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Speaker 1: These One Bills Live, presented by called Light of Health.

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Speaker 1: You're darn tooting, it's One Bills Live. Chris Brown Steve

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Speaker 1: asked me with you here on a Thursday, chopping it

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Speaker 1: up with you on the Bills and their off season,

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Speaker 1: which is four days in the making and certainly a

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Speaker 1: lot earlier than any of us had hoped for. But nevertheless,

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Speaker 1: we press on in this world of no games on

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Speaker 1: the weekend for us. I mean, there are games, but

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Speaker 1: they don't involve the Bills, and so it feels like

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Speaker 1: there's no football I see here. I've seen some people

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Speaker 1: on social media say I can't even watch football this week,

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Speaker 1: and I can't do it because the Bills aren't in it.

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Speaker 1: You get down and you get and we've got the team.

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Speaker 1: We've got televisions all over all offices because we got

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Speaker 1: to keep track of everything and social media and all that,

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Speaker 1: and all the analysts and stuff about the Chiefs, Bengals

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Speaker 1: and the Eagles, Niners. It's just like Charlie Brown's teacher

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Speaker 1: to me right now, wa wa wa wah. That's it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I do not care. Yeah, you're tuned out. I do

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Speaker 1: not care. I'm gonna leave. I'm gonna leave town just Okay,

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Speaker 1: I won't, but but I'm thinking about it. But I

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Speaker 1: wish I'm checked out mentally. Yeah, I get it. We're

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Speaker 1: all we all have the playoff hangover, some of us

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Speaker 1: have postseason depression. Um, you know, in light of the

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Speaker 1: Bills are doing the same as we know. So there

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Speaker 1: is some news concerning the Bills today. This is only report.

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Speaker 1: The team has not confirmed this UM, but ESPN dot

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Speaker 1: COM's Elena Getzenberg was the first to report that the

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Speaker 1: Bills and their safeties coach, Jimmy Salgado have parted ways. UM.

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Speaker 1: Salgado an original member Buffalo's coaching staff when McDermott came in,

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Speaker 1: so he's been here each of the last six years,

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Speaker 1: was their nickel corner coach and then was promoted last

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Speaker 1: year to safety's when Bobby Babbage went to cover linebackers

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Speaker 1: to replace his dad, who retired last year at this time.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, good dude, good coach. No again, no confirmation

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Speaker 1: no rational will We will probably never find the you know,

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Speaker 1: changes at some level, and they do every year. I mean,

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Speaker 1: most of the coaching staffs have some tinkering going on.

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Speaker 1: And like we've said before, it was sean beginning of

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Speaker 1: Seawan's third year before we intimated to us and the

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Speaker 1: and you go down, you go down all the coaching

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Speaker 1: searches and changes, and it is a long and extensive list.

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Speaker 1: Every every team in the league is affected by it.

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Speaker 1: Right now, there's a I mean, I'm you can scroll

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Speaker 1: We go, which is presented by kalid To Health, the

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Speaker 1: official healthcare system of the Buffalo Bills, and we begin

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Speaker 1: in the AFC East, where the Jets had some interesting

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Speaker 1: news today. After interviewing a fifteen candidates for their offensive

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Speaker 1: Elsewhere in the AFC East Steve more information is trickling

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Speaker 1: flip picks, flip picks and then you got to give

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Speaker 1: them your one next years year. Maybe because you're going

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Speaker 1: to the top of the draft board, you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. Yeah, but you're only dropping down to four. Yeah,

428
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Speaker 1: maybe if you don't maybe it's I don't know, I'd

429
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Speaker 1: have to look up. There's at least two of those

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Speaker 1: picks are going to be quarterbacks. But I could see

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Speaker 1: Indie being motivated to jump over Houston, who is undoubtedly

432
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Speaker 1: taking a quarterback. Seattle right behind you at five could

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Speaker 1: take one, you know. I know they like Gino Smith,

434
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Speaker 1: but he's the long term solution. I don't know. I mean,

435
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Speaker 1: he's good enough to get you to nine and eight,

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Speaker 1: ten and seven. Maybe, So I could see Seattle trying

437
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 1: to play the leap frog game and jump over the Colts.

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00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,560
Speaker 1: You know, if you the Bears, the Bears could Ryan

439
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,880
Speaker 1: Poles has an opportunity here because you could move down

440
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: to three or four, and I still think you could

441
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: get Jalen Carter. You got a good chance at that.

442
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,040
Speaker 1: Who's the best defensive player in the draft for my money?

443
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:11,840
Speaker 1: Down to how far down three or four? Yeah, for sure,

444
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,639
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of jockeying there. The Raiders

445
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 1: are probably gonna be in the market for a QB

446
00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: Carolina at at nine. So there could be some very

447
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 1: interesting movement in the top ten this year to try

448
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Speaker 1: to get one of the top two quarterbacks. Because you

449
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:35,160
Speaker 1: got Houston, Indie, Seattle, Las Vegas, Carolina, they're all in play.

450
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: Atlanta could even be in play. I know they took

451
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:41,040
Speaker 1: Desmond Ritter last year in the third round, but you

452
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 1: got a guy you like better in this year's draft,

453
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Speaker 1: you're taking them, right, I mean Ritter was the third

454
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Speaker 1: round pick last year. Right, So you got arguably four

455
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Speaker 1: or five teams in the top ten. Well, and they're

456
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Speaker 1: all gonna be wanting to, you know, jump over each

457
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Speaker 1: other to get one of these guys, you know, whether

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Speaker 1: it's Bryce Young, CJ. Stroud, Yeah, I will see. I

459
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Speaker 1: just think if you're the number one pick of the draft,

460
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 1: I think you've got to You've got to maximize it, right,

461
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you you stunk all year. You've got to

462
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:26,120
Speaker 1: get a guy that can make a difference now today now,

463
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Speaker 1: or you've got to get enough for him that the

464
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,359
Speaker 1: picks you get for him are going to transform your

465
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Speaker 1: franchise in some way, shape or for him. So you know,

466
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Speaker 1: I Yeah, because Arizona's not taking a QB there at

467
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Speaker 1: number three. That's to me, that's a spot you kind

468
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Speaker 1: of watch what happens in front of you. And if

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Speaker 1: none of those teams or if like if somebody trades

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Speaker 1: up ahead takes Chicago's pick, gets a quarterback, and somebody

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Speaker 1: and Houston takes a quarterback Stroud and then Young or

472
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Speaker 1: Young and then Stroud, whatever, the number three pick is Arizona. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the question is, the big question is whether or not

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Speaker 1: there's a third quarterback worthy of that kind of value.

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Speaker 1: I think that's where the next debate comes in. I

476
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Speaker 1: think that will largely determine how much movement there is

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Speaker 1: after those two are gone. But because there's two bona

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Speaker 1: fide top tens, by most people's accounting, the demand is

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Speaker 1: not I mean, the supply is not great, So the

480
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Speaker 1: demand is going to be big. And those teams that

481
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Speaker 1: are desperate, they're gonna be giving up the farm to

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Speaker 1: get up there if they like one of those two

483
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Speaker 1: guys and often believe they're a franchise player. That's what Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what you gott it is if you trade out

485
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Speaker 1: of that spot, do you get enough to help you

486
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Speaker 1: and are you gonna, are you gonna be able? Are

487
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Speaker 1: you gonna save your job? Basically is what you're doing

488
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Speaker 1: in Arizona. Either way, you're putting your job on the

489
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Speaker 1: line there if you're taking one of those quarterbacks right now.

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Speaker 1: Arizona doesn't even have a head coach. They're still looking yep,

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Speaker 1: and they you know, so that's yeah, there's a list

492
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 1: of eight or nine guys out there. They have a

493
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Speaker 1: new GM. Um. So yeah, a topic of discussion for

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Speaker 1: you today at eight oh three, five fifty one. Think

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00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: about what we just said. Arizona got a brand new GM,

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Speaker 1: no head coach. Tennessee just got a brand new GM.

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Speaker 1: The Jets new offensive coordinator, okay, new England Schwartz, new

498
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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. You know, and they're telling us now melt

499
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Speaker 1: Kiper's telling us who those guys that they don't know

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Speaker 1: who they are yet are gonna pick. Yeah. I think

501
00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 1: he's just as signing value and need. He doesn't know

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Speaker 1: what any of these guys are thinking yet exactly, But

503
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Speaker 1: we don't even know who. Yes calls up, Melon says, Mell,

504
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: you need to do a mock draft. My point is

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Speaker 1: not only do we know what these guys were thinking.

506
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 1: We don't even know which guys we're trying to figure

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00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 1: out who's thinking right. We don't even know who to think.

508
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: We don't even know who on whose behalf, don't know

509
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Speaker 1: whose mind we're reading. We don't even know. We don't

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Speaker 1: even know. And here we are. Let's do a mock draft.

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Speaker 1: You just tell me who you're going to draft, just

512
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Speaker 1: you know what. Let's go topic of discussion. Which player

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Speaker 1: do the Bills need to take the next step in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. We know that there's twenty one free

515
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:34,520
Speaker 1: agents and they got to add a bunch of players

516
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: and maneuver around the salary cap and all that, but

517
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 1: there is still thirty to forty players on the roster,

518
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Speaker 1: including a lot of the young players in the last

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Speaker 1: couple of drafts. Which player do the Bills need to

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Speaker 1: take that next step in twenty twenty three to help

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Speaker 1: push this team over the hump. You can give us

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Speaker 1: a call at eight O three five fifty one eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty the number to get

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Speaker 1: on board, or you can hit us up on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet at one Bills Live. Steve and I can

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Speaker 1: break back with more including your phone calls here on

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Stay tuned, all right, Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live. Here on a Thursday, Chris Brown Steve

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Speaker 1: Tasker with you, asking you which player do the Bills

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Speaker 1: need to take the next step in twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: to help them get over the hump and win an

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Speaker 1: AFC title. So feel free to give us a jingle

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Speaker 1: eight oh three five fifty local number to call one

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Speaker 1: eighty eight five fifty two five fifty and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: go to the phones here in this segment and leading

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Speaker 1: us off is Bill in Rochester. What do you got

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Speaker 1: for us? Bill? You're on One Bills Live. Okay, everybody

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Speaker 1: is looking at Edge Russia's lineman. How about a tight end?

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Speaker 1: How about Myers from Notre Dame or Washington from Georgia.

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Speaker 1: I know we have Max, but wouldn't it be nice

541
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Speaker 1: to have a tight end that's a super blacker and

542
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 1: could replace the slap receiver still get things done? Think

543
00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: about it and I'm done. You can comment on that,

544
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: but I think a tight end of that caliber of

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00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 1: a Kelsey or Gronkowski, wouldn't that be nice? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: And I hope to hear from me. Yeah, I'll be

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Speaker 1: yes it would be nice. I'll be shocked if this kid, Myers,

548
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Speaker 1: whoever it is you're talking about it turns into a

549
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Speaker 1: Gronkowski or Kelsey, I'll be shocked. Maybe he's a good

550
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's a good kid, but you throw those

551
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: names out there like there's one in every draft and

552
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:33,360
Speaker 1: there's not. So he's talking about Michael Mayer. Yeah, if

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Speaker 1: that's fine. Uh yeah. If the guy turns out to

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Speaker 1: be like a Gronk or a Travis Kelsey, sure absolutely

555
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Speaker 1: draft him. Draft him anyway you can get him. But

556
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: that's that's a big ask for a kid who's been

557
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: playing against dental students. Sixty seven catches, eight hundred nine

558
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: yards nine touchdowns last year for Notre Dame. Awesome. I

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Speaker 1: get it. I'm let's see him run the forty and listen.

