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Speaker 1: the stragedyre of normalcy here. Welcome to a Fan Friday

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Speaker 1: edition of One Bill's Live Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you.

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Speaker 1: As Rookie Minicamp is under way about fifty yards from us,

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Speaker 1: uh yeah, so things are rolling along here through an

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Speaker 1: off season that never seems to fully be an off season,

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Speaker 1: the first six games, they gave up twenty one points

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Speaker 1: and that was five points ahead of second place. They

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Speaker 1: gave up sixteen twice, seventeen once, fourteen and seven. That's

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Speaker 1: all the points they were given up in twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 1: That's why they were winning games. It wasn't but the

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Speaker 1: offensive They gave enough the time for the offensive line

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Speaker 1: to find themself. Little over nineteen and a half point.

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Speaker 1: They scored enough and that was it. But you're right,

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's in for an adjustment period and it'll be interesting

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Speaker 1: to see. Because Ben's not running around anymore, they're gonna

433
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Speaker 1: know where he's at. Yeah, so you know his arm

434
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,879
Speaker 1: will be fresh in week one. They listened. They were

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Speaker 1: eleven and o last ye. You can say what you

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00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 1: want to know eleven and o last year. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot of turn over there. The wide receiver corps is

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Speaker 1: still intact and very talented. Juju went back um even

439
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,680
Speaker 1: though he was a free agent, so you know they'll

440
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Speaker 1: have that in their arsenal. Yes, they have Najie Harris,

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00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,280
Speaker 1: the rookie running back, but that guy's a between the

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00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:25,240
Speaker 1: tackles guy. He's not a breakaway dude, So you know

443
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Speaker 1: you got what you got. They'll be good. I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying is a really good coach Pittsburgh. The expectations are

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Speaker 1: through the roof. Mike Tomlin takes a little bit of

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00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 1: flak for that and that they want only one super

447
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Speaker 1: Bowl under him and been to two. Right or tenants,

448
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 1: I can't even remember what they are, but but they're

449
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,000
Speaker 1: gonna be in They're gonna be in it in a

450
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 1: very tough division with Baltimore now Cleveland. So, uh, you

451
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Speaker 1: get him on opening Day. I don't know if it's

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Speaker 1: a blessing or a curse, but we'll have to wait

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Speaker 1: and see. But I think with an offensive line in

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00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,879
Speaker 1: flux as it is in this offseason, with the preseason

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00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 1: the way it is, lost Bud Dupree, I'll take him lost,

456
00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 1: Steven Nelson, I'll take an opening Day. Yeah. They're they're vulnerable.

457
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:14,680
Speaker 1: They're vulnerable. All right. We have to take a break

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Speaker 1: here because coming up next is the latest edition of

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Speaker 1: Tasker's Teammate. You can follow along with Steve as we

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Speaker 1: give him the clues on one of his former teammates

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Speaker 1: to see if he can guess who we are describing

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Speaker 1: play along with us if you want. We've got that

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Speaker 1: coming up next. Tasker's Teammate Here on One Bills Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Collid to Health. It's is Buffalo Bill's Radio

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Speaker 1: blowing him back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve's

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Speaker 1: Tasker with you, and it is that time in the show.

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Speaker 1: We do this every Friday. It's everybody's favorite game show,

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Speaker 1: Tasker Teammate And as you know, Tasker's Teammate is brought

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Speaker 1: download the Wegman's app today. I have a new strategy

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00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,280
Speaker 1: this week. Oh I'd like to hear it. I'm gonna

472
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Speaker 1: kick back and think with my feet up. Oh so

473
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,399
Speaker 1: you're gonna have more blood rushed to the brain. And

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Speaker 1: now you're sitting in a hole over there, Steve, Oh boy,

475
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 1: look out, don't hurt yourself. Good God, almighty man. Okay,

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00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: just easy, easy, all right, Brownie, hit me. Okay, here

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Speaker 1: we go. Clue number one for Taskers Teammate. Born in Michigan.

478
00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 1: I was a small college football star where I earned

479
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Speaker 1: both academic All American and First Team All American honors

480
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 1: in the Division two Ranks. I was named Conference co

481
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: Player of the Year and was even a finalist for

482
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Speaker 1: Division two Player of the Year. Ray Bentley, it is

483
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 1: not Ray Bentley. Not a bad guest, though he's a

484
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:10,919
Speaker 1: Michigan guy. Yeah right, that's the only yeah. I ultimately

485
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:15,159
Speaker 1: signed with the Bills as an undrafted rookie after I

486
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: did not get an NFL Combine invite during the pre

487
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: draft process. I made the fifty three man roster as

488
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 1: a rookie in nineteen ninety three. Ala Edwards, it is

489
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 1: not Al Edwards, Michigan guy, and I don't I don't

490
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Speaker 1: know that, but I don't think. I think he was

491
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Speaker 1: a draft pick too, so he was clue number three.

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Speaker 1: The time frame is this good job your memory, because

493
00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 1: you tend to remember these things that happened on the

494
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: field more than the stuff off the field. In my

495
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: first training camp with the Bills, I got into two

496
00:28:57,400 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 1: minors scrapes with teammates. I was a hues of a

497
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:04,120
Speaker 1: late hit on Chris Walsh that knocked the earpads out

498
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Speaker 1: of his helmet, and then I got in a scuffle

499
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,960
Speaker 1: with fullback Greg Potera on a goal line play. He

500
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 1: thought he got into the end zone. I didn't agree

501
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: Tim Smiley. It is not Tim Smiley. Gotta be a

502
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: dB though. Matt Darby not Matt Darby. I was once

503
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Speaker 1: quoted as saying, quote, I'm going to hit you. That's

504
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: what I'm out there for. I like a lot of contact.

505
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: I'm not going to back down from anyone. I'm just

506
00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: out there to do my part. End quote. That sounds

507
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 1: like anybody could be anybody? Really? Who who would fit

508
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 1: that description? Man? That's a tough one. Yeah, it could

509
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 1: fit a lot of players. You want me to move

510
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: on to the next place. Here we go clue number five.

511
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Speaker 1: Spending my early years on special teams for the Bills,

512
00:30:05,240 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: coach Bruce de haven One said of me, quote, he's

513
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,040
Speaker 1: a handful. They have a hard time blocking him. I'd

514
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: like to get him out on the punt team. But

515
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,520
Speaker 1: the guys that are playing there right now are doing

516
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 1: a really good job. So he's on kickoff, not punt.

517
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:30,640
Speaker 1: Help Matt Monger or oh Tom busted out the buzzer.

518
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: That's a rough room out there, man, All right, go ahead, Okay,

519
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: So next one. After three years with the Bills, I

520
00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: signed with the New England Patriots and immediately became a starter.

521
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: After finding it hard to crack the defensive lineup for Buffalo.

522
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: How could that not ring a bell for nineteen? That

523
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 1: is impossible for me not to remember that. I know,

524
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,240
Speaker 1: I know you're getting frustrated now, so I'll give you

525
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: this one. WHI shouldn't get you there. After just one

526
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: season in New England, I decided to pursue a career

527
00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: in professional wrestling, beginning in Michigan's All World Wrestling League,

528
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: before stints with Total NonStop Action Wrestling and the WWE.

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Speaker 1: MONTI it is Monty Brown. Brown. There you go, Monty Brown?

530
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: Where is most power? Oh? Look he got a bath?

531
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: Oughty Brown. I did not know you. I forgot all

532
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: about your New England I forgot all about your New

533
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 1: England stint. I had no idea. Man, oh man, Monty Man.

534
00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 1: Don't let me what an act he was. Monty's built

535
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: like an action figure. He's perfect for pros man. How

536
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: he doing? Man, It's good to see you. Thanks for

537
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: coming on. That's awesome. Can you can you can you

538
00:31:57,360 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: refresh our Yeah, you gotta refresh our memory. About the

539
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: earpad hit on Chris Walsh training camp, man John Butler

540
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,000
Speaker 1: was quoted as saying he watched the tape over about

541
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: ten times, watching this guy's earpads fly all over the field.

542
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: That's hard to do. He came across the middle, he

543
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,120
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been there, and I loaded him up and

544
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, this is what I have

545
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,880
Speaker 1: to do to make this football team. And his helmet

546
00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: actually exploded. Yeah, it literally exploded. Yeah, I've never seen

547
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 1: anybody's earpads go flying, mouthpiece go flying. But there was Yeah,

548
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,240
Speaker 1: there was so much equipment. There was so much equipment

549
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 1: land on the field. Looked like a yard sale. Yeah right, yeah, yeah,

550
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: that was And that was one of those who's like wow,

551
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:47,120
Speaker 1: even like even in our meeting we watched. I was

552
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 1: in the receiver meeting, I was with Chris, and next

553
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,719
Speaker 1: when you're watching this like going, dude, you are right,

554
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 1: it's like he's like and Chris, Chris had a really

555
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: nice career. He ended up in Minnesota, had played a

556
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: long time, well yeah later a long time. He was

557
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: a tough and that was the one thing about him.

558
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 1: He was really smart and really tough, which he got

559
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: up and played the rest of you know, and played

560
00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: for us and stuff. But man, oh man, Yeah, that

561
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: was a that was a moment. How you doing mine?

562
00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: What are you up to? Oh? Man, I'm doing really well.

563
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 1: I'm I'm back into Sarahdetty. But I've got a personal

564
00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: training business, um director of Personal Training and Athletics, working

565
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 1: with kids, doing my thing. Man all over the place.

566
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: Really a man of many hats, very nice. He was

567
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:32,479
Speaker 1: doing the whole wrestling thing. He mentioned Seengetti because that's

568
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,120
Speaker 1: what he was known as one of his nick names,

569
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,680
Speaker 1: and then also known as the Alpha Male, Marcus V.

570
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: Alpha Male, the Alpha Male. Yeah, that was that was

571
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: fantastic here it was look at this. Yeah. We used

572
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: to hang out in the uh go out in the way.

573
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: It was fun. Man, those were the days right there. Yeah,

574
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 1: those worth the days. Yeah, being in below. Man, that

575
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: was a young kid coming from a D two school.

576
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: You guys took me in. You didn't care where you're from,

577
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 1: as long as you were there and playing hard. And

578
00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: I embraced that and that whole bills, Mafia bills, mafia

579
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 1: going crazy and Buffalo. That's That's what I was all

580
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: about because they enjoyed that physicality. And I'm still that's

581
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 1: that same guy from fair Oh, by the way, shout

582
00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,840
Speaker 1: out to jay Z. Shout out to Justin Zimmer another

583
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:26,839
Speaker 1: Fair State football player here. That's the FSU. That kid

584
00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 1: can run. Yeah, they clocked him on GPS Monty at

585
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: eighteen miles an hour running down field last year. Oh nice.

586
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: I mean you think about Monty came in nineteen ninety

587
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:43,760
Speaker 1: three and picture a roster in the NFL. They'd already

588
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 1: been to, you know, ninety one to ninety two. Uh,

589
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,759
Speaker 1: super Bowl, Monty comes in. How hard do you think

590
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:54,360
Speaker 1: that roster was to make undrafted rookie free agent and

591
00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: Monty Money did it. Yeah, he made a Super Bowl

592
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: roster in the middle of that Super Bowl run. Yeah,

593
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: that's hard to do. And uh played really well for

594
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 1: that for us. And wow, why that's great. That's awesome.

595
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,319
Speaker 1: It's great, great too, great to see you. Man. The

596
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: biggest I think the biggest issue for you, Monty, and

597
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: you can correct me if you think I'm wrong, but

598
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:18,760
Speaker 1: they had kind of plugged in some young inside linebackers

599
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,399
Speaker 1: in that three to four right before you got there.

600
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 1: So you're a young guy trying to get on the

601
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: field on defense and they've got some young vets in

602
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: front of you. It was really hard to crack the

603
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 1: lineup on defense, right It really was because shout out

604
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: to General Marks, Patton mogol Y, Mark Maddox, all those

605
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: guys that were there before. I was um, but I

606
00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:44,839
Speaker 1: never even played special teams before. But you tell me, hey,

607
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:46,840
Speaker 1: run down the field and knocked that guy out. I

608
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,720
Speaker 1: was like, okay, I'll do that, right. It was whatever

609
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 1: it takes to make make the team. And honestly, I

610
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 1: didn't really even know any different, and I didn't even

611
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:57,759
Speaker 1: at that time. I didn't look back and see what

612
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,919
Speaker 1: a what a tough time it would be making that team.

613
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: I just said I'm there, and this is what I'm

614
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,879
Speaker 1: gonna do. I just playing with house money and I'm

615
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:06,560
Speaker 1: gonna go all in. And I said it's true. And

616
00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: I say this to young people all the time too,

617
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 1: you know money, because all these young kids say, yeah,

618
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: I'll do anything to make it in the NFL. I'll

619
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: do anything. But they get there and they say, well,

620
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna cover kicks right. They don't want to

621
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: do it. They want to play linebacker, they want to

622
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,759
Speaker 1: play dB or tight end or whatever. They I want

623
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: to play down a distance and they you can't convince

624
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,640
Speaker 1: them that if they cover kicks well enough, you'll hang

625
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: in there and get a chance later on to play

626
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: that stuff and they and it really is amazing that

627
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: young player because let's face it, like you, you were

628
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: at the top of the level of football divisions. You

629
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: were a player of the year there, and it's hard

630
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: to be told you're gonna have to cover kicks or

631
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: do something other than you were good at at the

632
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: college level. And a lot of guys don't make that adjustment,

633
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 1: they won't make that decision. You did it really quickly

634
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 1: and it gave you a chance to put together a

635
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:59,359
Speaker 1: really nice pro career. It really did Steve and you

636
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 1: know from a career in being the best at what

637
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: you did. You were the best gunner, the best special

638
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 1: team guy. Then came in when you got plugged in

639
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: did your wide receiver thing. But what people don't understand

640
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: and what these young kids, hey, sometimes you gotta take

641
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 1: a step back, set the pride in the attitude in

642
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: the background, go out there and do what it takes

643
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: to make the team. Once you make the team, now okay,

644
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 1: now I'm gonna get get put into this position. I'll

645
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 1: get put into that position. But if it's covering kicks,

646
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: punt special team, that is a third of the game

647
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: as a whole. So I didn't have a problem with it. Now,

648
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. I definitely wanted to get on

649
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,399
Speaker 1: the field and play some defense, and when I got

650
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: my opportunity to start in Buffalo, I did. But you know,

651
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,800
Speaker 1: I just enjoyed being a part of that program and

652
00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 1: I couldn't imagine starting anywhere else but where I was,

653
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:52,720
Speaker 1: because I was literally taken right in by by Biscuit

654
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: and DT and all Steve, all those guys, you know,

655
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:57,399
Speaker 1: and they just took me in And I'm just so

656
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 1: grateful and so thankful I got the opportunity to play there.

657
00:38:00,320 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: Is it true that when you signed with New England

658
00:38:03,160 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: you did it with an eye towards a wrestling career already?

659
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: Had you already begun to consider that, because I said,

660
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:11,879
Speaker 1: and you know, we can take Wikipedia for what it's

661
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: worth here, so I'm not counting on the accuracy of

662
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: that as opposed to your first hand account. But they

663
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: claim that one of the reasons you signed with New

664
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 1: England was because it was near the Commstling Federation's headquarters

665
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 1: in Connecticut? Is their validity to that, Monty? I need

666
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:30,960
Speaker 1: to know the real story here. There's there's a joking

667
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: validity to that. Absolutely when I when I went there, Honestly,

668
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,040
Speaker 1: from the time I was seven or eight, I always

669
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: said that I'm gonna grow up and I'm gonna be

670
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: a professional football player and I'm gonna be a professional wrestler.

671
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,479
Speaker 1: So those two careers were already in my mind. They're

672
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,800
Speaker 1: already locked in. And when I did go to New England,

673
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: you know, it being that close to h w W,

674
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,680
Speaker 1: I kind of jokingly that's how they would get the

675
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 1: conversation started. You know. They would converse with me about, oh,

676
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,279
Speaker 1: what happened with with wrestling and what happened with this?

677
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:01,840
Speaker 1: And I could run it all down to him, you know.

678
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: So it was just as interesting for me to talk

679
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: about wrestling as football. They were all one and the same.

680
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: And actually, my whole character, the Alpha Male, is basically

681
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: that young kid that came to Buffalo coming out of college,

682
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 1: just running over everything, going nuts physicality. That's just me

683
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:21,520
Speaker 1: turned up. Ten thousand and and how is how is

684
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 1: wrestling most like professional football? And how is it most

685
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: how does it you know, contrast with football the most?

686
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 1: What's what's the same? What applies to professional wrestling and

687
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 1: professional football? And what's so different between the two. Well,

688
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:41,840
Speaker 1: I would say I would say that the most that

689
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: that is similar is just the adrenaline, the physicality, the

690
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 1: mindset that you go into it, that you know, I'm

691
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: gonna go out here and I'm gonna perform at my

692
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 1: utmost best and that's what I enjoy doing. I still

693
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: have that, you know, it within me. And I would

694
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:07,920
Speaker 1: say the probably the biggest difference would be, um, the setting,

695
00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 1: the circumstances. Um you have to kind of follow, actually

696
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: have to follow more within what's going on as far

697
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,080
Speaker 1: as what you're You're you're told in the direction that

698
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 1: a situation is supposed to go in. And the bottom

699
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 1: line with both is you just go out there and

700
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 1: let it loose and you give them. You give the

701
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,759
Speaker 1: people what they want, and you perform. You have to

702
00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 1: perform and that's the biggest thing. Yeah, yeah, good stuff,

703
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: And you worry. How I gotta tell you, Monty, you

704
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:38,880
Speaker 1: were the alpha male come in to Buffalo. Steve. I

705
00:40:38,960 --> 00:40:43,160
Speaker 1: still am yeah, yeah, I am still aha male is he?

706
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: And he most definitely Steve is me money. Thanks man,

707
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: It's awesome to see it. Great, great, great catching up.

708
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:54,279
Speaker 1: Good luck to you and I hope we crossed paths soon.

709
00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,839
Speaker 1: Come back to Buffalo, Come back to Buffalo for a game.

710
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 1: I am definitely Steve because I can still feel I

711
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: still feel it. I feel it in the air, Steve

712
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: that night, I feel it. All right, good, all right,

713
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:13,239
Speaker 1: he's gonna hold you to that. I'll see you at

714
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 1: home on Monday night with him when the Patriots are

715
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:19,799
Speaker 1: coming in town. You're old both old teams. Yeah, all right,

716
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 1: all right, I will all right. That's Monny Brown, Bill's

717
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:31,359
Speaker 1: former linebacker and v Alpha male. He's tremendous. Marcus von

718
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 1: Kour was his uh wrestling name. So I gotta tell you,

719
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:38,800
Speaker 1: man like as excited as a lot of football players

720
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:42,200
Speaker 1: get to be on like the Madden game for video games,

721
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: he was on the wrestling games for WWE. Like his character.

722
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 1: I gotta that's gotta be cool, man Like, you're a character,

723
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 1: a professional wrestler and then there's a video game you

724
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 1: could beat yourself and like do the elbow drop on

725
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 1: so you know what I mean? Yeah, awesome, he was.

726
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 1: He was. I remember walking past him in a locker.

727
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 1: Mind WHOA, there's a few guys. There's a few guys,

728
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 1: and some of the guys he spoke about like Marvicus

729
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: Patton and Monty Brown. Those guys were they were special.

730
00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 1: They were jacked, they were they were so yoked um

731
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,040
Speaker 1: and they worked hard at it. I mean, it wasn't

732
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:21,360
Speaker 1: it wasn't that, you know, they just woke up in

733
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: the morning and looked like that. They worked hard at

734
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 1: being special athletes and they were there. Yeah, MONTI was

735
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 1: a was a really good addition to the team. And

736
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: you know, and like I said, it is it is

737
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 1: a truly eyebrow raising accomplishment for a kid to come

738
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: in as a rookie free agent and to make a

739
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 1: team that had been to two Super Bowls and was

740
00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 1: about to go to two more. Yeah, that's a that's

741
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: a stacked roster. And he came in and forged a

742
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 1: career for himself for three years with Explode another guy's

743
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,600
Speaker 1: helmets and training camp. You're probably gonna get notice easy

744
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: easy catch it at somebody's when you do that. Yeah, great,

745
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,600
Speaker 1: Walsh could even practice the next day. I mean, I know,

746
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: the guys in the equipment room are really good. You

747
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: turn around a whole new helmet for the guy the

748
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 1: next day. I guess you had extra yea, but yeah,

749
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's unbelievable. You think about it too, and

750
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:18,879
Speaker 1: that and that Chris Walsh is a is a great

751
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 1: example as well, because he couldn't make this roster, couldn't

752
00:43:21,840 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 1: make this roster and played a decade on eleven years

753
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:27,719
Speaker 1: in Minnesota and was a really good player for them,

754
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:31,800
Speaker 1: a dependable player for them on offense and special teams, tough,

755
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:35,839
Speaker 1: smart kid, and he couldn't make this roster. And then

756
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:38,720
Speaker 1: you get a guy like Mandy. He forged your career

757
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,759
Speaker 1: here too. So it's it's an amazing thought. And I've

758
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 1: said it a lot over the years that we had

759
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: to say goodbye to a lot of really good football

760
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: players because the roster was so stacked now in the day.

761
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: And he's doing personal training now in Michigan, and uh

762
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: is as yoked up as he's You see him in

763
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:59,839
Speaker 1: that same thing, stretched thing. That was a good one.

764
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 1: Ask your's teammate Monty Brown. This week, we'll take a break.

765
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:05,319
Speaker 1: When we come back, We're going to talk a little

766
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,399
Speaker 1: bit more about some NFL news and notes and get

767
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 1: your questions out of the obil fan Friday mail bag.

768
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,320
Speaker 1: We'll do that when we return here on One Bills

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00:44:14,320 --> 00:44:16,840
Speaker 1: Live Presented by Kalid to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

770
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 1: Welcome back to one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Dasker

771
00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:38,880
Speaker 1: with you and making our way over to the OBIL

772
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: Fan Friday mail Bag, and we'll get things started here

773
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 1: because we want to get to as many of these

774
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:50,320
Speaker 1: as we can. Tiffany leads off with an AFC East query, Steve.

775
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,320
Speaker 1: If mac Jones is unable to beat out Cam Newton,

776
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 1: does it end the Josh McDaniel's mystique as an offensive genius?

