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Speaker 4: The one Bills Live presented by Calledlida Health One Hill's.

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Speaker 2: Life mag glab alongside of Steve to ask for fillin

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Speaker 2: As the rain is pouring down in Buffalo, we've got

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Speaker 2: Better than snow, right, better than snow. Steve is done

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Speaker 1: Yeah I thought I was anyway, I took my plow

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Speaker 2: Well, we got some more attempts. There is snow in

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Speaker 1: Next week we'll get a little like this. I won't

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Speaker 2: So recapping what happened in Buffalo, and then we'll we'll

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Speaker 2: go through your as you can see Steve Dasker didn't

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they climbed back somehow. It was close. Ohio State

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Speaker 1: That was fun to want well you know the thing? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: that's a committee decision rather than a real an accurate ranking.

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Speaker 2: They won by eight points. Whould you choose Texas took Yeah, Texas.

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Speaker 2: Michigan State, sorry against Louisville on Saturday. Okay, let's see

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Speaker 1: They don't do much to get better, right, they.

438
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Speaker 2: Were so against the run, they were so injured.

439
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Speaker 1: Yes, they lost their two best pass rushers. They got

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Speaker 1: the head and shoulders chopped off their pass rush with

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Speaker 1: Ed and Mike Hoyt off the field. So yeah, that

442
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Speaker 1: the bar is really low defensively, So yes, I guess

443
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Speaker 1: I agree the Bills are going to be much better

444
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Speaker 1: just by showing up with the guys they had last

445
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Speaker 1: year whoever's left and the guys that we know were

446
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Speaker 1: coming back offensively. So but still looking around the league

447
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Speaker 1: and I get it too. We just we talk about

448
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Speaker 1: the Bills all day, every day, and we don't think

449
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Speaker 1: about you know, other teams like the Jets, Dolphins, Texans.

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Speaker 2: The Chiefs weren't even in the top all.

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Speaker 1: These teams, so we you know, all these other fan

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Speaker 1: bases have I guess, apparently way more problems than we do.

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Speaker 2: Or didn't. Yeah, didn't cover up those holes during free

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Speaker 2: agency and still have a lot of holes to fill.

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Speaker 2: I would guess. You know, the reason why the Chiefs

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Speaker 2: aren't top ten is because they parted ways with some

457
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Speaker 2: important defensive they lost, and you do get a haul

458
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Speaker 2: for letting go of those names, but that those are

459
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Speaker 2: you gotta you've got to hit in the draft.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're theoretical, so maybe they.

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Speaker 2: Will hit in the draft, and you're looking forward to

462
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Speaker 2: the future and what Patrick Mahomes has left in the tank, but.

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Speaker 1: You still got a lot in the tank. I mean,

464
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Speaker 1: he's gonna be great.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, if you're wondering why the Patriots are seventh,

466
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Speaker 2: if you thought they should be higher or lower, not

467
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Speaker 2: in the top ten at all. They actually moved down

468
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Speaker 2: four spots from the last power rankings that happened at

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Speaker 2: the end of the season, and why they're seventh. Eric

470
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Speaker 2: at Holm rights there are health risks around the two

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Speaker 2: biggest offseason editions, with Elijah Eric Tucker suffering season ending

472
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Speaker 2: injuries in three of the past four years. In Romeo

473
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Speaker 2: Dobbs always nicked up, but both could end up being

474
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Speaker 2: solid foundational moves and net upgrades over what New England

475
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Speaker 2: had offensively a year ago. On defense, adding Draymont Jones

476
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Speaker 2: and Kevin Byerd only moves the needle so much, even

477
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Speaker 2: if both vets are sensible additions at needed spots. The

478
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Speaker 2: Patriots clearly overachieved last season, and did so against an

479
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Speaker 2: easier schedule. Let Lest anyone think this thing is close

480
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,480
Speaker 2: to completion, the Pats haven't been as aggressive in free

481
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Speaker 2: agency as they were a year ago, very true when

482
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Speaker 2: they had more needs and more money to spend, but

483
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Speaker 2: they're targeting some of the right areas so far. This

484
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Speaker 2: is something that I've thought about over the last few

485
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Speaker 2: weeks with the Patriots, is they did overachieve last season

486
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Speaker 2: making it to the Super Bowl. How much of a

487
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Speaker 2: step do they take back.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting because you're right, we expect them to be

489
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Speaker 1: better with Mike Vrabel. They weren't going to lose games

490
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Speaker 1: they should win. Their schedule turned into a we didn't

491
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Speaker 1: know it was going to be this easy, but it

492
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Speaker 1: was easy walk. It was like a cakewalk it. There

493
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Speaker 1: hasn't been an schedule that easy since the team I

494
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Speaker 1: was on in nineteen ninety one, right, And so you

495
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Speaker 1: go back that far to find a schedule that was

496
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Speaker 1: as easy statistically as the one that fate Patriots had

497
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Speaker 1: last year. So you throw that in. They they played

498
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Speaker 1: a very easy schedule and then they got They were

499
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Speaker 1: better in every way, and they were coach better and

500
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Speaker 1: they were better prepared. They made fewer mistakes, they didn't

501
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Speaker 1: give away games, they won some close games. Yeah, they're

502
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Speaker 1: they should have. They did overachieve. It will be tougher

503
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Speaker 1: this year. And some of them they're a little bit

504
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 1: like the Bills in that the Bills made it like

505
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Speaker 1: DJ Moore, great move, it's a good move all that,

506
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Speaker 1: But man, I wish we'd have gotten like a J

507
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,600
Speaker 1: Brown or a young Mike Evans or somebody like that.

508
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 1: There's always somebody better. That's kind of the moves that

509
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Speaker 1: the Patriots made. Yeah, they made some guys and you

510
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: and you said, Draymont Jones, Kevin Byerd good guys, but

511
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: they're not elite guys. You know what. Anything, Well it's

512
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,400
Speaker 1: a little better, but you know what I mean, that's

513
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Speaker 1: kind of where they're at.

514
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Speaker 2: You're patching it together the best it feels like you have.

515
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like they got okay guy, Like like

516
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Speaker 1: the Bills with the DJ more trade that people the

517
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Speaker 1: critics of say, he's good, he's not great. Yeah, that's

518
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Speaker 1: where the Patriots are with their moves, even with all

519
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Speaker 1: the cap room they had.

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Speaker 2: And for the Patriots and the Bills, if you're looking

521
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Speaker 2: at them similarly with the moves that they've made in

522
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 2: free agency, you step back and you think, is this

523
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 2: team better than they were last year? Based off these moves?

524
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:12,879
Speaker 2: And Eric Headholme writes about the Patriots, they're filling the

525
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 2: right holes, also saying similar things about the Bills. Now.

526
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Speaker 2: The addition of Djmore in the wide receiver room for Buffalo.

527
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Speaker 2: I do think that is an upgrade if you compare

528
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Speaker 2: it to last season and what the Bills had going yea.

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Speaker 1: He also says that they made some moves. They weren't

530
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Speaker 1: as aggresive as they were a year ago, and they

531
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Speaker 1: made these moves, but they had way more money to spend,

532
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: and they didn't spend it. Yeah. So either they didn't

533
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Speaker 1: like the players that were available in free agency, or

534
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Speaker 1: they just didn't want to spend the money, or they

535
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,720
Speaker 1: weren't the right kind of guys. For whatever reason, they

536
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Speaker 1: just decided not to spend the money that they had

537
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Speaker 1: under the cap.

538
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Speaker 2: Here you go in twenty twenty five that the New

539
00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 2: England Patriots led free agency spending, signing nineteen players to

540
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Speaker 2: contracts totally over three hundred and sixty four million dollars

541
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Speaker 2: with nearly one hundred and seventy five million guaranteed. If

542
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Speaker 2: you can remember, I mean they signed Milton Williams, Stefan Diggs,

543
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,239
Speaker 2: Harold Landry. You had some big name players who are

544
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 2: making big time money as they started to bolster their

545
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Speaker 2: roster for Mike Rabel and the new era with the Patriots.

546
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Speaker 2: What happens in twenty twenty six. You're spending a little less,

547
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Speaker 2: Your schedule is going to be harder. Teams are getting

548
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 2: used to scheming for Drake May as he enters his

549
00:29:33,520 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 2: third NFL season. I'm very interested to see what type

550
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 2: of step the Patriots take in twenty twenty six. Are

551
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 2: they stepping to the side, do they take a small

552
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 2: step forward or are they taking a few steps backward.

553
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what they're gonna get

554
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: the first place schedule. Of course, they're going to draft

555
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the rounds. They'll have a target

556
00:29:55,960 --> 00:30:00,800
Speaker 1: on them, no question about it. Yeah, be different. It'll

557
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: be a different year. Every year is different. This one's

558
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: gonna be very different.

559
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Speaker 2: All Right, We're gonna take a break because coming up

560
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Speaker 2: next Mock Draft Watch five point zero. We are talking

561
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Speaker 2: all about it in a few minutes on One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 2: Stick with us here, Welcome back to One Bill's Live.

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Speaker 2: Maddie Glad alongside of Steve Tasker. It's time for Mock

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Speaker 2: Draft Watch five point Oh.

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Speaker 1: It is here.

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Speaker 2: We're passing way through. We're gonna do ten of these

567
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Speaker 2: leading up to the NFL Draft, so you guys get

568
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Speaker 2: a good idea of who the analyst thinks, who the

569
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Speaker 2: analysts think are the best fits for Buffalo at number

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Speaker 2: twenty six now, Mock Draft Watch five point zero is

571
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Speaker 2: the post free agency mock Draft Watch, So some of

572
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 2: these names you're seeing are what people think makes the

573
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 2: most sense for Buffalo now that they've made a few

574
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 2: moves during free agency. We've tracked eleven since March fourth,

575
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:16,080
Speaker 2: and if you're looking at position groups, I will tell

576
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Speaker 2: you edge rusher is the favorite out of these eleven.

577
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 2: And if you're looking at who those edge rushers are, well, TJ.

578
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 2: Parker is a favorite name in the latest mock Draft Watch.

579
00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 2: He was drafted mocked to Buffalo, I should say two

580
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 2: times in the latest mock Draft Watch. Wide receiver another

581
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 2: popular position group, being mocked to Buffalo three times at

582
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Speaker 2: number twenty six. Safety is two and quarnerback was mocked

583
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 2: to Buffalo once. Another favorite name next to TJ. Parker,

584
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 2: who's an edge rusher out of Clemson, is k C. Concepsion,

585
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 2: a wide receiver, and he's been mocked to Buffalo quite

586
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:01,680
Speaker 2: a few times. As we move on, Now that we're

587
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Speaker 2: halfway through, I'm going to start to take numbers on

588
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 2: all of the mock drafts that I've tracked, so we

589
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Speaker 2: get a good picture on who are the favorites since

590
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 2: we started tracking them, whether it's position group or whether

591
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 2: it's names. We started January twenty first, it is now

592
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 2: the first day of spring March twentieth, and we've tracked

593
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Speaker 2: fifty eight total. When it's all said and done, the

594
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 2: numbers around one hundred and fifty. So we're not even

595
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Speaker 2: halfway through. In terms of the mock drafts that are

596
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Speaker 2: going to come.

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Speaker 1: They start turning them out once a week.

598
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,440
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Yeah, and the week of the draft.

599
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 2: It's crazy.

600
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Speaker 1: There are so many that because they get last information

601
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Speaker 1: and they start you know, pumping, pumping guys who know

602
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: and they get you know, they want to change because

603
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: they all want to be right. Ultimately. Yeah, now they're

604
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: kind of throwing darts blindfolded.

605
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 2: We're going to see any draft day trades that kind

606
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Speaker 2: of throw all right, the word right. I want to

607
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 2: talk about three edge rushers that were mocked to Buffalo

608
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 2: in the latest Draft Watch and just overall, some names

609
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,480
Speaker 2: that we've seen pop up here and there, and if

610
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Speaker 2: you haven't taken a look at it yet, you can

611
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 2: head to Buffalo bills dot com to see mock draft

612
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 2: watch five point zero and some of the names being

613
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Speaker 2: mocked to Buffalo in the first round. The first edge

614
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Speaker 2: rusher that we're gonna discuss is Keldrick Fulk out of

615
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 2: Auburn six six, two hundred and seventy six pounds, had

616
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 2: ten sacks in thirty seven games. This is a bigger

617
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:31,400
Speaker 2: body edge rusher at two hundred and seventy six pounds.

618
00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 2: He uses that strength and long frame to bury the quarterback.

