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

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Speaker 1: Now you bet your bohooky, it's One Bills Live. Chris Brown,

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Speaker 1: Steve Tasker with you back for another week of action

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Speaker 1: here on a Monday, as we're taking you up until

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Speaker 1: three o'clock. Plenty of stuff to get into today regarding

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Speaker 1: free agency, the draft rumors circulating around the league with

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Speaker 1: some big name players. We'll get into it all in

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Speaker 1: due course, Steve. As you know, I was out of

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Speaker 1: town doing the show with you on Thursday and Friday,

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Speaker 1: and I had my Bills head on, and invariably, you get,

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Speaker 1: you know, you get the Go Bills coming back at you.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty funny. My wife and I have decided that

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Speaker 1: the Bills, with their you know, recent run of success

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Speaker 1: for the last several years now, garner a bit more

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Speaker 1: interest out of town. And so my wife has unilaterally

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Speaker 1: some Bills paraphernalia that you're wearing, and that comment is

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Speaker 1: not Go Bills, that they are not a real Bills fan.

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Speaker 1: They don't get it. Yeah that wow, hold on, now

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Speaker 1: that's now here's the thing. If you have somebody from

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Speaker 1: like I'm trying to see it from their side, as

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Speaker 1: opposed to the Buffalo native going somewhere else you're from.

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Speaker 1: Here's an example. Yeah, my wife and I are getting

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Speaker 1: I'm getting on the elevator as these people are coming

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Speaker 1: get on. That's the protocol. These people come off and

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Speaker 1: this guy looks at me, goes nice hat. It's like,

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Speaker 1: oh thanks, and I said, go Bills nothing. M guy

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Speaker 1: not a real Bills fan. He might have been, well

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Speaker 1: that now, he might not have been a Bills fan

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Speaker 1: at all. Right, he might have been a Miami fan.

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Speaker 1: Well that well, he wouldn't have said I get it

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Speaker 1: so what. I don't have enough faith in South Floridians.

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Speaker 1: That's not a Bills fan, that's for sure, right. So

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Speaker 1: so so I'm trying to so she you know, she

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Speaker 1: Union lad early said not a legit Bills fan, I said, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I said, I could see where you're coming from on that.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to see it from the other side of

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Speaker 1: somewhere else, maybe not a Buffalo native, roots for the Bills,

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Speaker 1: doesn't come across a lot of other Bills fans very often.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that gives them an excuse to say

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Speaker 1: something else besides go Bills. I mean, I'm asking. Here's

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Speaker 1: the thing. Here's my take on that. There is because

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Speaker 1: of the Bill's success. As you mentioned, there is there

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Speaker 1: are fans out there who aren't really football fans, but

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Speaker 1: not just the Bills, but other teams. Okay, they're like,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, I like that because I like Josh Allener,

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Speaker 1: You can have affinity for a team and they're fans

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Speaker 1: But only in so doing that. You can't be a

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Speaker 1: So but that, having said all of that, they're certainly

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Speaker 1: I was just like a failure. They just don't know

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Speaker 1: There's almost no excuse if you tell yourself you're a

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Speaker 1: could have to know. It's like Commandment one. Yeah, that

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Speaker 1: there is a growing legion of people that absolutely love

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Speaker 1: It's perfect. Here's the thing. I don't think you need

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Speaker 1: to trade up to three to get Hendon Hooker. He

421
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Speaker 1: didn't get him at eleven, you get trade down and

422
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Speaker 1: get him. What if you've got to get him, what

423
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Speaker 1: if you feel like that. I think you get him

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Speaker 1: at eleven. I'm not even worried about you think because

425
00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 1: he's not ready to play this year, that's gonna knock

426
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Speaker 1: him down a bit. All these teams at the top

427
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Speaker 1: they need somebody like right now. As Tennessee, you're one

428
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Speaker 1: of the few teams that doesn't you play Tannehill this year.

429
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Speaker 1: You wave goodbye, he rides off into the sunset, Hume.

430
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Speaker 1: Hendon Hooker comes in and he's from right down the

431
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Speaker 1: road at Tennessee, Rocky Top, come on down. I'm with you,

432
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Speaker 1: I'm totally. I don't think it's for Hendon Hooker. I

433
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: think it's for somebody else if they make that move.

434
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Speaker 1: Because if you trade up to three to draft Hendon Hooker,

435
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Speaker 1: I think it's foolhardy. I don't think you had to

436
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Speaker 1: do it. You can get him at eleven. I think.

437
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Speaker 1: I mean, the only team that I would worry about

438
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Speaker 1: trumping you on that, The only team I would worry

439
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Speaker 1: about trumping you on that are the Seattle Seahawks at five.

440
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Speaker 1: And I think if the Seahawks pick anybody. They're gonna

441
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Speaker 1: pick Richardson because they've got Geno. He can play. Now

442
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 1: you can bring Richardson along. What if the bonus craft,

443
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Speaker 1: or if the Raiders do it, take Kendon Hooker because

444
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:12,640
Speaker 1: they got Garoppolo. The Raiders are visiting with Will Levis

445
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:15,080
Speaker 1: and Anthony Richardson this week. Now, that's not to say

446
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: they wouldn't take Kennon Hooker. That would be very raiders

447
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 1: Ry said of you in a word, I made it up.

448
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 1: I'd be very raidery at seven. I don't know. It's

449
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:29,119
Speaker 1: just for a guy with an ACL that can't play

450
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:34,439
Speaker 1: right now. It's perfect at seven. I can't do it

451
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Speaker 1: in the top ten for a guy that can I

452
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Speaker 1: can't use a top ten pick on a guy that

453
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Speaker 1: can't play for me right now. If he's the guy,

454
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Speaker 1: though you look brilliant, you want to know what makes

455
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: you look even more brilliant if you trade down to

456
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Speaker 1: fifteen and take him, and then you add draft capital

457
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Speaker 1: and you still get the guy. Because I think you

458
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Speaker 1: can get him down there. But picture I realized that Raider.

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Speaker 1: Your listeners, I'm sitting here with my hands shaking like

460
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:06,280
Speaker 1: I've got dice. I'm blowing on the dice and I'm

461
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:10,679
Speaker 1: gonna roll them, and Tennessee is gonna get Hendon Hooker,

462
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: and the Raiders is gonna trade down and miss on him,

463
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be Raiders for the rest of their lives. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's you got, if you can tell you

465
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Speaker 1: right now, I don't think I think Hendon Hooker. Now, look,

466
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Speaker 1: let's just say he saw the guy player. He saw

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Speaker 1: the guy play when he was healthy. Yeah, he's a

468
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 1: good player. I like him. I like him better than Richardson.

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Speaker 1: Oh he's more right now. Well, because he's twenty five

470
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 1: years old, and he's and he's got more experience. Um,

471
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: and he's and he's you know, he's a more accurate

472
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 1: thrower right now. He really is. The ceilings higher on Richardson.

473
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Speaker 1: So what do you want do you want to you

474
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 1: want a high floor player, you want a high ceiling player.

475
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Hooker's got a high seeing well,

476
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to say a high ceiling.

477
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,640
Speaker 1: I think he kind of is pretty close to what

478
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Speaker 1: he's gonna be in the league. Richardson, you know, could

479
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: be ridunculous. What do you want to bank on? But

480
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Speaker 1: I'll say this. If Tennessee goes up to three and

481
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 1: quarterbacks go one, two, three, it's does Indie take another

482
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: one at four? You know what I mean? Like, how

483
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: many quarterbacks in a row can we be looking at?

484
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 1: Because and the general consensus is Hendon Hooker could go

485
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Speaker 1: in the first round, but it's going to be considerably

486
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Speaker 1: further down. As a matter of fact, the New Orleans

487
00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:31,720
Speaker 1: Saints are visiting. They're having a pre draft visit with

488
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Speaker 1: Hendon Hooker. Do you know where the Saints pick nine

489
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: twenty nine? They're after Buffalo. I think that's an indication

490
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Speaker 1: of the kind of range where Hendon Hooker goes. Yes,

491
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Speaker 1: I get it, But the Saints have no nobody, nobody

492
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: from Carolina, Houston, Arizona, or not Arizona, but Carolina, Houston, Indianapolis, Seattle,

493
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: or Vegas is talking to the New Orleans. Ain't saying yeah,

494
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Speaker 1: we're not taking Hendon Hooker. You know, they're not telling

495
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: them what they're doing. Hendon Hooker may or may not

496
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Speaker 1: be there at twenty nine their visiting comes, it looks

497
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,959
Speaker 1: like he will with an ACL coming off, but they

498
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Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, they're guessing. What do you think of this,

499
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: and I know we got to get the break here.

500
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,120
Speaker 1: Tell me what you think of this, because there's a

501
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:23,960
Speaker 1: lot of posturing this time of year two. The Saints

502
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,160
Speaker 1: just signed Derek Carr to a four year, one undred

503
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:31,040
Speaker 1: fifty million dollars contract. Okay, right, Hendon Hooker is going

504
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: to be a twenty six year old healthy player next year,

505
00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,920
Speaker 1: not this year. He's twenty five years old. Now, he's

506
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Speaker 1: not playing this season. I got you, which is so

507
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:44,760
Speaker 1: now to hold on? Derek Carr is signed for the

508
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: next four years. Now, maybe he doesn't get to the

509
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: back end of that contract, but if he does, the

510
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 1: first three years of that deal, Hendon Hooker doesn't see

511
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Speaker 1: the field until age twenty nine. Do you really believe

512
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Speaker 1: that the New Orleans Saints are gonna take Hendon Hooker

513
00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 1: twenty nine having him on a pre draft visit. I

514
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 1: think it's a smoke screen. I think they're trying to

515
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Speaker 1: get somebody in the second round to say, oh, crap,

516
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 1: Saints might take him at twenty nine. We gotta get

517
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Speaker 1: in front of them if we want to get him,

518
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: or trade with trade back, or trade with the Saints

519
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,680
Speaker 1: trade back, you know what I mean. So I wonder

520
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: if it's a little bit of a smoke screen. It

521
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 1: is all game of Throne stuff. Isn't it awesome? Though?

522
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 1: It is? That's what I thought, because I'm just like,

523
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: why are you gonna draft a twenty five year old guy?

524
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: You just got a four? Yes? If he's not gonna

525
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: play till age twenty nine? Yeah, I don't know. Even

526
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: if it's two years, he's twenty seven, it's old. We

527
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: got to talk more about this. I gotta I gotta

528
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:43,840
Speaker 1: wrap my mind around these these shenanigans. Yeah, we gotta

529
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: take a break here, but quickly. The topic of discussion

530
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,240
Speaker 1: today is not any of this. It's something completely different.

531
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: How should the Bills tweak the roster between now and

532
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: the draft? There might be a few little nooks and

533
00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: crannies where the roster, in your mind, can be improved.

534
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 1: You know, the Bills are tight against the Caps, so

535
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: they can't do anything crazy. How do you tweak the

536
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 1: roster between now and then to feel better about going

537
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: into the draft? You let us know at eight fifty

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight five fifty two five fifty we

539
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: take your phone calls. Next Here on one Bills Live,

540
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:30,240
Speaker 1: presented by Klota Health. It's Buffalo Bills Radio. How should

541
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: the Bills tweak the roster between now and the draft?

542
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:36,040
Speaker 1: We know there probably aren't a lot of big moves

543
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: left with the cap space the Bills have at their disposal,

544
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 1: although there is one subject we will bring bringing up

545
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: about a veteran receiver and what his fate might be

546
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,720
Speaker 1: in the not too distant future. But how should the

547
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 1: Bills tweak the roster between now and the draft? So

548
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: you feel good about the team doing exactly what they

549
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: want to do come draft night? Eight oh three, five

550
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: fifty one, eight eight eight five fifty two fifty the

551
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: number to get on board. And the veteran receiver we're

552
00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:10,680
Speaker 1: talking about that's got a little bit of news around him,

553
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 1: shall we say, is one DeAndre Hopkins. To this point,

554
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: Arizona has been unable to find a trade partner due

555
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: to a number of variables, not the least of which

556
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Speaker 1: is DeAndre hopkins pretty sizable contract, which still has two

557
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 1: years on it to the tune of thirty four million

558
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: dollars in total, most of that base salary. Now, DeAndre

559
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: Hopkins has said he would be willing to renegotiate his

560
00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:41,960
Speaker 1: contract to facilitate a trade, but that has been a

561
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,600
Speaker 1: bit of an issue for a bunch of teams that

562
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,880
Speaker 1: have been interested as well, because they flat out don't

563
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: have the cap space. Can't just move his money around

564
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: and make it work. And who knows what Hopkins is

565
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 1: willing to do or not do. You're gonna take a

566
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 1: pay cut, You're gonna add a year to your deal

567
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:58,959
Speaker 1: with no new money. What are you willing to do?

