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Speaker 1: Just signed last week and he's here. Yeah, and a

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Speaker 1: I think once in a while, maybe not not every week, No,

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Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know. Almost every week you tend

427
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Speaker 1: to get a guy whom I've got who has not

428
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Speaker 1: had been on before, of course, but also but I've

429
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Speaker 1: made a guess at like, I remind you that that

430
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Speaker 1: guy was my teammates, So you go waited a couple

431
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Speaker 1: of weeks that is not always the case, back and say, yeah,

432
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Speaker 1: that's a good idea. I'm gonna get him on this ship.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? I would say, I would say,

434
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Speaker 1: because what have we done about fifteen of these? No,

435
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Speaker 1: I got the list right here, you're hand in my hand,

436
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Speaker 1: twenty Maybe not about twenty of these six nine, twelve, fifteen, eighteen,

437
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Speaker 1: twenty one, twenty three. It's about five five, six, seven, eight,

438
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Speaker 1: twenty eight, twenty eight taskers team. That's if I actually

439
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Speaker 1: wrote them all down. Yeah, I'm confident you have. I

440
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Speaker 1: would say that's probably happened four times, not as often

441
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Speaker 1: as you know. Maybe I don't believe it's happened this time.

442
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 1: I could be wrong. I've never guessed this guy, I

443
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: don't think. So. I'm trying to remember if I remember

444
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Speaker 1: hearing this name, and I don't think. I don't think

445
00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 1: you did. Maybe that maybe once, maybe one. I'm trying

446
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: to remember if I heard you utter this guy's name.

447
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,199
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, I think it's possible. If I get him,

448
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,439
Speaker 1: I'll get you. But believe you me, I did not

449
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,960
Speaker 1: think about you saying that name when I picked this name. Okay,

450
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:35,440
Speaker 1: So at least in this particular instance, interesting background there

451
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:37,560
Speaker 1: that you're gonna find interesting, and you're gonna hear right

452
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 1: away in the in the first clue, So we'll see

453
00:26:40,119 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: if that's a giveaway. I don't believe it is. But

454
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Speaker 1: you never know what conversations went on in the locker

455
00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 1: room when you two were teammates. So we'll have to

456
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Speaker 1: find out at two thirty, a little over two hours

457
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Speaker 1: from now. Always a fun exercise putting the screws to

458
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:57,160
Speaker 1: Steve on one of his former teammates. So full show

459
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Speaker 1: for you, but we want you to be a part

460
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Speaker 1: of it. So if you haven't questions about the roster,

461
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 1: the coaching staff, the draft, the prospects, the league at large,

462
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 1: the offseason conditioning program, and where it might end up,

463
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:11,800
Speaker 1: Steve and I are here to answer those questions at

464
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Speaker 1: eight three five fifty one, eight five fifty two five

465
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Speaker 1: fifty or on the tweet sheet at one Bills Live.

466
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Speaker 1: And we'll get to some of those questions after the

467
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 1: first break and they're among the other things. It looks

468
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: like there are other teams now, Steve that are joining this. Well,

469
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: most of us are, most of the guys on our

470
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Speaker 1: team are not going to be participating in the offseason

471
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: conditioning program, which is voluntary. We saw a handful of

472
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Speaker 1: teams come out in front and say that earlier this week.

473
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: There are more and more teams kind of trickling in

474
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Speaker 1: with the same statements coming out from the Players Association

475
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Speaker 1: on their behalf. We saw the Patriots say most of

476
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Speaker 1: us are not going to be doing it. We also

477
00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 1: had I want to say, there was another team yesterday,

478
00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,199
Speaker 1: but it's slipping my mind as to who that was.

479
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 1: It was, Oh at it, what was the Patriots? But

480
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: it was the original group was Seahawks, broncos Um, and

481
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,280
Speaker 1: there were a couple of others that the lines were

482
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: in there. Yeah, but uh, it looks like they're kind

483
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 1: of trickling out one at a time. Do you think.

484
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's done on purpose to try

485
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: to keep it in the news, like yeah, exactly. Hey,

486
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 1: here's a reminder we're not coming. Hey, here's a reminder,

487
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: here's another team that's not gonna put my tinfoil hat on. Yeah,

488
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: do you think the union saying, listen Friday, Friday, we're

489
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 1: gonna announce these two teams. Monday will announce these two teams.

490
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: Tuesday will announce the ectue. But it doesn't matter. None

491
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:43,160
Speaker 1: of you guys are shown up anyway. Yeah, so, so

492
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,280
Speaker 1: I think we all know where that's going. That's going

493
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Speaker 1: to a mediation of some kind between the league and

494
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Speaker 1: the players Association. Exactly what that will look like. Um

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Speaker 1: so there and other than that, it's kind of gone wyat.

496
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: It's like everybody's going down in the draft bunker getting

497
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: ready for the draft. Now, yeah, exactly. They I mean

498
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:08,440
Speaker 1: there might be a minor signing in here or there.

499
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: They're lying laying in food and water in the bunker

500
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Speaker 1: and they're gonna they're gonna close the door and lock

501
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:17,160
Speaker 1: it from the inside. Everybody's hunkering down. And I think

502
00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 1: the best part about the Draft this year not only

503
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: the fact that it's live in Cleveland. As we discussed

504
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: with Charlie Yuk earlier in the week on the show,

505
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Speaker 1: who's the NFL Network Vice president of Production and is

506
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:33,560
Speaker 1: running the NFL Network telecast on Draft weekend, it's the

507
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: fact that we have the draft rooms back again. I

508
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: love those live look ins. Man, when you're you got

509
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: a team on the clock and you go live to

510
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: see people milling around. I know a lot of times

511
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:45,720
Speaker 1: it's a whole lot of nothing. And then after the

512
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Speaker 1: picks manage, you see everybody clapping in there, you know,

513
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: the good work. Everybody's high five. Let's let's pat each

514
00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: other on the back. Are you've got a great job. Yeah,

515
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 1: But I still like just getting those peaks in to

516
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: the inner workings of the whole things. And it's cool.

517
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 1: It's interesting too. We talked to the you know, Charlie Yok,

518
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Speaker 1: who's in charge of everything and the production of this thing. Yeah,

519
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Speaker 1: and he said, as of now, they only got ten

520
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Speaker 1: guys in the green room. Don't think he's like twice

521
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: that many in a normal year. Yes, the numbers are down. Yeah,

522
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:21,960
Speaker 1: and ten guys and now the top guy, Lawrence Trevor

523
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Speaker 1: Lawrence be at home. He's like, you know, I'm out.

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Speaker 1: I'm sticking around with my mom and dad. I kind

525
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: of liked the way it looked last year, and I

526
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 1: got a lot of people I want to share it with,

527
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Speaker 1: and I can only bring like two people to the

528
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Speaker 1: green room. So thanks, I'll just stay in South Carolina

529
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Speaker 1: down here and I'll hang out. I just want to

530
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Speaker 1: hang out for the weekend. That's to me, That's that

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Speaker 1: is the way to go. Now, me, my, my, you know,

532
00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,959
Speaker 1: almost sixty year old self, who've already already done all

533
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Speaker 1: the draft thing and the that's me talking. I'm kind

534
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Speaker 1: of like, you know, I'd rather be at home if

535
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Speaker 1: I was a draft pick and could be there with

536
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Speaker 1: my grandkids. Yeah, that's what I would do if I

537
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 1: was a nineteen year old kid with you know, hang

538
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: out with a family. Yeah, but it's hard to talk

539
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,680
Speaker 1: those guys. I mean, not going to the place with

540
00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 1: a red carpet and being in that moment, get in

541
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Speaker 1: the first lay, you become a rich person. It's just great.

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00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: You know. As I said earlier in the week, I

543
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: think there's value too in you know, being in familiar

544
00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:28,040
Speaker 1: surroundings at home with your family members. Um. And I

545
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: think that was portrayed very well last year because with

546
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Speaker 1: the pandemic, there was no live setting and it was

547
00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: just one after the other after the other. And you

548
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 1: see like families mobbing. These guys. You see guys like sobbing.

549
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: They're crying, they got their family members hugging them. I

550
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 1: think that carried value for a lot of the prospects

551
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: this year that said, you know what, I'm gonna stay

552
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 1: home and do that. I think, yeah, I think it's

553
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: really it was, And I'll tell you this too as

554
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:59,360
Speaker 1: a viewer, like a million miles, it was that way better.

555
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,360
Speaker 1: I don't want to I like Roger. I mean, I'm laid.

556
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 1: Were acquainted with him, and I like Roger. I don't

557
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 1: want to see Roger. I want to see the kids fans.

558
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: I want to see because I remember for me, I

559
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: was by myself alone in a dorm room. Yeah, like

560
00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: my friend, like I have friends around. I was literally

561
00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:24,840
Speaker 1: in solitude and you know, to be there with you know, oh,

562
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: I hadn't given anything to have my three older brothers,

563
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: my mom and dad because they would if they went crazy.

564
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Speaker 1: My brother, my three brothers through a party that I

565
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: wasn't at the whole thing. And I was like, I

566
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Speaker 1: was like number two twenty six overall, right, a little

567
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: bit of a right, like yeah, but it wasn't as

568
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: long as these day because it was all it happened

569
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: two days. Yeah, they kept going, they didn't stop. I don't.

570
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 1: I don't think they ever stopped. They just round one

571
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: to three usually, well day one one to three, and

572
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: then the rest of it is day two. They were

573
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: I was a day twin pass round seven. Back then

574
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Speaker 1: it was yeah, I was a ninth and there were

575
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Speaker 1: two rounds after me. M so I get that I'd

576
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Speaker 1: have given anything for. But by the same token, if

577
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: they just told me I could go to New York,

578
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,440
Speaker 1: because back then everything was in New York. Go to

579
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Speaker 1: New York, take take get care of you, stay in

580
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: the hotel. I might, Mom, Dad, I'll be back in

581
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: a week. I'll see you, right. But it was compelling

582
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: to watch last year, to see the background and the

583
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: people who were involved in that guy's life. Whoever. It

584
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: was just awesome, Yeah, really awesome. We have to step aside.

585
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 1: But when we come back from these messages coming up

586
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: for you, we will get to the tweetcheet to answer

587
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 1: some of you are more pressing questions. As we sit

588
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: thirteen days away from the twenty twenty one NFL draft,

589
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker Chris Brown back in a moment here on

590
00:33:48,560 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Back in to one of Bills Live,

591
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:09,320
Speaker 1: Chris Round, Steve Casker here on an obl fan mailbag Friday,

592
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: and I want to lead off with Nick here his

593
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: question coming to us, if it's true that there's only

594
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Speaker 1: about twenty four true first round players in the draft,

595
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 1: players with first round grades, I guess he's getting at

596
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: shouldn't the Bills definitely trade back If we're only going

597
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: to get second round talent to pick thirty anyway, then

598
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: when she at least trade back so we can get

599
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: multiple second round players. So that stems from the conversation

600
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,319
Speaker 1: Steve and I had yesterday when Daniel Jeremiah, in one

601
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,359
Speaker 1: of his earlier reports said he only has first round

602
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,760
Speaker 1: grades on twenty four players in this year's class, which

603
00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 1: means he doesn't have enough players with first round grades

604
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: to fill out the first round. Now, could that be

605
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 1: the case for the Bills and several other NFL clubs. Absolutely,

606
00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 1: it may not be the case. We don't know. If

607
00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: it is the case, then yeah, I think you can

608
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 1: an argument for trading out of the thirtieth pick provided

609
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 1: all twenty four of those players with first round grades

610
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,439
Speaker 1: on your board are off the board. Because if they're not,

611
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: because other teams have their boards graded differently. Take that well,

612
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:15,839
Speaker 1: then you just sit there and take one of those

613
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: guys because he's a tremendous value at twenty at thirty

614
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 1: if you want your top twenty four players, and you

615
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 1: may not know until that's twenty ninth pick has made.

616
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 1: And and I'll say this as well, Yeah, you may

617
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 1: want to trade back. Great, you might want to a

618
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:34,120
Speaker 1: team may there may not be a taker, or at

619
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Speaker 1: least not at a price that you make it worth it.

620
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,280
Speaker 1: You don't want to trade back for a seventh rounder

621
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: as a throw in, because you could get that kid

622
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:45,759
Speaker 1: you're drafting the seventh round. After the draft's over, you

623
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,439
Speaker 1: could sign him for nothing without wasting the draft picks.

624
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: So when you get you know, you've got to get

625
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 1: a pick that's or two that makes it worth it

626
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: for you to trade out. If somebody wants to jump

627
00:35:55,640 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: up from like sixty four to thirty, well then you're

628
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: talking about something. Then they're gonna throw in three picks,

629
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: right you get you give them one, you get three back.

630
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:07,680
Speaker 1: I might getting like that what am I getting? And

631
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: maybe there next year you know how much how much

632
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,840
Speaker 1: you're willing to push that down the road for these teams.

633
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 1: All of that's on the table but it comes down

634
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,759
Speaker 1: to the basic principle. Yeah, trade back if you can,

635
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:23,560
Speaker 1: but not for nothing. It's it's gotta be worth it. Yeah.

636
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Speaker 1: And as as we spoke with Chad Ruder, NFL media

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Speaker 1: draft analyst yesterday on the show, he was saying, the

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Speaker 1: meat and potatoes of this draft is in rounds three

639
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Speaker 1: and four. So the Bills don't have a four this year.

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Speaker 1: They have two fives, but they don't have a four.

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Speaker 1: And so if you can move back from thirty to

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Speaker 1: I don't know, thirty five, thirty six, thirty seven somewhere

643
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,359
Speaker 1: in there, and you can pick up a four, there's

644
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Speaker 1: pretty good value in that because especially if you're in

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Speaker 1: a situation Steve, where you have grades on players on

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Speaker 1: your board. Let's just say hypothetically, they have players with

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Speaker 1: grades that are like one point nine eight one point

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Speaker 1: nine nine, you know, almost a second round grade, and

649
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 1: they have about ten of those guys. You have ten

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Speaker 1: players that have bottom of the first top of the

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Speaker 1: second round grades. You're probably gonna be okay with going

652
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Speaker 1: from thirty to thirty six, right because you know you're

653
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Speaker 1: still gonna be able to get a player in that range.

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Speaker 1: Even if you move back six and it's not gonna

655
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Speaker 1: be it's gonna be something like that, back six slots

656
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Speaker 1: with another pick thrown in, because if you start moving

657
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 1: back more than that, it's gonna be more than two one.

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Speaker 1: If you go from thirty to like forty five, you're

659
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Speaker 1: gonna get at least two picks back. You may get

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Speaker 1: two picks or three picks back. I'm sorry, you get

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00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: the forty five back and you get two more after that.

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Speaker 1: Maybe one of those is next year, you know what

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00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Possible. So it all comes down to, and

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Speaker 1: I'm all about it. The basic premises. You know, should

665
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:10,879
Speaker 1: you trade down if there's not that many, if there's

666
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:14,560
Speaker 1: no first rounders left answers, Yes, absolutely, But you don't

667
00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: just do it. To do it, you've got to get

668
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: something worth it in return. And if you're gonna drop back,

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Speaker 1: the further you drop back, the more you get. So

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00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:27,440
Speaker 1: you're not gonna you'll flip a second. You'll flip seconds

671
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: move up seven spots, and that'll be a compensation. You

672
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: probably won't be a fourth. I actually might be a fourth,

673
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Speaker 1: might be a fifth or sixth, depending on the value

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Speaker 1: of those picks. Yeah, we should mention tweet sheet brought

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Speaker 1: to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official equipment moving

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Speaker 1: company of the Buffalo Bills. Jeremy on the tweet sheet says,

677
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,439
Speaker 1: love the show and love hearing Bill's talk. You're gonna

678
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Speaker 1: get Maddie back on to hear or say the words

679
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 1: like Chautauqua, salamanca and kataba. That was a funny segment

680
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 1: last week. Was she having trouble with some of the

681
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 1: India she had or heard the word salamanca. What did

682
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 1: she say? I don't know how else a couple of things.

683
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 1: So I had to walk her through that. And then

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00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: you know, like even cheeked waga ktaba scjaquita, scajaquita. That's

685
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 1: another one thing about it. So her being from Chicago,

686
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 1: she that's a tough want grown up hearing people say that,

687
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,000
Speaker 1: and she was like sah, she did. She could not

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00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 1: get salomanca out at the very beginning. So I do

689
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:26,719
Speaker 1: remember walk through it. I do remember working in the

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00:39:26,719 --> 00:39:29,280
Speaker 1: news department at w GR when they were news radio,

691
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Speaker 1: and we had a young reporter come in and there

692
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 1: was an accident on the Skajaquita and so we we

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Speaker 1: send the reporter out to the scene, and I mean,

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00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 1: I felt bad. She had only been working there two weeks,

695
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: and so she's doing a live report from this scene

696
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 1: scatch Aqueda SCA. She learned quickly. Oh, yeah, it's tough.

697
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Speaker 1: I mean there's a lot of Native American terms here

698
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: in Western New York. Ten. Yeah, it's tough. I mean

699
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,080
Speaker 1: sometimes you get caught. It's I mean, it's just you're

700
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:11,319
Speaker 1: getting used to it. It's not a big deal. So

701
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 1: so listen, if you want to move out of thirty

702
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 1: on the draft chart, that's worth like six hundred and

703
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: twenty value points, right, you get down to anything past forty,

704
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 1: and you drop one hundred and twenty, It's like the

705
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,319
Speaker 1: fortieth pick is five hundred points down. That's so that's

706
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: down ten spots from your thirtieth pick, which is six twenty.

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Speaker 1: It goes six twenty to five hundred. That's one hundred

708
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,919
Speaker 1: and twenty points. So the next thing, the next draft

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Speaker 1: pick that's worth one hundred and twenty points to late four,

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Speaker 1: isn't it the last pick of the third oh four

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Speaker 1: of the third round, last pick of the third so

712
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 1: you're back in the fourth round. If that's that's if

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00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:55,839
Speaker 1: it's exactly right from from you're going from thirty to forty.

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Speaker 1: That pick hold on now thirty to four. Yeah, that pick,

715
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,399
Speaker 1: you'd cost you one hundred and twenty points. And that's

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00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 1: an exact you'd go from thirty to forty and you

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00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,439
Speaker 1: would get the last pick of the third round, which

718
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:13,399
Speaker 1: is yeah. So there you go. Yeah, we're gonna step

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Speaker 1: aside here, but when we come back, we've got an

720
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:20,279
Speaker 1: interesting fan mailbag question about defending tight ends. It's been

721
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: a thorn in the side of Buffalo's defense the last

722
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,600
Speaker 1: couple of years and most recently in the AFC title game.

723
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 1: What can be done there? That is the next question

724
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:32,719
Speaker 1: on the table, and we will get to it when

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Speaker 1: we come back here on One Bill's Live, presented by

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00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: Kaloid of Health. It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to

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00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Obl fan mailbag is open, and we're

728
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 1: gonna get right to this question from Ehorst. I just

729
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 1: read the names they are put in front of me.

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Speaker 1: After seeing tight ends have a fairly easy time against

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00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:08,359
Speaker 1: us last season, I would hope we can draft an

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00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 1: athletic player to take care of that. Would that be

733
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: a corner to play across from White or a linebacker

734
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Speaker 1: to play opposite Milano go Bills. I think it depends

735
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 1: on the matchup. Yeah, it could be. It could be

736
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Speaker 1: both at times, and it probably will be both at times.

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00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: The corner, apart from a side, the corner opposite Tredevious,

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00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 1: probably not going to be on a tight end too

739
00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:34,040
Speaker 1: often unless the offense puts the guy out to the

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00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 1: boundary and the Bills aren't on a don't have a

741
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:41,320
Speaker 1: switch call, so that may happen once in a while,

742
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 1: But a corner like a Tredavious White type corner, Levi

743
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 1: Wallace type corner, they won't get matched up on a

744
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 1: tight end very often. You're right, though, an athlete like

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00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,080
Speaker 1: Milano a linebacker to have as a third linebacker, instead

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00:42:55,080 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: of putting a guy like Taron Johnson, No, No, the

747
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 1: linebacker from last year, Tyrell Dodson, No, the guy who

748
00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:09,480
Speaker 1: replaced aj Clin, thank you, instead of putting out there right. Finally,

749
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: my mind's a steel trap. So instead of putting a

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00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: guy like a J. Klein out there, you put a

751
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:18,360
Speaker 1: guy like Matt Milano, more like at Matt Milano, or

752
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:22,399
Speaker 1: or a hybrid guy who can run with the tight

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00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 1: end and has some coverage skills. So that's the that's

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00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. And there's no question they're gonna

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00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:31,520
Speaker 1: find somebody to play opposite Tredavious White if indeed it's

756
00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: not Levi Wallace again, well yeah, I kind of look,

757
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: don't you look at that position, like, Levi Wallace is

758
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: the floor right starting at cornerback number two, that's your floor.

759
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:46,959
Speaker 1: He's your given. Yeah, that's your floor, and you're gonna

760
00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 1: see if you can do better. Now they've been looking

761
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: for to do better. I was on a podcast a

762
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,839
Speaker 1: month ago. I said, listen, that's fine, you can find

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00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 1: you don't like Levi Wallace all that, but until you

764
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: get somebody better. Yeah, just you know, take Levi Wallison.

765
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: Be happy because it's hard to replace that guy. Because

766
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 1: he plays so well. You can say what you wanted,

767
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: he's not. He's not. Fine. You get somebody better. Because

768
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 1: they've tried everything. They drafted guys not high, but they

769
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: put draft picks in there. They put high, high dollar

770
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: free agents in there one year, guys who were really motivated,

771
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: former great players, former high draft picks. They put a

772
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 1: ton of guys over there to try and take his job,

773
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 1: and nobody can get it done. Yeah, So I'm I'm

774
00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 1: I was really happy when they resigned him, because, like

775
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 1: you said, you know what you got. And he was

776
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:40,680
Speaker 1: also the same corner He was the same guy that

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00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:42,359
Speaker 1: they had out there when they were the number one,

778
00:44:42,440 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: number two defense in the NFL. It's the same guy

779
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:47,120
Speaker 1: they had out there last year when they took a

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00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 1: step back from that ranking. So and if you're gonna

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00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:52,719
Speaker 1: say he's the difference, you're gonna have to convince me

782
00:44:52,719 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: of that, because I don't believe he was. Um. So, yeah,

783
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: the second number two cornerback has been issue because you

784
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,399
Speaker 1: got such a great guy on the other side, and

785
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 1: Levi was a free agent coming into this year. You thought, well,

786
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: we gotta get somebody. Dane Jackson, who is you know,

787
00:45:10,320 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: your flavor of the month. I get it. The guy

788
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 1: can play and he's he's got a lot going for him.

789
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 1: If the guy, if he was two inches taller than

790
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 1: fifteen pounds heavier, he would have been a number seven pick,

791
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,479
Speaker 1: not a seventh round pick. Well, hopefully he's at least

792
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 1: stronger this year, getting the benefit of an NFL offseason

793
00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: conditioning program regimen. Provided he's doing the right things on

794
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 1: his own right now, and there's no indication to think

795
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: that he wouldn't. I'm just fascinated by how they get

796
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 1: an answer at that position in terms of covering the

797
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:46,600
Speaker 1: tight ends, Like is it do they try to look

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00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: for somebody who's a linebackers, safety tweener, right, you know,

799
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Speaker 1: a body type like that that has experience in coverage.

