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Speaker 1: on a getaway Thursday, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you

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Speaker 1: one Bill's Lives, the show first week of Bill's OTA's

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Speaker 1: not the only general manager that's a big proponent of it,

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Speaker 1: because a lot of them like the roster flexibility that

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Speaker 1: it does provide. They're also going to allow for a

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Speaker 1: player to be called up to the active roster three

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Speaker 1: times in a given season, not just two, without having

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Speaker 1: to put that layer through waivers when they move them

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Speaker 1: back down to the practice squad after the third time,

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Speaker 1: I'll have to go to the old waiver system and

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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. But the first three times, it's

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Speaker 1: just a roster flexibility move that has proven valuable, especially

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Speaker 1: for teams that have been beset with injuries at a

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Speaker 1: certain point in the season. The dates are also official now, Steve.

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Speaker 1: For roster cutdowns Tuesday, August sixteenth, NFL rosters must be

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Speaker 1: reduced from ninety to eighty five, Tuesday August twenty third,

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Speaker 1: just a week later, from eighty five to eighty and

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Speaker 1: then the big cutdown Tuesday, August thirtieth, from eighty to

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Speaker 1: the required fifty three for the regular season. So those

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Speaker 1: dates are now set in stone for this coming season.

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Speaker 1: So make a note of those. Don't worry if you

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Speaker 1: forget them, we will be reminding you here on the show.

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Speaker 1: So those are some of the news and notes that

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Speaker 1: happened with respect to roster rules and such which were

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Speaker 1: interest and I think of an advantage to a lot

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Speaker 1: of teams like the Bills, who, as I said, have

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Speaker 1: strong rosters and now will allow be allowed to keep

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Speaker 1: some valuable depth, you know, on the practice squad with

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Speaker 1: sixteen players be huge, right, Yeah, it's really gonna make

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Speaker 1: it makes better. Injuries don't devastate your team. You're not

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Speaker 1: gonna you know, certainly, if it happens like it did

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Speaker 1: to the Ravens last year, it's going to affect your

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Speaker 1: roster in the your ability to play the defense you

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Speaker 1: most part, these teams are gonna have plenty of depth

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Speaker 1: to go around if they have the right guys on

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Speaker 1: Like you know that goes without saying, but gives these

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Speaker 1: coaching staffs and the scouts a chance to take a

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Speaker 1: deep breath and they can at least all the other

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Speaker 1: guys on the offense can go ahead and play their

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Speaker 1: game without having to worry about a tackle or a

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Speaker 1: guard or a center not knowing what they're doing. And

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Speaker 1: we can only call certain plays because this guy doesn't

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Speaker 1: know what he's doing, or a wide receiver you have

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Speaker 1: to like draw in the dirt what he's supposed to do.

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Speaker 1: So all of that stuff is gonna for smoother transition.

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Speaker 1: The football people kind of, you know, sign a leader

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Speaker 1: of fist bumping in the background when the business side

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Speaker 1: of it gives him this luxury. Everybody that follows football

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Speaker 1: in any remote capacity is probably aware that Colin Kaepernick

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Speaker 1: had a workout with the Las Vegas Raiders, and Ian

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Speaker 1: Rappaport from NFL Network is reporting that the workout went

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Speaker 1: well and that the door is open, so whether contract

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Speaker 1: negotiations ensue on making him a backup to Derek Carr

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Speaker 1: remains to be seen. Mike Giardi, also of NFL Network,

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Speaker 1: astutely pointed out that Josh McDaniels, who is the head

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Speaker 1: coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, has had an affinity

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Speaker 1: for mobile quarterbacks in the past. Let's not forget when

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Speaker 1: he was the head coach in Denver they drafted Tim

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Speaker 1: Tebow in the first round. Certainly a mobile quarterback. Throwing

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Speaker 1: was another issue for him, but didn't mind the mobility

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Speaker 1: at all. And Giardi also mentioned that how he loved

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Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson coming out, who incidentally is still not at

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Speaker 1: OTA's choosing to skip the voluntary OTAs in Baltimore. The

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Speaker 1: funny thing today was the Ravens signed free agent quarterback

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Speaker 1: Brett Hunley, who I believe finished last year in Indianapolis

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Speaker 1: on injured reserve. Has been a backup his entire career,

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Speaker 1: first in Green Bay, then an Arizona pounce around a

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Speaker 1: little bit, finished up with Indianapolis last year as I

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Speaker 1: said on IR, But the bottom line is Baltimore needs

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Speaker 1: another arm to get through OTA practices with Lamar not there.

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Speaker 1: Wide receiver coaches and the running back coach gets hired.

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Speaker 1: Their arms swords hanging off already, so they brought Brett

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Speaker 1: Hunley in to presumably at least cover the spring practices

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Speaker 1: when Lamar Jackson is not in attendance. As we know,

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Speaker 1: he's set to play under the fifth year option this

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Speaker 1: year if a new contract for Lamar Jackson is not

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Speaker 1: brokered between him and the Baltimore Ravens. I know we've

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Speaker 1: mentioned it on the show Steve. He and his mother

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Speaker 1: basically serve as self representation for Lamar. You don't know

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Speaker 1: if that's the fly in the ointment or if that

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Speaker 1: will make things easier to negotiate going forward, but nothing is.

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Speaker 1: Nothing sounds imminent in any way, shape or form at

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Speaker 1: this point on a second contract for him. Right He's

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Speaker 1: it's been weird, not just that he and his mom

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Speaker 1: are doing this himselves, but the fact that they have

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Speaker 1: been absolutely nonchalant about getting it done. There's absolutely there's

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Speaker 1: been zero public comment too from the Jackson side of

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Speaker 1: the fence. The club doesn't seem the club doesn't seem worried,

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Speaker 1: worried at all. Although John Harbaugh was asked today about

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Speaker 1: why Lamar wasn't there, And John Harbaugh said a little

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Speaker 1: bit surprisingly to me out of character. He said, listen,

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Speaker 1: Lamar can speak for himself. Yeah, he deferred to Lamar.

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Speaker 1: He deferred to Lamar. Um usually the club's got something

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Speaker 1: to say. Well, he's it's it's also we're all good,

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Speaker 1: you know, that kind of thing. Gave some reassurances. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we haven't heard anything publicly from Lamar, who

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Speaker 1: usually doesn't operate that way anyway. But has he gone

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Speaker 1: radio silent with the Ravens too, Oh my god, we

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Speaker 1: don't know. But that answer from John Harbaugh kind of

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Speaker 1: major wonder, like, oh, the usually it's been warm and fuzzy,

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Speaker 1: and like, yeah, we love Lamar. We're getting done it.

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Speaker 1: He's not in a hurry, so we're just kind of

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Speaker 1: letting it ride, that kind of thing. And but it

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Speaker 1: is strange because you got Lamar jack and I we

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Speaker 1: brought this up. Uh. One of the other websites was

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Speaker 1: asking which which quarterback would get a contract extension first?

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Speaker 1: Would it be a guy like Lamar Jackson or would

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Speaker 1: it be Kyler Murray who on the other end of it.

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Speaker 1: You know, Lamar Jackson could couldn't be less interested. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's he knows, he's I'm gonna get it done. I'm good,

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm a former MVP and stuff. Kyler Murray hasn't

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Speaker 1: done anything, and he's not and he's not an OTA's

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Speaker 1: and he's like scrubbing his social media accounts. He's making

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Speaker 1: all this drama. He's you know, he like says, hey,

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Speaker 1: pay me, I'm it's day one of the eligible moment

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Speaker 1: when I could get an extension. Why am I not done? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: The obvious answer is, yam one enough? But you know

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Speaker 1: he you know, So, which one's gonna get it done earlier?

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Speaker 1: The one that's yelling and screaming and fighting and calling

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Speaker 1: his way or the one in Baltimore like Lamar Jackie's like,

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Speaker 1: I'll get it done what I want? Yeah, which one's

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Speaker 1: going to sign first? We all know that contract negotiations

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Speaker 1: can make people kind of change their spots a little

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Speaker 1: bit of times, depending on how it goes, what kind

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Speaker 1: of feedback they're getting from an organization. I think we

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Speaker 1: know Baltimore is if they run a pretty tight get there. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So I would anticipate it gets done there before it

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Speaker 1: gets done in Arizona. Unless Arizona backs up the Brinks truck,

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Speaker 1: and it's an offer that Murray just simply can't refuse,

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Speaker 1: which you know, I suppose you can't rule out to

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Speaker 1: take a break here when we come back at his

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Speaker 1: phone call time. The obil fan mailbag is open second

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Speaker 1: hour of the show. We have Titans Beat reporter for

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Speaker 1: ESPN to Ron Davenport coming your way. We'll check in

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Speaker 1: with him an hour number two. But as your phone

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Speaker 1: calls next Here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalid

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Speaker 1: to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Friday mailbag is open

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Speaker 1: a day early as we'll be off tomorrow for the

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Speaker 1: Memorial Day holiday weekend, and we're gonna go right to

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Speaker 1: the phones with your questions from the mailbag. And leading

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Speaker 1: us off today is Jeremy out in Boise. What do

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Speaker 1: you have for us? Jeremy, Hey, guys, comment and a question,

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Speaker 1: And the comment is about volunteering. And I cleared this

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Speaker 1: with your producers, so I'm not taking anyone off guard here,

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Speaker 1: but I just want to compliment you guys for the

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Speaker 1: encouragement that you guys have put on the show for

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Speaker 1: people to volunteer down in Jefferson Avenue for you know,

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Speaker 1: the tragedy that happened earlier this month. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I have been a regular volunteer here in Boise for

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Speaker 1: the last five years or so, granted in the political arena,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not going to talk politics. I just wanted

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Speaker 1: to talk about the experience of volunteering. And I think

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Speaker 1: that you know our whole lives, we've heard about how

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Speaker 1: you know it'll give you a sense of self satisfaction,

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Speaker 1: sense of accomplishment, the right thing to do. And that's

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Speaker 1: all true, and it's a great pitch. But you know,

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Speaker 1: for those listening, if that doesn't move you, having volunteered

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Speaker 1: here for the last five years, I will guarantee you

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Speaker 1: that you will come out of this with some great

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Speaker 1: stories to tell. Most will be good, some will be funny,

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Speaker 1: and all of them will be interesting thing. And there'll

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Speaker 1: be stories that you couldn't, you know, normally tell had

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Speaker 1: you not done the volunteer work. I know a couple

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Speaker 1: for me. I was out knocking for a valid initiative

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. Guy answered the door. He

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Speaker 1: literally had tinfoil on his hat. He was tinfoil hat guy,

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Speaker 1: And as you would expect, you know, and I'm like, well, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we'll see how this goes. And sure enough, he spent

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Speaker 1: ten minutes talking to me about satellites and you know

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Speaker 1: how they're all tracking us. And I could not take

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Speaker 1: my eye off of the tinfoil on his hat. But

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Speaker 1: when he was done, you know, he actually signed the initiative,

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Speaker 1: and you know, went back to watching X files, I guess,

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Speaker 1: but I got the signature, and I tell people that story.

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Speaker 1: You guys got to laugh out of it, and so

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Speaker 1: does everyone else. On another occasion, I was out knocking

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Speaker 1: for a candidate and this guy comes barreling toward the

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Speaker 1: door with his huge smile on his face, and he's jacked.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he looked like a running back, and he

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Speaker 1: was very friendly, and I told him why I was there,

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Speaker 1: and he had an accent, you know, and I politely asked,

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Speaker 1: you know, where he was from. And it turns out

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Speaker 1: that he had come over from Bosnia, that's where he

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Speaker 1: grew up, and he was an engineer, so he came

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Speaker 1: to work for a company here in Boise, and it

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Speaker 1: turns out that he had fought in the Bosnian War

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Speaker 1: for the Bosnian Army. And I spent twenty minutes at

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Speaker 1: the door talking to this guy, and he told me

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Speaker 1: all about Bosnia and the war and that sort of thing,

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Speaker 1: and it was just it was really interesting and sort

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Speaker 1: of a tapper on that. I did a loop around

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Speaker 1: the neighborhood for my you know, my door in ox,

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Speaker 1: and I came back around and I saw him in

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Speaker 1: his driveway shooting hoops with his son. The worst jump

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Speaker 1: shot you have seen in your life, no technique, no form,

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Speaker 1: but having the time of his life shooting hoops in

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Speaker 1: the driving with his son. So the you know, folks,

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Speaker 1: if the elevator pitch for volunteering doesn't move you, I

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Speaker 1: ga to you guaranteed you will come out of it

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Speaker 1: with some really interesting stories to tell that you you

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Speaker 1: ordinarily wouldn't have you go, all right, question Jeremy, appreciate

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Speaker 1: you man, And that still goes. We encourage everybody go

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Speaker 1: down to the east side Jefferson Avenue are around there somewhere,

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Speaker 1: Go down and volunteer. There's a feedmore Western New York

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Speaker 1: would be happy to put you to work. It's not

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Speaker 1: difficult work, it's worth it. You'll come out of it glad,

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Speaker 1: you did, I promise you. Yeah? Yeah, A question though, Jeremy,

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Speaker 1: what was that? Yeah? It's about Mataiza. I obviously, we

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Speaker 1: all knew who this guy was coming into the draft.

