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Speaker 1: earned that opportunity. He's put good tape out there. Now

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Speaker 1: man alive, sixty two and a half million dollars on

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Speaker 1: a five year deal. That's that's just a lot of hay.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of hay. So yeah, they did that,

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Speaker 1: and then I think the Chargers also, uh they hold on.

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Speaker 1: I'll pull it up here, just so I got right.

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00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,400
Speaker 1: They also signed a guard out of Pittsburgh, Matt Feiler,

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Speaker 1: to a seven year or a three year deal worth

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Speaker 1: about seven and seven and change a season to play

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Speaker 1: guard for them, which essentially means Steve that they have

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Speaker 1: no intention. I mean, Dan Phoenie and Forrest Lamp two

436
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Speaker 1: draft choices for them second and third round in the

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Speaker 1: same draft. Phoenie has been hampered by injuries and is

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Speaker 1: not expected back. Forrest Lamp was a starter for them,

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Speaker 1: but I don't know if they're bringing him back either.

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Speaker 1: So they've got Brian Bulaga, i'd left tackle, right, So

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Speaker 1: they've got you know, they've got they've got they've got

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Speaker 1: some guys they're they're switching bodies out and bringing new

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Speaker 1: bodies in. They've got that whole line front, and they're

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Speaker 1: probably gonna draft one too. Yeah, you know, then they

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Speaker 1: know they got their backups and stuff making making minimum.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's just the way it is. And they've

447
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Speaker 1: lost rat Sean Jenkins to Jacksonville, their safety hunter, Henry

448
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Speaker 1: the tight End, goes to New England. Even one of

449
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Speaker 1: their linebackers, Nick Vigilant to Minnesota on a one year deal. So,

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Speaker 1: and they've released Casey Hayward and Trey Turner at guard.

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Speaker 1: So it is wholesale changes up front on the line

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Speaker 1: in front of Justin Herbert. So it's gonna be very

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Speaker 1: interesting to see how that new offensive line for the

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Speaker 1: Chargers take shape out there. And then there's the Jets

455
00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 1: throwing money around like it's nobody's business. Steve, I gotta

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Speaker 1: tell you this. So my son brought this to my

457
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Speaker 1: attention because he's living. He lives on his phone far

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Speaker 1: more than I do, as any teenager would. And Jets

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00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,520
Speaker 1: fans at the outset of the legal tampering period, we're

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Speaker 1: losing their minds when they see all these players signing

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Speaker 1: in all these other places, especially New England, they are

462
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Speaker 1: losing their minds. So one Jets fans, have you ever

463
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 1: seen the movie? Along, came Polly. No, it's with Ben

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Speaker 1: Stiller and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jennifer Aniston.

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Speaker 1: So they so Ben Stiller calls up his buddy Philip

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Speaker 1: Seymour Hoffman. They're gonna meet down at the park, play

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Speaker 1: a little pickup basketball and kind of talk about, you know,

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Speaker 1: their relationships with you know that he's having a problem

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Speaker 1: with this girl that he's trying to, you know, start

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Speaker 1: a relationship with. So Ben Stiller's gonna ben Philip Seymour

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Speaker 1: Hoffman's heer about I think I play some pick up

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Speaker 1: basketball team. He's set up a two on two with

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Speaker 1: these two guys in the park and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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Speaker 1: It's gotta be the best pickup basketball scene I have

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Speaker 1: ever witnessed in my life. He's doing you know, he's

476
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:40,760
Speaker 1: playing the he's playing the role, but he is horrible.

477
00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 1: So he's like rain drops and he's firing up a

478
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Speaker 1: deep shot, clang off the metal backboard, you know that

479
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,240
Speaker 1: you get in the New York City parks. He goes,

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Speaker 1: he gets his own rebound. He's just throwing him up

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Speaker 1: all the time. He thinks, you know, old school outlet, outlet.

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Speaker 1: So that's about So he's Ben Stiller is like pass

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Speaker 1: me the all Like he's not passing, he's just dribbling

484
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 1: around madly chucking up shots. So some Jets fan took

485
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:09,679
Speaker 1: that scene from a Long Cane Polly, And every shot

486
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Speaker 1: that Philip Seymour Hoffman puts up is a clang off

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Speaker 1: the backboard. And he puts two free agent names of

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Speaker 1: guys that the Jets didn't get every time, so it's

489
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,959
Speaker 1: like rain drops throws it up. Name on the backboard

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Speaker 1: is you know, uh, the guy that the Patriots signed,

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Speaker 1: John Smith, John U. Smith. Clang you know, gets the

492
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Speaker 1: rebound old school clows it up again. Oh man. They

493
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: were like lived and then they signed Corey Davis late

494
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Speaker 1: in the day, and then Carl Lawson, and then all

495
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: of a sudden, everything's okay. They were ready to fire

496
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Speaker 1: Joe Douglas at three pm yesterday. By six pm, they're like,

497
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Speaker 1: oh great move, it's a new day. It's a new

498
00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: day for the Jets. You know, oh my god, we

499
00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:59,920
Speaker 1: all live in the extremes. They're like that. You're like

500
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 1: that audio needle. You know, they're all over the Kinning

501
00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 1: red or they're the other way all over, but oh

502
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:09,160
Speaker 1: my god, they're Jets fans are so entertaining. Yeah, they're

503
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Speaker 1: they're just they're a giant tire fire. You can't look.

504
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 1: They're loud, and extreme. Oh it's hilarious though. Yeah, it's

505
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,560
Speaker 1: it's tough too, because you see that we knew this

506
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Speaker 1: coming in and this is one, you know, one of

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Speaker 1: the things we've talked about on our Twitter poll today,

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Speaker 1: you know, because you see the Patriots doing what they're doing,

509
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: and we've we've lived in that world for two decades

510
00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: and last year we got a night's respite from that.

511
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: The Dolphins, of course, we knew they were gonna walk

512
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Speaker 1: into this with some cash to spending some draft capital.

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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna I think I'm thinking about the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins more in a month right before the draft than

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Speaker 1: I am right now. Um. And then of course the Jets,

516
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 1: who you got to take an intro. They're in the division,

517
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:54,760
Speaker 1: otherwise they're they're off our radar, right, I mean, so

518
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: you know, you think about what's it mean Because the

519
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,600
Speaker 1: Bills swept these eyes last year, all three of them,

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00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: all three of them, both games. I think that does

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Speaker 1: not go unnoticed, particularly it in Foxborough. Yeah, I think

522
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: up to his eyeballs and hate. Right now, the Patriots

523
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:19,479
Speaker 1: were the most active yesterday, the Jets weren't far behind.

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00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 1: Dolphins are kind of playing the waiting game. Right now,

525
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,080
Speaker 1: but they have some cab money to spend as well.

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00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 1: They've orchestrated some trades, traded Shack Lawson to Houston in

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Speaker 1: exchange for Bernardrick McKinney, a linebacker. So it's not like

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Speaker 1: they've been devoid of moves. So we'll have to see

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Speaker 1: where it goes here. But it's very clear that the

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Speaker 1: Patriots and the Jets know they have some catching up

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Speaker 1: to do with the gap that the Bills have created

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Speaker 1: in this division. So the Twitter poll today, how concerned

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Speaker 1: are you about the AFC East and their free agent

534
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Speaker 1: moves here in the early going? The choices are there

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Speaker 1: for you. At one, Bills live on Twitter, so the choices,

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00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 1: I'll read them off to you. A not worry. Bills

537
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 1: still have a better roster be eh, a little bit,

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00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: but they still don't have franchise quarterbacks. See, I'm worried.

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00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:07,959
Speaker 1: It was only a matter of time before the Pats

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00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: struck again. So let us know where you come down

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Speaker 1: on how concerned you are with the AFC East following

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Speaker 1: the recent free agent moves, most notably by the Patriots

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Speaker 1: and the Jets. We'll figure out if the Dolphins can

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Speaker 1: do anything here in the near future eight O three

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Speaker 1: oh five fifty one eighty eight five fifty two five

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00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: fifty open line for you there to get on board

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00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 1: and weigh in on that as well. How concerned are

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Speaker 1: you about the moves by the Patriots and the Jets

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00:31:33,760 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: and how much if they closed the gap here in

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Speaker 1: the division on the Bills. We'll take a break now,

551
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,360
Speaker 1: but when we come back, we'll get your comments on

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00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet as well as the phone line, So

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Speaker 1: give us a call. Eight three five fifty. Chris Brown,

554
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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you here on a legal tampering window

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Speaker 1: Tuesday on one Bills Line, presented by Kalida Health. This

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

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you as we survey the

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Speaker 1: landscape of the free agents legal tampering window. This is

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Speaker 1: day two as it's been open for just over twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours, now open yesterday at noon, and it looks

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Speaker 1: like Baltimore is going to continue to resign their own.

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00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: They're getting their outside linebacker Tias Bowser back on a

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00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: four year, twenty two million dollar deal, so it looks

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Speaker 1: like he will return to the Baltimore roster. They've done

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00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: a lot of resigning, much the way the Bills have steve.

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Speaker 1: They lost jahad Ward today to Jacksonville, their other outside

567
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,280
Speaker 1: linebacker as we know. They lost Matthew jude On to

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Speaker 1: New England, and they cut mark Ingram from their roster,

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Speaker 1: who has since signed with Houston. But for the most part,

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00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: they've resigned their own, whether it's their restricted free agents.

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00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: They tendered a second running back, Gus Edwards, they resigned,

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Speaker 1: you know, some some veteran players like Pernelle McPhee, justin Ellis.

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Speaker 1: And now they're getting a young linebacker back in the

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Speaker 1: fold here in Thias Bowser, which is probably the biggest

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Speaker 1: contract they've handed out of the guys that they have resigned,

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Speaker 1: and in Thias Bowser four years, twenty two million dollars today.

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Speaker 1: He was a good I like that guy. I like Bowser.

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Speaker 1: He was a really good player. He showed up a

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Speaker 1: ton when he watched those guys play, showed up a ton.

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Speaker 1: And you know, so I'm not surprised that that he's

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Speaker 1: gonna heat. They're hanging on to him. I'm I'm a

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Speaker 1: little surprised he signed that deal. To me, I think

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Speaker 1: it's rather it's a good value for the Ravens. Do

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Speaker 1: I think I think Baltimore's getting over on that. I

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Speaker 1: think he's a guy that would hit the market and

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Speaker 1: get a lot more money than that, at leastle over

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Speaker 1: five year, maybe a little bit more. I mean, I

588
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Speaker 1: don't know if he's going to get ten million a year,

589
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,040
Speaker 1: but over a course of a four or five year deal,

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Speaker 1: he might get an extra ten you know. I And

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00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 1: that's significant money. I'm surprised at that escalators to get

592
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 1: him to twenty seven, right, they're guaranteeing twelve of it.

593
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:16,919
Speaker 1: That's a pretty good deal, though. I mean, you can't

594
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Speaker 1: there's no reason to be unhappy signing the former third

595
00:34:22,480 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: round pick. I want to say, I'll have to look

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00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,440
Speaker 1: it up, but I think he's I can check it

597
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: real quick. But you had an interesting thing that you

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00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 1: saw from Diana Rassini. I think with respect to the

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Speaker 1: teams that sat on the sidelines yesterday in terms of

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00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: adding new talent, right, yeah, there's yeah, there's ten teams

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00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,839
Speaker 1: that have not agreed to terms with anybody, any free

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00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,759
Speaker 1: agent from a different team, you know, Like so the

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00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:48,040
Speaker 1: Bills have signed you know, Feliciano and Williams and Milano,

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00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,359
Speaker 1: but they haven't signed anybody from another team. There are

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00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 1: ten other teams in the league who also or nine

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00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: other teams who have also not agreed to terms with

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Speaker 1: a new player for their team. The Bills and the Bears,

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00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: the Bucks, the Colts, Eagles and Falcons, the Packers, the Rams,

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00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:10,920
Speaker 1: the Saints, and the Seahawks. It's interesting. Uh. Obviously, the Bills,

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Speaker 1: the Bucks, the Colts on the Packers, we're all in

611
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:19,640
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year. The Saints, the Rams have incredible

612
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 1: cap problems, which is why they're not signing anybody. The Bears.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that anybody would have signed with the

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Speaker 1: Bears until they get their quarterbacks straightened out. Yeah right,

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Speaker 1: I mean I don't know that you you jump on

616
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:38,839
Speaker 1: that train without that spot filled. And Alan Robinson isn't

617
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:40,879
Speaker 1: even signed in the franchise tender because he's like, why

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00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:42,800
Speaker 1: am I going to do that? Exactly? He may be

619
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Speaker 1: he may be catching the ball from well who right

620
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: falls is the only guy they have under contract at

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Speaker 1: the quarterback position. Nobody's nobody's staying awake at night losing

622
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:56,280
Speaker 1: Nick Nick Mitch Trubisky. They're fine with that, right and Foles,

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Speaker 1: he's limited. Um, he is got lightning. I mean when

624
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: we saw we had this conversation three days ago, when

625
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: the Patriots three days ago, maybe it's longer than that.

626
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 1: When the Patriots signed Cam Newton, one of the reasons

627
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 1: we purported that they signed Cam Newton was so they

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Speaker 1: got a guy, so they can go out and get

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Speaker 1: John new Smith to sign and get Hunter Henry to sign.

630
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Speaker 1: At least you got somebody there, even if he's a

631
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: placeholder right and there. I would imagine that after they

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Speaker 1: trade or get a free agent or draft that it'll

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00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 1: come out that, Yeah, that was part of us signing

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00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:32,800
Speaker 1: here was we knew they were going to get a

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00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: guy for the future, and we're gonna see who that was.

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Speaker 1: And and I want to know if those guys you've

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Speaker 1: John new Smith and Hunter Henry got an inkling of

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Speaker 1: who they were gonna shoot for, or there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: Jimmy g or Deshaun Watson, even Tua. I mean who

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Speaker 1: Sam Darnold. I mean somebody right, somebody who's out there,

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Speaker 1: there's somebody's not happy with. I'll be interested interest. I think, Mariota,

642
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Speaker 1: we've heard you know now that I'm thinking about it

643
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,960
Speaker 1: more with the Pats in who their next quarter, their

644
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 1: second quarterback will be on the roster. You tend to

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00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: think it'll come by a trade or free agency. I

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00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:13,719
Speaker 1: think that only happens if Deshaun Watson is in play,

647
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 1: Because if Deshaun Watson is in play, now suddenly San Francisco, Carolina,

648
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:23,200
Speaker 1: the Jets, and the Dolphins are presumably all in on that.

649
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: And then New England comes in and scoops up whoever

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Speaker 1: is a cast off that they like best from one

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00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 1: of those four teams. I would think. I mean, now

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00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 1: that's under the assumption that one of those quarterbacks on

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Speaker 1: those rosters is not going back to Houston in return.

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Speaker 1: I think if you're gonna go with the two tight

655
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Speaker 1: end set like that, it seems like the Patriots you're

656
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 1: gonna do. Marcus Mariota fits pretty well there. He's not spectacular,

657
00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:54,399
Speaker 1: he doesn't have elite physical traits, but he does make

658
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: He can run a quick timing, get the ball out

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Speaker 1: of your hand offense, particularly with a strong run in

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Speaker 1: game like you would think the Patriots are gonna have

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Speaker 1: with two tight end running thirteen personnel or twelve personnel

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Speaker 1: all the time. So I think Mariota comes into play,

663
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: and the Raiders would love to deal at Kintaro Garoppolo's

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Speaker 1: way in play. I think, yeah, So I've said it

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Speaker 1: a million times where I think Belichick thinks about Garoppolo,

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Speaker 1: and I just think there's gonna be enough. Even you know,

667
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: even Teddy Bridgewater, who's it, you know, even the Carolina

668
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:34,600
Speaker 1: considers him a game manager comes into play and plus

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Speaker 1: something off off the wall, who knows. Um. I don't

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00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: think there's any way russ Wilson goes to Boston or anything.

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00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,799
Speaker 1: I don't even think Russell Wilson's leaving. I don't think

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Speaker 1: he'll ever leave Seattle. I don't think they'll let him.

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Speaker 1: But other than that, you start to run out of options,

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00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 1: you know, you start to run out of places because

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00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: you look, you can even and I'm saying this about

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00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: New England, you go down the list of backups too,

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00:38:57,239 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: because they'll take one of those guys. I'm a little

678
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: surprised that Ryan Fitzpatrick didn't get a chance at that.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he did. He's going to get a chance to

680
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 1: start in Washington. Maybe he did, as he's going up

681
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,279
Speaker 1: there on a one year, ten million dollars deal. But

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Speaker 1: how concerned are you about the free agent moves of

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Speaker 1: the Patriots and the Jets eight oh three, oh five

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Speaker 1: fifty one eighty eight five fifty two, five fifty. We

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Speaker 1: go to Terry and Lancaster to lead us off. Terry,

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Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one bills live. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I think we just lost him. I hope I didn't

688
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: double tapped that and hang up on Terry. I apologize

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Speaker 1: if I did. I don't think I did. But Terry,

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00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,839
Speaker 1: if we hung up on you by accident, please call

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00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 1: us back. We'll go to Trevor in Buffalo. Trevor, you're

692
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:37,960
Speaker 1: on one bills live. What do you have for us? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking the call of guys. Go ahead.

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Speaker 1: So for me, I'm not particularly concerned about what New

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Speaker 1: England is doing. It's so weird to think like that

696
00:39:48,239 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 1: and to be saying that out loud. Yeah, I'm not

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Speaker 1: particularly concerned about New England. But you know, we in

698
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,120
Speaker 1: the past, historically and then in the NFL, would see

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00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 1: these offseason kind of binges where teams go nuts on

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00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 1: signing free a Historically it doesn't work out real well.

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00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: The best approaches with the Bills have been doing building

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00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: through the draft, resigning team veterans and players that are

703
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: you know, keeping your in house talent. So I'm not

704
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: particularly concerned. I think they're overpaying for a lot of

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00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:17,280
Speaker 1: these players. This is not a style that New England

706
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:20,440
Speaker 1: typically builds through their team like so I think this

707
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,200
Speaker 1: reeks the desperation by by New England that it makes

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00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:26,360
Speaker 1: me excited for the Bills and any other team that

709
00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:29,280
Speaker 1: the Patriots will will not do particularly well. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of enjoying the fact, and thanks for the call, Trevor.

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00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 1: I'm kind of enjoying the fact that the Patriots are

712
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:39,240
Speaker 1: finally in this position that the Bills very often found themselves.

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Speaker 1: You know, they were trying to load up at other

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00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: positions in an effort to help their quarterback because they

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00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 1: knew they did not have a franchise caliber quarterback. And

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00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:51,359
Speaker 1: now the Patriots have to play that game. And they've

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Speaker 1: got Cam Newton, who I think at best is a

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Speaker 1: bridge quarterback to whoever the next one is, provided they

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Speaker 1: can find a franchise quarterback, and I'm not sure that

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Speaker 1: they can unless they make an aggressive move up the

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Speaker 1: draft board this year into the top ten, maybe the

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Speaker 1: top eight if you think about it. The teams historically,

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Speaker 1: like the top five teams who have like in an

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00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:17,880
Speaker 1: off season, who have spent the most money in free agency,

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Speaker 1: none of them gotten out of the wildcard round of

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00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: the playoffs. They and not all of them. The Jets

727
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: have been there twice. They've blown the most money it

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Speaker 1: record at a record. They're the top five who have

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00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,319
Speaker 1: blown and they're in there twice. They're the number two

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Speaker 1: team and the number five team. They missed the playoffs

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Speaker 1: both those years. No team that has spent has set

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Speaker 1: a record, who was in the top five of spent

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00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,160
Speaker 1: money in free agency for the in NFL history has

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Speaker 1: made it out of the wildcard round of the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: and half of them have not made the playoffs. It's hard.

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Speaker 1: It's a hard way to build a team, and you

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00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: got to get just the right pulled together in one offseason.

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Speaker 1: And that was Yeah. I mean, think about Buffalo's whole line,

739
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: Steve in twenty nineteen. They had four new starters. Dion

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00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: Dawkins was the only hold over starter from the year prior,

741
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 1: and they needed to make changes. I don't think there

742
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 1: was any question about that. But it took them a

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00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: good six seven, eight weeks before they kind of hit

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00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: their stride and and you know, developed into a competent

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00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 1: offensive line and they still managed to you know, win

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00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: ten games and get to the playoffs. So it can happen,

747
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:31,280
Speaker 1: but you know, on the hole, you make wholesale changes

748
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:33,360
Speaker 1: on your roster, it is very hard to pull that

749
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,920
Speaker 1: all together and really be a juggernaut type team. You

750
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 1: really have to get it right. And it's not all

751
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: about it's not just about their ability to play either.

752
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 1: It's about their ability to elevate the guys around him.

753
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 1: You can get a great star player, and unless he

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00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 1: elevates guys around him, it's not going to work. Think

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00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:50,839
Speaker 1: back to you know, one of the first big free

756
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:53,239
Speaker 1: agents ever was Reggie White when he went to Green Bay.

757
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:56,439
Speaker 1: That's a guy that elevated people. He made other guys

758
00:42:56,520 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: better with Brett Farve in that room, and Reggie White

759
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:03,320
Speaker 1: was a guy that helped everybody, not just He didn't

760
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: come in and try and play defensive end as best

761
00:43:05,560 --> 00:43:07,880
Speaker 1: he could. He tried to make the Packers better in

762
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:10,839
Speaker 1: every way. They end up winning World championship with him,

763
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: and that's so it's not easy to do, particularly when

764
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: you spend that kind of money. You get a lot

765
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:22,680
Speaker 1: of guys making a lot of money who don't answer

766
00:43:22,760 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: too many people in that first year. I mean, they're

767
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: making their money. That's not like you're going to cut them.

768
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 1: So unless they buy in a hundred percent and they

769
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:33,399
Speaker 1: just show up and do their job and cash the check,

770
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 1: they're not helping anybody else. So you got to get

771
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:37,520
Speaker 1: the right kind of guy, and you have to have

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00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,800
Speaker 1: that kind of culture in your room, in your building

773
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: so that you get your money's worth out of these guys.

774
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 1: And that's the real trick is getting them to earn

775
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: the money you've just guaranteed them. How concerned are you

776
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:53,800
Speaker 1: about the moves and free agency by the Patriots and

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00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: the Jets? Scott and Tampa, Hang tight, You'll be first

778
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,719
Speaker 1: up after the break Bill and Buffalo you'll follow, So

779
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: stay where you are to you when we return here

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, presented by Kalida Help. This is

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00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:17,439
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to one Bills Live. Chris Brown,

782
00:44:17,520 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: Steve Fasker with you here as the free agency tampering

783
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:25,359
Speaker 1: window rolls on into its twenty fifth hour and Jacksonville

784
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:30,520
Speaker 1: very active as the latest coming down now Seattle free

785
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:34,279
Speaker 1: agent Cornerbacks Shaquille Griffin, who the Seahawks were trying to

786
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:38,680
Speaker 1: hold onto, is headed to Jacksonville. So Jacksonville. While they

787
00:44:38,719 --> 00:44:41,439
Speaker 1: have not signed gigantic names on the free agent market,

788
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 1: Chack Griffin's probably the biggest name they've signed to this point.

789
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: They have signed already now nine players to new deals,

790
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:51,480
Speaker 1: and we know they had the most cap room, the

791
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: most cap money to spend, and they are spending it

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00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: eight oh three five fifty one, eight eight five fifty two,

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00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:02,400
Speaker 1: five fifty. Before we get to the phones, Michael Silver

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00:45:02,680 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: of NFL Network has just tweeted out before resigning with

795
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:11,760
Speaker 1: the Bucks, Rob Gronkowski considered a similar offer from the Bills,

796
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: his hometown team. I'd expect the Bills to add a

797
00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:17,680
Speaker 1: tight end at some point. That's from Michael Silver, So

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00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 1: take that for what it's worth. But we go to

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Speaker 1: the phones, and as promised, we go to Scott in Tampa. Scott,

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00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: you're on one Bills live. What do you have for us? Yeah?

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00:45:27,200 --> 00:45:30,000
Speaker 1: I am not worried about the Patriots one bit until

802
00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: they can get a quarterback back and throw the ball

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00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:35,480
Speaker 1: more than ten yards. And with the money they've spent

804
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:38,839
Speaker 1: over the last day, how are they going to get

805
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: one in free agency, and this Garoppolo thing just makes

806
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: me laugh that that's their number one choice when he's

807
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:51,440
Speaker 1: under contract with another team. If they somehow trade for him,

808
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to take a pay cut, and I

809
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 1: don't see that happening. So I really am not worried

810
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: about them. Any quarterback they bring in is gonna be

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00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 1: in the system for their first year, so it's gonna

812
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: be at least another year before the Patriots can do anything.