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00:45:56,239 --> 00:46:01,360
Speaker 1: You know, maybe it's some big outside corner that you

801
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:05,440
Speaker 1: worry about him keeping up catchup speed, that kind of

802
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:08,040
Speaker 1: stuff on the outside at the NFL level, But you

803
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:12,320
Speaker 1: move him inside and you play him in the slot

804
00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 1: as a hybrid kind of guy that you know can

805
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,480
Speaker 1: hold up against the run because he's got the size

806
00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 1: and it has enough coverage experience where you're not you're

807
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:25,359
Speaker 1: not at a disadvantage in a coverage. He stands next

808
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 1: to the coach until they go two tight ends, then

809
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: he's on the field, right or which you know you're

810
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:32,400
Speaker 1: gonna see with New England, right, if they go two wides,

811
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:34,960
Speaker 1: two tights, he's on the field. If they go one wide,

812
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 1: two tights, two backs, he's on the field. You know

813
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:40,479
Speaker 1: all that kind of all those kind of personal personations. Um, yeah,

814
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:43,879
Speaker 1: twelve personnel, twenty two personnel, he's on the field, And

815
00:46:45,360 --> 00:46:48,200
Speaker 1: you know that's he stands there ready for that. That's

816
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 1: his package and and other you know, assorted matchup problems

817
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:54,319
Speaker 1: that other teams will have along the way on an

818
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: individual basis. And yeah, I think that's what you're you're

819
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:02,320
Speaker 1: talking about, not a corner, but you're talking about a

820
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 1: Matt Milano. Maybe not a guy's big as Matt Milano,

821
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: but a better athlete, maybe a guy played strong safety

822
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 1: in college. That's why I like that kid from Appalachian

823
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:12,239
Speaker 1: State last year, Keem Davis Gaither, who went very high

824
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 1: in the fourth round on Day three last year. He

825
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 1: was like a two hundred and twenty five pound linebacker

826
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 1: at app State, real athletic kid, ran like a deer.

827
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Speaker 1: And I was thinking, you know, this is kind of

828
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 1: one of those guys that they could play in a

829
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 1: hybrid sense. And in round four, you can afford to

830
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:34,279
Speaker 1: take a sub package player, right and you know, knowing

831
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 1: how much the Bills play Nickel, I was like, may

832
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 1: not even be a sub package player, depending on how

833
00:47:40,600 --> 00:47:43,479
Speaker 1: you want to deploy your people, right. So I find

834
00:47:43,520 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: that interesting. And I wonder if they looked hard and

835
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 1: fast for that, not necessarily at the top of the draft,

836
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:52,439
Speaker 1: but come late Day two, early day three, Is that

837
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 1: a guy that they're trying to find. I really, I

838
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:58,279
Speaker 1: really wonder about that. We'll say this though, before we go. Yeah,

839
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:01,160
Speaker 1: we're up against the break. You. You can't have too

840
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:04,319
Speaker 1: many good coverage guys. You cannot have too many good

841
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:06,319
Speaker 1: coverage guys. And I don't want to get away from that.

842
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,359
Speaker 1: And as much as I love the big guys up

843
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 1: front and they can dominate a game. And we saw

844
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:11,960
Speaker 1: how important it was in the super Bowl when your

845
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:15,399
Speaker 1: offensive line or the other team is decimated, you got

846
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:17,439
Speaker 1: to be able to take advantage of it. But I'm

847
00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:21,759
Speaker 1: telling you this, give me coverage corners in this draft.

848
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 1: When in doubt, take a corner and you'll be fine.

849
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 1: I think break time for us. But when we come back.

850
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 1: It's The Bill's newest edition at the guard position. It

851
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:34,719
Speaker 1: is Forrest lamp Buffalo's newest free agent signing for the

852
00:48:34,760 --> 00:48:37,759
Speaker 1: offensive line. He joins us next here on One Bill's Live,

853
00:48:37,840 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. A

854
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,839
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker who has been all over the field, kind

855
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 1: of unique. He was kind of a dual role player

856
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:11,799
Speaker 1: for you. Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even in

857
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:17,799
Speaker 1: the strategyre of normalcy. He welcome to our number two

858
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 1: of a Friday edition of One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

859
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,920
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you, and please to be joined on

860
00:49:22,960 --> 00:49:26,880
Speaker 1: the line at this time by the newest man in

861
00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 1: the Bill's offensive line room signing on the dotted line

862
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 1: recently one year contract. It is one Forest Lamp joining

863
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 1: us on the phone, and Forest, how you doing h

864
00:49:38,800 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 1: Here is your unofficial welcome to Buffalo. I'm sure you'll

865
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 1: get a more formal one from the team itself if

866
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 1: you haven't already. But glad you're on the roster and

867
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. Congratulations, Thank you so much. I appreciate

868
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:53,439
Speaker 1: you guys having me. So I have to start here

869
00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 1: forrest because you know, just looking into your background a

870
00:49:56,200 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 1: little bit, Venice, Florida is where you played your high school, Paul.

871
00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: How does a guy from Venice, Florida end up at

872
00:50:03,680 --> 00:50:08,239
Speaker 1: Western Kentucky. So it's funny. Everybody always asked me that,

873
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:10,880
Speaker 1: you know, originally I wanted to stay in Florida, and

874
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 1: I had some offers from similar schools like WKU. You know,

875
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:18,360
Speaker 1: I had F A u F, I U had UCF

876
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:21,400
Speaker 1: and USF really really late and I had Miami for

877
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 1: a little bit and I had somebody to commit, and

878
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: so they didn't have a spot for me anymore. And

879
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 1: long story short is the head coach there was Willie

880
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:32,680
Speaker 1: Taggart and he went to Manatee High School, which is

881
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 1: one of probably Venice's biggest rival. And you know, he

882
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: kept calling me and calling me and just telling me,

883
00:50:39,160 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 1: you know, you need to come up here. And he

884
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: was from Manatee. He went to Western Kentucky, was an

885
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:47,239
Speaker 1: All American, his jerseys retired there and he just told me,

886
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:49,120
Speaker 1: He's like, you know, I understand why you want to

887
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 1: stay in Florida, and YadA YadA, but just come, just

888
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:54,799
Speaker 1: come visit and if you like it, you like it.

889
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:56,439
Speaker 1: If you don't, at least you can say you tried

890
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 1: for me. And like I said, the short story is,

891
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:01,279
Speaker 1: I went up there and fell in love with it.

892
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 1: It was brand new. They just went to U D

893
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:06,799
Speaker 1: one from D one double A and everything was brand new.

894
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 1: It was beautiful and Coach Tiger was a good coach

895
00:51:09,800 --> 00:51:12,799
Speaker 1: and he talked me into it and it was the

896
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:14,640
Speaker 1: best decision in my life. I'm really happy I went there.

897
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:16,440
Speaker 1: So you came out of Western Kentucky played for the

898
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 1: Hilltoppers for you know, had a nice career there. You

899
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:21,719
Speaker 1: came out, you were considering one of the top offensive

900
00:51:21,719 --> 00:51:25,439
Speaker 1: interior offensive lineman coming out. You've played in LA, well,

901
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 1: San Diego in LA for for five years. Give us

902
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: a little insight into your experience there with the Chargers.

903
00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 1: It was a great experience, you know, because I'm extremely

904
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 1: thankful for Tom and coach Winn at the time for

905
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 1: drafting me and you know, changing my life. It's every

906
00:51:40,600 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 1: football player's room to play in the NFL, so I

907
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,279
Speaker 1: can't be can't be any more thankful to them. And

908
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:46,920
Speaker 1: it was a great time. You know. We started out

909
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: in San Diego and we were there from April until

910
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 1: camp started, and then once camp started, we moved up

911
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 1: to LA and they made the transition as easy as possible.

912
00:51:55,840 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 1: Obviously it's not easy moving an entire football team, but

913
00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 1: it was great, some great friends, and you know, I

914
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 1: was injured quite a bit my first three years, and

915
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:08,080
Speaker 1: my last year was first year finally healthy. But I

916
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: loved it. It was amazing and I was glad I

917
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 1: was able to experience it. How'd you navigate those first

918
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:14,799
Speaker 1: couple of years far us, because you know, a new

919
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 1: guy in the door. You know, you want to prove

920
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 1: yourself to your teammates and your coaches, and when injuries

921
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 1: getting the way, I mean, man, that can be frustrating.

922
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: So how did you kind of stay mentally tough through

923
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 1: those setbacks? Yeah, you know, it's extremely frustrating, and you

924
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:33,919
Speaker 1: ask any athletes that's been hurt, it's it definitely plays

925
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 1: with your mind a little bit. And for me, it

926
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:39,600
Speaker 1: was just relying on my faith, you know, my Christian

927
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:42,960
Speaker 1: and rely on my faith a lot, and my fiance Tasha,

928
00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:45,440
Speaker 1: and then probably one of the more important things is

929
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: my teammates. Like you said, I was a rookie there

930
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:50,160
Speaker 1: when I first got hurt, and we had only been

931
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 1: in camp for less than a week, and some of

932
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,000
Speaker 1: the older guys who are you know, kind of some

933
00:52:56,040 --> 00:52:59,040
Speaker 1: of the more famous guys like Antonio Gates and Melvin

934
00:52:59,200 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 1: Ingram and you know, of the more higher profile players

935
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 1: Philip and you know, as soon as I got hurt,

936
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:06,279
Speaker 1: those guys all came up to me and told me, hey,

937
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 1: we've been you know, Phillips had an ACL, Melvin's had

938
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 1: a ACL. I'm sure Antonio has been hurt up somewhere

939
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 1: along the line. But they just all came up to

940
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:16,200
Speaker 1: me and you know, encouraged me and told me, you know,

941
00:53:16,239 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: they've been hurt before, they've been there, and you know

942
00:53:18,719 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: you're able to come back. It takes some time, but

943
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 1: you'll be fine. And you know, for my teammates who

944
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:25,800
Speaker 1: had only known me for maybe a month or two

945
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:29,359
Speaker 1: and didn't really know me personally yet, to take the

946
00:53:29,360 --> 00:53:30,799
Speaker 1: time out of their day to come and make sure

947
00:53:30,800 --> 00:53:33,880
Speaker 1: I was okay, especially the higher you know profile guys,

948
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:35,200
Speaker 1: meant a lot to me because they didn't have to

949
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:38,319
Speaker 1: do that, you know. Yeah, And what did it mean

950
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 1: to you personally as well? Now in this last year

951
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:45,799
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, to play every single solitary offensive snap for

952
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:47,759
Speaker 1: the offensive rookie of the year, that had to be

953
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:49,719
Speaker 1: feel really good when it was all said and done.

954
00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: I know the season didn't end like you wanted it to.

955
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 1: You guys didn't make the playoffs that kind of thing.

956
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:58,000
Speaker 1: But to put a personally put a season like that

957
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:00,360
Speaker 1: together in front of a quarterback who did that, it

958
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 1: had to mean a lot to you personally. It did. Yeah,

959
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:05,839
Speaker 1: it meant a ton. You know, Herbie's a great guy

960
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: and same as Philip Rivers, you know, I've been lucky

961
00:54:09,000 --> 00:54:11,680
Speaker 1: to play under you know, great quarterbacks, and you know

962
00:54:11,719 --> 00:54:14,200
Speaker 1: you want to do your best for those guys, So

963
00:54:14,239 --> 00:54:15,680
Speaker 1: when you're out on the field, you're gonna try to

964
00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 1: do your best. But like you said, for me, personally,

965
00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 1: it was it was a great feeling to know that

966
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:23,000
Speaker 1: I was able to come back after three years of

967
00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 1: being injured, having three surgeries in three years, and you know,

968
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:29,279
Speaker 1: the doubt does start to come in at times, and uh,

969
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 1: it's it's frustrating to say the least. So for me,

970
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:37,520
Speaker 1: it was reassuring and meant a lot to me. Talking

971
00:54:37,560 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 1: to Bill's offensive lineman, Forrest lamp on the line and Freest.

972
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:43,320
Speaker 1: Speaking of quarterbacks, you know you're gonna be playing for

973
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 1: a pretty dark and good one here, Josh Allen. I know,

974
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:50,640
Speaker 1: I know he likes reaching out to teammates, especially new ones.

975
00:54:50,719 --> 00:54:52,640
Speaker 1: Have you heard from him he had via text your

976
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 1: phone call yet? I have not heard from him yet,

977
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 1: but I was literally just in Buffalo yesterday signing so

978
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 1: got you stuff. But what are you What are your

979
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:03,719
Speaker 1: thoughts about him? Because I know he and Herbert share

980
00:55:03,760 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 1: a lot of similar physical traits. Uh, I don't know

981
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 1: if it's gonna look all that different with Josh Allen

982
00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:12,399
Speaker 1: throwing behind you. No, I know for sure. Yeah, they're

983
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:14,879
Speaker 1: very similar. They're both great quarterbacks. You know, we played

984
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 1: the build last year and you know, Josh played fairly well,

985
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,920
Speaker 1: and obviously, like you said, we didn't make the playoffs,

986
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:22,360
Speaker 1: so we were able to watch some of the playoff

987
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:24,880
Speaker 1: games and uh, you know, he's a great quarterback. I

988
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:29,480
Speaker 1: look forward to blocking for him. I was gonna say, Uh,

989
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:32,480
Speaker 1: I know Steve was interested in this. When you guys

990
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:36,840
Speaker 1: came in here last year to play the Bills. We're curious,

991
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:40,160
Speaker 1: like what was kind of the general scouting report on them,

992
00:55:40,160 --> 00:55:41,799
Speaker 1: Like what were your you know, what were you hearing

993
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 1: from your coaches that week as you got ready for

994
00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:46,360
Speaker 1: that game. We're just kind of curious to kind of

995
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:48,799
Speaker 1: see it from the other side. Oh, you guys are

996
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:50,759
Speaker 1: making me dig into Uh well, you don't have to

997
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:53,880
Speaker 1: give anyway any state secrets, but in general, what in general,

998
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,919
Speaker 1: what was the general No, No, there was no, no,

999
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:58,719
Speaker 1: no secrets at all. I'm just saying, you know, each

1000
00:55:58,800 --> 00:56:00,840
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny as you're playing the season and

1001
00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:02,839
Speaker 1: you're scouting a team, you know, as soon as you're

1002
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 1: done with that game, you move on to the next one.

1003
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 1: You're making me digg into some files in my brain

1004
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:11,319
Speaker 1: back here. But overall, obviously they're a great team. You know,

1005
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:13,000
Speaker 1: they have a ton of offensive weapons. And I wasn't

1006
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:16,880
Speaker 1: in the defensive meeting rooms, but from the offensive standpoint,

1007
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 1: their defense was great. And you know, they have great

1008
00:56:19,680 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 1: players like you know, Oliver and some of the other

1009
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 1: defensive linemen who have been there for a really, really

1010
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:28,440
Speaker 1: long time and played a long time. And they're good team.

1011
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:31,520
Speaker 1: And then offensively, obviously, it doesn't mean it doesn't much

1012
00:56:31,560 --> 00:56:33,399
Speaker 1: need to be said about that. They Like I said,

1013
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:35,279
Speaker 1: I wasn't in the defensive meeting room, but you know,

1014
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:37,560
Speaker 1: we would always have an offense there, I mean a

1015
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 1: team meeting, and Coach Lynn would kind of go over,

1016
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:44,640
Speaker 1: you know, just the overall aspects of the offense in

1017
00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:48,480
Speaker 1: the defense, and he was not he wasn't playing around

1018
00:56:48,520 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 1: with our defense when he told him their offense was extraordinary.

1019
00:56:51,800 --> 00:56:53,360
Speaker 1: You know, they have a ton of weapons with Diggs

1020
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 1: and Josh, and they're hard to stop. Give us a

1021
00:56:57,200 --> 00:57:00,480
Speaker 1: little insight as to when the conversation goes. So how

1022
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:03,719
Speaker 1: when it started with the Bills, who you spoke to

1023
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:06,439
Speaker 1: on the phone, I know your agent probably took care

1024
00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:08,640
Speaker 1: of a lot of the conversation, but when did you

1025
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 1: first have personal contact with anybody in the Bills organization

1026
00:57:12,400 --> 00:57:16,040
Speaker 1: and how that conversation go. Yeah, so your agent mainly

1027
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 1: handles all of that leading up the free agency, and

1028
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 1: then after free agency, we had three or four teams

1029
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:26,520
Speaker 1: that we were going back and forth between, and you know,

1030
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:30,160
Speaker 1: the Bills just seem like the right fits and they're

1031
00:57:30,160 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 1: a winning team, a playoff team, and you know that's

1032
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 1: every that's every player's dream is to uh, you know,

1033
00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl. Every guy can say that he

1034
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:41,480
Speaker 1: wants to do. You know, the receiver can say I

1035
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 1: want to catch a thousand you know balls and this

1036
00:57:43,560 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 1: and that, but at the end of the day, every

1037
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 1: player wants to win a Super Bowl, and uh, I

1038
00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:49,280
Speaker 1: think the Bills are really close to doing that. So

1039
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 1: the first time I ever had contact with any of

1040
00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:53,640
Speaker 1: the coaches is you know, once we kind of got

1041
00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 1: the deal done. That's kind of how it goes. Your

1042
00:57:55,800 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 1: agent mainly handles everything up until you know, you kind

1043
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:01,040
Speaker 1: of agree on whatnot. And then yeah, as soon as

1044
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: we agreed on everything, Um, you know, coach McDermott called

1045
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:08,360
Speaker 1: me the O line coach. Coach Johnson called me everybody

1046
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 1: you know dabbled, So I've kind of talked to everybody

1047
00:58:12,040 --> 00:58:16,440
Speaker 1: offensively other than the you know, the defensive social teams coaches,

1048
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:19,160
Speaker 1: right and then Forrest. I know, I'm not telling you

1049
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:21,400
Speaker 1: anything you don't know already playing in this league, but

1050
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 1: just coming in here to compete for a starting role,

1051
00:58:25,800 --> 00:58:28,080
Speaker 1: you know, with some entrenched guys in some of the

1052
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 1: guard positions already. I'm just curious as to your outlook

1053
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:33,560
Speaker 1: on that. Maybe it's no different from any other competition

1054
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 1: you've ever been a part of at any level of football.

1055
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:38,880
Speaker 1: But you're you're coming, You're coming to a new landing spot,

1056
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:40,680
Speaker 1: I guess, so it's a little bit different from your

1057
00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: prior experience in the NFL where you had become accustomed

1058
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 1: to your surroundings with the Chargers. Now it's a new venue.

1059
00:58:47,520 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 1: How do you kind of look at that whole thing,

1060
00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:51,400
Speaker 1: you know, jumping into that competition to try to get

1061
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 1: a starting job. Well, like you said, you don't look

1062
00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 1: at it anything differently. It's um, you know, it's the

1063
00:58:56,160 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 1: same from Pop Warner to high school to college to

1064
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:01,800
Speaker 1: you know, my last couple years are the Chargers every

1065
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 1: every training camp as a competition, and like you said,

1066
00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 1: another some guys there that have started a lot of

1067
00:59:08,560 --> 00:59:11,240
Speaker 1: games and are kind of entrenched in, uh, you know,

1068
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 1: the offense, and they've been here a lot longer than me.

1069
00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:15,160
Speaker 1: But I'm just looking to help out anyway I can.

1070
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:17,400
Speaker 1: Whether you know, Coach Johnson's gonna have to make that

1071
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:21,240
Speaker 1: final decision on who starts who doesn't start, but you know,

1072
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 1: whether I'm a starter or a backup, whatever the case

1073
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:26,400
Speaker 1: may be. Like I said, I'm just here to help

1074
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 1: and you know, try to get us to our overall goal,

1075
00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:30,800
Speaker 1: which is wont to Super Bowl. You you went through

1076
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 1: this last season like everybody, all of us did, knowing

1077
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,960
Speaker 1: and realized living through what was a really strange year.

1078
00:59:37,000 --> 00:59:39,240
Speaker 1: You played all these games with no fans in the stands.

1079
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:44,520
Speaker 1: You've been through some really weird crowd experiences because you

1080
00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: did play for the San Diego Chargers in LA where

1081
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 1: they were playing in the soccer stadium and there in

1082
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:54,760
Speaker 1: the crowds were predominantly away crowds. You played in this

1083
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 1: season in twenty twenty when there was no fans anywhere

1084
00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:02,680
Speaker 1: until later in the season. What are your thoughts about

1085
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 1: getting back into this season where you got a chance

1086
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:07,680
Speaker 1: to play not only in front of full stadiums, but

1087
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:10,400
Speaker 1: in a place like Buffalo, who's known for having a

1088
01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 1: really passionate crowd. I'm excited to say the least. But yeah,

1089
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:18,479
Speaker 1: we have played in some weird situations, like you said,

1090
01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:22,440
Speaker 1: and in California, you know, playing that stuff Hub, it

1091
01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:25,600
Speaker 1: was it was small, and like you said, a lot

1092
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:28,000
Speaker 1: of the ticket prices were extremely high, which you know,

1093
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:31,360
Speaker 1: turned away a lot of our fans, and so there's

1094
01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:34,560
Speaker 1: predominantly away fans, which is it stinks because you've never

1095
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:36,680
Speaker 1: feel like you have a home game. But the stadium

1096
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:38,640
Speaker 1: itself is really cool. You know, not many times you

1097
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 1: get to play on a soccer stadium. And the fans

1098
01:00:41,720 --> 01:00:43,680
Speaker 1: they felt like they were really close to the you know,

1099
01:00:43,720 --> 01:00:45,280
Speaker 1: to the field, like they were almost right on top

1100
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:47,080
Speaker 1: of you. So, like I said, you can look at

1101
01:00:47,080 --> 01:00:49,240
Speaker 1: all the negatives, but there are worth some positive about

1102
01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:51,200
Speaker 1: playing there, and it was it was a neat experience.

1103
01:00:51,240 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 1: And then last year playing with no fans, it was

1104
01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:56,920
Speaker 1: really weird because you know, each state was different. So

1105
01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:58,680
Speaker 1: like when we played Miami they had some fans, and

1106
01:00:58,760 --> 01:01:01,680
Speaker 1: we played Kansas City they had fans, but other places

1107
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:03,280
Speaker 1: where they had no fans. It was almost like you

1108
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:07,400
Speaker 1: were at a practice and we always joke around, you know,

1109
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:09,840
Speaker 1: we love the fans being there and whatnot, But on

1110
01:01:09,880 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball for away game, it

1111
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:16,440
Speaker 1: was nice not having fans because we never had to

1112
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:20,680
Speaker 1: worry about a silent cadence or code words or anything

1113
01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:23,840
Speaker 1: like that, because anytime Justin needed to change anything, we

1114
01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:25,919
Speaker 1: could always hear him because there was no fans there.

1115
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:30,320
Speaker 1: Last one for me, Forrest, We've the Bills have never

1116
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:33,040
Speaker 1: been part of the Hard Knocks series, and I know

1117
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:36,000
Speaker 1: the Chargers and their apps were part of it last year.

1118
01:01:37,600 --> 01:01:40,840
Speaker 1: What was it like to kind of have a camera

1119
01:01:40,920 --> 01:01:45,120
Speaker 1: crew virtually embedded with you guys at training camp? Was

1120
01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:49,200
Speaker 1: it was it noticeable every single day with all the

1121
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:52,200
Speaker 1: access that they had, or did it just kind of

1122
01:01:52,240 --> 01:01:55,400
Speaker 1: become something that after a short period of time you

1123
01:01:55,480 --> 01:02:00,520
Speaker 1: just didn't notice anymore, you know. I've I've heard different things.

