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Speaker 1: Oh, great time March teeth Paspers time to down down

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Speaker 1: over time. Here we middle of the week time and

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Speaker 1: it's one Bill's line, presented by Kalaida Health. Good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: I'm John Murphy was Team Tanks are ready to go, Steve,

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Speaker 1: ready to go for the Wednesday show, the middle of

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Speaker 1: the week show. What do you think? I went? I

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Speaker 1: am it's hump day man, It's great. We'll get through it.

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Speaker 1: We'll get through it. Five. Ye, another show. This is

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Speaker 1: the beginning. By my calculation, I think, um, seven weeks

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Speaker 1: ago today was our first show from home. This would

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Speaker 1: be the start of week eight from all and no

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Speaker 1: end in sight. Seriously, I thought it was only six.

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Speaker 1: I'll figure it out. He started down March eighteen, pebbly right, Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: I thought it was a week before that. No, I

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Speaker 1: think it was March eighteenth. We started March eighteenth, and

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Speaker 1: you're saying it is longer than I thought it was, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: public math Murph. I started trying to think about it

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Speaker 1: just stopped trying. Yeah, probably smart. We started March eight teenth,

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Speaker 1: I believe right. We did a couple of shows. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: March eight teenth, we started going from home, so uh

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Speaker 1: in a one two three four five. Wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: maybe maybe you're right. We did one two three four five.

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Speaker 1: This is the start of our sixth week. No, it's

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Speaker 1: got to be longer than that, any right, right, all right,

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Speaker 1: it feels longer than that, it doesn't it. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it feels like a long time. It feels it feels

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Speaker 1: like a lifetime ago since we uh started working from

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Speaker 1: long time. We're used to it. But I'm not. That

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Speaker 1: whole crew. I miss it. Yeah, we had a we

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Speaker 1: I'm missing too. I don't know how they feel about us.

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Speaker 1: They may be happy to stay from the occasion. But

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Speaker 1: normal year, this would be would have started last week,

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Speaker 1: Now I start looking for OTAs and they're just not around.

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Speaker 1: Really the federal authority on what happens next is Anthony Fauci.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of

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Speaker 1: Allergy and Infectious Diseases. He told the New York Times

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Speaker 1: a lot, and you've mentioned it already today, how the

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Speaker 1: Bill's roster is so solid they didn't need to draft

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Speaker 1: for a particular need. And I accept that, I am.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm totally comfortable saying they're all

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Speaker 1: set for their roster, you know what I mean. And

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Speaker 1: this is the question that we have for our Twitter

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Speaker 1: respondents today. Have the Bills actually built a championship roster?

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Speaker 1: What do you think? Give us a call? Eight oh

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Speaker 1: three oh five fifty and outside Buffalo, the toe free

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Speaker 1: fifty's yes no question. On the Twitter poll, we've got

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Speaker 1: eighty two percent of our respondents two hundred and eighty

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Speaker 1: eight respondents already, eighty two percent of them say yes

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Speaker 1: they are a championship roster and only eighteen percent say no.

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Speaker 1: Like they're from both sides on that on the telephone,

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Speaker 1: so you can explain why you think and you can

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Speaker 1: send it a tweet for the tweet sheet. Have the

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Speaker 1: Bills built a championship roster? Yes or no? And why?

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Speaker 1: How have they done that? It's an interesting question, Steve.

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Speaker 1: It's easy to say, oh, yeah, sure, they're a championship team,

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Speaker 1: because look, there's no It's a different question than have

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Speaker 1: the Bills built a perfect team? No, they haven't, and

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Speaker 1: perfect teams there are very few of them, and they

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Speaker 1: don't need to be perfect to win a championship. In fact,

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Speaker 1: you could argue that last year's Bills roster might have

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Speaker 1: been good enough to contend for a championship. They had holes,

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Speaker 1: but everybody has holes. Kansas City Chiefs had holes. San

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Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine ers says and holes, and the Bills

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Speaker 1: built the championship roster this year I don't know what

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Speaker 1: my answer would be. I would say yes because I

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Speaker 1: think they have enough talent to win a championship. But

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Speaker 1: I would there's certainly not a perfect roster. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Help me out here, Steve, Yeah, you want to go.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right. I said last year they had as

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Speaker 1: much talent as they needed. Their offensive operated because of

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen's development. They just operated a little bit too

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Speaker 1: inefficiently at key moments. You can go down and there's

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Speaker 1: there's tweets coming out now about Josh, and there's it's

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Speaker 1: throw after throw after throw that Josh just missed where

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Speaker 1: guys were behind the defense. It's all those deep balls

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Speaker 1: and we were so we just wish they were to

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Speaker 1: hit one out of every three of them, and they

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Speaker 1: just couldn't get it done. And there's just throw after

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Speaker 1: throw where there's plays left on the field that hamstrung

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Speaker 1: their ability of the offense to stay on on the

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Speaker 1: field and score points. But the rosters put together, and

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Speaker 1: it comes down to Josh and taking another step in

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Speaker 1: his development. Certainly, the guys around him on both sides

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Speaker 1: of the ball are good enough at every moment, but

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Speaker 1: every game to win those games and Josh is good

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Speaker 1: enough to win those games as well, but they make

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Speaker 1: too many They make too many crucial mistakes at a

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Speaker 1: given moment. There was one game last year that got

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Speaker 1: away from him big time, and that was the Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: game where they Philadelphia hung thirty one points on them

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Speaker 1: and the Bills couldn't score. But the Bills didn't score

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Speaker 1: many points all year. Every other game, the wins and

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Speaker 1: the losses. The other fifteen games in the season were

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Speaker 1: all tight, really tight games. Unless the Bills won by

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Speaker 1: two touchdowns like they did against the Giants. That's where

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Speaker 1: they're at. And if their offense can can operate just

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Speaker 1: more efficiently and hit those plays that are there to

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Speaker 1: be made, that are you know, that are executed all

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Speaker 1: and except the completed pass or all that are there

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Speaker 1: except for one missed block. If they can get those

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Speaker 1: plays and get them right and put them in their favor,

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Speaker 1: there's no question this team will go deep in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs and and give everybody in the league no matter

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Speaker 1: what day or what week, whether it's Super Bowl Sunday

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Speaker 1: or Opening Day or the first game of the preseason,

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Speaker 1: They'll give any team in the league all they can handle.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I think they are a championship roster. What

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Speaker 1: do you think, listeners, If you'd like to respond, give

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Speaker 1: us a call eight oh three five fifty toll free

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. If

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Speaker 1: you have something to say on Twitter, send then a

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Speaker 1: tweet and we'll read it on the tweet sheet. Or

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Speaker 1: if you like, you can just vote in the Twitter

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Speaker 1: poll and it's heavily favored. Yes, eighty two percent of

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Speaker 1: our respondence and the Twitter poll say yes, they have

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Speaker 1: built the championship roster. I mean that's the easy answer. Right,

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Speaker 1: of course they could win a championship. I believe that

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Speaker 1: they could win a championship with this roster. But if

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Speaker 1: you want to poke holes, you can find holes on

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Speaker 1: this Buffalo roster, right, I think you could. Sure. And

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Speaker 1: the critics of the critics of the team, Um, I

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Speaker 1: don't agree with him, but the critics of the team

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Speaker 1: will point straight to your quarterback. You know, he's got

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Speaker 1: to play better. I mean, that's that's where that's the

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Speaker 1: crux of the criticism comes from. That nobody outside of

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Speaker 1: you know, the Bills fan base trust their quarterback as

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Speaker 1: much as the Bills fans do. And the reason I

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Speaker 1: trust him is because of the progress I've seen him

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Speaker 1: already make um and that's I think it's going to continue.

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Speaker 1: And that's, uh, that's where I think that if if

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Speaker 1: he talked to people who are dispassionate about the bills

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Speaker 1: and just looking at him, that's where it starts, and

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Speaker 1: for most of us, I think that's probably where it

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Speaker 1: ends as well. Yeah, it's an interesting question because you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't think Look, I don't think Bean and McDermott

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Speaker 1: are settled like, oh, we got we got it, we

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Speaker 1: got the championship roster in our world. Said No, I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's their approach at all. It's like, hey,

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Speaker 1: we got this group that we think can do this.

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Speaker 1: We have this group. For instance, we've got a wide

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Speaker 1: receiver group that is a major addition to it. We

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Speaker 1: have an offensive line group that was pretty solid last

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Speaker 1: year and we think we're a little more solid this year.

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Speaker 1: We have a defensive line group that was really good

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Speaker 1: last year, lost a couple of pieces and we think

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Speaker 1: we've rebuilt. But they don't have any answers either. It's

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Speaker 1: I don't know, It's just I guess I'm just reluctant

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Speaker 1: to pronounce the I'm a championship roster yet, Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: just being cautious. Yeah, because the refurbishment you're talking about

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Speaker 1: the offensive line and the defensive line where they've lost

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Speaker 1: and gained, and even the wide receivers. Certainly you can't.

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Speaker 1: It's harder to question the way they've filled out the roster.

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Speaker 1: But at this early age the stage, there's not much

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Speaker 1: more they could have done. Right now, there's some guys

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Speaker 1: that could that could end up flopping as Buffalo Bills,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, m Epineza could be a flop.

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Speaker 1: Harrison Phillips may not come back well he may he

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Speaker 1: may not come back from his knee injury. Trent Murphy

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Speaker 1: may decline for the Jerry Hughes may hit the end

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Speaker 1: of there. You know, all these these guys. There's things

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Speaker 1: that could happen. But sitting from this point in late April,

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Speaker 1: seeing a way they've built this roster um, I don't

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Speaker 1: know that there's much more they could have done. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: not all the questions have been answered because what they

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Speaker 1: have to prove it right right, But right now, from

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Speaker 1: the way it stands, I like where they're at. I

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Speaker 1: really like whether I like where they're at. Two. That's

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Speaker 1: that's for sure. All right, give us a call. Let's

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Speaker 1: discuss did the Bills have a championship roster as constructed today?

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Speaker 1: Eighth fifty the number to call outside Buffalo. It's a

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

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Speaker 1: fifty said that a tweet, we can read it on

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Speaker 1: the tweet sheet or just vote in our twitter poll.

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Speaker 1: Either way, we'd like to hear from you. We'd like

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Speaker 1: to hear what you're thinking and why you're thinking it.

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Speaker 1: That's why we need a call. Have the Bills built

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Speaker 1: a championship roster? What do you think? We'll come back

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Speaker 1: to talk more about that, get into some of the

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Speaker 1: tweets and maybe some phone calls. So come on back.

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Speaker 1: One goes live presented by a lot of health radio

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Speaker 1: only today from our home, Steve's home. I'm at home.

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Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome backs today to Bill

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Speaker 1: signed a free agent defensive end, Brian Cox Junior joins

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Speaker 1: the roster. Brian Cox Junior signs with the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 1: He got a one year deal with the Bills. Most

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Speaker 1: recently played for the Cleveland Brown six games last year.

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Speaker 1: Twelve tackles and half a sack. He was Carolina Panthers

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Speaker 1: undrafted free agent in twenty seventeen, played for the Panthers

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Speaker 1: for a couple of years. Was not there when when

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Speaker 1: Sean McDermott was there and Brian Cox junior. He neither

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Speaker 1: was Brandon being as a matter of fact, but he's

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Speaker 1: again a former Carolina to reunite with his former defensive

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Speaker 1: line coach Eric Washington. Brian Cox junior, Steve, Yes, he's

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Speaker 1: Brian Cox Senior's son. And you were intimately familiar with

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Speaker 1: Brian Cox and the way he likes to make an

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Speaker 1: entrance at the Rich Stadium. I was warm back and

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Speaker 1: listening to some old Bills games. It was the last

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Speaker 1: games in ninety five, I think ninety four when Cox

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Speaker 1: was doing his thing his uh yeah, he got tossed

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Speaker 1: out of the game because he threw a punch at

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Speaker 1: car Well. Gardner and car Well returned to favor and

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Speaker 1: both of him got tossed at the end and it

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Speaker 1: was like a minute to go. The game was over

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Speaker 1: and Brian just lost it and carl Well wasn't having it.

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you the truth. You know, Buffalo fans

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Speaker 1: hated that guy, and for good. For good reason, right,

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Speaker 1: he disrespected the town, disrespected the team. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: just he just went off. He's one of those guys, right,

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Speaker 1: He's just he was just not not giving anybody into

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Speaker 1: any respect at all. So he nobody liked him. But

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Speaker 1: I remember this. We were watching film getting ready to

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Speaker 1: end of the season, and Cox had been getting tossed

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Speaker 1: out of the game, like one game every week he

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Speaker 1: was getting tossed him. It seemed like every other week

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Speaker 1: he was getting tossed out of the game. And Shoola

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Speaker 1: had Joe Green, mean Joe Green, escorting him off the

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Speaker 1: field every week. So we were watching film with the Dolphins,

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Speaker 1: know it's okay. Plays over and you're watching and they're

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Speaker 1: in the bottom of in the film chasing the guy

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Speaker 1: down with you know, he's never going to catch the guy.

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Speaker 1: The guys like on the twenty you know, these these

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Speaker 1: Brian Cox, and he did not stop chasing that guy

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Speaker 1: remember the coach, it was Charlie Joyner. I think at

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Speaker 1: about you know, the kind of guy who was getting tossed.

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Speaker 1: But Charlie Joyner made a great point and we all

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Speaker 1: agreed with him. He said, he may he may be

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Speaker 1: a knucklehead once a while, but I'll tell you what,

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Speaker 1: look at this, and he was chasing that guy down.

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Speaker 1: You want that guy on your team. And he was right.

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Speaker 1: You know, Brian Cox, for all of his for all

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Speaker 1: of his antics and his angry outburst and all that,

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Speaker 1: he was a great player. And he hated losing enough

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Speaker 1: that it made him lose his temper too much. But

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Speaker 1: on that film, I remember, never forget it, that day

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Speaker 1: he chased he was the only player chasing that guy down,

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Speaker 1: and he would not let up until it was all over.

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Speaker 1: And you know, bless his heart for being that way.

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Speaker 1: You know, went too far and he and of course

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Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills fans hate him for all those reasons. But

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Speaker 1: man oman was he a great player. I played with

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Speaker 1: him in the Pro Bowl a couple of times, and

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Speaker 1: he was he's good teammate. And a good guy in

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Speaker 1: the locker room, but what happened to him on the

644
00:32:13,760 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 1: field once in a while was unfortunate. But man, oman,

645
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:17,720
Speaker 1: what a player he was. And now you know, now

646
00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,520
Speaker 1: the Bills have signed I guess it's his son, right,

647
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, So I have never met that kid,

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Speaker 1: so I'm looking forward to seeing hopefully he's got that

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Speaker 1: same kind of competitive nature that his dad displayed. Brian

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Speaker 1: Cox Senior, the guy Steve talking about three times in

651
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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl, played for the Dolphins when he kind

652
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 1: of came onto the scene here in Buffalo. Played after

653
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Speaker 1: that for the Bears, the Jets, Patriots, and the Saints.

654
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Speaker 1: And he's been a coach in the NFL for a

655
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Speaker 1: long time. He was assistant defensive line coach for the Jets,

656
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Speaker 1: defensive winning coach for the Browns, pass fresh coach for

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Speaker 1: the Dolphins, defensive line coach for the Bucks, defensive line

658
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 1: coach for Atlanta. I mean, a pretty successful coaching here

659
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,240
Speaker 1: career to go along with his playing career. And I

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00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: think you're right, Steve. Look, he's known as as as

661
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Speaker 1: a hot ad here against some Bills, but it wasn't

662
00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: just against the Bills. It was pretty much everyone, right,

663
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: everyone Goody played. Yeah. I mean he said all that

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Speaker 1: stuff about Buffalo and all that, and he get it.

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00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 1: I mean that he was trying to push buttons. But

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00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 1: he played with that same competitive fire no matter who

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00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: they were playing. It didn't matter if it was out

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00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: of conference and across the country in a team they

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00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 1: played once every three years. He had that competitive fire

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Speaker 1: and and it made him a great player in a

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Speaker 1: lot of ways. And of course it was a you know,

672
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Speaker 1: it was a you know, a problem at times, but

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Speaker 1: man on man could when he could, he played between

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Speaker 1: the whistles. He was a really good player. Yeah. Now

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Speaker 1: Son is the guy the Bills have signed to play

676
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Speaker 1: defensive end. He played they with the Carolina Panthers on

677
00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: the Panthers practice squad for a while. He got promoted

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Speaker 1: to the active roster September twenty seventeen and played last

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Speaker 1: year with the Cleveland brown So Brian Cox Senior is

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Speaker 1: now a member of the Buffalo Bills. An interesting edition

681
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Speaker 1: and Bills fans with the ear for history, a sense

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00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: of history, will we'll appreciate that, right they have to say, huh,

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00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 1: that's cool kind of yeah, A better up at a

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00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: Bills fan for a long time. Yeah, I say that too. Yeah,

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00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 1: I remember being spit on by his dad. Yeah, I

686
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: remember when he gave me the salute, a single finger

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00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 1: salute on his way out the Yeah, you get the

688
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 1: double barrel, the double barrel salute as he walked off.

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00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: He's been escorted off the field. Yeah. If Brian Cox

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Speaker 1: Junior as any sense of humor, he would do that

691
00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 1: in his first game at New Airfield. Just walk out there,

692
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,120
Speaker 1: wait until he gets to wait until he gets to Miami,

693
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 1: and do it to Miami payback. That would be great.

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Speaker 1: That would beat that game. Brian Cox Junior signed to

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Speaker 1: a contract by the Buffalo Bills. We got a little

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Speaker 1: uh Twitter poll going on today and we're interested to

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Speaker 1: take your phone calls eight h three oh five fifty

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

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Speaker 1: The question of the day is do the Bills have

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Speaker 1: a championship roster? Have they built a championship roster? Got

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Speaker 1: the Twitter poll results coming in, We take your phone

702
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Speaker 1: call and put it on the air. But let's go

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Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet brought here by Cargan Moving Systems,

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Speaker 1: the official movers of the Buffalo Bills. Nick's response, Have

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Speaker 1: the Bills built the championship roster? Nick says yes, And

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Speaker 1: I like how many returning players will have this year

707
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,960
Speaker 1: because the normal offseason process is unfortunately limited due to

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Speaker 1: the COVID. I think teams like us with a lot

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00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: of continuity with players and coaches will be able to

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00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:25,800
Speaker 1: handle that better. I do too, Steve. We don't know

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Speaker 1: really the extent that that will matter, but it's got

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Speaker 1: a matter when you've got the same coaches coming back,

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Speaker 1: same system coming back, and very many of the same

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Speaker 1: players coming back for another year. Yeah, I think the

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Speaker 1: Bills you've got to get a lot of benefit out

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Speaker 1: of that, if and when it happened. But certainly the

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00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:46,759
Speaker 1: more compressed and truncated the offseason becomes, the more of

718
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 1: an advantage it will be for teams like that, like

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Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. How tough will it be for those

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Speaker 1: teams who have changed head coaches and they even had

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00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 1: they haven't even gotten together as a group yet. Yeah,

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00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,399
Speaker 1: he hasn't even met all his players. And here's Sean

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00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: McDermot who's got a relationship with the bulk of his

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Speaker 1: core players and and even some of the guys they've

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00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:10,360
Speaker 1: brought in his free agents that it's going to be

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00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,600
Speaker 1: a huge difference maker. Even teams that have changed coordinators,

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00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: I think will be hampered a little bit. Right, just

728
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Speaker 1: I got a new system I want to put in,

729
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: and I've got nobody around to listen to me when

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Speaker 1: I put it in. That's different, Right, you can put

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Speaker 1: it on the tablet, you can send that out the players.

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00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: Here's what we're calling this, here's what we're doing here,

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Speaker 1: Here's what the verbiage is on these plays. But it's

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Speaker 1: different as opposed to being there and running through that stuff.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think when you get it, when you

736
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Speaker 1: get out on the field, you start putting into plays

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00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: and you see the thought process that goes behind each

738
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: play in the nuance, it gives you a deeper understanding

739
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:47,160
Speaker 1: of what you're trying to accomplish and makes you better,

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00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: makes you more efficient if you go out and you

741
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: don't have time to run through it and need you

742
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: see how you just see how the play fits into

743
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: the context of your offense, and who the plays, who's

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00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: which players talents are being accentuated by that play, and

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00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: what the crucial elements of it are. You get you

746
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:09,040
Speaker 1: just go through all this. You know you go through

747
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Speaker 1: the whole range of finding out where it came from

748
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: and where it's going, what it's there for. It gives

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Speaker 1: you a better it makes you more confident when you

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00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 1: run it, and it makes you better at it. And

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00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:23,400
Speaker 1: to see it on paper or on tablet, you just

752
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,680
Speaker 1: cannot do it justice. You cannot do it justice. Yeah,

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00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: but you got something on the tweet Cheeks team you

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00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: can share with them. Yeah. From Jim, he says, yeah,

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00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 1: I think they have put together a championship roster. Out

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00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: of all the pieces on their roster, there isn't a

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00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: spot where there is a need for improvement. We just

758
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,800
Speaker 1: need to see how it translates onto the field and

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00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 1: into wins. Yeah, and that's a little bit what we

760
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:51,280
Speaker 1: were saying about a minute ago Murphy. Certainly, on paper,

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00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 1: they have put together everything they're gonna need, but they

762
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: all have to go out and prove it again. The

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00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,120
Speaker 1: players that were here a year ago have to have

764
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: to prove that they are at least as good as

765
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: they were a year ago, if not better. And the

766
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 1: players they brought in have to prove that they are

767
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: what they thought they were when they signed in, and

768
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: they may be indeed better than what the Bills have

769
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: lost the draft picks have to come in and acclimate

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00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,160
Speaker 1: to the pro game and show that they do belong

771
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: here physically. So there's a lot of things that we

772
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:24,760
Speaker 1: don't know, but certainly you can't sneeze at the effort

773
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,320
Speaker 1: and the good decisions that have been made by putting

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00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: this one, this group together. I agree. Let's go back

775
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Speaker 1: to the tweet sheet for one more response to our

776
00:38:34,400 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: question if the Bills build a championship roster, mister he says,

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00:38:37,719 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: if Josh plays well, yes, if not, no, it'll all

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00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 1: depend on him. Everything around him is championship caliber. Okay,

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00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 1: that's a little harsh, but there's an element of truth.

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00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:51,799
Speaker 1: There's even you know, it'll be said, It's already been

781
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: said a couple of times, and it'll be said right

782
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 1: now again. The season is really about Josh, isn't It's

783
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,320
Speaker 1: all about Josh, and you hate to think it is

784
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: all about one player, but in this case, in the

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00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 1: quarterback case, he's the guy who has the most at

786
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: stake and the guy who can have the biggest impact

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00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 1: of what kind of season the Bills have. Correct. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think so, And I think one of the reasons

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00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: they didn't score enough points last year was the fact

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00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,720
Speaker 1: that they that he left too many plays on the field.

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00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: Certainly he made some plays that nobody else would make,

792
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: and those are the ones that you know, kind of

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00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: keep us invested in Josh. Plus the fact that he

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00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: makes the plays we know he can make, and he's

795
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: doing that more and more consistently. But until he takes

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00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,560
Speaker 1: until we see with our own eyes the work that

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00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 1: he's done to make himself better, that's all a question mark.

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00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: But certainly you got to think the people around him

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00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,400
Speaker 1: are better. The defense is going to continue to be

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00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: to be solid, if not elite, and so it remains

801
00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 1: to be seeing the progress that Josh Allen has made.

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00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 1: He's the one piece on this roster that that has

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00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 1: not changed that we feel like needs to play better.

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00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 1: And and that's why. And he's at the focal point

805
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,240
Speaker 1: of everything. You know, I can get it where people

806
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: and the tweet sheet indicates that that's where he's coming from,

807
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: Like I got to see it from Josh. I got that.