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00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:15,080
Speaker 1: So I'm not worried about him at all. What quarterback

814
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 1: could they grab that would like strike fear India? Is

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00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 1: there more than one? Like, give me a couple of names?

816
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:24,800
Speaker 1: Actually no, there isn't. Like if they've traded for like

817
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson or Jimmy Garoppolo and got him under the

818
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:32,040
Speaker 1: cap and did all that tell you know, Deshaun Watson

819
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: or uh the guy in Arizona. I can't think of

820
00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:43,200
Speaker 1: his name, right, Kyler Murray. Yeah, those would be about

821
00:46:43,239 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 1: the only two. But there's no way they're getting neither

822
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 1: one of those, right. I don't say no way about

823
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson because he wants out and they're gonna move in.

824
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:52,920
Speaker 1: But yeah, you're right, Um, and I agree with you.

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00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 1: Until the Patriots get a quarterback, the stuff they're doing,

826
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Speaker 1: particularly with the offense and the way they're running their

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00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:02,759
Speaker 1: their their team doesn't say anything. What if they got

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00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:05,279
Speaker 1: a guy like? Is he still there's all? Right? Like

829
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 1: the guy that keeps popping into my mind is Marcus Mariota.

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00:47:09,280 --> 00:47:11,399
Speaker 1: He's a backup for the Raiders. Ten and a half

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Speaker 1: million dollar contract right now for this year. They affordable, Yeah,

832
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:20,360
Speaker 1: they're yeah, they could trade for him or just you

833
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 1: know yeah. And I mean even if they traded for Garoppolo,

834
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Speaker 1: who has a twenty four million dollars based salary this year,

835
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: they would obviously extend his contract to lessen the cap blow.

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00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: So there are always around that that they were the

837
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: more important thing is getting the quarterback. Aren't your roster

838
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:36,960
Speaker 1: You worry about how you're gonna pay him later? Um,

839
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you this, think about it. You know

840
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 1: a lot of people I read some stuff now about

841
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,000
Speaker 1: what they were thinking when they thought maybe Garoppolo was

842
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 1: gonna be their guy back when they traded him and

843
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: kept Brady. They thought, well, let's start getting some things

844
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 1: so we can push the ball a little bit more

845
00:47:54,239 --> 00:47:56,480
Speaker 1: down the field with Garoppolo, that was a little bit

846
00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:58,840
Speaker 1: more of their thing. Now that if they're gonna regress

847
00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 1: and go back to they're ten and eleven offense twenty

848
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 1: two eleven with with Grenkowski and Hernandez, you know, then

849
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: what's it looked like? And and I see, you know,

850
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 1: a hard play, action, big time running game, particularly with

851
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 1: Cam Newton at quarterback, if he is going to be

852
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 1: the guy for a little while, or a guy who's

853
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 1: good at that, like a Marcus Mariot or Jimmy Garoppolo,

854
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: guy who can handle the ball. I just think with

855
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 1: their with them going with those, you know, signing the

856
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 1: two tight ends like they did, you don't need you

857
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 1: just don't need that big armed quarterback. He a guy

858
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: that that you know, can work the offense and get

859
00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: you into the right play. So I'm you know, I'm

860
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 1: I think that it lowers the bar of expectation for

861
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:49,840
Speaker 1: the guy taking snaps in New England to where a

862
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 1: long way away from where it was with Tom Brady

863
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:56,359
Speaker 1: under center. Yeah, let's squeeze one morning in here. Before

864
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 1: the break, we go to Bill and Buffalo. Bill, what

865
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 1: do you have for us? You're on One Bill's Live. Hey,

866
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 1: Chris Steve, how you doing as a Bills fan? I'm

867
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 1: a couple of the signings. I like that New England did,

868
00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: but I kind of love what they're doing because I

869
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 1: feel they're wasting a lot of money on players that

870
00:49:15,000 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 1: I wouldn't bother picking up. Not a great fan of

871
00:49:18,400 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 1: Nelson Aguilar. If you want a guy that like gets

872
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:23,239
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty yards one game and then does

873
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:25,440
Speaker 1: it show up for three four weeks, he's probably the

874
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: guy you want. I'm not a giant fan of Kendrick Bourne.

875
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:33,920
Speaker 1: I should say, yeah, you know, I thought that was

876
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:37,279
Speaker 1: a waste of money. I thought they overpaid for Jude

877
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: On and I think he's overrated. I like Jonovan Smith

878
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:43,400
Speaker 1: a real lot. I think he's a good receipt, a

879
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 1: good player, but I think they way overpaid for him.

880
00:49:46,600 --> 00:49:49,960
Speaker 1: And Hunter Henry was a good signing, but I think

881
00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 1: they wasted a lot of money, and especially considering they

882
00:49:52,600 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 1: missed the boat by not picking Ryan Fitzpatrick, that would

883
00:49:56,320 --> 00:49:58,040
Speaker 1: have really done some damage and I think he could

884
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: have done a great job for him. Instead, they got

885
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:07,000
Speaker 1: that Cam Newton, who I think is completely washed up. Yeah, yeah,

886
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 1: good breakdown of the the acquisitions there Bill, So thanks

887
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:12,239
Speaker 1: for the call. Yeah, I don't know though we had

888
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 1: I mean twelve and a half million a year for

889
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:16,040
Speaker 1: each of those tight ends, Steve, that's a lot of money,

890
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 1: no question. And I but they're you know, they're the

891
00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:21,759
Speaker 1: best guys available at that spot. Yeah, And I like

892
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:26,280
Speaker 1: John HU Smith a lot. He jumps out, he jumps

893
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 1: off the film when you watched him, and they get

894
00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:29,800
Speaker 1: the ball. When you get the ball in his hands,

895
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:35,640
Speaker 1: he's a problem. So there's that. I don't know what

896
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:37,799
Speaker 1: that would cost on the open market, but those guys

897
00:50:37,880 --> 00:50:41,839
Speaker 1: don't come along very often. Hunter Henry is I think

898
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:44,799
Speaker 1: would be a great compliment to him. But I'll tell

899
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:48,719
Speaker 1: you what John H. Smith is is the guy. Yeah,

900
00:50:48,800 --> 00:50:50,840
Speaker 1: and I think Bills fans would have been really hyped

901
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 1: up if they'd gotten him here in a Bill's uniform.

902
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 1: But I think bucks a lot of money. And I

903
00:50:54,680 --> 00:50:59,080
Speaker 1: think a player like Matthew Judeon is a player that

904
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:02,440
Speaker 1: is more valuable to a team like the Patriots than

905
00:51:02,520 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 1: a team like the Bills because of the defensive scheme

906
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 1: that they play. That's an example of a free agent

907
00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:09,880
Speaker 1: getting more money in a place where he is of

908
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: greater value in terms of scheme fit and he is

909
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 1: that for New England. So you understand to a certain

910
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 1: extent why they paid them what they did. Four years

911
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 1: fifty six million dollars for Matthew Judon, thirty two million

912
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 1: guaranteed Steve. The guaranteed money is what'so ipopping for me.

913
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,759
Speaker 1: Thirty two million guaranteed from Matthew Judon, thirty one in

914
00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:33,880
Speaker 1: a quarter for John U. Smith and twenty five guaranteed

915
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:37,600
Speaker 1: for Hunter Henry. I mean those three guys alone, it's

916
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 1: almost ninety million dollars in guaranteed money. It's crazy, absolutely nuts.

917
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 1: Good players, but man, they are shelling it out in

918
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 1: a big way. It's different than what we've seen them

919
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 1: do too, right, it has to be different. Brady's not

920
00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 1: there anymore. They have to adopt a different means by

921
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:58,320
Speaker 1: which they acquire talent. They can't get guys on the

922
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:01,040
Speaker 1: chief anymore because they want to play with Brady. Brady

923
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: ain't there anymore. He's not there. So now you got

924
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:06,480
Speaker 1: overpay to get that same talent in and we're witnessing

925
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:09,080
Speaker 1: that firsthand. We have to take a break, but when

926
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:11,440
Speaker 1: we come back, we've got our own colleague, Maddie glab

927
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 1: coming in as she will be breaking down the latest

928
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:17,879
Speaker 1: mock draft watch on Buffalo bills dot Com. Some new

929
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,480
Speaker 1: names in the hopper for who people think the Bills

930
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 1: are going to take at pick number thirty. We'll also

931
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:25,840
Speaker 1: get her take on some of the free agent dealings

932
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: going on around the league. When we return here on

933
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:30,560
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo

934
00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Healo Bills Radio Network, Sports Date, your sports

935
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: update from One Bill's Drive. Linebacker and special team or

936
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:53,200
Speaker 1: Tyler Maddecavich has agreed to terms on a one year

937
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:56,439
Speaker 1: extension with the Bills. Mattacavid finished the twenty twenty season

938
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 1: leading a team and special teams tackles in total thirteen tackles,

939
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:03,320
Speaker 1: two passes defense in his first season with the Bills

940
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 1: in some spot duty on defense. Plenty of action around

941
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:09,239
Speaker 1: the afcast will start in New England. They've agreed to

942
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:12,000
Speaker 1: terms with not one, but two high profile tight ends.

943
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 1: Monday was John who Smith agreeing to a four year deal. Today,

944
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 1: former Chargers tight end Hunter Henry joins him for the

945
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:20,840
Speaker 1: three year deal worth up to thirty seven and a

946
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:24,719
Speaker 1: half million dollars. Patriots also signed veteran receiver Nelson Agalore,

947
00:53:25,120 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 1: linebacker Matthew Judon away from Baltimore, and safety Jalen Mills,

948
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:32,560
Speaker 1: among others. Not to be left out. The Jets jumped

949
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 1: into the free agent pool by adding wide receiver Cory Davis,

950
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:40,160
Speaker 1: linebacker Gerard Davis, and pass rusher of Carl Lawson from Cincinnati.

951
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:43,359
Speaker 1: Jacksonville with a lot of money to spend, and they've

952
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 1: been busy on day two of the legal tampering period.

953
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,239
Speaker 1: In the last twenty four hours, they've agreed to terms

954
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:51,880
Speaker 1: with safety ray Shawn Jenkins, running back Carlos High, defensive

955
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 1: lineman Jihad Ward, wide receiver Philip Dorsett, and cornerback Shack Griffin,

956
00:53:56,920 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 1: among others. Pass rush market drying up, Ray Hendrickson joins

957
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:04,319
Speaker 1: the Bengals, Janika Goakway heads to the Raiders, and Bud

958
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:07,359
Speaker 1: Dupree ends up with the Titans on a five year,

959
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 1: eighty five million dollar deal. The Broncos also picked up

960
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:14,960
Speaker 1: the seven million dollars guaranteed option with Von Miller. Miller

961
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,600
Speaker 1: will play for eighteen million in twenty twenty one and

962
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:22,719
Speaker 1: remained with the Broncos. Ryan Fitzpatrick's got another job to

963
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 1: compete for. He's going to Washington. Everyone's favorite journeyman quarterback

964
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:32,319
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick is expected to compete with Taylor Heineke in training camp.

965
00:54:32,520 --> 00:54:34,760
Speaker 1: He signed a one year deal for ten million dollars

966
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: with Washington shortly after Drew Brees announced his retirement. The

967
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,920
Speaker 1: Saints are bringing back their next potential starting quarterback. It's

968
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 1: Jamis Liston resigning with the Saints on a one year deal.

969
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 1: And finally, the Sabers, fresh office six nothing shutout loss

970
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 1: to the Capitals, back at it tonight when they visit

971
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:54,080
Speaker 1: the New Jersey Devils. Eleven straight losses for the Sabers,

972
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: but they head to New Jersey to face a team

973
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 1: with eleven straight home defeats of their own. Face off

974
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:02,680
Speaker 1: set for seven pm tonight. That is your sports update

975
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive Chris Brown, Steve Tasker hour number

976
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:07,520
Speaker 1: two with the program and joining us now is our

977
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:10,239
Speaker 1: own colleague Maddi glab who has been keeping an ear

978
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:14,920
Speaker 1: to the ground on the mock drafts that are fast

979
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 1: and furious now that we've hit mid March. I know

980
00:55:17,360 --> 00:55:21,320
Speaker 1: it's free agency time, Maddie, but you've been hot on

981
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:25,880
Speaker 1: the trail of these mock drafts and posting them diligently

982
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 1: at Buffalo Bills dot com every Saturday, and I guess

983
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 1: the first question because we will get into free agency,

984
00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:35,320
Speaker 1: don't worry about that. But the first question with respect

985
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 1: to the mock drafts, Maddie, are there any new names

986
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:41,320
Speaker 1: being cycled through now that the Bills have resigned some

987
00:55:41,480 --> 00:55:44,280
Speaker 1: of their own free agents, especially on the offensive line.

988
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:48,520
Speaker 1: So I would expect that to change in the next

989
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 1: batch that we do. But this most recent one that

990
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:54,879
Speaker 1: got released this past Saturday was before pretty much all

991
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:58,440
Speaker 1: the fun happened with the Bills, So all of these

992
00:55:58,600 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 1: mock drafts, fortunately we're before Matt Milano, Darryl Williams, and

993
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:07,320
Speaker 1: John Feliciano happened. So I would expect a lot of

994
00:56:07,400 --> 00:56:11,480
Speaker 1: these to completely change. Because as I'm tracking these, we've

995
00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: now tracked fifty one and the favorites are still offensive tackle,

996
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:21,640
Speaker 1: with eleven people mocking offensive tackles to the Bills. Second

997
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:25,720
Speaker 1: is linebacker with ten running back is third. Nine people

998
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:27,640
Speaker 1: think that the Buffalo Bills are going to choose a

999
00:56:27,719 --> 00:56:31,400
Speaker 1: running back in the first round, and fourth would have

1000
00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 1: to be an edge rusher, with six people choosing an

1001
00:56:35,200 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 1: edge rusher for the Buffalo Bills. With that number thirty picks.

1002
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:41,719
Speaker 1: So the most recent one that we did is still

1003
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:45,120
Speaker 1: kind of lagging because a lot of these that have

1004
00:56:45,239 --> 00:56:47,840
Speaker 1: came out this week are now updated because of the

1005
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:50,400
Speaker 1: moves that the Buffalo Bills have made. So this past

1006
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:52,759
Speaker 1: one that went out, we've released it and I was

1007
00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:54,759
Speaker 1: typing it up and like, oh my gosh, this is

1008
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 1: going to change so much next week, after we get

1009
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:01,160
Speaker 1: some new mock drafts, once free agency has started, and

1010
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 1: also now that these Buffalo Bills moves have have happened,

1011
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:07,680
Speaker 1: You're not going to see linebacker as much, You're not

1012
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 1: going to see offensive tackle as much. Maybe we'll see

1013
00:57:10,520 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 1: a lot more running back, you know what. That seems

1014
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:14,840
Speaker 1: to be one of the favorites right now, And I

1015
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,480
Speaker 1: still don't get it. Yeah, and I think too, you're

1016
00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:20,080
Speaker 1: probably gonna see edge rusher take a big leap forward

1017
00:57:20,120 --> 00:57:22,520
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, what do you think? Though? I was

1018
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:24,280
Speaker 1: and I was gonna ask Brownie this as well. I'll

1019
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:26,160
Speaker 1: ask you first, Maddie, and I'll get Brownie a chance

1020
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:30,320
Speaker 1: to prepare. What are the chances that the Bills make

1021
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:33,680
Speaker 1: that pick at thirty? What are they trade up or down?

1022
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:36,120
Speaker 1: What do you do you think they sit at thirty Oh,

1023
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 1: how likely are they to stay there? How likely are

1024
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 1: they to stay right where they're at? Well, last year

1025
00:57:41,960 --> 00:57:44,760
Speaker 1: I thought that Brandon Bean was gonna move up to

1026
00:57:44,920 --> 00:57:47,520
Speaker 1: get a wide receiver. I was convinced. But of course

1027
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 1: then the Stefon Diggs trade happened a year ago today,

1028
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:53,760
Speaker 1: and I was still thinking, Okay, maybe he's gonna move

1029
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:55,880
Speaker 1: up because we know that he's done that before. But

1030
00:57:56,160 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 1: once aj Epanessa was left, and once we had the

1031
00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 1: first round go buy, which we didn't have a pick in,

1032
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 1: I was thinking that he was going to move up

1033
00:58:05,360 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 1: in the second round, but AJF and sfl and he

1034
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:13,640
Speaker 1: was our second round choice first round this year. I'm

1035
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:16,160
Speaker 1: talking as if we still have a first round pick,

1036
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:19,120
Speaker 1: which I believe we will. It's not like we're gonna

1037
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 1: go trade for a crazy athlete out there, because I

1038
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:27,840
Speaker 1: think the Buffalo Bills are have done that stuff already

1039
00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 1: with Matt Milano and Darryl Williams and John Feliciano. I

1040
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:35,160
Speaker 1: know we're all sitting pretty here and kind of waiting

1041
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:38,080
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills to make a move in free agency.

1042
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 1: I know it's the tampering period, so we can't say

1043
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:44,320
Speaker 1: anything officially even if it did happen, but I could

1044
00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:48,440
Speaker 1: see a trade up happening. I mean they have seven

1045
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:53,600
Speaker 1: draft picks. Is that the correct number? Ye? So seven total.

1046
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 1: I could see us trading up because, like we've talked

1047
00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:59,440
Speaker 1: about in years past, really the last two years, right,

1048
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 1: you get to your sixth and seventh round picks and

1049
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:05,640
Speaker 1: your laid round picks, and are those guys going to

1050
00:59:05,680 --> 00:59:09,640
Speaker 1: be guys that make the roster based on how talented

1051
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:12,920
Speaker 1: this roster is this season? I mean since I came

1052
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 1: to Buffalo and started covering this team, it's like every

1053
00:59:15,760 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 1: year this is now a hard or roster to make

1054
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:21,480
Speaker 1: based on the success of the last two seasons and

1055
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 1: the type of players that they have in here. You know,

1056
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 1: I don't know if a six or seventh round player

1057
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:30,480
Speaker 1: now I could be completely wrong, but the odds of

1058
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:33,800
Speaker 1: some of those lower round guys making the roster this

1059
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:37,080
Speaker 1: year keep getting slimmer. I think we would all agree

1060
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 1: on that. So maybe trading up and letting go of

1061
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: some of those laid a round picks in order to

1062
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:45,360
Speaker 1: get a position or a player that could start right

1063
00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:48,400
Speaker 1: away would totally make sense in my mind, depending on

1064
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 1: how the Bills finish out free agency depending on what

1065
00:59:52,040 --> 00:59:54,440
Speaker 1: their wants or needs are going into the draft. So

1066
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:56,720
Speaker 1: that's kind of where I sit on that. I guess

1067
00:59:56,760 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 1: I'm not giving a definite answer here, but I would

1068
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:01,680
Speaker 1: not be shocked to see us trade up. What do

1069
01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:04,280
Speaker 1: you guys think? Yeah, I mean, I think it's predicated

1070
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 1: on two things. One you already pointed out, Maddie, which

1071
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 1: is what happens between now and mid April in free agency,

1072
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 1: in terms of how many holes the Bills can still address,

1073
01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:17,280
Speaker 1: because as great as it's been that they've resigned Williams,

1074
01:00:17,600 --> 01:00:22,960
Speaker 1: Milano and Feliciano, there are still upwards of twelve players

1075
01:00:23,080 --> 01:00:25,600
Speaker 1: not under contract with the Bills anymore, and I don't

1076
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 1: know how many more of them are going to be

1077
01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:31,480
Speaker 1: brought back into the fold. So as much as you say,

1078
01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:33,560
Speaker 1: and I tend to agree with you, it is a

1079
01:00:33,640 --> 01:00:36,680
Speaker 1: harder roster to make if they only fill six of

1080
01:00:36,760 --> 01:00:40,040
Speaker 1: those twelve vacancies. They may say, you know what, maybe

1081
01:00:40,080 --> 01:00:42,040
Speaker 1: we should keep all of these picks to have a

1082
01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:46,280
Speaker 1: chance to fill them with cheap rookie deal type labor

1083
01:00:47,120 --> 01:00:49,520
Speaker 1: and work that way. But they may not be happy

1084
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:52,040
Speaker 1: with the talent in the draft and say, well, it's

1085
01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:54,240
Speaker 1: pretty thin at this position, and we need an answer here,

1086
01:00:54,560 --> 01:00:56,840
Speaker 1: so let's get another guy in free agency so we

1087
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:59,120
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about filling it in the draft.

1088
01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:03,120
Speaker 1: As Steve has mentioned many times, Maddie Brandon being always says,

1089
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:05,120
Speaker 1: we like to use free agency to fill as many

1090
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:07,680
Speaker 1: holes as possible, so when we go to the draft,

1091
01:01:07,800 --> 01:01:11,000
Speaker 1: we can take the best player on the board, regardless

1092
01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 1: of position. That's a great philosophy to stick to. But

1093
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:17,240
Speaker 1: with limited cap dollars, I wonder how much he's going

1094
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:19,560
Speaker 1: to be able to do that this time around. And

1095
01:01:19,600 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 1: then the second part of the equation is when you're

1096
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:26,040
Speaker 1: sitting at thirty, there is so much that can happen

1097
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:29,440
Speaker 1: in front of you and you I mean, and they

1098
01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:31,120
Speaker 1: try to predict it as best as they can. But

1099
01:01:31,160 --> 01:01:32,959
Speaker 1: it's a lot easier to predict what's going to happen

1100
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:35,520
Speaker 1: when you're picking nine and you're hoping you get at

1101
01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:39,240
Speaker 1: Oliver as opposed to picking thirty and watching twenty nine

1102
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:41,240
Speaker 1: picks come off the board in front of you. But

1103
01:01:41,680 --> 01:01:44,800
Speaker 1: I will say this, I think with what this quarterback

1104
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:46,960
Speaker 1: market's going to look like at the top of the draft,

1105
01:01:47,280 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 1: I think it is going to push some other talent

1106
01:01:49,120 --> 01:01:53,080
Speaker 1: down at other positions, and it could tempt Brandon being

1107
01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:55,720
Speaker 1: to move up as he is wont to do. In

1108
01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:58,760
Speaker 1: his short history as GM with the Bills, he's moved

1109
01:01:58,880 --> 01:02:01,800
Speaker 1: up more. I mean, he's not a big guy on

1110
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:04,440
Speaker 1: moving back. In his history. Even in Carolina when he

1111
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:06,720
Speaker 1: was helping with those groups, they never when he was

1112
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:08,440
Speaker 1: in the room and had a voice in the in

1113
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:11,760
Speaker 1: the say they never once traded back. And we know

1114
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:14,160
Speaker 1: he's never traded back. He traded back here. He does

1115
01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:17,240
Speaker 1: nothing but move up. Yeah, So I would think that

1116
01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:20,280
Speaker 1: if they move, I think they move up unless they

1117
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 1: think that. Here's the other thing too that we have

1118
01:02:22,800 --> 01:02:25,640
Speaker 1: to consider because we see this happen very often with gms.

1119
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:28,920
Speaker 1: The GMS they make their final draft grades with their

1120
01:02:28,960 --> 01:02:32,880
Speaker 1: board and they say, we only have twenty five players

1121
01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:35,880
Speaker 1: with first round grades this year. If that's the case

1122
01:02:36,480 --> 01:02:39,400
Speaker 1: and they're all gone by pick twenty seven for the

1123
01:02:39,480 --> 01:02:43,120
Speaker 1: first time ever, we could see Brandon Bean moving out right,

1124
01:02:43,200 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Because if you only have

1125
01:02:44,680 --> 01:02:47,880
Speaker 1: twenty five players with first round grades, what's your justification

1126
01:02:47,960 --> 01:02:49,760
Speaker 1: for sitting there at thirty and taking somebody? And I

1127
01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:51,959
Speaker 1: think it will also depend too, Maddie. You can speak

1128
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,120
Speaker 1: to this. If there's a ton of guys at the position,

1129
01:02:54,360 --> 01:02:56,400
Speaker 1: or they're sitting at thirty and there's the twenty five

1130
01:02:56,480 --> 01:03:00,479
Speaker 1: first rounders are gone, it's easier to move back into

1131
01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:02,840
Speaker 1: the second round knowing that one of those guys at

1132
01:03:02,880 --> 01:03:07,000
Speaker 1: that position you're thinking about are going to be there. Yeah,

1133
01:03:07,000 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 1: and you don't know when the run on the positions

1134
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:12,120
Speaker 1: will start. One team could start that and there go

1135
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:16,920
Speaker 1: your first round graded players at exposition. And another thing

1136
01:03:16,960 --> 01:03:19,960
Speaker 1: to remember is we're talking about grading players. Is the

1137
01:03:20,040 --> 01:03:24,240
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills grade players a lot differently than other NFL teams.

