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Speaker 1: one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker here in training

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Speaker 1: camp week as the players will report tomorrow. Veteran players

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Speaker 1: will report tomorrow. The rookies have been here for just

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Speaker 1: about a week already, and the players hit the field

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and Stevill, Steve and I'll have a covered

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Speaker 1: wall to wall here on one Bills Live for you,

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Speaker 1: so be sure to keep it here all week long

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Speaker 1: as we let you know who's looking good, who's got

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Speaker 1: their game locked up tight as a drum, Who's you know,

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Speaker 1: performing admirably and putting themselves in good position to win

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Speaker 1: a job. You know, we'll cover all of that for

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Speaker 1: you here on one Bills Live. There is some other

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Speaker 1: NFL news and notes we wanted to pass along before

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Speaker 1: we dive head first into our twitter pool today. One

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Speaker 1: of them comes out of Cincinnati, which Mike Brown, owner

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Speaker 1: of the Bengals, has basically said, Joe Burrow, who is

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Speaker 1: coming off of ACL knee surgery. It was like mid

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Speaker 1: till two thirds of the way through the season last

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Speaker 1: year ACL injury. He will not play in any preseason games.

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Speaker 1: They want the risk to be zero for Joe Burrow,

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Speaker 1: so he will not be playing in any preseason games

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Speaker 1: this summer in advance of the regular season. So the

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Speaker 1: Bengals have decided we are going to reduce the risk

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Speaker 1: to zero and not have the unfortunate happened somebody falls

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Speaker 1: on his leg and he reinjures the knee something like that.

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Speaker 1: They want to get to the regular season with Joe

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Speaker 1: Burrow as their starting quarterbacks. So he is not going

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Speaker 1: to play in any of the three preseason games for

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Speaker 1: the Bengals. What do you think of that, especially after

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Speaker 1: not playing for a year. Yeah, I get it. I

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Speaker 1: don't think he needs it. I mean, I see it's

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Speaker 1: too short after the injury. I think. I mean, just

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Speaker 1: given that extra month of not going live, not risking it, certainly,

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Speaker 1: and from my experience and the you know, the surgeries

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Speaker 1: you come back from an ACL, you know, stereotypically everybody's different,

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Speaker 1: but are stereotypically speaking, most guys say, the knees fine structurally,

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Speaker 1: but it's different. Yeah, so it feels different, but it's

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Speaker 1: you know, you're not any more likely to injure it.

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Speaker 1: Except because of the strength and the fact of your

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Speaker 1: and it takes time for your body to understand that

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Speaker 1: that's the new normal before you live your life never

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Speaker 1: thinking about it, and during that time, that transition is

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Speaker 1: what takes those last month or two of rehabbed where

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Speaker 1: to say, wow, you know what, I can actually play

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Speaker 1: if I work hard enough. And that's so giving him

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Speaker 1: that month off in the preseason, no preseason games, that's

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Speaker 1: just a nod towards he's probably not feeling normal yet,

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Speaker 1: even though physically there's not much wrong with him. The

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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, as Steve mentioned at the top of

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Speaker 1: the show, we're addressing their shareholders at the stadium today

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Speaker 1: GM Brian Gutencoused According to Rob Demofsky We've had on

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Speaker 1: the show longtime Packers beat reporter and now working for

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Speaker 1: ESPN dot Com. Gutencous quoted as saying, we have been

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Speaker 1: working tirelessly with Aaron Rodgers and his representatives to resolve

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Speaker 1: the issues that Rogers is raised, and we are hopeful

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Speaker 1: for a positive resolution, but he did not really answer

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Speaker 1: directly any of the questions about whether Rogers will be

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Speaker 1: have been resolved. So he says they're working on it,

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Speaker 1: but there is no indication and he probably Chris has

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Speaker 1: been made in that regard. So that's where that kind

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Speaker 1: of stands. They did say, however, as well, and I

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Speaker 1: didn't know this, that Gudekunst and Mark Murphy and the

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Speaker 1: head coach whose name escapes me right this minute, Lafleur

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Speaker 1: all traveled out to California or wherever it was and

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Speaker 1: sit sat down with Aaron Rodgers. They all communicated with

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Speaker 1: him in person, went out and visited him, and you know,

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Speaker 1: and how to give and take conversation, and so there's

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Speaker 1: it's not like Aaron has shut the door and just

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Speaker 1: went home. He's mad seemingly made it clear to them

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Speaker 1: what his intentions are and what he wants, and it

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Speaker 1: doesn't his future does not include the Green Bay Packers.

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Speaker 1: How it comes that, you made a good point, Brownie.

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Speaker 1: Today we're talking help. Aaron Rodgers will probably show up

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Speaker 1: at the last minute play the season for the entire

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Speaker 1: season and make it known that this is it for him.

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Speaker 1: There's not going to be another Yeah, maybe I'm out

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Speaker 1: of here, and Aaron Rodgers wants to do it as

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Speaker 1: soon as he can so he has more football with

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Speaker 1: another team left. He'd love to go someplace now, no doubt.

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Speaker 1: But who can really make a deal like that happened

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Speaker 1: at this point, late day, late date and make it

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Speaker 1: worth it for the Packers. Well, anytime a top flight

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks involved, there's always going to be interest, no matter

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Speaker 1: what the date on the calendar says. The question is

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Speaker 1: who would be willing to part with major capital and

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Speaker 1: many of the national reporters are reporting that the Eagles

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. The Dolphins have also been floated out there

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Speaker 1: and then I still don't think you can count out Denver.

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Speaker 1: But are they more interested in Rogers or are they

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Speaker 1: more interested in Watson. They would probably take either one happily,

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Speaker 1: provided the price was right for them, But it's all

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Speaker 1: speculation right now. There's no deficitive clarity on when or

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Speaker 1: those two quarterbacks. Then out in Arizona, there is this

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Speaker 1: all pro pass rusher. Chandler Jones requested a trade from

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Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals at some point this offseason. We don't

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Speaker 1: know exactly when, but ESPN's Jeremy Fowler was reporting this.

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Speaker 1: He said Jones has been unhappy with his contract and

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Speaker 1: his future with the team. The Cardinals don't want to

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Speaker 1: trade him. They do expect him to report to training camp,

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Speaker 1: but it is a situation to watch so much like

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Speaker 1: the Watson situation, where he's showing up to camp but

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Speaker 1: has made it clear I do not want to be here,

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Speaker 1: don't want to put the helmet on, don't want to

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Speaker 1: We wonder if Chandler Jones takes the same approach, reports

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Speaker 1: I'm just here so I don't get fined basically, and

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Speaker 1: then doesn't practice or whatever. Yeah, and it says if

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Speaker 1: Chandler Jones available via trade, it would be a long

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Speaker 1: line at a long list of teams in that line

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Speaker 1: trying to get that guy. Yeah, I mean we should

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Speaker 1: mention there are still some other veteran pass rushers out

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Speaker 1: there on the market where you don't have to give

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Speaker 1: up anything but money. Justin Houston is a pass rusher

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Speaker 1: who's still out there on the free agent market. I

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Speaker 1: think he's a year older than Chandler Jones, who is

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Speaker 1: thirty one. I've got to believe, though, Steve, when when

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals signed J. J. Watt, they did it under

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Speaker 1: the assumption that Chandler Jones would be on the other

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Speaker 1: side of the pass rushing formation. There and Jones and Watt. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's a hell of a tandem, and it's probably one

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Speaker 1: of the biggest reasons why they didn't resign their former

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Speaker 1: first round draft choice at a temple whose name is

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Speaker 1: going to escape me now, because he landed in Carolina

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Speaker 1: as a free agent signing. I gotta look it up, Dank,

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Speaker 1: got it. Sorry, I just kicked me off so much

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Speaker 1: I can't help you. Um, he was an outside linebacker.

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Speaker 1: He was a top fifteen pick. Um, not Simmons. No,

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Speaker 1: that that's two years ago. Year he signed the past, Carol,

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Speaker 1: I gotta find it. I'll find it any in any event, Um,

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Speaker 1: they probably thought they would have Jones and Watt Hassan

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Speaker 1: Reddick is who I'm thinking of. Hassan Reddick. They didn't

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Speaker 1: resign Hassan Reddick because they signed Watton free agency and

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Speaker 1: assume Jones would just be on the other side. Two

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Speaker 1: veteran pass rushers coming off both edges for them, so

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Speaker 1: they didn't resign Hassan Reddick. Now Chandler Jones wants out,

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Speaker 1: so that could get sticky and we'll have to see

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Speaker 1: where that goes going forward. I wonder how long they've

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Speaker 1: known about his discontent with his contract. I mean, did

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Speaker 1: or did they know this was brewing for a while? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean it said Jeremy Fowler said, sometime this offseason

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Speaker 1: he made a trade request. Is not immediately clear, so

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Speaker 1: maybe that will come to light in terms of the

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Speaker 1: when that was first made plain by Chandler Jones and

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Speaker 1: his representatives, because we don't know that is not clear

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Speaker 1: at this point in time. It doesn't sound like it

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Speaker 1: is something that just came up. However, it's only coming

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Speaker 1: to light now as training camps are about to open.

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Speaker 1: So it's a storyline that a reporter if he gets

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Speaker 1: news of that, it's certainly worth reporting because it's like,

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Speaker 1: well as Jones going to come or not because he's

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Speaker 1: apparently been unhappy for how long? We just don't know,

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Speaker 1: so I'm sure we'll know more once Chandler Jones either

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Speaker 1: Break time for Steve and I, But when we come back,

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Speaker 1: we'll get to some of your initial thoughts on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet in terms of what you believe will be

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Speaker 1: the biggest benefit to the Bills in preparation for the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one season. Is it a full offseason program,

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Speaker 1: full training camp. Is it actually getting to play preseason games?

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Speaker 1: You know how much the defense was behind last year

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Speaker 1: without playing real football and pats until I got to

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Speaker 1: the regular season, or is it something else you let

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Speaker 1: us know? Eighth three, five fifty Back in a second

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Speaker 1: here on one Bill's Live presented by Kalata Health. It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. We will get to the tweet sheet

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Speaker 1: in just a minute, But there is an update on

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Speaker 1: the Aaron Rodgers situation NFL Network Scene and Rappaport is

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Speaker 1: reporting that Aaron Rodgers has indicated to people close to

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Speaker 1: him that he does plan to play for Green Bay

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Speaker 1: this season. Sources say that is the expectation. Many factors

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Speaker 1: at play, but with GM Brian Gutencous saying he is

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Speaker 1: quote hopeful for a positive outcome, there is a glimmer

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Speaker 1: of optimism, and that's what I interpreted. You know, far

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Speaker 1: be it from me to be an expert on Instagram hostings,

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Speaker 1: But when Aaron Rodgers and DeVante Adams put the same

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Speaker 1: Instagram post out with the same photo of basically Scottie

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Speaker 1: Pippen and Michael Jordan, you know, knuckle pumping each other.

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Speaker 1: And the most recent memory of those two is the

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Speaker 1: documentary The Last Dance, which chronicled the last season they

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Speaker 1: spent together as a dynasty type team. Everybody, along with myself,

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Speaker 1: began to speculate, well, this is probably them saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: let's just play for twenty twenty one, and then that's

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Speaker 1: probably it. So Tan He'll and Aaron Rodgers will come

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Speaker 1: in and dutifully go through the motions for the preseason.

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Speaker 1: And it's interesting too. Kevin Cole from Pro Football Focus

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Speaker 1: put this out. He said, once it came out that

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers was going to play this season for the Packers,

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Speaker 1: he said, a ps, you're welcome NFL media for giving

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Speaker 1: us giving you something to talk about for three months. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's right, He is right. And the reigning MVP was

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Speaker 1: disgruntled with a team that drafted him and he's played

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Speaker 1: for for sixteen years and won World championship with And

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Speaker 1: I know Andrew Brandt, who actually worked in the Packers

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Speaker 1: front office and who has been on this show several times,

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Speaker 1: has said to us more than once, especially when we

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Speaker 1: were dealing with the new CBA last year and all

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Speaker 1: of that stuff. He says this a lot, and he's

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Speaker 1: probably not the only person that says this, but he

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Speaker 1: has said oftentimes deadlines is what creates movement and most

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Speaker 1: usually progress. And here we are on the cusp of

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Speaker 1: even if it's at a glacial like pace. Right now,

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Speaker 1: there is some thought that there is some kind of

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Speaker 1: movement going on here because it wasn't long ago that

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers was adamantly against even wearing that uniform again. Right,

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Speaker 1: So there, but you forget I mean these And here's

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Speaker 1: the interesting part that has come about in this generation

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00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,839
Speaker 1: of players that has made be a little different than

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Speaker 1: former generations of players because of the open nature of

651
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 1: free agency and the fact that players can cross talk

652
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 1: across the aisle, you know, across the sidelines from each other.

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Speaker 1: You know, these players have the same agents, they have,

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Speaker 1: the same marketing people they have you know, they they're

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00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:19,839
Speaker 1: friends basically, and they have, more so than at any

656
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Speaker 1: other time in history, confidence that there's going to be

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Speaker 1: a market for their services even if they raise a stink.

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Speaker 1: You know, if they don't like what's going on with

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Speaker 1: their club, and they can be patient enough, they can

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Speaker 1: hit free agency and hit a home run that will

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Speaker 1: make it financially worth whatever hardships they had to do

662
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,040
Speaker 1: to that. Aaron Rodgers knows that as well as anybody,

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Speaker 1: and it's been played out, like I said, for other

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Speaker 1: players around the league in the same position. So more

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00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 1: so than any of the time. The players are starting

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Speaker 1: to flex, and I we had this conversation earlier in

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Speaker 1: the offseason as well. It'll start out like this. It'll

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Speaker 1: be quarterbacks where they kind of flex and then you know,

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Speaker 1: Chandler Jones is actually trying to do it. Now. You know,

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Speaker 1: some of the elite players in the NFL, the one

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Speaker 1: percenters in a league full of guys that are one percenters. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they're going to be start flexing and slowly but surely,

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Speaker 1: over the passage of time, and each generation of new

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Speaker 1: player comes in, it'll be quarterbacks, then it'll be the

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Speaker 1: pass rushers, then it will be the left tackles, then

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Speaker 1: it'll be corners, you know, and it'll be you know,

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00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,440
Speaker 1: those guys will flex and they'll start to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: here's what I want to play here, here, here, I

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00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 1: want to I'm not signing that deal unless it's a

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Speaker 1: one year deal, not a five year deal. So that'll happen.

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Speaker 1: And this is I think this is the you know,

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Speaker 1: the embryonic stage of that change. I do find it

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Speaker 1: interesting that Rogers has chosen to back channel this almost

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Speaker 1: completely from the word go. He has rarely said anything

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Speaker 1: publicly first person. It's all been back channels and it's

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Speaker 1: only continuing now. I mean Ian Rappaport, Aaron Rodgers is

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00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:58,960
Speaker 1: indicated to people close to him that he does plan

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Speaker 1: to play for Green Bay this season. Sources say like

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Speaker 1: that is classic back channeling, and then the Packers have

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Speaker 1: wisely kept the peace. I mean Mark Murphy did it

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Speaker 1: again today when he was asked about Aaron Rodgers. He said,

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Speaker 1: we want him back. We're committed to him for twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one and beyond. He's our leader. We're looking forward

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Speaker 1: to winning another Super Bowl. I mean, that's basically the

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Speaker 1: best way possible for a guy who's got his fingers

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Speaker 1: and toes crossed to keep the fan base calm. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: So here's so they don't riot and turn on Aaron Rodgers. Now,

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Speaker 1: the cynical guys in the media that you know, the

699
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Speaker 1: guys who cover the stuff and take every look at

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Speaker 1: everything as if it was a dead at a dead lie,

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Speaker 1: you know, dead ineeye lie. They're all saying, oh that

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Speaker 1: this is just Aaron Rodgers wanting attention. It's you know,

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00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,880
Speaker 1: this was drama. This says we all knew this was

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Speaker 1: going to happen. I think it's more than that he

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Speaker 1: turned down a deal, that's true. That makes it more

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Speaker 1: than that he was going to turn He turned down

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Speaker 1: a deal to be the highest paid player in a

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Speaker 1: league where that means something. That's I mean, that makes

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Speaker 1: this more than just Aaron Rodgers wanting attention. It makes

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Speaker 1: it more than him just flexing. This makes it about

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Speaker 1: him after this year, not being a part of the

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Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers going forward and it's another top flight quarterback,

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Speaker 1: hall of fame quarterback who at the quite twilight of

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Speaker 1: his career, wants to see something. He wants to look

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Speaker 1: at a different face as a head coach, wants to

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Speaker 1: look at a different logo on his helmet, wants to

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Speaker 1: see himself in a different jersey. They want to see

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Speaker 1: They want to get out and see what it's like

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Speaker 1: to play on another team. And so I don't you

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Speaker 1: can say what you want about Aaron Rodgers coming back

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Speaker 1: to Green Bay. It was gonna be hard for him

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Speaker 1: out of them because it came out of the blue.

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Speaker 1: He's an MVP last year, they were that close to

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Speaker 1: get into the Super Bowl and having a chance to

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Speaker 1: win it. And why you know, that's all honky dorry

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00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,280
Speaker 1: for the players on the planet. And you can argue

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00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 1: that some less than ideal coaching may have cost them

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Speaker 1: an opportunity in the Super bwl kicking the field goal

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Speaker 1: in the right NFC title game. So why so, I

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Speaker 1: don't think this was about Aaron Rodgers being board with

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Speaker 1: the offseason, wants some attention and liking the attention and

732
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 1: being one of those guys and the Jeopardy thing and

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Speaker 1: all that. I think the guys, listen, if I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: play this game from now on, I've made I've made

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Speaker 1: two piles of money. I'm gonna do it on my

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Speaker 1: own terms and play where I want, when I want.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it how I want. And this is

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Speaker 1: he started laying groundwork for that. And as hard as

739
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Speaker 1: it will be to get out of that contract in

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Speaker 1: Green Bay, but this does lay that groundwork for this

741
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Speaker 1: next offseason. We'll just wait and see. At this point,

742
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 1: will it sabotage this season has the potential too if it,

743
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Speaker 1: because I'm telling you right now, Aaron Rodgers might come back,

744
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: he might be preparing to play and everything, but this

745
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 1: guy's on a hair trigger. All that's gonna take is

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Speaker 1: somebody saying the wrong thing. I don't know, you know

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Speaker 1: what I mean, Yeah, I mean, like who depends on

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Speaker 1: who it is. His teammates, Yes, his teammates, the front office.

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Speaker 1: Front office says, management says the wrong thing. All bets

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Speaker 1: are off. I don't know if I don't know if

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00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:31,719
Speaker 1: he's come on, man, you're making him out like it,

752
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,520
Speaker 1: you know, like he's a diva. I don't think he's

753
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:38,880
Speaker 1: got a little diva at the beginning you know what,

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00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:41,320
Speaker 1: I don't think he's a diva. I think he's an assassin.

755
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,239
Speaker 1: He does not a silent assass He does not let

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00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:48,359
Speaker 1: emotion get in the way of anything, and if he can,

757
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 1: he'll ruthlessly take your life. And that means Gudacunst, Mark Murphy,

758
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: he does not care. I am not to be trifled with.

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00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:01,759
Speaker 1: He is an execution and I don't think he's a

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Speaker 1: diva in any way, shape or form. I think he's cold,

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00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:07,240
Speaker 1: hard and calculated and he's got a plan. Well yeah,

762
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 1: but the only thing is he doesn't hold all the

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Speaker 1: cards in that plan, and that's why he's gonna probably

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00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,399
Speaker 1: have to come crawling back to the team and play

765
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Speaker 1: this year. That's probably what's gonna I hardly think coming

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Speaker 1: back as the reigning MVP is crawling back. Well, I

767
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 1: think we can agree he doesn't really want to play there.

