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Speaker 1: player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even

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Speaker 1: in the spreaded fear of normalcy, all right. We are

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Speaker 1: rocking on a Friday, Friday, Friday, Friday, Friday, Friday. Whoa

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you here on a Friday. As Steve

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Speaker 1: news with respect to responding and you know, choosing love,

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Speaker 1: Fund that according to a report from our broadcast partner

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Speaker 1: There was none of that. There was no there was

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Speaker 1: Nice business, he asks different, it's different. So yeah, we'll see.

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Speaker 1: to him and thinking, Okay, I've got a chance to

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Speaker 1: be an early day two pick, a late day two

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Speaker 1: pick something like that. Ton't to get called halfway through

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Speaker 1: the first He's everything, are you kiding? Who is this? Right?

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Speaker 1: He knew? Unbelievable, unbelievable, particularly because you know how the

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Speaker 1: Patriots do it. They might not even spoken to the kid.

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Speaker 1: They probably talked to him and said, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: we don't They wouldn't tell him. There is an NFL

433
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Speaker 1: Draft Advisory Council that if an agent for a player asks,

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Speaker 1: they will give them their approximate value on a draft

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Speaker 1: board across the league, like an average value of where

436
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Speaker 1: a team see them and if they're a first second

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Speaker 1: round pick, third round pick, etc. So you had to

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Speaker 1: have some idea, which is why he probably had the

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Speaker 1: reaction that he did because that was not the grade

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Speaker 1: that he clearly got from the advisory council. All Right,

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Speaker 1: we gotta take a break here because when we come back,

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Speaker 1: we'll be joined by Bill's Hall of Famer Bruce Smith,

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Speaker 1: going to give us his reflections on his visit down

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Speaker 1: to the East Side yesterday at the sight of the

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Speaker 1: tragic shooting, as well as last night's service and presentation

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Speaker 1: that Steve attended last night in Buffalo as well. All

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Speaker 1: of that coming up next with Bill's Hall of Famer

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Speaker 1: Bruce Smith. Next here on One Bill's Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, welcome back

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Speaker 1: to One Bill by Chris Brown's Dude Tasket with you

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Speaker 1: and joined by Bill's Hall of Famer Bruce Smith, who's

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Speaker 1: been in town last couple of days. Obviously, everyone saw

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Speaker 1: his visit over the East Side with his good friends

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Speaker 1: Thurman Thomas and Jim Kelly, along with the Pagoulas and

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Speaker 1: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Why don't we first reflect on that, Bruce.

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Speaker 1: It was very obvious to all of the people that

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Speaker 1: were watching as we were covering it here on the show.

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Speaker 1: We had video footage of your visit over there, and

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Speaker 1: you know, you're doing a Q and A with the

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Speaker 1: media as well. But people always say you can always

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Speaker 1: see and the coverage of a tragedy like this, but

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00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 1: when you are on site, the weight of it hits

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Speaker 1: you fully. So how long did that take you show

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Speaker 1: up on the scene? How long did it Probably took

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Speaker 1: about ten seconds for the weight of it to hit you, right,

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Speaker 1: if if that long? U for first of all, to

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Speaker 1: have Roger Goodell come in town. I'd spoke with him

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Speaker 1: a number of times and said that we need to

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Speaker 1: go to Buffalo. The Buculus called me and extended to

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Speaker 1: I was already coming down, and they found out that

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Speaker 1: I was coming down, and they they came and picked

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Speaker 1: me up. And we all wrote to Buffalo together and

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Speaker 1: attended H these services and went to visit the memorials

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Speaker 1: site UH and the actual site of the scene of

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Speaker 1: the crime UM together H. And as I walked out

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Speaker 1: to the memorial site, it hit me and I cried

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Speaker 1: like a baby. UM. There were no words that could

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Speaker 1: express the array of motions H that I felt for

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Speaker 1: this community, U for the city of Buffalo. And but

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Speaker 1: that's all a part of the healing process. UM. But

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Speaker 1: until you actually physically are present at the memorial to

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Speaker 1: see what actually took place, not on TV, but your

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Speaker 1: physical presence UH. And and see the the ten names

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Speaker 1: that had crosses UH laid in the the grass at

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Speaker 1: the scene of this this this massacre um. You just

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Speaker 1: can't comprehend it until you're you're actually there. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it does make it different. I mean I told you, Sarah,

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00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 1: I drove there last night after the service, which was

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Speaker 1: just down the street, and there were still there are

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Speaker 1: people there. Uh still, it was it was late, and

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Speaker 1: you get a sense of the space and the you know,

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Speaker 1: the prominence of the building and that and that area

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Speaker 1: right there, and you've we've heard also that you know

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Speaker 1: that that supermar that tops there was really important to

495
00:29:45,680 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: that community, really important to that community, and hy to

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Speaker 1: choose that as a target. It was There's just so

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Speaker 1: many things that hit you about the every level of

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Speaker 1: disgust and anger and to all the wrong that is

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Speaker 1: about what happened. It hits you all at once, and

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Speaker 1: it's hard. It's it's really I think, and I would

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00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: encourage people to visit and you know, stop, there's you

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00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 1: can't miss it. There's flowers laying literally at twenty different

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Speaker 1: spots where people have paid their respects. And yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: it's very moving, very pure pure evil. Yeah, evil like

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Speaker 1: I've never experienced before in my lifetime. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's one thing when you see shootings like this

507
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 1: in another state that's far away from you. It does

508
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: not impact you the way it impacts you when it

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Speaker 1: happens in your house, in your front yard, to two

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Speaker 1: people whom you love, yearly defenseless people, and it brings

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Speaker 1: to mind, and it brings to question, how long, how

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Speaker 1: many more times do innocent people of Kabblar have to

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Speaker 1: suffer these atrocities that take place? And it seems like

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Speaker 1: it's on a routine basis. Well, there was another, Bruce,

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00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: I don't have to tell you this. There was another

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Speaker 1: shooting the same day in California at a Presbyterian churches

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Speaker 1: that targeted Taiwanese people. Yes, and so yes, the believe me.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to debate this for a second. The

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Speaker 1: black community has shouldered more of this than any other race.

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Speaker 1: And I don't even think it's close in this country.

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Speaker 1: And that's that's bad enough. And now we have you know,

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Speaker 1: other people. You know, the Asian community has been a

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00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: target since the pandemic hit because they're unfairly blamed for

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Speaker 1: the COVID pandemic and it's continuing. Um. It doesn't matter

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00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,160
Speaker 1: what ethnic group is targeted, it's all wrong. And the

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00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: thing that bothers me the most is everything today gets politicized.

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Speaker 1: This is not a political issue. This is about being

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Speaker 1: a better human being at its very core level, very

529
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: base level. Just be better human beings. I don't care

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Speaker 1: what political affiliation you have, Just be a better human

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Speaker 1: I'll say. One of the things that jumped out of

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Speaker 1: me last night as I was sitting there and listen

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Speaker 1: to the speakers. One of the problems has always been

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Speaker 1: for events like this, And I say events like this,

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Speaker 1: and sadly there's too many to count. People who look

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00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: like me are silent in the aftermath. There's no outrage,

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00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 1: there's just quiet, no and in that silence it is

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00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:58,760
Speaker 1: interpreted sometimes as complicitly, and that's you can't be silent.

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00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: You have to And I say it to somebody. If

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00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: you look like me, go out and say it to somebody,

541
00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 1: how wrong it is. Find somebody and tell them you

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00:33:08,360 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 1: believe and know in your heart that it is wrong.

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00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:15,720
Speaker 1: Otherwise you're complicit. You've got to make it public of

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00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: how wrong it is that you're against things like that,

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00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:23,719
Speaker 1: that you don't believe the cockamami rhetoric that surrounds acts

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Speaker 1: of violence like this, racial acts of violence like this,

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Speaker 1: You cannot stay silent. You have to speak up, particularly

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00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 1: people who look like Brownie and right. Because when it

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00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: comes from the Caucasian community and you can agree or

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00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 1: disagree brus, I think it carries more weight, does it not?

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00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: When it comes from our community to support yours, it

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00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: carries more weights. The unification, Yes, the unification. It's stronger

553
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: when there's both sides of the equation that comes to

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Speaker 1: the table, right and and and and makes these comments

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00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: about racism. Um. I had the opportunity. I was invited

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Speaker 1: to the Antiochus church last night, and um um I

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00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: invited uh some of my teammates, and Steve was, as

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00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: Steve always does, I'll be there. And um um if

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00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: you could have seen the reception that um the people

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Speaker 1: gave him. Uh when I announced his presence. Um, you see,

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Speaker 1: because I know Steve's heart and and I know his

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00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:48,800
Speaker 1: his his thinking and and how he's compassionate and and

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00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: he cares about the human race. Um, so to have

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Speaker 1: he and Sarah there uh supporting the community, Uh, spoke volumes.

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00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 1: I also had a few other friends that were there,

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Speaker 1: Jeremy from the Bills and jt Uh. You used to

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00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:14,839
Speaker 1: be a state trooper uh and his daughter. But I

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00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:21,440
Speaker 1: saw so many people that I knew from my playing days, UM,

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Speaker 1: and we were able to interact and and just for

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00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:32,839
Speaker 1: a moment, they put a smile on their face. Uh.

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Speaker 1: It took their minds off of uh this this this

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Speaker 1: horrific event UH that took down and and and one

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Speaker 1: of the things that that has made me so proud

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00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: has been this community UH coming together, not taking a

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00:35:56,200 --> 00:36:06,239
Speaker 1: position of retaliatorial measures, but one in which we were

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00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:11,920
Speaker 1: smart enough to identify what this person was trying to do.

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00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: He was trying to divide us. He wants the African

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Speaker 1: American population or the community to live in fear. And

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Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, when I went down to

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Speaker 1: Tops yesterday, I heard stories of some of the kids

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Speaker 1: that live in the neighborhoods afraid to come out, afraid

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Speaker 1: to be in groups because they felt they would be

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00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:47,000
Speaker 1: easy targets after this horrific event. And while it's going

584
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:50,360
Speaker 1: to take some time, and the parents are going to

585
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:55,200
Speaker 1: have to do a miraculous job of just showing these

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00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: kids love and and and obviously our leaders are going

587
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:03,320
Speaker 1: to have to make sure these neighborhoods are protected. UM.

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00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: But we cannot allow racist individuals who are and I

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00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: don't even want to say they're sick, but their minds

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00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:27,360
Speaker 1: to go and strike down kill ten people pillars within

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Speaker 1: our communities. A grandmother, a caregiver to her husband, a

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Speaker 1: security guard who is a former lieutenant with the Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Police day a dad Um. I mean, it's just just

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00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: heartbreaking defense defenseless, innocent people who weren't harming anyone. Um.

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Speaker 1: And this time progresses. As time progresses, we're gonna learn

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Speaker 1: more and more about this individual that perpetrated this act,

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00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: and there's going to have to be some accountability, and

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00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 1: there's going to have to be some justice. I was

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00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: just informed that he shot fifty four rounds in five minutes.

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Speaker 1: Fifty four rounds, Aaron Salter. Had it not been for

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00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:40,839
Speaker 1: his bravery and his heroism, I would argue that they

602
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: would have been it would have been much worse. He

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00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 1: got off ten rounds. But the perpetrator had on a

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00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:56,720
Speaker 1: metal body armor, so it did not penetrate his body armor.

