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Speaker 1: here we go. Welcome to a new week. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: Orchard Park. Snowy Orchard Park, a little bit of light

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Speaker 1: at afternoon. Welcome to the show One Bills Live from

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Speaker 1: One Bills Drive. I'm John Murphy. Ready to go for

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Speaker 1: five three hour shows this Weeknoon to Dream Monday through Friday,

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Speaker 1: with a special guest the first three days here this week.

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Speaker 1: Job Scallia, sports director at WKBW TV Channel seven here

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Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Good afternoon, Joe, Thanks for coming about. No problem, Murph.

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Speaker 1: I know you guys are sacrificing, you know, Pro Bowls

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Speaker 1: more of a prototypical guy. Yeah you are. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: the last four seasons for the Patriots. Seven starts over

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Speaker 1: the last two years for the defending Super Bowl champions

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Speaker 1: lay Adrian Waddle six six, three hundred and fifteen pounds

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Speaker 1: with the tie and Secky and Feliciano and of course

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Speaker 1: Morse who's on the show with us later Spencer long shoot.

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Speaker 1: That could be your five starting offensive lineman right there.

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Speaker 1: The guys I just mentioned the guys just added the

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Speaker 1: last two weeks, right, and that leads to a different discussion,

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Speaker 1: which is what do you do with Dean Dawkins and

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Speaker 1: where does he go from here? Now? I did Brandon

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Speaker 1: ban came on the podcast I Do with with Matthew

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Speaker 1: Fairburn the Bills beat, and I asked him, like, where

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Speaker 1: does where does Dion line up at this point? He's like,

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Speaker 1: if they had to go out today, it would be

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Speaker 1: at left. But it's still nothing has decided in that respect.

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Speaker 1: And he echoed the sentiment that they want to put

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Speaker 1: the five best guys out there and there wasn't necessarily

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Speaker 1: a commitment to Dion Dawkins in any way, shape or form,

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Speaker 1: and just so it can throw this in go ahead.

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Speaker 1: The addition of two, not one, but two new offensive

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Speaker 1: mind coaches makes it even more un for sure, Yes, definitely,

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Speaker 1: I mean he hasked to impress Bobby Johnson. And there's

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Speaker 1: also this Brandon Bean didn't draft Dion Dawkins. I mean

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Speaker 1: that was a I was a Sean McDermott selection based

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Speaker 1: on the intel of Doug Whaley and his staff that

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Speaker 1: he did all year long. But there's not He's not

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Speaker 1: beholden to either Dion Dawkins or is a Jones for

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Speaker 1: that matter. If we want to go down the wide

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Speaker 1: receiver stream. But since we're talking O line, I mean,

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Speaker 1: Wyatt Teller is gonna have to earn it. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: have to beat one of Spencer Long or John Felicia

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Speaker 1: to beat l Adrian Waddle or or tie. And Zecki.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think Zecki starts no matter what. But

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Speaker 1: make an argument about both. It's gonna be interesting to

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Speaker 1: see how that shakes out. I'm I'm such a one

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Speaker 1: to watch like depth charts, be the stakes be that

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Speaker 1: high at training camp. I'm already pumped up. What is

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Speaker 1: it March eighteenth, pump, Let's go. So they added another

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Speaker 1: offensive lineman, the fourth signed in a week. The fifth

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Speaker 1: of weeks, five offensive lineman, one tight end, one running back,

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Speaker 1: one cornerback, and two wide receivers Joe and two good

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Speaker 1: signings I thought last week, John Brown and Cole Beasley.

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Speaker 1: But it brings us to the question of the day,

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Speaker 1: when we're gonna take phone calls on to at least

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Speaker 1: start today, is that enough? Or do the Bills keep

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Speaker 1: their eye on wide receivers in the draft? That's our

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Speaker 1: TWI poll, that's our topic of the day. Is wide

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Speaker 1: receivers still in need for the Bills in the draft?

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Speaker 1: You can give us a call, let us know what

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Speaker 1: do you think eight oh three oh five fifty or

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Speaker 1: fifty or you can tweet it in at one Bills Live.

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Speaker 1: Is wide receivers still in need for the Bills? On

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Speaker 1: the Twitter poll right now? Yeah, three quarters off you

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Speaker 1: say yeah it is still need. Seventy seven percent say yes,

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Speaker 1: twenty three percent, say no, A couple of ways to

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Speaker 1: interpret this, and maybe I would like to narrow it

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Speaker 1: down to this, is wide receivers still a first round

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Speaker 1: priority for the Bills in the draft. Well, you can

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Speaker 1: handle it any way you want. What do you think,

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Speaker 1: Jay Joe that those are two entirely different questions because

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Speaker 1: when a lot of a lot of mock drafts out there,

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Speaker 1: and not to say you put stock in the mock drafts.

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Speaker 1: I'm a mock drafter, so I will not I will

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Speaker 1: not criticize them. But before free agency comes along, there

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Speaker 1: are a lot of people were putting DK back half

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Speaker 1: there and because he is the top guy, he blew

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Speaker 1: away the combine and all these different metrics. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's huge, it seems like he has potential. But they

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Speaker 1: went out and they signed both Beasley and John Brown.

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Speaker 1: They essentially could be viewed as one year deals because

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Speaker 1: they can get out from them the way that the

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Speaker 1: details of the contract work out. But they also have

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Speaker 1: a Jones and Robert Foster. So those are four guys.

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Speaker 1: That's their top four right now. If they were to sign,

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Speaker 1: if they were to draft somebody in the first round,

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Speaker 1: you better be darn sure you're getting that guy some

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Speaker 1: time on the field and in his first season. Otherwise

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Speaker 1: you have a John Ross Cincinnati situation, which not good

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Speaker 1: for anybody. Yeah, but I think wide receiver, if you

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Speaker 1: look at it as more of a best player of available,

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Speaker 1: maybe add one day two, early day three. I think

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Speaker 1: there's there's an argument to be made for that because

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Speaker 1: they could still use a young receiver to develop. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Cole Beasley is thirty, John Brown is what gonna be

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Speaker 1: twenty eight. I mean these are not potentially long, long

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Speaker 1: term answers. So if you could find someone that has

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Speaker 1: develop in the background. Look, the number one name everybody

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Speaker 1: knows right now, and it's just in name only is

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Speaker 1: DK Metcalf. After his combine performance, I've said on this

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Speaker 1: show last week, actually Brownie was kind of breaking me

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Speaker 1: over the calls. I said, Hey, I'm going to spend

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Speaker 1: learn everything I can about DK Metcalf Because of his

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Speaker 1: combine performance, I think, and you would know more than me,

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Speaker 1: But I think Metcalf has a potential to be a

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Speaker 1: difference making receiver in this league for a long time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: like Julio Jones or AJ Green or somebody like that.

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Speaker 1: But I want to know more he's got potential to

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Speaker 1: do that. I want to know. You know, I understand

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Speaker 1: the injury history at ole Miss, and I understand I

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Speaker 1: don't understand the lack of real solid production from him

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Speaker 1: in terms of catches. I want to know more about

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Speaker 1: that before I commit to him. But based on what

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Speaker 1: you saw at the combine, you'd have to be interested

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Speaker 1: in him as a potential first round pick for the

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Speaker 1: Pills who desperately need, as you point out, maybe a

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Speaker 1: longer term answer at wide receiver. His height, weight speed

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Speaker 1: combo is ridiculous, explosive wars are ridiculous. But his change

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Speaker 1: of direction scores were among the worst. Yeah, and I'm

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Speaker 1: not I'm not telling you anything new, but metcalf there,

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Speaker 1: you have to you have to wonder if that is

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Speaker 1: something that Brandon Bean would value with the top ten pick.

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Speaker 1: And we hear him talk about a lot about premium players,

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Speaker 1: premium positions and the three that he continually brings up

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Speaker 1: our quarterback, which they have offensive line and defensive line,

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Speaker 1: getting pressure on the passer and I I mean, I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't rule it out by any means. I still have

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Speaker 1: to do more work on DK Metcalf only I've only

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Speaker 1: watched one, I think two maybe of his games. But

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Speaker 1: this is for the Bills. I almost think taking a

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Speaker 1: wide receiver in the first round after the offseason that

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Speaker 1: they just had might be a little frivolous um What

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Speaker 1: they do, yeah, because they have four players that they

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Speaker 1: believe in right now and shivers yes, Cole Beasley, John Brown,

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Speaker 1: Zay Jones, and Robert Foster, and that they want to

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Speaker 1: get time to. And what they don't have right now

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Speaker 1: is a pass rusher that can get to the quarterback

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Speaker 1: that's signed past twenty nineteen. And they don't have a

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Speaker 1: three technique defensive tackle worthy enough of starting because I

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Speaker 1: don't believe Doran Phillips is a starter. So there's a

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Speaker 1: there's a lot that they have to iron out on

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Speaker 1: that side of the ball. And you could say, do

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Speaker 1: starting guard on the roster right? And they had issues

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Speaker 1: questions anyway up front? All right, that's interesting and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about that. We want to hear from you.

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Speaker 1: Is receivers still a need, maybe even a priority, an

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Speaker 1: early priority for the Bills in the draft coming up

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Speaker 1: in the at the end of April. Give us a call.

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Speaker 1: We got lines open eight o three five fifty and

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Speaker 1: toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: It can tweet in a response. You can vote in

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Speaker 1: the Twitter poll and One Bills Live or tweet in

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Speaker 1: your response. We've got some some responses to read on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. All right, Joe b is here, ready

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Speaker 1: to go. You're ready to go. Joe always is wide

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Speaker 1: your sirius, still need for the Bills in the draft.

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Speaker 1: Let us know what you think. We're coming back to

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Speaker 1: get that rolling. Come on back One Bill's Live. John

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Speaker 1: Murphy with Jobascali coming here from One Bills Drive and

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Speaker 1: this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back One Bill's Live

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive, John Murphy, Joba Scalia here in

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Speaker 1: place of Steve Tasker for the next couple of day.

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Speaker 1: Steve's coming back a week from today. Talking about We

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Speaker 1: talked about it for the last twenty five minutes or so.

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Speaker 1: The Bill is set up to the upcoming season, the

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Speaker 1: draft five weeks five and a half weeks away now

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Speaker 1: and is wide receiver is still a priority? That's our

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Speaker 1: question of the day. Is wide receiver receiver is still

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Speaker 1: a need for the Bills in the draft, and maybe

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Speaker 1: you want to take it as far as it is

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Speaker 1: a first or second round need. Give us a column,

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Speaker 1: we'll discuss eight oh three five fifty, toll free one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty or twitter

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Speaker 1: at one Bills lives from the tweet cheet Joe, and

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Speaker 1: this first one on the tweet sheet sort of echoes

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Speaker 1: what you said in a minute ago. Jake Bell says

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Speaker 1: a need. No, we have five that are almost locks

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Speaker 1: to make the rosters Zay, Foster, Brown, Beasley and Roberts.

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Speaker 1: Though anything can happened, definitely would not be opposed to

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Speaker 1: drafting one. But don't think it's a priority that sounds reasonable. Yes, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I don't. I don't know that i'd even lump

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Speaker 1: Andre Roberts into the wide receiver room. I think he

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Speaker 1: is special teams only type of guy. If anything, I

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Speaker 1: would say, I can't want to hear that the other day,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure. But McKenzie, I think is probably gonna try

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Speaker 1: to be that that fifth wide receiver. But he's gonna

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Speaker 1: he's gonna have to shure up those hands if if

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Speaker 1: he's gonna do it from Spence on the tweet sheet,

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Speaker 1: I think everyone is forgetting on or sleep forgetting about

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Speaker 1: or sleeping on Duke Johnson. We don't need another receiver

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Speaker 1: Duke Johnson, the CFL import, big bodied guy. Spence is

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Speaker 1: sleeping on Duke William's name. That's dred it's Duke Williams.

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Speaker 1: You're right, it's Kea. I know, we mix things up sometimes.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that he's a factor. He's gonna need

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Speaker 1: a really good camp. I think he's on a reserve

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Speaker 1: futures contract. And I know because he's big. He put

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Speaker 1: up a lot of stats in the CFL. Everybody's like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Duke Williams. But he's going to have to earn it.

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Speaker 1: And there's no guarantee that he makes the roster. I

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Speaker 1: mean maybe maybe a practice squad guy. Maybe you bring

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Speaker 1: him along, but I mean he's going to have to

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Speaker 1: do some things to crack this roster. This Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: a major transition, different game, different especially for wide receivers.

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Speaker 1: Maybe more important to wide receivers than anybody else. And

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Speaker 1: and he's the type of guy that he's going to

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Speaker 1: have to show that he can consistently separate because he's

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Speaker 1: a bigger guy. He wins at the point, you know what,

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Speaker 1: with a jump ball type of acumen. Is not the

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Speaker 1: fastest guy. So he's going to show that he can

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Speaker 1: consistently separate. And if he can do that, and Joe,

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Speaker 1: he can make plays during the preseason, then he's got

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Speaker 1: a shot. But there is no guarantee whatsoever that he

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Speaker 1: even makes the roster in twenty nineteen. Okay, and one

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Speaker 1: more from the tweet cheat from Djimo. When we asked

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Speaker 1: a question, is wide receiver is still a need for

643
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Speaker 1: the Bills in the draft, he says one percent. Yes,

644
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Speaker 1: we need a true number one receiver, which do not

645
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Speaker 1: come easy in trade or free agency. This is a

646
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Speaker 1: discussion we've had a little bit, Joe in the last

647
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 1: six days since um since John Brown agreed to terms

648
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 1: with the Bills, and everybody knows Cole Beasley is a

649
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,479
Speaker 1: is a slot guy. Is John Brown and number one receiver?

650
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: I've listened to and appreciate those who say absolutely not.

651
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,040
Speaker 1: He has not been I would agree throughout his career yet,

652
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: but I do think he has potential to expand himself

653
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: into that type of you know, every down outside guy

654
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: maybe inside once in a while, can run good routes,

655
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: can get open deep. I think John Brown could be

656
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 1: the classic number one receiver. I agree, he has not

657
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 1: demonstrated that yet in his NFL career. Am I crazy? Um?

658
00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: Maybe only a little? I mean I like John Brown,

659
00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: I really do. I love him when when in his

660
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: first season with Arizona he was great and I think

661
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: he gets a bum rap that he's only a deep

662
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: deep ball receiver. Agree. I think he's his ability with

663
00:31:54,240 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 1: his footwork and getting in and out of his breaks,

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Speaker 1: especially in the underneath area. He can set some people

665
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Speaker 1: up and that's a part of his game that not

666
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,480
Speaker 1: a lot of people talk about. But it's the deep

667
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: ball stuff because he does track it very well. He

668
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: can get around basically any cornerback out there, and so

669
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: he's going to be up for a lot of a

670
00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: lot of receptions this year. However, I think the Bills

671
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: in their mind with how they want it to run

672
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Speaker 1: with Josh Allen, is that they don't have a number one.

673
00:32:22,480 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 1: That they're not going to the filter receptions and targets

674
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:31,960
Speaker 1: to any one player, and that's by design. I mean,

675
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: if if we're looking at Brian Dable and where he

676
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: came from, it is not a number one heavy receiver

677
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 1: sort of environment. I mean, New England has not been

678
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: that for years, Not since Randy Moss have they been that.

679
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: And I think for me, having a guy like John

680
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: Brown who can go down and track those deep passes

681
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: from Josh Allen, Cole Beasley who can win with incredible

682
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: footwork in the slot area, and then Zay Jones who

683
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:01,479
Speaker 1: has to show that he and consistently win like he

684
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: did in the in the final quarter of the season

685
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: or so. Now Robert Foster chipping in is what I

686
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:07,800
Speaker 1: think is probably going to be the fourth wide receiver

687
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,760
Speaker 1: on the roster and come in for about maybe like

688
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,400
Speaker 1: fifty percent of snaps or something like that. If they

689
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: can find some success and just have Josh Allen disperse

690
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: the ball, that's a great atmosphere for him because he

691
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:26,280
Speaker 1: doesn't have to worry about getting anyone guy his targets.

692
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: And while I went to bat for Odell Beckham because

693
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: I think he is phenomenal at the football and I

694
00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: think he's the most talented player ride receiver in the league.

695
00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: If you can't get an Odell Beckham. If you can't

696
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:40,840
Speaker 1: get an Antonio Brown, I think the way that the

697
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 1: Bills are doing it is perfectly Okay. Yeah, I think

698
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: about that for a minut And John Brown, I like

699
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,440
Speaker 1: what you said too about he's I think he's a

700
00:33:48,440 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 1: little bit undervalued in terms of some fans. Mind. Look,

701
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: he is a speed guy too, but he's not Robert Foster.

702
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: He's got a much more complete game than like a

703
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,240
Speaker 1: Robert Foster has. He's already demonstrating that in his career,

704
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: which is why I think it's a potential to be

705
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 1: eight teams leading receiver. I will leave out the phrase

706
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 1: a number one. He could lead your team in receptions

707
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: and could catch a variety of passes, not just deep

708
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 1: you know, goes or anything. He could catch a variety

709
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 1: of passes because I think he's that accomplished already in

710
00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: his career, and he's that skilled. I think he's a

711
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:20,359
Speaker 1: really good player. And I agree. You know, he doesn't

712
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: put up numbers like a number one receiver might yet

713
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Speaker 1: in his career. You know, he might have Last year

714
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: had they not made the quarterback switch in Baltimore. He

715
00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 1: was really kind of trending towards a really big year

716
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,319
Speaker 1: for him last year. But we'll see. We'll see how

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00:34:33,360 --> 00:34:35,799
Speaker 1: that goes. As wide receiver still a need for the

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00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. What do you think? Eight oh three five

719
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Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight five fifty two five fifty.

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Speaker 1: Jerry on the line, Go ahead, Jerry around the ear. Okay,

721
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Speaker 1: here we go again. Problems with the calls again, Jerry,

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00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: are you there? Let's try Lynnwood from New Jersey. Are

723
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:59,320
Speaker 1: you there? Lynnwood? Great, we'll try to get calls on this.

724
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: We can go for so back to the tweet sheet

725
00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: from Team Many twenty two, his wide receiver is still

726
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 1: a need for the Bills. In the NFL Draft Team

727
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: Many twenty two, I chose no. They have five guys

728
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: ready to already a lock to make the team Cole Brown,

729
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: Za Foster, and Roberts. That leaves a battle between Duke McKenzie,

730
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 1: McLeod and others for the final spot. If they really

731
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 1: like someone that's available in a round three or later,

732
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,359
Speaker 1: maybe they take him, but it's not a need. Yeah.

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00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:30,640
Speaker 1: I agree with his logic there. I don't think Ray

734
00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 1: Ray McLoud has a shot at this roster. He did

735
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,839
Speaker 1: he did nothing with his opportunities last year, and it

736
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: wasn't like he was separating at a high clip. I mean,

737
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,359
Speaker 1: his special team's work was not great. I mean he's

738
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:44,280
Speaker 1: gonna have to make a vast improvement in his second

739
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 1: year in order to make this team outright. One word

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00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 1: from the tweet sheets sipping the kool aid frequent tweeter,

741
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 1: I think they still need to draft a wide receiver,

742
00:35:51,560 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: but I definitely do not want them to use a

743
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 1: first round pick on one. I'd like to see them

744
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 1: draft Miles Boykin him and Notre Dame and develop him.

745
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 1: He's a big frame guy, ran a four four and

746
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 1: a forty three and a half inch vertical. Boykin came

747
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: away with a lot of rave reviews, especially after the combine.

748
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 1: My co host Steve Tasker loved him. He's one of

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00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: kind of a talented group of maybe not first round

750
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 1: a draft pick wide receivers, but maybe second third round time. Yeah,

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00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,839
Speaker 1: I'm I'm always cautious of the combine with receivers, just

752
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 1: because we've been fooled a lot by receivers there. I mean,

753
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: they put up these incredible explosive scores, like if you're

754
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: huge and have a great forty yard dash and have

755
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:32,760
Speaker 1: a humongous vertical and it's like, yeah, that that all works,

756
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:35,239
Speaker 1: But can you win on the field is the most

757
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 1: important part. I mean, can you can jump forty three

758
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: and a half inches all you want, but can you

759
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:42,839
Speaker 1: come down with the football at that at that same

760
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: ban and I and truth be told, I have to

761
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:46,399
Speaker 1: watch more of Miles Boykin. I'm not trying to single

762
00:36:46,440 --> 00:36:48,319
Speaker 1: him out or anything like that, but you know this

763
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,720
Speaker 1: is because free agency was such a huge thing. I'm

764
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: just starting in, yeah to the draft stuff, five and

765
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 1: a half weeks away from the draft. If the Bills, look,

766
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: we already talked about DK Metcalf and he's everybody's go

767
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 1: to guy as a first round wide receiver. But you actually,

768
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 1: I think you I'm not gonna I hope I have

769
00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: this right. You prefer his teammate in Old miss right, Well,

770
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:12,920
Speaker 1: is he a potential for a surrounder? To me, it

771
00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: comes into a conversation about where you would have to

772
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:20,120
Speaker 1: take said player, and Metcalf is probably a top ten

773
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 1: And I don't know that I would feel totally comfortable now.

774
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: I have to watch more of Metcalf, truth be told,

775
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: But I don't know that it would be completely comfortable

776
00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 1: with taking a wide receiver, especially when you've added as

777
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,399
Speaker 1: much to your wide receiver room as the Bills have

778
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: at ninth overall, Whereas if you can get an A. J.

779
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,879
Speaker 1: Brown at forty, I mean, that's a guy who I

780
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:47,280
Speaker 1: think humble opinion as star potential in the in the NFL.

781
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: Tell us about him. Not quite the physical specimen of

782
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: metcalf it's certainly more productive than me. He's six feet

783
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 1: tall and he's two twenty six, so he's he's rock solid,

784
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: and when he gets the ball in his hands, he

785
00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:03,799
Speaker 1: can take off like this guy. His his speed, his

786
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 1: I'm sure his forty time doesn't necessarily match how fast

787
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: he is on the field when when trying to run

788
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: away from defenders. And I mean he's an accomplished route runner.

789
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: He's got good size, good I mean looking right there.

790
00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,160
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's a physical freak, just like DK

791
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:22,919
Speaker 1: metcalt It DK metcalf Is. I mean his hands are great,

792
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:26,520
Speaker 1: he's such a willing blocker. Um he wins the contested catch.

793
00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: He's awesome releasing versus the press is set, he brings

794
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,200
Speaker 1: the separation of the table. I mean he is my

795
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 1: highest graded guy right and yards after the catch is

796
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: his biggest asset because he's someone that can bring in

797
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: a short pass and then zoom, he's gone. And I

798
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:45,680
Speaker 1: like a J. Brown Ton. I think he if if

799
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 1: he doesn't get sniffs in the late first round or

800
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,919
Speaker 1: something wrong, because he is a tremendous player and would

801
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:52,840
Speaker 1: work here in Buffalo run Oh yeah. I mean he

802
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: can work inside, he can work outside. I mean he's

803
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: a versatile type of guy. So if you can get

804
00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 1: him at forty and not to say that the Bills

805
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:03,080
Speaker 1: even will because they just signed two free agent wide

806
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: receivers and they're still trying to develop Za Jones and

807
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:08,439
Speaker 1: or at least find out about Za Jones and Robert Poster.

808
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,360
Speaker 1: But I mean, if that value is there and you

809
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:15,280
Speaker 1: don't have another position or another player to a different

810
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 1: position valued higher than him, man, I'd draft him and

811
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,440
Speaker 1: not look back. That's the question of the day, isn't it.

812
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: Do the bill still need another wide receiver after what

813
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: they did in free agency last week? Let's try the

814
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,879
Speaker 1: phones again, Quincy and Buffalo. Are you there? Quincy? Hey,

815
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: how are we doing? Okay? Thanks for hanging in there,

816
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:35,560
Speaker 1: Quincy here, how are we doing? Guy? Good? Good? Great? Good,

817
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 1: good good? So I would say that we don't necessarily

818
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 1: need a number one receiver. And you know, I like

819
00:39:43,719 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: some of the names you guys are talking about with

820
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf Mile was blinking. But one guy is kind

821
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: of under rated here. Is that that you didn't mention?

822
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: Was Hiking Butler. Now that's who I really like out

823
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:54,879
Speaker 1: of all the receivers in this draft. Six six two

824
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 1: twenty five almost two thirty out of Iowa State. Go

825
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 1: watch the tape on this guy. I think he runs

826
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,320
Speaker 1: some of the best routes in this cloud, especially for

827
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,799
Speaker 1: his size, and I think if anybody, if anything, we

828
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 1: may be able to get him, hopefully in the second round,

829
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe a Day two page and that is

830
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:12,839
Speaker 1: a guy I'd be interested in. But I don't think

831
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: we need a number one like we have to draft

832
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 1: somebody in the first round. I got so many successful

833
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: offenses that don't have a true number one receiver nowadays

834
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 1: that you don't need that to be successful. No much

835
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,000
Speaker 1: about how Kim Butler Iowa State Joe, Yeah, he's right

836
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 1: and right in that tier that he's talking about, I

837
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:29,919
Speaker 1: would be I would not be surprised if he winds

838
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 1: up as a first round pick. At the end of

839
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Speaker 1: the day, because when you have someone with that type

840
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 1: of size and speed, and I know he was a

841
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 1: little bit undervalued in terms of overall draft rank as

842
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:44,440
Speaker 1: we're seeing right now he's sixty second per whatever via

843
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:49,360
Speaker 1: CBS Sports dot Com. But I think his heightweight, speed,

844
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: combo has the potential to push him into that first

845
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 1: round conversation and maybe even early second round. So yeah,

846
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 1: he's he's someone again, I'm just kicking in. I mean,

847
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:01,879
Speaker 1: I've watched let's see, I'll tell you exactly how many

848
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: receivers I've watched. I have watched thirteen wide receivers to

849
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:07,160
Speaker 1: my name, and that's been in about two days. So

850
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:11,160
Speaker 1: that uh, to me, I think when you have that

851
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 1: type of realm of skill set there and that type

852
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: of I guess overall ability, then you have to consider

853
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Speaker 1: him in the first round. But I'm anxious to watch

854
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Speaker 1: more of them to be how many receivers will you

855
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:29,840
Speaker 1: watched in the next five weeks? Hundreds? No, dozens? Yeah,

856
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: I'll probably end up watching and feel comfortable doing like

857
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Speaker 1: thirty receivers or so, just because that's how many end

858
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Speaker 1: up getting drafted. Okay, So so yeah, I mean I've

859
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Speaker 1: got I've got takes on little Jordan Humphrey if you want.

