16:30,479 --> 01:16:33,520
Speaker 1: year deal to add competition to our gaggle of youngsters

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01:16:33,560 --> 01:16:37,799
Speaker 1: as a must. It will ensure depth and help bring

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01:16:37,920 --> 01:16:41,920
Speaker 1: the best out of Wallace, Jackson and Wild Goose. I'm

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01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:45,960
Speaker 1: not sure Sherman is ideal. Maybe bring back Norman. He

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01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:48,680
Speaker 1: knows the defense and he's referring to Richard Sherman, who

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01:16:48,720 --> 01:16:50,800
Speaker 1: is still out there in free agency, and I think

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01:16:50,840 --> 01:16:53,720
Speaker 1: he had his list whittled down to four teams, one

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01:16:53,760 --> 01:16:56,240
Speaker 1: of which was not the Bills. And as we heard

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01:16:56,240 --> 01:16:58,280
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean say when he was on with us last hour,

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01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:01,720
Speaker 1: he's shopping for talent. He's just not shopping at the

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01:17:01,760 --> 01:17:06,240
Speaker 1: Mercedes dealership. He's a couple of wrongs below that in

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01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:08,800
Speaker 1: terms of money that he has to spat. Whatever you

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01:17:08,840 --> 01:17:13,760
Speaker 1: think about Richard Sherman at age thirty three and what

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01:17:13,880 --> 01:17:16,680
Speaker 1: he's got left in the tank. You're not asking him

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01:17:16,720 --> 01:17:18,519
Speaker 1: to come in and take one hundred percent of the snaps,

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01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:21,360
Speaker 1: but you are asking him to come in and kind

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01:17:21,360 --> 01:17:25,640
Speaker 1: of be a consultant to a young cornerback room with

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01:17:25,720 --> 01:17:30,120
Speaker 1: Tredavious White and tarn Johnson and Levi Wallace. Even for

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01:17:30,160 --> 01:17:32,880
Speaker 1: that matter, those guys have got some snaps under their belt.

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01:17:33,360 --> 01:17:36,800
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman comes in with a perspective and a personality

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01:17:37,320 --> 01:17:42,120
Speaker 1: that brings experience, and at the highest level that's big.

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01:17:42,479 --> 01:17:45,920
Speaker 1: So even if Richard Sherman comes in and sits on

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01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:49,559
Speaker 1: the bench all year, he's an asset and will help

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01:17:49,960 --> 01:17:53,160
Speaker 1: the entire group play better. The important question to ask there, though,

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01:17:53,240 --> 01:17:56,000
Speaker 1: is what are his expectations? Oh he looking for a

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01:17:56,040 --> 01:17:58,519
Speaker 1: place to still start at age thirty three, I would

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01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:00,479
Speaker 1: tend to think he is. I think I don't think

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01:18:00,479 --> 01:18:02,320
Speaker 1: he wants to be a bench guy. I think that's

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01:18:02,320 --> 01:18:05,439
Speaker 1: why his list is what it is, right, so be

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01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:07,600
Speaker 1: interesting to see where that goes. Although it does not

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01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:11,360
Speaker 1: appear that he is on Buffalo's radar, nor is Buffalo

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01:18:11,400 --> 01:18:15,200
Speaker 1: on Richard Sherman's radar. At least right now, there's other

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01:18:15,280 --> 01:18:18,400
Speaker 1: veteran corners kicking around out there that they could probably

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01:18:18,479 --> 01:18:20,960
Speaker 1: kick the tires on if they feel it's necessary. My

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01:18:21,080 --> 01:18:23,920
Speaker 1: guess is they'll probably get a good assessment as to

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01:18:24,360 --> 01:18:27,120
Speaker 1: the corners they have here in rookie minicamp, whether it's

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01:18:27,439 --> 01:18:30,120
Speaker 1: Wild Goose himself or maybe if they have a couple

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01:18:30,200 --> 01:18:32,760
Speaker 1: undrafted rookie free agents in the position. I'm assuming they

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01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:37,320
Speaker 1: will just for backfilling the roster purposes at the position respectively.

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01:18:37,560 --> 01:18:40,720
Speaker 1: Because you think about this, the Bill's dressed six receivers

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01:18:40,760 --> 01:18:44,280
Speaker 1: every week last season. Well a training camp they had

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01:18:44,280 --> 01:18:46,960
Speaker 1: eleven twelve receivers on the roster, they had double the number.

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01:18:47,360 --> 01:18:50,080
Speaker 1: So right now, is Steve mentioned they have six corners

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01:18:50,080 --> 01:18:53,679
Speaker 1: on the roster, that number's probably going up to nine,

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01:18:53,840 --> 01:18:56,800
Speaker 1: maybe ten, at least double digits. Yeah, I would think,

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01:18:57,040 --> 01:18:59,080
Speaker 1: so there'll be more body here. You got to get

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01:18:59,080 --> 01:19:02,000
Speaker 1: through three pre season games and every practice leading up

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01:19:02,040 --> 01:19:05,200
Speaker 1: to it without losing anybody. Yeah, and that was another

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01:19:05,200 --> 01:19:07,599
Speaker 1: good point that Brandon brought up. You know, we're hoping

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01:19:07,640 --> 01:19:10,680
Speaker 1: that the offseason roster is ninety ninety one for the

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01:19:10,720 --> 01:19:14,200
Speaker 1: Bills because they still have the international exception with Christian Wade.

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01:19:14,840 --> 01:19:17,599
Speaker 1: So if that's the case, yeah, you're looking you're looking

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01:19:17,640 --> 01:19:20,080
Speaker 1: at ten corners you're gonna need on this roster. Yeah,

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01:19:20,120 --> 01:19:22,519
Speaker 1: and they're all going to get an opportunity to compete too,

1541
01:19:22,640 --> 01:19:25,920
Speaker 1: is given the way it's going to be with three

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01:19:25,960 --> 01:19:28,960
Speaker 1: preseason games and then you got the what will happen

1543
01:19:29,040 --> 01:19:31,800
Speaker 1: is they'll have preseason game, preseason game, preseason game, then

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01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:34,799
Speaker 1: a bye week just before the start of the regular season.

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01:19:34,840 --> 01:19:36,800
Speaker 1: That Thursday of that week you usually remember when they

1546
01:19:36,840 --> 01:19:40,479
Speaker 1: had four everybody played their last preseason game on a Thursday,

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01:19:41,160 --> 01:19:44,439
Speaker 1: and then they played their next game, you know, nine

1548
01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:47,759
Speaker 1: days later, ten days later on the Sunday, opening weekend.

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01:19:48,200 --> 01:19:50,720
Speaker 1: Alphae on the tweet sheet says, I think it can

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01:19:50,800 --> 01:19:52,760
Speaker 1: make a case for all three. Honey, sounds like me.

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01:19:53,320 --> 01:19:56,120
Speaker 1: I would like to see Sherman come, but Levi and

1552
01:19:56,200 --> 01:19:58,719
Speaker 1: Dane are still very good football players and are beginning

1553
01:19:58,720 --> 01:20:01,400
Speaker 1: to head into their prime. I love Brandon being as

1554
01:20:01,479 --> 01:20:03,960
Speaker 1: RGM because I really don't stress over these things anymore.

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01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:07,360
Speaker 1: Ha ha, Yeah that's true. Let him stress over him. Well,

1556
01:20:08,160 --> 01:20:10,439
Speaker 1: when you have a guy who's got a track record

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01:20:10,479 --> 01:20:13,800
Speaker 1: of making the right decisions, both fiscally and in terms

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01:20:13,840 --> 01:20:17,160
Speaker 1: of talent. Yeah, you rest a little bit easier because

1559
01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:19,760
Speaker 1: you're not worried that your organization is going to do

1560
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:21,120
Speaker 1: something that makes you want to put a hole in

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01:20:21,160 --> 01:20:25,680
Speaker 1: the wall. Yeah, that's you know who I'm referring to.

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01:20:25,720 --> 01:20:27,960
Speaker 1: I'm referring to that Eagles fan on social media who

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01:20:28,040 --> 01:20:31,000
Speaker 1: after the Eagles took Davante Smith, jumped out of his

1564
01:20:31,080 --> 01:20:33,759
Speaker 1: chair and punched two holes in his wall, in his drywall.

1565
01:20:34,080 --> 01:20:42,240
Speaker 1: It's like brilliant, brilliant, hope it was worth it, Yep Jr.

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01:20:42,280 --> 01:20:45,400
Speaker 1: On the tweet sheets, it'll be d line or tight end.

1567
01:20:45,880 --> 01:20:48,800
Speaker 1: Seeing a lot of cap casualties. And if Bean can

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01:20:48,840 --> 01:20:52,200
Speaker 1: do anything, it's get guys in on prove it deals.

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01:20:52,400 --> 01:20:55,719
Speaker 1: This is proven deal season. Now it's one year proved deals.

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01:20:56,680 --> 01:20:59,479
Speaker 1: The draft, the draft picks are made, Free agency is

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01:20:59,520 --> 01:21:02,240
Speaker 1: all is over except for guys that haven't been picked,

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01:21:02,800 --> 01:21:05,400
Speaker 1: and rosters are filling up. And if you want to play,

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01:21:05,439 --> 01:21:08,120
Speaker 1: you got to get on a roster. And there'll be

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01:21:08,200 --> 01:21:10,439
Speaker 1: guys out there that will don't what am I gonna

1575
01:21:10,520 --> 01:21:12,160
Speaker 1: all Right, I'll take this deal, but not for very long.

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01:21:12,240 --> 01:21:15,160
Speaker 1: Just give me a one year deal, knowing that they

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01:21:15,160 --> 01:21:17,200
Speaker 1: can go out or believing in themselves they can go

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01:21:17,280 --> 01:21:20,439
Speaker 1: out play extremely well and then get a bigger, better,

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01:21:20,520 --> 01:21:23,639
Speaker 1: longer term contract next year when the when the cat

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01:21:23,680 --> 01:21:27,520
Speaker 1: bounces back. It's it's a simple procedure, a simple mindset

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01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:29,479
Speaker 1: that these guys have. We can see, you can see

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01:21:29,479 --> 01:21:31,640
Speaker 1: it a mile away. But the simple fact of the

1583
01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:34,280
Speaker 1: matter is this, most of those guys are out there.

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01:21:34,320 --> 01:21:36,160
Speaker 1: They're out there for a reason. Some of them, like

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01:21:36,280 --> 01:21:40,120
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman, I'll bet he has had some offers that

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01:21:40,160 --> 01:21:43,800
Speaker 1: he has not wanted. I'm sure there are other guys

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01:21:43,840 --> 01:21:45,519
Speaker 1: like that as well. But for some of these guys,

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01:21:45,520 --> 01:21:48,920
Speaker 1: the offers have not been as abundant, and they're starting

1589
01:21:48,960 --> 01:21:52,720
Speaker 1: to panic no one or believing that they may go

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01:21:52,760 --> 01:21:55,679
Speaker 1: through an entire season and not be on a football team,

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01:21:55,720 --> 01:21:58,519
Speaker 1: and then next year the draft comes around again, and

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01:21:58,560 --> 01:22:00,599
Speaker 1: free as He comes around again, and now there they've

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01:22:00,640 --> 01:22:03,600
Speaker 1: been out of football a year. Yeah, that's hard to

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01:22:03,600 --> 01:22:05,560
Speaker 1: get back into it. So these guys are going to

1595
01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:09,240
Speaker 1: start signing whatever deal they can get. And you know,

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01:22:09,280 --> 01:22:12,479
Speaker 1: we saw some of the player movement that Brandon was

1597
01:22:12,520 --> 01:22:14,479
Speaker 1: referring to when he was on the show with us earlier,

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01:22:15,160 --> 01:22:17,439
Speaker 1: where he said, you know now that you're at, you've

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01:22:17,439 --> 01:22:19,240
Speaker 1: come out of the draft, you know what you've got

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01:22:19,479 --> 01:22:21,599
Speaker 1: and you know what you failed to get. And so

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01:22:21,640 --> 01:22:24,000
Speaker 1: that's why you're seeing some of these veteran free agents

1602
01:22:24,040 --> 01:22:27,720
Speaker 1: signing because you know, team needed a corner, didn't get

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01:22:27,760 --> 01:22:31,679
Speaker 1: one in the draft, signed a corner. The Baltimore Ravens

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01:22:31,680 --> 01:22:35,120
Speaker 1: traded Orlando Brown to Kansas City. Now post draft, they

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01:22:35,160 --> 01:22:37,600
Speaker 1: signed Alejandro Villaneueva, who was still out there, to a

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01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:39,960
Speaker 1: two year, fourteen million dollars deal. That's pretty good money

1607
01:22:40,160 --> 01:22:43,640
Speaker 1: this label. You've also got teams releasing starters and I

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01:22:43,640 --> 01:22:46,680
Speaker 1: can't remember the right tackles name that got released by

1609
01:22:46,680 --> 01:22:49,479
Speaker 1: the team, but team and Brandon alluded to it as well.

1610
01:22:49,520 --> 01:22:52,320
Speaker 1: There's gonna be teams that are going to be releasing

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01:22:52,360 --> 01:22:56,400
Speaker 1: some veteran players and restructuring veteran players or both. If

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01:22:56,439 --> 01:22:58,559
Speaker 1: they can't restructure, they got to release because they got

1613
01:22:58,560 --> 01:23:01,519
Speaker 1: to get financially straight with the cap and to sign

1614
01:23:01,560 --> 01:23:05,839
Speaker 1: their rookies and you know, do all the other financial

1615
01:23:05,880 --> 01:23:07,599
Speaker 1: things they've got to get done. So there's gonna be

1616
01:23:07,680 --> 01:23:13,559
Speaker 1: a handful of guys on the street, maybe not at

1617
01:23:13,640 --> 01:23:17,120
Speaker 1: each position, but maybe a handful in each division. Well

1618
01:23:17,800 --> 01:23:19,360
Speaker 1: of guys out there that are gonna be like, wow,

1619
01:23:19,400 --> 01:23:21,680
Speaker 1: that's a quality a guy like the guy starts all

1620
01:23:21,800 --> 01:23:25,160
Speaker 1: year and then he's gone because his numbers just wrong.