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00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 1: So that begs the question, why do we have folks

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00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: in military gear or selling folks body armor and things

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00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: of that nature. Well, it was a it was a

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00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,759
Speaker 1: form my understanding it was a rifle that was converted

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00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 1: into an assault rifle. Yeah. Uh. And there's more information

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00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 1: that that will become and none of it's going to

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00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:26,320
Speaker 1: be pretty yeah, none of it's going to be acceptable.

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00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 1: None of it should be. Um, it's but I gotta

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00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 1: tell you, Bruce, and you know, as we sit here

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00:39:33,520 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 1: and talk, yeah, I'm so you mean, it means a

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00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 1: lot to the community that you're back. Obviously, you know

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00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: your place in our community and our hearts and the

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00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 1: people here in Buffalo. Everybody's familiar with you and your

618
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,760
Speaker 1: name and your great career and your Hall of Fame stature,

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00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 1: and and I know you as a personal friend, and

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00:39:49,719 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 1: you know and the the the journey you've been on

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Speaker 1: for your entire life, and how awesome it's been. Um,

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00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,080
Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming back home and and

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Speaker 1: helping all of us through this. And I just want

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00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 1: to ask you, you're you're gonna stay for a day

625
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: or too longer. What are you gonna do today? Is

626
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 1: you know, what are your plans today? What's what's going on? Well? Well,

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00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: first and foremost, I love Buffalo. I love the people

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00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 1: of Buffalo, their resilience, their strength in the community, in

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Speaker 1: the African American community. They are faithful Christians, They love

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Speaker 1: one another, they will do anything in the world for

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00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 1: one another. And now we're gonna have the rise to

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00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:46,320
Speaker 1: the occasion and support this community the way it loves Buffalo.

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00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 1: But I look, I love the people of Buffalo. It brightens.

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Speaker 1: It just makes me feel so good when I'm in

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00:40:55,200 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 1: town and I feel the love and I could see

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00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: it in people's eyes and and take the football part

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00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 1: out of it, but just a humanity part um is

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00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: what makes me feel so good. Um. Today, I'm I'm um.

639
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:21,000
Speaker 1: I just came from seeing the Sheriff Um of Buffalo,

640
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 1: John where he deputized me. So now you guys have

641
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: to pretty call me deput Yeah, yeah, I gotta I

642
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:36,440
Speaker 1: gotta come back. Leave it up to see. Yeah. But

643
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:40,879
Speaker 1: but um, I got a couple of citations. I'm gonna

644
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:44,200
Speaker 1: pass out here. Yeah, I can't wait for that. Put

645
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 1: on my car. But I'm gonna go out to the

646
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 1: h There's there's a event that's taking place, um where

647
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 1: they're gonna be serving some food out at one of

648
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:01,120
Speaker 1: the parks and in downtown Buffalo. So I'm going to

649
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 1: go out there and spend some time and continue to

650
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:09,800
Speaker 1: get into community and have conversations and hug people and

651
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,040
Speaker 1: just let them know I love them. Yeah, well, I know,

652
00:42:13,239 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: I know, Bruce. Your support was unquestionably appreciated by the

653
00:42:18,680 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 1: Buffalo community and it unquestionably made a difference yesterday, today, etc.

654
00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 1: So as Steve said, we appreciate you coming back. I

655
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:31,360
Speaker 1: know your support was genuinely appreciated by everybody here in

656
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,359
Speaker 1: Western New York. So it's good to see you. Yeah,

657
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: we look forward to seeing you back here again. And

658
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:38,839
Speaker 1: I know if there are efforts going forward to make

659
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: a lasting impact, which I think is the goal here

660
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 1: because two weeks from now we don't want people to

661
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:45,799
Speaker 1: forget about what happened over there. I know you'll be

662
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: a part of that. So good to see Bruce, and

663
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 1: thanks again. Well well, thanks Chris, and you brought up

664
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:57,000
Speaker 1: a great point. You know, the families filled the love

665
00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 1: and the support right now, but a month from now,

666
00:43:01,719 --> 00:43:04,120
Speaker 1: six months from now, right, we still need to be

667
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:09,960
Speaker 1: there for so that that's the critical piece that we

668
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 1: cannot let slip through the cracks. Right. That's Bill's Hall

669
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 1: of Famer Bruce Smith joining us here on One Bills Live.

670
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,399
Speaker 1: We will take a break be back with more. We'll

671
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: see in a few minutes. Back here on One Bill's Live.

672
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you gonna go to the

673
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,480
Speaker 1: phones here now to a good friend of the show.

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00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: We go to Butch on the east side. What do

675
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 1: you have for us? Butch? You're on One Bill's Live.

676
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:47,240
Speaker 1: But first of all, thanks for taking our call. Steve

677
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:49,880
Speaker 1: and Chris. You guys, I've been talking to you for years,

678
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: and you know the first thing I'm gonna tell you, guys,

679
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 1: is that I love you. Now I'm saying I'm saying

680
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: that sincerely as one of the volunteer coordinators here at

681
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:03,880
Speaker 1: three forty seventies Very Street working with the Veterans Volunteer

682
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:09,759
Speaker 1: Service Associations along with other volunteer groups. Start. I'm gonna

683
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,440
Speaker 1: start you. On Wednesday. Wednesday, we had a little traffic control.

684
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: I saw four State Trooper cars and I saw three

685
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:19,200
Speaker 1: tour buses coming and four State troopers after him. When

686
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: I got close and I was waving them in, I

687
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:22,719
Speaker 1: saw the players on the bus and I didn't know

688
00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 1: it was the players, but they were heading to the site.

689
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: I really appreciate them, the people in the community really

690
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 1: appreciate them. That the love that was shown from that

691
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,879
Speaker 1: side of the fence firers on the entertainment athletic side

692
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:40,439
Speaker 1: of the fence. The community absorbed that when they went

693
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:43,839
Speaker 1: on Jefferson Avenue and just spread out walking around. Like

694
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 1: Steve said, he went to the site. He's been up

695
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,720
Speaker 1: there when he opened the street of Jefferson to drive by.

696
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:52,600
Speaker 1: The people out there just loved it. That's Wednesday. Thursday

697
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: came and the site was so beautiful. No one expected

698
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:04,320
Speaker 1: mister Bagoula, mister Goodell, mister Smith, mister Kelly, mister Thomas,

699
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:06,760
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. The one that blew us away

700
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,680
Speaker 1: was when mister Jannarette walked up in there, and that

701
00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:13,200
Speaker 1: was exciting. You know. It was the love, the love,

702
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:16,280
Speaker 1: the love, the love, and us would to say thank

703
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: you to you guys. That just not just that one

704
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 1: Bill's drive down at the Savers Organization. I want to

705
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: say thank you to the corporations out there that's sending

706
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:30,120
Speaker 1: food and sending money to the East side of Buffalo.

707
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:32,000
Speaker 1: Once upon a time they used to call us a

708
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:34,759
Speaker 1: law city on the east side. Now people are that's

709
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:38,080
Speaker 1: going in, they're seeing good inside, regardless of what the

710
00:45:38,160 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: bad furnace did. Now I'm gonna put that on the

711
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 1: side of the saying all my thank you, and then

712
00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:46,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna close on this. I do not hate this

713
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: young man. I hate the furnace that it comes from.

714
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,040
Speaker 1: Right now, this young man came, was a young man,

715
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 1: but the furnace inside brought up bad heat and he

716
00:45:57,160 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: made a terrible decision. The same furnace, Steve and Chris.

717
00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 1: It's some of the same furnace right now at the

718
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court where they're threatening, where they're threatening about abortion

719
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 1: that they said, we're gonna come in and kill the

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court people and plat they had to put a

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00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 1: fence around the Supreme Court. That's the furnace. That's the

722
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Speaker 1: furnace this young man got ideas from. This is where

723
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: we have to attapt that. And it's not about the color,

724
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:28,840
Speaker 1: about the race. That's just excuses. It's about the furnace

725
00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 1: of love and hate. And this is why sometimes, you know,

726
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:33,319
Speaker 1: you guys laugh at me a lot when I say

727
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,000
Speaker 1: I love you, Steve, I love you Chris, and you

728
00:46:36,040 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 1: know I mean that sincerely. And Chris, who don't for

729
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:40,439
Speaker 1: years and Steve, you know, for years I've been called

730
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: I've always said that. I always said w GR fifty

731
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 1: five was my team, and I mean it. I love WGR.

732
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: But I want to say to the people out there,

733
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: we on the East Side of Buffalo, and I'm gonna

734
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 1: be one of the advocates to say it that we

735
00:46:54,120 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 1: love each and every one of you. We love your time,

736
00:46:57,400 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 1: we love your volunteerism, we love your airs, we love

737
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 1: the sincereness, we love everything about you. And moving forward

738
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: on the East side of buff I want everyone out

739
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 1: there to adopt the East Side of Buffalo. Come in

740
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 1: and put some businesses, so mom and pop shops to

741
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:12,919
Speaker 1: make some money over there. But guess what, you're gonna

742
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 1: be creating jobs for other people. Come on over there

743
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:16,960
Speaker 1: and hang out with us a little bit. And I

744
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,319
Speaker 1: love you guys, man, and I don't really want to

745
00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: talk football. I just want to just say that to

746
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:23,719
Speaker 1: you guys. And I've been wanting to call you when

747
00:47:23,719 --> 00:47:25,720
Speaker 1: it's first happened, but I'm just trying to get it together.

748
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,440
Speaker 1: But Bruce, like Bruce said, I'm closing on this. You

749
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 1: have to actually walk over there to that site, and

750
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 1: when you hit that site, Steve knows when you hit

751
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:37,040
Speaker 1: that site, it's something that's gonna hit you. It's like

752
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: it's like a wall and you're gonna see the spiritualism

753
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,319
Speaker 1: of it on that But I love you guys, thanks

754
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 1: so much for taking my call. And again to everybody

755
00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: in Western New York or anybody around the world who

756
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:50,760
Speaker 1: watches this show, We on the East Side of Buffalo

757
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:52,959
Speaker 1: love you. We want to say thank you so much.

758
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: And the Veterans Volunteer Veteran Service Association definitely love you,

759
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,879
Speaker 1: along with the other volunteer organizations. Thank you so much, guy.

760
00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 1: But take it our call, all right, Thanks Busch. We

761
00:48:02,160 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: love you too. M Yeah, I mean we're all we're

762
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,880
Speaker 1: all trying to do what we can to support the

763
00:48:07,880 --> 00:48:09,839
Speaker 1: East Side. As Steve mentioned, he was down here last

764
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: night went to the church church service at the Baptist

765
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: Antioch Bactist Church. He was there with Bruce the Rev.

766
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 1: And Sharpton spoke as well, you witnessed the healing firsthand. Yeah. Um.

767
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:27,440
Speaker 1: First of all, Bush, thanks for calling. We appreciate you.

768
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: And you know I told this. I don't know who

769
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 1: I was telling this story to. Actually, I think I

770
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: was an event over during this week and I said

771
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:38,160
Speaker 1: it to some people that now my wife and I

772
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:41,880
Speaker 1: got moved here overnight out of the blue. Um didn't

773
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 1: know Buffalo, couldn't have found it on a map, and

774
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:49,759
Speaker 1: have been here for thirty five plus years now, and

775
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:56,439
Speaker 1: it's home. And the reason we have loved it here

776
00:48:56,600 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: since the very beginning of when we got here is

777
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:04,360
Speaker 1: because of the people here, the way they feel about

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00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:08,320
Speaker 1: each other and about the place they live. This city,

779
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: the people in it, everybody in it, and it you know,

780
00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 1: it's it's real, It's it's real. That's why you know

781
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,880
Speaker 1: this evil had to come in from outside, in my opinion,

782
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 1: because the people here don't. We don't do that to

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00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: each other. Like I said earlier in the show, when

784
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: this happened to our community, you didn't get riots and

785
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: fires and cars turned over and windows broken and buildings

786
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:39,479
Speaker 1: burned down. You got an outpouring of love that makes

787
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:43,880
Speaker 1: this city a little different than everyplace else. And it's real, Bruce.