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Speaker 1: He's the punt god because he's got this huge leg.

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Speaker 1: But after the draft, I s heard reading up on him,

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Speaker 1: and I didn't realize what a great athlete this guy is.

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Speaker 1: Former soccer player, which is not surprising. Ran his forty

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Speaker 1: and the four sixes at the combine and and correct

641
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong about this, but he got his

642
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: start and football playing defensive back before he started kicking.

643
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Speaker 1: And you know, as I'm reading up on him, I'm

644
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: heading flashbacks of Brian Mormon, you know, who was another

645
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 1: great athlete that we had in Buffalo at the punter position.

646
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Speaker 1: And as a result, we all remember, you know, Buffalo

647
00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 1: would run trick plays, fake punts, you know, because they

648
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Speaker 1: had such a great athlete at punter. And so I'm wondering,

649
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Speaker 1: assuming he makes the team, could you envision the Bills

650
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 1: running some trick plays this year, you know, out of

651
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Speaker 1: the punning formation, because we have such a great athlete

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Speaker 1: at that position. Well, I mean, I think it's certainly

653
00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 1: in the realm of possibility. And thanks for the call, Jeremy,

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00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Um Steve The Bills have run trick plays

655
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,480
Speaker 1: even before this season. I mean, think about the New

656
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Speaker 1: England game, Siran Neil on the fake punt to get

657
00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:45,120
Speaker 1: a first down throwing it. That was twenty twenty games,

658
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 1: twenty Monday night, and they ran a fake there on

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Speaker 1: their own side of midfield, and that was without you know,

660
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:55,880
Speaker 1: some supreme athlete at punter. And you know, Jeremy's right,

661
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 1: he knows his Bill's history well. Brian Mormon, who was

662
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:03,399
Speaker 1: a champion hurdler at the Division two level at Pittsburgh State,

663
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:05,600
Speaker 1: he had some wheels. Yeah, he was a champion hurdler

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Speaker 1: in college, was used to, you know, run for first downs.

665
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: He even threw a few passes. I still remember him

666
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 1: throwing a touchdown pass to Ryan Denny on a field

667
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: goal unit play. So yeah, I wouldn't rule it out

668
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,959
Speaker 1: at all. Now. Matthew Smiley, who was in his first

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Speaker 1: year as a special team's coordinator, might be a little

670
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 1: hesitant to give a rookie should he make the team,

671
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,880
Speaker 1: that kind of added responsibility. But they run it in

672
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 1: practice and it looks good. Yeah, I don't think you

673
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:40,399
Speaker 1: can rule it out at all, right, and it's absolutely must.

674
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:42,040
Speaker 1: You gotta have that kind of stuff in your game

675
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: plan week to week. You have one for every game,

676
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: at least one for every game. Sometimes if a team

677
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:53,240
Speaker 1: seems vulnerable, you'll have a couple and so, yeah, arise

678
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: and whether a rises the punter or not, they're going

679
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: to have those in the game plan that you must.

680
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,000
Speaker 1: You've got to because there's gonna be situations where you

681
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: you can't anticipate. So um, yeah, it's a it's a given.

682
00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:10,240
Speaker 1: Now they may have better chance. The better your athletes are, obviously,

683
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: the better chance those things haven't working, and the more

684
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:14,839
Speaker 1: confidence you have in calling them. But when you get

685
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Speaker 1: to a point where you're gonna call them, it's because

686
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 1: of two things. One, the other team is vulnerable. You've

687
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Speaker 1: seen something on film that gives you an idea that

688
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 1: this is going to work. And two, you got the

689
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Speaker 1: guys that can do it, that can do it. Yeah,

690
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Speaker 1: And that that comes down to not just Matteriza, but

691
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: it comes down to Read Ferguson. It comes down to

692
00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: sarand Neil Tyler, Medekevic all all you know, to Taiwan Jones,

693
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: those jokers. Yeah, those guys, I've got to be on

694
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Speaker 1: it and can they pull it off? Let's go back

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Speaker 1: to the phones and we go to Judy on a celle.

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Speaker 1: What do you have first, Judy? Yeah, I want. I

697
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:53,120
Speaker 1: want to bring up the Bills schedule and how people

698
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: are predicting the Bills are go three three in their

699
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:59,479
Speaker 1: first six games. Now, that doesn't sound like a super

700
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: Bowl team to me, and one of the losses is

701
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: going to be to La Rams. I firmly believe that

702
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 1: had the Bills made the Super Bowl, they would have

703
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: won it. Last year they simply blew it. Okay, now

704
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 1: let's go back to in one game we played La

705
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: Rams and you know we beat them. We had a

706
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 1: fortuitous call in the end zone, Tyler Craft caught the

707
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: winning pass and everything else. But I simply think that

708
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 1: the personnel on both teams has changed so drastically, and

709
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: the Bills have improved. I just don't understand why they

710
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: think that the Bills are inferior to the Rams. Who

711
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Speaker 1: is your comment? Who is they? Judy? Though? Just so

712
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 1: I understand where you're coming from. Well, everybody's predicting the

713
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: Bills are gonna go three three, They're gonna lose the Rams,

714
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: maybe the Titans, maybe they're the Cheets. I don't see

715
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Speaker 1: any of that. But if they can't beat the Rams

716
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year, we really haven't changed

717
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: much then, I mean, we have to have that winning

718
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Speaker 1: attitude right from the ginning. Well here's the thing, Judy,

719
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Speaker 1: don't think this team is going to be the same

720
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Speaker 1: team that it was. I mean, this is a team

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Speaker 1: that was that and I'm with you. I think that.

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Speaker 1: You know, if they if they win the coin toss

723
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Speaker 1: in Kansas City, they're the team that represent I think

724
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Speaker 1: they because then Cincinnati has to come to Buffalo, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just think I'm with you. I think if the

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Speaker 1: Bills win that coin toss in overtime in Kansas City,

727
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Speaker 1: they're in the super Bowl and they could beat the Rams.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any question about it. But let's

729
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: face it, the Bills are that's the same team that

730
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 1: dropped their opening game to the Pittsburgh Steelers last year. Right,

731
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Speaker 1: So this game, while it's going to be a yardstick

732
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: and it's going to be something, I think it's a

733
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Speaker 1: yardstick more for the La Rams than it is for

734
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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Either one of those teams could win

735
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Speaker 1: or lose that opening game, and it doesn't dictate the

736
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Speaker 1: kind of team they're gonna be exactly. It just says

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Speaker 1: who's better on that day and for whatever circumstances happened

738
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Speaker 1: to be in place in that twenty for our period,

739
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: this Bills team and that Rams team are going to

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00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,760
Speaker 1: be vastly different two months into that season, let alone

741
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Speaker 1: at the end of the season and in the playoffs.

742
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, you can predict anything you want,

743
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: Judy and I and I hear you. Everybody's got these

744
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:16,919
Speaker 1: ideas about what it's going to be. Like nobody knows.

745
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: I know this, most of these teams are going to

746
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 1: be vastly different in Week eighteen than they are in

747
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 1: Week one. So don't get wrapped up in that if

748
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 1: they get beat by the Rams, even if they get

749
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Speaker 1: blown out by the Rams, that they're not a super

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00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: Bowl team. They don't have to be a super Bowl

751
00:41:33,560 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 1: team on Week one, but they need to be there

752
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 1: late in the season, and we're all confident that they

753
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: can get there. At Steve's points of valid one. You know,

754
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 1: last year they lose a game that everybody expected the

755
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:51,319
Speaker 1: Bills to win at home against the Steelers team you

756
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,239
Speaker 1: know that crawled into the playoffs at the end of

757
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 1: the year, so one game does not a season. Make

758
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 1: sure we all like to see them get off to

759
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:05,120
Speaker 1: a roaring hot start. But as we've seen before too,

760
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: it's not always how you start, it's how you finish.

761
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: And usually the teams that are hottest going into the playoffs,

762
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 1: and the Bills were probably one of those teams last year.

763
00:42:15,960 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: They're usually there at the end unless some unfortunate stuff happens,

764
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: and some unfortunate stuff, but you know, hit the Bills.

765
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Speaker 1: As we know, we have to take a break here,

766
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Speaker 1: but when we come back, we'll lead off with Dan

767
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 1: and Rochester and others holding at eight O three five fifty.

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Speaker 1: Your phone calls continue here on One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 1: by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. After your phones,

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00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 1: we go here as the obil Fan Friday mail Bag

771
00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:54,840
Speaker 1: is open a day early since we'll be off for

772
00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: the Memorial Day holiday tomorrow, and we go to Dan

773
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:00,120
Speaker 1: and Rochester next. What do you got for us? And

774
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: you're on One Bill's Live. Hi, guys, UM, I got

775
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: a question that I don't think gets to ask as much. Um,

776
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 1: Where can I get one of Sean McDermott's super bucket hats? Oh?

777
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 1: Those wide brim sun hats you're talking about. Absolutely. Where

778
00:43:15,719 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: can I get one of those bad boys? Oh? Man,

779
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: I don't know. When you find out let me know,

780
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:22,239
Speaker 1: because I want one to Yeah, I've been asking around.

781
00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: I can't find them. I know that do they have

782
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 1: him in the bill store over here? I don't know

783
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,279
Speaker 1: that they but they're not the same. No, I know

784
00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: on NFL sall, Yeah, I know on NFL shop they

785
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:38,840
Speaker 1: have um what they call a lifeguard hat, a Bill's

786
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:42,280
Speaker 1: lifeguard hat, and that's like one of those wicker we've

787
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 1: kind of jobbers and it's as wide as the one

788
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 1: that coach McDermott wears, but it doesn't look anything like

789
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 1: it because it's not made up of cloth material. That

790
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: might just be one of those classic equipment issue deals.

791
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:56,319
Speaker 1: So did you get the equipment guys on this? I mean,

792
00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:02,399
Speaker 1: I think you mat Yeah, I one. There is some

793
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: stuff that only the coaches get issued to them, and

794
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:08,880
Speaker 1: that might be on that list. I don't know, but yeah,

795
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:12,879
Speaker 1: if you haven't scoured NFL shop dot com, you may

796
00:44:12,920 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: want to try it to see if you can at

797
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 1: least track one down, because beyond that, I don't know

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00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:22,920
Speaker 1: that they're ready readily available to the public, let alone

799
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 1: people like Steve and I who do get some equipment

800
00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 1: issue from the team every year training camp. So sorry,

801
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,120
Speaker 1: we couldn't help you directly with that, but I'd poke

802
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,960
Speaker 1: around and see what you can find. Thanks Dan, We

803
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,480
Speaker 1: go to Phil in Canada next. What do you have

804
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:43,359
Speaker 1: for us? Phil? Are you doing today? Guys? Good? Good, listen,

805
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 1: great show as always. I wanted to talk about the

806
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: season totals. So I've been betting football since the eighties,

807
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: believe it or not, and every year it drives me

808
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:55,960
Speaker 1: crazy when people get the schedule and they go through it.

809
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: We'll win that one, we'll lose this one. It's the

810
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: proper way to do it, just to look at the

811
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 1: team and come up with a gauge of what you

812
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 1: think they're gonna do. I've got the Bills at thirteen

813
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 1: and four this year, but I can't tell you what

814
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 1: thirteam they'll win, and I can't tell you which four

815
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: they'll lose. But because of the way they're built, the

816
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: way they're coached, the way they're managed, the depth that

817
00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:20,359
Speaker 1: they have, and the schedule, just go with your your

818
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 1: got that you've got a really good team there. But

819
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:24,800
Speaker 1: when you start trying to go through a season and

820
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: technic games here and there. It doesn't work like that.

