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Speaker 1: the seventh. What's at one, two, three for five of

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Speaker 1: their seven picks on Saturday, the third day of the draft.

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Speaker 1: Not a bad day to kind of take a backseat

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Speaker 1: and let the draft kind of come to you, I guess,

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Speaker 1: not be so impactful as the Bills might not be

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Speaker 1: this year. Yeah, that's right. And I like too that

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Speaker 1: we've gotten this point where we've got at the top,

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Speaker 1: you know, and I was reading today too that you know,

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Speaker 1: they've got like just like what sixty sixty plus guys

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Speaker 1: on their roster that's gonna be ninety one guys by

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Speaker 1: this team, if not ninety five percent of the guys

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Speaker 1: roster already, h if not one hundred percent. So uh,

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Speaker 1: this without these draft picks I'm talking about the draft picks,

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Speaker 1: I would say, you know, they're all gonna go to

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Speaker 1: training camp, but man, oh man, I'm telling you, most

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Speaker 1: of the draft picks I'll call it right now. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how many draft picks they'll actually end up

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Speaker 1: taking of the of the of the six seven they've got.

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Speaker 1: Let I don't know how many they'll actually end up pick.

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Speaker 1: They may trade down and only take six and get

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Speaker 1: one next year, all that stuff that goes on, you know, Murph.

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Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is five of those seven, four

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Speaker 1: of those seven maybe on the practice squad. Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: is this is a tough team to make this a

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Speaker 1: talented roster. This is a ten win team last year,

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Speaker 1: and they got some guys. So I think for the

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Speaker 1: draft picks for some of them, best case scenario form

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Speaker 1: is is the Bills practice squad. I think that's because

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Speaker 1: of the late picks that they have, and you know,

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Speaker 1: and the situation the rosters in Yep, you're probably right, yep.

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Speaker 1: And they keep adding guys like Daryl Williams and NJ. Gaines.

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Speaker 1: That means even fewer room for the seven draft choices

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Speaker 1: they have on the fifty three man roster. All right,

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Speaker 1: we got phone lines open eight o three five fifty

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Speaker 1: You can answer our Twitter poll question. You can talk

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Speaker 1: about anything you'd like. We got phone lines wide open,

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Speaker 1: But what do you want to talk about? Would you

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Speaker 1: like to talk about the bills seeming strategy to add

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Speaker 1: guys on first and second year deals. What's the biggest

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Speaker 1: reason for it? Is it prove it deals, getting getting

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Speaker 1: the most out of a player with a proved deal?

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Speaker 1: Is it narrowing the championship window under johns Allen's rookie contract?

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Speaker 1: Or is it staying ahead of the curve keeping a

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Speaker 1: talented roster. That is a topic for discussion or whatever

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Speaker 1: you'd like. Eighth three five fifty, toll free one eight

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Speaker 1: the calls in the tweet. Cheating just a moment, Steve.

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Speaker 1: Everything else good, Everything normal at your house these days? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think so. I think we're doing good. We're you know,

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Speaker 1: we're at the stage of life where we're empty nesters obviously,

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Speaker 1: foreign to us. Are the ones who are actually always

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Speaker 1: kind of on our own, not like where you have

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Speaker 1: the kids in school, Like our guy Jay Harris, and

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden he's at home with the entire

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Speaker 1: clan of dancing around him. But for us, it hasn't

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Speaker 1: been that much out of the ordinary. But every every day,

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Speaker 1: maybe a couple of times a day, you're thinking, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to go. I can't you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean. That's right, it's not that big an inconvenience.

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Speaker 1: And more and more I'm realizing it's I'm getting used

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Speaker 1: not going to do anything. So I'm getting more and

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Speaker 1: more used to it. But for us, this is this

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Speaker 1: is our second We're at the end of our second

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Speaker 1: full week of being alone. And I gotta tell you,

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Speaker 1: for us, and I probably for you two, we're at

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Speaker 1: the point where, because of the absence of our kids

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Speaker 1: But I'm I'm doing okay, Murph. That's all I can say.

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Speaker 1: wife and I were you know, you don't we don't

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Speaker 1: make they major pronouncements on this where they're like, you know,

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Speaker 1: some takeout. We just lay low and stay home. I'm

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Speaker 1: tired by the time Friday gets here. Let's just relax

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Speaker 1: on Friday nights. Now we're we're forced to, and it

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Speaker 1: feels okay, you know what I mean. Yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 1: we're not doing anything different tonight. We probably wouldn't if

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Speaker 1: same thing. We would have stayed home on a Friday night.

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Speaker 1: And that's probably what we're doing tonight. I'm all right,

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Speaker 1: all right with it. And well, you know, we're cooking. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that kind of thing. And we did take out last

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Speaker 1: week a couple of times, but we're in you know,

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Speaker 1: for the most part, they're you know, you take the

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Speaker 1: simple joys and you make the most of them. And

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Speaker 1: that's kind of what we're trying to treat this. As

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Speaker 1: we know, there's a huge national emergency in a national

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Speaker 1: you know, national situation out there, and uh, we're trying

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Speaker 1: to make the most of it, right. I agree, And

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Speaker 1: I don't mind calling of an emergency. And I want

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Speaker 1: As much as it's it's not been difficult for us.

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Speaker 1: It's a little different staying at home. And I know

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Speaker 1: you do you share this as well. I do have

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Speaker 1: an appreciation for what's going on around the country, including

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Speaker 1: especially in New York City, where it's they're at the

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Speaker 1: peak of it now, and I feel for all the

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Speaker 1: just doing they're becoming heroes on an almost hourly basis

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Speaker 1: down there, and all the other people forced to work

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Speaker 1: and forced to chip in. We we work because we

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Speaker 1: honor their their service and their commitment, and that's why

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Speaker 1: we continue doing our show. But I just want to

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Speaker 1: let them know that they're not forgotten. Think I think

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Speaker 1: the sake of wishing it upon anyone. I just hope

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Speaker 1: that they're New York City. It doesn't get any worse

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Speaker 1: anywhere else than it is in New York City these days.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's they're they're really struggling, and we wish

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Speaker 1: them the best, and if we could help, we would,

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Speaker 1: If there's a way we can help, We're certainly aware.

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Speaker 1: I want to be made aware of it, but we

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Speaker 1: just hope. I just hope that there's no other situation

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Speaker 1: like New York City for us to see in the

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Speaker 1: weeks ahead, like in like in Atlanta or Chicago or

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Speaker 1: New Orleans Cities, New Orleans. Uh, that's as bad as

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Speaker 1: it's gets. And we and I just hope that that's

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Speaker 1: as bad as it ever gets. Yep, because it is bad. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're radio only today. We'll remain there for a while.

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Speaker 1: We're happy that we're on the air. Steve and I

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Speaker 1: and we welcome you to join us. Phone lines open

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Speaker 1: eight oh three five fifty toll free from outside Buffalo

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Speaker 1: one eight by fifty two, five fifty doing the show

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Speaker 1: from home again today. Happy to do it and glad

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Speaker 1: to be here. Give us a call. We'll discuss what

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Speaker 1: you'd like. You can talk about our Twitter Bowl or

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Speaker 1: anything you'd like. Steve, time to go wash your hands.

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Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take We're gonna take a break

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Speaker 1: and coming back with more. One Bill's Live, presented by

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Speaker 1: Kalida Health not from the Seneca Studio from home again today,

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Speaker 1: and this is Buffalo Bills. Read Welcome back, One Bill's Love,

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Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker coming here from home again, today

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Speaker 1: and got another three hour show coming up. He seed.

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Speaker 1: Did you see former Bills traff picked Reggie Raglan has

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Speaker 1: a new team. He was with the Kansas City Chiefs,

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Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl with the Chiefs. Now he's moving

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Speaker 1: on to the Detroit Lions. It's interesting. Yeah, he was

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Speaker 1: a player. I remember when they got drafted during the

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Speaker 1: Rex Ryan era and he had was having an absolutely

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Speaker 1: phenomenal training camp, they thought, and Brett, of course Rex

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Speaker 1: was saying it, but so so. He was saying, you

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Speaker 1: know how Reggie was gonna be rookie defensive rookie of

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Speaker 1: the year and yeah, and all this stuff was going on,

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Speaker 1: and then Reggie obviously hurt his knee and then ended

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Speaker 1: up being traded to the Kansas City Chiefs. When they

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Speaker 1: made the switch at head coaches, he didn't spit into

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Speaker 1: the fourth of the fourth three schemes or the three. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all that the scheme, the defensive scheme and all that.

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Speaker 1: So good for him. I hope he hope he has

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Speaker 1: success up there too. He's a good guy. And the

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Speaker 1: spectacular week of training camp and as rookie year of

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Speaker 1: the Bills never played with the Bills their second round pick.

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Speaker 1: You're right, Rex build him up. But you know, as

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Speaker 1: much as Rex was a frequent user of hype, I

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Speaker 1: really thought he was onto something with Reggie Regnan. His

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Speaker 1: first week, the only week at training camp with the

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Speaker 1: Bills was really spectacular. He was all over the field.

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Speaker 1: It was fun to watch. Yeah, he was. I remember

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Speaker 1: he was a big dude too. He's a big inside

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Speaker 1: And and you know, he was a contributor last year

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Speaker 1: Championship and just never really got a chance to spread

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Speaker 1: his wings. Here is Brip for Buffalo, And for that

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Speaker 1: one brief shining week, it looked like he was going

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Speaker 1: to be here for, you know, for ten years. He

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Speaker 1: started last year, started the Super Bowl. Last year, he

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Speaker 1: started seven of the next fourteen games for Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: Was a scratch from the line up and active the

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Speaker 1: first two weeks of the season. His first two seasons

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Speaker 1: a full time starter. So three seasons in Kansas City,

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Speaker 1: a defensive touchdown, one hundred sixty tackles. Reggie Raglan has

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Speaker 1: agreed to terms with the Detroit Lions. All right, our

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll today deals with the Bills seeming strategy to

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Speaker 1: sign players to one and two year deals. What's the

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Speaker 1: biggest reason for that? They're trying to get players to

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Speaker 1: prove it, They're trying to take advantage of their championship

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Speaker 1: window under Josh Allen's rookie contract. They're trying to stay

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Speaker 1: ahead of the curve and keeping a talented roster. On

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Speaker 1: the Twitter poll, thirty eight percent of you see they're

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Speaker 1: trying to get the get the players to prove it.

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Speaker 1: Thirty two percent say it's getting the most out of

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Speaker 1: a player, and twenty five percent say taking advantage of

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Speaker 1: a narrow championship window. What do you think about that?

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Speaker 1: Anything else about the Bills right now? Give us a

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Speaker 1: call eight h three five fifty toll free one eight

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Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty. Let's start with a

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Speaker 1: call from Gary. Hello, Gary, you're on the air with us.

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Speaker 1: I like to think that the reason that your poll questions,

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Speaker 1: the reason is because of everything. I mean, all that's

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Speaker 1: the answer. You know, Josh Allen's contract, trying to make

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Speaker 1: the player prove it. And I mean, they gotta resign

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Speaker 1: these other players. You don't train them on White Milano Dawkins.

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Speaker 1: I want to put the money there. That's why they're

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Speaker 1: doing It's that's good answer, Gary. I think you're right. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you might be right there. There is a little bit all.

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Speaker 1: I think there's multiple benefits to this strategy, and that's why.

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Speaker 1: And I was surprised because they started doing it and

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Speaker 1: I started looking at the contract. It was last year

639
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Speaker 1: when I first started noticing it as a trend, and

640
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: I thought, man, that's that's pretty smart. The old the old,

641
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 1: In the old days, you always thought, wow, well, what

642
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 1: if the guy makes it, really has a really good year,

643
00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 1: Well then you're gonna lose him, probably right. And it

644
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: used to be used to be a real problem for

645
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: me to get my mind around saying goodbye to those

646
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: guys who are really doing well. But now that we've

647
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:20,520
Speaker 1: been through a couple of years, I know that there's

648
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:21,960
Speaker 1: a lot of guys out there who were in that

649
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: situation and they can stock up again year to year

650
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 1: with those one year deals. I think it's it's really

651
00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:30,000
Speaker 1: proven to be a really solid strategy. Another thing. Gary's gone,

652
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: but another thing, and this is gonna sound harsh. I

653
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: think it's an acknowledgement on the part of the Bills

654
00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: and maybe smart NFL teams that things have changed a

655
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:44,280
Speaker 1: little bit because of the predicament we're in, the coronavirus epidemic.

656
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:48,040
Speaker 1: I think players are a little more worried about where

657
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: they're going and make it sure they have a job

658
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 1: this coming year, make it sure they get a signing

659
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: bonus down. The Bills are kind of taking advantage of that.

660
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: I don't blame them, it's the right thing to do,

661
00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: but I do think the balance of power has shifted

662
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: slightly towards the owner's side is opposed to players, and

663
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: many players are a little bit less certain of you know,

664
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take it my chances and wink till you

665
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: get a two year two Do you agree with that seam? Yeah?

666
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 1: And I think too for the owners, Let's face it,

667
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 1: they it's an acknowledgement that it's a tough game, it's

668
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: a brutal game, and a guy wants to hit it

669
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: a home run financially, but if you can give him

670
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:22,080
Speaker 1: a bumping instead of instead of a guy making like

671
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:25,120
Speaker 1: one point five million bucks or whatever, you can go

672
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: to two million, two and a half million bucks. You

673
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:29,959
Speaker 1: can give the guy a ton extra money at that

674
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:34,040
Speaker 1: level and give it to him for a year, and

675
00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: it's worth it for him to come in play a

676
00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 1: sport that's really brutal, and then and then the club

677
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:42,560
Speaker 1: can make a decision going forward after that. And plus

678
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: it gives the club some insurance that this guy's gonna

679
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: give his best effort because they know he wants to

680
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: play somewhere else and to do that, he's gonna have

681
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:55,320
Speaker 1: to prove he's worth it for another team. That motivation

682
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 1: goes miles in the National Football League. In my opinion, Murphy,

683
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,400
Speaker 1: I think it is the holy grow ail of what

684
00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:05,040
Speaker 1: makes good teams good is the motivation on their roster

685
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: for the players to be great and in a league,

686
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 1: and when you start giving players and I know I

687
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:13,960
Speaker 1: was one of them, and I know I'm talking out

688
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 1: of both sides of my mouth because I have so

689
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Speaker 1: much respect for these guys. But once you give these

690
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 1: guys guaranteed money, it's easy for the edge to come

691
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: off their attitude, you know what I mean. It's easy

692
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: for him to say, Wow, I've got I'm guaranteed eight figures.

693
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:31,800
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to break that wedge.

694
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm even the wedges are and I'm exaggerating

695
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: to make a point. Wedges are illegally these days. But

696
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't want to stick my nose

697
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 1: in that meat grinder of the pile every play because

698
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 1: I'm already gonna get the money anyway. Yep. That aspect

699
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:50,040
Speaker 1: of it is huge. In these one year deals. You're

700
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Speaker 1: getting guys to say, listen, if I want to continue

701
00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: my career, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna go the

702
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: extra mile. I'm gonna really pour my heart and soul

703
00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: into this team for these next four or five months,

704
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: and I'm going to see where it gets me next year.

705
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: And I think it's I think it's the way. I

706
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: think it's an acknowledgement of how brutal the game is,

707
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 1: right and I do think the Bills acknowledge that it'll

708
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 1: be it's different. I mean they nowled is it taking

709
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 1: a chance? They had Jordan Phillips on that one but

710
00:34:17,520 --> 00:34:20,280
Speaker 1: two one year deals right after he came from Miami,

711
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,439
Speaker 1: and then I guess he was took his free age

712
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: and contract with him from Miami, but signed him to

713
00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: a one year deal and they lost him. They're willing

714
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 1: to take that chance and thinking, well, we'll get somebody else.

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Speaker 1: I think that's that's probably a good way to approach it.

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Speaker 1: Let's take a call here from Barry in North Carolina. Hello,

717
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,080
Speaker 1: Barry around the air with us. Go ahead, Hey guys,

718
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: how you doing today? Okay, real well you hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: how about this idea? Now, this this might seem all

720
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:45,600
Speaker 1: about a left field, but what about what about the

721
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Speaker 1: idea guys, and maybe going after somebody like like a

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00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,319
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston kind of guy. Um, you know, he's at

723
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Speaker 1: this point. I don't think it should be too expensive,

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Speaker 1: just feving the fact that he hasn't had any suitors

725
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,960
Speaker 1: yet in the last two weeks here, And what about

726
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: the idea of maybe using Josh is like a like

727
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: a Taysom Hill kind of guy who kind to come

728
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Speaker 1: out of the backfield do some things and like the

729
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: hybrid situations there would that be something you guys think

730
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:10,800
Speaker 1: is too too ridiculous or something that that they may

731
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 1: can I go first, Steve, Yeah, I don't want to

732
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: say too ridiculous, but it's it's kind of ridiculous. Josh

733
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: is on his way to being a pretty good quarterback

734
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Speaker 1: in the league. I wouldn't want to limit him to

735
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill type snaps number one, and especially now for

736
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 1: a guy like Jamis Winston to take his snaps. And

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Speaker 1: I got to say this, I think the Bills are

738
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,319
Speaker 1: really happy and really like the quarterback room they have,

739
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 1: which includes Ken Dorsey obviously is the coach, certainly includes

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00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley, and I think they like the quarterback group

741
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,280
Speaker 1: that they have and I think they think that helps

742
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:45,359
Speaker 1: Josh Allen get better. Your thoughts, Yeah, I think you're

743
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,839
Speaker 1: exactly right, no question. Here's the thing too, I don't

744
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: know that the Bills feel it's going to be necessary

745
00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: to do a transformation of their offensive philosophy to the

746
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,839
Speaker 1: extent you're talking about. I think they feel like they can.

747
00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: What gives them the best chance to win is Josh

748
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: Allen taking snaps at quarterback and building the team around him.

749
00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: That way. What you're talking about is a little bit

750
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,520
Speaker 1: like what the Baltimore Ravens did last year with Lamar Jackson.

751
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:17,840
Speaker 1: They went all in with a misdirection, ground oriented, grind

752
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: it out, big wide receivers who block down field, you know,

753
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: fullback too, tight end kind of offense. There's a little

754
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 1: bit misdirection, and give the ball to athletes who can,

755
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: you know, get four yards a crack. They really went

756
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,480
Speaker 1: all in building an offense around one guy who's kind

757
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: of a unicorn. I call him Lamar Jackson, a four

758
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 1: three running quarterback. That's the kind of commitment, not the

759
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 1: same philosophy, but that's the kind of commitment that you

760
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:48,399
Speaker 1: would be asking the Bills to make to a guy

761
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 1: like Jamis Winston instead of Josh Allen, and it'd be

762
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Jamis Winston and the rest of the

763
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: guys that you could put in there instead of just

764
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: trusting the architects of the team that they've got enough

765
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:03,359
Speaker 1: talent in the room. And I thought they had enough

766
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: talent last year. Certainly we a lot of us here

767
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: think they should have won that playoff game in Houston.

768
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,399
Speaker 1: So that there's a lot of talent in this room,

769
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:13,919
Speaker 1: and I think there's a lot of reasons to believe

770
00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 1: they're even getting better this year. I don't want to

771
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 1: transform him into something else now that they've built up

772
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:22,520
Speaker 1: to a point where they're winning ten games a year. Hey,

773
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,319
Speaker 1: let me talk about Josh for a second. He did

774
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: an appearance yesterday on a radio show with Adam Shine.

775
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,480
Speaker 1: I guess it's a TV show with Adam Shine, who's

776
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 1: a big Bill's booster. We've had him on the show

777
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: and Josh was really excited and expressed his excitement about

778
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,759
Speaker 1: the acquisition of Stefan Dicks. Let me read you some

779
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:43,080
Speaker 1: of the quotes. Josh Shallen told Shine, I'm still pumped

780
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: about it, still floating on cloud nine right now. I

781
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 1: just can't wait to get to work with him. Obviously,

782
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:50,359
Speaker 1: with all this stuff going around, traveling, trying to get

783
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: in touch, start throwing with him, that's going to be

784
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:54,400
Speaker 1: a little delayed. I just want to get back to work.

785
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 1: We've been staying in contact trying to devise a plan

786
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:58,959
Speaker 1: of how we can get together. But man, Josh said,

787
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 1: the things you can do a football field are unbelievable.

788
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: The route running, the way he can make contested catches.

789
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 1: I've talked to him on the phone a couple of times.

790
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 1: Just how cool of a duty seems to be. He's

791
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,359
Speaker 1: gonna match in every way with our wide receiver group,

792
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 1: it's gonna match within our locker room and with our team,

793
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 1: big time playmaker. He's gonna help us out a lot

794
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 1: this year. Those are great comments to get from Josh Allen, Steve,

795
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,320
Speaker 1: no question. Yeah, and I and we know this too,

796
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 1: I mean you and I. I mean we don't. We

797
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: don't locker next to Josh Allen, but we've had enough

798
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 1: interaction with him to know he probably is this genuinely excited.

799
00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: He's kind of like that. I think he's he jumps

800
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: on board with everything. I think that's why his teammates

801
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: rally around him. I think he knows all of a sudden,

802
00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 1: this offense has a chance to be really really good

803
00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 1: this next year, and he wants to be a part

804
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 1: of it and get started with it. I don't think

805
00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:52,720
Speaker 1: there's any I don't think there's any you know, exaggeration

806
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: there on Josh Allen's part. I think he really is

807
00:38:55,239 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: that excited, and he's probably high five and everybody he

808
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 1: meets because of you know. I mean, that's just the

809
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: kind of guy is, so it's fun to think about it.

810
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 1: And there's no question he has every reason to feel

811
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: that way as far as we know. And this goes

812
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 1: back now almost a month of the combine. Josh is

813
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: spending the bulk of his time out in southern California

814
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: at Jordan Palmer's camp, working regularly, and I assume that's

815
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: still going on even with the current quarantine issues going on.

816
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,880
Speaker 1: I assume he's still doing the work, maybe just by himself,

817
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:25,880
Speaker 1: but I'm assume he's still doing the work. All Right,

818
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:27,720
Speaker 1: we got a break here, We got more calls to take,

819
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,879
Speaker 1: and we have some tweets to read off the tweet sheets.

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00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 1: Steve and I are coming back from our homes. We're

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00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 1: not the Seneca Studio, win our homes again this week

822
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,200
Speaker 1: to stay. It is One Bill's Live, pretended by Kalaida Health,

823
00:39:38,400 --> 00:39:52,880
Speaker 1: and this is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Let's read some of

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00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:56,560
Speaker 1: the notes from our tweet sheet. The tweet sheet brought

825
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Speaker 1: here by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official movers of the

826
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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. And that's a go ahead, go ahead. It starts.

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Speaker 1: It starts with Justin then yeah, and I think it's

828
00:40:05,760 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 1: the biggest reason for the one year strategy as I

829
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:09,319
Speaker 1: think it has to do with getting the most out

830
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 1: of the players that want to get that pay day.

831
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:13,719
Speaker 1: But I also think it has a lot to do

832
00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: with manage managing the cap space so they can also

833
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: sign their own players. And that's exactly where the bills

834
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 1: are right now, Murph, Right, I mean yeah, I mean

835
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: they want to pay. Those are the moves. Everybody's waiting

836
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: for it, right Tradevious White, Matt Milano, etc. We want

837
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 1: to see them, uh and and I we I mean

838
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 1: fans want to see those guys extended. And I think

839
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 1: they're smartly and adroitly taking care of fugging a few

840
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 1: holes at an offensive lineman yesterday who may or may

841
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,720
Speaker 1: not be able to help bringing back E. J. Gaines.