1124
01:02:00,560 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 1: You know, we had Hard Knocks during COVID, so therefore

1125
01:02:04,680 --> 01:02:06,760
Speaker 1: they didn't have as much from what I've heard, I

1126
01:02:06,760 --> 01:02:08,560
Speaker 1: don't know if this is true or not. They didn't

1127
01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:12,400
Speaker 1: have as much access as they normally do, so they

1128
01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:15,520
Speaker 1: are it really wasn't that noticeable, to be honest with you.

1129
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:18,480
Speaker 1: You know, you could see him at practice and filming

1130
01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:20,560
Speaker 1: practices and things like that, but in the meeting rooms

1131
01:02:20,560 --> 01:02:22,720
Speaker 1: they just set up a camera up in the you know,

1132
01:02:22,840 --> 01:02:25,520
Speaker 1: corner of the meeting room. We never really saw anybody

1133
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:30,280
Speaker 1: in the hotel. So for us, it really wasn't that noticeable.

1134
01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:33,840
Speaker 1: But I've heard from other teammates that have been on

1135
01:02:34,000 --> 01:02:35,720
Speaker 1: or other friends that have been on hard knocks with

1136
01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 1: other teams, that it's usually a little bit more noticeable.

1137
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:41,520
Speaker 1: But with COVID, they weren't able to do everything that

1138
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:44,520
Speaker 1: they used to do. Well, for one last thing for me,

1139
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:49,280
Speaker 1: how do I purchase a forest lamp? You know, It's

1140
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:51,280
Speaker 1: funny is when you when we first got on here

1141
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:53,200
Speaker 1: and you're like, so, I gotta start with this. I

1142
01:02:53,200 --> 01:02:54,960
Speaker 1: thought that's what you were going to ask about everybody

1143
01:02:54,960 --> 01:02:59,840
Speaker 1: always we're gonna let you get away. Well you gotta

1144
01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 1: do is go to lamps plus dot com and uh

1145
01:03:02,720 --> 01:03:05,280
Speaker 1: go ahead and search for US lamp or I think

1146
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:08,240
Speaker 1: you can search Sekoia lamp and it'll come up. You

1147
01:03:08,280 --> 01:03:11,720
Speaker 1: can buying right off their website. Ye. Well, Sekoia is

1148
01:03:11,760 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: a very California esque lamp. We're gonna have to come

1149
01:03:14,160 --> 01:03:15,760
Speaker 1: up with some kind of buffalo lamp. We're gonna have

1150
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:18,240
Speaker 1: to figure out a design element for that and get

1151
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 1: in touch with your people at Lamps Plus for that

1152
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:22,720
Speaker 1: to see what they can do for us. Get a

1153
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:25,560
Speaker 1: buffalo style lamp for you this year, no doubt. Well,

1154
01:03:25,640 --> 01:03:28,440
Speaker 1: we do something every year, so I'm sure as long

1155
01:03:28,480 --> 01:03:30,600
Speaker 1: as everything goes as playing well, we'll come out with

1156
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 1: something good enough. Well, thanks for as for giving us

1157
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:35,000
Speaker 1: some time today. We appreciate it. Congrats again and we

1158
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:36,600
Speaker 1: look forward to seeing you out there on the field

1159
01:03:37,160 --> 01:03:39,720
Speaker 1: later this year. Thank you guys so much for having me.

1160
01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:41,160
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. You have a good one, all right.

1161
01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:44,720
Speaker 1: That's Forest Lamp, Buffalo's newest offensive lineman joining us here

1162
01:03:44,760 --> 01:03:49,520
Speaker 1: on one Bills Live. And he's when when you listen,

1163
01:03:50,400 --> 01:03:53,800
Speaker 1: can't you just hear when you talk to a new

1164
01:03:53,800 --> 01:03:55,520
Speaker 1: player coming in the door for the Bills, and like

1165
01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:57,600
Speaker 1: if you close your eyes and you just kind of

1166
01:03:57,640 --> 01:04:00,560
Speaker 1: listen to them articulate, you know what foot ball means

1167
01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:04,760
Speaker 1: to them, the opportunity they feel they have here. Like

1168
01:04:05,200 --> 01:04:08,360
Speaker 1: I'm always thinking in my head. Bills, DNA bills, DNA bills,

1169
01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:10,800
Speaker 1: DNA you can just hear it and these players because

1170
01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:13,200
Speaker 1: now we know what it is for this front office

1171
01:04:13,200 --> 01:04:15,760
Speaker 1: in terms of what they look for, and when we

1172
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:18,000
Speaker 1: get one of these guys on the air, it's just like, yep,

1173
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:20,439
Speaker 1: that's the Bills DNA right there. Looking at what he's

1174
01:04:20,440 --> 01:04:22,479
Speaker 1: been through, we went through a list of the things

1175
01:04:22,480 --> 01:04:25,040
Speaker 1: that he's done since he's been in the in the league.

1176
01:04:25,080 --> 01:04:27,640
Speaker 1: Certainly he had some injury probably three He had broke

1177
01:04:27,640 --> 01:04:30,360
Speaker 1: his leg and then two knee surgeries as well during

1178
01:04:30,400 --> 01:04:32,560
Speaker 1: his career, and right out of the gate too. Have

1179
01:04:32,640 --> 01:04:34,920
Speaker 1: you seen it? First week of training camp, so that

1180
01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:38,160
Speaker 1: that stinks. He was playing in sand in LA with

1181
01:04:38,200 --> 01:04:42,600
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, a Hall of Fame quarterback, in a soccer stadium,

1182
01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:45,480
Speaker 1: very intimates of the team transition. He goes to camp

1183
01:04:45,720 --> 01:04:47,720
Speaker 1: in LA for the first time, they open that thing

1184
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:52,080
Speaker 1: up in La and then this last year finally gets

1185
01:04:52,080 --> 01:04:54,120
Speaker 1: on the field as a real starter. He was on

1186
01:04:54,200 --> 01:04:58,760
Speaker 1: hard knocks in a COVID pandemic season. I mean this

1187
01:04:58,920 --> 01:05:00,680
Speaker 1: one thing after it you talk about a five year

1188
01:05:00,760 --> 01:05:05,240
Speaker 1: stretch of being going through not all obviously none of

1189
01:05:05,280 --> 01:05:06,920
Speaker 1: it is his own doing, except for the fact that

1190
01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:11,000
Speaker 1: he's playing football victim of circumstance. Yeah, there's a guy

1191
01:05:11,040 --> 01:05:15,520
Speaker 1: with some miles on his odometer that really forget about

1192
01:05:15,520 --> 01:05:18,400
Speaker 1: the physical nature of it, just what he's experienced being

1193
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:21,520
Speaker 1: on hard knocks, changing teams. Now, he's been a free agent,

1194
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:25,439
Speaker 1: he was a draft pick, he's been injured, and he's

1195
01:05:25,440 --> 01:05:28,240
Speaker 1: also been kind of a foundational player who played on

1196
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:32,720
Speaker 1: every single solitary offensive snap last year, played with a

1197
01:05:32,800 --> 01:05:35,600
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback who is Offensive Rookie of the Year, and

1198
01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:37,360
Speaker 1: he played with a Hall of Fame guy who'd been

1199
01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:40,800
Speaker 1: there since. He was lucky because I just got dropped

1200
01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:43,360
Speaker 1: into a situation here where he's playing with another Predamn,

1201
01:05:43,600 --> 01:05:46,360
Speaker 1: that's a guy who's you talk about a guy who's

1202
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:49,560
Speaker 1: got some water under the bridge at a young age.

1203
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:53,480
Speaker 1: Forrest Lamp fits the Bill, and I think the Bills

1204
01:05:53,520 --> 01:05:55,480
Speaker 1: probably see it this way to a certain extent. You

1205
01:05:55,480 --> 01:05:57,720
Speaker 1: can make the argument that after playing one hundred percent

1206
01:05:57,720 --> 01:05:59,680
Speaker 1: of the snaps last year, that his career is finally

1207
01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:03,120
Speaker 1: on an upward trajectory for the first time. Chance. Yeah,

1208
01:06:03,200 --> 01:06:06,040
Speaker 1: ever enters his fifth NFL season and get a chance

1209
01:06:06,080 --> 01:06:08,640
Speaker 1: to fulfill his second round status and play like the

1210
01:06:08,680 --> 01:06:10,520
Speaker 1: player he thought he could play when he was a younger.

1211
01:06:10,640 --> 01:06:12,160
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I mean at that Senior Bowl in

1212
01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:15,480
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, he stood out like he stood out, he

1213
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:17,960
Speaker 1: was very evident. It was evident to me that he

1214
01:06:18,040 --> 01:06:21,040
Speaker 1: was probably one of the three best offensive linemen at

1215
01:06:21,080 --> 01:06:23,080
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl and then proved to be one of

1216
01:06:23,120 --> 01:06:24,960
Speaker 1: the first guards to come off the board in the

1217
01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:29,240
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen NFL Draft. Six he's got his hands or

1218
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:31,960
Speaker 1: ten and three eights or something like that, ten and five,

1219
01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:33,840
Speaker 1: eight and five. I was gonna ask him about that.

1220
01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:37,440
Speaker 1: I forgot I wow, because because you know, that's like

1221
01:06:37,520 --> 01:06:42,200
Speaker 1: frying pans for hands. Yeah, like it's big. And I

1222
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:45,080
Speaker 1: because Josh has got ten in chance. You go online

1223
01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:48,120
Speaker 1: and you look at all the stats and they and

1224
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:50,960
Speaker 1: they all occasionally all the websites, they go, yeah, they

1225
01:06:50,960 --> 01:06:54,640
Speaker 1: measure their hands, And I was like, wow, what's that number?

1226
01:06:54,640 --> 01:06:58,439
Speaker 1: Ten and five eights. That's big, that's yeah. And he's

1227
01:06:58,440 --> 01:07:00,640
Speaker 1: a big dude, and you expect most guys. And I've

1228
01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:03,520
Speaker 1: I've shaken hands with guys who have ridiculously huge hand

1229
01:07:03,560 --> 01:07:07,680
Speaker 1: Those meat hooks, yeah, those are yeah, Like Drew Bledsoe

1230
01:07:08,040 --> 01:07:10,480
Speaker 1: had some big snake hands, you know, I mean, just

1231
01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:13,160
Speaker 1: like say snake it's like the snake wraps around your

1232
01:07:13,280 --> 01:07:17,480
Speaker 1: entire hand. That's thoughts he was when he shook my hand,

1233
01:07:17,520 --> 01:07:19,280
Speaker 1: it was like he was shaking a dow rod, you know,

1234
01:07:19,320 --> 01:07:21,960
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just right. Yeah, it was guys

1235
01:07:22,000 --> 01:07:25,040
Speaker 1: like that. I don't know. It's funny because I had

1236
01:07:25,120 --> 01:07:28,880
Speaker 1: no clue about that until I started being around pro football.

1237
01:07:28,920 --> 01:07:32,800
Speaker 1: When I was at Northwestern. Scouts would come down and

1238
01:07:33,120 --> 01:07:37,280
Speaker 1: major you know, they say hold your hand out, handout,

1239
01:07:37,280 --> 01:07:44,280
Speaker 1: and I you know, they yeah, okay, thank you, yep, wingspan. Yeah,

1240
01:07:44,360 --> 01:07:47,680
Speaker 1: the whole thing, all of that. They get everything. We do.

1241
01:07:47,760 --> 01:07:49,600
Speaker 1: Want to get back to the phones because we got

1242
01:07:49,640 --> 01:07:52,200
Speaker 1: some people patiently waiting there with some ob L fan

1243
01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:56,120
Speaker 1: mail bag questions. Justin and Elmira is going to lead

1244
01:07:56,200 --> 01:07:57,880
Speaker 1: us off, Justin, what do you have for us? You're

1245
01:07:57,880 --> 01:08:02,680
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live. Hey, just what a segment by

1246
01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:05,720
Speaker 1: that guy. I'm excited to see what Forrest springs to

1247
01:08:05,800 --> 01:08:09,360
Speaker 1: the team this year. I've heard of him and know

1248
01:08:09,440 --> 01:08:11,840
Speaker 1: a little bit about him, and I'm really excited that

1249
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 1: he's a part of the organization. Sounds like a sounds

1250
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:19,000
Speaker 1: like a custom fit guy just listening to him. So

1251
01:08:19,080 --> 01:08:23,599
Speaker 1: great segment, gentlemen. Um As a Penn State fan. Uh.

1252
01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:26,679
Speaker 1: In my in my ideal world, if I was stranding

1253
01:08:26,760 --> 01:08:31,919
Speaker 1: being for a day during the draft, I would hopefully

1254
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:34,200
Speaker 1: be able to come up with some kind of package

1255
01:08:34,200 --> 01:08:36,439
Speaker 1: to go up and get Michael Parsons. I think he

1256
01:08:36,520 --> 01:08:40,160
Speaker 1: would be you know, not to supplant anybody, but as

1257
01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:43,360
Speaker 1: an option to you know, cover the likes of Hunter Henry,

1258
01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:47,000
Speaker 1: John hu Smith and hopefully Travis Kelsey. Uh, you know,

1259
01:08:47,080 --> 01:08:50,800
Speaker 1: sometime in January should we play the Chiefs again, I

1260
01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:55,120
Speaker 1: think it's going to be critically important to uh, just

1261
01:08:55,160 --> 01:08:57,080
Speaker 1: to find a guy that can cover the tight end.

1262
01:08:57,360 --> 01:09:00,600
Speaker 1: If there's a cornerback that can do it, you know,

1263
01:09:00,720 --> 01:09:05,160
Speaker 1: obviously look at him. But in a perfect world, I'd

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Speaker 1: snatch up a linebacker if I could. Yeah, I w

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Speaker 1: While I love your dream scenario, justin I think it's

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01:09:12,479 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 1: going to be very ambitious and cost an awful lot

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Speaker 1: in the forum, probably of high future draft picks to

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Speaker 1: get up from thirty to where you're gonna need to

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Speaker 1: to get Parsons because that kid's coming off the board

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Speaker 1: in the top twelve or fourteen picks I think, right

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Speaker 1: he's been mocked at ten to the Cowboys a bunch,

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01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:32,679
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's almost an impossibility. But go ahead, Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: So what do you guys think? So, because we have

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Speaker 1: a few picks this year, would it be you know,

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Speaker 1: now being a serious GM, would we want would it

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Speaker 1: be feasible to kind of look at this draft as

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Speaker 1: a draft or we're not gonna there's not gonna be

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Speaker 1: room for six guys on the roster. We're gonna be

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01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:56,120
Speaker 1: lucky if we get three of them to stay on

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Speaker 1: the roster that did actually make the roster this year.

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Speaker 1: So would this be the year that if we were

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Speaker 1: going to do something bold or something like that? Do

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01:10:05,800 --> 01:10:07,880
Speaker 1: you think that that's possible? And then, Steve, I have

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01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:11,240
Speaker 1: one more thing for you after this rule. Well, here's

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01:10:11,240 --> 01:10:14,559
Speaker 1: the thing, and I get it. Everybody knows the story

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01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:17,640
Speaker 1: about Mike Ditka trading his hire draft class for a

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01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:20,479
Speaker 1: chance to draft Ricky Williams. The simple fact of the

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01:10:20,520 --> 01:10:23,320
Speaker 1: matter is, if if you want to get one guy

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Speaker 1: in this draft, and you want to jump up ten

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Speaker 1: spots to do it, I'll give an example. If you

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Speaker 1: want to jump up ten or twelve spots to get

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01:10:31,160 --> 01:10:34,400
Speaker 1: that guy, you have to give up six all six

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Speaker 1: of your other draft picks in order to do it.

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01:10:36,760 --> 01:10:40,920
Speaker 1: And that gets you from thirty to maybe twenty. That

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01:10:41,080 --> 01:10:43,519
Speaker 1: moves up ten spots in the first round. All those

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Speaker 1: other draft picks on the value chart add up to you,

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Speaker 1: and you'd have to get somebody to take it. I

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01:10:49,479 --> 01:10:53,160
Speaker 1: don't know if anybody would right those that so that

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Speaker 1: you're giving up your entire draft class for a guy

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01:10:56,680 --> 01:10:59,080
Speaker 1: you're gonna pick it like twenty or eighteen or twenty

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01:10:59,120 --> 01:11:02,559
Speaker 1: two were in there. I can't do that right exactly?

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Speaker 1: Do that? Hey in clothes and Steve Um. It was

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Speaker 1: a week ago. I don't want to take up too

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01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:09,280
Speaker 1: much time, but it was a week ago. You and

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01:11:09,360 --> 01:11:13,960
Speaker 1: Maddie were doing out one of One Bill's Live. I

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01:11:14,000 --> 01:11:18,400
Speaker 1: think Chris was playing Hookie or something, but you guys

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01:11:18,439 --> 01:11:23,600
Speaker 1: were discussing road games and Maddie had some experiences. She

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01:11:23,760 --> 01:11:26,559
Speaker 1: was sharing about being at Bristol for the Virginia Tech

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Speaker 1: Kindnessee game and then you guys seeing Bills fans on

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01:11:30,800 --> 01:11:33,400
Speaker 1: the road and how you wish that there was something

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01:11:33,520 --> 01:11:37,360
Speaker 1: like that. We actually do an organized trip every year

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Speaker 1: except for last year, and it started the year that

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01:11:40,640 --> 01:11:44,000
Speaker 1: Rex Ryan was in Buffalo. We went to We took

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01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:49,080
Speaker 1: busses out to the Meadowlands. First year, the Color Rush jerseys,

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01:11:49,439 --> 01:11:51,599
Speaker 1: you know, to go and support Rex and his return

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01:11:51,680 --> 01:11:54,960
Speaker 1: to New York trip every year has grown. It's now

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Speaker 1: into the hundreds and there's a Facebook page called Bill's

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01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:01,320
Speaker 1: Trips and I don't know, don't want to advertise or anything.

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01:12:01,600 --> 01:12:04,840
Speaker 1: Gryce wanted to bring some awareness to you that, oh, listen,

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Speaker 1: I know they've been people. You've been able to get

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Speaker 1: a trip to road games as groups. That's been going

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Speaker 1: on for a long time. And I get I get

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Speaker 1: the fact you've got one and out starting to grow

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01:12:14,320 --> 01:12:16,439
Speaker 1: and everybody's kind of jumping on board. I like the idea,

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01:12:16,640 --> 01:12:19,920
Speaker 1: and you're right, there's a lot of that that happens.

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01:12:19,960 --> 01:12:22,240
Speaker 1: And Maddie and I were talking about and Brownie I

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01:12:22,280 --> 01:12:25,559
Speaker 1: got into this and I think this is what Justin's

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01:12:25,560 --> 01:12:29,120
Speaker 1: alluding to. I said, it wouldn't it be cool or

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01:12:29,280 --> 01:12:35,519
Speaker 1: smart for both leagues and for the cities to set

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Speaker 1: up the NHL NFL schedules that overlap and the seasons,

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01:12:40,680 --> 01:12:44,559
Speaker 1: like early or late games November and December games for

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Speaker 1: the hockey when it starts, and I guess it, what

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01:12:46,200 --> 01:12:48,960
Speaker 1: starts in October the same weekend? Right? Well, yeah, so

1334
01:12:49,040 --> 01:12:51,840
Speaker 1: the Bills go down to homes. The Bills go down

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01:12:51,880 --> 01:12:57,599
Speaker 1: to play the Rangers of the Islanders Titans, and the

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Speaker 1: Sabers play the Predators Saturday night. The Bills play the

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01:12:59,840 --> 01:13:02,120
Speaker 1: type on Sunday. That kind of thing. You can do

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Speaker 1: it in New York, Chicago, Tennessee, Carolina. You know, you

1339
01:13:07,439 --> 01:13:11,639
Speaker 1: go down the list, Chicago, Detroit, all of those teams

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Speaker 1: with Boston, all of those teams with a hockey and

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01:13:14,560 --> 01:13:17,960
Speaker 1: a football team, and there's a ton of them, La,

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01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:22,280
Speaker 1: you know, Tampa, you go down the list. So wouldn't

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01:13:22,280 --> 01:13:25,440
Speaker 1: it be kind of neat to coincide the two sports

1344
01:13:25,439 --> 01:13:30,320
Speaker 1: a home and home where you've got a team both

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01:13:30,680 --> 01:13:34,360
Speaker 1: the professional teams visiting the exact same team. Because I

1346
01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:37,000
Speaker 1: was I told Maddie I did the Bills Tennessee game

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01:13:37,040 --> 01:13:41,680
Speaker 1: about four years ago, and I'll bet you the Nashville

1348
01:13:41,760 --> 01:13:46,600
Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce was doing jump doing cartwheels because the

1349
01:13:46,680 --> 01:13:49,439
Speaker 1: place was packed with Bills people and I and if

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01:13:49,479 --> 01:13:51,280
Speaker 1: there had been a hockey game that night, there's a

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01:13:51,280 --> 01:13:53,479
Speaker 1: bunch of hockey Bills fans at the hockey game. And

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01:13:53,520 --> 01:13:56,600
Speaker 1: it wasn't the Sabers playing, It was the Predators and

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01:13:56,720 --> 01:14:03,680
Speaker 1: somebody else, right, that's you know, so imagine that that

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01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:06,839
Speaker 1: would be an enormous local boost to the local economy.

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01:14:06,840 --> 01:14:08,439
Speaker 1: It'd be like it'd be like a couple of days

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01:14:08,439 --> 01:14:10,960
Speaker 1: of a Super Bowl week for these cities if both

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01:14:10,960 --> 01:14:14,800
Speaker 1: those clubs were in town at the same time. And

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01:14:14,840 --> 01:14:17,040
Speaker 1: that was what the conversation that Justin was alluding to

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01:14:17,080 --> 01:14:18,519
Speaker 1: that Mattie and I had last week. What do you

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01:14:18,880 --> 01:14:21,720
Speaker 1: come on, that's another tasker plan. Yeah. I don't know

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01:14:21,760 --> 01:14:24,560
Speaker 1: how much the leagues are gonna be willing to collaborate

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01:14:24,600 --> 01:14:28,759
Speaker 1: on that. And you're probably just talking about weekends scenarios obviously,

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01:14:28,840 --> 01:14:31,759
Speaker 1: because football is only on the weekends. So nowadays Sunday

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01:14:32,200 --> 01:14:37,400
Speaker 1: so or better yet, a Thursday Sunday. Yeah, because then

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01:14:37,439 --> 01:14:39,760
Speaker 1: you you can roll it into a four day into

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01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:43,639
Speaker 1: a four day weekend. Yeah. That would take some doing, yes,

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01:14:43,720 --> 01:14:46,320
Speaker 1: because you know all the hoops that the lay office

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01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:48,599
Speaker 1: jumps through just to get an NFL schedule put together.

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01:14:48,680 --> 01:14:51,080
Speaker 1: Think about it. Yeah, it's it's now you add a

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01:14:51,280 --> 01:14:55,479
Speaker 1: multitude of different permutations to get enough home dates. I

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01:14:55,520 --> 01:14:59,960
Speaker 1: got two words, artificial intelligence. Well, turn it over to computer,

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01:15:00,520 --> 01:15:03,760
Speaker 1: see what it spits out, tweak it from there, get

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Speaker 1: it done. Okay, Yeah, you know it's plan number three.

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01:15:10,960 --> 01:15:16,160
Speaker 1: Write us down. Um, that Tasker plan actually has a

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01:15:16,240 --> 01:15:19,200
Speaker 1: chance because you would think it would happen just out

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01:15:19,280 --> 01:15:22,120
Speaker 1: of happenstance. I think every chamber of commerce in the

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Speaker 1: country would agree with you wholeheartedly. Right, I'm not convinced

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01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 1: both leagues would. Why wouldn't both leagues be all into it?