821
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Speaker 1: You guys know that injuries come in, weather comes in,

822
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 1: bad calls come in, luck comes in. But basically Buffalo's

823
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: got a great team, and I think they're going to

824
00:45:36,239 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 1: go thirteen and four. All right, fair enough. I appreciate

825
00:45:39,719 --> 00:45:43,399
Speaker 1: your right as you're taking there. When you go down

826
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:45,879
Speaker 1: that win loss, win lost thing, that everything's static. Then

827
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 1: by the time you meet a team in week thirteen

828
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: or fifteen, you don't even know who's gonna be playing

829
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: for your own team, let alone their team, or what's

830
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 1: what the other teams in the league are going to

831
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: do as to making it a more important game or not.

832
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 1: Where's the playoff freece stand that time, all that stuff

833
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: goes into the mix. The Bills might get to Week

834
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:07,759
Speaker 1: eighteen this season, you know down where they're playing the

835
00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 1: Bears in Week sixteen, the Bengals in Week seventeen, and

836
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 1: the Patriots in week eighteen. Those last two games may

837
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:20,240
Speaker 1: be meaningless for the Bills, or they may mean everything

838
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:24,959
Speaker 1: for the Bills. You don't know. You just don't know, So, yeah,

839
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 1: you don't do it that way, you know, you've got

840
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 1: a really good team, and you take it one week

841
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:33,840
Speaker 1: at a time. Before that, I think everybody that follows

842
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 1: the NFL closely, regularly, however you want to describe it,

843
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 1: we all know it's a week to week league and

844
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: that so much can change from one week to the next.

845
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: We also know that, I believe it's seventeen to the

846
00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: last nineteen years, a team that finished in last place

847
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,919
Speaker 1: the next year wins the division. That's happened in seventeen

848
00:46:57,719 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: of the last nineteen years of the NFL regular season.

849
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:04,160
Speaker 1: And I think that just goes to show you how

850
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: often there are teams in this league that jump up

851
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 1: and surprise everybody. Well, nobody was picking the Cincinnati Bengals

852
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: to win the AFC at the beginning of last year,

853
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 1: no matter how much confidence you add in Joe Burrow.

854
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 1: Even in the AFC you got the Jets last year

855
00:47:19,719 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 1: were a fourth placed team, Baltimore Ravens, who were last

856
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 1: placed team in the North, Jacksonville in the South, and

857
00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 1: in the West it was Denver. So you got maybe

858
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 1: two possibilities there if you just take it for Denver

859
00:47:33,120 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 1: and Baltimore an outside chance for Denver, but Baltimore absolutely

860
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 1: if they stay healthy, they're going to be completely different

861
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 1: football team. You go to the NFC side, the Giants, Detroit,

862
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:51,839
Speaker 1: Carolina in Seattle. There are some that think Detroit could

863
00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 1: could be better than two other teams in their division. Right,

864
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:59,000
Speaker 1: Chicago's nothing to write home about. Minnesota seems to always

865
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,040
Speaker 1: be mired and meet eocrity, and they have a new

866
00:48:01,080 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: head coach, so there might be a learning curve there.

867
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:05,359
Speaker 1: I don't want to get too excited about Detroit, but

868
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 1: there's some talent there, you know, and I can Detroit

869
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: has been the flavor of the off season. Yeah, there's

870
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 1: some people that like them, and they're talking it. They're

871
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: they're they're talking to talk. I think I'm not talking.

872
00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:20,640
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're getting better, We're gonna be a

873
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: better team and a no, they're saying we're gonna win

874
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:25,879
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. Well, okay, now it's time to plays

875
00:48:25,960 --> 00:48:28,320
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell, I think it's they are all think a

876
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: six or seven win season would be a nice improvement

877
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: for them this year. If they do better than that,

878
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 1: well hey, more power to you. If they can't do

879
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:38,000
Speaker 1: better than that against Minnesota and Chicago, they can, Yeah,

880
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 1: playing them twice here right, come on, man, all right,

881
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: we have to take a break here, but when we

882
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 1: come back, we will be joined by ESPN reporter for

883
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:48,360
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans, to Ron Davenport. Been a friend of

884
00:48:48,400 --> 00:48:49,920
Speaker 1: the show for a while. We're gonna catch up with

885
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,760
Speaker 1: him on the off season. That has been a pretty

886
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 1: interesting one. But the Tennessee Titans quite frankly, going back

887
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: to draft day and even before that. We'll review some

888
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:02,520
Speaker 1: of that to be what kind of opponent the Titans

889
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,839
Speaker 1: figure to be in week two when the Bills play

890
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:06,879
Speaker 1: them here in the home opener on Monday night. Next

891
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 1: here on one Bills Live, presented by Kalid to Health,

892
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio at a Steve Tasker who has

893
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: been all over the fields. Kind of unique. He was

894
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:39,320
Speaker 1: kind of a dual role player for you, Steve, Steve

895
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: a blimp. We're not even in the strategyre of normalcy.

896
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 1: All right, welcome to our number two one Bills five

897
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:54,359
Speaker 1: here on a Thursday, and please to be joined now

898
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: by the man who covers the Titans for ESPN Nation,

899
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:04,400
Speaker 1: ESPN Titans reporter Toront Davenport joining us here on the show. Turn.

900
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 1: How's your well, there really is no offseason is there

901
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,399
Speaker 1: if you cover the NFL, how are you doing here?

902
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 1: Is we turned to summer here? Oh man, I'm doing

903
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 1: really well. I always have a model. I woke up

904
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:20,399
Speaker 1: so I won, So every day you wake up as

905
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 1: the blessing and that's the way I look at it. Yeah,

906
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:26,600
Speaker 1: amen to that for sure. One of the main reasons,

907
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:28,480
Speaker 1: you know, we wanted to get you on it is

908
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 1: obviously the Bills and the Titans will do battle once

909
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 1: again this season. They've been frequent opponents even though they

910
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:37,320
Speaker 1: don't play in the same division, and the story is

911
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:39,880
Speaker 1: no different this year, and again they'll be doing it

912
00:50:39,960 --> 00:50:42,799
Speaker 1: in prime time, which they've done each of the last

913
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 1: couple of years on a Monday Night, and it's the

914
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:48,799
Speaker 1: home opener here in Buffalo for the Bills. I know

915
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 1: the Titans have the Giants in Week one. I'm wondering

916
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 1: if there might be an ability for the Titans to

917
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:00,839
Speaker 1: a certain extent to go to school on what will

918
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:04,479
Speaker 1: feed figure to be a somewhat similar scheme in Week

919
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 1: one under Brian Dable for that Titans defense kind of

920
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:08,840
Speaker 1: go to school on and prep for the Bills the

921
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:14,240
Speaker 1: next week. Yeah, the scheme will probably be somewhat similar,

922
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:16,799
Speaker 1: But I tell you what, the scheme could be as

923
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,719
Speaker 1: similar as it wants to be. But last time I check,

924
00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:23,480
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Stefan Diggs are they're not on the

925
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:26,759
Speaker 1: Giants rosters. It could look alike, but it won't be

926
00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:29,959
Speaker 1: the same, that's for sure. What is the overriding theme

927
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,200
Speaker 1: with the Titans this offseason? And we've all heard that,

928
00:51:32,640 --> 00:51:34,920
Speaker 1: and I think it's a little bit manufactured, the drama

929
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 1: between Ryan Tannehill and the drafted quarterback coming right, I mean,

930
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:44,759
Speaker 1: it's nothing. What's the overall tone of their offseason? Yeah,

931
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:47,920
Speaker 1: the overall tone really is overcoming a j. Brown and

932
00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 1: just how that situation really evolved. And now a guy

933
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 1: who was once considered a franchise cornerstone is not there.

934
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 1: He's in Philadelphia, So it's really going to be about

935
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 1: how they could find the offense to make up for

936
00:52:03,040 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: him being gone. And also Derrick Henry and how he's

937
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 1: going to come back from the injury. And lastly, Ryan Tannehill,

938
00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:13,320
Speaker 1: how will he bounce back from that three interception game.

939
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 1: It was a game in which he said that he

940
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,919
Speaker 1: had to seek counseling and therapy, you know, to work

941
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:21,680
Speaker 1: through that so lets you know, and I know Steve,

942
00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:24,719
Speaker 1: you know personally, you know how much a loss. You

943
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 1: look at Scott Norwood and the ninety bills, you know,

944
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:29,360
Speaker 1: you know how it could impact the guy. So I

945
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: want to see just how he's gonna bounce back for that.

946
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:35,160
Speaker 1: So that's one of the big stories. And even though

947
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:38,800
Speaker 1: you know they've got a young quarterback in the fold,

948
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:44,719
Speaker 1: now it's more about Tannehill's contract that is kind of

949
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:48,400
Speaker 1: dictating to some people and maybe even reporters like yourself

950
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: who covered the team on a daily basis, that is

951
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: a cost prohibitive contract after this year. So what is

952
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 1: the general consensus as you guys try to maybe read

953
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: between the line, knowing that you know, John Robinson and

954
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:07,279
Speaker 1: Mike Rabel are probably putting future quarterback plans, you know,

955
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: they're holding those cards close to the vest, right at

956
00:53:11,640 --> 00:53:14,920
Speaker 1: some point you do have to move on and the NFL.

957
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 1: The theme of the NFL is to always get younger

958
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:20,920
Speaker 1: and cheaper, and that's something that John Robinson touched on

959
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 1: when he spoke to us a few times. Now, when

960
00:53:24,200 --> 00:53:27,319
Speaker 1: you look at Tannehill's contract, they could get out of

961
00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 1: it next year. It would have probably about an eighteen

962
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 1: million dollar cap charge, But that's something that could happen,

963
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 1: especially considering some of the deals that they may have

964
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:40,319
Speaker 1: to do. And the idea is really, okay, you have

965
00:53:40,560 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: a quarterback on a rookie contract, you could build around him.

966
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 1: And it's something that the Seahawks did quite some time

967
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 1: ago with Russell Wilson. He saw the forty nine ers

968
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:53,919
Speaker 1: do that with Colin Kaepernick. So I think that's kind

969
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 1: of the direction they may end up going. But that's

970
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,760
Speaker 1: going to depend on how Malik Willis is able to develop.

971
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 1: This is a guy that they're kind of working from

972
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:03,640
Speaker 1: the ground up with as far as getting him used

973
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:07,800
Speaker 1: to getting under center and taking snaps and just everything,

974
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 1: just just being able to, you know, go play action

975
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 1: and actually turn your back to the line to the

976
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:16,800
Speaker 1: defense and then turn back around and you know, find

977
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: where the right spot to throw the football is. So

978
00:54:20,560 --> 00:54:23,720
Speaker 1: it's really going to depend on Willis's development and also

979
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,239
Speaker 1: how well Tannehill does this year. I mean, if he

980
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:29,439
Speaker 1: is able to have a bounce back year, I would

981
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:32,279
Speaker 1: imagine he'll be back in twenty twenty three. But if

982
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 1: it's a so so year, then Number seven may end

983
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:37,479
Speaker 1: up under center. Yeah, the Titans are in a weird

984
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 1: spot here. They got Malik Willis, who you know, certainly

985
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:42,759
Speaker 1: they've got to want they want to find out what

986
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 1: he can do, what he cannot do, and certainly they'll

987
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:48,040
Speaker 1: get evaluations as the days roll on, practice by practice,

988
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:51,319
Speaker 1: but game situations, the Titans are really too good a

989
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 1: football team to say, Okay, we're just gonna throw this

990
00:54:54,560 --> 00:54:56,279
Speaker 1: guy in there and let him sink or swim. How

991
00:54:56,280 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 1: long would the leash be for a guy like Tannehill

992
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:01,440
Speaker 1: in the entire your team before they just say, you

993
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:02,839
Speaker 1: know what we need to find out, we may as

994
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:06,360
Speaker 1: well throw him in there. Yeah, I think it would

995
00:55:06,400 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 1: have to have It would require catastrophic results. You know,

996
00:55:11,160 --> 00:55:13,879
Speaker 1: as long as this team is competitive, Tannehill will still

997
00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 1: be the quarterback. And really they're all about developing I'm

998
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:21,399
Speaker 1: Alique Willis. That's something that they spoke about the night

999
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:24,319
Speaker 1: they drafted him, and that's really that's the plan. They

1000
00:55:24,360 --> 00:55:26,520
Speaker 1: want to bring him along and it's really going to

1001
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 1: be up to him how quickly he could assimilate himself

1002
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:34,279
Speaker 1: into the playbook and just transition to the league. But

1003
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: I really would imagine that Tannehill would be the starter

1004
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 1: barring injury or anything like that. Are a good friend

1005
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:45,359
Speaker 1: of ours. Robert Woods who you know, if you haven't

1006
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:47,439
Speaker 1: already spoken to him, you're gonna love him. He's great,

1007
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 1: super dude, He's awesome. He's going to be a security blanket.