619
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Speaker 2: Fulk knows how to strike. He has a few moves

620
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 2: in his toolbox to push the pocket. I really like

621
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 2: that Fulk lined up on the inside and the outside.

622
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 2: It shows that he can take on multiple roles and

623
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 2: do those roles well. He is big enough to stop

624
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 2: the run, which I love in a three four defense.

625
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 2: He gotta have guys who can attack the passer, but

626
00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 2: you also have to have guys who can stop the run.

627
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 2: What do you think about him?

628
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: He is The scouting reports all say this guy is

629
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,200
Speaker 1: right now is an NFL run stopper. He's a really

630
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: good in the run game. He's also lined up from

631
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: the five technique, the four inside technique, the three technique.

632
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 1: He's even stood up on the edge. They've moved him

633
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,760
Speaker 1: all over the place, and he is. He's six six

634
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: two seventy to seventy five. He's a big dude, and

635
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:33,160
Speaker 1: he's a really good run stuffer. Now, his pass rush,

636
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,360
Speaker 1: he's got a relentless motor. He goes. He goes hard

637
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:36,960
Speaker 1: all the time.

638
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 2: The fire. It's not the glitz and the glam with

639
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 2: you turn on his tape and you're like, oh my god,

640
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,399
Speaker 2: she's playing with his hair on fire. It's like, I'm

641
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 2: gonna grab my launch pail and I'm gonna He'll be today.

642
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: He'll be right away. He'll be on the field right

643
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,960
Speaker 1: away with whoever picks him in the draft because of

644
00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 1: his ability to stop the run. Now, his pass rush

645
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 1: is good because of his effort. He doesn't he's not

646
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Speaker 1: really a guy who's like, wow, he's getting like nine

647
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 1: thousand sacks, but he is. He does get a lot

648
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 1: of sacks with effort and with relentlessness. So we'll see

649
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Speaker 1: how that goes. But I like him a lot because

650
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,279
Speaker 1: of his size, because of his length and because of

651
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Speaker 1: his ability to stop the run, and because of obviously

652
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 1: as well. They lined him up everywhere. So he's got

653
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: some familiarity. Yeah, he's got some familiarity and it's and

654
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: he's up for it. I like that.

655
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 2: Let me give you this nugget and see if it

656
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 2: makes you more attracted to Keldric Fulk and what he

657
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 2: could offer. Buffalo Fulk turns twenty one in September, and

658
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 2: you are getting a young buck.

659
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, that's that's a plus. He's a

660
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 1: junior and he's coming out and he's he's his athletic

661
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 1: chart is very good. He's very good. So yeah, I'm

662
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: I'm all about it. I I like that guy. Uh,

663
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: he could be a really good Buffalo Bills Keldrick Falk.

664
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 1: He's gonna be drafted and he may well. I think

665
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:12,720
Speaker 1: he'll be there at number twenty six, I would agree.

666
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: And I don't think it's one of those guys. And

667
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 1: because the Bills don't have a second this year because

668
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:21,440
Speaker 1: of the trade with Chicago, they may reach for a

669
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: guy here or or grab a guy that they think

670
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: they could have gotten at like fiftieth or sixtieth and

671
00:36:26,719 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 1: they had the I think they had sixty one was

672
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 1: their pick that they traded. So yeah, Keldric Falk might

673
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: be the guy.

674
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:39,280
Speaker 2: Can I entertain you in a speedier pass? Rusher? TJ.

675
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 2: Parker out of Clemson sixt' four two sixty three a

676
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 2: powerful rusher twenty one and a half career sacks, ran

677
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 2: a four six eight forty. This guy is strong. He

678
00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 2: can push his way through the pocket to get to

679
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 2: the quarterback. Excellent at using his hands to engage and

680
00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 2: then shed blocks to he on his target and complete

681
00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 2: a tackle. He gets on quarterbacks nerves with his ability

682
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 2: to go rep after rep hitting the quarterback. That's something

683
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 2: I noticed on tape when they had to clip after clip,

684
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 2: you could watch the quarterback get a little bit frustrated

685
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 2: with this guy. He had eleven sacks and twenty twenty

686
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,359
Speaker 2: four That was a career high for him, forty one

687
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 2: and a half tackles for loss over his thirty nine

688
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 2: career games.

689
00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, he said a freshman record for tackles for loss

690
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: when he showed up at Clemson had also had five

691
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: and a half sacks as a freshman. He's yes, he

692
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:40,919
Speaker 1: is a good player, and I don't he's sixty four

693
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: to two sixty two something like that. He's not like

694
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,879
Speaker 1: one of those. He doesn't run a four to five but.

695
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:47,879
Speaker 2: For sixty eight.

696
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: As an edgeress, yeah, he does use his hands and

697
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: has long arms and uses them really well. So he's

698
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: a good technique rusher and can push tackles back into

699
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 1: the QB. So yeah, he is also another guy that

700
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 1: would to me, I mean, that's a guy that lines

701
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 1: up week one. He's a problem. He's a problem. I

702
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,280
Speaker 1: like him. I don't know that. And with Keldric Falk

703
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 1: and TJ. Parker, I think Parker gives you more in

704
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,399
Speaker 1: the pass rush, Falk gives you more in the run game.

705
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:22,919
Speaker 2: Falk is more of a tweener in what he can do,

706
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 2: and yeah, TJ. Parker is more of a thrush by nature.

707
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:29,759
Speaker 1: Yeah. Fulk is more of a guy you can line

708
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: up all the way across the front, and TJ. Parker

709
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 1: is more of a strictly an edge guy.

710
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,960
Speaker 2: So if you're looking for strictly edge guys, let me

711
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:42,200
Speaker 2: tell you about a different pass rusher. Zion Young out

712
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 2: of Missouri six six two sixty two eleven and a

713
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:49,320
Speaker 2: half career sacks. This is a player who is built

714
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 2: like an NFL edge rusher, chiseled out of stone, stands

715
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 2: tall and knocks the quarterback down. He's got power. He

716
00:38:57,640 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 2: knows how to use his long thirty three inch arms

717
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 2: as a weapon to back down balls and knock down

718
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:07,480
Speaker 2: the quarterback. Young plays with a lot of fire and

719
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 2: energy and hustle. This is somebody who kind of looks

720
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:15,200
Speaker 2: NFL ready based on his makeup at six six sixty two.

721
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's He's a long dude, plays that way. Play

722
00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:24,440
Speaker 1: plays like an athlete. Uh covers a lot of ground.

723
00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 1: I like his coming off the ball. He has big steps,

724
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: covers a lot of ground in very few steps. Uses

725
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 1: has a great sense of space and great reactions. Yeah,

726
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 1: he's he's a problem. It's it's fun because you don't

727
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: know which one of these guys you like better because

728
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: they're all, you know, they all kind of play the

729
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 1: same spot.

730
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 2: They offer different they offer a.

731
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 1: Little bit of different stuff. I like the length. I

732
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 1: like the length of Zion Young and Ken Keldrick falk

733
00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 1: TJ Parkerd. He's six or we still got long arms.

734
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: But I like Young and Fulk because of their link.

735
00:40:03,719 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: They're both six six and you know you need some

736
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 1: guys up front who have got some length. Yeah, they

737
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: these three guys. I'll take any one of these three,

738
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 1: I really would. They'll both. I don't know what they are.

739
00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 2: It seems like in mock drafts that I've looked at,

740
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 2: all three should be available at twenty six. What I've

741
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 2: seen is some names have been pushed up. Now, those

742
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:31,879
Speaker 2: aren't necessarily these three edge rushers, but I have seen

743
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,240
Speaker 2: some wide receivers that have been mocked to the Bills

744
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:37,719
Speaker 2: that are now being mocked ahead of twenty six. I've

745
00:40:37,719 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 2: seen the same for some safeties and some cornerbacks that

746
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 2: were mocked to Buffalo earlier on that are being bumped up.

747
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 2: So does that mean some edge rushers fall to Buffalo

748
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:49,520
Speaker 2: at twenty six? Possibly? Could you get one of these

749
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 2: three guys at the top of the second round. That's

750
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,280
Speaker 2: also a possibility too, right.

751
00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: And it's for me what it comes down to as well.

752
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,360
Speaker 1: I mean, you get these three guys, Zion Young, Eldrick

753
00:41:00,400 --> 00:41:02,920
Speaker 1: Fallk and TJ. Parkers who we're talking about. They're all

754
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,880
Speaker 1: edge rushers, they're all very good athletes. They're all going

755
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 1: to be in NFL training camps. They're all gonna they

756
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 1: might all be really good pros. I think what you

757
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 1: need to do, and we will never be able to

758
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,239
Speaker 1: do this. You or I'm Mattie or the bills. Will

759
00:41:16,080 --> 00:41:17,359
Speaker 1: you get to sit down and talk to the guy?

760
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 2: You get to learn about it?

761
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: Right? Is do I like this guy better than that guy?

762
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 1: Because I think all three have a pedigree that will

763
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: say yeah, that's take him at twenty six. But the

764
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: question is is this the guy we want? Is this

765
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 1: guy going to be better than that guy? And he

766
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 1: starts to decide between the three of them. Now, maybe

767
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:39,880
Speaker 1: only one of them is there by the time you

768
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 1: pick or two, and maybe the guy you really like

769
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:46,520
Speaker 1: isn't the one that's there. And maybe because of those interviews,

770
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:49,959
Speaker 1: you don't want the other one either. Right, So that's

771
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: all on the table. But that's what it comes down

772
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: to for me, because when you watch the film on

773
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: these guys, and Jim Leonard will have a different opinion

774
00:41:57,360 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 1: than I will or anybody. So when you watch the

775
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: film on him, I mean you're talking about the differences

776
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 1: are nuanced. Yeah, Maybe they like Keldrick Falk because he

777
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,439
Speaker 1: has played other spots, you know, he's moved along the line.

778
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 1: Or maybe you like multiple TJ. Parker is a really

779
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 1: a better edge. Yes, he's a better edge than Fulk,

780
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: but that's all he can do, that kind of thing,

781
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 1: and or when you sit down and talk to him,

782
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,880
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think Parker's got the right

783
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 1: personality for us or that kind of thing. I don't

784
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 1: know if that's I'm just using him as an example.

785
00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: So that's what we don't know.

786
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,359
Speaker 2: That's what we don't know. We don't know those things

787
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 2: because we can't sit down with them and talk to them.

788
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 2: I got to talk with some of them at the

789
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:45,720
Speaker 2: NFL scouting combine. Not did not speak to eat neither

790
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:50,359
Speaker 2: of those three, but some talented pass rushers that could

791
00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,040
Speaker 2: be available for Buffalo at number twenty six. And you wonder,

792
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 2: are the Bills looking for a specific body type at

793
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 2: edge rusher now that they're playing in a three four defense?

794
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,520
Speaker 2: Are you looking for somebody that really excels at speed

795
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 2: because you are a little bit farther back from the

796
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:07,879
Speaker 2: line of scrimmage at times and it might be a

797
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:12,000
Speaker 2: little bit take a few more seconds to get after

798
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 2: the quarterback from that type of defense. So all questions

799
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 2: that you ask yourself and questions that the Bills are

800
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 2: certainly talking about right now, but that's mock draft Watch

801
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 2: five oh and six point zero is coming in about

802
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 2: a week and a half and we'll discuss it.

803
00:43:28,520 --> 00:43:30,319
Speaker 1: And most of the most of the mocks are giving

804
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:31,560
Speaker 1: Bills an edge.

805
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:34,359
Speaker 2: An edge and a wide receiver. That just seems to

806
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 2: be the favorite, even after the Bills added an edge rusher.

807
00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:40,319
Speaker 1: And that's not that's not gonna change. I think it's

808
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: going to stay. They may some teams some mocks later

809
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 1: on we get close to the draft, may put in

810
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: like a CJL and or a stand up linebacker in

811
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: the middle. I would imagine that starts to make a

812
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: resurgence in the mock draft numbers. But for right now,

813
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: it's edge and wide receiver. And I I get it too.

814
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 1: It's it's going to be. I think it's right to

815
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 1: think it's going to be a money position, wide receiver,

816
00:44:04,080 --> 00:44:05,280
Speaker 1: corner edge.

