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Speaker 1: to time. Welcome to another edition of Radio Only one

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Speaker 1: Bills live, Yes, for we're in our fifth month of

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Speaker 1: Radio only. Um back in the day he used to

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Speaker 1: be able to catch us on MSG. We look great

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Speaker 1: for a minute, you know now it's Radio only Me

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Speaker 1: from my house, Chris Brown from his palatial estate. I

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Speaker 1: charged in two days. Yeah, I haven't had a haircut

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Speaker 1: bother nobody cares here we are? But here we are,

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Speaker 1: Steve to asker Chris Brown, we're here till three o'clock.

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Speaker 1: We got to Bucky Brooks is coming on at one o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Who's an NFL dot com writer? Great writer. I love

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Speaker 1: his stuff, really insightful, got a great look, does a

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Speaker 1: lot of research and the stuff he writes. He's coming

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Speaker 1: on with his former teammate of mind as well. Pretty

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Speaker 1: good football player back in the day. It's coming on

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Speaker 1: with us at one. We'll talk to him about everything

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Speaker 1: that's going on. Yesterday, As is per usual, brownie stuff

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Speaker 1: happens right as we're going off the air. Chris Jones.

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Speaker 1: They they do it to sabotage us. They just sit

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Speaker 1: Miles Garrett, one hundred and twenty five million dollars. We

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Speaker 1: did say that yesterday right before we get out here.

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Speaker 1: I think Chris Jones he agreed on a four year,

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Speaker 1: eighty five million dollars deal. Golly yeah. I mean I

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Speaker 1: saw some of the particulars on the Jones deal, and

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Speaker 1: I gotta give the chiefs credit. They were smart in

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Speaker 1: how they handled this. You know, they knew they couldn't

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Speaker 1: with the anticipated revenue losses and the cap dropping in

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Speaker 1: all likelihood to some degree, with what we're all anticipating

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Speaker 1: here coming up, and so they gave him more guaranteed

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Speaker 1: players balk at less upfront money. They don't like backloaded

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Speaker 1: most most players look for the majority of their money

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Speaker 1: in the first three years of a long term deal. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The Chiefs obviously did not want to go down that

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Speaker 1: the cap this year and next year. Well, now that's

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Speaker 1: the thing players are smart enough to know, and the

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Speaker 1: teams should know it too. The players will take guaranteed money.

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna guarantee me, I don't care when you

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Speaker 1: pay me, you know, within reason. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 1: want to get it when I'm ninety. But if you're

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna give me the money, and say, listen,

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Speaker 1: no matter what, we're gonna give you this money, I'll

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Speaker 1: sign the deal, you know what I mean. That's the

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Speaker 1: and that's the thing that the Chiefs did and did

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Speaker 1: so well with the Mahomes deal. They didn't start that

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Speaker 1: money and for three years. But he's gonna get a

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Speaker 1: that's the only thing the players are carrying. They want

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Speaker 1: security for their future. Yeah, and that's it's smart deal.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why best deal ever is that Bobby

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Speaker 1: still granted. He just got another billion dollars check July

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Speaker 1: But I'll tell you and I'll tell you this, brownie.

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Speaker 1: It sounds crazy. That's a that's a team friendly deal. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: five percent of some of these other contracts that they

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Speaker 1: fifteen years, right, I get all that. I mean, there's

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Speaker 1: the players agents to get Just give them the money.

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Speaker 1: hundred million. Give them the money. Who cares, it's twenty

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Speaker 1: get into this now. And on Good Morning Football, which

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Speaker 1: they had this big deal about guys, you know, with

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Speaker 1: all these players up. Well, the next guy on the

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Speaker 1: list for the Buffalo Bills is Tredavious White. Um Nate

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Speaker 1: Burlison on Good Morning Football had something to say about it,

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Speaker 1: and I, uh and it's interesting because it's, you know,

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Speaker 1: in right here with Buffalo Bills emphasis on that dollar

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Speaker 1: signs for Davious White. Tredavious White is an absolute beast

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Speaker 1: He's a shutdown corner in this game. We don't see

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Speaker 1: Oh and he got busy up against Gronk, Oh jovial Gronk,

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Speaker 1: telling you, when he needs to get paid, he is

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Speaker 1: gonna brank the bizanc shout out the tray. White. There

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Speaker 1: you go. That's Nate Burlison. He knows too, and there's

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Speaker 1: no question about it. Tredavious White's gonna be one of

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Speaker 1: Tardavius should think instead of thinking so much about the

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Speaker 1: it has always been this, and it's been difficult for

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Speaker 1: guaranteed money. No matter what happens, whether he breaks his

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Speaker 1: be taken care of. That's what players should care about.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's the key. And I think this

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Speaker 1: too not for nothing, Brownie. Think about this philosophy. Teams

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Speaker 1: were always very hesitant, and for good reason, to guarantee

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Speaker 1: football players salaries because of the risk of injury. You

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Speaker 1: too injured to play, or he can't he's so injured

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Speaker 1: he can't play well enough to earn that money. That's

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Speaker 1: always been a problem. Now, think about the disparaging thing now,

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Speaker 1: or the disparity between offense and defense. Defensive players are

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Speaker 1: have a ton of protections these days. Correct, it's getting

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Speaker 1: more and more safe. I guess, to put it a

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Speaker 1: maybe not so much. But do you think that has

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Speaker 1: something to do with the fact now not only with

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Speaker 1: the money being available, but with players being like quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: eight Ben roethlis Well, yeah, And it's funny you mentioned

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Speaker 1: he's a big guy. He takes a lot of hits,

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Speaker 1: and he's like, yeah, you know, I'm kind of thinking

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Speaker 1: how That's how serious he was about retirement. Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: come on, man, But here's the thing with you can

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Speaker 1: play forever at that position, and those guys are gonna

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Speaker 1: do it. Yes, so teams can really teams can guarantee

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Speaker 1: him the money, is my point. Sure, And you know

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Speaker 1: Nate Burlison is right. Tradevius is going to break the bank.

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Speaker 1: You know. I'll give our good friend Mike Janity some

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Speaker 1: credit here because I'm referencing his average cornerback salary rankings

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Speaker 1: on spotrack dot com and right now, the number one

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Speaker 1: paid corner in terms of average annual salary is Darius Slay,

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Speaker 1: who was signed by Philly this offseason, and it's just

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Speaker 1: over sixteen and a half million a year, which outpaced

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Speaker 1: the deal that the Dolphins gave to Byron Jones to

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Speaker 1: prime away from Dallas. The crazy thing here, Steve, is

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins have the second and third highest paid corner

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Speaker 1: a lot of money to commit to one position on

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Speaker 1: your roster. And granted they have the quarterback on the

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Speaker 1: time to make adjustments as needed, and those contracts will

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Speaker 1: probably be close to the end of their existence by

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Speaker 1: the time you have to pay too if it comes there.

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Speaker 1: But look, I guess what I'm saying is tradevious. The

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Speaker 1: jumping off point here is going to be seventeen a year, right,

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Speaker 1: But that's gonna be average over the top of it,

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna be you know, you can sign him

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Speaker 1: for as long as you want to. But here's the

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Speaker 1: of options there and a host of players that command attention.

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Speaker 1: Not like, ah, you know what, We'll just leave our

427
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 1: right tackle over there with that guy and he'll be fine. No,

428
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Speaker 1: you've you've got to make some concrete decisions here about

429
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:41,440
Speaker 1: who you're going to account for and with what kind

430
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:46,080
Speaker 1: of assets to make sure your quarterbacks not running for

431
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Speaker 1: his life. So if you looked at the percentages of

432
00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,919
Speaker 1: our respondence, yeah, we got like four hundred votes here.

433
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 1: Everybody's all over the ED train, Righted. Everybody loves ED.

434
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 1: Fifty seven percent of the people said it's going to

435
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,400
Speaker 1: be Ed. Oliver has the biggest impact. Twenty percent say

436
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 1: Mario ad Us, and twelve percent say Jerry Hughes and

437
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 1: ten percent on eleven percent say aj epen Aza. Interesting

438
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,119
Speaker 1: to me that and I get it. We feel like

439
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,680
Speaker 1: we know Ed, you know, and people tend to vote

440
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 1: for the gut thing that they know most about. But

441
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,320
Speaker 1: from Jack on the tweet sheet, he echoes this, I

442
00:24:18,359 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: hope it's d Oliver. I hope he takes a step

443
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,640
Speaker 1: in year two to become an elite interior Havoc creator However,

444
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,360
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, it will be Addison. The guy has

445
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:32,040
Speaker 1: a proven track record of providing consistent production from defensive end.

446
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 1: Offensive coordinators will not be able to ignore him, and

447
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,000
Speaker 1: that will also help take pressure off of Jerry Hughes. Yeah,

448
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot going on here. And here's the

449
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 1: thing too, Brownie, And we've said this a lot when

450
00:24:42,840 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 1: we talk about these guys. They rotate eight guys. There's

451
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:49,520
Speaker 1: gonna be eight guys who get about forty percent of

452
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,240
Speaker 1: the snaps, right, I mean, they're all gonna rotate through there.

453
00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 1: They're gonna move defensive ends down to tackle to try

454
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 1: him out. And this will usually in the preseason. They'll

455
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Speaker 1: do this all and we don't even know yet which

456
00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 1: four guys are gonna be the guys like, all right,

457
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:07,119
Speaker 1: it's third and six in the playoffs, you gotta get it.

458
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 1: You gotta get a sack, You need pressure. What four

459
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:11,640
Speaker 1: guys they're gonna have on and which guys are gonna

460
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 1: be dts, Which guys are gonna be d ease, you

461
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,560
Speaker 1: know which guy are gonna play and tackle? Which guys

462
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,520
Speaker 1: are gonna beleve We have no idea what combination that

463
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 1: Leslie Fraser is gonna go okay when we really need it.

464
00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 1: These four guys in these spots are who we wanted.

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Speaker 1: We don't even know who that's gonna be. Well, I

466
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,359
Speaker 1: think we can make educated guess is that three of

467
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: the four are from a pass rushing perspective only are

468
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: probably Addison, Hughes and Oliver and then you're just picking

469
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:41,159
Speaker 1: a fourth guy. And here's the interesting part of the

470
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:45,119
Speaker 1: pass rush package, Steve, because Shack Lawson and Lorenzo Alexander

471
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:49,200
Speaker 1: were two primary components of that, and to a lesser extent,

472
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips. All three of those guys are out of

473
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Speaker 1: the equation. Now, so who man's those roles? Who do

474
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,640
Speaker 1: they deem the best fit. Whether it's a guy reducing

475
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 1: down to play next to Ed inside with Addison and

476
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: he was outside, or do you go, you know bull

477
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 1: rush DT to put alongside um Ed and is that

478
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,639
Speaker 1: Harrison Phillips? So you know, and AJP and S is

479
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: a guy that can kick down and he's big enough

480
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:21,159
Speaker 1: enough certainly. So you've got a host of options that

481
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 1: they have to work out. Plenty of them are tantilizing,

482
00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 1: and hey, there's you can't rule out the possibility that

483
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:34,840
Speaker 1: that turbo package could be looking different every week based

484
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:40,120
Speaker 1: on the opponent, right, And and that's the thing. And also,

485
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 1: you got don't we've having mentioned Harrison Phillips, who was

486
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 1: actually in that mix, that exact mix we're talking about

487
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:49,200
Speaker 1: those top four pass rushers. He was coming on, yeah,

488
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 1: and he was calling, he was calling the shots. Him

489
00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 1: and Lorenzo were doing that. Yep. They were calling all

490
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,160
Speaker 1: the pass rush stunts. So they knew exactly what they

491
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 1: were how they wanted to attack the offensive line protection.

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00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,520
Speaker 1: And it was Harrison Phillips who didn't Wimmy, I haven't

493
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 1: even talked about him. Yeah. Yeah, there's like there's two

494
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,359
Speaker 1: sleepers there in that group, and you know one of

495
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 1: them's Harrison Phillips because you know, he was off the

496
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,080
Speaker 1: field for the last thirteen games, and you know, when

497
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 1: a guy's out for a long time, it's easy for

498
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 1: people to forget about a guy like that. And then

499
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,479
Speaker 1: you got a guy that really was tearing it up

500
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: in the off season and then had an injury I

501
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 1: think it was a shoulder injury and missed the whole year,

502
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 1: and that's Mike Love. Mike Love was flashing as a

503
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,879
Speaker 1: speed edge rusher real long in the arms and legs,

504
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: so it's hard for offensive lineman to get hands on him.

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00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 1: I think he's a sleeper candidate that maybe nobody's really

506
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: thinking about after all the free agent acquisitions upfront. So

507
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a compelling competition for a couple of

508
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 1: reasons on defensive line this year. One because of the

509
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,720
Speaker 1: free agent talent that was added, you know, new pieces

510
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: replacing old pieces, and some young and up and coming talent,

511
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,440
Speaker 1: whether it's epines of the rookie love who I mentioned,

512
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 1: or even Darryl Johnson, the seventh round pick from last

513
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 1: year who flashed. So there's a lot, there's a lot

514
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: to watch on that line, not to mention the fact

515
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:17,800
Speaker 1: that you have a new defensive line coach and a

516
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,679
Speaker 1: new assistant defensive line coach in Eric Washington and Jacques.

517
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:24,320
Speaker 1: Is there a ton of stuff to talk about today?

518
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:26,680
Speaker 1: Brownie and I could I get when we start talking

519
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,919
Speaker 1: about this, we could, you and I could go on

520
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: for for full three hours. We're not going to do that, though,

521
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: I mean if you can call us that you can

522
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 1: call us and chime in on this conversation if you want.

523
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 1: At eight o three oh five, we'll see one eighty

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00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: eight right, eight to eight, five fifty two, five fifty

525
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,760
Speaker 1: or eight or three five fifty or at one Bills Live.

526
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: Give us a call, we'll get you on the air.

527
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: We got a lot to talk about. Bucky Brooks coming

528
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: up at the top of the hour. This is Buffalo

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00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio on Kalidah Health presented by Clyde to Health

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00:28:53,960 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: and this is one Bills Live. Welcome back in one

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00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: of Bill's Life. Chief Chashmer Chris brown here till three o'clock.

532
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks coming on at the top of the hour. Brownie,

533
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 1: we were talking about the d line of the Bills

534
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: and during the breakup, it's just we're going to break

535
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:14,600
Speaker 1: I was writing down the list of guys. Man, oh man,

536
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,080
Speaker 1: they're gonna be really good up front. There's gonna be

537
00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: some tough decisions. Keep everybody, Brownie. They got some guys, man,

538
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: Mario Addison, who can really go, Jerry Hughes of course,

539
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: aj Epanezza, who's a top pick in the draft, who

540
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: they got a value pick at second everybody thought he

541
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: was a first round pick. Quinton Jefferson defensive tackle out

542
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 1: of Seattle. Vernon Butler from Carolina Starlow two Lelei, who

543
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: is as high paid guy as they have, who is

544
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: a really good nose guard and down in a one technique.

545
00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: Then you got Harrison Phillips, you got Darryl Johnson who

546
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: played well last year, Michael Love, Trent Murphy, Harrison Phillips,

547
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: and then I of course Ed Oliver. Dude. They got

548
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: to cut some of these guys. They don't have enough

549
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: room for all you're gonna have. It's hard to do.

550
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,239
Speaker 1: You're gonna have players cut from this roster that are

551
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: gonna be on other rosters this fall. Man, oh man,

552
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: that's unless the rosters are expanded. Well, the NFLPA and

553
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 1: the NFL are negotiating right now about stuff like that. Yea,

554
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 1: you would think now the NFLPA the latest thing out

555
00:30:29,480 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: and say, listen, you know, I don't know if we

556
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: should start up a training camp in Arizona because it's

557
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 1: a hot spot, right I don't know if we should

558
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,960
Speaker 1: start up a training camp in Texas, in Austin or

559
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: whoever it is, Florida, Fort Worth or wherever it is,

560
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 1: you know, or Miami, South Florida, or Tampa Bay or Jacksonville.

561
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: It's the state is burning up. Right now with COVID,

562
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if we should start camps like that.

563
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: You know, well, there's more cats in Florida now than

564
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: in all of Europe. Florida is outpacing all of Europe.

565
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: It's a Petri dish. And here's the other thing I saw.

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00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: There was a write up down in one of the

567
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 1: South Florida papers. You know, the dolphins are bending over backwards.

568
00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: They actually hired their own sanitization firm to keep their

569
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: indoor training facility clean because, as you know Steve down

570
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,360
Speaker 1: there in the deadest summer sometimes it's too hot and

571
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 1: just too dangerous to practice outside in August down there,

572
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 1: so they moved their practices indoors, you know, climate control

573
00:31:39,080 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: and all that. But some of the players like, whoa, whoa,

574
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 1: wait a second, we're at greater risk indoors, you know,

575
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 1: the you don't have open air, you don't have the

576
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,719
Speaker 1: wind blowing things, you know, out of harm's way, so

577
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: to speak. And they're like, hey, we we need some

578
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: assurances here that this is going to be clean. And

579
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 1: then there's some it's just outright saying I am not

580
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: practicing inside, I am not doing that. Um So, yet

581
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,440
Speaker 1: another hurdle for the Union in the in the league

582
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: to clear with certain teams in warm weather cities. We

583
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 1: also had this conversation yesterday about not only gonna have

584
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,959
Speaker 1: to worry about practicing indoors and outdoors and the the

585
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: the raised level of risk for getting COVID nineteen one

586
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 1: or the one way or the other. But they also

587
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 1: had this first reaction to these new face shields that

588
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: were put out was unveiled the other day. There's gonna

589
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 1: be a full face shield. It'll be clear um or

590
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: at least tenant or whatever. There's gonna be holes in

591
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: it for breathing and stuff. And the first reactions even

592
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:43,360
Speaker 1: read ferguson the Bills long Snapper said, the guy's gonna

593
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,680
Speaker 1: hate it. And here's another thing too, writing not for nothing,

594
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: but you are you are breathing like like nobody's business.

595
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 1: I mean, you're, you're and those things fag up, particularly

596
00:32:57,160 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: right over your mouth, and you're the breath coming out

597
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: of your body is like a thousand degrees. I mean,

598
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 1: you're breathing fire and it fogs up those masks quick, right.

599
00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 1: I mean, now they do have, as you said, those

600
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: holes that are not all in direct line with one another,

601
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: and that's to prevent transmission of droplets, which, as we know,

602
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:24,600
Speaker 1: is the main means by which COVID is spread. So

603
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: I respect the design that they have in mind here.

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00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: Obviously they've tested these in a lab and duplicating breathing

605
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: fire is a little bit more difficult in a lab

606
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:39,360
Speaker 1: than it is in a game. But I understand where

607
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: Reed's coming from. Because when you got your head between

608
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 1: your legs trying to snap a football, right, you're not

609
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:49,760
Speaker 1: looking directly out of the front of your mask. You're

610
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: looking out of the bottom of your mask. And if

611
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: this in the way going to see the punter, Yeah,

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00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:58,880
Speaker 1: you're looking above the bottom rent bottom rim of your

613
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:02,440
Speaker 1: face mask and below the middle rim of your face mask.

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00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: And snappers, guys go through three or four, you know,

615
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: the experiment with different at which one gives me the

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00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,400
Speaker 1: best vision. Not when I'm standing here talking to you

617
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: on the sidelines, but when I'm bent over with the

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00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: top of my fort with my forehead stuck on the

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00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 1: ground trying to snap it. That's when I need to see. Yeah,

620
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: that's what I need to see. So it's all different

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00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: for each player. And yeah, the breathing thing is unbelieving. Now,

622
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 1: certainly you would think in twenty twenty somebody from the

623
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 1: space a from NASA would come up with a a

624
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 1: surface on glass or plastic that if you breathe on

625
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 1: it it won't fog no matter what. But no, here

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00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 1: we sit, have you ever, you know, and we've all

627
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 1: had to wear glasses or sunglasses with a face mask on.

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00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: Now you can't even do it because as soon as

629
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,800
Speaker 1: you start exhaling through your mouth and nose, it fogs

630
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,720
Speaker 1: your glasses up or your sunglasses. Yeah, right, that happens

631
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:01,799
Speaker 1: to me. You know, I leave my sunglasses in the

632
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:04,320
Speaker 1: car and in the wintertime, you know, you're driving to

633
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,040
Speaker 1: work on a sunny morning, you pull the sunglasses out

634
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,360
Speaker 1: of your car holder. Well, those things have been in

635
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 1: the garage all night. They're like thirty degrees. You put

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00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: them on a ninety eight degree body and like you're

637
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: trying to block yourself to the sun, and then all

638
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 1: of a sudden you're blind because the glasses are fogging

639
00:35:20,239 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: up from the heat on your forehead. Right, So here

640
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,280
Speaker 1: we are in twenty twenty with no answer for that issue,

641
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 1: and right when we need it, God, what are they

642
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: doing going to the moon? Give me some sunglasses that

643
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,799
Speaker 1: don't fall up. Let's get our priorities straight here, right,

644
00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 1: all right? Which defensive line is going to have the

645
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:42,520
Speaker 1: biggest impact in twenty twenty Ny Jerry Hughes, Mario Addison,

646
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:46,160
Speaker 1: aj Epeneza, Ed Oliver or you can pick your own

647
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: at eight or three h five fifty or one eighty

648
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty or at one bills Live.

649
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: We've got a tweet sheet, Brownie, go ahead, go to

650
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,800
Speaker 1: the next notch on the tweet sheet. We're getting votes

651
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: even as we speak. Yeah, Eric, basically it was short

652
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: and sweet with this, and he's with the majority so far,

653
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: he says, ed Oliver, because he's our shiny new toy.

654
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: And I think that you know it. You understand why

655
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 1: the guy was a first round pick. The expectations are high.

656
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 1: He flashed last year, and now Bill's fans are like,

657
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:23,399
Speaker 1: all right, time to dominate, let's see it. I think

658
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,719
Speaker 1: that's where he's coming from. And I think one thing too.

659
00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 1: We don't know what Mario Addison's gonna look like. We

660
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:31,879
Speaker 1: don't know what Quentin Jefferson's gonna look like. We don't

661
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:35,359
Speaker 1: know what Vernon Butler's gonna look like. We don't know

662
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: what Harrison Phillips is gonna look like. Mike Love, Daryl Johnson,

663
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: all these guys coming back now, some of them. Jerry Hughes,

664
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: we got a good idea, right although I will say

665
00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:48,520
Speaker 1: Jerry had two offseason surgeries. He was playing with a

666
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: wrist injury all year, So I don't think we saw

667
00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: the best of what Jerry had to offer last year.