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Speaker 1: It is an interesting way to think about getting Josh

561
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Speaker 1: Allen more weapons. I think people say get Josh Allen

562
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,760
Speaker 1: more weapons and they instantly think about the receiver position.

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Speaker 1: So Bill makes a decent point that, hey, you know,

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Speaker 1: don't dismiss tight end. And I do know that it

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Speaker 1: is a really good tight end class this year. It

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Speaker 1: is not considered to be as deep a receiver class

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Speaker 1: as it's been in the last couple of years. So again,

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Speaker 1: if the value points you that way. And I'm telling

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Speaker 1: you right now, that kid from Georgia, Darnell Washington, six seven,

570
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Speaker 1: like two eighty, runs like a deer. He's a freaking nature.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that he's a first round prospect though,

572
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Speaker 1: because his college tape is limited. I I hate to

573
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Speaker 1: we go down this road every time. If we go,

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Speaker 1: I can sense it. You see all these guys come

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Speaker 1: out of there, and I'm I'm with you. I see

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Speaker 1: these guys there's six seven, six eight six six, two

577
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Speaker 1: forty to two eighty, and they can outrun most guys

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Speaker 1: on the field, and they come to the National Football

579
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: League and they are just ho hum. And it's frustrating

580
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 1: because with the kind of physical tools they walk in with,

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Speaker 1: they're the same guy in year ten that they are

582
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Speaker 1: in year one. They never get any better and they

583
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Speaker 1: string together ten years of mediocrity because they're so big.

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Speaker 1: They're such a big tory everybody. Thin's why you know

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Speaker 1: they're gonna bring this out of him. A perfect example

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Speaker 1: is Marcedes Lewis in Green Bay came out was with

587
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 1: Jacksonville forever now he's with Green Bay. Everybody loves him.

588
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,279
Speaker 1: Great quality guy. He's six seven two forty, had all

589
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Speaker 1: these skill in the world and he's just a guy.

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00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:43,839
Speaker 1: But he's still playing. That's his greatest skill. Longevity, longevity,

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Speaker 1: that's it. They just keep him around. A great guy.

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00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: He can do a lot of things, okay, but I've

593
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,960
Speaker 1: also seen him catch a ball and not get both

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Speaker 1: feet in the back of the end zone when a

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00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: sixth grader could have done it. Stuff like that drives

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00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:03,800
Speaker 1: you crazy about those guys. Look, Kyle, is it pits

597
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: down in Atlanta. You still got to have somebody to

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00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:12,280
Speaker 1: throw him the football. Pit's a great guy, tremendous athlete.

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00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: He may go to the Pro Bowl because guys think

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00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: he's so unbelievable, but he's just okay. Darnell Washington is

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Speaker 1: the Georgia kids, six seven two sixty five, as I mentioned,

602
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Speaker 1: though doesn't have a lot of college tape. Played in

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Speaker 1: four games as a freshman, eight games as a sophomore,

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Speaker 1: and then finally fifteen games this year. But he's playing

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Speaker 1: behind Brock Bowers, who was the starter at tight end,

606
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Speaker 1: who was only a sophomore. Tight Ends are hard, hard

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Speaker 1: to evaluate. Gronk came out of Arizona State, Arizona, Arizona.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, didn't He'll be Arizona if you if Gronk

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Speaker 1: came out again after his career is over, and he

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00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 1: came out again, you know, and as he'd go in

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Speaker 1: the top five in the draft, maybe number one. Same

612
00:37:02,239 --> 00:37:05,239
Speaker 1: thing with Kelsey. Those guys are coming, they go, but

613
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: nobody knew and they had some skin. Yeah you had

614
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: some measurables and stuff, but nobody knew. These guys. You

615
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,960
Speaker 1: can't tell because so much of that position has to

616
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,719
Speaker 1: It's such a hybrid position in today's NFL. If you're

617
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,280
Speaker 1: a really good one, you can line up right outside

618
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 1: the tackle and fire off and get on a defensive

619
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Speaker 1: end and more than hold your own. And then you

620
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Speaker 1: come out and you work your magic on the safety

621
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Speaker 1: and you're running free like Travis Kelsey. I mean, I

622
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: couldn't believe Jacksonville. It's like they didn't even know who

623
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Speaker 1: he was. They didn't even look at him. And he

624
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,359
Speaker 1: was running his four catches on the first drive touch

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Speaker 1: and the touchdown, Like, what do you do? Haven't you

626
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: watched tape of these guys? I think Bill his whole premise.

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Speaker 1: You know he's probably thinking, he's trying to think in

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00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:54,919
Speaker 1: a different way. Okay, the receiver class isn't A strong.

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Speaker 1: Tight end class is very good. I get it. At

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00:37:56,960 --> 00:37:59,920
Speaker 1: a tight end makes sense. Got some you know, chops

631
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Speaker 1: in the passing game. And now you've got Dawson Knox

632
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Speaker 1: in this other tight end who can play together and

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00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 1: he's probably got visions thinking and Hernandez back and you know,

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Speaker 1: absolutely I'm all about it because you can if that

635
00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: guy can split out at that size and that speed

636
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: and all that, and he can come in and run

637
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: in the running game, and all of a sudden, you're

638
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: running twelve personnel a lot and you're making hay and

639
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: they can go. You got a guy that can take

640
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: the lid off and these guys are working underneath and

641
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:23,960
Speaker 1: you can, and then the defense doesn't know how to

642
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: match up because if you split out, their outmatched, and

643
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 1: if you go down inside they can They're gonna try

644
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,439
Speaker 1: and bear up and they can't match up there either

645
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 1: because they got safeties or whatever. So I get it.

646
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: It's a great idea, but it takes two special guys

647
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,360
Speaker 1: at tight end, two of them, and you know the

648
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 1: bills of guys. I like Knox a lot. I like

649
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: him a lot. Really had a strong second half of

650
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:49,360
Speaker 1: the season two. But it took Knox three years to

651
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: get here, you know what I mean, And it took

652
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 1: Gronk a minute. So I yeah, I'm totally with you.

653
00:38:58,719 --> 00:39:00,600
Speaker 1: If but if that guy's a guy on the board,

654
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 1: grab him, I'm all about it. Sure, But I'll say this,

655
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 1: it has been my observation, not my experience, just my

656
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: observation that wide outs are much easier to evaluate than

657
00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 1: tight ends because it's hard to evaluate the guys because

658
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:19,000
Speaker 1: he's in cought. When you're in college and you can

659
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: catch the ball and you're tight end, that's what you do.

660
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 1: You never know if the guy can run block. Then

661
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 1: you get him in the pros and you find out

662
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: he's soft. You can't run block. He can, he can

663
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: split him out. It's like Gisicky down in Miami, right,

664
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: and then or the other way he turns into he's

665
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:40,839
Speaker 1: an offensive tag. He's like he's like Lee Smith. Right,

666
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 1: he comes in and he can. He's a grinder and

667
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: a physical guy. Everybody loves him and he can. He

668
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:49,360
Speaker 1: can get his hands dirty, but he can't catch or

669
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 1: he can't he you know, the nose guard can out run. Yeah,

670
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 1: the nose guard can out run him and cover him

671
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: one on one. So that kind of stuff. So that's

672
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: what you're looking at. These guy has it come out

673
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 1: of college. Rarely do they come out of an offense

674
00:40:03,040 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 1: that is versatile enough to where you get good film.

675
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: You see, well, he can run. Look at this, he's

676
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 1: a really good in the run. Game makes the projection harder, right,

677
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 1: it's just a harder projecting than it is for a

678
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: wide outer a running back. Let's go back to the

679
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 1: phones and we go to John and Hamburg. Next we

680
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:21,720
Speaker 1: got first John, You're on one Bill's life. I am

681
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:26,480
Speaker 1: not going to go player wise on this question. I

682
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 1: want to know since he came here this year, everybody

683
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: has a gaga about the offensive line coach Aaron Comer,

684
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:40,799
Speaker 1: and I just want to know why I haven't heard

685
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: a peep out of anybody, and I hope nobody thinks

686
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: about injuries. I want to know if you guys can

687
00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:52,880
Speaker 1: give me a review on the coach of the offensive line.

688
00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 1: And to me, I'm eighty years old, and since I

689
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:01,239
Speaker 1: went to high school with Jim McNally, we all know

690
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:05,680
Speaker 1: that the offense way. The way the offensive line goes,

691
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 1: so goes the team. I just want to know if

692
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 1: you could maybe get off the player deal and review

693
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:18,360
Speaker 1: mister Comer's job. Okay, Yeah, that's good question, John, because

694
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:22,359
Speaker 1: at anytime you have a group that's do you feel

695
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:26,440
Speaker 1: like underperforms at any point, that's you know, that's the

696
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,399
Speaker 1: first guy that sees it, and that's the first guy

697
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 1: that has to get evaluated for You're right, Chromeer. He

698
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 1: comes in, he came in with an excellent resume, and

699
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: he has had great success everywhere he's been, including here

700
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: the last time, including in Buffalo when they were leading

701
00:41:40,719 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 1: the league in rushing two years in a row. I

702
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 1: don't I gotta be honest with you. I tend to

703
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 1: see what I see is not a lack of scheming

704
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 1: and not a lack of preparation. I see guys getting

705
00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: some guys getting beat one on one is what I see. Yeah,

706
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 1: you can say what you want. I don't think I'm

707
00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: qualified to say, yeah, great job, bad job, or whatever.

708
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 1: But I think we all know. We're all saying they

709
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: need to protect Josh Moore, and certainly in the Cincinnati

710
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:14,360
Speaker 1: game they needed to. But that was kind of a

711
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: one off. That's a great question, and I don't know

712
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 1: that I'm qualified answered about how guys are getting coached

713
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 1: up front for the Buffalo Bills. I'll say this, I

714
00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: don't think they do. I don't think they'd hang out

715
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: with a coach they didn't think was qualified. As we saw,

716
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,200
Speaker 1: if there's any problems with any of these guys, Sean

717
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: has never been shy about changing it out, which he

718
00:42:36,080 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 1: did this last year. Right. And then I would say,

719
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 1: on top of that, there were some execution problems by

720
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: the players on the field. I understand how that does

721
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:51,760
Speaker 1: go back to coaching, because that's the guy that's getting

722
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,919
Speaker 1: them ready. But again I'm in I'm in Steve's boat.

723
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 1: I'm not going to pretend to know the finer points

724
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:02,880
Speaker 1: of offensive line play and critique it. Only the players

725
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:06,280
Speaker 1: know the play that's being called and what their responsibilities

726
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 1: are in terms of executing that play. So far be

727
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 1: it from me to make a call on that. I

728
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 1: think we know what the rankings are in terms of

729
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: running the football, passing the ball, third down conversions, sack

730
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: percentage allowed, all of that stuff, But player by player,

731
00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 1: you know what was the development. I want to believe

732
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,440
Speaker 1: that you know Ryan Bates had a solid season. I

733
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,719
Speaker 1: think Mitch Morris had a solid season. Some of the

734
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 1: other guys were a little bit up and down. You know.