817
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I would tend to agree with that. We

818
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,359
Speaker 2: got to take a break because when we return, coming

819
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 2: up at two PM, Adam Rank from NFL Network joins

820
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 2: the show, helps us break down free agency, tells us

821
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:29,759
Speaker 2: all about DJ Moore. All right, welcome back to One

822
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 2: Bill's Live Mighty glab and Steve Tasker. Here today is

823
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 2: our Friday fan mailback, So let's crack that open. From

824
00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 2: William wants to know if the Bills don't or can't

825
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 2: trade back in the draft this year, what position do

826
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 2: you think they will pursue ed Dresser, linebacker, wide receiver,

827
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,360
Speaker 2: or best player available. I'm thinking linebacker because of the

828
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 2: switch to a three to four defense.

829
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's for me as well. It could be best

830
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:58,480
Speaker 1: player available, right, but they'll tell you it's the guy

831
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 1: they pick anyway. Whatever. That's that's common. That's common practice.

832
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,640
Speaker 1: That's the common practice, and it may well be true

833
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:10,719
Speaker 1: in some cases. So I don't think that there's it.

834
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:13,799
Speaker 1: Brandy and I've been teasing about this because last year

835
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:16,680
Speaker 1: I was absolutely positive and I would have bet my

836
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:18,759
Speaker 1: mortgage payment on the fact that Bills were going to

837
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 1: move in the draft up or down. I wouldn't think

838
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 1: they were going to stay where they did. They stayed

839
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 1: where they did, So I think they're not gonna move

840
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:28,160
Speaker 1: this year, which means they probably will move like twice.

841
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: So uh, if they don't move, I mean, we've got

842
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 1: a little ways to get there. I still don't I

843
00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: think it's going to be a defensive player that they take.

844
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:42,960
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be a wide out unless something

845
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:44,919
Speaker 1: crazy happens. I don't think it'll be a wide out.

846
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:49,080
Speaker 1: I think it will be an edge, a safety, or

847
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: a corner. Even it could be it could be a

848
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: big defensive tackle. It could be a nose tackle if

849
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: there's one they like. But it's gonna be on the

850
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: defensive side of the football. And I think it'll be

851
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:03,200
Speaker 1: whether they move or not.

852
00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 2: I'm getting I don't this is I know nothing, So

853
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:14,040
Speaker 2: this is just based on vibes. I could see Buffalo

854
00:46:14,080 --> 00:46:17,320
Speaker 2: moving back in the first round, trying to get somewhere

855
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 2: near the top of the second round just because they

856
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 2: don't have a second round pick right now. Another second

857
00:46:22,280 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 2: round round and yeah, pick up another second rounder or

858
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:28,319
Speaker 2: somewhere in the third or fourth round to do so.

859
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 2: I just feel that way because based on what people

860
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 2: have been saying about this draft class, there's not a

861
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 2: bunch of first round ranked players. I remember when we

862
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:43,920
Speaker 2: had field Yates on the show at the combine, he

863
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:49,399
Speaker 2: said he had sixteen first round graded players. So if

864
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 2: they feel like they can get some decent talent in

865
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 2: the second round rather than the first round, now you're

866
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 2: missing out on a fifth year option. But if they

867
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 2: feel better about picking up more picks, because this is

868
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:07,040
Speaker 2: also deemed like a meat and potatoes draft class in

869
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 2: the second to the fifth round, you might be able

870
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 2: to get some good talent.

871
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: The fifth year option that they get on guys for

872
00:47:15,160 --> 00:47:17,160
Speaker 1: drafting him in the first round rather than the second, third,

873
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: or fourth round. It. I mean, if if you need

874
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 1: that fifth year because you want cheap labor, and the

875
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:30,239
Speaker 1: guys if the guy's playing really well, who cares. I mean,

876
00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:32,799
Speaker 1: that's a good problem to have you if you're trying

877
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:35,279
Speaker 1: to you need to pay the guy because he's outvalued

878
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:37,319
Speaker 1: the contract, that's a good place to be. He's still

879
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:39,200
Speaker 1: gonna have value. So even if you have to move

880
00:47:39,239 --> 00:47:41,440
Speaker 1: on from him, you're still gonna trade him for something better.

881
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:46,160
Speaker 1: So the fifth year option thing is for me, that's

882
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: really about a quarterback where you can push it off

883
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:51,439
Speaker 1: another twelve months and get that kind of level. Knowing

884
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 1: you've got the guy now, you can really build it

885
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: around him where you think he's gonna need it to

886
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 1: win games and win a championship. The quarterback is the

887
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:01,239
Speaker 1: guy you really need to fit to your option. For

888
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 1: everybody else, paying them a second contract is a good

889
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: problem to have. So getting more those guys, yeah, that's

890
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 1: a that's a huge plus if you can, if you

891
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: can trade back out of the first and get another second,

892
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: get a pick, you know, get a pick between thirty

893
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:24,560
Speaker 1: five and forty five to go along with your third rounder,

894
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 1: that's a great place to be. I would agree with that.

895
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:33,840
Speaker 2: And in terms of the comment about a linebacker in

896
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:37,440
Speaker 2: the first round, there are some talented linebackers. This is

897
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 2: known as being a heavy linebacker draft. But you play

898
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,240
Speaker 2: with is it worth drafting a linebacker in the first

899
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 2: round because that's not considered a money position. Now are

900
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:54,239
Speaker 2: we talking outside linebacker slash edge rusher, Then you get

901
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 2: into the money if it's more of a true linebacker.

902
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 2: Wide receiver and edge rusher and no backer are more valuable.

903
00:49:01,760 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 1: I'll say this though, if you do get the guy,

904
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 1: if he's that guy, if he comes in and as

905
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 1: an analogy, you pick him and he turns into Tremaine

906
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: Edmunds and he's plugged into your defense. He's a starting

907
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:18,880
Speaker 1: middle linebacker on your defense for four years. He's the

908
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 1: he wears the green dot. He's that kind of guy,

909
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:24,000
Speaker 1: and even a better player than Tremaine was for this club,

910
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:26,240
Speaker 1: a guy who you do want to give a second

911
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:30,440
Speaker 1: contract to instead of letting him go. It's worth it

912
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,799
Speaker 1: because it'll be a hit, right, It'll be worth it

913
00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:37,520
Speaker 1: if you can. It doesn't matter when you say it

914
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 1: like that. It doesn't matter what position you grab in

915
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:42,480
Speaker 1: the first round, whether it's it could be a tight end,

916
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: it could be anything guard, it could be name it,

917
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: it could be any position. But if you get to

918
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:51,319
Speaker 1: the point where that guy's played so well that you

919
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:53,920
Speaker 1: want to give him a second contract, the pick is

920
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:57,319
Speaker 1: not wasted. It's completely worth it. If he's the right guy,

921
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter take him. Nobody cares. Then it's like,

922
00:50:01,640 --> 00:50:03,879
Speaker 1: then you're still a genius. Even if you said, wow,

923
00:50:03,920 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 1: they reached. You could have got him in the third round.

924
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 1: He took him in the first. If he turns into

925
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:10,040
Speaker 1: a second contract, everybody's like, you know what, he knew.

926
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:12,719
Speaker 1: He knew they were gonna lose him in the second round.

927
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 1: They wouldn't have been able to pick him. So yeah,

928
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 1: if you can pick the right guy, nobody cares when

929
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 1: or where right. Nobody cares that Matt Mulona was a

930
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 1: fifth round or they think, wow, genius. Let's go. If

931
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:24,279
Speaker 1: they would have taken him in the fourth round, it

932
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:27,880
Speaker 1: still same thing. He's an All Pro linebacker. Second round. Yeah,

933
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:31,480
Speaker 1: I mean so if he's the right guy and he

934
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:34,120
Speaker 1: gets to a second contract with the team that drafted him,

935
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 1: nobody complains.

936
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,360
Speaker 2: Here's the thing. You don't know if he's gonna be

937
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:41,240
Speaker 2: the right guy right away. You gotta wait and see

938
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:43,440
Speaker 2: how he exists your's system.

939
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: You gotta believe. If you believe it, take to pick

940
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:51,439
Speaker 1: the run to the podium and read the name.

941
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:53,839
Speaker 2: All right, we gotta take a break because coming up

942
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,800
Speaker 2: in just a few minutes, NFL Network hoasts Adam Rank

943
00:50:57,120 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 2: joining the show next to talk free agency more than

944
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 2: the Chicago Bears.

945
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 1: Look you boys, we're not there what today? He is

946
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,359
Speaker 1: a feast for the Capitol Fie.

947
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:27,280
Speaker 3: The cook is in the kitchen, looks down the sideline.

948
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 1: He's got kick Kade for.

949
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 2: A twenty three yard touchdown and it's intercepted.

950
00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 1: Jumping over the air is Badford.

951
00:51:42,080 --> 00:51:46,719
Speaker 4: This is One Bill's Live, presented by Calledlida Health.

952
00:51:47,360 --> 00:51:49,799
Speaker 2: Welcome in to our number two of One Bill's Live.

953
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 2: Mattie Glab alongside of Steve Tasker filling out the rest

954
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:56,160
Speaker 2: of your Friday afternoon as the rain comes down here

955
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:59,120
Speaker 2: in Buffalo on the first day of spring. Don't worry.

956
00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:02,840
Speaker 2: The sun will come out soon. I don't know if

957
00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:06,400
Speaker 2: that's tomorrow, soon's that's what we'll say to make you happy.

958
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:09,480
Speaker 2: But you got March madnesson to keep you busy and

959
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:12,440
Speaker 2: keep you inside, so that's awesome. We're also going to

960
00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 2: take some time to recap Free Agency talk about some

961
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 2: of Buffalo's newest additions, as we have NFL Network hosts

962
00:52:20,120 --> 00:52:22,840
Speaker 2: Adam Rank joining the show now also the host of

963
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:25,800
Speaker 2: The Sick Podcast with Adam Rank. Adam, thanks for taking

964
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 2: the time. Excited to talk a little bit of Bears

965
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 2: and Free Agency with you here. I'm from Chicago, so

966
00:52:31,120 --> 00:52:33,400
Speaker 2: I spent a lot of time on the show talking

967
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 2: about the Chicago Bears. I'm sure Bills fans are like Maddie,

968
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 2: be quiet, like Maddy, what did you do?

969
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:43,239
Speaker 3: Why did you bring this guy on of all people? Yeah,

970
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 3: I get it.

971
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:45,879
Speaker 1: It happens. Well, we finally have an excuse to talk

972
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 1: to somebody from Chicago. DJ Moore comes out and he's

973
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:51,680
Speaker 1: obviously he's kind. He's a Walter Payton Man of the

974
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:55,680
Speaker 1: Year for the Chicago Bears. No less, he's that kind

975
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 1: of guy. Great guy played hurt, hasn't missed a game

976
00:52:58,040 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: in five years, all of that stuff going on. Had

977
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: a day this last year.

978
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 3: Why you know, I would argue, I would push back

979
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:06,839
Speaker 3: a little bit, Steve. I wouldn't say that he had

980
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:08,879
Speaker 3: a down year at all. I mean, statistically, as somebody

981
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 3: who does fantasy football, I could see like it is

982
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:13,240
Speaker 3: a down year. But when you look at the Bears

983
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 3: highlight reel from twenty twenty five and this amazing season,

984
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:23,520
Speaker 3: the majority of big plays are being completed by Dj Moore.

985
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:25,880
Speaker 3: I think that anytime the Bears were in a situation

986
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:29,240
Speaker 3: where they needed a clutch play, they needed a big play.

987
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:33,400
Speaker 3: Perhaps the biggest catch in Bear's history was completed to

988
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:36,360
Speaker 3: DJ Moore. So I get it. I understand. Statistically, if

989
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:38,319
Speaker 3: you're gonna sit there and you look at this, they're

990
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:40,799
Speaker 3: not the numbers that you would expect. But when you

991
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 3: needed a big play and we're sitting here looking at

992
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:45,200
Speaker 3: the highlight reel right now, it's given me goosebumps because

993
00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 3: I remember all of these plays and here's one of

994
00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:51,839
Speaker 3: the biggest right here. These plays are what exactly the

995
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:56,080
Speaker 3: Buffalo Bills. Need you have Josh Allen there. You need

996
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:59,560
Speaker 3: somebody that helps that is going to help Josh Allen

997
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 3: get to that next level. DJ Moore is that guy.

998
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 3: You found the right person. If you wanted to find

999
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:07,279
Speaker 3: the biggest DJ Moore fan in the world, You've got

1000
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:07,759
Speaker 3: this play.

1001
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:08,399
Speaker 1: I was there.

