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Speaker 1: Oh a good time. I watch Steve Tasper touch Down,

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Speaker 1: touch Down, text down time. Welcome to one Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Steve Task along with Chris Brown Murf is out on vacation.

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Speaker 1: We're glad you joined us. We're gonna be on from

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Speaker 1: noon till three. I'm hosting, so you're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: bear with us. I'm you know, I'm a novice compared

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Speaker 1: to the old pro Murf, but we do get through it. Brownie,

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Speaker 1: good to see you. Thanks for coming in today. I

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Speaker 1: know this is you know, it's an extra. It's yeoman's

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Speaker 1: duty when Brownie co hosts the show. And as you

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Speaker 1: saw there on our outdoor live camp, they're putting the

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Speaker 1: turf down in the state and there's actually something green

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Speaker 1: going down over the black tarmac of the stadium floor.

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Speaker 1: Kind of cool. Look at check it out. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: like as we watch, it's unfurling. Yeah. They've had to

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Speaker 1: dodge some of the weather this spring because this the

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Speaker 1: rubber padding that went down first, Uh, to get it

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Speaker 1: to it here properly, they can't put it down when

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Speaker 1: it's raining. So with a rainy sprint May was terrible.

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Speaker 1: So they were kind of delayed to a certain extent.

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Speaker 1: So any good day they get now they're just rolling.

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Speaker 1: It's like all of Western New York moved to Seattle, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, although yesterday was great. Oh we've

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Speaker 1: had our moments. Yesterday was great, but let's face it,

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Speaker 1: in the summertime, Western New York is the spot a

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Speaker 1: the morning. It's it is spectacular here in the summer.

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Speaker 1: And yet now it's like we turned into we're living

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Speaker 1: at a lown sprinkler, you know. Well, yeah, and we're

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Speaker 1: almost through junor I know, well, technically it started like

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Speaker 1: on the twenty first last week, right, the Equino or

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Speaker 1: the solstice, I'm sorry, summer summer solstice as long as

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Speaker 1: day of the year. And now we're the days are

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Speaker 1: getting shorter. But um, you won't really notice that it

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Speaker 1: didn't show up until the day of I mean, the

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Speaker 1: first day of summer. On the first day showed up, right,

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Speaker 1: That is so unfair. Well, yeah, and that's why you know,

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Speaker 1: May is the bonus month. That's the bonus month. If

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Speaker 1: you get a good May, that's like your bonus month

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Speaker 1: for the summer always used to get good. May's well,

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Speaker 1: last year we got it. It was hot, it was

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Speaker 1: unseasonably hot in May last year. This year we got

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Speaker 1: the eleventh What is May? Ever, as the resident golfer

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Speaker 1: in the in the building, Yeah, you have you have

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Speaker 1: more on the line. We are on as a general rule,

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Speaker 1: we are on the course. Drop dead is tax Day,

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Speaker 1: April fifteenth. Usually the last two years we were even close. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's like tax days. Usually we're on the course, like

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Speaker 1: most days every you know, you'll get rained out once

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Speaker 1: a while, we always do, but April's usually at the

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Speaker 1: last half of April. We can usually get on the

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Speaker 1: course regularly. Yeah, that didn't even happen in May, right,

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Speaker 1: And it didn't happen at all last year in April either.

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Speaker 1: April was horrible all last year and this year. First

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Speaker 1: world problem, Steve. Yeah, but there's still problems. Well yeah, sure, don't.

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Speaker 1: It's a Steve world and we're all just living in

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Speaker 1: That's right, And don't you forget it. Steve task on

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown. We were one Bills Live from One Bills Drive.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be on noon to three. We got a

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Speaker 1: bunch of stuff going on. We got Mike Lombardi coming

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Speaker 1: gonna get to We've got a bunch of stuff bouncing

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Speaker 1: around the league. Lashawan McCoy was visited with some reporters

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Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania this last weekend football lines. Yeap this football camp.

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Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey's back in the news for not making news

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Speaker 1: and you think of the guys learning something. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: get to him briefly as we touch on his comments.

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Speaker 1: You know, last year, Jalen Ramsey, the cornerback for the

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Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars, spouted off about every single quarter back in

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Speaker 1: the National Football League about where they were good or bad.

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Speaker 1: Most of them were trash trash right choice, which is

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Speaker 1: voting for Josh Allen exactly, which is why you know

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Speaker 1: you give that bulletin board material. And it came back

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Speaker 1: to haunt him in a number of different occasions. Every

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Speaker 1: and said, no, I'm not going to do that this year.

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Speaker 1: But Nick Foles is a part of his team now.

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Speaker 1: And incidentally, Nick Foles was one of the quarterbacks last

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Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl MVP, I get it. We also

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Speaker 1: have an article from Buffalo bills dot com about five

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Speaker 1: get started, let's recap your weekend. What you do? Do Do

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Speaker 1: you do anything cool and exciting? I had a pool

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Speaker 1: day yesterday. I was chilling by the pool. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: you have a pool at your house? I do. Do

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Speaker 1: you have a pond? Pond is good for me? Why?

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Speaker 1: Less maintenance? Yeah? Actually zero maintenance? Right. I have an

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Speaker 1: is no different. Pool issues, just stuff like can't get

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Speaker 1: something to work properly, like the filters. We have a spot.

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Speaker 1: like a little ground and everything. Okay, um, but I

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Speaker 1: because we haven't swimming. We haven't been swimming muscle swimming

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Speaker 1: half and I'm just getting angry, right So I called

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Speaker 1: of because I'm a I'm at I'm strictly an amateur,

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Speaker 1: I got to learn something else because I can't troubleshoot

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Speaker 1: this is just every year there's something different. It just

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Speaker 1: seems like, what was it last year? Do you even

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Speaker 1: remember now? Last? Well, last year I got behind on

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Speaker 1: I'm only learned two or three summers into this, and

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Speaker 1: it's like learn as you go, and it's just sometimes

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Speaker 1: it's trial and error, and then sometimes it's just like,

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Speaker 1: it should not be this hard. Well, and plus you

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Speaker 1: to you in August. Yeah, I don't have until then

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Speaker 1: close it up, right. So that was frustrating. But yesterday

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Speaker 1: said the hot tuble get addressed. When when it gets addressed? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I I my pond. I did have an issue with

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Speaker 1: no maintenance, right, I don't even think about the thing. Right,

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Speaker 1: it's a nice it's a view out my back. I

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Speaker 1: when it's hot and you swim around? Yeah, well, like

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Speaker 1: only when I'm filthy and after doing yard work and

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Speaker 1: clothes on. So I had this issue. I'm sitting there.

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Speaker 1: My mom and dad were in for the wedding last weekend, right,

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Speaker 1: the week. They're watching a really great it's a beautiful

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Speaker 1: that's cool. So this big blue heron comes down sits

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Speaker 1: and then he goes, you got and I was get asked,

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Speaker 1: you have fish in your pond? I go, yeah, I

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Speaker 1: he's getting comfortable. He's getting comfy. So he's sitting there

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Speaker 1: I was like, hey, yeah, get I'm turned the dogs

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Speaker 1: You couldn't hardly fly with the thing the dogs chain.

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Speaker 1: So then my little French bullet vern verns running around

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Speaker 1: the thing circles up out of my yard because it

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Speaker 1: I was like on helicopter mode. I was throwing rocks

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Speaker 1: at it. Like ah, I was like, has a beautiful

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Speaker 1: setting sound, that's great at the out the great outdoors

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Speaker 1: outdoors coming in, you know, it's great, like a big

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Speaker 1: picture window. We're sitting there admiring this, and I got

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Speaker 1: wildlife trapes and through my property and the thing steals

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Speaker 1: in one of my fish. Yeah. Well, and who knows

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Speaker 1: how many others he's taken because apparently you see I

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Speaker 1: Now it's until they cross me. They can come anytime

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Speaker 1: they want. Birds. No birds, Yeah, birds are out like

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Speaker 1: my father in law because he had his mailbox. Uh

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Speaker 1: like were for the newspapers. So it's got a double slot.

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Speaker 1: So you've got the door you flip open to put

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Speaker 1: door there and you just slide the paper in. So

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Speaker 1: possibly go wrong. Yeah, right, birds building a nest in

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Speaker 1: the bottom of the mailbox, which really not high off

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Speaker 1: that's where the term bird brain comes from, I guess.

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Speaker 1: off two really sweet runs where he had a chance

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Speaker 1: to have some space and he'd make a guy miss

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Speaker 1: and get a good run, and then he'd have three

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Speaker 1: carries for negative two yards. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Because he had a consistent there were a lot of

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Speaker 1: stretches at last year where he had to suffer through that,

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Speaker 1: and I don't think that's gonna be as prevalent this year.

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Speaker 1: And that's why I think he is going to be

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Speaker 1: able to be on the field a lot. You know,

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Speaker 1: he can catch the football out of the backfield, he

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Speaker 1: runs routes extremely well. He's got great hands, great vision,

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Speaker 1: and he's still very slippery and elusive. And that's why

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Speaker 1: I think I'm with a lot of the of our

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Speaker 1: listeners out there who are responding to the Twitter poll.

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Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be a guy that is going

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Speaker 1: to be about the offensive line. That offensive line is

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Speaker 1: going to change everything for Josh Allen, for Lashawn McCoy,

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Speaker 1: for Cole Beasley, for John Brown, Zay Jones. I think

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Speaker 1: this offensive line is the aspect of this entire football

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Speaker 1: team that has got to be better, and they've made

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Speaker 1: strides to do that. If they are, then we're actually

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Speaker 1: going to get a chance to see whether all these

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Speaker 1: guys have in the team right and how. But here's

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Speaker 1: the question, how big en if is that? Steve? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think we all agree it can't be any worse,

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Speaker 1: and the caliber of people they have brought in would

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Speaker 1: indicate that it should be better, demonstrably better. But to

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Speaker 1: a certain extent, I'm somewhat surprised that the percentage is

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Speaker 1: that high for the revamped old line in the poll

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Speaker 1: only because we haven't seen the iteration of it in

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Speaker 1: any way, shape or form in terms of real football.

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Speaker 1: So it's kind of an unknown really when you think

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Speaker 1: about it. We have seen examples of Josh Allen's game

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Speaker 1: being better this spring, whether it's improved ball location in

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Speaker 1: improved or expanded diversity of kinds of throws, whether it's

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Speaker 1: a side arm thrower or a touch drow. There's added

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Speaker 1: elements to his game. We've seen visual evidence of that,

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Speaker 1: and we really haven't seen visual evidence of how the

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Speaker 1: line's going to be better, what the combination of the

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Speaker 1: five are going to be for the starting unit. And

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Speaker 1: so while I'm encouraged by the caliber of players they

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Speaker 1: have brought in, and I'm sure the fans are too,

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Speaker 1: we haven't really seen it. And you know, I don't

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Speaker 1: want to be a doubting Thomas here. I'm not, but

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Speaker 1: I think seeing is often believing, especially in football and

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Speaker 1: line play. And so I was. I guess I shouldn't

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Speaker 1: say I'm shocked by the number, but to see three

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Speaker 1: quarters of the Twitter poll voters saying revamped offensive line. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the line is going to be the key, but will

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Speaker 1: it be as effective as we all hope. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I certainly hope we're all right with that assessment, but

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Speaker 1: that's still an if. Right, it's right. What gives you

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Speaker 1: the most confidence that Shady can have a bounce back season.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown along with Steve Tasker, one of Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: We're until three o'clock. A lot of stuff going on

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Speaker 1: today and not all in the world of footballer. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I showed you this, but do

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Speaker 1: you know who Marta Vieira da Silva is? Yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: Brazilian women's soccer player. She um. She came off the

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Speaker 1: field the other night and it was m she's retiring.

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Speaker 1: I guess I don't follow women thirty six or thirty seven,

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Speaker 1: which in soccer is very old, right. I'm particularly I

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Speaker 1: don't follow anything but the women's national team, which I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm into, you know, I like watching them play. Yea.

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Speaker 1: But right now, yes, So Marta said goodbye and it

488
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Speaker 1: had this really unbelievable quick speech in a postgame interview

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Speaker 1: that is that I retweeted and a lot of other

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Speaker 1: people have as well, about leadership and about what the

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Speaker 1: game is headed, strength, strength and where it comes from.

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Speaker 1: Really inspiring. And we're gonna talk about that maybe maybe

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Speaker 1: in one of the shorter segments after the bottom of

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Speaker 1: the hour as well. Um, and I want to share

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Speaker 1: that with everybody. I actually transcribed it in my notes

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Speaker 1: so that I could read exactly because she speaks in Brazilian.

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Speaker 1: Is that what it is? Portuguese? So yeah, it's yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's Greek to me, it's a very Yeah, it's a

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Speaker 1: very rough language. It's not it's not like German, but

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Speaker 1: it's it's like an aggressive kind of there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of different guttural sounds to sounds like it when she

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Speaker 1: says but German, it was not far off. And I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to bring it to everybody's attention. It's something

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Speaker 1: you should you should look up. She's a world famous

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Speaker 1: female soccer player who catually played for the Western New

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Speaker 1: York Flash here in Buffalo before the team moved right

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Speaker 1: to North Carolina, so she played professionally here locally and

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Speaker 1: by the sound of what she said and after her

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Speaker 1: last after he fell farewell, Um, she was quite the

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Speaker 1: human being as well. We also han't Mike Lombardi on

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Speaker 1: at two o'clock to day. Michael Lombardi for former GM

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Speaker 1: of the Cleveland Browns. He's a contributor to the contributor

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Speaker 1: to the athlete. I don't want to go I don't

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Speaker 1: want to get it wrong. I don't want to get

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Speaker 1: the athletic. Yeah, he's a contributor to the athletic. Former GM,

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Speaker 1: he was the GM. He was with the Browns when

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick was the head coach of the Browns and

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Speaker 1: uh and has been with CBS is a little bit

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Speaker 1: as well. He's gonna come on at two o'clock talk

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Speaker 1: about some things about how a team goes from being

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Speaker 1: good to being great and also wrote some things about

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Speaker 1: what general managers should be doing at this point of

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Speaker 1: the offseason. So we've got all that going on. Stick

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Speaker 1: with us. One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive presented

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Speaker 1: by Clida Health, and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to One Bill's Lives. Steve Tasking along with Chris

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Speaker 1: Brown Murph is on vacation this week. This is presented

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Speaker 1: by Clida Health. We are from One Bill's Drive and

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Speaker 1: the air putting the turf down in the news on

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Speaker 1: the new surface of the stadium and it's looking starting

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Speaker 1: to look like a football fuel again. Look how green

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Speaker 1: that looks? Wow? That's awesome, fresh fresh turf, and gosh,

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Speaker 1: that's just the best grass. But yeah, I know why

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Speaker 1: there is a grass here. Yeah, it's just the climate wise.

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Speaker 1: Grass stops growing here in late October, early in November.

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Speaker 1: You can't keep a green. That's right. That's right. Then

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Speaker 1: it doesn't look good. On TV and Steve Tasker and

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, we're talking about the Bills running attack, most

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Speaker 1: notably Lashawn McCoy. Will you have a bounce back year?

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Speaker 1: What gives you the most confidence that Shady can have

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Speaker 1: a bounce back season? You can call us at eight

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Speaker 1: O three oh five fifty one, eight fifty two, five

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Speaker 1: fifty and you can make your choices online. Also, you

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Speaker 1: know this is a what do you think this is

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Speaker 1: a unique running back situation the Bills have. They got

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Speaker 1: two guys that have been extremely productive in there in

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Speaker 1: the Korean. In fact, they set an NFL record this

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Speaker 1: year for having the most experience at running back in

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Speaker 1: the top two slots of there. They're the oldest two

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Speaker 1: running backs to be in a running back field. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, I can't remember the oldest two number one

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Speaker 1: lay together in the history. And they're number one and

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Speaker 1: number three among current players in career rushing yards. Adrian

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Speaker 1: Peterson's the only guy in between him right now, um

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Speaker 1: in terms of total rushing yards for a career, and

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Speaker 1: Gore's presence here I think changes the dynamic because we're

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Speaker 1: talking about Lashawn having a bounce back season. Does what

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Speaker 1: does what qualifies as a bounce back seasons? Does that

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Speaker 1: mean he has to have eleven hundred twelve hundred rushing

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Speaker 1: yards in like ten total touchdowns between rushing and receiving.

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Speaker 1: Does it mean he's got an average more than four

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Speaker 1: and a half yards per carry? What's the criteria? What's

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Speaker 1: the criteria for you? Steve? I think I'm with you.

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Speaker 1: I think it would what would qualify for you as

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Speaker 1: a bounce backyards per carry? The yards per carry is

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Speaker 1: big for me. Yeah, and the and the production the touchdowns.

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Speaker 1: And I think here's the thing. If if he's having

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Speaker 1: the kind of year where he's in the game in

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Speaker 1: the critical situations where he's first of all play sixteen games,

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Speaker 1: second of all four and a half yards to carry

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Speaker 1: every time he took it, catches it or carries it, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that'll do it for me. And all the touchdowns and

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Speaker 1: all that, well, you can you know you can give

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Speaker 1: or take that. You you said you've crunched some more

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Speaker 1: back because I think a lot of his typical career

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Speaker 1: like numbers are going to get motivated but mitigated by

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Speaker 1: the presence of Gore on this roster, because Gore is

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Speaker 1: not just gonna sit on the sidelines. This is a

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Speaker 1: guy they signed because I think they still believe he

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Speaker 1: can offer them a lot of value. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if there's a better blocking back in the league when

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Speaker 1: it comes to pass protection than Frank Gore. Right now,

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Speaker 1: he's stout. I mean he is. He is stoning people back.

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Speaker 1: There is if you haven't seen him before in that,

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Speaker 1: just pull up on YouTube's jape or whatever. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he is really good at that. So you say so.

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Speaker 1: I think the yards per carry is what has to

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Speaker 1: be the measuring stick here because I think his I

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Speaker 1: think Lashawn's total number of touches are going to be

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Speaker 1: compromised by Gore being on this roster. I think his

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Speaker 1: I think his scoring opportunities are going to be compromised

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Speaker 1: by Gore on this roster because if bits first and

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Speaker 1: goal on the two yard line, are you giving it

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Speaker 1: to Gore? Are you giving it to McCoy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: maybe you put him both on the field, but you know,

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Speaker 1: in a pony package or something. But no, I think

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Speaker 1: what you do. I mean we all think this, and

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he did, because it's predictable. You

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Speaker 1: put DeMarco in, you put Gore behind him, and you say,

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Speaker 1: let's go smash, let's go see, let's see if you

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Speaker 1: can your nail can match our hammer. So try and

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Speaker 1: so trying to recognize all of that, I kind of

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Speaker 1: looked over McCoy's workload in his four years with the Bills,

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Speaker 1: so while also keeping in mind who the supporting cast

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Speaker 1: was in the backfield. So in twenty fifteen, he had

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Speaker 1: five hundred and ninety nine snaps, okay, two hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty five total touches between Russia. Five ninety nine snaps

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Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen okay, okay, and then he had two

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five total touches, which represented so fifty

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Speaker 1: five percent of the time he was on the field,

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Speaker 1: he was touching the ball right and the next closest

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Speaker 1: back was Carlos Williams, who had that big rookie year

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Speaker 1: and he touched at twenty two percent of the time

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Speaker 1: how much. And that was in only twelve games, okay,

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Speaker 1: because he missed some games with a hamstring that year.

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Speaker 1: So then in twenty sixteen, six hundred and forty six snaps,

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Speaker 1: two hundred eighty four total touches, which was sixty percent

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Speaker 1: of the time he was on the field he touched

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Speaker 1: the ball. That's no, no, I'm sorry. He was sixty

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Speaker 1: percent of the offensive snaps for the year. That's what

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Speaker 1: I mean, sixty percent of the offensive snaps for the year,

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Speaker 1: um that the team had. And then Gillislee was his

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Speaker 1: primary backup, and he had he hadn't quite yet come

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Speaker 1: onto the scene until after he played for a few games,

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Speaker 1: and then he was tearing it up there accuillously was.

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Speaker 1: And then in twenty seventeen, high watermark here, seven hundred

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Speaker 1: and nineteen total snaps, sixty eight percent of the total

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Speaker 1: offensive snaps, and he touched the ball forty eight percent

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Speaker 1: of the time he was on the field. He had

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Speaker 1: three hundred and forty six touches in seventeen. Now you

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Speaker 1: ask yourself, well, why was that the case? Well, because

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Speaker 1: the chief backup was Mike Tolbert, who was at the

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Speaker 1: end of his career and was largely ineffective, and so

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Speaker 1: a lot of it fell on Lashawn to pick up

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Speaker 1: the slack. There you had Travers Cadet and Marcus Murphy,

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Speaker 1: but those guys combined for only like ten percent of

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Speaker 1: the touches on offense for the year and then But

638
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen is a noticeable step back here, four hundred

639
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Speaker 1: and eighty nine snaps total, which was only forty six

640
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Speaker 1: percent of the offensive snaps, one hundred and ninety five

641
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Speaker 1: total touches, which is a low by far in terms

642
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Speaker 1: of his four years in Buffalo. And he only touched

643
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,000
Speaker 1: the ball forty percent of the time he was on

644
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Speaker 1: the field, which was down from forty eight sixty and

645
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Speaker 1: fifty five. So in terms of the total snaps, Yeah, so,

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Speaker 1: I mean, and I think there were times last year,

647
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,440
Speaker 1: like I said in the last segment, where McDermott just

648
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: pulled him off the field. Run game's not working today.

649
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,960
Speaker 1: You know, can't rent at the line of scrimmage. Josh

650
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,200
Speaker 1: is gonna run the football for us on broken plays,

651
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: and that's how we're gonna get our yardage on the ground.

652
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna beat up my thirty year old running

653
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: back in a fruitless pursuit right now, because we can't

654
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: win at the line of scrimmage. So now you take

655
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Speaker 1: all of those numbers, Steve, and you look at them

656
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Speaker 1: through the lens of Frank Gore is here. So I

657
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: looked at what Frank Gore's snap count totals were for

658
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: last year with the Dolphins, because Kenyan Drake was the

659
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Speaker 1: starting running back, right, Okay, Kenyan Drake got fifty nine

660
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Speaker 1: percent of the total snaps and Gore got thirty six percent. Okay,

661
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Speaker 1: So Gore was on the field for three hundred and

662
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Speaker 1: thirty snaps last year for the Dolphins. For a thirty

663
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Speaker 1: five year old running back. That's nothing to sneeze at.

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Speaker 1: That's a respectable number. So I think what we can

665
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:18,280
Speaker 1: expect this year is for McCoy to probably get somewhere

666
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Speaker 1: between fifty eight and sixty percent of the total snaps,

667
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 1: Gore probably gets thirty, and then Singletary probably gets ten. Right.

668
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Speaker 1: Do a sixty thirty ten split between the three of

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Speaker 1: those guys, world, Yeah, if they all play, if they're

670
00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:33,839
Speaker 1: all available for sixteen games, right, you're and allowing for

671
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 1: some fluctuation for the hot hand. As you talked about

672
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: in the last segment, you know, this guy's running hot today,

673
00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: he's going to get the more of the workload this week.

674
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: So if you if you roll all that together and

675
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Speaker 1: you say, okay, so that means Shady's probably on the

676
00:34:48,239 --> 00:34:53,800
Speaker 1: field for somewhere around I don't know what are we thinking,

677
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:58,600
Speaker 1: like total touches. He's probably looking at two hundred and

678
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:02,239
Speaker 1: seventy five total touches maybe at best, and that would

679
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:04,359
Speaker 1: be that would be a second most as a bill, Yeah,

680
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: the third most as a bill. So I mean maybe

681
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 1: if Shady is back to the yards per carry average,

682
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: we would expect around four and a half, which is

683
00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:14,520
Speaker 1: his career average. If he gets two hundred and fifty touches,

684
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:19,400
Speaker 1: that means two hundred, that means two hundred carries fifty catches. Yeah,

685
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: and so now you're you're struggling to get to a

686
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Speaker 1: thousand rushing yards just by virtue of opportunity, right, more

687
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: than production or efficiency. It all comes down, and there's

688
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,560
Speaker 1: no question there's When you start trying to quantify this,

689
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,840
Speaker 1: it's almost impossible because there's so many moving parts in

690
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 1: about a zillion variables. When you talk about how the

691
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,760
Speaker 1: roster is going to be made up, what what Shady's

692
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: time is going to look like, what his role is

693
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 1: going to be, how successful he's going to be, and

694
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: game to game variations and play and uh, you know,

695
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 1: game plans when when he's going to be emphasized and

696
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:55,600
Speaker 1: d emphasized. And I liked some of his quotes too,

697
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: from this you know story that ran over the weekend.