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01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:31,240
Speaker 1: The tickets are going to sell out the game that

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01:15:31,600 --> 01:15:35,679
Speaker 1: I don't think any league wants to be sharing fan

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01:15:36,479 --> 01:15:42,120
Speaker 1: disposable income with another league. Now, for people like the Pagoulas,

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01:15:42,120 --> 01:15:44,439
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what would they share. They own on

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01:15:44,439 --> 01:15:45,920
Speaker 1: both sides of the fence. Yeah, what would they be

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01:15:46,160 --> 01:15:49,800
Speaker 1: disposable income? Are you convinced that everybody has the money

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01:15:49,800 --> 01:15:52,760
Speaker 1: to travel go to an away football game and go

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01:15:52,800 --> 01:15:55,000
Speaker 1: to away hockey game in the same weekend you can

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Speaker 1: get Now, well, here's the thing you're forgetting. Are you

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01:15:57,240 --> 01:16:00,679
Speaker 1: convinced that those those events, both of them would sell out.

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Speaker 1: I think it depends on the venue in the city.

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01:16:05,560 --> 01:16:08,360
Speaker 1: I think it does. Um, I think they sell out

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01:16:08,439 --> 01:16:11,000
Speaker 1: at automatic. I think Buffalo is one of the few

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01:16:11,040 --> 01:16:16,559
Speaker 1: cities where everybody that is a Bills fan is also

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01:16:16,600 --> 01:16:18,920
Speaker 1: a Sabers fan and would go watch a hockey game

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01:16:18,960 --> 01:16:22,160
Speaker 1: almost as much as they would go watch a football game.

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01:16:22,320 --> 01:16:26,720
Speaker 1: I think that exists in Boston. I think it probably

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01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:29,600
Speaker 1: exists in Pittsburgh. Maybe not to the degree that you

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01:16:29,640 --> 01:16:32,479
Speaker 1: think it does. Um, but I don't know if that

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01:16:32,520 --> 01:16:34,880
Speaker 1: holds true for every city. Yeah, but I'll tell you

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01:16:34,920 --> 01:16:38,040
Speaker 1: what think about it though, that to me would be

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01:16:38,160 --> 01:16:42,480
Speaker 1: like it would be as big a boom for financially

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01:16:42,479 --> 01:16:49,120
Speaker 1: for the cities themselves as it as an outdoor classic

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01:16:49,240 --> 01:16:52,840
Speaker 1: innho game. Yeah. And I even I think it may

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01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:56,880
Speaker 1: take an ownership group like the Pagoulas who own an

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01:16:56,920 --> 01:16:59,880
Speaker 1: NFL and an NHL team to give that some track.

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01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:04,200
Speaker 1: Somebody that's on both sides of that fence is somebody

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01:17:04,200 --> 01:17:06,120
Speaker 1: that would have to broker some kind of an agreement

1407
01:17:06,120 --> 01:17:08,479
Speaker 1: like that. Not that I'm giving them work by any means,

1408
01:17:08,479 --> 01:17:10,680
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying that's the kind of person that's

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01:17:10,680 --> 01:17:12,360
Speaker 1: going to have to give it moment think about it.

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01:17:12,360 --> 01:17:15,840
Speaker 1: All you'd have to do is try it one weekend, Yeah,

1411
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:18,280
Speaker 1: and then if it if Sometimes it's happened just by

1412
01:17:18,320 --> 01:17:21,479
Speaker 1: happenstance where when where it's happened here where we've had

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01:17:21,520 --> 01:17:23,240
Speaker 1: home games for the Savers and home games for the

1414
01:17:23,280 --> 01:17:25,360
Speaker 1: Bills in the same weekend, but not from the same

1415
01:17:25,400 --> 01:17:28,160
Speaker 1: away city. It wouldn't be the pick correct and be

1416
01:17:28,280 --> 01:17:30,680
Speaker 1: the Bruins and the Patriots. Correct as to be the

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01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:33,120
Speaker 1: Steelers and the Penguins. It wouldn't be the Hurricanes and

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01:17:33,200 --> 01:17:36,519
Speaker 1: the Panthers. Yeah, it would it's you know whoever it is.

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01:17:36,880 --> 01:17:42,600
Speaker 1: Think about That's that's the crucial element. Yeah, interesting if

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01:17:42,600 --> 01:17:45,800
Speaker 1: they can work it has happened by happenstance, yet it

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01:17:45,840 --> 01:17:49,840
Speaker 1: probably has it's somewhere along the line. Can you think

1422
01:17:49,840 --> 01:17:54,880
Speaker 1: about how think about how fun that city would be

1423
01:17:55,040 --> 01:17:58,679
Speaker 1: for Pittsburgh fans going to wherever, Bills fans going wherever Tampa,

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01:17:58,920 --> 01:18:02,760
Speaker 1: all of that come on bro sleeve. That would be.

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01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:04,680
Speaker 1: That would be I'm not fighting, Yeah, I just it

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01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:07,439
Speaker 1: would be literally like a weekend of a Super Bowl

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01:18:07,479 --> 01:18:08,960
Speaker 1: for these cities. And they don't have to pay for

1428
01:18:08,960 --> 01:18:11,000
Speaker 1: the package. They don't have to come up with nine

1429
01:18:11,200 --> 01:18:18,160
Speaker 1: figures to buy the the event. Yeah. Something to think about,

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01:18:18,960 --> 01:18:21,840
Speaker 1: something to think about. They have to get together. That's

1431
01:18:21,840 --> 01:18:25,240
Speaker 1: a tasker plan that has some vaster plan that actually

1432
01:18:25,280 --> 01:18:27,759
Speaker 1: has a chance that one does because at some points

1433
01:18:27,800 --> 01:18:31,040
Speaker 1: gonna happen by happenstance, and then they're gonna say, like

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01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:35,559
Speaker 1: wait a minute here and that that's all it will take. Yeah,

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01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:40,160
Speaker 1: that's all it will take. All right, while we contemplate that,

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01:18:40,320 --> 01:18:43,240
Speaker 1: we will take a break. David Amherst, Dan and Lancaster

1437
01:18:43,320 --> 01:18:45,160
Speaker 1: Hank Tight will get to you when we return as

1438
01:18:45,160 --> 01:18:51,240
Speaker 1: the OBL fanmail band. I just want to know how

1439
01:18:51,280 --> 01:18:54,960
Speaker 1: feasible it is to craft two schedules with as many

1440
01:18:55,000 --> 01:18:57,439
Speaker 1: games as they have one, to put two teams in

1441
01:18:57,479 --> 01:19:00,240
Speaker 1: the same cities on the same weekend when you have

1442
01:19:00,439 --> 01:19:04,440
Speaker 1: upwards of fifteen, well double the number thirty teams to accommodate.

1443
01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:06,519
Speaker 1: That's going to be interesting. And you have you got

1444
01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:10,040
Speaker 1: months to do it though, come okay or intelligence putting it?

1445
01:19:10,640 --> 01:19:13,360
Speaker 1: Just put the little card in the computer and watch

1446
01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:15,320
Speaker 1: it go back in a second. Here on one Bill's

1447
01:19:15,320 --> 01:19:30,760
Speaker 1: Live O BL fan mail Bag is open here on

1448
01:19:30,840 --> 01:19:34,120
Speaker 1: a Friday NFL films breat co Sell coming up at

1449
01:19:34,160 --> 01:19:37,280
Speaker 1: the top of the hour about twenty five minutes from now,

1450
01:19:37,320 --> 01:19:39,200
Speaker 1: sustaining two for that as we're gonna be going over

1451
01:19:39,280 --> 01:19:42,080
Speaker 1: some linebackers in the draft. But right now we go

1452
01:19:42,160 --> 01:19:45,880
Speaker 1: to the phones and Dave and Amhurst has been waiting. Dave,

1453
01:19:45,960 --> 01:19:49,120
Speaker 1: what do you have for us? You're on one Bills Live. Hey, guys,

1454
01:19:49,400 --> 01:19:53,080
Speaker 1: H'm not more than a little consort probably about our

1455
01:19:53,200 --> 01:19:56,760
Speaker 1: run game. And I've heard YouTube guys as well as

1456
01:19:56,800 --> 01:20:00,200
Speaker 1: under the every other football analyst around late say that

1457
01:20:00,680 --> 01:20:03,519
Speaker 1: games are wonner loss in the trenches, and I think

1458
01:20:03,560 --> 01:20:08,400
Speaker 1: that's inarguable. So bas based on that, Um, I'm wondering

1459
01:20:08,439 --> 01:20:11,599
Speaker 1: if you think that we put enough emphasis on getting

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01:20:11,680 --> 01:20:16,000
Speaker 1: better run blockers, and or maybe these guys aren't out

1461
01:20:16,040 --> 01:20:19,519
Speaker 1: there who possess the skills for both great run blocking

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01:20:19,760 --> 01:20:22,280
Speaker 1: and pass blocking. And then you know, I'm of the

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01:20:22,320 --> 01:20:27,400
Speaker 1: opinion as most others are pass blocking is very good. Um,

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01:20:27,560 --> 01:20:31,560
Speaker 1: but what do you guys think I think that singletary

1465
01:20:31,640 --> 01:20:34,040
Speaker 1: and losses, they're fine, We don't I don't think we

1466
01:20:34,120 --> 01:20:37,200
Speaker 1: need an upgrade. Great there, but they can't run through

1467
01:20:37,200 --> 01:20:40,320
Speaker 1: brick walls. So I'd like to hear what you have

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01:20:40,439 --> 01:20:42,639
Speaker 1: to think about that. Yeah, there's a lot in your question, Dave,

1469
01:20:42,720 --> 01:20:45,000
Speaker 1: and I get it. You're right now. Even when in

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01:20:45,040 --> 01:20:47,760
Speaker 1: the postseason press conference Brandon Being said we want to

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01:20:47,840 --> 01:20:50,400
Speaker 1: run the ball better, they and it was said this

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01:20:50,479 --> 01:20:52,320
Speaker 1: at the time, the point was made that they don't

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01:20:52,320 --> 01:20:54,720
Speaker 1: want to run the ball more, they want to run

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01:20:54,760 --> 01:20:57,439
Speaker 1: it better. We've had guys like Ruben brown On and

1475
01:20:57,560 --> 01:21:00,360
Speaker 1: Eric Wood, our friend who does radio games on radio.

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01:21:00,840 --> 01:21:03,400
Speaker 1: He says, you know, if you want to run it better,

1477
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:06,479
Speaker 1: you almost have to run it more, because that's how

1478
01:21:06,520 --> 01:21:08,719
Speaker 1: you get better at it. You can't you don't practice

1479
01:21:08,720 --> 01:21:11,800
Speaker 1: it too much live in practice, and when you run

1480
01:21:11,840 --> 01:21:14,760
Speaker 1: it more, you begin to run it better. But this

1481
01:21:14,840 --> 01:21:17,439
Speaker 1: is a team, and we say, you know, we the

1482
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:20,480
Speaker 1: run game is a concern. It's not really a concern

1483
01:21:21,439 --> 01:21:26,360
Speaker 1: because the offense is humming like a blender at a

1484
01:21:26,400 --> 01:21:30,200
Speaker 1: milkshop store, you know, I mean, it is running all

1485
01:21:30,200 --> 01:21:33,719
Speaker 1: the time, and this offense is really good, and people

1486
01:21:33,760 --> 01:21:36,360
Speaker 1: are looking for ways. Okay, what did you know when

1487
01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:37,880
Speaker 1: you watch the games, what do they need? What do

1488
01:21:37,920 --> 01:21:41,320
Speaker 1: they Well, they got stopped for short games too much.

1489
01:21:41,320 --> 01:21:44,360
Speaker 1: In the running game. Well, they score, you know in

1490
01:21:44,400 --> 01:21:46,280
Speaker 1: some of these games. I mean, let me go back

1491
01:21:46,280 --> 01:21:50,200
Speaker 1: and look, they're scoring, you know, thirty five. They scored

1492
01:21:50,240 --> 01:21:55,280
Speaker 1: thirty points a game, so you know, there's not much

1493
01:21:55,320 --> 01:21:59,519
Speaker 1: wrong with this offense. They scored fifty six points against

1494
01:21:59,520 --> 01:22:03,440
Speaker 1: the number one scoring defense in the league in Week seventeen,

1495
01:22:03,560 --> 01:22:06,360
Speaker 1: so the entire season, the Dolphins were the number one

1496
01:22:06,439 --> 01:22:09,120
Speaker 1: scoring team defense in the league. The entire season, but

1497
01:22:09,160 --> 01:22:11,719
Speaker 1: down the stretch. Yeah, they were the number one team

1498
01:22:11,920 --> 01:22:14,240
Speaker 1: until they played the Bills in seventeen. They ended up

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01:22:14,320 --> 01:22:19,639
Speaker 1: number six. The Bills are killing it offensively, So when

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01:22:19,640 --> 01:22:21,240
Speaker 1: you want to say they're run games are gonna I

1501
01:22:21,320 --> 01:22:25,200
Speaker 1: get it. But I'm not that concerned. If they want

1502
01:22:25,200 --> 01:22:28,160
Speaker 1: to run it more, that would concern me more than

1503
01:22:28,240 --> 01:22:32,360
Speaker 1: running it better. I like what they're doing. Throw that thing,

1504
01:22:32,800 --> 01:22:34,760
Speaker 1: they got weapons, they got a guy that can do it,

1505
01:22:35,080 --> 01:22:38,360
Speaker 1: throw it, so, that and so. But I'm with you.

1506
01:22:38,400 --> 01:22:39,800
Speaker 1: If you want to run it better, you need a

1507
01:22:39,840 --> 01:22:43,120
Speaker 1: dominant offensive line. It all starts there. Moss and Singletary,

1508
01:22:43,120 --> 01:22:45,000
Speaker 1: I'm with you as well. I like those guys. They're

1509
01:22:45,920 --> 01:22:47,679
Speaker 1: I don't want to put finger quotes on it. They're good,

1510
01:22:48,240 --> 01:22:52,240
Speaker 1: not just good enough, they're good. I'm fine with those guys.

1511
01:22:52,439 --> 01:22:54,600
Speaker 1: So there's a lot in your question, David, appreciate it.

1512
01:22:54,680 --> 01:22:56,400
Speaker 1: And the other layer to it is this, the front

1513
01:22:56,439 --> 01:23:00,680
Speaker 1: office this offseason has basically told you they believe this

1514
01:23:00,760 --> 01:23:04,120
Speaker 1: offensive line to a large degree, can be better in

1515
01:23:04,160 --> 01:23:07,240
Speaker 1: the run blocking area, at least as Steve and I

1516
01:23:07,320 --> 01:23:10,320
Speaker 1: see it from the chairs that we sit in. By

1517
01:23:10,360 --> 01:23:14,600
Speaker 1: resigning John Feliciano and resigning Daryl Williams and okay, you

1518
01:23:14,680 --> 01:23:17,559
Speaker 1: brought in Forrest Lamp and a couple of other new people,

1519
01:23:17,840 --> 01:23:22,400
Speaker 1: Jamil Douglas as a swing tackle candidate. To a large degree,

1520
01:23:22,439 --> 01:23:25,519
Speaker 1: you're saying, we just need to be healthy and will

1521
01:23:25,560 --> 01:23:29,439
Speaker 1: be better running the football. That's essentially what they're saying.

1522
01:23:29,479 --> 01:23:31,920
Speaker 1: They didn't make any big splashes, not that they could

1523
01:23:31,920 --> 01:23:35,080
Speaker 1: really afford to do so anyway. But if they come

1524
01:23:35,080 --> 01:23:37,840
Speaker 1: out of this draft with three offensive linemen and they're

1525
01:23:37,880 --> 01:23:40,479
Speaker 1: like all Deonte Brown from Alabama who's six five, three

1526
01:23:40,600 --> 01:23:42,800
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five pounds, well maybe they'll be saying

1527
01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:47,320
Speaker 1: something different. But for right now, it's an indication based

1528
01:23:47,320 --> 01:23:49,160
Speaker 1: on what they've done to this point that they feel

1529
01:23:49,160 --> 01:23:51,280
Speaker 1: they are good enough in terms of the people that

1530
01:23:51,360 --> 01:23:54,479
Speaker 1: they have. They just need to stay healthy, which they

1531
01:23:54,479 --> 01:23:57,439
Speaker 1: could not do last year. Especially guard to guard. They're

1532
01:23:57,600 --> 01:24:01,880
Speaker 1: sixty forty pass to run, sixty percent pass forty percent

1533
01:24:01,960 --> 01:24:08,880
Speaker 1: run to me. That's about where their you know, commitment is. Um,

1534
01:24:09,840 --> 01:24:12,639
Speaker 1: they got a good they got a good pass protection crew,

1535
01:24:13,600 --> 01:24:18,559
Speaker 1: and that's what they want first and foremost. Sixty percent

1536
01:24:18,640 --> 01:24:21,240
Speaker 1: of their emphasis is on getting a guy that can

1537
01:24:21,280 --> 01:24:24,919
Speaker 1: pass pro If he can run block great it's a bonus, certainly.

1538
01:24:25,040 --> 01:24:28,879
Speaker 1: I've said this a ton on the show. Your offense

1539
01:24:28,920 --> 01:24:31,639
Speaker 1: will be dominant when your offensive line is dominant, when

1540
01:24:31,680 --> 01:24:34,400
Speaker 1: you can run or pass whenever you want. The Bills

1541
01:24:34,479 --> 01:24:36,760
Speaker 1: last year they wanted to throw it. There's there's not

1542
01:24:36,800 --> 01:24:42,080
Speaker 1: even let's not even sugarcoated. This year. They came out

1543
01:24:42,080 --> 01:24:46,120
Speaker 1: in four wides last year with a rookie and they

1544
01:24:46,160 --> 01:24:49,280
Speaker 1: were slinging it. Their quarterback to that, up to Week

1545
01:24:49,360 --> 01:24:52,719
Speaker 1: one of last season had never thrown for three hundred yards,

1546
01:24:53,760 --> 01:24:58,040
Speaker 1: and he lit it up and was in the MVP race.

1547
01:24:58,600 --> 01:25:02,880
Speaker 1: They are gonna, they are. I would be shocked if

1548
01:25:02,880 --> 01:25:04,800
Speaker 1: they took the ball out of Josh Allen's hands and

1549
01:25:04,840 --> 01:25:08,599
Speaker 1: gave it to Devin Singletary and Zach Moss more next year,

1550
01:25:09,120 --> 01:25:14,760
Speaker 1: if not less. Yeah, we'll see where it goes. They

1551
01:25:14,760 --> 01:25:16,360
Speaker 1: come out of this draft with a couple of big

1552
01:25:16,360 --> 01:25:19,360
Speaker 1: beefy linemen. We'll know that they felt differently than we

1553
01:25:19,400 --> 01:25:21,439
Speaker 1: think they do right now based on the actions of

1554
01:25:21,520 --> 01:25:24,160
Speaker 1: free agency. Let's get back to the phones, though, and

1555
01:25:24,240 --> 01:25:26,320
Speaker 1: to Dan and Lancaster, we go, Dan, what do you

1556
01:25:26,320 --> 01:25:28,360
Speaker 1: have for us? You're on one Bills live. I got

1557
01:25:28,360 --> 01:25:31,040
Speaker 1: a little bit of trivia for you. Speaking of matching

1558
01:25:31,040 --> 01:25:34,639
Speaker 1: the Bills and the Sabers. In nineteen seventy, the Bills

1559
01:25:34,680 --> 01:25:38,040
Speaker 1: played their first game in Pittsburgh. It was on a

1560
01:25:38,120 --> 01:25:43,120
Speaker 1: Saturday night, the first national official game in the National

1561
01:25:43,160 --> 01:25:50,720
Speaker 1: Hockey League, not preseason, and the Sabers were Saturday and

1562
01:25:50,800 --> 01:25:53,519
Speaker 1: the Bills played Sunday. We went to the We had

1563
01:25:53,680 --> 01:25:56,439
Speaker 1: tickets for the Bills game. We go to Pittsburgh, nothing

1564
01:25:56,600 --> 01:25:59,639
Speaker 1: was happening. We call up, got tickets. Sinceedon the first

1565
01:25:59,640 --> 01:26:04,320
Speaker 1: game to the Sabers played in Pittsburgh was what was now?

1566
01:26:04,360 --> 01:26:06,400
Speaker 1: That was nineteen seventy, so it was a different world

1567
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:10,479
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy. Were there any Was there like a bunch

1568
01:26:10,479 --> 01:26:12,960
Speaker 1: of Bills people at the game? There was? There was

1569
01:26:13,040 --> 01:26:16,320
Speaker 1: quite a few Bills people. The thing of it is that,

1570
01:26:16,400 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 1: you know, we didn't think we'd be able to get tickets,

1571
01:26:18,720 --> 01:26:23,360
Speaker 1: right because the odd was sold out for weeks before

1572
01:26:23,400 --> 01:26:26,559
Speaker 1: the Sabers played the first game. What about Dan, What

1573
01:26:26,600 --> 01:26:29,799
Speaker 1: do you think if that happened now? If the Bills

1574
01:26:29,840 --> 01:26:32,240
Speaker 1: went down to play the Steelers on a Sunday afternoon

1575
01:26:32,240 --> 01:26:36,160
Speaker 1: at one and the Sabers played, say the Friday night

1576
01:26:37,000 --> 01:26:39,920
Speaker 1: or the Saturday night of that same weekend. What do

1577
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:45,360
Speaker 1: you think would happen in Pittsburgh? It'll be loaded right right.

1578
01:26:46,520 --> 01:26:50,840
Speaker 1: It's a great idea, is it not? Absolutely? Absolutely? I

1579
01:26:50,840 --> 01:26:54,240
Speaker 1: don't know why they couldn't do it doesn't seem that difficult.

1580
01:26:54,280 --> 01:26:57,880
Speaker 1: I mean several times, maybe three or four time of

1581
01:26:57,920 --> 01:27:00,679
Speaker 1: a year they could match them up. I think I'm

1582
01:27:00,720 --> 01:27:03,760
Speaker 1: totally with you, Dan, you're you're speaking, I'm thank you,

1583
01:27:04,400 --> 01:27:06,360
Speaker 1: and and and by the way, you're now in the

1584
01:27:06,400 --> 01:27:12,760
Speaker 1: minority there you nice. I think, yeah, I'm with you.

1585
01:27:12,840 --> 01:27:15,200
Speaker 1: So that so it has happened in nineteen seventy yea,

1586
01:27:15,680 --> 01:27:20,040
Speaker 1: thanks Dan. That's you know, Bills fans coming forward through

1587
01:27:20,080 --> 01:27:26,639
Speaker 1: for me. I he's laughing, because I how fast would

1588
01:27:26,680 --> 01:27:30,240
Speaker 1: the hotel room, any hotel room being soaked up? As

1589
01:27:30,240 --> 01:27:34,240
Speaker 1: soon as that was announced, I think, And I told

1590
01:27:34,240 --> 01:27:35,840
Speaker 1: you this in the break, I didn't mention this before

1591
01:27:35,840 --> 01:27:37,759
Speaker 1: we went out to think about the city of Las Vegas.