1002
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 3: I was in Chicago. It was nine degrees and it

1003
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 3: was amazing, and it was such a that catch. Like you,

1004
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 3: I sat there, I was in the press law, I

1005
00:54:16,680 --> 00:54:18,840
Speaker 3: was in front of Joniac who wouldn't let me in

1006
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:21,680
Speaker 3: the booth by the way, and I was like, what

1007
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:24,359
Speaker 3: happened right there? I thought the Browns were celebrated, but like, no,

1008
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 3: he made a catch. So I would say that DJ

1009
00:54:27,520 --> 00:54:30,000
Speaker 3: Moore had an amazing season when you look at the

1010
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 3: big plays that he was able to accomplish.

1011
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:33,880
Speaker 2: I love that you push back on the fact that

1012
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:37,200
Speaker 2: some people are saying he had a down year according

1013
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 2: to fantasy football, which Steve Tasker spent some time talking

1014
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 2: about yesterday and saying, you know, we live in this

1015
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:48,760
Speaker 2: world of fantasy football where everybody equates stats to fantasy

1016
00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:52,320
Speaker 2: football points, and that just construes everything we're talking about.

1017
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 1: Some of the yeah, some of the evaluation that you

1018
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:57,800
Speaker 1: see from people has to do more with their fantasy

1019
00:54:57,840 --> 00:54:59,799
Speaker 1: stats than it does with the way they fit into

1020
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 1: the team and how they're used. Is there any what

1021
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:05,839
Speaker 1: happened to The bad thing that came out of last

1022
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:08,479
Speaker 1: year for DJ Moore was you know, the final game,

1023
00:55:08,520 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 1: he looked like he ran the wrong route, miscommunication, He

1024
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:13,040
Speaker 1: led up when he thought the play might have been over.

1025
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams needed him and he wasn't there fall out

1026
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:17,640
Speaker 1: from that.

1027
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:21,480
Speaker 3: You know, it could be. I mean there are certain

1028
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:24,400
Speaker 3: times like coaches sometimes don't gel with the player. Obviously,

1029
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:27,400
Speaker 3: Ben Johnson comes into a situation where DJ Moore is

1030
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:29,560
Speaker 3: already established and he's already there, and then the Bears

1031
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:31,920
Speaker 3: go out there and they draft Colston Lovelin, they draft

1032
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:34,919
Speaker 3: Luthor Burden the third those might be Ben Johnson's guys.

1033
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:37,600
Speaker 3: There's somebody who coaches on a very small level on

1034
00:55:37,640 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 3: AYSO and flag football and all that stuff. You get

1035
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:42,560
Speaker 3: your favorites, you get people that you lock into. I

1036
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:45,600
Speaker 3: don't know exactly what the disconnect was. I know on

1037
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 3: that final play, I was actually shocked that DJ Moore

1038
00:55:49,600 --> 00:55:51,839
Speaker 3: was still out on the field. I listen, I have

1039
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 3: no privy and I'm not privy to any sort of

1040
00:55:55,760 --> 00:55:58,520
Speaker 3: injury designations or anything like that, but he took a

1041
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 3: big fall earlier. I think it was about the third

1042
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:03,520
Speaker 3: or fourth quarter that I thought he was not coming back.

1043
00:56:03,560 --> 00:56:05,359
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh great, Like he looked like he hit

1044
00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:07,600
Speaker 3: the back of his head. I don't want to speculate.

1045
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:09,000
Speaker 3: I don't want to I don't want to do any

1046
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 3: of that stuff. But there was a miscommunication. I think

1047
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:13,839
Speaker 3: that's fair to say. And I don't know if that

1048
00:56:13,920 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 3: was ultimately what happened with him in Chicago, but it

1049
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:19,960
Speaker 3: felt like, I don't know, to some people, I felt

1050
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 3: like they wanted to move on from him. I was

1051
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:23,439
Speaker 3: not one of those people. I love having a DJ

1052
00:56:23,560 --> 00:56:25,920
Speaker 3: Moore on the team. I think that what we're gonna

1053
00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:28,600
Speaker 3: we're weird. Uh what you guys are gonna see when

1054
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 3: I'm still this is hard for me to process. Bills

1055
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:35,319
Speaker 3: fans are gonna love him. I really truly believe that

1056
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:37,279
Speaker 3: he is gonna step up and he's gonna have an

1057
00:56:37,320 --> 00:56:40,360
Speaker 3: amazing season for the Bears, and I think Josh Allen's

1058
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:41,839
Speaker 3: gonna love him, and I think he's gonna fit right

1059
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 3: in with this Bills team.

1060
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:46,359
Speaker 2: You spoke about Dj Moore being that player you can

1061
00:56:46,400 --> 00:56:49,600
Speaker 2: go to in a gotta have it moment, somebody who

1062
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:53,319
Speaker 2: can stretch the field. Buffalo didn't have much of a

1063
00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 2: separator or field stretcher last season. Now Josh Palmer they

1064
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 2: added to the roster to kind of be that. Although

1065
00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 2: Josh Palmer spent a lot of the season dealing with

1066
00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:06,760
Speaker 2: an injury and not playing to his fullest potential, Khalil

1067
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:10,000
Speaker 2: Shakir ended up being their wide receiver one last year.

1068
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 2: And I know it's not a true wide receiver one,

1069
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:14,719
Speaker 2: but if you're looking at stats, he put up the

1070
00:57:14,760 --> 00:57:17,360
Speaker 2: best stats for Buffalo in terms of receiving yards. And

1071
00:57:17,520 --> 00:57:21,040
Speaker 2: is that guy that Josh Allen trusts in the slot?

1072
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:21,320
Speaker 4: Now?

1073
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:24,640
Speaker 2: DJ Moore can be used on the outside. And that's

1074
00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 2: what Bills fans have been banging the table for for years.

1075
00:57:29,560 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 2: Is a type of player who can be that gotta

1076
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:37,000
Speaker 2: have it. Josh Allen trusts him. Why can DJ Moore

1077
00:57:37,120 --> 00:57:39,400
Speaker 2: still do that with where he's at in his career.

1078
00:57:40,560 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe he still has a lot left to give.

1079
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 3: I still think he's a tremendous receiver. I thought when

1080
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 3: the Bears acquired him he was a top five wide

1081
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:50,800
Speaker 3: receiver in the NFL Top ten at the very least.

1082
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 3: I still think he's in that conversation. He's in that category.

1083
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 3: And a lot of times when these players switch teams,

1084
00:57:56,720 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 3: they get a new outlook and they get a new

1085
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 3: opportunity to go out there improve themselves. And last season

1086
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:04,480
Speaker 3: was the first time that DJ Moore had ever played

1087
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:07,600
Speaker 3: on a team that had a winning record. He'd been

1088
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 3: in there through all the down years in Carolina, all

1089
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 3: the down years in in Chicago, and then finally when

1090
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:16,640
Speaker 3: we have this big moment right here and we're beating

1091
00:58:16,680 --> 00:58:19,320
Speaker 3: the Packers in the playoffs, You're like, Yeah, that's good, Dj,

1092
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:21,919
Speaker 3: We're gonna We're gonna send you off. I think there's

1093
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:24,760
Speaker 3: gonna be something about him there. I hate to use

1094
00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:27,560
Speaker 3: like he wasn't it's not. It wasn't a motivational thing.

1095
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:30,720
Speaker 3: But I think that somebody getting an opportunity getting to

1096
00:58:30,760 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 3: present themselves and kind of re establish who they are

1097
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 3: as a person and go out there and establish new

1098
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 3: relationships and to get to play with Josh Allen.

1099
00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:40,280
Speaker 1: I hope.

1100
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:43,440
Speaker 3: I'm hopeful too that it'll also help out guys like

1101
00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:47,000
Speaker 3: Keon Coleman, who we've wanted to see step up over

1102
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:48,960
Speaker 3: the last couple of years, ever since he was drafted

1103
00:58:49,240 --> 00:58:51,560
Speaker 3: out of Florida State. If he can be that kind

1104
00:58:51,560 --> 00:58:54,080
Speaker 3: of professional, I mean, let's look about this too. And

1105
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 3: you mentioned it too, Steve, that he was the He

1106
00:58:56,480 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 3: was nominated as the Bears representative for the Walter Payton

1107
00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:02,400
Speaker 3: Man End of the Year. The players and the teammates

1108
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:06,040
Speaker 3: love him. I've I've known DJ a little bit, and

1109
00:59:06,640 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 3: he's he's an interest. He's listen. He's not like the

1110
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:12,320
Speaker 3: most extroverted like I. When I walk into a room,

1111
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 3: I'm loud and obnoxious. DJ is not going to be

1112
00:59:14,720 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 3: that guy. But I think that's fine. You can still

1113
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:20,400
Speaker 3: be a great receiver. You don't have to be like going, oh,

1114
00:59:20,440 --> 00:59:22,080
Speaker 3: you know, you don't have to be the over the

1115
00:59:22,120 --> 00:59:24,480
Speaker 3: top vocal person. But if you go out there and

1116
00:59:24,560 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 3: lead with professionalism, it's gonna rub off on this team.

1117
00:59:27,680 --> 00:59:29,840
Speaker 3: And I really love I'll actually, as you were talking

1118
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 3: about Josh Palmer, I love this receiver room for the

1119
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 3: for the Bills, especially when you include the tight ends.

1120
00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:37,800
Speaker 3: If the tight ends can get healthy. We saw that

1121
00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 3: Dawson Knox wanted to stay. I like the Dawson Knox.

1122
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:43,600
Speaker 3: I think it's telling when you have a player who's

1123
00:59:43,600 --> 00:59:45,560
Speaker 3: given an opportunity to you don't go out and see

1124
00:59:45,600 --> 00:59:48,080
Speaker 3: what's out there, go and see and then listen. There's

1125
00:59:48,120 --> 00:59:50,200
Speaker 3: there's plenty of teams that could use at Dawson Knox,

1126
00:59:50,680 --> 00:59:52,880
Speaker 3: but he ultimately chose to stay with the Buffalo Bills,

1127
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:55,880
Speaker 3: which I think speaks of this organization. So I think

1128
00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:58,520
Speaker 3: DJ Moore is gonna come in and fit in perfectly.

1129
00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 1: So you've had you also had the experience of watching

1130
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:03,880
Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, first year head coach, come in and it

1131
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:06,520
Speaker 1: went what very well? Would you not say, I mean,

1132
01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:07,840
Speaker 1: he got it. No, they didn't win the Super they

1133
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:09,520
Speaker 1: didn't win the Super Bowl all that, but that that

1134
01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:12,600
Speaker 1: is a year that that is a plus year for

1135
01:00:12,680 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears franchise, right and Ben Johnson was the

1136
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:18,360
Speaker 1: reason for it. So now in Buffalo, who they've had

1137
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:20,800
Speaker 1: a lot of success over the past greater part of

1138
01:00:20,840 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 1: a decade. Now with Josh Allen, what's it going to

1139
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:25,840
Speaker 1: take for a guy like Joe Brady to magic the

1140
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:28,880
Speaker 1: kind of what you know, what kind of incremental jump

1141
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 1: or perhaps you know, maybe a step back or what

1142
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:34,520
Speaker 1: do you expect from a new head coach walking into

1143
01:00:34,560 --> 01:00:36,520
Speaker 1: a situation. That was what it was in Buffalo where

1144
01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:40,200
Speaker 1: they were you know, they're that close for six or

1145
01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 1: seven years, as opposed to a Chicago team where the

1146
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:44,720
Speaker 1: bar was a little lower for success.

