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Speaker 1: one Bills Live, Manny, and I'll do our best to

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Speaker 1: answer those for you. Coming up second hour of the program,

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Speaker 1: a guy that played for the eighty five Bears at

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Speaker 1: right guard one, Tom Thayer, will join us. He is

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Speaker 1: on the Bears radio network as a color analyst, so

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Speaker 1: he'll bring us up to speed on the Bears. And

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Speaker 1: then third hour of the show NFL on CBS's Evan Washburn,

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Speaker 1: sideline reporter for them during the regular season. He was

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Speaker 1: here at Bill's camp this week, so we'll get his

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Speaker 1: thoughts on what he saw, maybe share a little bit

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Speaker 1: of the conversation he had with head coach Sean McDermott.

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Speaker 1: And he's also pretty plugged in to the AFC side

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Speaker 1: of the ledger. I know he does preseason broadcasts for

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Speaker 1: the Ravens, so he's pretty tapped in over there. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure we're going to ask him about how Lamar Jackson

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Speaker 1: has come back from being on the COVID reserve list.

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Speaker 1: What we want to do though, is kind of tee

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Speaker 1: up the upcoming preseason game tomorrow with the Bears, and

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Speaker 1: will you know, I try to look at the list

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Speaker 1: and you know, we put up the five players to

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Speaker 1: watch on Buffalo Bills dot Com today, And obviously this

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Speaker 1: is very open ended. You could pick any five players

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Speaker 1: you choose from you want to choose from on the

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Speaker 1: entire roster, on who you want to see more of

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Speaker 1: or who you need to kind of get a better

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Speaker 1: handle on what they have to offer the team. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw my list, Maddie, but

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Speaker 1: you know there's some young players that even though they

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Speaker 1: got a lot of time last week, they didn't get

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Speaker 1: as much as I thought. Like Jack Anderson was a

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Speaker 1: guy that I had on the list. And I go

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Speaker 1: in alphabetical order when I list these people, and I'm thinking, okay,

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Speaker 1: Jack Anderson. You know, he's not high on the depth chart,

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Speaker 1: but he's there and he's getting reps in practice. And

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Speaker 1: then I look at the game sheet from last week.

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Speaker 1: He only got ten snaps. I couldn't believe it. I

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Speaker 1: thought he got more playing time than that. I anticipate

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Speaker 1: I think this is a guy that has to show, hey,

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Speaker 1: I deserve a spot at the back end of the

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Speaker 1: offensive line contingent on the fifty three man roster. I

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Speaker 1: think he's got to show something this week. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: wonder if the game plan for the Bills when it

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Speaker 1: we saw some could be starters this year play some reps,

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Speaker 1: as in Cody Ford, just because that was his first

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Speaker 1: game back from rehabbing from that knee and that shoulder

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Speaker 1: injury he dealt with over the off season. And so

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Speaker 1: maybe some guys like that, we're getting a few more

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Speaker 1: reps just because you kind of want to rip the

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Speaker 1: band aid off of what could have been a nervous

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Speaker 1: situation for some of these guys who haven't played in

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Speaker 1: some time, or you're trying to figure out, you know,

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Speaker 1: where some of these backups could lie. But yeah, Jack

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Speaker 1: Anderson as someone who is fighting for a roster spot,

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Speaker 1: and so I wonder if, yes, there's only four or

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Speaker 1: three preseason games instead of four this year. I wonder

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Speaker 1: if the game plan changes at all this week to

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Speaker 1: next week and you're playing some of those true guys,

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Speaker 1: and we did see some of those guys play, but

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Speaker 1: some of those guys who are really really going to

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Speaker 1: be fighting for a roster spot, and see what load,

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Speaker 1: what workload they get in this game against the Bears.

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Speaker 1: I'm interested to see Jack Anderson for sure. And then

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Speaker 1: another player that I think has to show something year

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Speaker 1: is Dane Jackson, a guy that is I think way

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Speaker 1: behind Levi Wallace in terms of battling for that CB

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Speaker 1: two spot. He just hasn't had the consistency in camp

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Speaker 1: and didn't really pop or flash in the first preseason game.

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Speaker 1: And I mean he's clear so he's clearly trailing in

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Speaker 1: the position battle number one. But now he's got to prove,

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Speaker 1: like much like Jack Anderson, that he's worthy of a

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Speaker 1: roster spot because he's got some young bucks behind him

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Speaker 1: that are now pushing him, guys like you know, Rashad

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Speaker 1: Wild Goose players like that. Even Nick McLeod made more

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Speaker 1: plays in that preseason opener than he did, so I

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Speaker 1: think the pressure is on Dane right now. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: was going to mention Nick McCleod as a part of

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Speaker 1: that group who had a good first preseason game. I

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Speaker 1: will say I completely agree with you on Dane Jackson's

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Speaker 1: camp performance up to this point. I remember us talking

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Speaker 1: about last week like maybe this guy is just a gamer.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he turns it on when when the lights are

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Speaker 1: on and when it counts, But he had his best

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Speaker 1: practice of camp yesterday. He did some things that he

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Speaker 1: did last year that I was happy to see are

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Speaker 1: are still part of his skill set. So yesterday they

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Speaker 1: were just in shells. It wasn't a padded practice. But

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Speaker 1: I wonder if he could carry some of that over,

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Speaker 1: some of that confidence that I'm sure he got from

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Speaker 1: that practice. Knowing that he hasn't had the best camp

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Speaker 1: out of the corners, maybe he can carry some of

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Speaker 1: that over into the second preseason game, because, yeah, we

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Speaker 1: do need to see it from him, because some other

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Speaker 1: corners who are younger than him have maybe made a

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Speaker 1: couple more plays in the preseason game and practices compared

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Speaker 1: to what he's done thus far. Yeah, maybe maybe that's

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Speaker 1: just the way he operates. It's a slow burn. Hopefully

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Speaker 1: for his sake, it is, and we see more and

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Speaker 1: more as we go on. We have to take a

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Speaker 1: break here speaking of players and their performances in training camp.

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Speaker 1: When we come back, we are going to go over

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Speaker 1: the training camp awards that Maddie put together for Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills dot Com. We're just gonna lump them right into

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Speaker 1: what we know as the Maddie Awards here on the

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Speaker 1: show their Training Camp Awards, but Maddie did him, so

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Speaker 1: we're calling them Mattie Awards. The hell with it, So

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Speaker 1: we will get to that when we return here on

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Speaker 1: One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health. This is

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio and we're back Chris Brown, Maddie Glab

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Speaker 1: here on a Friday. Ob L Fan Friday mail Bag

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Speaker 1: is open. Be sure to fire off your questions on

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Speaker 1: Twitter at one Bills Live or give us a call

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Speaker 1: eight oh three five fifty time. Now though, for the

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Speaker 1: triumphant return of the Mattie Awards Training Camp addition, as

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Speaker 1: Maddie put up the official Training Camp Awards and the

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Speaker 1: Maddies brought to you by Energy Mark, the official energy

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Speaker 1: supplier to the Buffalo Bills. And where do we wish

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Speaker 1: to begin here, Maddie with Training Camp Awards. Now that

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Speaker 1: training camp technically has come to a close and they're

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Speaker 1: just practicing and getting ready for the season. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: a little bit weird that, you know, you seems like

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Speaker 1: halfway through training camp. Were already through training camp. So

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Speaker 1: it was fifteen practices one preseason game. According to my notes,

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Speaker 1: I was at practice every day like you were. Brownie.

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Speaker 1: So it's kind of like, wait, what, we're already at

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Speaker 1: the end of training camp, like you technically are, but

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Speaker 1: you also aren't at the same time because it's August

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Speaker 1: twentieth and the season starts September twelve, so they still

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Speaker 1: got a good amount of time left. But I think

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Speaker 1: we've been able to see enough to deem some awards

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Speaker 1: some of the guys who stood out. So we can

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Speaker 1: start with offensive MVP. Okay, And I mean if you

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Speaker 1: were following Twitter, or if you happen to be at

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Speaker 1: any of the practice or you read any of our

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Speaker 1: stuff or anyone else, I think it's easy to see

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Speaker 1: and understand that Josh Allen is definitely the MVP of

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Speaker 1: the offense and training camp. Yes, it's it's an easy

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Speaker 1: person to pick, but he stood out so much more

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Speaker 1: than any other person on the offense. I mean, you're

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Speaker 1: looking for him after the type of season that he

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Speaker 1: had last season. You're hoping he takes a step forward,

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Speaker 1: and you're looking for him to take a step forward.

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Speaker 1: And it's really tough to see something like that in

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Speaker 1: camp when you're just practicing against your own defense. But

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Speaker 1: this guy, as I wrote, was a consistent machine throughout camp.

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Speaker 1: I mean he was making play after play after play.

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Speaker 1: Rarely in practices did the ball hit the ground. And

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Speaker 1: I can only think of one practice where Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: didn't look like himself in a series or two. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to use the word incredible, but he

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Speaker 1: was really really spot on every single practice and it

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Speaker 1: was reassuring as someone who covers this team and probably

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Speaker 1: to our fans to see, Okay, this was not a

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Speaker 1: one year thing. He is building off what he did

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Speaker 1: last year. He's building off the records that he broke

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Speaker 1: last year. He's becoming to get more consistent with his

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Speaker 1: current receivers and with new receivers like Jake Kumero, who's

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Speaker 1: not the newest guy. He did spend part of last

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Speaker 1: season with the Bills, but he was hitting on everything

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Speaker 1: the offense one camp. There were very few, if any

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Speaker 1: practices where you could say the defense won the day.

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Speaker 1: And yes, we still have a really good defense, but

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Speaker 1: holy moly, Josh Allen has been lights out in camp. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think you're right. It's the day to day consistency

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Speaker 1: that probably earns him this because play in play out,

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Speaker 1: the level of play remained the same and I think

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Speaker 1: that was probably maybe the one missing element from his

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Speaker 1: game at times even last year, which is why he

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Speaker 1: tried to work on the things in the offseason that

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Speaker 1: he talked about in cutting routes left to right, he

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Speaker 1: had another route to the right side of the field

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Speaker 1: that he wanted to brush up on, and so his

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Speaker 1: ball location on plays is probably as good as I

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Speaker 1: have ever seen it. So I'm all good with this choice.

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Speaker 1: And when you can frustrate a defense that is as

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Speaker 1: veteran in nature as the one that the Bills have

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Speaker 1: in a practice setting, I mean, I don't have to

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Speaker 1: tell you. You could see it in their body language

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Speaker 1: on defense that they could not stop this offense from

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Speaker 1: making plays down in and down out. That that was

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Speaker 1: very telling to me. So yeah, that's that's a no

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Speaker 1: brainer choice as far as I'm concerned. All right, flip

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Speaker 1: it over the defense. So you got there, defensive MVP.

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Speaker 1: You know, I could chose a couple people. It's not

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Speaker 1: like anyone stood out head and shoulders above the rest

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Speaker 1: of the group or above the veteran starters like Josh

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Speaker 1: Allen did. But I was pretty impressed with what Micah

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Speaker 1: Hyde was able to do in camp. He had two

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Speaker 1: interceptions that were very athletic interceptions, just showcasing the way

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Speaker 1: that he can move, his comfortability in this defense. And yes,

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Speaker 1: he's been a part of this defense for several years now,

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Speaker 1: came in with Sean McDermott and that staff. But he

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Speaker 1: has nice pass breakups too. He is someone that this

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Speaker 1: defense is going to lean on like many others this season,

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Speaker 1: the back half of that defense. Your safeties are so

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Speaker 1: important now in today's NFL that likes to just throw

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Speaker 1: the ball. And so these are when I loop him

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Speaker 1: in with Jordan Employer, these are your two guys who

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Speaker 1: who mean a lot to your defense, who can be

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Speaker 1: a part of your lockdown secondary. So I was just

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Speaker 1: proud of what he was able to put together in

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Speaker 1: his first season with the Bills. He had those five interceptions.

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Speaker 1: If he has something close to that again, I think

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Speaker 1: that could really help out the defense this year. Of course,

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00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: we want more pressure from the defensive line, but when

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00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 1: your defensive line can put more pressure on the quarterback,

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Speaker 1: that gives room for your back half of your defense,

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Speaker 1: your secondary to truly make some moves and shine. And

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Speaker 1: so with what he was able to do, because I

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Speaker 1: think the defensive line was getting more pressure at times.

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Speaker 1: I think we were really able to see why Micah

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Speaker 1: Hyde is so good. Yeah, and I think that's what

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Speaker 1: a lot of your guys on the back end have

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Speaker 1: been talking about. They love the size that now exists

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Speaker 1: up front, Rousseau chief among them. But you know they

649
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: got other tall players up there too, that when they

650
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: put their hands up, you're talking about nine nine and

651
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: a half feet in the air. That's going to impact

652
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 1: the flight of passes. It's going to clog up passing lanes.

653
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 1: You can get a lot of tip drill type interceptions,

654
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 1: and I remember hearing Micah Hyde Entredavious White talk about

655
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: that through the course of the preseason. Hopefully that comes

656
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: to fruition, all right, most improved. I think there's a

657
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:13,920
Speaker 1: couple of candidates here, But where did you land? I

658
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,439
Speaker 1: landed with aj Epenessa, not only because of what he

659
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: has shown in training camp practices, but just how his

660
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 1: veteran teammates also talked about him in press conferences. They

661
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: spoke very highly of aj Epinessa, what he did in

662
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 1: the off season to get him to where he's at

663
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:37,040
Speaker 1: right now. Mario Addison had glowing reviews about him when

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Speaker 1: he was asked, you know, he said, aj is ready

665
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: where he's at last year versus now. He is ready.

666
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: He's ready for the NFL. He's ready for this moment.

667
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 1: If you've been following the team, you know that he

668
00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:52,240
Speaker 1: lost a little bit too much weight in his rookie season.

669
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,320
Speaker 1: He has been able to gain that back. He spent

670
00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,879
Speaker 1: most of the off season in Buffalo working with our

671
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 1: strength staff to get to a place to where he's

672
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: comfortable in his weight. I do think he looks a

673
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,439
Speaker 1: lot more comfortable in this defense in his second year.

674
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:07,879
Speaker 1: I think the rookies who went through what they went

675
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 1: through last year with COVID, it was a little bit

676
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: of a whirlwind, and this is someone who doesn't look

677
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:15,719
Speaker 1: like he's part of that whirlwind anymore. He looks more grounded,

678
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: he looks comfortable, and because of that, you're starting to

679
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 1: see that athleticism shine. That's a reason why the Bills

680
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 1: drafted him, because of what he was able to do

681
00:38:25,520 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 1: at Iowa and what they think he's capable of with

682
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. I think this is someone who can

683
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: really take a big step forward this year being a

684
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 1: part of the defensive line. Yeah, he's got to get

685
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 1: to a point where he much like we were just

686
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,479
Speaker 1: talking about, Josh, kind of has that down and down

687
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 1: out consistency instead of just flashing here and there like

688
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 1: he did as a rookie. And incidentally, Good Morning Football,

689
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:52,359
Speaker 1: as Peter Schrager had him on his top ten breakthrough

690
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 1: players for twenty twenty one, so he's on the national

691
00:38:55,800 --> 00:38:57,840
Speaker 1: radar as well, So hopefully he can come through in

692
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:01,320
Speaker 1: that regard offensive and defense to rookies. Maddie, let's just

693
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:05,360
Speaker 1: pair these two awards together. Yeah, so I'll go quick.

694
00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:08,720
Speaker 1: I mean offensive rookie stand out for me was Spencer Brown.

695
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: Of course, Dion Dawkins was out, and several other offensive

696
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: linemen shifted out for practices for veteran rest days or

697
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: being a part of the COVID nineteen lists or other reasons,

698
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,239
Speaker 1: and so Spencer Brown was able to fill in some

699
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: of those holes that they had, and I think he

700
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 1: did a good job of holding his own. It's not

701
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Speaker 1: easy to be a rookie offensive lineman and be playing

702
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Speaker 1: the bulk of reps that he played in this training camp.

703
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: So just because of that and because he wasn't getting

704
00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 1: blown up every single play, it was like, Okay, this

705
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,759
Speaker 1: is someone who's a third round draft pick who a

706
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,800
Speaker 1: lot of teams probably didn't have high on their boards

707
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 1: at that time. That thankfully Brandon, being in a scouting department,

708
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:56,800
Speaker 1: were able to see the talent that he can offer

709
00:39:57,239 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 1: with his size, and I was like, are watching him

710
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:04,040
Speaker 1: in several practices like, this is someone who can really

711
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,920
Speaker 1: have a role on this offensive line whenever the coaching

712
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 1: staff deems him ready. He is he completely ready right

713
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: now to be started on the offensive line? No, I

714
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,399
Speaker 1: don't think so. Can he rotate in when needed this year? Yes?

715
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: I believe in that. And he said, you know, I've

716
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:21,239
Speaker 1: been able to learn from my wins and losses. There's

717
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 1: some veterans on this offensive line, like Mitch Morsey said,

718
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:26,879
Speaker 1: who really helped him and have been helping him through

719
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: training camp so far. And defensive rookie standout, it's gotta

720
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 1: be Greg Russeau. This is someone who Brandon Bean and

721
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott talked about as in, yes, he can have

722
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,440
Speaker 1: a role on this team. How big is it going

723
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: to be this year? We don't know that. We're not

724
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: going to put a number on that or we're not

725
00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:48,920
Speaker 1: going to put an amount on that, right now he

726
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: opted out last year. Spencer Brown didn't really play last

727
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 1: year either, So you look at what he can offer

728
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,280
Speaker 1: size wise, and you're thinking, yeah, this is an elite

729
00:40:57,320 --> 00:40:59,760
Speaker 1: talent if we just look at him and he played

730
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Speaker 1: like that in camp. He got multiple sacks, multiple pass breakups.

731
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Speaker 1: He had a sack in the preseason game. I have

732
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: been very impressed with what he's been able to do.

733
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Speaker 1: I mean, we've watched his tape. We know he's a

734
00:41:11,239 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: really good player, but he can be a really good

735
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 1: player because of his length. I think I was convinced

736
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 1: that he's also a really good player because of his

737
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: skill set, not just because of his body. Yeah, and Brown,

738
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 1: you know, all that time he got in the preseason

739
00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 1: I think only helps cement his role, which I think

740
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: has been anticipated since Brandon being drafted him and said

741
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: it five minutes after picking him as the swing tackle,

742
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,040
Speaker 1: the first tackle off the bench should there be an

743
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,320
Speaker 1: injury to the starters. So I think all that time

744
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 1: has only helped prepare him for that. And yeah, you're right,

745
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: Rousseau's got some physical, natural physical ability that I think

746
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 1: can carry him and help him make plays in the

747
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 1: early stages as he refines his game with more and

748
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: more experience. We're just about out of time here in

749
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: the segment, Mattie, But surprise player was Jake Kumerou. You

750
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: had and most value newcomer. I think a lot of people,

751
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 1: if they had to guess, might have guessed this guy.

752
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,399
Speaker 1: But it's nice to see that it is the guy. Yeah.

753
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,720
Speaker 1: I mean, Emmanuel Sanders is someone who is a twelve

754
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,560
Speaker 1: year vet in this league. He comes into a situation,

755
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:19,280
Speaker 1: He's understood a lot of offenses, has been a solid

756
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: wide receiver in several different ways in realms, and he

757
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: showed that in training camp. He didn't play in every

758
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 1: practice because he was dealing with some injuries there, but

759
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 1: when he was a part of practice, he did make

760
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 1: his name known and he did stand out in what

761
00:42:35,800 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: he can do route running wise and what he can

762
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 1: do with his speed in his hands. So I'm excited

763
00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:42,399
Speaker 1: for this guy to pee a part of the wide

764
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 1: receiver corps that's already completely stacked this year, and when

765
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,640
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs has been out with his knee ailment the

766
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:50,640
Speaker 1: last week or so, I think Sanders has done a

767
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:54,080
Speaker 1: nice job of helping to pick up the slack with

768
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,719
Speaker 1: the offense in the passing game. All right, those are

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Speaker 1: the Maddie Awards. Good list there, Maddie and again Mattie Awards,

770
00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 1: brought to you by Energy Mark, the official energy supplier

771
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,479
Speaker 1: to the Buffalo Bills. Manny and I step aside here,

772
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:09,439
Speaker 1: but when we come back, we've got an interesting thing

773
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: to show everybody, at least our MSG viewers will describe

774
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: it for our radio listeners to prove to you that

775
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:18,440
Speaker 1: Western New York is ready for football already. We'll get

776
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 1: to that when we return here on One Bill's Live,

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00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:22,960
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio,

778
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,479
Speaker 1: all right, welcome back to One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

779
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: Matty Glad with you here on a Friday, and we

780
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:42,799
Speaker 1: know that just about everybody in Western New York is

781
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 1: already ready for football, regular season football. So we got

782
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:50,239
Speaker 1: to make our way through these next two preseason games,

783
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: and they got to wait a whole another week before

784
00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:56,920
Speaker 1: you can get to Week one Bills Steelers. But people

785
00:43:56,920 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: are already doing their own unique preparation, whether it is

786
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:07,760
Speaker 1: getting their garage patio ready and fully outfitted to watch

787
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 1: a game while the weather is still nice for the

788
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: first few weeks, or doing something like this. This is

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00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 1: a local farm I believe it's in Clarence and they

790
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: carved out a corn maze and our MSG viewers are

791
00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:26,280
Speaker 1: what are looking at it now? So across the top

792
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:30,240
Speaker 1: it's written in this corn maze hashtag back to the Bowl.