568
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 1: What do you not want to do? And then the

569
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: other thing the compensation. The Cardinals have been asking for

570
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: a second round pick. No team has come close to

571
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: that by all indications. So now the latest news is,

572
00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:16,760
Speaker 1: and this is coming from SI dot COM's Albert Breer,

573
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,800
Speaker 1: the Cardinals may just throw their hands up and release

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, which I think would set off a free

575
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: agent bidding war within reason again knowing that teams just

576
00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 1: can't throw any amount of money at him. So what

577
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: do you think the likelihood is that Arizona just gives

578
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: up and throws them overboard zero? You don't think it's

579
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 1: zero point zero. They gotta get something for him, right, yeah,

580
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 1: and somebody will give them I get it. Who I mean,

581
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 1: They're not going to get what they want? No, And

582
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: I think as well, DeAndre Hopkins and the team Arizona

583
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: that comes to that is Arizona saying, hey, go, we

584
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 1: got three teams that are int to go talk to

585
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,439
Speaker 1: Team A, Team B, and Team C. Cut a deal

586
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: because you're they can't handle your cap. Go talk to him,

587
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: work something out. If you like it, and they give

588
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: us something, we're in that kind of thing, it'll do.

589
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: They'll do that before they just outright release him, kick

590
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: him to the curb. Yea, even if they can get

591
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 1: a four and a five, because if they kick him

592
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 1: to the curb, the hits bigger. Well, most of his

593
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,560
Speaker 1: salary left though, is base. That's right. It's not a

594
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:30,959
Speaker 1: big hit for them. It's not all that base comes

595
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:35,439
Speaker 1: off when they move them. So I think there are

596
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,960
Speaker 1: some bonuses that do accelerate, but I don't think it's

597
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 1: anything ridiculous. You look it up and let me know

598
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: if you can find it in terms of because he

599
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 1: is like fourteen fourteen, Bekins is two years fifty four million,

600
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: and his average salaries twenty seven, right, but look at

601
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: his base. What's his base allery this year and next year?

602
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 1: It's let's see, it's not most of it. Most of

603
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: that money is in base salary. Yeah, there's like thirty

604
00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:14,919
Speaker 1: four million of it in bass Hopkins is Uh, well,

605
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: now they got me. They're making this hard, all right,

606
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:18,680
Speaker 1: I'll look it up in a second. Let's go to

607
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:22,279
Speaker 1: the phone at eight oh three oh five fifty one

608
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: eight eight eight. That's why you're not a librarians one

609
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two five fifty the toll free number.

610
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 1: Eighth three oh five fifty the local number. Let's go

611
00:36:33,840 --> 00:36:35,840
Speaker 1: to Ricky in Florida to lead us off. What do

612
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:39,359
Speaker 1: you got for us? Rickey? Hey, Hey, hey, you doing

613
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 1: Brownie and Steve. I'm just wanted to chime in on

614
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: the Bills fan, knowing that a real Boats fan right

615
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,920
Speaker 1: right in Florida, Uh it is. I've seen one just

616
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: the other day at my grandson to track meet, and

617
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:55,360
Speaker 1: he said, you're a Bills fan, had Dick's jersey on,

618
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 1: and the first thing that says, Bill Moster, let's go

619
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,359
Speaker 1: bo Bills, and we said the same thing. I think

620
00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:04,360
Speaker 1: it's it's something that for a real Bills fan is

621
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 1: always the same thing. Uh, the sketchy when you don't

622
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,360
Speaker 1: say anything at all. I just I wanted to chime

623
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Speaker 1: in on that. That was interesting. Yeah, yeah. Um and

624
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: and look, and I wasn't trying to single out Florida.

625
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: That just happened to be where we were. Um, but

626
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: I get, but I get what you're saying from Buffalo.

627
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: If therefore it doesn't matter, Yeah, I know, I know.

628
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Speaker 1: I was just I was saying. When we go out

629
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Speaker 1: of town, we kind of come across the bills fans

630
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Speaker 1: or they'll respond to some kind of bills gear that

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Speaker 1: we're wearing, and then we'll be like, oh, are you

632
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,879
Speaker 1: bills fans and you know, and they're like oh yeah,

633
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:40,640
Speaker 1: and we're like okay, go bills, and then we don't

634
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:44,680
Speaker 1: get anything back. It's just like, well, are they really fans? Like, yeah,

635
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 1: they didn't. Well, I will say this, it's hard to

636
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,120
Speaker 1: do that when you don't when you're not here and

637
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,360
Speaker 1: you haven't seen the rise of that over the last

638
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 1: half dozen Maybe that's what it is. There's a disconnect. Yeah,

639
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 1: because people here in Buffalo, I mean you, that's it.

640
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: I mean you just it's like saying hello U. So yeah,

641
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 1: there's there's probably some of that. The proximity of the

642
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: city has something to do with that. By the way,

643
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 1: I founded DeAndre Hopkins Dead Cap for the Cards is

644
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: twenty two point six, right, which is not bad when

645
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: their total money is fifty seven right, right, it's twenty

646
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: two points and half right, And yeah, their cap hit

647
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: if he plays this year is thirty point seven. Yeah,

648
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: so they'll save seven almost eight million dollars just to

649
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: harsh little shy of eight millions. So you know, even

650
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 1: if they do release and they do get some relief,

651
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:43,879
Speaker 1: it's the savings. Yeah. So it comes down to if

652
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: they genuinely believe there isn't a team that can absorb

653
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: whatever kind of money Hopkins is willing to take, and

654
00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,480
Speaker 1: I can't imagine he's going to move much off of

655
00:38:55,560 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: what he's got right now. Um, That's why I always

656
00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 1: thought that if the Bills are going to be in

657
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: on that, and it's not sounding like they really are

658
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: at this point. I know and I know that that

659
00:39:10,239 --> 00:39:13,920
Speaker 1: could change dramatically if DeAndre Hopkins is released, because now

660
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:18,719
Speaker 1: that contract's gone, and now can you broker something with him?

661
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what the details are or whatever. If

662
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: the if the Arizona Cardinals can get a better deal

663
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: at all rather than just releasing him, they're gonna do it. Yeah,

664
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 1: whatever it could be, whatever it's a restructure or a

665
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: trade or just or trade for future considerations, whatever it

666
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 1: may be. They're gonna do it. And somebody, anybody with

667
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 1: any cap room at all, like Chicago you would say,

668
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: you know, or one of these other teams who has

669
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 1: a lot of cap room just say, yeah, well we'd

670
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,839
Speaker 1: love to have him. Can we redo a deal or whatever?

671
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:56,839
Speaker 1: We would give you a seventh round pick next year,

672
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. That's better than releasing him.

673
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm I don't think they're going to release

674
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: him at all, because somebody will come up and make

675
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 1: it worth it for him to just at least get

676
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,959
Speaker 1: something out of it. You would think, you would think.

677
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: But I think they're pretty convinced that Hopkins money and

678
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:22,040
Speaker 1: the amount in which he's willing to move off of that, Like,

679
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,359
Speaker 1: is it going to take a pay cut? Yeah, well

680
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: yeah instead of eighteen million, I'll take sixteen this year. Well,

681
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: that's not going to get it done. Dee hoop. You

682
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:32,920
Speaker 1: know we can't make that fit either. How about eight

683
00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:34,360
Speaker 1: get the hell out of here? You're like, you know

684
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,640
Speaker 1: what I mean, I could see it going that way, right, Like,

685
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:39,720
Speaker 1: I'm not playing for eight million dollars. Yeah, he's got

686
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:48,320
Speaker 1: guarantees of you know, fifty million bucks. So yeah, he's

687
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:50,680
Speaker 1: got some think. I think there are a lot of

688
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:59,080
Speaker 1: layers to this that people maybe don't fully grasp. I

689
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: think it's this is like a Mount Everest type of thing.

690
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: It's not insurmountable, but you're gonna need a sherpa and

691
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: a lot of layers of clothing to get there. Yeah,

692
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 1: he's he's a lot of training. He's signed. This is

693
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:17,560
Speaker 1: a two year extension. Average of twenty is fifty four million,

694
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 1: fifty four and a half million dollars guaranteed at signing.

695
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 1: He had forty two point seven guaranteed at signing. Now

696
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 1: he's got a total guarantee of sixty million and it

697
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: goes to twenty five twenty twenty five. So it's a

698
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 1: big number. And I'll say this, Brownie, not for nothing.

699
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: We've noted you and I have noticed. The bigger the

700
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Speaker 1: contract is, the more they can work it, you know

701
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: what I mean, the more they can work it. Yeah,

702
00:41:48,440 --> 00:41:51,399
Speaker 1: we'll see. I think it's gonna be challenging because you're

703
00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: also at a stage in the off season where a

704
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: lot of people have already spent their money, Yeah, that

705
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: they budgeted for free agency, you always find a way,

706
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:01,959
Speaker 1: or if you're a GM this point in the game

707
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 1: and there's somebody of that caliber, you try to find

708
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: a way. You try to find a way. The thing

709
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 1: about it, too, is for for a guy like Hopkins

710
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:15,239
Speaker 1: at this point, you wouldn't care how they could sign

711
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: him to a twenty year deal worth the exact same money.

712
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:20,960
Speaker 1: But if it's guaranteed all of it instead of just

713
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:24,280
Speaker 1: a third of it or half of it, it's like, well,

714
00:42:24,280 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 1: it's yeah, I'm gonna get it. Sooner or later, I'm

715
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 1: gonna get it. They may go for that. You know,

716
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 1: I'm saying twenty year deal just to exaggerate, to make

717
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 1: a point. You know, if they sign a five year

718
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: deal extension and guarantee all of it rather than just

719
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 1: half of it, he's gonna get the money. So why not.

720
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 1: I just picked your DeAndre Hopkins coming out of the

721
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:47,920
Speaker 1: tunnel at age fifty seven. Yeah, here he is in

722
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: the nineteenth year of his twenty year deal. Another time

723
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:57,480
Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty three, another healthy scratch he'll be

724
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 1: He'll be in a baseball Yeah, oh boy, Yeah, I

725
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 1: mean that's that's what you're looking at. That's why I

726
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna happen. They're not gonna just release him,

727
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,439
Speaker 1: because they'll even if they trade him for a bag

728
00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 1: of football, it's better than nothing. We have to take

729
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 1: a break here when we come back back to our

730
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 1: topic of discussion, which is, how should the Bills tweak

731
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 1: the roster between now and the draft? What little moves

732
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:27,319
Speaker 1: might make you feel better about the team's fortunes going

733
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: into the draft if they can pull them off between now.

734
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Speaker 1: In April twenty seventh, eight oh three five fifty one

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00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 1: eight eight five fifty two, five fifty the number to

736
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Speaker 1: get on board, and we are wide open on phone calls,

737
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:41,760
Speaker 1: so chime in or hit us up on the tweet

738
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 1: sheet at one Bills Live. We're back in a second.

739
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:55,799
Speaker 1: Stay two. Yeah, we're talking draft and free agency and

740
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: roster building here today on a Monday, One Bills Live.

741
00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:01,839
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, wide open for your

742
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 1: phone calls at eight fifty one eighty eight five fifty two,

743
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,080
Speaker 1: five fifty. Number to get on board. How should the

744
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: Bills tweak the roster between now and the draft? I

745
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:17,400
Speaker 1: think we're really not expecting any seismic moves at this

746
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: point in time, but maybe a little tweak here or there.

747
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: What kind of tweak would make you happy going into

748
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:29,400
Speaker 1: the draft knowing the Bills are armed with just six

749
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:33,320
Speaker 1: draft picks eight O three five fifty local number to

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Speaker 1: get on board, one eighty eight five fifty two five

751
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:39,399
Speaker 1: fifty the toll free number. And we've got a couple

752
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,240
Speaker 1: of comments already on the tweet sheet, which is always

753
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Speaker 1: is brought to you by Corrigan Moving Systems, the official

754
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Speaker 1: equipment moving company of the Buffalo Bills. George leads us

755
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Speaker 1: off and he says middle linebacker, whether it's before or

756
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:57,240
Speaker 1: after the draft, meaning I'd like to add a veteran

757
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 1: before or after the draft. And then he says I'd

758
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 1: still sign OBJ if the money's right. Word is the

759
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: money isn't right. The reports out there are saying that

760
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:16,360
Speaker 1: OBJ has lowered his money per year to fifteen million.