735
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 1: I think that's it's too all encompassing. And again, the

736
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,080
Speaker 1: trained eye is something that I don't have. And if

737
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 1: Steve you know, doesn't feel comfortable to doing, I'm certainly

738
00:43:47,680 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 1: not gonna do it. So but sorry, we can't definitively

739
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: answer your question. I'll say this though, Usually for coaches,

740
00:43:53,800 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: if if their group is underperforming, they take it pretty

741
00:43:57,120 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 1: hard personally. They because it's their job they and they

742
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 1: care about out the guys that they're coaching. So if Kromer,

743
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: I would really be happy, and I'm interested to hear

744
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 1: what he says about how the season went. Certainly they

745
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 1: had guys in and out of the lineup once in

746
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: a while, but and some guys playing hurt. But I

747
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: think for the most part, coaches I've been around a

748
00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 1: lot of them are pretty self aware that they say, nah,

749
00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 1: that was on me, that wasn't on them, and this

750
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:27,719
Speaker 1: was you know what I mean. They know exactly what's

751
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:30,000
Speaker 1: going on, and they know who who was a problem

752
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:32,760
Speaker 1: in the offensive line room, if any and who wasn't

753
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: what guys they were trying to work on to get

754
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: to a certain point. They just never got there. And

755
00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 1: sometimes when they're trying to get guys to do stuff

756
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,360
Speaker 1: and they keep not doing it because he can't, you know,

757
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,760
Speaker 1: he's not coaching them well enough he get his message across.

758
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: That's a that's a it's a complex thing because you

759
00:44:46,719 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 1: got one guy coaching twelve with the guys on the

760
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:53,880
Speaker 1: roster and the practice squad, and a chemistry has a

761
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: ton to do with it. So I know, I'm we're

762
00:44:56,520 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: kind of I don't want to double talk your question, John,

763
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:01,440
Speaker 1: but I don't don't know if I'm qualified to do it.

764
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: All you know is that it You're right. The offense

765
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:10,399
Speaker 1: goes as the old line goes, and at too many,

766
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:14,200
Speaker 1: far too many times this season, the old line was

767
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: too spotty to give Josh and those guys a chance

768
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:17,880
Speaker 1: to run it the way they wanted to run it.

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00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,399
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Speaker 1: Today we got to get back to the phones at

777
00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:00,280
Speaker 1: eight three, five fifty where we are asking you today

778
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,839
Speaker 1: which player do the Bills need to take the next step?

779
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:07,720
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty three and we go to Carl into

780
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: Pew next, what do you got for us? Carl? Yeah, well,

781
00:46:12,760 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 1: there's no sense crying over spill knock this year. I

782
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 1: think our biggest, our biggest issue is we've kissed playing

783
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 1: weren't good enough. Hey, you could start with the offensive

784
00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 1: line and the defensive line. You can start right there. Yeah,

785
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 1: I mean the defensive line was beat up. No de

786
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: Quon Jones in the last game. That hurt. That guy

787
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:38,759
Speaker 1: had played in every game this season, out with the

788
00:46:38,840 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 1: calf injury last Sunday. Jordan Phillips is playing with one army,

789
00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: had a torn rotator cuff for the better part of

790
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,360
Speaker 1: the last six weeks. Losing von Miller didn't help, and

791
00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:51,479
Speaker 1: von Miller's out so that didn't help. The offensive line

792
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:55,879
Speaker 1: was much healthier than the defensive line was. But as

793
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 1: Steve pointed out, yeah, I mean at times. Their play

794
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 1: was spotty this year. There's no debating that. So well,

795
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 1: that's like that. I think we have two really good

796
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 1: tackles and I don't know a seventy nine if he

797
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: was hurt a lot of the year, but he was

798
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:13,800
Speaker 1: the next coming to the Lord last year and he

799
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 1: just had a social year. I mean, Mores is as

800
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 1: good as center as we're going to get an interior line. Yeah,

801
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:27,280
Speaker 1: our tight end, he's he's okay. He's not a Kelsey,

802
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 1: we know that. But we have no wide receivers except

803
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,799
Speaker 1: dig and we need a slot receiver. So how many

804
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:38,879
Speaker 1: I mean, that's quite a few players. And we spent

805
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: a lot of money on defensive edge rushers and they

806
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:46,560
Speaker 1: haven't produced the way they should with the high drafts

807
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: that we took. I'll say this about what Carl your

808
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: premise about they just weren't good enough. I would dispute

809
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:59,200
Speaker 1: that I've said, and I still believe they've been good

810
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:00,880
Speaker 1: enough to go to and win the Super Bowl for

811
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,479
Speaker 1: three years since twenty twenty. But you got to play well,

812
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:06,919
Speaker 1: and you've got to be healthy and playing your best

813
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 1: on the game in the playoff that you're playing, and

814
00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:13,359
Speaker 1: they haven't been doing that. They haven't done that. Now

815
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: you can say what we want about thirteen seconds. Who

816
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:18,800
Speaker 1: you know, that's how good they were last year and

817
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 1: the year before when they got beat by eighteen points

818
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:23,799
Speaker 1: by the Chiefs and they was like, oh my gosh,

819
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:26,759
Speaker 1: and everybody was up in arms. The Chiefs played their

820
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:30,319
Speaker 1: absolute best game. They played their best game, I would

821
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:32,920
Speaker 1: venture to say, in two years against the Bills on

822
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 1: that day. They're hard to beat. They're really good team,

823
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,480
Speaker 1: and if you don't play as that that good, you're

824
00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:41,160
Speaker 1: gonna get beat. The Bills have proven throughout the regular

825
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:45,439
Speaker 1: season and playoffs they are good enough and talented enough

826
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 1: in any given year to go to and win the

827
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. That's just all there is to it. But

828
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 1: they haven't gotten done because they've met a team that

829
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:55,400
Speaker 1: played better on that day. It's that simple. You can say, no, no,

830
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:58,359
Speaker 1: they gotta listen. It's about the game they're playing that day.

831
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 1: The regular season doesn't matter, last year's playoff loss, doesn't

832
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 1: matter how good your quarterback is, doesn't matter your offensive line.

833
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 1: On that day, they got a chance to move on,

834
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 1: and they haven't gotten it done to this point. But

835
00:49:11,920 --> 00:49:15,959
Speaker 1: this you can point to the Bengals game and pick Okay,

836
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:18,839
Speaker 1: the offensive line wasn't good enough, our defensive line wasn't

837
00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 1: good enough, our wide receivers weren't good enough. But against

838
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 1: the exact same field and the exact same teams that

839
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: were talking about throughout the league, they were really good

840
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:31,560
Speaker 1: enough all through the regular season. They get to the

841
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:35,360
Speaker 1: playoffs and for whatever reason, mostly because they play a

842
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 1: really good football team who plays better than they do,

843
00:49:39,160 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: or gets a bounce or gets a chance to get

844
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 1: a field goal to tie it with the last player

845
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: regulation and you lose in and overtime, or you blow

846
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:53,120
Speaker 1: a sixteen point lead in twenty nineteen, that's all it's

847
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:55,400
Speaker 1: It's that simple, and there's that much that's out of

848
00:49:55,440 --> 00:49:57,080
Speaker 1: the control of the Bills and always will be. And

849
00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 1: it was out of control of the Bengals. It was

850
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:00,160
Speaker 1: out of control of the Chiefs, and it will be

851
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:03,080
Speaker 1: this weekend for the Chiefs Philly, for San Francisco. It's

852
00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 1: all out of their control. They're gonna we're out there

853
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:07,080
Speaker 1: and playing as good as they can play and seeing

854
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:11,360
Speaker 1: how the other team gets it done. The Bills have

855
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:14,840
Speaker 1: been good enough to do it literally for three years,

856
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:17,919
Speaker 1: and that's the frustrating part about it because we're sitting

857
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:20,319
Speaker 1: here trying to fix something that's really not broken. You're

858
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:25,320
Speaker 1: chasing your tail. They build this roster they they were in.

859
00:50:26,239 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go back and check, but I remember

860
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: having the same conversation twelve months ago. They're gonna have

861
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:34,759
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a different team this coming year. There's

862
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 1: gonna be new players. And we didn't know who Kyer

863
00:50:37,239 --> 00:50:40,239
Speaker 1: Elam was. We didn't know who Khalil Shakir was. We

864
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:42,399
Speaker 1: didn't know who James Cook was. We didn't know any

865
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:44,839
Speaker 1: of these guys. And we didn't know who de Quan

866
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,919
Speaker 1: Jones or Tim Settle. We didn't know Vaughan was gonna

867
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: be here. We didn't know any of this stuff. But

868
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,440
Speaker 1: they built it in the offseason and got to a

869
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:57,200
Speaker 1: point where, yeah, they put it together. Now they're gonna

870
00:50:57,239 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 1: do it again because that's what they do. They've got

871
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 1: a great protocol, they got a great process for getting

872
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 1: it done. It's not gonna be the same as it

873
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:06,400
Speaker 1: was two years ago, or the same as it was

874
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 1: this year. It's gonna be a little different, and it's

875
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:11,560
Speaker 1: gonna look different and feel different, but it's gonna be

876
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 1: as effective. That's the plan. And you gotta have faith

877
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 1: in that because they've been doing it since twenty eighteen.

878
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, I get it. On that day this last weekend,

879
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 1: it wasn't But don't get caught up in that. This

880
00:51:26,200 --> 00:51:29,440
Speaker 1: is a good football team with a great culture and

881
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:32,319
Speaker 1: a great way of building a roster year over year

882
00:51:32,440 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: over year over year. Now, certainly Josh is the kingpin

883
00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 1: of that. Digs is a great starting point, and Von

884
00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 1: Miller when he comes back, it's gonna be awesome as well.

885
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:41,480
Speaker 1: They got some guys that they can depend on, lean

886
00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:46,279
Speaker 1: on and that roster. But they're gonna be good. Yeah,

887
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 1: they're gonna be good again. And I'm fine with everybody

888
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:52,080
Speaker 1: writing them off and saying, wow, they gotta rebuild the

889
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,480
Speaker 1: whole day. They ain't gonna rebuild it. They're gonna reload it,

890
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: just like they've done over the last three years. We

891
00:51:57,040 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: have been in this exact spot for three years and

892
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 1: every off season they have built it. And last year

893
00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 1: they built it to be the Super Bowl favorites. But

894
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:08,319
Speaker 1: the only reason that happened was because of the way

895
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 1: that game went, the very last game of the season.

896
00:52:11,640 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 1: And that's a really teeny tiny small sample size of

897
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:18,759
Speaker 1: what goes into it just like this, Just like this

898
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 1: Bengals game is a small sample size. People forget they

899
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 1: won eight in a row up until that game. So

900
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 1: you run into good teams, man, you gotta play good

901
00:52:27,600 --> 00:52:30,080
Speaker 1: on that day. Yea. And to Brandon Bean's point, they

902
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 1: didn't roll into the playoffs with the same degree of

903
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: momentum they had the previous two years because the unfortunate

904
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 1: circumstances surrounding Tomorrow Hamlet. So that was that play a factor.

905
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:41,120
Speaker 1: Is the only reason they were Super Bowl favorites was

906
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:43,359
Speaker 1: because of the electricity of that last game they played

907
00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 1: in last year. And that is not the reason we

908
00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 1: should all that everybody else. That's the reason everybody who

909
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:52,799
Speaker 1: didn't see them all year jumped on. We've been on them.

910
00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, they've been good enough for three years.

911
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 1: We had to take a break here. There is some

912
00:52:57,680 --> 00:53:01,440
Speaker 1: breaking news though. The Carolina Panthers have hired former Colt's

913
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 1: head coach Frank Reich as their new head coach. That

914
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:08,840
Speaker 1: according to Tom Pellacero, the organization's first quarterback as an

915
00:53:08,880 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 1: expansion team in nineteen ninety five was Frank Reich is

916
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:14,600
Speaker 1: now their head coach. We take a break here, but

917
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 1: when we come back. We're joined by USA Today editor

918
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:20,480
Speaker 1: and NFL writer Doug Ferrar joining us next, It's One

919
00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:23,319
Speaker 1: Bill's Live presented by Kalaida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Raiding.