777
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 1: I think that ship has already sailed. Oh you think

778
00:45:03,360 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: he's already lost his luster? Yeah? I thought when the

779
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: way he handled hisself in Denver as their head coach

780
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: coming back and now that Brady has gone off and

781
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: done his thing, and he had Cam Newton last year

782
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 1: tried to change something, and he's had a couple of

783
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 1: years with Jarrett Stidham and has gotten nowhere. Right, did

784
00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:29,319
Speaker 1: not develop him, and he certainly can't take credit for

785
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 1: Tom Brady being developed because he was fifteen when Brady started, Right.

786
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think that ship is. He's a good

787
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator. He's a quality, very renowned offensive coordinator in

788
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:49,879
Speaker 1: the NFL. But yeah, yeah, I'm yes, that's right. If

789
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:52,279
Speaker 1: Mac Jones, it's just one more thing that says that

790
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 1: Sean Josh McDaniels is kind of just another guy now.

791
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:01,799
Speaker 1: Certainly to get that job and hold it the way

792
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 1: he has in the NFL, you've got to have yours.

793
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 1: His lights are on. I mean, the guy knows what

794
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 1: he's doing, no question about it. But as far as

795
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:13,359
Speaker 1: being a genius and a superlative, yeah, that's hard for

796
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:16,560
Speaker 1: me to get get there. Certainly, he's like it was

797
00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 1: fortunate to be where he was. I mean, he still

798
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,399
Speaker 1: has to call the players that would be the goat

799
00:46:21,560 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: executing for you, that would be that would be as

800
00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: negatively as you could spend it. I mean, maybe he

801
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: was writing Bill Belichick and Tom Brady's coattails. I think

802
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:31,320
Speaker 1: he did a little more than that. I think he

803
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: was a big contributor to their success. But certainly if

804
00:46:35,200 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 1: one of those other things had changed, if it was

805
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: if you change Tom Brady or if you change Bill Belichick,

806
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 1: I don't know that Josh McDaniel would have had any

807
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 1: success or the success he's had. But I don't know

808
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,880
Speaker 1: if that's saying anything. Yeah, but it might be, it

809
00:46:48,960 --> 00:46:51,800
Speaker 1: might not be. It I mean, but I'll have to

810
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 1: see where it goes. I know, I'm fully prepared for

811
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:57,399
Speaker 1: mac Jones to be the starter with Yeah, I would

812
00:46:57,400 --> 00:46:59,600
Speaker 1: just say that this mystique that he had, if if

813
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:02,200
Speaker 1: any any time, is not there. I mean, we've already

814
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:07,080
Speaker 1: seen reports that it's McDaniel's preference to go with mac

815
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,279
Speaker 1: Jones as a starter, because then he can get the

816
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 1: offense back to what it looked like Brady was running it. Yeah,

817
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:16,759
Speaker 1: two dimensional instead of one dimensional, and you certainly have

818
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 1: a better chance of executing more of those kinds of

819
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 1: plays with somebody other than Cam Newton. So it would

820
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: make sense if that is in fact the case, and

821
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,319
Speaker 1: I can't see why it wouldn't be after what that

822
00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:31,839
Speaker 1: offense looked like last season. So yeah, I'm on board.

823
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:35,439
Speaker 1: I think it's mac Jones week one, which almost makes

824
00:47:35,480 --> 00:47:37,120
Speaker 1: it a shame that the Bills are playing them so

825
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:40,160
Speaker 1: late in the year. They don't play until week thirteen

826
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:46,240
Speaker 1: and the member sixteen again and then again in week sixteen. Yeah,

827
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 1: but so he you know, he could arguably have eleven

828
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:51,960
Speaker 1: twelve starts under his belt by then, and you know

829
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 1: he'll probably be settled in. He won't be perfect, but

830
00:47:54,840 --> 00:47:56,840
Speaker 1: he'll be settled in, certainly more than he would be

831
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:58,800
Speaker 1: in his first three or four starts. Be nice to

832
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:01,719
Speaker 1: kind of get him early and kind of knock him

833
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: around a little bit. But I can't have everything, so

834
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: no problem. They'll be all right. We're gonna take a

835
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:10,120
Speaker 1: break here. We'll answer more your O b L Fan

836
00:48:10,160 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 1: Friday mail Bag questions as we move along in the show,

837
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 1: but we will take a break here, get back and

838
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:17,960
Speaker 1: answer more of those when we return. Here on One

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Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Collid to Health, It's Buffalo Bills Radio.

840
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:41,800
Speaker 1: At a Steve Taster who has been all over the fields.

841
00:48:41,880 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

842
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 1: player for you, Steve of lit Steve a blimp. We're

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00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 1: not even in the strategyre of normalcy here. Here we

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Speaker 1: are our number two on an obl Fan mail Bag Friday,

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Speaker 1: Chris Brown, steep Taster with you rookie mini camp on

846
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: the field today as the young uns are practicing along

847
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Speaker 1: with the coaching staff. There is one NFL tidbit Steve

848
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 1: that I wanted to pass along to you before we

849
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Speaker 1: get back to the questions. By the way, if you

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00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:20,840
Speaker 1: do have a question for Steve or I about the

851
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 1: current roster, the team at large, the draft choices, the schedule,

852
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 1: anything on the league. Fire away. We're here to take

853
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:31,799
Speaker 1: any and all questions. At eight three, five fifty one,

854
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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two, five fifty we got an

855
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Speaker 1: open line for you right now. We'll get back to

856
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Speaker 1: the questions in just a second. I didn't know if

857
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Speaker 1: you spotted this. So the Cleveland Browns announced the jersey

858
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 1: number of assignments for their draft class today and Jeremiah

859
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 1: a Wusu Coromoa, who was a late third round selection

860
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 1: by them, deemed to be one of the best values

861
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:55,919
Speaker 1: in the draft, and you knew I had a full

862
00:49:55,960 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: on romance with him. His jersey number. Remember we said,

863
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 1: is he a linebacker? Is he a safety? They gave

864
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 1: him a jersey number. I guess with number they gave

865
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Speaker 1: him digital, I'm a single digit. I'm thinking, no, oh yeah,

866
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Speaker 1: twenty eighth, which would not say linebacker to me. No,

867
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Speaker 1: it doesn't. It says safety, says defensive back. So if

868
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Speaker 1: we're gonna judge by the number assignment he was given,

869
00:50:19,360 --> 00:50:21,279
Speaker 1: I think we can assume he's probably going to be

870
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 1: some safety type hybrid. Wasn't he like twenty two in

871
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 1: college or twenty one. Who's nine, I want to say

872
00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 1: eight or nine? Yeah, six, eight or nine, one of

873
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 1: those something like that. Okay, so twenty eight, which I

874
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 1: think is a clear indication they're gonna line him up

875
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 1: at safety and maybe be like a hybrid big nickel type,

876
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 1: which you know, I thought was possible. For one of

877
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:45,520
Speaker 1: the reasons they felt that he slid so much at

878
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:49,239
Speaker 1: least the Draftnicks was that teams really didn't have a

879
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: full confident feeling about where they could line him up,

880
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 1: where he would fit in the scope of their defense.

881
00:50:57,239 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 1: And that's where you put it on your coaching staff,

882
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:01,279
Speaker 1: you know, the any apartments to talk to your coaching

883
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 1: staff and say does he fit what you guys are running?

884
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 1: Do you have a place for him? Do you have

885
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:08,000
Speaker 1: a role for him? Right? And if you don't, you're

886
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 1: not draft him in round one. If he's not gonna

887
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:12,319
Speaker 1: be on the field, you're almost he's almost like one

888
00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 1: of those you know, college freshman recruits where you recruiting

889
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 1: him as an athlete, or he hasn't filled out physically right,

890
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:21,840
Speaker 1: not really, you don't know where he's gonna fit. He's

891
00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 1: too good an athlete, He's too strong, too fast, too skilled,

892
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:28,080
Speaker 1: too coordinated not to get on the field. You gotta

893
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:30,359
Speaker 1: figure out. And a lot of times if you figure

894
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 1: out where are we weak on that side of the ball, Okay,

895
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 1: let's see if we can fit him there. Yeah, and

896
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Speaker 1: fill that hole. And maybe the Browns are gonna do that.

897
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:40,399
Speaker 1: Certainly you can start out with a sub package for him. Well,

898
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:42,560
Speaker 1: and their front seven's pretty loaded right now from a

899
00:51:42,600 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 1: depth perspective anyway. So they got they got some guys. Yeah,

900
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Speaker 1: they're they're gonna be a really good they got I'll

901
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: say it right now. They're gonna probably win the AFC North.

902
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 1: I mean, Baltimore might have something to say about it,

903
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 1: but I think it's a two horse race in that division.

904
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 1: It's Baltimore in Cleveland and Pittsburgh is a distant third.

905
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:03,080
Speaker 1: I think they're step below. If Baltimore can emphasize their

906
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:05,200
Speaker 1: passing game a little more than they did last year

907
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 1: and consistently do that, they can still win that division.

908
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:14,160
Speaker 1: Three to physical ideah yeah, eight three five fifty one,

909
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two, five fifty the number to

910
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 1: get on board if you have a question about the team,

911
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 1: the league at large, the roster, the schedule, have at it.

912
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 1: We're here to take on all comers. But we're gonna

913
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 1: go back to the OBL Friday fan mail bag, and

914
00:52:29,400 --> 00:52:32,760
Speaker 1: there is Rachel who says, based on our roster moves,

915
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 1: is there any position group that you think is worse

916
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: off going into this year versus last year? That's that's

917
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 1: not an easy one. I gotta think about that for

918
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 1: a second. Do you have an early take on this?

919
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: I do. I thought about this quite a bit, and

920
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:50,239
Speaker 1: you know, the only position group that I think it

921
00:52:50,280 --> 00:52:53,319
Speaker 1: would probably be that is worse than last year, or

922
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 1: at least has more questions than last year. For me,

923
00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:00,359
Speaker 1: it would be tight end because you've still got Dawson

924
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:03,320
Speaker 1: Knox coming back, but Tyler Croft has gone, Lee Evans

925
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:06,560
Speaker 1: is gone, and he brought in Hollister or a Lee Smith.

926
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:11,440
Speaker 1: Lee Smith's gone and U and Croft is gone. So

927
00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 1: two of those guys are gone. You've got Dawson Knox there.

928
00:53:14,239 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 1: He's obviously going to be the starter, or at least

929
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,879
Speaker 1: projected starter at this point. And the guys you brought

930
00:53:19,920 --> 00:53:25,200
Speaker 1: in Hollister and the other guy, the guys that I

931
00:53:25,239 --> 00:53:30,920
Speaker 1: can't tell. But he's more than moved, right. So that's

932
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:35,080
Speaker 1: a positions from medical issues, right, and he we haven't

933
00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:39,319
Speaker 1: seen him on the field since his rookie year, So yeah,

934
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:42,319
Speaker 1: that would be a a position group where I think

935
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:44,240
Speaker 1: he got some question marks. Although your starter is still

936
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:46,880
Speaker 1: intact from last year, but you don't have a big,

937
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:53,239
Speaker 1: heavy physical on inline blocker like Lee Smith and and

938
00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:55,320
Speaker 1: Tyler Croft had, who had some a little bit of

939
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 1: a resume coming to Buffalo from Cincinnati is gone. And

940
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: now you've got Hollister who also as a pretty good

941
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 1: resume coming about like Tyler crofted coming from Cincinnati. As

942
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:06,759
Speaker 1: Hollister makes his way over from Seattle, I would go

943
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:08,520
Speaker 1: back and look, he had a nice game against the

944
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:10,719
Speaker 1: Bills in the Seattle. He did he was the leading

945
00:54:10,760 --> 00:54:13,279
Speaker 1: receiver for the team. I think, um because you can't

946
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 1: cover everybody and they were focused on Metcalf and Locket. Yeah,

947
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:21,520
Speaker 1: and I think too, I would agree with you, it's

948
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:25,279
Speaker 1: probably tight end. The only other position that I even

949
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: gave a second thought to was was corner, but not

950
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:33,799
Speaker 1: from the from the standpoint of being worse than it

951
00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 1: was last year. The depth behind the top three, you

952
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:42,480
Speaker 1: know tarn Johnson, tredevious flight and assuming Levy Wallace's young

953
00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:46,320
Speaker 1: is young and unproven, And you might be able to

954
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:48,640
Speaker 1: say the same thing about the safety position behind Poyer

955
00:54:48,680 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: and hide young and unproven Jaquan Johnson. He's been around

956
00:54:52,680 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 1: for a bit, He's yeah, this is second third season here,

957
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:59,520
Speaker 1: so third season. Yeah, so we'll see. But yeah, really,

958
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:03,080
Speaker 1: there aren't many. There aren't many, which is why the

959
00:55:03,280 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 1: which is why the expectations is so high for this team.

960
00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:08,400
Speaker 1: Though to the most of the questions or the perceived

961
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 1: weakness that we're talking about is because of backup players

962
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 1: being right different or perhaps yea more unproved. If you

963
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:17,839
Speaker 1: run into a rash of injuries, you know, you're like, oh,

964
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:19,799
Speaker 1: we're gonna be okay there, like you're not one hundred

965
00:55:19,840 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 1: percent sure, just because they haven't done it. They haven't

966
00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:24,880
Speaker 1: had the opportunity to do it right. And fortunately do

967
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 1: a really good sports science department here, along with an

968
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,160
Speaker 1: athletic training staff and a strength and conditioning staff that's

969
00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 1: really good. The injuries have been kept to a minimum,

970
00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:38,360
Speaker 1: and that's why a lot of these younger players haven't

971
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:40,200
Speaker 1: had as many opportunities to get on the field on

972
00:55:40,239 --> 00:55:45,440
Speaker 1: offensive defense respectively. Nick from the Mailbag says, after what

973
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:48,279
Speaker 1: both the Bills and Chiefs did in free agency and

974
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 1: the draft. Do you think we currently match up better, worse,

975
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:57,440
Speaker 1: or about the same against the Chiefs compared to last season?

976
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 1: Probably about the same. I think the Bills in some

977
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:05,239
Speaker 1: respects have gotten better John Brown for Emmanuel Sanders, I

978
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 1: don't know. I would I'd say it's a push because

979
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:10,439
Speaker 1: Sanders does runs routes and gets separation better than John

980
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 1: Brown did. But John Brown was significantly faster. John Brown

981
00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: was a productive player here, but so and Emmanuel Sanders

982
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:21,359
Speaker 1: has been throughout his career. The Bill's offensive line comes

983
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:25,960
Speaker 1: back with greater depth and greater competition behind it. These

984
00:56:26,200 --> 00:56:29,280
Speaker 1: Chiefs have got a couple of really strong draft picks

985
00:56:29,600 --> 00:56:35,760
Speaker 1: and Baltimore's left tackle and the Orlando Brown Orlando Brown

986
00:56:35,800 --> 00:56:38,359
Speaker 1: moves over, so they've they've bolstered their offensive line, which

987
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:43,319
Speaker 1: and Joe Tuney, Joe Tuney and Kyle Long right, I

988
00:56:43,360 --> 00:56:47,440
Speaker 1: mean that offensive line is significantly better in my estimation

989
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 1: for Kansas City, I think Buffalo essentially held serve with

990
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:53,160
Speaker 1: some young guys in the pipeline in terms of their

991
00:56:53,200 --> 00:56:56,719
Speaker 1: offensive line. Um, I think the Bills, I think the

992
00:56:56,800 --> 00:57:00,439
Speaker 1: question would be I'd say the Chiefs are still the team,

993
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:04,319
Speaker 1: but the Bills depending on how their draft picks the

994
00:57:04,400 --> 00:57:07,640
Speaker 1: first four draft picks perform, the two offensive lineman and

995
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 1: the two edge rushers, that could put the Bills closer

996
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:14,319
Speaker 1: to closing that gap if those guys all, if those

997
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 1: guys perform, particularly the Yeah, I think they subtracted Sammy

998
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:21,280
Speaker 1: Watkins from the receiving corps. Not a tremendous loss, but

999
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:26,720
Speaker 1: a loss. But they've retooled their offensive line in great fashion.

1000
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:30,640
Speaker 1: They did lose their outside linebacker Damian Wilson, who signed

1001
00:57:30,640 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 1: with Jacksonville, so that to me is a loss. And

1002
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 1: then they did a good job Steve in free agency.

1003
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:44,120
Speaker 1: You know they get They plucked Jarren Read, the defensive

1004
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 1: tackle away from Seattle on a one year deal. That's

1005
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:50,200
Speaker 1: a good player. It's a good player. And then they

1006
00:57:50,240 --> 00:57:54,840
Speaker 1: add running back Jeric McKinnon, another speed element out of

1007
00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:57,640
Speaker 1: the backfield. And I think I saw today they just

1008
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 1: traded with Minnesota for cornerback Mike You it's a starting

1009
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:06,160
Speaker 1: caliber corner that they just trade for. Like ah, they

1010
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:09,360
Speaker 1: are a frustrating team because every time you think you're

1011
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:13,760
Speaker 1: closing the gap, they do something else to increase the separation. Again. Yeah,

1012
00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:17,680
Speaker 1: they're doing. Really, they have really done a nice job.

1013
00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you that. You know what is allowing

1014
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:22,640
Speaker 1: them to do that is the structure of mahomes contract.

1015
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:27,160
Speaker 1: Yes he's gonna get his money, but he ain't gonna

1016
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: get it for another three years for well, actually for

1017
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:34,560
Speaker 1: twenty seven, he's gonna not gonna get it for seven years.

1018
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 1: I mean twenty twenty seven. I believe he gets a

1019
00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:42,560
Speaker 1: balloon payment of like sixty seven million bucks and all

1020
00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:45,600
Speaker 1: that it's spread out towards the back end of this contract.

1021
00:58:45,680 --> 00:58:49,600
Speaker 1: It's it's a pretty amazing deal as long as it is.

1022
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:52,040
Speaker 1: And the fact that he's willing to sit back and

1023
00:58:52,080 --> 00:58:54,840
Speaker 1: take less money to begin with, he doesn't start making

1024
00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:58,840
Speaker 1: it until twenty twenty three. And because of that, the

1025
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:01,720
Speaker 1: team has enough money even in this strap cap year

1026
00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:06,400
Speaker 1: to lay on the table to say, you know, we're

1027
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 1: going to spend some money and support you. And they've

1028
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:10,720
Speaker 1: done a really nice job of that. They've been a

1029
00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:13,080
Speaker 1: really nice job of that, and credit Mahomes for being

1030
00:59:13,120 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 1: a part of it now. Hughes is a former first

1031
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 1: round pick, but he's had injuries basically his entire career.

1032
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:23,360
Speaker 1: Tore his acl his rookie year has had two neck surgeries.

1033
00:59:23,880 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 1: So because of that risk, all the Chiefs had to

1034
00:59:27,120 --> 00:59:29,360
Speaker 1: do was throw a seventh or throw a sixth round

1035
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:32,439
Speaker 1: pick to Minnesota. They got Hughes and a seventh round

1036
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:38,680
Speaker 1: pick in exchange, which I think shows even Minnesota recognizes

1037
00:59:38,720 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 1: the risk that it is for the Chiefs to take

1038
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:42,240
Speaker 1: him on and try to make him a good corner

1039
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:46,480
Speaker 1: in their Minnesota's thinking, we're never gonna get this guy.

1040
00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 1: They're never going to sign him to a second contriven

1041
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 1: they've given up on so that at least we'll get

1042
00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 1: a draft pick out of him because he's entering the

1043
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:57,000
Speaker 1: final year of his rookie deal. Physical player, has talent,

1044
00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 1: has ability, can stay healthy. That's what HAPs when you

1045
01:00:00,400 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 1: get a first round or they're gonna check some of

1046
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:05,200
Speaker 1: those physical boxes because those things you can measure. But yeah,

1047
01:00:05,240 --> 01:00:08,880
Speaker 1: that obviously the Vikings are like, he never worked for

1048
01:00:08,920 --> 01:00:11,120
Speaker 1: us because he was injured, and so he's far from

1049
01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 1: a lock. I get that, and I mean think about

1050
01:00:13,240 --> 01:00:15,280
Speaker 1: it that the Chiefs have done a nice job of

1051
01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 1: not only maintaining and holding onto the assets they cove it,

1052
01:00:20,440 --> 01:00:22,960
Speaker 1: they kind of make pretty astute decisions in terms of

1053
01:00:23,360 --> 01:00:25,240
Speaker 1: we're not gonna pay this guy. We're just gonna let

1054
01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:29,440
Speaker 1: him walk. We're gonna focus our money's here. We're gonna

1055
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:33,320
Speaker 1: go a little bit budgetary here, and we should be okay.

1056
01:00:33,360 --> 01:00:36,640
Speaker 1: And it's an interesting too. They're not afraid. They're both

1057
01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:38,360
Speaker 1: tackles from a team that went to the Super Bowl.