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Speaker 1: But I think one of the reasons why you and

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00:40:12,840 --> 00:40:15,319
Speaker 1: I and we're not overly confident, but why I feel

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00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: pretty good about Josh's prospect this year is because he's

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Speaker 1: improved from year one day year two, there was significant improvement.

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00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,240
Speaker 1: Maybe it's not smart thing to do, but I expect

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Speaker 1: more of that kind of improvement going into this year,

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Speaker 1: don't you. I think he get better and I think

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Speaker 1: they will get even better this year. I do too.

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00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 1: I think I think he'll be up. I would anticipate

817
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:39,120
Speaker 1: another step forward in his completion percentage, maybe from getting

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Speaker 1: it from fifty eight where it was last year, to

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Speaker 1: sixty two this year, maybe sixty three. He went from

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Speaker 1: fifty two the year before to fifty eight last year.

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Speaker 1: If he makes that same percentage jump another five, five

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Speaker 1: or six percent, that's where it's going to be, sixty

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Speaker 1: three sixty four percent. If that happens, I think this

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00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:04,960
Speaker 1: team gets exponentially better because of the improvements they've made

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00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: in their defense remaining solid. So I Josh doesn't have

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00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:13,279
Speaker 1: to turn into Joe Montana or Jim Kelly or Dan

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00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,600
Speaker 1: Marino overnight. You just gotta get better than he's gotta

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00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:18,880
Speaker 1: be Josh Allen and get better and play better, and

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Speaker 1: if he does that, the team will get huge benefit

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00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,359
Speaker 1: from huge benefit. All Right, we got a break here

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Speaker 1: and we're back with more and one goes Live presented

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Speaker 1: about Collat of Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio Welcome

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00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,040
Speaker 1: downes Lie about John Murphy. Was Steve Tasker here until

834
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Speaker 1: three o'clock today. We've got a couple of good guests

835
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Speaker 1: coming up. Cynthia Freeland joins us at two o'clock today.

836
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Speaker 1: We've got the quarterback Jake from coming up at one

837
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Speaker 1: thirty and coming up in just a couple of minutes,

838
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: Armando so Gerol to talk about the Miami Errol. You

839
00:41:55,719 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: know Brian Patch junior is a native of Fort Lauderdale.

840
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 1: Is Dan longtime play and coach with the h with

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00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. He might have something to say about

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00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 1: Brian Cox Junior. Huh. And and maybe Armando he's been

843
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 1: around a while, he probably gets it. Why it's a

844
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: little funny that the Bills would sign Brian cox Son,

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00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: don't you think, Steve? I think so, yeah, I think

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00:42:13,480 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 1: I think that's we got to ask him about that

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00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:20,240
Speaker 1: for right off the bat. Yeah. Yeah. He was probably

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00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: there when Brian cox made his entry coming down the

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Speaker 1: tunnel at the new era of field back then rich

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Speaker 1: Stadium and made quite an impression on everybody. I think

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00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,799
Speaker 1: he was fine for that one. Oh, yeah, you can't

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Speaker 1: come out on the field. But you never came out

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00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:35,239
Speaker 1: the field back that way, did you? No? No, I

854
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: took the same tunnel. I just didn't do a double

855
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:42,320
Speaker 1: gun salute. What do you think I was thinking? I

856
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:43,719
Speaker 1: was going to ask you about this because it's a

857
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: coming down. It's coming I keep forgetting. We're late late

858
00:42:46,960 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: in aprils, the twenty ninth of April today. Yeah, they're

859
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:52,960
Speaker 1: saying that schedules coming out May ninth. You think that's

860
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:56,000
Speaker 1: going to happen. I think it'll be before that. Look,

861
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 1: May ninth is a week from Saturday. I think the

862
00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:00,239
Speaker 1: schedules coming out next week? And what about all the

863
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 1: what about all the theories that you know they're gonna

864
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:04,359
Speaker 1: have it so they can shorten it and we'll take

865
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 1: the buye weeks out and then there's now we're here,

866
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 1: and then maybe they'll move the Super Bowl around back

867
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 1: or forward. Whatever. Do you think they're going to come

868
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:15,439
Speaker 1: out with the at first? I would think they're gonna

869
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:17,239
Speaker 1: come out with the schedule just like they always do.

870
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,399
Speaker 1: It's gonna be look the same, start, the same, all

871
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: of that, right, Yeah, I think next you know, next

872
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,400
Speaker 1: week sometime. Yeah, all the stuff we're hearing about, you know,

873
00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 1: all the the the alternative schedules. I think that'll happen later, right,

874
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 1: they'll just throw that out later and they'll start work

875
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: as soon as they release the real schedule or the

876
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:41,000
Speaker 1: the original schedule, then they'll go back to the drawing

877
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: board and start working on alternatives. Right. Well, yeah, one

878
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: of the things that was discussed was releasing a full

879
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 1: sixteen game schedule and having to be flexible enough to

880
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 1: remove the first four games, the first maybe six games,

881
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:56,960
Speaker 1: and that is still to be decided. Sports Business Journal says, um,

882
00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 1: you know, they do think the schedule is going to

883
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: come out next week. They're talking about next Thursday, which

884
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:04,800
Speaker 1: would be what a week from a week from tomorrow.

885
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:07,480
Speaker 1: But they also say this regular season may not begin

886
00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: until October fifteenth. They push the Super and they push

887
00:44:11,080 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl back to the end of February, push

888
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: back three weeks from February seventh. Again, you know, there's

889
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,480
Speaker 1: no plan for this yet. But these are all speculation.

890
00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:22,800
Speaker 1: Sports Business Journal pretty responsible group. They may have some

891
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:26,479
Speaker 1: they may have tapped into where the NFL is thinking.

892
00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:29,799
Speaker 1: I think these individual teams, including your Buffalo Bills, they

893
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,040
Speaker 1: are kind of waiting for that to happen before they

894
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 1: make any plans. What's coming up, you know, and how

895
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: many games there will be, will fans be involved or not?

896
00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:39,920
Speaker 1: If they wait, you know, the schedule will come out.

897
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:43,040
Speaker 1: And if they wait, to say for a while and

898
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: see what October fifteenth looks like. That's one way to

899
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:48,479
Speaker 1: do it, play a shortened schedule. They could also start

900
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 1: playing games without fans there the first couple of weeks,

901
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: which would be unfortunate, But I think it's still workable. Steed, Well,

902
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: I think too. I'll give you an idea. I asked

903
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,839
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott last night on that Zoom call with all

904
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:03,399
Speaker 1: those alove my guys, you know how short a time

905
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:06,640
Speaker 1: could you take to get your team ready? I mean,

906
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 1: what a thing? You know? How short has been he's

907
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 1: and he told us, he said, my thought has always

908
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: been what we really need is two weeks of practice,

909
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 1: two preseason games, maybe a third, probably not, and then

910
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,640
Speaker 1: just start playing, you know, to a month is what

911
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 1: he's saying. Two weeks of practice, a preseason game, another

912
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: preseason game, and then the next week tee it up.

913
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: And I think most from my experience thirteen years in

914
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: the league, and all the games that I've seen in

915
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:43,720
Speaker 1: the preseasons we've been through. That to me sounds perfect.

916
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: And I think most guys would agree with that exact schedule.

917
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: Two weeks practice once you start training camp to be

918
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 1: training camp, two weeks preseason game, preseason game, regular season.

919
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:59,720
Speaker 1: I think that could work very well for most teams

920
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 1: to get there where they feel like they could line

921
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 1: up and do everything they want to do on the

922
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:09,879
Speaker 1: regular season opening day. But now, and that he didn't

923
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: say anything about, you know, the OTAs and the mini

924
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:18,239
Speaker 1: camps and all that. But if all the teams were

925
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 1: forced to leave that out, all of those preseason and

926
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:26,919
Speaker 1: offseason workouts and practices and walkthroughs and team building exercises,

927
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,359
Speaker 1: and everybody started on the same day two weeks before

928
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:33,320
Speaker 1: the first preseason game, I think they'd all go for it.

929
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 1: I think they could all make it work and we

930
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 1: would probably not notice a big difference in the level

931
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: of play. And that's what and I got that feeling.

932
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: That's from his answer last night to that question of

933
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:51,719
Speaker 1: how small window he would need. And McDermott said, hey,

934
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 1: two weeks the practice, two preseason games, and let's go.

935
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 1: You know, um labor day in September this year is

936
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: September seven, kind of eight. So the season would normally

937
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 1: start September thirteenth. So if they don't play the thirteenth,

938
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:07,719
Speaker 1: the weekend of the thirteenth to twentieth, twenty seventh, and

939
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,600
Speaker 1: the fourth, that's four weeks. They could have a twelve

940
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: game schedule to start October twelfth. That would be workable,

941
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:15,840
Speaker 1: I think, and that would get you know, maybe the

942
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 1: Bills go to camp the first week is September. Of

943
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 1: those two weeks you talk about, play a couple of

944
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 1: preseason games, they probably wouldn't look anything like preseason games

945
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:25,319
Speaker 1: we're customed to do. They may not allow fans at

946
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,399
Speaker 1: those preseason games. Maybe they played those preseason games unless

947
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:30,600
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks of September, and then start the

948
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:35,120
Speaker 1: normal schedule, the twelve game schedule a little bit later

949
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: into October. I wonder if there's a provision in the

950
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 1: CBA about what that would do to players salaries, what

951
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:49,920
Speaker 1: a twelve game schedule, Yeah, because they may not they

952
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 1: may not have made provision for the whatever link to

953
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:56,839
Speaker 1: the season. So if a player is going to play

954
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 1: the season, whatever that link to that season is, they

955
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 1: get their salary, which would be whatever number that is

956
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: on the contract, whether it's a sixteen game schedule or

957
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 1: a twelve game schedule, you know what I mean. I

958
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:09,800
Speaker 1: don't know that the CBA would be set up for

959
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:15,839
Speaker 1: that kind of you know, abnormality. Yeah, certainly, they gotta

960
00:48:15,920 --> 00:48:18,719
Speaker 1: certainly to see the players union will be you know,

961
00:48:18,920 --> 00:48:21,440
Speaker 1: advised and part of the conversation when they try and

962
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:24,400
Speaker 1: get this thing done. But that's that's a question I

963
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:28,240
Speaker 1: would have because that's exactly the first place a player's

964
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 1: mind will go. If I'm playing games games, even though

965
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 1: I'm only playing in twelve right if yeah, I mean

966
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 1: I signed a contract for the season. You know, but

967
00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: as a gesture a good will, don't you think it

968
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: would make sense of the play No, don't laugh. If

969
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:44,600
Speaker 1: players said, yeah, okay, I'll take three quarters of my

970
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 1: salary as opposed to the entire thing. Uh this one time,

971
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 1: it would that would be a gesture a good will.

972
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that will happen, but everybody else has

973
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: taken pay cuts and making a gesture of good will

974
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 1: for the league paid him for the season. Two. That's true,

975
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 1: that's true. We out of ourselves. We'll see what Garro

976
00:49:04,200 --> 00:49:06,839
Speaker 1: says about this. He is a columnist for the Miami Herald.

977
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:09,240
Speaker 1: He's going to join us next to talk about the Dolphins,

978
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 1: their draft, about Brian Cox Junior, anything at all from

979
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:14,879
Speaker 1: Armando Segaro. He's pretty good at this. We're coming back

980
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:17,720
Speaker 1: with that One Bills Live presented by KLADA Health Radio

981
00:49:17,800 --> 00:49:25,720
Speaker 1: only today. This is Buffalo Bills Radio, Bills Radio Network

982
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:30,200
Speaker 1: Sports Update Jim Date from One Bills Live. The Bills

983
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:33,320
Speaker 1: have added a defensive end of free agent Brian Cox Junior.

984
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 1: His father played linebacker for the Dolphins. He Brian Cox

985
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 1: Junior most recently played for the Cleveland Browns last year

986
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:42,880
Speaker 1: six games, half a sack, twelve tackles. He played a

987
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 1: little bit with the Carolina Panthers. He was an undrafted

988
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 1: free agent out of the University of Florida in twenty seventeen.

989
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 1: Brian Cox Junior added to the Buffalo Bills roster today.

990
00:49:52,239 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: The NFL planned found releasing his schedule next week. A

991
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 1: report from Sports Business Journal says the regular season may

992
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 1: not begin until October fifteenth. The Super Bowl could be

993
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:04,719
Speaker 1: delayed until February twenty eighth, pushing back the Super Bowl

994
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:07,719
Speaker 1: in Tampa from February seventh through February twenty eighth is

995
00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 1: a possibility, and it would involve no Pro Bowl as well.

996
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:13,760
Speaker 1: The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,

997
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:16,760
Speaker 1: Anthony Fauci, said the country is not ready for sports

998
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:19,839
Speaker 1: to make a return with the coronavirus pandemic. He says

999
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:22,040
Speaker 1: the league should be ready to go without the sport

1000
00:50:22,120 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 1: for this season. He did an interview with The New

1001
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:26,800
Speaker 1: York Times. Fauci, one of the White House leading experts

1002
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,840
Speaker 1: on the Coronavirus Task Force, says safety for the players

1003
00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:32,360
Speaker 1: and for the fans. Trump's everything when it comes to

1004
00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:34,839
Speaker 1: the question of whether sporting events should be held soon.

1005
00:50:35,160 --> 00:50:38,320
Speaker 1: Chief medical officers from major sports leagues participated in a

1006
00:50:38,400 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 1: call yesterday with a White House Coronavirus Task Force member.

1007
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 1: The call, according to a White House official, was to

1008
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: go over house sports play a role in the President's

1009
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: plan for opening up America amid the pandemic. Quarterback Kamis Winston,

1010
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 1: officially headed to the New Orleans Saints, reached a one

1011
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,560
Speaker 1: year deal yesterday. The deal with the base value of

1012
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:58,439
Speaker 1: one point one million dollars. He was the overall number

1013
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:01,480
Speaker 1: one pick in the twenty fifteen NFL Draft displaced in

1014
00:51:01,560 --> 00:51:04,399
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay when the Buck signed Tom Brady last month,

1015
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 1: and Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Bashad Brilin was arrested on

1016
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 1: multiple charges in South Carolina overnight, released from bail late

1017
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:15,480
Speaker 1: last night on bond. He's twenty eight years old, faces

1018
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 1: charges of resisting arrest, having an alcohol on a motor vehicle,

1019
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:22,240
Speaker 1: and a number of other chargers. Bishop Blan has been released.

1020
00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 1: Brillan has been released on bail. And there you go.

1021
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:26,960
Speaker 1: That is the update from one Deal's lid. Ready for

1022
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,600
Speaker 1: our number two, John Murphy's Team Tasker, coming to you

1023
00:51:29,760 --> 00:51:32,839
Speaker 1: from Radio Only today from our homes. Our producer Jay

1024
00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 1: Harris is in his own joining us on the line

1025
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 1: right now to get a look at what the Miami

1026
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 1: Dolphins did last weekend in the draft and what's coming

1027
00:51:39,040 --> 00:51:42,080
Speaker 1: up with the Dolphins. Happy to have Armando Salgaro, pro

1028
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:46,320
Speaker 1: football columnist for Miami Herald, the Is Radio dot Com insider,

1029
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 1: and a Pro Football Hall of Fame voter, Armando. Hope

1030
00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:50,799
Speaker 1: you're well, Hope you're healthy. Thanks coming on with us today.

1031
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 1: I'm at my home too, John. Yeah, that's the way,

1032
00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:59,239
Speaker 1: it's the way. As they say about too much. It's

1033
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 1: the new normal, isn't it. Everybody works from home. I

1034
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:04,239
Speaker 1: kinda like it, at least until the start of the

1035
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:07,920
Speaker 1: next month. There you go, Armando, before we get to

1036
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:11,879
Speaker 1: the draft, I'm wondering with your South Florida roots, if

1037
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,279
Speaker 1: you know much about Brian Cox Junior, a product of

1038
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 1: the Ford Lauderdale school system. Of course, we know his

1039
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:19,840
Speaker 1: father very well up here. Brian Cox Senior made a

1040
00:52:19,960 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 1: memorable entry into the stadium and Archer Park back in

1041
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: the day. What's Brian Cox Junior all about. Yeah, that's

1042
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:34,400
Speaker 1: that's very ironic. And yes, Brian Cox Junior went to

1043
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:40,239
Speaker 1: Saint Thomas Aquinas down here in South Florida, and uh

1044
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,399
Speaker 1: look I was there that day when when his dad

1045
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 1: um told Buffalo that he was number one or was

1046
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:57,040
Speaker 1: that number two? If you had them all up, I

1047
00:52:57,080 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 1: think it's number eleven. Yeah, yeah, number eleven. And that's it.

1048
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:07,640
Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, so interesting stuff is. Look, let's let's

1049
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 1: talk about DNA for a second. Okay, if we're talking DNA,

1050
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:26,400
Speaker 1: Brian Brian Senior was a strong willed, loyal, competitive, do everything,

1051
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 1: work hard guy, and his son is cut from the

1052
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:37,719
Speaker 1: same cloth. So I can't speak to Junior's football acumen

1053
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: other than I can speak to the family character acumen,

1054
00:53:43,880 --> 00:53:47,839
Speaker 1: and that's you know what you're gonna get. Everything else,

1055
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 1: you know, that will be worked out down the road

1056
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 1: and in training, camping, in games. But as far as

1057
00:53:55,280 --> 00:54:00,640
Speaker 1: character is concerned, Home Run did tell the bran or

1058
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:04,279
Speaker 1: telling Armando your story about the Charlie Joyner's approach to

1059
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:07,399
Speaker 1: Brian Cox Senior back in the day, Yeah, Armando, we had.

1060
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 1: We were watching game film getting ready for a Miami game,

1061
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: and of course Brian was getting thrown out of the

1062
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:15,359
Speaker 1: game just about every other week. And the story goes,

1063
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:18,360
Speaker 1: we were watching and somebody the team that we were

1064
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:20,879
Speaker 1: watching Miami play on film. There you know, we're playing.

1065
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:22,560
Speaker 1: I was on the offensive side of the balls. We're

1066
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:25,239
Speaker 1: watching Miami's defense, and they gave up an explosive play,

1067
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:28,560
Speaker 1: a long play, and as the player was running down

1068
00:54:28,640 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 1: the field all by himself, there was only one Miami

1069
00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: dolphin giving chase and it was Brian Cox and he

1070
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 1: did not stop chasing that player until the player was

1071
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 1: well into the end zone. And you know, we all

1072
00:54:45,800 --> 00:54:49,120
Speaker 1: sat there and for all Brian's you know antics, you know,

1073
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: getting tossed out of games and having a temper like

1074
00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 1: he did. Our coach, I think it was it was

1075
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:57,879
Speaker 1: Charlie Joyner at the time, turned to our room and said, hey, guys,

1076
00:54:57,920 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 1: you may he may have a hot head, he may

1077
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:02,360
Speaker 1: get tossed out once in a while, but that's the

1078
00:55:02,480 --> 00:55:04,280
Speaker 1: kind of guy you wish you had on your team.

1079
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:06,680
Speaker 1: And we had a lot of respect for Brian despite

1080
00:55:06,719 --> 00:55:10,040
Speaker 1: the fact that Buffalo fans hated his guts, we had

1081
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:11,959
Speaker 1: a lot of respect and knew how great a player

1082
00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:16,240
Speaker 1: he was. Yeah, now, you know, that's a great story,

1083
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:19,840
Speaker 1: it really is. And I would say to you that

1084
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 1: when that happened, he was in his second or third

1085
00:55:25,239 --> 00:55:29,120
Speaker 1: year with the Dolphins and he was already the defensive

1086
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: leader of that team and probably the heartbeat of that team.

1087
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 1: And that team had Dan Marino on it, so you know,

1088
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:40,239
Speaker 1: it speaks to the respect that he had in the

1089
00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:44,279
Speaker 1: locker room. And yes, he had you know, he had

1090
00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:49,399
Speaker 1: anger issues, he had temper problems. You know what, Don

1091
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 1: Shula loved it because before Brian Cox, the late nineties

1092
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 1: and early sorry, the late eighties and early nineties Dolphins,

1093
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:02,359
Speaker 1: they had this reputation as kind of a being up

1094
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:05,839
Speaker 1: in that team. Uh, We're not gonna throw Pat run

1095
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:09,040
Speaker 1: the ball. We're gonna throw it. You know, we're gonna

1096
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 1: do the easy stuff. We're gonna bend but not break

1097
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:16,719
Speaker 1: on defense. Brian Cox came in and suddenly, oh, well,

1098
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 1: some toughness by the Dolphins. Who would have thunk it.

1099
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:24,839
Speaker 1: So that's that was the difference there. With Armando se

1100
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:28,560
Speaker 1: Garret Folk Football Colonies for the Miami Herald, Armando that

1101
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:30,879
Speaker 1: the Dolphins may or may not have tanked last year,

1102
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 1: but they got their guy. Maybe they didn't need the tank. Huh, well,

1103
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:39,920
Speaker 1: may or may not have. I don't. They definitely did,

1104
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:43,480
Speaker 1: I mean not on the field, but that wasn't them

1105
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: doing the best that they could when they put that

1106
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:49,960
Speaker 1: roster together, and absolutely it worked out because Tank for

1107
00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:54,200
Speaker 1: Tua delivered Tuah and now you know he is the

1108
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:59,040
Speaker 1: the guy that is supposed to be that guy. This

1109
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:02,440
Speaker 1: is really the first first time that the Dolphins have

1110
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:07,839
Speaker 1: drafted a player at quarterback that people are expecting will,

1111
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:11,719
Speaker 1: in fact, you know, pick up the mantle that was

1112
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:16,360
Speaker 1: laid down by Dan Marino. They've they've been through multiple

1113
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 1: times where they signed guys like Dante Culpepper and people

1114
00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 1: were talking about super Bowls and before the season, and

1115
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:27,960
Speaker 1: then the season started and people were not talking about

1116
00:57:28,040 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 1: Super Bowls anymore. This is a draft pick, this is

1117
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:35,919
Speaker 1: their own, this is their body of work, and let's

1118
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:39,640
Speaker 1: see what happens. And they did. I mean, they really

1119
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:41,440
Speaker 1: seemed too. And I know we were sitting up here

1120
00:57:41,440 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 1: in Buffalo with no first round pick, and you know

1121
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 1: with every passing pick from two attack of Yela to

1122
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:52,040
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson. To know how Iggy from Auburn, the cornerback,

1123
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:56,480
Speaker 1: the Dolphins got significantly better after the Day one of

1124
00:57:56,520 --> 00:57:59,880
Speaker 1: the draft, did they not? I like how you got

1125
00:58:00,200 --> 00:58:05,600
Speaker 1: out of saying IgG Beniginy I like that, Noah, Iggy

1126
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 1: very good. Steves Asker, well done. I got I gotta.

1127
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 1: I gotta steal that from you, to be honest with you. Yeah,

1128
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 1: they obviously. You know, they had fourteen picks when the

1129
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:22,160
Speaker 1: draft started. Eventually they finished with eleven and they used

1130
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:25,800
Speaker 1: one another one to trade for Matt Brita from San Francisco,

1131
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 1: the running back. So um, they believe that they're better.

1132
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:34,920
Speaker 1: They better be better. After you've got three first round picks,

1133
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 1: five picks in the top seventy selections, and eleven picks overall.

1134
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 1: If you're not better, you're fired, Armando the two of her.

1135
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:48,960
Speaker 1: A second, I heard somebody describe his status in Miami

1136
00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 1: is he'll get a medical red shirt year in his

1137
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:54,000
Speaker 1: rookie year. Is that the way to look at it?