668
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 1: So hopefully he's better this year. We don't know what

669
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: we're coming off of that, so we know what we're

670
00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,919
Speaker 1: gonna kind of get with Starlot Lele Trente, Mike Love,

671
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 1: we've kind of had an idea about, but you know,

672
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: we've been told maybe he's going to be different. Vincent

673
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 1: Taylor came up from Miami. He's a three year guy.

674
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: Don't know what he's gonna look like. So there's a

675
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,919
Speaker 1: lot of guys we don't know about. So people usually

676
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: tend to vote for what they know about and what

677
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: they think the possibilities are in. Ed Oliver fits that

678
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 1: perfectly on a lot of different fronts. Christina's how he's

679
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 1: got fifty eight percent of the vote. Now we had

680
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: three less than just under four hundred votes. A minute ago.

681
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 1: Now we got five hundred and six. People are chiming in.

682
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,399
Speaker 1: This is a big deal. And as I look down

683
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: this there's a lot of reasons to be optimistic about

684
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: what this football team could do. But defensively, I'm looking

685
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:40,240
Speaker 1: at this defensive line roster and I'm like, man, oh man,

686
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: they look really good. I mean really good, deep, talented,

687
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 1: with experience, with a lot of motivation on all fronts.

688
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: I mean gotta lead. Joe Willikers, I wish are you

689
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 1: know it's I'm gets me excited about what's going to

690
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 1: happen up front for the Chiefs. Think just think about this,

691
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: Steve Okay, last year the Bills went twenty eighteen, twenty seventeen,

692
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: this team was thirty first in sack percentage. Twenty eighteen

693
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 1: they went up to fifteenth, and then last year top ten,

694
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: they were tenth. Now you are losing your top two

695
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,799
Speaker 1: sackers in Phillips who had nine and a half and

696
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,880
Speaker 1: Lawson who had six and a half. But you're replacing

697
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: them with Mario Addison who's had as we've mentioned, nine

698
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:36,279
Speaker 1: sacks are more each of the last four years. Yeah,

699
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:38,960
Speaker 1: he had exactly as many as Jordan Phillips. Last year

700
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: almost write the same number. Aj Epanessa who had back

701
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: to back ten sacks seasons, albeit in college in the

702
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 1: Big Ten Conference. And then you've got Vernon Butler who's

703
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 1: more of a one technique plugger, Quinton Jefferson who is

704
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 1: more of a versatility guy at end and tackle depending

705
00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 1: on down in distance and situation. And then the return

706
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: of Harris and Phillips who was getting playing time on

707
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 1: those passing downs. So is it gonna make up the

708
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:14,839
Speaker 1: difference for sixteen sacks? I think you can get there

709
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: with those guys. And here's the other thing to think

710
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 1: about too, Jerry Hughes numbers and production should go up

711
00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 1: just by virtue of the fact that you have more

712
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: serious threats lining up on the other side of them,

713
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 1: right And and that's where you can get to I mean,

714
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 1: that's there's all kinds of positive ways to spend it,

715
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 1: no question about it. Yeah you can. It's certainly these

716
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 1: guys the things you just mentioned certainly relieves the angst

717
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,720
Speaker 1: that Shack Lawson, former first round pick, and Jordan Phillips,

718
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: who was a boost and it was a second round

719
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,120
Speaker 1: pick for the Dolphins but came to Buffalo and really

720
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:56,160
Speaker 1: shined here. Those two guys were like in a normal

721
00:39:56,239 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: time when you didn't have these guys in the in

722
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,280
Speaker 1: the fold, when you lose those guys, it's like, oh, Wow,

723
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:08,359
Speaker 1: what are we gonna do? That's gone? That's gone for me.

724
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 1: I certainly I liked those I love Jordan Phillips. I

725
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:14,080
Speaker 1: thought Shack Lawson was really highly motivated and did a

726
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: lot for his game while he was here. No question

727
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 1: about those guys have got good things ahead of him.

728
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: But I feel really good about where they sit now,

729
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:25,719
Speaker 1: even as compared to where they were twelve months ago

730
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:30,320
Speaker 1: at the same time. Yeah, and the only question mark

731
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,879
Speaker 1: here is how is it all going to blend? What's

732
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: the rotation going to be? Like? Our guy is gonna

733
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,839
Speaker 1: be able to capably play off one another? Are there

734
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,399
Speaker 1: going to be enough snaps to go around? And these

735
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: are all things that the coaching staff obviously has to

736
00:40:43,719 --> 00:40:46,279
Speaker 1: figure out. But man, you got a heck of a

737
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,799
Speaker 1: good dilemma there, don't you. Yeah, I would think so.

738
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: It certainly seems like that. And from Tiffany on the

739
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 1: tweet sheet, which defensive line is going to have the

740
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 1: biggest impact in twenty twenty and why? Tiffany says ed

741
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 1: Oliver has it all speed, strength, agilities, the total package.

742
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:03,880
Speaker 1: He was beginning to really show his skill set at

743
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:07,040
Speaker 1: the season as the season progressed. I think this season

744
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to see him in a variety of

745
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 1: roles along the D line. He's going to have a

746
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:15,320
Speaker 1: big impact moving forward. He met something that's something we

747
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: got to talk about when we come back from break,

748
00:41:17,239 --> 00:41:20,680
Speaker 1: because I know it's been broached about him lining up

749
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 1: at end on rundowns, but he's not a long guy.

750
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 1: So I want to talk to you a little bit about. Yeah,

751
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 1: he's come back, he's been more like a running back

752
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:34,479
Speaker 1: than he is a D line of course. Refrigerator box exactly, exactly, Okay,

753
00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Chris Brown coming down, Bucky Brooks coming up

754
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:41,200
Speaker 1: in a couple of minutes. NFL writer for NFL dot Com.

755
00:41:41,239 --> 00:41:43,359
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presenter by Kalida Help. We'll be right

756
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 1: back on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back in one of

757
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: Bill's Lives. Steve Tasker, Chris Brown here till three o'clock

758
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:58,400
Speaker 1: coming up at the top of the hour, Bucky Brooks

759
00:41:58,440 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 1: coming to talk to about Trey White and all of

760
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: that stuff going forward. Also Brownie. Did you see Steph

761
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: diggs little thing on social media yesterday about who's the

762
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 1: strongest animal in the jungle? Yeah, I got me thinking.

763
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 1: It also led me to believe that Steph Diggs and

764
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: a lot of football players right now were probably pretty bored.

765
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 1: I mean, you can only spend so many hours of

766
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 1: the day working out and preparing for the season. There's

767
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: a lot of idle time when you're cooped up in

768
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: your home. And apparently Steph Diggs is doing jungle surveys

769
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:39,959
Speaker 1: on animal strength feats of strength by jungle animals. Now,

770
00:42:40,600 --> 00:42:43,319
Speaker 1: there was a comprehensive top five list that was put

771
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,440
Speaker 1: together by one of the guys that replied to him,

772
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: all right, and and he had a pretty good list

773
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: and one two he went hippo elephant as his top two.

774
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: And I will say this, I don't don't think the

775
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:04,360
Speaker 1: lion is getting nearly enough respect here, which is historically

776
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:08,239
Speaker 1: known as the king of the jungle. But at the

777
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 1: same time, believe me, when my when my son was younger,

778
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 1: he watched nature shows constantly, like the kid lived on

779
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 1: Animal Planet the channel. So and I gotta tell you,

780
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: watching enough hours of footage, I feel I can speak

781
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 1: relatively intelligently on this The one animal that lions do

782
00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 1: not go near are hippos. They don't mess with hippos.

783
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, hippos are the worst ever. Yeah, that's more

784
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 1: people die from hippo attacks than anything else. I think

785
00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 1: I heard. They're really dangerous. I have seen footage of

786
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: a pride of lions taking down an elephant when isolated,

787
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: but I have never seen lions even dangle with the hippo.

788
00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: I'll say, well, we've solved one of the weak prop

789
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:04,080
Speaker 1: problems of this week. It's going to be the Washington

790
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: hippos the strongest. And yeah, no, that would give a

791
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:12,840
Speaker 1: new that would give a new nickname to their offensive linement.

792
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 1: They wouldn't be can't nick name your team the hippos?

793
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:19,399
Speaker 1: Good grief? Come on, man, I would say this, though

794
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: I've always thought it's the eight hundred pound gorilla is

795
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: the is the world. That's because they and that is

796
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: the one that Steph Diggs picked, which I think is

797
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: a good pick because I'm telling you right now, you

798
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: approach one of those dudes, they can They can knock

799
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: your head clean off your shoulders with one swipe. I

800
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:40,480
Speaker 1: mean their lower arms and their fists are just so

801
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: dense and massive. A four hundred pound gorilla can hold

802
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:50,439
Speaker 1: its you know, hang from a tree with with its

803
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:57,399
Speaker 1: thumb and forefinger. That's how strong they are. So wow. Yeah,

804
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,319
Speaker 1: that's what I would say, because they're the you know,

805
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:02,919
Speaker 1: they're the ones that are you know, have the dexterity

806
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 1: and whatever to mess up. Well, yeah, see, now you're

807
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: now you're weaving your way into jungle athleticism. Well yeah,

808
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 1: you're talking athleticism. Well, then the hippo's out of the conversation.

809
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 1: But you're talking about strongest, I'm talking about it. Yeah,

810
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 1: I see. I like to go all around like versatility

811
00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 1: and that's yeah, that brings you right to the to

812
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:26,880
Speaker 1: the big to the big boy, the primate. I'm just

813
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 1: telling you the guy that nobody's knocking off the top

814
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 1: of the mountain because they don't want to go near

815
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:34,879
Speaker 1: this dude with his giant mouth and huge tusks. Yeah,

816
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 1: there means it's the hippo. Man, he's there, means he

817
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 1: ain't messing. All right, we've solved that problem. It's the

818
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 1: hippo that's the baddest guy in the jungle coming up

819
00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:44,280
Speaker 1: at the top of the hour, right, after the break,

820
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,800
Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks, NFL dot Com writer, good friend of the show,

821
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 1: former teammate of mind. Can't wait to talk to him.

822
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks coming up on One Bill's Live, presented by

823
00:45:52,080 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 1: Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Steve Taskers, Dos Dows,

824
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:22,240
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bills Live. We're here till three o'clock.

825
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Chris Brown. We're please to be joined now

826
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 1: on the line by a former second round pick of

827
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:30,319
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Played five years in the National Football League.

828
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:32,919
Speaker 1: He's been with NFL dot Com as an analyst since

829
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. Please welcome to the show. Bucky Brooks, Bucky,

830
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, and Chris Brown here. Thanks for coming on.

831
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 1: We got to start by asking you how you doing

832
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 1: during the pandemic. Are you safe and well? You and

833
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:46,880
Speaker 1: your family doing okay? Yeah, everything is good, man, just

834
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: kind of hanging out. It's it's it's a little weird

835
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:53,399
Speaker 1: and crazy here in California, but everybody's surviving with Live. Yeah,

836
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,359
Speaker 1: I got you, and I can imagine that it is you.

837
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 1: You've written some stuff about the Bills back here on

838
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 1: the East Coast and about how They've become maybe the

839
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: most improved team in the AFC. Certainly all four of

840
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 1: the clubs, the Jets, the Dolphins, the Patriots, and the

841
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:11,280
Speaker 1: Bills have stories to tell this offseason. But you're pretty

842
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 1: high on what the Buffalo Bills have done. Yeah, I'm

843
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:16,560
Speaker 1: pretty high. I mean, the stars really good, the culture

844
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: that's been established there. When I look at the Buffalo

845
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:21,759
Speaker 1: Bills and I think about their team in their locker room,

846
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 1: I think they closely resembled the vision that Sean McDermott conveys.

847
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: Meaning Sean McDermott is a blue collar, hardworking coach. I

848
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 1: think he prefers hardworking players that kind of embody their vision,

849
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 1: and I think they've built a team that's a collection

850
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: of those guys. So when you go and see the

851
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills play, I think they're a blue collar team

852
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 1: and they find a way to get it done without

853
00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 1: having what I would call national level stars. I think

854
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 1: this is just a good overall team, and I think

855
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:55,240
Speaker 1: team that team concept can overwhelm some of the opponents

856
00:47:55,239 --> 00:47:58,760
Speaker 1: that they will fake going down the road. Obviously, Bucky,

857
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 1: they've may efforts to surround Josh Allen with you capable

858
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:08,879
Speaker 1: talent to help raise his game. And I'm sure we've

859
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 1: seen it over the years in other places where clubs

860
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: have made an effort to lift the play of the

861
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:20,839
Speaker 1: quarterback by putting more capable talent around him. We know

862
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 1: that Beasley and Brown offered a lot of help to

863
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 1: Josh last year. Does Diggs addition is that an even

864
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:35,800
Speaker 1: more Does that addition hold even more potential to raise

865
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,840
Speaker 1: Allen's game this year as opposed to what Beasley and

866
00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 1: Brown did for him last year? Yeah, I mean, I

867
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: think if you look at every top level quarterback in

868
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 1: the National Football League, just surrounded by elie talent and

869
00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: talented kind of actinuate their game. I think when you

870
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 1: add as Stefan Diggs to a mix of heads John

871
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,520
Speaker 1: Brown and Cole Beasley, I think right away you understand

872
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 1: that the Buffalo Bills want to push the ball down

873
00:48:57,239 --> 00:48:59,920
Speaker 1: the field. Stefan Digg gives them one of the bill

874
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:04,800
Speaker 1: route runners in football. His creativity as a route runner

875
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: is next level, and so he is a guy that

876
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:10,040
Speaker 1: has a number one receiver can consistently get opened. It

877
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 1: allows John Brown to play the role that he is

878
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 1: very comfortable as to specialize deep threat. It allows Cole

879
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:18,919
Speaker 1: Beasley to do the damage that he typically does from

880
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: the slot. So now around Josh Allen, you have a

881
00:49:22,160 --> 00:49:25,360
Speaker 1: number of players who have specific skill set that just

882
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 1: the way that he wants to play. Now, that's on

883
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 1: him to take his game Upenns. But man, the weapons

884
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:34,440
Speaker 1: around him, including those in the running game, they should

885
00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 1: allow him to play at his best this season. Yeah,

886
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: it certainly starts with Cole Beasley, John Brown, and Stefan Diggs,

887
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,879
Speaker 1: and then they drafted Gabriel Davis and Isaiah Hodgins. Those

888
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 1: two draft picks may find it hard to get on

889
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 1: the field, and in an abbreviated preseason, and maybe with

890
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: only two preseason games and the lack of ability to

891
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:55,439
Speaker 1: really evaluate them like they would in a normal year,

892
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:58,320
Speaker 1: how likely is it that either one of these rookies,

893
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 1: even though they have some size and some things they offer.

894
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 1: How tough is it going to be for them and

895
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:06,760
Speaker 1: others like them around the league to get on the field.

896
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:09,479
Speaker 1: I mean, it's gonna be tough for the young guys

897
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:11,280
Speaker 1: to get on the field right away. But the teams

898
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:14,120
Speaker 1: that are really good with their development program, they will

899
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:16,840
Speaker 1: have a plan to get those guys integrated into the

900
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: offense or defense about mid season, meaning you will see

901
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: these guys maybe spend ten minutes before pridice or ten

902
00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:27,760
Speaker 1: minutes after practice kind of going through extra individual sessions.

903
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 1: They will allow them to kind of get up to

904
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:31,840
Speaker 1: speed with the playbook, get him to speed, but the

905
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: kind of skills that they need to be able to

906
00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:38,239
Speaker 1: consistently get open and that will help them. So I

907
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 1: believe that those guys can still make contributions this year,

908
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 1: but we probably won't see those guys make contributions right

909
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 1: off the gate. I know Bucky that you know you

910
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:50,120
Speaker 1: were on to Move the Sticks podcast and you know

911
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 1: you were assessing the entire division in terms of who

912
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 1: got better, who got worse, and you know the eleventh

913
00:50:56,719 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 1: hour well maybe yeah, the eleventh hour edition of Cam

914
00:50:59,680 --> 00:51:03,759
Speaker 1: Newton by the Patriots. How much did that maybe give

915
00:51:03,800 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 1: you pause in terms of how we initially anticipated the

916
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,399
Speaker 1: AFC's shaping up, Because I know a lot of people

917
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: had the Bills at the top of the heap there.

918
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 1: How much did the addition of Newton give you pause

919
00:51:16,239 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 1: with maybe how you initially had this division stacked? Well, look, man,

920
00:51:21,320 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: until someone can knock off the Patriots, you kind of

921
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:25,399
Speaker 1: always have to put him in the conversation as being

922
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 1: the team that kind of reigns supreme over division. They've

923
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:30,279
Speaker 1: won it for so long, they understand how to get it.

924
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:33,359
Speaker 1: They have a veteran staff and set of players that

925
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,239
Speaker 1: just kind of know how to win. And the thing

926
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 1: that they do is they don't beat themselves. So now

927
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:39,680
Speaker 1: when you add in a Cam Newton, a Cam Newton

928
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: who's extremely motivated, and a Cam Newton who, in my estimation,

929
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 1: will receive the best coaching that he's ever received, you

930
00:51:46,719 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 1: have the opportunity to maybe see a Patriots team that's

931
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:52,319
Speaker 1: unlike any other one that we've seen in terms of

932
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:54,759
Speaker 1: the way they play on offense. I think it's gonna

933
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 1: be a Ran heavy offense. Their defense is already pretty solid,

934
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,120
Speaker 1: but they're gonna go about their business in a different way.

935
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:02,280
Speaker 1: I think the team gets in the division, it comes

936
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:04,719
Speaker 1: down to the Bills and the Patriots. In my mind,

937
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills, I think the team will be

938
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:10,960
Speaker 1: how do they handle being the hunted? For so long

939
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 1: they've been to hunter. They've been the team that has

940
00:52:13,120 --> 00:52:15,440
Speaker 1: kind of been the underdog that's going after the Patriots

941
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:18,400
Speaker 1: because so many people have annointed them as the favorite

942
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:21,480
Speaker 1: going in. It's a different level of pressure and expectation

943
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 1: when you step onto the field and you're getting everybody's

944
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 1: best shot. I think that's the big challenge of Shalmy

945
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:30,200
Speaker 1: Dermott has to face in preseason, in the early part

946
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: of the season, giving these guys ready to take on

947
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:36,759
Speaker 1: everybody's best shot. We're talking with Bucky Brooks, NFL dot

948
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:38,879
Speaker 1: Com analysts and a five year veteran of the National

949
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:41,279
Speaker 1: Football League. Bucky talk about the other two teams, the

950
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 1: Jets Dolphins. Certainly, the Dolphins have gotten better. Flores, the

951
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: head coach of the Miami Dolphins, did a wonderful job

952
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: in a year where everybody thought they were tanking. He

953
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:54,080
Speaker 1: seemed to get the most out of his roster. And

954
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:57,960
Speaker 1: the Jets, for lack of a better way to put it,

955
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 1: they continue to be the New York Jets. Talk about

956
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 1: those other two teams in the AFC East, well, I mean,

957
00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:06,320
Speaker 1: I think everyone respects and appreciates what Bran Floyds is

958
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,080
Speaker 1: able to doing his first season going down there and

959
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 1: really what appeared to be a major rebuild. He was

960
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:13,759
Speaker 1: able to get his team to play hard. So to me,

961
00:53:13,840 --> 00:53:15,759
Speaker 1: when I look at that, it means that he has

962
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:17,600
Speaker 1: the command in the respect of the locker room. He

963
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:20,160
Speaker 1: was able to focus on their effort to fundamentals in

964
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:23,279
Speaker 1: their technique. Man, you have an infusion of talent that

965
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:25,359
Speaker 1: comes in, you would like to think that they would

966
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:28,839
Speaker 1: be an even more competitive team. Now that said, they

967
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:30,719
Speaker 1: have to make a determination on what they want to

968
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:32,960
Speaker 1: do at quarterback. Is j Ryan Fitzpatrick is a two

969
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 1: A ti voloa, which one is going to be the

970
00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: guy that leads them. But they're certainly going to be

971
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 1: competitive with the new year jet. I think the big

972
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: game for them is Joe Douglas comes in. They're still

973
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:44,359
Speaker 1: trying to reset and risk out. That's who they are

974
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:46,279
Speaker 1: and how they want to play. Sam Donalds in the

975
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: third year of his deal, he is expected to make

976
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 1: a major jump. I don't see many weapons around them offensively,

977
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 1: so I think they're going to have a tough time

978
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:59,200
Speaker 1: scoring and then on defense. They're best player is Jamal Adams.

979
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:02,840
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams. I'm happy because they haven't addressed his contract

980
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 1: demands in the situation, so what Jamal Adams is going

981
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:08,200
Speaker 1: to show up? I know Jamal Adams a sin him.

982
00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 1: He is a very profitful player, but sometimes when the

983
00:54:10,640 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 1: business part of a teas into the locker room, you

984
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:15,600
Speaker 1: may not see him play with the same vigor and

985
00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:18,640
Speaker 1: vest that really had made him a great player. So, yeah,

986
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 1: they're a dysfunctional bunch or their talented bunch. I just

987
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:23,360
Speaker 1: don't know if they have enough talent to compete with

988
00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 1: the Builds and the Patriots at the top. Bucky, you

989
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 1: touched on the fact that the Bills don't have a

990
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:32,239
Speaker 1: lot of true elite level talent, and Steve and I

991
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 1: on today's show have already been talking about how the

992
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 1: defensive line has been retooled. You know, they lost their

993
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:41,720
Speaker 1: top two sack producers to free agency in Jordan Phillips

994
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:45,560
Speaker 1: and Shack Lawson. But you know they replace them for

995
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 1: all intents and purposes with a proven sack producer and

996
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 1: Mario Addison. They draft j Epanessa, who albeit it's college production,

997
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:56,759
Speaker 1: but back to back double digit sack seasons at Iowa.

998
00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 1: And then you know they fill in with some terry

999
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:04,719
Speaker 1: editions like Vernon Butler and Quentin Jefferson has got some versatility,

1000
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 1: and then you have Ed Oliver in his second year

1001
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 1: along with Jerry Hughes. Where do you do you see

1002
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 1: the defensive line as it's been retooled, capable of taking

1003
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:17,799
Speaker 1: a step forward, because this was a defensive line that

1004
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:20,839
Speaker 1: was still tenth in the league in sack percentage last year.