761
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:20,280
Speaker 1: Oh thanks Obj, thanks for dropping that down to fifteen

762
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 1: million a year. Yeah, that's I'd be shocked if he

763
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:26,160
Speaker 1: gets that. That's going to rule out a lot of teams,

764
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 1: And apparently all indications are out. At the owner's meetings,

765
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:32,879
Speaker 1: he was schmoozing up the Jets people, you know, trying

766
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 1: to see if he could sign a contract there, And

767
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 1: I got news for him. The Jets have nine point

768
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 1: eight million under the cap right now. They don't got

769
00:45:43,600 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: they don't got your fifteen million. So is there a

770
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 1: way you could structure it shore You put avoidable year

771
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:52,840
Speaker 1: on it, you know, and cut his money in half.

772
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: But they still got a draft class to sign this

773
00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:01,479
Speaker 1: late in the game. Signing somebody for fifteen per even

774
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 1: on a one year deal, there's not many teams are

775
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: gonna be able to fit that. Yeah, that without getting

776
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 1: super creative. And I get it too. You don't go

777
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 1: in there asking for less than you want or less

778
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: than you think you know, you gotta ask for more

779
00:46:13,719 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: than you think you're gonna get. I would be at that.

780
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: I would be surprised that he gets anything but a

781
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:23,840
Speaker 1: one year deal worth way South at ten million bucks

782
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: a year for that year, he's gonna he's gonna sign

783
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,800
Speaker 1: a one year deal. Prove it. Yeah, there's no way

784
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:32,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give that guy a long term deal, a

785
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 1: two year deal or a three year deal. Look at

786
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:40,760
Speaker 1: it this way. The Cowboys were very interested in OBJ

787
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: just a couple of short months ago. Yeah, and they

788
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:46,760
Speaker 1: ultimately give up a five and a six to trade

789
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 1: for Brandon Cooks. I mean, that's we rather give up

790
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 1: draft capital to get this guy. It doesn't cost as

791
00:46:56,360 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 1: much as that guy, but it's different. It's different because

792
00:46:59,480 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 1: Obj he wasn't letting him give him a physical, okay,

793
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 1: and he's coming off in ACL so they couldn't get

794
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 1: their doctor's hands on him. And they're like, and that

795
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:10,440
Speaker 1: is just tired. Yeah, they just said, forget it, we

796
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:14,440
Speaker 1: got to move on. And plus whatever other rhetoric was

797
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,799
Speaker 1: coming out of Obj's camp, they didn't. They didn't like either.

798
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 1: If anything, you know, if he wasn't going to submit

799
00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:25,719
Speaker 1: to a physical, that's a non starter. And you can

800
00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 1: just you can see it. You're you're exactly right. They're

801
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:31,040
Speaker 1: gonna well, well I am waiting on him. Yeah, let's go.

802
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 1: They went with Plan B. Yeah, let's go trade. I mean,

803
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: so they gave up draft capital to figure that out

804
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 1: rather than pay more money for a guy that you

805
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 1: really didn't have to give up anything except money. But

806
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 1: I think it speaks to these teams being more cap conscious,

807
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:51,720
Speaker 1: especially the Cowboys. Now who word has it's Steve Steven

808
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 1: Jones and their personnel department are getting more of the

809
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,719
Speaker 1: final say Jerry's kind of getting out of the way

810
00:47:57,719 --> 00:47:59,800
Speaker 1: a little bit. Because Jerry's got a soft spot for

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00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 1: his players. He ends up paying them too much money,

812
00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: and then they're in cap jail again, and then they

813
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:04,799
Speaker 1: got to jump through all these hoops to get back

814
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:08,480
Speaker 1: under it. It's been an ongoing deal with them because

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00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:10,439
Speaker 1: if Jerry was still calling the shots, that guy would

816
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:12,560
Speaker 1: have a Cowboys uniform on right now. Yeah, he would.

817
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:18,840
Speaker 1: Obj would be there, I'm and yeah, but if he,

818
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:20,799
Speaker 1: if Jerry would have been listening a long time ago,

819
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:24,239
Speaker 1: Zeke wouldn't have been soaking up twenty million dollars of

820
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:27,759
Speaker 1: their cap money either. And Pollard would be there. Well,

821
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:32,319
Speaker 1: Pollard is there? Ye franchise right, So they'd had more

822
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 1: money to spend someplace else. So I'm yeah, Jerry for

823
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,960
Speaker 1: all his wards, Jerry Jones in Dallas. And I know

824
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,240
Speaker 1: everybody's got their opinion about Jerry because he puts himself

825
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: out there and kind of invites it. I get it.

826
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Speaker 1: But I'll say this, that guy can pick some horses.

827
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Speaker 1: He may love the wrong ones, but he can pick

828
00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 1: some hosses. They've got some guys down there. They always

829
00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:58,960
Speaker 1: they always show up and they are loaded with talent.

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00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 1: Now getting it to play well and having him in

831
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:06,640
Speaker 1: the right headspace is harder. Is hard to do as

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00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 1: a head coach when you've got the owner hanging out

833
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:14,360
Speaker 1: and the group, the group dynamics is really difficult to

834
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 1: manage down there. That's why Jason Garrett lasted so long

835
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 1: down there. He could manage Jerry and the roster to

836
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:24,880
Speaker 1: a point that kept everybody up and running at least.

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00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:31,239
Speaker 1: But when your owner starts inserting himself, when the owner

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Speaker 1: starts letting the players come straight to him instead of

839
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:35,000
Speaker 1: the head coach and through their position coach and all

840
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Speaker 1: that stuff, it's a problem. It's a it's a group

841
00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 1: dynamics problem because it circumvents the authority and the credibilitizational communication.

842
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: That the head coach loses credibility, he loses his ability

843
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:52,879
Speaker 1: to control things because they just sideswipe, they just sidestep him.

844
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,880
Speaker 1: So if the coach can't tell, you know, it can

845
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: only one be one guy that tells, you know, the owner,

846
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:00,719
Speaker 1: what's the head coach going? Do you know what's his

847
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: what's his job? So it's a problem. It has been

848
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:07,439
Speaker 1: a problem, and Jerry has quoted repeatedly and said, I'll

849
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:10,399
Speaker 1: do anything. I'll try anything out of Well, his son

850
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 1: and their group said, all right, if you want to

851
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:15,240
Speaker 1: try anything, let us handle it like a business instead

852
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 1: of like our our pet dog. Right, that's a good

853
00:50:21,040 --> 00:50:23,000
Speaker 1: way to put it. It's like you're letting you're hitting

854
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: this dog sit on the furniture. You're not house training him,

855
00:50:27,160 --> 00:50:30,440
Speaker 1: you're giving him treats, he's overweight, all that stuff. You

856
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 1: let us train that dog like Caesar Milan, and we're

857
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:40,160
Speaker 1: gonna be good. It's their Milan reference. So that's the

858
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:42,399
Speaker 1: way it is. Man. So now he's starting to kind

859
00:50:42,400 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: of listen, and they're gonna they're gonna be one of

860
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:47,439
Speaker 1: those dogs in the agility. They're gonna be good. They're

861
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:49,560
Speaker 1: gonna be good better, They're gonna be better for it.

862
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:52,200
Speaker 1: But I don't know if they'll be Best in Show,

863
00:50:53,200 --> 00:50:54,600
Speaker 1: that's right. I don't know if they're gonna win the

864
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: Blue Ribbon, but they're gonna be better. Yeah, we take

865
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 1: a break here, but when we come back, our number

866
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: two is for your phone calls. How should the Bills

867
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 1: tweak the roster? Just a weep and more between now

868
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:11,919
Speaker 1: and the start of the draft to let Brandon being

869
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 1: really do it the way he always has best player available.

870
00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 1: You let us know at eight oh three five fifty

871
00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 1: one eight eight five fifty two five fifty the number

872
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 1: to get on board your phone calls next Here on

873
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,360
Speaker 1: one Bills Live presented by Kloid to Health, It's Buffalo

874
00:51:25,360 --> 00:52:07,759
Speaker 1: Bills Radio. These one Bills Live presented by call Light

875
00:52:07,840 --> 00:52:10,280
Speaker 1: a Health. Yeah, we're here with you on a Monday

876
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:12,719
Speaker 1: Chris Brown, Steve tasking with you our number two of

877
00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:14,880
Speaker 1: the show. Phone lines wide open for you at eight

878
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,680
Speaker 1: o three oh five fifty one eight eight eight five

879
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 1: fifty two five fifty the number to get on board.

880
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 1: How should the Bills tweak their roster between now and

881
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 1: the draft? Maybe there are a few little items on

882
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: your to do list for Buffalo's roster that you would

883
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:34,840
Speaker 1: like to see addressed prior to the team getting set

884
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 1: for the draft on April twenty seven, which is coming

885
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,080
Speaker 1: up fast. We're talking about three little over three weeks

886
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 1: away now before the draft, which is crazy. It's sneaking

887
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 1: up on us. But phone lines open for you, as

888
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 1: we said, Local number seven on six eight oh three

889
00:52:50,120 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 1: oh five fifty out of town number one eight eight

890
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:56,760
Speaker 1: eight five fifty two five fifty to get on board,

891
00:52:56,760 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: and we are going to go to the phones now.

892
00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:02,319
Speaker 1: Leading us off in this seg is Steve in Syracuse.

893
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:05,600
Speaker 1: Ware you gout for a Steve, I got a suggestion

894
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 1: for let's stick to it. A free agency for now,

895
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:13,640
Speaker 1: get one more offensive lineman, mainly Dalton Reisener. He's out

896
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:15,799
Speaker 1: there as a free agent. We get him. Then we're

897
00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 1: set on our offensive line in the free agent or

898
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 1: in the draft. In the first pick in the draft,

899
00:53:24,880 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 1: we got to get Jack Campbell. We need a ben

900
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:34,360
Speaker 1: offensive or a defensive linebacker. Okay, the hell of a guy, good, great, great,

901
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: great player. So Steve, before you go, let me ask

902
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: you real, this is a twenty seventh pickers like in

903
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 1: the second round anyway. So if he's there, you get him. Yeah, yeah,

904
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 1: I know. That goes back to our conversation from last week.

905
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:47,399
Speaker 1: Before you go, though, Steve, let me ask you. So

906
00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: guard has been addressed a few times already, and I'll

907
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:52,840
Speaker 1: just run down real quick for you. So they re

908
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:56,839
Speaker 1: signed Ike Butcker. Okay, and then as you know, they

909
00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:01,839
Speaker 1: signed Connor McGovern from Dallas Guard and they signed David Edwards,

910
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:04,799
Speaker 1: another guard from the Rams. You want still another one,

911
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 1: right if I'm hearing. You're right, Yes, you could never

912
00:54:08,320 --> 00:54:11,640
Speaker 1: have enough, all right, because we have lot for injuries.

913
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but you can never have the horses up front.

914
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 1: Horses up front, all right? Fair enough. Thanks for the call, Steve,

915
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I just want to felt like I had

916
00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 1: to remind him, like guards, one of the positions they've

917
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: addressed more than any other. When you think about it,

918
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 1: this offseason, they knew. I mean, they saw what we saw.

919
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 1: But I get it. Dalton Risner is a great name.

920
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:33,359
Speaker 1: He's had some good years. Um. Yeah, former second round

921
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 1: pick of the Bronco I think did Jack Campbell draft pick? Um?

922
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:44,200
Speaker 1: I like it. I'd like to see where they sit

923
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:48,400
Speaker 1: twenty first round pick. I mean they've done it before.

924
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 1: They did it with the last you know, they did

925
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 1: it with Tremaine. If he's the right guy, he's the

926
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: right guy, and I don't have a problem doing that,

927
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,360
Speaker 1: but I would I'm kind of with you. I'd like

928
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: to see him signed one or two more guys at

929
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 1: some positions. I like the signings they've already done. I

930
00:55:05,440 --> 00:55:08,520
Speaker 1: love the two wide outs, love the offensive lineman. I

931
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:12,880
Speaker 1: love the resigning of Kesson berry Um, all of that stuff.

932
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:20,200
Speaker 1: I'm kind of with you. Maybe, yeah, if they signed

933
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:24,360
Speaker 1: another offensive lineman and maybe one more wide out or

934
00:55:24,480 --> 00:55:27,440
Speaker 1: looked at it, maybe then I'd be okay. With the

935
00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:29,560
Speaker 1: Jack Campbell thing. I'm not quite there yet, but I'm

936
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:33,640
Speaker 1: but he's close. He's a linebacker I want. I'll say that.