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Speaker 1: And I can only say that this is in trying

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00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:38,200
Speaker 1: to describe this for our radio listeners. You have a

795
00:44:38,360 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 1: view of Jim Kelly from behind in his number twelve

796
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: Jersey and Josh Allen facing you in this depiction and

797
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 1: they're kind of slapping each other on the back, with

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00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: Josh holding a football tucked in his arm. Maddie, I

799
00:44:55,960 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 1: am fascinated how people can do this on ground level.

800
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:04,359
Speaker 1: Maybe it's easier nowadays, maybe a fly a drone up

801
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 1: to kind of help you map this out. But I

802
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 1: just am fascinated how you do this on the ground. Yeah,

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00:45:11,560 --> 00:45:13,919
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know how you can do this.

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00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:17,399
Speaker 1: I'm also want to know how many hours this took,

805
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: because this seems like it was, you know, a week

806
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:24,279
Speaker 1: long if not more project, and to have it look

807
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: this good. I mean I can't even draw a stick

808
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 1: figure on a piece of paper, let alone make a

809
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 1: corn maze and have it be Josh Allen and Jim Kelly.

810
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: That's just like not even in my realm of what

811
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 1: I would ever be able to do. So props to

812
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: these people who are also artists just as good as

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00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: they are farmers. Like it. Way to go, hats off.

814
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: I also want to go through this corn maze if

815
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:57,600
Speaker 1: it's open to the public. Yeah, there is, h Matt.

816
00:45:57,640 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 1: I couldn't even do this on an old school etch

817
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:01,879
Speaker 1: a sketch if you ask me to like forget it,

818
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:08,120
Speaker 1: because the thing is, you can't have any like discontinuous line,

819
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:09,880
Speaker 1: if you know what I mean, Like you've got to

820
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: all of these lines that they make I guess with

821
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: the exception of maybe one or two of the numbers

822
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 1: have to interconnect. So just the planning involved alone, UM,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. This is this is way beyond my

824
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 1: creativity level to be able to kind of pull this

825
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 1: off on a scale this large. I was gonna say,

826
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Speaker 1: it's not like you can erase anything either, exactly. There's

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00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,839
Speaker 1: no erasing here, Like you commit to it and it

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00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:46,399
Speaker 1: doesn't look like there's any mess ups, right, It's yeah,

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00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: I mean I could. I could probably figure out letters

830
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,840
Speaker 1: and how to do those, but the creative part of

831
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:58,320
Speaker 1: the two players slapping each other on the back that

832
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: that's way beyond what I can do artistically, Like that

833
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 1: is just to me, it's next level stuff. So good

834
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 1: good on them in Clarence for doing that heck of

835
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 1: a job. And I don't know about you, but that

836
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 1: just kind of gets you all the more fired up

837
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: for football because that's just a cool thing just to

838
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 1: kind of see that going on reason number five million

839
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 1: why we love Bills fans so much. Yeah, this is

840
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:28,840
Speaker 1: just another one of those like and it's great because

841
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 1: you know, if another fan base were to do this,

842
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:34,759
Speaker 1: they may be like super shocked about this. But when

843
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,280
Speaker 1: I saw this god tweeted out from the Bills account,

844
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:40,760
Speaker 1: I was like, oh yeah, just another Bills fan excited

845
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 1: for the season. Another more than a shoulder shrug these days. Right,

846
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 1: that was cool now if you want to really take

847
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,000
Speaker 1: it next level. Although I can't see a farmer doing this,

848
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, maybe you kind of you know

849
00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:59,399
Speaker 1: the powders they use at the color runs that they

850
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: throw up in the air and stuff. I wonder if

851
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:04,440
Speaker 1: that's okay to like throw over a field of corn

852
00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 1: without damaging the crop, you know, you do a colorized

853
00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 1: version of that, Now you're really going next level, Like

854
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 1: if you could pull that off somehow, I don't know

855
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 1: how you would do that either. Heck, I can't even

856
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 1: draw the figures in a corn maze, let alone color improperly.

857
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 1: So staying in between the lines there would be a challenge,

858
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:26,000
Speaker 1: especially on a windy day. But if you could somehow

859
00:48:26,040 --> 00:48:30,880
Speaker 1: pull that off, now, that would be really impressive, Like

860
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: that would get We're talking over a million hits on

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Speaker 1: something like that, I would think, because that'd be next level. Yeah,

862
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,799
Speaker 1: that would be really epic. I have no idea how

863
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: they would be able to do that, but I'm sure

864
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 1: there's some type of color, yeah, dust or whatever that

865
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:50,399
Speaker 1: you could make that's safe to use on the crops. Yeah,

866
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 1: that's why the first thing that came to mind was

867
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 1: that color on powder that they throw. I mean they

868
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 1: throw it all over people, so it's seemingly okay to

869
00:48:57,480 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 1: do that. So I don't know. Maybe it doesn't do

870
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 1: any damage to a corn crop, but who am I

871
00:49:02,040 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: to say? Not to be a Debbi downer here, but

872
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 1: some unfortunate news coming out of Eagles Camp tight end

873
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 1: Jason Krum, a former Bill and a guy that I know,

874
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,719
Speaker 1: you know well from your Tennessee days. Maddie carted off

875
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:18,520
Speaker 1: the field in last night's game. It's feared as a

876
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:22,880
Speaker 1: season ending knee injury. They're having an MRI today to confirm,

877
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:27,280
Speaker 1: So we'll say a prayer here that it's not season

878
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 1: ending for Jason Crum, who has tried really hard to

879
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:32,960
Speaker 1: carve out a career for himself in the NFL. So

880
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: hopefully he is okay after an unfortunate injury in the

881
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:40,360
Speaker 1: preseason game against the Eagles last night. We have to

882
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: take a break here, but when we return, it's our

883
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: opportunity to talk to a player that who knows maybe

884
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 1: when one Maddie glab rooted four back in the day.

885
00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:52,720
Speaker 1: It is former Bears guard Tom Thayer, now a member

886
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:56,319
Speaker 1: of their radio team, and he'll be calling the game

887
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: tonight or tomorrow night up or tomorrow afternoon up in Chicago.

888
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: But he's gonna spend some time with us. Steve and

889
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:03,879
Speaker 1: I had a chance to talk to him yesterday. He's

890
00:50:03,880 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 1: going to break down everything we should expect from the

891
00:50:06,520 --> 00:50:09,399
Speaker 1: Bears in their preseason matchup with the Bills next year

892
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:11,840
Speaker 1: on one Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo

893
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 1: Bills radio at a Steve Tasker who has been all

894
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:32,840
Speaker 1: over our fields. Kind of unique. He was kind of

895
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:38,440
Speaker 1: a dual role player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp.

896
00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:46,680
Speaker 1: We're not even in the strategyre of normalcy. All right,

897
00:50:46,719 --> 00:50:49,040
Speaker 1: welcome back our number two of one Bills live here

898
00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:52,560
Speaker 1: on a Friday time. Now for us to turn to

899
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 1: former Bears guard Tom Thayer from currently a Bears radio analyst,

900
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:00,799
Speaker 1: and Steve and I had a chance to catch up

901
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:02,760
Speaker 1: with Tom for him to bring us up to speed

902
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 1: on what we can expect from the Chicago Bears against

903
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 1: the Bills on Saturday. All right, Pleased to be joined

904
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 1: now by Bears radio color analyst. Former NFL offensive lineman

905
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: for eight seasons. Rookie year went pretty well in the

906
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: league for him, he was on the eighty five Bears.

907
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 1: For God's sakes, Super Bowl twenty winner Tom Thayer joining

908
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:26,719
Speaker 1: us here. Tom, ready to talk some Bears with us.

909
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: Thanks for giving us some time. We appreciate it. Oh

910
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: my pleasure. Nice to talk to you guys. So let's

911
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 1: start here. I know Matt Naggie has been asked umpteen

912
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,840
Speaker 1: number of times this week after he revealed that Justin

913
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 1: Fields was dealing with some groin soreness, not a groin

914
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:48,440
Speaker 1: injury per se. They were pacing him through practice earlier

915
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:51,840
Speaker 1: in the week. What was the latest that he provided

916
00:51:51,840 --> 00:51:55,759
Speaker 1: with the media in terms of availability for Saturday. You know,

917
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: they had this term that years called load management, and

918
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:02,000
Speaker 1: it just up and they don't want him to overpractice

919
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:06,839
Speaker 1: to expose maybe an issue even further, so they let

920
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 1: him a relax out of practice. But he was back

921
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: on the field today and I think with the intentions

922
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 1: of having playing time Saturday. He said that Dalton would

923
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:20,399
Speaker 1: probably play as much as two quarters and Justin would

924
00:52:20,400 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 1: play their rest. So I think that's kind of the

925
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:26,879
Speaker 1: plan they want to go forward to it accordingly, So

926
00:52:27,480 --> 00:52:29,800
Speaker 1: I think they wanted Justin to get as many snaps

927
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 1: in the preseason as he possibly can. What do we

928
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,880
Speaker 1: make of Andy Dalton's comments about, hey, this is my

929
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:38,280
Speaker 1: time and Justin is going to have a great career,

930
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:41,240
Speaker 1: but this is my time as Chicago Bears quarterback. Certainly

931
00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:43,279
Speaker 1: it seems in his mind at least it is an

932
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:47,960
Speaker 1: open competition despite how well Fields has been playing. Yeah,

933
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 1: it's an open competition. But you know, Andy Dalton has

934
00:52:50,440 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 1: been annoying as in starting quarterback since he came here,

935
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:56,480
Speaker 1: and he's been doing a really nice job in terms

936
00:52:56,520 --> 00:53:02,239
Speaker 1: of being the senior leadership of that position. He's done

937
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: everything that's asked of him. He's, uh, you know, set

938
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:11,359
Speaker 1: a really good example in terms of work ethic, work habits, studying, um,

939
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:14,520
Speaker 1: your effort on the practice field, and everything that's asked

940
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 1: of a quarterback. So I think Andy Dalton really has

941
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 1: set a good example going forward for Justin Fields, and UM,

942
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 1: I wanted to make it difficult on him because I

943
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:28,839
Speaker 1: don't want to necessarily see um justin annoying it as

944
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback when you have a guy's experience as

945
00:53:32,280 --> 00:53:37,240
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. There's no denying the talent and the traits

946
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 1: that Justin Fields has shown so far, But so has

947
00:53:42,680 --> 00:53:46,640
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. He's been a great student, he's been a

948
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 1: great teammate, he's been super gracious in the in the

949
00:53:50,239 --> 00:53:53,160
Speaker 1: meeting rooms. But I like the attitude he has as

950
00:53:53,239 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 1: he's the starting quarterback right now until further notice. I

951
00:53:57,120 --> 00:53:59,880
Speaker 1: know Naggie has been adamant that you know, they're not

952
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:01,920
Speaker 1: going to rush him onto the field and they're not

953
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:04,560
Speaker 1: going to do what's best maybe for even Naggie and

954
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:07,719
Speaker 1: Ryan Paces job security for that matter, because a lot

955
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:09,399
Speaker 1: of people are of the opinion they've got to win

956
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:12,360
Speaker 1: this year or they may not be employed by the

957
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:16,880
Speaker 1: Bears organization come this time next year. But my question

958
00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: to you, Tom is how much do you feel Naggie

959
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 1: is influenced by how things went with Trubisky, who was

960
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:30,839
Speaker 1: kind of thrust into the fray. You know, the big

961
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:34,960
Speaker 1: difference is Matt had a chance to evaluate the quarterback

962
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 1: pool from going into this season and was able to

963
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:42,160
Speaker 1: have his hand in drafting Justin Fields. He didn't have

964
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:45,719
Speaker 1: a hand in drafting Mitchell Trubisky at the time. He

965
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:48,440
Speaker 1: was in Kansas City and this was a John Fox

966
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 1: team and it was really Ryan Ryan Pace's pick. So

967
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:55,279
Speaker 1: I think going forward, Matt feels that he has a

968
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:59,360
Speaker 1: little bit more at stake because he was a bigger

969
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 1: influence on picking Justin Fields. But he's never shied away

970
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 1: from the talent that Justin has and that he's a

971
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 1: very developable quarterback. And then but you know, they signed

972
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:17,839
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton before Justin came aboard, and as much as

973
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:21,840
Speaker 1: they want to call Andy Dalton starting quarterback going forward,

974
00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:25,200
Speaker 1: I still think there's a chance that Justin Field's going

975
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 1: to get his opportunity to play. You know, for me,

976
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:31,360
Speaker 1: I would make sure that the defensive coordinator of my

977
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:35,560
Speaker 1: regular season opponents no new that I had some type

978
00:55:35,600 --> 00:55:39,360
Speaker 1: of package for Justin, so they would have to prepare

979
00:55:39,480 --> 00:55:42,799
Speaker 1: for both. I you know, sometimes you want to hide

980
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:44,719
Speaker 1: the fact that you're you're going to have a chance

981
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:47,080
Speaker 1: to play this guy. But I would let it be

982
00:55:47,160 --> 00:55:49,520
Speaker 1: known out there that this guy's going to have an

983
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:53,799
Speaker 1: opportunity to have a couple series each half and see

984
00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 1: what you can how quickly you can develop them from that.

985
00:55:57,120 --> 00:56:00,800
Speaker 1: How has the Bear's roster changed here over year under nagging?

986
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,120
Speaker 1: Why would it be better this year than it was

987
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:08,200
Speaker 1: last year or the year before. Other than the quarterback, Well, yeah,

988
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 1: lack of development there. I think David Montgomery is a

989
00:56:11,719 --> 00:56:14,759
Speaker 1: much better running back. They brought in Damian Williams, who's

990
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,440
Speaker 1: got a history in the NFL that it's a quality

991
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:22,760
Speaker 1: running back. I think the further development of cold commenting

992
00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 1: Darnell Mooney, two young receivers that have burst on the

993
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 1: scene last year, along with Alan Robinson and the new

994
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Sean Desai. Although he's a first time defensive coordinator.

995
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:40,239
Speaker 1: He's got more of a Vic Fangio defensive theme to

996
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 1: him than he did Chuck Pagano, who was the defensive

997
00:56:43,160 --> 00:56:47,120
Speaker 1: coordinator last year. He's got a more aggressive attacking approach.

998
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 1: And when Vic was here, the defense was capable of

999
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 1: getting a lot of turnovers. And I think that's the

1000
00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:57,920
Speaker 1: same type of m O that Sean Desai wants to

1001
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:01,920
Speaker 1: develop with his defense. But in terms of Matt Maggie,

1002
00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:06,880
Speaker 1: it's uh, you know, the Andy Dalton Justin Fields quarterback position.

1003
00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:10,279
Speaker 1: I think it has a little bit more kind of

1004
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:13,719
Speaker 1: pinoshe to it than Mitchell Trubisky and Nick Folds did.

1005
00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 1: I think the upside of Justin Fields can make the

1006
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:22,680
Speaker 1: other ten guys in the huddle much better than the

1007
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:28,400
Speaker 1: lack of develop the lack of development by Trubisky last year. Tom.

1008
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:32,400
Speaker 1: Where is the organization's relationship with Alan Robinson? Obviously they

1009
00:57:32,400 --> 00:57:35,800
Speaker 1: didn't come to a long term contract agreement. They franchised him.

1010
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:41,720
Speaker 1: Is everything okay there? Oh man? You know, it's a

1011
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 1: good question because I you know, he's not going to

1012
00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:48,920
Speaker 1: be paid as the highest wide receiver in the league.

1013
00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:52,080
Speaker 1: Could he ultimately get a contract by the Bears if

1014
00:57:52,080 --> 00:57:55,320
Speaker 1: he could take a respectable amount of money according to

1015
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 1: his production and the position. It could still happen, But

1016
00:57:59,080 --> 00:58:04,360
Speaker 1: I think whenever you go through the contract scenario that

1017
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 1: he went through he signed the franchise tag, he's gonna

1018
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 1: make seventeen point five million dollars this year. You know,

1019
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 1: he's he's in a kind of been a weird position

1020
00:58:16,000 --> 00:58:20,280
Speaker 1: because he is an unbelievable teammate. He's a great worker,

1021
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:24,640
Speaker 1: he's a really good receiver. But I do think you

1022
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,040
Speaker 1: don't You're not you don't have the world class feed

1023
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: that some receivers haven't in the league. And Alan Robinson,

1024
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 1: I do believe that he can come to an agreement,

1025
00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:36,760
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure how likely it is. I think

1026
00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 1: it's all about the production this year and how healthy

1027
00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 1: he is at the end of the year. Also here

1028
00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:44,760
Speaker 1: in Buffalo, we've got a tight end battle going on.

1029
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:47,280
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox Is that is the starter behind him. It's

1030
00:58:47,280 --> 00:58:49,920
Speaker 1: a little bit of a mush You've got Jimmy Graham

1031
00:58:49,920 --> 00:58:52,240
Speaker 1: and Cole Commetz seems to be, you know, two guys

1032
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:54,640
Speaker 1: that really have some chops in the NFL. What does

1033
00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 1: the tight end and the rest of the weapons look

1034
00:58:57,160 --> 00:59:01,680
Speaker 1: like for whoever's playing quarterback. Well, the tight end going

1035
00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:04,720
Speaker 1: forward is obviously I think there's gonna be a bulk

1036
00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 1: of the consumption of time by Cole Commet. Last year,

1037
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:10,920
Speaker 1: in the first eight games it was Jimmy Graham the

1038
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:13,560
Speaker 1: tight end and had a bulk in the snaps and

1039
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:15,880
Speaker 1: then in the second half of the season at Stoddard

1040
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:19,680
Speaker 1: to be converted to Cole Cole Commet. But you know,

1041
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:24,160
Speaker 1: they also signed Jesse James, they have a Jasper Horse Dead,

1042
00:59:24,200 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 1: they have JP Holts, so they have a variety of

1043
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 1: tight ends. I do think in the red zone it's

1044
00:59:29,960 --> 00:59:34,080
Speaker 1: still going to be Jimmy Graham's team, But in terms

1045
00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: of a blocking tight end, a movable tight end, a

1046
00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:40,720
Speaker 1: tight end with a bigger play upside, it's Cole Commet.