1005
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:24,360
Speaker 1: Murger had a very good defensive line last year, and

1006
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:29,080
Speaker 1: you talked about the aforementioned losses and Shack Losson and

1007
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:31,840
Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips, and so now when I look at the roster,

1008
00:55:32,200 --> 00:55:34,360
Speaker 1: they have to be able to get it done by committee,

1009
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:36,600
Speaker 1: and we have seen teams be able to do this.

1010
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean that you necessarily have a double digit

1011
00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:41,280
Speaker 1: stack artist, but you may have three or four guys

1012
00:55:41,280 --> 00:55:44,719
Speaker 1: that have anywhere from six to eight sacks, and the

1013
00:55:44,800 --> 00:55:48,839
Speaker 1: culative effect of the rotation wears people down and they

1014
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:51,239
Speaker 1: get the stack producers. But you would like to think

1015
00:55:51,280 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 1: that someone is going to emerge. That's kind of like

1016
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:56,719
Speaker 1: the bell Cow's the leader. I like a Fanessa. I

1017
00:55:56,760 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 1: think he is not only a good player, I think

1018
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 1: he's a great fit for the locker room. We talked

1019
00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 1: about like the blue collar nature of this team. He

1020
00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:05,880
Speaker 1: is a worker, bee off the edge, he's out a

1021
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:08,000
Speaker 1: speed rusher. He is just a guy that kind of

1022
00:56:08,040 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 1: wears you down. He's a great technician and he finds

1023
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:13,359
Speaker 1: a way to overwhelm you. Over the course of the game,

1024
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 1: we will see if ed Oli can make a major jump,

1025
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 1: Because if ed Oliver can make a major jump, and

1026
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:21,239
Speaker 1: aj Epanessic can hit the ground running, even though he

1027
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:23,920
Speaker 1: hasn't had the four offseason, I think there's things to like,

1028
00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:27,080
Speaker 1: especially when you throw in Jerry Hughes kind of still

1029
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 1: having some of that veteran craftiness when it comes again

1030
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. We're talking with Bucky Brooks NFL dot

1031
00:56:33,000 --> 00:56:36,279
Speaker 1: Com analyst Bucket. This last week saw us saw a

1032
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:41,080
Speaker 1: rash of guys signed long term deals. Chris Jones, we

1033
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:47,360
Speaker 1: saw Les Garrett, and of course Patrick Mahomes signed an

1034
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: enormous deal. With the uncertainty about what the cap is

1035
00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 1: gonna look like, it seems as though we're getting a

1036
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 1: chance to see teams outthink or push money down the road.

1037
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:02,719
Speaker 1: We're seeing higher percentages of guarantee money. It seems like

1038
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:06,799
Speaker 1: teams are finding ways to get through this pandemic and

1039
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:09,239
Speaker 1: maybe the aftermath for up to twenty four months. The

1040
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:12,839
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes deal, and especially there's no new money for well,

1041
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 1: there's no real new money for another three years or

1042
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:19,920
Speaker 1: two years. What do These contracts say to you about

1043
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:23,520
Speaker 1: what teams think about the near future and financial implications

1044
00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:26,919
Speaker 1: of it. Well, it sees are preparing for the cap

1045
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 1: to either experience of reduction or to remain flat. And

1046
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:32,560
Speaker 1: so what you want to do is you want to

1047
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:36,520
Speaker 1: identify your core players. Typically they're about ten to twelve

1048
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:39,920
Speaker 1: blueship players that are your core guys that you need

1049
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 1: to have to field the championship team. What you want

1050
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:44,280
Speaker 1: to do is you want to identify those guys early.

1051
00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:46,200
Speaker 1: You want to get those guys signed, and you want

1052
00:57:46,200 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 1: to get them signed to deal with that are team friendly,

1053
00:57:48,720 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: meaning you may sign a guy a year before you

1054
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:53,440
Speaker 1: have too, so you can get him and you can

1055
00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 1: keep him, but you can keep those numbers low as

1056
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 1: you're building a team for two or three year run.

1057
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:02,080
Speaker 1: It will be interesting to see in Buffalo what happens

1058
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:05,520
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen, because after this year, the Buffalo Bills

1059
00:58:05,520 --> 00:58:07,880
Speaker 1: can make a move to sign Josh Allen. What does

1060
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:11,400
Speaker 1: that contract look like? What kind of flexibility does it

1061
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 1: provide them in terms of building a team around him. Typically,

1062
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:19,120
Speaker 1: the big domino the fall is a quarterback, and he

1063
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:23,480
Speaker 1: goes quarterback. The Marquis pass rushers, an offensive tackle and

1064
00:58:23,520 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 1: then a playmaker on the defensive side of the ball.

1065
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 1: How do they prioritize those guys when you have to

1066
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:31,920
Speaker 1: Davis White coming up, you have Try Evans and all

1067
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:35,440
Speaker 1: those others guys. You have to make some decisions. But

1068
00:58:35,640 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 1: I certainly think the first domino the fall will be

1069
00:58:37,400 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 1: how did the Buffalo Bills deal with Josh Allen? And

1070
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:42,320
Speaker 1: then everybody else will kind of fall into the pecking order.

1071
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 1: See and while the Chiefs Bucky have found a way

1072
00:58:45,880 --> 00:58:47,840
Speaker 1: to get it done, not only with Mahomes but with

1073
00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:50,480
Speaker 1: Chris Jones as well, and we see the deal for

1074
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett, here's Dak Prescott, who in all likelihood is

1075
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:58,760
Speaker 1: just going to live under the tag this year. Are

1076
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 1: you perplexed this is the approach that the Cowboys have taken.

1077
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:04,400
Speaker 1: I know it's been reported that it's the length of

1078
00:59:04,400 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 1: the deal that's at issue between the two sides more

1079
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:11,120
Speaker 1: so than average annual salary. But are you perplexed or

1080
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 1: do you say, Well, in this era of COVID and

1081
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:16,400
Speaker 1: not knowing what the twenty twenty one cap is going

1082
00:59:16,440 --> 00:59:20,200
Speaker 1: to look like, I understand why Jerry Jones is holding

1083
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:24,400
Speaker 1: fast to what his contract offer is you know, like

1084
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 1: this is one that I think the Cowboys misplayed, and

1085
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:29,120
Speaker 1: they misplayed it a couple of years ago. Like not

1086
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 1: last offseason, they certainly could have signed and the elected

1087
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:35,919
Speaker 1: to sign Ezekiel Elliott. They signed Amarkop like the thing

1088
00:59:35,960 --> 00:59:38,720
Speaker 1: that they could have done with Dak Prescott. Deck Prescott

1089
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:41,920
Speaker 1: was playing on a team friendly fourth round contract that

1090
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:44,520
Speaker 1: I would say probably saved the Cowboys about eighty million

1091
00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 1: dollars when you factor in what the starting quarterback normally gets,

1092
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 1: and so it would have made sense given the fact

1093
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:53,120
Speaker 1: that he had won two division titles. It comes to

1094
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:55,880
Speaker 1: him early. Lock him in at a deal that may

1095
00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:59,000
Speaker 1: have in twenty three, twenty four, twenty five million dollars

1096
00:59:59,120 --> 01:00:01,080
Speaker 1: if you go back and look ket that would be

1097
01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:04,240
Speaker 1: very economical now in this time when they didn't get

1098
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:07,400
Speaker 1: him signed last year and let it play out this year.

1099
01:00:07,400 --> 01:00:10,640
Speaker 1: With the franchise tag, the leverage Newt flips to the player.

1100
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 1: And because Dak Prescott is holding firm on the amount

1101
01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:16,640
Speaker 1: of years and he can because he's made significant money

1102
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 1: and endorsements, he now signs the franchise tag. So now

1103
01:00:20,360 --> 01:00:22,680
Speaker 1: becomes a Kirk Cousin situation. And there are a lot

1104
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:24,720
Speaker 1: of people that are saying, well, why doesn't he signed

1105
01:00:24,720 --> 01:00:27,200
Speaker 1: the deal with one hundred million guaranteed on a five

1106
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:29,760
Speaker 1: year deal, Because when you look at this deal, and

1107
01:00:29,840 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 1: Steve knows, and we'll understand this, he makes thirty one

1108
01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:35,760
Speaker 1: million this year, he signed another tag next year, he

1109
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:40,280
Speaker 1: gets thirty seven million in two years. He's guaranteed sixty

1110
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:42,680
Speaker 1: eight million dollars, and he has the freedom and the

1111
01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 1: flexibility after that second year. Because they've let it get

1112
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:51,000
Speaker 1: to this point. There's no real, I mean reason for

1113
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:53,800
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott to commit himself to a long term deal

1114
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:56,600
Speaker 1: because he knows he's getting thirty one this year, thirty

1115
01:00:56,600 --> 01:00:59,440
Speaker 1: seven next year. He could walk away with sixty eight

1116
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:03,000
Speaker 1: million dollars and hit free agency still on the thirty

1117
01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:06,840
Speaker 1: years of age, all the leverages in this corp. Yeah,

1118
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 1: I agree with you. There's no question about a bucky

1119
01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:13,240
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott played this better than the Cowboys did. Let's

1120
01:01:13,240 --> 01:01:15,360
Speaker 1: think about another deal that got signed, the Miles Garrett

1121
01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 1: deal one hundred and twenty five million dollars. Did the

1122
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:19,840
Speaker 1: Browns do the right thing in this deal and its

1123
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:23,800
Speaker 1: structure in its length, Well, I mean, I think there's

1124
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 1: always the premium on pass rushes, and you go back

1125
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:27,400
Speaker 1: and you look at his history. He was the number

1126
01:01:27,400 --> 01:01:31,280
Speaker 1: one overall pick. He has thirty and a half sacks

1127
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:34,439
Speaker 1: in like thirty seven games. He double digits the last

1128
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 1: two years, and he had the six game suspension. Now,

1129
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:39,240
Speaker 1: the Browns know better than we may know in terms

1130
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:41,439
Speaker 1: of his character and his character in the locker room.

1131
01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:44,520
Speaker 1: Obviously you saw the nasty and ugly incident that took

1132
01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:47,240
Speaker 1: place in the field with him and Nason Rudolph. Those

1133
01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:50,000
Speaker 1: around the building. We say, that's not who he is.

1134
01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:53,160
Speaker 1: And so what the Browns are gambling gone. They're gambling

1135
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:55,800
Speaker 1: on the person that they know that they've seen every day,

1136
01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 1: and they also gambling on the talent that they've seen

1137
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:01,080
Speaker 1: him display early in his career. And so look, it

1138
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:04,840
Speaker 1: is significant, but you always find have a tendency to

1139
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:08,360
Speaker 1: overpay guys that can knock down the quarterback house. Having quarterback.

1140
01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:12,080
Speaker 1: Pass rushers are the most coveted positions in football, and

1141
01:02:12,160 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 1: he has proven to be one of the better ones

1142
01:02:13,640 --> 01:02:18,240
Speaker 1: in the league. You mentioned Jamal Adams Bucky down in

1143
01:02:18,280 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 1: New York, and I just found that his demand for

1144
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 1: a new contract and then subsequently a trade to be

1145
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 1: a little poorly timed in light of what you know

1146
01:02:30,640 --> 01:02:34,840
Speaker 1: we're dealing with here across the country and the uncertain

1147
01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:38,160
Speaker 1: nature of you know, again, what the CAP's going to

1148
01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:42,040
Speaker 1: be next year, teams worried about lost revenue, and he's

1149
01:02:42,120 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 1: looking for a way out of New York. How do

1150
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:49,560
Speaker 1: you see this playing out? Because I think we can

1151
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:52,720
Speaker 1: safely say that while he is a playmaking type player,

1152
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:58,000
Speaker 1: safety more often than not is a position that is

1153
01:02:58,560 --> 01:03:02,240
Speaker 1: awarded these lands and mark type contracts. I mean, outside

1154
01:03:02,240 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 1: of an ed read type player, you don't usually see

1155
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:08,920
Speaker 1: safety getting the giant money that's usually reserved for cornerback.

1156
01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:13,040
Speaker 1: So has he misplayed his hand overplayed his hand in

1157
01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 1: light of the circumstances we're all dealing with, How do

1158
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:18,680
Speaker 1: you see that? You know, it's interesting, right because this

1159
01:03:18,760 --> 01:03:20,360
Speaker 1: is a situation where I actually can see it on

1160
01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 1: both sides. I can see it on hit side. Jamal

1161
01:03:22,680 --> 01:03:25,680
Speaker 1: Adams is the best decensive player. What Jamal Adams has

1162
01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:28,480
Speaker 1: done is like he has matched J. J. Watt in

1163
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 1: terms of He's one of only two players were like

1164
01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:34,160
Speaker 1: two hundred plus tackles, ten plus sacks, and twenty five

1165
01:03:34,200 --> 01:03:36,840
Speaker 1: breakups in the first couple of seasons of his career.

1166
01:03:37,040 --> 01:03:38,920
Speaker 1: No one else has done it outside of JJ Watt,

1167
01:03:39,040 --> 01:03:42,360
Speaker 1: and so he believes that he should be treated like

1168
01:03:42,400 --> 01:03:45,640
Speaker 1: a premier player. The issue that you have with Jamal

1169
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:48,760
Speaker 1: is top safety. Right now, Eddie Jackson, I think is

1170
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:51,320
Speaker 1: at the top of the market. They're making like fourteen

1171
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:55,480
Speaker 1: fourteen and a half million dollars. He Eddie Jackson Kevin

1172
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:58,320
Speaker 1: bired Jamal Adams right now. On the the deal that

1173
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:01,520
Speaker 1: they have structured, he will make three million this year.

1174
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:04,960
Speaker 1: Next year, on the fifth year option, he'll make nine million,

1175
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:07,320
Speaker 1: So in two years they'll get him at a little

1176
01:04:07,320 --> 01:04:11,000
Speaker 1: over twelve million dollars. And so there's no reason for

1177
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:13,200
Speaker 1: the Jets to commit big money to a player that

1178
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:17,040
Speaker 1: they already have under control. And with the new CBA

1179
01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:19,400
Speaker 1: and the way that they put these trinitive keen of

1180
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:24,000
Speaker 1: these in for holdouts, he really doesn't have the ability

1181
01:04:24,080 --> 01:04:26,480
Speaker 1: to force their hand. So he can kind of kick

1182
01:04:26,720 --> 01:04:29,840
Speaker 1: wine and scream and kind of demand that the Jets

1183
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:32,280
Speaker 1: pay him, but they really don't have to and he

1184
01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:34,960
Speaker 1: can't force his way out. So I know he feels disrespected,

1185
01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 1: but right now the Jets are doing what they should

1186
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:40,680
Speaker 1: do is Hey, let's make sure that we wait and

1187
01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 1: get the quarterbacks Sam Donald done and then we can

1188
01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:45,720
Speaker 1: see how much money we have left for Jamal Adams.

1189
01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:48,360
Speaker 1: I understand the frustration, but right now the Jets are

1190
01:04:48,360 --> 01:04:52,120
Speaker 1: holding firm and the should Yeah, we're talking about Brooks.

1191
01:04:52,240 --> 01:04:56,200
Speaker 1: NFL dot Com analyst Bucky mentioned Sam Donald getting him done.

1192
01:04:56,760 --> 01:04:59,160
Speaker 1: The Buffalo Bills have got Josh Allen on the hook.

1193
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:04,000
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield is there, Josh Rosen is another story, but certainly,

1194
01:05:04,040 --> 01:05:06,360
Speaker 1: and then you've got Lamar Jackson as well, all those

1195
01:05:06,400 --> 01:05:09,520
Speaker 1: guys from the twenty eighteen draft class, and then last

1196
01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:12,440
Speaker 1: year Kyler Murray's there this and as the league has

1197
01:05:12,440 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 1: evolved to the point now, do you think that these

1198
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:19,680
Speaker 1: rookie quarterbacks need to play right away? Is that the best?

1199
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:22,480
Speaker 1: Is there a generalized answer to that question? Do they

1200
01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:24,280
Speaker 1: play now? Or do you get him a red shirt

1201
01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:27,920
Speaker 1: year like two of TANAVLOA? Is he gonna he'll benefit

1202
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:32,280
Speaker 1: from watching Ryan Fitzpatrick? But what kind of urgency is

1203
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:34,080
Speaker 1: there to get these guys on the field, and what

1204
01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:37,560
Speaker 1: kind of urgency should there be? Well, I think the

1205
01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:40,600
Speaker 1: urgency in the game has shifted. Like from yesteryear, you

1206
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:43,240
Speaker 1: always would have to kind of wait and earn your

1207
01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:46,240
Speaker 1: way onto the field as a young quarterback until you're ready.

1208
01:05:46,240 --> 01:05:49,560
Speaker 1: But right now, your championship window with the quarterback we

1209
01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:52,320
Speaker 1: have seen is the five year window when they're on

1210
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:57,920
Speaker 1: the Ricky deal. Steve, I think since twenty eleven, thirty

1211
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:00,240
Speaker 1: three percent of the quarterbacks that have ended up in

1212
01:06:00,240 --> 01:06:02,800
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl have been on the original rookie contract.

1213
01:06:03,120 --> 01:06:06,800
Speaker 1: And so teams that are able to build around a

1214
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:09,680
Speaker 1: young quarterback while he's still on the cheap deal are

1215
01:06:09,720 --> 01:06:12,440
Speaker 1: teams that have advantages when it comes to putting the

1216
01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:15,840
Speaker 1: championship contender on the field. And so your best betting

1217
01:06:15,880 --> 01:06:18,640
Speaker 1: to get the young quarterback on the field. Hopefully you

1218
01:06:18,720 --> 01:06:22,320
Speaker 1: have a creative offensive coordinator and play call who can

1219
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 1: take the player where he is, build a system that

1220
01:06:25,360 --> 01:06:27,960
Speaker 1: is simple enough for him to have success while you

1221
01:06:28,040 --> 01:06:31,480
Speaker 1: have the ability to surround him with better players, because

1222
01:06:31,480 --> 01:06:34,200
Speaker 1: when he has owned that cheap rookie contract, you now

1223
01:06:34,280 --> 01:06:37,800
Speaker 1: can bring in a higher level of player around him

1224
01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:41,040
Speaker 1: at wide receiver, at running back, the offensive line. And

1225
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:43,800
Speaker 1: then you hope as he enters that fifth it maybe

1226
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:47,760
Speaker 1: six years, he is now better able to elevate those

1227
01:06:47,800 --> 01:06:50,640
Speaker 1: around him, and some of those high end players you

1228
01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:54,240
Speaker 1: can sacrifice because he earns more money because he's a

1229
01:06:54,320 --> 01:06:56,400
Speaker 1: much better player than he was when he first came

1230
01:06:56,440 --> 01:07:01,000
Speaker 1: into the league. Steve, Yeah, mute, my bad, Bucky, I

1231
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:03,360
Speaker 1: had my mic muted. What give us a There's a

1232
01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:06,600
Speaker 1: great article by Jim Trotter about what is valued most

1233
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:09,040
Speaker 1: in a head coach these days in the National Football League.

1234
01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:12,200
Speaker 1: What is your takeaway about what it takes to be

1235
01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:14,840
Speaker 1: a great head coach? Who? Who are the young guys

1236
01:07:14,840 --> 01:07:18,480
Speaker 1: that seem to have that? And certainly it's it's hard

1237
01:07:18,560 --> 01:07:22,120
Speaker 1: to boil it down to just one, maybe even two characteristics.

1238
01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:25,480
Speaker 1: But what do you see as being demanded of a

1239
01:07:25,520 --> 01:07:28,120
Speaker 1: head coach today in the NFL where perhaps it wasn't

1240
01:07:28,160 --> 01:07:30,640
Speaker 1: maybe a decade or two decades or three decades ago.

1241
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:34,520
Speaker 1: You know. See, I'm sport and obviously useful at having

1242
01:07:34,600 --> 01:07:37,080
Speaker 1: played on the Marv Levy like all the coaches that

1243
01:07:37,080 --> 01:07:39,840
Speaker 1: I've played with in the National Football League are either

1244
01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:42,760
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame, super Bowl winners or they've

1245
01:07:42,760 --> 01:07:46,400
Speaker 1: won two hundred games. So from Marv, Michael Rire, Mudy,

1246
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:49,200
Speaker 1: Shotten Himmer, John Groom, and Tom Coffin, I learned a lot,

1247
01:07:49,240 --> 01:07:51,840
Speaker 1: but I think the trades still hold true. They need

1248
01:07:51,880 --> 01:07:54,560
Speaker 1: to be great communicators. They need to be able to

1249
01:07:54,560 --> 01:07:57,360
Speaker 1: have these hard conversations where they can clearly spill out

1250
01:07:57,400 --> 01:08:00,960
Speaker 1: what every player's role is. The need to be consistent

1251
01:08:01,240 --> 01:08:03,720
Speaker 1: in their demeanor and their behavior. They don't get too

1252
01:08:03,760 --> 01:08:05,560
Speaker 1: high with the highs, they don't get too lows with

1253
01:08:05,600 --> 01:08:08,920
Speaker 1: the lows. They understand the long term plan and they

1254
01:08:08,920 --> 01:08:10,880
Speaker 1: stick to the plan. I believe they need to be

1255
01:08:11,000 --> 01:08:15,439
Speaker 1: organized in detail. I think every player craves structure. They're

1256
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:17,280
Speaker 1: not to know what the weeks is going to look like.

1257
01:08:17,479 --> 01:08:19,280
Speaker 1: They're not to know what the game plan is going

1258
01:08:19,320 --> 01:08:22,120
Speaker 1: to look like. They want to clearly communicate it to them,

1259
01:08:22,320 --> 01:08:25,120
Speaker 1: and they want the plan to remain the plan every

1260
01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:27,920
Speaker 1: going to the game. We don't see these sudden changes

1261
01:08:27,960 --> 01:08:31,440
Speaker 1: in those things. I think those things everybody can appreciate

1262
01:08:31,680 --> 01:08:34,439
Speaker 1: when it comes to Like the young guys that I'm

1263
01:08:34,479 --> 01:08:36,320
Speaker 1: looking around the league that I believe are some of

1264
01:08:36,360 --> 01:08:39,280
Speaker 1: the best head coaches look man, even though he's not

1265
01:08:39,360 --> 01:08:41,840
Speaker 1: a younger. I think Andy Ruth's culture is outstanding. I

1266
01:08:41,880 --> 01:08:45,280
Speaker 1: think what Sean McDermott has done in Buffalo, they've been terrific.