937
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:36,640
Speaker 1: I mean everybody likes him. I don't. I haven't met any.

938
00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:39,960
Speaker 1: I haven't met a Bills fan who doesn't like Jack Campbell, right,

939
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:42,239
Speaker 1: which means there's a lot of fans of other teams

940
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:44,880
Speaker 1: who love him as well. That is true, but I

941
00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 1: think it's accentuated obviously by the departure of Tremaine Edmonds, absolutely,

942
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:52,280
Speaker 1: which is why a lot of Bills fans are zeroing

943
00:55:52,280 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 1: in on that position. And furthermore, knowing he's kind of

944
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 1: that old school three down guy, I think it makes

945
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:05,399
Speaker 1: them even all the more attractive to Bills fans. One

946
00:56:05,440 --> 00:56:07,439
Speaker 1: of the things I've read over the weekend and trying

947
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:09,040
Speaker 1: to keep up with all this stuff, one of the

948
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:11,640
Speaker 1: things that from the analysts that are coming at this

949
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 1: and they watch all this film and they do all

950
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 1: these evaluations, one of the things that's coming out is

951
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,520
Speaker 1: that these college linebackers that are coming out as much

952
00:56:17,520 --> 00:56:22,160
Speaker 1: as college teams throw the football. Linebackers struggle in coverage

953
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 1: at the NFL level mainly because they go from zone

954
00:56:25,080 --> 00:56:28,239
Speaker 1: to man demand to zone, zone demand, man, zone, zone

955
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:34,240
Speaker 1: blitz that it's such a complex array of responsibilities. College

956
00:56:34,280 --> 00:56:37,480
Speaker 1: linebackers struggle. You in college, like you're a zone team,

957
00:56:37,520 --> 00:56:39,640
Speaker 1: you play zone almost ninety eight percent of the time.

958
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 1: If you're a man team, they do that all the time,

959
00:56:42,560 --> 00:56:44,759
Speaker 1: although there's not very many who do that all as

960
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:47,920
Speaker 1: much as they do zone. So these linebackers come out

961
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:50,960
Speaker 1: and they can stuff the run, they're big hitters, they

962
00:56:50,960 --> 00:56:53,360
Speaker 1: do all that stuff, but they don't have the nuance

963
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:56,879
Speaker 1: of coverage, so they struggle there. That's the transition, which

964
00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:00,360
Speaker 1: is why a guy like Milano, a linebacker like Lano

965
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:07,319
Speaker 1: or or or Bnard for the Bills, they're like converted safeties.

966
00:57:07,320 --> 00:57:11,640
Speaker 1: So they grew up covering and then got kind of

967
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:14,480
Speaker 1: outgrew or grew into the linebacker spot, you know, by

968
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 1: putting on weight up to two thirty, right, two twenty

969
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:20,120
Speaker 1: five two thirty. They're undersized, but they can run and

970
00:57:20,160 --> 00:57:22,919
Speaker 1: they can cover because they used to be safeties. So

971
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 1: that's a trend that I think you can kind of,

972
00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 1: grab a hold of and say, oh, I get that.

973
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 1: You know, it's a it's a way to get your

974
00:57:31,120 --> 00:57:34,960
Speaker 1: mind around why these linebackers struggle sometimes, these big strong

975
00:57:35,280 --> 00:57:38,960
Speaker 1: because they it's hard to cover and be a run stuffer,

976
00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:45,160
Speaker 1: particularly if you don't get any experience covering passes or

977
00:57:45,240 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: matching up on a tight end or matching up on

978
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:49,760
Speaker 1: a slot or whatever. So that's one of the things

979
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 1: you're looking for in these linebackers, and the bigger and

980
00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 1: bigger they get, the harder and harder it is for

981
00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:55,960
Speaker 1: them to cover a you know, a slot or even

982
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:58,720
Speaker 1: a tight end or a running back. That's one of

983
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 1: the things that these linebackers trug with. Now I said

984
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:07,960
Speaker 1: it before. Campbell has shown at least good awareness at

985
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:10,520
Speaker 1: the college level of what his responsibilities are and what

986
00:58:10,520 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 1: he's looking at. But for all of these guys, I

987
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 1: think that's the thing that you gotta know, it's not

988
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:20,800
Speaker 1: going to be like, this guy's not going to be

989
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 1: an all pro right out of the rapper. He might

990
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 1: be good, maybe maybe defensive player of the year, right,

991
00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:30,240
Speaker 1: but that's also Brookie of the Year. But he's not

992
00:58:30,280 --> 00:58:33,280
Speaker 1: gonna be Yeah, you know, that's also why there are

993
00:58:33,320 --> 00:58:36,200
Speaker 1: a good number of people that say, well, he's top

994
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 1: half of the second round, but I don't know if

995
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:40,640
Speaker 1: he's a first round pick. Some people might have him

996
00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 1: in the bottom a round one, and the Bills can

997
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:44,440
Speaker 1: very well be one of those teams and be all

998
00:58:44,520 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 1: too happy to take him at twenty seven. But there

999
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:49,320
Speaker 1: might be other teams that say, well, we're sticking to

1000
00:58:49,320 --> 00:58:52,520
Speaker 1: our board. His true value is this, We're gonna take

1001
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:56,120
Speaker 1: him at forty whatever, not at nineteen, you know what

1002
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:59,840
Speaker 1: I mean. So different strokes for different folks, And that's

1003
00:58:59,840 --> 00:59:02,480
Speaker 1: what makes the draft so unpredictable, because there is no

1004
00:59:02,520 --> 00:59:06,280
Speaker 1: way that thirty two teams have identical draft grades on

1005
00:59:06,320 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty some odd prospects. That's the problem

1006
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:12,160
Speaker 1: because then you say, okay, we're gonna wait until our

1007
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:17,520
Speaker 1: forty ninth pick or whatever the Bills are picking, and

1008
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:22,440
Speaker 1: it's fifty ninth until a fifty ninth pick, and you

1009
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:25,160
Speaker 1: get to fifty six and then he's gone. At fifty

1010
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:28,040
Speaker 1: six you miss him by three spots. Well, okay, then

1011
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:31,760
Speaker 1: you're taking a different guy who you you know what

1012
00:59:31,760 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 1: I mean. Then you're stuck. You are stuck, um, Although

1013
00:59:37,520 --> 00:59:39,400
Speaker 1: at the same time you'll hear every GM in the

1014
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:43,880
Speaker 1: league say you can't get married to a guy. That's right,

1015
00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:47,800
Speaker 1: you can't. You can because then you end up chasing him.

1016
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:49,680
Speaker 1: That's right, Then you become Then then you have a

1017
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:52,560
Speaker 1: whole You fool yourself into thinking your entire draft depends

1018
00:59:52,560 --> 00:59:54,560
Speaker 1: on that one third round pick you know, or your

1019
00:59:54,720 --> 00:59:57,880
Speaker 1: second round pick, and it's just not true. Yeah, let's

1020
00:59:57,880 --> 00:59:59,959
Speaker 1: get back to the phones at eight three five fifty.

1021
01:00:00,080 --> 01:00:03,840
Speaker 1: Open line for you. There one eight fifty two five fifty.

1022
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:07,040
Speaker 1: How should the Bills tweak the roster just a wee

1023
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:09,800
Speaker 1: bit between now and the draft. You can let us know.

1024
01:00:09,920 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 1: Open line for you. But we go to John in

1025
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:16,480
Speaker 1: Rochester in the meantime. What do you got first? John? Hey, Hey,

1026
01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 1: don't Christmas state? First of all, pleasure to speak to

1027
01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:21,360
Speaker 1: both of you. I'm honored to speak to both of you.

1028
01:00:21,360 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 1: You're my favorite reporter, Chris, and oh, thank you Tasker.

1029
01:00:24,800 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 1: I saw you play throughout your career. I'm an old

1030
01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 1: guy sixty three. I saw you play probably every game

1031
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:33,680
Speaker 1: you played for the Bills. Appreciate thanks. And you're the

1032
01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:37,760
Speaker 1: best gunner ever in the sport. And uh, you know,

1033
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:40,360
Speaker 1: it's it's to me, it's I can't believe that they

1034
01:00:40,360 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 1: have a nominated for the haven't put you into Hall

1035
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 1: of Fame, But that's another subject. Um Mike, Mike. I thought,

1036
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:49,560
Speaker 1: first of all, I wanted to say, I'd love to

1037
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 1: see him add an edge rusher at a reasonable price.

1038
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:56,840
Speaker 1: And Melvin Ingram is a name that comes to mind.

1039
01:00:56,960 --> 01:00:59,880
Speaker 1: He's sitting out there. He made like three million plus

1040
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:03,120
Speaker 1: last year for Miami, and I think the year before

1041
01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:05,760
Speaker 1: he was at Pittsburgh. He kills us every time we

1042
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:10,320
Speaker 1: play him. We cannot block the guy. And I think

1043
01:01:10,320 --> 01:01:12,240
Speaker 1: if you got him in here, even if he had

1044
01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:14,560
Speaker 1: to offer him a two year contract, he's I think

1045
01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 1: he's thirty one or two. He's younger than Von. The

1046
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:20,120
Speaker 1: guy is a menace against the against He's also good

1047
01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:22,720
Speaker 1: against the run, but he is a pass rusher. We

1048
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:25,160
Speaker 1: could put in here until Von got healthy and put

1049
01:01:25,240 --> 01:01:29,600
Speaker 1: him across from Rousseau. I think he'd be effective. As

1050
01:01:29,600 --> 01:01:32,760
Speaker 1: far as the other position, I really need. We need

1051
01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:35,040
Speaker 1: to fill us a one tech. I don't want to

1052
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:37,680
Speaker 1: go into the draft necessarily having to get a one tech.

1053
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:40,440
Speaker 1: I think we need one as a backup. I think

1054
01:01:40,480 --> 01:01:42,480
Speaker 1: we've got a one tech in de Quon, and we've

1055
01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:46,480
Speaker 1: got three three techs. Settle will not is not the answer.

1056
01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:48,800
Speaker 1: So twin of FOURD is the name they've been linked to.

1057
01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:53,400
Speaker 1: He might be too expensive before the draft, you know,

1058
01:01:53,440 --> 01:01:58,240
Speaker 1: because it'll kill our third rounder for Tremaine at that deal.

1059
01:01:58,680 --> 01:02:00,840
Speaker 1: But so I think Bean's eating that out. But I

1060
01:02:00,880 --> 01:02:04,120
Speaker 1: think he is somebody that we're looking at. Um. As

1061
01:02:04,120 --> 01:02:07,200
Speaker 1: far as the other position, inside linebacker, I think we're

1062
01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:09,080
Speaker 1: going to need a veteran to get in here to

1063
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:13,360
Speaker 1: compete with everybody else. And I think one of a

1064
01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:19,800
Speaker 1: number of unsigned inside linebackers like Cunningham Jones, Um, I

1065
01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:24,760
Speaker 1: think Jayn Brown is out there, are late twenties fan Alexander.

1066
01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:26,919
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a number of people that I think

1067
01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:28,480
Speaker 1: and I think being will bring in one of them

1068
01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:32,640
Speaker 1: at the minimum contract. So I think that might happen

1069
01:02:32,680 --> 01:02:35,680
Speaker 1: before the draft. What do you think of that, guys.

1070
01:02:35,680 --> 01:02:38,520
Speaker 1: That's all defensive guys. I didn't wide receiver. I think

1071
01:02:38,520 --> 01:02:40,120
Speaker 1: we're going to grab in the draft. And I also

1072
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:42,880
Speaker 1: think a sneaky position is tight end in the draft.

1073
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:46,560
Speaker 1: I would agree. That's that's a lot to unpack there, John,

1074
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:48,880
Speaker 1: But all good stuff. Thanks for the call and for

1075
01:02:48,920 --> 01:02:54,600
Speaker 1: the bouquets as well. Um, Let's start with where he began.

1076
01:02:56,200 --> 01:02:59,360
Speaker 1: He was big on defensive line. He is one hundred

1077
01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:04,040
Speaker 1: percent right about Melvin Ingram. That guy gives Dion Dawkins fits.

1078
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:08,920
Speaker 1: He was with Miami, he was with Kansas City and Pittsburgh.

1079
01:03:08,960 --> 01:03:12,440
Speaker 1: He is a problem for some reason. Dion just has

1080
01:03:12,440 --> 01:03:15,720
Speaker 1: a tough time with him. And I think it's more

1081
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:20,240
Speaker 1: about who Melvin Ingram is as a player than Dion Dawkins.

