1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:12,399 Speaker 1: Oh a great time. I watch Steve Claspers time. Time's 2 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:24,960 Speaker 1: not time to another week of one Bills Live once again. 3 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:26,799 Speaker 1: And we were just talking just before we came on 4 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:31,600 Speaker 1: the other there's about five months broadcasting from our homes 5 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: and um, well, I'm okay with it now. I mean, 6 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:39,479 Speaker 1: what am I gonna do? You know, we were laughing too. 7 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:42,199 Speaker 1: There's like the NFL and all of the rhetoric that 8 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,840 Speaker 1: is surrounded that that's returning to work. The NFL has 9 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 1: has come up with these tiers, like Tier one is 10 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 1: the players, coaches, the equipment staff, medical staff. Tier two 11 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:54,319 Speaker 1: are the people who support those people who cannot enter, 12 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: who can't directly come into contact with any of those people, 13 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: only when the building's empty. Tier three is people like media, 14 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: people who can go in and watch from a distance, 15 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 1: that kind of thing. Tier four is somebody else. We 16 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: figure we're about tier ten on the scale of one 17 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 1: to four. We're a ten on somewhere that we may 18 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 1: we'll get back into the studio at some point, back 19 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 1: on MSG at some point, I think, but it may 20 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 1: be twenty twenty one before we do. Right, it's been 21 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:26,199 Speaker 1: five months and now I'm all right. I mean, you know, listen. 22 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: I'm just thankful to have something to do. I'm glad 23 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 1: I got a job. I really am. I mean in 24 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: all series there because there's so many people that we've 25 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 1: been furloughed later on and it just has five We 26 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:37,960 Speaker 1: were thinking, man, there'll be a couple of months. You know, 27 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: it's five months and it ain't stopping. We're not going anywhere. 28 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: It's five months. And here we sit me in my office. 29 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: You and your office, your basement, Jay Bird and his 30 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: and his little you know, family room, living room, JJ TEREDO. 31 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,000 Speaker 1: We're getting help from him. Kelly Rude is somewhere off 32 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: in than other reaches. I haven't seen her in five months, 33 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: but you know she's helping with the show every day. 34 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: You know. It's WEIRDO. Man, it is different, There's no 35 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: question about it. And it's interesting because I've seen the 36 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 1: being off for a couple of weeks, you kind of 37 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: see different stuff that you don't normally have time to 38 00:02:14,639 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 1: see or view or watch. And I find it interesting 39 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: that on social media and all other places, the shifting 40 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:25,800 Speaker 1: of the messaging to try to get people to comply 41 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:30,320 Speaker 1: with mask wearing, among other things. Now now you hear 42 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: more of this. If you want football in the fall, 43 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 1: please wear a mask like that. That's that's the level 44 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: you have to stoop to to get people to comply 45 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: with mask wearing in public. Please, if you like football 46 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: and you want to see it in the fall, wear 47 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 1: a mask like That's where we have to go to 48 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: get people to wear a mask. Not protect your family, 49 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 1: not protect others, not protect at risk portions of the population. Football. Yeah. 50 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: I said it last week when Maddie was on. You know, 51 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 1: we're Americans are horrible at this, we you know, because 52 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 1: there's so always a segment of the population. Sometimes it's 53 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: a huge segment of the population, and some groups you're 54 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:11,360 Speaker 1: in sometimes it's just a couple of people or whatever. 55 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: But there are always those people like you cannot tell 56 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: me what to do because I'm an American. Yeah, and 57 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,080 Speaker 1: that's you know, you can for whatever it's worth. I 58 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:22,160 Speaker 1: am not going to wear a mask just because the 59 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 1: government told me to. I am not gonna do this 60 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,240 Speaker 1: just because the principle told me to. You know, you 61 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,359 Speaker 1: can see when they were kids, right, I mean, there's 62 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 1: some there's just a segment of the United States that's 63 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: always going to be that way because of the way 64 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:38,839 Speaker 1: we're raised our belief system or culture are always got 65 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 1: to be rightness about us that we all have. You know, 66 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: it's you know, there's always gonna be a people out 67 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: there that just will not do what they're told to do, 68 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 1: are even asked to do because just because it's good 69 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: for everybody. You know, they're gonna be doing because they've 70 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,120 Speaker 1: got a reason they want to do something else. So 71 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:59,040 Speaker 1: there's always so we stink at this, and you know, 72 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 1: the numbers will tell you that, the stats will tell 73 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:06,400 Speaker 1: you that, and certainly five months into this lockdown, we 74 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 1: can tell you that too. I mean, we're just it's 75 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:10,920 Speaker 1: not we're not getting closer to going back to work yet. 76 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like no, I mean, even though the 77 00:04:14,840 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 1: situation's pretty good overall in New York State, although I 78 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,839 Speaker 1: did see that in Erie County we went up a 79 00:04:20,839 --> 00:04:27,400 Speaker 1: little bit with cases just over the weekend, beautiful weekend. 80 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:30,719 Speaker 1: And you also have you also have people Steve, you know, 81 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:35,000 Speaker 1: doing red parties and stuff, so tough, all of that stuff, 82 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 1: and it's and let's face it, two the fourth of 83 00:04:36,839 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: July was over the last weekend, and right and then 84 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:42,880 Speaker 1: we had record warm temperatures. We had eight days in 85 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: your own buffalo over like ninety plus set of record 86 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,120 Speaker 1: in the city and so that people get got you 87 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: ain't gonna stay indoors and that, right, So you know, 88 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:52,599 Speaker 1: it's just that kind of thing going on. But that's 89 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: exactly the kind of thing that's squashing these other states. Yeah, well, 90 00:04:58,240 --> 00:04:59,840 Speaker 1: some of those other states are doing some other st 91 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,400 Speaker 1: of two like right, it all goes into the pot though, 92 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 1: I mean, there's yes with you, it's out there. But yeah, 93 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: and I know, right books and I know right before 94 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 1: we came on you you spotted this online. But another 95 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:17,360 Speaker 1: domino has fallen in college sports, with the Patriot League saying, yeah, 96 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: no fall sports. They said they might consider, you know, 97 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:25,600 Speaker 1: doing spring football and putting the fall sports semester into 98 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,680 Speaker 1: the spring semester. M some schools might be challenged to 99 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:33,520 Speaker 1: find enough field space to accommodate their spring sports along 100 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 1: with their fall sports simultaneously. But I guess you got 101 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 1: to explore all avenues to at least give the opportunity 102 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: to your fall athletes to compete come the springtime. But yeah, 103 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:47,159 Speaker 1: so IVY League late last week and now the Patriot 104 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: League has followed suits saying no fall sports for them. Yeah, 105 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:52,960 Speaker 1: and I was reading this an article. It's on ESPN, 106 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:56,040 Speaker 1: and it's it's it's entitled Plans to start the twenty 107 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 1: twenty season NFL season. What we know and what we 108 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 1: don't know? Lot of stuff in here about you know, 109 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: kind of lays it out, you know, like all the 110 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:07,920 Speaker 1: training camps are gonna be at team facilities. They've asked 111 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: to be retro fit. There's facilities, and we're we're kind 112 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:13,279 Speaker 1: of firsthand on this. They're clearing out the entire Buffalo 113 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: Bills facility and the players and coach are gonna use 114 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:17,680 Speaker 1: every single room. I mean, they've got wings in there 115 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:24,480 Speaker 1: for you know, like for community relations, media relations, public 116 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:29,679 Speaker 1: public relations, you know, like you know, the community relations, 117 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:34,239 Speaker 1: what they call it, business development, scouting, all of that stuff. 118 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 1: They're clearing out our whole buildings so that they can 119 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:38,680 Speaker 1: spread out the fifty two or eighty players, whatever their 120 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 1: roster is. They're gonna spread them all out with the 121 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: coach and stuff so they can meet in the same 122 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,719 Speaker 1: room and still have six feet space between everybody. They're 123 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:48,960 Speaker 1: retrofitting that the league's asked teams to do that. The showers, 124 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:51,160 Speaker 1: they've got to be six feet between guys when they're 125 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: showers that people have to you know, take out every 126 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: other shower stall or whatever, because if you knew the 127 00:06:56,279 --> 00:06:58,919 Speaker 1: team showers are just that they're huge rooms with like 128 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: twenty five shower and the guys just go in right. Well, 129 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,000 Speaker 1: that's all got to be modified. Uh, they got to 130 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: team teams have to maintain a two week supply of 131 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 1: personal protective equipment all the time. Uh, this is not 132 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: gonna be a bubble. They're not gonna be a bubble 133 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 1: arrangement like the NBA or the NHL. That's it's it's 134 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 1: not feasible for a team as teams or rosters and 135 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 1: coaching staffs and support staffs as large as NFL they 136 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: can't do that. So it's not going to be any 137 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:28,880 Speaker 1: of that. Well, plus you have teams in twenty two 138 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 1: different states, so you know you're not doing the NBA 139 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: thing with everybody in Orlando. So yeah, there, I don't 140 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: know how you do a bubble and a scenario like that, 141 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 1: Maybe you do twenty end you you might want to say, well, 142 00:07:40,720 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 1: can you do twenty two individual bubbles, But it doesn't 143 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:47,679 Speaker 1: seem as though that's in the world. At certain points. 144 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 1: I mean, the bill's got to play Miami. You know 145 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:53,560 Speaker 1: they got they got to go to another state and 146 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:55,920 Speaker 1: play them. Uh, they listen to this though. They also 147 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:00,200 Speaker 1: have to designate an ice an area wherever. This area 148 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: is to isolate any team employee who demonstrates Simpson symptoms, 149 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: and then they have a plan for testing them and 150 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: removing them safely from the building. And you can think 151 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 1: about what the heck I mean if somebody comes down, 152 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: they got to find a way to get them out 153 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: of the building as quick as they can. And they can't. 154 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: You know, they can't come back to the facility for 155 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:26,760 Speaker 1: ten days. They can't return until seventy two hours after 156 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:29,520 Speaker 1: the last symptoms were word So you know that means 157 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,840 Speaker 1: that every team has to have a designated exit route, 158 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: right that eliminates the symptomatic employee from coming into contact 159 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:42,199 Speaker 1: with any of the other employees in the building. They 160 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: basically need an escape route, right, that's right for the 161 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 1: symptomatic employee. Now here's another one. Here's in the event 162 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,520 Speaker 1: of a positive test. The National Football League has contracted 163 00:08:53,559 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: with a company call I guess it's a company IQVA, 164 00:08:58,559 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 1: a third party firm that an't also analyzes league injury DEBTA. 165 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: They were the guy is fascinating for a contract for 166 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 1: contact tracing to determine whom the player employee has been 167 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 1: in personal close contact with during the incubation period, which 168 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 1: is the series. Is the time in between which you 169 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 1: get it and the time you show symptoms. That's the 170 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 1: incubation period. So if there's a fear of in game exposure, 171 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 1: the NFL will make use of radio frequency identification tracking 172 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:31,480 Speaker 1: devices embedded in each player's shoulder pads to determine who 173 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:36,079 Speaker 1: that player was within six feet of during the game. 174 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:40,560 Speaker 1: Anybody who engages in team activities will be required to 175 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 1: wear a connects on proximity recording tracking device, which would 176 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:49,000 Speaker 1: allow contact tracers to find those contacts of someone who 177 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: tested positive. Do you talk about big brother is watching? Well, 178 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: bro s leave. We're all gonna have one. We're all 179 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:00,560 Speaker 1: gonna have one of these. Does that get shoulder pads too, No, 180 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:02,839 Speaker 1: you're sooner or later they're gonna inject one of these 181 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:04,960 Speaker 1: right into your butt and my butt, and they're gonna 182 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:07,679 Speaker 1: know everybody about this all the time. That's big brother 183 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:09,839 Speaker 1: that let me just put my tinfoil hat on. This 184 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 1: is all a precursor. I just pictured you in a 185 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 1: tin foil hat. That's why I was laughing. I have 186 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 1: three of them, so no, uh, but think about it. 187 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: They're gonna have they've got the technology now to do this, 188 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:27,839 Speaker 1: and they're gonna go back and they just go back 189 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: and say okay. They put a quarry into the computer, 190 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 1: say hey, who's he been around, who's been within six 191 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: feet of him for more than you know whatever the 192 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,080 Speaker 1: thing is ten minutes, and that'll that'll you know, boot 193 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 1: bop boop. They'll have a there'll be a way, have 194 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 1: a way to do it. Now. The thing about this 195 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:45,760 Speaker 1: is they don't wear They only wear their shoulder pads 196 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:47,920 Speaker 1: in practice and in games, so they'll be able to 197 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:49,720 Speaker 1: go back and say okay, in the game on the 198 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:52,200 Speaker 1: other team, these are the guys he was around. Now 199 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:55,680 Speaker 1: do the coaches carry it around in their wallet? Yeah? 200 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 1: I don't, Yeah I know. And then you also got 201 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 1: to think about player warmups. A lot of guys aren't 202 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:04,640 Speaker 1: wearing pads during pregame warmups, So it's are you going 203 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:08,440 Speaker 1: to keep the players from different teams completely separated until 204 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 1: it's actually game time and you're lining up on the field, 205 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:13,360 Speaker 1: because you know, guys go over and say hi, and 206 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 1: buddy buddy with former teammates of theirs that might be 207 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:20,319 Speaker 1: on the opponent for that week. So they say all 208 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,199 Speaker 1: these protocols are going to be enforced by unannounced inspections, 209 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 1: and club officials who knowingly violate the policy will be 210 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 1: subject to discipline unannounced inspections by who who knows, could 211 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:37,680 Speaker 1: be anybody, Steve Well, I know, but this is a 212 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 1: combination who do they want? What if the inspector comes 213 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:45,640 Speaker 1: in and he's the he's typhoid, Mary, Oh boy, you're 214 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:47,680 Speaker 1: really going down the rabbit hole. No, that's wear a 215 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: long way down. Okay, here we go. It's like a 216 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 1: combination of the game Clue and what was that other 217 00:11:55,679 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: spy game that they used to have, that board game. 218 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 1: I can't think of it, but it's like Colonel Mustard 219 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:05,440 Speaker 1: in the Conservatory Clue. Yeah, yeah, Clue. Yeah, I said that, 220 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 1: but I was trying to think of But anyway, I 221 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: can't remember. That's what you're dealing. Somebody will tweeted at us, 222 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 1: but you're right, you're right. Who were you with? And 223 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: what how about this? You're walking down the hallway all 224 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: of a sudden that you know the hand of authority 225 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:20,680 Speaker 1: tapash on the shows a son. You're in quarantine. What why? 226 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,679 Speaker 1: Because you talked to this person for ten minutes on 227 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 1: game day? He was from the Yeah, what like, we 228 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: have to take it to the right now. I was 229 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:33,439 Speaker 1: talking to my brother. Put you on the exit route 230 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:36,679 Speaker 1: right and ride you on a rail. All right, here 231 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 1: we go. And then early training camp pranks are going 232 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 1: to look a lot different. The entire offseason program was 233 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:45,040 Speaker 1: conducted virtually, and they've agreed that there's the NFLPA in 234 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: the league have agreed that there should be longer acclamation process. 235 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 1: It's going to begin with two two days designated for 236 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: medical exams and equipment fitting, and more than a week 237 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:56,960 Speaker 1: could pass before players participate in full team drills. Uh 238 00:12:57,120 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 1: No fans or visitors allowed in team facilities during training camp. 239 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,440 Speaker 1: Teams can host up to two practices at stadiums with 240 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:06,800 Speaker 1: fans in the stands, provided state and local regulations allow. 241 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 1: That's not that's not going to fly in Western New York, 242 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 1: all right. And then the NFL NFLPA are in disagreement 243 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:16,680 Speaker 1: about this. Preseason games, the NFL has made plans for 244 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,160 Speaker 1: each team to play two of them. They want to 245 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:22,200 Speaker 1: get their game day protocols practiced and up to speed, 246 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:27,000 Speaker 1: right and and evaluate and evaluate, Uh, one at home, 247 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:28,320 Speaker 1: one away, you know, they want to do one at home, 248 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 1: and then they want to do one away from you know, 249 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:32,400 Speaker 1: so the teams can do one of each. The players, 250 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 1: the NFLPA Board of Reps said, voter en doors to 251 00:13:34,880 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 1: plan for no games because uh and because the NFL 252 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 1: in the NFL doesn't believe it needs the nflpa's approval 253 00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:45,839 Speaker 1: to play the games and believes them important for two 254 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:48,599 Speaker 1: reason too. Yet that so that's really true because the 255 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:51,000 Speaker 1: NFL was going to have four preseason games and now 256 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 1: they're back to two, and now the nflpa's trying to 257 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:54,560 Speaker 1: get them to get too. I don't think the players 258 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:56,440 Speaker 1: have any leverage in that the team can do that. 259 00:13:56,920 --> 00:13:59,840 Speaker 1: For what I think from what I've read in the SEA, 260 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 1: it allows the NFL to stage preseason games, and I 261 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 1: think in all likelihood they're gonna stick with the two 262 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:15,079 Speaker 1: games no matter what the Players Association says, because all 263 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 1: the Players Association can do is make recommendations to the league, 264 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: like we would recommend that we play no preseason games, 265 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: and the NFL owners are going to be like, well, 266 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 1: that's all well and good, but we're gonna play too, 267 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,880 Speaker 1: So that's the deal, that's right. And then if there 268 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 1: are preseason games, visiting teams are going to travel a 269 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 1: day before the game. Stadium locker rooms are gonna be 270 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: retro fitted to ensure socially distancing as much as possible. 