1621
01:23:25,600 --> 01:23:27,720
Speaker 1: As they proceed forward, they've got a draft pick. All

1622
01:23:27,760 --> 01:23:29,840
Speaker 1: of a sudden, they they're covered now now they can

1623
01:23:29,840 --> 01:23:32,360
Speaker 1: release him with his big salary and know that this

1624
01:23:32,479 --> 01:23:34,519
Speaker 1: young player can at least give him what he gave them.

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01:23:34,880 --> 01:23:37,240
Speaker 1: We saw that in Dallas, Like here's an example of

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01:23:37,280 --> 01:23:40,320
Speaker 1: what Brandon was referring to. The Dallas Cowboys draft JC

1627
01:23:40,520 --> 01:23:43,360
Speaker 1: Horn tenth overall pick. So they got the you know,

1628
01:23:43,400 --> 01:23:45,120
Speaker 1: they wanted to get a corner at the top of

1629
01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:48,759
Speaker 1: the draft. They got one. And now today they release

1630
01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:51,880
Speaker 1: Savian Smith, who's a back end of the roster corner

1631
01:23:51,920 --> 01:23:54,160
Speaker 1: for them, who was on and off the roster on

1632
01:23:54,200 --> 01:23:56,960
Speaker 1: their practice squad. He was, he's on their offseason roster,

1633
01:23:57,040 --> 01:24:00,000
Speaker 1: signed to a reserve futures contract, and they just released

1634
01:24:00,160 --> 01:24:01,920
Speaker 1: him because it's like, well, we got JC Horn now,

1635
01:24:02,360 --> 01:24:05,200
Speaker 1: so somebody's got to move and so, you know, they

1636
01:24:05,240 --> 01:24:09,120
Speaker 1: move Saban Smith off the roster. But there are still

1637
01:24:09,120 --> 01:24:14,519
Speaker 1: some corners out there, veteran corners, you know, so I

1638
01:24:14,640 --> 01:24:17,720
Speaker 1: think you know, you gotta if you want to if

1639
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:19,200
Speaker 1: you want to have fun with this and try to

1640
01:24:19,240 --> 01:24:24,040
Speaker 1: read the tea leaves. Daryl Worley, who played for the

1641
01:24:24,120 --> 01:24:26,639
Speaker 1: Raiders last year, is still a free agent right now.

1642
01:24:27,040 --> 01:24:29,519
Speaker 1: And you say, well, why are you bringing up his name? Well,

1643
01:24:29,640 --> 01:24:32,960
Speaker 1: he's a corner. He's only twenty six years old, and

1644
01:24:33,200 --> 01:24:35,960
Speaker 1: he was a former draft choice of the Carolina Panthers,

1645
01:24:35,960 --> 01:24:39,160
Speaker 1: former third round pick in the twenty sixteen draft when

1646
01:24:39,160 --> 01:24:41,920
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean was still there, so he knows him intimately. Well,

1647
01:24:42,479 --> 01:24:44,760
Speaker 1: and like I said, he's only twenty six years old

1648
01:24:44,760 --> 01:24:47,160
Speaker 1: and he's a long corner, which is what they like

1649
01:24:47,280 --> 01:24:50,040
Speaker 1: on the outside. So be interesting to see if that

1650
01:24:50,080 --> 01:24:52,880
Speaker 1: guy's phone rings or if he calls the Bills and say, hey,

1651
01:24:52,880 --> 01:24:54,640
Speaker 1: you're still looking for a corner here. The point is

1652
01:24:54,680 --> 01:24:56,760
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some guys with just a little bit

1653
01:24:56,800 --> 01:25:00,400
Speaker 1: of experience and a little bit of upside available and

1654
01:25:00,520 --> 01:25:04,320
Speaker 1: for not very much money. So that's the environment you're

1655
01:25:04,360 --> 01:25:06,960
Speaker 1: living in right now, post draft where these team and

1656
01:25:07,640 --> 01:25:12,839
Speaker 1: post draft with a shrunken cap where teams are still squeezing.

1657
01:25:12,920 --> 01:25:15,040
Speaker 1: We saw it happen in free agency where a lot

1658
01:25:15,080 --> 01:25:16,679
Speaker 1: of really good players had to be let go because

1659
01:25:16,720 --> 01:25:20,760
Speaker 1: of their numbers. And then now post draft, it's the

1660
01:25:20,800 --> 01:25:24,120
Speaker 1: same story here. They're kind of focusing in and there's

1661
01:25:24,160 --> 01:25:26,120
Speaker 1: still a little bit of fat on the rosters that

1662
01:25:26,160 --> 01:25:29,400
Speaker 1: they got to trim up to get right. So we'll

1663
01:25:29,400 --> 01:25:32,000
Speaker 1: have to see where where that goes. But let us

1664
01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:34,960
Speaker 1: know what you think. Eight three five fifty one eighty

1665
01:25:35,080 --> 01:25:38,479
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two, five fifty. Besides the Josh Allen

1666
01:25:38,520 --> 01:25:41,599
Speaker 1: contract extension, what is next on your bills to do list?

1667
01:25:42,160 --> 01:25:46,759
Speaker 1: Post draft? Choices are there for you at one bills

1668
01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:50,400
Speaker 1: live on the tweet sheet and also you can give

1669
01:25:50,439 --> 01:25:52,920
Speaker 1: us a call. Eight oh three five fifty one eighty

1670
01:25:53,000 --> 01:25:55,400
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. What do you think

1671
01:25:55,439 --> 01:26:02,080
Speaker 1: about tight end as suggested by Jr? He said, d

1672
01:26:02,240 --> 01:26:04,880
Speaker 1: line or tight end, seeing a lot of cap casualties

1673
01:26:04,880 --> 01:26:06,600
Speaker 1: and if being can do anything, let's get guys on

1674
01:26:06,640 --> 01:26:09,519
Speaker 1: prove it deals. Tight end market is an interesting one

1675
01:26:09,560 --> 01:26:11,160
Speaker 1: because you got to find a guy that fits what

1676
01:26:11,240 --> 01:26:14,479
Speaker 1: you do. I'll give you an example. The Steelers just

1677
01:26:14,560 --> 01:26:18,400
Speaker 1: released a tight end named Charles Jones on the third

1678
01:26:19,439 --> 01:26:21,160
Speaker 1: A lot of there's a lot, a long list of

1679
01:26:21,160 --> 01:26:25,479
Speaker 1: people guys who have been released. That's that's the kind

1680
01:26:25,479 --> 01:26:28,920
Speaker 1: of guy you're talking about right now. People say well,

1681
01:26:28,920 --> 01:26:30,560
Speaker 1: what about zach Ertz. Was zach Ertz still on the

1682
01:26:30,600 --> 01:26:32,439
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. They thought they were going to trade him,

1683
01:26:32,439 --> 01:26:36,000
Speaker 1: wanted to trade him. He's still there, so he's not available. Yeah,

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01:26:36,040 --> 01:26:39,000
Speaker 1: and not only that, he's expensive because even though he

1685
01:26:39,040 --> 01:26:40,960
Speaker 1: only has one year left on his deal, it's it's

1686
01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:43,400
Speaker 1: eight million dollars. So I don't know if they're in

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Speaker 1: a position to undertake something like that. We have to

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Speaker 1: take a break. But when we come back, Steve and

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01:26:47,960 --> 01:26:53,160
Speaker 1: I will revisit the vaccination incentive being provided by the

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01:26:53,240 --> 01:26:57,479
Speaker 1: Yankees and the Mets going forward here. We didn't get

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01:26:57,520 --> 01:27:00,080
Speaker 1: to that last hour at this time has promised we

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01:27:00,120 --> 01:27:02,240
Speaker 1: will do that when we return here on One Bill's Live,

1693
01:27:02,280 --> 01:27:04,880
Speaker 1: presented by Collid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:18,120
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown stee jasper

1695
01:27:18,240 --> 01:27:21,280
Speaker 1: with you, and we wanted to talk to you guys

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01:27:21,320 --> 01:27:24,200
Speaker 1: about the Mets and the Yankees who are offering an

1697
01:27:24,200 --> 01:27:29,160
Speaker 1: incentive so those who get COVID vaccines at their respective stadiums.

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01:27:30,280 --> 01:27:34,800
Speaker 1: And this is all in connection with Governor Cuomo's announcement

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01:27:35,840 --> 01:27:41,840
Speaker 1: about capacity limits beginning May nineteenth. So first and foremost

1700
01:27:43,280 --> 01:27:46,080
Speaker 1: fans going to Yankees and Mets games will have the

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01:27:46,120 --> 01:27:49,280
Speaker 1: opportunity to get the one shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine

1702
01:27:49,320 --> 01:27:52,680
Speaker 1: on site at the stadium, and if they do, they

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01:27:52,720 --> 01:27:56,320
Speaker 1: will be given tickets to a future game for free.

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01:27:56,920 --> 01:28:01,679
Speaker 1: So we're talking yesterday about New Jersey offering a shot

1705
01:28:01,680 --> 01:28:04,840
Speaker 1: and a beer. You go get vaccinated. You can take

1706
01:28:04,880 --> 01:28:08,479
Speaker 1: your vaccination card to a local brewery in New Jersey

1707
01:28:08,479 --> 01:28:11,240
Speaker 1: and get a free beer out of it. Now we're

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01:28:11,240 --> 01:28:15,400
Speaker 1: offering free tickets to baseball games. So basically, society is here.

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01:28:17,000 --> 01:28:20,120
Speaker 1: They value beer and sports, and we're going to use

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01:28:20,120 --> 01:28:23,559
Speaker 1: those two vehicles to get everybody vaccinated. All I'm going

1711
01:28:23,600 --> 01:28:28,760
Speaker 1: to say is whatever it takes, whatever it takes. So

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01:28:28,840 --> 01:28:34,040
Speaker 1: these incentives come as Cuomo and both teams, the Yankees

1713
01:28:34,080 --> 01:28:38,519
Speaker 1: and the Mets, unveiled new capacity limits for sections of

1714
01:28:38,560 --> 01:28:43,080
Speaker 1: their stadium that will separate vaccinated spectators from those who

1715
01:28:43,080 --> 01:28:47,360
Speaker 1: have yet to be vaccinated. So, beginning May nineteenth, people

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01:28:47,360 --> 01:28:49,759
Speaker 1: who are vaccinated will be allowed to sit in sections

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01:28:49,760 --> 01:28:52,759
Speaker 1: at full capacity at either City Field or Yankee Stadium,

1718
01:28:53,040 --> 01:28:56,439
Speaker 1: but they still have to wear a mask. Other sections

1719
01:28:56,479 --> 01:28:58,240
Speaker 1: will be set aside for those who have yet to

1720
01:28:58,280 --> 01:29:01,559
Speaker 1: get a shot. Those areas will be capped at thirty

1721
01:29:01,640 --> 01:29:06,320
Speaker 1: three percent capacity, as they'll be seated away from the

1722
01:29:06,360 --> 01:29:12,800
Speaker 1: vaccinated groups. So that's where it's at. You can't help

1723
01:29:12,840 --> 01:29:15,240
Speaker 1: but wonder, because this is New York State stuff, the

1724
01:29:15,320 --> 01:29:19,040
Speaker 1: Mets and the Yankees playing Queens and bron and the Bronx, respectively.

1725
01:29:20,720 --> 01:29:23,600
Speaker 1: If this is being passed down here in May for

1726
01:29:23,840 --> 01:29:26,240
Speaker 1: baseball stadiums, you have to be encouraged about what that

1727
01:29:26,320 --> 01:29:31,320
Speaker 1: means for Buffalo and football season. Right, there's just kind

1728
01:29:31,360 --> 01:29:34,200
Speaker 1: of sit and wait until I mean, it's obvious that

1729
01:29:35,000 --> 01:29:40,760
Speaker 1: the crux of the progression of this hinges on incentivizing

1730
01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:42,960
Speaker 1: people to get vaccinated so that they don't have to

1731
01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:48,000
Speaker 1: worry about it. What that'll look like in football season,

1732
01:29:48,760 --> 01:29:52,360
Speaker 1: and it's anybody's guess, yeah, but certainly the league and

1733
01:29:52,640 --> 01:29:55,639
Speaker 1: you know, the process seems to be chugging along towards

1734
01:29:55,720 --> 01:30:00,799
Speaker 1: full capacity, with whether everybody's masked or not, getting everybody

1735
01:30:00,840 --> 01:30:02,960
Speaker 1: in sitting down in the stadium. This could be a

1736
01:30:03,080 --> 01:30:05,160
Speaker 1: hint as to where we could be in the fall.

1737
01:30:05,560 --> 01:30:09,519
Speaker 1: Cuomo also announced that Broadway shows, which have been shuttered

1738
01:30:09,880 --> 01:30:14,000
Speaker 1: since the pandemic became what it became. Cuomo announced that

1739
01:30:14,000 --> 01:30:19,080
Speaker 1: Broadway shows will reopen September fourteenth at one hundred percent

1740
01:30:19,200 --> 01:30:23,559
Speaker 1: capacity with tickets going on sale this week. So that

1741
01:30:23,680 --> 01:30:27,720
Speaker 1: is an indoor venue and it's tight. It's tight in

1742
01:30:27,760 --> 01:30:31,879
Speaker 1: those Broadway theaters, so tight. And if they feel stuffy,

1743
01:30:31,960 --> 01:30:34,840
Speaker 1: and so if they feel good enough, steve about going

1744
01:30:35,160 --> 01:30:40,400
Speaker 1: one hundred percent capacity come mid September for Broadway. I

1745
01:30:40,439 --> 01:30:44,080
Speaker 1: am hopeful that that will translate into one hundred percent

1746
01:30:44,120 --> 01:30:50,640
Speaker 1: capacity for outdoor stadiums like September fourteenth, say stadium here,

1747
01:30:50,840 --> 01:30:53,599
Speaker 1: that's got to be like a labor day, right, So

1748
01:30:53,640 --> 01:30:57,280
Speaker 1: while September fourteenth, that's probably week two of the NFL season,

1749
01:30:58,080 --> 01:31:00,920
Speaker 1: let's see. So in that case, you're probably hoping the

1750
01:31:00,960 --> 01:31:04,120
Speaker 1: Bills are on the road week one, which they could

1751
01:31:04,120 --> 01:31:07,559
Speaker 1: be if some of the n A Tuesday. I believe

1752
01:31:07,680 --> 01:31:10,439
Speaker 1: the labor day is the thirteenth. Oh that's really late.