920
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 1: These One Bills Live presented by Called to Health. All right,

921
00:54:06,280 --> 00:54:08,399
Speaker 1: here we are our number two on a Thursday. Chris Brown,

922
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you One Bills Live as the show

923
00:54:11,719 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 1: and please to be joined now by USA Today Editor

924
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:18,960
Speaker 1: NFL writer Doug Farrar on the program. Here, Doug, how

925
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:22,399
Speaker 1: are we doing? We're down to the final four, Yes

926
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:26,320
Speaker 1: we are. It's a fascinating week. All kinds of strategy

927
00:54:26,360 --> 00:54:28,240
Speaker 1: to get into and all kinds of tape and metrics,

928
00:54:28,239 --> 00:54:32,320
Speaker 1: which is what I've been doing, both the looking forward

929
00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 1: and the forensic looking back, which I imagine it just

930
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:39,400
Speaker 1: lam here. Yeah, yeah, some of that. There is some

931
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 1: breaking news also, as one of the five open head

932
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:45,880
Speaker 1: coaching spots has been filled by a guy who's pretty

933
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 1: familiar to Bills fans. Frank Reich named the head coach

934
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:52,680
Speaker 1: of the Carolina Panthers, a team where he played as

935
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 1: the expansion year quarterback in nineteen ninety five. He was

936
00:54:56,680 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 1: their first QB. After he left Buffalo. Kind of a

937
00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:04,239
Speaker 1: cool circular deal there. Yes, a circle of life is

938
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 1: completely you know, they're a team on the rise. Sam

939
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 1: Darnold actually played a lot better than people think last year.

940
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 1: You know, we just we go off on Sam Donald

941
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 1: because he's Sam Donald. I would say he was a

942
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:22,040
Speaker 1: you know, functional, about league average quarterback. I don't know

943
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:24,320
Speaker 1: if they're going to bring him back. In my latest

944
00:55:24,440 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 1: mock draft, which came up this morning, I mocked Anthony

945
00:55:28,320 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 1: Richardson from Florida to them, and I believe nine and

946
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,640
Speaker 1: he's kind of a you know, if you want to

947
00:55:35,719 --> 00:55:39,719
Speaker 1: justin fields, that's your guy. Showed exponential growth in the

948
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:42,440
Speaker 1: second half of his first season as a starter in college,

949
00:55:42,719 --> 00:55:46,879
Speaker 1: so he's a developmental guy. Reich, you know, I've talked

950
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 1: to him before. I remember talking to him media day

951
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 1: when he was the Eagles OC the year they won

952
00:55:52,640 --> 00:55:54,479
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, and I talked to him for about

953
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:57,200
Speaker 1: twenty minutes and I walked away thinking that guy's going

954
00:55:57,239 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 1: to be a head coach sooner than leader. He just

955
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 1: got the whole picture. He was way laid obviously by

956
00:56:02,800 --> 00:56:06,880
Speaker 1: capricious ownership and the team's inability to find a quarterback.

957
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:09,399
Speaker 1: Kathry Andrew Luff retire, but you know, I still think

958
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 1: he's got a lot on the ball. I think it's

959
00:56:10,719 --> 00:56:13,960
Speaker 1: a good hire. Yeah, And as you see this take shape,

960
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:16,440
Speaker 1: and it'll be interesting to see the staff he puts together.

961
00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:19,359
Speaker 1: I think one of the things that ownership a guy

962
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:22,279
Speaker 1: like David Tepper would understand. The longer guys out of

963
00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:25,080
Speaker 1: the loop, the harder it is to stay connected to

964
00:56:25,440 --> 00:56:27,839
Speaker 1: staff who could come in and really help you. That'll

965
00:56:27,880 --> 00:56:29,799
Speaker 1: be I think that's the interesting thing. If you've got

966
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 1: any ideas about guys he has worked with or who

967
00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:37,120
Speaker 1: might come with him to Carolina that he worked with

968
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:42,279
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, Yeah, I'm not I'm not exactly sure because

969
00:56:42,320 --> 00:56:46,839
Speaker 1: he's had different guys, you know, and as we see

970
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: in New England, you tend to gravitate towards the guys

971
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:53,239
Speaker 1: that you've worked with before, for better or worse. So

972
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:55,719
Speaker 1: we'll see how that goes. But you know, just overall,

973
00:56:56,600 --> 00:57:00,320
Speaker 1: I think it's certainly you know, Steve Wilkes held it

974
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:04,279
Speaker 1: down really well, and you know, this is it. It's

975
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 1: a good sensible It reminds me a little bit of

976
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 1: what the Jaguars did with, you know, blowing the thing

977
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:13,400
Speaker 1: out with Urban Meyer as the Panthers blew it out

978
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 1: with Matt Rule and then you make the sensible higher.

979
00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 1: You get a guy who has been part of the

980
00:57:20,520 --> 00:57:23,720
Speaker 1: Super Bowl winning staff was Rich was obviously part of Peterson's.

981
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 1: So you know, you can expect that kind of offense,

982
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:30,040
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of verticals, a lot of

983
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 1: boot um a really you know, Reich has always been

984
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 1: a really well he designs offense as well. The most

985
00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 1: fascinating thing to me will be, um know, Phil Snow

986
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 1: did a really good job for the Panthers. You know

987
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:46,439
Speaker 1: what what that defensive staff would be like. That's that's

988
00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: kind of because you know, you tend to know, Okay,

989
00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:51,840
Speaker 1: an offensive minded coach is going to do these three

990
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 1: things and whatever. Um, it's always interesting for me to see,

991
00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:59,240
Speaker 1: like with in the case of Sean McDermott, who was

992
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:02,320
Speaker 1: obviously a defense coach, like he got Brian Dable and

993
00:58:02,400 --> 00:58:06,920
Speaker 1: everything just blew up in the in the good ways. Um.

994
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:10,600
Speaker 1: You know, when coaches have a particular emphasis, you always

995
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 1: want to see you like, the reverse emphasis. What kind

996
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:16,400
Speaker 1: of cushions to get for that side of the ball. Yeah. Right,

997
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 1: We've got the two conference championship games this weekend, Doug,

998
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 1: and I know you kind of put together a NFC

999
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:28,280
Speaker 1: Championship column just about how the Eagles can beat this

1000
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:34,120
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers defense. It is a formidable matchup, to

1001
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:38,320
Speaker 1: say the least, um and I I mean a lot

1002
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 1: of it. You'd be hard pressed to find a more

1003
00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 1: complete roster than the Eagles offense, defense, special teams. M

1004
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 1: But this Niners defense stops just about everybody. And it's

1005
00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:52,800
Speaker 1: really their front seven because if you look at their secondary,

1006
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 1: it's not like you got a bunch of world beaters

1007
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:57,480
Speaker 1: back there. But it just doesn't matter because their front

1008
00:58:57,520 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 1: seven is so dang good. I think it covers up

1009
00:59:00,840 --> 00:59:03,760
Speaker 1: any of the perceived limitations the guys on the back

1010
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:07,160
Speaker 1: end might have, right. I mean, like at safety, have

1011
00:59:07,240 --> 00:59:09,360
Speaker 1: Deshaun Gibson, who's been around for a while. I think

1012
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 1: he's thirty one or three two. He's having a renaissance

1013
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:14,640
Speaker 1: here under Damiko Ryan's who Fonga the second year safety

1014
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 1: from USC, kind of a Troy Papa Light that, you know,

1015
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:22,960
Speaker 1: attack safety down. I mean, their cornerbacks can be vulnerable

1016
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:26,520
Speaker 1: to a point. Fred Warner is an alien. Best linebacker

1017
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:28,760
Speaker 1: in the league might be the defense best defense that

1018
00:59:29,000 --> 00:59:31,800
Speaker 1: play I know, you guys saw it where he was

1019
00:59:31,840 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage and followed Ceedee Lamb, a

1020
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:38,560
Speaker 1: premier slot receiver, up the scene thirty yards. Linebackers are

1021
00:59:38,640 --> 00:59:43,480
Speaker 1: supposed to do that, you know, and obviously they're They're

1022
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 1: well coached, They've got talent all over the place. Two

1023
00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:50,680
Speaker 1: things that I discovered in going through metrics and watching

1024
00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:55,200
Speaker 1: the tape that they are vulnerable with versus play action.

1025
00:59:55,280 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 1: They don't defend it very well because and the Eagles

1026
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:02,640
Speaker 1: kind of had this. Two everyone's hair is on fire.

1027
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:08,360
Speaker 1: So when and you know, when, when Werner and greenlove

1028
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:11,440
Speaker 1: the linebackers looking at run fitts or what they think

1029
01:00:11,480 --> 01:00:14,640
Speaker 1: are run fits, they're like go and they can be

1030
01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:18,760
Speaker 1: exploited up top when they bite on play action. The

1031
01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:24,280
Speaker 1: other thing is, and Jalen Hurts has just cut zone

1032
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 1: coverage to ribbons. The Niners are a pretty heavy Cover

1033
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:31,040
Speaker 1: three Cover four team. Now Cover four has more man principles.

1034
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:33,960
Speaker 1: But if I'm if I'm Denika Ryan's in that game,

1035
01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:38,320
Speaker 1: i am playing man or Cover four or you know,

1036
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:43,040
Speaker 1: three lock or whatever, I'm employing more man principles. And

1037
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:47,120
Speaker 1: while that does make you more vulnerable to Jalen Hurts

1038
01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:51,080
Speaker 1: the running quarterback. I don't care because I don't want

1039
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:53,800
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts sitting back there in the pocket for however

1040
01:00:53,920 --> 01:00:55,720
Speaker 1: long he has. He has the best offensive line in

1041
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 1: the NFL. So even with Nick Bosta and Amanothu and

1042
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:03,000
Speaker 1: all those guys, it's still a problem. You know. I

1043
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:06,280
Speaker 1: would rather trust my front seven to take care of

1044
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:08,920
Speaker 1: that and play man on the back than just sit

1045
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:12,480
Speaker 1: in there in these cautious zones. And you guys know

1046
01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 1: when you play zone, I mean you know, true zone,

1047
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:19,040
Speaker 1: not not mixing it up and doing different things. You

1048
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:23,959
Speaker 1: have those little pockets of coverage where it's not there,

1049
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:26,840
Speaker 1: and Hurts is really good at exploiting that. So it's

1050
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:28,760
Speaker 1: gonna be a fascinating match up on both sides. So

1051
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:31,160
Speaker 1: you feel, you feel. And the thing is, this isn't

1052
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:33,640
Speaker 1: like Chiefs Bengals where theyre. This is the third time

1053
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:36,040
Speaker 1: they're playing in like a calendar year. Yea. They haven't

1054
01:01:36,080 --> 01:01:38,200
Speaker 1: played each other since Week two of last season, and

1055
01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo was San Francisco's quarterback. Jalen Hurts ran. I

1056
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:46,400
Speaker 1: think he ran from where he passed for almost nobody

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Speaker 1: was sure about Jalen Hurts at that point. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we were all thinking coming into this draft, Oh, how

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01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 1: he got the extra first round pick for the Saints.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he'll take a quarterback. That's about you know, that's

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Speaker 1: out the windows. So things are very different. There's a

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Speaker 1: lot less to go on. And in a way, those

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01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:02,560
Speaker 1: are the kind of matchups I let because you just

1064
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 1: don't know what you're going to see to your point

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01:02:04,080 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 1: about the man principles for San Francis, so you still

1066
01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:11,040
Speaker 1: like that even with A. J. Brown on the other side,

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01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:14,680
Speaker 1: and Goddard for that matter, those are tough man matchups.