1082
01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:23,760
Speaker 1: There's a reason Melvin Ingram is still in the league now.

1083
01:03:23,760 --> 01:03:25,520
Speaker 1: He is thirty three years old. I think he's a

1084
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:28,919
Speaker 1: little older than John Anticipated and he turns thirty four

1085
01:03:29,400 --> 01:03:33,520
Speaker 1: the day before the draft. But in a rotational system

1086
01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:37,280
Speaker 1: like the Bills play, I think you could still get

1087
01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:40,280
Speaker 1: something out of him, So don't I don't hate that

1088
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:43,680
Speaker 1: idea at all, provided the prices right, and the price

1089
01:03:43,800 --> 01:03:45,960
Speaker 1: is going to be important. But he's still sitting out

1090
01:03:46,000 --> 01:03:47,440
Speaker 1: there right now. Do you want a job for one

1091
01:03:47,480 --> 01:03:49,280
Speaker 1: more year? You want to collect the paycheck for one

1092
01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:51,120
Speaker 1: more year? This is what we can give you and

1093
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:54,640
Speaker 1: play it that way. Yeah. Right. That's the thing that

1094
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:58,680
Speaker 1: benefits a team like Buffalo their philosophy. Melvin Ingram can

1095
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:00,680
Speaker 1: come in play, and he knows he's he's gonna get

1096
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:03,960
Speaker 1: like thirty five percent of the defensive snaps. He's probably

1097
01:04:03,960 --> 01:04:07,560
Speaker 1: playing twenty five snaps a game. Maybe there, maybe, yeah, right,

1098
01:04:07,640 --> 01:04:11,080
Speaker 1: So he's got to feel like he could get through

1099
01:04:11,120 --> 01:04:14,520
Speaker 1: the season, contribute, be part of this program, and you know,

1100
01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:18,440
Speaker 1: make some cash doing it, and for this team at

1101
01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:20,040
Speaker 1: this point in history, have a shot at a ring.

1102
01:04:20,600 --> 01:04:27,480
Speaker 1: So makes a lot of sense, because you're right, I like,

1103
01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:30,280
Speaker 1: I like going out and getting guys who hurt you.

1104
01:04:30,680 --> 01:04:35,440
Speaker 1: I'll uh, you know, Damien Harris, guys like that who've Yeah,

1105
01:04:35,080 --> 01:04:40,040
Speaker 1: he hurt us. Um, I don't have a but I'm

1106
01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:41,800
Speaker 1: and I'm also and I know this too. People are

1107
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:44,440
Speaker 1: going on No, not another edge guy, you know. Um,

1108
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:50,439
Speaker 1: just like just like offensive linemen, those guys are hard.

1109
01:04:50,520 --> 01:04:52,640
Speaker 1: Great ones are hard to find. Really good ones are

1110
01:04:52,640 --> 01:04:56,440
Speaker 1: hard to find. It's hard to dominate a game consistently, weekend,

1111
01:04:56,480 --> 01:05:00,120
Speaker 1: week out, week after week, month after month of an

1112
01:05:00,200 --> 01:05:03,760
Speaker 1: NFL season with a group of guys. Ask. San Francisco

1113
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:05,960
Speaker 1: has got as good a group as we've seen in

1114
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:08,400
Speaker 1: the last five or ten years. And they can't keep

1115
01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:11,680
Speaker 1: them all healthy all the time. They're always hurt. Same

1116
01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:13,960
Speaker 1: thing with all go around the league all the great ones.

1117
01:05:15,360 --> 01:05:20,680
Speaker 1: Look gonn happen to Buffalo, Vaughan Um Jordan Phillips all

1118
01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:23,000
Speaker 1: got hurt at the beginning of the year. Tim Settle

1119
01:05:23,040 --> 01:05:24,680
Speaker 1: at a calf injury at the beginning of the year.

1120
01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:27,120
Speaker 1: It's hard to keep those guys up, and you can't

1121
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:29,960
Speaker 1: dominate defensively unless you got a really good rotation up front,

1122
01:05:30,000 --> 01:05:32,320
Speaker 1: and the Bills, with all the guys they rotate, they

1123
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:35,240
Speaker 1: can do it with guys who they don't have to

1124
01:05:35,240 --> 01:05:39,160
Speaker 1: be in their prime. But it's like that old country song,

1125
01:05:39,640 --> 01:05:41,280
Speaker 1: I'm not as good as I once was, but I

1126
01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:43,720
Speaker 1: can be as good once as I ever was. That's

1127
01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:45,600
Speaker 1: what you need, just a guy to give you be

1128
01:05:45,640 --> 01:05:48,320
Speaker 1: as good this one season as you've ever been. Just

1129
01:05:48,520 --> 01:05:51,400
Speaker 1: go you don't you're not gonna play that much when

1130
01:05:51,440 --> 01:05:53,560
Speaker 1: you when you're out there, give it everything and we'll

1131
01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:55,840
Speaker 1: take you off. Awesome. All right. Let's go to his

1132
01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:58,520
Speaker 1: next guy, Poona Ford, who I think is still an

1133
01:05:58,600 --> 01:06:01,880
Speaker 1: underrated defensive tackle in this league. Main reason why as

1134
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:03,960
Speaker 1: he's on the shorter side. He's only five to eleven,

1135
01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:06,480
Speaker 1: but he packs three hundred eleven pounds on that frame. Now,

1136
01:06:06,520 --> 01:06:08,400
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna tell you I had the privilege of

1137
01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:10,919
Speaker 1: meeting Poona Ford at the Senior Bowl because he wasn't

1138
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:13,400
Speaker 1: getting a lot of play coming into the draft a

1139
01:06:13,400 --> 01:06:17,240
Speaker 1: few years ago. And he's twenty seven now, you know,

1140
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:21,840
Speaker 1: looking for a big second contract. It didn't happen. Seattle's

1141
01:06:21,840 --> 01:06:23,920
Speaker 1: been talking to him forever, trying to get him back,

1142
01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:27,120
Speaker 1: and he's I don't know if he's insulted or whatever

1143
01:06:27,160 --> 01:06:29,000
Speaker 1: it is, but at this point in time, you just

1144
01:06:29,040 --> 01:06:31,200
Speaker 1: gotta take a one year contract and hope for the best.

1145
01:06:31,560 --> 01:06:33,520
Speaker 1: I would take Poona Ford as a one tech in

1146
01:06:33,600 --> 01:06:36,800
Speaker 1: a second, backing up de Kuan Jones, because that guy

1147
01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:39,240
Speaker 1: stands in there and you can't move him. He is

1148
01:06:39,280 --> 01:06:42,280
Speaker 1: a fire hydrant, right, It's like trying to Yeah, it's

1149
01:06:42,280 --> 01:06:44,720
Speaker 1: like trying to push a tree stump that was sought

1150
01:06:44,760 --> 01:06:47,480
Speaker 1: off too short. Yeah, because Zach can't get under him.

1151
01:06:47,640 --> 01:06:50,200
Speaker 1: You cannot, you can't get any leverage on him. And

1152
01:06:49,880 --> 01:06:52,440
Speaker 1: he's three hundred plus and he's you know, he's a

1153
01:06:52,480 --> 01:06:54,600
Speaker 1: little bit slippery. So you could do a lot worse

1154
01:06:54,840 --> 01:06:59,400
Speaker 1: than Poona Ford. So I like that. And then he

1155
01:06:59,440 --> 01:07:02,320
Speaker 1: was talking about linebacker. I was hoping the Bills would

1156
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:05,440
Speaker 1: sign a veteran linebacker early in free agency. Guy I

1157
01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:07,560
Speaker 1: had my eye on who I think could be affordable

1158
01:07:07,680 --> 01:07:10,880
Speaker 1: was Al Singleton in Denver, who had a really nice

1159
01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:13,400
Speaker 1: year last year on a really good defense, But he's

1160
01:07:13,440 --> 01:07:16,080
Speaker 1: resigned with the Broncos, so he's out of the mix.

1161
01:07:16,680 --> 01:07:18,840
Speaker 1: I tend to think that the Bills are going to

1162
01:07:18,880 --> 01:07:22,240
Speaker 1: wait until after the draft on linebacker. That's just a

1163
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:24,960
Speaker 1: my gut feeling. I don't know anything, but I think,

1164
01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:28,000
Speaker 1: knowing the hole it represents, I think they're going to

1165
01:07:28,040 --> 01:07:30,160
Speaker 1: see what they can land in the draft first. Short

1166
01:07:30,200 --> 01:07:33,880
Speaker 1: of that, they add one after the draft, probably at

1167
01:07:33,920 --> 01:07:38,400
Speaker 1: an affordable price, because as John even said, there is

1168
01:07:38,640 --> 01:07:41,520
Speaker 1: there are a group of players, veteran players out there

1169
01:07:41,920 --> 01:07:43,560
Speaker 1: you know that you can probably pick up even in

1170
01:07:43,600 --> 01:07:46,720
Speaker 1: early May. It could be and I you know, you

1171
01:07:46,720 --> 01:07:48,520
Speaker 1: always hear this after the draft, say hey we got

1172
01:07:48,520 --> 01:07:50,640
Speaker 1: our guys. Draft went just like you know, they always

1173
01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:52,680
Speaker 1: play it up how they you know it went for him.

1174
01:07:52,720 --> 01:07:54,080
Speaker 1: I think one of the things you got to know

1175
01:07:54,120 --> 01:07:57,800
Speaker 1: too is we heard a lot of rhetoric when they

1176
01:07:57,880 --> 01:08:00,240
Speaker 1: drafted Tremaine Edmonds of how they needed a guy there

1177
01:08:00,280 --> 01:08:05,880
Speaker 1: that was a lead dog. So if and I kind

1178
01:08:05,880 --> 01:08:08,800
Speaker 1: of tend to think they were telling the truth, I

1179
01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:11,440
Speaker 1: think they may be downplaying it now, being quiet about it.

1180
01:08:11,800 --> 01:08:14,040
Speaker 1: I think Sean McDermot, the guy who's gonna call the

1181
01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:18,720
Speaker 1: defensive plays, by the way, I think that's right. I

1182
01:08:18,760 --> 01:08:22,800
Speaker 1: think he's in there saying, listen, we're gonna keep this

1183
01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:25,960
Speaker 1: quiet about how how high a priority this is for us.

1184
01:08:26,880 --> 01:08:29,280
Speaker 1: But I think we got to get the guy. And

1185
01:08:29,320 --> 01:08:31,680
Speaker 1: if we don't get this you know, Jack Campbell or

1186
01:08:31,680 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 1: this other Drew Sanders, or we don't get one of

1187
01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:35,880
Speaker 1: those guys, we better have somebody on the line we're

1188
01:08:35,880 --> 01:08:38,880
Speaker 1: gonna get and maybe even before the draft weekends out

1189
01:08:38,960 --> 01:08:41,639
Speaker 1: and right now, I'll tell you this, Right now, they

1190
01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:45,559
Speaker 1: know their middle linebacker right now. Who it is. There's

1191
01:08:45,560 --> 01:08:51,320
Speaker 1: a list of probably five tops, maybe maybe three I'm

1192
01:08:51,360 --> 01:08:53,600
Speaker 1: talking about in the draft or free agency, all of

1193
01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 1: them together. Oh, this is our list. It's gonna be

1194
01:08:56,240 --> 01:08:59,040
Speaker 1: one of these three guys, either the kid in the

1195
01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:01,559
Speaker 1: draft or two kids in the draft, or it's gonna

1196
01:09:01,600 --> 01:09:04,320
Speaker 1: be this free agent guy, because he's still out there.

1197
01:09:05,320 --> 01:09:07,800
Speaker 1: And that's what they're doing. And they probably already talked

1198
01:09:07,800 --> 01:09:10,000
Speaker 1: to the free agent saying listen, don't sign with anybody

1199
01:09:10,040 --> 01:09:12,000
Speaker 1: unless you give us a chance to match it. That

1200
01:09:12,080 --> 01:09:14,760
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Yeah, Um, we're not ready. We're gonna

1201
01:09:14,760 --> 01:09:16,759
Speaker 1: see if we can what we're doing all of that stuff.

1202
01:09:17,040 --> 01:09:20,439
Speaker 1: So I bet you the middle linebacker the Bills is

1203
01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:23,360
Speaker 1: known by this organization as being one of three, four,

1204
01:09:23,560 --> 01:09:28,120
Speaker 1: maybe five guys that's gonna line up. So that's that's

1205
01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:32,519
Speaker 1: what I think. But they it's whether it's two guys

1206
01:09:32,520 --> 01:09:35,800
Speaker 1: in the draft and three free agents or vice versa.