768
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Speaker 1: Those that may be, but that's why Guda Kunst and

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Speaker 1: Mark Murphy are going to be there shining his shoes

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Speaker 1: when he gets there. Well, right, but he's still playing

771
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Speaker 1: in a place where he clearly doesn't want to be

772
00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:38,040
Speaker 1: right now, Yes, but it does make for a little

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00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 1: different atmosphere when the entire with the top guys at

774
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: the organization are like vacants. You're like not to be scenes.

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Speaker 1: Get out of the way, stay out of the locker room.

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00:44:48,239 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 1: Don't talk to my teammates. Yeah, if you do, it's

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00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:53,320
Speaker 1: gonna be in the media and we're gonna have a headache.

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Speaker 1: I mean that is Yeah. I don't think he's a diva,

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00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:59,279
Speaker 1: like his feelings are hurt and he's gonna come crawling

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00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:00,839
Speaker 1: back to this team. I I think he's coming back

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00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 1: and he's carrying a stick with a nail stuck through

782
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:10,600
Speaker 1: the other end. All right, we'll see. I'm telling you, man,

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00:45:10,640 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 1: that could see that guy is cold and calculated. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: in my opinion, I could see it. I could see it.

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00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: Maybe it's just me, maybe because I just don't think

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00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 1: like that. He doesn't hold all the cards, which is

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Speaker 1: what has him so rankled in the first place. I

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00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:27,319
Speaker 1: think he took some of the cards out of their

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Speaker 1: hand this offseason. Well, he as much as he could, right,

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00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:32,760
Speaker 1: but he still doesn't have all of them. He shuffled

791
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 1: the deck this offsea, he shuffled the deck, but he

792
00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: still is not holding all the cards. And that's why

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00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: he's in this situation. He's in because if he did

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00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: hold all the cards, he wouldn't even be going thinking

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00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:43,440
Speaker 1: about going back to Green Bay. But he's not in

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Speaker 1: that position. But you know what he did, and if

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00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 1: we're using this analogy, he forced I know we're splitting hairs.

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Speaker 1: He forced the packers to show their cards. Yes, and

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Speaker 1: maybe that was the best he could do in this situation,

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Speaker 1: and he did it. Break time for us. When Steve

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Speaker 1: and I come back, I promise we'll get to the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet as we are asking you at eight oh

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

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Speaker 1: five fifty what will benefit the Bills the most going

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Speaker 1: into the twenty twenty one season that they really didn't

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Speaker 1: have at their disposal in the twenty twenty off season

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Speaker 1: in the throes of the pandemic. We understand the COVID

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Speaker 1: protocols are still in place for the unvaccinated people. Where

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Speaker 1: there was a full off season, there's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: training camp that actually has padded practices, new personnel on

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Speaker 1: the roster, preseason games will be played. What will benefit

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Speaker 1: the Bills the most as they get ready for a

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Speaker 1: highly anticipated twenty twenty one campaign. You can let us

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Speaker 1: Here on one Bills Live, presented by collid to Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. At a Steve Tasker who has

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Speaker 1: been all over the field. Kind of unique. He was

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Speaker 1: kind of a dual role player for you. Stave, Steve

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Speaker 1: a blimp. We're not even in the strated fere of normalcy.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to our number two Monday edition at one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Here in training camp week, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker. Court

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Speaker 1: day is tomorrow for veterans. First practice on the field

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Speaker 1: is Wednesday. We'll have wall to wall coverage not only

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Speaker 1: here on one Bills Live, but also on Buffalo bills

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Speaker 1: dot com for all your training camp information needs. Twitter

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Speaker 1: poll today deals with what you feel will be the

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Speaker 1: biggest benefit to this Bills team going into the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one season. Knowing the twenty twenty season was a

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Speaker 1: unique one in every way, shape and form due to

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Speaker 1: the pandemic, how will this roster as it's currently constituted

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Speaker 1: benefit the most going into this regular season? Will they

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Speaker 1: benefit most from the full off season program and a

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Speaker 1: training camp that will have padded practices, among other things,

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Speaker 1: new personnel on the roster or playing preseason games, and

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Speaker 1: there's some interesting choices here. I know, it's been heavily

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Speaker 1: slanted the voting anyway towards the full off season program

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Speaker 1: and training camp. And if you remember Steve last year,

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Speaker 1: there was a run up to full training camp practice

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Speaker 1: because of the extended layoff and truncated offseason program that

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Speaker 1: and so basically there was not a single practice in

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Speaker 1: training camp in which the pads went on and they

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Speaker 1: had even thud, like full blown thud, let alone full

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Speaker 1: contact for a series or two like they have every year,

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Speaker 1: you know, down around the goal line, you know, six

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Speaker 1: twelve plays whatever. It made a different for the offenses,

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00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:06,520
Speaker 1: but man defenses across the league were woefully behind. Scoring

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Speaker 1: was at an all time high. And I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: that's the only reason, but if you ask defensive players,

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Speaker 1: a lot of them will tell you we didn't practice

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Speaker 1: real football until Week one. Right. It's and I don't

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Speaker 1: know that it's that it helped the offenses as much

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Speaker 1: as hurt the defenses, and as well as you know,

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00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:27,360
Speaker 1: a couple all that with the way the game was

855
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:31,200
Speaker 1: officiated early on in the season and throughout. They didn't

856
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: call holding penalties an offensive linemen they let They spotted

857
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 1: the ball quick and haphazardly. At times, they didn't you know,

858
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 1: narrow it into inches and inches. They were giving them

859
00:49:42,640 --> 00:49:44,600
Speaker 1: yard lines as to the half yard lines or third

860
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:48,120
Speaker 1: yard lines or an inches short of yard lines. The

861
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 1: games played a little faster, and because the games went

862
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:54,080
Speaker 1: at such a brisk pace, particularly early in the season,

863
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 1: everybody was just kind of shrugging their shoulders, said, Wow,

864
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: this is not too bad for the offseason we had,

865
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:02,360
Speaker 1: plus the distraction of are they gonna play? Once the

866
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 1: games got there, everybody just kind of said, okay, great,

867
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 1: and they didn't really Most people, particularly casual fans, didn't

868
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:15,399
Speaker 1: notice how different the game was than what had been,

869
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:17,600
Speaker 1: you know, the year previous and what it has been

870
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 1: in years past. The physicality was less. There were a

871
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: ton of mistackles all over there, not just you know,

872
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:26,840
Speaker 1: I just here in Buffalo, like we're talking about, you know,

873
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 1: the Bills team and all the stuff they said about

874
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 1: not really getting a chance to practice. It was the

875
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:34,080
Speaker 1: same all over the league. Scoring was way up. The

876
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:37,240
Speaker 1: Bills were a beneficiary that with their offense and certainly

877
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 1: they took a step on their own in conjunction with that.

878
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,400
Speaker 1: But every defense across the league struggled early on with

879
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:49,399
Speaker 1: the physicality of it, Tackling, mistackles yards after contact were up,

880
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 1: I believe, and you know, and the officiating for me

881
00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:58,319
Speaker 1: just as me, like you'd see offensive lineman come off

882
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 1: and man, they had bear hugs on guys and it

883
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:04,479
Speaker 1: was you know, it's just like, you know, let them play.

884
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 1: So this year may or may not be different than that.

885
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 1: Maybe they saw some things as a league office and

886
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:15,799
Speaker 1: the officiate and the officiating arm of the NFL saw

887
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:18,879
Speaker 1: some things they liked and want to continue. You can.

888
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,839
Speaker 1: They are constantly evaluating how it looks and how it

889
00:51:21,880 --> 00:51:24,720
Speaker 1: feels on the air, and what football people say about

890
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:28,319
Speaker 1: the consistency of it. And I've said time and time

891
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 1: and time again, the players, coaches, they do not care

892
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:34,319
Speaker 1: what the rule book says you can or can't do

893
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:40,120
Speaker 1: as is. Just tell us and officiate it consistently weekend,

894
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 1: week out, ye game to game across the league every weekend.

895
00:51:44,360 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 1: Call it the same all the time. That's all we ask.

896
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 1: And as long as they do that, the players and

897
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 1: coaches will adjust their techniques and their attack and defense.

898
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 1: Everything they'll they'll adjust accordingly. But last year at the

899
00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: beginning of the season, there was a lot of that

900
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 1: that was subtle. There were many things that were subtly

901
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 1: different because of the pandemic, and I think it all

902
00:52:05,560 --> 00:52:10,799
Speaker 1: conspired to, for the most part, make the game kind

903
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 1: of attractive, particularly here in Buffalo. It's easy to say

904
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:14,919
Speaker 1: that because then it was a fun team to watch

905
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 1: last year, but it was a completely different team than

906
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,840
Speaker 1: we any of us thought we were going to get. Yeah.

907
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 1: I think the other when I was looking at the

908
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:28,839
Speaker 1: poll today, I was saying to myself, Okay, there's there's

909
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:31,080
Speaker 1: some choices here that you would almost just knee jerk

910
00:52:31,200 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 1: and pick. But as you go down the list, it's like, okay,

911
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:37,440
Speaker 1: full offseason program, full training camp. That's obviously going to

912
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: be a benefit in comparison to last year. That, yes, absolutely,

913
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:44,480
Speaker 1: but is it more beneficial than preseason games? Like you

914
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:47,279
Speaker 1: think about the rookies on this roster or the unproven

915
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: players in the secondary. I mean, think about the cornerbacks

916
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 1: on this roster right now, outside of tarn Johnson, Tredavious White,

917
00:52:55,440 --> 00:52:59,440
Speaker 1: sirand Neil and Levi Wallace. I think in terms of

918
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 1: games played, Dane Jackson has five and Cam Lewis has five,

919
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:11,839
Speaker 1: So then Rashad Wild, Goose, Elijah Griffin, Nick McLeod, I mean,

920
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: you've got some unproven players here that would benefit in

921
00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 1: a huge way lining up in three NFL preseason games.

922
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 1: Well where they Here's the thing, Greg Rousseau, boogie bash them.

923
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 1: You might need these guys and you say they could

924
00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:29,399
Speaker 1: benefit from it. Here's how they benefit. They're if they're

925
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:34,319
Speaker 1: good enough, they're gonna they're good enough. They benefit from

926
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:37,839
Speaker 1: being able to show how good they can be. How

927
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 1: are you gonna how are you gonna win a job

928
00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:42,879
Speaker 1: as a physical corner if that's your game? Last year

929
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:46,800
Speaker 1: when you couldn't even tackle, you couldn't you couldn't bang guys,

930
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:49,800
Speaker 1: You couldn't be physical because you know, you don't have

931
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:54,359
Speaker 1: pads on. How many guys couldn't showcase what their skill

932
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:59,440
Speaker 1: set was, specifically because of the preseason constraints that are

933
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:03,279
Speaker 1: normal not there guys like that. You'll see him come

934
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:06,360
Speaker 1: in and you know, defensive lineman, same thing, pass rushers,

935
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 1: How you know, how are you going to do that?

936
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:10,440
Speaker 1: How are you going to convince a coaching staff as

937
00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:13,560
Speaker 1: an undrafted rookie, free agent, or even a free agent

938
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:16,439
Speaker 1: at all, a guy who's not a draft pick or whatever,

939
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 1: or anybody. How are you going to convince the coaching

940
00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 1: staff that you've got the physical nature it needs to

941
00:54:21,520 --> 00:54:24,200
Speaker 1: play your position when you never get a chance to

942
00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 1: see it. That's what they were up against last year.

943
00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:31,840
Speaker 1: This year, if they're if you're good enough, you're gonna

944
00:54:31,840 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 1: make it, you got to think. But not if they

945
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:38,719
Speaker 1: don't see it, and in preseason games they get a

946
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: chance to see it. That's right. Let's go to the

947
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 1: tweet sheet, which is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

948
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 1: the official equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. As

949
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:53,960
Speaker 1: we dive right in, and let's see we lead off

950
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 1: with Tiffany, who says, I believe the investment on the

951
00:54:57,680 --> 00:55:00,840
Speaker 1: d line through the draft will have the most positive

952
00:55:00,880 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: impact on the team. The competition for a roster spot

953
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:07,240
Speaker 1: will make for an interesting training camp battle. It should

954
00:55:07,239 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 1: bring the best out of the incumbents and the young

955
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 1: guys trying to win a starting job. Yeah, we know,

956
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,239
Speaker 1: competition raises the level of everybody involved. I don't think

957
00:55:18,239 --> 00:55:21,879
Speaker 1: there's any question about that. Is that the thing so

958
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:25,960
Speaker 1: she's going with personnel. Obviously, in the Twitter poll she

959
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 1: went with c for her choice. And while I think

960
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 1: everybody is encouraged by the influx of youth that this

961
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 1: team acquired via the draft, maybe even to a certain

962
00:55:35,320 --> 00:55:40,560
Speaker 1: extent undrafted free agency, I don't know that, even with

963
00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 1: the best training camp, that Gregor Rousseau and Boogie Basham

964
00:55:45,160 --> 00:55:47,440
Speaker 1: are going to be playing a ton at least at

965
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:49,799
Speaker 1: the outset of the season. Do you mean in the

966
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:54,759
Speaker 1: regular season, Yeah, regular season, I think it will. I don't. Well,

967
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:56,600
Speaker 1: it's easy to say probably, don't think so, because we

968
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 1: have so much to prove, right, there's no doubt that

969
00:55:59,840 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 1: they can work themselves in there. They could, but we've

970
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 1: just seen how coach McDermot and his staff handle it

971
00:56:04,640 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 1: like they usually force you to earn it. Now, if

972
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:10,879
Speaker 1: you prove you're good enough, like Trdavious White did, you'll

973
00:56:10,920 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 1: be on the field. And Gabriel Davis right, I mean,

974
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:17,000
Speaker 1: there's there are examples, Yes, Cody Ford. I mean there

975
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 1: have been guys who have gotten on the field, even

976
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:22,000
Speaker 1: with Cody Ford switching back and forth and not, you know,

977
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:23,880
Speaker 1: not getting a chance to really find his feet at

978
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:26,200
Speaker 1: any position. But he was on the field for sure,

979
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: because he was just physically better than the guys behind him.

980
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 1: You'll get guys like a Greg Russo or a Boogie

981
00:56:33,960 --> 00:56:38,520
Speaker 1: Basham and um who will say, you know what, Week one,

982
00:56:40,040 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 1: the Bills kick off to start the game and that

983
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 1: front four runs out there and Greg Russo's there and

984
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:52,000
Speaker 1: in place of whoever you pick, that's that says a lot.

985
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:55,600
Speaker 1: And what are you gonna do if they roll that

986
00:56:55,680 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 1: first guy first and ten ball on the twenty ball

987
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:01,120
Speaker 1: kicks out of the end zone. Opening day, September twelfth

988
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: against the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Bills kickoff, kick it out

989
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:10,120
Speaker 1: of the end zone snap number one. Defensively an outroll

990
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 1: at Oliver Starlotu La Boogie Basham and Greg Rousseau and

991
00:57:18,360 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 1: and Jerry Hughes is standing over there beside. Yeah. I'm

992
00:57:21,320 --> 00:57:25,240
Speaker 1: not saying it can happen. I'm not saying it can't either.

993
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:27,600
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's going to ye, but I'm saying

994
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 1: I'll say this, I will go out on this is

995
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 1: as much as I will say if they if they

996
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 1: earn it, if they are the guys, they will Oh yeah.

997
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,360
Speaker 1: That's the one thing that Sean McDermott and his staff

998
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 1: does not do not quibble about it. They don't play favorites,

999
00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 1: they do not they don't care who it is. You

1000
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:46,600
Speaker 1: earn it, you get it, and that is why people

1001
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:50,439
Speaker 1: love playing for these coaches. You get what you earn.

1002
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 1: And if you do it when nobody's watching and nobody

1003
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 1: else can see it, like on the practice field or whatever,

1004
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna make sure you get into a spot where

1005
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 1: everybody will see it. Yeah, that's that is an enormous

1006
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 1: carrot that is out there for all of the players

1007
00:58:03,560 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 1: on this roster, and I that word has spread beyond

1008
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:09,960
Speaker 1: the walls of one Bill's drive. I mean they're you

1009
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 1: know guys, you know other players Arizona and Miami and

1010
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:16,200
Speaker 1: all these places where the players have gone and come

1011
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:19,320
Speaker 1: back to this place or gone from this place. Out there,

1012
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:22,400
Speaker 1: they tell those guys, listen, you get it. You got

1013
00:58:22,400 --> 00:58:26,200
Speaker 1: to go every day. And but if you do, you

1014
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:30,320
Speaker 1: get it, you know you earn it. And it's I

1015
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 1: think that, as much as anything else, is the hallmark

1016
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 1: of why Sean McDermott has been so successful thus far

1017
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:39,600
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. Vito on the tweet sheet says last season,

1018
00:58:39,640 --> 00:58:42,360
Speaker 1: the defense was much improved during the second half of

1019
00:58:42,360 --> 00:58:45,080
Speaker 1: the season. A full training camp should get the defense

1020
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 1: up to speed quicker. I'm hoping for a top ten

1021
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:49,919
Speaker 1: defense this year with a top three offense, and let's

1022
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: go win a Super Bowl. I agree with Vito one hundred.

1023
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:58,680
Speaker 1: I really just listening to Micah Hyde after the Week

1024
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:01,080
Speaker 1: one game, or maybe is like week three, after a

1025
00:59:01,120 --> 00:59:06,840
Speaker 1: couple of games, explain why it was so hard for

1026
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:11,520
Speaker 1: defensive players to adjust to regular season football. It crystallized

1027
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:15,760
Speaker 1: it for me. They hadn't tackled anybody for real since

1028
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 1: the previous January in Houston in the playoff game. So

1029
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:23,280
Speaker 1: now you come in and yes, you're executing plays, whether

1030
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 1: it's a walkthrough or a padless practice, but the fundamentals

1031
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 1: of actually wrapping somebody up and tackling them, outside of

1032
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:35,480
Speaker 1: tackling those rolling donuts at the practice that they roll

1033
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:41,120
Speaker 1: out there in the drills and done it right, it's

1034
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:44,080
Speaker 1: easy to think two. And here's the thing you can

1035
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:46,440
Speaker 1: say about offensive linemen. I don't know if I can

1036
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:48,520
Speaker 1: speak to that. I mean, it is different for them

1037
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:51,400
Speaker 1: not having gone live against it, but particularly in the

1038
00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:53,760
Speaker 1: throwing league where these guys are backing up and it's

1039
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 1: more about getting in front of guys than it is

1040
00:59:56,280 --> 00:59:58,200
Speaker 1: going out and attacking them like you would in a

1041
00:59:58,280 --> 01:00:02,560
Speaker 1: run game. But you're talking about it is vastly different

1042
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 1: for a defense that doesn't have contact drills in the preseason,

1043
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:08,440
Speaker 1: then it is an offense. Your skill position on offense,

1044
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:12,640
Speaker 1: it's choreographed and the contact happens after you have the

1045
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:16,440
Speaker 1: ball in your hand, when it's instinctual. It's not technique

1046
01:00:16,480 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 1: oriented like it is on the defensive side, where you run, chase,

1047
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 1: and react and you got to fill a gap and

1048
01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:24,840
Speaker 1: then do so in a physical manner whether the balls

1049
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 1: there or not. It's it's completely different for the defensive

1050
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:31,280
Speaker 1: side of the football to get acclimated to the physical

1051
01:00:31,360 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 1: nature of the game that it is the offense. Offense

1052
01:00:34,240 --> 01:00:38,440
Speaker 1: is all the skill positions in offense. You know, certainly

1053
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:41,400
Speaker 1: maybe the running backs in pass pros stepping up into

1054
01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 1: a gap and getting a hat on a guy, certainly

1055
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: that's something they have to adjust to. But everything else,

1056
01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:51,080
Speaker 1: it's easier for offensive guys to come out and just

1057
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:53,520
Speaker 1: run through, run the round, catch it, and then you know,

1058
01:00:53,680 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 1: flinch for contact. You know, that's it's vastly different for

1059
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:01,600
Speaker 1: the guys on the defensive side. And that's why I

1060
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 1: think it's a real good a real point to be

1061
01:01:04,720 --> 01:01:07,240
Speaker 1: made about how much we can expect that's going to

1062
01:01:07,360 --> 01:01:09,760
Speaker 1: be different about this year for defenses across the National

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Speaker 1: Football League. Nick says on the tweet sheet, I'm hoping

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Speaker 1: the preseason will help our defense get into a rhythm

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01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:18,600
Speaker 1: before Week one. I don't think it was a coincidence

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01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:20,920
Speaker 1: that the one year under McDermott that our defense wasn't

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Speaker 1: great was the same year that we didn't have a preseason.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking for a return to twenty nineteen four. How

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01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:32,080
Speaker 1: good with a full preseason? How buttoned up should we

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01:01:32,200 --> 01:01:34,760
Speaker 1: expect this defense to be? Granted, there will be some

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01:01:35,120 --> 01:01:39,080
Speaker 1: changes in terms of personnel. We're assuming someone somewhere is

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Speaker 1: going to win a starting job, maybe that we did

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01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:44,800
Speaker 1: not anticipate, you know, maybe aj ep Andes. It completely

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Speaker 1: rips it up in training camp in the preseason, it

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Speaker 1: ends up being the starting left hand. That could happen.