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Speaker 1: They are um and I mean you pick your poison there,

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01:02:21,080 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 1: you're you can you can brack it in for you

1070
01:02:25,160 --> 01:02:28,360
Speaker 1: can brack it in man. Um. What I would want

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Speaker 1: to avoid is DeVante Smith and A J. Brown, especially

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Speaker 1: running those deep overs and seam routes and any mistake

1073
01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:39,960
Speaker 1: with the linebacker handing up to the safety and it's

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Speaker 1: sixty yards down field. UM. I would rather take my chances,

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01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:48,520
Speaker 1: you know, matching a lot because you guys know this.

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01:02:48,640 --> 01:02:51,840
Speaker 1: You can you can play match coverage, which is you

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01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:54,720
Speaker 1: play zone up until a certain point in the route

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01:02:54,760 --> 01:02:58,240
Speaker 1: and then you play man. Um. You can play off man.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to it not every and coverage obviously,

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01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:04,000
Speaker 1: it's just aggressive press and you know, follow you all

1081
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:06,040
Speaker 1: the way through. There's a lot of stuff you can do.

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01:03:06,480 --> 01:03:08,160
Speaker 1: I would also the Niners are good at this. I

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01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:10,800
Speaker 1: would also flip my safeties post now. I would. I

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01:03:10,880 --> 01:03:14,520
Speaker 1: would show Jalen Hurts. And it's not like Jalen Hurts

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01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:17,000
Speaker 1: can't figure it out, but I would show Jalen Hurts

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01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:20,200
Speaker 1: as much. I would muddy to picture for him in

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01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:24,520
Speaker 1: the back half as much as possible. So as you

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01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:28,280
Speaker 1: see that game taking taking shape, how big a difference

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Speaker 1: will it be that you know, San Francisco's going east

1090
01:03:32,440 --> 01:03:36,920
Speaker 1: home field? Okay, weather, none of that's going to be

1091
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:40,080
Speaker 1: some snow in the fourth some snow. I mean, both

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01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:43,760
Speaker 1: these teams seem built for it. Yeah, I mean I

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01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:46,880
Speaker 1: think Kyle shanhanda met Kyle Shanahan mentioned this week that

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Speaker 1: the week I think it was fifteen game up here

1095
01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:53,200
Speaker 1: in Seattle where I am, where the weather was just awful.

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01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:57,800
Speaker 1: What probably helped um? You know, I don't I don't

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Speaker 1: know how to how much stock to put in that.

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Speaker 1: As you say, they are built for this. They are

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01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:05,040
Speaker 1: a massively successful running team, especially since since they got

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Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey. They're going to lean on that. So um,

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01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:12,280
Speaker 1: you know, for talking about trends. When it comes to DVLA.

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Speaker 1: In since Week ten, second half of the season, including

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01:04:15,360 --> 01:04:18,000
Speaker 1: the playoffs, the forty nine Ers are number one in

1104
01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:21,920
Speaker 1: defense to DVLA. They're number two on offensive DBA. They

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01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:24,280
Speaker 1: have a really good offense snap with Brock Purty and

1106
01:04:24,360 --> 01:04:26,880
Speaker 1: McCaffrey and all these guys who can just line up

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01:04:26,880 --> 01:04:30,480
Speaker 1: anywhere of any personnel. So you know, I kind of

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01:04:32,240 --> 01:04:37,040
Speaker 1: I have the Eagles sort of you know, sneaking it out,

1109
01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:39,360
Speaker 1: but I think it's gonna be really really close that

1110
01:04:39,520 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 1: that to me is to pick them. Where's the where's

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01:04:41,640 --> 01:04:48,040
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia defense vulnerable? M That's a good question. They

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Speaker 1: are vulnerable in that. Well. It's interesting when it comes

1113
01:04:52,640 --> 01:04:56,000
Speaker 1: to playing defense against presnap motion, which is an important

1114
01:04:56,040 --> 01:04:58,640
Speaker 1: point because Kyle runs it like seventy five percent of

1115
01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:01,320
Speaker 1: the time. They have the second best defense and ep

1116
01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:07,800
Speaker 1: EPA against motion in the passing game. They are second

1117
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:12,040
Speaker 1: worst against motion in the run game, and that could

1118
01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:13,480
Speaker 1: really bite him. And that's you know, like I was

1119
01:05:13,480 --> 01:05:16,440
Speaker 1: talking about, where everyone has their hair on fire, everyone's

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01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:19,760
Speaker 1: just going for it. Any sort of gaps in the

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01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:23,280
Speaker 1: run fits can be a problem. I think their safety

1122
01:05:23,320 --> 01:05:25,840
Speaker 1: group is I mean CJ. Gardner Johnson is good and

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01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:30,280
Speaker 1: the safety group is okay. Um. I think Darius Slay

1124
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:33,560
Speaker 1: is one of the better lockdown corners in the NFL.

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01:05:34,640 --> 01:05:38,120
Speaker 1: James Bradberry who sort of whether Giants let him go

1126
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:41,520
Speaker 1: and he'll be a free agent after this year. He

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01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:46,120
Speaker 1: can be vulnerable at times. I think the linebacker group

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01:05:46,240 --> 01:05:49,120
Speaker 1: is underrated. Their their front four slash five sim play

1129
01:05:49,120 --> 01:05:51,600
Speaker 1: a lot of bear fronts there, you know, I think

1130
01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:54,560
Speaker 1: we all know about that. So probably safety group a

1131
01:05:54,640 --> 01:05:58,760
Speaker 1: little bit. Linebackers and just you know what I wrote

1132
01:05:58,880 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 1: my piece this morning Jonathan again in their DC. He's

1133
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:05,880
Speaker 1: got to strike that balance between the hell bet for leather,

1134
01:06:06,040 --> 01:06:08,480
Speaker 1: get after the quarterback thing and what that does to

1135
01:06:08,600 --> 01:06:13,120
Speaker 1: you if you're prone to misdirection and play action in

1136
01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:17,320
Speaker 1: pre snap motion and nobody calls those things better, all

1137
01:06:17,360 --> 01:06:19,640
Speaker 1: three of those things better than Kyle Shanahan. So I

1138
01:06:19,720 --> 01:06:24,200
Speaker 1: think whether vulnerable is with free to post snap look

1139
01:06:24,320 --> 01:06:29,360
Speaker 1: changes those different kinds of misdirection vulnerabilities. And you know,

1140
01:06:29,520 --> 01:06:32,280
Speaker 1: because they have those vulnerabilities the run game, this is

1141
01:06:32,360 --> 01:06:34,480
Speaker 1: the this is the one team you don't want to

1142
01:06:34,560 --> 01:06:37,920
Speaker 1: play when you have that problem, because Kyle will have

1143
01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:40,600
Speaker 1: watched all that tape and he'll have seventeen different ways

1144
01:06:40,640 --> 01:06:42,960
Speaker 1: to just beat you up with it. Right. I wanted

1145
01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:45,200
Speaker 1: to ask you a little bit about the mock draft

1146
01:06:45,240 --> 01:06:51,320
Speaker 1: you put together, and you know, I've Bills fans are

1147
01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:55,479
Speaker 1: dead set. I'm told it went over like a led Zeppelin. Yeah. Well,

1148
01:06:55,760 --> 01:06:58,880
Speaker 1: here's the thing. I think a lot of members of

1149
01:06:58,960 --> 01:07:02,240
Speaker 1: the Bills fan base have come to the conclusion that

1150
01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:05,880
Speaker 1: it's time to just go all in on offense and

1151
01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:09,240
Speaker 1: adopt a model similar to that of Kansas City, which is,

1152
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:13,040
Speaker 1: you know, we'll get one really good defensive lineman up front,

1153
01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:16,880
Speaker 1: Chris Jones, and then we'll try to patch together the

1154
01:07:17,040 --> 01:07:20,120
Speaker 1: vast majority of the rest of our defense and hopes

1155
01:07:20,160 --> 01:07:23,560
Speaker 1: Bagnola can call the right shots, and we'll load up

1156
01:07:23,600 --> 01:07:27,560
Speaker 1: on offense and just try to outscore you, which I

1157
01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:29,880
Speaker 1: guess to a certain degree you can say that's their approach.

1158
01:07:29,960 --> 01:07:33,320
Speaker 1: There might be some dissenting opinions on that, but the

1159
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:37,760
Speaker 1: bottom line is Buffalo's weapons don't quite measure up to

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01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:43,360
Speaker 1: Cincinnati's weapons, Kansas City's weapons, etc. Etc. Etc. So, and

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Speaker 1: I think it could probably make the argument that Kansas

1162
01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:48,760
Speaker 1: City probably has the best offensive line of those three

1163
01:07:48,800 --> 01:07:51,840
Speaker 1: teams as well. So Bills fans are naturally thinking, oh,

1164
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:57,760
Speaker 1: line receiver, you know weapons, So in your mock Hugo

1165
01:07:57,920 --> 01:08:01,240
Speaker 1: Brian Branch dB from Alabama, who's a really good safety.

1166
01:08:01,520 --> 01:08:04,480
Speaker 1: And I understand why this poyl you're going to be back.

1167
01:08:05,520 --> 01:08:08,520
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, entering his age thirty two season

1168
01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:11,880
Speaker 1: cap issues for the Bills, Micah Hyde and his last

1169
01:08:12,280 --> 01:08:15,360
Speaker 1: season of his contract coming up next year. So I

1170
01:08:15,440 --> 01:08:20,840
Speaker 1: get the logic, Doug. I think Bills fans might be

1171
01:08:20,880 --> 01:08:23,680
Speaker 1: asking you, do you have an old lineman or a

1172
01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:28,960
Speaker 1: wide receiver you're like in that range of twenty seven two? Well,

1173
01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:31,080
Speaker 1: I do. This is I think my fourth or fifth

1174
01:08:31,200 --> 01:08:36,360
Speaker 1: lock draft. I generally alternate between offensive lineman and running backs.

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01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:39,360
Speaker 1: You know, I Anton Harrison from Oklahoma I like a

1176
01:08:39,479 --> 01:08:42,200
Speaker 1: lot As a pet. I tend to alternate with Harrison

1177
01:08:42,280 --> 01:08:45,360
Speaker 1: between mocking him to the Chiefs and the Bills because

1178
01:08:45,360 --> 01:08:48,760
Speaker 1: I do think with Olanda Brown the Chiefs have a

1179
01:08:48,840 --> 01:08:53,479
Speaker 1: left tackle problem. And then it's running back either Jean Robinson,

1180
01:08:53,520 --> 01:08:57,080
Speaker 1: who would be absolutely thermonuclear in that offense. Jean Robinson

1181
01:08:57,200 --> 01:08:59,439
Speaker 1: broke one hundred and four tackles last year for one

1182
01:08:59,520 --> 01:09:04,840
Speaker 1: hundred or misstackles. That's insane. Um. Imagine taking si Quon

1183
01:09:04,920 --> 01:09:06,880
Speaker 1: Barkley and playing him on Bills. That's what that like.