1138
01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:26,560
Speaker 1: They tend to be, I want to say a little

1139
01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:29,840
Speaker 1: bit more intense with how they grade players based on

1140
01:03:30,040 --> 01:03:33,520
Speaker 1: the character of players that are coming out of college football.

1141
01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:36,120
Speaker 1: They put a lot of eggs in that type of

1142
01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:39,040
Speaker 1: basket and they value that. They want guys that fit

1143
01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:41,480
Speaker 1: into the DNA of this team. They got what they want,

1144
01:03:41,520 --> 01:03:43,920
Speaker 1: guys that fit into the culture of this team. So

1145
01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:48,320
Speaker 1: their draft board and graded players could look totally different

1146
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:51,840
Speaker 1: than fifty percent of the other draft boards out there

1147
01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:54,160
Speaker 1: for different NFL teams. Yeah, And I mean, if they

1148
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:58,000
Speaker 1: ultimately decide like there's nothing left for us here by

1149
01:03:58,040 --> 01:04:00,400
Speaker 1: the time we're on the board at thirty or on

1150
01:04:00,440 --> 01:04:03,360
Speaker 1: the clock at thirty, they could slide back into the

1151
01:04:03,440 --> 01:04:07,000
Speaker 1: second round somewhere, pick up a four, which they don't

1152
01:04:07,080 --> 01:04:10,960
Speaker 1: have this year, and then they very easily steve if

1153
01:04:11,040 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 1: somebody is slipping that they have a second round grade on,

1154
01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:16,840
Speaker 1: they could jump right back up the board again and

1155
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:19,480
Speaker 1: use one of their extra fives to get back up

1156
01:04:19,520 --> 01:04:21,880
Speaker 1: the board in round two and get somebody that they

1157
01:04:21,920 --> 01:04:23,800
Speaker 1: didn't expect to be there with one of their two

1158
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:25,920
Speaker 1: twos that they would now have. So now that we've

1159
01:04:25,960 --> 01:04:28,600
Speaker 1: got this man, you've been keeping track of these umpteen

1160
01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:33,120
Speaker 1: mocked drafts, what is give us like your top two

1161
01:04:33,400 --> 01:04:38,120
Speaker 1: names that continually go to the Buffalo Bill if everything

1162
01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:41,840
Speaker 1: stays the same and they're drafting at thirty, the one

1163
01:04:41,880 --> 01:04:44,439
Speaker 1: guy I keep seeing the Bills. Everybody thinks the Bills

1164
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:46,760
Speaker 1: are gonna get that kid from Oklahoma State, the offensive

1165
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:52,240
Speaker 1: tackle now Tevin Jenka, Yeah, kept Jakins, he's been a favorite.

1166
01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:55,400
Speaker 1: So the two names that have been mocked to the

1167
01:04:55,520 --> 01:04:57,840
Speaker 1: Bills the most, and it's not like this is a

1168
01:04:57,920 --> 01:05:00,080
Speaker 1: double digit number. So out of the fifty one on

1169
01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:03,560
Speaker 1: that I've tracked so far, two of them have been

1170
01:05:03,680 --> 01:05:06,640
Speaker 1: mocked five times to us, so that's the biggest number

1171
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:10,480
Speaker 1: right now. It's Naja Harris, the running back from Alabama,

1172
01:05:10,680 --> 01:05:14,960
Speaker 1: and it's Tevin Jakins, the offensive tackle from Oklahoma State.

1173
01:05:15,440 --> 01:05:18,800
Speaker 1: So we'll see if this changes though as I start

1174
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:22,160
Speaker 1: to track them this week. Because we know we have

1175
01:05:22,280 --> 01:05:27,600
Speaker 1: resigned Darryl Williams, that may make the offensive tackle position

1176
01:05:28,000 --> 01:05:32,080
Speaker 1: an offensive guard position. Because we also signed John Feliciano

1177
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:35,080
Speaker 1: to a contract extension, we may see a little bit

1178
01:05:35,240 --> 01:05:37,600
Speaker 1: less of that in the mock draft. So it'll be

1179
01:05:37,720 --> 01:05:40,520
Speaker 1: interesting to watch how these change over the next couple

1180
01:05:40,520 --> 01:05:43,480
Speaker 1: of weeks, based on how we finish out free agency,

1181
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:47,640
Speaker 1: based on however many guys we do resign or don't resign,

1182
01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:51,080
Speaker 1: or how many new guys we accept to the team

1183
01:05:51,160 --> 01:05:53,680
Speaker 1: in the next couple of days. So I would say

1184
01:05:54,800 --> 01:05:56,640
Speaker 1: running back is a favorite right now, and so it's

1185
01:05:56,720 --> 01:06:00,440
Speaker 1: offensive tackle. But again, these names will change. These positions

1186
01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:03,120
Speaker 1: are going to change because all of this happened before

1187
01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:07,760
Speaker 1: Matt Milano, Darryl Williams, and John fully Siano, Right, Yeah, Maddie,

1188
01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 1: Steve and I were talking yesterday about even though it's

1189
01:06:11,240 --> 01:06:13,600
Speaker 1: great that they have Daryl Williams back, in the fold,

1190
01:06:13,640 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 1: and you essentially have your two starting tackles for at

1191
01:06:16,720 --> 01:06:21,240
Speaker 1: least the next three seasons together. They don't have a

1192
01:06:21,320 --> 01:06:23,720
Speaker 1: swing tackle right now, they don't have a backup, So

1193
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:27,560
Speaker 1: I don't think we can completely dismiss the offensive tackle

1194
01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:31,560
Speaker 1: need there. Maybe they don't look for one in round one,

1195
01:06:32,640 --> 01:06:35,000
Speaker 1: but I think they probably have to find one somewhere.

1196
01:06:35,040 --> 01:06:36,960
Speaker 1: If they don't get a veteran out on the market,

1197
01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:39,520
Speaker 1: they're probably going to have to draft one good enough

1198
01:06:40,080 --> 01:06:44,960
Speaker 1: to be the primary backup to those two veteran players. Yeah,

1199
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:46,840
Speaker 1: that would make sense. It's just is this going to

1200
01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:48,560
Speaker 1: happen in the first round or is this going to

1201
01:06:48,640 --> 01:06:53,640
Speaker 1: happen in later rounds? And it'll be interesting to follow that.

1202
01:06:54,200 --> 01:06:57,360
Speaker 1: I mean, Tevin Jenkins is a popular name. There's also

1203
01:06:57,520 --> 01:07:00,560
Speaker 1: other a few other different offensive tackle that have been

1204
01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:03,720
Speaker 1: popular names. But yeah, it depends on when that run

1205
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:06,440
Speaker 1: on that position starts. It depends on it. If there's

1206
01:07:06,600 --> 01:07:09,040
Speaker 1: good offensive tackles in the second and third round who

1207
01:07:09,120 --> 01:07:12,400
Speaker 1: Brandon and Sean believe can be backups to our guys

1208
01:07:12,480 --> 01:07:15,600
Speaker 1: that are already on the roster. So the way that

1209
01:07:15,720 --> 01:07:18,840
Speaker 1: this is going to start to take shape after free agency,

1210
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:21,280
Speaker 1: I think will be a lot more telling than what

1211
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:24,880
Speaker 1: we've tracked so far. What are and with all the

1212
01:07:24,960 --> 01:07:28,680
Speaker 1: offensive lineman, they got their five offensive lineman coming back

1213
01:07:28,760 --> 01:07:31,440
Speaker 1: from last year intact, maybe they can push that to

1214
01:07:31,520 --> 01:07:34,760
Speaker 1: the backburner for a minute. What about an edge rusher?

1215
01:07:36,960 --> 01:07:39,200
Speaker 1: So there's been a couple edges that have been mocked

1216
01:07:39,240 --> 01:07:41,480
Speaker 1: to us. I looked at some film of one of

1217
01:07:41,560 --> 01:07:44,760
Speaker 1: the edge rushers. His name is Jason Oway and he's

1218
01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:48,000
Speaker 1: from Penn State. So this is a guy who's six five,

1219
01:07:48,080 --> 01:07:51,840
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty two pounds. He's a red shirt sophomore.

1220
01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:55,560
Speaker 1: So this is someone who doesn't have that much experience

1221
01:07:55,880 --> 01:07:59,520
Speaker 1: in college football. So if the Bills were to draft

1222
01:07:59,640 --> 01:08:02,360
Speaker 1: him at that number one spot or at that number

1223
01:08:02,400 --> 01:08:04,520
Speaker 1: thirty spot in the first round, they would be getting

1224
01:08:04,600 --> 01:08:07,400
Speaker 1: someone who they would have to coach up quite a bit,

1225
01:08:07,520 --> 01:08:09,880
Speaker 1: I believe, because when you have someone who's only played

1226
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:12,280
Speaker 1: in twenty four games. And let's think back to this

1227
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:15,960
Speaker 1: past season for college football, I mean, COVID took a

1228
01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:18,920
Speaker 1: big impact on college football. There were games being canceled

1229
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:21,120
Speaker 1: left and right. So a lot of these schools, the

1230
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:26,000
Speaker 1: guys have not played completely full seasons because of COVID

1231
01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:28,400
Speaker 1: and how that affected their schedule. But as we look

1232
01:08:28,439 --> 01:08:30,960
Speaker 1: at some of the film on him, this is a

1233
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:34,719
Speaker 1: guy who's got strong hands and a body to push

1234
01:08:34,840 --> 01:08:37,880
Speaker 1: the offensive line. He's got great pursuit. I think he

1235
01:08:37,960 --> 01:08:40,640
Speaker 1: doesn't give up until the play is finished. I like

1236
01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:43,920
Speaker 1: his flexibility and the bend that he's able to offer.

1237
01:08:44,640 --> 01:08:48,800
Speaker 1: He's got a pretty athletic and long build. He has

1238
01:08:48,960 --> 01:08:52,040
Speaker 1: great reach when he's getting to the quarterback. In his

1239
01:08:52,640 --> 01:08:55,960
Speaker 1: collegiate career, he had sixty three total tackles thirteen and

1240
01:08:55,960 --> 01:08:59,880
Speaker 1: a half tackles for lost, seven sacks. So when you

1241
01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:03,479
Speaker 1: look at an edge rusher and what the Buffalo Bills need,

1242
01:09:03,920 --> 01:09:07,200
Speaker 1: I would label someone like this as more of a project,

1243
01:09:07,439 --> 01:09:09,920
Speaker 1: someone who you would have to build up a couple

1244
01:09:09,960 --> 01:09:13,719
Speaker 1: of years just because of his inexperience at the position

1245
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:16,679
Speaker 1: at the collegiate level. But he played at Penn State

1246
01:09:17,120 --> 01:09:20,160
Speaker 1: made some noise. I mean he played against good teams.

1247
01:09:20,200 --> 01:09:22,000
Speaker 1: A lot of these guys who were looking at and

1248
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:25,479
Speaker 1: talking about played for great teams who also played against

1249
01:09:25,560 --> 01:09:28,880
Speaker 1: great competitions. So this has been a favorite defensive end.

1250
01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:31,400
Speaker 1: He's been mocked to the Bills twice. There hasn't been

1251
01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:34,800
Speaker 1: that many defensive ends who have been mocked to the

1252
01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:37,840
Speaker 1: Bills more than twice or three times. So this has

1253
01:09:38,200 --> 01:09:40,280
Speaker 1: been a name that's popped up in the beginning when

1254
01:09:40,360 --> 01:09:42,800
Speaker 1: we started track mock drafts, and then in the most

1255
01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:46,280
Speaker 1: recent mock draft watch that came out on Saturday. So

1256
01:09:46,720 --> 01:09:49,920
Speaker 1: someone to keep your eye on. Not necessarily sure, though,

1257
01:09:50,000 --> 01:09:52,960
Speaker 1: if the Bills want to pick up a project or

1258
01:09:53,080 --> 01:09:55,639
Speaker 1: someone that they're going to have to grow a couple

1259
01:09:55,680 --> 01:09:58,400
Speaker 1: of seasons with that number thirty, Heck, that's the only

1260
01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:00,639
Speaker 1: thing that gives me pause because I think we all

1261
01:10:00,680 --> 01:10:03,840
Speaker 1: agree that this is a team that is in win

1262
01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:07,240
Speaker 1: it all now mode. And do you want to use

1263
01:10:07,320 --> 01:10:09,160
Speaker 1: a first round pick on a guy that's not going

1264
01:10:09,240 --> 01:10:11,040
Speaker 1: to be able to give you a return on investment

1265
01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:14,120
Speaker 1: right away and help an area of your team that

1266
01:10:14,320 --> 01:10:17,479
Speaker 1: needs help, which is pass rush prowess, don't I don't

1267
01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:19,519
Speaker 1: know if they take a guy that's going to need

1268
01:10:19,640 --> 01:10:21,679
Speaker 1: time on the job, they need people that can help

1269
01:10:21,760 --> 01:10:24,559
Speaker 1: them right now. Yeah, You've you've got to think too

1270
01:10:24,600 --> 01:10:28,000
Speaker 1: about with the last couple of drafts they took Ed

1271
01:10:28,080 --> 01:10:32,000
Speaker 1: Oliver with their first pick, then a Japaneza with their

1272
01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:34,559
Speaker 1: first pick. Are they gonna go three in a row?

1273
01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:38,880
Speaker 1: At you know d line pastor maybe I guess maybe,

1274
01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:40,960
Speaker 1: but it better be someone that can help him sooner

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01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:43,439
Speaker 1: inter than later. Though. It's also one of these things

1276
01:10:43,479 --> 01:10:47,759
Speaker 1: where if if the Bills could sit there and say, Okay,

1277
01:10:50,040 --> 01:10:52,200
Speaker 1: we like this guy. He's got a great high end.

1278
01:10:52,240 --> 01:10:54,000
Speaker 1: He's a young kid, and we can get him in

1279
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:57,040
Speaker 1: the fold, and we don't expect him to help us

1280
01:10:57,040 --> 01:11:00,439
Speaker 1: out right away. But the top end with this guy

1281
01:11:00,640 --> 01:11:03,000
Speaker 1: something we think we can get out of him, and

1282
01:11:03,080 --> 01:11:06,599
Speaker 1: we're gonna be okay. Um, they could take if they

1283
01:11:06,720 --> 01:11:10,360
Speaker 1: stay at thirty, maybe they take him at thirty, or

1284
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:14,000
Speaker 1: if no defensive edgedressers have been taken, or they well

1285
01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:16,160
Speaker 1: maybe you know what, We're gonna let it pass at thirty,

1286
01:11:16,240 --> 01:11:18,200
Speaker 1: and we're gonna try and trade up midway through the

1287
01:11:18,320 --> 01:11:22,719
Speaker 1: second about ten spots and get him then, so trade

1288
01:11:22,760 --> 01:11:26,479
Speaker 1: out of the first, pick up a number three, you know,

1289
01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:29,720
Speaker 1: and then come back and get get him later. But

1290
01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:32,840
Speaker 1: that you have these conversations, I think you have these

1291
01:11:32,920 --> 01:11:36,360
Speaker 1: conversations in the draft room, like the coaching staffs over there,

1292
01:11:36,400 --> 01:11:39,599
Speaker 1: going yeah, give me the give me this guy because

1293
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:42,519
Speaker 1: I can he's gonna help us more in the long

1294
01:11:42,640 --> 01:11:45,000
Speaker 1: run than this guy who may help us more in

1295
01:11:45,080 --> 01:11:47,720
Speaker 1: the first half of his first season, but later on,

1296
01:11:47,880 --> 01:11:51,120
Speaker 1: this is the guy. So you have those conversations about

1297
01:11:51,880 --> 01:11:54,240
Speaker 1: you know, you're trying to end is they're trying to

1298
01:11:54,280 --> 01:11:57,160
Speaker 1: win a championship. I gotta believe you're looking for instant impact,

1299
01:11:57,320 --> 01:12:01,800
Speaker 1: especially in round one. Well, especially since they've already got

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01:12:01,880 --> 01:12:06,600
Speaker 1: two high picks on their defensive line. Yeah, to me,

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01:12:06,880 --> 01:12:10,680
Speaker 1: that's that screams. I wonder if a corner can help

1302
01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:13,439
Speaker 1: your guys up front? Now more, Maddie, can a corner

1303
01:12:13,479 --> 01:12:16,880
Speaker 1: help our guys up front? I think I think they could.

1304
01:12:17,040 --> 01:12:19,280
Speaker 1: You know, based on what I've seen in the mock

1305
01:12:19,400 --> 01:12:21,439
Speaker 1: draft some of the corners that have been mocked to us,

1306
01:12:21,479 --> 01:12:23,080
Speaker 1: and this is a position that I think is going

1307
01:12:23,160 --> 01:12:24,960
Speaker 1: to be mocked to us a lot more as the

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Speaker 1: mock drafts come out, after we've seen that Matt Milano

1309
01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:31,720
Speaker 1: is coming back. Linebacker was a favorite position. I think

1310
01:12:31,720 --> 01:12:33,880
Speaker 1: we're going to see a lot more corners than someone

1311
01:12:33,960 --> 01:12:37,040
Speaker 1: who can help this team now. His name is jac Horn.

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01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:41,320
Speaker 1: He's from South Carolina. Guys, this is someone who I

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01:12:41,479 --> 01:12:43,880
Speaker 1: was looking at his name thinking, okay, this is this

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01:12:44,080 --> 01:12:48,120
Speaker 1: is a familiar name. Well, he played Tennessee against Tennessee

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01:12:48,880 --> 01:12:53,120
Speaker 1: his junior year. I want to say his junior sophomore year.

1316
01:12:53,960 --> 01:12:56,120
Speaker 1: I was covering that game. It was my last year

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01:12:56,200 --> 01:13:00,320
Speaker 1: working for Tennessee, and he had this monster pass breakup

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01:13:00,640 --> 01:13:03,840
Speaker 1: when Tennessee was down just a couple points. He was

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01:13:03,960 --> 01:13:07,400
Speaker 1: making these plays as a young player. His dad is

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Speaker 1: wide receiver Joe Horn. Does that ring a bell. He

1321
01:13:10,600 --> 01:13:13,800
Speaker 1: played twelve years in the NFL for the Chiefs, the Saints,

1322
01:13:13,840 --> 01:13:16,160
Speaker 1: and the Falcons. He's a four time Pro Bowler, so

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01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:19,960
Speaker 1: he's got the DNA and his family to last in

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01:13:20,040 --> 01:13:22,439
Speaker 1: the NFL for a long time. He's six one, two

1325
01:13:22,520 --> 01:13:25,840
Speaker 1: hundred and five pounds. He had two interception six pass

1326
01:13:25,920 --> 01:13:28,479
Speaker 1: breakups in seven games this past season. I think he

1327
01:13:28,560 --> 01:13:31,360
Speaker 1: has pretty good vision. He's got quick feet in hands.

1328
01:13:31,400 --> 01:13:33,719
Speaker 1: I like the angles that he takes with his hips.

1329
01:13:33,800 --> 01:13:36,479
Speaker 1: He's got quick hips to be able to guard some

1330
01:13:36,600 --> 01:13:40,160
Speaker 1: of those really quick receivers that you see in the SEC.

1331
01:13:40,680 --> 01:13:43,240
Speaker 1: He can blitz the quarterback if need be. There were

1332
01:13:43,400 --> 01:13:47,519
Speaker 1: a couple plays where he had sacked a quarterback. He

1333
01:13:47,720 --> 01:13:49,920
Speaker 1: was rushing to the quarterback, was able to bring the

1334
01:13:50,040 --> 01:13:53,080
Speaker 1: quarterback down or affect the play that was going to happen.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a pretty physical and competitive, competitive corner

1336
01:13:56,880 --> 01:14:02,120
Speaker 1: at the site of impacts. This guy's good and press coverage.

1337
01:14:02,439 --> 01:14:04,400
Speaker 1: He's good in press coverage. He's good and off the

1338
01:14:04,439 --> 01:14:06,840
Speaker 1: ball coverage as well. He played in the slot in

1339
01:14:06,960 --> 01:14:11,120
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. In twenty nineteen and twenty twenty he played

1340
01:14:11,320 --> 01:14:15,120
Speaker 1: on the outside, so he offers a little bit of

1341
01:14:15,240 --> 01:14:18,400
Speaker 1: versatility as a corner being able to play in both

1342
01:14:18,479 --> 01:14:21,200
Speaker 1: of those positions. He was mocked to the Bills three

1343
01:14:21,360 --> 01:14:24,840
Speaker 1: times so far. So this is a corner who's been

1344
01:14:24,840 --> 01:14:27,400
Speaker 1: a popular name so far. Has played in the SEC,

1345
01:14:27,720 --> 01:14:32,000
Speaker 1: so he played against some really great receivers, played against

1346
01:14:32,040 --> 01:14:34,479
Speaker 1: some great teams, like we keep saying with some of

1347
01:14:34,520 --> 01:14:37,799
Speaker 1: these bigger name guys that we're seeing. So JC Horne

1348
01:14:37,960 --> 01:14:40,400
Speaker 1: is a name to keep on your radar as well.

1349
01:14:40,479 --> 01:14:42,479
Speaker 1: And I like the fact that his dad played in

1350
01:14:42,520 --> 01:14:45,080
Speaker 1: the NFL and lasted for so long, even if he

1351
01:14:45,160 --> 01:14:47,200
Speaker 1: played out wide receiver. I think that says a lot.

1352
01:14:47,560 --> 01:14:49,760
Speaker 1: I also think it says a lot that this kid

1353
01:14:49,920 --> 01:14:54,200
Speaker 1: was making big plays as a freshman at an SEC school.

1354
01:14:54,320 --> 01:14:56,479
Speaker 1: He played in quite a few games this freshman year.

1355
01:14:56,520 --> 01:14:59,080
Speaker 1: He's a junior, so he's coming out a little bit early,

1356
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:03,000
Speaker 1: okay today, as it sits right here. I'm I'm jumping

1357
01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:05,120
Speaker 1: on JC Horn. He's the guy because I think that's

1358
01:15:05,200 --> 01:15:08,320
Speaker 1: the spot. You know, we talked about offensive linemen and

1359
01:15:08,520 --> 01:15:13,320
Speaker 1: linebacker and Edre. I think corner is jumping up and

1360
01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:15,160
Speaker 1: down to me right now, like the guy. I think

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01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:16,840
Speaker 1: that's the position. Like I said to you, like a

1362
01:15:16,880 --> 01:15:19,240
Speaker 1: couple of days ago, if there was ever a time

1363
01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:22,559
Speaker 1: to go young at the cornerback position opposite Tredevious, it's now.

1364
01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:25,360
Speaker 1: You have a defense in the secondary that is flooded

1365
01:15:25,400 --> 01:15:28,640
Speaker 1: with veterans. Tredevious White's a fifth year player. Micah Hi

1366
01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:31,599
Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer have been there together for four seasons. Even

1367
01:15:31,760 --> 01:15:33,880
Speaker 1: Terren Johnson, the nickel, is going to be entering his

1368
01:15:33,960 --> 01:15:37,160
Speaker 1: fourth season as a starter. Yeah, you want to bring

1369
01:15:37,200 --> 01:15:40,080
Speaker 1: a young guy along, He's got a slew of veterans

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01:15:40,120 --> 01:15:42,599
Speaker 1: around him. It just makes too much sense to go there.

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01:15:42,720 --> 01:15:46,400
Speaker 1: My only fear is the run on corners happens around

1372
01:15:46,439 --> 01:15:50,720
Speaker 1: twenty and now you're in a panic state because you're like, ah, yeah,

1373
01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:52,920
Speaker 1: but I like it s the only thing I worry

1374
01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:55,439
Speaker 1: about six one, two hundred plus pounds. That's and there's

1375
01:15:55,479 --> 01:15:57,400
Speaker 1: other guys too. It's not just him. There's a bunch

1376
01:15:57,439 --> 01:15:59,720
Speaker 1: of guys that should be there in that eighteen to

1377
01:16:00,200 --> 01:16:04,720
Speaker 1: thirty range. You just hope the run starts later, not sooner. Yeah,

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01:16:04,720 --> 01:16:07,200
Speaker 1: And I like you're right, Maddie. What you notice when

1379
01:16:07,240 --> 01:16:10,680
Speaker 1: you see the guy play is the edginess of his

1380
01:16:10,840 --> 01:16:15,720
Speaker 1: competitiveness out there lays he plays, he plays hard at

1381
01:16:15,760 --> 01:16:18,280
Speaker 1: the ball, and I and that's just great to see,

1382
01:16:18,320 --> 01:16:20,360
Speaker 1: how you like? You know, you gotta have some confidence

1383
01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:22,439
Speaker 1: doing that. So I'm with you one hundred percent on that.