1147
01:00:45,920 --> 01:00:49,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. I mean, like the uh Ben Johnson

1148
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:51,040
Speaker 3: would have been given a little bit of grace right

1149
01:00:51,160 --> 01:00:54,640
Speaker 3: if the Bears had been competitive last year. Buffalo's Joe

1150
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:56,960
Speaker 3: Brady is not being given that opportunity. You can't just

1151
01:00:57,000 --> 01:00:59,040
Speaker 3: go out there and be like, hey, we won ten games,

1152
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:01,760
Speaker 3: it was fun. Like no, no, no, you expect to

1153
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:04,320
Speaker 3: go to the next level, to the AFC Championship Game

1154
01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 3: and beyond. It reminds me of a situation a number

1155
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:09,520
Speaker 3: of years ago when the then San Diego Chargers got

1156
01:01:09,640 --> 01:01:12,640
Speaker 3: rid of Already Schottenheimer to bring in north Turner with

1157
01:01:12,800 --> 01:01:15,520
Speaker 3: the expectation to get to the Super Bowl. Now, obviously

1158
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:18,880
Speaker 3: that season, north Turner helped lead the Chargers to the

1159
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 3: AFC Championship Game, where they lost to the New England Patriots,

1160
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:24,200
Speaker 3: the team that went undefeated during the regular season and

1161
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 3: the playoffs up into the Super Bowl. That's what you

1162
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 3: want from the Buffalo Bills. You want to take that

1163
01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 3: next step. I think that unfortunately, we like Sean. Sean's

1164
01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:35,320
Speaker 3: a great guy, like he's a good pery. You met him,

1165
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 3: you know him. Sure, obviously you have a greater relationship

1166
01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 3: with him than I ever did. But you know what

1167
01:01:39,360 --> 01:01:42,760
Speaker 3: it's sometimes the NFL is a bottom line business. And

1168
01:01:42,800 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 3: when Joe Brady accepts this position to be the head

1169
01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:49,640
Speaker 3: coach of the Buffalo Bills, you're not in Hey, this

1170
01:01:49,680 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 3: is a three year rebuilding plan. This is a you

1171
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 3: got to do it this year or otherwise the buzzards

1172
01:01:55,080 --> 01:01:57,280
Speaker 3: are going to start circling for you. But the one

1173
01:01:57,280 --> 01:01:58,760
Speaker 3: thing that I do love is that there's going to

1174
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:01,280
Speaker 3: be some continuity. You don't need to blow up the

1175
01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:04,160
Speaker 3: entire organization. You didn't hate, you don't need to tear

1176
01:02:04,200 --> 01:02:06,960
Speaker 3: this thing down to the studs. You just need to

1177
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:10,800
Speaker 3: compliment what's already there. Like you've already got a great house.

1178
01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:13,919
Speaker 3: You just got to get maybe new windows, maybe we

1179
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:16,640
Speaker 3: redo the kitchen, whatever it's going to be. That's what

1180
01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:20,000
Speaker 3: Joe Brady needs to do. And by bringing in players

1181
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:22,360
Speaker 3: like DJ Moore and Bradley Chubb and some of the

1182
01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:25,000
Speaker 3: other guys that you brought in, that's what you're hoping

1183
01:02:25,080 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 3: is going to help push them over the top.

1184
01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:30,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not an extreme homemaker. For addition, for Joe Brady,

1185
01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:34,040
Speaker 2: he likes his family room, which is his offense. We'll

1186
01:02:34,080 --> 01:02:38,080
Speaker 2: plug in maybe a new soundbar or something in there,

1187
01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:40,280
Speaker 2: maybe a new couch, but we like what we have

1188
01:02:40,440 --> 01:02:43,440
Speaker 2: so far. The makeover is going to be the kitchen,

1189
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:46,080
Speaker 2: which is the defense. The Bills are switching from a

1190
01:02:46,120 --> 01:02:48,440
Speaker 2: four to three defense to a three to four defense,

1191
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 2: so we're going to see a lot of new players

1192
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:53,640
Speaker 2: come into this building. Some players who will still be

1193
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:56,040
Speaker 2: on this roster will have to learn a new defense.

1194
01:02:56,080 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 2: So I think the biggest question that Bills fans have

1195
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:01,840
Speaker 2: is how long is that going to take. Jim Leonard,

1196
01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:04,520
Speaker 2: who's that the Broncos, comes over to be the defensive

1197
01:03:04,560 --> 01:03:07,760
Speaker 2: coinator for the Bills, and it will be a question

1198
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:10,480
Speaker 2: of how long does it take for this to fully

1199
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:14,160
Speaker 2: come together? Is it a complete one pint eighty from

1200
01:03:14,320 --> 01:03:16,440
Speaker 2: last year to this year or are you going to

1201
01:03:16,520 --> 01:03:18,440
Speaker 2: see them kind of do a little bit of both

1202
01:03:18,520 --> 01:03:22,000
Speaker 2: as they make that complete transition into being a true

1203
01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:23,080
Speaker 2: three four defense.

1204
01:03:24,120 --> 01:03:26,280
Speaker 3: You know, the interesting part of that, Mattie is when

1205
01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:28,360
Speaker 3: you start looking at it, what you really want them

1206
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:30,080
Speaker 3: to do is really hit their stride once you get

1207
01:03:30,120 --> 01:03:32,240
Speaker 3: into the playoffs, like, you don't want to take for

1208
01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:34,240
Speaker 3: granted that the Bills are going to make the playoffs,

1209
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:36,480
Speaker 3: but you want to get better as the season goes on,

1210
01:03:36,520 --> 01:03:39,200
Speaker 3: and it'll be some adjustments, you'll give up some points. Thankfully,

1211
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:41,840
Speaker 3: you have Josh Allen there to kind of erase some

1212
01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:44,480
Speaker 3: of the mistakes and kind of you know, hey, we

1213
01:03:45,080 --> 01:03:47,120
Speaker 3: get a little bit of grace here because we're going

1214
01:03:47,160 --> 01:03:49,520
Speaker 3: to be able to score points on people. So if

1215
01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:51,440
Speaker 3: you're not perfect, that'll be okay. And we saw it

1216
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:54,000
Speaker 3: with the Bears this season where the defense was far

1217
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:58,160
Speaker 3: from perfect, but Caleb kept finding ways to win games,

1218
01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:00,600
Speaker 3: and I think Josh Allen obviously as that kind of

1219
01:04:00,640 --> 01:04:03,200
Speaker 3: ability as well. What you wanted them to be doing

1220
01:04:03,400 --> 01:04:05,800
Speaker 3: is singing at the end of the at the end

1221
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:07,720
Speaker 3: of the playoff or once they get into the playoff runs.

1222
01:04:07,760 --> 01:04:10,520
Speaker 3: And honestly, when you look back over the last number

1223
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:13,760
Speaker 3: of years, you don't need to have a dominant defense

1224
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:16,960
Speaker 3: to go out there and win or get to the

1225
01:04:17,040 --> 01:04:19,160
Speaker 3: Super Bowl. We saw it. Obviously Seattle was able to

1226
01:04:19,160 --> 01:04:20,880
Speaker 3: do that this season. But when you go back to

1227
01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:23,840
Speaker 3: the Chiefs teams over the years when they were run

1228
01:04:23,880 --> 01:04:26,920
Speaker 3: by lou Ana Roumo. They weren't necessarily or that was

1229
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:30,440
Speaker 3: the Bengals, Sorry, but like it wasn't necessarily like you

1230
01:04:30,480 --> 01:04:34,080
Speaker 3: were a great defense. Can you make the stops when

1231
01:04:34,080 --> 01:04:36,040
Speaker 3: they need to be made? And I think that's the

1232
01:04:36,040 --> 01:04:38,960
Speaker 3: biggest thing for the Bills is making the stops at

1233
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:42,120
Speaker 3: the opportune time going out there when you have you know,

1234
01:04:42,160 --> 01:04:44,280
Speaker 3: when you have a lead, can you just make one stop,

1235
01:04:44,720 --> 01:04:47,200
Speaker 3: get that get that other offense off the field to

1236
01:04:47,240 --> 01:04:49,720
Speaker 3: give the ball back to Josh Allen. That's what they

1237
01:04:49,760 --> 01:04:51,720
Speaker 3: need to do and I think that they ultimately as

1238
01:04:51,720 --> 01:04:53,560
Speaker 3: the season goes on, you'll see more and more of

1239
01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:55,800
Speaker 3: that for the Bills as the year progresses.

1240
01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:58,480
Speaker 1: We're having the conversation yesterday about the Chicago Bears. They

1241
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:01,960
Speaker 1: win the NFC North last year, all four teams were

1242
01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:06,520
Speaker 1: within two games of each other. Minnesota, Detroit exact same record.

1243
01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:08,480
Speaker 1: Green Bay would have had the same record had they

1244
01:05:08,520 --> 01:05:11,720
Speaker 1: not had a tie in the mix, right, How do

1245
01:05:11,760 --> 01:05:14,040
Speaker 1: you think it's gonna come out? How do you think

1246
01:05:14,080 --> 01:05:16,680
Speaker 1: that division is gonna shake out this year? Does Chicago

1247
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:20,320
Speaker 1: continue where there are? Does it get tougher for them

1248
01:05:20,440 --> 01:05:23,040
Speaker 1: with a different kind of schedule? What do you see

1249
01:05:23,040 --> 01:05:26,160
Speaker 1: the you know, the NFC North shaken out into this year.

1250
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:29,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely not gonna be easier. I don't see

1251
01:05:29,120 --> 01:05:31,160
Speaker 3: any team being bad. And that's the one thing too,

1252
01:05:31,200 --> 01:05:35,480
Speaker 3: Like Minnesota. People forget like Minnesota was very close to

1253
01:05:35,520 --> 01:05:37,600
Speaker 3: making the playoffs. I know they close only counts and

1254
01:05:37,880 --> 01:05:40,240
Speaker 3: what horseshoes and all that stuff, but at the same time,

1255
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:42,919
Speaker 3: a very formidable team. And how they get Kyler Murray,

1256
01:05:42,960 --> 01:05:44,880
Speaker 3: and if Kyler Murray can come in and kind of

1257
01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 3: follow the same career trajectory of Sam Darnold, that's gonna

1258
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:50,400
Speaker 3: be a very dangerous team because they were able to

1259
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:53,880
Speaker 3: keep Brian Flores. The Lions are of course very good,

1260
01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:56,880
Speaker 3: you know, despite the fact that you know, they didn't

1261
01:05:56,880 --> 01:05:58,560
Speaker 3: make the playoffs, that was still a very good team.

1262
01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:00,400
Speaker 3: And the Packers are going to be the Packers. It's

1263
01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:03,120
Speaker 3: gonna be a challenge for the Bears to continue this momentum.

1264
01:06:03,560 --> 01:06:04,920
Speaker 3: One of the things they need to do is be

1265
01:06:04,920 --> 01:06:08,000
Speaker 3: better on defense and make more stops. Now we saw

1266
01:06:08,080 --> 01:06:10,480
Speaker 3: at the end of last year when Austin Booker got healthy,

1267
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:13,960
Speaker 3: that made a huge difference. The Bears pass rush is

1268
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:16,080
Speaker 3: not great, but I don't think it needs to be

1269
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:18,400
Speaker 3: and They've made a lot of changes at the linebacker

1270
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:20,680
Speaker 3: position and in the secondary. I know a lot of

1271
01:06:20,680 --> 01:06:23,400
Speaker 3: people were upset that how are the Bears letting all

1272
01:06:23,440 --> 01:06:25,880
Speaker 3: these players go? You're like, well, they were twenty ninth

1273
01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:29,520
Speaker 3: in defense, maybe they should let them go. But you

1274
01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:31,960
Speaker 3: know they're gonna give it. You know, hopefully this year,

1275
01:06:32,160 --> 01:06:35,680
Speaker 3: second year in Dennis Allen, they're gonna continue to get better.

1276
01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:37,360
Speaker 3: And like I was just saying about the Bills, they

1277
01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:40,600
Speaker 3: don't need to be the eighty five Bears, but can

1278
01:06:40,640 --> 01:06:42,880
Speaker 3: you make a stop when you need to? And we

1279
01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:45,720
Speaker 3: saw that in the playoffs. They stopped the Rams. They

1280
01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:48,360
Speaker 3: had the Rams right there. That was the offense. It

1281
01:06:48,440 --> 01:06:50,960
Speaker 3: was the offense that didn't come through at the end.

1282
01:06:51,040 --> 01:06:52,480
Speaker 3: So the defense made their stop.

1283
01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:55,160
Speaker 2: Man, it was so fun to watch what Caleb Williams

1284
01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:58,640
Speaker 2: did last season. And if you're projecting to this season,

1285
01:06:59,520 --> 01:07:02,400
Speaker 2: how do you do you believe the iceman will fare

1286
01:07:02,520 --> 01:07:05,160
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six with a lot of you know,

1287
01:07:05,280 --> 01:07:07,840
Speaker 2: similar cast of characters and in terms of players who

1288
01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:08,840
Speaker 2: he's gonna throw the ball to.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I hate to say this, but I think it's

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Speaker 3: gonna get better offensively for this team. I really do,

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Speaker 3: you know, remember too, like Colson Lovelin missed the large

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Speaker 3: chunk of the season early on because of an injury.

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Speaker 3: Luther Burden the third wasn't fully integrated into the offense

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Speaker 3: yet either. And I'm still I'm the only one. It

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Speaker 3: feels like who realizes the Bears are drafting a receiver

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Speaker 3: at twenty five? Like I know that the Bears community

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Speaker 3: is like, oh, we're gonna load up on addressers. I'm like, no,

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Speaker 3: they're not. No, they're not. Like Ben Johnson is maniacal.