1138
00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 1: I mean, will they play fits on year or we'll

1139
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:58,720
Speaker 1: two get a chance to play in his rookie year. Well,

1140
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:03,600
Speaker 1: TWA says he's ready to play, but the coaching staff,

1141
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 1: Brian Flores, has not said what the strategy is going

1142
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:14,040
Speaker 1: to be. My guest, my educated guess, is the TA

1143
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:16,960
Speaker 1: is going to go into training camp and they'll take

1144
00:59:17,000 --> 00:59:20,680
Speaker 1: it slow with him, and they'll ease him in and

1145
00:59:20,840 --> 00:59:24,440
Speaker 1: if he can practice, he'll practice. And if he can

1146
00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 1: play in the preseason, he'll play in the preseason Lake

1147
00:59:29,080 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 1: and we'll see how it goes. This is a one

1148
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:35,440
Speaker 1: day at a time organization. They don't get too far

1149
00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:38,800
Speaker 1: ahead of themselves. As far as we're gonna name two

1150
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:42,760
Speaker 1: of the starter for twenty twenty one, although he'd better

1151
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 1: be the starter for twenty twenty one. But as far

1152
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:51,000
Speaker 1: as what is going to happen this September when the

1153
00:59:51,120 --> 00:59:54,720
Speaker 1: games begin for real, then I would say to you

1154
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 1: that is not a certainty. But if I hazard a guess, Yes,

1155
01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick is the starter for the Dolphins. What have I

1156
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:08,440
Speaker 1: know that they've been asked? Brian Flores and the brass

1157
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 1: who drafted to have been asked how did they answer

1158
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:14,720
Speaker 1: the questions about to his health and the fact that

1159
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:18,520
Speaker 1: so far it could not have been better, but given

1160
01:00:18,640 --> 01:00:22,480
Speaker 1: his history and the massive nature the hip injury, you know,

1161
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:26,400
Speaker 1: what's their take on how do they answer those questions? Yeah,

1162
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:30,280
Speaker 1: they said that they're comfortable with it, and general manager

1163
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:35,720
Speaker 1: Chris Greer talked about how there have been players that

1164
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:40,160
Speaker 1: he's been associated with and seen that were drafted with

1165
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:44,880
Speaker 1: an injury history, like Curtis Martin who then didn't show

1166
01:00:45,000 --> 01:00:48,800
Speaker 1: that history in the NFL. There were players that were

1167
01:00:48,920 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 1: drafted that didn't have a history of injuries in college,

1168
01:00:53,720 --> 01:00:57,720
Speaker 1: like Jake Long, and after his third year it was

1169
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:03,040
Speaker 1: a physical mess, one injury after another. So they just

1170
01:01:03,280 --> 01:01:07,919
Speaker 1: basically decided that we're gonna go with the right now

1171
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:12,400
Speaker 1: and worry about, you know, the three years from now?

1172
01:01:12,960 --> 01:01:16,760
Speaker 1: Three years from now rely with Armando saw Garo Pro

1173
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:20,160
Speaker 1: Football column is for the Miami Herald. You wrote, Armando

1174
01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:24,320
Speaker 1: a nice column about the Dolphins draft, and you point

1175
01:01:24,360 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 1: out that for years, the Dolphins have promised to rebuild

1176
01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:29,640
Speaker 1: their offensive line. But they really did it, didn't They

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01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:32,320
Speaker 1: With Austin Jackson in the first round and Robert Hunt

1178
01:01:32,360 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 1: in the second round and the free agent signing. I

1179
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:38,840
Speaker 1: mean they are committed to providing protection for two or

1180
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:41,000
Speaker 1: fits if he plays this year, right, they actually went

1181
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:44,040
Speaker 1: out and did it this time. Yeah? Absolutely. They signed

1182
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:48,440
Speaker 1: Ted Carross. Also you mentioned the free agent signing. They

1183
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:52,240
Speaker 1: signed Ted Carriss to started center for them. He was

1184
01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:55,240
Speaker 1: on New England last year. In the fourth round, they

1185
01:01:55,360 --> 01:01:59,720
Speaker 1: drafted Solomon Kinley, who's a guard out of Georgia. So

1186
01:02:00,160 --> 01:02:05,880
Speaker 1: they've done work to improve that offensive line. And I

1187
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 1: didn't even mention Eric Flowers, who they signed from Washington

1188
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:12,440
Speaker 1: as a free agent to be their starting left card.

1189
01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:16,680
Speaker 1: It's kind of stealing a page from the Buffalo Bills.

1190
01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:21,040
Speaker 1: I guess last year was it where they added like

1191
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:25,920
Speaker 1: ten guys on the offensive line. So yeah, the Dolphins,

1192
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:31,320
Speaker 1: they've had a hole in that wall for years and

1193
01:02:31,560 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 1: years and years. And at one point when they drafted

1194
01:02:35,640 --> 01:02:40,200
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill in twenty twelve. In twenty sixteen, when the

1195
01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:44,440
Speaker 1: season began, no one had been sacked more and taken

1196
01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 1: more hits at quarterback than Ryan Tannehill. That tells you

1197
01:02:49,520 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 1: something about how the Dolphins addressed the offensive line, and

1198
01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:57,960
Speaker 1: that tells you something about the need to address that

1199
01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:02,600
Speaker 1: offensive line. How do you think this roster stands? Now?

1200
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:05,320
Speaker 1: Are there any gaping holes that you see or you're

1201
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:08,360
Speaker 1: any question marks about where they might head next? I mean,

1202
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:12,160
Speaker 1: after all those draft picks, certainly you've got at least

1203
01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:16,040
Speaker 1: some answers to the questions if indeed they need still

1204
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:18,800
Speaker 1: need to prove it. Oh yeah, they're going to the

1205
01:03:18,880 --> 01:03:28,400
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. No, Okay, no they're not. They have problems.

1206
01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:32,440
Speaker 1: They need places where they need to upgrade. They have

1207
01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:37,840
Speaker 1: spots like running back where they signed Jordan Howard and

1208
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:40,919
Speaker 1: they traded for Matt Brita, and those are one year

1209
01:03:41,760 --> 01:03:44,240
Speaker 1: kind of plug in plague kind of guys. They're going

1210
01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:47,920
Speaker 1: to be addressing that in the future. They've done a

1211
01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:53,560
Speaker 1: lot of faith and praying and hoping that their wide

1212
01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:59,880
Speaker 1: receivers stay healthy. Because of their wide receiver group, DeVante Parker,

1213
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:06,680
Speaker 1: Albert Wilson and you know that Jachim Grant, they've all

1214
01:04:06,840 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 1: been injured and significantly injured in the last three years.

1215
01:04:11,720 --> 01:04:15,960
Speaker 1: Preston Williams is another guy, a rookie last year who

1216
01:04:16,120 --> 01:04:18,240
Speaker 1: was lost for the season with a knee injury. So

1217
01:04:19,160 --> 01:04:22,920
Speaker 1: they've got multiple guys playing wide receiver and making up

1218
01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:26,400
Speaker 1: the bulk of their wide receiver room, all of them

1219
01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:31,120
Speaker 1: with significant injury histories. Armando saw Gero from Mi Miami

1220
01:04:31,200 --> 01:04:33,080
Speaker 1: Herald is on the line with us after the draft

1221
01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 1: last weekend, Armando, you wrote the column that said, hey,

1222
01:04:36,360 --> 01:04:38,720
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are catching up. They're closing quickly on the

1223
01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 1: top of the division, including the Bills and the Jets

1224
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:44,720
Speaker 1: and the Patriots for that matter. That the great imageries,

1225
01:04:44,760 --> 01:04:48,080
Speaker 1: the object in the rearview mirror is the Dolphins closing fast.

1226
01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:51,200
Speaker 1: But you don't sound like you think they'll pass many

1227
01:04:51,280 --> 01:04:54,520
Speaker 1: of any of those teams this year. Huh yeah, because

1228
01:04:55,240 --> 01:04:57,960
Speaker 1: the other part of that column was, but they have

1229
01:04:58,160 --> 01:05:02,280
Speaker 1: the most ground to make up of anybody. Uh you know,

1230
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 1: let's not forget they were a bad team last year.

1231
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:11,520
Speaker 1: I mean a bad team, and so yeah, they're better,

1232
01:05:12,080 --> 01:05:15,600
Speaker 1: They're they're way better, but they're coming from way back

1233
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:18,640
Speaker 1: in the pack. They're like, uh, you know, they're gonna

1234
01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:22,520
Speaker 1: have to be Kip Kano to to pass somebody. Uh,

1235
01:05:23,400 --> 01:05:25,600
Speaker 1: I'm probably showing my age aren't I And I was like,

1236
01:05:27,800 --> 01:05:33,520
Speaker 1: uh yeah, uh so it's not like they're gonna flip

1237
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:37,520
Speaker 1: a switch. And suddenly the Dolphins who added you know,

1238
01:05:37,720 --> 01:05:42,600
Speaker 1: ten free agents and eleven draft picks, they're gonna be awesome.

1239
01:05:43,280 --> 01:05:46,960
Speaker 1: They're they're gonna be better. But I don't know what

1240
01:05:47,200 --> 01:05:51,960
Speaker 1: better means when you're five and eleven the year before Armando.

1241
01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:55,880
Speaker 1: The four quarterbacks in the division are you know, two

1242
01:05:55,920 --> 01:06:00,240
Speaker 1: attack of Iloa, Josh Allen, Sam Darnold and Jared's did

1243
01:06:00,280 --> 01:06:05,919
Speaker 1: him so far cry from where it was and has

1244
01:06:06,000 --> 01:06:08,080
Speaker 1: been back in the day. How do you think all

1245
01:06:08,160 --> 01:06:10,680
Speaker 1: four of these young quarterbacks are going to evolve? Where

1246
01:06:10,680 --> 01:06:13,160
Speaker 1: do you think it shakes out? And are we gonna

1247
01:06:13,200 --> 01:06:18,680
Speaker 1: see maybe these four guys for a decade. I think

1248
01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:22,520
Speaker 1: that what you're gonna see the short term is the following.

1249
01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:26,480
Speaker 1: So Tua is probably not gonna show a lot this

1250
01:06:26,680 --> 01:06:29,680
Speaker 1: year because he might not even play a lot this year.

1251
01:06:30,520 --> 01:06:35,640
Speaker 1: Stidham has a year of honing under Josh McDaniels and

1252
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:41,680
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and and uh you know Belichick, and I

1253
01:06:42,000 --> 01:06:46,040
Speaker 1: think he might just surprise some people at how efficient

1254
01:06:46,600 --> 01:06:51,200
Speaker 1: and proficient he is. Sam Darnald Adam Gays thinks Sam

1255
01:06:51,320 --> 01:06:54,280
Speaker 1: Darnald hit a point last year after he came back

1256
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:58,320
Speaker 1: from the mono where he just got it. They got

1257
01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:01,360
Speaker 1: hot at the end of the season, and Gaye believes

1258
01:07:01,440 --> 01:07:05,200
Speaker 1: that they're going to be in very good hands because

1259
01:07:05,320 --> 01:07:08,800
Speaker 1: Sam Donald is on, you know, of the ascent, and

1260
01:07:08,960 --> 01:07:14,520
Speaker 1: obviously Josh went to the playoffs, so you know, now

1261
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:17,960
Speaker 1: the question is you're in the playoffs, you're playing the

1262
01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:21,240
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. Are you making a play late in the

1263
01:07:21,360 --> 01:07:25,680
Speaker 1: game to win the game instead of watching the other

1264
01:07:25,800 --> 01:07:30,280
Speaker 1: quarterback win the game? Harmondo. Last question I have for

1265
01:07:30,360 --> 01:07:32,840
Speaker 1: you is about the head coach, Brian Flores. Obviously an

1266
01:07:32,880 --> 01:07:36,720
Speaker 1: impressive rookie year. Does he the right stuff to continue

1267
01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:40,240
Speaker 1: on and to take this next step for the Miami Dolphins,

1268
01:07:40,320 --> 01:07:42,920
Speaker 1: And more importantly, does he have the faith and confidence

1269
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:46,240
Speaker 1: of ownership that he's the right guy. Well, he definitely

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01:07:46,360 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 1: has the faith and confidence of ownership. Steve Ross, the owner,

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01:07:50,080 --> 01:07:53,280
Speaker 1: has told me I've got my coach, and what he

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01:07:53,360 --> 01:07:56,080
Speaker 1: means by that is I found, like, you know, a

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01:07:56,240 --> 01:07:59,720
Speaker 1: good one. He also said the same thing about Adam

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01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:03,480
Speaker 1: gay He also said the same thing about Joe Philbin.

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01:08:03,640 --> 01:08:06,480
Speaker 1: So take that with a grain of salt and you're

1276
01:08:06,480 --> 01:08:10,880
Speaker 1: asking me about Brian Flores. He had a good first

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01:08:10,920 --> 01:08:13,600
Speaker 1: season with the Dolphins, even though they were five and eleven,

1278
01:08:13,720 --> 01:08:18,840
Speaker 1: because he turned a really bad roster into, you know,

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01:08:19,080 --> 01:08:23,639
Speaker 1: a representative team late in the year. They won five

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01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:27,599
Speaker 1: out of their last nine. The problem with Dolphins coaches

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01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:31,880
Speaker 1: of late, and not just of late. It goes back

1282
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:35,519
Speaker 1: to like two thousand and five. Nick Saban was really

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01:08:35,640 --> 01:08:39,000
Speaker 1: good his first year as a Dolphins coach and really

1284
01:08:39,160 --> 01:08:43,080
Speaker 1: terrible his second year. Tony Sperrano won the AFC East

1285
01:08:43,160 --> 01:08:46,439
Speaker 1: his first year as Dolphins coach and never was over

1286
01:08:46,600 --> 01:08:51,920
Speaker 1: five hundred again. Joe Philbin was good, that was his

1287
01:08:52,080 --> 01:08:55,400
Speaker 1: best season. His rookie year as Dolphins coach was his

1288
01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:59,640
Speaker 1: best year, and then the rest was a nightmare, including

1289
01:09:00,120 --> 01:09:05,360
Speaker 1: a Bullygate scandal in the locker room and Adam Gaze.

1290
01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:09,720
Speaker 1: His first year, he's in the playoffs and two years later,

1291
01:09:09,880 --> 01:09:15,520
Speaker 1: three years later, he's fired. So great Dolphins coaches understand

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01:09:15,640 --> 01:09:19,680
Speaker 1: the first year. Now, can Brian Flores do something that

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01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:23,240
Speaker 1: none of his past four or five predecessors have done

1294
01:09:23,760 --> 01:09:29,120
Speaker 1: and put two years back to back that are good? Armando,

1295
01:09:29,840 --> 01:09:32,840
Speaker 1: I know this preseason's gonna be weird. We don't know

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01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:36,680
Speaker 1: how it's gonna look. Do you think Flores and the

1297
01:09:37,160 --> 01:09:39,599
Speaker 1: locker room as it's constructed out, how you think they'll

1298
01:09:39,640 --> 01:09:41,200
Speaker 1: be able to come out of this and get off

1299
01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:44,200
Speaker 1: to a fast startup depending on you. Two weeks of

1300
01:09:44,320 --> 01:09:48,479
Speaker 1: practice or no mini camps, no rookie camps. Brian Flos

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01:09:48,560 --> 01:09:51,480
Speaker 1: has a year under his belt as head coach. That'll help, obviously,

1302
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:55,120
Speaker 1: But is there enough continuity inside the building for them

1303
01:09:55,200 --> 01:09:57,640
Speaker 1: to get past this quickly or are they gonna have

1304
01:09:57,720 --> 01:10:00,439
Speaker 1: too many new faces? Yeah, they're gonna have a bunch

1305
01:10:00,479 --> 01:10:04,360
Speaker 1: of new faces, including the eleven rookies. They did make

1306
01:10:04,520 --> 01:10:08,200
Speaker 1: some some provisions in that they did sign a lot

1307
01:10:08,280 --> 01:10:13,240
Speaker 1: of veterans, ten of them. A handful of those played

1308
01:10:13,320 --> 01:10:16,600
Speaker 1: for Flores in New England. So they are aware and

1309
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:19,560
Speaker 1: they know what is expected and they they you know,

1310
01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:22,280
Speaker 1: they know the system, they know what to do. So

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01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:26,400
Speaker 1: those guys aren't an issue. But this is a team

1312
01:10:26,600 --> 01:10:33,680
Speaker 1: that we just mentioned by definition, twenty two guys are

1313
01:10:33,840 --> 01:10:37,280
Speaker 1: new and they're going and they're not just new, they're

1314
01:10:37,400 --> 01:10:41,800
Speaker 1: expected to be like the leaders, the guys in the

1315
01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:46,519
Speaker 1: coming year. That's a hard that's a hard hill to climb,

1316
01:10:47,200 --> 01:10:51,040
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure that given what you know, no

1317
01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:57,320
Speaker 1: offseason program. No, no, maybe perhaps no camps, maybe a

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01:10:58,880 --> 01:11:04,479
Speaker 1: shortened training camp. That's gonna be hard. Armando, Thanks, good

1319
01:11:04,520 --> 01:11:05,800
Speaker 1: to talk to you. They're glad you're doing well. I

1320
01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:08,160
Speaker 1: hope to talk again sometime. Thank you very much. Great

1321
01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:11,280
Speaker 1: to hear from amand always my pleasure, Always my pleasure.

1322
01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:15,400
Speaker 1: Armando saw Garo Pro football columns for Miami Harold Radio

1323
01:11:15,520 --> 01:11:18,400
Speaker 1: dot Com insider talking about the Dolphins made a big

1324
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:21,240
Speaker 1: move over the weekend with their huge draft Steve. But

1325
01:11:21,360 --> 01:11:23,800
Speaker 1: I do, and we asked Armando about it, so I

1326
01:11:23,920 --> 01:11:26,200
Speaker 1: do think the coach is an interesting question. Yeah, you

1327
01:11:26,240 --> 01:11:27,880
Speaker 1: got a good first year. There's a lot more to

1328
01:11:27,960 --> 01:11:29,960
Speaker 1: it than just win in five games and maybe not

1329
01:11:30,080 --> 01:11:33,160
Speaker 1: doing as badly as as people thought. You might agree, Yeah,

1330
01:11:33,240 --> 01:11:35,439
Speaker 1: that's one of the things we missed too being in Buffalo.

1331
01:11:35,640 --> 01:11:38,439
Speaker 1: You're right, Adam Gas was really good. I'd forgotten, Joe

1332
01:11:38,479 --> 01:11:41,120
Speaker 1: Philbin was really good, Tony Sprauno, they were all really

1333
01:11:41,200 --> 01:11:44,000
Speaker 1: good in year one with Miami, and I think you're right.

1334
01:11:44,479 --> 01:11:46,680
Speaker 1: We all up here thought Brian Flo has got a

1335
01:11:46,720 --> 01:11:49,559
Speaker 1: lot more out of the Dolphins roster last year than

1336
01:11:49,760 --> 01:11:51,599
Speaker 1: was there to be gotten. He did a nice job,

1337
01:11:52,479 --> 01:11:55,200
Speaker 1: but then after they all had that great first year,

1338
01:11:56,160 --> 01:11:59,160
Speaker 1: they were all fired and in pretty short order that

1339
01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:01,800
Speaker 1: none of them got into a second contract or even

1340
01:12:01,880 --> 01:12:04,519
Speaker 1: got through the entire length of their first contract. So

1341
01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:07,200
Speaker 1: I think it's it's gonna be interesting to see if

1342
01:12:07,240 --> 01:12:09,559
Speaker 1: Brian Flores can do something that none of those other

1343
01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:12,080
Speaker 1: coaches could do and that has maintained the success he

1344
01:12:12,200 --> 01:12:14,559
Speaker 1: enjoined his first year. And by success, I don't mean

1345
01:12:14,600 --> 01:12:18,280
Speaker 1: wins and losses. I mean maximizing the guys on his roster,

1346
01:12:19,080 --> 01:12:23,960
Speaker 1: because obvious they were in a total rebuild mode last

1347
01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:26,600
Speaker 1: year under Brian Flores. The first year. Yep, Hey, the

1348
01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:28,600
Speaker 1: Bills got a quarterback to talk about. They got a

1349
01:12:28,680 --> 01:12:31,600
Speaker 1: quarterback in the fifth round last Saturday, Jake From and

1350
01:12:31,720 --> 01:12:33,559
Speaker 1: he's standing body to join us next year on the show.

1351
01:12:33,680 --> 01:12:36,200
Speaker 1: Come on back for that fifth round draft pick, Jake

1352
01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:38,599
Speaker 1: From of the Bills when we return One Goes Live

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01:12:38,720 --> 01:12:42,400
Speaker 1: presented by KLADA Health Radio Only Today. This is Buffalo

1354
01:12:42,479 --> 01:12:53,439
Speaker 1: Bills Radio Show One Goes Five. I'm John Murphy's Team

1355
01:12:53,479 --> 01:12:55,840
Speaker 1: Cansker with us coming to you from our homes Radio

1356
01:12:55,960 --> 01:12:58,880
Speaker 1: only today and joining us on the line. Buffalo's fifth

1357
01:12:59,000 --> 01:13:02,599
Speaker 1: round pick and last weekend's draft fifth round pick from Georgia,

1358
01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:06,800
Speaker 1: a familiar name, maybe an unexpected selection, but he's here now.

1359
01:13:06,800 --> 01:13:09,760
Speaker 1: He's a Buffalo Bill quarterback. Jake Fom joins us live

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01:13:09,800 --> 01:13:12,160
Speaker 1: on the line. Hello Jake, John Murphy and Steve Tasker

1361
01:13:12,240 --> 01:13:14,599
Speaker 1: on the line with how are you doing today? Hey?

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01:13:14,760 --> 01:13:17,120
Speaker 1: Doing good? Thank you guys for having me, Thanks very

1363
01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:19,320
Speaker 1: much for coming up. We had Brandon Bean on our

1364
01:13:19,360 --> 01:13:22,479
Speaker 1: show two days ago Monday, and when we asked him

1365
01:13:22,520 --> 01:13:25,240
Speaker 1: about you, the first words he described you was he's

1366
01:13:25,240 --> 01:13:27,600
Speaker 1: a winner. He's a winner. That's I can think of

1367
01:13:27,640 --> 01:13:29,719
Speaker 1: a lot worse things for a GM to say about

1368
01:13:29,760 --> 01:13:31,920
Speaker 1: a play bridge just drafted. He described you as a winner.

1369
01:13:31,960 --> 01:13:34,720
Speaker 1: That's pretty good, right, That's right, that's right. There could

1370
01:13:34,720 --> 01:13:37,439
Speaker 1: be a lot worse things. I'll thank it and hopefully

1371
01:13:37,439 --> 01:13:38,799
Speaker 1: I can make it come to your here in Buffalo.

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01:13:39,840 --> 01:13:42,000
Speaker 1: What did you know about Buffalo and how much contact

1373
01:13:42,040 --> 01:13:45,439
Speaker 1: did you have with him before the draft? Yeah, so

1374
01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:50,919
Speaker 1: we had a really awesome zoom meeting beforehand because Stable

1375
01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:55,120
Speaker 1: Church Dorsey and Coach Tierney and um, ah know, we

1376
01:13:55,200 --> 01:13:58,360
Speaker 1: went really well, um and spoke too much to combine

1377
01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:02,080
Speaker 1: and man, you know who would have thought I'm here

1378
01:14:02,200 --> 01:14:04,439
Speaker 1: and can't wait to get up and excited to get going.