1058
01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:41,920
Speaker 1: They just thanks, guys, appreciate you. Yeah, and they just

1059
01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:44,440
Speaker 1: drafted two more or and then well they traded for

1060
01:00:44,520 --> 01:00:49,360
Speaker 1: one and drafted another one. What they've done with their

1061
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:52,200
Speaker 1: offensive line is flat out amazing. I mean, they pay

1062
01:00:52,240 --> 01:00:56,000
Speaker 1: the they pay a franchise tag type money for Joe

1063
01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:58,560
Speaker 1: Tuning to come in and be the guard. They trade

1064
01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 1: for Orlando Brown, and then they get Kyle Along out

1065
01:01:01,360 --> 01:01:03,040
Speaker 1: of retirement on a one year deal for like five

1066
01:01:03,080 --> 01:01:08,080
Speaker 1: million bucks. Now, Kyle Long had was beat up almost

1067
01:01:08,080 --> 01:01:10,880
Speaker 1: his entire career in Chicago, which is why he retired

1068
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:13,200
Speaker 1: at age thirty one. You know. Now he's back at

1069
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:16,240
Speaker 1: age thirty two trying to resuscitate his career. But they

1070
01:01:16,920 --> 01:01:21,360
Speaker 1: find these little opportunities, and a lot of times they

1071
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:23,920
Speaker 1: have panned out for them over the years, not to

1072
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:28,520
Speaker 1: any great success, but serviceable players, players that can kind

1073
01:01:28,520 --> 01:01:33,440
Speaker 1: of help keep everything together, gloop type players, and when

1074
01:01:33,440 --> 01:01:35,200
Speaker 1: you have Mahomes, He's going to cover up a lot

1075
01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 1: of that stuff where you don't need a juggernaut player

1076
01:01:38,320 --> 01:01:42,760
Speaker 1: at this position, you know what I mean. So the

1077
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:44,480
Speaker 1: Bills very quickly are going to be in a very

1078
01:01:44,480 --> 01:01:47,280
Speaker 1: similar boat. I mean, once they start paying Josh Allen

1079
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:51,120
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback money, they're gonna have to take a lot

1080
01:01:51,200 --> 01:01:53,120
Speaker 1: of the same decisions that the Chiefs make can apply

1081
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:57,440
Speaker 1: it to this roster going forward, and it takes like

1082
01:01:57,520 --> 01:02:01,040
Speaker 1: we saw in New England for twenty years, a quarterback

1083
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:04,520
Speaker 1: that is lower than market value, particularly playing at the

1084
01:02:04,600 --> 01:02:07,520
Speaker 1: level that that Mahomes is, and what Brady did for

1085
01:02:07,560 --> 01:02:10,960
Speaker 1: those all those years gives you if your team's smart,

1086
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:13,480
Speaker 1: they spend that money wisely and the rest of the

1087
01:02:13,560 --> 01:02:18,080
Speaker 1: roster starts supporting a great player, and you know you're

1088
01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:20,960
Speaker 1: you can sustain success. I mean this, this whole thing

1089
01:02:21,080 --> 01:02:23,720
Speaker 1: is built for you to be good and we all

1090
01:02:23,840 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 1: and it's become almost cliche for all these teams say, well,

1091
01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 1: their windows open, it's they got to get done through

1092
01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:30,760
Speaker 1: it while they're still there or the windows about to

1093
01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:33,880
Speaker 1: slam shut. You hear that a lot With Green Bay,

1094
01:02:34,080 --> 01:02:36,080
Speaker 1: They've got a ton of guys that that things are

1095
01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:38,680
Speaker 1: going to change them there for in two years. Uh,

1096
01:02:39,600 --> 01:02:41,560
Speaker 1: that's not the way they're trying to build it here

1097
01:02:41,560 --> 01:02:43,000
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. That's not the way they're doing it in

1098
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:45,680
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Um, that's not the way they did it

1099
01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:49,840
Speaker 1: for a long time in New England. So it's um

1100
01:02:49,840 --> 01:02:51,640
Speaker 1: And there are other teams around that are trying to

1101
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:53,800
Speaker 1: like sustain it. But you can see it, you know

1102
01:02:53,840 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 1: that the other shoes about to drop. Lams the rams

1103
01:02:56,560 --> 01:02:59,200
Speaker 1: there for one that the New Orleans Saints happened to.

1104
01:02:59,240 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 1: The sat Saints have already had that, you know, the

1105
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:06,160
Speaker 1: give a team fall from them. So teams like the Bills,

1106
01:03:06,160 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 1: the Chiefs, Baltimore has done a nice job with that.

1107
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 1: The Steelers have done a nice job like that. They

1108
01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:15,440
Speaker 1: can they remain competitive for a long period of time

1109
01:03:15,560 --> 01:03:20,560
Speaker 1: because a they can keep the costs in line all

1110
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:25,160
Speaker 1: the way across their roster and they astutely bring in

1111
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:28,560
Speaker 1: people they can fill that gap and be and get

1112
01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 1: better value in their production than they than they are

1113
01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:34,320
Speaker 1: on the ledger. And that's that's really keys. You gotta

1114
01:03:34,320 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 1: have a couple of guys or a few guys that

1115
01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:38,400
Speaker 1: can do that or are doing that, And it's motivating

1116
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:40,640
Speaker 1: for them because you think, like Kyle Long is going

1117
01:03:40,720 --> 01:03:43,400
Speaker 1: to come in and he's going to try and play

1118
01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:46,240
Speaker 1: for another contract for a team that's gonna go deep

1119
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:51,120
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. So they're motivated to play. Well. They're

1120
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:56,600
Speaker 1: getting paid really good by other standards, but by okay,

1121
01:03:56,640 --> 01:03:59,600
Speaker 1: by NFL standards, and everybody's happy. Let's go and let's

1122
01:03:59,640 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 1: win some football games and then next year we'll kind

1123
01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 1: of reevaluate and rebuild it again. I think that's I

1124
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:11,080
Speaker 1: think it's amazingly been shown that it can be done.

1125
01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:15,880
Speaker 1: But you know, when now we come full circle, it's

1126
01:04:16,160 --> 01:04:17,720
Speaker 1: you can get it done when you have that guy

1127
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:21,600
Speaker 1: taking snaps. So, Nick, that was a long way of

1128
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:24,280
Speaker 1: us getting too. I think we agree on this that

1129
01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:28,040
Speaker 1: it's about the same in terms of closing the gap

1130
01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:30,280
Speaker 1: on the Chiefs. Yes, with some of the moves they've

1131
01:04:30,280 --> 01:04:32,840
Speaker 1: made in the offseason as well as the Bills. Now,

1132
01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:38,040
Speaker 1: could it change between now and Week five, Absolutely, because

1133
01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:40,840
Speaker 1: maybe one of the rookies, maybe one of the rookie

1134
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:43,480
Speaker 1: pass rushers for the Bills is lighting the world on

1135
01:04:43,520 --> 01:04:45,760
Speaker 1: fire and training camp and has won a starting job

1136
01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:48,800
Speaker 1: and looks like he's gonna tear it up right that

1137
01:04:48,880 --> 01:04:51,240
Speaker 1: could change the dynamics. Well, you know how I feel

1138
01:04:51,240 --> 01:04:54,040
Speaker 1: about this this Let me just put finger clothes this

1139
01:04:54,120 --> 01:04:56,479
Speaker 1: gap between the Chiefs and the Bills and the Chiefs

1140
01:04:56,520 --> 01:05:00,960
Speaker 1: and anybody else you want to name. You know, yes,

1141
01:05:01,080 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 1: they're They're awesome. They're one of the best teams in

1142
01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:05,120
Speaker 1: the league, have been for a handful of years now

1143
01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:08,320
Speaker 1: with Pat Mahomes. They were really good with Alex Smith.

1144
01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:12,840
Speaker 1: But the gap, the perceived gap when you see these guys,

1145
01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:14,840
Speaker 1: and we saw him for two months, they didn't play

1146
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:16,960
Speaker 1: very well. They didn't play very well for two months

1147
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:19,200
Speaker 1: to close the season out because they had to see it.

1148
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:22,680
Speaker 1: They're so good. I mean, they never even parted, they

1149
01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:25,600
Speaker 1: never even put it into gear. Then they played their

1150
01:05:25,680 --> 01:05:29,440
Speaker 1: best game in two months against the Buffalo Bills. Finally

1151
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:31,360
Speaker 1: in the championship game, they didn't even play well against

1152
01:05:31,360 --> 01:05:34,920
Speaker 1: the bank the Browns the week before they almost got out.

1153
01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:37,120
Speaker 1: To know why they did, almost nicked up. They don't

1154
01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:38,680
Speaker 1: know why they did because they watched the tape of

1155
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:40,600
Speaker 1: the last four games of the regular season by the

1156
01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:42,760
Speaker 1: Bills and they're like, oh crap, these guys are lumping

1157
01:05:42,800 --> 01:05:44,680
Speaker 1: people up right, we better be on our p's and

1158
01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:46,680
Speaker 1: q's and be ready for this team. Otherwise we're gonna

1159
01:05:46,680 --> 01:05:48,720
Speaker 1: get embarrassed. Right. They didn't even they didn't even show

1160
01:05:48,800 --> 01:05:51,160
Speaker 1: up really big for the Browns game. They almost got beat.

1161
01:05:51,200 --> 01:05:53,200
Speaker 1: There was a close game, a closer game than the

1162
01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:55,440
Speaker 1: actual Bills game ended up being. Now the Bills come

1163
01:05:55,480 --> 01:05:59,320
Speaker 1: into the Chiefs game, they didn't play well, the Chiefs did,

1164
01:05:59,720 --> 01:06:03,560
Speaker 1: and it turns thirty eight to twenty four. What my

1165
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:07,520
Speaker 1: point is this that gay, you know, you can grade

1166
01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:10,400
Speaker 1: this anyway you want. If the Chiefs play great and

1167
01:06:10,440 --> 01:06:13,360
Speaker 1: the Bills play great, I still think the Chiefs win

1168
01:06:14,000 --> 01:06:16,680
Speaker 1: in a one score game. If the Chiefs don't play

1169
01:06:16,720 --> 01:06:18,720
Speaker 1: well and the Bills do, the Bills win a one

1170
01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:21,080
Speaker 1: score game. So so hold on, let's look at this

1171
01:06:21,120 --> 01:06:25,440
Speaker 1: a little differently that Bills and Chiefs. This might paint

1172
01:06:25,440 --> 01:06:28,760
Speaker 1: the picture clearer to our listeners and viewers. In your estimation,

1173
01:06:28,840 --> 01:06:33,240
Speaker 1: if the Bills and Chiefs played ten times last year,

1174
01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:38,880
Speaker 1: what's the breakdown of wins for each six and four,

1175
01:06:39,080 --> 01:06:41,360
Speaker 1: three and seven something like that, So like the Chiefs

1176
01:06:41,360 --> 01:06:45,640
Speaker 1: would win six out of ten, seven out of ten, right, yeah,

1177
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:49,880
Speaker 1: and I think Vegas would be six and a half. Yeah, right,

1178
01:06:50,120 --> 01:06:52,520
Speaker 1: in favor of the Chiefs. I think that paints the

1179
01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:55,960
Speaker 1: picture like the Bills aren't that far off? How far

1180
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:58,040
Speaker 1: off a couple of wins here or there if they

1181
01:06:58,120 --> 01:07:01,800
Speaker 1: played ten times, Yes, exactly the Bills. And so I'm

1182
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:05,280
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is this, Yeah, the Chief's got it

1183
01:07:05,320 --> 01:07:07,080
Speaker 1: going on, no question about it. But I don't. But

1184
01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:09,720
Speaker 1: I'm not here to rip it all out, throw it

1185
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:11,960
Speaker 1: all out and try and rebuild because you got to

1186
01:07:11,960 --> 01:07:15,080
Speaker 1: beat one team, because you got eighteen weeks to get

1187
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:17,040
Speaker 1: to a point where you play them and something that

1188
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:19,880
Speaker 1: really means something to you. So just play good on

1189
01:07:19,920 --> 01:07:22,680
Speaker 1: that day and let the chips fall where they may

1190
01:07:22,760 --> 01:07:24,560
Speaker 1: and expect them to play well. But if you if

1191
01:07:24,560 --> 01:07:26,320
Speaker 1: you hit all the right cylinders and if you play

1192
01:07:26,360 --> 01:07:28,320
Speaker 1: your best, you can beat them, and you can beat

1193
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:35,800
Speaker 1: them consistently if you do that consistently. That's my point. Certainly,

1194
01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:39,640
Speaker 1: the Chiefs right now are a better football team than

1195
01:07:39,680 --> 01:07:42,600
Speaker 1: just about everybody when they're on. Yeah, when they're on.

1196
01:07:42,720 --> 01:07:45,040
Speaker 1: But the Bills are good enough and talent enough to

1197
01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:48,880
Speaker 1: beat them on any given any given week. From Chris

1198
01:07:49,280 --> 01:07:52,600
Speaker 1: in the OBL fan mail Bag, do you think Tim

1199
01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:56,720
Speaker 1: Tebow will be like the Saints? Taysom Hill respectfully. No,

1200
01:07:58,160 --> 01:08:02,160
Speaker 1: not at age thirty three. If you wanted to give

1201
01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:04,600
Speaker 1: that a shot when he was twenty four, twenty five,

1202
01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:07,840
Speaker 1: I'd listen to it. I still don't think he's as

1203
01:08:07,840 --> 01:08:11,040
Speaker 1: fast as Taysom Hill. I'm gonna say this, Taysom Hill

1204
01:08:11,920 --> 01:08:15,480
Speaker 1: might be the second fastest quarterback in the league after

1205
01:08:15,560 --> 01:08:20,439
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. He's really fast. I don't always stopwatch speed,

1206
01:08:20,479 --> 01:08:24,160
Speaker 1: and I could look it up. That dude can run. Yeah,

1207
01:08:24,200 --> 01:08:26,599
Speaker 1: he's a good as There aren't many quarterbacks faster than him.

1208
01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:30,280
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, unquestionably is. I'm trying hard to think about

1209
01:08:30,320 --> 01:08:34,680
Speaker 1: maybe another guy that is definitively faster than Taysom Hills.

1210
01:08:35,720 --> 01:08:39,240
Speaker 1: He's a really, really good athlete, throws the ball pretty well.

1211
01:08:39,320 --> 01:08:43,200
Speaker 1: I think Sean Peyton gave him someplace because that's how

1212
01:08:43,200 --> 01:08:45,400
Speaker 1: good he is. I mean, they gotta say, listen, we

1213
01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:47,000
Speaker 1: gotta give this guy a chance to play well. See

1214
01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:48,559
Speaker 1: what we can get some mileage out him. Plus, with

1215
01:08:48,600 --> 01:08:52,639
Speaker 1: Drew Brees being you know, ninety three years old playing quarterback,

1216
01:08:52,720 --> 01:08:56,360
Speaker 1: give him some breaks bringing a change up over the

1217
01:08:56,439 --> 01:08:58,439
Speaker 1: last couple of years. Give Drew Brees a couple of

1218
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:03,160
Speaker 1: plays off will not expose him to the kind of

1219
01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:05,960
Speaker 1: punishment that he could take by asking him to run

1220
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:11,400
Speaker 1: these plays that Taysom Hill runs. But let's start the transition,

1221
01:09:11,920 --> 01:09:14,960
Speaker 1: and Taysom Hill, in a lot of ways knocked it

1222
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:17,400
Speaker 1: out of the park and earned himself a chance to

1223
01:09:17,479 --> 01:09:22,720
Speaker 1: be the guy going forward. I don't think he's gonna be.

1224
01:09:24,240 --> 01:09:27,559
Speaker 1: I think he'll be surprised at how well Jamis Winston

1225
01:09:27,640 --> 01:09:32,120
Speaker 1: plays Um. He'll be a change of pace. Taysom Hill.

1226
01:09:32,320 --> 01:09:35,000
Speaker 1: I think he may special plays both those guys. He

1227
01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:37,400
Speaker 1: may be doing the exact same this year that he

1228
01:09:37,439 --> 01:09:39,640
Speaker 1: has been in the last couple of years. Maybe a

1229
01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:42,400
Speaker 1: little more, but maybe a little less too. Taysom Hill

1230
01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:46,719
Speaker 1: four four four in the forty. I mean the guy

1231
01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:50,160
Speaker 1: can move. He's big too, yeah, which makes it all

1232
01:09:50,200 --> 01:09:53,720
Speaker 1: the more impressive. Like so, I think Lamar Jackson's the

1233
01:09:53,720 --> 01:09:55,320
Speaker 1: only guy that's fastened him at the quarterback, So you

1234
01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:59,519
Speaker 1: can so you can say, and here's here's a real question.

1235
01:10:00,240 --> 01:10:02,400
Speaker 1: If you've got a guy like that, like Taysom Hill,

1236
01:10:02,600 --> 01:10:06,400
Speaker 1: who throws it better than Lamar Jackson, or at least

1237
01:10:06,400 --> 01:10:11,599
Speaker 1: differently and more effectively in certain ways, do you think

1238
01:10:11,640 --> 01:10:15,280
Speaker 1: Sean Payton and the New Orleans Saints go all in

1239
01:10:15,320 --> 01:10:18,280
Speaker 1: with a Taysom Hill and transform their offense the way

1240
01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:23,679
Speaker 1: Baltimore did around Lamar Jackson, you know, bringing in blocking

1241
01:10:23,720 --> 01:10:28,280
Speaker 1: wide receivers, big big offensive lineman and then go misdirection

1242
01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:30,760
Speaker 1: and running plays and all that you could. But in

1243
01:10:31,880 --> 01:10:35,320
Speaker 1: this league you're limited with that though. Well you're limited

1244
01:10:35,360 --> 01:10:38,840
Speaker 1: by your quarterback's ability to throw, right, That's what I'm saying.

1245
01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:41,880
Speaker 1: So I don't know that that if your quarterback can throw,

1246
01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:46,840
Speaker 1: then you're not limited. It actually gives you extra dimension. Yeah,

1247
01:10:46,880 --> 01:10:48,720
Speaker 1: the running game I'm talking about wouldn't be an extra

1248
01:10:48,760 --> 01:10:50,320
Speaker 1: dimension to a guy that can throw. And then the

1249
01:10:50,439 --> 01:10:52,800
Speaker 1: question becomes how much of that do you turn to

1250
01:10:53,600 --> 01:10:57,080
Speaker 1: and utilize in a given week. Knowing your quarterback can

1251
01:10:57,120 --> 01:10:59,600
Speaker 1: also throw the ball. I would tend to think you

1252
01:10:59,600 --> 01:11:02,479
Speaker 1: don't want to delve into that too much, just enough,

1253
01:11:02,560 --> 01:11:04,200
Speaker 1: just keep a defense on it. Is it just because

1254
01:11:04,240 --> 01:11:06,599
Speaker 1: you don't want to expose him to the punishment. Well,

1255
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:08,760
Speaker 1: that's probably part of it, but it's also because hey,

1256
01:11:08,760 --> 01:11:10,000
Speaker 1: the guy can throw the ball, and we can get

1257
01:11:10,000 --> 01:11:12,920
Speaker 1: a lot bigger chunks doing this than that. Yeah, I

1258
01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:16,120
Speaker 1: get it, but it's also you know, let's not let's

1259
01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:18,680
Speaker 1: not overstated. He's not gonna drop back and throw it

1260
01:11:18,720 --> 01:11:22,160
Speaker 1: like Josh or No or even Justin Herbert. I guess

1261
01:11:22,200 --> 01:11:24,280
Speaker 1: that makes it different. So you know what I'm saying. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he'd give you more in the passing game than Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 1: but he was not going to be you know, Dan

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01:11:28,640 --> 01:11:32,840
Speaker 1: Fouts either. So my point would be, how much do

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01:11:32,920 --> 01:11:36,519
Speaker 1: you sell out to support Taysom Hill in an offense

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01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:39,200
Speaker 1: completely tailored to him, or how much do you try

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01:11:39,200 --> 01:11:41,400
Speaker 1: and fit him into an offense that Jamis Winston and

1268
01:11:41,479 --> 01:11:45,200
Speaker 1: Drew Brees run. You know what I mean, Maybe you

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01:11:45,240 --> 01:11:46,880
Speaker 1: try and do both, But then again, you're back to

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01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:48,640
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill being the same guy he's been for a

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Speaker 1: couple of years. We're gonna take a break here because

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Speaker 1: when we return, the rookies are off the field from

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Speaker 1: a rookie mini camp, and we're gonna listen in to

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Speaker 1: a little bit of Rashod Wild Goose, who is answering

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Speaker 1: questions from the media, will join him when we return

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Speaker 1: here on One Bill's Live presented by Kalid to Health,

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Speaker 1: It's Buffalo Bill's Radio. I'll come back to One Bill's Live.

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01:12:25,400 --> 01:12:27,719
Speaker 1: Chris brown Steep task me with you on an obl

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Speaker 1: fan mail bag Friday, still answering your questions, but right

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Speaker 1: now we want to take you to the Q and A.

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01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:39,720
Speaker 1: That Bill's newest cornerback, Rashad Wild Goose answering questions of

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01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:44,880
Speaker 1: the media after his rookie mini camp practice today. What

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01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:47,400
Speaker 1: was that like though, just being able to kind of

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01:12:47,720 --> 01:12:50,040
Speaker 1: get here and be out here and just see your

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01:12:50,120 --> 01:12:52,720
Speaker 1: name on the locker room and that that whole experience.

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01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:56,439
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. It's pretty cool. I feel like my like,

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01:12:56,520 --> 01:12:58,400
Speaker 1: I'm not satisfied, like I want to be a Hall

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01:12:58,439 --> 01:13:00,599
Speaker 1: of Famer. So it was pretty who were seeing all

1289
01:13:00,640 --> 01:13:02,840
Speaker 1: that stuff? But I got bigger goals in mind, so,

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01:13:03,160 --> 01:13:06,120
Speaker 1: you know, and then just quickly, I know you touched

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01:13:06,120 --> 01:13:08,720
Speaker 1: on your last name. Um, but just like your teammates

1292
01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:11,720
Speaker 1: now being here kind of what's the reaction that you get.

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01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:14,080
Speaker 1: Do people say anything or you know, do you have

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01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:17,680
Speaker 1: a nickname anything like that? Oh? Yeah, most people call

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01:13:17,720 --> 01:13:21,120
Speaker 1: me Goose, you know, most people call me that. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: my teammates, you know, they're pretty cool. Everybody's getting to

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01:13:24,560 --> 01:13:26,479
Speaker 1: know each other. Got my boy d him right here,

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01:13:26,479 --> 01:13:33,479
Speaker 1: you know, nice, very cool. Thank you so much. You are. Hey,

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01:13:33,400 --> 01:13:35,599
Speaker 1: we shot how you doing? Dante? Lasting with those dot

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01:13:35,600 --> 01:13:39,320
Speaker 1: com I'm doing good. How about you? Good? Good, good good.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to know what types of conversations you've

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01:13:41,720 --> 01:13:43,840
Speaker 1: had with some of your rookie class and any of

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01:13:43,880 --> 01:13:45,560
Speaker 1: the coaches over the past couple of weeks now that

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01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:49,559
Speaker 1: you're part of the team. Uh, With my teammates, you know,

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01:13:49,600 --> 01:13:52,400
Speaker 1: we've just been trying to uplift each other. You know,

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01:13:52,439 --> 01:13:54,760
Speaker 1: we check up on each other, We see each other

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01:13:54,800 --> 01:13:57,439
Speaker 1: walking around. You know, we all at the hotel together,

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01:13:57,479 --> 01:14:00,120
Speaker 1: so you know how that go. But my coach just

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01:14:00,160 --> 01:14:02,360
Speaker 1: I've been trying to communicate with them on getting better

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01:14:02,479 --> 01:14:06,200
Speaker 1: and learning my job and learning my assignment how to

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01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:08,800
Speaker 1: be a pro. Really, is there anyone that you've gotten

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01:14:08,840 --> 01:14:10,719
Speaker 1: to know a little bit better since you've been in Buffalo,

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01:14:11,920 --> 01:14:18,559
Speaker 1: like a team or a coach, teammate. Uh, Dhm is

1314
01:14:18,560 --> 01:14:22,920
Speaker 1: my locker mate, and uh Gregory ROSSU he from my area,

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01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:27,439
Speaker 1: so I kind of been been to him for a while. Awesome.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Hey, Rish, Jay Skurski with the Buffalo News,

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01:14:33,080 --> 01:14:36,360
Speaker 1: thanks for taking some time today. We Uh I asked you,

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01:14:36,360 --> 01:14:39,360
Speaker 1: you know, immediately after you were drafted about playing for

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01:14:39,520 --> 01:14:43,320
Speaker 1: Jim Leonard at Wisconsin. Just wondering though, if you've had

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01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:45,799
Speaker 1: a chance to maybe talk with him since that time,

1321
01:14:45,960 --> 01:14:48,839
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe about his experiences playing with Buffalo,

1322
01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:52,160
Speaker 1: what he told you about coming to the Bills, and

1323
01:14:52,240 --> 01:14:57,639
Speaker 1: maybe the community overall. I spoke with coach Lennard after

1324
01:14:57,680 --> 01:15:00,519
Speaker 1: the draft and we we we didn't really talk about, like,

1325
01:15:00,560 --> 01:15:05,320
Speaker 1: you know, uh, specifically Buffalo. He was just basically congratulating

1326
01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:08,439
Speaker 1: me and telling me that, you know, just continue to improve,

1327
01:15:08,560 --> 01:15:11,920
Speaker 1: continue to focus up, and that really the goal isn't finished.