1008
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 1: I would imagine if some kind for Ryan Tannehill while

1009
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: Treylon Burkes gets up to speed, What are the early

1010
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 1: returns on Burke's knowing there is a strong likelihood that

1011
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:09,239
Speaker 1: as the season wears on, more and more is going

1012
00:56:09,280 --> 00:56:12,960
Speaker 1: to be put on his plate. Yeah, I think that's

1013
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 1: the key as a season wears on. He had some

1014
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: trouble making it through the first practice. I don't know

1015
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: if it was allergies, asthma, conditioning exactly what it was,

1016
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:26,480
Speaker 1: but overheating possibly because they did have ice packs on

1017
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:29,320
Speaker 1: his neck and his shoulders. That's usually to cool a

1018
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 1: guy down. The second practice he made it through. He

1019
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:37,279
Speaker 1: wasn't a full participant, but he did different things. I

1020
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:42,080
Speaker 1: think really with him, it's just a matter of getting

1021
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:45,600
Speaker 1: integrated into the offense. There's a he's a little bit

1022
00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:48,239
Speaker 1: raw as a route runner, so it's going to be

1023
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 1: a work in progress and I wouldn't expect an im

1024
00:56:50,280 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 1: media impact. And you look at guys like Jamar Chase

1025
00:56:53,560 --> 00:56:56,840
Speaker 1: who just came right in and just did crazy things,

1026
00:56:56,880 --> 00:57:00,759
Speaker 1: and that kind of sped up the expectations of these receivers.

1027
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:04,080
Speaker 1: Now everyone is able to do that. So Robert Woods

1028
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:08,120
Speaker 1: is going to be important part of it. What tach

1029
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:11,600
Speaker 1: has Mike Vrabel taken throughout this offseason? What are his

1030
00:57:11,719 --> 00:57:15,480
Speaker 1: public expectations, and what's he said about the young guys

1031
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 1: and how much they're gonna have to contribute, and how

1032
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:21,440
Speaker 1: much he expects out of Malik Willis right right when

1033
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:23,680
Speaker 1: you when you look at Burks, you know the big

1034
00:57:23,720 --> 00:57:27,800
Speaker 1: thing because they traded AJ Brown in minutes later drafted

1035
00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:31,960
Speaker 1: trailing Burkes. They're making it clearer that they're not expecting

1036
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:33,720
Speaker 1: him to come in and be a J. Brown. And

1037
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 1: it's interesting because there are a lot of similarities as

1038
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 1: far as the play type, you know, as you look

1039
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 1: at his ability to get yards after the catch and

1040
00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 1: the size and measurables. But Mike Vrabel is really at

1041
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 1: John Robinson. They're trying to make sure that that's not

1042
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 1: the expectation. Hey, he has to be AJ right away.

1043
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 1: And they're also with Malik Willis. Like I say, it's

1044
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 1: mostly a developmental thing. That's what they're looking at with him.

1045
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: You do have some younger guys that Roger mccrill the cornerback,

1046
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,440
Speaker 1: they're going to expect him to come in and compete

1047
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:07,240
Speaker 1: right away for time. But for the most part, it's just, uh,

1048
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:09,480
Speaker 1: you know, these guys is getting in where they fit in,

1049
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:11,800
Speaker 1: and that's kind of the approach that Mike Brave was

1050
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:15,560
Speaker 1: taken for. You mentioned Roger McCreery either second round draft choice,

1051
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: and it's pretty amazing Ron that you know, two years ago,

1052
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 1: maybe even three years ago, this was a Titan secondary

1053
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 1: that it's two years ago, we got kind of cleaned out.

1054
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 1: You know, guys like a Dory Jackson just got jettisoned,

1055
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:35,440
Speaker 1: and like three or four guys the only guy they

1056
00:58:35,520 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 1: only holdovers, like Kevin Byard. And here we are, like

1057
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:44,840
Speaker 1: two years later, and enormous early draft pick investment in

1058
00:58:44,880 --> 00:58:48,160
Speaker 1: that secondary. I mean, Caleb Farley your first round pick

1059
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:51,480
Speaker 1: in twenty one, Christian Fulton was a second round pick

1060
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:54,400
Speaker 1: in twenty Elijah Molden third round pick in twenty one.

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00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 1: I mean they drafted Farley and Molden the same draft,

1062
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:59,280
Speaker 1: and now they go back again and use the second

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00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:05,360
Speaker 1: round pick on McCreary. Is this young secondary going to

1064
00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:07,240
Speaker 1: be the lynch pin of the defense or is it

1065
00:59:07,320 --> 00:59:10,560
Speaker 1: still that pass rush you up front with Dupree and

1066
00:59:10,760 --> 00:59:15,560
Speaker 1: Landry Man. Listen, it's that pass for ourselves front. You

1067
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 1: always say, you know, the back end and the front

1068
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:22,640
Speaker 1: end they worked together. But I agree with that. But

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00:59:22,680 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 1: I think in this case, the front end makes that

1070
00:59:24,760 --> 00:59:28,160
Speaker 1: back end that much better because you look at Jeffery

1071
00:59:28,160 --> 00:59:30,320
Speaker 1: Simmons collapse in the pocket from the middle, I mean,

1072
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 1: outside of Aaron Donald, I don't know that there's a

1073
00:59:33,080 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 1: better interior presence on the defense. You know, Chris Jones

1074
00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 1: is a really good one. Ed Oliver there in Buffalo

1075
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 1: is a really good one as well, But I think

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00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons is right there. So you got that, and

1077
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: then you got the pocket from the outside being attacked,

1078
00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 1: you know, as you mentioned with Simmons, excuse me, Dupre

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00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 1: and Landry. So it's really about that pass for us.

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00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:55,800
Speaker 1: The Bengals game really showed it right nine sacks, which

1081
00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:58,920
Speaker 1: was tied multiple teams for the most ever in the

1082
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 1: playoff game. I think the secondary is steadily improving. It's

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01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:06,160
Speaker 1: really gonna come down to how Farley is able to

1084
01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 1: step in at that left corner spot that was originally

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01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 1: occupied by Jack Rabbit Jenkins where they released and he's

1086
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:16,240
Speaker 1: still a free agent, so Farley, if he can stay healthy,

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01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:18,680
Speaker 1: that's gonna be critical. And I think when you look

1088
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:21,920
Speaker 1: at Footland and Farley, these guys have missed some games.

1089
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:24,800
Speaker 1: To bringing him McQuary, a guy who's kind of ready made,

1090
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:28,240
Speaker 1: he's battle tested from playing in the SEC. I think

1091
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:30,800
Speaker 1: that gives them a little bit of insurance. Then also

1092
01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:34,480
Speaker 1: Molden as their nickel guy. Now they do a lot

1093
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:37,560
Speaker 1: of dime and you know sometimes they may end up

1094
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 1: having Molden be kind of like that dime backer, and

1095
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:41,800
Speaker 1: then you have McQuary come in, So now you use

1096
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:43,960
Speaker 1: even more corners, and you can never have too many

1097
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:46,240
Speaker 1: of them, right then. Yeah, it's been It's a trend

1098
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:48,600
Speaker 1: in the league. One of the things that that I

1099
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:50,960
Speaker 1: was noticing about this and we forgot about it. When

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01:00:51,000 --> 01:00:53,680
Speaker 1: they do meet in week two, the Titans and the Bills,

1101
01:00:54,560 --> 01:00:56,959
Speaker 1: the Bills are gonna have Roger Saffold on their side

1102
01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:58,800
Speaker 1: of the line of scrimmage rather than having him across.

1103
01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:00,440
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about him? What does his

1104
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:03,680
Speaker 1: departure from the Titans and his arrival here in Buffalo,

1105
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:06,560
Speaker 1: do for both of those offensive lines and tell us

1106
01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:09,560
Speaker 1: really specifically what about Tennessee's offensive lines that looks going

1107
01:01:09,600 --> 01:01:13,680
Speaker 1: into this season. Right, So, when you look at Roger Saffole,

1108
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:18,320
Speaker 1: the first thing that I think of, it's like bulldozer. Right,

1109
01:01:18,320 --> 01:01:20,400
Speaker 1: you show a picture of him, and then I think

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01:01:20,480 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 1: bulldozer because that's what he is. And the run blocking,

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01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:25,080
Speaker 1: he is a guy that is able to get to

1112
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 1: that second level and you'll see him literally move guys.

1113
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:30,880
Speaker 1: I'm talking about like grabbing him and throwing him out

1114
01:01:30,920 --> 01:01:33,400
Speaker 1: the way, and that opens up a lot of holes

1115
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:36,400
Speaker 1: four running backs. I think he's single handedly is going

1116
01:01:36,440 --> 01:01:40,480
Speaker 1: to make that rushing attack better. And if Ken Dorsey

1117
01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:43,520
Speaker 1: is willing and able to somewhat commit to the run,

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01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:47,360
Speaker 1: I think Buffalo is going to be a seriously difficult

1119
01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:49,840
Speaker 1: team to deal with, and Saffole will be at the

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01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:52,360
Speaker 1: heart of that. Now, there are some areas of improvement.

1121
01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 1: Pass rushing could get a blocking could get a little

1122
01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:58,960
Speaker 1: bit better, but overall, you know, he's an outstanding He

1123
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:01,400
Speaker 1: just made the profile. Now when you look at the

1124
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:05,600
Speaker 1: offensive line remaining a left guard, right tackle, those are

1125
01:02:05,600 --> 01:02:09,960
Speaker 1: spots that are vacated David Quasenberry, who also signed with Fields.

1126
01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 1: He was the starting right tackle. So now you have

1127
01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:15,919
Speaker 1: Nicholas Petite for our who was a third round pick.

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01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:18,440
Speaker 1: He'll probably compete at right tackle. I don't know that

1129
01:02:18,480 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 1: he'll be a starter there. And then you have Dealing Raiders,

1130
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:24,200
Speaker 1: the second round pick from twenty twenty one. I'm not

1131
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 1: sure he's gonna play a left guard or right tackle.

1132
01:02:27,480 --> 01:02:29,800
Speaker 1: They also signed a guy in Jamarco Jones, So it's

1133
01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:32,880
Speaker 1: going to be out of those three that that's going

1134
01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:35,880
Speaker 1: to fill those two spots because they didn't really invest

1135
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:38,960
Speaker 1: in too much offensive line outside of Petite Fur in

1136
01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:41,560
Speaker 1: the draft. The last one I got for your toron

1137
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:45,200
Speaker 1: concerns Henry, and you know you touched on him briefly.

1138
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:51,400
Speaker 1: Did the injury from last year raise any concerns whatsoever

1139
01:02:52,280 --> 01:02:54,880
Speaker 1: that I think this is his age twenty eighth season.

1140
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:58,480
Speaker 1: We know what the history of statistics says about running

1141
01:02:58,480 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 1: backs at twenty eight. Has it sparked any concern about

1142
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:08,080
Speaker 1: production drop off from Henry? Or do the vast majority

1143
01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:10,160
Speaker 1: of people that watch him and see him every week

1144
01:03:10,720 --> 01:03:12,880
Speaker 1: feel he's an exception to the rule. A Lah and

1145
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:17,880
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson, they definitely feel he's an exception to the rule,

1146
01:03:17,880 --> 01:03:21,240
Speaker 1: and it's been that way over time because they continue

1147
01:03:21,640 --> 01:03:24,000
Speaker 1: to just kind of load the wagon, right, keep giving

1148
01:03:24,080 --> 01:03:26,600
Speaker 1: them more and more carries him and use him as

1149
01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:28,800
Speaker 1: much as they can because they feel like that's the

1150
01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:31,960
Speaker 1: key for them winning. So I think when you're looking

1151
01:03:32,040 --> 01:03:35,040
Speaker 1: now to return from injury, that's something you know. They

1152
01:03:35,080 --> 01:03:38,360
Speaker 1: went out and they drafted Hassan Haskins, who has a

1153
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:42,760
Speaker 1: similar brutal type of Russian style. He wouldn't replace Henry,

1154
01:03:42,760 --> 01:03:46,440
Speaker 1: but that could definitely offset some of the carries. I

1155
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:48,280
Speaker 1: think they're still going to give him the football. They

1156
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 1: believe that he's still a player, and even to the

1157
01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:55,680
Speaker 1: point where they considered, you know, they're open, as Jeremy

1158
01:03:55,720 --> 01:03:59,920
Speaker 1: Fowler reported, they're open to a possible extension. And anytime

1159
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:01,880
Speaker 1: say that about a running back, that lets you know

1160
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:03,960
Speaker 1: that a team does have some confidence in him and

1161
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:06,360
Speaker 1: believe that he's still a player. Did he did his

1162
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:09,640
Speaker 1: injury last year? I mean, let's not forget. It's easy

1163
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:12,000
Speaker 1: to forget because there's one and done playoff run for

1164
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:15,360
Speaker 1: the Titans, but they were the one seed. They had

1165
01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:20,160
Speaker 1: a really outstanding regular season, but without Derrick Henry in

1166
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:23,680
Speaker 1: his absence. Did that force the Titans to grow a

1167
01:04:23,680 --> 01:04:25,840
Speaker 1: little bit in other areas of their offense? Did they

1168
01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:28,240
Speaker 1: evolve a little bit away from what they always were?