698
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: I like Carry's at I mean, it's hard to replace

699
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 1: a guy like me. I like that confidence. You know,

700
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,799
Speaker 1: I'm a good player, and I feel like now this year,

701
00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:07,879
Speaker 1: they put a lot of guys around me. The front

702
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:10,399
Speaker 1: office got me some big hogs up front, and we'll

703
00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 1: see what happens this year. I feel good and hopefully

704
00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: this year we'll speak for itself, so you know, he said.

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Speaker 1: I also said he's motivated by you know, Gore being

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Speaker 1: here now, which I think was part of the reason

707
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 1: they brought Gore in as well. Every day I see

708
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: Frank playing hard, I see his growth as smart as

709
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: his ability. That shows me that anything is possible because

710
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:32,360
Speaker 1: the guy's five years older than Lashawn, who is going

711
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 1: to turn thirty one July twelfth. And he said, I

712
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: use age and that type of thing to motivate me.

713
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 1: My whole life. I've kind of been an underdog. Is

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00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:41,520
Speaker 1: he big enough? Is he tough enough? Can he play

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00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,880
Speaker 1: in the pros. I feel like guys like myself come

716
00:36:43,920 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: around every once in a while, and I want to

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00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 1: stick to that I'm up for So he's saying all

718
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: the right things. I like the way he said I'm

719
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 1: up for it. You know, he knows he's gonna be hard,

720
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Speaker 1: he knows he's got a lot of people doubting him.

721
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 1: He knows he's got it. And believe me, when you

722
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 1: get to be that age and I did it. I

723
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,800
Speaker 1: mean I played until I was well, I played until

724
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:07,439
Speaker 1: I was thirty five, you notice it. It doesn't It's

725
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:08,800
Speaker 1: not like, wow, I don't know if I can go in,

726
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: But it is. Little by little, you know, you start

727
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: noticing you got to train differently. You gotta take care

728
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: of yourself differently. The game treats you differently, the recovery

729
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: is different. You start to notice it. But you've got

730
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: to be up for it. And I think him being

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00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: here about ready to turn thirty one in September. I

732
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 1: think him saying yeah, I'm up for it is big. Yeah,

733
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: because that's that's why you retire. It's because you're not

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00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 1: up for it, basically, and that's where I got to

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00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: be in my career. He's just not up for it anymore. Well,

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Speaker 1: we had Arthur Moats on the show last week who

737
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 1: just announced his retiremright, but here with the Bills for

738
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: four years, you know, another four with the Steelers and

739
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: then last year with Arizona, And he said, my passion

740
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: and motivation, you know, to go to spring camp, to

741
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: go to a training camp, you know, to bang and

742
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: practice every day and to do what's necessary to stay

743
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 1: as fit as possible to make a roster. And I

744
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 1: mean Arthur Moates, no disrespect to him, that was a

745
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: guy who's a back half of the roster guy. Those

746
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,360
Speaker 1: guys got to really work just to stay on the roster,

747
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:21,239
Speaker 1: let alone produce like McCoy's hoping to produce this year.

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00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean you're I mean, I'm not surprised,

749
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 1: but you're dead on the money. You know, when you

750
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: think about it, how hard does it have to be?

751
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,400
Speaker 1: And all you people out there listening to Brownie and

752
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: I you're out there, you're driving around, you're doing your

753
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,759
Speaker 1: job and whatever, and you're doing it for the money.

754
00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: You do it for and you're doing it for the

755
00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: reasons you do it for. You love the work, you

756
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: the paycheck's good, pay whatever reason. To think about this

757
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:50,240
Speaker 1: just for a minute in your own life. How how

758
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 1: hard would it have to be for you to stop

759
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:59,359
Speaker 1: doing what you're doing and you're pulling down the kind

760
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: of money and if athletes pulling down, that's how bad

761
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: it hurts. Yeah, you're talking You're talking about a guy

762
00:39:05,520 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: walking away from a minimum of a half a million

763
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: dollars to kind of get through the next six months.

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00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: That's how hard. That's how much it hurts. That's how

765
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,120
Speaker 1: hard it is to do. And certainly, list of these

766
00:39:16,160 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 1: guys have got some nuts put away for later on

767
00:39:19,080 --> 00:39:21,080
Speaker 1: in the winter. You know, they've they've been storing away

768
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,560
Speaker 1: some money and they're kind of different financial place than

769
00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 1: some of us are. But how bad would you have

770
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 1: to hurt to give up a game that pays you

771
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: that much money to play willingly? And this is probably

772
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 1: not the best example, but what Alex Smith said over

773
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: the weekend how he intends to continue playing despite the

774
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 1: fact that he had that career threatening leg injury last year,

775
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 1: an infection that made recovery even longer. I mean that

776
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:45,920
Speaker 1: guy's got a ton of money in the bank being

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00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 1: a quarterback. But I think there's also the thought of, well,

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00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,000
Speaker 1: what do I do besides football? You know, it's all

779
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,040
Speaker 1: I've known. And he said he wants to continue his

780
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: career despite the fact that he had a leg injury

781
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: that how many people come back from And I get it,

782
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 1: it's all right, we're gonna take a break here and

783
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:07,279
Speaker 1: in just a second. But the thing about it is

784
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:10,520
Speaker 1: some of these that's the way these guys are wired

785
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:14,360
Speaker 1: as well, well true, I mean that's they LaShaun McCoy

786
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,680
Speaker 1: is a perfect example of it. You see Alex Smith

787
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:19,840
Speaker 1: talking the way it is their whole career, their whole

788
00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:23,920
Speaker 1: football life, their whole athletic life, their whole identity is

789
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,440
Speaker 1: wrapped up and being able to overcome challenges bracing the grind.

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00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:30,360
Speaker 1: You embrace the grind, You embrace the challenge, You embrace

791
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 1: the doubters, the haters, all the people who say you

792
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 1: can't do it. That's what motivates you to keep going.

793
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:37,680
Speaker 1: And that never goes away. I mean that, you know,

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00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 1: how do I mean? We live in twitter world, right

795
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: The doubters are always there. These guys have enough fuel

796
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 1: to make them go forever. So it's hard for them

797
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 1: to get to a point mentally and physically where they say,

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Speaker 1: you know what, man, I'm I'm I don't care what

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Speaker 1: they say. I'm done right. Yeah. Steve Tasker and Chris

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Speaker 1: Brown here One Live're untill three o'clock. Coming up, Michae Lombardi.

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00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 1: We also got Michael Lombardi from the Athletic and a

802
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: former GM in the National Football League. He's gonna talk

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Speaker 1: to us One Bill's Live, presented by Kalida Health from

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00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:25,560
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back

805
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:27,760
Speaker 1: to One Bill's Live. Steve task along with Chris Brown.

806
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 1: We are talking about Lashawn McCoy, whether he'll have a

807
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,359
Speaker 1: breakout season or bounce back season this coming year. We're

808
00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:37,200
Speaker 1: also talking about things going on around the National Football

809
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:39,480
Speaker 1: League talkas other than this. When we're gonna talk to

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Speaker 1: Michael Lombardi, former NFL GM for the Cleveland Browns at

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Speaker 1: two o'clock, we want to get into this. I've got

812
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: some feedback on Twitter at seventy two percent of you

813
00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: think it's all about the offensive line. For she understand

814
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Speaker 1: as to whether he has a bounce back season. We

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Speaker 1: got a call from Lockport. No, I'm sorry, Brockport, Brockport.

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Speaker 1: This is David on the line. David, this one Bills Live.

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00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 1: You're on with Steve and Chris. What's on your mind? Hi,

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00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:13,760
Speaker 1: Stephen Chris. I have three things, Um, Dad, He's gonna improve,

819
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:18,799
Speaker 1: yes he is, and uh, it's gonna be from the

820
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: offensive line improvements because individually it looks like who will Wolford,

821
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 1: Ken Hall in the house? Ballard again? Okay, why what

822
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: makes you saying who do you see on the offensive

823
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: line like that? Yeah? It is a little bit, but

824
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Speaker 1: go ahead, Washington, mean guy from Washington is like, what,

825
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:48,800
Speaker 1: Who's Hey, he's comparing him to Ballard, He's comparing Dawkins

826
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Speaker 1: to Wolford, which might be a little premature. And Ken,

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's hold on a second. Yeah, I mean

828
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Speaker 1: I get it. I mean that's the that's yeah, it

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Speaker 1: would be great. That kind of production and question. That

830
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 1: offensive line back in that day was extremely good. What

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Speaker 1: would I want to I want to ask, um, David,

832
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Speaker 1: what would qualify in your mind as it bounced back

833
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 1: season for Lashawn? Do you have like figures in your

834
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 1: head that you think would say, you know what, Shady's

835
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 1: still got it? And this is why, like, what what

836
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: would he have to do next year? He still has

837
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,480
Speaker 1: it and the offensive line is gonna protect them a

838
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: lot better. Yeah, and something we've been talking about yards

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Speaker 1: per carry and uh, David, thanks for the call. I

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00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Wait a minute, Okay, go ahead. Um. Now,

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00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 1: during spring training, no, we hit offensive line injuries right,

842
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: there was nine No nine context drills? What causes injuries

843
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 1: on non context drills? And do we have anything to

844
00:43:58,680 --> 00:44:02,320
Speaker 1: worry in the context st Well, no, it's all different, David.

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Speaker 1: The reason those injuries happen, they didn't happen just to

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Speaker 1: the offensive line. They're all soft tissue injuries. What I

847
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Speaker 1: mean by that is pulled muscles, That's what that is,

848
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: or you know, twisted ankles or whatever, a joint that

849
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: gets wrenched or something just because a guy grabs something

850
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: wrong and he gets pulled in the wrong direction. That's

851
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:22,480
Speaker 1: all anciliary injuries from doing something that you haven't been

852
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:25,240
Speaker 1: able to do up until this point. These guys train hard,

853
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:28,879
Speaker 1: and all athletes do, all pro athletes do, at least

854
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: they're expected to. And but what happens is when you

855
00:44:31,719 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: get into these team activities and get into this step

856
00:44:34,200 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 1: particularly in football more so than any other sport, maybe

857
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: you'd start you can't do things on your own that

858
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 1: you are asked to do every play in football, so

859
00:44:44,680 --> 00:44:47,200
Speaker 1: that when you get these offensive line in there, they

860
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 1: don't have anybody to rush them and start taking these

861
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: guys on and backpedaling with somebody pushing them against their will.

862
00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 1: It's hard to have that kind of of recreation of

863
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: the action. So when you start getting in to this,

864
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 1: and also, and don't belittle this, when the adrenaline starts

865
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 1: up to up ratchet up a little bit, when you

866
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:07,520
Speaker 1: get these young guys in there who think they're gonna

867
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 1: make the team on this one walk through rep in

868
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: a spring practice, the intensity raises a little bit. You

869
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:16,919
Speaker 1: ask a little bit more of your body, You cut

870
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,600
Speaker 1: a little harder, you do things a little crisper, and

871
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:21,920
Speaker 1: your body is not ready for it, or not warmed

872
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 1: up enough for it, or it's just you're asking me

873
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:26,640
Speaker 1: to do something you haven't specifically trained it to do,

874
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,480
Speaker 1: even though you've been training hard. So all these injuries

875
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 1: that the Bills have had in these offseason stuff, they

876
00:45:32,239 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: don't bother me too much or scare me too much,

877
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 1: because it's what happens when you jump back into a

878
00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:42,520
Speaker 1: team atmosphere. Anything else, David, David's gone, He's good. Yeah,

879
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:46,960
Speaker 1: I mean that's but we'll take comments like that. We

880
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: also have one. I'll try and squeeze this one. Last

881
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: guy and Don from deput what have you got on

882
00:45:51,719 --> 00:45:54,880
Speaker 1: your mind? I was hoping you guys can talk me

883
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 1: off the ledge on the running game. Um, and I'm

884
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 1: going on the premise it's like, could be wrong on this.

885
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:03,640
Speaker 1: I believe the new offensive line coach is going to

886
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:08,000
Speaker 1: run the zone run blocking scheme and like correct in that. Well,

887
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: more often than not, a lot of these offenses run

888
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:16,839
Speaker 1: versions of both. Sometimes they have multiple things they can

889
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 1: turn to, and knowing that coach Dabel likes to be multiple,

890
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprise me if they have what elements of

891
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 1: a blocking scheme that do both. What's got you on

892
00:46:24,920 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 1: the ledge done? Because it seems to me like a

893
00:46:28,120 --> 00:46:31,600
Speaker 1: lot of the lineman that we've signed a lot of

894
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: bigger guys and are usually that you bring in for

895
00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:36,919
Speaker 1: the run blocking scheme. That's why I was wondering about

896
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,560
Speaker 1: the scheme. Well, yeah, I mean I would I would

897
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 1: say this. I think there are options based on the

898
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: offensive lineman that they have signed, and I think who

899
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 1: the starting five are is going to largely tell us

900
00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 1: what kind of blocking scheme they're gonna lean on. Primarily,

901
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: Morrise is known as a mobile guy. Spencer Long is

902
00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:59,920
Speaker 1: known as a mobile guy, and why a teller, despite

903
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:06,319
Speaker 1: being thickly built, is relatively mobile. So if they go

904
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: with those three guys as their interior players, then I

905
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:13,919
Speaker 1: think a zone blocking scheme is fine. Now, if you're

906
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:19,160
Speaker 1: starting guards are John Feliciano and Quentin Spain, then you're

907
00:47:19,200 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: probably looking to more of a road grader style. And

908
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 1: that's why I don't think they're completely committed to what

909
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: and I don't know how you could be committed to

910
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,759
Speaker 1: whatever kind of run blocking scheme you're gonna run if

911
00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 1: you don't even know who you're five are yet. And

912
00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: I think that's why Brian Dable always tries to stay

913
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 1: multiple so in the event that you have to adapt,

914
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 1: you're able to do so. So I always think it's

915
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,280
Speaker 1: been a healthy mix for Dabele to kind of vacillate

916
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: back and forth, and more and more offensive coordinators are

917
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: doing that to number one stay unpredictable and number two

918
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 1: be able to adapt. Should things like injury strike where

919
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: maybe you'll lose one or two, or you're more mobile

920
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: alignement so you don't so you're not completely up a

921
00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: creek with they can't execute what you do. All right, Well,

922
00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:03,879
Speaker 1: we've got to take a break. Don Thanks for the call.

923
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna if you want, you can call back later.

924
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 1: I don't know if we got him off the ledge,

925
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:07,920
Speaker 1: but I don't know if we got him off the

926
00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:10,439
Speaker 1: ledge either. But he said there he was worried about

927
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 1: the square pegs in a roundhole. I don't think you

928
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 1: have to worry about that. They're gonna do what they

929
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: do best, and we'll see if if it's good enough.

930
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to the top of the hour. Take

931
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 1: a break here. We're gonna go over what the four

932
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:23,760
Speaker 1: options are and one of the four facets of this offense.

933
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 1: They're gonna help Lashawn McCoy have or not have a

934
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,680
Speaker 1: bounce back here. Whether it's the offensive line, a balance, attack,

935
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:33,680
Speaker 1: less workload, or Josh Allen's improved games, stick with us.

936
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Klyda Health from One Bill's Drive.

937
00:48:36,200 --> 00:48:49,839
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's Radio, Little Radio Network Stories Suck Date,

938
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,799
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Sabers made two selections in the first round

939
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Speaker 1: of the twenty nineteen NHL draft. On Friday. Forward Dylan

940
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:59,520
Speaker 1: Cousins was selected with the number seven overall pick. Cousins

941
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 1: finished hide for tenth in the WHL, scoring with eighty

942
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: four points in sixty eight games in the twenty eighteen

943
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Speaker 1: nineteen seasons. Sabers selected defenseman Ryan Johnson with a thirty

944
00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 1: first overall pick. In fifty four games last season in

945
00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:16,280
Speaker 1: the USHL, Johnson recorded twenty five points and a plus

946
00:49:16,320 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 1: twenty four rating. Defenseman PK su Band was traded by

947
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: the Devils to the Predators for defenceman Stephen Santini and

948
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Speaker 1: Jeremy Davies, a second round pick in the twenty nineteen

949
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Speaker 1: NHL draft and a second round pick in the twenty

950
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Speaker 1: twenty NHL draft. Suband has four hundred and eight points

951
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: in six hundred and forty five regular season games and

952
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: sixty two points in ninety six playoff games over ten

953
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Speaker 1: NHL seasons with the Canadians and the Predators. Forward Jack

954
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 1: Marlowe was traded to the Hurricanes along with a conditional

955
00:49:46,160 --> 00:49:48,440
Speaker 1: first round pick and a seventh round pick in the

956
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty NHL draft by the Maple Leafs for a

957
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:55,320
Speaker 1: sixth round pick in twenty twenty. Marlow has one season

958
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Speaker 1: remaining on a three year, eighteen point seven five million

959
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Speaker 1: dollar contract. He has one hundred and twenty seven points

960
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: in one hundred and ninety one playoff games with the

961
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Speaker 1: Sharks and Maple Leafs. Forward JT. Miller was traded to

962
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Speaker 1: the Canucks by the Lightning for goalie Merrick Mazanek, a

963
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 1: third round pick in the twenty nineteen NHL draft and

964
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Speaker 1: a conditional first round pick in the twenty twenty NHL draft.

965
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 1: Miller has two hundred and thirty seven points in four

966
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty five regular season games and twenty six

967
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 1: points in sixty one playoff games with the Rangers and

968
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Speaker 1: the Lightning. Saints quarterback Drew Brees was awarded more than

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Speaker 1: six million dollars in a lawsuit that claimed a San

970
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Speaker 1: Diego jeweler sold him over priced diamonds, a suit that

971
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Speaker 1: claimed the Lajoya Jeweler improperly valued gems that the Breezes

972
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Speaker 1: bought as an investment at fifteen million dollars when they

973
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Speaker 1: were worth millions less, and of course, Night now the

974
00:50:50,239 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 1: women's US soccer team is currently playing against Spain in

975
00:50:53,239 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 1: the two nineteen FIFA Women's World Cup. The score is

976
00:50:56,560 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: currently tied one one, with goals from US MEGA Megan

977
00:51:01,120 --> 00:51:05,760
Speaker 1: Rapino and Spain's Jennifer Hermosa. That is your sports update, Brownie.

978
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 1: We've been kind of following the women's They got a

979
00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:10,239
Speaker 1: bad turnover in their own end and gave up a goal. Yeah,

980
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:12,520
Speaker 1: bad turnover in their own end. Keeper played it to

981
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:16,400
Speaker 1: a back who was marked, and nobody told her she

982
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 1: had a player on her back. She got stripped, played

983
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: it to the striker right over the head of the

984
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:23,279
Speaker 1: goalkeeper's offer line. One one. They just started a second

985
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:24,920
Speaker 1: half though, so we'll see what happens. There you go.

986
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: We're listening to one Bill's Live Steve Task along with

987
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,680
Speaker 1: Chris Brown. We're here till three o'clock. We're asking the

988
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 1: twitter question what gives you the most confidence that Shady

989
00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:34,920
Speaker 1: can have a bounce back season. We're taking calls on

990
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 1: that at eight o three oh five fifty and one

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Speaker 1: eighty eight five fifty two five fifty And also we're

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Speaker 1: you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers of the

994
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:51,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Yeah, from the Bills Monster, he says, I

995
00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:54,360
Speaker 1: think an overall better offense will be the best asset

996
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,320
Speaker 1: for run game. Being the second year in the system,

997
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:59,720
Speaker 1: I expect to see increased execution of the play calls

998
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:03,359
Speaker 1: that from Bill's Monster ends from Matthew, he says, yes.

999
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:06,800
Speaker 1: And improved oline helps. But if the offense is run heavy,

1000
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 1: opposing defenses will key on to McCoy and trying and

1001
00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 1: take him out of the game. But with the wide

1002
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:14,359
Speaker 1: receiver tight end upgrades, the opposing team has more to

1003
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 1: worry about. So there's a lot going on. And I mean,

1004
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:19,680
Speaker 1: we can we can talk about the offensive line and

1005
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 1: the importance to the run game and everything that you

1006
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 1: got to do on offense till we're blue in the face.

1007
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: But some of these other choices are kind of interesting

1008
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 1: to dissect in terms of how they can impact the

1009
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:33,560
Speaker 1: run game. Because last year, I mean, as you said

1010
00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:36,239
Speaker 1: at the top of the show, Lashawn McCoy was the

1011
00:52:36,239 --> 00:52:39,080
Speaker 1: focal point of every defense they faced in the first

1012
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:43,520
Speaker 1: half of the season, and they when they accomplished shutting

1013
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:46,400
Speaker 1: down the line, resetting the line of scrimmage, and you know,

1014
00:52:46,440 --> 00:52:48,319
Speaker 1: opening up holes in the run game. They were very

1015
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: effective in, you know, keeping the Bills point scoring production

1016
00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: at Bay. And obviously you don't score points, you're not

1017
00:52:54,680 --> 00:52:57,439
Speaker 1: gonna win games. But then I think we can both

1018
00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:59,160
Speaker 1: agree that as we got to the back half of

1019
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:00,799
Speaker 1: the schedule there, the last month and a half of

1020
00:53:00,800 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 1: the schedule, the focal point for opposing defenses became Josh

1021
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:06,720
Speaker 1: Allen because here he is running around for one hundred

1022
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:10,759
Speaker 1: yards a game and making linebackers look silly and turning

1023
00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:12,840
Speaker 1: him into quarkscrews out there right. And one of the

1024
00:53:12,840 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: things about this as well is what if it's not

1025
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 1: the revamped offensive line. Certainly, if it's better and more productive,

1026
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,840
Speaker 1: that doesn't automatically mean Lashawn McCoy is going to have

1027
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,439
Speaker 1: a better year. He may not have him left to give.

1028
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 1: He may be marginalized by other running backs or other

1029
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:31,880
Speaker 1: app facets of the offense that may get promoted or

1030
00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 1: being more productive. But there are some other things about

1031
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:37,759
Speaker 1: this as well. About this that we put out there

1032
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: more balanced attack with wide receiver and tight ends. There's

1033
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:43,399
Speaker 1: no question this is a more proven wide receiver group

1034
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 1: than they went into the season with last year. Certainly,

1035
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:48,719
Speaker 1: Kelvin Benjamin, you had some expectations. Of course those were

1036
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:55,799
Speaker 1: largely unrealized in hindsight. But behind Kelvin Benjamin was Zay Jones,

1037
00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:57,319
Speaker 1: who was going into his second year, a lot of

1038
00:53:57,360 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 1: unknown guys who didn't know who was going to be.

1039
00:53:59,040 --> 00:54:01,359
Speaker 1: Now you've got Cole b who's a nine year vet

1040
00:54:01,360 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 1: who's had some enormously productive years in Dallas. John Brown,

1041
00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 1: who has had some really good years in Arizona, then

1042
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 1: took a step back last year when Baltimore decided they

1043
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 1: were never going to throw the football and run it

1044
00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 1: all the time. So he got out of there as

1045
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 1: fast as he could. And now he's with Buffalo, and

1046
00:54:18,480 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 1: Buffalo tried to get him last year before the Baltimore

1047
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: Ravens grabbed him off the Arizona roster. And of course

1048
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 1: then there's less work. There's whether Lashan McCoy is going

1049
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 1: to get an off opportunity this wide this running back crew.

1050
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 1: They they may do it by committee, and that means

1051
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 1: fewer opportunities. I think we can still agree that McCoy

1052
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:45,799
Speaker 1: is seen as the feature back by this offense. But

1053
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:50,960
Speaker 1: seeing Gore last year in Miami getting thirty six percent

1054
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:53,880
Speaker 1: of the workload, you know, with Kenyan Drake being the

1055
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 1: feature back there. You know, I think it's safe to

1056
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Speaker 1: assume that Gore, you know, provided he's healthy, as probably

1057
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 1: gonna see thirty percent of the workload here, which means

1058
00:55:03,120 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 1: what are we talking from McCoy is it's sixty percent

1059
00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:09,319
Speaker 1: probably somewhere between fifty five and sixty percent, you know,

1060
00:55:09,360 --> 00:55:11,600
Speaker 1: of the time on the field for offensive snaps, which

1061
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:15,239
Speaker 1: leaves about ten percent, you know, for Devin Singletary, who

1062
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 1: I think some way, shape or form is going to

1063
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:20,160
Speaker 1: have a small package of plays for him every week too.