788
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:46,560
Speaker 1: You can feel it when you go to Jefferson Street tops.

789
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: You can feel it when you see prominent members and

790
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 1: prominent figures in this community go down there and be

791
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 1: moved by it emotionally and lay flowers. And it's different here.

792
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:09,560
Speaker 1: And you know, we knew it before something like this

793
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,320
Speaker 1: had to show it and prove it. Maybe more people

794
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 1: will see it now and maybe the way we handle

795
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 1: this together everybody in the community will be something that

796
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:24,680
Speaker 1: other communities can look at, other people can look at,

797
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 1: and maybe the like Like Butch said, this, whatever furnace

798
00:50:28,000 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 1: or factory creates this hatred and this evil will be

799
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:35,399
Speaker 1: shut down or hamstrung by the fact that it eliminated. Yeah,

800
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 1: or eliminated because it didn't put a dent in this community.

801
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: Hopefully that happens. But I'm with you, Butch. Thank you

802
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:46,480
Speaker 1: for your call. We love you too, and we appreciate

803
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:50,800
Speaker 1: you listening, and everybody else thank you. Yeah, well, said Steve.

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Speaker 1: We will change gears as we take a break here,

805
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 1: because when we come back, we will be joined by

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Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus lead NFL analysts Sam Monster, who had

807
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: grades for all thirty two NFL off seasons. We'll find

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00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:06,880
Speaker 1: out where the Bills wound up in his grading scale.

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Speaker 1: Next here on one Bills Live presented by Kalida Health,

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00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. At a Steve Tasker who has

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Speaker 1: been all the fields. Kind of unique. He was kind

812
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:38,800
Speaker 1: of a dual role player for you. Steve Steve a blimp.

813
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:45,640
Speaker 1: We're not even in the stragedyer of normalcy alright, hour

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Speaker 1: number two here on a Friday, Chris Brown, Steve Task,

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Speaker 1: Who one Bills Live? Is the show? Please to be

816
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 1: joined now by Pro Football Focus lead NFL analyst Sam Munson,

817
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 1: who was already neck deep in off season analysis and

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00:51:58,320 --> 00:52:01,799
Speaker 1: recently put out his grades for how each of the

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00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:06,359
Speaker 1: thirty two NFL teams fared through the course of at

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00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: least the majority of the roster, adjusting with the draft

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Speaker 1: and the most of free agency. Now in the rearview mirror, Sam,

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00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:18,520
Speaker 1: thank you, thanks for joining us, first of all, and second,

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Speaker 1: where did the Bills shake out here in your list

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00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:27,399
Speaker 1: of NFL offseason grades? Yeah, I think the Bills had

825
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: one of the better off seasons in the NFL. I

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00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:32,319
Speaker 1: think I gave them a bat plus overall for their

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00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:36,160
Speaker 1: their entire offseason. The top teams out there were getting

828
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:38,920
Speaker 1: a grade, so there are a tiny touch below that.

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Speaker 1: But the Bills are now in this tough spot where

830
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:44,399
Speaker 1: like the roster is so good, it's hard to make

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00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:49,239
Speaker 1: massive leaps forward, like there isn't room to go that

832
00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:52,840
Speaker 1: much better, and even with moves like signing Von Miller,

833
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:55,520
Speaker 1: and kind of getting involved in this AFC arms race.

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00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 1: It's tough to have as good an offseason and some

835
00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 1: of these teams that we're able to fundamentally change their

836
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:05,880
Speaker 1: outlook heading into twenty twenty two. And you see the Bills,

837
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: their philosophy has been to refurbish. They get a lot

838
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 1: of guys every year on one year deals. Those guys

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00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:17,240
Speaker 1: come in for good buck, no question, but they're motivated

840
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:18,919
Speaker 1: to play hard and the Bills get a really good

841
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 1: contribution for him. But because of that, there is some

842
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:25,640
Speaker 1: roster turn over year to year with some pretty significant

843
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:29,840
Speaker 1: contributors sometimes out of the mix. John Feliciana, who was

844
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:32,080
Speaker 1: there for a couple of years, didn't finish the finish

845
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:33,759
Speaker 1: the season with the Bills, but he was on the bench.

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00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:37,319
Speaker 1: He's gone. Other guys like that have having Quentin Spain

847
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:40,160
Speaker 1: did the same thing a couple of years ago. The

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00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: Bills seem to switch out big men at a higher

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00:53:44,280 --> 00:53:47,799
Speaker 1: rate than most teams do now. Certainly they replace them

850
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 1: with some guys that are same thing. They come in

851
00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 1: and contribute. What are your thoughts on how much do

852
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 1: you doc or knock off or maybe build up a

853
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: team because of rosters like that they're gonna get pretty

854
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 1: good guys in, but they let some pretty good guys go. Yeah.

855
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 1: I think the Bills have had quite a smart approach

856
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 1: to their offensive line since this regime came in. You know,

857
00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:11,759
Speaker 1: they've attacked it with volume. They've attacked it with a

858
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:13,920
Speaker 1: lot of guys that should be able to come in

859
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:17,760
Speaker 1: and almost platoon a group to be at a certain level.

860
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:20,839
Speaker 1: And really, we've been preaching for years at PFF that

861
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:23,359
Speaker 1: you don't need a great offensive line. You know, it's nice.

862
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:25,919
Speaker 1: No one's going to turn down the best offensive line

863
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 1: in the NFL, but they don't come cheap. So instead

864
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:32,200
Speaker 1: of paying a giant amount of money for five all

865
00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:34,439
Speaker 1: pros on the offensive line, one or two of which

866
00:54:34,480 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 1: may get hurt in any given year, let's share the

867
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 1: resources out more equally throughout the roster. Let's bring in

868
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:44,600
Speaker 1: a whole load of guys that will be average at

869
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:47,359
Speaker 1: least on the offensive line and make sure that there's

870
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 1: no weak link. And if you have five average starters

871
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,720
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, you have a pretty good offensive line.

872
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 1: And if you have a quarterback like Josh Allen, you

873
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 1: know he's more than good enough to make the difference

874
00:54:58,000 --> 00:55:00,960
Speaker 1: between that pretty good offensive line and one of the

875
00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 1: league's best, and you have all that money that you

876
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:06,640
Speaker 1: saved rather than paying all those guys sort of all

877
00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 1: pro money. So they I think have done a really

878
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 1: good job of maintaining depth and an awfully high baseline

879
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:16,239
Speaker 1: of play from that offensive line, and while it's not

880
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:18,759
Speaker 1: necessarily been the best in the league, it's not been

881
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 1: a problem for them either. So I kind of like

882
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 1: the approach they've taken generally with those big guys on

883
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 1: either side of the line. Actually, I know PFF recently

884
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:34,000
Speaker 1: named Micah Hyde one of their most underrated players. I

885
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:36,879
Speaker 1: think we can all agree that for the better part

886
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:40,240
Speaker 1: of the McDermott era, the secondary has been the lynchpin

887
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 1: of this defense and has made it a top five

888
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:46,000
Speaker 1: unit almost year over year and up in the top

889
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:49,280
Speaker 1: five against the past as well. I know von Miller's

890
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 1: only one guy, but with von Miller added to this

891
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 1: defense for the first time in the McDermott era, you

892
00:55:55,560 --> 00:56:00,359
Speaker 1: have a primary, a one pass rushing talent. How much

893
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 1: can he even the scales? Do you think Sam in

894
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 1: terms of Buffalo's pass rush on the front end being

895
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 1: on a par or close to a level of the

896
00:56:11,120 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 1: play that the back end has provided the last five years. Yeah, well,

897
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:18,680
Speaker 1: obviously a big part of that is is whether these

898
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 1: young guys are going to develop alongside him and so

899
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 1: take advantage of the attention that von Miller is going

900
00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:27,320
Speaker 1: to draw. Really, what von Miller is is an upgrade

901
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:30,120
Speaker 1: over Jerry Hughes. Is that primary kind of source of

902
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:32,760
Speaker 1: pressure on this defense, and he should be a pretty

903
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:35,440
Speaker 1: significant one. Even though Jerry Hughes for years has been

904
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: one of those most underrated players in the NFL. Jerry

905
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 1: Hughes is probably good for fifty fifty five pressures in

906
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 1: the course of a season. Von Miller for most of

907
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:47,400
Speaker 1: his career was averaging like eighty five. So you're talking

908
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 1: at least a couple of pressures a game extra on

909
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:52,400
Speaker 1: top of what Jerry Hughes was going to bring you.

910
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:56,120
Speaker 1: And if he gets back to his very best play,

911
00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:59,160
Speaker 1: I mean he had his first double digit pressure game

912
00:56:59,200 --> 00:57:01,400
Speaker 1: in the playoff for the first time in a few

913
00:57:01,520 --> 00:57:04,520
Speaker 1: years last season with the rams, like von Miller at

914
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:07,879
Speaker 1: his best can get you ten pressures in the course

915
00:57:07,880 --> 00:57:10,480
Speaker 1: of a game. He can take over and absolutely transform

916
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:13,759
Speaker 1: the way that game is going. But even with last

917
00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 1: season thrown in there, I think we're still working with,

918
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 1: you know, a declining version of von Miller, but he's

919
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:22,880
Speaker 1: declining from the point of being the best edge rusher

920
00:57:22,880 --> 00:57:25,680
Speaker 1: of his generation, so he can fall an awful long

921
00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 1: way and still be a very good bass rusher. One

922
00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:30,760
Speaker 1: of the things about these roster bills is that you've

923
00:57:30,800 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 1: got to find guys who give you value for something,

924
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 1: you know, more than the contract is worth. One of

925
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 1: the guys you've got for the Buffalo Bills is Micah

926
00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 1: Hyde as being one of the most underrated players that

927
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:45,280
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills have on their roster even around the league. Certainly,

928
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:47,720
Speaker 1: the Bills have had a secondary that's been stellar with

929
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:51,280
Speaker 1: Tourdavious White poor year hide, and then in the year's

930
00:57:51,560 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 1: last four year has been Levi Wallace and Taryn Johnson

931
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:58,720
Speaker 1: in the secondary. Talk a little bit about Micah Hyde

932
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 1: and that any importance that he has toward that secondary

933
00:58:02,040 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 1: you have is one of the most underrated players in

934
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 1: the Bill's roster. Yeah, I think both safeties are pretty

935
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:09,920
Speaker 1: underrated as well. You have to sort of acknowledge that,

936
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:13,920
Speaker 1: I think this scheme is quite safety friendly, quite defensive

937
00:58:13,920 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 1: bank friendly. Generally, they put those guys in a good

938
00:58:16,800 --> 00:58:19,800
Speaker 1: position to succeed. They set them up for success. And

939
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:23,720
Speaker 1: if you kind of go back prior to the Bills,

940
00:58:23,920 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 1: you look at those Carolina defenses before McDermott came over,

941
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:30,240
Speaker 1: you know, those safeties were grading well as well, even

942
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:33,000
Speaker 1: though they weren't necessarily as good a player as a

943
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:35,959
Speaker 1: guy like Micah Hyde or Jordan Poyer. But those guys

944
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 1: are both versatile. They can both do anything within the secondary.