1169
01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:31,120
Speaker 1: Have they decided that they got to be ready for

1170
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:33,680
Speaker 1: such an eventuality if it does occur again. You know what,

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01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:39,560
Speaker 1: How did Henry's presence or or absence change the Tennessee

1172
01:04:39,560 --> 01:04:42,920
Speaker 1: philosophy or get them too? Because they still they were

1173
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:46,360
Speaker 1: They were six and two without him. How did they

1174
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:49,840
Speaker 1: grow without him? In the in the fold you know

1175
01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 1: where they grew the most, honestly, and it's strange to

1176
01:04:53,040 --> 01:04:57,120
Speaker 1: say it, but defensively, that defense started creating more and

1177
01:04:57,160 --> 01:05:01,560
Speaker 1: more turnovers and even scoring points or setting up situations.

1178
01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:03,080
Speaker 1: You look at the Rams game. In the first game

1179
01:05:03,120 --> 01:05:06,960
Speaker 1: they played without Henry, we're talking about Jeffrey Simmons pressure

1180
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:10,680
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford, a very ill advised pass. He threw it

1181
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:13,040
Speaker 1: up there, David Long caught it, got tackled on the

1182
01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:17,240
Speaker 1: half yard line. Play action touchdown pass Tannehill to jeff

1183
01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:19,280
Speaker 1: Sway that set up a score, and then Kevin Bayer

1184
01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:24,080
Speaker 1: was able to kind of sucker Safford Stafford and to

1185
01:05:24,360 --> 01:05:26,200
Speaker 1: throw in someplace he shouldn't have it. It was a

1186
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:30,000
Speaker 1: pick six. That's where the growth was, honestly, the defense.

1187
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:33,120
Speaker 1: They just got a different sense of an urgency. Now

1188
01:05:33,120 --> 01:05:35,640
Speaker 1: when you look at the offense ironically, I mean you

1189
01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:37,919
Speaker 1: would think you lose a guy like Derrick Henry, you're

1190
01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:41,640
Speaker 1: gonna become pass happy. No, they continue to run the football,

1191
01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:44,520
Speaker 1: and Todd Downing specifically said he wasn't going to jerk

1192
01:05:44,560 --> 01:05:46,760
Speaker 1: the wheel on the offense. They were going to continue

1193
01:05:46,800 --> 01:05:49,520
Speaker 1: to do what they do. And you had a committee, right,

1194
01:05:49,560 --> 01:05:54,600
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson for a brief moment, but Deonta Foreman, Dontrelle Hilliard,

1195
01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:57,520
Speaker 1: those guys really came in and they stepped up in

1196
01:05:58,200 --> 01:06:00,400
Speaker 1: place of Henry. They didn't give the same for induction,

1197
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:04,080
Speaker 1: but they still gave up presence in the rushing attempt. Turn.

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01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:06,920
Speaker 1: Thanks for the time, as always, enjoy your summer and

1199
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:09,880
Speaker 1: have your noise canceling headphones ready for week two up here,

1200
01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:12,320
Speaker 1: because that home opener on a Monday night venue is

1201
01:06:12,360 --> 01:06:17,640
Speaker 1: gonna be nuts. Absolutely. I tell you, I'm looking forward

1202
01:06:17,680 --> 01:06:23,240
Speaker 1: to the wings more than anything else. Fair Enough, fair enough,

1203
01:06:23,240 --> 01:06:24,840
Speaker 1: we got plenty of them for you. We'll catch up

1204
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:27,840
Speaker 1: with you down the line. Turn. Thanks us always got

1205
01:06:27,840 --> 01:06:31,680
Speaker 1: it all right, that's ESPN Titans reporter Turn Davenport joining

1206
01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:33,720
Speaker 1: us here on One Bill's Live kind of give us

1207
01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:36,439
Speaker 1: the lowdown on their offseason, also as a podcast called

1208
01:06:36,480 --> 01:06:40,200
Speaker 1: Talking with TD. That's right that he gets and he does.

1209
01:06:40,240 --> 01:06:43,960
Speaker 1: He covers these NFL Nation ESPN NFL Nation guy for

1210
01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:46,240
Speaker 1: for the Titans, so he's wired in. He's yeah, he's

1211
01:06:46,280 --> 01:06:47,720
Speaker 1: got his ear to the ground on that team does

1212
01:06:47,760 --> 01:06:49,320
Speaker 1: good work. So it's always good to check in with

1213
01:06:49,400 --> 01:06:52,280
Speaker 1: him see what they're up to. And you know, let's

1214
01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:54,440
Speaker 1: make no secret about this, there are a lot of people,

1215
01:06:55,280 --> 01:06:59,760
Speaker 1: you know, prognosticators and such, who feel, especially after the

1216
01:06:59,760 --> 01:07:05,040
Speaker 1: age J Brown trade, that the Titans are ripe for

1217
01:07:05,240 --> 01:07:08,680
Speaker 1: a little bit of a step back from where they

1218
01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:11,640
Speaker 1: have been in recent years, which is right in the

1219
01:07:11,680 --> 01:07:15,240
Speaker 1: upper echelon of the AFC clubs. There are a lot

1220
01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:17,440
Speaker 1: of people who believe with a J. Brown now gone,

1221
01:07:18,440 --> 01:07:22,120
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry a year older, counting on a lot of

1222
01:07:22,160 --> 01:07:25,720
Speaker 1: young players, talented players, but young players nonetheless in the secondary,

1223
01:07:26,520 --> 01:07:29,600
Speaker 1: that they may take a little bit of a step

1224
01:07:29,640 --> 01:07:32,480
Speaker 1: back and be a rung below where they have been

1225
01:07:32,560 --> 01:07:36,200
Speaker 1: the last few years. The Bills I think are better

1226
01:07:36,240 --> 01:07:40,439
Speaker 1: suited now too. With the guys that they brought back

1227
01:07:40,480 --> 01:07:45,720
Speaker 1: with you know, the the Jordan Phillips at Oliver's tim settle,

1228
01:07:47,760 --> 01:07:49,920
Speaker 1: with Kwon Jones, those guys who were back in the

1229
01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:51,720
Speaker 1: who are in the fold in the and as their

1230
01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:56,000
Speaker 1: interior defensive line is constituted now, I think they can

1231
01:07:56,080 --> 01:07:58,920
Speaker 1: hold up a much better this year against teams like

1232
01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:01,440
Speaker 1: Tennessee when he get into games like they did in

1233
01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:03,720
Speaker 1: that Monday night game here of the forty mile an

1234
01:08:03,760 --> 01:08:06,160
Speaker 1: hour win game where the Patriots never threw the football,

1235
01:08:06,600 --> 01:08:09,040
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. They're they're much super more suited

1236
01:08:09,080 --> 01:08:11,080
Speaker 1: to get into that kind of physical battle up front

1237
01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:15,080
Speaker 1: than they were a year ago. And we'll see if

1238
01:08:15,120 --> 01:08:18,679
Speaker 1: it comes to that. But I think certainly the Bills

1239
01:08:18,720 --> 01:08:23,320
Speaker 1: looked at themselves last year. They got bigger inside, right,

1240
01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:26,439
Speaker 1: and we'll see if it pays dividends. Jeffrey Simmons is

1241
01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:29,240
Speaker 1: a beast, and the guy he head next to him

1242
01:08:29,280 --> 01:08:30,559
Speaker 1: is a guy that's on the Bill side of the

1243
01:08:30,560 --> 01:08:34,559
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage now to Quan Jones, right, so you know,

1244
01:08:35,280 --> 01:08:39,240
Speaker 1: it's easier. I shouldn't say easier, but it's more likely

1245
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:47,240
Speaker 1: that Titans opponents will feel more comfortable doubling Simmons inside

1246
01:08:47,320 --> 01:08:50,200
Speaker 1: because he doesn't have a running mate of the same

1247
01:08:50,320 --> 01:08:53,920
Speaker 1: caliber anymore that de Kwon Jones was for them. Now,

1248
01:08:54,360 --> 01:08:56,920
Speaker 1: let's not forget you gotta take care Landry and Dupris

1249
01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:59,680
Speaker 1: on the outside also, so they do for his end

1250
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:04,760
Speaker 1: problem them's nonetheless, But and so I anticipate they will

1251
01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:07,720
Speaker 1: be a good pass rushing front again this year, and

1252
01:09:07,840 --> 01:09:11,600
Speaker 1: with a talented I'll be a young secondary. You know,

1253
01:09:11,600 --> 01:09:14,120
Speaker 1: Their defense, I would anticipate is going to hold them

1254
01:09:14,120 --> 01:09:15,760
Speaker 1: in a lot of games. So it wouldn't shock me

1255
01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:20,760
Speaker 1: if Rabel an offensive coordinator, Todd Downing or more than

1256
01:09:20,840 --> 01:09:23,040
Speaker 1: fine with sticking to the formula that has won them

1257
01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:24,840
Speaker 1: a lot of games over the last three years, which

1258
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:28,080
Speaker 1: is run the hell out of Derrick Henry, have Tannehill,

1259
01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:31,040
Speaker 1: mix in a half dozen plays a game and play

1260
01:09:31,120 --> 01:09:34,519
Speaker 1: lights out physical defense, you know, and win games by

1261
01:09:34,560 --> 01:09:39,000
Speaker 1: one score. They can, Yeah, they it's exactly right. They'll

1262
01:09:39,400 --> 01:09:42,880
Speaker 1: you know, shows you can beat us. They were the

1263
01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:45,120
Speaker 1: one seed last year, so they got to feel like

1264
01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:48,000
Speaker 1: they weren't broken either. They didn't have Derrick Henry six

1265
01:09:48,080 --> 01:09:50,120
Speaker 1: and two without him, they were six and two without him,

1266
01:09:50,160 --> 01:09:51,679
Speaker 1: So they got a feel like they've got a roster

1267
01:09:51,760 --> 01:09:55,439
Speaker 1: that can withstand some of it now j Brown, that

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01:09:55,600 --> 01:10:00,759
Speaker 1: dude's a problem and he's not there. So teams will

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01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:04,439
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans early in the season will get some

1270
01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:08,639
Speaker 1: benefit in particularly in their passing game, because teams don't

1271
01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:11,519
Speaker 1: won't know what their philosophy is gonna be, how much

1272
01:10:11,520 --> 01:10:13,360
Speaker 1: faith they have in their new wide out, that the

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01:10:13,400 --> 01:10:16,600
Speaker 1: rookie they drafted, how much Robert Wood is gonna is

1274
01:10:16,600 --> 01:10:19,559
Speaker 1: gonna be able to go in there and contribute right away,

1275
01:10:19,560 --> 01:10:22,360
Speaker 1: and Ryan Tannehill's chemistry with those guys, all of that stuff.

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01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:25,920
Speaker 1: So they will get some benefit from the unknown of

1277
01:10:25,960 --> 01:10:31,240
Speaker 1: what their offensive passing game will look like, but very

1278
01:10:31,439 --> 01:10:34,080
Speaker 1: in very short order, in the first month, after the

1279
01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:37,040
Speaker 1: first three weeks month of the season, teams are gonna say, Okay,

1280
01:10:37,120 --> 01:10:40,400
Speaker 1: they're not doing any of this for a reason, so

1281
01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:42,800
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to produce in the passing game. But

1282
01:10:43,880 --> 01:10:47,879
Speaker 1: like I said, they don't feel like they gotta fix anything.

1283
01:10:48,280 --> 01:10:51,200
Speaker 1: Particularly Derrick Henry comes back as good as he's ever been.