1753
01:31:10,760 --> 01:31:13,639
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a sixth. Yeah, it's always the first Monday,

1754
01:31:13,680 --> 01:31:16,200
Speaker 1: isn't it? Is it? Okay? Then it's the sixth. Labor

1755
01:31:16,280 --> 01:31:19,160
Speaker 1: day is the sixth of September, so you know eight

1756
01:31:19,240 --> 01:31:22,599
Speaker 1: days after that, the fourteenth is when Broadway opens, and

1757
01:31:22,640 --> 01:31:26,479
Speaker 1: so you can bet the September twelfth will be will

1758
01:31:26,520 --> 01:31:31,720
Speaker 1: be opening day for the NFL actually September ninth, Yeah,

1759
01:31:31,720 --> 01:31:35,679
Speaker 1: the previous Thursday, right, yea, So hopefully that all lines

1760
01:31:35,800 --> 01:31:40,559
Speaker 1: up and is nothing but good news for Bills fans

1761
01:31:40,560 --> 01:31:44,599
Speaker 1: come the fall. But you know, we're trying to follow

1762
01:31:44,640 --> 01:31:50,080
Speaker 1: the breadcrumbs here, right, and hopefully, you know, just we

1763
01:31:50,120 --> 01:31:54,599
Speaker 1: don't go backwards anymore. Let's keep on trucks, just keep

1764
01:31:54,640 --> 01:31:56,519
Speaker 1: on like the path that we're on. Let's keep it

1765
01:31:56,520 --> 01:32:00,760
Speaker 1: at going. So hopefully that is the case. Yeah, it's well,

1766
01:32:00,760 --> 01:32:03,040
Speaker 1: I mean, time keeps on rolling and things have changed

1767
01:32:03,160 --> 01:32:07,160
Speaker 1: dramatically already for a lot of people, but slowly but surely,

1768
01:32:07,240 --> 01:32:10,559
Speaker 1: there's things are starting to open back up. I don't know,

1769
01:32:11,040 --> 01:32:13,439
Speaker 1: is there gonna be a time when there's gonna be

1770
01:32:13,520 --> 01:32:16,760
Speaker 1: like this big announcement, no mask, so we're all we're

1771
01:32:16,760 --> 01:32:18,719
Speaker 1: all done with it. What's that going to be like? Yeah,

1772
01:32:18,840 --> 01:32:20,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's gonna be all one fell swoop.

1773
01:32:20,960 --> 01:32:23,800
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a piecemeal deal, right, you know.

1774
01:32:23,880 --> 01:32:26,479
Speaker 1: I mean I could see I could see a number

1775
01:32:26,479 --> 01:32:30,040
Speaker 1: of possibilities. Because we're seeing that now with the baseball teams.

1776
01:32:30,520 --> 01:32:36,120
Speaker 1: You've got separated areas vaccinated and unvaccinated. That vaccinated, it's

1777
01:32:36,240 --> 01:32:39,360
Speaker 1: fully it's full fill every seat you want still have

1778
01:32:39,439 --> 01:32:42,639
Speaker 1: to wear a mask, right, And now you guys over

1779
01:32:42,720 --> 01:32:46,679
Speaker 1: here not vaccinated, thirty three percent of the seats are available.

1780
01:32:47,000 --> 01:32:50,280
Speaker 1: The rest are gonna be empty social distance wear a mask.

1781
01:32:50,800 --> 01:32:53,960
Speaker 1: So even the vaccinated people over here, probably because they're

1782
01:32:53,960 --> 01:32:56,760
Speaker 1: in the same stadium as non vaccinated people, they want

1783
01:32:56,800 --> 01:33:00,760
Speaker 1: them to still wear masks because even if you're vaccinated,

1784
01:33:00,840 --> 01:33:03,760
Speaker 1: you can still contract the virus and spread it to

1785
01:33:03,800 --> 01:33:07,040
Speaker 1: other people. Yeah, you can still care. So you go

1786
01:33:07,080 --> 01:33:10,280
Speaker 1: into a bathroom at Yankee Stadium. You know you're in

1787
01:33:10,320 --> 01:33:12,880
Speaker 1: your vaccinated area when you're sitting, but when you go

1788
01:33:12,880 --> 01:33:15,960
Speaker 1: to the bathroom, could be an unvaccinated person in there,

1789
01:33:16,000 --> 01:33:18,519
Speaker 1: and if you're not masked up those two but yes,

1790
01:33:18,840 --> 01:33:23,720
Speaker 1: you're right, that's the rub. That's the rub, so to speak. Yeah,

1791
01:33:23,840 --> 01:33:26,840
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be interesting to see where it goes

1792
01:33:26,840 --> 01:33:29,639
Speaker 1: because does it go to full capacity first while still

1793
01:33:29,640 --> 01:33:33,439
Speaker 1: wearing masks? Are there sections like baseball is doing right

1794
01:33:33,479 --> 01:33:35,720
Speaker 1: now or by September hopefully we'll be at a point

1795
01:33:35,720 --> 01:33:37,960
Speaker 1: where that's not even an issue. But you know, because

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01:33:38,000 --> 01:33:40,559
Speaker 1: you're here in the President say he wants seventy percent

1797
01:33:40,600 --> 01:33:43,320
Speaker 1: of all Americans have at least one shot in their

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01:33:43,360 --> 01:33:46,160
Speaker 1: arm by the fourth of July. So yeah, we're getting Yeah,

1799
01:33:46,200 --> 01:33:48,519
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to hurry. I think it'll be close.

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01:33:50,439 --> 01:33:53,719
Speaker 1: One shot vaccinated. That if seventy percent of the people

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01:33:53,760 --> 01:33:57,320
Speaker 1: want it, because yeah, but there's still that that yeah,

1802
01:33:57,520 --> 01:34:00,600
Speaker 1: the population, because they do, they are like anavizing it.

1803
01:34:00,680 --> 01:34:03,080
Speaker 1: So people will do it. So there seems to be

1804
01:34:03,720 --> 01:34:06,680
Speaker 1: a large group of people who are not willing to

1805
01:34:07,080 --> 01:34:10,479
Speaker 1: do it because of the speed. Well for whatever reason,

1806
01:34:10,560 --> 01:34:13,160
Speaker 1: the speed with which it was developed and it's unsafe

1807
01:34:13,280 --> 01:34:16,719
Speaker 1: or whatever horror story you want to believe or whatever.

1808
01:34:16,840 --> 01:34:18,760
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of people that you know, don't

1809
01:34:18,760 --> 01:34:21,840
Speaker 1: want to do it. Yeah, I should mention this. We

1810
01:34:21,880 --> 01:34:25,160
Speaker 1: mentioned Darryl Worley, and I forgot he was on the

1811
01:34:25,200 --> 01:34:27,920
Speaker 1: practice squad here for a game or two last year,

1812
01:34:28,080 --> 01:34:30,320
Speaker 1: never dressed on a game day and suited up and

1813
01:34:30,360 --> 01:34:33,080
Speaker 1: played on the field at least, well, maybe he did

1814
01:34:33,160 --> 01:34:35,479
Speaker 1: get into one game. I think he got into one

1815
01:34:35,560 --> 01:34:37,720
Speaker 1: game last year, or he dressed for a game but

1816
01:34:37,760 --> 01:34:42,640
Speaker 1: didn't get in. Either way, he was barely here. And

1817
01:34:42,680 --> 01:34:46,360
Speaker 1: he actually played more for Dallas and Las Vegas last

1818
01:34:46,439 --> 01:34:48,800
Speaker 1: year and was last with Las Vegas. That's why I

1819
01:34:48,840 --> 01:34:51,240
Speaker 1: said he was with the Raiders, But yes, he was

1820
01:34:51,320 --> 01:34:52,960
Speaker 1: here on the practice squad. I got called up a

1821
01:34:52,960 --> 01:34:55,160
Speaker 1: couple of times dressed for a game. Don't know that

1822
01:34:55,160 --> 01:34:58,840
Speaker 1: he played on the field, So they got a recent

1823
01:34:58,880 --> 01:35:01,479
Speaker 1: look at him. Do they sider him again if they

1824
01:35:01,479 --> 01:35:03,960
Speaker 1: feel they need more cornerback depth. We will have to

1825
01:35:04,000 --> 01:35:06,160
Speaker 1: wait and see. He is still out there on the

1826
01:35:06,200 --> 01:35:09,280
Speaker 1: free agent market. Break time for us. But Steve and

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01:35:09,320 --> 01:35:11,760
Speaker 1: I want to continue the conversation with you. What do

1828
01:35:11,840 --> 01:35:14,360
Speaker 1: you put at the top of the Bills to do

1829
01:35:14,520 --> 01:35:19,840
Speaker 1: list post draft? Now that the roster has its editions

1830
01:35:19,880 --> 01:35:22,839
Speaker 1: from the draft class and presumably from some undrafted free agents,

1831
01:35:23,400 --> 01:35:24,920
Speaker 1: what do you think should be on the top of

1832
01:35:24,960 --> 01:35:26,960
Speaker 1: their to do list choices for you there at one

1833
01:35:27,000 --> 01:35:28,720
Speaker 1: Bill is Live. Let us know on the tweet sheet

1834
01:35:28,760 --> 01:35:30,559
Speaker 1: or give us a call. Eight O three five fifty

1835
01:35:30,600 --> 01:35:33,439
Speaker 1: one eighty eight five fifty two five fifty final hour

1836
01:35:33,479 --> 01:35:34,960
Speaker 1: of the show coming your way next Here on one

1837
01:35:35,000 --> 01:35:52,120
Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

1838
01:35:52,960 --> 01:35:56,240
Speaker 1: At a Steve Tasker who has put all over the

1839
01:35:56,400 --> 01:35:58,400
Speaker 1: fields n unique. He was kind of a dual role

1840
01:35:58,479 --> 01:36:04,840
Speaker 1: player for you. See Steve a blimp. We're not even

1841
01:36:04,880 --> 01:36:09,800
Speaker 1: in the straged fear of normalcy. Well, we are in

1842
01:36:09,880 --> 01:36:12,439
Speaker 1: our number three of a Wednesday edition of One Bills Live.

1843
01:36:12,520 --> 01:36:15,200
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you talking about the Bills

1844
01:36:15,280 --> 01:36:19,160
Speaker 1: post draft to do list with respect to the roster.

1845
01:36:19,280 --> 01:36:22,280
Speaker 1: We're not talking Josh Allen contract extension here. We're talking

1846
01:36:22,360 --> 01:36:25,160
Speaker 1: about tinkering with the roster. As we heard in the

1847
01:36:25,200 --> 01:36:30,000
Speaker 1: first hour the show, Brandon Being told us he's shopping.

1848
01:36:30,360 --> 01:36:34,200
Speaker 1: He's looking to add to the roster, wants to get

1849
01:36:34,200 --> 01:36:37,439
Speaker 1: it up to about eighty four eighty seven players, and

1850
01:36:37,479 --> 01:36:40,680
Speaker 1: so he said, while I am not sure shopping at

1851
01:36:40,680 --> 01:36:44,320
Speaker 1: the Mercedes dealership, I am shopping because he does have

1852
01:36:44,439 --> 01:36:47,920
Speaker 1: limited cap space in which to make these additions to

1853
01:36:47,960 --> 01:36:50,760
Speaker 1: the roster. But he's looking for assets right now. So

1854
01:36:50,800 --> 01:36:52,720
Speaker 1: we want to know what's on your post draft to

1855
01:36:52,800 --> 01:36:55,160
Speaker 1: do list for the Bills. Give us a position, give

1856
01:36:55,240 --> 01:36:58,720
Speaker 1: us a reason why choices are there for you at

1857
01:36:58,760 --> 01:37:02,040
Speaker 1: One Bills Live on the tweet sheet, and we'll go

1858
01:37:02,040 --> 01:37:05,200
Speaker 1: back to the tweet sheet now because this one from Coups.

1859
01:37:05,520 --> 01:37:08,960
Speaker 1: He says, since free agents no longer count toward compics,

1860
01:37:09,320 --> 01:37:12,719
Speaker 1: I could see a veteran cornerback pick up. Richard Sherman,

1861
01:37:12,760 --> 01:37:15,720
Speaker 1: Stephen Nelson or big names Jason mccordy by still be

1862
01:37:15,800 --> 01:37:19,280
Speaker 1: able to play, So he's thinking cornerback all the way.