842
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,719
Speaker 1: These are relatively low cost players on short deals who

843
00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 1: can plug in holes while they can serve their money

844
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: for the big the big names that they have already

845
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,839
Speaker 1: on the rouster. The real question is this, Murph, are

846
00:40:55,840 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 1: they going to be able to resign Josh Allen, Dion Hawkins,

847
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: Matt Milano, Trdavius White, Micah Hyde. I mean you're getting

848
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 1: the list is getting long for guys who are in

849
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:14,919
Speaker 1: line and deserve significant pay raises or extensions. That's also

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Speaker 1: a lot of money. Yeah, they don't. They don't have

851
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: to do some of those guys right away. I mean

852
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: the first the first group is Uh. I think Tavius

853
00:41:23,760 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 1: White and Uh and Matt Milano, and maybe even a

854
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 1: year later you get to some of the other Steve,

855
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't have to. Look, you want to

856
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 1: keep Josh Ellen, you want to keep h Deon Dockins.

857
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 1: You don't need to resign them this year. Yes, that's

858
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 1: my point. Did we lose your Steve? Did you hit

859
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:47,839
Speaker 1: your mute button again? Try that Steve hit it again?

860
00:41:49,719 --> 00:41:52,359
Speaker 1: Can you hear me now? I can? Yeah, all right,

861
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: so listen. I think the strategy is they got them

862
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: lined up. I mean, they don't have to do them

863
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,640
Speaker 1: all in one year, but certainly they're lined up in

864
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:02,359
Speaker 1: such a way as to be able to do it.

865
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: And the market's only going up. It will be interesting

866
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:11,279
Speaker 1: to see if the current situation in our country's in

867
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 1: now affects the growth of the league going forward, so

868
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: that it becomes more and more difficult to sign guys

869
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 1: of that nature. Yep, but those are the guys I met.

870
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 1: There's five guys that I just spoke to you about.

871
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,040
Speaker 1: And that's in addition to and you know that's over

872
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 1: the next probably what Murph two years, three years that

873
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 1: they got to do, all those guys two and a

874
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 1: half years. Okay, so you're two and a half years in.

875
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,759
Speaker 1: That means your highest paid center in the league, Mitch

876
00:42:35,840 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: Morris will be three and a half years into his

877
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 1: five year deal, you know, and he gotta you know,

878
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 1: got these other guys that you got to think about it.

879
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:46,960
Speaker 1: I mean, it's never ending. And the growth of the

880
00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:50,839
Speaker 1: league if it's affected by the current situation where there's

881
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 1: only so much money to go around with, you know,

882
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 1: it's gonna be one of those where you're really gonna

883
00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: have to make some prioritizing deals or you're just gonna

884
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,479
Speaker 1: have to do like they did Shack Lawson and Jordan

885
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: Phillips this year, just say you guys were great, We

886
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 1: love you, but you've earned the right to find out

887
00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 1: what you're worth. One more from the tweet sheet from Jack.

888
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 1: In answer to our question about what's the biggest reason

889
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 1: for the Bills one and two year deal strategy, Jack says,

890
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: I think it's a combination. To prove it deals for

891
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 1: guys to get the most out of them and to

892
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 1: release them for cheap if they don't make it through camp,

893
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: all to master their cap space commindment looking ahead and

894
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 1: knowing they'll have to pay trade Dion Tremaine and most

895
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:32,800
Speaker 1: hopefully most importantly Josh Allen. Just as you said, Steve,

896
00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:35,320
Speaker 1: here's what I can't figure out. And I don't know.

897
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: It would take you know, pretty deep research to figure

898
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 1: this out, Steve. But how many teams do most NFL?

899
00:43:41,440 --> 00:43:43,360
Speaker 1: I know, the bills don't haven't invented the one and

900
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 1: two year deal concept, but our most NFL teams doing

901
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: one or two year deals of these days. You think

902
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:51,439
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't how to do that research. Yeah,

903
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 1: you'd take a deep dive maybe, and it's above my

904
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 1: level of expertise to go in and do that. We

905
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: might talk to our guy at you know, yeah, so

906
00:44:02,719 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: see what he says. But it just seems to me

907
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,319
Speaker 1: I noticed it so much under Brandon Being and Sean

908
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,719
Speaker 1: McDermott that it became a thing for me to watch

909
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: out for. And certainly now they they've done it, continue

910
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:15,600
Speaker 1: to do it. And to be honest, it's a it's

911
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,360
Speaker 1: a fairly recent development, maybe two years, where the Bills

912
00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 1: and other teams now look to sign guys that won

913
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: in two years. It's new. It's something new, right, Yeah,

914
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 1: And I think I think the players appreciate it because

915
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,719
Speaker 1: it does get. Like I said, they're giving these guys

916
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 1: a good chunk to come for a one year deal.

917
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: They're overpaying a little bit than they would like saying

918
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 1: the last year of a three year deal, you know

919
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:41,359
Speaker 1: what I mean. But they're getting their best effort and

920
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,359
Speaker 1: they're getting value for those contracts, and the players are

921
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 1: doing their best to outplay their contract and that's a

922
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:51,919
Speaker 1: great atmosphere for a football team and the roster being

923
00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 1: so I applauded. I think it's a great idea and

924
00:44:57,239 --> 00:44:59,560
Speaker 1: I hope it continues to be to pay dividends for

925
00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 1: the club. All Right, we got the top of the

926
00:45:02,080 --> 00:45:03,799
Speaker 1: hour break coming up, and then we're gonna talk with

927
00:45:03,880 --> 00:45:08,120
Speaker 1: great Coach sal the co host and executive producer of

928
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 1: NFL Matchup, the show you see on ESPN, longtime senior

929
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 1: producer in NFL Films, as a bunch of thoughts on

930
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: the Bills free agent signings and look ahead to some

931
00:45:16,840 --> 00:45:19,240
Speaker 1: of the offensive lineman that the Bills might be looking

932
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: at in the second round of the draft. On April

933
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: twenty three, Great co sal when we returned One Bills

934
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:27,359
Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalina Health from our home. Steve's at home,

935
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: I'm at home. This is Buffalo Bills Radar. The update

936
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: from One Bills Live. The Bills back busy in the

937
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:40,000
Speaker 1: free agent market. Late yesterday, they plucked a free another

938
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,800
Speaker 1: free agent out of Carolina. They got offensive lineman Darryl

939
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:46,920
Speaker 1: Williams assigned to a one year contract. He returned to

940
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:48,960
Speaker 1: the field last year with Carolina, missed all of the

941
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen campaign with a knee injury that required season

942
00:45:52,719 --> 00:45:55,800
Speaker 1: ending surgery. Daryl Williams started twelve games for the Panthers

943
00:45:55,880 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: last season, left guard five games, left tackle four games,

944
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 1: right guard for three games. Former fourth round pick to

945
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: Carolina in twenty fifteen. Also yesterday, the Bills signed a

946
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,840
Speaker 1: contract with d J. Gaines, his third goal round with

947
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,880
Speaker 1: the Bills. A training camp injury prematurely ended his season

948
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:12,760
Speaker 1: with the Bills last year. Linebacker Reggie Ragland has agreed

949
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 1: to terms with the Detroit Lions. He turns twenty seven

950
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: years old this September. Part time player at the Kansas

951
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,719
Speaker 1: City Chiefs switched to a four three based defense last year.

952
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,640
Speaker 1: Former second round pick out of Alabama in two sixteen

953
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: played with the Bills and training camp, suffered a serious

954
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,280
Speaker 1: knee injury and training camp, and never took a snap

955
00:46:30,480 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 1: with the Buffalo Bills. The NFL Draft will go on

956
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 1: as scheduled April twenty third through the twenty fifth, according

957
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:39,800
Speaker 1: to Commissioner Roger Goodell. He distributed a league wide memo yesterday.

958
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: Goodell says the NFL Management Council Executive Committee met yesterday

959
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 1: and was unanimous and unequivocal that the draft should go

960
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:50,120
Speaker 1: forward as scheduled. Goodell also said that public discussion of

961
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: issues relating to the draft serves no useful purpose in

962
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 1: his grounds for disciplinary action. Michael Brocker's deal with the

963
00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:59,919
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens fell through over an issue with the ank

964
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,279
Speaker 1: and the free agent defensive lineman quickly rejoined the Los

965
00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,759
Speaker 1: Angeles Rams on a similar deal. But first major complication

966
00:47:07,080 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: in the NFL's decision to proceed with free agency. Tampa

967
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 1: Bay Buccaneers coach Brutarians puts an end to any speculation

968
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 1: and his team will look to sign wide receiver free

969
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:18,760
Speaker 1: agent and Tonio' brown even with Tom Brady there. Yesterday

970
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:21,359
Speaker 1: on CBS Sports Networkarian says it's not going to happen.

971
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 1: There's no room, probably not enough money, and it's not

972
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 1: going to happen because it's not a good fifth here.

973
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 1: That's what Bruce Arians said. And that is the update

974
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:33,279
Speaker 1: from One Goes Line, the sports update from our one

975
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,720
Speaker 1: buff of Those studio, John Burfy here with Steve Tasker,

976
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 1: and we are joined by the line by our regular

977
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:40,279
Speaker 1: Friday guest. Happy to have him on the line as well.

978
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: Greg Cozell, executive producer and he's a longtime senior producer

979
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: at NFL Films, co host of NFL Matchup on ESPN. Hello, Greg,

980
00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,239
Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker, Welcome to our homes again.

981
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:52,920
Speaker 1: We're doing the show from home once again. You are too,

982
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: probably right, Hi? I am indeed. I just took a

983
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 1: nice walk of whether it's beautiful here. I think I've

984
00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 1: been out of my house three times since last Well,

985
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:04,040
Speaker 1: it's good to take a walk. It's a little bit

986
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 1: like us up here as well. Are you do you

987
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:09,760
Speaker 1: have Are you getting a little bit of the shakes

988
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 1: from not being able to watch film? I mean I

989
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 1: know a guy like you, you kind of have to

990
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: have your fix every so often. That a tough and

991
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,240
Speaker 1: different for you than I think that in the overall

992
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,919
Speaker 1: scheme of things, it's probably not that important, but yeah,

993
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 1: it is making me a little crazy this time. Just

994
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:26,760
Speaker 1: give us an example of a typical great co sale

995
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 1: day this time of year. If there weren't these quarantine restrictions,

996
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:31,640
Speaker 1: how much in other words, how much film would you

997
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 1: be watching these days? Well, first of all, we'd be

998
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:38,640
Speaker 1: doing two matchup shows, two NFL Draft matchup shows, which

999
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:41,320
Speaker 1: would have been airing on April fourteenth and April twenty

1000
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 1: if so, we would be starting next week pre production

1001
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:48,720
Speaker 1: on those shows, building segments. But basically, I'd be watching

1002
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:52,839
Speaker 1: tape every day. And I'm an early riser, so I'm

1003
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 1: in my office at six am, So I'd be watching

1004
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: tape every day and then we'd we'd start production next week,

1005
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: but yeah, i'd be grinding away. I haven't been able

1006
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 1: to watch tape in well over a week. Yeah, so

1007
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 1: we're gonna try. Well, we're trying to talk to you

1008
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: about some of the prospects that may be up for

1009
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 1: this draft. And as of course, as you've probably heard,

1010
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 1: the story of the day the draft is going to

1011
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:18,160
Speaker 1: take place. He has normal on schedule. Um, we're gonna

1012
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:19,840
Speaker 1: talk to you a little bit first of all about

1013
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 1: some of the guys that the Bills have signed here

1014
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: of late cornerback E. J. Gaines and offensive lineman Darryl Williams.

1015
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 1: Any thoughts about those veteran guys that you've seen and

1016
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:32,319
Speaker 1: can remember from your tape study. Well, I know that

1017
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: Gaines has he's been there before, correct, I mean he's

1018
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: he's been a Bill before. Yeah, this is third time. Yeah. Yeah,

1019
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,920
Speaker 1: you know, he's an interesting guy because if I recall

1020
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:46,239
Speaker 1: he came out of Missouri. I remember watching him. He

1021
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: was a late round pick. You know, he's got he's

1022
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 1: a smaller corner. You know. I don't know what they

1023
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 1: see him as, you know, other than maybe a compete

1024
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: guy and a depth guy. I think Williams is the

1025
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:00,719
Speaker 1: more interesting guy because we James has a lot of

1026
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: starting experience in the NFL. And again, did they see

1027
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:08,120
Speaker 1: him inside? I know this just happened, and I know

1028
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:09,839
Speaker 1: what the situation as it is. It's not as if

1029
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 1: you're around the building and everybody's around the building. But

1030
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,440
Speaker 1: here's a guy who's played right tackle. I think a

1031
00:50:15,480 --> 00:50:18,320
Speaker 1: few years ago he was a full time starter right tackle.

1032
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 1: He's played left tackle, He's played both guard positions, so

1033
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:26,240
Speaker 1: essentially he can line up in pretty much any tackle

1034
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:29,200
Speaker 1: position or guard position. He's played every offensive line position

1035
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:31,839
Speaker 1: other than center. So I don't know if they see

1036
00:50:31,920 --> 00:50:35,439
Speaker 1: him as a as a sort of a rotational journeyman guy,

1037
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:38,040
Speaker 1: or if they see him as competing for a starting job.

1038
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:40,920
Speaker 1: We don't know that either, Greg. As you said, we

1039
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,399
Speaker 1: don't get a lot of contact with decision makers these days.

1040
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 1: But the one thing that's notable to Steve and I

1041
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 1: this is more of a contract question, but it appears

1042
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 1: clear that the Bills, I mean, they've got this Caroline

1043
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 1: on Panther's pipeline going on. I think it makes sense

1044
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: that in these kind of uncertain times they would sign

1045
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:59,120
Speaker 1: I'm talking about Bean and McDermott, would sign players that

1046
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:02,319
Speaker 1: they have a history with, that they're familiar with. Right. Yeah,

1047
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 1: And the other factor to keep in mind is, I mean,

1048
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 1: obviously he's an offensive player, and Brian Dable is still

1049
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:10,839
Speaker 1: the OC and he wasn't in Carolina. But these are

1050
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:14,880
Speaker 1: our players that they are familiar with, um, you know,

1051
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: so they obviously feel that they can help. I'm just

1052
00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,960
Speaker 1: really curious with Williams because I think he struggled a

1053
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 1: lot of tackle when I think he's better at guard.

1054
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:26,920
Speaker 1: That's just my opinion from watching tape. You know, I

1055
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 1: would think they view themselves set at tackle. They see

1056
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 1: Cody Ford, I would assumes as their right tackle. Do

1057
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:38,239
Speaker 1: they not, well, I think that's a question. Yeah, that's

1058
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:40,760
Speaker 1: a question, and we don't know that until training camp starts.

1059
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 1: But I also think part of Darryl Williams in his

1060
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 1: appeal is the fact of his versatility. Now, even if

1061
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 1: he doesn't compete and work his way into the starting spot,

1062
00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 1: he's certainly a guy you got to have on the

1063
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 1: bench on game day without question. I mean, he's he's

1064
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 1: started over forty games in the NFL. Steve, I mean,

1065
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:01,399
Speaker 1: you're talking about a guy you know that can line

1066
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: You can line up and play with Daryl Williams. You know,

1067
00:52:03,640 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: obviously he's not a big time offensive lineman. You know,

1068
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:11,320
Speaker 1: he's not an All protype player, but you know he's

1069
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:13,839
Speaker 1: you can line up and play with Darryl Williams. That's

1070
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:18,680
Speaker 1: that's a good signing. We're live with Greg Gostal NFL

1071
00:52:18,760 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 1: analysts for NFL Matchup on ESPN. Senior producer in NFL Film,

1072
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 1: A couple of other signings and guys coming back, greg

1073
00:52:26,480 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 1: Isaia McKenzie, short, smallish wide receiver. The Bills found a

1074
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:33,799
Speaker 1: role for him running jet sweep action. What do you

1075
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:35,799
Speaker 1: think of Isam McKenzie and how he might fit into

1076
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 1: this group as of wide receivers here, Well, he's a

1077
00:52:38,800 --> 00:52:41,360
Speaker 1: package player now because obviously with the signing of Digs,

1078
00:52:41,360 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 1: you know, McKenzie becomes a package player, and that's fine.

1079
00:52:44,239 --> 00:52:46,720
Speaker 1: You know, you'll have certain packages where he's on the field,

1080
00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:49,440
Speaker 1: certain players that are geared to him. But he's a

1081
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:53,440
Speaker 1: package player on offense, so you know that's obviously they

1082
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:55,759
Speaker 1: brought him back for that reason because he's not going

1083
00:52:55,800 --> 00:53:00,919
Speaker 1: to be, barring injury, among the top three receivers. Well,

1084
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 1: I got to ask you also, let's move into some

1085
00:53:03,080 --> 00:53:05,279
Speaker 1: of the guys on the draft board. Greg, Let's talk

1086
00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 1: about the offensive tackles. One of the one of the

1087
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:10,840
Speaker 1: top guys that probably will be not anywhere near the

1088
00:53:10,920 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 1: level where Buffalo is picking is this kid, Tristan woof

1089
00:53:13,920 --> 00:53:17,440
Speaker 1: Worf from Iowa. I got a chance to watch him

1090
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 1: play once this year. Live and he looks like an

1091
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:28,160
Speaker 1: NFL lineman to me. Yeah, I'm curious Steve how teams

1092
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 1: see him. He's he played right tackle. He's very efficient

1093
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 1: and economical in his movements. He's functionally athletic, really workmanlike

1094
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 1: and consistent in the way he plays. What I'm curious

1095
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:44,600
Speaker 1: about is whether teams will see him as a right

1096
00:53:44,600 --> 00:53:48,360
Speaker 1: tackle or an offensive guard the way former Iowa offensive

1097
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:51,400
Speaker 1: tackle Brandon Sheriff was seen who stepped right in and

1098
00:53:51,440 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 1: became a guard and was I think an All Pro

1099
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:57,880
Speaker 1: from from year one. So that's what I find interesting.

1100
00:53:57,880 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 1: I think he's a really good prospect with a lot

1101
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:03,200
Speaker 1: of good traits. I wouldn't even though he's athletic and

1102
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 1: his measurables or off the charts at the combine. I

1103
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: think he plays less with fluid athletic movement and more

1104
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 1: with kind of a coiled efficiency. He's got really good

1105
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:17,240
Speaker 1: balance and body control, and he's always poised. He rarely

1106
00:54:17,280 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 1: loses his technique. So you know, I don't. I don't

1107
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:22,719
Speaker 1: know how teams will see him, but he did play

1108
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:25,720
Speaker 1: right tackle at Iowa. He also played left tackle at times.

1109
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:29,080
Speaker 1: Let me see about another offensive tackle as we kind

1110
00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: of preview some of these draft picks, and I wonder

1111
00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 1: if George's Andrew Thomas might be gone by the time

1112
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:36,439
Speaker 1: the Bill's pick at fifty four. What do you think

1113
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 1: right at fifty four, Yeah, I think he'll be gone

1114
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 1: from what I understand. I'm not good with the mock

1115
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 1: draft stuff, but I mean, I think he's a higher

1116
00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:47,200
Speaker 1: level left tackle prospect. He certainly can line up at

1117
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:49,360
Speaker 1: right tackle if you feel good about your left tackle,

1118
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:52,200
Speaker 1: because he did start at right tackle as a true

1119
00:54:52,239 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 1: freshman at Georgia before moving to left tackle for his

1120
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:57,760
Speaker 1: final two years. He's another guy to me that's really

1121
00:54:57,840 --> 00:55:03,280
Speaker 1: execution efficient. You know. He he doesn't make many mistakes.

1122
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 1: He's got good movement, he sustains blocks in the run game.

1123
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:10,759
Speaker 1: He's highly competitive as a run blocker. I thought he

1124
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 1: showed really good balance and body control and past protection.

1125
00:55:14,040 --> 00:55:16,040
Speaker 1: He's just another one of those guys Murph that to

1126
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:19,040
Speaker 1: me was just really an efficient player. Like I feel

1127
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:21,400
Speaker 1: like you could line him up and you'd be fine.

1128
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 1: I got to ask you about another offensive tackle coming

1129
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 1: out of this draft, and I don't know that I

1130
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:31,120
Speaker 1: can pronounce his last name exactly right, but it's inn.

1131
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 1: I A n G night Lucas Nang out of TCU.

1132
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: What about him as a prospect. He seems ye six

1133
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:40,440
Speaker 1: six three eleven, he ran a four nine forty. He

1134
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:43,360
Speaker 1: seems like he's got some pretty good measurables. Yeah. I

1135
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:47,239
Speaker 1: think he's a fascinating guy, and he might be a

1136
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 1: guy again I'm bad with with mox and all that,

1137
00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 1: But I don't know if he'll be there or not.

1138
00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:54,719
Speaker 1: But I watched him and felt like he's got an

1139
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:57,400
Speaker 1: opportunity to be a Day one starter at right tackle.

1140
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:00,879
Speaker 1: He's got the desired combination of to look for. He's

1141
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:03,879
Speaker 1: got size, strength, movement. I thought he used his hands well.

1142
00:56:04,280 --> 00:56:07,160
Speaker 1: I thought at times his footwork was a little bit problematic,

1143
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 1: a little too upright at times in his past set.

1144
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:12,959
Speaker 1: But I think these are things that can be dealt

1145
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 1: with and handled. But I think he's the kind of

1146
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:19,359
Speaker 1: guy that, you know, again, not knowing the draft, I'm

1147
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 1: you know, like I said, none of us know that.

1148
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:23,799
Speaker 1: But I liked his tape a lot, and I think

1149
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:26,520
Speaker 1: he's a fascinating prospect. He's not being talked about a lot,

1150
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 1: you know, in terms of these sort of three or

1151
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:32,719
Speaker 1: four mean guys that are the first round types. But

1152
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:36,000
Speaker 1: I liked his tape a lot. It's about a guy

1153
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:39,400
Speaker 1: from Yukon, a Yukon Husky, Matthew Perk. What do you

1154
00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:42,560
Speaker 1: think about him as a prospect for the Bills now?

1155
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:48,560
Speaker 1: He is really fascinating because he is really He's big,

1156
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 1: he's long, his arm length is ridiculous, his wingspan is ridiculous.

1157
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:57,160
Speaker 1: He really looks the part. He's got an athletic strapping build,

1158
00:56:57,200 --> 00:57:00,239
Speaker 1: he's got exceptionally long arms. He's got a lot of

1159
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:03,440
Speaker 1: things to clean up. But he's definitely an offensive tackle

1160
00:57:03,480 --> 00:57:06,880
Speaker 1: in my view. I don't think he's a guard, you know.