860
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Speaker 1: We'll probably get to them during the course of the afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Joe Scotty is here. We're gonna take a break. Come

862
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,320
Speaker 1: on back. Do the Bills still need a wide receiver

863
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Speaker 1: in the draft after what they did last week in

864
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Speaker 1: free agency? Give us a call. We'll discuss. Try to

865
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Speaker 1: get your phone calls on the air. Eight oh three

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Speaker 1: fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty two

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Speaker 1: five fifty one Bills. I've presented by Collat of Hell

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive and this is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome Back, One goes Live, John Murphy, Joe us Gallious

870
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:18,800
Speaker 1: here with this Steve Tasker coming back next Monday. Joe's

871
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: here for the next couple of days talking about the

872
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: drafts and the Bills draft plans. So they still need

873
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Speaker 1: a wide receiver as they go into the draft in

874
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Speaker 1: about five weeks. We'll get back to that in a

875
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Speaker 1: moment where we left, going to the break and Joe

876
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 1: talking about his video review sessions. You do a lot

877
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,480
Speaker 1: of it. You said you'll do thirty wide receivers, and

878
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,280
Speaker 1: by the end of the your draft prep you're probably

879
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 1: do what one hundred or more evaluations? Yes, what you like?

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00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: You're looking at the receiver on video? What are you

881
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 1: looking for? Well, I mean it's tough because I don't

882
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 1: have the all twenty two angle and you have to

883
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 1: go by broadcast feed. But but there's a lot of

884
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 1: there are people that provide cut ups out there, and

885
00:42:53,840 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 1: so anyone that wants to watch these receivers, it's all

886
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,800
Speaker 1: out there. Um, just gotta know where to look. And

887
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 1: with receivers, the one thing I always look for is

888
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,840
Speaker 1: their footwork in terms of how they go in and

889
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:08,600
Speaker 1: out of their breaks. If they round it off, that's

890
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 1: kind of a non starter from me. I mean, I'm

891
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:15,879
Speaker 1: not a I'm a big technical route runner type of guy.

892
00:43:16,000 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 1: If if you like. The one guy that stands out

893
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: that I've watched so far is jj R Sago white

894
00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 1: Side because his ability to from Stanford to have these

895
00:43:26,960 --> 00:43:30,920
Speaker 1: little speedy, this little speedy footwork against press. It just

896
00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:33,040
Speaker 1: leaves defenders in the dust, like it they take a

897
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: false step and then he's gone. Um, even though he's

898
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: a bigger guys like six foot two, two twenty five,

899
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 1: but that's the type of footwork you're looking for, or

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Speaker 1: you need just something extraordinary, extraordinary, excuse me, something that

901
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 1: kind of stands out about about that player. But if

902
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 1: you're just kind of a blah sort of guy, like

903
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:51,480
Speaker 1: I don't know that, I don't want to kill the guy.

904
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Speaker 1: But like a Keyshawn Johnson from from Fresno State, Yes,

905
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: there's a Keyshan Johnson in the draft. It spelled differently. Um, Like,

906
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: he's just kind of a guy to me, and you

907
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:03,439
Speaker 1: know he's probably gonna end up going a fourth, fifth,

908
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 1: maybe sixth round sort of thing. But he doesn't necessarily

909
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 1: do anything that stands out to you, whether it be

910
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 1: speed or go up and get it and that type

911
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: of high point ability. But that's why I break it

912
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 1: down the way that I do it for receivers anyway,

913
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:19,839
Speaker 1: I break it down into ten categories and I score

914
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 1: remember every single one, so that way of a composite

915
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 1: score with with all of them, so that way I

916
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 1: can rank all of them. Yeah, it's very nerdy when

917
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:27,360
Speaker 1: that's all right, that's what you do when you ranking

918
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 1: them though. I mean, for instance, I'm looking at the

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Speaker 1: list and Andy Isabella, Massachusetts slot guy, short guy gets

920
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 1: a lot of attention for his great career at U

921
00:44:35,280 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: mass and I guess I had a pretty good week

922
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: at senior role. I didn't think so, but many people

923
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: thought so. But you can you compare him to some

924
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 1: of the other guys, the big guys, the you know,

925
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,920
Speaker 1: kind of outside targets. Isn't it hard to rank them

926
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 1: when you know one guy's a specialist and it is,

927
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:52,280
Speaker 1: But I mean, slot receivers are essentially starters now anyway,

928
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:55,319
Speaker 1: So it just all depends on what you're looking for.

929
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: And I kind of go position lists with wide receivers

930
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: because it's it's tough. I mean, obviously, if you have

931
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Speaker 1: an outside receiver that's going to play one hundred percent

932
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 1: of the snaps, you're going to value that higher. But

933
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Speaker 1: if you are without a slot receiver, that is a

934
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: major component missing from your offense. So they kind of

935
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: have to be along the same same line. But like

936
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Speaker 1: Isabella will get dinged for size, obviously, but his foot reason,

937
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: his footwork, his or outrunning is going to be great

938
00:45:21,680 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 1: in that respect. So it's just a little bit of

939
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: give and take, which is why you have slot receivers

940
00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:30,560
Speaker 1: falling down a little bit more. Um, I'm very anxious

941
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:32,759
Speaker 1: to see where Hollywood Brown goes to Oklahoma kit because

942
00:45:32,760 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: he's got the less frank injury, but he is phenomenally talented.

943
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,720
Speaker 1: Were you impressed by Andy Isabella the Senior Bowl? Um?

944
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 1: I didn't watch enough of him from the Senior Bowl,

945
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 1: to be honest with you. The practice sessions, Yeah, I

946
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:48,439
Speaker 1: watch more one on ones because I thought Bills would

947
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:50,960
Speaker 1: be all in on O line, D line. Yeah yeah,

948
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 1: and they were yeah yeah, But I just want I

949
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:56,600
Speaker 1: watched Isabella for a while. You know how those practices go,

950
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:58,839
Speaker 1: and you can focus on a guy taking his reps.

951
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: And I came away thinking, I get it. You know,

952
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: a great footwork from what I've watched, and that's that's

953
00:46:04,760 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 1: part of it. And you think of and this is

954
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:11,280
Speaker 1: an extreme case, but Adam Feeling from Minnesota, his footwork

955
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,399
Speaker 1: is extraordinary. That's why he wins as well as he does.

956
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:17,400
Speaker 1: It feels like he's faster than he is because feeling

957
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:19,919
Speaker 1: he's bigger than this thing. He's like six one six two.

958
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: I mean it's there. There's a difference there. Um. I

959
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: mean Isabella and Renfro kind of fit into the same

960
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:27,880
Speaker 1: same bucket. He the other guy who was not impressed

961
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,879
Speaker 1: with Clemson, Yeah, very very small guys when when they

962
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,480
Speaker 1: did the whole way and thing. It's like that's gonna

963
00:46:33,480 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 1: be an NFL player. That's kind of crazy. But yeah,

964
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:37,640
Speaker 1: I mean they have a role and someone who's going

965
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: to draft them and try and see if they can stick.

966
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 1: As I'm talking about Joe about wide receivers today and

967
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:44,320
Speaker 1: his wide receiver is still in need for the Bills

968
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 1: in the draft. What do you think of that? We

969
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:47,279
Speaker 1: got plenty of time next hour to talk about it.

970
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Speaker 1: Welcome to join us, give us a call eight oh three,

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Speaker 1: five fifty and toll free one eight eight eight five

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Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty or on Twitter at one Bills Live.

973
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:57,919
Speaker 1: We're back with more one Bills Live from one Bill's Drive.

974
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:09,360
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio Bills Sadio Network Sports Days

975
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 1: Update from one Bill's Drive. Everybody talking about the NCAA Tournament,

976
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,480
Speaker 1: including the UB Bulls getting set for the head for

977
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,239
Speaker 1: the tournament again. They're in the West Region. They go

978
00:47:17,239 --> 00:47:19,879
Speaker 1: to Tulsa, Oklahoma. They are a sixth seed and they

979
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,920
Speaker 1: play Friday afternoon late Friday afternoon against the winner of

980
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:26,360
Speaker 1: Arizona State and Saint John's. Those two teams play earlier

981
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 1: this week on Wednesday. Ub Bulls entered the tournament thirty

982
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: one wins three losses, tied with Houston for the most

983
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 1: wins in the country so far. They won their second

984
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:37,720
Speaker 1: straight MAC Tournament and fourth title in the last five years.

985
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:40,400
Speaker 1: On Saturday night in Cleveland, Duke the number one overall

986
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 1: seed in this year's men's tournament. The selection committee also

987
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 1: gave top seeds the fellow ACC teams Virginia and North Carolina.

988
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: Gonzaga got a number one seed as well. Here at

989
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive Quiet Today. Over the weekend, the Bills

990
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: continued to add to their offensive line, signing free age

991
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 1: and offensive tacklea Adrian Waddle, twenty seven years old, signed

992
00:47:57,800 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 1: a one year deal with a Bill's Saturday. Six year

993
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:02,239
Speaker 1: veteran been a spot starter at offensive tackle for the

994
00:48:02,239 --> 00:48:05,360
Speaker 1: Patriots for the last couple of years. Today, Miami Dolphins

995
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: agreed to terms with quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick had two year contract.

996
00:48:08,719 --> 00:48:12,240
Speaker 1: It's eleven million dollars in a contract that contains incentives

997
00:48:12,280 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: that could pay fits between seventeen and twenty million dollars.

998
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,880
Speaker 1: Prior to Fitzpatrick's edition, the Dolphins had just two quarterbacks

999
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:21,720
Speaker 1: on the roster, Jake Rudock and Luke vax The Bill's

1000
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:25,000
Speaker 1: former offensive tackle Jordan Mills visiting the Houston Texans today,

1001
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:28,799
Speaker 1: according to league sources, as a former Chicago Bears fifth

1002
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 1: round pick who played the last three seasons with the

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00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:33,920
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, starting forty eight games over those three years.

1004
00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: Former Bills quarterback A J. McCarron visiting with the Houston

1005
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:39,760
Speaker 1: Texans as well today. McCarron was released over the weekend

1006
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:42,319
Speaker 1: by the Oakland Raiders. The Raiders have parted ways with

1007
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 1: offensive tackle Donald Penn, cutting ties with the longest tenured

1008
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 1: player on their roster, and Helode Nada, one of the

1009
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:52,720
Speaker 1: most dominant defensive linemen of his era, ended his NFL

1010
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 1: career over the weekend. He went to the top of

1011
00:48:55,160 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: Mount Kilimanjarod to reveal a sign that said I'm retiring

1012
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:01,680
Speaker 1: from the NFL on top five time pro bowler. Helodi

1013
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: not a thirty five years old stepping away, and the

1014
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,719
Speaker 1: Sabers skated away with a win last night, eating the

1015
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 1: Saint Louis Blues four to three in the shootout. Next

1016
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: game is Wednesday against Toronto. That is the update from

1017
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Speaker 1: One Wheels Drive. I'm John Murphy. Joe Bascali is here

1018
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 1: sports director at www TV Channel seven in Buffalo in

1019
00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:21,799
Speaker 1: for the vacationing Steve Tasker Joebie with us Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Joe,

1020
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 1: your three day appearance this week is going to give

1021
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:25,399
Speaker 1: us a great set up for the draft five weeks.

1022
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 1: I can already tell after just one hour. I mean

1023
00:49:27,840 --> 00:49:31,000
Speaker 1: it's the draft is so much fun as it is,

1024
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,919
Speaker 1: but the build up to the draft is even better

1025
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Speaker 1: than the actual draft itself because there are just so

1026
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:41,240
Speaker 1: many possibilities and fans. They they cling on to one

1027
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: or two players in the light a favorite. They're like,

1028
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:46,839
Speaker 1: that's my guy, that's my pound the table guy. But yeah,

1029
00:49:46,880 --> 00:49:49,279
Speaker 1: and then if their team actually drafts them and they're

1030
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 1: over the moon, and then if they don't end up

1031
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Speaker 1: drafting them and they draft someone they didn't like initially,

1032
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:55,440
Speaker 1: then they talk themselves into it. So that's how the

1033
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 1: draft goes. I mean, it's it's the only time where

1034
00:49:57,719 --> 00:50:02,320
Speaker 1: it's just optimism every which way you look, because it's like, Okay,

1035
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 1: that guy is gonna make the team better. This is

1036
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Speaker 1: how let me ask you. Joe's with us for the

1037
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Speaker 1: rest of the afternoon. You're welcome to join this as

1038
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 1: well on telephone line. We're asking the question is wide

1039
00:50:11,360 --> 00:50:13,840
Speaker 1: receivers still a need for the Bills after what happened

1040
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 1: last week in free agency as they head to the draft.

1041
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 1: But I just take I want to take it back

1042
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:19,560
Speaker 1: about a week and it was just about a week

1043
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: ago when the legal signing negotiation period began in the

1044
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:26,759
Speaker 1: NFL and names began to leak out, and the Bills

1045
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 1: signing names began to leak out. And it struck me

1046
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: late last week, Joe, that all of the names that

1047
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,719
Speaker 1: were associated with the Bills, most of them anyway, none

1048
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Speaker 1: of them were signed by the Bills, you know what

1049
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:38,399
Speaker 1: I mean? Everybody who's guessing, you know, Tyron Williams will

1050
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: be their guy or this guy will be their guy.

1051
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:42,879
Speaker 1: Even you know, Mett Paradis at Denver had like even

1052
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:45,839
Speaker 1: a camp of supporters here in Buffalo who wanted him.

1053
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:47,920
Speaker 1: They didn't get them. They got probably a better center.

1054
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Speaker 1: And it's a little bit like there with the draft too,

1055
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 1: don't you think. My buddy Mark Dalton out in Arizona

1056
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Speaker 1: keeps track of first round mock drafts and shows. Have

1057
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Speaker 1: you ever seen his draft? It's like I love to

1058
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Speaker 1: see it. It's like the lead any number of you know,

1059
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:03,839
Speaker 1: right team to the right right player, right team, they

1060
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 1: get it right in their mock draft. It's like two

1061
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:08,320
Speaker 1: or three every year, so people meet these forecasts that

1062
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:11,680
Speaker 1: sometimes aren't really rooted in reality right, and the best

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00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:13,960
Speaker 1: you can do with it, because there's so many variables

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00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 1: in the draft, like with the mock draft, is a

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00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 1: fun exercise because it's it's fun to think about what

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00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 1: might happen. But the only thing you can do is

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00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:24,520
Speaker 1: try and line up team needs with team philosophy, with

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00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 1: available players at the proportioned value of what you're looking

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00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:32,280
Speaker 1: to draft at that point. And that's why mock drafting

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00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 1: will never be an exact science. However, I mean, it

1071
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 1: doesn't prevent people from starting to get favorites with in

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Speaker 1: terms of linking team to player, and to your point,

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00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:45,960
Speaker 1: with the with the free agency everything along those lines,

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Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of projection involved with that

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00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:52,160
Speaker 1: because the bill has just had so much cap room

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00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:55,520
Speaker 1: and so Tyroll Williams is an obvious one because he

1077
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 1: was the finger quotes top receiver on the board. But

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Speaker 1: I guess for someone like him my mind, I'm like,

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00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:02,120
Speaker 1: that's a little bit too expensive for a guy like

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00:52:02,239 --> 00:52:05,080
Speaker 1: he got paid he did, he did, and for me,

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Speaker 1: as someone getting over ten million year and locked in

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Speaker 1: for four years like he is, or potentially two to

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00:52:11,160 --> 00:52:13,839
Speaker 1: three years on that type of contract, that's a little

1084
00:52:13,840 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 1: bit too rich for my blood for a tyroll Williams,

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Speaker 1: I see that. Hey, Before we dive right back into

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Speaker 1: the draft. Free agency is still open, right, It's only

1087
00:52:20,760 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 1: been open since last Wednesday for signings. I'm looking at

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00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:27,240
Speaker 1: the remaining players available and it's not a great cast

1089
00:52:27,280 --> 00:52:29,879
Speaker 1: of characters, but there are some notable names of people

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00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 1: out there. Joe and I just can't get your take.

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00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:33,840
Speaker 1: Justin Houston just released by Kansas City a couple of

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00:52:33,880 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 1: weeks ago, still available, edge rush guy. Pretty good, pretty

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Speaker 1: productive player. What do you think's going on with him? Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean he's up there in age, isn't he. Let's see,

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00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 1: thirty something, early thirties, I would get Yeah, he's also

1096
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: played outside linebacker for the majority of his career. It

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00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: depends on what you see him as in Buffalo. Is

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Speaker 1: he your prototypically I'm not talking about just for the Bills,

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00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:56,439
Speaker 1: but guys in general. Yeah, for sure. I mean he's

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Speaker 1: thirty years old. He has only missed one year due

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Speaker 1: to an injury. He played five games in twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 1: For I think what we're kind of seeing now is

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00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: perhaps some teams not really running the three four as

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00:53:11,680 --> 00:53:14,120
Speaker 1: much as they did maybe in the past. And I

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00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:16,880
Speaker 1: think that certainly plays into it. And these guys that

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00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:19,359
Speaker 1: are more tweener, like like in justin Houston. I mean,

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00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:21,959
Speaker 1: if he's not getting a job in Kansas City, there's

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00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:23,400
Speaker 1: not a lot of other spots out there, and for

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00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:25,239
Speaker 1: a thirty year old edge rusher that probably wants to

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Speaker 1: get paid, I mean that it makes sense. I think

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00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:30,359
Speaker 1: he'll probably go on the gamut of visits and then

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Speaker 1: then elect to go somewhere that has an opportunity. Yeah,

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00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:35,239
Speaker 1: the answer to all of these questions is going to

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00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:37,800
Speaker 1: be money, clearly, right. Oh yeah, weekend. But here's another

1115
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:41,319
Speaker 1: interesting name. Endama Kin Sue unsigned, still a free agent now.

1116
00:53:41,320 --> 00:53:43,440
Speaker 1: He's been a handful in a couple of NIFL stops.

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00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:46,440
Speaker 1: But if somebody hits the right money target for him,

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00:53:46,480 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 1: he's gonna sign and he'll play and he might be

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00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:50,919
Speaker 1: pretty good next year. He was pretty good this past

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Speaker 1: year despite all of the noise around the dama Kin

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00:53:53,800 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: Sue typically, Yeah, I'd be up for it. He's a

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Speaker 1: three technique type of guy. Yeah, and bring him in there.

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Speaker 1: Money will be he's a problem for him. He's thirty two. Yeah,

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00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:08,879
Speaker 1: that's the thing. Like the money has always been been

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Speaker 1: the thing with him. But I like I like Sue,

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00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 1: I would like his potential fit. He fit in really well.

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00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:17,359
Speaker 1: We didn't hear a peep from him last year. And

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Speaker 1: yeah he can he can be a little bit more

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Speaker 1: versatile too, and move a little bit around on the

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Speaker 1: defensive line. If if they swing and miss at three

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00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:27,839
Speaker 1: technique defensive tackle, which I think is one of their

1132
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 1: biggest needs going into the draft, then I suppose Sue

1133
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't still be out there. But you know, he's

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00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: someone that I wouldn't necessarily sneeze at. He's he's still

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00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 1: a good player, even at thirty two, Bill said. Edge

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Speaker 1: Russia guy Ziggy Onsa in for a couple of days

1137
00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 1: last week, didn't sign, reportedly went on to New Orleans.

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00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:47,880
Speaker 1: His issues are obviously money, but also the complications with

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00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 1: his shoulder surgery. Yeah, he's well, that is a sneaky

1140
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Speaker 1: need for the Bills, and I touched on it just

1141
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Speaker 1: briefly in the first hour. I mean, Edge rusher past

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00:54:57,280 --> 00:55:00,879
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen is a major weeks for the Bills because

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00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:03,160
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes and Shack Lawson are both free agents coming

1144
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Speaker 1: up after the end of the year. And I don't

1145
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 1: think I could be wrong. I don't think it would

1146
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:11,880
Speaker 1: be their best idea to give Shack laws In the

1147
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:13,840
Speaker 1: fifty year option just because he hasn't done enough to

1148
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:16,640
Speaker 1: produce at this point three years into his career. So

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00:55:17,040 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 1: with those two guys and Trent Murphy, the book is

1150
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Speaker 1: still out on him. They have I don't have much

1151
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:25,560
Speaker 1: at Ad Rusher, so having someone to complete the rotation

1152
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 1: this year maybe bridge the gap a little bit into

1153
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. I mean, I don't think his Ekiel ansa.

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Speaker 1: I think his reputation as a former top five pick

1155
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 1: is a little bit in the past now. I think

1156
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 1: he's more of a rotational guy that can come in

1157
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:42,799
Speaker 1: and bring down the quarterback occasionally and get you a

1158
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:45,719
Speaker 1: good thirty to thirty five percent of snaps, which is

1159
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,400
Speaker 1: exactly what they would need him for, and then go

1160
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Speaker 1: from there. Have him be the platoon guy for Jerry

1161
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:52,920
Speaker 1: Hughes if he's willing to accept that. That's the thing.

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Speaker 1: A lot of these guys that are still free agents,

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00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 1: they want bigger roles, but at this point in their career,

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00:55:58,040 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 1: it's probably better for them to be more of a

1165
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 1: rotation time. Um, I want to ask you about it.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about the defenders and others. We'll get to

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Speaker 1: the offensive players still available in free agency. Um. Zach Brown,

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Speaker 1: former Bills linebacker, went to the one year with Washington, right. Um,

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Speaker 1: his one year with Buffalo wasn't matched in his year

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Speaker 1: in Washington. And I think, uh, I don't know, the

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00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 1: word is out. He's a he's a capable player. I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't go much further than that on Zach Brown. He led,

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Speaker 1: He led the Bills and tackles that year, didn't he?

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Speaker 1: I was wrong? He too two years in Washington, two years.

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Speaker 1: Um my bad, Oh my bad too. Um. He had

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00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 1: one hundred twenty seven tackles his a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 1: and he was he was a pretty dependable player for Washington.

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00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 1: But I mean that's that's the point. Like you have

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00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 1: inside linebackers. You don't pay those guys unless they do

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00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:46,640
Speaker 1: something extraordinary. Would he pays them anymore? Yeah? And you

1181
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:50,239
Speaker 1: know I mean C. J. Mosley now Fanets and Luke

1182
00:56:50,320 --> 00:56:53,759
Speaker 1: Keikley down in Carolina And if Tremaine Edmunds follows on

1183
00:56:53,840 --> 00:56:55,799
Speaker 1: his trajectory. He's going to end up getting paid by

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00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:59,759
Speaker 1: the Bills pretty handsomely because he does something extraordinary that

1185
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:02,239
Speaker 1: you don't see from any other middle linebacker. But I

1186
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:05,680
Speaker 1: mean Zach Brown, I mean nice guy, he's just a

1187
00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 1: guy in the NFL. I mean he's gonna get a

1188
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:10,319
Speaker 1: boatload of tackles and he'll put himself in the right

1189
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:15,280
Speaker 1: spots and run stuffing. But I mean that is easily

1190
00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:17,440
Speaker 1: replaceable in the NFL, just like running back, which is

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00:57:17,480 --> 00:57:19,400
Speaker 1: why you don't see as much of an importance on

1192
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 1: doing it. And then going back to our Dave Gettlman conversation,

1193
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: what the heck were you doing drafting a running back?

1194
00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 1: A second? Overall, Dave got him just saying, here's an

1195
00:57:28,000 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 1: interesting name, defender, Morris Claymorton, really highly paid a couple

1196
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:34,480
Speaker 1: of years ago. Now he's a free agent after spending

1197
00:57:34,520 --> 00:57:36,640
Speaker 1: some time with the Jets. I saw his name link

1198
00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:39,200
Speaker 1: to Buffalo. I don't know if the Bills have a need,

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Speaker 1: and they certainly don't have a need for a high

1200
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Speaker 1: price corner. I don't think right there, No, I think

1201
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 1: they would be content going into camp with what they

1202
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:48,440
Speaker 1: have right now. Yeah, I think there's a chance they

1203
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: could draft one just for some bottom of the roster

1204
00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:56,120
Speaker 1: competition for Ryan Lewis and for Lafayette Pits. But I

1205
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:58,680
Speaker 1: know they love Lafayette Pits on special teams, so I

1206
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 1: think he's probably good. But other than that, I think

1207
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Speaker 1: the top four is set Tredavious White, Levi Wallace, Taran Johnson,

1208
00:58:04,960 --> 00:58:07,400
Speaker 1: Kevin Johnson. Those are the top four, and then Lafayette

1209
00:58:07,440 --> 00:58:09,720
Speaker 1: Pet's Pits as your special teams guy. And if they

1210
00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:11,440
Speaker 1: want to keep six, then have someone come in and

1211
00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:13,560
Speaker 1: compete with Ryan Lewis. It's that simple. Last thing. I'm

1212
00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 1: free ency, Joe. Do you have anybody in mind who's

1213
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 1: the most interesting, not just for the Bills, but just

1214
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:20,000
Speaker 1: the most interesting free agent left out there? Anybody we

1215
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 1: haven't talked about. I'm looking over the list. Nobody really.

1216
00:58:22,720 --> 00:58:25,960
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no quarterbacks who interests me. I don't know.

1217
00:58:26,160 --> 00:58:28,800
Speaker 1: It's picked over. Max Williams a tight end. I've always

1218
00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:31,600
Speaker 1: liked him. I like him. He's someone that I thought

1219
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:33,800
Speaker 1: the Bills might be interested in. But Tyler Croft negates

1220
00:58:33,920 --> 00:58:36,000
Speaker 1: the need for a Max Williams because they're basically the

1221
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:37,920
Speaker 1: same guy. They still need a tight end. They do,

1222
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 1: and I think they're going to draft one at some point.

1223
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 1: I wouldn't I wouldn't even rule out them taking one

1224
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:44,400
Speaker 1: at ninth overall. Maybe we can get in that into

1225
00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:47,640
Speaker 1: that on a different day. But that's one of those

1226
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:52,440
Speaker 1: needs that I don't think Tyler Croft necessarily keeps them

1227
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Speaker 1: from drafting a pretty substantial tight end. One more name

1228
00:58:56,080 --> 00:58:57,320
Speaker 1: I want to throw out there, just because he's a

1229
00:58:57,320 --> 00:59:01,240
Speaker 1: Fumilian name. Chris Hogan is available. I'm just wondering, again,

1230
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:04,040
Speaker 1: not for Buffalo. I'm just wondering where his future lies,

1231
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:06,800
Speaker 1: if anywhere in the NFL. What do you think? Yeah,

1232
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:10,800
Speaker 1: I think he'll get signed somewhere, definitely not Buffalo. I

1233
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:13,360
Speaker 1: mean that ship has sailed. Yeah, I wonder if Miami

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00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 1: gives him a look back to where Chris Hogan fits.