1384
01:16:22,479 --> 01:16:24,439
Speaker 1: I ain't that might do does that? What's your gut

1385
01:16:24,600 --> 01:16:27,600
Speaker 1: tell you, Maddie? What a position today? Like you know,

1386
01:16:28,160 --> 01:16:31,160
Speaker 1: here we are halfway through our show on a Tuesday,

1387
01:16:31,240 --> 01:16:34,360
Speaker 1: and free agency hasn't started. Let's throw that in. Wait,

1388
01:16:34,400 --> 01:16:35,920
Speaker 1: we're a month and a half away from the draft.

1389
01:16:36,080 --> 01:16:38,519
Speaker 1: What's your gut tell you today about who they would

1390
01:16:38,520 --> 01:16:42,960
Speaker 1: pick if the draft was tonight. I like the corner position,

1391
01:16:43,240 --> 01:16:45,519
Speaker 1: but I could be totally wrong based on when the

1392
01:16:45,680 --> 01:16:49,559
Speaker 1: run on corners happens. Because yeah, Chris, if you're right,

1393
01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:52,120
Speaker 1: if it happens at number twenty, if it happens earlier

1394
01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:54,280
Speaker 1: than that, I remember last year's draft, some of those

1395
01:16:54,360 --> 01:16:57,200
Speaker 1: good corners got taken. I want to say even earlier

1396
01:16:57,280 --> 01:17:00,240
Speaker 1: than twenty and there were Last year's draft class was

1397
01:17:00,520 --> 01:17:04,639
Speaker 1: pretty sacked at corner, so I would love to see

1398
01:17:04,760 --> 01:17:07,280
Speaker 1: another corner drafted. We're not sure what's going to happen

1399
01:17:07,360 --> 01:17:11,760
Speaker 1: with Levi Wallace, but I love the point that you

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01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:15,000
Speaker 1: brought up, Chris about if there's a time to take

1401
01:17:15,040 --> 01:17:17,560
Speaker 1: a young cornerback, it's right now. I totally believe that

1402
01:17:17,720 --> 01:17:20,640
Speaker 1: Trey White is not a young cornerback anymore. He's your

1403
01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:23,439
Speaker 1: veteran cornerback. So if you want to add some youth

1404
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:25,080
Speaker 1: to that position, you want to add it in the

1405
01:17:25,160 --> 01:17:27,679
Speaker 1: first round, and there's good talent in the first round

1406
01:17:27,720 --> 01:17:31,599
Speaker 1: to add, you should definitely do that. There have been

1407
01:17:31,760 --> 01:17:33,880
Speaker 1: quite a bit of running backs that have been mocked

1408
01:17:33,920 --> 01:17:37,200
Speaker 1: to the Buffalo Bills. I'm not on that train yet.

1409
01:17:37,479 --> 01:17:40,200
Speaker 1: Some of our local media is definitely on that train,

1410
01:17:40,439 --> 01:17:43,720
Speaker 1: as all of us are always on Twitter, so some

1411
01:17:43,920 --> 01:17:47,599
Speaker 1: people are favoring the running back with the number thirty pick.

1412
01:17:47,760 --> 01:17:50,439
Speaker 1: I'm not there yet. I would rather see a corner

1413
01:17:50,880 --> 01:17:53,320
Speaker 1: drafted by the Buffalo Bills with that number thirty pick

1414
01:17:53,479 --> 01:17:58,160
Speaker 1: if there's some good talented corners in that area. All right, Maddie,

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01:17:58,200 --> 01:18:00,240
Speaker 1: thanks as always for the time, because we are out

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01:18:00,240 --> 01:18:02,479
Speaker 1: of it right now. But we will catch up with

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01:18:02,520 --> 01:18:04,080
Speaker 1: you and I promise we'll talk to you about free

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01:18:04,080 --> 01:18:06,559
Speaker 1: agency next time. Okay, Sorry, we never got we got

1419
01:18:06,600 --> 01:18:08,519
Speaker 1: caught up on the draft tip and we never got

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01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:10,439
Speaker 1: off it. But it was good though, So thanks for

1421
01:18:10,520 --> 01:18:15,400
Speaker 1: the time, guys. All right, that's Maddie glab or colleague

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01:18:15,800 --> 01:18:18,760
Speaker 1: doing some work at Buffalo bills dot com, also keeping

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01:18:18,800 --> 01:18:21,320
Speaker 1: her eye on the mock draft watches around the country,

1424
01:18:21,360 --> 01:18:24,080
Speaker 1: and lord knows, there is no shortage of those these days.

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01:18:24,160 --> 01:18:27,040
Speaker 1: Good grief. It's so crazy that there's so many of

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01:18:27,120 --> 01:18:29,439
Speaker 1: them before a free agency has even happened. I don't

1427
01:18:29,479 --> 01:18:33,760
Speaker 1: know how you can feel like you're accurately addressing what

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01:18:34,280 --> 01:18:36,880
Speaker 1: direction these teams might be going in before they've even

1429
01:18:36,920 --> 01:18:39,280
Speaker 1: begun to acquire talent on the free agent market. It's

1430
01:18:39,560 --> 01:18:41,439
Speaker 1: it's kind of a cart before the horse kind of thing,

1431
01:18:41,479 --> 01:18:43,519
Speaker 1: but it's never stopped anybody. All Right, we have to

1432
01:18:43,600 --> 01:18:45,160
Speaker 1: take a break, but when we come back, we want

1433
01:18:45,160 --> 01:18:48,599
Speaker 1: to get your thoughts on the tweet sheet on your

1434
01:18:48,880 --> 01:18:53,120
Speaker 1: feelings or concerns about the moves that the Patriots and

1435
01:18:53,160 --> 01:18:55,679
Speaker 1: the Jets have made to try to close the gap

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01:18:55,800 --> 01:18:59,920
Speaker 1: between themselves. And you're reigning AFC East Champion. Buffalo Bills.

1437
01:19:00,200 --> 01:19:01,880
Speaker 1: We'll get to those when we return here on One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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01:19:15,920 --> 01:19:18,639
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker

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01:19:18,720 --> 01:19:21,360
Speaker 1: with you. Looks like the Chargers have resigned their kicker,

1441
01:19:21,600 --> 01:19:26,040
Speaker 1: Mike Badgeley, who his teammates call him the money Badger. Um,

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01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:28,880
Speaker 1: I'm not joking. That is what they call him. Isn't

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01:19:28,880 --> 01:19:30,880
Speaker 1: that a great one? That is awesome? He's not the

1444
01:19:30,960 --> 01:19:34,519
Speaker 1: honey badger, he's the money badger, the money badger, I think,

1445
01:19:34,640 --> 01:19:36,840
Speaker 1: I think, well, yeah, but it's a one year deal,

1446
01:19:36,920 --> 01:19:39,040
Speaker 1: so he's probably not making a lot of money even

1447
01:19:39,080 --> 01:19:42,679
Speaker 1: though that's his nicknames. Great, that's even a good nickname

1448
01:19:42,720 --> 01:19:45,240
Speaker 1: at the poker table, isn't it right? All right, guys,

1449
01:19:45,280 --> 01:19:48,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to settle in here. My friends call

1450
01:19:48,400 --> 01:19:51,000
Speaker 1: me the money Badger. I'm gonna hunty. Yeah, I'll say

1451
01:19:51,040 --> 01:19:52,800
Speaker 1: this though, it's only a good nickname because of there

1452
01:19:52,920 --> 01:19:55,840
Speaker 1: is a honey badger. That's right, right, No, you're right,

1453
01:19:55,960 --> 01:19:58,680
Speaker 1: he owes all of his nickname. Don't fall in a

1454
01:19:58,720 --> 01:20:01,320
Speaker 1: hole over there. Watch out Steve's chair is failing on

1455
01:20:01,439 --> 01:20:04,320
Speaker 1: him here. It's like you pulled the rip cord or something.

1456
01:20:04,439 --> 01:20:08,320
Speaker 1: Look out, Okay, he's back. Okay, sorry you were shrinking

1457
01:20:08,680 --> 01:20:11,040
Speaker 1: right before our very eyes. For our MSG viewers, that

1458
01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:13,439
Speaker 1: was I was worried about you. My chairs got like

1459
01:20:13,640 --> 01:20:16,960
Speaker 1: nine levers on it, pulled them on one's office chairs.

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01:20:17,080 --> 01:20:19,599
Speaker 1: I'm telling you they've they've taken on a whole new

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01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:23,320
Speaker 1: range of sophistication, none of which we have mastered. We

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01:20:23,360 --> 01:20:25,880
Speaker 1: could do ten minutes on the chairs listening. We could, yeah,

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01:20:26,280 --> 01:20:28,280
Speaker 1: but we won't. That won't be a good radio. So

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01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:31,720
Speaker 1: the Chargers have their kicker back on a one year deal.

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01:20:33,240 --> 01:20:35,040
Speaker 1: We do want to get to the tweet sheet, though,

1466
01:20:35,400 --> 01:20:37,959
Speaker 1: because we want to get your thoughts on how concerned

1467
01:20:38,040 --> 01:20:40,960
Speaker 1: you are about the free agent moves of the other

1468
01:20:41,080 --> 01:20:44,200
Speaker 1: teams in the AFC East, most notably the Patriots and

1469
01:20:44,320 --> 01:20:46,439
Speaker 1: the Jets. The Dolphins have been rather quiet and the

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01:20:46,479 --> 01:20:49,240
Speaker 1: early going for the most part, So Seth on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet. And the tweet sheet, as we know, is

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01:20:51,800 --> 01:20:54,519
Speaker 1: brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the special equipment

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01:20:54,600 --> 01:20:57,840
Speaker 1: moving company of the Buffalo bills from from and Seth

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01:20:57,960 --> 01:21:02,080
Speaker 1: says just a bit worried can't sweep the division every year.

1475
01:21:02,479 --> 01:21:05,280
Speaker 1: But it's really just all about the Bills focusing on

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Speaker 1: what we can control, like McDermott and the guys always say,

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01:21:08,600 --> 01:21:10,760
Speaker 1: is most important. The winds will come, many of them

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01:21:11,040 --> 01:21:14,240
Speaker 1: improve that D line play and will be where we

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01:21:14,400 --> 01:21:18,240
Speaker 1: want to be. So Steve, let's let's take a look

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01:21:18,240 --> 01:21:21,160
Speaker 1: at this D line play that Seth is referring to

1481
01:21:21,360 --> 01:21:24,880
Speaker 1: for a quick second. Okay, we just finished a segment

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01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:26,880
Speaker 1: with Maddie where we were talking about the draft and

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01:21:26,960 --> 01:21:30,120
Speaker 1: maybe the cornerback if you have a good one as

1484
01:21:30,160 --> 01:21:33,000
Speaker 1: your number two corner, can help your defensive line play

1485
01:21:33,360 --> 01:21:35,400
Speaker 1: because as we know that, the front end and the

1486
01:21:35,479 --> 01:21:37,439
Speaker 1: back end kind of go hand in hand in terms

1487
01:21:37,479 --> 01:21:41,400
Speaker 1: of heat on the quarterback hurrying throws, making life difficult.

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01:21:42,080 --> 01:21:48,280
Speaker 1: So as it stands right now, the only subtraction from

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01:21:48,320 --> 01:21:51,200
Speaker 1: a pass rushing perspective for the Bills is Trent Murphy,

1490
01:21:51,479 --> 01:21:53,400
Speaker 1: who I think most did not expect to be back

1491
01:21:53,800 --> 01:21:57,519
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, either qu Jeffers and Quentin Jefferson.

1492
01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:01,160
Speaker 1: I was thinking more edge, but yeah, Quentin Jefferson too.

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01:22:02,160 --> 01:22:05,880
Speaker 1: So that means Mario Addison, who reworked his deal to

1494
01:22:06,040 --> 01:22:08,719
Speaker 1: help on the cap and to stay put Jerry Hughes,

1495
01:22:08,800 --> 01:22:11,960
Speaker 1: who's entering the last year of his contract, aj Epinessa,

1496
01:22:12,200 --> 01:22:17,040
Speaker 1: Darryl Johnson are your four primary guys. Just sign Mike

1497
01:22:17,120 --> 01:22:21,360
Speaker 1: Love to a reserve future contract edge player, and then

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01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:26,920
Speaker 1: everybody else is the inside guys. So Harrison, Phillips, Justin

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01:22:27,040 --> 01:22:33,760
Speaker 1: zimmer right, So that group largely the same in terms

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01:22:33,800 --> 01:22:37,080
Speaker 1: of who they were dressing every Sunday. Jefferson is the

1501
01:22:37,160 --> 01:22:40,040
Speaker 1: only subtraction there. Murphy wasn't inactive most of the season,

1502
01:22:43,439 --> 01:22:48,519
Speaker 1: and a lot of money even now after restructures, is

1503
01:22:48,600 --> 01:22:53,160
Speaker 1: tied up in those players. So it begs the question

1504
01:22:54,080 --> 01:22:57,760
Speaker 1: are they going to add up front or are they

1505
01:22:57,880 --> 01:23:00,599
Speaker 1: more likely to add on the back end. I'm thinking

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01:23:00,680 --> 01:23:03,559
Speaker 1: it's the back end as it stands right now. I mean,

1507
01:23:03,680 --> 01:23:07,800
Speaker 1: unless you move players off the roster via trade up front,

1508
01:23:07,920 --> 01:23:10,560
Speaker 1: and I don't know that anybody's taking on giant salary's

1509
01:23:10,560 --> 01:23:13,560
Speaker 1: like the ones that are currently manned by some of

1510
01:23:13,600 --> 01:23:17,439
Speaker 1: the top players on the defensive front. So D line play,

1511
01:23:17,479 --> 01:23:19,800
Speaker 1: are you looking to improve that by virtue of making

1512
01:23:20,320 --> 01:23:23,559
Speaker 1: the secondary strong. They did go from fifty five million

1513
01:23:23,640 --> 01:23:26,120
Speaker 1: dollars spent on their D line last year to about

1514
01:23:26,160 --> 01:23:28,280
Speaker 1: forty three million this year with the region. They put

1515
01:23:28,320 --> 01:23:29,960
Speaker 1: a dent in it. They put Trent Murphy not on

1516
01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:32,360
Speaker 1: the roster anymore, helps too because he was a seven

1517
01:23:32,400 --> 01:23:35,200
Speaker 1: and a half million dollar cap figure last year. So

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01:23:35,439 --> 01:23:38,559
Speaker 1: the big guy. The big guys are Jerry Hughes, Mario Addison,

1519
01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:42,120
Speaker 1: Starloutu lele Yes, and Vernon Butler and at Oliver. Those

1520
01:23:42,160 --> 01:23:45,000
Speaker 1: are the big name guys. Everybody else's and Butler worked

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01:23:45,040 --> 01:23:47,200
Speaker 1: his deal too. We should mention, right, he's probably not

1522
01:23:47,280 --> 01:23:49,960
Speaker 1: even making as much as he was. They're absolutely affordable,

1523
01:23:50,640 --> 01:23:54,840
Speaker 1: but below at Oliver, A J. Harrison, Brian Cox, Justin Zimmer,

1524
01:23:54,920 --> 01:23:57,439
Speaker 1: Darrell Johnson, all those guys are not even a book

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01:23:57,520 --> 01:24:00,640
Speaker 1: on the radio. They have, they have the numbers. Do

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01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:03,200
Speaker 1: they have the guys that they want or are they

1527
01:24:03,320 --> 01:24:07,800
Speaker 1: seeking upgrades? Yeah, that's the question. Um, I think you

1528
01:24:07,880 --> 01:24:10,519
Speaker 1: got to it's their job. It's Brandon Bean's job to

1529
01:24:10,640 --> 01:24:13,800
Speaker 1: upgrade every position if he can. Yeah, that's it. That's

1530
01:24:14,960 --> 01:24:18,479
Speaker 1: you gotta upgrade all the time. If you can fit

1531
01:24:18,560 --> 01:24:20,479
Speaker 1: it in the cap and do the economics of it.

1532
01:24:20,640 --> 01:24:25,360
Speaker 1: It's a it's an absolute it's an absolute prerequisite for

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01:24:25,439 --> 01:24:28,000
Speaker 1: having the job that you have. You have to um.

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01:24:28,120 --> 01:24:32,479
Speaker 1: It's your duty and your responsibility, and you can't. It's

1535
01:24:32,560 --> 01:24:36,479
Speaker 1: hard to do this because, particularly as fans, everybody says,

1536
01:24:36,479 --> 01:24:39,080
Speaker 1: you know, you can't know not him. You gotta keep

1537
01:24:39,160 --> 01:24:42,360
Speaker 1: him right. You can't say you can't think that. Yeah,

1538
01:24:42,880 --> 01:24:45,320
Speaker 1: you think your head you got you can't think that

1539
01:24:45,479 --> 01:24:49,640
Speaker 1: is as a GM, and now it's hard to particularly

1540
01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:51,439
Speaker 1: when you got a culture like you do in the Bills,

1541
01:24:51,439 --> 01:24:53,200
Speaker 1: where there are certain things that don't show up on

1542
01:24:53,240 --> 01:24:56,519
Speaker 1: the stat sheet that you gotta have. Lee Smith is

1543
01:24:56,520 --> 01:24:59,880
Speaker 1: an afterthought statistically, but he's an important part of the

1544
01:25:00,080 --> 01:25:03,040
Speaker 1: tight end rumor has been because of his leadership and

1545
01:25:03,080 --> 01:25:05,240
Speaker 1: the standard that he sets and the ins and outs

1546
01:25:05,280 --> 01:25:07,719
Speaker 1: of being a pro athlete in preparation that he sets.

1547
01:25:07,920 --> 01:25:09,839
Speaker 1: Even though he's not going to play on the weekend,

1548
01:25:10,760 --> 01:25:12,960
Speaker 1: he's a guy that's gonna grind in the film room

1549
01:25:12,960 --> 01:25:14,800
Speaker 1: and do all this stuff. And young guys look at that.

1550
01:25:14,880 --> 01:25:18,439
Speaker 1: They got to teach him. So there's stuff like that

1551
01:25:18,560 --> 01:25:20,840
Speaker 1: that's in the mix that a GEM has to know about.

1552
01:25:21,280 --> 01:25:25,639
Speaker 1: But by and large, he can't get emotionally attached. That's hard.

1553
01:25:25,760 --> 01:25:29,120
Speaker 1: That's a hard line to walk from Jose on the

1554
01:25:29,200 --> 01:25:33,920
Speaker 1: tweet sheet, I'm saying d other Sometime last year, after

1555
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:36,640
Speaker 1: watching the team perform the way they were, I concluded

1556
01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:38,479
Speaker 1: that if we want to be the best, we have

1557
01:25:38,600 --> 01:25:40,200
Speaker 1: to beat the best. If we want to win the

1558
01:25:40,280 --> 01:25:43,479
Speaker 1: AFC East, you better get ready. I am confident in

1559
01:25:43,640 --> 01:25:47,600
Speaker 1: our team. Go get him, boys. So doesn't seem to

1560
01:25:47,680 --> 01:25:51,559
Speaker 1: be concerned at all. Rob says, what the Bills are

1561
01:25:51,640 --> 01:25:54,519
Speaker 1: doing is exactly what the Chiefs are doing, resigning their

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01:25:54,600 --> 01:25:57,320
Speaker 1: people that got them there last year. Let's keep the

1563
01:25:57,400 --> 01:25:59,599
Speaker 1: standard the same for two teams that played each other

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01:25:59,680 --> 01:26:02,280
Speaker 1: last you're in the AFC title game. If it's good

1565
01:26:02,320 --> 01:26:04,800
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs, it's good for the Bills. We should

1566
01:26:04,840 --> 01:26:07,439
Speaker 1: mention the Chiefs did sign at eighty million dollars guard,

1567
01:26:08,520 --> 01:26:11,400
Speaker 1: but yes, it's fine for them. The vast majority of

1568
01:26:11,520 --> 01:26:14,320
Speaker 1: what they've they've actually lopped people off, and you think

1569
01:26:14,360 --> 01:26:16,640
Speaker 1: more than they've signed. Now the Chiefs they think about this.

1570
01:26:16,720 --> 01:26:19,280
Speaker 1: If you're the Chiefs and the Chiefs fans, you're sitting

1571
01:26:19,280 --> 01:26:21,439
Speaker 1: there at and you know, the Bills fans for a

1572
01:26:21,520 --> 01:26:24,160
Speaker 1: short time, I'm not there anymore, and we've talked through that.

1573
01:26:24,280 --> 01:26:26,320
Speaker 1: But for a short time we were like, we gotta

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01:26:26,360 --> 01:26:28,240
Speaker 1: do this and this and this to beat the Chiefs.

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01:26:28,800 --> 01:26:30,640
Speaker 1: That's the team. We got to do this, and we

1576
01:26:30,680 --> 01:26:32,160
Speaker 1: would have won that game if this would have We

1577
01:26:32,200 --> 01:26:35,040
Speaker 1: got to change this. We got to and I've already

1578
01:26:35,120 --> 01:26:36,600
Speaker 1: you know, we've gone down that road. Like that's not

1579
01:26:36,720 --> 01:26:38,240
Speaker 1: the mindset that you want to have. But if you're

1580
01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:40,559
Speaker 1: the Chiefs fans and they're in that mindset, they're thinking,

1581
01:26:40,640 --> 01:26:42,920
Speaker 1: our offensive line got us lost us a super Bowl,

1582
01:26:43,400 --> 01:26:45,680
Speaker 1: and I get it, you lost both tackles and now

1583
01:26:45,720 --> 01:26:49,280
Speaker 1: you've ejected those guys. They're gone, what are you gonna do? Now?

1584
01:26:49,680 --> 01:26:53,040
Speaker 1: Are we gonna go through this whole next season getting

1585
01:26:53,080 --> 01:26:56,360
Speaker 1: our heads beat in like the Bucks did to us?

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01:26:56,520 --> 01:26:59,479
Speaker 1: We gotta fix that. So they spend eighty million bucks

1587
01:26:59,520 --> 01:27:02,360
Speaker 1: on a guard. Okay, that's a nice reaction, but you

1588
01:27:02,439 --> 01:27:07,439
Speaker 1: know they're still in that spot. Yeah, So that's the Chiefs.

1589
01:27:07,560 --> 01:27:10,120
Speaker 1: Don't think that the Chiefs are out there thinking, now

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01:27:10,200 --> 01:27:11,840
Speaker 1: we're you know, we're gonna coast on in here and

1591
01:27:11,880 --> 01:27:15,280
Speaker 1: we're gonna whatever they're slogan, run it back again. You

1592
01:27:15,360 --> 01:27:20,360
Speaker 1: know they're not thinking that. They you know they're not

1593
01:27:21,120 --> 01:27:24,200
Speaker 1: you know, their team is not intact from what it

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01:27:24,360 --> 01:27:26,160
Speaker 1: was three months ago, just like I was telling you,

1595
01:27:26,320 --> 01:27:28,160
Speaker 1: the Bills aren't you know, you got to start it

1596
01:27:28,240 --> 01:27:33,680
Speaker 1: from the ground, right. So the Bills have got their

1597
01:27:33,760 --> 01:27:35,680
Speaker 1: guys back. In fact, they got a better five now

1598
01:27:35,760 --> 01:27:38,240
Speaker 1: than they started this season with lashing through the first

1599
01:27:38,280 --> 01:27:40,160
Speaker 1: eleven games of the season. The Bills that are better

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01:27:40,240 --> 01:27:43,360
Speaker 1: now at they're starting five. They're healthy then they were then.

1601
01:27:43,400 --> 01:27:46,800
Speaker 1: Because they're healthy now, they don't have the depth that

1602
01:27:46,840 --> 01:27:50,040
Speaker 1: they did. I don't think not right now they don't.

1603
01:27:50,560 --> 01:27:53,479
Speaker 1: But they could get it. Yeah, we'll see, we'll see.

1604
01:27:53,600 --> 01:27:57,559
Speaker 1: But you know, Bills fans are in that spot where

1605
01:27:57,600 --> 01:27:59,360
Speaker 1: we got to catch the Chiefs. Got to catch the Chiefs,

1606
01:27:59,400 --> 01:28:00,800
Speaker 1: got to do this, and I'm telling you that's not

1607
01:28:00,880 --> 01:28:02,680
Speaker 1: the right spot to be. You gotta get as good

1608
01:28:02,720 --> 01:28:05,000
Speaker 1: as you can get. Improve it every area, in every area.

