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Speaker 1: one hundred percent let's say one hundred percent higher than

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Speaker 1: the last TV deals and all of that that's going

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Speaker 1: to go on as well. We've got the Sabers are

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Speaker 1: playing tonight, Jesse Bagoulas in the Australian Open. She's in

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Speaker 1: the quarter finals. We're all geeked up about that. And

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Speaker 1: we're also going down our list. We're halfway through our

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Speaker 1: list of what our Maddie's Mount Rushmore and my Mount Rushmore.

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Speaker 1: Maddie so far As got herd immunity vaccine and she

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Speaker 1: also wants an edge rusher, and I said, I want

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Speaker 1: an edge rusher, and my second one is an offensive lineman.

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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna have to get another offensive lineman

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Speaker 1: with it the way, because I don't think they're gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to with John Feliciano, Brian Winter, Ryan bay Ike,

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Speaker 1: Butker and Daryl Williams all out of their contracts now

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Speaker 1: are becoming free agents. I think they're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: refurbish that. I think they need to resign at least

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Speaker 1: one of those guys or two of those guys. Certainly.

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Speaker 1: I think I would probably make the effort to sign

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Speaker 1: dar Darryl Williams the right tackle. I think that's tackles

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Speaker 1: are hard to find, and I think if you're gonna

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Speaker 1: put a premium on a guy that's the guy, then

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Speaker 1: you'd have Dion Dawkins, you'd have uh, Mitch Morse at center,

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Speaker 1: and you'd have Darryl Williams on the offensive line. I

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Speaker 1: think maybe if if you want, you could restructure Mitch

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Speaker 1: Morse's contract to get it out of the eight figure

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Speaker 1: range and extend it just another year. He's also going

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Speaker 1: to be a little bit longer in the tooth. That

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Speaker 1: may be an issue an option for you, but I

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Speaker 1: think the Bills need to bring in a really big

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Speaker 1: time offensive, a guard war attack. I like Darryl Williams

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Speaker 1: at tackle. I think the interior the line needs to

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Speaker 1: be a little bit better. Now we're gonna get Cody

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Speaker 1: Ford back off of the end of ir this next year.

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Speaker 1: He had a season ending knee injury. He'll come back,

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Speaker 1: hopefully he'll be one hundred percent by the time camp starts.

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Speaker 1: But even so, you're gonna need some help upfront, both

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Speaker 1: in depth and at the starting front, because you know

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Speaker 1: two of those guys are gone. They lost three of

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Speaker 1: their five or two of their five starting offensive lineman

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Speaker 1: at any one point. They and I've said this a ton.

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Speaker 1: They started the season and John Feliciano had a pulled

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Speaker 1: peck muscle and couldn't play for the first six or

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Speaker 1: eight weeks of the season or four to six weeks,

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Speaker 1: I can't remember. Maybe it was a maybe it's a

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Speaker 1: Seattle game that he finally got back on the lineup.

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Speaker 1: They played three snaps together and Mitch Morse got a concussion.

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Speaker 1: All right, So now they're back all right, So Feliciano,

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Speaker 1: after coming back being out for two months, comes back

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Speaker 1: in three snaps later. He switched positions. So then they

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Speaker 1: put Ryan Brian Winters in at right guard and Cody

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Speaker 1: Forwards at left guard. And then before before Mitch Morrise

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Speaker 1: can get back on the field, which he's only out

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Speaker 1: when Cody Ford is out. So now Felicianos at a guard.

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Speaker 1: Then they bring in I Buttker to play guard, and

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Speaker 1: Cody Ford's on the other side, Mitch Morse's back, and

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Speaker 1: Feliciano is that they don't have the five guys they

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Speaker 1: ever thought they would have, not for a single snap

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Speaker 1: in the thirteen win regular season. Their offensive line was

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Speaker 1: never settled until deep in the year when they settled,

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Speaker 1: and they literally settled on the five guys they had

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Speaker 1: to put out there because Cody Ford was out for

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Speaker 1: the season. So I and for me personally and my

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Speaker 1: personal football philosophy, Maddy, write this down. It starts up front,

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Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball, the defensive line, in

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Speaker 1: the offensive line, all the skill positions can be filled

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Speaker 1: with guys, and those guys at the skill positions will

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Speaker 1: be enhanced and whatever skill set they bring, whether it's

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Speaker 1: elite or good, very good, okay, average, whatever it is,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be elevated because of the great line

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Speaker 1: play in front in front of them. Those guys up front,

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Speaker 1: the closest guys to the football. When the ball is snapped,

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Speaker 1: those guys make it go on both sides of the ball.

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Speaker 1: So I think the builds offensive line, certainly with the

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Speaker 1: contract situation of where it stands now, with the guys

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Speaker 1: that are free agents and whatever, they've got to start

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Speaker 1: there on the offensive side of the ball. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: completely agree. I think getting a couple of those guys

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Speaker 1: back would be really important. Now there's that big question

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Speaker 1: of what's the cap going to look like. When will

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Speaker 1: we get that number. Will it be in the next

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks, hopefully early March, but who knows what's

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Speaker 1: going to happen with that. We've seen reports of what

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Speaker 1: it could be. But I think that number is going

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Speaker 1: to be super important in figuring out, Okay, can you

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Speaker 1: get Daryl Williams back? Can you get John fully Siano back?

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Speaker 1: You think Daryl played so well at that tackle could

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Speaker 1: tackle position. I remember when he came in, we were

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out, Okay, how is this the line

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Speaker 1: gonna look who's gonna play where, and then we saw

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Speaker 1: almost every player rotate around that offensive line and still

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Speaker 1: have good chemistry with each other. I was really surprised

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Speaker 1: by how well they played with how many bodies were

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Speaker 1: moving in and out of that lineup, not necessarily game

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Speaker 1: to game, but even within a game. Guys were coming

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Speaker 1: in and out because of injuries and things like that.

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Speaker 1: And we saw John fully Siano play at the center

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Speaker 1: position twice and that's when Mitch Morrise was out with

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Speaker 1: the concussion, and that's when they finally got that run

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Speaker 1: game going. I think you need something on the offensive

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Speaker 1: line that's going to help you a little bit with

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Speaker 1: that run game. And that goes to my third point,

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Speaker 1: is the run game. I don't know if the answer

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Speaker 1: is getting a new running back. I think Devin Singletary

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Speaker 1: and Zach Mosser are two great players. I think Zach

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Speaker 1: moss you know, doesn't get the rookie year, he deserves

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Speaker 1: one because of a pandemic too, because he had injuries

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Speaker 1: as well. And this team, of course went into the

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Speaker 1: season and throughout this season being a past heavy team.

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Speaker 1: There is nothing wrong with that. That is where their

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Speaker 1: strength lies. That is what they should do. But when

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Speaker 1: you need to go to the run game, you need

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Speaker 1: to be able to go to the run game, and

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Speaker 1: this team wasn't able to always do that. They ranked

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Speaker 1: twentieth during the regular season, averaging a one hundred and

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Speaker 1: seven point seven rushing yards a game. I need to

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Speaker 1: see that number go up. For part of the season.

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Speaker 1: They were below one hundred for a lot of the season.

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Speaker 1: There was no rusher who had an one hundred yard game.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Devin Singletary ever got to that, honestly,

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Speaker 1: I think the highest he had was in the eighties.

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Speaker 1: Possibly two games he had eighty rushing yards during this season.

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Speaker 1: So I want to see a little bit more production

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Speaker 1: out of that group. And I think it also is

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Speaker 1: on the offensive line. This offensive line was a great

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Speaker 1: past blocking offensive line run blocking. They didn't do that

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Speaker 1: well at that this year. Do you need another player

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Speaker 1: who's going to help you run block. Possibly. Mitch Morse

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Speaker 1: is not necessarily a run blocking offensive lineman. A run

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Speaker 1: blocking center. He is the athletic, get out move, push

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Speaker 1: the team down down the field, and he's not going

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Speaker 1: to be that a one amazing type of run blocking center,

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Speaker 1: and that's something that Brandon being talked about in his

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Speaker 1: press conference to wrap up the season was, Hey, we

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Speaker 1: had John Feliciano in there one because Mitch Morse was

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Speaker 1: out with a concussion, But when he was good to

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Speaker 1: come back, we wanted to keep John Feliciano in there

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Speaker 1: because we had something going with our run game. I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying get a new center by any means. Mitch

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Speaker 1: Morse is a great center and Priority one on this

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Speaker 1: team is throwing the ball down the field, and we

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Speaker 1: saw how well that worked out for this team. But

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Speaker 1: to be a great team, to make it far into

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, to make it to the Super Bowl, you

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Speaker 1: have to pass and you have to run. You can't

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Speaker 1: just choose one of those and make it all the way.

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Speaker 1: Defenses are way too good. They can shut down one

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Speaker 1: side of your game. You need to be able to

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Speaker 1: go to the second side of your game. I can't

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Speaker 1: wait to see what Zack Moss can offer next season.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what Devin Singletary can do

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Speaker 1: next season. Maybe you add a third running back into

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Speaker 1: that mix and see what they can do. I think

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Speaker 1: Zach and Devin are similar in a lot of ways.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you look for running back who can do a

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Speaker 1: little bit of different things or complement the two of

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Speaker 1: them and see what you can do. But you definitely

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Speaker 1: have to do some retooling in the run game there,

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Speaker 1: whether it's on the offensive line or whether they're whether

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Speaker 1: it's looking at a third running back. Steve Task along

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Speaker 1: with Maddi Glab we're One Bills Live here and we

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Speaker 1: are going to take a break, come back and finish

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Speaker 1: up our list of our amount rushmore for the Bills offseason.

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Speaker 1: We are in the Seneca Studio and One Bills Drive

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Speaker 1: and we are presented by Kalidah Health. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bills Radio. Welcome back and one of those lives keep

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Speaker 1: fast along with Maddie Glab. As Chris Brown is out

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Speaker 1: for a day or two, Maddie will be with us

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Speaker 1: for this weekend. I hear from our Seneca one studios,

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Speaker 1: from our Seneca Studios in Orchard Park, and Maddie from Chicago.

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Speaker 1: The work at home philosophy has served us well thus

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Speaker 1: far a little. We're gonna get to get the end

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Speaker 1: of this at some point where everybody's gonna be able

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Speaker 1: to go to work again, but we're not there yet.

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Speaker 1: So Maddie, I'm glad you could come in and be

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Speaker 1: with us today. We were right in the middle of

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Speaker 1: our mount rushmore of offseason. Once Maddie has put her

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Speaker 1: vaccine and she wants, you know, herd immunity so we

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Speaker 1: can fill the stadium up. She wanted a pass rusher

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Speaker 1: like I did, and she also wanted a run game

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Speaker 1: as well. And I said, ed rush, edge rusher, an

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Speaker 1: offensive line, and then my number three, Maddie, a number

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Speaker 1: two cornerback. We need somebody. We need somebody that maybe

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Speaker 1: not maybe not ask but almost like Tredavious White. On

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Speaker 1: the other side, we get a number two corner that is,

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Speaker 1: you're kind of a turnover machine, pass defender, shutdown guy

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Speaker 1: like Tredevious can be at times. Then the pass rush,

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Speaker 1: the run, get run defense, everything gets better and and

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Speaker 1: it gives the pass rush a better chance to get home.

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Speaker 1: I think it's I'm of the mind now over the

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Speaker 1: last I don't know, maybe a year and a half

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Speaker 1: I've gone in his complete revolue. I was always a guy,

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Speaker 1: a guy who's about pressure. You gotta have pressure, pressure, pressure,

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Speaker 1: And now I'm kind of the opposite. I think you

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Speaker 1: gotta have dbs, you gotta have you gotta be neck

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Speaker 1: deep in corners and good corners, and the safeties are important.

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Speaker 1: I think your secondary is almost as important, if not

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Speaker 1: more important, in some respects than your front seven. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: the run defense isn't gonna be helped by your secondary

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Speaker 1: on a you know, massively anyway. But I just think

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Speaker 1: the league has become too much of a throwing league

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Speaker 1: not to go out with a bunch of guys who

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Speaker 1: can really cover up wide receivers and do it and

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Speaker 1: maybe at the top three, maybe the top four spots

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Speaker 1: uh on for an offense. So I'm I'm all about

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Speaker 1: getting one more guy opposite Tredevious White and trying to

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Speaker 1: you know, they've been trying to and to his credit,

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Speaker 1: they've been trying to replace Levi Wallace for three years

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Speaker 1: and they can't get it done. He can't. You can't

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Speaker 1: get him off the field. Uh, And kudos to him

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Speaker 1: for that. But I think you need a guy who's maybe,

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Speaker 1: if not as technically sound as Levi Wallace is, certainly

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Speaker 1: maybe more physically gifted. A guy who can run with

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Speaker 1: people and who can win with athleticism makes some athletic plays,

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Speaker 1: where as where you know Levi, he's in the right spot,

644
00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: doing all the right things, but he's gonna get out

645
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: run once in a while, and he's gonna get lost

646
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:52,280
Speaker 1: on a route once in a while. Um, I just

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Speaker 1: I would love to have a guy out there who

648
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Speaker 1: is a who is a big time cornerback to go

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Speaker 1: opposite Tredevious White. That's my third rushmore thing. Yeah, I

650
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: think when you don't have someone who is comparable to

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Speaker 1: Tredevious White, not saying that lee By Wallace isn't. I mean,

652
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Speaker 1: he has done a great job the last few seasons

653
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,200
Speaker 1: for what's he for what he has been asked to do.

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Speaker 1: I mean Tredevius White had six interceptions last two seasons ago.

655
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Speaker 1: I guess now didn't have that many this season, but

656
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: led the league two seasons ago with interceptions, and this

657
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: season he wasn't targeted at all. He was targeted the

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00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: fewest times among thirty three corners with at least five

659
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 1: hundred coverage snaps this season per PFF, fifty five times

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Speaker 1: he was targeted. So when you get targeted that little amount,

661
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: the other side of the field sees all the action

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00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: and you need somebody who can be a lockdown corner

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Speaker 1: on the other side of the field, or somebody who

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Speaker 1: was close to being as talented, so you can balance

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Speaker 1: where the ball is being thrown to, so Tredavious White

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00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,120
Speaker 1: can get some of that back on his side, so

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Speaker 1: it's not all going to Levi Wallace or on the

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Speaker 1: other side. I think corners are so important in today's game.

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Speaker 1: Like you said, with how past heavy this league has

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Speaker 1: moved to, you have to have somebody who can be

671
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:20,080
Speaker 1: a ballhawk, somebody who can run with the best, somebody

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Speaker 1: who can have a bunch of pass breakups, interceptions alter

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Speaker 1: the game. You need somebody, whether that's in the draft

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00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 1: or free agency. It'll be interesting to see what happens

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00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: because Levi Wallace could be opposite Tredavious White again next year.

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Speaker 1: We never know what's going to happen. I mean, they

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00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: bring Josh Norman in, and Josh Norman is put on

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00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: the COVID list during the season, and he also dealt

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00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 1: with injuries so much through training camp and into the

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00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 1: beginning of the season. You really not you really didn't

681
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,520
Speaker 1: get to see what we maybe thought we would see

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Speaker 1: from Josh Norman. So Levi Wallace took most of the snaps.

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Speaker 1: I feel like it's just almost Levi loss to spot.

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00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,800
Speaker 1: With everything that happens every offseason, it's like, oh, here's

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Speaker 1: another another corner to come compete with Levi. Oh that

686
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Speaker 1: corner gets hurt or something else, and it's Levi spot again.

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Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see if they get somebody

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00:35:15,640 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: else to compete with Levi and if that person ever

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00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 1: gets to see the field, or if it's just Levi's

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00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: spot again next year. But I'll go with my fourth

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00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: thing that I would like to see, and that's a

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Speaker 1: tight end presence. Look at the Kansas City Chiefs. They

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Speaker 1: are so good with Travis Kelsey, George Kittle with the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers. Of course, he's spent most of the

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00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: season on the bench with an injury. But I think

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Speaker 1: a great tight end can be every team's secret weapon.

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Speaker 1: I think you can do so much more with the

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00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:51,800
Speaker 1: talented tight end. I think tight ends can really compliment

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00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: your best wide receivers too, And I think the Bills

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00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:57,080
Speaker 1: saw that a little bit differently this year. We didn't

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Speaker 1: really have a tight end who was able to do that,

702
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Speaker 1: but I think Cole Beasley and Stefan Diggs and a

703
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 1: lot of times and situations were the perfect compliments to

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Speaker 1: each other. Cole Beasley had the most slot yards of

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Speaker 1: any slot receiver this season, and we saw what happened

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00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: after Josh Allen and Cole Beasley had two seasons together.

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00:36:17,239 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley had incredible numbers for being a slot receiver,

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00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: had career high numbers, almost got to one thousand receiving

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00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: yards darting the regular season, but didn't necessarily make it

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Speaker 1: because he had that injury towards the end of the season.

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00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:36,919
Speaker 1: But Dawson Knox didn't have the season we wanted out

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Speaker 1: of him. He was injured, he had COVID. I don't

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Speaker 1: think you can put all the blame on him for

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00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 1: a second season in the league, and what we really

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00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: wanted to see out of him, which was improving those drops, right.

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Speaker 1: We saw him drop the ball quite a bit in

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Speaker 1: his rookie season. That's something that he said he worked

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Speaker 1: on in the off season. We saw some more drops

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Speaker 1: out of him this season, but we also didn't see

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Speaker 1: a lot of production out of him because he was

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00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: injured because he had COVID. So hopefully next season we

722
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:05,799
Speaker 1: can see a lot more out of him. I think

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Speaker 1: in your third year, hopefully you know the offense by

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00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 1: then you can make an impact on this team, make

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00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,200
Speaker 1: an impact on the offense. But man, if we have

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Speaker 1: a tight end presence, I'm talking about blocking, I'm talking

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00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 1: about pass catching, probably more pass catching than anything. I

728
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,360
Speaker 1: think that can really help this offense out. Josh Allen

729
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 1: has so many weapons to throw to, but a good

730
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: tight end like a George Kittle, like a Travis Kelsey,

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00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 1: can do wonders for a team. Not saying that we

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Speaker 1: need a player of that caliber, I think Dawson Knox

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00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 1: is a good answer for right now. I think Brandon

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00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: Being and Sean McDermott are also figuring out, is this

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Speaker 1: it's a tight end that we want on our team

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Speaker 1: for the future. I think this season is going to

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00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:52,319
Speaker 1: be big for him for answering that question and deciding, Hey,

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Speaker 1: can Dawson Knox do it for us? Or do we

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00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: need to go draft somebody in twenty twenty two or

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00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,479
Speaker 1: do we need to pick somebody up and freed twenty

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00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:02,399
Speaker 1: twenty two. Yeah, I would agree with it. I think

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00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: that that tight end that you just mentioned that spot

743
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: as being trying to get upgraded or getting a dynamic

744
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: playmaker there, I think you're gonna gues It's gonna be

745
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: reflected in our tweet sheet. I think a lot of

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00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: people out there in Bills, in the Bills fan base,

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00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:16,760
Speaker 1: would love to see a tight end like a Travis

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00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: Kelsey or a George Kittle, those kind of things like

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Speaker 1: why we got a chance? Before I tell you my

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Speaker 1: final amount rushmore hope for the offseason, Let's take a

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00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: call from Jenny in Buffalo. Jenny, you're on with Maddi

752
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: Glab Steve Tasker. What's on your mind? Jenny? Are you there? Jenny? Okay,

753
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 1: Jenny is not there. I'll tell you what. Let's let's

754
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,719
Speaker 1: move on. I'm gonna do my final one while we

755
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 1: wait on and then we'll do We'll go on, and

756
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 1: then we'll take a break. Here we go. My last one,

757
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: Maddie so yours was vaccine, herd immunity, a pass rusher,

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00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 1: a run game, and a tight end. Mine was an

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00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 1: edge rusher, an offensive lineman, a number two cornerback, and

760
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:04,600
Speaker 1: my last one. I just want the offseason to be

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00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:08,959
Speaker 1: more normal. That's what I want. I want the preseason games.

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00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 1: I want training camp. I want the run up to

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Speaker 1: the regular season. I want to be able to go

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00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: out and watch these guys practice and I don't care

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Speaker 1: if it's just if it's four preseason games or only two,

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Speaker 1: I don't care. Just whatever it's supposed to be, because

767
00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:23,800
Speaker 1: I know they'll this is going to be negotiated. I

768
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: don't think this has been set in stone yet. I

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00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: think there's gonna be a seventeen game regular season schedule,

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Speaker 1: and I think as a give back, the league will say, Okay,

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00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 1: we're gonna abbreviate the offseason stuff that we usually do

772
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:38,359
Speaker 1: or have had the ability to do in the past,

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00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: these four preseason games and all that. I think we're

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Speaker 1: just gonna get maybe two preseason games and then start

775
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:46,840
Speaker 1: off with the regular season, go seventeen weeks. That's what

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00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: I would like, Just a regular offseason, a training camp

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00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: where teams practice every day. You can go out and

778
00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,319
Speaker 1: see him and watch them and it does hinge on

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Speaker 1: your first Mount Rushmore thing of getting a vaccine, everybody

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00:39:59,719 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: vac senate and getting herd immunity, and where we can

781
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: all go about our daily lives. If where a mask

782
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: is fine, as long as we can do stuff together, right,

783
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: So that's mine. I want a regular full you know,

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00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 1: just like totally boring. I'm totally done watching practice Finally,

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00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:21,400
Speaker 1: you know, I want one of those. I want to

786
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 1: go out and watch practice and watch football start to

787
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 1: take shape. And that's my final amount Rushmore. I want

788
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,960
Speaker 1: this offseason to be much much different than the one

789
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:33,759
Speaker 1: we just experienced. Yeah, a regular offseason would be really nice.

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00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:37,320
Speaker 1: I would also love to actually interview players in person

791
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: next season rather than overszoom. I mean that was great

792
00:40:41,719 --> 00:40:45,279
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, but I love being in

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00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: person with these guys. I love getting to see them

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00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 1: face to face and have those you know, one off

795
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 1: conversations in the hallways and things like that. We were

796
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:59,800
Speaker 1: separated from the team they're seeing, got moved upstairs. The

797
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 1: team was on floor one and you know, capt moving

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Speaker 1: around the building. We're gonna take a break. Steve Tasker

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00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 1: along with Maddie Glab, We're gonna be back to get

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Speaker 1: more of your thoughts, our listeners, thoughts. What's your mount

801
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 1: rushmore of off season wants for the Buffalo Bills. Steve Tasker,

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00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,960
Speaker 1: Maddie Glab from Seneca's studio. Here, One Bill's Live presented

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00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:33,680
Speaker 1: by Kalida Health and this is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome

804
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 1: back to One Bills Live. Steve Tasker, Mattie Glab here

805
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:40,480
Speaker 1: with you untill three o'clock this afternoon. We're gonna talk

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00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 1: to Danny Hypatz of the Ringer up at the top

807
00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: of the hour. He's got a ton of offseason topics,

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00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:50,280
Speaker 1: a lot of quarterback stuff in each individual quarterback from

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00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,759
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson all the way down through Carson Wentz and

810
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:55,760
Speaker 1: and all the rest of them from two in Miami,

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Speaker 1: all the stuff going on around the National Football League.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to Danny Hiphats at the Ringer coming up

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Speaker 1: at the top of the hour before we get started

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Speaker 1: on that, we're doing also doing our rundown of Maddie

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Speaker 1: and I's offseason Mount Rushmore of offseason once Maddie wanted

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00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,160
Speaker 1: to get the vaccine, put the virus behind us. Also

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00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: wanted a pass rusher, a run game in a tight end.

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00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,440
Speaker 1: I said, I wanted an edge rusher, an offensive lineman,

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Speaker 1: a number two corner, and then a regular offseason, which means,

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Speaker 1: you know, Maddie's got to get one of her Mount

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00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 1: Rushmore's for me to get one of mine. We want

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Speaker 1: to we'd like to get things back to normal for

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Speaker 1: next football season, wouldn't It doesn't that kind of go

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00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:34,879
Speaker 1: without saying, but also one of the other things that's

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00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 1: happening in the next month. Maddie and we've been talking

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Speaker 1: a lot about the salary cap. It's gonna be small

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Speaker 1: this coming year. It's gonna be like a buck seventy

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Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five million, right. But the new

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Speaker 1: TV deals that are being negotiated as we speak, and

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Speaker 1: they'll be done in a few weeks. It looks like

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be done in a few weeks, maybe a

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Speaker 1: month or so. The early week out reports are they're

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Speaker 1: gonna be one hundred person scent higher, not only a

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent higher, but there's also gonna be new

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Speaker 1: ones where like there's a word has it that Amazon's

836
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:09,839
Speaker 1: gonna get involved. They're gonna be an over the top

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Speaker 1: streaming service for these games, and there's more revenue streams

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00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 1: because you think about it, If CBS, NBC and ABC

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Speaker 1: can broadcast them over the airwaves television wise, and they

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00:43:23,880 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: pay all that money to do that, well, somebody's gonna

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00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 1: be paying that much money to be streaming them live

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00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: over the Internet and other platforms. They're gonna be neck

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00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:40,000
Speaker 1: deep in money in a couple of now these now

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Speaker 1: these new deals don't take place until one or twenty two,

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Speaker 1: twenty three or whatever, you know, twenty twenty two, so

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00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:49,680
Speaker 1: it's a year away when they start. But man, oh man,

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent higher than the billions and billions that

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00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 1: they've been coughing up to the NFL. Good for them,

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00:43:56,719 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: but wow, that to get it done. And I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's it's not going to affect this year's cap.