1047
00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:44,760
Speaker 1: And so I do think they have a good combination

1048
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:49,600
Speaker 1: of tight ends here that I god. It's almost like

1049
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham and Cole Commet are even, but they're waiting

1050
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:55,840
Speaker 1: for Cole Commet to take the position over Tom. One

1051
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: of the other things I got to ask you about

1052
00:59:57,560 --> 01:00:01,520
Speaker 1: is Matt and Age. Certainly he's had some success there

1053
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 1: in Chicago, right as soon as he got into the

1054
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 1: gate and hasn't been able to match it. What is

1055
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 1: the relationship between Meggie and ownership, the vibe about the

1056
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 1: Chicago fans about the job he's done. Is he on

1057
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: a hot seat, does he have a good relationship or

1058
01:00:15,280 --> 01:00:19,240
Speaker 1: has he earned a little bit of slack man? It's

1059
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:21,880
Speaker 1: it's it's a little bit of both, because I think

1060
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 1: they are really disappointed two seasons ago when the Bears

1061
01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:28,360
Speaker 1: failed to capitalize on the twelve and fourth season that

1062
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:30,920
Speaker 1: he opened up with, and then they had the hundred

1063
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:35,280
Speaker 1: year anniversary, a lot of offseason fanfare, and the Bears

1064
01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:37,920
Speaker 1: I finished eight and eight or whatever it was and

1065
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:41,000
Speaker 1: out of the playoffs. And then last year they were

1066
01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 1: the final team to get in they ended up making

1067
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 1: the playoffs. So if you want to look at it

1068
01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:47,240
Speaker 1: from a head coach point of view, he's been in

1069
01:00:47,280 --> 01:00:49,480
Speaker 1: the playoffs two out of the three years that he's

1070
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 1: been in the league. So I think this year, when

1071
01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:55,720
Speaker 1: he's had a chance to have a hand in picking

1072
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:58,920
Speaker 1: the quarterback of the future, to me, I kind of

1073
01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:01,400
Speaker 1: hope that buys him in extra year because it would

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01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:03,640
Speaker 1: be unfair to justin Fields to get him in a

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01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:06,760
Speaker 1: system one year and then the next year changed the

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01:01:06,800 --> 01:01:10,880
Speaker 1: system and the coaching staff completely. So you know, Matt

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01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:14,800
Speaker 1: is really highly thought of around here by ownership. He's

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01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:18,680
Speaker 1: you know, he's a guy that compliments his roster. Well,

1079
01:01:18,800 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 1: the guys like him. They work hard for him. But

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01:01:22,280 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 1: it's gonna be about, you know, what he does as

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01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:28,400
Speaker 1: a play caller, because last year he gave the play

1082
01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:31,920
Speaker 1: calling up so Bill Lazar was calling the plays and

1083
01:01:32,640 --> 01:01:36,280
Speaker 1: they got to do a different type of running the

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01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 1: ball rhythm later in the season. So he's come out

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01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:41,919
Speaker 1: already and said that it's his intentions. They get David

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01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:45,680
Speaker 1: Montgomery at least twenty carries a game, not including the

1087
01:01:45,720 --> 01:01:49,080
Speaker 1: other running back, So I guess if he holds up

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01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:52,600
Speaker 1: to his word and it's a running game emphasis offense

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01:01:52,640 --> 01:01:55,479
Speaker 1: with complimented by the passing game, and they get more

1090
01:01:55,560 --> 01:01:59,280
Speaker 1: wins and they're more competitive in the division than I

1091
01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:04,080
Speaker 1: think Matt Nagee could have a future here. But you know,

1092
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:06,920
Speaker 1: ever since Aaron Rodgers came back to Green Bay, to me,

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01:02:07,320 --> 01:02:10,320
Speaker 1: I think everybody in the division is fighting for second place.

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01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:13,920
Speaker 1: But here it's going to be about development. When you

1095
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:15,920
Speaker 1: look at Matt Nagee where he's at in his head

1096
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:19,680
Speaker 1: coaching career and then having a first time play calling

1097
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:23,560
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, and so I think that both of these

1098
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:26,800
Speaker 1: guys have to match up to have powerful seasons on

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01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:29,920
Speaker 1: each side of the ball. We saw the news that

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01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:33,840
Speaker 1: came down about Tevin Jenkins back surgery. That's a tough

1101
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:36,040
Speaker 1: blow to have, and I don't need to tell you

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01:02:36,080 --> 01:02:38,560
Speaker 1: being a former offensive lineman. I mean, I don't know

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01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:41,479
Speaker 1: the severity, but back surgery is back surgery. Coming back

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01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:44,360
Speaker 1: from that and playing the same season is probably no

1105
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:48,080
Speaker 1: easy task. With that in mind, I know that they

1106
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:52,680
Speaker 1: signed veteran Jason Peters, who began his career here of

1107
01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 1: all places, probably eons ago. Does he have any chance

1108
01:02:57,560 --> 01:03:00,960
Speaker 1: to factor into that equation in placing Jenkins or are

1109
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 1: they gonna look to somewhere else? All Right? So I

1110
01:03:03,640 --> 01:03:06,320
Speaker 1: saw Jason for the first time on the practice field

1111
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:09,040
Speaker 1: today and he was hip to hip with offensive line

1112
01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:12,280
Speaker 1: coach Juanca Still, who he has a history with in Philly.

1113
01:03:12,480 --> 01:03:15,000
Speaker 1: So you know, with Jason, it's not gonna be where

1114
01:03:15,040 --> 01:03:17,320
Speaker 1: they You're gonna have to stand out there every day

1115
01:03:17,400 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 1: and teach him fundamentals and techniques. You're gonna have to

1116
01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:24,000
Speaker 1: get him in the classroom and teach him the terminology

1117
01:03:24,560 --> 01:03:28,479
Speaker 1: and the understanding of the assignments according to the huddle call,

1118
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:30,720
Speaker 1: and then get him on his feet as much as

1119
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:32,880
Speaker 1: you can in between now and the first week of

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01:03:32,920 --> 01:03:36,480
Speaker 1: the regular season. And fortunately they have the two weeks

1121
01:03:36,520 --> 01:03:39,919
Speaker 1: between the last preseason game in the first regular season game,

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01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:42,720
Speaker 1: so I believe that you can get him in shape.

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01:03:42,840 --> 01:03:45,760
Speaker 1: He looked physically fit. If you saw him just in

1124
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:48,760
Speaker 1: a jersey and shoulder pads, he just looks like a

1125
01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:52,120
Speaker 1: big offensive tackle that you wouldn't know if he was

1126
01:03:52,320 --> 01:03:56,920
Speaker 1: thirty nine or twenty nine, you know, with Jenkins having surgery.

1127
01:03:57,520 --> 01:04:00,720
Speaker 1: The key and greeting here is the Bear was drafted

1128
01:04:00,840 --> 01:04:04,600
Speaker 1: Larry Boram in the fifth round out of Missouri, so

1129
01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:06,600
Speaker 1: they brought him in thinking that he was going to

1130
01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:10,400
Speaker 1: be exclusively a right tackle. But when he came back,

1131
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:12,960
Speaker 1: he played his senior year in college at about three

1132
01:04:13,040 --> 01:04:16,440
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty pounds. He came to the Bears camp

1133
01:04:16,640 --> 01:04:20,680
Speaker 1: at three hundred and thirty pounds and really looks good.

1134
01:04:21,040 --> 01:04:23,680
Speaker 1: I mean, he looks so good that he was in

1135
01:04:23,760 --> 01:04:27,720
Speaker 1: line to compete for the starting left tackle position. And

1136
01:04:27,760 --> 01:04:31,080
Speaker 1: then they went through a full padded practice the next day.

1137
01:04:31,120 --> 01:04:35,440
Speaker 1: He came up with in concussion protocol and he missed

1138
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:38,040
Speaker 1: about eight days of work, and so now I don't

1139
01:04:38,120 --> 01:04:43,680
Speaker 1: know if you can guarantee or you can rely on

1140
01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:46,680
Speaker 1: him to be a guy for a seventeen game season.

1141
01:04:47,080 --> 01:04:50,400
Speaker 1: So Jason Peters, if he stays healthy, he's the best

1142
01:04:50,520 --> 01:04:54,160
Speaker 1: left tackle they have out there right now. However, if

1143
01:04:54,280 --> 01:04:56,400
Speaker 1: Larry bore him is the type of guy, He's never

1144
01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:59,560
Speaker 1: had a concussion before in college. This is his first time,

1145
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:04,760
Speaker 1: So if this isn't something that's a regular reoccurrence, Larry

1146
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:08,120
Speaker 1: Boram could be a guy that could be right there

1147
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:11,040
Speaker 1: that left tackle and development waiting in the wings. And

1148
01:05:11,080 --> 01:05:14,760
Speaker 1: then when Tevin Jenkins getting healthy, maybe he can go

1149
01:05:14,840 --> 01:05:17,960
Speaker 1: back to the right tackle position where he has more

1150
01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:20,680
Speaker 1: starts in college than he did a left tackle. And

1151
01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:24,600
Speaker 1: they're still waiting for Jermain Effetti, who hasn't practiced yet

1152
01:05:24,600 --> 01:05:28,280
Speaker 1: this season because he came in with the hip injury. So, man,

1153
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:31,320
Speaker 1: there's a lot of unknowns about the offensive line. They're

1154
01:05:31,400 --> 01:05:35,160
Speaker 1: solid on the inside, but Jason Peters, Larry Boram at

1155
01:05:35,240 --> 01:05:40,440
Speaker 1: left tackle, and Jermainafetti and hopefully Tevin Jenkins in a

1156
01:05:40,480 --> 01:05:43,360
Speaker 1: period of time after recovery from back surgery, he can

1157
01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:47,120
Speaker 1: get in the mix going from four preseason well, going

1158
01:05:47,160 --> 01:05:51,160
Speaker 1: from zero preseason games into three preseason games, where all

1159
01:05:51,240 --> 01:05:53,680
Speaker 1: these years has been four. What has been the philosophy

1160
01:05:53,720 --> 01:05:57,360
Speaker 1: of Matteneggie? How many starters were absolutely sitting no matter what,

1161
01:05:57,880 --> 01:06:00,520
Speaker 1: how many guys actually played, what's been his philosophy. I

1162
01:06:00,560 --> 01:06:03,840
Speaker 1: know we've gotten different looks and different philosophies from all

1163
01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:05,560
Speaker 1: these head coaches about how they're going to handle the

1164
01:06:05,640 --> 01:06:09,360
Speaker 1: three preseason games in relation to them going forward in

1165
01:06:09,360 --> 01:06:15,160
Speaker 1: the regular season. What's been Matteggie's philosophy to play these guys?

1166
01:06:15,240 --> 01:06:18,280
Speaker 1: You know, like I said, you know, Eddie Dalton played

1167
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:20,919
Speaker 1: six snaps the first game. Now he's gonna play two

1168
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:23,840
Speaker 1: quarters this game and they're gonna play the third because

1169
01:06:23,880 --> 01:06:27,320
Speaker 1: of that two week window of opportunity. So unless you're

1170
01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:31,840
Speaker 1: a guy like maybe a Khalil Mack or a Roquan

1171
01:06:32,040 --> 01:06:35,080
Speaker 1: Smith or something, you're you're gonna play and you're gonna

1172
01:06:35,080 --> 01:06:39,080
Speaker 1: get a significant amount of playing time. So I think

1173
01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:42,040
Speaker 1: I like it better because I got tired of you know,

1174
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:44,240
Speaker 1: this is my twenty fifth year doing the Bears games.

1175
01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:47,200
Speaker 1: I got tired of watching that fourth game out there

1176
01:06:47,280 --> 01:06:49,960
Speaker 1: where you know, over half the team was on the

1177
01:06:50,000 --> 01:06:52,960
Speaker 1: sidelines and they were playing guys that most of them

1178
01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:55,720
Speaker 1: were gonna be cut by Tuesday. So I like the

1179
01:06:55,760 --> 01:06:58,919
Speaker 1: sense of urgency that Maddis put on these guys because

1180
01:06:58,920 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 1: he has a higher expectations for the effort that they

1181
01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 1: give in practice, and then he let all these guys

1182
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:10,400
Speaker 1: know that they're gonna play in these preseason games because

1183
01:07:10,440 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 1: of that two week window opening before the regular season.

1184
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,680
Speaker 1: I think it'd be really unhealthy to sit you down

1185
01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:19,520
Speaker 1: for three weeks before the start of your first regular

1186
01:07:19,560 --> 01:07:22,440
Speaker 1: season game. Last one for me, Tom, I know you

1187
01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:24,680
Speaker 1: mentioned David Montgomery's going to be kind of the Bill

1188
01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:28,840
Speaker 1: cow back. Where does that leave a guy like Tarik

1189
01:07:28,840 --> 01:07:33,040
Speaker 1: Cohen coming off his major injury from last year. You know,

1190
01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:36,200
Speaker 1: Tarikhne's going to start the season on the physically unable

1191
01:07:36,280 --> 01:07:39,080
Speaker 1: to perform the puff list, And when I look at

1192
01:07:39,160 --> 01:07:43,280
Speaker 1: him out there and walking around, I see him, you know,

1193
01:07:43,360 --> 01:07:46,080
Speaker 1: maybe being three or four months away from being the

1194
01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:51,520
Speaker 1: Tarik Cone. We know what his athleticism, his twitchiness is

1195
01:07:51,560 --> 01:07:54,760
Speaker 1: all about. And that's where it leaves a void in

1196
01:07:54,800 --> 01:07:58,040
Speaker 1: the Bears because he's the best punt returner the Bears have,

1197
01:07:58,480 --> 01:08:01,560
Speaker 1: and the Bears are searching since they lost Cordarre old

1198
01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:06,080
Speaker 1: Patterson and they lost Trek and they're searching now for

1199
01:08:06,160 --> 01:08:10,240
Speaker 1: the return game and there's a lot of candidates back there,

1200
01:08:10,320 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 1: but there's nobody with the experience that these guys have. Tom. Thanks,

1201
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:18,080
Speaker 1: it's great seeing you. We'll look forward maybe crossing paths

1202
01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:21,360
Speaker 1: when we get to Chicago over the weekend. Hey, thanks

1203
01:08:21,360 --> 01:08:23,439
Speaker 1: for having me, guys, I appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for

1204
01:08:23,479 --> 01:08:26,639
Speaker 1: the time. Very good. All right, that's Tom Thayer joining

1205
01:08:26,920 --> 01:08:31,080
Speaker 1: Steve and I for a conversation about Bills Bears preseason. Mattie.

1206
01:08:31,120 --> 01:08:35,040
Speaker 1: One of the last comments he made perked up my ears,

1207
01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:39,160
Speaker 1: and that was how they really don't have a return

1208
01:08:40,640 --> 01:08:43,599
Speaker 1: man that they like right now with Tariko and still

1209
01:08:43,600 --> 01:08:45,439
Speaker 1: on the shelf and probably going to start the season

1210
01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:50,320
Speaker 1: on pup and that concerns me. And the reason why

1211
01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:54,640
Speaker 1: is because the Bills will be right in front of

1212
01:08:54,680 --> 01:08:58,840
Speaker 1: all the Bears personnel people to see firsthand. And if

1213
01:08:58,920 --> 01:09:04,120
Speaker 1: Marquez Stevenson, who as we know, is trailing Isaiah McKenzie

1214
01:09:04,280 --> 01:09:09,160
Speaker 1: in the return man race, does something that opens some eyes,

1215
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:12,120
Speaker 1: and if for some reason he doesn't make the fifty

1216
01:09:12,160 --> 01:09:14,160
Speaker 1: three man roster, because oh, by the way, he is

1217
01:09:14,160 --> 01:09:17,559
Speaker 1: at one of the deepest positions here wide receiver. I

1218
01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:20,080
Speaker 1: worry that that's going to be a guy that you know,

1219
01:09:20,120 --> 01:09:22,439
Speaker 1: the Bears or maybe some other team goes after and

1220
01:09:22,439 --> 01:09:25,080
Speaker 1: tries to pluck off the practice squad if that's where

1221
01:09:25,080 --> 01:09:28,240
Speaker 1: he ends up for the Bills, and who knows what

1222
01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:31,439
Speaker 1: type of future Marquis Stevenson could have. He's had a

1223
01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:34,640
Speaker 1: good camp. I mean he made a great catch, a

1224
01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:38,960
Speaker 1: game saving catch against the Lions, and had some really

1225
01:09:39,360 --> 01:09:42,439
Speaker 1: nice practices as well. And when you look at the

1226
01:09:42,479 --> 01:09:45,800
Speaker 1: return game, he played better than Isaiah McKenzie in that

1227
01:09:45,880 --> 01:09:48,760
Speaker 1: first preseason game. Was it because of the holes that

1228
01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:51,320
Speaker 1: he was able to find for himself or because of

1229
01:09:51,360 --> 01:09:54,160
Speaker 1: the holes that were open for him, I don't know,

1230
01:09:54,360 --> 01:09:56,800
Speaker 1: based on the naked eye, I'd have to watch that

1231
01:09:56,920 --> 01:10:00,120
Speaker 1: game back to decide, you know, why he had some

1232
01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:04,200
Speaker 1: of those holes whereas Isaiah did not. But just like

1233
01:10:04,240 --> 01:10:07,480
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott said in one of his opening press conferences

1234
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:11,599
Speaker 1: at camp, like this is for guys to also try

1235
01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:15,040
Speaker 1: out for other teams when he was talking about those

1236
01:10:15,080 --> 01:10:18,240
Speaker 1: preseason games, the three preseason games that we will have,

1237
01:10:18,360 --> 01:10:20,920
Speaker 1: is this is not just a trial out for our team.

1238
01:10:20,960 --> 01:10:23,639
Speaker 1: This is a trial out for other teams, and we

1239
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:26,639
Speaker 1: have the type of depth that some of these guys

1240
01:10:26,640 --> 01:10:29,439
Speaker 1: who don't make the fifty three men roster here they

1241
01:10:29,479 --> 01:10:32,559
Speaker 1: will have a role on other teams for certain, And

1242
01:10:32,680 --> 01:10:35,960
Speaker 1: I could see Marquis Stevenson being one of those guys

1243
01:10:36,000 --> 01:10:38,360
Speaker 1: if he doesn't make our fifty three I've got to

1244
01:10:38,360 --> 01:10:40,920
Speaker 1: say I want him to be on our team because

1245
01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:43,040
Speaker 1: I think this is a guy who who could have

1246
01:10:43,080 --> 01:10:45,639
Speaker 1: a good future in the NFL. He was drafted later,

1247
01:10:45,680 --> 01:10:47,840
Speaker 1: but based on what he's shown so far, this is

1248
01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:50,360
Speaker 1: someone I think who has some potential that I would

1249
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:52,280
Speaker 1: like to keep him on the bills and not have

1250
01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:55,240
Speaker 1: him go anywhere else. Yeah, and you know, he has

1251
01:10:55,280 --> 01:10:57,840
Speaker 1: the added value of being a two for one player.

1252
01:10:57,880 --> 01:11:00,760
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a wide receiver that offers something on

1253
01:11:00,840 --> 01:11:05,799
Speaker 1: special teams. So you know, I think if McKenzie proves

1254
01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:08,639
Speaker 1: out to be the number one return man on this roster,

1255
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:12,960
Speaker 1: should something happen to him, I would see Stevenson, if

1256
01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:15,400
Speaker 1: he doesn't make the fifty three man roster, as an

1257
01:11:15,400 --> 01:11:19,639
Speaker 1: immediate call up to replace him in that capacity. So

1258
01:11:20,840 --> 01:11:23,840
Speaker 1: going forward, you'd like to insulate your roster as best

1259
01:11:23,880 --> 01:11:27,160
Speaker 1: you can with the sixteen man practice squad Now, the

1260
01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:30,280
Speaker 1: Bills could take the step of making him one of

1261
01:11:30,320 --> 01:11:33,160
Speaker 1: their four protected players on the practice squad every week,

1262
01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:35,679
Speaker 1: but I think even that's gonna be a tough decision

1263
01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:39,080
Speaker 1: once they assemble the sixteen player practice squad after the

1264
01:11:39,120 --> 01:11:42,240
Speaker 1: twenty four hour waiver window expires from the time they

1265
01:11:42,240 --> 01:11:45,320
Speaker 1: assemble the fifty three man rosters. So it's gonna be

1266
01:11:45,400 --> 01:11:49,240
Speaker 1: very interesting to see because we can make all our projections, Maddie,

1267
01:11:49,320 --> 01:11:52,760
Speaker 1: on our roster cards and everything in terms of, oh, well,

1268
01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:55,880
Speaker 1: here's my perfect sixteen man practice squad, but some guys

1269
01:11:55,880 --> 01:11:58,439
Speaker 1: are gonna get claimed off waivers and they're gonna have

1270
01:11:58,479 --> 01:12:02,160
Speaker 1: to pick secondary and tertiary options to fill out their

1271
01:12:02,160 --> 01:12:06,040
Speaker 1: sixteen player practice squad. I'm afraid. Yeah. I mean, we

1272
01:12:06,560 --> 01:12:10,400
Speaker 1: saw what happened to Jake Kumerou. He was claimed quickly

1273
01:12:11,479 --> 01:12:14,960
Speaker 1: last season, and that could happen to several different players.