1863
01:37:19,320 --> 01:37:24,599
Speaker 1: They're not surprising, right, and we've been talking about that

1864
01:37:24,640 --> 01:37:26,479
Speaker 1: and Brandon being able to the first question he had

1865
01:37:26,520 --> 01:37:28,679
Speaker 1: to almost the first question he had to answer after

1866
01:37:28,720 --> 01:37:30,639
Speaker 1: the draft was you know, you waited till the seventh

1867
01:37:30,720 --> 01:37:31,960
Speaker 1: round to pick a corner Are you going to be

1868
01:37:31,960 --> 01:37:37,320
Speaker 1: in the market for that? Because I think, now, think

1869
01:37:37,360 --> 01:37:41,560
Speaker 1: about this, if we signed a guy with the credentials

1870
01:37:41,560 --> 01:37:43,840
Speaker 1: that Levi Wallace has, and even if it was still

1871
01:37:43,960 --> 01:37:47,280
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace, we'd be pretty excited to have a three

1872
01:37:47,320 --> 01:37:50,759
Speaker 1: year starter who started out as a you know, rookie

1873
01:37:50,800 --> 01:37:53,479
Speaker 1: free agent, undrafted rookie free agent, and we're saying, hey,

1874
01:37:53,520 --> 01:37:55,280
Speaker 1: we're signing this guy. He started for three years for

1875
01:37:55,280 --> 01:37:56,840
Speaker 1: the Bills. One of those years they had like the

1876
01:37:56,880 --> 01:38:00,240
Speaker 1: top defense in the league. That kind of thing. People

1877
01:38:00,240 --> 01:38:02,960
Speaker 1: would be pretty excited about it. So I'm I'm not

1878
01:38:03,080 --> 01:38:06,280
Speaker 1: that upset that we're going into camp with a three

1879
01:38:06,360 --> 01:38:08,519
Speaker 1: year starter at the spot who has yet to be

1880
01:38:08,600 --> 01:38:11,720
Speaker 1: unseated by a couple of a couple of attempts by

1881
01:38:11,720 --> 01:38:15,080
Speaker 1: the club and a couple of draft picks that are

1882
01:38:15,080 --> 01:38:17,320
Speaker 1: going to try and compete with him. I'm I'm okay

1883
01:38:17,320 --> 01:38:21,080
Speaker 1: with it. When you look at it like that, it

1884
01:38:21,080 --> 01:38:23,200
Speaker 1: gives you a little bit different perspective. It's not a

1885
01:38:23,720 --> 01:38:27,559
Speaker 1: positional emergency by any stretch of the imagination, because I've

1886
01:38:27,600 --> 01:38:29,360
Speaker 1: got a lot of respect for what Levi Wallace has

1887
01:38:29,360 --> 01:38:31,840
Speaker 1: been able to do in this defense and under this coaching,

1888
01:38:31,960 --> 01:38:34,680
Speaker 1: despite all the challenges, and despite the fact that he's

1889
01:38:34,680 --> 01:38:36,920
Speaker 1: playing opposite a cornerback who never gets thrown at, so

1890
01:38:36,960 --> 01:38:39,040
Speaker 1: he's getting a lot more targets than he normally would.

1891
01:38:39,320 --> 01:38:40,559
Speaker 1: You know, you're going to see a lot of work

1892
01:38:40,640 --> 01:38:43,479
Speaker 1: over there. EJ on the tweet sheet says Josh Allen

1893
01:38:44,040 --> 01:38:47,800
Speaker 1: would benefit from a surehanded tight end that knows where

1894
01:38:47,800 --> 01:38:52,400
Speaker 1: to be when a play breaks down. Art's question mark. Yeah,

1895
01:38:52,520 --> 01:38:54,599
Speaker 1: Earth's is going to come at a hefty price tag,

1896
01:38:55,200 --> 01:38:57,840
Speaker 1: So I don't know if that's something that they're going

1897
01:38:57,920 --> 01:39:01,760
Speaker 1: to be able to entertain, at least at this late

1898
01:39:01,760 --> 01:39:04,240
Speaker 1: state in the game. But hey, you never know. Maybe

1899
01:39:04,280 --> 01:39:07,000
Speaker 1: you can do an extension for him and spread some

1900
01:39:07,040 --> 01:39:08,960
Speaker 1: money out. But I don't know. Maybe I think that

1901
01:39:09,080 --> 01:39:13,719
Speaker 1: Kurtz is only on the table in a theoretical sense.

1902
01:39:13,760 --> 01:39:16,200
Speaker 1: I don't think practically speaking, he's going to be He's

1903
01:39:16,360 --> 01:39:19,320
Speaker 1: an option for the Bills at that number. He's a

1904
01:39:19,320 --> 01:39:22,840
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagle for one thing, and he's gonna be an

1905
01:39:22,840 --> 01:39:27,000
Speaker 1: expensive haul for another, both in his salary and in

1906
01:39:27,040 --> 01:39:28,760
Speaker 1: what you've got to give up to get him. Here's

1907
01:39:28,760 --> 01:39:32,320
Speaker 1: an interesting one from Tiffany. How about Kawan Short to

1908
01:39:32,400 --> 01:39:36,559
Speaker 1: add some depth to the interior defensive line. I think

1909
01:39:36,600 --> 01:39:40,120
Speaker 1: they want more numbers there for sure than what they

1910
01:39:40,160 --> 01:39:43,200
Speaker 1: currently have. Again, we're talking earlier. You know, you go

1911
01:39:43,240 --> 01:39:45,400
Speaker 1: to camp with well, Brandon was saying he wants to

1912
01:39:45,400 --> 01:39:47,920
Speaker 1: get it up to eighty four eighty seven. You don't

1913
01:39:47,960 --> 01:39:50,519
Speaker 1: go into camp with four defensive tackles. He needs seven

1914
01:39:50,640 --> 01:39:54,480
Speaker 1: or eight, maybe nine, just to rotate through and evaluate

1915
01:39:54,520 --> 01:39:57,160
Speaker 1: and get reps and all that stuff. So yeah, they could,

1916
01:39:57,240 --> 01:39:59,240
Speaker 1: they could say to add some bodies in there. The

1917
01:39:59,360 --> 01:40:02,320
Speaker 1: question is I like Kawan Short. I believe has been

1918
01:40:02,320 --> 01:40:04,679
Speaker 1: a first team All Pro at least once in his career,

1919
01:40:05,120 --> 01:40:07,920
Speaker 1: been to a few Pro Bowls as well. Yes, he's

1920
01:40:07,960 --> 01:40:09,800
Speaker 1: long in the tooth. What's he going to command in

1921
01:40:09,880 --> 01:40:12,360
Speaker 1: terms of money? You know what I mean? I don't

1922
01:40:12,360 --> 01:40:15,360
Speaker 1: know what's he want to do. Is he going to

1923
01:40:15,439 --> 01:40:18,160
Speaker 1: come in and play on a prove it deal at

1924
01:40:18,280 --> 01:40:22,680
Speaker 1: his age, wanting another shot at at a bigger contract

1925
01:40:22,800 --> 01:40:24,600
Speaker 1: next year when he's even longer in the tooth. I

1926
01:40:24,640 --> 01:40:26,320
Speaker 1: don't think that's in the cards for him. I think

1927
01:40:26,360 --> 01:40:29,559
Speaker 1: he wants to maximize his worth every year right now,

1928
01:40:30,080 --> 01:40:33,439
Speaker 1: without too much thought about what next year brings from Max.

1929
01:40:33,479 --> 01:40:35,120
Speaker 1: He says, I guess it's a but it feels like

1930
01:40:35,160 --> 01:40:38,040
Speaker 1: grabbing at straws. Levi Wallace is a heavyweight boxer that

1931
01:40:38,080 --> 01:40:40,120
Speaker 1: you just can't knock out. He keeps winning that job,

1932
01:40:40,120 --> 01:40:42,719
Speaker 1: and good for him. This roster is very, very solid

1933
01:40:43,120 --> 01:40:46,280
Speaker 1: from front to back. Yeah, he's right. I can't argue

1934
01:40:46,280 --> 01:40:48,640
Speaker 1: with that. I would like and as I look at

1935
01:40:48,680 --> 01:40:51,639
Speaker 1: this list, you know, defensive line you can always I mean,

1936
01:40:51,680 --> 01:40:55,080
Speaker 1: holding the line of scrimmage is always increasingly important as

1937
01:40:55,120 --> 01:40:58,760
Speaker 1: the season wears on. And you're I think they need

1938
01:40:58,800 --> 01:41:01,799
Speaker 1: some more bodies down inside. Yeah, um, I know, Harrison

1939
01:41:01,840 --> 01:41:08,120
Speaker 1: Phillips is coming back. Um, Oliver Bernon, Butler and Star

1940
01:41:08,439 --> 01:41:11,800
Speaker 1: and Star. Those are the four guys who would you

1941
01:41:11,800 --> 01:41:13,920
Speaker 1: would think are going to be the four guys on

1942
01:41:13,960 --> 01:41:17,759
Speaker 1: the roster. But you know, oh, you're forgetting your man Zimmer.

1943
01:41:18,320 --> 01:41:20,840
Speaker 1: Justin Zimmer will forget your man Zimmer. Zimmer is part

1944
01:41:20,840 --> 01:41:26,760
Speaker 1: of that rotation. Um, Zimmer gives you. Zimmer gives you

1945
01:41:26,800 --> 01:41:30,920
Speaker 1: some versatility on the offensive side of the ball. Refuse

1946
01:41:31,080 --> 01:41:33,760
Speaker 1: not to you. So I Steve is speaking that, I

1947
01:41:33,800 --> 01:41:36,840
Speaker 1: think they got his speed sets him apart. I think

1948
01:41:36,840 --> 01:41:39,320
Speaker 1: you got to get him out there and he put

1949
01:41:39,360 --> 01:41:41,759
Speaker 1: all the big guys out there with Zimmer at fullback

1950
01:41:41,880 --> 01:41:45,559
Speaker 1: and hand it off on short yardage. I'm talking about. Yeah,

1951
01:41:45,600 --> 01:41:48,320
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. Let's go to the phones at eight

1952
01:41:48,320 --> 01:41:51,240
Speaker 1: oh three oh five fifty one, eight five fifty two,

1953
01:41:51,320 --> 01:41:53,840
Speaker 1: five fifty open line for you there, and we begin

1954
01:41:53,920 --> 01:41:55,920
Speaker 1: with Bart and Rochester. Bart, what do you have for us?

1955
01:41:55,920 --> 01:42:00,640
Speaker 1: You're on one Bill's Live yet the base on what

1956
01:42:00,720 --> 01:42:04,160
Speaker 1: you guys are just talking about. I think you could

1957
01:42:04,240 --> 01:42:07,559
Speaker 1: use as many d linemen as you possibly get. Um.

1958
01:42:08,160 --> 01:42:10,280
Speaker 1: You know, and I totally forgot about Zim until you

1959
01:42:10,280 --> 01:42:15,000
Speaker 1: guys mentioned them. But Harrison Phillips great guy. I just

1960
01:42:15,040 --> 01:42:18,240
Speaker 1: don't think he lived up to what they thought they

1961
01:42:18,240 --> 01:42:21,280
Speaker 1: were getting in him. UM. And you can see it

1962
01:42:21,360 --> 01:42:23,880
Speaker 1: in the defense last year where they were kind of

1963
01:42:23,880 --> 01:42:25,840
Speaker 1: getting pushed around in the middle. And I know you're

1964
01:42:25,840 --> 01:42:28,960
Speaker 1: getting start too Lela back. Um, I think that will

1965
01:42:29,000 --> 01:42:35,040
Speaker 1: help Tremaine Edmunds out greatly. Um, But I think you

1966
01:42:35,040 --> 01:42:37,200
Speaker 1: you could get a lot of D linemen. You know,

1967
01:42:37,280 --> 01:42:39,840
Speaker 1: you can never have too many D linemen and real

1968
01:42:39,920 --> 01:42:43,639
Speaker 1: quick on, Levi Wallace and you guys just said this too.

1969
01:42:43,680 --> 01:42:46,360
Speaker 1: And I've been telling people this. You know, from day one.

1970
01:42:46,800 --> 01:42:49,040
Speaker 1: They bring in the free agents, you know, like a

1971
01:42:49,120 --> 01:42:52,000
Speaker 1: Josh Norman or a d. J. Gaines, and they bring

1972
01:42:52,000 --> 01:42:54,599
Speaker 1: these guys in to battle him for that starting position,

1973
01:42:54,840 --> 01:42:57,360
Speaker 1: and he beat them out. Ye. Well, I mean I

1974
01:42:57,439 --> 01:43:00,920
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't get it, you know. And on

1975
01:43:01,040 --> 01:43:04,679
Speaker 1: the second of that is Dane Jackson as a rookie

1976
01:43:04,800 --> 01:43:07,720
Speaker 1: last year. I thought he held up pretty well, you know.

1977
01:43:07,880 --> 01:43:11,080
Speaker 1: So I'm not too worried about cornerback. To be honest

1978
01:43:11,120 --> 01:43:13,599
Speaker 1: with them, I think their D line is where they

1979
01:43:13,640 --> 01:43:15,639
Speaker 1: needed and I think they addressed it in the draft.

1980
01:43:15,920 --> 01:43:17,560
Speaker 1: But they can use some guys to plug up that

1981
01:43:17,640 --> 01:43:20,280
Speaker 1: middle and help out for me and Edmunds and let

1982
01:43:20,360 --> 01:43:22,759
Speaker 1: him get back to his Pro Bowl farm. You know. Yeah,

1983
01:43:22,880 --> 01:43:26,000
Speaker 1: good call, Bart, thanks for it. We appreciate it. I'll

1984
01:43:26,000 --> 01:43:28,240
Speaker 1: say this. I mean, you know, you look at that

1985
01:43:28,439 --> 01:43:33,040
Speaker 1: and yeah, you can make an argument for the defensive interior.

1986
01:43:33,040 --> 01:43:36,040
Speaker 1: I think this is a gigantic year for Harrison Phillips,

1987
01:43:36,720 --> 01:43:38,760
Speaker 1: not only because it's the last year of his rookie deal,

1988
01:43:38,800 --> 01:43:42,120
Speaker 1: but because now he is a full year removed from

1989
01:43:42,120 --> 01:43:44,760
Speaker 1: what amounted to double knee surgery for him last year.