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01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:15,760
Speaker 1: We didn't really talk about like specifically Buffalo and you know,

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01:15:15,880 --> 01:15:18,519
Speaker 1: things to do here and how life is Buffalo. He

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01:15:18,600 --> 01:15:22,080
Speaker 1: was just telling me to continue to grind. Yeah, And

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01:15:22,400 --> 01:15:25,559
Speaker 1: you mentioned earlier that you know, it felt comfortable. It

1332
01:15:25,560 --> 01:15:28,559
Speaker 1: felt like football, even though you had an extended absence

1333
01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:30,439
Speaker 1: last season and it's been a while since you've been

1334
01:15:30,479 --> 01:15:33,160
Speaker 1: on the field. Why why do you feel like it

1335
01:15:33,240 --> 01:15:38,960
Speaker 1: felt so comfortable getting back at it today. Uh? I

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01:15:39,080 --> 01:15:42,000
Speaker 1: just felt I just I don't know, I just felt comfortable.

1337
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:46,200
Speaker 1: I've been playing football for so long and it's just

1338
01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:49,880
Speaker 1: kind of like second nature almost to the uns any

1339
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:53,200
Speaker 1: nerves at all. I know it's just a rookie minicamp,

1340
01:15:53,240 --> 01:15:55,760
Speaker 1: but any nerves, you know, knowing this is you're doing

1341
01:15:55,800 --> 01:15:58,599
Speaker 1: something for the first time here, of course, Yeah, of course,

1342
01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:00,280
Speaker 1: I had a couple of nerves coming in, you know,

1343
01:16:01,040 --> 01:16:04,320
Speaker 1: trying to remember like, oh my plays and stuff like that,

1344
01:16:04,400 --> 01:16:09,000
Speaker 1: but a little bit of nerdy. Yeah, yeah, cool, Thanks man,

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01:16:09,800 --> 01:16:16,240
Speaker 1: welcome here, shot Matt Prino here. Um of one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite parts about watching practice is, you know, making

1347
01:16:18,880 --> 01:16:21,439
Speaker 1: it down to the DV you know, drill area and

1348
01:16:21,760 --> 01:16:25,240
Speaker 1: listening to John Botler. He's so passionate about what he does.

1349
01:16:25,320 --> 01:16:28,320
Speaker 1: What were your early impressions first day out there with him,

1350
01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:30,720
Speaker 1: because obviously your position coach is somebody that you know,

1351
01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:33,920
Speaker 1: you work pretty closely with coach Butler, you know you

1352
01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:36,600
Speaker 1: gotta give it your wall. Uh. He not letting you

1353
01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:40,000
Speaker 1: slack on nothing. He owned you the whole term. Every

1354
01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:43,280
Speaker 1: second of every drill, every when you step in between

1355
01:16:43,280 --> 01:16:45,640
Speaker 1: those lines is business with him. So you get that

1356
01:16:45,720 --> 01:16:48,120
Speaker 1: vibe from as soon as you get out there. And

1357
01:16:48,160 --> 01:16:50,360
Speaker 1: how do you personally react to that kind of coaching?

1358
01:16:51,439 --> 01:16:53,960
Speaker 1: It just makes me better. I don't take anything that

1359
01:16:54,000 --> 01:16:56,840
Speaker 1: he says personal. Everything. I just know he trying to

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01:16:56,920 --> 01:16:58,720
Speaker 1: get me better. I know he just doing his job,

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01:16:58,800 --> 01:17:01,479
Speaker 1: trying to help a team win. So I'll take nothing

1362
01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:08,880
Speaker 1: you say president, thank you. Well, yes, Rachett, it's Mark

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01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:11,920
Speaker 1: Gone from the Buffalo News. Um, do you want to

1364
01:17:11,920 --> 01:17:15,799
Speaker 1: ask you about Northwestern High School? Obviously famous? Uh? Pretty famous?

1365
01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:20,160
Speaker 1: UM two two was the quarterback? Like what were you?

1366
01:17:20,200 --> 01:17:22,880
Speaker 1: What were did you play? Just what were your positions?

1367
01:17:23,280 --> 01:17:28,400
Speaker 1: And Northwestern? I played corner in two to play quornament right,

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01:17:28,479 --> 01:17:31,800
Speaker 1: and then just going to a place like that, you know,

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01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:35,479
Speaker 1: is what I mean? Is this where you expected to

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01:17:35,560 --> 01:17:39,120
Speaker 1: be all since you were, you know, thirteen years old.

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Speaker 1: I mean there's so many Northwestern players you know who've

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01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:45,960
Speaker 1: gone to the NFL, And is there sort of an

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01:17:46,680 --> 01:17:49,400
Speaker 1: what is it like coming from that place and the

1374
01:17:49,400 --> 01:17:52,439
Speaker 1: competition and is this did you just figure since you

1375
01:17:52,439 --> 01:17:55,840
Speaker 1: were twelve years old you'd be in the NFL? Here? Oh?

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01:17:55,920 --> 01:17:58,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you know it was a goal. You don't

1377
01:17:58,080 --> 01:17:59,760
Speaker 1: just figure it like it's a bunch of trials and

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01:18:00,040 --> 01:18:02,800
Speaker 1: the nation to get here. Like uh, like I've been

1379
01:18:02,800 --> 01:18:04,920
Speaker 1: playing football since I was five. I didn't have a

1380
01:18:04,920 --> 01:18:08,320
Speaker 1: bunch of ups and downs out of the old line center.

1381
01:18:09,680 --> 01:18:13,120
Speaker 1: Now I'm at DV in the NFL. So at that school,

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01:18:13,160 --> 01:18:17,160
Speaker 1: it's definitely like a I would say, like a pipeline,

1383
01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:19,160
Speaker 1: but it's a lot of hard work because there's a

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01:18:19,160 --> 01:18:21,080
Speaker 1: lot of guys from that school who don't make it

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01:18:21,120 --> 01:18:22,880
Speaker 1: to the NFL. So it's it's a lot of hard

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01:18:22,880 --> 01:18:27,759
Speaker 1: work that you gotta put in, all right. That's Rashad

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01:18:27,880 --> 01:18:34,880
Speaker 1: wild Goose, one of Buffalo's sixth round draft choices. Us.

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01:18:35,080 --> 01:18:38,400
Speaker 1: He's an interesting dude. It's interesting too, you know, this

1389
01:18:38,439 --> 01:18:42,719
Speaker 1: whole rookie mini camp thing, Steve. They get in here

1390
01:18:43,160 --> 01:18:46,320
Speaker 1: there with the same guys that are experiencing the same

1391
01:18:46,360 --> 01:18:49,439
Speaker 1: things as they are at the same time, and it's

1392
01:18:49,479 --> 01:18:51,040
Speaker 1: like they cling to each other a little bit. It

1393
01:18:51,120 --> 01:18:55,280
Speaker 1: almost kind of sure makes the bonds developed that much

1394
01:18:55,320 --> 01:18:57,960
Speaker 1: faster because you're kind of all in it together at

1395
01:18:57,960 --> 01:19:01,679
Speaker 1: the same time, going through the same things, and you're

1396
01:19:01,680 --> 01:19:05,280
Speaker 1: in the same hotel the whole weekend. You're probably going

1397
01:19:05,320 --> 01:19:07,559
Speaker 1: to each other's rooms to kind of study things together

1398
01:19:07,600 --> 01:19:10,000
Speaker 1: when you have free time. I remember, I remember the

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01:19:10,080 --> 01:19:13,600
Speaker 1: rookie minicamps. It was day when when they happened, and

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01:19:13,760 --> 01:19:16,200
Speaker 1: you know, the veterans aren't we're not around. We weren't

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01:19:16,240 --> 01:19:18,880
Speaker 1: around that, and uh, I remember they did that, and

1402
01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:22,400
Speaker 1: we had rookies coming around and they come in and

1403
01:19:22,439 --> 01:19:24,800
Speaker 1: they compete against each other and they're competing against each other,

1404
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:28,280
Speaker 1: and if somebody has a really good mini rookie camp,

1405
01:19:28,439 --> 01:19:33,040
Speaker 1: sometimes they get the wrong impressions. They're feeling good about themselves. Yeah,

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01:19:33,080 --> 01:19:37,600
Speaker 1: one of the rookies who will go nameless after the

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01:19:37,680 --> 01:19:40,679
Speaker 1: rookie minicamp back in the nineties told John Butler, he says,

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01:19:40,720 --> 01:19:44,040
Speaker 1: you're gonna you're gonna be want to make me the

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01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:47,400
Speaker 1: franchise player after this, after this rookie mini because he

1410
01:19:47,439 --> 01:19:49,080
Speaker 1: was he was killing it, right, you had a really

1411
01:19:49,120 --> 01:19:52,080
Speaker 1: good mini camp. And so as soon as then we

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01:19:52,520 --> 01:19:55,639
Speaker 1: things roll out and the veterans show up, and Andre

1413
01:19:55,760 --> 01:20:00,160
Speaker 1: Reid shows up, and Don Beebe and James Lawt, these

1414
01:20:00,160 --> 01:20:05,120
Speaker 1: guys show up and unfurral you know, the pro athletes

1415
01:20:05,200 --> 01:20:07,559
Speaker 1: they are, and at the same game went over to

1416
01:20:07,640 --> 01:20:10,720
Speaker 1: John Butler's hold off, hold off on that franchise thing,

1417
01:20:11,600 --> 01:20:13,360
Speaker 1: and that was his nickname for the rest of his

1418
01:20:13,479 --> 01:20:17,759
Speaker 1: career was franchise was his nickname. So you learned quick.

1419
01:20:18,000 --> 01:20:20,639
Speaker 1: But you also can get the wrong idea when you're

1420
01:20:20,640 --> 01:20:23,240
Speaker 1: out there for the first couple of days thinking you've

1421
01:20:23,640 --> 01:20:27,240
Speaker 1: figured something, Oh is this it? I can handle this right, Yeah,

1422
01:20:27,320 --> 01:20:29,200
Speaker 1: there's a lot more to it. Yeah, a little bit.

1423
01:20:29,760 --> 01:20:32,759
Speaker 1: We go from one sixth round draft choice to another.

1424
01:20:32,840 --> 01:20:36,320
Speaker 1: These guys were taken with back to back selections. Wild

1425
01:20:36,360 --> 01:20:39,800
Speaker 1: Goose with pick number two thirteen. The guy taken one

1426
01:20:39,920 --> 01:20:42,320
Speaker 1: pick ahead of him is who we turn to now.

1427
01:20:42,439 --> 01:20:46,360
Speaker 1: It's Pits safety Damar Hamlin, now a Bill's safety here

1428
01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:50,040
Speaker 1: on one Bill's Live. Just tell us what ability that

1429
01:20:50,200 --> 01:20:54,479
Speaker 1: you bring to the game the most? You know, what

1430
01:20:54,520 --> 01:20:56,960
Speaker 1: I like to say my best ability is is making

1431
01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:00,160
Speaker 1: everybody else around me better, you know, just that's just

1432
01:21:00,160 --> 01:21:02,920
Speaker 1: just invest in my time and to my self first

1433
01:21:02,920 --> 01:21:05,800
Speaker 1: and foremost, but also um that leads into you know,

1434
01:21:05,880 --> 01:21:08,240
Speaker 1: me investing my time and my teammates. Um, just making

1435
01:21:08,240 --> 01:21:10,640
Speaker 1: sure everybody's in the right position, and just being a

1436
01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:14,160
Speaker 1: leader out there on the field. Absolutely, man spoken, just

1437
01:21:14,320 --> 01:21:16,800
Speaker 1: like a natural born leader. So with that being said,

1438
01:21:16,840 --> 01:21:19,240
Speaker 1: what have you learned today that you didn't pick up

1439
01:21:19,240 --> 01:21:23,440
Speaker 1: on in college? Um? You know, I wouldn't say necessarily

1440
01:21:23,479 --> 01:21:25,680
Speaker 1: things I didn't pick up on in college. Just some

1441
01:21:25,880 --> 01:21:28,799
Speaker 1: more things that are emphasized here at the Builds facility,

1442
01:21:29,560 --> 01:21:33,560
Speaker 1: just playoff college football and just just being a professional.

1443
01:21:33,680 --> 01:21:37,280
Speaker 1: You know, things that all entitled with just being a

1444
01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:40,360
Speaker 1: Bill absolutely, and one thing that is being a title

1445
01:21:40,439 --> 01:21:43,439
Speaker 1: being a Bill Chicken wing, so I'm quite sure you

1446
01:21:43,479 --> 01:21:45,720
Speaker 1: got too much ready to grow. I'm not sure if

1447
01:21:45,760 --> 01:21:47,800
Speaker 1: you went out to a few spots, but I know

1448
01:21:47,880 --> 01:21:51,200
Speaker 1: Byar Bill was high your list. Yeah, I haven't haven't

1449
01:21:51,200 --> 01:21:53,559
Speaker 1: really made it out yet. Um, you know, after Rookie

1450
01:21:53,640 --> 01:21:56,639
Speaker 1: Mini camp, I'm a definitely going my wing for I'll

1451
01:21:56,680 --> 01:21:59,000
Speaker 1: be about I got probably about a lot of ten

1452
01:21:59,040 --> 01:22:02,880
Speaker 1: places I need to check out. Yes, enjoy your time, man,

1453
01:22:03,040 --> 01:22:09,479
Speaker 1: enjoy your camp. Thank you appreciate it. Hi DeMar, I'm

1454
01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:12,840
Speaker 1: Vic Carricci from the Buffalo News. Nice to meet you.

1455
01:22:13,360 --> 01:22:16,320
Speaker 1: Nice to meet you. So tomorrow you touched a little

1456
01:22:16,360 --> 01:22:19,400
Speaker 1: bit on this, of course when you were drafted and

1457
01:22:19,520 --> 01:22:23,000
Speaker 1: doing this type of thing this conference called. But I

1458
01:22:23,080 --> 01:22:26,080
Speaker 1: just want to if you could expand a little more

1459
01:22:26,200 --> 01:22:30,120
Speaker 1: on the friendship, going back to childhood with Dan Jackson,

1460
01:22:30,880 --> 01:22:35,160
Speaker 1: growing up near each other in Pittsburgh and training together everything,

1461
01:22:35,160 --> 01:22:38,519
Speaker 1: and then of course your whole pit experience. But how

1462
01:22:38,520 --> 01:22:41,759
Speaker 1: how amazing is it to you to find yourself because

1463
01:22:41,800 --> 01:22:44,360
Speaker 1: this doesn't really happen by design, that the two of

1464
01:22:44,400 --> 01:22:48,320
Speaker 1: you challenge and now in the process teammates. You know,

1465
01:22:48,360 --> 01:22:52,040
Speaker 1: it's really like a situation I couldn't even imagine in

1466
01:22:52,200 --> 01:22:54,719
Speaker 1: my wildest dream. You know, Dane's really like a brother

1467
01:22:54,760 --> 01:22:57,280
Speaker 1: to me, not just a teammate that I played with

1468
01:22:57,320 --> 01:23:00,519
Speaker 1: for a rally. He's really like a brother to me. Um.

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh is a small city already, you know, and we're

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01:23:03,640 --> 01:23:05,960
Speaker 1: kind of from the same side of town. Um, so

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01:23:06,080 --> 01:23:08,360
Speaker 1: you know, we we we've pretty much been close a

1472
01:23:08,439 --> 01:23:12,040
Speaker 1: whole life, went to different high schools, but always was

1473
01:23:12,080 --> 01:23:14,439
Speaker 1: tapped in what each other had going on. And then

1474
01:23:14,439 --> 01:23:17,400
Speaker 1: we ended up at pitt was right and left hand

1475
01:23:17,840 --> 01:23:20,720
Speaker 1: at pitt and then you know, just to be hair together. Um.

1476
01:23:20,760 --> 01:23:23,720
Speaker 1: It's just it's just great to have that that comfortability,

1477
01:23:24,200 --> 01:23:28,240
Speaker 1: um right here under under one roof, and two other

1478
01:23:28,240 --> 01:23:31,880
Speaker 1: things along those lines. It went beyond the time you

1479
01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:35,240
Speaker 1: spent I guess competing in youth football right against each other,

1480
01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:39,719
Speaker 1: scrimmaging high school. Um, but training together with Dwayne Brown.

1481
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:42,880
Speaker 1: What were the what are those sessions You still do it,

1482
01:23:42,880 --> 01:23:44,920
Speaker 1: but what were those sessions or are those sessions like

1483
01:23:45,360 --> 01:23:47,799
Speaker 1: especially with you and Dane doing it in your earlier

1484
01:23:47,880 --> 01:23:54,080
Speaker 1: days with those college and pro dreams. Um. You know, well,

1485
01:23:54,120 --> 01:23:55,960
Speaker 1: like high school, we were in like two different kind

1486
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:58,799
Speaker 1: of divisions, so we never really got to play against

1487
01:23:58,800 --> 01:24:00,919
Speaker 1: each other. We just you know, we were just always

1488
01:24:01,160 --> 01:24:03,400
Speaker 1: the top at wherever we were at, Me and him.

1489
01:24:03,240 --> 01:24:06,120
Speaker 1: Um necessarily Um. But you know, training with Dee Brown

1490
01:24:06,479 --> 01:24:09,280
Speaker 1: with Dane, it's really that same feeling that you get

1491
01:24:09,520 --> 01:24:12,320
Speaker 1: whenever you did it before we were pros. You know,

1492
01:24:12,640 --> 01:24:14,559
Speaker 1: it just really it just really give you that feeling

1493
01:24:14,640 --> 01:24:16,680
Speaker 1: up like nothing's changed, and it just it makes you

1494
01:24:16,720 --> 01:24:19,880
Speaker 1: reflect on how far you came. Every time you every

1495
01:24:19,880 --> 01:24:21,760
Speaker 1: time you get to train with deep Brown. You know,

1496
01:24:22,600 --> 01:24:24,320
Speaker 1: it's a lot of guys that are in the same

1497
01:24:24,360 --> 01:24:27,040
Speaker 1: position as me and Dane that go back and train.

1498
01:24:27,080 --> 01:24:29,680
Speaker 1: So once we all get together at that place, it

1499
01:24:29,760 --> 01:24:31,439
Speaker 1: just it just it just takes you back a little

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01:24:31,439 --> 01:24:33,720
Speaker 1: bit and just makes you remember why you started doing

1501
01:24:33,760 --> 01:24:38,360
Speaker 1: us and last thing pit uh, secondary being in the

1502
01:24:38,360 --> 01:24:42,080
Speaker 1: same secondary communication, all of that. Uh, it reaches a point,

1503
01:24:42,080 --> 01:24:45,960
Speaker 1: I'm guessing where all that you've built up from childhood

1504
01:24:45,960 --> 01:24:48,320
Speaker 1: to that point, knowing each other so well, that had

1505
01:24:48,360 --> 01:24:51,479
Speaker 1: to pay some real dividends in while you're in games.

1506
01:24:51,520 --> 01:24:54,000
Speaker 1: Get give me a sense of that place. Oh yeah,

1507
01:24:54,080 --> 01:24:57,560
Speaker 1: definitely pays dividends. M Just knowing just knowing the player's mannerism,

1508
01:24:57,560 --> 01:24:59,920
Speaker 1: just know what he will do. Um, you know, just

1509
01:25:00,240 --> 01:25:02,800
Speaker 1: and feeling in different certain types of situations. That's probably

1510
01:25:02,840 --> 01:25:05,799
Speaker 1: the biggest team. UM, situational ball, just knowing the player

1511
01:25:05,840 --> 01:25:07,880
Speaker 1: on and off the field. Um, you're just able to

1512
01:25:07,880 --> 01:25:10,720
Speaker 1: get a field for where he'll be, what he'll do, um,

1513
01:25:10,800 --> 01:25:13,679
Speaker 1: and just things like that, DeMar, thank you very much,

1514
01:25:14,040 --> 01:25:21,599
Speaker 1: thank you, DeMar. Matt Preno, Syracuse dot Com. Um, what

1515
01:25:21,680 --> 01:25:24,679
Speaker 1: was it like? You know, obviously, the the entire practice

1516
01:25:24,720 --> 01:25:27,040
Speaker 1: today had to be you know, that first part of

1517
01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:29,759
Speaker 1: a real dream come true. You get you get drafted obviously,

1518
01:25:29,800 --> 01:25:31,559
Speaker 1: and now you get out of the field here. What's that?

1519
01:25:31,840 --> 01:25:34,080
Speaker 1: What was that like? And not only that, but you know,

1520
01:25:34,160 --> 01:25:37,720
Speaker 1: getting the place go through some you know, football exercises

1521
01:25:37,720 --> 01:25:41,120
Speaker 1: in the eleven on eleven drow That was very fun. Um,

1522
01:25:41,160 --> 01:25:43,960
Speaker 1: you know walking walking out to the fields, well, jogging

1523
01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:46,160
Speaker 1: out to the fields. Um. When we first started, it

1524
01:25:46,200 --> 01:25:48,120
Speaker 1: was kind of like a surreal feeling. Um. That's when

1525
01:25:48,160 --> 01:25:50,639
Speaker 1: it kind of like, you know, I haven't arrived yet,

1526
01:25:50,640 --> 01:25:53,080
Speaker 1: you know, because it's there's so much more work to do. UM.