271 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,400 Speaker 1: Have you ever been into one of those locker rooms. 272 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 1: It's type it's impossible. Type it's impossible. Masks for coaches 273 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: and non participating players are encouraged, but not going to 274 00:14:48,560 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 1: be required. Teams must maintain six feet from each other 275 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 1: after games, eliminating the postgame handshakes and jersey swaps. All right, 276 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:57,800 Speaker 1: here we go. Most media interviews are going to be 277 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 1: conducted video conferencing. Locker rooms would be loosed. Reporters reports 278 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: right to Tier two M Tier two m M meaning media. 279 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: They're gonna have access to parts of the team facility, 280 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,400 Speaker 1: into the practice field, provided they press past screening protocols. 281 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 1: All right, that's some of the stuff we know down 282 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,520 Speaker 1: the protocols. Now, there's a ton of stuff we have 283 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:25,120 Speaker 1: no clue about. The biggest question for business side of 284 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 1: it is neither the NFL or the PA or the 285 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:31,960 Speaker 1: NFLPA they don't have any idea what it's going to 286 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: look like with lost revenues this season, well they know 287 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 1: they lose money, they just don't know how much and 288 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 1: what to do to mitigate it, right, because you're gonna 289 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:45,920 Speaker 1: needed player association assistance and trying to mitigate the losses. 290 00:15:45,960 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 1: But it's been pretty clear from the outset here that 291 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: the players are not taking any kinds of pay cuts 292 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 1: right or to ferments. It even sounds like, right, and 293 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:59,160 Speaker 1: I think the sides are well or well aware of 294 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 1: and a hope to avoid the spectacle that Major League 295 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: Baseball made of its economic negotiations. It didn't have to 296 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: be that ugly, right the baseball players and the league 297 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:11,680 Speaker 1: it was. It was not good. Well you're gonna do 298 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 1: you know so? And as of now, there's no financial 299 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: accommodations for players or other team employees who want to 300 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:19,720 Speaker 1: opt out of the season, either because of pre existing 301 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:22,560 Speaker 1: conditions or reticence with the safety protocols. Would they lose 302 00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: their jobs, be placed on unpaid leave, could they be 303 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:28,680 Speaker 1: paid or reduced salary? Otherwise, many people in the NFL 304 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:34,000 Speaker 1: would be left to choose between their health and being paid, which, well, 305 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:38,920 Speaker 1: welcome to the real world. We you know, there's a 306 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:42,800 Speaker 1: there's a gazillion people and I'm exaggerate, a gazillion people 307 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:46,960 Speaker 1: in the US who aren't working because of this thing. 308 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 1: Welcome to the club. Yeah, and you're opting out of it. Well, 309 00:16:50,880 --> 00:16:54,280 Speaker 1: it's hard to feel sorry for those guys, right, I 310 00:16:54,320 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 1: mean yeah, I mean, there are some special circumstances. I'm 311 00:16:57,760 --> 00:17:00,760 Speaker 1: sure maybe you got a wife that's pregnant and um 312 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:06,160 Speaker 1: maybe you have I don't know, maybe your your mother 313 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: lives in your home and she's in the over sixty 314 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:13,679 Speaker 1: high risk category. You know, this is this These are 315 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:15,919 Speaker 1: the problems you run into if you're not doing a bubble. 316 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:21,240 Speaker 1: But here's the thing. I mean, yeah, that's true, but 317 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:25,880 Speaker 1: that's you're talking about twenty guys out of the two 318 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:29,159 Speaker 1: thousand you think. I don't know, even if it's two hundred, 319 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:33,320 Speaker 1: you know, it's still it's still three or four guys 320 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 1: per team that are in that. So that's you know, Okay, 321 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:40,359 Speaker 1: you know, let's move on. I think, you know, let 322 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 1: them they can opt out for those reasons. I don't 323 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:44,720 Speaker 1: have a problem with that. If if you're a caretaker 324 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:46,639 Speaker 1: of your elderly parents they live with you and your 325 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:50,880 Speaker 1: wife or your kids or whatever. If your wife's got 326 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:52,919 Speaker 1: an issue, or one of your kids has asthma or 327 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,119 Speaker 1: something like that. I get it. If you're not willing 328 00:17:56,160 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 1: to send the kids to Grandmas for four months, then 329 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:04,800 Speaker 1: opt out. You know. I know it's hard, no question 330 00:18:04,840 --> 00:18:08,399 Speaker 1: about it. But you're you know, you're still talking about 331 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 1: for some of these guys, seven figure salary. Hard to 332 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:13,160 Speaker 1: walk away from that over four months, over a four 333 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:15,959 Speaker 1: month vacation, especially knowing the length of careers in the 334 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:20,919 Speaker 1: NFL is as short as they are. Right, He'll see some, Steve, 335 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 1: this is what you and I had talked about on 336 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:26,119 Speaker 1: the show a couple of weeks ago about expanding the 337 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 1: rosters and the practice squads. That's right. Details aren't clear 338 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:31,560 Speaker 1: on how the NFL will account for what could be 339 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 1: significant roster churn based on infections and isolation time. Expanded 340 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:40,680 Speaker 1: active rosters and bigger practice squad squads are both in play. 341 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 1: The league might also need to devise a new reserve 342 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:48,200 Speaker 1: classification so that players who are infected or in isolation 343 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:52,680 Speaker 1: one don't count against the roster limits, and two are 344 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 1: not subject to the three player limit for activations from 345 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:59,280 Speaker 1: injured reserve. That makes sense to me. Yeah, designated to 346 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: return right up. I think they uped it to three 347 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:05,880 Speaker 1: players now under the new CBA, So that's where that's 348 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 1: coming from. But if it's a COVID, if it's a 349 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:10,159 Speaker 1: COVID list, it's got to be limitless. Right. If you've 350 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 1: got ten guys, they all go on the COVID list, 351 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: they'd come back when they're healthy and when they isolated, right. 352 00:19:14,800 --> 00:19:17,320 Speaker 1: That makes sense to me, absolutely right. And I can't 353 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:19,359 Speaker 1: see the Players Association standing in the way of that 354 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:22,639 Speaker 1: because that means more guys have jobs, right, right. And 355 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 1: here's the thing too that's come up, and not just 356 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:27,800 Speaker 1: with pro football and pro sports, this is this is 357 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:31,119 Speaker 1: a problem around the country. Some details of the testing 358 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:36,119 Speaker 1: program haven't been finalized, and most notably the weekly frequency 359 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:39,879 Speaker 1: that number could be influenced by delays other sports have 360 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: faced in receiving results. Long waits for results reduced the 361 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:48,520 Speaker 1: effectiveness of testing and minimizing infection and increase the possibility 362 00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,359 Speaker 1: of spread. Nobody can get their test results. Yeah, if 363 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:54,080 Speaker 1: you can't get it back in you know, six to 364 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:59,199 Speaker 1: twelve hours or or at worst twenty four hours. That 365 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:02,320 Speaker 1: guy's talking to just about every time, Dick and Harry 366 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 1: and you're building on the football side of the house. 367 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:06,600 Speaker 1: So what day goes by, he could have talked to 368 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 1: twelve guys. Now he's infected twelve people because he didn't 369 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,119 Speaker 1: get the results. Bet that's right. And I'll give you 370 00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:15,399 Speaker 1: an example. We had a family gathering over the weekend 371 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,919 Speaker 1: where my son and his wife came back from White Plains. 372 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 1: They drove across to come for the fourth of July weekend, 373 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,159 Speaker 1: a long weekend anything, and we've got a night. This 374 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:26,199 Speaker 1: isolation pod, right, So all of our fami, we have 375 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:28,879 Speaker 1: seventeen people who have isolated away from everybody, and we 376 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:31,240 Speaker 1: can get together and do things, but we don't go out. 377 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:33,399 Speaker 1: None of them do. No, none of the seventeen people 378 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 1: do well. So my son and his wife are not 379 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:38,080 Speaker 1: in our pods. So they said, okay, before we come over, 380 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:40,360 Speaker 1: because we're going on and work, we're gonna get tested. 381 00:20:40,840 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 1: So they got tested on Sunday and then isolated through Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 382 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:47,680 Speaker 1: you know, the next weekend. Thinking they were going to 383 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 1: get their test results on Wednesday or Thursday, they were 384 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,679 Speaker 1: going to drive in on Thursday night. Thursday night, they 385 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:59,760 Speaker 1: drive in, no test results, so they're quarantined in our basement. Thursday, 386 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:03,960 Speaker 1: they're quarantine. Friday, they're socially distancing and quarantine Saturday. The 387 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: whole weekend they're here, but they're not here. Not a 388 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:10,120 Speaker 1: test result. Monday morning, the day they got to leave. 389 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:14,960 Speaker 1: You're negative, they get their test results. Oh my god. 390 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: So well that was fun, a great trip, right. It stinks, 391 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,479 Speaker 1: It absolutely stinks. But that's a problem. They got all 392 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,280 Speaker 1: the everybody under the sun wants to get tested, but 393 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: there's only like three people looking at the results. They 394 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:32,000 Speaker 1: can't get the results out. Yeah, And I was also 395 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:34,879 Speaker 1: reading the article by the guests we're gonna have on 396 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:38,159 Speaker 1: the show today, Nora Princati, who will be joining us 397 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 1: at one o'clock from the Ringer. She had a nice 398 00:21:40,760 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 1: write up also on how the NFL needs to finalize 399 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:46,520 Speaker 1: it's COVID nineteen plans and soon. She mentioned in here 400 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:50,119 Speaker 1: because in talking to some medical professionals, there is a 401 00:21:50,160 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 1: point where the infection rate, if it's up around ten percent, 402 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:58,920 Speaker 1: it wipes out the effectiveness of contact tracing because there 403 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 1: are so many people infected that it reduces the whole 404 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:07,080 Speaker 1: point of doing contact tracing in the first place. So 405 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,960 Speaker 1: that was something that I was previously unaware of that 406 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 1: there is a breaking point where contact tracing becomes completely 407 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 1: ineffective because so many people have been exposed or infected. 408 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:19,919 Speaker 1: So that that was something that I learned reading that 409 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:25,360 Speaker 1: story today. Right, it becomes exponentially impossible and too many 410 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,720 Speaker 1: branches of the tree, so to speak. Yeah, so we've 411 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 1: got all this stuff on. There's a lot more on 412 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 1: this list, and we'll get back to it as well. 413 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: I did want to let's get to our Twitter poll 414 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,200 Speaker 1: that which is actually a pretty good one and it 415 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:36,879 Speaker 1: centers around all that we've been talking about for the 416 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 1: last fifteen or twenty minutes. And here's the question, what's 417 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,800 Speaker 1: your biggest concern about COVID nineteen's impact on football? And 418 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: is a is it players opting out, be losing important 419 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:50,480 Speaker 1: players for a game due to the positive test, see 420 00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 1: not starting a season on time due to NFL and 421 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: NFLPA haggling, or something else. You can tweet at us 422 00:22:56,960 --> 00:23:00,640 Speaker 1: or give us your other give us your other opinions 423 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 1: if you want. You can call us at eight oh three, 424 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,240 Speaker 1: five fifty and right now leading away is losing an 425 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:08,720 Speaker 1: important player for a game due to positive tests. So 426 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:11,360 Speaker 1: people really think, you know, there's gonna be games. They 427 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,320 Speaker 1: just don't want to lose their good players right before 428 00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: that game. Is that's the one thing they really worry about. 429 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 1: Twenties eight percent of the people think not starting the 430 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 1: season on time due to the union in the league. 431 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:27,440 Speaker 1: Haggling is a big concern as well. D is third, 432 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:31,240 Speaker 1: because you know, everybody's got some other idea that they want, 433 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,680 Speaker 1: and only really thirteen percent or twelve percent or say, 434 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 1: if they're worried about players opting out, I'm kind of 435 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 1: with that. If they want out, let them out. Let's 436 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 1: play football. I think courses are so short. I don't 437 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,640 Speaker 1: see many guys going that route. Yeah, I don't think they. 438 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:47,119 Speaker 1: I'm sure there are guys that aren't exactly thrilled to 439 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,600 Speaker 1: be trying to play football under these circumstances. But I 440 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 1: don't know if it's going to be enough to have 441 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:56,439 Speaker 1: these guys for go giant paychecks. I totally get it, 442 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 1: you know, I totally get that too. I mean, and 443 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:03,120 Speaker 1: I've said, you know, for me, we would have made 444 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: we would have adjusted our lifestyle with me away from 445 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,200 Speaker 1: the family if we would have had that bigger concern, 446 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 1: But there would never have been a question of whether 447 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:13,479 Speaker 1: I was going to play or not. For me and 448 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:16,720 Speaker 1: my my wife and four children at the time, it 449 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:19,040 Speaker 1: would have been because we were able to have a 450 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 1: support network like family. We'd have family members, We have 451 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:25,680 Speaker 1: the ability to just send my wife and to live 452 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 1: with other family like her parents or my parents or 453 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:32,080 Speaker 1: you know whatever. You could send the wife and kids 454 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:36,520 Speaker 1: to another location, and we would have done that in 455 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,920 Speaker 1: order for me to play. A lot of guys aren't 456 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: willing to be apart from their families for that long. 457 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,199 Speaker 1: And it's not like I would have liked it, and 458 00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:46,920 Speaker 1: we would have. It would have been really hard to 459 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 1: not take a day off or whatever and go see 460 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,440 Speaker 1: him or have him be there so you could say 461 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:56,960 Speaker 1: a hide to them. But but then again, nowadays we 462 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 1: face time constantly, so it's different. How even then, we 463 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,200 Speaker 1: didn't have FaceTime when I was playing. So it's it's tough. 464 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 1: I get it. It's a real concern, But for me 465 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:09,160 Speaker 1: and my family, I don't think that would have kept 466 00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 1: me from being a part of what was going on 467 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 1: in the league. Yeah, and it's hard. And we should 468 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 1: also mention that the NFL and the Players Association are 469 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:24,879 Speaker 1: scheduled to me today to negotiate you know, the terms 470 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 1: that are still unresolved here in terms of how they 471 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,679 Speaker 1: return to training camp and how they return to play. 472 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,320 Speaker 1: You know, with all these hurdles still to clear, they 473 00:25:33,359 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 1: are supposed to talk again today, so you know, maybe 474 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:40,359 Speaker 1: some reports will trickle out before the show is over today. 475 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,640 Speaker 1: One maybe what got ironed out or what still remains 476 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,200 Speaker 1: hanging in the balance here right they're talking about the act. 477 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 1: What other things have not been found? Wise, is that 478 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,400 Speaker 1: acclaimation period, How how slow the players want to ramp 479 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,399 Speaker 1: up to before they start working out on the field, 480 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,439 Speaker 1: What the opt out cause is for players, What the 481 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,880 Speaker 1: players are going to do if they if they opt out, 482 00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 1: what happens in one of the ramifications for the league, 483 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 1: their team and themselves also trimming the ninety man training 484 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:12,200 Speaker 1: camp rosters. They want to they want to cut those down. Yeah, see, Steve, 485 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:16,120 Speaker 1: I'm kind of conflicted on that. I understand the premise, 486 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 1: like if we have fewer people, there's a lower rate 487 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,359 Speaker 1: of infection because you've got fewer people in the pool. 488 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:26,640 Speaker 1: So I get that, Yeah, But at the same time, 489 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 1: it seems like the league's talking out of both sides 490 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:32,360 Speaker 1: of their mouth, Because I know Pro Football Talk had 491 00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: a write up saying the league is bracing for a 492 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 1: rash of positive tests when camp opens, because as the 493 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:43,080 Speaker 1: players come through the door, everybody's getting tested, and if 494 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,160 Speaker 1: you're positive, you're not coming through the door. You're getting 495 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,160 Speaker 1: turned away and you're getting put in isolation for ten 496 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 1: days or whatever it is. And they're saying, Wow, we're 497 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,880 Speaker 1: expecting that, we absolutely expect to get positive tests, knowing 498 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: guys are coming in from all over the country. Well, 499 00:26:57,480 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 1: if you're expecting positive tests any way before you even 500 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 1: get started, what's the difference If you have ninety guys 501 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,080 Speaker 1: or sixty guys, you're turning away whoever can't participate. What 502 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,400 Speaker 1: happens if you have only sixty guys only, let's say 503 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: fifty three guys coming through the door in twelve test 504 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 1: positive and they can't do anything for ten days. Well, 505 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:22,439 Speaker 1: now you're down to thirty nine players, and you know, 506 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:26,040 Speaker 1: practice changes dramatically based on the number of bodies that 507 00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,760 Speaker 1: you have, right, And it's almost the point where you 508 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,000 Speaker 1: would rather and I don't I know that there's still 509 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:32,800 Speaker 1: because some questions about whether you can get this thing 510 00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:35,560 Speaker 1: again after you've had it once or but if you know, 511 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:39,119 Speaker 1: you'd almost hope your guys show up, you'd test them 512 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,160 Speaker 1: before they ever come in the building, like they're never 513 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,359 Speaker 1: even touching any of the other guys, right, I mean, 514 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 1: that's what will happen. They'll they'll drive like day one, 515 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:47,800 Speaker 1: they drive, buy in their car, and they get tested 516 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,760 Speaker 1: and then drive out and come and then we'll get 517 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,639 Speaker 1: that started. Then we'll start meeting virtually and all that stuff. 518 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,680 Speaker 1: But man, oh man, you're right. I think you're gonna 519 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,640 Speaker 1: need a lot of bodies at some point. Yeah, because 520 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 1: you're gonna lose people not only at the outset, but 521 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:09,880 Speaker 1: throughout the whole process based on how this thing behaves. Right, 522 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 1: You're not gonna be able to eliminate. You can't get 523 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 1: the risk down to zero. You just can't, despite all 524 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 1: of your best efforts. So I don't know. I know 525 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 1: you and I have talked about this on the show before. Too. 526 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,800 Speaker 1: Logic to me says bring ninety in because there's a 527 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,119 Speaker 1: strong likelihood they're gonna be times where you only have 528 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,679 Speaker 1: seventy five guys ready to practice because fifteen are in isolation. 