1284
01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:55,320
Speaker 1: They were seven in one last year in one score games,

1285
01:10:56,439 --> 01:10:59,360
Speaker 1: and what is very evident to me under Mike Vrabel

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01:10:59,520 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 1: is they don't mind being in that situation. Close games

1287
01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 1: do not rattle them. They're they're in their comfort zone.

1288
01:11:08,400 --> 01:11:12,479
Speaker 1: When they're in tight matchups, they don't blink and their

1289
01:11:12,520 --> 01:11:14,880
Speaker 1: record last year is a testament to that, seven and

1290
01:11:15,080 --> 01:11:19,000
Speaker 1: one in one score games. Vrabel is very good on

1291
01:11:19,040 --> 01:11:24,640
Speaker 1: the sidelines as a head coach. His clock management, time management,

1292
01:11:25,080 --> 01:11:28,799
Speaker 1: the way he his ability to see the big picture

1293
01:11:29,040 --> 01:11:31,240
Speaker 1: and see the weaknesses of the team he's playing and

1294
01:11:31,640 --> 01:11:35,240
Speaker 1: pick his spots for whether it be a trick play

1295
01:11:35,400 --> 01:11:38,519
Speaker 1: or a time out at the right moment. He is

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01:11:38,840 --> 01:11:41,479
Speaker 1: unrivaled in his game management skills. That guy is on it.

1297
01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:44,120
Speaker 1: So he gives them a chance in a close game

1298
01:11:44,240 --> 01:11:46,519
Speaker 1: to use the clock to their advantage and their timehout

1299
01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:48,599
Speaker 1: of their advantage as well as anybody in the league.

1300
01:11:49,080 --> 01:11:51,479
Speaker 1: Um it's an art form in a lot of ways,

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01:11:52,760 --> 01:11:54,720
Speaker 1: and Vabel, I think is as good as anybody in

1302
01:11:54,720 --> 01:11:57,519
Speaker 1: the game. The thing that I'm most intrigued to see,

1303
01:11:57,640 --> 01:11:59,640
Speaker 1: and we'll get an early look at this obviously with

1304
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:01,840
Speaker 1: the Bill hosting them in week two on Monday Night,

1305
01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 1: is how does Tannehill respond to all that has seemingly

1306
01:12:10,080 --> 01:12:13,759
Speaker 1: gone against him in the last eight months. The horrible

1307
01:12:13,760 --> 01:12:17,360
Speaker 1: playoff game with three interceptions. As you heard Ron say,

1308
01:12:17,360 --> 01:12:20,320
Speaker 1: he had to go to, you know, a therapist to

1309
01:12:20,400 --> 01:12:23,240
Speaker 1: kind of work his way through that. A lot of

1310
01:12:23,280 --> 01:12:27,439
Speaker 1: Bills fans went to therapist seconds. And then the drafting

1311
01:12:27,439 --> 01:12:33,240
Speaker 1: of Malik Willis, right, how does he respond to those things?

1312
01:12:33,280 --> 01:12:36,040
Speaker 1: The bad game probably puts a chip on his shoulder.

1313
01:12:36,439 --> 01:12:44,160
Speaker 1: Now you've got the organization drafting your successor eventually when

1314
01:12:44,240 --> 01:12:47,280
Speaker 1: we don't know, but your successor based on the investment

1315
01:12:47,320 --> 01:12:50,320
Speaker 1: they made. How does he react to all of that?

1316
01:12:50,360 --> 01:12:53,559
Speaker 1: With his play and performance on the field, is going

1317
01:12:53,640 --> 01:12:55,760
Speaker 1: to go a very very long way into the kind

1318
01:12:55,760 --> 01:12:57,400
Speaker 1: of season that the Titans are going to have this year.

1319
01:12:57,400 --> 01:13:00,679
Speaker 1: I asked him, I asked, you know, tern the question.

1320
01:13:01,600 --> 01:13:04,160
Speaker 1: They're in a weird they're kind of in a precarious situation. Certainly,

1321
01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:05,680
Speaker 1: if they come back and play like they have been,

1322
01:13:05,840 --> 01:13:07,400
Speaker 1: Malik Willis is gonna sit on the bench and he's

1323
01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:09,880
Speaker 1: gonna watch. He's gonna learn. That's fine, and that's kind

1324
01:13:09,880 --> 01:13:12,080
Speaker 1: of what the best case scenario because he win in

1325
01:13:12,080 --> 01:13:13,599
Speaker 1: games and that's where you want to be. They don't

1326
01:13:13,640 --> 01:13:15,200
Speaker 1: have to run him out there. But here's the thing,

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01:13:17,240 --> 01:13:20,920
Speaker 1: if Tannehill stumbles he's having a bad game, or even

1328
01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:23,400
Speaker 1: if you know, who knows and maybe they're getting a blowout,

1329
01:13:23,520 --> 01:13:25,559
Speaker 1: Malik Willis goes in and get some snaps. Who knows,

1330
01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:32,360
Speaker 1: But sooner or later they got to find out about him, right,

1331
01:13:32,800 --> 01:13:39,760
Speaker 1: And there's an interesting time line element to that nowadays

1332
01:13:40,120 --> 01:13:43,360
Speaker 1: when you make an investment in a rookie quarterback, because

1333
01:13:43,800 --> 01:13:47,160
Speaker 1: the sooner you find out about them, the more you

1334
01:13:47,160 --> 01:13:50,799
Speaker 1: can build a roster around a quarterback on a rookie contract.

1335
01:13:50,840 --> 01:13:52,920
Speaker 1: If he's proven a he's capable of being a starter

1336
01:13:53,040 --> 01:13:57,320
Speaker 1: for you. You know, the Niners chose to wait on

1337
01:13:57,400 --> 01:14:01,479
Speaker 1: Trey Lance because they didn't think he was ready. I'd

1338
01:14:01,479 --> 01:14:03,479
Speaker 1: be pretty surprised if he's not on the field here

1339
01:14:03,479 --> 01:14:06,760
Speaker 1: in year or two, because they want to know, do

1340
01:14:06,840 --> 01:14:09,559
Speaker 1: we have something here that we can build around by

1341
01:14:09,560 --> 01:14:12,519
Speaker 1: paying high prices at other positions while he's still on

1342
01:14:12,560 --> 01:14:17,320
Speaker 1: his rookie deal. You don't want to wait until year three, right.

1343
01:14:19,160 --> 01:14:20,960
Speaker 1: But here's the thing as well, And this is what

1344
01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:23,800
Speaker 1: was what I was kind of alluding to. You get.

1345
01:14:24,760 --> 01:14:27,280
Speaker 1: I think if you're I was going to ask you this,

1346
01:14:27,479 --> 01:14:30,400
Speaker 1: if you're Mike Vrabel, what do you do with him?

1347
01:14:30,880 --> 01:14:35,599
Speaker 1: How do you handle it? To me? I think, particularly

1348
01:14:35,680 --> 01:14:39,840
Speaker 1: given this the cent scenario next season with Tannehill's contract.

1349
01:14:42,760 --> 01:14:48,839
Speaker 1: I think Ryan Tannehill would almost have to be incapacitated

1350
01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:51,880
Speaker 1: for me to take him off. Incapacitated, he would have

1351
01:14:51,920 --> 01:14:56,760
Speaker 1: to be almost incapable of playing before I took him

1352
01:14:56,800 --> 01:15:00,559
Speaker 1: off the field. If he started to struggle, you let

1353
01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:03,439
Speaker 1: him struggle. You gotta say, well, listen, he's earned the

1354
01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:05,000
Speaker 1: right to work his way out of it. He's done

1355
01:15:05,040 --> 01:15:07,160
Speaker 1: all this, he's he got us the one seed. He's

1356
01:15:07,160 --> 01:15:09,759
Speaker 1: a good quarterback. Well, we're gonna ride with him, because

1357
01:15:09,800 --> 01:15:12,160
Speaker 1: I don't want Malik Willis to go into that situation

1358
01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:17,240
Speaker 1: and fail. Fans they probably saying something. Absolutely they would,

1359
01:15:17,280 --> 01:15:19,680
Speaker 1: Absolutely they would, But you gotta be willing to say, listen, no,

1360
01:15:20,240 --> 01:15:22,880
Speaker 1: he is now unless Milik Willis in there practices and

1361
01:15:22,960 --> 01:15:24,680
Speaker 1: all that going, wow, he's really playing good all that,

1362
01:15:25,080 --> 01:15:29,920
Speaker 1: which I doubt. Ryan Tannehill would almost have to ask

1363
01:15:30,040 --> 01:15:33,439
Speaker 1: to be benched before I take him out of the field.

1364
01:15:33,479 --> 01:15:35,120
Speaker 1: Off the field this year, I don't care if it's

1365
01:15:35,120 --> 01:15:38,360
Speaker 1: a blowout or if it's a meaningless game. That guy

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01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:41,920
Speaker 1: stays on the field, and give him Malik Willis every

1367
01:15:41,920 --> 01:15:44,720
Speaker 1: opportunity to get every rep in practice and get completely

1368
01:15:44,720 --> 01:15:47,120
Speaker 1: ready to play. Then the next year when you have

1369
01:15:47,160 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 1: to make the decision on Tannehill. Now you got somebody

1370
01:15:49,520 --> 01:15:51,519
Speaker 1: who knows what's going on. He's been around the block

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01:15:51,560 --> 01:15:54,280
Speaker 1: once and say, okay, let's compete now. I think Malik

1372
01:15:54,360 --> 01:15:58,000
Speaker 1: Willis goes into a cocoon, into bubble wrap and never

1373
01:15:58,040 --> 01:15:59,760
Speaker 1: sees the light of day in the twenty twenty two

1374
01:15:59,760 --> 01:16:04,280
Speaker 1: Seas bubble rap. Okay, it wouldn't shock me because I

1375
01:16:04,600 --> 01:16:08,160
Speaker 1: think with Tannehill as their quarterback, this is probably their

1376
01:16:08,240 --> 01:16:10,800
Speaker 1: last run at it. As Tran said, they have an

1377
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:13,280
Speaker 1: out in the contract because I think the cap hit

1378
01:16:13,320 --> 01:16:15,840
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three is like fifty three million dollars.

1379
01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:20,040
Speaker 1: He's a third round pick. Tannehill's a first round Yeah,

1380
01:16:20,080 --> 01:16:22,679
Speaker 1: but I know, and I'm saying twenty but come twenty three,

1381
01:16:23,320 --> 01:16:24,920
Speaker 1: you know, if you have another early exit in the

1382
01:16:24,920 --> 01:16:27,599
Speaker 1: playoffs with Tannehill, I think they're gonna say it's time

1383
01:16:27,600 --> 01:16:30,080
Speaker 1: to turn the page. Tannahill's thirty five. Yeah, I get it.

1384
01:16:30,160 --> 01:16:32,479
Speaker 1: But you know he's not a spring chicken, right, But

1385
01:16:34,040 --> 01:16:37,400
Speaker 1: you know he's rarely had him and I don't think

1386
01:16:37,400 --> 01:16:40,000
Speaker 1: he's not one of those injuries. He's been remarkably healthy.

1387
01:16:40,080 --> 01:16:41,760
Speaker 1: And here's the thing too, You gotta remember. And this

1388
01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:44,200
Speaker 1: not for nothing. I know it's a while back. He's

1389
01:16:44,240 --> 01:16:47,879
Speaker 1: thirty six, so it's fourteen years ago when he got drafted.

1390
01:16:48,840 --> 01:16:50,960
Speaker 1: But when he came out, the guy was a first

1391
01:16:51,040 --> 01:16:54,439
Speaker 1: round draft pick. Yeah, which means one thing, folks. He's

1392
01:16:54,479 --> 01:16:56,519
Speaker 1: got an arm, and he's got an he's an athlete.

1393
01:16:56,560 --> 01:16:59,479
Speaker 1: He was a wide receiver in college. That guy can

1394
01:16:59,520 --> 01:17:02,639
Speaker 1: throw it and he can run. So if Malik Willis

1395
01:17:02,680 --> 01:17:04,720
Speaker 1: thinks he's gonna come out, if he's a third round talent,

1396
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:07,439
Speaker 1: Malik Willis, he's got a thirty six year old Ryan

1397
01:17:07,479 --> 01:17:10,559
Speaker 1: Tannehill arm right now at twenty two. That's what a

1398
01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:14,519
Speaker 1: third rounder means. His arm just doesn't measure up. That's

1399
01:17:14,520 --> 01:17:16,519
Speaker 1: why these guys drop to the third round because all

1400
01:17:16,520 --> 01:17:18,479
Speaker 1: of a sudden, there's six one. They're not six five,

1401
01:17:18,720 --> 01:17:21,360
Speaker 1: they're six one or six foot. Well, that's what he is.

