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Speaker 1: The One Bill's Live, presented by called Light a Health.

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Speaker 2: Finally, Holy neighbors, Welcome to a Thursday edition of One

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Speaker 2: Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Steve Tasker with you, and the

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Speaker 2: schedule is out. As everybody knows by now, unless you've

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Speaker 2: been living under a rock and have no care in

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Speaker 2: the world for the NFL season, which I would imagine

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Speaker 2: in these parts is few and far between. You could

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Speaker 2: probably count those people in on one hand. You can

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Speaker 2: imagine the where they're in a library somewhere studying nuclear physics.

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Speaker 3: Imagine the buzz in our building. This is the last.

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Speaker 4: This is it, man, This is the last tent pole

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Speaker 4: little thing before we go into the abyss of the office.

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Speaker 4: This is the off season now between Bill's.

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Speaker 2: Miniamp doesn't really have the buzz right schedule release.

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Speaker 3: As we I mean, we get to watch like what

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Speaker 3: five minutes of practice.

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Speaker 4: Yeah no, and it's like now we gotta everybody takes

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Speaker 4: off during the next next month June, Like see you later.

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Speaker 3: Man, we're here by early July.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, we're the only people breaking rocks with a hammer.

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Speaker 2: That's right, I'm joking. Yeah, this isn't heavy lifting.

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Speaker 4: Those are the grindstone baby, but that's it. That's the

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Speaker 4: last that's right of the tent pole finger quotes event of.

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Speaker 2: The off season. So we're obviously here to discuss the

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Speaker 2: schedule with you, your biggest takeaways, things you like, things you

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Speaker 2: don't like, and we'll take your phone calls. In short order.

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Speaker 2: Here we should get to some things that are going

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Speaker 2: on around the league in addition to the schedule stuff.

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Speaker 2: One Bills note that I thought was worth mentioning. NFL

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Speaker 2: Networks analytics writer Cynthia Freeland handicapped the AFC based on

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Speaker 2: her analytical models, and she came out with the Bills

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Speaker 2: in the AFC projected to have the second highest win

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Speaker 2: projection at eleven point four wins. The Ravens were first

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Speaker 2: with eleven point six and the Chiefs were third with

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Speaker 2: eleven point two. That's a projected win total. I personally

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Speaker 2: think all three teams can do better than that through

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Speaker 2: the course of this year. The only one I'd be

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Speaker 2: worried about a little bit would be the Chiefs because

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Speaker 2: their schedule is pretty tricky. Their division, Yeah, their division

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Speaker 2: got better, and I don't think their schedule is nearly

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Speaker 2: as favorable as that of the Bills or the Ravens.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: The Chiefs start with the coaching staffs in the Chief's division.

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Speaker 4: You got Pete Carroll now, Jim Harbaugh and Sean Payton.

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Speaker 2: Those are potentially for Hall of Fame coach Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And they all know how to build a program, right,

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Speaker 4: So you can expect those teams to get better and

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Speaker 4: better and start finding and devising ways to beat the Chiefs, right.

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Speaker 3: So, I mean, we've been doing it.

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Speaker 4: For a while, you know, throwing rocks at the Chiefs,

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Speaker 4: but we're not the only ones.

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Speaker 3: Sooner started there.

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Speaker 2: The start of their schedule is a little tricky. First

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Speaker 2: they got to go down to Brazil play the Chargers.

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Speaker 2: Then they have Philly at home the next week, then

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Speaker 2: at the Giants that's a layup, but then Baltimore at

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Speaker 2: are doozies out of the shoot there still though it's mahomes. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and much like the Bills, they're hard. Games are at home.

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Speaker 2: and then Philly at home, Baltimore at home, Detroit at home.

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Speaker 2: So that's the advantage that the Chiefs have, and they

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Speaker 2: at home last year, the Bills being the other one, obviously,

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Speaker 2: But let's jump around the NFL here, presented by Collida Health.

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Speaker 2: We'll touch on some of the other schedules a little

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Speaker 2: for an ownership stake in an NFL club. Hall of

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Speaker 2: current Raiders owner Tom Brady agree to. He's got to

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Speaker 2: remove his name, image and likeness from businesses that he

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Speaker 2: So but it looks like it's going to go through.

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Speaker 4: It's been a change a little bit in the dynamic,

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Speaker 2: Correct.

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Speaker 4: They don't want like three like the offspring of one

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Speaker 4: that's that has not changed, although they can obviously sell

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Speaker 2: That facilitates major decision making. Obviously, as a league, when

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Speaker 2: presentations of those schedules. The Colts actually ended up deleting

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Speaker 2: cartoon animation portraying Tyreek Hill as a dolphin swimming in

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Speaker 2: Colts apologize to Tyreek Hill for the now deleted video, saying,

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Speaker 2: because it exceeded our rights with Microsoft because Microsoft was

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Speaker 2: Wide receiver Tyreek Hill will be sincerely apologized to Microsoft

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Speaker 2: and Tyreek. Tyreek actually tweeted himself that he wished the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was. What's Microsoft explain that to me?

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Speaker 2: I wish I could steve I cannot. Apparently they overstepped.

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Speaker 3: What does that mean? Overstepped?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, like using Microsoft technology for nefarious purposes.

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Speaker 2: That's okay, Yeah, so they I don't know. Maybe the

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Speaker 2: Microsoft was a sponsor. Who the hell knows? Sorry, are bad?

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Speaker 4: Our Path will take that down now. It must have

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Speaker 2: I've seen excerpts of it still drifting out there in cyberspace.

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Speaker 3: Whatever.

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Speaker 2: Considering, I will say I thought it was funny too.

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Speaker 4: Considering the rest of the Internet pre tame stuff.

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Speaker 2: So the funniest I thought there was even a funnier

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Speaker 2: there and depicting the Cardinals was the Minecraft. A Minecraft

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Speaker 2: the Minecraft movie. I haven't seen it where they shout

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Speaker 4: That is not the first time we've had Kyler Murray

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Speaker 2: Well, so it wasn't just Tyreek. There were several layers

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Speaker 2: They took a they did a spoof of all of

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Speaker 2: the pharmaceutical drug commercials that we see add nauseum on television,

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Speaker 2: and they created a fictitious pharmaceutical called Schedule Rizzi, which

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Speaker 2: it just kept going. It was like, whoa, I thought

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Speaker 4: I'll say this, I well, by the way, we have

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Speaker 4: to get to it in a minute. But it's amazing

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Speaker 2: Over like a lead balloon.

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Speaker 4: Really, but I mean, you know, you get you say, okay,

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Speaker 4: I got this, I got this, and you're like, people

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Speaker 3: I can't believe how fast we move past.

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Speaker 4: It because we live. You and I people out there,

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Speaker 3: Brownie and I. I mean, our entire calendar year revolves

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Speaker 2: Well right, because we're not like the fan making one

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Speaker 3: You can imagine, too made it for me. I've got family.

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Speaker 4: Everybody wants to G's the last year of the stadium,

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Speaker 4: so I've got family, you know, people who've been coming

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Speaker 3: My peep's been coming.

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Speaker 4: To this year forty years, right, so since eighty six,

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Speaker 4: so they've been up here a number. They're like locals

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Speaker 4: out loud. So I know most people are exactly like that.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Now it's now what do I think about? What are

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Speaker 4: we gonna do, Brownie? What we're gonna talk about for

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Speaker 4: the next three months.

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Speaker 2: I'm not worried about it at all.

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Speaker 4: Tyreek, I told you today, you know how one thing,

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Speaker 4: one thing has been taking off our plate.

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Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers. I haven't heard anything.

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Speaker 4: About that guy that's coming.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was a content fountain.

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Speaker 2: Don't worry that for two years. That's well on its way.

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Speaker 2: And not for nothing. But Week one Pittsburgh at the Jets.

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Speaker 2: Do we think the league knows something that none of

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Speaker 4: Really, Aaron Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steeters going back to

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Speaker 2: Apparently that's good enough for the league to schedule him

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Speaker 2: Dude, you're gonna take Aaron Rodgers and you're gonna like it.

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Speaker 4: Let's be honest when they have righteous indignation over that

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Speaker 2: That was the most special season opener that I could find. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: All I'm gonna tell you man, there will be lawyers involved.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like because this, yeah, this is gonna get convoluted,

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Speaker 4: You can imagine though, I mean that being a chance

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Speaker 2: Oh, Tyreek Hill will probably be retired by then. You

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Speaker 3: Let's go even.

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Speaker 2: At thirty four, that's.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, Lamar.

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Speaker 2: We've seen NFL athletes, but it's more in track and

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Speaker 4: James Lofton, the guy played with Olympias. Yeah, that It's

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Speaker 3: I don't even know.

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Speaker 2: I'm curious to see the momentum this gains as we

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Speaker 2: I think it's smart that they're already getting started on this.

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Speaker 4: You will also have some long conversations with head coaching

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Speaker 4: I mean you're talking about it's the injury thing that happens.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean you could go. I mean think

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Speaker 3: It's a multi layered thing.

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Speaker 4: Whenever you start talking about guys who are already making

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Speaker 4: and I get the perceptions flag football is not conscious,

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Speaker 2: So this is this is step one. I'll say what too.

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Speaker 4: It would have been great. I would have loved to

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Speaker 2: Finally, in a book that was released by ESPN, Seth

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Speaker 4: We've seen it before where players coming out of college

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Speaker 3: It's not a good spot. Don't take him.

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Speaker 4: Well, they took him and then ended up trading him

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Speaker 3: But they couldn't win. Yeah, couldn't win.

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Speaker 4: It was it was kind of the Dan Fouts, you know,

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Speaker 2: One of our listeners explained the Microsoft violation by the Colts.

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Speaker 2: So, thanks to Backbone five, Microsoft Xbox owns Minecraft, and

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Speaker 4: Oh so Microsoft, Oh you've seen Microsoft watches that stuff.

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Speaker 4: I guess you didn't ask permission.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we have surfaces all around the league,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so I would think if you ask, they'd say yes, right, obviously.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good exposure for them. It's a league partner,

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Speaker 3: And if you don't, you don't get permission? Whoops they got.