1592
01:27:38,720 --> 01:27:42,280
Speaker 1: The Golden Nights versus the Buffalo Sabers on Saturday night,

1593
01:27:42,320 --> 01:27:49,160
Speaker 1: October thirty first, Yeah, Halloween and November first, the Raiders

1594
01:27:49,200 --> 01:27:52,240
Speaker 1: play the Bills in Vegas in the lance in Reliance

1595
01:27:52,240 --> 01:27:56,559
Speaker 1: Stay or Allegiant Stadium, whatever that is. Are you joking, dude,

1596
01:27:56,600 --> 01:27:58,320
Speaker 1: I didn't say I was against it. I just want

1597
01:27:58,360 --> 01:28:00,519
Speaker 1: to know what the realistic feasa Bill he is of

1598
01:28:00,600 --> 01:28:04,160
Speaker 1: matching those schedules up, because it's not just four teams

1599
01:28:04,160 --> 01:28:07,880
Speaker 1: in one city, it's four teams in one city on

1600
01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:12,960
Speaker 1: multiple weekends, three, four, five, dozen times over. Can they

1601
01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:14,840
Speaker 1: make it happen? Just yeah, if they can try, if

1602
01:28:14,840 --> 01:28:17,600
Speaker 1: they can do it. It's hard. Well, I don't know

1603
01:28:17,640 --> 01:28:19,680
Speaker 1: how hard it is. Maybe it's easy. I don't know,

1604
01:28:20,000 --> 01:28:22,040
Speaker 1: but I just I'm just thinking about all the different

1605
01:28:22,040 --> 01:28:25,639
Speaker 1: permutation computer and watch what happens. Yeah, all right, you're

1606
01:28:25,720 --> 01:28:29,200
Speaker 1: you're thinking, and you're thinking with you know, you're thinking

1607
01:28:29,240 --> 01:28:32,759
Speaker 1: with a with a you're thinking with a hammer and chisel,

1608
01:28:32,840 --> 01:28:35,360
Speaker 1: and I got a laser engraver over here. Come on,

1609
01:28:37,320 --> 01:28:39,519
Speaker 1: all right, we gotta take a break. When we come back,

1610
01:28:39,720 --> 01:28:42,080
Speaker 1: we'll take more of your phone calls. Great co sale

1611
01:28:42,080 --> 01:28:44,120
Speaker 1: from NFL Films also coming up in the third hour

1612
01:28:44,240 --> 01:28:47,200
Speaker 1: the program, along with the latest edition of Tasker's Teammate

1613
01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:49,639
Speaker 1: Plenty more coming your way next Here on One Bill's Live,

1614
01:28:49,640 --> 01:29:05,240
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio. Back

1615
01:29:05,280 --> 01:29:07,559
Speaker 1: to the Phones we go on an obie Ll Fan

1616
01:29:07,920 --> 01:29:12,320
Speaker 1: mail bag Friday, and there we have Jerry and cheek

1617
01:29:12,360 --> 01:29:14,200
Speaker 1: to Wago waiting for us. Jerry, what do you have?

1618
01:29:14,360 --> 01:29:21,240
Speaker 1: You're on One Bill's Live. Jerry. Oh, Jerry hung up?

1619
01:29:21,479 --> 01:29:24,439
Speaker 1: Oh that is there. We were on too, We were

1620
01:29:24,479 --> 01:29:27,360
Speaker 1: on a roll. Well we go from Jerry to Glenn

1621
01:29:27,400 --> 01:29:30,320
Speaker 1: in Saint Catharine's Glenn. What do you got for us?

1622
01:29:30,320 --> 01:29:35,080
Speaker 1: You're on One Bill's Live. Hey guys, how are you doing? Good? Great? Hey? Good?

1623
01:29:35,120 --> 01:29:36,680
Speaker 1: Hey Steve. I'm the guy that called you in a

1624
01:29:36,720 --> 01:29:38,519
Speaker 1: long time ago, well not long ago, when you had

1625
01:29:38,560 --> 01:29:42,120
Speaker 1: Maddie on there when Christmas off about the uh the

1626
01:29:42,240 --> 01:29:47,080
Speaker 1: uprights having laser beating. You remember me? Yes? Anyhow, Well,

1627
01:29:47,160 --> 01:29:49,360
Speaker 1: what I'm getting at, I'm getting to your point about

1628
01:29:49,640 --> 01:29:53,400
Speaker 1: doing the duel sports. I know that not this year,

1629
01:29:53,600 --> 01:29:55,680
Speaker 1: but over the previous years. It used to be when

1630
01:29:55,680 --> 01:29:59,000
Speaker 1: the Rock was in town in Buffalo, you'd have the

1631
01:29:59,080 --> 01:30:01,679
Speaker 1: Sabers and then you get there, you get the Rock

1632
01:30:01,800 --> 01:30:03,920
Speaker 1: and the bandits to play as well the day after

1633
01:30:03,960 --> 01:30:07,360
Speaker 1: a day before, and it always was pretty successful. I

1634
01:30:07,439 --> 01:30:09,479
Speaker 1: talked to a lot of people from Toronto and that,

1635
01:30:09,600 --> 01:30:11,080
Speaker 1: and he said they loved it when they'd come in

1636
01:30:11,080 --> 01:30:13,439
Speaker 1: and town see the least play and bang on with

1637
01:30:13,479 --> 01:30:16,000
Speaker 1: the rock in the next game. And uh, I think

1638
01:30:16,000 --> 01:30:18,400
Speaker 1: football would fall right in no doubt about it. To

1639
01:30:18,560 --> 01:30:22,160
Speaker 1: be even better, I agree, you're talking about the the

1640
01:30:22,240 --> 01:30:26,439
Speaker 1: lacrosse teams in the Toronto and the Buffalo and Buffalo

1641
01:30:26,479 --> 01:30:29,120
Speaker 1: and all that. Yeah, okay, when the least okay, other

1642
01:30:29,160 --> 01:30:32,800
Speaker 1: sports other than football. Yeah, put the football in there

1643
01:30:33,040 --> 01:30:34,960
Speaker 1: and do the bills on the Sunday. And uh, as

1644
01:30:35,000 --> 01:30:36,880
Speaker 1: I said, either one of those two teams on the

1645
01:30:37,520 --> 01:30:39,600
Speaker 1: on the if a culture to the date, whether or

1646
01:30:39,640 --> 01:30:43,599
Speaker 1: not to spread apart, you're all set, right, I agree,

1647
01:30:44,360 --> 01:30:50,400
Speaker 1: you're another. It makes so much sense. It makes so

1648
01:30:50,479 --> 01:30:55,000
Speaker 1: much sense. And and Glenn's now talking to somebody off

1649
01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:57,160
Speaker 1: the line, so no, he's not. It's actually Jerry and

1650
01:30:57,240 --> 01:31:00,840
Speaker 1: Cheek Touago who are still trying would not it makes

1651
01:31:00,840 --> 01:31:03,080
Speaker 1: a lot of sense. I'm that is is just what

1652
01:31:03,120 --> 01:31:05,799
Speaker 1: do we call this tasker plan two point zero? Tasker

1653
01:31:05,840 --> 01:31:09,519
Speaker 1: Plan C? I think was that was three point zero? Well, yeah,

1654
01:31:09,560 --> 01:31:12,160
Speaker 1: because you've got the scheduling one for an eighteen game

1655
01:31:12,280 --> 01:31:15,360
Speaker 1: NFL schedule. Wasn't there a second one? Well, NFL city

1656
01:31:15,439 --> 01:31:18,120
Speaker 1: is my idea. Oh yeah, NFL city. That's planned two.

1657
01:31:18,200 --> 01:31:23,000
Speaker 1: That's plan bid and I knew there was more than one. Yeah,

1658
01:31:23,040 --> 01:31:25,840
Speaker 1: that's playing three, let all three of them or by

1659
01:31:25,840 --> 01:31:30,200
Speaker 1: the way, brilliant. Yeah, this one seems just let me

1660
01:31:30,240 --> 01:31:33,519
Speaker 1: tell you, it seems painfully obvious as to why. It

1661
01:31:33,600 --> 01:31:36,559
Speaker 1: seems almost embarrassing that it hasn't happened to from from

1662
01:31:36,560 --> 01:31:40,160
Speaker 1: a fan perspective, it's a given. They people would be

1663
01:31:40,240 --> 01:31:44,839
Speaker 1: all perspective as well. Chamber of Commerce, Chamber of Commerce,

1664
01:31:44,920 --> 01:31:48,400
Speaker 1: man or they be they they circle that date on

1665
01:31:48,439 --> 01:31:51,320
Speaker 1: the Hollander. Well it's a whole you can make a

1666
01:31:51,320 --> 01:31:54,240
Speaker 1: whole weekend at Yeah right, I'm telling you would be

1667
01:31:54,280 --> 01:31:56,720
Speaker 1: like a super Bowl weekend in the every city who

1668
01:31:56,760 --> 01:31:58,639
Speaker 1: can't have a super Bowl, like, you know, like they're

1669
01:31:58,680 --> 01:32:02,240
Speaker 1: not put a super Bowl here, right, I don't think so.

1670
01:32:02,479 --> 01:32:08,000
Speaker 1: The hotels ears, the only people would hate would probably

1671
01:32:08,000 --> 01:32:11,880
Speaker 1: be the first responders, you know, night but not a

1672
01:32:11,880 --> 01:32:14,400
Speaker 1: good weekend night after you right night, a gud after

1673
01:32:14,400 --> 01:32:17,720
Speaker 1: the Sabers game, night before the Bills game. A weekend. Yeah,

1674
01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:19,800
Speaker 1: that would be a rough weekend for the emergency rooms,

1675
01:32:19,960 --> 01:32:25,320
Speaker 1: but the Chamber of Commerce would love it. Okay, Well

1676
01:32:25,320 --> 01:32:27,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna move along and right before the break we're

1677
01:32:27,160 --> 01:32:30,160
Speaker 1: gonna go to Vincent in Toronto, Vincent, what you got

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Speaker 1: for us? You're on one bills Live. Hello, gentlemen, pleasure

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01:32:34,880 --> 01:32:38,160
Speaker 1: to talk to you guys. Um Steve, I who grew

1680
01:32:38,200 --> 01:32:41,360
Speaker 1: up idolizing you and I believe you were pound following

1681
01:32:41,479 --> 01:32:44,600
Speaker 1: the toughest guys around. And you know I used to

1682
01:32:44,640 --> 01:32:47,160
Speaker 1: watch you guys when you were in for Don and

1683
01:32:47,439 --> 01:32:49,840
Speaker 1: the Channel and you know, and I respect you, man.

1684
01:32:50,080 --> 01:32:52,960
Speaker 1: I saw game off big men, but you you you

1685
01:32:53,080 --> 01:32:56,679
Speaker 1: held your own well. Thank you very much. Good. You're

1686
01:32:56,800 --> 01:32:59,800
Speaker 1: very good. Uh. I learned a lot from your vocabulary.

1687
01:32:59,800 --> 01:33:02,000
Speaker 1: One the smartest man on the radio too. Look at

1688
01:33:02,040 --> 01:33:05,280
Speaker 1: you and articulate too. How about that, Vincy? You call

1689
01:33:05,360 --> 01:33:07,280
Speaker 1: back at least once a week. Thank you? Check is

1690
01:33:07,320 --> 01:33:10,519
Speaker 1: in the mail. Yes, and I always listening to you guys.

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01:33:10,560 --> 01:33:13,720
Speaker 1: Gonna do a lot of driving every day, so I'm great.

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01:33:14,920 --> 01:33:19,320
Speaker 1: What have we said today that got your call? Yes? Um? What? What? What?

1693
01:33:19,560 --> 01:33:22,840
Speaker 1: My biggest drawback with the Bills right now, I think

1694
01:33:22,920 --> 01:33:25,639
Speaker 1: they should emphasize the run game a little more because

1695
01:33:26,080 --> 01:33:30,080
Speaker 1: the game against Kansas City, the AFC Championship game, I

1696
01:33:30,160 --> 01:33:32,840
Speaker 1: realized that Kansas City did not respect the run game,

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01:33:33,360 --> 01:33:36,439
Speaker 1: and because of that, they calibrate their defense in order

1698
01:33:36,479 --> 01:33:39,840
Speaker 1: to stop Josh. But you know, sometimes you have to

1699
01:33:39,920 --> 01:33:42,800
Speaker 1: keep teams honest by having a threat of the run.

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01:33:43,240 --> 01:33:45,519
Speaker 1: And I believe that they should put a little more

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01:33:45,520 --> 01:33:48,400
Speaker 1: emphasis because Kansas City is the team that we that

1702
01:33:48,479 --> 01:33:51,599
Speaker 1: the Bills need to go after and idolize your game,

1703
01:33:51,640 --> 01:33:55,320
Speaker 1: and by minimizing their turn on offense, I think that

1704
01:33:55,320 --> 01:33:57,320
Speaker 1: that will help the Bills in order to win the

1705
01:33:57,360 --> 01:33:59,360
Speaker 1: games because a lot of times it was ten twelve

1706
01:33:59,520 --> 01:34:04,040
Speaker 1: played through maybe six seven minutes a game. That will

1707
01:34:04,120 --> 01:34:06,519
Speaker 1: help a team win to keep the ball away from

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01:34:06,880 --> 01:34:10,439
Speaker 1: Andy Reid on his offense because you're very impotent. Well, yeah,

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01:34:10,479 --> 01:34:13,480
Speaker 1: it's a good point. It's a really good point, particularly

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01:34:13,479 --> 01:34:17,320
Speaker 1: in certain situations. Just like you just said, there is game.

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01:34:17,360 --> 01:34:20,280
Speaker 1: There are games where you need to run. The Bills

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01:34:20,320 --> 01:34:24,719
Speaker 1: did that against the New England Patriots here in Orchard Park,

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01:34:24,760 --> 01:34:27,320
Speaker 1: and they also did it against the Seattle or No

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01:34:27,439 --> 01:34:32,559
Speaker 1: the U S the LA Chargers in their game there

1715
01:34:32,600 --> 01:34:35,880
Speaker 1: as well. They ran the ball predominantly against those defenses

1716
01:34:35,920 --> 01:34:38,320
Speaker 1: because that was the matchup that worked for them. They

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01:34:38,360 --> 01:34:40,599
Speaker 1: also did the opposite in the Seattle game. I think

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01:34:40,600 --> 01:34:43,840
Speaker 1: they started the game with seventeen straight passes, so it

1719
01:34:43,880 --> 01:34:46,280
Speaker 1: went just the opposite way for them in the Seattle game.

1720
01:34:46,439 --> 01:34:49,120
Speaker 1: And I think you're right. If you want to have

1721
01:34:49,280 --> 01:34:53,639
Speaker 1: that tool or that yeah, that in your skill set,

1722
01:34:54,520 --> 01:34:57,320
Speaker 1: you need to keep it sharp. And far too many

1723
01:34:57,360 --> 01:34:59,200
Speaker 1: times it didn't seem like the running game was just

1724
01:34:59,320 --> 01:35:02,000
Speaker 1: sharp enough. And in the Kansas City game, you're right,

1725
01:35:02,160 --> 01:35:04,360
Speaker 1: And I don't know that they would have run it

1726
01:35:04,479 --> 01:35:07,439
Speaker 1: more at that point of the season, the way the

1727
01:35:07,520 --> 01:35:11,320
Speaker 1: offense had come to fruition throughout the regular season. I

1728
01:35:11,360 --> 01:35:12,680
Speaker 1: don't know if they're gonna say, you know what, we're

1729
01:35:12,680 --> 01:35:14,240
Speaker 1: gonna take the ball out of our guy who was

1730
01:35:14,720 --> 01:35:16,800
Speaker 1: in the running for the MVP, and we're gonna hand

1731
01:35:16,840 --> 01:35:18,120
Speaker 1: it off. I don't know they would have done that,

1732
01:35:18,160 --> 01:35:19,960
Speaker 1: and I don't know that would have made the difference

1733
01:35:20,000 --> 01:35:22,760
Speaker 1: in that game. But I know this, and it's been

1734
01:35:22,800 --> 01:35:26,639
Speaker 1: my take in Brownie. You'll tell you they're good enough

1735
01:35:26,640 --> 01:35:28,479
Speaker 1: to beat Kansas City, right or at the end of

1736
01:35:28,479 --> 01:35:30,320
Speaker 1: the last season when they got in the playoffs, we're

1737
01:35:30,320 --> 01:35:32,559
Speaker 1: winning playoff games. They were good enough to beat Kansas

1738
01:35:32,600 --> 01:35:35,559
Speaker 1: City then, But you gotta play well on the day

1739
01:35:35,600 --> 01:35:38,719
Speaker 1: you play them. The Bills did not. The Kansas City

1740
01:35:38,760 --> 01:35:41,040
Speaker 1: Chiefs played as good a game as they played the

1741
01:35:41,160 --> 01:35:44,960
Speaker 1: last six to eight weeks of the season. They played

1742
01:35:45,240 --> 01:35:48,280
Speaker 1: their best game in that entire stretch against the Buffalo Bills,

1743
01:35:48,320 --> 01:35:49,880
Speaker 1: and then they did not in the super Bowl, and

1744
01:35:49,880 --> 01:35:52,080
Speaker 1: they didn't in the super Bowl. So don't think the

1745
01:35:52,160 --> 01:35:56,679
Speaker 1: Bills have got to revamp their philosophy or change their

1746
01:35:56,680 --> 01:36:00,240
Speaker 1: approach or do anything vastly different than they it a

1747
01:36:00,280 --> 01:36:03,920
Speaker 1: year ago. To beat Kansas City on any given day,

1748
01:36:04,120 --> 01:36:06,280
Speaker 1: They're good enough to do that now, but they've got

1749
01:36:06,280 --> 01:36:08,880
Speaker 1: to play well on that day. Now. The Chiefs are

1750
01:36:09,360 --> 01:36:12,679
Speaker 1: supremely talented. So that says that's what every team will

1751
01:36:12,680 --> 01:36:15,479
Speaker 1: tell you. If the Chiefs are playing their best, you're

1752
01:36:15,479 --> 01:36:17,439
Speaker 1: gonna have to get lucky and play your best to

1753
01:36:17,479 --> 01:36:21,320
Speaker 1: beat them. Both. If they're not playing their best, all

1754
01:36:21,320 --> 01:36:23,200
Speaker 1: you gotta do is play your best. You don't luck

1755
01:36:23,280 --> 01:36:26,559
Speaker 1: or not. So that's where the Bills are. I get

1756
01:36:26,600 --> 01:36:30,439
Speaker 1: that about the run game and all that, but they're

1757
01:36:30,439 --> 01:36:32,960
Speaker 1: on the right trail. We're good. Yeah, we're good. And

1758
01:36:33,120 --> 01:36:35,200
Speaker 1: I thought this had happened already, And our good friend

1759
01:36:35,200 --> 01:36:38,360
Speaker 1: Paul Hamilton has told us that it has the weekend

1760
01:36:38,360 --> 01:36:40,840
Speaker 1: of the ice storm in Detroit, we had Sabers red

1761
01:36:40,880 --> 01:36:45,240
Speaker 1: wings on Friday, Bills Lions on Sunday. So it has happened,

1762
01:36:45,520 --> 01:36:48,280
Speaker 1: and unintentionally, but it's happened. I want to I want

1763
01:36:48,280 --> 01:36:51,799
Speaker 1: to see some Chamber of Conference Commerce numbers, you know, Okay,

1764
01:36:52,040 --> 01:36:54,160
Speaker 1: I want to see Oh you know who to call

1765
01:36:54,240 --> 01:36:56,320
Speaker 1: for that. We have to take a break, no idea.

1766
01:36:56,680 --> 01:36:59,080
Speaker 1: NFL Films great co sale coming up. We're gonna talk

1767
01:36:59,240 --> 01:37:02,439
Speaker 1: linebacker prospects with him when we return here on One

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01:37:02,479 --> 01:37:22,480
Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Kalida Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio

1769
01:37:23,040 --> 01:37:26,719
Speaker 1: at a Steve tester who has been all over the field.

1770
01:37:26,840 --> 01:37:28,439
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

1771
01:37:28,520 --> 01:37:34,880
Speaker 1: player for you. Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even

1772
01:37:34,920 --> 01:37:40,800
Speaker 1: in the strated fere of normalcy. It is our number

1773
01:37:40,840 --> 01:37:43,920
Speaker 1: three on a Friday, One Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve

1774
01:37:44,000 --> 01:37:47,400
Speaker 1: Tasker with you and here making his weekly appearance as

1775
01:37:47,400 --> 01:37:51,880
Speaker 1: he will be right up until NFL Draft twenty twenty one.

1776
01:37:52,800 --> 01:37:56,680
Speaker 1: Senior producer of NFL Films, Greg Kosell joining us and

1777
01:37:57,160 --> 01:38:01,120
Speaker 1: we are locked and loaded to talk linebackers today. And

1778
01:38:01,280 --> 01:38:04,280
Speaker 1: Greg is ready as always as he has been grinding

1779
01:38:04,280 --> 01:38:07,320
Speaker 1: the tape. Have you had to change eye glass prescriptions yet? Greg?

1780
01:38:07,320 --> 01:38:09,320
Speaker 1: Because but the amount of film that you watch. I'm

1781
01:38:09,360 --> 01:38:11,519
Speaker 1: surprised your eyes have not fallen out of your skull.

1782
01:38:11,640 --> 01:38:13,439
Speaker 1: Do you mention that, Chris? I went to the eye doctor,

1783
01:38:13,640 --> 01:38:15,840
Speaker 1: I don't know, a month or so ago, and apparently

1784
01:38:16,000 --> 01:38:19,479
Speaker 1: my prescription changed ever so slightly. He said, not enough

1785
01:38:19,520 --> 01:38:21,639
Speaker 1: where I really needed new glasses on us. I really

1786
01:38:21,680 --> 01:38:24,760
Speaker 1: wanted to, but no, I haven't had two in a while.

1787
01:38:25,439 --> 01:38:28,240
Speaker 1: Well then you're very fortunate, well you yeah, Well now

1788
01:38:28,680 --> 01:38:31,320
Speaker 1: I was the poster child. When I hit forty, all

1789
01:38:31,360 --> 01:38:33,559
Speaker 1: of a sudden, everything changed and my arms were no

1790
01:38:33,640 --> 01:38:38,320
Speaker 1: longer long enough to read. You're not the only one

1791
01:38:38,360 --> 01:38:41,759
Speaker 1: in that boat. Yeah, I know. I take my glasses

1792
01:38:41,760 --> 01:38:43,200
Speaker 1: off and put them I have readers, you know. I

1793
01:38:43,280 --> 01:38:44,800
Speaker 1: use readers on the air and everything, and I got

1794
01:38:44,840 --> 01:38:47,280
Speaker 1: about seven pairs of readers, Greg, take you're all over

1795
01:38:47,320 --> 01:38:50,080
Speaker 1: the place. I take my glasses off and put them

1796
01:38:50,080 --> 01:38:54,280
Speaker 1: back on at least fifty times every show. Oh we're

1797
01:38:54,320 --> 01:38:55,960
Speaker 1: gonna have it over under on that in the not

1798
01:38:56,000 --> 01:38:57,760
Speaker 1: too just. I do it all day long. I mean,

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01:38:57,800 --> 01:39:01,439
Speaker 1: it's it's yeah. But because I don't need them for distance,

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01:39:01,479 --> 01:39:03,720
Speaker 1: I don't need them to drive, but I can't see

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01:39:03,760 --> 01:39:06,040
Speaker 1: anything without them. As far as we're reading or we're

1802
01:39:06,040 --> 01:39:07,720
Speaker 1: doing this kind of work, right, So before we get

1803
01:39:07,760 --> 01:39:10,640
Speaker 1: into the linebackers, I'm gonna I'm gonna put the disclaimer

1804
01:39:10,640 --> 01:39:12,559
Speaker 1: out there. We've already had the discussion off the air

1805
01:39:12,600 --> 01:39:14,519
Speaker 1: with Greg about task or three point thos or I'm

1806
01:39:14,520 --> 01:39:18,880
Speaker 1: not gonna bore you with the hockey football convergence of scheduling.