1527
01:25:53,080 --> 01:25:55,200
Speaker 1: So I like to keep that in perspective. But uh,

1528
01:25:55,680 --> 01:25:58,280
Speaker 1: just knowing that I'm actually here, um, you know, I

1529
01:25:58,320 --> 01:26:00,360
Speaker 1: can't take that for granted, I'm in a blessed position

1530
01:26:00,600 --> 01:26:01,960
Speaker 1: that I know a lot of people will want to

1531
01:26:02,000 --> 01:26:04,920
Speaker 1: be in, So I just I cherished it and it

1532
01:26:05,360 --> 01:26:07,720
Speaker 1: just running out on that field, that's when it like

1533
01:26:07,800 --> 01:26:10,400
Speaker 1: first hit me that you know I'm here and it's

1534
01:26:10,520 --> 01:26:14,559
Speaker 1: it's just time to work, all right. That's Bill six

1535
01:26:14,680 --> 01:26:17,559
Speaker 1: round draft choice tomorrow, Hamlin, and you can already hear

1536
01:26:17,600 --> 01:26:21,479
Speaker 1: it's Steve. Just the way he thinks about the game,

1537
01:26:21,600 --> 01:26:23,439
Speaker 1: you know, being a safety, those guys have to be

1538
01:26:23,520 --> 01:26:25,840
Speaker 1: thinkers out there, as you will know. It seems like

1539
01:26:25,880 --> 01:26:29,320
Speaker 1: he already has that as part of his normal process

1540
01:26:29,400 --> 01:26:31,280
Speaker 1: just being out there on the field. Yeah. The amazing

1541
01:26:31,320 --> 01:26:35,600
Speaker 1: part about is how differently players at different positions have

1542
01:26:35,680 --> 01:26:37,320
Speaker 1: to think about the game. When you talk to them

1543
01:26:37,360 --> 01:26:39,880
Speaker 1: about what they're thinking and how they see things happen

1544
01:26:39,920 --> 01:26:43,559
Speaker 1: and what they think is behind it is so different

1545
01:26:43,640 --> 01:26:45,920
Speaker 1: on either side of the ball, offense and defense, and

1546
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:50,040
Speaker 1: also from like a quarterback to an offensive lineman, wide

1547
01:26:50,040 --> 01:26:52,960
Speaker 1: receiver skill position, even in the defensive backfield. The way

1548
01:26:52,960 --> 01:26:59,719
Speaker 1: these guys take the game in is so so different

1549
01:27:00,920 --> 01:27:04,800
Speaker 1: than each other. I think that's why you see, you know,

1550
01:27:04,840 --> 01:27:09,639
Speaker 1: guys like Christian Wade and fa Obada really struggle with

1551
01:27:09,720 --> 01:27:12,639
Speaker 1: the game because they can't. They it's hard to get

1552
01:27:12,640 --> 01:27:14,519
Speaker 1: their mind around They're trying to get their mind around

1553
01:27:14,520 --> 01:27:17,759
Speaker 1: the entire game, which most players can do pretty easily

1554
01:27:17,760 --> 01:27:19,960
Speaker 1: because they've at different levels, they've played on both sides,

1555
01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:21,360
Speaker 1: and they've done this and that. Then when they start

1556
01:27:21,360 --> 01:27:24,040
Speaker 1: to hone in, they realize there's vast portions of the

1557
01:27:24,040 --> 01:27:26,680
Speaker 1: game they don't have to think about. And when you

1558
01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:28,519
Speaker 1: know you're a player that's just trying to start out,

1559
01:27:28,560 --> 01:27:31,000
Speaker 1: you're trying to get a feel for everything level At

1560
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:34,360
Speaker 1: this level, not only is it really hard to kind

1561
01:27:34,360 --> 01:27:36,240
Speaker 1: of get your mind around what you're supposed to do,

1562
01:27:36,320 --> 01:27:38,360
Speaker 1: but it's also to know and just as importantly as

1563
01:27:38,479 --> 01:27:41,080
Speaker 1: what you don't have to worry about. When you're at

1564
01:27:41,120 --> 01:27:43,240
Speaker 1: there for the first time, you know these guys they're

1565
01:27:43,240 --> 01:27:46,360
Speaker 1: worried about everything. And then when you can kind of

1566
01:27:46,360 --> 01:27:50,000
Speaker 1: sort through and focus on what's really your job and

1567
01:27:50,080 --> 01:27:53,160
Speaker 1: what you're supposed to do, only then can you really,

1568
01:27:53,360 --> 01:27:56,479
Speaker 1: like like Damar said, you can help other guys be better.

1569
01:27:56,920 --> 01:27:59,880
Speaker 1: And that's man, that's a long thought press process and

1570
01:28:00,040 --> 01:28:01,719
Speaker 1: a lot of reps that you have to go through

1571
01:28:02,120 --> 01:28:04,960
Speaker 1: and a lot of meetings to get to that point

1572
01:28:05,960 --> 01:28:08,599
Speaker 1: break time for us. When we come back, we'll dive

1573
01:28:08,640 --> 01:28:12,920
Speaker 1: back into the obl fan Friday mailbag, and then ESPN's

1574
01:28:13,000 --> 01:28:14,800
Speaker 1: Kevin Connor is coming your way in the third hour

1575
01:28:14,920 --> 01:28:16,720
Speaker 1: of the show. Back in a moment here on One

1576
01:28:16,720 --> 01:28:19,519
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Kalid to Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio.

1577
01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:35,759
Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown Steve Tasker

1578
01:28:35,840 --> 01:28:40,160
Speaker 1: with you and pulling another question out of the mailbag

1579
01:28:40,200 --> 01:28:43,719
Speaker 1: for this week, this one from Bill Steve. He says,

1580
01:28:44,920 --> 01:28:49,519
Speaker 1: once he retires, do you guys think Ryan Fitzpatrick would

1581
01:28:49,520 --> 01:28:55,760
Speaker 1: be a terrific analyst or color commentator? Yes, yeah, it'd

1582
01:28:55,760 --> 01:28:58,920
Speaker 1: be really good. He's got a wealth of yeah, a

1583
01:28:59,080 --> 01:29:02,559
Speaker 1: smart sense, he's entertaining, got a sense of humor, and

1584
01:29:02,600 --> 01:29:07,840
Speaker 1: knows the game inside and out. Um, here's the and

1585
01:29:07,880 --> 01:29:09,160
Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to. I don't want to

1586
01:29:09,160 --> 01:29:12,639
Speaker 1: make these guys sound like anything other than great guys

1587
01:29:12,800 --> 01:29:17,360
Speaker 1: because they are. But you know he's got six kids, yep,

1588
01:29:18,040 --> 01:29:24,320
Speaker 1: I think maybe more. And he's made dozens of millions

1589
01:29:24,320 --> 01:29:29,720
Speaker 1: of dollars literally in his career, and you want him

1590
01:29:29,800 --> 01:29:37,800
Speaker 1: to travel every weekend for work for them for you know,

1591
01:29:38,240 --> 01:29:41,680
Speaker 1: he's not if he's not gonna go into Tony Romo's right,

1592
01:29:41,680 --> 01:29:43,280
Speaker 1: he's not gonna make that he's gonna make. You know,

1593
01:29:43,880 --> 01:29:47,440
Speaker 1: he's gonna make some, but he'll make enough so it wouldn't.

1594
01:29:47,479 --> 01:29:51,160
Speaker 1: In fact, the money he's gonna make might not even

1595
01:29:51,200 --> 01:29:53,479
Speaker 1: be a long weekend in Vegas for him and his wife,

1596
01:29:55,680 --> 01:29:58,599
Speaker 1: with you know, concert tickets and gambling and the hotel

1597
01:29:58,680 --> 01:30:01,439
Speaker 1: rooms and all that. He he won't make that much

1598
01:30:02,160 --> 01:30:04,040
Speaker 1: when he takes his you know, to pay for a

1599
01:30:04,080 --> 01:30:08,200
Speaker 1: weekend in Vegas. So I'm thinking he'd, Yes, he'd be

1600
01:30:08,280 --> 01:30:12,919
Speaker 1: really good at it. In fact, he may be overqualified, hilarious,

1601
01:30:13,040 --> 01:30:14,960
Speaker 1: it'd be great, and he may want to do it,

1602
01:30:15,240 --> 01:30:20,400
Speaker 1: no doubt, but it's gonna be his choice because he

1603
01:30:20,439 --> 01:30:23,040
Speaker 1: ain't gonna need the money and the tray. And let

1604
01:30:23,040 --> 01:30:25,680
Speaker 1: me take it from a guy who's done it. The

1605
01:30:25,880 --> 01:30:32,559
Speaker 1: travel is a grind, an absolute grind, so because every

1606
01:30:32,600 --> 01:30:37,000
Speaker 1: week you're going somewhere, every game is away, so it's

1607
01:30:37,120 --> 01:30:39,280
Speaker 1: you know, yes, he'd be really good at it, but

1608
01:30:39,479 --> 01:30:41,360
Speaker 1: it would be you know, he's not gonna do it

1609
01:30:41,400 --> 01:30:43,280
Speaker 1: for nothing, and I don't know that there would be

1610
01:30:43,280 --> 01:30:46,519
Speaker 1: a slot opening up just if he if they now

1611
01:30:46,600 --> 01:30:48,880
Speaker 1: here's the thing, if they found out that Ryan Fitzpatrick

1612
01:30:48,920 --> 01:30:52,000
Speaker 1: and the booth would move the needle absolutely and they'd

1613
01:30:52,000 --> 01:30:54,960
Speaker 1: make it worth it for him, and somebody will give

1614
01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:56,800
Speaker 1: him the chance to do it. They will inquire. He's

1615
01:30:56,800 --> 01:30:58,519
Speaker 1: gonna get his opportunity if he wants it. All he

1616
01:30:58,600 --> 01:31:00,439
Speaker 1: has to do is pick up the phone gonna say,

1617
01:31:00,520 --> 01:31:04,280
Speaker 1: is this the Washington Football team is his ninth team?

1618
01:31:04,880 --> 01:31:07,040
Speaker 1: Is there an NFL fan base that doesn't know who

1619
01:31:07,040 --> 01:31:11,200
Speaker 1: he is? That's right? Yeah, you want to talk about universal.

1620
01:31:12,080 --> 01:31:13,840
Speaker 1: You think about this, Tony Rubble comes out and he's

1621
01:31:13,880 --> 01:31:17,120
Speaker 1: really good at it. He's he's great, But there's a

1622
01:31:17,160 --> 01:31:19,360
Speaker 1: lot of people who aren't Dallas cowboy fans who hate

1623
01:31:19,360 --> 01:31:22,639
Speaker 1: that guy's guts before he started doing what he's doing. Now,

1624
01:31:22,960 --> 01:31:26,919
Speaker 1: everybody loves fits. Every team he's played for loved him.

1625
01:31:26,960 --> 01:31:29,639
Speaker 1: He played well for every team, and he played horrific

1626
01:31:29,680 --> 01:31:32,840
Speaker 1: for every team, which you know is he's just one

1627
01:31:32,880 --> 01:31:36,040
Speaker 1: of the guys. It's just part of the reason everybody

1628
01:31:36,040 --> 01:31:41,519
Speaker 1: loves him. Yeah, so you know it's he's a perfect

1629
01:31:41,560 --> 01:31:45,640
Speaker 1: candidate for it, absolutely, But you know it's up to

1630
01:31:45,720 --> 01:31:47,559
Speaker 1: him if he wants to do that or not. I

1631
01:31:47,640 --> 01:31:50,760
Speaker 1: can't see him doing it. I don't know why, But

1632
01:31:50,840 --> 01:31:52,880
Speaker 1: I just I think he would be good for it.

1633
01:31:53,280 --> 01:31:54,960
Speaker 1: For some reason, I just can't see him doing it.

1634
01:31:55,200 --> 01:31:58,240
Speaker 1: I see him wanting to just be like, Hey, I

1635
01:31:58,240 --> 01:32:00,960
Speaker 1: had my time in the league. I just gonna go

1636
01:32:00,960 --> 01:32:04,120
Speaker 1: home to Arizona. It might be it might be enticing

1637
01:32:04,160 --> 01:32:05,840
Speaker 1: for him, though he might say, you know what, I'd

1638
01:32:05,840 --> 01:32:07,519
Speaker 1: love to do it. It'd be fun. I keep mean,

1639
01:32:07,880 --> 01:32:11,160
Speaker 1: networks love their quarterbacks, right, yes, and those guys, like

1640
01:32:11,200 --> 01:32:14,200
Speaker 1: I said, their mindset se sees the game in a

1641
01:32:14,200 --> 01:32:16,800
Speaker 1: way that's really fun for fans to hear about. So

1642
01:32:17,080 --> 01:32:19,280
Speaker 1: he'sn't just one more quarterback that would fill the booth

1643
01:32:19,320 --> 01:32:21,960
Speaker 1: and be you be great at it. Break time for

1644
01:32:22,080 --> 01:32:26,400
Speaker 1: us here. When we return, we have ESPN anchor Kevin Conners,

1645
01:32:27,200 --> 01:32:30,479
Speaker 1: self admitted Bill's fan and not afraid to tell anybody

1646
01:32:30,479 --> 01:32:33,439
Speaker 1: in the social media universe about it. We will have

1647
01:32:33,520 --> 01:32:36,559
Speaker 1: him on next to discuss the Bill's schedule, whether he's

1648
01:32:36,600 --> 01:32:39,599
Speaker 1: gonna make it to a game this year assuming fans

1649
01:32:39,600 --> 01:32:42,880
Speaker 1: in the stands, and his thoughts on the Bill's draft

1650
01:32:42,920 --> 01:32:45,240
Speaker 1: as well. Kevin Connor's coming up next here on One

1651
01:32:45,240 --> 01:33:06,640
Speaker 1: Bill's Live, presented by Collada Health, It's Buffalo Bill's Radio

1652
01:33:07,160 --> 01:33:10,920
Speaker 1: at a Steve Tasker, who has been all all the fields.

1653
01:33:11,000 --> 01:33:12,599
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

1654
01:33:12,680 --> 01:33:19,040
Speaker 1: player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even

1655
01:33:19,080 --> 01:33:24,840
Speaker 1: in the straded beer of normalcy here. Welcome to our

1656
01:33:24,920 --> 01:33:27,599
Speaker 1: number three of one Bill's Live Chris Brown. Steve Tasker

1657
01:33:27,680 --> 01:33:30,599
Speaker 1: with you here on an obil fan mail bag Friday.

1658
01:33:30,680 --> 01:33:33,840
Speaker 1: But before we dip back into the mail bag, we

1659
01:33:33,960 --> 01:33:39,120
Speaker 1: welcome in the ESPN anchor, who is probably one of

1660
01:33:39,160 --> 01:33:43,679
Speaker 1: the most ardent Bills fans up in Bristol, although Christine

1661
01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:46,840
Speaker 1: Leacy might give him a run for his money. I

1662
01:33:46,840 --> 01:33:51,360
Speaker 1: don't know. It's one Kevin Connors joining us on the line.

1663
01:33:51,479 --> 01:33:54,400
Speaker 1: Is we want to get his thoughts on the Bill's draft,

1664
01:33:54,439 --> 01:33:58,200
Speaker 1: the Bills schedule, everything Bills so far this offseason. So Kevin,

1665
01:33:58,320 --> 01:34:00,240
Speaker 1: thanks for giving us some time. We understand. And you're

1666
01:34:00,240 --> 01:34:02,479
Speaker 1: in the midst of moving your parents, so good on

1667
01:34:02,520 --> 01:34:07,000
Speaker 1: you for being a dutiful son. Thanks for taking a break.

1668
01:34:07,240 --> 01:34:09,120
Speaker 1: Hopefully you got a cold drink in your hand while

1669
01:34:09,120 --> 01:34:11,080
Speaker 1: we give you about a fifteen twenty minute break here.

1670
01:34:12,320 --> 01:34:14,639
Speaker 1: You have no idea how welcome this break is. Can

1671
01:34:14,680 --> 01:34:18,519
Speaker 1: we do it for longer than sure? Yeah, we'll go ahead.

1672
01:34:18,520 --> 01:34:19,920
Speaker 1: And hang up. You just sit there and talk to

1673
01:34:19,960 --> 01:34:24,880
Speaker 1: the phone. What Jet give us your thoughts about the

1674
01:34:24,880 --> 01:34:27,760
Speaker 1: Bills draft, and we'll get into the schedule after that.

1675
01:34:30,040 --> 01:34:32,599
Speaker 1: You know, Steve, it's so funny. Everyone wants to get

1676
01:34:32,600 --> 01:34:35,320
Speaker 1: an immediate grade. And by the way, I tweeted this

1677
01:34:35,360 --> 01:34:39,200
Speaker 1: out before the draft. I can't get enough of the draft.

1678
01:34:39,240 --> 01:34:42,080
Speaker 1: So I can't get You don't have to be a

1679
01:34:42,200 --> 01:34:45,559
Speaker 1: qualified individual. You don't have to have watched a down

1680
01:34:45,600 --> 01:34:49,160
Speaker 1: of football. If you make a mock draft, I'm interested.

1681
01:34:49,479 --> 01:34:52,519
Speaker 1: So I love all of it. I love all of

1682
01:34:52,560 --> 01:34:56,240
Speaker 1: the grades. How did we do? Who thinks how we did? What?

1683
01:34:57,720 --> 01:35:01,320
Speaker 1: Here's the answer. I have no idea. What I love

1684
01:35:01,439 --> 01:35:04,360
Speaker 1: is that we didn't have a draft where we had

1685
01:35:04,400 --> 01:35:08,360
Speaker 1: to address multiple spots. It was nice to be able

1686
01:35:08,360 --> 01:35:10,439
Speaker 1: to say, we've got to address the pass rush. We

1687
01:35:10,479 --> 01:35:14,320
Speaker 1: can take some chances. Greg Russo, you know I'm a

1688
01:35:14,320 --> 01:35:16,880
Speaker 1: tape guy. I love being able to see what a

1689
01:35:16,920 --> 01:35:21,040
Speaker 1: guy has done on tape as opposed to the metrics

1690
01:35:21,040 --> 01:35:24,320
Speaker 1: of what he could be. Greg Russo has tape of

1691
01:35:24,360 --> 01:35:27,840
Speaker 1: a season where he had nineteen and a half sacks

1692
01:35:27,880 --> 01:35:32,920
Speaker 1: at a Power five school. That's encouraging to me. He's

1693
01:35:33,280 --> 01:35:35,120
Speaker 1: a project I don't think he's going to be a

1694
01:35:35,120 --> 01:35:39,280
Speaker 1: three down guy off the bat. He's probably a specialty

1695
01:35:39,320 --> 01:35:42,280
Speaker 1: pass rusher. So we took a chance and if he

1696
01:35:42,320 --> 01:35:46,160
Speaker 1: works out, it's a home run boogie. Basham appears to be,

1697
01:35:46,280 --> 01:35:49,040
Speaker 1: based on what everyone is saying, the more NFL ready

1698
01:35:49,120 --> 01:35:52,799
Speaker 1: guy right now. Russo has the highest ceiling. Basham appears

1699
01:35:52,840 --> 01:35:55,000
Speaker 1: to be a guy who is more of an impact

1700
01:35:55,040 --> 01:35:59,080
Speaker 1: player off the bat. I spoke with Trevor Mattich, who

1701
01:35:59,200 --> 01:36:03,160
Speaker 1: spent as as both of you know, but Steve in particular.

1702
01:36:03,320 --> 01:36:07,480
Speaker 1: Trevor spent ten plus years in the NFL. He's extremely

1703
01:36:07,600 --> 01:36:12,120
Speaker 1: high on Spencer Brown, loves his quote unquote metrics, his athleticism,

1704
01:36:12,120 --> 01:36:15,439
Speaker 1: what he could be. The kid Tommy Doyle to me,

1705
01:36:15,560 --> 01:36:18,400
Speaker 1: seems to be a young man who could contribute at

1706
01:36:18,439 --> 01:36:22,080
Speaker 1: some point. Here's the last thing I'll say. Based on

1707
01:36:22,160 --> 01:36:24,920
Speaker 1: what Brandon Bean has done to build this team into

1708
01:36:24,960 --> 01:36:28,160
Speaker 1: what it is, who am I to question anything that

1709
01:36:28,240 --> 01:36:30,360
Speaker 1: happened in the seven rounds of that draft based on

1710
01:36:30,400 --> 01:36:33,559
Speaker 1: the success that he's had. So I guess that kind

1711
01:36:33,560 --> 01:36:35,879
Speaker 1: of explains your tweet. When you put out your official

1712
01:36:35,960 --> 01:36:39,280
Speaker 1: grades after the first three rounds of the draft, you

1713
01:36:39,360 --> 01:36:42,080
Speaker 1: gave the Bills an A plus every other team and

1714
01:36:42,280 --> 01:36:45,200
Speaker 1: F in the AFC East and all the non AFC's

1715
01:36:45,240 --> 01:36:49,960
Speaker 1: teams in F minus that. I think that that probably

1716
01:36:50,040 --> 01:36:53,719
Speaker 1: still holds true. I'm going to stick by that tweet, Okay, Well,

1717
01:36:53,800 --> 01:36:58,400
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope it proves true quite frankly, Yeah,

1718
01:36:58,479 --> 01:37:03,200
Speaker 1: Spencer Brown, Kevin is an interesting guy from just because

1719
01:37:03,200 --> 01:37:06,200
Speaker 1: of the small school roots. Of course, how do you

1720
01:37:06,280 --> 01:37:11,000
Speaker 1: not eat up Middle America personified when he's in his garage,

1721
01:37:12,080 --> 01:37:16,160
Speaker 1: you know, with a wooden spool table, forty people, forty

1722
01:37:16,160 --> 01:37:18,200
Speaker 1: of his closest friends and neighbors, and then the rest

1723
01:37:18,200 --> 01:37:20,320
Speaker 1: of the neighborhood ends up on his front lawn after

1724
01:37:20,320 --> 01:37:23,080
Speaker 1: he gets drafted. But we had Greg Kosell on a

1725
01:37:23,080 --> 01:37:25,320
Speaker 1: few weeks ago, a guy that does some work for

1726
01:37:25,360 --> 01:37:27,759
Speaker 1: you guys on the Matchup show during the football season,

1727
01:37:28,280 --> 01:37:33,120
Speaker 1: and he called him the most athletic offensive tackle in

1728
01:37:33,160 --> 01:37:38,400
Speaker 1: the entire draft. That blew me away. Well, I mean again,

1729
01:37:38,520 --> 01:37:41,080
Speaker 1: you know, I'm going to rely heavily on those guys

1730
01:37:41,080 --> 01:37:43,960
Speaker 1: who just consumed that tape on a daily basis. And

1731
01:37:44,040 --> 01:37:46,920
Speaker 1: then here's what I know about him. He was a

1732
01:37:47,040 --> 01:37:51,120
Speaker 1: very good basketball player in high school, and he's a

1733
01:37:51,160 --> 01:37:55,040
Speaker 1: guy who you know, six nine, one, three ten. I mean,

1734
01:37:55,160 --> 01:37:58,920
Speaker 1: so there's clearly I mean, how do you possibly teach that?