1161
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 1: I think he's got everything you look for in terms

1162
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:13,040
Speaker 1: of trait size, length of athletic movement. He's really light

1163
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:18,880
Speaker 1: on his feet. He's got a natural athletic movement. But

1164
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:21,320
Speaker 1: you know, in my weakness category, I think I had

1165
00:57:21,360 --> 00:57:24,160
Speaker 1: seven or eight weaknesses that I felt needed to be

1166
00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 1: cleaned up. And again, I'm not an online coach, so

1167
00:57:27,960 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 1: I don't know if an online coach looks at that

1168
00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:31,479
Speaker 1: and says, hey, I can fix that in a week

1169
00:57:31,600 --> 00:57:32,960
Speaker 1: or I don't know if there are things that are

1170
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 1: would be viewed as issues that can't be cleaned up.

1171
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 1: But but boy, you look at this kid and you say, Wow,

1172
00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 1: this is a guy I'd like to really coach, and

1173
00:57:41,840 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 1: I think he could be a really good player. Do

1174
00:57:44,480 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 1: you think he's more of a project greg a little bit? Yes, Yeah,

1175
00:57:49,560 --> 00:57:51,320
Speaker 1: I would say so. I know that term is thrown

1176
00:57:51,360 --> 00:57:55,640
Speaker 1: around a lot, but I don't think that he could

1177
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 1: be a Day one starter personally. Let's give you one

1178
00:57:59,640 --> 00:58:02,200
Speaker 1: last guy number. The fifth guy on our list is

1179
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:04,919
Speaker 1: this Ezra Cleveland from Boise State. He's also a guy

1180
00:58:04,920 --> 00:58:06,760
Speaker 1: that he's another how don't know where they find him.

1181
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:09,600
Speaker 1: But there's another six six guy three hundred and eleven pounds,

1182
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:12,200
Speaker 1: ran a sub five flat forty. I mean, you know,

1183
00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:14,280
Speaker 1: when you look at the measurables, all these guys kind

1184
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:19,040
Speaker 1: of seemed to fit that bill. Yeah. I did not

1185
00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:21,000
Speaker 1: love his tape, and I'll tell you why. I didn't

1186
00:58:21,040 --> 00:58:25,040
Speaker 1: think he played particularly tough. He's got really light feed,

1187
00:58:25,080 --> 00:58:28,680
Speaker 1: he's got great reactive athleticism. I mean he's but he

1188
00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 1: just lacked functional strength and physicality, and at times I

1189
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:34,640
Speaker 1: thought he lacked competitiveness. And I never say that and

1190
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:37,040
Speaker 1: unless I really feel the tape shows that, because I

1191
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 1: just that that's a real knock on a player. So

1192
00:58:39,080 --> 00:58:41,160
Speaker 1: I would never say that, and Steve, I know you

1193
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 1: would appreciate that. You know, I never talked about a

1194
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:47,160
Speaker 1: guy's effort or competitiveness unless it's to me it's really obvious,

1195
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:50,880
Speaker 1: because you know that that's a real knock. Um. I

1196
00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:55,040
Speaker 1: think that he that lacked that lack of physicality and

1197
00:58:55,080 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 1: competitiveness showed up both in pass pro and in the

1198
00:58:57,640 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 1: run game. And my guests, a lot of people will

1199
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:03,040
Speaker 1: like him because he's really light on his feet and

1200
00:59:03,120 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 1: really athletic. But you know how it is in the NFL,

1201
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:09,480
Speaker 1: even on the outside, you can't always look pretty. Sometimes

1202
00:59:09,520 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 1: you just have to compete and battle and it may

1203
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:13,680
Speaker 1: not look great, but that's the way you have to

1204
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:17,080
Speaker 1: do it. And I'm just wondering if he's that guy, Well,

1205
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 1: it's got a great go sal from NFL Matchup on

1206
00:59:19,680 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 1: ESPN Senior producer in NFL Films. When I hear you

1207
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:24,920
Speaker 1: talk about some of these offensive line prospects, Greagan and

1208
00:59:25,080 --> 00:59:29,000
Speaker 1: especially Matthew Pert as a possible project, the guy that

1209
00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 1: might take some time to get ready to play, I'm thinking, huh,

1210
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:33,960
Speaker 1: that's okay. The Bills might not need to right out

1211
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:35,600
Speaker 1: on the box start and they might not be able

1212
00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:37,800
Speaker 1: to get one in the second round. Right, Well, let's

1213
00:59:37,800 --> 00:59:39,600
Speaker 1: think of it this way. If the Bills were to

1214
00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:44,440
Speaker 1: line up today, Dawkins is the left tackle, correct, yep? Yep?

1215
00:59:45,040 --> 00:59:49,800
Speaker 1: Spain is the left guard, correct, yep? The center is

1216
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:53,880
Speaker 1: who miss Morris? Right, He's still there? I totally forgot.

1217
00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:57,000
Speaker 1: So Williams could easily be the right guard if you

1218
00:59:57,040 --> 00:59:59,040
Speaker 1: wanted to go that route, and Cody Ford could be

1219
00:59:59,080 --> 01:00:01,120
Speaker 1: the right tackle if you to go that route. And

1220
01:00:01,440 --> 01:00:05,840
Speaker 1: to me, that's pretty solid offensive line. So anybody they draft,

1221
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:09,160
Speaker 1: unless they truly don't see forward as a right tackle,

1222
01:00:09,240 --> 01:00:13,000
Speaker 1: and we don't know that, then they'd be looking for

1223
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:15,840
Speaker 1: a starting right tackle unless they thought Darryl Williams was

1224
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:18,960
Speaker 1: that guy. Because Williams in two thousand and seventeen did

1225
01:00:19,440 --> 01:00:21,920
Speaker 1: was a full time starter at right guard for Carolina.

1226
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:26,080
Speaker 1: So you know, I think they're five. Is there? They're

1227
01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:29,160
Speaker 1: top five? To me, would be pretty pretty much set

1228
01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 1: one way or the other. Right, I got you. Well,

1229
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:35,600
Speaker 1: as you talk about it, let's go. Let's I don't

1230
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:37,560
Speaker 1: go back and ask you a couple of things in

1231
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:39,840
Speaker 1: general about the league. Some stuff that's kind of surprising

1232
01:00:39,960 --> 01:00:43,120
Speaker 1: is still out there. We're starting to hear tweets and

1233
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:46,440
Speaker 1: get some some I don't know, some echoes from Cam

1234
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:49,840
Speaker 1: Newton as to say he feels like the Carolina Panthers

1235
01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:52,840
Speaker 1: gave up on him. He feels like he still has

1236
01:00:52,920 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 1: valued to a team as a starter. But with him

1237
01:00:56,200 --> 01:00:59,040
Speaker 1: out there, with Jameis Winston out there, and with the

1238
01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 1: quarterback market being what it is, is there gonna be

1239
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:04,800
Speaker 1: a landing spot for Cam Newton? Do you think, boy?

1240
01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:06,880
Speaker 1: And you know, that's a real interesting question. See here's

1241
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:10,560
Speaker 1: the issue for me. Right now, the Los Angeles Chargers

1242
01:01:10,600 --> 01:01:13,640
Speaker 1: have Tyrod Taylor and Easton Stick as their two quarterbacks

1243
01:01:13,640 --> 01:01:15,439
Speaker 1: on their roster. I don't believe they have a third

1244
01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 1: unless I'm mistaken, But right now, clearly Tyrod Taylor is

1245
01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:21,520
Speaker 1: their starter. They've indicated as such. You know, and a

1246
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:23,320
Speaker 1: lot of people say things at this time of year,

1247
01:01:24,800 --> 01:01:27,680
Speaker 1: and that's okay. I mean, you can play with Tyrod Taylor, obviously,

1248
01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 1: you guys know him well, you played with him, But

1249
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:33,080
Speaker 1: I think there's a limitation to his game. Now. Maybe

1250
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:35,640
Speaker 1: with what we saw Lamar Jackson do this year, the

1251
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:38,080
Speaker 1: Chargers feel like, hey, they can add a lot more

1252
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:41,160
Speaker 1: of those principles and concepts into their offense and make

1253
01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:43,760
Speaker 1: Tyrod Taylor a better player. That perhaps is the way

1254
01:01:43,760 --> 01:01:48,240
Speaker 1: they're thinking, assuming Cam Newton is healthy. And believe me,

1255
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:51,800
Speaker 1: Cam Newton, he was a really good player. He's always

1256
01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:55,080
Speaker 1: struggled with accuracy and ball placement in terms of consistency,

1257
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:58,720
Speaker 1: and I'm sure he'll always be that guy. But you

1258
01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:02,280
Speaker 1: would think that someone would take a shot at Cam Newton.

1259
01:02:02,320 --> 01:02:04,240
Speaker 1: There's just not a lot of landing places right now.

1260
01:02:04,720 --> 01:02:07,680
Speaker 1: Who else but the Chargers really would you look at

1261
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:10,160
Speaker 1: and say, hey, Cam Newton or Jamis Winston is a

1262
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 1: starting quarterback for that team. I mean, obviously New England,

1263
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:16,280
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I don't think that would be

1264
01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:19,720
Speaker 1: the case. You know, it's funny, Greg, and I was

1265
01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:21,680
Speaker 1: when to hear you say that. I was thinking about

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Speaker 1: Peter King's on our show a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: and he mentioned, now for the first time in recent memory,

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Speaker 1: there's kind of a surplus of pretty good quarterbacks available

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Speaker 1: on the free agent market. I mean, you just talk

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Speaker 1: about Newton, Jamis Winston is still out there, Joe Flacco

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Speaker 1: is now a free agent. I mean two of those

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Speaker 1: three took third teams to Super Bowls that I can't

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Speaker 1: recall another year where there and I'm not saying they're

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Speaker 1: great quarterbacks, but they're better than serviceable. That some of

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Speaker 1: them are pretty good quarterbacks still available. Well, let's put

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Speaker 1: Flacco aside for a moment, just because of age and

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Speaker 1: an injury history. But you're talking about number one picks

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Speaker 1: in an entire draft, Winston and Newton, and you know,

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Speaker 1: Winston obviously is coming off the season now was very

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Speaker 1: up and down through thirty interceptions. I went through all

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Speaker 1: those late in the season. Obviously, all interceptions are not

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Speaker 1: on the quarterback, but thirty is a lot. You're dealing

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Speaker 1: with two number one picks in drafts, and right now

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Speaker 1: do they get signed? I mean, everything is a little

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Speaker 1: up in the air right now, just because of what's

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Speaker 1: going on unfortunately, But are we looking at a season

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Speaker 1: in which those guys aren't even signed, you know going

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Speaker 1: into camp, Boy, that would be really strange, Murph, wouldn't it?

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Speaker 1: It would be really straight? And what about this that

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Speaker 1: because there's still a couple of teams You mentioned the Chargers,

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Speaker 1: but there's also a team in New England that seems

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Speaker 1: to be going in with Jared Stidham, Brian Hoyer, Cody Kessler,

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Speaker 1: those guys. Those guys really at this point could only

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Speaker 1: be described as serviceable. But you got those two other

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Speaker 1: guys out there we just mentioned are more than serviceable,

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Speaker 1: and also Flacco. Does New England get back into that

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Speaker 1: quarterback thing? Do they kind of make could play for

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Speaker 1: one of these guys? What do you think their strategy

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Speaker 1: would be? And how good are Brian Horrier, Jared'stidham, Cody Kessler, Well,

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Speaker 1: they know Howyer and I think we'd have to say

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Speaker 1: Howyer is probably not a starter. Uh, Kessler is not

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Speaker 1: a starting quarterback, can't throw well enough. I think it

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Speaker 1: all depends on Stidham. It almost goes back to to

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Speaker 1: to Belichick with Brady in two thousand and one. You know,

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Speaker 1: Stidham did have an excellent preseason. He's been there. He

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Speaker 1: certainly knows the system and knows what they want to do.

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Speaker 1: So Stidham to me, is the key here. And we

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Speaker 1: will not know what they think of Stidham for the

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Speaker 1: simple reason that there's you know, no OTAs, no nothing,

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Speaker 1: there's but you know, I think Stidham is the wild card.

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Speaker 1: Well with Great Cosell, NFL analyst and executive producer of

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Speaker 1: NFL Matchup on ESPN senior producer at NFL Films, located

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Speaker 1: very close to the Philadelphia Eagles. I know you follow

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Speaker 1: the Eagles pretty closely, Greg, And they got a guy

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Speaker 1: who's I don't know, it's one of my favorites the

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Speaker 1: kel Robie Coleman signed a one year deal with the Eagles.

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01:05:02,280 --> 01:05:04,080
Speaker 1: I think he can play, and you know, I know,

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Speaker 1: and everybody wants to talk about the past interference uncalled

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Speaker 1: past interference in the NFC Championship game. And I know

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Speaker 1: he's short, but I've always been a NIKEL Robie Coleman, Dan,

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Speaker 1: what do you think, Well, he's a tough guy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's one of those so funny competitive corners. I think

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Speaker 1: it's a good signing for the Eagles. They've totally reshaped

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Speaker 1: their secondary, which needed to be reshaped so to have

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Speaker 1: Darius Slay as a one outside corner. They have Will

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Speaker 1: Parks from Denver, who's another guy. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you're familiar with him at all, but but he's a

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Speaker 1: really interesting player. Now he's not Malcolm Jenkins, but he'll

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Speaker 1: be deployed with the Eagles the same way Jenkins was.

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Speaker 1: And now they've got a true slot corner in Nicole

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Speaker 1: Robie Coleman, who's a tough, feisty, competitive kid and has

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Speaker 1: done it for a number of years in the league.

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Speaker 1: He is a good player. Yeah, yep, I guess I

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Speaker 1: should have asked about Darius Slay first on he's the

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Speaker 1: headline guy there. Yeah, Darius, that's a good player. I mean,

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01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:59,080
Speaker 1: he was in last year with Detroit who played a

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01:05:59,200 --> 01:06:01,720
Speaker 1: ton of man to man coverage, and they asked him

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01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:05,680
Speaker 1: every week to line up pretty much on the number

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Speaker 1: one receiver of the opponent. And yeah, he got burned

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Speaker 1: a couple of times. That happens, you know. Again, I

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01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:11,640
Speaker 1: don't know what Pro Football Focus said about him. I

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01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:14,520
Speaker 1: don't think he was rated super highly. But you have

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01:06:14,560 --> 01:06:16,720
Speaker 1: to understand when you play a ton of man on

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01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:19,520
Speaker 1: a team that lacked pass rush, it becomes hard to

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01:06:19,520 --> 01:06:22,400
Speaker 1: play corner. He's a good player. The Eagles will have

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01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:24,439
Speaker 1: a much better pass rush than where he came from

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Speaker 1: in Detroit. And I'm just I'm still laughing a murf

1348
01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 1: disparaging all the short guys in the NFL. Right, yeah, great,

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01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:38,360
Speaker 1: I got one more guy to ask you about it.

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Speaker 1: Just came down today. Reggie Raglan, ver Bills second rounder,

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01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:43,680
Speaker 1: never played it down for the Bills on the field

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01:06:43,720 --> 01:06:47,080
Speaker 1: at a great week at Tregning camp. What do you

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01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:49,960
Speaker 1: make of him and his future prospects? Now, he's a

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Speaker 1: Detroit Lion, Reggie reg Well, you know, Matt Patricia is

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Speaker 1: the head coach, and I wonder if he sees Reggie

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Speaker 1: Raglan the same way Bill Belichick has used to land

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01:06:58,160 --> 01:07:01,400
Speaker 1: In Roberts in recent years. Kind of a guy who

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Speaker 1: plays in bass packages, lines up as a middle linebacker

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Speaker 1: and h and is used that way. I think he

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01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:10,320
Speaker 1: only signed a one year deal. You know, he played

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Speaker 1: in the bass defense in Kansas City last year. At

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Speaker 1: times he did play in their dime, which was very

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01:07:15,600 --> 01:07:18,480
Speaker 1: interesting given he's not necessarily that guy, but they did

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01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:21,720
Speaker 1: use him that way. But he's essentially a bass defense

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01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:25,760
Speaker 1: stacked linebacker. And I think that Matt Patricia sees him

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Speaker 1: in the same way that they saw land In Roberts

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Speaker 1: in New England. And and he'll still get snaps, you know,

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Speaker 1: but that's what he is, I think at this point

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Speaker 1: in his career. Greg, I hope you get a chance

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Speaker 1: to watch some film. I know you're missing it, but

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Speaker 1: we appreciate your expertise. Thanks for coming on now. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Guys, be well and hopefully we'll talk next week.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Greg. Greg co sell NFL Matchup on ESPN. He's

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Speaker 1: their executive producer and analyst senior producer at NFL Films.

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Speaker 1: I'm not look a Steve. I'm not making for a shortcase.

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01:07:57,680 --> 01:08:00,840
Speaker 1: I just I got a list of things that a

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01:08:00,960 --> 01:08:03,240
Speaker 1: scout would look at Nikel Robie Coleman and tell me,

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01:08:03,360 --> 01:08:05,880
Speaker 1: you know why he wasn't drafted for example, And I'm

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01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:08,600
Speaker 1: telling you the guy has demonstrated, as Greg said, going

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Speaker 1: into his seventh year, Kel Robie Coleman, has demonstrated that

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Speaker 1: he can play, he can help the team to sleep

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01:08:13,600 --> 01:08:16,360
Speaker 1: set or not. Yeah. The thing that gets people And

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01:08:16,640 --> 01:08:18,599
Speaker 1: I'm like, I laugh, murf because you know, I don't

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01:08:18,600 --> 01:08:25,240
Speaker 1: take it that seriously. But it's not that Nicole Robie Coleman,

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01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:28,760
Speaker 1: Nikel Robie Coleman was like one time he was six

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01:08:28,880 --> 01:08:32,880
Speaker 1: two and then became five eight. These guys have become

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Speaker 1: productive players at the height they are. Yeah, it takes

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01:08:36,320 --> 01:08:38,679
Speaker 1: a different skill set, no question. It takes some other

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01:08:38,680 --> 01:08:42,360
Speaker 1: physical gifts, no question, but it is it is not

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01:08:42,479 --> 01:08:47,120
Speaker 1: an art form to play bigger than your height. In

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01:08:47,160 --> 01:08:50,600
Speaker 1: the NFL. It's just a way of it's a you

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01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:53,360
Speaker 1: evolve into a player that can do it. I did

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01:08:53,400 --> 01:08:55,320
Speaker 1: it as a special teams player and a little bit

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01:08:55,320 --> 01:08:57,439
Speaker 1: as a wide receiver, and there have been guys throughout

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01:08:57,439 --> 01:08:59,400
Speaker 1: the years who have done it. But you're right, Murph,

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01:08:59,600 --> 01:09:01,639
Speaker 1: you see the guy. The first thing that strikes out,

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01:09:02,080 --> 01:09:04,639
Speaker 1: strike strikes you about guys like that is like, how

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01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:07,720
Speaker 1: does he play like that? Because you've seen the keel

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Speaker 1: Robie Coleman and you're like, he's a hood ornament, right. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Because of their their mindset and their ability to know

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Speaker 1: what they're capable of and know what they have to

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01:09:22,520 --> 01:09:24,559
Speaker 1: stay away from and know what they have to get

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01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:27,280
Speaker 1: done in order to compete, they evolve into a player

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01:09:27,280 --> 01:09:29,280
Speaker 1: that can really be productive. And it's it's fun to

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01:09:29,280 --> 01:09:32,160
Speaker 1: see guys like Robie Coleman do it. And you're right,

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01:09:32,200 --> 01:09:34,880
Speaker 1: he's a fun dude, and um, he brings a lot

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Speaker 1: to the table. I think I think Philadelphia it's kind

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01:09:38,479 --> 01:09:40,679
Speaker 1: of stole him, and I think I'm good for them.

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01:09:40,720 --> 01:09:43,599
Speaker 1: I think he can still play. I do too. Just rememed.

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Speaker 1: I was just thinking to myself the last time I

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Speaker 1: saw Robie Coleman and our producer Jay Harris was with

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Speaker 1: me at the Super Bowl in Atlanta and he was besieged,

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Speaker 1: besieged by reporters. It was a week and a half

1414
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Speaker 1: after the no call pass interference against the Saints should

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Speaker 1: have been called, and he was just besieged by question

1416
01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:04,240
Speaker 1: in that Super Bowl media cauldron and he had a

1417
01:10:04,280 --> 01:10:06,120
Speaker 1: handler trying to get him away. And he saw Jay

1418
01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:08,400
Speaker 1: and I recognize this from his time with the Bills,

1419
01:10:08,439 --> 01:10:11,200
Speaker 1: and he hugged us both and was really happy to

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01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:13,759
Speaker 1: see us. He's just a quality guy. So the USC

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Speaker 1: guy who I was thinking too about his uh you know,

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01:10:17,040 --> 01:10:19,280
Speaker 1: he was not drafted, but he played so well for

1423
01:10:19,439 --> 01:10:23,519
Speaker 1: USC against Syracuse University at the Metal Ends on a

1424
01:10:23,560 --> 01:10:27,040
Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon that Doug Marone was good to sign him

1425
01:10:27,080 --> 01:10:28,679
Speaker 1: back then. You know. He said, yeah, that guy's good

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01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 1: and just he's made himself into a really good NFL player.

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Speaker 1: I like, yeah, yeah, he has. It's there, and there's

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01:10:35,160 --> 01:10:38,559
Speaker 1: a hundred and there's a thousand stories like that where

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01:10:38,560 --> 01:10:41,960
Speaker 1: the guy overcomes so much and Kelly Roby Coleman, they

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01:10:42,080 --> 01:10:45,320
Speaker 1: carry I mean, think about it. He carries his obstacles

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01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:47,720
Speaker 1: around with him wherever he goes. He's always five eight,

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Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, he's always like he looks like he

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01:10:50,360 --> 01:10:53,160
Speaker 1: weighs like a ninety pounds, you know, you know what

1434
01:10:53,160 --> 01:10:55,559
Speaker 1: I mean? Lake carry that around with him all the time,

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01:10:55,720 --> 01:10:59,320
Speaker 1: and uh, and it's just it's just a great attitude

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01:10:59,360 --> 01:11:01,880
Speaker 1: he has and it's just fun to be around guys

1437
01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:04,280
Speaker 1: like that. I'll totally get what you're saying. Good guy.

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Speaker 1: All right, we've gotta break here. Steve Tasker, John Murphy

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01:11:06,920 --> 01:11:09,880
Speaker 1: working from home today. I gotta have Bill's mail back

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01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:13,200
Speaker 1: coming up here. On One Bill's Lide, presented by Kalida Health,

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01:11:13,320 --> 01:11:15,799
Speaker 1: We're home. We're not the Senate, the studio. We're home today.