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Speaker 1: I think he's been very consistent. I think the way

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Speaker 1: that you see the team play is a direct reflection

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Speaker 1: of how he plays. I think Mike Tomlin is good

1270
01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:57,519
Speaker 1: with the culture that he's created and Pisturgh playing without players,

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Speaker 1: he's been able to do it. I will say what

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01:08:59,640 --> 01:09:03,160
Speaker 1: cow Saan has done in San Francisco, Jay Rey firm,

1273
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:07,160
Speaker 1: very direct, very creative. I think those things are all

1274
01:09:07,240 --> 01:09:09,120
Speaker 1: what you look for when I head coach and look.

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01:09:09,160 --> 01:09:11,479
Speaker 1: I don't think it has changed much from when we

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01:09:11,479 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 1: were playing in the nineties. I think people just want

1277
01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:16,320
Speaker 1: to know that the gas stenning in the front of

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01:09:16,320 --> 01:09:19,920
Speaker 1: the room is a communicator. He knows what he's doing,

1279
01:09:20,160 --> 01:09:23,320
Speaker 1: he's organized, and he's in the boat with the players.

1280
01:09:23,520 --> 01:09:26,519
Speaker 1: If the coach has those traits, I think he has

1281
01:09:26,560 --> 01:09:29,920
Speaker 1: an opportunity to have a lot of success in the league. Bucky,

1282
01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:31,880
Speaker 1: thanks for coming on. We really appreciate it. Hope to

1283
01:09:31,880 --> 01:09:33,640
Speaker 1: have you on again soon. We hope they rest of

1284
01:09:33,680 --> 01:09:36,360
Speaker 1: the pandemic treats you well. You and your family. Thanks

1285
01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:38,920
Speaker 1: hey man, thanks so much for having on. Guys, call

1286
01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:42,639
Speaker 1: me anytime you bet take Bucky Brooks five years set

1287
01:09:42,760 --> 01:09:45,080
Speaker 1: five year career in the National Football League. He's a

1288
01:09:45,120 --> 01:09:47,240
Speaker 1: former second round draft pick of the Buffalo Bills back

1289
01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:50,519
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety four and he's an NFL dot Com analyst.

1290
01:09:50,520 --> 01:09:52,639
Speaker 1: He's been at the NFL media for two thou since

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01:09:52,640 --> 01:09:56,200
Speaker 1: two thousand nine. Thank him for coming on. Steve Tasher

1292
01:09:56,280 --> 01:09:58,320
Speaker 1: Chris Brown Back after the Break One Bills is Live

1293
01:09:58,360 --> 01:10:11,360
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back

1294
01:10:11,360 --> 01:10:13,840
Speaker 1: to one of Bill's Live Steve Tasker Chris Brown. Which

1295
01:10:13,880 --> 01:10:16,680
Speaker 1: defensive is our Twitter poll? Which defensive lineman's gonna have

1296
01:10:16,720 --> 01:10:20,360
Speaker 1: the biggest impact in twenty twenty. UM got a ton

1297
01:10:20,400 --> 01:10:23,160
Speaker 1: of responses. Most of you think it's gonna be at

1298
01:10:23,200 --> 01:10:26,400
Speaker 1: Oliver fifty seven percent, twenty percent of your eighteen percent

1299
01:10:26,439 --> 01:10:31,240
Speaker 1: of you think it's Mario Addison and twelve percent say

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01:10:31,280 --> 01:10:34,840
Speaker 1: aj Epenez a thirteen percent say Jerry Hughes. We've got

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01:10:34,880 --> 01:10:39,800
Speaker 1: also some people that are chiming in as well. Uh.

1302
01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:44,559
Speaker 1: And it starts with what's his what was the guy's

1303
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:49,080
Speaker 1: name here? Hold on, hold on, hold on ah Uh anyway, Uh,

1304
01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:51,360
Speaker 1: he's gonna go off the board and he says, I'm

1305
01:10:51,400 --> 01:10:53,559
Speaker 1: gonna go with Harrison Phillips. He was playing great before

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01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:55,840
Speaker 1: his injury, gaining more playing time and had a lot

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01:10:55,920 --> 01:10:59,640
Speaker 1: of responsibility with the line calls as unfortunate as his

1308
01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:03,400
Speaker 1: jury may have been, it also may have been beneficial

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01:11:03,479 --> 01:11:08,599
Speaker 1: that he had a chance to watch and absorb that's Steve. Oh,

1310
01:11:08,720 --> 01:11:10,760
Speaker 1: there you go from Steve. I thought that was I

1311
01:11:10,800 --> 01:11:15,800
Speaker 1: thought that was written to me. There you go, there

1312
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Speaker 1: you go. I think it's a great that's a great call.

1313
01:11:19,800 --> 01:11:21,559
Speaker 1: He's got a long way to go, no question, And

1314
01:11:21,600 --> 01:11:23,680
Speaker 1: it's going to be a different defensive line room when

1315
01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:26,679
Speaker 1: he comes back in after being injured last year. Although

1316
01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:29,320
Speaker 1: you know he never left ostensible. I mean he's always there,

1317
01:11:29,840 --> 01:11:33,920
Speaker 1: but it's going to be a different room and his

1318
01:11:34,040 --> 01:11:37,599
Speaker 1: role may change because of his injury and that because

1319
01:11:37,640 --> 01:11:41,360
Speaker 1: of twelve months passes. I will say that he's not

1320
01:11:41,439 --> 01:11:44,840
Speaker 1: a player that's going to get to the quarterback with

1321
01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:49,479
Speaker 1: just pure explosion. He is a technique oriented guy who

1322
01:11:49,520 --> 01:11:52,320
Speaker 1: wins that way and with effort. You know, he's a

1323
01:11:52,400 --> 01:11:56,479
Speaker 1: high motor player. Um, but he's not a sudden player,

1324
01:11:56,560 --> 01:11:59,040
Speaker 1: if you know what I'm saying. So yeah, I think

1325
01:11:59,760 --> 01:12:03,599
Speaker 1: he finds a way to be effective, and it's usually

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Speaker 1: rooted in his film study and his technique and then

1327
01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:10,920
Speaker 1: his second effort. Really but there's a place for that

1328
01:12:10,960 --> 01:12:13,400
Speaker 1: on a team like this, and it's certainly something that

1329
01:12:13,439 --> 01:12:16,920
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott respects in players. As a matter of fact,

1330
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Speaker 1: you could probably make the argument that he has more

1331
01:12:19,600 --> 01:12:22,799
Speaker 1: respect for those high motor effort guys that maybe aren't

1332
01:12:22,800 --> 01:12:26,479
Speaker 1: blessed with quite as much give you know, natural talent

1333
01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:30,439
Speaker 1: you need the playmakers. Don't get me wrong, but I

1334
01:12:30,479 --> 01:12:33,760
Speaker 1: think there's a certain amount of respect that coach McDermott

1335
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Speaker 1: has for those extra effort guys that get the most

1336
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Speaker 1: out of themselves. Yeah. I agree, everybody kind of roots

1337
01:12:41,200 --> 01:12:44,759
Speaker 1: for guys like that because they obviously it's more obvious

1338
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:46,880
Speaker 1: that they put in a huge amount of effort. And

1339
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Speaker 1: I think there's no question too that a guy like

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01:12:50,240 --> 01:12:53,640
Speaker 1: Harrison Phillips, because of his film study, because of his

1341
01:12:54,120 --> 01:12:57,000
Speaker 1: you know, book work, if you want to call it that,

1342
01:12:57,000 --> 01:12:59,519
Speaker 1: that's the reason he evolved into that guy that last

1343
01:12:59,600 --> 01:13:01,040
Speaker 1: year to be of the Year was calling all the

1344
01:13:01,080 --> 01:13:03,599
Speaker 1: line stunts, right. They need a guy that knows what

1345
01:13:03,640 --> 01:13:05,439
Speaker 1: he's doing up there and can think on his feet,

1346
01:13:05,439 --> 01:13:08,240
Speaker 1: and that's what Harrison Phillips does so well. Yeah, and

1347
01:13:08,280 --> 01:13:12,240
Speaker 1: the reason he does is because he was following Kyle

1348
01:13:12,280 --> 01:13:14,200
Speaker 1: Williams around like a puppy dog when he was a

1349
01:13:14,280 --> 01:13:19,040
Speaker 1: rookie and basically asked him to show him how to

1350
01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:23,640
Speaker 1: pick up on those tendencies from the opposing offense. But

1351
01:13:23,680 --> 01:13:25,639
Speaker 1: so you can make those line calls on the fly,

1352
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:28,800
Speaker 1: because as Mkayo did for the better part of ten

1353
01:13:28,880 --> 01:13:33,800
Speaker 1: years of his thirteen year career. So yeah, God for

1354
01:13:34,360 --> 01:13:38,439
Speaker 1: taking up right and not for nothing. But this question

1355
01:13:38,479 --> 01:13:41,519
Speaker 1: about which defensive lineman's going to have the biggest impact,

1356
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:45,920
Speaker 1: it's really it's an interesting, you know, question to ask.

1357
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Speaker 1: For the simple reason is there's so many guys who can.

1358
01:13:50,439 --> 01:13:52,880
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of guys taking significant amount

1359
01:13:52,920 --> 01:13:56,639
Speaker 1: of snaps, and there's enough guys in there who have

1360
01:13:56,760 --> 01:13:59,400
Speaker 1: credentials for lack of a better way to put it,

1361
01:13:59,439 --> 01:14:02,280
Speaker 1: you got Aji who is a high draft pick, Mario

1362
01:14:02,320 --> 01:14:05,040
Speaker 1: Addison who's done it in the league. You've got Vernon

1363
01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:07,360
Speaker 1: Butler who's got a good career, who's had a good

1364
01:14:07,360 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 1: career in the league. You've got the rest of these

1365
01:14:09,320 --> 01:14:13,720
Speaker 1: guys like uh Starlow Tulele at Oliver Harrison Phillips. And

1366
01:14:13,760 --> 01:14:16,360
Speaker 1: you've got Vincent Taylor, who's a three year guy showing

1367
01:14:16,439 --> 01:14:20,320
Speaker 1: up here for the first time. Trent Murphy, who we've

1368
01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:23,120
Speaker 1: been got a little bit waiting on I think for

1369
01:14:23,200 --> 01:14:25,080
Speaker 1: a large portion of his time here in Buffalo. You

1370
01:14:25,120 --> 01:14:26,880
Speaker 1: kind of think that guy has a little bit more

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01:14:26,880 --> 01:14:29,040
Speaker 1: in the tank. We have not seen it yet. And

1372
01:14:29,080 --> 01:14:33,280
Speaker 1: then Daryl Jerry Hughes, who could bust out again given

1373
01:14:33,320 --> 01:14:35,160
Speaker 1: the fact that this is a much deeper and better

1374
01:14:35,200 --> 01:14:40,719
Speaker 1: offensive line around him. Yeah, Daryl Johnson taking a step forward.

1375
01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:42,559
Speaker 1: You know, you got all this these questions and all

1376
01:14:42,560 --> 01:14:46,599
Speaker 1: these guys coming from different angles, and knowing that all

1377
01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:49,400
Speaker 1: of them, whoever makes the team, is going to see

1378
01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:51,559
Speaker 1: a significant amount of snaps. There's not going to be

1379
01:14:51,560 --> 01:14:53,880
Speaker 1: a lack of opportunity for any of these guys if

1380
01:14:53,880 --> 01:14:55,680
Speaker 1: they can get on the roster. And I think that's

1381
01:14:55,720 --> 01:15:00,000
Speaker 1: the interesting part about it. Yes, And I think maybe

1382
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:02,439
Speaker 1: it's interesting to me was I was taking a look

1383
01:15:02,439 --> 01:15:07,880
Speaker 1: at Mario Addison's production, probably about a month ago in Carolina,

1384
01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:09,920
Speaker 1: you know, knowing that he had four straight seasons of

1385
01:15:09,960 --> 01:15:13,760
Speaker 1: at least nine sacks, and I took a look at

1386
01:15:13,920 --> 01:15:18,719
Speaker 1: his playtime percentage, and at no point over that span

1387
01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:21,360
Speaker 1: did he ever have more than fifty five percent of

1388
01:15:21,400 --> 01:15:25,840
Speaker 1: the snaps. So, you know, here's a guy that wasn't

1389
01:15:25,840 --> 01:15:28,920
Speaker 1: on the field for sixty out of sixty five plays.

1390
01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:32,800
Speaker 1: You know, he was on the field for like thirty two. Yeah,

1391
01:15:32,800 --> 01:15:34,599
Speaker 1: if you can get a bunch of guys like that,

1392
01:15:34,600 --> 01:15:37,000
Speaker 1: that's pretty good place. If you can be that productive

1393
01:15:37,640 --> 01:15:42,400
Speaker 1: playing half the time, good on you, man, And that's

1394
01:15:42,400 --> 01:15:44,639
Speaker 1: gonna be a good fit here, because that's what they

1395
01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:48,639
Speaker 1: do here, right. Yeah. And I so I think I'm

1396
01:15:48,800 --> 01:15:53,720
Speaker 1: I'm really interested and intrigued by this question because when

1397
01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:56,960
Speaker 1: you see guys, you see both potential and production and

1398
01:15:57,080 --> 01:15:59,479
Speaker 1: credentials and every reason to believe that Alton, you know,

1399
01:15:59,520 --> 01:16:03,000
Speaker 1: they're gonna do take a step forward. Most of these guys. Now,

1400
01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:06,160
Speaker 1: certainly you can make a case that well maybe maybe

1401
01:16:06,240 --> 01:16:08,479
Speaker 1: Mario Addison has passed it. Maybe that's why he got

1402
01:16:08,520 --> 01:16:11,000
Speaker 1: out of Carolina. Carolina wasn't that interested in keeping him

1403
01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:12,840
Speaker 1: around because they thought he was on the down side.

1404
01:16:13,040 --> 01:16:15,280
Speaker 1: Well yeah, and they're kind of all the building too

1405
01:16:15,320 --> 01:16:17,639
Speaker 1: down there, right, So there's all these things you can

1406
01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:20,639
Speaker 1: you can talk yourself out of anything. But I'm one

1407
01:16:20,680 --> 01:16:23,680
Speaker 1: guy I'm really interested in is is Quinton Jefferson. I like

1408
01:16:23,760 --> 01:16:27,080
Speaker 1: his versatility and what he brings to the table. And

1409
01:16:27,880 --> 01:16:32,200
Speaker 1: he was with a team in Seattle. It's pretty competitive

1410
01:16:32,320 --> 01:16:34,680
Speaker 1: all the time. So I think he's gonna have some

1411
01:16:34,800 --> 01:16:37,400
Speaker 1: expectations walking into Buffalo, Like, Listen, I didn't come here

1412
01:16:37,439 --> 01:16:39,800
Speaker 1: to lose, you know what I mean. And I didn't

1413
01:16:39,840 --> 01:16:42,320
Speaker 1: come here to be an afterthought either. He's going to

1414
01:16:42,400 --> 01:16:46,600
Speaker 1: be pushing for regular reps because reps for him were

1415
01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:50,360
Speaker 1: somewhat hard to come by, even in Seattle, where he

1416
01:16:50,439 --> 01:16:53,280
Speaker 1: was strictly a rotational guy. And I think he's coming

1417
01:16:53,320 --> 01:16:56,759
Speaker 1: here hoping he can be more than that and provide

1418
01:16:56,800 --> 01:17:00,040
Speaker 1: even more production than he did, you know, in the

1419
01:17:00,120 --> 01:17:03,320
Speaker 1: versatile ways that he helped the Seattle front. Right, So

1420
01:17:03,720 --> 01:17:05,360
Speaker 1: do we have time to do what's for lunch here?

1421
01:17:05,360 --> 01:17:08,479
Speaker 1: Should we jump into that? Yeah, I'll try that Browne. Okay,

1422
01:17:08,560 --> 01:17:10,680
Speaker 1: Let all right, let's do some lunch here. This is

1423
01:17:10,720 --> 01:17:13,920
Speaker 1: what's for lunch? Uh, Steve, Steve task call with Chris

1424
01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:15,639
Speaker 1: Brown here till three. This is where we go down

1425
01:17:15,680 --> 01:17:17,640
Speaker 1: the menu and you get a A column A or

1426
01:17:17,760 --> 01:17:19,920
Speaker 1: column B. Choose one or the others you like? Betty

1427
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:21,960
Speaker 1: might like them both, but you can't have both for lunch.

1428
01:17:22,240 --> 01:17:24,639
Speaker 1: Here we go better team deal? Is it the Miles

1429
01:17:24,640 --> 01:17:28,719
Speaker 1: Garrett deal or the Chris Jones deal? Miles Garrett twenty

1430
01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:34,000
Speaker 1: five twenty five million over five years and Chris Jones

1431
01:17:34,120 --> 01:17:38,000
Speaker 1: eighty five over four. Yeah, I mean I like the

1432
01:17:38,080 --> 01:17:40,880
Speaker 1: Chris Jones deal because he can get out of it

1433
01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:44,880
Speaker 1: sooner and you're paying out less money overall. I understand

1434
01:17:44,880 --> 01:17:48,000
Speaker 1: why it's less because he's a DT and Miles Garrett

1435
01:17:48,040 --> 01:17:50,080
Speaker 1: as a premier pass rusher, so you're gonna pay more

1436
01:17:50,160 --> 01:17:54,040
Speaker 1: for that guy as a layer. It comes as a layer.

1437
01:17:54,080 --> 01:17:56,800
Speaker 1: I like Garrett, but in terms of the deal, I

1438
01:17:57,400 --> 01:18:00,559
Speaker 1: kind of like the Jones deal because you're paying him

1439
01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:03,240
Speaker 1: a lot the first couple of years. Here, I always

1440
01:18:03,240 --> 01:18:05,760
Speaker 1: go for the better player, Miles Garrett. You're paying for

1441
01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:10,040
Speaker 1: what you get, and Miles Garrett is uh, he's a stud.

1442
01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:13,519
Speaker 1: He's a stud, and give me the stud, all right?

1443
01:18:13,520 --> 01:18:17,240
Speaker 1: If no fall college football? Would you that's item number one?

1444
01:18:17,280 --> 01:18:19,720
Speaker 1: I don't remember two on the on the agenda. This

1445
01:18:19,800 --> 01:18:22,080
Speaker 1: is it. Would you like this side dish? If no

1446
01:18:22,160 --> 01:18:25,519
Speaker 1: college football? Would you like to see football on Saturdays? Yes?

1447
01:18:25,600 --> 01:18:31,439
Speaker 1: Or no football? NFL football on Saturdays? Yes? Or no? Well? Yeah,

1448
01:18:31,520 --> 01:18:33,840
Speaker 1: what the heck else are we doing on Saturday? So yeah,

1449
01:18:34,080 --> 01:18:37,880
Speaker 1: there's no college football? Gotta fill the void? Ye want?

1450
01:18:38,080 --> 01:18:40,400
Speaker 1: Do you want ketch up with those fries? Yeah? Give

1451
01:18:40,439 --> 01:18:42,760
Speaker 1: me some ketchup. Oh that's right. That was like a

1452
01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:45,599
Speaker 1: food staple for me. Man, exactly right, do you want

1453
01:18:45,640 --> 01:18:49,120
Speaker 1: do you want salsa with those chips? Yes, right, that's

1454
01:18:49,160 --> 01:18:51,200
Speaker 1: what it is. Yeah, if you're gonna have there's no

1455
01:18:51,200 --> 01:18:54,559
Speaker 1: football on yeah, no Saturday Sunday every week. Give me,

1456
01:18:55,320 --> 01:18:58,799
Speaker 1: give me Thursday, Friday, Saturday Sunday football in the afternoons

1457
01:18:58,800 --> 01:19:01,479
Speaker 1: where I'm working from home for crying out loud. Okay,

1458
01:19:01,560 --> 01:19:05,280
Speaker 1: here we go a yet more overpaid player, Jared Goff

1459
01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:09,360
Speaker 1: or Levion Bell. See now this one. This was kind

1460
01:19:09,360 --> 01:19:12,080
Speaker 1: of tough for me because I think quarterback and running

1461
01:19:12,080 --> 01:19:15,280
Speaker 1: back is a little bit apples and oranges in terms

1462
01:19:15,280 --> 01:19:19,800
Speaker 1: of money value and stuff like that. Goff got to

1463
01:19:19,840 --> 01:19:25,880
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl and got his big money. Bell turned

1464
01:19:25,880 --> 01:19:28,880
Speaker 1: away big money and ended up literally paying for it

1465
01:19:29,320 --> 01:19:32,760
Speaker 1: by not making nearly as much with the Jets. So

1466
01:19:32,800 --> 01:19:39,479
Speaker 1: it's hard to say Bell's overpaid. But you look at

1467
01:19:39,479 --> 01:19:43,840
Speaker 1: the quarterback contracts, Golf isn't overpaid either, So I guess

1468
01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:47,360
Speaker 1: I'll say Bell because his production didn't meet the price tag.

1469
01:19:47,560 --> 01:19:56,040
Speaker 1: I'll say Bell, you're on mute, Steve, I hate myself.

1470
01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:03,759
Speaker 1: I got a states Levy on Bell because you can't

1471
01:20:03,800 --> 01:20:06,040
Speaker 1: hold against the fact that he left money on the table.

1472
01:20:06,240 --> 01:20:08,560
Speaker 1: That doesn't cut off the contract they're paying him. The

1473
01:20:08,640 --> 01:20:13,840
Speaker 1: Jets paid him big money and he couldn't keep it up.

1474
01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:16,040
Speaker 1: He's not he's not living up to that. He's never

1475
01:20:16,040 --> 01:20:18,040
Speaker 1: gonna he was never gonna live up to that contract

1476
01:20:18,040 --> 01:20:20,000
Speaker 1: when he signed the contract. He was never gonna live

1477
01:20:20,040 --> 01:20:21,360
Speaker 1: up to that contract. You, I don't know what a

1478
01:20:21,360 --> 01:20:25,320
Speaker 1: lot of players and agents don't think about. When you

1479
01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:27,400
Speaker 1: know the players a free agent and he can go anywhere.