1807
01:39:18,920 --> 01:39:21,000
Speaker 1: Although it's a great idea, is that not? Greg? Of

1808
01:39:21,000 --> 01:39:24,080
Speaker 1: course in your example that that wouldn't work because every

1809
01:39:24,200 --> 01:39:27,920
Speaker 1: weekend is a super Bowl weekend on Lower Broadway in Nashville.

1810
01:39:28,680 --> 01:39:34,040
Speaker 1: Well that's except well not like I've seen it, but anyway, yeah,

1811
01:39:34,080 --> 01:39:35,559
Speaker 1: but I get it, but it is a great all

1812
01:39:35,600 --> 01:39:38,360
Speaker 1: right anyway, Okay, So anyway, we're gonna talk about linebackers

1813
01:39:38,360 --> 01:39:41,040
Speaker 1: this week, right, So you've you've grind through this. How

1814
01:39:41,920 --> 01:39:44,920
Speaker 1: do you put a hierarchy on how you plow through

1815
01:39:44,960 --> 01:39:48,040
Speaker 1: these position groups? Do you like, pick all the quarterbacks

1816
01:39:48,040 --> 01:39:50,880
Speaker 1: in terms of quote unquote value that that new term

1817
01:39:50,920 --> 01:39:53,600
Speaker 1: for all these positions? Not yeah kind of, but do

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01:39:53,600 --> 01:39:55,080
Speaker 1: you do you just say, Okay, I'm gonna go look

1819
01:39:55,080 --> 01:39:56,880
Speaker 1: at all the linebackers now, or I'm gonna go look

1820
01:39:56,920 --> 01:39:59,000
Speaker 1: at this team, and I say I'm gonna look at

1821
01:39:59,000 --> 01:40:00,600
Speaker 1: all the guys on this team, and then I do

1822
01:40:00,640 --> 01:40:02,599
Speaker 1: that or how do you do that? Now, it's very

1823
01:40:02,720 --> 01:40:06,719
Speaker 1: random with me. I can't watch one position. I can't

1824
01:40:06,760 --> 01:40:09,439
Speaker 1: watch what ten players are one position, all in a row,

1825
01:40:09,760 --> 01:40:12,680
Speaker 1: because it starts to look the same. Because at the

1826
01:40:12,760 --> 01:40:14,519
Speaker 1: end of the day, there's very few, as you guys know,

1827
01:40:14,600 --> 01:40:18,000
Speaker 1: transcendent players or guys that are terrible where you just go, oh,

1828
01:40:18,080 --> 01:40:20,240
Speaker 1: that guy is great and it's obvious, or this guy

1829
01:40:20,320 --> 01:40:22,080
Speaker 1: just he's not gonna you know, he'll be a late

1830
01:40:22,160 --> 01:40:25,760
Speaker 1: round pick at best. Most players at positions are in

1831
01:40:25,760 --> 01:40:28,479
Speaker 1: that sort of mass of what I guess would be

1832
01:40:28,520 --> 01:40:31,840
Speaker 1: called second round to sixth round picks, and so many

1833
01:40:31,840 --> 01:40:33,280
Speaker 1: of those guys end up being in the eye of

1834
01:40:33,320 --> 01:40:38,839
Speaker 1: the beholder team scheme, coaching, and if I watch one position,

1835
01:40:39,240 --> 01:40:41,920
Speaker 1: ten eleven guys in a row, it just starts to

1836
01:40:42,000 --> 01:40:44,200
Speaker 1: look the same. And there are positions that are tough

1837
01:40:44,240 --> 01:40:46,960
Speaker 1: to watch. You can watch safeties and you could go

1838
01:40:47,000 --> 01:40:48,559
Speaker 1: a whole game where they don't do much. You could

1839
01:40:48,560 --> 01:40:51,320
Speaker 1: watch a corner and if he's not really attacked, you're

1840
01:40:51,320 --> 01:40:53,960
Speaker 1: trying to just watch his movement. So no, I don't

1841
01:40:53,960 --> 01:40:56,000
Speaker 1: do it that way. I'm very random. I jump around.

1842
01:40:56,640 --> 01:40:59,480
Speaker 1: So with that in mind, we've got a guy that's

1843
01:40:59,520 --> 01:41:02,320
Speaker 1: some people consider an edge player, some people think he's

1844
01:41:02,320 --> 01:41:06,120
Speaker 1: a linebacker. Joseph Osai is a guy who were talking

1845
01:41:06,120 --> 01:41:10,880
Speaker 1: about on the show here yesterday, And I don't know.

1846
01:41:10,960 --> 01:41:13,240
Speaker 1: I guess it depends on your scheme in terms of

1847
01:41:13,240 --> 01:41:17,080
Speaker 1: what you see him as. The thing that stands out

1848
01:41:17,080 --> 01:41:20,760
Speaker 1: about him is long limbed player. He's got thirty four

1849
01:41:20,800 --> 01:41:24,280
Speaker 1: inch arms greg for a you know, for a linebacker

1850
01:41:24,360 --> 01:41:27,639
Speaker 1: type body, which is unusual. But he also, with all

1851
01:41:27,680 --> 01:41:31,479
Speaker 1: his playing time, doesn't have a tremendous amount of production numbers.

1852
01:41:31,560 --> 01:41:35,360
Speaker 1: So where do you come down on this guy? Well,

1853
01:41:35,640 --> 01:41:38,280
Speaker 1: as you probably know, he moved from an off the

1854
01:41:38,320 --> 01:41:41,840
Speaker 1: ball stacked linebacker in two and nineteen to an on

1855
01:41:42,000 --> 01:41:44,920
Speaker 1: the ball edge player in twenty twenty. And of course,

1856
01:41:44,920 --> 01:41:48,800
Speaker 1: when you're in that role, you're a pass rusher. He's

1857
01:41:48,800 --> 01:41:52,320
Speaker 1: got very heavy hands, he's got a really strong body,

1858
01:41:52,800 --> 01:41:58,680
Speaker 1: and this guy plays with unbelievable competitiveness and effort. I mean,

1859
01:41:58,720 --> 01:42:02,519
Speaker 1: that's what stands out more than anything. Um. But I

1860
01:42:02,520 --> 01:42:05,679
Speaker 1: would say that as far as being a pass rusher,

1861
01:42:06,040 --> 01:42:09,040
Speaker 1: I think he has worked to do. He flashes on

1862
01:42:09,320 --> 01:42:14,840
Speaker 1: singular plays, but I think that he gets handled. He's

1863
01:42:14,880 --> 01:42:18,240
Speaker 1: not a sudden explosive guy. He's not a bender, he's

1864
01:42:18,280 --> 01:42:24,360
Speaker 1: not flexible. Um. Overall, Uh, you can always find individual plays. Um.

1865
01:42:24,400 --> 01:42:28,040
Speaker 1: I think he uses his arms well, uh, and his

1866
01:42:28,160 --> 01:42:31,479
Speaker 1: body strength well to try to playoff contact. But I

1867
01:42:31,520 --> 01:42:34,720
Speaker 1: think he has worked to do to really become a

1868
01:42:34,760 --> 01:42:37,840
Speaker 1: meaningful pass rusher at the NFL level. What kind of

1869
01:42:38,240 --> 01:42:41,519
Speaker 1: you know, what's upside to him? Is he is a

1870
01:42:41,600 --> 01:42:43,840
Speaker 1: transcendent athlete? Is he you know long enough? I know

1871
01:42:43,960 --> 01:42:47,599
Speaker 1: he's tall enough. So what what you're telling me now

1872
01:42:48,080 --> 01:42:49,800
Speaker 1: is you've got a guy you're looking at who's who

1873
01:42:49,800 --> 01:42:53,080
Speaker 1: can play football. Obviously, but if he's gonna be truly

1874
01:42:53,120 --> 01:42:56,479
Speaker 1: a great player or even a valuable number one pick,

1875
01:42:56,520 --> 01:43:01,160
Speaker 1: it's gonna have to come from from him. Yeah. And

1876
01:43:01,439 --> 01:43:04,960
Speaker 1: again I'm not good at making lists of players or

1877
01:43:05,000 --> 01:43:08,200
Speaker 1: doing mocks, but I would not look at Joseph aside

1878
01:43:08,880 --> 01:43:11,280
Speaker 1: just in evaluating his game on tape, which is what

1879
01:43:11,320 --> 01:43:14,200
Speaker 1: I do, And I did not come away saying this

1880
01:43:14,240 --> 01:43:16,760
Speaker 1: guy is a number one or a first round pick

1881
01:43:17,040 --> 01:43:20,639
Speaker 1: in a draft. I think you'll be really excited by

1882
01:43:20,720 --> 01:43:23,439
Speaker 1: his high level of intensity. I'm sure that a D

1883
01:43:23,560 --> 01:43:25,840
Speaker 1: line coach would say, hey, I want this guy in

1884
01:43:25,920 --> 01:43:29,160
Speaker 1: my room because this guy plays the game the right way.

1885
01:43:29,640 --> 01:43:31,760
Speaker 1: But I think you really have to work with him

1886
01:43:32,200 --> 01:43:35,200
Speaker 1: on how to become a better pass rusher. Now that

1887
01:43:35,240 --> 01:43:37,200
Speaker 1: doesn't mean Steve that in three years he may not

1888
01:43:37,240 --> 01:43:40,519
Speaker 1: be a very good player. He's just not there right now.

1889
01:43:40,720 --> 01:43:42,360
Speaker 1: He's not come and no one comes in as a

1890
01:43:42,400 --> 01:43:45,400
Speaker 1: finished product, obviously, but I think there's much work to

1891
01:43:45,439 --> 01:43:47,559
Speaker 1: be done. One of the other guys on our list

1892
01:43:47,560 --> 01:43:50,920
Speaker 1: at linebacker is the linebacker from Kentucky, and I think

1893
01:43:50,920 --> 01:43:54,639
Speaker 1: I'm saying his name, Jamon Davis. Jaymon Davis, six four,

1894
01:43:54,720 --> 01:43:57,720
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty four pounds. What can you tell

1895
01:43:57,760 --> 01:44:01,160
Speaker 1: us about this guy from Kentucky? This guy, I've got

1896
01:44:01,200 --> 01:44:03,400
Speaker 1: a man crushed on this guy. I didn't know anything

1897
01:44:03,400 --> 01:44:05,479
Speaker 1: about him until I put the tape on maybe six

1898
01:44:05,560 --> 01:44:08,719
Speaker 1: or seven weeks ago, so he was totally virgin territory

1899
01:44:08,760 --> 01:44:12,200
Speaker 1: to me. And I've loved his tape, loved it. I

1900
01:44:12,240 --> 01:44:16,080
Speaker 1: think this guy absolutely fits the NFL game. Sixty three

1901
01:44:16,080 --> 01:44:20,560
Speaker 1: and a half two thirty four runs well. Explosive athlete,

1902
01:44:20,800 --> 01:44:25,719
Speaker 1: he has size, length, play speed, coverage ability, range, He's

1903
01:44:25,760 --> 01:44:28,960
Speaker 1: willing to be physical in the run game. I think

1904
01:44:29,000 --> 01:44:31,599
Speaker 1: this guy to me, and now that I've watched a

1905
01:44:31,640 --> 01:44:34,000
Speaker 1: lot of linebackers. When I'd watched him, I'd probably only

1906
01:44:34,040 --> 01:44:36,639
Speaker 1: seen four or five, but now I've probably seen fifteen

1907
01:44:36,720 --> 01:44:40,160
Speaker 1: or eighteen. I think this guy is a really high

1908
01:44:40,320 --> 01:44:44,120
Speaker 1: level prospect, particularly in today's NFL, because you have to

1909
01:44:44,160 --> 01:44:47,360
Speaker 1: think of it this way. What's the NFL game? It's sub.

1910
01:44:48,040 --> 01:44:50,639
Speaker 1: Look at the Bills, ninety percent of their snaps last

1911
01:44:50,680 --> 01:44:53,320
Speaker 1: year are nickel. They're gonna play with two linebackers, so

1912
01:44:54,080 --> 01:44:56,200
Speaker 1: they're not the only team. I mean, obviously they're high

1913
01:44:56,200 --> 01:44:59,320
Speaker 1: at ninety percent, but you in order to be a

1914
01:44:59,400 --> 01:45:02,759
Speaker 1: high dres pick as a linebacker and have true value,

1915
01:45:02,800 --> 01:45:04,960
Speaker 1: to use that word that a lot of people throw around, now,

1916
01:45:05,280 --> 01:45:07,719
Speaker 1: you have got to be able to play in sub.

1917
01:45:08,360 --> 01:45:10,920
Speaker 1: You've got to be able to play in space. You've

1918
01:45:10,920 --> 01:45:13,240
Speaker 1: got to be able to close down space. You've got

1919
01:45:13,240 --> 01:45:15,240
Speaker 1: to be able to run. You've got to be able

1920
01:45:15,280 --> 01:45:18,280
Speaker 1: to cover both in zone and in man. He can

1921
01:45:18,320 --> 01:45:21,200
Speaker 1: do all of these things. This I think this kid's

1922
01:45:21,200 --> 01:45:23,679
Speaker 1: a high, high level prospect. Yeah. I mean, he's got

1923
01:45:23,680 --> 01:45:26,120
Speaker 1: four four seven speed, which even a two hundred and

1924
01:45:26,120 --> 01:45:30,120
Speaker 1: thirty four pounds is pretty ridiculous. What about the concerns

1925
01:45:30,320 --> 01:45:34,080
Speaker 1: of his body of work. A one year starter sometimes

1926
01:45:34,120 --> 01:45:38,600
Speaker 1: that gives scouting department's pause. And because you know the

1927
01:45:38,640 --> 01:45:42,400
Speaker 1: body of work is not lengthy enough, they're quote unquote unproven.

1928
01:45:42,520 --> 01:45:46,880
Speaker 1: So where do you come down on that? The way

1929
01:45:46,920 --> 01:45:48,880
Speaker 1: I come down on that is if you believe this

1930
01:45:48,920 --> 01:45:51,400
Speaker 1: guy is going to be a really high level player,

1931
01:45:52,520 --> 01:45:55,080
Speaker 1: I think that's worth it. Then. And you know the

1932
01:45:55,120 --> 01:45:57,559
Speaker 1: flip side of that is you hear scouts say this

1933
01:45:57,640 --> 01:46:00,280
Speaker 1: all the time. They talk about level of competition. He

1934
01:46:00,320 --> 01:46:03,599
Speaker 1: played in the SEC. So he played in the highest

1935
01:46:03,680 --> 01:46:08,639
Speaker 1: level of college competition. Yes, he obviously played three seasons

1936
01:46:08,680 --> 01:46:12,360
Speaker 1: before becoming a starter this past year. So I'm not

1937
01:46:12,439 --> 01:46:14,320
Speaker 1: sure I'm being honest with you because I don't know

1938
01:46:14,320 --> 01:46:18,959
Speaker 1: exactly what that means. I'm sure different organizations address that differently.

1939
01:46:20,040 --> 01:46:22,960
Speaker 1: Sitting in my office here, you know, just not getting

1940
01:46:22,960 --> 01:46:24,800
Speaker 1: a chance to talk to guys and all that I

1941
01:46:24,800 --> 01:46:27,400
Speaker 1: mean players I'm talking about. I'm just looking at the

1942
01:46:27,400 --> 01:46:30,400
Speaker 1: tape and seeing the traits, and I believe this guy

1943
01:46:30,439 --> 01:46:34,439
Speaker 1: has high level traits and if there's no red flags

1944
01:46:34,439 --> 01:46:38,040
Speaker 1: as far as personality, character, other issues, then I think

1945
01:46:38,080 --> 01:46:40,120
Speaker 1: this guy's a really strong process. Yeah, he comes from

1946
01:46:40,120 --> 01:46:42,960
Speaker 1: a military family, so you know that certainly works in

1947
01:46:43,040 --> 01:46:45,160
Speaker 1: his favor in terms of discipline and the things like

1948
01:46:45,200 --> 01:46:48,120
Speaker 1: that that you normally see from those kinds of backgrounds.

1949
01:46:48,920 --> 01:46:51,320
Speaker 1: You have a man crush on him. The guy I

1950
01:46:51,360 --> 01:46:55,040
Speaker 1: have a man crush on is Jeremiah a Wusukamoa from

1951
01:46:55,080 --> 01:46:56,880
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. Now, I don't think the Bills are going

1952
01:46:56,920 --> 01:46:58,519
Speaker 1: to get a whiff of him because he's gonna be

1953
01:46:58,600 --> 01:47:02,040
Speaker 1: way off the board before thirty. But I mean, this

1954
01:47:02,080 --> 01:47:04,680
Speaker 1: guy looks like a modern day linebacker two does he not.

1955
01:47:06,320 --> 01:47:09,000
Speaker 1: He's a fascinating player because he came in at his

1956
01:47:09,000 --> 01:47:11,280
Speaker 1: pro day at two twenty one, which tells me he

1957
01:47:11,320 --> 01:47:13,479
Speaker 1: wants to be a linebacker. Because I had spoken to

1958
01:47:13,520 --> 01:47:15,800
Speaker 1: some people that said that he played this year. He

1959
01:47:15,840 --> 01:47:18,280
Speaker 1: was down to around two ten, So at two ten

1960
01:47:18,360 --> 01:47:19,920
Speaker 1: he was not going to be a linebacker. But he

1961
01:47:19,920 --> 01:47:22,320
Speaker 1: obviously got up to two twenty one through all his

1962
01:47:22,560 --> 01:47:25,760
Speaker 1: workouts and wants to be a linebacker. He is an

1963
01:47:25,840 --> 01:47:30,839
Speaker 1: explosive guy. I mean, that's what immediately stands out. He's long,

1964
01:47:31,000 --> 01:47:35,720
Speaker 1: he's rangy, he's sudden, he's explosive. This guy has elite

1965
01:47:35,760 --> 01:47:39,400
Speaker 1: movement traits, and there are plays you're just blown away

1966
01:47:39,439 --> 01:47:41,639
Speaker 1: because this guy looks like he's shot out of a cannon.

1967
01:47:42,640 --> 01:47:47,479
Speaker 1: So I think he'll be a linebacker ultimately. And you

1968
01:47:47,520 --> 01:47:50,120
Speaker 1: guys know this when you hear people say things like,

1969
01:47:50,120 --> 01:47:52,840
Speaker 1: well he can play five positions. That doesn't happen in

1970
01:47:52,880 --> 01:47:54,960
Speaker 1: the NFL, and it certainly doesn't happen as a rook

1971
01:47:55,479 --> 01:47:59,040
Speaker 1: So maybe down the road he can be kind of

1972
01:47:59,240 --> 01:48:01,640
Speaker 1: like that you know who. He kind of reminded me of,

1973
01:48:01,720 --> 01:48:05,400
Speaker 1: and he's probably more purely explosive. Not quite as big,

1974
01:48:05,640 --> 01:48:09,320
Speaker 1: but more purely explosive. When I finished watching his tape,

1975
01:48:09,320 --> 01:48:11,439
Speaker 1: the player who jumped into my head was Derwin James.

1976
01:48:12,160 --> 01:48:14,720
Speaker 1: I think he's kind of and I'm talking about the

1977
01:48:14,720 --> 01:48:17,040
Speaker 1: way he can be deployed. It's kind of that kind

1978
01:48:17,040 --> 01:48:19,280
Speaker 1: of player to me. Yeah, Steve and I have been

1979
01:48:19,320 --> 01:48:22,880
Speaker 1: talking about this. The Bills, with as much as they

1980
01:48:22,920 --> 01:48:26,240
Speaker 1: play in nickel there are they've been trying to find

1981
01:48:26,720 --> 01:48:30,280
Speaker 1: a hybrid type guy to put on the field when

1982
01:48:30,280 --> 01:48:33,519
Speaker 1: the other team goes twelve but maybe has an super

1983
01:48:33,560 --> 01:48:37,840
Speaker 1: athletic tight end, and you know, tarn Johnson is undersized

1984
01:48:37,920 --> 01:48:40,400
Speaker 1: in that situation and they have to take him off

1985
01:48:40,439 --> 01:48:43,479
Speaker 1: the field. They've used Dean Marlowe in recent years they've

1986
01:48:43,560 --> 01:48:45,960
Speaker 1: used Saran Neil, you know, guys who are more of

1987
01:48:46,000 --> 01:48:49,599
Speaker 1: a safety type player. Coramoa would be a perfect fit

1988
01:48:49,680 --> 01:48:56,320
Speaker 1: for that hybrid linebacker cover type guy. Would he not? Absolutely,

1989
01:48:56,400 --> 01:48:59,320
Speaker 1: because when you watch the tape, you see and this

1990
01:48:59,360 --> 01:49:01,680
Speaker 1: is why I love WHY games, because you have to

1991
01:49:01,720 --> 01:49:04,920
Speaker 1: see what he does on every play. You saw that

1992
01:49:04,960 --> 01:49:08,400
Speaker 1: there were numerous snaps in which he lined up over

1993
01:49:08,720 --> 01:49:14,680
Speaker 1: slot wide receivers and tight ends, and that's that's a

1994
01:49:14,720 --> 01:49:17,280
Speaker 1: great point. And you know, a lot of teams now

1995
01:49:18,040 --> 01:49:20,599
Speaker 1: play a lot of big nickel because there's a lot

1996
01:49:20,640 --> 01:49:23,200
Speaker 1: of teams on offense that play with two tight ends

1997
01:49:23,600 --> 01:49:26,600
Speaker 1: and one of those tight ends is essentially a glorified

1998
01:49:26,640 --> 01:49:29,280
Speaker 1: wide receiver, and there's only going to be more of

1999
01:49:29,320 --> 01:49:32,760
Speaker 1: those guys coming into the NFL. He's the perfect big deco,

2000
01:49:33,040 --> 01:49:35,759
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe the best I've seen in the question

2001
01:49:35,840 --> 01:49:38,519
Speaker 1: mark becomes as you know, for everything the defense does

2002
01:49:38,560 --> 01:49:40,720
Speaker 1: to match up, the offense tries to take advantage of

2003
01:49:40,720 --> 01:49:42,920
Speaker 1: if he's having trouble staying at two twenty five and

2004
01:49:42,960 --> 01:49:44,519
Speaker 1: goes down to two ten, they start to run the

2005
01:49:44,560 --> 01:49:47,200
Speaker 1: football right at him and see if he can hold

2006
01:49:47,280 --> 01:49:50,599
Speaker 1: up in that, and that becomes the issue. Right, It's

2007
01:49:50,640 --> 01:49:52,960
Speaker 1: a It's funny you say that, because when I watched

2008
01:49:52,960 --> 01:49:56,680
Speaker 1: the tape, in my mind, I thought he was his

2009
01:49:56,760 --> 01:49:59,360
Speaker 1: safety in terms of the way in which he was

2010
01:49:59,400 --> 01:50:03,240
Speaker 1: deployed and how he played. Um, he's not a stacked

2011
01:50:03,240 --> 01:50:05,519
Speaker 1: a backer. That's what he's not. Right now. That doesn't

2012
01:50:05,560 --> 01:50:08,200
Speaker 1: mean he can't quote unquote be a linebacker. He's just

2013
01:50:08,280 --> 01:50:10,559
Speaker 1: not someone you're gonna line up. Let's say, you know,

2014
01:50:10,840 --> 01:50:13,000
Speaker 1: right behind your your three technique. I mean, he's not

2015
01:50:13,080 --> 01:50:15,280
Speaker 1: that player. He's a kind of player that you're gonna

2016
01:50:15,280 --> 01:50:17,280
Speaker 1: have to He's gonna have to fit in your scheme.