529 00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:37,920 Speaker 1: All right, So what's your biggest concern about COVID nineteen's 530 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,000 Speaker 1: impact on football players opting out, losing important players for 531 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,120 Speaker 1: a game, or not starting the season on time, or 532 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,400 Speaker 1: whatever haggling might go on or something else. Give us 533 00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:47,479 Speaker 1: a call at eight o three fifty. Coming up at 534 00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:51,240 Speaker 1: one o'clock. Football writer for the Ringer Nor Princiati's gonna 535 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:52,840 Speaker 1: come on. We've got hurt questions for her and about 536 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,680 Speaker 1: the protocols with as the season bears down upon us. 537 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 1: Steve Tasker and Chris Brown here on One Bill's Live 538 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,760 Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Help. We'll be right back on Buffalo 539 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Welcome back one of those lives. Steve Tasker 540 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:16,000 Speaker 1: and Chris Brown here on a Monday, each of us 541 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:17,719 Speaker 1: from our homes haven't gotten been able to get back 542 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:19,280 Speaker 1: to the stadium. I haven't been back there in five months. 543 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 1: I think this might be the longest stretch in thirty 544 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,000 Speaker 1: three years that I haven't been to the stadium. Yeah. 545 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:28,360 Speaker 1: I had to go the Monday before July fourth because 546 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 1: I had to move my office for football the football 547 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 1: side of the house to spread out, so I had 548 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 1: to get out of my cubicle area and move upstairs. 549 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:40,880 Speaker 1: So that's why I had to go in to just 550 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,800 Speaker 1: basically move my stuff. And it is it's different Steve, 551 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:46,800 Speaker 1: you got the one way arrows on the floor and 552 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:49,479 Speaker 1: all that stuff. So yeah, so I'm gonna be different. 553 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 1: What's your biggest concern about COVID nineteen's impact on football? 554 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:54,880 Speaker 1: Charlie's on the in a car on line one. Charlie, 555 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 1: you're still there. Sorry, started took so long. Thanks for waiting. 556 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 1: This is Chris and Steve. What's on your mind, guys? 557 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,680 Speaker 1: Which on my mind is what about when the Miami 558 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: Dolphins come to town or Arizona Cardinals or I don't 559 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 1: know if Houston's coming. But if I go visit my 560 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:11,480 Speaker 1: relatives in Miami and I come back to New York, 561 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: I got to quarantine fourteen days. How are we going 562 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,520 Speaker 1: to let these players fly in on Saturday and then 563 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 1: go play football. They have to quarantine just like I would, 564 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 1: wouldn't they Well, they actually they don't. The governor said 565 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,280 Speaker 1: they wouldn't have to since they are working in an 566 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,840 Speaker 1: environment that is taking every precaution. So the governor is 567 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:30,640 Speaker 1: letting them off the hook for that, but they're not 568 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,800 Speaker 1: letting them have fans in their stands. But you're right, 569 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:35,800 Speaker 1: I mean that it's going to be an issue. And 570 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 1: if those guys are in the same kind of environment 571 00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 1: in Miami or Texas, or Arizona today or California that 572 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:48,240 Speaker 1: the Buffalo bills are in here in Buffalo. They're exposed 573 00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:51,600 Speaker 1: to way more, it looks like, way more in their 574 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,760 Speaker 1: respective cities than you would be here in Buffalo as 575 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,680 Speaker 1: a player in the same with the same protocols. So 576 00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 1: you're right, And the bills to Arizona this year, and uh, 577 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: we don't need to tell anybody that Arizona is a 578 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,120 Speaker 1: hotspot state for sure, right, So then the bills when 579 00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:10,680 Speaker 1: they come back from there, aren't they gonna have to 580 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 1: quarantine or are they gonna be allowed to go? No, 581 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:17,320 Speaker 1: just like Steve said, the Governor Cuomo has already said, 582 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,920 Speaker 1: they're exempt because they're taking any and all necessary precautions 583 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,200 Speaker 1: under their own protocols. So they do not have to quarantine. 584 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,040 Speaker 1: At least that's where it stands right now. You're right, Charlie. 585 00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 1: The NFL guys have got it all over the regular 586 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,800 Speaker 1: citizens of the United States. They don't have to quarantine 587 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 1: from those states. That is not great. I mean, right, 588 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,160 Speaker 1: paus I come back to but we're going to do 589 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, exactly, people exactly quarantine either. Yeah, that's right, 590 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 1: and then and then, and it is hard to I 591 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,240 Speaker 1: don't know how they and I don't have any idea 592 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:51,960 Speaker 1: because I haven't let I haven't tried, you know, I 593 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 1: haven't left my yard. So if you do go someplace 594 00:31:55,840 --> 00:32:00,280 Speaker 1: and come back, is it voluntary quarantine? Is it? I mean? 595 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:06,520 Speaker 1: Who checks? Nobody does check? Because I know, not that 596 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:08,120 Speaker 1: that's a good thing, and not for nothing, not that 597 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,040 Speaker 1: nobody's doing. I'm sure a lot of people really are 598 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 1: taking it seriously. I mean, particularly given how many lives 599 00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,960 Speaker 1: it's starting to have touched now the virus. I mean, 600 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,000 Speaker 1: everybody's like, you know what, this is pretty serious. So 601 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,760 Speaker 1: they're probably quarantining pretty seriously. But yeah, how do you 602 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:26,680 Speaker 1: you know? But like I said, Charlie the governor, and 603 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,280 Speaker 1: they probably got some pressure from the league, no question. 604 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,880 Speaker 1: I mean, there's somebody's out there lobbying saying, listen, we 605 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 1: can't do it if we don't do if we well, yeah, 606 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:36,240 Speaker 1: you can't do it, Tanda, quarantine if you're playing games 607 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,280 Speaker 1: every seven days, which yeah, and not for this, Charlie, 608 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 1: did you hear this? This just came in before we 609 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 1: came on the air. The Toronto Blue Jays are looking 610 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,720 Speaker 1: for US ballpark in the United States to play their 611 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:48,800 Speaker 1: home games, since they're not gonna have fans in the stands, 612 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,400 Speaker 1: and they're talking to Buffalo. Well, yeah, and Buffalo is 613 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 1: there Triple A affiliates, right, they may have We may 614 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 1: have Major League Baseball in Buffalo for the twenty twenty 615 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:02,640 Speaker 1: season because they need a ballpark inside the United States 616 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:06,040 Speaker 1: line because if they go to and from Canada for 617 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,200 Speaker 1: road trips, they have to quarantine for two weeks and 618 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:13,320 Speaker 1: that's just impractical. So they may be here in Buffalo. 619 00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:15,920 Speaker 1: They're talking to other ballparks as too. I would imagine 620 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,960 Speaker 1: this isn't their only option, but this is on their shortlist. 621 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 1: I would think, Yeah, I actually will somebody at the 622 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:25,360 Speaker 1: Bison Stadium. He said, if Toronto doesn't come here, their 623 00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,680 Speaker 1: minor league players are going to practice your law. Well 624 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,959 Speaker 1: there you go. Yeah, I mean it makes yeah, I mean, 625 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:34,760 Speaker 1: if they're gonna do something and have that league moved along, 626 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,320 Speaker 1: even if it is at a snail's pace. Buffalo's a 627 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,480 Speaker 1: particularly for Toronto for all the geographic reasons, but it's 628 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,280 Speaker 1: it's a great little facility here in town, and there's 629 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,000 Speaker 1: no reason not to use it in some capacity, right 630 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:52,160 Speaker 1: so thanks for the call, Charlie. Charlie appreciate you. Thanks 631 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,160 Speaker 1: for hanging on in there with a Steve Tasker. Chris 632 00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:57,800 Speaker 1: Brown here till one three o'clock. At one o'clock, we've 633 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:01,000 Speaker 1: got Norah Princiatti coming from the Ringers. She's got a 634 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,720 Speaker 1: great article out about the protocols and all the work 635 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,960 Speaker 1: that needs to be done before the league could really 636 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,359 Speaker 1: even flip the switch and try and get this thing on. 637 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,879 Speaker 1: So Nora Princotta coming up at the top of the hour, 638 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:15,360 Speaker 1: what's your biggest concern about COVID nineteen's impact on football. 639 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:19,640 Speaker 1: We've got some feedback, Brownie on the tweet sheet. The 640 00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:22,400 Speaker 1: tweet sheet brought to you by Corgan Moving Systems. Corgan 641 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,560 Speaker 1: Moving Systems, the official equipment movers of the Buffalo Bills 642 00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:28,359 Speaker 1: from what is it? Brown You want to start this off? 643 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:32,360 Speaker 1: We gotta Yeah, we got one from Reddit. No shortage 644 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,160 Speaker 1: of feedback on this one. First one's from Reddit Bills. 645 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,160 Speaker 1: He says, my biggest concern is if the safety measures 646 00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:41,200 Speaker 1: aren't strong enough, it may result in an outbreak among 647 00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:45,800 Speaker 1: the player's staff and the season could then get canceled. Yeah, 648 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:49,279 Speaker 1: I understand the concern there, but I think the one 649 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,319 Speaker 1: thing that the league and the players have agreed on 650 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:57,399 Speaker 1: is the forty two page protocol booklet basically at this point, so, 651 00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:01,520 Speaker 1: I think both parties have certainly agreed that any and 652 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:06,400 Speaker 1: all precautions are going to be taken as as feasibly 653 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:10,880 Speaker 1: as possible, knowing that football as a sport is essentially 654 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,160 Speaker 1: the opposite of social distancing, So the actual play on 655 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:18,640 Speaker 1: the field is pretty much unavoidable. But beyond that, they 656 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:22,720 Speaker 1: are doing everything and anything to do the proper social 657 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,800 Speaker 1: distancing and to wear masks and stay six feet apart 658 00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:31,279 Speaker 1: and all of that stuff. So I don't know if 659 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,319 Speaker 1: you need to be concerned about the safety measures not 660 00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,520 Speaker 1: being strong enough. It's the play on the field that's 661 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,240 Speaker 1: the biggest risk of all the things that they've got 662 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:44,719 Speaker 1: delineated in their forty two page handbook of safety protocols. Right, 663 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,120 Speaker 1: that's right. That's because everybody on the field is going 664 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:49,440 Speaker 1: to be exposed. If there's a guy out there who's positive, 665 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,319 Speaker 1: there's just no way around it. Everybody's exposed, so you know, 666 00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,160 Speaker 1: you can't get around it. And this is this kind 667 00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,279 Speaker 1: of goes down that lines from Dinah on the tweet sheet. 668 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,399 Speaker 1: I'm not sure when or even if the season start. 669 00:36:00,719 --> 00:36:02,640 Speaker 1: New York is doing so much better, but the rest 670 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:04,800 Speaker 1: of the country is not. I'm not sure they should 671 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:09,200 Speaker 1: start the season. The NFL, NFLPA haggling is my biggest concern. 672 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,000 Speaker 1: I'm not sure any of them really have the best 673 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:16,879 Speaker 1: concern for player health. This is where I always kind 674 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:20,160 Speaker 1: of go, uh, yeah, I get it. As far as 675 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,760 Speaker 1: the virus is concerned, they probably are putting football ahead 676 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:28,000 Speaker 1: of their concern over the virus, which, in the environment 677 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,279 Speaker 1: that is the National Football League, is to me one 678 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:35,359 Speaker 1: hundred percent understandable. Yeah. I mean, you're you got guys 679 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:40,799 Speaker 1: playing football, pro football in the NFL. It's hard to 680 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:45,720 Speaker 1: have concern over a virus when you when you're putting 681 00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:48,080 Speaker 1: guys out there and the kind of risk and the 682 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:52,839 Speaker 1: kind of physical exertion you're talking about on an NFL game. 683 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:56,680 Speaker 1: So it does You're right, It's hard for me or 684 00:36:56,760 --> 00:37:01,560 Speaker 1: hard for the league to, you know, look at itself 685 00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:03,000 Speaker 1: in the mirror and say, are we really going to 686 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:08,520 Speaker 1: take all these precautions over this virus? Uh, when when 687 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:12,680 Speaker 1: our guys play such a dangerous game. Yeah. And I 688 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:15,560 Speaker 1: just find it interesting that Dinah is most concerned about 689 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:19,000 Speaker 1: the haggling between the league and the players Association, And 690 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,000 Speaker 1: when you think about it, Steve and I know we'll 691 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:23,560 Speaker 1: get into this with with Norah Princiatti at the top 692 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,680 Speaker 1: of the hour from the ringer, since she wrote a 693 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:32,080 Speaker 1: nine page right up on this um. There's a lot 694 00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,640 Speaker 1: of stuff they still got to finalize. And what are 695 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,920 Speaker 1: we two and a half weeks away from this the 696 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:43,279 Speaker 1: scheduled open of training camp. M that's a lot to 697 00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,960 Speaker 1: get done in a short amount of time with with 698 00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:52,920 Speaker 1: a situation that doesn't present a lot of concrete, reliable answers, right, 699 00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,759 Speaker 1: And there's yeah, and there's so many everybody's got their 700 00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,000 Speaker 1: own issues that they got to deal with in this 701 00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:04,120 Speaker 1: uh A pandemic. But I think it comes down to 702 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,200 Speaker 1: how badly the players want to get paid this year 703 00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:16,680 Speaker 1: and how badly the league needs to keep it chugging along. Yeah, 704 00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:18,839 Speaker 1: the fans in the stands have we've gone, We've gone 705 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,000 Speaker 1: over this, over it, and over it. The fans in 706 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,640 Speaker 1: the stands are about fifteen percent of the total pie. 707 00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:27,960 Speaker 1: Seventy five percent of the total pie is money they 708 00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:32,680 Speaker 1: make from putting on television programming, which means three hours 709 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:36,799 Speaker 1: on Sunday afternoon, three hours on Sunday late afternoon, three 710 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,399 Speaker 1: hours on Sunday night, three hours on Monday night, three 711 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:42,600 Speaker 1: hours on Thursday night. That's a lot of television programming, 712 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:47,920 Speaker 1: and it is the most compelling TV on They want. 713 00:38:48,480 --> 00:38:50,759 Speaker 1: They want to get that on the air, even if 714 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:55,000 Speaker 1: it doesn't look quite the same. That's what they want, 715 00:38:55,280 --> 00:39:00,160 Speaker 1: and that's that's the end goal of the entire of 716 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:03,920 Speaker 1: this entire operation, and the entire exercise is getting games 717 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:08,560 Speaker 1: on television. Sixteen games a weekend for seventeen weeks, you know. 718 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,800 Speaker 1: So that's because that the Immedia, that new media deal 719 00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:15,400 Speaker 1: hasn't been struck yet either, that's right, which they thought 720 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:21,160 Speaker 1: were was going to be, you know, a windfall of 721 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:24,840 Speaker 1: new money, which it was absolutely going to be. But 722 00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:30,680 Speaker 1: if you're one of those broadcast networks, you're probably like, well, 723 00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,920 Speaker 1: let's wait and see what happens before we agree to 724 00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,160 Speaker 1: a new deal here, right, you know, I wouldn't be 725 00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:37,879 Speaker 1: surprised if that's the stance that a lot of those 726 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:40,440 Speaker 1: networks are taken right now, Right now, he's not rushing 727 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,520 Speaker 1: to the table, that's right. Here's one from Tiffany. I 728 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:45,120 Speaker 1: skipped one, but here I'm gonna get this one. I'm 729 00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:49,120 Speaker 1: concerned that if enough impact stars of the league opt out, 730 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,880 Speaker 1: the NFL will have no choice but to possibly postpone or, 731 00:39:51,880 --> 00:39:55,800 Speaker 1: worst case scenario, canceled the entire season. The restrictions alone 732 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,040 Speaker 1: in New York will make it beyond challenging for coaches 733 00:39:58,040 --> 00:39:59,960 Speaker 1: and players to participate in a game. If they can 734 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,640 Speaker 1: get these games on this is I usually agree with 735 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:07,960 Speaker 1: Tiffany intertakes. She's pretty well informed and pretty thoughtful. I 736 00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:11,399 Speaker 1: disagree with this one completely. If the NFL can make 737 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:16,000 Speaker 1: this work, they don't care if Tiffany is suiting up 738 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,880 Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills. They're gonna get guys on the field. 739 00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,480 Speaker 1: They don't care if Aaron Rodgers, if Josh Allen, if 740 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:24,760 Speaker 1: Tradevious White. They don't care if any of these guys 741 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:27,400 Speaker 1: show up. If they got if they've got, you should 742 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,240 Speaker 1: have been that, Steve. They do care if the stars 743 00:40:30,239 --> 00:40:32,160 Speaker 1: of the league are on the field, but it's just 744 00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:37,120 Speaker 1: not consequential if they're not. They're not scrapping games. It's 745 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,520 Speaker 1: not consequential. They're going on with it. They hope those 746 00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,719 Speaker 1: they hope everybody plays, and they hope everybody stays healthy, 747 00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:43,720 Speaker 1: and they do all that stuff. But they ain't stopping 748 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,360 Speaker 1: this train. If those guys don't want to play, that's fine. 749 00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,480 Speaker 1: If er if all of these guys Aaron Rodgers, JJ 750 00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:54,480 Speaker 1: watt uh, Philip Rivers, any of these guys and think 751 00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:59,479 Speaker 1: about this, say say Mike Tomlin opts out. The league 752 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,440 Speaker 1: ain't gonna care. They're gonna They're gonna use it as 753 00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,880 Speaker 1: an excuse to elevate some people. They're gonna give opportunities. 754 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,680 Speaker 1: That's let's go now. They know too that it'll compromise 755 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:13,200 Speaker 1: in some ways. It'll compromise what you see when between 756 00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,719 Speaker 1: the whistles, but it will also make what happens between games. 757 00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:22,680 Speaker 1: The weekly the weekly attention, the weekly um news cycle 758 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:27,239 Speaker 1: is gonna be driven by the league by who opted out, 759 00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,719 Speaker 1: why they opted out, how these teams are coping with 760 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,200 Speaker 1: these opt outs, how they're doing this. Who's gonna play 761 00:41:32,239 --> 00:41:35,040 Speaker 1: for the Steeler, who's gonna coach the Steelers? Which assistant 762 00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,200 Speaker 1: coach of the Steelers that I've never heard of is 763 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:40,600 Speaker 1: gonna elevate and say, Wow, he's pretty good. All that, 764 00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:44,720 Speaker 1: they don't care, So they're gonna that's right, They're gonna 765 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:49,800 Speaker 1: They're gonna. This is gonna drive content like an atomic engine. 766 00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:54,000 Speaker 1: It is just gonna be inexhaustible, and sprinkle in the 767 00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:57,879 Speaker 1: fact that there's legal sports betting in states and this 768 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:02,520 Speaker 1: information actually will might make you money. Are you kidding me? 769 00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:08,439 Speaker 1: They this thing, it's a fire hose of content. And 770 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:12,480 Speaker 1: the media's people like us and people like ESPN, the 771 00:42:12,560 --> 00:42:16,279 Speaker 1: sports directors and all the local affiliates, all these websites 772 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:22,799 Speaker 1: that you've heard about, from the Ringer to ESPN, CBS, Sports, Spotify, 773 00:42:23,080 --> 00:42:27,520 Speaker 1: spot Track, Our Lives, everything, they're all gonna be churning out. 774 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:33,839 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it's gonna be a fountain, and we'll 775 00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:35,520 Speaker 1: all eat it up. I mean we'll eat it up. 776 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,399 Speaker 1: But don't don't think for a minute that if they 777 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,840 Speaker 1: can do it, if they can pull this off, Brownie 778 00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:44,120 Speaker 1: and put games on for sixteen weeks by hook or 779 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:46,920 Speaker 1: by crook, by hook or by crook, they're gonna do it. 780 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:49,759 Speaker 1: They will not care what it looks like in the end. 781 00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:53,440 Speaker 1: Certainly they'll They're gonna they're gonna make sure that they 782 00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:56,400 Speaker 1: aren't liable for anything, right, They're gonna everybody's gonna sign waivers. 