1735
01:37:59,000 --> 01:38:02,080
Speaker 1: But here's the best part, you know, and I think

1736
01:38:02,120 --> 01:38:05,519
Speaker 1: I made this comment on air. You know, some people

1737
01:38:05,560 --> 01:38:09,200
Speaker 1: go to college and gain the freshman fifteen. He gained

1738
01:38:09,280 --> 01:38:13,080
Speaker 1: eighty pounds in college. Eighty pounds. So I mean, he's

1739
01:38:13,080 --> 01:38:17,560
Speaker 1: clearly still just growing into his body. He's clearly still

1740
01:38:17,920 --> 01:38:19,559
Speaker 1: I think, in a lot of ways learning the game

1741
01:38:19,600 --> 01:38:21,760
Speaker 1: of football. But I love the fact that he's not

1742
01:38:21,840 --> 01:38:25,520
Speaker 1: a guy who's been that size forever. That he's he's

1743
01:38:25,720 --> 01:38:30,400
Speaker 1: he's got athleticism, he's a skill position player in other sports,

1744
01:38:30,400 --> 01:38:32,360
Speaker 1: and now here he is in the NFL, and we're

1745
01:38:32,400 --> 01:38:35,680
Speaker 1: going to be able to bold him into an athletic

1746
01:38:35,720 --> 01:38:38,840
Speaker 1: tackle and look, hopefully it works out. Both of you

1747
01:38:38,920 --> 01:38:43,120
Speaker 1: obviously know these all of these are all difficult things

1748
01:38:43,120 --> 01:38:46,240
Speaker 1: to project at the next level. I just love that

1749
01:38:46,320 --> 01:38:49,080
Speaker 1: we didn't draft Spencer Brown because we needed him to

1750
01:38:49,080 --> 01:38:53,519
Speaker 1: play left tackle in Week one. We drafted him because

1751
01:38:53,560 --> 01:38:56,439
Speaker 1: we feel he could be something down the line, and

1752
01:38:56,600 --> 01:38:58,960
Speaker 1: we've got the opportunity to teach him that. To me

1753
01:38:59,680 --> 01:39:02,600
Speaker 1: is this. It goes without saying a great place to

1754
01:39:02,640 --> 01:39:05,439
Speaker 1: be as opposed to drafting from a position of we've

1755
01:39:05,479 --> 01:39:08,240
Speaker 1: got to get something immediately out of this guy. So

1756
01:39:08,400 --> 01:39:10,559
Speaker 1: I've lived my life, you know, as a former player.

1757
01:39:10,680 --> 01:39:12,280
Speaker 1: You know, I got fans coming up to me and

1758
01:39:12,320 --> 01:39:15,240
Speaker 1: they're very kind. It's it always happened to hey, Steve, Wow,

1759
01:39:15,280 --> 01:39:16,880
Speaker 1: you look good, like you're in good shape. You like, hey,

1760
01:39:16,880 --> 01:39:19,439
Speaker 1: you can still play for me. On my best day,

1761
01:39:19,880 --> 01:39:23,240
Speaker 1: I never looked like I could play. But I've seen

1762
01:39:23,680 --> 01:39:26,840
Speaker 1: the guys that the Bills drafted this year. I mean

1763
01:39:26,880 --> 01:39:31,120
Speaker 1: they went big and they went they went big. All

1764
01:39:31,240 --> 01:39:34,240
Speaker 1: these guys they're big and extra large. I mean they

1765
01:39:34,280 --> 01:39:36,360
Speaker 1: are huge. I mean it's two guys that are six

1766
01:39:36,400 --> 01:39:38,880
Speaker 1: said at the six to five they're rookie free agent

1767
01:39:39,040 --> 01:39:43,559
Speaker 1: Cyrus two of tele is also a six five plus guy.

1768
01:39:43,600 --> 01:39:46,680
Speaker 1: I mean, they're signing big human beings. What do you

1769
01:39:46,680 --> 01:39:50,000
Speaker 1: think that says about either the kind of season the

1770
01:39:50,000 --> 01:39:53,000
Speaker 1: Bills had last year or their philosophy going forward, or

1771
01:39:53,280 --> 01:39:56,000
Speaker 1: why do you think, if anything, why do you think

1772
01:39:56,000 --> 01:39:59,439
Speaker 1: that characteristic is all about this rookie class coming in

1773
01:39:59,479 --> 01:40:04,080
Speaker 1: both under drafted and drafted size. Well, it's a great

1774
01:40:04,200 --> 01:40:06,040
Speaker 1: point you make, Steve, and I love seeing some of

1775
01:40:06,040 --> 01:40:09,920
Speaker 1: the pictures of Russo in particular, meeting with Brandon Bean

1776
01:40:10,040 --> 01:40:13,919
Speaker 1: and uh and Greg McDermott, Sean mcdarsty and Sean McDermott

1777
01:40:13,920 --> 01:40:16,000
Speaker 1: for the first time Greg Greg McDermott's in my other

1778
01:40:16,080 --> 01:40:19,000
Speaker 1: life in college basketball, Sean McDermott. Um, you know, and

1779
01:40:19,240 --> 01:40:23,479
Speaker 1: he's just hulking over these guys. Um, you know, what

1780
01:40:23,520 --> 01:40:27,360
Speaker 1: does it say? I mean, clearly going defensive end, athletic

1781
01:40:27,400 --> 01:40:30,240
Speaker 1: pass rusher says there's a team in the AFC that

1782
01:40:30,320 --> 01:40:32,920
Speaker 1: we've got to figure out a way to beat, and

1783
01:40:33,080 --> 01:40:34,960
Speaker 1: someone did figure out a way to beat them, and

1784
01:40:34,960 --> 01:40:38,360
Speaker 1: that was by getting to the quarterback with athletic pass rushers.

1785
01:40:38,360 --> 01:40:40,880
Speaker 1: So there's a picture we're talking about right there. I mean,

1786
01:40:40,920 --> 01:40:43,320
Speaker 1: that looks like I mean, it looks like he's standing

1787
01:40:43,360 --> 01:40:45,720
Speaker 1: on a box, right. I mean, it's it's incredible how

1788
01:40:45,800 --> 01:40:49,839
Speaker 1: much bigger Greg Russo is and both Sean and Brandon.

1789
01:40:49,920 --> 01:40:53,439
Speaker 1: It's it's it's remarkable. Um, the athletic pass rusher. Look.

1790
01:40:53,479 --> 01:40:55,920
Speaker 1: I mean again, I'm not I'm not telling anything that

1791
01:40:55,960 --> 01:40:58,360
Speaker 1: you are. Our listeners don't know. It's that you've got

1792
01:40:58,360 --> 01:41:00,200
Speaker 1: to be able to not only get to the other

1793
01:41:00,200 --> 01:41:04,120
Speaker 1: team's quarterback but protect hours and Josh Allen is a

1794
01:41:04,160 --> 01:41:06,479
Speaker 1: great quarterback, but he's not a great quarterback if he's

1795
01:41:06,479 --> 01:41:09,400
Speaker 1: in a boot on the sideline. So it's getting these

1796
01:41:09,439 --> 01:41:11,920
Speaker 1: mountainous guys who can protect people who are trying to

1797
01:41:11,960 --> 01:41:14,680
Speaker 1: get our quarterback and getting these mountainous guys who can

1798
01:41:14,720 --> 01:41:17,559
Speaker 1: go get your quarterbacks. So that's what it says to

1799
01:41:17,560 --> 01:41:20,800
Speaker 1: be the first four picks for us, Kevin. Let's move

1800
01:41:20,800 --> 01:41:23,719
Speaker 1: on to the schedule here, which just came out on Wednesday,

1801
01:41:23,760 --> 01:41:27,559
Speaker 1: as you well know, and the number one thing that

1802
01:41:27,680 --> 01:41:31,320
Speaker 1: jumped out at me was, and I looked this up,

1803
01:41:31,479 --> 01:41:34,400
Speaker 1: this is the first time this has ever happened. Three

1804
01:41:34,439 --> 01:41:36,920
Speaker 1: of the first four games for the Bills are at

1805
01:41:36,960 --> 01:41:40,160
Speaker 1: home and three of the last four games for the

1806
01:41:40,200 --> 01:41:42,160
Speaker 1: Bills are at home. They have never had that on

1807
01:41:42,200 --> 01:41:46,040
Speaker 1: their schedule the same time in any of their previous seasons.

1808
01:41:47,360 --> 01:41:50,840
Speaker 1: To me, I think this is a tremendous advantage for

1809
01:41:50,920 --> 01:41:53,880
Speaker 1: a team that when seven and one at home last year.

1810
01:41:53,920 --> 01:41:57,720
Speaker 1: I'm curious for your thoughts on that, Chris. It's a

1811
01:41:57,720 --> 01:42:00,639
Speaker 1: great point. When I looked at the schedule, the first

1812
01:42:00,640 --> 01:42:02,519
Speaker 1: thing that the very first thing that jumped out of

1813
01:42:02,640 --> 01:42:05,640
Speaker 1: me was sort of that it was the three of

1814
01:42:05,640 --> 01:42:07,920
Speaker 1: the first four games at home, So you better be

1815
01:42:07,960 --> 01:42:10,400
Speaker 1: ready to go. Like there's no easing end of the season.

1816
01:42:10,800 --> 01:42:13,400
Speaker 1: You've got not only three of the first four games

1817
01:42:13,400 --> 01:42:16,600
Speaker 1: at home, all three of those games are winnable. You

1818
01:42:16,640 --> 01:42:20,080
Speaker 1: need to win. The other thing that jumped out of

1819
01:42:20,160 --> 01:42:22,840
Speaker 1: me is and this comes with being a team that

1820
01:42:22,920 --> 01:42:26,160
Speaker 1: played in the conference championship game. Look at the schedule

1821
01:42:26,280 --> 01:42:28,679
Speaker 1: right now. Is there a single home game that we're

1822
01:42:28,720 --> 01:42:30,720
Speaker 1: not going to be the favorite to win, that we're

1823
01:42:30,760 --> 01:42:34,920
Speaker 1: not going to be expected to win. But as we

1824
01:42:35,000 --> 01:42:38,240
Speaker 1: talked about last year and before this the schedule, even

1825
01:42:38,360 --> 01:42:41,040
Speaker 1: before the season even happened, I said, look, this is

1826
01:42:41,080 --> 01:42:43,920
Speaker 1: where this team is. Let's embrace it. We are the

1827
01:42:44,080 --> 01:42:47,920
Speaker 1: hunted this year. We're not sneaking up on anybody. Now.

1828
01:42:47,920 --> 01:42:51,080
Speaker 1: There are some difficult road games, and you know Thanksgiving

1829
01:42:51,160 --> 01:42:52,320
Speaker 1: is going to be a ton of fun. We can

1830
01:42:52,400 --> 01:42:56,479
Speaker 1: talk about that obviously. You know you've got at Tampa

1831
01:42:56,479 --> 01:42:59,840
Speaker 1: Bay in December is going to be a challenge three games,

1832
01:42:59,840 --> 01:43:01,280
Speaker 1: and the state of Florida is going to be a

1833
01:43:01,280 --> 01:43:03,880
Speaker 1: lot of fun. But what jumps out to me right

1834
01:43:03,960 --> 01:43:06,519
Speaker 1: off the bat is you better win your home games early.

1835
01:43:07,080 --> 01:43:09,599
Speaker 1: You better be ready to start the season and winning

1836
01:43:09,640 --> 01:43:11,840
Speaker 1: these games and then before you hit the bye week, man,

1837
01:43:11,880 --> 01:43:16,760
Speaker 1: you go to Cincinnati and to Tennessee. I mean, we're

1838
01:43:16,800 --> 01:43:18,559
Speaker 1: gonna find out a lot about the Bills in the

1839
01:43:18,600 --> 01:43:23,040
Speaker 1: first six games of the season, and then you know,

1840
01:43:23,120 --> 01:43:29,000
Speaker 1: to expand on your Saints game Thanksgiving Night. We've had

1841
01:43:29,000 --> 01:43:33,400
Speaker 1: some fun with this here with Bills fans. We know

1842
01:43:33,479 --> 01:43:35,559
Speaker 1: what the biggest bar night of the year is, Kevin.

1843
01:43:36,560 --> 01:43:39,759
Speaker 1: It's the day before Thanksgiving and you're gonna drop Bills

1844
01:43:39,880 --> 01:43:43,920
Speaker 1: Mafia into the French Quarter and they all know full

1845
01:43:43,960 --> 01:43:47,719
Speaker 1: well they don't have to show up for kickoff until

1846
01:43:47,880 --> 01:43:52,040
Speaker 1: eight twenty pm the next day. I mean, this could

1847
01:43:52,080 --> 01:43:58,000
Speaker 1: be the beer apocalypse in the French Quarter. Of course.

1848
01:43:58,000 --> 01:43:59,840
Speaker 1: I see the dots you're connecting, and I like it.

1849
01:44:00,280 --> 01:44:02,559
Speaker 1: And you're encouraging me to get down to New Orleans

1850
01:44:02,560 --> 01:44:04,800
Speaker 1: for that make a ROADI down there convinced my wife.

1851
01:44:04,800 --> 01:44:09,920
Speaker 1: We're having caje in Turkey. You're not working Friday, that's right,

1852
01:44:11,520 --> 01:44:16,360
Speaker 1: and listen that to me. You know, it's it's so

1853
01:44:16,400 --> 01:44:20,439
Speaker 1: good that we're nationally relevant again, because I think people

1854
01:44:20,600 --> 01:44:23,639
Speaker 1: on the national level are discovering what an amazing fan

1855
01:44:23,720 --> 01:44:28,200
Speaker 1: base that we have and why it's taken us being

1856
01:44:28,400 --> 01:44:32,920
Speaker 1: nationally relevant again, I don't know, but invading other towns

1857
01:44:32,720 --> 01:44:36,280
Speaker 1: as our fan base does and going in there and

1858
01:44:37,560 --> 01:44:41,519
Speaker 1: in some ways eliminating home field advantage. It's amazing. And

1859
01:44:41,560 --> 01:44:43,559
Speaker 1: we all know what New Orleans is going to look

1860
01:44:43,560 --> 01:44:46,600
Speaker 1: like on Thanksgiving night, and thank goodness, we won't have

1861
01:44:46,640 --> 01:44:48,560
Speaker 1: Drew Brees to contend with in that game. I have

1862
01:44:48,640 --> 01:44:52,200
Speaker 1: to say New Orleans won't be a competitive team again

1863
01:44:52,240 --> 01:44:55,200
Speaker 1: this year. Man. There are definitely some games on the

1864
01:44:55,240 --> 01:44:57,599
Speaker 1: schedule where you say, that's going to be a fun

1865
01:44:57,680 --> 01:44:59,800
Speaker 1: road trip. I'm going to try to get to the

1866
01:45:00,080 --> 01:45:01,680
Speaker 1: Kindnessee game. I'm really gonna try to get down to

1867
01:45:01,760 --> 01:45:03,840
Speaker 1: Nashville and check that out. That that's one that I've

1868
01:45:03,840 --> 01:45:06,360
Speaker 1: got circled on the calendar right away. Yeah, And I

1869
01:45:06,400 --> 01:45:09,320
Speaker 1: know that a lot of my friends were trying to

1870
01:45:09,360 --> 01:45:12,599
Speaker 1: get me to, you know, to puke up the schedule

1871
01:45:12,640 --> 01:45:14,400
Speaker 1: early as if you had any idea what it was

1872
01:45:14,400 --> 01:45:16,439
Speaker 1: going to be, because they all wanted to pick the

1873
01:45:16,520 --> 01:45:18,759
Speaker 1: road games and then the thing that was a squash.

1874
01:45:18,920 --> 01:45:21,040
Speaker 1: They really had a dilemma as to you know, because

1875
01:45:21,360 --> 01:45:23,680
Speaker 1: last year was the perfect road trip season. It was

1876
01:45:23,720 --> 01:45:28,880
Speaker 1: San Francisco, Vegas, it was Denver, it was Tennessee. All

1877
01:45:28,960 --> 01:45:31,280
Speaker 1: of those you know, those road trips were on the thing,

1878
01:45:31,360 --> 01:45:33,639
Speaker 1: and nobody got to go to any of them. This year.

1879
01:45:33,760 --> 01:45:35,760
Speaker 1: They wanted to go to New Orleans. They thought was

1880
01:45:35,800 --> 01:45:39,280
Speaker 1: because Thanksgiving gave some people pause, because it's a big

1881
01:45:39,320 --> 01:45:41,840
Speaker 1: family holiday. You don't really want to be gone for that.

1882
01:45:42,920 --> 01:45:45,720
Speaker 1: But Nashville is one that fans have had circled. I've

1883
01:45:45,760 --> 01:45:48,200
Speaker 1: said it before. I went to the three years ago

1884
01:45:48,240 --> 01:45:50,280
Speaker 1: when they were down there, when they won that game

1885
01:45:50,320 --> 01:45:53,839
Speaker 1: down there on a Sunday afternoon, I was a sideline reporter,

1886
01:45:53,960 --> 01:46:00,760
Speaker 1: and it was shocking the amount of Bill fans that

1887
01:46:00,920 --> 01:46:03,640
Speaker 1: showed up in There's at least twenty thousand, which I

1888
01:46:04,000 --> 01:46:06,559
Speaker 1: couldn't I could not believe. I've never seen a town

1889
01:46:07,040 --> 01:46:12,800
Speaker 1: old town. Nashville looked like the parking lot of you know,

1890
01:46:12,920 --> 01:46:16,559
Speaker 1: high Mark Stadium. So you gotta get down there for that.

1891
01:46:18,320 --> 01:46:20,519
Speaker 1: It's it's I got a buddy that lives in Nashville.

1892
01:46:20,520 --> 01:46:23,720
Speaker 1: He's already recruiting me. It's not going to take much

1893
01:46:23,800 --> 01:46:26,640
Speaker 1: arm twisting on my part. I can't promise that I

1894
01:46:26,720 --> 01:46:30,160
Speaker 1: wanted to twist my wife's arm um. But but that's

1895
01:46:30,240 --> 01:46:33,120
Speaker 1: that's one that is jumping out of me. Believe me,

1896
01:46:34,120 --> 01:46:36,320
Speaker 1: we would be remiss if we didn't thank you for

1897
01:46:36,400 --> 01:46:40,120
Speaker 1: participating in one of our recent polls that we did

1898
01:46:40,160 --> 01:46:43,679
Speaker 1: on our one Bill's Live Twitter handle when last week

1899
01:46:43,920 --> 01:46:47,320
Speaker 1: we asked people to finish the sentence Bill's GM Brandon

1900
01:46:47,439 --> 01:46:52,160
Speaker 1: Bean is blank, and you participated. You went with the

1901
01:46:52,240 --> 01:46:56,400
Speaker 1: GM and leader the best fans in sports deserve? Did

1902
01:46:56,439 --> 01:46:58,759
Speaker 1: that just come to you naturally right off the cuff,

1903
01:46:58,880 --> 01:47:05,720
Speaker 1: you know, with your your on camera improvisation abilities. I'd

1904
01:47:05,800 --> 01:47:07,479
Speaker 1: love to tell you that it did, Chris. It was

1905
01:47:07,520 --> 01:47:11,880
Speaker 1: about an hour's worth of think, no, no, you know what. Honestly, yeah,

1906
01:47:11,920 --> 01:47:17,000
Speaker 1: you know what he is. He's I don't know anyone

1907
01:47:17,760 --> 01:47:21,719
Speaker 1: that knows football that doesn't recognize the job that Brandon

1908
01:47:21,720 --> 01:47:24,880
Speaker 1: Bean has done. And you guys know, as well as

1909
01:47:24,880 --> 01:47:29,000
Speaker 1: anybody we played the game of general manager or team

1910
01:47:29,040 --> 01:47:34,559
Speaker 1: president roulette for a long time. And and I remember

1911
01:47:34,600 --> 01:47:37,800
Speaker 1: when we first hired Brandon Bean, and some of the

1912
01:47:37,840 --> 01:47:41,200
Speaker 1: moves that were made early on were not terribly popular

1913
01:47:41,200 --> 01:47:43,000
Speaker 1: with the fan base, getting rid of a lot of

1914
01:47:43,320 --> 01:47:48,280
Speaker 1: former high picks, notable, recognizable guys, and I just said,

1915
01:47:48,320 --> 01:47:51,360
Speaker 1: we've got to give this a chance. We've got to

1916
01:47:51,400 --> 01:47:54,040
Speaker 1: give anyone who's given the opportunity to be in that

1917
01:47:54,080 --> 01:47:58,000
Speaker 1: position a chance, and I'm so glad that this chance

1918
01:47:58,080 --> 01:48:02,479
Speaker 1: has has given us the fruit that it has. I mean,

1919
01:48:02,600 --> 01:48:06,240
Speaker 1: he's done a remarkable job. He has Steve. You and

1920
01:48:06,280 --> 01:48:08,280
Speaker 1: I talked about this when I do the show last year.

1921
01:48:08,320 --> 01:48:10,040
Speaker 1: I mean, there was a time where we tried to

1922
01:48:10,040 --> 01:48:13,040
Speaker 1: get Antonio Brown and that almost happened, and then it didn't,

1923
01:48:13,040 --> 01:48:14,160
Speaker 1: and then it's like, well, what are we going to

1924
01:48:14,200 --> 01:48:15,639
Speaker 1: do with that physician? Well, you know what we did.

1925
01:48:15,960 --> 01:48:19,080
Speaker 1: We got a guy who's ten times the player Antonio

1926
01:48:19,160 --> 01:48:22,000
Speaker 1: Brown is at this stage in his career, ten times

1927
01:48:22,000 --> 01:48:26,040
Speaker 1: the presence that he is. The draft picks have been sensational.