1184
01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:11,080
Speaker 1: Or Jamir gives from Alabama? Right. Um. The thing of Branch,

1185
01:09:11,880 --> 01:09:14,960
Speaker 1: it's not just that player who is a top three

1186
01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:17,599
Speaker 1: safety is a free agent. And the Bills, by the way,

1187
01:09:17,640 --> 01:09:20,160
Speaker 1: at this point, I believe are nineteen million over the

1188
01:09:20,280 --> 01:09:25,040
Speaker 1: projected cap. For when when Brandon Bean says we have

1189
01:09:25,120 --> 01:09:26,960
Speaker 1: to focus on the draft and low price free agents,

1190
01:09:27,120 --> 01:09:29,880
Speaker 1: that's what he means. And hello, you're you know the

1191
01:09:30,200 --> 01:09:35,519
Speaker 1: the rookie window contracting is over with Josh Allen obviously. Um.

1192
01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:39,759
Speaker 1: The thing about Branch, so player might be gone. Micah

1193
01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 1: High missed all but what two games last year? He

1194
01:09:41,880 --> 01:09:44,360
Speaker 1: would turned thirty one on December thirty. First, I believe

1195
01:09:44,560 --> 01:09:48,160
Speaker 1: that Dane Jackson is a free agent. And the thing

1196
01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:51,320
Speaker 1: that Branch can play safety, he can play slot, he

1197
01:09:51,439 --> 01:09:55,280
Speaker 1: can play box, he can play outside. H Tremay and

1198
01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:57,680
Speaker 1: Edmonds is also a free agent, by the way, And

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Speaker 1: the difference between from my interpretation, the difference between the

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01:10:02,720 --> 01:10:07,559
Speaker 1: Chiefs defense and the Bills defense. The Chiefs Spagnolo throws

1201
01:10:07,680 --> 01:10:10,560
Speaker 1: all these different things that you like, every color in

1202
01:10:10,640 --> 01:10:13,960
Speaker 1: the box. The Bills, I mean, they'll do different things,

1203
01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:16,479
Speaker 1: but it's, you know, ninety seven percent Nichol. You kind

1204
01:10:16,520 --> 01:10:18,519
Speaker 1: of know what you're going to get. It's execution based,

1205
01:10:18,520 --> 01:10:22,240
Speaker 1: it's player based, you know. As I said, Branch can

1206
01:10:22,280 --> 01:10:25,400
Speaker 1: also play outside to a degree. And the other thing

1207
01:10:25,439 --> 01:10:28,160
Speaker 1: I'll say is, unfortunately, and we hope he turns it

1208
01:10:28,240 --> 01:10:30,920
Speaker 1: around to Davious White has not been the same cornerback

1209
01:10:31,040 --> 01:10:34,439
Speaker 1: in my opinion, with all those injuries, and it's hard.

1210
01:10:34,520 --> 01:10:36,600
Speaker 1: I mean I've talked to cornerbacks in the NFL about this.

1211
01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:39,400
Speaker 1: If you're a top cornerback and you go from one

1212
01:10:39,479 --> 01:10:42,640
Speaker 1: hundred to ninety, it's like falling off a cliff. And

1213
01:10:43,600 --> 01:10:45,720
Speaker 1: we hope for Davious White gets it back because he

1214
01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:48,960
Speaker 1: has been a stellar player. So when I look at

1215
01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:51,000
Speaker 1: the Bills needs and I kind of look at worthings

1216
01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:53,880
Speaker 1: stack up in the draft, I mean, it's a very

1217
01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:57,120
Speaker 1: deep classic receiver, it's a very deep classic running back.

1218
01:10:57,680 --> 01:11:01,479
Speaker 1: It's a pretty deep class at offensive. So we all

1219
01:11:01,520 --> 01:11:04,400
Speaker 1: want to focus on the first round guy. I think

1220
01:11:04,439 --> 01:11:07,840
Speaker 1: the Bills can do well in the later rounds to

1221
01:11:08,720 --> 01:11:12,320
Speaker 1: fill out those things. And you know, my mock drafts

1222
01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:15,360
Speaker 1: are kind of exercises as too, because I'm watching more

1223
01:11:15,360 --> 01:11:19,519
Speaker 1: and more players on tape as it goes along. By

1224
01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:21,160
Speaker 1: the time the combine hits in a month, I'll have

1225
01:11:21,400 --> 01:11:23,639
Speaker 1: my whole like, Okay, this is sort of my big board,

1226
01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:25,920
Speaker 1: and these are other guys I've watched, you know whatever,

1227
01:11:26,120 --> 01:11:29,320
Speaker 1: two hundred players right now, I'm just kind of seeing

1228
01:11:29,360 --> 01:11:33,240
Speaker 1: where one fits. So next week it might be Jean

1229
01:11:33,360 --> 01:11:36,599
Speaker 1: Robinson again, or it might be you know, Zay Flowers

1230
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:38,599
Speaker 1: from Boston College. You know, it could be a number

1231
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:40,479
Speaker 1: of things. What I'm doing at this point, it's just

1232
01:11:40,560 --> 01:11:42,960
Speaker 1: kind of seeing where players fit. And I think there

1233
01:11:42,960 --> 01:11:46,080
Speaker 1: are a lot of ways in which Brian Branch makes

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01:11:46,200 --> 01:11:50,560
Speaker 1: sense in his you know, top level ability to do

1235
01:11:50,840 --> 01:11:55,559
Speaker 1: multiple things at a position of great need, because I mean,

1236
01:11:55,640 --> 01:11:58,439
Speaker 1: I don't want to throw a I don't want to

1237
01:11:58,479 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 1: throw a trash ten full of the barbecue here. But

1238
01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:03,599
Speaker 1: we may have seen the end of the best safety

1239
01:12:03,720 --> 01:12:07,479
Speaker 1: duo in the NFL, as they have been for the

1240
01:12:07,600 --> 01:12:10,439
Speaker 1: last few years. See, yeah, you know, whether it's you know,

1241
01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:13,960
Speaker 1: it's whether it splashes out the page or not. You

1242
01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:17,880
Speaker 1: have to start looking at those things. Yeah, understood, yep, Doug,

1243
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:20,960
Speaker 1: thanks very much. Enjoy the conference championship games this weekend.

1244
01:12:21,040 --> 01:12:23,960
Speaker 1: We'll continue to keep an eye on your stuff pre

1245
01:12:24,120 --> 01:12:26,599
Speaker 1: draft as we get closer and closer to the combine

1246
01:12:26,600 --> 01:12:29,040
Speaker 1: and then the real big event, which I know in

1247
01:12:29,080 --> 01:12:31,040
Speaker 1: a where is Christmas for you at the end of April?

1248
01:12:31,280 --> 01:12:34,519
Speaker 1: So thanks very much. All right, thanks guys, take her

1249
01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:37,160
Speaker 1: all right. That's USA Today editor NFL writer Doug far

1250
01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:40,400
Speaker 1: Our joining us. We will take a break here. When

1251
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Speaker 1: we come back, we will get to the tweet sheet

1252
01:12:43,479 --> 01:12:47,080
Speaker 1: for your thoughts on who you feel on Buffalo's roster

1253
01:12:47,240 --> 01:12:49,360
Speaker 1: has to take the next step to help them get

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1258
01:13:12,920 --> 01:13:15,240
Speaker 1: which player to the Bills need to take the next

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01:13:15,320 --> 01:13:18,960
Speaker 1: step in twenty twenty three. You want to single somebody out,

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Speaker 1: equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. And we lead

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Speaker 1: off with Andy, who says, Spencer Brown they need to

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Speaker 1: bring in some competition, but if he can take the

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Speaker 1: next step, it helps them focus offensive line resources on

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Speaker 1: the inside. So he's saying, if Spencer Brown takes the

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Speaker 1: next step, we don't have to focus on tackle early

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Speaker 1: in the draft. We can worry about guards somewhere on

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Speaker 1: day two. Yeah, I mean that would be awesome, except

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Speaker 1: how you get an if he does that before the

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Speaker 1: draft exactly? Yeah, I get it. You're right, those guys

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Speaker 1: are huge upfront. If you can get those guys plugged

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Speaker 1: in so you can get him, you know, get him

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Speaker 1: squared away and know it. Yeah, that's a huge burden.

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Speaker 1: It's listen, it's five of the eleven guys on the field.

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Speaker 1: If you got those guys playing at a high level,

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Speaker 1: that's the percentage of guys you got playing at a

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Speaker 1: high level in your offense. I mean, it just cuts

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Speaker 1: down your margin of error in an enormous way. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: the better your offensive line is, the better your offense is.

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Speaker 1: We learned that in twenty eighteen when we had Josh

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Speaker 1: at quarterback, and you know at times, well, they couldn't

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Speaker 1: win at the line of scrimmage. Yeah, just could not.

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Speaker 1: They were getting just caved in and Josh, you know,

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Speaker 1: and games like that's where Josh has these games like

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Speaker 1: he did in Week seventeen of that year down in Miami,

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01:14:48,320 --> 01:14:52,320
Speaker 1: where you know he's they do nothing offensively and he

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01:14:52,520 --> 01:14:57,920
Speaker 1: still almost wins the game. So if it's an interesting

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Speaker 1: question because you got this quarterback that can do all

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Speaker 1: of this, the reason you find out he can do

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Speaker 1: all of this because some of the other aspects of

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Speaker 1: your offense aren't up to snuff. So when they get

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Speaker 1: up to snuff, is he good enough in the offense

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Speaker 1: that you know every other team runs. Is he good

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Speaker 1: enough in that offense to play as well as they do?

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Speaker 1: We'll see. But man, oh man, you got this atomic

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Speaker 1: weapon taken snaps. Find a way to make it easy

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Speaker 1: for him. Yeah, protect him a little bit more to

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Speaker 1: versify the attack with more skilled position players. Isaac on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet says, offense, my picks are Gabe Davis

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01:15:31,320 --> 01:15:35,000
Speaker 1: and Dawson Knox. Alan needs a number two guy behind Diggs.

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01:15:35,400 --> 01:15:38,080
Speaker 1: On defense, it's Kyer Elam and greg Rousseau having a

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01:15:38,160 --> 01:15:42,800
Speaker 1: lockdown number two corner and a top pass rusher will help. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean von Miller is that guy. If Rousseau can

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Speaker 1: come along and take another step, yeah, I thought he

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01:15:49,080 --> 01:15:52,080
Speaker 1: took a step this year. You know, there were some

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Speaker 1: games he didn't see him as much. I gotta tell you,

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Speaker 1: I think Rousseau is underrated as an edge run defender.

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Speaker 1: I think he's very good at that, reading the run game.