1480
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:35,560
Speaker 1: I think a lot of players and agents overlook franchise stability. Yeah,

1481
01:20:35,720 --> 01:20:39,680
Speaker 1: they just go for the money. And if you are

1482
01:20:39,760 --> 01:20:45,320
Speaker 1: comparing the Jets and the Steelers in terms of franchise stability,

1483
01:20:45,439 --> 01:20:48,519
Speaker 1: there might there might not be two teams at a

1484
01:20:48,600 --> 01:20:53,080
Speaker 1: greater end of the spectrum than those two. Right, And

1485
01:20:55,640 --> 01:20:58,920
Speaker 1: once he signed with the Jets, but the first thing

1486
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:02,280
Speaker 1: I saffered him, offered him a really good contract, seven

1487
01:21:02,439 --> 01:21:06,439
Speaker 1: five million dollars. It was over. He was brain dead

1488
01:21:06,520 --> 01:21:12,639
Speaker 1: not taking that. Yeah, so that was bad enough then

1489
01:21:13,720 --> 01:21:16,960
Speaker 1: to go to an organization that is historically known for

1490
01:21:17,240 --> 01:21:21,280
Speaker 1: not making players better after they get there, whether it's

1491
01:21:21,360 --> 01:21:25,120
Speaker 1: draft choices and developing them or whether it's enhancing the

1492
01:21:25,200 --> 01:21:29,720
Speaker 1: qualities of a high priced free agent. They just don't

1493
01:21:29,920 --> 01:21:32,439
Speaker 1: do it. You can look at it year after year,

1494
01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:36,599
Speaker 1: time after time, high expectations and they're never met because

1495
01:21:36,640 --> 01:21:40,679
Speaker 1: they don't have good player development within their structure, never

1496
01:21:40,800 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 1: have and I don't know if they ever will. And

1497
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:48,800
Speaker 1: so Levion Bell probably should have thought twice about going

1498
01:21:48,840 --> 01:21:51,320
Speaker 1: to the Jets. He would have been better off taking

1499
01:21:51,400 --> 01:21:54,000
Speaker 1: even more of a hit in the wallet and going

1500
01:21:54,040 --> 01:21:57,760
Speaker 1: to a more stable franchise than he did by going

1501
01:21:57,800 --> 01:21:59,439
Speaker 1: to the Jets and taking as much money as he

1502
01:21:59,479 --> 01:22:01,559
Speaker 1: could get to get his close to what Pittsburgh was

1503
01:22:01,600 --> 01:22:04,920
Speaker 1: offering him. That was a. That was a He totally

1504
01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:10,320
Speaker 1: botched that contract in any ways, so many ways. I

1505
01:22:10,320 --> 01:22:13,720
Speaker 1: don't know who represents him, but obviously they have no

1506
01:22:13,800 --> 01:22:16,439
Speaker 1: effect on him that they could not talk him out

1507
01:22:16,439 --> 01:22:19,599
Speaker 1: of doing the exact wrong thing, which is exactly what

1508
01:22:19,640 --> 01:22:22,160
Speaker 1: he did. So I'm with you, Levion Bell's the most

1509
01:22:22,200 --> 01:22:24,840
Speaker 1: over overpaid player between him and Jared Goff. Okay, here

1510
01:22:24,840 --> 01:22:28,720
Speaker 1: we go an item number three of the menu. One more,

1511
01:22:28,800 --> 01:22:33,519
Speaker 1: here we go, um, which let's say this, which what's

1512
01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:36,719
Speaker 1: a better player to wear the number twenty on his jersey?

1513
01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:39,760
Speaker 1: Barry Sanders number twenty for the Detroit Lions or Ed

1514
01:22:39,840 --> 01:22:42,160
Speaker 1: Reid number twenty for the Baltimore Ravens to Hall of

1515
01:22:42,160 --> 01:22:45,160
Speaker 1: Fame players, and that's tough. But I'm going with Barry.

1516
01:22:46,520 --> 01:22:49,559
Speaker 1: Barry's one of a kind man. I don't know if

1517
01:22:49,600 --> 01:22:52,080
Speaker 1: you're ever gonna see anybody like him again. I would

1518
01:22:52,080 --> 01:22:53,920
Speaker 1: say I would say the same thing too, He's a

1519
01:22:54,040 --> 01:22:57,240
Speaker 1: He's a timeless player, Barry, I would say Barry Sanders

1520
01:22:57,280 --> 01:22:59,479
Speaker 1: because of this. Ed Reid was on a very and

1521
01:22:59,640 --> 01:23:03,120
Speaker 1: it goes back to your point of Levion Bell and

1522
01:23:03,800 --> 01:23:08,200
Speaker 1: Jared Goff. Barry Sanders played for a franchise that struggles.

1523
01:23:08,240 --> 01:23:11,160
Speaker 1: You're in year out, decade in decade out, still excelled

1524
01:23:11,320 --> 01:23:16,320
Speaker 1: and he was dominant, unbelievable for a team that was horrible.

1525
01:23:17,200 --> 01:23:19,880
Speaker 1: Ed Reid was on a stable franchise, going to the

1526
01:23:19,880 --> 01:23:22,280
Speaker 1: playoffs every year, on a contender. One of the best

1527
01:23:22,320 --> 01:23:24,760
Speaker 1: defenses of all time, had guys all around him, and

1528
01:23:24,840 --> 01:23:27,439
Speaker 1: no question, he elevated their play around him. He had

1529
01:23:27,479 --> 01:23:31,600
Speaker 1: the best, maybe the best defensive player leadership wise of

1530
01:23:31,640 --> 01:23:34,840
Speaker 1: all time, in ray Lewis playing in front of him.

1531
01:23:35,080 --> 01:23:38,840
Speaker 1: He had everything going for him that on that team.

1532
01:23:38,880 --> 01:23:42,360
Speaker 1: So I think Barry sanders accomplishments in the number twenty

1533
01:23:42,479 --> 01:23:48,679
Speaker 1: Jersey were greater and harder to do than Ed Reid's

1534
01:23:48,720 --> 01:23:51,320
Speaker 1: play at safety for the Baltimore Ravens for all those years. Now,

1535
01:23:51,320 --> 01:23:54,960
Speaker 1: they're both Hall of Fame players, they're both phenomenal football players.

1536
01:23:55,000 --> 01:23:59,200
Speaker 1: They're both the very tippy top of their position all time.

1537
01:23:59,479 --> 01:24:03,240
Speaker 1: But I think Barry Sanders was the better player where

1538
01:24:03,280 --> 01:24:06,080
Speaker 1: in the number twenty Jersey. That's so, I agree with you, Brownie.

1539
01:24:06,080 --> 01:24:09,200
Speaker 1: That was good lunch, good lunch. We both want football

1540
01:24:09,280 --> 01:24:12,519
Speaker 1: on Saturdays. We both liked the stud and Miles Garrett

1541
01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:14,880
Speaker 1: Chris Jones. You like the contract to Chris Jones better,

1542
01:24:14,880 --> 01:24:17,080
Speaker 1: but I like Miles Garrett as a player, and we

1543
01:24:17,160 --> 01:24:20,519
Speaker 1: both think Levon Bells more overpaid than Jerry. God, that's

1544
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:23,639
Speaker 1: pretty good menu for lunch, all right, I'll stick with that. Yeah,

1545
01:24:24,560 --> 01:24:26,640
Speaker 1: we'll do with that. Yes, that's I can't wait for

1546
01:24:26,680 --> 01:24:28,479
Speaker 1: that to come out of the kitchen. Steve Tasker Chris

1547
01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:31,120
Speaker 1: Brown here till three o'clock, coming back after the break,

1548
01:24:31,280 --> 01:24:34,080
Speaker 1: One Bills Live presenter by Klyda Health on Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1549
01:24:40,520 --> 01:24:43,160
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Steve Tasker along with

1550
01:24:43,240 --> 01:24:46,200
Speaker 1: Chris Brown Brownie. One of the things that came out

1551
01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:48,240
Speaker 1: and once again, I mean with I said it, I

1552
01:24:48,240 --> 01:24:51,440
Speaker 1: say it every day. There's a new list out about rankings,

1553
01:24:51,960 --> 01:24:55,360
Speaker 1: and this one is ESPN. It's on the ESPN Insiders

1554
01:24:55,360 --> 01:24:58,240
Speaker 1: and they're they're ranking all the different position groups around

1555
01:24:58,240 --> 01:25:00,400
Speaker 1: the league. Who were the best to a wide receivers

1556
01:25:00,400 --> 01:25:02,439
Speaker 1: in the leage? Who are the best interior defensive lineman,

1557
01:25:02,520 --> 01:25:06,320
Speaker 1: la la la off of the ball linebackers. Number seven

1558
01:25:06,360 --> 01:25:11,920
Speaker 1: on the list is our own Tremaine Edmonds, age twenty two.

1559
01:25:14,800 --> 01:25:18,519
Speaker 1: He's making a name for himself. He's getting higher and higher,

1560
01:25:18,520 --> 01:25:20,680
Speaker 1: not as we've seen like with tredevious wife being All Pro.

1561
01:25:20,880 --> 01:25:24,760
Speaker 1: Got a few more Pro Bowlers this last year, guys

1562
01:25:24,760 --> 01:25:27,120
Speaker 1: who are alternates and stuff that people are starting to

1563
01:25:27,120 --> 01:25:30,840
Speaker 1: take notice of him. And this ranking's got Tremaine Edmunds

1564
01:25:30,880 --> 01:25:33,320
Speaker 1: at number seven overall in the National Football League at

1565
01:25:33,360 --> 01:25:38,120
Speaker 1: inside linebacker. Yeah, and some of the quotes that Jeremy

1566
01:25:38,120 --> 01:25:41,679
Speaker 1: Fallow was able to get from some scouts around the league.

1567
01:25:41,760 --> 01:25:45,479
Speaker 1: Once said quote, he's the epitome of freaky. He's a

1568
01:25:45,520 --> 01:25:49,599
Speaker 1: cornerstone guy about the right stuff, works hard and has

1569
01:25:49,720 --> 01:25:55,160
Speaker 1: serious range. And then one other veteran NFL linebacker was

1570
01:25:55,240 --> 01:25:59,320
Speaker 1: quoted as saying he's still raw and sometimes he's in

1571
01:25:59,360 --> 01:26:01,719
Speaker 1: the wrong, but once he sees the ball, he runs

1572
01:26:01,720 --> 01:26:04,599
Speaker 1: it down within five yards better than anybody, and he'll

1573
01:26:04,640 --> 01:26:09,160
Speaker 1: clean up in the shortcoming. He's talented enough to do that. Yeah,

1574
01:26:09,160 --> 01:26:11,920
Speaker 1: I'm one of the other offensive coaches. A veteran offensive

1575
01:26:11,960 --> 01:26:14,120
Speaker 1: coach said he'll be number one on the list soon.

1576
01:26:14,160 --> 01:26:16,920
Speaker 1: He's a tremendous athlete, so he's still got an upside.

1577
01:26:16,920 --> 01:26:19,160
Speaker 1: People seeing things about Tremaine m it's kind of cool

1578
01:26:19,200 --> 01:26:22,080
Speaker 1: to see. I thought we'd share that with you as

1579
01:26:22,439 --> 01:26:25,799
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills continue to garner attention around the country

1580
01:26:26,280 --> 01:26:30,040
Speaker 1: in a season and an offseason where we may or

1581
01:26:30,080 --> 01:26:34,920
Speaker 1: may not have football to watch. A little double edged

1582
01:26:34,920 --> 01:26:37,160
Speaker 1: sword there. Yeah, you're a great football team, but your

1583
01:26:37,240 --> 01:26:39,160
Speaker 1: league doesn't get to play this year kind of thing.

1584
01:26:39,439 --> 01:26:42,679
Speaker 1: We'll see. The league and the NFLPA are still meeting.

1585
01:26:42,680 --> 01:26:45,400
Speaker 1: We're getting look waiting for word on how those meetings

1586
01:26:45,400 --> 01:26:47,960
Speaker 1: are going. Nothing yet on Twitter or any of the

1587
01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:50,160
Speaker 1: social media outlets, So we'll keep an eye on that

1588
01:26:50,200 --> 01:26:53,320
Speaker 1: for you as well, and as probably as probably usual, Brownie,

1589
01:26:54,640 --> 01:26:57,920
Speaker 1: everything will break about two fifty five this afternoon. Yeah,

1590
01:26:57,960 --> 01:27:00,559
Speaker 1: that's the way. It always seems to be. The only

1591
01:27:00,560 --> 01:27:03,080
Speaker 1: other thing real quick about that linebacker list that I

1592
01:27:03,120 --> 01:27:06,719
Speaker 1: wanted to point out in terms of the guys ranked

1593
01:27:06,760 --> 01:27:10,439
Speaker 1: ahead of Edmonds, So Bobby Wagner in Seattle, Levante David

1594
01:27:10,479 --> 01:27:14,840
Speaker 1: and Tampa, Eric Kendricks Minnesota, Darius Leonard Indianapolis to Mario Davis,

1595
01:27:14,880 --> 01:27:18,759
Speaker 1: New Orleans, Dion Jones Atlanta. Only one of those guys

1596
01:27:18,800 --> 01:27:22,880
Speaker 1: plays in the AFC, So if Tremaine continues on this

1597
01:27:22,960 --> 01:27:26,639
Speaker 1: upward trajectory, he could be racking up Pro Bowls pretty consistently. Yeah.

1598
01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:29,560
Speaker 1: Darius Leonard for Indianapolis, he was very good and was

1599
01:27:29,600 --> 01:27:31,880
Speaker 1: good as a rookie. He came in the exact same

1600
01:27:32,000 --> 01:27:37,479
Speaker 1: year that that Tremaine did. I think he was taken

1601
01:27:37,520 --> 01:27:39,960
Speaker 1: ahead of him by the Colts if I'm not mistaken.

1602
01:27:40,000 --> 01:27:42,080
Speaker 1: I think Darius Less was a higher draft pick and

1603
01:27:42,360 --> 01:27:44,320
Speaker 1: the Bills never had a chance to either even take

1604
01:27:44,439 --> 01:27:46,679
Speaker 1: Darius Leonard. But I think both teams are really happy

1605
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:48,680
Speaker 1: with the guy they got. Darius Leonard was going to

1606
01:27:48,680 --> 01:27:50,960
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl and maybe even as a rookie he

1607
01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:54,240
Speaker 1: was being considered. So there are some really good players

1608
01:27:54,240 --> 01:27:56,040
Speaker 1: on this list. No question about it, but it's nice

1609
01:27:56,040 --> 01:27:59,280
Speaker 1: to see our own Tremaine Edmonds on there as well.

1610
01:27:59,760 --> 01:28:02,400
Speaker 1: Much more to come. We're here till three o'clock Steve Tasker,

1611
01:28:02,479 --> 01:28:04,760
Speaker 1: Chris Brown and One Bill's Life presenter by Khalid to Health.

1612
01:28:04,760 --> 01:28:07,000
Speaker 1: We'll be right back after the break. This is Buffalo

1613
01:28:07,040 --> 01:28:24,720
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Oh a Great Time by Steve Blaskers, Down Bucks, Down, Backs, Down,

1614
01:28:25,040 --> 01:28:35,439
Speaker 1: Basto for time. Welcome back to One Bill's Life. Steve

1615
01:28:35,479 --> 01:28:37,360
Speaker 1: Tasker along with Chris Brown. I want to tell all

1616
01:28:37,360 --> 01:28:40,040
Speaker 1: our listeners to gear up for Episode one of Captain's Circle,

1617
01:28:40,120 --> 01:28:43,520
Speaker 1: presented by Labat Blue Light. The first of three episodes

1618
01:28:43,600 --> 01:28:46,080
Speaker 1: that will feature This one will feature Jack Chel and

1619
01:28:46,320 --> 01:28:48,519
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. That's going to be available to watch on

1620
01:28:48,600 --> 01:28:51,800
Speaker 1: the Sabers and Bills YouTube channels and Facebook pages July

1621
01:28:52,080 --> 01:28:55,240
Speaker 1: nineteenth at seven pm. Make sure you tune in so

1622
01:28:55,360 --> 01:28:59,760
Speaker 1: you can cheers to the captains. That's happening on July nineteenth,

1623
01:29:00,760 --> 01:29:04,719
Speaker 1: That Saturday night. Is that Sunday Night, Sunday night, seven

1624
01:29:04,760 --> 01:29:07,840
Speaker 1: pm on the Bills YouTube channel and Facebook pages along

1625
01:29:07,880 --> 01:29:11,000
Speaker 1: with the Sabers. The same platforms for the Sabers as well.

1626
01:29:11,320 --> 01:29:13,320
Speaker 1: We also have this question. We've asked all of you

1627
01:29:13,600 --> 01:29:17,680
Speaker 1: which Bill's defensive linemen will have the biggest impact in

1628
01:29:17,840 --> 01:29:21,080
Speaker 1: twenty twenty and why our Twitter poll is kind of

1629
01:29:21,160 --> 01:29:23,280
Speaker 1: holding up to form and what we thought at Oliver's

1630
01:29:23,320 --> 01:29:27,160
Speaker 1: fifty seven percent, thirteen percent say Jerry I'm sorry, twenty

1631
01:29:27,200 --> 01:29:31,080
Speaker 1: percent say Mario Addison, thirteen percent say Jerry Hughes, twelve

1632
01:29:31,120 --> 01:29:34,120
Speaker 1: percent say aj Epanessa, and a lot of We've got

1633
01:29:34,160 --> 01:29:36,960
Speaker 1: a lot of other names as well on there. In fact,

1634
01:29:37,040 --> 01:29:43,479
Speaker 1: we've got one Brownie from Nick who says that it's

1635
01:29:43,520 --> 01:29:46,800
Speaker 1: going to be the additions to the D line and

1636
01:29:46,880 --> 01:29:51,080
Speaker 1: opposing defensive lineman's will not be able to focus on

1637
01:29:51,560 --> 01:29:54,280
Speaker 1: Hughes as they have and as much on Hughes as

1638
01:29:54,280 --> 01:29:56,120
Speaker 1: they have in the past. Players brought in have an

1639
01:29:56,200 --> 01:29:58,880
Speaker 1: attitude that the Bills did not have in prior years.

1640
01:29:58,920 --> 01:30:01,600
Speaker 1: And I believe this will YEP talent like Jerry, let's go.

1641
01:30:02,280 --> 01:30:04,960
Speaker 1: This is buff This Buffalo is going to Let's go

1642
01:30:05,080 --> 01:30:07,080
Speaker 1: Buffalo is going to be fun to watch. I think

1643
01:30:07,120 --> 01:30:10,479
Speaker 1: he said Jerry Hughes will be because of the freedom

1644
01:30:10,520 --> 01:30:13,040
Speaker 1: he'll get from the from the added talent around him.

1645
01:30:13,200 --> 01:30:15,160
Speaker 1: And we've we've talked about that a little bit. Brownie

1646
01:30:15,400 --> 01:30:17,559
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes may be the guy who benefits from all

1647
01:30:17,600 --> 01:30:21,720
Speaker 1: the additions, right, and he's not going to see as

1648
01:30:21,760 --> 01:30:23,560
Speaker 1: many double teams. I mean, I think we can say that,

1649
01:30:24,280 --> 01:30:27,800
Speaker 1: and so that inherently is going to benefit him right there.

1650
01:30:27,920 --> 01:30:32,680
Speaker 1: So I think that the only question is going to

1651
01:30:32,760 --> 01:30:36,240
Speaker 1: be and all indications are he's healed well. He had

1652
01:30:36,280 --> 01:30:38,840
Speaker 1: two cleanup surgeries in the off season, one for his wrist,

1653
01:30:38,960 --> 01:30:40,920
Speaker 1: which was an injury that he played through last year,

1654
01:30:41,800 --> 01:30:44,960
Speaker 1: and I believe the other was a shoulder, and so

1655
01:30:46,600 --> 01:30:50,880
Speaker 1: you know the recovery from those from all indications, I

1656
01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:54,160
Speaker 1: know Brandon being addressed it around draft time saying Jerry

1657
01:30:54,280 --> 01:30:59,160
Speaker 1: was recovering well and everything was positive after successful surgeries.

1658
01:31:00,200 --> 01:31:02,640
Speaker 1: So you would anticipate that the Bills are gonna get

1659
01:31:02,680 --> 01:31:06,000
Speaker 1: a healthier Jerry Hughes this season then they saw for

1660
01:31:06,080 --> 01:31:09,559
Speaker 1: the majority of last season when he was immittedly playing

1661
01:31:09,600 --> 01:31:12,559
Speaker 1: it less than one hundred percent. So right, you would

1662
01:31:12,600 --> 01:31:15,800
Speaker 1: hope with more one on one opportunities that he turns

1663
01:31:15,840 --> 01:31:18,760
Speaker 1: those into more sacks than he did last year or

1664
01:31:18,800 --> 01:31:21,599
Speaker 1: the year before. Yeah, Lo and behold two and along

1665
01:31:21,720 --> 01:31:25,679
Speaker 1: these lines, you put out an article on the Bills

1666
01:31:25,760 --> 01:31:29,599
Speaker 1: website about three reasons why the defensive line was going

1667
01:31:29,640 --> 01:31:31,519
Speaker 1: to be better. You can go to Buffalo Bills dot

1668
01:31:31,560 --> 01:31:33,719
Speaker 1: com and get a load of that. It's it's actually

1669
01:31:34,120 --> 01:31:36,000
Speaker 1: some of the things we've been talking about. It is

1670
01:31:36,080 --> 01:31:37,559
Speaker 1: going to be a deeper group, and I think that's

1671
01:31:37,720 --> 01:31:40,479
Speaker 1: that's where you start. Who's gonna play these spots? And

1672
01:31:40,680 --> 01:31:42,760
Speaker 1: with the guys that we've got, it seems as though

1673
01:31:44,680 --> 01:31:47,240
Speaker 1: you've got youth, you've got experience, you've got you ran

1674
01:31:47,320 --> 01:31:49,800
Speaker 1: down the list. I mean, it's unbelievable. The talent is

1675
01:31:49,800 --> 01:31:51,559
Speaker 1: going to be deep, and I think this is it's

1676
01:31:51,600 --> 01:31:53,680
Speaker 1: gonna be one of those things as well, where not

1677
01:31:53,760 --> 01:31:57,120
Speaker 1: only are they gonna be better early in games, they're

1678
01:31:57,120 --> 01:31:59,479
Speaker 1: gonna be way better late in games because of the

1679
01:31:59,600 --> 01:32:01,720
Speaker 1: depth and the talent they can throw out there. And

1680
01:32:01,800 --> 01:32:04,519
Speaker 1: you've got five offensive lineman who've been playing for four quarters,

1681
01:32:04,960 --> 01:32:07,000
Speaker 1: and you've got guys deep in the fourth quarter who

1682
01:32:07,040 --> 01:32:09,639
Speaker 1: have only had the reps of like two quarters of play.