1379
01:14:05,439 --> 01:14:08,040
Speaker 1: How much contact have you had with Bill's coaches or

1380
01:14:08,680 --> 01:14:12,920
Speaker 1: teammates since the draft since Saturday? Jake? Uh, Yes, since then,

1381
01:14:13,280 --> 01:14:17,479
Speaker 1: we've been working through our zoom meetings. Uh, you know,

1382
01:14:17,600 --> 01:14:22,519
Speaker 1: over playbook stuff and look forward to get in touch, um,

1383
01:14:22,800 --> 01:14:24,400
Speaker 1: you know, as soon as as soon as we can

1384
01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:27,800
Speaker 1: with teammates in the future. Have you had any calls

1385
01:14:27,840 --> 01:14:32,640
Speaker 1: from the veterans on the team. Uh. A couple of

1386
01:14:32,720 --> 01:14:35,639
Speaker 1: them reached out kind of on the on the draft,

1387
01:14:35,760 --> 01:14:40,120
Speaker 1: but nothing over any any playbook or anything football related. Um.

1388
01:14:40,280 --> 01:14:43,439
Speaker 1: Since then. I don't think rules permant that I could

1389
01:14:43,479 --> 01:14:45,439
Speaker 1: be wrong. I have no idea. I'm just trying to

1390
01:14:45,640 --> 01:14:48,519
Speaker 1: get my feet wet and figure things out. What do

1391
01:14:48,600 --> 01:14:50,800
Speaker 1: you think of the makeup of the quarterback room you'll

1392
01:14:50,800 --> 01:14:53,080
Speaker 1: be joining, Jake. I mean it's a pretty close group

1393
01:14:53,439 --> 01:14:55,880
Speaker 1: Matt Barkley and Davis Webb and Josh and and and

1394
01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:58,400
Speaker 1: of course the coach is pretty close with them as well.

1395
01:14:58,479 --> 01:15:00,360
Speaker 1: Kevin Dorsey. How do you think you'll fit in with

1396
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:03,760
Speaker 1: that group just based on the initial conversation you've had, Yeah,

1397
01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:06,280
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're understand the guys and I room

1398
01:15:06,280 --> 01:15:09,599
Speaker 1: are unbelievable, really good group. Of just some good dudes

1399
01:15:09,680 --> 01:15:12,840
Speaker 1: and hopefully I can fit in. Uh. You know, I'm

1400
01:15:12,840 --> 01:15:15,720
Speaker 1: gonna bring in a little bit of a Southern with

1401
01:15:15,920 --> 01:15:19,880
Speaker 1: me and hopefully I can make that room better. I wonder, Um,

1402
01:15:21,800 --> 01:15:24,559
Speaker 1: have you given much thought? Like you're a starter obviously

1403
01:15:24,640 --> 01:15:27,519
Speaker 1: at Uga and the starter throughout most of your career. Um,

1404
01:15:27,600 --> 01:15:30,160
Speaker 1: and assuming Josh Allen is the starter for the Bills,

1405
01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:32,640
Speaker 1: what do you what would you look for from a

1406
01:15:32,840 --> 01:15:34,600
Speaker 1: from a backup? I mean, you gotta have something to

1407
01:15:34,640 --> 01:15:36,640
Speaker 1: contribute to this group. What do you think they'll be

1408
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:38,559
Speaker 1: looking for from you? What do you hope to contribute?

1409
01:15:38,680 --> 01:15:41,760
Speaker 1: What would you want a quarterback just joining your room

1410
01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:44,240
Speaker 1: to contribute to the quarterback room and to maybe the

1411
01:15:44,280 --> 01:15:47,640
Speaker 1: way they think through things. Yeah, Um, you know, I

1412
01:15:47,760 --> 01:15:51,240
Speaker 1: have no idea. I know, for me, coming from my perspective,

1413
01:15:51,920 --> 01:15:55,120
Speaker 1: I've never not played in the game that I've just

1414
01:15:55,360 --> 01:15:58,080
Speaker 1: out for, um, so this is gonna be a little

1415
01:15:58,080 --> 01:16:01,720
Speaker 1: bit different for me. And honestly, you know, whatever it is, uh,

1416
01:16:02,560 --> 01:16:04,720
Speaker 1: I just want to win. I want the program to

1417
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:08,800
Speaker 1: uh to be you know, winners and be successful. And

1418
01:16:08,920 --> 01:16:11,080
Speaker 1: you know, whatever they're asking for me, I'm gonna do

1419
01:16:11,120 --> 01:16:13,120
Speaker 1: it one hundred percent. It's the best of my abilities

1420
01:16:13,120 --> 01:16:16,760
Speaker 1: and I'm all about one of football games. Yeah, you went.

1421
01:16:16,920 --> 01:16:19,560
Speaker 1: You as a freshman coming in you kind of you

1422
01:16:19,640 --> 01:16:22,680
Speaker 1: were thought you were going to go to Alabama, but

1423
01:16:22,880 --> 01:16:25,439
Speaker 1: you said and you always wanted to go to Georgia.

1424
01:16:25,800 --> 01:16:30,000
Speaker 1: What you know, tell us about the commitment to Alabama,

1425
01:16:30,200 --> 01:16:32,600
Speaker 1: the decommit that, the changing of your mind. Tell us

1426
01:16:32,960 --> 01:16:35,680
Speaker 1: walk us through that whole scenario, because I know as

1427
01:16:35,720 --> 01:16:38,880
Speaker 1: a as an incoming freshman in college, you always you

1428
01:16:39,040 --> 01:16:41,519
Speaker 1: agonize over which school you're gonna go to. Tell us

1429
01:16:41,560 --> 01:16:46,680
Speaker 1: about that process for you. Yeah, yeah, So throughout that process, uh,

1430
01:16:46,920 --> 01:16:49,479
Speaker 1: you know, I was an in state kid, uh, you know,

1431
01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:53,559
Speaker 1: grew up two hours from the University of Georgia UM,

1432
01:16:53,800 --> 01:16:57,080
Speaker 1: and throughout the recruiting process early in high school, I

1433
01:16:57,200 --> 01:17:00,559
Speaker 1: did not have an offer to go to the Universe Georgia.

1434
01:17:00,920 --> 01:17:03,559
Speaker 1: There was another kid in my class who was committed,

1435
01:17:03,680 --> 01:17:06,439
Speaker 1: you know, he was going there, and so you know,

1436
01:17:06,640 --> 01:17:08,720
Speaker 1: me and my family taught to be the best to

1437
01:17:09,120 --> 01:17:13,160
Speaker 1: go look elsewhere. UM ended up committing to Alabama. Coach

1438
01:17:13,200 --> 01:17:16,960
Speaker 1: Smart was a defensive coordinator, my area recruiter, who's another

1439
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:19,800
Speaker 1: head coach at UGA. And when he got the head

1440
01:17:19,880 --> 01:17:22,760
Speaker 1: coaching job at Georgia. Um, you know, he said, hey,

1441
01:17:22,800 --> 01:17:24,880
Speaker 1: you want to come? Uh? And I said, hey, yeah,

1442
01:17:25,280 --> 01:17:28,880
Speaker 1: And I had to tell coach Saban that I'm, you know,

1443
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:34,120
Speaker 1: decommitting from Alabama, committed to Georgia and the rest of history. Yeah, history,

1444
01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:38,880
Speaker 1: including three SEC championship games at College Football Championship. Hey,

1445
01:17:39,120 --> 01:17:41,479
Speaker 1: we're with Jake from Bill's fifth Round Practick or Quarterback

1446
01:17:41,560 --> 01:17:45,120
Speaker 1: from Georgia. Hey, Jake, I loved your answer about the combine. You.

1447
01:17:45,280 --> 01:17:48,920
Speaker 1: You know, everything gets measured at the combine. Your hands

1448
01:17:48,960 --> 01:17:53,000
Speaker 1: came up a little short for the prototype the standard

1449
01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:55,360
Speaker 1: for quarterback hand size, and I loved your answer. Do

1450
01:17:55,360 --> 01:17:57,200
Speaker 1: you remember what you said when you were asked about that, Hey,

1451
01:17:57,200 --> 01:18:00,960
Speaker 1: your hands are kind of small. What was your answer? Uh? Gosh,

1452
01:18:01,040 --> 01:18:04,160
Speaker 1: I said something about it hasn't bothered me in any

1453
01:18:04,240 --> 01:18:07,439
Speaker 1: game so far, one of a lot of football games,

1454
01:18:07,520 --> 01:18:11,160
Speaker 1: and hopefully I'll continue to win a lot more football games. Yeah,

1455
01:18:11,200 --> 01:18:13,000
Speaker 1: I read you like, it's the same hands that won

1456
01:18:13,080 --> 01:18:16,160
Speaker 1: those championship games and won all those titles for Georgia. Right,

1457
01:18:16,560 --> 01:18:18,839
Speaker 1: even if it is a half inch beyond the standard,

1458
01:18:18,920 --> 01:18:23,000
Speaker 1: right or smaller than the standard? Hey, you know, well,

1459
01:18:23,160 --> 01:18:26,880
Speaker 1: you know it's it's amazing. What they deem standards and uh,

1460
01:18:27,240 --> 01:18:30,080
Speaker 1: you know what it has to be. Hey, look God

1461
01:18:30,160 --> 01:18:32,640
Speaker 1: made me perfect way I am. I'm gonna go out

1462
01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:37,160
Speaker 1: filling a football and hopefully win while doing it. You like,

1463
01:18:37,479 --> 01:18:39,280
Speaker 1: like a lot of players, you kind of have a

1464
01:18:39,720 --> 01:18:42,080
Speaker 1: there's a prototype in the NFL that you can look

1465
01:18:42,120 --> 01:18:44,120
Speaker 1: at and say, Yeah, that's who the guy want to be.

1466
01:18:44,280 --> 01:18:46,080
Speaker 1: Yours seems to be a guy and you you kind

1467
01:18:46,120 --> 01:18:48,720
Speaker 1: of stack up physically just like him. Drew Brees of

1468
01:18:48,840 --> 01:18:52,080
Speaker 1: the Saints. You you probably watched him from really most

1469
01:18:52,120 --> 01:18:54,960
Speaker 1: of your life. He's been playing in the NFL. Uh,

1470
01:18:55,200 --> 01:18:57,439
Speaker 1: tell us your thoughts about why you picked him in

1471
01:18:57,600 --> 01:19:01,200
Speaker 1: his game to emulate. I think you know, start off,

1472
01:19:01,400 --> 01:19:03,280
Speaker 1: you know what the man he is, his work, that

1473
01:19:03,479 --> 01:19:06,680
Speaker 1: his work ethic, you know, just the way he approaches

1474
01:19:06,720 --> 01:19:11,080
Speaker 1: the game. His feet are unbelievable, he throws with extreme

1475
01:19:11,120 --> 01:19:14,760
Speaker 1: accuracy on time, and he leads well, I mean, why

1476
01:19:14,800 --> 01:19:16,800
Speaker 1: why would you not want to do those things? And uh,

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01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:20,280
Speaker 1: the success he's had in his career, Um, I think

1478
01:19:21,000 --> 01:19:24,200
Speaker 1: are all great reasons why any young quarterback would try

1479
01:19:24,240 --> 01:19:27,160
Speaker 1: to emulate his game. Jake from was our guest. Jake.

1480
01:19:27,200 --> 01:19:29,200
Speaker 1: There's a Hall of Fame quarterback that played here and

1481
01:19:29,320 --> 01:19:32,360
Speaker 1: still lives here. Jim Kelly played with my partner here,

1482
01:19:32,439 --> 01:19:35,599
Speaker 1: Steve Tasker, and um, you probably will here from Jim eventually,

1483
01:19:35,600 --> 01:19:38,599
Speaker 1: and understand you you share a real fondness for hunting

1484
01:19:38,640 --> 01:19:41,360
Speaker 1: and fishing outdoorsman type stuff. That's a good thing to

1485
01:19:41,479 --> 01:19:44,679
Speaker 1: talk with Hall of Famer Jim Kelly about. Huh, yeah,

1486
01:19:44,760 --> 01:19:48,160
Speaker 1: no doubt. Actually me and Jim have a really strong

1487
01:19:48,280 --> 01:19:51,080
Speaker 1: mutual friend and Jim's actually already reached out to me

1488
01:19:51,200 --> 01:19:54,160
Speaker 1: and really forward to getting up meeting him, And um,

1489
01:19:54,280 --> 01:19:57,479
Speaker 1: it's just exciting, you know, and really thankful that uh,

1490
01:19:57,680 --> 01:19:59,400
Speaker 1: you know, there's people like him, you know, willing to

1491
01:19:59,479 --> 01:20:02,000
Speaker 1: reach out and help a young kid like me. And uh,

1492
01:20:02,120 --> 01:20:04,800
Speaker 1: you know, really thankful, um that they got put you know,

1493
01:20:04,960 --> 01:20:08,240
Speaker 1: him in my past. You do, Well, what are you

1494
01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:11,439
Speaker 1: ask I was gonna ask him? You played in the

1495
01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:18,720
Speaker 1: Little League World Series? Yes? I did tell us about that. Uh,

1496
01:20:18,880 --> 01:20:23,240
Speaker 1: it's a it's a really unique, amazing experience. Um, you know,

1497
01:20:23,360 --> 01:20:27,040
Speaker 1: just imagine you're eleven, twelve years old playing with your

1498
01:20:27,240 --> 01:20:30,120
Speaker 1: friends you've grown up with. Um, you know, you're just

1499
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:32,320
Speaker 1: all you're doing is playing a game of baseball, game

1500
01:20:32,360 --> 01:20:35,160
Speaker 1: you love, and all of a sudden you're playing in

1501
01:20:35,240 --> 01:20:38,360
Speaker 1: front of four thousand people and and on TV, and uh,

1502
01:20:38,479 --> 01:20:40,760
Speaker 1: it's it's really neat, really cool. You know, you hit

1503
01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:43,720
Speaker 1: a couple a couple of home runs, Uh, pitch a

1504
01:20:43,760 --> 01:20:46,080
Speaker 1: little bit. Uh, it's it's really unique and fun. You

1505
01:20:46,160 --> 01:20:48,559
Speaker 1: get to play ping pong with uh some kids from

1506
01:20:48,640 --> 01:20:51,240
Speaker 1: Japan and and all kinds of stuff, and it's it's

1507
01:20:51,320 --> 01:20:54,200
Speaker 1: it's really unique. It's awesome. So Highway, you hit like

1508
01:20:54,280 --> 01:20:56,599
Speaker 1: a line drive home run down there in Wayne Sport

1509
01:20:56,720 --> 01:21:00,559
Speaker 1: right one game. It was a shot. Yeah. I put

1510
01:21:00,600 --> 01:21:03,200
Speaker 1: a couple of in my career and thankful to have

1511
01:21:03,240 --> 01:21:04,920
Speaker 1: a little bit of success in baseball. I might go

1512
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:07,680
Speaker 1: try it out later, who knows. Yeah, hey, Jake, I

1513
01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:10,560
Speaker 1: understand we're talking about the outdoor stuff. You are a

1514
01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:14,880
Speaker 1: duck caller or a turkey caller? Is that right? I

1515
01:21:15,120 --> 01:21:17,719
Speaker 1: like to say I can't a little bit. I definitely

1516
01:21:17,720 --> 01:21:19,320
Speaker 1: have a lot of friends who are better than I am,

1517
01:21:20,120 --> 01:21:22,639
Speaker 1: but definitely love to duck into turkey hunting, no doubt.

1518
01:21:23,360 --> 01:21:25,200
Speaker 1: You know there's a place in Steve what's the place seven,

1519
01:21:25,240 --> 01:21:28,120
Speaker 1: right across the street from the Quaker Boy. Yeah, Quaker Boy.

1520
01:21:28,200 --> 01:21:30,760
Speaker 1: They make turkey calls right across the street. From a

1521
01:21:30,880 --> 01:21:33,400
Speaker 1: new airfield there on southwestern Buldibar. You can go over

1522
01:21:33,479 --> 01:21:36,439
Speaker 1: there and help them out a little bit, Jake. Hey, no,

1523
01:21:36,600 --> 01:21:41,240
Speaker 1: that they'd definitely be helping me out. Turkey calls for sure. Well,

1524
01:21:41,280 --> 01:21:43,040
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, Jake, I don't know where you're

1525
01:21:43,360 --> 01:21:47,679
Speaker 1: down from the south, but there's an enormous cottage industry

1526
01:21:47,760 --> 01:21:50,599
Speaker 1: up here spring Turkey and fall turkey hunting. You'll you're

1527
01:21:50,720 --> 01:21:53,599
Speaker 1: if you do that, you'll have no shortage of people

1528
01:21:53,600 --> 01:21:56,840
Speaker 1: who want to take you out and get a bird. Well,

1529
01:21:56,920 --> 01:22:00,479
Speaker 1: I'm I'm looking forward to it. Hopefully, hopefully I can happen.

1530
01:22:00,560 --> 01:22:03,880
Speaker 1: And that's all my family's been talking about is the

1531
01:22:04,000 --> 01:22:08,200
Speaker 1: hunting up there since I've gotten drafted. So I'm needless

1532
01:22:08,240 --> 01:22:11,840
Speaker 1: to say, I'm pretty excited about it. Hey, from us

1533
01:22:11,840 --> 01:22:14,080
Speaker 1: our guest Jake. Very soon, if not already, you'll get

1534
01:22:14,160 --> 01:22:17,519
Speaker 1: your your tablet from the Bills. You'll get the details

1535
01:22:17,560 --> 01:22:20,240
Speaker 1: of the offseason work out. It's got to be difficult

1536
01:22:20,280 --> 01:22:22,599
Speaker 1: with its current circumstances in the country that you can't

1537
01:22:22,720 --> 01:22:24,720
Speaker 1: just hop on a plane, jump up there and get

1538
01:22:24,760 --> 01:22:26,200
Speaker 1: to work out and meet some of these guys are

1539
01:22:26,200 --> 01:22:29,680
Speaker 1: gonna be playing with Huh. Yeah, it is different, you know,

1540
01:22:29,760 --> 01:22:32,439
Speaker 1: but this is the situation and the hand we were dealt,

1541
01:22:32,600 --> 01:22:34,400
Speaker 1: and it's up to us to go out and make

1542
01:22:34,439 --> 01:22:36,519
Speaker 1: the best of it and uh put us much work

1543
01:22:36,600 --> 01:22:39,320
Speaker 1: in now that way, you know, come full time that

1544
01:22:39,520 --> 01:22:40,840
Speaker 1: that we can you know, get out there on the

1545
01:22:40,920 --> 01:22:46,880
Speaker 1: field and being an advantage and hopefully once in football games. Well,

1546
01:22:47,120 --> 01:22:50,440
Speaker 1: good luck, Jake, It was great talk to you. Congratulations

1547
01:22:50,560 --> 01:22:53,200
Speaker 1: on being a Buffalo. Bill. I know you're gonna like

1548
01:22:53,320 --> 01:22:56,000
Speaker 1: it here in Western New York, particularly if you're a

1549
01:22:56,120 --> 01:22:58,880
Speaker 1: turkey hunter. So congratulations. Can't wait to meet and have

1550
01:22:59,000 --> 01:23:02,240
Speaker 1: you on this show in person. Yeah, thank y'all so much.

1551
01:23:02,280 --> 01:23:04,759
Speaker 1: Thank y'all for having me look forward to it. Thanks

1552
01:23:04,920 --> 01:23:08,160
Speaker 1: Jake Frown, Bill's fifth round draft pick from Georgia. Although

1553
01:23:08,160 --> 01:23:10,240
Speaker 1: they did was wind down there at you, gac. That's

1554
01:23:10,280 --> 01:23:12,320
Speaker 1: pretty good to have about your resume, right, he doesn't

1555
01:23:12,479 --> 01:23:15,320
Speaker 1: so his hands are a half In short, who cares, don't.

1556
01:23:15,560 --> 01:23:17,360
Speaker 1: You don't have to apologize for being in a lot

1557
01:23:17,400 --> 01:23:19,720
Speaker 1: of big games, for sure. All they did was wind

1558
01:23:19,760 --> 01:23:21,360
Speaker 1: down there. Bill's got him in the fifth round. We'll

1559
01:23:21,400 --> 01:23:23,639
Speaker 1: see how it goes, and it does. It does think

1560
01:23:23,680 --> 01:23:25,800
Speaker 1: that a guy like that can't get up here like

1561
01:23:26,000 --> 01:23:27,519
Speaker 1: next week with the rest of the rookies and we

1562
01:23:27,600 --> 01:23:29,240
Speaker 1: get our first look at him, right, we'd see him

1563
01:23:29,240 --> 01:23:31,400
Speaker 1: out there and meet him. Uh, It's it just stinks

1564
01:23:31,400 --> 01:23:33,680
Speaker 1: all around. There's no two ways about it. Yeah, I

1565
01:23:33,760 --> 01:23:36,519
Speaker 1: mean that's yeah, it's it does it? We take it.

1566
01:23:36,640 --> 01:23:38,080
Speaker 1: We take travel. We got to the point where we

1567
01:23:38,160 --> 01:23:41,080
Speaker 1: take travel so for granted here in this country is

1568
01:23:41,560 --> 01:23:44,439
Speaker 1: u it was inexpensive and easy and you know, you

1569
01:23:44,520 --> 01:23:48,240
Speaker 1: just hop on a flight. But now that it's now,

1570
01:23:48,320 --> 01:23:55,839
Speaker 1: that's it's amazing how much football depends on travel. I've

1571
01:23:55,880 --> 01:23:58,639
Speaker 1: forgotten about it, hadn't even realized it, but man, oh man,

1572
01:23:58,920 --> 01:24:01,840
Speaker 1: so many guys and the off season is so busy,

1573
01:24:03,479 --> 01:24:06,320
Speaker 1: that really does I think that's the biggest wrench to

1574
01:24:06,439 --> 01:24:08,559
Speaker 1: this point that has been thrown at the NFL. Forget

1575
01:24:08,560 --> 01:24:10,560
Speaker 1: about the virtual draft. I think it's the lack of

1576
01:24:10,680 --> 01:24:13,040
Speaker 1: being able to travel and get together has been the

1577
01:24:13,120 --> 01:24:15,000
Speaker 1: biggest issue. And you know what I think you and

1578
01:24:15,040 --> 01:24:17,680
Speaker 1: I'd take for granted is the ability to walk out

1579
01:24:17,720 --> 01:24:19,400
Speaker 1: of our office or out of our studio, to be

1580
01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:22,120
Speaker 1: in the field house and to see those guys to

1581
01:24:22,439 --> 01:24:25,880
Speaker 1: the eyeball Jake from or or you know, yesterday, Gabe

1582
01:24:25,960 --> 01:24:27,599
Speaker 1: Davis or you know, you know, we get a chance

1583
01:24:27,640 --> 01:24:29,200
Speaker 1: to see what they look like. We get a chance

1584
01:24:29,240 --> 01:24:31,600
Speaker 1: to pass him in the hallway, talk to him. I

1585
01:24:32,000 --> 01:24:34,800
Speaker 1: miss that opportunity. I think we're gonna miss it even more. Yeah,

1586
01:24:34,880 --> 01:24:37,360
Speaker 1: you give me the eyeball test. Yeah, well, how's that

1587
01:24:37,439 --> 01:24:39,000
Speaker 1: gotta look? I want to see him. You know, it's

1588
01:24:39,040 --> 01:24:41,320
Speaker 1: the same thing with Josh Allen came in. It's like look,

1589
01:24:41,760 --> 01:24:43,080
Speaker 1: you know, you look, go out there and look at

1590
01:24:43,120 --> 01:24:45,240
Speaker 1: It's like, oh wow, yeah, I see what they see

1591
01:24:45,439 --> 01:24:50,439
Speaker 1: right exactly. So it's fun and you know, we're everybody's

1592
01:24:50,439 --> 01:24:52,800
Speaker 1: been deprived of that. All right. I won't winding about

1593
01:24:52,840 --> 01:24:55,640
Speaker 1: him anymore. I'm winding. We're taking a break and then

1594
01:24:55,680 --> 01:24:58,479
Speaker 1: we're back. One Bill's Life presented by Kalaida Health Radio

1595
01:24:58,600 --> 01:25:08,760
Speaker 1: Only Today, this is Buffalo Bills Radio, The Mective shout Down,

1596
01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:12,000
Speaker 1: Murphy's d Tansker One Bills Line presented by Goliah Health.