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01:01:50,120 --> 01:01:53,720
Speaker 1: Star Latoula is back cam Lewis. Cam Lewis could push

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01:01:53,760 --> 01:01:56,840
Speaker 1: tarn Johnson in the slot, Dane Jackson, whoever Dane Jackson.

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Speaker 1: So there, you know, you arguably you could have three

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Speaker 1: new starters on a defense, but the vast majority of

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01:02:02,360 --> 01:02:04,480
Speaker 1: those guys have been together for three or four years,

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Speaker 1: full training camp, full preseason to get tuned up. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna be loaded for Bear in Week one. That group, Yes,

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01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:17,560
Speaker 1: especially after I think they felt they they underachieved their

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01:02:17,640 --> 01:02:20,960
Speaker 1: own standards, especially through the first two thirds of the season.

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Speaker 1: I would agree with that completely. I would. And I

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01:02:24,520 --> 01:02:26,919
Speaker 1: think they're gonna have it turned up an arch. Plus,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be playing against a team that they've seen

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01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:32,360
Speaker 1: on a regular basis over the last two years. They

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01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:36,080
Speaker 1: played Pittsburgh, you know, the last couple of years, and

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01:02:36,880 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 1: so it's not it's all, it's not quite as familiar

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01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:41,400
Speaker 1: as it is for a division opponent, but it's not

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Speaker 1: somebody like an out of out of division, out of

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01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:47,440
Speaker 1: conference team, you know, like like the NFC West was

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01:02:47,520 --> 01:02:50,800
Speaker 1: a year ago, that kind of thing. They see. They

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01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:53,960
Speaker 1: seem to see Pittsburgh, you know, once a year, so

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01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:57,919
Speaker 1: they'll be ready to show up on you know, opening Day.

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Speaker 1: And you got to know, two, Pittsburgh's trying to evolve

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01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 1: away from what they devolved into at the end of

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01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:08,400
Speaker 1: last year, where they you know, it was a hundred

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01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:12,400
Speaker 1: percent throw and never more than five yards down the field.

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01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:17,520
Speaker 1: I mean that was that was a devolution for the Steelers, right,

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01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:21,360
Speaker 1: I mean, they regressed and so you'll get more of

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01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:25,480
Speaker 1: a complete offense against them on opening Day. But I

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01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:28,160
Speaker 1: think the Bills will. You're right, I think the expectations

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01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:30,600
Speaker 1: the Bills will have of themselves this year coming into

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01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:33,520
Speaker 1: Week one are going to be vastly different than they

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01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:37,840
Speaker 1: were even at the end of twenty twenty. It leaves

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01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:43,439
Speaker 1: me very encouraged because we think about the top five

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01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:48,000
Speaker 1: defense that was in twenty eighteen twenty nineteen, and then

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01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:51,520
Speaker 1: last year they slide off a little bit in certain

1111
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:56,200
Speaker 1: areas and we've gone over the deficiencies that they had.

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01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:58,840
Speaker 1: They did get better in the last quarter of the season,

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01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:05,360
Speaker 1: even like our most recent Twitter Nick pointed out. So

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01:04:05,600 --> 01:04:09,240
Speaker 1: the the ability, I think very much is still there

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01:04:09,640 --> 01:04:11,640
Speaker 1: for this group to be a top five defense if

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01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:16,080
Speaker 1: they can be even in the top ten and the

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01:04:16,200 --> 01:04:18,840
Speaker 1: offense can have a similar similar success to what they

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01:04:18,920 --> 01:04:22,720
Speaker 1: experienced last year. I mean, there are very few teams

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01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:27,080
Speaker 1: that are top ten on both offense and defense that

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01:04:27,200 --> 01:04:29,680
Speaker 1: don't go a really long way in this league, right,

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01:04:30,080 --> 01:04:33,040
Speaker 1: very few. Certainly it can happen, but you know, particularly

1122
01:04:33,080 --> 01:04:35,240
Speaker 1: when you get into the playoffs and it's one and

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01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:37,720
Speaker 1: done and you and you cough it up three times

1124
01:04:37,960 --> 01:04:43,840
Speaker 1: unexpectedly or something like that. But that's where both sides

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Speaker 1: of this, the line of scrimmage on this team have

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Speaker 1: got to have their expectations really high. I think it's

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01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 1: a I don't want to say it. I don't think

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Speaker 1: that Josh Allen's going to regress or become somebody different

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01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:54,919
Speaker 1: or go back to who he was two years ago

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01:04:55,040 --> 01:04:57,600
Speaker 1: or three years ago. I think he is who he is,

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01:04:57,680 --> 01:05:00,320
Speaker 1: who he saw him be all of last year. But

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01:05:00,480 --> 01:05:03,840
Speaker 1: statistically they may be they may be a plateau. And

1133
01:05:03,840 --> 01:05:06,680
Speaker 1: I mean he's scoring five hundred points is a big number.

1134
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:10,120
Speaker 1: It's a big number. So I don't know that they're

1135
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:13,360
Speaker 1: going to continue at that pace, but certainly their production

1136
01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:14,920
Speaker 1: and they have every reason to think that they're going

1137
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:19,440
Speaker 1: to be very good comparatively speaking to the other franchises,

1138
01:05:20,160 --> 01:05:23,440
Speaker 1: and the Bill's defense I certainly think can take a

1139
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:25,960
Speaker 1: bigger step forward this next year, this next season. So

1140
01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:28,840
Speaker 1: if they do that, if the office just can't can

1141
01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:32,880
Speaker 1: maintain and the defense takes a step forward to where

1142
01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:35,720
Speaker 1: it was two years ago with virtually the same lineup

1143
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:44,000
Speaker 1: and even better lineup now supposedly a better lineup. Yeah,

1144
01:05:44,600 --> 01:05:46,680
Speaker 1: that's why we're sitting where we are thinking that the

1145
01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:49,760
Speaker 1: AFC Championship Game is the beginning, not the end. Break

1146
01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:51,880
Speaker 1: time here for us. Steve and I come back with

1147
01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:53,880
Speaker 1: more of your thoughts on the tweet sheet, as well

1148
01:05:54,120 --> 01:05:57,439
Speaker 1: as maybe a little what's for lunch? It's been a while.

1149
01:05:57,720 --> 01:05:59,520
Speaker 1: They need to see what's on the menu. When we

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01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:01,760
Speaker 1: were turning Here on One Bills Live presented by Kalid

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01:06:01,800 --> 01:06:16,320
Speaker 1: to Health, it's Buffalo Bills Radio. Second half of the

1152
01:06:16,360 --> 01:06:19,440
Speaker 1: show underway Here One Bills Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

1153
01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:23,320
Speaker 1: with you, and we are discussing the benefits of a

1154
01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:27,920
Speaker 1: let's just say, closer to normal run up to a

1155
01:06:28,000 --> 01:06:31,160
Speaker 1: regular season. This could be construed last year was a

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01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:35,760
Speaker 1: was zero preseason and it was a totally different type

1157
01:06:35,800 --> 01:06:38,960
Speaker 1: of preseason. This one would be more of a different preseason,

1158
01:06:39,080 --> 01:06:42,600
Speaker 1: not just yeah, you know, let's just in the group

1159
01:06:42,680 --> 01:06:46,720
Speaker 1: in the gray scale of you know, whatever it is.

1160
01:06:47,160 --> 01:06:50,400
Speaker 1: This one's not near the bottom like last year. Was

1161
01:06:51,120 --> 01:06:54,680
Speaker 1: only three preseason games instead of four, although in many

1162
01:06:54,800 --> 01:07:00,160
Speaker 1: respects the fourth is a throwaway. Oh my god, thank

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01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:03,680
Speaker 1: you so much, thank you for nothing because we forget

1164
01:07:03,720 --> 01:07:05,320
Speaker 1: it's gonna be great. We're gonna be it's gonna be

1165
01:07:05,360 --> 01:07:08,600
Speaker 1: great off and about ten minutes into that first preseason game,

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01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:13,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna be like this. I'm trying to I'm trying

1167
01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:18,919
Speaker 1: to remember how we felt last summer when we knew

1168
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:22,240
Speaker 1: preseason games were not part of the equation. Were we like,

1169
01:07:24,520 --> 01:07:27,240
Speaker 1: did training camp drag because of that? It started later?

1170
01:07:27,440 --> 01:07:29,520
Speaker 1: It started what a few what was it a week

1171
01:07:29,680 --> 01:07:32,200
Speaker 1: later than it was support supposed to. I know, but

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Speaker 1: you're like, we don't even see it. No, I know that,

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01:07:34,600 --> 01:07:36,600
Speaker 1: But that's what I'm saying, Like, we didn't even have

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01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:39,200
Speaker 1: that to chew on for a couple, if you know,

1175
01:07:39,320 --> 01:07:40,960
Speaker 1: for two or three weeks, as hard as they were

1176
01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:43,880
Speaker 1: four real football training camp was a rumor last year,

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01:07:44,320 --> 01:07:46,600
Speaker 1: right they'd pop on a little computer screen, said, yeah

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01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:49,200
Speaker 1: we're practicing. Yeah, stuff's going on. We're doing this thing,

1179
01:07:49,280 --> 01:07:52,439
Speaker 1: and that's it. I know, But I'm just I can't

1180
01:07:52,440 --> 01:07:55,120
Speaker 1: even remember what my thoughts were at that time last year,

1181
01:07:55,240 --> 01:07:58,080
Speaker 1: knowing there were no preseason games to kind of evaluate

1182
01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:00,600
Speaker 1: like younger players on the roster. How was Zach Moss

1183
01:08:00,600 --> 01:08:02,000
Speaker 1: gonna look, what does think you happen out, you know,

1184
01:08:02,240 --> 01:08:05,440
Speaker 1: like in a game setting. They pop out on opening

1185
01:08:05,560 --> 01:08:08,720
Speaker 1: day and Gabe Davis is out for snap one yea

1186
01:08:08,840 --> 01:08:12,440
Speaker 1: four wide. I'm like, what what what is that legal?

1187
01:08:13,440 --> 01:08:16,000
Speaker 1: Like you can't play a rookie like that. You know,

1188
01:08:16,479 --> 01:08:20,240
Speaker 1: that was it. It was totally and I forget, don't forget.

1189
01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 1: Last year every head coach in the NFL was dealt

1190
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:29,439
Speaker 1: a hand of cards, I get it, and all of

1191
01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:34,920
Speaker 1: them had the cards together, face down in a safe,

1192
01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:39,439
Speaker 1: locked inside a cave under a volcano. Nobody knew what

1193
01:08:39,600 --> 01:08:42,600
Speaker 1: anybody was doing, and they loved it. They loved it.

1194
01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:46,760
Speaker 1: They were lapping it out. It's so training. We're such

1195
01:08:46,800 --> 01:08:48,960
Speaker 1: a challenge. We're just struggling to get everything. And we're

1196
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:51,920
Speaker 1: just struggling to get everything, and you know, installed the

1197
01:08:52,040 --> 01:08:54,160
Speaker 1: players are working hard, but man oh man, we're really

1198
01:08:54,240 --> 01:08:59,280
Speaker 1: up against Meanwhile, they're like burning the candle at both ends.

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Speaker 1: They're they're in stalling all this stuff. And they they

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01:09:03,680 --> 01:09:06,840
Speaker 1: all come out on opening day and everybody scores thirty points.

1201
01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:10,240
Speaker 1: You know, they were like just going crazy. They we

1202
01:09:10,400 --> 01:09:12,880
Speaker 1: didn't know anything about what the bills were gonna look like.

1203
01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:15,719
Speaker 1: We did. We thought Josh Allen was gonna complete maybe,

1204
01:09:15,840 --> 01:09:19,280
Speaker 1: you know, maybe he gets up to sixty if if

1205
01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:22,559
Speaker 1: if everything goes perfect and he gets a couple of breaks,

1206
01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:25,400
Speaker 1: maybe he'll complete sixty four sixty five percent of his

1207
01:09:25,439 --> 01:09:28,639
Speaker 1: passes and you know, things will good. You know, as

1208
01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:33,960
Speaker 1: it was, he comes out and they're looking like you

1209
01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:36,960
Speaker 1: know then the early eighty forty nine ers. Man, they're

1210
01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:38,760
Speaker 1: throwing it all over the joint. You know, there was

1211
01:09:38,800 --> 01:09:42,760
Speaker 1: a run and shoot offense. Four wides, let's go, and

1212
01:09:45,600 --> 01:09:49,200
Speaker 1: I myself included, nobody could have been more surprised at

1213
01:09:49,240 --> 01:09:52,720
Speaker 1: the way they looked. And the other thing too, was

1214
01:09:53,880 --> 01:09:58,800
Speaker 1: you know, you're the fans, Yeah, you didn't really know

1215
01:09:59,040 --> 01:10:04,479
Speaker 1: what to expe act. Neither did we, And as I said,

1216
01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:08,360
Speaker 1: that's just the way the coaches wanted it. But the

1217
01:10:08,680 --> 01:10:11,519
Speaker 1: opponents were as in the dark, maybe as they've ever been.

1218
01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:13,840
Speaker 1: You know, we hear it all the time in the preseason. Ah,

1219
01:10:14,120 --> 01:10:16,400
Speaker 1: they're playing very vanilla with their schemes and everything, but

1220
01:10:16,479 --> 01:10:20,200
Speaker 1: you can still get a feel for personnel groupings. You know,

1221
01:10:20,520 --> 01:10:24,639
Speaker 1: who they want on the field quote unquote starters, those

1222
01:10:24,760 --> 01:10:28,040
Speaker 1: kinds of things, whose second string, Who can we anticipate

1223
01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:30,200
Speaker 1: on the field in the event of an injury, you

1224
01:10:30,320 --> 01:10:34,280
Speaker 1: know that kind of stuff. Packages for downs and distances,

1225
01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:39,000
Speaker 1: sub packages on defense, who's their top two gunners, all

1226
01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:42,240
Speaker 1: that stuff. You didn't know any of that as an

1227
01:10:42,280 --> 01:10:44,639
Speaker 1: opponent of any team in the league. And that's probably

1228
01:10:45,400 --> 01:10:47,599
Speaker 1: now that we're talking about it, it's really contributing factors

1229
01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:50,639
Speaker 1: to how fast the team's got off offensively starting because

1230
01:10:50,840 --> 01:10:54,360
Speaker 1: nobody knew nothing. You had no idea who they liked

1231
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:57,519
Speaker 1: or what they like to do. The bills were probably

1232
01:10:58,760 --> 01:11:00,920
Speaker 1: the biggest benefits year. That are one of the biggest

1233
01:11:01,040 --> 01:11:03,479
Speaker 1: beneficiaries that because everybody thought Josh Allen was gonna, like,

1234
01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:09,759
Speaker 1: you know, not be that good, and he was. Plus,

1235
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Speaker 1: you can spend all your time, Brent, and I get it.

1236
01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:16,599
Speaker 1: When you install an offense, particularly when people are watching,

1237
01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:19,280
Speaker 1: you stall the basics. Then you go. Then you work

1238
01:11:19,360 --> 01:11:22,480
Speaker 1: off you know, you work into different areas of offensive philosophy,

1239
01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:25,160
Speaker 1: like the zone running scheme and the power runs game,

1240
01:11:25,200 --> 01:11:28,920
Speaker 1: and the intermediate passing game, the short passing game, the

1241
01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:32,679
Speaker 1: vertical passing game, the screen pass game, all these different

1242
01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:35,080
Speaker 1: areas and facets of every offense that you have, and

1243
01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:37,280
Speaker 1: you work on those. You put them start from the foundation. Here.

1244
01:11:37,600 --> 01:11:41,759
Speaker 1: You didn't have to do that because you could say, okay, guys,

1245
01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:44,000
Speaker 1: I don't care what our offensive words are, here's the

1246
01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:46,840
Speaker 1: first twenty five plays we're gonna run against the New

1247
01:11:46,920 --> 01:11:50,759
Speaker 1: York Jets on opening day. Let's run them fifty times,

1248
01:11:51,680 --> 01:11:53,599
Speaker 1: and that's where we're gonna That's how we're gonna install

1249
01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:55,639
Speaker 1: our offense. You're gonna run. We're gonna know these plays

1250
01:11:55,640 --> 01:12:00,240
Speaker 1: against every coverage, every defensive front, every look, here's every

1251
01:12:00,360 --> 01:12:04,720
Speaker 1: check and balance, and here's every alert, everything they could

1252
01:12:04,720 --> 01:12:08,639
Speaker 1: possibly do against us. We're gonna have these fifty plays money,

1253
01:12:08,760 --> 01:12:10,320
Speaker 1: and we're going to run them all the time. And

1254
01:12:10,439 --> 01:12:12,680
Speaker 1: you never have to show anything else to anybody in

1255
01:12:12,760 --> 01:12:16,639
Speaker 1: a preseason game. But that's why I think offenses were

1256
01:12:16,640 --> 01:12:19,920
Speaker 1: able to dictate play through those first couple of weeks

1257
01:12:19,960 --> 01:12:24,000
Speaker 1: of the season, because there's no roadmap whatsoever, no intel

1258
01:12:24,240 --> 01:12:27,920
Speaker 1: like zero. And while I know the defense, you can say, wow,

1259
01:12:27,960 --> 01:12:29,360
Speaker 1: the defense is the same thing. They don't know what

1260
01:12:29,400 --> 01:12:32,080
Speaker 1: the defense is going to throw at them. True, true,

1261
01:12:33,080 --> 01:12:35,559
Speaker 1: But I don't know. I don't know how you feel

1262
01:12:35,560 --> 01:12:37,560
Speaker 1: about this, but sometimes I feel like it's easier for

1263
01:12:37,680 --> 01:12:42,120
Speaker 1: offenses to come up with answers to things than defenses. Sometimes, Yeah,

1264
01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:45,080
Speaker 1: defenses a lot of times play catch up. Yeah, and

1265
01:12:45,200 --> 01:12:47,920
Speaker 1: it's very rare that a defense will maybe maybe you know,

1266
01:12:49,560 --> 01:12:52,240
Speaker 1: hop skip, you know, skip over what an offense development.

1267
01:12:52,360 --> 01:12:54,760
Speaker 1: Now you can guess right defensively as well. And then

1268
01:12:54,800 --> 01:12:56,280
Speaker 1: defense has a lot of other things going for it.