2017
01:50:17,320 --> 01:50:18,720
Speaker 1: He's got a skill set, but it's kind of a

2018
01:50:18,760 --> 01:50:20,680
Speaker 1: unique skill set to go with the body that he

2019
01:50:20,720 --> 01:50:23,600
Speaker 1: brings in the physicality he brings. But he's got a

2020
01:50:23,600 --> 01:50:27,920
Speaker 1: lot of versatility. Right. Oh, and he's he's he's explosive.

2021
01:50:28,000 --> 01:50:29,920
Speaker 1: Is all get up. I mean, this guy he makes

2022
01:50:29,960 --> 01:50:32,120
Speaker 1: plays where he just he can go from zero to

2023
01:50:32,240 --> 01:50:34,559
Speaker 1: sixty and a heartbeat. All right. Another guy we've been

2024
01:50:34,560 --> 01:50:36,839
Speaker 1: talking about. We had a conversation about this guy yesterday,

2025
01:50:36,960 --> 01:50:41,559
Speaker 1: Zavan Collins. He's he's a little completely different. He's six four,

2026
01:50:41,680 --> 01:50:45,880
Speaker 1: two sixty uh and playing a linebacker and he's he's

2027
01:50:45,920 --> 01:50:52,640
Speaker 1: also you know, made some plays during his career at Tulsays.

2028
01:50:52,680 --> 01:50:57,240
Speaker 1: Guy's a little freakish um amazingly enough, Steve. The one

2029
01:50:57,320 --> 01:50:59,640
Speaker 1: thing he's not at that size is he's not a

2030
01:50:59,640 --> 01:51:03,360
Speaker 1: pure physical player. He actually plays much more like an

2031
01:51:03,360 --> 01:51:07,559
Speaker 1: athlete than he does a pure physical player. I think

2032
01:51:07,600 --> 01:51:11,479
Speaker 1: that there's pass rush traits to be worked on. We

2033
01:51:11,560 --> 01:51:14,080
Speaker 1: saw him line up as basically a wide nine pass

2034
01:51:14,120 --> 01:51:18,800
Speaker 1: rusher at Tulson, rushed the quarterback and show some ability

2035
01:51:18,840 --> 01:51:21,839
Speaker 1: to do that. Like I said, I think there's more there.

2036
01:51:23,000 --> 01:51:25,160
Speaker 1: This guy made some interceptions where he looked like he

2037
01:51:25,200 --> 01:51:27,479
Speaker 1: was a two hundred twenty pound safety. I mean, he

2038
01:51:27,520 --> 01:51:29,640
Speaker 1: had an interception return for a touchdown I think to

2039
01:51:29,720 --> 01:51:32,400
Speaker 1: end the game in overtime that was ninety five yards

2040
01:51:32,479 --> 01:51:34,360
Speaker 1: or so, and man, he looked like he was a

2041
01:51:34,400 --> 01:51:38,080
Speaker 1: two hundred twenty pounds safety. But this guy's a multidimensional,

2042
01:51:38,160 --> 01:51:41,280
Speaker 1: multi positional guy. In college, he played a lot of

2043
01:51:41,280 --> 01:51:43,880
Speaker 1: positions and that usually tells you that he's got some

2044
01:51:43,960 --> 01:51:46,639
Speaker 1: smarts to him as well, because you wouldn't ask him

2045
01:51:46,640 --> 01:51:50,439
Speaker 1: to do that if he couldn't do it. So I

2046
01:51:50,600 --> 01:51:53,880
Speaker 1: think that he can be a sub defense linebacker coming

2047
01:51:53,960 --> 01:51:58,080
Speaker 1: right into the league. Obviously, the Bills don't necessarily need

2048
01:51:58,080 --> 01:52:01,920
Speaker 1: that with Mulano and Edmonds. But this guy's fascinating to me.

2049
01:52:02,000 --> 01:52:05,800
Speaker 1: He's bigger, but he kind of reminds me of the

2050
01:52:05,840 --> 01:52:08,240
Speaker 1: way the Patriots, and now he's back with the Patriots,

2051
01:52:08,360 --> 01:52:10,320
Speaker 1: the way they use Kyle van Noy and kind of

2052
01:52:10,640 --> 01:52:14,479
Speaker 1: multiple positions, a multidimensional player and doing a lot of

2053
01:52:14,560 --> 01:52:17,280
Speaker 1: different things. Collins to me, he's kind of that guy.

2054
01:52:17,280 --> 01:52:19,320
Speaker 1: He's just two hundred and sixty pounds. Yeah, I mean

2055
01:52:19,320 --> 01:52:21,760
Speaker 1: an athlete. You look at him on paper and you

2056
01:52:21,840 --> 01:52:24,920
Speaker 1: say sixty three two sixty, and it's hard not to

2057
01:52:24,920 --> 01:52:27,120
Speaker 1: think of Levon Kirkland. I don't know if you could

2058
01:52:27,120 --> 01:52:29,920
Speaker 1: look at a guy that carries six three two sixty

2059
01:52:29,960 --> 01:52:33,320
Speaker 1: any differently than Levon Kirkland. Now he's six five, he's

2060
01:52:33,360 --> 01:52:36,840
Speaker 1: six four and seven eight six five to sixty. Yeah,

2061
01:52:36,840 --> 01:52:39,960
Speaker 1: he looks. It's insane. I mean, this guy he comes

2062
01:52:40,040 --> 01:52:42,960
Speaker 1: right out of a science lab if you want to

2063
01:52:43,000 --> 01:52:45,479
Speaker 1: put six five two sixty out on a football field,

2064
01:52:46,000 --> 01:52:48,519
Speaker 1: and he looks like an athlete. NOI he moves. He's

2065
01:52:48,560 --> 01:52:51,479
Speaker 1: a loose guy. I mean he's not he's not stiff,

2066
01:52:51,960 --> 01:52:55,200
Speaker 1: you know, So he's he's gonna be interesting. He's one

2067
01:52:55,200 --> 01:52:58,200
Speaker 1: of the guys our most fascinatedcy who drafts him, and

2068
01:52:58,240 --> 01:53:00,280
Speaker 1: then that'll tell me something right away because I'll know

2069
01:53:00,360 --> 01:53:02,920
Speaker 1: you know what. Yeah, because coordinating, because Greg ten years ago,

2070
01:53:02,920 --> 01:53:05,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be fascinated. Yeah, because ten years ago, this

2071
01:53:05,360 --> 01:53:08,160
Speaker 1: is a guy that people would peg as an outside

2072
01:53:08,160 --> 01:53:11,720
Speaker 1: linebacker in a three four. He is more versatile than that.

2073
01:53:11,800 --> 01:53:14,120
Speaker 1: You don't have to pay more, you don't have to

2074
01:53:14,120 --> 01:53:16,000
Speaker 1: pin him down in a three four system. He could

2075
01:53:16,000 --> 01:53:18,559
Speaker 1: play in a four three somewhere. No, no, but you're

2076
01:53:18,560 --> 01:53:20,720
Speaker 1: one hundred percent right, Chris. Years ago, he'd be a

2077
01:53:20,720 --> 01:53:23,400
Speaker 1: three four outside backer or a four three sam And

2078
01:53:23,400 --> 01:53:25,000
Speaker 1: that's what people would say, And that's what he would

2079
01:53:25,000 --> 01:53:26,960
Speaker 1: be in that sid see you later, not not in

2080
01:53:27,000 --> 01:53:29,960
Speaker 1: the way defenses play in the NFL now, right. And

2081
01:53:30,640 --> 01:53:33,640
Speaker 1: so he's We're talking about all these guys and some

2082
01:53:33,720 --> 01:53:35,800
Speaker 1: of them or couldn't be couldn't look more different if

2083
01:53:35,840 --> 01:53:38,679
Speaker 1: they walk in the room. One guy's six five, two sixty.

2084
01:53:38,720 --> 01:53:40,360
Speaker 1: The other guy we were just talking about sixty one,

2085
01:53:40,479 --> 01:53:45,200
Speaker 1: two thirteen or two ten or twenty twenty, and they're

2086
01:53:45,240 --> 01:53:48,800
Speaker 1: both kind of lumped in. That's how I think that's

2087
01:53:49,960 --> 01:53:53,439
Speaker 1: really the interesting part about the NFL at the current moment,

2088
01:53:54,520 --> 01:53:57,439
Speaker 1: depending on who you've got and who you're facing. Like

2089
01:53:57,479 --> 01:53:59,920
Speaker 1: if you're going to New England today and your face

2090
01:54:00,080 --> 01:54:04,519
Speaker 1: sing Hunter Henry and John U. Smith, it's very different

2091
01:54:04,520 --> 01:54:09,479
Speaker 1: than coming to Buffalo and facing Cob Cole Beasley, John Brown,

2092
01:54:10,600 --> 01:54:14,439
Speaker 1: Dave Davis and Steph did And And you made a

2093
01:54:14,479 --> 01:54:16,920
Speaker 1: great point, and that's why you need players who can

2094
01:54:16,960 --> 01:54:19,000
Speaker 1: do both those things right now. It might not be

2095
01:54:19,040 --> 01:54:21,439
Speaker 1: the same player, you know, it might depend on the

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01:54:21,479 --> 01:54:24,639
Speaker 1: week who gets more snaps. But it's also the reason,

2097
01:54:24,680 --> 01:54:26,719
Speaker 1: and I say this honestly why I don't make lists

2098
01:54:26,720 --> 01:54:29,439
Speaker 1: at positions, because I don't know how to make a

2099
01:54:29,520 --> 01:54:34,560
Speaker 1: list that includes Zavian Collins and and Coromoa. What's to Coromoa?

2100
01:54:34,640 --> 01:54:38,240
Speaker 1: To me, they can't be on the same list. It

2101
01:54:38,280 --> 01:54:42,400
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense to me. Yeah, right, wanted to get

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01:54:42,440 --> 01:54:46,000
Speaker 1: your thoughts on Jabril Cox. He's kind of an interesting

2103
01:54:46,040 --> 01:54:50,520
Speaker 1: prospect here and he's gonna have a pro day on

2104
01:54:50,560 --> 01:54:53,040
Speaker 1: the twenty sixth of April. I mean, you want to

2105
01:54:53,040 --> 01:54:56,160
Speaker 1: talk about cutting it down to the wire, This guy's

2106
01:54:56,240 --> 01:55:01,200
Speaker 1: doing it um but a long another guy who's long athlete,

2107
01:55:01,480 --> 01:55:04,920
Speaker 1: but covers a lot of ground, doesn't look like a

2108
01:55:05,040 --> 01:55:10,920
Speaker 1: loping strider for being such a long player. This guy's

2109
01:55:11,040 --> 01:55:15,560
Speaker 1: essentially a safety. I know, he's sixty three two thirty two.

2110
01:55:15,840 --> 01:55:19,000
Speaker 1: He's not a physical player. He's an athletic finesse player.

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01:55:19,400 --> 01:55:21,760
Speaker 1: He's not gonna take on blocks. He's not that guy.

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01:55:22,040 --> 01:55:24,600
Speaker 1: I know. The size tells you that he's a linebacker,

2113
01:55:24,680 --> 01:55:29,120
Speaker 1: but he's essentially a safety. So he kind of fits

2114
01:55:29,120 --> 01:55:31,880
Speaker 1: today's NFL game because you're talking about a guy that

2115
01:55:31,920 --> 01:55:38,160
Speaker 1: they used to match up too tight ends, backs, wide receivers.

2116
01:55:38,200 --> 01:55:41,960
Speaker 1: This kid can run. I mean, he's got size, length, speed, range,

2117
01:55:42,440 --> 01:55:47,640
Speaker 1: coverage ability. He's a really smooth and fluid athlete. I

2118
01:55:47,720 --> 01:55:50,240
Speaker 1: don't think you'd be playing him, and again it depends

2119
01:55:50,280 --> 01:55:53,040
Speaker 1: on the team and how much they played bass. I

2120
01:55:53,040 --> 01:55:58,800
Speaker 1: don't think he'd be a bass defense linebacker. Canny play

2121
01:55:58,840 --> 01:56:01,400
Speaker 1: in the box the redly he can, but that's not

2122
01:56:01,480 --> 01:56:03,760
Speaker 1: really what he does. Might be another one of those

2123
01:56:03,840 --> 01:56:08,200
Speaker 1: hybrid type guys though for yeah right, yeah, I mean

2124
01:56:08,280 --> 01:56:10,760
Speaker 1: I think there'll be legitimate questions that teams will have

2125
01:56:10,880 --> 01:56:13,720
Speaker 1: chris as to whether he can play as a stack linebacker.

2126
01:56:13,840 --> 01:56:17,240
Speaker 1: He's just not He's not really a physical guy, despite

2127
01:56:17,240 --> 01:56:18,880
Speaker 1: the fact that he's sixty three in an eighth and

2128
01:56:18,880 --> 01:56:22,040
Speaker 1: two thirty two. Yeah, and if if, and I'll say this,

2129
01:56:22,160 --> 01:56:26,000
Speaker 1: there's still as even into this in this generation, if

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01:56:26,000 --> 01:56:29,840
Speaker 1: you get tagged as a non physical football player, Um,

2131
01:56:30,800 --> 01:56:33,840
Speaker 1: that's a little bit like a face tattoo. Yeah, you

2132
01:56:33,880 --> 01:56:35,240
Speaker 1: can't get around, you know what I mean, I mean

2133
01:56:35,320 --> 01:56:37,320
Speaker 1: you can't get around. No, No, I mean that's yeah.

2134
01:56:37,360 --> 01:56:39,960
Speaker 1: I mean even in today's NFL, it's still a physical game.

2135
01:56:40,000 --> 01:56:43,360
Speaker 1: And but the tape showed that he's not really that guy.

2136
01:56:43,400 --> 01:56:46,840
Speaker 1: I mean, he was not He did not play through contact.

2137
01:56:46,920 --> 01:56:49,120
Speaker 1: He did not seem like that's what he really wanted.

2138
01:56:49,280 --> 01:56:51,120
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he didn't try. I don't want people

2139
01:56:51,160 --> 01:56:53,480
Speaker 1: to say that. I never talk about that with a guy,

2140
01:56:53,480 --> 01:56:55,680
Speaker 1: because you know, you just I don't. I don't go there.

2141
01:56:55,920 --> 01:56:57,600
Speaker 1: But it just that wasn't the way in which he

2142
01:56:57,640 --> 01:56:59,680
Speaker 1: played the game. One last guy I want to ask

2143
01:56:59,680 --> 01:57:01,320
Speaker 1: you about before we get out of here. It's a

2144
01:57:01,360 --> 01:57:04,520
Speaker 1: it's a Buffalo kid went to Boston College. Isaiah McDuffie.

2145
01:57:05,320 --> 01:57:07,200
Speaker 1: Day he'll be he'll be, you know, a mid round,

2146
01:57:07,400 --> 01:57:11,240
Speaker 1: late round draft pick. But he's a Buffalo kid Boston College.

2147
01:57:11,560 --> 01:57:13,320
Speaker 1: I know you've probably watched a little tape on him.

2148
01:57:13,360 --> 01:57:17,000
Speaker 1: What do you think I watched him actually quite a bit.

2149
01:57:17,040 --> 01:57:19,560
Speaker 1: I actually watched him this morning in detail. He was

2150
01:57:19,600 --> 01:57:23,000
Speaker 1: a fascinating guy. He's so much fun to watch because

2151
01:57:23,000 --> 01:57:29,600
Speaker 1: this guy has relentless competitiveness and energy. But it gets

2152
01:57:29,640 --> 01:57:31,880
Speaker 1: into what we were talking about before. I think he's

2153
01:57:31,920 --> 01:57:34,360
Speaker 1: great in the box. I think he has a great

2154
01:57:34,400 --> 01:57:39,240
Speaker 1: feel in the box, um, great play recognition, reaction quickness.

2155
01:57:39,280 --> 01:57:41,520
Speaker 1: This kid sees it and triggers. Now, I mean he

2156
01:57:41,520 --> 01:57:44,480
Speaker 1: doesn't mess around. He goes and he can he can

2157
01:57:44,520 --> 01:57:48,240
Speaker 1: get outside. He's got plus play speed and some range.

2158
01:57:48,480 --> 01:57:50,880
Speaker 1: But he's not a great athlete, and I don't believe

2159
01:57:50,880 --> 01:57:53,680
Speaker 1: he'll play in your sub, certainly not early in his career.

2160
01:57:54,000 --> 01:57:57,600
Speaker 1: He will not play in your sub. So again, what

2161
01:57:57,680 --> 01:57:59,880
Speaker 1: kind of value now do you put on that kind

2162
01:58:00,040 --> 01:58:03,480
Speaker 1: of player? And it becomes a team and scheme thing.

2163
01:58:03,800 --> 01:58:06,040
Speaker 1: You know, Let's say you're a team that plays your

2164
01:58:06,120 --> 01:58:08,360
Speaker 1: your base forty percent of the time, which would be

2165
01:58:08,400 --> 01:58:10,560
Speaker 1: high in the NFL. You might look at this kid

2166
01:58:10,800 --> 01:58:13,760
Speaker 1: differently than a team that you know plays in your

2167
01:58:13,760 --> 01:58:16,760
Speaker 1: base only twenty two percent of the time. But that's

2168
01:58:16,760 --> 01:58:20,200
Speaker 1: what he is. He's a box stack backer and he's

2169
01:58:20,280 --> 01:58:22,840
Speaker 1: really good at it, and he's so much fun to watch.

2170
01:58:23,000 --> 01:58:25,800
Speaker 1: And I guarantee coaches a want him in their room,

2171
01:58:26,000 --> 01:58:29,800
Speaker 1: the linebacker coach. But he just has limitations. So really

2172
01:58:29,840 --> 01:58:32,280
Speaker 1: good chance that this guy is a guy that goes

2173
01:58:32,320 --> 01:58:35,920
Speaker 1: somewhere on Day three and probably makes a roster as

2174
01:58:35,960 --> 01:58:39,160
Speaker 1: a special team or as a rookie, right for sure.

2175
01:58:39,360 --> 01:58:40,920
Speaker 1: And you know what, he might play in the league

2176
01:58:40,960 --> 01:58:42,760
Speaker 1: for ten years if you have to put him out

2177
01:58:42,760 --> 01:58:44,880
Speaker 1: there because of the way in which he plays. The

2178
01:58:44,880 --> 01:58:47,400
Speaker 1: way in which he plays tells me that it's very

2179
01:58:47,400 --> 01:58:49,320
Speaker 1: important to him and that he works at it. And

2180
01:58:49,360 --> 01:58:50,880
Speaker 1: if you had to put him out there, you could

2181
01:58:50,880 --> 01:58:53,880
Speaker 1: put him out there. You know, he just might not

2182
01:58:54,000 --> 01:58:56,960
Speaker 1: be exactly what you want athletically, but you could put

2183
01:58:56,960 --> 01:58:59,400
Speaker 1: this kid out there. Yeah, that's that's a There's a

2184
01:58:59,400 --> 01:59:01,280
Speaker 1: lot of guys, me being one of them, a lot

2185
01:59:01,320 --> 01:59:03,520
Speaker 1: of guys who made a living in had a pretty

2186
01:59:03,560 --> 01:59:08,600
Speaker 1: good career just exceeding everyday expectations, you know what I mean.

2187
01:59:09,040 --> 01:59:12,400
Speaker 1: There's more guys like that than Jim and Davis. I mean,

2188
01:59:12,440 --> 01:59:16,880
Speaker 1: it's just that's the way it is, That's right, you know. Yeah, Well, Greg,

2189
01:59:16,920 --> 01:59:18,440
Speaker 1: we are at a time, but we thank you for

2190
01:59:18,480 --> 01:59:21,160
Speaker 1: breaking down. Some of these linebackers will catch up with

2191
01:59:21,200 --> 01:59:23,640
Speaker 1: you next week as the draft is fast approaching for

2192
01:59:23,680 --> 01:59:29,040
Speaker 1: the next position group. We appreciate it as always. All right, guys,

2193
01:59:29,040 --> 01:59:31,800
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Thanks so much and give long hard consideration

2194
01:59:31,880 --> 01:59:35,920
Speaker 1: to task or three point zero. There you go. That

2195
01:59:36,120 --> 01:59:38,680
Speaker 1: is Greg co Sell from NFL Films helping us out

2196
01:59:38,680 --> 01:59:41,640
Speaker 1: with the linebacker class this year. Yeah. Isaiah mcduffee, for

2197
01:59:41,640 --> 01:59:43,400
Speaker 1: those of you that don't know, went to Bennett High

2198
01:59:43,440 --> 01:59:46,760
Speaker 1: School here in Buffalo, played up at Boston College, and

2199
01:59:46,920 --> 01:59:50,520
Speaker 1: he's projected as a fourth to fifth round selection. A

2200
01:59:50,520 --> 01:59:53,200
Speaker 1: lot of people were saying that he was going to

2201
01:59:53,280 --> 01:59:56,200
Speaker 1: have to test well to boost his draft stock and

2202
01:59:56,280 --> 01:59:59,240
Speaker 1: convince more NFL clubs that he's worth the investment. Early

2203
01:59:59,280 --> 02:00:02,160
Speaker 1: on Day three, ran a four to five eighth, So

2204
02:00:02,480 --> 02:00:06,880
Speaker 1: that's not bad at the linebacker position. So he ran

2205
02:00:07,120 --> 02:00:10,040
Speaker 1: a four or five eight at six one, two hundred

2206
02:00:10,080 --> 02:00:12,600
Speaker 1: twenty seven pounds. I think the problem there is he's

2207
02:00:12,720 --> 02:00:16,440
Speaker 1: he doesn't have the length that people look for nowadays

2208
02:00:16,440 --> 02:00:18,520
Speaker 1: that linebacker, especially knowing that they're going to be in

2209
02:00:18,520 --> 02:00:21,120
Speaker 1: pass coverage. His arms are only thirty and one quarter

2210
02:00:21,200 --> 02:00:23,720
Speaker 1: inches and you want to get hands in the passing lanes.

2211
02:00:24,040 --> 02:00:28,400
Speaker 1: You know, you talk about a guy like a Wusu Coromoa,

2212
02:00:28,760 --> 02:00:31,480
Speaker 1: Zaven Collins. These guys have thirty three inch arms, thirty

2213
02:00:31,480 --> 02:00:33,160
Speaker 1: three and five eights. I mean, you say, wow, what's

2214
02:00:33,200 --> 02:00:34,800
Speaker 1: the huge difference. But when you got a six five

2215
02:00:34,840 --> 02:00:37,520
Speaker 1: guy with almost thirty four inch arms, he's kind of

2216
02:00:37,520 --> 02:00:39,600
Speaker 1: like tremayin Edmonds. He's gonna get hands in the passing

2217
02:00:39,680 --> 02:00:41,640
Speaker 1: lanes and make life difficult for a quarterback trying to

2218
02:00:41,640 --> 02:00:43,520
Speaker 1: throw a ball over the middle. Right. And yeah, it's

2219
02:00:44,160 --> 02:00:48,240
Speaker 1: it's about certainly they can see and like Greg Greg

2220
02:00:48,280 --> 02:00:51,040
Speaker 1: Cosell said, you can see the competitive fire and these

2221
02:00:51,040 --> 02:00:52,840
Speaker 1: guys when you watch him on film, you watch him

2222
02:00:52,880 --> 02:00:55,960
Speaker 1: battle away from the ball, You watch him a little

2223
02:00:55,960 --> 02:00:59,120
Speaker 1: bit between plays and after the play and what before

2224
02:00:59,160 --> 02:01:01,880
Speaker 1: the play. You watch how their teammates react to them.