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01:11:16,040 --> 01:11:31,679
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bill's reading One Bill's Lide. John Murphy

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01:11:31,720 --> 01:11:34,400
Speaker 1: and Steve task you're working from home again today. I

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01:11:34,479 --> 01:11:36,800
Speaker 1: hope you're doing well. Hope you're healthy and as happy

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01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:39,519
Speaker 1: as you can be. And thanks for tuning in. Um. Yeah,

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01:11:39,560 --> 01:11:41,519
Speaker 1: I'm getting used to this, aren't you, Steve? We both

1447
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:43,599
Speaker 1: are getting kind of used to this. I am, actually

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01:11:43,600 --> 01:11:46,600
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta admit I'm I'm getting used to

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01:11:46,640 --> 01:11:50,720
Speaker 1: my new normal. I agree. Everything seems like. Yeah. I

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01:11:50,760 --> 01:11:52,600
Speaker 1: won't be leaving the house again today either, you know,

1451
01:11:52,640 --> 01:11:54,800
Speaker 1: although I do get to get out don't no, I

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01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:58,640
Speaker 1: guess not. I guess I don't um. Thanks for let

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01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:02,840
Speaker 1: me think out there. I'm going crazy. I guess I

1454
01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:04,759
Speaker 1: do need to get out here on Twitter poll today,

1455
01:12:04,800 --> 01:12:08,439
Speaker 1: you can phone us up about this. The bills with

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01:12:08,479 --> 01:12:10,840
Speaker 1: the signing of Daryl Williams, seemed to be mastering the

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01:12:10,880 --> 01:12:12,720
Speaker 1: one and two year deals. What's the biggest reason for

1458
01:12:12,760 --> 01:12:15,680
Speaker 1: that strategy. We've got six hundred seventy five votes in

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01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:17,759
Speaker 1: so far. Thirty nine percent of you say it's because

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01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:20,280
Speaker 1: they get proven deals for one or two years, getting

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01:12:20,280 --> 01:12:22,519
Speaker 1: the most out of a player. Thirty percent say they

1462
01:12:22,560 --> 01:12:25,080
Speaker 1: got a narrow championship window with Josh Allen still in

1463
01:12:25,120 --> 01:12:28,599
Speaker 1: his rookie contract, and twenty six percent say they're keeping

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01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:31,720
Speaker 1: ahead of the curve and keeping a talented roster. Maybe

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01:12:31,720 --> 01:12:33,680
Speaker 1: you got something else in mine fulle mines open eight

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Speaker 1: o three oh five fifty and total three one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty. Here's a call

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Speaker 1: from Andrew in Batavia. Go ahead, Andrew, you're on the air.

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Speaker 1: Hey John, Hey Steve. I just wanted to call in

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Speaker 1: and get your thoughts on there's a recent news that

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Speaker 1: Trent Trent Williams, the offensive tackle from the Redskins requested

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Speaker 1: a release or a trade. Just wanted to get yourselves

1473
01:12:56,439 --> 01:12:59,000
Speaker 1: on like trading for him, or if he is released,

1474
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:01,360
Speaker 1: bringing him in and giving him a shot on our

1475
01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:07,360
Speaker 1: offensive line to make it better. Listen, you, we literally

1476
01:13:07,560 --> 01:13:10,400
Speaker 1: just had this conversation before we came back on the

1477
01:13:10,439 --> 01:13:13,040
Speaker 1: air about Trent Williams. We've gotten some calls about it,

1478
01:13:13,080 --> 01:13:14,880
Speaker 1: and both Murph and I think I'm speaking from her.

1479
01:13:15,439 --> 01:13:17,840
Speaker 1: We both think, yeah, you got to explore that. I

1480
01:13:17,840 --> 01:13:19,840
Speaker 1: don't know what it'll take monetarily to get him on

1481
01:13:19,880 --> 01:13:23,759
Speaker 1: the roster, but a Pro Bowl left tackle is always

1482
01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:25,840
Speaker 1: a good thing to have. And if the Bills can

1483
01:13:25,920 --> 01:13:28,120
Speaker 1: kick the tires and find out what they'll get, I

1484
01:13:28,160 --> 01:13:30,200
Speaker 1: don't care. If I don't care if you trade three

1485
01:13:30,200 --> 01:13:33,240
Speaker 1: of our this year's draft picks for him to get him,

1486
01:13:34,439 --> 01:13:39,320
Speaker 1: or you know, pick a player. I'd like to see

1487
01:13:39,320 --> 01:13:41,919
Speaker 1: what it took to get him. He's very unhappy in Washington.

1488
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:43,760
Speaker 1: I'd even bring him here on a one year or

1489
01:13:43,760 --> 01:13:46,559
Speaker 1: two year deal to see how he works out, see

1490
01:13:46,560 --> 01:13:48,400
Speaker 1: if he likes it. But man, oh man, yeah, Trent

1491
01:13:48,439 --> 01:13:50,800
Speaker 1: Williams is a guy. You've got to find out the

1492
01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:54,640
Speaker 1: specifics of what it would take to get him on

1493
01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:56,760
Speaker 1: your team, and that's murf for me. That's what it

1494
01:13:56,760 --> 01:14:00,160
Speaker 1: comes down to. If it's possible, I say yes. But

1495
01:14:00,200 --> 01:14:03,160
Speaker 1: if it's too expensive, I say no. Right, And I

1496
01:14:03,160 --> 01:14:06,280
Speaker 1: would assume, because they're pretty meticulous, I would assume that

1497
01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:08,720
Speaker 1: the Bills have kicked the tires. As you said, it's

1498
01:14:08,760 --> 01:14:11,080
Speaker 1: found out you know how much you would cost, what

1499
01:14:11,120 --> 01:14:12,599
Speaker 1: it would cost to get him, how much you would

1500
01:14:12,600 --> 01:14:15,760
Speaker 1: cost salary wise, And I look, I'd look at it hard.

1501
01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:18,280
Speaker 1: I think you're you're onto something there. I think that's

1502
01:14:18,320 --> 01:14:23,080
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl caliber offensive lineman. That's a difference maker.

1503
01:14:23,120 --> 01:14:25,000
Speaker 1: You know, you and Jim Kelly were talking the other day,

1504
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:28,479
Speaker 1: Steve about how the acquisition of Lofton and what nineteen

1505
01:14:29,040 --> 01:14:31,360
Speaker 1: eighty nine nine, you know, kind of put the Bills

1506
01:14:31,360 --> 01:14:33,400
Speaker 1: over the top. I think the acquisition of a Pro

1507
01:14:33,479 --> 01:14:36,640
Speaker 1: Bowl caliber offensive lineman, a tackle in particular, could do

1508
01:14:36,680 --> 01:14:39,559
Speaker 1: the same. And let's let's fantasize about this. They bring

1509
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:42,120
Speaker 1: in Trent Williams, let him play left tacklem move Dion

1510
01:14:42,280 --> 01:14:45,640
Speaker 1: Dawkins inside or maybe to the right side. You know,

1511
01:14:45,720 --> 01:14:48,639
Speaker 1: court Cody Ford, I think has some position flexibility there

1512
01:14:48,840 --> 01:14:50,880
Speaker 1: that would open up a world of opportunity. For the

1513
01:14:50,920 --> 01:14:53,519
Speaker 1: Bills offensive line A well, I think it would make

1514
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:58,080
Speaker 1: their offensive line dominant. You know, they wouldn't just be

1515
01:14:58,160 --> 01:15:00,960
Speaker 1: good or a butt of above average, they would be dominant.

1516
01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:04,360
Speaker 1: That's the kind of thing that that those five guys

1517
01:15:04,400 --> 01:15:07,280
Speaker 1: up there dominating. That's what wins you twelve games. Those

1518
01:15:07,280 --> 01:15:09,040
Speaker 1: are the kind of season when we have twelve games,

1519
01:15:09,040 --> 01:15:12,080
Speaker 1: a thirteen games win season, you know those, that's what

1520
01:15:12,160 --> 01:15:15,160
Speaker 1: you're talking about. You get a left tackle like Trent Williams,

1521
01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:17,240
Speaker 1: You've got a left tackle like Dion Dawkins who will

1522
01:15:17,280 --> 01:15:20,960
Speaker 1: move inside or wherever. That's when your offensive line becomes

1523
01:15:20,960 --> 01:15:24,400
Speaker 1: something really special. And Devin Singletary has twelve or thirteen

1524
01:15:24,479 --> 01:15:27,000
Speaker 1: hundred yards rushing, and you know Josh Allen's has his

1525
01:15:27,080 --> 01:15:30,639
Speaker 1: best year yet everything clicks when those guys are dominant.

1526
01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 1: And that's where it would be if you'd get a

1527
01:15:31,960 --> 01:15:34,800
Speaker 1: guy like him. I agree. Thanks for the call. Eight

1528
01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:37,840
Speaker 1: h three oh five fifty and twelve three one eight

1529
01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:40,479
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty the number to call

1530
01:15:40,479 --> 01:15:43,599
Speaker 1: with your comments and questions about anything, not just on

1531
01:15:43,640 --> 01:15:46,120
Speaker 1: our Twitter poll topic, but like that. Okay brings up

1532
01:15:46,160 --> 01:15:49,080
Speaker 1: a really good point about Trent Williams. Hey, let's get

1533
01:15:49,120 --> 01:15:52,960
Speaker 1: into the mailbag every Friday. Occasionally on Fridays, our producer

1534
01:15:53,040 --> 01:15:55,760
Speaker 1: Jay Harris puts out a call for mailbag questions. It's

1535
01:15:55,760 --> 01:15:59,040
Speaker 1: just general questions about the state of the Bills that

1536
01:15:59,080 --> 01:16:01,280
Speaker 1: Steve and I will try to tackle the mail back

1537
01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:03,880
Speaker 1: on the Let's talk about some of these. From Jose,

1538
01:16:04,640 --> 01:16:07,920
Speaker 1: at the end of the upcoming season, and regardless of

1539
01:16:07,920 --> 01:16:10,960
Speaker 1: the team's record, what would be the one measurable that

1540
01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:13,200
Speaker 1: would tell us that Josh Allen is the Bill's quarterback

1541
01:16:13,240 --> 01:16:16,080
Speaker 1: for the foreseeable future. That's from Jose, You got that one,

1542
01:16:16,120 --> 01:16:19,479
Speaker 1: seem I'll formulate an answer here. At the end of

1543
01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:22,120
Speaker 1: the upcoming season, and no matter he says, regardless of

1544
01:16:22,160 --> 01:16:24,400
Speaker 1: the team record, what would be the one measurable that

1545
01:16:24,439 --> 01:16:26,519
Speaker 1: would tell us that Josh is the Bill's quarterback for

1546
01:16:26,560 --> 01:16:29,720
Speaker 1: the foreseeable future? To my mind, Jose, you've taken out

1547
01:16:29,800 --> 01:16:33,080
Speaker 1: the number one measurable that's wins. I gotta think about

1548
01:16:33,120 --> 01:16:34,800
Speaker 1: what would be next. I don't know. I agree. I

1549
01:16:35,120 --> 01:16:37,920
Speaker 1: think so too, because every statistic that you can name

1550
01:16:37,960 --> 01:16:41,360
Speaker 1: that Josh Allen would excel at. He could do that

1551
01:16:41,479 --> 01:16:44,439
Speaker 1: in the midst or because of a poor season by

1552
01:16:44,439 --> 01:16:46,720
Speaker 1: everybody else. You know, if they're having to throw the

1553
01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:48,880
Speaker 1: football all over the yard to keep up with teams.

1554
01:16:48,920 --> 01:16:51,960
Speaker 1: If something happens and the defense falls off a cliff

1555
01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:55,679
Speaker 1: for some unforeseeable reason and they start giving up thirty

1556
01:16:55,680 --> 01:16:58,479
Speaker 1: five points a game and Josh Allen has to drop

1557
01:16:58,520 --> 01:17:01,479
Speaker 1: back fifty times a game, his passing numbers are going

1558
01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:05,040
Speaker 1: to accelerate. But I'm with you. I I think wins

1559
01:17:05,040 --> 01:17:08,920
Speaker 1: are the quarterback stat If this team wins with Josh

1560
01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:15,720
Speaker 1: Allen under center, that's when they move forward with Josh Allen. Statistically,

1561
01:17:15,840 --> 01:17:18,479
Speaker 1: he took a step forward this year. If he if

1562
01:17:18,479 --> 01:17:21,800
Speaker 1: he completes seventy percent of his passes, I mean, if

1563
01:17:21,800 --> 01:17:23,799
Speaker 1: he has a great statistical year, like if he completes

1564
01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:28,280
Speaker 1: seventy percent of his passes, goes goes four to one

1565
01:17:28,600 --> 01:17:33,280
Speaker 1: in touchdown to touchdown interception ratio, if he starts all

1566
01:17:33,320 --> 01:17:36,479
Speaker 1: sixteen games. You know, those kind of things are the

1567
01:17:36,560 --> 01:17:39,040
Speaker 1: kind of things that, yeah, you can say at that point,

1568
01:17:39,080 --> 01:17:41,800
Speaker 1: you say, whether they win or not, is it's you know,

1569
01:17:41,880 --> 01:17:47,160
Speaker 1: he's he's your guy, but you gotta win. Yeah, so

1570
01:17:47,280 --> 01:17:50,360
Speaker 1: let's play it along with jose M And I don't know,

1571
01:17:50,439 --> 01:17:52,800
Speaker 1: I'm not looking at completion percentage. I mean you'd like

1572
01:17:52,840 --> 01:17:56,800
Speaker 1: to see it improved. Obviously, touchdowns to interceptions, obviously you

1573
01:17:56,800 --> 01:17:59,360
Speaker 1: need improvement. But what about this stat, Steve, The Bills

1574
01:17:59,360 --> 01:18:03,240
Speaker 1: were twenty six passing offense last year, average two hundred

1575
01:18:03,240 --> 01:18:05,559
Speaker 1: and two yards per game. What if they got up

1576
01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:09,120
Speaker 1: So that's bottom third, right, that's a seventh from the bottom.

1577
01:18:09,120 --> 01:18:12,240
Speaker 1: That's the bottom fourth in the league, right, yeah, right?

1578
01:18:12,800 --> 01:18:14,439
Speaker 1: What if they got up into the top half of

1579
01:18:14,479 --> 01:18:16,880
Speaker 1: the league and passing offense this year? That would be

1580
01:18:16,920 --> 01:18:19,559
Speaker 1: a stat and a threshold. I think that would mean something, right,

1581
01:18:19,680 --> 01:18:21,080
Speaker 1: and that would include, you know, you're not going to

1582
01:18:21,120 --> 01:18:23,120
Speaker 1: be a top half of the league. You're not going

1583
01:18:23,160 --> 01:18:24,880
Speaker 1: to get that kind of improvement in the passing game

1584
01:18:24,880 --> 01:18:28,080
Speaker 1: without limiting the interceptions and having a good completion percentage

1585
01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:30,720
Speaker 1: and obviously completing those passes and getting yards. It's a

1586
01:18:30,800 --> 01:18:32,600
Speaker 1: yardage base thing. But that would be the kind of

1587
01:18:32,600 --> 01:18:35,599
Speaker 1: stat that I would say, Okay, Josh's I'm not saying

1588
01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:37,519
Speaker 1: they can't go two and fourteen and be top half

1589
01:18:37,560 --> 01:18:39,559
Speaker 1: of the league and passing, But to me, that might

1590
01:18:39,560 --> 01:18:42,680
Speaker 1: be an answer to Jose's question. So, yeah, I think

1591
01:18:42,720 --> 01:18:45,040
Speaker 1: so I was a team if he's certainly I they're

1592
01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:47,599
Speaker 1: in the top ten and passing, you got a thing. Well,

1593
01:18:48,560 --> 01:18:50,759
Speaker 1: that's it right there. At least he's shown the ability

1594
01:18:50,840 --> 01:18:54,599
Speaker 1: to do it under whatever circumstances that scenario would dictate.

1595
01:18:55,040 --> 01:18:57,200
Speaker 1: But you're right, Murphy. For you and I both it's

1596
01:18:57,200 --> 01:19:00,759
Speaker 1: all about wins. But if the entire team, if Josh

1597
01:19:00,800 --> 01:19:04,240
Speaker 1: Allen throws a top ten season or top twelve or

1598
01:19:04,280 --> 01:19:07,600
Speaker 1: thirteen season as a passing offense up from where it

1599
01:19:07,640 --> 01:19:11,320
Speaker 1: has been, that again would be an enormous step forward

1600
01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:13,760
Speaker 1: and that and that would be enough probably for the

1601
01:19:13,760 --> 01:19:15,720
Speaker 1: team to say, yeah, he's our guy, let's get him

1602
01:19:15,720 --> 01:19:19,080
Speaker 1: extended and let's start talking about a home run contract

1603
01:19:19,080 --> 01:19:23,000
Speaker 1: for him. So that's I'm with you, Murph. There's a

1604
01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:26,720
Speaker 1: lot of it's hard to quantify it down to just

1605
01:19:26,840 --> 01:19:29,519
Speaker 1: one thing because we all have our eye test that

1606
01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:32,840
Speaker 1: tells us, you know, like Jamis Winston last year he

1607
01:19:32,960 --> 01:19:37,200
Speaker 1: led the league in passing, he had thirty touchdowns and

1608
01:19:37,320 --> 01:19:42,040
Speaker 1: that's all great, but he threw thirty interceptions, so that

1609
01:19:42,720 --> 01:19:46,120
Speaker 1: you know, everything has a qualifier. Yep. Here's a question

1610
01:19:46,160 --> 01:19:48,280
Speaker 1: from the mail bag today for Steve and I and

1611
01:19:48,320 --> 01:19:51,400
Speaker 1: I'll let you go first on this one from Dinah. Question,

1612
01:19:51,560 --> 01:19:56,400
Speaker 1: right now, what is our greatest position of need. We

1613
01:19:56,479 --> 01:19:58,559
Speaker 1: talked about the draft all day long. We've talked about

1614
01:19:58,800 --> 01:20:00,840
Speaker 1: free agency a week and a half. I started that

1615
01:20:00,880 --> 01:20:02,920
Speaker 1: a week and a half ago. They addressed some of

1616
01:20:02,920 --> 01:20:05,160
Speaker 1: those needs. I will let you go first here in

1617
01:20:05,200 --> 01:20:06,720
Speaker 1: a second, but let me just start by saying this,

1618
01:20:07,680 --> 01:20:09,559
Speaker 1: and it's a beautiful thing about where the Bills are

1619
01:20:09,600 --> 01:20:13,240
Speaker 1: at a month before the draft. This just in. They

1620
01:20:13,439 --> 01:20:16,240
Speaker 1: don't have a desperate need going into the draft. And

1621
01:20:16,400 --> 01:20:18,920
Speaker 1: it's been very few years, not all of them, but

1622
01:20:19,040 --> 01:20:20,640
Speaker 1: very few years when you've been able to say that.

1623
01:20:20,680 --> 01:20:22,439
Speaker 1: But what do you think their greatest position of need

1624
01:20:22,439 --> 01:20:27,680
Speaker 1: is Steve Well, here's I'm vacillating around, but between a

1625
01:20:27,720 --> 01:20:32,720
Speaker 1: couple of things. They just signed a starting quality offensive

1626
01:20:32,760 --> 01:20:35,920
Speaker 1: lineman last night to add to all the guys they've

1627
01:20:35,920 --> 01:20:40,600
Speaker 1: already got. They just signed a corner e J. Gainsback.

1628
01:20:40,640 --> 01:20:46,080
Speaker 1: They've got Josh Norman and Levi Wallace. I still think

1629
01:20:46,880 --> 01:20:49,400
Speaker 1: it's a to me, it goes back and forth between

1630
01:20:50,040 --> 01:20:54,439
Speaker 1: a cornerback opposite Tredavious White or a backup running back

1631
01:20:54,520 --> 01:21:00,479
Speaker 1: behind behind Devin Singletary. And for me, I think I

1632
01:21:00,479 --> 01:21:04,760
Speaker 1: would lean toward the corner if they could get a

1633
01:21:04,760 --> 01:21:08,120
Speaker 1: corner that is a guy that would raise your eyebrows

1634
01:21:08,160 --> 01:21:10,080
Speaker 1: and say, wow, I can't believe they sign that guy

1635
01:21:10,680 --> 01:21:15,479
Speaker 1: to play opposite Tardavius White. I really think this defense

1636
01:21:16,280 --> 01:21:19,439
Speaker 1: could carry this team deep into the playoffs. I really do.

1637
01:21:19,479 --> 01:21:21,519
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be the thing that sets

1638
01:21:21,600 --> 01:21:23,720
Speaker 1: them apart if they can get another corner. Now, maybe

1639
01:21:23,760 --> 01:21:26,439
Speaker 1: they've got Josh Norman may be the guy. EJ. Gaines

1640
01:21:26,479 --> 01:21:30,400
Speaker 1: may be the guy. Levi Wallace may be the guy,

1641
01:21:30,640 --> 01:21:33,760
Speaker 1: all of those things. But I think for a guy

1642
01:21:33,840 --> 01:21:36,439
Speaker 1: that has been proven and can do it and has

1643
01:21:36,520 --> 01:21:38,920
Speaker 1: done it recently and would come in and say wow,

1644
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:44,639
Speaker 1: we got him, that to me would be the difference maker.

1645
01:21:44,680 --> 01:21:47,360
Speaker 1: A guy to backup Devin Singletary, you know, backup is

1646
01:21:47,400 --> 01:21:50,400
Speaker 1: not gonna be You're not gonna tip the needle for me. Certainly,

1647
01:21:50,400 --> 01:21:53,920
Speaker 1: if he's a great guy, sure it's great, But I

1648
01:21:53,920 --> 01:21:55,640
Speaker 1: think if you're gonna move the needle on what I

1649
01:21:55,640 --> 01:21:58,040
Speaker 1: think about this team's chances if they get a corner

1650
01:21:58,320 --> 01:22:02,080
Speaker 1: of Tavius White's caliber or way opposite him, and which

1651
01:22:02,120 --> 01:22:05,200
Speaker 1: is saying something or you know what I mean, something

1652
01:22:05,280 --> 01:22:07,640
Speaker 1: somebody really good that we can we know is going

1653
01:22:07,680 --> 01:22:10,799
Speaker 1: to be there, I think all of a sudden things

1654
01:22:10,880 --> 01:22:13,280
Speaker 1: change for this team in a big way. I'm gonna

1655
01:22:13,439 --> 01:22:16,320
Speaker 1: kind of go back to our last answer, and again,

1656
01:22:16,680 --> 01:22:18,680
Speaker 1: they don't have a crying need anywhere, But if they

1657
01:22:18,720 --> 01:22:23,160
Speaker 1: get a good offensive lineman, offensive tackle, that is the

1658
01:22:23,240 --> 01:22:28,280
Speaker 1: kind of a difference maker that would change my perception

1659
01:22:28,280 --> 01:22:31,240
Speaker 1: of the team. I think their desperate need, their crying need,

1660
01:22:31,520 --> 01:22:34,120
Speaker 1: does not exist, but an offensive tackle will be a

1661
01:22:34,160 --> 01:22:36,320
Speaker 1: really good thing to get right now. Yeah, that's the

1662
01:22:36,320 --> 01:22:38,760
Speaker 1: first place I'd like them to get better. But I

1663
01:22:38,800 --> 01:22:40,760
Speaker 1: think they have. I think they have gotten better with

1664
01:22:40,760 --> 01:22:43,719
Speaker 1: the guys that they've signed. But I'm with you, Murphy.

1665
01:22:43,960 --> 01:22:47,040
Speaker 1: There's nothing out there this crying for them to look

1666
01:22:47,040 --> 01:22:49,360
Speaker 1: at and say why you've got to fix this. But

1667
01:22:49,479 --> 01:22:52,280
Speaker 1: certainly the bigger and better offensive line you have, the

1668
01:22:52,320 --> 01:22:55,160
Speaker 1: more the bigger and better are your offense is going

1669
01:22:55,200 --> 01:22:57,640
Speaker 1: to play. So yeah, I would probably agree with you

1670
01:22:57,680 --> 01:23:00,280
Speaker 1: there as well. Let's get one more at least the

1671
01:23:00,800 --> 01:23:04,439
Speaker 1: mail bag, the our Friday and mail bag. Well, we

1672
01:23:04,439 --> 01:23:07,040
Speaker 1: already talked about this. From Andrew with Trent Williams on

1673
01:23:07,080 --> 01:23:08,559
Speaker 1: the trade block, would you make a move for the

1674
01:23:08,560 --> 01:23:11,720
Speaker 1: trow pro bowler? Yes, I would. From Daniel, how many

1675
01:23:11,720 --> 01:23:16,760
Speaker 1: wins this year, Steve, regular season, no plus. He's onto you, man.