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Speaker 3: I wonder if they called apology issued. I guess they did.

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Speaker 2: Oh they did. I'm sure they did. No question about it.

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Speaker 2: Topic of discussion for you today, pretty straightforward people, What

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Speaker 2: three five point fifty one eight eight eight five point

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Speaker 2: fifty two five p fifty is the number to get

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Speaker 2: on board, and we do have open lines for you

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Speaker 2: don't have enough time to give us a call, you

441
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Speaker 2: can always hit us up with your thoughts on the

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Speaker 2: tweets sheet at one Bill's Lot. But let's get to

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Speaker 2: Andrew down in Houston. First. What's up, Andrew?

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Speaker 5: Hey, I thinks take my call.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 5: First, when I actually called in, I heard your tail

447
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Speaker 5: end about the Titans video, and I thought it was

448
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,119
Speaker 5: funny because I'm kind of in the doghouse with my

449
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Speaker 5: wife since I live in Houston. She's a Texans fan,

450
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Speaker 5: and I started laughing when they imposter syndrome when they

451
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Speaker 5: were playing the Texans. He didn't like that too much,

452
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Speaker 5: So yeah, I thought that was pretty clever. Also, Brownie,

453
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Speaker 5: we're gonna need you to do us a favor and

454
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Speaker 5: the the next time Steve wants to die on a hill,

455
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Speaker 5: you should probably get him off it because he's kind

456
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Speaker 5: of losing on those on those.

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Speaker 4: Hills we didn't get yet. That's right, Andrew, You're right,

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Speaker 4: well we will address that.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead, okay, But for.

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Speaker 5: The schedule, I love it. I know there's gonna be

461
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Speaker 5: so many people out there saying how we have a

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Speaker 5: easiest schedule, you know, what's about time. But we get

463
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Speaker 5: a break because the stretch of the three Artist games

464
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Speaker 5: being so far out, like you just mentioned. But selfishly,

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Speaker 5: for me living in Houston, the Texans game of me

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Speaker 5: and Thursday Night at the end of November, I love

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Speaker 5: that even more because it just started with the summer heat.

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Speaker 5: So we're about ninety five for the rest of the

469
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Speaker 5: year and I'm only going to get hotter. And there's

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Speaker 5: a lot of Bills mafia here in Houston, and we

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Speaker 5: can't wait until get at nighttime on for a Thursday game.

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Speaker 5: So that's my favorite part.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's actually a good point because everybody talks about

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Speaker 2: the Miami heat. Nobody talks about it gets hot in Texas.

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Speaker 2: They usually have what is it, seventy eighty days over

476
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Speaker 2: one hundred degrees in a row. I mean it gets

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Speaker 2: I mean, so to get down. First of all, the

478
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,680
Speaker 2: Bills aren't going down there till late November when it's

479
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Speaker 2: cooled off a bit. And then secondarily, they're playing at nighttime,

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Speaker 2: so heat is not a concern for that game.

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Speaker 4: And he's right, I mean, I I was on that

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Speaker 4: hill of holiday game for the Buffalo is no way

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Speaker 4: They're gonna keep joshing these guys off of Christmas Day,

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Speaker 4: off of Thanksgiving, off of Black Friday.

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Speaker 3: Off of whatever it was the other holiday. Yeah, they

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Speaker 3: got none, they.

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Speaker 4: Got no no holiday games. I am tore me shocked,

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Speaker 4: and I am dead on that hill.

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Speaker 2: We will hear from Vice President of Broadcast Play Mike

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Speaker 2: North from the League office. Maddy and I got an

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Speaker 2: opportunity to speak with him last night. We're going to

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Speaker 2: replay that interview for you so you have a better

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Speaker 2: sense as to why the Bills did not have a

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Speaker 2: holiday game. He gives a perfect explanation as to why. So.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that you'll necessarily be vindicated, Steve, but

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Speaker 2: at least you'll know it was a serious consideration by

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Speaker 2: the league to put the Bills on Christmas.

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Speaker 3: I'll say this.

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Speaker 4: I have been wrong before, yeah, and this in this case,

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Speaker 4: I was way wrong. I can't believe it, not even one.

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Speaker 2: And for those people ready to chirp at me on

502
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Speaker 2: social media, I do know that the Houston facility usually

503
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Speaker 2: has the roof closed and weather and heat is usually

504
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Speaker 2: not a factor. I'm well aware of that. I was

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Speaker 2: talking about tailgaters sitting out in the blazing hot sun.

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Speaker 2: That's what Andrew was referring to in Houston, so you

507
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,199
Speaker 2: don't have to worry about the heat, and you know,

508
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 2: taking cover under a pop up tent just to get

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Speaker 2: out of the blazing sun because it is.

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Speaker 3: It's rough down and that game's in, you know, Ormer,

511
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Speaker 3: it should be actually Laton over Leaton November. This should

512
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Speaker 3: be nice, sir. Ye down there, I'm more palatable.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, Let's go to Butcher on the East side. What's

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Speaker 2: up Butch?

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Speaker 7: My brothers from another mother. I love both of you.

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Speaker 7: I love w g R. I love him as g

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Speaker 7: and all the fans who listen and watch. But from

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Speaker 7: East I love you. I got a few things, and

519
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 7: really I'm gonna be real quick, but I got to

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Speaker 7: start off with this. So this past week here, Mother's

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Speaker 7: Day was beautiful. I had a friend of mine named

522
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Speaker 7: Brian Ance Sr. Came in from Dallas, Texas. But this

523
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:35,399
Speaker 7: is for Steve. His son played at Baylor. Brian and Julie.

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Speaker 7: He's the directorate at Texas Tech right now. But Delana

525
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 7: for Boor is his cousin, and miss Missus Carolin for

526
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Speaker 7: Boars and Claire for Boor. They were all at the cookout.

527
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Speaker 7: They wanted me to tell you see, he loved you

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Speaker 7: and your family. They wanted to give a shout out

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Speaker 7: to Luke and said, tell Luke if they love him,

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Speaker 7: Delano is still strong. You still gotta he still got

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Speaker 7: a rocket iron steed and uh he's a fireman now.

532
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 7: But I got to get that out and just say

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00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 7: that to Steve's asking. Okay, but right off the rick,

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Speaker 7: I just want to get right to it about this schedule. Uh,

535
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 7: it's only one thing. I love the schedule and Brownie,

536
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 7: you said it right in the last segment. Uh, it's

537
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Speaker 7: spread out properly for us to take one game at

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Speaker 7: a time. I hope that Joe Brady during this off

539
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 7: season has got with a godfather or somebody else who

540
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:32,360
Speaker 7: has more experienced offensively. They can be wisdom to him

541
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Speaker 7: to get the implemt implement the screen game this season,

542
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Speaker 7: because this schedule was perfect to take one game at

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Speaker 7: a time and try to get that crown. That's two

544
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 7: three on this aspect of it is is that I

545
00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 7: kind of upset with the schedule is because Josh Allen

546
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Speaker 7: is it's the top quarterback. We don't have the Bradys,

547
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Speaker 7: we don't have the you don't have the Mannings. I mean,

548
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 7: you know, you can talk about Aaron Robbers, he's old.

549
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 7: I don't even thinking about him. But Josh Allen is

550
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 7: really one of the top quarterbacks in the NFL. I

551
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 7: would want to solidify, especially since they went ahead and

552
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Speaker 7: said we're gonna start having a Christmas game. Is that

553
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 7: you gave Dallas Cowboys and the Detroit Lions Thanksgiving, you

554
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 7: could give Buffalo Christmas. Because it's about smell. That's one.

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Speaker 7: That's the last one and the last thing. I'm thanks

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00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 7: for taking my call and I greatly appreciate it is

557
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:34,440
Speaker 7: this season, and I hope his handlers are listening. Joey Bosa,

558
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 7: I want to just say this, Joe, I'm glad that

559
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 7: you're won our franchise with our team in our community.

560
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 7: I want to let you know and your family know

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Speaker 7: how special we are. Your brother Nick and yourself combined

562
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 7: together at your highest level still won't be equal to

563
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Speaker 7: Bruce Smith. So I want you to work on your

564
00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 7: game and understand that this city is ready for another

565
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 7: Bruce Smith and Josh Alwin told you you have the

566
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Speaker 7: opportunity to be in shape take your game to another

567
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Speaker 7: level with this schedule we have and running that defense,

568
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Speaker 7: you can make a household name in this city. Thank

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Speaker 7: you so much, guys. I love each and every one

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Speaker 7: of you. Thanks so much for taking my call. Steve

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Speaker 7: chris Man, I love you guys.

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Speaker 8: Thanks.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, to start out with, yeah, this Sinclair and

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00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 4: Delano the for bour families. Yeah, they're they're like family

575
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 4: to us. Our family are here in town.

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Speaker 3: Love them.

577
00:31:31,760 --> 00:31:34,480
Speaker 4: Played a lot of high school football. Great family and

578
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Speaker 4: it's nice to hear from Thanks for relaying that.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 4: Kansas City already put in a request, a request to

581
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Speaker 4: be the Christmas team of the future, like Dallas and

582
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 4: Detroit are for Thanksgiving. I don't know that it's gonna

583
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,479
Speaker 4: happen like for sure, but there's gonna be dominated them

584
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 4: this year. There's gonna be a trio of games anyway,

585
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Speaker 4: So you could give it two games if you wanted,

586
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 4: but two teams if you wanted. But yeah, it's out there,

587
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 4: and teams are starting to, you know, kind of plant

588
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 4: their flag kind of the way I did on the

589
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 4: Bill's Holiday game. Teams are starting to plant their flag

590
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 4: wanting to get a tradition of that type up and

591
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 4: running like the Kansas City Chiefs one Christmas Day. It

592
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 4: was They never used to do it unless it was

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Speaker 4: like on a Sunday or you know, Monday. Now they're

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Speaker 4: doing no matter what they did it on what was

595
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 4: it Wednesday last year? Right, wasn't It wasn't.

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Speaker 2: Christmas last year?

597
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 3: There's nothing is sacred.