1274
01:12:15,040 --> 01:12:19,599
Speaker 1: And we saw how the protected players rotated from week

1275
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:23,200
Speaker 1: to week based on what positions needed a little bit

1276
01:12:23,240 --> 01:12:26,559
Speaker 1: more depth due to injury or due to COVID related

1277
01:12:26,600 --> 01:12:30,519
Speaker 1: reasons or whatever it was. And so I would love

1278
01:12:30,560 --> 01:12:33,280
Speaker 1: to protect everybody, but you just can't do that, and

1279
01:12:33,520 --> 01:12:36,680
Speaker 1: this roster is going to be two day good and

1280
01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:39,639
Speaker 1: too tough to make for some of these younger players

1281
01:12:39,720 --> 01:12:43,519
Speaker 1: or some of these fringe players. So a lot of

1282
01:12:43,520 --> 01:12:46,840
Speaker 1: these guys I think will have a nice career somewhere else.

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Speaker 1: I wish you could expand fifty three to sixty three.

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Speaker 1: That's not the case here, Yeah, I mean, I can't

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Speaker 1: even imagine going back to the days of a ten

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Speaker 1: man practice squad, or a long time ago, a seven

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Speaker 1: man practice squad. That's almost unthinkable. Now. The new CBA

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Speaker 1: had the practice squad expanding to twelve already this year

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Speaker 1: and fourteen next year. But with the COVID practice squad

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Speaker 1: rules still in place, it's going to be sixteen players

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Speaker 1: again this season, which you have to believe is a

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Speaker 1: good thing as far as coaches are concerned. But to

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Speaker 1: think that even with that expanded practice squad, the possibility

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Speaker 1: firmly exists for the Bills to have some of their

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Speaker 1: players poached is pretty crazy and just speaks to the

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Speaker 1: depth of talent on Buffalo's roster currently. Manny and I

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Speaker 1: need to take a break here, but when we come back,

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Speaker 1: we crack open the obl fan Friday mail bag. It's

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Speaker 1: our chance to answer your questions. So last chance to

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Speaker 1: get them in. Now add one Bills Live on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: we return here on One Bills Live presented by Kalida Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right. Here we go on

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Speaker 1: a Friday time to open up the obil Fan Friday

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Speaker 1: mail Bag, and the tweet sheet is brought to you

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. All right, Matty. Question number one comes

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Speaker 1: from Nick. He says, Cam actually looked pretty good for

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Speaker 1: the Pats last night. I know it's just one preseason game,

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Speaker 1: but is there any possibility of Cam returning to his

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Speaker 1: old form and posing a real threat this year? What

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Speaker 1: do you think about that? Is there a possibility? The answers, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I still think the window is somewhat opened, the doors

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Speaker 1: somewhat open for him. Still, am I convinced off of

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Speaker 1: one preseason game that he's going to return to his

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Speaker 1: old self? No, I need I need more than just

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Speaker 1: the preseason to be convinced of that. And I'm someone

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Speaker 1: who is a Cam Newton fan before he came to

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. I loved what he was able to put

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Speaker 1: on the field in his first few years, when everybody

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01:14:58,080 --> 01:15:00,559
Speaker 1: really got to know his name and what type of

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Speaker 1: player he was. It's been really sad to see him

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01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:07,320
Speaker 1: kind of take the downfall that he has after those injuries.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he can come back from it.

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01:15:10,120 --> 01:15:13,040
Speaker 1: I do think there's a possibility, but I'm not convinced

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Speaker 1: just yet. What about you, Brownie, Yeah, I mean there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of wear and tear on that body. I

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Speaker 1: don't think he will ever get back to twenty fifteen

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01:15:21,160 --> 01:15:24,920
Speaker 1: League MVP Cam Newton, but I do think he can

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Speaker 1: be a serviceable quarterback. I still openly wonder about the running,

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01:15:33,560 --> 01:15:37,200
Speaker 1: and they've got like eighteen running backs on their roster

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Speaker 1: right now, so I don't really anticipate that they're going

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Speaker 1: to ask him to run a whole lot. Maybe in

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Speaker 1: the red zone, maybe in a goal line situation kind

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Speaker 1: of thing, maybe somewhat similar to the way the Bills

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Speaker 1: use Josh, you know, in the red zone. But between

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Speaker 1: the twenties, I don't see them doing a lot of

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Speaker 1: design runs. Provided he can demonstrate a proficiency in the

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Speaker 1: passing game, which to a certain extent he exhibited last night.

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Speaker 1: So I think if he can be serviceable in that area,

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Speaker 1: and the offense is good enough, the offensive line is

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Speaker 1: good enough to create consistent holes in the running game.

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Speaker 1: That's going to be enough for them with that defense

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01:16:13,800 --> 01:16:16,200
Speaker 1: to be in a lot of games, if not win

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Speaker 1: you know, nine or ten games this year. So we'll

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Speaker 1: have to see where it goes and then if they

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Speaker 1: make the change of quarterback, how the season turns from there.

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Speaker 1: So it's going to be very interesting. I think they

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01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:32,880
Speaker 1: I think Cam showed he can get back to being

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Speaker 1: a capable starting quarterback last night. Where it goes from here,

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Speaker 1: I think it bears more watching. So I agree with

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Speaker 1: you on that point, Matt Asks. Has Tommy Doyle shown

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Speaker 1: enough to make this fifty three man roster? If not,

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Speaker 1: is he relegated to the practice squad? And do the

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Speaker 1: Bills go out and sign a free agent to fill

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Speaker 1: the fourth tackle spot? Take that one on. I think

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Speaker 1: this roster's pretty stacked. I'm grabbing my roster or a

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01:17:00,280 --> 01:17:04,840
Speaker 1: card here. When I last counted the defensive line, it

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Speaker 1: was sixteen. I've got to say the offensive line is

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Speaker 1: somewhere within that number, close to that number as well.

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Speaker 1: Has he stood out among other offensive lineman in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: not all the time. Yes, he's had some good reps

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Speaker 1: here there. But I think the one thing that Tommy

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Speaker 1: Doyle has going for him is that the Bills drafted him,

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Speaker 1: so they did see something in him. And of course

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Speaker 1: any free agent that the Bills picked up and put

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Speaker 1: on their roster, they picked them up for a reason.

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Speaker 1: Do I think he has shown enough to make the

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Speaker 1: fifty three man roster. I don't know if I've been

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Speaker 1: convinced yet, just based on the bulk of reps that

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Speaker 1: we're seeing a lot of these starters get in training camp.

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Speaker 1: Of course there's first string, second ones, twos, threes that

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Speaker 1: they rotate through at practice. I like Tommy Doyle's size

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Speaker 1: a lot, though, I've got to say they don't make

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Speaker 1: offensive linemen like that. All the time. He rivals the

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Speaker 1: size of Spencer Brown So I think he does have

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Speaker 1: that going for himself. Is that enough to make the

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Speaker 1: fifty three man roster? We'll see. We'll see what he

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Speaker 1: does in this preseason game against the Bears, too. What

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Speaker 1: do you think, Brownie? I think this comes down to

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Speaker 1: the classic numbers game question how many offensive linemen are

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Speaker 1: they keeping? Because I think it's pretty safe to say

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Speaker 1: he's in the back half of that equation, and if

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Speaker 1: they keep ten offensive linemen, I think he's on the

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Speaker 1: fifty three man roster. If they keep nine, I think

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Speaker 1: it could get a little dicey there for him. I

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Speaker 1: will say this, last year's roster for the Bills technically

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Speaker 1: had four offensive tackles on it, Darryl Williams, Dion Dawkins,

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Speaker 1: Tye and Sky and then Jordan Devi was a veteran

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman who can play tackle, and they really kind

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Speaker 1: of relegate Ryan Bates to a guard center, primarily after

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Speaker 1: coming in as a rookie and getting some work at

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Speaker 1: tackle earlier in his young career. So does that mean

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Speaker 1: they carry four tackles again this year? It's possible, and

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Speaker 1: I think if they do carry four tackles, he's probably

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Speaker 1: the fourth. But that's not a done deal, Lucille decision.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's where his fate comes down to

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Speaker 1: whether they keep four tackles or not. If they keep four,

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Speaker 1: I believe he's the fourth tackle on the active roster.

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Speaker 1: Next up is Rusty, who asks how many linebackers do

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Speaker 1: they keep? They usually play mostly two linebackers in nickel packages,

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01:19:43,240 --> 01:19:45,920
Speaker 1: but if they face a run heavy team, they may

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Speaker 1: need to play more base defense. Plus, backup linebackers are

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01:19:49,840 --> 01:19:52,519
Speaker 1: usually core special teams players. I like what I saw

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Speaker 1: from Giles Harris. They've liked Dodson and Smith and they

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Speaker 1: have made plays in camp. Is Kleine in trouble? So

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Speaker 1: a few questions there? How many linebackers do they keep?

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Speaker 1: And his Klein in trouble? All right, So I'm counting

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Speaker 1: the roster that I have right now, and there are

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Speaker 1: nine linebackers on the roster. Do I think a J.

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Speaker 1: Klein is in trouble? Not necessarily, I mean yes, Andre

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Speaker 1: Smith and Joe Giles Harris did have really good first

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Speaker 1: preseason games. They are special teamers and they're going to

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Speaker 1: be players that make big time plays like Tyler Matakavic

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Speaker 1: and special teams. When you can make plays on special teams,

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Speaker 1: you can make the fifty three man roster because the

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Speaker 1: Bills put a lot of value in special teams. So

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Speaker 1: I see those guys being a part of the roster too.

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01:20:48,880 --> 01:20:53,559
Speaker 1: Klein was someone that rotated in last year when Tremaine

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01:20:53,640 --> 01:20:57,040
Speaker 1: Edmonds and Matt Milano were unhealthy. He is your veteran

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01:20:57,160 --> 01:21:01,400
Speaker 1: guy on this roster. I think there's value in that.

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Speaker 1: I hope Tremaine and that are completely healthy all season,

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Speaker 1: but if we get into a scenario where one of

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Speaker 1: them is not healthy, Klein is your guy who's going

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Speaker 1: to go in if he's a part of this fifty

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Speaker 1: three men roster. He did bat down a ball yesterday

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Speaker 1: in practice or two days ago in practice, so he's

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Speaker 1: someone who's also made plays in practice this year. Yeah,

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01:21:22,840 --> 01:21:26,080
Speaker 1: I mean I Steve and I were knocking this around

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Speaker 1: on the show earlier in the week. Maddie and we

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Speaker 1: were wondering, with all of the talent on the defensive line,

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Speaker 1: if you go heavy there, where do you cut yourself short?

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Speaker 1: What position? What other position gets compromised to accommodate maybe

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Speaker 1: one extra defensive end or something like that. And we

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Speaker 1: were thinking it might be linebacker, because, as Rusty points out,

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Speaker 1: ninety one percent of the time last year they only

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Speaker 1: had two linebackers on the field, which was mostly Edmunds

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Speaker 1: and Milano when they weren't out of lineup with injuries.

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Speaker 1: So you know, short of a base defense situation, when

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01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:01,760
Speaker 1: maybe you're playing the Patriots and they're running the hell

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Speaker 1: out of the ball, you may be able to get

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Speaker 1: away with as few as five linebackers on your roster,

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01:22:08,560 --> 01:22:10,000
Speaker 1: and then just to be safe, you put a couple

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Speaker 1: on your practice squad. So could they carry fewer than six?

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Speaker 1: It's possible, I don't know if it's likely. The most

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Speaker 1: likely number is probably six. So if you if you

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Speaker 1: assume Melano, Klein, and Edmonds are back, that leaves you

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01:22:25,400 --> 01:22:28,120
Speaker 1: three spots. Mattakavich is a lock because he's a core

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Speaker 1: special teamer. That's four. And now you have to decide

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Speaker 1: between Andre Smith, Joe Giles Harris, and probably Tyrell Dotson.

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01:22:37,600 --> 01:22:41,760
Speaker 1: So it's those three guys for two spots, and you

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01:22:41,800 --> 01:22:43,400
Speaker 1: know you have to make a decision as to what

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01:22:43,439 --> 01:22:47,280
Speaker 1: you're doing there. I think two are probably on the

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Speaker 1: roster and one probably is not but is most likely

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Speaker 1: on the practice squad. So I think in the end game,

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Speaker 1: all of the guys that I think fans are favorites

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01:22:56,960 --> 01:23:00,360
Speaker 1: of will probably be here in one capacity or another.

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Speaker 1: But I think they go light at linebacker so they

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Speaker 1: can go heavy at another position like defensive line. Quite frankly,

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Speaker 1: I think that's how it could very well play out,

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01:23:11,120 --> 01:23:13,120
Speaker 1: unless somebody lights the world on fire here in these

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01:23:13,200 --> 01:23:17,280
Speaker 1: last two preseason games. Tiffany asks do the Bears fans

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Speaker 1: trust coach Naggi to develop fields after how things went

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Speaker 1: with Trubisky. This is kind of a question we asked

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Speaker 1: Tom Thayer earlier in the show. I would say I

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Speaker 1: am not convinced that Bears fans trust him with fields.

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Speaker 1: With how things went for Trubisky. We saw Trubisky in

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Speaker 1: some games had a good game when they kind of

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Speaker 1: went to what his strengths were, versus when they put

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Speaker 1: something else in that were not his strengths, he did

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Speaker 1: not play the best. And so with a quarterback like

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Speaker 1: Justin Fields who has very specific strengths and traits that

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Speaker 1: you aft him for and you would like to use

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01:24:02,280 --> 01:24:05,400
Speaker 1: him for, it seems obvious, right. It seems obvious to

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01:24:05,400 --> 01:24:10,040
Speaker 1: put this guy in situations where you're not designing run

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01:24:10,080 --> 01:24:12,960
Speaker 1: play after run play for him, but in specific situations

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Speaker 1: and scenarios you are, because this is a type of

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Speaker 1: quarterback that you drafted, just like the Bills do with

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen. So I think they can hopefully trust him,

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01:24:25,880 --> 01:24:29,040
Speaker 1: but I don't think fans are convinced just yet. I

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01:24:29,080 --> 01:24:33,160
Speaker 1: think that's going to take some time with when they

1482
01:24:33,200 --> 01:24:35,679
Speaker 1: do decide to start Justin Fields and how the game

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01:24:35,680 --> 01:24:40,719
Speaker 1: plan looks in those first few games. Yeah, I think

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01:24:40,960 --> 01:24:43,760
Speaker 1: Naggie not to be an apologist for him. He's kind

1485
01:24:43,760 --> 01:24:45,800
Speaker 1: of between a rock and a hard plays here. He

1486
01:24:45,840 --> 01:24:48,760
Speaker 1: knows he has to win games. I think he genuinely

1487
01:24:48,800 --> 01:24:53,320
Speaker 1: believes Andy Dalton can help them win games. And I

1488
01:24:53,360 --> 01:24:56,519
Speaker 1: think he does not want to rush justin fields on

1489
01:24:56,560 --> 01:25:00,519
Speaker 1: the field because there have been ump team number of

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Speaker 1: instances in NFL history where young quarterbacks have been put

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Speaker 1: on the field too early and then you have to

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Speaker 1: yank them off the field in favor of some veteran

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01:25:10,720 --> 01:25:14,000
Speaker 1: just to get you through games. And it's very hard

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01:25:14,040 --> 01:25:17,960
Speaker 1: to turn back to the rookie and expect his confidence

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01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:19,800
Speaker 1: to be where it was when he first stepped onto

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01:25:19,800 --> 01:25:22,639
Speaker 1: the field. It can be very damaging for some. I'm

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01:25:22,680 --> 01:25:24,879
Speaker 1: not going to pretend to know the mental makeup of Fields.

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01:25:24,920 --> 01:25:27,479
Speaker 1: I tend to think he's a mentally tough player, but

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01:25:27,520 --> 01:25:31,559
Speaker 1: I don't know that. And the other part that worries me,

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Speaker 1: Maddie is some of the comments we heard from Mitchell

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01:25:33,520 --> 01:25:37,599
Speaker 1: Trubisky recently here in Buffalo, which was I could steadily

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01:25:37,640 --> 01:25:40,639
Speaker 1: feel them believing less and less in me, and I'm

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01:25:40,680 --> 01:25:43,120
Speaker 1: just sitting here going, oh jeez, I mean, that's about

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01:25:43,120 --> 01:25:46,400
Speaker 1: as bad as it gets now. I don't foresee that

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01:25:46,439 --> 01:25:52,559
Speaker 1: scenario with Fields because unlike Fields, they didn't well, Naggie

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01:25:52,640 --> 01:25:55,919
Speaker 1: did not, was not part of the group that decided

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01:25:55,960 --> 01:26:00,200
Speaker 1: to draft Mitchell Trubisky, Ryan Pace was. So they are

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01:26:00,240 --> 01:26:03,320
Speaker 1: beholden to Fields and they have to make it work

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01:26:03,360 --> 01:26:06,080
Speaker 1: with him. So I think that's why they're taking the

1510
01:26:06,120 --> 01:26:10,000
Speaker 1: cautious approach that we're seeing thus far. But this is inevitable.

1511
01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:12,679
Speaker 1: I mean, Fields is going to be on the field

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01:26:12,720 --> 01:26:15,120
Speaker 1: sooner rather than later. I really believe that. I think

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01:26:15,120 --> 01:26:17,680
Speaker 1: as soon as Dalton shows any sign of struggling to

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01:26:17,760 --> 01:26:20,240
Speaker 1: move the ball or score points, they're going to turn

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01:26:20,320 --> 01:26:22,839
Speaker 1: to him sooner rather than later. Last one from Steve,

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01:26:24,200 --> 01:26:26,519
Speaker 1: It's obvious that the Bills will be cutting players that

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01:26:26,600 --> 01:26:29,479
Speaker 1: could see significant playing time for other teams. Do you

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01:26:29,520 --> 01:26:32,320
Speaker 1: see Brandon Bean trying to trade some of these players

1519
01:26:32,680 --> 01:26:35,320
Speaker 1: after Saturday's game or at least gain some draft capital

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01:26:35,360 --> 01:26:41,960
Speaker 1: instead of just cutting them. Is it a thing that

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01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:46,160
Speaker 1: could happen? I mean, you can't really predict what Brandon

1522
01:26:46,200 --> 01:26:48,320
Speaker 1: Bean is going to be able to do or what

1523
01:26:48,400 --> 01:26:51,599
Speaker 1: he will do. Does Brandon Bean love his Draft picks

1524
01:26:52,400 --> 01:26:56,960
Speaker 1: history says that he does if he can get a

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01:26:57,040 --> 01:27:00,120
Speaker 1: sixth round or seventh round even something later in the

1526
01:27:00,200 --> 01:27:04,320
Speaker 1: NFL draft next year, if he believes that it's a

1527
01:27:04,360 --> 01:27:07,240
Speaker 1: good trade off in the value that he's going to

1528
01:27:07,280 --> 01:27:09,599
Speaker 1: get out of the draft. He's all about value, you know.

1529
01:27:09,800 --> 01:27:12,280
Speaker 1: Is it worth it if I were to trade someone

1530
01:27:12,520 --> 01:27:16,360
Speaker 1: and pick up whatever round draft pick that they're offering.