1676
01:23:17,800 --> 01:23:19,960
Speaker 1: I'll say this though last year we're so far removed.

1677
01:23:20,600 --> 01:23:23,320
Speaker 1: You can't say this plus or this minus for that.

1678
01:23:23,720 --> 01:23:25,640
Speaker 1: What I would say this. What I would say this

1679
01:23:25,760 --> 01:23:27,519
Speaker 1: is when I picked that number and I said eleven

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Speaker 1: plus or ten plus, I say ten plus or eleven

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01:23:30,120 --> 01:23:33,320
Speaker 1: plus eleven plus. I think eleven plus. Yeah, because of

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01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:37,559
Speaker 1: the playoffs, I thought the regular season wins. When I

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01:23:37,640 --> 01:23:39,760
Speaker 1: say plus, if I stay plus again this year, Murph,

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01:23:39,800 --> 01:23:41,800
Speaker 1: here's what it means. You can just write this down

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01:23:41,960 --> 01:23:43,920
Speaker 1: and etch it in your little granite stone on the

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Speaker 1: side of the studio. When I say plus, it means this.

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Speaker 1: If they get to one, shy of that, if they

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01:23:49,439 --> 01:23:52,599
Speaker 1: if I say ten plus, if they get to ten,

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01:23:53,400 --> 01:23:55,840
Speaker 1: the plus or if they get to nine. The ten

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01:23:55,960 --> 01:23:59,800
Speaker 1: plus means if if they get to the last part

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01:23:59,800 --> 01:24:02,320
Speaker 1: of the regular season and those last two games, last

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01:24:02,360 --> 01:24:05,840
Speaker 1: three games don't mean anything, that's the plus, which is

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01:24:05,880 --> 01:24:07,720
Speaker 1: exactly what they did this last year. They gets a

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01:24:07,720 --> 01:24:10,439
Speaker 1: week seventeen, they've got it sewed up, a playoffs bustled up.

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01:24:10,479 --> 01:24:12,120
Speaker 1: They can't they don't even have to win that game.

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01:24:12,439 --> 01:24:14,479
Speaker 1: So that stinks to me. Are you trying to say

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01:24:14,520 --> 01:24:17,280
Speaker 1: that you actually won our little competition last year. No,

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01:24:17,360 --> 01:24:21,519
Speaker 1: because I said eleven. But that's what I mean. They'd

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01:24:21,560 --> 01:24:24,360
Speaker 1: have to win eleven and then the plus would become

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01:24:24,400 --> 01:24:26,240
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Was my point this last year. But

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01:24:26,280 --> 01:24:27,720
Speaker 1: if I say it this year, I'm gonna say it

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01:24:27,760 --> 01:24:31,120
Speaker 1: the right way. This plus. Last year. I thought that

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01:24:31,880 --> 01:24:34,240
Speaker 1: they finished the season last year with ten wins, they

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01:24:34,240 --> 01:24:36,880
Speaker 1: should have had eleven because if if they would have

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01:24:36,960 --> 01:24:41,080
Speaker 1: needed the sixteenth game of that season to get in

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01:24:41,080 --> 01:24:44,160
Speaker 1: the playoffs, they would have beat the stew out of

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01:24:44,200 --> 01:24:46,559
Speaker 1: the New York Jets that day in the Orchard part.

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01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:49,040
Speaker 1: I tell you, I know you believe it. I know

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01:24:49,120 --> 01:24:52,160
Speaker 1: I believe it. They didn't have to. They sat people

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01:24:52,200 --> 01:24:54,320
Speaker 1: down and the game was a wash and it was

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01:24:54,360 --> 01:24:57,240
Speaker 1: a throwaway. So it kind of throws away all the

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01:24:57,280 --> 01:25:00,559
Speaker 1: preseason statistics for that game that you don't get him

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01:25:00,560 --> 01:25:02,400
Speaker 1: to play. They didn't get a chance to even play.

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01:25:02,520 --> 01:25:07,360
Speaker 1: So for this year, what do I think this year? Yeah,

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01:25:07,400 --> 01:25:10,439
Speaker 1: that's that's the question from Daniel. Yeah, I'm saying eleven

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01:25:10,479 --> 01:25:14,519
Speaker 1: wins again. Okay, I'm saying eleven wins again. If they

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01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:16,880
Speaker 1: get if they get to ten wins and the and

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01:25:17,000 --> 01:25:20,519
Speaker 1: the eleventh win doesn't mean anything. I'm taking the eleventh win, okay,

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01:25:20,640 --> 01:25:23,000
Speaker 1: And we got time to make our definitive pronouncement. I

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01:25:23,000 --> 01:25:25,680
Speaker 1: think we'll wait until before the regular season starts, So

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01:25:25,720 --> 01:25:28,320
Speaker 1: another day is in March twenty sixth. Yeah, you're saying

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01:25:28,320 --> 01:25:31,320
Speaker 1: eleven eleven. I'd say ten or eleven. But I reserve

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01:25:31,400 --> 01:25:33,880
Speaker 1: the right to change my thought as we get closer

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01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:37,160
Speaker 1: to the season. One more from the our mail bag

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01:25:37,240 --> 01:25:40,000
Speaker 1: from John The Bills should get a better backup quarterback.

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01:25:40,040 --> 01:25:42,360
Speaker 1: Injuries happened all the time. Josh will continue to run

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01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:45,120
Speaker 1: the ball, he opens himself up to injuries. Since the

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01:25:45,160 --> 01:25:47,439
Speaker 1: Bills are really going for it and the roster is

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01:25:47,479 --> 01:25:49,479
Speaker 1: so talented, wouldn't it be smart to have a quarterback

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01:25:49,479 --> 01:25:54,479
Speaker 1: who can win games if Josh goes down. But um,

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01:25:55,520 --> 01:25:59,000
Speaker 1: let me just say, Steve U. Matt Barkley has proven

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01:25:59,040 --> 01:26:01,000
Speaker 1: he can win games in the leagu two years ago

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01:26:01,040 --> 01:26:03,240
Speaker 1: the Jets game. I don't think he's a bad quarterback.

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01:26:03,280 --> 01:26:06,000
Speaker 1: I think he's a good backup. And I think Josh,

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01:26:06,040 --> 01:26:08,479
Speaker 1: being as young as he is, I think Matt Barkley

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01:26:08,600 --> 01:26:09,920
Speaker 1: is the kind of guy you want back there to

1737
01:26:10,360 --> 01:26:14,360
Speaker 1: be that sort of a sounding board and another guy

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01:26:14,439 --> 01:26:16,320
Speaker 1: you can rely on in the meeting room, that's all.

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01:26:16,400 --> 01:26:19,280
Speaker 1: What do you think? Yeah? I agree. I like Matt

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01:26:19,280 --> 01:26:21,800
Speaker 1: Barkley and the job of the backup quarterback is to

1741
01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:24,760
Speaker 1: make sure that the real that the top guy is

1742
01:26:24,800 --> 01:26:27,760
Speaker 1: ready to play Matt Barkley. And here's another thing too,

1743
01:26:27,800 --> 01:26:31,360
Speaker 1: and not for nothing, nothing that this is the tip

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01:26:31,400 --> 01:26:33,479
Speaker 1: of the scales. Although I like it. Matt Barkley has

1745
01:26:33,520 --> 01:26:37,400
Speaker 1: been around for more than a year now. He knows

1746
01:26:37,439 --> 01:26:40,120
Speaker 1: the offense as well. And not only that, Brian Dable

1747
01:26:40,200 --> 01:26:42,559
Speaker 1: knows what Matt Barkley brings to the table. We saw

1748
01:26:42,600 --> 01:26:44,160
Speaker 1: him at the end of the New England game this

1749
01:26:44,280 --> 01:26:46,680
Speaker 1: last year where he took him down and had a

1750
01:26:46,760 --> 01:26:48,400
Speaker 1: chance to throw into the end zone and he got

1751
01:26:48,439 --> 01:26:51,320
Speaker 1: remember he got picked off I think, or right at

1752
01:26:51,360 --> 01:26:52,800
Speaker 1: the end he drove him down to get him into

1753
01:26:52,840 --> 01:26:55,000
Speaker 1: scoring range to win the New England game. Here in

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01:26:55,120 --> 01:26:57,439
Speaker 1: Orchard Park, Barkley was in when Josh Allen went out

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01:26:57,479 --> 01:27:01,320
Speaker 1: with a with a concussion. I think Matt Barkley has

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01:27:01,360 --> 01:27:03,800
Speaker 1: a lot to offer the team. I think the fact

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01:27:03,800 --> 01:27:05,679
Speaker 1: that he's been around for as long as he has

1758
01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:08,559
Speaker 1: in this offense says a lot about his ability to

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01:27:08,640 --> 01:27:10,840
Speaker 1: run it. Like Josh would run it or in his

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01:27:10,920 --> 01:27:15,000
Speaker 1: own way better with his own skill set, effectively with

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01:27:15,080 --> 01:27:17,240
Speaker 1: his own skill set. Maybe not better, but effectively with

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01:27:17,280 --> 01:27:19,920
Speaker 1: his own skill set. If Josh goes down and day

1763
01:27:19,960 --> 01:27:22,599
Speaker 1: Ball and Ken Dorsey know what they can ask mark

1764
01:27:22,640 --> 01:27:25,200
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley to do because they've seen him in game

1765
01:27:25,240 --> 01:27:27,280
Speaker 1: type situations and for a year and a half on

1766
01:27:27,320 --> 01:27:29,720
Speaker 1: the practice field, they know what they can do with

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01:27:29,800 --> 01:27:32,320
Speaker 1: him at quarterback. So all of those things give Matt

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01:27:32,320 --> 01:27:35,479
Speaker 1: Barkley a better chance to win games if if something

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01:27:35,560 --> 01:27:39,760
Speaker 1: happens in game that Josh Allen can't finish it. So

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01:27:39,800 --> 01:27:42,920
Speaker 1: I say no, I like the way the quarterback room

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01:27:43,040 --> 01:27:45,519
Speaker 1: is now, and I have and I trust Matt Barkley.

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Speaker 1: All Right, thanks for your questions from the mailback. We

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01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:50,240
Speaker 1: take a break. Here we're coming back. One Bill Slide

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01:27:50,240 --> 01:27:52,479
Speaker 1: presented by Kalada Health. Steve's at home. I'm at home.

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01:27:52,600 --> 01:28:04,479
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Free. Welcome back to One Bill's Love.

1776
01:28:04,560 --> 01:28:07,040
Speaker 1: John Murphy and Steve Tasker coming here from our homes

1777
01:28:07,080 --> 01:28:10,639
Speaker 1: again today Radio Only Today. We apologize for that. Hey, Steve,

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01:28:10,680 --> 01:28:12,400
Speaker 1: did you see what kirk Herb Street said? I think

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01:28:12,479 --> 01:28:15,479
Speaker 1: kurb Herb Street is a really good college football analyst,

1780
01:28:15,560 --> 01:28:19,080
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure about this. ESPN Radio yesterday, Kirk

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01:28:19,160 --> 01:28:22,920
Speaker 1: Herb Street said he thinks it's unlikely that college and

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01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:25,479
Speaker 1: professional football are going to be played at all this year.

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01:28:25,560 --> 01:28:28,200
Speaker 1: The quote, I'd be shocked if we have NFL football

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01:28:28,280 --> 01:28:31,240
Speaker 1: this fall. If we have college football, I'd be so surprised,

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01:28:31,640 --> 01:28:34,719
Speaker 1: he said, you know you're far from a vaccine is quote.

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01:28:34,720 --> 01:28:36,200
Speaker 1: I don't know how you let these guys go into

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01:28:36,240 --> 01:28:38,040
Speaker 1: locker rooms, let stay duns be filled up, and how

1788
01:28:38,080 --> 01:28:40,120
Speaker 1: you play ball. I just don't know how you can

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01:28:40,200 --> 01:28:42,360
Speaker 1: do it with the optics of it. Next thing you know,

1790
01:28:42,400 --> 01:28:43,800
Speaker 1: he got a locker room full of guys that are

1791
01:28:43,840 --> 01:28:46,439
Speaker 1: sick on your watch. I wouldn't want to have that. Look.

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01:28:46,439 --> 01:28:48,599
Speaker 1: I respect Kirk herb Street. I think he's really good

1793
01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:51,640
Speaker 1: on the game. But I think it's too early to

1794
01:28:51,880 --> 01:28:54,040
Speaker 1: speculate about that. Steve. I mean, I've kind of I

1795
01:28:54,160 --> 01:28:55,840
Speaker 1: think I feel like I've tried to avoid that sort

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01:28:55,880 --> 01:28:58,519
Speaker 1: of speculation so far. What do you think that's the

1797
01:28:58,640 --> 01:29:04,040
Speaker 1: real issue, Murph. The landscape changes so fast with this

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01:29:04,800 --> 01:29:07,880
Speaker 1: with a pandemic that the way it's going, and it's

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01:29:07,920 --> 01:29:12,799
Speaker 1: hard to say where will be in May. Let alone, April,

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01:29:12,920 --> 01:29:16,479
Speaker 1: let alone, June, July or August. There's always the worst

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01:29:16,520 --> 01:29:19,800
Speaker 1: case scenarios where we get another spike in cases or

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01:29:19,840 --> 01:29:21,880
Speaker 1: so after you get this one settled down, and it

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01:29:22,000 --> 01:29:27,160
Speaker 1: could pick up again, you know it. So yeah, it's

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01:29:27,760 --> 01:29:31,160
Speaker 1: speculation at best, and obviously it sounds like a worst

1805
01:29:31,200 --> 01:29:35,640
Speaker 1: case scenario, which it is. So I'm with you. I

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01:29:35,720 --> 01:29:38,360
Speaker 1: don't know that it'll it'll ever get that bad, but

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01:29:38,680 --> 01:29:41,639
Speaker 1: certainly from what we've seen, it could. But I think

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01:29:41,680 --> 01:29:45,400
Speaker 1: that's worst case scenario in my opinion. Nothing but respect

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01:29:45,439 --> 01:29:47,880
Speaker 1: for Kirk curb sweet, but I think he think he

1810
01:29:48,000 --> 01:29:50,720
Speaker 1: just kind of overreached a little bit. Maybe he'll be right,

1811
01:29:51,120 --> 01:29:52,519
Speaker 1: you know, I could be wrong, he could be right.

1812
01:29:52,800 --> 01:29:54,880
Speaker 1: But it's too early to speculate about that stuff. Well,

1813
01:29:54,920 --> 01:29:56,880
Speaker 1: I think it all predict the future, and somebody will

1814
01:29:56,920 --> 01:29:59,160
Speaker 1: probably be right, no matter how crazy it sounds, you know.

1815
01:29:59,320 --> 01:30:01,840
Speaker 1: So for that, for me, I think it's early to

1816
01:30:01,920 --> 01:30:06,800
Speaker 1: think about that. Certainly. I mean that I keep I

1817
01:30:06,800 --> 01:30:08,479
Speaker 1: don't want to. I've tried to not say it, but

1818
01:30:08,600 --> 01:30:11,839
Speaker 1: it's it's it's such a cliche. Now we're in uncharted waters.

1819
01:30:12,400 --> 01:30:15,200
Speaker 1: Nobody's ever done to you're in our lifetime, we've never

1820
01:30:15,280 --> 01:30:17,320
Speaker 1: had anything like this happened in our country. So we

1821
01:30:17,360 --> 01:30:19,160
Speaker 1: don't know what it's going to look like at the end,

1822
01:30:19,920 --> 01:30:22,360
Speaker 1: because we certainly had no idea what this was gonna

1823
01:30:22,479 --> 01:30:24,240
Speaker 1: that we were gonna be living through it at this point.

1824
01:30:25,040 --> 01:30:27,800
Speaker 1: What if I told you no, I won't play that. Hey,

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01:30:28,040 --> 01:30:31,040
Speaker 1: we got a break here. Dean Marlowe recently resigned to

1826
01:30:31,040 --> 01:30:33,519
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Bills veteran safety's going to join us

1827
01:30:33,520 --> 01:30:35,680
Speaker 1: in the third and five hour, and Steve White from

1828
01:30:35,800 --> 01:30:38,400
Speaker 1: NFL dot Com will join us as well. Come on

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01:30:38,520 --> 01:30:41,120
Speaker 1: back one hour ago one Doll's Life presented by Cold

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01:30:41,160 --> 01:30:49,160
Speaker 1: of Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio, you know from

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01:30:49,200 --> 01:30:52,040
Speaker 1: one Bill side. The Bills keeping busy. Even though they're

1832
01:30:52,040 --> 01:30:54,680
Speaker 1: shut down, they still make deals with free agents. They

1833
01:30:54,760 --> 01:30:57,040
Speaker 1: plucked the free agent out of Carolina again another one

1834
01:30:57,320 --> 01:30:59,920
Speaker 1: last night. Late yesterday, Green to terms with offensive linemen

1835
01:31:00,040 --> 01:31:03,080
Speaker 1: Daryl Williams. He returned to the Panthers line up last

1836
01:31:03,120 --> 01:31:06,160
Speaker 1: year after missing normals the entire twenty eighteen season with

1837
01:31:06,200 --> 01:31:09,760
Speaker 1: a knee injury that required season ending surgery. Last year,

1838
01:31:10,240 --> 01:31:12,880
Speaker 1: Daryl Williams started twelve games, lined up at left guard

1839
01:31:12,960 --> 01:31:14,800
Speaker 1: for five of them, left tackled for four of them

1840
01:31:15,040 --> 01:31:17,400
Speaker 1: and right guard for three games. Former fourth round pick

1841
01:31:17,760 --> 01:31:21,160
Speaker 1: out of Carolina, a fourth round pick of Carolina back

1842
01:31:21,240 --> 01:31:24,120
Speaker 1: in two fifteen, he is now a Buffalo Bill. Darrel

1843
01:31:24,160 --> 01:31:27,639
Speaker 1: Williams is the latest signing by the Buffalo Bills. Former

1844
01:31:27,680 --> 01:31:30,479
Speaker 1: Bills draft pick Reggie Ragman has agreed in terms with

1845
01:31:30,640 --> 01:31:34,040
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. According to ESPN, he turns twenty seven

1846
01:31:34,120 --> 01:31:36,679
Speaker 1: years old in September. He became a part time player

1847
01:31:36,760 --> 01:31:39,080
Speaker 1: after the Chiefs switched to a four three based defense

1848
01:31:39,200 --> 01:31:41,360
Speaker 1: last year. He joined the Chiefs and a trade with

1849
01:31:41,400 --> 01:31:44,240
Speaker 1: the Bills before the twenty ten and teen season. Full

1850
01:31:44,280 --> 01:31:47,240
Speaker 1: time started for Kansas City for two years. Over three years,

1851
01:31:47,320 --> 01:31:49,120
Speaker 1: he came up with one hundred and sixty tackles two

1852
01:31:49,120 --> 01:31:51,280
Speaker 1: and a half sacks. Former second round pick out of

1853
01:31:51,320 --> 01:31:53,680
Speaker 1: Alabama for the Bills, never played it down for the

1854
01:31:53,720 --> 01:31:55,800
Speaker 1: Bills in a game after he was heard about a

1855
01:31:55,840 --> 01:31:59,639
Speaker 1: weekend of training camp in two and sixteen. NFL Draft

1856
01:31:59,640 --> 01:32:01,680
Speaker 1: will go on a scheduled April twenty third to the

1857
01:32:01,760 --> 01:32:04,720
Speaker 1: twenty fifth. According to Roger Goodell, distributed a league wide

1858
01:32:04,760 --> 01:32:08,040
Speaker 1: memo yesterday. He says the Executive Council of the Management

1859
01:32:08,080 --> 01:32:11,519
Speaker 1: Council met and was unanimous and unequivocal that the draft

1860
01:32:11,600 --> 01:32:15,400
Speaker 1: should go forward as scheduled despite the Corona devirus pandemic

1861
01:32:15,760 --> 01:32:18,280
Speaker 1: around the National Football League. Michael Brocker's deal with the

1862
01:32:18,320 --> 01:32:20,759
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens fell through over an issue with his ankle.

1863
01:32:21,000 --> 01:32:24,040
Speaker 1: The free agent defensive lineman Swiftly rejoined the Rams in

1864
01:32:24,160 --> 01:32:27,880
Speaker 1: a similar deal. On this morning, Tampa Bay Buccaneers head

1865
01:32:27,880 --> 01:32:30,600
Speaker 1: coach Brgarians put an end to any speculation that the

1866
01:32:30,640 --> 01:32:33,639
Speaker 1: team will sign free agent wide receiver Antonio Brown, even

1867
01:32:33,720 --> 01:32:36,360
Speaker 1: with Tom Brady as their starting quarterback. Not gonna happenn

1868
01:32:36,360 --> 01:32:39,080
Speaker 1: Arian said, there's no room and probably not enough money.

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01:32:39,120 --> 01:32:40,560
Speaker 1: He said, it's not going to happen. It's not a

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Speaker 1: fifth here. And that's the update from One Bills Live.

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01:32:43,479 --> 01:32:47,120
Speaker 1: John Murphy, Steve Tasker in our homes today doing One

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01:32:47,200 --> 01:32:50,080
Speaker 1: Bills Live again. We're on the air for the third

1873
01:32:50,160 --> 01:32:51,920
Speaker 1: of our three hours a day and joining us on

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01:32:52,000 --> 01:32:54,439
Speaker 1: the line right now. Guy who made news yesterday by

1875
01:32:54,439 --> 01:32:56,200
Speaker 1: a green the terms on a new contract with the

1876
01:32:56,240 --> 01:32:59,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, defensive back Dean Marlowe is a Buffalo Bill

1877
01:33:00,000 --> 01:33:02,639
Speaker 1: again this year. Signed a one year contract yesterday. Dean

1878
01:33:02,720 --> 01:33:04,720
Speaker 1: marlow how are you thanks? Coming on as Jan Urphe

1879
01:33:04,760 --> 01:33:06,720
Speaker 1: and Steve cansc Repper in Buffalo. We appreciate you coming

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01:33:06,720 --> 01:33:09,600
Speaker 1: out with this. Hello are you there, Dean? Yeah, I

1881
01:33:09,640 --> 01:33:12,360
Speaker 1: can hear you now. Yeah. Oh okay, good? Hey, where

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01:33:12,400 --> 01:33:14,160
Speaker 1: are you Dean? I know you you grew up in

1883
01:33:14,200 --> 01:33:16,479
Speaker 1: New York City. Are you in the city right now? Yeah?

1884
01:33:16,520 --> 01:33:18,320
Speaker 1: I'm here in Buffalo. Me and the wife are here

1885
01:33:18,439 --> 01:33:21,680
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Okay. Yeah, things you're rough down in your

1886
01:33:21,720 --> 01:33:24,240
Speaker 1: hometown of New York these days. Huh. It is, man,

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01:33:24,400 --> 01:33:28,120
Speaker 1: The pandemic is the epicenter right there. For it's getting crazy.