598
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,320
Speaker 2: So now it's a triple header, right so so yeah.

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00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 4: Maybe, but there's been some requests already by other teams

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Speaker 4: to be that Christmas Day game, and.

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Speaker 2: The Chiefs have a lot of cachet having been to they're.

602
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Speaker 3: Striking while the iron is hot as well.

603
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Speaker 4: Nick and Joey adding up to be Bruce. Well, you

604
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 4: know how I feel about Bruce. There's nobody like him.

605
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:55,920
Speaker 4: He's a one of a kind guy. Nick and Joey

606
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 4: are pretty good though.

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Speaker 2: They are pretty good.

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00:32:58,160 --> 00:32:58,920
Speaker 3: They're pretty good.

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00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, we are up against the clock. We have to

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Speaker 2: take a break, but more of your phone calls when

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Speaker 2: we come back. Asking you for your biggest takeaways from

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Speaker 2: the Bills twenty twenty five regular season schedule. Now that

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Speaker 2: it's sitting in front of you, what do you like?

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Speaker 2: What do you not like? You tell us next Here

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Speaker 2: on one Bill's Live presented by to a lot of health.

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Speaker 2: It's Buffalo Bills Radio. What are your biggest takeaways from

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Speaker 2: the Bills twenty twenty five schedule? Now that it's out

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Speaker 2: there in print for everyone to see, eight oh three,

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Speaker 2: oh five, fifty one eight eight eight five, fifty two

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Speaker 2: five fifteen the numbers to jump on board. Here we

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Speaker 2: go right back to the phones and to Bob on

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Speaker 2: a celle. What's up, Bob?

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Speaker 9: Hey, guys, how are you doing good? Good good?

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Speaker 3: Hey?

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Speaker 9: I this is my third time, Collin. I've been listening

626
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 9: to you guys for a while. I have to give

627
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 9: your kudos. Use rock with Maddie. You know, you make

628
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 9: people feel comfortable. You don't put anybody down. You listen,

629
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Speaker 9: it's just a fun show and I get so much

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Speaker 9: out of it. But with that being said, I'm gonna

631
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Speaker 9: be called courfew Bob from now on. I'm the one

632
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,319
Speaker 9: who's sixty five, been a Bills fan forever. Was at

633
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 9: the third Super Bowl, Pasadena, California, Rose Bowl. Even though

634
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:30,920
Speaker 9: you lost, Man it rock right, We were there and

635
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:37,120
Speaker 9: and I just like, I have a like, just a

636
00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 9: feeling about this team, man like like, so you asked

637
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 9: yesterday what is the oh? And I called and I

638
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 9: gave you, Steve the nickname right, the master multitasker, because

639
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,640
Speaker 9: you've done it on offense and defense. You've done it

640
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,680
Speaker 9: on TV and the commercials with those guys got to

641
00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 9: see a glass. I love them, man, So you remember me.

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00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 9: Its corfew, Bob, but spoke the game that I'm looking

643
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Speaker 9: forward to. The home game that I'm looking forward to

644
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 9: the most this year is number eleven. And that's going

645
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 9: to be because we are the Champs AFC Champs. The

646
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,840
Speaker 9: game is going to come here, Hallmark's going to hold it,

647
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,879
Speaker 9: and Josh is going to finally get us there. Man,

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Speaker 9: I'm telling you it's coming. I feel it. I've had

649
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,279
Speaker 9: faith in Josh my whole life. And another time I'll

650
00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 9: tell you about the story behind how I'm stuck by

651
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,799
Speaker 9: this guy. I love him as a person, as a

652
00:35:28,840 --> 00:35:31,120
Speaker 9: human being. He's got the greatest coach in the world.

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00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,839
Speaker 9: You've got Steve as a buddy on the side. Come on,

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Speaker 9: and Dion, come on. It don't get no better. So anyway,

655
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Speaker 9: we're going to the Super Bowl. Put your seatbelts on, people,

656
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 9: It's coming. And my other prediction will be three times

657
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:47,280
Speaker 9: in the next five years. Watch it happen. You guys,

658
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:50,399
Speaker 9: take care. I love your show, and give Maddy big

659
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 9: hug for me too.

660
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Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, Bob, appreciate the phone call. I've often referred

661
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 2: to Steve as a renaissance man myself, so I share

662
00:35:58,080 --> 00:35:58,959
Speaker 2: your sentiment.

663
00:35:58,600 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 3: About other things.

664
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, that's he's bullish. Clearly he didn't just say

665
00:36:06,239 --> 00:36:08,280
Speaker 2: super Bowl this year. He said three of the next five.

666
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:12,320
Speaker 4: Corfu, Bob's on a roll man, Let's go big. Okay,

667
00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 4: good for you. That's you got a feeling about the team.

668
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, we all remember the song from yesteryear. You know

669
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:23,440
Speaker 2: I got a feeling. Oh yeah, super Bowl cor Bob, Corfu,

670
00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 2: Bob has that feeling.

671
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:26,439
Speaker 3: So and he was at the Pasadena Super Bowl.

672
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 2: I was too right. I was not there. I was

673
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 2: still in college at the time.

674
00:36:32,040 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 6: I was there.

675
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 3: I had good seats too.

676
00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 2: Yeah. I watched UH on a tube set television. That's where.

677
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 2: That's how I took in that Super Bowl.

678
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 10: Yeah.

679
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 3: I was so fun.

680
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:45,799
Speaker 4: I even had one of the nine turnovers in that game.

681
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,680
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, okay, I puked up the ball once after

682
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 4: a catch.

683
00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:52,080
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do?

684
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 3: Play better? Would you please?

685
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,280
Speaker 2: That's what I want to But I mean to his point,

686
00:36:57,960 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 2: like we said, at the top of the show, the

687
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:03,719
Speaker 2: schedule lines up very favorably for Buffalo. We mentioned how

688
00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:07,880
Speaker 2: four of their first five games are at home. The

689
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:10,399
Speaker 2: last time that happened. I wrote this on Buffalo bills

690
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 2: dot com last night. The last time that happened was

691
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:16,840
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety three, which was the last time the Bills

692
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 2: went to the Super Bowl. Not for nothing to you know,

693
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 2: springboard off Bob's feeling. Also, they start the season with

694
00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:29,640
Speaker 2: six of the first seven games against teams who missed

695
00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 2: the playoffs last year, and then on the back end

696
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:36,120
Speaker 2: of the schedule, four of their last five games are

697
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:40,040
Speaker 2: against teams who missed the playoffs. It's a very very

698
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 2: favorable schedule, not only in terms of who they're playing,

699
00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 2: but how it all lines up.

700
00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it.

701
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 4: I hate to get all like that because last year

702
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 4: they were writing us off and look what we did.

703
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 3: I say, we Yeah, Now it's now it's the other way.

704
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 2: You get a little nervous, Yeah, a little bit well nervous.

705
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 4: But how do we know, Well, nobody knows. Nobody knows,

706
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 4: but it looks that way from this end. Last year

707
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 4: looked very different from this end. There was a lot

708
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 4: of question marks I'm all, I'll say this, I saw

709
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:17,320
Speaker 4: it coming.

710
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 3: You did.

711
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 2: You said they might be leading the league in scoring

712
00:38:21,239 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 2: by the end of the season, and look at what happened.

713
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 3: So there and.

714
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 2: See I told you renaissance man. Yes, so there's that,

715
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 2: add soothsayer.

716
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 4: This, this schedule looks great.

717
00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 3: From this end.

718
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 4: This team looks better than it did a year ago

719
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 4: when they outperformed expectations. And there isn't now there's kind

720
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 4: of a foregone conclusion. There isn't this. This isn't like

721
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,439
Speaker 4: twenty twenty one when they came into the season they're

722
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,480
Speaker 4: going into LA to play the Rams, you know, and

723
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 4: everybody's picking them. This is more like they're, yeah, they're

724
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 4: one of a bunch of teams that are good. You know,

725
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 4: the Baltimore Is, the Kansas City Chiefs.

726
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:07,000
Speaker 3: You know, all of it.

727
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:09,919
Speaker 4: They're they're one of a bunch of teams. This isn't

728
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 4: like off the charts Buffalo or busting right.

729
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:13,839
Speaker 3: So it's not. It's a little bit of a different.

730
00:39:13,560 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 4: Feel and and it's easier to live up to expectations

731
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:19,439
Speaker 4: that are realistic, which is what this team has now.

732
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 3: I think realistic expectations.

733
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:25,400
Speaker 2: And we'll see, let's get back to the phones. We

734
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 2: go to Nick in North Carolina. Next, what do you

735
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 2: got for us?

736
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Speaker 3: Nick?

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00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 11: Hello, Brownie, missus Steve Tasker. I'm gonna speak this into existence.

738
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 11: You are going into the NFL.

739
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:36,919
Speaker 12: Hall of Fame.

740
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, thanks.

741
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 11: But I just have a couple of statements. I think

742
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 11: the schedule. I don't think it could have worked out

743
00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 11: better for Buffalo. I think Baltimore week one, you couldn't

744
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:54,240
Speaker 11: ask for a better because it's you know, they're running

745
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,440
Speaker 11: back James. He's an older guy. It's gonna take him

746
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,480
Speaker 11: a little bit to get going, and I just don't

747
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,399
Speaker 11: think he's gonna be able to get going week one.

748
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 11: I don't know how much he plays during the preseason,

749
00:40:04,719 --> 00:40:07,080
Speaker 11: but I don't think he plays that much. And and

750
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Speaker 11: the second question I have is do you guys have

751
00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 11: any idea after this season what's gonna happen to the

752
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 11: seats at the stadium. Are they going to go up

753
00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 11: for auction or because I would like to have a

754
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:18,799
Speaker 11: few of them from.

755
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Speaker 4: A man cap you can, I would imagine they're gonna

756
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:24,879
Speaker 4: be available. Yeah, I don't know how that's gonna work.

757
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 2: I think that bridge will get crossed as they get

758
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 2: closer to the end of the season.

759
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Speaker 3: I mean, don't bring don't I mean, don't bring a

760
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 3: wrench to the last game.