1207
01:09:35,880 --> 01:09:38,479
Speaker 1: Three kids in the draft and two guys who are

1208
01:09:38,479 --> 01:09:41,760
Speaker 1: out there, they know who it's gonna be, but they

1209
01:09:41,800 --> 01:09:44,720
Speaker 1: just gotta they're gonna wait and see. I think I don't.

1210
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:46,680
Speaker 1: That's that's proof to me. I couldn't do this job.

1211
01:09:46,680 --> 01:09:49,640
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be able to sleep for weeks, you know

1212
01:09:49,640 --> 01:09:52,439
Speaker 1: what I mean? Yeah, yeah, I can't live like that. Yeah, well,

1213
01:09:52,560 --> 01:09:55,840
Speaker 1: I gotta address it like I gotta wait till when right.

1214
01:09:56,479 --> 01:09:58,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get crappy sleep for the next three and

1215
01:09:58,640 --> 01:10:01,400
Speaker 1: a half weeks. So I think. So. Having said that,

1216
01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:04,479
Speaker 1: and the fact that those guys haven't signed, either they

1217
01:10:04,479 --> 01:10:06,440
Speaker 1: don't want to make the money work at their money

1218
01:10:07,080 --> 01:10:09,880
Speaker 1: their price now, or they like the kids in the

1219
01:10:09,920 --> 01:10:12,680
Speaker 1: draft better because they're young. Yeah, so that made I

1220
01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:14,960
Speaker 1: think that's why that's why I'm of the belief that

1221
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:17,479
Speaker 1: at this point in time, they believe that the draft

1222
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:21,600
Speaker 1: prospects offer them a better either a upside better performance

1223
01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:24,080
Speaker 1: out of the shoot than anybody that they can sign

1224
01:10:24,439 --> 01:10:27,000
Speaker 1: in free agency. Now, so let's wait, let's see if

1225
01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:28,880
Speaker 1: we get those guys, and then if we don't, we

1226
01:10:28,960 --> 01:10:31,559
Speaker 1: go to Plan B, which is a veteran player on

1227
01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:33,680
Speaker 1: a one year Deah. Back to the phones we go

1228
01:10:33,840 --> 01:10:36,000
Speaker 1: and to Mark in West senecon X What do you

1229
01:10:36,040 --> 01:10:38,679
Speaker 1: got for us? Mark here on One Bill's Live. Hello, guys,

1230
01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:42,639
Speaker 1: how are you today? Good? Goody? A couple of things. Well,

1231
01:10:42,680 --> 01:10:45,880
Speaker 1: as far as what they should do, I'm all about

1232
01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:50,400
Speaker 1: bringing in a veteran guy, a middle linebacker on a

1233
01:10:50,439 --> 01:10:55,040
Speaker 1: one year deal, just for safety reasons. But middle linebacker,

1234
01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:57,800
Speaker 1: for me is where my opinion is they should be

1235
01:10:57,880 --> 01:11:00,759
Speaker 1: zeroed in on what they're looking for fort and foremost

1236
01:11:00,760 --> 01:11:03,320
Speaker 1: in the draft. And I just wanted to bring up

1237
01:11:03,320 --> 01:11:05,680
Speaker 1: one thing about the draft. So many of us, we

1238
01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:08,479
Speaker 1: all get caught up on the numbers, and is you

1239
01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:10,719
Speaker 1: know it's a first round pick and the Bills our

1240
01:11:10,760 --> 01:11:15,080
Speaker 1: first round twenty seven, which is really really irrelevant every

1241
01:11:15,160 --> 01:11:19,760
Speaker 1: year because because of this if there's only because I've

1242
01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:22,559
Speaker 1: heard this set since we started talking about the draft

1243
01:11:22,640 --> 01:11:25,600
Speaker 1: every year. At this time, though there's only seventeen with

1244
01:11:25,680 --> 01:11:29,200
Speaker 1: legitimate first round picks, there's only eighteen, possibly only twenty.

1245
01:11:29,560 --> 01:11:34,240
Speaker 1: Most teams don't have anybody pass that, which makes picking

1246
01:11:34,360 --> 01:11:40,160
Speaker 1: twenty seven overdrafting a guy anybody who you have listed

1247
01:11:40,840 --> 01:11:45,400
Speaker 1: beyond twenty as far as the overall listing of your prospects,

1248
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:48,000
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter that you're picking on at twenty seven

1249
01:11:48,000 --> 01:11:49,920
Speaker 1: in the first round if you had him ready to

1250
01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:53,640
Speaker 1: add number thirty seven, okay, if you had him a

1251
01:11:53,680 --> 01:11:57,120
Speaker 1: second round pick. But there's still all these first round

1252
01:11:57,120 --> 01:11:58,680
Speaker 1: picks that you said, you gotta go get a guy

1253
01:11:58,720 --> 01:12:01,080
Speaker 1: you believe in. Now, okay, and now you've got to

1254
01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:03,920
Speaker 1: go back to your board of forget about whether a

1255
01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:06,160
Speaker 1: guy is listed as a first or a second round pick.

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01:12:06,479 --> 01:12:08,519
Speaker 1: Where do we have him in our top thirty, Where

1257
01:12:08,520 --> 01:12:11,000
Speaker 1: do we have him in our top forty? And the

1258
01:12:11,040 --> 01:12:12,960
Speaker 1: only way you overdraft them is if you got you

1259
01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:15,679
Speaker 1: pick a guy at twenty seven that you had ranked

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01:12:15,720 --> 01:12:19,640
Speaker 1: overall at number forty seven, Now that's overdrafting. But if

1261
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:22,479
Speaker 1: you're picking a guy at thirty that you had ranked

1262
01:12:22,479 --> 01:12:26,280
Speaker 1: thirty six at twenty seven. I'm not so sure that's overdrafting, right,

1263
01:12:26,520 --> 01:12:29,000
Speaker 1: I mean, I need yeah, you know what I mean.

1264
01:12:29,160 --> 01:12:31,760
Speaker 1: I respect where you're coming from, Mark, truly, I do.

1265
01:12:31,920 --> 01:12:37,599
Speaker 1: I think the reason that some gms in the league

1266
01:12:37,960 --> 01:12:41,280
Speaker 1: take issue with it, and I think it is more

1267
01:12:42,160 --> 01:12:45,240
Speaker 1: of the former example that you posed. I'm drafting at

1268
01:12:45,280 --> 01:12:48,200
Speaker 1: twenty seven and this guy like on the board a lot,

1269
01:12:48,560 --> 01:12:51,719
Speaker 1: but I've got him at a value of forty seven.

1270
01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:54,240
Speaker 1: They're probably not taking him. They're gonna look to get

1271
01:12:54,280 --> 01:12:57,160
Speaker 1: out at twenty seven to go pick him up at

1272
01:12:57,160 --> 01:13:01,280
Speaker 1: a more sensible point of value. Because the whole reason

1273
01:13:03,120 --> 01:13:07,600
Speaker 1: these personnel departments scout players for the better part of

1274
01:13:07,640 --> 01:13:11,479
Speaker 1: ten months and sometimes even longer than that, is to

1275
01:13:11,560 --> 01:13:18,080
Speaker 1: assess proper value. Now, that proper value, as we just

1276
01:13:18,120 --> 01:13:22,880
Speaker 1: said a few moments ago, is anything but universal. It

1277
01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:28,680
Speaker 1: is proper value for how that player fits the Bills

1278
01:13:28,680 --> 01:13:33,000
Speaker 1: and what they do, and taking that player's strengths and weaknesses,

1279
01:13:33,439 --> 01:13:38,479
Speaker 1: factoring it into the Bills equation only, and determining he's

1280
01:13:38,479 --> 01:13:41,640
Speaker 1: a fit for us, yes, but where is he a

1281
01:13:41,720 --> 01:13:44,760
Speaker 1: good value in the draft? Those are the only two

1282
01:13:44,840 --> 01:13:49,439
Speaker 1: decisions that they care about. And while they might have

1283
01:13:49,479 --> 01:13:54,080
Speaker 1: only twenty players with first round grades. The Indianapolis Colts

1284
01:13:54,080 --> 01:13:56,240
Speaker 1: may only have twenty players, but I'll guarantee you it's

1285
01:13:56,280 --> 01:13:59,960
Speaker 1: not the same twenty players. So inevitably you will end

1286
01:14:00,120 --> 01:14:03,120
Speaker 1: up having more than twenty players taking in Round one,

1287
01:14:03,320 --> 01:14:06,120
Speaker 1: not just because there's thirty one picks this year, but

1288
01:14:06,160 --> 01:14:09,360
Speaker 1: because the grades of who is a first round talent

1289
01:14:09,439 --> 01:14:12,720
Speaker 1: will be different across the board of teams as well. Right,

1290
01:14:12,840 --> 01:14:17,200
Speaker 1: here's the problem. And I a friend who has experience

1291
01:14:17,280 --> 01:14:21,080
Speaker 1: in this stuff in a different sport, and you talk

1292
01:14:21,160 --> 01:14:23,320
Speaker 1: about and it used to and we had this conversation

1293
01:14:23,320 --> 01:14:25,559
Speaker 1: back when rookies were getting all kinds of money, you know,

1294
01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:30,160
Speaker 1: and and you're trying to pick play this is you know,

1295
01:14:30,479 --> 01:14:32,240
Speaker 1: this is I'm talking about a guy in the NHL.

1296
01:14:32,360 --> 01:14:35,280
Speaker 1: So he's they're picking eighteen year olds, you know, so

1297
01:14:35,920 --> 01:14:39,600
Speaker 1: even bigger. It's a bigger projection. And he made a

1298
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:41,800
Speaker 1: great I've never forgotten. And he looked at me and

1299
01:14:41,840 --> 01:14:42,880
Speaker 1: I said, well, how do you just you know, you

1300
01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:45,400
Speaker 1: gotta get this guy and the bills picking at twenty seven, Okay,

1301
01:14:45,400 --> 01:14:47,240
Speaker 1: whatever you're gonna pick at twenty seven. What if the

1302
01:14:47,240 --> 01:14:48,920
Speaker 1: guy you know, you have him rated or this or that.

1303
01:14:49,280 --> 01:14:51,320
Speaker 1: Here's the problem if you can't find anybody that wants

1304
01:14:51,320 --> 01:14:53,160
Speaker 1: to trade. If you didn't find a partner to trade

1305
01:14:53,160 --> 01:14:55,360
Speaker 1: out of that pick, or if you can't do something,

1306
01:14:56,040 --> 01:15:00,320
Speaker 1: you've got to pick somebody. You gotta pick some buddy,

1307
01:15:00,600 --> 01:15:04,439
Speaker 1: and you gotta pick who you're gonna pay. Who are

1308
01:15:04,439 --> 01:15:05,840
Speaker 1: you gonna give that pick too? Who are you gonna

1309
01:15:05,840 --> 01:15:07,880
Speaker 1: give that contract to? That's a first round draft pick

1310
01:15:07,880 --> 01:15:09,880
Speaker 1: in the National Football he's gonna be worth, you know,

1311
01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:12,760
Speaker 1: twenty seven million bucks over the course of a five

1312
01:15:12,840 --> 01:15:16,840
Speaker 1: year deal. Who you gonna give it to. You've got

1313
01:15:16,880 --> 01:15:19,360
Speaker 1: to pick a guy worthy of that contract, and that's

1314
01:15:19,360 --> 01:15:22,400
Speaker 1: the content. That's the problem. Is he gonna play hard enough,

1315
01:15:22,640 --> 01:15:26,559
Speaker 1: produce enough to fit the value, fit that value of

1316
01:15:26,560 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 1: that contract and that pick. Because here's what it is.

1317
01:15:29,439 --> 01:15:31,280
Speaker 1: If you're there at twenty seven, doesn't matter if you're

1318
01:15:31,320 --> 01:15:35,280
Speaker 1: at five or twenty five or six and thirty, it

1319
01:15:35,280 --> 01:15:37,559
Speaker 1: doesn't matter which of those ends of the spectrum you're on.

1320
01:15:38,040 --> 01:15:40,559
Speaker 1: You've got to make that pick or get something for it.

1321
01:15:40,760 --> 01:15:43,759
Speaker 1: And that's why the value of the grade is so important.