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Speaker 1: It's getting really crazy. I hope you and yours are unhealthy.

1889
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Speaker 1: And you just got married recently, right, you have a

1890
01:33:35,560 --> 01:33:38,280
Speaker 1: new wife now. Yeah, we're all good over here on this.

1891
01:33:41,080 --> 01:33:43,439
Speaker 1: What give us some of the ideas of when this

1892
01:33:43,720 --> 01:33:46,240
Speaker 1: conversation started? How happy you are to be an Buffalo

1893
01:33:46,360 --> 01:33:48,360
Speaker 1: bill again. You've been with the team since late in

1894
01:33:48,400 --> 01:33:52,080
Speaker 1: the twenty seventeen season. Talk a little bit about how

1895
01:33:52,680 --> 01:33:54,519
Speaker 1: your time in Buffalo is gone and why you wanted

1896
01:33:54,520 --> 01:33:58,519
Speaker 1: to resign with the club. Two thousand seventeen was you know,

1897
01:33:58,640 --> 01:34:02,439
Speaker 1: pretty pretty interesting because of my injury in training camp

1898
01:34:02,560 --> 01:34:05,720
Speaker 1: and having um, you know, going through a lot of

1899
01:34:07,479 --> 01:34:10,920
Speaker 1: different kind of trials and tribulations that year. Um, and

1900
01:34:11,080 --> 01:34:14,880
Speaker 1: then to come here and join the practice squad until

1901
01:34:14,880 --> 01:34:16,599
Speaker 1: I'm seventeen. And then you know, two thousand and eighteen,

1902
01:34:16,640 --> 01:34:19,479
Speaker 1: I signed that futures deal and it got me back

1903
01:34:19,720 --> 01:34:21,640
Speaker 1: on track. And you know, I was feeling great and

1904
01:34:21,720 --> 01:34:24,720
Speaker 1: feeling healthy, and I had you know, a great off

1905
01:34:24,760 --> 01:34:28,040
Speaker 1: season and great training camp and you know, managed to

1906
01:34:28,120 --> 01:34:32,080
Speaker 1: stick around and help the team throughout twenty eighteen. UM.

1907
01:34:32,200 --> 01:34:35,639
Speaker 1: And then you know two thousand and nineteen, we had

1908
01:34:35,640 --> 01:34:39,080
Speaker 1: an awesome year, finishing ten and six, and uh, I

1909
01:34:39,160 --> 01:34:41,840
Speaker 1: was able to contribute in any way shape before they

1910
01:34:41,880 --> 01:34:44,120
Speaker 1: needed me to do that. And um, now you know,

1911
01:34:44,560 --> 01:34:48,000
Speaker 1: after I would say, after the the Houston game, we

1912
01:34:48,200 --> 01:34:52,000
Speaker 1: had a couple of conversations about you know, me wanting

1913
01:34:52,040 --> 01:34:54,160
Speaker 1: to come back and you know me, me being a

1914
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Speaker 1: part of this culture. Uh. And it kind of fell

1915
01:34:57,400 --> 01:34:59,720
Speaker 1: off for a little bit just due to the combine

1916
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:02,400
Speaker 1: and in the breaks with the coaches and stuff. And

1917
01:35:02,560 --> 01:35:06,479
Speaker 1: you know, my Asian and the Bills had negotiation talks

1918
01:35:06,680 --> 01:35:08,760
Speaker 1: within the last like you know, a couple of months,

1919
01:35:08,800 --> 01:35:12,439
Speaker 1: I would say, and I mean, there's no other better

1920
01:35:12,520 --> 01:35:15,920
Speaker 1: fit for me that me and my agent thought about,

1921
01:35:16,000 --> 01:35:19,639
Speaker 1: and you know, knowing that McDermott has been in my career,

1922
01:35:20,080 --> 01:35:24,920
Speaker 1: my attire career, it's just been the best fit and

1923
01:35:25,000 --> 01:35:28,400
Speaker 1: it's been the best fit for me, my family on

1924
01:35:28,520 --> 01:35:32,920
Speaker 1: our end, and just the culture and the organization, everything

1925
01:35:33,000 --> 01:35:35,960
Speaker 1: has just been a blessing for us. I want to

1926
01:35:36,280 --> 01:35:37,760
Speaker 1: Dean marlow Is their guests. I want to ask you

1927
01:35:37,800 --> 01:35:41,000
Speaker 1: about your relationship with coach McDermott. Dean, because I've read

1928
01:35:41,080 --> 01:35:43,559
Speaker 1: and maybe you told the time the show. You went

1929
01:35:43,720 --> 01:35:47,160
Speaker 1: undrafted right coming out of James Madison University, and it's

1930
01:35:47,280 --> 01:35:50,559
Speaker 1: late in the twenty fifteen draft, and you probably had

1931
01:35:50,560 --> 01:35:52,200
Speaker 1: the thought to yourself and I'd probably not gonna get

1932
01:35:52,240 --> 01:35:54,400
Speaker 1: drafted here, and you got a call from the guy

1933
01:35:54,439 --> 01:35:57,400
Speaker 1: who was then the defensive coordinator from the Panther, Sean McDermott.

1934
01:35:57,439 --> 01:35:58,960
Speaker 1: Tell me what he said you way back then five

1935
01:35:59,040 --> 01:36:02,759
Speaker 1: years ago. Oh, he told me. This was probably around

1936
01:36:03,160 --> 01:36:06,479
Speaker 1: I think the sixth round, and he he told me

1937
01:36:06,600 --> 01:36:09,360
Speaker 1: he said, if anybody calls him within the lasting round

1938
01:36:09,400 --> 01:36:14,479
Speaker 1: and try to draft you, tell him no. Obviously, a

1939
01:36:14,600 --> 01:36:17,080
Speaker 1: kid out of college and would never say anything like that.

1940
01:36:17,320 --> 01:36:20,400
Speaker 1: But right now, standing here to this day, I understand

1941
01:36:20,479 --> 01:36:23,120
Speaker 1: the reason why because he has so much faith in me.

1942
01:36:23,280 --> 01:36:26,400
Speaker 1: He's um, he's always been through my side and in

1943
01:36:26,600 --> 01:36:30,320
Speaker 1: hard times and in good times. Talking to understand why

1944
01:36:30,439 --> 01:36:33,800
Speaker 1: he said that, Do you still have the same kind

1945
01:36:33,840 --> 01:36:35,880
Speaker 1: of relationship with him? You guys, you must feel like

1946
01:36:36,840 --> 01:36:40,400
Speaker 1: you can't not really not escape from him, but he

1947
01:36:40,560 --> 01:36:42,840
Speaker 1: certainly must have. You must feel like he has a

1948
01:36:42,920 --> 01:36:44,920
Speaker 1: soft spot in his heart for you since you've been

1949
01:36:44,960 --> 01:36:47,760
Speaker 1: with him almost every step of your career. Oh yeah,

1950
01:36:47,880 --> 01:36:50,040
Speaker 1: we have a we have a really good relationship. Um.

1951
01:36:50,600 --> 01:36:54,040
Speaker 1: You know, we're it's not like the typical player coach

1952
01:36:54,400 --> 01:36:57,640
Speaker 1: you know relationship. We you know, we're very comfortable. We

1953
01:36:57,680 --> 01:37:02,120
Speaker 1: can talk about anything, um, very transparent, whether it's something positive,

1954
01:37:02,200 --> 01:37:04,880
Speaker 1: was just something negative. Um. So that that's the kind

1955
01:37:04,880 --> 01:37:10,040
Speaker 1: of relationship me and Sean have the relationship. I'm sure,

1956
01:37:10,120 --> 01:37:12,160
Speaker 1: as you said, you're gonna now it's five six years

1957
01:37:12,200 --> 01:37:16,360
Speaker 1: you've known coach McDermott. Last year the bills, you said it,

1958
01:37:16,479 --> 01:37:19,240
Speaker 1: they had you tried a bunch of different things including, uh,

1959
01:37:19,520 --> 01:37:23,000
Speaker 1: you played a little nickel corner right when uh, when

1960
01:37:23,280 --> 01:37:25,439
Speaker 1: Johnson got hurt, Teren Johnson was hurt and they used

1961
01:37:25,479 --> 01:37:26,920
Speaker 1: you as a nickel corner. How did you like that

1962
01:37:27,000 --> 01:37:29,559
Speaker 1: and how do you think it went? Um, it's it's

1963
01:37:29,720 --> 01:37:32,200
Speaker 1: it was great because you know that was a position

1964
01:37:32,240 --> 01:37:35,600
Speaker 1: that I played in college, and um, you know we

1965
01:37:35,680 --> 01:37:38,080
Speaker 1: also have a big nickel role, which you know, I'm

1966
01:37:38,360 --> 01:37:41,960
Speaker 1: the big nickel guy, and um, with Teren going down,

1967
01:37:42,040 --> 01:37:45,479
Speaker 1: you know, be having to play the nickel role. It

1968
01:37:45,600 --> 01:37:48,280
Speaker 1: was actually an opportunity for me to show what I

1969
01:37:48,360 --> 01:37:50,680
Speaker 1: can do, not just at safety, but I have the

1970
01:37:50,800 --> 01:37:54,519
Speaker 1: versatility in all four positions, uh, you know, in our

1971
01:37:54,600 --> 01:37:57,719
Speaker 1: secondary and um, I just feel like I'm very valuable

1972
01:37:58,400 --> 01:38:02,240
Speaker 1: when someone like me can do like that. Let mean,

1973
01:38:02,280 --> 01:38:04,439
Speaker 1: I see listen, don't give away any secrets, Dean, but

1974
01:38:04,920 --> 01:38:08,400
Speaker 1: what constitutes a package that you're seeing on the field

1975
01:38:08,479 --> 01:38:10,280
Speaker 1: or down and distance where you guys need to play

1976
01:38:10,560 --> 01:38:12,560
Speaker 1: big nickel, Do you have certain things you're looking for

1977
01:38:12,680 --> 01:38:15,519
Speaker 1: from the other team. It's just more of offensive personnel

1978
01:38:15,640 --> 01:38:18,479
Speaker 1: when you have you know, bigger tight ends, bigger tass

1979
01:38:18,520 --> 01:38:22,960
Speaker 1: catching tight ends with guys that are bigger like myself,

1980
01:38:23,920 --> 01:38:26,920
Speaker 1: that can cover, that can tackle, that can play a

1981
01:38:27,560 --> 01:38:31,040
Speaker 1: good run support, and um, it's just kind of a

1982
01:38:31,120 --> 01:38:33,360
Speaker 1: matchup deal, you know. Now, Now, the NFL is a

1983
01:38:33,600 --> 01:38:36,960
Speaker 1: passing league and there's guys that are that are six five,

1984
01:38:37,400 --> 01:38:39,560
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty pounds that can run four or

1985
01:38:39,600 --> 01:38:43,840
Speaker 1: fives and catch and our great pass catchers. So um,

1986
01:38:44,000 --> 01:38:47,679
Speaker 1: guys like me, who can you know that are six two,

1987
01:38:48,400 --> 01:38:50,639
Speaker 1: two hundred two h five that can that can run

1988
01:38:50,720 --> 01:38:54,080
Speaker 1: with these big guys and be able to be in

1989
01:38:54,120 --> 01:38:58,040
Speaker 1: a good run support position when there is time to

1990
01:38:58,120 --> 01:39:01,280
Speaker 1: tackle the ball carrier. I just think there's value in

1991
01:39:01,400 --> 01:39:04,600
Speaker 1: having someone like that on your team. So I bring

1992
01:39:04,680 --> 01:39:10,000
Speaker 1: a pretty good uh value to our defense. One of

1993
01:39:10,000 --> 01:39:14,040
Speaker 1: the other things about we see coaches constantly bringing players

1994
01:39:14,080 --> 01:39:17,840
Speaker 1: they're familiar within and one time this last season when

1995
01:39:17,840 --> 01:39:21,519
Speaker 1: you got a chance to show why coaches trust you

1996
01:39:21,680 --> 01:39:23,880
Speaker 1: is in the Tennessee game. When guys got hurt, you

1997
01:39:24,120 --> 01:39:26,479
Speaker 1: stepped in. When Milano went down, you stepped in. You

1998
01:39:26,560 --> 01:39:29,479
Speaker 1: had a chance to really contribute in a game. I think, first,

1999
01:39:29,520 --> 01:39:31,000
Speaker 1: I don't know whether it's Week five or so of

2000
01:39:31,080 --> 01:39:34,439
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans game, how difficult is it for a

2001
01:39:34,560 --> 01:39:37,120
Speaker 1: guy like you, Deane to come in on You got

2002
01:39:37,240 --> 01:39:39,080
Speaker 1: to stay ready to play, no question about it. But

2003
01:39:39,200 --> 01:39:41,360
Speaker 1: you get ready for each game, and you didn't have

2004
01:39:41,439 --> 01:39:43,240
Speaker 1: any way of knowing that you were going to have

2005
01:39:43,320 --> 01:39:45,360
Speaker 1: to all of a sudden take over for a guy

2006
01:39:45,439 --> 01:39:47,880
Speaker 1: that got hurt. But being ready to do that really

2007
01:39:47,920 --> 01:39:53,000
Speaker 1: had to solidify the coaching staffs trust and your professionalism

2008
01:39:53,080 --> 01:39:55,120
Speaker 1: and your ability to be ready on a moment's notice.

2009
01:39:55,760 --> 01:40:00,560
Speaker 1: Most definitely, and I truly believe that whether you're a

2010
01:40:00,600 --> 01:40:03,240
Speaker 1: special teams guy or whether you're you know, a starter,

2011
01:40:03,360 --> 01:40:06,360
Speaker 1: you got to prepare and prepare like you know, you're

2012
01:40:06,400 --> 01:40:08,800
Speaker 1: the guy. And I think that if every team takes

2013
01:40:08,840 --> 01:40:11,200
Speaker 1: an approach, that's that's what we do. We take that

2014
01:40:11,280 --> 01:40:14,080
Speaker 1: approach a weekend and week out, and when you get

2015
01:40:14,120 --> 01:40:15,880
Speaker 1: on the field, you'll you'll be ready. And that's that's

2016
01:40:15,920 --> 01:40:18,000
Speaker 1: why they always stay you know, you stay ready so

2017
01:40:18,120 --> 01:40:20,639
Speaker 1: you never have to get ready. And um for guys

2018
01:40:20,680 --> 01:40:23,400
Speaker 1: like me, Um, you know, I'm there to help anybody

2019
01:40:24,439 --> 01:40:27,559
Speaker 1: and take over any position that needs to be filled

2020
01:40:27,600 --> 01:40:31,880
Speaker 1: if something happens. UM. So I think that's like, you know,

2021
01:40:31,960 --> 01:40:35,400
Speaker 1: that's one thing that our culture you know, puts out

2022
01:40:35,439 --> 01:40:37,320
Speaker 1: there saying, you know, you just you always have to

2023
01:40:37,400 --> 01:40:39,960
Speaker 1: be ready all the time. You never know what can happen.

2024
01:40:40,640 --> 01:40:42,920
Speaker 1: And you know, it's definitely it's it's harder to play,

2025
01:40:43,720 --> 01:40:45,960
Speaker 1: you know, really well when you only have limited time

2026
01:40:46,080 --> 01:40:50,479
Speaker 1: to play and that shows the true character and in

2027
01:40:50,600 --> 01:40:54,840
Speaker 1: an individual. But with safety Dean Marlow, who just signed

2028
01:40:54,880 --> 01:40:57,080
Speaker 1: a new contract with the Buffalo Bills, getting set for

2029
01:40:57,120 --> 01:40:59,400
Speaker 1: his third year with the Bills, you talked about how

2030
01:40:59,439 --> 01:41:02,759
Speaker 1: important Sean McDermott has been in your in your career.

2031
01:41:02,920 --> 01:41:05,200
Speaker 1: Really Dean, and you're coming back for another year with

2032
01:41:05,400 --> 01:41:09,280
Speaker 1: Leslie Fraser now is defensive coordinator and assistant head coach.

2033
01:41:09,520 --> 01:41:11,800
Speaker 1: What does coach Fraser meant to you and what does

2034
01:41:11,840 --> 01:41:13,560
Speaker 1: he what does he do for your group now? And

2035
01:41:13,640 --> 01:41:14,920
Speaker 1: what has he done in the first year year he

2036
01:41:14,920 --> 01:41:18,719
Speaker 1: has been here. Fraser has done an awesome job. Also

2037
01:41:18,800 --> 01:41:21,680
Speaker 1: a former player, you know, the eighty five Bears. Um,

2038
01:41:21,920 --> 01:41:23,680
Speaker 1: So when you have a coach that has been a

2039
01:41:23,760 --> 01:41:27,679
Speaker 1: former player, he knows, he knows just something a little

2040
01:41:27,680 --> 01:41:30,840
Speaker 1: bit different, um. And I think he's done an awesome

2041
01:41:30,920 --> 01:41:33,519
Speaker 1: job with you know, every level of our defense from

2042
01:41:33,560 --> 01:41:36,600
Speaker 1: the defensive line to linebackers, the secondary and trying to

2043
01:41:36,640 --> 01:41:40,840
Speaker 1: get our um our gots prepared weekend and week out. Um,

2044
01:41:41,240 --> 01:41:44,120
Speaker 1: He's done everything possible that he can do. He's been

2045
01:41:44,160 --> 01:41:47,200
Speaker 1: a former head coach, so he knows every aspect of

2046
01:41:47,320 --> 01:41:52,439
Speaker 1: the game in all levels and he's helped everybody so

2047
01:41:52,520 --> 01:41:56,519
Speaker 1: I think he's done an awesome job. All right, Dean A.

2048
01:41:57,160 --> 01:41:59,639
Speaker 1: You know the complex that One Bill's Driver is closed.

2049
01:41:59,680 --> 01:42:01,639
Speaker 1: Who knows when it will open. How you've been keeping

2050
01:42:01,680 --> 01:42:03,680
Speaker 1: in shape? What have you been doing to the kind

2051
01:42:03,720 --> 01:42:06,639
Speaker 1: of stay ready for whenever you start offseason workouts? Yeah?

2052
01:42:06,640 --> 01:42:08,320
Speaker 1: We no, we've been in the house getting these workouts

2053
01:42:08,360 --> 01:42:11,599
Speaker 1: and we have all the gear here. We've been following

2054
01:42:11,680 --> 01:42:15,160
Speaker 1: the protocol you know, from the strength coaches and with

2055
01:42:15,360 --> 01:42:18,040
Speaker 1: all the weights and the bands and just doing what

2056
01:42:18,120 --> 01:42:21,120
Speaker 1: we can to take care of our buys here. We

2057
01:42:21,200 --> 01:42:27,040
Speaker 1: won't worried watching. Thank you appreciate that. Thanks Dean, stay healthy.

2058
01:42:27,600 --> 01:42:29,360
Speaker 1: Dean Marlow just signed a new one year deal with

2059
01:42:29,439 --> 01:42:31,400
Speaker 1: the Bills. Getting set for another year with the Buffalo

2060
01:42:31,520 --> 01:42:35,519
Speaker 1: Bills as a mister everything, I guess in the defensive backfield,

2061
01:42:35,520 --> 01:42:38,760
Speaker 1: played nickel corner, played some safety and does a lot

2062
01:42:38,920 --> 01:42:40,479
Speaker 1: for the Bills on the back end of the defense.

2063
01:42:40,680 --> 01:42:42,560
Speaker 1: All right, we return, We're gonna talk more about the

2064
01:42:42,640 --> 01:42:45,639
Speaker 1: league in general with Steve White from the NFL Network

2065
01:42:45,720 --> 01:42:48,320
Speaker 1: from NFL dot com. Who'll join us next, Come on back.

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Speaker 1: One Bill's Live presented by Kalid to Health. We're from

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Speaker 1: our homes again today and this is Buffalo Bills. Read

2068
01:43:02,000 --> 01:43:04,640
Speaker 1: Welcome Back one day five John Murphy. Steve Tasker from

2069
01:43:04,760 --> 01:43:06,960
Speaker 1: home all week long doing our show, and it seems

2070
01:43:07,000 --> 01:43:08,320
Speaker 1: to work. I think we've got it gone down to

2071
01:43:08,400 --> 01:43:11,080
Speaker 1: a science here. I'm the line with us a special guest.

2072
01:43:11,360 --> 01:43:13,880
Speaker 1: He's probably working from home as well. He works for

2073
01:43:14,160 --> 01:43:16,040
Speaker 1: NFL Network and we're happy to have him with us.

2074
01:43:16,479 --> 01:43:19,639
Speaker 1: Steve White, CENEFIL Network host, analyst, reporter, NFL dot com

2075
01:43:19,720 --> 01:43:22,679
Speaker 1: semior writer. You can follow him on Twitter at which

2076
01:43:22,840 --> 01:43:25,400
Speaker 1: eighty nine. Steve White on the air with us. Hello, Steve,

2077
01:43:25,479 --> 01:43:28,240
Speaker 1: thanks coming on with us. We appreciate it. Hey, thank

2078
01:43:28,280 --> 01:43:30,400
Speaker 1: you for having me. I hope everybody is staying safe

2079
01:43:30,479 --> 01:43:33,400
Speaker 1: and you guys are finding ways to navigate through this

2080
01:43:33,520 --> 01:43:37,679
Speaker 1: crazy time like most of us. All after we're safe

2081
01:43:37,720 --> 01:43:39,680
Speaker 1: and healthy. YEP. I was gonna ask you, Steve, where

2082
01:43:39,680 --> 01:43:41,560
Speaker 1: are you out in LA? I know you're posting some

2083
01:43:41,640 --> 01:43:44,479
Speaker 1: stuff from New Orleans as well. Are you traveling at all?

2084
01:43:44,520 --> 01:43:48,080
Speaker 1: Are you just staying hunkered? No? No, I am, I am.

2085
01:43:48,960 --> 01:43:51,719
Speaker 1: We are sheltered in place in LA. I mean pretty

2086
01:43:51,800 --> 01:43:54,360
Speaker 1: much at home. Yeah, pretty much at home all time,

2087
01:43:54,400 --> 01:43:56,040
Speaker 1: and getting out is to go for a run when

2088
01:43:56,080 --> 01:43:59,400
Speaker 1: nobody else is around and to get the necessary items.

2089
01:43:59,439 --> 01:44:02,040
Speaker 1: Other than that, we are at home. They're happy to

2090
01:44:02,080 --> 01:44:03,720
Speaker 1: have you on the air with us today, Steven Hope

2091
01:44:03,720 --> 01:44:07,040
Speaker 1: to stay healthy. We were. We've paid an interest to

2092
01:44:07,120 --> 01:44:08,960
Speaker 1: some of the things you've written and said in recent

2093
01:44:09,280 --> 01:44:12,160
Speaker 1: week week and a half about the Bills in free agency.