1990
01:43:45,240 --> 01:43:47,960
Speaker 1: And I think last year was get stronger as you

1991
01:43:48,040 --> 01:43:50,439
Speaker 1: go kind of season, and I think that's why he

1992
01:43:50,520 --> 01:43:54,759
Speaker 1: wasn't able to maybe play the way he was known

1993
01:43:55,040 --> 01:43:57,080
Speaker 1: for playing in the year that he did get injured

1994
01:43:57,120 --> 01:44:00,120
Speaker 1: in Week three. He was on this upward trajectory and

1995
01:44:00,160 --> 01:44:03,000
Speaker 1: then it was compromised by the season ending knee injury,

1996
01:44:03,000 --> 01:44:05,040
Speaker 1: and then he spent all last year trying to kind

1997
01:44:05,040 --> 01:44:08,719
Speaker 1: of play himself back to form. I know Leslie Frasier

1998
01:44:08,760 --> 01:44:11,000
Speaker 1: late in the season felt they were seeing flashes of

1999
01:44:11,040 --> 01:44:14,519
Speaker 1: that from Harrison. That's why I'm very interested to see

2000
01:44:15,160 --> 01:44:16,760
Speaker 1: if he's going to be back to the guy that

2001
01:44:17,120 --> 01:44:19,760
Speaker 1: that looked like he had a promising future here. I

2002
01:44:19,800 --> 01:44:21,880
Speaker 1: think a lot of people are kind of reverting back

2003
01:44:21,880 --> 01:44:24,719
Speaker 1: to the because of the strength of the roster. Everywhere,

2004
01:44:25,200 --> 01:44:27,040
Speaker 1: you're dropping back and say, okay, what you know, kind

2005
01:44:27,040 --> 01:44:28,840
Speaker 1: of what's the most important and where do we need

2006
01:44:28,840 --> 01:44:32,120
Speaker 1: to get better and the uncertainty about Star returning to

2007
01:44:32,160 --> 01:44:35,320
Speaker 1: the lineup. Harrison Phillips, you know, he still don't know

2008
01:44:35,360 --> 01:44:37,479
Speaker 1: what you're gonna get with him, Ed Oliver being a

2009
01:44:37,479 --> 01:44:40,280
Speaker 1: different kind of player than rather than a big, heavy

2010
01:44:40,360 --> 01:44:44,200
Speaker 1: dude down inside. Justin Zimmer who you know, kind of

2011
01:44:44,200 --> 01:44:46,200
Speaker 1: fought his way onto the roster last year, and of

2012
01:44:46,240 --> 01:44:48,680
Speaker 1: course Vernon Butler, who helped out last year as well.

2013
01:44:48,720 --> 01:44:53,040
Speaker 1: I think with those guys there's you feel like you

2014
01:44:53,120 --> 01:44:56,000
Speaker 1: need more size down in there. Harrison Phillips, is you know,

2015
01:44:56,200 --> 01:44:58,800
Speaker 1: right at three hundred pounds Stars a little heavier than that,

2016
01:44:58,880 --> 01:45:03,479
Speaker 1: so is Vernon Butler. But you know, you just feel

2017
01:45:03,479 --> 01:45:05,760
Speaker 1: like you need deeper and more bigger bodies because of

2018
01:45:05,760 --> 01:45:08,960
Speaker 1: the importance of the spot more so than the weakness

2019
01:45:08,960 --> 01:45:11,120
Speaker 1: of the roster or anything like that, because the rest

2020
01:45:11,120 --> 01:45:14,160
Speaker 1: of the roster does look good, and you know, the

2021
01:45:14,160 --> 01:45:16,080
Speaker 1: more you talk about it and the more impressed you

2022
01:45:16,120 --> 01:45:18,479
Speaker 1: have to be with Levi Wallace, he's and the cornerback

2023
01:45:18,680 --> 01:45:21,680
Speaker 1: situation has been brought up all all off season by

2024
01:45:21,760 --> 01:45:25,240
Speaker 1: us and everybody else. Brandon Beans still feeling questions about

2025
01:45:25,240 --> 01:45:27,679
Speaker 1: why he didn't draft a corner higher in the draft,

2026
01:45:27,680 --> 01:45:29,439
Speaker 1: But the simple fact of the matter is, and I'll

2027
01:45:29,439 --> 01:45:32,760
Speaker 1: say it again, if the Buffalo Bills were to go

2028
01:45:32,920 --> 01:45:36,639
Speaker 1: out out and sign a player with the exact same

2029
01:45:36,680 --> 01:45:41,160
Speaker 1: credentials as Levi Wallace, everybody would be ecstatic about a

2030
01:45:41,200 --> 01:45:45,240
Speaker 1: three year starter, solid guy that kind of that kind

2031
01:45:45,280 --> 01:45:48,200
Speaker 1: of there would be that kind of excitement about what

2032
01:45:48,240 --> 01:45:51,559
Speaker 1: he's gonna do. You've already got that in Levi Wallace,

2033
01:45:51,760 --> 01:45:53,960
Speaker 1: and a fact, the fact that he had humble beginnings

2034
01:45:53,960 --> 01:45:56,439
Speaker 1: as an undrafted rookie free agent goes out the window

2035
01:45:56,479 --> 01:45:59,439
Speaker 1: for me. He's three years into a career where he's

2036
01:45:59,479 --> 01:46:02,439
Speaker 1: been nothing but a starter since early in his rookie season.

2037
01:46:03,040 --> 01:46:09,280
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm OK. The roster the way it is now,

2038
01:46:09,320 --> 01:46:12,320
Speaker 1: we're all kind of kind of stepped back from it

2039
01:46:12,360 --> 01:46:14,679
Speaker 1: and look and say and it's more like, okay, maybe

2040
01:46:14,680 --> 01:46:17,240
Speaker 1: some defensive linemen. I mean, this is this is a

2041
01:46:17,320 --> 01:46:19,559
Speaker 1: roster that if you take the top fifty three off

2042
01:46:19,560 --> 01:46:22,479
Speaker 1: of it and put them on a team, you're pretty good.

2043
01:46:22,880 --> 01:46:25,080
Speaker 1: Right now, you gotta feel like you're gonna make a

2044
01:46:25,160 --> 01:46:30,800
Speaker 1: run at it. Everything else is just is gravy. Now,

2045
01:46:30,840 --> 01:46:32,559
Speaker 1: there may be some guys on the bottom of this

2046
01:46:32,640 --> 01:46:34,840
Speaker 1: roster outside those fifty three that we already know about

2047
01:46:34,920 --> 01:46:37,599
Speaker 1: that are like, we don't know about yet. The draft

2048
01:46:37,600 --> 01:46:40,880
Speaker 1: picks all of those things. But this is a really

2049
01:46:40,920 --> 01:46:43,599
Speaker 1: good roster going forward. So it's really hard to sit

2050
01:46:43,680 --> 01:46:46,000
Speaker 1: here and say, you know, we're never gonna you know,

2051
01:46:46,120 --> 01:46:48,400
Speaker 1: nobody believes even with this roster that we're like, wow,

2052
01:46:48,439 --> 01:46:51,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna We're gonna stink unless we fix this. There

2053
01:46:51,200 --> 01:46:54,680
Speaker 1: are no glaring weaknesses like that. None, and uh I

2054
01:46:54,800 --> 01:46:58,880
Speaker 1: guess where we find ourselves that there are worse places

2055
01:46:58,920 --> 01:47:01,880
Speaker 1: to be. Yeah, no question about that. Let's go back

2056
01:47:01,920 --> 01:47:03,679
Speaker 1: to the phones at eight h three oh five fifty

2057
01:47:03,760 --> 01:47:06,840
Speaker 1: one fifty two five fifty open line for you there,

2058
01:47:06,840 --> 01:47:09,280
Speaker 1: but we're talking to Jim in Orchard Park. Jim, what

2059
01:47:09,280 --> 01:47:12,040
Speaker 1: do you have for us? You're on one Bill's life. Yeah,

2060
01:47:12,080 --> 01:47:14,800
Speaker 1: that's noon polist and nice talking to yourself. Yeah, thanks

2061
01:47:14,800 --> 01:47:18,519
Speaker 1: for calling. What do you have? Listen. One thing I'd

2062
01:47:18,560 --> 01:47:21,479
Speaker 1: like to see the team do is hire a coach

2063
01:47:22,320 --> 01:47:26,439
Speaker 1: that would teach how to tackle. I get thought said

2064
01:47:26,520 --> 01:47:29,840
Speaker 1: when I watched the guys going down the field with

2065
01:47:29,960 --> 01:47:32,120
Speaker 1: two or three men on him on their shoulders and

2066
01:47:32,120 --> 01:47:36,040
Speaker 1: they drag him another eight ten yards. You know, if

2067
01:47:36,040 --> 01:47:38,320
Speaker 1: you put a rope around the horse's neck, will drag

2068
01:47:38,400 --> 01:47:42,320
Speaker 1: you for two miles. He put it around his legs

2069
01:47:42,479 --> 01:47:46,400
Speaker 1: and hobble him. He's only going to golf foot and

2070
01:47:46,439 --> 01:47:48,600
Speaker 1: I'd like to see something like that. And before I

2071
01:47:48,640 --> 01:47:51,120
Speaker 1: hang up, I want to talk to Steve about something too.

2072
01:47:51,400 --> 01:47:53,880
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Jim, what do you guys talk to me about? Well,

2073
01:47:53,960 --> 01:47:55,840
Speaker 1: about a year and a half ago, you were looking

2074
01:47:55,920 --> 01:48:01,559
Speaker 1: for the best blowny sandwiches in the City'd you ever find? Yeah?

2075
01:48:01,600 --> 01:48:07,120
Speaker 1: We checks you get the best now, I think so? Yeah?

2076
01:48:07,160 --> 01:48:09,519
Speaker 1: All right, pretty good one. All right. I was going

2077
01:48:09,600 --> 01:48:12,320
Speaker 1: to tell you Louise on south Park right right across

2078
01:48:12,320 --> 01:48:15,320
Speaker 1: the street from you. Southwestern? What's the name of it?

2079
01:48:16,720 --> 01:48:19,360
Speaker 1: All right? Thank you? All right, there you go, appreciated,

2080
01:48:19,439 --> 01:48:25,400
Speaker 1: Thank you hip talking talk about it. It's it has

2081
01:48:25,520 --> 01:48:29,240
Speaker 1: changed with the player's safety regulations and what they do now. Guy,

2082
01:48:29,320 --> 01:48:32,160
Speaker 1: And you can't lead with your heading. I mean most

2083
01:48:32,479 --> 01:48:35,439
Speaker 1: I mean you go look at me playing in football

2084
01:48:35,720 --> 01:48:38,760
Speaker 1: twenty whatever, her twenty three, twenty four five years ago.

2085
01:48:39,640 --> 01:48:41,840
Speaker 1: You go watch me play. Most of the tackles I

2086
01:48:41,960 --> 01:48:45,519
Speaker 1: made were illegal, um would be illegal today, would be illegal.

2087
01:48:46,080 --> 01:48:48,559
Speaker 1: And it's a different kind of game now. And I

2088
01:48:48,600 --> 01:48:53,040
Speaker 1: will say this as well. Uh, most teams are of

2089
01:48:53,080 --> 01:48:55,320
Speaker 1: a mind now and you'll see it all the time.

2090
01:48:55,439 --> 01:48:58,000
Speaker 1: Guys will get the guy wrapped up and they'll be

2091
01:48:58,040 --> 01:49:00,880
Speaker 1: giving him yardage. And all the while they're giving him

2092
01:49:00,960 --> 01:49:02,439
Speaker 1: yard is what they're trying to do is get the

2093
01:49:02,439 --> 01:49:06,559
Speaker 1: ball out. That has become such a premium of forced fumbles,

2094
01:49:06,720 --> 01:49:09,599
Speaker 1: pulling the ball away, getting a loose ball out, knocking

2095
01:49:09,600 --> 01:49:13,120
Speaker 1: the ball out, getting a turnover has become much more

2096
01:49:13,240 --> 01:49:16,479
Speaker 1: important than getting a guy on the ground without giving

2097
01:49:16,520 --> 01:49:18,320
Speaker 1: him an extra two or three or five yards or

2098
01:49:18,360 --> 01:49:20,520
Speaker 1: seven yards or whatever you want to say. The analytics

2099
01:49:20,560 --> 01:49:24,519
Speaker 1: speak to that. They that is all about analytics and

2100
01:49:24,600 --> 01:49:26,920
Speaker 1: what coaches want their players to do. Certainly they want

2101
01:49:26,920 --> 01:49:29,360
Speaker 1: those guys to tackle well and sharp and get them

2102
01:49:29,400 --> 01:49:32,880
Speaker 1: on the ground. And the best defenses in the NFL

2103
01:49:32,960 --> 01:49:37,400
Speaker 1: are always the ones that have this characteristic the first

2104
01:49:37,439 --> 01:49:39,920
Speaker 1: defender that gets to the guy with the ball makes

2105
01:49:39,920 --> 01:49:44,560
Speaker 1: the tackle. The best defenses have that quality year in

2106
01:49:44,800 --> 01:49:49,000
Speaker 1: year out, decade after decade, team after team, the best

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Speaker 1: defenses the first guy to get to the ball makes

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Speaker 1: the tackle. Having said that, like I said, you've got

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Speaker 1: a lot of guys and we've all seen it where

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01:49:57,720 --> 01:50:00,799
Speaker 1: they almost seem to be walking down the field spinning

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01:50:00,840 --> 01:50:02,320
Speaker 1: around because one of them is trying to get the

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01:50:02,360 --> 01:50:06,880
Speaker 1: ball away from the other. That is coached, because you'd

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01:50:06,960 --> 01:50:10,080
Speaker 1: rather have the ball than a tackle for loss. Yeah,

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01:50:10,120 --> 01:50:12,439
Speaker 1: and that's why, you know, in the last few years,

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01:50:12,520 --> 01:50:15,280
Speaker 1: and I've talked to Jerry Hughes about this, he says,

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01:50:15,320 --> 01:50:17,599
Speaker 1: I go for the strip before I go for the sack.