1597
01:25:12,040 --> 01:25:14,439
Speaker 1: Just got up the phone with Jake from Buffalo's Fifth

1598
01:25:14,479 --> 01:25:16,559
Speaker 1: Drums Rapid. We got a call out of the line

1599
01:25:16,960 --> 01:25:19,040
Speaker 1: about Jake from Tim in Deep You go ahead, Tim,

1600
01:25:19,080 --> 01:25:22,160
Speaker 1: you're on the air. Hey guys, how are you doing today? Good?

1601
01:25:23,479 --> 01:25:25,600
Speaker 1: Thanks for doing the show. Keeps us, keeps us all

1602
01:25:25,680 --> 01:25:30,040
Speaker 1: moving in the right direction our pleasure. If you haven't

1603
01:25:30,080 --> 01:25:32,960
Speaker 1: seen it yet, there's a show on Netflix called QB

1604
01:25:33,080 --> 01:25:36,320
Speaker 1: one Beyond the Lights, and there was two series or

1605
01:25:36,400 --> 01:25:39,400
Speaker 1: two seasons of it, and the first season featured Jake

1606
01:25:39,439 --> 01:25:42,800
Speaker 1: from Justin Fields, and there was another young man that

1607
01:25:43,360 --> 01:25:45,280
Speaker 1: ended up going to Ohio State. But in any event,

1608
01:25:45,360 --> 01:25:49,120
Speaker 1: it follows them from their senior year in high school

1609
01:25:49,200 --> 01:25:51,519
Speaker 1: right from day one, follows them all the way through

1610
01:25:51,560 --> 01:25:54,360
Speaker 1: their senior year, right up until the point to they,

1611
01:25:54,880 --> 01:25:56,920
Speaker 1: you know, make their commitment to their college, and it's

1612
01:25:57,000 --> 01:25:59,080
Speaker 1: kind of a neat insight into them. And it was

1613
01:25:59,200 --> 01:26:01,040
Speaker 1: kind of fun to be able to watch that. And

1614
01:26:01,160 --> 01:26:03,679
Speaker 1: so you know, I was watching Jake throughout his college

1615
01:26:03,720 --> 01:26:06,240
Speaker 1: career and and behold, he's jet to buy Buffalo. So

1616
01:26:06,240 --> 01:26:08,200
Speaker 1: if you get a chance to check it out, well

1617
01:26:08,520 --> 01:26:10,760
Speaker 1: when there's the show was done for you or four

1618
01:26:10,840 --> 01:26:13,400
Speaker 1: years ago before he really started at Georgia or Alabama

1619
01:26:13,439 --> 01:26:16,320
Speaker 1: for that matter, that's exactly right, John, It was done,

1620
01:26:16,439 --> 01:26:19,120
Speaker 1: uh you know, I think it was twenty and seventeen.

1621
01:26:19,240 --> 01:26:22,280
Speaker 1: It was his finally in high school in Warner Robins,

1622
01:26:22,320 --> 01:26:26,000
Speaker 1: Georgia and follows him all through that whole process. Gets

1623
01:26:26,040 --> 01:26:28,320
Speaker 1: you a little insight into his family and all that

1624
01:26:28,479 --> 01:26:30,639
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and you know, really really good kid,

1625
01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:32,479
Speaker 1: good here and all those types of things. And like

1626
01:26:32,560 --> 01:26:34,040
Speaker 1: I said, it's just kind of fun not to look

1627
01:26:34,080 --> 01:26:36,160
Speaker 1: back at it. It's some fun with it. It's called

1628
01:26:36,240 --> 01:26:40,000
Speaker 1: QB one. Yep, q QB one Beyond the Lights. It's

1629
01:26:40,040 --> 01:26:42,760
Speaker 1: on Netflix. Okay, yeah, I can do that, Steve. That

1630
01:26:42,800 --> 01:26:45,479
Speaker 1: sounds kind of yeah. Yeah, God knows you have enough

1631
01:26:45,479 --> 01:26:48,080
Speaker 1: fun to watch TV these days. I know, right, but

1632
01:26:48,320 --> 01:26:50,680
Speaker 1: it's twice since it came back because it was kind

1633
01:26:50,720 --> 01:26:54,000
Speaker 1: of fun now to see the Buffalo Bill, you know, yeah, absolutely,

1634
01:26:54,439 --> 01:26:57,479
Speaker 1: thanks Jim. What are we gonna say, Steve, I'm sorry. Yeah,

1635
01:26:57,479 --> 01:27:00,360
Speaker 1: it might be required watching for us, so we can

1636
01:27:00,400 --> 01:27:02,880
Speaker 1: talk about it on Monday after over the weekend or something.

1637
01:27:03,439 --> 01:27:07,040
Speaker 1: Maybe tonight. Yeah, just what we need more, team, No,

1638
01:27:07,120 --> 01:27:10,599
Speaker 1: I'll watch it three o'clock this afternoon. It'll be sitting Hey,

1639
01:27:10,840 --> 01:27:13,320
Speaker 1: speaking to TeV. Did you catch up with the rest

1640
01:27:13,400 --> 01:27:16,360
Speaker 1: of Michael Jordan's show, The Last Dance? You're not yet,

1641
01:27:16,400 --> 01:27:19,320
Speaker 1: but I have watched it. Yeah, Yeah, it's good. It's

1642
01:27:19,360 --> 01:27:22,160
Speaker 1: good talking to somebody about it today. Hey, our Twitter

1643
01:27:22,200 --> 01:27:25,439
Speaker 1: poll today, have the Bills built a Championship roster phone

1644
01:27:25,479 --> 01:27:26,960
Speaker 1: lines open, you can get in the air just like

1645
01:27:27,080 --> 01:27:29,360
Speaker 1: Tim did. Eight oh three h five fifty twelly three

1646
01:27:29,640 --> 01:27:32,240
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty. On

1647
01:27:32,280 --> 01:27:34,960
Speaker 1: the Twitter poll, four hundred seventy votes in eighty two

1648
01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:37,880
Speaker 1: percent say sure they have yes, eighteen percent say no.

1649
01:27:38,280 --> 01:27:40,679
Speaker 1: The tweet chief brought to you by Cargan Moving Systems,

1650
01:27:40,720 --> 01:27:44,479
Speaker 1: the official movers of the Buffalo Bills, Bills and Mets

1651
01:27:44,520 --> 01:27:47,120
Speaker 1: fan tweets in Well, it definitely remains to be seen

1652
01:27:47,200 --> 01:27:49,719
Speaker 1: when the game's actually start, but right now it looks

1653
01:27:49,720 --> 01:27:52,639
Speaker 1: like an excellent roster being has done a fantastic job

1654
01:27:52,720 --> 01:27:55,400
Speaker 1: putting the parts together. Now, if the players do their

1655
01:27:55,479 --> 01:27:58,120
Speaker 1: parts and McDermott and crew coaches them up, we could

1656
01:27:58,120 --> 01:28:00,240
Speaker 1: go far. It's been a long time coming. What is

1657
01:28:00,560 --> 01:28:02,559
Speaker 1: the one thing about this roster? Sive? I know they

1658
01:28:03,160 --> 01:28:05,040
Speaker 1: you know last year, in the last couple of years

1659
01:28:05,080 --> 01:28:07,519
Speaker 1: they've been a really good defensive team and been lacking

1660
01:28:07,640 --> 01:28:10,440
Speaker 1: on offense. At this point, when you look at examine

1661
01:28:10,640 --> 01:28:13,400
Speaker 1: what the roster looks like, they look much more balanced

1662
01:28:13,479 --> 01:28:16,320
Speaker 1: right In other words, they've added a lot more players

1663
01:28:16,439 --> 01:28:18,400
Speaker 1: pieces on the offensive side of the ball than they've

1664
01:28:18,439 --> 01:28:21,000
Speaker 1: had the last couple of years. At least Stefan Diggs

1665
01:28:21,120 --> 01:28:23,920
Speaker 1: makes that a huge part of the equation, right. Yeah,

1666
01:28:24,000 --> 01:28:26,720
Speaker 1: this past season when they had nine new starters on

1667
01:28:26,840 --> 01:28:29,720
Speaker 1: opening day from week seventeen and twenty and eighteen, they

1668
01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:33,479
Speaker 1: had nine new starters on day one of two nineteen.

1669
01:28:33,960 --> 01:28:38,000
Speaker 1: And now you know they've added Stefan Diggs and some

1670
01:28:38,120 --> 01:28:43,280
Speaker 1: more depth and more competition on the offensive line. Yeah,

1671
01:28:44,280 --> 01:28:46,640
Speaker 1: they're trying to get it way more balanced. But I

1672
01:28:46,760 --> 01:28:49,439
Speaker 1: think I agree with most of them. It comes down

1673
01:28:49,520 --> 01:28:52,080
Speaker 1: to Josh taking another step. If he does, the team's

1674
01:28:52,080 --> 01:28:55,080
Speaker 1: gonna get that much better. They were a ten win season,

1675
01:28:55,360 --> 01:28:57,760
Speaker 1: a ten win team last year. We got bounced in

1676
01:28:57,840 --> 01:29:02,560
Speaker 1: the first round. However, much better Josh Allen plays this

1677
01:29:02,720 --> 01:29:06,120
Speaker 1: season will dictate how much further they go. It's that

1678
01:29:06,280 --> 01:29:10,519
Speaker 1: I think. To me, it's that simple. Their defense is

1679
01:29:10,560 --> 01:29:12,400
Speaker 1: going to remain at lead. I think I think their

1680
01:29:12,439 --> 01:29:14,200
Speaker 1: defense is still going to be hard to score on

1681
01:29:14,280 --> 01:29:16,559
Speaker 1: and hard to move the football on. If their offense

1682
01:29:16,600 --> 01:29:18,880
Speaker 1: can put more pressure on their opponents, I think the

1683
01:29:18,960 --> 01:29:22,120
Speaker 1: defense will turn out more turnovers too. So yeah, I

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01:29:22,200 --> 01:29:24,720
Speaker 1: think it all It all comes down to what we

1685
01:29:24,800 --> 01:29:27,559
Speaker 1: all know, and that's if their offense wants to take

1686
01:29:27,560 --> 01:29:29,840
Speaker 1: a step further. The weapons are all there. It comes

1687
01:29:29,880 --> 01:29:33,599
Speaker 1: down to Josh being better. The draft gets good grades,

1688
01:29:33,640 --> 01:29:36,320
Speaker 1: including one from our next guest. She is an analytics

1689
01:29:36,400 --> 01:29:40,439
Speaker 1: expert for NFL, contributor to NFL dot Com and NFL Network.

1690
01:29:40,520 --> 01:29:43,360
Speaker 1: Cynthia Freeland standing by to join this next on the line.

1691
01:29:43,360 --> 01:29:45,280
Speaker 1: We'll talk with her about the Bills draft and what

1692
01:29:45,439 --> 01:29:47,560
Speaker 1: to expect this upcoming season. Come on back for that

1693
01:29:47,840 --> 01:29:50,800
Speaker 1: One Goes Live presented by Colloid of Health Radio Only today.

1694
01:29:50,920 --> 01:29:58,439
Speaker 1: This is Buffalo Bills Radio. You've got the update from

1695
01:29:58,479 --> 01:30:00,600
Speaker 1: One Bills Live. The bill signed a defensive end to

1696
01:30:00,640 --> 01:30:04,240
Speaker 1: their roster today, Brian Cox Junior. Yes, his father Brian

1697
01:30:04,320 --> 01:30:06,439
Speaker 1: Cox used to play for the Dolphins. This Brian Cox

1698
01:30:06,640 --> 01:30:09,640
Speaker 1: is ton. Most recently played for the Clevedon Browns last year.

1699
01:30:09,720 --> 01:30:12,400
Speaker 1: Six games played, trump tackles, two for a lost, five

1700
01:30:12,479 --> 01:30:15,719
Speaker 1: quarterback hits. Signed by Carolina as an undrafted free agent

1701
01:30:16,479 --> 01:30:19,519
Speaker 1: out of the University of Florida in twenty seventeen. Played

1702
01:30:19,560 --> 01:30:21,000
Speaker 1: for the Panthers for a couple of years, a little

1703
01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:23,639
Speaker 1: bit of time on the practice squod. Brian Cox Junior

1704
01:30:23,920 --> 01:30:26,519
Speaker 1: signed to a contract by the Buffalo Bills today. There's

1705
01:30:26,520 --> 01:30:28,920
Speaker 1: a report that the NFL still plans on releasing its

1706
01:30:28,920 --> 01:30:32,080
Speaker 1: schedule sometime next week, but Sports Business Journal says the

1707
01:30:32,160 --> 01:30:35,560
Speaker 1: regular season may not begin until October fifteenth, and the

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01:30:35,640 --> 01:30:38,760
Speaker 1: Super Bowl could be delayed until February twenty eight, the

1709
01:30:38,840 --> 01:30:42,560
Speaker 1: Super Bowl pushing it back. Specific conversations have occurred with

1710
01:30:42,640 --> 01:30:45,880
Speaker 1: Tampa hosts about delaying the Super Bowl a little bit.

1711
01:30:45,960 --> 01:30:48,719
Speaker 1: According to the report, The director of the National Insuit

1712
01:30:48,760 --> 01:30:52,240
Speaker 1: of Allergene infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, says the country is

1713
01:30:52,280 --> 01:30:55,160
Speaker 1: not ready for sports to make a return amid the pandemic.

1714
01:30:55,400 --> 01:30:57,599
Speaker 1: He says leagues should be ready to go without sport

1715
01:30:57,880 --> 01:31:00,879
Speaker 1: for this season. There is nothing official about that. Quarterback

1716
01:31:01,000 --> 01:31:03,400
Speaker 1: dam At Winston officially headed to the New Orleans Saints,

1717
01:31:03,680 --> 01:31:06,200
Speaker 1: reached agreement on a one year contract yesterday, a base

1718
01:31:06,320 --> 01:31:09,280
Speaker 1: value of one point one million dollars decanner and three

1719
01:31:09,320 --> 01:31:12,280
Speaker 1: point four million with the incentives. He's twenty six years old,

1720
01:31:12,320 --> 01:31:14,800
Speaker 1: looking for a career revival in New Orleans, same thing

1721
01:31:14,840 --> 01:31:17,760
Speaker 1: that Teddy Bridgewater did there. Kent City Chiefs quarterback for

1722
01:31:17,840 --> 01:31:21,559
Speaker 1: shod Brelan was erected on arrested on multiple charges yesterday

1723
01:31:21,840 --> 01:31:25,560
Speaker 1: in South Carolina, charges of resisting arrest, having alcohol in

1724
01:31:25,600 --> 01:31:28,919
Speaker 1: a motor vehicle with the seal broken, and possession of marijuana,

1725
01:31:29,000 --> 01:31:31,640
Speaker 1: among others. And the Dallas Cowboys of great terms with

1726
01:31:31,720 --> 01:31:35,000
Speaker 1: veteran treging quarterback Daryl Whorley. He joins a crowded cornerback

1727
01:31:35,080 --> 01:31:38,120
Speaker 1: room in Miami. The Cowboys lost Byron Jones to the

1728
01:31:38,200 --> 01:31:41,160
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins and three agency looking for more depth there,

1729
01:31:41,240 --> 01:31:43,360
Speaker 1: and they signed Daryl Warley. And there you go. That

1730
01:31:43,720 --> 01:31:47,080
Speaker 1: is the update from One does Line. John Murphy was

1731
01:31:47,120 --> 01:31:50,080
Speaker 1: team tasker. Ready to begin our number three and ready

1732
01:31:50,120 --> 01:31:51,680
Speaker 1: to begin with a good friend of the show. She

1733
01:31:51,880 --> 01:31:55,040
Speaker 1: is an NFL analytics expert for NFL Network and NFL

1734
01:31:55,160 --> 01:31:58,360
Speaker 1: dot Com, contributor to Game Day Morning and NFL Fantasy Live,

1735
01:31:58,400 --> 01:32:03,200
Speaker 1: and the host of the Game Tracker and Money podcast.

1736
01:32:03,439 --> 01:32:06,200
Speaker 1: Cynthia Freeland joined us right now. Hello, Synthony, how are

1737
01:32:06,200 --> 01:32:07,560
Speaker 1: you holding up these days? Good to have you on

1738
01:32:07,600 --> 01:32:10,640
Speaker 1: the show. So great to be here. I'm trying to

1739
01:32:10,680 --> 01:32:13,040
Speaker 1: do the best I can to stay quarantined and healthy

1740
01:32:13,080 --> 01:32:15,320
Speaker 1: and happy. I do miss my family, but other than

1741
01:32:15,400 --> 01:32:18,040
Speaker 1: that doing pretty well. Yeah. You are based out in

1742
01:32:18,080 --> 01:32:20,479
Speaker 1: southern California right Things are going okay out there? I

1743
01:32:20,560 --> 01:32:25,200
Speaker 1: guess definitely, it's you know, it's getting it's it's definitely.

1744
01:32:25,240 --> 01:32:27,599
Speaker 1: We're so far, I think we're on track for May fifteenth,

1745
01:32:27,640 --> 01:32:29,760
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure I'll probably go to at least

1746
01:32:29,760 --> 01:32:32,280
Speaker 1: the end of May here. But we're a little bit

1747
01:32:32,360 --> 01:32:34,760
Speaker 1: more crowded and on top of each other than other

1748
01:32:34,880 --> 01:32:37,200
Speaker 1: parts of the country. So we'll just let it. You know,

1749
01:32:37,479 --> 01:32:39,000
Speaker 1: you want to safe and down, We'll get it, and

1750
01:32:39,040 --> 01:32:41,120
Speaker 1: we'll get back to business. We want to ask you

1751
01:32:41,439 --> 01:32:44,280
Speaker 1: one thing that you did last week. We actually our

1752
01:32:44,360 --> 01:32:46,680
Speaker 1: co worker Maddie Glab got involved in this a little bit,

1753
01:32:46,760 --> 01:32:49,040
Speaker 1: but you had the I forget what you call it.

1754
01:32:49,120 --> 01:32:51,760
Speaker 1: You had all female reporters from the NFL getting together

1755
01:32:51,840 --> 01:32:53,880
Speaker 1: to talk about where we're at. You put you were

1756
01:32:53,920 --> 01:32:55,960
Speaker 1: the host of it right, a special NFL draft show

1757
01:32:56,240 --> 01:32:58,200
Speaker 1: for the Twitch party last week. Tell us about that

1758
01:32:58,280 --> 01:33:01,760
Speaker 1: and where that idea came from, Cynthia. So the cool part,

1759
01:33:02,160 --> 01:33:04,240
Speaker 1: if you're going to find some positives in this very

1760
01:33:04,360 --> 01:33:07,400
Speaker 1: negative time, the cool part is that we're kind of

1761
01:33:07,439 --> 01:33:09,800
Speaker 1: allowed to work with each other. So typically once you

1762
01:33:09,920 --> 01:33:12,120
Speaker 1: leave ESPN, then you go work at NFL Network, you

1763
01:33:12,120 --> 01:33:14,559
Speaker 1: don't often get to appear on screen with other women.

1764
01:33:14,560 --> 01:33:17,519
Speaker 1: From ESPN or Fox, or CBS or NBC. But there

1765
01:33:17,560 --> 01:33:20,240
Speaker 1: are so many amazing voices that kind of just didn't

1766
01:33:20,280 --> 01:33:22,160
Speaker 1: get the space this year that we would normally have

1767
01:33:22,479 --> 01:33:24,960
Speaker 1: because the draft was it was always due to have

1768
01:33:25,120 --> 01:33:28,320
Speaker 1: it go on, right. So our bosses in my NFL

1769
01:33:28,439 --> 01:33:31,360
Speaker 1: network bosses specifically, they were like, if you can figure

1770
01:33:31,400 --> 01:33:34,240
Speaker 1: it out on a platform that is safe, so you know,

1771
01:33:34,360 --> 01:33:37,600
Speaker 1: no zoom bombing, then we can. We will support you.

1772
01:33:37,760 --> 01:33:40,559
Speaker 1: So it actually came together in five days, which is amazing,

1773
01:33:41,080 --> 01:33:44,640
Speaker 1: and I was so lucky that thirty two women and

1774
01:33:44,760 --> 01:33:46,920
Speaker 1: if you have any more suggestions for ones going forward,

1775
01:33:47,080 --> 01:33:49,560
Speaker 1: it was literally just who was in my phone, Let's go.

1776
01:33:50,360 --> 01:33:53,800
Speaker 1: ESPN was generous, Box of generous, CBS, NBC, everyone like

1777
01:33:54,000 --> 01:33:56,800
Speaker 1: allowed their females to appear on this Twitch platform which

1778
01:33:56,840 --> 01:33:58,920
Speaker 1: is owned by Amazon, which is a league partner and

1779
01:33:59,040 --> 01:34:01,200
Speaker 1: a very safe platform. So we got a chance to

1780
01:34:01,280 --> 01:34:04,320
Speaker 1: just August together and go through some great information on

1781
01:34:04,520 --> 01:34:08,200
Speaker 1: the draft and it was very fun and you know, I, well,

1782
01:34:08,400 --> 01:34:10,519
Speaker 1: hopefully we can do it again and do some more

1783
01:34:10,560 --> 01:34:12,720
Speaker 1: fun stuff like that. Well, one of the things that

1784
01:34:12,800 --> 01:34:14,760
Speaker 1: happened during this and the run up to the draft,

1785
01:34:14,800 --> 01:34:18,840
Speaker 1: we always get like ten gazillion mock drafts, and most

1786
01:34:18,920 --> 01:34:21,160
Speaker 1: of them are just based on what the team needs

1787
01:34:21,200 --> 01:34:24,639
Speaker 1: and what the perceived help would be. In the college draft,

1788
01:34:24,720 --> 01:34:28,280
Speaker 1: you took a different tech and put together an analytics draft,

1789
01:34:28,640 --> 01:34:31,240
Speaker 1: and yours was vastly different from some of the other

1790
01:34:31,360 --> 01:34:36,600
Speaker 1: mock drafts. Where did you find your analytics draft diverging

1791
01:34:37,600 --> 01:34:42,120
Speaker 1: most with the more traditional mock drafts. The more traditional

1792
01:34:42,240 --> 01:34:45,400
Speaker 1: mock draft valued the quarterback position a little differently than

1793
01:34:45,479 --> 01:34:48,040
Speaker 1: I did because in the marketplace at that time there

1794
01:34:48,080 --> 01:34:50,719
Speaker 1: was both Cam Newton, Jameis Winston, and then a potential

1795
01:34:50,800 --> 01:34:53,519
Speaker 1: for some trades amongst some other big name quarterbacks. So

1796
01:34:53,720 --> 01:34:56,679
Speaker 1: quarterback was really like my model would rather want Chase

1797
01:34:56,760 --> 01:35:00,080
Speaker 1: Young to have gone to the Cincinnati Bengals because in

1798
01:35:00,240 --> 01:35:03,200
Speaker 1: one year with that old line, Chase Young will have

1799
01:35:03,320 --> 01:35:05,439
Speaker 1: a bigger impact in terms of their number of wins,

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01:35:05,720 --> 01:35:08,320
Speaker 1: whereas Joe Burrow would be a longer play. So in

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01:35:08,400 --> 01:35:11,040
Speaker 1: the parameters that we made for my mock draft, which

1802
01:35:11,040 --> 01:35:13,479
Speaker 1: would be how many wins of the increase the team's

1803
01:35:13,520 --> 01:35:16,760
Speaker 1: ability to win games this year one season, it was

1804
01:35:16,880 --> 01:35:19,439
Speaker 1: really a bigger uptick for him that so they were

1805
01:35:19,520 --> 01:35:21,960
Speaker 1: kind of minor saying like not minor, but you know,

1806
01:35:21,960 --> 01:35:24,879
Speaker 1: it's a huge difference, but minor differences in the structure

1807
01:35:24,880 --> 01:35:27,120
Speaker 1: of what we were looking for as opposed to many

1808
01:35:27,200 --> 01:35:29,240
Speaker 1: mock drafts are kind of like, you know, what, what

1809
01:35:29,360 --> 01:35:31,160
Speaker 1: are you hearing? What are the rumors? What as you

1810
01:35:31,240 --> 01:35:33,439
Speaker 1: hear at the combine? How do they all map together?