945
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:41,680
Speaker 1: They can line up, you know, deep as a free safety.

946
00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:44,080
Speaker 1: They can be in the box, they can cover slot players,

947
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:46,400
Speaker 1: they can cover tight ends and running backs out of

948
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 1: the bank field. So those are the guys, the glue

949
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 1: pieces that allow everybody else to function within that defense.

950
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:55,680
Speaker 1: They can move around no matter what coverage shell it

951
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:58,200
Speaker 1: is you're trying to run, and they make it work.

952
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 1: So I love the way those two guys have been playing.

953
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:02,800
Speaker 1: I think they compliment each other really well as well,

954
00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:06,720
Speaker 1: and work potentially better as a duo than they would individually.

955
00:59:07,200 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 1: And yeah, I don't think they really get the credit

956
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:14,120
Speaker 1: they deserve. It's just these two extremely consistent, high level

957
00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:18,880
Speaker 1: performers year on year. I know you recently had a

958
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:21,760
Speaker 1: piece about the Jets being the big winners from the draft.

959
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:24,560
Speaker 1: It makes a lot of sense. It also helps when

960
00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:26,240
Speaker 1: all of your picks are in the first four rounds

961
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 1: and three of them are in round one. But unlike

962
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:34,200
Speaker 1: jets of years past, they appeared to hit on people

963
00:59:34,400 --> 00:59:36,640
Speaker 1: at the proper value for the most part, at least

964
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:40,520
Speaker 1: in terms of general consensus. How realistic is it that

965
00:59:41,480 --> 00:59:44,240
Speaker 1: maybe more than half of those guys are gonna see

966
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 1: a decent amount of playing time in year one as rookies.

967
00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:51,120
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a roster that had its share of holds.

968
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:53,600
Speaker 1: So when you get talent like this, get it on

969
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 1: the field sooner rather than later. Right, Yeah, absolutely, I

970
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 1: think those three first round picks should all be starters

971
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 1: or effectively starters, right. Jermaine Johnson on the edge probably

972
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 1: forms a kind of platoon with Carl Lawson coming back

973
01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 1: from his injury and John Franklin Myers there as well.

974
01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:14,280
Speaker 1: So those three guys I would imagine will be like

975
01:00:14,320 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 1: the primary source of edge defender pass rush for them.

976
01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:21,280
Speaker 1: But Garrett Wilson a wide receiver, Saw Gardner a cornerback,

977
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:24,080
Speaker 1: those two guys should be immediate starters for them and

978
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 1: arguably the number ones at their respective position, like they

979
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:30,440
Speaker 1: brought in DJ Reid and free agency as well. And

980
01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 1: that's part of liking what the Jets are doing is

981
01:00:33,320 --> 01:00:35,720
Speaker 1: that they've been building I think in the right direction

982
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:38,160
Speaker 1: for a while. Now. None of it's going to matter

983
01:00:38,240 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 1: unless Zach Wilson can take a big jump forward in

984
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:43,959
Speaker 1: lead to or in year two and show that he's

985
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 1: really the quarterback of the future for that team. But

986
01:00:47,480 --> 01:00:49,840
Speaker 1: it's tough to disagree with what they've been doing in

987
01:00:49,920 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 1: terms of building around him. And yeah, look, there are

988
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:54,440
Speaker 1: people that should to say. Of course, the Jets had

989
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:56,600
Speaker 1: a great draft. They had all these high first round picks,

990
01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 1: but you've got to give them credit for taking the

991
01:00:59,480 --> 01:01:02,960
Speaker 1: layups right. They were layoffs. They're easier shots than than

992
01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:05,280
Speaker 1: other shots, but you can screw it up right, you

993
01:01:05,280 --> 01:01:07,520
Speaker 1: can miss the layoff. And I think the Jets got

994
01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 1: three really good players at good value at those respective picks,

995
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:14,640
Speaker 1: and you know, you should give them credit for that.

996
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:17,040
Speaker 1: They would have been easy, particularly with the Jets in

997
01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:19,800
Speaker 1: previous years, to run that right off the rails and

998
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:21,960
Speaker 1: taking a player you know that was a massive reach

999
01:01:22,120 --> 01:01:25,120
Speaker 1: or didn't fill a position of need or something like that.

1000
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 1: One of the things about their picks, you know, they've

1001
01:01:27,320 --> 01:01:29,800
Speaker 1: got two In their first four picks, they got two

1002
01:01:29,840 --> 01:01:33,920
Speaker 1: offensive and two defensive players. The offensive guys are skill guys,

1003
01:01:33,960 --> 01:01:36,600
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson and Bruce Hall. Bruce Hall was number one

1004
01:01:36,680 --> 01:01:39,360
Speaker 1: running back in a lot of boards coming out of

1005
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:41,440
Speaker 1: this draft, and of course Garrett Wilson might have been

1006
01:01:41,480 --> 01:01:43,640
Speaker 1: the number one wide out on a lot of boards.

1007
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:46,680
Speaker 1: Although it's a you know, as every year the wide

1008
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:51,760
Speaker 1: receivers are a deep group. Could those and because they

1009
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:55,880
Speaker 1: depend on Zach Wilson's success those two guys, how much

1010
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:58,240
Speaker 1: can the Jets rely on them to help Zach Wilson?

1011
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:00,600
Speaker 1: You know, even as first year players? Is that too

1012
01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:03,280
Speaker 1: big a ask? Even for players with a high end

1013
01:02:03,320 --> 01:02:06,479
Speaker 1: like these two guys have. I think what they're doing

1014
01:02:06,640 --> 01:02:08,440
Speaker 1: is it's kind of similar to what the Bills did

1015
01:02:08,520 --> 01:02:10,640
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen, right, which is you surround him with

1016
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 1: as much talent as possible, you believe in him as

1017
01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:15,800
Speaker 1: the guy, but ultimately it then comes down to him

1018
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:19,520
Speaker 1: taking that step forward. And the Jets are giving Zach

1019
01:02:19,600 --> 01:02:23,400
Speaker 1: Wilson every conceivable opportunity to be good. They've given him

1020
01:02:23,520 --> 01:02:27,000
Speaker 1: an overhauled offensive line over the course of the last

1021
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:29,400
Speaker 1: couple of years. That unit finished the season. I think

1022
01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:32,840
Speaker 1: ranked eleventh in PFF's offensive line rankings. It probably got

1023
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:35,959
Speaker 1: better in the off season, so the line should be good.

1024
01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 1: They're receiving corps. They started doing this last year with

1025
01:02:39,320 --> 01:02:42,160
Speaker 1: Elijah More and with Corey Davis coming in, And maybe

1026
01:02:42,240 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 1: Davis can't be that number one receiver, but now you've

1027
01:02:44,600 --> 01:02:49,000
Speaker 1: got Garrett Wilson coming in to at least compliment. And

1028
01:02:49,120 --> 01:02:51,680
Speaker 1: maybe Garrett Wilson can't be that true number one guy either,

1029
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:53,800
Speaker 1: But all of a sudden, you've got two or three

1030
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:56,680
Speaker 1: guys that can all get open at different areas. And

1031
01:02:56,720 --> 01:02:59,440
Speaker 1: then Breece Hall has that kind of skill set to

1032
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:03,240
Speaker 1: be a class sick throwback, bell cow kind of running

1033
01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:06,480
Speaker 1: back and do everything for that offense. So all of

1034
01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:09,360
Speaker 1: a sudden, you look around Zach Wilson and you say, well,

1035
01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:13,280
Speaker 1: everything's there, Like the coaching is there, the scheme is there,

1036
01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:15,920
Speaker 1: the running back is there, the offensive line, the weapons.

1037
01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:18,280
Speaker 1: Now it's all on you, you know. And that doesn't

1038
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:21,600
Speaker 1: mean it will work, because if he doesn't have that

1039
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:24,959
Speaker 1: ability in him, it's not gonna manifest itself just because

1040
01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 1: the supporting cast is really good. But if they believe

1041
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:29,760
Speaker 1: him this is the way of doing it, give him

1042
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:32,439
Speaker 1: as much opportunity to be good as possible and then

1043
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:35,200
Speaker 1: let him let him show it. Last one for me,

1044
01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:38,880
Speaker 1: Sam deals with a landing spot. If there is one

1045
01:03:39,560 --> 01:03:42,080
Speaker 1: for Baker Mayfield. It doesn't look like anybody's going to

1046
01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:44,400
Speaker 1: touch him until the Browns up and release him because

1047
01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:46,560
Speaker 1: nobody wants to take on that contract. And we all

1048
01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:50,200
Speaker 1: understand why. Is it as simple as saying, well, Carolina

1049
01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:52,440
Speaker 1: needs one, Seattle needs one. He'll end up in one

1050
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:56,760
Speaker 1: of those two spots. I just wonder what, I don't know,

1051
01:03:56,800 --> 01:03:59,600
Speaker 1: because Carolina is kind of a complicated situation. Do you

1052
01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:01,280
Speaker 1: want to have two of the top three picks from

1053
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:03,560
Speaker 1: the twenty eighteen draft that were cast offs by their

1054
01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:05,840
Speaker 1: original teams? You want two of those guys because the

1055
01:04:05,880 --> 01:04:08,400
Speaker 1: first one didn't work out so well in year one

1056
01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:10,920
Speaker 1: in Carolina. So I'm just kind of trying to crawl

1057
01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:13,440
Speaker 1: in the head of the two organizations to see if

1058
01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:18,000
Speaker 1: there really would be genuine interest in him by either club. Yeah,

1059
01:04:18,080 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 1: Carolina is tough because you've also got a factor in

1060
01:04:21,080 --> 01:04:24,120
Speaker 1: that the top two guys in that organization in terms

1061
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 1: of GM and head coach are probably both you know,

1062
01:04:27,120 --> 01:04:30,000
Speaker 1: on the hot seat on borrowed time as well, so

1063
01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:32,640
Speaker 1: they have to think about, well, what's gonna give us

1064
01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:36,120
Speaker 1: the best chance of saving our jobs here, And it's

1065
01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:39,800
Speaker 1: a tough sell for Carolina to essentially almost repeat the

1066
01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:44,520
Speaker 1: Sam Darnold experiment a year later. It becomes a dramatically

1067
01:04:44,560 --> 01:04:47,960
Speaker 1: different cell if you're picking up that contract for Baker

1068
01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:51,680
Speaker 1: Mayfield versus if he's essentially getting paid almost nothing as

1069
01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:54,640
Speaker 1: a free agent once they cut him. If the Panthers

1070
01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:57,440
Speaker 1: can convince Cleveland to eat a ton of that money

1071
01:04:57,560 --> 01:04:59,959
Speaker 1: before they trade him, then I think it's a potent

1072
01:05:00,040 --> 01:05:04,040
Speaker 1: Niel landing spot. Similarly, Seattle, they don't seem to be

1073
01:05:04,160 --> 01:05:07,600
Speaker 1: dramatically interested right now. I wonder if Seattle's even that

1074
01:05:07,640 --> 01:05:10,600
Speaker 1: interested in winning next year as opposed to, you know,

1075
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:13,240
Speaker 1: being year one of a rebuild and we go after

1076
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:15,800
Speaker 1: the quarterback next year. Those, I think are the two

1077
01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:20,800
Speaker 1: destinations that have any chance whatsoever of trading anything for

1078
01:05:20,920 --> 01:05:23,880
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. But if the Browns end up releasing him,

1079
01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:26,080
Speaker 1: and let's bear in mind, we don't know if the

1080
01:05:26,080 --> 01:05:29,080
Speaker 1: Shawn Watson's getting suspended yet, so the Browns might need

1081
01:05:29,160 --> 01:05:31,760
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield this season, which makes the whole thing even

1082
01:05:31,800 --> 01:05:34,880
Speaker 1: more complicated and even more messy if he stays there.

