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Speaker 1: We'll dive into that in a second. Because Steve got

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Speaker 1: He got his one pm kickoff at home, which is

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Speaker 1: the touchdown. Yeah, for forty seconds. It's not only about

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Speaker 1: the time, they also about the score. Yeah, it's taught

427
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Speaker 1: recognizing time and score, and he failed to do that.

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Speaker 1: It's an amazing because they caught him on the side

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Speaker 1: on Derek Carson. I told, I told, who has a

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Speaker 1: Bishop or their Jacobs? Yeah, Josh Jacob, Josh Jacobs. Because

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Speaker 1: he's not gonna score. He's gonna go down just before

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Speaker 1: the end zone. And John Gruden is just sick. And

433
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Speaker 1: that kept the Dolphins alive for a playoff. Birth. That

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Speaker 1: right there is what old time or old gout, not

435
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Speaker 1: me particularly, I'm not saying it. I'm just saying that

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Speaker 1: right there is what gets some fans livid when they

437
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Speaker 1: start talking about analytics, because that's what it is. You

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Speaker 1: don't think that's analytics well, and I think it executed properly.

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Speaker 1: I think analytics good, analytics, crappy execution. Yeah maybe I

440
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Speaker 1: think the data is good. The execution is horrible. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: But that but you know that's fans. Where fans come from, Well, yeah,

442
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Speaker 1: what are you making that? Take the points? And then

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Speaker 1: you know the fans will always go when what's right

444
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 1: in front of them. You gotta get the easy play,

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Speaker 1: get the easy touchdown, and your offense shouldn't be trying,

446
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Speaker 1: shouldn't be worried about how much clock they're leaving when

447
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Speaker 1: you're facing Ryan Fitzpatrick, who yes he can be magical

448
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Speaker 1: at times, but my god, your defense is got would

449
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 1: be good enough, but he came stop that he came

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Speaker 1: off the bench. You've already got their quarterback benched. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean you're playing good enough, so I'm totally what

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Speaker 1: are you doing? And I get it, but that but

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Speaker 1: those kind of yeah, I think yourself, those those passive plays,

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Speaker 1: that's what does it is right when the fans are

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Speaker 1: seeing you not try to score, when your fans are

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Speaker 1: seeing you doing something that is not ultra competitive, you know,

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Speaker 1: when they see you being soft on the field in

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Speaker 1: order to set yourself up for clock management. That is

459
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Speaker 1: not the aggressive nature that people like to watch football in.

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Speaker 1: So you're gonna get crushed for that, crushed for it,

461
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:56,480
Speaker 1: and that's you know, and that's you know that the

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Speaker 1: Raiders and I think that's it's a bad situation for

463
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Speaker 1: John Grew. But the reason we got down this road

464
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Speaker 1: was I wondered that the dynamic of picking three safeties

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Speaker 1: and your first five picks and reaching for an offensive

466
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Speaker 1: lineman and taking a linebacker a little bit above where

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Speaker 1: people should have thought, you know's there's a lot of

468
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Speaker 1: questions there. Although five defenders in their first five picks,

469
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 1: their heart's in the right place from their defense where

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Speaker 1: it was a year ago. There is one other thing

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Speaker 1: that we do know definitively about the Bills schedule, and

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Speaker 1: that is that they will not be one of the

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Speaker 1: teams playing in London this season. There was a chance

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Speaker 1: that that could happen because they were playing a road

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Speaker 1: game at Jacksonville this year. We knew that, so they

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Speaker 1: were in the pool of teams that could possibly play

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Speaker 1: a London game this season. But the league announced today

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Speaker 1: that the two teams playing in London or well, it's

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Speaker 1: four teams total. We knew the Jags were playing there.

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Speaker 1: The Jets will play at the Falcons in week five

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Speaker 1: in London and the Dolphins will play at the Jags

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Speaker 1: in Week six in London. So that means the Bills

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Speaker 1: are out of the mix to play in London this year.

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Speaker 1: Obviously they played well. Because the Bills are playing at

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville this year, at some point on the schedule, there

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Speaker 1: was the chance that they could play them in London

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Speaker 1: this year, but that has been ruled out. Now, what

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Speaker 1: are the two games Jets Jets at Falcons week five

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Speaker 1: and Jacksonville Dolphins at Jags Week six. Those are your

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Speaker 1: two London games which will be played at the Tottenham

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Speaker 1: Hotspur Stadium in London back to back weeks. Yeah, back

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Speaker 1: to back weeks. That's the new stadium that has the

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Speaker 1: football field underneath the grass. Soccer field all hydraulic. It's

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Speaker 1: turf field that sits underneath dormant. The grass field is

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Speaker 1: on top. The grass field rolls out or opens in

496
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Speaker 1: the middle, right. Yeah, and then the other one comes

497
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:04,200
Speaker 1: rises from the from the depths. The evil Lair rises

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Speaker 1: from the depths. For American football, it's amazing like an

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Speaker 1: Austin Powers movie James Bond movie where the evil lair

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Speaker 1: Yeah uh opens up and they shoot a rocket out

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Speaker 1: of it. Yeah. That's so we know the Bills are

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Speaker 1: out of the mix. No London game. That's I'm glad,

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Speaker 1: so am I uh. We have to take a break here,

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Speaker 1: but we do want to know from you. You see

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Speaker 1: the opener for the Bills in week one, what else

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Speaker 1: is on your wish list for the Bills schedule this fall?

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Speaker 1: Let us know at eighth three, five fifty one, eight

508
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: five fifty two, five fifty when we come back, there

509
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: is a player that the Bills are reported to be

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Speaker 1: in the hunt for with a handful of other teams.

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Speaker 1: Will tell you who that player is and what position

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Speaker 1: he plays when we return here on one Bills Live

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalaida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. As we

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Speaker 1: told you before the break, there is a player out

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Speaker 1: there in free agency that is drawing interest from a

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Speaker 1: handful of teams, including the Bills, and that is one

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Speaker 1: former Pittsburgh cornerback Stephen Nelson. So he was not going

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Speaker 1: to be back with the Steelers who are cap strapped,

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Speaker 1: and he has been just sitting out there, and there

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Speaker 1: are up to five teams interested in his services Texans, Bears, Eagles,

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Speaker 1: Bengals and Bills. This according to ESPN's Jeremy Fowlier, he

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Speaker 1: continues to be patient, waiting for the right fit and opportunity.

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Speaker 1: So what is the translation there? Everybody is offering the

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Speaker 1: veteran minimum, and he's going to wait and see if

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Speaker 1: somebody blinks and offers him a little bit more than that,

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Speaker 1: to see if we can make more money this year.

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Speaker 1: Presumably he is taking a one year deal so he

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Speaker 1: can get back into the free a pull next year

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Speaker 1: when hopefully the CAP's a bit higher and teams have

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00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:07,760
Speaker 1: some more money to spend. But we know, if you

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Speaker 1: want to look good on a defense, Buffalo's defense isn't

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Speaker 1: a bad one to be a part of. Yeah, And

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Speaker 1: and they're up and they're competition, they're competing, you can

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Speaker 1: compete to start probably be on national television. And this

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Speaker 1: is exactly the kind of situation that would speak to

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Speaker 1: a guy like Steve Nelson right here in Buffalo. And

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Speaker 1: I think you know, and you mentioned this because you

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Speaker 1: were watching some of his highlights during the break. The

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Speaker 1: Bills love run support corners, corners that are good tackling

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Speaker 1: in the open field, good help it on the edges

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Speaker 1: in the run front, and Stephen Nelson checks that box

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Speaker 1: without question, really good open field tackler as at least

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Speaker 1: forty solo tackles in each of the last three seasons.

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Speaker 1: Two of the last three seasons. He had fifty or

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Speaker 1: more solo tackle seven interceptions in his last three seasons.

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Speaker 1: So this is a veteran player who can step right

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Speaker 1: in and start for you. As a matter of fact,

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Speaker 1: if the Bills added him to the roster, I would

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Speaker 1: label him the odds on favorite to win the CBE

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Speaker 1: two job opposite Trdavious White. Just my opinion, But we'll

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Speaker 1: see where it goes. There's other teams that have interests,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we'll see who who decides to cough

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00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: up more money to convince him to sign with them.

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Speaker 1: But interesting that, you know, Brandon being said it after

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Speaker 1: the draft, there's a long time between now in September.

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Speaker 1: You know, just because we didn't get a corner high

557
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Speaker 1: in the draft doesn't mean we're not still looking. And

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Speaker 1: we had Brandon on the show last week he says,

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Speaker 1: I'm still shopping, yeah, and the Bills and I'm not.

560
00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 1: I don't even know where the money is. If everybody's sight,

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Speaker 1: if everybody's sight, if everybody's offering him veteran minimum, the

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Speaker 1: Bills may triple that for one year deal if they

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Speaker 1: have the cap space. And this situation in Buffalo to me,

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Speaker 1: for a guy like Steve Nelson would be a spectacularly

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Speaker 1: good fit. He get a chance to compete. To start,

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Speaker 1: he'd be on a team that's, like you said, it's

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Speaker 1: going to be very nationally exposed, and not for nothing

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Speaker 1: we opened against the Steelers. Yeah, throw that one at him, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So little extra carrot to dangle out there. And the

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Speaker 1: way the culture here has given him chance to be

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Speaker 1: the best version of himself where he'll step onto the

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Speaker 1: field and and have a great experience for twelve months

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Speaker 1: here and then hit the open market again after playing

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Speaker 1: on a really good what could be a really really

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Speaker 1: good football team going deep. So that's the Bills have

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00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 1: a lot more to offer than they've ever had in

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Speaker 1: decades past. And Sean McDermott and the culture they've built

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Speaker 1: here is a big part of it. And because of that,

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00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:08,320
Speaker 1: the team's winning. That's a big part of it. And

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00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: the situation with their secondary having a spot there where

581
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,759
Speaker 1: everybody's kind of clamoring for a new face, even though

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Speaker 1: they LEVI Wallace is a like guy. They like him there,

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Speaker 1: he's always been that guy that like. Well, they can't

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Speaker 1: get him off the field. That's a carrot as well

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Speaker 1: for Steve Nelson. So we'll see where that goes in

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Speaker 1: the weeks that follow. Because if five teams are interested,

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Speaker 1: I don't see the list getting whittled down imminently, So

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Speaker 1: that might take a little while before a decision comes

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Speaker 1: to pass on Steve Nelson's part, but certainly something to

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Speaker 1: keep track of as the days and weeks progress here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean they're I mean this Steve Nelson story, I

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Speaker 1: mean it's like four they're naming fourteen teams. Well five,

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Speaker 1: but yes, well this one I'm looking at fourteen teams.

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Speaker 1: Well this was May twelve. Yeah, it's different now. Oh no,

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00:35:01,719 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 1: today's being twelve. Yeah. Um, let's just see if I

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Speaker 1: can see if I can get I don't know if

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Speaker 1: they Oh, okay, here we go. Yeah, Texans, Bears, Eagles, Bengals, Bills.

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Speaker 1: That's five, which is what ESPN Jeremy Fowler was reporting.

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Speaker 1: You got more teams now, that's all he give. They

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Speaker 1: the fourteen must be from his people. Well, yeah, they'll

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00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,240
Speaker 1: they're trying to balloon the pool as large as possible

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Speaker 1: to try to prompt somebody to cough up more money

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Speaker 1: to get a deal done. Right. It's called posturing. That's

604
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Speaker 1: and yes, we've seen it before. But nevertheless, the guy's

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Speaker 1: a commodity. I think he's twenty eight years old. It

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Speaker 1: still has a lot to give. Um, he's got productive

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Speaker 1: seasons each of the last three years. If he signs

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Speaker 1: a one year deal with Buffalo, comes back twenty nine

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Speaker 1: years old, after I have putting together a very nice

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Speaker 1: season for a really good football team, he could get

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Speaker 1: a three year deal from somebody. Yeah, absolutely, and that

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Speaker 1: would you know, that's probably his last big swinging a

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Speaker 1: big deal. Yeah, and this would set him up to

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Speaker 1: get it because he's not gonna get it obviously, not

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Speaker 1: gonna get it now unless the unless there's a bidding

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Speaker 1: warfrof you know, in all those five of the teams

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Speaker 1: we've mentioned, we'll see what is on your wish list

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Speaker 1: for the rest of the bills schedule. We know the

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Speaker 1: opener Sunday, September twelfth, one pm at high Mark Stadium

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Speaker 1: against the Pittsburgh Steelers. But what else is on your

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Speaker 1: wish list? For the rest of the Bills twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one slate, we go to the tweet sheet, brought to

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Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills, and JT leads off and says,

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Speaker 1: Sunday or Monday night at the Bucks, I want Brady's

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Speaker 1: butt on a platter with an apple in the mouth

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Speaker 1: and wings for me at home. Beating Brady in the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl Champs on National TV would be so tasty.