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Speaker 1: The consistency in the pass rush, Yeah, you'd like to

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Speaker 1: see it a little bit more. He was having a

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Speaker 1: good year when von Miller was on the other side,

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Speaker 1: drawing attention, and then when von Miller was out of

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01:16:10,880 --> 01:16:15,559
Speaker 1: the lineup, not quite as successful. Although come the end

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Speaker 1: of the season he's tied for the team leading sacks

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Speaker 1: with eight with von Miller. So you know, it was

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Speaker 1: a step up. I thought this year for him, if

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Speaker 1: he takes another step, yeah, you might have something there. Right,

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Speaker 1: That's that's huge And I thought so too. I thought

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Speaker 1: he took a huge step forward. And it's interesting too,

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Speaker 1: because we have this you have a problem with Vaughan

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Speaker 1: in the equation. You know that he made a difference

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Speaker 1: when he was on the field for these guys, ed Oliver,

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Speaker 1: it was helped by it also with Dequan Jones, Tim Settle,

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Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips back on the field, ed Oliver got a

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01:16:50,840 --> 01:16:53,120
Speaker 1: boost in his play because you know there were two

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Speaker 1: guys doubling him and on the other side, Epanessa bash

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Speaker 1: him and those guys they had a chance to really

1331
01:17:03,640 --> 01:17:06,680
Speaker 1: be a different group than they ended up being at

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Speaker 1: the end of the season because not only because of

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Speaker 1: Vaughan being out, but because of the defensive tackles starting

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Speaker 1: to go down with injuries, most notably de Quon and

1335
01:17:17,200 --> 01:17:20,960
Speaker 1: Jordan this last game as a crusher, they couldn't win

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Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage when their top guys down inside

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01:17:23,360 --> 01:17:26,080
Speaker 1: weren't one hundred percent and it showed not only on

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Speaker 1: the inside but on the outside as well. Chris on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet says, I'm going with a coach here

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Speaker 1: to take the next step next season. It's Ken Dorsey. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean look, Brandon Bean said it at his season

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Speaker 1: wrap up press conference. He said, I hope I'm a

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01:17:42,439 --> 01:17:44,360
Speaker 1: better GM now than I was the first year I

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01:17:44,479 --> 01:17:47,080
Speaker 1: was here in Buffalo. He was the first time general

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01:17:47,160 --> 01:17:50,960
Speaker 1: manager here with the Bills, and he freely admitted that

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01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:54,280
Speaker 1: he had made some mistakes here and there, but he

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Speaker 1: thinks he's a much better GM now And I think

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01:17:56,280 --> 01:17:58,800
Speaker 1: that's probably true, and probably true for anybody who's doing

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01:17:58,840 --> 01:18:00,800
Speaker 1: something for the first time. You're learning on the fly,

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01:18:01,360 --> 01:18:04,720
Speaker 1: You're gonna make some mistakes. And yeah, I mean I

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01:18:04,800 --> 01:18:08,040
Speaker 1: think Ken Dorsey can only be better going into year

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01:18:08,080 --> 01:18:11,599
Speaker 1: two because because of what he learned in year one. Yeah,

1353
01:18:12,240 --> 01:18:15,479
Speaker 1: it's a really really interesting question and it is fun

1354
01:18:15,520 --> 01:18:18,639
Speaker 1: to think about. You get a guy like day ball

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01:18:18,880 --> 01:18:21,760
Speaker 1: In who has been an offensive coordinator for quite some time,

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01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:27,000
Speaker 1: called plays and had and really hadn't been enormously successful,

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01:18:27,840 --> 01:18:30,160
Speaker 1: but yet comes to Buffalo finally and gets you know,

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01:18:30,320 --> 01:18:32,200
Speaker 1: Josh Allen starts it from the ground up and kind

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01:18:32,240 --> 01:18:35,679
Speaker 1: of builds this thing the way he wants over four

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Speaker 1: or five years, and you know, he's a guy that

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Speaker 1: you know, he made it work. Ken Dorsey, I think,

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01:18:43,680 --> 01:18:46,599
Speaker 1: is on that same track what happens in these coaches

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Speaker 1: and Ken Dorsey will probably hopefully we'll get this. A

1364
01:18:50,800 --> 01:18:52,880
Speaker 1: lot of times players look around, they say, you know,

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01:18:52,920 --> 01:18:54,920
Speaker 1: they go to their coach after the season's over and

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Speaker 1: say what do I need to work on? You know,

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Speaker 1: when they get those exit interviews and the coach says, well,

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Speaker 1: you needed to do this, you need to do that.

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Speaker 1: We need more from you here, we need more from

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Speaker 1: you there and says okay, okay. Well as if you're

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Speaker 1: a coach, I don't know who you ask? Yeah, other coaches,

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Speaker 1: the head coach is the head coach, give you some

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Speaker 1: of that. And the players, I mean who you can

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Speaker 1: ask the players? You know? Players are you know? Coaches

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01:19:15,760 --> 01:19:18,400
Speaker 1: rarely ask players what do you think of my coaching? Right?

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01:19:19,720 --> 01:19:22,360
Speaker 1: The coach just looks, hey, are you playing great? Then

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01:19:22,400 --> 01:19:26,080
Speaker 1: I'm doing a good job. Go ahead and go. It's

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Speaker 1: going to be interesting to see Ken Dorsey self evaluate,

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Speaker 1: do some work and ask questions about what do you

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Speaker 1: think of this? When we did this, here's the reasons why,

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Speaker 1: what do we think? The self evaluation, I think is

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01:19:38,320 --> 01:19:40,880
Speaker 1: different as a coach trying to self evaluate and your

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01:19:40,920 --> 01:19:44,439
Speaker 1: staff self evaluate, because there's you know, the only thing

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01:19:44,479 --> 01:19:46,400
Speaker 1: you've got is you know, obviously the stats that your

1385
01:19:46,439 --> 01:19:49,640
Speaker 1: offense put out, but also how your players played and

1386
01:19:49,800 --> 01:19:51,720
Speaker 1: did they do what you really wanted them to do?

1387
01:19:51,840 --> 01:19:55,320
Speaker 1: And that's really the acid test. Keith on the tweet sheet,

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01:19:55,400 --> 01:19:58,280
Speaker 1: says Dave Davis or Khalil shakier. We need to know

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01:19:58,360 --> 01:20:01,240
Speaker 1: if wide receiver two is on the right. Well, you,

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01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:05,280
Speaker 1: much to Steve's point on the previous submission, you can't

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01:20:05,640 --> 01:20:08,599
Speaker 1: wait until the fall to hope that he's there. You're

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01:20:08,640 --> 01:20:12,280
Speaker 1: gonna have to draft and add in free agency before then.

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Speaker 1: And I'm you got to add to the pool. You

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01:20:16,840 --> 01:20:19,439
Speaker 1: gotta add to the pool. I mean, gave Davis had

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01:20:19,560 --> 01:20:22,600
Speaker 1: all of this past season to prove he could be

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Speaker 1: a weekend and week out producer as the number two.

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Speaker 1: And if there's a game with mixed results, yeah, if

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Speaker 1: you don't think he is okay, then he's in the

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Speaker 1: number three. Now. You know, you got to somebody. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you gotta find somebody. I think that is the most

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01:20:40,960 --> 01:20:45,000
Speaker 1: obvious spot on a team, on every NFL team, that

1402
01:20:45,160 --> 01:20:47,639
Speaker 1: you've got to go out and actively look to find

1403
01:20:47,880 --> 01:20:51,400
Speaker 1: the best player available. That's it's almost like the it's

1404
01:20:51,400 --> 01:20:54,000
Speaker 1: almost when you've got the quarterback, that's the next position.

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01:20:54,040 --> 01:20:56,360
Speaker 1: That's the quarterback position. When you've already got one, you

1406
01:20:56,400 --> 01:20:58,360
Speaker 1: know what I mean. We set it a ton when

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Speaker 1: you don't have a quarterback on your raw and you

1408
01:21:00,400 --> 01:21:02,080
Speaker 1: don't know who's going to be and you're kind of

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01:21:02,120 --> 01:21:04,800
Speaker 1: looking for one you're obsessed with that. Well, if you've

1410
01:21:04,840 --> 01:21:09,879
Speaker 1: got that guy, the guys outside are the next priority.

1411
01:21:09,960 --> 01:21:12,080
Speaker 1: You gotta get those guys fixed. Out. Of course, your

1412
01:21:12,120 --> 01:21:14,880
Speaker 1: offensive line's important and all that stuff, but you're talking

1413
01:21:14,880 --> 01:21:18,000
Speaker 1: about point production. You're talking about having guys that win

1414
01:21:18,280 --> 01:21:24,400
Speaker 1: and move the football and score touchdowns. I think when

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01:21:24,439 --> 01:21:26,280
Speaker 1: you look at this and you and you've got guys

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Speaker 1: that are good, you're you're you're looking to make that

1417
01:21:31,800 --> 01:21:35,000
Speaker 1: that room elite great. Looking for difference makers, old line

1418
01:21:35,040 --> 01:21:37,160
Speaker 1: and receiver is the fastest way to make life easier

1419
01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:41,680
Speaker 1: for Josh Allen. Right, um, and I think you have

1420
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Speaker 1: to look at this based on last year's performance. As

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01:21:45,800 --> 01:21:49,960
Speaker 1: we said, Dave Davis had some nice weeks, but they

1422
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Speaker 1: weren't stacked up together in succession to where you would say,

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Speaker 1: I'm convinced this guy can be a bona fide number

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01:21:58,080 --> 01:22:00,839
Speaker 1: two and give us weekly production. Because as the production

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Speaker 1: wasn't there on a week to week basis, So then

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Speaker 1: you say, well, what do we do, Well, you better

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Speaker 1: get a guy that you believe can walk into that

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01:22:08,280 --> 01:22:10,519
Speaker 1: number two role and produce for you on a weekly

1429
01:22:10,600 --> 01:22:14,400
Speaker 1: basis to balance out the attention that Stefan Diggs gets

1430
01:22:14,439 --> 01:22:16,680
Speaker 1: as your number one, and then if Davis can be

1431
01:22:16,760 --> 01:22:18,800
Speaker 1: your three, or Shakier can take a step forward and

1432
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Speaker 1: be your number three, great, maybe you bring Jamison Crowder

1433
01:22:21,960 --> 01:22:25,680
Speaker 1: back and have him as a failsafe option as a

1434
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Speaker 1: number three. You know, you got him on an affordable

1435
01:22:28,479 --> 01:22:30,760
Speaker 1: deal last year. He was injured all this year. He's

1436
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Speaker 1: gonna be hard to drive his price up any higher,

1437
01:22:32,920 --> 01:22:36,080
Speaker 1: So you would logic would say he could be an affordable,

1438
01:22:37,360 --> 01:22:40,639
Speaker 1: you know, depth option, but you're gonna have to draft

1439
01:22:40,680 --> 01:22:43,679
Speaker 1: somebody pretty high who's capable of walking into the number

1440
01:22:43,720 --> 01:22:48,080
Speaker 1: two role as a rookie. It's a tough spot because

1441
01:22:48,320 --> 01:22:50,000
Speaker 1: we're sitting here saying out, Gabe's got to be better,

1442
01:22:50,160 --> 01:22:53,240
Speaker 1: and we don't know because we haven't really heard, right,

1443
01:22:53,439 --> 01:22:59,559
Speaker 1: We don't know whether some of Gabe Davis's inconsistency or whatever,

1444
01:22:59,600 --> 01:23:02,519
Speaker 1: however you want to describe or quantify Gabe Davis's season,

1445
01:23:02,520 --> 01:23:05,479
Speaker 1: how much of that was Ken Dorsey, How much of

1446
01:23:05,560 --> 01:23:10,880
Speaker 1: that was was Josh Allen, how much of it was

1447
01:23:10,960 --> 01:23:13,240
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox, how much of it was you know, the

1448
01:23:13,360 --> 01:23:18,360
Speaker 1: running game, the offensive line. How much of that inability

1449
01:23:18,479 --> 01:23:21,360
Speaker 1: to get Gabe Davis involved every single week and get

1450
01:23:21,439 --> 01:23:24,519
Speaker 1: him targets and touches and all that. How much of

1451
01:23:24,600 --> 01:23:27,720
Speaker 1: it had to do with Gabe Davis as drops the

1452
01:23:27,920 --> 01:23:30,840
Speaker 1: routes called? How many times he was he the number

1453
01:23:30,880 --> 01:23:35,720
Speaker 1: one option and not Stefan Diggs because Stefan was got

1454
01:23:35,800 --> 01:23:38,040
Speaker 1: a ton of targets. You know how much of that

1455
01:23:38,240 --> 01:23:41,880
Speaker 1: was outside of Gabe Davis's control? I guess is the question?