1531
01:27:16,640 --> 01:27:21,960
Speaker 1: I think it's a possibility. But do they want to

1532
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:23,559
Speaker 1: see a little bit more out of some of these

1533
01:27:23,560 --> 01:27:26,000
Speaker 1: guys also a possibility. I mean, I go back to

1534
01:27:26,200 --> 01:27:28,920
Speaker 1: last week when they had to cut the roster down

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01:27:29,479 --> 01:27:33,759
Speaker 1: by Thursday at four o'clock. They did it right after

1536
01:27:34,120 --> 01:27:38,200
Speaker 1: the game, basically a couple days after. So if this

1537
01:27:38,280 --> 01:27:40,600
Speaker 1: coaching staff knows what they like and what they don't like,

1538
01:27:40,840 --> 01:27:43,080
Speaker 1: they're not going to hold onto these players longer than

1539
01:27:43,120 --> 01:27:45,439
Speaker 1: they need to. Yeah, I think the way I look

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01:27:45,479 --> 01:27:48,240
Speaker 1: at this is I look at the positions of surplus

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01:27:48,240 --> 01:27:52,000
Speaker 1: on this roster. The positions of surplus are offensive line,

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01:27:52,040 --> 01:27:54,320
Speaker 1: defensive line. You can make a case for wide receiver

1543
01:27:54,400 --> 01:27:59,160
Speaker 1: as well, and if they get phone calls. Because I

1544
01:27:59,200 --> 01:28:00,960
Speaker 1: gotta tell you right now, not every team in the

1545
01:28:01,040 --> 01:28:03,600
Speaker 1: league is deep at pass rusher. Not every team in

1546
01:28:03,640 --> 01:28:06,720
Speaker 1: the league is deep at offensive line, and not every

1547
01:28:06,720 --> 01:28:09,160
Speaker 1: team is deep in the league at receivers. So I

1548
01:28:09,160 --> 01:28:12,599
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if they're getting phone calls and if

1549
01:28:12,640 --> 01:28:15,519
Speaker 1: the right deal can be made, or the Bills can

1550
01:28:15,600 --> 01:28:18,200
Speaker 1: even upgrade their current roster at a position that might

1551
01:28:18,240 --> 01:28:22,639
Speaker 1: be a little muddled right now, like tight end, something

1552
01:28:22,640 --> 01:28:25,920
Speaker 1: could happen. I think something could happen. Yes, absolutely so,

1553
01:28:25,960 --> 01:28:29,320
Speaker 1: I would tell Steve yes, I could see them trading

1554
01:28:29,360 --> 01:28:32,559
Speaker 1: a veteran player off this roster in exchange for maybe

1555
01:28:32,600 --> 01:28:34,760
Speaker 1: a player at a position deemed to be a little

1556
01:28:34,760 --> 01:28:38,120
Speaker 1: weak right now for the Bills or for draft capital

1557
01:28:38,640 --> 01:28:41,479
Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty two draft, which by most accounts

1558
01:28:41,520 --> 01:28:43,000
Speaker 1: is going to be one of the deepest pools of

1559
01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:46,320
Speaker 1: talent in the last twenty years. So draft picks next

1560
01:28:46,400 --> 01:28:48,840
Speaker 1: year have even more value than they usually do because

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01:28:48,840 --> 01:28:51,720
Speaker 1: of that fact. All Right, that's our first run through

1562
01:28:51,760 --> 01:28:53,920
Speaker 1: the obl fan Friday mail bag. We do have to

1563
01:28:53,960 --> 01:28:58,240
Speaker 1: take a break here. When we come back. Does Aaron

1564
01:28:58,320 --> 01:29:01,920
Speaker 1: Rodgers have another opportunit tunity on television that he thought

1565
01:29:01,920 --> 01:29:06,760
Speaker 1: had fallen by the wayside. We will discuss. There's the

1566
01:29:06,920 --> 01:29:11,120
Speaker 1: jeopardy mess that is going on that could give Aaron

1567
01:29:11,200 --> 01:29:13,880
Speaker 1: Rodgers another crack at it we will discuss when we

1568
01:29:13,920 --> 01:29:16,320
Speaker 1: return here on One Bill's Live, presented by Colloid to Health.

1569
01:29:16,360 --> 01:29:31,599
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back One Bill's Live. Chris Brown,

1570
01:29:31,640 --> 01:29:36,080
Speaker 1: Maddi glab here on a Friday, and the news is

1571
01:29:36,120 --> 01:29:41,560
Speaker 1: out and it is seismic. In the world of game shows, Jeopardy,

1572
01:29:41,880 --> 01:29:46,480
Speaker 1: which had just named their new host, which maybe not coincidentally,

1573
01:29:46,600 --> 01:29:51,320
Speaker 1: was also their executive producer. He essentially hired himself, Mike Richards,

1574
01:29:51,680 --> 01:29:53,840
Speaker 1: to be the new host in the wake of the

1575
01:29:53,840 --> 01:29:58,320
Speaker 1: passing of famous host Alex Trebek. There were a number

1576
01:29:58,320 --> 01:30:01,479
Speaker 1: of candidates for this job. Mike Years ultimately hires himself

1577
01:30:01,520 --> 01:30:06,200
Speaker 1: as host, and then there is a cavalcade of controversy

1578
01:30:07,479 --> 01:30:10,519
Speaker 1: surrounding a podcast he did ten years ago in which

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01:30:10,520 --> 01:30:15,240
Speaker 1: he said some unsavory things. Other scandals came to light,

1580
01:30:15,840 --> 01:30:19,680
Speaker 1: and today he released a statement saying it would be

1581
01:30:19,680 --> 01:30:22,959
Speaker 1: best for all if he stepped down as host of Jeopardy.

1582
01:30:23,360 --> 01:30:26,240
Speaker 1: From what I understand, he's staying on as executive producer,

1583
01:30:26,280 --> 01:30:29,640
Speaker 1: but now they have canceled tapings as they search for

1584
01:30:29,680 --> 01:30:33,280
Speaker 1: a new host. Maddie. Now we know Aaron Rodgers was

1585
01:30:33,320 --> 01:30:37,160
Speaker 1: a host over the summer a guest host on a

1586
01:30:37,240 --> 01:30:41,080
Speaker 1: tryout basis, and he was recently asked if he would

1587
01:30:41,160 --> 01:30:43,439
Speaker 1: still consider hosting the show and he's like, well, it's

1588
01:30:43,439 --> 01:30:45,200
Speaker 1: a done thing, but yeah, I would still be open

1589
01:30:45,280 --> 01:30:49,559
Speaker 1: to it. Well, the door is back open. What do

1590
01:30:49,600 --> 01:30:52,200
Speaker 1: we think this guy does host on the bye week?

1591
01:30:54,200 --> 01:30:56,880
Speaker 1: I feel like if there was anyone who did that,

1592
01:30:56,920 --> 01:30:59,759
Speaker 1: it would be Aaron Rodgers. So that would not shock

1593
01:31:00,040 --> 01:31:02,320
Speaker 1: me at all if he found a way to loop

1594
01:31:02,400 --> 01:31:05,800
Speaker 1: this in with the football season and completely make it work.

1595
01:31:06,600 --> 01:31:10,360
Speaker 1: When he hosted as the trial basis, I thought he

1596
01:31:10,400 --> 01:31:13,120
Speaker 1: did a great job. I was surprised by how well

1597
01:31:13,160 --> 01:31:18,240
Speaker 1: he did, so I'm I'm all for it. This guy's

1598
01:31:18,240 --> 01:31:22,240
Speaker 1: a proven quarterback. I think if if he made some

1599
01:31:22,320 --> 01:31:25,519
Speaker 1: time during a bye week or whatever, when he found

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01:31:25,520 --> 01:31:28,920
Speaker 1: time during the season to do something like this, I'd

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01:31:28,960 --> 01:31:30,519
Speaker 1: be for it and I wouldn't be shocked if he

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01:31:30,560 --> 01:31:33,880
Speaker 1: did it. Yeah about you, there were Well I actually

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01:31:33,920 --> 01:31:35,840
Speaker 1: saw one of the shows that he did and I

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01:31:35,880 --> 01:31:38,400
Speaker 1: thought he was He was pretty good, Like, you know,

1605
01:31:38,680 --> 01:31:41,240
Speaker 1: he moved the show along, he cracked a couple of jokes.

1606
01:31:43,280 --> 01:31:45,640
Speaker 1: I thought he was good. I mean, is he the

1607
01:31:45,680 --> 01:31:50,919
Speaker 1: best candidate? I don't know, but I think they certainly

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01:31:50,960 --> 01:31:55,160
Speaker 1: should not have the executive producer hiring himself. So now

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01:31:55,200 --> 01:31:58,280
Speaker 1: he has officially hired himself and fired himself all in

1610
01:31:58,320 --> 01:31:59,680
Speaker 1: the span of about a month and a half. That's

1611
01:31:59,720 --> 01:32:07,080
Speaker 1: pretty amazing. Yeah, exactly so. I think there was a very,

1612
01:32:07,200 --> 01:32:12,360
Speaker 1: very loud social media throng of Jeopardy fans that were

1613
01:32:12,720 --> 01:32:17,639
Speaker 1: staunchly against this move, and not surprisingly, some of Mike

1614
01:32:17,760 --> 01:32:20,479
Speaker 1: Richard's history came back to bite him because people started

1615
01:32:20,479 --> 01:32:24,920
Speaker 1: digging into his past to find any possible reason to

1616
01:32:24,960 --> 01:32:27,559
Speaker 1: get him out of the host seat. I was like, Wow,

1617
01:32:27,840 --> 01:32:30,400
Speaker 1: there's really some people that don't want this guy to

1618
01:32:30,520 --> 01:32:34,200
Speaker 1: have this job. I was just surprised by the passion

1619
01:32:34,680 --> 01:32:38,280
Speaker 1: of the fan base for this famous quiz show. It

1620
01:32:38,400 --> 01:32:42,120
Speaker 1: floored me. Now I know that I'm gonna get her

1621
01:32:42,200 --> 01:32:45,880
Speaker 1: name wrong, but symbolic, who is she's going to be

1622
01:32:45,920 --> 01:32:49,280
Speaker 1: the traveling show host? I guess this. They're gonna have

1623
01:32:49,320 --> 01:32:54,080
Speaker 1: a traveling show version and the former star in Blossom

1624
01:32:54,080 --> 01:32:56,040
Speaker 1: in the Big Bang theory, she is going to be

1625
01:32:56,560 --> 01:32:59,760
Speaker 1: the host for that. And then there was a guy

1626
01:33:00,320 --> 01:33:02,639
Speaker 1: I think from the PBS show. I think his name's

1627
01:33:02,720 --> 01:33:07,040
Speaker 1: LaVar or something, and he actually tested very well, he

1628
01:33:07,080 --> 01:33:11,080
Speaker 1: had like the highest rating of the focus groups that

1629
01:33:11,160 --> 01:33:15,800
Speaker 1: they had judging these guest hosts, and he still didn't

1630
01:33:15,840 --> 01:33:20,479
Speaker 1: get the gig because the executive producer hired himself. So

1631
01:33:20,560 --> 01:33:24,360
Speaker 1: maybe they turned to him because he was favorably received

1632
01:33:24,360 --> 01:33:29,960
Speaker 1: by the big time passionate Jeopardy fans. So it's it's

1633
01:33:30,000 --> 01:33:32,519
Speaker 1: big news in Hollywood, Maddie. We don't know where this

1634
01:33:32,600 --> 01:33:34,519
Speaker 1: is going to go or how many more twists this

1635
01:33:34,600 --> 01:33:37,920
Speaker 1: takes before they find a replacement, a permanent replacement for

1636
01:33:38,040 --> 01:33:40,760
Speaker 1: Alex Trebek. But the door is back open to be

1637
01:33:40,880 --> 01:33:44,920
Speaker 1: Jeopardy host? Do you want to host that show? You

1638
01:33:45,000 --> 01:33:48,320
Speaker 1: know it looks a lot harder than it probably seems

1639
01:33:48,439 --> 01:33:51,280
Speaker 1: from the outside looking in, just knowing what we do

1640
01:33:51,400 --> 01:33:54,400
Speaker 1: and how our job is talent based, and how it

1641
01:33:54,439 --> 01:33:57,160
Speaker 1: can be a lot harder than people may think it

1642
01:33:57,240 --> 01:33:59,160
Speaker 1: is from the outside looking And like I said, I

1643
01:33:59,439 --> 01:34:01,720
Speaker 1: would think it it's got to be even tougher to

1644
01:34:01,760 --> 01:34:04,200
Speaker 1: host a show like Jeopardy. Would I take a crack

1645
01:34:04,240 --> 01:34:07,960
Speaker 1: at it? Totally? Yeah? I am. Also so for them

1646
01:34:08,040 --> 01:34:13,160
Speaker 1: hiring someone semi full time and letting people like celebrities

1647
01:34:13,280 --> 01:34:16,040
Speaker 1: rotate in. I think that would draw more people to

1648
01:34:16,120 --> 01:34:20,120
Speaker 1: the show. That's your point. Hardcore Jeopardy fans probably be mad. Yeah,

1649
01:34:20,160 --> 01:34:22,800
Speaker 1: but I like the idea of rotating people in and

1650
01:34:22,800 --> 01:34:25,320
Speaker 1: out from a time to time basis. Yeah, I'd be

1651
01:34:25,360 --> 01:34:28,479
Speaker 1: in favor of that. That show moves fast, though, like

1652
01:34:28,640 --> 01:34:31,480
Speaker 1: you have got to be on it like you cannot.

1653
01:34:32,120 --> 01:34:35,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure they have takes and they you know,

1654
01:34:35,200 --> 01:34:38,120
Speaker 1: it's pre taped so they can cut or edit and whatever.

1655
01:34:38,240 --> 01:34:41,280
Speaker 1: But the pace of that show, like you got to

1656
01:34:41,320 --> 01:34:44,320
Speaker 1: be on your p's and q's for the full half

1657
01:34:44,360 --> 01:34:46,719
Speaker 1: an hour there. That is a show that moves quickly,

1658
01:34:46,840 --> 01:34:50,040
Speaker 1: and you know the degree of difficulty with those questions.

1659
01:34:50,080 --> 01:34:51,559
Speaker 1: I mean, of course you look smart, you have all

1660
01:34:51,560 --> 01:34:53,840
Speaker 1: the answers if you're the host. But still at all

1661
01:34:53,920 --> 01:34:57,080
Speaker 1: that that is a that's a tough show, and it

1662
01:34:57,160 --> 01:35:00,240
Speaker 1: moves and it moves quick. So be interesting to see

1663
01:35:00,240 --> 01:35:03,040
Speaker 1: where that whole thing lands going forward, and if in

1664
01:35:03,080 --> 01:35:06,559
Speaker 1: fact Aaron Rodgers gets another crack at it. We have

1665
01:35:06,600 --> 01:35:09,320
Speaker 1: to take a break here, but when we come back

1666
01:35:09,640 --> 01:35:12,240
Speaker 1: third hour of the show, we will be bringing you

1667
01:35:12,520 --> 01:35:17,000
Speaker 1: NFL on CBS Sideline. Reporter Evan Washburn took in some

1668
01:35:17,120 --> 01:35:19,960
Speaker 1: bills camp this week. Also, we'll be able to help

1669
01:35:20,120 --> 01:35:22,479
Speaker 1: bring us up to speed on some other AFC clubs

1670
01:35:22,479 --> 01:35:25,120
Speaker 1: around the league. We'll talk to him next. Here on

1671
01:35:25,120 --> 01:35:27,519
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live, presented by Cloud of Health. It's Buffalo

1672
01:35:27,560 --> 01:35:46,920
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker who has been all

1673
01:35:47,320 --> 01:35:49,120
Speaker 1: over the fields. Kind of unique. He was kind of

1674
01:35:49,120 --> 01:35:54,679
Speaker 1: a dual role plunder for you, st Steve a blimp.

1675
01:35:55,479 --> 01:36:02,320
Speaker 1: We're not even in the stragedyere of normalcy. Our number

1676
01:36:02,360 --> 01:36:04,880
Speaker 1: three here on a Friday. Chris Brown, Matty glab with

1677
01:36:04,960 --> 01:36:09,880
Speaker 1: you and joining us on the line right now, reporter, host,

1678
01:36:09,920 --> 01:36:14,480
Speaker 1: an analyst for CBS Sports Network, also NFL on CBS Sideline,

1679
01:36:14,560 --> 01:36:18,240
Speaker 1: reporter and busy here in the preseason doing the Ravens

1680
01:36:19,000 --> 01:36:22,080
Speaker 1: television work. It is one Evan Washburn joining us on

1681
01:36:22,080 --> 01:36:25,200
Speaker 1: the show, who took in Bill's camp for a day

1682
01:36:25,280 --> 01:36:27,559
Speaker 1: or so here this past week. So Evan, thanks for

1683
01:36:27,640 --> 01:36:29,479
Speaker 1: joining us. How you how you doing? You all tuned

1684
01:36:29,560 --> 01:36:33,040
Speaker 1: up for your Ravens Carolina game coming up tomorrow night.

1685
01:36:34,720 --> 01:36:38,840
Speaker 1: We'll get there, Chris, so Maddie with you guys. It's

1686
01:36:39,200 --> 01:36:42,120
Speaker 1: been a wacky three weeks. It's been awesome. Though everybody

1687
01:36:42,120 --> 01:36:45,360
Speaker 1: has asked, I've told him, I've never been more thankful

1688
01:36:45,479 --> 01:36:48,880
Speaker 1: to get out on the road, be it practices, talk

1689
01:36:48,960 --> 01:36:53,240
Speaker 1: to people like yourselves in person, but also players and coaches.

1690
01:36:53,439 --> 01:36:56,800
Speaker 1: And yeah, that that Bills visit on Monday seems like

1691
01:36:56,840 --> 01:36:59,559
Speaker 1: ages ago, but it was awesome to be out there.

1692
01:36:59,680 --> 01:37:04,640
Speaker 1: Tell you had a conversation there prepractice with coach McDermott.

1693
01:37:06,000 --> 01:37:07,800
Speaker 1: I think you also talked to You may have also

1694
01:37:07,840 --> 01:37:10,759
Speaker 1: talked to coach Dable a little bit among some other coaches.

1695
01:37:10,880 --> 01:37:14,120
Speaker 1: What do you think was the biggest takeaway for you

1696
01:37:14,720 --> 01:37:19,000
Speaker 1: as to how this team has maybe tried to diversify

1697
01:37:19,080 --> 01:37:23,360
Speaker 1: itself to kind of keep NFL defenses from catching up

1698
01:37:23,360 --> 01:37:26,600
Speaker 1: to what was a juggernaut attack last year. Well, I

1699
01:37:26,600 --> 01:37:29,679
Speaker 1: think they're going to keep that diversification pretty much under

1700
01:37:29,720 --> 01:37:32,400
Speaker 1: wraps and unveil at Week one against Pittsburgh. But I

1701
01:37:32,400 --> 01:37:34,920
Speaker 1: have no doubt that Brian day Ball and his staff

1702
01:37:35,000 --> 01:37:37,760
Speaker 1: will will look at that. I thought Josh's comments when

1703
01:37:37,760 --> 01:37:41,360
Speaker 1: I spoke with him post practice were interesting, mentioning just

1704
01:37:41,640 --> 01:37:44,640
Speaker 1: the analytics and the work that they do and that

1705
01:37:44,760 --> 01:37:48,519
Speaker 1: staff does to arm day Ball and his group with

1706
01:37:48,840 --> 01:37:51,960
Speaker 1: what worked last year across the league, what were some

1707
01:37:51,960 --> 01:37:54,840
Speaker 1: of the trends, and then how they could employ them

1708
01:37:54,880 --> 01:37:58,120
Speaker 1: and their plan here in twenty one. But the biggest

1709
01:37:58,120 --> 01:38:00,760
Speaker 1: thing I took away from conversations as mentioned with Sean

1710
01:38:00,840 --> 01:38:03,760
Speaker 1: and with Brandon Bean and really everybody, there is an

1711
01:38:03,800 --> 01:38:06,760
Speaker 1: acknowledgement that, yeah, we did something special last year, but

1712
01:38:06,800 --> 01:38:10,080
Speaker 1: we didn't accomplish our goal. They have continuity, which is

1713
01:38:10,200 --> 01:38:13,479
Speaker 1: rare in the NFL, and that's a luxury. But they're

1714
01:38:13,479 --> 01:38:15,799
Speaker 1: gonna have to build back up from the ground floor

1715
01:38:15,880 --> 01:38:19,040
Speaker 1: and they seem prime to do that. And I can't

1716
01:38:19,080 --> 01:38:21,559
Speaker 1: wait to see how it goes, because, Man, as you

1717
01:38:21,560 --> 01:38:25,160
Speaker 1: guys well know, last year was breakout for so many

1718
01:38:25,479 --> 01:38:28,000
Speaker 1: I know, our fans get to hear Chris and I's

1719
01:38:28,040 --> 01:38:30,600
Speaker 1: take on practice every single day, and you got to

1720
01:38:30,600 --> 01:38:32,919
Speaker 1: be out there for a day. I know Steve Tasker

1721
01:38:33,040 --> 01:38:35,360
Speaker 1: was talking your ear off for half of that practice.