1928
01:48:28,479 --> 01:48:31,040
Speaker 1: I couldn't be more pro brand and being because of

1929
01:48:31,360 --> 01:48:33,519
Speaker 1: what the previous twenty years. And I'm not laying it

1930
01:48:33,560 --> 01:48:36,320
Speaker 1: on the general manager in every instance over the previous

1931
01:48:36,400 --> 01:48:38,719
Speaker 1: twenty years, but I know what we are right now,

1932
01:48:38,840 --> 01:48:41,759
Speaker 1: and I know that he is as responsible as anyone

1933
01:48:41,760 --> 01:48:45,280
Speaker 1: in the entire organization. So to me, when the draft

1934
01:48:45,320 --> 01:48:46,800
Speaker 1: comes around, Hey, KEB, what do you think? Well, you

1935
01:48:46,800 --> 01:48:49,639
Speaker 1: know what, I'm trusting that guy because I've seen the results. Hey,

1936
01:48:49,640 --> 01:48:51,120
Speaker 1: what do you think about this free agent signing and

1937
01:48:51,240 --> 01:48:53,080
Speaker 1: the direction that we're going here. You know what, I'm

1938
01:48:53,120 --> 01:48:56,680
Speaker 1: trusting this dude because he's built us into arguably the

1939
01:48:56,680 --> 01:48:59,559
Speaker 1: best team in the AFC potentially in the NFL. So

1940
01:48:59,640 --> 01:49:04,120
Speaker 1: I am pro Brandon being So the Bills sweep the

1941
01:49:04,120 --> 01:49:06,920
Speaker 1: AFC East last year, which team, over the course of

1942
01:49:06,960 --> 01:49:09,120
Speaker 1: free agency and the draft close of the gap to

1943
01:49:09,240 --> 01:49:14,000
Speaker 1: the narrowest margin. Yeah, I think the the easy answer

1944
01:49:14,280 --> 01:49:16,519
Speaker 1: is New England, and I'm not saying it's not the

1945
01:49:16,600 --> 01:49:20,360
Speaker 1: right answer. I really like what the Dolphins are doing,

1946
01:49:20,600 --> 01:49:23,040
Speaker 1: you know, I really like that coach. I really like

1947
01:49:23,720 --> 01:49:26,679
Speaker 1: the picks that they've made. Steve Obviously, it all comes

1948
01:49:26,720 --> 01:49:29,280
Speaker 1: down to whether or not two is the quarterback that

1949
01:49:29,720 --> 01:49:33,400
Speaker 1: they thought he was coming into the NFL. But they've

1950
01:49:33,400 --> 01:49:36,759
Speaker 1: got a lot of pieces there. I So for me, Yeah, listen,

1951
01:49:36,760 --> 01:49:39,160
Speaker 1: New England made the big splashes in free agency, and

1952
01:49:39,200 --> 01:49:41,880
Speaker 1: what are they going to start like twelve tight ends offensively? So,

1953
01:49:41,920 --> 01:49:43,760
Speaker 1: I mean, we know about a lot of the names

1954
01:49:43,760 --> 01:49:46,680
Speaker 1: they have there, and we know here's the other thing

1955
01:49:46,680 --> 01:49:49,080
Speaker 1: that I get to kick out of. They draft a

1956
01:49:49,160 --> 01:49:53,040
Speaker 1: quarterback who has some of the same characteristics as Tom Brady.

1957
01:49:53,040 --> 01:49:54,439
Speaker 1: So now all of a sudden they have the next

1958
01:49:54,439 --> 01:49:58,080
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and I'm not Matt Jones could turn out

1959
01:49:58,080 --> 01:49:59,920
Speaker 1: to be a really good quarterback, but let's pump them

1960
01:50:00,040 --> 01:50:01,880
Speaker 1: breaks for crying out loud that they got the next

1961
01:50:01,920 --> 01:50:04,000
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, you know what I mean. Yeah, But so

1962
01:50:04,080 --> 01:50:06,439
Speaker 1: maybe mac Jones is the guy at some point this

1963
01:50:06,520 --> 01:50:09,479
Speaker 1: year or in the future that leads them back to

1964
01:50:10,400 --> 01:50:14,800
Speaker 1: division success division championships. But for me, Miami is the

1965
01:50:14,840 --> 01:50:17,519
Speaker 1: team short term that I think is the bigger challenge

1966
01:50:17,560 --> 01:50:20,240
Speaker 1: to the Bills than anyone next year. Is there some

1967
01:50:21,040 --> 01:50:25,240
Speaker 1: sort of mindset in New England, even after Tom Brady

1968
01:50:25,320 --> 01:50:28,680
Speaker 1: left and won a Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,

1969
01:50:29,080 --> 01:50:32,400
Speaker 1: that Tom Brady was a product of being developed by

1970
01:50:32,479 --> 01:50:34,960
Speaker 1: the coaching staff and the culture in New England, rather

1971
01:50:35,040 --> 01:50:38,559
Speaker 1: than Tom Brady carrying the culture and the success they

1972
01:50:38,560 --> 01:50:41,320
Speaker 1: had in New England. Do you think how much of

1973
01:50:41,320 --> 01:50:44,760
Speaker 1: a how much I mean credit do you give the

1974
01:50:44,800 --> 01:50:49,880
Speaker 1: New England Patriots for the success of their team with

1975
01:50:49,920 --> 01:50:53,080
Speaker 1: Tom Brady? And how much do you give to Tom Brad?

1976
01:50:53,120 --> 01:50:55,200
Speaker 1: I mean, it's going to be it's a great question still,

1977
01:50:55,600 --> 01:50:57,719
Speaker 1: but do they get enough credits that you can say, yeah,

1978
01:50:57,720 --> 01:51:01,160
Speaker 1: they probably can do the same thing with Mac Jones.

1979
01:51:01,240 --> 01:51:04,719
Speaker 1: They certainly did not do it with Jared'stidham or Brian

1980
01:51:04,800 --> 01:51:09,120
Speaker 1: Hoyer or even Jimmy Garoppolo. So how much credit do

1981
01:51:09,160 --> 01:51:14,439
Speaker 1: you give them? Look, as is the case, anytime you

1982
01:51:14,520 --> 01:51:17,599
Speaker 1: have that sort of success and you've got an all

1983
01:51:17,640 --> 01:51:21,360
Speaker 1: time legendary, maybe the best coach of all time, and

1984
01:51:21,479 --> 01:51:25,040
Speaker 1: an all time legendary, maybe the best quarterback of all time,

1985
01:51:25,680 --> 01:51:27,920
Speaker 1: you've got to be able to say they work together,

1986
01:51:28,040 --> 01:51:33,639
Speaker 1: both of them. The Patriots helped Tom Brady. Tom Brady

1987
01:51:33,680 --> 01:51:38,320
Speaker 1: significantly helped Patriots. To say that Tom Brady is who

1988
01:51:38,360 --> 01:51:41,479
Speaker 1: he is because of Bill Belichick in New England, to

1989
01:51:41,600 --> 01:51:48,040
Speaker 1: me is totally wrong. And to say that they will

1990
01:51:48,120 --> 01:51:50,960
Speaker 1: be able to because Tom Brady had the success in

1991
01:51:51,000 --> 01:51:54,639
Speaker 1: New England that he had, they can do that with anyone, Steve,

1992
01:51:54,680 --> 01:51:56,920
Speaker 1: as you just pointed out, is totally wrong as well.

1993
01:51:56,960 --> 01:51:59,439
Speaker 1: I think it was a perfect marriage. Look, Brady just

1994
01:51:59,479 --> 01:52:02,080
Speaker 1: want a Super Bowl without New England last year totally

1995
01:52:02,160 --> 01:52:05,880
Speaker 1: new team. He was surrounded. They did a phenomenal job

1996
01:52:05,920 --> 01:52:08,760
Speaker 1: of surrounding him with tons of great pieces. I think

1997
01:52:08,800 --> 01:52:11,880
Speaker 1: Brady is I think it can be both possible that

1998
01:52:11,920 --> 01:52:16,000
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is the best quarterback of all time and

1999
01:52:16,120 --> 01:52:19,040
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick is a genius, probably the best coach of

2000
01:52:19,080 --> 01:52:23,400
Speaker 1: all time, but that both potentially could have happened on

2001
01:52:23,439 --> 01:52:27,400
Speaker 1: their own without the other. Because they were together, it

2002
01:52:27,439 --> 01:52:30,599
Speaker 1: took them even to the next level. But I can't

2003
01:52:30,600 --> 01:52:35,639
Speaker 1: attribute much of or a lot of tom Brady's success

2004
01:52:35,760 --> 01:52:40,800
Speaker 1: solely to New England. It helped, but tom Brady would

2005
01:52:40,800 --> 01:52:43,120
Speaker 1: have been in my opinion, tom Brady would have been

2006
01:52:43,160 --> 01:52:46,799
Speaker 1: a great quarterback. Probably Steve on about twenty seven other teams.

2007
01:52:46,800 --> 01:52:48,640
Speaker 1: There might have been two teams in the league that

2008
01:52:48,680 --> 01:52:50,680
Speaker 1: wouldn't have been able to surround him to be the

2009
01:52:50,760 --> 01:52:54,000
Speaker 1: quarterback that he turned into. But tom Brady's making everyone

2010
01:52:54,080 --> 01:52:56,120
Speaker 1: around them better, and if you give him anything to

2011
01:52:56,160 --> 01:52:59,679
Speaker 1: work with, tom Brady's still having that phenomenal success. So Kevin,

2012
01:52:59,760 --> 01:53:01,720
Speaker 1: Steve and I were having fun with this the other day,

2013
01:53:01,760 --> 01:53:05,480
Speaker 1: after pouring over the schedule. We went floor and ceiling

2014
01:53:05,800 --> 01:53:10,840
Speaker 1: for Bills victories with this schedule this season. So give

2015
01:53:10,920 --> 01:53:16,360
Speaker 1: us your floor for victories and your ceiling. Well, Chris,

2016
01:53:16,360 --> 01:53:19,400
Speaker 1: you realize that it's an annual rite of passage for

2017
01:53:19,520 --> 01:53:22,480
Speaker 1: me to tweet out that the Bills will go undefeated

2018
01:53:22,520 --> 01:53:26,760
Speaker 1: every single season. Okay, so I think we know one

2019
01:53:26,760 --> 01:53:32,960
Speaker 1: of the games exactly, Yes, my ceiling is twenty floor.

2020
01:53:34,560 --> 01:53:38,719
Speaker 1: Look again, I mean, you know, did things go our

2021
01:53:38,800 --> 01:53:44,000
Speaker 1: way last year? There's no question, But are you sometimes

2022
01:53:44,080 --> 01:53:47,120
Speaker 1: responsible for your own luck? Like I believe that? So

2023
01:53:47,800 --> 01:53:50,080
Speaker 1: you know what's the floor? This is a double digit

2024
01:53:50,120 --> 01:53:54,200
Speaker 1: win team, okay, So with a seven teen game schedule,

2025
01:53:54,280 --> 01:53:57,960
Speaker 1: ten and seven, you know that's probably the floor for

2026
01:53:58,000 --> 01:54:02,600
Speaker 1: this team. Obviously borring injury. If everyone's healthy, particularly the

2027
01:54:02,680 --> 01:54:06,280
Speaker 1: quarterback number seventeen, this is bare minimum a double digit

2028
01:54:06,280 --> 01:54:10,160
Speaker 1: win team. Now what's the what's the legitimate ceiling for

2029
01:54:10,200 --> 01:54:13,160
Speaker 1: this team in terms of wins? That's tough to put

2030
01:54:13,160 --> 01:54:16,320
Speaker 1: a number on. The NFL is in. Everyone does this.

2031
01:54:16,479 --> 01:54:18,880
Speaker 1: Everyone looks at the schedule and says, okay, Week one,

2032
01:54:18,880 --> 01:54:21,120
Speaker 1: that's a win. No, we're losing that game. And as

2033
01:54:21,160 --> 01:54:25,439
Speaker 1: you guys both know, free agency and training camp and

2034
01:54:25,520 --> 01:54:27,599
Speaker 1: injuries happen, and then all of a sudden, this team

2035
01:54:27,640 --> 01:54:30,640
Speaker 1: that was an automatic win is not anymore, and this

2036
01:54:30,720 --> 01:54:34,280
Speaker 1: team that's a definite loss is not anymore. I'll say this,

2037
01:54:35,720 --> 01:54:38,560
Speaker 1: the expectation better be winning a super Bowl this year

2038
01:54:38,600 --> 01:54:41,840
Speaker 1: because that's where this team is. So that's so you

2039
01:54:41,840 --> 01:54:44,040
Speaker 1: want a ceiling, that's the ceiling. Yeah, I kind of

2040
01:54:44,360 --> 01:54:46,560
Speaker 1: Steve and I got to fourteen wins pretty easy in

2041
01:54:46,560 --> 01:54:49,720
Speaker 1: a seventeen game schedule. There's there's some toughi's on there,

2042
01:54:49,720 --> 01:54:51,640
Speaker 1: and maybe they have a clunker like they did in

2043
01:54:51,720 --> 01:54:58,240
Speaker 1: Tennessee last year one week, but fourteen seems pretty attainable, Kevin.

2044
01:54:58,280 --> 01:55:01,880
Speaker 1: Before we let you go, Uh, there is a particular

2045
01:55:02,120 --> 01:55:05,760
Speaker 1: throwback Thursday tweet of yours that I have to take

2046
01:55:05,800 --> 01:55:09,560
Speaker 1: issue with, Um number one, being a fellow Long Island

2047
01:55:09,600 --> 01:55:13,680
Speaker 1: native and a guy with a soccer background. The footwear

2048
01:55:14,320 --> 01:55:18,040
Speaker 1: for this particular photo of you with the you go

2049
01:55:18,120 --> 01:55:20,920
Speaker 1: with the converse? What are these the pro stars? What

2050
01:55:21,000 --> 01:55:23,480
Speaker 1: do we got there? What are we rocking? Uh? In

2051
01:55:23,560 --> 01:55:25,520
Speaker 1: this photo? First of all, how old are you here?

2052
01:55:25,560 --> 01:55:31,920
Speaker 1: Like seven or eight? Five? Five? Man? You've always been tall, Um,

2053
01:55:33,360 --> 01:55:35,760
Speaker 1: But yeah, like you? I mean I wasn't that tall

2054
01:55:35,760 --> 01:55:39,800
Speaker 1: when I was fifteen. But yeah, I gotta ask Mom,

2055
01:55:39,800 --> 01:55:42,120
Speaker 1: where are the clints? I mean the grass fields right

2056
01:55:42,120 --> 01:55:45,640
Speaker 1: behind you? Give the kid a chance. Listen. You know

2057
01:55:45,680 --> 01:55:48,560
Speaker 1: what Steve could attest to this. This is the day's

2058
01:55:48,640 --> 01:55:52,200
Speaker 1: where footwear, to the level of which we know it now,

2059
01:55:52,320 --> 01:55:55,040
Speaker 1: is in its infancy. All right, So we're gonna give

2060
01:55:55,080 --> 01:55:56,960
Speaker 1: mom and Dad a little bit of a break. This

2061
01:55:57,040 --> 01:56:00,400
Speaker 1: is pre Converse weapons. Yet look at I'm just they're

2062
01:56:00,440 --> 01:56:07,400
Speaker 1: not kids or something. Nike was still Nike back then.

2063
01:56:07,520 --> 01:56:09,920
Speaker 1: I mean it was. We didn't know. I mean we

2064
01:56:10,000 --> 01:56:11,800
Speaker 1: still we called it Nike, but like it can't be

2065
01:56:11,840 --> 01:56:13,720
Speaker 1: that simple, right, we didn't even know what that was.

2066
01:56:13,800 --> 01:56:16,160
Speaker 1: But that's a great shot though. That's awesome. You got

2067
01:56:16,160 --> 01:56:19,040
Speaker 1: your name on the ball written like a giant marker.

2068
01:56:19,120 --> 01:56:25,920
Speaker 1: I mean that is just if that doesn't scream yeah exactly. Yeah, Kevin,

2069
01:56:26,360 --> 01:56:28,720
Speaker 1: we thank you for the time. Your mom just texted me.

2070
01:56:28,840 --> 01:56:31,200
Speaker 1: She said she's got the dining room chairs in the driveway,

2071
01:56:31,280 --> 01:56:33,680
Speaker 1: so you got to get back to work. Thanks for

2072
01:56:33,720 --> 01:56:35,960
Speaker 1: the time. We appreciate it. We'll catch up with you soon.

2073
01:56:36,080 --> 01:56:39,080
Speaker 1: Thanks Kevin. I'm dressing up next time, guys, I promise,

2074
01:56:39,160 --> 01:56:41,040
Speaker 1: But thanks. It's always great to talk with you. Go Bills,

2075
01:56:41,080 --> 01:56:43,560
Speaker 1: all right, every good weekend. That's Kevin Connors, who already

2076
01:56:43,560 --> 01:56:48,320
Speaker 1: said he's making plans the Nashville game, along with probably

2077
01:56:48,360 --> 01:56:50,680
Speaker 1: eighty percent of the rest of the Bills fans. The

2078
01:56:50,800 --> 01:56:53,760
Speaker 1: trafl Yeah, he's here's better. It's a good thing he's

2079
01:56:53,800 --> 01:56:55,360
Speaker 1: got a buddy to put him up because it's gonna

2080
01:56:55,360 --> 01:56:57,200
Speaker 1: be tough to get a room down there that weekend too,

2081
01:56:57,200 --> 01:56:58,880
Speaker 1: because if you think about it, you know, he's spinning

2082
01:56:58,920 --> 01:57:01,720
Speaker 1: this all positive in the Bills are rolling and Tennessee

2083
01:57:01,880 --> 01:57:04,240
Speaker 1: takes a step back and they're struggling, and there nobody

2084
01:57:04,240 --> 01:57:07,480
Speaker 1: wants those tickets. It could turn it, it could turn

2085
01:57:07,560 --> 01:57:11,080
Speaker 1: into a fun weekend. But yeah, the majority of the fans,

2086
01:57:11,200 --> 01:57:13,880
Speaker 1: you know, big big portion of the fans being Bills fans.

2087
01:57:14,720 --> 01:57:19,440
Speaker 1: It's gonna be let Nashville. I knew ten years ago,

2088
01:57:20,560 --> 01:57:25,080
Speaker 1: maybe fifteen, the Nashville was a sneaky good NFL town. Yeah,

2089
01:57:25,160 --> 01:57:28,880
Speaker 1: and then now it's blown up, completely blown, it's blown up.

2090
01:57:28,920 --> 01:57:33,920
Speaker 1: Now people are moving down there, seriously. It's uh, it's

2091
01:57:33,960 --> 01:57:35,440
Speaker 1: it's a lot of fun to go down there. And

2092
01:57:35,720 --> 01:57:38,040
Speaker 1: it's a you know, the climate is just that much

2093
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Speaker 1: more south and yeah, and I mean October eighteenth in Nashville,

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01:57:42,560 --> 01:57:45,320
Speaker 1: I mean, the weather's great, golf shirt shorts. Yeah, it's

2095
01:57:45,360 --> 01:57:47,840
Speaker 1: gonna be great. And it'd be great if we saw

2096
01:57:47,880 --> 01:57:51,240
Speaker 1: another Bills fan takeover. I'd sign up for that. Yeah.

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01:57:51,480 --> 01:57:56,360
Speaker 1: I wonder if the Bills fan base reputation has reached

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01:57:56,360 --> 01:58:01,400
Speaker 1: the level where fans of other teams when they have

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01:58:01,600 --> 01:58:04,120
Speaker 1: home games that they're not sure they're going to go

2100
01:58:04,200 --> 01:58:09,280
Speaker 1: to if they just eat them for fear of passing

2101
01:58:09,320 --> 01:58:13,240
Speaker 1: them on to a Bills fan. I don't know, not

2102
01:58:13,840 --> 01:58:17,960
Speaker 1: not not Now that every ticket in the NFL is

2103
01:58:18,000 --> 01:58:19,800
Speaker 1: pretty pricey. I mean it's not a cheap to go

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01:58:19,840 --> 01:58:21,800
Speaker 1: to games at any level, at any stadium. I mean

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01:58:21,800 --> 01:58:24,360
Speaker 1: it's it's a commitment. But you know, some places like

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01:58:24,360 --> 01:58:27,680
Speaker 1: Buffalo got a huge stadium. There's always tickets available. You

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01:58:27,720 --> 01:58:29,560
Speaker 1: can bet too. Opening day, there's going to be a

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01:58:29,560 --> 01:58:32,640
Speaker 1: ton of terrible towels in the stands. Steater fans travel

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01:58:32,680 --> 01:58:35,360
Speaker 1: extremely well, Yes they do. They always have and you know,

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01:58:35,400 --> 01:58:37,520
Speaker 1: you tip your hat to those, to that fan base.

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01:58:37,760 --> 01:58:41,480
Speaker 1: Um Raiders fans seem to pop ups places. I don't

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01:58:41,480 --> 01:58:44,920
Speaker 1: know if they I think they just kind of emerge locally. Yeah,

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01:58:44,960 --> 01:58:46,200
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, I don't think they don't

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01:58:46,240 --> 01:58:48,640
Speaker 1: know if they had that national appeal for a while

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01:58:48,680 --> 01:58:52,600
Speaker 1: through the seventies seventies, yeah, and now and now it's

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01:58:52,680 --> 01:58:55,120
Speaker 1: less youthful just because I think you know, most people

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01:58:55,160 --> 01:58:59,560
Speaker 1: they love the black jerseys, yeah, black, but color combination yeah,

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01:58:59,600 --> 01:59:01,640
Speaker 1: I I don't know the word at that point. I

2119
01:59:01,680 --> 01:59:05,280
Speaker 1: know this, I've noticed it in all the games that

2120
01:59:05,360 --> 01:59:07,640
Speaker 1: I did in the latter years in my CBS career,

2121
01:59:08,360 --> 01:59:10,040
Speaker 1: where Buffalo would be on the road or wherever, you

2122
01:59:10,240 --> 01:59:16,240
Speaker 1: always see a significant percentage of Bills fans travel. And

2123
01:59:16,280 --> 01:59:19,280
Speaker 1: I don't know that they've got that relation that reputation

2124
01:59:19,400 --> 01:59:25,280
Speaker 1: nationally yet like Pittsburgh does, but yeah they You can

2125
01:59:25,320 --> 01:59:27,680
Speaker 1: bet Nashville is gonna be gonna be quite the scene,

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01:59:27,920 --> 01:59:31,640
Speaker 1: and so will New Orleans. Well, yeah, that's just kind

2127
01:59:31,640 --> 01:59:35,880
Speaker 1: of built in whether you're playing interesting because it's different. Yeah,

2128
01:59:35,880 --> 01:59:38,800
Speaker 1: because you go because you go to Dallas for Thanksgiving,

2129
01:59:38,800 --> 01:59:41,640
Speaker 1: you go to Detroit for Thanksgiving traditionally always have a game,

2130
01:59:41,880 --> 01:59:44,880
Speaker 1: but you go to a town like New Orleans kind

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01:59:44,920 --> 01:59:46,520
Speaker 1: of iffy, Like our fans are gonna have that on

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01:59:46,520 --> 01:59:48,440
Speaker 1: their radars? Are they gonna treat it like way, it's

2133
01:59:48,440 --> 01:59:50,680
Speaker 1: a one time thing, let's let's go kind of do it.