1083
01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:37,160
Speaker 1: But if he gets cut and all of a sudden

1084
01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:40,040
Speaker 1: he's available for not much money at all, I think

1085
01:05:40,080 --> 01:05:42,080
Speaker 1: half the league should be interested in him as a

1086
01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:45,880
Speaker 1: backup quarterback. And maybe you know that self selects and

1087
01:05:45,920 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 1: he's only interested in somewhere where he thinks he can

1088
01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:52,160
Speaker 1: get a starting opportunity as well. But if he's willing

1089
01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:54,480
Speaker 1: to accept the role as a backup, I mean, this

1090
01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:58,440
Speaker 1: is a guy who on the field is probably a

1091
01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:02,760
Speaker 1: mid tier quarterback right somewhere in the sort of fifteen

1092
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:07,080
Speaker 1: sixteen seventeen kind of range in the NFL. So by definition,

1093
01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:09,240
Speaker 1: that makes them the best backup quarterback in the NFL

1094
01:06:09,280 --> 01:06:11,640
Speaker 1: if you could get hold of that. So if the

1095
01:06:11,720 --> 01:06:14,840
Speaker 1: contract stops to become an issue, I think most teams

1096
01:06:14,880 --> 01:06:16,640
Speaker 1: will be picking up the phone and seeing if Baker

1097
01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:19,560
Speaker 1: Mayfield is interested in taking a job as a backup.

1098
01:06:20,080 --> 01:06:23,560
Speaker 1: Last one for me, Sam, of the there's seven playoff

1099
01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:25,800
Speaker 1: teams in each conference. In the AFC, it was Tennessee,

1100
01:06:25,840 --> 01:06:30,240
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Vegas, New England, Pittsburgh. Of the

1101
01:06:30,240 --> 01:06:34,360
Speaker 1: team's remaining who was out of the playoffs last year

1102
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:37,320
Speaker 1: that you think are absolutely going to make the playoffs

1103
01:06:37,480 --> 01:06:40,560
Speaker 1: this year. We see one every year. Who do you

1104
01:06:40,560 --> 01:06:43,280
Speaker 1: think it's going to be this year? I think they're

1105
01:06:43,320 --> 01:06:47,520
Speaker 1: both in the AFC North. I think Baltimore and Cleveland

1106
01:06:47,600 --> 01:06:49,800
Speaker 1: if they have a health eat Deshaun Watson all year

1107
01:06:49,840 --> 01:06:52,000
Speaker 1: even I mean honestly, even if they have Baker Mayfield

1108
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:54,560
Speaker 1: for half the year, Cleveland and Baltimore are the two

1109
01:06:54,600 --> 01:06:58,000
Speaker 1: teams I think that have definitely playoff caliber roster. Certainly

1110
01:06:58,040 --> 01:07:00,560
Speaker 1: when you look at Baltimore and you look at injury

1111
01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:04,080
Speaker 1: ravage they were last year. Halfway through the season, they

1112
01:07:04,160 --> 01:07:06,520
Speaker 1: win the number one seed in the AFC, and then

1113
01:07:06,680 --> 01:07:09,760
Speaker 1: injuries just struck so hard they were calling up guys

1114
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:12,520
Speaker 1: on a Friday to cover Davante Adams on the weekend,

1115
01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:15,480
Speaker 1: and obviously that's not going to go well. So the

1116
01:07:15,600 --> 01:07:17,600
Speaker 1: Ravens aren't going to get as injured as they were

1117
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:20,160
Speaker 1: a year ago. They have a great head coach and

1118
01:07:20,280 --> 01:07:23,000
Speaker 1: John Harbaugh. They have a ton of talent on that roster.

1119
01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:26,080
Speaker 1: I think they're automatically back in the playoff hunt and

1120
01:07:26,120 --> 01:07:29,360
Speaker 1: maybe a contender just by not being as unlucky as

1121
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:31,560
Speaker 1: they were a year ago. And then Cleveland is a

1122
01:07:31,560 --> 01:07:34,200
Speaker 1: similar story. They have a great roster they had an

1123
01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:38,160
Speaker 1: injured quarterback basically all last season. In theory, they've upgraded

1124
01:07:38,200 --> 01:07:40,600
Speaker 1: on him and even if even if he ends up

1125
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:43,360
Speaker 1: being the guy again for half the year, he should

1126
01:07:43,400 --> 01:07:45,320
Speaker 1: be better than he was a year ago. So I

1127
01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:47,360
Speaker 1: think those two teams are definitely going to be right

1128
01:07:47,400 --> 01:07:50,480
Speaker 1: back in the mix. Lead NFL analysts for Pro Football

1129
01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:52,680
Speaker 1: Focused Sam Monson, Sam, thanks for joining us, Have a

1130
01:07:52,720 --> 01:07:54,320
Speaker 1: good weekend. We'll catch up with you're down the line.

1131
01:07:54,320 --> 01:07:57,120
Speaker 1: Thanks Sam anytime. Guys. Thanks for having me. Thank it easy.

1132
01:07:57,200 --> 01:07:59,480
Speaker 1: Sam Monson joining us there and kind of breaking down

1133
01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:02,840
Speaker 1: some of the late discoverage on Pro Football Focus as uh,

1134
01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:07,880
Speaker 1: people are all ready ramping up for twenty twenty two prognostication.

1135
01:08:08,120 --> 01:08:10,400
Speaker 1: Why not? Well, what else are you do? What's stopping us?

1136
01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:13,600
Speaker 1: What else are you doing in late May? Right? Um? Yeah,

1137
01:08:13,640 --> 01:08:16,000
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's and I know you don't. You're

1138
01:08:16,040 --> 01:08:19,639
Speaker 1: not as bullish on the Jets actually being competitive as

1139
01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:23,000
Speaker 1: I am. Um, there might be some some of it,

1140
01:08:23,160 --> 01:08:25,960
Speaker 1: I'll admit. What might be baked into some of that

1141
01:08:26,120 --> 01:08:29,479
Speaker 1: is my desire to see the New England pages fall

1142
01:08:29,560 --> 01:08:33,439
Speaker 1: completely to the basement of the division. Um, but I

1143
01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:35,240
Speaker 1: could see the Jets if they can put it. There's

1144
01:08:35,280 --> 01:08:37,559
Speaker 1: a lot to put together there, and yes, Zach Wilson

1145
01:08:37,600 --> 01:08:41,280
Speaker 1: has to hit, like Sam Monson indicated, But I think

1146
01:08:41,280 --> 01:08:44,719
Speaker 1: they could be a seven win team, six seven win teams.

1147
01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:51,160
Speaker 1: I'm not as down on Lson. I think the Jets

1148
01:08:51,240 --> 01:08:52,840
Speaker 1: gonna be a little better than people give them credit for,

1149
01:08:53,040 --> 01:08:55,880
Speaker 1: even better than six or seven wins. Yeah, I think

1150
01:08:55,880 --> 01:08:58,559
Speaker 1: I think they can get flirt with five. Seven is seven.

1151
01:08:58,680 --> 01:09:01,280
Speaker 1: If you gave the over under a seven, I take

1152
01:09:01,320 --> 01:09:05,479
Speaker 1: the over, you would, Okay, Yeah, I think they're gonna

1153
01:09:05,479 --> 01:09:08,679
Speaker 1: I think Salah is gonna he's gonna take a step

1154
01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:10,519
Speaker 1: forward this year. I think that's gonna help that team.

1155
01:09:10,760 --> 01:09:13,719
Speaker 1: Talent is gonna help. I like what they're doing, um

1156
01:09:13,800 --> 01:09:16,120
Speaker 1: and it's it's gonna come down to a little bit

1157
01:09:16,160 --> 01:09:19,880
Speaker 1: of their culture. Certainly, it's always a self destructive atmosphere,

1158
01:09:19,920 --> 01:09:21,960
Speaker 1: and with the Jets and the Giants because of the

1159
01:09:22,040 --> 01:09:25,559
Speaker 1: media press that goes on. As soon as you start

1160
01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:27,800
Speaker 1: doing well in New York, you know, they start trying

1161
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:30,840
Speaker 1: to tear you down. So it's hard to do that

1162
01:09:30,880 --> 01:09:33,640
Speaker 1: in New York. But I like what the Jets have

1163
01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:35,599
Speaker 1: done and I like what they try to do that year,

1164
01:09:35,640 --> 01:09:37,479
Speaker 1: and I'm not that down on Zach Wilson. I know

1165
01:09:37,560 --> 01:09:38,960
Speaker 1: I'm not in the building, so I don't know they

1166
01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:42,000
Speaker 1: if you're hearing it from inside the building, maybe it's true.

1167
01:09:42,040 --> 01:09:43,160
Speaker 1: I think one of the things the thing that I

1168
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:45,040
Speaker 1: asked him there at the end about the Jets and

1169
01:09:45,560 --> 01:09:47,479
Speaker 1: about the teams that didn't make the playoffs in the AFC,

1170
01:09:47,600 --> 01:09:51,680
Speaker 1: and who would his thing Cleveland and Baltimore. That surprises

1171
01:09:51,720 --> 01:09:53,200
Speaker 1: me a little bit because I you know, you think

1172
01:09:53,200 --> 01:09:58,439
Speaker 1: about Indianapolis, Miami, the Chargers, and Denver with Russ Wilson,

1173
01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:01,840
Speaker 1: he didn't think any of those teams, although it's not

1174
01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:05,800
Speaker 1: out of the question they could. And last year I

1175
01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:08,120
Speaker 1: would pick England and I would pick Denver before I

1176
01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 1: picked Cleveland, just just because of the it's an unknown factor.

1177
01:10:12,600 --> 01:10:16,200
Speaker 1: Likes Watson playing four games, five games, ten games, twelve games,

1178
01:10:16,200 --> 01:10:19,080
Speaker 1: You don't know, eleven games probably right. So yeah, but

1179
01:10:19,160 --> 01:10:21,920
Speaker 1: you think about in Indianapolis with Matt Ryan, Okay, there's

1180
01:10:21,920 --> 01:10:24,320
Speaker 1: a little unknown there at quarterback, but not that much unknown.

1181
01:10:24,400 --> 01:10:29,920
Speaker 1: I do too. Um the Chargers, goodness gracious, they had

1182
01:10:29,920 --> 01:10:33,040
Speaker 1: a splashy off season. If that goes well for them,

1183
01:10:33,160 --> 01:10:35,800
Speaker 1: you know they're plus here's the other thing. It was

1184
01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:38,240
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and New England. It's six and seven in the

1185
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:40,920
Speaker 1: playoffs last year. There's two teams that are gonna that

1186
01:10:41,120 --> 01:10:45,879
Speaker 1: are not better. I don't think Pittsburgh. It's a good defense.