761
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 2: Well, you're not gonna be able to get that in

762
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:35,239
Speaker 2: metal detector anyway, But.

763
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 4: Don't think you at the last part of the game

764
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 4: and get him. But I'm sure that they'll probably be

765
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:44,280
Speaker 4: available seats like that, I don't know.

766
00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 2: And they'll probably want to auction them off, you know,

767
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:50,160
Speaker 2: with the probably you know right portion of the proceeds.

768
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 4: There may be a way for a long time season

769
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 4: ticket holders to get those seats that they set in

770
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Speaker 4: for all those years.

771
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:55,359
Speaker 3: That kind of thing.

772
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,680
Speaker 4: I don't know for sure, but there's You're not alone, Nick,

773
00:40:58,719 --> 00:41:01,360
Speaker 4: There's a ton of people who would partake in that

774
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:02,879
Speaker 4: program if there is indeed one.

775
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:05,759
Speaker 3: As for the.

776
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 4: Ravens, let's stop and take a deep breath for a

777
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 4: minute here. How do you think the Ravens feel about

778
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 4: this opening game? I mean the Ravens, not Ravens fans.

779
00:41:16,840 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 4: I'm talking about Lamar and Derrick Henry and those everybody,

780
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 4: Mark Andrews, all those guys. How do you think they

781
00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 4: feel about coming into Buffalo and opening day? When was

782
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:31,800
Speaker 4: the last time they played? It was right here against

783
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,239
Speaker 4: the same team, and they walked out here going how

784
00:41:34,239 --> 00:41:37,919
Speaker 4: did we lose that game? How did we let this

785
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 4: Buffalo Bills team beat us on this day?

786
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:42,919
Speaker 2: The first thing they're gonna think about when they walk

787
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 2: in here is this is where our season ended last year.

788
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 4: They are gonna be, I mean, off the charts crazy

789
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,279
Speaker 4: to beat the Bills. It's gonna be a punch in

790
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 4: the mouth for the Bills team. They got to be

791
00:41:55,680 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 4: ready for it. Yeah, So don't think like this is

792
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 4: gonna be just like hey, all all gas, no breaks.

793
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 4: This is It's gonna be a tussle right out of

794
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 4: the gate this season. I'm looking for the Ravens to

795
00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 4: come in here with some swagger and some attitude, and

796
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 4: they're gonna they're gonna have it on their minds to

797
00:42:16,840 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 4: show that they should have been the team going to

798
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:21,360
Speaker 4: Kansas City and taking on the Chiefs to go to

799
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 4: the super Bowl. You know, you just gotta feel like that.

800
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 4: So I'm I get it. It's nice to get one

801
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 4: of those big games out of the way right out

802
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 4: of the gate. Don't think you're just gonna roll downhill.

803
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 4: Those guys are gonna come in here ready.

804
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 2: Break time for us here more of your phone calls

805
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:40,359
Speaker 2: when we come back looking for your biggest takeaways from

806
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 2: the Bill's twenty twenty five schedule. What do you like?

807
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 2: What do you not like? You let us know? Next

808
00:42:44,600 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 2: here on one Bill's Live, Stay with us all right

809
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 2: back here on one Bill's Live, Talking Bill's twenty twenty

810
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:08,359
Speaker 2: five schedule. Right back to the phones, we go into

811
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 2: Mareene and Lancaster. What's up Marine?

812
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:11,359
Speaker 4: Oh?

813
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:11,680
Speaker 1: Hi?

814
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:18,160
Speaker 13: I was wondering why the two players that we signed

815
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 13: and then found out that they were going to be suspended?

816
00:43:23,200 --> 00:43:28,320
Speaker 13: Why the suspension is six games? From what I could read,

817
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 13: it was were those considered performance enhancing drugs? Because the

818
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 13: one guy talked in terms of something that he had

819
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:42,080
Speaker 13: taken before, but there was also something that his own

820
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:49,839
Speaker 13: trainer had added or somebody in his company. Right, Why

821
00:43:49,960 --> 00:44:00,120
Speaker 13: had six games when other offensive offensive offenses like drugs

822
00:44:00,280 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 13: or you know, trouble with the law of that kind

823
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 13: of thing, they only get four. To me, it seems

824
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 13: like the other offenses would be would take more of

825
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 13: a hit as far as what kind of penalty would

826
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:23,160
Speaker 13: be loved. And also why why we didn't find out

827
00:44:23,160 --> 00:44:25,640
Speaker 13: about it before we signed them?

828
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 2: Right?

829
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 13: And then the other thing I wanted to say was

830
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 13: the I think the schedule's fine. The h I'm glad

831
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 13: we're not playing on Christmas. I wouldn't mind playing Thanksgiving.

832
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,400
Speaker 13: But I think, you know, a lot of these guys,

833
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,359
Speaker 13: they're young, they have families, starting to have families, and

834
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,439
Speaker 13: I think Christmas is a day you want to spend

835
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:47,680
Speaker 13: with your family. The hockey NHL does that. The basketball

836
00:44:47,719 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 13: has always played on Christmas, and I just think I

837
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,480
Speaker 13: think it's it's a holiday to spend with your family,

838
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 13: you know. And that's just my opinion. But I'm curious

839
00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 13: about these penalties because it doesn't seem right. It doesn't right.

840
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:04,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, I get you, no problem, Marien. We'll help you.

841
00:45:04,760 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 9: There.

842
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 4: All these suspensions and the links and how how long

843
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 4: that the commissioner can suspend a player four is kind

844
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 4: of laid out in the CBA, and I don't want

845
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 4: to talk out of school or anything. I think one

846
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 4: of the reasons is that while say, for instance, a

847
00:45:20,960 --> 00:45:25,919
Speaker 4: domestic violence issue or a recreational drug issue with the law,

848
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 4: or a traffic violation, a car chase with the law,

849
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 4: or some of these other things that that kind of

850
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 4: seem like a real crime, get four games and a

851
00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:39,480
Speaker 4: peed gets six games. One of the reasons is, like,

852
00:45:39,480 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 4: when they're sitting across the table and negotiating this stuff,

853
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 4: the finger quotes, integrity of the game kind of gets

854
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 4: more weight than a guy who does something off the field,

855
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,320
Speaker 4: when not that this always happens, but once in a

856
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 4: while it's a guy makes is made to look bad

857
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 4: in the media when actually he didn't do anything wrong,

858
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 4: and the players union wants to say, hey, listen this,

859
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 4: this guy got accused of something he didn't even do,

860
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 4: and now he's got dragged through the mud, don't you know,

861
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 4: and you suspend him.

862
00:46:12,239 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 3: We don't want that.

863
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 4: He said, she said, stuff to be as egregious as

864
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:20,800
Speaker 4: the as the performance enhancing drugs and the recreational drugs

865
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:23,359
Speaker 4: and that kind of stuff. The integrity of the game

866
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 4: is one of the reasons why those suspensions may be

867
00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 4: a little longer.

868
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:32,439
Speaker 2: Well, it's also at the commissioner's discretion. Most first time

869
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:38,320
Speaker 2: offenses result in a six game suspension for assault, battery,

870
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 2: domestic violence, sexual assault violations involving physical force in those

871
00:46:42,680 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 2: areas are a six game suspension. Same thing and testing

872
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 2: positive for banned substances and Michael Hoyd had a personal

873
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:55,440
Speaker 2: trainer who whom he trusted to give him proper supplements

874
00:46:55,480 --> 00:46:58,720
Speaker 2: to enhance his you know, desire to stay in shape

875
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:02,880
Speaker 2: and his training regimen and no problems for like the

876
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,319
Speaker 2: first four years of his career, and then this pops up.

877
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 2: And it's something that his personal trainer put in his

878
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 2: weekly supplements and he just trusted taking them without fact

879
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,600
Speaker 2: checking them. And he's the one that bears the brunt

880
00:47:15,600 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 2: of the suspension because it ultimately falls on his shoulders

881
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:21,320
Speaker 2: to police what he puts in his body. And he

882
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 2: said as much at his press conference here after he signed.

883
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:25,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's not so much that it's not his trainer,

884
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 4: like sabotaging him as a trainer. Probably switched brands and

885
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 4: that brand wasn't as high as quality controls this one.

886
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:34,879
Speaker 4: The substance has got crossed over. But here's that can happen.

887
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 2: Here's the key thing to know, Mareen. Based on why

888
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,840
Speaker 2: some suspensions are longer than others, the commissioner has the

889
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:46,839
Speaker 2: discretion to increase or decrease the suspension based on aggravating

890
00:47:47,160 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 2: or mitigating circumstances. This could include the severity of the

891
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:54,759
Speaker 2: conduct for someone that violates the personal conduct policy, it

892
00:47:54,800 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 2: could involve prior offenses if this is a second or

893
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:00,120
Speaker 2: a third time offender, and there are other factors that

894
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:04,000
Speaker 2: can come into play, and sometimes players successfully appeal the

895
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:07,319
Speaker 2: suspension and get it reduced to a shorter term. So

896
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:10,160
Speaker 2: hopefully that helps explain it a little bit.

897
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:12,200
Speaker 3: Let's see the.

898
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:16,280
Speaker 4: Oh and as far as the guys that the ogun

899
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:19,200
Speaker 4: Joby and Hoyt, the Bills had said as much, they

900
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 4: knew Hoyt was going to get suspended, but they liked

901
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:24,800
Speaker 4: the player so much they thought, listen, we're going to

902
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 4: sign him to a three year deal. We want the guy.

903
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 4: He's young, he's in his prime. He's the kind of

904
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:32,520
Speaker 4: player we want. We're going to sacrifice these six games

905
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:34,520
Speaker 4: to get him for the next two and a half years.

906
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 4: They also said they did not know ogin Joby was

907
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:42,759
Speaker 4: going to get suspended. In fact, it only happened as

908
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:47,080
Speaker 4: Ogunjobi was coming to Buffalo to sign the papers to

909
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 4: his credit, because Ogunjoby seems like the right kind of

910
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,799
Speaker 4: guy for Buffalo, because he said, listen, guys, before I

911
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 4: sign this, I got a he told I just found out.