1609
01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:07,200
Speaker 1: Expect your players to get better, Expect him to work it,

1610
01:28:07,320 --> 01:28:09,240
Speaker 1: get better, and just play better on the day you

1611
01:28:09,320 --> 01:28:12,479
Speaker 1: play the Chiefs. Just play better that day, please, right,

1612
01:28:13,120 --> 01:28:15,559
Speaker 1: because you're good enough. We saw that in the last

1613
01:28:15,600 --> 01:28:18,320
Speaker 1: half of that season. I keep going back, go back,

1614
01:28:18,400 --> 01:28:20,200
Speaker 1: if you have go get game passed and go back

1615
01:28:20,240 --> 01:28:21,519
Speaker 1: and watch the last month and a half of the

1616
01:28:21,680 --> 01:28:25,840
Speaker 1: Bills season. This last year, they were people. They were phenomenal, Yeah,

1617
01:28:26,120 --> 01:28:28,880
Speaker 1: phenomenal so just play better on the day you play

1618
01:28:28,960 --> 01:28:32,200
Speaker 1: that team. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater

1619
01:28:32,320 --> 01:28:35,400
Speaker 1: trying to beat them because you gotta change everything up.

1620
01:28:35,560 --> 01:28:37,840
Speaker 1: Just play better on that day. Break time for us,

1621
01:28:38,040 --> 01:28:39,680
Speaker 1: but when we come back, more of your thoughts on

1622
01:28:39,760 --> 01:28:41,439
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet and coming up in the third hour

1623
01:28:41,560 --> 01:28:45,280
Speaker 1: the show. About fifteen minutes from now, ESPN Sports analytics

1624
01:28:45,360 --> 01:28:48,559
Speaker 1: writers Seth Walder will join us. Got some interesting stuff

1625
01:28:48,560 --> 01:28:50,439
Speaker 1: that he's put together that we want to cover with him.

1626
01:28:50,920 --> 01:28:52,760
Speaker 1: He'll be coming up a little bit later. More of

1627
01:28:52,840 --> 01:28:55,200
Speaker 1: your tweet sheet comments next here on One Bill's Live,

1628
01:28:55,320 --> 01:28:57,719
Speaker 1: presented by Collid to help. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

1629
01:29:09,280 --> 01:29:11,799
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Jasper

1630
01:29:11,920 --> 01:29:14,519
Speaker 1: with you. Got a short segment here before we're joined

1631
01:29:14,560 --> 01:29:19,120
Speaker 1: by ESPN's analytics writer Seth Walder. He'll be joining us

1632
01:29:19,160 --> 01:29:21,439
Speaker 1: in the third hour of the program. But on the

1633
01:29:21,479 --> 01:29:24,439
Speaker 1: tweet sheet, which is where we are headed now, where

1634
01:29:24,439 --> 01:29:27,160
Speaker 1: we're asking how concerned you are about the free agent

1635
01:29:27,240 --> 01:29:29,680
Speaker 1: moves of the Patriots and the Jets here in the

1636
01:29:29,800 --> 01:29:35,400
Speaker 1: early stages of the legal tampering window, and Tiffany says

1637
01:29:35,520 --> 01:29:37,960
Speaker 1: we still have the top dog at quarterback the most

1638
01:29:38,000 --> 01:29:40,960
Speaker 1: important position in football. I'll take Alan to Digs all

1639
01:29:41,040 --> 01:29:43,439
Speaker 1: day over any of the other combinations that have been

1640
01:29:43,439 --> 01:29:46,320
Speaker 1: assembled in the division. The pat spent big time money

1641
01:29:46,360 --> 01:29:48,640
Speaker 1: on a couple of at best number two wideouts. Our

1642
01:29:48,680 --> 01:29:52,200
Speaker 1: ability to draft good players is our strength. Yeah, I

1643
01:29:52,240 --> 01:29:58,040
Speaker 1: mean Nelson agilor not exactly striking fear in my bones.

1644
01:29:59,040 --> 01:30:01,280
Speaker 1: He's a good pro, solid player. But a lot of

1645
01:30:01,320 --> 01:30:04,400
Speaker 1: people are equating this the list of wide receivers that

1646
01:30:04,439 --> 01:30:06,599
Speaker 1: are out there on the free agent market as twos.

1647
01:30:06,880 --> 01:30:10,960
Speaker 1: I mean, Kendrick Bourne is getting over seven million dollars

1648
01:30:11,000 --> 01:30:13,800
Speaker 1: a year. I mean that's well, he was the fourth

1649
01:30:13,880 --> 01:30:17,320
Speaker 1: receiver in San Franz. That's what a guy like Robert

1650
01:30:17,360 --> 01:30:21,080
Speaker 1: Woods getting out in in LA behind with Cooper Cup. Yeah,

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01:30:21,080 --> 01:30:23,760
Speaker 1: I'm Woods is a number two and he's gone to

1652
01:30:23,800 --> 01:30:26,240
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl. What has Kendrick Bourne done. I mean,

1653
01:30:26,320 --> 01:30:29,680
Speaker 1: you're drafting purely on or you're signing purely on his

1654
01:30:29,840 --> 01:30:31,560
Speaker 1: potential that he's going to give you a lot in

1655
01:30:31,600 --> 01:30:34,120
Speaker 1: a much bigger role. And I don't know that. I'm sold.

1656
01:30:35,240 --> 01:30:37,560
Speaker 1: The Rams were sold before Robert Wood had proven that.

1657
01:30:37,680 --> 01:30:39,960
Speaker 1: Although you know, he's had some good season, it's a

1658
01:30:40,040 --> 01:30:42,000
Speaker 1: couple of good seasons here, but you know that's what

1659
01:30:42,080 --> 01:30:45,560
Speaker 1: you're looking at. Yeah, and that's kind of the the

1660
01:30:45,680 --> 01:30:48,439
Speaker 1: people who are not signing these guys the pet and

1661
01:30:48,479 --> 01:30:50,280
Speaker 1: then all the rest of us who are throwing darts

1662
01:30:50,320 --> 01:30:53,000
Speaker 1: at everybody else's signing. He's like we always do or say,

1663
01:30:53,040 --> 01:30:55,960
Speaker 1: you know, these guys, really, these guys aren't guys who

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01:30:56,000 --> 01:31:00,759
Speaker 1: have ever shown that they've done it and never shown

1665
01:31:00,880 --> 01:31:04,080
Speaker 1: really the hope that they would be able to carry

1666
01:31:04,280 --> 01:31:07,400
Speaker 1: a passing offense. They're not Steph Diggs kind of guys.

1667
01:31:07,600 --> 01:31:11,840
Speaker 1: They're not They're not Julio Jones or AJ Green's. You know,

1668
01:31:11,920 --> 01:31:16,519
Speaker 1: they're not Calvin Johnson's, or they're not name another guy

1669
01:31:16,600 --> 01:31:21,240
Speaker 1: out there, DeAndre Hopkins. They're not those guys. They're the

1670
01:31:21,360 --> 01:31:24,040
Speaker 1: other guy. Most of them have been for a long time.

1671
01:31:24,400 --> 01:31:28,000
Speaker 1: Say get right, think about they're the other guy. They're

1672
01:31:28,080 --> 01:31:31,160
Speaker 1: the other guy. They're like, they're Levi Wallace to Trevis White.

1673
01:31:31,960 --> 01:31:34,160
Speaker 1: That's exactly what they are. You got a one corner,

1674
01:31:34,160 --> 01:31:36,080
Speaker 1: you got a two corner. These guys have always been,

1675
01:31:36,280 --> 01:31:38,240
Speaker 1: or most of the time have been two's and when

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01:31:38,280 --> 01:31:40,240
Speaker 1: they have been asked to be a one, they were

1677
01:31:40,280 --> 01:31:44,800
Speaker 1: like yeah, just okay, yeah, but that's who the guy.

1678
01:31:44,920 --> 01:31:46,639
Speaker 1: That's the guys that are available, and if you're gonna

1679
01:31:46,640 --> 01:31:52,559
Speaker 1: get one, you gotta get them. Looks like the ideal

1680
01:31:52,840 --> 01:31:57,360
Speaker 1: free agent scenario has taken place for a linebacker, Denzel Perryman,

1681
01:31:58,040 --> 01:32:00,600
Speaker 1: Chargers linebacker who is sounds like he's soon to be

1682
01:32:00,640 --> 01:32:04,439
Speaker 1: a former Chargers linebacker. Three teams currently in the mix

1683
01:32:04,560 --> 01:32:09,160
Speaker 1: for his services. It's the perfect storm for one Denzel Perryman.

1684
01:32:09,439 --> 01:32:11,960
Speaker 1: Who see where that goes. Josina Anderson is reporting that

1685
01:32:12,040 --> 01:32:13,920
Speaker 1: she doesn't have the names of the teams right now.

1686
01:32:14,920 --> 01:32:19,280
Speaker 1: Dolphins have resigned their own linebacker, Vince Beagle. I believe

1687
01:32:19,320 --> 01:32:21,880
Speaker 1: that's how you pronounce it. So it looks like he'll

1688
01:32:21,920 --> 01:32:28,240
Speaker 1: be back in Miami. So there's that as well. So

1689
01:32:28,520 --> 01:32:33,160
Speaker 1: more stuff trickling out here, slowly but surely, as they

1690
01:32:33,240 --> 01:32:35,439
Speaker 1: just released the photo of one Vince Beagles signing on

1691
01:32:35,479 --> 01:32:38,720
Speaker 1: the Doton line. Good for him. So another linebacker back

1692
01:32:38,800 --> 01:32:41,280
Speaker 1: in the fold for Miami who was already on their roster.

1693
01:32:42,520 --> 01:32:45,640
Speaker 1: And I'm sure they'll be much more coming this afternoon.

1694
01:32:46,200 --> 01:32:48,599
Speaker 1: Last one here on the tweet sheet from Nick I'm

1695
01:32:48,640 --> 01:32:51,280
Speaker 1: not worried about I'm not worried, but the Bills have

1696
01:32:51,439 --> 01:32:54,320
Speaker 1: to improve their d and the way they cover good

1697
01:32:54,439 --> 01:32:56,800
Speaker 1: tight ends. Also, if they don't find a way to

1698
01:32:56,880 --> 01:32:59,080
Speaker 1: run and pressure the quarterback, we will have a repeat

1699
01:32:59,080 --> 01:33:01,560
Speaker 1: of last year's start to finish. Let's not forget the

1700
01:33:01,600 --> 01:33:05,160
Speaker 1: attention opposing defense is spent on Smoke and Isaiah, who

1701
01:33:05,200 --> 01:33:08,040
Speaker 1: are now both gone. Brings up a good point about

1702
01:33:08,080 --> 01:33:10,559
Speaker 1: tight end coverage. That's been a it's been a bone

1703
01:33:10,560 --> 01:33:15,160
Speaker 1: of contention for the defense. Welcome to the NFL. I

1704
01:33:15,200 --> 01:33:16,960
Speaker 1: mean right, but now you have New England with John

1705
01:33:17,000 --> 01:33:18,880
Speaker 1: who Smith and Hunter Henry. They got two of them.

1706
01:33:18,920 --> 01:33:20,799
Speaker 1: Now you've got defenses all over the league that struggled

1707
01:33:20,800 --> 01:33:22,560
Speaker 1: to do it. It's hard to find a way to

1708
01:33:22,640 --> 01:33:25,519
Speaker 1: do that with these guys. And what happens is invariably,

1709
01:33:25,520 --> 01:33:29,800
Speaker 1: if you're gonna take that guy away, it takes three

1710
01:33:29,920 --> 01:33:32,320
Speaker 1: guys to do it, one at the line of scrimmage

1711
01:33:32,320 --> 01:33:34,680
Speaker 1: and tune the secondary. Yeah, we got a collision at

1712
01:33:34,720 --> 01:33:39,000
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. So you do the math. If

1713
01:33:39,000 --> 01:33:40,639
Speaker 1: you've got two guys in New England that are gonna

1714
01:33:40,680 --> 01:33:42,080
Speaker 1: be on the field all the time, and you hit

1715
01:33:42,200 --> 01:33:43,720
Speaker 1: hit them both at the line of scrimmage and to

1716
01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:45,280
Speaker 1: lay them out of there, then double team him in

1717
01:33:45,320 --> 01:33:48,839
Speaker 1: the back end. There's six six guys on your defense

1718
01:33:49,400 --> 01:33:51,439
Speaker 1: at any given moment that are looking at two of

1719
01:33:51,479 --> 01:33:54,479
Speaker 1: your two of the offensive playmakers. That opens things up

1720
01:33:54,600 --> 01:33:56,880
Speaker 1: even if you are Cam Newton pulling the trigger. So

1721
01:33:57,080 --> 01:34:01,920
Speaker 1: I'm I'm with you one hundred percent. Milano is good

1722
01:34:01,960 --> 01:34:04,840
Speaker 1: at it. I like his chances against one of those guys.

1723
01:34:05,840 --> 01:34:07,160
Speaker 1: Then you can do what you want with the rest

1724
01:34:07,200 --> 01:34:09,920
Speaker 1: of them. But that's what defenses are you gotta. We

1725
01:34:10,000 --> 01:34:14,479
Speaker 1: don't even know what they're gonna look like yet, so yeah,

1726
01:34:14,840 --> 01:34:17,680
Speaker 1: you got to defend them. But I don't think that

1727
01:34:17,800 --> 01:34:21,080
Speaker 1: Bills are sitting here with not gonna have any kind

1728
01:34:21,120 --> 01:34:22,920
Speaker 1: of plan to do it. And let me just remind

1729
01:34:23,000 --> 01:34:25,160
Speaker 1: you we're gonna have a repeat. I'd like, give me

1730
01:34:25,200 --> 01:34:26,800
Speaker 1: a repeat last year. I'll take another shot at the

1731
01:34:26,880 --> 01:34:29,960
Speaker 1: Chiefs in the AFC Championship. This time maybe it'll be here.

1732
01:34:31,320 --> 01:34:34,120
Speaker 1: That would be nice, you know. I'm let's go. I'm

1733
01:34:34,120 --> 01:34:36,040
Speaker 1: signed up for thirteen and three and give us a

1734
01:34:36,120 --> 01:34:39,240
Speaker 1: chance to go deep. I'm all about that. You guys say,

1735
01:34:39,240 --> 01:34:41,479
Speaker 1: we gotta get or it's gonna be repeated last year, Listen,

1736
01:34:42,240 --> 01:34:47,680
Speaker 1: last year was darnira. Once in a lifetime opportunity. Give

1737
01:34:47,720 --> 01:34:50,080
Speaker 1: it to him again, let's go, but I think about it.

1738
01:34:50,200 --> 01:34:53,200
Speaker 1: I think Nicka. Stuteley points out though, that it's less

1739
01:34:53,200 --> 01:34:55,639
Speaker 1: about what those other teams doing are doing and more

1740
01:34:55,640 --> 01:34:57,880
Speaker 1: about how you're going to improve your own team. And

1741
01:34:58,000 --> 01:35:01,320
Speaker 1: he's right. I mean, find a way to run the

1742
01:35:01,360 --> 01:35:03,799
Speaker 1: ball more effectively, find a way to pressure the quarterback

1743
01:35:03,880 --> 01:35:06,920
Speaker 1: more effectively, find a way to defend tight ends more effectively,

1744
01:35:07,479 --> 01:35:11,000
Speaker 1: and find some solutions in your receiving cores. Now that

1745
01:35:11,200 --> 01:35:14,840
Speaker 1: John Brown and at least for now Isaiah McKenzie are

1746
01:35:14,880 --> 01:35:17,040
Speaker 1: not back in the fold, those that's on the to

1747
01:35:17,120 --> 01:35:19,599
Speaker 1: do list for the Bills, we have to take a break.

1748
01:35:19,640 --> 01:35:23,400
Speaker 1: But when we come back, ESPN analytics writer Seth Walder

1749
01:35:23,479 --> 01:35:26,400
Speaker 1: will join us. It's got some interesting takes on some

1750
01:35:26,600 --> 01:35:30,719
Speaker 1: free agency items, and we'll talk to him also about

1751
01:35:31,040 --> 01:35:33,559
Speaker 1: some of what his most recent metrics are turning up.

1752
01:35:33,840 --> 01:35:36,439
Speaker 1: That's coming up next. You're on One Bill's Line presented

1753
01:35:36,439 --> 01:35:48,919
Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Hello, Bill's Radio Network,

1754
01:35:49,439 --> 01:35:53,200
Speaker 1: Sports Date, your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Linebacker

1755
01:35:53,240 --> 01:35:56,200
Speaker 1: and special teamer Tyler Matakavich has agreed to terms on

1756
01:35:56,280 --> 01:35:59,280
Speaker 1: a one year contract extension with the Bills. Madakavich finished

1757
01:35:59,320 --> 01:36:02,200
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season leading the team in special teams tackles.

1758
01:36:02,680 --> 01:36:05,799
Speaker 1: Also played a part time role on defense with thirteen

1759
01:36:05,880 --> 01:36:08,839
Speaker 1: tackles two pass breakups in his first season with Buffalo.

1760
01:36:09,240 --> 01:36:12,040
Speaker 1: Plenty of action around the afcast will start in New England.

1761
01:36:12,360 --> 01:36:14,840
Speaker 1: They've agreed to terms with not one but two high

1762
01:36:14,880 --> 01:36:17,600
Speaker 1: profile tight ends. Monday was John who Smith agreeing to

1763
01:36:17,680 --> 01:36:20,360
Speaker 1: a four year deal, and today former Chargers tight end

1764
01:36:20,479 --> 01:36:22,679
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry joins the Pats on a three year deal

1765
01:36:22,960 --> 01:36:25,920
Speaker 1: where thirty seven and a half million dollars. Pats also

1766
01:36:26,080 --> 01:36:30,439
Speaker 1: signed veteran wide receiver Nelson Aghalore, linebacker Matthew Judon, and

1767
01:36:30,640 --> 01:36:33,800
Speaker 1: safety Jaylen Mills. Not to be left out, the Jets

1768
01:36:33,880 --> 01:36:36,679
Speaker 1: jumped into the free agent pool, adding wide receiver Cory Davis,

1769
01:36:36,800 --> 01:36:42,720
Speaker 1: linebacker Gerard Davis, and defensive end Carl Lawson. J Jacksonville

1770
01:36:42,760 --> 01:36:44,360
Speaker 1: with a lot of money to spend, and they've been

1771
01:36:44,400 --> 01:36:47,000
Speaker 1: busy in the last twenty four hours. They've agreed to

1772
01:36:47,160 --> 01:36:50,080
Speaker 1: terms with safety Ray Shawn Jenkins, running back Carlos High,

1773
01:36:50,160 --> 01:36:54,360
Speaker 1: defensive lineman jahad Ward, wide receiver Philip Dorset, and cornerback

1774
01:36:54,439 --> 01:36:57,800
Speaker 1: Shack Griffin, among others, and Jess recently agreed to terms

1775
01:36:58,120 --> 01:37:02,160
Speaker 1: with veteran defensive lineman in 'lualu, a former first round

1776
01:37:02,240 --> 01:37:04,920
Speaker 1: draft pick of Theirs, back for a second stint with

1777
01:37:05,160 --> 01:37:08,280
Speaker 1: the Jags. Pass rush market drying up, as Trey Hendrickson

1778
01:37:08,400 --> 01:37:11,800
Speaker 1: joins the Bengals, Janikin Goquay heads to the Raiders, and

1779
01:37:12,000 --> 01:37:14,599
Speaker 1: Bud Dupree ends up with the Titans on a five year,

1780
01:37:14,840 --> 01:37:18,439
Speaker 1: eighty five million dollar deal. Meanwhile, the Broncos picked up

1781
01:37:18,479 --> 01:37:20,920
Speaker 1: the seven million dollars option on Von Miller. He will

1782
01:37:20,960 --> 01:37:23,719
Speaker 1: be staying put in twenty twenty one. We're in Denver.

1783
01:37:24,760 --> 01:37:29,040
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick, going to his eighth NFL franchise, is going

1784
01:37:29,080 --> 01:37:32,120
Speaker 1: to play for Washington in twenty twenty one. Will compete

1785
01:37:32,160 --> 01:37:34,120
Speaker 1: for the starting job there on a one year, ten

1786
01:37:34,160 --> 01:37:38,719
Speaker 1: million dollar deal. His chief competition with the Washington football

1787
01:37:38,760 --> 01:37:42,080
Speaker 1: team Taylor Heineke, who resigned on a two year deal

1788
01:37:42,160 --> 01:37:45,879
Speaker 1: earlier this offseason. And the Sabers, fresh off a shutout

1789
01:37:45,920 --> 01:37:48,000
Speaker 1: loss to the Capitol's back at It tonight when they

1790
01:37:48,080 --> 01:37:51,400
Speaker 1: visit the New Jersey Devil's face off set for seven pm.

1791
01:37:51,720 --> 01:37:54,760
Speaker 1: That is your sports update from One Bill's Drive. Chris Brown,

1792
01:37:54,840 --> 01:37:57,280
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker here for our number three of a Tuesday

1793
01:37:57,439 --> 01:38:00,920
Speaker 1: edition and joining us on the line right now. It's

1794
01:38:01,280 --> 01:38:05,880
Speaker 1: ESPN analytics writer and expert one Seth Walder joining us

1795
01:38:06,120 --> 01:38:08,519
Speaker 1: to talk a little free agency as far as the

1796
01:38:08,600 --> 01:38:11,200
Speaker 1: metrics are concerned. Seth, how you doing? Thanks for joining us.

1797
01:38:12,120 --> 01:38:15,000
Speaker 1: I'm doing well. How are you guys? We're doing okay? Um?

1798
01:38:15,360 --> 01:38:17,639
Speaker 1: You know, I I almost had to chuckle a little

1799
01:38:17,680 --> 01:38:19,680
Speaker 1: bit because you know, they put you guys in all

1800
01:38:19,720 --> 01:38:24,519
Speaker 1: these prediction positions with respect to free agency and whatnot.

1801
01:38:24,560 --> 01:38:26,120
Speaker 1: And I know you were tasked with some of that

1802
01:38:26,240 --> 01:38:28,360
Speaker 1: along with some of the other writers at ESPN dot

1803
01:38:28,439 --> 01:38:31,200
Speaker 1: com and you did, like, yeah, you guys were handed

1804
01:38:31,280 --> 01:38:34,320
Speaker 1: either or scenarios. You know, where does Aaron Where's the

1805
01:38:34,360 --> 01:38:36,360
Speaker 1: best place for Aaron Jones to end up? Is it

1806
01:38:36,439 --> 01:38:38,920
Speaker 1: better for the Dolphins to go with a running back

1807
01:38:39,040 --> 01:38:43,280
Speaker 1: or a center? And I think you chose the center

1808
01:38:44,400 --> 01:38:47,519
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins in terms of a better return on investment.

1809
01:38:47,960 --> 01:38:51,040
Speaker 1: But there it is. Aaron Jones goes back to Green

1810
01:38:51,120 --> 01:38:54,599
Speaker 1: Bay and Corey Lindsley signs a giant deal with the Chargers.

1811
01:38:54,640 --> 01:38:57,559
Speaker 1: They don't get either of them. I know the Dolphins

1812
01:38:57,600 --> 01:38:59,360
Speaker 1: don't have quite the same money to spend as the

1813
01:38:59,439 --> 01:39:01,920
Speaker 1: Jets and the Patriots did. But you know, you look

1814
01:39:01,920 --> 01:39:03,360
Speaker 1: at a team like the Dolphins, it's like, where are

1815
01:39:03,360 --> 01:39:07,920
Speaker 1: those poor guys going? Now? Yeah, no, it's it's interesting.

1816
01:39:07,960 --> 01:39:10,439
Speaker 1: I think it was correct of them not to spend

1817
01:39:10,479 --> 01:39:13,080
Speaker 1: money on Aaron Jones. We know the running back is

1818
01:39:13,120 --> 01:39:16,639
Speaker 1: a non premium position, but yeah, I think that Corey

1819
01:39:16,680 --> 01:39:19,559
Speaker 1: Linsley signing is a really nice one by the Chargers.

1820
01:39:19,600 --> 01:39:22,320
Speaker 1: He's I mean, we're talking about really an elite center there.