1683
01:32:09,720 --> 01:32:12,240
Speaker 1: So they're gonna be you know, they're gonna be chomping

1684
01:32:12,280 --> 01:32:13,920
Speaker 1: at the bit. I think that's really going to serve

1685
01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:17,240
Speaker 1: them well. And he also said their run defense should

1686
01:32:17,240 --> 01:32:19,880
Speaker 1: be even better, and you take that for granted, but

1687
01:32:20,960 --> 01:32:24,000
Speaker 1: that's really where it starts. I think like Vernon Butler

1688
01:32:24,080 --> 01:32:26,360
Speaker 1: and Star Lotulelee are two guys that are going to

1689
01:32:26,400 --> 01:32:30,479
Speaker 1: be integral in that. Yes, even more important than that, though, Steve,

1690
01:32:30,520 --> 01:32:33,040
Speaker 1: if you look at the guys that they can line

1691
01:32:33,120 --> 01:32:37,799
Speaker 1: up on the edge in rundown situations, just the length

1692
01:32:38,080 --> 01:32:40,720
Speaker 1: alone that you can put it out there, whether it's

1693
01:32:40,760 --> 01:32:43,840
Speaker 1: Trent Murphy at six to five and a lot of

1694
01:32:43,920 --> 01:32:47,840
Speaker 1: length there, aj Epinessa at six six and his length

1695
01:32:47,960 --> 01:32:52,479
Speaker 1: with thirty four thirty five inch arms, and then even

1696
01:32:52,600 --> 01:32:57,000
Speaker 1: Quinton Jefferson, you know, from a girth standpoint and the

1697
01:32:57,120 --> 01:33:00,400
Speaker 1: ability to kind of stand his ground set the edge

1698
01:33:00,439 --> 01:33:02,400
Speaker 1: he plays in don rundowns, or at least he did

1699
01:33:02,439 --> 01:33:04,439
Speaker 1: in Seattle, and it wouldn't surprise me if the Bills

1700
01:33:04,760 --> 01:33:08,439
Speaker 1: to choose to go that route as well. So just

1701
01:33:08,720 --> 01:33:11,880
Speaker 1: from that standpoint alone, and this was a run defense

1702
01:33:11,960 --> 01:33:14,639
Speaker 1: that finished tenth in the league, giving up one hundred

1703
01:33:14,640 --> 01:33:17,479
Speaker 1: and three yards a game. So if you can do

1704
01:33:17,600 --> 01:33:20,479
Speaker 1: even better there, I mean, you're you're really gonna have

1705
01:33:20,640 --> 01:33:23,559
Speaker 1: something because what that's gonna mean is more long down

1706
01:33:23,640 --> 01:33:26,479
Speaker 1: in distant situations to get your turbo package out on

1707
01:33:26,520 --> 01:33:28,679
Speaker 1: the field to go rush the passer. Yeah, they're gonna

1708
01:33:28,720 --> 01:33:32,160
Speaker 1: be a load, There's no question about it. The pass

1709
01:33:32,280 --> 01:33:35,240
Speaker 1: rush is gonna be more I think it's going to

1710
01:33:35,280 --> 01:33:37,880
Speaker 1: be more consistent, you know what I mean. I think

1711
01:33:38,080 --> 01:33:41,519
Speaker 1: the run defense is gonna be better and solid. I

1712
01:33:41,560 --> 01:33:44,479
Speaker 1: think he got a better chance of putting teams in

1713
01:33:45,280 --> 01:33:48,560
Speaker 1: long yardage situations than you did a year ago. And

1714
01:33:48,640 --> 01:33:52,360
Speaker 1: if you remember here the modus operendi and I'll do

1715
01:33:52,479 --> 01:33:58,479
Speaker 1: this quick, the Bills early in games, and this is

1716
01:33:58,479 --> 01:34:00,840
Speaker 1: a testament to their coaching staff. And in one way

1717
01:34:00,880 --> 01:34:02,680
Speaker 1: and maybe not another, they come into these games and

1718
01:34:02,720 --> 01:34:04,680
Speaker 1: these teams would unfurl this offense, and you know, they

1719
01:34:04,720 --> 01:34:06,679
Speaker 1: always try and do stuff that you haven't seen early

1720
01:34:06,800 --> 01:34:10,120
Speaker 1: in games, and the Bills would give up, you know,

1721
01:34:10,280 --> 01:34:11,880
Speaker 1: the first drive of the game. A lot of times

1722
01:34:11,920 --> 01:34:14,320
Speaker 1: the Bills would get nicked defensively. They did in the

1723
01:34:14,360 --> 01:34:16,240
Speaker 1: Giants game early in the week two. They did it

1724
01:34:16,840 --> 01:34:19,920
Speaker 1: later on in games as well. Teams would right, they

1725
01:34:19,960 --> 01:34:21,320
Speaker 1: would come out and hit them in the mouth, and

1726
01:34:21,400 --> 01:34:23,479
Speaker 1: the Bills would be on their heels for the first series,

1727
01:34:23,520 --> 01:34:25,880
Speaker 1: maybe if even the first two series. But then all

1728
01:34:25,920 --> 01:34:30,680
Speaker 1: of a sudden, everything stopped down. Yeah, they clamped the

1729
01:34:30,760 --> 01:34:33,320
Speaker 1: only game they didn't clamp was that Eagles game? Yeah? Right,

1730
01:34:33,560 --> 01:34:36,880
Speaker 1: I think I think going forward, maybe this team is

1731
01:34:37,160 --> 01:34:41,200
Speaker 1: is so doubt talented that those early early drives um

1732
01:34:41,520 --> 01:34:45,240
Speaker 1: the other team can is you know, stimied earlier than

1733
01:34:45,320 --> 01:34:47,439
Speaker 1: they were even in the games that most of the Yeah,

1734
01:34:47,600 --> 01:34:49,400
Speaker 1: they were great last year. I mean when you kidde me,

1735
01:34:49,439 --> 01:34:53,120
Speaker 1: they were really good. But so here's here's another thing,

1736
01:34:53,200 --> 01:34:55,599
Speaker 1: real quick, Steve, that I uncovered and putting the right

1737
01:34:55,680 --> 01:34:58,400
Speaker 1: up together and this is contained in the body of

1738
01:34:58,479 --> 01:35:02,000
Speaker 1: the right Up at Buffalo Bills, that I took a

1739
01:35:02,120 --> 01:35:05,040
Speaker 1: look at the rushing attacks that the Bills are facing

1740
01:35:05,160 --> 01:35:08,280
Speaker 1: this year. I think we would all agree that the

1741
01:35:08,439 --> 01:35:11,600
Speaker 1: Bill's strength of schedule is certainly stiffer than it was

1742
01:35:11,800 --> 01:35:14,640
Speaker 1: last year. That just goes without saying. But from a

1743
01:35:14,800 --> 01:35:20,280
Speaker 1: rushing offense standpoint, okay, the Bills are only facing four

1744
01:35:20,960 --> 01:35:24,240
Speaker 1: of the top ten rushing attacks from last year. And

1745
01:35:24,360 --> 01:35:27,040
Speaker 1: I realized things can change from one offseason to the next.

1746
01:35:27,640 --> 01:35:31,160
Speaker 1: And you know, the Jets and the Dolphins have done

1747
01:35:31,200 --> 01:35:33,840
Speaker 1: what they can to improve their offensive lines and their

1748
01:35:33,920 --> 01:35:40,880
Speaker 1: running games. But all that being said, nine of Buffalo's

1749
01:35:40,960 --> 01:35:46,360
Speaker 1: games are going against rushing attacks that rank twentieth or

1750
01:35:46,520 --> 01:35:51,240
Speaker 1: worse in the league last year, and included in that

1751
01:35:51,400 --> 01:35:56,919
Speaker 1: group are four of the bottom five, the LA Chargers

1752
01:35:56,960 --> 01:36:00,240
Speaker 1: at twenty eighth, who don't have Melvin Gordon any more,

1753
01:36:01,200 --> 01:36:04,599
Speaker 1: the Steelers at twenty nine, who didn't have a passing

1754
01:36:04,680 --> 01:36:07,640
Speaker 1: game to be respected without Roethlisberger. You would figure that

1755
01:36:07,800 --> 01:36:10,880
Speaker 1: that would be better this year, and then the Jets

1756
01:36:10,960 --> 01:36:13,880
Speaker 1: thirty first and the Dolphins dead last at thirty two.

1757
01:36:15,320 --> 01:36:18,719
Speaker 1: So then you can throw in the Rams twenty sixth

1758
01:36:18,760 --> 01:36:22,879
Speaker 1: to no longer have girly. Kansas City twenty third probably

1759
01:36:22,960 --> 01:36:27,000
Speaker 1: will be better with Damian Williams and Clyde Edwards. Hilaire,

1760
01:36:27,000 --> 01:36:32,760
Speaker 1: who they drafted from LSU Denver was only twentieth, so

1761
01:36:34,160 --> 01:36:37,280
Speaker 1: you got a host of games against some rushing attacks

1762
01:36:37,360 --> 01:36:41,439
Speaker 1: that are not very accomplished. So Buffalo's run d with

1763
01:36:41,560 --> 01:36:43,960
Speaker 1: the additions that they've made, combined with who they're going

1764
01:36:44,000 --> 01:36:47,599
Speaker 1: to be facing, could be even better this year. Yeah,

1765
01:36:47,600 --> 01:36:49,720
Speaker 1: And that's amazing to think about because we've talked at

1766
01:36:49,840 --> 01:36:53,240
Speaker 1: length about how difficult or how much more difficult on

1767
01:36:53,360 --> 01:36:56,240
Speaker 1: the surface. This year's schedule is you're gonna play San

1768
01:36:56,280 --> 01:37:00,960
Speaker 1: Francisco in Seattle and Arizona and LA in Kansas City,

1769
01:37:01,560 --> 01:37:06,280
Speaker 1: you're playing Tennessee. Uh, those are in Pittsburgh against those

1770
01:37:06,320 --> 01:37:10,200
Speaker 1: are It's a tough out of division schedule this year

1771
01:37:10,240 --> 01:37:12,160
Speaker 1: for the Bills at least one loss record. These are

1772
01:37:12,160 --> 01:37:14,840
Speaker 1: pretty good football team. Now certainly they're you know, like

1773
01:37:14,960 --> 01:37:17,240
Speaker 1: we always go when there's always this huge caveat you have,

1774
01:37:17,320 --> 01:37:18,800
Speaker 1: the schedule look good, but you don't know who these

1775
01:37:18,840 --> 01:37:20,920
Speaker 1: teams are gonna be until you know three or four

1776
01:37:21,040 --> 01:37:23,479
Speaker 1: or five eight games into the season, then you get

1777
01:37:23,479 --> 01:37:26,200
Speaker 1: an idea. But there's no question that the Bills won

1778
01:37:26,320 --> 01:37:28,320
Speaker 1: ten games last year and through the first half of

1779
01:37:28,360 --> 01:37:31,240
Speaker 1: the season when they were what five and two something,

1780
01:37:31,320 --> 01:37:34,320
Speaker 1: at some point something like that where people are going, yeah,

1781
01:37:34,439 --> 01:37:36,360
Speaker 1: but you know what, your schedule has been weak. They

1782
01:37:36,400 --> 01:37:39,200
Speaker 1: haven't played anybody, haven't played anybody. And it was true,

1783
01:37:39,960 --> 01:37:42,360
Speaker 1: but by the same token, and they walk into Dallas

1784
01:37:42,439 --> 01:37:44,519
Speaker 1: and beat those guys, they walk into Pittsburgh and beat

1785
01:37:44,560 --> 01:37:47,800
Speaker 1: those guys, and then it was a different story. But

1786
01:37:48,240 --> 01:37:51,920
Speaker 1: by the same token, this this schedule looks way different

1787
01:37:51,960 --> 01:37:55,160
Speaker 1: than that. This schedule looks like it's gonna be rough

1788
01:37:55,400 --> 01:37:57,760
Speaker 1: from the get go. And and when if you if

1789
01:37:57,800 --> 01:37:59,400
Speaker 1: you jump out to a five and two record in

1790
01:37:59,479 --> 01:38:02,519
Speaker 1: this schedule, people will sit up and take notice. I think,

1791
01:38:02,960 --> 01:38:06,679
Speaker 1: and I always say this, you can't blame a team

1792
01:38:07,640 --> 01:38:10,880
Speaker 1: for the guys that are put on their schedule. Oh right,

1793
01:38:11,320 --> 01:38:13,200
Speaker 1: they got to play who they gotta play. If it

1794
01:38:13,240 --> 01:38:15,519
Speaker 1: happens to be a little easier one year over another,

1795
01:38:15,640 --> 01:38:19,200
Speaker 1: well that's just the way the chips fall. You know,

1796
01:38:19,439 --> 01:38:23,200
Speaker 1: it's a rotational schedule. And yeah, sometimes you get lucky

1797
01:38:23,280 --> 01:38:26,200
Speaker 1: and you play a division that's only got one team

1798
01:38:26,240 --> 01:38:29,640
Speaker 1: worth its salt and you know, three other lackeys. I mean,

1799
01:38:30,120 --> 01:38:34,120
Speaker 1: you've got no control over that. So I mean, think

1800
01:38:34,160 --> 01:38:37,200
Speaker 1: about the AFC North. I mean, Pittsburgh and Baltimore been

1801
01:38:37,240 --> 01:38:40,479
Speaker 1: beating up on Cincinnati and Cleveland for what twenty years? Right,

1802
01:38:40,880 --> 01:38:44,080
Speaker 1: tell me that their entire season's been been hinged on.

1803
01:38:44,720 --> 01:38:47,040
Speaker 1: Their entire season has been hinged on the home and

1804
01:38:47,120 --> 01:38:50,680
Speaker 1: home with Pittsburgh and Baltimore, with both teams. But you

1805
01:38:50,720 --> 01:38:52,719
Speaker 1: think the reason I bring that up about the easy schedule,

1806
01:38:52,800 --> 01:38:55,320
Speaker 1: hard schedules what you just said. In some ways, this

1807
01:38:55,439 --> 01:38:58,240
Speaker 1: schedule looks really formidable. In the run game, in the

1808
01:38:58,320 --> 01:39:04,080
Speaker 1: run defense, the Bills look formidable. You know, the Bills

1809
01:39:04,120 --> 01:39:05,720
Speaker 1: look like, wow, we gotta we gotta go in and

1810
01:39:05,760 --> 01:39:07,600
Speaker 1: play that defense. You know, we gotta go in and

1811
01:39:07,640 --> 01:39:10,519
Speaker 1: score points on those guys. So, like as I mentioned,

1812
01:39:10,560 --> 01:39:12,320
Speaker 1: they got to play four of the top ten rushing

1813
01:39:12,360 --> 01:39:16,560
Speaker 1: and tasks from last year. So those four are San Francisco,

1814
01:39:16,680 --> 01:39:20,920
Speaker 1: which was second, but they lost one of their top

1815
01:39:21,040 --> 01:39:24,080
Speaker 1: running backs to Miami. Signed down in Miami, not Mostert,

1816
01:39:24,760 --> 01:39:31,519
Speaker 1: not Tevin coleman Um Matt Breed. Yeah, so he signed

1817
01:39:31,520 --> 01:39:34,919
Speaker 1: in Miami, so they're down him. They're in a contract

1818
01:39:34,960 --> 01:39:38,840
Speaker 1: dispute with Raheem Mostert, who wants more money and who

1819
01:39:38,880 --> 01:39:40,320
Speaker 1: knows if they're going to pay him. I don't think

1820
01:39:40,320 --> 01:39:43,240
Speaker 1: he's asking for the moon. They probably should. Then you

1821
01:39:43,320 --> 01:39:47,280
Speaker 1: have Tennessee third. Now the Bills held Derrick Henry in

1822
01:39:47,400 --> 01:39:48,760
Speaker 1: check for the most part. I think you only had

1823
01:39:48,800 --> 01:39:53,000
Speaker 1: seventy five yards in that game against Tennessee. But that

1824
01:39:53,200 --> 01:39:57,360
Speaker 1: was with Mario da quarterback. It was it was a

1825
01:39:57,439 --> 01:39:59,400
Speaker 1: different animal. So it'll be interesting to see how it

1826
01:39:59,479 --> 01:40:02,360
Speaker 1: looks this year with Tannehill a quarterback. And then Seattle

1827
01:40:02,479 --> 01:40:11,439
Speaker 1: fourth in Arizona tenth um. So those are the those

1828
01:40:11,479 --> 01:40:14,400
Speaker 1: are the heavy lifts. So you got the two, three

1829
01:40:14,479 --> 01:40:18,360
Speaker 1: and four rushing attacks and the ten who was number

1830
01:40:18,400 --> 01:40:23,439
Speaker 1: one last year. Uh I cannot remember I can't remember

1831
01:40:23,439 --> 01:40:27,240
Speaker 1: off the top of my head. I trying to run

1832
01:40:27,320 --> 01:40:30,120
Speaker 1: through the league. Oh it's Baltimore, It's Baltimore. Oh that's right. Yeah,

1833
01:40:30,200 --> 01:40:35,920
Speaker 1: that was easy with Lamar in England, right so yeah,

1834
01:40:36,000 --> 01:40:38,240
Speaker 1: so yeah, that's and the reason I bring all that

1835
01:40:38,400 --> 01:40:40,439
Speaker 1: up is because of you know the fact that you

1836
01:40:40,520 --> 01:40:43,640
Speaker 1: look at the schedule and it's it's not exactly what

1837
01:40:43,760 --> 01:40:46,080
Speaker 1: it seems like on the surface. Because you mentioned all

1838
01:40:46,080 --> 01:40:51,200
Speaker 1: those teams, Uh, certainly San Francisco, Tennessee and Seattle or

1839
01:40:51,760 --> 01:40:53,880
Speaker 1: you know, you knew those were gonna be tough teams,

1840
01:40:54,000 --> 01:40:56,840
Speaker 1: and they run the football really well. If you if

1841
01:40:56,880 --> 01:40:58,960
Speaker 1: you snatch it away from him with your run defense,

1842
01:40:59,040 --> 01:41:01,160
Speaker 1: that could be better than it was a year ago

1843
01:41:01,240 --> 01:41:02,800
Speaker 1: when they gave in, when they were one of the

1844
01:41:02,880 --> 01:41:05,839
Speaker 1: tops in the league. Yeah, you gotta like your chances

1845
01:41:05,840 --> 01:41:08,479
Speaker 1: a little bit more going in there against that schedule.

1846
01:41:08,720 --> 01:41:12,240
Speaker 1: What about New England though New England eighteenth in rushing

1847
01:41:12,400 --> 01:41:18,479
Speaker 1: last year and signed they signed the best. Yeah, and

1848
01:41:18,560 --> 01:41:22,600
Speaker 1: now they got Newton, and I think we would anticipate

1849
01:41:22,720 --> 01:41:26,639
Speaker 1: that if you want to maximize the skills of Cam Newton,

1850
01:41:27,920 --> 01:41:30,960
Speaker 1: not to mention the off script playmaking that he does

1851
01:41:31,160 --> 01:41:34,640
Speaker 1: in addition to that, I think we're all expecting that

1852
01:41:34,760 --> 01:41:38,800
Speaker 1: number to go up at least a little bit. I

1853
01:41:38,840 --> 01:41:40,360
Speaker 1: don't know if they get to the top ten, but

1854
01:41:41,160 --> 01:41:44,280
Speaker 1: they're gonna be running more with Newton at quarterback, right, Yeah,

1855
01:41:44,360 --> 01:41:48,519
Speaker 1: and even just because Cam pulling it down and taking off,

1856
01:41:49,960 --> 01:41:52,599
Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's by proxies, you know. Steve Tasker, Chris

1857
01:41:52,680 --> 01:41:54,840
Speaker 1: Brown here till three o'clock here with one Bills Live.

1858
01:41:55,240 --> 01:41:56,840
Speaker 1: We got a lot of a lot going on about

1859
01:41:56,840 --> 01:41:59,519
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills defensive line this year. We've got meetings

1860
01:41:59,600 --> 01:42:02,080
Speaker 1: coming out and there's news is starting to trickle out

1861
01:42:02,080 --> 01:42:05,519
Speaker 1: about what the NFLPA in the NFL are talking about today,

1862
01:42:05,560 --> 01:42:07,920
Speaker 1: even if we don't know the specifics of it. We've

1863
01:42:07,960 --> 01:42:12,200
Speaker 1: also got a defensive line which which defensive lineman is

1864
01:42:12,240 --> 01:42:16,240
Speaker 1: gonna have the biggest impact in twenty twenty and if

1865
01:42:16,280 --> 01:42:19,160
Speaker 1: it happens, well, we'll see. We've got a call from

1866
01:42:19,240 --> 01:42:21,200
Speaker 1: Mark in West Seneca. Mark, you're on the You're on

1867
01:42:21,280 --> 01:42:23,400
Speaker 1: the air with Steve Tasker Chris Brown. Go ahead, what's

1868
01:42:23,439 --> 01:42:25,320
Speaker 1: on your mind? How are you doing, Steve? How are

1869
01:42:25,320 --> 01:42:28,960
Speaker 1: you doing doing great? Thanks for calling? What's going on there?

1870
01:42:29,000 --> 01:42:33,720
Speaker 1: Ain't gonna be an NFL season. Oh boy, okay, oh

1871
01:42:33,800 --> 01:42:36,439
Speaker 1: you guys like I don't know that that's your job

1872
01:42:36,520 --> 01:42:38,800
Speaker 1: to do that. But there ain't gonna be one because

1873
01:42:38,920 --> 01:42:41,840
Speaker 1: once they got once one guy gets a headache or

1874
01:42:42,000 --> 01:42:46,120
Speaker 1: feels like he's got like indigestion, they call it COVID nineteen,

1875
01:42:46,840 --> 01:42:51,000
Speaker 1: they'd be all out. Yeah, you think the entire So

1876
01:42:51,120 --> 01:42:54,040
Speaker 1: you're mark you're convinced that they're gonna just shut it down.