1187
01:10:45,920 --> 01:10:49,559
Speaker 1: But yeah, the Vegas is in the West now with

1188
01:10:49,680 --> 01:10:51,920
Speaker 1: Kansas City, and they had two teams in there last year.

1189
01:10:53,120 --> 01:10:55,360
Speaker 1: Now Vegas or Kansas City could still make the playoffs,

1190
01:10:55,400 --> 01:10:57,240
Speaker 1: but man, do both of them make it with all

1191
01:10:57,280 --> 01:11:00,400
Speaker 1: four teams in the westering we know exactly, so, I

1192
01:11:00,439 --> 01:11:04,360
Speaker 1: mean maybe three. If the AFC South completely tanks and

1193
01:11:04,439 --> 01:11:07,559
Speaker 1: only a division winner gets in, and the AFC East

1194
01:11:07,600 --> 01:11:10,840
Speaker 1: tanks and only the Bills get in, maybe that's a way.

1195
01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:14,800
Speaker 1: My thought behind asking Sam that was that, man, oh man,

1196
01:11:14,840 --> 01:11:17,080
Speaker 1: there's a lot of teams that are like that were

1197
01:11:17,120 --> 01:11:19,519
Speaker 1: like man getting in last year, and a lot of

1198
01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:21,240
Speaker 1: teams that you thought were gonna get in last year

1199
01:11:21,240 --> 01:11:24,160
Speaker 1: that didn't. And now it's this year. It's the same thing.

1200
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:27,160
Speaker 1: Going into the season. You think, who's there's a big

1201
01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:30,600
Speaker 1: musha teams from the four or five seed all the

1202
01:11:30,600 --> 01:11:32,920
Speaker 1: way down. Do you think, man, any of those teams

1203
01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:35,160
Speaker 1: And I don't think Cincinnati Cincinnat's not going to repeat.

1204
01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:39,160
Speaker 1: I don't think in that division. But they're still pretty

1205
01:11:39,200 --> 01:11:43,640
Speaker 1: good team. Yes, I'm trying. They can't throw them, just

1206
01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:46,280
Speaker 1: throw them out, but they certainly are, you know, now

1207
01:11:46,360 --> 01:11:48,880
Speaker 1: wildcard kind of thing rather than if you don't think

1208
01:11:48,880 --> 01:11:53,040
Speaker 1: they're gonna be able to be you know, Cleveland or Baltimore.

1209
01:11:55,120 --> 01:11:57,080
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of that long word you use

1210
01:11:57,200 --> 01:11:59,840
Speaker 1: yesterday that you used properly and I was impressed by

1211
01:12:00,280 --> 01:12:01,840
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the show and I said, oh,

1212
01:12:01,880 --> 01:12:04,439
Speaker 1: that's the word of the day. You follow that up

1213
01:12:04,439 --> 01:12:08,880
Speaker 1: here today with a with an expert description on how

1214
01:12:08,960 --> 01:12:12,400
Speaker 1: close Lee packed these teams are, calling it a big

1215
01:12:12,479 --> 01:12:16,519
Speaker 1: mush of teams. I mean the sophistication, the point, the

1216
01:12:16,560 --> 01:12:21,439
Speaker 1: mastery of the English language that you lag. I gotta

1217
01:12:21,479 --> 01:12:25,839
Speaker 1: tell you, it's impressive. It's impressive, a big mush of teams.

1218
01:12:26,280 --> 01:12:28,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if you could have described it any better.

1219
01:12:28,120 --> 01:12:32,879
Speaker 1: That was fantastic. Um. There is one little interesting NFL

1220
01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:35,040
Speaker 1: note that I just happened to come across in the

1221
01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:40,720
Speaker 1: Sports Business Journal. In the NFL's desire, clear desire to

1222
01:12:40,840 --> 01:12:45,160
Speaker 1: take over the world, they have, Um, did you see this?

1223
01:12:45,200 --> 01:12:50,519
Speaker 1: They've set to open an Australian office in Sydney. The

1224
01:12:50,680 --> 01:12:53,880
Speaker 1: NFL has decided to establish an office in Sydney, which

1225
01:12:53,920 --> 01:12:58,360
Speaker 1: is expected to open this October. Four high ranking NFL

1226
01:12:58,439 --> 01:13:02,799
Speaker 1: officials flew to Sydney last week to reveal plans about

1227
01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:07,799
Speaker 1: growing the giant US sport internationally while targeting Australian footy

1228
01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:13,280
Speaker 1: players and those throughout the Pacific. So they're opening offices

1229
01:13:13,320 --> 01:13:17,080
Speaker 1: there and they're gonna set roots down to try to

1230
01:13:17,160 --> 01:13:21,960
Speaker 1: encourage kids that usually gravitate to Australian rules football to

1231
01:13:22,040 --> 01:13:27,280
Speaker 1: try American football. Yeah, it's it's a it's a long

1232
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:30,439
Speaker 1: that's a that is a decades long project. That is

1233
01:13:31,320 --> 01:13:34,360
Speaker 1: because we all know too. It's it's different than if

1234
01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:37,120
Speaker 1: you were trying to expand the game of golf to Australia,

1235
01:13:37,240 --> 01:13:40,479
Speaker 1: or the game of tennis to Australia, a ping pong,

1236
01:13:41,200 --> 01:13:45,120
Speaker 1: you know, even basketball well right, because you need a

1237
01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:49,160
Speaker 1: ton of guys interested to get that started. You can't

1238
01:13:49,200 --> 01:13:51,640
Speaker 1: just go out and play catch. But that's happened in

1239
01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:54,320
Speaker 1: the UK. I mean we got up. I saw it

1240
01:13:54,360 --> 01:13:56,920
Speaker 1: happening in Italy. I saw it. There's a league got

1241
01:13:57,000 --> 01:14:00,880
Speaker 1: Faobada here last year. Oh yeah, you know Christian wad Yep,

1242
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:03,680
Speaker 1: there's some guys over there to play. Yeah, absolutely, but

1243
01:14:03,760 --> 01:14:07,720
Speaker 1: it does take It takes time for a generation of

1244
01:14:07,720 --> 01:14:10,160
Speaker 1: players to elevate. Now there's a ton of great athletes

1245
01:14:10,200 --> 01:14:12,400
Speaker 1: down there, no question, but it's going to be hard

1246
01:14:12,400 --> 01:14:14,799
Speaker 1: to lure them away from something they've grown up watching.

1247
01:14:14,920 --> 01:14:18,599
Speaker 1: The best way to lure them though, is by playing

1248
01:14:18,640 --> 01:14:22,280
Speaker 1: a game in Australia, and the wheels are already turning

1249
01:14:22,280 --> 01:14:27,479
Speaker 1: on that front. Talk of official NFL match, as they

1250
01:14:27,520 --> 01:14:33,519
Speaker 1: say it, NFL game coming to Australia. August twenty twenty

1251
01:14:33,640 --> 01:14:36,360
Speaker 1: four is the date that has been thrown out there,

1252
01:14:36,360 --> 01:14:39,400
Speaker 1: which would mean a preseason game presumable. And I tell

1253
01:14:39,439 --> 01:14:41,519
Speaker 1: you this right now, it has to be the opening

1254
01:14:41,720 --> 01:14:46,640
Speaker 1: preseason game of the season because the time change is

1255
01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:52,040
Speaker 1: a crusher that that doesn't help a crusher. Well, if

1256
01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:53,880
Speaker 1: you put a preseason game there, you can play it

1257
01:14:53,920 --> 01:14:56,280
Speaker 1: anytime exactly. They can play it, and then they can

1258
01:14:56,360 --> 01:14:58,559
Speaker 1: then they can they can stay there a week before,

1259
01:14:58,640 --> 01:15:01,519
Speaker 1: get acclaim and have fun, do you know, go to

1260
01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:03,400
Speaker 1: the zoo and pet a kangaroo and all that kind

1261
01:15:03,400 --> 01:15:06,240
Speaker 1: of stuff. Then you play. You know, they gotta do

1262
01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:08,559
Speaker 1: all the pr moves, right, They're gonna do all that.

1263
01:15:08,880 --> 01:15:12,240
Speaker 1: They'll they'll serve they'll do all the Aussie stuff, then

1264
01:15:12,840 --> 01:15:16,880
Speaker 1: play the game, leave immediately and come home on a

1265
01:15:17,360 --> 01:15:24,240
Speaker 1: ten on a eighteen hour flight to get home. And

1266
01:15:24,280 --> 01:15:28,479
Speaker 1: then on the day that they left before they left, right, no, uh,

1267
01:15:28,560 --> 01:15:31,040
Speaker 1: I get saved a day in my life. So then

1268
01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:34,439
Speaker 1: then you know, you could get acclimated for your next

1269
01:15:34,439 --> 01:15:36,840
Speaker 1: preseason game, which by the way, you know is like

1270
01:15:37,720 --> 01:15:40,320
Speaker 1: you know, days away, and you gotta start training. You

1271
01:15:40,360 --> 01:15:43,320
Speaker 1: gotta keep going to training camp that listen. The logistics

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01:15:43,320 --> 01:15:47,280
Speaker 1: of that are exactly why it's hard. That's why I'm

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01:15:47,280 --> 01:15:50,200
Speaker 1: not in the travel business. Oh my god. As you know,

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01:15:50,560 --> 01:15:53,599
Speaker 1: the league handed out international marketing rights to a whole

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01:15:53,600 --> 01:15:56,839
Speaker 1: bunch of teams in certain countries. There were three NFL

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01:15:56,960 --> 01:16:01,200
Speaker 1: clubs that were granted international marketing rights in Australia. One

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01:16:01,200 --> 01:16:03,600
Speaker 1: of those three teams has already expressed an interest in

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01:16:03,680 --> 01:16:07,160
Speaker 1: playing a game in Australia. Who are they the La Rams,

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01:16:08,920 --> 01:16:11,000
Speaker 1: so look for them to be part of that. August

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01:16:11,080 --> 01:16:14,120
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. I can't remember the other two, um,

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01:16:14,160 --> 01:16:16,840
Speaker 1: but I believe they were both West Coast teams. I

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01:16:16,880 --> 01:16:19,160
Speaker 1: want to say Arizona, but I'm not one hundred percent sure.

1283
01:16:19,200 --> 01:16:22,280
Speaker 1: And there was another Western you know, teams go Arizona

1284
01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:24,479
Speaker 1: or something like that, somebody like that, maybe Seattle, I

1285
01:16:24,479 --> 01:16:28,639
Speaker 1: can't remember, but um, the rams have already expressed an interest.

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01:16:28,680 --> 01:16:31,240
Speaker 1: They want to play. It's a game in Australia. It's

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01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:33,800
Speaker 1: so far away. I don't know whether it would be

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01:16:33,800 --> 01:16:37,400
Speaker 1: better to go east or west to get there. Well,

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01:16:37,520 --> 01:16:39,880
Speaker 1: for people on the West coast, it's obviously west, but

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01:16:40,479 --> 01:16:43,920
Speaker 1: Pacific's a pretty damn big ocean, so Atlantic's not so big,

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01:16:44,320 --> 01:16:47,000
Speaker 1: not as big, right, But then you still gotta go through.

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01:16:47,160 --> 01:16:52,559
Speaker 1: You gotta fly across Africa, bol Istanbul Yeah, or maybe

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01:16:52,760 --> 01:16:55,800
Speaker 1: maybe further south down down to Yeah. I'm thinking you're

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01:16:56,000 --> 01:16:58,040
Speaker 1: if you're coming from the East coast, you're swooping down

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01:16:58,080 --> 01:17:00,320
Speaker 1: below the equator to get to the narrower part of

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01:17:00,360 --> 01:17:02,920
Speaker 1: the Earth down there, to fly fewer air miles right right.