1821
01:39:22,400 --> 01:39:24,320
Speaker 1: When we look at our run block numbers and our

1822
01:39:24,360 --> 01:39:26,800
Speaker 1: pass block numbers. He was number one in run block

1823
01:39:26,960 --> 01:39:29,920
Speaker 1: last year, number five in pass block, and in twenty

1824
01:39:30,040 --> 01:39:33,160
Speaker 1: nineteen he was our best pass blocking center. I think

1825
01:39:33,200 --> 01:39:35,559
Speaker 1: he's really valuable. I think, you know, you guys in Buffalo,

1826
01:39:35,680 --> 01:39:39,000
Speaker 1: no with Mitch Morris, how helpful a really good pass

1827
01:39:39,160 --> 01:39:42,360
Speaker 1: blocking center can be. And so that's a nice signing. Yeah,

1828
01:39:42,360 --> 01:39:45,040
Speaker 1: I think Miami they could, they could use some help,

1829
01:39:45,080 --> 01:39:46,640
Speaker 1: but I think better not to spend the money on

1830
01:39:46,720 --> 01:39:49,799
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones. What about the rest of the big splash teams,

1831
01:39:49,840 --> 01:39:52,599
Speaker 1: like like the New England Patriots and how they're spending

1832
01:39:52,640 --> 01:39:55,280
Speaker 1: their money and plus a lot and the wide receivers

1833
01:39:55,320 --> 01:39:57,200
Speaker 1: that are being sprinkled out certainly with the New England

1834
01:39:57,240 --> 01:39:59,639
Speaker 1: Patriots and a lot of people I've heard the rumors

1835
01:39:59,720 --> 01:40:02,040
Speaker 1: or the the kind of the the take on all

1836
01:40:02,080 --> 01:40:03,960
Speaker 1: the wide receivers. I just mentioned it to Chris, was

1837
01:40:04,000 --> 01:40:06,280
Speaker 1: that most of these guys out there right now are

1838
01:40:06,680 --> 01:40:10,479
Speaker 1: considered twos, not ones. How do you what do you

1839
01:40:10,560 --> 01:40:13,200
Speaker 1: think about, you know, the Patriots in the AFC East here,

1840
01:40:13,280 --> 01:40:15,080
Speaker 1: how they're spending their money, and what it looks like

1841
01:40:15,240 --> 01:40:18,679
Speaker 1: going forward. I think it's really interesting what the Patriots

1842
01:40:18,720 --> 01:40:21,639
Speaker 1: are doing. Obviously to have two really strong tight ends,

1843
01:40:21,960 --> 01:40:23,960
Speaker 1: you know, it's a flashback to an old New England

1844
01:40:24,040 --> 01:40:27,840
Speaker 1: strategy before. I think that's interesting. I think that could

1845
01:40:27,880 --> 01:40:30,200
Speaker 1: definitely help. Look, it was a roster that needed upgrades.

1846
01:40:30,439 --> 01:40:33,000
Speaker 1: They had the money to spend, and it's probably a

1847
01:40:33,040 --> 01:40:36,679
Speaker 1: good time to spend it with the market dipping, given

1848
01:40:36,720 --> 01:40:39,240
Speaker 1: the salary cap and given how many teams are in

1849
01:40:39,439 --> 01:40:42,559
Speaker 1: sort of a tight financial situation, so that makes sense.

1850
01:40:43,240 --> 01:40:45,320
Speaker 1: I like the tight end signings. I really like the

1851
01:40:45,360 --> 01:40:48,640
Speaker 1: Matthew Judon signing Nelson Agilar. I thought that was a

1852
01:40:48,680 --> 01:40:50,599
Speaker 1: lot of money for him. I mean, he was good

1853
01:40:50,720 --> 01:40:53,479
Speaker 1: last year. I think that that was true, but that

1854
01:40:53,640 --> 01:40:55,240
Speaker 1: was a lot of money. You know, I would rather

1855
01:40:55,400 --> 01:40:58,280
Speaker 1: have spend it on Corey Davis. I think the Jets

1856
01:40:58,320 --> 01:41:01,680
Speaker 1: gotta you know, comparatively better deal there. And then you know,

1857
01:41:01,760 --> 01:41:04,400
Speaker 1: you mentioned the number two's wide receivers. I will say this,

1858
01:41:04,520 --> 01:41:07,439
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay out there. I'm a big Kenny Golladay fantom.

1859
01:41:07,479 --> 01:41:10,960
Speaker 1: He's an excellent, contested catch receiver. I do think that

1860
01:41:11,360 --> 01:41:15,080
Speaker 1: he will be a major upgrade for whichever team signs him. Yeah,

1861
01:41:15,120 --> 01:41:17,400
Speaker 1: it's interesting that you mentioned receiver set because I know

1862
01:41:17,520 --> 01:41:19,360
Speaker 1: in that same article where you guys were kind of

1863
01:41:19,400 --> 01:41:23,360
Speaker 1: picking free agent values for respective teams, you had an

1864
01:41:23,400 --> 01:41:26,400
Speaker 1: interesting take on the Colts. You thought it might be

1865
01:41:26,479 --> 01:41:28,519
Speaker 1: a good idea for them to try to make a

1866
01:41:28,680 --> 01:41:34,600
Speaker 1: play for the now franchise tagged Alan Robinson. You know

1867
01:41:34,720 --> 01:41:38,320
Speaker 1: that's an interesting option. But you just mentioned Galladay, who's

1868
01:41:38,360 --> 01:41:40,280
Speaker 1: still out there and in play, and we know the

1869
01:41:40,360 --> 01:41:42,280
Speaker 1: Colts have money that they can spend. They got a

1870
01:41:42,320 --> 01:41:45,560
Speaker 1: lot of room under the cap. Are you fully anticipating

1871
01:41:45,640 --> 01:41:51,160
Speaker 1: them ardently pursuing a true number one wide out? I would,

1872
01:41:51,320 --> 01:41:53,800
Speaker 1: and I think that, God, yeah, I wouldn't go after

1873
01:41:54,000 --> 01:41:57,080
Speaker 1: Robinson with you know, with the tag, but Kenny Galladay

1874
01:41:57,080 --> 01:41:59,720
Speaker 1: and Alan Robinson are very similar receivers. I mean, yeah,

1875
01:42:00,080 --> 01:42:02,880
Speaker 1: we were the Colts, I would absolutely be looking to

1876
01:42:04,040 --> 01:42:06,639
Speaker 1: make that move and get Carson Wentz so a weapon

1877
01:42:06,760 --> 01:42:09,320
Speaker 1: like Holliday. I think he could be someone that really

1878
01:42:09,439 --> 01:42:12,920
Speaker 1: helps that team. But I assume they have competition for

1879
01:42:13,040 --> 01:42:14,519
Speaker 1: him because he would be like I said, he would

1880
01:42:14,560 --> 01:42:17,280
Speaker 1: be a receiver that would help anybody. I am a

1881
01:42:17,320 --> 01:42:20,120
Speaker 1: big fan of Golliday, and I think that there's Will

1882
01:42:20,200 --> 01:42:22,519
Speaker 1: Fuller's a solid option, but obviously you've got the injury

1883
01:42:23,040 --> 01:42:26,920
Speaker 1: the injury risk there, Kenny Galladay, I think will be

1884
01:42:27,000 --> 01:42:30,000
Speaker 1: a major help to someone. I got to want to

1885
01:42:30,000 --> 01:42:32,040
Speaker 1: ask you as well. I was noticing too your Anna

1886
01:42:32,080 --> 01:42:34,160
Speaker 1: Lykes should cover all the positions and one of the

1887
01:42:34,320 --> 01:42:37,160
Speaker 1: more interesting ones for the Buffalo Buffalo Bills fans, particularly

1888
01:42:37,280 --> 01:42:40,040
Speaker 1: with their resignings, they start to look at edge rusher

1889
01:42:40,080 --> 01:42:43,959
Speaker 1: and they look also at number two cornerback. Your graphs

1890
01:42:43,960 --> 01:42:47,759
Speaker 1: about who you know, a expected percentage above or below

1891
01:42:48,320 --> 01:42:51,920
Speaker 1: expected receiving and how many annual closest defender to a receiver,

1892
01:42:52,080 --> 01:42:57,200
Speaker 1: all of that stuff. Levi Wallace did not embarrass himself

1893
01:42:57,320 --> 01:42:59,400
Speaker 1: in that graph. He's a guy that the Buffalo Bills

1894
01:42:59,439 --> 01:43:01,400
Speaker 1: have been trying to replaced for two or three years.

1895
01:43:01,760 --> 01:43:03,200
Speaker 1: Now they're going to give him a chance to see

1896
01:43:03,280 --> 01:43:05,800
Speaker 1: what he's worth. Where does leave a guy that, you know,

1897
01:43:05,840 --> 01:43:08,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills fans have taken for granted because Tredavious White

1898
01:43:09,000 --> 01:43:11,680
Speaker 1: is here, he's a second corner. They've been trying to

1899
01:43:11,800 --> 01:43:16,200
Speaker 1: replace him, So he hasn't gotten much respect long term,

1900
01:43:16,360 --> 01:43:19,760
Speaker 1: you know, in the big picture, what is it gonna

1901
01:43:19,760 --> 01:43:21,800
Speaker 1: be for him? Like for him, how does he stack

1902
01:43:21,880 --> 01:43:23,160
Speaker 1: up with the rest of the corners in this free

1903
01:43:23,160 --> 01:43:26,040
Speaker 1: agent market. I think it's a great question because I

1904
01:43:26,160 --> 01:43:28,679
Speaker 1: was really surprised when I saw that news about Levi

1905
01:43:28,840 --> 01:43:31,360
Speaker 1: Wallace early, you know, not being tendered by the Bills.

1906
01:43:31,400 --> 01:43:34,920
Speaker 1: To me, when you have someone who's kind of okay

1907
01:43:35,080 --> 01:43:38,519
Speaker 1: in all those categories at corner, that's that's worth something, right,

1908
01:43:38,600 --> 01:43:40,799
Speaker 1: Like it's kind of like kind of like with tackles,

1909
01:43:40,880 --> 01:43:42,920
Speaker 1: like you're just looking for not a not a weakness.

1910
01:43:43,160 --> 01:43:45,160
Speaker 1: He's not your number one guy, but you're not asking

1911
01:43:45,240 --> 01:43:47,080
Speaker 1: him to be. And so it really, you know, it

1912
01:43:47,120 --> 01:43:49,800
Speaker 1: does surprise me that they wouldn't probably, you know, I

1913
01:43:49,840 --> 01:43:52,400
Speaker 1: don't think it would cost that much to keep him around. Now,

1914
01:43:52,960 --> 01:43:56,160
Speaker 1: are there guys out there that you would expect more. Sure,

1915
01:43:56,280 --> 01:43:59,240
Speaker 1: I think Xavier Rhodes had an incredible season last year.

1916
01:44:00,320 --> 01:44:02,519
Speaker 1: I think you know, there are some other players. Patrick

1917
01:44:02,560 --> 01:44:05,920
Speaker 1: Peterson obviously is a great resume, but I don't know

1918
01:44:05,960 --> 01:44:07,639
Speaker 1: that the Bills are in a position to be dishing

1919
01:44:07,680 --> 01:44:10,960
Speaker 1: out big contracts. So yeah, I was really surprised at

1920
01:44:11,000 --> 01:44:14,640
Speaker 1: the Wallace news. I'm I'm with you, and then just

1921
01:44:14,840 --> 01:44:17,479
Speaker 1: looking at what I think we know will be a

1922
01:44:17,600 --> 01:44:20,840
Speaker 1: quarterback competition next year now that Fitz is in Washington,

1923
01:44:21,040 --> 01:44:24,400
Speaker 1: is the battle between him and Taylor Heineke This I

1924
01:44:24,479 --> 01:44:29,400
Speaker 1: think this has a very interesting set of circumstances tied

1925
01:44:29,439 --> 01:44:32,320
Speaker 1: to it. I think chiefly because of the season that

1926
01:44:32,439 --> 01:44:34,360
Speaker 1: Fitz had where Peep, there were a lot of people

1927
01:44:34,479 --> 01:44:37,439
Speaker 1: that thought he was unceremoniously benched and benched too soon

1928
01:44:38,760 --> 01:44:41,320
Speaker 1: and when the team looked like they were just starting

1929
01:44:41,400 --> 01:44:43,120
Speaker 1: to kind of round the corner. They were four and

1930
01:44:43,240 --> 01:44:47,200
Speaker 1: three when he got benched for Tuah, and then the

1931
01:44:47,320 --> 01:44:50,599
Speaker 1: Washington situation with all the twists and turns their quarterback

1932
01:44:50,680 --> 01:44:55,639
Speaker 1: position had seth performed very admirably in the playoff game,

1933
01:44:56,080 --> 01:44:59,720
Speaker 1: and so he's won some supporters inside the belt Way there.

1934
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:02,599
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you can put your apply

1935
01:45:02,760 --> 01:45:06,760
Speaker 1: your best analytic mind to how that competition might play out.

1936
01:45:06,800 --> 01:45:10,040
Speaker 1: But there's certainly a lot of interesting circumstances when those

1937
01:45:10,080 --> 01:45:13,880
Speaker 1: two guys head to camp. Heineke is tough because we

1938
01:45:13,920 --> 01:45:16,760
Speaker 1: don't have a ton of track record to go on, right,

1939
01:45:17,200 --> 01:45:19,880
Speaker 1: But with Fitzpatrick, I will say this, I mean, it's

1940
01:45:20,040 --> 01:45:22,240
Speaker 1: it's hard not to be impressed by what he did

1941
01:45:22,400 --> 01:45:26,320
Speaker 1: in Miami, given given the circumstance, given that he doesn't

1942
01:45:26,600 --> 01:45:29,360
Speaker 1: didn't have a great offensive line, so he was under pressure,

1943
01:45:29,400 --> 01:45:30,800
Speaker 1: an awful line, and we were talking about a guy

1944
01:45:30,840 --> 01:45:33,120
Speaker 1: that was top ten in QBR last year. I think

1945
01:45:33,120 --> 01:45:35,880
Speaker 1: it's pretty impressive. I will say this, though, we have

1946
01:45:35,960 --> 01:45:38,680
Speaker 1: a long history of seeing Ryan Fitzpatrick kind of yo

1947
01:45:38,800 --> 01:45:41,960
Speaker 1: yo up and down and up and down through the years,

1948
01:45:42,200 --> 01:45:45,160
Speaker 1: and so I'm not sure that we can necessarily bank

1949
01:45:45,240 --> 01:45:47,200
Speaker 1: that he's going to have a repeat performance. But I

1950
01:45:47,280 --> 01:45:50,680
Speaker 1: do think that there is some like weirdly upside with

1951
01:45:51,600 --> 01:45:54,640
Speaker 1: a veteran like Ryan Fitzpatrick in that role. So I

1952
01:45:54,720 --> 01:45:56,760
Speaker 1: think it's a solid signing for Washington. I will be

1953
01:45:56,840 --> 01:45:59,040
Speaker 1: fascinated to see what they do or even if they

1954
01:45:59,120 --> 01:46:01,479
Speaker 1: bring in another guy, I wouldn't still wouldn't rule out

1955
01:46:01,520 --> 01:46:04,599
Speaker 1: them drafting someone, you know, in the first round if

1956
01:46:04,640 --> 01:46:08,160
Speaker 1: a mac Jones were available at their picks. So we'll

1957
01:46:08,200 --> 01:46:11,720
Speaker 1: see there. I'll give you an example of this or that.

1958
01:46:11,880 --> 01:46:14,280
Speaker 1: I mean, is it gonna be who would you rather have?

1959
01:46:14,400 --> 01:46:15,800
Speaker 1: Who do you think is going to have a better year?

1960
01:46:15,840 --> 01:46:18,360
Speaker 1: If both these guys start for their franchises, Who's going

1961
01:46:18,400 --> 01:46:21,240
Speaker 1: to have the better year? Ryan Fitzpatrick for the Washington

1962
01:46:21,280 --> 01:46:23,920
Speaker 1: football team or Jamis Winston for the New Orleans Saints.

1963
01:46:24,360 --> 01:46:27,120
Speaker 1: Oh it's funny you ask me that, because I filled

1964
01:46:27,160 --> 01:46:29,840
Speaker 1: that question out for one of these questions that is

1965
01:46:29,880 --> 01:46:32,360
Speaker 1: going to be on ESPN dot com. It's probably within

1966
01:46:32,479 --> 01:46:36,680
Speaker 1: the hour. I chose Winston because because of what I

1967
01:46:36,760 --> 01:46:39,920
Speaker 1: just said with Fitzpatrick, there is some uncertainty there, and

1968
01:46:40,040 --> 01:46:42,800
Speaker 1: I think with Winston he really wasn't that bad in

1969
01:46:42,880 --> 01:46:45,640
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. I only threw thirty picks that year, but

1970
01:46:45,760 --> 01:46:48,360
Speaker 1: he was sixteenth in QBR. I think that in the

1971
01:46:48,479 --> 01:46:52,040
Speaker 1: Sean Payton offense, there's potential there and I will be

1972
01:46:52,160 --> 01:46:54,400
Speaker 1: really interested to see what Payton what Payton does in

1973
01:46:54,479 --> 01:46:56,280
Speaker 1: that offense, because now he's going to be able to

1974
01:46:56,360 --> 01:46:58,400
Speaker 1: open it up a little bit more throw down field

1975
01:46:58,439 --> 01:47:01,599
Speaker 1: with Winston in a way he couldn't with Breeze. Of course,

1976
01:47:01,840 --> 01:47:04,960
Speaker 1: you'd rather have Drew Brees back there than Jameis Winston,

1977
01:47:05,040 --> 01:47:08,360
Speaker 1: but Winston can do some things that Breeze cannot, and

1978
01:47:08,479 --> 01:47:14,680
Speaker 1: then seth not to make AFC East watchers, like the

1979
01:47:14,760 --> 01:47:20,519
Speaker 1: Bills fans are right now shutter. But Deshaun Watson, if

1980
01:47:20,600 --> 01:47:23,559
Speaker 1: he ends up getting traded, there are many who believe

1981
01:47:24,040 --> 01:47:26,240
Speaker 1: that it could very well come down to the Dolphins

1982
01:47:26,320 --> 01:47:28,240
Speaker 1: or the Jets, with the trade capital that they have

1983
01:47:28,360 --> 01:47:31,040
Speaker 1: to offer, chiefly in the form of draft picks, not

1984
01:47:31,160 --> 01:47:33,080
Speaker 1: to mention the fact that they each have quarterbacks they

1985
01:47:33,080 --> 01:47:37,600
Speaker 1: could at least offer in return. But you made a

1986
01:47:37,720 --> 01:47:40,600
Speaker 1: prediction there. I don't know that Bills fans will be

1987
01:47:40,680 --> 01:47:43,000
Speaker 1: ecstatic about it, but why don't you share it with us? Anyway?

1988
01:47:44,439 --> 01:47:46,880
Speaker 1: I do think that the Jets are the most likely

1989
01:47:47,040 --> 01:47:51,000
Speaker 1: landing spot for Deshaun Watson because, like you mentioned, they

1990
01:47:51,040 --> 01:47:54,160
Speaker 1: have the number two overall picks. So if I'm the Texans,

1991
01:47:54,240 --> 01:47:57,320
Speaker 1: I'm trading Watson. At minimum, you gotta be given me

1992
01:47:58,520 --> 01:48:01,640
Speaker 1: an answer at quarterback as well, right, in addition to

1993
01:48:01,680 --> 01:48:03,400
Speaker 1: a bevy of other picks. But I need an answer,

1994
01:48:03,479 --> 01:48:05,439
Speaker 1: So the Jets can offer that they have the number

1995
01:48:05,479 --> 01:48:10,080
Speaker 1: two overall pick. They have the ability to wait because

1996
01:48:10,439 --> 01:48:12,559
Speaker 1: they have that number two all overall picks. So if

1997
01:48:12,760 --> 01:48:14,479
Speaker 1: they don't get Watson, they know they can get a

1998
01:48:14,560 --> 01:48:17,080
Speaker 1: quarterback in the draft, so they can wait up until

1999
01:48:17,160 --> 01:48:19,519
Speaker 1: the draft. They have all the ammo in the world

2000
01:48:20,240 --> 01:48:23,320
Speaker 1: in terms of draft picks. They have a good young

2001
01:48:23,439 --> 01:48:26,280
Speaker 1: core and plenty of cap space. So to me, the

2002
01:48:26,400 --> 01:48:28,960
Speaker 1: Jets are a team that it makes sense they have

2003
01:48:29,280 --> 01:48:31,720
Speaker 1: the ability to go get him. I think in terms

2004
01:48:31,760 --> 01:48:34,720
Speaker 1: of compensation, it's the right. It makes sense for them

2005
01:48:34,760 --> 01:48:37,240
Speaker 1: because I think they could very quickly become a very

2006
01:48:37,320 --> 01:48:42,280
Speaker 1: good team if they got Watson. And if Houston feels

2007
01:48:42,320 --> 01:48:45,559
Speaker 1: like it's hand is ultimately forced, I wouldn't be shocked

2008
01:48:45,800 --> 01:48:47,760
Speaker 1: if the Jets are the ones that are able to

2009
01:48:47,840 --> 01:48:50,040
Speaker 1: put the best offer on the table there. What would

2010
01:48:50,080 --> 01:48:52,280
Speaker 1: the offer take. I mean, if you're if you're the Texans,

2011
01:48:52,360 --> 01:48:54,960
Speaker 1: does it take Sam Darnold and the one and another

2012
01:48:55,280 --> 01:48:58,840
Speaker 1: or I think the answer to me, if you're gonna

2013
01:48:58,880 --> 01:49:01,160
Speaker 1: get take de Shaun Watson. I need the pick and

2014
01:49:01,880 --> 01:49:04,960
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold because there's no way Sam Darnold's gonna play

2015
01:49:05,000 --> 01:49:07,639
Speaker 1: in front of Deshaun Watson. Anyway, if you're a Jets

2016
01:49:07,680 --> 01:49:11,920
Speaker 1: fan or a Jets coaching staff, why keep him around?

2017
01:49:12,040 --> 01:49:14,000
Speaker 1: Throw him in and the deal plus the number two.

2018
01:49:14,040 --> 01:49:16,000
Speaker 1: And if you're the Texans, you can ask for whatever

2019
01:49:16,080 --> 01:49:20,439
Speaker 1: you want. What's the package? Absolutely absolutely, I don't. I

2020
01:49:20,479 --> 01:49:22,960
Speaker 1: don't think that Sam Darnold should be worth that much anymore,

2021
01:49:23,000 --> 01:49:25,639
Speaker 1: but I would include Darnald. I include both ones this year,

2022
01:49:26,560 --> 01:49:29,519
Speaker 1: a one next year, maybe even Quinnon Williams as well.

2023
01:49:29,680 --> 01:49:31,519
Speaker 1: I mean, you can ask for the world when you

2024
01:49:31,600 --> 01:49:34,000
Speaker 1: have Deshaun Watson because no matter what, the Jets are

2025
01:49:34,000 --> 01:49:36,200
Speaker 1: gonna come away feeling good from this. And even if

2026
01:49:36,200 --> 01:49:38,439
Speaker 1: the Jets made that trade, imagine if the Jets trade Darnold,

2027
01:49:38,520 --> 01:49:43,960
Speaker 1: three ones, Quinnon Williams for Deshaun Watson. I still think

2028
01:49:44,000 --> 01:49:46,920
Speaker 1: that given what they you know, the players they brought in,

2029
01:49:47,200 --> 01:49:49,160
Speaker 1: how much more they can spend, they would still have

2030
01:49:49,479 --> 01:49:51,559
Speaker 1: one next year. They would still have all their other

2031
01:49:51,680 --> 01:49:55,760
Speaker 1: picks this year. That's I think a team that's ready

2032
01:49:55,800 --> 01:50:00,280
Speaker 1: to make a serious move fast. Do you, let's, for

2033
01:50:00,400 --> 01:50:03,960
Speaker 1: argument's sake, run down some of the other players that

2034
01:50:04,240 --> 01:50:08,439
Speaker 1: we would anticipate jumping into the Deshaun Watson trade pool

2035
01:50:08,479 --> 01:50:11,320
Speaker 1: if it in fact comes to pass. So Miami's got

2036
01:50:11,360 --> 01:50:15,000
Speaker 1: good capital to offer. They only sit one spot behind

2037
01:50:15,040 --> 01:50:17,320
Speaker 1: the Jets in the draft, as you know. And then

2038
01:50:17,360 --> 01:50:21,439
Speaker 1: there's Carolina and San Francisco I think would probably be

2039
01:50:21,520 --> 01:50:25,960
Speaker 1: the next two teams you'd probably throw in that mix. Again,

2040
01:50:26,560 --> 01:50:29,840
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater could be sent the other way, Jimmy Garoppolo

2041
01:50:29,920 --> 01:50:31,519
Speaker 1: could be sent the other way without much of a

2042
01:50:31,600 --> 01:50:34,960
Speaker 1: cap hit for San Francisco. I mean, do any of

2043
01:50:35,000 --> 01:50:38,280
Speaker 1: those even remotely pique the interest do you think of

2044
01:50:38,360 --> 01:50:43,120
Speaker 1: the Texans. I'm sure they don't in a vacuum, but

2045
01:50:43,280 --> 01:50:45,960
Speaker 1: they could if they had to trade Watson. But I

2046
01:50:46,080 --> 01:50:50,240
Speaker 1: do think that all these teams, Carolina is kind of

2047
01:50:50,280 --> 01:50:51,760
Speaker 1: on the edge here. But all these teams have this

2048
01:50:51,920 --> 01:50:55,240
Speaker 1: problem that the Jets and the Dolphins don't, in that

2049
01:50:55,479 --> 01:50:59,479
Speaker 1: they can't be sure. The Texans can't be sure in

2050
01:50:59,600 --> 01:51:03,599
Speaker 1: what they're answer at quarterback is going to be if

2051
01:51:03,640 --> 01:51:06,479
Speaker 1: they make one of these non Jets, non Dolphins trades.