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Speaker 3: He's going to bring in another offensive threat and they're

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Speaker 3: gonna go out it just like last year. Because eybody

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Speaker 3: was shocked. I wasn't. Everybody else was shocked when Colston

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Speaker 3: Lovelin was drafted and I had to wear that for

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Speaker 3: like eight weeks or it was a go nice pick rck.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm telling you, he's gonna come around like

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Speaker 3: this was this was the pick. I even wrote about

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Speaker 3: it last year on NFL dot Com about how much

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Speaker 3: I loved Colston Lovelin. I thought that him and Tyler

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Speaker 3: Warren were both going to be drafted in the top ten.

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Speaker 3: And he could even make the argument that if Jacksonville

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Speaker 3: had taken Tyler Warren instead of Travis Hunter, they might

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Speaker 3: have been a little bit better off. But listen, that's

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Speaker 3: a story for another day. This is I'm not talking

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Speaker 3: to Tony conn right now, so I can I can

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Speaker 3: say that for some other time. But I think the

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Speaker 3: Bears are gonna be very good this year. I think

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Speaker 3: the offense will continue to progress.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Bears last year, the way it worked out

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Speaker 1: with Colston Lovelin not playing as many games as you know,

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Speaker 1: missing a couple of games. The Bills have this mantra

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Speaker 1: that everybody eats. When they traded Steph Diggs, Josh Allen,

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Speaker 1: you know, said you know, I'll do it with these guys.

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Speaker 1: I got it, and they were gonna spread the ball around.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna demand more targets than anybody else. I can

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Speaker 1: throw it to the open guy and not have anybody

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Speaker 1: whine about it. If I'm looking at the Chicago Bears

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Speaker 1: season statistics from a year ago, that's exactly what they did.

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Speaker 1: They had one guy with fifty eight catches, then another

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Speaker 1: with fifty forty seven, forty four, thirty nine, thirty four, thirty.

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Speaker 1: They got like six or eight guys all with thirty

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Speaker 1: plus catches. That was kind of what Caleb Williams looked like,

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Speaker 1: was the kind of everybody eats mantra, There is that

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Speaker 1: a thing? Or do they need a do they need

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Speaker 1: an alpha out there?

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Speaker 3: Now? I love it. I really believe that Colston Lovelin

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Speaker 3: ends up being their go to guy, much like DJ

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Speaker 3: Moore was last season when they needed a big play.

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Speaker 3: Because one of the funniest things or one of the

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Speaker 3: most enjoyable things I've been able to do during this

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Speaker 3: offseason is to go back and watch there's a compilation

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Speaker 3: and I'm sure Maddy's seen this too, where like it's

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Speaker 3: a compilation of Packers creators watching the Bears rally to

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Speaker 3: beat them in the playoffs and just how defeated they

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01:09:41,920 --> 01:09:44,200
Speaker 3: get at some point when they realize what is about

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01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:48,040
Speaker 3: to happen. But when you watch other teams, it's it's

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Speaker 3: how they react to Colston Lovelin and they're like, oh,

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Speaker 3: it's Colston Lovelin again. And Steve, I'm sure you'll remember this,

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Speaker 3: remember like how how good the Dallas Cowboys were and

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01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:02,519
Speaker 3: everybody knows Aikman in Irvin and Emmitt Smith, but remember

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01:10:02,520 --> 01:10:06,040
Speaker 3: how annoying j Novichik was, Like, oh my gosh, that

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Speaker 3: guy all the time. Like it's third and eight and

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Speaker 3: there's a nine yard past a Novacheck and you're like,

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01:10:11,320 --> 01:10:13,720
Speaker 3: I can't believe what is going on. And I think

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Speaker 3: Colston Lovelin ended up being that kind of player.

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Speaker 2: I like that comparison. Yeah, I've definitely seen that compilation

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Speaker 2: before you go, one last question for me, what's been

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Speaker 2: the most surprising move of free agency in your eyes?

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Speaker 3: Wow, that's a great question. Shocking, Well, that's shocking. The

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01:10:33,040 --> 01:10:36,200
Speaker 3: Baltimore Ravens turned out to be this organization there. It's like,

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Speaker 3: what do you guys?

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Speaker 1: What happened?

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Speaker 3: You're just not gonna do. I still want more answers

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Speaker 3: to what happened with that thing, because I buy Max

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01:10:44,040 --> 01:10:47,120
Speaker 3: Crosby's story. Like Max Crosby, first of all, you flew

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Speaker 3: him into Dulles. Now you're not flying him into Baltimore.

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Speaker 3: Then you have him hanging out for five hours before

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Speaker 3: Eric DaCosta meets him. I'm like, you know, I don't

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Speaker 3: quite something stinks here and I don't know what it is.

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Speaker 3: It's it's unfortunate too. I know a lot of the

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Speaker 3: Ravens fans are like, we did nothing wrong, we didn't

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Speaker 3: break I'm like gabbing. You held up everything, like you

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Speaker 3: created a trade while you were negotiating with somebody else

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Speaker 3: and then you're like, Okay, this will work and then

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01:11:13,360 --> 01:11:16,240
Speaker 3: you broke up. You broke up with Max right there,

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01:11:16,400 --> 01:11:18,640
Speaker 3: just left it right uh and made him So I

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Speaker 3: thought that was like I didn't care for that.

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Speaker 1: That seemed to me. Yeah, that seemed to me, Adam.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know. I don't know anything about the

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Speaker 1: Ravens organization on Steve Bushott. He's the owner, but that's

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Speaker 1: kind of what it smells like to me. Other organizations

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Speaker 1: you get this either, why did they do that? And

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Speaker 1: you find out years later the owner came in and said, wait, wait, wait,

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Speaker 1: wait wait, what are you doing. No, you're not you know,

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Speaker 1: we're not giving up two ones. Forget that, you know,

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01:11:43,920 --> 01:11:46,080
Speaker 1: queer the deal. You know we're gonna forget the deal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, buyers are more.

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Speaker 3: I'm stopping that something on Amazon and you've been like, uh,

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Speaker 3: why did I right this?

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Speaker 1: It does It does smack to me of somebody stepping

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01:11:57,040 --> 01:11:59,800
Speaker 1: in and say whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Uh no,

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Speaker 1: you know, like an owner. And I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that happened, but certainly they didn't do anything wrong, but

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Speaker 1: they did something pretty weird.

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Speaker 3: Yes, great way to put.

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Speaker 1: It, Steve.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah, that is that was very, very surprising. And

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Speaker 2: when a team does something like that, you also send

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01:12:18,280 --> 01:12:21,240
Speaker 2: a message to the rest of the league about doing

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Speaker 2: business with you in the future.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Maybe, I don't know. I don't think it'll last long.

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Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna like black Ball the Bore.

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Speaker 2: Raven, but it's something in the back of your head

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01:12:33,880 --> 01:12:34,719
Speaker 2: that you think about.

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01:12:35,360 --> 01:12:37,479
Speaker 1: Well, it's not over till it's over, that's for sure.

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01:12:37,560 --> 01:12:41,000
Speaker 1: The deal, whatever deal you've got. But yeah, that's that's

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01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:42,840
Speaker 1: good stuff. Adam, Thanks man, Thank you, Adam.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate the time and looking forward to seeing what happens

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Speaker 2: with the Chicago Bears this season.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. Always appreciate

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Speaker 3: you coming on. Steve Boys a pleasure. Maddie great, great

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Speaker 3: talking to you. Take care of my guy, DJ Moore,

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01:12:57,600 --> 01:13:00,000
Speaker 3: Let him know, let him know I'm still his number

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01:13:00,160 --> 01:13:02,559
Speaker 3: one fan, so I'm going to be rooting for him

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01:13:03,160 --> 01:13:04,160
Speaker 3: from apart here.

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01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:06,880
Speaker 2: You heard it first, Adam rank biggest DJ more fan

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01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:09,880
Speaker 2: in all of the land. We appreciate him for coming on.

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01:13:10,080 --> 01:13:13,680
Speaker 2: NFL Network host and also host of the Sick Podcast

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Speaker 2: with Adam Rank, where they talk a lot about the

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Speaker 2: Chicago Bears. So just big thanks to Jay Harris, our producer,

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01:13:20,800 --> 01:13:24,720
Speaker 2: for letting me talk some Chicago Bears football on a

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Speaker 2: slower Friday in March. There's our quota for the year. Maddie,

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Speaker 2: be quiet. I love it. We're going to take a break.

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Speaker 2: When we return, we will get back into the Friday

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Speaker 2: fan mail bag and continue to answer some more of

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01:13:39,080 --> 01:13:56,640
Speaker 2: your questions in just a short bit. Welcome back to

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Speaker 2: one Bill's Live Matty Glad alongside of Steve Tasker, and

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Speaker 2: let's dip back into the Friday fan mail bag from Jeffrey.

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Speaker 2: Is their benefit to year after year trading back from

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01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:10,719
Speaker 2: round one and really doubling down on draft and develop,

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01:14:11,120 --> 01:14:14,559
Speaker 2: letting more players walk with comp picks in mind, have

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01:14:14,680 --> 01:14:18,639
Speaker 2: eight to ten draft picks every year, building cheaper, younger, faster, deeper,

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01:14:18,720 --> 01:14:23,320
Speaker 2: healthier roster. I think it works in the thought of

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01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:27,320
Speaker 2: thinking it's gonna work. That sounds all fine and dandy

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01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:31,880
Speaker 2: until you keep trading out of round one and you

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01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:35,639
Speaker 2: realize maybe this equation isn't exactly working. You're not gonna

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01:14:35,720 --> 01:14:39,280
Speaker 2: hit on every single pick. The guys are graded first

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01:14:39,360 --> 01:14:41,519
Speaker 2: round players are worthy of being drafted in the first

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01:14:41,640 --> 01:14:44,200
Speaker 2: round because they're better than anybody else in the draft,

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01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:47,080
Speaker 2: which then projects that they're going to play better than

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01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:50,599
Speaker 2: anybody else. You have a better chance that they're going

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01:14:50,640 --> 01:14:54,200
Speaker 2: to be talented players in the NFL. But you do

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01:14:54,360 --> 01:14:57,080
Speaker 2: find those diamonds in the fifth round and beyond, and

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Speaker 2: some gms are better at finding them than the others.

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Speaker 1: Those have done a good job at that too, Yeah,

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01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:07,240
Speaker 1: they have. They've done a really good job. They really

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01:15:07,280 --> 01:15:09,800
Speaker 1: crushed it in the later rounds. And one of the

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Speaker 1: problems is that we talk about a lot, Matt, is

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Speaker 1: that the really elite guys, the difference makers. You talked

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Speaker 1: at about it earlier in the show. Most draft analysts

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Speaker 1: have like ten to fifteen guys that are drafted that

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Speaker 1: are number one draft picks ten to fifteen, and there's

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Speaker 1: thirty two teams. So half of the thirty two teams

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01:15:29,760 --> 01:15:31,479
Speaker 1: aren't gonna get a guy in the top half of

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Speaker 1: the draft because they aren't gonna pick him. They're gonna

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01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:35,360
Speaker 1: chance to pick them. Now, maybe some of those guys

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01:15:35,360 --> 01:15:39,519
Speaker 1: will drop and into the twenties, the twentieth pick, but

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01:15:39,520 --> 01:15:42,719
Speaker 1: they're not gonna drop very far, depending because some teams

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01:15:42,760 --> 01:15:45,160
Speaker 1: will always pick a different guy because they like they

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01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:49,200
Speaker 1: need that position. But the simple fact of the matter

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Speaker 1: is there aren't enough guys to go through the first

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Speaker 1: round and get a guy who's actually a first round pick,

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Speaker 1: who's going to be show up on day one, be impressive,

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Speaker 1: be smart enough to pick it up, good enough to

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Speaker 1: execute it, and be a star right out of the gate.

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Speaker 1: There's not that many guys in this draft. So when

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Speaker 1: you and when you have a guy like Josh who

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Speaker 1: is an elite guy who can drag your team to

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Speaker 1: the playoffs no matter how good or bad the roster is,

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Speaker 1: seemingly you never get to pick one of those guys

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Speaker 1: in the first round. So you got to make do

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Speaker 1: you get guys who are good, not great, who are

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Speaker 1: great but not elite, guys who are good worth a

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Speaker 1: second contract, but not a market setting contract. And you're

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Speaker 1: looking for always somebody for a guy who to be

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Speaker 1: a finger quotes difference maker. You need one of those

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Speaker 1: guys that's a game wrecker, and you just never able

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Speaker 1: to get them unless you steal them from somebody else.