1269
01:12:56,400 --> 01:12:59,519
Speaker 1: For instance, ten guys on the defense can stink and

1270
01:12:59,560 --> 01:13:02,920
Speaker 1: get dominated one guy makes a play. Hey, great defense, right,

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Speaker 1: So there's that going for the defense. But you're right,

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01:13:10,160 --> 01:13:13,720
Speaker 1: defenses they know there's you know, you got to cover

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01:13:13,840 --> 01:13:17,360
Speaker 1: the field, and for every guy that's eligible, you gotta

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01:13:17,400 --> 01:13:20,280
Speaker 1: have somebody on him. You can't leave somebody, you know, uncovered.

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01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:22,640
Speaker 1: So you've got to be sound in your adjustments. So

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01:13:22,760 --> 01:13:24,680
Speaker 1: if the offense all of a sudden shifts from one

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01:13:24,720 --> 01:13:27,920
Speaker 1: formation to another, you got to have a plan pre snap. Yeah,

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01:13:27,960 --> 01:13:29,800
Speaker 1: he say, okay, if he's going over there, now he's

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01:13:29,840 --> 01:13:31,840
Speaker 1: not your guy anymore. He's this guy over here, you're

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01:13:31,840 --> 01:13:34,800
Speaker 1: going to cover him. That kind of stuff. All of

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01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:39,240
Speaker 1: that's basic football. But it's all reactionary defense, right, So

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01:13:39,400 --> 01:13:42,080
Speaker 1: you and you can say, listen, if they get into this,

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01:13:43,400 --> 01:13:46,080
Speaker 1: send the blitz from the other side, because there they can't,

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01:13:46,200 --> 01:13:49,240
Speaker 1: you know. Then that's that's game planning. When they get

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01:13:49,240 --> 01:13:52,800
Speaker 1: into this formation, they're vulnerable. Here, take advantage of it.

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01:13:53,320 --> 01:13:56,640
Speaker 1: That's how a defense attacks, and that's you know, you

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01:13:56,720 --> 01:14:00,160
Speaker 1: can do that unless the offense never gets into that

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01:14:00,240 --> 01:14:05,439
Speaker 1: formation against you. Yeah, so it's reactionaries a defense. And

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01:14:05,479 --> 01:14:09,519
Speaker 1: you're right, I don't know how those guys do it

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01:14:09,600 --> 01:14:11,439
Speaker 1: on that side of I've never played defensing, you know,

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01:14:11,560 --> 01:14:14,040
Speaker 1: high school I did, but I don't know how they

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01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:17,280
Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, but that is why scoring was at

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01:14:17,280 --> 01:14:21,000
Speaker 1: an all time high last year, because the offenses were

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01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:23,800
Speaker 1: dictating to the defense what was going down, because nobody

1295
01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:25,880
Speaker 1: had intel on what was coming at him through the

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01:14:25,920 --> 01:14:28,920
Speaker 1: first two, maybe even three weeks of the season, knowing

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01:14:29,000 --> 01:14:33,120
Speaker 1: how deep offensive playbooks go, and I felt like defensive

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01:14:33,120 --> 01:14:35,720
Speaker 1: coordinators were playing catch up almost the entire season, not

1299
01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:38,799
Speaker 1: only because they had no intel, but because their players

1300
01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:45,280
Speaker 1: hadn't tackled anybody in eight months. It usually happens in

1301
01:14:45,439 --> 01:14:47,960
Speaker 1: early in particularly in preseason. You'll hear it all the time.

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01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:50,400
Speaker 1: The defense is always ahead of the offense because, like

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01:14:50,520 --> 01:14:53,120
Speaker 1: I said, the defense just reacts and runs. The offense

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01:14:53,200 --> 01:14:56,599
Speaker 1: has to be choreographed. If you do this, the guy

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01:14:56,720 --> 01:14:58,280
Speaker 1: next to you has to do what he's supposed to do.

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01:14:58,439 --> 01:15:00,439
Speaker 1: Especially on the offensive line, he got to do it.

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01:15:00,479 --> 01:15:02,320
Speaker 1: He's and even in the outside on the offense with

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01:15:02,520 --> 01:15:06,559
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley and Gabe Davis and Dick's if one guy

1309
01:15:06,680 --> 01:15:09,960
Speaker 1: runs a route, they have complimentary routes to runs. So

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01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:12,160
Speaker 1: it's got to be choreographed and that's hard to do.

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01:15:13,160 --> 01:15:16,320
Speaker 1: Out of the gate. A defense just getting the right air.

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01:15:16,520 --> 01:15:18,000
Speaker 1: You know, if you're in his own defense, look at

1313
01:15:18,040 --> 01:15:20,479
Speaker 1: the quarterback. If he's looking towards you, be ready for

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01:15:20,560 --> 01:15:23,960
Speaker 1: the ball and find the guy break on. It pretty simple,

1315
01:15:24,520 --> 01:15:26,280
Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter what anybody else on the other

1316
01:15:26,320 --> 01:15:28,000
Speaker 1: side of the field, as the ball's not going over there.

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01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:29,720
Speaker 1: You could have six guys open over there. But if

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01:15:29,760 --> 01:15:32,559
Speaker 1: he's throwing to this side, who cares. Defenses have always

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01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:35,160
Speaker 1: been ahead. They just react and go and when you're

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01:15:35,560 --> 01:15:38,120
Speaker 1: in training camp, that's all it takes. So last year

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01:15:38,160 --> 01:15:41,559
Speaker 1: I was shocked that I think we might I might

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01:15:41,640 --> 01:15:44,280
Speaker 1: have said early on the season it was gonna be

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01:15:44,360 --> 01:15:47,280
Speaker 1: just the opposite of what it actually was. Because the

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01:15:47,400 --> 01:15:49,080
Speaker 1: defense is just read and reacts. It's gonna be hard

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01:15:49,120 --> 01:15:51,400
Speaker 1: for offense to come up to speed and be ready

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01:15:51,479 --> 01:15:55,439
Speaker 1: for this and you know, be choreographed. Technique wise and stuff,

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01:15:55,439 --> 01:15:56,800
Speaker 1: and it was just the opposite of what I thought

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01:15:56,840 --> 01:15:59,880
Speaker 1: it might be. Like it has been in time immemorial

1329
01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:02,160
Speaker 1: in the NFL, defense comes out, they read and react

1330
01:16:02,200 --> 01:16:04,680
Speaker 1: and they look great early in the preseason. You know,

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01:16:05,120 --> 01:16:06,720
Speaker 1: it was just the opposite of that. When when it

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01:16:06,800 --> 01:16:08,880
Speaker 1: kicked off last year, I was surprised. I still am.

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01:16:10,320 --> 01:16:13,280
Speaker 1: It was like, where is all this scoring coming? I mean,

1334
01:16:13,400 --> 01:16:15,320
Speaker 1: think about the Bills. I mean, now, the Bills proved

1335
01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:18,519
Speaker 1: to be a worthy point scoring It was more than

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01:16:18,600 --> 01:16:22,719
Speaker 1: just all season long. Yeah, but I wouldn't be surprised

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01:16:22,760 --> 01:16:25,240
Speaker 1: if it helped build their confidence and give them some

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01:16:25,360 --> 01:16:28,160
Speaker 1: good early season momentum. And then credit to them, they

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01:16:28,240 --> 01:16:30,479
Speaker 1: not only sustained it, they built on top of it.

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01:16:31,040 --> 01:16:35,240
Speaker 1: I mean because after that Arizona game, a game by

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01:16:35,280 --> 01:16:38,240
Speaker 1: the way, that in which they scored thirty points, they

1342
01:16:38,320 --> 01:16:41,040
Speaker 1: were off the chain. I mean they were just obliterating

1343
01:16:41,120 --> 01:16:45,519
Speaker 1: opponents and scoring it will essentially. Yeah, it's you know,

1344
01:16:45,840 --> 01:16:48,879
Speaker 1: we've talked about a lot, and we've all off seasons.

1345
01:16:48,960 --> 01:16:51,040
Speaker 1: Reared his head where some of the fans out there thinking,

1346
01:16:51,040 --> 01:16:52,640
Speaker 1: you know, it's always the Chiefs at the end of

1347
01:16:52,680 --> 01:16:55,240
Speaker 1: the rainbow, right, I Mean, they're the ones that Bill's

1348
01:16:55,240 --> 01:16:57,280
Speaker 1: got to get by and I get that. But last year,

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01:16:57,320 --> 01:16:59,559
Speaker 1: if you'd taken in generally speaking, we've talked about a lot,

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01:17:00,400 --> 01:17:03,080
Speaker 1: the Chiefs had been to the AFC Championship game two

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01:17:03,120 --> 01:17:04,360
Speaker 1: times in a row, and I was on a team

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01:17:04,400 --> 01:17:06,639
Speaker 1: that did that as well. You get to the point

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01:17:06,680 --> 01:17:09,000
Speaker 1: where that's the game that that's the only game that

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01:17:09,040 --> 01:17:11,800
Speaker 1: you gotta get to and win. So all this other stuff,

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01:17:11,840 --> 01:17:16,559
Speaker 1: and I've said it a ton, the Chiefs virtually coasted

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01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:19,800
Speaker 1: through the regular season. That's how good they are. They were.

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01:17:19,960 --> 01:17:22,240
Speaker 1: They were winning games by three, winning games by four,

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01:17:22,320 --> 01:17:25,200
Speaker 1: winning games by six, winning games by five. You know,

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01:17:25,280 --> 01:17:29,920
Speaker 1: they were just winning. And while it sounds simple, they

1360
01:17:30,040 --> 01:17:33,920
Speaker 1: never looked spectacular doing it, save the fact when they

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01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:37,160
Speaker 1: turned it on when they played the Buccaneers early this season.

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01:17:37,880 --> 01:17:40,360
Speaker 1: You know, Tyreek Hills got four touchdowns in two minutes

1363
01:17:40,479 --> 01:17:42,400
Speaker 1: or whatever it was. It was just unbelievable. They just

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01:17:42,479 --> 01:17:44,639
Speaker 1: turned it loose, and that's when you saw all four

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01:17:44,760 --> 01:17:48,240
Speaker 1: gears of their offense. The Bills, on the other hand,

1366
01:17:49,640 --> 01:17:51,479
Speaker 1: they were still trying. They are trying to get to

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01:17:51,560 --> 01:17:53,519
Speaker 1: the AFC Championship games, so they were playing their best

1368
01:17:53,560 --> 01:17:55,479
Speaker 1: every week. Let's get there. We gotta do this, we

1369
01:17:55,520 --> 01:17:57,760
Speaker 1: gotta go, we gotta get there, and the Chiefs are

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01:17:57,760 --> 01:17:59,920
Speaker 1: just waiting for that game to happen, fully confident they

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01:18:00,000 --> 01:18:04,000
Speaker 1: we're gonna get be there. The Bills got there and

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01:18:04,160 --> 01:18:08,000
Speaker 1: didn't didn't know from that point on what's now? What

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01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:13,920
Speaker 1: you know? They played not their best game and the

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01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:15,840
Speaker 1: Chiefs that's the game they've been waiting on them. They

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01:18:15,880 --> 01:18:18,559
Speaker 1: showed up big and it turns into a two touchdown game.

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01:18:19,400 --> 01:18:22,120
Speaker 1: Even the Chiefs the week before against the Cleveland Browns,

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01:18:22,160 --> 01:18:24,719
Speaker 1: the Browns could have beaten them, right, We should remember

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01:18:24,760 --> 01:18:27,360
Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes did go out in the fourth quarter with

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01:18:27,520 --> 01:18:30,559
Speaker 1: the injury. The Browns were all over those guys. Yeah,

1380
01:18:31,680 --> 01:18:33,760
Speaker 1: but that wasn't the game that the Chiefs were focused on.

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01:18:35,479 --> 01:18:40,200
Speaker 1: You know. Now it's gonna I think the Bills now

1382
01:18:40,240 --> 01:18:44,200
Speaker 1: are saying, Okay, we're gonna get We got the guys

1383
01:18:44,240 --> 01:18:46,599
Speaker 1: that get, we're gonna get there, and when we get there,

1384
01:18:46,680 --> 01:18:50,080
Speaker 1: watch us that. I think that's that's the kind of attitude,

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01:18:50,479 --> 01:18:52,479
Speaker 1: you know, or in the overarching scheme of things that

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01:18:52,520 --> 01:18:54,479
Speaker 1: you gotta, that you've got. It's gonna be interesting to

1387
01:18:54,520 --> 01:18:57,800
Speaker 1: see how both the Browns and the Bills feel as

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01:18:57,880 --> 01:18:59,600
Speaker 1: it pertains to the Chiefs, because the Browns have the

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01:18:59,680 --> 01:19:03,640
Speaker 1: Chiefs in week one, right, and then the Bills have

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01:19:03,720 --> 01:19:07,360
Speaker 1: them in week five, So it's going to be a

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01:19:07,439 --> 01:19:10,200
Speaker 1: major litmus test for both of those teams to say,

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01:19:10,920 --> 01:19:13,960
Speaker 1: what have you done since you played him last? How

1393
01:19:14,000 --> 01:19:15,960
Speaker 1: different does it look? Are you better, if at all?

1394
01:19:16,400 --> 01:19:20,080
Speaker 1: Are you a more complete team? Can you truly threaten

1395
01:19:20,200 --> 01:19:22,639
Speaker 1: this group? Can you run with these guys? Let's see.

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01:19:22,720 --> 01:19:26,479
Speaker 1: That's I think it's really intriguing. It is break time

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01:19:26,520 --> 01:19:28,960
Speaker 1: for us, Steve and I back shortly. More of your

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01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:31,360
Speaker 1: thoughts on the tweet sheet, and we've got some other

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01:19:31,439 --> 01:19:34,360
Speaker 1: stuff to dive into as well. On the NFL landscape.

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Speaker 1: Mort Cup here on One Bill's Live presented by Collid

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01:19:36,840 --> 01:19:53,760
Speaker 1: to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back, closing up

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01:19:53,800 --> 01:19:56,240
Speaker 1: our number two of a Monday edition of One Bills Live.

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01:19:56,360 --> 01:19:59,240
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you as always and as

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01:19:59,320 --> 01:20:05,320
Speaker 1: we wait with bated breath for veterans reporting tomorrow first

1405
01:20:05,360 --> 01:20:08,400
Speaker 1: practice Wednesday, and we will have it covered for you.

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01:20:08,479 --> 01:20:10,439
Speaker 1: Wall to walk here on One Bill's Live as well

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01:20:10,479 --> 01:20:13,600
Speaker 1: as on Buffalo bills dot Com. Steve, I know you

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01:20:13,720 --> 01:20:16,680
Speaker 1: saw this, so I'm not going to ask you. But

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01:20:17,360 --> 01:20:20,519
Speaker 1: the question I will pose is what was your initial

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01:20:20,680 --> 01:20:26,720
Speaker 1: reaction upon seeing Tom Brady's tweet where he wrote the

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01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:29,800
Speaker 1: following training camp starts this week. I'm looking forward to

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01:20:29,880 --> 01:20:33,560
Speaker 1: have some actual receivers again. And there is an accompanying

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01:20:33,760 --> 01:20:36,600
Speaker 1: video which our MSG viewers are viewing right now. He

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01:20:36,800 --> 01:20:40,320
Speaker 1: is ten yards away from a jugs machine that is running.

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01:20:40,360 --> 01:20:43,040
Speaker 1: The wheels are spinning. He has a football in his hand.

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01:20:43,400 --> 01:20:45,960
Speaker 1: He throws it straight at the jugs machine, into the

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01:20:46,040 --> 01:20:50,080
Speaker 1: crevice between the two wheels, and the ball appears to

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01:20:50,160 --> 01:20:53,960
Speaker 1: spit right back out to him. He takes a second throw,

1419
01:20:54,400 --> 01:20:57,800
Speaker 1: puts it right in there again, throws it back to him.

1420
01:20:57,800 --> 01:20:59,920
Speaker 1: He backs up about another five yards throws a third

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01:21:00,120 --> 01:21:02,639
Speaker 1: pass right into the teeth of the jugs machine. Again,

1422
01:21:03,040 --> 01:21:06,200
Speaker 1: it falls over from the weight of the pass, shoots

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01:21:06,240 --> 01:21:08,639
Speaker 1: it straight up in the air. Tom looks at the camera,

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01:21:08,800 --> 01:21:13,000
Speaker 1: walks off and says, let's go, what was your first

1425
01:21:13,160 --> 01:21:15,960
Speaker 1: reaction after you watched it. He's got a really good

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01:21:16,080 --> 01:21:18,559
Speaker 1: camera crew. I mean it's not real. I mean it's

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01:21:19,120 --> 01:21:21,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a it's a great concept. Though it

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01:21:21,160 --> 01:21:23,320
Speaker 1: is a great concept, a neat little, you know thing.

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01:21:23,520 --> 01:21:26,880
Speaker 1: It looks great too. But yeah, it's I mean it's

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01:21:27,040 --> 01:21:29,559
Speaker 1: I mean, I never even for a split second thought

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01:21:29,600 --> 01:21:31,559
Speaker 1: it was real, But I thought it was a good idea.

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01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:36,080
Speaker 1: It's a neat idea. I would venture to guess he

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01:21:36,240 --> 01:21:39,680
Speaker 1: had a good portion of the Twitter population fooled with

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01:21:39,760 --> 01:21:43,240
Speaker 1: this video. That he is in fact that accurate, that's well,

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01:21:43,439 --> 01:21:46,840
Speaker 1: that's because he may be that accurate, But the simple

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01:21:46,880 --> 01:21:49,000
Speaker 1: fact matters. If you've ever seen a juge machine and

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01:21:49,080 --> 01:21:51,000
Speaker 1: been around a juge machine and washed him, we're going

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01:21:51,439 --> 01:21:54,599
Speaker 1: you know that, that's it's impossible. Well, as long as

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01:21:54,640 --> 01:21:57,839
Speaker 1: the wheels are spinning, which obviously is in the opposite

1440
01:21:57,880 --> 01:22:00,840
Speaker 1: direction that which to which Tom is throwing the ball,

1441
01:22:02,880 --> 01:22:06,479
Speaker 1: it's not going to like envelope the ball. It's not

1442
01:22:06,600 --> 01:22:08,679
Speaker 1: going to suck the ball in. It's going to reject

1443
01:22:08,760 --> 01:22:11,920
Speaker 1: it and repel it outward. Yeah, no matter how hard

1444
01:22:11,960 --> 01:22:13,800
Speaker 1: you're throwing it. I mean, it's a great idea. I mean,

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01:22:13,880 --> 01:22:16,320
Speaker 1: I love it. It's it's cool and it makes it

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01:22:16,520 --> 01:22:19,479
Speaker 1: you know. But yeah, I mean it's do we have

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01:22:19,520 --> 01:22:23,840
Speaker 1: to start calling him slick Tom? Now? Maybe? Maybe? Um,

1448
01:22:24,160 --> 01:22:27,559
Speaker 1: he's got it. He's got a great media press. Yeah,

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01:22:27,680 --> 01:22:30,000
Speaker 1: he's he's got whoever is in charge of his social

1450
01:22:30,240 --> 01:22:31,720
Speaker 1: and I'm not going to pretend to know all the

1451
01:22:31,800 --> 01:22:34,960
Speaker 1: ins and out of the video tricks involved here, but

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01:22:35,600 --> 01:22:39,920
Speaker 1: it's great, it's really good. I gave him credit for creativity.