1811
01:35:33,600 --> 01:35:35,960
Speaker 1: And by the way, did you see my recap of

1812
01:35:37,040 --> 01:35:38,840
Speaker 1: so my first mock draft had a j F and

1813
01:35:38,920 --> 01:35:40,320
Speaker 1: s to going to the Bills in the first round,

1814
01:35:40,360 --> 01:35:43,519
Speaker 1: which means I love the value in the second round.

1815
01:35:43,520 --> 01:35:46,120
Speaker 1: It was amazing. Was my top five value picks for

1816
01:35:46,280 --> 01:35:50,439
Speaker 1: all of Day two? Yeah, I did see that. That

1817
01:35:50,520 --> 01:35:52,960
Speaker 1: was pretty interesting. It was kind of by Happenstan. I

1818
01:35:53,000 --> 01:35:56,000
Speaker 1: mean you had him going to going to the Bills

1819
01:35:56,040 --> 01:35:58,680
Speaker 1: in the first round, correct, I did. I think he's

1820
01:35:58,680 --> 01:36:01,719
Speaker 1: a great value and a great fit. So aj Fpanessa

1821
01:36:01,840 --> 01:36:04,920
Speaker 1: at Iowa had the most quarterback hits amongst any at

1822
01:36:05,120 --> 01:36:07,920
Speaker 1: any address or any defensive player in the Big Ten

1823
01:36:08,040 --> 01:36:10,280
Speaker 1: last season. There were some knocks some people were trying

1824
01:36:10,280 --> 01:36:12,640
Speaker 1: to say, like, oh, his arms are shorter, whatever, but

1825
01:36:12,840 --> 01:36:15,000
Speaker 1: look at this fit in that old lot or that

1826
01:36:15,160 --> 01:36:19,240
Speaker 1: d line. There his ability to rush opposing passers and

1827
01:36:19,439 --> 01:36:21,920
Speaker 1: to get in the face of people who are really

1828
01:36:22,200 --> 01:36:24,800
Speaker 1: these big old lineman good luck, good luck. AJF and

1829
01:36:24,920 --> 01:36:27,720
Speaker 1: s is an athletic freak. I think the Bills had

1830
01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:30,800
Speaker 1: you know, we had a show yesterday and we were

1831
01:36:30,880 --> 01:36:34,960
Speaker 1: ranking people's drafts overall, and even without a first round pick,

1832
01:36:35,000 --> 01:36:37,880
Speaker 1: and this isn't even factoring in Stefan Gilmour being there.

1833
01:36:38,200 --> 01:36:40,000
Speaker 1: I had the Bills draft. I think I rated them

1834
01:36:40,080 --> 01:36:43,120
Speaker 1: three or four overall, and that shout a first round pick,

1835
01:36:43,880 --> 01:36:49,800
Speaker 1: which is that's great. Cynthia Freeland, NFL analytics expert from

1836
01:36:49,880 --> 01:36:53,360
Speaker 1: NFL Network and NFL dot Com on Epanessa, Cynthia, you

1837
01:36:53,439 --> 01:36:55,479
Speaker 1: had him going twenty four. Most people had him going

1838
01:36:55,640 --> 01:36:57,599
Speaker 1: you know, later in the first round, and he lasts

1839
01:36:57,640 --> 01:37:00,839
Speaker 1: until the fifty fourth pick overall. Was that just combine related,

1840
01:37:00,880 --> 01:37:03,680
Speaker 1: testim related? Don't you think he lefted zol Off? I

1841
01:37:03,800 --> 01:37:06,080
Speaker 1: think it was the market dynamics. So there were some

1842
01:37:06,280 --> 01:37:08,840
Speaker 1: interesting picks that I think threw people off a bit.

1843
01:37:09,120 --> 01:37:11,280
Speaker 1: For example, I don't think anyone thought Green Bay would

1844
01:37:11,320 --> 01:37:13,840
Speaker 1: take a quarterback at their first pick or running back

1845
01:37:13,880 --> 01:37:17,160
Speaker 1: with their seconds. Some weird market dynamics that threw off

1846
01:37:17,360 --> 01:37:19,760
Speaker 1: what you know, every team kind of game plans with

1847
01:37:19,840 --> 01:37:21,479
Speaker 1: the teams ahead of them are going to be taking,

1848
01:37:21,720 --> 01:37:23,439
Speaker 1: so they can kind of plan like, Okay, do I

1849
01:37:23,479 --> 01:37:25,040
Speaker 1: need to take the corner in this round or the

1850
01:37:25,080 --> 01:37:29,479
Speaker 1: wide receiver, etc. And and ultimately those things which there

1851
01:37:29,520 --> 01:37:31,880
Speaker 1: was kind of runs on specific positions. There was run

1852
01:37:31,960 --> 01:37:34,000
Speaker 1: on wide receiver position, then there was a run on

1853
01:37:34,040 --> 01:37:37,240
Speaker 1: the cornerback position. Then you know, it was more about

1854
01:37:37,320 --> 01:37:40,639
Speaker 1: that than it was about like I think that honestly,

1855
01:37:40,720 --> 01:37:43,519
Speaker 1: I think part of the reason why Epinsa felt was

1856
01:37:43,560 --> 01:37:47,559
Speaker 1: because the javon Kinlaw pick by the Niners, who, by

1857
01:37:47,600 --> 01:37:50,200
Speaker 1: the way, they moved down one position, which was hilarious

1858
01:37:50,320 --> 01:37:52,439
Speaker 1: because if you think about it, then Niners Kyle Shanahan

1859
01:37:52,479 --> 01:37:55,439
Speaker 1: came from Atlanta Falcons. Atlanta Falcons were rumored to want

1860
01:37:55,560 --> 01:37:58,120
Speaker 1: javon Kinlaw. They snatched him up right in that spot

1861
01:37:58,200 --> 01:38:00,800
Speaker 1: when everyone thought they were going receiver. So I think

1862
01:38:01,200 --> 01:38:04,600
Speaker 1: that changed kind of the board for people kind of

1863
01:38:04,680 --> 01:38:06,439
Speaker 1: going forward. And I don't think it's a slat on

1864
01:38:06,479 --> 01:38:08,960
Speaker 1: Epanessa as it is as much of a kind of

1865
01:38:09,000 --> 01:38:12,439
Speaker 1: a market dynamics of where some of these like random

1866
01:38:12,520 --> 01:38:15,200
Speaker 1: other players went that people weren't expecting to go in

1867
01:38:15,280 --> 01:38:18,640
Speaker 1: those spots. So you were probably as high on the

1868
01:38:18,720 --> 01:38:21,560
Speaker 1: Bill's draft obviously as anybody in the country. And I

1869
01:38:21,640 --> 01:38:23,960
Speaker 1: got to ask you too about Zack Moss. You had

1870
01:38:24,000 --> 01:38:27,559
Speaker 1: some you'd think of His ability to avoid run stopping

1871
01:38:27,680 --> 01:38:31,360
Speaker 1: contact is a huge plus for him. Tell us more

1872
01:38:31,479 --> 01:38:35,000
Speaker 1: about why you thought Zack Moss was a value pick

1873
01:38:35,040 --> 01:38:37,200
Speaker 1: as well, and one of the reasons you think Buffalo's

1874
01:38:37,280 --> 01:38:41,519
Speaker 1: draft went so well. I think Zack Moss adds to

1875
01:38:41,760 --> 01:38:45,679
Speaker 1: what they So anything that can help you, like just overall,

1876
01:38:45,800 --> 01:38:49,559
Speaker 1: anything that can help you minimize turnovers and maximize your

1877
01:38:49,600 --> 01:38:52,760
Speaker 1: ability to keep those chains moving, meaning the multiple being

1878
01:38:52,880 --> 01:38:55,800
Speaker 1: multiple on offense. So it's not just having a good

1879
01:38:55,880 --> 01:38:58,919
Speaker 1: running back, it's having a multitude of different running options

1880
01:38:59,120 --> 01:39:02,759
Speaker 1: that compliment a multitude of different passing options. So anything

1881
01:39:02,880 --> 01:39:06,000
Speaker 1: you can do to provide stability and that is going

1882
01:39:06,080 --> 01:39:08,680
Speaker 1: to be a win for you. So ultimately, when you

1883
01:39:08,840 --> 01:39:11,960
Speaker 1: fact you're in what Zach Mosses resume looks at and

1884
01:39:12,040 --> 01:39:14,280
Speaker 1: the fact that you know the Bills have a dynamic

1885
01:39:14,360 --> 01:39:16,320
Speaker 1: runner like Devin Singletary is great, Like it was a

1886
01:39:16,439 --> 01:39:19,000
Speaker 1: great pick and you have this, you have this kind

1887
01:39:19,000 --> 01:39:22,479
Speaker 1: of centerpiece of like great now play action is going

1888
01:39:22,600 --> 01:39:25,800
Speaker 1: to be even more fortified because you don't know if

1889
01:39:25,840 --> 01:39:27,679
Speaker 1: it's going to be the run or the past. RPOs

1890
01:39:27,720 --> 01:39:29,759
Speaker 1: are going to work a lot better when you always

1891
01:39:29,800 --> 01:39:32,559
Speaker 1: have the thread of the running back being either running

1892
01:39:32,560 --> 01:39:34,439
Speaker 1: the ball or being the target of a pass like

1893
01:39:34,840 --> 01:39:37,960
Speaker 1: that keeps defenses off balance. So the more you can

1894
01:39:38,360 --> 01:39:41,640
Speaker 1: reinforce that, the better off you are. And then then

1895
01:39:41,680 --> 01:39:43,519
Speaker 1: you kind of go back and I love the jake

1896
01:39:43,600 --> 01:39:47,000
Speaker 1: from Pick. It's late enough that there's not expectations of, like,

1897
01:39:47,320 --> 01:39:50,360
Speaker 1: you know, supplanting your starter, but it also look it's

1898
01:39:50,479 --> 01:39:53,920
Speaker 1: very backup. Quarterback is a really underrated position in terms

1899
01:39:53,960 --> 01:39:57,280
Speaker 1: of roster building because it's very unlikely there it's rare

1900
01:39:57,640 --> 01:39:59,720
Speaker 1: that a quarterback plays all of their games, especially if

1901
01:39:59,760 --> 01:40:01,920
Speaker 1: you look at a horizon of two years, right, So

1902
01:40:02,080 --> 01:40:05,120
Speaker 1: if you need a quarterback to come in, this guy

1903
01:40:05,439 --> 01:40:07,719
Speaker 1: is not going to turn the ball over. So ultimately

1904
01:40:07,840 --> 01:40:11,720
Speaker 1: you're really reinforcing your principles of how can you create development,

1905
01:40:11,920 --> 01:40:15,639
Speaker 1: how can you create the right situation for when you Unfortunately, look,

1906
01:40:15,640 --> 01:40:18,000
Speaker 1: I would never wish an injury on anyone, but look

1907
01:40:18,040 --> 01:40:20,559
Speaker 1: at the look at what happens at some point, It's

1908
01:40:20,680 --> 01:40:22,800
Speaker 1: likely your quarterbacks been gonna play one hundred percent of

1909
01:40:22,800 --> 01:40:25,880
Speaker 1: the snaps. So all of those things. Zach Moss together

1910
01:40:26,120 --> 01:40:28,760
Speaker 1: with Jake From, these are some great picks. And then,

1911
01:40:28,800 --> 01:40:31,320
Speaker 1: by the way, didn't even get into Stevan Gilmour being there.

1912
01:40:31,400 --> 01:40:35,759
Speaker 1: So okay, let's go. Yeah, Stefon Diggs. Yeah, Cynthia Freeland

1913
01:40:35,800 --> 01:40:38,240
Speaker 1: our guest NFL analytic Jack for it. I did see

1914
01:40:38,280 --> 01:40:40,200
Speaker 1: the tweet you wrote about Jake From You call them

1915
01:40:40,280 --> 01:40:43,200
Speaker 1: a high value quarterback room. What does that mean? I mean,

1916
01:40:43,240 --> 01:40:45,000
Speaker 1: we liked the room and we just had Jake From

1917
01:40:45,880 --> 01:40:48,280
Speaker 1: you know, last half hour of Cynthia, But why do

1918
01:40:48,360 --> 01:40:50,439
Speaker 1: you call it a high value quarterback room? What do

1919
01:40:50,479 --> 01:40:53,439
Speaker 1: you have in mind there? So remember when the Eagles

1920
01:40:53,479 --> 01:40:56,160
Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl with Nick Foles. Yes, I

1921
01:40:56,240 --> 01:40:58,800
Speaker 1: do want person. It's not that they didn't want Carson

1922
01:40:58,840 --> 01:41:01,320
Speaker 1: Wentz to be healthy and play. It's because the way

1923
01:41:01,360 --> 01:41:03,000
Speaker 1: that the game is played and the way and the

1924
01:41:03,520 --> 01:41:05,920
Speaker 1: nasty hits and the situations that you find yourself in.

1925
01:41:06,360 --> 01:41:08,800
Speaker 1: That's it's it's just a reality of the game. So

1926
01:41:08,920 --> 01:41:11,479
Speaker 1: if you have a high i Q quarterback, that's your backup.

1927
01:41:11,560 --> 01:41:14,000
Speaker 1: And by the way, you're learning from someone who has

1928
01:41:14,360 --> 01:41:18,920
Speaker 1: a ridiculous arm and a ridiculous like athletic Josh Allen's

1929
01:41:18,960 --> 01:41:21,280
Speaker 1: a freak. He's an athletic freak in every sense of it.

1930
01:41:21,360 --> 01:41:22,960
Speaker 1: If I could like get in his body and the

1931
01:41:23,120 --> 01:41:25,120
Speaker 1: sea how fast it felt to run and like run

1932
01:41:25,160 --> 01:41:27,400
Speaker 1: away from defensive players like that, I would love it

1933
01:41:27,520 --> 01:41:29,880
Speaker 1: just to like play robot for a second. But you

1934
01:41:29,920 --> 01:41:34,320
Speaker 1: know we have that combined with Jake Prom's ability to

1935
01:41:34,560 --> 01:41:38,519
Speaker 1: every single season and his in Georgia, he got more accurate,

1936
01:41:38,920 --> 01:41:42,000
Speaker 1: but he and his turnovers all went down. So at

1937
01:41:42,040 --> 01:41:45,519
Speaker 1: first there was some off target throws, absolutely, but you

1938
01:41:45,640 --> 01:41:48,160
Speaker 1: saw his development as a starter, he got to be

1939
01:41:48,240 --> 01:41:51,040
Speaker 1: a better and better passer and by every metric kind

1940
01:41:51,080 --> 01:41:53,479
Speaker 1: of that I that I've ever been able to track

1941
01:41:53,560 --> 01:41:56,639
Speaker 1: this predictive and the whole time he started off seeing

1942
01:41:56,640 --> 01:41:59,439
Speaker 1: a low turnover guy, and he actually got better at

1943
01:41:59,479 --> 01:42:01,960
Speaker 1: not turning the ball over. So this is a nice

1944
01:42:02,280 --> 01:42:06,240
Speaker 1: high floor and a good ceiling situation for Jake from

1945
01:42:06,479 --> 01:42:09,240
Speaker 1: where he can develop. And by the way, developing under

1946
01:42:09,280 --> 01:42:11,280
Speaker 1: a freak like that is really good for you because

1947
01:42:11,560 --> 01:42:14,120
Speaker 1: you get to see, okay, I can sling it here, Okay,

1948
01:42:14,680 --> 01:42:16,280
Speaker 1: you know this is this is how it's gonna work

1949
01:42:16,280 --> 01:42:20,160
Speaker 1: out for me. So it's it's just great both ways. Yeah,

1950
01:42:20,560 --> 01:42:23,519
Speaker 1: So let's I know that we've talked about, you know,

1951
01:42:23,560 --> 01:42:26,679
Speaker 1: the Bill's draft and and Stefan digs. Of the addition,

1952
01:42:27,040 --> 01:42:29,320
Speaker 1: there's some other teams in the Bills division that also

1953
01:42:29,479 --> 01:42:31,840
Speaker 1: gained some ground where he's just had Almarnando saw what

1954
01:42:32,080 --> 01:42:35,959
Speaker 1: Gary on from Miami. Obviously, the Dolphins had this enormous

1955
01:42:36,040 --> 01:42:38,160
Speaker 1: haul in the draft, three first round picks, I think

1956
01:42:38,320 --> 01:42:43,160
Speaker 1: at twelve picks overall. Uh, how and but you look

1957
01:42:43,200 --> 01:42:46,200
Speaker 1: at the division, You've got Josh Allen, Sam Darnold, two

1958
01:42:46,200 --> 01:42:51,000
Speaker 1: Attack of Bloa and and Jared Stidham. I guess is

1959
01:42:51,040 --> 01:42:54,000
Speaker 1: going to start for the New England Patriots. Uh what

1960
01:42:54,120 --> 01:42:57,200
Speaker 1: do analytics tell us about how big a difference the

1961
01:42:57,280 --> 01:43:00,679
Speaker 1: absence of Tom Brady and the changes in New England

1962
01:43:00,680 --> 01:43:03,320
Speaker 1: are going to affect the division? And now with Miami

1963
01:43:03,439 --> 01:43:05,320
Speaker 1: having all those draft picks, what's this division going to

1964
01:43:05,400 --> 01:43:08,559
Speaker 1: look like? I think it's the Bills to lose by far.

1965
01:43:09,040 --> 01:43:11,559
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be one to two games separation, which,

1966
01:43:11,600 --> 01:43:14,000
Speaker 1: by the way, if you think about the way like

1967
01:43:14,160 --> 01:43:16,360
Speaker 1: math has done, everything is close to an average. So

1968
01:43:16,760 --> 01:43:19,120
Speaker 1: one to two games separation from the rest of the

1969
01:43:19,200 --> 01:43:21,600
Speaker 1: pack is a big number when it's going to be

1970
01:43:21,680 --> 01:43:23,880
Speaker 1: eight you know of sixteen games of eight. Everything will

1971
01:43:23,880 --> 01:43:25,680
Speaker 1: be close to eight, but I think that it's the

1972
01:43:25,760 --> 01:43:30,200
Speaker 1: Bills to lose by far. The interesting part about Miami

1973
01:43:30,360 --> 01:43:33,880
Speaker 1: and unfortunately, given the current circumstances, it's going to be

1974
01:43:34,040 --> 01:43:39,640
Speaker 1: really hard to teams who have, especially defenses, because defenses

1975
01:43:39,680 --> 01:43:41,439
Speaker 1: tend to if you if you look to see like

1976
01:43:41,680 --> 01:43:44,000
Speaker 1: who has the advantage early on in seasons and when

1977
01:43:44,000 --> 01:43:46,160
Speaker 1: you've seen when new leagues are formed, like the XFL

1978
01:43:46,240 --> 01:43:49,599
Speaker 1: or the AF, defenses tend to have the advantage because

1979
01:43:49,880 --> 01:43:52,479
Speaker 1: they're reading an offense that hasn't maybe gotten a chance

1980
01:43:52,520 --> 01:43:55,200
Speaker 1: to work together as as much so they can read

1981
01:43:55,240 --> 01:43:57,840
Speaker 1: the offenses. It typically as a lower scoring game in

1982
01:43:57,920 --> 01:43:59,880
Speaker 1: the beginning of new seasons or the beginning of new

1983
01:44:00,280 --> 01:44:02,400
Speaker 1: you know, X feller AF, And I think it's going

1984
01:44:02,439 --> 01:44:04,200
Speaker 1: to look a lot like that for Miami as well,

1985
01:44:04,400 --> 01:44:07,080
Speaker 1: because we're more than likely going to have at least

1986
01:44:07,120 --> 01:44:11,360
Speaker 1: an abbreviated or a different preseason, and without that time

1987
01:44:11,439 --> 01:44:15,240
Speaker 1: to form together those new faces in new places, it's

1988
01:44:15,280 --> 01:44:19,080
Speaker 1: going to be really tricky to adapt and learn and

1989
01:44:19,320 --> 01:44:22,479
Speaker 1: gel and really form those it's it's forecasts to be

1990
01:44:22,840 --> 01:44:25,880
Speaker 1: trickier to have those kind of you know, those those

1991
01:44:25,960 --> 01:44:29,120
Speaker 1: bonds in that chemistry form. So for me, the fewer

1992
01:44:29,240 --> 01:44:32,120
Speaker 1: new players you have, the better off you have, the

1993
01:44:32,200 --> 01:44:36,639
Speaker 1: better chance you have of understanding the offensive and defensive concepts,

1994
01:44:36,720 --> 01:44:40,160
Speaker 1: quickly picking up the playbook, really being able to understand

1995
01:44:40,240 --> 01:44:43,599
Speaker 1: and navigate like what's going on in the field, because

1996
01:44:43,680 --> 01:44:46,560
Speaker 1: you know, unless something drastically changes, it seems to me

1997
01:44:46,680 --> 01:44:49,560
Speaker 1: like we're going to have at least a weird preseason.

1998
01:44:49,880 --> 01:44:53,800
Speaker 1: If not, you know, even weirder God forbidden. Yeah, we've

1999
01:44:53,840 --> 01:44:57,920
Speaker 1: been talking this offseason about how different this offseason is

2000
01:44:57,960 --> 01:45:00,600
Speaker 1: going to be and what could be benefits to some

2001
01:45:00,760 --> 01:45:03,879
Speaker 1: team and not continuity seems to be maybe a premium

2002
01:45:04,000 --> 01:45:07,200
Speaker 1: this season moving into a regular season where the offseason

2003
01:45:07,240 --> 01:45:11,040
Speaker 1: has been shortened or compressed or truncated, however you want

2004
01:45:11,040 --> 01:45:13,400
Speaker 1: to talk about it. The Bills also use that as

2005
01:45:13,479 --> 01:45:18,559
Speaker 1: a as a a rationalization as to why they would

2006
01:45:18,600 --> 01:45:21,519
Speaker 1: sign give up a first round pick for a Stephan Diggs,

2007
01:45:21,520 --> 01:45:24,320
Speaker 1: a veteran wide receiver rather than a rookie wide receiver.

2008
01:45:24,400 --> 01:45:28,280
Speaker 1: It's just less acclamation for a guy going to a

2009
01:45:28,400 --> 01:45:30,719
Speaker 1: veteran going to a new team rather than a rookie

2010
01:45:30,800 --> 01:45:33,519
Speaker 1: coming in and having to learn a whole new lifestyle.