2052
01:51:06,800 --> 01:51:09,679
Speaker 1: I mean, you might get Bridgewater, but is that really

2053
01:51:09,760 --> 01:51:13,479
Speaker 1: like satisfying you. I think if you can say, well,

2054
01:51:13,560 --> 01:51:17,080
Speaker 1: we get Zach Wilson, we'd get to a tongue of la,

2055
01:51:17,200 --> 01:51:19,840
Speaker 1: we'd get justin fields, those are potential Those are like

2056
01:51:19,960 --> 01:51:23,400
Speaker 1: answers at quarterback, or at least a potential answer at

2057
01:51:23,439 --> 01:51:25,760
Speaker 1: quarterback with a lot of upside. But if I'm trading

2058
01:51:25,800 --> 01:51:29,320
Speaker 1: with Carolina, if you're trading with the Broncos, I think

2059
01:51:29,360 --> 01:51:31,960
Speaker 1: would be another possible team and maybe leaves a little

2060
01:51:31,960 --> 01:51:35,320
Speaker 1: bit more question mark or just less upside in terms

2061
01:51:35,360 --> 01:51:38,559
Speaker 1: of the compensation. What's your gut feeling about Deshaun Watson?

2062
01:51:38,640 --> 01:51:42,679
Speaker 1: Does he move? I think yes. I mean the Texans

2063
01:51:42,720 --> 01:51:45,040
Speaker 1: are going to say that they can't or they're not

2064
01:51:45,240 --> 01:51:47,479
Speaker 1: going to do it up until the point at which

2065
01:51:47,520 --> 01:51:51,360
Speaker 1: they do it, right, So I know they've been make

2066
01:51:51,439 --> 01:51:54,120
Speaker 1: it out like they're not going to trade him, But ultimately,

2067
01:51:54,560 --> 01:51:57,680
Speaker 1: if Watson is entrenched, he can put them in a

2068
01:51:57,760 --> 01:52:01,000
Speaker 1: situation where it's are you going to not have Deshaun

2069
01:52:01,040 --> 01:52:03,040
Speaker 1: Watson and get nothing for him? Or are you gonna

2070
01:52:03,080 --> 01:52:05,240
Speaker 1: not have Deshaun Watson and get a lot in return

2071
01:52:05,320 --> 01:52:07,400
Speaker 1: for him? And if the Texans look at it like that,

2072
01:52:07,840 --> 01:52:10,920
Speaker 1: then eventually they'll make that trade. I would think. Talking

2073
01:52:11,000 --> 01:52:14,880
Speaker 1: with Seth Walder, ESPN analytics writer and last one I've

2074
01:52:14,920 --> 01:52:18,360
Speaker 1: got for you, Seth, I found this one interesting. You

2075
01:52:18,439 --> 01:52:20,040
Speaker 1: know you get you had the question post to you

2076
01:52:20,120 --> 01:52:21,840
Speaker 1: which new head coach will have the most wins in

2077
01:52:21,880 --> 01:52:25,559
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, You picked Robert Sala with the Jets. Now,

2078
01:52:26,080 --> 01:52:28,920
Speaker 1: is that answer predicated on them getting Watson or do

2079
01:52:29,000 --> 01:52:31,880
Speaker 1: you still feel optimistic even if they can't come up

2080
01:52:32,200 --> 01:52:34,360
Speaker 1: with an answer for Watson. I guess that would presumably

2081
01:52:34,400 --> 01:52:37,960
Speaker 1: mean they're drafting Zach Wilson or somebody like that. I

2082
01:52:38,080 --> 01:52:41,160
Speaker 1: think either way, the Jets are gonna be a drastically

2083
01:52:41,240 --> 01:52:44,439
Speaker 1: improved team. But baked into that answer, I was thinking, well,

2084
01:52:44,680 --> 01:52:47,240
Speaker 1: I think they have the best shot to land Watson,

2085
01:52:47,320 --> 01:52:50,120
Speaker 1: but I do think that given the players, they are

2086
01:52:50,160 --> 01:52:51,680
Speaker 1: going to be able to add them free agency. We

2087
01:52:51,720 --> 01:52:55,200
Speaker 1: know they've got Davis and Lawson already. To me, those

2088
01:52:55,240 --> 01:52:58,120
Speaker 1: are those are solid additions to a team that needed them.

2089
01:52:58,600 --> 01:53:00,800
Speaker 1: Plus the draft picks if they don't Watson they're going

2090
01:53:00,840 --> 01:53:03,400
Speaker 1: to have they're gonna have. You know, they will have

2091
01:53:03,439 --> 01:53:05,760
Speaker 1: two ones. One of those will be a quarterback, presumably.

2092
01:53:06,400 --> 01:53:08,960
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot to improve for that Jets

2093
01:53:09,040 --> 01:53:13,360
Speaker 1: team with or without Watson, but especially with him. And

2094
01:53:14,160 --> 01:53:16,439
Speaker 1: what do you which new head coach from this year

2095
01:53:16,439 --> 01:53:24,040
Speaker 1: do you think will struggle the most? Oh gosh, I

2096
01:53:24,120 --> 01:53:26,639
Speaker 1: mean in terms of wins, I have a hard time

2097
01:53:26,680 --> 01:53:28,400
Speaker 1: seeing what Houston's going to be able to do here

2098
01:53:28,439 --> 01:53:32,640
Speaker 1: in year one. I just think without Watson, that's a

2099
01:53:32,760 --> 01:53:37,559
Speaker 1: roster that with him did not succeed last year. There's

2100
01:53:37,600 --> 01:53:39,400
Speaker 1: a lot of work that needs to be done. That's

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Speaker 1: probably a multi year building process. I also think the

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01:53:42,000 --> 01:53:45,120
Speaker 1: Lions are not going to be good this year, but

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Speaker 1: I think that's also sort of their plan, right to

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01:53:48,560 --> 01:53:51,040
Speaker 1: not be good right now and to build for the future.

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01:53:51,240 --> 01:53:54,160
Speaker 1: And that's okay if as an organization you recognize where

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01:53:54,200 --> 01:53:57,040
Speaker 1: you're at and you say, Okay, this is a multi

2107
01:53:57,160 --> 01:54:01,200
Speaker 1: year process and we're gonna treat it as that's okay.

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01:54:01,360 --> 01:54:03,799
Speaker 1: But yeah, I near one. I wouldn't expect Dan Campbell

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01:54:03,840 --> 01:54:06,280
Speaker 1: to have many wins on us. Those are the two

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01:54:06,320 --> 01:54:09,400
Speaker 1: I would have picked. Seth, thanks for the time. We

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01:54:09,520 --> 01:54:12,639
Speaker 1: appreciate it. And again thanks again for moving your schedule

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01:54:12,720 --> 01:54:15,439
Speaker 1: around to accommodate us. We appreciate you doing that for us.

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01:54:15,600 --> 01:54:19,000
Speaker 1: I always appreciate the insight. Thanks guys. All right. That

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01:54:19,120 --> 01:54:23,360
Speaker 1: Seth Walder from ESPN analytics writer for them, kind of

2115
01:54:23,400 --> 01:54:25,680
Speaker 1: applies a lot of his metrics to some of the

2116
01:54:25,760 --> 01:54:28,560
Speaker 1: picks that he makes for some offseason predictions kind of

2117
01:54:28,600 --> 01:54:31,479
Speaker 1: does in a different way than some of the other analysts.

2118
01:54:31,640 --> 01:54:33,360
Speaker 1: I had had a lot of fun reading the stuff

2119
01:54:33,400 --> 01:54:36,320
Speaker 1: and looking at the graph about the corners that are available,

2120
01:54:36,360 --> 01:54:38,839
Speaker 1: and I want to know where do people see Levi Wallace.

2121
01:54:39,440 --> 01:54:42,600
Speaker 1: And he's a guy, you know, he's well liked on

2122
01:54:42,640 --> 01:54:44,520
Speaker 1: the in the locker room, and he kind of feel

2123
01:54:44,600 --> 01:54:48,000
Speaker 1: like we found he found him, and he's been a

2124
01:54:48,080 --> 01:54:50,040
Speaker 1: really solid starter for this club. You know, he's gonna

2125
01:54:50,040 --> 01:54:51,400
Speaker 1: go on to have a really nice career if he

2126
01:54:51,440 --> 01:54:54,720
Speaker 1: does indeed leave and free agency. And it's like I said,

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01:54:54,760 --> 01:54:56,640
Speaker 1: and he didn't mention it, but I think I'll go

2128
01:54:56,720 --> 01:54:58,280
Speaker 1: back to it what we talked about in the first

2129
01:54:58,480 --> 01:55:00,680
Speaker 1: part of the show. I think the Bills are letting

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01:55:00,720 --> 01:55:02,840
Speaker 1: him test free agency as a reward for what he's

2131
01:55:02,840 --> 01:55:04,920
Speaker 1: done for them coming out of the blue, Right, Yeah,

2132
01:55:05,040 --> 01:55:07,360
Speaker 1: see what you can get when see what your market

2133
01:55:07,440 --> 01:55:10,200
Speaker 1: value is when there are thirty one other teams bidding

2134
01:55:10,240 --> 01:55:12,840
Speaker 1: on your services. So yes, it will be interesting to

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01:55:12,960 --> 01:55:15,680
Speaker 1: see if he can command a nice contract and if

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01:55:15,720 --> 01:55:19,919
Speaker 1: he can good for him. And then secondarily we shouldn't

2137
01:55:19,920 --> 01:55:25,000
Speaker 1: forget that the other restricted free agents, Ike Butcker, Corey Bojorquez.

2138
01:55:25,480 --> 01:55:28,480
Speaker 1: What becomes of their situations because if they are not

2139
01:55:28,640 --> 01:55:31,680
Speaker 1: tendered by the Bills are qualifying restricted free agent offer

2140
01:55:32,240 --> 01:55:35,480
Speaker 1: before four pm tomorrow, they become unrestricted free agents, and

2141
01:55:35,480 --> 01:55:37,200
Speaker 1: they're out there on the market as well. You think

2142
01:55:37,200 --> 01:55:41,000
Speaker 1: about it too, Levi Wallace, same kind of boat that

2143
01:55:41,360 --> 01:55:44,360
Speaker 1: Matt Milana was in a little over. He's not a

2144
01:55:44,440 --> 01:55:47,000
Speaker 1: frookie free agent. They drafted Matt Milanna, so they expected

2145
01:55:47,040 --> 01:55:48,880
Speaker 1: him to at least contribute. They didn't expect him to

2146
01:55:48,920 --> 01:55:52,120
Speaker 1: have He's outplayed his contract, no question about it. But

2147
01:55:52,200 --> 01:55:54,560
Speaker 1: they were going to let him test free agency if

2148
01:55:54,600 --> 01:55:57,800
Speaker 1: he indeed wanted to, and he was going to, and

2149
01:55:58,200 --> 01:56:00,560
Speaker 1: they jumped up and gave him a deal they they

2150
01:56:00,800 --> 01:56:04,560
Speaker 1: hoped he would take, and he did. Different for Levi Wallace,

2151
01:56:04,600 --> 01:56:07,320
Speaker 1: and I think it's telling about the culture that they're

2152
01:56:07,360 --> 01:56:09,240
Speaker 1: trying to foster here. If you come in and you outplay,

2153
01:56:09,240 --> 01:56:11,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a chance. You're gonna get a chance

2154
01:56:11,040 --> 01:56:12,920
Speaker 1: if you want it now. You can turn your back

2155
01:56:13,000 --> 01:56:15,520
Speaker 1: on it and you can take a deal here because

2156
01:56:16,000 --> 01:56:19,000
Speaker 1: you like it or for whatever reason. But if you

2157
01:56:19,120 --> 01:56:21,240
Speaker 1: want the chance to test the market, they're gonna give

2158
01:56:21,280 --> 01:56:22,440
Speaker 1: it to you. And I think it says a lot

2159
01:56:22,480 --> 01:56:25,560
Speaker 1: about their reputation around the league that they didn't hold

2160
01:56:25,680 --> 01:56:28,040
Speaker 1: Levi Wallace back because they don't have to listen, they

2161
01:56:28,080 --> 01:56:29,680
Speaker 1: don't have anybody to take over for him. They got

2162
01:56:29,760 --> 01:56:34,240
Speaker 1: Dane Jackson, sure, but they're thin. They could very easily

2163
01:56:34,280 --> 01:56:36,320
Speaker 1: tender an offer on Levi Wallace and force a team

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01:56:36,360 --> 01:56:38,560
Speaker 1: to jump in, but they didn't. And I think that

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01:56:39,800 --> 01:56:42,840
Speaker 1: is something that plays well, like a finger quotes out

2166
01:56:42,880 --> 01:56:44,880
Speaker 1: on the street when you're tough one players get around

2167
01:56:44,920 --> 01:56:46,240
Speaker 1: when it gets around the league of what's going on

2168
01:56:46,360 --> 01:56:50,080
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. Yeah, and man, I just don't like

2169
01:56:50,240 --> 01:56:55,600
Speaker 1: that seth season. See's this Shaun Watson ended up in

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01:56:55,640 --> 01:56:59,120
Speaker 1: the AFC. He's gonna want that, and it's gonna we're

2171
01:56:59,120 --> 01:57:02,800
Speaker 1: gonna get He'll be traded. But I am hoping that

2172
01:57:02,920 --> 01:57:07,680
Speaker 1: somebody just offers up the farm to Houston, and yeah,

2173
01:57:08,200 --> 01:57:13,400
Speaker 1: something will happen. Either that or they'll get Deshaun Watson

2174
01:57:13,600 --> 01:57:18,120
Speaker 1: in New York and then Miami. Something will happen and like,

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01:57:19,560 --> 01:57:23,000
Speaker 1: you know, Miami will take another guy at their spot,

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01:57:23,480 --> 01:57:28,000
Speaker 1: you know, and oh god, yeah, we'll have like and

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01:57:28,280 --> 01:57:31,080
Speaker 1: my New England wid trade get Garoppolo or something or

2178
01:57:31,200 --> 01:57:34,920
Speaker 1: something crazy, speaking of will be neck deep in good quarterbacks.

2179
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Speaker 1: Speaking of guys who work the metrics a lot, the

2180
01:57:39,720 --> 01:57:44,960
Speaker 1: advanced statistics, Warren Sharp from Sharp Football, who does a

2181
01:57:45,040 --> 01:57:49,600
Speaker 1: lot of good work, he came up with this. This

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01:57:49,800 --> 01:57:54,200
Speaker 1: is gonna blow your mind, Steve. The Jaguars have now

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01:57:54,440 --> 01:58:01,600
Speaker 1: spent one point four billion dollars in free agency since

2184
01:58:01,680 --> 01:58:06,840
Speaker 1: two eleven. One point four billion dollars in the last

2185
01:58:06,920 --> 01:58:12,600
Speaker 1: ten years in free agency, and they have one AFC

2186
01:58:12,840 --> 01:58:15,840
Speaker 1: title game appearance to show for it in that span

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01:58:15,960 --> 01:58:21,720
Speaker 1: of time. One point four billion dollars. Good teams are

2188
01:58:21,760 --> 01:58:24,520
Speaker 1: built from the inside. Almost as much as the Pagoula

2189
01:58:24,640 --> 01:58:27,000
Speaker 1: is paid for this franchise is what they have spent

2190
01:58:27,080 --> 01:58:31,280
Speaker 1: in free agency money in the last decade. Wow, that

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01:58:31,480 --> 01:58:33,680
Speaker 1: says something about how you build it. Hold on, I'm

2192
01:58:33,680 --> 01:58:36,160
Speaker 1: going to take it a step further. Okay, So one

2193
01:58:36,280 --> 01:58:39,520
Speaker 1: point four billion in free agency dollars spent in the

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01:58:39,640 --> 01:58:43,400
Speaker 1: last ten years by the Jaguars. They've lost nearly seventy

2195
01:58:43,480 --> 01:58:46,840
Speaker 1: five percent of their games in that time time frame,

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01:58:48,960 --> 01:58:52,040
Speaker 1: twenty five percent winning percentage after spending one point four

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01:58:52,120 --> 01:58:55,320
Speaker 1: billion in free agency, and they're on their fifth head

2198
01:58:55,360 --> 01:59:00,440
Speaker 1: coach since two thousand. Chew on that for a little while. Hey,

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01:59:00,520 --> 01:59:02,400
Speaker 1: he might want to spit it out real quick. Hey

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01:59:02,480 --> 01:59:04,160
Speaker 1: we lived it for a long time. Well I know that,

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01:59:04,280 --> 01:59:06,920
Speaker 1: but Brownie, I mean, if they didn't spend that kind

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01:59:06,960 --> 01:59:09,160
Speaker 1: of stupid money, no, I feel for men. Yeah, And

2203
01:59:09,240 --> 01:59:10,840
Speaker 1: in fact, that's one of the reasons you point to,

2204
01:59:11,720 --> 01:59:14,320
Speaker 1: you know, this club's mediocrity over those twenty years. You know,

2205
01:59:14,480 --> 01:59:16,720
Speaker 1: it's just because they wouldn't spend on that and they

2206
01:59:16,920 --> 01:59:20,760
Speaker 1: you know that whatever, whatever. But they kind of middled it. Yeah,

2207
01:59:21,200 --> 01:59:23,280
Speaker 1: the Bills middled it. They kind of went down the middle,

2208
01:59:23,840 --> 01:59:26,360
Speaker 1: and you know, they'd splash once in a while. Mario

2209
01:59:26,440 --> 01:59:29,400
Speaker 1: Williams good signing. Then they had the splash signing with

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01:59:29,520 --> 01:59:33,960
Speaker 1: to Okay, Tequio Spikes. Tequio Spikes was a good one,

2211
01:59:34,160 --> 01:59:39,400
Speaker 1: London Fletcher, there were some guys. But yeah, I mean

2212
01:59:40,240 --> 01:59:42,400
Speaker 1: it's hard to do it that way. And it's like

2213
01:59:42,480 --> 01:59:44,200
Speaker 1: we said earlier, if you're gonna sign and spend a

2214
01:59:44,280 --> 01:59:46,160
Speaker 1: lot of money in one year, how do you know

2215
01:59:46,200 --> 01:59:48,840
Speaker 1: those guys are gonna fit? Yeah? You know, and are

2216
01:59:48,880 --> 01:59:51,880
Speaker 1: those guys are they the type of guys that are

2217
01:59:51,880 --> 01:59:54,080
Speaker 1: going to elevate the guys around them and cheer four

2218
01:59:54,160 --> 01:59:56,040
Speaker 1: the guys around him, because let's you know, you get

2219
01:59:56,080 --> 01:59:58,160
Speaker 1: to that point and it's easy to see these guys being,

2220
01:59:59,080 --> 02:00:01,720
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit of a me guy. I

2221
02:00:01,800 --> 02:00:05,040
Speaker 1: don't know how much they spread that around, you know.

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02:00:05,120 --> 02:00:07,240
Speaker 1: And I've been I've been on this kick a lot

2223
02:00:07,360 --> 02:00:10,680
Speaker 1: lately that I've been because I've been getting inundated with

2224
02:00:10,800 --> 02:00:13,880
Speaker 1: questions about how this team, this Bill's squad that went

2225
02:00:13,920 --> 02:00:16,560
Speaker 1: the AFC Championship Game, equates to the old days with

2226
02:00:16,840 --> 02:00:18,920
Speaker 1: all those Hall of famers, with Jim Bruce, Thurman, andre

2227
02:00:19,080 --> 02:00:22,960
Speaker 1: and and and all those guys. And one of the

2228
02:00:23,000 --> 02:00:25,640
Speaker 1: thing is those the best guys have to empower the

2229
02:00:25,680 --> 02:00:27,600
Speaker 1: rest of the roster to be great. They have to

2230
02:00:27,680 --> 02:00:30,640
Speaker 1: be for them. They can't be me guys. They got

2231
02:00:30,720 --> 02:00:33,480
Speaker 1: to be unselfish in the locker room and every place else.

2232
02:00:33,520 --> 02:00:36,080
Speaker 1: They gotta be for them. That elevates the whole roster.

2233
02:00:36,560 --> 02:00:38,280
Speaker 1: And you bring these guys in off the street like

2234
02:00:38,360 --> 02:00:41,320
Speaker 1: these teams, you spend all this money, those guys can't

2235
02:00:41,360 --> 02:00:44,960
Speaker 1: even get acclimated, let alone start to cheer for Anybody.

2236
02:00:45,040 --> 02:00:47,720
Speaker 1: Got to know their names, right, and it's hard to

2237
02:00:47,840 --> 02:00:51,880
Speaker 1: formulate those relationships that make you for that guy because

2238
02:00:51,920 --> 02:00:56,080
Speaker 1: you know his story McDermott's been brilliant about being able

2239
02:00:56,120 --> 02:00:57,600
Speaker 1: to do that, and that's one of the things that

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02:00:57,680 --> 02:01:00,240
Speaker 1: has carried this team in the midst of a lot

2241
02:01:00,280 --> 02:01:02,320
Speaker 1: of change over the first year two or three. We

2242
02:01:02,480 --> 02:01:04,480
Speaker 1: will take a break, but when we come back, we're

2243
02:01:04,520 --> 02:01:07,280
Speaker 1: going to discuss something that is becoming readily apparent in

2244
02:01:07,360 --> 02:01:11,000
Speaker 1: the early stages of this negotiating window with respect to

2245
02:01:11,160 --> 02:01:16,200
Speaker 1: free agency, and that's with the top end receiver talent.

2246
02:01:17,080 --> 02:01:21,480
Speaker 1: Not many of them have signed deals at all. Why

2247
02:01:21,800 --> 02:01:24,680
Speaker 1: is that. We'll address that when we return here on

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

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02:01:41,720 --> 02:01:44,600
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker here on a Tuesday, and we wanted to

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02:01:44,720 --> 02:01:51,760
Speaker 1: address the strangely soft wide receiver market right now as

2252
02:01:51,840 --> 02:01:55,200
Speaker 1: we are into our second day of the legal negotiating

2253
02:01:55,320 --> 02:01:58,280
Speaker 1: period prior to the start of the new league year

2254
02:01:58,320 --> 02:02:02,400
Speaker 1: tomorrow at four PM. And Diana Rassini, friend of the

2255
02:02:02,440 --> 02:02:07,320
Speaker 1: show from ESPN, tweeted this short time ago, just spoke

2256
02:02:07,400 --> 02:02:09,680
Speaker 1: to a free agent wide receiver to find out what's

2257
02:02:09,680 --> 02:02:12,760
Speaker 1: going on with all the receivers still unsigned. He said,

2258
02:02:12,920 --> 02:02:16,960
Speaker 1: quote the wide receiver market is really bad right now.