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01:22:40,080 --> 01:22:42,880
Speaker 1: But I will say this, I was not for even

1454
01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:45,639
Speaker 1: or not a second I thought it was a cool video,

1455
01:22:45,880 --> 01:22:48,599
Speaker 1: and then I'm like, there's no way even Tom Brady

1456
01:22:48,640 --> 01:22:50,439
Speaker 1: can pull this off. And then I was thinking about

1457
01:22:50,479 --> 01:22:53,439
Speaker 1: the workings of the jugs machine and how you have

1458
01:22:53,640 --> 01:22:56,639
Speaker 1: to because the ball sits in a little for lack

1459
01:22:56,680 --> 01:22:59,840
Speaker 1: of a better term, holster, and the person operating the

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01:23:00,040 --> 01:23:02,800
Speaker 1: jugs machine has to then push the holster forward into

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01:23:02,880 --> 01:23:05,280
Speaker 1: the wheels of the jugs machine to get the ball

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01:23:05,360 --> 01:23:08,200
Speaker 1: to fire out. So if you're working at the other

1463
01:23:08,360 --> 01:23:10,839
Speaker 1: end of this thing and throwing it into a jugs machine,

1464
01:23:11,520 --> 01:23:13,320
Speaker 1: you have to throw it hard enough not only to

1465
01:23:14,240 --> 01:23:16,919
Speaker 1: overcome the momentum of the wheels that are spinning outward

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01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:19,800
Speaker 1: at you, but it's strong enough to get it through

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01:23:19,880 --> 01:23:22,280
Speaker 1: that and then sit back in the holster and then

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01:23:22,479 --> 01:23:26,040
Speaker 1: reload and come back out at you. I mean, you're

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01:23:26,080 --> 01:23:31,200
Speaker 1: defying about five laws of physics there. Well, yeah, I

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01:23:31,280 --> 01:23:34,120
Speaker 1: mean there's it doesn't work at any on any level

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01:23:34,240 --> 01:23:39,400
Speaker 1: that does not work. Did you see his other posts?

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01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:44,919
Speaker 1: I did not. So this was on Friday. He posts

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01:23:45,720 --> 01:23:49,680
Speaker 1: how it started versus how It's going, and there's a

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01:23:49,720 --> 01:23:53,720
Speaker 1: photo of him as a rookie throwing a football. There's

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01:23:53,720 --> 01:23:56,160
Speaker 1: another photo of him with a shaved head as a

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01:23:56,240 --> 01:23:59,439
Speaker 1: rookie presumably you know, rookie hazing and whatnot. And then

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Speaker 1: there's a photo of him with all seven rings on

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01:24:02,160 --> 01:24:07,120
Speaker 1: his fingers. Ye can't deny that one one and made

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01:24:07,160 --> 01:24:10,040
Speaker 1: me want to throw up. Yeah, that I had. I

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01:24:10,120 --> 01:24:12,200
Speaker 1: had an issue with that. I saw they also he's

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01:24:12,240 --> 01:24:18,439
Speaker 1: got so he's got seven rings and he's got him

1482
01:24:18,439 --> 01:24:20,080
Speaker 1: all on his fingers. And then there's a you know

1483
01:24:20,200 --> 01:24:23,160
Speaker 1: the you know, Twitter's under you know, the Internet's undefeated.

1484
01:24:23,200 --> 01:24:28,280
Speaker 1: So in his empty, in his empty, they've got they've

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01:24:28,320 --> 01:24:33,800
Speaker 1: got them all labeled like, um, the Falcons choked the

1486
01:24:33,920 --> 01:24:38,680
Speaker 1: Patriots defense. Uh, there's empty fingers. Two of them are

1487
01:24:38,720 --> 01:24:42,519
Speaker 1: Eli Manning, Yeah, the other one is Peyton Manning. And

1488
01:24:42,680 --> 01:24:45,120
Speaker 1: there was another one that was called Malcolm Butler, right,

1489
01:24:45,240 --> 01:24:47,720
Speaker 1: Malcolm Butler game right, So they were all all the

1490
01:24:47,800 --> 01:24:52,640
Speaker 1: rings were labor was the empty fingers that yeah, so

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01:24:53,040 --> 01:24:58,760
Speaker 1: good for him. The Internet remains undefeated. Uh, yeah, it

1492
01:24:58,840 --> 01:25:00,880
Speaker 1: was pretty good, good stuff. But yeah, I gotta tip

1493
01:25:00,960 --> 01:25:04,320
Speaker 1: my hat to him. I don't think there's a Um,

1494
01:25:04,520 --> 01:25:07,800
Speaker 1: there is not a pro athlete out there who has

1495
01:25:07,880 --> 01:25:10,879
Speaker 1: gotten my attention in a more pleasant way this offseason

1496
01:25:10,920 --> 01:25:14,120
Speaker 1: than Tom Brady has in multiple occasions. Yeah, I know

1497
01:25:14,200 --> 01:25:17,160
Speaker 1: you because you've met him, talk to him surely with

1498
01:25:17,240 --> 01:25:20,439
Speaker 1: all your CBS interviews and stuff, and I know you've

1499
01:25:20,439 --> 01:25:23,519
Speaker 1: said it. And Jim Kelly says the same thing. He's

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01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:27,280
Speaker 1: a hard guy not to like. Yeah, he's he is,

1501
01:25:27,320 --> 01:25:30,040
Speaker 1: which sounds like such a foreign concept for Bills fans

1502
01:25:30,080 --> 01:25:32,240
Speaker 1: who have hated him forever. He is who he seems

1503
01:25:32,280 --> 01:25:36,040
Speaker 1: to be. He there's nothing, um, there's nothing fake about

1504
01:25:36,120 --> 01:25:38,240
Speaker 1: him at all. And he's genuine, he really is, and

1505
01:25:38,320 --> 01:25:40,120
Speaker 1: that's why you know, that's why guys rally around him.

1506
01:25:40,160 --> 01:25:42,640
Speaker 1: That's why guys play want to play with him, you know,

1507
01:25:42,760 --> 01:25:44,600
Speaker 1: on his team, and that's why they play hard on

1508
01:25:44,760 --> 01:25:47,839
Speaker 1: his team. Um, he does. And he's a great competitor

1509
01:25:47,880 --> 01:25:50,960
Speaker 1: and a great teammate. So you know, he's You don't

1510
01:25:51,080 --> 01:25:54,600
Speaker 1: get seven rings like the ones we're seeing on on

1511
01:25:54,880 --> 01:25:56,760
Speaker 1: MSG right now. You don't get seven of those things

1512
01:25:56,800 --> 01:25:59,800
Speaker 1: without being pretty special. He is his face. Yeah, he's

1513
01:25:59,800 --> 01:26:04,680
Speaker 1: just special, dude, um, and he found his spot in

1514
01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:10,840
Speaker 1: the perfect location and has put together the greatest career

1515
01:26:10,920 --> 01:26:14,200
Speaker 1: by any quarterback ever. So what are you gonna do? Yeah,

1516
01:26:14,760 --> 01:26:16,800
Speaker 1: in terms of championships, ye, give him his due and

1517
01:26:16,880 --> 01:26:21,600
Speaker 1: be thankful. He's forty three, right, that, which begs the

1518
01:26:21,680 --> 01:26:24,880
Speaker 1: next question. How much longer, dude? Like two more years

1519
01:26:25,040 --> 01:26:28,760
Speaker 1: playing for the Bucks? Now? Right? Yep? The Bills will

1520
01:26:28,800 --> 01:26:32,240
Speaker 1: see him, as we know, in December, late in the

1521
01:26:32,320 --> 01:26:35,439
Speaker 1: season down there in Tampa four twenty five. Kick, I believe.

1522
01:26:35,560 --> 01:26:39,600
Speaker 1: So I get. Yeah, I've got people, buddies who you know,

1523
01:26:39,680 --> 01:26:41,960
Speaker 1: I get access to tickets one you know, we do.

1524
01:26:42,120 --> 01:26:44,040
Speaker 1: I gotta pay for him it once in a while

1525
01:26:44,120 --> 01:26:45,800
Speaker 1: for a tough game I can get if I have

1526
01:26:45,920 --> 01:26:48,599
Speaker 1: enough lead. Right, Yeah, you can't get tickets for the Tampas.

1527
01:26:48,720 --> 01:26:51,880
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't get a tough one already. Go

1528
01:26:51,960 --> 01:26:54,760
Speaker 1: on the secondary market and pay through then. Yeah, that's

1529
01:26:54,840 --> 01:26:57,200
Speaker 1: that's who the guy. The ticket executives here and they're

1530
01:26:57,200 --> 01:27:02,080
Speaker 1: like asking, nna be tough. I okay, you know it's

1531
01:27:02,200 --> 01:27:05,760
Speaker 1: that everybody wants to go to Tampa Bay because it one.

1532
01:27:05,840 --> 01:27:08,280
Speaker 1: It's people go to Miami all time. Bills fans love

1533
01:27:08,360 --> 01:27:10,760
Speaker 1: Miami because you know, and Bill's mafia. I'll tell you,

1534
01:27:10,800 --> 01:27:13,720
Speaker 1: it's like going to watch their dad beat up somebody, right.

1535
01:27:13,760 --> 01:27:17,840
Speaker 1: So then because it's your daddy game, Yeah, that's the

1536
01:27:18,040 --> 01:27:21,080
Speaker 1: Josh Allen game. And then Tampa Bay is another team

1537
01:27:21,240 --> 01:27:22,600
Speaker 1: you don't get to go that often, you know, so

1538
01:27:22,680 --> 01:27:24,519
Speaker 1: it's nice to see new cities, you know, and it's

1539
01:27:24,560 --> 01:27:26,639
Speaker 1: a destination. Go down to the beach and whatever. It's

1540
01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:28,920
Speaker 1: a month it's going to be and have fun. So

1541
01:27:29,040 --> 01:27:31,280
Speaker 1: that's a big game for the for the away crowd.

1542
01:27:31,400 --> 01:27:35,760
Speaker 1: This year it seems to be. Yeah, I mean, let's

1543
01:27:35,800 --> 01:27:37,840
Speaker 1: not forget Nashville is still on the schedule, and that's

1544
01:27:37,840 --> 01:27:42,280
Speaker 1: always a popular spot for Bills fans, and Nashville is

1545
01:27:42,479 --> 01:27:47,519
Speaker 1: that hasn't changed. Nashville is my favorite. Other NFL city,

1546
01:27:47,720 --> 01:27:51,719
Speaker 1: the one that they unfortunately missed last year was Las Vegas.

1547
01:27:52,960 --> 01:27:55,920
Speaker 1: They could have been one of the first road road

1548
01:27:56,000 --> 01:27:59,840
Speaker 1: team fans to christen that one, and yeah, it would

1549
01:27:59,840 --> 01:28:02,599
Speaker 1: have a heck of a christening, shall we say, would

1550
01:28:02,640 --> 01:28:04,080
Speaker 1: have been fun. But now they got to wait, what

1551
01:28:04,320 --> 01:28:08,000
Speaker 1: is it eight years? Is that right? Well, unless you

1552
01:28:08,120 --> 01:28:11,280
Speaker 1: have a cross divisional thing, like if the Bills finish

1553
01:28:11,360 --> 01:28:13,439
Speaker 1: in first and the Raiders win the division in the West,

1554
01:28:13,520 --> 01:28:17,480
Speaker 1: and you play them as your non division in conference.

1555
01:28:17,760 --> 01:28:20,320
Speaker 1: You know those two games you have and shure of that,

1556
01:28:20,479 --> 01:28:22,200
Speaker 1: and there's a coin flips to where they play here

1557
01:28:22,240 --> 01:28:24,479
Speaker 1: or there. Short of that, you're seeing them on the

1558
01:28:24,600 --> 01:28:29,840
Speaker 1: road and yeah, eight years years break time here, final

1559
01:28:29,920 --> 01:28:31,559
Speaker 1: hour of the show coming up. More of your thoughts

1560
01:28:31,600 --> 01:28:33,160
Speaker 1: on the tweet sheet or give us a call eight

1561
01:28:33,240 --> 01:28:35,479
Speaker 1: oh three oh five fifty one eight eight eight five

1562
01:28:35,640 --> 01:28:38,560
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty. What will benefit the Bills the

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01:28:38,720 --> 01:28:42,400
Speaker 1: most going into the twenty twenty one season. It's a

1564
01:28:42,640 --> 01:28:45,320
Speaker 1: different lead up to the regular season than it was

1565
01:28:45,439 --> 01:28:48,120
Speaker 1: last year. What will benefit this team the most as

1566
01:28:48,160 --> 01:28:52,719
Speaker 1: they get ready for a highly anticipated twenty twenty one campaign.

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01:28:53,320 --> 01:28:55,519
Speaker 1: More of that next Here on one Bills Live presented

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01:28:55,520 --> 01:29:15,679
Speaker 1: by Kalata Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio at a Steve

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01:29:15,960 --> 01:29:19,240
Speaker 1: Tasker who has been all over her fields. Kind of unique.

1570
01:29:19,240 --> 01:29:20,880
Speaker 1: He was kind of a dual roll of thunder for you,

1571
01:29:21,200 --> 01:29:27,760
Speaker 1: Steve a blimp. We're not even in the strato beere

1572
01:29:28,120 --> 01:29:36,840
Speaker 1: of normalcy. Here our number three Monday edition one Bills Live.

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01:29:36,960 --> 01:29:40,719
Speaker 1: As we sit on the precipice of training Camp twenty

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01:29:40,800 --> 01:29:46,880
Speaker 1: twenty one and to the dramatic music danta Um. So

1575
01:29:47,040 --> 01:29:50,680
Speaker 1: we're eagerly anticipating it in case you couldn't tell, as

1576
01:29:50,760 --> 01:29:54,519
Speaker 1: we will have more real football to discuss instead of

1577
01:29:54,640 --> 01:29:58,360
Speaker 1: prognosticating and projecting and things of that nature. But we're

1578
01:29:58,439 --> 01:30:02,920
Speaker 1: not there yet. So with that in mind, we dive

1579
01:30:03,000 --> 01:30:07,000
Speaker 1: into one of the Camp countdown topics that were covered

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01:30:07,040 --> 01:30:10,240
Speaker 1: on Buffalo bills dot com. The countdown is continuing. Who

1581
01:30:10,240 --> 01:30:13,800
Speaker 1: Are the Training Camp Sleepers was the latest edition, so

1582
01:30:14,000 --> 01:30:17,040
Speaker 1: check that out on Buffalo bills dot com. We are

1583
01:30:17,200 --> 01:30:22,040
Speaker 1: going to dive into this one though. Three potential breakout

1584
01:30:22,160 --> 01:30:25,760
Speaker 1: players on offense this season. Certainly you would put Cole

1585
01:30:25,840 --> 01:30:30,160
Speaker 1: Beasley in that category from last year. Maybe yeah, you

1586
01:30:30,280 --> 01:30:32,160
Speaker 1: probably put Gabe Davis in there, even though he only

1587
01:30:32,200 --> 01:30:34,240
Speaker 1: caught thirty five balls. For a rookie fourth round pick

1588
01:30:34,280 --> 01:30:36,880
Speaker 1: who had seven touchdowns and tied for the team lead

1589
01:30:36,960 --> 01:30:42,000
Speaker 1: in receiving touchdowns with Stefon Diggs at seven, you'd say, yeah,

1590
01:30:42,080 --> 01:30:45,160
Speaker 1: breakout season for him, and I guess even though it

1591
01:30:45,280 --> 01:30:48,000
Speaker 1: was widely anticipated he would be the unquestioned number one

1592
01:30:48,080 --> 01:30:50,960
Speaker 1: receiver in this offense, leading the league in receptions and

1593
01:30:51,280 --> 01:30:55,680
Speaker 1: receiving yards. It's a breakout season for Stefan Diggs in

1594
01:30:55,800 --> 01:31:00,479
Speaker 1: terms of being stamped universally as elite. So I guess

1595
01:31:00,520 --> 01:31:03,960
Speaker 1: those are different ways of breaking out. But who do

1596
01:31:04,120 --> 01:31:08,080
Speaker 1: you think on offense has the ability to break out

1597
01:31:09,080 --> 01:31:13,040
Speaker 1: this season? Are who are your top candidates for something

1598
01:31:13,120 --> 01:31:17,439
Speaker 1: like that? Offensively, yes, we are Offensively speaking, I think

1599
01:31:17,520 --> 01:31:20,400
Speaker 1: Isaiah Hodgins has got a chance, But I think the biggest,

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01:31:20,400 --> 01:31:23,280
Speaker 1: the guy who's going to get the most opportunity is

1601
01:31:23,360 --> 01:31:26,320
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary. I think he's got a chance to rush

1602
01:31:26,360 --> 01:31:29,639
Speaker 1: for a thousand yards, maybe like eleven hundred yards. Given

1603
01:31:29,680 --> 01:31:31,840
Speaker 1: the atmosphere around the offense and what they're going to

1604
01:31:31,920 --> 01:31:33,280
Speaker 1: need to do and what teams are going to do

1605
01:31:33,320 --> 01:31:36,400
Speaker 1: to combat what the Bills were a year ago, I

1606
01:31:36,479 --> 01:31:39,000
Speaker 1: think he'll get chances to be better. I think the

1607
01:31:39,040 --> 01:31:41,439
Speaker 1: offensive line is going to be a tick better than

1608
01:31:41,520 --> 01:31:43,439
Speaker 1: it was a year ago, particularly in the run game.

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01:31:43,920 --> 01:31:46,560
Speaker 1: And I think that you know, falls the fact that

1610
01:31:46,840 --> 01:31:49,479
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary may be that guy. I think teams will

1611
01:31:49,520 --> 01:31:52,320
Speaker 1: do whatever they can to invite the Bills to run

1612
01:31:52,360 --> 01:31:54,880
Speaker 1: a little more than they did last year, and Josh

1613
01:31:54,880 --> 01:31:56,920
Speaker 1: will be an unselfish quarterback. He'll check out of a

1614
01:31:56,920 --> 01:31:59,479
Speaker 1: pass and give it to Devin Singletary and they'll do it.

1615
01:32:00,479 --> 01:32:05,519
Speaker 1: They'll they'll get first downs that way. So I think

1616
01:32:05,600 --> 01:32:07,559
Speaker 1: he has a chance enough. Of course, I've always said

1617
01:32:07,600 --> 01:32:10,320
Speaker 1: I think Dawson Knox is gonna gonna develop this year

1618
01:32:10,360 --> 01:32:12,600
Speaker 1: as well. I think he's gonna be I think this

1619
01:32:12,720 --> 01:32:15,040
Speaker 1: will be the year where people say, oh, Okay, there's

1620
01:32:15,080 --> 01:32:17,040
Speaker 1: the guy we thought we wanted, that we kind of

1621
01:32:17,040 --> 01:32:19,840
Speaker 1: get and we've been waiting on. Yeah. I like Singletary

1622
01:32:19,880 --> 01:32:24,519
Speaker 1: a lot for this, just knowing the offseason that he's

1623
01:32:24,560 --> 01:32:28,360
Speaker 1: put in the work on the speed element of his game.

1624
01:32:29,040 --> 01:32:34,479
Speaker 1: We had his trainer, his offseason trainer on our show,

1625
01:32:35,680 --> 01:32:38,120
Speaker 1: what's his name, Nick Hicks? I think yes, we had

1626
01:32:38,200 --> 01:32:41,599
Speaker 1: him on our show just before Mini Camp, I want

1627
01:32:41,640 --> 01:32:46,400
Speaker 1: to say, and he basically said, motor has a motor now.