2011
01:45:33,760 --> 01:45:37,639
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts about continuity all across the league

2012
01:45:37,680 --> 01:45:39,760
Speaker 1: and which teams are going to benefit from it and

2013
01:45:39,920 --> 01:45:43,040
Speaker 1: which teams are not. Obviously, new head coaches, new coordinators

2014
01:45:43,080 --> 01:45:46,519
Speaker 1: are going to be are always up against it trying

2015
01:45:46,560 --> 01:45:48,880
Speaker 1: to install that stuff, but man, oh man, this year,

2016
01:45:48,960 --> 01:45:51,360
Speaker 1: it seems like teams with continuity are going to get

2017
01:45:51,400 --> 01:45:55,640
Speaker 1: an exponential boost. Absolutely. I think if you look to

2018
01:45:55,680 --> 01:45:58,200
Speaker 1: see I think there's some formula of like how many

2019
01:45:58,280 --> 01:46:02,080
Speaker 1: plays has the coach calls, how coaches and coordinators called

2020
01:46:02,200 --> 01:46:05,519
Speaker 1: right how many of the returning starters are still starting

2021
01:46:05,600 --> 01:46:08,320
Speaker 1: for the team Kansas City right now? Has I think that.

2022
01:46:08,479 --> 01:46:10,360
Speaker 1: I think the stat I saw was like something like,

2023
01:46:10,800 --> 01:46:13,719
Speaker 1: you know, of the people who played at least fifty

2024
01:46:13,760 --> 01:46:15,760
Speaker 1: eight percent of the snap, they've got them all under

2025
01:46:15,800 --> 01:46:19,240
Speaker 1: contract again this season, so there's really like that's a

2026
01:46:19,320 --> 01:46:22,000
Speaker 1: huge advantage for them. It's a huge advantage for teams

2027
01:46:22,080 --> 01:46:25,439
Speaker 1: like you know, the Baltimore Raven, same quarterback, same systems,

2028
01:46:25,439 --> 01:46:28,040
Speaker 1: like very few changes. They had a new linebacker. Okay, sure,

2029
01:46:28,120 --> 01:46:30,160
Speaker 1: but that's not as hard as you know, acclimated two

2030
01:46:30,200 --> 01:46:32,880
Speaker 1: new quarterback or you know, other positions that are a

2031
01:46:33,040 --> 01:46:36,680
Speaker 1: little bit more difficult to change. Then you've got the Steelers, who,

2032
01:46:36,720 --> 01:46:38,400
Speaker 1: by the way, they get Ben Roethlisberger back, and I

2033
01:46:38,439 --> 01:46:40,840
Speaker 1: don't think many people are talking about them their first

2034
01:46:40,960 --> 01:46:44,599
Speaker 1: round pick de facto of Minca Fitzpatrick taking him from

2035
01:46:44,640 --> 01:46:46,920
Speaker 1: the Dolphins last season. That actually turns out to be

2036
01:46:47,200 --> 01:46:49,960
Speaker 1: a really, really great pick, even though they make the

2037
01:46:50,000 --> 01:46:52,640
Speaker 1: actual pick in the first round, because defense and the

2038
01:46:52,720 --> 01:46:56,240
Speaker 1: continuity on defense I think specifically is going to be

2039
01:46:56,400 --> 01:46:58,400
Speaker 1: one of the areas. Like obviously, if you have a

2040
01:46:58,479 --> 01:47:01,720
Speaker 1: veteran quarterback and you have that that chemistry together, sure

2041
01:47:01,760 --> 01:47:04,240
Speaker 1: that's going to help, But especially on defense, I think

2042
01:47:04,280 --> 01:47:06,200
Speaker 1: that's where at least those first two weeks you're gonna

2043
01:47:06,200 --> 01:47:08,640
Speaker 1: get Like the Steelers, they're going to be great, the

2044
01:47:08,800 --> 01:47:11,519
Speaker 1: Raven's great, Chiefs great. The Niners they didn't lose a

2045
01:47:11,560 --> 01:47:13,559
Speaker 1: lot this offseason either. I think they're going to still

2046
01:47:13,600 --> 01:47:16,400
Speaker 1: be good. I think the interesting part is a team

2047
01:47:16,479 --> 01:47:19,759
Speaker 1: like the Arizona Cardinals. They obviously have the same quarterback

2048
01:47:19,800 --> 01:47:21,920
Speaker 1: and it's the second season, so he's evolving. But you

2049
01:47:22,000 --> 01:47:24,679
Speaker 1: bring in a big name receiver and then you really

2050
01:47:24,840 --> 01:47:26,920
Speaker 1: you add a lot of pieces in free agency and

2051
01:47:27,040 --> 01:47:30,519
Speaker 1: you draft Aaa Simmons, who was probably my favorite player

2052
01:47:30,600 --> 01:47:33,160
Speaker 1: in the most interesting player to track in this one

2053
01:47:33,200 --> 01:47:35,519
Speaker 1: and now you have this multiple defense, it's going to

2054
01:47:35,600 --> 01:47:38,559
Speaker 1: either be great or it's going to take a little

2055
01:47:38,600 --> 01:47:40,840
Speaker 1: time to gel. So those are that's you know, those

2056
01:47:40,880 --> 01:47:42,880
Speaker 1: kind of question marks. So not even just first year

2057
01:47:42,920 --> 01:47:45,320
Speaker 1: head coaches or first year quarterbacks, but then extend that

2058
01:47:45,400 --> 01:47:48,439
Speaker 1: to people who have had pre significant changes. You know,

2059
01:47:48,439 --> 01:47:51,720
Speaker 1: their oh line, they're running back, their wide receiver, their

2060
01:47:51,760 --> 01:47:55,000
Speaker 1: whole defense for for Arizona, and I'm curious to see

2061
01:47:55,040 --> 01:47:57,519
Speaker 1: how it all nets out. Five on the line was

2062
01:47:57,560 --> 01:48:00,479
Speaker 1: Cynthia Freeland, NFL analymic dexpert. You can see her on

2063
01:48:00,600 --> 01:48:03,759
Speaker 1: NFL Network Rereader on NFL dot com. You mentioned Stefan

2064
01:48:03,840 --> 01:48:06,360
Speaker 1: Diggs a couple of times. Cynthias, it seemed like you

2065
01:48:06,479 --> 01:48:08,280
Speaker 1: have something to say about step and Diggs about how

2066
01:48:08,320 --> 01:48:10,840
Speaker 1: would you like that move? Huh? I like that move

2067
01:48:10,880 --> 01:48:13,840
Speaker 1: a lot. It seems like the hard part for the

2068
01:48:13,920 --> 01:48:17,040
Speaker 1: Bills was that it came right on the heels of

2069
01:48:17,160 --> 01:48:21,560
Speaker 1: that DeAndre Hopkins trade. That was a very weird trade that,

2070
01:48:22,000 --> 01:48:25,479
Speaker 1: I mean, the value for the Texans for DeAndre Hopkins

2071
01:48:25,920 --> 01:48:30,920
Speaker 1: was not proportionate to his skill set and the Bills,

2072
01:48:31,000 --> 01:48:34,479
Speaker 1: so if they would have if that negotiation had gone differently.

2073
01:48:34,760 --> 01:48:36,880
Speaker 1: I think the way we would have cast the bills,

2074
01:48:36,920 --> 01:48:39,519
Speaker 1: like how the bills did, how it graded the you know,

2075
01:48:39,680 --> 01:48:42,320
Speaker 1: some people do grades on the trade or whatever. I

2076
01:48:42,400 --> 01:48:46,120
Speaker 1: think because that happened first that it cast a weird

2077
01:48:46,240 --> 01:48:49,840
Speaker 1: spell over how people perceived that Stefon Diggs trade. But

2078
01:48:50,000 --> 01:48:52,760
Speaker 1: ultimately that was great value for him and it was

2079
01:48:52,840 --> 01:48:55,920
Speaker 1: probably appropriate value. It was nobody got really I'm not

2080
01:48:55,960 --> 01:48:58,240
Speaker 1: gonna say swindle, but nobody kind of won that trade

2081
01:48:58,360 --> 01:49:01,240
Speaker 1: versus the other because you're getting known entity that plays

2082
01:49:01,240 --> 01:49:06,240
Speaker 1: the position of need, that is approven, approven, playbook, knowledgeable,

2083
01:49:06,640 --> 01:49:09,200
Speaker 1: you know, still in his prime, all of the things

2084
01:49:09,240 --> 01:49:11,439
Speaker 1: that you look for in a premium trade like that,

2085
01:49:11,600 --> 01:49:14,479
Speaker 1: he ticked all the boxes. So it's a great trade,

2086
01:49:14,840 --> 01:49:17,720
Speaker 1: even though it felt like a lot to give up

2087
01:49:17,840 --> 01:49:21,479
Speaker 1: because it came after a very not great lopsided trade

2088
01:49:21,520 --> 01:49:24,160
Speaker 1: with DeAndre Hopkins. So I think had that Hopkins trade

2089
01:49:24,240 --> 01:49:26,920
Speaker 1: not had happened, you know, every like it would have

2090
01:49:26,960 --> 01:49:29,639
Speaker 1: been all viewed as positive, not like, hey, maybe that's

2091
01:49:29,680 --> 01:49:32,600
Speaker 1: too much to give up, right, It's all the market dynamics,

2092
01:49:32,680 --> 01:49:35,080
Speaker 1: but you know, look, you're getting approven, You're getting a

2093
01:49:35,160 --> 01:49:38,240
Speaker 1: proven entity that compliments everything you're trying to do on

2094
01:49:38,360 --> 01:49:40,320
Speaker 1: that offense, and you really didn't give up that much.

2095
01:49:40,320 --> 01:49:42,000
Speaker 1: And then by the way you crushed with the draft,

2096
01:49:42,360 --> 01:49:44,679
Speaker 1: you are sitting pretty and there's no more Tom Brady

2097
01:49:44,760 --> 01:49:47,080
Speaker 1: in your division. And I don't know how the Jets

2098
01:49:47,120 --> 01:49:49,000
Speaker 1: got better, and I don't know what's going on with

2099
01:49:49,080 --> 01:49:50,680
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. I think it is a great time to

2100
01:49:50,680 --> 01:49:56,320
Speaker 1: be a Buffalo bill fan. Paint your face and where

2101
01:49:56,360 --> 01:49:57,920
Speaker 1: the zoo Baz, You're ready to go with the Bills.

2102
01:49:58,560 --> 01:50:01,400
Speaker 1: I just want to go tailgate. Like the only bad

2103
01:50:01,479 --> 01:50:04,080
Speaker 1: thing about being on a pregame show, the only and

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Speaker 1: I love I missed game day morning. I can't wait

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Speaker 1: for to come back. But the only bad thing is

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Speaker 1: like I really need to go to I need to

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Speaker 1: get so a few of these tailgates. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: have seen some legendary things from from those Buffalo build fans,

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Speaker 1: and I'm telling you, I think I think I'd have

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Speaker 1: a really good time. I love it. Hey, yeah you would.

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Speaker 1: It's a great atmosphere out there. This is the first

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Speaker 1: this last year or the first year I actually got

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Speaker 1: a chance to take do that a couple of times.

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Speaker 1: It is a blast. You'll love it. And I gotta

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Speaker 1: ask you this too. One of the most interesting things

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Speaker 1: that has happened in recent years is we've had quarterbacks

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Speaker 1: come available for decades. Murph and I when we were

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Speaker 1: growing up, you never saw good quarterbacks available. Now you've

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Speaker 1: got a quarterback like Philip Rivers, and this seems I

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Speaker 1: saw this coming from ten thousand miles away. Philip Rivers

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Speaker 1: ends up in Indianapolis with Frank Reich. How do you

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Speaker 1: That seems to me to make perfect sense. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how you feel about with analytics. What are your thoughts? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, remember system fits are a big deal.

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Speaker 1: And the familiarity that Frank has with him, with their

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator with they have a lot of they've all

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Speaker 1: worked with Philip Rivers before, so that familiarity is a

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Speaker 1: huge deal. Plus, if I'm a quarterback and I get

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Speaker 1: to stand behind that old line, I am so happy

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01:51:18,360 --> 01:51:22,080
Speaker 1: because Philip Rivers just got clocked every single like last year,

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Speaker 1: that was not a good time to be a quarterback

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Speaker 1: to the Los Angeles Chargers because that old line was

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Speaker 1: doing him zero favors. So now you're Philip Rivers, who's like,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't think I don't think that the

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Speaker 1: regression or whatever I think that it's more that the

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Speaker 1: Chargers had to go in a different direction. And I

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Speaker 1: think Philip Rivers still has not just one because they

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Speaker 1: only signed a one year deal, but I think he

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Speaker 1: could have multiple seasons still left in him. But I

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01:51:46,000 --> 01:51:47,680
Speaker 1: think it's smart to do a one year deal so

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Speaker 1: that nobody's over extending their cap or sitting putting themselves

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Speaker 1: in a situation where you know you're you're not valuing

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Speaker 1: someone in the year that they're playing. And that's why

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Speaker 1: the Colts are really smart. And they're also in a

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Speaker 1: division that got it's a two horse vision in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: in the AFC South. It's between the Colts and the Titans.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be really hard for you to convince me

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Speaker 1: that Jacksonville or Houston got any better this offseason. So

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Speaker 1: for me, put him in a division that's completely achievable,

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Speaker 1: and especially in a time when you know, making it

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Speaker 1: to the playoffs and AFT who knows afdast is confusing.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, I think the build are

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Speaker 1: going to win it, but that means that maybe this

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Speaker 1: time it doesn't come two teams don't come out of

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Speaker 1: the fast. Maybe now the South has a chance to

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01:52:26,920 --> 01:52:30,280
Speaker 1: have both Indianapolis and Tennessee come out. So I think

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Speaker 1: it's a really smart fit and I think he's a

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Speaker 1: great and by the way, they drafted to help him out,

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Speaker 1: they drafted another running back in the second round. They

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Speaker 1: drafted They are both in the second round, a wide

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Speaker 1: receiver and a running back. They're in great shape to

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Speaker 1: really challenge for what's going on in the AFT South.

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Speaker 1: I got another quarterback question for you, Cynthy. I don't

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Speaker 1: mean to keep you this long, but Jamis Winston Davis

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Speaker 1: Winston got a one year deal today from the Saints

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Speaker 1: one point one million dollars. Sage Rosenfelds form a quarterback, right.

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Speaker 1: He tweeted this out. Yeah, Winston through thirty interceptions last year.

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Speaker 1: He also threw thirty three touchdowns. AJ McCarron got a

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Speaker 1: one year deal worth four times that much, four million

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Speaker 1: from the Texans. He isn't throwing a touchdown pass in

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Speaker 1: the last four years. Our turnovers, our interceptions, really that

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Speaker 1: noteworthy that a team would make that kind of a

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Speaker 1: difference thing. I'm just going to tell you that I

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Speaker 1: think the good teams, this is where you see the

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Speaker 1: good teams getting better and then not so good teams

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Speaker 1: making not so good decisions right, Like, it's less about

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Speaker 1: to me, this just shows that this Saints are brilliant

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Speaker 1: and their way of handling their needs and identifying who

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Speaker 1: to pay. Because remember the Saints have been in like

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Speaker 1: this weird cap situation for quite some time. They're always

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01:53:48,600 --> 01:53:50,760
Speaker 1: picking late in the first round. They're always kind of

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01:53:51,040 --> 01:53:54,000
Speaker 1: hamstrung with it. They always have fewer than seven picks

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Speaker 1: in the draft. You know, they've just kind of they've

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Speaker 1: they've maximized for now. It seems like they're trying to

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Speaker 1: get a win for Drew Brees. Maybe it's nearing the

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Speaker 1: end of his career, so maybe that's the thought. But

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Speaker 1: they're always working with what it seems like they pulled

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Speaker 1: us like a rabbit out of a hat. So for me,

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Speaker 1: it just goes to show that the Saints are better

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01:54:13,080 --> 01:54:16,000
Speaker 1: at identifying some areas where they can get high upsides

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Speaker 1: and not overpaying for them as opposed to to me,

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Speaker 1: it feels like perhaps teams are you know, looking at

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Speaker 1: the Texans and not thinking that they need to do there.

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01:54:25,960 --> 01:54:27,400
Speaker 1: You know, they don't need to bring the a team

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Speaker 1: for when it comes to negotiating with them, they can handle,

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Speaker 1: you know, just you know, let's the B team do

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Speaker 1: it like. We don't need our hardest agree, right. I

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Speaker 1: got one last thing for me, Cynthia, I gotta ask you,

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Speaker 1: is there a think about the draft? Is there anything

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01:54:43,160 --> 01:54:45,440
Speaker 1: that jumped out about it? The one thing about this

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Speaker 1: draft that I think I'll always remember is the fact

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Speaker 1: that while they still had Aaron Rodgers still playing what

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Speaker 1: I thought was a pretty high level, the Packers drafted

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01:54:57,320 --> 01:55:00,400
Speaker 1: Jordan Love that will I'll always remember. Is there a

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01:55:00,480 --> 01:55:03,760
Speaker 1: pick like that that you'll remember that, maybe that one

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01:55:03,880 --> 01:55:06,840
Speaker 1: or maybe a different one. Yeah. I actually think like

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01:55:06,960 --> 01:55:09,920
Speaker 1: the entire Packers draft would like that. For me, I

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01:55:10,040 --> 01:55:12,840
Speaker 1: didn't understand picking like, you have Aaron Jones, you got

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Speaker 1: Jamal Like, you're running backs pretty set, your quarterbacks pretty

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01:55:16,240 --> 01:55:18,720
Speaker 1: pretty set. You know, it's just Aaron Rodgers, by the way.

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Speaker 1: And then you take those two things in the beginning

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01:55:22,880 --> 01:55:26,840
Speaker 1: of the draft, when there are prime premo wide receivers

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01:55:27,320 --> 01:55:32,160
Speaker 1: there and you have a deficiency that's pretty pretty you know, blatant,

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01:55:32,560 --> 01:55:34,440
Speaker 1: and you're not. It just doesn't and you could you

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01:55:34,440 --> 01:55:37,520
Speaker 1: could address your O line. That's another area. There's just

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Speaker 1: so many. It was an interesting I'm gonna say it's

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01:55:40,440 --> 01:55:44,120
Speaker 1: incongruent strategy, because if you have I would argue, if

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Speaker 1: you were to survey all thirty two NFL head coaches,

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01:55:47,960 --> 01:55:49,960
Speaker 1: I think there would maybe be five that wouldn't want

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01:55:49,960 --> 01:55:52,480
Speaker 1: to take Aaron Rodgerson. They would have guys like, oh,

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Speaker 1: you know, Lamar Jackson or Patrick Mahomes, or maybe guys

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01:55:55,600 --> 01:55:58,520
Speaker 1: who are like MVPs, right like j Brees who should

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Speaker 1: be an MVP but hasn't won it yet. But you know,

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01:56:00,960 --> 01:56:03,240
Speaker 1: I would argue, there are very few people who would

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01:56:03,320 --> 01:56:07,920
Speaker 1: take who would not value Aaron Rodgers, especially right now.

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01:56:08,000 --> 01:56:10,200
Speaker 1: They're paying him all this money, so it's not like

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01:56:10,280 --> 01:56:13,680
Speaker 1: you're getting out of his contract otherwise, right, Like, So

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01:56:14,120 --> 01:56:17,920
Speaker 1: the interesting it just seems like a bad strategy and

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01:56:18,080 --> 01:56:21,320
Speaker 1: also seems like another bad strategy just who double down

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01:56:21,400 --> 01:56:25,520
Speaker 1: and kind of supplant Aaron Jones potentially and make people

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01:56:25,640 --> 01:56:28,440
Speaker 1: feel bad about how this is going to work out

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01:56:28,520 --> 01:56:30,800
Speaker 1: and not communicate well as what I'm kind of hearing.

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01:56:30,880 --> 01:56:33,280
Speaker 1: So I feel bad for I actually feel really bad

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01:56:33,360 --> 01:56:36,120
Speaker 1: for Jordan Love right now, because it's not his fault

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01:56:36,480 --> 01:56:39,360
Speaker 1: that he it's not his fault that he, you know,

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01:56:39,520 --> 01:56:42,520
Speaker 1: is in this position and he's kind of like the

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01:56:42,680 --> 01:56:45,080
Speaker 1: subject of like a lot of at least, you know,

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01:56:45,120 --> 01:56:46,400
Speaker 1: there's not there's not a lot going on in the

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01:56:46,440 --> 01:56:50,640
Speaker 1: sports world, so all of sports media is like Jared's

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Speaker 1: love and it seems like, you know, I kind of

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01:56:52,720 --> 01:56:55,480
Speaker 1: feel bad for him, you know, so I think the

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01:56:55,720 --> 01:56:58,400
Speaker 1: entire Packer's Draft was kind of like that. For me.

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Speaker 1: I got you. You're gonna get together that women in

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01:57:01,440 --> 01:57:04,240
Speaker 1: football group and do any more of those zoom chats

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01:57:04,320 --> 01:57:06,120
Speaker 1: that you did last week or wasn't zoom it was

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01:57:06,320 --> 01:57:09,240
Speaker 1: it was a twitch, right. Yeah, we're gonna do some

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01:57:09,400 --> 01:57:11,360
Speaker 1: more for sure, and we're probably gonna do some fun

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01:57:11,480 --> 01:57:14,400
Speaker 1: stuff around the some fun stuff for charity if you

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01:57:14,520 --> 01:57:17,480
Speaker 1: like golf, or we have some people talk about the

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Speaker 1: Phil Versus Tiger charity matches coming out because we need

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Speaker 1: something to talk about, and who doesn't love golf. Good point,

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Speaker 1: right to talk with you. We're glad you're staying healthy

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Speaker 1: and hope you continue to do so. Thanks being on

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Speaker 1: with us. Thank you so much for having me. I'll

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Speaker 1: come anytime and go Bill. Thanks. Thanks. Cynthia. Cynthia Freeland

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Speaker 1: NFL Analytics Expert, NFL Network, NFL dot Com. She is

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Speaker 1: a contributor to Game Day Morning and NFL Fantasy Live.

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01:57:46,320 --> 01:57:48,160
Speaker 1: She's got the numbers down steam and more than that,

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01:57:48,280 --> 01:57:50,840
Speaker 1: she and she doesn't just focus on the analytics the numbers.

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Speaker 1: She thinks about how these people fit into their teams,

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Speaker 1: right right. I think that sets her apart from a

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Speaker 1: typical analytics expert. Yeah, but the problem is, I don't

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Speaker 1: though that most of the teams, or any of the

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Speaker 1: teams think the way she thinks, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: she puts it down to strictly numbers, and I think

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of gms and a lot of executives

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Speaker 1: out there that still think it's more of an art

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Speaker 1: form than it is an analytics game. And but she

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Speaker 1: had the Bills taken a j Epeneza at twenty two

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Speaker 1: and then the Bills still get him at fifty four.

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Speaker 1: That goes to show you how hard it is to

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Speaker 1: predict what's going to happen in the draft. But they

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Speaker 1: still get the guy she anticipated they were gonna get

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Speaker 1: thirty picks later. Yep, all right, we'll take a break.

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Speaker 1: far ahead, they build the Championship roster on Twitter, you

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Speaker 1: Bills built a championship roster this offseason. Let us know

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Speaker 1: what you think on Twitter. The poll eighty one percent

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Speaker 1: says yes they have. But we'll hear from me. We'll

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Speaker 1: hear both sides of the argument. Give us a call

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Speaker 1: eight O three oh five fifty and toll free one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty want to

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Speaker 1: do a few twitter tweet sheets here, Steve, you want,

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02:00:46,520 --> 02:00:49,400
Speaker 1: we can do that. Of course, from the tweet sheet,

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Speaker 1: we've been all the way through this. Let's go down

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Speaker 1: to from Jim. No, we've done that. I know We've

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02:00:56,840 --> 02:00:59,320
Speaker 1: got to go down with the stip in the kool aid, right. Yes,

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02:00:59,400 --> 02:01:01,920
Speaker 1: that's an I voted yes. But it all depends on

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02:01:02,000 --> 02:01:04,480
Speaker 1: if Josh can take another step like he did last year.