2094
01:44:12,560 --> 01:44:14,760
Speaker 1: You really like the addition of I mean, the Bills

2095
01:44:14,840 --> 01:44:16,240
Speaker 1: have been active in free to see and you like

2096
01:44:16,400 --> 01:44:19,360
Speaker 1: in particular the addition of defensive end Mario Addison. You

2097
01:44:19,400 --> 01:44:22,360
Speaker 1: say it's the most underrated signing in free agency in

2098
01:44:22,400 --> 01:44:25,080
Speaker 1: the whole league. What do you like about that movie? See? Well,

2099
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Speaker 1: I mean I think so. I mean, look look at

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Speaker 1: his numbers, right, Okay, So he was playing on a

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Speaker 1: team that you know, wasn't the type of team that

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Speaker 1: would get you know, Caroline, that would get leads and

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Speaker 1: you know, you turn past rushers loose. He's playing a

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Speaker 1: team that was losing a lot of ball games, going

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Speaker 1: toe to toe in games, and he's still averaging almost

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Speaker 1: ten sacks a year over the past four years. I

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Speaker 1: think he's got thirty nine thirty nine and a half

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Speaker 1: the past four years. A very very solid player, and

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Speaker 1: I think with the other pieces around him that they

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Speaker 1: have in Buffalo and playing in that system that McDermott,

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Speaker 1: Leslie Frasier have, He's gonna be a monster. And then

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Speaker 1: I just look at, you know the other quarterbacks in

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Speaker 1: that division. I mean, is you're gonna be you know

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01:45:06,439 --> 01:45:09,519
Speaker 1: Steadham in New England? Is you know Donald with the

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Speaker 1: Jets they're still working to offensive line issues and you

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01:45:13,040 --> 01:45:15,680
Speaker 1: know the Dolphins they're still rebuilding. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: this is the type of team where he can flourish.

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Speaker 1: And I think to me, the Bills are the team

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Speaker 1: to be now in the AFC East. Do you think,

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Speaker 1: and I know you just kind of get into little

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Speaker 1: more specifics about why you think that. Is it because

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01:45:29,439 --> 01:45:31,600
Speaker 1: of some of the signings like Mario Addison or is

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01:45:31,640 --> 01:45:34,320
Speaker 1: it because of other things like Tom Brady leaving the

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Speaker 1: AFC East, Like the quarterback Philip Rivers is no longer

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Speaker 1: in San Diego. Some of these quarterbacks are switching around

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Speaker 1: and teams are revamping a little bit. Is it what

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Speaker 1: the Bills have done or what other teams have fallen to? Well,

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Speaker 1: I think it's a combination. I mean, look, first off,

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Speaker 1: let's not forget the facts. The Buffalo was the playoff

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Speaker 1: team left year. I mean, Bill, they made a lot

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01:45:56,120 --> 01:45:58,880
Speaker 1: of stride. You think Josh Allen is still someone far

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01:45:59,040 --> 01:46:02,200
Speaker 1: from reaching his seal. They seem to have developed the

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01:46:02,400 --> 01:46:05,720
Speaker 1: proper culture there and the way they built this team.

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Speaker 1: They've got a certain type of player, very hard nosed,

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Speaker 1: very disciplined. I mean when you watch the Bills are

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Speaker 1: very disciplined with a lot of the things they do.

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Speaker 1: So let's look at the fact that this is a

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Speaker 1: pretty good team as it was. Tom Brady leaves the division.

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Speaker 1: The Patriots, They've lost some key players on that team.

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Speaker 1: I mean, they lost some guys off that defense that

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Speaker 1: was really good as well. That's part of it, you know.

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Speaker 1: And when you look at that division again, I think

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Speaker 1: because Buffalo is a good team last year and they're

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Speaker 1: a team on the come up, and you and you

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Speaker 1: lose Tom Bree, I just think that the Buffs, the

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Speaker 1: Bills right now are the team defeat. I'm never going

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Speaker 1: to discount the Patriots until we see it, but I

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Speaker 1: think they are the team to be in that division,

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Speaker 1: and there's no reason that they should not be in

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Speaker 1: play with the rest of the AFC. We know the

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01:46:53,200 --> 01:46:55,200
Speaker 1: Steelers are going to be good, The Ravens are gonna

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01:46:55,200 --> 01:46:57,920
Speaker 1: be good. The Chiefs are gonna be good. We'll see

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Speaker 1: what happened in the AFC South Accuston. God, they really

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01:47:01,640 --> 01:47:05,639
Speaker 1: weakened themselves by losing DeAndre Hopkins. But I just think

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01:47:05,720 --> 01:47:07,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo is a team over the next couple of years,

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01:47:08,040 --> 01:47:10,320
Speaker 1: they're going to get pain and everyone's backside and they're

2157
01:47:10,320 --> 01:47:15,679
Speaker 1: going to contend with Steve White's NFL Network host analyst

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Speaker 1: reporter is Steve Steve Taster and I've been talking pretty

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Speaker 1: much for a week or so about some of the

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Speaker 1: free agent signings and Bills have made, including one yesterday

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Speaker 1: with an offensive lineman Darry Williams from Carolina. They're getting

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Speaker 1: they got our attention because they've hit a number of

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Speaker 1: guys they've signed a one year contracts. What do you

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01:47:32,600 --> 01:47:34,800
Speaker 1: Obviously you know they don't want to get locked down

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Speaker 1: if they can avoid it. But is that a new

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Speaker 1: trend in the NFL or the bills on the cusp

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01:47:38,680 --> 01:47:40,720
Speaker 1: of a new trend in the NFL signing guys to

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Speaker 1: one year deals kind of prove it deals? What do

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Speaker 1: you think? You see it more and more over the

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Speaker 1: past two or three years that basically after the first

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Speaker 1: day or two a free agency. Almost every deal that

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Speaker 1: comes about is a one or two year deal, and

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Speaker 1: if it's a two year deal, it's one that one

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Speaker 1: that either the player or the team can get out

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Speaker 1: after year. And I just think part of its the economics.

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Speaker 1: I think part of this is players gambling on themselves.

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Speaker 1: But the market is this. You know, where else is

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Speaker 1: Daryll Williams going to get a multi year deal? I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just not happening. So again, you've just noticed this

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Speaker 1: over the past couple of years, more and more of

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Speaker 1: these one and two year deals are taking place. I

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Speaker 1: think the players want some of it to have some flexibility,

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Speaker 1: but also the teams to have some flexibility again, be

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Speaker 1: a proven deals or whatever the motivation, because the market's

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Speaker 1: not there for a long term deal. That's just kind

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Speaker 1: of the way things are shaped up. Well, we've here

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo, John and I have been talking at nauseum

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Speaker 1: for the last month and a half about Tom Brady,

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Speaker 1: where he might land, whether he's actually gonna leave New

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Speaker 1: England or not. And even some of our listeners are

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Speaker 1: starting to stick their finger down their throats we're talking

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Speaker 1: about it so much. Well, I gotta ask you, you've

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Speaker 1: said you've come out and been made in certain that

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Speaker 1: you don't think it's gonna be all sunshine and roses

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Speaker 1: in Tampa Bay for Tom Brady. Why is that? Look at,

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Speaker 1: they're already a good team, and I think they'll be better.

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Speaker 1: But when you look at you know what the Patriots

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Speaker 1: had to go through a year and a year out,

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Speaker 1: it was basically the Steelers, the Ravens, the Chiefs, and

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Speaker 1: maybe a surprise team from the AFC from time to time.

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Speaker 1: The NFC is a much tougher gauntlet. I mean, first off,

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Speaker 1: for the Buccaneers to get past the Saints and maybe

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Speaker 1: the Falcons in that division, that's no joke, all right, okay,

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Speaker 1: and then you've got Minnesota, Green Bay, the Rams, San Francisco, Seattle.

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Speaker 1: It is a tougher gauntlet overall. Now, I do think

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Speaker 1: he's gonna make the Buccaneers a better team. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to overcome thirty interceptions alone, but alone the

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Speaker 1: number of giveaways that team had last year and they

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Speaker 1: were still a seven win team. But I just think

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be tougher for Brady than it has been.

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Speaker 1: Being in that Patriots system and team and them having

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Speaker 1: that aura, you know, just like a tough boxer. Teams

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01:50:02,680 --> 01:50:06,000
Speaker 1: would go into Foxborough already knowing they had one hand

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Speaker 1: tied behind their back, like they could not make a

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01:50:08,360 --> 01:50:10,240
Speaker 1: mistake or else they would fall apart. We saw it

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Speaker 1: over and over. The Buccaneers don't have that mistique. So

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Speaker 1: until you know they went to ballgames beat some tough teams,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a challenge for them every week.

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Speaker 1: And you better believe teams are going to load up

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Speaker 1: against them differently than they've had in the past. Where

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Speaker 1: was Steve Wich from the NFL that were Steve? Tell

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Speaker 1: me why most people I'm not sure I'm in this camp,

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01:50:31,960 --> 01:50:34,800
Speaker 1: but most people think Bruce arians is the right coach

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Speaker 1: for Tom Brady. Now why is that feeling so prevalent?

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01:50:37,600 --> 01:50:41,040
Speaker 1: Do you think, well, he's only he's one of He's

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Speaker 1: one of two coaches that were on teams that made

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Speaker 1: bids for him. I think one of the kind of

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Speaker 1: the bigger unspoken stories is there wasn't that big of

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Speaker 1: a market for Tom Brady, And that was a thing

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Speaker 1: that was a big question going into this, like how

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01:50:53,960 --> 01:50:56,880
Speaker 1: big was the market actually going to be? And I

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01:50:56,960 --> 01:50:59,360
Speaker 1: think that's one of the things that the Patriots banked

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Speaker 1: on when they allowed him to hit free agency. But

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Speaker 1: it got to a point where it just became untenable

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Speaker 1: with him in New England. They just couldn't they couldn't

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Speaker 1: figure it out. So he goes to Tampa Bay. And

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Speaker 1: I do think because Bruce Arians, people just think he's

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Speaker 1: a long ball quarterback. He's an adaptable quarterback, right. He

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Speaker 1: had to adapt to Andrew Luck when he you know,

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Speaker 1: when he coached in Indianapolis, he had Peyton Manning, He's

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Speaker 1: had been Rocklisberger. He's adapted. He is a very tough coach,

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Speaker 1: but one that does it in a way is to

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Speaker 1: where it's not acrimonious. Right, So Brady's used to tough coaching.

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01:51:36,479 --> 01:51:39,240
Speaker 1: That's part of it. And I think with Brady on

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01:51:39,320 --> 01:51:42,080
Speaker 1: that roster, everybody else on that team is going to

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Speaker 1: step up their accountability a little bit. I think that's

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Speaker 1: just part of his presence. There's going to help. But

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Speaker 1: I think schematically, Bruce Arians will do some things. You know,

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Speaker 1: Brady gets the ball out quick to design his offense

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Speaker 1: for that. He's got the weapons to do that. And

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Speaker 1: I just think the character of Bruce Arians might allow

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01:51:59,000 --> 01:52:00,880
Speaker 1: Tom Brady to open it up and show a little

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01:52:00,880 --> 01:52:02,920
Speaker 1: bit more personality than we saw out of them in

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Speaker 1: New England. So all components put together, we'll see if

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Speaker 1: Bruce arians is the right coach. But again, he's only

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Speaker 1: one of two coaches outside of the Patriots that decided

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Speaker 1: to take a chance on him. Well you think, you know,

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01:52:17,320 --> 01:52:19,759
Speaker 1: it's funny that we're sitting here talking about a scarcity

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01:52:19,800 --> 01:52:23,200
Speaker 1: of market for Tom Brady. Why is there a scarcity

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01:52:23,200 --> 01:52:26,439
Speaker 1: of market for guys like Cam Newton. He's still out

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01:52:26,479 --> 01:52:28,400
Speaker 1: on the free agent he just came out. I don't

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01:52:28,439 --> 01:52:30,680
Speaker 1: see teams banging down the door. Is it all just

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01:52:30,840 --> 01:52:33,560
Speaker 1: because of the physicals, the medical side of it, or

2264
01:52:33,680 --> 01:52:36,960
Speaker 1: is there something more there? Well, that's not solely the medical.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's the main part. But you know, you

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01:52:39,320 --> 01:52:41,560
Speaker 1: look around, there aren't a lot of teams won with

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01:52:41,680 --> 01:52:45,439
Speaker 1: starting quarterback opportunities available. Okay, you look at the Chargers,

2268
01:52:45,520 --> 01:52:48,040
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, they've already made it clear they're going to

2269
01:52:48,160 --> 01:52:51,120
Speaker 1: route of the draft. Okay, so then you look at Jacksonville.

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Speaker 1: Have no idea why Jacksonville hasn't called the Bears, even

2271
01:52:54,760 --> 01:52:57,760
Speaker 1: though they just traded for Nick Foles. No idea why

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01:52:57,800 --> 01:53:01,360
Speaker 1: they haven't called. And then there's the pain they're clearly

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01:53:01,520 --> 01:53:03,880
Speaker 1: playing the slow game on this because they see a

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01:53:04,000 --> 01:53:07,360
Speaker 1: market hasn't evolved for Cam. Jamis is not going to

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01:53:07,439 --> 01:53:11,160
Speaker 1: New England. You know. Is Derek Carr still on the market.

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01:53:11,160 --> 01:53:13,920
Speaker 1: You still hear that if the Raiders get the right offer,

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01:53:14,000 --> 01:53:18,040
Speaker 1: they would move him. So the Patriots are being a

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01:53:18,080 --> 01:53:21,280
Speaker 1: little bit more patient. But I think with Cam it's

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01:53:21,840 --> 01:53:24,160
Speaker 1: the fact that there's the medical issue. Teams can't get

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01:53:24,160 --> 01:53:26,200
Speaker 1: a good look at him, and if you're bringing in

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01:53:26,400 --> 01:53:29,679
Speaker 1: him into compete or otherwise come in as a backup

2282
01:53:29,920 --> 01:53:33,200
Speaker 1: kind of in a situation like Ryan Tannehill was last year.

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01:53:34,040 --> 01:53:36,880
Speaker 1: He's a big presence now and he might have a

2284
01:53:37,000 --> 01:53:40,400
Speaker 1: bigger or a presence about him than you're starting quarterback.

2285
01:53:40,920 --> 01:53:43,720
Speaker 1: Can your locker room absorb that? Now? Keep him mid?

2286
01:53:43,760 --> 01:53:46,200
Speaker 1: Cam Newt is not a bad guy. He's never done

2287
01:53:46,200 --> 01:53:49,439
Speaker 1: anything wrong. He's a positive guy. He is great in

2288
01:53:49,479 --> 01:53:52,760
Speaker 1: the community. But there are some people who see and

2289
01:53:52,840 --> 01:53:55,880
Speaker 1: I've talked to teams about this, the way he carries himself,

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01:53:55,920 --> 01:53:59,760
Speaker 1: the way he hands himself on Instagram, whatever, as this

2291
01:54:00,160 --> 01:54:04,720
Speaker 1: really big personality. I know him. He's a humble guy, right,

2292
01:54:05,120 --> 01:54:07,160
Speaker 1: So I just think some teams who don't know him

2293
01:54:07,200 --> 01:54:09,760
Speaker 1: might be a little gunshot because of what they've seen

2294
01:54:09,880 --> 01:54:12,840
Speaker 1: from the outside. But you cannot tell me he is

2295
01:54:12,920 --> 01:54:17,360
Speaker 1: not better than Gardner Minshew or Nick Foles or Fiskey

2296
01:54:17,760 --> 01:54:19,840
Speaker 1: or some of these teams that need help. And here's

2297
01:54:19,880 --> 01:54:22,799
Speaker 1: the thing. Sign him now because it's all pending a physical.

2298
01:54:22,800 --> 01:54:25,040
Speaker 1: If he fails the physical later, it's no skin off

2299
01:54:25,080 --> 01:54:27,400
Speaker 1: of your nose because you're not giving up a draft

2300
01:54:27,439 --> 01:54:32,040
Speaker 1: stick or any type of compensation to bring him in. Steve,

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01:54:32,200 --> 01:54:34,840
Speaker 1: did you say the Patriots might be playing the slow

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01:54:34,920 --> 01:54:36,880
Speaker 1: game in regard to Cam Newton? Can you see that

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01:54:37,000 --> 01:54:40,160
Speaker 1: as a fill well, I mean, look there, no one

2304
01:54:40,240 --> 01:54:42,280
Speaker 1: knows what they're gonna do, but they're playing the slow game.

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01:54:42,920 --> 01:54:45,720
Speaker 1: I mean they haven't made a move at all. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we hear a lot, you know, you know, I'm blanking

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01:54:50,680 --> 01:54:52,520
Speaker 1: on the young guy. Jared's did him that they had

2308
01:54:52,640 --> 01:54:56,240
Speaker 1: last year. But he might be their guy. But they're

2309
01:54:56,280 --> 01:54:58,360
Speaker 1: still gonna have to bring in some folks. I mean,

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01:54:58,360 --> 01:55:00,240
Speaker 1: they're not just gonna rock with him. They've got Ryan

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01:55:00,360 --> 01:55:05,160
Speaker 1: Hoyer now, so you know, we'll we'll see. But just

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01:55:06,040 --> 01:55:09,560
Speaker 1: there's something there, Bill Belichick, just so we don't know

2313
01:55:09,640 --> 01:55:12,960
Speaker 1: if it's Cam Newton or not. But he looks he's

2314
01:55:12,960 --> 01:55:15,920
Speaker 1: out there, he's a possibility just because he's available. That's

2315
01:55:16,000 --> 01:55:18,360
Speaker 1: kind of what I'm getting too. I got you because

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01:55:18,400 --> 01:55:20,920
Speaker 1: my partner, here's Steve Tasker, said something that struck me

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01:55:21,000 --> 01:55:23,680
Speaker 1: as funny. Can you imagine what Bill Belichick would say

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01:55:23,680 --> 01:55:26,160
Speaker 1: if Cam Newton shows up at the postgame news conference?

2319
01:55:26,320 --> 01:55:29,240
Speaker 1: Is the Patriots quarterback and some of those postgame costumes

2320
01:55:29,280 --> 01:55:31,200
Speaker 1: he's been wearing the last few years. I don't know

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01:55:31,240 --> 01:55:34,200
Speaker 1: if that's the Patriot Wayne, But you know what Belichick.

2322
01:55:34,200 --> 01:55:36,320
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, Belichick wouldn't have a problem with that.

2323
01:55:37,120 --> 01:55:39,120
Speaker 1: He really wouldn't. Mean. Look, Tom Brady shown up in

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01:55:39,200 --> 01:55:41,960
Speaker 1: some stylish things. Now he hasn't worn a scarf over

2325
01:55:42,080 --> 01:55:44,920
Speaker 1: his head, but you think you think the scarf Willy

2326
01:55:45,080 --> 01:55:47,080
Speaker 1: and Tom showed up at some things. I think Gronk

2327
01:55:47,200 --> 01:55:50,160
Speaker 1: showed up, you know. So I don't look Brady, I

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01:55:50,240 --> 01:55:52,959
Speaker 1: mean Belichick, I don't think he would. He would necessarily

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01:55:53,000 --> 01:55:54,920
Speaker 1: sweat that as long as Cam and get hearing to

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01:55:55,040 --> 01:55:56,960
Speaker 1: what he had to do on the field. Um, I

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01:55:57,000 --> 01:55:59,480
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think Belichick would stripped personality away

2332
01:55:59,520 --> 01:56:03,240
Speaker 1: from this. And we're talking to NFL network Hoast analyst

2333
01:56:03,360 --> 01:56:06,520
Speaker 1: reporters Steve Wish, also NFL dot Com senior, Right, I

2334
01:56:06,560 --> 01:56:08,440
Speaker 1: got to ask you another thing. There's another free agent

2335
01:56:08,480 --> 01:56:11,920
Speaker 1: out there at another position that seems now he's kind

2336
01:56:11,960 --> 01:56:16,840
Speaker 1: of off our radar. But Jadeveon Clowney, who was one

2337
01:56:16,840 --> 01:56:19,480
Speaker 1: of the top players picked in his draft as now

2338
01:56:19,840 --> 01:56:23,200
Speaker 1: looking to be on his third team and he's one

2339
01:56:23,200 --> 01:56:25,040
Speaker 1: of those guys that's a real problem for me to

2340
01:56:25,160 --> 01:56:29,120
Speaker 1: analyze Steve because he's an elite athlete. He's a big, tall,

2341
01:56:29,320 --> 01:56:32,000
Speaker 1: rangy athlete who can outrun almost everybody on the field,

2342
01:56:32,280 --> 01:56:34,760
Speaker 1: but he's never had the sack numbers that would go

2343
01:56:34,840 --> 01:56:37,840
Speaker 1: along with an elite pass rusher and those athletic traits.

2344
01:56:38,360 --> 01:56:40,520
Speaker 1: What's going on with Jadeveon Clowney And where do you

2345
01:56:40,600 --> 01:56:44,360
Speaker 1: see him landing? Yeah, and he looked. The sack networks

2346
01:56:44,360 --> 01:56:47,280
Speaker 1: are there, but he's a very disruptive player. But this

2347
01:56:47,480 --> 01:56:49,920
Speaker 1: is another case again. I gotta tell you what was

2348
01:56:50,000 --> 01:56:53,760
Speaker 1: interesting when the free agent market started. Look at how

2349
01:56:53,800 --> 01:56:57,280
Speaker 1: many interior d line it came off the board immediately,

2350
01:56:57,840 --> 01:57:01,440
Speaker 1: and how many edge rushers had to kind of slow

2351
01:57:01,520 --> 01:57:03,240
Speaker 1: play the market. I mean, Mario Askin was one of

2352
01:57:03,240 --> 01:57:06,520
Speaker 1: the first guys off the board. Dot A Fowler had

2353
01:57:06,600 --> 01:57:09,240
Speaker 1: to wait. Some of these other pass rushers were available,

2354
01:57:09,920 --> 01:57:13,120
Speaker 1: they had to wait, so that, you know, that kind

2355
01:57:13,160 --> 01:57:16,480
Speaker 1: of suppresses the market value. Now that we're as far

2356
01:57:16,560 --> 01:57:18,880
Speaker 1: as a free agencies or either clowney, he's asking for

2357
01:57:18,960 --> 01:57:23,120
Speaker 1: a lot of money and won't settle and may end

2358
01:57:23,200 --> 01:57:25,520
Speaker 1: up taking one of those one year deals like we saw.

2359
01:57:25,640 --> 01:57:28,720
Speaker 1: We were seeing some pass rushers recently, like a Dante

2360
01:57:28,880 --> 01:57:32,000
Speaker 1: fowlers on these one year fourteen million dollars deals. Maybe

2361
01:57:32,080 --> 01:57:34,640
Speaker 1: he's back on a deal like that. I would not

2362
01:57:34,760 --> 01:57:39,480
Speaker 1: be surprised now the way things are again materializing, if

2363
01:57:39,520 --> 01:57:42,320
Speaker 1: he ends up back in Seattle. Another thing with him

2364
01:57:42,960 --> 01:57:45,080
Speaker 1: that's a medical issue as well. He has a significant

2365
01:57:45,200 --> 01:57:48,600
Speaker 1: core injury. He had surgery for teams need to get

2366
01:57:48,720 --> 01:57:52,240
Speaker 1: updates on the status of that as well. But when

2367
01:57:52,280 --> 01:57:54,280
Speaker 1: you see all the other pass rushers he's come off

2368
01:57:54,320 --> 01:57:57,640
Speaker 1: the board ahead of him, I think that speaks to

2369
01:57:57,720 --> 01:58:00,840
Speaker 1: the market. I think that speaks to the hell and

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01:58:01,080 --> 01:58:03,560
Speaker 1: I think that may speak to you know, the number

2371
01:58:03,680 --> 01:58:06,080
Speaker 1: that he's asking for, being a former first to overall

2372
01:58:06,160 --> 01:58:09,440
Speaker 1: pick and not getting the big contract that he wants.