1722
01:38:36,720 --> 01:38:39,599
Speaker 1: But was there anything that you were able to take

1723
01:38:39,640 --> 01:38:42,080
Speaker 1: away from just what you saw in some of those

1724
01:38:42,080 --> 01:38:44,160
Speaker 1: team periods, or maybe something that you were a little

1725
01:38:44,160 --> 01:38:46,680
Speaker 1: bit surprised by that you weren't expecting to see when

1726
01:38:46,680 --> 01:38:49,840
Speaker 1: you were at one Bill's Drive, I would say, Mattie,

1727
01:38:49,880 --> 01:38:53,599
Speaker 1: I mean, just whether it's fash mahomes and now Josh

1728
01:38:53,640 --> 01:38:56,280
Speaker 1: Allen's kind of trickled into that category and Lamar has

1729
01:38:56,320 --> 01:39:00,000
Speaker 1: some of this because when you're only a practice one day,

1730
01:38:59,240 --> 01:39:03,240
Speaker 1: try to be careful about opinions that you make, and

1731
01:39:03,960 --> 01:39:05,720
Speaker 1: you don't want to be too rash based off of

1732
01:39:05,760 --> 01:39:08,519
Speaker 1: a pretty small sample size. But the great ones seem

1733
01:39:08,560 --> 01:39:10,559
Speaker 1: to make one or two plays of practice no matter

1734
01:39:10,560 --> 01:39:12,759
Speaker 1: when you show up that kind of makes you go, WHOA,

1735
01:39:13,160 --> 01:39:15,360
Speaker 1: that was impressive. And I think at that one play

1736
01:39:15,600 --> 01:39:18,000
Speaker 1: in the practice on Monday where Josh kind of rolls

1737
01:39:18,000 --> 01:39:20,720
Speaker 1: out and then he throws across the field, which you

1738
01:39:20,800 --> 01:39:23,439
Speaker 1: never want to do to a wide open Cole Beasley,

1739
01:39:23,680 --> 01:39:26,120
Speaker 1: and it's only a play that you know he's probably

1740
01:39:26,160 --> 01:39:28,280
Speaker 1: allowed to make or could make based off of that

1741
01:39:28,400 --> 01:39:30,280
Speaker 1: arm strength. So I mean that was one of the

1742
01:39:30,320 --> 01:39:32,439
Speaker 1: plays where I walked away go right, Yeah, it looks

1743
01:39:32,520 --> 01:39:35,960
Speaker 1: kind of like Josh Allen at his best and just

1744
01:39:36,240 --> 01:39:39,720
Speaker 1: kind of seeing again the continuity. And I'm sure you

1745
01:39:39,720 --> 01:39:42,160
Speaker 1: guys have touched on that a bunch. But as I

1746
01:39:42,280 --> 01:39:45,120
Speaker 1: go from camp to camp and you're having to retrain

1747
01:39:45,200 --> 01:39:47,599
Speaker 1: yourself on, Okay, who's on this team, who they bring

1748
01:39:47,600 --> 01:39:50,040
Speaker 1: into the offseason, who they lose in free agency, who

1749
01:39:50,120 --> 01:39:52,200
Speaker 1: they pick in the draft, And the Bills are one

1750
01:39:52,240 --> 01:39:53,760
Speaker 1: of the few teams where it was like, oh, it's

1751
01:39:53,800 --> 01:39:56,600
Speaker 1: pretty much a rerack. You put in Emmanuel Sanders for

1752
01:39:56,840 --> 01:39:59,000
Speaker 1: John Brown and then you got a draft class and

1753
01:39:59,080 --> 01:40:04,360
Speaker 1: it's it's jarring because that, again is rare. You were

1754
01:40:04,439 --> 01:40:09,160
Speaker 1: not here when Dion Dawkins kind of laid his emotions

1755
01:40:09,240 --> 01:40:12,040
Speaker 1: and the battle that he had with COVID recently on

1756
01:40:12,080 --> 01:40:15,800
Speaker 1: the table, had to be hospitalized for four days, even

1757
01:40:15,840 --> 01:40:19,639
Speaker 1: though he had already had his second shot. He wasn't

1758
01:40:19,680 --> 01:40:23,240
Speaker 1: fully vaccinated under what the terms are. He hadn't been

1759
01:40:23,240 --> 01:40:26,040
Speaker 1: fourteen days out from his second shot when he contracted it,

1760
01:40:26,560 --> 01:40:29,680
Speaker 1: but he had a battle on his hands. We know

1761
01:40:29,760 --> 01:40:32,040
Speaker 1: that you've seen that up close and personal in Baltimore

1762
01:40:32,080 --> 01:40:36,200
Speaker 1: with Lamar Jackson, who also tested positive for COVID for

1763
01:40:36,200 --> 01:40:40,120
Speaker 1: the second time in a calendar year. And I think,

1764
01:40:40,160 --> 01:40:43,000
Speaker 1: miss what the first two weeks of training camp. Do

1765
01:40:43,040 --> 01:40:46,439
Speaker 1: you think that these very vivid examples that are right

1766
01:40:46,479 --> 01:40:50,559
Speaker 1: in front of the players will serve to kind of

1767
01:40:51,360 --> 01:40:54,000
Speaker 1: push the message forward for maybe some of those people

1768
01:40:54,040 --> 01:40:59,040
Speaker 1: that still to this point have not gotten vaccinated. Chris,

1769
01:40:59,040 --> 01:41:01,479
Speaker 1: I'll be honest with the eye. I don't know. I

1770
01:41:02,720 --> 01:41:05,080
Speaker 1: you know that that would be one way of viewing it.

1771
01:41:05,160 --> 01:41:11,839
Speaker 1: Absolutely and then as we've learned people have their beliefs

1772
01:41:11,880 --> 01:41:15,880
Speaker 1: and are working through that. I've kind of as best

1773
01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:19,360
Speaker 1: I can acknowledging that it's definitely going to be a

1774
01:41:19,400 --> 01:41:22,960
Speaker 1: storyline this year because of things like you what you

1775
01:41:23,080 --> 01:41:26,400
Speaker 1: just brought up, and players that are probably going to

1776
01:41:26,479 --> 01:41:29,240
Speaker 1: be removed from action based off of either a positive

1777
01:41:29,280 --> 01:41:32,120
Speaker 1: test or a close contact, whatever it might be. It's

1778
01:41:32,160 --> 01:41:35,960
Speaker 1: something we're gonna have to monitor, but I've really tried

1779
01:41:36,000 --> 01:41:38,879
Speaker 1: to just kind of put it in the back burner

1780
01:41:38,920 --> 01:41:44,720
Speaker 1: because I don't know if there's any you know, new

1781
01:41:44,760 --> 01:41:47,799
Speaker 1: ground that I could tread on it that hasn't already

1782
01:41:47,840 --> 01:41:51,280
Speaker 1: been talked about. So it's one of those things where

1783
01:41:51,520 --> 01:41:54,400
Speaker 1: you follow it if it affects, in our case, a

1784
01:41:54,520 --> 01:41:57,599
Speaker 1: game that we have, then you cover it as a reporter,

1785
01:41:58,360 --> 01:42:02,560
Speaker 1: but sort of the day to day minutia of it

1786
01:42:02,640 --> 01:42:05,240
Speaker 1: is not, you know, front of mine for me. I

1787
01:42:05,240 --> 01:42:07,560
Speaker 1: guess one thing that's a fact about this though, is

1788
01:42:08,040 --> 01:42:10,880
Speaker 1: whether you miss two weeks or a week. I mean,

1789
01:42:11,000 --> 01:42:14,280
Speaker 1: whether you're Dion Dawkins or Lamar Jackson, a starter or

1790
01:42:14,320 --> 01:42:17,040
Speaker 1: someone who's fighting to make that fifty three man roster,

1791
01:42:17,479 --> 01:42:19,840
Speaker 1: missing time in training camp, no matter how good you

1792
01:42:19,880 --> 01:42:23,160
Speaker 1: are is going to take a toll on your skill set,

1793
01:42:23,240 --> 01:42:25,479
Speaker 1: on your body. We heard Dion Dawkins say, you know,

1794
01:42:25,520 --> 01:42:27,600
Speaker 1: it's just tough to get through warmups right now, and

1795
01:42:27,600 --> 01:42:31,080
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott was very candid and saying Dion has a

1796
01:42:31,080 --> 01:42:34,439
Speaker 1: long way to go until he's game ready. You know,

1797
01:42:34,600 --> 01:42:37,200
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson doesn't step on the field after being out

1798
01:42:37,240 --> 01:42:40,519
Speaker 1: for two weeks and you know, flick, flick his wrists

1799
01:42:40,600 --> 01:42:43,799
Speaker 1: or snap his fingers and go I'm back where I'm at.

1800
01:42:43,840 --> 01:42:46,840
Speaker 1: But looking at what he was able to do, you know,

1801
01:42:46,960 --> 01:42:49,680
Speaker 1: his past three seasons at quarterback, do you what do

1802
01:42:49,680 --> 01:42:51,840
Speaker 1: you think we can expect out of a guy like

1803
01:42:51,920 --> 01:42:55,160
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson this year who still has so many people

1804
01:42:56,120 --> 01:42:59,920
Speaker 1: saying can this guy throw the ball? Is he somewhere

1805
01:43:00,560 --> 01:43:04,000
Speaker 1: who can be a reliable passer when we need him

1806
01:43:04,000 --> 01:43:07,519
Speaker 1: to be? Where do you think he's at in this season? Well,

1807
01:43:07,520 --> 01:43:10,519
Speaker 1: he's a gamer. He actually did kind of come back

1808
01:43:10,560 --> 01:43:12,759
Speaker 1: out on the field and pretty quickly look like Lamar,

1809
01:43:12,840 --> 01:43:17,040
Speaker 1: which is again a testament to his ability. I think

1810
01:43:17,120 --> 01:43:20,040
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of discussion around Lamar. I don't

1811
01:43:20,040 --> 01:43:23,280
Speaker 1: think that's ever going to change. He plays the position

1812
01:43:23,600 --> 01:43:27,400
Speaker 1: unlike anyone we've ever seen, and I just think that

1813
01:43:27,880 --> 01:43:30,760
Speaker 1: it's hard when we're so used to being able to

1814
01:43:30,760 --> 01:43:33,200
Speaker 1: put people in a lane. When you can't really do

1815
01:43:33,240 --> 01:43:36,320
Speaker 1: that with a player, especially at that position, it can

1816
01:43:36,360 --> 01:43:40,920
Speaker 1: frustrate us. So specific to the passing game, I think

1817
01:43:41,000 --> 01:43:44,760
Speaker 1: Lamar Is put himself in a position physically and with

1818
01:43:44,800 --> 01:43:48,160
Speaker 1: the pieces around him, especially in the offseason. In terms

1819
01:43:48,200 --> 01:43:50,240
Speaker 1: of coaching. You know, he's working with Tom House and

1820
01:43:50,360 --> 01:43:53,880
Speaker 1: his group this offseason. They've got a roster that's in

1821
01:43:53,960 --> 01:43:57,559
Speaker 1: terms of clients that you know is anchored by Tom

1822
01:43:57,600 --> 01:43:59,880
Speaker 1: Brady and they've done an incredible work. And I mean

1823
01:44:00,080 --> 01:44:02,240
Speaker 1: guy in your backyard there and Josh Allen. You see

1824
01:44:02,280 --> 01:44:05,439
Speaker 1: the strides he makes with Jordan Palmer in the summers.

1825
01:44:05,520 --> 01:44:08,240
Speaker 1: So that decision, to me, says a lot. And it's

1826
01:44:08,240 --> 01:44:10,400
Speaker 1: also about the pieces around them. And they've invested a

1827
01:44:10,400 --> 01:44:14,200
Speaker 1: lot in draft equity and Rashad Bateman and bringing in

1828
01:44:14,200 --> 01:44:17,559
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins and obviously having Marquis Brown a first round

1829
01:44:17,640 --> 01:44:19,240
Speaker 1: or a couple of years ago, and then a top

1830
01:44:19,280 --> 01:44:22,880
Speaker 1: tier tight end of Mark Andrews. So the pieces then, unfortunately,

1831
01:44:22,920 --> 01:44:25,280
Speaker 1: over the course of training camp, most of those pieces

1832
01:44:25,280 --> 01:44:27,599
Speaker 1: have been hurt. So I think it is going to

1833
01:44:27,680 --> 01:44:31,800
Speaker 1: make at least the start of the season probably look

1834
01:44:31,840 --> 01:44:34,840
Speaker 1: a lot like it's looked in recent years, where the

1835
01:44:34,840 --> 01:44:37,240
Speaker 1: passing game has been way behind, not just the running game,

1836
01:44:37,280 --> 01:44:39,519
Speaker 1: but you know, most passing games in the league. Because

1837
01:44:39,520 --> 01:44:43,280
Speaker 1: Bateman had growing surgery recently, trying not back until middle

1838
01:44:43,280 --> 01:44:47,439
Speaker 1: of September, Marcus Brown's dealing with a hamstring. Sammy Watkins

1839
01:44:47,439 --> 01:44:50,120
Speaker 1: has stayed healthy, but he's struggled to do that through

1840
01:44:50,640 --> 01:44:55,000
Speaker 1: sixteen games now seventeen games. So my evaluation and judgment

1841
01:44:55,040 --> 01:44:58,360
Speaker 1: of Lamar the passer and that passing game probably more

1842
01:44:58,360 --> 01:45:01,680
Speaker 1: appropriately probably will be for like week six. But I

1843
01:45:01,720 --> 01:45:05,240
Speaker 1: do think when healthy, the components and Lamar where he

1844
01:45:05,360 --> 01:45:08,720
Speaker 1: is entering the year four have all the capabilities of

1845
01:45:08,800 --> 01:45:10,439
Speaker 1: being middle of the road because that's really all they

1846
01:45:10,479 --> 01:45:12,080
Speaker 1: need to be, because make a mistake, this is a

1847
01:45:12,160 --> 01:45:15,479
Speaker 1: run first team and will continue to be so. Look,

1848
01:45:15,600 --> 01:45:18,240
Speaker 1: I don't know how much you caught of Patriots Eagles

1849
01:45:18,400 --> 01:45:21,880
Speaker 1: last night, Evan, but even if you just saw the highlights,

1850
01:45:22,680 --> 01:45:27,120
Speaker 1: there looked to be some proficiency, newfound proficiency to the

1851
01:45:27,120 --> 01:45:30,160
Speaker 1: passing game for New England. As far as Cam Newton's concerned,

1852
01:45:31,040 --> 01:45:34,000
Speaker 1: he looked much better than some of the struggles he

1853
01:45:34,040 --> 01:45:37,360
Speaker 1: had last year when he was throwing bounce passes on

1854
01:45:37,400 --> 01:45:40,479
Speaker 1: twelve yard outs for lack of a better description, So

1855
01:45:41,640 --> 01:45:43,080
Speaker 1: we want to take it with a grain of salt

1856
01:45:43,080 --> 01:45:45,839
Speaker 1: because it's preseason. The Eagles weren't playing a ton of starters.

1857
01:45:46,560 --> 01:45:49,679
Speaker 1: But what step do you think the New England passing

1858
01:45:49,720 --> 01:45:52,000
Speaker 1: game took, not only with Newton in there, but Mac

1859
01:45:52,080 --> 01:45:55,000
Speaker 1: Jones for that matter. I think New England's in a

1860
01:45:55,040 --> 01:45:57,400
Speaker 1: great spot. I mean they've got two good quarterbacks and

1861
01:45:58,320 --> 01:46:00,479
Speaker 1: as we talked about with in terms of depth than

1862
01:46:00,920 --> 01:46:03,240
Speaker 1: guys that can be removed, whether it be due to

1863
01:46:03,280 --> 01:46:05,600
Speaker 1: injury or COVID at a moment's notice. To have a

1864
01:46:05,760 --> 01:46:09,600
Speaker 1: solid backup, whether that's Cam to Mac or Mac to Cam,

1865
01:46:09,680 --> 01:46:12,240
Speaker 1: and there doesn't seem to be much of a margin

1866
01:46:12,680 --> 01:46:14,960
Speaker 1: between the two, is a good place to be. I

1867
01:46:14,960 --> 01:46:18,120
Speaker 1: would say that, while it could be appeared to be

1868
01:46:18,160 --> 01:46:21,240
Speaker 1: lip service the idea oh year two, I'm much more comfortable. Yeah,

1869
01:46:21,280 --> 01:46:24,400
Speaker 1: that's obvious. I really do think that when you're trying

1870
01:46:24,400 --> 01:46:27,639
Speaker 1: to command at Josh mccamonel's offense, you come in late

1871
01:46:27,760 --> 01:46:30,400
Speaker 1: in a COVID year where there's no chance to meet

1872
01:46:30,439 --> 01:46:33,720
Speaker 1: in person, that stuff's real So Cam's comfort with the

1873
01:46:33,760 --> 01:46:37,320
Speaker 1: offense and his ability to run it more effectively is

1874
01:46:37,360 --> 01:46:39,920
Speaker 1: pretty obvious in his performance, not just last night but

1875
01:46:40,000 --> 01:46:43,320
Speaker 1: throughout camp from everyone who was there, who's been there

1876
01:46:43,400 --> 01:46:44,920
Speaker 1: day to day. I got to see him in Philly

1877
01:46:44,960 --> 01:46:48,439
Speaker 1: on Tuesday and he made some Cam Newton like plays.

1878
01:46:48,640 --> 01:46:50,880
Speaker 1: The Mac thing's real, though, I mean, the momentum that's

1879
01:46:50,880 --> 01:46:54,479
Speaker 1: building behind him is obvious. His comfort in the chaos

1880
01:46:54,560 --> 01:46:58,759
Speaker 1: of these joint practices and then in these preseason games

1881
01:46:58,920 --> 01:47:02,720
Speaker 1: I mean in an offense as I mentioned that's very challenging,

1882
01:47:02,920 --> 01:47:07,400
Speaker 1: is super impressive. So, as I said when I was

1883
01:47:07,439 --> 01:47:11,400
Speaker 1: asked on our air on Tuesday while live at practice,

1884
01:47:11,479 --> 01:47:13,519
Speaker 1: you know where do they go here? I have no idea.

1885
01:47:13,680 --> 01:47:16,280
Speaker 1: I mean, not only is it, I don't think decided

1886
01:47:16,360 --> 01:47:19,120
Speaker 1: based on performance at this point. It's New England, so

1887
01:47:19,120 --> 01:47:21,200
Speaker 1: I'm not going to tip their hand to anybody. But

1888
01:47:21,479 --> 01:47:24,000
Speaker 1: i do think that the quarterback position is going to

1889
01:47:24,080 --> 01:47:27,840
Speaker 1: be much better, whether it's Cam or Mac this year

1890
01:47:27,880 --> 01:47:30,599
Speaker 1: for New England. I think an interesting part of this

1891
01:47:30,640 --> 01:47:33,960
Speaker 1: conversation of where they go or who starts week one

1892
01:47:34,520 --> 01:47:36,559
Speaker 1: is when you look at the first four games that

1893
01:47:36,640 --> 01:47:39,400
Speaker 1: the Patriots have on their schedule, Chris and I have

1894
01:47:39,520 --> 01:47:42,120
Speaker 1: talked about this multiple times and we've asked a lot

1895
01:47:42,160 --> 01:47:45,080
Speaker 1: of guests about it. They get the Dolphins week one,

1896
01:47:45,280 --> 01:47:47,200
Speaker 1: they have the Jets week two, then they have the

1897
01:47:47,280 --> 01:47:50,559
Speaker 1: Saints week three. You've got the Bucks there at week four.