1628
01:32:46,840 --> 01:32:54,120
Speaker 1: That was his direct quote. And it's his estimation that Singletary,

1629
01:32:54,600 --> 01:33:00,160
Speaker 1: who never really was taught the mechanics of having the

1630
01:33:00,280 --> 01:33:04,479
Speaker 1: most efficient explosive stride possible as a runner, has been

1631
01:33:04,560 --> 01:33:09,800
Speaker 1: taught that now. And in hicks estimation, he believes that

1632
01:33:09,960 --> 01:33:14,760
Speaker 1: Singletary has hacked off two tenths from his forty time

1633
01:33:15,720 --> 01:33:19,840
Speaker 1: and he claims that coming out, Singletary was running in

1634
01:33:19,880 --> 01:33:22,639
Speaker 1: the mid four fives. He had a horrible combine run

1635
01:33:22,720 --> 01:33:25,840
Speaker 1: at four to sixty six. But it needs two tenths

1636
01:33:25,880 --> 01:33:29,120
Speaker 1: off that he is going to be moving faster than

1637
01:33:29,120 --> 01:33:32,840
Speaker 1: anybody's gonna anticipate. It'll be interesting into this season. I

1638
01:33:32,880 --> 01:33:37,920
Speaker 1: mean it's a big statement, and to be honest, if

1639
01:33:37,960 --> 01:33:41,200
Speaker 1: it's true, we'll all see it. It's not gonna be like,

1640
01:33:41,280 --> 01:33:43,559
Speaker 1: well like, you won't have to take the coach's word

1641
01:33:43,600 --> 01:33:46,879
Speaker 1: for when you see a guy who's that has improved

1642
01:33:46,920 --> 01:33:49,639
Speaker 1: that much. It's gonna be like Josh Allen from twenty

1643
01:33:49,880 --> 01:33:53,160
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty twenty. You're gonna see that when Devin Singletary

1644
01:33:53,240 --> 01:33:55,080
Speaker 1: hits the field with the ball in his hands, and

1645
01:33:55,240 --> 01:33:59,200
Speaker 1: if he has indeed improved as much as his trainer

1646
01:33:59,280 --> 01:34:02,080
Speaker 1: has said he as, you will notice it absolutely. So

1647
01:34:03,200 --> 01:34:06,320
Speaker 1: it's out there and perhaps that'll be enough. But I

1648
01:34:06,400 --> 01:34:08,760
Speaker 1: also think there's gonna be a little bit more opportunity

1649
01:34:08,840 --> 01:34:12,639
Speaker 1: this year. When the Bills said, and we've talked about

1650
01:34:12,640 --> 01:34:14,320
Speaker 1: it at gazillion times, they said, they want to run

1651
01:34:14,360 --> 01:34:17,960
Speaker 1: the ball better, not more, just better. But when you

1652
01:34:18,080 --> 01:34:21,160
Speaker 1: run it better, you're more inclined to run it more.

1653
01:34:21,240 --> 01:34:23,160
Speaker 1: Because you have more faith in the fact that it's

1654
01:34:23,160 --> 01:34:25,280
Speaker 1: going to come up big for you in certain situations

1655
01:34:25,360 --> 01:34:27,000
Speaker 1: that maybe a year ago you didn't have faith in.

1656
01:34:27,760 --> 01:34:30,519
Speaker 1: So you will give it a little extra in the

1657
01:34:30,600 --> 01:34:33,679
Speaker 1: running game in certain situations. May it won't become dominant

1658
01:34:33,720 --> 01:34:36,160
Speaker 1: part of your offense. I don't think at any point

1659
01:34:36,240 --> 01:34:39,400
Speaker 1: this season, but there may be a few more situations

1660
01:34:39,880 --> 01:34:43,000
Speaker 1: whereas you're more willing to hand it off having faith

1661
01:34:43,080 --> 01:34:44,240
Speaker 1: that you're going to be able to pick up the

1662
01:34:44,280 --> 01:34:45,920
Speaker 1: first down or get done what you need to get

1663
01:34:45,920 --> 01:34:50,680
Speaker 1: done on that down. So because of that, yeah, I

1664
01:34:50,720 --> 01:34:52,720
Speaker 1: think Devin Singletary has got a chance to break out.

1665
01:34:52,800 --> 01:34:55,840
Speaker 1: But I still think for me, the guy that we're

1666
01:34:55,840 --> 01:34:58,000
Speaker 1: going to see do some things that help this team

1667
01:34:58,040 --> 01:34:59,800
Speaker 1: win on a consistent basis, it's going to be Dawson

1668
01:35:00,240 --> 01:35:02,720
Speaker 1: the tight end. You would you would say that it's

1669
01:35:02,760 --> 01:35:08,040
Speaker 1: all lining up favorably for him, chiefly because him Knox

1670
01:35:08,120 --> 01:35:13,960
Speaker 1: you mean, yeah, Knocks, because they did not sign some veteran,

1671
01:35:14,160 --> 01:35:17,280
Speaker 1: some proven veteran tight end. They did sign Jacob Hollister,

1672
01:35:19,640 --> 01:35:24,599
Speaker 1: but he's not all that much older the Knox Um.

1673
01:35:25,800 --> 01:35:28,160
Speaker 1: You know, he's played four seasons in the league. This

1674
01:35:28,280 --> 01:35:33,599
Speaker 1: will be Knox's third, so you know, and he hasn't

1675
01:35:33,640 --> 01:35:39,720
Speaker 1: been a major primary target in his career as a

1676
01:35:39,800 --> 01:35:42,519
Speaker 1: receiving tight end. I mean his best season is the

1677
01:35:42,600 --> 01:35:45,400
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen season with Seattle when he had forty one

1678
01:35:45,479 --> 01:35:49,680
Speaker 1: catches and three touchdowns. So last year, I mean, his

1679
01:35:49,800 --> 01:35:53,200
Speaker 1: numbers were around where Dawson Knoxes were. It's what role

1680
01:35:53,320 --> 01:35:58,000
Speaker 1: does he have? Could he be could he impede potentially

1681
01:35:58,080 --> 01:36:01,519
Speaker 1: the progress of Dawson Knox or do you think, well,

1682
01:36:01,560 --> 01:36:03,960
Speaker 1: how do you see that shaken out? Well, depending if

1683
01:36:05,040 --> 01:36:07,519
Speaker 1: the way I would anticipate it without ever having seen

1684
01:36:07,600 --> 01:36:09,519
Speaker 1: any either of them play this season, I would you know,

1685
01:36:09,600 --> 01:36:11,160
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox is going to be the number one guy,

1686
01:36:11,240 --> 01:36:14,080
Speaker 1: and if they go four wide a lot, they're gonna

1687
01:36:14,280 --> 01:36:17,200
Speaker 1: you know, that means Dawson's in and you know knocks

1688
01:36:17,360 --> 01:36:20,160
Speaker 1: is in and Hollister's out. But I do know this

1689
01:36:20,479 --> 01:36:23,160
Speaker 1: last year we saw a ton of tight ends down

1690
01:36:23,240 --> 01:36:26,280
Speaker 1: in the red zone and in short yardage, goal line

1691
01:36:26,360 --> 01:36:29,640
Speaker 1: kind of situations. So Hollister would be a factor in that,

1692
01:36:31,560 --> 01:36:35,599
Speaker 1: much like Tyler Croft was a year ago. So that's

1693
01:36:35,640 --> 01:36:39,040
Speaker 1: where I think Hollister will get most of his snaps offensively,

1694
01:36:39,120 --> 01:36:41,479
Speaker 1: Certainly they'll have two tight end packages, three tight end

1695
01:36:41,520 --> 01:36:44,120
Speaker 1: packages where Hollister will be in that mix as well.

1696
01:36:44,160 --> 01:36:46,559
Speaker 1: But I think and there will be times when Hollister

1697
01:36:46,640 --> 01:36:51,320
Speaker 1: will come in to give Knocks a break for whatever reason,

1698
01:36:51,479 --> 01:36:54,240
Speaker 1: or there may be some plays where they like the

1699
01:36:54,280 --> 01:36:59,680
Speaker 1: way Hollister runs it better. But I you know, I

1700
01:36:59,720 --> 01:37:01,760
Speaker 1: think the lead dog's gonna be Dawson Knox. I don't

1701
01:37:01,800 --> 01:37:03,439
Speaker 1: think the tight end I don't think the two tight

1702
01:37:03,560 --> 01:37:08,479
Speaker 1: end set is going to be vastly more used this

1703
01:37:08,680 --> 01:37:10,400
Speaker 1: year than it was maybe a given week or two.

1704
01:37:10,400 --> 01:37:13,759
Speaker 1: Where it happens right, it'll matchups dictated. Say, for instance,

1705
01:37:13,800 --> 01:37:17,479
Speaker 1: if if over the course of a thousand plays in

1706
01:37:17,560 --> 01:37:21,760
Speaker 1: the regular season or maybe maybe twelve hundred plays in

1707
01:37:21,880 --> 01:37:30,240
Speaker 1: a seventeen game schedule, the offensive personnel used the two

1708
01:37:30,320 --> 01:37:32,960
Speaker 1: tight end set will probably be used one hundred and

1709
01:37:33,120 --> 01:37:37,320
Speaker 1: fifty times, you know, maybe a little less than fifteen percent,

1710
01:37:37,720 --> 01:37:40,240
Speaker 1: you know, twelve or ten percent, eleven percent, maybe four

1711
01:37:40,360 --> 01:37:44,360
Speaker 1: or whatever. And I think eighty percent of that will

1712
01:37:44,360 --> 01:37:46,439
Speaker 1: be in like two games, three games, you know what

1713
01:37:46,520 --> 01:37:48,519
Speaker 1: I mean. They'll go through two or three games during

1714
01:37:48,560 --> 01:37:51,080
Speaker 1: a seventeen game schedule where the two tight end set

1715
01:37:51,160 --> 01:37:53,720
Speaker 1: will be a massive part of their game plan. That

1716
01:37:53,960 --> 01:37:57,160
Speaker 1: kind of situation where Hollister will be is where it'll be.

1717
01:37:57,360 --> 01:37:59,280
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, It'll be a matchup kind

1718
01:37:59,280 --> 01:38:01,960
Speaker 1: of thing, and defense matchup because we know, I mean,

1719
01:38:02,040 --> 01:38:04,320
Speaker 1: Brian Dabel's not going to hesitate if he sees an

1720
01:38:04,320 --> 01:38:07,680
Speaker 1: advantageous matchup against a given opponent where if they go

1721
01:38:07,800 --> 01:38:11,080
Speaker 1: Hollister and knocks on the field more than just going

1722
01:38:11,160 --> 01:38:14,920
Speaker 1: ten personnel with four wide receivers, he won't hesitate. He'll

1723
01:38:15,000 --> 01:38:17,639
Speaker 1: do it, whether it's a package, whether it's the full

1724
01:38:17,640 --> 01:38:21,120
Speaker 1: blown crux of the game plan. In a given week,

1725
01:38:21,240 --> 01:38:23,559
Speaker 1: he'll turn to that page in the book and say,

1726
01:38:23,840 --> 01:38:25,120
Speaker 1: this is what we're doing because this is going to

1727
01:38:25,200 --> 01:38:29,120
Speaker 1: work the best against this team. You know, maybe it's

1728
01:38:29,120 --> 01:38:32,639
Speaker 1: a team that's got really good corners, so you put

1729
01:38:32,680 --> 01:38:34,599
Speaker 1: two tight ends on the field to maybe have them

1730
01:38:34,640 --> 01:38:37,600
Speaker 1: put an extra safety out there or an extra linebacker,

1731
01:38:37,720 --> 01:38:40,240
Speaker 1: and because you like your tight ends against linebackers and

1732
01:38:40,280 --> 01:38:43,200
Speaker 1: safeties better. Whatever it is, whatever matchup you're trying to

1733
01:38:44,000 --> 01:38:47,640
Speaker 1: force them into or get them to switch to. We

1734
01:38:47,800 --> 01:38:52,519
Speaker 1: know that Dabel is really good at manipulating defenses and

1735
01:38:52,640 --> 01:38:56,519
Speaker 1: creating space for his receiving targets. So Josh can find Answers,

1736
01:38:58,400 --> 01:39:02,040
Speaker 1: So there's that. Is there any so Knocks and Singletary,

1737
01:39:02,080 --> 01:39:04,480
Speaker 1: I would, I would agree are probably the prime candidates.

1738
01:39:04,760 --> 01:39:06,560
Speaker 1: Is there a third? Is there a third that we

1739
01:39:06,640 --> 01:39:09,719
Speaker 1: can get to? I know you mentioned Hodgens. I suppose

1740
01:39:09,840 --> 01:39:12,800
Speaker 1: we Hodgens is he's not gonna play that much, even

1741
01:39:12,840 --> 01:39:14,280
Speaker 1: if he's you know what I mean. I mean, it's

1742
01:39:14,280 --> 01:39:16,400
Speaker 1: just the opportunity he's not going to be there for him.

1743
01:39:16,920 --> 01:39:22,000
Speaker 1: Um yeah, I don't know. It's a it's a short

1744
01:39:22,080 --> 01:39:25,599
Speaker 1: list because the roster is so set and all those

1745
01:39:25,680 --> 01:39:30,479
Speaker 1: guys are all the guys around that, you know, Beasley, Digs,

1746
01:39:31,960 --> 01:39:37,840
Speaker 1: Manuel Sanders, Gabe Davis, Devin Singletary, they're all established. They

1747
01:39:37,880 --> 01:39:40,559
Speaker 1: all kind of had good years last year. Now, Imanuel

1748
01:39:40,600 --> 01:39:42,240
Speaker 1: Sanders is new to the Bills, but he's a guy

1749
01:39:42,280 --> 01:39:45,640
Speaker 1: who's you know, you've got expectations for him. You I

1750
01:39:45,680 --> 01:39:48,000
Speaker 1: would think you've got to at least expect the production

1751
01:39:48,120 --> 01:39:50,559
Speaker 1: per game when he's on the field that you got

1752
01:39:50,600 --> 01:39:55,360
Speaker 1: out of John Brown. So who else is it gonna be?

1753
01:39:55,560 --> 01:39:58,120
Speaker 1: Could it be? I mean, do you account you don't

1754
01:39:58,120 --> 01:40:00,599
Speaker 1: even factor in linement? Well, I was gonna say, could

1755
01:40:00,640 --> 01:40:03,880
Speaker 1: you factor in the fact that maybe Spencer Brown takes

1756
01:40:03,960 --> 01:40:06,280
Speaker 1: right tackle, and what if, like Bucker is the starter

1757
01:40:06,360 --> 01:40:08,960
Speaker 1: at left guard and he starts the whole year there, right,

1758
01:40:09,200 --> 01:40:11,320
Speaker 1: that would be that could be a breakout kind of thing.

1759
01:40:11,360 --> 01:40:13,400
Speaker 1: I mean, he started a handful of games last year

1760
01:40:14,479 --> 01:40:17,920
Speaker 1: in place of Cody Ford after the season ending knee injury,

1761
01:40:18,600 --> 01:40:21,839
Speaker 1: So I guess you could maybe list him as a candidate.

1762
01:40:21,920 --> 01:40:24,120
Speaker 1: But that's going on the assumption that he's not only

1763
01:40:24,200 --> 01:40:27,280
Speaker 1: beating out Cody Ford, but he's beating out a guy

1764
01:40:27,400 --> 01:40:29,640
Speaker 1: like for as Lamp. He's beating out a guy like

1765
01:40:30,720 --> 01:40:34,400
Speaker 1: even the draft choice Jack Anderson. So you know, it's

1766
01:40:35,000 --> 01:40:37,439
Speaker 1: it's not just beating one guy. You're beating a handful

1767
01:40:37,479 --> 01:40:40,760
Speaker 1: of people on this offensive line this season coming out

1768
01:40:40,840 --> 01:40:44,120
Speaker 1: of camp, you know what I mean. So yeah, I

1769
01:40:44,200 --> 01:40:47,120
Speaker 1: mean I think you can quantify that with a lineman,

1770
01:40:47,439 --> 01:40:50,639
Speaker 1: although it's not the traditional sense of breaking out per se,

1771
01:40:50,680 --> 01:40:54,080
Speaker 1: but why should they be excluded, you know? And I

1772
01:40:54,200 --> 01:40:57,800
Speaker 1: think if you do have an offensive lineman that has

1773
01:40:57,840 --> 01:41:00,800
Speaker 1: a breakout year, I mean you got to have a

1774
01:41:00,880 --> 01:41:02,680
Speaker 1: guy that like goes to the Pro Bowl. I mean,

1775
01:41:02,760 --> 01:41:04,720
Speaker 1: it could be a guy like John Feliciano getting the

1776
01:41:04,800 --> 01:41:06,680
Speaker 1: nod for a Pro Bowl. Berth that kind of thing,

1777
01:41:08,240 --> 01:41:10,360
Speaker 1: or Dion Dawkins for that matter, one of you know,

1778
01:41:10,439 --> 01:41:12,639
Speaker 1: one of those guys, Mitch Morse. But I think that's

1779
01:41:12,640 --> 01:41:14,080
Speaker 1: what you kind of had to look at because it's

1780
01:41:14,080 --> 01:41:17,960
Speaker 1: hard because it's such a group oriented thing. You'd like

1781
01:41:18,040 --> 01:41:20,960
Speaker 1: to have, well, you'd love to have all those guys

1782
01:41:21,040 --> 01:41:22,680
Speaker 1: have breakout years and all of a sudden you've got

1783
01:41:22,720 --> 01:41:25,040
Speaker 1: the best offensive line in the National Football League. That's

1784
01:41:25,320 --> 01:41:28,519
Speaker 1: that's how you win championships as well. Let's go back

1785
01:41:28,560 --> 01:41:31,800
Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet where you guys are answering what

1786
01:41:31,880 --> 01:41:34,160
Speaker 1: will benefit the Bills the most going into the twenty

1787
01:41:34,240 --> 01:41:38,840
Speaker 1: twenty one season. Bills Fanatic three one five says, perceptively,

1788
01:41:39,439 --> 01:41:42,960
Speaker 1: for that front office, it is a they have continuity,

1789
01:41:43,040 --> 01:41:47,479
Speaker 1: but this roster is no easy way in of any sort.

1790
01:41:47,920 --> 01:41:50,679
Speaker 1: The coaches are absolutely watching this leading up to the season,

1791
01:41:50,760 --> 01:41:53,640
Speaker 1: So preseason would fit in the category with option A.

1792
01:41:54,240 --> 01:41:56,960
Speaker 1: Either way, we're in a good position. So he sounds

1793
01:41:56,960 --> 01:42:00,200
Speaker 1: a little divided between choice A and choice C, which

1794
01:42:00,320 --> 01:42:05,040
Speaker 1: was preseason games as opposed to full training camp. Eli

1795
01:42:05,240 --> 01:42:09,320
Speaker 1: says full offseason program and training camp has its advantages.

1796
01:42:09,360 --> 01:42:11,479
Speaker 1: It will help the rookies get acclimated to the NFL,

1797
01:42:11,600 --> 01:42:15,200
Speaker 1: then the preseason games. It's basically a huge scouting program

1798
01:42:15,280 --> 01:42:17,160
Speaker 1: to select your best players to put on the field.

1799
01:42:17,200 --> 01:42:20,680
Speaker 1: It gives opportunity to lower picks and undrafted players. You know,

1800
01:42:20,880 --> 01:42:23,360
Speaker 1: there's a point that we were I remember us talking

1801
01:42:23,360 --> 01:42:27,800
Speaker 1: about last year at this time. Without preseason games and

1802
01:42:28,200 --> 01:42:32,560
Speaker 1: without padded practices in training camp, it really was a

1803
01:42:32,680 --> 01:42:37,960
Speaker 1: disadvantage for the undrafted rookies, maybe those street free agent

1804
01:42:38,040 --> 01:42:40,000
Speaker 1: guys that are trying to make an impression and make

1805
01:42:40,000 --> 01:42:43,439
Speaker 1: a roster They were robbed of the opportunity not only

1806
01:42:44,240 --> 01:42:46,720
Speaker 1: to convince the coaching staff they were practicing in front

1807
01:42:46,760 --> 01:42:49,360
Speaker 1: of every day in terms of a real football setting.