1235
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Speaker 1: Campaign for the Tank, cheer on the Tank. But Hogan

1236
00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 1: fits the Bills as they approached the draft. Now again,

1237
00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:29,200
Speaker 1: they signed the two two wide receivers last week. Do

1238
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 1: they need more in the draft? Does wide receiver is

1239
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:33,120
Speaker 1: still in need for the Bills in the draft? That's

1240
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:35,640
Speaker 1: our topic of the day on Twitter. Most of you say, yeah,

1241
00:59:35,680 --> 00:59:39,000
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, you think it is seventy percent.

1242
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:42,360
Speaker 1: Let me double check here. Seventy seven percent say yes,

1243
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:44,560
Speaker 1: it's still a need. We're asking you to talk about

1244
00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 1: that and maybe interpret the question. Seventy six percent say yes,

1245
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:50,880
Speaker 1: it's a need. Twenty four percent say no, Maybe you

1246
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 1: interpret it like you need it in the first round?

1247
00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:55,600
Speaker 1: Are you looking at just guys? Say they have ten picks,

1248
00:59:56,160 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 1: one in each of the first three rounds, seven in

1249
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 1: the final four rounds. This is what they're set up

1250
01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 1: is now. I don't anticipate it will stay that way

1251
01:00:03,960 --> 01:00:05,640
Speaker 1: through draft weekend. But what do you think that the

1252
01:00:05,680 --> 01:00:08,200
Speaker 1: Bills needs still need a wide receiver after what they

1253
01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 1: did last week? Let's try try to call her from

1254
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Speaker 1: Ernie in Connecticut. Hello, Ernie, welcome to the show. Hey,

1255
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:16,120
Speaker 1: how's it going there, John? And uh, how are you

1256
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:21,720
Speaker 1: guys doing good? Joe's with us today and looking for it? Yeah? No,

1257
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:24,960
Speaker 1: So I think it is a need like you kind

1258
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:26,600
Speaker 1: of just hit it. It It could be somewhere later in

1259
01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:29,640
Speaker 1: the rounds. And the reason why I said that is

1260
01:00:29,680 --> 01:00:32,360
Speaker 1: because we answered that and I think that with answering

1261
01:00:32,640 --> 01:00:35,440
Speaker 1: the way that it should be, and that's positional players,

1262
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:40,360
Speaker 1: I can play multiple different positions. What do you mean

1263
01:00:41,920 --> 01:00:47,000
Speaker 1: that applied to the wide receivers, because I think have

1264
01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:49,240
Speaker 1: to like take you know, your favorite guy in the

1265
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 1: first round, you know mine too, DK, But we can

1266
01:00:53,160 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 1: pick more slot speedy guys, guys that could read the

1267
01:00:56,280 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 1: defense route running, you know, And that's that's kind the

1268
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Speaker 1: you know, I think the way Brian is doing his

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Speaker 1: system is just multiple facets of different people there and

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Speaker 1: what I was kind of wanting to hit towards was

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Speaker 1: not a true number one. I think those guys are

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Speaker 1: gone in my in my opinion, because defensives are so

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Speaker 1: much you know, hybrid changing, you know, multiple facets, and

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Speaker 1: that's you know, I think that we should pick somebody

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01:01:21,200 --> 01:01:22,920
Speaker 1: like a tight end or you know what best player

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01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:28,040
Speaker 1: available honestly, you know, if that's a d N whoever DP,

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Speaker 1: let's get that guy. Okay, Yeah, best player available at

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01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:36,120
Speaker 1: number nine, Joe's likely to be somebody from defensive front. Right,

1279
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:38,840
Speaker 1: I'm thinking this defensive front guy or if you think

1280
01:01:39,960 --> 01:01:42,440
Speaker 1: that highly of one of the Iowa tight ends or

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01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:45,040
Speaker 1: I was gonna get to that, you really would use

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Speaker 1: a ninth overall pick kind of time. Maybe. I mean, man,

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01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:49,360
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have a problem with that. I would I

1284
01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:51,920
Speaker 1: think about the importance of it in Brian Dable's system.

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01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:55,919
Speaker 1: Though they had to go completely away from from tight

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01:01:56,040 --> 01:01:58,760
Speaker 1: ends last year because they had nothing. They dressed two,

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01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:03,000
Speaker 1: which is I mean most weeks Brian Dabele would like

1288
01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:06,959
Speaker 1: to utilize three and probably have four, maybe even five

1289
01:02:07,040 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 1: on the roster if he had they need tight end, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: did they need him at nine overall? Right, which is

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01:02:12,480 --> 01:02:14,960
Speaker 1: why it goes into what you deem to be the

1292
01:02:14,960 --> 01:02:18,000
Speaker 1: best player on the board at that point, and defensive

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01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:23,080
Speaker 1: line is going to garner a healthy consideration from the

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Speaker 1: Bills because you have edge rushers that are available and

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Speaker 1: valuable at that spot at nine. Same thing with three

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Speaker 1: technique defensive tackle. I mean there are there is a

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Speaker 1: case to be made. I mean, if you want an

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Speaker 1: offensive tackle, you can do it. I'm less compelled to

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Speaker 1: do that now that they've added five pieces to the

1300
01:02:40,240 --> 01:02:44,920
Speaker 1: offensive line, But if you have a chance to grab

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Speaker 1: a defensive linement at that point and they're best player,

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01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:49,840
Speaker 1: then then do it. But tight end, I mean that's

1303
01:02:50,120 --> 01:02:52,480
Speaker 1: if you can find a game changing tight end. Not

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01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:54,600
Speaker 1: a lot of those guys exist, and I don't think

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01:02:54,640 --> 01:02:56,680
Speaker 1: they exist in this draft either. To be honest with

1306
01:02:56,720 --> 01:03:00,360
Speaker 1: you this is a very strong tight end draft on paper,

1307
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:04,560
Speaker 1: deep I suppose. But the two Iowa guys up top.

1308
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:10,360
Speaker 1: I mean they are Hackinson his body and his athleticism combination.

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01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:14,240
Speaker 1: I mean that if he goes fifteenth overall, what's the

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Speaker 1: difference between fifteenth and ninth. If he comes in and

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01:03:17,040 --> 01:03:19,320
Speaker 1: becomes a star, take him to fifteen and pick up

1312
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:23,200
Speaker 1: another third rounder or something. That's that's assuming that you can.

1313
01:03:23,520 --> 01:03:25,680
Speaker 1: You can trade down and get him. I'm not rulling

1314
01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:27,320
Speaker 1: out the Bills training down either. I think that might

1315
01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:29,080
Speaker 1: be the best strategy for them and get another Day

1316
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Speaker 1: two pick. Yeah. Interesting, Um, well, there was something I

1317
01:03:33,400 --> 01:03:34,920
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you about two before we get Oh

1318
01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 1: Montes Sweat who you saw him at the Senior best

1319
01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:39,520
Speaker 1: play at the Senior Bowl? I thought, did you see

1320
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:42,080
Speaker 1: the note today that he had some heart condiart conditioning? Yeah,

1321
01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:45,160
Speaker 1: it came out. You always have to wonder about the

1322
01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:47,560
Speaker 1: motivation about that stuff coming out there, like it did

1323
01:03:47,560 --> 01:03:51,400
Speaker 1: someone leak that to drop his draft status or you know,

1324
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 1: it's It's one of the dirty things about the draft

1325
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 1: that I just hate because you know, if if it's

1326
01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:02,160
Speaker 1: not a serious consideration, and this is going to stain

1327
01:04:02,280 --> 01:04:04,480
Speaker 1: him as a prospect because and you're like, oh, well,

1328
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:05,920
Speaker 1: you don't know if you're gonna be able to get

1329
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:09,560
Speaker 1: eight years out of him. I just don't know. I

1330
01:04:09,800 --> 01:04:11,680
Speaker 1: think it's a little unfair that that that kind of

1331
01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:14,880
Speaker 1: stuff comes out about these guys, and I Montes what

1332
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:17,920
Speaker 1: I had some concerns about him. Does he play a

1333
01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:19,960
Speaker 1: little bit too high? Is the leverage game gonna get

1334
01:04:20,040 --> 01:04:22,919
Speaker 1: him a little bit too much? But he's still a

1335
01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:26,480
Speaker 1: really good prospect of a first round prospect, and someone

1336
01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:28,880
Speaker 1: if let's say, if the Bills moved down from ninth overall,

1337
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:30,640
Speaker 1: someone that I think would be in the conversation. But

1338
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:33,960
Speaker 1: if that heart condition thing is out there, then the

1339
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:36,720
Speaker 1: optics on taking someone with a with a you know,

1340
01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 1: finger quotes heart condition out there, not to say it's

1341
01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:41,920
Speaker 1: it's severe or not severe or whatever. I don't I

1342
01:04:41,920 --> 01:04:43,920
Speaker 1: don't know anything to be true with with it. But

1343
01:04:44,080 --> 01:04:47,360
Speaker 1: the fact that it got leaked out, it's just I

1344
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:49,240
Speaker 1: don't know. There's there's a little bit of a sour tation.

1345
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:52,440
Speaker 1: Remember Star, similar news came out at him with the

1346
01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:56,320
Speaker 1: combine combs. He has had a solid career that yeah,

1347
01:04:56,480 --> 01:05:00,280
Speaker 1: he's certainly making a ton of money from the Bills. Yeah,

1348
01:05:00,280 --> 01:05:02,840
Speaker 1: five fifty toll free one eight eight eight five fifty

1349
01:05:02,880 --> 01:05:05,040
Speaker 1: two five fifty to the Bills. Should the Bills do

1350
01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:07,040
Speaker 1: they still have a need for a wide receiver in

1351
01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:09,120
Speaker 1: the draft? What do you think about that? Let's go

1352
01:05:09,160 --> 01:05:11,520
Speaker 1: to Ron in Lackawanna. Hello, Ron, welcome to the show.

1353
01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:18,680
Speaker 1: Hey guys, great show. Thanks questions One receiver from Ohio State? Uh?

1354
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:24,560
Speaker 1: That Campbell kid, Paris Campbell? Yeah? And what that ninth pick?

1355
01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:27,600
Speaker 1: Over all, there's three head rushes that we would like

1356
01:05:27,640 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 1: to see them one of the Bills get and where

1357
01:05:29,720 --> 01:05:32,320
Speaker 1: do you go to be? Josh Ella? Which probably way

1358
01:05:32,360 --> 01:05:35,560
Speaker 1: out of the line, I thought, And like you just

1359
01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:38,280
Speaker 1: talked about Sweat. You think that Sue higher swept? Then

1360
01:05:38,320 --> 01:05:41,600
Speaker 1: I take it, and yeah, I like you, I wouldn't

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01:05:41,600 --> 01:05:44,080
Speaker 1: probably with a tight end at number nine, especially you

1362
01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:47,640
Speaker 1: wanted that one kid from Morehouse State I want. Yeah,

1363
01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:49,880
Speaker 1: I listened to you, guys, O goodbye. Did he say

1364
01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:53,000
Speaker 1: sweat is not a potential number? Now? Well, well he said,

1365
01:05:53,200 --> 01:05:55,360
Speaker 1: well he was saying that. I don't think that you

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01:05:55,440 --> 01:05:58,120
Speaker 1: said that because I insinuated that I don't know that

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01:05:58,240 --> 01:06:00,440
Speaker 1: nine would be Uh. I think and I might be

1368
01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:03,080
Speaker 1: a little bit high for sweat night for sweat really okay,

1369
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:08,400
Speaker 1: And there's just too many leverage concerns for me. But

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01:06:08,760 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I suppose you can talk to yourself in

1371
01:06:11,200 --> 01:06:15,080
Speaker 1: just about anything that time. I mean, if he's six admiration,

1372
01:06:15,120 --> 01:06:17,280
Speaker 1: if he was not? No, if he joker? I mean

1373
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:20,400
Speaker 1: he's six foot six two seventy two seventy five. I mean,

1374
01:06:20,760 --> 01:06:22,680
Speaker 1: the length is there. And we know one thing about

1375
01:06:22,680 --> 01:06:26,600
Speaker 1: Brandby loves his prototypes. Sure does. And maybe I said,

1376
01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:28,480
Speaker 1: you don't have to agree. But wasn't he? Was he not?

1377
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:30,240
Speaker 1: And I know the Senior Bowls and everything? Was he

1378
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:33,040
Speaker 1: not the most impressive player at the Senior Bowl? Who's

1379
01:06:33,080 --> 01:06:35,440
Speaker 1: who played better than him? Down here? I think Bradberry

1380
01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:39,320
Speaker 1: the center did um uh. There's a couple of reps

1381
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:41,960
Speaker 1: where I saw him on his butt in one of us. Yeah,

1382
01:06:42,080 --> 01:06:44,680
Speaker 1: on the last practice of the week. And okay, I

1383
01:06:44,680 --> 01:06:48,240
Speaker 1: didn't stay. Really that's see how we had a right

1384
01:06:48,280 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 1: for next week. I'm saying I didn't see the last

1385
01:06:51,360 --> 01:06:54,840
Speaker 1: practice of other week. Okay, that that answers that. Let's

1386
01:06:54,880 --> 01:06:57,200
Speaker 1: take another phone call. No, no, that's what you can do.

1387
01:06:57,600 --> 01:06:59,360
Speaker 1: Take another phone call on this to the bill. Still

1388
01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:01,760
Speaker 1: need a wide e in the draft. Even after what

1389
01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:05,800
Speaker 1: they did last week. Jose in the line from Buffalo, Hello, Jose, Hey,

1390
01:07:05,840 --> 01:07:08,600
Speaker 1: what's going on? Guys? What's going on? Joe B. You're

1391
01:07:08,920 --> 01:07:11,560
Speaker 1: one of my favorite favorite people to listen to or

1392
01:07:12,080 --> 01:07:14,240
Speaker 1: just read your stuff because you actually tell it like

1393
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:17,760
Speaker 1: it is. Murph and John's sometimes sip to kool Aid

1394
01:07:17,760 --> 01:07:20,120
Speaker 1: and still love them, but sometimes they sip the kool Aid.

1395
01:07:20,640 --> 01:07:24,720
Speaker 1: It's water. It's water, okay. But my thing is this, um,

1396
01:07:25,400 --> 01:07:27,360
Speaker 1: I want to see if you're if you want to

1397
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:29,400
Speaker 1: talk about this this Twitter player talking about we don't

1398
01:07:29,440 --> 01:07:31,600
Speaker 1: need it, we don't need a wide receiver at number nine.

1399
01:07:31,880 --> 01:07:34,520
Speaker 1: Me personally, I want I want to see. I know

1400
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:37,480
Speaker 1: if you want to go best player available, if you're

1401
01:07:37,480 --> 01:07:39,760
Speaker 1: saying best player available, you know, all them defensive lineman,

1402
01:07:39,840 --> 01:07:41,520
Speaker 1: them top defensive linemen are going to be off the

1403
01:07:41,520 --> 01:07:44,120
Speaker 1: word quick. Why not grab one of them big offensive

1404
01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:46,320
Speaker 1: linemen that we you know we're going to be there

1405
01:07:46,360 --> 01:07:49,400
Speaker 1: for years to come, and you know you put them

1406
01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:51,640
Speaker 1: in there. And Joe B, I gotta ask you this,

1407
01:07:52,320 --> 01:07:55,320
Speaker 1: what's going on with that rumor about Jadeveoni and Clowney

1408
01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:57,920
Speaker 1: coming to Buffalo. If we didn't get isz Ganza just

1409
01:07:57,960 --> 01:07:59,479
Speaker 1: want to talk to you guys about that. That would

1410
01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:03,000
Speaker 1: cost him a lot to do it. That's tagged franchise.

1411
01:08:03,240 --> 01:08:06,240
Speaker 1: That's the ninth overall pick, and that's a fat contract

1412
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:09,120
Speaker 1: to get him. Hey, I mean, I'm not opposed because

1413
01:08:09,200 --> 01:08:12,000
Speaker 1: that's a that's a game changing type of talent on

1414
01:08:12,120 --> 01:08:14,640
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball, and he has certainly

1415
01:08:14,640 --> 01:08:16,719
Speaker 1: lived up to his billing of being the top overall

1416
01:08:16,720 --> 01:08:18,960
Speaker 1: pick after a slow start right at the beginning of

1417
01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:22,439
Speaker 1: his career. He's he's awesome. But I don't know that

1418
01:08:22,479 --> 01:08:24,680
Speaker 1: would be a lot for Brandon being to give up

1419
01:08:24,720 --> 01:08:27,920
Speaker 1: for him. And you know, if they weren't seriously considering

1420
01:08:28,439 --> 01:08:31,880
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham for that ninth overall pick, if if that's

1421
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:33,640
Speaker 1: what it came to, would would they do it for

1422
01:08:33,720 --> 01:08:37,040
Speaker 1: Jadeveon Clowney. I guess we'll just I'll have to see

1423
01:08:37,080 --> 01:08:40,400
Speaker 1: if that ever actually comes. But um, in terms of

1424
01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:45,439
Speaker 1: taking an offensive lineman at nine, my lone hesitation with that,

1425
01:08:45,520 --> 01:08:47,479
Speaker 1: and the one guy that you would do it for

1426
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:51,799
Speaker 1: is Juwan Taylor. Um that that is the Florida tackle.

1427
01:08:51,920 --> 01:08:54,640
Speaker 1: He's a he's a right tackle, and that is, for

1428
01:08:54,680 --> 01:08:57,360
Speaker 1: all intents and purposes, the guy that has been linked

1429
01:08:57,360 --> 01:09:00,639
Speaker 1: to the Bills more often than anybody. My hesitation there

1430
01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:05,000
Speaker 1: is it conceptually you say, okay, you draft an offensive

1431
01:09:05,040 --> 01:09:06,880
Speaker 1: lineman there, he's going to be there for the next

1432
01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:11,200
Speaker 1: ten years. It's no guarantee. Like does everyone remember Chance

1433
01:09:11,240 --> 01:09:15,760
Speaker 1: Warmack and Jonathan Cooper, Like those were two top ten

1434
01:09:15,840 --> 01:09:21,000
Speaker 1: offensive linemans and they busted hard. I mean, I seven

1435
01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:23,680
Speaker 1: got Mike Gilliams out of my head, right, I mean,

1436
01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:26,599
Speaker 1: I mean those are guards, mind you, But I mean

1437
01:09:26,640 --> 01:09:28,519
Speaker 1: not everyone is gonna end up coming in and being

1438
01:09:28,600 --> 01:09:31,800
Speaker 1: Quenton Nelson. I mean Nelson, it was probably a top

1439
01:09:31,840 --> 01:09:35,519
Speaker 1: five talent last year. Now, offensive line is just so

1440
01:09:35,600 --> 01:09:39,920
Speaker 1: weird in the transfer from college game to pro because

1441
01:09:40,760 --> 01:09:43,000
Speaker 1: they're just not asked to do all the things that

1442
01:09:43,040 --> 01:09:45,519
Speaker 1: the pro game is wants them to do, which is

1443
01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:48,599
Speaker 1: why you see such a heavy importance into resigning your

1444
01:09:48,600 --> 01:09:52,680
Speaker 1: own and that does give you a sniff of ability

1445
01:09:53,120 --> 01:09:55,920
Speaker 1: or to sign free agents to try and fill the

1446
01:09:55,960 --> 01:09:58,559
Speaker 1: gaps that way. And I think that's why the Bills

1447
01:09:58,560 --> 01:10:00,800
Speaker 1: signed five offensive lineman's year. I'm not going to rule

1448
01:10:00,840 --> 01:10:03,599
Speaker 1: out the idea of them drafting one in the second third,

1449
01:10:03,640 --> 01:10:06,559
Speaker 1: maybe fourth round, maybe a guy with some versatility, guy

1450
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:09,479
Speaker 1: that I love Is Reisner out of Kansas State because

1451
01:10:09,640 --> 01:10:11,720
Speaker 1: you throw him at tackle, through a guard, maybe even

1452
01:10:11,720 --> 01:10:14,360
Speaker 1: try them out at center. Who knows, but just that versatility,

1453
01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:16,800
Speaker 1: maybe he can start for you. But that's not a

1454
01:10:17,040 --> 01:10:19,280
Speaker 1: ninth overall guy. That's he might be a second rounder.

1455
01:10:19,320 --> 01:10:21,360
Speaker 1: That's forty, that might be third rounder. I mean, those

1456
01:10:21,400 --> 01:10:23,439
Speaker 1: guys exist to where you can kind of bring them up,

1457
01:10:23,439 --> 01:10:26,439
Speaker 1: and I think that's probably the smarter play with offensive

1458
01:10:26,439 --> 01:10:30,200
Speaker 1: lineman nowadays, because if you swing and miss in an

1459
01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:32,880
Speaker 1: offensive lineman with the first round pick, I put you

1460
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:36,360
Speaker 1: back because that's a potential impact player at elsewhere because

1461
01:10:36,439 --> 01:10:38,640
Speaker 1: it's not always a guarantee with offensive lineman anymore. It's

1462
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:42,840
Speaker 1: kind of joining wide receiver as as that position where

1463
01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:45,800
Speaker 1: it's tougher and tougher to find guys that can stick. Hey,

1464
01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:47,679
Speaker 1: his wide receiver is still in need for the Bills.

1465
01:10:47,680 --> 01:10:49,599
Speaker 1: Do you think in the draft, based on what went

1466
01:10:49,640 --> 01:10:51,679
Speaker 1: on last week, give us a call? Seventy seven percent

1467
01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:53,840
Speaker 1: of you on Twitter say yes, it is, but we'll

1468
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:57,160
Speaker 1: dive into that when we return. Also, did Ben Roethlisberger

1469
01:10:57,200 --> 01:11:00,040
Speaker 1: fumble on purpose? We're gonna talk about that when we

1470
01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:02,000
Speaker 1: come back. Why don't you join us one Bill's Five

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Speaker 1: from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Well,

1472
01:11:18,479 --> 01:11:20,040
Speaker 1: welcome back to the show. It's great to have you here.

1473
01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:22,479
Speaker 1: It's great to have Joe Buscagi here as we kind

1474
01:11:22,479 --> 01:11:24,720
Speaker 1: of prep for the draft five weeks ahead of the game,

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01:11:24,760 --> 01:11:28,040
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft, five weeks from Thursday, Round one as

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Speaker 1: much fun as last weeks, Joe, I keep thinking, with

1477
01:11:30,240 --> 01:11:33,120
Speaker 1: ten picks, it's gonna be pretty fun in the draft too,

1478
01:11:33,120 --> 01:11:35,040
Speaker 1: even though you know most seven of the picks are

1479
01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:37,120
Speaker 1: Day three picks. I still think that's gonna be a

1480
01:11:37,120 --> 01:11:40,040
Speaker 1: fun day because I don't think more, yeah, I mean

1481
01:11:40,680 --> 01:11:43,240
Speaker 1: more in terms of number or the potential for movement.

1482
01:11:43,240 --> 01:11:44,920
Speaker 1: I would think, right, yeah, more in terms of a

1483
01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:47,360
Speaker 1: number of picks if they were to move down from nine,

1484
01:11:47,400 --> 01:11:49,200
Speaker 1: which I think is very much within the rel of

1485
01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:52,840
Speaker 1: possibilities for them, or just repositioning. I think, yeah, as usual,

1486
01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:55,160
Speaker 1: it appears as we still get to know Brandon Bean

1487
01:11:55,520 --> 01:11:58,719
Speaker 1: and Sean McDermott. Just you gotta be ready for anything.

1488
01:11:59,040 --> 01:12:00,799
Speaker 1: You gotta be ready to Way Cup on a Friday

1489
01:12:00,800 --> 01:12:03,240
Speaker 1: and be ready to start reading about Antonio Brown, Right,

1490
01:12:03,240 --> 01:12:05,599
Speaker 1: you gotta be ready because they're they're bold. The Nick

1491
01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:09,960
Speaker 1: moves Yep. He's aggressive and he loves draft picks. Yeah,

1492
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:12,679
Speaker 1: loves them. So if he has a chance to get

1493
01:12:12,720 --> 01:12:15,920
Speaker 1: more substantial ones by moving down, I don't know, eight

1494
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:19,000
Speaker 1: to ten spots, he'll do it. Yeah, no doubt. We're

1495
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:20,960
Speaker 1: gonna get back to the wide receiver talk. His wide

1496
01:12:20,960 --> 01:12:23,799
Speaker 1: receiver still in need for the Bills in the NFL

1497
01:12:23,840 --> 01:12:25,920
Speaker 1: trap based on a couple of pickups last week and

1498
01:12:25,960 --> 01:12:28,439
Speaker 1: for agency. But this came across I guess it was

1499
01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:33,080
Speaker 1: late yesterday early today. A former Steeler's running back Josh

1500
01:12:33,160 --> 01:12:38,960
Speaker 1: Harris accuses Ben Roethlisberger of intentionally fumbling the ball on

1501
01:12:39,040 --> 01:12:42,240
Speaker 1: a play in twenty fourteen. Apparently, Harris said he was

1502
01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:48,040
Speaker 1: trying to spite then Steeler's offensive coordinator Todd Haley a

1503
01:12:48,120 --> 01:12:52,240
Speaker 1: tweet that says, twenty fourteen weeks seventeen, playing the Bengals,

1504
01:12:52,400 --> 01:12:54,439
Speaker 1: Haley called a run play with very little time left

1505
01:12:54,439 --> 01:12:56,960
Speaker 1: in the game. Ben wanted to kneel, He rolled his

1506
01:12:57,000 --> 01:12:59,519
Speaker 1: eyes in the huddle. He then purposely fumbles the ball.

1507
01:13:00,080 --> 01:13:01,760
Speaker 1: I had to recover at that moment. I knew what

1508
01:13:01,840 --> 01:13:05,000
Speaker 1: kind of person he was. But that's a character assassination

1509
01:13:05,080 --> 01:13:08,080
Speaker 1: like you don't get often in the NFL. He went

1510
01:13:08,080 --> 01:13:10,559
Speaker 1: on to say. Harris said later, if fans only knew

1511
01:13:10,560 --> 01:13:12,800
Speaker 1: how much he hated Todd Hayley, that's the main reason

1512
01:13:12,840 --> 01:13:14,439
Speaker 1: I feel he did. It make Hayley look bad for

1513
01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:17,000
Speaker 1: calling a run that late in the game. Yikes, that's

1514
01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:20,240
Speaker 1: a pretty serious charge, even though it's week seventeen into

1515
01:13:20,280 --> 01:13:24,880
Speaker 1: the game, to say that a quarterback Ben Roethlisberger intentionally

1516
01:13:24,880 --> 01:13:30,080
Speaker 1: fumbled Joe Wow. Yeah. Yeah. I mean the eye rolling

1517
01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:35,559
Speaker 1: in the huddle part was something that's fine, right if

1518
01:13:35,800 --> 01:13:37,120
Speaker 1: I mean he did try to hand it off to

1519
01:13:37,160 --> 01:13:40,600
Speaker 1: the fullback. For what it's worth, that did happen. But

1520
01:13:41,280 --> 01:13:45,280
Speaker 1: I don't know. If Roethlisberger did that, that's a horrible

1521
01:13:45,280 --> 01:13:47,920
Speaker 1: look for him. I mean, especially with how everything has

1522
01:13:47,960 --> 01:13:50,200
Speaker 1: kind of gone down with the Antonio Brown thing and

1523
01:13:50,680 --> 01:13:54,040
Speaker 1: you know, them not really seeing eye to eye and

1524
01:13:55,120 --> 01:13:58,800
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger almost he's it almost feels like he's getting

1525
01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:02,200
Speaker 1: this reputation of you know, it's it's almost as though

1526
01:14:02,240 --> 01:14:05,080
Speaker 1: he's a coach rather than just a player, and it's

1527
01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:08,800
Speaker 1: kind of like invincible, and that's the way it's being

1528
01:14:08,840 --> 01:14:11,760
Speaker 1: perceived with how Antonio Brown kind of described everything. And

1529
01:14:12,240 --> 01:14:15,880
Speaker 1: you know, if if he did that, that's that's that's awful.