1064
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 1: But the wide receiver tight end upgrades interest me only

1065
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 1: because when you combine that with the advancements that Josh

1066
00:55:28,120 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 1: Allen has made in his game, I think this offense

1067
00:55:31,520 --> 00:55:35,560
Speaker 1: is going to be more balanced. It should be more unpredictable,

1068
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 1: you know, because of the increased abilities of Josh to

1069
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:42,040
Speaker 1: make plays from the pocket rather than scrambling from the

1070
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 1: pocket and making plays with his legs. Well, plus he

1071
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:46,880
Speaker 1: can still scramble well pocket he has. But here's the

1072
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:48,799
Speaker 1: thing as well, you look back at what Gore did

1073
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:51,880
Speaker 1: last year thirty six percent of the snaps in Miami

1074
00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:55,440
Speaker 1: on an offense that I think they were struggling a

1075
00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 1: little bit last year, right, I mean Tannehill was out

1076
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 1: of the game and they were kind of looking for themselves.

1077
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:04,280
Speaker 1: I think if and if we're trying to spin this positive,

1078
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 1: and you can always spend it negative, because we've all

1079
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:08,520
Speaker 1: seen how negative it can get in football. It happens

1080
00:56:08,560 --> 00:56:10,840
Speaker 1: to everybody all the time. But if you want to

1081
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:14,040
Speaker 1: spend it positive, if this offense in Buffalo turns out

1082
00:56:14,040 --> 00:56:17,439
Speaker 1: to be much better than anticipated, or at least better

1083
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:20,360
Speaker 1: than the Miami offense last year, it would go to

1084
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 1: the fact that you've got a defensive head minded head

1085
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:26,000
Speaker 1: coach who with a good defense knows he doesn't have

1086
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:28,520
Speaker 1: to air it out to outscore people. It means you're

1087
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:31,279
Speaker 1: gonna run the football better. You're gonna run it more successfully.

1088
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:33,920
Speaker 1: There's more carries to go around. And even if you

1089
00:56:34,000 --> 00:56:36,720
Speaker 1: do get on the field for only say, for instance,

1090
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:40,799
Speaker 1: you know five hundred snaps, you do get a chance

1091
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 1: to carry the football over two hundred of those snaps, right,

1092
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:46,400
Speaker 1: and maybe some of those snaps are in more favorable

1093
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:48,839
Speaker 1: down and distance because you are so successful now it's

1094
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 1: you're running the ball on second and three, second and four,

1095
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 1: you know, maybe you are experiencing better fronts to go

1096
00:56:57,600 --> 00:56:59,920
Speaker 1: against because the dynamic of is it a run in

1097
00:57:00,080 --> 00:57:02,920
Speaker 1: a pass is more unpredictable based on the down and

1098
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 1: distance through the success you're having in moving the football

1099
00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:07,719
Speaker 1: and then you only need three yards for a first down.

1100
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:09,359
Speaker 1: Now you got another three and you're on the field

1101
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:11,320
Speaker 1: for three more snaps, you know, So it's kind of

1102
00:57:11,360 --> 00:57:14,080
Speaker 1: a domino effect there more time on the field. The

1103
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: Bills led the league in three and ounce last year,

1104
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 1: and when you do that, your run game is going

1105
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:22,600
Speaker 1: to disappear completely. And if that is not the case,

1106
00:57:22,680 --> 00:57:24,840
Speaker 1: the arsue you're as you know, none of us hopes

1107
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:29,640
Speaker 1: that it is. It's got. It's gonna translate into more

1108
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:32,440
Speaker 1: opportunities for anybody who's lined up and running back, and

1109
00:57:32,560 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 1: you're going to be more productive as a result. And

1110
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 1: the other thing we want to have, you know, our

1111
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 1: listeners chime in on two at eight O three, five

1112
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 1: fifty is what qualifies for you as a bounce back

1113
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 1: season for LaShaun. We're talking about how confident we are

1114
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 1: in a bounce back season. What is the representation of that,

1115
00:57:50,440 --> 00:57:54,439
Speaker 1: either through statistics or what his career numbers have been

1116
00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 1: to what you think they can be this year? What

1117
00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:01,720
Speaker 1: get what benchmark will be needed here by Lushawn. For

1118
00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:04,560
Speaker 1: you to say he had a bounce back season in

1119
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, what is it? I want to know because

1120
00:58:08,200 --> 00:58:10,440
Speaker 1: I think there are different interpretations of that too, and

1121
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:11,960
Speaker 1: I know you and I kind of talked about what

1122
00:58:12,000 --> 00:58:14,600
Speaker 1: we felt it was. I'm curious what the fans think

1123
00:58:14,880 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 1: a bounce back season is because if his number of

1124
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:20,560
Speaker 1: snaps are going to be compromised because Frank Gore is here, well,

1125
00:58:20,600 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: I don't think it's fair to say a bounce back

1126
00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 1: season's twelve hundred rushing yards, you know what I mean?

1127
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,280
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of curious where the fans are coming from.

1128
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 1: At eight o three oh five fifty. Let us know

1129
00:58:29,920 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 1: what you consider to be the benchmark for what a

1130
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,160
Speaker 1: bounce back season is for Lashawn as well for me.

1131
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 1: And if you're doing it that way, and we've talked

1132
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:41,640
Speaker 1: about the yards per carrying, certainly that's really that's a

1133
00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:45,360
Speaker 1: telling thing, and it's season long. I think he looked

1134
00:58:45,360 --> 00:58:46,720
Speaker 1: sit back and I said, man, I want to see

1135
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:49,360
Speaker 1: him get eleven hundred yards, you know, I want to

1136
00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:52,840
Speaker 1: see him do it for sixteen games average about eighty

1137
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: five yards rushing a game. Is what you know is

1138
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:57,480
Speaker 1: what that would about? That would yeah, that would be

1139
00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:03,400
Speaker 1: and go from there. I want to see the guy

1140
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 1: do it over sixteen games. If he's on the field

1141
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 1: for sixteen games and this is an effective offense, he's

1142
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 1: gonna be a bounce back player, right. I wonder where

1143
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:15,720
Speaker 1: his receiving game's gonna go. I don't know about you, Steve,

1144
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:17,880
Speaker 1: and I know I saw more of the spring practices

1145
00:59:17,920 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 1: than you did because you were in here doing the show,

1146
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:23,240
Speaker 1: But holy crap, there were a lot of swing passes

1147
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:27,600
Speaker 1: being executed out there. Not a single screen, but I

1148
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:31,880
Speaker 1: mean three out of every six pass plays were swing passes.

1149
00:59:31,920 --> 00:59:33,920
Speaker 1: And that might just be a byproduct of the defense

1150
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 1: knows this offense so well, seeing him every day in practice,

1151
00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:38,440
Speaker 1: and the quarterback's got to take the check down or

1152
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:42,480
Speaker 1: whatever it could bet they were doing it right, But

1153
00:59:42,520 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 1: I would say it was extremely prevalent through the course

1154
00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:47,560
Speaker 1: of the spring practices. We'll see if it's still there

1155
00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:50,840
Speaker 1: when this team gets to training camp. But you know,

1156
00:59:51,000 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 1: knowing tj Yelden's coming off, that's a guy we haven't

1157
00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 1: even mentioned. Knowing tj Eelden's coming off a career high

1158
00:59:57,160 --> 01:00:00,440
Speaker 1: fifty five reception season last year, with Jacksonville, which was

1159
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:03,000
Speaker 1: the role he kind of filled there with Leonard Fournette

1160
01:00:03,040 --> 01:00:07,040
Speaker 1: be in the main rusher No. One. Lashawn McCoy has

1161
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:09,080
Speaker 1: had a couple of fifty catch seasons two in the

1162
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:13,920
Speaker 1: last three years, and Singletary's got better hands than I

1163
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:16,640
Speaker 1: think he gets credit for. I wonder where that's gonna

1164
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:19,400
Speaker 1: go for McCoy too. You know, I think everybody's all

1165
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:22,160
Speaker 1: consumed with the rushing totals because at the end of

1166
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,840
Speaker 1: the day, he's a running back, but he's also pretty

1167
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:26,680
Speaker 1: good out of the backfield too. And I wonder if

1168
01:00:26,800 --> 01:00:30,840
Speaker 1: his role, if he's not going to be seeing as

1169
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,000
Speaker 1: many carries because of the other backs on this roster.

1170
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:36,360
Speaker 1: Does Brian Dable diversify it and say, well, he may

1171
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:39,120
Speaker 1: not have two hundred and twenty five carries this year,

1172
01:00:39,520 --> 01:00:42,480
Speaker 1: but he may catch sixty balls, you know what I mean.

1173
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:45,920
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if his production comes from somewhere else, namely

1174
01:00:45,960 --> 01:00:49,320
Speaker 1: the receiving game. Yeah, and I'll say this too, one

1175
01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:51,560
Speaker 1: of the choices of the tight end wide receiver upgrade

1176
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:53,440
Speaker 1: and where they're going to be a more balanced attack.

1177
01:00:53,480 --> 01:00:56,520
Speaker 1: If they are a more balanced attack, that means in

1178
01:00:56,560 --> 01:00:59,120
Speaker 1: certain situations they're not going to hand the football off.

1179
01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:01,760
Speaker 1: They're not gonna you know, they're gonna trust that Cole

1180
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:03,800
Speaker 1: Beasley is gonna win in the slot, get a first

1181
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:05,600
Speaker 1: down on a third and five or a second and

1182
01:01:05,640 --> 01:01:08,360
Speaker 1: two or whatever what have you, and they're gonna keep

1183
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:13,680
Speaker 1: on rolling. It's all up in the air. But I

1184
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:15,560
Speaker 1: do say that, And you always get these voices in

1185
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:20,000
Speaker 1: the wilderness, and this was prevalent back even in the

1186
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:21,800
Speaker 1: early in the off season at the end of last year,

1187
01:01:21,840 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 1: where there are a lot of people who don't believe

1188
01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:26,120
Speaker 1: in Lashawn McCoy. They don't think he's that kind of guy.

1189
01:01:26,200 --> 01:01:28,360
Speaker 1: They were saying, move them, that's right, and they they're

1190
01:01:28,360 --> 01:01:31,000
Speaker 1: still they're they're chiming in even today. He's not even

1191
01:01:31,000 --> 01:01:33,160
Speaker 1: gonna be here. They're gonna trade him, and they're gonna

1192
01:01:33,160 --> 01:01:36,560
Speaker 1: trade him. They're gonna do something with him. Listen, They're not.

1193
01:01:37,720 --> 01:01:40,080
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, I would be very surprised. I would

1194
01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:42,200
Speaker 1: be really surprised that some people think is a done

1195
01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:44,680
Speaker 1: deal they are gonna trade him. It's somebody would have

1196
01:01:44,720 --> 01:01:48,040
Speaker 1: to blow the bills away with an enormous offer to

1197
01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:50,360
Speaker 1: do that for thirty one year old running back. Yeah,

1198
01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:52,439
Speaker 1: and I've seen it out there too, where people make

1199
01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:54,920
Speaker 1: the argument, oh, well, you know it's a big cap savement.

1200
01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:58,200
Speaker 1: They don't need it, right, they're so comfortably under the

1201
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 1: cap even now, they don't need that kind of cap relief.

1202
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:04,280
Speaker 1: And this is the last year of his deal. It's

1203
01:02:04,280 --> 01:02:06,880
Speaker 1: a it's a cap hit, a six point five, it's

1204
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:09,200
Speaker 1: a cap hit. Maybe they save six point five if

1205
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:11,160
Speaker 1: they move it. Yeah, it's a savings, but it's not

1206
01:02:11,200 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 1: a savings that they're hard up to grab and and need. Right. Well,

1207
01:02:15,120 --> 01:02:17,200
Speaker 1: here's the thing too, If they're gonna save that money

1208
01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 1: on the cap, you would think and that they're gonna

1209
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:27,439
Speaker 1: spend it on something. What What are you gonna spend

1210
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:31,120
Speaker 1: it on? Now? You're you're headed into training camp, nobody's around,

1211
01:02:31,880 --> 01:02:34,360
Speaker 1: You've got capped. If something comes up, you've got money

1212
01:02:34,400 --> 01:02:36,600
Speaker 1: to spend. Now, if something comes up that you say, wow,

1213
01:02:36,800 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 1: it's expensive, but we're gonna get that guy. We're gonna

1214
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:42,240
Speaker 1: make this move. You don't need Lashawn's money to do it.

1215
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:44,440
Speaker 1: You've got the money sitting in the bank to do it.

1216
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:46,600
Speaker 1: If you're gonna make that kind of move, what are

1217
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:48,680
Speaker 1: you gonna spend the money on? Or why to say

1218
01:02:49,720 --> 01:02:54,960
Speaker 1: do you think that Sean McDermott and Brandon Bean are

1219
01:02:55,000 --> 01:02:58,200
Speaker 1: gonna save six and a half million bucks on the

1220
01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:01,680
Speaker 1: cap and cost them what they would might believe is

1221
01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: two or three games this season, a chance to win

1222
01:03:04,360 --> 01:03:06,960
Speaker 1: two or three more games this season with their starting

1223
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:09,400
Speaker 1: number one running back who does everything you want in

1224
01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:11,760
Speaker 1: a running back who you believe in. You're gonna cost

1225
01:03:11,800 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: yourself a chance to win a couple of games this

1226
01:03:14,200 --> 01:03:17,200
Speaker 1: year over that amount of cap space. That's crazy talk.

1227
01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 1: Point the point there is, at this stage of the

1228
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:24,880
Speaker 1: off season or even on the cusp of the regular season,

1229
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 1: you're gonna be very hard pressed to find a six

1230
01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:30,120
Speaker 1: and a half million dollar value, whether it's one player,

1231
01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:32,880
Speaker 1: two players, three players, that's better than the value you're

1232
01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:35,000
Speaker 1: gonna get out of Leshaun McCoy. Yeah, there's always guys

1233
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:37,240
Speaker 1: getting cut from other teams, and you always scour that

1234
01:03:37,480 --> 01:03:40,240
Speaker 1: right you may be, you may there are always some surprises.

1235
01:03:40,280 --> 01:03:42,560
Speaker 1: There was an old adage when I played, even there's

1236
01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:45,720
Speaker 1: always on every team somebody that gets cut, a veteran

1237
01:03:45,720 --> 01:03:47,240
Speaker 1: that gets cut. It's like, Wow, I thought he was

1238
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:49,840
Speaker 1: gonna make it. Wow, I thought that guy was Wow,

1239
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:51,560
Speaker 1: what's he gonna do? Wow? I wonder where he's gonna

1240
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:52,880
Speaker 1: play this year, and not a lot of these guys

1241
01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:58,440
Speaker 1: do bounce Lashawn McCoy's he's not gonna be the difference

1242
01:03:58,440 --> 01:04:01,080
Speaker 1: in that deal. No, not at this stage of the game.

1243
01:04:01,200 --> 01:04:06,440
Speaker 1: You don't need the money on the cap. Yeah, I

1244
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:08,640
Speaker 1: just that's crazy talk to me. There's that's not the

1245
01:04:08,680 --> 01:04:10,200
Speaker 1: reason for making that deal. And if you think he's

1246
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:12,920
Speaker 1: a horrible player, if you think it, and if you

1247
01:04:12,960 --> 01:04:15,680
Speaker 1: think you know so much and you think nobody else does,

1248
01:04:16,320 --> 01:04:18,280
Speaker 1: what does that include all the other general manager, the

1249
01:04:18,400 --> 01:04:20,240
Speaker 1: thirty one of the teams who scour the film and

1250
01:04:20,280 --> 01:04:22,240
Speaker 1: watch the guy. Do you think those guys all think

1251
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:26,240
Speaker 1: he's worthless? No? I mean that's it's it's crazy talk,

1252
01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 1: I think at this point of the offseason. So what

1253
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:31,920
Speaker 1: qualifies for you as a bounce back season for Lashawn?

1254
01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 1: What's the quintessential benchmark? The figure, the number of the

1255
01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:39,240
Speaker 1: stat that after twenty nineteen you look at it and and say,

1256
01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:41,720
Speaker 1: you know what, Yeah, Leshaun did have a bounce back season.

1257
01:04:41,760 --> 01:04:44,200
Speaker 1: He still has an eighth three five fifty. Because I

1258
01:04:44,240 --> 01:04:45,600
Speaker 1: know we're going to have a couple of calls on

1259
01:04:45,640 --> 01:04:47,720
Speaker 1: the line here shortly. Yeah, we've we've got some people

1260
01:04:47,960 --> 01:04:50,120
Speaker 1: calling in and I don't know. All right, we'll take

1261
01:04:50,160 --> 01:04:51,880
Speaker 1: one and since you want to do that, we'll do that.

1262
01:04:51,920 --> 01:04:54,960
Speaker 1: He've been holding Jim and West Seneca. Jim, thanks for

1263
01:04:55,040 --> 01:04:57,280
Speaker 1: calling the program, Chris and Steve on one Bill's Live.

1264
01:04:57,320 --> 01:05:00,600
Speaker 1: What do you got? Okay, thank you for in my call.

1265
01:05:00,920 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 1: I've been listening to you and the key thing to

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Speaker 1: me is that you guys are asking what will qualify

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Speaker 1: for a you know, comeback season for Lashawn. So simply put,

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Speaker 1: like you said, it's yards yards per run, you know,

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Speaker 1: does it go back up to four point five or more?

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Speaker 1: Is he dependable to put in? Does the offensive coaches

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Speaker 1: have enough confidence in him to get you the short

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Speaker 1: yardage on third and one, third and two, third and

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Speaker 1: ten or fourth down? Do we get a touchdown or

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Speaker 1: first down? You know, just to do the coaches have

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Speaker 1: enough confidence for him to do that? And how you

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Speaker 1: know you can't you can't base a comeback season on

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Speaker 1: what the coaches all overall game plan is with Frank

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Speaker 1: Gore and a couple of the other guys they brought in,

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Speaker 1: it's per play by Lashawn. And you know, is he

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Speaker 1: going to be counted on to make those key plays

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Speaker 1: on the fourth and ten at the end of the game,

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Speaker 1: or a third and twenty at the end of the game.

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Speaker 1: It's all about Leshawn and his yards after a catch,

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Speaker 1: yards on a run. How many key ds you know,

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Speaker 1: how many are they? Are they gonna just have a

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Speaker 1: three three back rotation or are they going to really

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Speaker 1: put all their money in Leshawn? What do you think

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Speaker 1: is the rest of the team will look like if

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Speaker 1: Leshawn has a bounce back year, what will that other

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Speaker 1: the other ten guys, what will they look like? What

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Speaker 1: will their year kind of be? Well, if if he

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Speaker 1: has a bounce back year or attempts to have a

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Speaker 1: bounce back year, he'll make everybody. He'll make it easier

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Speaker 1: on Josh Allen because the defensive backs will be pension

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Speaker 1: in to stop with Shawn, so he can throw easier

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Speaker 1: and hit targets. As far as receivers, especially the tight end.

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Speaker 1: Is that the question that you ask me? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: mean I think that answer. Yeah, what do you think?

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Speaker 1: What do you think is going to be the biggest

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Speaker 1: difference around Lashawn that's going to make him have one

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Speaker 1: of those years. Oh, he's got to have a better,

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Speaker 1: better offensive line. He just has to. I'm upset that

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Speaker 1: they didn't go for I know Oliver is, you know,

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Speaker 1: the cream at the top on the defensive end side,

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Speaker 1: But I mean, they need a couple of studs. They

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Speaker 1: haven't had studs on the offensive line for years. They've

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Speaker 1: passed up top notch tackles and guards for other players,

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Speaker 1: you know, for years. They need a couple studs that

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Speaker 1: will last them eight or ten years. And the owner

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Speaker 1: will be willing to give them ten, fifteen, twenty million

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Speaker 1: dollars because they'll shut down the offensive line and let

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Speaker 1: anyone run through those holes. And I'll tell you, I'm

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Speaker 1: old enough to know that when the Bills drafted OJ

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Speaker 1: Simpson number one, and for two years he looked terribly

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Speaker 1: average because he had a use my language, he had

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Speaker 1: a crappy offensive line. Once that coach that got high

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Speaker 1: quality players in on the offensive line, then he started

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Speaker 1: to really really everybody knows the rest of the story

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Speaker 1: as far as him running and catching, Yeah, different time,

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Speaker 1: different time we're running the ball was essential. Not to

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Speaker 1: say that the run game isn't important now, but the

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Speaker 1: league is different. I mean, the vast majority of this

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Speaker 1: league throws at sixty percent of the time and runs

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Speaker 1: at forty percent of the time or closer to those

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Speaker 1: numbers than fifty fifty. Yeah, the Bills, I think may

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Speaker 1: still be somewhere in the middle in that. I think

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Speaker 1: they do want to move more towards a passing offense,

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Speaker 1: but that's going to hinge on Josh Allen's effectiveness in

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Speaker 1: year two. So I still and that's probably one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest reasons why you have people like Lashawn McCoy

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Speaker 1: and Frank were on this roster, because you are going

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Speaker 1: to still have to lean on the running game to

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Speaker 1: some degree, and you want that in your back pocket

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Speaker 1: to turn to whenever you need it. One things about

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Speaker 1: they got to remember about Leshan the reason a lot

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Speaker 1: of people and me and cluded I think you two

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Speaker 1: Brownie believed that the guys got something left in the tank.

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Speaker 1: He went from in twenty sixteen to rushing from twelve

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Speaker 1: hundred yards twenty seventeen eleven hundred yards to eighteen where

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Speaker 1: he worked for less than five hundred and twenty. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the guy. It was a bad football team last year. Offensively,

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Speaker 1: they struggled to move the football. Offensively, they couldn't win

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Speaker 1: at the line of screen. Yeah, he fell off a

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Speaker 1: cliff in his production, mostly because I mean, you anybody

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Speaker 1: watched the Bills game on a consistent basis, you saw

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Speaker 1: this guy dodging people right after Josh Allen handed him

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Speaker 1: the football. I mean, he was getting They were getting

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Speaker 1: penetration up front. They were they were wrecking the Bills

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Speaker 1: run game with a d line. And not only it

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Speaker 1: was so bad too that it wasn't like they were

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Speaker 1: even doing it against nine man fronts. You know, they

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Speaker 1: were playing bass defense, bass personnel coming out or maybe

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Speaker 1: even coming out in their nickel, and they'd still get

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Speaker 1: penetration and stop the run. Well yeah, and when you

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Speaker 1: you know, consider the fact that when Josh Allen was

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Speaker 1: in the game he was kind of learning on the fly.

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Speaker 1: They were throwing the complicated stuff at him because they

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Speaker 1: could only well they only needed to throw the straight

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Speaker 1: up stuff, you know, at the running game, and they

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Speaker 1: were effective in stopping it because the lineman couldn't win

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Speaker 1: battles up front. But I'm yeah, I mean, I'm I

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Speaker 1: think that was a good call. I'm kind of curious

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Speaker 1: what people think is the benchmark for a bounce back

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Speaker 1: season for Shady, So keep calling in. I mean, I'm

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Speaker 1: happy to we got an open segment here Steve Tasker,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown or One Bill's Live presented by Collida Health.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna come back at two o'clock. We're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: with Mike Lombardi. We're gonna take your calls as well.

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Speaker 1: And to read from the tweet sheet, this is One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Collida Health. From One Bill's Drive

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Speaker 1: and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Steve Tasker, Chris Brown, Brownie in for Murf today.