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Speaker 1: Or the Pats on those nights at home, Bill's Mafia

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Speaker 1: roaring and Billy tossing phones. He wants to see Belichick

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Speaker 1: throw a phone again. Yeah, all kinds of which is

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Speaker 1: my favorite moment of the twenty twenty season. All kinds

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Speaker 1: of tidbits are being You don't know what's gonna it's

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Speaker 1: what it's actually gonna be until it actually comes out.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, they're um that to me, screams primetime Bills

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Speaker 1: at Tampa. So does the Chiefs game. Um, there's no

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Speaker 1: way you can go into this season and not thinking

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Speaker 1: the Bills are gonna be really good football team. Yeah. Well,

639
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: they had four primetime games last year, you know, after

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Speaker 1: a ten win season, and then one thirteen games last year.

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Speaker 1: And they also and then remember they got to be

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Speaker 1: in the mix. Didn't remember late they got bumped to

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Speaker 1: the Sunday four pm slot. Oh that was the two

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Speaker 1: the TBD game against Denver, right, and that they turned

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Speaker 1: play Saturday or Sunday. Yeah, and that turned it that

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Speaker 1: Let me just say this for a guy who who

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Speaker 1: I guess we still are working. But when I was

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Speaker 1: on with CBS and the networks, the world was it

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Speaker 1: That four twenty five slot on Sunday was the slot.

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Speaker 1: They hammered the numbers on those things, and they wanted

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00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: teams that would draw eyeballs. And so when the Bills

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00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 1: got bumped to that the Denver game, back to the

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Speaker 1: four twenty five, that was a signal that they had

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Speaker 1: arrived in the eyes of the networks. And that game

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Speaker 1: was on a Saturday. They played that game Saturday, four

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Speaker 1: o'clock window, that four o'clock windows big, and they throttled

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Speaker 1: the Broncos like it wasn't even a game. It was,

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Speaker 1: it didn't I mean, I mean, it looked like they

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Speaker 1: were playing a JV. Josh Allen was far and away

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Speaker 1: the best player on the on the field, and he

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00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: showed it every snap. It was it was a it

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Speaker 1: was a John Elway, and that's against the head coach

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Speaker 1: who knows how to coach defense, Vic Fangi. There was

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Speaker 1: a couple of times that last year that the San

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Speaker 1: Francisco game and the Denver game in particular, Josh scores

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Speaker 1: a touchdown with his legs, and late in the San

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Speaker 1: Francisco game, Robert Slow, they showed a shot of him

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Speaker 1: on the sidelines and it was his eyes and his

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Speaker 1: body language said the same thing. I got no answers. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there was a shot of Vic Fangio because I remember

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Speaker 1: there was a shot of Vic Fangio and the Broncos

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Speaker 1: game where you know, he's got his playsheet in his

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Speaker 1: one hand and his pen in the other and Josh

674
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: strolled in. Josh is doing stuff and you could see

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Speaker 1: Fangio in the background of the shot down on the

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Speaker 1: field and he's looking at the sidelines with you know,

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00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: he's checking for rain. He's like, what what are we doing? Like,

678
00:39:43,840 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: what what are we gonna do? Watches Alan going to

679
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 1: the zone. He just throws his arms up and turns around,

680
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 1: what are we want to do? He just there's no

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Speaker 1: answer for that guy. Yeah, I was, I was watching

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Speaker 1: games today. This is a common practice by Steve. They

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Speaker 1: can't at him. Yeah, And with the four guys going

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Speaker 1: out as good as they are turning their backs defenders

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Speaker 1: turning their backs, he can take off and run it,

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Speaker 1: which he does once in a while, or he just

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Speaker 1: buys time and somebody, maybe multiple guys pop open. There

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Speaker 1: was a time in the Seattle game he was nineteen

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Speaker 1: of twenty one for two thirty two. Yeah, nineteen of

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Speaker 1: twenty one for two thirty two in the first half.

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Speaker 1: I remember that those good get it good luck. That's

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Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, he was in the MVP conversation, deep

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Speaker 1: in it. I mean, that's if he Yeah, so I

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Speaker 1: going on about it. That's what you're That's why this

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Speaker 1: team is gonna get some primetime games. Yes. And the

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00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: thing about it, too is the home and away thing

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Speaker 1: is big to me. They put really good teams on

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Speaker 1: the road in the prime time. Yeah, because they're confident

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Speaker 1: they'll still be competitive. They'll still be competitive because again

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00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:11,320
Speaker 1: won't be over by halftime. The old adages you always

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Speaker 1: bet on the home underdog on a night game on

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00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: a Monday night game, always bet on the home underdog

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Speaker 1: to cover because they're gonna play well, they're supposed to

704
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,360
Speaker 1: not supposed to win, and the lights and the and

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00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: the national thing that kind of pumps them up. And

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Speaker 1: a good team coming in and a good team coming

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00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 1: in it can kind of withstand that theoretically give them

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Speaker 1: a chance. But yeah, if that's that's the acid test

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Speaker 1: there too. We have to take a break here, but

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Speaker 1: more of your comments in terms of what's on your

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00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 1: wish list for the rest of the Bills schedule when

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00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 1: we return, we know what Week one looks like. What

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Speaker 1: else do you want to see from the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one schedule for the Buffalo Bills. Back in a moment

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Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live presented by Kelli to Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. I'll come back to One Bill's

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Speaker 1: Live Chris Brown's Team Tasker with you. New York Governor

718
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: Andrew Cuomo announced Blue Jays, who are playing at sale

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Speaker 1: in Field at least for the interim before the border reopens,

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Speaker 1: can welcome fans to sale in Field on June first.

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Speaker 1: So basically, I think this is another positive step as

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Speaker 1: it pertains to fans in the stands here for Buffalo

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Speaker 1: and Bills games in the fall. So basically there will

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Speaker 1: be a vaccinated section with normal seating and an unvaccinated

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Speaker 1: section with six foot social distancing, which is similar to

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Speaker 1: what the Mets and Yankees are doing right now, so

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Speaker 1: not necessarily surprised. The Johnson and Johnson vaccine will also

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Speaker 1: be offered free at those games, along with special prizes

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Speaker 1: at the Blue Jay's game. Yeah, including a free ticket

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Speaker 1: to a Buffalo Bison's game the next season. So that's

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Speaker 1: good news. It's all trending in the right direction here.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully things are even better come the fall where you

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Speaker 1: don't necessarily have vaccinated and unvaccinated sections. Maybe that's the case,

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Speaker 1: but you know, we heard fans and all likely are

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Speaker 1: gonna have to be vaccinated to go to NFL games.

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Speaker 1: But we'll wait and see what the final word is

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Speaker 1: on that. So there's that that's on the table. Another

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Speaker 1: positive sign for fans in the stands in the fall.

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Speaker 1: And we're asking you what is on your wish list

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Speaker 1: aside from the season opener which has already been announced.

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Speaker 1: Bills hosting Steelers Week one at him Mark Stadium one pm, kickoff?

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00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 1: What else is on your wish list? You know the opponents,

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00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: how would you like to see them lined up? When

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00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: would you like to see them lined up? What time?

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00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 1: And heck even what day whether you want, you know,

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Speaker 1: a Thursday night game or a Monday night game or

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00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: a Saturday game, that kind of thing. So yeah, it's yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a lot going on, but we all have our

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Speaker 1: own issues about what we like and what we don't.

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Speaker 1: Let's face it, if you're gonna, if you're gonna make

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Speaker 1: a wish list, it's all it is about you and

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00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,439
Speaker 1: what you want. And I think a lot of Bills fans,

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Speaker 1: I think, from what I've heard in the past, nothing

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00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: this year because of you know, the situation we with

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00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: our workspace here these days, we don't have the same interactions.

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00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:34,400
Speaker 1: But I've always heard in the past that the Bills,

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00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:38,160
Speaker 1: the team has always said, listen, we'd love eight or

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00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:41,600
Speaker 1: nine this year, we love nine one o'clock home games. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: our fans like it better. We have better attendance that way.

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Speaker 1: The Monday night games are, you know, cause their own

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Speaker 1: probably whatever. Whatever. H And I'm gonna ask Mike North

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Speaker 1: when he comes on the VP of broadcast planning for

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Ask him you know how much of that?

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Speaker 1: You know what we're do? The priority lie for the

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Speaker 1: schedule makers, I mean how far down the pecking order

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00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 1: or owners wishes for each individual team like Monday night games,

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00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 1: Sunday night games, rest and all that. It's really and

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Speaker 1: obviously when since it's gonna be a primetime program and

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Speaker 1: everywhere on social media and broadcasting, all the ESPN, NFL,

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00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: they're all talking about this schedule being released, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of pressure on these guys. Get it right, you Brownie,

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00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: I gotta give kudos to you. Years ago, back in fifteen,

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Speaker 1: you wrote the article about the Bills facing like what

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00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,320
Speaker 1: five or six teams six games that had extended rest,

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00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 1: Six games against teams that had more rest than they did, right,

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00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:45,520
Speaker 1: three of which were division games, right, and which is

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00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: unfair totally, And you can see and you gotta admit

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00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 1: and you've got to accept that there they got a

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00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,800
Speaker 1: lot of problems. They got it's a really tough puzzle

780
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: to put together. But now out Darren Sharp also did

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00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: that this year and put together which teams are you

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00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:10,840
Speaker 1: know at as Warren Sharp, I'm sorry disadvantage about you

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00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 1: know how many plus or minus games, how many did

784
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,960
Speaker 1: a ten year study, a ten year study, And it's

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00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 1: pretty fascinating about how different and how wide ranging the

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Speaker 1: number of times a team has been in a disadvantage

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Speaker 1: compared to a time when they've been in an advantage.

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Speaker 1: And I are in the lower half of the league. Yeah,

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00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: fared well in twenty three overall, something like twenty Yeah,

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00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: well twenty three in some category, twenty first and another category.

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00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 1: I'll say this though, when I saw the list from

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Speaker 1: thirty two down to one, the teams that are at

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Speaker 1: the top that have been treated the most favorable or

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00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: like the teams that really have perennially struggled. Jacksonville Cleveland

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00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 1: was up there. Now Cleveland nowadays is not in that

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00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 1: same situation, but for years they were a team at

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00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:59,120
Speaker 1: the bottom. Though, is the Giants the Giants? Yeah, number

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Speaker 1: one television market, so it kind of goes in that

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00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: in that vein the big the big time TV markets

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Speaker 1: tend to get shafted in the in the name of ratings,

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00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: I think more so than other teams. We have to

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00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:16,320
Speaker 1: take a break here, but as Steve said, when we

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Speaker 1: come back, we will have the vice president of NFL

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Speaker 1: broadcast Planning and a chief decision maker in terms of

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Speaker 1: the NFL schedule. Mike North joins us next here on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Collata Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

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00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 1: At a Steve tester who has been all over the fields.

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Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role players,

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Speaker 1: state Steve a blimp. We're not even in the stragedyre

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Speaker 1: of normalcy. Ah. There we are on schedule release day

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Speaker 1: coming your way tonight, Mattie Glavin myself doing the Bill's

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Speaker 1: schedule release special. We're on the streaming platforms at seven

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00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:22,759
Speaker 1: forty tonight. We'll have stuff to pass along to you

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Speaker 1: shortly thereafter, and then the league obviously has their full

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Speaker 1: release at eight o'clock on NFL Network. Here to join

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00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 1: us now, though, to kind of help us through the

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00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:38,759
Speaker 1: painstaking process that the NFL schedule makers go through to

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Speaker 1: kind of weave this whole thing together for all thirty

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Speaker 1: two teams. Vice president of NFL Broadcast Planning, an NFL

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00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,399
Speaker 1: schedule maker, Mike North joining us. Mike, thanks for giving

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Speaker 1: us some time. I was joking with you during the break,

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00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:51,759
Speaker 1: but it is true. All the hay is in the

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Speaker 1: barn for you guys with your algorithms and your slide

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00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: rules and whatever else you guys are using to put

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Speaker 1: this puzzle together. Right, we are done, thankfully mercifully long process.