1530
01:14:16,160 --> 01:14:18,040
Speaker 1: We'll never know if you really did for sure, and

1531
01:14:18,160 --> 01:14:20,320
Speaker 1: Harris not going to admit. You know, Harris was a backup,

1532
01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:22,400
Speaker 1: didn't play much on the field late in the game.

1533
01:14:22,880 --> 01:14:25,320
Speaker 1: Fans are wondering. Steelers fans wondering, why why would you

1534
01:14:25,320 --> 01:14:27,479
Speaker 1: wait five years to say that. Obviously he's piling on

1535
01:14:27,880 --> 01:14:29,800
Speaker 1: after all the Antonio Brown stuff and enjoy it. Just

1536
01:14:29,840 --> 01:14:35,479
Speaker 1: can't help but thinking that the GM Kevin Hyeah his

1537
01:14:35,600 --> 01:14:38,240
Speaker 1: comment about fifty two kids with Ben Roethlisberger, I think

1538
01:14:38,240 --> 01:14:40,080
Speaker 1: it sort of opened up the gates to this sort

1539
01:14:40,080 --> 01:14:42,800
Speaker 1: of people second guess he'd been He shouldn't have said that.

1540
01:14:43,720 --> 01:14:45,799
Speaker 1: No one should say that about any player in the NFL.

1541
01:14:45,880 --> 01:14:48,040
Speaker 1: He's the adult and the rest of them are kids.

1542
01:14:48,240 --> 01:14:52,040
Speaker 1: That really did Roethlisberger and the Steelers I believe some damage. Yeah,

1543
01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:55,160
Speaker 1: it's going to be a very intriguing season for these

1544
01:14:55,400 --> 01:14:58,040
Speaker 1: this Pittsburgh Steelers team because now they basically have to

1545
01:14:58,080 --> 01:15:00,920
Speaker 1: start over. Yep um, I mean James Honors there, and

1546
01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:05,200
Speaker 1: you know they do have some pieces. Smith Schuster is

1547
01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:09,240
Speaker 1: an up and coming wide receiver, but it all revolves

1548
01:15:09,280 --> 01:15:11,880
Speaker 1: around Ben and Ken. Ben still do it at the

1549
01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:14,479
Speaker 1: same level that he did, and is he going to

1550
01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:17,360
Speaker 1: have the locker room the way that he did in

1551
01:15:17,400 --> 01:15:20,680
Speaker 1: the past with all of this stuff happening around him.

1552
01:15:20,840 --> 01:15:23,680
Speaker 1: I mean, the one thing that the Steelers did last year,

1553
01:15:23,720 --> 01:15:26,920
Speaker 1: they especially when the Levion Bell stuff was happening, not

1554
01:15:26,960 --> 01:15:29,960
Speaker 1: the Antonio Brown stuff, but they came together pretty hard,

1555
01:15:29,960 --> 01:15:32,439
Speaker 1: and they were solid for a long time last year,

1556
01:15:32,479 --> 01:15:34,120
Speaker 1: and then the bottom fell out from them at the

1557
01:15:34,160 --> 01:15:40,480
Speaker 1: end of the year. But Roethlisberger's undermining coaches, undermining teammates,

1558
01:15:40,680 --> 01:15:43,519
Speaker 1: that's an awful look. He's gonna and not to say

1559
01:15:43,560 --> 01:15:45,320
Speaker 1: that he is, but if he is, he's gonna have

1560
01:15:45,360 --> 01:15:47,000
Speaker 1: to take a hard look in the mirror with with

1561
01:15:47,040 --> 01:15:49,800
Speaker 1: how his career is gonna end and his reputation within

1562
01:15:49,840 --> 01:15:54,080
Speaker 1: the league's reputation taking some hits. From a talent standpoint,

1563
01:15:54,120 --> 01:15:56,920
Speaker 1: strictly talent standpoint, I just have a hard time believing

1564
01:15:57,000 --> 01:15:59,600
Speaker 1: you can remove Levion Bell and Antonio Brown. And I

1565
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:02,639
Speaker 1: know Bell was extricated from the line up last week,

1566
01:16:02,680 --> 01:16:05,280
Speaker 1: but you've got to miss talents of that caliber, right,

1567
01:16:05,560 --> 01:16:09,080
Speaker 1: regardless of who's left. Juju Smith, Schuster and James Connor

1568
01:16:09,160 --> 01:16:11,640
Speaker 1: and of course Roethlisberger, you've got to miss it. If

1569
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:13,559
Speaker 1: you lose that kind of talent. I think I like

1570
01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:17,760
Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster. He's not Antonio, right, Antonio Brown is

1571
01:16:17,800 --> 01:16:21,920
Speaker 1: incredibly talented, and he doesn't Brown doesn't even win with speed.

1572
01:16:22,040 --> 01:16:24,080
Speaker 1: That's the thing. Like, that's why his game is going

1573
01:16:24,120 --> 01:16:27,200
Speaker 1: to be good for the next two to three, maybe

1574
01:16:27,200 --> 01:16:29,360
Speaker 1: even four years, even though he's thirty one years old,

1575
01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:34,040
Speaker 1: because if you remember him at the Combine, his testing

1576
01:16:34,320 --> 01:16:39,040
Speaker 1: was terrible. He was small, undersized, had had short arms,

1577
01:16:39,080 --> 01:16:42,120
Speaker 1: had had small hands. I mean, his forty time was awful,

1578
01:16:42,160 --> 01:16:45,679
Speaker 1: his vertical was awful. These explosive scores were terrible. But

1579
01:16:46,120 --> 01:16:49,280
Speaker 1: because he outworks everybody and he's got great footwork getting

1580
01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:50,960
Speaker 1: in and out of his brakes, he can make people

1581
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:53,200
Speaker 1: look silly doing it. And that's why he's going to

1582
01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:57,760
Speaker 1: continue to win at the NFL level and removing that

1583
01:16:57,800 --> 01:17:01,120
Speaker 1: guy from the equation. I don't care how much potential

1584
01:17:01,200 --> 01:17:04,280
Speaker 1: JJ Smith Schuster has. When you remove someone who has

1585
01:17:04,320 --> 01:17:07,519
Speaker 1: had one hundred plus receptions in six straight years, you're

1586
01:17:07,560 --> 01:17:10,200
Speaker 1: going to take a dent a little bit. But it

1587
01:17:10,240 --> 01:17:12,759
Speaker 1: also depends on how they kind of reformulate their defense,

1588
01:17:12,800 --> 01:17:14,600
Speaker 1: because that's a sneaky thing that's that's come up on

1589
01:17:14,640 --> 01:17:17,080
Speaker 1: them as well. They'll be fun to watch the stealers.

1590
01:17:17,320 --> 01:17:19,360
Speaker 1: Wide receivers still a need for the Bills in the draft?

1591
01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:21,360
Speaker 1: What do you think? That's our twitter poll. We're getting

1592
01:17:21,360 --> 01:17:22,840
Speaker 1: phone calls on it. We'll get to those calls on

1593
01:17:22,840 --> 01:17:25,120
Speaker 1: a second. On the tweet sheet, we ask that question.

1594
01:17:25,280 --> 01:17:27,040
Speaker 1: Is wide receivers still a need for the Bills? John

1595
01:17:27,040 --> 01:17:30,160
Speaker 1: Whitfield responds, I believe they're still looking for that number

1596
01:17:30,240 --> 01:17:32,640
Speaker 1: one receiver. I think Bean is blowing smoke when he

1597
01:17:32,680 --> 01:17:36,160
Speaker 1: says otherwise, could see in the draft with the DK

1598
01:17:36,320 --> 01:17:39,400
Speaker 1: Metcalf or a possible trade for Julio or AJ stay

1599
01:17:39,400 --> 01:17:41,479
Speaker 1: tuned with being anything as possible. I agree with that.

1600
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:45,080
Speaker 1: Is he blowing smoke? Well, he never really said that

1601
01:17:45,120 --> 01:17:46,720
Speaker 1: he's not looking for a number one receiver, So I

1602
01:17:46,720 --> 01:17:49,400
Speaker 1: don't know where the blowing smoke comes in. But I

1603
01:17:49,439 --> 01:17:52,000
Speaker 1: don't know, Joe, you think they're pretty much set right

1604
01:17:52,280 --> 01:17:54,320
Speaker 1: at least in terms of what a difference making wide

1605
01:17:54,320 --> 01:17:56,639
Speaker 1: receiver a first round wide receivers. They get their hands

1606
01:17:56,680 --> 01:17:59,920
Speaker 1: on Julio Jones or AJ Green, then everything's blown up. Ye.

1607
01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:03,560
Speaker 1: AJ Green only as a year left on his contract,

1608
01:18:03,680 --> 01:18:07,280
Speaker 1: and perhaps if the Bengals didn't foresee a future there,

1609
01:18:07,680 --> 01:18:10,160
Speaker 1: then maybe the best course of action is to move

1610
01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:13,360
Speaker 1: on and try and get something for him. Which if

1611
01:18:13,360 --> 01:18:15,400
Speaker 1: that's the case, then being should definitely pick up the

1612
01:18:15,400 --> 01:18:17,599
Speaker 1: phone and see if he's available, because he brings something

1613
01:18:17,640 --> 01:18:20,040
Speaker 1: that none of the other receivers have, even though he's

1614
01:18:20,080 --> 01:18:24,160
Speaker 1: still thirty one years old. But in terms of ninth overall,

1615
01:18:25,400 --> 01:18:27,519
Speaker 1: like I said, I wouldn't rule it out. I just

1616
01:18:28,439 --> 01:18:31,599
Speaker 1: dk Metcalf just scares me a little bit at that level,

1617
01:18:31,720 --> 01:18:35,639
Speaker 1: and even more so than that does Brandon being value

1618
01:18:35,800 --> 01:18:38,080
Speaker 1: of taking a wide receiver that highly in the draft,

1619
01:18:38,200 --> 01:18:41,800
Speaker 1: especially one that lacked the production that maybe you would

1620
01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:43,920
Speaker 1: want out of taking a wide receiver that early in

1621
01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:46,400
Speaker 1: the draft. And like I said before with the offensive lineman,

1622
01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:50,519
Speaker 1: it's not as though it's a wide receiver is a

1623
01:18:50,560 --> 01:18:53,719
Speaker 1: position where it's just in a smooth transition into the NFL.

1624
01:18:53,800 --> 01:18:56,360
Speaker 1: It's not. Oftentimes it takes a long time. And if

1625
01:18:56,360 --> 01:18:58,719
Speaker 1: you take a wide receiver at ninth overall, he'd better

1626
01:18:58,760 --> 01:19:02,000
Speaker 1: be starting for you, I mean, let alone, let alone

1627
01:19:02,240 --> 01:19:05,479
Speaker 1: being one of your best contributors. That's that's the type

1628
01:19:05,479 --> 01:19:07,559
Speaker 1: of talent you're trying to take it nights overall, and

1629
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:09,960
Speaker 1: I just I just don't know if that type of

1630
01:19:09,960 --> 01:19:14,080
Speaker 1: premium is placed on that position for being of the draft. Anyway,

1631
01:19:14,160 --> 01:19:16,240
Speaker 1: let's go to Tim on the West side of Buffalo. Hello, time,

1632
01:19:16,240 --> 01:19:18,439
Speaker 1: go ahead, you're on the air with this. Hey, guys,

1633
01:19:18,439 --> 01:19:21,000
Speaker 1: if you call this a j squired show, nobody will

1634
01:19:21,040 --> 01:19:24,879
Speaker 1: get it wrong. You got John and Joe there you go. Okay,

1635
01:19:24,920 --> 01:19:26,960
Speaker 1: welcome to the air. I got I got a few

1636
01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:29,719
Speaker 1: things if you hear me out. Okay. I don't think

1637
01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:33,599
Speaker 1: we need a wide receiver number one because of who

1638
01:19:33,600 --> 01:19:36,880
Speaker 1: they drafted. We don't need offensive line. They turn my

1639
01:19:37,000 --> 01:19:42,640
Speaker 1: draft board upside down because of what they've done. Seriously,

1640
01:19:43,120 --> 01:19:47,000
Speaker 1: I think that signs Ziggy. Then I think they're gonna

1641
01:19:47,000 --> 01:19:51,440
Speaker 1: go defensive end or defensive tackle, which is best player available.

1642
01:19:52,160 --> 01:19:55,479
Speaker 1: And if they do sign them, then they're still gonna

1643
01:19:55,479 --> 01:19:58,479
Speaker 1: go best player available. But that could be the end

1644
01:19:58,479 --> 01:20:02,679
Speaker 1: of Shack Lawson. And my last thing is Andy Levitre

1645
01:20:02,960 --> 01:20:06,559
Speaker 1: is still out there. Could we resign him and add

1646
01:20:06,640 --> 01:20:09,160
Speaker 1: him to the throne? What do you want to take

1647
01:20:09,200 --> 01:20:11,519
Speaker 1: their Joe? I think let me start by Lavitre. I

1648
01:20:11,560 --> 01:20:15,160
Speaker 1: think is unlikely because of his age and because of

1649
01:20:15,280 --> 01:20:17,840
Speaker 1: the additions they've already made. Yeah, and I wouldn't throw

1650
01:20:17,920 --> 01:20:20,880
Speaker 1: any dirt on Shack Lawson's grave just yet, and maybe

1651
01:20:20,960 --> 01:20:24,080
Speaker 1: not at all. He's been asked about a lot right

1652
01:20:24,080 --> 01:20:26,280
Speaker 1: in this the next last couple of months, and he

1653
01:20:26,320 --> 01:20:29,000
Speaker 1: gets not you know, he doesn't get a guarantee of anything.

1654
01:20:29,080 --> 01:20:31,800
Speaker 1: But I do detect kind of a strong sense that

1655
01:20:31,840 --> 01:20:34,280
Speaker 1: they are interested in. Haven't Lawson here on the roster

1656
01:20:34,400 --> 01:20:37,040
Speaker 1: this year? No? Oh yeah, I mean he's a he's

1657
01:20:37,040 --> 01:20:40,000
Speaker 1: a solid rotational piece. He has definitely come along and

1658
01:20:40,120 --> 01:20:42,080
Speaker 1: he's gotten a lot better at batting down passes, even

1659
01:20:42,120 --> 01:20:44,680
Speaker 1: though he's not getting to the quarterback consistently, which is

1660
01:20:44,680 --> 01:20:46,880
Speaker 1: what they initially brought him in full on his rookie contract,

1661
01:20:46,920 --> 01:20:49,080
Speaker 1: which helps him mentally. He is on his rookie deal.

1662
01:20:49,360 --> 01:20:53,479
Speaker 1: The wonder here is that once twenty nineteen is up

1663
01:20:53,520 --> 01:20:55,720
Speaker 1: for Shack, what do you do with him? You're not

1664
01:20:55,760 --> 01:20:57,559
Speaker 1: going to pay him a GOB's amount of money, right,

1665
01:20:57,720 --> 01:21:01,280
Speaker 1: and which is why I think, I mean, at least

1666
01:21:01,320 --> 01:21:03,840
Speaker 1: gauging the trade market for him when the draft gets

1667
01:21:03,840 --> 01:21:06,920
Speaker 1: closer would be prudent for the Bills. I mean, if

1668
01:21:08,040 --> 01:21:09,920
Speaker 1: I wouldn't give him the fifth year option, because he

1669
01:21:09,920 --> 01:21:13,080
Speaker 1: has improved himself as a pass rusher, However, if you

1670
01:21:13,120 --> 01:21:17,680
Speaker 1: can get a third rounder for Shack Lawson, I think

1671
01:21:17,680 --> 01:21:20,519
Speaker 1: you do that and you figure out the defensive end

1672
01:21:20,600 --> 01:21:24,800
Speaker 1: room outside of him, because I mean, he does some

1673
01:21:25,000 --> 01:21:27,760
Speaker 1: really nice things. But if let's say they did bring

1674
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:29,920
Speaker 1: in an onset, then that makes him expendable a bit

1675
01:21:30,320 --> 01:21:33,080
Speaker 1: and he's not gonna probably not going to factor into

1676
01:21:33,120 --> 01:21:34,720
Speaker 1: the long term unless he's willing to take a little

1677
01:21:34,720 --> 01:21:37,439
Speaker 1: bit low over a contract, and I think with defensive

1678
01:21:37,520 --> 01:21:39,040
Speaker 1: ends and the way they get paid on the open market,

1679
01:21:39,080 --> 01:21:41,920
Speaker 1: he'll probably get a lump something. Now, the counter argument

1680
01:21:41,960 --> 01:21:43,639
Speaker 1: to that is if you just keep him on the roster,

1681
01:21:43,880 --> 01:21:45,920
Speaker 1: then you might be able to get a substantial compensatory

1682
01:21:46,000 --> 01:21:48,400
Speaker 1: pick for him in twenty twenty one. So there's a

1683
01:21:48,479 --> 01:21:50,439
Speaker 1: there's a few different ways to play it here. Let's

1684
01:21:50,479 --> 01:21:53,559
Speaker 1: go to Ivan in Buffalo. Hello, Ivan, you're on the

1685
01:21:53,560 --> 01:21:56,240
Speaker 1: air with this. How are you guys going today? Good?

1686
01:21:56,280 --> 01:21:59,720
Speaker 1: Thank you? Okay, So my teen is that I don't

1687
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:02,680
Speaker 1: think the bills are settled at the receiver position. I

1688
01:22:02,760 --> 01:22:06,240
Speaker 1: think that we still don't have a clear cut number

1689
01:22:06,240 --> 01:22:09,600
Speaker 1: one receiver. We still have in my opinion, even with

1690
01:22:09,680 --> 01:22:12,479
Speaker 1: the additions that we just made number two and number

1691
01:22:12,520 --> 01:22:15,040
Speaker 1: threes and I think in order for the Bills to

1692
01:22:15,120 --> 01:22:19,360
Speaker 1: really advance, you know, offensively, Uh, they need a number

1693
01:22:19,400 --> 01:22:21,200
Speaker 1: one receiver. They need someone that they can count on

1694
01:22:21,320 --> 01:22:24,400
Speaker 1: down after down, you know, to get the tough yards,

1695
01:22:24,640 --> 01:22:26,839
Speaker 1: you know. And I think that we need a Bick receiver.

1696
01:22:26,960 --> 01:22:30,160
Speaker 1: So even if we don't take a receiver at number nine,

1697
01:22:30,240 --> 01:22:32,400
Speaker 1: I think that we should at least look to try

1698
01:22:32,400 --> 01:22:36,920
Speaker 1: to take one, maybe maybe down down in the first

1699
01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:40,080
Speaker 1: first round if they can book a trade, you know,

1700
01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:43,679
Speaker 1: and try to maybe pick up Paris Campbell or either

1701
01:22:43,760 --> 01:22:47,360
Speaker 1: JJ R. Siega out of Stanford. Those are two receivers.

1702
01:22:47,360 --> 01:22:49,439
Speaker 1: I think that could sort of like sit the mold

1703
01:22:49,520 --> 01:22:52,800
Speaker 1: that the Bills are looking for. Um, but even tight

1704
01:22:52,920 --> 01:22:54,920
Speaker 1: end you know, Um, I don't think that we saw

1705
01:22:54,960 --> 01:22:57,680
Speaker 1: that at the tight end position either. And then if

1706
01:22:57,680 --> 01:22:59,920
Speaker 1: we could grab Donald Penn who just became a free

1707
01:23:00,160 --> 01:23:01,400
Speaker 1: and I think that we should look to try to

1708
01:23:01,439 --> 01:23:03,519
Speaker 1: do something all on that line. This way here, did

1709
01:23:03,600 --> 01:23:07,080
Speaker 1: not think they'll be totally settle across the board, and

1710
01:23:07,120 --> 01:23:09,920
Speaker 1: then they can truly look at trying to take the

1711
01:23:10,320 --> 01:23:12,639
Speaker 1: best player available. All right, Thanks, Ivan, I've ben't eaten

1712
01:23:12,680 --> 01:23:15,639
Speaker 1: with both hands much. Again, there's a lot of stuff

1713
01:23:15,640 --> 01:23:18,880
Speaker 1: to kind of unpack there. But I think the one

1714
01:23:18,920 --> 01:23:21,200
Speaker 1: area that I do agree with you is the wide

1715
01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:24,479
Speaker 1: receiver outside of the first round. I still love that

1716
01:23:24,560 --> 01:23:26,880
Speaker 1: idea because then you bring in a young player. I mean,

1717
01:23:26,960 --> 01:23:29,320
Speaker 1: there's no guarantee that d Jones works out this year,

1718
01:23:29,400 --> 01:23:31,760
Speaker 1: and it's a huge season for him. I mean, no

1719
01:23:31,880 --> 01:23:35,599
Speaker 1: longer can he be the guy that just goes in

1720
01:23:35,720 --> 01:23:38,760
Speaker 1: shows flashes once in a while. He has to be

1721
01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:41,600
Speaker 1: a consistent producer. This is his third season. It is

1722
01:23:41,760 --> 01:23:44,320
Speaker 1: put up time for him, and if he doesn't, then

1723
01:23:44,360 --> 01:23:46,559
Speaker 1: they have to figure out life after za Jones. It's

1724
01:23:46,600 --> 01:23:48,720
Speaker 1: it's really that simple. So that's why I wouldn't rule

1725
01:23:48,760 --> 01:23:50,880
Speaker 1: out the idea of taking a receiver in the second

1726
01:23:50,960 --> 01:23:52,559
Speaker 1: or third round. I brought up a J. Brown from

1727
01:23:52,600 --> 01:23:54,360
Speaker 1: all miss well, let me ask you, because i'ven't got

1728
01:23:54,360 --> 01:23:56,400
Speaker 1: to this, like they need a number one wide receiver,

1729
01:23:56,840 --> 01:23:59,400
Speaker 1: And then he starts rattling off names who in this

1730
01:23:59,439 --> 01:24:03,160
Speaker 1: year's draft our number one wide receiver receiver candidates, And

1731
01:24:03,439 --> 01:24:06,240
Speaker 1: again I acknowledge, Yeah, we you have said you don't

1732
01:24:06,280 --> 01:24:09,040
Speaker 1: know if they actually care if it's a number one

1733
01:24:09,360 --> 01:24:12,280
Speaker 1: wide receiver, which by the way, is an imaginary designation.

1734
01:24:12,360 --> 01:24:16,200
Speaker 1: But yes, I agree, who fits the Bill does a

1735
01:24:16,360 --> 01:24:18,680
Speaker 1: J Brown fit that Bill. I think. I think he

1736
01:24:18,680 --> 01:24:22,599
Speaker 1: could be Um. He's got massive potential. His yards after

1737
01:24:22,640 --> 01:24:26,200
Speaker 1: the catch are insane, and he should get sniffs in

1738
01:24:26,200 --> 01:24:28,200
Speaker 1: the first round. If he doesn't and he gets into

1739
01:24:28,240 --> 01:24:30,920
Speaker 1: the second round, whoever gets him, they're gonna be very happy.

1740
01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:36,560
Speaker 1: M Metcalf fits that. We know that, yeah, Metcalf. Sega Whiteside,

1741
01:24:36,560 --> 01:24:38,400
Speaker 1: I think is more of a number two in my mind,

1742
01:24:38,600 --> 01:24:41,800
Speaker 1: but I love him because he the two things he

1743
01:24:41,840 --> 01:24:46,040
Speaker 1: does incredibly well. His footwork against press coverage just makes

1744
01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:49,719
Speaker 1: some defenders that are uptight looks silly. And he also

1745
01:24:49,800 --> 01:24:53,840
Speaker 1: has this incredible ability to essentially become a rebounder in

1746
01:24:53,880 --> 01:24:57,840
Speaker 1: the end zone where he boxes out the defender. He's

1747
01:24:57,880 --> 01:24:59,840
Speaker 1: six two, he's six two two twenty five, so he's

1748
01:24:59,880 --> 01:25:03,960
Speaker 1: not huge, but he has this ability of body positioning

1749
01:25:04,040 --> 01:25:07,840
Speaker 1: and it's he boxes out the defender on these jump

1750
01:25:07,880 --> 01:25:09,880
Speaker 1: vault and he's able to go up and get these

1751
01:25:09,920 --> 01:25:12,960
Speaker 1: contested catches, which is what makes him so appealing. Now

1752
01:25:13,160 --> 01:25:16,000
Speaker 1: on the flip side, is he able to consistently win

1753
01:25:16,520 --> 01:25:19,200
Speaker 1: with his speed and separation. Didn't run at the combine,

1754
01:25:19,760 --> 01:25:21,720
Speaker 1: eager to see what he does at his pro day.

1755
01:25:21,760 --> 01:25:25,439
Speaker 1: But he's someone that would I would definitely consider in

1756
01:25:25,800 --> 01:25:28,519
Speaker 1: the second round or if he's able to or if

1757
01:25:28,520 --> 01:25:30,720
Speaker 1: they're able to hold off unto the third round. For him,

1758
01:25:30,760 --> 01:25:32,400
Speaker 1: I think he's someone that can come in and be

1759
01:25:32,439 --> 01:25:34,960
Speaker 1: a potential number two for you. All right, talking about receivers,

1760
01:25:35,000 --> 01:25:37,400
Speaker 1: still a need for the Bills after the two signings

1761
01:25:37,479 --> 01:25:39,320
Speaker 1: last week. What do you think when we come back

1762
01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:41,720
Speaker 1: we're going to get into NFL? True or false? Doing

1763
01:25:41,760 --> 01:25:43,160
Speaker 1: it a little bit earlier today, we got a couple

1764
01:25:43,200 --> 01:25:45,000
Speaker 1: of guess coming up at the two o'clock hour. Come

1765
01:25:45,000 --> 01:25:46,920
Speaker 1: on back with us One Bill's Side from One Bill's

1766
01:25:47,000 --> 01:25:58,400
Speaker 1: Drive in. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio. Welcome back. We're

1767
01:25:58,479 --> 01:26:02,040
Speaker 1: lucky to have Joe Vascallion, whether today, tomorrow, Wednesday, sports

1768
01:26:02,040 --> 01:26:05,719
Speaker 1: director at WKBWTV Channel seven here in Buffalo, draft expert.