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Speaker 1: Murph out on vacation because it is summer finally and

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Speaker 1: they arrived just the day was supposed to not until

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Speaker 1: the twenty first of June. Goodness gracious, but we're here

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Speaker 1: talking about Lashaw McCoy. What's it gonna take to have

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Speaker 1: what's going to be what gives you the most confidence

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Speaker 1: about that Shady can have a bounce back season. This

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Speaker 1: brings up, certainly the choices that we put out there

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Speaker 1: that you can take your chick pick from the revamped

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Speaker 1: offensive line. Seventy three percent of you say that's gonna

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Speaker 1: do it. Eleven percent of you say Josh Allen's improved

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Speaker 1: game is going to help Lashawn McCoy have a breakout

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Speaker 1: season bounce back season. Nine percent of you say more

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Speaker 1: balance attack with wide receiver and tight end upgrades, and

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Speaker 1: just seven percent of you think less workload with added

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Speaker 1: talent in the running back group. It brings up another

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Speaker 1: ancilliary if I might use a big word or ancillary

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Speaker 1: either as that too and still ancillary topic is what

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Speaker 1: constitutes a bounce back here, And that's one of the

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Speaker 1: things we've been getting at with the callers who have

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Speaker 1: called in, and you can call in and give us

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Speaker 1: your take if you want eight or three oh five

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Speaker 1: fifty or outside Buffalo it's one eighty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: What does constitute a breakout season? A lot of us,

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Speaker 1: me and you included Brownie, think Lashawn McCoy is going

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Speaker 1: to bounce back this year mostly because the personnel on

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Speaker 1: that side of the ball is upgraded everywhere else, so

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Speaker 1: he's going to be more productive. And I think you

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Speaker 1: and I both believe, unlike some people who are chiming

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Speaker 1: in us, we believe he's going to get a lot

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Speaker 1: of opportunity to bounce back. Yeah, and you know, if

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Speaker 1: the offense is humming, you know, as you have stated,

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Speaker 1: which I don't know if that's going to be the

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Speaker 1: case right out of the gate, because I think as

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Speaker 1: we've seen, you know, the history in this league has

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Speaker 1: told us when you have as many changes as the

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Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball has had for the Bills,

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Speaker 1: it's going to take a few weeks for all that

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Speaker 1: stuff to mesh and really be firing on all cylinders.

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Speaker 1: And so does it take two games, does it take

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Speaker 1: three games? Does it take until we're at week six

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Speaker 1: where the thing's really moving? And so if it's tough

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Speaker 1: sledding in the early going, you know, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if the opportunities are going to be there because it

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Speaker 1: is the offense staying on the field as much as

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Speaker 1: they would like to. I mean, these are things we

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Speaker 1: all have to consider. I understand why the voting is

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Speaker 1: so heavily in favor of the offensive line as choice

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Speaker 1: number one in this Twitter poll, but it's still a

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Speaker 1: pretty big if, not only who the five are going

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Speaker 1: to be, how well are they going to work together?

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Speaker 1: And how soon will that be working as everyone hopes

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Speaker 1: it will, right, And that's that's a big question mark

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Speaker 1: that nobody knows about. Certainly there are a question marks

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Speaker 1: everywhere when you start switching people around to the extent

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Speaker 1: that the Buffalo Bills did this offseason. You don't know

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Speaker 1: how it's going to come together, but we'll see. I

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Speaker 1: think a lot of people are in our camp. They

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Speaker 1: think that LaShaun McCoy is going to have a breakout season.

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Speaker 1: But what's the benchmark for Lashawn McCoy bounce back season?

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Speaker 1: And from Tyler on the tweet sheet, he says, and

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems,

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Speaker 1: the official movers of the Buffalo Bills. Tyler says, the

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Speaker 1: benchmark for Lashawn McCoy bounce back season is I think

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Speaker 1: a solid bounceback season for Shady somewhere around a thousand

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Speaker 1: yards plus or mind one hundred along with seven or

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Speaker 1: ten to seven to ten touchdowns. Maybe add in three

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Speaker 1: to four hundred yards receiving. But I think a guy

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Speaker 1: like Yelden Pending of he makes the team or Singletary

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Speaker 1: will take some of Shady's receptions, although he didn't say carries.

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Speaker 1: Also what another chime in from Kevin what the benchmark

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Speaker 1: is for Leshawn McCoy bounce back season? He says, I

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Speaker 1: think twenty touches a game. That's an interesting stat to

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Speaker 1: go to need at least five touches in the air

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Speaker 1: and space and fifteen to twenty rushes a game, use

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Speaker 1: gore and goal line short yardage situations. That from Kevin.

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Speaker 1: That's from the tweet sheet about what the benchmark would

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Speaker 1: be for a Leshawn McCoy bounce back season. Interesting. I

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Speaker 1: mean the twenty touches again, Yeah, that's a pretty good

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Speaker 1: that's it. That's a fat number, I think because I

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Speaker 1: remember back in twenty touches, right, carries? And I remember

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Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, which was the last year of Rex Ryan,

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Speaker 1: they made a point of pacing Leshawn McCoy that year.

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Speaker 1: He had under and eighty four total touches in twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: and uh he averaged eighteen and a half carries per

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Speaker 1: game that season. So to expect twenty did he say

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Speaker 1: carries or just twenty touches? Twenty touches? Okay? No, no,

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Speaker 1: wait hold on, let me look because if he says

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Speaker 1: twenty carries, I don't see that happening. I mean, maybe

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Speaker 1: there's twenty touches okay, fifteen to twenty rushes okay, and

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Speaker 1: of course five that's doable. That's doable. Um, I just

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Speaker 1: I'm really interested to see how big an influence Frank

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Speaker 1: Gore has in this offense, because that is really going

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Speaker 1: to determine how realistic a number that is that you know,

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Speaker 1: the the Twitter respondent is suggesting, because as I said,

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Speaker 1: last year, Gore was on the field for thirty six

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Speaker 1: percent of the snaps in Miami. And granted, different offense,

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Speaker 1: different personnel, different scheme, all of that stuff, but Frank

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Speaker 1: Gore is Frank Gore, and so I don't think we

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Speaker 1: can just I don't think it's apples and oranges, because

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Speaker 1: I think Gore is a revered player in this league,

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Speaker 1: a player who can still get it done even at

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Speaker 1: age thirty six, and still has a lot of things

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01:16:14,840 --> 01:16:16,479
Speaker 1: that he can bring to the table, not the least

1476
01:16:16,479 --> 01:16:18,880
Speaker 1: of which is his ability to pick up the blitz.

1477
01:16:18,920 --> 01:16:20,439
Speaker 1: And I expect him to be on the field a

1478
01:16:20,439 --> 01:16:24,280
Speaker 1: good deal on third downs, which could impact Shady's receiving

1479
01:16:24,320 --> 01:16:27,720
Speaker 1: numbers when you think about it. So I think there

1480
01:16:27,760 --> 01:16:32,240
Speaker 1: are there is a multi pronged effect that Frank Gore

1481
01:16:32,360 --> 01:16:36,800
Speaker 1: could have on Shady's numbers and time on the field. Yeah,

1482
01:16:36,840 --> 01:16:38,920
Speaker 1: here's here's another one too, And I'll give you my

1483
01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:42,080
Speaker 1: prediction of how this would look in a bounce back year.

1484
01:16:43,520 --> 01:16:49,120
Speaker 1: Because we're we're writing a two sided sword. Here are

1485
01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:51,519
Speaker 1: two sides of the same coin. Because if if this

1486
01:16:51,600 --> 01:16:54,080
Speaker 1: offense does take an enormous step forward because of the

1487
01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:56,400
Speaker 1: big offensive line up front, they can run block, they

1488
01:16:56,400 --> 01:16:59,519
Speaker 1: can pass block, they're picking up the blitzes. Josh Allen

1489
01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:02,080
Speaker 1: takes us forward. Cole Beasley does his thing, John Brown

1490
01:17:02,160 --> 01:17:05,640
Speaker 1: is an addition, Say Jones emerges as the you know

1491
01:17:05,800 --> 01:17:08,760
Speaker 1: and fulfills his potential. You've got guys chiming in all

1492
01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:10,800
Speaker 1: over the field. You've got Tyler Croft who comes back

1493
01:17:11,080 --> 01:17:13,800
Speaker 1: and is the kind of tight end, pass catching tight

1494
01:17:13,880 --> 01:17:16,160
Speaker 1: end you want. So all this stuff means the offense

1495
01:17:16,280 --> 01:17:19,320
Speaker 1: is really prolific. And if it is a prolific offense,

1496
01:17:19,920 --> 01:17:22,880
Speaker 1: well the ball's got to get spread around. And by

1497
01:17:22,880 --> 01:17:28,439
Speaker 1: spreading it around, well that means Leshawn McCoy has relied

1498
01:17:28,479 --> 01:17:31,439
Speaker 1: on less. Now what does that mean? Because when they

1499
01:17:31,479 --> 01:17:34,479
Speaker 1: do go to him, he's pretty productive. Right, Because the

1500
01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:37,719
Speaker 1: offense is prolific, they got to worry about the wide receivers.

1501
01:17:37,760 --> 01:17:39,439
Speaker 1: They gotta worry about the tight ends. They got to

1502
01:17:39,439 --> 01:17:42,280
Speaker 1: worry about Josh Allen doing something off the page. They

1503
01:17:42,360 --> 01:17:44,280
Speaker 1: got all kinds of things on their plate this year

1504
01:17:44,360 --> 01:17:46,679
Speaker 1: as a defense. Looking at this Bill's offense and Leshaan

1505
01:17:46,760 --> 01:17:51,360
Speaker 1: McCoy maybe third, maybe Josh Allen, maybe Cole Beasley, then

1506
01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:55,880
Speaker 1: then Josh then Leshaun McCoy, or maybe it's Tyler Croft,

1507
01:17:55,920 --> 01:17:58,479
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, then Josh Allen and Lashawn McCoy. You know,

1508
01:17:58,520 --> 01:18:00,720
Speaker 1: maybe he drops clear off the page, but yet he's

1509
01:18:00,720 --> 01:18:03,280
Speaker 1: your number one back, say Jones, was the leading receiver

1510
01:18:03,360 --> 01:18:05,519
Speaker 1: of this team last year. And granted the dynamics are

1511
01:18:05,560 --> 01:18:08,040
Speaker 1: different there, but who knows where it all goes, so

1512
01:18:08,040 --> 01:18:10,800
Speaker 1: even so many different ways that it can unfold, this

1513
01:18:10,880 --> 01:18:16,600
Speaker 1: offense turns into this into a sustainable, well balanced, productive

1514
01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:19,920
Speaker 1: first down grinding you know, able to do everything in

1515
01:18:19,960 --> 01:18:22,120
Speaker 1: situational football you want to do. They can get a

1516
01:18:22,160 --> 01:18:23,920
Speaker 1: third in short, they can get a third and long

1517
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:27,240
Speaker 1: once in a while, they churn out first downs and

1518
01:18:27,360 --> 01:18:30,120
Speaker 1: stay on the football field. Their four minute offense becomes

1519
01:18:30,320 --> 01:18:32,400
Speaker 1: a weapon where if they've got to lead late in

1520
01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:34,519
Speaker 1: the game, you can't get the ball from him. That

1521
01:18:34,600 --> 01:18:37,760
Speaker 1: kind of thing. So if all that stuff comes to fruition,

1522
01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:41,120
Speaker 1: you know, Leshaun McCoy does have kind of a lion's

1523
01:18:41,160 --> 01:18:43,240
Speaker 1: sheriff carries he is because they're not going to rely

1524
01:18:43,320 --> 01:18:45,840
Speaker 1: on him in all these other situations. And the other

1525
01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:49,719
Speaker 1: thing to consider here too, knowing how different this offense

1526
01:18:49,840 --> 01:18:53,080
Speaker 1: is going to look at the outset, the only thing

1527
01:18:53,400 --> 01:18:56,879
Speaker 1: that opposing defense is has a have a firm grasp

1528
01:18:56,960 --> 01:19:00,200
Speaker 1: of with respect to this offense is what Lashawn McCoy

1529
01:19:00,200 --> 01:19:03,400
Speaker 1: means to it. And so maybe for the first month

1530
01:19:03,439 --> 01:19:06,320
Speaker 1: of the season, with this new offensive line, all these

1531
01:19:06,320 --> 01:19:08,240
Speaker 1: new weapons, yes, I mean, they're going to cover up

1532
01:19:08,240 --> 01:19:11,759
Speaker 1: their receivers, but is their focus going to be McCoy

1533
01:19:11,800 --> 01:19:13,720
Speaker 1: at the outset because they say, well, at least we

1534
01:19:13,800 --> 01:19:16,880
Speaker 1: know they're going to try to do this with McCoy,

1535
01:19:16,960 --> 01:19:18,960
Speaker 1: do you know what I mean? And maybe that's early

1536
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:21,760
Speaker 1: in the season the focal point. And then if they

1537
01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:24,160
Speaker 1: see there are other aspects of this offense that need

1538
01:19:24,200 --> 01:19:29,040
Speaker 1: to be respected or taken into greater consideration, then maybe

1539
01:19:29,040 --> 01:19:31,920
Speaker 1: that shift happens. So McCoy could be seeing a lot

1540
01:19:31,920 --> 01:19:34,519
Speaker 1: of attention early in this season just by virtue of

1541
01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:37,360
Speaker 1: the fact that he is the known commodity of this

1542
01:19:37,479 --> 01:19:41,599
Speaker 1: offense right now because of all the newness everywhere else. Yeah,

1543
01:19:41,640 --> 01:19:44,360
Speaker 1: it's interesting too because the NFL and the current climate

1544
01:19:44,400 --> 01:19:46,000
Speaker 1: of the NFL, and you look at the offenses and

1545
01:19:46,040 --> 01:19:48,280
Speaker 1: the defenses and the way things work. This it is

1546
01:19:48,320 --> 01:19:55,920
Speaker 1: a like Brian Dable, Josh McDaniel, Adam Gaze, Mike or

1547
01:19:56,040 --> 01:20:00,240
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay. All these guys are around the

1548
01:20:00,320 --> 01:20:03,920
Speaker 1: National Football League who run these offenses. They've got offenses

1549
01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:07,320
Speaker 1: in place that will allow them to do absolutely anything

1550
01:20:07,360 --> 01:20:12,720
Speaker 1: they want to do philosophically and with personnel. Doug Peterson's

1551
01:20:12,760 --> 01:20:16,000
Speaker 1: the same way, Frank writes the same way. They get

1552
01:20:16,040 --> 01:20:18,640
Speaker 1: into the season and what they do is in the

1553
01:20:18,640 --> 01:20:21,439
Speaker 1: first month of the season, training camp and all this stuff.

1554
01:20:21,439 --> 01:20:25,320
Speaker 1: When they start playing live football. That counts is really

1555
01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:27,760
Speaker 1: when you start to find out who and what you are.

1556
01:20:28,200 --> 01:20:30,880
Speaker 1: And that means who and what your players are, what

1557
01:20:30,960 --> 01:20:33,519
Speaker 1: your players can do, what they cannot do, what they're

1558
01:20:33,560 --> 01:20:35,559
Speaker 1: good at, what they are not good at. And then

1559
01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:38,200
Speaker 1: you get an idea also by the way you're playing,

1560
01:20:38,560 --> 01:20:41,120
Speaker 1: by what offenses are doing to you and what defenses

1561
01:20:41,120 --> 01:20:45,920
Speaker 1: are giving you to look at. More importantly, you find

1562
01:20:45,920 --> 01:20:48,439
Speaker 1: out what other people think you can do, what they're

1563
01:20:48,479 --> 01:20:51,519
Speaker 1: afraid of. That tells you a little bit about yourself

1564
01:20:51,560 --> 01:20:54,400
Speaker 1: as well. So what you're When that comes to you

1565
01:20:54,439 --> 01:20:56,080
Speaker 1: start to find out what you're going to be able

1566
01:20:56,120 --> 01:20:58,400
Speaker 1: to do, who people think you are, who you know

1567
01:20:58,520 --> 01:21:02,200
Speaker 1: you are. Because you're coaching these guys up, you see

1568
01:21:02,200 --> 01:21:05,080
Speaker 1: how they perform under your coaching, they under your game plans,

1569
01:21:05,600 --> 01:21:07,800
Speaker 1: and you start to find out who you are and

1570
01:21:07,880 --> 01:21:10,360
Speaker 1: what you can do, and that evolves over the course

1571
01:21:10,400 --> 01:21:12,040
Speaker 1: of the season. Now, at the top of the show,

1572
01:21:12,120 --> 01:21:15,240
Speaker 1: I did say that we wanted to leave this forum

1573
01:21:15,280 --> 01:21:17,880
Speaker 1: open to people who also didn't think Lashawn McCoy's poised

1574
01:21:17,920 --> 01:21:20,040
Speaker 1: to have a bounce back season, And I've got a

1575
01:21:20,080 --> 01:21:25,559
Speaker 1: response here on the tweet sheet presented by Corrigan Moving Systems,

1576
01:21:25,600 --> 01:21:30,920
Speaker 1: and Dan says, love the show, but must disagree with McCoy.

1577
01:21:30,960 --> 01:21:33,880
Speaker 1: He looked slow, did not make his cuts, and did

1578
01:21:33,920 --> 01:21:36,360
Speaker 1: not make the first guy miss last season. I never

1579
01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:39,519
Speaker 1: felt he looked like a feature back last year. History

1580
01:21:39,560 --> 01:21:44,679
Speaker 1: shows thirty one year old backs don't get better. Well,

1581
01:21:44,680 --> 01:21:47,200
Speaker 1: that depends. Yeah, it's a solid take. I mean that's

1582
01:21:47,200 --> 01:21:49,639
Speaker 1: what a lot of people are at. They think by

1583
01:21:49,680 --> 01:21:52,639
Speaker 1: watching Lashawn McCoy that it was his fault last year,

1584
01:21:52,720 --> 01:21:56,200
Speaker 1: or more of it was his fault than not. I

1585
01:21:56,240 --> 01:21:58,360
Speaker 1: don't tend to agree with that, And I will say this,

1586
01:21:59,280 --> 01:22:01,880
Speaker 1: there were games when I saw Leshan McCoy last year,

1587
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:06,280
Speaker 1: and there were games you referred to Sean McDermott just

1588
01:22:06,320 --> 01:22:08,439
Speaker 1: took him out. Yeah, you know, and you could see

1589
01:22:08,479 --> 01:22:10,320
Speaker 1: it on his face. Leshan McCoury would get the ball

1590
01:22:10,320 --> 01:22:12,000
Speaker 1: and there was just no place to go, and you know,

1591
01:22:12,040 --> 01:22:13,960
Speaker 1: you just lose heart. I think he would lose heart, right,

1592
01:22:14,080 --> 01:22:16,720
Speaker 1: you know, lose confidence. And that's why you saw more

1593
01:22:16,760 --> 01:22:20,240
Speaker 1: of Chris Ivory at times, because Leshaun is not a

1594
01:22:20,280 --> 01:22:23,840
Speaker 1: guy that is going to carry people for yardage. He's

1595
01:22:23,880 --> 01:22:26,400
Speaker 1: just that's just not the back that he is. So

1596
01:22:26,840 --> 01:22:29,759
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott basically said, well, I'm gonna put Chris Ivory

1597
01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:33,200
Speaker 1: in because even on initial contact, at least I know

1598
01:22:33,320 --> 01:22:36,160
Speaker 1: he can grind forward for a yard or two and

1599
01:22:36,280 --> 01:22:40,200
Speaker 1: at least keep the sticks from getting ridiculous in terms

1600
01:22:40,200 --> 01:22:43,200
Speaker 1: of down and distance. Now, you can make the argument

1601
01:22:43,240 --> 01:22:44,960
Speaker 1: that he did not make the first guy miss, but

1602
01:22:45,080 --> 01:22:47,519
Speaker 1: I'll argue right back and say, it's hard to make

1603
01:22:47,520 --> 01:22:50,360
Speaker 1: the first guy miss when you barely have the ball

1604
01:22:50,479 --> 01:22:52,280
Speaker 1: and he's right in front of you, right, you know

1605
01:22:52,320 --> 01:22:56,000
Speaker 1: what I mean. I mean, even the best stuttered step

1606
01:22:56,280 --> 01:22:59,400
Speaker 1: jump cut guys often. Yeah, it happened too often last year.

1607
01:22:59,400 --> 01:23:01,800
Speaker 1: There was too much He had no penetration into the

1608
01:23:01,840 --> 01:23:04,240
Speaker 1: backfield for him to even get up to any kind

1609
01:23:04,240 --> 01:23:07,280
Speaker 1: of speed to you know, shake a guy. And I

1610
01:23:07,360 --> 01:23:09,240
Speaker 1: know this too for my days of playing. When you

1611
01:23:09,600 --> 01:23:12,000
Speaker 1: take that handoff and I didn't take that many I'm

1612
01:23:12,040 --> 01:23:14,639
Speaker 1: in the pros. You take that handoff, you can see

1613
01:23:14,680 --> 01:23:17,320
Speaker 1: before the ball is handed to you what's happening out

1614
01:23:17,280 --> 01:23:19,759
Speaker 1: of it, because your vision gives you that you start running,

1615
01:23:19,800 --> 01:23:21,920
Speaker 1: you're not looking at the quarterback giving you the football.

1616
01:23:21,920 --> 01:23:23,800
Speaker 1: You're looking at where you're going and what's going to happen.

1617
01:23:23,840 --> 01:23:25,880
Speaker 1: That's why they practice it so you don't have to

1618
01:23:25,920 --> 01:23:29,080
Speaker 1: watch it. So you're looking out ahead of you. You

1619
01:23:29,080 --> 01:23:31,640
Speaker 1: can see before you get the ball, man, this is

1620
01:23:31,640 --> 01:23:34,400
Speaker 1: gonna be a train wreck. Yeah, you know that happened

1621
01:23:34,520 --> 01:23:37,400
Speaker 1: a lot last year to Lashaw McCoy. He knew that

1622
01:23:37,439 --> 01:23:40,240
Speaker 1: play was snapped off before he even had the ball

1623
01:23:40,240 --> 01:23:42,240
Speaker 1: in his hands. And that's no way to play football.

1624
01:23:42,680 --> 01:23:46,760
Speaker 1: And that's not hopefully not going to happen this year

1625
01:23:47,120 --> 01:23:49,080
Speaker 1: like it did last year. And I mean you can

1626
01:23:49,080 --> 01:23:51,000
Speaker 1: see it on these b rolls we're playing on NIMSG

1627
01:23:51,240 --> 01:23:53,599
Speaker 1: Then you're on radio, can't see it. We see highlights

1628
01:23:53,600 --> 01:23:56,360
Speaker 1: of Lushan running the football. He grabs it. Man, there's

1629
01:23:56,400 --> 01:23:59,200
Speaker 1: a guy in his face, right, And I think, you know,

1630
01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:02,960
Speaker 1: to Dan's claim that Lashawn looked slow, I think he

1631
01:24:03,040 --> 01:24:05,120
Speaker 1: looked slow because he could never get up to speed

1632
01:24:05,160 --> 01:24:08,559
Speaker 1: after taking the handoff, because he had to redirect the

1633
01:24:08,640 --> 01:24:11,760
Speaker 1: course of the run play because the penetration was so

1634
01:24:11,800 --> 01:24:14,760
Speaker 1: poor or so bad up front, there was so much

1635
01:24:14,760 --> 01:24:17,839
Speaker 1: defensive penetration coming at him where the play was designed

1636
01:24:17,880 --> 01:24:19,800
Speaker 1: to go. He had to make it up on the

1637
01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:22,639
Speaker 1: fly and find another opening. And very often that wasn't

1638
01:24:22,680 --> 01:24:25,760
Speaker 1: even the case. There was no backside leak out. There

1639
01:24:25,840 --> 01:24:29,560
Speaker 1: was nothing, really was nothing more often than not. And

1640
01:24:30,240 --> 01:24:32,640
Speaker 1: we're not trying to be apologists for Lashawn. I mean,

1641
01:24:32,720 --> 01:24:35,120
Speaker 1: I think those were the facts. I can count on

1642
01:24:35,120 --> 01:24:39,920
Speaker 1: one hand where the Bills played a solid game at

1643
01:24:39,920 --> 01:24:42,640
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage on offense and one more of

1644
01:24:42,680 --> 01:24:44,639
Speaker 1: the battles than they lost. I would say were probably

1645
01:24:44,640 --> 01:24:46,439
Speaker 1: two or three games where they did. It's less than

1646
01:24:46,439 --> 01:24:49,200
Speaker 1: a handful. Yeah, two or three games where that happened.