1877
01:42:55,320 --> 01:42:57,479
Speaker 1: So you're telling me you're gonna shut down a twenty

1878
01:42:57,520 --> 01:43:01,200
Speaker 1: five billion dollar industry because a guy gets a headache. Yeah,

1879
01:43:01,400 --> 01:43:05,040
Speaker 1: and I've had headaches all the time. Okay, Well you

1880
01:43:05,160 --> 01:43:08,120
Speaker 1: might be right if if if, if I've argue, if

1881
01:43:08,160 --> 01:43:09,920
Speaker 1: you come down with a headache and they want to

1882
01:43:09,960 --> 01:43:13,559
Speaker 1: shut down the industry, you might be right. They're gonna

1883
01:43:13,600 --> 01:43:17,080
Speaker 1: go ahead down. They should well give up, to give

1884
01:43:17,200 --> 01:43:19,479
Speaker 1: up the whole thing for this year. And I'm sorry

1885
01:43:19,560 --> 01:43:22,800
Speaker 1: for you guys, because this is your industry what you

1886
01:43:22,960 --> 01:43:25,400
Speaker 1: have to talk about, you know what I mean. But

1887
01:43:25,520 --> 01:43:28,200
Speaker 1: they're gonna do it. Players are gonna do it. What

1888
01:43:28,320 --> 01:43:30,240
Speaker 1: are you gonna What do you say about the NHL

1889
01:43:30,400 --> 01:43:34,360
Speaker 1: and the NBA and Major League Baseball all same thing sports?

1890
01:43:34,400 --> 01:43:39,160
Speaker 1: You're right, guys are bailing out on the NBA. Yeah,

1891
01:43:39,320 --> 01:43:41,760
Speaker 1: they're opting out or whatever you call it. And you

1892
01:43:41,840 --> 01:43:45,040
Speaker 1: know what really is the bad thing about it? Well,

1893
01:43:45,160 --> 01:43:46,880
Speaker 1: they don't have no problem with it, you know what

1894
01:43:46,880 --> 01:43:49,640
Speaker 1: I mean? They make thirty million dollars a year the

1895
01:43:49,760 --> 01:43:52,080
Speaker 1: guys in the NBA. So is there really a bad

1896
01:43:52,160 --> 01:43:54,080
Speaker 1: thing for him? And also to just sit out for

1897
01:43:54,120 --> 01:43:59,400
Speaker 1: a little while, Yeah, you might be right. Well I

1898
01:43:59,439 --> 01:44:01,559
Speaker 1: don't have to. I don't want to be right because

1899
01:44:01,600 --> 01:44:04,360
Speaker 1: I was always told I was always rock, But I

1900
01:44:04,520 --> 01:44:07,320
Speaker 1: was a fireman for thirty two years. I helpe that

1901
01:44:07,439 --> 01:44:10,280
Speaker 1: holds up sixty five thousand dollars a year. But I

1902
01:44:10,360 --> 01:44:13,720
Speaker 1: still make still make my living that way. Yeah, I

1903
01:44:13,840 --> 01:44:16,080
Speaker 1: get you. And here's the thing too, how do you

1904
01:44:16,160 --> 01:44:18,800
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be? Do you think the the NA

1905
01:44:18,960 --> 01:44:23,120
Speaker 1: so you think League Baseball and the NBA even though

1906
01:44:23,160 --> 01:44:25,360
Speaker 1: they're all trying it in different ways, and the NHL

1907
01:44:25,479 --> 01:44:27,680
Speaker 1: is for that matter as well. How do you think

1908
01:44:27,720 --> 01:44:29,479
Speaker 1: they're gonna go? Do you how long do you think

1909
01:44:29,560 --> 01:44:32,439
Speaker 1: they'll go? Do you think they get any games in

1910
01:44:32,680 --> 01:44:35,320
Speaker 1: mark or do you think before they even take the

1911
01:44:35,400 --> 01:44:37,479
Speaker 1: field or take the ice or take the court, good,

1912
01:44:37,600 --> 01:44:39,320
Speaker 1: they're gonna shut the whole thing down. What do you

1913
01:44:39,400 --> 01:44:42,280
Speaker 1: think I think they should just stop and wait till

1914
01:44:42,360 --> 01:44:45,160
Speaker 1: next year. I don't think. I'm not asking you, Mark,

1915
01:44:45,240 --> 01:44:48,400
Speaker 1: what you think they should do. They're planning games. We

1916
01:44:48,520 --> 01:44:51,360
Speaker 1: just had an update that they've got their schedule set

1917
01:44:51,600 --> 01:44:55,000
Speaker 1: and August first, hockey's gonna start playing. Major League Baseball

1918
01:44:55,080 --> 01:44:57,160
Speaker 1: is gonna start with games in this around the same time,

1919
01:44:57,479 --> 01:45:01,000
Speaker 1: and the NBA is going to start playing pretty soon. Yeah,

1920
01:45:01,040 --> 01:45:05,040
Speaker 1: so they've got these games. You only got sift man

1921
01:45:05,240 --> 01:45:08,200
Speaker 1: roster on the NBA, you get like two guys UM

1922
01:45:09,040 --> 01:45:13,280
Speaker 1: test positive, then you've got like a twelve million roster. Well,

1923
01:45:13,320 --> 01:45:16,040
Speaker 1: and that's apples and oranges because they're operating into bubble.

1924
01:45:16,439 --> 01:45:20,280
Speaker 1: So I appreciate and we appreciate the call. Mark, thanks

1925
01:45:20,320 --> 01:45:23,360
Speaker 1: for calling in and weighing in, and your concerns are

1926
01:45:23,479 --> 01:45:27,920
Speaker 1: not unpopular, um, I think, And Mark even said it,

1927
01:45:28,000 --> 01:45:30,559
Speaker 1: he's hoping that's not the case, but he just doesn't

1928
01:45:30,600 --> 01:45:33,679
Speaker 1: see how it's feasible. Even now. It may seem likely,

1929
01:45:34,560 --> 01:45:38,800
Speaker 1: but we don't know, right And as Steve mentioned, you know,

1930
01:45:38,920 --> 01:45:41,799
Speaker 1: the league and the players Association are meeting again today

1931
01:45:41,960 --> 01:45:45,640
Speaker 1: and news is slowly trickling out here and there, and

1932
01:45:46,600 --> 01:45:49,320
Speaker 1: NFL Networks Tom Pella Sero, who's kind of plugged into

1933
01:45:49,400 --> 01:45:53,400
Speaker 1: this stuff. He said. The NFL's latest proposal to the

1934
01:45:53,600 --> 01:45:58,719
Speaker 1: NFLPA still includes two preseason games in twenty twenty. Union

1935
01:45:58,840 --> 01:46:03,519
Speaker 1: wants no preseason and testing frequency injury protections for players

1936
01:46:03,600 --> 01:46:08,679
Speaker 1: who can track COVID nineteen also remain issues. NFLPA source,

1937
01:46:08,840 --> 01:46:14,960
Speaker 1: echoing NFLGMS quote, we still don't have answers end quote.

1938
01:46:15,479 --> 01:46:19,839
Speaker 1: And that's the biggest problem, Steve. You're trying to set policy,

1939
01:46:20,000 --> 01:46:25,600
Speaker 1: procedure and protocol for IF and then situations that you

1940
01:46:25,680 --> 01:46:30,920
Speaker 1: don't have a roadmap for. And that is what college

1941
01:46:30,960 --> 01:46:35,960
Speaker 1: football ran into. Essentially, college football was pinning their season

1942
01:46:36,120 --> 01:46:40,080
Speaker 1: on hope, not a concrete plan. The NFL is here

1943
01:46:40,200 --> 01:46:43,240
Speaker 1: trying to put together a concrete plan, but they're trying

1944
01:46:43,320 --> 01:46:48,280
Speaker 1: to negotiate it properly, and it's because of that it's

1945
01:46:48,320 --> 01:46:51,719
Speaker 1: taking some time. Yeah, and you can understand how different

1946
01:46:51,760 --> 01:46:54,000
Speaker 1: it is for the NFL than it is for college football.

1947
01:46:54,040 --> 01:46:57,320
Speaker 1: Same sport, but a completely different business model, completely set

1948
01:46:57,400 --> 01:46:59,600
Speaker 1: up different. So the NFL can do a lot of

1949
01:46:59,680 --> 01:47:02,560
Speaker 1: things the NCAA cannot, and vice versa. The NCAA is

1950
01:47:02,560 --> 01:47:04,040
Speaker 1: free to do a lot of things that the NFL

1951
01:47:04,160 --> 01:47:08,280
Speaker 1: teams cannot do. So you're right, Tom Pellisero seems to

1952
01:47:08,320 --> 01:47:11,559
Speaker 1: be standing outside the door. He says, you're saying nobody's

1953
01:47:11,560 --> 01:47:13,800
Speaker 1: got answers, and he says, when might those answers come?

1954
01:47:13,960 --> 01:47:17,400
Speaker 1: This is Tom Pellisero on Twitter. The NFL owners have

1955
01:47:17,479 --> 01:47:20,479
Speaker 1: a call schedule for Friday, and they're gonna get updated,

1956
01:47:20,640 --> 01:47:25,040
Speaker 1: he was told. And now under the CBA, rookies for

1957
01:47:25,080 --> 01:47:27,960
Speaker 1: two NFL teams can report as early as this Saturday,

1958
01:47:28,800 --> 01:47:32,080
Speaker 1: and for all thirty two teams they can report Tuesday.

1959
01:47:33,560 --> 01:47:36,639
Speaker 1: And this is becoming a critical juncture for deciding how

1960
01:47:36,800 --> 01:47:39,240
Speaker 1: this this season is going to proceed. That from Tom

1961
01:47:39,320 --> 01:47:44,400
Speaker 1: Polisaro just now, and so yeah, it's coming up. For

1962
01:47:44,520 --> 01:47:46,680
Speaker 1: all these months, for all these weeks, we've been saying, hey,

1963
01:47:47,240 --> 01:47:50,479
Speaker 1: well you know we're on the doorstep now, veterans for

1964
01:47:50,520 --> 01:47:52,760
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. We've we've heard their schedule to come

1965
01:47:52,800 --> 01:47:55,560
Speaker 1: in July twenty eighth, which puts a week before that

1966
01:47:55,680 --> 01:47:59,040
Speaker 1: for rookies and rookie free agents and new free agents,

1967
01:47:59,120 --> 01:48:01,840
Speaker 1: maybe a week before that on the twenty first. You know,

1968
01:48:01,880 --> 01:48:04,800
Speaker 1: we're inside a week away for those guys to be

1969
01:48:05,280 --> 01:48:07,280
Speaker 1: to come in into Buffalo and getting ready and getting

1970
01:48:07,320 --> 01:48:09,840
Speaker 1: things started. Don't know if it's going to happen or

1971
01:48:09,920 --> 01:48:12,840
Speaker 1: if they can get the union and league straightened out.

1972
01:48:13,400 --> 01:48:19,000
Speaker 1: So there's this. Next week is going to be Wow,

1973
01:48:20,040 --> 01:48:22,400
Speaker 1: We're just gonna be like, well, you're this is where

1974
01:48:22,439 --> 01:48:26,160
Speaker 1: the rubber meets there, right. But but but what's changed.

1975
01:48:26,880 --> 01:48:31,200
Speaker 1: Nothing is really changed in terms of the pandemic. You know,

1976
01:48:31,520 --> 01:48:33,599
Speaker 1: numbers are still going up in a lot of these

1977
01:48:33,760 --> 01:48:40,120
Speaker 1: states that have NFL franchises, and the same concerns exist.

1978
01:48:41,400 --> 01:48:43,639
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're trying to convince the other

1979
01:48:43,800 --> 01:48:48,000
Speaker 1: side of at this point, Um, you know what you're

1980
01:48:48,040 --> 01:48:50,519
Speaker 1: dealing with. It is what it is. I don't think

1981
01:48:50,560 --> 01:48:53,720
Speaker 1: anybody can predict how it's going to unfold and play out.

1982
01:48:54,400 --> 01:48:56,880
Speaker 1: And maybe that's the biggest sticking point, the fear of

1983
01:48:56,960 --> 01:49:00,800
Speaker 1: the unknown, right and that and that's what we just

1984
01:49:00,920 --> 01:49:02,760
Speaker 1: don't know. We got a lot to talk about it.

1985
01:49:02,920 --> 01:49:05,360
Speaker 1: Next week is really gonna be lively because I think

1986
01:49:05,640 --> 01:49:09,080
Speaker 1: players probably will start reporting to these facilities, they'll start

1987
01:49:09,160 --> 01:49:12,160
Speaker 1: to learn the protocols, We'll start to get these and

1988
01:49:12,360 --> 01:49:14,960
Speaker 1: they're gonna be tested. That is the That is the

1989
01:49:15,120 --> 01:49:18,559
Speaker 1: buzzword for next week. We'll that'll be our secret word

1990
01:49:18,600 --> 01:49:21,519
Speaker 1: of the day. Testing Steve Tasker Chris Brown Here till

1991
01:49:21,520 --> 01:49:23,320
Speaker 1: three o'clock. We're gonna take a break One Deal's Live,

1992
01:49:23,400 --> 01:49:26,000
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health. We'll be back with NFL

1993
01:49:26,120 --> 01:49:29,240
Speaker 1: true false and what did we learn right after this?

1994
01:49:29,439 --> 01:49:40,360
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to one of

1995
01:49:40,360 --> 01:49:42,719
Speaker 1: Deal's Lives. Keep Tasker Chris Brown here till three o'clock.

1996
01:49:42,760 --> 01:49:46,200
Speaker 1: We gotta it's time now, Brownie for NFL True false,

1997
01:49:46,560 --> 01:49:50,000
Speaker 1: brought to you by Yancey's Fancied Yancey's Fancy New York's

1998
01:49:50,600 --> 01:49:54,040
Speaker 1: Artists and Cheese. You're ready, Brownie, I am ready. Put

1999
01:49:54,120 --> 01:49:57,240
Speaker 1: your little thinking cap on. Put your big thinking cap

2000
01:49:57,320 --> 01:50:02,160
Speaker 1: on if you like true or false. The Browns better

2001
01:50:02,320 --> 01:50:07,920
Speaker 1: hope all their troubles were due to Freddie Kitchens. That's

2002
01:50:07,960 --> 01:50:12,640
Speaker 1: putting an awful lot of eggs in one basket. I

2003
01:50:12,760 --> 01:50:18,000
Speaker 1: don't know if I can get there. I think he

2004
01:50:18,280 --> 01:50:20,320
Speaker 1: was part of the problem. I don't think he's head

2005
01:50:20,360 --> 01:50:23,360
Speaker 1: coaching material. I don't think he's leadership material. And I

2006
01:50:23,479 --> 01:50:26,639
Speaker 1: think that's what had the Browns fraying at the edges

2007
01:50:26,720 --> 01:50:30,760
Speaker 1: last season and when there was controversy due to the

2008
01:50:30,920 --> 01:50:34,880
Speaker 1: enormous egos on that roster. You had some problems, but

2009
01:50:37,160 --> 01:50:41,439
Speaker 1: I mean they're unquestionably talented. They have the capability of

2010
01:50:41,680 --> 01:50:46,000
Speaker 1: beating teams just based up based on matchups alone. But

2011
01:50:46,720 --> 01:50:49,840
Speaker 1: my issue is this, the history of the league has

2012
01:50:49,920 --> 01:50:53,400
Speaker 1: told us that first year head coaches on the whole

2013
01:50:54,160 --> 01:50:58,120
Speaker 1: are not enormously successful. Then you roll in the fact

2014
01:50:58,200 --> 01:51:00,559
Speaker 1: that they haven't practiced on a field tea together yet,

2015
01:51:02,280 --> 01:51:10,240
Speaker 1: and you're also implementing a new offensive scheme and defensive scheme,

2016
01:51:11,479 --> 01:51:13,720
Speaker 1: and I say best to luck to you, but you're

2017
01:51:13,760 --> 01:51:16,120
Speaker 1: gonna be fortunate to be five hundred. Yeah. The thing

2018
01:51:16,200 --> 01:51:18,519
Speaker 1: is the roster still is exciting because it was. I mean,

2019
01:51:19,200 --> 01:51:21,920
Speaker 1: you know when everybody was jumping on the bandwagon last year.

2020
01:51:22,040 --> 01:51:26,560
Speaker 1: They can get and they had some good additions this offseason.

2021
01:51:26,680 --> 01:51:29,280
Speaker 1: Then there's a lot of reasons why you think, Okay,

2022
01:51:29,280 --> 01:51:33,639
Speaker 1: they're gonna win some games. And you know, Kitchens, there's

2023
01:51:33,680 --> 01:51:36,639
Speaker 1: no question he deserves a lion's share of what happened

2024
01:51:36,720 --> 01:51:41,400
Speaker 1: last year. Lack of leadership was an issue. Certainly the

2025
01:51:41,600 --> 01:51:44,040
Speaker 1: right guy at the helm of that team. They win

2026
01:51:44,160 --> 01:51:47,599
Speaker 1: more games than they did. But by the same token,

2027
01:51:48,320 --> 01:51:53,479
Speaker 1: you know, you hired Kevin Stefanski the ninth head coach

2028
01:51:53,760 --> 01:51:56,479
Speaker 1: in thirteen seasons if you count Greg Williams as an

2029
01:51:56,520 --> 01:52:01,240
Speaker 1: interim ninth, that's a ninth guy in thirteen years that

2030
01:52:01,360 --> 01:52:03,400
Speaker 1: the Browns have had as their head coach. And he

2031
01:52:03,920 --> 01:52:08,919
Speaker 1: is a first time head coach. He was a offensive

2032
01:52:08,960 --> 01:52:11,680
Speaker 1: coordinator and he had never been a coordinator before that,

2033
01:52:13,920 --> 01:52:16,439
Speaker 1: but he did good with adult with a Vikings job.

2034
01:52:16,479 --> 01:52:18,960
Speaker 1: And that was his first year's offensive coordinator. It was

2035
01:52:19,000 --> 01:52:23,240
Speaker 1: a second year's offensive coordinator last year. You know, now

2036
01:52:23,320 --> 01:52:25,920
Speaker 1: he's running the show. Well yeah, well, Freddie Kitchens did

2037
01:52:26,000 --> 01:52:28,680
Speaker 1: the same thing he had. He was smokeding hot when

2038
01:52:28,920 --> 01:52:32,800
Speaker 1: Greg Williams and company took over the head coaching job

2039
01:52:32,880 --> 01:52:37,120
Speaker 1: and escalated him from the quarterbacks coach right into Todd

2040
01:52:37,320 --> 01:52:40,040
Speaker 1: Hayley's position after he was fired. So Freddie Kitchens did

2041
01:52:40,120 --> 01:52:41,880
Speaker 1: the same thing Kevin Stefanski did, and he did it

2042
01:52:42,000 --> 01:52:46,519
Speaker 1: in house. Now Stefanski, no question, has got some different

2043
01:52:46,600 --> 01:52:48,760
Speaker 1: qualities that they like about him in the in the

2044
01:52:48,840 --> 01:52:52,559
Speaker 1: Browns that they were looking for for a change. But man,

2045
01:52:52,600 --> 01:52:55,920
Speaker 1: I'm with you. Given what happened this offseason and all

2046
01:52:55,920 --> 01:52:58,280
Speaker 1: the stuff that did not happen this offseason, Man, it's

2047
01:52:58,280 --> 01:53:01,080
Speaker 1: gonna be tough for Kevin Stefanski to come in there

2048
01:53:01,120 --> 01:53:03,639
Speaker 1: and hit the ground running and have this team worked

2049
01:53:03,680 --> 01:53:05,679
Speaker 1: like a well oiled machine. Yeah, I think it's false

2050
01:53:05,760 --> 01:53:09,800
Speaker 1: with a capital F. But I mean, even if the

2051
01:53:09,880 --> 01:53:13,240
Speaker 1: troubles the Browns had last year all were due to

2052
01:53:13,320 --> 01:53:16,040
Speaker 1: Freddy Kitchens, that doesn't mean Stefanski has answered all those

2053
01:53:16,120 --> 01:53:19,040
Speaker 1: questions that they can overcome the issues that would face

2054
01:53:19,160 --> 01:53:23,479
Speaker 1: any new head coach this year. So while you can

2055
01:53:23,600 --> 01:53:25,599
Speaker 1: hope that all the troubles will due to Freddy Kitchens,

2056
01:53:26,120 --> 01:53:30,280
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean it's going to be you know, popcorn

2057
01:53:30,360 --> 01:53:35,080
Speaker 1: and rambos and unicorns for Kevin Stefanski. I mean, I

2058
01:53:35,439 --> 01:53:38,120
Speaker 1: still think the Browns are I've got a big, deep

2059
01:53:38,160 --> 01:53:40,640
Speaker 1: hole to climb out of because of what happened this offseason,

2060
01:53:41,040 --> 01:53:43,320
Speaker 1: not to mention the fact they have Baltimore in their division,

2061
01:53:44,200 --> 01:53:48,760
Speaker 1: right yeah, and Pittsburgh with Ben Roethlisberger. So that's right.

2062
01:53:48,840 --> 01:53:50,599
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say, yeah, they can hope all they

2063
01:53:50,680 --> 01:53:52,479
Speaker 1: want to, but there I think it's gonna be a

2064
01:53:52,600 --> 01:53:56,639
Speaker 1: rough year for Cleveland. I really do. In fact, yeah,

2065
01:53:56,800 --> 01:53:58,439
Speaker 1: I just think it's gonna be a rough year for him.

2066
01:53:58,880 --> 01:54:00,960
Speaker 1: Not that they aren't good, not that they're untalented. Not

2067
01:54:01,040 --> 01:54:03,040
Speaker 1: that they won't get better as the year progresses, but

2068
01:54:03,120 --> 01:54:04,840
Speaker 1: they need to get off to a fast start and

2069
01:54:04,920 --> 01:54:07,240
Speaker 1: win some games that they're supposed to win just with talent.

2070
01:54:07,439 --> 01:54:09,320
Speaker 1: I've let it all jail later in the year. I mean,

2071
01:54:09,320 --> 01:54:11,519
Speaker 1: they got a chance, but man, oh man, I think

2072
01:54:11,520 --> 01:54:14,040
Speaker 1: it's an uphill battle, be given what happened this offseason.