912
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 4: I just found out I got flagged for it. And

913
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:03,359
Speaker 4: the Bills said, you know they signed him anyway, Well,

914
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:04,080
Speaker 4: the part.

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00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:06,720
Speaker 2: Of the reason they did, Brandon Bean said, was because

916
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,279
Speaker 2: they agree to terms with ogun Joby. He gets on

917
00:49:10,320 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 2: a plane, he flies to Buffalo. En route, he finds

918
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:17,320
Speaker 2: out he's flagged for peds and is going to be suspended.

919
00:49:17,520 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 2: He comes to the facility says to them, hey, look,

920
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 2: I just found out I'm going to be suspended. I

921
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 2: wanted to tell you up front before I sign anything. Well,

922
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 2: in the time it took for him to fly across

923
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 2: the country after agreeing to terms and getting here and

924
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 2: telling them of the situation, four other guys the Bills

925
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,719
Speaker 2: were considering to sign a defensive tackle and free agency

926
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:41,799
Speaker 2: had been signed. Ogunjobi was the last guy pretty much

927
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 2: on their list that they felt worth the investment. And so,

928
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:49,080
Speaker 2: while certainly not ideal and while they had thought, oh,

929
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 2: we can handle and work around one guy being on suspension,

930
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 2: they did not plan for two. But with the situation

931
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Speaker 2: they were in at that time, based on who else

932
00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:00,839
Speaker 2: had signed that they might have been interested in, Ogunjobi

933
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:03,319
Speaker 2: was really the last option for them. So they said, look,

934
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Speaker 2: we're gonna have to try to find a way to

935
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Speaker 2: make it work. And that's where they sat. We got

936
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Speaker 2: to take a break here. Our number two will involve

937
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Speaker 2: more of your phone calls, So if you're holding at

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Speaker 2: eight h three oh five fifty, we will get to

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Speaker 2: you when we return here on One Bill's Live presented

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Speaker 2: by Colida Health, It's Buffalo Bills.

941
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Speaker 1: Radio, The One Bills Lives presented by call Light.

942
00:51:06,680 --> 00:51:09,280
Speaker 2: To help all right, hour number two, we're still talking

943
00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:12,799
Speaker 2: schedule here as the twenty twenty five slate is out

944
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 2: for the bills. What do you like? What do you

945
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 2: not like? Biggest takeaways you let us know at eight

946
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:20,000
Speaker 2: three five fifty. Got some open lines for you there.

947
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:22,160
Speaker 2: Chime in if you will a little bit later on

948
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 2: in this half hour, we'll rerack the interview that Maddi

949
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 2: Glavin myself had with Vice President of League Broadcast Planning

950
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:33,480
Speaker 2: Mike North. Had to say about some of the decisions

951
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:35,800
Speaker 2: that were made with the bills schedule, some pretty lightning

952
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 2: stuff that we wanted to share with you from our

953
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:40,440
Speaker 2: live stream last night on the Instant Reaction Show as

954
00:51:40,440 --> 00:51:43,279
Speaker 2: the schedule came out at eight pm last night. But

955
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:46,480
Speaker 2: to your phone calls first here and to Mark in

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00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:47,759
Speaker 2: Jersey City, what's up Mark?

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00:51:48,719 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 14: Good afternoon, gentlemen, thanks for taking my call. The two

958
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 14: things I like and the one thing I don't like.

959
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:54,879
Speaker 14: One thing I don't like. I feel like to buy

960
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:57,400
Speaker 14: is early what have preferred it a little later. A

961
00:51:57,400 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 14: couple of things I do like. I like Baltimore right

962
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 14: out of the show. I think the Bills they still

963
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:04,919
Speaker 14: have a bad taste in their mouth getting run over

964
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:07,000
Speaker 14: and then they started to get traction and all the

965
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:11,480
Speaker 14: talk after the game about oh if Andrews catches the pass,

966
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:16,879
Speaker 14: Lamar's the real MVP. Rokwan Smith's already talking smack, saying

967
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:22,240
Speaker 14: that revenge is a dish best serve cold. So they

968
00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:25,680
Speaker 14: revamped this defense for that team just just as much

969
00:52:25,719 --> 00:52:28,840
Speaker 14: as they did Casey, So I'm anxious to see that one.

970
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 14: I don't really like the AFC North Cincinnati especially. I

971
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 14: like the fact we're gonna get Hoite and Ogun Jobi

972
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:40,400
Speaker 14: back a little bit of a run up to Casey.

973
00:52:40,719 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 14: The defense should be pretty well gelled and they'll be

974
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 14: on the field for the heavy hitters in the second

975
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 14: half of the season. Thanks for taking my call, guys, Yeah.

976
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 2: Sure thing. Yeah, He's Mark is referencing some of the

977
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:53,560
Speaker 2: comments made by Rokwan Smith, who appeared on NFL Network

978
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:57,400
Speaker 2: last night and he was asked about the season opener

979
00:52:57,480 --> 00:53:02,360
Speaker 2: at Buffalo, and the middle linebacker for the Ravens basically

980
00:53:02,480 --> 00:53:06,600
Speaker 2: said that the loss to the Bills in the divisional

981
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 2: playoffs served as quote, motivation throughout the off season, and

982
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:14,320
Speaker 2: that makes going back to the scene of Baltimore's quote,

983
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 2: misery excited to be there in September. He said, yeah,

984
00:53:19,840 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 2: just how I like it. Revenge is best served as

985
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:24,799
Speaker 2: a cold dish. So it will be nice to get

986
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:26,879
Speaker 2: up to Buffalo and get a little payback for those

987
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:29,360
Speaker 2: guys from the end of the year end quote.

988
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 4: Well, you knew that would happen, and it makes a

989
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 4: lot of sense. I didn't need to read Roquan Smith's

990
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 4: quote to know that.

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00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:39,800
Speaker 3: That's the way he said it last night. That's the

992
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:40,840
Speaker 3: way it works. Man.

993
00:53:41,719 --> 00:53:44,320
Speaker 4: You're gonna get a You're gonna get a big punch

994
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:46,319
Speaker 4: in the gut from those guys. They're gonna come in

995
00:53:46,560 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 4: really really motivated. And I've been a part of those

996
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 4: games on both sides.

997
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:55,520
Speaker 3: It's hard to win.

998
00:53:56,160 --> 00:53:58,880
Speaker 2: I think the early bye week in Week seven is

999
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:02,920
Speaker 2: mitigated to some degree by the week twelve Thursday night game,

1000
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:06,680
Speaker 2: which offers the team a mini buy of sorts between

1001
00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 2: that Houston game and then right after when they play Pittsburgh,

1002
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 2: So you know, you get a little week and a

1003
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 2: half there to kind of take a short break before

1004
00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:22,760
Speaker 2: the stretch runs. So hopefully that helps to some degree.

1005
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:25,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, Mark from Jersey City's right though too. You do

1006
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 4: get ogin Joeby back right before the bye, and Hoyt

1007
00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 4: they come back right after the Atlanta game.

1008
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 3: You got two weeks to.

1009
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 4: Practice, then a game against the Panthers on the road

1010
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:37,359
Speaker 4: before you come home. First home game those guys will

1011
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:39,919
Speaker 4: have played in and it'll be against the Kansas City Chiefs.

1012
00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:41,799
Speaker 4: You might get a little bit of a bump from

1013
00:54:41,840 --> 00:54:44,440
Speaker 4: those guys. Yeah, fresh legs for sure. So yeah, they'll

1014
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:46,879
Speaker 4: get some fresh legs. That's that's a good point by Mark.

1015
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:50,040
Speaker 2: Let's go to Greg and all the next what's up Greg?

1016
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:52,880
Speaker 15: Heyto guys, first time caller.

1017
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 2: Thanks for doing it, And I have.

1018
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 15: A question for you guys on a schedule. I love

1019
00:54:57,560 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 15: the schedule. We played three division games and the first six,

1020
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 15: which I think is fantastic yep, because we can see

1021
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:05,440
Speaker 15: where we are basically in the division at that point.

1022
00:55:06,560 --> 00:55:09,080
Speaker 15: But what I hate about the schedule is the last

1023
00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 15: six games of the year, and as a as a

1024
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:15,359
Speaker 15: fan that goes to the games and stuff and cold weather,

1025
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:20,360
Speaker 15: they're all cold weather teams. I mean, you got New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland,

1026
00:55:20,400 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 15: New England, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh. I mean, why couldn't they stick

1027
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:28,839
Speaker 15: like New Orleans, Miami, Atlanta, you know, Kansas City, Carolina

1028
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:30,239
Speaker 15: like toward the end of the year.

1029
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:34,279
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, yeah, and better. But yeah, I get

1030
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:37,279
Speaker 2: what you're I get what you're saying, Greg, But yeah,

1031
00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 2: I mean Atlanta was kind of a non factor because

1032
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:42,880
Speaker 2: you're playing them on the road. Yeah, New Orleans is

1033
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:46,440
Speaker 2: a home date, so I get that. But the Panthers

1034
00:55:46,440 --> 00:55:49,080
Speaker 2: are on the road too. I mean, really, the only

1035
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 2: teams you're talking about here are the Bucks and the Saints,

1036
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 2: and they play the Bucks in November. I think it's

1037
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:03,319
Speaker 2: a small factor. I do. I don't see that being

1038
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:07,520
Speaker 2: a huge deal in tipping the scales, especially for a

1039
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:09,399
Speaker 2: team that went ten and oh at home last year.

1040
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 2: So I see what you're saying. But if that's your

1041
00:56:14,160 --> 00:56:16,280
Speaker 2: biggest gripe about the schedule, I think you're in pretty

1042
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:16,840
Speaker 2: good shape.

1043
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's true. That's true.

1044
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:23,399
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you got you know, you're at Atlanta, you're

1045
00:56:23,440 --> 00:56:25,360
Speaker 4: at Carolina, those warm.

1046
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:27,240
Speaker 2: Weather teams, I mean, you get and you're at Houston.

1047
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,800
Speaker 3: And I'll say this too. You want Miami here early

1048
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:33,120
Speaker 3: instead of going down there early in the afternoon. You

1049
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 3: know what I'm saying.