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01:59:50,720 --> 01:59:52,960
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people would probably do that.

2135
01:59:53,040 --> 01:59:56,600
Speaker 1: So it would be a sell out, no question, But

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01:59:56,680 --> 01:59:59,240
Speaker 1: it would be that same kind of mindset for Bills

2137
01:59:59,280 --> 02:00:02,040
Speaker 1: fans can't get out, go out and get on the

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02:00:02,160 --> 02:00:04,760
Speaker 1: road and take a special Thanksgiving day trip, right, I

2139
02:00:04,760 --> 02:00:07,680
Speaker 1: don't know, it's gonna be interesting to see these stadiums

2140
02:00:07,680 --> 02:00:10,960
Speaker 1: fill up. I just dope they are. Well, yeah, we're

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02:00:10,960 --> 02:00:15,000
Speaker 1: still waiting for true clarity on all of that, not

2142
02:00:15,080 --> 02:00:17,880
Speaker 1: only here, you know, as it pertains to home games,

2143
02:00:17,920 --> 02:00:20,360
Speaker 1: but around the country as it pertains to all the

2144
02:00:20,400 --> 02:00:23,320
Speaker 1: other visitings venues that the Bills will have to travel

2145
02:00:23,320 --> 02:00:25,080
Speaker 1: to for the over the course of the season. It's

2146
02:00:25,080 --> 02:00:27,520
Speaker 1: going to be up to the Every state that has

2147
02:00:27,560 --> 02:00:30,280
Speaker 1: an NFL team is going to have its own probably policy,

2148
02:00:30,440 --> 02:00:36,200
Speaker 1: state guidelines, state guidelines, all that stuff. And until you

2149
02:00:36,360 --> 02:00:39,720
Speaker 1: get there, we don't know what the situation is going

2150
02:00:39,760 --> 02:00:41,080
Speaker 1: to be in any of these stadiums. It's to wait

2151
02:00:41,120 --> 02:00:43,640
Speaker 1: and see hours a TBD yep. Kind of like the

2152
02:00:43,680 --> 02:00:48,240
Speaker 1: Week sixteen game. We have to take a break Week sixteen,

2153
02:00:48,240 --> 02:00:50,720
Speaker 1: New England. Here we go. Yeah, we just don't know

2154
02:00:50,760 --> 02:00:53,760
Speaker 1: which day. It's on the weekend, that's all we know.

2155
02:00:54,120 --> 02:00:56,280
Speaker 1: Break time for us. When we come back, we crack

2156
02:00:56,360 --> 02:00:59,000
Speaker 1: open the obl fan Friday mail bag to answer a

2157
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Speaker 1: few more of your questions right here on One Bill's Live,

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Speaker 1: presented by Collid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio

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Speaker 1: Welcome Back, final half hour of the show here before

2160
02:01:20,080 --> 02:01:24,680
Speaker 1: the weekend, and we're opening up the OBIL Fan mail

2161
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Speaker 1: bag once more, and we are up to Adriana, who says,

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Speaker 1: what's more likely the Bills don't finish first in the

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02:01:33,960 --> 02:01:41,000
Speaker 1: AFC East or the Jets don't finish last. That's it's

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02:01:41,000 --> 02:01:44,000
Speaker 1: a good one. I think both things are really likely. Yes,

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Speaker 1: so the one that's least likely to happen. It's harder

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Speaker 1: to win than it is to lose. So I'd say

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02:01:51,720 --> 02:01:53,320
Speaker 1: it's harder for the Bills to finish first in the

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Speaker 1: AFC East than it is to finish last. Yeah, I

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02:01:55,560 --> 02:01:57,720
Speaker 1: don't know about likely, because you're not gonna do that

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02:01:57,960 --> 02:02:01,480
Speaker 1: with you know, because he got one team trying to

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02:02:01,480 --> 02:02:04,520
Speaker 1: make one thing happen in thirty two teams, you know,

2172
02:02:04,560 --> 02:02:07,800
Speaker 1: and thirty one other teams trying to make keep it

2173
02:02:07,840 --> 02:02:11,360
Speaker 1: from happening, right, and the other way, you got thirty

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02:02:11,360 --> 02:02:13,880
Speaker 1: two teams working for the other thing, you know. So

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02:02:13,960 --> 02:02:16,480
Speaker 1: I see the Steve task your logic? Here? Am I right?

2176
02:02:16,600 --> 02:02:18,480
Speaker 1: So I don't know if I'm right or not. It's

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Speaker 1: harder to win. I'm going along with it. It It sounded good.

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Speaker 1: It's harder to win, it's harder to win than it

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Speaker 1: is to lose. So I agree with more likely that

2180
02:02:28,120 --> 02:02:32,240
Speaker 1: the bad thing happened than the good Yeah, uh so, Yeah,

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02:02:32,240 --> 02:02:33,960
Speaker 1: I would tend to go that way as well, because

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02:02:34,000 --> 02:02:36,480
Speaker 1: it's hard. Yeah, you got two teams, three teams that

2183
02:02:36,480 --> 02:02:40,040
Speaker 1: are chasing you, and on the other side of it,

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02:02:40,080 --> 02:02:42,240
Speaker 1: you got three teams wanting you to stay exactly where

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Speaker 1: you're at. The crazy thing is, though, if you would

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Speaker 1: ask a hundred people, who's your first place team in

2187
02:02:47,040 --> 02:02:48,840
Speaker 1: the AFC East and who's your last place team in

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02:02:48,880 --> 02:02:51,080
Speaker 1: the AFC East, I bet all of one hundred would

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02:02:51,080 --> 02:02:54,720
Speaker 1: say Buffalo and the Jets. Yeah, that's how kie likely

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02:02:55,560 --> 02:02:57,200
Speaker 1: if you got a roster with a lot of question

2191
02:02:57,240 --> 02:03:00,400
Speaker 1: marks because either first year, first year head coach, first

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02:03:00,440 --> 02:03:03,400
Speaker 1: year players everywhere, and they're coming off a bottom feed

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02:03:03,520 --> 02:03:07,800
Speaker 1: or season. That's where they're supposed to finish with a

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02:03:07,880 --> 02:03:10,280
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback and a new head coach and a roster

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02:03:10,360 --> 02:03:12,800
Speaker 1: that's being rebuilt, no matter how good their draft pick is.

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02:03:13,080 --> 02:03:18,920
Speaker 1: Where draft picks are, that's yeah, that's a good question,

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02:03:19,040 --> 02:03:22,000
Speaker 1: no question, no no doubt, because all three the Bill

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02:03:22,040 --> 02:03:25,080
Speaker 1: swept all three of those teams last year. Yeah. So

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Speaker 1: from ELI. On a similar note, can the Jets surprise

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02:03:29,880 --> 02:03:33,480
Speaker 1: in the AFC East and sneak into third or second place.

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02:03:34,000 --> 02:03:35,520
Speaker 1: I know the Bills will be good and I see

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02:03:35,520 --> 02:03:38,120
Speaker 1: them hopefully winning twelve to thirteen games. What do we

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02:03:38,160 --> 02:03:41,480
Speaker 1: think about the Jets squeaking into third or second place?

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02:03:41,520 --> 02:03:45,480
Speaker 1: I think that only happens if the Patriots start with

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02:03:45,560 --> 02:03:48,320
Speaker 1: Mac Jones from the word go, and it is a

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02:03:48,360 --> 02:03:53,640
Speaker 1: complete and utter catastrophe, and they trade Stefan Gilmour between

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02:03:53,720 --> 02:03:58,240
Speaker 1: now and September, and some guys that were in the

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02:03:58,240 --> 02:04:01,400
Speaker 1: opt out year come back and get injured early from

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Speaker 1: all that time off. I'm coming up with a lot

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02:04:04,800 --> 02:04:07,520
Speaker 1: of scenarios here to get the Jets. All it takes

2211
02:04:07,600 --> 02:04:10,680
Speaker 1: is for two to stink, yeah two or Mac or

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02:04:10,800 --> 02:04:13,560
Speaker 1: Cam Yeah to a constink. And I think the New

2213
02:04:13,600 --> 02:04:16,800
Speaker 1: England Patriots can beat Miami twice with their defense because

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02:04:16,880 --> 02:04:20,440
Speaker 1: Miami will struggle to score. New England will squeeze out

2215
02:04:20,560 --> 02:04:25,640
Speaker 1: four field goals and a defensive touchdown. They win those games,

2216
02:04:26,280 --> 02:04:31,680
Speaker 1: and you know Miami finishes behind the Jets. So your pick,

2217
02:04:31,800 --> 02:04:34,320
Speaker 1: if it's not the Jets in last place, you're most

2218
02:04:34,480 --> 02:04:39,080
Speaker 1: likely replacement team in the division is Miami. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: And I think that's I think it's easier to construe

2220
02:04:42,040 --> 02:04:49,320
Speaker 1: that because I don't have much faith that that culture

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Speaker 1: and that team and that quarterback are going to out

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02:04:52,800 --> 02:04:56,920
Speaker 1: culture and outplay whatever quarterback New England puts out. Yeah,

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02:04:56,960 --> 02:05:00,960
Speaker 1: it's strange too. I mean we talked about this a

2224
02:05:00,960 --> 02:05:03,000
Speaker 1: little bit last week, some of the stuff that's gone

2225
02:05:03,040 --> 02:05:06,520
Speaker 1: down in Miami this offseason, in particular, right, you know,

2226
02:05:06,760 --> 02:05:10,000
Speaker 1: Kyle van Noy Giant contract gone after a year, Shack

2227
02:05:10,120 --> 02:05:15,880
Speaker 1: Lawson Giant contract traded after a year, and then every

2228
02:05:16,040 --> 02:05:20,680
Speaker 1: one of the player captains on that roster from last

2229
02:05:20,720 --> 02:05:28,720
Speaker 1: season have either been not resigned outright released or moved

2230
02:05:28,760 --> 02:05:34,360
Speaker 1: off the roster. And while they have some guys with

2231
02:05:34,520 --> 02:05:36,880
Speaker 1: leadership capabilities on the roster now, I mean they just

2232
02:05:36,880 --> 02:05:40,240
Speaker 1: signed mccordy to play safety or corner for them, we

2233
02:05:40,280 --> 02:05:45,320
Speaker 1: don't know yet, among others. I gotta imagine that's got

2234
02:05:45,320 --> 02:05:48,680
Speaker 1: to send a cryptic ripple effect through the locker room,

2235
02:05:48,680 --> 02:05:51,560
Speaker 1: like these guys were our leaders. None of them are here.

2236
02:05:51,680 --> 02:05:54,320
Speaker 1: What are we doing? Yeah, what's going on? What is

2237
02:05:54,360 --> 02:05:56,800
Speaker 1: going on? I've never have you ever seen that before?

2238
02:05:57,160 --> 02:06:00,480
Speaker 1: I mean, i'd be hard. I mean maybe when there's

2239
02:06:00,480 --> 02:06:04,360
Speaker 1: a coaching change that has happened in this league before,

2240
02:06:05,400 --> 02:06:10,320
Speaker 1: but aside from that, when you really overhaul rosters. I

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02:06:10,640 --> 02:06:13,760
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if it was unprecedented. Every one of

2242
02:06:13,800 --> 02:06:16,960
Speaker 1: your six captains are off the roster the next year,

2243
02:06:17,840 --> 02:06:24,600
Speaker 1: every one of them. Yeah, that's shocking. Last year, the

2244
02:06:24,640 --> 02:06:28,280
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins split with the Patriots. The Patriots beat them

2245
02:06:28,320 --> 02:06:30,120
Speaker 1: on opening Day and then lost to them in a

2246
02:06:30,120 --> 02:06:32,200
Speaker 1: week twelve after their season was kind of going south.

2247
02:06:32,480 --> 02:06:36,520
Speaker 1: They opened up again with New England in New England.

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02:06:38,800 --> 02:06:41,800
Speaker 1: That's a loss for Miami. Juicy, that is a loss

2249
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Speaker 1: for Miami. That is one team I do not want

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Speaker 1: to play a Week one and then they end the

2251
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Speaker 1: regular season on Week eighteen with the Miami Dolphins, much

2252
02:06:50,000 --> 02:06:52,840
Speaker 1: like the Bills book ended there in twenty nineteen season

2253
02:06:52,880 --> 02:06:54,840
Speaker 1: with the Jets. They opened with the Jets and closed

2254
02:06:54,840 --> 02:06:58,400
Speaker 1: with the Jets. I think that's right. The Miami Dolphins

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Speaker 1: and New England Patriots do that this year. Yet, I

2256
02:07:04,240 --> 02:07:06,600
Speaker 1: think that's a I think that's an opening day loss

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02:07:06,640 --> 02:07:09,320
Speaker 1: for Miami once again. Yeah, that wouldn't surprise me. In

2258
02:07:09,360 --> 02:07:11,120
Speaker 1: the league, I think that. I think the Patriots are

2259
02:07:11,160 --> 02:07:14,560
Speaker 1: great at game planning and having something you can't defend

2260
02:07:15,000 --> 02:07:16,680
Speaker 1: early in the season, well and when you don't know

2261
02:07:16,680 --> 02:07:18,280
Speaker 1: who they're going to be and think about all the

2262
02:07:18,320 --> 02:07:20,480
Speaker 1: pieces that they've added to the defensive side of the

2263
02:07:20,520 --> 02:07:23,160
Speaker 1: ball and the guys they get back from opt outs,

2264
02:07:23,200 --> 02:07:26,840
Speaker 1: chief among them Dante high Tower. And then you've got

2265
02:07:26,960 --> 02:07:31,560
Speaker 1: the draft choices. Christian Barmore. Ronnie Perkins is a situational rusher.

2266
02:07:31,760 --> 02:07:35,480
Speaker 1: They signed Matthew Judean in free agency, another pass rusher.

2267
02:07:36,000 --> 02:07:38,640
Speaker 1: I mean, he could be like a Chandler Jones for them,

2268
02:07:38,960 --> 02:07:42,560
Speaker 1: like Chandler Jones was for their defense before he defected

2269
02:07:42,600 --> 02:07:47,880
Speaker 1: and signed with Arizona. So yeah, I mean it's uh,

2270
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Speaker 1: I just think that. I just think the Dolphins have

2271
02:07:50,160 --> 02:07:54,440
Speaker 1: a better chance of finishing third or last than the

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02:07:54,480 --> 02:07:57,160
Speaker 1: Patriots do this time. I would tend to agree with

2273
02:07:57,240 --> 02:07:59,800
Speaker 1: that just from a consistency stand I got here. I mean,

2274
02:08:00,000 --> 02:08:02,880
Speaker 1: which is more like who's gonna who's likely gonna? We

2275
02:08:02,880 --> 02:08:04,920
Speaker 1: think the Jets are gonna finish last, but if they don't,

2276
02:08:04,960 --> 02:08:08,280
Speaker 1: who will? And the Dolphins are the team for me?

2277
02:08:10,280 --> 02:08:12,480
Speaker 1: John is the last one we're pulling out of the

2278
02:08:12,520 --> 02:08:15,840
Speaker 1: mail bag today, Steve, and he says, Steve and Brownie,

2279
02:08:16,480 --> 02:08:21,240
Speaker 1: I'm spending my honeymoon in Buffalo, flying in from Dallas

2280
02:08:21,800 --> 02:08:29,680
Speaker 1: in late October. I need places to experience. Please help. Well,

2281
02:08:29,680 --> 02:08:33,200
Speaker 1: hopefully one of the things on your itinerary is Bill's

2282
02:08:33,320 --> 02:08:36,400
Speaker 1: versus Dolphins on Halloween. If you're coming up here in

2283
02:08:36,480 --> 02:08:41,200
Speaker 1: late October, that is the only home game in the

2284
02:08:41,200 --> 02:08:45,000
Speaker 1: second half of the month that's on Halloween. Yeah, well,

2285
02:08:45,320 --> 02:08:48,360
Speaker 1: that's an experience that'll be worth it. Bill's home game

2286
02:08:48,360 --> 02:08:51,120
Speaker 1: on Halloween. That'll be an experience i've ever seen that.

2287
02:08:51,920 --> 02:08:54,560
Speaker 1: If you're a car guy, I'm gonna recommend this. But

2288
02:08:54,600 --> 02:08:57,400
Speaker 1: if you're a car guy, love the history of cars.

2289
02:08:58,080 --> 02:09:01,240
Speaker 1: They have the Pierced Arrow Museum down down that is

2290
02:09:01,280 --> 02:09:05,880
Speaker 1: a blast in there. Man. They'd be playing hockey in October. Yeah,

2291
02:09:05,920 --> 02:09:09,720
Speaker 1: I think such a Sabers game. If you want museum's

2292
02:09:09,720 --> 02:09:11,720
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Go to Uh, go to the

2293
02:09:11,720 --> 02:09:14,040
Speaker 1: Full Car, go to Niagara Falls. Maybe the board will

2294
02:09:14,080 --> 02:09:21,960
Speaker 1: be opened by that time. Chippewa Street, Allantown, um the Yeah,

2295
02:09:21,960 --> 02:09:24,040
Speaker 1: there's a lot to do. There's a lot to do.

2296
02:09:24,280 --> 02:09:28,280
Speaker 1: Or you could come down to Steve's Neck of the Woods. Uh,

2297
02:09:28,360 --> 02:09:30,080
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'll give you a tour. You know, the

2298
02:09:30,360 --> 02:09:33,320
Speaker 1: October might be a tour. It might October might be

2299
02:09:33,520 --> 02:09:36,400
Speaker 1: the leaves might be in full force. Then, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: and primefolio season go down to I think Alden or

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Speaker 1: is it. Yeah, I mean it's somewhere down They have

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Speaker 1: a train that goes through the countryside. They got Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they have that up in Lockport two. I believe that's yeah,

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Speaker 1: all that's on the table. That's like a train trip. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Those are fun. Um. Yeah. Because do the leaves change

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Speaker 1: down in Texas where he is. I guess they do.

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Speaker 1: They I don't know. As a rookie, I was in Houston, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: January sixteenth. In Houston, I got out of my car

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Speaker 1: to going I remember the thinking this because I was

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Speaker 1: from Chicago going to college, you know, yeah, and I

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Speaker 1: you know, you could lose to four seasons, you could

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Speaker 1: lose your you could live your whole life in Buffalo

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Speaker 1: and go to Chicago and freeze. Yeah. So I go

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Speaker 1: to Houston. It's January sixteenth. I'm walking into the facility

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Speaker 1: in shorts, a tank top and flip flops. Maybe the

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Speaker 1: old tank. I was a tank you know, I was

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Speaker 1: always I was always yoked up too, so yeah, and

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Speaker 1: it was January sixteenth, so yeah, they don't change leaves

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Speaker 1: down there, so h yeah, the leaves change, it will

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Speaker 1: be an issue. Go there's also like thirty breweries in

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Speaker 1: the region, then hit the goal those in um yeah,

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Speaker 1: plenty to do art Park. Maybe still going. Make sure

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Speaker 1: you have to take us some bills at Bills hosting

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Speaker 1: Miami on Halloween. Yeah, that's bring your costume. That should

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Speaker 1: be the centerpiece. All right, we gotta take a break,

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Speaker 1: Steve and I to close it up when we return.

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Speaker 1: Another week of one Bills Live will be in the

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Speaker 1: books after we find out what we have learned from

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Speaker 1: today's show. That's next. Stay with us. What have we

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Speaker 1: learned from today's show? Brought to you by Skyworks, the

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Speaker 1: official construction equipment rental company of the Buffalo Bills. And

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Speaker 1: I think that on the whole Steve, through the course

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Speaker 1: of this week, especially after the schedule came out, we've

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Speaker 1: kind of learned that this schedule shapes up for the

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Speaker 1: Bills if they can stay healthy and play consistent football

2336
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Speaker 1: week to week. We know it's a week to week league,

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Speaker 1: a lot of things change, but that it stacks up

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Speaker 1: pretty favorably for them. I think, no matter what schedule

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Speaker 1: they were handed, probably saw them as an eleven or

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Speaker 1: twelve win team. This schedule, I believe is favorable to

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Speaker 1: the degree that thirteen or fourteen wins is not unrealistic

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Speaker 1: to ponder and think about. No, it's not. And it

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Speaker 1: really removes excuses. I mean there's none in there. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's no like stretch where you gonna say, well, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a stretch in there where they out of five

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Speaker 1: on the road, but they got a bye week sprinkled

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Speaker 1: in there. Yeah. So I mean even that the mini

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Speaker 1: buy the Thanksgiving Night game, it gives you an extra

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Speaker 1: week to get ready for the New England Patriots. Nobody's

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Speaker 1: complaining about that. You've got a tough stretch when you

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Speaker 1: play the Colds, the Saints, the Patriots and the Bucks

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Speaker 1: in a row. But that's you know, after that's week

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Speaker 1: eleven through fourteen, you should know who you are by then.

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Speaker 1: This is a yeah. Health is obviously a big thing,

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Speaker 1: and all everything changes. Some of these teams are going

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Speaker 1: to be way better than we thought, and some of

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Speaker 1: them weren't going to be as good as we thought.

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Speaker 1: Who knows, but if you transpose last year's knowledge onto

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Speaker 1: this year's schedule, your expectations are pretty high. It's hard

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Speaker 1: not to think about San Francisco a year after going

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Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl as the NFC champ. Everybody had

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Speaker 1: them through the roof in terms of wins, and we

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Speaker 1: looked at that game as a difficult game on the

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Speaker 1: schedule last year, and then they ran into a myriad

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Speaker 1: of injuries. They had to move their team to Arizona

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Speaker 1: because of COVID mid season, because of the mess in California,

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Speaker 1: and I mean their season went to hell in a handbasket. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and they never recovered obviously, and then anything possible. Now

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Speaker 1: this year, they lost their defensive coordinator who was so

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Speaker 1: highly thought of. We'll see how that rebounds. Certainly, They've

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Speaker 1: got a lot of talent still in their roster. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: things changed fast, and the Bills, for all intensive purposes

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Speaker 1: of the arrows still pointing up and the expectations are

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Speaker 1: right there with it. Thanks for Joe running us this

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Speaker 1: weekend today here on One Bills Live. We'll come back

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Speaker 1: on Monday and do it all over again, so be

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Speaker 1: sure to tune back in as we review rookie minicamp

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Speaker 1: and keep talking Bills all through the offseason. Here with you,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, I'm Chris Brown. Thanks for watching. We'll see

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Speaker 1: you on Monday here on One Bills Live.