783 00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,400 Speaker 1: Everybody gonna say, hey, you know the risks you're taking, 784 00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:02,399 Speaker 1: known or unknown. We don't know. We're Yeah, so they're 785 00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:04,600 Speaker 1: not gonna it's not gonna come back to bite them later. 786 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:08,000 Speaker 1: But they are gonna. They are gonna put these games 787 00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,680 Speaker 1: on if they can in any way, shape or form. 788 00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:12,399 Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna look like. I don't 789 00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:16,880 Speaker 1: know if they're gonna have like, you know, professional you know, 790 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,239 Speaker 1: wrestlers out there for a chance. I don't know. They're 791 00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:21,400 Speaker 1: gonna get bodies to come in there and play football. 792 00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:23,440 Speaker 1: And that's gonna be the end of it. That So, 793 00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:26,640 Speaker 1: don't think because Aaron Rodgers and Ben Roethlisberger opt out, 794 00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:29,880 Speaker 1: that this lead is gonna come to a grinding hall. Yeah. 795 00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,200 Speaker 1: I think we gotta take a break here, Steve, all right, Yes, 796 00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:37,279 Speaker 1: we're way past. Thanks. Thanks Nora Princadia. The ringer coming 797 00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:39,480 Speaker 1: up at the top of the hour. This is One 798 00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:42,000 Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health and Buffalo Bills Radio. 799 00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:53,840 Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Lives. Steve Tasker, along with 800 00:43:53,920 --> 00:43:56,439 Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Brian we've been talking about the league getting going. 801 00:43:56,440 --> 00:44:00,200 Speaker 1: We'll talk about the protocols and all of that at 802 00:44:00,200 --> 00:44:03,319 Speaker 1: the top of the hour with uh Norah Princati. Where 803 00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,200 Speaker 1: right now did you hear, and I think you have 804 00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:07,719 Speaker 1: about For those of you out there listening, I've been 805 00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:11,000 Speaker 1: keeping track that the Washington Redskins are gonna thinking about 806 00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,960 Speaker 1: changing their name. Well it looks like it's actually gonna happen. 807 00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:19,319 Speaker 1: They retired the Redskin franchise name with the logo, and 808 00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:23,560 Speaker 1: they're gonna choose a new nickname for the Washington Redskins, 809 00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:27,520 Speaker 1: and you know high time they did that. They also 810 00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:31,839 Speaker 1: are going to scrap all their Native American imagery, keep 811 00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:35,480 Speaker 1: the lose the logo everything. They'll keep their colors and 812 00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:39,520 Speaker 1: that's about it. But it's gonna the Washington Redskins are 813 00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,160 Speaker 1: now going to be called something else. There's a couple 814 00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:48,480 Speaker 1: of leaders in the clubhouse. One is the Washington Warriors, 815 00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:53,480 Speaker 1: which to me they want to stay away from anything 816 00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:57,560 Speaker 1: that would connotate Native American. Yeah, that's that's still kind 817 00:44:57,600 --> 00:44:59,799 Speaker 1: of close there, right, But they say that's the leader 818 00:44:59,800 --> 00:45:03,560 Speaker 1: in the clubhouse. The other name, other than the Warriors 819 00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:06,200 Speaker 1: would be the Red Tails. Now the Red Tails is 820 00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:09,640 Speaker 1: an interesting so to be the Washington Redtails. This nickname 821 00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:14,279 Speaker 1: got a has a history that it's it's what they 822 00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:19,520 Speaker 1: called the airplanes flown by the Tuskegee airmen. They had 823 00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:21,960 Speaker 1: red tails on them, right. It was the first black 824 00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:24,960 Speaker 1: military aviators that served in the United States Army during 825 00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:27,799 Speaker 1: World War Two, and three of the first five Tuskegee 826 00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:32,400 Speaker 1: Airman ever admitted were from Washington, So that connects it 827 00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:35,319 Speaker 1: to the city and the armed forces. I love that name, 828 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,799 Speaker 1: the Red Tails, and that that would be the airplanes 829 00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:42,360 Speaker 1: flown by the Tuskegee Airman as a as an alternative 830 00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:45,480 Speaker 1: to the Redskins, and also if they don't go with 831 00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:51,600 Speaker 1: the nickname warriors. So interesting stuff. There's actually a film 832 00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:54,560 Speaker 1: called Red Tails from like two thousand and twelve or something, 833 00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,880 Speaker 1: and it had Terrence Howard and Kubert Gooding Junior. And 834 00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:00,320 Speaker 1: it's good movie and it's on that it's on the 835 00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:03,239 Speaker 1: Tuskege Yearman in World War Two. It's pretty cool and 836 00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:07,360 Speaker 1: I think that'd be awesome. So that the Washington Redskins, 837 00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:11,160 Speaker 1: after one hundred years, are going to change their name. 838 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:14,960 Speaker 1: Now think about this. To four teams in the NFL 839 00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,360 Speaker 1: over the first hundred years had changed their names. M 840 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:20,880 Speaker 1: let me see if I was in this article and 841 00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:23,680 Speaker 1: I'm trying to what do you have? The Decatur's Staleys 842 00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:27,680 Speaker 1: became the Chicago Bears, right, hate, is that right? I 843 00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:30,960 Speaker 1: think that all the New York Titans became the Jets, 844 00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:34,720 Speaker 1: became the Jets. Let's see, the Cardinals were always the Cardinals. 845 00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,280 Speaker 1: It's the team. Now the cities have changed for last Chicago, 846 00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:41,000 Speaker 1: Saint Louis, Arizona, right right, So there you go. So 847 00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:45,400 Speaker 1: they were getting huge pressure. The Redskins were h to 848 00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:47,719 Speaker 1: change the name, and they're finally going to do it, 849 00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:52,200 Speaker 1: and they've got you've got baseball teams now talking about 850 00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:54,960 Speaker 1: this too, because the Cleveland Indians didn't say they are 851 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,880 Speaker 1: outright changing their team name, but they said they're gonna 852 00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:04,000 Speaker 1: consider things. They have gotten rid of their former Indian 853 00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,799 Speaker 1: chief logo, which was Chief Waho. They got rid of 854 00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:09,920 Speaker 1: that and now they just have a C for Cleveland 855 00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:14,320 Speaker 1: as their logo, so they change that. The Atlanta Braves 856 00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:17,040 Speaker 1: came out and said they are not changing their team name, 857 00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:22,399 Speaker 1: but they will examine getting rid of that tomahawk chant 858 00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:27,200 Speaker 1: that their fans do, right, which I think is necessary 859 00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:29,120 Speaker 1: at the very least, right, And it may be as 860 00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:33,279 Speaker 1: simple as just not playing that music. Well, that would help, right, right, 861 00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,200 Speaker 1: that would help. Playing the music that goes with the chop. Yeah, 862 00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:39,000 Speaker 1: that's you know they'll get it. I mean it'll evolve braves. 863 00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:41,080 Speaker 1: And it changed their logo too because they used to 864 00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:45,240 Speaker 1: have an Indian warrior as a as a logo also 865 00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,480 Speaker 1: with the feather on his hat on his head and everything. 866 00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:51,360 Speaker 1: And they have since changed it to just a script 867 00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:55,480 Speaker 1: a for Atlanta UM. But they said they're not changing 868 00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:57,319 Speaker 1: the team names. So, but they are changing the team 869 00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:01,399 Speaker 1: name because the FedEx's they played FedEx Field in the stadium, right, 870 00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:04,160 Speaker 1: and then they've also and for about a decade and 871 00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:08,480 Speaker 1: a half they have the Skins have want Daniel Snyder 872 00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:10,640 Speaker 1: and the owner of the Skin, they've wanted a new stadium, 873 00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,400 Speaker 1: and they've wanted back down closer to downtown and the 874 00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:15,799 Speaker 1: old right where the r RFK used to be, right, 875 00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:20,280 Speaker 1: they wanted a new stadium. And what happened was the 876 00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,680 Speaker 1: powers that be in Washington, which you know you can 877 00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:27,759 Speaker 1: basically FedEx and Nike that so FedEx said, if you 878 00:48:27,800 --> 00:48:30,560 Speaker 1: don't change the name of your franchise, we're taking we're 879 00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:34,560 Speaker 1: you know, we're taking our name off the field. And Nike, 880 00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:38,120 Speaker 1: which makes the league's uniforms, took all the Washington football 881 00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:41,560 Speaker 1: team merchandise off their an online site, right and refused 882 00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:45,040 Speaker 1: to market it right any so, and then they also 883 00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:49,240 Speaker 1: got some pushback from the U civic authorities in Washington, 884 00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:50,960 Speaker 1: d C. And said, listen, we're not even going to 885 00:48:51,040 --> 00:48:53,399 Speaker 1: talk to you about a new stadium until you change 886 00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:55,919 Speaker 1: the name of that franchise. So all three of those 887 00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:58,880 Speaker 1: heavy hitters kind of pushed him into a corner and 888 00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:01,520 Speaker 1: they said, you know what, we're gonna do it. And so, finally, 889 00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:04,360 Speaker 1: and with Ron Rivera as their head coach, one of 890 00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:06,720 Speaker 1: the few minority head coaches in the National Football League, 891 00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:09,480 Speaker 1: low and behold, it's gonna happen. I don't know how 892 00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:11,319 Speaker 1: they're gonna do it when they're going to announce it, 893 00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:14,719 Speaker 1: but they're often running and good for them. Well it's 894 00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:18,080 Speaker 1: about time. Yeah, I don't think that's a question. I agree, 895 00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:22,640 Speaker 1: I agree, yeah, and so be it. And I want 896 00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:24,800 Speaker 1: to see the you know, in normal times, they'd have 897 00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:27,439 Speaker 1: a big press conference and unveiling and all that. Yeah, 898 00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:30,040 Speaker 1: you know, now it's now, we know. I want to 899 00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,799 Speaker 1: see them. I want to see a new logo. Well, yeah, 900 00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:35,480 Speaker 1: they've probably got to put that together and agree on 901 00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:37,799 Speaker 1: a team name and then what the whole emblem and 902 00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:41,479 Speaker 1: marks are going to look like. So that's presumably gonna 903 00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:43,799 Speaker 1: take a little time exactly, all right, Steve Tasker, Chris 904 00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:46,360 Speaker 1: Brown here till three o'clock. Coming up right after this break, 905 00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:48,920 Speaker 1: Nora prince Ciotta, football writer for the Ringers. She's a 906 00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:51,719 Speaker 1: contributor to The Ringer NFL Show podcast and she's a 907 00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:55,480 Speaker 1: former Boston Globe reporter covering the Patriots. Nora prince Ciotta 908 00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:58,040 Speaker 1: coming up right after the break, Steve Tasker Chris Brown 909 00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:00,279 Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health. And 910 00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:06,600 Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Oh break time by Steve 911 00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:28,640 Speaker 1: Tasper Tustius Dost Time. Welcome back to One Bill's Live. 912 00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:31,520 Speaker 1: Steve Tasker Chris Brown on the line. We are going 913 00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:35,279 Speaker 1: to speak right now with from the rink from the 914 00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:37,640 Speaker 1: Ringer nor Prince as we can connect with her in 915 00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:39,600 Speaker 1: just a minute or two, Brownie. That's uh. It just 916 00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:44,200 Speaker 1: came across the little images of the players helmets and 917 00:50:44,280 --> 00:50:47,719 Speaker 1: they're plastic um face shields. It's kind of go all 918 00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:49,759 Speaker 1: the way. You've seen half the mask, you know, the 919 00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:54,240 Speaker 1: half the shield like um, you know players of Ladani 920 00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:56,480 Speaker 1: and Thomlinson had one. Another player I wore one for 921 00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:58,560 Speaker 1: a minute. Now that goes across the bottom of the 922 00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:00,600 Speaker 1: face mask as well, and there's there's a kind of 923 00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:02,759 Speaker 1: a grid of holes in it, so they're trying to 924 00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,279 Speaker 1: work to minimize the spread of the virus even when 925 00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:08,759 Speaker 1: these guys are on the field. Yeah, it looks like 926 00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:11,560 Speaker 1: it's separate from the actual visor. It's going to attach 927 00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:16,000 Speaker 1: to the mask from the inside. And we all know 928 00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:19,720 Speaker 1: that players' biggest issues are how hot it gets, breathe, ability, 929 00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:24,719 Speaker 1: ability to communicate for quarterbacks obviously at the line of scrimmage. 930 00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:27,840 Speaker 1: But it looks like it's going to be an interesting 931 00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:30,120 Speaker 1: device that they're going to be testing with all thirty 932 00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,319 Speaker 1: two teams. Oakley's putting it together and it looks like 933 00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:34,600 Speaker 1: they're sending them out to all thirty two teams for 934 00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:36,840 Speaker 1: testing to see if players want to make use of it. 935 00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:38,879 Speaker 1: And they say in testing any way, in the lab, 936 00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:41,719 Speaker 1: which granted isn't what you get on the field, it 937 00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:45,400 Speaker 1: looks like droplet transfer is dramatically reduced. So yeah, I 938 00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:49,840 Speaker 1: see where it goes. Yeah, and there's it's you know, 939 00:51:49,960 --> 00:51:53,759 Speaker 1: being a player, and this one of the guys that 940 00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:56,719 Speaker 1: you know associated this said exactly what we all know. 941 00:51:56,840 --> 00:52:00,280 Speaker 1: I mean, it's you know, it's the game is probably 942 00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:03,200 Speaker 1: like a Petri dish for you know, the transmission of 943 00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:05,360 Speaker 1: a virus. So what anything they can do to limit 944 00:52:05,400 --> 00:52:07,359 Speaker 1: that is going to be a plus. We'll see how 945 00:52:07,360 --> 00:52:12,200 Speaker 1: it goes. But there are images now being released about this, 946 00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:15,520 Speaker 1: and you know, guys like JJ Watt have have started 947 00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:18,880 Speaker 1: talking about how, you know, how he doesn't want to 948 00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:21,080 Speaker 1: play with a face mask, that kind of thing, and 949 00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:24,960 Speaker 1: any anyway, let's talk more about this with Nora Princiata, 950 00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:27,000 Speaker 1: a football writer for The Ringers. She's a contributor to 951 00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,200 Speaker 1: The Ringer NFL Show podcast and former Boston Globe reporter 952 00:52:30,239 --> 00:52:32,640 Speaker 1: covering the Patriots. Nora, Steve Tasker, and Chris Brown here 953 00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:35,160 Speaker 1: in Buffalo on One Bill's Live. Thanks for joining us 954 00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,319 Speaker 1: and has always let me just ask, how are you 955 00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:39,520 Speaker 1: and your family doing during the pandemic? Are you safe? 956 00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:45,040 Speaker 1: And well, yes we are. We're doing pretty well all 957 00:52:45,080 --> 00:52:49,040 Speaker 1: things considered over here and glad to be with you guys. Thanks. 958 00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:52,000 Speaker 1: You wrote a great article on The Ringer about It's 959 00:52:52,040 --> 00:52:54,279 Speaker 1: just the headline says it all. The NFL needs to 960 00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:59,080 Speaker 1: finalize it's COVID nineteen plans, and soon what looked like 961 00:52:59,239 --> 00:53:01,360 Speaker 1: months ago, the league was going to have plenty of 962 00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:02,880 Speaker 1: time to get their ducks in a row. All of 963 00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:07,400 Speaker 1: a sudden, the calendar has kind of avalanched right on 964 00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:09,080 Speaker 1: top of them, and they are on the eve of 965 00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:11,799 Speaker 1: starting training camps, and you think they still have a 966 00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:15,279 Speaker 1: ways to go. Yeah, well, I know they still have 967 00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:18,640 Speaker 1: a ways to go. I mean there are issues as 968 00:53:18,640 --> 00:53:22,160 Speaker 1: big as how frequently players are going to be tested, 969 00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:27,040 Speaker 1: what classification a player who does test positive for the 970 00:53:27,080 --> 00:53:29,680 Speaker 1: coronavirus gets, as far as you know, is it a 971 00:53:29,680 --> 00:53:31,960 Speaker 1: football injury, is it a non football injury, which has 972 00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:36,239 Speaker 1: pretty big consequences in terms of benefits and rites and 973 00:53:36,280 --> 00:53:39,200 Speaker 1: salary protections and if a guy can get cut. And 974 00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:44,120 Speaker 1: that's before you get to the question of the finances, 975 00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:46,200 Speaker 1: because they're going to have to come to some kind 976 00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:50,160 Speaker 1: of agreement otherwise the salary cap next year is going 977 00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:55,320 Speaker 1: to take a massive hit because of the lost revenue 978 00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:59,839 Speaker 1: that we're all expecting this season. So, you know, just 979 00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:04,120 Speaker 1: through reporting this story, I was really struck by, on 980 00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:08,640 Speaker 1: the one hand, how many little granular details they actually 981 00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:12,080 Speaker 1: have figured out already. But then when you think about 982 00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:14,760 Speaker 1: that in contrast with how big some of the stuff 983 00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:17,480 Speaker 1: that has yet to be decided is you get a 984 00:54:17,520 --> 00:54:20,719 Speaker 1: little overwhelmed because you're thinking, Man, I want to give 985 00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:24,399 Speaker 1: these guys so much credit for coming up with protocols 986 00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:28,719 Speaker 1: for ordering delivery on the road and teaching people how 987 00:54:28,719 --> 00:54:31,759 Speaker 1: to wash their hands and thinking of all of these 988 00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:35,920 Speaker 1: different things. But then when you put it in the 989 00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:39,319 Speaker 1: big picture view, it's just kind of like what's left 990 00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:42,480 Speaker 1: to be figured out is massive. And you're right that. 991 00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:45,520 Speaker 1: I think several months ago when all of this started 992 00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:47,560 Speaker 1: to go down, there was a lot of optimism just 993 00:54:47,600 --> 00:54:49,480 Speaker 1: because there was going to be all this time that 994 00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:54,239 Speaker 1: I think we all hoped would be used to get 995 00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:56,880 Speaker 1: the sprint of the virus under control just as a country, 996 00:54:57,000 --> 00:55:00,120 Speaker 1: and then also to learn lessons from other leagues that 997 00:55:00,160 --> 00:55:02,160 Speaker 1: we're going to try to start up sooner. And the 998 00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:06,320 Speaker 1: thing is is that neither one of those things has happened. 999 00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:09,239 Speaker 1: So it's a football issue, but it's also just an 1000 00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:12,479 Speaker 1: issue of football not being able to insulate itself from 1001 00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:16,439 Speaker 1: the problems that we're all facing right now. Yeah, and Nora, 1002 00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:19,160 Speaker 1: I'm kind of struck by this too. How much more 1003 00:55:19,480 --> 00:55:23,920 Speaker 1: difficult do you think this negotiation is between the NFL 1004 00:55:24,040 --> 00:55:27,200 Speaker 1: and the Players Association Due to the fact that there 1005 00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:32,480 Speaker 1: is no national policy on how to handle you know, 1006 00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:35,640 Speaker 1: preventative measures with respect to COVID nineteen. I would like 1007 00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:38,640 Speaker 1: to think that that would have been a big roadblock 1008 00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:41,960 Speaker 1: taken out of the way if there is established national policy, 1009 00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:47,520 Speaker 1: right absolutely, I mean if it would literally eliminate some 1010 00:55:47,600 --> 00:55:50,120 Speaker 1: of these issues that they have to figure out, because 1011 00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:58,040 Speaker 1: if there were policies governing you know, interstate travel and 1012 00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:03,960 Speaker 1: businesses that have operations across the country, by definition, all 1013 00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:05,560 Speaker 1: they would have to do is say, well, we're going 1014 00:56:05,600 --> 00:56:09,640 Speaker 1: to follow the law. But instead, because there is no 1015 00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:12,920 Speaker 1: law to be followed, they can say we're going to 1016 00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:15,480 Speaker 1: follow all state and local guidelines, but those differ. The 1017 00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:18,680 Speaker 1: NFL exists in twenty two different states, and what it 1018 00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:22,080 Speaker 1: means is that the entities that have to fill in 1019 00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:26,200 Speaker 1: those gaps are the NFL and the NFLPA, who have 1020 00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:30,719 Speaker 1: competing interest So what gets mixed up in their I 1021 00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:35,759 Speaker 1: think genuine desire to find the best and safest protocols 1022 00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:39,920 Speaker 1: and possible outcomes. Here is all of the baggage of 1023 00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:43,799 Speaker 1: these being opposing sides that you know, just a few 1024 00:56:43,840 --> 00:56:47,440 Speaker 1: months ago came to a new labor deal, but also 1025 00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:53,200 Speaker 1: are looking down the road and seeing a pretty massive 1026 00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:57,920 Speaker 1: revenue shortfall that could result in another big fight, and 1027 00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:00,319 Speaker 1: neither one of them in some ways one to give 1028 00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:03,200 Speaker 1: an inch on that. So it makes the stuff really complicated, 1029 00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:06,600 Speaker 1: and I think you're starting to sense, particularly from players 1030 00:57:06,680 --> 00:57:09,880 Speaker 1: who are literally wondering if they should get on a 1031 00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:13,960 Speaker 1: plane in a couple of weeks, or you know, stop 1032 00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:16,840 Speaker 1: paying rent if they live in a different city during 1033 00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:19,520 Speaker 1: the off season, or just tell their families or have 1034 00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:22,200 Speaker 1: discussions if you know, they live with an at risk 1035 00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:27,400 Speaker 1: family member, about the pros and cons of potentially opting out, 1036 00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:29,560 Speaker 1: because that's one of the things that hasn't been figured out. 1037 00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:32,440 Speaker 1: You're just starting to hear from players, but they have 1038 00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:34,160 Speaker 1: no idea what to do, and they're starting to feel 1039 00:57:34,160 --> 00:57:36,000 Speaker 1: like it's ridiculous that a lot of this stuff hasn't 1040 00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:38,800 Speaker 1: been ironed out because it's their lives and they're the 1041 00:57:38,840 --> 00:57:41,360 Speaker 1: ones that are gonna carry most of the risk here. 1042 00:57:42,000 --> 00:57:44,680 Speaker 1: So I think, I mean, we'd all feel that way 1043 00:57:44,760 --> 00:57:48,360 Speaker 1: right right exactly. Nora Princote for The Ringer, I'm going 1044 00:57:48,400 --> 00:57:50,600 Speaker 1: to ask you this, in the landscape that continues to 1045 00:57:50,720 --> 00:57:53,480 Speaker 1: change really quickly, I mean, it goes from optimism to 1046 00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:57,440 Speaker 1: pessimism too. Is something in between and to outright hopelessness. 