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00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: Let me be clear about that, because this year's cap

852
00:44:06,719 --> 00:44:08,480
Speaker 1: is going to be set on what last year made

853
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,360
Speaker 1: and so that because of no fans in the stands,

854
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 1: is going to take a big hit. But when it

855
00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: comes back, Maddie, it looks like it's going to come

856
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 1: back with a vengeance. And what could that mean for

857
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:24,920
Speaker 1: teams next season or the season after if you if

858
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: you're trying to work out deals with guys, and we've

859
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:32,240
Speaker 1: seen some interesting contracts come out over the last year

860
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:35,920
Speaker 1: in terms of how we're going to get over the

861
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:39,320
Speaker 1: hump of this year's salary cap. And you got to

862
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: imagine Brandon Bean is working his magic in his office

863
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:45,319
Speaker 1: right now trying to figure out, Okay, how can we

864
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: restructure things? Who do we need to resign this offseason,

865
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:50,960
Speaker 1: how can we make it work? And if you're going

866
00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 1: to get a lot of money from TV deals going forward,

867
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 1: that salary cap number is also going to go up.

868
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: So if you can ask guys, hey, hang on just

869
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:03,800
Speaker 1: this one season and in the seasons ahead, we should

870
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 1: be getting an influx of a lot more money that

871
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: could also help out your deal in the future. But

872
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:13,960
Speaker 1: it's incredible to see these TV deal numbers when they

873
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 1: come out. It's like astronomically huge. And also to see

874
00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 1: these streaming services jump in and just to see how

875
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:25,399
Speaker 1: TV has changed in the last ten years. I mean,

876
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: you can flip on ESPN two during a game and

877
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: you can have you know, six angles of the game

878
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:36,439
Speaker 1: going on. Yeah, it's it's future Internet. It's it's just crazy. Yeah,

879
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 1: and it's it's gonna be a lot of fun to

880
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:39,680
Speaker 1: see it now. It's also we've also seen it in

881
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:41,680
Speaker 1: the structure of some of the current contracts, but most

882
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 1: notably the Patrick Mahomes contract where he signed this ten year,

883
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 1: half a billion dollar contract and it sounds outrageous, but

884
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 1: really the Chiefs did. It's a chief friendly deal because

885
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:56,760
Speaker 1: Mahomes will certainly he's getting paid a lot of money

886
00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 1: but he doesn't see the bulk of payments for another

887
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: three or four years, and so that lets this salary

888
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:05,839
Speaker 1: cap and the pandemic kind of get in the rear

889
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 1: view mirror where and the salary cap to take a

890
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:12,879
Speaker 1: couple of leaps forward before Mahomes starts taking a big

891
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: chunk out of that salary cap. So the club can

892
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:18,839
Speaker 1: really make Hay right now during this window of opportunity

893
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: before they have to really pay him significant amounts of

894
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,319
Speaker 1: money at one lump sum. They pushed it down the

895
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,320
Speaker 1: road a little bit within the contract that he just signed.

896
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: His willingness to do that certainly had something to do

897
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:33,759
Speaker 1: with that, But also the fact that they're in a

898
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: pandemic and the fact that the salary cap is gonna

899
00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:41,359
Speaker 1: shrink so they can still have the rest of their

900
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 1: roster intact before their quarterback takes up a big percentage

901
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,880
Speaker 1: of the salary cap. So you can bet you know

902
00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott and Kim and Terry Pogoula

903
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: are looking at that structure of that contract and saying, hey,

904
00:46:55,960 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 1: how can we use this to our benefit with our

905
00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: guy Josh Allen. Certainly a lot of bills fans Maddie

906
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 1: are clamoring for Josh Allen to get tied up to

907
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:08,800
Speaker 1: a long term contract, and for good reason. Yeah, definitely,

908
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 1: there are a few players on this roster who you

909
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 1: want to see get tied up for the future, Josh

910
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 1: Allen being one of them. Matt Milano, what's going to

911
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:19,320
Speaker 1: happen with him? Can they afford him next season and

912
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: the seasons to come. You've You've got an other You've

913
00:47:22,040 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: got some other young players coming up in the next

914
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,400
Speaker 1: couple of years. Tremaine Edmonds is one of those players.

915
00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 1: So you have a lot of players on the horizon

916
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 1: who you want to resign, and you want to make

917
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 1: it part of Brandon Bean's mantra of draft and develop

918
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 1: and resign. I think you want to have a good

919
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: amount of this core group of guys who have gotten

920
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: you this far in the playoffs this past season, and

921
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:45,839
Speaker 1: you want to take them and have them be a

922
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:48,920
Speaker 1: part of this team for the seasons to come because

923
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:51,760
Speaker 1: of their talent level and because of what they can offer.

924
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: And a huge TV deal can help you make that

925
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: happen in the future. Steve Tasker, along with Maddi glab

926
00:47:58,600 --> 00:47:59,800
Speaker 1: We're going to take a break. At the top of

927
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 1: the hour, We're gonna come back with Danny Hifitz of

928
00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 1: The Ringer and he's also the co host of The

929
00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 1: Ringer Fantasy Football Show. Coming up at the top of

930
00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: the hour Steve Tasker Maddie Glab on One Bill's Live,

931
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:25,359
Speaker 1: presented by Kalid to Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio

932
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,239
Speaker 1: ad a Steve Tasker who has been all all over

933
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 1: the fields. Kind of unique. He was kind of a

934
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:38,680
Speaker 1: dual role players for Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not

935
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:45,359
Speaker 1: even in the stratosphere of normalcy. Welcome back to our

936
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,240
Speaker 1: number two One Bill's Live. Steve Tasker along with Maddie

937
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 1: Glab we have been talking about our mount rushmore of

938
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:55,840
Speaker 1: wants for the Buffalo Bills off season, and we're gonna

939
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:59,280
Speaker 1: talk more about the offseason all across the National Football

940
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 1: League with our next guest Danny Hipez. He's an NFL

941
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: writer for The Ringer. He also is a co host

942
00:49:04,040 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 1: of The Ringer Fantasy Football Show and podcast. Danny, Steve Tasker,

943
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: Mattie Glab, thanks for joining us. As before we start,

944
00:49:10,080 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 1: let's just ask you are you doing okay? During the pandemic?

945
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:16,480
Speaker 1: Here is are you are you. Are you safe and well?

946
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 1: Are you and your family? Yeah? I'm safe and well.

947
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:21,200
Speaker 1: Thanks for asking me, and me and me and my

948
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 1: family doing well. You know, I'm making the best of

949
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,319
Speaker 1: bad times. But you know awesome. That's how are you

950
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: guys doing? We're doing good. Actually, Maddie's working from home

951
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: these days. Where are we in this off season? Why

952
00:49:30,680 --> 00:49:32,800
Speaker 1: come to work? It's the off season, right, the NFL's

953
00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: all shut down. I gotta, we gotta. We had you

954
00:49:35,600 --> 00:49:37,239
Speaker 1: on the show because you had a great article and

955
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 1: we've been talking about it a lot too. This may

956
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:42,520
Speaker 1: be one of the most interesting off seasons in recent memories,

957
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:45,400
Speaker 1: certainly in the last handful of off seasons for the league.

958
00:49:45,960 --> 00:49:50,400
Speaker 1: Um in the contracting salary cap and in the you know,

959
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 1: the carousel of quarterback movement and and all the other things.

960
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of stuff that's interesting, and then

961
00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: there's some stuff that just seems downright volatile. Given what's

962
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: happening in Houston with Deshaun Watson and that whole organization

963
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:09,080
Speaker 1: that seems to have since it's playoff appearance in twenty nineteen,

964
00:50:09,160 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 1: seems to have absolutely exploded with anger and resentment. What

965
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 1: do you think is going to happen in Houston with

966
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson that organization and how dysfunctional it seems to be,

967
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:24,919
Speaker 1: at least from the outside. I have no idea because

968
00:50:24,920 --> 00:50:26,719
Speaker 1: I think the interesting part here is what it comes

969
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 1: down to is whether does Deshaun Watson. Is he willing

970
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:32,520
Speaker 1: to lose money for a principal stand. That's what this

971
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:36,239
Speaker 1: comes down to, right. I think that with Watson it's

972
00:50:36,239 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 1: really difficult because the reason this is such an interesting

973
00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:41,359
Speaker 1: story is because this is like an NBA storyline. Right,

974
00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:44,360
Speaker 1: this is a player who just signed a massive contract extension.

975
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 1: I think there's like still four years and more than

976
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars left on this deal. That's the

977
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: kind of thing that usually happens in the NBA, right,

978
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 1: You sign a contract extension and then eight months later

979
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 1: like I want to leave. But in the NFL, it's

980
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 1: so much harder for quarterback to say, hey, you know

981
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 1: what I want out because football everyone's looking to the quarterback.

982
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: It's a leadership position. It's hard to take a stand

983
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 1: about me when a quarterback is supposed to be always

984
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 1: talking about us. So selfishness is hard. Now, this is

985
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:14,280
Speaker 1: kind of a perfect storm, though, because no one's blaming

986
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson. Everyone understands the Texans are have kind of

987
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: seeded their position as the adults in the room, and

988
00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: that even especially now this JJ Watts story and him

989
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 1: getting released, it's so clear that Deshaun getting out is

990
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:29,880
Speaker 1: the right move. And so there is this weird spot

991
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:32,320
Speaker 1: where he can force a trade and the Texans fans

992
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 1: are kind of like, yeah, he's probably right. So I

993
00:51:34,680 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 1: think that there's not the social pressure that usually comes

994
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:41,080
Speaker 1: with a quarterback wanting out. Really, the only question is

995
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:43,399
Speaker 1: is he willing to get fined and lose game checks

996
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 1: for millions of dollars? And if he's that fed up, yeah,

997
00:51:47,000 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 1: you know what, I think that he actually could win

998
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: this standoff. Well do you think other teams can learn

999
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 1: from this Houston situation? I mean, it's all about hiring

1000
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 1: the right people right, Like it doesn't matter what area

1001
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:01,520
Speaker 1: of business you're in. I don't think that this is

1002
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:03,479
Speaker 1: a football story. I don't think it's a sports store.

1003
00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 1: I think it's a business or a life lesson. Like

1004
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 1: clearly the owner cal McNair of the Texans does not

1005
00:52:09,640 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 1: seem to be surrounding himself with the right people who

1006
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:17,480
Speaker 1: are necessarily challenging some lesser instincts. And you know, say

1007
00:52:17,480 --> 00:52:19,680
Speaker 1: whatever you want about Jack Easterby, who was the team

1008
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 1: chaplain for the Patriots, who has now risen to somehow,

1009
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 1: you know, virtually running the team in some regards, it's

1010
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:28,200
Speaker 1: an astonishing rise. This is someone who Sports Illustrated reported

1011
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 1: he lied on his resume in a pretty stunning way.

1012
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:35,840
Speaker 1: And you know, it's there are people in the organization

1013
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 1: who referred him as a little Finger, which is a

1014
00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: character from the Game of Thrones. The fact that this

1015
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:42,759
Speaker 1: person has a lot of influence on the organization. I

1016
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 1: mean they've purged really a lot of the most trusted people. J. G. Watt,

1017
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:47,879
Speaker 1: team captain gone, they lost the president of the team,

1018
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 1: they lost a very respected head of pr Aby Palchich.

1019
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:54,960
Speaker 1: It's just there has been a purge of a lot

1020
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:57,240
Speaker 1: of the respected people in an organization. It's no longer

1021
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 1: respect and if you want to be respected well, you

1022
00:52:59,880 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 1: have to make sure that you have the right people

1023
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 1: around you. I think that this is a pretty it's

1024
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:04,840
Speaker 1: almost less of a sports story. It's more of like

1025
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:07,600
Speaker 1: a like a Greek myth, right, like just they keep

1026
00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:10,879
Speaker 1: forcing people out making mistakes to cover up the previous ones.

1027
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,400
Speaker 1: And it's not like they can just like take five

1028
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:17,240
Speaker 1: and let somebody else go and get their front office

1029
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:21,640
Speaker 1: in order. They have real cap problems, and real personnel problems,

1030
00:53:21,719 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 1: and real draft pick problems. I mean, there's no assets

1031
00:53:24,800 --> 00:53:28,680
Speaker 1: to even refurbish a roster that was four and twelve

1032
00:53:28,680 --> 00:53:33,080
Speaker 1: from a year ago. This is an organization that traded

1033
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 1: away everything that was not nailed down because they were

1034
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: empowering people who understood that without short term success, they

1035
00:53:40,680 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 1: would not be there for the long term. And I

1036
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:45,440
Speaker 1: think the rarest thing in sports is, at least in football,

1037
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 1: is long term planning, and that when you empower people

1038
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 1: who know, well, if this doesn't go right, I won't

1039
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 1: be here anyway. You know, I'm not necessarily sure what

1040
00:53:53,680 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien's concern was for draft picks in twenty twenty two,

1041
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:00,399
Speaker 1: when he knew that he would get fired years from now.

1042
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,320
Speaker 1: So he's not worried about it. He's making these deals

1043
00:54:02,320 --> 00:54:04,880
Speaker 1: knowing that, and that's not You want to align the

1044
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:08,319
Speaker 1: long term incentives of your organization with the people making

1045
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:10,800
Speaker 1: those plans. You want people to have enough job security

1046
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: for those things to align. And well, those are out

1047
00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: of those incentives are out of whack. Then you get

1048
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:20,400
Speaker 1: a situation like the Houston Texans. Right, let's talk a

1049
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:23,879
Speaker 1: little bit, go further down the list of these offson

1050
00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Maddie, I was gonna say, besides the Shaan Watson,

1051
00:54:30,120 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 1: I mean, you have Carson Wentz, you have Sam Darnold,

1052
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:37,320
Speaker 1: you have Dak Prescott. What's going to happen with the

1053
00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 1: quarterback market out there in this offseason? It's it's quite

1054
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 1: an interesting offseason for the quarterback position. It's a great question.

1055
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:46,520
Speaker 1: I mean, I think we could take them one by one.

1056
00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:50,440
Speaker 1: The Wentzon was assassinating, right, because you know when they

1057
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:53,400
Speaker 1: it seemed like the what was the word the car unsalvagable.

1058
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 1: That was the word used by the Philly Beat writers

1059
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:59,440
Speaker 1: to describe the relationship between Carson Wentz and Doug Peterson unsalvagable.

1060
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 1: They Doug Peterson, a Super Bowl winning coach who you know,

1061
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:04,399
Speaker 1: there's a statue of the guy outside the stadium, Nick

1062
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 1: Foles statue of the guy outside of the stadium. They

1063
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 1: two guys that they put statues up of. Well, they

1064
00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:11,720
Speaker 1: apparently they got rid of both to please Carson Wentz.

1065
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:13,920
Speaker 1: Then it turns out actually they're still going to get

1066
00:55:13,960 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 1: rid of them anyway. Adam Schefter is reporter that he

1067
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:18,840
Speaker 1: basically believes that Carson Wentz is probably gonna get traded.

1068
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 1: There's a big date in mark mid March. I think

1069
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:22,719
Speaker 1: it's more nineteen. For Carson Wentz has a bonus paid,

1070
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:25,960
Speaker 1: you know, like thirteen fifteen million dollars or something. He'll

1071
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 1: probably be dealt before them. So it's really they're kind

1072
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: of cleaning up this organization. It's it's really fascinating who

1073
00:55:34,239 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 1: knows what's up there because the reality is that Wentz,

1074
00:55:36,800 --> 00:55:39,120
Speaker 1: you know what, There's there's this aspect of, well, you know,

1075
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 1: he was really good in twenty seventeen. Right at some

1076
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: point it kind of sounds like the high schooler who's like,

1077
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:44,920
Speaker 1: you know, I could have gone pro but for like

1078
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:46,759
Speaker 1: my knee, you know what I mean? Man, it's you

1079
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:48,799
Speaker 1: can't just keep dining out and this will he had

1080
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:51,440
Speaker 1: a really good three months four years ago. At some

1081
00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 1: point there needs to be some modern results. And then

1082
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:57,120
Speaker 1: you start dredging up all these old stories about the

1083
00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 1: anonymous teammates who are kind of saying it wasn't the

1084
00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:01,359
Speaker 1: best teammate a few years ago, and you add all

1085
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 1: this up, and I think it's really strange that Carson

1086
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 1: Wentz is the biggest investment the Philadelphia Eagles have ever

1087
00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:08,760
Speaker 1: made to give him the biggest contract in team history,

1088
00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 1: not counting all the picks they traded up just to

1089
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:15,239
Speaker 1: get the second pick to use on him. It's it's

1090
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:18,000
Speaker 1: just an organizational failure at every level. It's actually, Zach

1091
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 1: Berman wrote it The Athletic It's really sad, quite honestly. Honestly,

1092
00:56:21,719 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 1: no one really comes out of this looking good. Not

1093
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 1: Howie Roseman, not owner Jeff Leian, and not Carson Wentz either,

1094
00:56:27,239 --> 00:56:28,560
Speaker 1: which for a team that won the Super Bow few

1095
00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:30,879
Speaker 1: years ago, is pretty astonishing. One of the things that

1096
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 1: I've been fascinated to think about. And certainly these clubs

1097
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:37,400
Speaker 1: have been averse to getting hit with dead cap money.

1098
00:56:37,800 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 1: But and I'm gonna put this to you, is this

1099
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 1: true or not, Danny, that if the Eagles take a

1100
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 1: thirty three million dollar dead cap hit because they trade

1101
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:57,959
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, that money, that cap money is still there

1102
00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:01,239
Speaker 1: to be spent, but they are are not allowed to

1103
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:04,520
Speaker 1: spend it on this team. So that money, that thirty

1104
00:57:04,520 --> 00:57:07,680
Speaker 1: three million in essence, just stays in the pocket of

1105
00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:12,880
Speaker 1: Jeff lury correct, So it's complicated. It's accounting, and accounting

1106
00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 1: is kind of like mailing nailing smoked to a wall.

1107
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:16,840
Speaker 1: I'm not an accountant, and I'm not going to pretend

1108
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 1: to understand gap accounting here, but I think the simplest

1109
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 1: way to explain dead money is it's money the team's

1110
00:57:22,040 --> 00:57:25,600
Speaker 1: already spent, but basically allocated very incorrectly. So if you've

1111
00:57:25,600 --> 00:57:27,160
Speaker 1: ever seen the Dark Knight, there's the seam or the

1112
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:29,800
Speaker 1: Joker likes all the money on fire. The Eagles are

1113
00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:32,439
Speaker 1: basically doing that to get Carson Wentz to play somewhere else.

1114
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:34,600
Speaker 1: So there's a lot we don't know about the situation,

1115
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 1: right What happened with Carson Wentz? Is it a physical issue?

1116
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:39,160
Speaker 1: Is it with the offense? Is it a mental thing?

1117
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:42,440
Speaker 1: Is he you know? Is he just confidence issues? Or

1118
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:46,520
Speaker 1: remember he had like thirteen different offensive line combinations in

1119
00:57:46,560 --> 00:57:48,920
Speaker 1: the first fourteen weeks of the season or something. All

1120
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 1: those receivers were hurt. Should we give him ben with

1121
00:57:50,680 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 1: a doubt? I don't know, But it's always important to

1122
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:56,040
Speaker 1: remember that the team always knows more than we do.

1123
00:57:56,200 --> 00:57:58,360
Speaker 1: One hundred percent of the time, the team knows more

1124
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:00,840
Speaker 1: than we do, and so I don't think it's something

1125
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:02,960
Speaker 1: to say, hey, wow, what are the Eagles doing to

1126
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:05,320
Speaker 1: take this thirty three million dead capit to get rid

1127
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 1: of him. It should more be wow, the Eagles are

1128
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:12,440
Speaker 1: willing to eat more than thirty million dollars so Carson

1129
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:14,680
Speaker 1: Wentz can leave. They want to get rid of him

1130
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:18,520
Speaker 1: that bad. That to me is an indictment of their

1131
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 1: belief that he can lead the football team. And if

1132
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:24,880
Speaker 1: they were to make that decision, I think the very

1133
00:58:24,880 --> 00:58:27,439
Speaker 1: fact they're willing to do that should give whatever team

1134
00:58:27,480 --> 00:58:29,600
Speaker 1: is trading for him great pause. And I think that

1135
00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:31,640
Speaker 1: that's a real reason that he's been connected to the

1136
00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 1: Colts because their head coach Frank Reich was Wentz his

1137
00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:38,560
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator in twenty seventeen. I think it's kind of

1138
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:40,920
Speaker 1: just practicality, right. So much of the NFL, you know,

1139
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 1: it seems like it's this big world, right, this big business.

1140
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:45,440
Speaker 1: It's like any other business. It's like deals get done

1141
00:58:45,480 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 1: with people who know each other because it's about trust.

1142
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 1: I don't know if any other team is actually gonna

1143
00:58:50,720 --> 00:58:52,640
Speaker 1: be able to look at like their own, you know,

1144
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:54,919
Speaker 1: executives in the eye and be like, this team's paying

1145
00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 1: thirty million dollars to get rid of this dude. We're

1146
00:58:56,640 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 1: going to take the risk. The only team that really

1147
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 1: makes sense to roll the dice in this is the

1148
00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 1: Colts because Rich knows we who else is going to

1149
00:59:03,400 --> 00:59:05,919
Speaker 1: give up two first round picks to take this guy

1150
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:07,560
Speaker 1: that they're paying millions of dollars to get rid of?

1151
00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:12,280
Speaker 1: That's right, Yeah, it's an interesting situation there. There's another

1152
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:15,960
Speaker 1: interesting situation in the AFC East, and that's with the

1153
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 1: Jets Sam Darnold. There's a big question mark going into

1154
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:22,160
Speaker 1: this next season. And in your article you mentioned a

1155
00:59:22,200 --> 00:59:24,800
Speaker 1: couple good points. I mean, the Jets have the number

1156
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:26,840
Speaker 1: two pick in the draft, or are they going to

1157
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:30,280
Speaker 1: use that on a quarterback? But then you hire Robert Sala,

1158
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 1: who's a defensive minded coach. Do you spend that pick

1159
00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:36,040
Speaker 1: on something else? How do you see it working out

1160
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:39,480
Speaker 1: for Sam Darnold and his questionable future with the Jets.

1161
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:42,400
Speaker 1: That's a great question. And obviously there's so much in

1162
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: the AFCAST right now that's up for grabs because you've

1163
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 1: got I mean, really, I mean, the Bills are the

1164
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: only team that really seems set at the position, right

1165
00:59:48,520 --> 00:59:50,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, first of what a turnaround you

1166
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:51,920
Speaker 1: know what I mean, after all these years. I mean,

1167
00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:54,680
Speaker 1: Josh Allen looks so great, and then the Dolphins are

1168
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:56,880
Speaker 1: they going to stick with two of the Patriots. Who

1169
00:59:56,920 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 1: knows what's going on there? But the Jets. I think

1170
00:59:59,360 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 1: it is interesting because they've this situation has changed I

1171
01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:04,840
Speaker 1: think three times in the last two or three months.

1172
01:00:04,880 --> 01:00:06,320
Speaker 1: Because the first it was like, they're gonna get the

1173
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:08,600
Speaker 1: first pick and it'll be Trevor Lawrence. They dropped down

1174
01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 1: a number two and it's like, all right, well, they'll

1175
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:12,480
Speaker 1: still think the number two pick, they'll have to trade Donald.

1176
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:16,400
Speaker 1: And where was the Kreme de la Krem destination for Donald?

1177
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:19,280
Speaker 1: Every smart person you talked to all said san Francisco,

1178
01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:22,560
Speaker 1: San Francisco. Get him to San Francisco because Kyle Shanhan

1179
01:00:22,680 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 1: scheme is perfect for Sam Donald. And then what did

1180
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:28,120
Speaker 1: the Jets do? They hired the San Francisco guys to

1181
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:30,160
Speaker 1: run the Jets. Instead of sending Donald to the forty

1182
01:00:30,240 --> 01:00:33,000
Speaker 1: nine ers, they brought the forty nine ers to Sam Donald.