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Speaker 1: Obviously we're mid May here putting the schedule out. You'll

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Speaker 1: remember we put it out I think May seventh or

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Speaker 1: eighth last year. Obviously some COVID related issues we didn't

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Speaker 1: really know, and we weren't really sure what we were

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Speaker 1: heading for twenty twenty, And obviously it was a season

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Speaker 1: unlike any other. But prior to that, schedule always used

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Speaker 1: to be out in the middle of April, so we

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Speaker 1: had a whole extra month of grinding and searching and

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Speaker 1: hoping and praying. And I think we're pretty happy with

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Speaker 1: where we landed. And I think this notion of schedule

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Speaker 1: release in May is the new normal. Kind of let

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Speaker 1: all of April be focused on the draft and the

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00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 1: mock drafts and getting to know the kids. Give a

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Speaker 1: week after the draft to sort of grade everybody and

840
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,279
Speaker 1: see what transpired, and then everybody can kind of focus

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00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:49,000
Speaker 1: their attention on schedule release. And now that we know

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Speaker 1: where these kids are playing, now we're gonna find out

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00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 1: when what was it one seventeenth more difficult this year

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Speaker 1: because of the seventeenth game. You know, I'll be honest

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00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:00,440
Speaker 1: with you, Steve, it was even more than that. The

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Speaker 1: solution space. I've been on with you guys before and

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Speaker 1: tried to give you some math, and we've got our friend,

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Speaker 1: Professor car went Over at the University at Buffalo always

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Speaker 1: talks about how this is the biggest mathematical project he's

850
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:14,320
Speaker 1: ever worked on. The solution space was already essentially infinite.

851
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:17,840
Speaker 1: Having one more week now and sixteen more games just

852
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 1: gave every single game one more home, five more possible networks,

853
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:25,280
Speaker 1: six more possible time slots. We took an already infinite

854
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:27,880
Speaker 1: solution space and didn't just double or triple it, but

855
00:50:28,400 --> 00:50:32,280
Speaker 1: really exponentially increased it. So it was a lot harder, frankly,

856
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 1: to get through the entire solution space. I'm not sure

857
00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:37,759
Speaker 1: we saw one percent of the hundreds of trillions of

858
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: possible schedules, but we were fortunate enough to have a

859
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:43,319
Speaker 1: few extra weeks here. The software and the hardware has

860
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:45,399
Speaker 1: gotten a lot better, and again I think we landed

861
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 1: in a really good spot. So how much more time

862
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:51,520
Speaker 1: would you say was built into the solution process and

863
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:54,400
Speaker 1: coming out with the schedule that crossed all t's, dotted

864
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 1: all eyes, and satisfied everybody with the addition of an

865
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:02,880
Speaker 1: eighteenth week. Yeah, the honest truth is we used this

866
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:06,120
Speaker 1: extra month. I mean, schedule would have in previous years

867
00:51:06,200 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 1: come out on April sixteenth or so. Here we are

868
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:10,759
Speaker 1: on May twelfth, So that's an extra three and a

869
00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:13,279
Speaker 1: half four weeks, and the computers never stopped running, the

870
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:18,120
Speaker 1: humans never stopped analyzing, arguing, debating. Obviously, there's still some

871
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 1: uncertainty in the league around where some of our marquee

872
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 1: players may play, if they play at all, So we

873
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 1: certainly use some of that time to kind of tinker

874
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:27,640
Speaker 1: with what if we did this, or what if he

875
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: did that. So we use every minute that the commissioner

876
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 1: gave us, And honestly, if he gave us another month

877
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:35,800
Speaker 1: we'd used another month, would we have landed in a

878
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:39,399
Speaker 1: better spot. I don't know, maybe marginally. You know, there's

879
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: always something in every schedule that you could be a

880
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: little bit better. But this thing is so landlocked. It

881
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:47,319
Speaker 1: really is a jigsaw puzzle. If you move one piece,

882
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to move twenty others. So in order

883
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 1: to fix one problem, you might create three others, and

884
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:55,360
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that's a better schedule. So other than

885
00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: knowing a little bit more about where some of the

886
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:58,880
Speaker 1: players are going to play and who might be starting

887
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 1: at some of the marque position, I don't know how

888
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: much better we would have been if we had another month,

889
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 1: but we'd have used every minute they gave us. Is

890
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 1: there a window during the preparation of the schedule where

891
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 1: you allow teams to come in, get a look at

892
00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 1: a maybe a mock up, and throw a fit and

893
00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: get some adjustments made. No, no, no, that's a good move.

894
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 1: They all get an opportunity early in the process to

895
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:24,800
Speaker 1: weigh in. Hey, now that we know who we're playing,

896
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: here's a few things we'd like for you guys to

897
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 1: keep in mind. Here's when our stadium might not be available.

898
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:31,520
Speaker 1: Here's when we'd really like to have our bye week.

899
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:34,160
Speaker 1: There's something you should know that's going on in our market.

900
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:36,919
Speaker 1: Or Hey, if we've got two cross country trips, we'd

901
00:52:36,960 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 1: love to pair them as road games and stay out

902
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:41,319
Speaker 1: west maybe instead of ping pong and back and forth.

903
00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 1: But once we hit sort of mid February, we close

904
00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 1: and lock the door. We turn off all the communication.

905
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 1: We've gotten everything that we think we needed from the

906
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 1: thirty two teams and the five network partners, and at

907
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 1: that point it's on us. The next time we talk

908
00:52:56,520 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 1: to the clubs is today schedule released day. And there's

909
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:03,320
Speaker 1: no such thing as a beta version or a test version,

910
00:53:03,520 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 1: because we know the answer to that this isn't good enough.

911
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 1: You have to change it, and we know we're not

912
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:09,920
Speaker 1: going to be able to. So we were closer with

913
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:11,840
Speaker 1: some of the other sports leagues. We all used similar

914
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 1: partners in the software space and in the analytics space

915
00:53:15,040 --> 00:53:17,879
Speaker 1: and the hardware space, so we know other leagues send out,

916
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 1: you know, versions of their schedule, test versions, initial drafts,

917
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 1: and then try to take that feedback. We don't. We can't.

918
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:27,879
Speaker 1: If we did that, honestly, we'd never get one done.

919
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 1: So we take their feedback, we do the best we can,

920
00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: and then deliver it to them today and wait for

921
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:35,320
Speaker 1: their reaction. Yeah, you guys have enough cooks in the kitchen.

922
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 1: We We had the reports from Peter King earlier in

923
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:43,759
Speaker 1: the week that kickoff game on Thursday night. We knew

924
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 1: it was going to be the Bucks hosting, but he

925
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:48,759
Speaker 1: was reporting that it was down to Cowboys Bills. We

926
00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 1: now know that it is Cowboys and that the Bills

927
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 1: are playing Sunday at home against Pittsburgh. Was it down

928
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 1: to Cowboys Bills, Mike, Those two are certainly in the mix,

929
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:01,319
Speaker 1: no question. I mean, you look at the Tampa home

930
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 1: schedule and there's some great home opponents. I'll tell you honestly.

931
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:07,720
Speaker 1: We also considered New Orleans. Obviously they're a little different

932
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 1: animal now without Drew Brees, but never more interesting than

933
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 1: they are in Week one. We considered the Giants, we

934
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:16,680
Speaker 1: considered the Bears. You know, a lot of good opponents

935
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 1: for Tampa Bay, and it really becomes this question of

936
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:22,520
Speaker 1: maximizing the value of each of these now two hundred

937
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 1: and seventy two assets, if you will. And yeah, we

938
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:27,920
Speaker 1: could have played Buffalo Tampa week one. It would have

939
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 1: been great, would have been a lot of fun, maybe

940
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:32,920
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl preview. But you look at a game

941
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:35,319
Speaker 1: like that and you think to yourself, you probably could

942
00:54:35,360 --> 00:54:37,839
Speaker 1: hold on to that one. Deploy it a little later

943
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,480
Speaker 1: in the schedule, and it's likely to have playoff implications,

944
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:42,759
Speaker 1: So we put it in a national television window. We

945
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:45,120
Speaker 1: put it much later in the season. That's not to

946
00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:47,840
Speaker 1: imply the Dallas Tampa, which is the kickoff game we

947
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,400
Speaker 1: announced this morning. That's not to imply that that one

948
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 1: might not have playoff implications in December, but you know,

949
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 1: you can get maximum value out of Dallas Tampa in

950
00:54:56,239 --> 00:55:00,800
Speaker 1: Week one, whereas Buffalo Tampa probably only gets more interesting

951
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:03,279
Speaker 1: later in the season that we play it. So we

952
00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:05,520
Speaker 1: kind of like holding on to that one, and certainly

953
00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 1: our friends at CBS, knowing that that was one of

954
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:10,640
Speaker 1: their games, quote unquote, they're pretty happy that that one

955
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:12,759
Speaker 1: didn't end up on NBC. They got to hold onto it,

956
00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:15,040
Speaker 1: and they're gonna look to make a real big story

957
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:18,080
Speaker 1: out of that in December. So early in this process,

958
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:20,239
Speaker 1: I know that you said that all these clubs have,

959
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 1: you know, have their chance in early February, late January

960
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 1: to say okay, here's here's our concerns. Is there a

961
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 1: priority list about what you really kind of take seriously

962
00:55:30,560 --> 00:55:32,359
Speaker 1: and some of the things that are like, okay, well,

963
00:55:32,560 --> 00:55:34,879
Speaker 1: we're not gonna you know, just because you don't want

964
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:37,440
Speaker 1: to wear your dark jerseys in July, you know, that

965
00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:40,640
Speaker 1: kind of that kind of thing, Because like you said,

966
00:55:40,680 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: there are some football ramifications, like they want logistics, like

967
00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:46,319
Speaker 1: we want our West Coast games paired up. It gives

968
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 1: us a chance to to you know, rest our team

969
00:55:49,719 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 1: of the rest and lack of rest for certain teams

970
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 1: coming off buys and being on a short week. Football

971
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:59,520
Speaker 1: issues like that, I would think have a higher priority

972
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 1: than do, say, I want the London game early in

973
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:05,480
Speaker 1: the season rather than late in the season or whatever.

974
00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:07,680
Speaker 1: All the other things, and of course then there's the

975
00:56:07,840 --> 00:56:11,160
Speaker 1: concrete notion of when the stadium is actually available. But

976
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:13,400
Speaker 1: what kind of can you give us a thumbnail of

977
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:15,840
Speaker 1: maybe some of the top priority things that clubs do

978
00:56:15,960 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 1: come to you with that you really think, yeah, you

979
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:19,480
Speaker 1: know what, we got to do that and some of

980
00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:22,759
Speaker 1: the things that are maybe further down the line. Yeah, Look,

981
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 1: you answered your own question right there. As you talk

982
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:27,880
Speaker 1: about things like rest and travel, player health and safety

983
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:31,239
Speaker 1: is always first and foremost in our minds. Obviously trying

984
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 1: to deliver the maximum value to our television partners and

985
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:38,200
Speaker 1: maximize viewership and ratings and revenues, of course, but not

986
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:40,759
Speaker 1: at the expense of player health and safety. So that's

987
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: always priority number one. Short weeks, rest weeks, travel considerations.

988
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 1: Like you said, if there's a team that is looking

989
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:50,399
Speaker 1: to pair up the cross country trips and stay out

990
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:53,080
Speaker 1: west or stay out east, find a place to practice.