1898
01:47:50,800 --> 01:47:53,760
Speaker 1: The first half of their schedule is a lot easier

1899
01:47:54,360 --> 01:47:57,080
Speaker 1: than the second half. Now, they don't have the toughest

1900
01:47:57,360 --> 01:48:00,280
Speaker 1: schedule at all, I would say, but it kind of

1901
01:48:00,360 --> 01:48:03,160
Speaker 1: lends a hand to they could ease their way into

1902
01:48:03,160 --> 01:48:06,360
Speaker 1: this situation just based on the first three weeks they

1903
01:48:06,400 --> 01:48:09,040
Speaker 1: have truly before they see the Bucks, who we know

1904
01:48:09,320 --> 01:48:11,960
Speaker 1: is a very talented team. I guess, how do you

1905
01:48:12,040 --> 01:48:15,280
Speaker 1: see the schedule maybe playing in to the decision making

1906
01:48:15,320 --> 01:48:18,280
Speaker 1: of Bill Belichick and how do we maneuver or work

1907
01:48:18,320 --> 01:48:21,320
Speaker 1: around this type of situation that we have here. Spends

1908
01:48:21,360 --> 01:48:23,080
Speaker 1: on who you want to be starting quarterback, because you

1909
01:48:23,080 --> 01:48:27,400
Speaker 1: can make an argument for either guy in terms of

1910
01:48:27,439 --> 01:48:29,840
Speaker 1: the schedule putting them in a better position. All right,

1911
01:48:29,880 --> 01:48:32,240
Speaker 1: let's go with Mac Jones. It's a rookie. As you mentioned,

1912
01:48:32,240 --> 01:48:36,040
Speaker 1: these are teams that at least last year or sort

1913
01:48:36,040 --> 01:48:39,080
Speaker 1: of forecast at heading into this year, shouldn't be playoff

1914
01:48:39,080 --> 01:48:42,719
Speaker 1: contenders other than maybe Miami has shown some real growth

1915
01:48:42,720 --> 01:48:45,880
Speaker 1: here under Brian Flores. So Mac Jones. Ease him into

1916
01:48:45,960 --> 01:48:49,760
Speaker 1: this and then he'll be ready or at least seemingly

1917
01:48:49,800 --> 01:48:53,000
Speaker 1: ready for that circus that will be the return. It's home, right.

1918
01:48:53,360 --> 01:48:55,920
Speaker 1: The flip side is, hey, Cam, get this team off

1919
01:48:55,920 --> 01:48:58,200
Speaker 1: to a good start, get them through, and if there's

1920
01:48:58,200 --> 01:49:00,559
Speaker 1: a bump along the way, then you bring in Jones.

1921
01:49:01,240 --> 01:49:04,240
Speaker 1: The only sort of reasonable argument that I've heard against

1922
01:49:05,520 --> 01:49:08,840
Speaker 1: or for sort of the having can be your starter

1923
01:49:09,080 --> 01:49:11,280
Speaker 1: no matter what happens with Mac here down the stretch

1924
01:49:11,280 --> 01:49:14,920
Speaker 1: of the preseason is if you were to start struggle

1925
01:49:15,439 --> 01:49:17,519
Speaker 1: and then you had to pull them, it's harder to

1926
01:49:17,560 --> 01:49:20,760
Speaker 1: go back to them. I don't know. I've always sort

1927
01:49:20,760 --> 01:49:23,519
Speaker 1: of looked at it this way. If they're gonna play

1928
01:49:23,560 --> 01:49:25,519
Speaker 1: the best player, the player that gives them the best

1929
01:49:25,600 --> 01:49:27,559
Speaker 1: chance to win, because make no mistake, you know New

1930
01:49:27,560 --> 01:49:29,360
Speaker 1: England wants to get back to the playoffs, you know,

1931
01:49:29,520 --> 01:49:33,720
Speaker 1: by any means necessary. And if you're that fragile at

1932
01:49:33,720 --> 01:49:37,639
Speaker 1: that position, then you're gonna have I think bigger issues

1933
01:49:38,400 --> 01:49:40,479
Speaker 1: than you know, when did I start, When did I

1934
01:49:40,520 --> 01:49:42,240
Speaker 1: come in? When did I get pulled? You know those

1935
01:49:42,280 --> 01:49:46,400
Speaker 1: sort of things. I mean as Josh and Buffalo well knows,

1936
01:49:46,560 --> 01:49:48,800
Speaker 1: from the start of his career, you've got to be

1937
01:49:48,840 --> 01:49:51,040
Speaker 1: pretty mentally tough to make it through those first couple

1938
01:49:51,040 --> 01:49:53,439
Speaker 1: of years. So it's gonna be it's gonna be wild

1939
01:49:53,479 --> 01:49:56,360
Speaker 1: to see what they do. But again, I think there's

1940
01:49:56,400 --> 01:49:58,840
Speaker 1: no real bad decision who would appear at the moment

1941
01:49:58,880 --> 01:50:02,280
Speaker 1: for New England. Talking with NFL on CBS sideline reporter

1942
01:50:02,320 --> 01:50:05,840
Speaker 1: Evan Washburn, last one from me, Evan concerns the Bills

1943
01:50:05,880 --> 01:50:09,120
Speaker 1: Week one opponent Pittsburgh. Everybody's talking about. Is Ben going

1944
01:50:09,160 --> 01:50:12,479
Speaker 1: to bounce back from a tailing off second half of

1945
01:50:12,520 --> 01:50:15,320
Speaker 1: the season last year. Is Najie Harris going to be

1946
01:50:15,320 --> 01:50:16,600
Speaker 1: a shot in the arm that they need in the

1947
01:50:16,680 --> 01:50:21,439
Speaker 1: running game. I'm focused on this completely revamped offensive line

1948
01:50:21,520 --> 01:50:25,040
Speaker 1: for Pittsburgh. I don't know if you've had your ear

1949
01:50:25,040 --> 01:50:27,720
Speaker 1: to the ground on what the early returns on that

1950
01:50:27,760 --> 01:50:30,479
Speaker 1: are coming out of Pittsburgh, But that's a lot to

1951
01:50:30,520 --> 01:50:32,960
Speaker 1: put together in one offseason, no matter how good your

1952
01:50:33,000 --> 01:50:36,599
Speaker 1: coaching might be. Have you have you heard any rumblings

1953
01:50:36,600 --> 01:50:39,599
Speaker 1: out of Pittsburgh about how the offensive line is shaping

1954
01:50:39,720 --> 01:50:43,160
Speaker 1: up as they head into their preseason Week number three,

1955
01:50:43,320 --> 01:50:46,200
Speaker 1: knowing they played in the Hall of Fame game. I

1956
01:50:46,320 --> 01:50:49,439
Speaker 1: talked to Mike Tomlin about it on Wednesday. He, in

1957
01:50:50,040 --> 01:50:54,599
Speaker 1: his way, which is strong and confident, was basically a look,

1958
01:50:54,640 --> 01:50:57,880
Speaker 1: they're up to the challenge. They recognize the challenge front

1959
01:50:57,880 --> 01:51:00,800
Speaker 1: of them, and they're ready to meet it. And he's

1960
01:51:00,840 --> 01:51:03,280
Speaker 1: not going to doubt his guys because he's part of

1961
01:51:03,280 --> 01:51:06,280
Speaker 1: the decision in some ways. Now granted some of this

1962
01:51:06,360 --> 01:51:09,639
Speaker 1: with retirement and he had free agency and things like that,

1963
01:51:09,800 --> 01:51:12,680
Speaker 1: but this they saw this coming. They have a new

1964
01:51:12,720 --> 01:51:15,680
Speaker 1: offensive line coach there, They have a commitment to the

1965
01:51:15,720 --> 01:51:19,240
Speaker 1: running in that's real. You mentioned Nag Harris, and drafting

1966
01:51:19,280 --> 01:51:21,759
Speaker 1: a guy in the first round says a lot. So

1967
01:51:22,400 --> 01:51:26,360
Speaker 1: I think that there's a belief in Pittsburgh that this

1968
01:51:26,479 --> 01:51:30,360
Speaker 1: group will find its way, and there's such a commitment

1969
01:51:30,400 --> 01:51:32,920
Speaker 1: to having the run game be successful because it's been

1970
01:51:32,960 --> 01:51:36,000
Speaker 1: really bad the last three years and they feel kind

1971
01:51:36,000 --> 01:51:38,679
Speaker 1: of gotten the way of that eleven and oh start

1972
01:51:38,880 --> 01:51:44,000
Speaker 1: actually manifesting into something real in the postseason. So it's

1973
01:51:44,040 --> 01:51:48,160
Speaker 1: hard to know at this point because to your point,

1974
01:51:48,360 --> 01:51:50,559
Speaker 1: this is an inexperienced group and it's a new group.

1975
01:51:51,240 --> 01:51:53,519
Speaker 1: But if you're going to commit so much the run

1976
01:51:53,560 --> 01:51:55,679
Speaker 1: game there has to be some internal belief that this

1977
01:51:56,040 --> 01:51:59,360
Speaker 1: group of five can do it. And look, I mean,

1978
01:51:59,360 --> 01:52:02,040
Speaker 1: the trade turns a guy who can anchor them. It

1979
01:52:02,120 --> 01:52:04,640
Speaker 1: looks like a rookie center, which is can always be

1980
01:52:04,680 --> 01:52:10,200
Speaker 1: a challenge. But again, this is a run This is

1981
01:52:10,200 --> 01:52:12,680
Speaker 1: going to be a run heavy team, whether they got

1982
01:52:12,680 --> 01:52:15,680
Speaker 1: a young offensive line or not. One more for me,

1983
01:52:15,720 --> 01:52:17,559
Speaker 1: and it has to do with the Steelers. I mean,

1984
01:52:17,760 --> 01:52:20,320
Speaker 1: the Bills are going to play the Steelers in Week one.

1985
01:52:20,439 --> 01:52:22,519
Speaker 1: What do you make of this matchup? I know we

1986
01:52:22,600 --> 01:52:25,400
Speaker 1: have a few more weeks to go until we're at

1987
01:52:25,439 --> 01:52:27,760
Speaker 1: Week one, but you talked about the running game and

1988
01:52:27,800 --> 01:52:30,200
Speaker 1: how much they want to commit to it. The Bills

1989
01:52:30,280 --> 01:52:32,960
Speaker 1: run defense at times struggled last year. They want to

1990
01:52:33,000 --> 01:52:35,599
Speaker 1: get more pressure with their front four. They bring in

1991
01:52:36,040 --> 01:52:39,519
Speaker 1: two rookies in Boogie Bashman Greg Rousseau, who can play

1992
01:52:39,560 --> 01:52:43,920
Speaker 1: on the defensive and rotate into tackle. So I think

1993
01:52:43,920 --> 01:52:46,559
Speaker 1: that's an interesting fascet already of this game. But what

1994
01:52:46,600 --> 01:52:50,240
Speaker 1: do you make of a matchup like that in week one?

1995
01:52:50,320 --> 01:52:52,240
Speaker 1: That's a great point, Mattie, because I think we'll learn

1996
01:52:52,280 --> 01:52:54,280
Speaker 1: a lot about both teams and what they did in

1997
01:52:54,320 --> 01:52:57,200
Speaker 1: the offseason and the progress they made in training camp

1998
01:52:57,200 --> 01:53:00,080
Speaker 1: based off of the performance there in Week one. I

1999
01:53:00,120 --> 01:53:02,800
Speaker 1: really do think at this point the way the preseason

2000
01:53:02,880 --> 01:53:05,560
Speaker 1: has been managed by teams and even training camp practices,

2001
01:53:05,640 --> 01:53:08,240
Speaker 1: the first four weeks kind of resemble that preseason that

2002
01:53:08,280 --> 01:53:11,360
Speaker 1: we had back in the day. So you learn stuff

2003
01:53:11,360 --> 01:53:13,840
Speaker 1: from these early games that I think while all the

2004
01:53:13,880 --> 01:53:16,720
Speaker 1: fans and we in the media can make kind of

2005
01:53:16,840 --> 01:53:19,920
Speaker 1: snap judgments, mean more about like, Okay, where is this

2006
01:53:19,920 --> 01:53:23,439
Speaker 1: team going? And so if Pittsburgh's gonna come in and

2007
01:53:23,439 --> 01:53:25,560
Speaker 1: try and run the ball and Buffalo is up to

2008
01:53:25,640 --> 01:53:29,400
Speaker 1: the task, then there's obviously been improvement there, and I

2009
01:53:29,479 --> 01:53:34,000
Speaker 1: think that that is one sort of important storyline. But

2010
01:53:34,040 --> 01:53:37,479
Speaker 1: it's also going to be from Pittsburgh's side of things.

2011
01:53:38,479 --> 01:53:40,639
Speaker 1: Do they have balance? Because they're still going to throw

2012
01:53:40,680 --> 01:53:44,320
Speaker 1: the ball, and Ben's still gonna try and make plays

2013
01:53:44,360 --> 01:53:47,480
Speaker 1: off script and off schedule, and they have Chase Claypool

2014
01:53:47,479 --> 01:53:50,640
Speaker 1: who broke out last year. So I'm just on a

2015
01:53:50,720 --> 01:53:54,599
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh side of things, curious to see what that balance

2016
01:53:54,640 --> 01:53:57,160
Speaker 1: looks like because it's a new play caller in Matt Canada,

2017
01:53:57,240 --> 01:54:01,679
Speaker 1: and so how they do things, because when Ben gets rolling,

2018
01:54:01,800 --> 01:54:04,400
Speaker 1: sometimes they would find themselves sitting in that fourth quarter

2019
01:54:04,400 --> 01:54:06,720
Speaker 1: and he'd thrown the ball forty times. It just to me,

2020
01:54:06,840 --> 01:54:09,360
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like there's a way they're gonna let that

2021
01:54:09,400 --> 01:54:13,080
Speaker 1: happen this year. But until the live bullets are flying,

2022
01:54:13,160 --> 01:54:16,880
Speaker 1: as they say, who knows. Evan, thanks very much for

2023
01:54:16,920 --> 01:54:18,840
Speaker 1: the time. We appreciate it. Have a good weekend, to

2024
01:54:18,880 --> 01:54:21,840
Speaker 1: have a good broadcast tomorrow night with Ravens and Carolina.

2025
01:54:21,920 --> 01:54:24,040
Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll see you at some point in the

2026
01:54:24,080 --> 01:54:28,000
Speaker 1: regular season. This is fun. We'll see you guys soon,

2027
01:54:28,120 --> 01:54:30,519
Speaker 1: all right, take care of Evan. That's Evan Washburn, NFL

2028
01:54:30,600 --> 01:54:34,240
Speaker 1: on CBS sideline reporter also does the preseason broadcast for

2029
01:54:34,320 --> 01:54:38,360
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens as he is based down there. And

2030
01:54:39,360 --> 01:54:42,920
Speaker 1: I gotta say, I think that the Bills are going

2031
01:54:42,960 --> 01:54:45,160
Speaker 1: to be catching the Steelers at a good time because

2032
01:54:45,200 --> 01:54:49,120
Speaker 1: with all of the things that are new, you've got

2033
01:54:49,120 --> 01:54:54,080
Speaker 1: a situation there where the offensive line with five players

2034
01:54:54,120 --> 01:54:57,160
Speaker 1: in new spots, Acora four is the only hold over here.

2035
01:54:57,800 --> 01:55:00,960
Speaker 1: Maddie who played on the opposite side, now he's going

2036
01:55:01,040 --> 01:55:02,640
Speaker 1: to go and play left tackle, and then they have

2037
01:55:02,680 --> 01:55:05,800
Speaker 1: four new starters the rest of the way across. We

2038
01:55:05,920 --> 01:55:08,360
Speaker 1: saw how long it took for the Bills new offensive

2039
01:55:08,400 --> 01:55:11,520
Speaker 1: line to get shaped up in twenty nineteen. To get

2040
01:55:11,560 --> 01:55:14,280
Speaker 1: that team in Week one with a new offensive play

2041
01:55:14,280 --> 01:55:17,720
Speaker 1: caller to boot, I think that's an advantage to a

2042
01:55:17,760 --> 01:55:22,520
Speaker 1: team that has extraordinary continuity, as Evan pointed out in Buffalo,

2043
01:55:22,920 --> 01:55:26,320
Speaker 1: to play that team in Week one. Yeah, I think

2044
01:55:26,360 --> 01:55:29,960
Speaker 1: the Steelers can get it figured out this season based

2045
01:55:30,040 --> 01:55:33,280
Speaker 1: on their talent and based on what they brought in.

2046
01:55:33,360 --> 01:55:36,680
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see what Naja Harris can do. I

2047
01:55:36,800 --> 01:55:39,160
Speaker 1: was a big fan of his when we were watching

2048
01:55:39,240 --> 01:55:42,760
Speaker 1: tape and trying to decide who the Bills would draft

2049
01:55:42,840 --> 01:55:45,080
Speaker 1: in the first round or the second round. He was

2050
01:55:45,160 --> 01:55:47,640
Speaker 1: someone that stuck out on me when I stuck out

2051
01:55:47,640 --> 01:55:50,560
Speaker 1: to me when I watched his tape. But this is

2052
01:55:50,600 --> 01:55:53,040
Speaker 1: also an opponent that I'm very excited that we get

2053
01:55:53,120 --> 01:55:55,920
Speaker 1: week one because I don't want to see the Steelers

2054
01:55:55,920 --> 01:55:58,240
Speaker 1: in December. I just don't, and so I'm happy we

2055
01:55:58,360 --> 01:56:01,520
Speaker 1: see them in September instead. Yeah, it's almost like a

2056
01:56:01,600 --> 01:56:05,240
Speaker 1: script flip because everybody forgets the Steelers team started eleven

2057
01:56:05,240 --> 01:56:07,640
Speaker 1: and o last year and they tailed off at the

2058
01:56:07,760 --> 01:56:10,800
Speaker 1: end of the season. Now, with all the change, it's

2059
01:56:10,840 --> 01:56:13,080
Speaker 1: probably better to get him at the beginning of the season,

2060
01:56:13,120 --> 01:56:15,840
Speaker 1: and the Bills fortunately do as they will host the

2061
01:56:15,880 --> 01:56:23,480
Speaker 1: Steelers in Week one. The Lamar Jackson thing is very

2062
01:56:23,560 --> 01:56:27,320
Speaker 1: strange to me, only because he missed a game last

2063
01:56:27,400 --> 01:56:31,400
Speaker 1: year after contracting COVID. He doesn't get vaccinated, he catches

2064
01:56:31,440 --> 01:56:34,000
Speaker 1: COVID again, he misses the first two weeks of training camp.

2065
01:56:34,040 --> 01:56:37,040
Speaker 1: Now Evan said he was right back into the swing

2066
01:56:37,040 --> 01:56:38,760
Speaker 1: of things right away when he did come off the

2067
01:56:38,800 --> 01:56:42,560
Speaker 1: COVID reserve list, but he missed two weeks with all

2068
01:56:42,600 --> 01:56:45,880
Speaker 1: of his new receiving targets, Sammy Watkins and Rashad Bateman

2069
01:56:45,920 --> 01:56:49,000
Speaker 1: among them. Bateman goes out now needs core muscle surgery,

2070
01:56:49,040 --> 01:56:51,640
Speaker 1: which is going to take at least a month to

2071
01:56:51,720 --> 01:56:54,080
Speaker 1: recover from. We remember how long it took coleb easily

2072
01:56:54,080 --> 01:56:57,400
Speaker 1: to come back from that. And then Watkins has been

2073
01:56:57,880 --> 01:57:00,240
Speaker 1: danged up a little bit. He's been in an out

2074
01:57:00,320 --> 01:57:03,040
Speaker 1: of the lineup during training camp, and so too has

2075
01:57:03,120 --> 01:57:07,520
Speaker 1: Marquis Brown now with a hamstring injury. The Ravens might

2076
01:57:07,560 --> 01:57:09,760
Speaker 1: be another team, and now the Bills don't play the

2077
01:57:09,840 --> 01:57:11,560
Speaker 1: Ravens at all this season, But the Ravens might be

2078
01:57:11,560 --> 01:57:14,520
Speaker 1: another team you'd rather get sooner rather than later. Knowing

2079
01:57:14,560 --> 01:57:16,600
Speaker 1: that passing game is probably not going to be finely

2080
01:57:16,680 --> 01:57:20,600
Speaker 1: tuned at the outset. Yeah, he brought up. Evan brought

2081
01:57:20,680 --> 01:57:23,600
Speaker 1: up week six is maybe a time when that passing

2082
01:57:23,640 --> 01:57:26,800
Speaker 1: game would be down pat and he did say, you know,

2083
01:57:26,920 --> 01:57:30,839
Speaker 1: the passing game doesn't need to be anything stellar or

2084
01:57:30,880 --> 01:57:34,040
Speaker 1: what it is like with the Bills because Lamar Jackson

2085
01:57:34,120 --> 01:57:36,520
Speaker 1: is a different type of player, and I completely agree

2086
01:57:36,600 --> 01:57:39,280
Speaker 1: with that. But I don't even know if their passing

2087
01:57:39,320 --> 01:57:42,600
Speaker 1: game is going to be decent enough to start the

2088
01:57:42,680 --> 01:57:45,480
Speaker 1: season to balance the run game. I mean, you have

2089
01:57:45,560 --> 01:57:48,440
Speaker 1: to have some sort of passing game, and I don't

2090
01:57:48,480 --> 01:57:50,280
Speaker 1: know what there's is going to look like with the

2091
01:57:50,360 --> 01:57:53,560
Speaker 1: injuries that they have and the inconsistencies that they have

2092
01:57:53,760 --> 01:57:57,320
Speaker 1: right now in training camp, that will inevitably lead into

2093
01:57:57,360 --> 01:58:00,600
Speaker 1: week one week two for them. So I think this

2094
01:58:00,720 --> 01:58:04,240
Speaker 1: is also a really interesting part, like you pointed, out

2095
01:58:04,240 --> 01:58:07,360
Speaker 1: of the beginning of their season, and they may not

2096
01:58:07,560 --> 01:58:12,040
Speaker 1: have it together until halfway through. And you can't wait

2097
01:58:12,120 --> 01:58:14,120
Speaker 1: until halfway through the season if you want to be

2098
01:58:14,160 --> 01:58:18,280
Speaker 1: a playoff team. Yeah, and that's the thing. And granted

2099
01:58:18,360 --> 01:58:19,920
Speaker 1: you don't have to have it all buttoned up in

2100
01:58:19,960 --> 01:58:24,320
Speaker 1: September or even October, but come November and December, they've

2101
01:58:24,360 --> 01:58:26,960
Speaker 1: got to have that passing game at a level that

2102
01:58:27,120 --> 01:58:31,000
Speaker 1: at least makes defenses play them honest and not load

2103
01:58:31,080 --> 01:58:33,320
Speaker 1: up the box or put a spy in the box

2104
01:58:33,360 --> 01:58:36,320
Speaker 1: to watch for Lamar running with the ball, or what

2105
01:58:36,480 --> 01:58:38,640
Speaker 1: have you. The key for him, I think the next

2106
01:58:38,640 --> 01:58:41,240
Speaker 1: step he has to take, and Evan pointed this out

2107
01:58:41,920 --> 01:58:44,040
Speaker 1: in the fact that he did go to a quote

2108
01:58:44,120 --> 01:58:47,200
Speaker 1: unquote quarterback guru in the offseason by the name of

2109
01:58:47,280 --> 01:58:51,080
Speaker 1: Tom House. He's got to prove that he can consistently

2110
01:58:51,160 --> 01:58:54,400
Speaker 1: throw outside the numbers to the wide parts of the field.