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01:50:17,800 --> 01:50:20,320
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get the ball first, and if I

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01:50:20,320 --> 01:50:22,760
Speaker 1: can't get the ball because he's tucked it, now I'm

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01:50:22,760 --> 01:50:24,439
Speaker 1: going for the sack. And I realize that that's a

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01:50:24,479 --> 01:50:27,640
Speaker 1: split second decision. And sometimes that's a realistic approach, and

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01:50:27,720 --> 01:50:30,040
Speaker 1: sometimes it's not. You just go for the sack. But

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01:50:30,200 --> 01:50:33,280
Speaker 1: more often than not, more pass rushers this day in age,

2123
01:50:33,760 --> 01:50:35,679
Speaker 1: they're going for the strip to get the ball out

2124
01:50:35,680 --> 01:50:37,479
Speaker 1: and try to get a turnover. And for fans, that's

2125
01:50:37,479 --> 01:50:40,479
Speaker 1: the frustrating part. It's because in your effort to get

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01:50:40,520 --> 01:50:42,679
Speaker 1: the ball out, you miss a tackle and the guy

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01:50:42,720 --> 01:50:45,599
Speaker 1: goes off and runs off, or a quarterback steps up

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01:50:45,600 --> 01:50:47,920
Speaker 1: in the pocket or rolls out and then completes a

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01:50:48,000 --> 01:50:50,679
Speaker 1: pass because you didn't get a handful of jersey because

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01:50:50,680 --> 01:50:52,679
Speaker 1: you were trying for the strip, you know, And that's

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01:50:52,680 --> 01:50:55,040
Speaker 1: all part of it. But The simple fact of the

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01:50:55,080 --> 01:50:58,080
Speaker 1: matter is particularly in the pocket and for running backs

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01:50:58,120 --> 01:51:01,280
Speaker 1: coming through the middle or whatever. Um, because of the

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01:51:01,320 --> 01:51:03,439
Speaker 1: fact that you can't really come in there and stand

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01:51:03,520 --> 01:51:05,519
Speaker 1: him up, because to do that you got to kind

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01:51:05,520 --> 01:51:09,280
Speaker 1: of lead with your face or your head and it's

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01:51:09,320 --> 01:51:11,760
Speaker 1: a penalty. So instead of doing that, guys come in

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01:51:12,200 --> 01:51:14,880
Speaker 1: try and jump on worries gripping the ball and pry

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01:51:14,920 --> 01:51:17,600
Speaker 1: it out with two hands. Um. That doesn't look like

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01:51:17,600 --> 01:51:21,479
Speaker 1: a really impressive tackle ever, but that's that's kind of

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01:51:21,479 --> 01:51:26,040
Speaker 1: the way the game has gone, and that's why that's

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01:51:26,040 --> 01:51:28,200
Speaker 1: why defenses are good. They they're able to do that,

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01:51:28,320 --> 01:51:30,920
Speaker 1: pry the ball out, yeah, and taking it a step further.

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01:51:31,040 --> 01:51:34,880
Speaker 1: Analytics and a lot of teams run those and take

2145
01:51:35,080 --> 01:51:38,800
Speaker 1: put stock in them, and for good reason. They back

2146
01:51:38,920 --> 01:51:41,640
Speaker 1: up the old adage that you know, you win the

2147
01:51:41,640 --> 01:51:44,479
Speaker 1: turnover battle, you win the game, and so you look

2148
01:51:44,520 --> 01:51:46,800
Speaker 1: for the most opportune times to get the ball out.

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01:51:46,840 --> 01:51:49,800
Speaker 1: It's when the quarterback has has the ball in one hand, right.

2150
01:51:50,200 --> 01:51:52,240
Speaker 1: I mean, that's one of the easiest strips you can make.

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01:51:53,680 --> 01:51:56,200
Speaker 1: That's why those pass rushers are going for the strip

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01:51:56,760 --> 01:52:00,280
Speaker 1: first sack, second, the ball in the quarterbacks hands in

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01:52:00,320 --> 01:52:02,599
Speaker 1: the pockets when it's the most vulnerable, because everybody else

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01:52:02,600 --> 01:52:06,040
Speaker 1: who has the ball is tucking it away and flinching,

2155
01:52:06,520 --> 01:52:09,519
Speaker 1: you know, clinching it when you come near him. Quarterback

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01:52:09,560 --> 01:52:11,200
Speaker 1: doesn't do that in the pocket. That's when the balls

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01:52:11,200 --> 01:52:13,599
Speaker 1: most of the most vulnerable, and you've got four guys

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01:52:13,600 --> 01:52:16,760
Speaker 1: going after one rather than one guy on one. The

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01:52:16,880 --> 01:52:20,240
Speaker 1: ratio is better. So and that's why too. You know,

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01:52:20,320 --> 01:52:22,439
Speaker 1: the second guy in always goes for the ball. It

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01:52:22,600 --> 01:52:25,439
Speaker 1: used to be punch, first guy in, make the tackle,

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01:52:25,520 --> 01:52:27,439
Speaker 1: second guy in, go for the ball. Now it's first

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01:52:27,439 --> 01:52:29,800
Speaker 1: guy in, get the ball, second guy in. You get

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01:52:29,840 --> 01:52:34,840
Speaker 1: the ball too, you know. So the game does look

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01:52:34,960 --> 01:52:37,200
Speaker 1: much much different. And I say this all the time,

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01:52:37,240 --> 01:52:40,160
Speaker 1: and we never really maybe we should try. I should

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01:52:40,160 --> 01:52:41,560
Speaker 1: try and get the guys in that control them to

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01:52:41,600 --> 01:52:44,320
Speaker 1: find some you go back and get game films from

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01:52:44,320 --> 01:52:47,040
Speaker 1: the nineteen sixties and like NFL films when they first

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01:52:47,080 --> 01:52:52,120
Speaker 1: started out, and it is an absolute bar fight in

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01:52:52,200 --> 01:52:59,360
Speaker 1: the trenches. In the pocket, guy's getting clotheslined, head slapped, punched,

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01:52:59,560 --> 01:53:02,840
Speaker 1: spear with their you know, tops of helmets. It's just

2173
01:53:02,960 --> 01:53:07,040
Speaker 1: awful to see helmets getting ripped off, no penalty. It's

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01:53:07,280 --> 01:53:10,639
Speaker 1: it was rough, so the game does look extremely different

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01:53:10,680 --> 01:53:12,960
Speaker 1: than it did in that day and age, and guys,

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01:53:13,080 --> 01:53:15,880
Speaker 1: you know, like Jim who just called in, you can

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01:53:15,880 --> 01:53:18,120
Speaker 1: see it, and you know, and some of the things

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01:53:18,160 --> 01:53:20,680
Speaker 1: that the game, it causes the game to go to.

2179
01:53:20,800 --> 01:53:25,160
Speaker 1: The ripple effects of that are kind of like disgusting

2180
01:53:25,200 --> 01:53:27,920
Speaker 1: to some of the old guys like me. I get it,

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01:53:28,520 --> 01:53:30,840
Speaker 1: I get it. I oh yeah, I do too, But

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01:53:30,880 --> 01:53:33,599
Speaker 1: there are reasons for it, and I you know, I'm

2183
01:53:33,600 --> 01:53:35,799
Speaker 1: not one of those bitter role guys. The game is better, folks,

2184
01:53:35,840 --> 01:53:37,880
Speaker 1: I think, for what if you believe in me or not,

2185
01:53:38,000 --> 01:53:39,400
Speaker 1: or if you agree with me or not, that's fine.

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01:53:39,400 --> 01:53:42,680
Speaker 1: I know not everybody will. The game is better than

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01:53:42,680 --> 01:53:46,479
Speaker 1: it's ever been in my opinion, and I played in

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01:53:46,720 --> 01:53:48,679
Speaker 1: for a really great team and a really great era.

2189
01:53:49,000 --> 01:53:50,880
Speaker 1: But the game as a whole, all the way around,

2190
01:53:50,960 --> 01:53:54,640
Speaker 1: is better than it's ever been. So you gotta and

2191
01:53:54,840 --> 01:53:56,439
Speaker 1: you gotta take the good with the bad. I think,

2192
01:53:57,400 --> 01:53:59,519
Speaker 1: for what is next on your bills to do list?

2193
01:53:59,560 --> 01:54:03,120
Speaker 1: Following the draft, Rick on the tweet sheet says, I

2194
01:54:03,160 --> 01:54:06,559
Speaker 1: honestly think Dane Jackson will show we're good at corner.

2195
01:54:06,960 --> 01:54:09,400
Speaker 1: I picked other because I'm still hoping for a top

2196
01:54:09,439 --> 01:54:11,759
Speaker 1: tier tight end to be on our roster before long.

2197
01:54:12,160 --> 01:54:14,479
Speaker 1: Hoping that zach Ertz is still a possibility. People won't

2198
01:54:14,560 --> 01:54:18,000
Speaker 1: let that go. They want another. Now, if you look

2199
01:54:18,040 --> 01:54:21,120
Speaker 1: at the tight end contingent right now, you're talking Reggie Gilliam,

2200
01:54:21,560 --> 01:54:25,479
Speaker 1: Tommy Sweeney, and then Dawson Knox and Jacob Hollister who

2201
01:54:25,560 --> 01:54:30,439
Speaker 1: just signed in free agency, got four. Conceivably you'll add

2202
01:54:30,479 --> 01:54:33,960
Speaker 1: some more, whether it's undrafted rookies or some free agents.

2203
01:54:35,840 --> 01:54:40,040
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a fenced swinging expedition here.

2204
01:54:40,080 --> 01:54:42,320
Speaker 1: In terms of the kind of tight end they're going

2205
01:54:42,400 --> 01:54:45,000
Speaker 1: to bring in, it's not going to be high end,

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01:54:45,120 --> 01:54:48,120
Speaker 1: right I don't think so. No, it'll be somebody we

2207
01:54:48,160 --> 01:54:52,840
Speaker 1: don't know. Who's that guy. They'll be like, what, who

2208
01:54:52,920 --> 01:54:54,320
Speaker 1: is tight end? Where's he from? Now you have to

2209
01:54:54,360 --> 01:54:57,240
Speaker 1: go google him. Yeah, that's the way it's gonna be.

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01:54:58,840 --> 01:55:00,720
Speaker 1: And I've said this before. We haven't had a chance

2211
01:55:00,720 --> 01:55:02,280
Speaker 1: to really talk about it because we didn't talk about

2212
01:55:02,320 --> 01:55:04,800
Speaker 1: all these other things. I still think Dawson Knox is

2213
01:55:04,840 --> 01:55:08,160
Speaker 1: going to have a vastly improved year this year from

2214
01:55:08,160 --> 01:55:10,960
Speaker 1: where he was a year ago, because last year he

2215
01:55:11,000 --> 01:55:13,760
Speaker 1: had an injury pulled the calf, muscle. He was out

2216
01:55:13,800 --> 01:55:16,480
Speaker 1: for a minute, then he had COVID as well, and

2217
01:55:16,920 --> 01:55:19,160
Speaker 1: when he was healthy, he was catching a touchdown a

2218
01:55:19,160 --> 01:55:23,240
Speaker 1: game in the red zone. He was a force down

2219
01:55:23,240 --> 01:55:25,080
Speaker 1: in the red zone. Now, certainly you'd like to see

2220
01:55:25,160 --> 01:55:28,120
Speaker 1: him do it more consistently, But if you go back,

2221
01:55:28,400 --> 01:55:30,839
Speaker 1: one of the games he really shined in was the

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01:55:30,840 --> 01:55:33,320
Speaker 1: second New England game in Foxboro on Monday Night. He

2223
01:55:33,360 --> 01:55:37,840
Speaker 1: had a couple of about three incredibly crucial catches that

2224
01:55:38,360 --> 01:55:40,080
Speaker 1: really helped this team out. And I think you're going

2225
01:55:40,120 --> 01:55:42,400
Speaker 1: to see more of that this year. That's my hope

2226
01:55:42,440 --> 01:55:43,960
Speaker 1: for him, and I think he can do it, and

2227
01:55:43,960 --> 01:55:45,720
Speaker 1: I think the team's counting on him to do it.

2228
01:55:45,960 --> 01:55:48,040
Speaker 1: If he can stay healthy and stay on the field

2229
01:55:48,240 --> 01:55:52,920
Speaker 1: and get consistent reps without being sidelined, I think that's

2230
01:55:52,920 --> 01:55:54,960
Speaker 1: a guy that's going to surprise some people this year.

2231
01:55:55,120 --> 01:55:58,880
Speaker 1: I still pick him as maybe my sleeper breakout year guy.

2232
01:56:00,120 --> 01:56:02,120
Speaker 1: Go back to the phones and we go to Jeff

2233
01:56:02,200 --> 01:56:04,320
Speaker 1: in Jamestown. Jeff, what do you have for us here

2234
01:56:04,320 --> 01:56:07,800
Speaker 1: on one Bills Live? Yeah, I think hidden Jim for

2235
01:56:07,840 --> 01:56:11,080
Speaker 1: the Bills at the undrafted free agent tight end from

2236
01:56:11,120 --> 01:56:16,680
Speaker 1: Bowling three, Quintin Morris right or fifty he lined up

2237
01:56:17,120 --> 01:56:20,520
Speaker 1: in line and as the why he really good player.

2238
01:56:20,560 --> 01:56:23,520
Speaker 1: If you've seen any of the footage john him, he's

2239
01:56:23,640 --> 01:56:25,840
Speaker 1: I think he can make the team. Yeah, the team

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01:56:25,880 --> 01:56:29,000
Speaker 1: hasn't confirmed any of the undrafted free agent signings that

2241
01:56:29,000 --> 01:56:32,120
Speaker 1: we've seen reports about over the past week here since

2242
01:56:32,120 --> 01:56:36,280
Speaker 1: the draft ended. And the reason for that is because

2243
01:56:36,360 --> 01:56:38,320
Speaker 1: and Jeff, thanks for the call. The reason for that

2244
01:56:39,160 --> 01:56:41,600
Speaker 1: is they have to come in and take physicals and

2245
01:56:41,720 --> 01:56:43,920
Speaker 1: if they don't pass the physical, they're not going to

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01:56:44,000 --> 01:56:47,560
Speaker 1: get to sign a contract. So that's why that's you know,

2247
01:56:47,640 --> 01:56:50,000
Speaker 1: probably not going to be announced until well, heck, I

2248
01:56:50,040 --> 01:56:52,320
Speaker 1: don't know, probably right around the start of rookie camp

2249
01:56:52,440 --> 01:56:54,680
Speaker 1: next week, so it'll be within a week or two,

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01:56:54,800 --> 01:56:58,000
Speaker 1: yeah for sure. But yeah, you know, Quintin Morris is

2251
01:56:58,000 --> 01:57:02,200
Speaker 1: an is an interesting guy. I've seen the reports on him.

2252
01:57:02,440 --> 01:57:05,240
Speaker 1: Has been productive there when he the last full season

2253
01:57:05,320 --> 01:57:07,320
Speaker 1: he played was in twenty nineteen because as you know,

2254
01:57:07,360 --> 01:57:11,000
Speaker 1: the Mid American Conference season was only five or six games,

2255
01:57:11,000 --> 01:57:14,960
Speaker 1: depending on which team you played on. And you know,

2256
01:57:15,000 --> 01:57:18,080
Speaker 1: he had a fifty five catch season in twenty nineteen,

2257
01:57:19,000 --> 01:57:24,040
Speaker 1: and you know he's got some ability, but you're gonna

2258
01:57:24,080 --> 01:57:26,600
Speaker 1: have to I mean I'll be the first to amit.