1647
01:24:49,240 --> 01:24:54,280
Speaker 1: And you know, it's games like the Minnesota game and

1648
01:24:54,400 --> 01:24:57,400
Speaker 1: the Jet game when Matt Barkley was out there, you

1649
01:24:57,439 --> 01:25:00,559
Speaker 1: know when those two teams they and it was Lashaw's

1650
01:25:00,560 --> 01:25:02,960
Speaker 1: only hundred yard game of the year, right, So that

1651
01:25:03,080 --> 01:25:05,080
Speaker 1: stuff kind of comes back and you remember this, and

1652
01:25:05,439 --> 01:25:07,559
Speaker 1: that was in a game where you look back onto

1653
01:25:07,560 --> 01:25:09,600
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings never showed up and I put that

1654
01:25:09,680 --> 01:25:11,559
Speaker 1: right at the feet of their head coach. They came

1655
01:25:11,600 --> 01:25:14,160
Speaker 1: in thinking the Buffalo Bills, we're gonna lay down. They

1656
01:25:14,160 --> 01:25:16,880
Speaker 1: were gonna be an easy game, and they got hit

1657
01:25:16,960 --> 01:25:18,920
Speaker 1: in the mouth. Same thing with the first Jet game.

1658
01:25:18,960 --> 01:25:22,200
Speaker 1: The Jets did not show up ready to play. So

1659
01:25:22,400 --> 01:25:26,120
Speaker 1: it's it's interesting to put that into perspective when you

1660
01:25:26,160 --> 01:25:28,240
Speaker 1: can slice this anyway you want it. But you and I,

1661
01:25:28,439 --> 01:25:31,760
Speaker 1: you know, you watch every snap you see these guys.

1662
01:25:31,760 --> 01:25:33,640
Speaker 1: You can kind of tell by their body language what

1663
01:25:33,680 --> 01:25:35,599
Speaker 1: they're thinking. I think there were times last year when

1664
01:25:35,640 --> 01:25:38,519
Speaker 1: the Leshaan lost heart in the run game. I would

1665
01:25:38,560 --> 01:25:41,040
Speaker 1: agree with that, and I think that's part of the

1666
01:25:41,080 --> 01:25:44,240
Speaker 1: reason why, you know, the narrative that Dan present it

1667
01:25:44,280 --> 01:25:47,160
Speaker 1: still exists on the part of some fans where they're gonna,

1668
01:25:47,280 --> 01:25:50,320
Speaker 1: I mean, they're turning into the state of Missouri. Show me, yeah,

1669
01:25:50,400 --> 01:25:53,360
Speaker 1: you know, show me that you still have it. Show

1670
01:25:53,400 --> 01:25:56,200
Speaker 1: me you can bounce back, because what I saw last year,

1671
01:25:56,200 --> 01:25:58,559
Speaker 1: it doesn't have me having all that much confidence in

1672
01:25:58,600 --> 01:26:01,120
Speaker 1: you right now. And you know, Sean said himself, that's

1673
01:26:01,120 --> 01:26:04,600
Speaker 1: what's motivating him, the fact that last year was not

1674
01:26:05,120 --> 01:26:06,960
Speaker 1: was an atypical year for him. I mean it was

1675
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:10,200
Speaker 1: a career low year. So that's kind of where that's at.

1676
01:26:10,680 --> 01:26:12,759
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean feel free. I mean keep chiming

1677
01:26:12,760 --> 01:26:15,559
Speaker 1: in eighth, three, five fifty. What is the benchmark for

1678
01:26:15,600 --> 01:26:17,920
Speaker 1: you for you know, a bounce back season for Lashawn.

1679
01:26:18,439 --> 01:26:20,160
Speaker 1: We'll take those calls. I mean, I know we're up

1680
01:26:20,200 --> 01:26:22,120
Speaker 1: against it now, but we got another segment coming up.

1681
01:26:22,200 --> 01:26:24,479
Speaker 1: John from Buffalo will get to you maybe after this break.

1682
01:26:24,479 --> 01:26:26,160
Speaker 1: We also have something we want to show you from

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Speaker 1: from Martha the Brazilian, the female Brazilian soccer player who

1684
01:26:30,920 --> 01:26:33,280
Speaker 1: retired to some of her inspirational words as she walked

1685
01:26:33,320 --> 01:26:34,920
Speaker 1: off the field for the last time. We also had

1686
01:26:34,920 --> 01:26:36,639
Speaker 1: Mike Lombardi coming up at the top of the outer

1687
01:26:36,720 --> 01:26:39,320
Speaker 1: So stay with us. One Bill's Live presented by Kalida

1688
01:26:39,400 --> 01:26:42,120
Speaker 1: Health from One Bill's Driving. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1689
01:26:54,880 --> 01:26:56,800
Speaker 1: Welcome back from One Bill's Life. Seeve Tasker Will with

1690
01:26:56,880 --> 01:26:59,680
Speaker 1: Chris Brown during the breaks. We're all riveted to the

1691
01:27:00,040 --> 01:27:02,599
Speaker 1: World Cup Women's World Cup where the US is leading

1692
01:27:02,640 --> 01:27:05,400
Speaker 1: to one and it's in. Yeah, they're hanging on and

1693
01:27:05,439 --> 01:27:07,920
Speaker 1: it's in the stoppage time. They had seven minutes of

1694
01:27:07,960 --> 01:27:11,360
Speaker 1: stoppage time in the women's game today twenty minutes. Sam, Yeah,

1695
01:27:11,400 --> 01:27:14,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna win that game. But better hope

1696
01:27:14,120 --> 01:27:18,160
Speaker 1: so they will come on. They play like this against France,

1697
01:27:18,160 --> 01:27:20,320
Speaker 1: they're not gonna win. They I'm just telling you, all right,

1698
01:27:20,320 --> 01:27:22,240
Speaker 1: they play France in the next round, speaking of women,

1699
01:27:22,200 --> 01:27:26,120
Speaker 1: they win. Speaking of women's soccer. Uh, something happened over

1700
01:27:26,200 --> 01:27:28,880
Speaker 1: I don't know when it actually when exactly it was, um,

1701
01:27:29,200 --> 01:27:32,799
Speaker 1: but it was just came over the wire today Women's

1702
01:27:32,840 --> 01:27:39,120
Speaker 1: World Cup. Brazil's Marta who is Marta Vieira da Silva,

1703
01:27:39,520 --> 01:27:43,160
Speaker 1: finished an illustrious careers thirty seven years old as a

1704
01:27:43,200 --> 01:27:47,120
Speaker 1: Brazilian national women's team player, Right, it's her name. She's

1705
01:27:47,120 --> 01:27:49,479
Speaker 1: one of those one nailed soccer players and and she

1706
01:27:49,560 --> 01:27:55,639
Speaker 1: deserves that. She had a postgame interview after the Brazilian

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01:27:55,680 --> 01:27:58,800
Speaker 1: team got eliminated, after they were eliminated, and her her

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01:27:58,880 --> 01:28:02,680
Speaker 1: words were un believing, unbelievable. It really passionate. It was

1709
01:28:02,720 --> 01:28:06,320
Speaker 1: a great We retweeted it on our website and it's

1710
01:28:06,320 --> 01:28:09,200
Speaker 1: one of those inspirational moments where she speaks to about

1711
01:28:09,280 --> 01:28:15,240
Speaker 1: women's soccer and about the future of women's soccer. And

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01:28:15,280 --> 01:28:18,320
Speaker 1: she said and in part, and she says it in Portuguese,

1713
01:28:18,320 --> 01:28:20,360
Speaker 1: so we and we really didn't. You know, we're not

1714
01:28:20,360 --> 01:28:22,240
Speaker 1: going to subject you to that. But she says, it's

1715
01:28:22,240 --> 01:28:25,680
Speaker 1: wanting more, it's training more, it's taking care of yourself more.

1716
01:28:25,720 --> 01:28:28,760
Speaker 1: It's being ready to play ninety plus thirty minutes. This

1717
01:28:28,840 --> 01:28:30,880
Speaker 1: is what I ask of the girls. And then she turned,

1718
01:28:31,479 --> 01:28:34,360
Speaker 1: she turned to the camera and started talking to young

1719
01:28:34,400 --> 01:28:37,040
Speaker 1: girls of the world. And she says, there's not going

1720
01:28:37,080 --> 01:28:40,479
Speaker 1: to be or from Mega forever. That means a women's

1721
01:28:40,520 --> 01:28:42,559
Speaker 1: league or the team that she played with, right, is

1722
01:28:42,560 --> 01:28:44,519
Speaker 1: that what she meant. Yeah, it's not going to be

1723
01:28:44,560 --> 01:28:48,320
Speaker 1: there forever. There's not going to be a Marta forever.

1724
01:28:48,439 --> 01:28:51,519
Speaker 1: There's not going to be a Christiana forever. The women's

1725
01:28:51,560 --> 01:28:55,960
Speaker 1: game depends on you to survive. So think about that.

1726
01:28:56,439 --> 01:28:59,960
Speaker 1: Value it more. Cry in the beginning so you can

1727
01:29:00,120 --> 01:29:02,400
Speaker 1: smile in the end. Her passionate words, I mean, I

1728
01:29:02,400 --> 01:29:05,400
Speaker 1: don't do it justice. In my reading of what I

1729
01:29:05,439 --> 01:29:09,439
Speaker 1: transcribed for her. It was really unbelievable, a great moment.

1730
01:29:10,080 --> 01:29:12,920
Speaker 1: She was talking about strength too. She said, strength is

1731
01:29:12,960 --> 01:29:16,840
Speaker 1: not in victory. Strength is in strength comes by getting

1732
01:29:16,840 --> 01:29:21,519
Speaker 1: through the difficult times and persevering. That is where real

1733
01:29:21,520 --> 01:29:25,960
Speaker 1: strength comes from. You know, I think we've heard different

1734
01:29:26,040 --> 01:29:29,040
Speaker 1: versions of that through the course of time from politicians,

1735
01:29:29,120 --> 01:29:33,759
Speaker 1: political leaders, a lot of prominent athletes over the years.

1736
01:29:35,040 --> 01:29:38,400
Speaker 1: But you know, this is this is these are new frontiers,

1737
01:29:38,439 --> 01:29:43,800
Speaker 1: new barriers being broken down where women as athletes, professional athletes,

1738
01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:46,840
Speaker 1: or world athletes have a world stage. World Cup is

1739
01:29:46,840 --> 01:29:49,320
Speaker 1: one of the few areas where female athletes have a

1740
01:29:49,360 --> 01:29:52,160
Speaker 1: world stage on which to stand, a platform to stand

1741
01:29:52,160 --> 01:29:54,639
Speaker 1: and really make a difference. And so it was good

1742
01:29:54,640 --> 01:29:56,640
Speaker 1: to see one of the most prominent figures of the

1743
01:29:56,680 --> 01:30:00,360
Speaker 1: women's game deliver that kind of message to young female

1744
01:30:00,400 --> 01:30:03,799
Speaker 1: and she was talking to the next generation of female players,

1745
01:30:03,840 --> 01:30:05,960
Speaker 1: and she did an outstanding job. It was and I

1746
01:30:06,520 --> 01:30:09,400
Speaker 1: was not I knew her name kind of sort of

1747
01:30:09,560 --> 01:30:12,439
Speaker 1: and that was it. I'm more well versed in the

1748
01:30:12,479 --> 01:30:17,080
Speaker 1: American women's national team, but she was fantastic. It was

1749
01:30:17,120 --> 01:30:19,200
Speaker 1: a great interview. I would encourage all of you to

1750
01:30:19,240 --> 01:30:21,559
Speaker 1: go there and see the passion and the inspiration that

1751
01:30:21,600 --> 01:30:23,559
Speaker 1: she's providing for the next generation. It was and it's

1752
01:30:23,600 --> 01:30:25,840
Speaker 1: subtitled so you'll be able to kind of follow along

1753
01:30:25,880 --> 01:30:28,599
Speaker 1: in English as she's speaking in Portuguese. Right, she speaks

1754
01:30:28,640 --> 01:30:32,719
Speaker 1: in Portuguese, but you can you get her message because

1755
01:30:32,760 --> 01:30:34,559
Speaker 1: it is subtitle as well, so you'll be able to

1756
01:30:34,560 --> 01:30:38,320
Speaker 1: follow along. It is pretty amazing and as Brazil was

1757
01:30:38,479 --> 01:30:41,240
Speaker 1: eliminated from the Women's World Cup, so pretty fun stuff

1758
01:30:41,520 --> 01:30:44,720
Speaker 1: to think about and to take part in. It's sometimes,

1759
01:30:45,479 --> 01:30:48,840
Speaker 1: you know, the sports world comes up big and it's

1760
01:30:48,880 --> 01:30:50,920
Speaker 1: kind of nice. That was good. She did a good job.

1761
01:30:51,120 --> 01:30:52,680
Speaker 1: We're gonna come back her at the top of the hour.

1762
01:30:52,720 --> 01:30:54,920
Speaker 1: We'll have an update. And also Michael Lombardi's going to

1763
01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:58,760
Speaker 1: join us, former former GM of the Cleveland Browns. This

1764
01:30:58,800 --> 01:31:00,840
Speaker 1: is One Bill's Live presented I Collide to Health from

1765
01:31:00,840 --> 01:31:14,679
Speaker 1: One Bills Drive and this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Hello,

1766
01:31:14,800 --> 01:31:20,400
Speaker 1: the Olds Radio Network. Scorings update. The Buffalo Sabers made

1767
01:31:20,439 --> 01:31:22,800
Speaker 1: two selections in the first round of the twenty nineteen

1768
01:31:22,960 --> 01:31:26,479
Speaker 1: NHL Draft on Friday. Forward. Dylan Cousins was selected with

1769
01:31:26,520 --> 01:31:29,360
Speaker 1: the number seven overall pick. Cousins finished tied for tenth

1770
01:31:29,680 --> 01:31:32,400
Speaker 1: in the WHL and scoring with eighty four points in

1771
01:31:32,520 --> 01:31:35,760
Speaker 1: sixty eight games in the twenty eighteen nineteen season. The

1772
01:31:35,800 --> 01:31:39,280
Speaker 1: Sabers selected defenseman Ryan Johnson with a thirty first overall pick.

1773
01:31:39,400 --> 01:31:42,719
Speaker 1: In fifty four games last season in the USHL, Johnson

1774
01:31:42,760 --> 01:31:46,439
Speaker 1: recorded twenty five points and a plus twenty four rating.

1775
01:31:46,720 --> 01:31:49,200
Speaker 1: The Bison's head to Pawtucket to face the Red Sox

1776
01:31:49,280 --> 01:31:51,760
Speaker 1: tonight at seven O five. They're coming off a six

1777
01:31:51,880 --> 01:31:55,160
Speaker 1: game win streak, with two wins against the Indianapolis Indians

1778
01:31:55,160 --> 01:31:58,719
Speaker 1: and a four oh sweep over the Norfolk Tides. Over

1779
01:31:58,760 --> 01:32:02,120
Speaker 1: the weekend. Quarterback Drew Brees was awarded more than six

1780
01:32:02,160 --> 01:32:04,519
Speaker 1: million dollars in a lawsuit that claims the San Diego

1781
01:32:04,600 --> 01:32:09,240
Speaker 1: Jeweler sold him over priced diamonds. The suit claims that

1782
01:32:09,320 --> 01:32:13,320
Speaker 1: the Lajoya Jeweler impro improperly valued gems that the Breezes

1783
01:32:13,400 --> 01:32:17,200
Speaker 1: bought as an investment at fifteen million dollars when they

1784
01:32:17,200 --> 01:32:21,439
Speaker 1: were worth millions less. The US women's soccer team beat

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01:32:21,520 --> 01:32:24,599
Speaker 1: Spain in the twenty nineteen FIFA Women's World Cup Round

1786
01:32:24,600 --> 01:32:27,960
Speaker 1: of sixteen knockout round. The score was two one, with

1787
01:32:28,000 --> 01:32:32,800
Speaker 1: two goals from US uss Megan Rappano, both on penalty kicks,

1788
01:32:33,000 --> 01:32:37,519
Speaker 1: and Spain's Jennifer Hermosa. The US faces France Next. Italy

1789
01:32:37,560 --> 01:32:40,280
Speaker 1: won the vote from the International Olympic Committee to host

1790
01:32:40,280 --> 01:32:44,760
Speaker 1: the two twenty six Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'ampezo,

1791
01:32:45,360 --> 01:32:48,000
Speaker 1: taking the Winter Games to the alpine country for the

1792
01:32:48,080 --> 01:32:51,920
Speaker 1: second time in twenty years. That is your sports update

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01:32:52,000 --> 01:32:54,320
Speaker 1: from here at one Bills Live Steve Tasker along with

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01:32:54,640 --> 01:32:56,680
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, We're pleased to join here at the two

1795
01:32:56,680 --> 01:32:59,559
Speaker 1: o'clock hour, a good friend of the show, former NFL

1796
01:32:59,600 --> 01:33:02,479
Speaker 1: front off its executive, former Cleveland Brown's general manager, and

1797
01:33:02,520 --> 01:33:06,519
Speaker 1: a contributor to the Athletic also the author of Gridiron Genius,

1798
01:33:06,520 --> 01:33:10,320
Speaker 1: a master's class in winning championships and building dynasties in

1799
01:33:10,360 --> 01:33:13,920
Speaker 1: the NFL. It was published last September. Pleatless were pleased

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01:33:13,920 --> 01:33:16,719
Speaker 1: to welcome Mike Lombardi the show, Mike, Steve and Chris

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01:33:16,760 --> 01:33:19,160
Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. Thanks for joining us. Oh, it's good

1802
01:33:19,200 --> 01:33:21,639
Speaker 1: to be there. Thank you, Steve. Thanks Chris, you bet Hey.

1803
01:33:21,840 --> 01:33:24,640
Speaker 1: What do you think about some of the additions that

1804
01:33:24,800 --> 01:33:30,040
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills have addressed this offseason? Buff the offensive line,

1805
01:33:30,040 --> 01:33:32,439
Speaker 1: the receiving corps mostly on the offensive side of the ball.

1806
01:33:33,120 --> 01:33:35,960
Speaker 1: I think the offensive line was the most critical component

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01:33:36,000 --> 01:33:38,920
Speaker 1: they needed to address. I mean, obviously the success of

1808
01:33:38,960 --> 01:33:40,800
Speaker 1: their football team is going to come down to Josh

1809
01:33:40,840 --> 01:33:43,880
Speaker 1: Allen and his ability to be accurate. But more than that,

1810
01:33:43,880 --> 01:33:47,719
Speaker 1: that offensive line last year was poorly organized. It wasn't

1811
01:33:47,800 --> 01:33:51,160
Speaker 1: very talented, and it really affected the team's ability to

1812
01:33:51,200 --> 01:33:53,080
Speaker 1: really gain control of the line of scrimmage. And if

1813
01:33:53,080 --> 01:33:55,479
Speaker 1: you can't control the line of scrimmage, you can't win

1814
01:33:55,560 --> 01:33:58,000
Speaker 1: on the road. And that's part of the problem. And

1815
01:33:58,040 --> 01:34:00,160
Speaker 1: I think this year, you know, with the addition of

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01:34:00,200 --> 01:34:02,120
Speaker 1: who they brought in, I think it will certainly help

1817
01:34:02,160 --> 01:34:04,679
Speaker 1: their offensive line. And they have depth. I think that's

1818
01:34:04,720 --> 01:34:06,720
Speaker 1: the other component. They now have depth. They do if

1819
01:34:06,720 --> 01:34:09,439
Speaker 1: they lose a player, they're not stuck with trying to

1820
01:34:09,439 --> 01:34:13,160
Speaker 1: play somebody who's never played before. You met had a

1821
01:34:13,240 --> 01:34:15,519
Speaker 1: nice article out about how good teams in the National

1822
01:34:15,520 --> 01:34:19,439
Speaker 1: Football League go from good to great. How have the

1823
01:34:19,479 --> 01:34:23,000
Speaker 1: Bills gone about that? You mentioned another book that you said,

1824
01:34:23,479 --> 01:34:25,880
Speaker 1: written by Jim Collins. You've referred to it and it

1825
01:34:25,960 --> 01:34:29,479
Speaker 1: applied it to the NFL. And let's talk about what

1826
01:34:29,520 --> 01:34:31,680
Speaker 1: the Bills did. Have they done enough to go from

1827
01:34:31,720 --> 01:34:33,840
Speaker 1: a good team to a great team, or maybe they

1828
01:34:33,840 --> 01:34:36,360
Speaker 1: weren't good to start with. Well, I think that where

1829
01:34:36,400 --> 01:34:37,880
Speaker 1: they are, they're going to try to move into that

1830
01:34:37,920 --> 01:34:39,800
Speaker 1: good category. And I think they can move into the

1831
01:34:39,840 --> 01:34:42,960
Speaker 1: category much like the Barris did last year. Look, everything

1832
01:34:42,960 --> 01:34:45,400
Speaker 1: about the Bills is going to center on can they

1833
01:34:45,400 --> 01:34:47,600
Speaker 1: get control of the game. Can their defense create the

1834
01:34:47,680 --> 01:34:49,880
Speaker 1: turnovers that they did a couple of years ago, and

1835
01:34:49,960 --> 01:34:51,880
Speaker 1: their offense to be able to cash in, And it

1836
01:34:51,880 --> 01:34:54,559
Speaker 1: comes down to Allen And I think they can move there.

1837
01:34:54,760 --> 01:34:57,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I think people don't expect them to be

1838
01:34:57,080 --> 01:34:59,639
Speaker 1: great this year, which allows them to catch some people

1839
01:34:59,640 --> 01:35:03,080
Speaker 1: by prize. And I think they're ultimately as they come together,

1840
01:35:03,120 --> 01:35:07,160
Speaker 1: and the culture that McDermott's building there, I think is

1841
01:35:07,160 --> 01:35:09,519
Speaker 1: really a good culture, and I think eventually they're going

1842
01:35:09,560 --> 01:35:11,120
Speaker 1: to break through and they're going to get to great.

1843
01:35:11,680 --> 01:35:14,160
Speaker 1: One of the requirements that you kind of listed to

1844
01:35:14,240 --> 01:35:17,160
Speaker 1: go from good to grade is to add more great

1845
01:35:17,200 --> 01:35:20,200
Speaker 1: team players. And I think if there's anything that the

1846
01:35:20,240 --> 01:35:25,840
Speaker 1: Bill's front office and coaching staff have stuck to, maybe

1847
01:35:25,840 --> 01:35:30,040
Speaker 1: more than any other component, it is adding great team players.

1848
01:35:30,040 --> 01:35:33,519
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott constantly say, you know, Bill's

1849
01:35:33,600 --> 01:35:37,680
Speaker 1: DNA is what we're looking for. And a lot of

1850
01:35:37,720 --> 01:35:40,439
Speaker 1: these guys, you know, even that they added in free agency,

1851
01:35:40,560 --> 01:35:43,439
Speaker 1: might not be gigantic names, you know, whether you're talking

1852
01:35:43,479 --> 01:35:46,360
Speaker 1: about the Spencer Longs or tie In Sekis of the world.

1853
01:35:47,520 --> 01:35:51,000
Speaker 1: But guys who recognize the role they're supposed to play

1854
01:35:52,000 --> 01:35:55,160
Speaker 1: are not in it for personal glory. It just seems

1855
01:35:55,200 --> 01:35:57,160
Speaker 1: like they've really hit the nail on the head with

1856
01:35:57,200 --> 01:36:00,599
Speaker 1: almost every acquisition they've made with respect to that thing

1857
01:36:00,600 --> 01:36:04,560
Speaker 1: that you outlined in your peace. Look, the reason that

1858
01:36:04,720 --> 01:36:07,360
Speaker 1: the Patriots have won seventy four games over the last

1859
01:36:07,920 --> 01:36:10,479
Speaker 1: five seasons, they've lapped the field. The next closest to

1860
01:36:10,520 --> 01:36:13,360
Speaker 1: the competition is fifty seven the Steelers is because of

1861
01:36:13,400 --> 01:36:15,760
Speaker 1: their culture. Now people say, well, Lombardi, it's because of

1862
01:36:15,760 --> 01:36:17,920
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Well, Brady has a lot to do with

1863
01:36:17,920 --> 01:36:19,720
Speaker 1: the culture, and that's really what they're trying to do

1864
01:36:19,800 --> 01:36:21,920
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. They're trying to build the culture. What I

1865
01:36:21,960 --> 01:36:24,639
Speaker 1: admire of what Bean and McDermot have done is they've

1866
01:36:24,680 --> 01:36:26,799
Speaker 1: gotten rid of guys even though they gave up assets

1867
01:36:26,840 --> 01:36:29,320
Speaker 1: to get them, you know, Kelvin Benjamin, they shipped them

1868
01:36:29,320 --> 01:36:31,120
Speaker 1: out of there when he didn't fit into the program.