2225
02:01:02,120 --> 02:01:04,680
Speaker 1: You get an idea of what they think about him.

2226
02:01:04,720 --> 02:01:07,080
Speaker 1: And you can just see the attitude with which they

2227
02:01:07,120 --> 02:01:10,480
Speaker 1: play when they take, when they accept contact, when they

2228
02:01:10,640 --> 02:01:13,960
Speaker 1: when they pass out contact. You get an idea of

2229
02:01:13,960 --> 02:01:16,640
Speaker 1: how gritty they are. And I we use that word.

2230
02:01:16,640 --> 02:01:19,440
Speaker 1: I'm trying not trying to be you know, weird, but

2231
02:01:20,040 --> 02:01:22,480
Speaker 1: you know how much it means to them. So guys

2232
02:01:22,520 --> 02:01:28,200
Speaker 1: like that always tend to improve from where you get

2233
02:01:28,240 --> 02:01:31,480
Speaker 1: that when they start to when they finish on a team.

2234
02:01:31,520 --> 02:01:34,840
Speaker 1: And that's what pro coaches and scouts really want to

2235
02:01:34,880 --> 02:01:36,480
Speaker 1: get into. If you've got a big upside or a

2236
02:01:36,520 --> 02:01:39,920
Speaker 1: bigger upside, or if you if they know that you're

2237
02:01:40,000 --> 02:01:43,040
Speaker 1: into improvement, that you really kind of want that that

2238
02:01:43,200 --> 02:01:46,280
Speaker 1: you seek it, it goes a long way in the

2239
02:01:46,320 --> 02:01:48,840
Speaker 1: room because they know that you know, whatever they've got

2240
02:01:48,840 --> 02:01:52,320
Speaker 1: you at, you're gonna get better, and let's face it,

2241
02:01:52,360 --> 02:01:54,000
Speaker 1: in the butt. They just don't want to be embarrassed

2242
02:01:54,000 --> 02:01:55,720
Speaker 1: by a fifth round pick or a sixth round pick,

2243
02:01:55,720 --> 02:01:57,960
Speaker 1: you're even a seventh round pick. They want somebody who

2244
02:01:58,040 --> 02:01:59,520
Speaker 1: can at least compete, and they know they'll get a

2245
02:01:59,520 --> 02:02:01,920
Speaker 1: guy who'll do that. Break time for us. When we

2246
02:02:02,000 --> 02:02:04,200
Speaker 1: come back, we dip back in one more time to

2247
02:02:04,240 --> 02:02:07,640
Speaker 1: the OBL fan mail bag to answer more of your questions. Next,

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02:02:07,880 --> 02:02:10,000
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2249
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills Radio. Well, we will get to the OBL

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Speaker 1: fan mail bag in due course, but I neglected to

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02:02:29,960 --> 02:02:34,200
Speaker 1: mention Steve. It is the latest edition of Tasker's teammate

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2255
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Speaker 1: I am so ready? Clue number one. Born in Los

2256
02:02:48,840 --> 02:02:52,600
Speaker 1: Angeles in nineteen sixty seven. I was taught the game

2257
02:02:52,600 --> 02:02:56,440
Speaker 1: of football by my mother, who was an accomplished middle

2258
02:02:56,480 --> 02:03:00,400
Speaker 1: linebacker as a Women's National Football League player for the

2259
02:03:00,560 --> 02:03:03,480
Speaker 1: La Dandelions, and she was known for once breaking an

2260
02:03:03,480 --> 02:03:07,880
Speaker 1: opponent's helmet in a game. Marcas Patton Marvcus Patton is

2261
02:03:07,920 --> 02:03:11,680
Speaker 1: one hundred percent correct. Steve Tasker, well done. I was

2262
02:03:11,720 --> 02:03:14,360
Speaker 1: worried that might give it away, but I said, I said,

2263
02:03:14,400 --> 02:03:17,960
Speaker 1: this is such a unique clue. Godelions, the La Dandelions.

2264
02:03:18,280 --> 02:03:20,800
Speaker 1: That was a big deal. We were all like, what, Yeah,

2265
02:03:20,840 --> 02:03:25,320
Speaker 1: that's cool, broken opponents helmet in a game. So was

2266
02:03:25,320 --> 02:03:29,440
Speaker 1: her son good one too? Yeah? Um played his college

2267
02:03:29,440 --> 02:03:34,120
Speaker 1: ball at UCLA. Went there on an academic scholarship, was

2268
02:03:34,160 --> 02:03:39,480
Speaker 1: a walk on as a player and did not start

2269
02:03:39,560 --> 02:03:43,960
Speaker 1: until his senior year. Marvcus Patton was as imposing a

2270
02:03:44,040 --> 02:03:46,360
Speaker 1: physical specimen as I ever played. Oh I saw him

2271
02:03:46,360 --> 02:03:49,000
Speaker 1: in the locker room without his shirt on. That dude

2272
02:03:49,080 --> 02:03:54,520
Speaker 1: was he had muscles on top of them all. He was. Yeah,

2273
02:03:54,600 --> 02:03:57,160
Speaker 1: he was a great guy, great dude. He his rookie

2274
02:03:57,200 --> 02:03:59,400
Speaker 1: year was nineteen ninety and he was on special teams,

2275
02:03:59,480 --> 02:04:02,760
Speaker 1: special teams and worked his way into the starting lineup

2276
02:04:02,760 --> 02:04:08,440
Speaker 1: for US and was just a great, really smart player.

2277
02:04:09,760 --> 02:04:13,080
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I love that. I had really fond memories

2278
02:04:13,080 --> 02:04:14,400
Speaker 1: of him. Played for a couple of different teams. I

2279
02:04:14,400 --> 02:04:16,840
Speaker 1: think he played for Washington Kansas City. Went to Washington

2280
02:04:17,000 --> 02:04:19,360
Speaker 1: after here and then went to Kansas City after that,

2281
02:04:19,520 --> 02:04:22,760
Speaker 1: basically played four years in each place. Yeah, he played

2282
02:04:22,760 --> 02:04:25,360
Speaker 1: four four and four four Super Bowls in Buffalo, right,

2283
02:04:25,560 --> 02:04:28,400
Speaker 1: missed the first one because in the first playoff game

2284
02:04:28,440 --> 02:04:31,040
Speaker 1: against Miami he got injured on the opening kickoff. Did

2285
02:04:31,080 --> 02:04:34,200
Speaker 1: he remember that lower leg injury on the opening kickoff

2286
02:04:34,400 --> 02:04:37,160
Speaker 1: and missed the rest of the postseason. Oh wow, maybe

2287
02:04:37,200 --> 02:04:40,520
Speaker 1: would have one of him. He was he, Yeah, he

2288
02:04:40,600 --> 02:04:42,400
Speaker 1: was he And he was the same year as Al

2289
02:04:42,520 --> 02:04:44,960
Speaker 1: Edwards and those guys didn't missed another game after that. Yeah,

2290
02:04:45,000 --> 02:04:49,560
Speaker 1: he was. It really felt like you could take a

2291
02:04:49,560 --> 02:04:51,680
Speaker 1: big swing with a Louisville slugger and it wouldn't even

2292
02:04:51,720 --> 02:04:53,760
Speaker 1: he wouldn't like to break the bat. Yeah'd break the bat.

2293
02:04:53,880 --> 02:04:56,360
Speaker 1: I mean, just one of those guys he was. That

2294
02:04:56,520 --> 02:05:01,400
Speaker 1: dude was awesome. Just to provide an update on Marka's

2295
02:05:01,480 --> 02:05:04,520
Speaker 1: patent and what he's doing now. He lives in the

2296
02:05:04,600 --> 02:05:10,000
Speaker 1: DC area. His wife is a doctor, so there so

2297
02:05:10,280 --> 02:05:12,600
Speaker 1: if you thought he was smart, his wife might be

2298
02:05:12,640 --> 02:05:16,160
Speaker 1: even smarter. Very nice um. And he's a restaurant tour

2299
02:05:16,480 --> 02:05:20,280
Speaker 1: own sports themed restaurant. And thought when he was Northern Virginia,

2300
02:05:20,360 --> 02:05:21,880
Speaker 1: he thought when he's playing, when he was playing, he

2301
02:05:22,000 --> 02:05:27,800
Speaker 1: might get into personal training. And I think, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: maybe he's like me. I like he'd be his own

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Speaker 1: best billboard if he did that right. And maybe the

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Speaker 1: restaurant tour thing, maybe we get him on if we

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Speaker 1: got him on the phone, he maybe maybe he's up

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Speaker 1: to three bills or something restaurant tour. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I kind of pampling his own, right, I don't know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: tremendous guy, but one he if you walk into a

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Speaker 1: place you see Mark, if Marvicus is a doorman, you're

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Speaker 1: not You're not like can I you're asking him if

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Speaker 1: you can come in? Yeah? You know, you don't just like,

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Speaker 1: excuse me, he's he is imposing. Oh my gosh, Marvca's

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Speaker 1: patent was an absolute monster. Yeah, played inside line sweetheart

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Speaker 1: of a guy, a three four scheme, sweetheart a guy,

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Speaker 1: A great sense of humor, great locker room guy, just tremendous.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's an academic, you know, academic. He was

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Speaker 1: an academic, so he was three times smart guy and

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Speaker 1: just yeah, just one of those things. Yeah, some guys

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Speaker 1: are like that. He's a big, huge, powerful, good looking

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Speaker 1: guy and he's also smart. Yeah he ums me out

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Speaker 1: because I got stuck with what I got stuck with.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, he Uh. He had an interesting college career because,

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Speaker 1: like I said, he was a walk on at UCLA

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Speaker 1: and then didn't become a starter for the Bruins until

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Speaker 1: his senior year and then gets honorable mention All American Honors,

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Speaker 1: which kind of gets him on the draft radar. But

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Speaker 1: even then he still doesn't go until the eighth round.

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02:06:48,320 --> 02:06:50,040
Speaker 1: Bills took him in the eighth round in the nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety draft, and you know, two years later he's a

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Speaker 1: starter on a super Bowl team. Yeah, you know, in

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Speaker 1: ninety three and ninety four he started for you guys,

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Speaker 1: an inside linebacker in that three four scheme. But he

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Speaker 1: degree was in political science, so it's not like this

2334
02:07:04,160 --> 02:07:07,640
Speaker 1: guy was taking hen season washing horse. You know, yeah,

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02:07:07,760 --> 02:07:13,200
Speaker 1: political science major and his wife's a doctor. Why goodness, UM,

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02:07:13,360 --> 02:07:16,480
Speaker 1: I wonder what's talking about learned his family? Is that

2337
02:07:16,520 --> 02:07:19,120
Speaker 1: what success looks like? Because I think you and I

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02:07:19,160 --> 02:07:21,000
Speaker 1: are sitting around, I don't know what we're doing. That

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02:07:21,240 --> 02:07:25,600
Speaker 1: sounds really neat. I feel horribly inadequate after talking about

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Speaker 1: Marcus Patton. Um, but good job by you, Steve first guest, Yes, winner.

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02:07:30,440 --> 02:07:32,560
Speaker 1: The It took me a minute because I knew I

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02:07:32,600 --> 02:07:35,240
Speaker 1: had to sift through because I remember that really rang

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02:07:35,280 --> 02:07:38,360
Speaker 1: a bell that. Um, somebody's mom was a linebacker and

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02:07:38,440 --> 02:07:44,400
Speaker 1: a female football league out in California's mom Barbara Barbara Patton. Yeah,

2345
02:07:44,760 --> 02:07:48,360
Speaker 1: killer middle linebacker for the La Dandelions. Who knew the

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02:07:48,440 --> 02:07:51,520
Speaker 1: stuff you uncover on task? Your teammate? Yeah, how about

2347
02:07:51,520 --> 02:07:55,160
Speaker 1: that good stuff? That's been a good one. Let's get

2348
02:07:55,200 --> 02:07:57,600
Speaker 1: to uh the OBL fan mail band. We had a

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02:07:57,600 --> 02:07:59,840
Speaker 1: couple more questions lingering there, and I didn't want an

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02:08:00,000 --> 02:08:02,920
Speaker 1: elect them, So we will go back to the fan

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02:08:03,000 --> 02:08:07,520
Speaker 1: mail bag and we'll pull this one out from Anthony.

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Speaker 1: What are the odds of the Bills moving up in

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02:08:10,520 --> 02:08:12,879
Speaker 1: the draft for one or more of the premier corners

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02:08:13,080 --> 02:08:16,160
Speaker 1: or edge guys. Yeah, Steve and I have had this discussion.

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02:08:16,280 --> 02:08:18,360
Speaker 1: It's a three way coin flip. They're either going to

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02:08:18,400 --> 02:08:22,840
Speaker 1: trade up, trade back, but or they or pick where

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02:08:22,840 --> 02:08:25,600
Speaker 1: they're gonna pick and but your edge or CB guy,

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02:08:25,680 --> 02:08:27,640
Speaker 1: that's who both Brownie and I think they're gonna grab

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Speaker 1: as a corner or an edge. Yeah, I think that's

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02:08:30,240 --> 02:08:34,160
Speaker 1: the guy. I don't think anyone should anticipate a big

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02:08:34,200 --> 02:08:37,480
Speaker 1: move up, and by big, I mean anything more than

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02:08:37,520 --> 02:08:40,920
Speaker 1: a half a dozen spots that would be getting any

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02:08:41,000 --> 02:08:43,960
Speaker 1: higher than twenty four. Can you It's too costly if

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02:08:44,000 --> 02:08:49,240
Speaker 1: they do. The only the wild card in a statement

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02:08:49,320 --> 02:08:51,800
Speaker 1: like that is this there could be like if they're

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02:08:51,800 --> 02:08:56,120
Speaker 1: talking to say Philly or Dallas or whoever is up there.

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Speaker 1: But I don't even I'm picking those names out of

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02:08:57,840 --> 02:08:59,520
Speaker 1: the air. The you know, the four or five teams

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02:08:59,560 --> 02:09:02,720
Speaker 1: right ahead the Bills, you got the Jets at twenty two,

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02:09:02,840 --> 02:09:04,320
Speaker 1: they're out. They're not gonna do it in the division

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02:09:04,400 --> 02:09:06,400
Speaker 1: or I'm sorry, the Titans at twenty two, the Jets

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02:09:06,400 --> 02:09:08,640
Speaker 1: at twenty three, the Steelers at twenty four, the Jags

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Speaker 1: at twenty five. Right, So any of those four teams

2374
02:09:13,160 --> 02:09:16,600
Speaker 1: and you don't want to give up draft capital or

2375
02:09:16,640 --> 02:09:18,160
Speaker 1: anything that, but you never know that they may say,

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02:09:18,160 --> 02:09:20,120
Speaker 1: give us a seventh round pick or a sixth round

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02:09:20,120 --> 02:09:24,760
Speaker 1: pick and we want that guy off your roster and

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02:09:24,800 --> 02:09:26,800
Speaker 1: the Bills are going this guy and they're on, Yeah,

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02:09:26,880 --> 02:09:29,240
Speaker 1: they get done. That kind of thing. They'd have to

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02:09:29,280 --> 02:09:30,920
Speaker 1: probably roll in a player if they don't want to

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02:09:30,960 --> 02:09:33,760
Speaker 1: part with draft You rarely see that anymore. It's not

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02:09:33,920 --> 02:09:36,720
Speaker 1: often you see it. Could that could happen because the

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02:09:36,800 --> 02:09:40,040
Speaker 1: draft capital would be too expensive. Yeah, I'd have to

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02:09:40,080 --> 02:09:42,560
Speaker 1: look it up, but I think the last player trade

2385
02:09:42,600 --> 02:09:46,000
Speaker 1: for the Bills on draft weekend was Stevie Johnson in

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02:09:46,120 --> 02:09:50,680
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. They traded him in on Day three of

2387
02:09:50,680 --> 02:09:53,320
Speaker 1: the draft for a fourth round pick and something else

2388
02:09:53,320 --> 02:09:55,840
Speaker 1: to San Francisco. And that was the draft that they

2389
02:09:55,920 --> 02:10:00,160
Speaker 1: grabbed Sammy Watkins. And we know that Doug Moroni in

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02:10:00,240 --> 02:10:03,640
Speaker 1: a fan of Stevie's freelancing on the field with his

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02:10:03,760 --> 02:10:06,400
Speaker 1: route running in which Chan allowed him to do. The

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Speaker 1: previous coach, right, they well, you Chan is a really

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02:10:09,560 --> 02:10:12,560
Speaker 1: good coach and he's like, listen, just get it. Done.

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Speaker 1: What what we're talking about. When you say freelancing is wide,

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02:10:15,760 --> 02:10:18,480
Speaker 1: I don't if it's ever been explained. What would happen?

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02:10:18,640 --> 02:10:22,680
Speaker 1: Is you call a route and I've done it, everybody's

2397
02:10:22,720 --> 02:10:25,520
Speaker 1: done it, particul you know, in practice or whatever. You

2398
02:10:25,720 --> 02:10:28,040
Speaker 1: have this mental clock. You know you're gonna go. You're

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02:10:28,040 --> 02:10:29,840
Speaker 1: gonna run up this. You know can run up twelve

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02:10:29,920 --> 02:10:31,920
Speaker 1: yards and speed cut to the sideline. The ball is

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02:10:31,920 --> 02:10:34,640
Speaker 1: gonna be on the way or you're gonna be. It's

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02:10:34,640 --> 02:10:36,200
Speaker 1: an eight yard route on a hook, and this and

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02:10:36,240 --> 02:10:38,320
Speaker 1: that and the end. You've got a clock in your

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02:10:38,320 --> 02:10:40,240
Speaker 1: head that tells you where you've got to be and

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02:10:40,320 --> 02:10:44,920
Speaker 1: how fast you've got to get there. And with a

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Speaker 1: guy like Fits and Stevie Fits, you said, just get

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Speaker 1: to the spot. I don't, I won't. I'm not looking

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Speaker 1: at you anyway. Fits is smart enough to do that.

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02:10:53,200 --> 02:10:55,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw it to you when you're there. But

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02:10:55,360 --> 02:10:56,720
Speaker 1: you can get there anyway you want. I don't care

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02:10:56,720 --> 02:10:59,560
Speaker 1: if you run an inn rather than an out. As

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Speaker 1: long as you to that spot on the field and

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02:11:02,080 --> 02:11:04,800
Speaker 1: are there on time that kind and get be there alone.

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Speaker 1: You know, we get open. That's what you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: Freelancing a guy who can get open, but he uses

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Speaker 1: the defensive backs knowledge about what routes a guy runs

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02:11:14,640 --> 02:11:16,800
Speaker 1: against them. He thinks they're gonna run this, he runs

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Speaker 1: something else. So that's when he's treated it like a

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02:11:19,400 --> 02:11:21,960
Speaker 1: one on one basketball game. That's exact, taking big guys

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02:11:22,000 --> 02:11:25,040
Speaker 1: at the line, and no two routes were the same exactly.

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Speaker 1: That's why he's the only Bills receiver and in team

2422
02:11:27,760 --> 02:11:30,960
Speaker 1: history to have three consecutive one thousand yards seasons. That's right,

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02:11:31,080 --> 02:11:34,560
Speaker 1: so amazing stuff. All right, that's the obl fan mail bag.

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Speaker 1: We thank you for sending in your question. Sorry for

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02:11:36,960 --> 02:11:39,320
Speaker 1: those who we could not get to. Steve and I

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02:11:39,320 --> 02:11:41,000
Speaker 1: got to find out what the heck we learned from

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Speaker 1: today's show. When we come back here on one Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Collat of Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. What

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Speaker 1: have we learned? Brought to you by Skyworks, the official

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02:12:03,360 --> 02:12:06,680
Speaker 1: construction equipment rental company in the Buffalo Bills, and we've

2431
02:12:06,760 --> 02:12:11,040
Speaker 1: learned this from NFL Networks, Tom Pellicero. The Ravens have

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Speaker 1: withdrawn their proposal to add an eighth official off the field,

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Speaker 1: aka the sky Judge. But apparently the competition Committee's proposal

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02:12:19,120 --> 02:12:23,880
Speaker 1: for expanded booth to official communication with video has strong

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02:12:23,960 --> 02:12:27,560
Speaker 1: support among coaches and is likely to pass next week,

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Speaker 1: according to league sources. How about that. I want to

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Speaker 1: see what that looks like, because it sounds good to me.

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Speaker 1: Streamlined things, get more things just right the way it reads,

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02:12:40,760 --> 02:12:45,720
Speaker 1: the way it reads. Article nine Instant replay Game administration.

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Speaker 1: The replay official and designated members of the officiating Department

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Speaker 1: may consult with on field officials or conduct a replay review,

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02:12:52,400 --> 02:12:57,200
Speaker 1: or advise the game officials on specific objective aspects of

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02:12:57,200 --> 02:12:59,960
Speaker 1: a play where clear and obvious video evidence is president,

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02:13:00,800 --> 02:13:05,520
Speaker 1: and or to address game administration issues, including but not

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02:13:05,680 --> 02:13:10,440
Speaker 1: limited to, penalty enforcement, proper down, spot of a foul,

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02:13:10,920 --> 02:13:15,640
Speaker 1: game clock, possession, completed or intercepted pass, touching of a

2447
02:13:15,680 --> 02:13:18,520
Speaker 1: loose ball, boundary line, goal line or end line, location

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02:13:18,560 --> 02:13:20,320
Speaker 1: of the football or a player in relation to the

2449
02:13:20,320 --> 02:13:22,440
Speaker 1: boundary line, the line of scrimmage, is your head spinning

2450
02:13:22,480 --> 02:13:24,920
Speaker 1: yet the line to gain or the goal line? Or

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02:13:25,080 --> 02:13:27,440
Speaker 1: down by contact when a player is not ruled down

2452
02:13:27,520 --> 02:13:32,080
Speaker 1: by contact on the field, so you can call down

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02:13:32,120 --> 02:13:34,840
Speaker 1: and say he's down by contact if it wasn't ruled

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02:13:34,840 --> 02:13:37,440
Speaker 1: on the field, right that used to be out of

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02:13:37,480 --> 02:13:40,840
Speaker 1: bound time. That's a lot of stuff. I think it's

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Speaker 1: anything that happens on that play that they might have

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02:13:43,640 --> 02:13:47,720
Speaker 1: missed that would have stopped the play, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. Yeah, that's big. I can't wait to see

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Speaker 1: what that looks. And there's also this. Nothing in this

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Speaker 1: article precludes a head coach or a replay official from

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02:13:57,960 --> 02:14:02,360
Speaker 1: institute initiating a challenge or review otherwise allowed under Rule fifteen.

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02:14:02,480 --> 02:14:04,919
Speaker 1: All right, so the coaches would still have their challenges

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02:14:04,960 --> 02:14:08,040
Speaker 1: too today. Right now, the way you said that, I

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Speaker 1: like it. Okay, I may change my mind when I

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Speaker 1: see it in preseason, but right now, that sounds good

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Speaker 1: to me. Let's go with that. Everybody, have a good weekend.

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Speaker 1: We'll see him Monday with more draft coverage.