991
00:56:53,480 --> 00:56:55,480
Speaker 1: You know, that eases the burden on the body of

992
00:56:55,600 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 1: going back and forth across the country, across three time zones,

993
00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 1: six hours in the air. So those questions, those requests,

994
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:06,440
Speaker 1: those preferences, they go into a different bucket than the

995
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 1: ones that you know, you kind of hinted at, you know,

996
00:57:08,719 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 1: when you were playing. It's all the same stuff even

997
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:14,799
Speaker 1: from then. We want to open at home, we want

998
00:57:14,800 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 1: to close at home. We want a mid season bye.

999
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 1: We don't want to go to Florida in September when

1000
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:21,720
Speaker 1: it's one hundred degrees. We don't want to go to

1001
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:26,040
Speaker 1: Lambeau or Buffalo in December the January when it's negative three.

1002
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 1: So you know, those kind of requests. We'd love to

1003
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 1: play this team coming off our bye week, I'm sure

1004
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:33,800
Speaker 1: you would, but I'm not sure that's one that goes

1005
00:57:33,880 --> 00:57:35,720
Speaker 1: into the bucket of, Hey, we ought to try to

1006
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:38,720
Speaker 1: solve this, whereas some of the rest consideration, some of

1007
00:57:38,760 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 1: the travel considerations, obviously London, you mentioned, you know, where

1008
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 1: are we the week before London? Where are we the

1009
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:46,080
Speaker 1: week after London? Do we want the bye week right there?

1010
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 1: Whereas it too early in the season. Let's take a

1011
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:51,160
Speaker 1: home game after London, slide our bye week a little later.

1012
00:57:51,240 --> 00:57:53,959
Speaker 1: Can we keep our Thursday game and our bye week

1013
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 1: game separated so that we can have both the rest

1014
00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:58,800
Speaker 1: week of the bye and the mini buy if you will,

1015
00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 1: coming off the Thursday, where you've got ten days. So

1016
00:58:02,160 --> 00:58:07,520
Speaker 1: the competitive requests, requests and specific things like that don't

1017
00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:11,520
Speaker 1: often get accommodated, but the player health and safety stuff

1018
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:13,960
Speaker 1: is always top of mine. Talking to Mike North, vice

1019
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:17,440
Speaker 1: president of NFL Broadcast Planning, NFL schedule maker, and Mike,

1020
00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 1: it was hard for me not to notice that with

1021
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 1: the primetime games in Week one here Sunday Night at

1022
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:28,640
Speaker 1: La Bears at Rams, Monday night at Las Vegas Ravens

1023
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:32,240
Speaker 1: at Raiders. These were two brand new stadiums last year

1024
00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:35,160
Speaker 1: that didn't get nearly the exposure that I'm sure the

1025
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:38,720
Speaker 1: league or even the partners or owners wanted. Was there

1026
00:58:38,840 --> 00:58:43,800
Speaker 1: some thought given to highlighting and showcasing those new stadiums

1027
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:48,240
Speaker 1: here in Week one this year. Look, we had a

1028
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:52,760
Speaker 1: playbook from last year. Sunday Night for the Rams, Monday

1029
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:56,760
Speaker 1: Night for the raven I'm sorry for the Raiders, and

1030
00:58:56,880 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 1: then a Sunday afternoon doubleheader game for the Charger. We've

1031
00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:03,960
Speaker 1: basically ran that same playbook this year. Obviously, the stadiums

1032
00:59:04,000 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 1: have been open for a year, but they haven't had

1033
00:59:06,200 --> 00:59:08,880
Speaker 1: fans yet. And one thing to remember is that this

1034
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:12,160
Speaker 1: year we've got the Pro Bowl in Las Vegas and

1035
00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:16,440
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl in Los Angeles. So every time we

1036
00:59:16,640 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 1: have a national game in there, every time we have

1037
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:21,760
Speaker 1: a primetime game in either of those buildings, it's sort

1038
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:24,640
Speaker 1: of a dry run for another tent pole event. So

1039
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 1: every time NBC Sunday Night Football gets to come out

1040
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:30,120
Speaker 1: for a Rams or a Chargers game, it's a dry

1041
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 1: run for the Super Bowl. And I think you're going

1042
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:34,240
Speaker 1: to see them deploy some of their camera positions, some

1043
00:59:34,360 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 1: of their set locations, where we're going to build the concourse,

1044
00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:38,880
Speaker 1: what seats are we going to strike. You know, we

1045
00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:41,160
Speaker 1: haven't played games with fans in those buildings yet, so

1046
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 1: every one of these games is going to be a

1047
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 1: learning experience. But you hit it right on the head.

1048
00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:47,720
Speaker 1: I think we're really excited about how we're starting the season.

1049
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 1: You mentioned, you know, kickoff in Tampa, Sunday night in

1050
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:53,360
Speaker 1: La Monday night in Vegas, and then as you've got

1051
00:59:53,440 --> 00:59:55,920
Speaker 1: on the screen there. We've got a double double header

1052
00:59:56,640 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 1: in week one, so we're gonna have four games on

1053
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 1: tel of and two each on CBS and Fox and

1054
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:04,920
Speaker 1: every market in week number one, and we've got big

1055
01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:08,000
Speaker 1: games in every window. You know, Buffalo starts with Pittsburgh.

1056
01:00:08,320 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 1: We've got a Seattle indie game on Fox in the

1057
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:12,560
Speaker 1: one o'clock window. And then you look ahead to four

1058
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:15,760
Speaker 1: twenty five or traditional doubleheader window, and you see Cleveland,

1059
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:18,360
Speaker 1: Kansas City, in Green Bay, New Orleans. That's a lot

1060
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 1: of good games in week one. And really excited to

1061
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:23,400
Speaker 1: start the season like that. I know it. Obviously we

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Speaker 1: talked to you every year and it always seems like

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Speaker 1: a gargantuan task to get this thing going. And and

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01:00:30,120 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 1: obviously because of the growth of the game, now it's

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01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:34,880
Speaker 1: a primetime show. It's going to be on tonight. It's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Let me just pile on just a second here. I promise,

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01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:40,600
Speaker 1: I promise I won't put you off from coming on

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01:00:40,680 --> 01:00:42,800
Speaker 1: our show every year to talk. We can take it.

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01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:45,800
Speaker 1: Go ahead, fire away, all right. I have said that

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01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:48,160
Speaker 1: it would be a great idea if and I know

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01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:51,280
Speaker 1: this is this throws it into infinity with the solution

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Speaker 1: margin that you're talking about a city like Buffalo that

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01:00:56,640 --> 01:00:59,800
Speaker 1: has a hockey team and a football team and those

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01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 1: pro sports overlap and to hat and to be able

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Speaker 1: to maybe with the NHL and the NFL in partnership,

1076
01:01:06,960 --> 01:01:10,240
Speaker 1: having a those two teams like say the Boston Bruins

1077
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:12,760
Speaker 1: and the Buffalo Sabers play on a Saturday night with

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01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 1: a Bill's Patriots game on Sunday, or a Nashville Predator

1079
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 1: game Buffalo Sabers game on a Saturday and a Bill's

1080
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:25,120
Speaker 1: Predator and a Bill's Titans game on Sunday. The interconnectivity

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01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 1: of that would be an enormous economic balloon payment to

1082
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:32,720
Speaker 1: that city for the you know, for the interaction between

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01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:35,320
Speaker 1: those both those sports, you know, the traveling and the

1084
01:01:35,480 --> 01:01:38,120
Speaker 1: and the the people through the door. A town like

1085
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:43,440
Speaker 1: Vegas would sign up for something like that big time

1086
01:01:43,480 --> 01:01:45,800
Speaker 1: because they get a huge influx of people in the doors.

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01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:48,440
Speaker 1: Um and I you know, so this is out of

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01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:50,680
Speaker 1: left field. This is the Steve Tasker ticket plans, one

1089
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:52,600
Speaker 1: of the many Steve Tasker plans. I'll tell you this

1090
01:01:52,680 --> 01:01:56,840
Speaker 1: is this is ticket Plan three point two. So what

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01:01:57,080 --> 01:01:58,680
Speaker 1: the what would be that you know, what would it

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01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:01,040
Speaker 1: take for something like that to obviously, it would take

1093
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:03,520
Speaker 1: your bosses telling you to do it. But what would

1094
01:02:03,960 --> 01:02:07,400
Speaker 1: logistics like that be, And what do you think about

1095
01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:11,800
Speaker 1: an idea like that? Love the idea as a sports fan.

1096
01:02:11,880 --> 01:02:13,680
Speaker 1: I love the idea of coming to a market and

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01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:15,560
Speaker 1: staying for a couple of days and catching a bunch

1098
01:02:15,560 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 1: of different sporting events. Throw Major League Baseball in there too,

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01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:20,920
Speaker 1: we can do a little tripleheader. I love it. The

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01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:26,360
Speaker 1: challenge for us all would be aligning our scheduling windows.

1101
01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:29,680
Speaker 1: For instance, like I can tell you Major League Baseball

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01:02:30,040 --> 01:02:33,920
Speaker 1: they've already published their twenty two schedule, so they're not

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01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:36,480
Speaker 1: waiting until the end of twenty one to see who

1104
01:02:36,560 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 1: their hot teams are, hot players are. They've already gone

1105
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 1: and published their twenty two schedule. We're certainly in no

1106
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:44,960
Speaker 1: position to publish our twenty two schedule. We don't even

1107
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:46,560
Speaker 1: know the matchups yet because we've got a few that

1108
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:49,880
Speaker 1: are based obviously on the final standing. So I guess

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01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:52,320
Speaker 1: the answer to your question is, could we connect with

1110
01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:56,400
Speaker 1: the NHL, or college football, or the PGA Tour or

1111
01:02:56,440 --> 01:02:58,880
Speaker 1: anybody else and try to figure out what other events

1112
01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:01,840
Speaker 1: are going on in our markets and then try to

1113
01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:07,280
Speaker 1: either work around them or work towards them. Theoretically possible. Absolutely, yes.

1114
01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:11,920
Speaker 1: As we've talked about before, we probably have enough rules

1115
01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:15,520
Speaker 1: and constraints and guardrails in our little schedule that I'm

1116
01:03:15,560 --> 01:03:17,919
Speaker 1: not sure we could take on anymore. But I'm sure

1117
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:20,280
Speaker 1: if the Pagoulas called us up and said, you know what,

1118
01:03:20,520 --> 01:03:23,760
Speaker 1: we really would love to do a Bruins Savers Patriots

1119
01:03:23,840 --> 01:03:26,920
Speaker 1: Bills weekend, could we look into that, the answer to

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Speaker 1: that would be yes, that's cool. I'm a genius, Brownie,

1121
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:34,880
Speaker 1: And he just confirmed it. Well, I don't know if

1122
01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:37,400
Speaker 1: he confirmed you being a genius. He confirmed it as

1123
01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:39,720
Speaker 1: a possible blind. It's like the line from the movie

1124
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:42,280
Speaker 1: I Got vision and the rest of the world needs

1125
01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:46,560
Speaker 1: buy focals. Okay, we'll let you have that for this moment. Mike,

1126
01:03:47,040 --> 01:03:50,400
Speaker 1: my short term memory sometimes portrays me. So maybe you

1127
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 1: can clear this up. Because I see in Week one

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01:03:52,960 --> 01:03:56,080
Speaker 1: here there is only one Monday night game. There was

1129
01:03:56,160 --> 01:03:58,840
Speaker 1: a time where we had the Monday night double header

1130
01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:01,880
Speaker 1: in Week one? Correct? Did that go away last year

1131
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:04,960
Speaker 1: or this year? This year? Okay? What happened to that?

1132
01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:08,040
Speaker 1: And to tell you what it was, we expanded the season, right,

1133
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:12,959
Speaker 1: we're playing now eighteen weeks and ESPN took that back

1134
01:04:13,080 --> 01:04:16,480
Speaker 1: end doubleheader game at a Week one and they moved

1135
01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:19,200
Speaker 1: it into a standalone window in week seventeen. So what

1136
01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:21,640
Speaker 1: you've got now for ESPN and our friends at Disney

1137
01:04:21,760 --> 01:04:24,400
Speaker 1: is instead of that game, those two games in Week one,

1138
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:26,520
Speaker 1: where you got to kick off that one at seven o'clock,

1139
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:28,800
Speaker 1: probably a little earlier, and then they'd prefer at least

1140
01:04:28,800 --> 01:04:31,320
Speaker 1: from ratings and revenue standpoint, and then that other one

1141
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:35,640
Speaker 1: at ten fifteen Eastern time, almost always a Western site.