2111
01:58:54,640 --> 01:58:57,160
Speaker 1: He's pretty proficient in between the numbers, and that's why

2112
01:58:57,200 --> 01:58:59,840
Speaker 1: I tied end Mark Andrews has had such good product

2113
01:59:00,240 --> 01:59:03,360
Speaker 1: the last couple of years playing with Lamar. It's outside

2114
01:59:03,400 --> 01:59:07,920
Speaker 1: the numbers where defense is, including the Bills defense here.

2115
01:59:07,960 --> 01:59:09,760
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago, when they played each other

2116
01:59:09,800 --> 01:59:13,720
Speaker 1: in December, they invited him to throw the ball outside

2117
01:59:13,760 --> 01:59:16,720
Speaker 1: the numbers because they saw that as a deficient part

2118
01:59:17,240 --> 01:59:21,040
Speaker 1: of his game. And until he proves he can consistently

2119
01:59:21,120 --> 01:59:24,440
Speaker 1: hit targets outside the numbers, particularly when throwing from the

2120
01:59:24,480 --> 01:59:28,960
Speaker 1: far hash, he's gonna He's gonna continue to see defensive

2121
01:59:29,000 --> 01:59:33,040
Speaker 1: looks like that until he proves he can make gains

2122
01:59:33,120 --> 01:59:36,640
Speaker 1: in that area of his game. And I think it

2123
01:59:36,680 --> 01:59:38,760
Speaker 1: only hurts him more that he's not going to have

2124
01:59:38,840 --> 01:59:41,960
Speaker 1: all of his receivers right away. Yeah, this is somebody

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Speaker 1: who hasn't hit, like you said, on those outside numbers,

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Speaker 1: and you need guys like Rashad Bateman and Marky's Goodwin

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Speaker 1: to help you get there and to help you get

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Speaker 1: their starting week one. And if he doesn't have that,

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01:59:55,640 --> 01:59:58,360
Speaker 1: I think that's just going to delay the time until

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Speaker 1: it finally gets right or they finally connect on something

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Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see how

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Speaker 1: that plays out in Baltimore, for sure. Maddy and I

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Speaker 1: have to take a break here, but when we come back,

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Speaker 1: we'll see if there's any remaining questions in the obl

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Speaker 1: Fan Friday mail bag, and we'll get into a little

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Speaker 1: NFL true false when we return. Here on One Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Kaloid of Health, it's Buffalo Bills Radio. All

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Speaker 1: right back on One Bill's Live, Chris Brown, Maddie Glab

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Speaker 1: here on a Friday. And don't know if you Bills

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02:00:40,680 --> 02:00:43,360
Speaker 1: fans have seen this, but Terek Cohen, who is not

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02:00:43,400 --> 02:00:46,640
Speaker 1: going to play on Saturday for the Bears. He's on

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Speaker 1: the pup list right now and we'll probably start here

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02:00:48,920 --> 02:00:52,440
Speaker 1: at the regular season as well. But sticking up for

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02:00:52,480 --> 02:00:56,400
Speaker 1: his former teammate Mitchell Trubisky basically sent a message out

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02:00:56,480 --> 02:01:00,160
Speaker 1: on Twitter to Bears fans and said, if you who

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Speaker 1: Mitch tomorrow, you're lame and a weirdo. So good on

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02:01:05,120 --> 02:01:08,400
Speaker 1: Terricohen for sticking up for his former teammate. What let

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Speaker 1: me ask you, Maddie, knowing Bears fans like you do,

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Speaker 1: what is your anticipated reception for Mitchell Trubisky on the

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Speaker 1: part of the fans tomorrow night. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: Chicago fans can be a little bit immature, so I

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Speaker 1: know there will be booze. Will will it be an

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Speaker 1: overpowering amount of booze? I'm not sure, because I think

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Speaker 1: the fan base is also smart enough to know and

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Speaker 1: understand that it's not all Mitch's fault why it wasn't

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Speaker 1: able to work. It was a series of things, and

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02:01:46,120 --> 02:01:50,760
Speaker 1: it wasn't just the QB that Ryan Pace drafted when

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02:01:51,560 --> 02:01:55,720
Speaker 1: Naggie wasn't a part of the coaching staff. So for

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Speaker 1: that reason, I don't know if people will be so

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Speaker 1: up to see him back on the field or not

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Speaker 1: upset but want to boo him and hope that he

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Speaker 1: does terrible. I think Bears fans are just happy that

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Speaker 1: maybe they found a different quarterback who can make it

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Speaker 1: work for this team. So I hope he doesn't get boozed.

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Speaker 1: I'll be disappointed if he does, because, like, come on,

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Speaker 1: Bears fans, it wasn't all his faults. Yeah, So I

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Speaker 1: think he's the best backup quarterback in the league now.

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Speaker 1: So I'm happy he's a part of the Bills. But

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Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. Yeah, And I mean he put

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Speaker 1: up decent numbers last year when he did play. I

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02:02:36,560 --> 02:02:39,920
Speaker 1: mean he completed sixty seven percent of his passes, sixteen touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: eight picks. Yeah, I mean, and he finishes his Bears

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Speaker 1: career eight games over five hundred as a starter. So

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Speaker 1: you can run down, you can go a long way

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Speaker 1: with quarterbacks that fared much worse than he did before

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02:02:55,760 --> 02:02:58,440
Speaker 1: you get to Mitchell Trubisky. So I'm sure there'll be

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Speaker 1: a smattering of booze here and there there. You know, Maddie,

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Speaker 1: there's always a few bad apples in every bunch. But yes,

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Speaker 1: I have faith that Bears fans in the Midwest, where

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02:03:12,040 --> 02:03:15,920
Speaker 1: people are known to be as polite as ever, the

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Speaker 1: vast majority of Bears fans will be polite. They might

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Speaker 1: not be cheering wildly, but they'll be polite. They won't

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Speaker 1: be booing him either. The funny thing is Terik Cohen's

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Speaker 1: tweet was responded to by one Isaiah McKenzie. Are we

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Speaker 1: surprised that Isaiah McKenzie as a comment to respond to

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Speaker 1: Teris Jackson, who was or Terie Cohen who was saying,

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Speaker 1: if you boo Mitch tomorrow, you're lame and a weirdo.

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Speaker 1: Isaiah McKenzie responds with no worries, We'll handle it. I

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Speaker 1: love that guy. Man, that's hilarious. So do we expect

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Speaker 1: anything less out of Isaiah McKenzie, The man with the

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Speaker 1: one of the smallest he's in the biggest mouths on

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Speaker 1: the roster. He always has something to say. And when

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Speaker 1: the locker rooms were open before COVID, you would walk

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02:04:08,480 --> 02:04:12,000
Speaker 1: into the Bill's locker room and the loudest voice every

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Speaker 1: single day would be Isaiah McKenzie. Yeah, so Isaiah has

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Speaker 1: already responded. I believe that Tarik Cohen responded in kind

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Speaker 1: to him, So responded to the response, I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: scroll to see if I can find it. But in

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Speaker 1: any event, it looks like it was taken well and

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Speaker 1: with a grain of salt, so nobody got fired up

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Speaker 1: by it. I just wonder what Isaiah means by will

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Speaker 1: handle it. Maybe he means they're going to play so well. Actually,

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Speaker 1: if they play really well, it might bring on more booze.

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Speaker 1: Quite frankly, if Mitch and the offense plays well, it

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Speaker 1: might make them boo even more so. Here, Tarik Cohen

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Speaker 1: said in response to Isaiah's comment of no worries will

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Speaker 1: handle it, he said, I know what that means, lmao.

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Speaker 1: We're still gonna get on y'all. So we shall see

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Speaker 1: where it goes. Hopefully it will end on Twitter and

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Speaker 1: be taken care of on the field, like Isaiah suggested,

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Speaker 1: more than anything else else, all right, I think we

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Speaker 1: spend more than enough time on that. Let's get to

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Speaker 1: some NFL true false here brought to you by Yancy's

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Speaker 1: Fancy New York's artists in Cheese. NFL true false. Number

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Speaker 1: one Maddie teams will regret the current linebacker contract boom.

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Speaker 1: I mean, do teams want to pay more money for

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Speaker 1: players who usually aren't worth that much money but now

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Speaker 1: are because two guys signed some big contracts. I think

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Speaker 1: that's an obvious Yes, teams will regret it because that

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Speaker 1: means teams are going to have to pay more money

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Speaker 1: and teams won't have leftover money for possibly other players.

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Speaker 1: Before we see the TV deal really impact the salary cap,

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Speaker 1: we're going to be in the next couple of years

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Speaker 1: at least where the salary cap is still maybe not

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Speaker 1: going to be what it's supposed to be because of

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen in the last year that we had, we

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Speaker 1: know what it looks like this year, and we have

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Speaker 1: an idea of what it's going to look like next year.

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Speaker 1: That TV deal money is going to impact the salary

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Speaker 1: cap a lot. But still, at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: I don't think any owner wants to overpay for anyone

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Speaker 1: And because the market is going to now reset for

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Speaker 1: these linebackers, I don't think every GM is saying, Yay,

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Speaker 1: I get to pay my mic linebacker, my best linebacker,

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Speaker 1: a crap ton of money now because of you know,

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Speaker 1: two really good linebackers who just got paid. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: don't blame San Francisco for paying Fred Warner what they did.

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Speaker 1: I don't blame Indianapolis for paying their guy what they did.

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Speaker 1: I blame the New York Jets because what the New

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Speaker 1: York Jets did was turned the linebacker market on its

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Speaker 1: ear over two years ago when they signed c. J.

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Speaker 1: Mosley to that ridiculously fat contract that was like three

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Speaker 1: or four million average annual value above what the highest

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Speaker 1: paid linebacker was already getting. That's what they had to

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Speaker 1: pay him to convince them to come to New York.

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Speaker 1: So they overpay to get a guy. And Okay, when

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Speaker 1: you're a team that struggled as much as the Jets have,

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Speaker 1: I guess that's what you have to do to land

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Speaker 1: a premier talent like CJ. Mosley. But it's screwed up

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Speaker 1: the market for everybody else. And that's why San Francisco

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Speaker 1: had to pay Fred Warner that kind of money, you know,

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Speaker 1: and it's why India had to do what they did.

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Speaker 1: So I will say, true, they will regret it, But

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Speaker 1: I'm blaming the Jets in all of this because anytime

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Speaker 1: I have a chance to blame a division rival of Bills,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to do it. NFL true false. Number two,

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Speaker 1: Sequon Barkley faces a make or break season in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty one. I'm going to stay false because I'm giving

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Speaker 1: him the benefit of the doubt in the last year

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Speaker 1: that we all know he had. I think if he

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Speaker 1: doesn't have a pop off year this year after that

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Speaker 1: ACL tear, then yeah, twenty twenty two, I'm saying it

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Speaker 1: could be a make or break season, but I think

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Speaker 1: it's too early to say make or break for him

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. Yeah, I think he gets a

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Speaker 1: pass here. Because of the nature of the injury, some

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Speaker 1: players come back from it faster than others. He is

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Speaker 1: a physical freak. So could he come back and have

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Speaker 1: a season like Adrian Peterson did when he came back

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Speaker 1: like seven months after an ACL and you know, ran

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Speaker 1: for like fourteen hundred yards. He does have the physical

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Speaker 1: talent to do that, but as we know, every case

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02:08:51,560 --> 02:08:54,840
Speaker 1: is different coming off a major ACL injury. I think

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Speaker 1: the reason that people are even saying things like this

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02:08:58,600 --> 02:09:02,280
Speaker 1: is because his career number have dropped each season. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he runs for thirteen hundred yards as a rookie eleven touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: The number drops to barely a thousand yards and six

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Speaker 1: touchdowns the next year, and then he has the acl

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02:09:10,640 --> 02:09:14,320
Speaker 1: tare last year after just a couple of games. So

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Speaker 1: that's why the naysayers are out there. But I think

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02:09:18,200 --> 02:09:23,360
Speaker 1: he gets the benefit of the doubt this year. The

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02:09:23,480 --> 02:09:26,400
Speaker 1: interesting thing here is as far as the rookie contract,

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02:09:26,800 --> 02:09:29,400
Speaker 1: I believe they picked up the fifth year option on him.

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02:09:29,440 --> 02:09:32,480
Speaker 1: I'm not one hundred percent sure on that, and if

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Speaker 1: they did, well, then yes, I am totally in agreement

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Speaker 1: with you. It's twenty twenty two that is the maker

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Speaker 1: break here for him, because that's gonna largely determine what

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Speaker 1: kind of second contract he gets and whether he's going

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02:09:44,880 --> 02:09:47,800
Speaker 1: to break the bank with such a deal. So I

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02:09:47,840 --> 02:09:52,600
Speaker 1: will say false as well on this one. Last they

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Speaker 1: did pick up the fifth year option, thanks guys. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two is going to be the maker break

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Speaker 1: here for him for sure. NFL true falls Number three.

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Speaker 1: The NFL should be encouraging taunting, not penalizing players for it.

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02:10:07,120 --> 02:10:08,920
Speaker 1: Who came up with this one? Is this a thing

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Speaker 1: the NFL players should? NFL should be encouraging taunting, not

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02:10:13,200 --> 02:10:16,160
Speaker 1: penalizing play Who came up with that one? Yeah? I

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02:10:16,200 --> 02:10:19,520
Speaker 1: don't know. No, the NFL should not be encouraging taunting.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say falls, but I will say I'm interested

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Speaker 1: to see how players get called for this this year

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02:10:26,920 --> 02:10:31,960
Speaker 1: or how tightly they play this, because they've said we're

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Speaker 1: going to start penalizing players for taunting and things of

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02:10:36,120 --> 02:10:39,960
Speaker 1: that nature. It could vary from ref to ref, but

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Speaker 1: I really want to see how true to their word

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Speaker 1: they're going to stay on this, because I do think

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02:10:45,640 --> 02:10:49,360
Speaker 1: sometimes it's okay, sometimes not okay. I don't think it

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Speaker 1: should be encouraged, but I do think there's a level

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Speaker 1: of let these guys play too. Yeah, I think because

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02:10:56,800 --> 02:10:58,880
Speaker 1: it's a point of emphasis, it's going to be over

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Speaker 1: officiated in the pre season in the hopes of policing

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Speaker 1: it to the point where the players get the message

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Speaker 1: and then dial it back. I think fans are worried

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Speaker 1: that this policing of taunting is going to take the

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Speaker 1: emotion out of the game, and it's an emotion packed game.

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Speaker 1: We know that just based on the actions of the

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Speaker 1: players on the field. I don't think I think they

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02:11:19,200 --> 02:11:22,480
Speaker 1: can draw a line of separation here, though I truly

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02:11:22,520 --> 02:11:24,480
Speaker 1: believe that I think they can get to a place

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02:11:25,040 --> 02:11:29,000
Speaker 1: where they can cut out the guys standing over another

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02:11:29,040 --> 02:11:32,640
Speaker 1: player and pointing down in his face, because really, there's

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Speaker 1: no place in the game for that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: As Steve and I were saying on the show earlier

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Speaker 1: this week, Maddie, there is plenty of room within the

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Speaker 1: scope of what they're trying to do in policing taunting,

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Speaker 1: where you can allow players to celebrate with their teammates.

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Speaker 1: As soon as you turn and celebrate in the direction

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02:11:52,360 --> 02:11:55,680
Speaker 1: of an opponent, the flag is coming out. So if

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02:11:55,680 --> 02:11:58,400
Speaker 1: you want to celebrate after your sack of quarterback, run

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02:11:58,400 --> 02:12:01,360
Speaker 1: away ten yards and then go uts, do whatever you

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02:12:01,400 --> 02:12:03,720
Speaker 1: want to do. As long as there isn't an opposing

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02:12:03,760 --> 02:12:06,760
Speaker 1: player in the vicinity, you're gonna be good. So I

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02:12:06,800 --> 02:12:10,000
Speaker 1: think there is a way to draw a line of separations.

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Speaker 1: So I will say Falls, don't encourage taunting, because I

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Speaker 1: think there is a way to effectively police it. As

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Speaker 1: a point of emphasis this year, that's NFL True Falls,

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Speaker 1: Mattie and I close it up next here on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Stay tuned well, Welcome back to One Bills

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Speaker 1: Live at his Time for what have we learned from

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Speaker 1: today's show, and I know Tom Thayer, our guest earlier

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Speaker 1: in the program, Matty kind of laid out the plan

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Speaker 1: for the Bears tomorrow night. We know that Andy Dalton's

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Speaker 1: going to play a quarter and change before turning things

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Speaker 1: over to Justin Fields. I'm just wondering if we're gonna

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Speaker 1: learn from that game that the fast track for Fields

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Speaker 1: is on or not. I guess if he has another

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Speaker 1: strong performance, the momentum on the part of the fan

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Speaker 1: base is going to probably be through the roof. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: people are going to be shouting to put Justin Fields

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Speaker 1: in for the week one regular season game for the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo for the Bears, I would saying the Buffalo Bears,

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Speaker 1: but for the Bears. So it's gonna be really interesting

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Speaker 1: to see how they game plan for both of those quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: to see who they deploy, to see what players play,

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Speaker 1: what players don't. And equally on the bill side too,

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Speaker 1: we know Josh Allen isn't going to play, we know

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Speaker 1: Zach Moss will play, we know a lot of the

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Speaker 1: starters won't play. So these preseason games are really important

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Speaker 1: to see who has a shot to make this fifty

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Speaker 1: three because it's not going to be easy, a lot

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Speaker 1: of back half of the roster guys with another grand

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Speaker 1: opportunity on Saturday night to get a lot of time

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Speaker 1: on the field. Dion Dawkins, though, will play some as

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Speaker 1: he tries to get himself back into game shape. Stay

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Speaker 1: tuned to Buffalo Bills dot com over the weekend as

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Speaker 1: our team will be covering the game in total for you,

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Speaker 1: and then Steve and I will recap everything from Bill's

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Speaker 1: Bears on Monday. And don't forget that one Bills Life podcast,

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Speaker 1: Steve and I have a roster debate. Check it out

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Speaker 1: on your podcast platforms. We'll see you Monday,