1047 00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:01,160 Speaker 1: Sometimes does the NFL What is a gut feeling tell 1048 00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:04,080 Speaker 1: you about whether the NFL will actually play games or 1049 00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:07,560 Speaker 1: whether they will not play games this season. I think 1050 00:58:07,600 --> 00:58:13,320 Speaker 1: they will play games because despite all of their concern 1051 00:58:15,160 --> 00:58:20,480 Speaker 1: the reason that players are feeling so uneasy is because 1052 00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:24,160 Speaker 1: they want to play. If there weren't high stakes in 1053 00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:26,360 Speaker 1: them feeling like, we want to get out there, we 1054 00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:29,120 Speaker 1: want to earn our money, we want to play a 1055 00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:32,160 Speaker 1: full season. You know, they could all be saying, we 1056 00:58:32,240 --> 00:58:33,800 Speaker 1: just don't think this is safe. We don't want to 1057 00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:36,680 Speaker 1: do it. So I'm not going to go I'm not 1058 00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:38,880 Speaker 1: going to report it. I'm not interested in this, and 1059 00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:41,280 Speaker 1: nobody's saying that. I mean, everybody wants to show up. 1060 00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:45,480 Speaker 1: The league has really stuck to its schedule, so I 1061 00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:49,200 Speaker 1: just don't think that anybody's motivated to not at least 1062 00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:53,240 Speaker 1: start the season. But there is a possibility. I mean, 1063 00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:55,720 Speaker 1: as I was reporting that story, one of the things 1064 00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:57,440 Speaker 1: that stood out to me the most was that, in 1065 00:58:57,520 --> 00:59:00,360 Speaker 1: speaking to a number of eviding me all just an 1066 00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:04,760 Speaker 1: infectious disease experts what they estimated. And it's important to 1067 00:59:04,760 --> 00:59:07,520 Speaker 1: note that it's an estimation because there's no actual scientific 1068 00:59:07,600 --> 00:59:10,400 Speaker 1: threshold for this. Is that if you have a core 1069 00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:15,680 Speaker 1: population of around one hundred one hundred and fifteen people 1070 00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:20,360 Speaker 1: that is an NFL roster practice squad, and then the 1071 00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:25,600 Speaker 1: essential coaches, trainers, doctors who are going to have to 1072 00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:31,200 Speaker 1: be in close contact. If you started to get between 1073 00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:35,160 Speaker 1: five and ten percent at any given time of those 1074 00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:40,680 Speaker 1: people testing positive for the coronavirus, it's fairly safe to 1075 00:59:40,840 --> 00:59:46,000 Speaker 1: assume that everyone, or close to everyone, or just an 1076 00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:49,600 Speaker 1: unmanageable number of the rest of the people in that 1077 00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:53,440 Speaker 1: group have been exposed to one of the people who's 1078 00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:57,280 Speaker 1: tested positive, and in the plan, in part of the 1079 00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:01,080 Speaker 1: agreement that's already been reached, anyone who has that kind 1080 01:00:01,080 --> 01:00:05,080 Speaker 1: of exposure has to be quarantined for at least five days, 1081 01:00:05,240 --> 01:00:08,400 Speaker 1: and after that five day period can only leave quarantine 1082 01:00:08,800 --> 01:00:15,040 Speaker 1: if they've had two consecutive negative tests within twenty four hours. 1083 01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:19,400 Speaker 1: So the elephant in the room is if you start 1084 01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:23,720 Speaker 1: getting five players at a time testing positive, which doesn't 1085 01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:27,040 Speaker 1: seem that unreasonable, is that team going to have to 1086 01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:31,520 Speaker 1: shut itself down for minimum five days or where are 1087 01:00:31,520 --> 01:00:35,200 Speaker 1: they going to get these other players? So I have 1088 01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:38,240 Speaker 1: far more questions about the ability to finish a season 1089 01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:41,240 Speaker 1: than I do to start one. But I would, I mean, 1090 01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:45,840 Speaker 1: all of this uncertainty aside, I would still guess that 1091 01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:49,320 Speaker 1: they start on time. Yeah, and we've already seen some 1092 01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:51,880 Speaker 1: MLS teams do that with their tournament that they're doing 1093 01:00:51,920 --> 01:00:55,200 Speaker 1: down in Florida. I believe two of the teams have 1094 01:00:55,240 --> 01:00:57,080 Speaker 1: pulled out of a tournament. Now that's a little bit different. 1095 01:00:57,080 --> 01:00:59,800 Speaker 1: It's a tournament style, it's not a regular season like 1096 01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:03,160 Speaker 1: the NFL is trying to undertake here. Now, you mentioned testing, Nora, 1097 01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:06,920 Speaker 1: and I know when you're right up on the ringer, 1098 01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:10,880 Speaker 1: you were talking about how in an ideal world, they'd 1099 01:01:10,880 --> 01:01:15,040 Speaker 1: like to have daily testing, especially in training camp when 1100 01:01:15,040 --> 01:01:18,000 Speaker 1: they first get there, but that hasn't been finalized yet. 1101 01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:21,600 Speaker 1: Is that something that is being hopefully hammered out today? 1102 01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:25,120 Speaker 1: Because I know the NFLPA and the player and the 1103 01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:27,600 Speaker 1: league management Council are supposed to meet today, right. Do 1104 01:01:27,640 --> 01:01:30,440 Speaker 1: you know if that's something they're handling or trying to 1105 01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:38,280 Speaker 1: hammer out today. Did we lose Nora? I might have 1106 01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:40,520 Speaker 1: lost Nora for just a minute. Nora. He's still there 1107 01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:44,800 Speaker 1: with us. We're speaking to We're speaking to Nora Princata 1108 01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:47,280 Speaker 1: football writer for The Ringer. She's a contributor to The 1109 01:01:47,320 --> 01:01:51,479 Speaker 1: Ringer in the NFL Show, The Ringer NFL Show podcast. Also, 1110 01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:53,400 Speaker 1: she used to work for the Boston Globe, reporting and 1111 01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:56,880 Speaker 1: covering the Patriots. She wrote a very interesting article about 1112 01:01:57,240 --> 01:01:59,440 Speaker 1: the NFL and how it's got to get its COVID 1113 01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:04,200 Speaker 1: stuff together because at times running out. Yeah, there's a 1114 01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:06,520 Speaker 1: major there's some major issues to be hurtled over and 1115 01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:09,400 Speaker 1: plus and I just asked her what her gut feeling 1116 01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:11,400 Speaker 1: was about whether they're going to play games, and she's 1117 01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:14,439 Speaker 1: and I'm kind of leaning towards She's probably right, Yeah, 1118 01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:17,360 Speaker 1: they'll play games, but will they finish them? You know, 1119 01:02:17,400 --> 01:02:19,800 Speaker 1: they'll play a season, but will they finish it? And 1120 01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:22,800 Speaker 1: that testing and testing is the big thing, which is 1121 01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:25,480 Speaker 1: why I was curious as to you know, I mean, 1122 01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:27,880 Speaker 1: this is a very comprehensive report that she put together, 1123 01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:30,000 Speaker 1: the thing. I mean, I printed it out. It's nine pages. 1124 01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:33,040 Speaker 1: So she did a lot of legwork to talk to 1125 01:02:33,080 --> 01:02:35,280 Speaker 1: a lot of different experts and a lot of league sources. 1126 01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:38,080 Speaker 1: And I was just curious knowing that the NFL and 1127 01:02:38,120 --> 01:02:42,120 Speaker 1: the NFLPA are meeting today and realizing that they still 1128 01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:46,280 Speaker 1: haven't hammered out how frequent players are going to get tested. 1129 01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:50,240 Speaker 1: I gotta believe that's something they're trying to nail down 1130 01:02:50,280 --> 01:02:52,920 Speaker 1: as they meet today. And I was curious if she 1131 01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:56,040 Speaker 1: had any knowledge of that. That's why I was wondering. Um, 1132 01:02:56,680 --> 01:02:59,880 Speaker 1: you know, daily testing makes a ton of sense because 1133 01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:03,160 Speaker 1: the reason why Steve is the more frequently you're able 1134 01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:07,680 Speaker 1: to test, the quicker you can conceivably get players back 1135 01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:11,919 Speaker 1: who test positive. Because, as she even said earlier, if 1136 01:03:12,040 --> 01:03:14,720 Speaker 1: and she put this in her right up, also if 1137 01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:18,840 Speaker 1: you get two after testing positive, if you get two 1138 01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:23,280 Speaker 1: negative tests in a twenty four hour period consecutively, you 1139 01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:26,560 Speaker 1: can come back as soon as five days. Well, I 1140 01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:29,840 Speaker 1: mean that's the difference between missing a game and not 1141 01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:33,120 Speaker 1: missing a game. Oh yeah, that's so, that's huge. And 1142 01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:36,200 Speaker 1: here's the thing too, that they've still got. Even if 1143 01:03:36,240 --> 01:03:39,480 Speaker 1: this thing goes like clockwork, you've got there are limits 1144 01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:41,960 Speaker 1: that there are and she says this in her article 1145 01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:45,280 Speaker 1: and the Ringer, and we're talking about Nora Princati, there 1146 01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:48,560 Speaker 1: are limits on how many individuals from each tier means 1147 01:03:48,600 --> 01:03:52,080 Speaker 1: Tier one, Tier two, Tier three, and Tier four. Each 1148 01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:56,680 Speaker 1: individuals can be in from each tier in total and 1149 01:03:56,760 --> 01:03:58,800 Speaker 1: can be at the facility on any given day. So Brownie, 1150 01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:01,320 Speaker 1: ask your question again, nor Nor thank you for coming 1151 01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:04,440 Speaker 1: back on with a Steve tesker. Chris Brown, Chris, you 1152 01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:07,520 Speaker 1: had a question, Yeah, I was just was pointing out 1153 01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:10,320 Speaker 1: your testing mentioned in the right up here, Nora, and 1154 01:04:10,360 --> 01:04:13,160 Speaker 1: I know that the NFL and the NFLPA management councils 1155 01:04:13,160 --> 01:04:15,800 Speaker 1: are meeting today. I didn't know if you had any 1156 01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:18,560 Speaker 1: knowledge as to whether they are trying as one of 1157 01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:21,760 Speaker 1: the maybe things on their agenda today to hammer out 1158 01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:26,480 Speaker 1: and finalize a testing plan, knowing daily testing is probably 1159 01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:31,400 Speaker 1: the ideal scenario. Yeah, so I know the NFLPA would 1160 01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:34,840 Speaker 1: like for players to be tested every day. The NFL 1161 01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:37,439 Speaker 1: would like for them to be tested multiple times a week. 1162 01:04:37,480 --> 01:04:40,320 Speaker 1: So I don't think that they're particularly far apart on that. 1163 01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:47,040 Speaker 1: The issue will be just balancing the number of tests 1164 01:04:47,040 --> 01:04:50,400 Speaker 1: that you know, a sports lead and entertainment product is 1165 01:04:50,440 --> 01:04:53,360 Speaker 1: going to take up. And I know that there's some 1166 01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:58,360 Speaker 1: outstanding just figuring out to do about how far away 1167 01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:02,920 Speaker 1: we are from having saliva testing to be readily available 1168 01:05:03,480 --> 01:05:06,400 Speaker 1: because the HOLT eventually it will be for players to 1169 01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:11,080 Speaker 1: be tested using saliva tests, which are you know, minimally 1170 01:05:11,120 --> 01:05:14,520 Speaker 1: invasive and the results come back very fast, which is key. 1171 01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:20,960 Speaker 1: But I don't think and I will offer the caveat that. 1172 01:05:21,000 --> 01:05:23,920 Speaker 1: My reporting on this is a few days old at 1173 01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:28,280 Speaker 1: this point, but I'm fairly sure that they're not ready 1174 01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:31,240 Speaker 1: to be using saliva tests yet, just because a lot 1175 01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:33,560 Speaker 1: of hospitals BILL don't have as many as they need. 1176 01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:39,160 Speaker 1: So I think those outstanding issues just have to do 1177 01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:42,520 Speaker 1: with kind of supply chains, which are really different in 1178 01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:45,520 Speaker 1: different parts of the country right now. But players will 1179 01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:49,760 Speaker 1: certainly be tested multiple times per week, but the NFLPA 1180 01:05:49,840 --> 01:05:52,080 Speaker 1: would like it to be every day, and they haven't 1181 01:05:52,080 --> 01:06:00,600 Speaker 1: been able to get the league to say yes to that. Steve, 1182 01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:04,920 Speaker 1: I think you're on mute. The NFL protocols are a 1183 01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:08,960 Speaker 1: little bit convoluted because there are different things you do 1184 01:06:09,040 --> 01:06:11,520 Speaker 1: for different people in different timeframes. For instance, anybody who 1185 01:06:11,520 --> 01:06:15,720 Speaker 1: test positive and experiences symptoms will be required to quarantine 1186 01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:18,280 Speaker 1: for at least ten days, and they can't even come 1187 01:06:18,280 --> 01:06:23,960 Speaker 1: back to the facility until three days after their last symptoms, 1188 01:06:24,360 --> 01:06:27,080 Speaker 1: and not until they're medically cleared. So those who test 1189 01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:32,320 Speaker 1: positive but are asymptomatic can return after five days if 1190 01:06:32,400 --> 01:06:35,880 Speaker 1: they've had two consecutive negative tests. At least twenty four 1191 01:06:35,920 --> 01:06:38,320 Speaker 1: hours apart. There's a separate float. They've got a float 1192 01:06:38,400 --> 01:06:44,120 Speaker 1: chart that they put out. So you're gonna have maybe multiple, 1193 01:06:44,200 --> 01:06:47,440 Speaker 1: maybe even double digit guys who are somewhere in this 1194 01:06:47,520 --> 01:06:50,600 Speaker 1: protocol and coming out of this protocol, and when you 1195 01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:54,720 Speaker 1: put the grind of an and the routine of an 1196 01:06:54,840 --> 01:07:00,200 Speaker 1: NFL season into that onto that ever changing flow chart 1197 01:07:00,000 --> 01:07:04,280 Speaker 1: part of players on and off this COVID list, don't 1198 01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:08,080 Speaker 1: you think they're gonna need more warm bodies to feel 1199 01:07:08,120 --> 01:07:11,720 Speaker 1: the team? Yeah? Well, I think one of the things 1200 01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:14,280 Speaker 1: that we could end up seeing is at least expanded 1201 01:07:14,440 --> 01:07:18,920 Speaker 1: practice squad. I don't know exactly where they are on that, 1202 01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:21,800 Speaker 1: but it's certainly something that's been talked about a lot. 1203 01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:30,040 Speaker 1: It's gonna be really interesting because just the sense that 1204 01:07:30,080 --> 01:07:33,880 Speaker 1: I've gotten and the information that I've gotten from medical 1205 01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:41,800 Speaker 1: people makes it feel like the numbers can rise so 1206 01:07:41,920 --> 01:07:44,720 Speaker 1: quickly within a population when a lot of people are 1207 01:07:44,800 --> 01:07:49,920 Speaker 1: exposed that you hear an idea like, okay, we'll expand 1208 01:07:49,960 --> 01:07:53,760 Speaker 1: with a practice squad. Say, I think the last number 1209 01:07:53,760 --> 01:07:56,760 Speaker 1: that I remember here getting tossed around with sixteen. But 1210 01:07:56,960 --> 01:08:00,200 Speaker 1: let's say you have a twenty person practice squad, but 1211 01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:05,640 Speaker 1: you have a fifty three man roster, and if half 1212 01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:09,640 Speaker 1: of that roster needs to be quarantined for at least 1213 01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:15,760 Speaker 1: five days, which is totally realistic, if there's an outbreak 1214 01:08:15,760 --> 01:08:19,360 Speaker 1: where you have, you know, five or ten positive tests 1215 01:08:19,360 --> 01:08:24,920 Speaker 1: at one that's more than your far far far expanded 1216 01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:28,439 Speaker 1: practice squad can support. So that to me is sort 1217 01:08:28,439 --> 01:08:32,920 Speaker 1: of the hun answered question of are they pulling guys 1218 01:08:32,960 --> 01:08:39,320 Speaker 1: off the streets, are you know, a game maybe, are 1219 01:08:39,320 --> 01:08:42,200 Speaker 1: you postponing a game or are you asking players to 1220 01:08:42,760 --> 01:08:47,000 Speaker 1: you know, I covered the Patriots last season and they 1221 01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:50,040 Speaker 1: got really decimated by you know, just normal football injuries 1222 01:08:50,040 --> 01:08:52,840 Speaker 1: at fullback and by the end of the season they 1223 01:08:52,880 --> 01:08:56,519 Speaker 1: had rolled through three or four different linebackers who had 1224 01:08:56,520 --> 01:09:00,639 Speaker 1: taken snaps at fullback. Is there a possibility of seeing 1225 01:09:02,040 --> 01:09:07,080 Speaker 1: that in an extreme form if a team gets seriously 1226 01:09:07,160 --> 01:09:10,600 Speaker 1: hit by this and they're not postponing a game, that 1227 01:09:10,760 --> 01:09:14,000 Speaker 1: I just I think that's one of the biggest things. Yeah, 1228 01:09:14,080 --> 01:09:16,360 Speaker 1: you run the risk of having an offensive guard lined 1229 01:09:16,439 --> 01:09:19,000 Speaker 1: up at wide out, you know, seriously, I'm not I'm 1230 01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:21,960 Speaker 1: it's funny, but it's serious. You know, they're gonna they're 1231 01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:24,040 Speaker 1: gonna have guys playing out of position just to get 1232 01:09:24,040 --> 01:09:27,439 Speaker 1: through game or finishing gameway days or yeah, or they'll 1233 01:09:27,439 --> 01:09:31,760 Speaker 1: line up seven offensive linemen on the line of scrimmage 1234 01:09:31,920 --> 01:09:34,120 Speaker 1: and they're gonna You're gonna power run the ball for 1235 01:09:34,160 --> 01:09:36,760 Speaker 1: three hours. Because they got no wide receiver. Their wide 1236 01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:39,200 Speaker 1: receiver room got decimated. They're gonna have tight ends playing 1237 01:09:39,240 --> 01:09:41,439 Speaker 1: wide receiver, tight ends playing running back, you know all 1238 01:09:41,439 --> 01:09:45,040 Speaker 1: that stuff. The guys that are the real critical element 1239 01:09:45,080 --> 01:09:48,800 Speaker 1: of this are the quarterbacks. Yeah, Norah. Before the last 1240 01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:52,559 Speaker 1: one for me is I know last month you did 1241 01:09:52,600 --> 01:09:55,920 Speaker 1: a piece with Evan Silva on making the leap in 1242 01:09:55,960 --> 01:09:58,599 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, and I know you were high on Josh 1243 01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:02,400 Speaker 1: Allen as a dark horse m VP. Maybe just give 1244 01:10:02,479 --> 01:10:06,120 Speaker 1: us your thoughts on why you think he's at least 1245 01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:12,479 Speaker 1: in the conversation. Well, this is I'm laughing just because 1246 01:10:12,600 --> 01:10:16,599 Speaker 1: as a person who covered the Patriots for four years, 1247 01:10:17,439 --> 01:10:20,800 Speaker 1: two of them last year the year before, just some 1248 01:10:20,880 --> 01:10:24,160 Speaker 1: of my interactions with Sills fans about Josh Allen have 1249 01:10:24,280 --> 01:10:28,320 Speaker 1: been spirited. Is I guess the word of any year? Well, 1250 01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:32,360 Speaker 1: that's well put. I just think that he you know, 1251 01:10:33,479 --> 01:10:36,040 Speaker 1: he's not my favorite quarterback in the league, but it 1252 01:10:36,160 --> 01:10:39,320 Speaker 1: is undeniable that he's very talented, and I think that 1253 01:10:39,360 --> 01:10:44,880 Speaker 1: he is in an unbelievably good situation. I think he's 1254 01:10:44,920 --> 01:10:48,080 Speaker 1: got great coaching. I think they've done a great job 1255 01:10:48,160 --> 01:10:52,240 Speaker 1: building that roster around him, both accruing talent but also 1256 01:10:53,080 --> 01:10:57,360 Speaker 1: putting together pieces that can take advantage of the skill 1257 01:10:57,439 --> 01:10:59,759 Speaker 1: set that he has. And I think there are some 1258 01:11:00,080 --> 01:11:06,000 Speaker 1: small areas where a reasonable expectation of improvement in say, 1259 01:11:06,560 --> 01:11:11,479 Speaker 1: deep ball accuracy, would all of a sudden result in 1260 01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:17,400 Speaker 1: a big leap in the results. So I just trust 1261 01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:22,320 Speaker 1: the sort of overall organization in the system and what's 1262 01:11:22,360 --> 01:11:26,120 Speaker 1: put in place around him enough to make me feel 1263 01:11:26,160 --> 01:11:29,240 Speaker 1: like he actually doesn't have to get that much better 1264 01:11:29,640 --> 01:11:33,760 Speaker 1: for the result to get a lot better. So that 1265 01:11:34,000 --> 01:11:39,599 Speaker 1: is my very qualified Josh gall Nora, thanks so much. 1266 01:11:39,600 --> 01:11:41,600 Speaker 1: I appreciate you joining us today. I hope you and 1267 01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:44,160 Speaker 1: your family stay well, and we hope to have you 1268 01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:47,839 Speaker 1: on sometime in the near future. Thank you absolutely, Thanks guys. 1269 01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:51,280 Speaker 1: Nora Princeati, football writer for The Ringer, contributor to The 1270 01:11:51,360 --> 01:11:55,120 Speaker 1: Ringer NFL Show podcast, and former Boston Globe reporter covering 1271 01:11:55,160 --> 01:11:57,839 Speaker 1: the Patriots. Steve Tasker Chris Brown here till three o'clock. 