1050
00:56:33,719 --> 00:56:36,800
Speaker 4: So I know the Miami game is an eight fifteen

1051
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:39,759
Speaker 4: PM game, so you could play in Miami theoretically, and then.

1052
00:56:39,920 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 3: They did last year, like exactly.

1053
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:49,160
Speaker 4: Brownie's right. I see the gripe. But man, oh man,

1054
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:50,080
Speaker 4: that's it's a little bit.

1055
00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:52,239
Speaker 2: Of a reach splitting hairs. Yes, a little reach, but

1056
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:55,640
Speaker 2: I get it. Let's go to Bill in Connecticut next.

1057
00:56:55,640 --> 00:56:56,160
Speaker 2: What's up Bill?

1058
00:56:57,480 --> 00:57:01,279
Speaker 12: Hey, guys, thanks for having me. Sure what I like

1059
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:03,920
Speaker 12: about the schedule At any time, we have more days

1060
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 12: of rest than the other t What I don't like

1061
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 12: is when they have more rests. So specifically, we'll be

1062
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 12: playing the Falcons when they come off of by. I

1063
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 12: don't really care too much about that, you know, I'd

1064
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:23,400
Speaker 12: rather you know, it could have been worse. We'll be

1065
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 12: playing the Panthers, come off by better team to playing

1066
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:28,920
Speaker 12: coming off the.

1067
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 7: Yeah, they're going to have one fewer day of rest

1068
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:38,000
Speaker 7: in our places like that A lot the Dolphins when.

1069
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:39,880
Speaker 12: We play them second time, and they're coming off of

1070
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 12: Thursday game. So I don't know that that happens Pittsburgh.

1071
00:57:45,480 --> 00:57:49,080
Speaker 12: Pittsburgh we get when we come off of Thursday. You know,

1072
00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:52,439
Speaker 12: I'd rather as somebody else has three extra days arrest.

1073
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 12: You see, Cincinnati has three more days of rest than

1074
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:59,439
Speaker 12: we did. So yeah, you know, I've got to see

1075
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:03,720
Speaker 12: Pittsburgh set regard. We get the Peatriots the second time

1076
00:58:03,760 --> 00:58:06,600
Speaker 12: when they come off the bike, that could be tough.

1077
00:58:06,760 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 12: You know, there are one hundred and thirty million dollars

1078
00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:12,440
Speaker 12: better than they were last year probably, and then finally

1079
00:58:12,480 --> 00:58:16,200
Speaker 12: the ego will have one more day of rest, but

1080
00:58:16,360 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 12: they got to come gear. So yeah, I know it

1081
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:21,560
Speaker 12: sounds like I'm nitpicking. I like to schedule a lot.

1082
00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 2: And just focusing on yeah, I get it, Bill, and

1083
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:29,439
Speaker 2: look respect it. I think one day is not really

1084
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:31,480
Speaker 2: an advantage. You want to start talking about a mini

1085
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:34,000
Speaker 2: buy off, a Thursday night game or a bye week, completely,

1086
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 2: I'll listen to that. But a Monday night game or

1087
00:58:36,680 --> 00:58:38,880
Speaker 2: even a Sunday night game on the road, you know

1088
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:41,800
Speaker 2: where you're getting back and Monday's kind of lost. I

1089
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:44,520
Speaker 2: don't know that that's enough to tip the scales, especially

1090
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:47,360
Speaker 2: against the team the caliber or Buffalo. But I understand

1091
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 2: what you're saying.

1092
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:50,520
Speaker 4: It's true and it does. And as you said, you

1093
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 4: went down the list, there's more than a handful of

1094
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:54,919
Speaker 4: teams that are coming off with at least a little

1095
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 4: bit of an advantage. Yeah, you don't want to be

1096
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 4: on the other side of that, that's for sure. I mean,

1097
00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 4: we've been there, but we'll see. Like bre I agree,

1098
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:10,840
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna say that's gonna tip the scale in

1099
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:14,720
Speaker 4: some of these games, but it's not gonna hurt New

1100
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:16,840
Speaker 4: England getting the Bills after a bye week.

1101
00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:20,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, two weeks to plan and for a division opponent

1102
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:24,040
Speaker 2: at that. We got to pivot now because we wanted

1103
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 2: to play the comments of one Mike North, League vice

1104
00:59:27,880 --> 00:59:31,280
Speaker 2: president of broadcast Planning, Maddie and I had him on

1105
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:34,960
Speaker 2: our Instant Reaction live stream on the twenty twenty five

1106
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:37,919
Speaker 2: schedule release last night at eight. He shed some light

1107
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 2: on some of the decisions. Why there were no holiday

1108
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:45,920
Speaker 2: games for the Bills, why Thursday nights two times for Buffalo.

1109
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 2: He kind of shed some light on some of the

1110
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 2: decision making they made in the room where the twenty

1111
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:54,080
Speaker 2: twenty five schedule happened, So let's go to that right.

1112
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Speaker 16: Now, Mike, the Bills start off the season on a

1113
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:02,600
Speaker 16: huge stage, a season opener against the Ravens on Sunday

1114
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:06,200
Speaker 16: Night football. Why did you decide that these two had

1115
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:08,640
Speaker 16: to match up against each other in the opening week

1116
01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 16: of the season.

1117
01:00:10,520 --> 01:00:15,760
Speaker 17: Yeah, it's funny. That matchup lived in probably about thirty

1118
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:18,000
Speaker 17: different homes this year, and you get the matchup of

1119
01:00:18,040 --> 01:00:21,760
Speaker 17: the two most recent MVPs and obviously a match that

1120
01:00:21,840 --> 01:00:24,400
Speaker 17: we think is going to have pretty significant playoff implications

1121
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:25,960
Speaker 17: in the AFC. You could have saved it all the

1122
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:28,400
Speaker 17: way for December. We looked at schedules where that game

1123
01:00:28,440 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 17: was in week seventeen. We obviously obviously also saw a

1124
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:34,120
Speaker 17: schedule with that game in Week one. Could have been

1125
01:00:34,160 --> 01:00:36,080
Speaker 17: Sunday night, could have been Monday night, could have been

1126
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:39,400
Speaker 17: a CBS four to twenty five double header game. It's

1127
01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:41,480
Speaker 17: just one of those. I likened it to a blank

1128
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:44,720
Speaker 17: scrabble tile, like you could play it anywhere and it works.

1129
01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:48,000
Speaker 17: So love having the flexibility for a game like that,

1130
01:00:48,400 --> 01:00:51,280
Speaker 17: and it enables you to search through different branches of

1131
01:00:51,320 --> 01:00:54,720
Speaker 17: the solution tree where no matter where that game lands,

1132
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:57,040
Speaker 17: you know it's going to be good. Once it landed

1133
01:00:57,080 --> 01:00:58,800
Speaker 17: on Sunday night a Week one and we sort of

1134
01:00:58,840 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 17: saw the rest of the Sunday night schedule, the rest

1135
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:03,760
Speaker 17: of the Bills schedule, the rest of the Monday night schedule,

1136
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:07,600
Speaker 17: the double header schedule. It felt like a really good

1137
01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:11,520
Speaker 17: kind of Week one continuation of what's going to be

1138
01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:14,280
Speaker 17: a phenomenal set of storylines. You think about Dallas, Philly

1139
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:18,440
Speaker 17: right out of the gate for kickoff, Kansas City against

1140
01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:21,120
Speaker 17: the Chargers down in Brazil, big double header game on

1141
01:01:21,240 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 17: CBS Detroit, Green Bay, bring it back with a Monday

1142
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:27,800
Speaker 17: night game Chicago Mini. It just felt like that Sunday

1143
01:01:27,880 --> 01:01:30,800
Speaker 17: Night or Bulb buff fell in there and it felt

1144
01:01:30,800 --> 01:01:31,560
Speaker 17: like it belonged.

1145
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:34,560
Speaker 2: And that home game for the Bills in Week one

1146
01:01:34,680 --> 01:01:37,360
Speaker 2: MIC is part of a clump of home games at

1147
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:40,120
Speaker 2: the front end here. Four in the first five games

1148
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:43,280
Speaker 2: at home for the Bills. That's a little bit of

1149
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:45,240
Speaker 2: an anomaly. We don't see that very often. I had

1150
01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:46,920
Speaker 2: to go back and look, the last time the Bills

1151
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:49,920
Speaker 2: had that was nineteen ninety three, which is also the

1152
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:55,920
Speaker 2: last time years. Yeah, but what happened there? What happens there?

1153
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:57,160
Speaker 2: When you happen what happens.

1154
01:01:56,960 --> 01:01:59,960
Speaker 17: There quite honestly is there's a little bit of randomness

1155
01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:06,000
Speaker 17: to it. Obviously, there's also a strategic approach to each

1156
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 17: of the network partners' schedules, and so obviously a Sunday

1157
01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:15,040
Speaker 17: night early for the Bills on NBC that feels great

1158
01:02:15,200 --> 01:02:19,680
Speaker 17: to NBC. A Thursday night early for Amazon, you guys,

1159
01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:22,680
Speaker 17: were the opener for Amazon last year. That Week two

1160
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:25,560
Speaker 17: game against Miami last year was averaging something like seventeen

1161
01:02:25,640 --> 01:02:29,760
Speaker 17: million viewers before Tua got hurt. So an opportunity to

1162
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 17: kind of run that back early in the season for

1163
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:37,360
Speaker 17: Amazon is a win for them. The game on ESPN

1164
01:02:37,360 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 17: the Monday night or is part of the side by side.

1165
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:41,240
Speaker 17: You know, every team wants to get that taste to

1166
01:02:41,280 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 17: Buffalo nice and early. Every network likes to get that

1167
01:02:43,920 --> 01:02:47,040
Speaker 17: taste to Buffalo nice and early. And then still hopefully

1168
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:48,760
Speaker 17: you can hang on to a couple of good games

1169
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:50,920
Speaker 17: down the stretch that are going to be in national windows.