1183
01:00:33,160 --> 01:00:35,560
Speaker 1: And so I think that it's worth considering. It's not

1184
01:00:35,640 --> 01:00:37,480
Speaker 1: a lock. I don't know if he's going to stay,

1185
01:00:37,560 --> 01:00:39,720
Speaker 1: but it's worth considering that they hired these guys in

1186
01:00:39,760 --> 01:00:42,800
Speaker 1: part because Robert Sala and the offensive coordinate he brought.

1187
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 1: Mike Lafleur have a vision for keeping Donald there and

1188
01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:48,680
Speaker 1: trading that second pick because it's important to remember how

1189
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:51,040
Speaker 1: they got Donald in the first place. I believe the

1190
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:53,120
Speaker 1: Jets had the sixth pick in the twenty eighteen draft,

1191
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:57,280
Speaker 1: traded up three second round picks to move up three spots. Now,

1192
01:00:57,280 --> 01:00:59,760
Speaker 1: in football, it's a game of numbers, and at the

1193
01:00:59,880 --> 01:01:01,960
Speaker 1: end of the day, unless it's a quarterback, you generally

1194
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:04,120
Speaker 1: want the three players instead of the one. Doesn't matter

1195
01:01:04,120 --> 01:01:05,720
Speaker 1: how good the one is. You usually want three or

1196
01:01:05,760 --> 01:01:08,360
Speaker 1: four good chips. And I think there's something to say

1197
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:10,640
Speaker 1: if hey, we like Donald as a player, what if

1198
01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:14,240
Speaker 1: we had this second pick traded down and then had

1199
01:01:14,280 --> 01:01:16,640
Speaker 1: three or four more picks to fill out this roster,

1200
01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:19,200
Speaker 1: Because who wants to take over a team that's kind

1201
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 1: of f The Jets are barren, but they're close, and

1202
01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:24,440
Speaker 1: you know what, they need a lot of chips. You

1203
01:01:24,520 --> 01:01:28,080
Speaker 1: just need you need more pieces on the chessboard to

1204
01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:30,479
Speaker 1: really compete with the team like the Bills these days.

1205
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:34,320
Speaker 1: And so look, obviously the betting favorite here as they

1206
01:01:34,320 --> 01:01:36,120
Speaker 1: stick with the pick they take justin field if they

1207
01:01:36,120 --> 01:01:38,400
Speaker 1: flipped Donald for a second rounder. But I would not

1208
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:41,920
Speaker 1: be surprised if they kept Donald and then traded that

1209
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:45,280
Speaker 1: pick so say the Carolina Panthers and then took some

1210
01:01:45,320 --> 01:01:47,280
Speaker 1: picks from them, because I think that I don't think

1211
01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:50,200
Speaker 1: Robert Salo took over this team hoping to have the

1212
01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:53,160
Speaker 1: same roster that Adam gazead. Right, that makes a lot

1213
01:01:53,160 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 1: of sense as well, because that's number two pick, particularly

1214
01:01:55,480 --> 01:01:57,640
Speaker 1: in a draft like this one, could mean a ton

1215
01:01:57,960 --> 01:02:01,040
Speaker 1: of assets to get better if you feel like you've

1216
01:02:01,040 --> 01:02:03,200
Speaker 1: got the key places, key pieces in place. And it

1217
01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:04,960
Speaker 1: does make sense bringing the forty nine ers to the

1218
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:07,600
Speaker 1: New York Jets to let Darnold run that offense with

1219
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:11,240
Speaker 1: Mike Lafleur. One other quarterback that has been off the

1220
01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:13,880
Speaker 1: radar for a lot of people because his season ended

1221
01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:17,000
Speaker 1: early was Dak Prescott. But if he in a normal season,

1222
01:02:17,240 --> 01:02:20,320
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboy quarterback and what he's going through with

1223
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:23,480
Speaker 1: that franchise and that owner would be front page news.

1224
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 1: But because he didn't finish the season and indeed was

1225
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:28,280
Speaker 1: out kind of early in this season, you already kind

1226
01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:30,840
Speaker 1: of pushed this all to the back burner. What's gonna

1227
01:02:30,880 --> 01:02:34,760
Speaker 1: happen in Dallas. I mean, you want to talk about leverage,

1228
01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:39,720
Speaker 1: it looks like Dak Prescott's got a crowbar. Crowbar is

1229
01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:41,160
Speaker 1: a good way to flint it. Yeah. No, And you're

1230
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:42,760
Speaker 1: also right like this would be a big story in

1231
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:45,360
Speaker 1: other times, but it says something about this offseason that

1232
01:02:45,400 --> 01:02:48,200
Speaker 1: this is like a sixth or seventh biggest storyline just

1233
01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 1: right now. But yeah, Dak's I mean, Dak has done

1234
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 1: the NFL version of you know, he bets on himself

1235
01:02:54,120 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 1: and he just has been supremely confident. He's taken all

1236
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:58,960
Speaker 1: this endorsement money and he's just been He's done what

1237
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:01,880
Speaker 1: nobody else does. Right. The Cowboys when they negotiate with players,

1238
01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:04,560
Speaker 1: a lot of what they do is, look, we have

1239
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:07,400
Speaker 1: It's not it's a lifestyle. You're a cowboy here, you're

1240
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:10,280
Speaker 1: a cowboy for life. Take an eight year deal, may

1241
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:12,520
Speaker 1: put fifty million dollars in the bank, and then when

1242
01:03:12,560 --> 01:03:16,920
Speaker 1: you retire. There's a whole complex of like media facility

1243
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:19,400
Speaker 1: of what former cowboys can go through as business opportunities.

1244
01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:23,000
Speaker 1: There's media opportunities. You will not get a similar thing

1245
01:03:23,160 --> 01:03:25,680
Speaker 1: anywhere else then if you were and that's how they

1246
01:03:25,680 --> 01:03:27,760
Speaker 1: get these people like Tyrone Smith who signed like an

1247
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:30,120
Speaker 1: eight year deal for like ninety eight million dollars like

1248
01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:32,560
Speaker 1: ten years ago, and that was a lot of money

1249
01:03:32,640 --> 01:03:34,080
Speaker 1: to time. And now they have Tyron Smith and a

1250
01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 1: really team friendly contract. So they signed all these players

1251
01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:40,160
Speaker 1: to long deals. Dak Prescott was the first one who said, no,

1252
01:03:40,560 --> 01:03:43,640
Speaker 1: I'm not doing that. I'm not signing your long deal.

1253
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:47,960
Speaker 1: You're gonna pay me fair value. And Jerry Jones kind

1254
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:50,280
Speaker 1: of botched the deal. And it's bizarre because Jerry Jones,

1255
01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 1: on one hands, it's really sharp strewed businessman. On the

1256
01:03:52,560 --> 01:03:55,120
Speaker 1: other hand's very emotional, like he runs this team because

1257
01:03:55,120 --> 01:03:57,080
Speaker 1: he wants to run the team, right. Like his first

1258
01:03:57,080 --> 01:03:59,439
Speaker 1: press conference in like eighty seven or eighty nine, whenever

1259
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:01,400
Speaker 1: he's off the team, he said, I'm here to pick

1260
01:04:01,440 --> 01:04:06,120
Speaker 1: the jocks and he's like, I'm from jocks to socks.

1261
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:09,960
Speaker 1: I make the decisions. You know, he's the fantasy football owner, right.

1262
01:04:10,440 --> 01:04:12,480
Speaker 1: So I think that one of the things is, on

1263
01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 1: one hand, he's a sharp business money. On the other hand,

1264
01:04:14,720 --> 01:04:17,120
Speaker 1: he keeps saying Dak Prescott's going to be the quarterback.

1265
01:04:17,400 --> 01:04:20,040
Speaker 1: So it's not like like he keeps giving Dak leverage

1266
01:04:20,040 --> 01:04:22,080
Speaker 1: if Dak's holding the crowbar. Jered Jones is kind of

1267
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:24,240
Speaker 1: wedging it open for him. Like if you keep saying

1268
01:04:24,280 --> 01:04:26,360
Speaker 1: we're not going to get rid of Dak, they're gonna

1269
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:27,960
Speaker 1: have to pay whatever it takes to get Deck. They

1270
01:04:28,040 --> 01:04:30,800
Speaker 1: like him personally, they do business on a personal level.

1271
01:04:30,960 --> 01:04:33,280
Speaker 1: I would be stunned if Dex when anywhere else. I

1272
01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:35,960
Speaker 1: think it's just a matter of how much money is

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Speaker 1: it gonna be. It's not gonna be Mahome's money, but

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be quite a lot. And he's not really

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01:04:39,640 --> 01:04:43,360
Speaker 1: worried about the injury, it seems. And how about the

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01:04:43,360 --> 01:04:45,760
Speaker 1: wide receiver market. I mean, you look at the wide

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01:04:45,800 --> 01:04:48,520
Speaker 1: receiver market in the free agency and there are some

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01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:51,360
Speaker 1: big names who could go to some different teams than

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01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:54,240
Speaker 1: wait where they were on the last season. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you got Juju Smith Schuster, who's posting random things on

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01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:03,120
Speaker 1: Instagram with fans or playing with fans of Juju. I mean,

1282
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:07,040
Speaker 1: Juju always does that stuff, so it's not necessarily that surprising.

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01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 1: But other players like Alan Robinson, Chris Godwin, Kenny Galladay,

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01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:15,120
Speaker 1: Will Fuller, Antonio Brown, you got aj Green, a ton

1285
01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:18,200
Speaker 1: of names out there who are on the market. It'll

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01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:21,479
Speaker 1: be an interesting offseason for this wide receiver class as well.

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01:05:21,480 --> 01:05:23,880
Speaker 1: What sticks out to you about that group and where

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01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:26,600
Speaker 1: they could go? Yeah, I think the one that watches

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01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:29,360
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson because he's just been so unhappy for so long.

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01:05:29,360 --> 01:05:30,600
Speaker 1: I don't know how else to put it. I mean

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01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:33,320
Speaker 1: he's just I mean from playing with Blake Bortles to

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01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:35,720
Speaker 1: playing Chubiscuit and Nick Foles, I mean you had him.

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01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:37,960
Speaker 1: I think he deleted all his instagrams that had a

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01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:41,640
Speaker 1: Bear's logo by like week two of last season. So

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Speaker 1: I think that he's just so talented and out of

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01:05:44,600 --> 01:05:46,439
Speaker 1: every player in the NFL, I don't know if there's

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01:05:46,440 --> 01:05:49,680
Speaker 1: someone who whose talent has not matched the product production

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01:05:49,720 --> 01:05:51,520
Speaker 1: because of the lack of talent around him. But if

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Speaker 1: I mean, if Alan Robinson's on, say the Bills, I

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01:05:54,680 --> 01:05:56,840
Speaker 1: think you'd be seeing not like almost like a Stefan

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01:05:56,960 --> 01:05:59,400
Speaker 1: Diggs level resurgence from the guy. So I think that

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01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:03,840
Speaker 1: seeing al Robinson go to whether it's the Ravens or

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01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:05,480
Speaker 1: I mean, there are so many teams that need a receiver.

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01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:08,160
Speaker 1: I think that the Bucks guys Chris Godwin, Antonio Brown return,

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01:06:08,280 --> 01:06:11,080
Speaker 1: I think that being able to win Super Bowls to

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01:06:11,080 --> 01:06:13,280
Speaker 1: Tom Brady is bigger than money, and I think that

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01:06:13,280 --> 01:06:16,400
Speaker 1: it's really hard when you're talking an incremental level of

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01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:20,000
Speaker 1: two three million dollars difference per year, when versus you

1309
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:21,720
Speaker 1: can just stay with Tom Brady and he'll throw you

1310
01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:23,560
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl thing on a boat, it's kind of like,

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01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:25,360
Speaker 1: you know, you know, that's what you get in the

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01:06:25,360 --> 01:06:26,959
Speaker 1: game for I don't think the Bucks guys are gonna

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01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:30,000
Speaker 1: leave so but so I think Alan Robinson's the number

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01:06:30,040 --> 01:06:31,919
Speaker 1: one guy that's going to stay, but who knows where

1315
01:06:31,920 --> 01:06:33,680
Speaker 1: he's gonna go. It's really interesting because some of these

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01:06:33,720 --> 01:06:35,880
Speaker 1: teams have a lot of money and some teams have none.

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Speaker 1: We're talking with Danny Hifitz's NFL writer for The Ringer

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01:06:38,880 --> 01:06:41,280
Speaker 1: and also co host of The Ringer Fantasy Football Show,

1319
01:06:41,280 --> 01:06:43,520
Speaker 1: and I gotta ask you this about the draft coming up,

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01:06:44,040 --> 01:06:46,640
Speaker 1: that for the first time in a long time, there

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01:06:46,720 --> 01:06:51,400
Speaker 1: may be this year in the draft vastly different opinions

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01:06:51,520 --> 01:06:55,160
Speaker 1: about individual players. Because there's not going to be a

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01:06:55,280 --> 01:06:58,640
Speaker 1: uniform combine. There's gonna be a lot of individual workouts.

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01:06:58,680 --> 01:06:59,960
Speaker 1: The teams are kind of going to be on their

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01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:02,640
Speaker 1: own to line these guys up. They may get very

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01:07:02,760 --> 01:07:07,840
Speaker 1: different evaluations about the same player. Could that make for

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01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:14,040
Speaker 1: an incredibly chaotic draft day scenario when these teams come in,

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01:07:14,080 --> 01:07:17,200
Speaker 1: they show up without knowing what the other opinions or

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01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 1: what information other teams are using to evaluate their players. No,

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01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:23,360
Speaker 1: I don't think it's chaotic. I think if they got

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01:07:23,360 --> 01:07:25,800
Speaker 1: that virtual draft going last year and that wasn't chaotic,

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01:07:25,840 --> 01:07:27,760
Speaker 1: I think they can handle it. I mean, actually crazily

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01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:31,120
Speaker 1: I thought that virtual draft last year, just from a

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01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:34,160
Speaker 1: consumer media point, I thought it was actually great. There's

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01:07:34,200 --> 01:07:36,480
Speaker 1: something nicer about seeing them all on their couches with

1336
01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:39,040
Speaker 1: their families instead of in suits. But then in terms

1337
01:07:39,080 --> 01:07:42,440
Speaker 1: of the teams actually getting stuff done, I think a

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01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:46,000
Speaker 1: really interesting feet like fallout from last year was they

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01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:48,560
Speaker 1: all seemed to all these teams, these jams, their executive

1340
01:07:48,600 --> 01:07:50,480
Speaker 1: scouts all seemed to look at each other and realize

1341
01:07:50,520 --> 01:07:52,880
Speaker 1: they had a way better work life balance and also

1342
01:07:52,920 --> 01:07:55,200
Speaker 1: were still very confident with how the draft turned out.

1343
01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:57,840
Speaker 1: I mean, this was the most productive year for rookies ever.

1344
01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:01,400
Speaker 1: I believe rookie receivers gained more cards this year than ever.

1345
01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:03,880
Speaker 1: I think that it was historically productive year for rookies

1346
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:06,880
Speaker 1: on a number of levels, and also first year head

1347
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:08,600
Speaker 1: coaches did pretty well. I mean, we just saw Kevin

1348
01:08:08,640 --> 01:08:11,040
Speaker 1: Stefanski when Coach of the Year. I mean, all the

1349
01:08:11,040 --> 01:08:13,200
Speaker 1: people that are supposedly supposed to be hurt by a

1350
01:08:13,240 --> 01:08:16,280
Speaker 1: short golf season, we're fine. And so I think that

1351
01:08:16,280 --> 01:08:18,360
Speaker 1: the reality is you actually might get people being, oh,

1352
01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:20,080
Speaker 1: May than we can spend more time with my family.

1353
01:08:20,080 --> 01:08:21,640
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's kind of it's kind of like a

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01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:24,639
Speaker 1: button on this whole pandemic. Right. Obviously, you know, hasn't

1355
01:08:24,680 --> 01:08:27,400
Speaker 1: been a great year, but I think that there are

1356
01:08:27,640 --> 01:08:30,760
Speaker 1: some ways, you know, challenges or opportunities to make the

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01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:33,080
Speaker 1: best of something. I think that making the best of

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01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:34,960
Speaker 1: something that's been quite frankly, a lot of people in

1359
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:37,760
Speaker 1: the NFL who are workaholics spent more time with their

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01:08:37,760 --> 01:08:40,920
Speaker 1: families and like didn't really sacrifice anything. So I think

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01:08:40,920 --> 01:08:44,800
Speaker 1: it's okay. Not having the combine, specifically the combine is

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01:08:44,800 --> 01:08:46,920
Speaker 1: weird because it seems like something because they put on

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01:08:47,080 --> 01:08:49,000
Speaker 1: FFL network and it seems like a big deal. It's not.

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01:08:49,120 --> 01:08:51,040
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter at all. Like I don't know, you know,

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01:08:51,200 --> 01:08:54,800
Speaker 1: maybe that's kind of sounds strange, but all the analysis

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01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:57,120
Speaker 1: these teams are doing, ninety percent of it is about

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01:08:57,120 --> 01:09:00,280
Speaker 1: watching the tape. That's the resume that you know. This

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01:09:00,320 --> 01:09:03,439
Speaker 1: is all job process, right, it's just employment. The tape

1369
01:09:03,479 --> 01:09:07,240
Speaker 1: is the resume. The combine is basically like calling up

1370
01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:10,080
Speaker 1: the employer and making sure you actually work there. So

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01:09:10,120 --> 01:09:11,880
Speaker 1: when you run the forty yard dash, they know how

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01:09:11,920 --> 01:09:14,600
Speaker 1: fast you are. They saw you run on games for

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01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:17,280
Speaker 1: like three years. The tape is just to make sure

1374
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:19,960
Speaker 1: it's actually true when you know what they're seeing is real,

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01:09:20,439 --> 01:09:23,200
Speaker 1: And it's really more for filtering out the bad players

1376
01:09:23,240 --> 01:09:26,280
Speaker 1: who aren't meeting like the minimum thresholds, like you have

1377
01:09:26,320 --> 01:09:28,080
Speaker 1: to be this tall to ride, to ride, used to

1378
01:09:28,120 --> 01:09:30,240
Speaker 1: be this fast to play in the NFL. They don't

1379
01:09:30,240 --> 01:09:32,200
Speaker 1: actually came here the fastest play run. They're not wearing

1380
01:09:32,200 --> 01:09:34,760
Speaker 1: bad they're not holding a football who runs forty yards

1381
01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:36,760
Speaker 1: in a straight line in the NFL. Anyway, that's not

1382
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:39,160
Speaker 1: what matters. What the reason the combine exists is get

1383
01:09:39,200 --> 01:09:41,280
Speaker 1: the medical records. They're still going to do the medical checks.

1384
01:09:41,280 --> 01:09:43,639
Speaker 1: They're gonna get all that stuff done in regional stuff. Really,

1385
01:09:44,040 --> 01:09:45,880
Speaker 1: the biggest loss of the combine is that all these

1386
01:09:45,920 --> 01:09:47,439
Speaker 1: sports writers who go aren't going to be able to

1387
01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:51,360
Speaker 1: get the shrimp cocktail Saint Elmo's that's the real sacrifice. Yeah,

1388
01:09:51,400 --> 01:09:53,880
Speaker 1: that's exactly what I was gonna say. I was gonna say,

1389
01:09:53,920 --> 01:09:55,719
Speaker 1: I think you need to ask some of the media

1390
01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:58,960
Speaker 1: members how they feel about no combine and Indy this year,

1391
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:01,080
Speaker 1: because I know a bunch of us are going to

1392
01:10:01,160 --> 01:10:03,040
Speaker 1: miss the dinners, a bunch of us are going to

1393
01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:06,200
Speaker 1: miss the social aspect and getting to see people we

1394
01:10:06,280 --> 01:10:08,680
Speaker 1: only get to see once or twice a year. It

1395
01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:10,840
Speaker 1: was my first time going last year and I was

1396
01:10:10,880 --> 01:10:14,280
Speaker 1: already like, Okay, I can't wait till next year's combine.

1397
01:10:14,320 --> 01:10:16,880
Speaker 1: But looks like it's not going to happen this year.

1398
01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:19,200
Speaker 1: We'll see what the future looks like for the NFL

1399
01:10:19,280 --> 01:10:22,360
Speaker 1: Scouting Combine and if it moves outside of Indian If

1400
01:10:22,360 --> 01:10:24,679
Speaker 1: it does, where it's going to be. But another thing

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01:10:24,720 --> 01:10:29,080
Speaker 1: that's looking interesting on the horizon is this seventeen game schedule.

1402
01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:32,400
Speaker 1: I mean, you think about sixteen games and how taxing

1403
01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:35,120
Speaker 1: it is on the players during the regular season. You

1404
01:10:35,200 --> 01:10:38,439
Speaker 1: also think about how amazing it was that we got

1405
01:10:38,479 --> 01:10:42,200
Speaker 1: to see sixteen regular season games this season in the

1406
01:10:42,240 --> 01:10:44,920
Speaker 1: middle of a pandemic. When hey, in the summer, a

1407
01:10:44,920 --> 01:10:47,760
Speaker 1: lot of us were questioning if an NFL season would

1408
01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:50,800
Speaker 1: even happen, and it didn't. It happened on time. But

1409
01:10:50,960 --> 01:10:54,920
Speaker 1: looking forward seventeen games, is this something that the players

1410
01:10:55,040 --> 01:10:57,800
Speaker 1: want and I'm sure it's something that fans would love.

1411
01:10:57,840 --> 01:11:00,599
Speaker 1: I mean, you give fans more NFL ball. I think

1412
01:11:00,640 --> 01:11:03,599
Speaker 1: everybody is happy with that. This past weekend, a lot

1413
01:11:03,640 --> 01:11:06,760
Speaker 1: of us were looking for more NFL games and we

1414
01:11:06,760 --> 01:11:10,639
Speaker 1: couldn't find them anywhere. Yeah, So when Roger Goodell became

1415
01:11:10,640 --> 01:11:12,840
Speaker 1: the commissioner of six, he basically laid out this blue

1416
01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:15,040
Speaker 1: printed to get the NFL to twenty five billion dollars

1417
01:11:15,080 --> 01:11:17,960
Speaker 1: at revenue annually by twenty twenty seven. And this is

1418
01:11:18,000 --> 01:11:20,160
Speaker 1: just one of the one of the biggest tools in

1419
01:11:20,160 --> 01:11:21,960
Speaker 1: that tool belt, right, Like they're trying to get there,

1420
01:11:22,160 --> 01:11:25,040
Speaker 1: and now they're turning one sixteenth into you know, one

1421
01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:28,160
Speaker 1: seventeenth each week and that it's part of that March.

1422
01:11:28,439 --> 01:11:30,880
Speaker 1: Players didn't want to do this player, you know, football's hard.

1423
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:32,920
Speaker 1: They didn't want to do another thing. But now it'll

1424
01:11:32,960 --> 01:11:35,200
Speaker 1: never go away because now it would involve taking away

1425
01:11:35,240 --> 01:11:37,160
Speaker 1: game check. Right. We already see this in the NBA.

1426
01:11:37,240 --> 01:11:40,080
Speaker 1: The players are tired, they hate traveling, they're exhausted. Well,

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01:11:40,080 --> 01:11:41,760
Speaker 1: eighty two games is a lot. Why don't they cut

1428
01:11:41,760 --> 01:11:43,920
Speaker 1: down at seventy two? Well, no, no, no, because then

1429
01:11:43,960 --> 01:11:46,400
Speaker 1: you're taking away game checks. Now that it's on the board,

1430
01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:49,280
Speaker 1: it'll never be taken off. I know it hasn't technically

1431
01:11:49,280 --> 01:11:53,040
Speaker 1: happened yet. It will it's a formality. But like if

1432
01:11:53,040 --> 01:11:54,720
Speaker 1: the players agreed to it, then like I think that

1433
01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:56,720
Speaker 1: everyone's going to enjoy it quite a bit, you know that.

1434
01:11:56,880 --> 01:11:59,400
Speaker 1: Like they added more playoff games to the playoffs this year.