1142
01:04:35,960 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 1: You know, we've seen a lot of Broncos, Raiders, Cardinals,

1143
01:04:38,720 --> 01:04:42,000
Speaker 1: Niners in that window. Now, instead you get the opportunity

1144
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:43,960
Speaker 1: to play a standalone game in Week one, and like

1145
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:45,320
Speaker 1: we talked about, we're going to use it as a

1146
01:04:45,360 --> 01:04:49,040
Speaker 1: celebration a relaunch, a reopening of that Vegas stadium, and

1147
01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:51,560
Speaker 1: they get to take that back end doubleheader game, that

1148
01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:54,200
Speaker 1: late game that, as you can imagine, probably doesn't draw

1149
01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:56,160
Speaker 1: the best ratings and viewership here on the East Coast

1150
01:04:56,200 --> 01:04:59,040
Speaker 1: when halftime hits around eleven thirty at night. They get

1151
01:04:59,080 --> 01:05:00,560
Speaker 1: to take that game and of it nowt to Week

1152
01:05:00,640 --> 01:05:03,040
Speaker 1: seventeen and a standalone window and you'll see when the

1153
01:05:03,080 --> 01:05:04,680
Speaker 1: schedule comes out. We feel like we've got a really

1154
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:07,080
Speaker 1: good one in that time slot. So that sorts out

1155
01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 1: a little bit better for our friends at Disney and

1156
01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:12,600
Speaker 1: allows us to take one of those games from Week

1157
01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:15,120
Speaker 1: one that would have been deployed into prime time and

1158
01:05:15,240 --> 01:05:17,120
Speaker 1: now move it back in the Sunday afternoon, where like

1159
01:05:17,160 --> 01:05:19,440
Speaker 1: we said, we've got this double doubleheader trying to get

1160
01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:23,040
Speaker 1: four games in every market, and it's gonna work out.

1161
01:05:23,080 --> 01:05:25,360
Speaker 1: I think a little bit better for the fans, certainly

1162
01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:26,600
Speaker 1: the fans on the East Coast. I don't have to

1163
01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:28,080
Speaker 1: stay up till two o'clock in the morning now to

1164
01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:30,280
Speaker 1: watch the end of that late Sea game. And now

1165
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:32,840
Speaker 1: we've got a Week seventeen Monday night game. I like, okay,

1166
01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:34,680
Speaker 1: so it'll be a week seven. It'll move to Monday

1167
01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:38,480
Speaker 1: night on Week seventeen rather than out I got you, okay, yeah,

1168
01:05:38,520 --> 01:05:41,000
Speaker 1: you got because the seventeen, Yeah, the Week seventeen becomes

1169
01:05:41,080 --> 01:05:43,240
Speaker 1: now you get a Monday night game on Week seventeen,

1170
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:45,880
Speaker 1: because Week eighteen you do not. That's the one you

1171
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:48,000
Speaker 1: do not have the Monday night game. I got right,

1172
01:05:48,040 --> 01:05:50,120
Speaker 1: we don't play Monday night a week eighteen. But we

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01:05:50,200 --> 01:05:51,880
Speaker 1: are this year for the first time, going to play

1174
01:05:52,040 --> 01:05:55,280
Speaker 1: Saturday night of week eighteen. That's also part of our

1175
01:05:55,320 --> 01:05:58,439
Speaker 1: new Disney deal. So if you think about the final

1176
01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:00,440
Speaker 1: week end of the season, we always try to sequence

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01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:02,560
Speaker 1: the games where you play concurrent with the guy who

1178
01:06:02,600 --> 01:06:05,040
Speaker 1: you're still fighting with for a playoff spot, or he's

1179
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 1: got to play to win and then he's got to

1180
01:06:06,320 --> 01:06:08,200
Speaker 1: wait until later in the day and see what happens

1181
01:06:08,200 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 1: to everybody else. You'll remember last year, Buffalo was pretty

1182
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:13,880
Speaker 1: well entrenched where they were, but the wild card spots

1183
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:17,040
Speaker 1: were still wildly up for grabs Miami and Baltimore and

1184
01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:19,720
Speaker 1: Indie and everybody else. So you could have taken one

1185
01:06:19,760 --> 01:06:23,040
Speaker 1: of those games, moved it to Saturday night. They have

1186
01:06:23,200 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 1: to play to win on Saturday night, and then they

1187
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:27,880
Speaker 1: have to scoreboard watch on Sunday, and now more people

1188
01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:30,400
Speaker 1: can watch that Sunday game because there's one less game

1189
01:06:30,440 --> 01:06:32,840
Speaker 1: on Sunday afternoon. You know. Another good example would have

1190
01:06:32,880 --> 01:06:35,800
Speaker 1: been You'll remember the Cowboys Giants game from last year

1191
01:06:36,240 --> 01:06:38,960
Speaker 1: when they played each other in the afternoon. They were

1192
01:06:39,040 --> 01:06:40,720
Speaker 1: both playing for their lives. They had to win to

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01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:43,000
Speaker 1: stay alive, and then they had to watch and see

1194
01:06:43,080 --> 01:06:45,160
Speaker 1: what happened with the Washington football team and see who

1195
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:47,280
Speaker 1: was going to win the NFC's So a game like

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Speaker 1: that would be a good Saturday night game. It's a

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01:06:49,520 --> 01:06:52,480
Speaker 1: playoff game at the time, and then we watch on Sunday,

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01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:55,600
Speaker 1: we see what happens, and we cascade the weekend into

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Speaker 1: the final Sunday night game. How many games are we

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01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 1: talking about that are gonna be TBD? Like, we're not

1201
01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:03,720
Speaker 1: going to decide what game, how is it Saturday or Sunday?

1202
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:06,200
Speaker 1: Is it every slot on Saturday Sunday is gonna like

1203
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:07,720
Speaker 1: kind of be thrown up in the year, and then

1204
01:07:07,760 --> 01:07:10,560
Speaker 1: we'll just decide as in week eighteen, yeah, yes, in

1205
01:07:10,680 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 1: week eighteen. Yes, there's only one other week, Week fifteen,

1206
01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:16,480
Speaker 1: where we've got a few games that are literally listed

1207
01:07:16,520 --> 01:07:18,920
Speaker 1: as TBD, and we might find the bills in that

1208
01:07:19,080 --> 01:07:22,080
Speaker 1: time slot as well, you know, those games are listed

1209
01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:24,800
Speaker 1: as TBD. And then we'll decide about a month out

1210
01:07:25,000 --> 01:07:27,360
Speaker 1: which ones go to Saturday on NFL network, which ones

1211
01:07:27,400 --> 01:07:30,040
Speaker 1: go back to Sunday. But as we look to week eighteen,

1212
01:07:30,480 --> 01:07:33,360
Speaker 1: technically every game is TBD. You could be on CBS

1213
01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:35,400
Speaker 1: or Fox. You could be at one o'clock or four

1214
01:07:35,560 --> 01:07:38,000
Speaker 1: twenty five. You could be Sunday night on NBC. You

1215
01:07:38,040 --> 01:07:40,880
Speaker 1: could be Saturday at four thirty or eight on Disney.

1216
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 1: So we're gonna try to find the right games in

1217
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:46,920
Speaker 1: week eighteen. We're not going to know until after Week

1218
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:49,600
Speaker 1: seventeen when we know the full playoff picture, and then

1219
01:07:49,640 --> 01:07:52,000
Speaker 1: we're going to decide and figure out what the right

1220
01:07:52,080 --> 01:07:54,200
Speaker 1: way to sequence week eighteen is going to be. So yeah,

1221
01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:56,080
Speaker 1: pretty much every game in Week eighteen it is TBD

1222
01:07:56,320 --> 01:07:59,560
Speaker 1: and then Mike. For years, the Bills were the throw

1223
01:07:59,680 --> 01:08:03,080
Speaker 1: in to tea in a prime time matchup game for

1224
01:08:03,160 --> 01:08:05,800
Speaker 1: the longest time. Now that you know they were a

1225
01:08:05,840 --> 01:08:08,480
Speaker 1: ten win team in twenty nineteen, you guys rewarded them

1226
01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:12,320
Speaker 1: with four primetime games. Last year they paid you back

1227
01:08:12,400 --> 01:08:15,000
Speaker 1: and won thirteen games, and we're the second highest scoring

1228
01:08:15,040 --> 01:08:19,000
Speaker 1: team in football. In your conversations that you have with

1229
01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:22,559
Speaker 1: your network partners, is it's safe to say the Bills

1230
01:08:22,800 --> 01:08:27,040
Speaker 1: are now in that we want that team on prime

1231
01:08:27,120 --> 01:08:35,840
Speaker 1: time conversation? Yes, nothing registers ratings like results, and the

1232
01:08:36,280 --> 01:08:38,080
Speaker 1: Bills have earned it. You know, we always say you

1233
01:08:38,120 --> 01:08:40,240
Speaker 1: play your way in the prime time. They have done that.

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01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:43,200
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody's going to be surprised when they

1235
01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:45,439
Speaker 1: see the number of prime time games, and not just

1236
01:08:45,560 --> 01:08:48,520
Speaker 1: primetime but also national television. You look at the Bills opponents,

1237
01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:51,240
Speaker 1: and there's some big games in there. There really are.

1238
01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:53,320
Speaker 1: You know, we talked a little bit about Tampa, but

1239
01:08:53,760 --> 01:08:56,080
Speaker 1: then we go look at Kansas City, we look at Pittsburgh,

1240
01:08:56,479 --> 01:08:58,880
Speaker 1: we look at all the really good Bills games, both

1241
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:01,920
Speaker 1: ends of the Patriots. There's obviously going to be some

1242
01:09:02,080 --> 01:09:04,360
Speaker 1: national television in here. And as you look at what

1243
01:09:04,400 --> 01:09:05,920
Speaker 1: you put on the screen, you know, any football fan

1244
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:08,400
Speaker 1: can look at those and know some of those have

1245
01:09:08,560 --> 01:09:11,360
Speaker 1: to be musty TV, have to be in national television windows.

1246
01:09:11,400 --> 01:09:13,439
Speaker 1: It doesn't always have to be in primetime. You know,

1247
01:09:13,520 --> 01:09:16,960
Speaker 1: that Sunday afternoon four twenty five, big doubleheader slot is

1248
01:09:17,080 --> 01:09:19,519
Speaker 1: obviously where we get a lot of viewership, and it's

1249
01:09:19,560 --> 01:09:22,040
Speaker 1: what fans really kind of build their Sunday afternoons around.

1250
01:09:22,120 --> 01:09:24,560
Speaker 1: So I think it is very safe to say that

1251
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:27,880
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills will be well represented on the national

1252
01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:30,280
Speaker 1: television schedule. And as you guys have seen over the

1253
01:09:30,360 --> 01:09:32,560
Speaker 1: last couple of years, that's what flexible scheduling is for.

1254
01:09:32,720 --> 01:09:36,040
Speaker 1: If we may be underestimated somebody or didn't even have enough,

1255
01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:40,120
Speaker 1: you get to December and somebody's got a playoff implication game,

1256
01:09:40,200 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 1: and we could move it to Sunday night and get

1257
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:45,759
Speaker 1: even more fans an opportunity to see it. That's always

1258
01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:48,880
Speaker 1: on the table as well. So yeah, nobody's gonna nobody's

1259
01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:51,200
Speaker 1: gonna question a number of Bills games on national television

1260
01:09:51,200 --> 01:09:54,760
Speaker 1: this year, the last one for me, Mike, you said it.

1261
01:09:54,880 --> 01:09:56,840
Speaker 1: You kind of try and anticipate it. But there are

1262
01:09:56,880 --> 01:10:02,160
Speaker 1: also some pretty dependable divisions in the NFL. The NFC East,

1263
01:10:02,320 --> 01:10:05,879
Speaker 1: I mean, it's four huge cities. They're gonna get some eyeballs,

1264
01:10:05,920 --> 01:10:08,880
Speaker 1: and you want to sprinkle them in across the board

1265
01:10:08,960 --> 01:10:11,720
Speaker 1: because of what they do for television. I get that. Um,

1266
01:10:12,040 --> 01:10:15,360
Speaker 1: the AFC North with Pittsburgh and Baltimore perennially being in

1267
01:10:15,439 --> 01:10:18,080
Speaker 1: it and now Cleveland being back in the mix. Uh.