1322
01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:47,519
Speaker 1: Not because not only because you've put the time in

1323
01:15:48,640 --> 01:15:53,360
Speaker 1: with a multitude of input from your personnel department to say, okay,

1324
01:15:53,439 --> 01:15:56,519
Speaker 1: that's it. This is this guy's value. To move off

1325
01:15:56,560 --> 01:15:59,599
Speaker 1: of that in the eleventh and a half hour on

1326
01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:04,320
Speaker 1: Night one of the draft, fifteen minutes will screw you.

1327
01:16:04,320 --> 01:16:06,960
Speaker 1: You got fifteen minutes may screw you. And you don't

1328
01:16:06,960 --> 01:16:09,839
Speaker 1: know all the examples, but those people in the personnel

1329
01:16:09,880 --> 01:16:13,400
Speaker 1: departments in the NFL they do and it's cost people jobs.

1330
01:16:13,439 --> 01:16:15,760
Speaker 1: And what happens next, and this before you gotta take

1331
01:16:15,760 --> 01:16:18,960
Speaker 1: a break, what happens if the Bills pick at twenty

1332
01:16:18,960 --> 01:16:21,479
Speaker 1: seven and all they got one guy on their board

1333
01:16:21,520 --> 01:16:24,240
Speaker 1: that is worth a twenty seventh pick, it's unbelievable. They

1334
01:16:24,320 --> 01:16:30,400
Speaker 1: never and it's a quarterback. Then what do you do? Well, see,

1335
01:16:30,400 --> 01:16:32,360
Speaker 1: that's where you're at. You either take the quarterback and

1336
01:16:32,439 --> 01:16:35,280
Speaker 1: move him before the draft's over, or you get out

1337
01:16:35,280 --> 01:16:38,640
Speaker 1: of twenty seven. Right, you can't have it. That wants that.

1338
01:16:38,920 --> 01:16:40,599
Speaker 1: You don't have a part. Nobody wants to pick you can't.

1339
01:16:40,720 --> 01:16:42,760
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to do it for what you're You know,

1340
01:16:42,760 --> 01:16:44,600
Speaker 1: they want to devalue the pick because they know you

1341
01:16:44,680 --> 01:16:48,120
Speaker 1: gotta get out, so they're not gonna do You're stuck. Yeah,

1342
01:16:48,160 --> 01:16:50,400
Speaker 1: the kid's worth of twenty seventh pick of the first round,

1343
01:16:50,880 --> 01:16:55,160
Speaker 1: but she got Josh, you're well, you're probably taking THEE

1344
01:16:55,320 --> 01:16:58,320
Speaker 1: because he fits the value. Right. So then so now

1345
01:16:58,520 --> 01:17:00,719
Speaker 1: you're sitting that kid. You got that kid there until

1346
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:04,679
Speaker 1: something happens to that kid, it's wasted. And Brandon Bean

1347
01:17:04,760 --> 01:17:06,479
Speaker 1: and I hope I'm not misquoting him here, but I

1348
01:17:06,520 --> 01:17:09,559
Speaker 1: swear on my life that he's said this. He says

1349
01:17:09,600 --> 01:17:13,520
Speaker 1: it's and Jahn has said it also. Value over everything.

1350
01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:17,200
Speaker 1: That is the quint that is the crux of the draft. Now,

1351
01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:20,080
Speaker 1: you might be wrong on the value once in a while. Yeah,

1352
01:17:20,240 --> 01:17:23,519
Speaker 1: you know all GM's miss every one of them will

1353
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:25,679
Speaker 1: tell you they all do, none of them bad a thousand,

1354
01:17:26,200 --> 01:17:30,840
Speaker 1: But the value is the most important thing. So to

1355
01:17:30,960 --> 01:17:33,800
Speaker 1: just arbitrarily say, ah, if he's still there and you

1356
01:17:33,840 --> 01:17:36,599
Speaker 1: know you need a linebacker, just take him. If the

1357
01:17:36,680 --> 01:17:39,400
Speaker 1: value says no, they're not taking him. At twenty seven,

1358
01:17:39,640 --> 01:17:42,400
Speaker 1: end of story, we gotta take a break. More on

1359
01:17:42,439 --> 01:17:44,760
Speaker 1: this and how you think the Bills should tweak the

1360
01:17:44,840 --> 01:17:47,599
Speaker 1: roster before they get to draft night. Eight oh three

1361
01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:49,479
Speaker 1: oh five fifty the number to get on board one

1362
01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:52,120
Speaker 1: eighty eight five fifty two five fifty. We'll see in

1363
01:17:52,120 --> 01:18:05,559
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes. Stay tuned, Welcome back, to one,

1364
01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:08,559
Speaker 1: Bills Live, Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you and taking

1365
01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:10,040
Speaker 1: your phone calls at eight o three. How should the

1366
01:18:10,080 --> 01:18:13,120
Speaker 1: Bills tweak the roster ever so slightly between now and

1367
01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:15,960
Speaker 1: the draft to make you feel good about the team

1368
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:19,720
Speaker 1: going into draft night on April twenty seventh. Back to

1369
01:18:19,760 --> 01:18:24,000
Speaker 1: the phones we go and out to California, Ia to Lee?

1370
01:18:24,040 --> 01:18:26,920
Speaker 1: What do you got for us? Lee? Hey, how are

1371
01:18:26,920 --> 01:18:31,200
Speaker 1: you doing? And thank you for taking my call? Sure? So,

1372
01:18:31,600 --> 01:18:34,000
Speaker 1: I think the focus needs to be on the offensive line.

1373
01:18:34,800 --> 01:18:39,599
Speaker 1: Just the past two years, I think protection and time

1374
01:18:40,040 --> 01:18:44,920
Speaker 1: has been a big issue, and focusing on the offensive

1375
01:18:44,920 --> 01:18:49,679
Speaker 1: line will, hopefully, if we get the right pieces, allow

1376
01:18:50,240 --> 01:18:55,360
Speaker 1: Josh to limit his scrambling and more effective on the

1377
01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:59,720
Speaker 1: passing game and running game. I like that. Are you

1378
01:18:59,800 --> 01:19:02,120
Speaker 1: talking about draft or you're talking about doing it before

1379
01:19:02,160 --> 01:19:05,360
Speaker 1: they get to the draft league. I think it should

1380
01:19:05,360 --> 01:19:09,599
Speaker 1: be both, you know, look for what's available out there

1381
01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:13,880
Speaker 1: and also draft. Okay, yeah, I'm on board with that.

1382
01:19:14,760 --> 01:19:17,599
Speaker 1: Good callie, Thank you for that. Appreciate it, you know, Steve.

1383
01:19:17,600 --> 01:19:23,519
Speaker 1: The interesting thing is the focus in free agency has

1384
01:19:23,560 --> 01:19:27,559
Speaker 1: been guard, and I kind of understand why you got

1385
01:19:27,560 --> 01:19:30,599
Speaker 1: a tight cap situation. Guard is the more affordable position

1386
01:19:30,800 --> 01:19:35,759
Speaker 1: than tackle, so they focus there and they resigned butcker,

1387
01:19:35,880 --> 01:19:38,760
Speaker 1: they signed David Edwards, they signed Connor McGovern, and then

1388
01:19:38,840 --> 01:19:41,760
Speaker 1: last week they just brought back David Quessenberry as the

1389
01:19:41,920 --> 01:19:45,839
Speaker 1: quote unquote swing tackle. Whether he'll probably get competition from

1390
01:19:45,960 --> 01:19:49,120
Speaker 1: Tommy Doyle who comes back from an ACL But with

1391
01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:51,800
Speaker 1: all the focus on guard, if they add on the

1392
01:19:51,840 --> 01:19:54,400
Speaker 1: offensive line in the draft, I'm inclined to think it's

1393
01:19:54,400 --> 01:19:59,040
Speaker 1: tackle not guard again, provided the value again, provided the

1394
01:19:59,080 --> 01:20:02,360
Speaker 1: value line zone. That's right. I'm kind of with you.

1395
01:20:05,360 --> 01:20:07,879
Speaker 1: It's for me. Those are the if you're going specific

1396
01:20:08,040 --> 01:20:11,960
Speaker 1: position not position group. Yeah, it's the middle linebacker spot

1397
01:20:11,960 --> 01:20:16,240
Speaker 1: that Tremaine at vacated and a tackle either to compete

1398
01:20:16,280 --> 01:20:18,400
Speaker 1: with Spencer Brown or to be a swing tackle between

1399
01:20:18,479 --> 01:20:22,960
Speaker 1: Spencer and Dion m Just have a guy, a big

1400
01:20:23,040 --> 01:20:26,000
Speaker 1: bodied offensive lineman, and you know, you bring him in

1401
01:20:26,080 --> 01:20:27,640
Speaker 1: like a Tommy Doyle. You bring him in, you know,

1402
01:20:27,720 --> 01:20:29,800
Speaker 1: let him catch passes in shore yardage and stuff that.

1403
01:20:30,640 --> 01:20:32,680
Speaker 1: But I got to bring in competition and have a

1404
01:20:32,800 --> 01:20:36,840
Speaker 1: young player on the roster ready to develop into a

1405
01:20:36,880 --> 01:20:40,320
Speaker 1: starting player. It'll be interesting to see if Tommy Doyle

1406
01:20:40,400 --> 01:20:43,360
Speaker 1: can do that coming in and you know, this would

1407
01:20:43,360 --> 01:20:45,040
Speaker 1: be a big year for him. I think, oh yeah,

1408
01:20:45,960 --> 01:20:48,960
Speaker 1: or three for him as well as Spencer, so both.

1409
01:20:49,280 --> 01:20:52,160
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have a problem doing that at all. The

1410
01:20:52,200 --> 01:20:56,200
Speaker 1: two guards that they've signed here in free agency or

1411
01:20:56,280 --> 01:20:59,559
Speaker 1: I think they're really good. They're proven starters, and so

1412
01:20:59,600 --> 01:21:04,280
Speaker 1: that him making Connor McGovern um. Yeah, I think David Edward,

1413
01:21:04,360 --> 01:21:09,120
Speaker 1: David ed Ryan Bates still here guys. Yeah, yeah, I

1414
01:21:09,120 --> 01:21:11,360
Speaker 1: don't have a problem doing one more guy on the draft,

1415
01:21:11,360 --> 01:21:13,680
Speaker 1: even if it's twenty seven. If they if a guy

1416
01:21:13,920 --> 01:21:15,800
Speaker 1: is there for the value, So yeah, I'm I'm kind

1417
01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:19,640
Speaker 1: of with Lee from California on that. I'm like, I

1418
01:21:20,120 --> 01:21:21,519
Speaker 1: keep saying that, I say it every year, and it

1419
01:21:21,560 --> 01:21:24,120
Speaker 1: gets you get out tired of it. Big guys who

1420
01:21:24,120 --> 01:21:27,080
Speaker 1: can really play are hard to find, and you want

1421
01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:30,000
Speaker 1: to get as many as you can. Back to the

1422
01:21:30,040 --> 01:21:33,120
Speaker 1: phones we go and to Tim in north Tonawanda, next,

1423
01:21:33,160 --> 01:21:35,960
Speaker 1: what do you got first? Tim? Yeah, I'd like to

1424
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:38,360
Speaker 1: see him get a sumpurb of a back before the

1425
01:21:38,479 --> 01:21:41,519
Speaker 1: draft or in the draft. I know Henry, It's been

1426
01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:44,240
Speaker 1: a lot of talk about him, but I don't know

1427
01:21:44,280 --> 01:21:47,240
Speaker 1: if that's realistic middle linebacker. I'd like to see him

1428
01:21:47,240 --> 01:21:51,599
Speaker 1: trade Oliver for Simmons some Cardinals. Oh okay, yeah, they're

1429
01:21:51,640 --> 01:21:57,120
Speaker 1: super super athletes, athletic like Edmonds, right, really athletic. I

1430
01:21:57,200 --> 01:22:01,360
Speaker 1: wanted him to draft him when he came out. Yeah,

1431
01:22:01,400 --> 01:22:06,200
Speaker 1: he's he's definitely Isaiah, Yeah he was. I think it

1432
01:22:06,240 --> 01:22:08,479
Speaker 1: was a top I think it was a top fifteen pick.

1433
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:10,720
Speaker 1: I can't remember. Thanks for the call, Tim. I appreciate that.