1808
01:42:49,680 --> 01:42:52,639
Speaker 1: They weren't even putting game tape out there for thirty

1809
01:42:52,680 --> 01:42:54,599
Speaker 1: one other teams to look at if they weren't good

1810
01:42:54,680 --> 01:42:58,040
Speaker 1: enough to make this team. Yeah, they lost that opportunity

1811
01:42:58,080 --> 01:43:00,559
Speaker 1: without preseason game. We spoke about this little earlier. It's

1812
01:43:00,600 --> 01:43:03,519
Speaker 1: hard for a young player to showcase his entire skill

1813
01:43:03,600 --> 01:43:05,360
Speaker 1: set when he doesn't ever get to do it in

1814
01:43:05,400 --> 01:43:10,800
Speaker 1: a live setting, particularly for defenders. The physical aspect of

1815
01:43:10,880 --> 01:43:15,960
Speaker 1: playing pro football is something that is a coveted characteristic,

1816
01:43:17,280 --> 01:43:18,920
Speaker 1: and how do you know who has it? If you

1817
01:43:19,000 --> 01:43:22,920
Speaker 1: never get to showcase it. So it was lacking in

1818
01:43:23,600 --> 01:43:28,200
Speaker 1: their ability to evaluate the young players in particular, think

1819
01:43:28,200 --> 01:43:30,479
Speaker 1: about guys trying to make the team on special teams

1820
01:43:30,520 --> 01:43:36,640
Speaker 1: and never taking a live rep, not one that's you

1821
01:43:36,720 --> 01:43:39,439
Speaker 1: know what, Yeah, that's it's an impossible task for the

1822
01:43:39,520 --> 01:43:42,400
Speaker 1: coaching staff. And I don't know what you use to

1823
01:43:42,479 --> 01:43:48,360
Speaker 1: evaluate if it's not live game reps. Yeah, because coaches

1824
01:43:48,400 --> 01:43:50,680
Speaker 1: like to go with what they know, and if they

1825
01:43:50,720 --> 01:43:53,280
Speaker 1: don't know where they're not sure that they can trust

1826
01:43:53,840 --> 01:43:57,720
Speaker 1: because of lack of exposure to a given player in

1827
01:43:57,880 --> 01:44:00,960
Speaker 1: game type settings where that's where you evaluate and say,

1828
01:44:01,000 --> 01:44:03,120
Speaker 1: can I trust this guy to do the right thing

1829
01:44:03,920 --> 01:44:07,880
Speaker 1: when something maybe goes off the page? Does he still

1830
01:44:07,960 --> 01:44:10,719
Speaker 1: react properly? Does he revert back to our base rules

1831
01:44:11,160 --> 01:44:13,320
Speaker 1: and still make a good play even if it's not

1832
01:44:13,439 --> 01:44:15,880
Speaker 1: the best play? Like those are the kinds of things

1833
01:44:15,960 --> 01:44:20,200
Speaker 1: coaches are looking for, and absent padded practices which resemble

1834
01:44:20,280 --> 01:44:24,719
Speaker 1: real football, and certainly absent preseason games, the coaching staff

1835
01:44:24,760 --> 01:44:27,080
Speaker 1: has had a whole lot less to go on. Last year, Yeah,

1836
01:44:27,360 --> 01:44:30,280
Speaker 1: it was, I mean they came up and did the

1837
01:44:30,360 --> 01:44:33,000
Speaker 1: best they could to put guys in a in a

1838
01:44:33,080 --> 01:44:36,120
Speaker 1: position where they could you know, see him athletically, but

1839
01:44:36,360 --> 01:44:43,400
Speaker 1: it totally became an exercise in technique and intellect and

1840
01:44:43,520 --> 01:44:45,360
Speaker 1: being in the right spot. It was never about the

1841
01:44:45,439 --> 01:44:49,200
Speaker 1: physical part of the game. And that's a place where

1842
01:44:49,240 --> 01:44:51,040
Speaker 1: a lot of football I don't think anybody's ever been

1843
01:44:51,120 --> 01:44:53,800
Speaker 1: before in football, right, I mean, it's you always want

1844
01:44:53,840 --> 01:44:55,439
Speaker 1: to see guys mix it up and you always talk

1845
01:44:55,479 --> 01:44:58,679
Speaker 1: about particularly back in the day, and it's changed somewhat

1846
01:44:58,880 --> 01:45:01,040
Speaker 1: evolved away from this, but it's like, man, the guy

1847
01:45:01,240 --> 01:45:03,679
Speaker 1: came into training and he hit everything that will stand around.

1848
01:45:03,760 --> 01:45:05,600
Speaker 1: It was just he was a physical player and he

1849
01:45:05,640 --> 01:45:09,120
Speaker 1: just had to make the team. Nobody could do that

1850
01:45:09,280 --> 01:45:14,200
Speaker 1: last year. So it'll be different and it will make

1851
01:45:14,240 --> 01:45:17,120
Speaker 1: an enormous difference, but so much so that you know,

1852
01:45:17,280 --> 01:45:19,479
Speaker 1: coaches will be more confident in the players they pick

1853
01:45:20,120 --> 01:45:22,519
Speaker 1: and they feel like they probably will make fewer mistakes

1854
01:45:22,600 --> 01:45:24,760
Speaker 1: in their roster if they made in at all. Yeah.

1855
01:45:24,800 --> 01:45:26,559
Speaker 1: I mean, for lack of a better term, the long

1856
01:45:26,600 --> 01:45:30,479
Speaker 1: shots became longer shots last summer because they just didn't

1857
01:45:30,520 --> 01:45:34,000
Speaker 1: have the opportunity. Yeah. Kyle on the tweet sheet says

1858
01:45:34,240 --> 01:45:38,680
Speaker 1: it's preseason games. The lack of preseason left rust on

1859
01:45:38,760 --> 01:45:41,519
Speaker 1: some players for week one, and with the return of Star,

1860
01:45:42,280 --> 01:45:45,000
Speaker 1: preseason games would be perfect for him to loosen up

1861
01:45:45,040 --> 01:45:47,439
Speaker 1: and get back into action. Will also allow the coaches

1862
01:45:47,840 --> 01:45:51,840
Speaker 1: to decide returners and the potential of Christian Wade. And

1863
01:45:51,920 --> 01:45:54,880
Speaker 1: there it is. I was waiting for someone to mention

1864
01:45:55,080 --> 01:45:58,200
Speaker 1: Christian Wade because there is an example of a guy

1865
01:45:58,360 --> 01:46:01,559
Speaker 1: who lost a chance to not only make an impression

1866
01:46:01,600 --> 01:46:03,559
Speaker 1: on this Bill staff how far has he come, how

1867
01:46:03,640 --> 01:46:06,679
Speaker 1: far has he progressed, but also to put another three

1868
01:46:06,760 --> 01:46:08,840
Speaker 1: games of tape out there in some way, shape or

1869
01:46:08,880 --> 01:46:10,400
Speaker 1: form for a team that might be looking for a

1870
01:46:10,479 --> 01:46:13,960
Speaker 1: developmental running back. But they but Kyle brings up another

1871
01:46:14,040 --> 01:46:19,080
Speaker 1: good point. Steve, a veteran opt out. I mean, I

1872
01:46:19,120 --> 01:46:21,760
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna take three preseason game for someone

1873
01:46:21,840 --> 01:46:24,120
Speaker 1: like Star Latulala in the experience that he has in

1874
01:46:24,200 --> 01:46:26,200
Speaker 1: this league to be ready for the regular season. But

1875
01:46:27,000 --> 01:46:29,000
Speaker 1: you certainly want him to knock some rust off in

1876
01:46:29,080 --> 01:46:31,439
Speaker 1: a game setting. You want to see him back in

1877
01:46:31,520 --> 01:46:32,880
Speaker 1: there for sure, and he wants to get in there

1878
01:46:32,880 --> 01:46:35,720
Speaker 1: and do it as well. It doesn't take long at all,

1879
01:46:37,240 --> 01:46:41,360
Speaker 1: But you gotta do it. I mean, you gotta get

1880
01:46:41,400 --> 01:46:45,240
Speaker 1: ready somehow, some way, And there's with as close to

1881
01:46:45,320 --> 01:46:48,200
Speaker 1: the real thing as possible, and there's no way, there's

1882
01:46:48,240 --> 01:46:52,200
Speaker 1: no way to get ready without doing what you think

1883
01:46:52,240 --> 01:46:54,800
Speaker 1: you're supposed to do. I mean, you know what I mean,

1884
01:46:55,240 --> 01:46:57,880
Speaker 1: there's nobody to do it without going through it. And

1885
01:47:00,120 --> 01:47:04,240
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just Yeah, Christian Wade was probably

1886
01:47:04,320 --> 01:47:07,719
Speaker 1: one of the guys who was probably the hurt, probably

1887
01:47:07,840 --> 01:47:10,320
Speaker 1: hurt by the lack of preseason last year than any

1888
01:47:10,360 --> 01:47:12,800
Speaker 1: of the player on the roster because of all the

1889
01:47:12,880 --> 01:47:14,720
Speaker 1: things he has to learn and has to go through

1890
01:47:14,800 --> 01:47:19,680
Speaker 1: to get ready to be in the NFL. He's been

1891
01:47:19,760 --> 01:47:22,760
Speaker 1: here for two years, but he's only been practicing. He

1892
01:47:22,880 --> 01:47:25,439
Speaker 1: had two games to showcase what he did, and we

1893
01:47:25,520 --> 01:47:27,800
Speaker 1: all saw it. I mean, the guy almost scored every

1894
01:47:27,840 --> 01:47:30,519
Speaker 1: time he touched the football and it was pretty exciting

1895
01:47:30,560 --> 01:47:36,000
Speaker 1: to see. But how do you evaluate a guy like

1896
01:47:36,120 --> 01:47:42,000
Speaker 1: that without playing preseason games. Yeah, it's hard. It's hard

1897
01:47:42,360 --> 01:47:44,960
Speaker 1: because because even if you like what you see from

1898
01:47:45,040 --> 01:47:49,080
Speaker 1: him in the practice setting, you have to also remind yourself, hey,

1899
01:47:49,160 --> 01:47:50,960
Speaker 1: this guy has seen these guys every day for the

1900
01:47:51,040 --> 01:47:53,479
Speaker 1: last three weeks. He's seen a lot of these plays

1901
01:47:53,520 --> 01:47:56,240
Speaker 1: from the defense already. He kind of knows these reads

1902
01:47:56,320 --> 01:47:58,559
Speaker 1: like the back of his hand because he's seen him

1903
01:47:58,600 --> 01:48:02,000
Speaker 1: so much in practice. I want to see him when

1904
01:48:02,040 --> 01:48:04,799
Speaker 1: he doesn't know what's coming right, how does he adjust?

1905
01:48:04,920 --> 01:48:06,519
Speaker 1: And you got to ask him and I said this

1906
01:48:06,600 --> 01:48:09,759
Speaker 1: one when they signed Christian Wade as a rugby player.

1907
01:48:10,960 --> 01:48:13,200
Speaker 1: The instinctual part of it, with the ball in your

1908
01:48:13,280 --> 01:48:17,479
Speaker 1: hand will come more naturally than the part where it's

1909
01:48:17,520 --> 01:48:19,479
Speaker 1: a pass playing. He has to step up and block

1910
01:48:19,600 --> 01:48:23,000
Speaker 1: someone because that's something he's never done before at all ever.

1911
01:48:23,880 --> 01:48:25,559
Speaker 1: And he even saw when he broke had the ball

1912
01:48:25,600 --> 01:48:28,799
Speaker 1: in his hands, he broke the long pass play against

1913
01:48:28,880 --> 01:48:33,560
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers. He didn't understand how to use his

1914
01:48:33,640 --> 01:48:37,679
Speaker 1: own blockers. He reverted to rugby, which is completely different

1915
01:48:37,720 --> 01:48:41,280
Speaker 1: than American football. Whereas in rugby you can't have anybody

1916
01:48:41,320 --> 01:48:44,360
Speaker 1: blocking for running interference for you, so you don't you

1917
01:48:44,479 --> 01:48:46,840
Speaker 1: run away from your own guys and not towards them,

1918
01:48:46,880 --> 01:48:48,599
Speaker 1: and in football it's the opposite. You run. He get

1919
01:48:48,600 --> 01:48:50,320
Speaker 1: in the middle of them so they can block guys

1920
01:48:50,320 --> 01:48:52,760
Speaker 1: away from you and keep you safe. He didn't know that,

1921
01:48:52,960 --> 01:48:55,240
Speaker 1: didn't and that's not instinctual to him. So that's stuff

1922
01:48:55,280 --> 01:48:57,800
Speaker 1: that shows up in games that otherwise you wouldn't have

1923
01:48:57,800 --> 01:49:01,560
Speaker 1: got a chance to see there's so many nuances to

1924
01:49:01,640 --> 01:49:05,440
Speaker 1: the game like that, and you know he's got ostensibly

1925
01:49:05,560 --> 01:49:07,640
Speaker 1: had further to go than anybody else and lost an

1926
01:49:07,800 --> 01:49:10,960
Speaker 1: entire season preseason for it. Yeah, and that was the

1927
01:49:11,360 --> 01:49:14,479
Speaker 1: Carolina game. That was the Carolina preseason game where if

1928
01:49:14,560 --> 01:49:17,439
Speaker 1: he just stayed outside and ran off the rear end

1929
01:49:17,479 --> 01:49:19,960
Speaker 1: to Duke Williams who was blocking down field on that play,

1930
01:49:20,200 --> 01:49:23,040
Speaker 1: he might have had another touchdown run to pair up

1931
01:49:23,080 --> 01:49:25,320
Speaker 1: with the other one that he had in that preseason

1932
01:49:25,360 --> 01:49:28,800
Speaker 1: where everybody went gaga. It was fun. Man. It was

1933
01:49:28,840 --> 01:49:31,240
Speaker 1: like he was like a cult hero for like two weeks.

1934
01:49:32,280 --> 01:49:35,840
Speaker 1: It was crazy. So it was kind of cool to

1935
01:49:35,960 --> 01:49:38,120
Speaker 1: see all of that unfold. And then we all got

1936
01:49:38,240 --> 01:49:40,800
Speaker 1: robbed of seeing how much further he could take his

1937
01:49:40,920 --> 01:49:44,280
Speaker 1: game last summer because says, we know there were no

1938
01:49:45,000 --> 01:49:48,519
Speaker 1: preseason games. Break time for us here when we come back,

1939
01:49:48,800 --> 01:49:51,600
Speaker 1: a little NFL True false comes your way, Steve and

1940
01:49:51,680 --> 01:49:53,920
Speaker 1: I will dive into that when we return here on

1941
01:49:54,000 --> 01:49:56,759
Speaker 1: One Bills Live, presented by Collot of Health. It's Buffalo

1942
01:49:56,880 --> 01:50:12,280
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Well, welcome back, final half hour of the

1943
01:50:12,280 --> 01:50:14,680
Speaker 1: show here on One Bills Live, and it's time for

1944
01:50:14,840 --> 01:50:19,200
Speaker 1: us to dive into a little NFL true falls, Steve,

1945
01:50:19,400 --> 01:50:23,320
Speaker 1: are you ready? Yes? NFL true false? Brought to you,

1946
01:50:23,439 --> 01:50:27,920
Speaker 1: as always by Yancy's Fancy New York's artists in Cheese,

1947
01:50:28,560 --> 01:50:32,680
Speaker 1: And we begin in the AFC South Urban Meyer, new

1948
01:50:32,760 --> 01:50:35,720
Speaker 1: head coach. As we know, Bills will be playing the

1949
01:50:35,800 --> 01:50:40,080
Speaker 1: Jaguars this season. So the question, Steve, NFL true false

1950
01:50:40,200 --> 01:50:45,600
Speaker 1: Number one, Urban Meyer's coaching style will not transition to

1951
01:50:45,680 --> 01:50:50,559
Speaker 1: the NFL, I will say false. I think it probably

1952
01:50:50,680 --> 01:50:54,960
Speaker 1: will transfer to the NFL. And the reason I say

1953
01:50:55,000 --> 01:50:59,320
Speaker 1: that is because Urban is to me, he's a leader

1954
01:50:59,560 --> 01:51:03,760
Speaker 1: that inslates right, that translates. I do think a big

1955
01:51:03,800 --> 01:51:06,080
Speaker 1: ted Lasso fan, so I think he can do that.

1956
01:51:06,800 --> 01:51:08,960
Speaker 1: I think he will have to. I think he will

1957
01:51:09,040 --> 01:51:11,240
Speaker 1: have to too. I'm taking full credit for your ted

1958
01:51:11,320 --> 01:51:14,680
Speaker 1: Lasso fandom. By the way. I think he will have

1959
01:51:14,880 --> 01:51:20,880
Speaker 1: to tweak his approach to some degree because I think

1960
01:51:20,920 --> 01:51:25,360
Speaker 1: we can agree that professional athletes are not the same

1961
01:51:25,400 --> 01:51:28,720
Speaker 1: thing as college players. Sure, and I'm not saying that

1962
01:51:28,760 --> 01:51:31,519
Speaker 1: he's going to coach the Jacksonville Jaguars exactly like he

1963
01:51:31,560 --> 01:51:34,040
Speaker 1: coached the Ohio State Buckeyes or the Florida Gates or

1964
01:51:34,080 --> 01:51:36,200
Speaker 1: anybody like that. I'm just saying he's going to be

1965
01:51:36,280 --> 01:51:38,639
Speaker 1: a really good pro coach. I will say that because

1966
01:51:38,640 --> 01:51:41,120
Speaker 1: I think he's a no nonsense guy. Players respond to it.

1967
01:51:41,200 --> 01:51:44,040
Speaker 1: He's a leader, he knows how to and I've listened

1968
01:51:44,080 --> 01:51:47,200
Speaker 1: to some of the things he's spoken about on leadership,

1969
01:51:47,880 --> 01:51:51,439
Speaker 1: and I think that translates. So I think, yeah, he's

1970
01:51:51,479 --> 01:51:53,360
Speaker 1: not his team is. He's not going to be the

1971
01:51:53,439 --> 01:51:56,720
Speaker 1: Ohio State Urban Meyer, but he is going to be

1972
01:51:58,080 --> 01:52:02,639
Speaker 1: a coach that that team can win with. I I'm

1973
01:52:02,680 --> 01:52:07,160
Speaker 1: conflicted here because I that's how I kind of interpreted

1974
01:52:07,240 --> 01:52:11,280
Speaker 1: the question here, or the statement that his coaching style

1975
01:52:11,320 --> 01:52:13,880
Speaker 1: will not transition to the NFL. I'm thinking back to

1976
01:52:15,200 --> 01:52:22,920
Speaker 1: his what's the best word here, his ignorance in hiring

1977
01:52:23,000 --> 01:52:27,760
Speaker 1: the coach that had been fired elsewhere due to some

1978
01:52:28,160 --> 01:52:33,360
Speaker 1: off the field incidents inappropriate behavior with players, and he

1979
01:52:33,520 --> 01:52:35,760
Speaker 1: just blindly hired the guy, not thinking there would be

1980
01:52:35,800 --> 01:52:38,240
Speaker 1: any repercussions. And it's just like, well, you know, you're

1981
01:52:38,240 --> 01:52:40,680
Speaker 1: not the dictator anymore at Ohio State. You're in the

1982
01:52:40,800 --> 01:52:44,320
Speaker 1: NFL and people are watching and there are going to

1983
01:52:44,360 --> 01:52:46,479
Speaker 1: be issues there. And so I was thinking to myself,

1984
01:52:46,520 --> 01:52:49,160
Speaker 1: I don't know, Jeys, is he completely on the ball?