1170
01:02:51,160 --> 01:02:54,680
Speaker 17: The weather starts to turn, playoff implications increase, you find

1171
01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:57,520
Speaker 17: yourself kind of well represented on the national television schedule

1172
01:02:57,560 --> 01:02:59,480
Speaker 17: early in the year, but also late in the year

1173
01:02:59,520 --> 01:03:02,960
Speaker 17: with those two Fox doubleheaders down there against Cincy and Philly,

1174
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:06,280
Speaker 17: so kind of stringing out the Bills national seed, national

1175
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:09,000
Speaker 17: television games all throughout the year, a few early a

1176
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:10,960
Speaker 17: couple sprinkt on the middle and still hold on to

1177
01:03:11,040 --> 01:03:11,800
Speaker 17: a couple for the end.

1178
01:03:12,200 --> 01:03:16,440
Speaker 16: The Bills produce some picturesque games at the end of

1179
01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:19,800
Speaker 16: the season in December, the snow is falling and the

1180
01:03:19,880 --> 01:03:23,640
Speaker 16: snowballs are also falling in the sky as fans like

1181
01:03:23,720 --> 01:03:26,840
Speaker 16: to throw them to celebrate touchdowns, and when you look

1182
01:03:26,880 --> 01:03:29,920
Speaker 16: at those games, you kind of think about, Wow, Christmas

1183
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:34,080
Speaker 16: would be perfect in Buffalo. But this season, no Christmas

1184
01:03:34,080 --> 01:03:37,320
Speaker 16: games for the Bills, no Holiday games for Buffalo. They

1185
01:03:37,360 --> 01:03:39,440
Speaker 16: miss out again for a third straight season.

1186
01:03:39,880 --> 01:03:43,520
Speaker 17: Why miss out? Are they looking for it? Are you

1187
01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 17: guys looking at it?

1188
01:03:45,080 --> 01:03:47,000
Speaker 8: I think the fans are looking for more than any

1189
01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:50,440
Speaker 8: the fans, I think, yeah, Look, the truth of the

1190
01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:53,760
Speaker 8: matter is, we absolutely saw schedules with the Bills hosting

1191
01:03:53,800 --> 01:03:54,280
Speaker 8: on Christmas.

1192
01:03:54,320 --> 01:03:55,400
Speaker 3: There's no two ways around that.

1193
01:03:55,840 --> 01:03:59,040
Speaker 17: The Cincinnati Buffalo game was almost our Christmas Day game.

1194
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:03,120
Speaker 17: Philly Buffalo ended up in Week seventeen, just didn't end

1195
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:05,720
Speaker 17: up on Christmas. That would have been fun. The challenge

1196
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:08,919
Speaker 17: really is the fact that Christmas is a short week

1197
01:04:09,120 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 17: when you're playing on that Thursday, and every team can

1198
01:04:11,560 --> 01:04:15,320
Speaker 17: play a maximum of two short week games. So if

1199
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Speaker 17: we were going to use Buffalo on Christmas, unless we

1200
01:04:18,600 --> 01:04:20,320
Speaker 17: were going to use them on Amazon, then one of

1201
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:22,800
Speaker 17: their short weeks was going to be probably on Netflix

1202
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:24,560
Speaker 17: on Christmas. The other short week was going to be

1203
01:04:24,600 --> 01:04:27,520
Speaker 17: on Amazon, and that would have been Amazon's only shot

1204
01:04:27,680 --> 01:04:31,600
Speaker 17: at the bills. And what Amazon is really strategic about

1205
01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:34,640
Speaker 17: and what we try to, you know, maybe not always accommodate,

1206
01:04:34,680 --> 01:04:36,600
Speaker 17: because you can't do everything for everybody, but one of

1207
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:39,160
Speaker 17: the things that we know they're sensitive about are the

1208
01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:41,640
Speaker 17: teams that they get to have on their schedule twice.

1209
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:44,080
Speaker 17: And it's rare that you're going to be able for

1210
01:04:44,280 --> 01:04:47,440
Speaker 17: Amazon to get to a Dallas twice at Kansas City twice.

1211
01:04:47,680 --> 01:04:50,720
Speaker 17: So what's next? I would argue, probably right after Dallas

1212
01:04:50,720 --> 01:04:53,680
Speaker 17: and Kansas City, you're probably talking about Philadelphia and Buffalo

1213
01:04:53,840 --> 01:04:56,280
Speaker 17: right now. And so the fact that Amazon gets two

1214
01:04:56,320 --> 01:05:00,760
Speaker 17: Philadelphia's and two Buffalos really strengthens their schedule. And it

1215
01:05:00,840 --> 01:05:03,280
Speaker 17: just so happened then that we use both of those

1216
01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:07,600
Speaker 17: teams multiple short weeks for windows other than Christmas. So

1217
01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:11,880
Speaker 17: did we consider Philadelphia and Buffalo and Cincinnati and everybody

1218
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:15,120
Speaker 17: else for Christmas. We absolutely did. We landed on three

1219
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:17,640
Speaker 17: division games for Christmas, and we got the two Buffalo

1220
01:05:17,720 --> 01:05:20,480
Speaker 17: short week games in earlier in the season and to

1221
01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:22,080
Speaker 17: their benefit both on Amazon.

1222
01:05:22,560 --> 01:05:25,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, you touched on already a little bit, Mike, But

1223
01:05:25,040 --> 01:05:28,600
Speaker 2: the four to twenty five national window games bills part

1224
01:05:28,640 --> 01:05:32,080
Speaker 2: of four of those, and I imagine they would be

1225
01:05:32,120 --> 01:05:34,880
Speaker 2: part of this already. But when they pull a number

1226
01:05:34,880 --> 01:05:37,200
Speaker 2: with the Chiefs last year in Week eleven of thirty

1227
01:05:37,240 --> 01:05:40,520
Speaker 2: one point two million viewers, which was the most watched

1228
01:05:40,560 --> 01:05:44,400
Speaker 2: regular season game excluding holiday games since two thousand and seven,

1229
01:05:44,480 --> 01:05:47,320
Speaker 2: I imagine that that perks up the ears and eyeballs

1230
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:51,280
Speaker 2: of the networks and they say, I'm protecting these games.

1231
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:53,800
Speaker 2: How much was that a part of the equation here

1232
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:55,280
Speaker 2: with these four to twenty fives?

1233
01:05:55,720 --> 01:05:58,280
Speaker 17: Yeah, people always talk about, you know, how many primetime

1234
01:05:58,320 --> 01:06:00,840
Speaker 17: games did we get? Like the truth is that four

1235
01:06:00,880 --> 01:06:03,200
Speaker 17: to twenty five Eastern time window, it's still our most

1236
01:06:03,240 --> 01:06:07,000
Speaker 17: watched window. We do numbers on Sunday afternoon on CBS

1237
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:09,920
Speaker 17: and Fox that it's hard to get to in primetime

1238
01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:12,600
Speaker 17: when you start approaching you know, eleven o'clock Eastern time,

1239
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:15,400
Speaker 17: and fans need to go to sleep, they got to

1240
01:06:15,400 --> 01:06:18,400
Speaker 17: go to work the next day. So that four to

1241
01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:21,200
Speaker 17: twenty five Sunday afternoon window is still our high water mark.

1242
01:06:21,480 --> 01:06:24,280
Speaker 17: And while we are indeed busy making sure that the

1243
01:06:24,320 --> 01:06:27,880
Speaker 17: primetime partners all have really good games, good games you know,

1244
01:06:27,880 --> 01:06:29,720
Speaker 17: at nine thirty in the morning on Sunday for our

1245
01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:33,040
Speaker 17: international partners, good game for our streaming partners, we can't

1246
01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:35,480
Speaker 17: can't forget right, We can't lose sight of the fact

1247
01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:38,440
Speaker 17: that our biggest window, our most viewership, still comes from

1248
01:06:38,440 --> 01:06:40,680
Speaker 17: Sunday afternoon four to thirty. So you got to make

1249
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:43,080
Speaker 17: sure that every weekend it feels like there's a big game.

1250
01:06:43,200 --> 01:06:45,880
Speaker 17: Sitting there on a Sunday afternoon four to thirty and

1251
01:06:45,960 --> 01:06:48,280
Speaker 17: having the Bills in four of them is a testament

1252
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:50,600
Speaker 17: to the strength of the brand, the star power of

1253
01:06:50,640 --> 01:06:53,439
Speaker 17: the quarterback. I don't believe as I sit here today,

1254
01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:55,640
Speaker 17: I'll have to check to remind myself, but I don't

1255
01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:58,160
Speaker 17: think anybody's got more four to twenty five games than

1256
01:06:58,200 --> 01:06:58,720
Speaker 17: the Bills.

1257
01:06:59,080 --> 01:07:01,760
Speaker 16: There will be a cup huge games for Buffalo to

1258
01:07:01,800 --> 01:07:04,560
Speaker 16: close out the season at home, and that's because it's

1259
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:08,600
Speaker 16: the farewell season at high Mark Stadium they opened their

1260
01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:11,320
Speaker 16: doors in nineteen seventy three, and this is going to

1261
01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:14,520
Speaker 16: mark the final season before the Bills move over to

1262
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:17,160
Speaker 16: the new High Mark Stadium right across the street. Why

1263
01:07:17,240 --> 01:07:19,840
Speaker 16: was it so important to have a couple games at

1264
01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:21,760
Speaker 16: the end of the season at home.

1265
01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:24,800
Speaker 17: Yeah, I'm not sure we set out necessarily at the

1266
01:07:24,880 --> 01:07:27,720
Speaker 17: very beginning to ensure that there was multiple home games

1267
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:29,720
Speaker 17: in the final weeks of the season, but we were

1268
01:07:29,800 --> 01:07:33,680
Speaker 17: certainly cognizant when we sat down and started this process. Okay,

1269
01:07:33,680 --> 01:07:35,880
Speaker 17: what are some of the targets that we want to

1270
01:07:35,880 --> 01:07:37,480
Speaker 17: be sure to hit. What are some of the games

1271
01:07:37,480 --> 01:07:39,880
Speaker 17: that are must see TV gott to land in national windows,

1272
01:07:40,280 --> 01:07:42,400
Speaker 17: and what are some of the storylines that, you know,

1273
01:07:42,440 --> 01:07:45,280
Speaker 17: we'd like to make sure get the attention that they deserve.