1456
01:23:41,960 --> 01:23:44,800
Speaker 1: We don't know. It's a you got a first year

1457
01:23:44,840 --> 01:23:50,519
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator and it's his first year as that solid

1458
01:23:50,600 --> 01:23:52,200
Speaker 1: number two. It was always on the field. He took

1459
01:23:52,240 --> 01:23:55,200
Speaker 1: more snaps than anybody, So we don't There's a lot

1460
01:23:55,280 --> 01:23:57,280
Speaker 1: we don't know because there's so much we don't know

1461
01:23:57,320 --> 01:23:59,479
Speaker 1: about the ins and outs and the intricacies of the offense.

1462
01:23:59,520 --> 01:24:01,760
Speaker 1: And that's a that's a question. You know that we

1463
01:24:01,840 --> 01:24:05,519
Speaker 1: can only observe the results of not really the ins

1464
01:24:05,560 --> 01:24:07,559
Speaker 1: and outs, in the nuts and bolts of how it happened.

1465
01:24:09,200 --> 01:24:11,800
Speaker 1: But that's something that we all of us can look,

1466
01:24:12,200 --> 01:24:13,720
Speaker 1: even the casual fan can look and say it needs

1467
01:24:13,760 --> 01:24:16,479
Speaker 1: to be different going forward, and whether it needs to

1468
01:24:16,520 --> 01:24:20,439
Speaker 1: be Gabe Davis being treated differently by the offense or

1469
01:24:20,520 --> 01:24:22,320
Speaker 1: whether he needs or whether it needs to be a

1470
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Speaker 1: different guy. There we made We won't know until they

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Speaker 1: make that decision and we see the results of that decision. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think Gabe's catch rate this year was fifty two

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Speaker 1: per I mean, that doesn't even put you in anywhere

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Speaker 1: near the top one hundred in the league. So yeah,

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01:24:37,560 --> 01:24:39,320
Speaker 1: there is some improvement to be made there. And I

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01:24:39,320 --> 01:24:42,280
Speaker 1: think he'd be the first to tell you from saber Maniac,

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01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:46,479
Speaker 1: he says, Elam White clearly wasn't the same player when

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01:24:46,520 --> 01:24:48,280
Speaker 1: he came back, and it sounds like Benford has a

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01:24:48,360 --> 01:24:51,040
Speaker 1: chance to move to safety. Yeah, Elam's a good pick.

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01:24:51,120 --> 01:24:52,680
Speaker 1: I think that was a guy whose play was on

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01:24:52,760 --> 01:24:55,360
Speaker 1: the ascent at the end of the season. And I'll

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01:24:55,400 --> 01:24:59,080
Speaker 1: say this about Trey White. A lot of times guys

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01:24:59,120 --> 01:25:01,720
Speaker 1: coming off a major injury like that aren't quite right

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01:25:01,800 --> 01:25:05,559
Speaker 1: when they first come back. It's the following season when

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01:25:05,600 --> 01:25:07,720
Speaker 1: they really get back to the player they once were.

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01:25:07,880 --> 01:25:11,200
Speaker 1: And I think that is the hope for Tradevious White

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01:25:11,280 --> 01:25:14,280
Speaker 1: going into the twenty twenty three season. But Elam in

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01:25:14,400 --> 01:25:16,599
Speaker 1: my estimation, was a guy that was on the ascent

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01:25:17,120 --> 01:25:19,240
Speaker 1: coming down the stretch this past year, and I think

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01:25:19,280 --> 01:25:22,680
Speaker 1: it gives them comfort to actually try Christian Benford as

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01:25:22,720 --> 01:25:25,040
Speaker 1: safety because of what they saw I had Elam at

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01:25:25,040 --> 01:25:27,040
Speaker 1: the end of the year, because let's not forget Benford

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01:25:27,080 --> 01:25:29,160
Speaker 1: started over him at the start of the year. That's right.

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Speaker 1: They like Benford. I think they like not only his

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01:25:32,280 --> 01:25:35,240
Speaker 1: athletic ability and his size, but they also like his

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01:25:35,400 --> 01:25:39,120
Speaker 1: demeanor and his personality, and his intellect and his physicality.

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01:25:39,160 --> 01:25:41,519
Speaker 1: He's a physical player. They like a lot of things

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01:25:41,600 --> 01:25:45,080
Speaker 1: about Christian Benford, which is why he did get a

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01:25:45,200 --> 01:25:46,840
Speaker 1: chance to play earlier in the season before he got

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01:25:46,880 --> 01:25:49,320
Speaker 1: the oblique injury and the broken hand, and you know,

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01:25:49,400 --> 01:25:54,880
Speaker 1: he started to come apart physically. I had not thought

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01:25:54,920 --> 01:25:57,360
Speaker 1: about that until I heard them somebody say, and then

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01:25:57,360 --> 01:26:00,160
Speaker 1: I heard it was a conversation and a possibility from

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01:26:00,240 --> 01:26:04,720
Speaker 1: day one. I love I love the concept. I love

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01:26:04,800 --> 01:26:08,720
Speaker 1: the concept he is. He is kind of one of

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01:26:08,800 --> 01:26:11,240
Speaker 1: these finger quote guys. He's an old soul. You know,

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01:26:11,800 --> 01:26:14,080
Speaker 1: he's seen a lot and he's one of those very

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01:26:14,200 --> 01:26:16,800
Speaker 1: young players who it seems like has been around the

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01:26:16,840 --> 01:26:19,720
Speaker 1: block twenty times already. They love that about him, and

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01:26:19,760 --> 01:26:23,599
Speaker 1: I think his teammates see it in him. So I think,

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01:26:24,800 --> 01:26:28,840
Speaker 1: you know, just through this post season interview process with

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01:26:28,920 --> 01:26:31,639
Speaker 1: a head coach and the GM, I think there's big

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01:26:31,720 --> 01:26:34,680
Speaker 1: plans for for Benford in the future, and I think

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01:26:34,720 --> 01:26:37,360
Speaker 1: that safety is one of them. Break time for us

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01:26:37,439 --> 01:26:39,360
Speaker 1: here when we come back. Some final thoughts on the

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Speaker 1: tweet sheet here on one Bills Live, presented by Kalid

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Speaker 1: to Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right, welcome back

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01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:01,280
Speaker 1: to the one Bills Lives. Final thoughts on the tweet

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01:27:01,320 --> 01:27:04,599
Speaker 1: sheet in terms of which player did the Bills need

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01:27:04,800 --> 01:27:08,720
Speaker 1: to take a next step in twenty twenty three? And

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01:27:09,080 --> 01:27:12,479
Speaker 1: Jerry says Rousseau, but there's plenty of others too. A

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01:27:12,680 --> 01:27:17,759
Speaker 1: j boogie ed Elam Shakier. Rob says James Cook, especially

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01:27:17,800 --> 01:27:20,280
Speaker 1: if they let Singletary test the market. I don't know

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01:27:20,280 --> 01:27:23,360
Speaker 1: about you, Steve. I'm of the belief that if you

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01:27:23,479 --> 01:27:26,280
Speaker 1: just give Cook more opportunities, you'll get more out of him.

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01:27:26,640 --> 01:27:29,120
Speaker 1: We saw that as his playing time increased as the

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01:27:29,160 --> 01:27:34,519
Speaker 1: season wound down. That's been the criticism that said, well,

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01:27:34,760 --> 01:27:36,240
Speaker 1: you know, why did you draft this guy if you're

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01:27:36,240 --> 01:27:38,720
Speaker 1: only going to give him this many, however many opportunities

1530
01:27:38,760 --> 01:27:40,479
Speaker 1: it was, And I get that same thing with Hines.

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01:27:40,520 --> 01:27:42,800
Speaker 1: They traded for him. He only got eleven touches down

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01:27:42,880 --> 01:27:45,320
Speaker 1: the stretch of the season, even though he did all

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01:27:45,360 --> 01:27:52,280
Speaker 1: the kick returning duties. I yes, Cook could use more opportunities,

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01:27:52,360 --> 01:27:56,800
Speaker 1: no question, But people are I think people are like

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01:27:57,360 --> 01:27:59,080
Speaker 1: James Cook. They need all these guys to step up

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01:27:59,080 --> 01:28:01,320
Speaker 1: in the offense. Scored more points this year than it

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01:28:01,400 --> 01:28:03,760
Speaker 1: did last year. They were number two in the league

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01:28:03,800 --> 01:28:06,840
Speaker 1: and scoring, They were best team on third down in

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01:28:06,880 --> 01:28:10,639
Speaker 1: the league. I mean, there's not all that much broken

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01:28:10,920 --> 01:28:14,400
Speaker 1: in this offense, even down the stretch. The only thing,

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01:28:15,520 --> 01:28:19,160
Speaker 1: the only thing that made this offense look like it

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01:28:19,360 --> 01:28:22,160
Speaker 1: was sputtering at times, which is what we all kind

1543
01:28:22,200 --> 01:28:24,760
Speaker 1: of got that feel about. The only reason, the only

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01:28:24,880 --> 01:28:28,280
Speaker 1: reason is because of the interceptions and the turnovers coming

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01:28:28,280 --> 01:28:31,360
Speaker 1: down the stretch. That's it. That's it. And you can

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01:28:31,439 --> 01:28:33,760
Speaker 1: put that on Josh if you want. But I'll live

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01:28:33,880 --> 01:28:37,080
Speaker 1: with it because Josh is that good. So don't get

1548
01:28:37,160 --> 01:28:38,960
Speaker 1: caught up in everything you got to revamp all this.

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01:28:39,160 --> 01:28:41,320
Speaker 1: They built a really good team and had had a

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01:28:41,520 --> 01:28:45,240
Speaker 1: great offense. They were scoring points. So don't get caught

1551
01:28:45,360 --> 01:28:47,840
Speaker 1: up in you know, the fact that you know they

1552
01:28:47,880 --> 01:28:51,080
Speaker 1: got to fix something. Listen, they're okay, and all the

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01:28:51,160 --> 01:28:54,320
Speaker 1: opportunities they gave these guys were lack thereof were because

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01:28:54,360 --> 01:28:56,439
Speaker 1: they were scoring points. They didn't want to do all

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01:28:56,479 --> 01:28:59,840
Speaker 1: of that because why show something you may need later,

1556
01:29:00,240 --> 01:29:03,720
Speaker 1: And plus they got guys that deserve those opportunities. So

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01:29:05,040 --> 01:29:07,960
Speaker 1: I'm you know, yeah, it's it's easy to bail out

1558
01:29:08,000 --> 01:29:10,599
Speaker 1: and starts throwing darts at what happened. But man, oh man,

1559
01:29:10,640 --> 01:29:13,919
Speaker 1: don't forget this team was really good and while they sputtered,

1560
01:29:14,360 --> 01:29:16,200
Speaker 1: it was execution. It was like throwing to the wrong

1561
01:29:16,240 --> 01:29:18,200
Speaker 1: guy or getting a tipped interception, that kind of stuff.

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01:29:18,200 --> 01:29:21,559
Speaker 1: So let's you know, you know, take a deep breath

1563
01:29:21,600 --> 01:29:25,160
Speaker 1: and take a deep breath. Remember we're pretty good football team. Still. Yeah,

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01:29:26,479 --> 01:29:28,960
Speaker 1: that'll do it for us here on a Thursday. We've

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01:29:29,040 --> 01:29:32,519
Speaker 1: got Greg Kosel coming your way on an obl fan

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01:29:32,640 --> 01:29:34,799
Speaker 1: mail bag Friday. We'll see it one tomorrow