1434
01:22:11,320 --> 01:22:15,559
Speaker 1: Um a thumper at running back, Steve. I think they're

1435
01:22:15,600 --> 01:22:18,599
Speaker 1: hoping they can get some of that power from Damian Harris,

1436
01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:21,880
Speaker 1: who was already signed in free agency. I'm inclined to

1437
01:22:21,920 --> 01:22:23,960
Speaker 1: believe that if they had another running back it's either

1438
01:22:23,960 --> 01:22:26,720
Speaker 1: going to be way late in the draft or undrafted

1439
01:22:26,720 --> 01:22:29,559
Speaker 1: free agency, because the Bills always seemed to add one

1440
01:22:30,720 --> 01:22:34,400
Speaker 1: an undrafted free agency. They did last year with Raheem

1441
01:22:34,479 --> 01:22:39,760
Speaker 1: black Shary, so Christian Wade, they did it with more

1442
01:22:39,800 --> 01:22:42,720
Speaker 1: often than not, they've added after the draft at running back.

1443
01:22:42,800 --> 01:22:46,320
Speaker 1: Provided their running back stable was. You know, they had

1444
01:22:46,360 --> 01:22:48,400
Speaker 1: a collection of people all back, I mean, and he

1445
01:22:48,479 --> 01:22:50,400
Speaker 1: always it seems like we always go through this in

1446
01:22:50,840 --> 01:22:55,880
Speaker 1: training camp where you get Christian Wade, Mike GILLISLI remember him,

1447
01:22:55,920 --> 01:22:59,600
Speaker 1: They Rahem black Shear. There have been some names that

1448
01:23:00,280 --> 01:23:03,439
Speaker 1: Williams and Tonio Williams, guys who have Carlos Williams had

1449
01:23:03,479 --> 01:23:06,160
Speaker 1: one good year. Um, he was a draft choice. But right,

1450
01:23:06,240 --> 01:23:08,000
Speaker 1: But you get these guys later in the draft or

1451
01:23:08,280 --> 01:23:10,519
Speaker 1: rookie free agency and they come in and they splash

1452
01:23:10,560 --> 01:23:13,240
Speaker 1: a little bit. Um, if you could find one of

1453
01:23:13,240 --> 01:23:18,840
Speaker 1: those guys who is you know, I honestly say, abnormally big.

1454
01:23:19,920 --> 01:23:22,360
Speaker 1: You know, a big dude who's a running back. You

1455
01:23:22,360 --> 01:23:25,120
Speaker 1: don't see too many of them. Um, yeah, I'm all

1456
01:23:25,160 --> 01:23:27,639
Speaker 1: about it. But you don't know. Well, they're getting fewer

1457
01:23:27,680 --> 01:23:29,920
Speaker 1: and further between the league for a reason. Right. The

1458
01:23:30,080 --> 01:23:32,439
Speaker 1: guys don't want to play. They can't where they can't

1459
01:23:32,439 --> 01:23:35,519
Speaker 1: catch those bigger guys for whatever reason. There's a there's

1460
01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:38,479
Speaker 1: a there's a thousand reasons why they don't play. But

1461
01:23:39,360 --> 01:23:43,519
Speaker 1: it's not it's not a money position like it has been. Um,

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Speaker 1: it's not, um you know Markie position like it once

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Speaker 1: was amazingly but it's not. And a lot of times, bigger,

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Speaker 1: more athletic guys moved to the defensive side of the

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Speaker 1: ball these days because there's isn't a spot form. They

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Speaker 1: don't want to play tight end if they can't catch, right,

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Speaker 1: that's it. That's the only option for them. They're not

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Speaker 1: big enough to be an offensive lineman, and they're you know,

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Speaker 1: they can't catch, they can't play tight end. If they're

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Speaker 1: too big for a running back, what are they going

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Speaker 1: to do? So they got to go to the other

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Speaker 1: side of the football, become a pass rusher and edge

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Speaker 1: rusher and a linebacker coverage something, you know. So as

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Speaker 1: they move up through the ranks, their body type takes

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Speaker 1: them out of the position. Yeah, be interesting to see,

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Speaker 1: but I would be inclined to think if it is

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Speaker 1: a running back it's late in the draft or after

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Speaker 1: the draft is over, with an undrafted rookie. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to David Niagara Falls next. What do you got first? Dave? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know that with some positions are higher value, like

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Speaker 1: you know, a cornerback or receiver, and then other positions

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01:24:44,960 --> 01:24:47,840
Speaker 1: we might have more of a need at Having said that,

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Speaker 1: what if let's say you have a right tackle, a linebacker,

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01:24:52,240 --> 01:24:55,879
Speaker 1: a receiver all valued at twenty seven or they're about

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01:24:56,520 --> 01:24:58,080
Speaker 1: which one are you going to take first? If you're

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Speaker 1: if you guys are the you know, Brandon Bean and

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Speaker 1: make that Dave, I'll tell you they'll they're all equal grade.

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Speaker 1: You're splitting hairs, but they'll have a value on them

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Speaker 1: and it's hard to get him equal. But they you

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Speaker 1: know what I say, I'll tell you this, you're right, okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, if you're hypothetically saying they are all value

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01:25:20,040 --> 01:25:25,080
Speaker 1: dead even then the way they play, then they will

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01:25:25,160 --> 01:25:27,799
Speaker 1: go and they'll say, Okay, what was the wide receiver

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01:25:27,840 --> 01:25:29,320
Speaker 1: like when we sat down and looked him in the eye.

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01:25:29,400 --> 01:25:33,040
Speaker 1: What was he like? Linebacker? What was he like? Is

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Speaker 1: he the guy? Is his personality? The guy we want?

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01:25:36,400 --> 01:25:38,680
Speaker 1: And the same thing for um, you know, for a

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01:25:38,760 --> 01:25:41,800
Speaker 1: right tackler, offensive lineman. It will come down to the

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Speaker 1: kind of person they are. There's no question about and

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Speaker 1: there's no way that all three of those guys are

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01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:50,080
Speaker 1: going to be exactly alike. But in his hypothetical situation

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01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:53,360
Speaker 1: in which they are and they have the same exact grade,

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01:25:53,439 --> 01:25:56,240
Speaker 1: you fill the biggest hole, and that's linebacker right now. Yes,

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01:25:56,439 --> 01:25:59,760
Speaker 1: So it's probably line Yeah, unless it was unless it

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01:25:59,800 --> 01:26:01,720
Speaker 1: was a third round or where the linebacker may not

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01:26:01,760 --> 01:26:03,400
Speaker 1: be getting on the field. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: Twenty seven and the guy's gonna plug in if he's

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01:26:06,960 --> 01:26:09,120
Speaker 1: good enough to play right away, then you take the

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01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:11,639
Speaker 1: biggest need. Yeah, yeah, and it's linebacker in this case,

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01:26:11,680 --> 01:26:14,960
Speaker 1: at least as the roster stands right now. After that,

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Speaker 1: if it's a little murkier like it might be for tackle,

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01:26:18,360 --> 01:26:23,360
Speaker 1: let's just say it's tackling receiver, equal grade. Could you

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01:26:23,479 --> 01:26:27,240
Speaker 1: use upgrades at those two positions? Sure? And I think

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01:26:27,240 --> 01:26:30,519
Speaker 1: then the question becomes who helps us more at the

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01:26:30,560 --> 01:26:34,639
Speaker 1: position they play? And so if you have a receiver

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Speaker 1: with a grade at twenty seven and a tackle with

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01:26:36,800 --> 01:26:39,200
Speaker 1: a grade at twenty seven, and maybe that tackle can

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01:26:39,240 --> 01:26:42,639
Speaker 1: only play right tackle, but the receiver can play across

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01:26:42,640 --> 01:26:44,200
Speaker 1: the board, and as a chance to compete for the

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01:26:44,280 --> 01:26:47,200
Speaker 1: number two, they're taking the receiver, you know. So there

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01:26:47,240 --> 01:26:50,200
Speaker 1: are different ways to kind of split the hairs to

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01:26:50,400 --> 01:26:53,800
Speaker 1: help them make the decision, and only they know what

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01:26:53,840 --> 01:26:56,559
Speaker 1: it is as it pertains to their roster. But if

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01:26:56,560 --> 01:26:58,840
Speaker 1: they all have equal grades, you're filling the biggest hole,

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01:26:59,000 --> 01:27:01,639
Speaker 1: and right now, the biggest linebacker. We got to take

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Speaker 1: a break here, Steve and I to close things up

1527
01:27:03,760 --> 01:27:06,599
Speaker 1: on the back end to this break with some final

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01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:08,519
Speaker 1: thoughts on the tweet sheet. Next here on one Bills

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Speaker 1: Live presented by Kalota Health it's Buffalo Bills Radio. Welcome

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01:27:24,840 --> 01:27:27,120
Speaker 1: Actor one Bills Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you.

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Speaker 1: Some final thoughts on the tweet sheet here. As we've

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Speaker 1: been asking you, how should the Bills tweak the roster

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01:27:31,320 --> 01:27:34,360
Speaker 1: ever so slightly between now and the draft to let

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01:27:34,360 --> 01:27:38,000
Speaker 1: them go into the draft almost worry free about position holes.

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Speaker 1: And we've had some good comments on the phone lines.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go to back to the tweet sheet now

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Speaker 1: to kind of finish out the hour here. And we

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01:27:47,080 --> 01:27:49,000
Speaker 1: did read the first one on the toe down. I

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01:27:49,040 --> 01:27:50,720
Speaker 1: gotta pull this up. It's not coming up for me

1540
01:27:50,760 --> 01:27:54,920
Speaker 1: there it is. Tank says, bring in low cost free

1541
01:27:54,960 --> 01:27:59,240
Speaker 1: agents for depth or rotation. Maybe Dalton Risner been mentioned

1542
01:27:59,280 --> 01:28:03,000
Speaker 1: once already and Yannick in Gockway on one year deals.

1543
01:28:03,080 --> 01:28:05,839
Speaker 1: He is still out there right now. Yannick and Gockway

1544
01:28:05,960 --> 01:28:08,760
Speaker 1: proven pass rusher. He's bounced around the league a lot,

1545
01:28:08,800 --> 01:28:12,439
Speaker 1: and that's probably for a reason. But you're still out

1546
01:28:12,439 --> 01:28:14,600
Speaker 1: there and can rush the pass. All these guys have

1547
01:28:14,680 --> 01:28:17,240
Speaker 1: been you know, you remember hearing their names or whenever

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01:28:17,280 --> 01:28:18,840
Speaker 1: they were coming in the league or at the end

1549
01:28:18,840 --> 01:28:22,559
Speaker 1: of their rookie contract or whatever. And how you know,

1550
01:28:23,439 --> 01:28:25,400
Speaker 1: we all go through these moments where we covet these

1551
01:28:25,479 --> 01:28:28,160
Speaker 1: names that we hear about, but they keep bouncing around

1552
01:28:28,200 --> 01:28:31,519
Speaker 1: the league, and at some point I've alluded to it,

1553
01:28:31,960 --> 01:28:34,720
Speaker 1: even in this show today. There's a reason these guys

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01:28:34,760 --> 01:28:37,920
Speaker 1: don't find a home and whatever that is. Sometimes you

1555
01:28:37,920 --> 01:28:40,160
Speaker 1: can live with it, and other times it's like, I

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01:28:40,200 --> 01:28:41,840
Speaker 1: don't know if I want to get into that right.

1557
01:28:41,880 --> 01:28:45,679
Speaker 1: So there's a little bit of that, but there's always

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01:28:45,720 --> 01:28:49,040
Speaker 1: a reason, and teams tend to find out that reason

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01:28:49,160 --> 01:28:51,640
Speaker 1: and treat it the same way. They just let him

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01:28:51,680 --> 01:28:54,240
Speaker 1: go someplace else. Derek says, I would like to still

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01:28:54,280 --> 01:28:56,479
Speaker 1: see another addition to the old line. Still need a

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Speaker 1: middle linebacker, depending how von Miller is. Still need a

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01:28:58,960 --> 01:29:01,800
Speaker 1: pass rush. I haven't seen enough from the draft investments

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01:29:02,040 --> 01:29:04,880
Speaker 1: to be comfortable. There is no secret that when von

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01:29:04,960 --> 01:29:06,880
Speaker 1: Miller went out of the lineup, the pass rush looked

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01:29:07,240 --> 01:29:11,240
Speaker 1: dramatically different. Now at the same time, Greg Rousseau was

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Speaker 1: coming off a high ankle sprain, so that didn't help either.

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01:29:14,439 --> 01:29:16,880
Speaker 1: They were that they were riddled by injuries. You look

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01:29:16,880 --> 01:29:20,960
Speaker 1: at four injuries and I'll say this, Von Miller, Micah,

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01:29:21,080 --> 01:29:26,960
Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips, and Vaughan those are four injuries they couldn't

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Speaker 1: recover from. Hopefully they're healthier this year, but hopefully they

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Speaker 1: find reinforcements too. We'll see you tomorrow on one