1769
01:26:05,760 --> 01:26:08,360
Speaker 1: He's demonstrated that already in less than two hours, you

1770
01:26:08,400 --> 01:26:10,080
Speaker 1: will leave here and go right into Channel seven and

1771
01:26:10,120 --> 01:26:13,519
Speaker 1: anchor the uh you have a five, No, the six

1772
01:26:13,600 --> 01:26:15,360
Speaker 1: and the eleven six and I will be there on

1773
01:26:15,360 --> 01:26:18,760
Speaker 1: the sportscast. And what's coming up tonight? Yeah, the UBI

1774
01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:21,160
Speaker 1: women get seated tonight. They are so much fun. We

1775
01:26:21,160 --> 01:26:23,960
Speaker 1: were just talking about that. They're so much fun to watch. Yeah, Felicia,

1776
01:26:23,960 --> 01:26:27,679
Speaker 1: look at Jack is awesome. Sierra Dillard is a maniac

1777
01:26:27,800 --> 01:26:31,479
Speaker 1: on the court, and she's great. I love watching them play.

1778
01:26:31,560 --> 01:26:33,519
Speaker 1: What times that had happen to a seven o'clock? Yeah,

1779
01:26:33,600 --> 01:26:36,120
Speaker 1: And what's your guess? What kind of seed will they get?

1780
01:26:36,280 --> 01:26:37,640
Speaker 1: If I had to guess, I would say like a

1781
01:26:37,640 --> 01:26:39,960
Speaker 1: ten or eleven. Okay, but they're still able to do

1782
01:26:40,040 --> 01:26:41,840
Speaker 1: some damage and first and second round could be in

1783
01:26:41,840 --> 01:26:44,880
Speaker 1: Syracuse for them, well potentially. Yeah, it just all depends

1784
01:26:44,920 --> 01:26:48,960
Speaker 1: because that's um it goes to the top seed, right

1785
01:26:49,080 --> 01:26:52,559
Speaker 1: and and so yeah, it all depends. But if they're close,

1786
01:26:53,960 --> 01:26:55,840
Speaker 1: there's going to have be a large continent of UBE

1787
01:26:55,880 --> 01:26:58,599
Speaker 1: fans getting over there. You'd be fans traveled well Cleveland

1788
01:26:58,640 --> 01:27:00,320
Speaker 1: two over the weekends. Interested to see what they do

1789
01:27:00,360 --> 01:27:05,000
Speaker 1: with Tulsa. That's a hike. I was wondering because the two,

1790
01:27:05,520 --> 01:27:07,679
Speaker 1: I mean, the three longest ones were San Jose, Tulsa

1791
01:27:07,800 --> 01:27:11,599
Speaker 1: in Salt Lake, and Tulsa's I think probably the least

1792
01:27:11,600 --> 01:27:13,960
Speaker 1: desirable of the three. But I've been there. Yeah me

1793
01:27:14,040 --> 01:27:17,639
Speaker 1: neither pay me neither, but but yeah, I want to see.

1794
01:27:17,640 --> 01:27:19,519
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's gonna be huge, especially within me in

1795
01:27:19,520 --> 01:27:22,200
Speaker 1: a sixth seed. I like the Friday afternoon, what late

1796
01:27:22,200 --> 01:27:25,000
Speaker 1: four o'clock, four thirty. YEA, yeah, it'll be good. That'll

1797
01:27:25,040 --> 01:27:26,880
Speaker 1: be great. It'll be a lot of people cutting out

1798
01:27:26,880 --> 01:27:28,400
Speaker 1: of work early Friday to watch it. That'll be a

1799
01:27:28,400 --> 01:27:31,160
Speaker 1: lot of fun. Um NFL true or false brought to

1800
01:27:31,160 --> 01:27:33,640
Speaker 1: you by Yancey's fancy New York startisan Cheese. Joe and

1801
01:27:33,680 --> 01:27:36,960
Speaker 1: I go ahead to head deciding whether these comments are

1802
01:27:36,960 --> 01:27:39,320
Speaker 1: true or are they false? This was an NFL dot

1803
01:27:39,320 --> 01:27:42,920
Speaker 1: com a story about Russell Wilson. True or false. Russell

1804
01:27:42,920 --> 01:27:46,000
Speaker 1: Wilson will become the next highest paid quarterback. Aaron Rodgers

1805
01:27:46,000 --> 01:27:48,600
Speaker 1: holds the record right now. M Look, he's up for

1806
01:27:48,640 --> 01:27:52,599
Speaker 1: a contract, he has got the Super Bowl pedigree. Um,

1807
01:27:53,200 --> 01:27:54,880
Speaker 1: I don't think he's held in the same regard is

1808
01:27:54,920 --> 01:27:57,200
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers or several others. So I'm gonna say false

1809
01:27:57,240 --> 01:27:59,800
Speaker 1: on this one. Joe, I don't think it matters when

1810
01:27:59,840 --> 01:28:03,400
Speaker 1: it quarterbacks. I mean how good they are. If you are,

1811
01:28:03,439 --> 01:28:07,200
Speaker 1: if you are in that top five realm, then you

1812
01:28:07,200 --> 01:28:09,200
Speaker 1: are going to get paid. So I think it is

1813
01:28:09,240 --> 01:28:11,360
Speaker 1: true that he will become the next highest paid QB.

1814
01:28:11,720 --> 01:28:15,000
Speaker 1: The one thing I wonder is why Seattle hasn't done

1815
01:28:15,000 --> 01:28:17,400
Speaker 1: it yet, because it seems like a no brainer, right.

1816
01:28:17,439 --> 01:28:20,000
Speaker 1: I mean, he has come in there and been an

1817
01:28:20,000 --> 01:28:23,760
Speaker 1: immeasurable talent to them and has taken their roster, their

1818
01:28:23,840 --> 01:28:27,960
Speaker 1: team to depths that they've never gone to before. Why

1819
01:28:28,040 --> 01:28:32,400
Speaker 1: isn't it done yet? Is he long for Seattle? I

1820
01:28:32,439 --> 01:28:36,160
Speaker 1: think that has to be considered here as well, because

1821
01:28:36,360 --> 01:28:40,040
Speaker 1: you would think a team wouldn't allow a situation to

1822
01:28:40,080 --> 01:28:42,960
Speaker 1: get to this point. So I don't know. I think

1823
01:28:42,960 --> 01:28:45,040
Speaker 1: he will be the next highest paid QB, but I

1824
01:28:45,080 --> 01:28:48,160
Speaker 1: think this is one of those situations where sneaky, sneaky

1825
01:28:48,200 --> 01:28:51,639
Speaker 1: thing to monitors see exactly how this thing all goes down. Okay,

1826
01:28:51,880 --> 01:28:54,599
Speaker 1: and the Giants, you think is at a real don't

1827
01:28:54,640 --> 01:28:56,719
Speaker 1: I don't know who would do it? But it would

1828
01:28:56,720 --> 01:28:59,639
Speaker 1: cost a lot. Would It would cost quite a bit,

1829
01:29:00,080 --> 01:29:03,160
Speaker 1: But the Giants might just be so desperate to do it.

1830
01:29:03,240 --> 01:29:05,479
Speaker 1: Might it might not be Dave Guttman's play to make

1831
01:29:05,560 --> 01:29:08,479
Speaker 1: it at some point in the near future. Part two.

1832
01:29:08,640 --> 01:29:11,639
Speaker 1: NFL True or False. The Memphis Express of the Alliance

1833
01:29:11,680 --> 01:29:15,160
Speaker 1: of American Football signed Johnny Manziel a couple of days ago. Now,

1834
01:29:15,840 --> 01:29:19,439
Speaker 1: it's been reported that they should start him immediately for

1835
01:29:19,920 --> 01:29:23,559
Speaker 1: I guess the marquee value. I don't know. I look,

1836
01:29:23,560 --> 01:29:26,280
Speaker 1: I'm done with Johnny Manziel. So he's not in the

1837
01:29:26,360 --> 01:29:28,640
Speaker 1: NFL anymore. He's not in the NFL, He's barely in

1838
01:29:28,680 --> 01:29:31,719
Speaker 1: the Alliance of American Football, washed out of the CFL.

1839
01:29:31,960 --> 01:29:33,960
Speaker 1: Why would they start him? No? False? Why would why

1840
01:29:33,960 --> 01:29:36,960
Speaker 1: would you cut him any slack? Use a name for

1841
01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:38,800
Speaker 1: all the wrong reasons. By the way, he is a name.

1842
01:29:39,160 --> 01:29:44,080
Speaker 1: I say true because they are one in five. Why

1843
01:29:44,120 --> 01:29:46,920
Speaker 1: not why not make it exciting for fans, get him

1844
01:29:46,960 --> 01:29:49,160
Speaker 1: on board and see where it goes from there. Is

1845
01:29:49,160 --> 01:29:52,920
Speaker 1: he gonna flop? Probably? But is it gonna be fun? Absolutely?

1846
01:29:52,920 --> 01:29:56,200
Speaker 1: It's the Ryan Fitzpatrick conversation. Miami's probably gonna be really

1847
01:29:56,200 --> 01:29:58,840
Speaker 1: bad this year. We can't johny Man. I'm not saying

1848
01:29:58,840 --> 01:30:01,479
Speaker 1: they're they're similarly talent, but it's like a similar conversation

1849
01:30:01,520 --> 01:30:03,879
Speaker 1: because Miami is gonna be really bad this year, probably

1850
01:30:04,280 --> 01:30:07,080
Speaker 1: based on the roster right now, and so, but it's

1851
01:30:07,080 --> 01:30:08,840
Speaker 1: gonna be a fun brand of football. So if you're

1852
01:30:08,840 --> 01:30:13,200
Speaker 1: gonna suck, be fun? Yeah, No, I go false. Finally,

1853
01:30:13,320 --> 01:30:15,000
Speaker 1: NFL true or false? And we talked about this a

1854
01:30:15,000 --> 01:30:16,719
Speaker 1: little bit when we went through some of the free

1855
01:30:16,720 --> 01:30:21,720
Speaker 1: agents still out there. This contention in Forbes dot Com

1856
01:30:21,720 --> 01:30:24,280
Speaker 1: and Domokan Sue is the best remaining free agent out there?

1857
01:30:24,479 --> 01:30:27,120
Speaker 1: Who is it? And Domokan Sue is it? Justin Houston?

1858
01:30:27,200 --> 01:30:30,280
Speaker 1: You would think would get some arguments there. Mohammed Wilkerson

1859
01:30:30,360 --> 01:30:32,800
Speaker 1: still available to tight end Jared Cook. But I would

1860
01:30:32,800 --> 01:30:35,240
Speaker 1: say true, I think Sue is probably the best left right,

1861
01:30:35,280 --> 01:30:37,800
Speaker 1: accomplished the most. Yeah, I'm true across the board here.

1862
01:30:38,439 --> 01:30:41,000
Speaker 1: I think Sue is still has game left. I think

1863
01:30:41,360 --> 01:30:44,439
Speaker 1: if you put him in the right role and not

1864
01:30:44,520 --> 01:30:47,479
Speaker 1: necessarily being out there for eighty ninety percent of the snaps,

1865
01:30:47,520 --> 01:30:51,760
Speaker 1: I think he can definitely be a core rotational guy

1866
01:30:52,000 --> 01:30:54,679
Speaker 1: for you and give you some great snaps and bring

1867
01:30:54,680 --> 01:30:56,719
Speaker 1: down the quarterback to he's done in his whole career.

1868
01:30:57,120 --> 01:30:59,960
Speaker 1: There's nothing that tells me that he'll be unable to

1869
01:31:00,000 --> 01:31:01,840
Speaker 1: you any longer. You know, when you're true across the

1870
01:31:01,840 --> 01:31:03,720
Speaker 1: board and truer false show that we refer to that

1871
01:31:03,760 --> 01:31:07,240
Speaker 1: as someone who's very gullible. Oh, I'm just gonna take

1872
01:31:09,080 --> 01:31:11,519
Speaker 1: Jasker and I have decided if you're true, true, true,

1873
01:31:11,640 --> 01:31:13,840
Speaker 1: you'll believe anything We're gonna sell you some land. Now

1874
01:31:13,840 --> 01:31:16,320
Speaker 1: it's some march Land. Oh please please do. I'm in

1875
01:31:16,360 --> 01:31:18,879
Speaker 1: the market. NFL true false. Brought to you by Yancy's

1876
01:31:18,920 --> 01:31:21,559
Speaker 1: Fancy New York's Artists and Cheese. Big Hour. Coming up

1877
01:31:21,680 --> 01:31:23,439
Speaker 1: bottom of the hour at two thirty, We're gonna talk

1878
01:31:23,479 --> 01:31:26,760
Speaker 1: with Mitch Morris, Bill's new offensive lineman, Mitch Morrison. Coming

1879
01:31:26,840 --> 01:31:28,960
Speaker 1: up right after the top of the hour, Robert May's

1880
01:31:29,040 --> 01:31:31,439
Speaker 1: from the Ringer dot Com. He's got some thoughts on

1881
01:31:31,680 --> 01:31:34,680
Speaker 1: who really owns the NFL offseason so far. All of

1882
01:31:34,720 --> 01:31:37,120
Speaker 1: that coming up when we return. One Bill's Lide presented

1883
01:31:37,160 --> 01:31:39,799
Speaker 1: by Kalida Hell from One Bill's Drive. This is Buffalo

1884
01:31:39,840 --> 01:31:54,400
Speaker 1: Bill's Radio Hills Radio Network Stories update. The update from

1885
01:31:54,400 --> 01:31:58,000
Speaker 1: One Bill's Drive. The NCAA Tournament taking the center stage,

1886
01:31:58,000 --> 01:32:01,440
Speaker 1: including here in Buffalo, where the Minimum American Conference champions

1887
01:32:01,520 --> 01:32:04,479
Speaker 1: ub Bulls are in the West Region. They will head

1888
01:32:04,479 --> 01:32:07,759
Speaker 1: to Tulsa, Oklahoma as the sixth seed on Friday late afternoon.

1889
01:32:07,800 --> 01:32:09,679
Speaker 1: They'll play the winner of a first four game between

1890
01:32:09,720 --> 01:32:12,519
Speaker 1: Arizona State and Saint John's. A gamble tip off at

1891
01:32:12,520 --> 01:32:15,400
Speaker 1: approximately four o'clock in Tulsa. It'll air on T on

1892
01:32:15,520 --> 01:32:18,120
Speaker 1: T You be with thirty one wins, tied with Houston

1893
01:32:18,240 --> 01:32:20,400
Speaker 1: for the most wins in the country. This year. They

1894
01:32:20,400 --> 01:32:23,400
Speaker 1: won their second straight NCAA tournament and fourth title in

1895
01:32:23,479 --> 01:32:25,960
Speaker 1: five years with a wins Saturday night in Cleveland and

1896
01:32:26,000 --> 01:32:28,200
Speaker 1: the mat Duke the number one overall seed in this

1897
01:32:28,280 --> 01:32:32,000
Speaker 1: year's tournament. Top seeds also to their fellow ACC buddies

1898
01:32:32,080 --> 01:32:34,800
Speaker 1: Virginia and North Carolina. Gun Zagat the other number one.

1899
01:32:35,040 --> 01:32:38,120
Speaker 1: Tournament starts with the first four on Wednesday. This week

1900
01:32:38,400 --> 01:32:40,679
Speaker 1: here at One Bill's Drive quiet today, but the Bills

1901
01:32:40,720 --> 01:32:43,960
Speaker 1: added to their offensive line arsenal with the addition of

1902
01:32:43,960 --> 01:32:47,439
Speaker 1: offensive Tacola Adrian Waddle. On Saturday afternoon signed a one

1903
01:32:47,479 --> 01:32:49,719
Speaker 1: year deal. A six year veteran, he's been a spot

1904
01:32:49,800 --> 01:32:52,560
Speaker 1: starter at offensive tackle for the New England Patriots for

1905
01:32:52,600 --> 01:32:55,000
Speaker 1: the last four seasons. He is twenty seven years old.

1906
01:32:55,160 --> 01:32:58,400
Speaker 1: Wattle six six, three hundred and fifteen pounds the fifth

1907
01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:01,000
Speaker 1: free agent offensive lineman by the Bills in the last

1908
01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:03,439
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Miami Dolphins have agreed to terms on

1909
01:33:03,439 --> 01:33:07,160
Speaker 1: a two year contract with quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick. ESPN says

1910
01:33:07,200 --> 01:33:10,639
Speaker 1: it's an eleven million dollar deal containing incentives that could

1911
01:33:10,640 --> 01:33:14,799
Speaker 1: boost it between seventeen and twenty million dollars. Fitzpatrick becomes

1912
01:33:14,800 --> 01:33:17,880
Speaker 1: one of three only three quarterbacks on the Dolphins roster

1913
01:33:18,000 --> 01:33:20,920
Speaker 1: right now. Jordan Mills, free agent from the Buffalo Bills,

1914
01:33:20,960 --> 01:33:23,439
Speaker 1: has been a starter of the last three seasons, spending

1915
01:33:23,640 --> 01:33:27,160
Speaker 1: today on a free agent visit with the Houston Texans.

1916
01:33:27,439 --> 01:33:30,240
Speaker 1: According to a league source, Mills, a former Bear's fifth

1917
01:33:30,280 --> 01:33:34,240
Speaker 1: round traffic and former Bills quarterback AJ McCarron, set to

1918
01:33:34,240 --> 01:33:36,439
Speaker 1: go to Houston today for a free agent visit. He

1919
01:33:36,640 --> 01:33:40,120
Speaker 1: was just released from the Oakland Raiders Helloa not a

1920
01:33:40,200 --> 01:33:43,879
Speaker 1: longtime defensive lineman who went to five Pro Bowls scaled

1921
01:33:44,040 --> 01:33:47,160
Speaker 1: Mount Killerman Gerald unveiled a banner over the weekend that said,

1922
01:33:47,200 --> 01:33:50,360
Speaker 1: I'm retiring from the NFL on top. That's the way

1923
01:33:50,400 --> 01:33:51,960
Speaker 1: to go out. I was thinking about doing that hill

1924
01:33:52,000 --> 01:33:53,840
Speaker 1: going over to Chestnut Bridge when my career is over,

1925
01:33:53,880 --> 01:33:57,840
Speaker 1: and they got just kidding. Joe b is with us

1926
01:33:57,840 --> 01:34:01,240
Speaker 1: here today, Joe Bascallia from w WTV Channel seven in

1927
01:34:01,240 --> 01:34:03,639
Speaker 1: place of Steve Tasker on vacation for one more week.

1928
01:34:03,960 --> 01:34:06,639
Speaker 1: John Murphy with you as we talk about free agency

1929
01:34:06,720 --> 01:34:09,040
Speaker 1: and the draft, and joining us right now on the

1930
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Speaker 1: line is Steph Writer for The Ringer contributor to The

1931
01:34:11,680 --> 01:34:15,759
Speaker 1: Ringer Show, NFL podcast, former Grantland writer Robert May's Robert,

1932
01:34:15,800 --> 01:34:17,639
Speaker 1: It's John Murphy and Joe Piscott. You here in Buffalo.

1933
01:34:17,640 --> 01:34:19,920
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us, No problem, guy, it's gonna

1934
01:34:19,920 --> 01:34:21,559
Speaker 1: talk to you. Really good posts from you. I think

1935
01:34:21,600 --> 01:34:24,080
Speaker 1: it was last week, maybe Friday. The teams that have

1936
01:34:24,200 --> 01:34:27,639
Speaker 1: defined the twenty nineteen off season. First, can we agree,

1937
01:34:27,920 --> 01:34:30,519
Speaker 1: Robert that the off season is maybe half over? Right?

1938
01:34:30,640 --> 01:34:33,000
Speaker 1: Is that right? Do you think? Yeah? I think that's

1939
01:34:33,040 --> 01:34:35,120
Speaker 1: probably half over in a few different senses. I meanium

1940
01:34:35,120 --> 01:34:36,800
Speaker 1: free agency coming to a close. I think there are

1941
01:34:36,840 --> 01:34:39,080
Speaker 1: still some decent values out there, but for the most part,

1942
01:34:39,120 --> 01:34:41,200
Speaker 1: the big names are gone, and then we'll have the

1943
01:34:41,280 --> 01:34:44,680
Speaker 1: draft and at this point, maybe a couple more ridiculous

1944
01:34:44,720 --> 01:34:47,000
Speaker 1: kind of head turning trades, because it seems like we

1945
01:34:47,080 --> 01:34:50,400
Speaker 1: have one of those every week now, ridiculous head turning

1946
01:34:50,360 --> 01:34:52,799
Speaker 1: And I'm assume you're referring to, say, for instance, Antonio

1947
01:34:52,880 --> 01:34:55,360
Speaker 1: Brown a couple of weeks ago and Odell Beckham last week, right,

1948
01:34:55,640 --> 01:34:57,799
Speaker 1: I mean, arguably the two best receivers in the NFLO

1949
01:34:57,880 --> 01:34:59,720
Speaker 1: got traded within a few days of each other. So

1950
01:35:00,160 --> 01:35:02,040
Speaker 1: if you want to say the NFL has an offseason

1951
01:35:02,120 --> 01:35:03,800
Speaker 1: or you know, there's ever a down time for people

1952
01:35:03,880 --> 01:35:07,080
Speaker 1: like us, you would be very very wrong. Different circumstances

1953
01:35:07,120 --> 01:35:08,640
Speaker 1: are those two trains. But why do you think that

1954
01:35:08,760 --> 01:35:11,680
Speaker 1: happened for those two I think it's a matter of

1955
01:35:11,680 --> 01:35:14,000
Speaker 1: cultural fit. I feel like that's was the case with

1956
01:35:14,040 --> 01:35:17,640
Speaker 1: both guys. Antonio Brown kind of run out of a

1957
01:35:17,800 --> 01:35:20,720
Speaker 1: runaway in Pittsburgh and clearly they had trouble kind of

1958
01:35:20,760 --> 01:35:22,600
Speaker 1: coexisting with him and be Rathas Burgner, and then it

1959
01:35:22,600 --> 01:35:24,960
Speaker 1: feels like the Giants just felt like Odell Beckham was

1960
01:35:24,960 --> 01:35:27,200
Speaker 1: not worth the trouble. So I mean, you have two

1961
01:35:27,240 --> 01:35:30,920
Speaker 1: guys again that are impossibly talented, but for whatever reason,

1962
01:35:30,960 --> 01:35:32,640
Speaker 1: they just felt like they were rubbing the people the

1963
01:35:32,640 --> 01:35:35,080
Speaker 1: wrong way or there was so much discord in those

1964
01:35:35,120 --> 01:35:38,280
Speaker 1: buildings that it wasn't worth anymore. Hey, Robert, I know,

1965
01:35:38,760 --> 01:35:40,720
Speaker 1: I know you keep a close eye on whatever your

1966
01:35:40,760 --> 01:35:44,120
Speaker 1: team does in free agency, but in terms of what

1967
01:35:44,160 --> 01:35:45,760
Speaker 1: the Bills were able to do, I also know that

1968
01:35:45,840 --> 01:35:49,080
Speaker 1: you're a big Bears guy, and so you know intrinsically

1969
01:35:49,080 --> 01:35:51,600
Speaker 1: what they did last year in free agency, And I

1970
01:35:51,640 --> 01:35:56,000
Speaker 1: was wondering if perhaps maybe you saw maybe a parallel

1971
01:35:56,160 --> 01:35:58,559
Speaker 1: from the way that the Bears kind of did things

1972
01:35:58,560 --> 01:36:00,840
Speaker 1: back in twenty eighteen to how the Bills kind of

1973
01:36:00,840 --> 01:36:04,320
Speaker 1: did things. Maybe one big splash, but just a bunch

1974
01:36:04,320 --> 01:36:07,840
Speaker 1: of logs in the fire, so to speak, which is

1975
01:36:07,880 --> 01:36:10,240
Speaker 1: I think what the Bears did too. I feel like,

1976
01:36:10,280 --> 01:36:12,240
Speaker 1: you know, all of these teams with quarterbacks on a

1977
01:36:12,320 --> 01:36:15,000
Speaker 1: rookie contract understands that you only have so much time

1978
01:36:15,000 --> 01:36:17,519
Speaker 1: where you have a lot of financial flexibility. That's why

1979
01:36:17,560 --> 01:36:19,280
Speaker 1: the Bears did what they did last year on the ramps,

1980
01:36:19,280 --> 01:36:21,599
Speaker 1: had made those sorts of similar moves, and that's kind

1981
01:36:21,600 --> 01:36:23,479
Speaker 1: of where the Bills are at. And I think the

1982
01:36:23,640 --> 01:36:26,639
Speaker 1: real difference is that the Bills don't have that one

1983
01:36:26,800 --> 01:36:29,080
Speaker 1: huge ticket item. I mean, the Mission Morse contract is

1984
01:36:29,120 --> 01:36:31,920
Speaker 1: considerable for his position, but you Coulmac make a twenty

1985
01:36:31,960 --> 01:36:34,400
Speaker 1: million dollars a year. But the most part, the Bills

1986
01:36:34,400 --> 01:36:36,800
Speaker 1: were more cautious. I mean, if you look at pretty

1987
01:36:36,880 --> 01:36:39,360
Speaker 1: much every single one of those deals outside of the

1988
01:36:39,400 --> 01:36:42,000
Speaker 1: Morse contract, the Bills can get out of it after

1989
01:36:42,080 --> 01:36:45,400
Speaker 1: this season with very little penalty. So I feel like

1990
01:36:45,439 --> 01:36:47,400
Speaker 1: they did a really good job of kind of splitting

1991
01:36:47,439 --> 01:36:50,080
Speaker 1: the difference of all, right, we have this money, we

1992
01:36:50,120 --> 01:36:51,960
Speaker 1: have a ton of cash. Also, I mean they was

1993
01:36:52,000 --> 01:36:54,400
Speaker 1: the team I think projected to spend the most by

1994
01:36:54,760 --> 01:36:56,559
Speaker 1: over the cap a couple of weeks ago, just based

1995
01:36:56,560 --> 01:36:59,439
Speaker 1: on their yearly budget, so you understood they were going

1996
01:36:59,479 --> 01:37:02,120
Speaker 1: to spend some, but they also didn't really set themselves

1997
01:37:02,200 --> 01:37:04,320
Speaker 1: up to sail in the long term. Even the Cole

1998
01:37:04,400 --> 01:37:07,080
Speaker 1: Beasley contract is something where it makes like three million

1999
01:37:07,120 --> 01:37:10,280
Speaker 1: dollars dead money after this season. So to add talent

2000
01:37:10,320 --> 01:37:14,000
Speaker 1: to your roster a several different positions while not putting

2001
01:37:14,040 --> 01:37:16,479
Speaker 1: yourself in a bad spot down the road, that's APRUSSI

2002
01:37:16,680 --> 01:37:20,520
Speaker 1: difficult to do. And when you consider how much reshaping

2003
01:37:20,560 --> 01:37:23,160
Speaker 1: they had to do along the offensive, why four starters?