1402
01:17:21,439 --> 01:17:24,360
Speaker 1: Willis is six foot right there. They don't run a

1403
01:17:24,400 --> 01:17:26,839
Speaker 1: four to three. They run on him a four to six. Okay,

1404
01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:31,080
Speaker 1: that's why they drop to the third round because they're

1405
01:17:31,240 --> 01:17:33,120
Speaker 1: arm They got to put some arc on the ball

1406
01:17:33,439 --> 01:17:36,080
Speaker 1: to get it there and all that. Ryan Tannell's a

1407
01:17:36,120 --> 01:17:38,920
Speaker 1: first rounder because he is six four and when he

1408
01:17:39,040 --> 01:17:41,719
Speaker 1: turns on the ball that he can spin it, even

1409
01:17:41,720 --> 01:17:44,320
Speaker 1: at thirty six. So it's not like they're going out

1410
01:17:44,360 --> 01:17:46,599
Speaker 1: to practice and Malik Willis has got fresh legs coming

1411
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:49,599
Speaker 1: out there spinning it. Ryan Tannehill can spin it. That's

1412
01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:52,000
Speaker 1: what being a first round draft pick means in this league.

1413
01:17:52,240 --> 01:17:54,000
Speaker 1: That's why these guys drop they go out there, and

1414
01:17:54,160 --> 01:17:57,960
Speaker 1: that's why that's why we make fun of Tua on

1415
01:17:58,120 --> 01:17:59,800
Speaker 1: game day. When you go out there and watch two

1416
01:18:00,080 --> 01:18:03,680
Speaker 1: and Josh warm up side by side, Tua looks like

1417
01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:08,880
Speaker 1: a jav. Yeah, he looks like a kid who wants

1418
01:18:08,880 --> 01:18:10,800
Speaker 1: to be a pro football player for a day. He

1419
01:18:10,880 --> 01:18:16,320
Speaker 1: want an essay contest. Josh throws it. That ball sings

1420
01:18:16,600 --> 01:18:20,160
Speaker 1: when it comes out right, and Tua you can hear

1421
01:18:20,240 --> 01:18:23,240
Speaker 1: him grunting to get it out there. Yeah, I mean

1422
01:18:23,280 --> 01:18:25,719
Speaker 1: there's a difference. That's what these guys are. So Malik

1423
01:18:25,800 --> 01:18:28,760
Speaker 1: will has fallen into the third round, folks, that tells

1424
01:18:28,800 --> 01:18:32,880
Speaker 1: you all you want want to know. He right now,

1425
01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:37,080
Speaker 1: Tannehill at thirty six got better arm. Yeah, we get it.

1426
01:18:37,240 --> 01:18:38,920
Speaker 1: I think I think we have said all we need

1427
01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:41,600
Speaker 1: to say on Ryan Tannehill and Malique. Well, that's what

1428
01:18:41,640 --> 01:18:43,720
Speaker 1: I do listen. Malik's got He's got a ways to go.

1429
01:18:44,200 --> 01:18:47,160
Speaker 1: Do not let him. Put him in, bubb put him

1430
01:18:47,280 --> 01:18:50,240
Speaker 1: just sit there and you catch and learn. We have

1431
01:18:50,280 --> 01:18:52,599
Speaker 1: to take a break. When we come back, we will

1432
01:18:52,600 --> 01:18:55,839
Speaker 1: open up the Fan Friday mail bag on the tweet

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01:18:55,920 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 1: sheet that's coming your way. Next Here on One Bill's Live,

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01:18:58,240 --> 01:19:17,080
Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health, it's Buffalo Bills back Here on

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01:19:17,080 --> 01:19:20,280
Speaker 1: One Builds Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and

1436
01:19:20,439 --> 01:19:23,320
Speaker 1: time to open up the Fan Friday mail bag. We're

1437
01:19:23,320 --> 01:19:25,240
Speaker 1: doing this a day or earlyage because in case you're

1438
01:19:25,280 --> 01:19:27,879
Speaker 1: just joining us, we will be off for the Memorial

1439
01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:32,720
Speaker 1: Day holiday Tomorrow Friday as well as Monday, and then

1440
01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:35,719
Speaker 1: we come back on Tuesday, where O tas are firing

1441
01:19:35,800 --> 01:19:38,639
Speaker 1: up again for the second week, and we'll hear from

1442
01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:41,640
Speaker 1: coordinators and they'll be scheduled to speak on Tuesday, so

1443
01:19:41,680 --> 01:19:44,040
Speaker 1: we're looking forward to that. We'll have full coverage here

1444
01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:47,639
Speaker 1: on One Bills Live on Tuesday. Into the mail bag

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01:19:47,720 --> 01:19:51,639
Speaker 1: we go and jt Asks. Do you think the Bills

1446
01:19:51,760 --> 01:19:56,439
Speaker 1: offense is going to be drastically different under Dorsey? I

1447
01:19:56,560 --> 01:19:59,080
Speaker 1: personally think Dorsey's looking to get the running backs more

1448
01:19:59,120 --> 01:20:02,320
Speaker 1: involved in swing plays and screens to bring the defense

1449
01:20:02,439 --> 01:20:04,479
Speaker 1: up in the play to set up Josh for easier

1450
01:20:04,520 --> 01:20:08,400
Speaker 1: deep balls. Cook will be cooking this year. Well, I

1451
01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:13,679
Speaker 1: will say this, Steve, just by the caliber and skill

1452
01:20:13,720 --> 01:20:16,160
Speaker 1: set of the players they have now in the running

1453
01:20:16,200 --> 01:20:20,519
Speaker 1: back room, whether it's Duke Johnson or James Cook, and

1454
01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:22,640
Speaker 1: the fact it lends itself to more throwing out of

1455
01:20:22,680 --> 01:20:26,640
Speaker 1: the back and they tried to sign Mkissock from the Redskins,

1456
01:20:26,680 --> 01:20:28,720
Speaker 1: who is exactly the same type of player, so they

1457
01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:31,559
Speaker 1: obviously felt like they were deficient it With that skill set,

1458
01:20:32,320 --> 01:20:36,800
Speaker 1: James Cook fits it perfectly. We'll see if they can

1459
01:20:36,840 --> 01:20:39,439
Speaker 1: incorporate him in some way, shape or form. Ken Dorsey

1460
01:20:39,560 --> 01:20:42,280
Speaker 1: is a big question mark for all of us. And

1461
01:20:42,400 --> 01:20:44,920
Speaker 1: like we said earlier in this show, the offense wasn't

1462
01:20:45,000 --> 01:20:46,519
Speaker 1: in a spot where it needed to be fixed. It

1463
01:20:46,600 --> 01:20:49,519
Speaker 1: was it was humming on all cylinders with a V

1464
01:20:49,640 --> 01:20:52,080
Speaker 1: twelve engine. I mean that thing was singing at the

1465
01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:54,519
Speaker 1: end of this at the end of the season last year,

1466
01:20:54,840 --> 01:20:57,439
Speaker 1: Dorsey was a big voice in that offense. He was

1467
01:20:57,479 --> 01:21:00,400
Speaker 1: on it is part of the part of the so

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01:21:00,840 --> 01:21:03,200
Speaker 1: and he's been there for a while and he knows

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01:21:03,320 --> 01:21:06,680
Speaker 1: Josh and Josh trusts him. And now even in the OTAs,

1470
01:21:06,800 --> 01:21:09,400
Speaker 1: Josh is getting used to Dorsey's voice in his head

1471
01:21:09,400 --> 01:21:12,280
Speaker 1: instead of Daboll's voice. So all of this stuff's in there.

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01:21:12,360 --> 01:21:15,760
Speaker 1: We don't know what Brian Dorsey's thinking, and I think

1473
01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:19,639
Speaker 1: it or Ken Dorsey. Yeah, and quite frankly, we probably

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Speaker 1: as part of their plan is to not let anybody know.

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Speaker 1: Right he speaks for the first time Tuesday. We'll see

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01:21:27,120 --> 01:21:31,720
Speaker 1: if we find out anything. I'll be shocked if we do. Ditto. Yeah,

1477
01:21:31,760 --> 01:21:34,519
Speaker 1: but it doesn't need to be fixed, no. I think

1478
01:21:34,560 --> 01:21:37,040
Speaker 1: the skill sets of what's been added to the offense

1479
01:21:37,080 --> 01:21:41,360
Speaker 1: are interesting. I think Jamison Crowder is viewed as a

1480
01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:46,160
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley replacement, so you would not anticipate much changing

1481
01:21:46,200 --> 01:21:50,000
Speaker 1: there in terms of the usage of the slot receiver.

1482
01:21:50,120 --> 01:21:53,519
Speaker 1: Although Josh Allen and Jamison Crowder have to establish a

1483
01:21:53,600 --> 01:21:55,880
Speaker 1: level of trust. Josh has shown an ability to do

1484
01:21:55,920 --> 01:21:57,960
Speaker 1: that with new receivers coming into the fold in the past.

1485
01:21:57,960 --> 01:21:59,519
Speaker 1: There's no reason to think he can't do that with

1486
01:21:59,560 --> 01:22:02,840
Speaker 1: a veteran receiver the caliber of Crowder as well. And

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01:22:02,880 --> 01:22:05,760
Speaker 1: then you have one player that's been added to the

1488
01:22:05,800 --> 01:22:09,479
Speaker 1: fold in addition to Cook and Johnson, that has sparked

1489
01:22:09,479 --> 01:22:11,280
Speaker 1: a lot of interest on the part of fans, because

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01:22:11,600 --> 01:22:13,040
Speaker 1: when I'm out and about, I get a lot of

1491
01:22:13,080 --> 01:22:17,000
Speaker 1: questions about this OJ Howard. Yeah, he is a physical

1492
01:22:17,080 --> 01:22:20,320
Speaker 1: specimen in every sense of the word. Even Josh called

1493
01:22:20,360 --> 01:22:23,760
Speaker 1: him a guy that certainly passes the eyeball test. You're

1494
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:26,400
Speaker 1: six five, two hundred and thirty seven pound quarterback called

1495
01:22:26,479 --> 01:22:30,639
Speaker 1: OJ Howard big. Yeah, he's big, dude. So his presence

1496
01:22:30,640 --> 01:22:33,120
Speaker 1: on this roster has sparked interest as well. O J.

1497
01:22:33,240 --> 01:22:35,479
Speaker 1: Howard can scoot and that guy can go, and it's

1498
01:22:35,479 --> 01:22:38,000
Speaker 1: gonna be interesting to see how he is incorporated into

1499
01:22:38,040 --> 01:22:41,559
Speaker 1: the mix as well. And in fact, I'm most fans

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01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:44,639
Speaker 1: haven't seen the guy very much, but even us, we've

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01:22:44,640 --> 01:22:46,920
Speaker 1: got a we got another question of mail bag about

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01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:50,960
Speaker 1: when training camp starts. The dates have not been finalized.

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01:22:50,960 --> 01:22:54,000
Speaker 1: In training camp. They do have the games set, the

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01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:56,000
Speaker 1: preseason games, so you can say it's gonna be two

1505
01:22:56,040 --> 01:23:03,320
Speaker 1: weeks from that first preseason game, which is something like that. Um,

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01:23:03,800 --> 01:23:05,719
Speaker 1: so you can bet it's gonna be like the first

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01:23:05,760 --> 01:23:08,879
Speaker 1: of August or the thirty first of July or somewhere

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01:23:08,920 --> 01:23:10,880
Speaker 1: in that range where the Bills can go to training camp.

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01:23:11,240 --> 01:23:13,280
Speaker 1: It's about wonder if they can start even earlier because

1510
01:23:13,280 --> 01:23:17,120
Speaker 1: they're in the kickoff game, we'll be able to start.