1985
01:52:49,240 --> 01:52:51,200
Speaker 1: Here with what he has undertaken now that he is

1986
01:52:51,240 --> 01:52:54,439
Speaker 1: an NFL head coach and the Tim Tebow hunt. You know, yeah,

1987
01:52:54,920 --> 01:52:58,080
Speaker 1: that's different. The other thing bothers me more, or at

1988
01:52:58,160 --> 01:53:00,320
Speaker 1: least gave me pause and said, is he really ready

1989
01:53:00,320 --> 01:53:06,360
Speaker 1: for this? I think, knowing how obsessed he is and

1990
01:53:06,520 --> 01:53:10,240
Speaker 1: what a perfectionist he is, I think the vast majority

1991
01:53:10,280 --> 01:53:13,040
Speaker 1: of what he will do will be beneficial to the Jaguars.

1992
01:53:14,120 --> 01:53:16,680
Speaker 1: I think they could win six or seven games this

1993
01:53:16,840 --> 01:53:21,960
Speaker 1: year with him. So I will say false, but with

1994
01:53:22,040 --> 01:53:25,759
Speaker 1: a bit of cautious optimism that you know, his coaching

1995
01:53:25,800 --> 01:53:27,880
Speaker 1: style will translate. I think he will figure it out.

1996
01:53:27,960 --> 01:53:29,840
Speaker 1: I just don't know if it's all gonna If he's

1997
01:53:29,840 --> 01:53:31,519
Speaker 1: gonna figure it all out in year one, well it's

1998
01:53:31,520 --> 01:53:34,400
Speaker 1: not gonna. Yeah. Coaching coaching the NFL is a different

1999
01:53:34,479 --> 01:53:37,960
Speaker 1: job description than coaching the head coach at Power five

2000
01:53:38,080 --> 01:53:41,599
Speaker 1: conference in college. It's a different job. Football is at

2001
01:53:41,600 --> 01:53:44,360
Speaker 1: the core of both of them. But you don't recruit

2002
01:53:44,400 --> 01:53:46,920
Speaker 1: in the NFL, you know what I mean? Yea, and

2003
01:53:47,640 --> 01:53:49,960
Speaker 1: your players are not going to be better than everybody

2004
01:53:50,000 --> 01:53:54,800
Speaker 1: else's players top to bottom. You'll have different matchups and stuff.

2005
01:53:54,840 --> 01:53:58,679
Speaker 1: But but that to me is something you know going

2006
01:53:58,800 --> 01:54:03,280
Speaker 1: in and like you said, there's certain things he's got

2007
01:54:03,360 --> 01:54:05,040
Speaker 1: to learn about. Hey, you know what's important in the

2008
01:54:05,160 --> 01:54:07,120
Speaker 1: NFL and what you know, what are dues and don't

2009
01:54:07,600 --> 01:54:11,000
Speaker 1: I get that. But once he gets through this season,

2010
01:54:11,520 --> 01:54:13,240
Speaker 1: if he gets a taste for it and likes it,

2011
01:54:13,280 --> 01:54:14,439
Speaker 1: I think that's what it's going to be. If he

2012
01:54:14,600 --> 01:54:16,040
Speaker 1: likes it, I think he's going to pursue it and

2013
01:54:16,120 --> 01:54:18,280
Speaker 1: continue with it. And I think because there's been some

2014
01:54:18,400 --> 01:54:21,360
Speaker 1: college coaches like Nick Saban in particular, and others who

2015
01:54:21,439 --> 01:54:23,320
Speaker 1: have said I'm just not that good at it Lou

2016
01:54:23,400 --> 01:54:26,120
Speaker 1: Holtz back in the day, there have been other guys

2017
01:54:26,160 --> 01:54:28,080
Speaker 1: who came from college to the pros who did not

2018
01:54:28,240 --> 01:54:33,600
Speaker 1: like it, and for whatever reason, Nick Saban. So you know,

2019
01:54:33,680 --> 01:54:38,000
Speaker 1: we'll see, yeah, we'll see yeah, well yeah, But I

2020
01:54:38,080 --> 01:54:39,720
Speaker 1: think he can coach. I don't think yeah. And I

2021
01:54:39,800 --> 01:54:42,920
Speaker 1: think he'll feel the competitive side this season. I mean it.

2022
01:54:44,000 --> 01:54:45,920
Speaker 1: I don't know that the Jags are going to be

2023
01:54:46,680 --> 01:54:49,080
Speaker 1: a gamming at all. And I think there might be

2024
01:54:49,200 --> 01:54:51,120
Speaker 1: some teams that make the mistake of assuming that this

2025
01:54:51,240 --> 01:54:54,440
Speaker 1: season it might get victimized by this team. But we'll

2026
01:54:54,480 --> 01:54:57,920
Speaker 1: see NFL true falls Number two. This is probably the

2027
01:54:58,080 --> 01:55:02,040
Speaker 1: lightning round question. It's an easy answer for me. Cam

2028
01:55:02,120 --> 01:55:04,880
Speaker 1: Newton is guaranteed to play better in twenty twenty one

2029
01:55:07,120 --> 01:55:10,320
Speaker 1: guarantees a big word. But yeah, I'll say, yeah, I

2030
01:55:10,400 --> 01:55:14,120
Speaker 1: expect it. Yeah, Okay, I expect it. I I don't

2031
01:55:14,240 --> 01:55:17,720
Speaker 1: know how they go back to him without knowing that

2032
01:55:17,800 --> 01:55:22,800
Speaker 1: there's more under the hood, and certainly the bar is

2033
01:55:22,880 --> 01:55:28,800
Speaker 1: not that high. The biggest question mark for me and

2034
01:55:29,080 --> 01:55:33,560
Speaker 1: Cam Newton is how's he going to be better physically

2035
01:55:33,640 --> 01:55:35,600
Speaker 1: at this age with another year of wear and tear

2036
01:55:35,720 --> 01:55:38,280
Speaker 1: on him? You know what I mean, He's got to

2037
01:55:38,400 --> 01:55:40,760
Speaker 1: throw it better. Otherwise he's gonna, you know, by week

2038
01:55:40,880 --> 01:55:43,080
Speaker 1: four or five, if he's a starting quarterback, he's gonna

2039
01:55:43,120 --> 01:55:46,320
Speaker 1: he's gonna be Man, I'm getting beat up, you know.

2040
01:55:48,200 --> 01:55:54,240
Speaker 1: I Um, I know, I ruthlessly beat on this guy

2041
01:55:54,320 --> 01:55:58,680
Speaker 1: after what we saw from him last year. And like

2042
01:55:58,840 --> 01:56:02,600
Speaker 1: I he was a fantastic talent in his prime. I

2043
01:56:02,760 --> 01:56:06,640
Speaker 1: just think those days are long gone. And when you

2044
01:56:06,760 --> 01:56:11,600
Speaker 1: throw guaranteed to play better in twenty twenty one, I

2045
01:56:11,640 --> 01:56:15,680
Speaker 1: will guarantee you who knows the offensive system better. I

2046
01:56:15,800 --> 01:56:21,640
Speaker 1: will guarantee you that he can know going into a

2047
01:56:21,720 --> 01:56:24,800
Speaker 1: play what he's supposed to do. I just am not

2048
01:56:25,000 --> 01:56:29,840
Speaker 1: convinced that his execution is going to be demonstrably better

2049
01:56:29,920 --> 01:56:33,600
Speaker 1: than it was last season, a year later, a year older,

2050
01:56:34,320 --> 01:56:38,480
Speaker 1: especially with the first round quarterback pushing him, whose skill

2051
01:56:38,520 --> 01:56:41,600
Speaker 1: set is in stark contrast to his own, and who

2052
01:56:41,680 --> 01:56:45,880
Speaker 1: I think blends better with what Josh McDaniels, the offensive coordinator,

2053
01:56:45,920 --> 01:56:47,640
Speaker 1: wants to do in New England. It would not shock

2054
01:56:47,720 --> 01:56:50,280
Speaker 1: me if he doesn't even get the opportunity to play

2055
01:56:50,360 --> 01:56:54,680
Speaker 1: better in twenty twenty one. So I will say I

2056
01:56:54,760 --> 01:56:57,120
Speaker 1: will say false, because I don't know if he's even

2057
01:56:57,160 --> 01:57:00,480
Speaker 1: going to get that chance. I think with the two

2058
01:57:00,560 --> 01:57:02,680
Speaker 1: tight ends they signed in free agency, and the wide

2059
01:57:02,720 --> 01:57:05,400
Speaker 1: receivers and the and the what they can do with

2060
01:57:05,680 --> 01:57:07,720
Speaker 1: two guys at the end of the line scrimmage outside

2061
01:57:07,760 --> 01:57:11,920
Speaker 1: both tackles, I think the Patriots feel like they could

2062
01:57:12,920 --> 01:57:17,720
Speaker 1: start small with mac Jones offensively and grow at an

2063
01:57:17,760 --> 01:57:21,200
Speaker 1: accelerated pace to protect him and give him more things

2064
01:57:21,280 --> 01:57:23,560
Speaker 1: to do, and you know, week by week, give him

2065
01:57:23,600 --> 01:57:25,360
Speaker 1: more and more to handle, and by the end of

2066
01:57:25,400 --> 01:57:28,440
Speaker 1: the season being a spot, particularly with a seventeen game schedule,

2067
01:57:28,480 --> 01:57:30,840
Speaker 1: where you got more time just that much, you know,

2068
01:57:32,000 --> 01:57:34,960
Speaker 1: much more time to get it done. I just think

2069
01:57:37,760 --> 01:57:40,080
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if Cam Newton doesn't see the

2070
01:57:40,120 --> 01:57:41,640
Speaker 1: field either. As a starter. I think, you know what

2071
01:57:41,680 --> 01:57:43,560
Speaker 1: I mean, just go with mac Jones right off the

2072
01:57:43,640 --> 01:57:47,480
Speaker 1: get if they feel like they can start him slow enough.

2073
01:57:47,840 --> 01:57:50,840
Speaker 1: And then you know what I and I it's it's

2074
01:57:50,880 --> 01:57:57,120
Speaker 1: a Patriots. You know, Cam Newton's a short yardage quarterback. Yeah,

2075
01:57:57,720 --> 01:57:59,600
Speaker 1: I know what you're saying. They'll do that. I mean,

2076
01:57:59,600 --> 01:58:02,400
Speaker 1: they'll air what he thinks. He'll jump on board with it.

2077
01:58:02,480 --> 01:58:06,160
Speaker 1: Belichick will sell it to him. Mac Jones will run

2078
01:58:06,200 --> 01:58:07,920
Speaker 1: the offense when he's under center, and then when they

2079
01:58:07,960 --> 01:58:09,880
Speaker 1: get into a third and one or fourth and one

2080
01:58:10,000 --> 01:58:12,800
Speaker 1: or fourth and two, Cam Newton comes on runs a

2081
01:58:12,880 --> 01:58:19,680
Speaker 1: package because that guy is a dynamite short yardage quarterback. Okay,

2082
01:58:20,200 --> 01:58:22,560
Speaker 1: I mean I could see it. But if that's the case,

2083
01:58:22,600 --> 01:58:24,520
Speaker 1: he ain't playing better than he did last year. No, No,

2084
01:58:24,840 --> 01:58:28,080
Speaker 1: if that's what he's reduced to, certainly not right. NFL

2085
01:58:28,200 --> 01:58:35,160
Speaker 1: true false Number three, name image and likeless lawlessness. Name

2086
01:58:35,240 --> 01:58:39,440
Speaker 1: image and likeness laws will sway the NFL draft early

2087
01:58:39,840 --> 01:58:42,720
Speaker 1: entry decisions. We had a conversation about these last week

2088
01:58:42,760 --> 01:58:44,920
Speaker 1: with one of our guests, Think Matt Miller. I think

2089
01:58:44,960 --> 01:58:49,440
Speaker 1: it's a hidden facet of the nil legislation in the

2090
01:58:49,560 --> 01:58:53,120
Speaker 1: NCAA that gives college athletes a chance to make money

2091
01:58:53,160 --> 01:58:55,920
Speaker 1: on their name, image, and likeness at the collegiate level,

2092
01:58:56,240 --> 01:58:59,160
Speaker 1: where some of them, and I mean a large handful

2093
01:58:59,200 --> 01:59:02,440
Speaker 1: of them will make less money turning pro than they

2094
01:59:02,480 --> 01:59:05,520
Speaker 1: are in college. In certain programs, there are some that

2095
01:59:05,560 --> 01:59:08,520
Speaker 1: are making six figures. There are some that are almost

2096
01:59:08,560 --> 01:59:13,240
Speaker 1: making seven yeah, and haven't played a snap Alabama quarterback.

2097
01:59:13,680 --> 01:59:16,080
Speaker 1: So if you're doing that, I mean, why would you

2098
01:59:16,200 --> 01:59:21,680
Speaker 1: come out early? Yeah? You know what, go in bolster

2099
01:59:21,800 --> 01:59:24,280
Speaker 1: your stock in the NFL while still making enough to

2100
01:59:24,360 --> 01:59:26,720
Speaker 1: help your family, which is the big draw to some

2101
01:59:26,920 --> 01:59:28,680
Speaker 1: players coming out. They want to help their family as

2102
01:59:28,720 --> 01:59:34,280
Speaker 1: quickly as possible. Why, you know, do it? Stay in school?

2103
01:59:35,080 --> 01:59:37,720
Speaker 1: You got that. It's guaranteed. There's nobody on that roster

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Speaker 1: that's gonna beat you out right. I'm most interested in

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Speaker 1: how this is going to impact the twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: draft class, because if you remember, the twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: draft class was uncharacteristically small in terms of the total

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Speaker 1: pool of draftable players. It was like six hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty and it's usually closer to I want to say

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Speaker 1: it was thirteen or fourteen hundred. It's closer to that

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Speaker 1: number on most years. Where does that number go? In

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two? A reason a lot of the kids

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Speaker 1: came back was because the NCAA granted a lot of

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Speaker 1: players an extra year of eligibility after their seasons were canceled,

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Speaker 1: either at the FCS level or depending on what conference

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Speaker 1: you played in, so they weren't losing a year of

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Speaker 1: eligibility because they didn't play. So you can come back

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Speaker 1: for another year, you know, exhaust your eligibility and then

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Speaker 1: enter the draft. And a lot of players did that. Well,

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Speaker 1: I wonder how much this shifts it the other way

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Speaker 1: there's not and shrinks the pool. I don't know how

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Speaker 1: many juniors usually come out, but the fourteen hundred number

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Speaker 1: you're talking about, it is graduating seniors from Power five

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Speaker 1: conference schools and other schools who are you know, senior

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Speaker 1: Bowl guys and stuff. Because of the upwards of one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty junior eligibles. Right, so that's like ten

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Speaker 1: percent of the class that's juniors. Yeah, that ten percent

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Speaker 1: will probably shrink. Yeah, the question is to what degree?

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm curious about it'll be. And if you're

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Speaker 1: a good enough player to be a first or a

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Speaker 1: second round draft joys, when you're a junior, you're not

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Speaker 1: waiting an extra year now necessarily unless you're making a

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Speaker 1: good buck breakup bucks. Yeah, unless you're making six figures

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Speaker 1: or whatever. And because you know too, that's six figures

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Speaker 1: for a guy of that caliber at that level is

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Speaker 1: guaranteed because he's nobody's beating him out. Nobody's gonna come

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Speaker 1: in and take Trevor Lawrence's job. Nobody's gonna come in

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Speaker 1: and take Naji Harris or Travis Atn's job. You know there,

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Speaker 1: it just doesn't happen. It'd be like thinking back and

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Speaker 1: somebody's gonna take Sam Doarnold's job at USC's. It's just

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Speaker 1: not gonna happen. And schools like like Alabama and USC

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Speaker 1: and those there, that's where these guys are getting ahead

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Speaker 1: financially doing that. So that guaranteed money on a chance

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Speaker 1: that you might get drafted in the NFL in the

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Speaker 1: second round, third round. It it becomes a math problem, right,

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Speaker 1: Crunch the numbers. Crunch the numbers, say, you know what,

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Speaker 1: it's guarantee. I'm gonna stay right here for another year

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Speaker 1: and see if I can get that number. When I

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Speaker 1: do go to the NFL, I'm gonna play well and

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Speaker 1: see if I can inflate my draft value. Yeah. So

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Speaker 1: with respect to nil laws, I will say true. It

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Speaker 1: will sway NFL draft early entry decisions. Are you true

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Speaker 1: on that? Your double true? That is NFL true false?

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Speaker 1: Brought to you by Yancy's Fancy New York's artists and cheese.

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Speaker 1: Steve and I back in a sect to close things

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Speaker 1: up here on a Monday on One Bill's Live. What

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Speaker 1: have we learned? Brought to you by Skyworks, the official

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Speaker 1: construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. We have

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Speaker 1: learned from reports that Aaron Rodgers, with his back channel communicating,

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Speaker 1: is indicated he will intend to suit up for the

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Speaker 1: Packers this season for all intents and purposes. At least,

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Speaker 1: that's what we're being led to believe. As Ian Rampaport

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Speaker 1: and some others have said, Aaron Rodgers is indicated to

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Speaker 1: people close to him that he does plan to play

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Speaker 1: for Green Bay this season. That is the expectation. Many

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Speaker 1: factors at play, but with J M. Bryan gutencous saying

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Speaker 1: he is hopeful for a positive outcome. There is a

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Speaker 1: glimmer of optimism. So where does it go from here?

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Speaker 1: We shall see. But quarterbacks kind of ruled the roost

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Speaker 1: all offseason with all the movement we saw, and now

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Speaker 1: we're heading into training camp and it looks like it's

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Speaker 1: going to still be the case with him and the

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson situation. Just yeah, I'm loading out there. I

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Speaker 1: can't wait to get to training camp in the season

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Speaker 1: because I want to see all the stuff that happened

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Speaker 1: that was more normal. The first offseason transaction we heard

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Speaker 1: about was Matthew Stafford to the La Rams and Jared

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Speaker 1: Golf to Detroit, and that's completely seems like a lifetime

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Speaker 1: ago that that happened. I want to see Matt Stafford

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Speaker 1: play for the Rams. I think that's a base deal

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Speaker 1: that has gotten forgotten in all of this he said,

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Speaker 1: she said stuff, and all the debate that's been going

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Speaker 1: on about how this training camp is gonna look and

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Speaker 1: who's gonna be good in the word, if Aaron Rodgers're

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Speaker 1: gonna play, Deshaun Watson's problems and all the other stuff. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was a it's been an offense an offseason dominated

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Speaker 1: by quarterback movement and quarterback strife. But when it doesn't

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Speaker 1: look like that's going away, well, when that yeah, but

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Speaker 1: when they kick it off, everybody else is going to

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Speaker 1: have a say in how those guys are doing, too, true,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's it's gonna be interesting to see

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Speaker 1: what happens with the Pack, not only going down the

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Speaker 1: road but right now. Yeah. We also learned what the

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Speaker 1: likely asking price is from the Texans for Deshaun Watson,

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Speaker 1: although I don't think anybody believes the trade is imminent. Now,

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Speaker 1: why would the Texans trade a player who's off the

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Speaker 1: field future is uncertain at best. You'd be dealing from

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Speaker 1: a position to weakness, not strength. But five high draft

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Speaker 1: choices and two starting players. That's what Chris Mortenson reported

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Speaker 1: the Texans are looking for after talking to a couple

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Speaker 1: of executives around the league. Ben Voland from the Boston

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Speaker 1: Globe on the show Tomorrow, we are radio only tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: So if you watch us on MSG jump on the

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Speaker 1: Bills app, you'll be able to listen to us live

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Speaker 1: there even if you are outside the listening area. Steve

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Speaker 1: and I'll be here. We'll see you tomorrow on Veteran

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Speaker 1: Report Day for the Bills. We'll see it in here

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Speaker 1: on one Bills Live