2004
01:37:23,200 --> 01:37:25,839
Speaker 1: Pretty much you need to figure out four different spots

2005
01:37:26,280 --> 01:37:30,160
Speaker 1: and that's so hard to do without being irresponsible. And

2006
01:37:30,200 --> 01:37:32,280
Speaker 1: I think they've done a really good job of finding

2007
01:37:32,560 --> 01:37:35,040
Speaker 1: guys on cheap deals that would be able to start

2008
01:37:35,080 --> 01:37:37,400
Speaker 1: for them in the pinch and make them functional, which

2009
01:37:37,439 --> 01:37:39,439
Speaker 1: that was never a guarantee when you consider the type

2010
01:37:39,479 --> 01:37:41,040
Speaker 1: of players they were losing and where they were at

2011
01:37:41,080 --> 01:37:43,920
Speaker 1: those spots. Yeah, Robert, I gotta give you credit for

2012
01:37:44,000 --> 01:37:46,880
Speaker 1: acknowledging and recognizing what the Bills have done here because

2013
01:37:47,200 --> 01:37:48,880
Speaker 1: You've got them as one of the eight teams that

2014
01:37:48,920 --> 01:37:53,880
Speaker 1: have defined the twenty nineteen preseason. And essentially what you're

2015
01:37:53,880 --> 01:37:56,320
Speaker 1: saying is they've done it without a big splash, right,

2016
01:37:56,360 --> 01:37:58,759
Speaker 1: I mean a center, A good center is their number

2017
01:37:58,760 --> 01:38:01,840
Speaker 1: one move in the soft season so far. People, I

2018
01:38:01,840 --> 01:38:04,360
Speaker 1: don't know, the whole league is acknowledging what they've done,

2019
01:38:04,360 --> 01:38:08,439
Speaker 1: and especially remaking the offensive line. Yeah, and I think

2020
01:38:08,439 --> 01:38:10,360
Speaker 1: that one of the reasons I consider them one of

2021
01:38:10,400 --> 01:38:12,439
Speaker 1: those teams is that if you look at Mitch Morse

2022
01:38:12,960 --> 01:38:15,280
Speaker 1: and Cole Beasley, I mean, those are two players that

2023
01:38:15,360 --> 01:38:18,160
Speaker 1: other teams wanted. You know, those are guys that had

2024
01:38:18,320 --> 01:38:20,919
Speaker 1: markets and for the Bills to come in and say,

2025
01:38:21,080 --> 01:38:23,040
Speaker 1: we're going to pay for these guys, We're going to

2026
01:38:23,120 --> 01:38:25,960
Speaker 1: get some bigger ticket items that other teams had interest in.

2027
01:38:26,000 --> 01:38:28,040
Speaker 1: You know, maybe they're not the most expensive players on

2028
01:38:28,080 --> 01:38:32,040
Speaker 1: the market, but they're definitely guys that had suitors elsewhere.

2029
01:38:32,240 --> 01:38:34,479
Speaker 1: And I think that's what's really nice to see from Buffalo.

2030
01:38:34,520 --> 01:38:36,680
Speaker 1: And I think that's kind of Brandon being alluded to

2031
01:38:36,760 --> 01:38:38,360
Speaker 1: last week when he was getting a little bit annoyed

2032
01:38:38,360 --> 01:38:40,519
Speaker 1: about the Antonio Brown thing. It's like, this is an

2033
01:38:40,520 --> 01:38:43,600
Speaker 1: attractive destination this is a football crazy place, and we

2034
01:38:43,640 --> 01:38:45,880
Speaker 1: could get people into this building. I think that's why

2035
01:38:45,880 --> 01:38:49,720
Speaker 1: it's a really good sign for them. Robert, I know

2036
01:38:50,479 --> 01:38:53,840
Speaker 1: you love breaking down offensive line and defensive line stuff,

2037
01:38:53,880 --> 01:38:56,960
Speaker 1: and so I'll just stick there. I mean, when the

2038
01:38:56,960 --> 01:38:59,400
Speaker 1: Bills signed Mitch Morse, I mean, it's it's a difficult

2039
01:38:59,439 --> 01:39:02,160
Speaker 1: thing for for fans to kind of comprehend that. Don't

2040
01:39:02,200 --> 01:39:04,680
Speaker 1: sit down and watch the film. So what do you

2041
01:39:04,760 --> 01:39:06,880
Speaker 1: make of Mitch Morris? What exactly are the Bills getting

2042
01:39:06,920 --> 01:39:08,639
Speaker 1: in him? And where do they kind of go from

2043
01:39:08,640 --> 01:39:12,280
Speaker 1: here with him? When he's healthy, he's solid, He's never

2044
01:39:12,320 --> 01:39:13,920
Speaker 1: He's not a star. He's not one of the three

2045
01:39:13,960 --> 01:39:16,200
Speaker 1: or four best centers in the league, which he's now

2046
01:39:16,240 --> 01:39:18,719
Speaker 1: being paid like. But that's just how freezes he works.

2047
01:39:19,240 --> 01:39:21,880
Speaker 1: If you hit free agency and you're a solid starter,

2048
01:39:22,040 --> 01:39:23,880
Speaker 1: you there's a very good chance you're going to reset

2049
01:39:23,880 --> 01:39:25,960
Speaker 1: the market. And think about how many players at different

2050
01:39:25,960 --> 01:39:28,559
Speaker 1: positions did that this year. And I think the biggest

2051
01:39:28,560 --> 01:39:31,880
Speaker 1: thing about a free agent center is just the stability

2052
01:39:31,920 --> 01:39:34,040
Speaker 1: it provides you. I mean, Eric Wood was good for years. Man.

2053
01:39:34,080 --> 01:39:36,000
Speaker 1: I think you guys watched that. You know what that

2054
01:39:36,040 --> 01:39:39,559
Speaker 1: position can do when you have an above average player there.

2055
01:39:39,840 --> 01:39:42,000
Speaker 1: You think about just what a guy like Alex Mack

2056
01:39:42,120 --> 01:39:44,800
Speaker 1: did for Atlanta and the Vinch isn't on that level,

2057
01:39:45,080 --> 01:39:48,280
Speaker 1: but again, just a stabilizing force. And I think that's

2058
01:39:48,280 --> 01:39:50,320
Speaker 1: the most important thing when it comes to an offensive

2059
01:39:50,360 --> 01:39:53,559
Speaker 1: line is really understanding how the players at certain positions

2060
01:39:53,560 --> 01:39:55,800
Speaker 1: affect the guys next to them. And I think that

2061
01:39:55,800 --> 01:39:57,640
Speaker 1: that's a really big thing for them. You saw what

2062
01:39:57,680 --> 01:39:59,920
Speaker 1: happened with Kansas City last year when he would think

2063
01:40:00,040 --> 01:40:02,080
Speaker 1: up a little bit, are your trouble? They had a

2064
01:40:02,080 --> 01:40:04,120
Speaker 1: lot of trouble in the middle of that line, especially

2065
01:40:04,160 --> 01:40:06,639
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, with guys kind of moving around everything else.

2066
01:40:06,960 --> 01:40:08,880
Speaker 1: So to have a force there that's like, all right,

2067
01:40:08,920 --> 01:40:11,160
Speaker 1: we can rely on this guy. That can be an

2068
01:40:11,200 --> 01:40:14,439
Speaker 1: offense altering thing. Well. By the way, Mitch Morse is

2069
01:40:14,479 --> 01:40:16,479
Speaker 1: on our show with us here coming up at the

2070
01:40:16,479 --> 01:40:18,720
Speaker 1: bottom of the sower, about eighteen minutes away. We're in

2071
01:40:18,720 --> 01:40:21,280
Speaker 1: the line right now with Robert May's from The Ringer.

2072
01:40:21,520 --> 01:40:23,960
Speaker 1: He wrote a piece about the eight teams that have

2073
01:40:24,080 --> 01:40:26,920
Speaker 1: defined the NFL offseason so far. One of them, Robert,

2074
01:40:26,960 --> 01:40:29,360
Speaker 1: you have the Green Bay Packers, who made some big

2075
01:40:29,360 --> 01:40:31,360
Speaker 1: signings and we're not used to saying that those packers

2076
01:40:31,400 --> 01:40:33,120
Speaker 1: are usually under the radar when it comes to free

2077
01:40:33,120 --> 01:40:36,479
Speaker 1: agent signings, aren't they. Yeah. I mean that's typically what

2078
01:40:36,520 --> 01:40:39,320
Speaker 1: the Airmo had been under Toad Thompson in previous regimes.

2079
01:40:39,600 --> 01:40:43,120
Speaker 1: They're are a team that absolutely cherished their contraft picks

2080
01:40:43,520 --> 01:40:45,679
Speaker 1: and when guys would leave in for acency, they would

2081
01:40:45,720 --> 01:40:49,000
Speaker 1: never kind of put those in peril by spending money.

2082
01:40:49,240 --> 01:40:51,120
Speaker 1: And we saw that change this year. I mean, you

2083
01:40:51,160 --> 01:40:54,559
Speaker 1: have Vadarius Smith's going there, Yeah, Preston Smith going there,

2084
01:40:54,560 --> 01:40:56,720
Speaker 1: you have as your Namos going there. I mean those

2085
01:40:56,720 --> 01:40:59,000
Speaker 1: are three guys that, again we're near the top of

2086
01:40:59,040 --> 01:41:02,360
Speaker 1: the market at their individual positions, and those are big,

2087
01:41:02,439 --> 01:41:05,200
Speaker 1: big contracts. And I think that there's a couple of

2088
01:41:05,240 --> 01:41:08,479
Speaker 1: different things in play there. One screen, Bay understands its

2089
01:41:08,520 --> 01:41:11,000
Speaker 1: windows small. I mean, there are only a few more

2090
01:41:11,080 --> 01:41:13,360
Speaker 1: years of Aaron Rodgers left. They understand that they have

2091
01:41:13,439 --> 01:41:15,479
Speaker 1: to get better in a hurry. And they also feel

2092
01:41:15,520 --> 01:41:19,759
Speaker 1: like some teams really started to not vilify free agency

2093
01:41:19,760 --> 01:41:21,840
Speaker 1: in the same way that they might have a year's pass.

2094
01:41:21,920 --> 01:41:24,840
Speaker 1: But we've seen how free agency can help shape the

2095
01:41:24,880 --> 01:41:28,880
Speaker 1: championship teams. The Eagles were extremely aggressive in free agency.

2096
01:41:28,920 --> 01:41:30,680
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago. They saw a team like

2097
01:41:30,760 --> 01:41:33,479
Speaker 1: Denver when they won the Super Bowl, reshape their defensive

2098
01:41:33,520 --> 01:41:35,839
Speaker 1: a couple of free agent signings. So there are bargains

2099
01:41:35,880 --> 01:41:37,439
Speaker 1: to be found, or not bargains to be found, but

2100
01:41:37,439 --> 01:41:39,800
Speaker 1: there are useful players to be fun and I think

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01:41:39,840 --> 01:41:43,040
Speaker 1: that kind of shifts away from well, good teams don't

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Speaker 1: spend in free agency too if you find the right

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Speaker 1: players that can be helpful. Has kind of made teams

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Speaker 1: like Green Bay a little bit less or apprehensive on

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Speaker 1: making those kind of moves. Robert, what, in your estimation,

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Speaker 1: what exactly is Dave Gentleman doing. I really have no idea.

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Speaker 1: I think that this is one of those things, you know,

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01:42:02,960 --> 01:42:05,400
Speaker 1: you know, it's easy to say Dave Gentleman, Dave Getleman,

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Speaker 1: Dave Gentleman, because he's the one that's facing the media

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Speaker 1: and he's kind of in front of the fireing squad

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Speaker 1: at this point. But we don't know what kind of

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Speaker 1: strings ownership is pulling, and that's always the most difficult

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Speaker 1: thing to kind of comprehend. And it feels to me

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Speaker 1: as if the Giants ownership structure and the Marrs and

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Speaker 1: everything else, there is such an affinity for Eli Manning

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Speaker 1: and what he's done for that franchise, that they're doing

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Speaker 1: nothing to jeopardize how he feels about them, how they

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Speaker 1: feel about him, any of that stuff. I think that

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Speaker 1: if you had taken a quarterback with the number two

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Speaker 1: we're all pick last year, they would have seen it

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01:42:36,520 --> 01:42:38,559
Speaker 1: as maybe we're roughlings to feathers and rubbing you by

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Speaker 1: the wrong way by sticking with him now. And I

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Speaker 1: just think that it's misguided. I think that at a

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Speaker 1: certain point, you have to be realistic with yourself. You

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Speaker 1: have to have some self awareness about your quarterback and

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01:42:48,720 --> 01:42:51,479
Speaker 1: your roster and your trajectory. I mean, I tweeted it

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Speaker 1: today when the Colts knew they could get a quarterback

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Speaker 1: at number one, they said goodbye to Peyton Manning, who

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01:42:57,120 --> 01:42:59,680
Speaker 1: is a much much better player than Eli Manning is.

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01:43:00,080 --> 01:43:03,320
Speaker 1: At a certain point, I know the relationships are important

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01:43:03,360 --> 01:43:05,800
Speaker 1: and everything else, but you have to do what's best

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Speaker 1: for your franchise, and it seems like systematically at this

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01:43:08,479 --> 01:43:11,200
Speaker 1: point they are not doing that. You know, Robert we

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Speaker 1: I had a conversation with our crew in the control

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Speaker 1: room right in the break, right before he came on

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Speaker 1: the air about Gentleman, and I've known David Getleman for

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Speaker 1: thirty some years, and I cautioned these guys, I think

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Speaker 1: you make a good point, by the way about it.

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01:43:21,200 --> 01:43:23,160
Speaker 1: Who knows what the ownership is directing even do. But

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01:43:23,960 --> 01:43:26,439
Speaker 1: Gentleman's being portrayed as some sort of a goofball right

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01:43:26,520 --> 01:43:29,280
Speaker 1: now and like you know, a crazy uncle. He's not

2142
01:43:29,400 --> 01:43:32,680
Speaker 1: really And his quote today we have we've got a plan.

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01:43:32,760 --> 01:43:34,839
Speaker 1: You've got to be patient. That'd be hard to swallow

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01:43:34,840 --> 01:43:37,280
Speaker 1: if I were a Giants fan, but I wouldn't. I

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01:43:37,320 --> 01:43:39,040
Speaker 1: bet he's got a plan, which might not make a

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01:43:39,080 --> 01:43:40,760
Speaker 1: whole lot of sense to fans right now, but I

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01:43:40,760 --> 01:43:42,760
Speaker 1: bet he's got a plan something to mind where he's

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Speaker 1: gonna wind up with this team, if not the right away,

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01:43:45,280 --> 01:43:47,760
Speaker 1: but at some point in the next several months. And

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01:43:47,840 --> 01:43:49,320
Speaker 1: by the way, he's kindly gonna get all of that

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01:43:49,360 --> 01:43:52,880
Speaker 1: time from that ownership group right most likely, yes, But

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Speaker 1: the problem for me is that I can't see what

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01:43:55,720 --> 01:43:58,160
Speaker 1: the plan is. Maybe it exists, but it seems like

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01:43:58,160 --> 01:44:01,040
Speaker 1: they're a lot of conflicting plans. And when you go

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01:44:01,760 --> 01:44:04,080
Speaker 1: you trade Odell Beckham for picks, and you're trying to

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01:44:04,160 --> 01:44:07,000
Speaker 1: kind of reshape your roster, and you trade away a

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01:44:07,040 --> 01:44:08,840
Speaker 1: guy like Olivia Vernion. I know they got an offensive

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01:44:08,840 --> 01:44:11,200
Speaker 1: line and back, but you do. They're trying to do

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01:44:11,320 --> 01:44:13,559
Speaker 1: too many things at once, in my opinion, because if

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Speaker 1: you're trying to kind of rebuild and restock and reshape

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Speaker 1: your team because you've made some incorrect free agent choices

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01:44:19,840 --> 01:44:23,040
Speaker 1: and you really need just more talent, then going out

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01:44:23,040 --> 01:44:25,600
Speaker 1: and signing more guys in free agency doesn't seem to

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01:44:25,600 --> 01:44:28,200
Speaker 1: make sense to me. Why the Golden Tank contract, for example,

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Speaker 1: You're screwing up the third round compic you were going

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01:44:31,200 --> 01:44:33,280
Speaker 1: to get from Land in college. It's just there's so

2167
01:44:33,320 --> 01:44:35,960
Speaker 1: many things that seem to be in direct conflict with

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01:44:36,000 --> 01:44:38,240
Speaker 1: each other that it seems very hard for me to

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01:44:38,280 --> 01:44:41,479
Speaker 1: believe they have a cohesive plan that makes any sense.

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Speaker 1: When I look as a team like Miami and what

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01:44:44,200 --> 01:44:46,920
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are doing, that's a plan. I don't know

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01:44:46,920 --> 01:44:48,920
Speaker 1: how it's going to work, but they're going to be

2173
01:44:49,080 --> 01:44:51,479
Speaker 1: very bad at football this year and they're paying their

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks five million dollars and they're gonna have one hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty million dollars in cap space. That is a plan,

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Speaker 1: and I just that's why is it's frustrating when teams

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Speaker 1: try to do. They try to have everything at once,

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Speaker 1: and that's really really difficult to pull off. Joe and

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Speaker 1: I were talking about this earlier. The reports are now

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Speaker 1: basically today confirmed by Gentleman that he called Buffalo to

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Speaker 1: ask about an interest in the Odell Beckham. What are

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01:45:14,200 --> 01:45:16,920
Speaker 1: we to make of that here? How do we? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I believe it, but I don't know what to think

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Speaker 1: of it? What do you think? I mean, I think

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01:45:20,360 --> 01:45:22,559
Speaker 1: that that's the logical team to pick if you want

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01:45:22,560 --> 01:45:24,479
Speaker 1: to try to shop him, just because they're the team

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01:45:24,479 --> 01:45:27,040
Speaker 1: that was interested Antonio Brown before that trade fell apart.

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01:45:27,400 --> 01:45:29,000
Speaker 1: So if you think, all right, they're in the market

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01:45:29,040 --> 01:45:31,680
Speaker 1: for a big ticket wide receiver one, I give them

2190
01:45:31,680 --> 01:45:33,360
Speaker 1: a ring. I think that makes a lot of sense.

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01:45:33,680 --> 01:45:36,880
Speaker 1: I can also understand why Buffalo wouldn't be willing to

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01:45:36,880 --> 01:45:39,720
Speaker 1: part with that sort of draft capital. I mean, the

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01:45:39,760 --> 01:45:42,840
Speaker 1: Giants essentially said that Jabal Peppers is a huge part

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01:45:42,840 --> 01:45:46,160
Speaker 1: of that deal. So it's a really specific type of

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01:45:46,160 --> 01:45:49,160
Speaker 1: offer that the Browns had to give up world of

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01:45:49,320 --> 01:45:53,439
Speaker 1: Beckham and they're, you know, without the Peppers part of

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01:45:53,439 --> 01:45:55,720
Speaker 1: that deal. If he's they're asking for two first round picks,

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Speaker 1: I can understand why Brandon being just with hang up

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Speaker 1: the phone. He again they have a plan. Training two

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01:46:01,120 --> 01:46:03,000
Speaker 1: first round picks for Oto Beckham doesn't seem to be

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Speaker 1: a part of their time Wine at Robert as we

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01:46:05,400 --> 01:46:09,479
Speaker 1: kind of shift into the next phase, which is draft prep,

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01:46:10,000 --> 01:46:12,240
Speaker 1: you know, just getting clubbed over the head with draft

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01:46:12,280 --> 01:46:16,000
Speaker 1: information over the next six weeks. One thing, I'm interested

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01:46:16,080 --> 01:46:18,559
Speaker 1: going back to the offensive line because I know you

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01:46:18,640 --> 01:46:22,240
Speaker 1: like it a lot in terms of the how these

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01:46:22,280 --> 01:46:25,479
Speaker 1: guys from college transfer into the pros and and how

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01:46:25,520 --> 01:46:29,800
Speaker 1: there's sort of a steeper learning curve than there once was.

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Speaker 1: And in your mind, I guess the idea of drafting

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Speaker 1: lineman highly in terms of first round top ten Quentin

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01:46:38,080 --> 01:46:40,640
Speaker 1: Nelson notwithstanding because he was kind of an anomaly in

2212
01:46:40,720 --> 01:46:44,040
Speaker 1: what he was, but in terms of drafting offensive lineman

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01:46:44,160 --> 01:46:46,600
Speaker 1: that high. What is your opinion on that based on

2214
01:46:46,640 --> 01:46:48,559
Speaker 1: the college game as opposed to the NFL. Right now,

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01:46:49,000 --> 01:46:51,800
Speaker 1: I'm okay with drafting offensive lineman high. It's no matter

2216
01:46:51,920 --> 01:46:56,120
Speaker 1: which type of offensive lineman. I hate offensive line picks

2217
01:46:56,160 --> 01:46:59,599
Speaker 1: that are done on athletic profile and potential. I just

2218
01:46:59,640 --> 01:47:03,080
Speaker 1: feel the barrier to being good at that position and

2219
01:47:03,200 --> 01:47:05,760
Speaker 1: learning it is so high in this era of a

2220
01:47:05,840 --> 01:47:08,720
Speaker 1: CBA where there is such a little practice time that

2221
01:47:09,080 --> 01:47:11,080
Speaker 1: drafting a guy and saying, oh, look at his seat,

2222
01:47:11,120 --> 01:47:13,160
Speaker 1: all this stuff like we can make him a player

2223
01:47:13,400 --> 01:47:16,120
Speaker 1: that's really dangerous at those positions. But if you're looking

2224
01:47:16,120 --> 01:47:18,360
Speaker 1: at a guy and I've done my draft prep yet

2225
01:47:18,400 --> 01:47:20,719
Speaker 1: because I'm in the throws a free agency, but everything

2226
01:47:20,720 --> 01:47:22,240
Speaker 1: Guy've heard from people that I trust. A guy like

2227
01:47:22,320 --> 01:47:25,439
Speaker 1: Jonah Williams, for example from Alabama. He's a player, he's

2228
01:47:25,520 --> 01:47:27,960
Speaker 1: ready made, he knows how to play the position. This

2229
01:47:28,000 --> 01:47:30,320
Speaker 1: isn't a look at how will he moves in shorts

2230
01:47:30,400 --> 01:47:32,880
Speaker 1: kind of thing. It's look at how he dominates the

2231
01:47:32,960 --> 01:47:36,519
Speaker 1: highest level of competition. Players like that that are proven,

2232
01:47:36,800 --> 01:47:38,599
Speaker 1: that don't need a ton of work and are already

2233
01:47:38,600 --> 01:47:41,040
Speaker 1: really polished at those spots. I have no problem taking

2234
01:47:41,040 --> 01:47:43,040
Speaker 1: a guy like that really high. Quinton or Quinn, I

2235
01:47:43,040 --> 01:47:45,360
Speaker 1: don't know is the exact type of player. So I

2236
01:47:45,400 --> 01:47:48,240
Speaker 1: feel like it's not about the position necessarily, it's about

2237
01:47:48,240 --> 01:47:51,080
Speaker 1: the traits you're looking for at the position. Robert, the

2238
01:47:51,120 --> 01:47:53,680
Speaker 1: Browns are one of the offseason the teams that you

2239
01:47:53,720 --> 01:47:55,479
Speaker 1: said have to find the offseason so far, and you

2240
01:47:55,520 --> 01:47:58,599
Speaker 1: also wrote last Thursday, time to take the brown seriously

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01:47:58,680 --> 01:48:01,200
Speaker 1: now that they have Odell. I guess we all agree

2242
01:48:01,200 --> 01:48:03,680
Speaker 1: with that, But how serious are we talking make the

2243
01:48:03,720 --> 01:48:07,160
Speaker 1: playoffs seriously? When the division seriously contend for the Super Bowl?

2244
01:48:07,160 --> 01:48:08,800
Speaker 1: I mean, how much better are the Browns? Do you think?

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01:48:09,360 --> 01:48:12,880
Speaker 1: I think they're fantastically better. They should be the favorite

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01:48:12,880 --> 01:48:14,920
Speaker 1: in that division in my opinion. I was just looking

2247
01:48:14,960 --> 01:48:16,679
Speaker 1: at it today and just kind of going back down

2248
01:48:16,720 --> 01:48:19,920
Speaker 1: all the talents they've added this offseason. It's staggering. It's

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01:48:19,960 --> 01:48:22,320
Speaker 1: a staggering amount of talent, especially when you consider the

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Speaker 1: last calendar year on top of that. To add in

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01:48:25,040 --> 01:48:29,960
Speaker 1: one season, Denzel Ward, Baker Mayfield, Odell Beckham, Jarvis Landry, Olivier, Vernon,

2252
01:48:30,040 --> 01:48:34,280
Speaker 1: Sheldon Richardson, it's just a Modlescarrett two years ago. Just

2253
01:48:34,360 --> 01:48:37,720
Speaker 1: how much that roster has been reshaped. And I absolutely

2254
01:48:37,760 --> 01:48:41,000
Speaker 1: think they have more talent than any human exhibition they're sewing.

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Speaker 1: And how far they can go this year is completely

2256
01:48:43,400 --> 01:48:46,160
Speaker 1: tied into how much better Baker Mayfield gets, and I

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01:48:46,200 --> 01:48:49,439
Speaker 1: believe he could be really, really good. What kind of

2258
01:48:49,520 --> 01:48:51,680
Speaker 1: role does the first year have coach play in that

2259
01:48:52,000 --> 01:48:55,360
Speaker 1: Cleveland scenario, I think that it's definitely a wild card,

2260
01:48:55,400 --> 01:48:57,120
Speaker 1: But also think that you saw what he can do

2261
01:48:57,200 --> 01:49:01,240
Speaker 1: with that roster last year and almost every scenario. I

2262
01:49:01,280 --> 01:49:05,040
Speaker 1: am vehemently opposed to teams retaining their interim coach. It

2263
01:49:05,520 --> 01:49:09,559
Speaker 1: is such an emotion based decision that almost never works out.

2264
01:49:09,880 --> 01:49:12,120
Speaker 1: But when you watched what he did with that team

2265
01:49:12,160 --> 01:49:14,240
Speaker 1: of the second half of the season, and especially with

2266
01:49:14,280 --> 01:49:16,920
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, I don't think you could go anywhere else.