1435
01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 1: Some people say it's diluted. I'd say, you know what,

1436
01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:03,479
Speaker 1: give people a few years. You forget it was ever different, right,

1437
01:12:03,560 --> 01:12:06,080
Speaker 1: you know. I mean I think that people wondered once

1438
01:12:06,160 --> 01:12:08,320
Speaker 1: upon a time going from twelve to fourteen games, fourteen

1439
01:12:08,320 --> 01:12:10,320
Speaker 1: to sixteen, and you worry if it's too much, and

1440
01:12:10,360 --> 01:12:11,720
Speaker 1: then everyone gets used to it and then you can't

1441
01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:13,479
Speaker 1: remember it was any other way. I think people will

1442
01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:15,280
Speaker 1: like it a lot. I think eventually they'll go to

1443
01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:18,920
Speaker 1: eighteen games. I think the most annoying thing it's just

1444
01:12:18,920 --> 01:12:20,679
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to keep track of all these records,

1445
01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:22,800
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be all these fake records because people

1446
01:12:22,840 --> 01:12:25,040
Speaker 1: did it in seventeen games, and the sixteen is gonna

1447
01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:27,120
Speaker 1: be complicated or We're gonna have to do per game.

1448
01:12:27,240 --> 01:12:30,200
Speaker 1: It's just gonna be annoying that, you know what I mean.

1449
01:12:30,280 --> 01:12:32,679
Speaker 1: And it's all who knows, Like Travis Kelsey just set

1450
01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:35,000
Speaker 1: the record for receiving yards Bay tight end, but it

1451
01:12:35,080 --> 01:12:38,000
Speaker 1: did in fifteen games, and then someone else, George Kittle,

1452
01:12:38,040 --> 01:12:40,040
Speaker 1: is going to pass that at seventeen games next year,

1453
01:12:40,160 --> 01:12:41,679
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, who knows it's gonna happen.

1454
01:12:41,760 --> 01:12:44,960
Speaker 1: So I think it's minor inconveniences like that, but I

1455
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:47,840
Speaker 1: think everyone's gonna like more football. Danny, thanks for this,

1456
01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:50,320
Speaker 1: really appreciated. We hope you do. You do well, he

1457
01:12:50,640 --> 01:12:54,200
Speaker 1: hang fast during the rest of the pandemic, be well

1458
01:12:54,240 --> 01:12:57,080
Speaker 1: and thanks for this. Thank you, yeah, thank you having

1459
01:12:57,080 --> 01:13:01,840
Speaker 1: me on. Stay safe. Steve Tasker, Maddie thanks Danny. Danny

1460
01:13:01,920 --> 01:13:04,719
Speaker 1: Hipitz a writer NFL writer for The Ringer. He also

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01:13:04,840 --> 01:13:08,880
Speaker 1: co hosts The Ringer Fantasy Football show as well. Steve

1462
01:13:08,920 --> 01:13:10,760
Speaker 1: Tasker Maddi glab. We're gonna take a Break're gonna come

1463
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:14,120
Speaker 1: back with your Mount Rushmore list of once for the

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01:13:14,160 --> 01:13:17,160
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bill off season come back. You can call us

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01:13:17,160 --> 01:13:20,360
Speaker 1: at eight three, five fifty as well. Steve Tasker Maddi

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01:13:20,360 --> 01:13:22,679
Speaker 1: Glab This is One Bills Live, presented by Kalida Health.

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01:13:22,880 --> 01:13:36,960
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Live.

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01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:39,400
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Maddi Glab We just got off the phone

1469
01:13:39,439 --> 01:13:42,479
Speaker 1: with Danny Hifitz from The Ringer, a really good interview

1470
01:13:42,479 --> 01:13:46,360
Speaker 1: about all the offseason topics that we've been talking about.

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01:13:46,400 --> 01:13:48,679
Speaker 1: Here his take on all of that. We've also asked

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01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:53,559
Speaker 1: you what your mount Rushmore of off season once for

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01:13:53,600 --> 01:13:55,360
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, you can call us at eight o

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01:13:55,439 --> 01:13:57,439
Speaker 1: three five fifty. We're gonna start taking calls about that.

1475
01:13:57,600 --> 01:13:59,120
Speaker 1: I think the top of the hour, we're gonna try

1476
01:13:59,120 --> 01:14:04,280
Speaker 1: and do that. Maddie gave me her Mount Rushmore list

1477
01:14:04,360 --> 01:14:07,840
Speaker 1: of wants, and for the Buffalo Bills, I gave her mind.

1478
01:14:07,479 --> 01:14:10,400
Speaker 1: Hers was she wants a vaccine to allow the stadiums

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01:14:10,400 --> 01:14:13,320
Speaker 1: to be full. She wants a pass rusher, a run game,

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Speaker 1: and a tight end. Very good stuff. Mine Mount Rushmore was.

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01:14:17,920 --> 01:14:22,200
Speaker 1: I wanted an edge rusher, an offensive lineman. I wanted

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01:14:22,200 --> 01:14:25,679
Speaker 1: a number two corner, and then I wanted a full offseason,

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01:14:25,800 --> 01:14:27,760
Speaker 1: something where we didn't have to we could actually see

1484
01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:31,320
Speaker 1: and talk to the players in the same building. That's

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01:14:31,320 --> 01:14:33,360
Speaker 1: what mine were. We're gonna get to yours here on

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01:14:33,400 --> 01:14:36,439
Speaker 1: the tweet sheet. The tweet sheet brought to you by

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01:14:36,520 --> 01:14:40,360
Speaker 1: Corrigan Movers, the official equipment movers of the Buffalo Bills.

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01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:45,120
Speaker 1: The tweet sheet begins with seven, one, six er. He

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01:14:45,160 --> 01:14:47,920
Speaker 1: says this his wish list for Mount Rush, his Mount

1490
01:14:48,000 --> 01:14:51,240
Speaker 1: Rushmore wish list for the Bills offseason is this one

1491
01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:55,519
Speaker 1: A pass rusher, two, a downfield tight end, three an

1492
01:14:55,520 --> 01:15:02,200
Speaker 1: explosive slash pass catching running back, and he wants a girlfriend. Um,

1493
01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:06,360
Speaker 1: there you go. Valentine's Day still weighing heavily on his mind,

1494
01:15:06,360 --> 01:15:08,120
Speaker 1: but he wants a pass rusher, a tight end, and

1495
01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:12,000
Speaker 1: explosive running back. We talked about all of that, Maddie

1496
01:15:12,000 --> 01:15:13,880
Speaker 1: and I and I get all of it. There's so

1497
01:15:13,920 --> 01:15:17,120
Speaker 1: many things. Basically, what Bills fans want is like a

1498
01:15:17,120 --> 01:15:20,160
Speaker 1: perfect football team. Then when anybody ever make any mistakes,

1499
01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:23,080
Speaker 1: nobody ever drop a pass, nobody ever to miss a tackle,

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01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:26,080
Speaker 1: no no defense to ever give up a long play

1501
01:15:26,160 --> 01:15:27,960
Speaker 1: or a big play or even a completion. I mean,

1502
01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:30,000
Speaker 1: that's kind of what we're talking about when you get

1503
01:15:30,040 --> 01:15:34,840
Speaker 1: to the nitty grittyes of it. We want this book,

1504
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:37,800
Speaker 1: this Bill's team, to fix all the problems that it

1505
01:15:37,840 --> 01:15:41,040
Speaker 1: had a year ago, a year when it won fifteen games. Overall,

1506
01:15:42,720 --> 01:15:44,960
Speaker 1: I get it, I get it. There's a lot of

1507
01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:48,240
Speaker 1: things that would make this team perfect, and a lot

1508
01:15:48,280 --> 01:15:50,080
Speaker 1: of us see it the same way. I mean, right,

1509
01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:52,000
Speaker 1: I mean, you and I both had a pass rusher,

1510
01:15:52,160 --> 01:15:55,240
Speaker 1: You and I both had you know, had a offensive

1511
01:15:55,320 --> 01:15:56,960
Speaker 1: lineman in the mix, you know, and then all the

1512
01:15:57,360 --> 01:16:00,160
Speaker 1: scheduling stuff with a pandemic and all that. I'm sure

1513
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:01,920
Speaker 1: a lot of fans just want to be able to

1514
01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:03,719
Speaker 1: come in and sit down to the stadium and watch

1515
01:16:03,760 --> 01:16:07,799
Speaker 1: the game. And in retrospect, I mean, you think about

1516
01:16:07,840 --> 01:16:11,640
Speaker 1: all these things are how little this number is of

1517
01:16:11,800 --> 01:16:14,519
Speaker 1: things that need to get corrected and fixed. Yes, there

1518
01:16:14,560 --> 01:16:19,160
Speaker 1: are definitely some important things on this list this team

1519
01:16:19,320 --> 01:16:23,160
Speaker 1: needs to address if they want to have another run

1520
01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:26,080
Speaker 1: like they did this past season. But can they answer

1521
01:16:26,160 --> 01:16:29,120
Speaker 1: all those questions? Can they get everything fixed? Do they

1522
01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:32,200
Speaker 1: have the money to get everything fixed? I'm not sure.

1523
01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:34,760
Speaker 1: We're not sure what that salary cap is going to

1524
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:37,000
Speaker 1: look like. There's there's some players on this team who

1525
01:16:37,080 --> 01:16:40,160
Speaker 1: need to get resigned, but we also need to draft

1526
01:16:40,240 --> 01:16:42,559
Speaker 1: and get some guys and free agency who can help

1527
01:16:42,640 --> 01:16:45,559
Speaker 1: us fix the list that we're all creating and coming

1528
01:16:45,640 --> 01:16:49,360
Speaker 1: up with and already Jack, he says. Number one, a

1529
01:16:49,479 --> 01:16:55,040
Speaker 1: big pass catching tight end. Smith arts several different tight

1530
01:16:55,120 --> 01:16:58,360
Speaker 1: ends in the NFL, and Joku another one that you

1531
01:16:58,400 --> 01:17:01,679
Speaker 1: can look to as these big pass catching guys who

1532
01:17:01,720 --> 01:17:04,120
Speaker 1: can block and catch and do it all at the

1533
01:17:04,160 --> 01:17:08,160
Speaker 1: same level. You're not relying on somebody like Lee Smith necessarily.

1534
01:17:08,200 --> 01:17:11,760
Speaker 1: Who is your past blocking tight end or your run

1535
01:17:11,840 --> 01:17:15,040
Speaker 1: blocking tight end. You want somebody who can do both.

1536
01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:19,760
Speaker 1: Number two, for Jack has resigned Feliciano. Number three more

1537
01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:23,519
Speaker 1: speed at running back, like a ten from Clemson or

1538
01:17:23,560 --> 01:17:28,840
Speaker 1: some other Rockets. Number four the Teddy Roosevelt to resign Milano.

1539
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:32,280
Speaker 1: I think he's a great landbacker, but doesn't need to

1540
01:17:32,280 --> 01:17:34,960
Speaker 1: break the bank to do it. We will survive if

1541
01:17:35,000 --> 01:17:38,360
Speaker 1: they don't resign him. Yeah, what do you think about Milano?

1542
01:17:38,439 --> 01:17:40,559
Speaker 1: Certainly he's a fan favorite. He's been and I think

1543
01:17:40,600 --> 01:17:41,880
Speaker 1: one of the reasons he got off to a really

1544
01:17:41,920 --> 01:17:44,080
Speaker 1: good start. We saw him early in his career and

1545
01:17:44,200 --> 01:17:46,480
Speaker 1: he was out there making plays. He was making interceptions.

1546
01:17:46,560 --> 01:17:49,439
Speaker 1: Remember that twenty eighteen year where he had, you know,

1547
01:17:49,520 --> 01:17:51,280
Speaker 1: the great year he came out and he's had some

1548
01:17:51,320 --> 01:17:54,640
Speaker 1: injury issues, no question, but I think one of the

1549
01:17:54,680 --> 01:17:57,200
Speaker 1: reasons he's so endearing to a lot of Bills fans.

1550
01:17:57,640 --> 01:18:02,280
Speaker 1: And we've seen this with other players. He was a

1551
01:18:02,320 --> 01:18:05,240
Speaker 1: fifth round draft pick. You know, he wasn't supposed to

1552
01:18:05,280 --> 01:18:08,400
Speaker 1: be any good, right, and then he turns into not

1553
01:18:08,439 --> 01:18:13,519
Speaker 1: only a starting linebacker, but this guy that is you know,

1554
01:18:13,560 --> 01:18:16,880
Speaker 1: every time the play's over, he's sitting there with his

1555
01:18:17,080 --> 01:18:19,800
Speaker 1: you know, with the guy you know he's on the ball, right.

1556
01:18:19,840 --> 01:18:23,519
Speaker 1: So he just shows up everywhere. And I think that's

1557
01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:25,840
Speaker 1: one of the reasons Bills fans love him Son good

1558
01:18:25,880 --> 01:18:29,200
Speaker 1: for good reason. The guy's everywhere. He has made the

1559
01:18:29,240 --> 01:18:32,439
Speaker 1: most of a fifth round draft slot. Fifth round pick.

1560
01:18:32,680 --> 01:18:35,439
Speaker 1: He can rush the passer, he can stop the run,

1561
01:18:36,560 --> 01:18:41,559
Speaker 1: He's been great in coverage for the Bills, and there's

1562
01:18:41,560 --> 01:18:45,080
Speaker 1: just nothing he doesn't seem to do well. And we've

1563
01:18:45,120 --> 01:18:47,400
Speaker 1: seen him make important plays in every game doing all

1564
01:18:47,400 --> 01:18:50,160
Speaker 1: of those things. So I think his versatility is one

1565
01:18:50,200 --> 01:18:52,800
Speaker 1: of the things. But that makes him, you know, productive.

1566
01:18:53,560 --> 01:18:55,960
Speaker 1: But I think the affection that fans have for him

1567
01:18:56,040 --> 01:18:59,679
Speaker 1: start with his humble beginnings of a fifth round kid

1568
01:18:59,680 --> 01:19:06,080
Speaker 1: out of Boston College. Yeah, I think resigning Milano is important.

1569
01:19:06,400 --> 01:19:08,960
Speaker 1: I would love to see him on this team next year.

1570
01:19:09,080 --> 01:19:11,120
Speaker 1: I think he's a part of that core group of

1571
01:19:11,160 --> 01:19:13,840
Speaker 1: guys that you want to see move forward in the

1572
01:19:13,920 --> 01:19:17,000
Speaker 1: years to come and take this team to multiple AFC

1573
01:19:17,240 --> 01:19:21,000
Speaker 1: Championship appearances. I would love to say multiple Super Bowls

1574
01:19:21,080 --> 01:19:23,559
Speaker 1: as well, because I think this team is capable of

1575
01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:26,320
Speaker 1: doing that if you keep the core intact and if

1576
01:19:26,400 --> 01:19:28,960
Speaker 1: you add to fix the problems that they had from

1577
01:19:29,080 --> 01:19:32,439
Speaker 1: last season. I also look at players like Ployer and

1578
01:19:32,640 --> 01:19:35,439
Speaker 1: Hide that those two are a tandem. They are talked

1579
01:19:35,479 --> 01:19:38,960
Speaker 1: about together in the same sentence. Rarely do you hear

1580
01:19:39,200 --> 01:19:42,559
Speaker 1: people talk about just Jordan Ployer, just Micah Hide, because

1581
01:19:42,640 --> 01:19:46,120
Speaker 1: the two go together like bread and butter. I want

1582
01:19:46,120 --> 01:19:48,760
Speaker 1: to see that for Tremaine Edmonds and Matt Milano, and

1583
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:51,320
Speaker 1: for that to happen, Matt Milano has to be on

1584
01:19:51,360 --> 01:19:54,800
Speaker 1: the team next season. These are two young players. I mean,

1585
01:19:54,840 --> 01:19:58,479
Speaker 1: Tremaine is still, with how many years he's been in

1586
01:19:58,560 --> 01:20:01,240
Speaker 1: the league, one of the youngest at his position when

1587
01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:04,320
Speaker 1: he came into the NFL. I think these two could

1588
01:20:04,360 --> 01:20:07,519
Speaker 1: be a really perfect pair for the time being and

1589
01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:11,000
Speaker 1: for the time coming up in the future down the road.

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01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:15,240
Speaker 1: I mean, these two together didn't have the best season

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01:20:15,360 --> 01:20:18,679
Speaker 1: this past year. Because Matt Milano was hurt and Tremaine

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01:20:18,760 --> 01:20:21,759
Speaker 1: Edmonds was hurt. I think it's a worst case scenario

1593
01:20:21,920 --> 01:20:23,920
Speaker 1: in that way, when we saw both of them go

1594
01:20:23,960 --> 01:20:27,320
Speaker 1: out for a game and Tremade Edmunds miss some time,

1595
01:20:27,360 --> 01:20:30,280
Speaker 1: Matt Milano missed some time for different injuries, that shoulder

1596
01:20:30,280 --> 01:20:32,920
Speaker 1: and that hamstring. I think you get them back for

1597
01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:36,320
Speaker 1: next season. They have a full year together. I really

1598
01:20:36,320 --> 01:20:38,799
Speaker 1: like what they're able to do off the field together.

1599
01:20:39,040 --> 01:20:41,559
Speaker 1: I'm talking about film study. I think they do a

1600
01:20:41,560 --> 01:20:44,439
Speaker 1: lot of that together, and I think they each make

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01:20:44,479 --> 01:20:47,360
Speaker 1: each other better. So I think it's important to resign

1602
01:20:47,400 --> 01:20:50,200
Speaker 1: Matt Milano. I think what he gives you at a

1603
01:20:50,280 --> 01:20:54,680
Speaker 1: linebacker position, for his body makeup and structure is a

1604
01:20:54,720 --> 01:20:57,120
Speaker 1: lot different than you would think, and a lot more.

1605
01:20:57,200 --> 01:20:59,000
Speaker 1: He gives you a lot more than you would think.

1606
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:03,799
Speaker 1: His ability to drop into coverage, ability to cover different

1607
01:21:03,800 --> 01:21:06,639
Speaker 1: types of bodies, tight ends, running backs, and I think

1608
01:21:06,840 --> 01:21:09,519
Speaker 1: he has that because he played safety in high school.

1609
01:21:09,560 --> 01:21:11,760
Speaker 1: You don't get out of these linebackers who are as

1610
01:21:11,800 --> 01:21:15,519
Speaker 1: good as they are in the NFL household names if

1611
01:21:15,520 --> 01:21:17,559
Speaker 1: you want to say, I don't think Matt Muano is there,

1612
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:20,680
Speaker 1: but he is a very talented linebacker and has a

1613
01:21:20,680 --> 01:21:24,280
Speaker 1: lot of different facets about his makeup that make him

1614
01:21:24,320 --> 01:21:27,680
Speaker 1: so important and so good to this defense. Again, you

1615
01:21:27,760 --> 01:21:32,439
Speaker 1: look at the linebacker position for this team for Leslie Fraser,

1616
01:21:32,560 --> 01:21:35,960
Speaker 1: and these two are so important together because they play

1617
01:21:36,120 --> 01:21:39,000
Speaker 1: nickel so much. If you're only going to put two

1618
01:21:39,040 --> 01:21:42,160
Speaker 1: linebackers on the field, you need those two linebackers to

1619
01:21:42,240 --> 01:21:45,599
Speaker 1: be really great linebackers. We saw the drop off when

1620
01:21:45,640 --> 01:21:48,599
Speaker 1: aj Klein came in and played some of those games. Yes,

1621
01:21:48,680 --> 01:21:52,760
Speaker 1: AJ Klein did have some really great games, but you

1622
01:21:52,840 --> 01:21:56,240
Speaker 1: want somebody in there like Matt Mulano, like Tremaine Edmonds,

1623
01:21:56,240 --> 01:22:01,479
Speaker 1: those two linebackers who can drop into coverage, who can

1624
01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:03,639
Speaker 1: be a great part of the run game and block

1625
01:22:03,920 --> 01:22:06,559
Speaker 1: those holes for running backs so they can't go anywhere.

1626
01:22:06,600 --> 01:22:08,640
Speaker 1: So I would love to see him a part of

1627
01:22:08,640 --> 01:22:14,000
Speaker 1: this team. I also think it's important to follow through

1628
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:18,000
Speaker 1: with what Brandon Bean says, draft developed, resign. They drafted him,

1629
01:22:18,200 --> 01:22:20,960
Speaker 1: he's been developed, it's time to resign him. You have

1630
01:22:21,040 --> 01:22:24,240
Speaker 1: to do what you're saying. You can't just give it

1631
01:22:24,320 --> 01:22:26,679
Speaker 1: lip service and say, oh, we want to draft develop

1632
01:22:26,680 --> 01:22:29,240
Speaker 1: and resign and I buy Matt Milano. I think it's

1633
01:22:29,280 --> 01:22:32,679
Speaker 1: important for the locker room to keep him on this team. Yeah,

1634
01:22:32,680 --> 01:22:34,559
Speaker 1: it's also too that and I think they get some

1635
01:22:34,640 --> 01:22:37,439
Speaker 1: mileage out of this as well. Brandon Bean said this

1636
01:22:37,720 --> 01:22:39,960
Speaker 1: about Matt Milano as well. He's earned the right to

1637
01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:43,200
Speaker 1: find out what he's worth. When you give a guy

1638
01:22:43,200 --> 01:22:45,240
Speaker 1: a chance to do that, it's very motivating for the

1639
01:22:45,240 --> 01:22:47,320
Speaker 1: guys in the locker room for if they know if

1640
01:22:47,320 --> 01:22:49,000
Speaker 1: they play well, they're going to get a chance to

1641
01:22:49,040 --> 01:22:51,720
Speaker 1: get what they deserve and the Bills will like they

1642
01:22:51,760 --> 01:22:55,960
Speaker 1: did with Shack Lawson and Jordan Phillips, they gave him

1643
01:22:55,960 --> 01:22:57,320
Speaker 1: a chance to see what they were worth it. But

1644
01:22:57,400 --> 01:22:59,880
Speaker 1: that means a decision on the players part. They have

1645
01:23:00,040 --> 01:23:03,200
Speaker 1: to decide to go away. And conversely, you look at

1646
01:23:03,240 --> 01:23:05,920
Speaker 1: Quentin Spain. He said no, I want to stay in Buffalo,

1647
01:23:05,960 --> 01:23:09,320
Speaker 1: and then he didn't play well and he was gone. Anyway,

1648
01:23:10,400 --> 01:23:14,240
Speaker 1: I think the team's ability to let to entice players

1649
01:23:14,240 --> 01:23:16,840
Speaker 1: with their ability to get rewarded, but also hold them

1650
01:23:16,840 --> 01:23:19,920
Speaker 1: accountable at every step of their career, even after they've

1651
01:23:19,960 --> 01:23:22,800
Speaker 1: signed a really nice dealing like Quentin Spain did and

1652
01:23:22,840 --> 01:23:24,800
Speaker 1: say listen, you still got to play well for us.

1653
01:23:25,439 --> 01:23:28,800
Speaker 1: That continues to play very well in the locker room.

1654
01:23:28,880 --> 01:23:33,760
Speaker 1: These players know that they don't mind the expectations, but

1655
01:23:33,800 --> 01:23:36,240
Speaker 1: they expect the rewards when they get it. And I

1656
01:23:36,280 --> 01:23:39,160
Speaker 1: think that this club has done a good job on

1657
01:23:39,200 --> 01:23:42,040
Speaker 1: both sides of that coin. What is your mount rushmore

1658
01:23:42,120 --> 01:23:44,720
Speaker 1: offseason one for the Buffalo Bills, last one from Ray

1659
01:23:44,880 --> 01:23:47,280
Speaker 1: or last one for this segment from Ray, he says

1660
01:23:47,400 --> 01:23:51,160
Speaker 1: number one is clear cap space. Number two has improved

1661
01:23:51,160 --> 01:23:56,120
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Number three is extend Josh Allen's contract,

1662
01:23:56,520 --> 01:24:02,720
Speaker 1: and number four is signed Dalvin Tomlinson. Dalvin Tomlinson, And

1663
01:24:02,760 --> 01:24:07,760
Speaker 1: I knew this at one point. Dalvin Tomlinson is what

1664
01:24:08,040 --> 01:24:12,719
Speaker 1: is he is? He A He's a Giants defensive tackle,

1665
01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:16,559
Speaker 1: That's who it was. He's a defeef DT for the Giants. Yeah,

1666
01:24:16,600 --> 01:24:19,680
Speaker 1: and I'm yeah. That would bolster both the offensive line.

1667
01:24:19,720 --> 01:24:22,200
Speaker 1: If all four of those happened, that would bolster both

1668
01:24:22,240 --> 01:24:25,479
Speaker 1: the offensive line and the defensive line for the Buffalo Bills.