1268
01:10:18,120 --> 01:10:20,519
Speaker 1: And also the NFC West, the West Coast, you want

1269
01:10:20,520 --> 01:10:22,560
Speaker 1: to get La and Seattle and those, you know, and

1270
01:10:22,760 --> 01:10:25,280
Speaker 1: that's a very good division as well. How much do

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Speaker 1: the matchups and and it's it's all set out ahead

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01:10:28,800 --> 01:10:30,640
Speaker 1: of time. You know which divisions you're gonna play in

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01:10:30,680 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 1: the future. Obviously we don't know this. You know, the

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01:10:33,720 --> 01:10:36,200
Speaker 1: the order in which they'll finish year to year, But

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01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:40,160
Speaker 1: how much do you kind of anticipate a year like

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01:10:40,400 --> 01:10:42,280
Speaker 1: like this year, for instance, where the AFC East is

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01:10:42,320 --> 01:10:45,680
Speaker 1: playing in the South the NFC South, those crossover kind

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01:10:45,720 --> 01:10:48,160
Speaker 1: of things. Sometimes you can hit some serendipity, I would

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01:10:48,200 --> 01:10:51,439
Speaker 1: think and have wow, this like the Carolina Panthers and

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01:10:51,479 --> 01:10:55,280
Speaker 1: the New York Jets playing with Sam you know those guys,

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01:10:55,360 --> 01:10:58,840
Speaker 1: and and Tom Brady going back to New England some

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01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:03,160
Speaker 1: stuff like that. Can you kind of how far I got?

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01:11:03,200 --> 01:11:05,840
Speaker 1: Like you who's neck deep in this? How far out

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01:11:05,920 --> 01:11:09,479
Speaker 1: can you see these matchups? And you're saying yourself, you

1285
01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:13,320
Speaker 1: know you can pick them out almost without even trying. Yeah,

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01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:16,320
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I definitely have one eye on the

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01:11:16,400 --> 01:11:19,960
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two season, and honestly another eye on twenty

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01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:22,760
Speaker 1: twenty three because that's when the new television deals kick

1289
01:11:22,800 --> 01:11:24,559
Speaker 1: in and we've got a few more windows to fill

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01:11:24,640 --> 01:11:27,640
Speaker 1: and probably a few more international games to populate, and

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Speaker 1: the way the games are deployed between the Sunday afternoon

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01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:33,280
Speaker 1: partners is a little bit different. So always have you know,

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01:11:33,640 --> 01:11:36,800
Speaker 1: one eye up on future seasons. But you know, as

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01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:38,960
Speaker 1: you look in any one season now that we've got

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01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:41,000
Speaker 1: these two hundred and seventy two games. Like you said,

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Speaker 1: we know the two seventy two the day after the

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01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:47,040
Speaker 1: regular season ends, and once you've got those matchups, you know,

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01:11:47,120 --> 01:11:49,000
Speaker 1: we're fans like everybody else. You can look at the

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01:11:49,040 --> 01:11:51,360
Speaker 1: list of two seventy two and you can pick out

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01:11:51,400 --> 01:11:54,080
Speaker 1: the twenty or thirty that are just slam dunk, must

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01:11:54,160 --> 01:11:57,640
Speaker 1: see home run games, and it's our job to make

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01:11:57,680 --> 01:11:59,840
Speaker 1: sure those games land in national television windows. We're not

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01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:02,920
Speaker 1: doing our jobs. You mentioned Tom Brady returns to Foxborough.

1304
01:12:03,320 --> 01:12:05,799
Speaker 1: You know, we knew we were having a Bucks Patriots

1305
01:12:05,840 --> 01:12:08,400
Speaker 1: game this year, and we knew it was going to

1306
01:12:08,439 --> 01:12:11,360
Speaker 1: be top of all of our network partners lists of requests.

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01:12:11,840 --> 01:12:13,479
Speaker 1: We're not doing our jobs if we put that game

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01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:16,040
Speaker 1: at one o'clock on a Sunday afternoon in week sixteen,

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01:12:16,560 --> 01:12:19,639
Speaker 1: when playoff spots are clinched or playoff spots are lost,

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01:12:20,120 --> 01:12:22,200
Speaker 1: and only twenty two percent of the country's going to

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01:12:22,200 --> 01:12:23,479
Speaker 1: be able to see the game because there's eight other

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01:12:23,520 --> 01:12:25,680
Speaker 1: games going on at that time. We're trying to put

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01:12:25,680 --> 01:12:28,280
Speaker 1: the biggest games in the biggest windows. And now that

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01:12:28,479 --> 01:12:31,639
Speaker 1: we see you know, some of these must see TV games,

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01:12:31,920 --> 01:12:34,680
Speaker 1: those slot immediately into the primetime schedule, and then, like

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01:12:34,760 --> 01:12:36,479
Speaker 1: you mentioned, you get a little lucky with some of

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01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:38,400
Speaker 1: the other ones. You know, that Jets Carolina game and

1318
01:12:38,439 --> 01:12:41,639
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold against his own team. Was that necessarily destined

1319
01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:43,840
Speaker 1: for Sunday Night Football or Monday Night Football? Maybe not

1320
01:12:44,240 --> 01:12:46,680
Speaker 1: based on those records or those two teams from last year,

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01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:49,840
Speaker 1: but Week one seems like a great spot for it,

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01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:51,439
Speaker 1: you know. And there's a whole bunch of those. When

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01:12:51,439 --> 01:12:54,280
Speaker 1: you think about Detroit against the Rams and Jared Goff

1324
01:12:54,320 --> 01:12:57,760
Speaker 1: gone back to LA or Philadelphia Detroit and Darius Slay

1325
01:12:57,840 --> 01:12:59,559
Speaker 1: going back to the Lions. I mean, there's a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of these return games, Cam going back to Carolina

1327
01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:06,680
Speaker 1: to play you know, Patriots Panthers. You know, even if

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01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:10,160
Speaker 1: those games don't necessarily land in primetime, we do try

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01:13:10,240 --> 01:13:12,479
Speaker 1: to find those storyline games to land in you know,

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01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:15,040
Speaker 1: good one o'clock windows. You know, it's not just about

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01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:17,960
Speaker 1: making a great primetime schedule, and you know, ignoring the

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01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:21,519
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon CBS and Foxer partners as well. So trying

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01:13:21,520 --> 01:13:24,240
Speaker 1: to find big games every week in every window and

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01:13:24,439 --> 01:13:26,519
Speaker 1: doing it in a way where we don't disadvantage the clubs.

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01:13:26,560 --> 01:13:29,519
Speaker 1: We could make perfect television schedules, you know, nothing but

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01:13:29,640 --> 01:13:32,720
Speaker 1: Cowboys and Packers and Patriots and Chiefs every week, and

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01:13:32,760 --> 01:13:35,400
Speaker 1: the teams will hate it. We can make perfect team schedules.

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01:13:35,479 --> 01:13:37,960
Speaker 1: Nobody plays in Florida in September and nobody plays in

1339
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:40,360
Speaker 1: Buffalo in December, and everybody has a week nine by

1340
01:13:40,600 --> 01:13:42,599
Speaker 1: You know that's not going to be our best television schedule.

1341
01:13:42,640 --> 01:13:45,280
Speaker 1: So thread the needle. Try to strike the right balance

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01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:49,599
Speaker 1: between the two best possible television least possible team pain

1343
01:13:50,080 --> 01:13:54,080
Speaker 1: and competitive problems, if you will, and then try to

1344
01:13:54,120 --> 01:13:56,400
Speaker 1: find that one where we really do meet all of

1345
01:13:56,439 --> 01:13:58,560
Speaker 1: our objectives. I don't know that you know this is

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01:13:58,640 --> 01:14:01,360
Speaker 1: the perfect schedule, but it's really good and we're really

1347
01:14:01,400 --> 01:14:03,439
Speaker 1: excited to see everybody's reaction to I said that was

1348
01:14:03,479 --> 01:14:05,720
Speaker 1: the last one. I'm surprised I got to add tack

1349
01:14:05,840 --> 01:14:08,200
Speaker 1: this question on how much of how many of your

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01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:15,120
Speaker 1: decisions are star driven as opposed to city driven. Uh, yeah,

1351
01:14:15,160 --> 01:14:19,280
Speaker 1: it's a fair question. Um, there are certainly teams and

1352
01:14:19,840 --> 01:14:25,559
Speaker 1: brands that resonate nationally, both on television and on Twitter

1353
01:14:25,760 --> 01:14:28,880
Speaker 1: and on wherever else our fans are talking about our sport.

1354
01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:31,800
Speaker 1: There are certainly brands that resonate, you know, regardless of

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01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:34,720
Speaker 1: who the star player is, who the quarterback is, and

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01:14:34,880 --> 01:14:39,000
Speaker 1: there are other you know, players that move the needle.

1357
01:14:39,240 --> 01:14:41,920
Speaker 1: And you know, again, our job is to really try

1358
01:14:41,960 --> 01:14:44,160
Speaker 1: to figure out, you know, not just today as we

1359
01:14:44,240 --> 01:14:46,479
Speaker 1: sit here in May, and which of these games are

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01:14:46,520 --> 01:14:48,360
Speaker 1: going to matter in September versus which are going to

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01:14:48,400 --> 01:14:52,640
Speaker 1: matter in December, but also try to do a little prognosticating,

1362
01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:55,479
Speaker 1: a little you know, predictive analytics. Which of these teams

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01:14:55,479 --> 01:14:57,640
Speaker 1: are going to be in a playoff chase, which of

1364
01:14:57,720 --> 01:15:00,280
Speaker 1: these teams are going to have maybe new quarterbacks? Plane

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01:15:00,280 --> 01:15:02,479
Speaker 1: you talked about some of the guys that got drafted

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01:15:02,479 --> 01:15:04,000
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. You know, are some of

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01:15:04,080 --> 01:15:07,960
Speaker 1: them day one starters? Probably are some of them week

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01:15:08,040 --> 01:15:10,519
Speaker 1: eight or week fifteen starters? Or do they start after

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01:15:10,600 --> 01:15:14,000
Speaker 1: the bye week. Trying to you know, guess what the

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01:15:14,120 --> 01:15:17,120
Speaker 1: league might look like in September here in May is

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01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:19,559
Speaker 1: tough enough. Trying to figure out what the league looks

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01:15:19,600 --> 01:15:23,920
Speaker 1: like in December is probably impossible. So in that respect, Steve,

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01:15:24,040 --> 01:15:27,960
Speaker 1: you probably rely more on the brands, more on recent

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01:15:28,080 --> 01:15:31,280
Speaker 1: history than you do necessarily on a key player or two.

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01:15:32,160 --> 01:15:33,800
Speaker 1: Whereas if you're trying to tell a story about a

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01:15:33,880 --> 01:15:36,640
Speaker 1: key player to like, say, Trevor Lawrence now to the Jaguars.

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01:15:37,040 --> 01:15:39,320
Speaker 1: You know, if you're gonna put him on national television,

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01:15:39,400 --> 01:15:41,160
Speaker 1: you probably want to do that kind of early in

1379
01:15:41,200 --> 01:15:43,479
Speaker 1: the season and then let him get his feet underneath

1380
01:15:43,520 --> 01:15:45,280
Speaker 1: them and we'll see what the Jaguars are by the

1381
01:15:45,320 --> 01:15:47,680
Speaker 1: time December rolls around, and if they're in a playoff chase, well,

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01:15:47,920 --> 01:15:50,600
Speaker 1: that's what flexible scheduling in the TVD Saturday pools are for.