2267
01:49:17,320 --> 01:49:20,360
Speaker 1: I think the decision was made for them because you

2268
01:49:20,400 --> 01:49:22,320
Speaker 1: guys are doing the same thing up in Buffalo right now.

2269
01:49:22,880 --> 01:49:25,120
Speaker 1: When you have a quarterback that you drafted highly and

2270
01:49:25,240 --> 01:49:29,200
Speaker 1: he's yeah, all that matters is shaping a roster around

2271
01:49:29,280 --> 01:49:31,760
Speaker 1: that guy to get the most you possibly can out

2272
01:49:31,800 --> 01:49:33,600
Speaker 1: of him. And I think that's why they went with

2273
01:49:33,640 --> 01:49:35,880
Speaker 1: Freddy Kitchens, and that's why I'm pretty optimistic about it

2274
01:49:36,439 --> 01:49:40,240
Speaker 1: and bringing it back to the Bills since you naturally

2275
01:49:40,280 --> 01:49:44,599
Speaker 1: transition there, I mean looking up and down their roster, obviously,

2276
01:49:44,640 --> 01:49:48,160
Speaker 1: notwithstanding because the draft is on the way, but where

2277
01:49:48,200 --> 01:49:50,599
Speaker 1: do you kind of see them stacking up in the

2278
01:49:50,600 --> 01:49:53,040
Speaker 1: grand scheme of maybe not even just the AFC East,

2279
01:49:53,040 --> 01:49:56,599
Speaker 1: because obviously they're behind the Patriots, but in the whole

2280
01:49:56,640 --> 01:49:58,599
Speaker 1: scope of the AFC, and where they kind of figure

2281
01:49:58,640 --> 01:50:00,920
Speaker 1: in there. I mean, I think they can be a

2282
01:50:00,920 --> 01:50:02,800
Speaker 1: solid team. I think they still have a lot of

2283
01:50:02,880 --> 01:50:05,000
Speaker 1: work to do on the offense, but they've come along

2284
01:50:05,000 --> 01:50:07,280
Speaker 1: way from where they were last year, even having guys

2285
01:50:07,280 --> 01:50:10,760
Speaker 1: like Cole Beasley, John Brown, what's the bright tackle's name,

2286
01:50:10,800 --> 01:50:14,640
Speaker 1: I can't pronounce it, ki something in Secy. He was

2287
01:50:14,760 --> 01:50:17,240
Speaker 1: really solid in Washington last year. It's kind of their

2288
01:50:17,240 --> 01:50:19,639
Speaker 1: swing guy, and he had could play a little bit

2289
01:50:19,800 --> 01:50:23,080
Speaker 1: because of injuries, and he's really reliable player. Fascinating career,

2290
01:50:23,320 --> 01:50:26,559
Speaker 1: but really reliable. Those are the types of moves if

2291
01:50:26,600 --> 01:50:28,280
Speaker 1: you're not going to spend big and you're trying to

2292
01:50:28,280 --> 01:50:30,040
Speaker 1: build through the draft, which it seems like they're trying

2293
01:50:30,080 --> 01:50:32,880
Speaker 1: to do. I think it's just about building an infrastructure

2294
01:50:33,200 --> 01:50:37,000
Speaker 1: that's sustainable and that's usable for your quarterback. And I

2295
01:50:37,040 --> 01:50:38,840
Speaker 1: really think they've done a lot of that. I mean,

2296
01:50:38,880 --> 01:50:41,080
Speaker 1: two starters in the offensive line at least will see

2297
01:50:41,160 --> 01:50:43,240
Speaker 1: you know, if long ends that job or whatever. But

2298
01:50:43,280 --> 01:50:45,360
Speaker 1: then you go get Brown, you go get Beasley. They

2299
01:50:45,360 --> 01:50:47,320
Speaker 1: could easily add a big ticket wide receiver in this

2300
01:50:47,400 --> 01:50:49,599
Speaker 1: draft they wanted to. I think that there are moods

2301
01:50:49,640 --> 01:50:51,759
Speaker 1: still to be made, but I really like the steps

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01:50:51,760 --> 01:50:54,519
Speaker 1: they've taken so hard to build something around Alan in

2303
01:50:54,560 --> 01:50:57,160
Speaker 1: that offense. Hey, Robert, thanks for this. It's it's great

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01:50:57,200 --> 01:50:59,559
Speaker 1: to get your take on where the offseason stands at

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01:50:59,560 --> 01:51:02,439
Speaker 1: this approximate a halfway point. We thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for joining us. What we talk again sometime, my pleasure, guys. Thanks.

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Speaker 1: Robert Mays is the staff writer at The Ringer. Contributed

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01:51:08,880 --> 01:51:11,880
Speaker 1: to The Ringer NFL Show podcast former Grantland writer. He's

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Speaker 1: got the eight teams that have defined the NFL offseason

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01:51:15,200 --> 01:51:17,680
Speaker 1: so far. I guess I would submit the Giants have

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01:51:17,800 --> 01:51:20,880
Speaker 1: defined the off season so far too, right, Yeah, yeah,

2312
01:51:20,920 --> 01:51:24,360
Speaker 1: just like the Raiders did last off season and really

2313
01:51:24,439 --> 01:51:28,479
Speaker 1: even into the summer with Khalil Mack. Yeah, it's has

2314
01:51:28,479 --> 01:51:31,240
Speaker 1: not been a great look for the Giants, but I

2315
01:51:31,280 --> 01:51:34,320
Speaker 1: mean there are one huge move away from them being

2316
01:51:34,360 --> 01:51:36,400
Speaker 1: able to rectify all of it. So it just system

2317
01:51:36,680 --> 01:51:38,960
Speaker 1: matter if they're able to do something. What about the

2318
01:51:38,960 --> 01:51:41,080
Speaker 1: Bills and where they stand as wide receiver? Is still

2319
01:51:41,080 --> 01:51:42,840
Speaker 1: a need for the Bills in the draft? What do

2320
01:51:42,880 --> 01:51:45,559
Speaker 1: you think? That's our Twitter poll. Let's check the numbers

2321
01:51:45,600 --> 01:51:47,719
Speaker 1: right now. The last we checked, it's about seventy six

2322
01:51:47,760 --> 01:51:50,240
Speaker 1: percent of respond and say yeah, you know what, it

2323
01:51:50,320 --> 01:51:52,880
Speaker 1: is still a need. Seventy six percent say yes, twenty

2324
01:51:52,880 --> 01:51:55,240
Speaker 1: four percent say no. What do you think? You can

2325
01:51:55,560 --> 01:51:58,160
Speaker 1: vote on our twitter poll. You can send in a tweet,

2326
01:51:58,200 --> 01:52:00,760
Speaker 1: we'll read it on the air, or you can give

2327
01:52:00,840 --> 01:52:03,320
Speaker 1: us a call on the tweet seat. Tim Hurries tweets this,

2328
01:52:03,439 --> 01:52:05,599
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't take a wide receiver at number nine,

2329
01:52:05,840 --> 01:52:07,760
Speaker 1: but I take one later in the draft. You be's

2330
01:52:07,760 --> 01:52:09,800
Speaker 1: Anthony Johnson would be a good late ground pick for

2331
01:52:09,840 --> 01:52:11,960
Speaker 1: the Bills. That dude can play. It'd be awesome to

2332
01:52:12,080 --> 01:52:13,599
Speaker 1: keep him in Buffalo. Do we talk We didn't talk

2333
01:52:13,600 --> 01:52:15,479
Speaker 1: about Anthony yet, No, not really. Have you done much

2334
01:52:15,479 --> 01:52:18,479
Speaker 1: study on him yet? Not a ton. I do know

2335
01:52:18,680 --> 01:52:24,280
Speaker 1: he is extremely motivated. I mean just he's a very

2336
01:52:24,320 --> 01:52:28,000
Speaker 1: intense guy. Just just talking with him. I mean in

2337
01:52:28,120 --> 01:52:29,720
Speaker 1: terms of being able to go up and get it.

2338
01:52:29,840 --> 01:52:33,760
Speaker 1: He's he's someone that does very well with it. I

2339
01:52:33,960 --> 01:52:35,760
Speaker 1: truth be told, I need to do more on him,

2340
01:52:35,840 --> 01:52:38,240
Speaker 1: just because I don't want to sit here and tell

2341
01:52:38,240 --> 01:52:40,679
Speaker 1: you exactly what he is as a player. I've watched

2342
01:52:40,680 --> 01:52:43,800
Speaker 1: maybe one of his games, like fine Toothcomb to him,

2343
01:52:43,800 --> 01:52:47,240
Speaker 1: so I based on where he's projected, it seems like

2344
01:52:47,439 --> 01:52:49,600
Speaker 1: late Day two, early Day three, it is probably what

2345
01:52:50,600 --> 01:52:53,000
Speaker 1: is going to happen for him, but he's one of

2346
01:52:53,000 --> 01:52:54,720
Speaker 1: those guys that I'm looking forward to watch him. Got

2347
01:52:54,760 --> 01:52:56,519
Speaker 1: a call on the line from Kevin and Hamburg. Hello,

2348
01:52:56,600 --> 01:52:58,759
Speaker 1: Kevin Gohan, you're on the air with this, Hey, guys,

2349
01:52:58,760 --> 01:53:02,040
Speaker 1: how are you doing? Okay? I like a receiver, but

2350
01:53:02,120 --> 01:53:05,200
Speaker 1: in the second round. I liked the defensive lineman in

2351
01:53:05,240 --> 01:53:09,559
Speaker 1: the first round, particularly that Clemson guy Christian Wilkins. I

2352
01:53:09,680 --> 01:53:12,400
Speaker 1: like him because I watched him in the championship game

2353
01:53:12,439 --> 01:53:15,760
Speaker 1: and he was all over Alabama Christian Wilkins. He was

2354
01:53:15,800 --> 01:53:18,439
Speaker 1: all over everything they did the offense. He was all

2355
01:53:18,439 --> 01:53:22,400
Speaker 1: over Wilkins for sacks, Wilkins for tackles behind scrimmage. I

2356
01:53:22,520 --> 01:53:25,759
Speaker 1: love to see him go for the first round receiver

2357
01:53:25,960 --> 01:53:27,960
Speaker 1: like joson the second, but I would love to have

2358
01:53:28,000 --> 01:53:31,080
Speaker 1: someone like Wilkins. He was the beast in that Alabama

2359
01:53:31,200 --> 01:53:34,960
Speaker 1: killing of getting killed by Clemson. Thanks Kevin, and that scenario,

2360
01:53:35,200 --> 01:53:37,400
Speaker 1: you know, wait to get your wide receiver is something

2361
01:53:37,400 --> 01:53:39,880
Speaker 1: that a lot of people have talked about, especially with

2362
01:53:39,960 --> 01:53:42,680
Speaker 1: the surplus of talent on the defensive line, that could

2363
01:53:42,760 --> 01:53:45,760
Speaker 1: very well could happen. Yeah, I like the idea of

2364
01:53:45,800 --> 01:53:47,760
Speaker 1: waiting on a wide receiver. I'm not out on the

2365
01:53:47,800 --> 01:53:51,160
Speaker 1: idea of them taking a wide receiver at some point

2366
01:53:51,200 --> 01:53:53,960
Speaker 1: in the draft, but I think there is more value

2367
01:53:53,960 --> 01:53:56,479
Speaker 1: to be had, and especially to the roster that they

2368
01:53:56,479 --> 01:53:58,960
Speaker 1: have right now, they can if they were able to

2369
01:53:59,000 --> 01:54:02,280
Speaker 1: get a pass rush, a defensive a defensive tackle, a

2370
01:54:02,280 --> 01:54:05,960
Speaker 1: free technique, or a tight end. I think those would

2371
01:54:05,960 --> 01:54:08,680
Speaker 1: be instant contributors to what the Bills are trying to

2372
01:54:08,680 --> 01:54:11,280
Speaker 1: do this year. Whereas the wide receiver, because they just

2373
01:54:11,320 --> 01:54:13,920
Speaker 1: have so many bodies there right now, they have four

2374
01:54:13,960 --> 01:54:16,519
Speaker 1: different players that they need to get time to I mean,

2375
01:54:16,720 --> 01:54:20,160
Speaker 1: taking one at at ninth. Overall, like I said, I'm

2376
01:54:20,200 --> 01:54:22,120
Speaker 1: not going to rule it out. I just it's not

2377
01:54:22,200 --> 01:54:25,400
Speaker 1: really a favorite scenario of mine in terms of building

2378
01:54:25,400 --> 01:54:27,360
Speaker 1: your roster. Why do we have to I don't mean

2379
01:54:27,400 --> 01:54:29,240
Speaker 1: to why do we have to worry about this year?

2380
01:54:29,640 --> 01:54:31,280
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? They have said they want

2381
01:54:31,280 --> 01:54:33,480
Speaker 1: to build to be good in the future. Fair if

2382
01:54:33,480 --> 01:54:37,680
Speaker 1: there's a receiver a difference making receiver available to them

2383
01:54:37,680 --> 01:54:40,840
Speaker 1: at number nine. I won't mention any names Metcalf, but

2384
01:54:41,080 --> 01:54:43,800
Speaker 1: if there's as if there's that guy there and he

2385
01:54:43,840 --> 01:54:47,000
Speaker 1: measures up, I'm not suggesting they blindly draft him. But

2386
01:54:47,040 --> 01:54:48,680
Speaker 1: if if they think he is a guy who can

2387
01:54:48,720 --> 01:54:51,040
Speaker 1: make a difference for years to come, which he might be,

2388
01:54:51,200 --> 01:54:53,520
Speaker 1: then do it. Right. If you feel that strongly and it,

2389
01:54:53,640 --> 01:54:56,320
Speaker 1: then do it. But they also do need to find

2390
01:54:56,320 --> 01:54:59,080
Speaker 1: out about Robert Foster and Zay Jones. There's but you

2391
01:54:59,120 --> 01:55:02,440
Speaker 1: don't set your priory around not about people, No, you don't,

2392
01:55:02,600 --> 01:55:06,600
Speaker 1: you budd your team. It's also about positional premiums. And

2393
01:55:07,280 --> 01:55:11,480
Speaker 1: I don't know that this regime necessarily looks at wide

2394
01:55:11,480 --> 01:55:13,360
Speaker 1: receiver as one of those things that you spend a

2395
01:55:13,400 --> 01:55:15,120
Speaker 1: top ten pick on. I don't I could be wrong.

2396
01:55:15,200 --> 01:55:17,280
Speaker 1: They've traded for a couple of this regime is traded

2397
01:55:17,280 --> 01:55:19,160
Speaker 1: for a couple of veteran receivers in their first couple

2398
01:55:19,200 --> 01:55:22,200
Speaker 1: of years here, sure assets, And they tried to get

2399
01:55:22,200 --> 01:55:25,080
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown fourth third and a fifth. What they give

2400
01:55:25,160 --> 01:55:27,200
Speaker 1: up for Kelvin Benjamin a third and what was it

2401
01:55:27,240 --> 01:55:29,720
Speaker 1: a seventh? Yeah, So it's not as though, I mean,

2402
01:55:29,720 --> 01:55:32,120
Speaker 1: third rounders are still substantial, but it's not a first

2403
01:55:32,200 --> 01:55:34,760
Speaker 1: round pick. It's not a top ten pick just based

2404
01:55:34,800 --> 01:55:37,360
Speaker 1: on and you can't look at everything they did in

2405
01:55:37,400 --> 01:55:39,120
Speaker 1: Carolina be like that's the way they're going to do it.

2406
01:55:39,240 --> 01:55:42,480
Speaker 1: But the one thing they did a ton in Carolina

2407
01:55:42,680 --> 01:55:46,680
Speaker 1: is add defensive linemen early and often. And you know

2408
01:55:46,760 --> 01:55:49,720
Speaker 1: how many defensive lineman this Bill's regime has added in

2409
01:55:49,720 --> 01:55:53,000
Speaker 1: the last two years in the first two rounds zero.

2410
01:55:53,840 --> 01:55:56,240
Speaker 1: They need to add add rushers, they need to add

2411
01:55:56,240 --> 01:55:59,640
Speaker 1: defensive tackles. It's it's something that they believe very strongly.

2412
01:55:59,680 --> 01:56:01,200
Speaker 1: And we got a break coming up here. We're gonna

2413
01:56:01,240 --> 01:56:03,640
Speaker 1: talk with one of the new Bills, Mitch Moore Center

2414
01:56:04,160 --> 01:56:06,840
Speaker 1: signed you the roster last week last Wednesday. We'll talk

2415
01:56:06,880 --> 01:56:08,680
Speaker 1: with him on the phone line when we come back.

2416
01:56:08,720 --> 01:56:11,320
Speaker 1: It's One Bill's Live, presented by Kalaida Health from One

2417
01:56:11,320 --> 01:56:24,960
Speaker 1: Bill's Drive. And this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back

2418
01:56:25,000 --> 01:56:27,200
Speaker 1: One Bill's Live from One Bill's Drive. John Murfy Job

2419
01:56:27,240 --> 01:56:30,560
Speaker 1: Bascalli is in in place of Steve Tasker here this

2420
01:56:30,600 --> 01:56:32,840
Speaker 1: week for a couple of days. Chris Mount will be

2421
01:56:32,840 --> 01:56:36,920
Speaker 1: in on the Thursday and Friday. Welcome back to the show.

2422
01:56:37,120 --> 01:56:39,360
Speaker 1: We're trying to make contact with Mitch Morse. Is he

2423
01:56:39,400 --> 01:56:42,400
Speaker 1: on the line yet? Not yet. We're gonna get to him.

2424
01:56:42,440 --> 01:56:45,520
Speaker 1: The Bill's a free agent center. The Bills paid a

2425
01:56:45,560 --> 01:56:49,160
Speaker 1: premium for Mitch Morse Robert Robert Mays was talking about that, Joe,

2426
01:56:49,640 --> 01:56:52,040
Speaker 1: nobody's you know, he's the highest paid center in the league.

2427
01:56:52,240 --> 01:56:54,360
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody in Buffalo cares that he's highest

2428
01:56:54,360 --> 01:56:56,720
Speaker 1: paid center's league. I have yet to see anybody say, oh,

2429
01:56:56,840 --> 01:56:59,160
Speaker 1: the Bills really blew it with that signing. No, it

2430
01:56:59,240 --> 01:57:01,920
Speaker 1: was one of those positions where as long as the

2431
01:57:01,960 --> 01:57:04,560
Speaker 1: Bills spent money and got somebody, fans were cool with

2432
01:57:04,600 --> 01:57:08,280
Speaker 1: it because the center position was so it left a

2433
01:57:08,320 --> 01:57:10,840
Speaker 1: lot to be desired last year. And that's putting it kindly.

2434
01:57:10,840 --> 01:57:13,120
Speaker 1: And the second time today Joe is trying to be

2435
01:57:13,240 --> 01:57:16,480
Speaker 1: kind but are you really trying to ask my question? Sure,

2436
01:57:17,480 --> 01:57:21,440
Speaker 1: but he was in addition that Bills fans were totally

2437
01:57:21,440 --> 01:57:23,640
Speaker 1: over the moon about and you know, him getting paid

2438
01:57:23,680 --> 01:57:25,720
Speaker 1: that money. It's one of those positions that we've seen

2439
01:57:25,800 --> 01:57:28,880
Speaker 1: Brandon being value highly before. In terms of adding putting

2440
01:57:28,960 --> 01:57:32,120
Speaker 1: dollars to it. The Eric would extension that really they

2441
01:57:32,120 --> 01:57:33,960
Speaker 1: didn't need to do that early when they did it,

2442
01:57:34,040 --> 01:57:36,800
Speaker 1: but they did. And he had cap hits of somewhere

2443
01:57:36,840 --> 01:57:39,440
Speaker 1: around like nine million for his first two years and

2444
01:57:39,480 --> 01:57:42,959
Speaker 1: this was two years ago. So by power of inflation

2445
01:57:43,120 --> 01:57:45,440
Speaker 1: and free agency, there you have it, and Mitch Morris

2446
01:57:45,520 --> 01:57:47,400
Speaker 1: is here and they hope he's going to stabilize the

2447
01:57:47,400 --> 01:57:49,520
Speaker 1: offensive line for sure. Mitch Morris is with us now

2448
01:57:49,600 --> 01:57:51,680
Speaker 1: on the line. The Bill's new center signed last week

2449
01:57:51,720 --> 01:57:54,280
Speaker 1: to a foraging contract with the Buffalo Bills. Hello, Mitch,

2450
01:57:54,360 --> 01:57:57,120
Speaker 1: John Murphy and Joe Pascutia here in our one Buffalo

2451
01:57:57,200 --> 01:58:00,000
Speaker 1: studio at One Bill's Drive. Sorry, we missed you last week.

2452
01:58:00,040 --> 01:58:02,720
Speaker 1: That was kind of a hectic free for all last

2453
01:58:02,720 --> 01:58:05,280
Speaker 1: Wednesday or which day was it. It was Thursday when

2454
01:58:05,280 --> 01:58:07,720
Speaker 1: you were here with the rest of the free agents. Yeah, no,

2455
01:58:07,720 --> 01:58:09,440
Speaker 1: I appreciate you all having me on. Where are you

2456
01:58:09,480 --> 01:58:12,400
Speaker 1: calling from, Mitchell? I'm here in Kansas City right now.

2457
01:58:12,400 --> 01:58:15,160
Speaker 1: It's trying to get everything ready to law back to Buffalo.

2458
01:58:15,720 --> 01:58:17,920
Speaker 1: You're moving, then you're you're moving the family here to

2459
01:58:17,920 --> 01:58:20,280
Speaker 1: Buffalo eventually, or you have me and the wife are

2460
01:58:20,280 --> 01:58:22,520
Speaker 1: going to head up there probably sometime in the next

2461
01:58:22,560 --> 01:58:25,240
Speaker 1: few weeks and a week or so, and you got

2462
01:58:25,320 --> 01:58:27,560
Speaker 1: mid April report time. I guess if you want to

2463
01:58:27,720 --> 01:58:31,200
Speaker 1: for the optional offseason condition, imagine you're getting ready for

2464
01:58:31,240 --> 01:58:36,760
Speaker 1: that right, Oh, yes, not optional in your mind? No, no, no, Hey,

2465
01:58:36,800 --> 01:58:39,320
Speaker 1: let's tell us that the process that got you here

2466
01:58:39,360 --> 01:58:43,320
Speaker 1: to Buffalo. You could not have been surprised, knowing about

2467
01:58:43,320 --> 01:58:45,280
Speaker 1: the Bill's needs and what the Bill's focus might have

2468
01:58:45,280 --> 01:58:46,840
Speaker 1: been in free agency, that you wound up here with

2469
01:58:46,840 --> 01:58:49,840
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. You know, it's it's no one really

2470
01:58:49,880 --> 01:58:52,360
Speaker 1: told me how crazy all that can be. I mean,

2471
01:58:52,440 --> 01:58:54,800
Speaker 1: you kind of have a rough gas of where you

2472
01:58:54,800 --> 01:58:58,400
Speaker 1: could possibly end up, and then you know, for about

2473
01:58:58,480 --> 01:59:01,040
Speaker 1: twenty four hours, your wife is a WorldWind, and I

2474
01:59:01,120 --> 01:59:03,640
Speaker 1: mean then the opportunity arose, and I mean it was

2475
01:59:03,680 --> 01:59:06,440
Speaker 1: a pretty easy choice after you know, talking with my

2476
01:59:06,520 --> 01:59:09,560
Speaker 1: agent and just kind of doing world research and vetting

2477
01:59:10,120 --> 01:59:12,000
Speaker 1: and just seem like the perfect place for me and

2478
01:59:12,240 --> 01:59:14,880
Speaker 1: my family and U a place to kind of just

2479
01:59:14,920 --> 01:59:17,040
Speaker 1: grow as a person and grow as a football player.

2480
01:59:17,160 --> 01:59:19,960
Speaker 1: Was it an easy choice because of the opportunity or

2481
01:59:20,040 --> 01:59:21,560
Speaker 1: was it the money or what made it an easy

2482
01:59:21,640 --> 01:59:24,160
Speaker 1: choice for you? You know, it was it was both.

2483
01:59:24,440 --> 01:59:27,040
Speaker 1: I mean you'd be lying if you said it wasn't both. Um.

2484
01:59:28,120 --> 01:59:30,000
Speaker 1: But you know, for me, I never went out trying

2485
01:59:30,000 --> 01:59:32,200
Speaker 1: to be the highest paid center, to be honest, and

2486
01:59:32,240 --> 01:59:35,000
Speaker 1: it still kind of makes me uncomfortable for being from

2487
01:59:35,040 --> 01:59:37,560
Speaker 1: being frank, It's just kind of something I've never wanted

2488
01:59:37,560 --> 01:59:39,040
Speaker 1: to be, but you know, it's it's a it's a

2489
01:59:39,520 --> 01:59:43,840
Speaker 1: it's it's not the worst thing. Uh but uh no,

2490
01:59:44,040 --> 01:59:47,440
Speaker 1: it's dude, I mean just talking to the people, kind

2491
01:59:47,480 --> 01:59:51,560
Speaker 1: of understanding the owners and their mindset and Coach McDermott

2492
01:59:51,640 --> 01:59:53,560
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, understanding that he was, you know,

2493
01:59:53,640 --> 01:59:56,160
Speaker 1: kind of through Coach Read. You know, he's just such

2494
01:59:56,160 --> 01:59:59,320
Speaker 1: a family origin dude. That was just that kind of

2495
01:59:59,320 --> 02:00:01,960
Speaker 1: floated my boat. That's my cup of tea. So it

2496
02:00:02,040 --> 02:00:05,000
Speaker 1: was a fairly easy choice after that part. Hey, Mitch,

2497
02:00:05,040 --> 02:00:09,960
Speaker 1: when you did your vetting, even before talking to Sean McDermott,

2498
02:00:10,000 --> 02:00:13,000
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean, the Pagoulas, I mean, who did you kind

2499
02:00:13,000 --> 02:00:16,480
Speaker 1: of reach out to to find out what Buffalo and

2500
02:00:16,640 --> 02:00:20,720
Speaker 1: this regime and this locker room was all about. Sure,

2501
02:00:20,960 --> 02:00:23,600
Speaker 1: I mean I really didn't have too many contact points,

2502
02:00:23,640 --> 02:00:28,480
Speaker 1: but uh, you know, Ike, he's a offensive lineman, and

2503
02:00:28,560 --> 02:00:31,120
Speaker 1: so I was. I reached out Ike, and he, you know,

2504
02:00:31,160 --> 02:00:34,280
Speaker 1: he said the only good things. And I knew Martius

2505
02:00:34,320 --> 02:00:36,040
Speaker 1: Murphy was here, which is a buddy of mine, and

2506
02:00:36,840 --> 02:00:39,960
Speaker 1: he seems to be enjoying it. Uh you know, for me,

2507
02:00:40,000 --> 02:00:44,280
Speaker 1: it wasn't it wasn't too hard. I was about to

2508
02:00:44,280 --> 02:00:47,760
Speaker 1: reach out to Eric Wood, but everything kind of kind

2509
02:00:47,760 --> 02:00:50,880
Speaker 1: of came to fruition so quickly that I wasn't able

2510
02:00:50,880 --> 02:00:54,160
Speaker 1: to reach out to him. But that really wasn't early

2511
02:00:54,200 --> 02:00:56,400
Speaker 1: wasn't too worried about all that. Mitch Moore signed the

2512
02:00:56,400 --> 02:00:58,480
Speaker 1: line with US. The Bills center signed to a free

2513
02:00:58,480 --> 02:01:00,920
Speaker 1: agent contract going into his fifth season in the NFL.