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Speaker 1: I believe Josh will because he has an incredible work

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02:01:07,360 --> 02:01:10,080
Speaker 1: ethic and is very competitive. If he makes that step,

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Speaker 1: and with the additions being has made, we will be

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Speaker 1: in the conversation to win it all. That's from sipping

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02:01:16,240 --> 02:01:17,800
Speaker 1: the kool aid. I think a lot of people are

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02:01:17,840 --> 02:01:21,160
Speaker 1: sitting in there. That's where I sit. Murph. I like

2331
02:01:21,280 --> 02:01:24,440
Speaker 1: the roster last year. I really did, and I said

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02:01:24,520 --> 02:01:27,080
Speaker 1: so during the show while we were you know, during

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Speaker 1: the season. I thought they had the talent to go

2334
02:01:29,120 --> 02:01:32,000
Speaker 1: and if you know, they get into an overtime game

2335
02:01:32,080 --> 02:01:37,440
Speaker 1: there in Houston in the wild card round and every

2336
02:01:37,520 --> 02:01:39,520
Speaker 1: game would have been different. I mean, if they if

2337
02:01:39,560 --> 02:01:41,560
Speaker 1: they would have continued to advance. But I'm telling you

2338
02:01:41,680 --> 02:01:43,720
Speaker 1: they were a tough team to beat last year. I

2339
02:01:43,800 --> 02:01:46,240
Speaker 1: think and I anticipate the same thing happening this year

2340
02:01:46,720 --> 02:01:52,320
Speaker 1: with more firepower on the offensive side. So I'm totally

2341
02:01:52,520 --> 02:01:54,080
Speaker 1: on this. I think the Bills are going to be

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02:01:54,480 --> 02:01:57,880
Speaker 1: a contender this year, and for right now, they look

2343
02:01:57,960 --> 02:02:00,920
Speaker 1: like the best team in the division. But a lot

2344
02:02:00,960 --> 02:02:03,440
Speaker 1: of football has to be played with if it before

2345
02:02:03,440 --> 02:02:06,040
Speaker 1: it comes to fruition. Sure does, I mean it does.

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02:02:06,480 --> 02:02:09,760
Speaker 1: I will say this. I admit this to hear people

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02:02:09,800 --> 02:02:12,560
Speaker 1: who I trust a lot, including Cynthia Freeland fifteen twenty

2348
02:02:12,600 --> 02:02:14,440
Speaker 1: minutes ago, say oh, they're the team to beat in

2349
02:02:14,480 --> 02:02:16,880
Speaker 1: the division, you know, and people have said it over

2350
02:02:17,000 --> 02:02:19,120
Speaker 1: and over and over again, and after what I'm trying

2351
02:02:19,200 --> 02:02:21,440
Speaker 1: not to be skeptical, but I hear that, and I'm like, man,

2352
02:02:21,920 --> 02:02:24,440
Speaker 1: all right, they think it, not that it means anything.

2353
02:02:24,480 --> 02:02:25,800
Speaker 1: A year ago they would have said the same thing

2354
02:02:25,800 --> 02:02:29,000
Speaker 1: about the Cleveland Browns. But they are regarded as the

2355
02:02:29,280 --> 02:02:31,640
Speaker 1: best team in the division right now, right now, in

2356
02:02:31,760 --> 02:02:34,360
Speaker 1: April going on May. They're regarded that way. Doesn't mean

2357
02:02:34,440 --> 02:02:36,280
Speaker 1: anything once they start playing for real. But that's the

2358
02:02:36,320 --> 02:02:39,360
Speaker 1: way they're they're viewed. They're perceived well, yeah, and it's

2359
02:02:39,400 --> 02:02:41,480
Speaker 1: easier to say and people say it the same say

2360
02:02:41,600 --> 02:02:45,200
Speaker 1: about different teams in most years, not every year, but

2361
02:02:45,360 --> 02:02:48,960
Speaker 1: most years because they see what teams do. They can

2362
02:02:49,120 --> 02:02:53,920
Speaker 1: understand the plan that's been implemented and how many steps

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02:02:53,960 --> 02:02:57,320
Speaker 1: they've taken. And I think the Bills over the last

2364
02:02:57,360 --> 02:03:00,520
Speaker 1: three years have proven that they do not get outside

2365
02:03:00,520 --> 02:03:04,440
Speaker 1: the lines. They have stayed extremely disciplined. They have got

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02:03:04,560 --> 02:03:07,880
Speaker 1: their finances in order, they remain in order. They'll have

2367
02:03:08,360 --> 02:03:11,600
Speaker 1: plenty of cap space after this season to continue to

2368
02:03:11,680 --> 02:03:16,760
Speaker 1: rebuild and repentish the roster. They get a number of

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02:03:16,880 --> 02:03:19,920
Speaker 1: guys every year on prove it deals for one year,

2370
02:03:20,480 --> 02:03:22,320
Speaker 1: and they give guys a chance to come in and

2371
02:03:22,680 --> 02:03:25,200
Speaker 1: showcase their talents. If they want to play for a

2372
02:03:25,280 --> 02:03:27,320
Speaker 1: different team, fine, If they want to stay in Buffalo,

2373
02:03:27,360 --> 02:03:29,960
Speaker 1: they can do that too. But Buffalo seems to be

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02:03:30,240 --> 02:03:33,400
Speaker 1: with their culture, a place where players want to play

2375
02:03:34,320 --> 02:03:38,440
Speaker 1: and they come and prove it, and the Bills have

2376
02:03:38,640 --> 02:03:42,320
Speaker 1: supported those players. And that's not that doesn't happen in

2377
02:03:42,520 --> 02:03:46,800
Speaker 1: every other city. Murph words getting out that Buffalo is

2378
02:03:46,800 --> 02:03:49,960
Speaker 1: pretty good place to play. The culture is good. They

2379
02:03:50,120 --> 02:03:51,760
Speaker 1: do what they say they're going to do. When it

2380
02:03:51,840 --> 02:03:56,160
Speaker 1: comes to your contract and your negotiations and resigning you

2381
02:03:56,320 --> 02:04:00,280
Speaker 1: and all of that. I think that goes a long

2382
02:04:00,360 --> 02:04:02,600
Speaker 1: way around the league for player. It's a small league

2383
02:04:02,640 --> 02:04:04,560
Speaker 1: where the players are concerned, they talk to each other,

2384
02:04:04,840 --> 02:04:06,640
Speaker 1: and the Bills right now look like a pretty good

2385
02:04:06,680 --> 02:04:09,200
Speaker 1: destination for players on the football side of it and

2386
02:04:09,360 --> 02:04:12,440
Speaker 1: the culture side of it and what comes after that

2387
02:04:12,600 --> 02:04:15,720
Speaker 1: if you can prove it. So I'm with it. They

2388
02:04:15,800 --> 02:04:19,280
Speaker 1: got a lot to prove. And we've heard teams called

2389
02:04:19,320 --> 02:04:23,400
Speaker 1: this before, but people see the decisions the Bills have made,

2390
02:04:24,200 --> 02:04:26,400
Speaker 1: and there's just too many of them that make a

2391
02:04:26,480 --> 02:04:31,520
Speaker 1: lot of sense for the Bills not to see a

2392
02:04:31,680 --> 02:04:34,800
Speaker 1: return on all these investments. I just the Bills are

2393
02:04:35,280 --> 02:04:37,240
Speaker 1: in a spot where, yeah, it could all come, it

2394
02:04:37,320 --> 02:04:39,480
Speaker 1: could all go down the tubes like it did for

2395
02:04:39,520 --> 02:04:42,560
Speaker 1: the Browns last year. But certainly at this point it

2396
02:04:42,600 --> 02:04:44,920
Speaker 1: looks like they're hitting all right the right buttons. Our

2397
02:04:45,000 --> 02:04:47,760
Speaker 1: question today if the Bills built the championship roster. Here's

2398
02:04:47,760 --> 02:04:50,400
Speaker 1: the other side of the coin from the tweet sheet

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02:04:50,440 --> 02:04:53,920
Speaker 1: Greg Miller His response, Have they built a championship roster?

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02:04:54,080 --> 02:04:57,280
Speaker 1: Greg Miller's response, Hell, no, oh my god, are you serious?

2401
02:04:58,040 --> 02:05:00,520
Speaker 1: This team needs a reliable field goal kicker and not

2402
02:05:00,600 --> 02:05:04,280
Speaker 1: a kickoff specialist. It needs depth and defensive backfield and

2403
02:05:04,400 --> 02:05:07,800
Speaker 1: depth on the offensive line. Josh can only mature so fast.

2404
02:05:08,080 --> 02:05:10,480
Speaker 1: This team will be old by the timing matures. Love

2405
02:05:10,560 --> 02:05:14,000
Speaker 1: my Bills would keep it real, Okay, I'll listen to that.

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02:05:14,120 --> 02:05:15,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if I agree with that much of it.

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02:05:16,160 --> 02:05:18,840
Speaker 1: What do you think, Steve, No, I don't agree with it.

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02:05:18,920 --> 02:05:21,680
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think. Yeah, I don't think Stephen

2409
02:05:21,720 --> 02:05:25,880
Speaker 1: Hausker would be considered an unreliable kicker. Um. They've just

2410
02:05:26,120 --> 02:05:29,240
Speaker 1: signed two or three, at least three or four offensive

2411
02:05:29,320 --> 02:05:35,160
Speaker 1: lineman as depth in competition defensive backfield. I don't know.

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02:05:35,360 --> 02:05:36,880
Speaker 1: It looks to me like they've got some guys that

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02:05:36,960 --> 02:05:39,800
Speaker 1: can play back there. Yeah, there'd be a part I'd

2414
02:05:39,800 --> 02:05:43,440
Speaker 1: really disagree with. Yeah, so I'm thinking, yeah, you can,

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02:05:43,800 --> 02:05:48,080
Speaker 1: you can. I don't know whether where he sees another

2416
02:05:48,240 --> 02:05:50,280
Speaker 1: roster that has any fewer holes in it than the

2417
02:05:50,320 --> 02:05:54,880
Speaker 1: Buffalo roster. Certainly that maybe you could go to the

2418
02:05:55,560 --> 02:05:59,240
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers and the Kansas City Chiefs,

2419
02:06:00,040 --> 02:06:01,920
Speaker 1: But even those teams will tell you they've got some

2420
02:06:02,080 --> 02:06:06,120
Speaker 1: places where they'd like to tweak. Probably, So I don't know.

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02:06:06,600 --> 02:06:09,680
Speaker 1: We'll see. The Chiefs just cut their their fifteen year

2422
02:06:09,760 --> 02:06:14,480
Speaker 1: putter punter. Um. I wonder what your boy would say

2423
02:06:14,520 --> 02:06:16,760
Speaker 1: about the chief's roster. You know now they don't have

2424
02:06:16,840 --> 02:06:19,760
Speaker 1: a punter on there. So um, yeah, I think you're

2425
02:06:20,160 --> 02:06:23,320
Speaker 1: you're you're going, you're going pretty deep talking about debt,

2426
02:06:24,400 --> 02:06:27,840
Speaker 1: you know, as to cast dispersions on the roster. Take

2427
02:06:27,880 --> 02:06:31,800
Speaker 1: a phone call here, Gilbert in Tampa. You're in the air, Gilbert. Hello, Hey,

2428
02:06:31,880 --> 02:06:36,200
Speaker 1: how are you guys doing today? Okay? Um, well, first

2429
02:06:36,240 --> 02:06:39,080
Speaker 1: things first, about as far as our roster and the

2430
02:06:39,160 --> 02:06:42,400
Speaker 1: topic of the day, I completely agree with Steve Um.

2431
02:06:43,120 --> 02:06:46,080
Speaker 1: There are any glaring holes anywhere, and I think we're

2432
02:06:46,120 --> 02:06:48,120
Speaker 1: going to be a pretty tough out even against the

2433
02:06:48,240 --> 02:06:51,680
Speaker 1: best of the NFL. UM. That being said, I wanted

2434
02:06:51,680 --> 02:06:54,520
Speaker 1: to ask your opinion about an article that I read

2435
02:06:54,600 --> 02:06:57,760
Speaker 1: the other day from The Atlantic talking about Pugulas and

2436
02:06:57,800 --> 02:07:00,720
Speaker 1: our owners and disc going to flow ease and stuff

2437
02:07:00,760 --> 02:07:02,920
Speaker 1: like that. And I really didn't know so much about it,

2438
02:07:03,320 --> 02:07:06,000
Speaker 1: but after reading it, I remember it putting me down

2439
02:07:06,160 --> 02:07:09,160
Speaker 1: like a pune, thinking that all these steps forward we

2440
02:07:09,280 --> 02:07:12,360
Speaker 1: have taken as an organization over the past few years

2441
02:07:12,480 --> 02:07:14,240
Speaker 1: is going to be off or not and going back

2442
02:07:14,280 --> 02:07:17,120
Speaker 1: to the Ralph Wilson days. I mean, I just I

2443
02:07:17,200 --> 02:07:19,440
Speaker 1: haven't heard much about it other than that article, and

2444
02:07:19,560 --> 02:07:23,320
Speaker 1: I just want to know your opinion. You know, I

2445
02:07:23,640 --> 02:07:26,640
Speaker 1: don't think there's anything close to taking any backward steps here.

2446
02:07:26,720 --> 02:07:29,400
Speaker 1: They you know, they face challenges, as every business does.

2447
02:07:29,440 --> 02:07:31,120
Speaker 1: I want Steve to weigh in on this too. They

2448
02:07:31,160 --> 02:07:33,440
Speaker 1: do face challenges and they're trying to deal with those

2449
02:07:33,520 --> 02:07:36,040
Speaker 1: challenges in the current in the current crisis and the

2450
02:07:36,080 --> 02:07:38,960
Speaker 1: current quarantine. But I mean, the bills are solid. Nobody's

2451
02:07:39,000 --> 02:07:42,520
Speaker 1: been laid off really from the Buffalo Bill's staff, and

2452
02:07:43,080 --> 02:07:46,240
Speaker 1: let's hope it continue that way. Um now. And by

2453
02:07:46,280 --> 02:07:49,280
Speaker 1: the way, the bulk of one of the articles on

2454
02:07:49,360 --> 02:07:52,960
Speaker 1: the Athletic, not The Atlantic. The Athletic was called from

2455
02:07:53,320 --> 02:07:57,960
Speaker 1: anonymous just Runald and current employee Steve. Really the old

2456
02:07:58,040 --> 02:08:00,640
Speaker 1: person who spoke with their name attached their quote was

2457
02:08:00,960 --> 02:08:03,760
Speaker 1: the president of the team, Kim Pagoula. Everybody else went

2458
02:08:03,800 --> 02:08:05,160
Speaker 1: an out of it. So I don't know that I

2459
02:08:05,240 --> 02:08:08,600
Speaker 1: think that kind of called some of the reasoning into doubt.

2460
02:08:08,760 --> 02:08:13,280
Speaker 1: What do you think, Steve, Yeah, I agree, it's listen.

2461
02:08:13,360 --> 02:08:16,840
Speaker 1: I I the culture at one Bill's Drive couldn't be better.

2462
02:08:16,920 --> 02:08:18,400
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of people pull in the

2463
02:08:18,480 --> 02:08:21,440
Speaker 1: same direction. And while there has been some restructuring, and

2464
02:08:21,840 --> 02:08:24,000
Speaker 1: there's been people who have been let go for for

2465
02:08:24,160 --> 02:08:28,240
Speaker 1: various reasons. That's the reasons for all of those are

2466
02:08:28,480 --> 02:08:33,720
Speaker 1: no different than any other business. Now, certainly there are

2467
02:08:33,800 --> 02:08:36,240
Speaker 1: some good people who are no longer with the organization,

2468
02:08:36,360 --> 02:08:39,680
Speaker 1: but that is not an unusual thing for an NFL club.

2469
02:08:39,880 --> 02:08:43,440
Speaker 1: So that's just uh yeah, I don't have any I

2470
02:08:43,640 --> 02:08:47,000
Speaker 1: read the article as well, and I just kind of

2471
02:08:47,040 --> 02:08:49,640
Speaker 1: shrugged my shoulders and I'm I'm Murph and I live

2472
02:08:49,680 --> 02:08:53,760
Speaker 1: in it, and it was it was not upsetting to us,

2473
02:08:53,840 --> 02:08:56,880
Speaker 1: So don't don't worry about it, Gilbert, thanks for your call.

2474
02:08:57,000 --> 02:08:59,280
Speaker 1: Let's get called from Anthony and Williams. Bill. Hello, Anthony,

2475
02:08:59,320 --> 02:09:03,000
Speaker 1: you're in the air. I murified Steve. It's a pleasure. Hey, Steve.

2476
02:09:03,120 --> 02:09:06,560
Speaker 1: I really like your comment previously kind of about being

2477
02:09:06,680 --> 02:09:10,280
Speaker 1: McDermott almost turning a negative to a positive using the

2478
02:09:10,440 --> 02:09:13,200
Speaker 1: fact that maybe we're not a number one destination for

2479
02:09:13,240 --> 02:09:15,800
Speaker 1: a lot of players as a way of leverage of

2480
02:09:15,880 --> 02:09:17,720
Speaker 1: finding these guys that were on the fringe that could

2481
02:09:17,760 --> 02:09:20,640
Speaker 1: play but weren't getting starting position, and just getting them

2482
02:09:20,680 --> 02:09:23,760
Speaker 1: here improve it deals. I really love the intelligent choices

2483
02:09:23,760 --> 02:09:26,120
Speaker 1: our management seems to be making but question for you guys,

2484
02:09:26,160 --> 02:09:28,880
Speaker 1: do you think if one of these receivers is able

2485
02:09:28,920 --> 02:09:31,760
Speaker 1: to make the squad that Mackenzie could potentially be on

2486
02:09:31,840 --> 02:09:33,200
Speaker 1: the out because I just really like him as a

2487
02:09:33,240 --> 02:09:35,720
Speaker 1: player and I'm just wondering who's going to get pushed

2488
02:09:35,720 --> 02:09:38,840
Speaker 1: out to potentially make room for a new receiver. Yeah,

2489
02:09:38,880 --> 02:09:42,760
Speaker 1: that's a sixty four dollar question, Anthony, because it's crowded now,

2490
02:09:43,280 --> 02:09:45,800
Speaker 1: and it got crowded at the top, which means everybody

2491
02:09:45,840 --> 02:09:48,680
Speaker 1: below the top started to start to move down the

2492
02:09:48,760 --> 02:09:50,960
Speaker 1: totem pole and there's just not that much room. You're

2493
02:09:51,040 --> 02:09:53,320
Speaker 1: right there were. I think this may be the first

2494
02:09:53,440 --> 02:09:57,960
Speaker 1: year in Sean mcdermot's career here in Buffalo that we

2495
02:09:58,120 --> 02:10:00,800
Speaker 1: may have to say goodbye this in guys that even

2496
02:10:00,840 --> 02:10:03,560
Speaker 1: got a lot of love and affection for, not just

2497
02:10:03,720 --> 02:10:05,920
Speaker 1: in the wide receiver room, but other spots as well.

2498
02:10:06,880 --> 02:10:11,640
Speaker 1: This roster has been elevated, and I think the results

2499
02:10:11,640 --> 02:10:13,640
Speaker 1: of that are that you're gonna have to say goodbye

2500
02:10:13,680 --> 02:10:16,120
Speaker 1: to some pretty good football players and some guys who

2501
02:10:16,160 --> 02:10:18,160
Speaker 1: have played some pretty good games for the Buffalo Bills.

2502
02:10:18,520 --> 02:10:20,760
Speaker 1: I think, if I can wait in on this, the

2503
02:10:20,880 --> 02:10:23,400
Speaker 1: top of the wide receiver depth chart is solid right,

2504
02:10:23,760 --> 02:10:26,800
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, John Brown, and of course Stefan Diggs. Everybody

2505
02:10:26,840 --> 02:10:29,160
Speaker 1: else I think is gonna have to battle, and hopefully

2506
02:10:29,280 --> 02:10:30,880
Speaker 1: they get a chance a battle. But yeah, you're right,

2507
02:10:30,880 --> 02:10:33,360
Speaker 1: is Zai McKenzie. You wonder about him, You wonder about

2508
02:10:33,400 --> 02:10:35,320
Speaker 1: Robert Foster, you wondered about Duke Williams. There are a

2509
02:10:35,320 --> 02:10:37,400
Speaker 1: couple of others there as well. It'll be a battle

2510
02:10:37,600 --> 02:10:39,680
Speaker 1: for those last couple of spots. You know Andre Roberts

2511
02:10:40,120 --> 02:10:42,360
Speaker 1: who is at Marcella. Luis Jacque kind of said, well,

2512
02:10:42,360 --> 02:10:44,400
Speaker 1: he's the return man. He's not going anywhere. So that's

2513
02:10:44,480 --> 02:10:49,440
Speaker 1: four out of six maybe receivers. They add two rookies,

2514
02:10:49,640 --> 02:10:52,320
Speaker 1: one in the third round, one in the fifth round

2515
02:10:52,840 --> 02:10:56,200
Speaker 1: or sixth round. They like heap their draft picks, so

2516
02:10:56,280 --> 02:10:58,120
Speaker 1: it'll be a battle. I think there's no question about that,

2517
02:10:58,720 --> 02:11:01,920
Speaker 1: all right. Yeah, I think Gabriel I think Gabriel Davis,

2518
02:11:01,920 --> 02:11:03,960
Speaker 1: a fourth round draft pick. I think he's gonna make

2519
02:11:04,000 --> 02:11:06,000
Speaker 1: the team. I think he'll be the guy that's on there. Now.

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Speaker 1: That spells problems for guys like mackenzie and Robert Foster

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Speaker 1: and maybe Duke Williams, maybe some of those guys. But

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Speaker 1: it's it's a place where the team wanted to make

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Speaker 1: some upgrades. And unless those guys that I just mentioned

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Speaker 1: can come in and play better or or compete and

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Speaker 1: win back their spots, it's gonna be it's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a tough preseason, and it's gonna be one that you

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Speaker 1: have to show up ready to play because of the

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Speaker 1: fact that you're not gonna be able to come into

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Speaker 1: the stadium to get in shape. You're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: show up having gotten yourself into shape, and that may

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Speaker 1: take its toll on the roster in a way we

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Speaker 1: haven't foreseen yet. I got a break. Here One Goes

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Collida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio

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Speaker 1: told we learned Rocky about Skyworks, the official construction equipment

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Speaker 1: rental company in the Buffalo Bills. We and Jake from

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Speaker 1: on the show fifth round pick quarterback from Georgia of

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Speaker 1: the Bills, and he talked about what he might be

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Speaker 1: able to contribute to the Bills quarterback room. Here he

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Speaker 1: is killing. From my perspective, I've never not played in

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Speaker 1: the game that I've just out for, um, so this

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Speaker 1: is gonna be a little bit different from me and um, honestly,

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Speaker 1: you know, whatever it is Uh, I just want to win.

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Speaker 1: I want the program to uh to be you know,

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Speaker 1: winners and be successful. And you know, whatever they're asking

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Speaker 1: for me, I'm gonna do it one hundred percent. It's

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Speaker 1: the best of my abilities and I'm all about winning

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Speaker 1: football games. That was Jake from on the Uh. That

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Speaker 1: was Jake from on the on the call, from what

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Speaker 1: we learned, and Mark owes me a buck from like

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Speaker 1: in the last segment of the day. Production assistance Kelly

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Speaker 1: you know, Kevin Carr, just James Robol, Brayton Wilson, and

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Speaker 1: Joe de Biance, our board app our producer Jay Harris.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow at noon with One Bill Slide

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Speaker 1: presented by Kalida Health. This is Buffalo Bill's Radio