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02:02:17,320 --> 02:02:20,760
Speaker 1: End quote. It's very interesting, Steve, because you think about

2260
02:02:20,800 --> 02:02:24,480
Speaker 1: the top names in the free agent market at the

2261
02:02:24,560 --> 02:02:28,080
Speaker 1: receiver position. You're talking about people like Juju Smith, Schuster,

2262
02:02:28,520 --> 02:02:33,360
Speaker 1: Kenny Galladay, Will Fuller, Antonio Brown, now John Brown in

2263
02:02:33,480 --> 02:02:37,400
Speaker 1: that mix, t Y, Hilton Curtis, Samuel, Marvin Jones. I mean,

2264
02:02:37,440 --> 02:02:40,960
Speaker 1: you can run down the list and John Yeah, John

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02:02:40,960 --> 02:02:44,160
Speaker 1: Brown is none of these guys. None of these guys

2266
02:02:45,600 --> 02:02:48,160
Speaker 1: are close to a deal. I think the only thing

2267
02:02:48,240 --> 02:02:50,920
Speaker 1: I've seen to this point is upwards of five teams

2268
02:02:50,960 --> 02:02:53,720
Speaker 1: are interested in Kenny Galladay. But it has not gotten

2269
02:02:53,760 --> 02:02:56,040
Speaker 1: down to brass tacks where the field has been narrowed

2270
02:02:56,040 --> 02:02:57,280
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, it's gonna be this team or

2271
02:02:57,320 --> 02:03:00,280
Speaker 1: this team, none of that. And these are the best

2272
02:03:00,320 --> 02:03:02,640
Speaker 1: guys on the market. What are the chances that you

2273
02:03:02,760 --> 02:03:04,960
Speaker 1: get a guy? What a chance the builds get John

2274
02:03:05,000 --> 02:03:08,640
Speaker 1: Brown back on a one year deal? Yeah, I mean,

2275
02:03:09,320 --> 02:03:13,440
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know if they're I don't know,

2276
02:03:14,160 --> 02:03:15,680
Speaker 1: I don't know. If I see that it's happening. A

2277
02:03:15,720 --> 02:03:17,880
Speaker 1: lot of dusts have to settle. It'll be in the process,

2278
02:03:17,960 --> 02:03:21,960
Speaker 1: but they Yeah, I'm not saying it couldn't happen. But

2279
02:03:22,360 --> 02:03:25,640
Speaker 1: why is this market as soft as it is right

2280
02:03:25,720 --> 02:03:30,160
Speaker 1: now for receivers. It's because they've largely disappointed on the market. Now.

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02:03:30,200 --> 02:03:32,240
Speaker 1: The last two or three years have been really good

2282
02:03:32,320 --> 02:03:37,400
Speaker 1: wide receiver drafts, and so's this one true. So you

2283
02:03:37,520 --> 02:03:39,400
Speaker 1: really got to be convinced if you're gonna show out

2284
02:03:39,480 --> 02:03:42,160
Speaker 1: sixteen million a year for a top receiver, you gotta

2285
02:03:42,200 --> 02:03:45,600
Speaker 1: be a yeah. And a lot of these guys have okay,

2286
02:03:45,920 --> 02:03:48,880
Speaker 1: some warts on their resume. He likes. For instance, John Brown,

2287
02:03:49,440 --> 02:03:53,840
Speaker 1: good receiver, no question, great credentials, injured up and down

2288
02:03:53,960 --> 02:03:59,680
Speaker 1: season last year, and was on a really good throwing

2289
02:03:59,720 --> 02:04:01,840
Speaker 1: off fence with a lot of good players on it.

2290
02:04:02,720 --> 02:04:05,440
Speaker 1: But it would be you would be his fourth team

2291
02:04:06,280 --> 02:04:13,360
Speaker 1: in the last four years, yeah, five years. So yeah,

2292
02:04:15,040 --> 02:04:17,240
Speaker 1: he's a guy that he is at his best spot

2293
02:04:17,440 --> 02:04:19,800
Speaker 1: is a spot right where he was with the Buffalo

2294
02:04:19,880 --> 02:04:22,920
Speaker 1: Bills this last year's solid number two guy right next

2295
02:04:22,960 --> 02:04:26,800
Speaker 1: to Diggs and a guy that takes the lid off

2296
02:04:26,840 --> 02:04:29,560
Speaker 1: a defense with a guy's slot receiver in Cole Beasley.

2297
02:04:29,840 --> 02:04:31,680
Speaker 1: I mean, he was in his sweet spot. But with

2298
02:04:31,880 --> 02:04:34,040
Speaker 1: guys that with a roster that deep, you can't pay

2299
02:04:34,240 --> 02:04:36,200
Speaker 1: a guy like that nine million nine and a half

2300
02:04:36,240 --> 02:04:40,000
Speaker 1: million like they were going to. Juju Smith, Schuster and

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02:04:40,200 --> 02:04:45,120
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay are twenty four and twenty five years old.

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02:04:46,040 --> 02:04:50,440
Speaker 1: I mean they're entering prime year's territory. I know Galladay

2303
02:04:50,520 --> 02:04:53,160
Speaker 1: was hurt last year, had a hip problem only I

2304
02:04:53,240 --> 02:04:55,720
Speaker 1: think he only played in five games and was ineffective,

2305
02:04:55,760 --> 02:04:59,640
Speaker 1: and probably three of them. I know that because he

2306
02:04:59,720 --> 02:05:05,480
Speaker 1: was my fantasy team, um, and that one hurt. But uh,

2307
02:05:06,720 --> 02:05:09,480
Speaker 1: young guys entering the prime of their career with improven

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Speaker 1: production on their resume, Steve, we don't even hear that

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02:05:13,200 --> 02:05:17,160
Speaker 1: they're close. I mean teams should be beaten down the

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Speaker 1: door for some of these guys. Yeah. And the stuff

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Speaker 1: that Juju did last year in the center field and

2312
02:05:26,160 --> 02:05:32,680
Speaker 1: the drama that he was, you know, maybe guilty by association. Yeah,

2313
02:05:32,840 --> 02:05:35,240
Speaker 1: even the drama he was a little guilty by association

2314
02:05:35,320 --> 02:05:38,560
Speaker 1: with with the Pittsburgh Receiving Corps with Antonio and Mike

2315
02:05:38,640 --> 02:05:42,760
Speaker 1: Wallace and and all the whole long list of guys

2316
02:05:42,800 --> 02:05:45,960
Speaker 1: that have been there with Ben Roethlisberger and Juju had

2317
02:05:46,000 --> 02:05:48,560
Speaker 1: a really good year and then when he got elevated

2318
02:05:48,600 --> 02:05:51,080
Speaker 1: with his opportunities last year without Antonio Brown, where he

2319
02:05:51,160 --> 02:05:52,800
Speaker 1: was gonna be the guy. He was gonna step up

2320
02:05:52,800 --> 02:05:56,160
Speaker 1: and be the next big thing. It just didn't happen. Um,

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02:05:59,000 --> 02:06:02,440
Speaker 1: I'm surprised. I'm a little surprised, not with all the

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02:06:02,560 --> 02:06:04,440
Speaker 1: names on that list, but some of the ones at

2323
02:06:04,480 --> 02:06:07,760
Speaker 1: the top. There are enough teams out there looking upgrade

2324
02:06:07,760 --> 02:06:09,640
Speaker 1: their receiving cord to say, give me that proven guy.

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02:06:09,720 --> 02:06:12,280
Speaker 1: And I'll say this too, Brownie. A lot of these teams,

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02:06:12,280 --> 02:06:15,480
Speaker 1: like look at the Bills. They've got Cole Beasley and

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02:06:15,680 --> 02:06:19,600
Speaker 1: Steph Diggs that you know if they're gonna pull the

2328
02:06:19,720 --> 02:06:23,280
Speaker 1: rip chord on a contract. There's a lot of teams

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02:06:23,360 --> 02:06:25,560
Speaker 1: exactly in the same position. They've got a John Brown

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02:06:26,160 --> 02:06:28,800
Speaker 1: already that they're like, you know, ah, we can, yeah,

2331
02:06:29,040 --> 02:06:30,720
Speaker 1: you know, we're not gonna be able to. And maybe

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02:06:31,520 --> 02:06:34,120
Speaker 1: maybe this entire list, from Kenny Galladay all the way

2333
02:06:34,160 --> 02:06:37,000
Speaker 1: down to Emmanuel Sanders and Sammy Watkins, maybe that whole

2334
02:06:37,080 --> 02:06:39,400
Speaker 1: deck just gets shuffled and they go back to whatever

2335
02:06:39,520 --> 02:06:42,800
Speaker 1: team they get on, all of them on different teams

2336
02:06:43,040 --> 02:06:46,360
Speaker 1: in the exact same role, playing for way less money

2337
02:06:46,400 --> 02:06:47,680
Speaker 1: than they thought they were gonna get. I'll tell you

2338
02:06:47,720 --> 02:06:49,880
Speaker 1: one thing, I'd be really happy if we're sitting here

2339
02:06:49,920 --> 02:06:52,600
Speaker 1: a week from now, and this list hasn't been shortened

2340
02:06:52,680 --> 02:06:55,440
Speaker 1: very much, because that's going to afford the Bills an

2341
02:06:55,480 --> 02:06:58,480
Speaker 1: opportunity to get somebody on a one year deal. Because

2342
02:06:58,720 --> 02:07:01,920
Speaker 1: somebody gets exasperated and they say, well, the hell with it,

2343
02:07:02,200 --> 02:07:04,280
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get my market value. The hell

2344
02:07:04,360 --> 02:07:06,000
Speaker 1: with it, give me a one year deal. Just give

2345
02:07:06,000 --> 02:07:07,520
Speaker 1: me a good one year deal wherever you can get it.

2346
02:07:07,600 --> 02:07:09,640
Speaker 1: That's what they're saying to their agent, and their agent

2347
02:07:09,720 --> 02:07:11,440
Speaker 1: gets onto Horn and the Bills are like, oh yeah,

2348
02:07:11,440 --> 02:07:13,960
Speaker 1: we'll give you a one year deal. Like Curtis Samuel, right,

2349
02:07:14,200 --> 02:07:15,640
Speaker 1: that guy who runs a four to three one. You

2350
02:07:15,680 --> 02:07:18,400
Speaker 1: want to add speed to your offense, and he comes

2351
02:07:18,400 --> 02:07:20,080
Speaker 1: out of a pretty good offense as well. That's right.

2352
02:07:20,200 --> 02:07:22,240
Speaker 1: So I mean, but you're trying to get faster to

2353
02:07:22,360 --> 02:07:25,560
Speaker 1: compete like the Chiefs compete on offense. Here's what you're thinking.

2354
02:07:25,560 --> 02:07:27,560
Speaker 1: If you're the Bills right now, that list right there,

2355
02:07:27,680 --> 02:07:30,680
Speaker 1: You've got your pro personnel, you got your file out

2356
02:07:30,720 --> 02:07:32,400
Speaker 1: on all of those guys, which you have on all

2357
02:07:32,480 --> 02:07:36,000
Speaker 1: of those guys. Give me the priority. Who's the best,

2358
02:07:36,160 --> 02:07:38,680
Speaker 1: who's the second best, who's the third best, who's the

2359
02:07:38,760 --> 02:07:41,520
Speaker 1: fourth best? And I'm serious, all the way down through

2360
02:07:41,600 --> 02:07:43,320
Speaker 1: eight or nine or ten, and then who can we

2361
02:07:43,400 --> 02:07:48,080
Speaker 1: get on a one year deal? Who's left? And how

2362
02:07:48,640 --> 02:07:50,800
Speaker 1: long can we wait before he takes a one year deal?

2363
02:07:50,840 --> 02:07:52,200
Speaker 1: And this is this is how much we'll pay for

2364
02:07:52,320 --> 02:07:54,320
Speaker 1: this guy. Here's how much we'll pay for that guy.

2365
02:07:54,440 --> 02:07:57,040
Speaker 1: Here's how much The first one that reaches our threshold

2366
02:07:57,080 --> 02:08:00,880
Speaker 1: that says yes, we get him, yeah, first one, first one,

2367
02:08:00,960 --> 02:08:02,720
Speaker 1: no matter if he's one through five, you know there's

2368
02:08:02,720 --> 02:08:07,320
Speaker 1: an opportunity there, right. Like, the longer the players, it's terrible.

2369
02:08:07,440 --> 02:08:10,800
Speaker 1: The longer you sit, the more desperate that list becomes.

2370
02:08:11,040 --> 02:08:14,520
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this, when one guy gets taken

2371
02:08:14,600 --> 02:08:20,320
Speaker 1: off that list, the the it creates even anxious the

2372
02:08:20,480 --> 02:08:23,440
Speaker 1: level of anxiousness. But the rest of that list skyrockets.

2373
02:08:23,880 --> 02:08:27,000
Speaker 1: When two guys goes off that list, three guys, the

2374
02:08:27,320 --> 02:08:33,879
Speaker 1: other seven guys on that list get me signed today, yesterday.

2375
02:08:34,560 --> 02:08:37,280
Speaker 1: That is it is you are desperate. Yeah, So when

2376
02:08:37,320 --> 02:08:39,560
Speaker 1: the third guy comes off that list, could be an

2377
02:08:39,600 --> 02:08:42,400
Speaker 1: opportunity here for the bills. The rest of that list

2378
02:08:42,640 --> 02:08:45,800
Speaker 1: is absolutely beside themselves wanting to play and get get

2379
02:08:45,840 --> 02:08:48,640
Speaker 1: a contract. I mean, they are desperate for it. I

2380
02:08:49,200 --> 02:08:51,240
Speaker 1: can tell you I've seen it happen. Tell and I

2381
02:08:51,360 --> 02:08:53,840
Speaker 1: find it. Find the two or three guys on that

2382
02:08:54,000 --> 02:08:57,240
Speaker 1: list that you like, pick a handful, and you get

2383
02:08:57,280 --> 02:08:59,720
Speaker 1: on the phone and you say, hey man, I'm really

2384
02:08:59,760 --> 02:09:03,440
Speaker 1: so worry about this market being so lousy, but it's

2385
02:09:03,480 --> 02:09:05,160
Speaker 1: gonna come back. You want a lot of one on

2386
02:09:05,280 --> 02:09:08,760
Speaker 1: one matchups because Stefan Diggs is getting double teamed and

2387
02:09:08,920 --> 02:09:11,600
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley's working inside, and you think you'd like to

2388
02:09:11,640 --> 02:09:13,120
Speaker 1: be a part of that. I got a one year

2389
02:09:13,200 --> 02:09:15,800
Speaker 1: deal for you. What you think by the way we

2390
02:09:15,920 --> 02:09:20,160
Speaker 1: throw the ball about forty five times? Again? You want

2391
02:09:20,200 --> 02:09:23,080
Speaker 1: to maximize your value next year? We got an MVP. Yeah,

2392
02:09:23,240 --> 02:09:25,480
Speaker 1: you want to maximize your value next year. We got

2393
02:09:25,520 --> 02:09:27,960
Speaker 1: an MVP quarterback, and we got a guy that's gonna

2394
02:09:27,960 --> 02:09:29,680
Speaker 1: be double to all game long, giving you one on

2395
02:09:29,760 --> 02:09:31,720
Speaker 1: ones all day. We got a quarterback we're trying to

2396
02:09:31,800 --> 02:09:34,320
Speaker 1: get the MVP two. Can't you see Big Baller being

2397
02:09:34,360 --> 02:09:37,480
Speaker 1: on the line doing that. We're selling quarterback in the

2398
02:09:37,680 --> 02:09:40,120
Speaker 1: MVP conversation and you we need you to help us

2399
02:09:40,200 --> 02:09:44,800
Speaker 1: do it. Let's go that. That's a sales pitch. One

2400
02:09:44,840 --> 02:09:47,400
Speaker 1: of those guys on that list, maybe five of those

2401
02:09:47,440 --> 02:09:50,840
Speaker 1: guys on that list, will say, yes, you know, I

2402
02:09:50,920 --> 02:09:54,200
Speaker 1: think it convince a few of those guys by virtue

2403
02:09:54,240 --> 02:09:56,960
Speaker 1: of these two facts. One, you had the number one

2404
02:09:57,000 --> 02:09:59,680
Speaker 1: receiver in the league. On the other side, who's gonna

2405
02:09:59,720 --> 02:10:02,280
Speaker 1: take a lot of attention away from you? Right, you

2406
02:10:02,360 --> 02:10:06,360
Speaker 1: got a guy in the slot who's gonna convert tie

2407
02:10:06,440 --> 02:10:08,320
Speaker 1: up the middle of the field. They're gonna he's gonna

2408
02:10:08,400 --> 02:10:09,920
Speaker 1: keep you on the field a lot for a lot

2409
02:10:10,040 --> 02:10:14,240
Speaker 1: more reps. They can't roll safeties everywhere, right, So yeah,

2410
02:10:14,680 --> 02:10:18,400
Speaker 1: I mean you you're you're frustrated. You know, you gotta

2411
02:10:18,440 --> 02:10:20,320
Speaker 1: take a one year deal this year. But if you're

2412
02:10:20,360 --> 02:10:23,320
Speaker 1: gonna take it, somewhere is a pretty damn good place

2413
02:10:23,400 --> 02:10:26,600
Speaker 1: to maximize your value for next year. Here's and maybe

2414
02:10:26,640 --> 02:10:28,320
Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl in the in the process. And

2415
02:10:28,400 --> 02:10:30,160
Speaker 1: here's another thing too, you gotta I don't know what.

2416
02:10:30,240 --> 02:10:31,840
Speaker 1: I don't know any of those guys. I know John Brown.

2417
02:10:31,920 --> 02:10:35,040
Speaker 1: John Brown would probably respond to this, But you're gonna

2418
02:10:35,040 --> 02:10:37,520
Speaker 1: come to a place where they got a great vibe

2419
02:10:37,520 --> 02:10:39,800
Speaker 1: in the locker room. And I think the Bills will

2420
02:10:39,840 --> 02:10:43,000
Speaker 1: probably do their due diligence on this in this respect

2421
02:10:43,040 --> 02:10:44,760
Speaker 1: to which of those guys on those lists, which of

2422
02:10:44,800 --> 02:10:47,920
Speaker 1: those guys on that list, or maybe a bunch will

2423
02:10:48,520 --> 02:10:51,880
Speaker 1: thrive in an offense or an atmosphere where you got

2424
02:10:51,960 --> 02:10:54,560
Speaker 1: a guy like Steph Diggs who is all for you,

2425
02:10:55,680 --> 02:10:57,480
Speaker 1: you know, as a number one receiver saying, hey, man,

2426
02:10:57,520 --> 02:10:59,440
Speaker 1: I hope you score on this, but if he's open,

2427
02:10:59,520 --> 02:11:01,600
Speaker 1: throw him the ball. We want to win. We're here

2428
02:11:01,680 --> 02:11:03,960
Speaker 1: to win. Throw to the guy that's open. You got

2429
02:11:04,040 --> 02:11:07,800
Speaker 1: a number one receiver who's not pouting, and I got

2430
02:11:07,840 --> 02:11:11,880
Speaker 1: a quarterback who's finding the open guy, and we're gonna

2431
02:11:11,920 --> 02:11:14,040
Speaker 1: And the plan is they're gonna go deep. I'm not

2432
02:11:14,120 --> 02:11:15,600
Speaker 1: I don't mean throw the ball deep. I mean go

2433
02:11:15,800 --> 02:11:18,880
Speaker 1: deep into the season, in the playoffs. They're gonna go deep.

2434
02:11:19,320 --> 02:11:20,880
Speaker 1: So you want to be on board with that or not.

2435
02:11:21,040 --> 02:11:23,920
Speaker 1: That's a selling point. And the five coming out of

2436
02:11:23,920 --> 02:11:26,560
Speaker 1: Buffalo this last year, Steph Diggs was all about Cole

2437
02:11:26,640 --> 02:11:29,360
Speaker 1: Beasley and John Brown and he led the league in

2438
02:11:29,600 --> 02:11:32,920
Speaker 1: yards and receptions. It's a pretty good, pretty good at

2439
02:11:33,080 --> 02:11:36,080
Speaker 1: environment to thrive in. Yeah, especially on a one year deal,

2440
02:11:36,400 --> 02:11:38,960
Speaker 1: Especially on a one year deal. Break time for us.

2441
02:11:39,040 --> 02:11:41,240
Speaker 1: Steve and I back to tie things up in a

2442
02:11:41,360 --> 02:11:44,640
Speaker 1: bow with what have we learned from today's show. I

2443
02:11:44,720 --> 02:11:46,520
Speaker 1: think we've learned that the Bills are in a pretty

2444
02:11:46,600 --> 02:11:50,320
Speaker 1: nice spot if they need to get a veteran receiver

2445
02:11:50,480 --> 02:11:52,680
Speaker 1: on a one year deal. With where this receiver market

2446
02:11:52,800 --> 02:11:55,320
Speaker 1: is headed. Back in a moment here on One Bills Live,

2447
02:11:55,400 --> 02:12:10,640
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. The

2448
02:12:10,720 --> 02:12:15,720
Speaker 1: show What have We Learned? Brought to you by Skyworks,

2449
02:12:15,880 --> 02:12:20,960
Speaker 1: the official construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. Steve,

2450
02:12:21,040 --> 02:12:23,280
Speaker 1: I think we learned that this soft wide receiver market

2451
02:12:23,320 --> 02:12:25,200
Speaker 1: could wind up being an advantage for the Bills. We

2452
02:12:25,400 --> 02:12:29,680
Speaker 1: learned that today talked ourselves into that. I definitely, I'm

2453
02:12:30,240 --> 02:12:32,240
Speaker 1: we spent we spent a lot of time now that

2454
02:12:32,560 --> 02:12:36,480
Speaker 1: now that Milano, Feliciano and Williams are signed, we spent

2455
02:12:36,560 --> 02:12:39,920
Speaker 1: a lot of time talking edge rushers and corners. Yeah, um,

2456
02:12:40,520 --> 02:12:43,360
Speaker 1: shouldn't dismiss wide receiver though, No, especially on a one

2457
02:12:43,480 --> 02:12:45,760
Speaker 1: year deal. That's what makes sense there. And we know,

2458
02:12:46,320 --> 02:12:48,720
Speaker 1: you know, being was kind of a forerunner with that approach,

2459
02:12:49,000 --> 02:12:50,320
Speaker 1: which a lot of other teams are going to have

2460
02:12:50,480 --> 02:12:54,080
Speaker 1: to do out of necessity, and some players may want

2461
02:12:54,120 --> 02:12:55,840
Speaker 1: to do if they know they're not getting their fair

2462
02:12:55,920 --> 02:12:58,640
Speaker 1: market value in a depressed economy. The selling point you're

2463
02:12:58,640 --> 02:13:00,280
Speaker 1: gonna have to do if you're gonna sell a guy

2464
02:13:00,360 --> 02:13:03,120
Speaker 1: to come here and play, is this You're you're gonna

2465
02:13:03,160 --> 02:13:05,480
Speaker 1: like Gabe Davis, he's gonna be on the field. You're

2466
02:13:05,520 --> 02:13:08,400
Speaker 1: gonna have to sell him on four wide. Yeah, because

2467
02:13:08,400 --> 02:13:10,640
Speaker 1: they gotta say, I gotta be on the field all

2468
02:13:10,680 --> 02:13:12,320
Speaker 1: the time. If they're gonna come here and sign a

2469
02:13:12,360 --> 02:13:14,200
Speaker 1: one year deal, I need the opportunities because if you've

2470
02:13:14,200 --> 02:13:16,160
Speaker 1: already got Gabe Davis and he's penciled in, he had

2471
02:13:16,160 --> 02:13:19,400
Speaker 1: a nice year and almost had ten touchdowns on the

2472
02:13:19,440 --> 02:13:21,600
Speaker 1: season because he had three come in and compete. Man,

2473
02:13:21,720 --> 02:13:24,360
Speaker 1: you can come in and compete, but you also got

2474
02:13:24,440 --> 02:13:26,680
Speaker 1: to say, listen, we ran up until the time John

2475
02:13:26,720 --> 02:13:28,560
Speaker 1: Brown got hurt. We're running four wide and we're thinking

2476
02:13:28,640 --> 02:13:30,720
Speaker 1: about doing it again. That you gotta kind of sell

2477
02:13:30,800 --> 02:13:34,200
Speaker 1: him on that. Well, we'll see, but it's there. It's there,

2478
02:13:34,360 --> 02:13:35,960
Speaker 1: no question about. It helps when you have an MVP

2479
02:13:36,120 --> 02:13:37,920
Speaker 1: runner up throwing to him too, and you throw it

2480
02:13:38,040 --> 02:13:40,000
Speaker 1: that times a game that doesn't hurt. Yeah, that's the

2481
02:13:40,040 --> 02:13:42,600
Speaker 1: first part of the sales pitch. Item number one is

2482
02:13:42,680 --> 02:13:45,960
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and his arm, and item number two is

2483
02:13:46,000 --> 02:13:48,640
Speaker 1: how good he played last year. All right, that'll do

2484
02:13:48,760 --> 02:13:51,640
Speaker 1: it for us here on a Tuesday. The league year

2485
02:13:51,920 --> 02:13:55,600
Speaker 1: starts tomorrow at four pm, but there'll be plenty of

2486
02:13:55,680 --> 02:13:58,280
Speaker 1: other free agent news that we'll be covering here on

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