1272 01:11:58,040 --> 01:12:01,280 Speaker 1: We'll be back after the break. We've got a lot 1273 01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:04,360 Speaker 1: more to talk about coming down. We've got face shields, 1274 01:12:04,439 --> 01:12:06,960 Speaker 1: we've got protocols, and a lot of stuff in training 1275 01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:09,240 Speaker 1: camp just around the corner. One Bills Live presented by 1276 01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:21,920 Speaker 1: Kalida Health on Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One 1277 01:12:21,960 --> 01:12:25,040 Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Thanks to Nora Princiata for coming on from 1278 01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:27,120 Speaker 1: the ringer. She had a lot to say about some 1279 01:12:27,160 --> 01:12:29,840 Speaker 1: of the stuff she's been researching for, you know, the 1280 01:12:30,000 --> 01:12:32,639 Speaker 1: return of the National Football League. Also over the weekend, 1281 01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:36,240 Speaker 1: lots going on. Golf was on t radio, on television, UM, 1282 01:12:36,360 --> 01:12:40,439 Speaker 1: the PGA and also the uh the Celebrity Tournament out 1283 01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:43,000 Speaker 1: in I guess it's in Tahoe, is it, Brownie? I 1284 01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:46,800 Speaker 1: think it is. Did you see our boy? H Kyle 1285 01:12:46,840 --> 01:12:49,599 Speaker 1: Williams got second place in that. Yeah, he was in 1286 01:12:49,640 --> 01:12:53,400 Speaker 1: contention to take the whole thing. Yeah, wasn't it wasn't 1287 01:12:53,439 --> 01:12:55,320 Speaker 1: able to pull it out in the end. He had 1288 01:12:55,360 --> 01:12:57,680 Speaker 1: a he had a little news conference after he got 1289 01:12:57,680 --> 01:13:00,799 Speaker 1: second place at the Celebrity Classic, the sent American Century 1290 01:13:00,840 --> 01:13:04,040 Speaker 1: Celebrity Classic. And let's listen to what Kyle Williams had 1291 01:13:04,080 --> 01:13:06,400 Speaker 1: to say after his second place finish. I think the 1292 01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:08,880 Speaker 1: Bills are equipped to be one of the favorites in 1293 01:13:08,880 --> 01:13:12,040 Speaker 1: the AFC, just not the AFC East. Um, but we're 1294 01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:17,760 Speaker 1: all looking at the circumstances of what UM sports in general. Uh, 1295 01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:21,479 Speaker 1: the NFL is this year and who knows. I know 1296 01:13:22,080 --> 01:13:25,679 Speaker 1: UM Sean McDermott very well. I know that if anyone 1297 01:13:25,760 --> 01:13:28,320 Speaker 1: has been able to get ahead with the peculiar year 1298 01:13:28,320 --> 01:13:30,600 Speaker 1: that we've had, uh, he will be able to. He 1299 01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:33,639 Speaker 1: can put a plan together and execute a plan. Um. 1300 01:13:33,840 --> 01:13:35,840 Speaker 1: But I think the Bills are are loaded for some 1301 01:13:35,920 --> 01:13:38,559 Speaker 1: great things this year and and hopefully well I'll get 1302 01:13:38,560 --> 01:13:40,040 Speaker 1: to watch him play, and we'll all get to watch 1303 01:13:40,120 --> 01:13:43,559 Speaker 1: him play. Well, I'll follow up to that. Obviously, thirteen 1304 01:13:43,600 --> 01:13:46,240 Speaker 1: years with the Bills, you didn't see. I don't know 1305 01:13:46,280 --> 01:13:48,679 Speaker 1: if you saw any playoff games? Did you play one 1306 01:13:49,439 --> 01:13:51,080 Speaker 1: one playoff game? Does it make you want to go 1307 01:13:51,120 --> 01:13:58,800 Speaker 1: back now that they're potential contentment? Absolutely not? You know, 1308 01:13:59,120 --> 01:14:01,439 Speaker 1: you know I had I had a great run. I 1309 01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:05,080 Speaker 1: have no complaints about what my career was. You know, 1310 01:14:05,080 --> 01:14:07,680 Speaker 1: obviously I wish we'd wish we'd have won more. But 1311 01:14:07,760 --> 01:14:09,680 Speaker 1: I think that even if you asked Tom Brady, as 1312 01:14:09,760 --> 01:14:11,640 Speaker 1: much as he's won, he's gonna always tell you I 1313 01:14:11,680 --> 01:14:13,919 Speaker 1: wish we'd won more. I wish we'd have done this differently, 1314 01:14:14,040 --> 01:14:17,520 Speaker 1: But um, I think the thing that can't be replicated 1315 01:14:17,560 --> 01:14:20,280 Speaker 1: in my years there's the relationships that I have with 1316 01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:23,400 Speaker 1: people all across the country in the league and and 1317 01:14:23,560 --> 01:14:25,600 Speaker 1: guys I got to know and things like that. So 1318 01:14:25,680 --> 01:14:29,639 Speaker 1: I wouldn't trade that time for anything. But unequivocally no 1319 01:14:29,720 --> 01:14:33,280 Speaker 1: shot about playing football again. That was Kyle Williams after 1320 01:14:33,280 --> 01:14:36,400 Speaker 1: his second place finish in the American Century Celebrity Classic 1321 01:14:36,439 --> 01:14:38,280 Speaker 1: over the weekend. I've played Have you ever played golf 1322 01:14:38,280 --> 01:14:41,040 Speaker 1: with Kyle Brownie? No, but he's like a scratch golfer 1323 01:14:41,080 --> 01:14:42,920 Speaker 1: and I played with him. I took him out, and 1324 01:14:43,080 --> 01:14:45,720 Speaker 1: uh yeah, it's for real. He can play, he knows 1325 01:14:45,720 --> 01:14:48,479 Speaker 1: what he's and of course, as you can imagine, he 1326 01:14:48,560 --> 01:14:51,200 Speaker 1: can hit it a long way. Well, he's been he's 1327 01:14:51,200 --> 01:14:53,920 Speaker 1: always been good at everything. He's the guy can swim 1328 01:14:53,960 --> 01:14:57,920 Speaker 1: for Cranti. He was an All sectional swimmer in high school. Um, 1329 01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:01,880 Speaker 1: I can't remember what others sports player and all that right, 1330 01:15:01,880 --> 01:15:04,800 Speaker 1: and slammed uncle basketball, Oh yeah, baseball was the other one. 1331 01:15:05,040 --> 01:15:07,360 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's got greased to watch. When he was 1332 01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:09,639 Speaker 1: a young player, I used to watch him and Aaron 1333 01:15:09,680 --> 01:15:13,960 Speaker 1: Schobel play stickball in the field house where they'd just 1334 01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:18,200 Speaker 1: be pitching at each other and he'd be tagging Shobel, right, 1335 01:15:18,320 --> 01:15:20,080 Speaker 1: you know he Shoby is trying to throw him a 1336 01:15:20,120 --> 01:15:23,880 Speaker 1: curveball and he's jacking the thing over for being mister 1337 01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:28,280 Speaker 1: happy too. Right. Uh yeah right, so snarky there. Yeah. 1338 01:15:28,320 --> 01:15:31,040 Speaker 1: So anyway, so that's happened over the weekend. Congratulations to 1339 01:15:31,160 --> 01:15:34,040 Speaker 1: Kyle Williams on the great finish. Also over the weekend. 1340 01:15:34,120 --> 01:15:36,960 Speaker 1: I got a text alert for this because be the 1341 01:15:37,000 --> 01:15:42,360 Speaker 1: Five Presidents. The Five Presidents text loop lit up last yesterday. 1342 01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:46,920 Speaker 1: And if you're not familiar with the Bruce Smith. There's 1343 01:15:46,920 --> 01:15:49,640 Speaker 1: a game show called Family Feud, and what they do 1344 01:15:49,680 --> 01:15:52,000 Speaker 1: is they get families or in this case, groups of 1345 01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:56,760 Speaker 1: guys who are associated together, yeah, celebrities to act like 1346 01:15:56,800 --> 01:15:59,120 Speaker 1: a fan, like a cast of a TV show will 1347 01:15:59,160 --> 01:16:00,960 Speaker 1: be a family that kind of stuff. Well, they got 1348 01:16:01,000 --> 01:16:03,240 Speaker 1: a bunch of NFL Hall of Famers to be a 1349 01:16:03,280 --> 01:16:06,800 Speaker 1: family on Family Few. Bruce Smith was one of the 1350 01:16:06,840 --> 01:16:10,720 Speaker 1: family members and at a point in the in the 1351 01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:13,120 Speaker 1: in the game, they're playing this lightning round and Bruce 1352 01:16:13,280 --> 01:16:15,799 Speaker 1: is the one who gets it. So he had an interesting. 1353 01:16:16,680 --> 01:16:19,439 Speaker 1: We should mention that he was the second of two 1354 01:16:19,479 --> 01:16:22,559 Speaker 1: guys because they have the team that wins, has those 1355 01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:25,160 Speaker 1: two guys to win a lot of money first ever charity. 1356 01:16:25,360 --> 01:16:28,320 Speaker 1: So the first's the easy questions. The first guy gives 1357 01:16:28,320 --> 01:16:30,360 Speaker 1: the easy questions to the survey, and then the second 1358 01:16:30,360 --> 01:16:33,040 Speaker 1: guy's got to give secondary answers because if he guesses 1359 01:16:33,080 --> 01:16:35,800 Speaker 1: the same obvious if he answers the same obvious answer 1360 01:16:35,880 --> 01:16:38,160 Speaker 1: to the question, he gets beeped and he has to 1361 01:16:38,200 --> 01:16:41,799 Speaker 1: answer again, which is the situation Bruce Smith found himself 1362 01:16:41,800 --> 01:16:45,559 Speaker 1: out in Last Night an interesting response to his question 1363 01:16:45,720 --> 01:16:49,679 Speaker 1: from host Steve Harvey. Take a listen, all right, Bruce, 1364 01:16:49,800 --> 01:16:54,599 Speaker 1: let's go. If Captain Hook was moonlighting as a handy man, 1365 01:16:55,360 --> 01:17:00,599 Speaker 1: he might replace his hook with what two hammer? Try again? 1366 01:17:03,439 --> 01:17:06,280 Speaker 1: Tell me the age of kid is too old to sleep? 1367 01:17:12,400 --> 01:17:16,920 Speaker 1: Oh my god? And that with that the show stopped. Um, 1368 01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:20,719 Speaker 1: that was show stopper. That is a show stopper. And 1369 01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:24,320 Speaker 1: and Bruce's family like Michael Irvin was there, Dennis Green, 1370 01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:28,040 Speaker 1: Kevin Green was there. Uh, there were some guys on 1371 01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:31,559 Speaker 1: Bruce's family. Nobody could stand up. They It absolutely brought 1372 01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:36,720 Speaker 1: the house down. When Steve Harvey kept going and then 1373 01:17:36,960 --> 01:17:39,559 Speaker 1: it brought dawn on him what Bruce had actually answered 1374 01:17:39,720 --> 01:17:42,400 Speaker 1: right away? It didn't register and he and he dropped 1375 01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:46,000 Speaker 1: the he dropped the bleap bomb on it was. And 1376 01:17:46,120 --> 01:17:49,080 Speaker 1: Bruce actually texted the five presidents that so he like 1377 01:17:49,120 --> 01:17:51,400 Speaker 1: gave us a heads up because guys checking out, and 1378 01:17:51,479 --> 01:17:54,920 Speaker 1: so he knew, he knew he was gonna get roasted 1379 01:17:54,960 --> 01:17:57,840 Speaker 1: for it. What, Oh my gosh, that what a handyman? 1380 01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:00,160 Speaker 1: What kind of handy man does Bruce though? That? That's 1381 01:18:00,160 --> 01:18:02,799 Speaker 1: what I don't know. I guess what are the handyman? 1382 01:18:02,920 --> 01:18:05,040 Speaker 1: What are the handy What are the handymen do in 1383 01:18:05,160 --> 01:18:09,080 Speaker 1: Virginia Beach? I mean, what's their job description? Lord goodness 1384 01:18:09,080 --> 01:18:12,920 Speaker 1: gracious that that happened over the week in which now 1385 01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:18,720 Speaker 1: Steven be honest with me. Here, the next time all 1386 01:18:19,560 --> 01:18:22,920 Speaker 1: five presidents and the other assorted members of this clan 1387 01:18:23,800 --> 01:18:26,439 Speaker 1: are in are allowed to be in the same room again, 1388 01:18:27,240 --> 01:18:29,720 Speaker 1: how many times do you what's the over under on 1389 01:18:29,800 --> 01:18:32,400 Speaker 1: how many times that line is going to be dropped 1390 01:18:32,960 --> 01:18:37,080 Speaker 1: as a as a one liner on Bruce. Well, there's 1391 01:18:37,400 --> 01:18:41,320 Speaker 1: there's absolutely no escaping it. So it is an absolute certainty, 1392 01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:44,040 Speaker 1: It's an absolute hundred percent certainty that it is going 1393 01:18:44,120 --> 01:18:47,479 Speaker 1: to be a comp topic of conversation. The direction with 1394 01:18:47,520 --> 01:18:52,760 Speaker 1: which it goes is is a little unpredictable, but all right, 1395 01:18:53,240 --> 01:18:57,880 Speaker 1: but uh it you know that they we're gonna happen 1396 01:18:58,240 --> 01:19:00,680 Speaker 1: for years, right, you are gonna have a convers well, 1397 01:19:00,760 --> 01:19:02,960 Speaker 1: let's either that. Yeah, we're gonna have a conversation about that, 1398 01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:05,280 Speaker 1: and it's gonna last a while and then you know, 1399 01:19:05,360 --> 01:19:08,760 Speaker 1: and it'll also be compared to other things that he's done, 1400 01:19:08,800 --> 01:19:13,880 Speaker 1: like feigning on camera on ESPN uh water runder the damn. 1401 01:19:14,240 --> 01:19:16,519 Speaker 1: You know, he's got to fall asleep at the wheel, 1402 01:19:16,600 --> 01:19:21,160 Speaker 1: fall asleep, you know, it'll stop like sleep papped, which 1403 01:19:21,240 --> 01:19:23,559 Speaker 1: was but one of the old time brilliant move by 1404 01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:25,200 Speaker 1: the way, I got to tell you I was proud 1405 01:19:25,240 --> 01:19:26,880 Speaker 1: of him for that one. But you know, so this 1406 01:19:27,120 --> 01:19:29,559 Speaker 1: we've got, you know, this is just this just seems 1407 01:19:29,600 --> 01:19:31,280 Speaker 1: like an unbelievable thing. And if it was you or 1408 01:19:31,280 --> 01:19:33,040 Speaker 1: me and it was just one out of a you know, 1409 01:19:33,120 --> 01:19:35,960 Speaker 1: one of one shot, you say, but this is like, 1410 01:19:36,160 --> 01:19:38,880 Speaker 1: you know, there's a you're getting a growing list of these, 1411 01:19:39,360 --> 01:19:42,639 Speaker 1: even from my guy Bruce. So yeah, we'll have oh yeah, 1412 01:19:42,720 --> 01:19:46,360 Speaker 1: that that's gonna believes into eternity. And if somebody thinks 1413 01:19:46,400 --> 01:19:49,559 Speaker 1: about it. Yeah, they'll they'll bring visual aids to the 1414 01:19:49,600 --> 01:19:52,280 Speaker 1: conversation too. I mean, you're he's gonna hear about Lord, 1415 01:19:52,479 --> 01:19:56,559 Speaker 1: he's gonna hear about Think, he's gonna hear about either 1416 01:19:56,600 --> 01:19:58,599 Speaker 1: that or something. You know. Even me, I'm gonna wear 1417 01:19:58,600 --> 01:20:03,120 Speaker 1: a hook, you know, I just I just this is 1418 01:20:03,160 --> 01:20:05,320 Speaker 1: just a prediction on my part because I have faith 1419 01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:07,960 Speaker 1: in Thurman, because he rips him, maybe more than anybody, 1420 01:20:08,240 --> 01:20:11,080 Speaker 1: or maybe Jim does. But in any event, I just 1421 01:20:11,120 --> 01:20:14,000 Speaker 1: see Thurman, you know, the next time he sees him, 1422 01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:18,160 Speaker 1: what's up, Captain hook, you know, and from there there's 1423 01:20:18,320 --> 01:20:21,600 Speaker 1: no escape. He knows it too. He's all right, he 1424 01:20:21,720 --> 01:20:23,559 Speaker 1: knows too that you know, we love him anyway. But 1425 01:20:23,760 --> 01:20:28,720 Speaker 1: still that'll be good fun. That is that is that's 1426 01:20:29,040 --> 01:20:34,080 Speaker 1: down ever. That is the good old fashioned content generator 1427 01:20:34,160 --> 01:20:37,360 Speaker 1: right there. That man. That'll that'll keep that relationship going 1428 01:20:37,439 --> 01:20:40,519 Speaker 1: for decade or more. All right, Steve Tasker and Christopher, 1429 01:20:40,680 --> 01:20:42,800 Speaker 1: we got more coming up. Right after the break. We're 1430 01:20:42,840 --> 01:20:44,840 Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live presenter by Kalida Health. We'll be 1431 01:20:44,920 --> 01:21:00,240 Speaker 1: right back. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to 1432 01:21:00,360 --> 01:21:02,400 Speaker 1: one of those lives. Keep Tasks along with Chris Brown. 1433 01:21:02,439 --> 01:21:05,800 Speaker 1: We just got through hearing from Kyle Williams and also 1434 01:21:05,880 --> 01:21:09,680 Speaker 1: Bruce Smith on his little appearance on Family Feud over 1435 01:21:09,720 --> 01:21:11,320 Speaker 1: the weekend. You haven't got it. I'm sure if you 1436 01:21:11,360 --> 01:21:17,240 Speaker 1: look on social media it'll pop up. Pretty funny, pretty 1437 01:21:17,240 --> 01:21:19,759 Speaker 1: funny episode. But also going on in the National Football 1438 01:21:19,840 --> 01:21:23,080 Speaker 1: League of the protocols and the training camp preparations by 1439 01:21:23,160 --> 01:21:27,400 Speaker 1: every NFL team and also some altercation and some altercations 1440 01:21:27,400 --> 01:21:33,479 Speaker 1: so alterations to regular everyday equipment that the NFL players 1441 01:21:33,479 --> 01:21:37,679 Speaker 1: are going to be using. And ESPN has unveiled, helped 1442 01:21:37,760 --> 01:21:42,559 Speaker 1: unveil the Oakley mouth shield, right, the Oakley mouth Shield 1443 01:21:42,560 --> 01:21:45,479 Speaker 1: to come back coronavirus. There's that. You can check it 1444 01:21:45,520 --> 01:21:47,080 Speaker 1: out on their website. What it's going to look like. 1445 01:21:47,120 --> 01:21:49,640 Speaker 1: I don't know if now there's you know, obviously with 1446 01:21:49,720 --> 01:21:52,160 Speaker 1: Oakley doing it, they're saying, hey, yeah, the contrast and 1447 01:21:52,160 --> 01:21:53,679 Speaker 1: the color is going to be great for the players 1448 01:21:53,720 --> 01:21:55,960 Speaker 1: are going to see really good through it. Well can 1449 01:21:56,040 --> 01:21:58,920 Speaker 1: they breathe? That's the big thing that players will want 1450 01:21:58,920 --> 01:22:02,000 Speaker 1: to know and certain it's going to be an adjustment 1451 01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:04,400 Speaker 1: for some of these guys. Been only one of many 1452 01:22:05,040 --> 01:22:07,400 Speaker 1: if they want to play football. Well yeah, and the 1453 01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:12,360 Speaker 1: NFLPA medical Director of Doctors, ham Meyer was quoted for 1454 01:22:12,400 --> 01:22:17,719 Speaker 1: the story, and he has been sent to various player 1455 01:22:17,800 --> 01:22:21,600 Speaker 1: representatives and equipment managers for feedback, and he says the 1456 01:22:21,640 --> 01:22:24,160 Speaker 1: two biggest concerns that he's heard to this point have 1457 01:22:24,320 --> 01:22:30,599 Speaker 1: been visibility and breatheability. So they've only had it on 1458 01:22:30,680 --> 01:22:34,160 Speaker 1: a few players, And you know, he said, it doesn't 1459 01:22:34,160 --> 01:22:38,360 Speaker 1: sound like klaustrophobia is an issue. We know that some 1460 01:22:38,400 --> 01:22:42,080 Speaker 1: guys don't like visor Steve because they fog up or 1461 01:22:42,120 --> 01:22:45,960 Speaker 1: it makes it even hotter under the helmet. But I 1462 01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:49,360 Speaker 1: will say I mean they clearly. I mean they had 1463 01:22:49,400 --> 01:22:54,840 Speaker 1: medical experts along with engineers kind of construct this thing, 1464 01:22:55,880 --> 01:22:59,760 Speaker 1: and in early testing, granted in a lab, not on 1465 01:22:59,800 --> 01:23:06,080 Speaker 1: a field, they said that it does block a significant 1466 01:23:06,200 --> 01:23:10,519 Speaker 1: amount of droplets, which, as we know, is what is 1467 01:23:10,800 --> 01:23:14,880 Speaker 1: transmitting the virus chiefly, so there is no straight pathway 1468 01:23:14,960 --> 01:23:17,880 Speaker 1: through the face shield or visor for a droplet to 1469 01:23:17,920 --> 01:23:21,479 Speaker 1: be transmitted, and I guess that's the key. So what 1470 01:23:21,600 --> 01:23:24,000 Speaker 1: we've what we've got it so that all these mouth 1471 01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:25,720 Speaker 1: shields have been sent to all thirty two teams. So 1472 01:23:25,800 --> 01:23:29,680 Speaker 1: presumably when players get to training camp and start practicing, 1473 01:23:29,720 --> 01:23:32,719 Speaker 1: they're probably gonna be trying these out right and there. 1474 01:23:32,760 --> 01:23:35,320 Speaker 1: You know it's gonna look different. People will notice. You'll 1475 01:23:35,360 --> 01:23:38,200 Speaker 1: see guys look different when the TV cameras on them, 1476 01:23:38,200 --> 01:23:41,200 Speaker 1: when you see him practicing or playing. Um, you're gonna 1477 01:23:41,280 --> 01:23:43,360 Speaker 1: they're gonna look different. They're gonna have these things on now. 1478 01:23:43,560 --> 01:23:46,519 Speaker 1: The helmet is gonna be the helmet. It's gonna be there. 1479 01:23:46,520 --> 01:23:49,720 Speaker 1: The helmet, the face mask, all of these things are 1480 01:23:49,720 --> 01:23:54,280 Speaker 1: gonna be there. But also doctor Alan Sills, the NFL's 1481 01:23:54,520 --> 01:23:58,640 Speaker 1: m guy, this equipment safety guy, says it's just like 1482 01:23:58,680 --> 01:24:00,439 Speaker 1: everything they do, they're talk trying to get better. They 1483 01:24:00,479 --> 01:24:02,719 Speaker 1: try to get better cleats all the time, better performing 1484 01:24:02,760 --> 01:24:05,840 Speaker 1: helmets as we've heard about in recent years. It's also 1485 01:24:05,960 --> 01:24:08,400 Speaker 1: something that's safer and yet also protecting in many cases 1486 01:24:08,439 --> 01:24:11,760 Speaker 1: perhaps and enhance his performance. It's the same mantra, the 1487 01:24:11,800 --> 01:24:14,200 Speaker 1: same sort of approach that they're taking here. I'm quoting 1488 01:24:14,240 --> 01:24:16,680 Speaker 1: Seals from the article. I'm really pleased with how the 1489 01:24:16,760 --> 01:24:19,439 Speaker 1: work is going. We're not at a finished product yet. 1490 01:24:19,720 --> 01:24:22,519 Speaker 1: Like most things in health and safety, there's really no 1491 01:24:22,600 --> 01:24:24,759 Speaker 1: finish line here, so we're hoping to continue to innovate 1492 01:24:24,800 --> 01:24:27,960 Speaker 1: and improve as we go along. But we're excited about 1493 01:24:27,960 --> 01:24:30,680 Speaker 1: where we are and excited about the potential role this 1494 01:24:30,840 --> 01:24:34,120 Speaker 1: may play in risk mitigation on the field. So yeah, 1495 01:24:34,120 --> 01:24:37,519 Speaker 1: and that's really the one thing that they can't control 1496 01:24:37,720 --> 01:24:40,040 Speaker 1: just because of the way the sport is played. You're 1497 01:24:40,040 --> 01:24:43,040 Speaker 1: in extremely close proximity to one another on the field. 1498 01:24:43,880 --> 01:24:46,799 Speaker 1: Every play, if a player doesn't run out of bounds, 1499 01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:49,680 Speaker 1: essentially ends with one man taking another man down by 1500 01:24:49,680 --> 01:24:53,040 Speaker 1: bear hugging him and wrestling him down to the field. So, 1501 01:24:53,560 --> 01:24:56,040 Speaker 1: I mean, it's, as we've said, it's the opposite of 1502 01:24:56,080 --> 01:24:59,360 Speaker 1: social distancing. So if this mask can play a role 1503 01:24:59,400 --> 01:25:05,320 Speaker 1: in reduce sing the risk of spread, you know, kudos 1504 01:25:05,320 --> 01:25:07,559 Speaker 1: to the league for you know, coming up with this 1505 01:25:07,640 --> 01:25:10,960 Speaker 1: and trying to engineer a way to reduce the risk 1506 01:25:11,040 --> 01:25:13,559 Speaker 1: in a sport that's going to be very hard to 1507 01:25:13,600 --> 01:25:16,360 Speaker 1: do so without some kind of devices like this to 1508 01:25:16,680 --> 01:25:20,320 Speaker 1: reduce droplet transmission. And interesting enough, if it does, you know, 1509 01:25:20,400 --> 01:25:23,080 Speaker 1: reduce droplet transmission that kind of thing, And if they 1510 01:25:23,080 --> 01:25:26,080 Speaker 1: could mitigate the transfer of the virus if you do 1511 01:25:26,120 --> 01:25:28,120 Speaker 1: have a guy positive somehow makes it on feel whatever, 1512 01:25:28,280 --> 01:25:30,320 Speaker 1: if you could mitigate the transfer of that to the 1513 01:25:30,400 --> 01:25:34,759 Speaker 1: other team, that gives the league and an exponential chance 1514 01:25:34,880 --> 01:25:38,400 Speaker 1: a better chance of staying in business even if somebody 1515 01:25:38,439 --> 01:25:40,040 Speaker 1: does slip through the cracks and make it out of 1516 01:25:40,080 --> 01:25:43,960 Speaker 1: the field, finishing the season as finishing the season, right. 1517 01:25:44,000 --> 01:25:49,040 Speaker 1: So if this, if this mouth shield works um to 1518 01:25:49,439 --> 01:25:52,280 Speaker 1: that degree, it's uh, it's it's a huge benefit to 1519 01:25:52,320 --> 01:25:55,000 Speaker 1: the league and continuing to keep on the stay on 1520 01:25:55,000 --> 01:26:01,120 Speaker 1: the field. The key here will be weather quarterback can 1521 01:26:01,200 --> 01:26:06,919 Speaker 1: be capably heard with these mouth shields covering their mouths. 1522 01:26:07,240 --> 01:26:11,960 Speaker 1: I mean not directly, but indirectly being an impediment in 1523 01:26:12,080 --> 01:26:16,080 Speaker 1: terms of them projecting a play call. Now, we should 1524 01:26:16,080 --> 01:26:20,519 Speaker 1: also recognize this assuming there are no fans in the 1525 01:26:20,600 --> 01:26:23,080 Speaker 1: stands at least at the outset of the season, Steve, 1526 01:26:24,040 --> 01:26:25,840 Speaker 1: It's not like crowd noise is going to be a 1527 01:26:25,880 --> 01:26:29,760 Speaker 1: factor in making it difficult for the ten teammates to 1528 01:26:29,840 --> 01:26:33,559 Speaker 1: hear the quarterback pre snap. So I think it's at 1529 01:26:33,640 --> 01:26:37,040 Speaker 1: least conceivable to believe that this mouth guard will not 1530 01:26:37,200 --> 01:26:42,320 Speaker 1: completely impede teammates from hearing the quarterback. If it's on 1531 01:26:42,400 --> 01:26:45,479 Speaker 1: the actual face mask, you would argue that it's what 1532 01:26:45,720 --> 01:26:49,559 Speaker 1: probably three to four inches away from their mouth. Well, yeah, 1533 01:26:49,600 --> 01:26:53,160 Speaker 1: I get it, but think about this brownie. They ain't 1534 01:26:53,200 --> 01:26:56,320 Speaker 1: gonna have to yell over the crowd. That's what I'm saying. 1535 01:26:56,360 --> 01:26:58,479 Speaker 1: There's no fans, so you don't have that to worry about, 1536 01:26:58,520 --> 01:27:00,800 Speaker 1: so it may work. Yeah, I mean, it's got a 1537 01:27:00,880 --> 01:27:05,240 Speaker 1: chance to work, and not for nothing. But that's probably 1538 01:27:05,240 --> 01:27:08,880 Speaker 1: the only reason that it might work, you know. So 1539 01:27:09,360 --> 01:27:14,599 Speaker 1: I'm totally um. They got to try something, um, and 1540 01:27:14,760 --> 01:27:16,559 Speaker 1: I think this is a really good first step. But 1541 01:27:16,600 --> 01:27:18,880 Speaker 1: we'll see if they if it, if it can continue 1542 01:27:19,280 --> 01:27:23,360 Speaker 1: um going forward. I it's interesting too that it's gonna 1543 01:27:23,360 --> 01:27:25,960 Speaker 1: look how different the field the players are gonna look 1544 01:27:25,960 --> 01:27:27,720 Speaker 1: in their helmets and their stuff, because we're all, yeah, 1545 01:27:27,760 --> 01:27:30,240 Speaker 1: I mean, we're so used. It's such a routine to 1546 01:27:30,320 --> 01:27:34,479 Speaker 1: see these guys on camera in these in these helmets. 1547 01:27:35,240 --> 01:27:39,120 Speaker 1: But I don't know how different it gonna look, if 1548 01:27:39,160 --> 01:27:44,880 Speaker 1: at all different. Yeah, Um, I mean I don't think 1549 01:27:44,920 --> 01:27:47,559 Speaker 1: it's gonna look terribly different. I think because fans are 1550 01:27:47,640 --> 01:27:50,120 Speaker 1: used to seeing players with visors, this is probably just 1551 01:27:50,680 --> 01:27:53,800 Speaker 1: an extension of it really down to the face mask. 1552 01:27:53,920 --> 01:27:57,080 Speaker 1: So I really I think it's a blip on the 1553 01:27:57,200 --> 01:28:00,400 Speaker 1: radar if the players can make it work, and there's 1554 01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:03,840 Speaker 1: a clear benefit. If they can make it work, you're 1555 01:28:03,840 --> 01:28:06,600 Speaker 1: reducing the level of transmission, the resist the risk of 1556 01:28:06,640 --> 01:28:10,040 Speaker 1: transmission and exposures. So I would like to think that 1557 01:28:10,080 --> 01:28:12,920 Speaker 1: it would be an incentive for the players to try 1558 01:28:12,920 --> 01:28:15,040 Speaker 1: to make it work. And it looks like they'll have 1559 01:28:15,040 --> 01:28:17,720 Speaker 1: plenty of time to test it come training camp. Yeah, 1560 01:28:17,840 --> 01:28:19,760 Speaker 1: there's no question. I mean, this is one of the 1561 01:28:19,800 --> 01:28:23,519 Speaker 1: small obstacles, right, I mean, oh, got much bigger. They've 1562 01:28:23,520 --> 01:28:26,200 Speaker 1: got much bigger obstacles than you know, these face masks, 1563 01:28:26,280 --> 01:28:29,640 Speaker 1: face shields or whatever what have you. So you know, 1564 01:28:29,960 --> 01:28:33,519 Speaker 1: be that as it may. Here we are, so I 1565 01:28:33,520 --> 01:28:35,639 Speaker 1: don't know coming up at the bottom of the hour. 1566 01:28:35,680 --> 01:28:37,559 Speaker 1: At the top of the hour, we got much more. 1567 01:28:37,880 --> 01:28:43,559 Speaker 1: Which what is the question is of the day is oh, 1568 01:28:43,640 --> 01:28:45,360 Speaker 1: here we go? No wonder I was having I was 1569 01:28:45,360 --> 01:28:49,719 Speaker 1: struggling here, I had the wrong window open, I couldn't 1570 01:28:49,720 --> 01:28:51,800 Speaker 1: find you, Brownie, and I finally did. Here we go. 1571 01:28:53,439 --> 01:28:56,240 Speaker 1: The question of it is what's your biggest concern about 1572 01:28:56,280 --> 01:28:59,240 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen's impact on football? Is the players? Opting out? 1573 01:28:59,760 --> 01:29:02,280 Speaker 1: Is a loss of an important player for a game, 1574 01:29:02,439 --> 01:29:05,280 Speaker 1: or not starting the season on time, or due to 1575 01:29:05,400 --> 01:29:09,000 Speaker 1: the haggling between the union and the league. You name it, 1576 01:29:09,120 --> 01:29:12,360 Speaker 1: what's your what's your what's your biggest concern. Thirty seven 1577 01:29:12,400 --> 01:29:14,679 Speaker 1: percent of you think it's gonna be losing an important 1578 01:29:14,720 --> 01:29:17,519 Speaker 1: player for a game due to a positive test. Thirty 1579 01:29:17,520 --> 01:29:19,680 Speaker 1: percent if you're not far behind, is not starting the 1580 01:29:19,720 --> 01:29:24,639 Speaker 1: season on time due to haggling amongst the involved parties. 1581 01:29:25,200 --> 01:29:27,800 Speaker 1: Twenty percent have something completely off the board that you 1582 01:29:27,840 --> 01:29:30,679 Speaker 1: think is going to be the difference, and only thirteen 1583 01:29:30,760 --> 01:29:35,200 Speaker 1: percent if you think it's a player opting out. Nobody's 1584 01:29:35,200 --> 01:29:37,240 Speaker 1: gonna miss a player who opts out. I guess right. 1585 01:29:37,280 --> 01:29:40,000 Speaker 1: I mean it's like, ahh he opts out, he opts out. Well, yeah, 1586 01:29:40,040 --> 01:29:41,640 Speaker 1: hit us up on the tweet sheet, let us know, 1587 01:29:42,040 --> 01:29:43,880 Speaker 1: give us a call eight oh three, five fifty, or 1588 01:29:43,920 --> 01:29:46,040 Speaker 1: hit us up at one. Bill's Live will read your 1589 01:29:46,080 --> 01:29:48,120 Speaker 1: tweet on the air, or take your phone call on 1590 01:29:48,160 --> 01:29:50,760 Speaker 1: the air. Steve Tasker Chris Brown on Buffalo Bill's Radio, 1591 01:29:50,760 --> 01:30:02,360 Speaker 1: presented by Clyda Health. This is one Bills Live. Oh 1592 01:30:02,439 --> 01:30:08,000 Speaker 1: a great time, Old Bay, Steve Tasper, Touch Time to 1593 01:30:08,320 --> 01:30:24,880 Speaker 1: time up, capstover time. Welcome to one of Bill's Lives. 1594 01:30:24,880 --> 01:30:27,639 Speaker 1: Steve task along with Chris Brown, here with you until 1595 01:30:27,680 --> 01:30:29,920 Speaker 1: three o'clock. We'd like to thank nor Prince Satti for 1596 01:30:29,920 --> 01:30:32,400 Speaker 1: coming on earlier. In the program giving us her insights 1597 01:30:32,400 --> 01:30:35,360 Speaker 1: as to the National Football League and it's grant getting 1598 01:30:35,439 --> 01:30:39,519 Speaker 1: up to speed U with us. Also last week, Brownie 1599 01:30:39,640 --> 01:30:42,479 Speaker 1: Mattie Glab was in co hosting last week and she 1600 01:30:42,560 --> 01:30:44,839 Speaker 1: had to leave on Wednesday because she had this project 1601 01:30:44,880 --> 01:30:46,920 Speaker 1: she was working at and we didn't really tell anybody 1602 01:30:46,960 --> 01:30:50,000 Speaker 1: where it was. But here's what it was. You gotta uh. 1603 01:30:50,160 --> 01:30:53,639 Speaker 1: It's called Captain's Table. It's gear up for episode one 1604 01:30:53,680 --> 01:30:57,760 Speaker 1: of Captain's Circle. Gear Up for Episode one of Captain's Circle. 1605 01:30:57,800 --> 01:31:01,720 Speaker 1: This is presented by labatlu like Oh Got You. The 1606 01:31:01,840 --> 01:31:05,160 Speaker 1: first of three episodes will feature Jack Eichel and Josh 1607 01:31:05,200 --> 01:31:08,080 Speaker 1: Allen and will be available to watch on the Sabers 1608 01:31:08,160 --> 01:31:11,800 Speaker 1: and Bill's YouTube channels and Facebook pages July nineteenth at 1609 01:31:11,800 --> 01:31:13,880 Speaker 1: seven pm. Make sure you tune in so you can 1610 01:31:14,040 --> 01:31:18,799 Speaker 1: cheers to the Captain's Captain's Circle Jack and Josh Allen 1611 01:31:19,560 --> 01:31:21,840 Speaker 1: will be on together at the same time. That's the 1612 01:31:21,880 --> 01:31:24,000 Speaker 1: project Mattie was working on last week. It sounds like 1613 01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:27,200 Speaker 1: a pretty interesting thing, Captain's Circle, where you get the 1614 01:31:27,240 --> 01:31:30,160 Speaker 1: captains of different teams from different sports who actually are 1615 01:31:30,160 --> 01:31:32,800 Speaker 1: here in Buffalo just sit around at table and kind 1616 01:31:32,800 --> 01:31:37,280 Speaker 1: of I don't know, just chit chat about the problems 1617 01:31:37,280 --> 01:31:39,799 Speaker 1: and trials and tribulations of being a captain in Buffalo. 