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01:17:03,160 --> 01:17:04,760
Speaker 1: You don't want to fly over the fattest part of

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01:17:04,760 --> 01:17:06,680
Speaker 1: the Earth. That's what I'm saying. I get whatever I

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01:17:06,680 --> 01:17:10,880
Speaker 1: would say, dip down, but I know southeast over you

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01:17:10,920 --> 01:17:13,559
Speaker 1: know Bermute and all that direction down across over to

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01:17:13,800 --> 01:17:17,320
Speaker 1: Africa there then bounce over to this geography lesson brought

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01:17:17,320 --> 01:17:20,320
Speaker 1: to you by Steve Town. It is so far bro

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01:17:20,439 --> 01:17:25,720
Speaker 1: sleeve it is. Let's just think about the ground we've

1304
01:17:25,720 --> 01:17:28,120
Speaker 1: covered on today's show. This is pretty impressive. I'll tell

1305
01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:30,960
Speaker 1: you what though, and there's more come wait, wait, think

1306
01:17:30,960 --> 01:17:35,320
Speaker 1: about this. I want you volunteer. I was like, yeah,

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01:17:35,360 --> 01:17:38,880
Speaker 1: I stationed me in Sydney, Australia for cold Look at you.

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01:17:39,439 --> 01:17:42,200
Speaker 1: Let's go. That'd be you know, work for the Rams

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01:17:42,240 --> 01:17:47,680
Speaker 1: for a week, take a hiatus that I'll do it. Okay,

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01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:51,200
Speaker 1: this I'm gonna I'm gonna place in my life where

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01:17:51,240 --> 01:17:53,200
Speaker 1: you know, I don't have the kids, don't care. We'll

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01:17:53,200 --> 01:17:57,080
Speaker 1: send the memo to Park Avenue, right, yeah, right, all right,

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01:17:57,200 --> 01:17:59,639
Speaker 1: we'll keep you posted on. I'm on it. Go we

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Speaker 1: we take a break here, plenty more coming your way.

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Speaker 1: Who knows what's coming next? Here on One Bills Live,

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01:18:04,280 --> 01:18:19,240
Speaker 1: presented by Collid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right,

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01:18:19,240 --> 01:18:23,000
Speaker 1: welcome back, final half hour here on a Friday. We

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01:18:23,040 --> 01:18:27,760
Speaker 1: did get it confirmed. Steve, the Australian Marketing rights you

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01:18:27,760 --> 01:18:30,800
Speaker 1: want to yeah, yeah, good our colleague. Here at One

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01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:33,400
Speaker 1: Bill's right, Jason center Rogers said, there's a only one

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01:18:33,400 --> 01:18:36,800
Speaker 1: team got of Australia and that was the marketing marketing rights.

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01:18:37,439 --> 01:18:39,519
Speaker 1: Uh and he also said there is a New York

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01:18:39,520 --> 01:18:42,479
Speaker 1: to Sydney flight on the way. It's from New York

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01:18:42,520 --> 01:18:45,559
Speaker 1: to Sydney. While that's a long one, NonStop, they gotta

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01:18:45,600 --> 01:18:48,360
Speaker 1: have the sleeper chairs right for that sleeper chair, you

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01:18:48,400 --> 01:18:50,240
Speaker 1: know the ones that fully recline. They give you the

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01:18:50,240 --> 01:18:53,639
Speaker 1: blankets and b that. Yes, the full flat yeah, yeah,

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01:18:53,640 --> 01:18:56,280
Speaker 1: fully flat. Yes, you have to do. You gotta and

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01:18:56,439 --> 01:18:58,400
Speaker 1: you wouldn't be able to feel. You wouldn't be able

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01:18:58,439 --> 01:19:00,439
Speaker 1: to feel you got tush getting off that plane yourself.

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01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:03,080
Speaker 1: You can't. You can't fly like that. Seriously, it's like

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01:19:03,080 --> 01:19:06,000
Speaker 1: a sixteen hour thing. Yeah more I folks did that

1333
01:19:06,040 --> 01:19:09,720
Speaker 1: about ten twelve years ago. They loved it. But they're like, yeah,

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01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:12,080
Speaker 1: you gotta sack out on the flight, and I'm you

1335
01:19:12,160 --> 01:19:13,920
Speaker 1: gotta have a little chemical help. I would think too,

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01:19:14,000 --> 01:19:16,679
Speaker 1: sleeping pill right. I mean I don't sleep well. That rains,

1337
01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:19,320
Speaker 1: But I've been on a plane double martini or something

1338
01:19:19,400 --> 01:19:21,639
Speaker 1: that can help you sleep for that one man, oh Man,

1339
01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:25,040
Speaker 1: sixteen hounds. You got a stay up for thirty six

1340
01:19:25,040 --> 01:19:26,600
Speaker 1: hours before you get on the plane, so you just

1341
01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:28,519
Speaker 1: have to conk out. You want to you want to

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01:19:28,520 --> 01:19:31,599
Speaker 1: sleep so soundly that there's that the flight attendant has

1343
01:19:31,560 --> 01:19:34,559
Speaker 1: to come by and say, sir, are you okay? Jarre?

1344
01:19:34,640 --> 01:19:37,280
Speaker 1: You awake like like, and then as soon as you're shoveling,

1345
01:19:37,720 --> 01:19:40,759
Speaker 1: she's like fine. Finally, sleeping kid. That's that's how soundly

1346
01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:43,519
Speaker 1: you need to sleep. We uh, we neglected to mention

1347
01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:47,160
Speaker 1: it is the Friday fan mail bag. So the obil

1348
01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:49,840
Speaker 1: Friday fan mail bag needs to be opened here today

1349
01:19:50,040 --> 01:19:53,000
Speaker 1: as we have not gotten to it yet. Nick asks,

1350
01:19:53,240 --> 01:19:56,240
Speaker 1: is elamlock for CB two or is their potential for

1351
01:19:56,280 --> 01:19:59,479
Speaker 1: a legitimate position battle with Dane Jackson. I believe there

1352
01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:02,000
Speaker 1: is a legitimate in position battle with Dane Jackson. And

1353
01:20:02,040 --> 01:20:07,080
Speaker 1: as me, we know, we know how this coaching staff operates.

1354
01:20:07,439 --> 01:20:10,919
Speaker 1: You gotta earn it. You don't get handed anything. Everybody

1355
01:20:10,920 --> 01:20:14,080
Speaker 1: has to earn it, including Tredevious White and Taryn Johnson.

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01:20:14,439 --> 01:20:16,639
Speaker 1: And I know people. I know people might say, well,

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01:20:16,640 --> 01:20:19,320
Speaker 1: hold on a second. Tredevious White was the twenty seventh

1358
01:20:19,320 --> 01:20:21,360
Speaker 1: pick in the draft and he started from day one.

1359
01:20:22,160 --> 01:20:25,719
Speaker 1: Let's remember what the roster looked like in twenty seventeen, right, Okay,

1360
01:20:25,880 --> 01:20:28,599
Speaker 1: Tredevious White walks onto this team as a rookie. Now

1361
01:20:29,479 --> 01:20:31,960
Speaker 1: he's probably in a very same boat that Kayer elam Is.

1362
01:20:31,960 --> 01:20:35,040
Speaker 1: He's going to be in a position battle with Dane Jackson. Unquestionably. Yeah,

1363
01:20:35,080 --> 01:20:37,760
Speaker 1: they're better now than they were in twenty seventeen. But

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01:20:37,800 --> 01:20:39,559
Speaker 1: every guy, they'll tell you. And that's one of the

1365
01:20:39,600 --> 01:20:44,200
Speaker 1: things about this this team, players from the outside coming

1366
01:20:44,240 --> 01:20:48,760
Speaker 1: in like about what they hear here in Buffalo. I mean,

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01:20:48,760 --> 01:20:52,680
Speaker 1: you go on light now and look back at the

1368
01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:54,760
Speaker 1: guys I mentioned during the show, guys like Quentin Spain

1369
01:20:54,840 --> 01:20:57,960
Speaker 1: and John Feliciano, and you can go down the list

1370
01:20:58,000 --> 01:21:02,960
Speaker 1: of players who have been starters who couldn't keep their job.

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01:21:03,960 --> 01:21:06,559
Speaker 1: They get they just get outperformed and they just get

1372
01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:11,280
Speaker 1: benched as a result for performance. For whatever, you got

1373
01:21:11,280 --> 01:21:14,439
Speaker 1: to earn it all the time. And Sean McDermott has shown,

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01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:17,640
Speaker 1: really Sean McDermott Leslie Frazier and when he was here

1375
01:21:17,640 --> 01:21:21,599
Speaker 1: at Brian Table, they have shown incredible leadership to stick

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01:21:21,760 --> 01:21:26,000
Speaker 1: by those that tenant of earning it every day. If

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01:21:26,040 --> 01:21:29,120
Speaker 1: you don't earn it every day, you're sitting down. Tarn

1378
01:21:29,240 --> 01:21:33,519
Speaker 1: Johnson got benched in twenty twenty during Sam Lewis to

1379
01:21:33,640 --> 01:21:36,479
Speaker 1: cam Lewis and then earned it back and made thee

1380
01:21:36,520 --> 01:21:40,559
Speaker 1: hundred and one yard interception returned to Ice the Baltimore

1381
01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:44,320
Speaker 1: Raven playoff game. He got benched during that season. That's

1382
01:21:44,360 --> 01:21:47,320
Speaker 1: what makes this team as good as it is. You're

1383
01:21:47,360 --> 01:21:49,879
Speaker 1: in out as the leadership Sean McDermott and their coordinators

1384
01:21:49,880 --> 01:21:53,640
Speaker 1: and the coaching staff's desire and willingness to bench a

1385
01:21:53,720 --> 01:21:57,040
Speaker 1: really good player if he takes his foot off the gas. Yeah,

1386
01:21:57,080 --> 01:22:00,880
Speaker 1: you're hold on a starting job, travels the razors. That's right,

1387
01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:03,719
Speaker 1: and so and guys responding, and believe me, as a player,

1388
01:22:04,040 --> 01:22:07,800
Speaker 1: I'm all about it that Yes, I'll bring it. If

1389
01:22:07,840 --> 01:22:10,439
Speaker 1: I need a break, I'll get I'll take a break.