1669
01:24:25,479 --> 01:24:27,000
Speaker 1: And I can see it. And they're gonna have to

1670
01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:30,320
Speaker 1: clear the cap space there I think somewhere around anywhere

1671
01:24:30,360 --> 01:24:33,920
Speaker 1: from four to nine million dollars over the cap. Whatever

1672
01:24:33,960 --> 01:24:35,640
Speaker 1: it may be here, we come find out in the

1673
01:24:35,720 --> 01:24:39,200
Speaker 1: coming weeks. But they're gonna have to clear some cap

1674
01:24:39,240 --> 01:24:43,000
Speaker 1: space no matter what, and improving the offensive line, whether

1675
01:24:43,040 --> 01:24:45,160
Speaker 1: they improve it or not, Maddie, they're certainly going to

1676
01:24:45,200 --> 01:24:48,680
Speaker 1: have to have some new faces up front and to

1677
01:24:48,720 --> 01:24:51,559
Speaker 1: get Allan extended. I'm not I don't know that that's

1678
01:24:51,640 --> 01:24:54,920
Speaker 1: this offseason, but certainly within the next twelve months they're

1679
01:24:54,920 --> 01:24:59,479
Speaker 1: gonna have to have that done. Before before the first

1680
01:24:59,520 --> 01:25:02,839
Speaker 1: couple of weeks post Super Bowl of twenty twenty two,

1681
01:25:02,880 --> 01:25:05,960
Speaker 1: which is about twelve months from now, that has to

1682
01:25:05,960 --> 01:25:08,440
Speaker 1: be done. I think for Josh Allen to get extended,

1683
01:25:09,040 --> 01:25:11,120
Speaker 1: he's got two years left. After that, he'll have one

1684
01:25:11,200 --> 01:25:15,440
Speaker 1: year left if they wait that full time. So yeah,

1685
01:25:14,960 --> 01:25:18,160
Speaker 1: I'm all about the Josh Allen extension. That's probably the

1686
01:25:18,240 --> 01:25:20,760
Speaker 1: least urgent thing on my list because of this cap

1687
01:25:20,840 --> 01:25:25,439
Speaker 1: structure right now. But improving the offensive line and the

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Speaker 1: defensive line, man, I'm all about those two things. And

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01:25:29,720 --> 01:25:33,640
Speaker 1: I think also a defensive tackle, whether it's Delvin Tomlinson

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01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:36,800
Speaker 1: or not, I would like to see something a little

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01:25:36,840 --> 01:25:39,439
Speaker 1: bit more than we had this season in the middle

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01:25:39,520 --> 01:25:42,880
Speaker 1: there in the trenches. I think that would be a

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01:25:43,040 --> 01:25:47,040
Speaker 1: great addition for stopping the run. This defensive line has

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01:25:47,080 --> 01:25:49,800
Speaker 1: struggled with that at times. Yes, they were able to

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01:25:49,800 --> 01:25:51,960
Speaker 1: get better at it by the end of the season.

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01:25:52,200 --> 01:25:55,000
Speaker 1: I think that goes along with the group getting more

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01:25:55,040 --> 01:25:58,240
Speaker 1: comfortable with each other. But you have some young faces

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01:25:58,360 --> 01:26:01,360
Speaker 1: in the interior there at all. Ver Vernon Butler is

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01:26:01,400 --> 01:26:04,439
Speaker 1: still a young player in the NFL, so I would

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01:26:04,439 --> 01:26:06,479
Speaker 1: like to see them get a little bit more on

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01:26:06,520 --> 01:26:10,320
Speaker 1: the inside as well as on the outside. This defensive

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01:26:10,320 --> 01:26:14,160
Speaker 1: line looks so different this past season. I'm I'm intrigued

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01:26:14,240 --> 01:26:16,639
Speaker 1: at what it will look like this coming season two

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01:26:16,720 --> 01:26:19,080
Speaker 1: because we could have just as many new faces on

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01:26:19,120 --> 01:26:21,320
Speaker 1: the defensive line next year. And that's a little bit

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01:26:21,360 --> 01:26:24,719
Speaker 1: crazy to say. Well, we've got phone lines open after

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01:26:24,720 --> 01:26:26,840
Speaker 1: the top of the hour, Well we'll come back and

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01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:28,920
Speaker 1: answer all the phone calls you want. You can call

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01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:30,760
Speaker 1: us at eight O three five fifty to get in

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01:26:30,840 --> 01:26:35,479
Speaker 1: on this conversation about your offseason. Mount Rushmore of wants

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Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills tea tasker Maddie Glab on One

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Speaker 1: Bills Live presented by Klyda Health. This is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to One Bill's Lives teap task Along with

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01:26:56,120 --> 01:26:59,679
Speaker 1: Maddie Glab we're getting your offseason. Mount Rushmore of wants

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01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:01,680
Speaker 1: for the Buffalo Bills. You can call us at eight

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01:27:01,680 --> 01:27:04,160
Speaker 1: oh three, five fifty or tweet at us at at

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01:27:04,160 --> 01:27:06,000
Speaker 1: one Bills. Lie. We have somebody on the phone right now.

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01:27:06,040 --> 01:27:08,240
Speaker 1: I'd like to call in about Matt Milano. This is

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01:27:08,920 --> 01:27:12,400
Speaker 1: Andy from Collins. Andy. You're on with Maddie Glab Steve

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01:27:12,439 --> 01:27:15,759
Speaker 1: Tasker on one Bills Live. What's on your mind? Hi, guys,

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01:27:15,920 --> 01:27:19,400
Speaker 1: great show, enjoy listening. Thanks. Well. My thought is this,

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01:27:19,520 --> 01:27:22,519
Speaker 1: They're probably gonna lose Matt Mulano and free agency and

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01:27:23,080 --> 01:27:26,000
Speaker 1: more power to him. But the larger thing in my

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01:27:26,120 --> 01:27:29,599
Speaker 1: mind is Tremaine Edmonds. He's not a good fit as

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01:27:29,600 --> 01:27:32,920
Speaker 1: a middle linebacker. He always looks gangly and out of

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01:27:32,920 --> 01:27:35,640
Speaker 1: his element trying to stop the run on the inside.

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01:27:35,720 --> 01:27:37,960
Speaker 1: I think he'd be he should be be they will

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01:27:38,040 --> 01:27:41,840
Speaker 1: or outside linebacker and getting real run stuffing middle linebacker.

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01:27:42,040 --> 01:27:44,160
Speaker 1: You might come off the field a bit more often

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01:27:44,840 --> 01:27:48,559
Speaker 1: and Edmonds would still be the last linebacker on the

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01:27:48,600 --> 01:27:51,799
Speaker 1: field in coverage situations, but he'd be far more effective

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01:27:51,800 --> 01:27:54,320
Speaker 1: as a pass rusher on the quarterbacks blind side than

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01:27:54,560 --> 01:27:58,120
Speaker 1: in the inside as well. And I think that now

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01:27:58,160 --> 01:28:02,160
Speaker 1: with Mulano probably leaving, its perfect time put Edmonds where

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01:28:02,160 --> 01:28:04,280
Speaker 1: he belongs, which would be in that will spove and

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01:28:05,120 --> 01:28:07,640
Speaker 1: the last linebacker in coverage situation. I hear you. We

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01:28:07,680 --> 01:28:09,920
Speaker 1: get a lot of calls about that Edmonds does not

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01:28:10,040 --> 01:28:13,000
Speaker 1: fit the physical prototype of a middle linebacker. He's like

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01:28:13,080 --> 01:28:15,320
Speaker 1: more like a power for the guy's nine feet tall,

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01:28:15,960 --> 01:28:19,160
Speaker 1: and he's built real thin and lean, and you know,

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01:28:19,200 --> 01:28:22,479
Speaker 1: he doesn't have that power impact kind of thick bodied,

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01:28:22,640 --> 01:28:27,880
Speaker 1: run stuffing kind of linebacker body. And you know, and

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01:28:27,920 --> 01:28:30,880
Speaker 1: I and people tend to notice Tremaine I think more

1744
01:28:30,920 --> 01:28:34,040
Speaker 1: so when he, you know, makes a mistake or misses

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01:28:34,080 --> 01:28:36,240
Speaker 1: a tackle, more so than when he does anything else.

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01:28:36,280 --> 01:28:40,439
Speaker 1: I will say this though, Tremaine Edmonds is a is

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01:28:40,479 --> 01:28:43,000
Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl linebacker this year because of the vote

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01:28:43,000 --> 01:28:46,880
Speaker 1: of his opponents and his opponent opponent coaching staffs. That's

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01:28:46,880 --> 01:28:50,880
Speaker 1: all Tremaine Edmunds. So I get a lot of people

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01:28:50,880 --> 01:28:52,840
Speaker 1: are down on Tremaine for whatever reason. He was playing

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01:28:52,880 --> 01:28:54,760
Speaker 1: hurt this year and all that. But this is a

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01:28:54,800 --> 01:28:57,599
Speaker 1: guy that his opponents and his peers and his coaches

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01:28:57,640 --> 01:29:01,160
Speaker 1: who coach against him put in the Pro Bowl. I

1754
01:29:01,240 --> 01:29:04,120
Speaker 1: have a hard time moving positions with him for that.

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01:29:04,960 --> 01:29:07,840
Speaker 1: UM I get. I get the sentiment it was a.

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01:29:08,240 --> 01:29:10,559
Speaker 1: He did that on a defense that was really took

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01:29:10,600 --> 01:29:12,400
Speaker 1: a step backwards this year from where it was a

1758
01:29:12,479 --> 01:29:15,880
Speaker 1: year ago statistically, but by the same token, he was

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01:29:15,920 --> 01:29:19,360
Speaker 1: a guy that most people in the league picked out

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01:29:19,360 --> 01:29:22,720
Speaker 1: as having a really good year. Um, are you still there? Andy?

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01:29:22,760 --> 01:29:30,200
Speaker 1: What do you think? Yeah? Maybe not? Okay? And let's

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01:29:30,360 --> 01:29:32,360
Speaker 1: you know, Maddie, what do you think? I mean, I

1763
01:29:32,720 --> 01:29:36,559
Speaker 1: know Tremaine takes a lot of heat for that kind

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01:29:36,560 --> 01:29:39,639
Speaker 1: of thing. What are your thoughts on Tremaine? I He's

1765
01:29:39,680 --> 01:29:41,840
Speaker 1: a great player, he's a great leader, He's has all

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01:29:41,840 --> 01:29:45,840
Speaker 1: those intangibles that that Sean McDermott and Brandon been talk

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01:29:45,880 --> 01:29:48,360
Speaker 1: a lot about. They like all of that stuff. The

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01:29:48,439 --> 01:29:50,679
Speaker 1: players in the in the locker room love the guy

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01:29:50,680 --> 01:29:53,679
Speaker 1: and play hard around him. Um, what are your thoughts

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01:29:53,680 --> 01:29:55,720
Speaker 1: on Tremaine Edmonds? And in fact that he kind of

1771
01:29:55,720 --> 01:30:01,320
Speaker 1: doesn't fit that quintessential middle linebacker type body. I think

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01:30:01,680 --> 01:30:05,400
Speaker 1: our defensive staff loves that he doesn't fit that quintessential

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01:30:05,680 --> 01:30:09,240
Speaker 1: middle linebacker body. That's what this defense is made up of,

1774
01:30:09,320 --> 01:30:12,320
Speaker 1: and that's what we've seen work in the NFL. There's

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01:30:12,320 --> 01:30:16,840
Speaker 1: this big wave of now talking about positionless players, guys

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01:30:16,880 --> 01:30:20,639
Speaker 1: that don't necessarily fit that position because of their body,

1777
01:30:20,760 --> 01:30:23,320
Speaker 1: or guys who can play out of their position because

1778
01:30:23,360 --> 01:30:26,880
Speaker 1: they're so talented. I would think if Tremaine worked better

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01:30:26,960 --> 01:30:29,840
Speaker 1: in a will linebacker spot or in a different spot

1780
01:30:29,880 --> 01:30:33,240
Speaker 1: on the field, this defensive staff would already have him there.

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01:30:33,800 --> 01:30:36,640
Speaker 1: They know what's best for Tremaine. They've seen Tremaine in

1782
01:30:36,760 --> 01:30:40,800
Speaker 1: every single practice, in every single meeting. I trust the

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01:30:40,880 --> 01:30:44,080
Speaker 1: defensive staff on this one that if he was going

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01:30:44,160 --> 01:30:46,040
Speaker 1: to be better in a different position, he would have

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01:30:46,080 --> 01:30:48,360
Speaker 1: already been there. The fact that he has now been

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01:30:48,560 --> 01:30:51,400
Speaker 1: middle linebacker for a few seasons on this team, I

1787
01:30:51,680 --> 01:30:54,920
Speaker 1: think that means he's going to stay there. And yeah,

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01:30:54,960 --> 01:30:58,160
Speaker 1: he did miss out on some plays last year. There

1789
01:30:58,200 --> 01:31:02,280
Speaker 1: were some leaky run play that were his responsibility, but

1790
01:31:02,360 --> 01:31:06,280
Speaker 1: I'm putting that on his shoulder injury. You think about

1791
01:31:06,320 --> 01:31:09,240
Speaker 1: football players and how tough they are, and how quiet

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01:31:09,280 --> 01:31:11,479
Speaker 1: a lot of them are about their injuries, and just

1793
01:31:11,520 --> 01:31:14,320
Speaker 1: how taxing those injuries are on them during the season.

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01:31:14,640 --> 01:31:18,640
Speaker 1: I mean, we heard Cole Beasley tell us what he

1795
01:31:18,760 --> 01:31:21,519
Speaker 1: played with for the end of the season, and that

1796
01:31:21,640 --> 01:31:23,960
Speaker 1: was amazing that he was able to get through the

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01:31:24,000 --> 01:31:27,040
Speaker 1: season with the injury that he had. I can't imagine

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01:31:27,040 --> 01:31:30,040
Speaker 1: what Tremaine was going through and how painful and taxing

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01:31:30,080 --> 01:31:34,559
Speaker 1: that was on his body. And I'm saying the shoulder

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01:31:34,600 --> 01:31:37,400
Speaker 1: injury was the reason why Tremaine maybe didn't have the

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01:31:37,439 --> 01:31:40,160
Speaker 1: season that we were all expecting out of him, and

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01:31:40,320 --> 01:31:43,160
Speaker 1: why some of those run plays got past him because

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01:31:43,200 --> 01:31:45,640
Speaker 1: he took bad angles or because he didn't wrap up

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01:31:45,680 --> 01:31:48,880
Speaker 1: in the right way. I think big things are coming

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01:31:48,920 --> 01:31:52,519
Speaker 1: for Tremaine Edmunds. Like you added, Steve, I mean, this

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01:31:52,600 --> 01:31:55,599
Speaker 1: is a Pro Bowl linebacker that was voted on by

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01:31:55,720 --> 01:31:58,920
Speaker 1: his peers for a reason. I love the leadership that

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01:31:58,960 --> 01:32:01,680
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmunds took this season. I think it was a

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01:32:01,800 --> 01:32:04,920
Speaker 1: very important step for him to take this season with

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01:32:05,040 --> 01:32:08,240
Speaker 1: Lorenzo Alexander no longer on the team. I think Tremaine

1811
01:32:08,320 --> 01:32:11,400
Speaker 1: Edmunds finally found his voice this season in a lot

1812
01:32:11,439 --> 01:32:13,920
Speaker 1: of different ways. And we could tell that during the

1813
01:32:14,000 --> 01:32:17,120
Speaker 1: Zooma interviews when he spoke with media, it was night

1814
01:32:17,200 --> 01:32:20,320
Speaker 1: and day from the way that he answered questions from

1815
01:32:20,360 --> 01:32:22,240
Speaker 1: his first couple of years in the league to this

1816
01:32:22,280 --> 01:32:25,679
Speaker 1: past season. So I'm a big fan of Tremaine Edmonds.

1817
01:32:25,760 --> 01:32:27,360
Speaker 1: I think he's in the right spot and I think

1818
01:32:27,400 --> 01:32:30,679
Speaker 1: the defensive staff has him in the right spot. This

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01:32:30,720 --> 01:32:35,600
Speaker 1: guy is an incredible athlete who could probably play in

1820
01:32:35,680 --> 01:32:38,880
Speaker 1: the NBA as well. I hope he is on the

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01:32:38,920 --> 01:32:41,640
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills for a while. Yeah, and I get it too.

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01:32:42,080 --> 01:32:45,120
Speaker 1: This is I think you're right, man. I think you

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01:32:45,200 --> 01:32:48,439
Speaker 1: make a good point. I think they liked the kind

1824
01:32:48,439 --> 01:32:50,400
Speaker 1: of guy he is they traded up to get him.

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01:32:50,880 --> 01:32:54,759
Speaker 1: I mean that his athleticism and the way the league

1826
01:32:54,840 --> 01:32:56,920
Speaker 1: is built and put together. Now, if the guy's not

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01:32:57,000 --> 01:32:59,679
Speaker 1: as good a run stoppers as he is at other things,

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01:33:00,479 --> 01:33:02,280
Speaker 1: they're willing to live with that. In a league that

1829
01:33:02,400 --> 01:33:05,240
Speaker 1: is a throwing league, they'll take their chances. And I

1830
01:33:05,240 --> 01:33:07,680
Speaker 1: think one of the reasons they struggled earlier this year

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01:33:07,800 --> 01:33:10,760
Speaker 1: wasn't as much Tremaine Edmonds as it was the fact

1832
01:33:10,800 --> 01:33:13,519
Speaker 1: they had over half their guys were new to the

1833
01:33:13,600 --> 01:33:17,559
Speaker 1: roster and new to playing together than they were the

1834
01:33:17,640 --> 01:33:21,000
Speaker 1: year before. He had Vernon Butler, Quinton Jefferson, Mario Addison

1835
01:33:21,080 --> 01:33:27,200
Speaker 1: and aj Epanessa. And then also don't forget Harrison Phillips

1836
01:33:27,280 --> 01:33:29,840
Speaker 1: didn't play at all in twenty nineteen except he was

1837
01:33:29,840 --> 01:33:32,559
Speaker 1: out in Week three. He was done, so he didn't

1838
01:33:32,600 --> 01:33:34,400
Speaker 1: play all of that year either. So he was back

1839
01:33:34,400 --> 01:33:36,360
Speaker 1: in the lineup and back in the rotation, and he

1840
01:33:36,439 --> 01:33:39,000
Speaker 1: was new to that as well. And Tremaine Edmonds is

1841
01:33:39,040 --> 01:33:41,599
Speaker 1: trying to make, you know, trying to make chicken salad

1842
01:33:42,240 --> 01:33:44,839
Speaker 1: out there with all of the guys that are new faces,

1843
01:33:45,880 --> 01:33:49,479
Speaker 1: and he I don't. I really believe you're right. I

1844
01:33:49,520 --> 01:33:51,880
Speaker 1: think you alluded to it. I really believe the philosophy

1845
01:33:51,920 --> 01:33:54,160
Speaker 1: this coaching staff is we'll do what we can with

1846
01:33:54,200 --> 01:33:55,880
Speaker 1: the run game, but we got to stop the pass.

1847
01:33:56,760 --> 01:34:01,519
Speaker 1: And that starts with their commitment to bringing in first

1848
01:34:01,520 --> 01:34:04,360
Speaker 1: thing they did was bring in Hide and Poorer four

1849
01:34:04,439 --> 01:34:07,280
Speaker 1: years ago when they had their first big time free

1850
01:34:07,280 --> 01:34:11,439
Speaker 1: agent signings were two safeties that have been foundational pieces

1851
01:34:11,720 --> 01:34:15,160
Speaker 1: of the puzzle. Their first draft, Tredavious White a foundational

1852
01:34:15,200 --> 01:34:18,800
Speaker 1: piece of their defense. They have spent a lot of

1853
01:34:18,840 --> 01:34:21,439
Speaker 1: assets and a lot of effort trying to find somebody

1854
01:34:21,479 --> 01:34:23,760
Speaker 1: to go opposite Tredavious White, and they haven't been able

1855
01:34:23,800 --> 01:34:27,280
Speaker 1: to find anybody better than Levi Wallace. They keep trying

1856
01:34:27,439 --> 01:34:30,400
Speaker 1: because I think they feel that's important. They started from

1857
01:34:30,400 --> 01:34:33,920
Speaker 1: the back to the front in this defense, and Tremaine

1858
01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:35,840
Speaker 1: Edmunds is one of the first pieces they grabbed and

1859
01:34:35,880 --> 01:34:38,960
Speaker 1: it wasn't because he was a run stuffer. It was

1860
01:34:39,000 --> 01:34:41,280
Speaker 1: because of his athleticism and his ability to get from

1861
01:34:41,280 --> 01:34:44,599
Speaker 1: sideline to sideline before anybody else could get there. So

1862
01:34:44,680 --> 01:34:47,520
Speaker 1: I think he's exactly the kind of guy they want particularly,

1863
01:34:47,520 --> 01:34:49,360
Speaker 1: and that doesn't say anything about the stuff we mentioned

1864
01:34:49,360 --> 01:34:53,200
Speaker 1: earlier about his personality and his culture fit. So I

1865
01:34:53,240 --> 01:34:55,439
Speaker 1: think you and I are kind of the same page.

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01:34:55,439 --> 01:34:58,679
Speaker 1: I think Tremaine Edmonds is not going anywhere now. Whether

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01:34:58,720 --> 01:35:01,160
Speaker 1: they'll probably extend them, I think they. I'd be shocked

1868
01:35:01,200 --> 01:35:05,600
Speaker 1: if they didn't. But I think that is that's absolutely

1869
01:35:05,680 --> 01:35:09,000
Speaker 1: almost If it's not done now, it is a done

1870
01:35:09,000 --> 01:35:11,280
Speaker 1: deal in the very near future. Steve Tasker, Maddie Glab

1871
01:35:11,320 --> 01:35:12,680
Speaker 1: We're gonna take a break. We'll be back at the

1872
01:35:12,680 --> 01:35:14,160
Speaker 1: top of the hour to take your phone calls at

1873
01:35:14,160 --> 01:35:16,519
Speaker 1: eight to three oh five fifty or one eight eight

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Speaker 1: five fifty two five fifty. This is one Bill's Live

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01:35:18,800 --> 01:35:38,479
Speaker 1: presented by cly To Health. And this is Buffalo bo At,

1876
01:35:38,520 --> 01:35:42,040
Speaker 1: a Steve Tasker who has been all over the fields.

1877
01:35:42,120 --> 01:35:43,680
Speaker 1: Kind of unique. He was kind of a dual role

1878
01:35:43,800 --> 01:35:50,120
Speaker 1: player for you, Steve, Steve a blimp. We're not even

1879
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Speaker 1: in the strategyre of normalcy. Welcome back to One of

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01:35:55,200 --> 01:35:58,920
Speaker 1: Bill's Live. Steve Tasker, Maddie Glab here with you for

1881
01:35:58,960 --> 01:36:01,160
Speaker 1: the next hour. Last our number three of the show.

1882
01:36:01,280 --> 01:36:05,160
Speaker 1: We've been talking about your off season Rount Rushmore of

1883
01:36:05,320 --> 01:36:07,320
Speaker 1: once for the Buffalo Bills, and we've been on the

1884
01:36:07,320 --> 01:36:11,240
Speaker 1: phones today as well. Let's take another phone call from

1885
01:36:11,360 --> 01:36:15,200
Speaker 1: Matt in Watertown. Matt, you're on One Bill's Live with

1886
01:36:15,200 --> 01:36:18,800
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker. Mattie Glab. What's on your mind? Hey, what's

1887
01:36:18,840 --> 01:36:22,400
Speaker 1: up man? How are you doing? Doing great? Um? I

1888
01:36:22,520 --> 01:36:25,639
Speaker 1: got a question, Um, I might see a big Buffalo

1889
01:36:25,640 --> 01:36:30,200
Speaker 1: Bill's fan if season tickets and everything? Yeah, go ahead.