1618 01:31:41,680 --> 01:31:44,759 Speaker 1: Yeah no, And those are the two most obvious guys 1619 01:31:44,760 --> 01:31:48,240 Speaker 1: to pick, right, So be interesting to see where their 1620 01:31:48,280 --> 01:31:50,840 Speaker 1: conversation went. I know they've spoken to one another before, 1621 01:31:50,960 --> 01:31:53,120 Speaker 1: so this isn't like the first time they're meeting each 1622 01:31:53,120 --> 01:31:55,280 Speaker 1: other or in this kind of a forum. So right, 1623 01:31:55,320 --> 01:31:57,960 Speaker 1: we'll certainly be interesting to catch that, right and well, 1624 01:31:58,080 --> 01:32:02,360 Speaker 1: so look for that at seven pm July nineteenth on 1625 01:32:02,400 --> 01:32:06,439 Speaker 1: the YouTube channel the Buffalo Bill's YouTube channel, Facebook pages, 1626 01:32:06,760 --> 01:32:11,880 Speaker 1: also the Sabers platforms as well. Now retweet, let's let's retweet. 1627 01:32:11,960 --> 01:32:16,640 Speaker 1: Let's tweet sheet this next thing here as what's your 1628 01:32:16,640 --> 01:32:21,400 Speaker 1: biggest concern about COVID nineteens impact on football season on 1629 01:32:21,479 --> 01:32:24,800 Speaker 1: twenty twenty football season. We've got some tweet sheets that 1630 01:32:24,880 --> 01:32:29,519 Speaker 1: we have not read yet, Brownie, and lots to go through. 1631 01:32:29,520 --> 01:32:32,759 Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, you can think about it. Everybody 1632 01:32:32,800 --> 01:32:35,200 Speaker 1: comes from a different place when they're talking about how 1633 01:32:35,200 --> 01:32:37,800 Speaker 1: this football, How they think about football, whether they're fan 1634 01:32:37,960 --> 01:32:40,000 Speaker 1: or not, where they go to games, where they watch 1635 01:32:40,080 --> 01:32:41,400 Speaker 1: them at home, and who they watch them with, and 1636 01:32:41,400 --> 01:32:43,320 Speaker 1: how they watch them and all that stuff and how 1637 01:32:43,320 --> 01:32:45,720 Speaker 1: they even got started at being Bills fans. So a 1638 01:32:45,720 --> 01:32:49,160 Speaker 1: lot of feedback on this question about it and from 1639 01:32:49,160 --> 01:32:51,960 Speaker 1: Bills and Mets fans, it says, He says, I'm sad 1640 01:32:52,000 --> 01:32:53,559 Speaker 1: to say that in this season, when our Bills have 1641 01:32:53,640 --> 01:32:56,120 Speaker 1: so much promise for success, that the virus is very 1642 01:32:56,200 --> 01:32:59,840 Speaker 1: risky to take out, is very risk to take out 1643 01:33:00,040 --> 01:33:01,800 Speaker 1: any players. I think we're in for a lot of 1644 01:33:01,800 --> 01:33:08,320 Speaker 1: disappointment in this sports year. Well talk about doom and gloom. Well, 1645 01:33:08,640 --> 01:33:11,880 Speaker 1: disappointments something I've lived with in my sports career, right, 1646 01:33:12,160 --> 01:33:14,720 Speaker 1: But I think he shares a concern that a lot 1647 01:33:14,800 --> 01:33:17,679 Speaker 1: of Bills fans have those, Steve, and that is here 1648 01:33:17,720 --> 01:33:19,840 Speaker 1: we are. This team's finally geared up to make a 1649 01:33:19,920 --> 01:33:23,839 Speaker 1: run in the playoffs, and a pandemic hits, a global 1650 01:33:23,920 --> 01:33:28,840 Speaker 1: pandemic hits, which could very easily compromise any of the 1651 01:33:28,960 --> 01:33:32,120 Speaker 1: seasons for any of these thirty two NFL clubs. You 1652 01:33:32,160 --> 01:33:34,760 Speaker 1: could be on a hot streak and who knows been 1653 01:33:34,840 --> 01:33:39,000 Speaker 1: nine and one, and then one of your key players 1654 01:33:39,120 --> 01:33:42,240 Speaker 1: or two or three players that are in your starting 1655 01:33:42,280 --> 01:33:47,080 Speaker 1: lineup test positive they miss a game against a division 1656 01:33:47,120 --> 01:33:50,400 Speaker 1: opponent that they need to secure the division and they 1657 01:33:50,439 --> 01:33:53,400 Speaker 1: lose a game they shouldn't because of a global pandemic 1658 01:33:53,439 --> 01:33:57,479 Speaker 1: and the risk of exposure. So I think, knowing that 1659 01:33:58,360 --> 01:34:01,799 Speaker 1: Bills fans a lot of times worry about the worst 1660 01:34:01,880 --> 01:34:06,200 Speaker 1: happening because of the long history of disappointment in many cases, 1661 01:34:07,080 --> 01:34:12,080 Speaker 1: they think this way sometimes, And you know, I think 1662 01:34:12,080 --> 01:34:13,960 Speaker 1: we're all hoping it gets hope that something like that 1663 01:34:14,040 --> 01:34:16,360 Speaker 1: doesn't happen. But as we heard from Nora Princeatti in 1664 01:34:16,360 --> 01:34:21,080 Speaker 1: the last hour, she was talking about having sixteen players 1665 01:34:21,080 --> 01:34:23,559 Speaker 1: on a practice squad and a fifty three man roster, 1666 01:34:24,160 --> 01:34:27,799 Speaker 1: so you know, there you are with almost seventy players, 1667 01:34:28,600 --> 01:34:34,000 Speaker 1: and she said it's very possible that up to half 1668 01:34:34,040 --> 01:34:37,160 Speaker 1: of them could be exposed, infected, and out of the 1669 01:34:37,200 --> 01:34:42,680 Speaker 1: loop in a given date. So as much as I 1670 01:34:42,720 --> 01:34:44,880 Speaker 1: don't want to buy into the doom and gloom of 1671 01:34:44,920 --> 01:34:50,240 Speaker 1: Bills and Mets fan, you can't rule it out right. 1672 01:34:50,320 --> 01:34:52,439 Speaker 1: I mean, at some points, a bad thing is going 1673 01:34:52,479 --> 01:34:54,439 Speaker 1: to happen, and you've got to think they're got to 1674 01:34:54,520 --> 01:34:57,760 Speaker 1: get positive tests. I mean, good grief, you've got this 1675 01:34:57,880 --> 01:35:02,960 Speaker 1: virus popping up everywhere everywhere people get together, somebody's got it, 1676 01:35:03,360 --> 01:35:06,720 Speaker 1: or somebody's passing it around or somebody's been exposed as 1677 01:35:06,720 --> 01:35:10,160 Speaker 1: somebody before getting to this party, that means everybody else 1678 01:35:10,160 --> 01:35:14,280 Speaker 1: at the party as exposed as well. So you know, 1679 01:35:14,320 --> 01:35:18,240 Speaker 1: you got to think that at some point all these 1680 01:35:18,280 --> 01:35:21,679 Speaker 1: guys are gonna be at risk and probably, uh, if 1681 01:35:21,760 --> 01:35:25,640 Speaker 1: not get it, flat out get it, they're gonna have 1682 01:35:25,680 --> 01:35:28,200 Speaker 1: to you know, quarantine because they think they might happen. 1683 01:35:28,280 --> 01:35:30,519 Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's just gonna happen. So all 1684 01:35:30,560 --> 01:35:35,040 Speaker 1: this stuff's going on. And that's the big question with 1685 01:35:35,080 --> 01:35:37,960 Speaker 1: a tweet sheet today is what's your biggest concern about it? 1686 01:35:38,040 --> 01:35:40,040 Speaker 1: Is it absolutely no? You know, it might be that 1687 01:35:40,080 --> 01:35:42,479 Speaker 1: there's no league at all, no teams or no games 1688 01:35:42,479 --> 01:35:45,960 Speaker 1: at all this season, and there's just absolutely no season. Uh, 1689 01:35:46,240 --> 01:35:49,479 Speaker 1: that'd be rough for me, I mean right for all 1690 01:35:49,520 --> 01:35:51,120 Speaker 1: of us, for you and me and particularly you know, 1691 01:35:51,160 --> 01:35:53,360 Speaker 1: we're neck deep in this thing and and for us 1692 01:35:53,400 --> 01:35:56,880 Speaker 1: to go another what would it be uh ten months 1693 01:35:57,080 --> 01:36:00,680 Speaker 1: or twelve months before we get into it would be 1694 01:36:00,680 --> 01:36:03,080 Speaker 1: at least six or eight months before they started OTAs 1695 01:36:03,200 --> 01:36:08,280 Speaker 1: if they need started normally. Wow, right back on the 1696 01:36:08,320 --> 01:36:10,880 Speaker 1: tweet sheet here. I know you were mentioning earlier, Steve 1697 01:36:10,960 --> 01:36:14,960 Speaker 1: that the category of other was having a pretty fair 1698 01:36:15,200 --> 01:36:19,720 Speaker 1: portion of the vote, and John chose other in our 1699 01:36:19,720 --> 01:36:24,120 Speaker 1: Twitter poll and his other was My biggest concern is 1700 01:36:24,200 --> 01:36:28,320 Speaker 1: player and fan safety. Now, you really don't have to 1701 01:36:28,360 --> 01:36:31,080 Speaker 1: concern yourself with fan safety if fans aren't even allowed 1702 01:36:31,080 --> 01:36:33,960 Speaker 1: at games, So that's an easy way to eliminate that 1703 01:36:34,000 --> 01:36:38,800 Speaker 1: from the equation. But yeah, player safety is a real issue, 1704 01:36:38,840 --> 01:36:42,840 Speaker 1: and I think it's why you see the Union haggling 1705 01:36:42,840 --> 01:36:45,599 Speaker 1: with the NFL over all of these things. But as 1706 01:36:45,640 --> 01:36:50,920 Speaker 1: I asked Nora Princati Steve, how much more difficult has 1707 01:36:50,960 --> 01:36:54,240 Speaker 1: this whole negotiation process been made by the fact that 1708 01:36:54,280 --> 01:36:59,519 Speaker 1: there is no national policy on how to deal with 1709 01:36:59,560 --> 01:37:03,639 Speaker 1: the ownA virus and COVID nineteen and the preventative measures 1710 01:37:03,640 --> 01:37:06,519 Speaker 1: that should have been enacted on a federal level. Instead, 1711 01:37:06,600 --> 01:37:09,160 Speaker 1: we have a fifty state free for all, and that 1712 01:37:09,200 --> 01:37:14,240 Speaker 1: compromises how the league can lay out protocols. If it 1713 01:37:14,280 --> 01:37:17,160 Speaker 1: was federal law, the league in the Union wouldn't even 1714 01:37:17,200 --> 01:37:21,400 Speaker 1: have to be negotiating right now. Yeah, I mean that's 1715 01:37:21,400 --> 01:37:26,639 Speaker 1: the thing. I mean that they the problem is the NFL. Well, 1716 01:37:26,920 --> 01:37:29,280 Speaker 1: one of the problems is the NFL is in twenty 1717 01:37:29,280 --> 01:37:34,879 Speaker 1: two different states, right, they got a ton of different 1718 01:37:35,120 --> 01:37:37,439 Speaker 1: protocols that they're gonna be required to do by low 1719 01:37:37,520 --> 01:37:40,400 Speaker 1: state and local law. They're gonna have to go back 1720 01:37:40,439 --> 01:37:42,200 Speaker 1: and forth. You got some of these states, as we 1721 01:37:42,240 --> 01:37:44,200 Speaker 1: had a call or Charlie call in, say listen, they 1722 01:37:44,200 --> 01:37:47,120 Speaker 1: got they go to Florida or Arizona, which the bills 1723 01:37:47,120 --> 01:37:50,639 Speaker 1: do this year, they got quarantine for two weeks after 1724 01:37:50,640 --> 01:37:54,639 Speaker 1: coming back. Well that's already been you know, the governors said, 1725 01:37:54,640 --> 01:37:57,519 Speaker 1: now they don't since they're taking all these precautions anyway 1726 01:37:58,320 --> 01:38:01,320 Speaker 1: and trying to stay separated from the local population anyway. 1727 01:38:01,360 --> 01:38:04,080 Speaker 1: As a group, we'll let that slide. But that's you know, 1728 01:38:04,160 --> 01:38:08,719 Speaker 1: that's just one issue of a million. And it seems 1729 01:38:08,760 --> 01:38:13,879 Speaker 1: like every time they start to address an issue, another 1730 01:38:13,880 --> 01:38:18,400 Speaker 1: issue pops up in relation to it. So you know, 1731 01:38:18,439 --> 01:38:22,200 Speaker 1: I just it. You could have got rid of a 1732 01:38:22,280 --> 01:38:24,840 Speaker 1: lot of these things though that they're negotiating, if you 1733 01:38:24,920 --> 01:38:27,320 Speaker 1: just had federal policy, because it would be it would 1734 01:38:27,360 --> 01:38:29,840 Speaker 1: be the law of the land from one coast to 1735 01:38:29,880 --> 01:38:32,840 Speaker 1: the other. But we don't have that. So now it's 1736 01:38:32,840 --> 01:38:36,480 Speaker 1: for fifty different governors to come up with their own policies, protocols, 1737 01:38:36,479 --> 01:38:39,760 Speaker 1: and procedures. And that's probably a big reason why we're 1738 01:38:39,800 --> 01:38:42,240 Speaker 1: in the situation we're in, right, and they've got you know, 1739 01:38:42,240 --> 01:38:44,000 Speaker 1: they've got a long way to go down. And when 1740 01:38:44,040 --> 01:38:46,360 Speaker 1: you start having conversations like this, and I know you 1741 01:38:46,960 --> 01:38:49,880 Speaker 1: might feel this or you might not, Brownie, but you 1742 01:38:49,920 --> 01:38:51,720 Speaker 1: get you almost get into a hole where it's like 1743 01:38:51,840 --> 01:38:53,200 Speaker 1: if there's just no way they're going to be able 1744 01:38:53,200 --> 01:38:55,800 Speaker 1: to pull it off. You know, that's just too much 1745 01:38:55,840 --> 01:38:59,879 Speaker 1: you can do. You can talk yourself right into absolute 1746 01:39:00,479 --> 01:39:03,720 Speaker 1: joom and gloom, no chance at anything. Right, you know, 1747 01:39:03,920 --> 01:39:07,800 Speaker 1: everybody's been bubble for I hate to do it like this, 1748 01:39:07,840 --> 01:39:09,599 Speaker 1: but I'm just gonna say it this way. But then 1749 01:39:09,640 --> 01:39:12,400 Speaker 1: you know you're dealing with the National Football League, and 1750 01:39:13,400 --> 01:39:16,320 Speaker 1: you know they just don't do it that way, right, 1751 01:39:16,360 --> 01:39:20,519 Speaker 1: I just hold on a second, Right, We're gonna figure 1752 01:39:20,560 --> 01:39:23,800 Speaker 1: this dad gum thing out, right. I just I just 1753 01:39:23,880 --> 01:39:26,599 Speaker 1: think they're gonna give it a shot. They're gonna give 1754 01:39:26,640 --> 01:39:30,200 Speaker 1: it a real shot, uh to to get it done. 1755 01:39:30,720 --> 01:39:34,920 Speaker 1: And I you know it's it's gonna take an enormous 1756 01:39:35,720 --> 01:39:39,599 Speaker 1: an enormous amount of cooperation from the players, no question 1757 01:39:39,640 --> 01:39:41,800 Speaker 1: about it. But the players, you know, they've got skin 1758 01:39:41,880 --> 01:39:46,120 Speaker 1: in the game too. They all want to um they 1759 01:39:46,400 --> 01:39:49,840 Speaker 1: that they all want to, you know, make make a 1760 01:39:49,880 --> 01:39:53,200 Speaker 1: buck off of so yeah, yeah, So I don't know. 1761 01:39:53,240 --> 01:39:57,280 Speaker 1: I just I just think somehow, some way, when push 1762 01:39:57,320 --> 01:39:59,200 Speaker 1: comes to shove, they're gonna have to get it done. 1763 01:39:59,640 --> 01:40:02,280 Speaker 1: And they will. I think they will. I think there's 1764 01:40:02,320 --> 01:40:05,160 Speaker 1: gonna be enormous sacrifices made. I think the league is 1765 01:40:05,200 --> 01:40:08,880 Speaker 1: gonna look really really different on certain Sundays if they 1766 01:40:08,920 --> 01:40:11,880 Speaker 1: do play sixteen weeks schedule. I think they're gonna I 1767 01:40:11,880 --> 01:40:13,920 Speaker 1: think they're gonna look very different. And I guess I 1768 01:40:14,040 --> 01:40:17,400 Speaker 1: keep saying that that sixteen weeks schedule. I don't know 1769 01:40:17,439 --> 01:40:19,360 Speaker 1: if they're gonna, you know what, I just don't know 1770 01:40:19,360 --> 01:40:22,920 Speaker 1: if they're gonna be able to do it all sixteen games. Well, 1771 01:40:22,960 --> 01:40:25,960 Speaker 1: I think there will be instances that come up where 1772 01:40:26,479 --> 01:40:29,280 Speaker 1: a team, if it has an outbreak, they're gonna have 1773 01:40:29,320 --> 01:40:31,920 Speaker 1: to postpone a game and play it later in the 1774 01:40:31,920 --> 01:40:35,519 Speaker 1: season after they get enough people out of isolation because 1775 01:40:35,640 --> 01:40:38,880 Speaker 1: they were exposed or tested positive and they simply just 1776 01:40:38,920 --> 01:40:41,760 Speaker 1: don't have the number of players available to make it 1777 01:40:41,800 --> 01:40:44,840 Speaker 1: a fair and equitable game, and they'll have to push 1778 01:40:44,880 --> 01:40:48,040 Speaker 1: it back. And I think that's part of the reason 1779 01:40:48,080 --> 01:40:50,200 Speaker 1: why the NFL made the schedule. The way they did. 1780 01:40:50,960 --> 01:40:53,880 Speaker 1: Division teams have the same bye weeks for a reason 1781 01:40:54,640 --> 01:40:57,559 Speaker 1: because they know those teams play each other twice, and 1782 01:40:57,600 --> 01:41:01,280 Speaker 1: so they gave themselves a little flexibility there. They have 1783 01:41:02,160 --> 01:41:06,760 Speaker 1: the three Sundays after the Sunday the super Bowl is 1784 01:41:06,800 --> 01:41:11,080 Speaker 1: scheduled reserved in Tampa Bay in the event that they 1785 01:41:11,080 --> 01:41:14,280 Speaker 1: have to move the super Bowl back because of postponements 1786 01:41:14,640 --> 01:41:18,280 Speaker 1: or a delay in the schedule, So they've made the 1787 01:41:18,320 --> 01:41:22,800 Speaker 1: contingent as many contingency plans as possible in anticipation of 1788 01:41:22,840 --> 01:41:26,240 Speaker 1: some kind of interruption of the season should have come 1789 01:41:26,320 --> 01:41:30,240 Speaker 1: to that. So it's not like they're saying, ah, we 1790 01:41:30,240 --> 01:41:32,479 Speaker 1: don't have to worry about that, that's not going to happen. 1791 01:41:32,800 --> 01:41:35,600 Speaker 1: I think they are preparing for those kinds of scenarios. 1792 01:41:35,600 --> 01:41:38,479 Speaker 1: They clearly have put it into the schedule. Are in right, 1793 01:41:38,520 --> 01:41:43,479 Speaker 1: And there's just a myriad of issues that arise, and 1794 01:41:44,840 --> 01:41:47,760 Speaker 1: like I said, you can't solve all of them. You 1795 01:41:47,840 --> 01:41:50,120 Speaker 1: can't solve You're gonna have to just plow through a 1796 01:41:50,120 --> 01:41:53,479 Speaker 1: couple of them, right, That's right. And that's where kind 1797 01:41:53,520 --> 01:41:59,880 Speaker 1: of like you know, because we've seen I mean, you know, Texas, Florida, Arizona, California, 1798 01:42:00,160 --> 01:42:05,520 Speaker 1: just skyrocket in cases when they just you know, untightened 1799 01:42:05,520 --> 01:42:08,439 Speaker 1: the screw just one notch and all of a sudden, 1800 01:42:08,479 --> 01:42:11,840 Speaker 1: everybody gets sick. And man, oh man, you just feel 1801 01:42:11,880 --> 01:42:14,280 Speaker 1: like if it, if it gets inside the locker room, 1802 01:42:14,320 --> 01:42:16,639 Speaker 1: your whole team has sunk, and so is the whole 1803 01:42:16,720 --> 01:42:20,519 Speaker 1: league for that matter. Yeah. Uh, how about we talk 1804 01:42:20,560 --> 01:42:24,360 Speaker 1: about actual football camp count Let's do the camp coump down. 1805 01:42:24,680 --> 01:42:28,920 Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go the first one here. Um, how 1806 01:42:28,960 --> 01:42:31,840 Speaker 1: about the top defensive playmakers to watch during training camp? 1807 01:42:31,920 --> 01:42:35,839 Speaker 1: You want to start there? Yeah, defensive playmakers to who? 1808 01:42:36,280 --> 01:42:39,719 Speaker 1: And it's interesting too that that, um, and it starts 1809 01:42:39,720 --> 01:42:41,799 Speaker 1: out of course they were the best. They Bills finished 1810 01:42:41,840 --> 01:42:43,599 Speaker 1: last season with the third best defense in the league. 1811 01:42:44,000 --> 01:42:48,280 Speaker 1: They let less than three hundred yards a game in offense. Uh, 1812 01:42:48,320 --> 01:42:51,040 Speaker 1: and they only allowed sixteen point two game two points 1813 01:42:51,080 --> 01:42:54,760 Speaker 1: per game. Uh. There's like fifteen guys that are really 1814 01:42:54,760 --> 01:42:56,759 Speaker 1: a difference. But this year I think this is interesting 1815 01:42:56,800 --> 01:42:58,840 Speaker 1: too that the first guy mentioned is defensive end that 1816 01:42:58,960 --> 01:43:02,559 Speaker 1: was not here a year going. That's Mario Addison. Yeah, 1817 01:43:02,600 --> 01:43:06,400 Speaker 1: and I think if you had to guess, if you 1818 01:43:06,479 --> 01:43:10,080 Speaker 1: had to take a guess as to which player on 1819 01:43:10,120 --> 01:43:14,080 Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball is the most intriguing 1820 01:43:14,120 --> 01:43:18,880 Speaker 1: to Bills fans to see in action. It's probably the 1821 01:43:18,920 --> 01:43:20,720 Speaker 1: guy that's had at least nine sacks in each of 1822 01:43:20,760 --> 01:43:23,400 Speaker 1: the last four seasons, isn't it. I mean, I would 1823 01:43:23,439 --> 01:43:30,200 Speaker 1: anticipate that. I think the Bills recognize that while they 1824 01:43:30,200 --> 01:43:33,200 Speaker 1: did an effective job last season in putting pressure on 1825 01:43:33,240 --> 01:43:35,880 Speaker 1: the quarterback, I think they'd like to finish more of 1826 01:43:35,920 --> 01:43:40,160 Speaker 1: those plays with sacks rather than just hits or pressures 1827 01:43:40,200 --> 01:43:42,759 Speaker 1: and just end the play right then and there. Because 1828 01:43:42,760 --> 01:43:45,160 Speaker 1: when the Bills defense gets a team in third and 1829 01:43:45,200 --> 01:43:49,320 Speaker 1: long or even second and long, there's usually a punt 1830 01:43:49,479 --> 01:43:53,800 Speaker 1: a play or two later. Their rate of success goes 1831 01:43:53,840 --> 01:43:57,080 Speaker 1: through the roof in terms of forcing punts. So if 1832 01:43:57,120 --> 01:44:00,559 Speaker 1: you can have Mario Addison put together another nine ten 1833 01:44:00,600 --> 01:44:05,640 Speaker 1: sacks season, that the ability that lifts the ability of 1834 01:44:06,160 --> 01:44:10,120 Speaker 1: Buffalo's front four considerably, and I would argue would be 1835 01:44:10,200 --> 01:44:14,280 Speaker 1: an upgrade over Shack Lawson, who, to his credit, was 1836 01:44:14,360 --> 01:44:16,920 Speaker 1: one of the team leaders in tackles for loss and 1837 01:44:17,080 --> 01:44:20,679 Speaker 1: was right near the top in sacks behind Jordan Phillips, 1838 01:44:20,680 --> 01:44:25,400 Speaker 1: who was another free agent departure. But if Addison can 1839 01:44:25,439 --> 01:44:28,240 Speaker 1: deliver that kind of sack production for a fifth straight season, 1840 01:44:29,360 --> 01:44:32,880 Speaker 1: you're going to notice a difference and an uptick in 1841 01:44:33,360 --> 01:44:36,160 Speaker 1: what has already been a top five defense each of 1842 01:44:36,160 --> 01:44:38,439 Speaker 1: the last two years. Now, you know too that I 1843 01:44:38,680 --> 01:44:42,240 Speaker 1: mean I mentioned this last week also that the great 1844 01:44:42,320 --> 01:44:46,160 Speaker 1: defenses in the NFL, it does come down to numbers 1845 01:44:46,880 --> 01:44:49,960 Speaker 1: and if you can get and if the Bills have 1846 01:44:50,080 --> 01:44:51,920 Speaker 1: been able to do that by the acquisition of a 1847 01:44:51,920 --> 01:44:54,280 Speaker 1: guy named like Mario Addison, gotten to the point where 1848 01:44:54,280 --> 01:44:57,960 Speaker 1: they can get quick pressure on the opposing quarterback right 1849 01:44:58,000 --> 01:45:01,599 Speaker 1: now with only four guys. If the quarterback has to 1850 01:45:01,600 --> 01:45:04,479 Speaker 1: throw the ball on time or he's going down, or 1851 01:45:04,520 --> 01:45:06,280 Speaker 1: even worse, he has to he never gets a chance 1852 01:45:06,280 --> 01:45:08,880 Speaker 1: to throw the ball on time anything. If he has 1853 01:45:08,920 --> 01:45:11,439 Speaker 1: to throw the football now or he's got to leave, 1854 01:45:12,640 --> 01:45:15,960 Speaker 1: that's when your defense gets really good because that leaves 1855 01:45:16,000 --> 01:45:18,240 Speaker 1: the other seven guys on your defense to fill up 1856 01:45:18,280 --> 01:45:20,679 Speaker 1: passing lanes. Go one on one, double team, a couple 1857 01:45:20,680 --> 01:45:23,200 Speaker 1: of different guys, leave a safety over the top all 1858 01:45:23,200 --> 01:45:25,559 Speaker 1: the time, never give up the big play. All these 1859 01:45:25,600 --> 01:45:29,200 Speaker 1: things are open to a defense when you've got four 1860 01:45:29,240 --> 01:45:31,920 Speaker 1: guys who can get on the passer right now. And 1861 01:45:32,000 --> 01:45:33,439 Speaker 1: that's what the Bills have really wanted to do. And 1862 01:45:33,520 --> 01:45:36,000 Speaker 1: that's what this defense is predicated upon doing, is getting 1863 01:45:36,080 --> 01:45:40,559 Speaker 1: pressure now with the fewest amount of guys possible. They 1864 01:45:40,600 --> 01:45:43,639 Speaker 1: got better at it under Sean McDermott in the last 1865 01:45:43,680 --> 01:45:45,400 Speaker 1: couple of years, but I think they, you know, they 1866 01:45:45,439 --> 01:45:47,280 Speaker 1: could do better, and that I think they would like 1867 01:45:47,360 --> 01:45:51,160 Speaker 1: to do better, and we'll see if if indeed they 1868 01:45:51,200 --> 01:45:54,120 Speaker 1: get to that point, right Yeah, And we should mention 1869 01:45:54,240 --> 01:45:58,080 Speaker 1: that our camp countdown on Buffalo Bills dot Com is 1870 01:45:58,120 --> 01:46:02,479 Speaker 1: happening every day. Myself and Maddy lab are putting together 1871 01:46:02,560 --> 01:46:05,120 Speaker 1: these right ups as we count down twenty five days 1872 01:46:05,160 --> 01:46:10,120 Speaker 1: to training camp, and I think today is sixteen days left, 1873 01:46:10,600 --> 01:46:12,639 Speaker 1: and this is seven days a week, like we don't 1874 01:46:12,680 --> 01:46:15,160 Speaker 1: take a break on the weekend. So we're trying to 1875 01:46:15,200 --> 01:46:17,960 Speaker 1: answer some of the more pertinent questions of impacting the 1876 01:46:18,000 --> 01:46:21,320 Speaker 1: team as you know they head into the twenty twenty season, 1877 01:46:21,320 --> 01:46:24,400 Speaker 1: which is a highly anticipated one. But another guy on 1878 01:46:24,439 --> 01:46:28,360 Speaker 1: this list of five defensive playmakers to watch Tremaine Edmonds. 1879 01:46:28,760 --> 01:46:32,200 Speaker 1: I think it's rather obvious, especially in the way that 1880 01:46:32,240 --> 01:46:34,839 Speaker 1: he has advanced his game each of the last two seasons. 1881 01:46:35,439 --> 01:46:37,840 Speaker 1: And you know, the number that I think is only 1882 01:46:37,840 --> 01:46:40,360 Speaker 1: going to continue to go up for him are the 1883 01:46:40,400 --> 01:46:42,800 Speaker 1: pass breakups. I mean he was tied for second on 1884 01:46:42,840 --> 01:46:45,759 Speaker 1: the team with a bunch of guys in pass breakups 1885 01:46:45,800 --> 01:46:48,240 Speaker 1: behind Tredavious White, who was far and away the leader 1886 01:46:48,280 --> 01:46:51,559 Speaker 1: with seventeen. But Tremaine mm Is as a linebacker had 1887 01:46:51,680 --> 01:46:54,840 Speaker 1: nine pass breakups last year and that was good for 1888 01:46:54,920 --> 01:46:57,960 Speaker 1: tied for second on the team. And I think his 1889 01:46:58,040 --> 01:47:02,000 Speaker 1: coverage ability is only going to improve as he learns 1890 01:47:02,080 --> 01:47:06,080 Speaker 1: to read offensive schemes and coverage is even better. I 1891 01:47:06,320 --> 01:47:08,000 Speaker 1: thought he made a huge stride in that area of 1892 01:47:08,000 --> 01:47:09,600 Speaker 1: his game last year. I think it's only going to 1893 01:47:09,680 --> 01:47:12,800 Speaker 1: get better. Um, you know, with a lot especially with 1894 01:47:12,800 --> 01:47:15,479 Speaker 1: a lot of these AFC opponents that he's now seeing 1895 01:47:15,520 --> 01:47:18,800 Speaker 1: more and more, particularly the division teams. Right, I think 1896 01:47:18,840 --> 01:47:21,000 Speaker 1: you're right, and he'll He's going to continue to be 1897 01:47:21,200 --> 01:47:23,720 Speaker 1: a huge part of what they're doing. Uh. I think 1898 01:47:23,720 --> 01:47:25,920 Speaker 1: one of the more interesting guys on the list, as 1899 01:47:25,920 --> 01:47:28,800 Speaker 1: well as young yet Oliver m We saw early in 1900 01:47:28,840 --> 01:47:31,200 Speaker 1: the offseason that you know, he struggled. You know, he's down, 1901 01:47:31,320 --> 01:47:34,439 Speaker 1: he's down in Houston, got stopped by the cops, and um, 1902 01:47:34,600 --> 01:47:36,479 Speaker 1: after a day of fun and stuff, he's got to 1903 01:47:36,560 --> 01:47:39,560 Speaker 1: come back. And he was a guy that you know 1904 01:47:39,680 --> 01:47:42,240 Speaker 1: there were some There was some questions or whether he 1905 01:47:42,240 --> 01:47:47,240 Speaker 1: had the right that DNA that Sean McDermott and Brandon 1906 01:47:47,280 --> 01:47:49,680 Speaker 1: Bean like in their guys. But he really came on 1907 01:47:49,760 --> 01:47:51,760 Speaker 1: in the second half of last year. I think they 1908 01:47:51,800 --> 01:47:54,240 Speaker 1: really liked what he brings to the table. He fits that, 1909 01:47:54,600 --> 01:47:57,320 Speaker 1: the technique that they want him to play, the right 1910 01:47:57,360 --> 01:48:00,639 Speaker 1: body type, the right athleticism, the right side is everything. 