2373
01:58:09,520 --> 01:58:11,320
Speaker 1: But again, I would not be surprised if he ends

2374
01:58:11,400 --> 01:58:13,880
Speaker 1: up back on like a one year, fourteen million dollars deal,

2375
01:58:14,280 --> 01:58:16,400
Speaker 1: and I would not be shocked. That's back in Seattle.

2376
01:58:17,600 --> 01:58:20,000
Speaker 1: Brother line was Steve, which of the NFL Network case Steve,

2377
01:58:20,480 --> 01:58:23,919
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker and I are big fans of Tom Telesco

2378
01:58:24,080 --> 01:58:26,000
Speaker 1: in the team in the town you're in, the Los

2379
01:58:26,040 --> 01:58:29,400
Speaker 1: Angeles Chargers. Are they waiting for the draft to some

2380
01:58:29,520 --> 01:58:31,600
Speaker 1: of their quarterback question? Are they waiting maybe at a

2381
01:58:31,880 --> 01:58:34,280
Speaker 1: crack at TA or do they wait for Justin Herbert?

2382
01:58:34,280 --> 01:58:35,880
Speaker 1: They're there at six in the first round. What do

2383
01:58:35,920 --> 01:58:39,800
Speaker 1: you think? Yeah, they they came out after they missed

2384
01:58:39,840 --> 01:58:42,920
Speaker 1: on Brady. They came out loud and clearly and said

2385
01:58:42,960 --> 01:58:46,640
Speaker 1: they are not pursuing another free agent quarterback, which is,

2386
01:58:46,760 --> 01:58:48,720
Speaker 1: you know, again a head scratcher and Cam Newton, but

2387
01:58:49,000 --> 01:58:52,400
Speaker 1: really fit with what they do offensively. So yeah, they're

2388
01:58:52,480 --> 01:58:55,880
Speaker 1: they're going the draft route, and they are. I would

2389
01:58:55,920 --> 01:58:58,240
Speaker 1: think they are very much in the mix with Tua.

2390
01:58:58,360 --> 01:59:00,400
Speaker 1: I mean just for a couple moves they made. They

2391
01:59:00,480 --> 01:59:03,400
Speaker 1: made these near pursuing Brady, but they traded for Trey Turner,

2392
01:59:03,480 --> 01:59:06,200
Speaker 1: the right guard from the Panthers, who's an excellent player.

2393
01:59:06,680 --> 01:59:09,520
Speaker 1: They signed Brian Bullock and free agency or right tackle.

2394
01:59:09,600 --> 01:59:12,160
Speaker 1: It's a blind side protective for a left hamp quarterback

2395
01:59:12,240 --> 01:59:15,640
Speaker 1: like Tua, and that's more by circumstances, I think, than strategic.

2396
01:59:17,520 --> 01:59:20,480
Speaker 1: But yeah, so whether it be Herbert, whether it be Twa,

2397
01:59:20,640 --> 01:59:22,920
Speaker 1: I think they'll be involved in the TA sueep stakes.

2398
01:59:23,360 --> 01:59:25,880
Speaker 1: We'll see they'd have to get ahead of Miami five.

2399
01:59:27,760 --> 01:59:30,880
Speaker 1: So we'll see what they're willing to really do by

2400
01:59:31,000 --> 01:59:33,600
Speaker 1: getting up to number two or three from five or six.

2401
01:59:34,400 --> 01:59:36,440
Speaker 1: Is it nearly as hard as climbing up from someplace

2402
01:59:36,520 --> 01:59:39,520
Speaker 1: like with the Raiders, who might have some interest, would

2403
01:59:39,520 --> 01:59:41,000
Speaker 1: have to come from to get up high enough to

2404
01:59:41,040 --> 01:59:44,000
Speaker 1: get him. So I would think absolutely the Chargers are

2405
01:59:44,040 --> 01:59:46,360
Speaker 1: are in the TA and Herbert in the Herbert Hunt.

2406
01:59:47,440 --> 01:59:50,080
Speaker 1: Speaking of two attack of eye Looy, he came out

2407
01:59:50,200 --> 01:59:52,560
Speaker 1: and last week and got an all clear on his

2408
01:59:52,680 --> 01:59:54,640
Speaker 1: four month physical, and certainly he's got a long way

2409
01:59:54,680 --> 01:59:57,240
Speaker 1: to go to rehab and all of that, but he

2410
01:59:57,560 --> 02:00:00,080
Speaker 1: looks to be progressing in such a way as that

2411
02:00:00,160 --> 02:00:03,720
Speaker 1: a team would think maybe that hip injury received last

2412
02:00:03,800 --> 02:00:06,840
Speaker 1: year isn't such a big stumbling block now. Certainly he

2413
02:00:06,920 --> 02:00:12,080
Speaker 1: has a history of a number of injuries, but does

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02:00:12,360 --> 02:00:15,400
Speaker 1: that how does that enter into the draft equation for

2415
02:00:15,520 --> 02:00:17,480
Speaker 1: this year with two and the teams that are pursuing

2416
02:00:17,520 --> 02:00:20,840
Speaker 1: a quarterback. Yeah, look, he's probably gonna be a top

2417
02:00:20,880 --> 02:00:23,120
Speaker 1: five pick. And you think about we just talked about

2418
02:00:23,200 --> 02:00:26,960
Speaker 1: the Chargers and the Dolphins. Cave got bridge quarterbacks. The

2419
02:00:27,120 --> 02:00:31,800
Speaker 1: Chargers have Tyrod Taylor, whom they really really like. Okay,

2420
02:00:32,000 --> 02:00:34,320
Speaker 1: so if they draft twa and Taylor have to play

2421
02:00:34,360 --> 02:00:36,760
Speaker 1: eight games or a full season to give to a

2422
02:00:36,880 --> 02:00:40,000
Speaker 1: full red shirt year, no skin off of their nose.

2423
02:00:40,280 --> 02:00:43,800
Speaker 1: Same with the Dolphins and Ryan Fitzpatrick. So I think

2424
02:00:43,960 --> 02:00:46,440
Speaker 1: that's part of the thinking as well by those teams.

2425
02:00:47,240 --> 02:00:49,640
Speaker 1: You know, we're certain to keep those players around just

2426
02:00:49,840 --> 02:00:52,800
Speaker 1: in case of the circumstances like this played out. And

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02:00:52,920 --> 02:00:56,160
Speaker 1: here's another one again, I mentioned the Raiders. Again, I

2428
02:00:56,200 --> 02:00:58,040
Speaker 1: think it's a long shot they get into the two

2429
02:00:58,080 --> 02:01:01,760
Speaker 1: of suite stakes, but they're sign of Marcus Mariota has

2430
02:01:01,760 --> 02:01:04,120
Speaker 1: a lot of layers. One Mike Mayock, the jam loved

2431
02:01:04,200 --> 02:01:07,760
Speaker 1: him coming out of college. He's right now the schedule

2432
02:01:07,840 --> 02:01:11,280
Speaker 1: backup for Derek Carr. But let's not forget ever since

2433
02:01:11,360 --> 02:01:14,680
Speaker 1: Mariota was in the eleventh grade and Tua was in

2434
02:01:14,800 --> 02:01:17,960
Speaker 1: grade school over in Honolulu, they have been like a

2435
02:01:18,080 --> 02:01:21,360
Speaker 1: big brother and big sister. Marcus has been a mentor

2436
02:01:21,440 --> 02:01:24,160
Speaker 1: for him. Tua went to the same high school as

2437
02:01:24,280 --> 02:01:28,920
Speaker 1: Marcus because of Marcus and their relationship again is significant.

2438
02:01:29,280 --> 02:01:31,680
Speaker 1: So should the Raiders find a way to move Derek Carr,

2439
02:01:31,760 --> 02:01:36,400
Speaker 1: You've got a Mariota to a mentorship going in place

2440
02:01:36,520 --> 02:01:40,320
Speaker 1: in that quarterback room. So that's also something a dynamic

2441
02:01:40,400 --> 02:01:42,320
Speaker 1: to kind of keep an eye on occasion draft starts

2442
02:01:42,320 --> 02:01:45,240
Speaker 1: getting a little bit funky. You see, the last thing

2443
02:01:45,280 --> 02:01:48,240
Speaker 1: I got for you is the draft scheduling itself. The

2444
02:01:48,280 --> 02:01:51,840
Speaker 1: commissioners sort of doubled down on April twenty third as

2445
02:01:51,880 --> 02:01:54,320
Speaker 1: the day for the draft to begin. What's driving the

2446
02:01:54,400 --> 02:01:56,760
Speaker 1: league's insistence that it has to take place next month?

2447
02:01:56,840 --> 02:01:59,480
Speaker 1: What do you think? Yeah, I think it's the same

2448
02:01:59,600 --> 02:02:03,080
Speaker 1: thing that played ended up starting free agency when it did,

2449
02:02:03,360 --> 02:02:06,360
Speaker 1: and that's there's no guarantee if they delay it for

2450
02:02:06,440 --> 02:02:08,200
Speaker 1: two weeks and things are going to be any different

2451
02:02:08,240 --> 02:02:11,320
Speaker 1: in the world, So they're kind of like, we might

2452
02:02:11,360 --> 02:02:13,800
Speaker 1: as well go ahead and do it now. That's all

2453
02:02:13,880 --> 02:02:16,000
Speaker 1: that definitely approach they took were free agency. When people

2454
02:02:16,000 --> 02:02:18,320
Speaker 1: are like, why are you starting it on time? And

2455
02:02:18,440 --> 02:02:20,400
Speaker 1: they're feeling was Okay, so we delay it two or

2456
02:02:20,480 --> 02:02:22,960
Speaker 1: three weeks, we might still be in the same boat.

2457
02:02:23,120 --> 02:02:25,839
Speaker 1: So let's just go ahead and get it done. Clearly,

2458
02:02:25,920 --> 02:02:28,280
Speaker 1: the draft is not going to be in the same setup.

2459
02:02:28,320 --> 02:02:30,360
Speaker 1: You're going to the commission on a television studio or

2460
02:02:30,440 --> 02:02:33,680
Speaker 1: someplace calling out a name, and everything's gonna be done,

2461
02:02:34,000 --> 02:02:38,880
Speaker 1: you know, virtually, so to speak. But yeah, I mean,

2462
02:02:38,920 --> 02:02:41,680
Speaker 1: I think that's that's driving it one percent, is they

2463
02:02:41,720 --> 02:02:43,920
Speaker 1: just don't know the circumstances of what the world is

2464
02:02:43,920 --> 02:02:46,120
Speaker 1: going to be like. So just go ahead and do

2465
02:02:46,240 --> 02:02:49,360
Speaker 1: it and carry on. You know. Now again when players

2466
02:02:49,400 --> 02:02:50,760
Speaker 1: are going to get into camps and all that, and

2467
02:02:50,920 --> 02:02:54,480
Speaker 1: nobody knows, that's probably gonna be pushedback for weeks, if

2468
02:02:54,560 --> 02:02:57,840
Speaker 1: not months. But you know that all depends on how

2469
02:02:57,880 --> 02:02:59,880
Speaker 1: all of us kind of handle ourselves to try to

2470
02:03:00,040 --> 02:03:02,040
Speaker 1: Latin the curve and to get through this as soon

2471
02:03:02,080 --> 02:03:05,720
Speaker 1: as possible. Hey, Steve, thanks for this sanct going so

2472
02:03:05,800 --> 02:03:08,080
Speaker 1: long with us. Say, we appreciate it. Take care of yourself,

2473
02:03:08,120 --> 02:03:11,160
Speaker 1: be healthy. You two appreciate you having me on guys.

2474
02:03:12,040 --> 02:03:16,520
Speaker 1: Thanks Thanks Steve. Steve White's NFL Network host, analyst, reporter,

2475
02:03:16,720 --> 02:03:19,320
Speaker 1: NFL dot Com senior writer, joining us down the line

2476
02:03:19,400 --> 02:03:22,080
Speaker 1: from Los Angeles. That's the best answer I've heard, and

2477
02:03:22,160 --> 02:03:24,280
Speaker 1: you kind of hated it that earlier today see the

2478
02:03:24,360 --> 02:03:27,000
Speaker 1: best answer I've heard explanation wise of why the league

2479
02:03:27,080 --> 02:03:30,000
Speaker 1: is sort of insisting that the draft take place Aprom

2480
02:03:30,040 --> 02:03:32,480
Speaker 1: twenty three. Yeah, there's no guarantee it'll be any different

2481
02:03:33,200 --> 02:03:35,520
Speaker 1: twenty third or May twenty third. Right, may as well

2482
02:03:35,600 --> 02:03:37,200
Speaker 1: do it, and may as well do it now. And

2483
02:03:37,640 --> 02:03:39,400
Speaker 1: like I told you too, I don't think they'll get

2484
02:03:39,440 --> 02:03:42,320
Speaker 1: any pushback from it from the general public. They can

2485
02:03:42,400 --> 02:03:44,520
Speaker 1: certainly do it in a safe manner, in a social

2486
02:03:44,640 --> 02:03:47,760
Speaker 1: distancing manner, in an environment that we're living in right now,

2487
02:03:47,840 --> 02:03:51,480
Speaker 1: and get it done. It won't be the media spectacle

2488
02:03:51,560 --> 02:03:53,160
Speaker 1: that it has been in the past, but it wasn't

2489
02:03:53,200 --> 02:03:55,400
Speaker 1: for decades, Murph, and the league was fine without it.

2490
02:03:56,240 --> 02:03:58,840
Speaker 1: I think people will be clamoring for it to happen.

2491
02:03:58,960 --> 02:04:01,080
Speaker 1: I know I will be. I'll be waiting for it

2492
02:04:01,200 --> 02:04:05,240
Speaker 1: with as much anticipation as I ever do. And the

2493
02:04:05,320 --> 02:04:08,120
Speaker 1: only difference is that you and I won't have parties

2494
02:04:08,160 --> 02:04:11,120
Speaker 1: to MC and make charge of right. So I wonder

2495
02:04:11,200 --> 02:04:13,320
Speaker 1: if we without the Bills having a first round pick,

2496
02:04:14,440 --> 02:04:18,240
Speaker 1: do we have to work that night what do you think, Jake,

2497
02:04:18,320 --> 02:04:21,280
Speaker 1: I think, I think no. I mean trying to say

2498
02:04:21,320 --> 02:04:25,680
Speaker 1: I'm I'm no. Well, we're a Friday night second round,

2499
02:04:25,760 --> 02:04:29,200
Speaker 1: third round shot our Twitter poll today and we're wrapping

2500
02:04:29,280 --> 02:04:31,040
Speaker 1: that up. But you still time to get in a

2501
02:04:31,120 --> 02:04:33,360
Speaker 1: vote on the tweet sheet, still time to get in

2502
02:04:33,440 --> 02:04:34,880
Speaker 1: a vote in the Twitter poll, and maybe you want

2503
02:04:34,880 --> 02:04:36,960
Speaker 1: to give us a call the Bills and Steve Whitech

2504
02:04:37,000 --> 02:04:38,760
Speaker 1: had a good answer for this too, getting good at

2505
02:04:38,800 --> 02:04:43,080
Speaker 1: one and two year deals the biggest Yeah, the r

2506
02:04:44,200 --> 02:04:46,840
Speaker 1: murch page just tweeted eight murch got frozen here. We

2507
02:04:46,880 --> 02:04:49,800
Speaker 1: are the biggest thing, the biggest thing about the Bills

2508
02:04:49,840 --> 02:04:51,840
Speaker 1: signing one. He's going to go through the tweet sheet

2509
02:04:51,840 --> 02:04:54,520
Speaker 1: and he'll be on U in back in just a moment.

2510
02:04:54,640 --> 02:04:57,280
Speaker 1: Let me just go through the U the tweet sheet

2511
02:04:57,360 --> 02:05:00,320
Speaker 1: here or the Twitter poll and go over the the

2512
02:05:01,960 --> 02:05:04,560
Speaker 1: percentages the Bills are mastering the one and two year deals.

2513
02:05:04,640 --> 02:05:06,440
Speaker 1: What's the biggest strategy for this reason? This was our

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Speaker 1: Twitter poll. We've got a ton of responses about it

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Speaker 1: and most people most people say, you know, it's because

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Speaker 1: it's just getting the most out of players. It get

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Speaker 1: highly motivates and thirty nine percent of you say that,

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Speaker 1: thirty one percent of you say you know it narrows

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Speaker 1: the championship window under Josh Allen's rookie contract. Thirty one

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Speaker 1: percent of you agree with that, and twenty six percent

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Speaker 1: of you think it is the Buffalo Bills kind of

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Speaker 1: staying ahead of the rest of the NFL and getting

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Speaker 1: after that of how it is to manage your salary

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Speaker 1: cap and stay ahead of the of the roster motivation stuff.

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Speaker 1: Twenty six percent of you say it's just the smartest

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Speaker 1: way to do it in today's NFL, and the Bills

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Speaker 1: are leading the curve Murphy, you're back with us. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what happened. Sorry about that, all right.

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Speaker 1: I just went through that and it You know about

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Speaker 1: the Bills and the single year contracts, most people think

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Speaker 1: it's just the proved deals. I think it's just the

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Speaker 1: most to get the best way to get the most

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Speaker 1: out of a player. One of the reasons that didn't

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Speaker 1: happen back in the day before free agency was if

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Speaker 1: a guy did come in have a great year used

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Speaker 1: the one year deal. A player didn't wouldn't accept the

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Speaker 1: one year deal because then he was at the mercy

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Speaker 1: of the club. They still had his rights if his

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Speaker 1: contract wore out, and even after free agency, most players

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Speaker 1: wanted you know, everybody's after guaranteed money. But if there's

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Speaker 1: so many players out there who are not household names,

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Speaker 1: who are contributors, and the rosters are big enough to

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Speaker 1: have room for enough of those guys that it makes

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Speaker 1: sense for them to keep their own contracts short term.

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Speaker 1: So what I guess what I'm saying is for the

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Speaker 1: first time in history, or this first era in history,

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Speaker 1: where players are perfectly willing to take short term contracts. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and do that we can. I say this too, and

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Speaker 1: these are just ideas that I have, But I do

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Speaker 1: think about this stuff. I think the public perception of

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Speaker 1: free agency has changed, and it might be less important

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Speaker 1: to fans now than it was. I don't know fifteen

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Speaker 1: years ago, when when did the Bills get involved in

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Speaker 1: the Murray Williams thing? What was that? Ten twelve years ago?

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Speaker 1: Let me look it up. Back then, Steve, free agency

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Speaker 1: was big. It was viewed as your opportunity to improve

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Speaker 1: your team and to make a big difference, and to

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Speaker 1: sign your guy and make a mark. And I think

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Speaker 1: that fans now are more mature, I guess, and just more. Um,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, they just look at it differently. You know.

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Speaker 1: Mario Williams came to the Bills and how long ago

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Speaker 1: was that? Eight years? Let me look. But back then

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Speaker 1: it was like a civic thing, like this guy got

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Speaker 1: a sign with us. It was twenty and twelve, so

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Speaker 1: eight years ago. Back then it was a big deal.

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Speaker 1: And now I think people are like, hey, let's be

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Speaker 1: smart and free agency. Who cares to be make a

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Speaker 1: big splash? Who cares of Everybody in the NFL is

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Speaker 1: watching what you're doing, you know, And it's not about

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Speaker 1: trying to win a championship in the month of March.

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Speaker 1: It's about making good, smart moves and fiscally responsible moves.

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Speaker 1: I don't think. I think people have a much better

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Speaker 1: handle on what free agency is about now than they

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Speaker 1: did eight years ago. I think teams do as well.

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Speaker 1: I think, no question too, Murphy. It's not like I

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Speaker 1: don't want to go, you know, too much down this

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Speaker 1: rabbit hole. But it's not about to selling tickets anymore,

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Speaker 1: you know. I remember when I remember back in the

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Speaker 1: day Ralph Wilson signed OJ Simpson back remember OJ was

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Speaker 1: gonna leave, and the day he signed OJ, there was

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Speaker 1: a line around the block for season tickets. Well, he

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Speaker 1: made the money back the same day he signed the contract.

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Speaker 1: You know, that doesn't happen anymore, not with the way

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Speaker 1: the economics of the league works. It's not about selling

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Speaker 1: tickets for these teams, and it's not about making a

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Speaker 1: big splash. What they know is they've got a certain

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Speaker 1: level of value they've got to get out of a player,

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Speaker 1: and if they signed him to one of these crazy deals,

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Speaker 1: they'll never live up to the numbers on that contract.

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Speaker 1: Levion Bell's never gonna make the money that the Jets

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Speaker 1: have already paid him. It's just impossible. And the teams

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Speaker 1: are starting to get to the point where, no matter

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Speaker 1: how good the guy is, he's gonna have to play

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Speaker 1: that way every year to justify it. And it's just

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Speaker 1: not possible. Yeah, I think fans and everybody's a little

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Speaker 1: bit more, a little bit more tuned into that fact. Now,

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Speaker 1: all right, we're going to take a break here, we're

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Speaker 1: coming back. It's One Bill's Live, presented by Kalaida hel

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Speaker 1: Steam tasker John Murphy, and this is Buffalo Bill's read.

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Speaker 1: So what are we learning from today's show? Brought to

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bill's Great Cosell of ESPN NFL Matchup joined

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Speaker 1: us talk about the Bills signing offensive lineman Darryl william yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I think Williams is the more interesting guy because Williams

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Speaker 1: has a lot of starting experience in the NFL. And again,

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Speaker 1: did they see him inside? I know this just happened,

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Speaker 1: and I know what the situation as it is. It's

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Speaker 1: not as if you're around the building and everybody's around

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Speaker 1: the building. But here's a guy who's played right tackle.

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Speaker 1: I think a few years ago he was a stuff

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Speaker 1: full time starter right tackle. He's played left tackle. He's

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Speaker 1: played both guard positions, so essentially he can line up

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Speaker 1: in pretty much any tackle position or guard position. He's

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Speaker 1: played every offensive line position other than center. So I

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Speaker 1: don't know if they see him as a as a

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Speaker 1: sort of a rotational journeyman guy, or if they see

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Speaker 1: him as competing for a starting job. Yeah, we'll find out,

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Speaker 1: I think as the weeks go on. Dean Marlow joined

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Speaker 1: us on the show today, just signed to a new

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Speaker 1: contract with the Bills. Talk about his decision to resign

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Speaker 1: with the Bills. There's no other better fit for me

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Speaker 1: that me and my agent thought about. And you know,

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Speaker 1: knowing that McDermott has been in my career, my entire career,

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Speaker 1: it's just been the best fit and it's been the

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Speaker 1: best fit for me, my family on our end, and

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Speaker 1: just the culture and the organization, everything has just been

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Speaker 1: a blessing for it. There you go, Dean Marlow, Steve,

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Speaker 1: good to talk to you. We're almost out of time,

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Speaker 1: but another great job by you this week. Have a

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Speaker 1: great Weekend's day healthy and we'll talk on Monday. Look

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Speaker 1: forward to Monday, Murph, have a great weekend you too.

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Speaker 1: our producer Jay Harris. Have a good weekend. Everybody's Stay Healthy.

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