1890
01:36:31,160 --> 01:36:33,519
Speaker 1: I was wondering all the fans are gonna be allowed

1891
01:36:33,520 --> 01:36:36,080
Speaker 1: to be at the games in the fall. We don't

1892
01:36:36,080 --> 01:36:39,559
Speaker 1: know yet. If it was today, it wouldn't happened, but

1893
01:36:40,280 --> 01:36:44,360
Speaker 1: you know, if it depends on what the state of

1894
01:36:44,360 --> 01:36:46,720
Speaker 1: affairs is with a vaccination and herd immunity and all

1895
01:36:46,760 --> 01:36:52,519
Speaker 1: of that. Matt, thanks for the call. And he's right, Mattie,

1896
01:36:52,520 --> 01:36:55,120
Speaker 1: that was on your list. That was your Mount Rushmore

1897
01:36:55,200 --> 01:36:59,559
Speaker 1: list wish list number one. Get get everybody vaccinated now,

1898
01:36:59,600 --> 01:37:05,240
Speaker 1: certainly wait a minute out right, certainly in seven months,

1899
01:37:06,080 --> 01:37:08,360
Speaker 1: which will be well, I don't know. Seven is February now,

1900
01:37:08,400 --> 01:37:13,320
Speaker 1: so whenever, Yeah, maybe seven months we will have we'll

1901
01:37:13,320 --> 01:37:17,120
Speaker 1: have like sixty thousand people vaccinated in Erie County or

1902
01:37:17,160 --> 01:37:19,479
Speaker 1: what Bills fans that can come in even because they've

1903
01:37:19,479 --> 01:37:22,000
Speaker 1: been vaccinated. Right, certainly they'll be able to have fans

1904
01:37:22,000 --> 01:37:26,599
Speaker 1: in the stands, right. And I talked about with Kim

1905
01:37:26,640 --> 01:37:29,240
Speaker 1: on our Last Bills Pod Squad episode and a part

1906
01:37:29,280 --> 01:37:31,559
Speaker 1: of our fan mailbag segment. A lot of people are

1907
01:37:31,600 --> 01:37:34,599
Speaker 1: asking the same question, are there going to be fans

1908
01:37:34,600 --> 01:37:36,960
Speaker 1: in the stands or is there going to be normal

1909
01:37:37,040 --> 01:37:39,320
Speaker 1: capacity or are we going to start off the season

1910
01:37:39,520 --> 01:37:42,200
Speaker 1: with a smaller number of fans in the stands. And

1911
01:37:42,240 --> 01:37:45,519
Speaker 1: I think one thing that we can't expect, and one

1912
01:37:45,560 --> 01:37:50,040
Speaker 1: thing that Kim Pagoula said that will probably happen, is that, well,

1913
01:37:50,040 --> 01:37:52,639
Speaker 1: at least start with sixty seven hundred. Okay, we made

1914
01:37:52,680 --> 01:37:55,760
Speaker 1: it to sixty seven hundred that worked for the two

1915
01:37:55,800 --> 01:37:58,799
Speaker 1: home playoff games. I think we can expect at least

1916
01:37:58,840 --> 01:38:02,559
Speaker 1: that going forward, and knowing that hopefully over the next

1917
01:38:02,600 --> 01:38:06,040
Speaker 1: seven months, so many people get vaccinated and we do

1918
01:38:06,160 --> 01:38:09,479
Speaker 1: reach that herd immunity point to where we can have

1919
01:38:09,560 --> 01:38:12,800
Speaker 1: more than sixty seven hundred people at our games. And

1920
01:38:13,960 --> 01:38:19,400
Speaker 1: let's also remember that Governor Cuomo just announced a new

1921
01:38:19,840 --> 01:38:23,720
Speaker 1: initiative where you can have people inside I think it

1922
01:38:23,800 --> 01:38:26,880
Speaker 1: was up to ten thousand at arenas and events like

1923
01:38:26,960 --> 01:38:31,400
Speaker 1: that if you do get tested beforehand. So kind of

1924
01:38:31,439 --> 01:38:35,400
Speaker 1: look to what Governor Cuomo is announcing and what people

1925
01:38:35,400 --> 01:38:38,320
Speaker 1: are able to do, whether it's indoors or outdoors. I

1926
01:38:38,360 --> 01:38:41,800
Speaker 1: think that's also a good thing to follow when it

1927
01:38:41,800 --> 01:38:44,960
Speaker 1: relates to how many people we can have in the stands.

1928
01:38:46,439 --> 01:38:49,679
Speaker 1: The Pugulas worked with Governor Cuomo on the sixty seven

1929
01:38:49,760 --> 01:38:52,200
Speaker 1: hundred fans, and I would assume they're going to work

1930
01:38:52,240 --> 01:38:55,240
Speaker 1: with him on everything else going forward. As it relates

1931
01:38:55,280 --> 01:39:00,679
Speaker 1: to the games for next season, weeks won through week seventeen,

1932
01:39:00,760 --> 01:39:02,439
Speaker 1: how many people are going to be in the stands,

1933
01:39:02,479 --> 01:39:05,280
Speaker 1: and hopefully at some point we can have everybody in

1934
01:39:05,320 --> 01:39:07,519
Speaker 1: the stands next season, No kidding. Yeah, if you want

1935
01:39:07,520 --> 01:39:09,519
Speaker 1: to get on this conversation and calls an eighth three

1936
01:39:09,880 --> 01:39:13,920
Speaker 1: five fifty, We've got a guy Anthony from work, who's

1937
01:39:13,920 --> 01:39:16,400
Speaker 1: gonna call us. Anthony. You're on with Steve and Maddie

1938
01:39:16,400 --> 01:39:19,920
Speaker 1: on One Bill's Live. What's on your mind? Man? Hey, Steve. Hey, Maddie,

1939
01:39:20,400 --> 01:39:22,560
Speaker 1: long time listener, first time caller. Before I get to

1940
01:39:22,600 --> 01:39:24,160
Speaker 1: my question, there's once say, Steve, you's over to be

1941
01:39:24,240 --> 01:39:26,479
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame. Thanks. Emily always says that

1942
01:39:26,520 --> 01:39:28,160
Speaker 1: you're the definition of what it means to have the

1943
01:39:28,200 --> 01:39:31,400
Speaker 1: heart of a lion. But my question is more towards

1944
01:39:31,439 --> 01:39:34,000
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the football. Yeah, I know you're

1945
01:39:34,040 --> 01:39:37,000
Speaker 1: really high on Dawson Knox and you believe he's really

1946
01:39:37,040 --> 01:39:39,240
Speaker 1: young yet and the Bill should give him a chance.

1947
01:39:39,280 --> 01:39:43,400
Speaker 1: But we're drafting thirtieth overall, and what would you think

1948
01:39:43,439 --> 01:39:46,400
Speaker 1: about maybe a package deal with that thirtieth overall pick

1949
01:39:46,479 --> 01:39:52,080
Speaker 1: and Dawson Knox to say the Oakland Raiders for Darren Waller. Interesting.

1950
01:39:52,120 --> 01:39:54,040
Speaker 1: I don't know that the Raiders would make that pick.

1951
01:39:55,080 --> 01:39:57,040
Speaker 1: I don't know that they would they would do it.

1952
01:39:57,160 --> 01:39:58,960
Speaker 1: The reason why I bring it up go ahead. Saw

1953
01:39:59,000 --> 01:40:03,000
Speaker 1: something on es been saying that the Oakland Raiders weren't

1954
01:40:03,040 --> 01:40:05,439
Speaker 1: really too sure how comfortable they were with Derek Carr

1955
01:40:05,439 --> 01:40:07,840
Speaker 1: as their future. And when he is like that are

1956
01:40:07,880 --> 01:40:11,080
Speaker 1: usually made. Usually some pieces are shipped off. And just

1957
01:40:11,120 --> 01:40:13,240
Speaker 1: wonder what your thoughts would be on a move like

1958
01:40:13,280 --> 01:40:16,000
Speaker 1: that to try to compete with Kansas City, because to

1959
01:40:16,080 --> 01:40:19,040
Speaker 1: get to the dance, the team you got to get through. Yeah,

1960
01:40:19,160 --> 01:40:21,720
Speaker 1: I agree with you. You're right, and it does and

1961
01:40:21,760 --> 01:40:24,320
Speaker 1: it does make some sense. And Anthony, thanks for the

1962
01:40:24,360 --> 01:40:28,880
Speaker 1: call that trading up is not out of the question.

1963
01:40:28,920 --> 01:40:31,640
Speaker 1: In fact, I kind of This gets us to one

1964
01:40:31,680 --> 01:40:33,599
Speaker 1: of the topics who wanted to talk about today, Mattie,

1965
01:40:33,600 --> 01:40:37,040
Speaker 1: the mock draft. It's mock draft season and a lot

1966
01:40:37,120 --> 01:40:39,679
Speaker 1: of people have watched Brandon Bean over the last couple

1967
01:40:39,720 --> 01:40:42,000
Speaker 1: of years, two or three years if his time as

1968
01:40:42,040 --> 01:40:45,240
Speaker 1: general manager the Bills. The guide does a lot in

1969
01:40:45,280 --> 01:40:47,479
Speaker 1: the first couple of rounds of the drafts. He trades ups.

1970
01:40:47,520 --> 01:40:50,920
Speaker 1: He trades that. He never trades down. He always trades up,

1971
01:40:52,920 --> 01:40:55,840
Speaker 1: which leads me to believe with the thirtieth overall pick

1972
01:40:57,240 --> 01:41:00,839
Speaker 1: and seven draft picks overall, I believe seven picks overall,

1973
01:41:02,640 --> 01:41:05,680
Speaker 1: we may see that happen, and Anthony brings up a

1974
01:41:05,720 --> 01:41:09,400
Speaker 1: good point. He may package a player or two or

1975
01:41:09,439 --> 01:41:12,280
Speaker 1: whatever with one of those picks, like the thirtieth pick,

1976
01:41:12,320 --> 01:41:14,760
Speaker 1: to ship somewhere for a player in the draft that

1977
01:41:14,800 --> 01:41:17,600
Speaker 1: he desires that's higher on the pecking order. What do

1978
01:41:17,640 --> 01:41:20,679
Speaker 1: you think do you think? What does your gut telling

1979
01:41:20,720 --> 01:41:23,880
Speaker 1: you what percentage chance is there that Brandon Bean picks

1980
01:41:23,920 --> 01:41:27,920
Speaker 1: at thirtieth or trades that pick up or down. Oh gosh,

1981
01:41:28,280 --> 01:41:31,479
Speaker 1: percentage chance. I'm not sure if I could put a

1982
01:41:31,520 --> 01:41:34,559
Speaker 1: percentage on it right now. Maybe going forward I could,

1983
01:41:34,640 --> 01:41:37,200
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's out of the question. And

1984
01:41:37,280 --> 01:41:40,559
Speaker 1: this is something that I thought about already multiple times

1985
01:41:40,640 --> 01:41:43,720
Speaker 1: when we found out our pick was number thirty. I mean,

1986
01:41:44,720 --> 01:41:47,519
Speaker 1: you think about what this team needs, and it doesn't

1987
01:41:47,520 --> 01:41:51,320
Speaker 1: need a lot. So I know Brandon being loves his

1988
01:41:51,439 --> 01:41:54,960
Speaker 1: draft picks as well, he doesn't like to give them away.

1989
01:41:55,479 --> 01:41:58,280
Speaker 1: But with how little this team needs, maybe out of

1990
01:41:58,320 --> 01:42:01,800
Speaker 1: the draft, I think we could see him trade up.

1991
01:42:01,880 --> 01:42:06,160
Speaker 1: If there is that star player who meets all their

1992
01:42:06,240 --> 01:42:09,160
Speaker 1: requirements that they need, that they believe can be a

1993
01:42:09,240 --> 01:42:12,240
Speaker 1: part of this team and an important part of this

1994
01:42:12,320 --> 01:42:15,240
Speaker 1: team for the future, I could see them trading up

1995
01:42:15,800 --> 01:42:17,960
Speaker 1: for a player like that. I don't think it's out

1996
01:42:17,960 --> 01:42:20,880
Speaker 1: of the question at all. I was wondering if it

1997
01:42:20,920 --> 01:42:23,360
Speaker 1: was going to happen in this last year's draft, but

1998
01:42:23,400 --> 01:42:27,040
Speaker 1: then we traded away our first round pick for Stefan Diggs,

1999
01:42:27,040 --> 01:42:30,200
Speaker 1: and I'm so happy that that happened because he has

2000
01:42:30,240 --> 01:42:34,160
Speaker 1: been the biggest part of our team last season. So yeah,

2001
01:42:34,360 --> 01:42:38,200
Speaker 1: number thirty, the seven draft picks. Who knows what can

2002
01:42:38,240 --> 01:42:40,960
Speaker 1: happen in the next couple months. Yeah, I would think too.

2003
01:42:41,160 --> 01:42:42,800
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be riveting because I do

2004
01:42:42,880 --> 01:42:47,880
Speaker 1: think that they'll do something. And you're right when you

2005
01:42:47,880 --> 01:42:50,639
Speaker 1: say this team didn't need much. It didn't need much.

2006
01:42:50,680 --> 01:42:54,120
Speaker 1: But now Feliciano's not there, Darryl Williams is not there,

2007
01:42:54,439 --> 01:43:01,360
Speaker 1: Brian Winters is not there. Yeah, but Butker's not there.

2008
01:43:02,720 --> 01:43:07,759
Speaker 1: Just Trent Murphy's not there, all these guys, Taiwan Jones,

2009
01:43:08,040 --> 01:43:11,439
Speaker 1: you know, Dean Marlow, Isaiah McKenzie's not there, Milano's not there,

2010
01:43:11,800 --> 01:43:16,200
Speaker 1: Josh Norman's not there, Tina Seki's not there. It's a

2011
01:43:16,240 --> 01:43:19,360
Speaker 1: ton of guys that are not on this roster right now.

2012
01:43:19,400 --> 01:43:21,960
Speaker 1: Andre Roberts, who I thought had, who's a Pro Bowl

2013
01:43:22,000 --> 01:43:26,439
Speaker 1: return guy, is his contract is gonna be up. There's

2014
01:43:26,479 --> 01:43:31,360
Speaker 1: a ton of names on that list that you know,

2015
01:43:31,680 --> 01:43:34,840
Speaker 1: now become holes in the roster unless they sign back

2016
01:43:34,920 --> 01:43:38,160
Speaker 1: with the Buffalo Bills. Certainly, the Bills are gonna find

2017
01:43:38,200 --> 01:43:39,840
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, no matter what the cap is,

2018
01:43:39,840 --> 01:43:42,160
Speaker 1: the Bills are gonna find a way to field fifty

2019
01:43:42,160 --> 01:43:44,720
Speaker 1: three guys on the roster. That's not the issue, but

2020
01:43:44,840 --> 01:43:47,320
Speaker 1: how good are those guys gonna be and how much

2021
01:43:47,360 --> 01:43:50,400
Speaker 1: trust is the coaching staff and their teammate's gonna have

2022
01:43:50,479 --> 01:43:53,040
Speaker 1: in guys who are new off the street or wherever

2023
01:43:53,080 --> 01:43:56,800
Speaker 1: they come from. So while the team last year making

2024
01:43:56,840 --> 01:43:58,920
Speaker 1: it to the AFC Championship Game didn't need a lot

2025
01:43:58,920 --> 01:44:02,799
Speaker 1: of stuff to put him over the top, the changing

2026
01:44:02,800 --> 01:44:05,400
Speaker 1: of the calendar makes makes a lot of holes in

2027
01:44:05,400 --> 01:44:07,439
Speaker 1: your roster, and they've they've got to find a way

2028
01:44:07,439 --> 01:44:10,200
Speaker 1: to get some of these guys back on the roster

2029
01:44:10,439 --> 01:44:15,000
Speaker 1: and fill the holes that are left by the other departures. Yeah,

2030
01:44:15,040 --> 01:44:17,120
Speaker 1: I definitely would like to see some of those names

2031
01:44:17,200 --> 01:44:19,280
Speaker 1: on this list that we're looking at be a part

2032
01:44:19,280 --> 01:44:21,960
Speaker 1: of the team next season. And that picture is going

2033
01:44:22,000 --> 01:44:23,960
Speaker 1: to start to take shape in the next couple of

2034
01:44:24,000 --> 01:44:26,280
Speaker 1: weeks as we hit free agency. We're going to be

2035
01:44:26,320 --> 01:44:29,240
Speaker 1: able to see what holes remain before the draft, and

2036
01:44:29,720 --> 01:44:32,759
Speaker 1: if that number is bigger than we thought, maybe We'rerandon

2037
01:44:32,800 --> 01:44:35,320
Speaker 1: being does hold onto those draft picks, But if they

2038
01:44:35,320 --> 01:44:37,439
Speaker 1: can fill a lot of those holes in free agency

2039
01:44:37,880 --> 01:44:40,400
Speaker 1: and then they can use the draft for the things

2040
01:44:40,400 --> 01:44:42,800
Speaker 1: that they really need, which is what Brandon Bean likes

2041
01:44:42,840 --> 01:44:45,280
Speaker 1: to do and what he's talked about before. You use

2042
01:44:45,400 --> 01:44:49,559
Speaker 1: free agency to fill those holes like that, and then

2043
01:44:49,600 --> 01:44:52,360
Speaker 1: you have the draft to get your wants. You have

2044
01:44:52,400 --> 01:44:56,479
Speaker 1: the draft to reach for those players that are high

2045
01:44:56,560 --> 01:44:58,680
Speaker 1: on your board if they come down to you or

2046
01:44:58,680 --> 01:45:01,400
Speaker 1: if they're still available. When when it's your time to pick?

2047
01:45:01,800 --> 01:45:03,920
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, Maddie Glab on One Bills Live. Let's go

2048
01:45:03,920 --> 01:45:05,880
Speaker 1: back to the phones. We've got a call from Rick

2049
01:45:06,000 --> 01:45:08,120
Speaker 1: from Rome, New York. Rick, you want to talk about

2050
01:45:08,160 --> 01:45:10,240
Speaker 1: the running game. Thanks for coming on as One Bills Live.

2051
01:45:10,280 --> 01:45:11,960
Speaker 1: You're on with Maddie and Steve. What's on your mind?

2052
01:45:12,920 --> 01:45:15,760
Speaker 1: Say Steve, how are you guys doing a great I

2053
01:45:15,880 --> 01:45:18,040
Speaker 1: noticed that the run has been obsolete this year. I mean,

2054
01:45:18,439 --> 01:45:20,640
Speaker 1: it seems like it's tupper to run lately, and I

2055
01:45:20,640 --> 01:45:23,080
Speaker 1: know it's a passing the league over the past three years.

2056
01:45:23,920 --> 01:45:25,920
Speaker 1: I like Wade. I mean, I don't know why I

2057
01:45:25,960 --> 01:45:28,000
Speaker 1: see you still in the practice squad, but that kind

2058
01:45:28,000 --> 01:45:30,599
Speaker 1: of was a beast I seen them running preseason. I'd

2059
01:45:30,600 --> 01:45:32,160
Speaker 1: like to see him get more snaps. What do you

2060
01:45:32,200 --> 01:45:36,640
Speaker 1: think of Antonio Williams. Two weeks seventeen, Williams is crazy

2061
01:45:36,680 --> 01:45:39,639
Speaker 1: and I like mass too. He's a monster too. Right,

2062
01:45:39,680 --> 01:45:42,080
Speaker 1: So you think you think the running game answers are

2063
01:45:42,120 --> 01:45:46,479
Speaker 1: on the roster, at least the running back situation, they're there. Yeah,

2064
01:45:46,760 --> 01:45:50,080
Speaker 1: they just kind of get the pieces together, and yeah,

2065
01:45:50,160 --> 01:45:53,639
Speaker 1: I yeah, it would be really great, great hits the run. Yeah,

2066
01:45:53,720 --> 01:45:55,360
Speaker 1: you know what, Rick, thanks for the call, and I

2067
01:45:55,360 --> 01:45:57,760
Speaker 1: agree with you. I think the guys they have enough

2068
01:45:57,760 --> 01:46:02,680
Speaker 1: guys there Christian Wade, Antonio Williams, Zach Moss, Devin Singletary.

2069
01:46:03,840 --> 01:46:05,600
Speaker 1: I think they got enough guys in the backfield to

2070
01:46:05,640 --> 01:46:08,120
Speaker 1: hand the ball too. I think they need to make

2071
01:46:08,120 --> 01:46:10,800
Speaker 1: sure their offensive line doesn't go anywhere. They got to

2072
01:46:10,840 --> 01:46:12,640
Speaker 1: sign their right guys. They got to refurbish it, They

2073
01:46:12,680 --> 01:46:14,879
Speaker 1: got to get deep. Once again, I thought this offensive

2074
01:46:14,920 --> 01:46:16,920
Speaker 1: line was much better than it was a year ago.

2075
01:46:16,960 --> 01:46:19,840
Speaker 1: When it got much better in twenty eighteen, when Josh

2076
01:46:20,040 --> 01:46:22,400
Speaker 1: started as a rookie, when nobody we really didn't want

2077
01:46:22,439 --> 01:46:25,040
Speaker 1: him to it was a mess. It was an absolute

2078
01:46:25,040 --> 01:46:27,000
Speaker 1: mess in front of him. Last year, of course, winning

2079
01:46:27,040 --> 01:46:29,040
Speaker 1: ten games, get into the playoffs, getting ousted in the

2080
01:46:29,080 --> 01:46:33,000
Speaker 1: first round. However, still offensive line took a huge step forward,

2081
01:46:33,000 --> 01:46:36,040
Speaker 1: and then this year was even better. Certainly the running

2082
01:46:36,040 --> 01:46:38,400
Speaker 1: game wasn't everything we wanted it to be, but their

2083
01:46:38,439 --> 01:46:41,000
Speaker 1: pass pro was awesome and there were certain times this

2084
01:46:41,080 --> 01:46:45,479
Speaker 1: year where they were outstanding. And so I and I'm

2085
01:46:45,479 --> 01:46:47,240
Speaker 1: with you, I think this. I think that's where you

2086
01:46:47,280 --> 01:46:49,920
Speaker 1: start the offensive line and the running game. If that's

2087
01:46:49,920 --> 01:46:52,800
Speaker 1: what you want to talk about the running games, is

2088
01:46:52,840 --> 01:46:56,160
Speaker 1: the offensive lines where the running game starts. Yeah, I

2089
01:46:56,479 --> 01:47:00,360
Speaker 1: completely agree in the Christian Wade situation in scenario, in

2090
01:47:00,360 --> 01:47:03,840
Speaker 1: that International Player Pathway program that he was a part of,

2091
01:47:03,920 --> 01:47:07,599
Speaker 1: you get two years on that program, I believe. So

2092
01:47:08,479 --> 01:47:11,519
Speaker 1: that was his second season this past year to be

2093
01:47:11,600 --> 01:47:15,360
Speaker 1: a part of the roster and not necessarily be counted there.

2094
01:47:15,400 --> 01:47:18,559
Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting to see what he will be

2095
01:47:18,600 --> 01:47:20,600
Speaker 1: able to do for this team, if he's going to

2096
01:47:20,680 --> 01:47:22,960
Speaker 1: be somebody who makes it onto the roster, if he's

2097
01:47:23,000 --> 01:47:26,200
Speaker 1: going to be a practice squad player. I think this

2098
01:47:26,320 --> 01:47:29,400
Speaker 1: coaching staff likes Christian Wade and what he's able to

2099
01:47:29,479 --> 01:47:33,680
Speaker 1: give in practice as well as what we're looking at

2100
01:47:33,760 --> 01:47:37,360
Speaker 1: right now. From the preseason game when he had that touchdown,

2101
01:47:37,400 --> 01:47:41,160
Speaker 1: that was an awesome thing to witness and experience. He

2102
01:47:41,280 --> 01:47:44,800
Speaker 1: was so pumped up and happy when it happened. So yeah,

2103
01:47:44,840 --> 01:47:47,920
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be interesting for those the number three,

2104
01:47:48,040 --> 01:47:51,880
Speaker 1: number four running backs on this roster. Antonio william Steve,

2105
01:47:52,000 --> 01:47:54,960
Speaker 1: you brought up him. We saw what he was able

2106
01:47:55,000 --> 01:47:56,920
Speaker 1: to do during the season when he got that one

2107
01:47:57,040 --> 01:48:01,000
Speaker 1: opportunity to play in that game, and wow, he was great.

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01:48:01,120 --> 01:48:04,760
Speaker 1: So the answers couldn't be there, Like you said, it

2109
01:48:04,880 --> 01:48:08,120
Speaker 1: could be Antonio Williams who played some more snaps next season.

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01:48:08,439 --> 01:48:11,519
Speaker 1: Maybe it's Christian Wade. I'm not sure where Christian Wade

2111
01:48:11,600 --> 01:48:14,360
Speaker 1: is at still with learning the offense, with learning the

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01:48:14,400 --> 01:48:17,280
Speaker 1: game of football. Remember this was a player who came

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01:48:17,280 --> 01:48:20,160
Speaker 1: over from rugby. He wasn't playing football when he was

2114
01:48:20,240 --> 01:48:22,960
Speaker 1: growing up, so I know that that learning part of

2115
01:48:22,960 --> 01:48:25,640
Speaker 1: the game is a big thing for him. I'm not

2116
01:48:25,680 --> 01:48:28,400
Speaker 1: sure where he's at two years in a part of

2117
01:48:28,400 --> 01:48:32,400
Speaker 1: this international player Pathway program. If he's someone who can

2118
01:48:32,439 --> 01:48:34,880
Speaker 1: make an impact whether it's on the roster or on

2119
01:48:34,920 --> 01:48:38,320
Speaker 1: the practice squad next season. Steve Tasker Madic Level one

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01:48:38,320 --> 01:48:41,559
Speaker 1: Bills Live. We've got another call. This is from BEV

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01:48:41,720 --> 01:48:43,960
Speaker 1: in Watertown, Beth. Thanks so much for calling. You're all

2122
01:48:44,000 --> 01:48:52,639
Speaker 1: with Stephen Maddie. What's on your mind? Turn your phone down,

2123
01:48:52,680 --> 01:48:57,360
Speaker 1: Bev Okay, I was wondering if you're going to bring

2124
01:48:57,560 --> 01:49:03,000
Speaker 1: up Dushanlin bank so much ideal, I would think that

2125
01:49:03,120 --> 01:49:10,240
Speaker 1: is an absolute must, don't you agree? Bev? All Right?