2073
01:54:14,040 --> 01:54:16,479
Speaker 1: All right, that's NFL true false number one, NFL true

2074
01:54:16,479 --> 01:54:21,360
Speaker 1: false number two. Brownie. Cam Newton is an upgrade over

2075
01:54:21,439 --> 01:54:25,479
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty Tom Brady over twenty twenty Tom Brady.

2076
01:54:25,600 --> 01:54:28,120
Speaker 1: This year's tom Brady, not last year's tom Brady. This

2077
01:54:28,240 --> 01:54:32,840
Speaker 1: year's Tom Brady. Oh not the twenty nineteen tom Brady,

2078
01:54:33,120 --> 01:54:36,160
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty Tom Brady. He'll be better than Tom

2079
01:54:36,240 --> 01:54:38,600
Speaker 1: Brady would have been in New England this year. As

2080
01:54:38,680 --> 01:54:41,360
Speaker 1: the point, I think of the question, Oh, I see okay,

2081
01:54:41,440 --> 01:54:46,240
Speaker 1: I see it now. Man, that's tough to answer because

2082
01:54:46,320 --> 01:54:48,200
Speaker 1: we don't know what kind of Cam Newton we're getting.

2083
01:54:48,720 --> 01:54:51,120
Speaker 1: I mean, is he healthy? Can he throw it a

2084
01:54:51,200 --> 01:54:53,520
Speaker 1: fifteen yard out from the far hash For the sake

2085
01:54:53,720 --> 01:54:55,920
Speaker 1: for the sake of argument, let's just say Cam Newton

2086
01:54:55,960 --> 01:54:57,520
Speaker 1: is one hundred percent as healthy as he can be

2087
01:54:57,720 --> 01:55:00,120
Speaker 1: at his age and his mileage, and those injuries, those

2088
01:55:00,120 --> 01:55:02,120
Speaker 1: injuries are one hundred percent his foot and his shoulder.

2089
01:55:04,160 --> 01:55:09,480
Speaker 1: I'll say, see Brady and Tampa is going to be

2090
01:55:09,560 --> 01:55:11,480
Speaker 1: better than Newton in New England. But you were talking

2091
01:55:11,520 --> 01:55:16,400
Speaker 1: if Brady was still in New England. Um, I'll say

2092
01:55:16,480 --> 01:55:19,240
Speaker 1: Newton will be better than Brady would have been with

2093
01:55:19,360 --> 01:55:21,760
Speaker 1: the weapons he would have at his disposal in New England.

2094
01:55:21,800 --> 01:55:26,600
Speaker 1: So I will say true, and bank on Camp, I

2095
01:55:26,720 --> 01:55:33,400
Speaker 1: will say capital F capital A, capital S capital E.

2096
01:55:34,120 --> 01:55:38,360
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and that offense reeked last year and they

2097
01:55:38,440 --> 01:55:41,680
Speaker 1: won twelve games, right, but they were going to tell

2098
01:55:41,960 --> 01:55:45,040
Speaker 1: fading fast. They were four and four over their last

2099
01:55:45,160 --> 01:55:48,760
Speaker 1: eight games. That's fine, and they couldn't do anything now

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01:55:48,840 --> 01:55:52,520
Speaker 1: here's and they lost Josh Gordon nikkil Harry was injured,

2101
01:55:53,840 --> 01:56:01,320
Speaker 1: Mohammed Sanu was injured, Julian Edelman was barely able to

2102
01:56:01,480 --> 01:56:06,240
Speaker 1: get on the field physically. They had no replacement for Gronkowski,

2103
01:56:07,160 --> 01:56:11,160
Speaker 1: they had no weapons for Tom Brady whatsoever. And except

2104
01:56:11,240 --> 01:56:15,960
Speaker 1: for a hobbled Julian Edelman. That's part of the go ahead.

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01:56:16,440 --> 01:56:21,400
Speaker 1: That's why Tom Brady's numbers were down so well. That's here.

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01:56:22,040 --> 01:56:25,320
Speaker 1: So here's the thing. They and even with his numbers

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01:56:25,400 --> 01:56:28,680
Speaker 1: down and all those issues and all those problems, they

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01:56:28,840 --> 01:56:36,160
Speaker 1: managed to win twelve games twelve. So you're telling me

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Speaker 1: that a guy who's been out of the league and

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01:56:41,560 --> 01:56:43,760
Speaker 1: nicked up for a couple of years, who was the

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01:56:43,960 --> 01:56:52,240
Speaker 1: complete who is the complete antithesis in leadership, in presence,

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01:56:52,640 --> 01:56:55,720
Speaker 1: in whatever wherever you want to call a quarterback, and

2113
01:56:55,760 --> 01:56:57,800
Speaker 1: all the things that that Cam Newton and Tom Brady

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01:56:57,840 --> 01:56:59,960
Speaker 1: are the complete antithesis of. Tom. Brady's going to be

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01:57:00,120 --> 01:57:02,840
Speaker 1: starting quarterback. Now. He's a starting quality quarterback, no question,

2116
01:57:03,040 --> 01:57:06,080
Speaker 1: but he's the complete opposite of everything Tom Brady was.

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Speaker 1: You're telling me Cam Newton's gonna come in and win

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01:57:09,920 --> 01:57:15,160
Speaker 1: twelve games. The reason why I think that Cam can

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01:57:15,240 --> 01:57:17,840
Speaker 1: be better than Brady would be in twenty twenty with

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01:57:18,080 --> 01:57:24,120
Speaker 1: this roster is twofold one because you gave me Cam

2121
01:57:24,240 --> 01:57:29,640
Speaker 1: Newton one hundred percent healthy. One is he can do

2122
01:57:30,040 --> 01:57:35,080
Speaker 1: more and make more happen just on his own. Brady's

2123
01:57:35,400 --> 01:57:39,520
Speaker 1: skill set is completely reliant on the players around him,

2124
01:57:40,200 --> 01:57:45,400
Speaker 1: So giving Cam the same players, even if they're injured,

2125
01:57:46,280 --> 01:57:49,280
Speaker 1: I think he can do more because he's capable of

2126
01:57:49,400 --> 01:57:52,320
Speaker 1: doing more on his own based on the freak athlete

2127
01:57:52,360 --> 01:57:55,320
Speaker 1: that he is. That's number one and then number two.

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01:57:58,120 --> 01:58:03,280
Speaker 1: I don't know if Cam Newton has ever been more

2129
01:58:03,400 --> 01:58:07,480
Speaker 1: motivated in his career to prove people wrong. He's almost

2130
01:58:07,520 --> 01:58:11,000
Speaker 1: as motivated as Tom Brady is all the time. Well

2131
01:58:12,360 --> 01:58:14,520
Speaker 1: you can argue that eight ways to Sunday. I don't

2132
01:58:14,520 --> 01:58:17,680
Speaker 1: know how you quantify it, but I think there is

2133
01:58:17,720 --> 01:58:20,520
Speaker 1: going to be internal pride in motivation. And I think

2134
01:58:20,600 --> 01:58:22,720
Speaker 1: we all know that Cam Newton is at his best

2135
01:58:23,040 --> 01:58:26,480
Speaker 1: when he feels that his ego and his playing ability

2136
01:58:26,560 --> 01:58:29,800
Speaker 1: has been challenged. So I think those two things at

2137
01:58:29,880 --> 01:58:32,840
Speaker 1: least give him a chance to be better than Brady

2138
01:58:32,880 --> 01:58:35,200
Speaker 1: would be in New England in twenty twenty. All right,

2139
01:58:35,280 --> 01:58:38,760
Speaker 1: here here's my rebuttal to that Cam Newton is going

2140
01:58:38,800 --> 01:58:41,160
Speaker 1: to be better that way. He's gonna get You know,

2141
01:58:41,440 --> 01:58:44,480
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who's around him. He's going to be

2142
01:58:44,520 --> 01:58:47,160
Speaker 1: the best player on the field and he'll carry them

2143
01:58:47,440 --> 01:58:50,080
Speaker 1: along with him and his abilities. He checks all the boxes.

2144
01:58:50,120 --> 01:58:52,640
Speaker 1: He's the biggest, baddest athlete on the field all the time.

2145
01:58:52,720 --> 01:58:55,920
Speaker 1: I get it. Here's why I would rather have Tom Brady,

2146
01:58:56,000 --> 01:59:00,320
Speaker 1: even at forty or whatever it is, forty three. Yeah,

2147
01:59:01,320 --> 01:59:04,400
Speaker 1: when Tom Brady's on the field. Yeah, you've got Cam

2148
01:59:04,520 --> 01:59:06,960
Speaker 1: Newton on the field and he's great. But when Tom

2149
01:59:07,080 --> 01:59:09,320
Speaker 1: Brady's on the field, the other ten guys on the

2150
01:59:09,400 --> 01:59:13,520
Speaker 1: field are that much better. Tom Brady elevates the guys

2151
01:59:13,600 --> 01:59:17,320
Speaker 1: around him. Cam Newton expects everybody to support him and

2152
01:59:17,480 --> 01:59:21,640
Speaker 1: hold him up and elevate him. Tom Brady elevates everybody else,

2153
01:59:22,200 --> 01:59:24,640
Speaker 1: and it's an eleven man game. I think Tom Brady

2154
01:59:24,680 --> 01:59:28,040
Speaker 1: for that reason, would be more in every situation, will

2155
01:59:28,040 --> 01:59:31,760
Speaker 1: be more successful than a guy like Cam Newton. So

2156
01:59:31,920 --> 01:59:34,880
Speaker 1: I think I think Tom. It'll be interesting to see

2157
01:59:34,920 --> 01:59:36,800
Speaker 1: how Tom Brady plays with a new team and how

2158
01:59:36,880 --> 01:59:39,920
Speaker 1: Cam Newton does in the old Bill Belichick system, because

2159
01:59:39,920 --> 01:59:42,800
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, brownie, if anybody can get out

2160
01:59:42,840 --> 01:59:44,840
Speaker 1: of Cam Newton what needs to be gotten out of him,

2161
01:59:44,880 --> 01:59:48,440
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick's gonna do it right. You'll see Cam Newton

2162
01:59:48,520 --> 01:59:51,680
Speaker 1: doing things that you could not that we won't even imagine.

2163
01:59:52,280 --> 01:59:54,520
Speaker 1: I look at that, you know, stuff like that. You'll

2164
01:59:54,560 --> 01:59:57,280
Speaker 1: see all kinds of stuff out of the New England

2165
01:59:57,360 --> 02:00:03,120
Speaker 1: offense that Pete will be standing up thinking, man, Carolina

2166
02:00:03,280 --> 02:00:06,000
Speaker 1: was idiots not to do that. You know what I'm

2167
02:00:06,000 --> 02:00:09,080
Speaker 1: saying yeah, and I think you will. You can argue

2168
02:00:09,240 --> 02:00:11,800
Speaker 1: that if he's healthy, Cam is still very much in

2169
02:00:11,880 --> 02:00:15,480
Speaker 1: his prime at thirty one. So that guy's got that

2170
02:00:15,560 --> 02:00:17,920
Speaker 1: guy's got a Josh Allen arm, no question about it.

2171
02:00:18,440 --> 02:00:21,400
Speaker 1: And he's and he can run. He's got it all.

2172
02:00:22,000 --> 02:00:24,920
Speaker 1: He's got it all, except he's you know, he's he's

2173
02:00:24,960 --> 02:00:29,600
Speaker 1: got a little showboat in him. He's got a lot

2174
02:00:29,760 --> 02:00:33,360
Speaker 1: of showboat in him. And and he gets into costume

2175
02:00:33,480 --> 02:00:36,480
Speaker 1: for postgame, you know, postgame interviews. So I don't know

2176
02:00:36,640 --> 02:00:38,800
Speaker 1: that that'll fly in New England or how that will

2177
02:00:38,800 --> 02:00:42,640
Speaker 1: be accepted by the Patriots, but I'm telling you this, uh,

2178
02:00:43,840 --> 02:00:47,240
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, uh for for that fact that I said

2179
02:00:47,280 --> 02:00:49,920
Speaker 1: Tom Brady elevates the guys around him, Cam Newton expects

2180
02:00:49,960 --> 02:00:51,880
Speaker 1: to be supported by the guys around him. And I

2181
02:00:51,960 --> 02:00:55,120
Speaker 1: think that's a big different debate. It is a good debate.

2182
02:00:55,160 --> 02:00:57,680
Speaker 1: That's a I'll take Brady and you'll take Cam Newton,

2183
02:00:57,760 --> 02:01:00,200
Speaker 1: and I think we should do just let me tween

2184
02:01:00,240 --> 02:01:01,480
Speaker 1: you and me. We should do a side bet on

2185
02:01:01,560 --> 02:01:05,600
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay's win loss against New England's win loss. I

2186
02:01:05,640 --> 02:01:07,800
Speaker 1: don't know if I can take that because I know

2187
02:01:07,920 --> 02:01:10,520
Speaker 1: New England's gonna win games. Defense is really good. I

2188
02:01:10,560 --> 02:01:13,800
Speaker 1: still think the playoffs last year. I still think New

2189
02:01:13,840 --> 02:01:17,640
Speaker 1: England's gonna win ten games. I still think they're gonna

2190
02:01:17,680 --> 02:01:21,520
Speaker 1: be tough, a tough. Yeah, you had a lot to

2191
02:01:21,640 --> 02:01:24,800
Speaker 1: replace though. All right, here we go, uh NFL true

2192
02:01:24,840 --> 02:01:27,960
Speaker 1: false number three got time for one more. The NFL

2193
02:01:28,040 --> 02:01:31,840
Speaker 1: should get rid of the automatic home playoff game for

2194
02:01:32,040 --> 02:01:40,160
Speaker 1: division winners. True or false? Yeah, I would go what's

2195
02:01:40,200 --> 02:01:45,520
Speaker 1: the alternative? You go buy record? Strictly buy record. I

2196
02:01:45,720 --> 02:01:48,960
Speaker 1: understand the premise here. The premise is, why should you

2197
02:01:49,080 --> 02:01:52,840
Speaker 1: reward a division winner that's nine and seven or eight

2198
02:01:52,920 --> 02:01:55,160
Speaker 1: and eight or seven and nine. I remember Seattle was

2199
02:01:55,200 --> 02:01:57,240
Speaker 1: seven and nine and a division winner, and they hosted

2200
02:01:57,280 --> 02:02:00,480
Speaker 1: a playoff game against an eleven from five wild card

2201
02:02:00,480 --> 02:02:05,320
Speaker 1: team like sevent eight years ago. But I think those

2202
02:02:05,440 --> 02:02:10,320
Speaker 1: instances in most cases are few and far between. I

2203
02:02:10,480 --> 02:02:15,200
Speaker 1: think it's more important to have some measure of reward

2204
02:02:15,920 --> 02:02:20,360
Speaker 1: for winning your division, and so because of that alone,

2205
02:02:21,200 --> 02:02:25,800
Speaker 1: I'm standing on that principle as to why I say false,

2206
02:02:25,920 --> 02:02:29,040
Speaker 1: you should not change that and goes strictly by a record.

2207
02:02:29,120 --> 02:02:35,360
Speaker 1: Division winners should get something? What if they? Yeah, except

2208
02:02:35,480 --> 02:02:42,720
Speaker 1: that the divisions are divided by some arbitrary historic matchup AFL,

2209
02:02:43,120 --> 02:02:54,360
Speaker 1: NFL historic geographic, economic criteria which is completely random and arbitrary.

2210
02:02:55,320 --> 02:02:57,480
Speaker 1: And I don't think that holds war. What if they

2211
02:02:57,560 --> 02:03:01,800
Speaker 1: did away with all the divisions, Well, then that's different.

2212
02:03:01,920 --> 02:03:05,080
Speaker 1: Now you don't have a division to win, so well,

2213
02:03:05,080 --> 02:03:07,520
Speaker 1: you're comparing yourself to an arbit you're comparing yourself to

2214
02:03:07,560 --> 02:03:11,680
Speaker 1: an arbitrary group of teams anyway, even though they're the

2215
02:03:11,720 --> 02:03:14,800
Speaker 1: same group every year. I mean, I don't know how

2216
02:03:14,880 --> 02:03:17,600
Speaker 1: you I mean, I don't know, I get it. I

2217
02:03:17,760 --> 02:03:19,880
Speaker 1: just think if a team wins eleven games, if a

2218
02:03:19,920 --> 02:03:22,600
Speaker 1: team has a season like that, why and you know

2219
02:03:22,680 --> 02:03:25,640
Speaker 1: why didn't that other team win ten games eleven? You

2220
02:03:25,760 --> 02:03:29,880
Speaker 1: want the best teams to have the advantage, unless you're

2221
02:03:29,880 --> 02:03:32,160
Speaker 1: like in the NFL, if you're gonna do that, if

2222
02:03:32,200 --> 02:03:34,800
Speaker 1: you're not gonna if you're not going to give home

2223
02:03:35,040 --> 02:03:39,640
Speaker 1: field to uh the better teams, why don't you do

2224
02:03:39,720 --> 02:03:44,080
Speaker 1: it like you do the draft? The worst Wait, wait,

2225
02:03:44,400 --> 02:03:46,760
Speaker 1: the worst teams in the in the playoffs get home

2226
02:03:46,840 --> 02:03:49,000
Speaker 1: field and the best teams have to go on the

2227
02:03:49,080 --> 02:03:53,920
Speaker 1: road to even the playing field. Well, I don't I'm

2228
02:03:53,960 --> 02:03:56,520
Speaker 1: not flying with that. Either it's the same thing and

2229
02:03:56,880 --> 02:04:00,200
Speaker 1: in reverse. Well not really, because the reason and I

2230
02:04:00,320 --> 02:04:03,440
Speaker 1: say that is let's just use the Bills in example

2231
02:04:03,480 --> 02:04:06,800
Speaker 1: as an example. They have a very hard schedule this year.

2232
02:04:07,560 --> 02:04:14,080
Speaker 1: What if the Bills win ten games and win the

2233
02:04:14,160 --> 02:04:18,440
Speaker 1: division with a ten and six record, but had a

2234
02:04:18,520 --> 02:04:21,800
Speaker 1: really tough go of it, And there is a team

2235
02:04:22,960 --> 02:04:27,080
Speaker 1: in the AFC South that played the Sisters of the

2236
02:04:27,160 --> 02:04:30,360
Speaker 1: Poor for three quarters of the season on an easy schedule,

2237
02:04:30,840 --> 02:04:33,960
Speaker 1: finish eleven and five, but in second place on a

2238
02:04:34,080 --> 02:04:38,880
Speaker 1: tiebreaker with Tennessee. Let's just say, and indies in at

2239
02:04:38,920 --> 02:04:42,440
Speaker 1: eleven and five. Under your criteria, the Bills are on

2240
02:04:42,480 --> 02:04:46,720
Speaker 1: the road for the playoffs. Well, I'm just I'm not

2241
02:04:46,840 --> 02:04:48,880
Speaker 1: saying that they should be that where I'm saying because

2242
02:04:48,920 --> 02:04:51,920
Speaker 1: of the arbitrary nature. But if you're gonna do if

2243
02:04:51,920 --> 02:04:56,160
Speaker 1: you're gonna say, let's not reward the best teams. Let's

2244
02:04:56,200 --> 02:04:57,800
Speaker 1: do it like they do with the draft, and let's

2245
02:04:57,880 --> 02:05:00,720
Speaker 1: make everything level so the best teams get penalized and

2246
02:05:00,760 --> 02:05:02,800
Speaker 1: we bring him everybody back to center. So that's a

2247
02:05:02,960 --> 02:05:04,640
Speaker 1: you know, an eight, and everybody's eight and Nate and

2248
02:05:04,680 --> 02:05:06,840
Speaker 1: it's all down to tiebreak because everybody wins enough and say,

2249
02:05:06,920 --> 02:05:09,000
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Where will level the playing

2250
02:05:09,080 --> 02:05:11,760
Speaker 1: field even further? The best teams go on the road

2251
02:05:11,800 --> 02:05:15,160
Speaker 1: for the playoffs? You know? Yeah, I don't. Do you

2252
02:05:15,280 --> 02:05:18,200
Speaker 1: see the league buying into that one? Definitely not? Are

2253
02:05:18,200 --> 02:05:20,520
Speaker 1: you kidding me? I'm that's crazy talk. I was. I

2254
02:05:20,640 --> 02:05:22,680
Speaker 1: was making a point. I doesn't. I hope that doesn't happen.

2255
02:05:22,720 --> 02:05:24,760
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? I don't think it will? But

2256
02:05:25,880 --> 02:05:29,080
Speaker 1: so I say false, I'm for giving some kind of

2257
02:05:29,160 --> 02:05:31,920
Speaker 1: reward to division winners. Yeah, me too, I am. I

2258
02:05:32,000 --> 02:05:35,840
Speaker 1: don't maybe after the wildcard round then receding everything, but

2259
02:05:36,040 --> 02:05:38,560
Speaker 1: for the for the for the division winners, you gotta

2260
02:05:38,560 --> 02:05:40,080
Speaker 1: give them. You gotta give them a little something something.

2261
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Speaker 1: That's why you have divisions. That's right. Steve Tasker, Mark,

2262
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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Chris Brown, Mark, I don't know who Mark is.

2263
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Speaker 1: Do you want any bay Mark? Steve Tasker, Chris Brown.

2264
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Speaker 1: think he prefers hardworking players that kind of embody their vision,

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Speaker 1: and I think they've built a team that's a collection

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills play, I think they're a blue collar team

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Speaker 1: this is just a good overall team, and I think

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Speaker 1: team that team concept can overwhelm some of the opponents.

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Speaker 1: Bucky Brooks from NFL dot Com talking about the expectations

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Speaker 1: for the Bills this season. Brownie good show today. We

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Speaker 1: also have a good tomorrow, Lorenzo Alexander coming on with

2291
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Speaker 1: us tomorrow from out in Arizona, who's been working out

2292
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Speaker 1: there in the media as well. And it'll be nice

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Speaker 1: to hear from Zoe tomorrow. Yeah, I'd also like to

2294
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Speaker 1: get a handle from him on what life is like

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Speaker 1: out there, because we know that it's been one of

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Speaker 1: be back with Lorenzo Alexander joining us later in the show.

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