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01:15:51,280 --> 01:15:54,200
Speaker 1: Mike has always thanks for it. We appreciate the insight

1384
01:15:54,280 --> 01:15:59,720
Speaker 1: and the expertise. Congrats on another task completed here. It's

1385
01:15:59,720 --> 01:16:02,800
Speaker 1: like Hecks day for NFL schedule makers. You know it's

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01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:05,120
Speaker 1: all done and now you don't have to worry about

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01:16:05,160 --> 01:16:07,479
Speaker 1: it for a while. So good on you guys for

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01:16:07,880 --> 01:16:11,240
Speaker 1: doing your job and entertaining all of us. We appreciate it. Thanks,

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01:16:11,360 --> 01:16:13,120
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thanks for having me on. All right. That's

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Speaker 1: Vice President of NFL Broadcast Planning Mike North joining us here,

1391
01:16:16,439 --> 01:16:19,519
Speaker 1: also one of the chief architects of the NFL schedule

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01:16:19,920 --> 01:16:22,560
Speaker 1: each and every year. Break time for us. When we

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01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:24,479
Speaker 1: come back, we'll get to the phones to find out

1394
01:16:24,560 --> 01:16:26,160
Speaker 1: what else is on your wish list for the Bills

1395
01:16:26,200 --> 01:16:28,599
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one schedule and hit up the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: It's one bills Live. We're back in a sec. Welcome

1397
01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:46,160
Speaker 1: back to one bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with

1398
01:16:46,280 --> 01:16:54,000
Speaker 1: you on NFL schedule release day and we're taking items

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01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:56,519
Speaker 1: from your wish list for the rest of the bill schedule.

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01:16:56,600 --> 01:16:58,439
Speaker 1: We know in week one they are hosting the Steelers

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01:16:58,520 --> 01:17:02,360
Speaker 1: for a one pm game on September twelfth at him

1402
01:17:02,400 --> 01:17:06,880
Speaker 1: Mark Stadium for a one pm kickoff. That is week one.

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01:17:07,520 --> 01:17:09,439
Speaker 1: What is on your wish list for the rest of

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01:17:09,520 --> 01:17:12,000
Speaker 1: the slate? Let us know. At eight three, five fifty

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01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:14,360
Speaker 1: one eighty five fifty two, five fifty we go to

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01:17:14,439 --> 01:17:17,559
Speaker 1: the phones, Barry and Buffalo has been waiting patiently. Barry,

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01:17:17,600 --> 01:17:19,160
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bill's Live.

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01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:22,479
Speaker 1: Hey guys, thanks for taking the college so far. Thanks

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01:17:23,320 --> 01:17:25,320
Speaker 1: first of all, Steve, I'm along with you. I was

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01:17:25,439 --> 01:17:30,280
Speaker 1: really hoping for a home one o'clock game, hopefully in

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01:17:30,360 --> 01:17:32,519
Speaker 1: front of a full stadium. Should be a great game

1412
01:17:32,560 --> 01:17:36,280
Speaker 1: against the Steelers. Like you pointed out, they travel well,

1413
01:17:36,360 --> 01:17:39,080
Speaker 1: so so that should be a great game. And again

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01:17:39,120 --> 01:17:43,320
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that's a full stadium. UM, I won't do

1415
01:17:43,360 --> 01:17:45,760
Speaker 1: a full spoiler alert. I mean, obviously, if you guys

1416
01:17:45,800 --> 01:17:48,240
Speaker 1: want to pull up you know in search you can.

1417
01:17:48,360 --> 01:17:50,880
Speaker 1: You can find pretty much the whole schedule out there.

1418
01:17:51,000 --> 01:17:54,240
Speaker 1: But the only thing I'll only think, I'll say without

1419
01:17:54,439 --> 01:17:56,479
Speaker 1: doing a spoiler alert for everybody that wants to wait

1420
01:17:56,560 --> 01:18:00,519
Speaker 1: until later tonight is uh, with four four prime time games,

1421
01:18:00,560 --> 01:18:02,080
Speaker 1: they only gave us one at home. I wish it

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01:18:02,120 --> 01:18:04,600
Speaker 1: would have been two and two. Um, Steve, you are

1423
01:18:04,640 --> 01:18:07,720
Speaker 1: hoping for a late game in Tampa. Does look like

1424
01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:11,000
Speaker 1: that game in Tampa is a four twenty five game,

1425
01:18:11,080 --> 01:18:13,400
Speaker 1: so that'll be the game of the week late, So

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01:18:13,600 --> 01:18:17,240
Speaker 1: that that's good news. UM. I'm just excited about the season. Guys.

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01:18:17,320 --> 01:18:19,720
Speaker 1: You know, I wish we were I wish like you,

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01:18:20,040 --> 01:18:24,040
Speaker 1: I wish the season was starting tomorrow. But um, that

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01:18:24,240 --> 01:18:28,200
Speaker 1: being said, I'd be over and under on us in

1430
01:18:28,320 --> 01:18:31,519
Speaker 1: Vegas is ten and a half wins. Um, I don't

1431
01:18:31,560 --> 01:18:35,679
Speaker 1: see with a seventeen game season, this team losing six

1432
01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:39,200
Speaker 1: games they're losing, they would have to lose seven games

1433
01:18:39,520 --> 01:18:42,519
Speaker 1: to not cover the ten and a half sou If

1434
01:18:42,520 --> 01:18:45,439
Speaker 1: you've gotten gamblers out there that that didn't want to

1435
01:18:45,439 --> 01:18:47,360
Speaker 1: make some money that they'd be over and under around

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01:18:47,360 --> 01:18:49,800
Speaker 1: the ten and a half, in my opinion, is an

1437
01:18:49,840 --> 01:18:51,479
Speaker 1: easy bet. I think we're gonna have a hell of

1438
01:18:51,520 --> 01:18:54,840
Speaker 1: a year, guys. I'm excited to go to go back

1439
01:18:55,080 --> 01:18:57,479
Speaker 1: to the AFC Championship Game. I'm hoping that we host

1440
01:18:57,880 --> 01:19:02,599
Speaker 1: the AFC Championship Game this year. And well, last thing

1441
01:19:02,640 --> 01:19:04,960
Speaker 1: I want to leave you with, guys, is can everybody

1442
01:19:05,040 --> 01:19:07,479
Speaker 1: leave tremain Damond's alone for me for a while? I

1443
01:19:07,960 --> 01:19:10,479
Speaker 1: if anybody wants to continue to bash the poor kid,

1444
01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:13,559
Speaker 1: he just heard twenty three last week. He is three

1445
01:19:13,680 --> 01:19:16,040
Speaker 1: years under his belt. He has over three hundred and

1446
01:19:16,080 --> 01:19:19,040
Speaker 1: fifty tackles and three years, and he's got three years

1447
01:19:19,160 --> 01:19:22,439
Speaker 1: under his belt before most people even play one year.

1448
01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:25,760
Speaker 1: The kid calls all the plays on the defense, and

1449
01:19:25,920 --> 01:19:28,519
Speaker 1: he's a hell of a linebacker. So I wish everybody

1450
01:19:28,600 --> 01:19:30,320
Speaker 1: that wants to get on him would just leave the

1451
01:19:30,360 --> 01:19:35,400
Speaker 1: kid alone because what he's done before his twenty third birthday,

1452
01:19:35,720 --> 01:19:40,080
Speaker 1: in my opinion, is pretty unbelievable. So anyway, guys, one

1453
01:19:40,160 --> 01:19:43,160
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty three days till opening day, the countdown

1454
01:19:43,320 --> 01:19:47,240
Speaker 1: is on. The countdown is on, and let's go Bill,

1455
01:19:47,439 --> 01:19:49,680
Speaker 1: Thanks for the great show, guys, appreciate thanks for the call.

1456
01:19:50,120 --> 01:19:53,519
Speaker 1: I appreciate you holding on there for us. Yeah, and

1457
01:19:53,600 --> 01:19:55,720
Speaker 1: he's made a Pro Bowl, has voted on by his

1458
01:19:55,840 --> 01:19:59,240
Speaker 1: peers and coaches around the league. So throw that into

1459
01:20:00,120 --> 01:20:04,519
Speaker 1: yeah around the conference. Yeah, he's Tremaine's fine. Tremaine's gonna

1460
01:20:04,520 --> 01:20:06,439
Speaker 1: be fine. I don't have a problem and I and

1461
01:20:06,520 --> 01:20:10,120
Speaker 1: I'm I'm with you, Barry. I try And there's always

1462
01:20:10,360 --> 01:20:13,400
Speaker 1: some people who will blame Tremaine for the run game

1463
01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:15,920
Speaker 1: and the run run defense and that kind of thing.

1464
01:20:16,040 --> 01:20:19,280
Speaker 1: But I think Tremaine is doing everything the Bills want

1465
01:20:19,360 --> 01:20:21,280
Speaker 1: him to do, and he's doing it really well. Um,

1466
01:20:21,439 --> 01:20:23,679
Speaker 1: say what you want what that means. I'm not gonna

1467
01:20:23,720 --> 01:20:25,800
Speaker 1: say he's, you know, the greatest defensive player in the

1468
01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:29,400
Speaker 1: league by any stretch. But I think he's exactly He's

1469
01:20:29,439 --> 01:20:31,439
Speaker 1: doing exactly what they want him to do, and he's

1470
01:20:31,439 --> 01:20:34,679
Speaker 1: getting rewarded for it. Let's go back to the phones.

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01:20:34,760 --> 01:20:36,800
Speaker 1: We go to Mike and Carthage. Mike, what do you

1472
01:20:36,880 --> 01:20:40,040
Speaker 1: have for us? You're on one Bill's Live. Yeah, Hi,

1473
01:20:40,120 --> 01:20:45,840
Speaker 1: Brownie high Steve. I wanted to say, you know, I

1474
01:20:45,880 --> 01:20:49,720
Speaker 1: don't really care where we you know, play when we play, Um,

1475
01:20:51,040 --> 01:20:52,920
Speaker 1: we can get Kansas City out of the way, like

1476
01:20:53,760 --> 01:20:55,920
Speaker 1: the sooner the better, you know, I want to I

1477
01:20:55,960 --> 01:20:59,640
Speaker 1: really want to see that rematch. But um, you know,

1478
01:20:59,720 --> 01:21:03,400
Speaker 1: I wanted to say I'm really happy with the running

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Speaker 1: backs that we have and the tight ends and the

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Speaker 1: cornerback position as far as that goes. I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are really still a hammer and this

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Speaker 1: running back thing. I'm I don't think we're I think

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Speaker 1: we're good. You know. I really think Singletarian Moss are

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Speaker 1: going to have really good years and if Brita's you know,

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Speaker 1: benefits and that's great. But you know a lot of

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Speaker 1: people are just hammering a running back thing, and I

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01:21:29,479 --> 01:21:32,360
Speaker 1: think we're good. I don't want to hear any more

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Speaker 1: about getting running back or a tight end or another

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Speaker 1: cornering back. I think we're shot. Well okay, yeah, thankfully

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Speaker 1: Caling Mike appreciate it. He's And there's no question, while

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Speaker 1: you may not like some of the guys that the

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Speaker 1: Bills have on the roster, you know, in personal opinions

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Speaker 1: of fans, I think they got a pretty deep, deep roster. Um.

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Speaker 1: I think they've got some guys that they like and

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01:21:55,600 --> 01:21:58,160
Speaker 1: who it's it'd be hard to find a glaring hole.