1869
01:36:31,360 --> 01:36:34,160
Speaker 1: They've been willing to admit mistakes. That's so critical in

1870
01:36:34,160 --> 01:36:36,879
Speaker 1: the NFL today. You've got to be you're gonna make mistakes.

1871
01:36:37,080 --> 01:36:38,880
Speaker 1: The teams that hang on to them, the teams that

1872
01:36:39,040 --> 01:36:41,799
Speaker 1: cling too longly to them and don't admit the mistakes

1873
01:36:41,800 --> 01:36:43,759
Speaker 1: are the ones that fall behind. And I think Buffalo

1874
01:36:43,840 --> 01:36:46,160
Speaker 1: has done a good job of saying, hey, we're gonna swing.

1875
01:36:46,200 --> 01:36:48,439
Speaker 1: We're gonna have some missues, but we're gonna keep swinging.

1876
01:36:48,479 --> 01:36:49,760
Speaker 1: And I think they got to do that. And I

1877
01:36:49,760 --> 01:36:52,320
Speaker 1: think you're right. The players they brought in, they value

1878
01:36:52,360 --> 01:36:54,240
Speaker 1: the name on the front of the jersey more than

1879
01:36:54,280 --> 01:36:55,960
Speaker 1: they value the name on the back of the jersey.

1880
01:36:55,960 --> 01:36:58,840
Speaker 1: And that's ultimately what wins in the NFL. It's never

1881
01:36:58,880 --> 01:37:00,840
Speaker 1: the name on the back, it's always the name on

1882
01:37:00,880 --> 01:37:03,639
Speaker 1: the front. We're talking to Michael Lombardi, former NFL Front

1883
01:37:03,640 --> 01:37:06,200
Speaker 1: office executive, former general manager of the Cleveland Browns, and

1884
01:37:06,200 --> 01:37:08,840
Speaker 1: an author of Gridiron Genius, A Master's Class and Winning

1885
01:37:08,880 --> 01:37:11,000
Speaker 1: championships and building dynasties in the NFL, and I want

1886
01:37:11,040 --> 01:37:12,960
Speaker 1: to ask you about You've had some experience with a

1887
01:37:12,960 --> 01:37:15,280
Speaker 1: lot of different names, going back to Art model and

1888
01:37:15,320 --> 01:37:18,080
Speaker 1: al Davis. You said about al Davis the strength of

1889
01:37:18,400 --> 01:37:21,759
Speaker 1: He said, the strength of any organization is the ability

1890
01:37:21,800 --> 01:37:25,960
Speaker 1: to anticipate problems, not react to problems. And you wrote

1891
01:37:26,000 --> 01:37:29,559
Speaker 1: a nice article about the ifs, and one of the

1892
01:37:29,600 --> 01:37:32,240
Speaker 1: aspects of that article is some of these teams, like

1893
01:37:32,320 --> 01:37:34,960
Speaker 1: the Bears last year is a quick example. They kind

1894
01:37:34,960 --> 01:37:38,679
Speaker 1: of emerged out of the question marks into a really

1895
01:37:39,080 --> 01:37:43,439
Speaker 1: tough team to beat and a playoff team. What happens

1896
01:37:43,800 --> 01:37:47,400
Speaker 1: if now they've got a target on their back? Well,

1897
01:37:47,439 --> 01:37:49,479
Speaker 1: that's always hard. But look, I think if you're the Bear,

1898
01:37:49,640 --> 01:37:51,080
Speaker 1: you got to sit there and say, are we going

1899
01:37:51,120 --> 01:37:54,639
Speaker 1: to score six touchdowns on defense like we did last year? Again?

1900
01:37:54,960 --> 01:37:56,320
Speaker 1: That would be hard to do. Are we going to

1901
01:37:56,400 --> 01:37:59,080
Speaker 1: get over fifty sacks on defense again? Are we going

1902
01:37:59,120 --> 01:38:01,920
Speaker 1: to get twenty six interceptions on defense? Again? Those are

1903
01:38:02,080 --> 01:38:04,120
Speaker 1: numbers that are rare and hard to do. You know,

1904
01:38:04,200 --> 01:38:06,720
Speaker 1: from playing in the league, that's kind of like, I

1905
01:38:06,720 --> 01:38:08,559
Speaker 1: don't want to call it luck, but it's kind of

1906
01:38:08,560 --> 01:38:11,320
Speaker 1: how the ball turns a little bit and you get fortunate. Now,

1907
01:38:11,320 --> 01:38:14,360
Speaker 1: where's those six touchdowns? Where are those thirty six points

1908
01:38:14,400 --> 01:38:16,960
Speaker 1: going to come from? Because that those thirty six points

1909
01:38:16,960 --> 01:38:19,400
Speaker 1: are the difference between playing in a close game and

1910
01:38:19,840 --> 01:38:22,080
Speaker 1: blowing an opponent out. And I think that's what the

1911
01:38:22,120 --> 01:38:24,519
Speaker 1: Bears have to do. Look, everything you do in the NFL,

1912
01:38:24,640 --> 01:38:28,240
Speaker 1: the level of competition rises. That's why I wrote the

1913
01:38:28,320 --> 01:38:31,280
Speaker 1: article about becoming good the great. The Browns think that

1914
01:38:31,400 --> 01:38:34,200
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, because everybody thinks they're good,

1915
01:38:34,240 --> 01:38:36,639
Speaker 1: they can waltz in. They have a target on their back.

1916
01:38:36,680 --> 01:38:38,840
Speaker 1: They're a little bit like Virgil Salazzo when he didn't

1917
01:38:38,880 --> 01:38:41,840
Speaker 1: kill Don crowleone and got Father one. You know, they

1918
01:38:41,920 --> 01:38:45,120
Speaker 1: become the hunted one. And it's a different mindset. You

1919
01:38:45,160 --> 01:38:47,320
Speaker 1: know what it's like, Steve when you are that. You know,

1920
01:38:47,360 --> 01:38:49,080
Speaker 1: at the one super ball of a sudden, the Bills

1921
01:38:49,080 --> 01:38:51,680
Speaker 1: are coming to town. People geared up for it. You know,

1922
01:38:51,680 --> 01:38:55,280
Speaker 1: it's a different mindset before Cleveland had the advantage. Look,

1923
01:38:55,280 --> 01:38:57,920
Speaker 1: we're playing the Browns this week, No big deal. That's

1924
01:38:57,960 --> 01:39:00,320
Speaker 1: not going to be the rhetoric any longer. Of the

1925
01:39:00,360 --> 01:39:03,120
Speaker 1: other components, you know that you're listed. You know, for

1926
01:39:03,240 --> 01:39:06,200
Speaker 1: good teams to become great, be simple at the players play.

1927
01:39:06,280 --> 01:39:10,799
Speaker 1: I have to feel to a certain extent that Brian Dable,

1928
01:39:11,080 --> 01:39:13,479
Speaker 1: in his second year as offensive coordinator here is going

1929
01:39:13,520 --> 01:39:15,599
Speaker 1: to be fighting that a little bit because of all

1930
01:39:16,040 --> 01:39:18,920
Speaker 1: the added weapons he now has at his disposal. John

1931
01:39:18,960 --> 01:39:22,200
Speaker 1: Brown cold easily. I know, Tyler Croft's got a broken foot.

1932
01:39:22,240 --> 01:39:24,920
Speaker 1: His status is kind of up in the air, you know.

1933
01:39:24,960 --> 01:39:26,840
Speaker 1: And then he's got an added piece in the backfield

1934
01:39:26,840 --> 01:39:29,800
Speaker 1: and Frank Gore, you know, all these added pieces plush.

1935
01:39:29,880 --> 01:39:32,200
Speaker 1: Josh Allen in a year two is already showing signs

1936
01:39:32,200 --> 01:39:36,240
Speaker 1: of improvement. How difficult is that battle for, you know,

1937
01:39:36,280 --> 01:39:39,320
Speaker 1: an oc to kind of just not focus so much

1938
01:39:39,479 --> 01:39:42,680
Speaker 1: on trying to outsmart the opponent and just letting the

1939
01:39:42,760 --> 01:39:45,120
Speaker 1: talent kind of take over. Well, I think you got

1940
01:39:45,200 --> 01:39:47,919
Speaker 1: to outsmart the opponent, but I think you can't outsmart yourself.

1941
01:39:48,120 --> 01:39:50,240
Speaker 1: I think you got to be strategic. Look, the one

1942
01:39:50,240 --> 01:39:52,040
Speaker 1: thing in the NFL is if you go into a

1943
01:39:52,080 --> 01:39:54,120
Speaker 1: game and you start to run what they call cover

1944
01:39:54,200 --> 01:39:57,040
Speaker 1: three beaters because your opponent runs cover three, or you

1945
01:39:57,120 --> 01:39:59,800
Speaker 1: run cover two beaters because they run cover two, that

1946
01:40:00,040 --> 01:40:02,400
Speaker 1: team is so well versed in what their beaters are,

1947
01:40:02,520 --> 01:40:05,600
Speaker 1: they've practiced against them every day. The great teams, the

1948
01:40:05,680 --> 01:40:09,600
Speaker 1: great offenses are simple, but yet they attack the specific

1949
01:40:09,680 --> 01:40:13,960
Speaker 1: adjustments within the defense. That is why you become a complex.

1950
01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:16,680
Speaker 1: Look no one's going to convince to anybody that the

1951
01:40:16,760 --> 01:40:19,519
Speaker 1: rams are complex. The rams are as simple as they get.

1952
01:40:19,600 --> 01:40:22,559
Speaker 1: They have about five runs, and they've got twelve passes,

1953
01:40:22,600 --> 01:40:25,479
Speaker 1: and most most twelve passes are not dropped back. They're

1954
01:40:25,479 --> 01:40:28,760
Speaker 1: all play action. But they run them so effectively, and

1955
01:40:28,800 --> 01:40:31,640
Speaker 1: they do them from different books and different disguises. But

1956
01:40:31,760 --> 01:40:35,200
Speaker 1: when the ball gets snapped, it's the same play ninety

1957
01:40:35,240 --> 01:40:37,400
Speaker 1: percent of the time, and the defense doesn't realize it.

1958
01:40:37,400 --> 01:40:41,160
Speaker 1: And I think people confuse this creativity with being able

1959
01:40:41,200 --> 01:40:44,759
Speaker 1: to have execution pad level and precision within the offense.

1960
01:40:44,840 --> 01:40:46,880
Speaker 1: Dan Henning told me in this a long long time ago.

1961
01:40:47,160 --> 01:40:49,200
Speaker 1: He said, hey, kid, you can't be any good if

1962
01:40:49,200 --> 01:40:51,639
Speaker 1: you don't have any tendencies. And he's right. Yeah. We're

1963
01:40:51,640 --> 01:40:56,160
Speaker 1: talking to Mike Lombardi, former NFL executive and general manager

1964
01:40:56,160 --> 01:40:58,720
Speaker 1: of the Cleveland Browns, also author of a book where Mike,

1965
01:40:58,800 --> 01:41:00,400
Speaker 1: I want to ask you if you've got this article

1966
01:41:00,439 --> 01:41:02,240
Speaker 1: that says, if and this is the time of year

1967
01:41:02,280 --> 01:41:04,519
Speaker 1: when general manage around the National Football League, you know

1968
01:41:04,680 --> 01:41:07,600
Speaker 1: you've got your roster's full. You figure most of you,

1969
01:41:07,800 --> 01:41:09,760
Speaker 1: if not all, your fifty three guys are on the

1970
01:41:09,880 --> 01:41:12,519
Speaker 1: roster already, and you say, they got to talk about

1971
01:41:12,520 --> 01:41:14,920
Speaker 1: what if, So if the bad things start to roll

1972
01:41:14,960 --> 01:41:17,439
Speaker 1: in the door, they've got to anticipate them and have

1973
01:41:17,479 --> 01:41:20,000
Speaker 1: a plan. If you look at the Buffalo Bills, what's

1974
01:41:20,040 --> 01:41:23,479
Speaker 1: the big if that maybe Bills fans need to worry

1975
01:41:23,520 --> 01:41:26,120
Speaker 1: about for their team heading into the season. I think

1976
01:41:26,120 --> 01:41:28,760
Speaker 1: if the offensive line doesn't come together, If the offensive

1977
01:41:28,760 --> 01:41:32,040
Speaker 1: line doesn't come together, and they obviously the biggest if

1978
01:41:32,400 --> 01:41:35,519
Speaker 1: is if Josh Allen isn't accurate enough, and if Josh

1979
01:41:35,520 --> 01:41:38,000
Speaker 1: Allen's accuracy falls by the wayside, And then I think

1980
01:41:38,000 --> 01:41:40,479
Speaker 1: the next big if is how good will this defense?

1981
01:41:40,800 --> 01:41:43,519
Speaker 1: Did they add enough rushers to the defense? Can they

1982
01:41:43,520 --> 01:41:46,599
Speaker 1: have enough ways to create turnovers? Because remember when Sean

1983
01:41:46,760 --> 01:41:49,960
Speaker 1: came from Carolina, it's always about the defensive front. It's

1984
01:41:50,000 --> 01:41:53,000
Speaker 1: always about creating turnovers with the defense. It's about playing

1985
01:41:53,040 --> 01:41:55,280
Speaker 1: great in the red zone. It's about keeping the ball

1986
01:41:55,320 --> 01:41:56,960
Speaker 1: out of the end zone and turning the ball over.

1987
01:41:57,240 --> 01:42:01,120
Speaker 1: If that doesn't happen, can they go in and win shootouts?

1988
01:42:00,360 --> 01:42:05,160
Speaker 1: And this Bill's defense in two seventeen got a ton

1989
01:42:05,280 --> 01:42:08,040
Speaker 1: of turnovers and those didn't happen last year a little bit,

1990
01:42:08,040 --> 01:42:10,759
Speaker 1: perhaps because they didn't get complimentary played from their offense.

1991
01:42:11,040 --> 01:42:14,200
Speaker 1: They didn't ever play a desperate offense that was willing

1992
01:42:14,240 --> 01:42:15,920
Speaker 1: to throw the football a little bit more than they

1993
01:42:15,920 --> 01:42:19,200
Speaker 1: should have. But as this season in twenty nineteen takes off,

1994
01:42:19,200 --> 01:42:21,519
Speaker 1: do you think the Bills have done enough to help

1995
01:42:21,600 --> 01:42:25,000
Speaker 1: their pass rush with the acquisition of Ed Oliver, Jerry

1996
01:42:25,040 --> 01:42:27,760
Speaker 1: Hughes still playing well, and perhaps Trent Murphy coming back

1997
01:42:27,760 --> 01:42:30,360
Speaker 1: on percent healthy. Well, I think they're going to have

1998
01:42:30,439 --> 01:42:31,760
Speaker 1: to keep you know, it's it's going to be an

1999
01:42:31,800 --> 01:42:35,200
Speaker 1: ongoing evaluation and what they do scheme wise is always affected.

2000
01:42:35,240 --> 01:42:37,000
Speaker 1: They got to be able to rely on. You know,

2001
01:42:37,160 --> 01:42:39,599
Speaker 1: the Twoee and Phillips are good players inside, can they

2002
01:42:39,640 --> 01:42:41,960
Speaker 1: push the pocketback? Look, the one thing we know about

2003
01:42:41,960 --> 01:42:44,040
Speaker 1: the Patriots, we've seen it when they went to go

2004
01:42:44,120 --> 01:42:47,080
Speaker 1: play in those three playoff games. Their defensive front created

2005
01:42:47,120 --> 01:42:50,240
Speaker 1: a lot of problems by pressing the pocket inside, by

2006
01:42:50,320 --> 01:42:52,360
Speaker 1: getting in what I call the paint, which is the

2007
01:42:52,439 --> 01:42:55,280
Speaker 1: area from the centers but to where the quarterback lines

2008
01:42:55,400 --> 01:42:58,080
Speaker 1: up in between the two guards. That's the area no

2009
01:42:58,240 --> 01:43:01,360
Speaker 1: quarterback once any defensive lineman reside. If you get into

2010
01:43:01,400 --> 01:43:03,920
Speaker 1: the paint on Jared Goff, he is neutralized. If you

2011
01:43:03,960 --> 01:43:06,760
Speaker 1: get into the paint on Philip Rivers, he becomes neutralized.

2012
01:43:06,760 --> 01:43:08,760
Speaker 1: If you get into the paint on Tom Brady, he

2013
01:43:08,880 --> 01:43:13,639
Speaker 1: become neutralized. So Starler to with Jordan Phillips, ed Oliver Harrison, Phillips,

2014
01:43:13,680 --> 01:43:16,000
Speaker 1: all those guys have got to be able to press

2015
01:43:16,080 --> 01:43:19,479
Speaker 1: the pocket and push inside, so then the outside rushers

2016
01:43:19,479 --> 01:43:23,320
Speaker 1: can become more effective. Pass rush today is what beats quarterbacks,

2017
01:43:23,520 --> 01:43:26,280
Speaker 1: not coverage. You've got to be able to press inside

2018
01:43:26,479 --> 01:43:29,479
Speaker 1: and Mike. I mean, as much as people say all

2019
01:43:29,520 --> 01:43:33,080
Speaker 1: the time, you know it's a copycat league, and obviously

2020
01:43:33,120 --> 01:43:36,800
Speaker 1: people are going to try to pull from the successful franchise.

2021
01:43:36,960 --> 01:43:39,240
Speaker 1: Is whether it's you know, New Orleans and LA and

2022
01:43:39,320 --> 01:43:42,240
Speaker 1: what they do offensively, or what the Patriots do as

2023
01:43:42,240 --> 01:43:44,320
Speaker 1: a whole. To morph and change from week to week,

2024
01:43:44,360 --> 01:43:48,000
Speaker 1: it seems you know, I know, in that piece about

2025
01:43:48,040 --> 01:43:51,000
Speaker 1: good to great, you were talking about don't react to

2026
01:43:51,040 --> 01:43:53,559
Speaker 1: the latest transfer technology, what you really mean is don't

2027
01:43:54,000 --> 01:43:58,439
Speaker 1: don't overreact, right, like overcorrect kind of thing. Yeah, I mean, look,

2028
01:43:58,479 --> 01:44:00,479
Speaker 1: you can't look the Patriots are always on the zig

2029
01:44:00,520 --> 01:44:03,080
Speaker 1: when everybody else's zacks. I mean, the Patriots are two

2030
01:44:03,120 --> 01:44:04,479
Speaker 1: backs of the backs of them more than any team

2031
01:44:04,520 --> 01:44:07,360
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. Because they realize that gives

2032
01:44:07,360 --> 01:44:10,439
Speaker 1: them an advantage. The systems rate. The system allows the

2033
01:44:10,560 --> 01:44:13,559
Speaker 1: losing teams to get higher picks. The system allows the

2034
01:44:13,600 --> 01:44:16,240
Speaker 1: teams that are bad to have a benefit of the

2035
01:44:16,240 --> 01:44:18,400
Speaker 1: waiver wire and all that. So when you're the Patriots

2036
01:44:18,439 --> 01:44:20,599
Speaker 1: and you've won seventy four games, you've got a zig

2037
01:44:20,600 --> 01:44:22,800
Speaker 1: when everybody else's zacks. But you got to do it

2038
01:44:22,840 --> 01:44:25,920
Speaker 1: in a bright way. And just because somebody has an idea,

2039
01:44:26,080 --> 01:44:28,880
Speaker 1: you can't steal their idea because what happens. It's no

2040
01:44:28,960 --> 01:44:30,800
Speaker 1: different than if you and I decided to go all

2041
01:44:30,840 --> 01:44:33,400
Speaker 1: three of us go down to downtown Buffalo. We rent

2042
01:44:33,439 --> 01:44:35,280
Speaker 1: some off, we rent a building. We still going to

2043
01:44:35,320 --> 01:44:37,320
Speaker 1: open up a restaurant, and we're going to steal all

2044
01:44:37,320 --> 01:44:39,920
Speaker 1: the recipes online. You know what, We'll be closed in

2045
01:44:39,960 --> 01:44:41,720
Speaker 1: six months because we can't cook them as good as

2046
01:44:41,720 --> 01:44:45,719
Speaker 1: the recipes talls. We're talking with Michael Lombardi, first former

2047
01:44:45,840 --> 01:44:48,360
Speaker 1: NFL executive, former GM of the Browns. I got to

2048
01:44:48,400 --> 01:44:50,280
Speaker 1: ask you to this this time of year where we're

2049
01:44:50,280 --> 01:44:52,320
Speaker 1: starting to get after the OTAs and mini camps, were

2050
01:44:52,320 --> 01:44:55,439
Speaker 1: starting to get early returns on new head coaches that

2051
01:44:55,479 --> 01:44:57,920
Speaker 1: have landed around the National Football League. One story that

2052
01:44:58,080 --> 01:45:01,800
Speaker 1: kind of makes ripples is the at the green Bay

2053
01:45:01,840 --> 01:45:05,800
Speaker 1: Packers and Matt Lafleur, or their head coach, are are

2054
01:45:05,880 --> 01:45:08,680
Speaker 1: starting to just get acquainted with Aaron Rodgers, and there

2055
01:45:08,680 --> 01:45:12,080
Speaker 1: seems to be a disagreement on what Aaron Rodgers should

2056
01:45:12,080 --> 01:45:13,920
Speaker 1: be able to do in the offense and what he shouldn't.

2057
01:45:14,040 --> 01:45:16,880
Speaker 1: Are you worried about that relationship? You know, I am,

2058
01:45:16,920 --> 01:45:20,120
Speaker 1: And you know look, Mark Murphy the new president of

2059
01:45:20,120 --> 01:45:21,840
Speaker 1: the Packers, and he's been there a long time. But

2060
01:45:21,880 --> 01:45:24,120
Speaker 1: it's a new way of operating in Green Bay. Never

2061
01:45:24,160 --> 01:45:27,200
Speaker 1: has the Packers president been such a dominant voice and

2062
01:45:27,760 --> 01:45:29,559
Speaker 1: been able to be in front of the crowd. Usually

2063
01:45:29,560 --> 01:45:32,400
Speaker 1: they operate in the back. Here's my dilemma. Matt Lafloor

2064
01:45:32,560 --> 01:45:36,040
Speaker 1: comes in. Tennessee's offense last year was to be polite, horrible.

2065
01:45:36,320 --> 01:45:38,960
Speaker 1: It was not very good. And if Matt Laflour comes in,

2066
01:45:39,040 --> 01:45:41,240
Speaker 1: he's not won any Super Bowls, he's not been around

2067
01:45:41,280 --> 01:45:44,040
Speaker 1: anybody other than Sean McVay. He comes in with a

2068
01:45:44,120 --> 01:45:47,040
Speaker 1: limited resume. He goes to tell he goes to tell

2069
01:45:47,040 --> 01:45:49,519
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Look, Aaron, I think this is the way

2070
01:45:49,560 --> 01:45:51,400
Speaker 1: we need to do it. Because look, when I was

2071
01:45:51,439 --> 01:45:53,400
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, we did it this way, or when

2072
01:45:53,400 --> 01:45:55,640
Speaker 1: I was in Tennessee, Aaron's going to look at him

2073
01:45:55,680 --> 01:45:57,920
Speaker 1: and say, hey, bro, I've won super bowls, build it

2074
01:45:57,960 --> 01:46:00,160
Speaker 1: this way. I don't think I want to change. It's

2075
01:46:00,160 --> 01:46:03,040
Speaker 1: a hard conversation to win. Yeah, I agree with you.

2076
01:46:03,160 --> 01:46:05,880
Speaker 1: And then there's and it remains to be seen as

2077
01:46:05,880 --> 01:46:09,519
Speaker 1: to whether Aaron Rodgers is going to be amenable or

2078
01:46:09,600 --> 01:46:11,960
Speaker 1: unselfish enough or at least give it a shot. And

2079
01:46:12,040 --> 01:46:14,400
Speaker 1: what happens if he does try it and through no

2080
01:46:14,520 --> 01:46:17,519
Speaker 1: fault of the offenses, because the defensive turnovers ordering if

2081
01:46:17,560 --> 01:46:21,360
Speaker 1: they don't start winning, how quickly does Aaron Rodgers bail

2082
01:46:21,439 --> 01:46:25,360
Speaker 1: on that philosophy? Correct? Well, well, I agree, And look

2083
01:46:25,400 --> 01:46:27,639
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers thinks he knows more than the coach does.