2259
01:57:26,640 --> 01:57:29,600
Speaker 1: I haven't seen much of him myself, but the stats,

2260
01:57:29,640 --> 01:57:33,000
Speaker 1: you know, show he's productive. I like the fact that

2261
01:57:33,040 --> 01:57:35,640
Speaker 1: he was a former AU basketball player who was nationally

2262
01:57:35,640 --> 01:57:38,720
Speaker 1: recognized in basketball. So yeah, they'll see what he's got.

2263
01:57:40,360 --> 01:57:42,080
Speaker 1: You know, not gonna be an easy roster to make.

2264
01:57:42,120 --> 01:57:44,120
Speaker 1: As we have said, I know that one thing that

2265
01:57:45,320 --> 01:57:49,200
Speaker 1: this organization has come to live out in their culture

2266
01:57:49,280 --> 01:57:50,800
Speaker 1: is that if they're going to sign you, that they

2267
01:57:50,840 --> 01:57:54,000
Speaker 1: think he got a chance. Yeah, and Magie Hilliams a

2268
01:57:54,000 --> 01:57:55,960
Speaker 1: perfect example, and they're gonna give you. They're gonna give

2269
01:57:55,960 --> 01:57:58,080
Speaker 1: you a chance. You're gonna get a legit chance to

2270
01:57:58,120 --> 01:57:59,520
Speaker 1: hang in there and make the team. And if you

2271
01:57:59,520 --> 01:58:03,400
Speaker 1: don't make stakes and you play above your expectations, they

2272
01:58:03,440 --> 01:58:06,120
Speaker 1: will reward you and whatever the way they can, so

2273
01:58:06,560 --> 01:58:10,680
Speaker 1: that means playtime, roster spot, whatever, what happened, practice squad, whatever,

2274
01:58:11,360 --> 01:58:14,800
Speaker 1: But if you continue to play well above expectations or

2275
01:58:15,600 --> 01:58:21,200
Speaker 1: up to expectations and don't make mistakes, they will not

2276
01:58:21,640 --> 01:58:26,280
Speaker 1: abandon you. And that's I think that's becoming evident throughout

2277
01:58:26,320 --> 01:58:29,040
Speaker 1: the league with the reputation to coaching staff, in front office,

2278
01:58:29,800 --> 01:58:31,560
Speaker 1: back to the phones here before we have to go

2279
01:58:31,640 --> 01:58:34,320
Speaker 1: to break and we go to Frank in Woodstock. Frank,

2280
01:58:34,360 --> 01:58:36,000
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's life.

2281
01:58:36,920 --> 01:58:39,880
Speaker 1: A great to talk to you, guys. Longtime Bills fan,

2282
01:58:40,240 --> 01:58:43,520
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, you never got the credit you deserve. You're

2283
01:58:43,520 --> 01:58:46,080
Speaker 1: the best. I've been Bills fan. I'm seventy years old.

2284
01:58:46,120 --> 01:58:48,520
Speaker 1: I've been a long time Bills fan. We got to

2285
01:58:48,560 --> 01:58:52,400
Speaker 1: get Earth's tight end. Gotta get them. Second thing is

2286
01:58:53,200 --> 01:58:55,800
Speaker 1: is something going on with the radio station I live

2287
01:58:55,840 --> 01:58:58,040
Speaker 1: in Woodstock, New York. I used to pull it up

2288
01:58:58,080 --> 01:59:02,040
Speaker 1: all the time and listen. I will call the rising.

2289
01:59:02,120 --> 01:59:04,160
Speaker 1: They said that it's got a block on it now

2290
01:59:04,280 --> 01:59:08,520
Speaker 1: for for this area? Is that possible or because I

2291
01:59:08,600 --> 01:59:12,760
Speaker 1: have the Bills app? And other than that, I just

2292
01:59:12,800 --> 01:59:15,440
Speaker 1: wanted to say again, Steve Gasker, you never got all

2293
01:59:15,480 --> 01:59:19,480
Speaker 1: the credit you deserve. You're the best. Frank. Thanks, that's awesome,

2294
01:59:19,720 --> 01:59:21,880
Speaker 1: appreciate it, and you gotta I gotta be honest with you.

2295
01:59:22,000 --> 01:59:24,400
Speaker 1: We will have if you want to the specifics of

2296
01:59:24,440 --> 01:59:28,040
Speaker 1: how you can watch the show live or listen or

2297
01:59:28,120 --> 01:59:33,000
Speaker 1: listen live all. Yeah, that's that's news to me. The block.

2298
01:59:33,120 --> 01:59:37,480
Speaker 1: But the app has been changed lately. Well it's it's

2299
01:59:37,480 --> 01:59:40,280
Speaker 1: the Odyssey app for WGR. I know that, So if

2300
01:59:40,280 --> 01:59:42,080
Speaker 1: you want to pull the radio station in, that is

2301
01:59:42,120 --> 01:59:44,960
Speaker 1: an option. But if you go to our Twitter handle

2302
01:59:45,400 --> 01:59:47,680
Speaker 1: at one Bill's Live, right at the top, we have

2303
01:59:47,720 --> 01:59:51,800
Speaker 1: a pin tweet that pretty much lists every possible way

2304
01:59:52,080 --> 01:59:55,040
Speaker 1: you could pull the show in on a live basis.

2305
01:59:55,400 --> 01:59:57,839
Speaker 1: There's enough ways to do that that you and Woodstock

2306
01:59:57,920 --> 02:00:00,680
Speaker 1: should certainly be able to get right the show, and

2307
02:00:00,960 --> 02:00:02,800
Speaker 1: even if it is a little bit delayed. The thing

2308
02:00:02,880 --> 02:00:06,200
Speaker 1: is that we put the thing out podcast version, put

2309
02:00:06,200 --> 02:00:09,680
Speaker 1: it in podcast format to rerack it at your leisure

2310
02:00:09,680 --> 02:00:11,720
Speaker 1: if you're busy between the hours of noon and three

2311
02:00:11,760 --> 02:00:14,280
Speaker 1: Eastern time, And of course there's always One Bill's Light

2312
02:00:14,320 --> 02:00:17,720
Speaker 1: as well. You can catch us the condensed version anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Daily Show. I will say this, though, we didn't do

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Speaker 1: then it would have been obsolete in tail hours because

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Speaker 1: of the draft and how fast that moved, and we

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Speaker 1: would have been talking about something that everybody knew about.

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Speaker 1: But we'll have a juicy episode for you this week

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Speaker 1: on One Bill's Light, the condensed and fresh content version

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Speaker 1: of our daily show, One Bills Live. Have to take

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Speaker 1: a break here, but coming up next we'll be joined

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Speaker 1: by Rachel's Grill Director of Operations Brandon Goozda to discuss

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Speaker 1: their partnership with the Bills and to recap the success

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Speaker 1: of the Rachel's Round Up initiative to support Children's Hospital

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Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. That's coming up next here on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bill's

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Speaker 1: radioing Bills Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you final

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Speaker 1: half hour of the show, and want to bring in

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Speaker 1: a guy now who at least well I know, personally

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Speaker 1: helped me get through the draft and the long nights

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Speaker 1: we had here on Thursday and Friday. It's Brandon Guzda,

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Speaker 1: director of operations from Rachel's Mediterranean Grill. Brandon, First, thank

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Speaker 1: you for providing us with the necessary sustenance to get

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Speaker 1: through the draft. Those are long nights for us, and

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Speaker 1: without the Rachels, I don't know we would have got

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Speaker 1: through it. So thanks first of all for that. Hey

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Speaker 1: you doing, I'm doing well? Thank you? Ah well. It

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Speaker 1: was very fortunate to be able to you know, work

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Speaker 1: alongside with you guys and be there for you in

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Speaker 1: those long nights. It was quite quite a draft we had,

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Speaker 1: so I was very excited and we're always glad to

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Speaker 1: stop by the studio for you guys to give you

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Speaker 1: some some Rachel's. Yeah, you guys are always our go

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Speaker 1: to food source and it's much appreciated. You guys have

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Speaker 1: also been doing a roundup campaign that's also that, I

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Speaker 1: mean say, commensurate with what Bill's Mafia does on a

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Speaker 1: charity basis. Something happens and everybody's pitching in and Rachel's

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Speaker 1: no different. Tell us about this program and how it's

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Speaker 1: been going. Yeah, absolutely, So the Rachel's round Up. This

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Speaker 1: is now our third year doing this and you know

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Speaker 1: it's a staple now with our company. We look forward

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Speaker 1: to doing it every year for the women and children

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Speaker 1: of O'shi Children's Hospital. So we picked the month of

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Speaker 1: May during the radiothon for the Kiss Cares for Kids,

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Speaker 1: and the month prior to the event. You know, we

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Speaker 1: ask our consumers and our partners to round their checks

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Speaker 1: up when they stop into any of our Rachel's locations,

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Speaker 1: round your bill up and all proceeds go there for

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Speaker 1: equipment and the needs of the women and children. So

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Speaker 1: we were very fortunate, you know, our consumers gave back,

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Speaker 1: especially still in these times we're facing. So we raised

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Speaker 1: the money and we're going to announce it tomorrow live

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Speaker 1: during the radio than on Kiss ninety eight point five.

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Speaker 1: The total amount that we ended up raising this year awesome. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know, it ran through It ran through the draft, right.

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Speaker 1: It wrapped up on May first. That's when that wrapped up, right, yep, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we wrapped it up May first, and um, we're looking forward,

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Speaker 1: you know, to doing it every year. Like I said,

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Speaker 1: some special to us and something we can do to

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Speaker 1: give backs. We're always looking that's awesome. I know that

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Speaker 1: you guys also have a new location opening up in Rochester.

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Speaker 1: We have Rochester listeners as well as Buffalo listeners on

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Speaker 1: this show, so I don't know if you know exactly

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Speaker 1: where it is, but you guys are expanding out that way. Huh. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we'll be expanding in that market as well as in

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo market as well. We have eighty two fifty

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Speaker 1: Transit Road East Ammer's Clarence coming in Buffalo very soon

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Speaker 1: in the early weeks of June, and then in the

2381
02:04:02,520 --> 02:04:05,280
Speaker 1: next three to six months, will be opening up two

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Speaker 1: locations in Rochester, New York in the Grease and they're

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Speaker 1: around the Quad area. Okay, cool. We'll have our nice

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Speaker 1: well alert our Rochester listeners to that when the time comes.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, that's really cool that they'll be out that

2386
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Speaker 1: way for them. What did you think of the draft, Brandon?

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Speaker 1: I mean, we know you guys are all Bills fans

2388
02:04:23,200 --> 02:04:26,440
Speaker 1: down there, so anything catch your eye in particular that

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Speaker 1: you liked or you know, like a big thumbs up

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Speaker 1: pick that you enjoyed in particular. Absolutely, I mean I

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Speaker 1: give this draft double thumbs up. I trust the process.

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02:04:36,800 --> 02:04:39,600
Speaker 1: I think we have the right place to do it.

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Speaker 1: As they always say, trust the process. You know, they

2394
02:04:42,000 --> 02:04:44,800
Speaker 1: know what they're doing, as you can see the momentum

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02:04:44,800 --> 02:04:47,560
Speaker 1: we've taken in these last few years. So I trust

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Speaker 1: in the process fullheartedly, and I'm just eager for the

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Speaker 1: season to start. As you know, it's it's I look

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Speaker 1: at them as our brothers and sisters, as we look

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Speaker 1: at our team members. Being a sponsor an official partner

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Speaker 1: of the team, we just look at them, you know,

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02:05:02,800 --> 02:05:06,480
Speaker 1: um as as a community with Rachel's and we love

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02:05:06,600 --> 02:05:08,880
Speaker 1: being a part of you know, the organization. I know

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Speaker 1: Rachel's is the official Mediterranean Grill part you know of

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Speaker 1: the partner of the Buffalo Bills UM and I know

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02:05:14,280 --> 02:05:16,120
Speaker 1: you guys, you know game day is a big deal

2406
02:05:16,160 --> 02:05:18,840
Speaker 1: for you guys, how but did you what did what

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02:05:18,920 --> 02:05:20,960
Speaker 1: a game day? What was it like different for you guys?

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02:05:21,000 --> 02:05:22,480
Speaker 1: I know it was different for all of us. Nobody

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02:05:22,560 --> 02:05:24,600
Speaker 1: was in the stadium. You guys weren't here at the stadium,

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02:05:24,640 --> 02:05:27,400
Speaker 1: although I'll admit on the away games we always had

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Speaker 1: Rachel's in the booth. Murph and I know the crew,

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02:05:30,520 --> 02:05:32,840
Speaker 1: But you know, what does that mean to did it?

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02:05:33,000 --> 02:05:35,640
Speaker 1: Did it crush your business a little bit? Not having

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Speaker 1: fans in the stands, not having the stadium game days? Right?

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02:05:39,600 --> 02:05:41,840
Speaker 1: I mean it was a little different, just like it

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02:05:41,880 --> 02:05:44,760
Speaker 1: was a little different for everybody. UM. We're fortunate enough

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Speaker 1: to you know, switch our marketing around UM with the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills as we have a sign in the end

2419
02:05:50,400 --> 02:05:53,080
Speaker 1: zone now right behind the field goal poll, so we

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02:05:53,320 --> 02:05:55,520
Speaker 1: you know, virtually did everything. As you know, all the

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Speaker 1: audience wasn't it in stadium, so they were watching it

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02:05:58,640 --> 02:06:01,680
Speaker 1: on TV. So we ended our marketing a little bit differently.