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Speaker 1: And nobody lets those guys go. You always get a

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Speaker 1: guy like a Von Miller, who is who might be

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Speaker 1: that guy, but now he gets hurt. Now he's not

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Speaker 1: Joey Bosa. Good player, but you know he's good at

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01:16:58,960 --> 01:17:01,479
Speaker 1: pass rushing, he's not so good against the run. You get,

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Speaker 1: you know, you get these guys that are good but

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Speaker 1: not elite. You gotta you gotta put it together as

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Speaker 1: best you can and have your coaching staff build a

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Speaker 1: scheme and a plan around guys and what they do best.

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Speaker 1: I the biggest lesson I ever learned from Afar was

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01:17:20,520 --> 01:17:23,479
Speaker 1: when I was when I was playing, was about the

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Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins and Don Shula and Don Shula was one

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Speaker 1: of the all time He's winning a coach in NFL

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01:17:31,040 --> 01:17:35,519
Speaker 1: history for a reason, and Weed and Teddy Marsha Brode

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Speaker 1: he was a great coach, he was an elite coach.

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Speaker 1: And he said the same thing. There, guys, here's the Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: here's their defense, here's what they do, and that's all

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Speaker 1: they do. But they do it really well. They don't

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01:17:50,360 --> 01:17:53,200
Speaker 1: ask their guys to do anything outside their skill set.

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Speaker 1: They are predictable. We know where they're gonna be, but

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Speaker 1: they are really good at doing what they do. And

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01:17:59,080 --> 01:18:01,160
Speaker 1: for that reason, they know where we're gonna attack them.

1499
01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:04,519
Speaker 1: They know how to overcompensate for that. They know what

1500
01:18:04,560 --> 01:18:07,679
Speaker 1: they're doing and they're really good at it. They're hard

1501
01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:10,639
Speaker 1: to beat. So Dolphins show up with Don Shula, Dan

1502
01:18:10,720 --> 01:18:13,120
Speaker 1: Marino and a bunch of guys and they're hard to beat.

1503
01:18:14,280 --> 01:18:18,800
Speaker 1: So now the NFL, it's you know, it's full of

1504
01:18:18,800 --> 01:18:22,680
Speaker 1: smart coaches. They do what Shula did. We do that.

1505
01:18:22,760 --> 01:18:24,000
Speaker 1: We may not be able to do all of that

1506
01:18:24,040 --> 01:18:25,960
Speaker 1: stuff over there, but man, we do this really well.

1507
01:18:26,080 --> 01:18:27,920
Speaker 1: Let's see if you can beat us doing that. That's

1508
01:18:27,960 --> 01:18:29,760
Speaker 1: what the Bills coaching staff will have to do. Now

1509
01:18:29,800 --> 01:18:32,920
Speaker 1: they've got a guy like Josh who can make chicken salad,

1510
01:18:34,040 --> 01:18:35,840
Speaker 1: and they can do a lot more things because of

1511
01:18:35,920 --> 01:18:37,679
Speaker 1: him and some of the guy and the offensive line

1512
01:18:37,720 --> 01:18:39,479
Speaker 1: and James Cook, and they can do a lot of

1513
01:18:39,520 --> 01:18:44,719
Speaker 1: things offensively that'll beat everybody defensively. It took them forever

1514
01:18:44,760 --> 01:18:46,880
Speaker 1: to figure out last year, particularly when Ed goes down,

1515
01:18:47,200 --> 01:18:50,000
Speaker 1: when Michael Hoyt goes down, and all of a sudden,

1516
01:18:50,120 --> 01:18:53,080
Speaker 1: now they got guys on the field trying to contribute

1517
01:18:53,080 --> 01:18:54,240
Speaker 1: to do they didn't think they were even gonna be

1518
01:18:54,280 --> 01:18:58,840
Speaker 1: on the roster. So it's a that's what we're at now.

1519
01:18:59,080 --> 01:19:00,800
Speaker 1: They got to put it together the best guys they

1520
01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:03,160
Speaker 1: can find, because they'll they'll do some stuff good and

1521
01:19:03,160 --> 01:19:05,839
Speaker 1: then they'll use that and build the plan around him.

1522
01:19:06,320 --> 01:19:09,960
Speaker 1: And it's complicated. So I don't know what this team's

1523
01:19:09,960 --> 01:19:11,280
Speaker 1: even going to look like on that side of it.

1524
01:19:11,400 --> 01:19:13,760
Speaker 1: And a pretty good idea on offense, right, we.

1525
01:19:13,840 --> 01:19:15,439
Speaker 2: Kind of know they're still going to fill it out

1526
01:19:15,439 --> 01:19:18,639
Speaker 2: on defense. Defensively, all the chips have not fallen in.

1527
01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:20,559
Speaker 1: I mean, is Dion Walker going to come back and

1528
01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:22,400
Speaker 1: be even better than he was his rookie year? He

1529
01:19:22,479 --> 01:19:23,400
Speaker 1: was good his rookie year.

1530
01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:26,880
Speaker 2: I think he will. Right, you're dealing with so much

1531
01:19:26,920 --> 01:19:27,479
Speaker 2: as a rookie.

1532
01:19:27,720 --> 01:19:30,160
Speaker 1: Is cold Bishop going to blossom as a third year player?

1533
01:19:30,200 --> 01:19:31,360
Speaker 1: We've seen so many other guys do it.

1534
01:19:31,840 --> 01:19:32,960
Speaker 2: He will continue to do so.

1535
01:19:33,400 --> 01:19:37,040
Speaker 1: Is Kinkai going to come back, stay healthy and be

1536
01:19:37,120 --> 01:19:40,080
Speaker 1: it and be a force like he has when he plays?

1537
01:19:40,120 --> 01:19:45,759
Speaker 1: He's a force? So let's go take.

1538
01:19:45,640 --> 01:19:48,280
Speaker 2: Your first round pick when you believe it's worth doing,

1539
01:19:48,360 --> 01:19:50,799
Speaker 2: and if you believe it's worth trading out to stash

1540
01:19:50,920 --> 01:19:52,759
Speaker 2: up on some other plays, then do that.

1541
01:19:52,760 --> 01:19:55,600
Speaker 1: That's why the coaches, if with the philosophy I just

1542
01:19:55,600 --> 01:19:57,960
Speaker 1: described that's why they picked. Just give me the best player.

1543
01:19:58,360 --> 01:20:02,040
Speaker 1: So I got three great safeties. You picked another safety.

1544
01:20:02,479 --> 01:20:05,000
Speaker 1: All right, fine, we'll use him because we'll be able

1545
01:20:05,040 --> 01:20:07,519
Speaker 1: to do this and they'll have to beat that, so

1546
01:20:08,200 --> 01:20:09,920
Speaker 1: maybe they won't be able to that kind of stuff.

1547
01:20:10,240 --> 01:20:13,040
Speaker 1: That's so if you can take be disciplined enough to

1548
01:20:13,040 --> 01:20:17,519
Speaker 1: take the best player available possible than doing it should

1549
01:20:17,560 --> 01:20:17,920
Speaker 1: be better.

1550
01:20:18,000 --> 01:20:21,360
Speaker 2: Ye, Lauren says every season the Bills lose out on

1551
01:20:21,400 --> 01:20:24,639
Speaker 2: a number one seed due to losing consecutive games around

1552
01:20:24,720 --> 01:20:28,200
Speaker 2: weeks four and five. What do you attribute that lack

1553
01:20:28,200 --> 01:20:32,760
Speaker 2: of urgency to coaching players overlooking opponents? Steve, did your

1554
01:20:32,760 --> 01:20:34,920
Speaker 2: teams have lows like this during your Bill's career.

1555
01:20:35,920 --> 01:20:38,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, we've had this conversation on the show. I think

1556
01:20:38,600 --> 01:20:41,280
Speaker 1: Lauren's a listener, got it because we've had this conversation.

1557
01:20:41,400 --> 01:20:44,000
Speaker 1: You go back all the years during the mcdermotare, there's

1558
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:46,080
Speaker 1: always a stretching there. Most times there was a stretching

1559
01:20:46,080 --> 01:20:48,240
Speaker 1: there where they lose two games in a row, like

1560
01:20:48,320 --> 01:20:51,679
Speaker 1: last year losing the Miami Dolphins. How does that team

1561
01:20:51,760 --> 01:20:55,639
Speaker 1: last year lose to that team? You think that they

1562
01:20:55,640 --> 01:20:58,639
Speaker 1: did not play well, They did not play well. They

1563
01:20:58,680 --> 01:21:01,120
Speaker 1: deserve to lose the game. In fact, lost by double digits,

1564
01:21:01,120 --> 01:21:04,599
Speaker 1: which is a rarity, right, And they had treated that

1565
01:21:04,640 --> 01:21:08,960
Speaker 1: team like it was a speed bump before that. But

1566
01:21:09,040 --> 01:21:11,519
Speaker 1: they lose thirty one to nineteen or something like that.

1567
01:21:11,520 --> 01:21:12,240
Speaker 2: It was tough.

1568
01:21:12,280 --> 01:21:17,040
Speaker 1: And yeah, some of that's coach some of it's coaching.

1569
01:21:17,080 --> 01:21:18,880
Speaker 1: And I know there are coaches on the staff they'll say, yeah,

1570
01:21:18,880 --> 01:21:20,360
Speaker 1: that's on us. We got to do better. We got

1571
01:21:20,360 --> 01:21:21,800
Speaker 1: to you know, I gotta get their guys ready. Even

1572
01:21:21,800 --> 01:21:24,120
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott would have taken some ownership for that loss.

1573
01:21:24,160 --> 01:21:27,120
Speaker 1: There's you know, that's you got to make. You can't

1574
01:21:27,160 --> 01:21:31,519
Speaker 1: let your team show up like that. I don't know

1575
01:21:32,360 --> 01:21:34,640
Speaker 1: what was in the water that made a lot of

1576
01:21:34,680 --> 01:21:38,760
Speaker 1: these football seasons under Sean McDermott look the same where

1577
01:21:38,800 --> 01:21:40,519
Speaker 1: you go back and say, yeah, there's two losses right

1578
01:21:40,520 --> 01:21:41,920
Speaker 1: there in the first half of the season. Oh look

1579
01:21:41,920 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 1: there's this year they also had two losses in the

1580
01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:46,519
Speaker 1: first half of the season back to back, and then

1581
01:21:46,520 --> 01:21:48,479
Speaker 1: this look at this year, they had two losses back

1582
01:21:48,520 --> 01:21:52,880
Speaker 1: to back. So it's it's really tough. Now. Certainly the

1583
01:21:52,880 --> 01:21:56,439
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three season when they switched offensive coordinators mid

1584
01:21:56,479 --> 01:21:59,160
Speaker 1: stream and went to Joe Brady. It got better quick

1585
01:21:59,200 --> 01:22:01,559
Speaker 1: and there's that was an easy fix, I say, an easy,

1586
01:22:02,240 --> 01:22:05,519
Speaker 1: simple fix, and that seemed to make everything much better.

1587
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:11,040
Speaker 1: It's a really fair question what was going on with

1588
01:22:11,080 --> 01:22:14,280
Speaker 1: this team that somewhere along the line a regular season

1589
01:22:14,280 --> 01:22:16,519
Speaker 1: when they're the best team every single week they take

1590
01:22:16,560 --> 01:22:19,960
Speaker 1: the field and they get beat by teams who had

1591
01:22:19,960 --> 01:22:23,240
Speaker 1: no business being on the field with them. That's on

1592
01:22:23,360 --> 01:22:27,839
Speaker 1: Joe Brady this year, like it was on Sean before.

1593
01:22:28,520 --> 01:22:30,759
Speaker 1: We always saw Sean McDermott. To their credit, they always

1594
01:22:30,760 --> 01:22:33,040
Speaker 1: got out. They were always four and one coming out

1595
01:22:33,080 --> 01:22:35,200
Speaker 1: of the gate, three and oh, four and one, five

1596
01:22:35,240 --> 01:22:37,920
Speaker 1: and one. They were always hot coming out of the gate.