2084
01:46:27,680 --> 01:46:29,920
Speaker 1: He's going to bail quickly. And I have a feeling

2085
01:46:29,960 --> 01:46:32,000
Speaker 1: that he's going to feel that way in time. I mean, look,

2086
01:46:32,160 --> 01:46:35,880
Speaker 1: no disrespect to Matt Lafloora, he's a young coach, But

2087
01:46:35,960 --> 01:46:38,360
Speaker 1: when Tom Brady sits in the room with Bill Belichick,

2088
01:46:38,439 --> 01:46:41,160
Speaker 1: before he even sat in the room, Belichick had super bowls,

2089
01:46:41,320 --> 01:46:44,280
Speaker 1: He coached Lawrence Taylor, Phil Simms, He had players around

2090
01:46:44,240 --> 01:46:46,879
Speaker 1: he's been, he's been a Super Bowls and other teams.

2091
01:46:47,120 --> 01:46:50,040
Speaker 1: He's got some credibility, he's got some cachet. You know,

2092
01:46:50,040 --> 01:46:51,519
Speaker 1: when you go in there with none of that and

2093
01:46:51,560 --> 01:46:54,120
Speaker 1: you're a young coach because the media loves you and

2094
01:46:54,240 --> 01:46:56,080
Speaker 1: because you can sell it to the fan base as

2095
01:46:56,120 --> 01:46:59,920
Speaker 1: a young, energetic guy, it becomes problematic. It's different when

2096
01:47:00,040 --> 01:47:02,800
Speaker 1: Sean McVay takes over Jared Goff, who not play well.

2097
01:47:03,040 --> 01:47:06,439
Speaker 1: Goff's gonna listen. It's a different situation when a quarterback

2098
01:47:06,479 --> 01:47:08,960
Speaker 1: who's played great and won Super Bowls now has to

2099
01:47:09,000 --> 01:47:12,559
Speaker 1: listen to a coach who's unproven and then just to

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Speaker 1: indulge Steve here with his buddy Frank Reich. You know,

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Speaker 1: I know you have the Colts listed as one of

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Speaker 1: those teams that could go from good to great. What

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Speaker 1: do you think is the overwhelming part of the Colts

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Speaker 1: that can make that happen. Well, I think, look, they

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Speaker 1: play hard for the defense. I think Frank's done a

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Speaker 1: remarkable I mean, what Frank's done on third down in

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Speaker 1: the last two years in Philadelphia and then in Indianapolis, Damn,

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Speaker 1: they're remarkable. I mean it is just truly his ability

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Speaker 1: to call the right play at the right time in Philadelphia.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's Super Bowl that they won. Philadelphia was

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Speaker 1: one of the worst third down third and they were

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Speaker 1: in more third and seventeen at third and seven than

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Speaker 1: seventy percent of the National Football League, and yet they

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Speaker 1: converted him at the highest rate. That's remarkable one of

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Speaker 1: them when you look at when you look at the Colts,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be good on defense. I think if Andrew

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Speaker 1: Luck's healthy and that offensive line plays like it did,

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Speaker 1: they'll be right where they were. Michael Lombardio got one

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Speaker 1: last question for you and then we'll let you go.

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Speaker 1: There's a story out there that's a little under the radar,

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01:48:08,240 --> 01:48:10,400
Speaker 1: and it speaks to not only player safety, but also

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Speaker 1: contracts and everything. It's the Todd Gurley situation in the

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Speaker 1: LA RAMS. For those of who don't know, here's a

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Speaker 1: guy who signed a contract just a year or two

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Speaker 1: ago for a guaranteed sixty million dollars and now he

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Speaker 1: has a knee that won't allow him to play or

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Speaker 1: maybe not play as much as they had hoped. How

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Speaker 1: do you think that will play out? And are there

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Speaker 1: going to be league wide ramifications for something like this? Well, look,

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Speaker 1: everybody in the league knew Gurleys knee was a problem,

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Speaker 1: and he got drafted. Everybody said, no problem, he's gonna play,

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Speaker 1: but they'll probably play on one contract. When the Rams

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Speaker 1: gave him that huge deal, everybody said, wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: hold on, that's a bad knee that need could go

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Speaker 1: at any time. This is the this is the business

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Speaker 1: we've chosen. There's gonna be mistakes we all make. The

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Speaker 1: Rams took a guest on his knee could hold up

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01:48:54,400 --> 01:48:56,760
Speaker 1: because one thing we know about the Rams Gurley make

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Speaker 1: that makes that offense go. Two years ago, he averaged

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Speaker 1: over ten years to catch. He's a dominant player in

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Speaker 1: the passing game. He's a dominant player in the run game.

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Speaker 1: One he's not going and operating full speed. All of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, the burden falls to Jared Goff, and Goff

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Speaker 1: true McVay is an effective player, but golf all Owe

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Speaker 1: not the same guy. Michael Lombardi, thanks for this, We

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Talk to you down the road, all right.

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Speaker 1: Michael Lombardi former NFL Front office executive, former Cleveland Browns

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Speaker 1: general manager from twenty thirteen to twenty fourteen. He's a

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Speaker 1: contributor to the athletic and he also is an author

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Speaker 1: of a book, Gridiron Genius, a master's class in winning

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Speaker 1: championships and building dynasties in the NFL. It was published

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Speaker 1: last September. We're gonna take a break here, One Bills

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Speaker 1: Live coming back. We're gonna talk a little bit more

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Speaker 1: about Lashawn McCoy. What would constitute a breakout year for

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Speaker 1: or a bounce back year for him, and also what

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Speaker 1: your thoughts are about what would be the biggest reason

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Speaker 1: for it. This is One Bills Live, presented by Kalida

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Speaker 1: Health from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Lives. Chief task along with

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Speaker 1: Chris Browns. At the bottom of the hour, two thirty

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Speaker 1: runna to bring this down with NFL true false And

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Speaker 1: just a minute, we've got a caller on the line

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Speaker 1: about Leshaun McCoy and having a bouncebacks year and what

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Speaker 1: it would take. Thanks he held for a long time,

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Speaker 1: John from Buffalo, appreciate your waiting. You're on with Chris

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Speaker 1: and Steve on One Bill's Live. What's on your mind?

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Speaker 1: A good afternoon, gentlemen. Hey, with all due respect, all

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Speaker 1: the Iron and chare coaches and GM's out there. If

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Speaker 1: you don't think that Sean McDermot, Brandon Beadon would be

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Speaker 1: paying him Lashawn McCoy sixty million dollars a year to

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Speaker 1: be here. If Day didn't, he could do it. He

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Speaker 1: can still do it. The bottom line is they couldn't

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Speaker 1: throw the ball, they couldn't run the ball. It was

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Speaker 1: the worst offensive line and no wide receivers. That's where

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Speaker 1: the difference was. And Leshaun McCoy will be fine. And

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Speaker 1: if he can't, guess what, gentlemen, he won't be here.

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Speaker 1: That's my opinion. Yeah, I think it's and that's probably

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Speaker 1: pretty true. And we've talked about that as well, John,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the call. I appreciate it. One of the

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01:51:02,000 --> 01:51:03,880
Speaker 1: things that aspects about this is getting lost and we

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01:51:03,880 --> 01:51:06,240
Speaker 1: talked about this earlier in the show. If he ain't

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Speaker 1: getting it done, he's not going to be here. And

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Speaker 1: the fact that they have steadfastly said they believe in

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Speaker 1: him from the moment the season ended last year until

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Speaker 1: this season began that people said, oh, they're gonna trade him.

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Speaker 1: They're not gonna do it. They drafted a guy in

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Speaker 1: the third round. They're gonna take his place. They're trying

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Speaker 1: to replace him. Frank Gore's gonna I don't think any

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Speaker 1: of that is true. I think they really believe that

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Speaker 1: Lashawn McCoy is going to be their lead running back

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Speaker 1: and carry the bulk of the carries in the run

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Speaker 1: game beyond the field in third downs. He's going to

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Speaker 1: do exactly what he has done, and they are counting

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Speaker 1: on the fact that they have a revamped offensive line,

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Speaker 1: they have a new receiving corps, they have a new

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Speaker 1: tight end, and their quarterback is in the same system

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Speaker 1: for his second year with more experience. I think they

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Speaker 1: think Lashawn McCoy is going to have a really good season,

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Speaker 1: and I think they expect their offense to take a

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Speaker 1: big leap forward. Brandon Being said it at the end

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Speaker 1: of last season, we know where the deficiencies on this

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Speaker 1: roster and it's my job to address them. And the

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Speaker 1: area that he addressed more than any other area of

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Speaker 1: this football team was the offensive line in the form

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Speaker 1: of six free agents and a draft pick in the

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Speaker 1: second round. So that is where the deficiencies lie or

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Speaker 1: were laying, and everybody knew it, and the coaches cut

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Speaker 1: the tape eight ways to Sunday. I mean it was

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Speaker 1: patently obvious that that was the major deficiency of this offense.

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Speaker 1: They addressed it. There were other areas they addressed too,

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Speaker 1: but not to the degree that they addressed the offensive line,

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Speaker 1: and that's the way it should have been, because that's

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Speaker 1: where the biggest problem was, and it impacted everything else,

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Speaker 1: most notably Lashawn McCoy's rushing production. So you know, they

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Speaker 1: fixed what had to be fixed. They supplemented the roster

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Speaker 1: with other tools that will help McCoy, whether it's Frank

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Speaker 1: Gore lightning the load, whether it's a receiving game that

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Speaker 1: will help balance out the offense. They did what they

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01:52:59,600 --> 01:53:03,799
Speaker 1: had to to make the k to make the season

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Speaker 1: this year an easier one from McCoy to navigate and

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Speaker 1: be productive. And don't forget as well, that they've made

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Speaker 1: some changes every place. They have a new offensive line coach,

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Speaker 1: they have a new wide receivers coach, they have a

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Speaker 1: new quarterbacks coach, they have they have attacked this roster

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Speaker 1: from top to bottom, inside and out, from the coaching

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Speaker 1: staff all the way through to you know, to getting

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Speaker 1: new weight rooms and new facilities to get these guys healthy.

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01:53:34,360 --> 01:53:37,400
Speaker 1: They are attacking this on all the fronts all the time,

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Speaker 1: and no stone was left unturned, and the fact that

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Speaker 1: LaShaun McCoy is still here leads me to believe they

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Speaker 1: believe in him. And from the tweet sheet, which is

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Speaker 1: presented by Cory and Moving Systems, John tweets in because

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Speaker 1: we also asked what would qualify as a bounce back

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Speaker 1: season and John says a bounce back season for Lashawn

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Speaker 1: is take what he did rushing last year and add

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen's rushing numbers. So during the break I did that.

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Speaker 1: So it's basically Lashawn with five hundred fourteen last year

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Speaker 1: career lowe plus Josh Allen six eighty one, and he's

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Speaker 1: asking for an eleven hundred and ninety five yards season. Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's going to happen, just by

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Speaker 1: virtue of the fact that I don't know if he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be on the field quite that much to pull

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Speaker 1: that off. Knowing that Frank Gore is gonna get some action,

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01:54:28,400 --> 01:54:30,800
Speaker 1: the rookie Singletary's probably going to see a smattering of

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01:54:30,840 --> 01:54:33,520
Speaker 1: action here and there from week to week. Plus we

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01:54:33,600 --> 01:54:36,120
Speaker 1: have the injury factor that you never know about, so

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Speaker 1: that might be a little lofty for me, might be

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01:54:39,960 --> 01:54:42,280
Speaker 1: but here. You hope you get into this problem this

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01:54:42,560 --> 01:54:47,480
Speaker 1: last year le Shawn's deal. Run him, yeah right, run him.

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Speaker 1: You're not saving anything for him in the tank. And

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Speaker 1: you hope he is so productive that you're one. You

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01:54:52,320 --> 01:54:54,960
Speaker 1: got fans and media and clamoring and like I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: you gotta sign him, you gotta get him back, you

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01:54:56,480 --> 01:54:58,839
Speaker 1: gotta bring him back. You hope that that's a problem

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Speaker 1: they have in March, right, you got to resign lashaw

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Speaker 1: sort that guy's that guy's awesome, right, Yeah, that's what

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Speaker 1: you're hoping for. And there's no reason not to give

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Speaker 1: him the ball four hundred times this year if he's

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Speaker 1: if he's productive, because he's in the last year of

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Speaker 1: his deal, right, and Will Shaun's thinking that, and it

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Speaker 1: is another good problem. It's a good aspect. Something that

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Speaker 1: the Bills have used to their advantage all the way

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Speaker 1: up and down their roster is the fact that they

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Speaker 1: got him on a one year deal. Basically, he's got

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Speaker 1: to prove a deal. You don't think he wants to

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Speaker 1: make another contract, right, You don't think he wants to

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Speaker 1: either play here or somewhere else and make another pile

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Speaker 1: of money and added to his Hall of Fame hopes.

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Speaker 1: He's highly motivating play and you know, twelve k is

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Speaker 1: still a number he knows he wants to reach because

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Speaker 1: I think he believes that that's the threshold, that's the

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Speaker 1: threshold for getting into the Hall of Fame. Because I

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Speaker 1: think there's only one guy ed you and James, who

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Speaker 1: has twelve thousand career rushing yards or more that is

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Speaker 1: not in the Hall of Fame. So I think he's

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Speaker 1: of the opinion. And if I get there, I got

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Speaker 1: a good shot at it. So you know, I agree

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01:56:04,640 --> 01:56:07,480
Speaker 1: that that's also another caret that's dangling out there for him.

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Speaker 1: All right. NFL True False brought to you by Yancey's

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Speaker 1: Let me have it. Three NFL true falses today. Hold

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Speaker 1: Number one, The loudest coaches are the worst coaches. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to say false on that. Yes, I'm loud. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say false on that only because the best

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Speaker 1: coach I ever had was very loud and very demanding.

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01:56:33,400 --> 01:56:35,720
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, now, loud coaches are also those ones

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01:56:35,760 --> 01:56:38,520
Speaker 1: that are you kind of connotate that with the guys

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01:56:38,520 --> 01:56:40,680
Speaker 1: that yell at their players and that and the that's

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01:56:40,760 --> 01:56:43,160
Speaker 1: kind of guy really and really to me, And I

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01:56:43,560 --> 01:56:45,839
Speaker 1: was not being so your players can hear your outside

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01:56:45,840 --> 01:56:48,160
Speaker 1: of you when you're coaching them up, I would say

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01:56:48,200 --> 01:56:54,040
Speaker 1: this loud is not detrimental. It's the content of what's

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01:56:54,040 --> 01:56:57,080
Speaker 1: being said. The volume matters much less than what's being said,

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01:56:57,240 --> 01:57:01,120
Speaker 1: what's being taught, um and the lessons they are in.

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01:57:01,880 --> 01:57:04,680
Speaker 1: Because whether you have a quiet coach or allowed coach,

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01:57:06,800 --> 01:57:09,400
Speaker 1: what they're saying is what matters the most. And whether

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01:57:09,480 --> 01:57:13,080
Speaker 1: you can absorb that, learn from that, improve from that,

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01:57:13,080 --> 01:57:15,680
Speaker 1: that's the key. So it's the content more than the volume,

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Speaker 1: as I see it. And so if you happen to

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Speaker 1: have allowed coach, you do, and I'll be I'll be

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Speaker 1: honest with you, Steve. Sometimes there's teams that need allowed

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01:57:22,840 --> 01:57:26,080
Speaker 1: coach because they're not very good at listening, right, you know,

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01:57:26,400 --> 01:57:30,120
Speaker 1: I get you, Mike. Take is this I think as

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01:57:30,560 --> 01:57:32,920
Speaker 1: the worst coaches are allowed coaches. But that doesn't mean

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01:57:32,920 --> 01:57:34,840
Speaker 1: every allowed coach is a bad coach. There you go,

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Speaker 1: I've seen because you've gotta I mean, you're in an

2308
01:57:40,600 --> 01:57:43,240
Speaker 1: open field, yelling at guys who are wearing headgear. I

2309
01:57:43,280 --> 01:57:45,560
Speaker 1: mean you got to yell to get their attention. That's

2310
01:57:45,560 --> 01:57:47,520
Speaker 1: just the way it is. But on it, But at

2311
01:57:47,560 --> 01:57:49,640
Speaker 1: any other level, in any other sport, if you're in

2312
01:57:49,680 --> 01:57:53,080
Speaker 1: a basketball setting or some other sport where you don't

2313
01:57:53,080 --> 01:57:56,040
Speaker 1: need to do that, I think quietness is a better

2314
01:57:56,200 --> 01:57:59,320
Speaker 1: attribute because particularly and we've all heard these coaches, we

2315
01:57:59,320 --> 01:58:01,120
Speaker 1: all know this, what bad coach looks like. He's the

2316
01:58:01,120 --> 01:58:03,840
Speaker 1: guy that's berating a players saying that was a stupid mistake.

2317
01:58:03,880 --> 01:58:05,640
Speaker 1: What are you doing that? And they yell at him

2318
01:58:05,640 --> 01:58:07,800
Speaker 1: and they and they trying to be and they humiliate

2319
01:58:07,840 --> 01:58:10,320
Speaker 1: the player on the on their own team for making

2320
01:58:10,320 --> 01:58:12,200
Speaker 1: a mistake or whatever, or take him out of the

2321
01:58:12,240 --> 01:58:14,520
Speaker 1: game and get in his ear, that kind of thing.

2322
01:58:14,520 --> 01:58:18,120
Speaker 1: Those are the worst kind of coaches of ever. Any

2323
01:58:18,120 --> 01:58:23,640
Speaker 1: coach that yells at his players for making mistakes should

2324
01:58:23,640 --> 01:58:26,320
Speaker 1: not be coaching because the player makes a mistake because

2325
01:58:26,320 --> 01:58:28,680
Speaker 1: he wasn't coached and you're the coach, right, you can

2326
01:58:28,680 --> 01:58:30,760
Speaker 1: be frustrated that he's not doing it, certainly, but if

2327
01:58:30,760 --> 01:58:32,320
Speaker 1: he's not doing what you're telling him to do, you're

2328
01:58:32,360 --> 01:58:34,080
Speaker 1: not doing it right. You got to get the kid.

2329
01:58:34,440 --> 01:58:36,120
Speaker 1: You got to find a way to communicate with the kid,

2330
01:58:36,520 --> 01:58:38,760
Speaker 1: and you don't. And you can't be loud with everybody.

2331
01:58:38,800 --> 01:58:40,560
Speaker 1: You can't be because there might be some kid that

2332
01:58:40,640 --> 01:58:43,040
Speaker 1: just cowers and goes into a shell and gets worse. Yeah,

2333
01:58:43,080 --> 01:58:44,800
Speaker 1: he might ruin the kid he gets yelled at. So

2334
01:58:44,840 --> 01:58:46,680
Speaker 1: I'm saying, the worst coaches I've ever seen have been

2335
01:58:46,720 --> 01:58:48,920
Speaker 1: the loud coaches. Not every loud coach I've seen as

2336
01:58:48,920 --> 01:58:52,640
Speaker 1: a bad coach. So I will go on the loudest coaches.

2337
01:58:52,720 --> 01:58:56,520
Speaker 1: Loudest coach, I'll say, I say true. Really, I'll say true,

2338
01:58:56,760 --> 01:58:59,160
Speaker 1: because here's the thing. If you're if the only thing

2339
01:58:59,160 --> 01:59:01,280
Speaker 1: you bring to the table as a coach is being loud,

2340
01:59:01,320 --> 01:59:03,520
Speaker 1: then yes, you're a bad coach. You know what I mean. Well,

2341
01:59:03,560 --> 01:59:05,880
Speaker 1: you don't get to be a coach without being loud

2342
01:59:05,880 --> 01:59:08,280
Speaker 1: all the time, I think, right, So I think yes,

2343
01:59:09,240 --> 01:59:11,320
Speaker 1: And just just for clarity, I can be loud, but

2344
01:59:11,360 --> 01:59:13,280
Speaker 1: I'm not loud all the time. Okay, all right, So

2345
01:59:13,320 --> 01:59:16,440
Speaker 1: I'll with a caveat I say, I say, I say true,

2346
01:59:16,520 --> 01:59:20,320
Speaker 1: you say false false? All right? And NFL true false.

2347
01:59:20,400 --> 01:59:24,040
Speaker 1: Number two, The AFC East is the worst division in football.

2348
01:59:24,080 --> 01:59:26,320
Speaker 1: And I went back and looked at looked at the

2349
01:59:26,320 --> 01:59:32,280
Speaker 1: other divisions. I hate to say it, we're in the conversation, Yeah,

2350
01:59:32,320 --> 01:59:35,640
Speaker 1: definitely in the conversation conversation. I think it's I think

2351
01:59:35,680 --> 01:59:39,440
Speaker 1: what hurts the division more than anything else is I

2352
01:59:39,480 --> 01:59:42,919
Speaker 1: think around the country in terms of evaluating the divisions

2353
01:59:43,080 --> 01:59:46,360
Speaker 1: is the wide chasm between the Patriots and everybody else.

2354
01:59:46,400 --> 01:59:49,320
Speaker 1: So I think the quality of the rest of this

2355
01:59:49,400 --> 01:59:54,320
Speaker 1: division is automatically perceived as poor just because of how

2356
01:59:54,880 --> 01:59:57,640
Speaker 1: much New England has been able to dominate the division.

2357
01:59:58,000 --> 02:00:01,480
Speaker 1: I think that makes it appear on the outside like

2358
02:00:01,600 --> 02:00:04,720
Speaker 1: there is this gigantic chasm that just cannot be traversed

2359
02:00:04,760 --> 02:00:07,480
Speaker 1: by the other three teams because they're so bad and

2360
02:00:07,520 --> 02:00:09,520
Speaker 1: the Patriots are so good. And I don't think that's

2361
02:00:09,560 --> 02:00:14,280
Speaker 1: necessarily accurate or fair, But that being said, knowing how

2362
02:00:14,320 --> 02:00:17,080
Speaker 1: bad the Dolphins are expected to be in the rebuild

2363
02:00:17,160 --> 02:00:21,160
Speaker 1: under Brian Flores, knowing the mess of an offseason that

2364
02:00:21,200 --> 02:00:24,040
Speaker 1: the Jets have had with their mishandling of their GM position,

2365
02:00:24,480 --> 02:00:27,520
Speaker 1: among other things, the Levian Bell situation head coach and

2366
02:00:27,560 --> 02:00:30,400
Speaker 1: a brand new head coach, Greg Williams and Joe Vitt

2367
02:00:30,400 --> 02:00:33,600
Speaker 1: on the same staff. They're friends. Now you didn't you hear, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

2368
02:00:33,640 --> 02:00:37,160
Speaker 1: they kissed and made ups. Well they had to, yeah yeah.

2369
02:00:37,360 --> 02:00:40,080
Speaker 1: So that doesn't help the narrative either. That's like putting,

2370
02:00:40,160 --> 02:00:43,240
Speaker 1: that's like storing all the ingredients to dynamite next to

2371
02:00:43,240 --> 02:00:46,000
Speaker 1: each other. So, in simplest terms, what I tried to

2372
02:00:46,040 --> 02:00:50,800
Speaker 1: do was say, Okay, what other division in the league

2373
02:00:51,240 --> 02:00:54,040
Speaker 1: has two teams that we are anticipating will be bad?

2374
02:00:54,560 --> 02:00:56,720
Speaker 1: And the only other one I could really come up with,

2375
02:00:56,880 --> 02:01:00,720
Speaker 1: confidently was the NFC East with the Giant exactly right

2376
02:01:01,080 --> 02:01:04,440
Speaker 1: and Washington, who if they have to start Dwayne Haskins

2377
02:01:04,880 --> 02:01:08,920
Speaker 1: are probably gonna struggle, right, um, And the good thing

2378
02:01:08,920 --> 02:01:12,560
Speaker 1: for the Bills is they play that division. So you

2379
02:01:12,560 --> 02:01:15,760
Speaker 1: can make a case. I mean, so I'm for now

2380
02:01:17,320 --> 02:01:18,880
Speaker 1: I say, yeah, I mean, I don't have a problem

2381
02:01:18,920 --> 02:01:21,440
Speaker 1: saying yet, you know that, I'll say, true, it's the

2382
02:01:21,480 --> 02:01:23,280
Speaker 1: exact division you want to be. And if you're the

2383
02:01:23,320 --> 02:01:25,560
Speaker 1: worst division in the league, but if you're saying it

2384
02:01:25,640 --> 02:01:29,880
Speaker 1: because of you know, the because the Patriots are so

2385
02:01:30,000 --> 02:01:37,720
Speaker 1: much better. Listen, the Patriots beat the Chat everybody all

2386
02:01:37,760 --> 02:01:39,920
Speaker 1: these other divisions that say, yeah, the AFC East is

2387
02:01:39,960 --> 02:01:43,440
Speaker 1: bad because the run was the Chiefs. Yeah, nobody else

2388
02:01:43,440 --> 02:01:46,600
Speaker 1: beats them either, So sit down and shut up, thank you.