1911 01:48:01,840 --> 01:48:05,559 Speaker 1: And I think him coming back the second year, you 1912 01:48:05,600 --> 01:48:07,080 Speaker 1: talk about a guy you kind of like, Wow, I 1913 01:48:07,080 --> 01:48:09,400 Speaker 1: wish he would have had a full offseason. Ed Oliver's 1914 01:48:09,439 --> 01:48:12,639 Speaker 1: one of those guys. Yeah, I was glad to see 1915 01:48:12,760 --> 01:48:15,000 Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer on this list. I still think it's a 1916 01:48:15,000 --> 01:48:18,280 Speaker 1: guy that still doesn't get his just due. I think 1917 01:48:18,280 --> 01:48:21,680 Speaker 1: he probably should have deserved some more Pro Bowl consideration 1918 01:48:21,800 --> 01:48:24,400 Speaker 1: each of the last two years, but career high a 1919 01:48:24,479 --> 01:48:28,519 Speaker 1: hundred three tackles last year. Sometimes he's like a third 1920 01:48:28,520 --> 01:48:31,360 Speaker 1: linebacker out there in the nickel package with the way 1921 01:48:31,360 --> 01:48:34,040 Speaker 1: he plays up closer to the line of scrimmage, and 1922 01:48:34,560 --> 01:48:36,599 Speaker 1: you know he's a playmaker on the ball. I mean 1923 01:48:36,600 --> 01:48:39,840 Speaker 1: whether it's forced fumbles or interceptions. I mean he's second 1924 01:48:39,840 --> 01:48:43,879 Speaker 1: in the NFL with interceptions since twenty seventeen with eleven 1925 01:48:44,280 --> 01:48:49,120 Speaker 1: so and I think that's among safeties. Well, I think 1926 01:48:49,439 --> 01:48:51,240 Speaker 1: I think also he's one of those guys. He got 1927 01:48:51,240 --> 01:48:53,400 Speaker 1: an extension. I mean they like him, right, I mean, 1928 01:48:53,439 --> 01:48:57,040 Speaker 1: he's signed a deal and he's gonna be hopefully motivated 1929 01:48:57,120 --> 01:48:59,400 Speaker 1: by that to go out and prove that he deserves 1930 01:48:59,400 --> 01:49:01,680 Speaker 1: it to the fans and to his teammates. And I 1931 01:49:01,720 --> 01:49:03,800 Speaker 1: think that's the kind of guy he is. And of course, 1932 01:49:03,840 --> 01:49:06,120 Speaker 1: then the last guy on the list Brownie is Tredavious 1933 01:49:06,160 --> 01:49:10,200 Speaker 1: White coming back into training camp as the reigning All 1934 01:49:10,240 --> 01:49:15,479 Speaker 1: Pro cornerback in the AFC, in the same division with 1935 01:49:16,000 --> 01:49:19,920 Speaker 1: Stefan Gilmore. I think Tredavious is going to come in 1936 01:49:19,960 --> 01:49:22,320 Speaker 1: and just I think this is a great year for 1937 01:49:22,400 --> 01:49:25,519 Speaker 1: him to flex. You know, I think he's just gonna 1938 01:49:25,560 --> 01:49:27,280 Speaker 1: I think he's gonna have a great year. I think 1939 01:49:27,280 --> 01:49:30,000 Speaker 1: he I think he's the kind of guy that thrives 1940 01:49:30,240 --> 01:49:34,759 Speaker 1: on the respect that he's gained over the last three years, 1941 01:49:35,600 --> 01:49:38,120 Speaker 1: no question about it. And then you know the other 1942 01:49:38,160 --> 01:49:41,080 Speaker 1: write up that we had over the weekend dealt with 1943 01:49:41,200 --> 01:49:45,160 Speaker 1: special teams and and three reasons that Buffalo special team 1944 01:49:45,200 --> 01:49:48,519 Speaker 1: should take another step forward in twenty twenty, and you know, 1945 01:49:48,560 --> 01:49:52,360 Speaker 1: I kind of did a deep dive into this, you know, 1946 01:49:52,400 --> 01:49:55,040 Speaker 1: and I thought in the time that we had with 1947 01:49:55,200 --> 01:49:58,720 Speaker 1: Heath Farwell on a zoom call earlier this offseason, he 1948 01:49:58,840 --> 01:50:02,280 Speaker 1: was He was very candid about a lot of things, 1949 01:50:02,400 --> 01:50:05,800 Speaker 1: including his own development as a coordinator, because last year 1950 01:50:05,920 --> 01:50:08,320 Speaker 1: was his first year as a play caller, and I 1951 01:50:08,400 --> 01:50:10,960 Speaker 1: thought his description of how things went for him was 1952 01:50:11,120 --> 01:50:13,479 Speaker 1: very interesting. So I'll give you a snippet of what 1953 01:50:13,520 --> 01:50:16,040 Speaker 1: he had to offer there. He said, I think it 1954 01:50:16,080 --> 01:50:18,880 Speaker 1: was gradual where I just realized I can do this. 1955 01:50:18,960 --> 01:50:21,400 Speaker 1: It wasn't overwhelming for me. I was just kind of 1956 01:50:21,400 --> 01:50:24,400 Speaker 1: working through the process of calling a game. And he 1957 01:50:24,439 --> 01:50:27,120 Speaker 1: gave some credit to assistant Special teams coach Matt Smiley, 1958 01:50:27,680 --> 01:50:30,160 Speaker 1: and then he said, he's right there with me. Really 1959 01:50:30,200 --> 01:50:32,120 Speaker 1: has kind of progressed in our units in general, just 1960 01:50:32,160 --> 01:50:35,720 Speaker 1: came along as we went. And though he felt that 1961 01:50:35,760 --> 01:50:38,000 Speaker 1: the unit made a lot of improvement, which they did, 1962 01:50:38,840 --> 01:50:41,599 Speaker 1: there is a lot of room to still cover here. 1963 01:50:41,800 --> 01:50:43,960 Speaker 1: There's there's some more on ram for this team to 1964 01:50:44,000 --> 01:50:45,640 Speaker 1: really kind of get into the top third of the 1965 01:50:45,680 --> 01:50:49,240 Speaker 1: league in a lot of categories, and you know, Steve, 1966 01:50:49,360 --> 01:50:51,599 Speaker 1: not for nothing. Chief among them is the kicking game. 1967 01:50:53,280 --> 01:50:56,799 Speaker 1: You know, their punting averages were down at the bottom 1968 01:50:56,840 --> 01:51:00,879 Speaker 1: of the league due to inconsistency. And yes, Stephen Hauskett 1969 01:51:00,920 --> 01:51:03,760 Speaker 1: is one of the most accomplished kickers in the league, 1970 01:51:04,320 --> 01:51:07,400 Speaker 1: but his success rate on kicks was below eighty percent 1971 01:51:07,439 --> 01:51:10,240 Speaker 1: for a second straight season. And we know the touchback 1972 01:51:10,320 --> 01:51:13,639 Speaker 1: percentage only ranked eighteenth in the league. And I think 1973 01:51:13,640 --> 01:51:15,599 Speaker 1: that's why you saw this team go out in draft 1974 01:51:15,640 --> 01:51:19,280 Speaker 1: Tyler Bass in the sixth round and signed Karive Dvick. 1975 01:51:19,680 --> 01:51:21,720 Speaker 1: And I think the competition in the kicking game is 1976 01:51:21,720 --> 01:51:24,839 Speaker 1: going to make them better, just by the whole premise 1977 01:51:24,920 --> 01:51:28,679 Speaker 1: of you know, competition raises all boats kind of thing. Yeah, 1978 01:51:28,680 --> 01:51:30,920 Speaker 1: I agree, I agree completely. He's right. And it was 1979 01:51:31,160 --> 01:51:34,559 Speaker 1: interesting too that Heath he did said listening, he goes up, 1980 01:51:35,040 --> 01:51:36,960 Speaker 1: I've got I've just got a year under my belt, 1981 01:51:36,960 --> 01:51:40,240 Speaker 1: but I feel I'm quoting Heath Farwell, now build a 1982 01:51:40,240 --> 01:51:43,400 Speaker 1: special teams coordinator. I've got a year in under my belt, 1983 01:51:43,439 --> 01:51:46,719 Speaker 1: but I feel like I definitely have a lot different 1984 01:51:46,800 --> 01:51:50,800 Speaker 1: mindset going into year two. The ability to understand that 1985 01:51:50,920 --> 01:51:53,479 Speaker 1: and to understand the progression in your own shortcomings as 1986 01:51:53,520 --> 01:51:56,120 Speaker 1: a coach, I think it garners a lot of respect 1987 01:51:56,160 --> 01:51:58,599 Speaker 1: from your players. I think it goes a long way 1988 01:51:58,640 --> 01:52:01,840 Speaker 1: towards your credibility and your ability to sit back and 1989 01:52:01,840 --> 01:52:05,200 Speaker 1: when a player comes to you. And they brought Taiwan 1990 01:52:05,320 --> 01:52:08,000 Speaker 1: Jones back, They've got Pad DeMarco, and they've got some 1991 01:52:08,040 --> 01:52:11,000 Speaker 1: guys Tyler, Medic, Kevin, they got some guys that know 1992 01:52:11,040 --> 01:52:13,439 Speaker 1: what they're doing. And to have guys like that on 1993 01:52:13,479 --> 01:52:15,719 Speaker 1: the team that feel like when the coaches says something 1994 01:52:15,760 --> 01:52:19,519 Speaker 1: like that, it's a guy they can talk to. Well, yeah. 1995 01:52:19,560 --> 01:52:22,280 Speaker 1: And the key to that was he said, I want 1996 01:52:22,280 --> 01:52:25,200 Speaker 1: to be more aggressive. I think there were opportunities that 1997 01:52:25,240 --> 01:52:27,960 Speaker 1: he saw last year where he had a hunch on 1998 01:52:28,000 --> 01:52:31,360 Speaker 1: something and should have been aggressive, but instead elected to 1999 01:52:31,400 --> 01:52:34,160 Speaker 1: play it safe, which I would almost expect out of 2000 01:52:34,160 --> 01:52:36,680 Speaker 1: a first year coordinator. Let's just play it safe so 2001 01:52:36,800 --> 01:52:39,679 Speaker 1: disaster doesn't strike. Let's not cost the team a game. 2002 01:52:40,080 --> 01:52:42,439 Speaker 1: I think going into this year, especially with some of 2003 01:52:42,479 --> 01:52:45,760 Speaker 1: the horses that they've added that you mentioned, he is 2004 01:52:45,800 --> 01:52:48,840 Speaker 1: going to be more aggressive. Remember how aggressive Bobby April 2005 01:52:48,920 --> 01:52:53,120 Speaker 1: was with the special teams units. Here I see Keith 2006 01:52:53,160 --> 01:52:55,960 Speaker 1: Farwell taking a page out of that book a little 2007 01:52:56,000 --> 01:52:58,960 Speaker 1: bit more here in year two, Steve Tasker Chris Brown 2008 01:52:59,000 --> 01:53:01,559 Speaker 1: here till three o'clock Bills Live presented by Kalid to Health. 2009 01:53:01,640 --> 01:53:04,200 Speaker 1: We'll be back with what's for lunch and maybe NFL 2010 01:53:04,280 --> 01:53:16,800 Speaker 1: true false as well. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome 2011 01:53:16,840 --> 01:53:18,680 Speaker 1: back to one of those Lives. Steve Tasker along with 2012 01:53:18,760 --> 01:53:22,120 Speaker 1: Chris Brown Brownie, We've got this big question We've been 2013 01:53:22,160 --> 01:53:24,400 Speaker 1: asking all day. We've got a lot of feedback from 2014 01:53:24,400 --> 01:53:28,320 Speaker 1: and what is your biggest concern about COVID nineteens impact 2015 01:53:29,080 --> 01:53:33,519 Speaker 1: on football. Most people say it's losing a player the 2016 01:53:33,720 --> 01:53:37,160 Speaker 1: night before a game due to a positive test. A 2017 01:53:37,160 --> 01:53:39,400 Speaker 1: lot of people say it's also not starting the season 2018 01:53:39,439 --> 01:53:42,679 Speaker 1: on time and other A lot of people have something 2019 01:53:42,720 --> 01:53:44,320 Speaker 1: else they want to do it. Some people think it's 2020 01:53:44,360 --> 01:53:47,400 Speaker 1: players are opting out. We have a tweet sheet that 2021 01:53:47,800 --> 01:53:49,320 Speaker 1: we are ready to share with you some of the 2022 01:53:49,600 --> 01:53:52,120 Speaker 1: some of the feedback we've gotten and also once you 2023 01:53:52,160 --> 01:53:55,639 Speaker 1: read the run Brownie from Amos as he called in. Yeah, 2024 01:53:55,680 --> 01:53:58,240 Speaker 1: he says, I'm concerned with some teams being on board 2025 01:53:58,240 --> 01:54:01,040 Speaker 1: with precautions while other teams will be to lack. Safety 2026 01:54:01,040 --> 01:54:03,720 Speaker 1: of team personnel and players is at risk, especially with 2027 01:54:03,800 --> 01:54:07,200 Speaker 1: traveling to certain cities that are still struggling with COVID well, 2028 01:54:07,560 --> 01:54:10,120 Speaker 1: I think we can at least calm Amos's concerns from 2029 01:54:10,120 --> 01:54:13,040 Speaker 1: this standpoint, Steve. These protocols are going to be league 2030 01:54:13,040 --> 01:54:15,680 Speaker 1: wide and if they are not adhered to in the 2031 01:54:15,800 --> 01:54:20,200 Speaker 1: respective team facilities, there are going to be severe punishments 2032 01:54:20,200 --> 01:54:24,120 Speaker 1: and discipline handed down by teams. So I think what 2033 01:54:24,840 --> 01:54:27,400 Speaker 1: Amos is concerned about should not be a concerned as 2034 01:54:27,400 --> 01:54:29,519 Speaker 1: it pertains to the thirty two teams, because they're all 2035 01:54:29,560 --> 01:54:32,760 Speaker 1: going to be operating under the same protocols and they'll 2036 01:54:32,800 --> 01:54:35,760 Speaker 1: have incentive to do so because if they don't, they 2037 01:54:35,840 --> 01:54:39,760 Speaker 1: run the risk of losing players being available on Sundays. 2038 01:54:39,800 --> 01:54:43,600 Speaker 1: So there's a tremendous incentive to stick to the protocols 2039 01:54:43,640 --> 01:54:45,720 Speaker 1: that are going to be put in place, not only 2040 01:54:45,800 --> 01:54:50,080 Speaker 1: from a league punishment standpoint, but from a player availability standpoint, right. 2041 01:54:50,120 --> 01:54:54,680 Speaker 1: And yeah, that's not where teams are going to gain. 2042 01:54:55,040 --> 01:54:57,720 Speaker 1: I don't think teams will be under the impression or 2043 01:54:57,880 --> 01:55:00,920 Speaker 1: under the idea that they will be able to get 2044 01:55:00,960 --> 01:55:04,040 Speaker 1: an edge on their opponents if they don't follow the protocols. 2045 01:55:04,040 --> 01:55:06,480 Speaker 1: In fact, I think it could be let's think about 2046 01:55:06,480 --> 01:55:09,560 Speaker 1: it could be just the opposite. They may get you know, 2047 01:55:09,640 --> 01:55:12,200 Speaker 1: that they may put themselves out of business if they 2048 01:55:12,200 --> 01:55:14,760 Speaker 1: don't follow the protocols, and if they if they do, 2049 01:55:14,800 --> 01:55:17,120 Speaker 1: get put out of business because they don't, you know, 2050 01:55:17,480 --> 01:55:19,880 Speaker 1: how are they going to hide that? You know? So 2051 01:55:20,240 --> 01:55:23,240 Speaker 1: there's an incredible risk not just to you know, your 2052 01:55:23,280 --> 01:55:25,360 Speaker 1: players and their health, and your coaches and their health, 2053 01:55:25,360 --> 01:55:29,760 Speaker 1: your medical staff and your equipment staff and their risk 2054 01:55:29,800 --> 01:55:32,800 Speaker 1: of getting the virus, but you're risking your whole season 2055 01:55:33,320 --> 01:55:36,280 Speaker 1: because if you don't follow the protocols. The thought is 2056 01:55:36,320 --> 01:55:38,680 Speaker 1: that it's gonna show, and it's gonna show pretty quick, 2057 01:55:38,680 --> 01:55:41,800 Speaker 1: and it's gonna run through your roster really fast. Yeah, 2058 01:55:41,840 --> 01:55:44,960 Speaker 1: no question about it. Also from Nick on the tweet sheet, 2059 01:55:45,040 --> 01:55:47,320 Speaker 1: he says, d I expect the season to be played, 2060 01:55:47,760 --> 01:55:49,760 Speaker 1: but I want fans in the stands, and I doubt 2061 01:55:49,800 --> 01:55:52,160 Speaker 1: that will happen. I kind of agree with Nick. I 2062 01:55:52,200 --> 01:55:53,840 Speaker 1: don't think that people are going to be in the 2063 01:55:53,840 --> 01:55:57,160 Speaker 1: stands at all this season, particularly not in all games. 2064 01:55:57,320 --> 01:56:00,320 Speaker 1: Maybe there will be some small crowds allow in some 2065 01:56:00,360 --> 01:56:02,680 Speaker 1: of these states, as we've seen, but man, oh man, 2066 01:56:02,720 --> 01:56:06,240 Speaker 1: I don't think that. Yeah. I don't think they're gonna 2067 01:56:06,280 --> 01:56:10,080 Speaker 1: be fans, not here in Western New York anyway. Yeah, 2068 01:56:10,120 --> 01:56:14,600 Speaker 1: And I don't think Buffalo is going to be alone 2069 01:56:14,800 --> 01:56:18,240 Speaker 1: in that fact, I think that's gonna carry the day 2070 01:56:18,360 --> 01:56:21,680 Speaker 1: and be the norm more than the exception. Unfortunately, especially 2071 01:56:21,680 --> 01:56:24,960 Speaker 1: when you consider how poorly other states are doing. So 2072 01:56:25,640 --> 01:56:27,960 Speaker 1: you already know even if there are fans, nobody's gonna 2073 01:56:27,960 --> 01:56:30,160 Speaker 1: be in the first eight or nine rows due to 2074 01:56:30,160 --> 01:56:33,280 Speaker 1: exposure risk. And then if you do have fans, it's 2075 01:56:33,320 --> 01:56:37,520 Speaker 1: probably going to be limited capacity at best. So who 2076 01:56:37,560 --> 01:56:41,880 Speaker 1: knows whether Steve's dream comes true for full capacity for 2077 01:56:42,040 --> 01:56:45,200 Speaker 1: playoffs remains to be seen. But that'd be a nice 2078 01:56:45,200 --> 01:56:48,440 Speaker 1: thing if it could happen, right And then, also from 2079 01:56:48,480 --> 01:56:51,040 Speaker 1: Pat on the tweet sheet, what will the organizational that 2080 01:56:51,040 --> 01:56:55,000 Speaker 1: means the league and the NFLPA the union's response due 2081 01:56:55,160 --> 01:56:58,440 Speaker 1: be if a significant player gets sick and I'm not 2082 01:56:58,480 --> 01:57:01,720 Speaker 1: talking mild sick, but seriously ill. What if what if 2083 01:57:01,720 --> 01:57:07,320 Speaker 1: a what if a superstar pitt take your pick, gets 2084 01:57:07,400 --> 01:57:11,160 Speaker 1: really seriously sick and is out for a month, or 2085 01:57:11,200 --> 01:57:13,680 Speaker 1: what if he succumbs to the illness yeah, or is 2086 01:57:13,760 --> 01:57:16,520 Speaker 1: you know, on a ventilator and you know you got 2087 01:57:17,920 --> 01:57:22,560 Speaker 1: you got hospital watch reports going, yeah, good look for 2088 01:57:22,600 --> 01:57:25,000 Speaker 1: the league? What if he passes away? Well, yeah, that's 2089 01:57:25,040 --> 01:57:29,160 Speaker 1: the that's the ultimate I mean, that's that's unfortunate situation 2090 01:57:29,520 --> 01:57:35,000 Speaker 1: that's gonna be um and that is something the problem problem, 2091 01:57:35,160 --> 01:57:38,600 Speaker 1: and that is something Steve that you know, players of 2092 01:57:38,640 --> 01:57:41,960 Speaker 1: African American discenter thinking about because they seem to be 2093 01:57:43,040 --> 01:57:46,600 Speaker 1: at a greater risk of contracting the virus. The numbers 2094 01:57:46,720 --> 01:57:50,960 Speaker 1: are astounding in terms of the African American population that 2095 01:57:51,120 --> 01:57:56,320 Speaker 1: is contracting the virus. I think they said it's like 2096 01:57:56,480 --> 01:58:03,640 Speaker 1: sixty percent. Um, great risk for African Americans. And I 2097 01:58:03,960 --> 01:58:06,880 Speaker 1: think we're all well aware that the majority of the 2098 01:58:06,960 --> 01:58:11,880 Speaker 1: NFL player population is African Americans. So right, that's another 2099 01:58:11,880 --> 01:58:15,160 Speaker 1: thing to be concerned about. And and when you know 2100 01:58:15,240 --> 01:58:18,840 Speaker 1: what we haven't even discussed, Steve, all the coaches. Yeah, 2101 01:58:19,200 --> 01:58:22,600 Speaker 1: I would argue that forty to fifty percent of the 2102 01:58:22,640 --> 01:58:24,680 Speaker 1: coaches in this league are in the high risk group, 2103 01:58:25,120 --> 01:58:30,400 Speaker 1: namely over sixty. So so there's that to tangle with. Also, Yeah, 2104 01:58:30,400 --> 01:58:32,080 Speaker 1: and there's a lot of there's a lot of staffs 2105 01:58:32,160 --> 01:58:33,920 Speaker 1: that are that are one or the other, Like the 2106 01:58:33,960 --> 01:58:37,360 Speaker 1: Bill's staff is pretty pretty young, I would say, right, 2107 01:58:37,400 --> 01:58:40,800 Speaker 1: I mean on the on the scale of racers over sixty, right, 2108 01:58:41,200 --> 01:58:46,360 Speaker 1: and Bob Babbitt, you know, is over sixty that maybe it. 2109 01:58:46,600 --> 01:58:50,080 Speaker 1: I'd have to look. You go around the league. There's 2110 01:58:50,080 --> 01:58:54,960 Speaker 1: some staffs, coaching staffs that have like all their guys around. 2111 01:58:55,000 --> 01:58:57,080 Speaker 1: They like they've got a Bruce arians is a head 2112 01:58:57,120 --> 01:58:59,480 Speaker 1: coach that's over sixty or sixty. Yeah, I think he 2113 01:58:59,560 --> 01:59:03,120 Speaker 1: just turns sixty a year or two ago. Yeah, Pete 2114 01:59:03,120 --> 01:59:07,000 Speaker 1: Carroll is almost seventy. It's over sixty for sure. So 2115 01:59:07,760 --> 01:59:10,920 Speaker 1: you don't have to go very far Bill Belichick, you 2116 01:59:10,960 --> 01:59:14,120 Speaker 1: know all these guys. I mean, now you've got guys 2117 01:59:14,120 --> 01:59:19,640 Speaker 1: like Sean McDermott, Adam Gaze and uh uh, I think 2118 01:59:19,720 --> 01:59:23,760 Speaker 1: Robervera is pushing sixty. He's Vera, Yeah, he's he's sixty. 2119 01:59:23,840 --> 01:59:25,800 Speaker 1: He's the same age or right around the same age 2120 01:59:25,840 --> 01:59:29,760 Speaker 1: as Leslie Leslie Frasier. They were on the same team together. Um, 2121 01:59:30,320 --> 01:59:33,840 Speaker 1: you know, Bill O'Brien's in his fifties, right. So you 2122 01:59:33,840 --> 01:59:35,200 Speaker 1: can go around the league and then you got the 2123 01:59:35,240 --> 01:59:39,920 Speaker 1: young guys like the Sean mcvay's in the in the um, 2124 01:59:40,160 --> 01:59:43,680 Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan's those kind of guys. But still there's some 2125 01:59:43,720 --> 01:59:45,880 Speaker 1: staffs that really have a lot of guys on it 2126 01:59:45,920 --> 01:59:48,000 Speaker 1: that are in that in that at risk group. So 2127 01:59:48,200 --> 01:59:52,200 Speaker 1: that's Yeah, it's gonna be. It's gonna be unbelievably compelling 2128 01:59:52,240 --> 01:59:54,480 Speaker 1: to watch this when these guys come in through the 2129 01:59:54,520 --> 01:59:57,360 Speaker 1: doors and how this is all gonna be handled um 2130 01:59:57,520 --> 02:00:00,320 Speaker 1: from the tweet sheet. One more from Seth. He says 2131 02:00:00,320 --> 02:00:05,120 Speaker 1: players players opting out. He says that's his biggest concern 2132 02:00:05,320 --> 02:00:08,240 Speaker 1: on the impact on football. It feels like this season 2133 02:00:08,320 --> 02:00:10,480 Speaker 1: is going to have a big old asterisk by the 2134 02:00:10,520 --> 02:00:13,480 Speaker 1: twenty twenty when we look back on it, regardless of 2135 02:00:13,480 --> 02:00:17,480 Speaker 1: what happens. But if stars like Stefon Diggs Micah Hyde 2136 02:00:18,120 --> 02:00:20,760 Speaker 1: that have already hinted at it opt out, it just 2137 02:00:20,840 --> 02:00:24,760 Speaker 1: won't be as exciting. I'll still watch, but like E 2138 02:00:25,040 --> 02:00:29,320 Speaker 1: or which or here's another game, it's not as exciting, 2139 02:00:29,400 --> 02:00:35,200 Speaker 1: but I'll still watch. Yeah. I know Dick said that 2140 02:00:36,400 --> 02:00:42,640 Speaker 1: he's not one hundred percent comfortable playing under these circumstances. 2141 02:00:43,280 --> 02:00:46,840 Speaker 1: And I believe Micah Hyde is a new dad, so 2142 02:00:46,960 --> 02:00:49,040 Speaker 1: you have to believe that that is going to enter 2143 02:00:49,120 --> 02:00:53,520 Speaker 1: into the equation for him unless he decides to isolate 2144 02:00:53,600 --> 02:00:56,720 Speaker 1: himself from his new family, and I don't know that 2145 02:00:56,760 --> 02:01:01,920 Speaker 1: he wants to do that. Buster post see the Catcher 2146 02:01:01,960 --> 02:01:04,400 Speaker 1: for the New York New York for the San Francisco 2147 02:01:04,480 --> 02:01:07,839 Speaker 1: Giants in Major League Baseball opted out of playing baseball 2148 02:01:08,880 --> 02:01:13,720 Speaker 1: because he's got twin babies right on the way at Hall. 2149 02:01:13,920 --> 02:01:17,560 Speaker 1: So he's just like, Nope, not doing it. And I 2150 02:01:17,600 --> 02:01:20,280 Speaker 1: think Mike Trout did the same thing. Yeah, you've got 2151 02:01:20,280 --> 02:01:23,000 Speaker 1: his life is expecting and that we had earlier in 2152 02:01:23,000 --> 02:01:25,520 Speaker 1: the show. We had Nora Princeatta on from the ringer. 2153 02:01:25,600 --> 02:01:27,680 Speaker 1: She brought this all up, but also from Jeffrey on 2154 02:01:27,680 --> 02:01:31,200 Speaker 1: the tweet. She quarantines for positive tests some that will 2155 02:01:31,240 --> 02:01:35,320 Speaker 1: become serious illness requiring recovery or rehab, means that are positive, 2156 02:01:35,360 --> 02:01:38,320 Speaker 1: and remains that her positive tests could effectively be a 2157 02:01:38,400 --> 02:01:41,160 Speaker 1: loss of six games or more if a position group 2158 02:01:41,200 --> 02:01:44,200 Speaker 1: like quarterbacks, defensive backs, or offensive line is effective, means 2159 02:01:44,200 --> 02:01:48,480 Speaker 1: that a very weakened game day roster. He says used. 2160 02:01:48,920 --> 02:01:52,040 Speaker 1: He's used the IR guys. The IR rules say that 2161 02:01:52,160 --> 02:01:56,000 Speaker 1: only two can return. And the reason I said Nora Princeotta, 2162 02:01:56,080 --> 02:01:58,760 Speaker 1: she pointed out that all these rules about win players 2163 02:01:58,760 --> 02:02:01,720 Speaker 1: can come on and off the injury relist, we're gonna 2164 02:02:01,800 --> 02:02:04,720 Speaker 1: have to be looked at, particularly the virus. There'll probably 2165 02:02:04,720 --> 02:02:06,480 Speaker 1: be a COVID list. If you're on the COVID list. 2166 02:02:06,520 --> 02:02:08,280 Speaker 1: You can come back when the protocol says you can 2167 02:02:08,320 --> 02:02:11,560 Speaker 1: come back no strings attached, and it doesn't. And once 2168 02:02:11,600 --> 02:02:14,200 Speaker 1: you're on the COVID list, you don't count against the roster. 2169 02:02:14,560 --> 02:02:16,520 Speaker 1: They'll be able to fill your spot for as many 2170 02:02:16,520 --> 02:02:19,840 Speaker 1: weeks as that takes. But the question is where they 2171 02:02:19,840 --> 02:02:23,200 Speaker 1: going to get this body to fill your roster spot from. 2172 02:02:23,640 --> 02:02:25,760 Speaker 1: And if it's you and the rest of the dbs, 2173 02:02:25,760 --> 02:02:28,640 Speaker 1: where they going to find eight dbs who can come 2174 02:02:28,640 --> 02:02:32,200 Speaker 1: in and play like a group. That's the rub that's 2175 02:02:32,240 --> 02:02:35,080 Speaker 1: the problem. And I think that's where the numbers of 2176 02:02:35,120 --> 02:02:41,080 Speaker 1: this thing and the the contagious nature of the virus 2177 02:02:41,120 --> 02:02:44,560 Speaker 1: really make it a hard problem to solve. All right, Steve, 2178 02:02:44,600 --> 02:02:47,000 Speaker 1: I think we gotta jump out here for a break 2179 02:02:47,000 --> 02:02:49,840 Speaker 1: here before our last. When we come back, it'll come back. 2180 02:02:49,880 --> 02:02:52,600 Speaker 1: It'll be what have we learned? Brought to you by Skyworks. 2181 02:02:52,600 --> 02:02:55,320 Speaker 1: But for now, this is Buffalo Bill's Radio on Kaleida 2182 02:02:55,400 --> 02:03:10,440 Speaker 1: Health brought and this is one Bills Live. What do 2183 02:03:10,480 --> 02:03:14,240 Speaker 1: we learn? Brought to you by Skyworks, the official construction 2184 02:03:14,240 --> 02:03:17,680 Speaker 1: equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. Nor A Princiati 2185 02:03:17,720 --> 02:03:20,240 Speaker 1: of the Ringer came on the show and she told 2186 02:03:20,320 --> 02:03:22,760 Speaker 1: us how she believes the NFL will be able to 2187 02:03:22,760 --> 02:03:25,480 Speaker 1: start a season, but isn't sure that they're going to 2188 02:03:25,520 --> 02:03:30,280 Speaker 1: be able to finish a season. In the plan, in 2189 02:03:30,400 --> 02:03:33,760 Speaker 1: part of the agreement that's already been reached, anyone who 2190 02:03:33,840 --> 02:03:37,080 Speaker 1: has that kind of exposure has to be quarantined for 2191 02:03:37,160 --> 02:03:40,280 Speaker 1: at least five days, and after that five day period 2192 02:03:40,360 --> 02:03:44,760 Speaker 1: can only leave quarantine if they've had two consecutive negative 2193 02:03:44,800 --> 02:03:49,400 Speaker 1: tests within twenty four hours. So the elephant in the 2194 02:03:49,520 --> 02:03:53,400 Speaker 1: room is if you start getting five players at a 2195 02:03:53,440 --> 02:03:58,400 Speaker 1: time testing positive, which doesn't seem that unreasonable, is that 2196 02:03:58,480 --> 02:04:01,840 Speaker 1: team going to have to shut itself down for minimum 2197 02:04:01,920 --> 02:04:05,200 Speaker 1: five days or where are they going to get these 2198 02:04:05,240 --> 02:04:08,800 Speaker 1: other players? So I have far more questions about the 2199 02:04:08,800 --> 02:04:12,320 Speaker 1: ability to finish the season than I do to start one. 2200 02:04:14,840 --> 02:04:17,320 Speaker 1: That was Nora Princecatti brought to you by Skyworks Brown 2201 02:04:17,360 --> 02:04:19,440 Speaker 1: A good show. Today. We had a lot going on. 2202 02:04:19,520 --> 02:04:21,600 Speaker 1: We had got to went to a deep dive about 2203 02:04:21,600 --> 02:04:23,240 Speaker 1: what we kind of really do know and what we 2204 02:04:23,280 --> 02:04:25,800 Speaker 1: don't know about the NFL season. Sometimes we can talk 2205 02:04:25,840 --> 02:04:27,720 Speaker 1: ourselves into a dark place where we don't know if 2206 02:04:27,720 --> 02:04:30,240 Speaker 1: it's going to work out. Then other times you got 2207 02:04:30,240 --> 02:04:32,880 Speaker 1: to remember the NFL's making every effort to do it, 2208 02:04:32,920 --> 02:04:35,440 Speaker 1: and they've got a lot of resources to put behind it, right, 2209 02:04:35,520 --> 02:04:38,520 Speaker 1: and hopefully the meeting between the management councils for the 2210 02:04:38,600 --> 02:04:41,080 Speaker 1: league and the players union can hammer out some of 2211 02:04:41,080 --> 02:04:44,240 Speaker 1: the economic hurdles they have to clear between the players 2212 02:04:44,280 --> 02:04:48,040 Speaker 1: and the union and hopefully some of these protocols, whether 2213 02:04:48,080 --> 02:04:51,200 Speaker 1: it's daily testing or six times a week testing or 2214 02:04:51,240 --> 02:04:53,800 Speaker 1: whatever it is. So maybe we'll have some more details 2215 02:04:53,800 --> 02:04:55,920 Speaker 1: to share on that on tomorrow show. Yeah, they've got 2216 02:04:55,920 --> 02:04:57,480 Speaker 1: to get to it, though. I mean, there's no question 2217 02:04:57,520 --> 02:04:59,800 Speaker 1: that they've got to agree on how this is going 2218 02:04:59,840 --> 02:05:03,200 Speaker 1: to go down, because it is extenuating circumstances and there's 2219 02:05:03,240 --> 02:05:08,480 Speaker 1: no way you can plan to sign this CBA that 2220 02:05:08,600 --> 02:05:12,680 Speaker 1: they did just a few months ago and anticipate all 2221 02:05:12,720 --> 02:05:15,040 Speaker 1: these problems that they're facing now. Even back then, we 2222 02:05:15,120 --> 02:05:17,480 Speaker 1: thought this pandemic would be long gone by the time 2223 02:05:17,520 --> 02:05:19,760 Speaker 1: they reached around here, even though we were being told 2224 02:05:19,840 --> 02:05:22,200 Speaker 1: later but it would it would not be. But you 2225 02:05:22,320 --> 02:05:24,200 Speaker 1: felt like they'd have enough time to get their ducks 2226 02:05:24,200 --> 02:05:25,960 Speaker 1: in a row. But it hasn't worked out that way. 2227 02:05:26,000 --> 02:05:28,720 Speaker 1: I still think them push comes to show, they'll they'll 2228 02:05:28,760 --> 02:05:31,560 Speaker 1: agree on enough things to get going. Well, yeah, because 2229 02:05:32,040 --> 02:05:34,280 Speaker 1: common sense has to kind of rule the day here. 2230 02:05:34,320 --> 02:05:36,320 Speaker 1: You can make as many by laws as you want 2231 02:05:36,400 --> 02:05:39,480 Speaker 1: in a collective bargaining agreement, but you can't tell me 2232 02:05:39,560 --> 02:05:43,520 Speaker 1: that that was made in anticipation of a global pandemic. 2233 02:05:43,840 --> 02:05:48,280 Speaker 1: I mean, you have to make some reasonable amendments and 2234 02:05:48,320 --> 02:05:52,200 Speaker 1: adjustments in a global pandemic world. And if you're going 2235 02:05:52,240 --> 02:05:55,080 Speaker 1: to be too rigid and stringent and not do that, 2236 02:05:55,840 --> 02:05:58,080 Speaker 1: then you're gonna sit here and keep haggling the way 2237 02:05:58,120 --> 02:06:01,560 Speaker 1: the Major League Baseball play years did with their you know, 2238 02:06:01,600 --> 02:06:04,880 Speaker 1: with their league. Yeah, and if they're gonna have to 2239 02:06:04,920 --> 02:06:08,520 Speaker 1: compromise on a bunch of issues, and I don't know 2240 02:06:09,360 --> 02:06:12,040 Speaker 1: how you do it, but they almost have to take 2241 02:06:12,080 --> 02:06:13,800 Speaker 1: money out of the equations saying Okay, how are we 2242 02:06:13,800 --> 02:06:16,480 Speaker 1: gonna actually get this done? And then what's it gonna 2243 02:06:16,520 --> 02:06:19,680 Speaker 1: cost us? Because if you start, you know, testing all 2244 02:06:19,680 --> 02:06:24,200 Speaker 1: of these people every day, you're talking about you're talking 2245 02:06:24,200 --> 02:06:28,640 Speaker 1: about you know, ten thousand tests a week for one team, 2246 02:06:28,720 --> 02:06:30,880 Speaker 1: and that's a lot of resources. Yeah, and that's going 2247 02:06:30,920 --> 02:06:34,320 Speaker 1: to add up to pretty fast. So and you're already 2248 02:06:34,360 --> 02:06:38,160 Speaker 1: losing money. So just you're not going to have fans, 2249 02:06:38,200 --> 02:06:40,800 Speaker 1: so you know, you're already losing on one end. How 2250 02:06:40,880 --> 02:06:42,320 Speaker 1: much do you want to spend on the other just 2251 02:06:42,360 --> 02:06:44,640 Speaker 1: to get the games done. Yeah, So we got a 2252 02:06:44,640 --> 02:06:46,000 Speaker 1: lot of talk about. We've got a lot of stuff 2253 02:06:46,000 --> 02:06:48,120 Speaker 1: going on. We're gonna be watching everything that goes on 2254 02:06:48,160 --> 02:06:51,600 Speaker 1: today and we'll have you. We'll have some updates on 2255 02:06:51,720 --> 02:06:54,640 Speaker 1: you for you tomorrow after these meetings between the league 2256 02:06:54,640 --> 02:06:58,600 Speaker 1: and the NFLPA come to fruition. Brownie. Thanks, good show today. 2257 02:06:58,640 --> 02:07:00,240 Speaker 1: I'll talk to you tomorrow. We'll be off from noon 2258 02:07:00,240 --> 02:07:03,040 Speaker 1: to three. J Harris, thank you, JJ Urito, thank you. 2259 02:07:03,400 --> 02:07:05,880 Speaker 1: Kelly Rude, thank you as well, and everybody back at 2260 02:07:05,960 --> 02:07:08,800 Speaker 1: gr appreciate all of you. This has been One Bill's 2261 02:07:08,840 --> 02:07:11,640 Speaker 1: Live on Buffalo Bill's Radio, presented by Kalida Health. We'll 2262 02:07:11,640 --> 02:07:15,760 Speaker 1: talk you tomorrow at noon. Stay with us through this pandemic. 2263 02:07:15,800 --> 02:07:17,640 Speaker 1: We're still from home, but sooner or later we'll be 2264 02:07:17,680 --> 02:07:18,840 Speaker 1: back on MSG as well.