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Speaker 1: You may not like one guy here or there, but

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Speaker 1: it's hard to find a glaring hole anywhere. You can

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Speaker 1: say what you want about Devin Singletary and Zach Moss.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think you know, they'll improve as

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Speaker 1: the offensive line improves. I think the offensive line will

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01:22:13,800 --> 01:22:16,879
Speaker 1: improve because of the competition they've added, the quality competition

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01:22:16,960 --> 01:22:20,360
Speaker 1: they've added. I think Levi Wallace and whoever or whoever

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01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:23,120
Speaker 1: cornerback number two is going to be, is going to

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01:22:23,200 --> 01:22:26,760
Speaker 1: improve because their job demands that they do improve or

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01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:29,800
Speaker 1: they're gonna get replaced. I'm with you. This is a

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01:22:29,840 --> 01:22:32,240
Speaker 1: good football team. Let's not forget that. You know. I

1507
01:22:32,280 --> 01:22:34,200
Speaker 1: know it's a schedule released day, and everybody's got this

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01:22:34,280 --> 01:22:38,920
Speaker 1: optimistic glow about their opinion about the Buffalo Bills because

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01:22:38,920 --> 01:22:41,080
Speaker 1: of the draft class they just picked up and all

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01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:43,559
Speaker 1: the you know, positive vibes we carry with us from

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01:22:43,680 --> 01:22:48,360
Speaker 1: the season last year. They're good. They're gonna be good.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be really more than competitive. They are one

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Speaker 1: of the teams and there's only a handful of them

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Speaker 1: in the league that every other club in the league

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Speaker 1: when they look down their schedule and see the Buffalo

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01:23:01,120 --> 01:23:05,240
Speaker 1: Bills on it. That's an l for a lot of

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01:23:05,280 --> 01:23:08,320
Speaker 1: these teams, even the division teams will say we're gonna

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01:23:08,360 --> 01:23:11,120
Speaker 1: split with them at best. Well, and I think we

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01:23:11,160 --> 01:23:14,160
Speaker 1: should also mention this. And I realize that this morphson

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01:23:14,280 --> 01:23:17,439
Speaker 1: changes as the season goes on and actually gets played out,

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01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:19,519
Speaker 1: because we all remember what we thought was going to

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01:23:19,560 --> 01:23:21,320
Speaker 1: be a gauntlet of a stretch last year, and that

1523
01:23:21,400 --> 01:23:23,519
Speaker 1: did not turn out to be that in any way,

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Speaker 1: shape or form. They went six and one during a

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01:23:25,960 --> 01:23:27,560
Speaker 1: stretch where we were like, oh, it'd be lucky to

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01:23:27,680 --> 01:23:32,080
Speaker 1: go three and three in this stretch. But last year,

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Speaker 1: the Bills had the fifth highest strength of schedule in

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01:23:36,760 --> 01:23:39,679
Speaker 1: the entire league. This year they're tied for twenty third

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01:23:40,280 --> 01:23:43,680
Speaker 1: in strength of schedule. And yes they have, you know,

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01:23:43,840 --> 01:23:48,200
Speaker 1: like nine games against teams that are we're under five

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01:23:48,280 --> 01:23:51,360
Speaker 1: hundred last year. Now one of those teams is the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: We expect them to be better, and they do have

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Speaker 1: games against teams that want eleven games or more. Indy, Pittsburgh, Tampa,

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Speaker 1: New Orleans, Kansas City. Those five teams all won eleven

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Speaker 1: games or more, two of them won divisions, and all

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Speaker 1: of them made the playoffs. So in Tennessee's another eleven

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01:24:11,000 --> 01:24:13,280
Speaker 1: win team. The other playoff team is Washington. They were

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01:24:13,360 --> 01:24:16,360
Speaker 1: under five hundred last year at seven and nine. But

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01:24:16,560 --> 01:24:20,840
Speaker 1: beyond that, you got nine games against teams under five hundred.

1540
01:24:21,200 --> 01:24:27,080
Speaker 1: Washington's in that group, Houston, Jacksonville the Jets twice, so

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Speaker 1: twenty third in strength of schedule. I'm with Barry. I'm

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01:24:34,760 --> 01:24:37,320
Speaker 1: taking the over on ten and a half wins for

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01:24:37,360 --> 01:24:39,760
Speaker 1: the Bills. Yeah, I mean, I'll give you a range

1544
01:24:39,760 --> 01:24:42,400
Speaker 1: of war. I think they're somewhere between twelve and fourteen

1545
01:24:42,479 --> 01:24:46,360
Speaker 1: wins with that with seventeen game schedule, if you can,

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01:24:46,520 --> 01:24:50,640
Speaker 1: if they can somehow eke out a split with Kansas City, Pittsburgh,

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01:24:50,720 --> 01:24:55,280
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, or in Tampa Bay, if they can come

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01:24:55,280 --> 01:24:57,920
Speaker 1: out of there two and two. Man, there's the other

1549
01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:00,879
Speaker 1: teams on their schedule are gonna strugg go with matchups

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01:25:00,920 --> 01:25:03,439
Speaker 1: on our team with the Bills, they're gonna struggle with it.

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01:25:03,840 --> 01:25:05,519
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this too. There's a couple of

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01:25:05,560 --> 01:25:07,200
Speaker 1: games and we can get into this later as well.

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01:25:07,320 --> 01:25:09,160
Speaker 1: One of the think about this. The last time the

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01:25:09,240 --> 01:25:11,480
Speaker 1: Bills played the New Orleans Saints was here in Buffalo's

1555
01:25:11,560 --> 01:25:15,640
Speaker 1: three years ago. And they lumped the Bills up. I mean,

1556
01:25:15,720 --> 01:25:19,439
Speaker 1: they absolutely embarrassed that team that was Josh's rookie year.

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01:25:20,520 --> 01:25:23,280
Speaker 1: They came in and they absolutely lit the Bills up.

1558
01:25:25,200 --> 01:25:28,840
Speaker 1: Don't think they won't pull that film out and remind

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01:25:28,960 --> 01:25:33,000
Speaker 1: some guys what that game was like. There'll be some

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01:25:33,080 --> 01:25:35,280
Speaker 1: guys on this team that will want to show them up,

1561
01:25:35,479 --> 01:25:38,120
Speaker 1: that will want to go in there and absolutely crush

1562
01:25:38,280 --> 01:25:40,599
Speaker 1: that team as a reminder of what it was three

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01:25:40,680 --> 01:25:44,200
Speaker 1: years ago. And it's the same thing with some of

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01:25:44,240 --> 01:25:46,879
Speaker 1: those other you know, some of the other teams Tennessee

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01:25:47,040 --> 01:25:48,559
Speaker 1: from last year. When the Bills went in there, they

1566
01:25:48,600 --> 01:25:50,519
Speaker 1: didn't even know they're gonna play, and they weren't gonna play,

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01:25:50,520 --> 01:25:55,759
Speaker 1: and then they they Tennessee got COVID, the game was postponed, delayed, delayed,

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01:25:55,840 --> 01:25:57,439
Speaker 1: then it was off the table and they were gonna

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01:25:57,439 --> 01:25:59,640
Speaker 1: go ahead and play the Chiefs on that weekend. Then no,

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01:26:00,000 --> 01:26:01,559
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, we're not gonna pay it. You're gonna play

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01:26:01,560 --> 01:26:03,479
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans anyway, and you're gonna do it on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: That's the day after tomorrow. You're gonna that's the day

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01:26:07,720 --> 01:26:09,800
Speaker 1: after tomorrow. By the way, Oh, I want to get

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01:26:09,840 --> 01:26:11,880
Speaker 1: down there. Uh, you want to know why the Bills

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01:26:11,960 --> 01:26:15,240
Speaker 1: dropped that game, that's the reason. So they're gonna have

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01:26:15,240 --> 01:26:17,240
Speaker 1: a chance to redeem that loss from a year ago

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01:26:17,320 --> 01:26:20,439
Speaker 1: as well. So, and I'll say this, I don't Brandy this.

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01:26:20,560 --> 01:26:22,320
Speaker 1: I kind of don't want the Bills to beat the

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01:26:22,400 --> 01:26:25,760
Speaker 1: Chiefs in the regular season. I think they're gonna meet

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01:26:25,800 --> 01:26:27,840
Speaker 1: again in the playoffs, and I want the Chiefs to

1581
01:26:28,000 --> 01:26:31,840
Speaker 1: think the Bills have not changed. Yeah, they've got their number,

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01:26:31,880 --> 01:26:33,880
Speaker 1: They've got their number. I want. I don't care about

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01:26:33,880 --> 01:26:35,760
Speaker 1: any of that. But if they do beat him, you know,

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01:26:35,760 --> 01:26:37,680
Speaker 1: I hope they do it soundly, but they're gonna have

1585
01:26:37,720 --> 01:26:39,519
Speaker 1: a chip on their shoulder for that game. We have

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Speaker 1: to break here, Steve and I to close this edition

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Speaker 1: of One Bills Live. Up. The stats are already rolling

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Speaker 1: out on some of the Week one matchups. We've got

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01:26:46,680 --> 01:26:48,479
Speaker 1: a juicy one for you when we come back here

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Speaker 1: on One Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. What have we learned? Brought to you

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Speaker 1: by Skyworks, the official construction equipment rental company of the

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Well, one thing we learned today, Steve, we

1594
01:27:17,479 --> 01:27:20,000
Speaker 1: know that the Cowboys are playing the Bucks in the

1595
01:27:20,080 --> 01:27:23,320
Speaker 1: kickoff game on Thursday night, September ninth. Did you know

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01:27:23,439 --> 01:27:26,120
Speaker 1: that Tom Brady is five and oh against America's team

1597
01:27:26,479 --> 01:27:32,120
Speaker 1: in his career five and oh, and he's already posting

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01:27:32,240 --> 01:27:35,880
Speaker 1: and yank in the Cowboys chain about it. I am

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01:27:36,200 --> 01:27:41,840
Speaker 1: disinterested in Tom Brady's record against the Dallas Cowboys, but

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Speaker 1: it doesn't surprise me, particularly given the way that they've played.

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01:27:47,520 --> 01:27:49,839
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a pretty good game because the Cowboys

1602
01:27:49,880 --> 01:27:52,479
Speaker 1: fans are gonna have high hopes and what happened? What

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01:27:52,880 --> 01:27:56,360
Speaker 1: are the Cowboy what is that team? Cowboy fan? What

1604
01:27:56,439 --> 01:27:57,760
Speaker 1: are they going to be like if they beat this

1605
01:27:57,840 --> 01:28:06,560
Speaker 1: world champions? Yeah, they they'll be insufferable, insufferable. There's a

1606
01:28:06,640 --> 01:28:08,760
Speaker 1: lot for them to put together on the defensive side

1607
01:28:08,760 --> 01:28:10,799
Speaker 1: of the ball. They added a lot of defensive pieces.

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01:28:10,920 --> 01:28:12,719
Speaker 1: But I don't know that it's all gonna be gelled

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01:28:13,200 --> 01:28:15,880
Speaker 1: by week one going against the defending Super Bowl champ.

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01:28:15,960 --> 01:28:18,599
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna give up a thirty burger, It's exactly.

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01:28:18,680 --> 01:28:21,480
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a catastrophic loss for the Cats.

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01:28:21,760 --> 01:28:23,160
Speaker 1: You don't even think they're gonna be in it, No,

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01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:26,760
Speaker 1: I think from I think plus Dak. I think the

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01:28:26,880 --> 01:28:30,200
Speaker 1: first game on that ankle mental hurdle clearing, and I

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01:28:30,360 --> 01:28:32,639
Speaker 1: think the Tampa Bay Buccaneers may score on the first

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01:28:32,680 --> 01:28:35,839
Speaker 1: play from scrimmage that Tom Brady takes a snap. Okay,

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01:28:36,240 --> 01:28:39,160
Speaker 1: as a statement, and there it is, and there it

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01:28:39,360 --> 01:28:43,720
Speaker 1: is right. That one's a Steve Tasker prediction. Okay, I'll

1619
01:28:43,760 --> 01:28:46,040
Speaker 1: bet you I won't say first play, but I will

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01:28:46,080 --> 01:28:48,800
Speaker 1: say this. I'll say they're going to score in their

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01:28:48,840 --> 01:28:51,639
Speaker 1: first possession with Tom Brady a quarterback against the contist Cowboys,

1622
01:28:51,720 --> 01:28:55,280
Speaker 1: and it will be a drive of less than five plays.

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Speaker 1: Who write that down? I already have. All right, We

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01:29:00,400 --> 01:29:04,160
Speaker 1: want to remind you that our NFL Schedule release special

1625
01:29:04,200 --> 01:29:07,920
Speaker 1: will be streaming on all the bills platforms, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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01:29:08,720 --> 01:29:10,960
Speaker 1: As Maddie Glab and myself we'll be joining you at

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Speaker 1: seven forty tonight as we release the bill schedule in

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01:29:15,520 --> 01:29:19,240
Speaker 1: full before NFL Network takes over at eight o'clock. So

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01:29:19,360 --> 01:29:22,000
Speaker 1: we'll see it in and then Steve and I back

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01:29:22,080 --> 01:29:25,840
Speaker 1: here tomorrow at noon to digest at all Week one

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Speaker 1: through Week eighteen. We'll see it in