2126
01:49:11,160 --> 01:49:14,280
Speaker 1: Bev's getting caught up in the delay. Yeah, there's no

2127
01:49:14,320 --> 01:49:17,160
Speaker 1: doubt they're gonna bring Josh back. They've got two years

2128
01:49:17,160 --> 01:49:21,439
Speaker 1: to do it. It's a done deal for me, right, Maddie.

2129
01:49:21,640 --> 01:49:23,160
Speaker 1: All I want to know is what the numbers are,

2130
01:49:23,240 --> 01:49:24,880
Speaker 1: what it looks like, how long it's going to be.

2131
01:49:25,120 --> 01:49:27,640
Speaker 1: I do not think that the Bills are going to

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01:49:27,720 --> 01:49:30,200
Speaker 1: give Josh Allen a ten year, five hundred million dollars

2133
01:49:30,280 --> 01:49:34,000
Speaker 1: deal like the Chiefs did with Pat Mahomes. I would

2134
01:49:34,040 --> 01:49:38,759
Speaker 1: say though, that perhaps the Bills would structure a deal

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01:49:38,880 --> 01:49:42,960
Speaker 1: with some aspects of the like the Mahomes deal because

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01:49:43,080 --> 01:49:47,000
Speaker 1: of the team friendly nature that it that it is.

2137
01:49:48,080 --> 01:49:50,360
Speaker 1: The team gets some cap relief in the first couple

2138
01:49:50,400 --> 01:49:53,080
Speaker 1: of years, and in this situation where the cap went

2139
01:49:53,120 --> 01:49:56,200
Speaker 1: down this year because of the pandemic, that's crucial. So

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01:49:56,240 --> 01:49:59,000
Speaker 1: I think that may be in a way that not

2141
01:49:59,040 --> 01:50:02,760
Speaker 1: only the club gets some relief and you know, for

2142
01:50:02,800 --> 01:50:06,280
Speaker 1: the cap, but also sets Josh up. You know, hey,

2143
01:50:06,360 --> 01:50:08,519
Speaker 1: Josh is hitting a Homer, he already hit a home run.

2144
01:50:08,560 --> 01:50:12,040
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy's gonna be He's gonna always have

2145
01:50:12,120 --> 01:50:14,120
Speaker 1: enough cheeseburgers to eat for the rest of his life.

2146
01:50:14,400 --> 01:50:18,320
Speaker 1: So you know, But I think you know, with our

2147
01:50:18,400 --> 01:50:22,040
Speaker 1: caller Bev saying that, I agree. I think everybody there

2148
01:50:22,080 --> 01:50:26,880
Speaker 1: isn't a single person in football who's a fan or

2149
01:50:27,560 --> 01:50:29,639
Speaker 1: makes their living in the game who thinks the Bills

2150
01:50:29,680 --> 01:50:31,879
Speaker 1: aren't going to get Josh Allen signed to an extension.

2151
01:50:31,960 --> 01:50:37,280
Speaker 1: So I will say, yes, they absolutely will, right Mad.

2152
01:50:37,320 --> 01:50:40,840
Speaker 1: There's no question about it. Josh Allen is not going anywhere,

2153
01:50:41,240 --> 01:50:44,280
Speaker 1: nor should he after the season that he had this year.

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01:50:44,360 --> 01:50:46,599
Speaker 1: He is going to be a part of the Buffalo

2155
01:50:46,680 --> 01:50:49,559
Speaker 1: Bills for the long term. The question is just when

2156
01:50:49,840 --> 01:50:51,439
Speaker 1: are they going to do this deal. Is it going

2157
01:50:51,520 --> 01:50:53,360
Speaker 1: to be this year, is it going to be next year?

2158
01:50:53,640 --> 01:50:56,479
Speaker 1: Like you said earlier, Steve, I don't I don't know

2159
01:50:56,520 --> 01:50:59,680
Speaker 1: if it's necessarily on my top priority list for this

2160
01:50:59,760 --> 01:51:03,920
Speaker 1: season just because of the cap space situation with the pandemic.

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01:51:04,000 --> 01:51:06,840
Speaker 1: Because the number is going to be lower for this year.

2162
01:51:07,320 --> 01:51:09,320
Speaker 1: You can hang on to Josh for another year and

2163
01:51:09,360 --> 01:51:12,040
Speaker 1: get it done after this season. But you said that

2164
01:51:12,080 --> 01:51:14,760
Speaker 1: twelve month window. It's going to happen, and it is

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01:51:14,800 --> 01:51:16,640
Speaker 1: going to happen in that twelve month window. And when

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01:51:16,720 --> 01:51:21,519
Speaker 1: Josh Allen End and Brandon Bean and Sean McDermott were

2167
01:51:21,520 --> 01:51:24,440
Speaker 1: asked about it in their end of season press conferences,

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01:51:24,600 --> 01:51:27,040
Speaker 1: there seemed like there was no rush to do this

2169
01:51:27,160 --> 01:51:29,080
Speaker 1: right away. It was We're going to do this when

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01:51:29,120 --> 01:51:31,760
Speaker 1: it's the right time. And you could hear also in

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01:51:31,800 --> 01:51:34,320
Speaker 1: their tone of voice. It wasn't like this needs to

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01:51:34,320 --> 01:51:37,720
Speaker 1: get done. It was more of a relaxed situation scenario

2173
01:51:37,880 --> 01:51:41,880
Speaker 1: like he's our guy. It's gonna happen. It's just gonna

2174
01:51:41,920 --> 01:51:44,760
Speaker 1: happen when it's best for both sides of the party. Yeah,

2175
01:51:44,760 --> 01:51:48,599
Speaker 1: there's believing, the pandemic and the shrinking salary capital. There's

2176
01:51:48,640 --> 01:51:50,280
Speaker 1: a lot of things that are much more urgent than

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01:51:50,400 --> 01:51:54,320
Speaker 1: Josh's deadly drop dead date. That's two years down the road.

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01:51:54,400 --> 01:51:58,280
Speaker 1: Let's take one. Let's take another call from John in Lakawana. John,

2179
01:51:58,320 --> 01:52:00,280
Speaker 1: you're on with Stephen Maddie on one Bill's Lie. What's

2180
01:52:00,280 --> 01:52:03,120
Speaker 1: on your mind? They are you doing? I was spenture

2181
01:52:03,160 --> 01:52:04,840
Speaker 1: to get through since that guy was ripping from and

2182
01:52:05,040 --> 01:52:08,560
Speaker 1: Edmunds and I'm not a billstand but Tremaine Edmunds is

2183
01:52:08,560 --> 01:52:12,639
Speaker 1: an phenomenal athlete, and to waste him and put him

2184
01:52:12,680 --> 01:52:15,040
Speaker 1: on one side and waste the speed from one sideline

2185
01:52:15,040 --> 01:52:19,840
Speaker 1: the sideline would be foolish. Also, the Bills, they have

2186
01:52:19,880 --> 01:52:22,799
Speaker 1: to get a couple of big, road grading defensive tackles,

2187
01:52:23,160 --> 01:52:25,559
Speaker 1: so offensive linemen are getting to that second level when

2188
01:52:25,640 --> 01:52:29,280
Speaker 1: Eaton Edmunds up, so we could make tackles. Yeah, I'd

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01:52:29,320 --> 01:52:32,160
Speaker 1: agree with you, John, You're right, and I let's not forget.

2190
01:52:32,760 --> 01:52:35,680
Speaker 1: And thanks for the calle John, appreciate it. Tremaine got

2191
01:52:35,800 --> 01:52:40,240
Speaker 1: elected the Pro Bowl this year. He's not a run

2192
01:52:40,280 --> 01:52:43,320
Speaker 1: stopping linebacker. All grant you that. It's not a running league.

2193
01:52:43,479 --> 01:52:47,360
Speaker 1: It's a throwing league. The Bills got the line. The

2194
01:52:47,400 --> 01:52:51,320
Speaker 1: Bills based defense only has two linebackers, and we all

2195
01:52:51,360 --> 01:52:54,280
Speaker 1: know who they are. It's Milano and Edmunds. They don't

2196
01:52:54,280 --> 01:52:58,320
Speaker 1: even throw a third linebacker out there unless it's extenuating circumstances,

2197
01:52:58,400 --> 01:53:02,000
Speaker 1: unless you're playing the Baltimore raven who don't throw it. Uh.

2198
01:53:03,360 --> 01:53:07,679
Speaker 1: Edmonds is exactly what a linebacker in this league would

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01:53:07,720 --> 01:53:10,519
Speaker 1: love to look like. He's got a length, he can

2200
01:53:10,600 --> 01:53:14,760
Speaker 1: rush the passer, he can run sideline to sideline. And

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01:53:14,880 --> 01:53:17,800
Speaker 1: he's smart enough and school enough and committed enough to

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01:53:17,920 --> 01:53:21,680
Speaker 1: run the defense. He calls the plays, he makes adjustments,

2203
01:53:21,680 --> 01:53:24,880
Speaker 1: he makes sure that the coverage fits with the with

2204
01:53:24,960 --> 01:53:29,920
Speaker 1: the defensive alignment, the front um. Yeah, Tremaine is not

2205
01:53:30,920 --> 01:53:34,240
Speaker 1: like a Luke Keikley. Uh. He is a sideline to

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01:53:34,360 --> 01:53:41,200
Speaker 1: sideline coverage pursuit linebacker. Uh. He's not like guys back

2207
01:53:41,320 --> 01:53:46,040
Speaker 1: in the old days, like Upper Pepper Rodgers and those

2208
01:53:46,120 --> 01:53:47,880
Speaker 1: kind of guys. Man, He's not like a dick. But

2209
01:53:48,040 --> 01:53:50,240
Speaker 1: because he is a guy that goes to sideline to

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01:53:50,240 --> 01:53:53,519
Speaker 1: sideline and drops into coverage. He bats passes now he passed,

2211
01:53:53,680 --> 01:53:57,479
Speaker 1: he defends passes. Um. That's more of what they want

2212
01:53:57,560 --> 01:53:59,120
Speaker 1: him to do and want him to be able to

2213
01:53:59,200 --> 01:54:01,760
Speaker 1: do and to step up into the a gap and

2214
01:54:01,840 --> 01:54:05,920
Speaker 1: take on a fullback. So that's kind of the way

2215
01:54:05,960 --> 01:54:08,000
Speaker 1: I see it, Maddie. How you said it the best.

2216
01:54:08,080 --> 01:54:10,880
Speaker 1: He's not one of those line He's an athlete, kind

2217
01:54:10,880 --> 01:54:14,679
Speaker 1: of a positionless linebacker that you know they could that's

2218
01:54:14,920 --> 01:54:19,320
Speaker 1: versatile because of his athleticism. Yeah, I think you get

2219
01:54:19,400 --> 01:54:23,320
Speaker 1: so much more out of Tremaine Edmonds and Matt Milano

2220
01:54:23,520 --> 01:54:26,760
Speaker 1: than their position that they play. Says they can play

2221
01:54:26,800 --> 01:54:28,960
Speaker 1: out of their position in a lot of different ways

2222
01:54:29,240 --> 01:54:32,000
Speaker 1: with how they're able to cover, with what they're able

2223
01:54:32,040 --> 01:54:34,920
Speaker 1: to do. And we talk about the run game and

2224
01:54:35,040 --> 01:54:38,080
Speaker 1: stopping the run. Look at this whole defense. This defense

2225
01:54:38,240 --> 01:54:42,640
Speaker 1: is not built to necessarily have their biggest strength to

2226
01:54:42,720 --> 01:54:44,960
Speaker 1: be stopping the run. And Steve you said it, this

2227
01:54:45,040 --> 01:54:48,360
Speaker 1: is a passing league nowadays, it's not a running league anymore.

2228
01:54:48,600 --> 01:54:51,120
Speaker 1: You don't need to build your defense around stopping the

2229
01:54:51,240 --> 01:54:54,240
Speaker 1: run when everybody's throwing the football. So if you're going

2230
01:54:54,280 --> 01:54:57,720
Speaker 1: to have players that fit the type to stop the

2231
01:54:57,760 --> 01:55:01,000
Speaker 1: pass instead of stopped a round, that's completely okay. You

2232
01:55:01,040 --> 01:55:04,520
Speaker 1: you make up for it in different areas defensive tackle,

2233
01:55:04,800 --> 01:55:06,800
Speaker 1: you make up for it in an area like that.

2234
01:55:07,200 --> 01:55:09,880
Speaker 1: We saw that not necessarily play out for the Bills

2235
01:55:09,920 --> 01:55:13,760
Speaker 1: all the time this past season because of what they had.

2236
01:55:15,120 --> 01:55:17,400
Speaker 1: But you look for that in free agency, you look

2237
01:55:17,480 --> 01:55:20,400
Speaker 1: for that in the draft for areas to help you out.

2238
01:55:20,560 --> 01:55:24,520
Speaker 1: Tremaine Edmunds elite athlete and he will be for years

2239
01:55:24,560 --> 01:55:26,840
Speaker 1: to come. Yeah, let's take all right, one last call

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01:55:26,880 --> 01:55:29,800
Speaker 1: before we headed the break. This is Tim and Niagara Falls. Tim,

2241
01:55:29,800 --> 01:55:36,120
Speaker 1: you're on with Stephen Maddie. What's on your mind? Tim Yes,

2242
01:55:36,520 --> 01:55:39,840
Speaker 1: go ahead, Earl with Stephen Maddie go ahead, all right, Yeah,

2243
01:55:39,920 --> 01:55:42,080
Speaker 1: let's uh, they're just talking to that guy who's not

2244
01:55:42,120 --> 01:55:44,560
Speaker 1: a Bills fan. I thought that was kind of funny.

2245
01:55:44,600 --> 01:55:46,320
Speaker 1: Threw a couple of diggers in there. But I want

2246
01:55:46,320 --> 01:55:50,480
Speaker 1: to speak about the run game. Um. I think is

2247
01:55:50,680 --> 01:55:53,400
Speaker 1: a very good guy in the backfield. He catches well,

2248
01:55:53,480 --> 01:55:56,520
Speaker 1: he blocks well. You know, they don't use him enough.

2249
01:55:56,600 --> 01:55:58,520
Speaker 1: I gotta I got a feeling that they're probably going

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01:55:58,600 --> 01:56:00,240
Speaker 1: to get rid of them this year, which is a

2251
01:56:00,240 --> 01:56:04,680
Speaker 1: bad move. Right, He didn't. He doesn't play very much,

2252
01:56:04,680 --> 01:56:07,200
Speaker 1: and he's he's down and inactive a lot of the time.

2253
01:56:07,280 --> 01:56:10,840
Speaker 1: He gets he kind of gets played when either Singletary

2254
01:56:10,920 --> 01:56:14,480
Speaker 1: or Moss get injured, and they don't have to let

2255
01:56:14,560 --> 01:56:16,440
Speaker 1: him go. He's a free agent, so it'll be interesting

2256
01:56:16,440 --> 01:56:18,360
Speaker 1: to see if there are other teams out there that

2257
01:56:18,440 --> 01:56:20,960
Speaker 1: share your affinity for him. See if if there's other

2258
01:56:20,960 --> 01:56:22,720
Speaker 1: teams that have a great deal of interest in him.

2259
01:56:23,560 --> 01:56:25,440
Speaker 1: Right right, I like to comment to one game. I

2260
01:56:25,440 --> 01:56:28,120
Speaker 1: believe it was a choose when he threw that laser

2261
01:56:28,120 --> 01:56:29,480
Speaker 1: in the end of the game and he caught that

2262
01:56:29,520 --> 01:56:32,080
Speaker 1: ball in the end zone. This guy catch his balls.

2263
01:56:32,120 --> 01:56:34,960
Speaker 1: He really don't see him drop him much. And he's

2264
01:56:34,960 --> 01:56:37,720
Speaker 1: a hell of a blocker, man, you know, And I

2265
01:56:37,800 --> 01:56:39,520
Speaker 1: gotta you know, And one more quick one. I want

2266
01:56:39,560 --> 01:56:42,160
Speaker 1: to comment about the defense. Um, there's gonna be some

2267
01:56:42,240 --> 01:56:45,560
Speaker 1: guys out there. They're gonna be available to go after

2268
01:56:45,640 --> 01:56:49,840
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks. You know what I mean. You need somebody

2269
01:56:49,880 --> 01:56:53,280
Speaker 1: they can get to that quarterback. You know, Oliver is in.

2270
01:56:53,560 --> 01:56:55,240
Speaker 1: He's a little shaky, you know, And I thought it's

2271
01:56:55,240 --> 01:56:58,800
Speaker 1: gonna be a beast. We got a couple other guys

2272
01:56:58,800 --> 01:57:01,240
Speaker 1: out there, but um, you know, we get a couple

2273
01:57:01,240 --> 01:57:03,560
Speaker 1: of good pass rushers, we'll be all right, you know,

2274
01:57:03,760 --> 01:57:07,040
Speaker 1: because we're setting everywhere else. Yeah, all right, Hey, appreciate it. Tim.

2275
01:57:07,280 --> 01:57:09,720
Speaker 1: It's a good call. And he's right. There are gonna

2276
01:57:09,720 --> 01:57:11,600
Speaker 1: be some really good players out there. They're gonna be

2277
01:57:11,680 --> 01:57:14,720
Speaker 1: pass rushers available, guys. Maybe that I mean, I don't

2278
01:57:14,720 --> 01:57:17,400
Speaker 1: know about you, Matt, there's probably a ton of it.

2279
01:57:17,480 --> 01:57:19,080
Speaker 1: There's more guys out there. I don't know who they

2280
01:57:19,080 --> 01:57:21,280
Speaker 1: are even playing in the National Football League, who are

2281
01:57:21,320 --> 01:57:24,320
Speaker 1: good or bad pass rushers. The good part is that

2282
01:57:24,360 --> 01:57:26,800
Speaker 1: the Bills have a pro personnel department. That's all they

2283
01:57:26,840 --> 01:57:29,080
Speaker 1: do is find out who those guys are and just

2284
01:57:29,160 --> 01:57:31,320
Speaker 1: like four years ago, four years ago when they brought

2285
01:57:31,440 --> 01:57:34,080
Speaker 1: Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer to the Buffalo Bills, I

2286
01:57:34,120 --> 01:57:37,520
Speaker 1: was like, all right, well, all of a sudden, you

2287
01:57:37,600 --> 01:57:41,680
Speaker 1: got these guys and there they're gangbusters. They're they're absolutely phenomenal.

2288
01:57:42,600 --> 01:57:44,520
Speaker 1: Same thing with some of the other free agent signings

2289
01:57:44,560 --> 01:57:47,760
Speaker 1: they've had and all of that. Certainly they haven't hit

2290
01:57:47,800 --> 01:57:49,960
Speaker 1: a home run on every guy they've brought through the doors,

2291
01:57:50,520 --> 01:57:52,720
Speaker 1: but for a lot of these guys, they have been

2292
01:57:52,800 --> 01:57:55,400
Speaker 1: right on the money. And I think the fit with

2293
01:57:55,440 --> 01:57:59,560
Speaker 1: the culture and the position and his thing about t J. Yeldon,

2294
01:57:59,640 --> 01:58:01,800
Speaker 1: he's right. T J. Yellen is a great pass catcher,

2295
01:58:02,480 --> 01:58:05,000
Speaker 1: very he's a great route runner as well. Early in

2296
01:58:05,040 --> 01:58:07,000
Speaker 1: his career and even here is a Buffalo Bill earning

2297
01:58:07,000 --> 01:58:10,080
Speaker 1: his Bills career, he had a penchant for fumbling the

2298
01:58:10,080 --> 01:58:11,680
Speaker 1: ball when he carries it. And if you want to

2299
01:58:12,120 --> 01:58:14,480
Speaker 1: not get on the field as a running back, fumble

2300
01:58:14,520 --> 01:58:16,200
Speaker 1: the ball on one of the carriers they give you

2301
01:58:16,360 --> 01:58:18,440
Speaker 1: and you'll be sitting down really in a big hurry.

2302
01:58:18,720 --> 01:58:21,640
Speaker 1: That followed t J. Yell probably still follows him to

2303
01:58:21,720 --> 01:58:25,240
Speaker 1: some extent. But what he does do well, he's really

2304
01:58:25,240 --> 01:58:27,240
Speaker 1: good with the ball in his hands. He runs good routes,

2305
01:58:27,360 --> 01:58:29,960
Speaker 1: and he's got size and speed. He's a big dude

2306
01:58:29,960 --> 01:58:32,440
Speaker 1: and he can scoot. So I think if the Bills

2307
01:58:32,480 --> 01:58:34,200
Speaker 1: do say goodbye to t J. Yell And, I still

2308
01:58:34,240 --> 01:58:36,360
Speaker 1: think he's got some football left in him because he's

2309
01:58:36,400 --> 01:58:39,280
Speaker 1: been primarily a backup here in Buffalo, has seen very

2310
01:58:39,440 --> 01:58:42,760
Speaker 1: very limited snaps in his two or three years here

2311
01:58:42,760 --> 01:58:46,000
Speaker 1: with Buffalo. When he's come in, he's done very well.

2312
01:58:46,560 --> 01:58:48,960
Speaker 1: But I think there's probably some teams out there that'll

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Speaker 1: probably give him a look in free agency. Yeah, I

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01:58:52,880 --> 01:58:55,960
Speaker 1: think t J. Yeldin still has a career in football

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01:58:55,960 --> 01:58:58,040
Speaker 1: on a career in the NFL if he's not on

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01:58:58,080 --> 01:59:01,040
Speaker 1: the Bills next year. I mean, we saw what he

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01:59:01,120 --> 01:59:04,240
Speaker 1: did in the game against the Chiefs. As the caller

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01:59:04,400 --> 01:59:06,880
Speaker 1: was saying, I mean, he is a good player. But

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01:59:06,960 --> 01:59:09,040
Speaker 1: I think if the Bills wanted him to be a

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01:59:09,080 --> 01:59:11,960
Speaker 1: part of the offense, he would have had more opportunities

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01:59:11,960 --> 01:59:14,640
Speaker 1: by now and would have a bigger role inside of

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01:59:14,640 --> 01:59:17,600
Speaker 1: that offense. I don't necessarily know if he's the answer

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01:59:17,640 --> 01:59:20,800
Speaker 1: for this run game this next season. I think Devin's

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01:59:20,840 --> 01:59:24,360
Speaker 1: Singleparry and Zach Moss are your primary answers and seeing

2325
01:59:24,360 --> 01:59:26,840
Speaker 1: what you can do with what you have already. Not

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01:59:26,920 --> 01:59:29,760
Speaker 1: necessarily sure if t j. Yelden is going to be

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01:59:29,800 --> 01:59:32,480
Speaker 1: that number three running back next season, and if he's

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01:59:32,520 --> 01:59:34,920
Speaker 1: going to be a big part of the offense, because

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01:59:35,000 --> 01:59:37,000
Speaker 1: as we've seen the years that he's been a part

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01:59:37,040 --> 01:59:40,520
Speaker 1: of the Buffalo Bills, he hasn't necessarily gotten that many

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01:59:40,840 --> 01:59:46,520
Speaker 1: opportunities in games seeing live snaps. That's right. Can we

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01:59:46,560 --> 01:59:48,400
Speaker 1: come back after the break. We're going to take some

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Speaker 1: read some more of your tweets from the tweet sheet.

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Speaker 1: What do you want on your Mount rush More of

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01:59:54,520 --> 01:59:57,440
Speaker 1: this offseason for the Buffalo Bills? What are your Mount

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01:59:57,520 --> 02:00:01,160
Speaker 1: Rushmore offseason once for this Buffalo franchise. We'll take your

2337
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Speaker 1: calls and read some more on the tweet sheet. Maddie

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Speaker 1: Glab's steep task on One Bill's Live. This is Buffalo

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Speaker 1: Bill's Radio. Welcome back to One Bill's Lives keep task

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Speaker 1: or Maddie Glab closing in on the three o'clock hour.