2514
02:01:01,240 --> 02:01:03,480
Speaker 1: Tell me about the four first four seasons in the

2515
02:01:03,600 --> 02:01:06,320
Speaker 1: NFL with the Chiefs, Mitch, you obviously had success on

2516
02:01:06,360 --> 02:01:09,640
Speaker 1: a on a well coached and well, uh you know,

2517
02:01:09,720 --> 02:01:12,800
Speaker 1: finally tuned offensive machine there in Kansas City. Is it

2518
02:01:12,840 --> 02:01:14,920
Speaker 1: difficult to leave a situation that had been going so

2519
02:01:15,000 --> 02:01:17,480
Speaker 1: well in Kansas City for the last few years. Well,

2520
02:01:17,480 --> 02:01:20,720
Speaker 1: you know, mostly difficult for personal reasons. You know, my

2521
02:01:21,040 --> 02:01:24,440
Speaker 1: family and I really liked the city of Kansas City. Um,

2522
02:01:24,800 --> 02:01:28,680
Speaker 1: we were were planning the routes here. Uh No, I

2523
02:01:28,760 --> 02:01:31,440
Speaker 1: think it's you know, it's part of the business. You're

2524
02:01:31,640 --> 02:01:33,520
Speaker 1: moving on, and I think for me it's going to

2525
02:01:33,720 --> 02:01:36,600
Speaker 1: really help me as a football player. Um. You know,

2526
02:01:36,760 --> 02:01:40,440
Speaker 1: sometimes change is a little bit unsettling, but in this instance,

2527
02:01:40,480 --> 02:01:43,520
Speaker 1: I think it's the best thing for me. And uh No,

2528
02:01:43,760 --> 02:01:47,080
Speaker 1: to answer the question, I'm really looking forward to the change. Um.

2529
02:01:47,320 --> 02:01:48,760
Speaker 1: I think it's just the way it goes, and I

2530
02:01:48,800 --> 02:01:51,200
Speaker 1: couldn't be in a better position. It's this might sound

2531
02:01:51,240 --> 02:01:53,280
Speaker 1: a little weird, but I'm guessing you might find that

2532
02:01:53,720 --> 02:01:56,200
Speaker 1: Buffalo in Kansas City are a little bit similar, uh,

2533
02:01:56,480 --> 02:01:58,120
Speaker 1: just in terms of the type of people, in the

2534
02:01:58,160 --> 02:02:01,160
Speaker 1: type of atmosphere that the Abbot interest in the NFL team.

2535
02:02:01,200 --> 02:02:06,080
Speaker 1: Have you noticed anything like that in your initials? Absolutely? Um,

2536
02:02:06,280 --> 02:02:08,200
Speaker 1: I think that, I mean you have you have to.

2537
02:02:08,200 --> 02:02:10,800
Speaker 1: I have to admit the fans or such an integral

2538
02:02:10,800 --> 02:02:13,800
Speaker 1: part of you know, me choosing Buffalo and the fact

2539
02:02:13,880 --> 02:02:16,640
Speaker 1: that they're so passionate about the team. Uh, you have

2540
02:02:16,720 --> 02:02:19,800
Speaker 1: this blue cot folk just you know, really down those people,

2541
02:02:19,800 --> 02:02:21,720
Speaker 1: and I feel like it's a Midwest field much like

2542
02:02:21,800 --> 02:02:25,480
Speaker 1: Kansas City in that department. Um, I definitely feel like

2543
02:02:25,480 --> 02:02:28,400
Speaker 1: there's they're both very passionate fan bases and I'm looking

2544
02:02:28,440 --> 02:02:30,520
Speaker 1: for I mean, I mean, how how many people who

2545
02:02:30,600 --> 02:02:33,360
Speaker 1: jump off of stuff and break their face on tables?

2546
02:02:33,400 --> 02:02:36,360
Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to kind of feeling that culture

2547
02:02:36,400 --> 02:02:39,840
Speaker 1: and those are my kind of people. Uh, Mitch, when

2548
02:02:39,880 --> 02:02:44,840
Speaker 1: when you were coming out of Missoo, you're a right tackle, correct, Yeah, yeah,

2549
02:02:44,880 --> 02:02:48,360
Speaker 1: when when you came to it and and Kansas City

2550
02:02:48,440 --> 02:02:51,880
Speaker 1: wanted to move you inside to center. No less, I mean,

2551
02:02:52,600 --> 02:02:56,800
Speaker 1: how much did did you kind of struggle with that

2552
02:02:56,920 --> 02:02:59,920
Speaker 1: early on? Or or um? What what exactly was that

2553
02:03:00,120 --> 02:03:03,240
Speaker 1: learning curve like? And certainly uh and did you ever

2554
02:03:03,320 --> 02:03:06,120
Speaker 1: expected to land you what it did this free agency?

2555
02:03:06,600 --> 02:03:10,080
Speaker 1: Oh Man, answer that last bit in no way. I mean,

2556
02:03:10,120 --> 02:03:12,160
Speaker 1: I was just trying to focus on one day at

2557
02:03:12,160 --> 02:03:13,960
Speaker 1: a time, to be honest with you, especially getting in

2558
02:03:14,000 --> 02:03:17,960
Speaker 1: the sea my rookie season. No, I kind of bounced around.

2559
02:03:18,000 --> 02:03:21,320
Speaker 1: My sophomore season. I was played from center. My junior season,

2560
02:03:21,360 --> 02:03:24,000
Speaker 1: I was where I tackle, senior season left tackle, So

2561
02:03:24,360 --> 02:03:27,240
Speaker 1: every year I kind of changed positions. And at the

2562
02:03:27,280 --> 02:03:29,800
Speaker 1: point I was just looking forward to the opportunity and that,

2563
02:03:29,960 --> 02:03:31,760
Speaker 1: you know, Coach Reid put me in an opportunity to

2564
02:03:31,800 --> 02:03:34,880
Speaker 1: play early and kind of proved myself and trial by fire,

2565
02:03:34,960 --> 02:03:37,760
Speaker 1: and I guess the biggest thing was first of all,

2566
02:03:37,760 --> 02:03:40,040
Speaker 1: the speed and the strength. Everyone is just at the

2567
02:03:40,240 --> 02:03:42,480
Speaker 1: top of their game. And then I played in the

2568
02:03:42,560 --> 02:03:44,560
Speaker 1: kind of a spread offense where there's only five or

2569
02:03:44,600 --> 02:03:46,120
Speaker 1: six guys in a line of scrimmage, and then you

2570
02:03:46,160 --> 02:03:48,440
Speaker 1: go in and you put power, big boy football. You

2571
02:03:48,520 --> 02:03:50,720
Speaker 1: put eight or nine guys in line of scrimmage, well,

2572
02:03:50,840 --> 02:03:52,600
Speaker 1: defense is going to mirror that. So I've never seen

2573
02:03:52,640 --> 02:03:55,000
Speaker 1: more than six guys on, you know, in the box,

2574
02:03:55,480 --> 02:03:57,320
Speaker 1: and now there's you know, eight or nine dudes. So

2575
02:03:57,440 --> 02:04:01,000
Speaker 1: just kind of identifying it, understanding you know, the pro

2576
02:04:01,480 --> 02:04:03,920
Speaker 1: pro style football. It definitely was a big lead for me,

2577
02:04:04,000 --> 02:04:06,120
Speaker 1: but I was able to kind of learn as it

2578
02:04:06,280 --> 02:04:08,200
Speaker 1: went on. There's a lot of trial in there and

2579
02:04:09,120 --> 02:04:11,280
Speaker 1: getting whooped up a bit and practice, but you know,

2580
02:04:11,400 --> 02:04:13,760
Speaker 1: I think that's part of the gig. You know, Hey,

2581
02:04:14,280 --> 02:04:16,760
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem like there are a lot of similarities

2582
02:04:16,760 --> 02:04:19,640
Speaker 1: between Pat and Mahomes and and Buffalo's Josh Allen, and

2583
02:04:19,720 --> 02:04:22,560
Speaker 1: yet for the second consecutive year, you'll be this center

2584
02:04:22,600 --> 02:04:25,360
Speaker 1: for a pretty talented second year quarterback in the NFL.

2585
02:04:25,400 --> 02:04:27,160
Speaker 1: Have you thought about that at all? And maybe some

2586
02:04:27,280 --> 02:04:28,760
Speaker 1: of the things you were able to do for Mahomes

2587
02:04:28,760 --> 02:04:32,360
Speaker 1: that might translate to Josh. I think I think for me,

2588
02:04:32,640 --> 02:04:36,280
Speaker 1: my job is just to make Josh's wife as easy

2589
02:04:36,280 --> 02:04:40,440
Speaker 1: as possible, being being just kind of like a liaison

2590
02:04:40,520 --> 02:04:44,040
Speaker 1: between the offensive line and Josh, just just trying to

2591
02:04:44,080 --> 02:04:46,480
Speaker 1: make his job a lot easier Um. You know, Pat

2592
02:04:46,480 --> 02:04:48,200
Speaker 1: and I learned a lot from each other this year.

2593
02:04:48,320 --> 02:04:51,320
Speaker 1: I mean, he was a special talent, and he helped

2594
02:04:51,320 --> 02:04:53,200
Speaker 1: me out, probably way more than my health him out.

2595
02:04:53,240 --> 02:04:56,560
Speaker 1: But I think it's it's good to have a kind

2596
02:04:56,600 --> 02:04:59,880
Speaker 1: of a continuous, you know, line of communication. It's kind

2597
02:04:59,920 --> 02:05:02,360
Speaker 1: of being on the same having the same verbivision, kind

2598
02:05:02,360 --> 02:05:04,400
Speaker 1: of seeing the same thing. So I mean that's going

2599
02:05:04,440 --> 02:05:07,800
Speaker 1: to help immensely when we just get to know each other,

2600
02:05:07,920 --> 02:05:09,960
Speaker 1: you know, probably hang out off the field a bit,

2601
02:05:10,080 --> 02:05:12,480
Speaker 1: just to kind of kind of see how he works.

2602
02:05:12,480 --> 02:05:14,840
Speaker 1: I love to see how he thinks and howig processes

2603
02:05:14,920 --> 02:05:18,440
Speaker 1: the game. So I'm really excited. Josh was a big

2604
02:05:18,440 --> 02:05:22,040
Speaker 1: reason why another big reason why I came to uh Buffalo.

2605
02:05:22,120 --> 02:05:25,080
Speaker 1: I think you have to have a quarterback to you know,

2606
02:05:25,280 --> 02:05:27,280
Speaker 1: your team has to be revolved around the talents and

2607
02:05:27,400 --> 02:05:30,480
Speaker 1: quarterback to go you know, deep in the playoffs, and

2608
02:05:30,480 --> 02:05:34,480
Speaker 1: I think Josh has the capability to do that. Hey Mitchum,

2609
02:05:34,640 --> 02:05:36,960
Speaker 1: what I mean you only got a small taste of Buffalo.

2610
02:05:37,000 --> 02:05:38,240
Speaker 1: I mean you were you were here for only a

2611
02:05:38,240 --> 02:05:41,640
Speaker 1: few days. But what what kind of stood out to

2612
02:05:41,680 --> 02:05:44,920
Speaker 1: you about even in just those few days, about what

2613
02:05:44,920 --> 02:05:47,480
Speaker 1: what you like the most about it. Yeah, I like

2614
02:05:47,560 --> 02:05:50,520
Speaker 1: the people. I think the people are just very friendly,

2615
02:05:51,040 --> 02:05:54,440
Speaker 1: really passionate about their teams, and you know, just a

2616
02:05:54,480 --> 02:05:56,720
Speaker 1: hard working group of folks who, you know, trying to

2617
02:05:56,760 --> 02:05:59,480
Speaker 1: make each other's lives a lot easier. It's just it

2618
02:05:59,600 --> 02:06:02,040
Speaker 1: really does have a Midwest field in that department. And

2619
02:06:02,480 --> 02:06:06,960
Speaker 1: besides that, the Wings are crazy good and I'm looking

2620
02:06:07,000 --> 02:06:08,720
Speaker 1: forward to kind of eating my way through town. I

2621
02:06:08,720 --> 02:06:12,200
Speaker 1: can use all the help I can get. Beyond. Did

2622
02:06:12,200 --> 02:06:13,600
Speaker 1: you get to a hockey game the other night when

2623
02:06:13,600 --> 02:06:15,520
Speaker 1: you're here, Mitch? You were talking about it, Dude, No,

2624
02:06:15,680 --> 02:06:18,800
Speaker 1: I talked a big game, and then I forgot that

2625
02:06:18,920 --> 02:06:21,800
Speaker 1: I had I had had previous engagement with my oine

2626
02:06:21,840 --> 02:06:24,160
Speaker 1: coach and go eat. So okay, I had to dip

2627
02:06:24,160 --> 02:06:25,680
Speaker 1: out on that. But I heard the Favors had a

2628
02:06:25,680 --> 02:06:28,200
Speaker 1: big wind beyond night against the Blues. Yeah, that was

2629
02:06:28,200 --> 02:06:31,200
Speaker 1: pretty big for them. Good good deal. Hey, last thing

2630
02:06:31,240 --> 02:06:34,080
Speaker 1: I got for you, Mit. You know, there's five new

2631
02:06:34,080 --> 02:06:36,320
Speaker 1: offensive linemens signed here over the last couple of weeks,

2632
02:06:36,560 --> 02:06:38,800
Speaker 1: and you've met him the new offensive actually two new

2633
02:06:38,840 --> 02:06:42,160
Speaker 1: offensive line coaches. Um, how soon can you guys pull

2634
02:06:42,200 --> 02:06:44,600
Speaker 1: this together? Figure out who's playing where and how we're

2635
02:06:44,600 --> 02:06:47,480
Speaker 1: gonna play. I mean that that seems like a offensive

2636
02:06:47,480 --> 02:06:49,880
Speaker 1: line seemed to thrive when there's continuity. You guys don't

2637
02:06:49,920 --> 02:06:52,440
Speaker 1: have that. Um, you don't have that experience now to

2638
02:06:52,760 --> 02:06:56,760
Speaker 1: lean on. Right, Well, I feel like every every year

2639
02:06:56,800 --> 02:06:59,160
Speaker 1: in the league, I mean, you have guys come and go.

2640
02:06:59,240 --> 02:07:01,120
Speaker 1: So you have to do that in a minute. You know,

2641
02:07:01,160 --> 02:07:03,360
Speaker 1: I'm a much more minute level, but you do have

2642
02:07:03,440 --> 02:07:06,240
Speaker 1: to find you know, no offensive line groups the exact thing.

2643
02:07:06,880 --> 02:07:08,600
Speaker 1: And so for us, this will just be that on

2644
02:07:08,720 --> 02:07:11,640
Speaker 1: on kind of a grander scale, getting another guys, and

2645
02:07:11,680 --> 02:07:14,760
Speaker 1: that's what otis are so important. So I think it'll

2646
02:07:14,800 --> 02:07:18,240
Speaker 1: be finding our own niche, you know, us understanding how

2647
02:07:18,280 --> 02:07:20,280
Speaker 1: coach thinks and he's going to kind of understand how

2648
02:07:20,360 --> 02:07:25,640
Speaker 1: we as individuals process information and practice and um. So

2649
02:07:25,800 --> 02:07:28,160
Speaker 1: it'll be for sure a little learning curve. But you know,

2650
02:07:28,200 --> 02:07:30,160
Speaker 1: as long as we're hitting stride week one, that's the

2651
02:07:30,160 --> 02:07:32,040
Speaker 1: only thing. I'm sure there'll be some pomps in the road,

2652
02:07:32,080 --> 02:07:33,760
Speaker 1: but you know, we're going to get to work and

2653
02:07:34,320 --> 02:07:36,480
Speaker 1: just enjoy each other's company and I'm just looking forward

2654
02:07:36,480 --> 02:07:39,520
Speaker 1: to getting another guys. Hey, Mitch, have you ever met

2655
02:07:39,560 --> 02:07:43,760
Speaker 1: a human larger than Taianseki. Oh no, look, it's a

2656
02:07:43,840 --> 02:07:46,520
Speaker 1: gigantic I know that's a that's a big man right there.

2657
02:07:48,280 --> 02:07:50,200
Speaker 1: I'm just curious because you've been around a lot of

2658
02:07:50,360 --> 02:07:54,760
Speaker 1: big people. But he did right there for sure, exactly. Hey, Mitch,

2659
02:07:54,840 --> 02:07:56,240
Speaker 1: thanks for this. We're a couple of weeks away from

2660
02:07:56,240 --> 02:07:58,800
Speaker 1: getting you guys here for the offseason workhouse. We look

2661
02:07:58,840 --> 02:08:00,840
Speaker 1: forward to visiting with you then as well. Thank you

2662
02:08:00,960 --> 02:08:02,880
Speaker 1: very much for this today. It sounds good. Guys. I

2663
02:08:02,920 --> 02:08:05,200
Speaker 1: appreciate you'll having me on. Thanks, Thanks Mitch. Mitch Moore,

2664
02:08:05,240 --> 02:08:08,520
Speaker 1: Spill's center, just signed to the roster last Wednesday, going

2665
02:08:08,560 --> 02:08:11,280
Speaker 1: into his fifth season in the NFL. Former second round

2666
02:08:11,600 --> 02:08:14,600
Speaker 1: pick of the Chiefs in twenty fifteen, joined us on

2667
02:08:14,640 --> 02:08:18,080
Speaker 1: the line. Interesting guy. Seems to have the perfect kind

2668
02:08:18,120 --> 02:08:20,280
Speaker 1: of attitude and especially when it comes I think Joe

2669
02:08:20,320 --> 02:08:22,840
Speaker 1: to you know, pulling this group together, as they said,

2670
02:08:22,880 --> 02:08:25,240
Speaker 1: this is not It's great to have new talent, but

2671
02:08:25,240 --> 02:08:26,760
Speaker 1: you've got to make this all fit and make it

2672
02:08:26,800 --> 02:08:29,920
Speaker 1: work with a whole new offensive line coaching staff. It's

2673
02:08:29,920 --> 02:08:32,520
Speaker 1: going to be a challenge, I think, especially in April

2674
02:08:32,560 --> 02:08:34,240
Speaker 1: and May and June before they get to kill his

2675
02:08:34,360 --> 02:08:36,720
Speaker 1: on the field is important don't get me wrong, but

2676
02:08:36,920 --> 02:08:41,000
Speaker 1: his role within that locker room is of the utmost

2677
02:08:41,040 --> 02:08:43,880
Speaker 1: importance to them, and it seems like just I mean,

2678
02:08:43,960 --> 02:08:46,760
Speaker 1: you can only gauge so far in talking with him

2679
02:08:46,800 --> 02:08:49,120
Speaker 1: ten minutes here and ten minutes in a press conference,

2680
02:08:49,120 --> 02:08:52,040
Speaker 1: but it seems like he has the right mindset, the

2681
02:08:52,120 --> 02:08:54,880
Speaker 1: right mentality for how to kind of go about and

2682
02:08:55,200 --> 02:08:58,000
Speaker 1: be that guy to to kind of just you know,

2683
02:08:58,160 --> 02:09:03,120
Speaker 1: help everybody else through finding themselves as an offensive line unit.

2684
02:09:03,160 --> 02:09:05,520
Speaker 1: And that's so important. And that's why Brandon being put

2685
02:09:05,560 --> 02:09:08,640
Speaker 1: so much of an emphasis into finding a free agent center,

2686
02:09:08,760 --> 02:09:11,320
Speaker 1: finding a veteran free agent center, someone that has upside

2687
02:09:11,360 --> 02:09:14,400
Speaker 1: like Mitch Morse. So I think he's going to be

2688
02:09:14,440 --> 02:09:16,840
Speaker 1: a dramatic upgrade to what they had last year in

2689
02:09:16,960 --> 02:09:18,760
Speaker 1: a couple of different areas, both on the field and

2690
02:09:19,120 --> 02:09:21,040
Speaker 1: in the locker room. Joe with Mitch Moose. Where does

2691
02:09:21,040 --> 02:09:25,840
Speaker 1: Spencer Longo swing guard? I think he's a guard and potentially, yeah,

2692
02:09:25,960 --> 02:09:29,760
Speaker 1: backup interior guy, which doesn't exactly bode well for Russell

2693
02:09:29,760 --> 02:09:33,520
Speaker 1: Bodine or Vladykas, but you know, Spencer long can still

2694
02:09:33,520 --> 02:09:35,840
Speaker 1: win a job. They have to go through the draft.

2695
02:09:35,880 --> 02:09:39,400
Speaker 1: I honestly think they'll probably end up taking an interior

2696
02:09:39,440 --> 02:09:42,560
Speaker 1: guy or some some offensive lineman, some form of lineman.

2697
02:09:42,880 --> 02:09:45,120
Speaker 1: They'll they'll have to do get one of those in

2698
02:09:45,160 --> 02:09:47,760
Speaker 1: there because they need another one to develop besides Dion Dawkins.

2699
02:09:47,920 --> 02:09:51,800
Speaker 1: But even still, I mean, Long might challenge for that

2700
02:09:51,880 --> 02:09:54,520
Speaker 1: right guard spot. Maybe he's the backup center. You know,

2701
02:09:54,680 --> 02:09:56,880
Speaker 1: John Feliciano is going to have something that should say

2702
02:09:56,880 --> 02:09:59,760
Speaker 1: about left guard because that's where he played for the

2703
02:10:00,320 --> 02:10:03,120
Speaker 1: in his four starts last year. And whyatt Teller's still there.

2704
02:10:03,200 --> 02:10:05,720
Speaker 1: So there's a there's gonna be a lot to decide.

2705
02:10:05,720 --> 02:10:07,960
Speaker 1: I said it earlier. I'm all charge it up to

2706
02:10:07,960 --> 02:10:10,200
Speaker 1: watch one on ones and Jimmie Camp all right, there's

2707
02:10:10,240 --> 02:10:14,120
Speaker 1: there's so many new new people. I mean, I'll be honest,

2708
02:10:14,600 --> 02:10:17,000
Speaker 1: watching Jordan Mills for the last three years, I grew

2709
02:10:17,000 --> 02:10:20,520
Speaker 1: a little tired of it. I mean cold, No, not cold.

2710
02:10:20,560 --> 02:10:22,960
Speaker 1: I mean it's just because I knew they were trying

2711
02:10:23,160 --> 02:10:26,280
Speaker 1: trying to replace him. But that said, you know, he

2712
02:10:26,360 --> 02:10:28,000
Speaker 1: was still good enough to hang on to the job.

2713
02:10:28,200 --> 02:10:30,920
Speaker 1: But and you always wondered if one of those younger

2714
02:10:30,960 --> 02:10:32,640
Speaker 1: guys would make the leap, but they never did. And

2715
02:10:32,920 --> 02:10:35,320
Speaker 1: it's just like, yeah, I was I was ready for

2716
02:10:35,640 --> 02:10:39,200
Speaker 1: a freshing refresh fresh. Yeah, I sure have all right.

2717
02:10:39,200 --> 02:10:41,480
Speaker 1: One Bill side coming back with more from One Bill's Driving.

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Speaker 1: from The Ringer dot com. He's written a post about

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02:11:14,360 --> 02:11:17,480
Speaker 1: the defining team for the offseason so far in the NFL.

2725
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Speaker 1: He's got the Buffalo Bills, says, one of the eight

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Speaker 1: teams that had defined the offseason, and he told us

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Speaker 1: why it's. One of the reasons I consider them one

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Speaker 1: of those teams is that if you look at Mitch

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Speaker 1: Morse and Cole Beasley, I mean, those are two players

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Speaker 1: that other teams wanted. You know, those are guys that

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Speaker 1: had market and for the Bills to come in and say,

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Speaker 1: we're going to pay for these guys, We're going to

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Speaker 1: get some bigger ticket items that other teams had interest in.

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Speaker 1: You know, maybe they're not the most expensive players on

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Speaker 1: the market, but they're definitely guys that had suitors elsewhere,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's what's really nice to see from Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's kind of with Brandon being alluded

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Speaker 1: to last week when he was getting a little bit

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Speaker 1: annoyed about the Antonio Brown thing, like this is an

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Speaker 1: attractive destination. This is a football crazy place and we

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Speaker 1: could get people into the building. I think that's why

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Speaker 1: it's a really good sign for them. Robert made you know,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of funny, Joe how in the ten or

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Speaker 1: eleven days since Antonio Brown fiasco, the narrative has been

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Speaker 1: turned around. I mean, you just heard Robert May say

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Speaker 1: this is an attractive destination. I think for smart fans. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit like, oh yeah, the Buffalo has

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Speaker 1: something to offer, yeah, and it revolves around one fact

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Speaker 1: they have a semblance of a quarterback now yeah, right,

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Speaker 1: and really that's all. I mean. Brandon Bean has made

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Speaker 1: this point in public appearances before. I mean, Green Bay

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Speaker 1: was never green Bay this huge destination until Brett Farve

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Speaker 1: and then Reggie White. Yeah, and then from there they've

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Speaker 1: been incredible because Brett Farve was a long standing quarterback,

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Speaker 1: one of the best in the league. For a long time.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers took that torch and they've been a destination

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Speaker 1: ever since. And I mean that's why, that's why it's

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Speaker 1: so important to get the quarterback. Yeah, like Mitch Moore said,

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Speaker 1: by the way, someone's one of the factors for him.

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Speaker 1: Here a Twitter poll today, apparently people believe that the

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Speaker 1: Bills are still in the market for wide receiver and

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Speaker 1: should be. On Twitter, we asked the question, is why

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Speaker 1: receiver you're stilll need for the Bills in the draft?

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Speaker 1: Seventy five said yes, it is. I think we also

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Speaker 1: got the sense that people thought maybe later on, not

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Speaker 1: necessarily first round, and I would agree with that assessment.

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Speaker 1: I think I think it's more more important to add

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Speaker 1: some depth to your roster than it is to find

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Speaker 1: the big guy. Joe is back with us tomorrow noon

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