1390
01:22:11,120 --> 01:22:13,160
Speaker 1: But I but the team doesn't have to suffer for

1391
01:22:13,200 --> 01:22:16,120
Speaker 1: that if I need, you know whatever, If I want

1392
01:22:16,120 --> 01:22:19,000
Speaker 1: to play, all I gotta do is show how much

1393
01:22:19,120 --> 01:22:22,720
Speaker 1: on the field and I'll get night chance. And we've

1394
01:22:22,760 --> 01:22:26,400
Speaker 1: seen it. Duke Johnson a couple of years ago, or yeah,

1395
01:22:26,479 --> 01:22:29,519
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson a couple of years ago. Um, you know,

1396
01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:35,960
Speaker 1: Jake Kumerow from nowhere, all these guys. So yes, kyer

1397
01:22:36,040 --> 01:22:38,960
Speaker 1: Elam is in a battle for CB two, just like

1398
01:22:39,479 --> 01:22:41,679
Speaker 1: Tredevious Whites in a battle for CB one and Taran

1399
01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:43,920
Speaker 1: Johnson in a battle for his nickel corner, and that's

1400
01:22:43,920 --> 01:22:46,360
Speaker 1: the way it is, and that's the way I think

1401
01:22:46,400 --> 01:22:48,720
Speaker 1: most fans, if they know what they're talking about, they

1402
01:22:48,760 --> 01:22:52,240
Speaker 1: need to see it. Continue from Jack on what appears

1403
01:22:52,280 --> 01:22:54,439
Speaker 1: to be a super deep roster, who's the undrafted guy

1404
01:22:54,520 --> 01:22:56,760
Speaker 1: or practice squad holdover has the best chance to make

1405
01:22:56,760 --> 01:22:59,080
Speaker 1: the final fifty three. Two undrafted's to watch for me

1406
01:22:59,479 --> 01:23:02,800
Speaker 1: are tight Jalen Widermeyer and offensive lineman Alec Anderson from

1407
01:23:02,840 --> 01:23:06,120
Speaker 1: practice squad last year. Interested to see McLeod and Griffin.

1408
01:23:06,360 --> 01:23:10,439
Speaker 1: Steve and I were just talking about McLeod the other day.

1409
01:23:11,200 --> 01:23:14,280
Speaker 1: Corner with really good size at six one, played at

1410
01:23:14,360 --> 01:23:17,280
Speaker 1: NC State then his final year at Notre Dame, made

1411
01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:19,920
Speaker 1: the practice squad here last year. For those that don't remember,

1412
01:23:19,960 --> 01:23:24,080
Speaker 1: he got plucked off the practice squad, was on Cincinnati's

1413
01:23:24,080 --> 01:23:27,920
Speaker 1: active roster the AFC Champions and then he got clipped

1414
01:23:27,920 --> 01:23:29,439
Speaker 1: at the end of the season. They had some injuries

1415
01:23:29,439 --> 01:23:31,360
Speaker 1: at some other positions. He got clipped off the roster.

1416
01:23:31,400 --> 01:23:33,479
Speaker 1: The Bills scooped him back up signed him as a

1417
01:23:33,520 --> 01:23:36,360
Speaker 1: reserve future free agent, so he's back on the roster here.

1418
01:23:36,800 --> 01:23:38,920
Speaker 1: I think he does have a chance toybe be one

1419
01:23:38,920 --> 01:23:41,880
Speaker 1: of the five corners on this rot, maybe sixth corner

1420
01:23:42,439 --> 01:23:44,400
Speaker 1: if they decided to keep as many. Otherwise, he's on

1421
01:23:44,439 --> 01:23:46,439
Speaker 1: practice squad again. And I'm gonna tell you right now,

1422
01:23:46,439 --> 01:23:50,080
Speaker 1: Steve the Widermeyer kid is somebody to watch. Played at

1423
01:23:50,120 --> 01:23:53,519
Speaker 1: Texas A and m was a playmaking tight end. He

1424
01:23:53,600 --> 01:23:56,720
Speaker 1: ran a horrible forty time of about five flat and

1425
01:23:56,880 --> 01:23:59,120
Speaker 1: fell off the radar because of it. And his production

1426
01:23:59,200 --> 01:24:00,920
Speaker 1: is at the end of his His career wasn't as

1427
01:24:00,920 --> 01:24:04,240
Speaker 1: good as his sophomore year. Um, but he is an

1428
01:24:04,320 --> 01:24:07,120
Speaker 1: unquestionable athlete in the passing game and I think he

1429
01:24:07,160 --> 01:24:09,360
Speaker 1: can make a difference. Anderson, I think is a good

1430
01:24:09,400 --> 01:24:13,880
Speaker 1: pick too. Jack right tackle at UCLA did pretty well there.

1431
01:24:14,439 --> 01:24:17,840
Speaker 1: Could he be a fringe roster guy slash practice squad guy.

1432
01:24:18,360 --> 01:24:21,040
Speaker 1: I gotta see more of him, but he's certainly a

1433
01:24:21,120 --> 01:24:23,439
Speaker 1: name I would put on that list. So good picks

1434
01:24:23,439 --> 01:24:26,960
Speaker 1: by Jack, Yeah, yeah, very much so it. I'll say

1435
01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:29,600
Speaker 1: this as well, Um, you talk about a guy like

1436
01:24:29,720 --> 01:24:32,080
Speaker 1: McLeod and Griffin. The one thing that some of these

1437
01:24:32,080 --> 01:24:35,760
Speaker 1: guys have, Like McLeod, we talk about whole time. He's

1438
01:24:35,760 --> 01:24:39,640
Speaker 1: got some traits. Yep, he's big, big, and you know

1439
01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:43,200
Speaker 1: what we're watching him practice. He's thick, you know, he's

1440
01:24:43,240 --> 01:24:45,760
Speaker 1: he's he looks. He's not a wiry six one. Yeah,

1441
01:24:45,760 --> 01:24:49,559
Speaker 1: he's not this long, lean, kind of spider monkey looking guy. Man.

1442
01:24:49,640 --> 01:24:54,240
Speaker 1: He's he's put together, which lends itself to believing he's

1443
01:24:54,280 --> 01:24:57,920
Speaker 1: gonna He's a physical type corner, which you know is

1444
01:24:57,960 --> 01:25:00,760
Speaker 1: always a plus. So yeah, they're the reason you can

1445
01:25:00,800 --> 01:25:02,760
Speaker 1: pick these guys and have some confidence in it because

1446
01:25:02,760 --> 01:25:05,720
Speaker 1: they're signing guys just like they draft him. When you

1447
01:25:05,760 --> 01:25:10,000
Speaker 1: see him, they got something that catches your eye. A size, strength, speed,

1448
01:25:10,520 --> 01:25:15,040
Speaker 1: a skill set. So that's a good mailbox right there.

1449
01:25:15,400 --> 01:25:19,920
Speaker 1: Last one from Eric Bonjour obl isn't he isn't the

1450
01:25:19,960 --> 01:25:23,720
Speaker 1: whole scouting department under under celebrated each season with all

1451
01:25:23,720 --> 01:25:27,960
Speaker 1: the success we've had those recent past seasons. Well, look,

1452
01:25:28,960 --> 01:25:34,120
Speaker 1: I think we've capably keaped praise on Brandon being in

1453
01:25:34,120 --> 01:25:37,160
Speaker 1: his personnel department the last several years with the additions

1454
01:25:37,160 --> 01:25:39,320
Speaker 1: they've made to this roster, and I think it goes

1455
01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:41,559
Speaker 1: hand in hand with what we've said about the coaching

1456
01:25:41,600 --> 01:25:46,800
Speaker 1: staff for years. The player development that this coaching staff produces,

1457
01:25:47,360 --> 01:25:51,719
Speaker 1: making players better after they get here is phenomenal. Brandon

1458
01:25:51,760 --> 01:25:56,040
Speaker 1: being in this personnel department find talent, as Steve mentioned,

1459
01:25:56,040 --> 01:25:59,800
Speaker 1: with elite physical traits, and then the coaching staff hons

1460
01:25:59,800 --> 01:26:02,400
Speaker 1: that talent into something even better than when they got here.

1461
01:26:02,640 --> 01:26:04,799
Speaker 1: And we here, Coach McDermot say it all the time, Steve,

1462
01:26:05,400 --> 01:26:06,800
Speaker 1: we want you to come here and be the best

1463
01:26:06,880 --> 01:26:09,599
Speaker 1: version of yourself, and more often than not, the players are,

1464
01:26:09,680 --> 01:26:11,840
Speaker 1: and they work hard and making it sure it happens.

1465
01:26:11,960 --> 01:26:15,760
Speaker 1: So you get these guys. Certainly they come in with,

1466
01:26:15,920 --> 01:26:18,040
Speaker 1: like I said, the traits and stuff, but you get

1467
01:26:18,040 --> 01:26:20,800
Speaker 1: a guy like McLeod and this, Elijah Griffin, Ale Anderson,

1468
01:26:21,040 --> 01:26:25,360
Speaker 1: Jayleen Widermeyer. The thing about him is that the longer

1469
01:26:25,400 --> 01:26:29,320
Speaker 1: they can hang around the building, the better they're gonna get,

1470
01:26:30,400 --> 01:26:31,960
Speaker 1: and the better chance there is that the Bills are

1471
01:26:31,960 --> 01:26:33,599
Speaker 1: actually gonna need the guy, and all of a sudden,

1472
01:26:33,720 --> 01:26:37,320
Speaker 1: on a really really good roster, one of these guys

1473
01:26:37,439 --> 01:26:39,720
Speaker 1: or all of them are a combination of them, are

1474
01:26:39,800 --> 01:26:43,000
Speaker 1: good enough to get on the roster and contribute. That's

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Speaker 1: how That's the way this thing works. If they can

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Speaker 1: flip the switch the right way in their head, be

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Speaker 1: committed enough to getting better every day, they have to believe,

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Speaker 1: and they do, and sometimes it happens where the guy

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Speaker 1: just elevates and elevates and elevates, and all of a

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Speaker 1: sudden you can't get them off the field. Great example

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Speaker 1: is Tarn Johnson. You know, we never we didn't know

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Speaker 1: who Taren Johnson was the fourth round draft, right, he's

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Speaker 1: fourth rounder? Okay's nice man Oman. Gabriel Davis, the guy

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Speaker 1: makes plays. Gabriel Davis, another thing and another one. So

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Speaker 1: it doesn't always happen that the guy elevates to a

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Speaker 1: point where they do it. But man, ole man, when

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Speaker 1: you've got some physical traits and you're in this kind

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Speaker 1: of culture that they've got, and you know every day

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Speaker 1: that if you if you practice hard enough, you're productive enough,

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Speaker 1: if you're doing all the right things, you will earn

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Speaker 1: a chance. That's all these guys ask for break time

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Speaker 1: for us here, we've heard of drug policies for players

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Speaker 1: in professional sports leagues, a drug policy and sanctions for fans.

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Speaker 1: The English Premier League is doing it. We'll tell you why. Next.

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Speaker 1: You're on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. It's

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill's Radio. All right, So, Steve, we're all too

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Speaker 1: familiar with drug policies for professional athletes in professional sports leagues.

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Speaker 1: The English Premier League, however, has a drug policy for

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Speaker 1: their fans. They have revealed new sanctions for cocaine use

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Speaker 1: by fans. They could face a five year ban and

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Speaker 1: be forced to surrender their passports when their team is

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Speaker 1: playing abroad. UK Policing Minister Kit Malthouse said the FA,

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Speaker 1: the EPL and the English Football League of express support

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Speaker 1: for a band after class A drug use was identified

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Speaker 1: as a key factor in the rise and violence and

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Speaker 1: disorder in the sport. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson even

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Speaker 1: weighed in with the following quote, middle class cokeheads should

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Speaker 1: stop kidding themselves. That habit is feeding a war on

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Speaker 1: all streets, driving misery and crime across our country and beyond.

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Speaker 1: How about that for a quote from the Prime Minister.

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Speaker 1: Your wrong accent, but okay, yeah, that's yeah, that's an issue.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's eight hundred soccer related arrest. Let's not bring

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Speaker 1: that to our country. Okay, yeah, let's not get yourselves

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Speaker 1: together there, English soccer fans, you had a bad run

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Speaker 1: in the nineties, don't repeat it. We'll see you next week.