1597
01:22:39,120 --> 01:22:43,080
Speaker 1: But somewhere in just after that, it was like two

1598
01:22:43,080 --> 01:22:45,680
Speaker 1: game law, two game losing stream breath, and then all

1599
01:22:45,680 --> 01:22:47,760
Speaker 1: of a sudden, now they're chasing the rest of the way,

1600
01:22:47,840 --> 01:22:49,760
Speaker 1: the rest of the regular season. They can't get the

1601
01:22:49,800 --> 01:22:54,719
Speaker 1: one seed back. And that's I think all Bills fans

1602
01:22:54,760 --> 01:22:57,920
Speaker 1: can sit here and say, if we had home field

1603
01:22:58,560 --> 01:23:06,360
Speaker 1: in any of those seasons, everything everything's different. Talking about it,

1604
01:23:07,040 --> 01:23:10,439
Speaker 1: it's a real question. It's a real question my team.

1605
01:23:10,680 --> 01:23:12,040
Speaker 1: It's a long time, so I don't know if I

1606
01:23:12,200 --> 01:23:16,520
Speaker 1: remember we went we had the one seed three times

1607
01:23:16,640 --> 01:23:21,400
Speaker 1: out of the four the fourth one we didn't, but

1608
01:23:21,479 --> 01:23:23,400
Speaker 1: we went to Miami late in the year instead of

1609
01:23:23,760 --> 01:23:31,840
Speaker 1: having So, yeah, I don't know something. Yeah, that one

1610
01:23:31,880 --> 01:23:35,240
Speaker 1: seed is not nothing. And if that, if this team

1611
01:23:35,400 --> 01:23:37,599
Speaker 1: gets good enough to get it and you can keep it,

1612
01:23:39,240 --> 01:23:41,840
Speaker 1: everything is easy. You get a week off, I mean,

1613
01:23:41,920 --> 01:23:45,760
Speaker 1: everything's better. Everything is better. So that and it's not

1614
01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:47,479
Speaker 1: out of the realm. We talked about it last year.

1615
01:23:47,479 --> 01:23:49,080
Speaker 1: It's not out of the real possibility for this team

1616
01:23:49,120 --> 01:23:50,719
Speaker 1: to make a play fourth this year. But you can't

1617
01:23:50,720 --> 01:23:55,320
Speaker 1: go through a two game losing streak. That's a great

1618
01:23:55,479 --> 01:24:00,280
Speaker 1: that's a great observation from Lauren. I'm there's something. There's

1619
01:24:00,280 --> 01:24:02,720
Speaker 1: something going on there that that there was, and that's

1620
01:24:02,760 --> 01:24:07,360
Speaker 1: part of the that's part of the wispy nature of

1621
01:24:07,400 --> 01:24:09,960
Speaker 1: what's different about this team than last year. The nuance

1622
01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:11,679
Speaker 1: of different you know, a lot of you know, different

1623
01:24:11,680 --> 01:24:14,400
Speaker 1: personality in the locker room. Mac Collins makes a difference

1624
01:24:14,439 --> 01:24:16,439
Speaker 1: when he's here with Buffalo. He gives him a little

1625
01:24:16,640 --> 01:24:19,360
Speaker 1: something on the offensive side, and then you know, and

1626
01:24:19,360 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 1: then it comes from somebody else this last year, and

1627
01:24:21,400 --> 01:24:25,679
Speaker 1: it's it's different every year. And I don't know why

1628
01:24:25,720 --> 01:24:27,560
Speaker 1: this team goes through a two game losing streak in

1629
01:24:27,600 --> 01:24:29,880
Speaker 1: the first half of every season or under McDermott. So

1630
01:24:29,920 --> 01:24:34,840
Speaker 1: I'm but, but that's that's a problem, particularly when you

1631
01:24:34,880 --> 01:24:38,880
Speaker 1: lose to a team like the Dolphins or the Falcons.

1632
01:24:39,960 --> 01:24:42,439
Speaker 2: Last were right in that game of the Patriots too, Yeah,

1633
01:24:42,479 --> 01:24:43,320
Speaker 2: and the Patriots.

1634
01:24:43,640 --> 01:24:45,880
Speaker 1: So not that Patriots were a good team last year,

1635
01:24:45,920 --> 01:24:49,960
Speaker 1: not a great they were a good team. So I'm yeah,

1636
01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:53,040
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm with I'm with her. That's that's a

1637
01:24:53,080 --> 01:24:55,200
Speaker 1: real good question. I don't think there's a real answer

1638
01:24:55,200 --> 01:24:57,080
Speaker 1: for not one that you can articulate.

1639
01:24:57,960 --> 01:25:01,080
Speaker 2: One quick, Q and A before go to break my

1640
01:25:01,160 --> 01:25:03,280
Speaker 2: thoughts Bills as do you think the Bills will try

1641
01:25:03,280 --> 01:25:07,200
Speaker 2: to bring back one of the two Shaq Thompson and

1642
01:25:07,439 --> 01:25:11,320
Speaker 2: or Matt Milano And why I'm kind of thinking one

1643
01:25:11,360 --> 01:25:15,320
Speaker 2: of them will be back in Buffalo next year. Who

1644
01:25:15,439 --> 01:25:19,400
Speaker 2: I'm not sure, but Matt Milano had a good end

1645
01:25:19,479 --> 01:25:23,840
Speaker 2: to last season. I think he still has some juice

1646
01:25:23,920 --> 01:25:27,720
Speaker 2: left in the tank. Shaq Thompson played out of his

1647
01:25:27,960 --> 01:25:32,280
Speaker 2: mind for Buffalo last year, stepping in when Terrell Bernard

1648
01:25:32,320 --> 01:25:36,719
Speaker 2: went down and filling in various roles throughout the season

1649
01:25:36,920 --> 01:25:39,320
Speaker 2: as well. I thought he was a leader on defense

1650
01:25:39,520 --> 01:25:42,200
Speaker 2: and really kind of got the best out of the

1651
01:25:42,240 --> 01:25:45,200
Speaker 2: team as a whole. There was a story during the

1652
01:25:45,200 --> 01:25:47,360
Speaker 2: season where he stood up in front of the entire

1653
01:25:47,400 --> 01:25:50,080
Speaker 2: team and talked about them about what it takes to

1654
01:25:50,560 --> 01:25:53,479
Speaker 2: be a dog and what type of dog you are,

1655
01:25:54,680 --> 01:25:57,880
Speaker 2: and I think it really spoke and spoke to it

1656
01:25:57,880 --> 01:26:01,719
Speaker 2: and resonated with a lot of players. They had dog

1657
01:26:01,840 --> 01:26:05,600
Speaker 2: pictures of dogs hanging up above their lockers because of

1658
01:26:05,640 --> 01:26:08,519
Speaker 2: that speech. So I would love to see either or

1659
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:10,160
Speaker 2: both of them back in Buffalo.

1660
01:26:10,479 --> 01:26:12,519
Speaker 1: That's a really good question. I think you're right, Maddie.

1661
01:26:13,640 --> 01:26:17,200
Speaker 1: Matt Mulana will come back, but it'll be veteran minimum

1662
01:26:17,280 --> 01:26:21,160
Speaker 1: or thereabouts because they know he's and his role will

1663
01:26:21,200 --> 01:26:26,160
Speaker 1: be expected to be lesser because of the youth, and

1664
01:26:26,240 --> 01:26:30,080
Speaker 1: because of his he'll he'll be a depth piece. He'll

1665
01:26:30,080 --> 01:26:32,800
Speaker 1: be break glass in case of emergency kind of a player.

1666
01:26:32,840 --> 01:26:37,639
Speaker 1: I think Shaq Thompson same thing. I think you could

1667
01:26:37,680 --> 01:26:40,160
Speaker 1: expect to see one or both of them signed back

1668
01:26:40,200 --> 01:26:44,680
Speaker 1: to the team before the draft. Even so, we'll see I.

1669
01:26:44,640 --> 01:26:47,160
Speaker 2: Agree break time for us when we return. Closing things

1670
01:26:47,240 --> 01:27:07,439
Speaker 2: up here on one, Bill's Live. Greg, you're on one

1671
01:27:07,479 --> 01:27:10,320
Speaker 2: Bills Live. It's now time for this week's scoop of

1672
01:27:10,360 --> 01:27:13,080
Speaker 2: the week, presented by Blue Bunny, the official frozen treat

1673
01:27:13,120 --> 01:27:15,679
Speaker 2: of the Buffalo Bills. I've got a funny scoop because

1674
01:27:15,920 --> 01:27:19,320
Speaker 2: there wasn't much free agency news this week, so this

1675
01:27:19,400 --> 01:27:24,120
Speaker 2: scoop coming today from Adam Schefter. Pittsburgh Public schools will

1676
01:27:24,120 --> 01:27:28,200
Speaker 2: operate remotely from April twenty second to the twenty fourth

1677
01:27:28,520 --> 01:27:31,240
Speaker 2: as the city prepares to host the twenty twenty six

1678
01:27:31,479 --> 01:27:36,000
Speaker 2: NFL Draft. With road closers, heightened security, parking restrictions, and

1679
01:27:36,040 --> 01:27:39,400
Speaker 2: heavy traffic expected, the city believes remote learning is the

1680
01:27:39,400 --> 01:27:41,240
Speaker 2: best option during that time.

1681
01:27:41,400 --> 01:27:44,320
Speaker 1: I my question for you, Pittsburgh kind of town go ahead?

1682
01:27:44,320 --> 01:27:47,240
Speaker 2: Buffalo hosted the draft. How long would kids be out

1683
01:27:47,240 --> 01:27:48,200
Speaker 2: of school in Buffalo?

1684
01:27:48,439 --> 01:27:51,280
Speaker 1: They got, Yeah, it's a great move. I hadn't thought

1685
01:27:51,320 --> 01:27:55,080
Speaker 1: about that because you've been down in pitt Yeah, it's

1686
01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:58,080
Speaker 1: it's like a city center. The bridges, you got to navigate.

1687
01:27:58,520 --> 01:28:01,639
Speaker 1: Smart move by Pittsburgh. Put t keep the kids home.

1688
01:28:01,720 --> 01:28:04,920
Speaker 1: That's a smart move. Kudos to Pittsburgh. Let the kids

1689
01:28:04,920 --> 01:28:06,439
Speaker 1: out of school for the NFL draft.

1690
01:28:06,600 --> 01:28:08,519
Speaker 2: Let the kids enjoy the let's go.

1691
01:28:09,120 --> 01:28:11,880
Speaker 1: I am all about it. Send them down there. It's

1692
01:28:12,160 --> 01:28:16,360
Speaker 1: future season ticket holders. You gotta keep them invested. And

1693
01:28:16,360 --> 01:28:20,559
Speaker 1: and yeah, the traffic's gonna be a crusher. You heard

1694
01:28:20,680 --> 01:28:22,920
Speaker 1: what happened to Detroit. It's like seven hundreds, like the

1695
01:28:22,920 --> 01:28:25,400
Speaker 1: Persian Army descended on on Detroit.

1696
01:28:25,479 --> 01:28:28,040
Speaker 2: Everybody moves, everybody we go.

1697
01:28:29,240 --> 01:28:33,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, Pittsburgh, if they're expecting that, Yeah, that's smart move,

1698
01:28:33,920 --> 01:28:35,320
Speaker 1: smart move. Kudos to Pittsburgh.

1699
01:28:35,439 --> 01:28:37,280
Speaker 2: Got any fun plans this weekend? You're gonna watch some

1700
01:28:37,320 --> 01:28:38,480
Speaker 2: marsh Madness.

1701
01:28:39,760 --> 01:28:42,559
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe maybe, yeah.

1702
01:28:42,479 --> 01:28:44,559
Speaker 2: Maybe if the weather's terrible enough for.

1703
01:28:45,800 --> 01:28:48,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got something to do on Sunday, right around

1704
01:28:48,240 --> 01:28:50,240
Speaker 1: noon stuff, I got to do that. But yeah, no,

1705
01:28:51,040 --> 01:28:53,840
Speaker 1: I don't know, relaxing it. If it's rain and if

1706
01:28:53,880 --> 01:28:55,920
Speaker 1: I can get outside, I'll do some stuff outside. Okay.

1707
01:28:56,160 --> 01:28:59,920
Speaker 2: Nice. I'm am seeing an event for punt Pediatric can't

1708
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Speaker 2: are collaborative tonight, so I'm excited for that. We got

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01:29:02,200 --> 01:29:06,719
Speaker 2: an event here on Saturday morning for some women celebrating

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Speaker 2: Woman's History Month, so I'm excited about that. And hopefully

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Speaker 2: watching some basketball.

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Speaker 1: I might do that. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna check back in with you on Monday. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna keep money.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep my bracket.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait. Enjoy your weekend, everybody. We will be

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01:29:23,840 --> 01:29:26,479
Speaker 2: back on Monday. Chris is back in as well, so

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Speaker 2: we'll see them from one to three