2389
02:01:46,760 --> 02:01:48,600
Speaker 1: That's why that perception is there. Don't just say, hey,

2390
02:01:48,680 --> 02:01:51,360
Speaker 1: let's realign and put this Patriots into your division. See

2391
02:01:51,360 --> 02:01:54,640
Speaker 1: how you like it. So I'm I'm I'm saying, I'll say, true,

2392
02:01:54,640 --> 02:01:55,960
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem doing that, And I think

2393
02:01:55,960 --> 02:01:59,200
Speaker 1: that's right where you want to be, because hey, it

2394
02:01:59,240 --> 02:02:01,400
Speaker 1: gives you a chance to in it, and that's where

2395
02:02:01,400 --> 02:02:03,160
Speaker 1: you want to be. So I'll say, true, Yeah, I

2396
02:02:03,480 --> 02:02:06,440
Speaker 1: don't have a problem with it, because I knew this that, Yeah,

2397
02:02:06,480 --> 02:02:11,720
Speaker 1: the the Dolphins and the Jets. The Dolphins are gonna

2398
02:02:11,720 --> 02:02:13,800
Speaker 1: be a tire fire. And I've told you this and

2399
02:02:13,800 --> 02:02:16,800
Speaker 1: i'vely I think our team, the Buffalo bill I think

2400
02:02:16,800 --> 02:02:19,240
Speaker 1: they're gonna be really good. I don't mean good, I

2401
02:02:19,240 --> 02:02:23,080
Speaker 1: don't mean okay. I think they're gonna be really really good.

2402
02:02:23,400 --> 02:02:26,840
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Schedule, the schedule does help this year, and

2403
02:02:26,880 --> 02:02:29,520
Speaker 1: so you should go for it this year because you're

2404
02:02:29,520 --> 02:02:32,760
Speaker 1: playing in the NFC East and all my buddies and

2405
02:02:32,760 --> 02:02:35,680
Speaker 1: all the Dolphins and the Jets. Twice I run across

2406
02:02:35,720 --> 02:02:37,240
Speaker 1: all the way. But in you do two you get

2407
02:02:37,280 --> 02:02:39,200
Speaker 1: it all the time. Everywhere you go to the supermarket.

2408
02:02:39,200 --> 02:02:41,280
Speaker 1: You gotta you know, all your acquaintances. You're running and

2409
02:02:41,360 --> 02:02:43,200
Speaker 1: you're you're buying eggs or whatever, and they say, hey,

2410
02:02:43,240 --> 02:02:44,800
Speaker 1: how are they going to be house the bills looking?

2411
02:02:44,800 --> 02:02:46,880
Speaker 1: You know, I always telling the same thing. I think

2412
02:02:46,880 --> 02:02:51,760
Speaker 1: they're gonna be really good. And I don't even put

2413
02:02:51,760 --> 02:02:53,840
Speaker 1: a number. I don't know if I feel that confident,

2414
02:02:53,920 --> 02:02:56,480
Speaker 1: but I am going to say this. The schedule is favorable.

2415
02:02:57,160 --> 02:03:00,960
Speaker 1: You got a Denver team with an age quarterback and

2416
02:03:01,040 --> 02:03:03,840
Speaker 1: a lot to fix. You got a Bengals team under

2417
02:03:03,880 --> 02:03:06,400
Speaker 1: a first year head coach, a Dolphins team you play

2418
02:03:06,480 --> 02:03:09,240
Speaker 1: twice under a first year head coach. You're probably playing

2419
02:03:09,280 --> 02:03:13,480
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback in Washington, so there are more than

2420
02:03:13,600 --> 02:03:17,200
Speaker 1: enough opportunities to rack up some victories, you know what

2421
02:03:17,200 --> 02:03:19,960
Speaker 1: I mean. So and you get the Ravens at home

2422
02:03:20,400 --> 02:03:23,080
Speaker 1: with a quarterback who's got less experience than your quarterback.

2423
02:03:23,760 --> 02:03:28,040
Speaker 1: So I'm with you. I see a lot of opportunities

2424
02:03:28,080 --> 02:03:31,000
Speaker 1: on what looks on paper to be a favorable schedule. Now,

2425
02:03:31,320 --> 02:03:33,440
Speaker 1: as we all know, Steve, it's a week to week league.

2426
02:03:33,440 --> 02:03:35,320
Speaker 1: A lot of things morph and change over the course

2427
02:03:35,320 --> 02:03:37,080
Speaker 1: of a season. You always try you see what we

2428
02:03:37,120 --> 02:03:38,640
Speaker 1: do is. And I said this before on the show.

2429
02:03:38,640 --> 02:03:42,920
Speaker 1: It's called paper. Shoot, right, we do whatever other fan does.

2430
02:03:43,320 --> 02:03:46,120
Speaker 1: You put all the new things together on your team,

2431
02:03:46,120 --> 02:03:48,160
Speaker 1: you say how much better you're gonna be, and you

2432
02:03:48,320 --> 02:03:50,480
Speaker 1: compare them with what the other teams were last year,

2433
02:03:51,160 --> 02:03:53,440
Speaker 1: forget about their improvements. And there I'm trying to look

2434
02:03:53,480 --> 02:03:57,080
Speaker 1: at it this year. I mean, Washington's probably going to start.

2435
02:03:57,080 --> 02:04:01,240
Speaker 1: Coaches struggle, right, this based huge, Julie. It's just usually

2436
02:04:01,240 --> 02:04:04,600
Speaker 1: now there's always there's some there's suliers, outliers, but as

2437
02:04:04,640 --> 02:04:07,960
Speaker 1: a rule, they struggle. They struggling. Now, Frank Reich didn't

2438
02:04:07,960 --> 02:04:10,920
Speaker 1: struggle last year, and he was well, he struggled at

2439
02:04:10,920 --> 02:04:13,400
Speaker 1: the outset, but turned it around. They were one in five,

2440
02:04:13,560 --> 02:04:16,640
Speaker 1: Yeah they were. But you know what they made the playoffs? Yeah,

2441
02:04:17,600 --> 02:04:20,360
Speaker 1: I mean there didn't they They did seven five So

2442
02:04:20,400 --> 02:04:23,040
Speaker 1: they won their last They won the last ten game,

2443
02:04:23,760 --> 02:04:28,000
Speaker 1: stinking Frank all right anyway, So all right, so that's

2444
02:04:28,040 --> 02:04:32,240
Speaker 1: all right now. NFL true false Number three. Von Miller

2445
02:04:32,240 --> 02:04:34,920
Speaker 1: and Bradley Chubb are the NFL's best pass rushing duo.

2446
02:04:36,920 --> 02:04:43,080
Speaker 1: Um boy, I gotta give that some thought. I'm trying

2447
02:04:43,120 --> 02:04:47,800
Speaker 1: to think of a better pair of defensive ends. There

2448
02:04:47,880 --> 02:04:51,760
Speaker 1: was a couple of end slash defensive tackle pass rushing

2449
02:04:51,840 --> 02:04:55,120
Speaker 1: duos that I like, but I don't if you're talking

2450
02:04:55,160 --> 02:05:01,640
Speaker 1: about strictly two ends, that is that's pretty tough to

2451
02:05:01,640 --> 02:05:05,440
Speaker 1: top because you got I like Mac and Akiem Hicks

2452
02:05:05,560 --> 02:05:10,320
Speaker 1: in Chicago. But Hicks is, you know, technically a defensive tackle. Um,

2453
02:05:10,720 --> 02:05:12,800
Speaker 1: I like that group. I like those two. It just

2454
02:05:12,800 --> 02:05:16,320
Speaker 1: says pass rushing duo. It doesn't say defensive. So I

2455
02:05:16,400 --> 02:05:18,240
Speaker 1: like those two. I don't know if they're better than

2456
02:05:18,280 --> 02:05:21,320
Speaker 1: these two, though. These two are pretty damn good man. Um,

2457
02:05:21,480 --> 02:05:24,760
Speaker 1: you think they're really good? Yeah, but listen, mean, so

2458
02:05:24,760 --> 02:05:26,800
Speaker 1: what do they have in Kansas City now, Frank Clark?

2459
02:05:27,760 --> 02:05:32,480
Speaker 1: Oh no, they got rid of d Ford and justin Houston. Uh,

2460
02:05:32,520 --> 02:05:35,360
Speaker 1: Houston's pretty good. Although they got to figure out the

2461
02:05:35,400 --> 02:05:38,680
Speaker 1: Clowney situation, Clowney and Watt is still pretty damn good, right.

2462
02:05:39,360 --> 02:05:42,800
Speaker 1: I think that's the one. I think J J. Watt

2463
02:05:42,840 --> 02:05:45,080
Speaker 1: when when those guys are on the field. Yeah, I

2464
02:05:45,120 --> 02:05:47,720
Speaker 1: don't know what's the same guy anymore? No, he's not,

2465
02:05:47,840 --> 02:05:49,560
Speaker 1: but he's he's never gonna be the guy who was

2466
02:05:49,680 --> 02:05:52,240
Speaker 1: three time defensive MVP. But I'm telling you today you

2467
02:05:53,080 --> 02:05:55,080
Speaker 1: can go with Miller. Job, I'm gonna say true. I'm

2468
02:05:55,080 --> 02:05:57,080
Speaker 1: gonna say false, just because there are other guys like

2469
02:05:57,240 --> 02:06:01,080
Speaker 1: Mac and the in in Chicago and whoever's playing with

2470
02:06:01,200 --> 02:06:04,360
Speaker 1: Jadeveon down there JJ Watt. I mean, those guys are unbelievable,

2471
02:06:04,440 --> 02:06:07,080
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say false. They're in the conversation as

2472
02:06:07,200 --> 02:06:08,960
Speaker 1: all these things you always are. You kind of get

2473
02:06:08,960 --> 02:06:11,120
Speaker 1: there and you think maybe they gotta and they are

2474
02:06:11,120 --> 02:06:13,920
Speaker 1: in the conversations going to a big jump here in

2475
02:06:13,960 --> 02:06:17,240
Speaker 1: here too. But Von Miller, I mean, how what year

2476
02:06:17,320 --> 02:06:20,120
Speaker 1: is this for von He was eleven draft so this

2477
02:06:20,160 --> 02:06:23,160
Speaker 1: is year eight. Yeah, and they're they're asking if von

2478
02:06:23,240 --> 02:06:25,560
Speaker 1: Miller is gonna get to two hundred sacks and beat

2479
02:06:25,600 --> 02:06:28,320
Speaker 1: the old time sackling. I don't know about that. There's

2480
02:06:28,440 --> 02:06:31,520
Speaker 1: no way in God's green Earth. I don't know about that. Man.

2481
02:06:31,760 --> 02:06:35,520
Speaker 1: You gotta have a lot of stay forget it. I mean,

2482
02:06:35,920 --> 02:06:39,400
Speaker 1: maybe if you know, Chub's certainly gonna help him because

2483
02:06:39,400 --> 02:06:43,600
Speaker 1: he's not going to be drawn all the attention. But man, yeah,

2484
02:06:43,640 --> 02:06:46,920
Speaker 1: you're asking a lot. Yeah, that's it's an enormous ass

2485
02:06:47,000 --> 02:06:49,000
Speaker 1: to ask a guy to play that long long enough

2486
02:06:49,000 --> 02:06:51,040
Speaker 1: to get a chance to go for two hundred sacks

2487
02:06:51,040 --> 02:06:52,840
Speaker 1: he's got like he's got a hundred. You know, he's

2488
02:06:52,880 --> 02:06:55,320
Speaker 1: got over one hundred now, you know, so he's got it.

2489
02:06:55,440 --> 02:07:00,640
Speaker 1: Let me yeah, I'm totally with you. I they're but

2490
02:07:00,680 --> 02:07:02,760
Speaker 1: they're asking it. It's out there there. People are saying, hey,

2491
02:07:02,800 --> 02:07:05,800
Speaker 1: maybe this is a guy that could do it and

2492
02:07:05,840 --> 02:07:08,240
Speaker 1: beat Bruce's record a two hundred sacks. Listen there. I

2493
02:07:08,280 --> 02:07:11,400
Speaker 1: don't think there's any way because at certain points of

2494
02:07:11,400 --> 02:07:14,560
Speaker 1: his Bruce took him a long time to get there. Uh,

2495
02:07:14,800 --> 02:07:17,400
Speaker 1: and it took him a couple of different teams to

2496
02:07:17,440 --> 02:07:23,680
Speaker 1: get there. Uh. It took uh, yeah, one hundred and

2497
02:07:23,680 --> 02:07:26,240
Speaker 1: seventy one here right, one hundred and seventy one here

2498
02:07:26,400 --> 02:07:29,760
Speaker 1: in fourteen fifteen years, and he had four years in

2499
02:07:30,000 --> 02:07:34,960
Speaker 1: Washington got another thirty. I mean that's you know, how

2500
02:07:34,960 --> 02:07:38,400
Speaker 1: do you how do you go from where you're that

2501
02:07:38,480 --> 02:07:43,040
Speaker 1: numbers out there that may be like looting, like Demaggio's

2502
02:07:43,240 --> 02:07:45,160
Speaker 1: hitting streak. Let me here we go. I'm pretty close.

2503
02:07:45,400 --> 02:07:49,880
Speaker 1: It is pretty close, but it's it's you know, what

2504
02:07:49,960 --> 02:07:51,760
Speaker 1: you got to go through to get two hundred sacks

2505
02:07:51,800 --> 02:07:57,120
Speaker 1: in this league? That's nuts, It's nuts. That's ten sacks

2506
02:07:57,120 --> 02:08:01,880
Speaker 1: a year for twenty years. Yeah, yeah, well, you're exactly right,

2507
02:08:01,880 --> 02:08:03,760
Speaker 1: that's exactly mean. And he's got a couple of seasons

2508
02:08:03,760 --> 02:08:05,000
Speaker 1: where he had more than that, and he had a

2509
02:08:05,000 --> 02:08:06,920
Speaker 1: seventeen and a half sack season. He had fourteen and

2510
02:08:06,960 --> 02:08:10,160
Speaker 1: a half last year, I want to say, so, you know,

2511
02:08:10,240 --> 02:08:12,840
Speaker 1: he's done that, but as he gets older, those numbers

2512
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Speaker 1: are going to be in decline and you gotta stay

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Speaker 1: around seven, eight nine in season fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and eighteen.

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Speaker 1: Now he is part of and he's been good for

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Speaker 1: a while. He wanted the World championship with Peyton Manning

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Speaker 1: and their defense playing as well as it did getting

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Speaker 1: after Cam Newton in that Super Bowl. He's an illustrious player,

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Speaker 1: has had a great career thus far, and he should

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Speaker 1: be right in his wheelhouse, right in his prime. And

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Speaker 1: Chubb being on the other side of him is gonna

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Speaker 1: help him and ain't gonna hurt him. So he's gonna

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Speaker 1: he's looking lined up to have some pretty good seasons here,

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Speaker 1: but you know, pretty soon he's gonna get up to

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Speaker 1: be about, you know, thirty years old, thirty one years old.

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Speaker 1: Then it becomes tough. You forget. Bruce Smith was drafted

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Speaker 1: when he's like twenty right, twenty twenty one. He was

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Speaker 1: a young player coming out of college. No, he came

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Speaker 1: out of your early two right, So he's got you know,

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Speaker 1: you gotta hang in there and be productive throughout. I

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02:09:00,640 --> 02:09:04,000
Speaker 1: don't know if that will ever happen. He's been pretty durable, though.

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Speaker 1: I will say Miller has um for not being a

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Speaker 1: big guy, you know, in the tip of the iceberg though, Man,

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Speaker 1: I mean that two hundred sacks is unbelievable. Its up

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Speaker 1: in the stratus. It's unbelievable. He got that. Yeah, it's unbelievable,

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Speaker 1: all right. NFL true false. That brought to you by right,

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Speaker 1: That was NFL true false. We're gonna take a break,

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Speaker 1: come back and go over what do we learn to

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Speaker 1: wrap things up here today? Chris Brown, Steve Tasker, One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live from One Bill's Drive, presented by Kalida Health

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Speaker 1: and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. What do we learned?

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Speaker 1: Former general manager of the Cleveland Browns, Michael Lombardi was

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Speaker 1: on with us today. We asked him about some of

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02:10:05,600 --> 02:10:08,360
Speaker 1: the changes the Buffalo Bills had made on their on

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02:10:08,360 --> 02:10:10,960
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball, and for an overview

2549
02:10:11,000 --> 02:10:13,000
Speaker 1: of some of the problems they had from a year

2550
02:10:13,040 --> 02:10:15,120
Speaker 1: ago how those might be fixed. Here's what he said.

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02:10:17,240 --> 02:10:20,080
Speaker 1: I think the offensive line was the most critical component

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02:10:20,120 --> 02:10:23,040
Speaker 1: they needed to address. I mean, obviously, the success of

2553
02:10:23,080 --> 02:10:24,920
Speaker 1: their football team is going to come down to Josh

2554
02:10:24,960 --> 02:10:28,000
Speaker 1: Allen and his ability to be accurate. But more than that,

2555
02:10:28,000 --> 02:10:31,800
Speaker 1: that offensive line last year was poorly organized. It wasn't

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02:10:31,920 --> 02:10:35,280
Speaker 1: very talented, and it really affected the team's ability to

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Speaker 1: really gain control of the line of scrimmage. And if

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02:10:37,160 --> 02:10:39,600
Speaker 1: you can't control the line of scrimmage, you can't win

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Speaker 1: on the road, and that's part of the problem. And

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Speaker 1: I think this year, you know, with the additions of

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Speaker 1: who they brought in, I think it will certainly help

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Speaker 1: their offensive line. And they have depth. I think that's

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02:10:48,760 --> 02:10:51,240
Speaker 1: the other component. They now have depth. If they lose

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02:10:51,280 --> 02:10:54,160
Speaker 1: a player, they're not stuck with trying to play somebody

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Speaker 1: who's never played before Michael Lombardi, former Gym and the

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Speaker 1: Browns coming in talking about what the Bills did up

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02:10:59,640 --> 02:11:02,240
Speaker 1: front to fix their offensive line problems from a year ago.

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Speaker 1: What do you think of that? Brown? I mean, is

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Speaker 1: pretty spot on, But I think one of the things

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Speaker 1: that we kept hearing last year was the fact that

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Speaker 1: the Bill's offensive line was not very athletic and they

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02:11:12,160 --> 02:11:16,520
Speaker 1: couldn't win the line of scrimmage. Yeah, if you're not athletic,

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02:11:16,560 --> 02:11:18,640
Speaker 1: you better be able to drive people off the ball,

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02:11:19,360 --> 02:11:22,320
Speaker 1: because you're not beating anybody, you know, to the flanks

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02:11:23,520 --> 02:11:25,520
Speaker 1: and work in the wide areas of the field. So

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02:11:25,560 --> 02:11:27,280
Speaker 1: if you can't do that, you better be able to

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02:11:27,320 --> 02:11:30,840
Speaker 1: just grind people down going straight ahead. And they could

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02:11:30,920 --> 02:11:33,040
Speaker 1: not do that either. So when you can't do either

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02:11:33,080 --> 02:11:36,720
Speaker 1: of those two things, you're rendered pretty ineffective. And that's

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02:11:36,760 --> 02:11:40,320
Speaker 1: why there were several times last fall where I was

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02:11:40,360 --> 02:11:42,280
Speaker 1: on this show with you guys saying, it's like Brian

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02:11:42,360 --> 02:11:45,160
Speaker 1: Dables calling an offense with one arm tied behind his back,

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02:11:45,240 --> 02:11:48,440
Speaker 1: or half the pages ripped out of his playbook. They

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02:11:48,440 --> 02:11:52,240
Speaker 1: were limited. It's yeah, it limits you severely to a

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02:11:52,320 --> 02:11:56,080
Speaker 1: degree that I don't think we've ever witnessed here before,

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02:11:56,240 --> 02:11:59,320
Speaker 1: so yeah, it was. It was a tough road a

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Speaker 1: hole last year. Right. So on this Monday, what do

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02:12:01,880 --> 02:12:03,760
Speaker 1: you got planned for a Monday night? What is Chris

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Speaker 1: Brown doing a Monday night out? Some soccer practice tonight,

2590
02:12:06,360 --> 02:12:08,400
Speaker 1: so we'll be working on the loud coach, you said

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02:12:08,400 --> 02:12:10,000
Speaker 1: you were a loud coach. I can be Are you

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Speaker 1: a positive loud yes? I don't reaching loud coach. Yeah,

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02:12:13,640 --> 02:12:15,400
Speaker 1: I don't try to be negative. I always try to

2594
02:12:15,480 --> 02:12:17,200
Speaker 1: keep it. You know, it's youth sports. You don't have

2595
02:12:17,240 --> 02:12:20,760
Speaker 1: to be drilling down on kids. What's the age group?

2596
02:12:21,320 --> 02:12:26,680
Speaker 1: Pretty old? You got you sixteen nine old? Older kids? Yeah? Yeah,

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02:12:26,760 --> 02:12:28,920
Speaker 1: very nice. Sometimes they got to be brought back into line,

2598
02:12:28,960 --> 02:12:34,240
Speaker 1: but we get them lined up. You know, there are

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Speaker 1: there are penalty laps every so often if people are

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Speaker 1: talking more than listening. I get it. We got two

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Speaker 1: ears and one mouth for a reason, so we can

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Speaker 1: hear twice as much as we said. Unless you're alloud, coach,

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02:12:43,240 --> 02:12:45,280
Speaker 1: I'm sorry as that an attitude. Do I have to

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Speaker 1: run laps? If I say that to the coach on

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Speaker 1: the we're here together all week, We're one bills live

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Speaker 1: Steve Tashka and Chris Brown we've been talking about what

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Speaker 1: is the um, what is the criteria, what's it gonna

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Speaker 1: look like? If wait, let me just get it, make

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Speaker 1: sure I get it right. Since we have been talking

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Speaker 1: about it all day, what gives you the most confidence

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Speaker 1: that Lashawn McCoy can have a bounce back season. Most

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Speaker 1: of you said, seventy three percent of you said, hey,

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Speaker 1: it's all because of the offensive line has been revamped.

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Speaker 1: Ten percent of you say, no, it's because Josh Allen's

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02:13:12,600 --> 02:13:15,520
Speaker 1: gonna play better. Ten percent of you is said that

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Speaker 1: it's more balanced attack with the wide receivers and Titans

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Speaker 1: are gonna help take the load off of the running backs.

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Speaker 1: And of course only seven percent said he's gonna get

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Speaker 1: less workload with a talented offensive running back group in

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Speaker 1: that room. So let's hope seventy three percent of the

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Speaker 1: people are right now, Yeah, because that's proves to be

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Speaker 1: the case. Yeah, that's a ripple effect, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's that's crazy target. We all want that to happen,

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Speaker 1: and maybe it will. But there's so many question marks

2625
02:13:38,440 --> 02:13:40,160
Speaker 1: headed into training camp. You don't know what the what

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Speaker 1: five guys are going to play on the offensive line.

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Speaker 1: The injuries so far have been. You know, it's set

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Speaker 1: them sideways. Hopefully it's different this summer. We'll be back tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Thanks today for a production assistant George Bloss, Jeff Colton,

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Speaker 1: act Thomas Hollander, Kelly Rude, JJ Tarito, Kevin carg James Robol,

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Speaker 1: producer Jay Harris, Chris Brown, along with Steve Tasker. This

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Speaker 1: has been One Bill's Live, presented by Calli to Health

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Speaker 1: From One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. We'll

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Speaker 1: see you tomorrow. Everybody h