2341
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Speaker 1: We've been talking about your off season Mount Rushmore, what

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02:00:29,720 --> 02:00:31,920
Speaker 1: the Bills need to do or what you'd like them

2343
02:00:31,960 --> 02:00:34,600
Speaker 1: to do. I guess it is more importantly more accurate.

2344
02:00:34,640 --> 02:00:36,880
Speaker 1: What do you want the Bills Mount Rushmore off season

2345
02:00:36,920 --> 02:00:40,960
Speaker 1: to look like. We've got a ton of responses and

2346
02:00:41,240 --> 02:00:45,200
Speaker 1: the latest one from medieval mongrel Mongrel, he's got a

2347
02:00:45,280 --> 02:00:47,600
Speaker 1: real goa. I gotta tip my hat to this guy.

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02:00:47,640 --> 02:00:49,760
Speaker 1: He's got a real or whoever it is, it might

2349
02:00:49,760 --> 02:00:52,560
Speaker 1: be a girl. He's got a real Mount Rushmore. He's

2350
02:00:52,560 --> 02:00:56,160
Speaker 1: got four things. Leonard Williams, which is the defensive tackle

2351
02:00:56,200 --> 02:00:58,480
Speaker 1: now with the Giants, who was with the Jets, who's

2352
02:00:58,480 --> 02:01:01,160
Speaker 1: a free agent that that guy can go. JJ Watt

2353
02:01:01,200 --> 02:01:05,280
Speaker 1: you might have heard of him. Patrick Peterson, who in

2354
02:01:05,360 --> 02:01:09,200
Speaker 1: his prime was maybe the best athlete in the NFL

2355
02:01:09,280 --> 02:01:11,680
Speaker 1: at a given the guy was is phenomenal. It's a

2356
02:01:11,720 --> 02:01:16,080
Speaker 1: great defensive back, and number five and number four would

2357
02:01:16,120 --> 02:01:18,880
Speaker 1: be a game breaking running back. So you got a

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02:01:18,920 --> 02:01:22,920
Speaker 1: defensive tackle, a defensive end, a great corner, and a

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02:01:23,000 --> 02:01:27,520
Speaker 1: running back. It's a pretty solid list, Maddie. Yeah, I

2360
02:01:27,560 --> 02:01:30,280
Speaker 1: don't know if you can get everything on that list.

2361
02:01:30,400 --> 02:01:33,560
Speaker 1: That is like as solid you can as you can

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02:01:33,640 --> 02:01:40,720
Speaker 1: be with some of those players, specific right, Leonard Williams, J. J. Watt,

2363
02:01:40,720 --> 02:01:46,320
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson, I am signed me up. Yeah please, that

2364
02:01:46,360 --> 02:01:48,880
Speaker 1: would be amazing. That would I don't know where we

2365
02:01:48,880 --> 02:01:51,000
Speaker 1: would get the money from we'd have to start growing

2366
02:01:51,000 --> 02:01:54,640
Speaker 1: it on the trees outside of one Bill's drive because

2367
02:01:54,640 --> 02:01:56,720
Speaker 1: I would gap space to not allow us to get

2368
02:01:57,120 --> 02:01:59,680
Speaker 1: would be air punching if we got those three guys.

2369
02:02:00,120 --> 02:02:02,880
Speaker 1: Forget the game breaking running back, just the top three

2370
02:02:03,040 --> 02:02:05,200
Speaker 1: letter Williams, J J. Watt, Patrick, Peter, I would be

2371
02:02:05,280 --> 02:02:11,400
Speaker 1: air air punching. Yep. Awesome number one defense in the NFL,

2372
02:02:11,520 --> 02:02:14,520
Speaker 1: right there? That would that would go a long way. Yes,

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02:02:14,720 --> 02:02:17,680
Speaker 1: that's right. Also from the tweet sheet, We've also got

2374
02:02:17,680 --> 02:02:21,040
Speaker 1: one from Josh, and it says he says one is

2375
02:02:21,080 --> 02:02:25,640
Speaker 1: resigned Milano, two resigned Daryl Williams, three extend Josh Allen,

2376
02:02:25,880 --> 02:02:30,080
Speaker 1: and four fans in the stands. Even even that one's

2377
02:02:30,120 --> 02:02:32,400
Speaker 1: kind of rough to get done, right, because I'm really

2378
02:02:32,400 --> 02:02:36,800
Speaker 1: because of Milano, yeah, right, and because of extend Allen.

2379
02:02:36,880 --> 02:02:39,320
Speaker 1: I mean, if you extend to Allan, there's a you

2380
02:02:39,360 --> 02:02:41,880
Speaker 1: can't do that much if you're extending Allen, depending on

2381
02:02:41,920 --> 02:02:44,760
Speaker 1: how the contract looks like for the first few years.

2382
02:02:44,760 --> 02:02:47,680
Speaker 1: And we've talked about this at length already in this show.

2383
02:02:47,720 --> 02:02:51,160
Speaker 1: It'll it'll be interesting to see what that contract looks

2384
02:02:51,160 --> 02:02:53,880
Speaker 1: looks like, how many years it is because of Patrick

2385
02:02:53,960 --> 02:02:56,920
Speaker 1: Mahomes in the contract that he got that is team

2386
02:02:57,000 --> 02:03:00,240
Speaker 1: friendly for the first few years. Yeah, and think about this.

2387
02:03:00,280 --> 02:03:02,560
Speaker 1: If you get a say he signed Josh to an

2388
02:03:02,560 --> 02:03:05,360
Speaker 1: eight year extension starting it and but you could do

2389
02:03:05,400 --> 02:03:07,800
Speaker 1: it so it starts at the end of this contract,

2390
02:03:07,840 --> 02:03:10,360
Speaker 1: which would be after the twenty twenty two seasons, so

2391
02:03:10,360 --> 02:03:13,520
Speaker 1: it's still two full years away before it even kicks in.

2392
02:03:13,760 --> 02:03:16,320
Speaker 1: You can give him the bonus now, but the money

2393
02:03:16,440 --> 02:03:19,480
Speaker 1: gets spread out through ten years, and you know, then

2394
02:03:19,520 --> 02:03:23,160
Speaker 1: then it's a small cap hit and you don't even

2395
02:03:23,200 --> 02:03:26,520
Speaker 1: have to start paying him real salary money for two

2396
02:03:26,640 --> 02:03:30,800
Speaker 1: full years because he finishes out this contract. You know,

2397
02:03:30,840 --> 02:03:32,320
Speaker 1: a lot of that's on the table. You can do

2398
02:03:32,400 --> 02:03:34,880
Speaker 1: it now. It raises his cap figure for this year

2399
02:03:34,880 --> 02:03:38,960
Speaker 1: and next year, but only by you know, you know,

2400
02:03:39,080 --> 02:03:41,960
Speaker 1: eight percent or twelve percent of what it would be,

2401
02:03:42,520 --> 02:03:45,120
Speaker 1: you know, because of what the money is. So if

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02:03:45,120 --> 02:03:47,880
Speaker 1: you get us a fifty or fifty million dollars signing bonus,

2403
02:03:48,000 --> 02:03:52,200
Speaker 1: I don't know whatever, and you probrate that over the

2404
02:03:52,280 --> 02:03:55,320
Speaker 1: life of an eight year contract, you know, that's all

2405
02:03:55,360 --> 02:03:57,320
Speaker 1: the money that goes on the cap this year. You

2406
02:03:57,400 --> 02:03:59,800
Speaker 1: might be able to handle that, but that's kind of

2407
02:03:59,840 --> 02:04:02,200
Speaker 1: the structure you're talking about, you know, you just push

2408
02:04:02,240 --> 02:04:04,320
Speaker 1: the money into the future. And then, of course, in

2409
02:04:04,440 --> 02:04:06,920
Speaker 1: Josh's defense, if he's gonna do it, he gets the

2410
02:04:06,960 --> 02:04:09,480
Speaker 1: signing bonus up front, which is money that goes right

2411
02:04:09,520 --> 02:04:14,800
Speaker 1: into his account. And you could guarantee a percentage of

2412
02:04:14,800 --> 02:04:17,240
Speaker 1: whatever's left to the contract as well, even some of

2413
02:04:17,280 --> 02:04:20,640
Speaker 1: the yearly salary. You could guarantee it, so you can

2414
02:04:20,680 --> 02:04:24,720
Speaker 1: make it happen. But you know, it does get complicated

2415
02:04:24,720 --> 02:04:26,800
Speaker 1: the further you go. Let's take another one from the

2416
02:04:26,840 --> 02:04:30,600
Speaker 1: tweet sheet. Let's go from Joe. He says, we need

2417
02:04:30,640 --> 02:04:34,920
Speaker 1: a good edge rusher, a reliable tight end, a better

2418
02:04:35,000 --> 02:04:39,400
Speaker 1: run game, and a good run blocking offensive line, either

2419
02:04:39,440 --> 02:04:42,800
Speaker 1: through the draft or free agency. So edge rusher, tight end,

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02:04:43,880 --> 02:04:48,480
Speaker 1: offensive line, one defense to offense, anything there say that

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02:04:49,120 --> 02:04:52,560
Speaker 1: that's anything to you? I mean, and that's basically my

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02:04:52,760 --> 02:04:56,240
Speaker 1: list right there. So Joe, I agree with you. I

2423
02:04:56,280 --> 02:04:58,520
Speaker 1: think we need all of those things as well. A

2424
02:04:58,560 --> 02:05:01,400
Speaker 1: good edge rusher that was number one on Steve and

2425
02:05:01,480 --> 02:05:05,240
Speaker 1: I's list. Basically, a reliable tight end that would be

2426
02:05:05,280 --> 02:05:07,520
Speaker 1: really nice too. I don't know if that's number two

2427
02:05:07,520 --> 02:05:10,520
Speaker 1: on my list. I think run game and run blocking

2428
02:05:10,600 --> 02:05:13,080
Speaker 1: offense is a little bit more important there, but I

2429
02:05:13,200 --> 02:05:16,120
Speaker 1: agree and get it through the draft or free agency,

2430
02:05:16,200 --> 02:05:18,640
Speaker 1: whatever is the best way to go about this. I

2431
02:05:18,800 --> 02:05:22,640
Speaker 1: trust Brandon Bean and the scouting department to do their

2432
02:05:22,720 --> 02:05:26,120
Speaker 1: job because they have proved that they hit home runs

2433
02:05:26,480 --> 02:05:30,040
Speaker 1: when they do their job. And the contract negotiations and

2434
02:05:30,080 --> 02:05:33,080
Speaker 1: the reworking I'm talking about that they've been able to

2435
02:05:33,080 --> 02:05:35,880
Speaker 1: do for certain players, and they probably will rework some

2436
02:05:36,200 --> 02:05:40,120
Speaker 1: contracts for this upcoming season because of that cap number.

2437
02:05:40,200 --> 02:05:43,360
Speaker 1: So yeah, those guys are the best at their jobs,

2438
02:05:43,400 --> 02:05:45,000
Speaker 1: and I trust them to get it done. Sign a

2439
02:05:45,000 --> 02:05:47,800
Speaker 1: bunch of guys for cheap money, form them into a team,

2440
02:05:47,880 --> 02:05:50,120
Speaker 1: and win. That's all, you know, That's all I care about. Really,

2441
02:05:50,160 --> 02:05:52,120
Speaker 1: let's take it. We got a phone call now. This

2442
02:05:52,240 --> 02:05:54,640
Speaker 1: is Frank in Syracuse. Frank, you want to talk about

2443
02:05:54,680 --> 02:05:57,280
Speaker 1: JJ Watt. You're on with Maddie and Steve. Go ahead, Frank.

2444
02:05:58,680 --> 02:06:00,680
Speaker 1: They just wanted to let you guys older. J. J.

2445
02:06:00,880 --> 02:06:03,640
Speaker 1: Watt is still healthy. It's a hell of a freaking

2446
02:06:03,720 --> 02:06:11,000
Speaker 1: line be defensive lineman. Uh, anyway we can build our defense.

2447
02:06:11,080 --> 02:06:14,840
Speaker 1: I mean, defense is already good. Keep al Edmunds man,

2448
02:06:14,880 --> 02:06:17,560
Speaker 1: you're the best linebackers in the league. As far as reconcerned,

2449
02:06:17,560 --> 02:06:21,880
Speaker 1: you know, and uh, I mean, if we can build

2450
02:06:21,920 --> 02:06:25,960
Speaker 1: our defense to a point where J. J. Watt is

2451
02:06:25,960 --> 02:06:32,760
Speaker 1: going to be extra flu superpower, let's do it, you know,

2452
02:06:33,240 --> 02:06:36,600
Speaker 1: let's do it. How well, It's okay, You're right. He's

2453
02:06:36,640 --> 02:06:40,400
Speaker 1: healthy now, he can he stay healthy. Though he's the

2454
02:06:40,400 --> 02:06:42,440
Speaker 1: older he's gotten, the harder it has been for him

2455
02:06:42,440 --> 02:06:45,000
Speaker 1: to stay healthy. He did stay healthy for sixteen games

2456
02:06:45,000 --> 02:06:47,280
Speaker 1: this year, no question about it. The guy's got a

2457
02:06:47,360 --> 02:06:49,800
Speaker 1: high motor, and you know, whatever he has to give you,

2458
02:06:49,800 --> 02:06:52,320
Speaker 1: you're gonna get. You're never gonna get a guy with

2459
02:06:52,360 --> 02:06:55,760
Speaker 1: a reputation like a Jadeveon Clowney who coasts on a

2460
02:06:55,760 --> 02:06:58,800
Speaker 1: lot of plays, who you know, he doesn't bring a

2461
02:06:58,880 --> 02:07:02,080
Speaker 1: thousand percent of every single snap. JJ doesn't do that.

2462
02:07:02,200 --> 02:07:05,760
Speaker 1: JJ plays hard all the time, and I think that

2463
02:07:05,800 --> 02:07:09,560
Speaker 1: plays extremely well here in Buffalo. I don't know what

2464
02:07:09,600 --> 02:07:11,840
Speaker 1: it's going to take to get him here, and I

2465
02:07:11,880 --> 02:07:15,760
Speaker 1: don't know what JJ what his thoughts are. I don't

2466
02:07:15,760 --> 02:07:17,680
Speaker 1: think he'll have a problem playing in Buffalo. I don't

2467
02:07:17,720 --> 02:07:19,120
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be one of those things where I

2468
02:07:19,120 --> 02:07:21,560
Speaker 1: don't want to play in Buffalo, like we heard Antonio

2469
02:07:21,640 --> 02:07:25,040
Speaker 1: Brown say, and and in decades past, you've had players

2470
02:07:25,400 --> 02:07:26,720
Speaker 1: think I don't know if I want to play in

2471
02:07:26,720 --> 02:07:29,320
Speaker 1: Buffalo because the team wasn't good. Now, the culture here,

2472
02:07:29,520 --> 02:07:33,920
Speaker 1: the facilities here, the coaching staff here, the core players here,

2473
02:07:34,600 --> 02:07:38,640
Speaker 1: and the vibe is that is purported by players who

2474
02:07:38,720 --> 02:07:41,400
Speaker 1: come here and leave here. I think a lot of

2475
02:07:41,400 --> 02:07:44,120
Speaker 1: players find it very enticing to come to Buffalo to play.

2476
02:07:44,160 --> 02:07:48,520
Speaker 1: The fan base, the chance at a super Bowl now

2477
02:07:48,560 --> 02:07:51,360
Speaker 1: and this point in history, all of that's on the table,

2478
02:07:51,400 --> 02:07:54,360
Speaker 1: and I think it's really cool that the Bills are

2479
02:07:54,400 --> 02:07:56,160
Speaker 1: in a spot like that. And I don't so I don't,

2480
02:07:56,200 --> 02:07:58,440
Speaker 1: but I can't speak to how jj Watt views all

2481
02:07:58,480 --> 02:08:03,560
Speaker 1: of that and what you know, what his number's gonna be. Certainly,

2482
02:08:04,280 --> 02:08:06,920
Speaker 1: JJ Watt can play for any one of the thirty

2483
02:08:06,920 --> 02:08:09,480
Speaker 1: one other teams that are in the NFL. It just

2484
02:08:09,520 --> 02:08:12,800
Speaker 1: comes down to what he's willing to settle for money wise,

2485
02:08:12,960 --> 02:08:17,720
Speaker 1: right right, right, and that's all it takes. So Frank, thanks,

2486
02:08:17,760 --> 02:08:19,920
Speaker 1: I appreciate the call it and he's right. I mean,

2487
02:08:20,000 --> 02:08:24,839
Speaker 1: JJ Maddie, JJ Watt is right now is the shining

2488
02:08:24,880 --> 02:08:27,120
Speaker 1: apple of every team's eye. I mean, they'd love to

2489
02:08:27,160 --> 02:08:31,880
Speaker 1: sign that guy to a team friendly deal. Yeah, I

2490
02:08:33,080 --> 02:08:38,680
Speaker 1: definitely JJ Watt on several different teams could be altering

2491
02:08:38,760 --> 02:08:41,280
Speaker 1: to a team in their wins and how far they

2492
02:08:41,280 --> 02:08:44,760
Speaker 1: get into the playoffs. But like you said, he was

2493
02:08:44,920 --> 02:08:48,080
Speaker 1: very healthy in the early days of his career. From

2494
02:08:48,080 --> 02:08:50,320
Speaker 1: two thousand and eleven to two thousand and fifteen, he

2495
02:08:50,400 --> 02:08:53,280
Speaker 1: played in all sixteen games. You move on from two

2496
02:08:53,280 --> 02:08:55,760
Speaker 1: thousand and fifteen, it gets a little bit spotty after that.

2497
02:08:55,800 --> 02:08:59,120
Speaker 1: In two thousand and sixteen played in three games, two seventeen,

2498
02:08:59,160 --> 02:09:04,240
Speaker 1: five games, eighteen sixteen, twenty nineteen eight and this past

2499
02:09:04,280 --> 02:09:07,880
Speaker 1: season sixteen games. So as as he's getting older, you're

2500
02:09:07,920 --> 02:09:10,800
Speaker 1: starting to see the wear and tear. He's getting more injuries.

2501
02:09:11,560 --> 02:09:14,760
Speaker 1: He's not competing at the level that he did in

2502
02:09:14,760 --> 02:09:18,640
Speaker 1: his first five seasons. Do you want somebody like jj

2503
02:09:18,800 --> 02:09:20,960
Speaker 1: Watt who can be the answer for next year and

2504
02:09:21,000 --> 02:09:23,200
Speaker 1: maybe the year after that, maybe just one year, or

2505
02:09:23,200 --> 02:09:25,440
Speaker 1: do you want to find somebody who's going to be

2506
02:09:25,520 --> 02:09:28,440
Speaker 1: an answer for years down the road. That's the question

2507
02:09:28,520 --> 02:09:31,840
Speaker 1: for Brandon being to answer. You're seeing the number of

2508
02:09:31,880 --> 02:09:36,480
Speaker 1: available free agents who can fit positions like that, Shack Barrett,

2509
02:09:36,560 --> 02:09:42,120
Speaker 1: Jadavian Clowney, Carl Lawson, and Goackway. I mean, Bud Duprie,

2510
02:09:42,280 --> 02:09:45,920
Speaker 1: Melvin ingram Alden Smith. These are all players who can

2511
02:09:46,160 --> 02:09:49,720
Speaker 1: make an impact on any team that they end up on.

2512
02:09:50,360 --> 02:09:53,720
Speaker 1: I think JJ Watt fits the Buffalo Bill's defense and

2513
02:09:53,760 --> 02:09:57,160
Speaker 1: would be a great addition. And Leslie Frazier would would

2514
02:09:57,240 --> 02:10:00,440
Speaker 1: know how to make him fit into the defense. It's

2515
02:10:00,480 --> 02:10:03,200
Speaker 1: just a matter of is the money there, Is it

2516
02:10:03,400 --> 02:10:08,680
Speaker 1: the right places place for him right and things like that. Yeah,

2517
02:10:08,720 --> 02:10:11,000
Speaker 1: that's it. That's exactly that's the question. It sadn't be

2518
02:10:11,080 --> 02:10:13,080
Speaker 1: up to JJ. He's gonna pick where he wants to

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Speaker 1: play money aside um, whether it's whether it's a side

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Speaker 1: or not. It's all up to him. He can make

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Speaker 1: it about money, or he can make it about everything

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Speaker 1: but money. Um accept money. So we'll see if if

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Speaker 1: that happens or not. Steve Tasker, Maddy, We're gonna take

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Speaker 1: a break. We'll be back to finish up about what

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Speaker 1: This is One Bills Live and this is Buffalo Bills Radio.

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Speaker 1: What have we learned? Dropped to you by Skyworks, the

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Speaker 1: had Danny heifetz On is an NFL writer for The

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Speaker 1: Ringer He Had. We were talking about the offseason and

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Speaker 1: how tumultuous it would be for a lot of quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: One of the guys who is most notable is Carson

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Speaker 1: Wentz of the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles are going to

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Speaker 1: give up a lot of money to pedal him on

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Speaker 1: the open market. And here's what Danny hi Fitz said

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Speaker 1: about Carson Wentz and his future with the Eagles. So

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Speaker 1: there's a lot we don't know about the situation, right

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Speaker 1: What happened with Carson Wentz is a physical issue? Is

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Speaker 1: it with the offense? Is it a mental thing? Is

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Speaker 1: he you know? Is he just confidence issues? Or remember

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Speaker 1: he had like thirteen different offensive line combinations in the

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Speaker 1: first fourteen weeks of the season or something. All those

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Speaker 1: receivers will hurt. Should be give him then at the doubt?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, But it's always important to remember that

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Speaker 1: the team always knows more than we do. One hundred

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Speaker 1: percent of the time, the team knows more than we do.

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Speaker 1: And so I don't think it's something to say, hey, wow,

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Speaker 1: what are the Eagles doing to take this thirty three

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Speaker 1: million dead capit to get rid of him. It should

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Speaker 1: more be Wow, the Eagles are willing to eat more

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Speaker 1: than thirty million dollars so Carson Wentz can leave. They

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Speaker 1: want to get rid of him. That bad. That was

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Speaker 1: Danny Hypez on what do we learn? He's right, it's

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Speaker 1: going to be a tumultuous offseason. We asked our listeners,

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Speaker 1: you most notably about what your mount rushmore of wants

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Speaker 1: is for the Buffalo Bills this offseason. Got a ton

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Speaker 1: of responses. I think one thing I gotta caution everybody

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Speaker 1: about at Maddie, the team as it stands now and

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Speaker 1: in two weeks or three weeks when free agency starts

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Speaker 1: is much different than the one we just saw go

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Speaker 1: home after the AFC Championship game. Yeah. I think that's

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Speaker 1: one of my least favorite things every year is to

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Speaker 1: know that every year the team is going to be

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Speaker 1: different than the year. Before my first season with the Bills,

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Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, this was such a great team,

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Speaker 1: such a great group of guys, like I hope they

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Speaker 1: all stay together. And then you see people leave, you

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Speaker 1: see people come, new people come in, and I look

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Speaker 1: at this team from this past season, I feel the

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Speaker 1: same way. Of course, you want to add pieces, but

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Speaker 1: it's hard to let go of pieces too, hard to

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Speaker 1: let go of players who meant a lot to this team,

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Speaker 1: hard to let go of players who who added on

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Speaker 1: the field and off the field. That's one of my

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Speaker 1: least favorite things is the difference maker of how this

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Speaker 1: team is going to change next year. But one of

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Speaker 1: the things you gotta remember, and it's a two sided coin,

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Speaker 1: but for all this good stuff, we transpose on the

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Speaker 1: last year's team, and you don't kind of think about

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Speaker 1: how you lost guys. You also transpose on the new

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Speaker 1: guys that are coming in and you put them on

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Speaker 1: top of last year's success and you think, wow, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna be even better. Sometimes it works that way. Not

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Speaker 1: all the time, it doesn't, but we'll see what happens.

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Speaker 1: They took a big step forward this year, certainly was Tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: we've got Joel Corey coming on, former sports agent. He's

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Speaker 1: a writer for CBS Sports. He's gonna talk to us

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Speaker 1: about some offseason dates and some milestones are gonna happen

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Speaker 1: this offseason and what we can expect. This has been

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker and Maddie Glab, Chris Brown's on vacation for

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Speaker 1: the next day or two. Maddie and I will be

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Speaker 1: back with you tomorrow, Buffalo, you're gonna get some snow tonight.

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Speaker 1: Watch out, get the snow shovel out, and make sure

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Speaker 1: you prepare for that. We'll be back tomorrow at noon.

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Speaker 1: Stay with us and be back with us. We'll look

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Speaker 1: forward to talking with you. Then. This is one Bill's Live.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, everybody. Talk to you at noon tomorrow.

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