1511
01:23:17,800 --> 01:23:20,920
Speaker 1: That's good point. Maybe maybe they may be as early

1512
01:23:20,920 --> 01:23:24,040
Speaker 1: as the twenty eight, twenty seventh of July, but usually

1513
01:23:26,040 --> 01:23:28,000
Speaker 1: But let me tell you something, if you can come

1514
01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:30,760
Speaker 1: out to Rochester over Saint John Fisher and watch these guys,

1515
01:23:30,800 --> 01:23:33,920
Speaker 1: you're gonna see the Bills as much as any point

1516
01:23:33,920 --> 01:23:37,559
Speaker 1: in the team's history. Got some guys that passed the

1517
01:23:37,760 --> 01:23:40,800
Speaker 1: eyeball test. They've got traits all over the roster. Tight

1518
01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:45,040
Speaker 1: end spot, defensive line spot, offensive line spot, linebacker spot,

1519
01:23:45,080 --> 01:23:51,080
Speaker 1: the corners, the safeties, it's it's wide out. They got

1520
01:23:51,120 --> 01:23:55,639
Speaker 1: guys all over the field, um that have physical traits

1521
01:23:55,720 --> 01:23:57,360
Speaker 1: that you can measure and that and has a lot

1522
01:23:57,400 --> 01:23:59,960
Speaker 1: of been that way at times and spots, but many

1523
01:24:00,040 --> 01:24:01,880
Speaker 1: and all over the field. They've got one or two

1524
01:24:01,880 --> 01:24:05,280
Speaker 1: guys at every position group that that tip the needle,

1525
01:24:05,520 --> 01:24:09,240
Speaker 1: that move the needle physically in several areas. They have

1526
01:24:09,320 --> 01:24:13,000
Speaker 1: guys that look like superhumans. I mean I was, I

1527
01:24:13,040 --> 01:24:15,080
Speaker 1: mean I was just choking around, but I mean Gregor

1528
01:24:15,160 --> 01:24:18,240
Speaker 1: Rousseau with the weight he's added to his frame, I mean,

1529
01:24:18,240 --> 01:24:20,960
Speaker 1: he looks like a Veloci Raptor out there against It's

1530
01:24:20,960 --> 01:24:24,280
Speaker 1: just like for Tremaine Edmonds too. I mean, and it's

1531
01:24:24,360 --> 01:24:28,280
Speaker 1: it's interesting too because you see, all right, so Rousseau's

1532
01:24:28,320 --> 01:24:31,000
Speaker 1: out there Stan getting ready to line, and you know

1533
01:24:31,040 --> 01:24:32,439
Speaker 1: you see him, and if you do, you see him

1534
01:24:32,479 --> 01:24:35,559
Speaker 1: up against the left tackle, Well, it's right tackle Spencer Brown,

1535
01:24:35,880 --> 01:24:37,920
Speaker 1: Spencer Brown six eight two. So they look oh, they

1536
01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:40,160
Speaker 1: look normal, those guys. They could both be five to nine.

1537
01:24:40,200 --> 01:24:42,760
Speaker 1: You can't tell unless you're standing next to him and

1538
01:24:42,840 --> 01:24:44,280
Speaker 1: the top of your head comes up at the bottom

1539
01:24:44,280 --> 01:24:46,920
Speaker 1: of their numbers. Well, and it was readily apparent to

1540
01:24:46,960 --> 01:24:49,160
Speaker 1: me because I was watching some of the clips from

1541
01:24:49,160 --> 01:24:53,400
Speaker 1: Otia practice this week and you see Von Miller pulling

1542
01:24:53,479 --> 01:24:57,400
Speaker 1: Rousseau aside to talk to him. I mean, Von comes

1543
01:24:57,479 --> 01:25:01,960
Speaker 1: up to his chest plate and he's Von's looking straight up.

1544
01:25:03,840 --> 01:25:06,560
Speaker 1: So and it's then when you and von Miller is

1545
01:25:06,600 --> 01:25:08,880
Speaker 1: not a small man. So it's then when you kind

1546
01:25:08,880 --> 01:25:12,719
Speaker 1: of realize, holy cow, it like they've got we're talking

1547
01:25:12,880 --> 01:25:16,280
Speaker 1: really really deep end to the gene pool here. Yeah. Yeah,

1548
01:25:16,320 --> 01:25:18,240
Speaker 1: and that and it's part of the and they got

1549
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:19,840
Speaker 1: and they got the right kind of guys with those

1550
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:22,559
Speaker 1: right kind of traits. They put a great deal of

1551
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:26,160
Speaker 1: emphasis on it, and um so if you do come

1552
01:25:26,160 --> 01:25:28,200
Speaker 1: out to training camp, it'll start in the last half

1553
01:25:28,200 --> 01:25:31,719
Speaker 1: week of July probably usually usually, and it'll go probably

1554
01:25:31,840 --> 01:25:33,760
Speaker 1: you and I were taking Betsy with each other. I

1555
01:25:33,760 --> 01:25:36,320
Speaker 1: think it's gonna go probably around eighteen to twenty days,

1556
01:25:36,960 --> 01:25:39,800
Speaker 1: maybe seventeen usually like two and a half weeks. Yeah,

1557
01:25:39,479 --> 01:25:43,760
Speaker 1: Now they try to get back quicker. Yeah, with two

1558
01:25:43,800 --> 01:25:47,719
Speaker 1: preseason games or three preseason games. I'm sorry, the last

1559
01:25:47,800 --> 01:25:50,320
Speaker 1: one is the only road game they have. I would

1560
01:25:50,320 --> 01:25:58,040
Speaker 1: imagine training camp will break probably before the second home game,

1561
01:25:58,120 --> 01:26:00,599
Speaker 1: maybe probably right before the second home game, so they

1562
01:26:00,600 --> 01:26:02,720
Speaker 1: can come back, get and get in their game day

1563
01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:05,479
Speaker 1: routine for a home game. We will take a break

1564
01:26:05,560 --> 01:26:07,640
Speaker 1: here when we come back. One last question from the

1565
01:26:07,720 --> 01:26:09,960
Speaker 1: mail bag Here on one Bills Live, presented by Collat

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01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:27,280
Speaker 1: of Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Last one from the

1567
01:26:27,280 --> 01:26:31,360
Speaker 1: mail bag, Jim or sorry Jack asks the defense is stack.

1568
01:26:31,400 --> 01:26:33,759
Speaker 1: How many dbs do they keep on their final fifty

1569
01:26:33,800 --> 01:26:36,960
Speaker 1: three man roster nine, ten, eleven, and which one of

1570
01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:39,840
Speaker 1: the undrafted practice squad guys looks poised to snatch a

1571
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:45,200
Speaker 1: roster spot. I e. The next leave Wallace McLeod Elijah Griffin,

1572
01:26:45,240 --> 01:26:48,600
Speaker 1: Cam Lewis, the sixth round corner, Christian Benford, who you

1573
01:26:48,680 --> 01:26:51,960
Speaker 1: got ill I called ten probably I say ten, Yeah,

1574
01:26:51,960 --> 01:26:55,479
Speaker 1: I was gonna say ten. Two. I think nine ninth

1575
01:26:55,520 --> 01:26:57,759
Speaker 1: thin because you gotta have five guys on the field

1576
01:26:57,800 --> 01:27:00,800
Speaker 1: all the time. But I think nine of the ten

1577
01:27:01,040 --> 01:27:05,720
Speaker 1: are in pretty good lying to already be predetermined. So

1578
01:27:05,840 --> 01:27:08,719
Speaker 1: you're looking at like Jaquan Johnson, Jordan Poyer, Micah Hyde,

1579
01:27:08,760 --> 01:27:14,160
Speaker 1: Damar Hamlin, Tarn Johnson, Kyrie Lyndradavious White, Dane Jackson, Siran Neil.

1580
01:27:14,600 --> 01:27:17,960
Speaker 1: That's nine right there. So now you're talking about these

1581
01:27:17,960 --> 01:27:21,439
Speaker 1: guys fighting for the tenth spot. Cam Lewis, Christian Benford,

1582
01:27:21,520 --> 01:27:24,320
Speaker 1: Nick McLeod, Josh Thomas, the kid who's been on the

1583
01:27:24,320 --> 01:27:26,160
Speaker 1: practice squad the last couple of years. And are you're

1584
01:27:26,200 --> 01:27:31,200
Speaker 1: keeping a sixth safety? I don't know, Elijah Griffin. Yeah, so, yeah,

1585
01:27:31,240 --> 01:27:33,080
Speaker 1: there are a lot of guys. Tim Harris a veteran

1586
01:27:33,160 --> 01:27:36,479
Speaker 1: corner with size, you know it. It's gonna be tough,

1587
01:27:36,520 --> 01:27:40,559
Speaker 1: but that talk, I'm probably down to four safeties and

1588
01:27:40,640 --> 01:27:43,400
Speaker 1: well that's what they've usually done. And yeah, so which

1589
01:27:43,520 --> 01:27:46,320
Speaker 1: that means Josh Thomas is probably on the practice squad again.

1590
01:27:47,560 --> 01:27:50,519
Speaker 1: And here's where that expanded practice squad Steve helps you,

1591
01:27:51,120 --> 01:27:54,799
Speaker 1: because now you can keep a guy like Josh Thomas

1592
01:27:55,240 --> 01:27:58,720
Speaker 1: or Nick McLeod on the practice squad. You're you're not

1593
01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:01,800
Speaker 1: throwing too many out of the building. No, no, no,

1594
01:28:02,080 --> 01:28:03,559
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. I don't care who they are.

1595
01:28:03,640 --> 01:28:05,439
Speaker 1: You never have enough on the list all the way

1596
01:28:05,479 --> 01:28:10,599
Speaker 1: down to you know, JaMarcus Ingram, I mean undrafted kid. Yeah,

1597
01:28:11,120 --> 01:28:12,960
Speaker 1: you're not throwing You're not tossing him to the curb.

1598
01:28:13,520 --> 01:28:17,160
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see because you can't have

1599
01:28:17,280 --> 01:28:20,240
Speaker 1: enough of them. Right. And again, this is where a

1600
01:28:20,280 --> 01:28:24,559
Speaker 1: sixteen player practice squad becomes invaluable because now you can

1601
01:28:24,640 --> 01:28:29,040
Speaker 1: keep six veteran free agents on your practice squad. So

1602
01:28:29,080 --> 01:28:31,680
Speaker 1: somebody like a Tim Harris who's got time in the

1603
01:28:31,760 --> 01:28:36,280
Speaker 1: league games under his belt, six one corner, if you

1604
01:28:36,360 --> 01:28:39,400
Speaker 1: think he could help you as a seventh corner, and

1605
01:28:39,479 --> 01:28:41,559
Speaker 1: you can plug and play and elevate him. And if

1606
01:28:41,600 --> 01:28:44,840
Speaker 1: somebody goes down and practice on Thursday, well there he is.

1607
01:28:45,360 --> 01:28:48,040
Speaker 1: And then at the same time, you may have enough

1608
01:28:48,120 --> 01:28:50,080
Speaker 1: room on that practice squad to keep a kid like

1609
01:28:50,160 --> 01:28:52,880
Speaker 1: Christian Benford who may not be ready for prime time.

1610
01:28:52,960 --> 01:28:55,240
Speaker 1: Right now, but you see something in him in training

1611
01:28:55,240 --> 01:28:57,320
Speaker 1: camp in the preseason, you say, well, let's work with

1612
01:28:57,360 --> 01:28:59,680
Speaker 1: this kid, and he could be a Levi Wallace in

1613
01:28:59,720 --> 01:29:01,760
Speaker 1: a year or two. Plus. You need those guys, like

1614
01:29:01,800 --> 01:29:04,720
Speaker 1: we said, so you can call your defense and you

1615
01:29:04,760 --> 01:29:06,439
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about a guy knowing anymore to

1616
01:29:06,479 --> 01:29:09,360
Speaker 1: line up or who he's got. You gotta have guys

1617
01:29:09,400 --> 01:29:12,200
Speaker 1: in the building who know what they're doing in the defense,

1618
01:29:12,240 --> 01:29:14,559
Speaker 1: even if they're not athletic enough to do it well.

1619
01:29:14,920 --> 01:29:18,120
Speaker 1: At least everybody else can play their game. Everybody, have

1620
01:29:18,160 --> 01:29:21,120
Speaker 1: a good Memorial Day weekend. Remember those who made the

1621
01:29:21,200 --> 01:29:24,799
Speaker 1: ultimate sacrifice for our country. We will not be here tomorrow.

1622
01:29:24,840 --> 01:29:26,639
Speaker 1: We are off for the holiday. We are also off

1623
01:29:26,680 --> 01:29:28,639
Speaker 1: on Monday, so Steve and I will see you back

1624
01:29:28,680 --> 01:29:32,600
Speaker 1: here on Tuesday when Week two of OTAs begins. And

1625
01:29:32,680 --> 01:29:36,080
Speaker 1: if you're looking for that Sean McDermott practice hat, one

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Speaker 1: of our bills. Fans found him on Amazon, so check

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Speaker 1: it out over there.