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02:06:01,800 --> 02:06:04,680
Speaker 1: But you know, we still were fortunate enough to be

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Speaker 1: able to be the team and you know, individually package everything,

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02:06:07,720 --> 02:06:09,640
Speaker 1: and like you said, we are still in with you

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02:06:09,640 --> 02:06:13,400
Speaker 1: guys as well, So just virtually changed a little bit,

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02:06:13,440 --> 02:06:15,920
Speaker 1: but the partnership remained strong, and you know, we signed

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02:06:15,920 --> 02:06:18,720
Speaker 1: a multi year deal with them, So we're looking forward

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Speaker 1: to the future and continued success and partnership alongside with

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Speaker 1: the team, and I'm very eager for the season to

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Speaker 1: start up both ends. So Brandon, just so everybody can

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02:06:29,920 --> 02:06:32,320
Speaker 1: kind of put it on their calendar for tomorrow, do

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02:06:32,360 --> 02:06:34,760
Speaker 1: you know approximately what time that announcement is going to

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02:06:34,800 --> 02:06:37,960
Speaker 1: be made on the results of the Rachel's roundup campaign

2435
02:06:38,080 --> 02:06:40,280
Speaker 1: on kiss? I know it's a sister station in WGR,

2436
02:06:40,400 --> 02:06:42,840
Speaker 1: so if you have a time that we can alert

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02:06:42,840 --> 02:06:46,480
Speaker 1: everybody to tune in let us know. Yeah, absolutely, so

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Speaker 1: twelve thirty five pm we would be on and unveiling

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02:06:50,440 --> 02:06:53,320
Speaker 1: the amount that we ended up raising Paroshi to Om's

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Speaker 1: Hospital tomorrow alongside with me, Joe Corey, the founder and

2441
02:06:59,160 --> 02:07:02,320
Speaker 1: president of JELS, will be live with me as well,

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02:07:02,440 --> 02:07:06,240
Speaker 1: so we are both looking forward to, you know, unveiling

2443
02:07:06,280 --> 02:07:09,320
Speaker 1: this amount to everyone and like I said, just continuing

2444
02:07:09,360 --> 02:07:12,120
Speaker 1: to do this you know when people think of Rachel's

2445
02:07:12,120 --> 02:07:15,040
Speaker 1: and they think of April to May time frame. There.

2446
02:07:15,120 --> 02:07:17,360
Speaker 1: You know, we wanted to correlate with the roundup as

2447
02:07:17,400 --> 02:07:20,760
Speaker 1: we're very passionate about about it and giving back and

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02:07:20,840 --> 02:07:24,000
Speaker 1: to all of our partners. Well certain Brandon, Yeah, it's

2449
02:07:24,000 --> 02:07:27,360
Speaker 1: certainly a great initiative. We're happy that, you know, we're

2450
02:07:27,520 --> 02:07:29,120
Speaker 1: happy to partner up with you and help you get

2451
02:07:29,120 --> 02:07:31,840
Speaker 1: the word out. So we're we're looking forward to a big,

2452
02:07:31,880 --> 02:07:35,280
Speaker 1: fat number for you guys to announce tomorrow. So thanks

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02:07:35,280 --> 02:07:36,920
Speaker 1: for spending some time with us. Brandon, we'll talk to

2454
02:07:36,920 --> 02:07:40,080
Speaker 1: you so here. Thanks Brandon, absolutely have a good one, guys.

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Speaker 1: All right. Brandon, who's the director of operations from Rachel's

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Speaker 1: Mediterranean Grill, we had amount a couple of times because

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02:07:45,360 --> 02:07:48,040
Speaker 1: they do good things for the community and obviously being

2458
02:07:48,080 --> 02:07:49,680
Speaker 1: a partner of the bills, we want to support that.

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02:07:49,800 --> 02:07:52,919
Speaker 1: So we're hoping that the roundup campaign was a wild success.

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02:07:52,960 --> 02:07:57,160
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, the roundup figure that we hear

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02:07:57,200 --> 02:07:59,720
Speaker 1: tomorrow is a fat one that we know is going

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Speaker 1: to Children's Hospital downtown, so that'll be great. It sounds

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02:08:04,440 --> 02:08:06,320
Speaker 1: like a lot of the money, based on what Brandon said,

2464
02:08:06,360 --> 02:08:09,320
Speaker 1: goes to a lot of the hospital equipment that's needed,

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02:08:09,680 --> 02:08:11,840
Speaker 1: you know, whether it's you know, some of the most

2466
02:08:12,120 --> 02:08:15,480
Speaker 1: dire stuff like life support or UM, a lot of

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02:08:15,480 --> 02:08:18,080
Speaker 1: the machinery that they need to kind of keep the

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Speaker 1: thing moving, keep patients, you know, healthy, whether it's dialysis

2469
02:08:23,240 --> 02:08:25,800
Speaker 1: for kidney pete, you know, kids with kidney issues or anything.

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02:08:26,360 --> 02:08:28,280
Speaker 1: M that's where a lot of the money goes, at

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02:08:28,360 --> 02:08:31,200
Speaker 1: least from what Brandon was outlining. So that's great. Look

2472
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Speaker 1: forward to us. It's nice to be a part of it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: look forward to a big number coming. And I'm not

2474
02:08:35,760 --> 02:08:40,440
Speaker 1: lying when I said Thursday night. You know, we've been here,

2475
02:08:40,480 --> 02:08:43,320
Speaker 1: you know, since the morning we did the show, and

2476
02:08:43,360 --> 02:08:47,960
Speaker 1: then I'm getting ready for the draft five o'clock, five thirty.

2477
02:08:48,920 --> 02:08:51,080
Speaker 1: She's getting the rumblies in the tummy. Man, it's like,

2478
02:08:51,200 --> 02:08:53,400
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this stuff's comes rolling in and there.

2479
02:08:53,880 --> 02:08:56,520
Speaker 1: I was like, that is where it's at. It does

2480
02:08:56,640 --> 02:09:00,960
Speaker 1: hit the spot. So I was really happy. We have

2481
02:09:01,080 --> 02:09:03,000
Speaker 1: to take a break here, but when we come back,

2482
02:09:03,040 --> 02:09:05,920
Speaker 1: Steve and I will close things up with what have

2483
02:09:06,360 --> 02:09:09,200
Speaker 1: we learned to Wednesday edition and they were printing the

2484
02:09:09,280 --> 02:09:12,480
Speaker 1: lessons today, especially from Brandon. Being our first hour guest.

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02:09:12,760 --> 02:09:14,600
Speaker 1: We'll be back with all of that when we return

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Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. It's

2487
02:09:16,800 --> 02:09:32,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. What if we learned today's show. It's

2488
02:09:32,880 --> 02:09:36,640
Speaker 1: brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company,

2489
02:09:36,680 --> 02:09:38,520
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. I think the biggest thing we learned

2490
02:09:38,520 --> 02:09:43,160
Speaker 1: Steve is Brandon being is still out shopping for groceries. Yep,

2491
02:09:43,600 --> 02:09:45,880
Speaker 1: got roster. You gotta fill out the roster. And he's

2492
02:09:46,000 --> 02:09:50,280
Speaker 1: you know, he's he admitted his budget's not big, but

2493
02:09:50,560 --> 02:09:52,680
Speaker 1: certainly he's got some spots. And I think I said

2494
02:09:52,680 --> 02:09:54,920
Speaker 1: it during the show. When you signed with this team,

2495
02:09:54,960 --> 02:09:57,880
Speaker 1: they're gonna give you a chance to compete. They don't

2496
02:09:57,920 --> 02:10:00,560
Speaker 1: let good football players go and they and one thing

2497
02:10:00,600 --> 02:10:02,880
Speaker 1: as well, they don't let the contract get in the

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02:10:02,920 --> 02:10:07,400
Speaker 1: way of the decision. So I mean the fact that

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Speaker 1: they've got Levi Wallace still starting after three years over

2500
02:10:10,200 --> 02:10:12,160
Speaker 1: there as an undrafted rookie free agent will tell you

2501
02:10:12,200 --> 02:10:13,720
Speaker 1: that they don't they don't care if you can play

2502
02:10:13,720 --> 02:10:16,920
Speaker 1: your inn the roster. A great culture to have. I

2503
02:10:16,920 --> 02:10:19,760
Speaker 1: think word got out about that as well. Yeah, and

2504
02:10:20,920 --> 02:10:26,280
Speaker 1: rookie Minicamp starts next week. But as Brandon said after

2505
02:10:26,280 --> 02:10:30,480
Speaker 1: the draft, teams are shuffling their roster around a little bit.

2506
02:10:30,800 --> 02:10:34,960
Speaker 1: If they drafted three corners, they're clipping a few corners

2507
02:10:35,000 --> 02:10:37,240
Speaker 1: off the back end of their roster. If they drafted,

2508
02:10:37,680 --> 02:10:42,120
Speaker 1: you know, four defensive tackles, they might clip one or

2509
02:10:42,120 --> 02:10:44,360
Speaker 1: two from the guys they already had on their rosters.

2510
02:10:44,400 --> 02:10:47,120
Speaker 1: So they'll be things falling out of the trees here

2511
02:10:47,160 --> 02:10:49,880
Speaker 1: in the league on respective rosters over the next week

2512
02:10:49,960 --> 02:10:53,480
Speaker 1: or so, and Brandon and his personnel department are keeping

2513
02:10:53,480 --> 02:10:55,480
Speaker 1: their eyes peeled to see if there is a potential

2514
02:10:55,480 --> 02:10:57,600
Speaker 1: opportunity to fortify the roster that and for me, if

2515
02:10:57,600 --> 02:10:59,160
Speaker 1: you can get a guy that has spent a year,

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02:10:59,400 --> 02:11:02,120
Speaker 1: even with another team, but at the NFL level, that's

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02:11:02,120 --> 02:11:05,280
Speaker 1: a plus. I think it's a plus better than a rookie, undrafted,

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02:11:05,320 --> 02:11:07,120
Speaker 1: rookie free agent, a guy who's been on a practice

2519
02:11:07,120 --> 02:11:08,600
Speaker 1: squad or been in the league or had a few

2520
02:11:08,600 --> 02:11:11,200
Speaker 1: snaps in a game. I think those are always better

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Speaker 1: prospects at this point of their lives, even if you know,

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Speaker 1: because they all have upside and the guys that are

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02:11:16,040 --> 02:11:18,560
Speaker 1: on the street now have about the same physical attributes

2524
02:11:18,560 --> 02:11:20,040
Speaker 1: as the guy who've been here for a year, and

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02:11:20,120 --> 02:11:22,040
Speaker 1: I think the guys with the experience are the ones

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Speaker 1: that seem to will acclimate a little bit faster and

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02:11:24,600 --> 02:11:28,000
Speaker 1: a little bit quicker to your system. So it's there

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02:11:28,080 --> 02:11:29,560
Speaker 1: is a little bit of a market out there where

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02:11:29,600 --> 02:11:31,480
Speaker 1: you can pick up some guys that might help you.

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Speaker 1: So there's that, and then we can't wait. Man NFL

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Speaker 1: schedule in a week. In a week at eight o'clock tonight,

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Speaker 1: it'll be one week exactly away. Another tantilizing another primetime show. Well,

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Speaker 1: and I think the reason it's even more tantilizing this

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Speaker 1: time around is because we're kind of anticipating Bills are

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Speaker 1: going to be a big part of the primetime schedule. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean they got four primetime games last year. They'll

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Speaker 1: probably get at least that this year. Yeah, right, maybe

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Speaker 1: even five. Yeah, so yeah, maybe early in the season two. Yep,

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Speaker 1: good chance of that you could get a you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a chance in their home opener could be a

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Speaker 1: Monday night or a Sunday night game. I think there's

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Speaker 1: a really good chance of that, don't you. Well you're

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Speaker 1: not the kickoff game on Thursday. I think there's a

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Speaker 1: really good chance there's Sunday night or a month because

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Speaker 1: that Monday night it's usually a double header. Right, there's

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Speaker 1: two games. I wouldn't mind. I wouldn't care. I wouldn't care.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if they open up

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Speaker 1: on the road as well on a night game. Yeah. Like,

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Speaker 1: but I'll say this too. If they want a home crowd,

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Speaker 1: they want an atmosphere for the broadcast, there's only one place,

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Speaker 1: and that's High Mark. Yeah, and they may want to

2552
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Speaker 1: soak that up, which would take them off of the

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Speaker 1: off of the kickoff game because the Bucks will be

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Speaker 1: at home right week one, you know that's happening here.

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Speaker 1: Bring Bills our schedule to play the Bucks away this year.

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Speaker 1: Bring the Chiefs in here on a Sunday night game

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Speaker 1: to open the week. Oh my gosh. Although I think

2558
02:13:03,640 --> 02:13:06,080
Speaker 1: the Chiefs game is a way, it's a way. It's

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Speaker 1: who would be a home game? We get what Patriots

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02:13:09,080 --> 02:13:12,640
Speaker 1: or someplace to get the Patriots. I can't even remember everybody.

2561
02:13:12,720 --> 02:13:15,400
Speaker 1: I can't either Pittsburgh, New Orleans maybe I don't know.

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02:13:16,160 --> 02:13:20,360
Speaker 1: We played the South there we go away home. Indie

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02:13:20,680 --> 02:13:25,040
Speaker 1: Wild could be Pittsburgh too, or the Washington football team

2564
02:13:25,040 --> 02:13:27,320
Speaker 1: with fits coming back to town. It's just one of

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Speaker 1: his other alumni stops. Yeah, I don't know about the

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Speaker 1: home I don't know if that it would be. It

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Speaker 1: would be probably the Steeler game or the Colt game

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02:13:35,920 --> 02:13:38,280
Speaker 1: to open up the season on us on a primetime

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02:13:38,360 --> 02:13:40,440
Speaker 1: that the neat Steelers would pull in that kind of

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02:13:40,480 --> 02:13:47,360
Speaker 1: eyeballs and in this atmosphere it would be bedlam electric.

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Speaker 1: Another good show. We're gonna wait, but we're gonna make

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Speaker 1: a call like we're gonna predict predict them. Okay, we'll

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Speaker 1: do that. We'll do that sometime. Good show lined up

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Speaker 1: for you tomorrow already. We've got one Boogie Basham coming

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02:13:59,080 --> 02:14:01,080
Speaker 1: your way here on the show tomorrow as well as

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Speaker 1: our Bills reporter Mandy Glab We'll see you then noon

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Speaker 1: to three one Bills Live