1274
01:07:45,360 --> 01:07:47,840
Speaker 17: And obviously one of them was the closing of the stadium.

1275
01:07:47,840 --> 01:07:50,320
Speaker 17: There's been times when we've really kind of leaned into

1276
01:07:50,320 --> 01:07:51,520
Speaker 17: the last game in.

1277
01:07:51,520 --> 01:07:52,200
Speaker 3: Some of our buildings.

1278
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:54,720
Speaker 17: There's also been times where, quite frankly, I think maybe

1279
01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:58,120
Speaker 17: we kind of whiffed on it. So given this, you know,

1280
01:07:58,280 --> 01:08:00,840
Speaker 17: unique set of circumstances with the Bill in their building,

1281
01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:04,000
Speaker 17: a week eighteen home game, obviously, if you're gonna have one.

1282
01:08:04,000 --> 01:08:06,480
Speaker 17: It's gonna be against the division opponent. Could have made

1283
01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:09,320
Speaker 17: a great case for any of them, New England, Miami

1284
01:08:09,400 --> 01:08:13,120
Speaker 17: or the Jets, but a Jets Bills game just kind

1285
01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:15,680
Speaker 17: of feels like the right way to, you know, give

1286
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:18,479
Speaker 17: that building a proper sendoff. So hopefully that game has

1287
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:22,200
Speaker 17: significant playoff implications, and if it does, don't be shocked

1288
01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:23,920
Speaker 17: at all if we find it, you know, moving to

1289
01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:27,040
Speaker 17: a national window. That last game in week eighteen at

1290
01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:30,120
Speaker 17: the building could be played Saturday four thirty or eight o'clock,

1291
01:08:30,120 --> 01:08:32,800
Speaker 17: could be Sunday one, Sunday four twenty five, or with

1292
01:08:32,920 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 17: any luck, it's you know, Jets Bills for the AFC East,

1293
01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:38,960
Speaker 17: and we move it to Sunday night at eight thirty

1294
01:08:39,000 --> 01:08:40,960
Speaker 17: and get some of that snow you were talking about.

1295
01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:43,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, you did that a couple of years ago with

1296
01:08:43,520 --> 01:08:46,160
Speaker 2: Bill's Dolphins for the division title down in Miami. Good

1297
01:08:46,200 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 2: one got flex to Sunday night football. And you may

1298
01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:51,240
Speaker 2: not have even been aware of this, but the last

1299
01:08:51,400 --> 01:08:54,680
Speaker 2: game in the first season in this stadium in the

1300
01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:56,559
Speaker 2: regular season was Bill's Jets.

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01:08:56,920 --> 01:08:57,479
Speaker 17: How about them?

1302
01:08:57,600 --> 01:08:57,960
Speaker 3: See that?

1303
01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:00,439
Speaker 16: Who says the perfect bow on it? You guys know

1304
01:09:00,479 --> 01:09:01,719
Speaker 16: what you're doing, Mike Sink.

1305
01:09:01,680 --> 01:09:03,320
Speaker 7: Thanks so much for the time.

1306
01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:07,479
Speaker 16: We're so excited for this farewell season in high Mark Stadium.

1307
01:09:07,520 --> 01:09:10,800
Speaker 16: Some incredible home games will be played at high Mark.

1308
01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:11,680
Speaker 16: We can't wait for it.

1309
01:09:11,680 --> 01:09:14,320
Speaker 3: Thanks Mike, absolute pleasure. Take care.

1310
01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:17,160
Speaker 2: All right. So that's Mike North last night on our

1311
01:09:17,280 --> 01:09:21,160
Speaker 2: Instant Reaction show to the twenty twenty five schedule. Some

1312
01:09:21,600 --> 01:09:25,160
Speaker 2: interesting thoughts there. He kind of provided some of the

1313
01:09:25,280 --> 01:09:29,519
Speaker 2: decision making that went on in the room. Bill's were

1314
01:09:29,520 --> 01:09:33,280
Speaker 2: a strong consideration, Steve for Christmas. Yeah, they just didn't

1315
01:09:33,360 --> 01:09:34,479
Speaker 2: quite make the cut.

1316
01:09:34,520 --> 01:09:35,559
Speaker 3: This stab me in the back.

1317
01:09:37,160 --> 01:09:39,439
Speaker 2: Well, I'm sure you can lob a complaint in via

1318
01:09:39,520 --> 01:09:41,639
Speaker 2: email to Mike and everybody else in the office.

1319
01:09:41,720 --> 01:09:44,240
Speaker 4: I was, well, you can tell. I mean, there was

1320
01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:47,760
Speaker 4: just two there were four really juicy matchups on the

1321
01:09:47,800 --> 01:09:50,920
Speaker 4: Bill's schedule, and you just knew that one of them

1322
01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:52,400
Speaker 4: was going to get on one of the holidays, and

1323
01:09:52,479 --> 01:09:52,920
Speaker 4: they didn't.

1324
01:09:53,160 --> 01:09:56,720
Speaker 2: Yeah. But to Mike North's other point, if you look

1325
01:09:56,760 --> 01:10:01,120
Speaker 2: at the schedule, every network and almost every restreaming service

1326
01:10:01,520 --> 01:10:05,719
Speaker 2: that broadcasts NFL games has a taste of the bills. Yeah,

1327
01:10:05,760 --> 01:10:08,200
Speaker 2: every one of them except for YouTube and Netflix, which

1328
01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:11,559
Speaker 2: basically have a Black Friday game and two Christmas Day games.

1329
01:10:11,760 --> 01:10:13,280
Speaker 2: Every other network has.

1330
01:10:13,160 --> 01:10:18,040
Speaker 4: The Bills at least once. I'll admit everybody wants a TV.

1331
01:10:18,240 --> 01:10:21,160
Speaker 4: We're all Bills all the time. I get it, and

1332
01:10:21,200 --> 01:10:23,639
Speaker 4: we get a little bit like you say, myopic about

1333
01:10:23,680 --> 01:10:26,080
Speaker 4: our attention to the Bills and the Bills only and

1334
01:10:26,120 --> 01:10:29,360
Speaker 4: nobody else counts. And I said this too. During the

1335
01:10:29,400 --> 01:10:30,800
Speaker 4: week and we're leading up to this, there was a

1336
01:10:30,800 --> 01:10:32,439
Speaker 4: couple of times when I'm like, oh, wow, you know what,

1337
01:10:32,479 --> 01:10:34,120
Speaker 4: there there are some pretty good games I'd like to

1338
01:10:34,160 --> 01:10:38,960
Speaker 4: see other than the Bills. So it's maybe I got

1339
01:10:39,000 --> 01:10:40,800
Speaker 4: a little carried away with my holiday things.

1340
01:10:40,840 --> 01:10:42,920
Speaker 2: But nah, they it was in the hopper.

1341
01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:45,880
Speaker 3: I'll say this, I've said this before.

1342
01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:51,360
Speaker 4: I still believe most people, even if they're even if

1343
01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:53,080
Speaker 4: they've got a different team other than the Bills, that's

1344
01:10:53,120 --> 01:10:56,400
Speaker 4: their favorite. You really want to see this this group play,

1345
01:10:57,080 --> 01:11:00,280
Speaker 4: Josh makes Josh's like must watch TV. He was the

1346
01:11:00,360 --> 01:11:05,200
Speaker 4: MVP this last year. He's a special player. All of

1347
01:11:05,200 --> 01:11:09,519
Speaker 4: that that goes into it. I just I just knew

1348
01:11:09,600 --> 01:11:11,280
Speaker 4: that they were going to get one of those holiday games,

1349
01:11:11,280 --> 01:11:13,120
Speaker 4: and I cannot believe it didn't work out.

1350
01:11:13,400 --> 01:11:16,240
Speaker 2: I haven't been in a holiday game since twenty twenty two.

1351
01:11:16,640 --> 01:11:19,120
Speaker 2: Let's go back to the phones into Milton in Buffalo.

1352
01:11:19,120 --> 01:11:21,679
Speaker 2: What's up, Milton, Hey, how you guys.

1353
01:11:21,479 --> 01:11:22,080
Speaker 3: Are doing good?

1354
01:11:23,439 --> 01:11:23,599
Speaker 7: Yeah?

1355
01:11:23,640 --> 01:11:25,880
Speaker 8: I just wanted to say, like Fires, they got two things.

1356
01:11:25,920 --> 01:11:29,200
Speaker 8: Fires the schedule. Yeah, when I was first looking at

1357
01:11:29,240 --> 01:11:32,320
Speaker 8: it before it came like out where everybody getting ordered,

1358
01:11:32,360 --> 01:11:33,960
Speaker 8: I'm like, man, it's some kind of higher but the

1359
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:36,640
Speaker 8: way they taste it out, if we get past Baltimore,

1360
01:11:36,720 --> 01:11:38,800
Speaker 8: we could do something really really special. Like you know

1361
01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:40,200
Speaker 8: what I'm saying. I don't want to jinx as far

1362
01:11:40,240 --> 01:11:42,960
Speaker 8: as you know from seventy two Dolphins. But you know,

1363
01:11:43,320 --> 01:11:45,800
Speaker 8: but another thing too, uh, Fires, the two I had

1364
01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:48,880
Speaker 8: called in before and I commented about like bringing that

1365
01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:51,320
Speaker 8: Ma Cooper back, that that was only four because you know,

1366
01:11:51,640 --> 01:11:55,320
Speaker 8: everybody had everybody was together, so two years together made

1367
01:11:55,320 --> 01:11:58,360
Speaker 8: it better. So you know, I want to have faith

1368
01:11:58,439 --> 01:12:01,599
Speaker 8: in Palm. I hope he does good. But it's something

1369
01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:04,479
Speaker 8: about the seventh round pick. But I think he's gonna

1370
01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:06,479
Speaker 8: be special. I had that same for the last year

1371
01:12:06,840 --> 01:12:09,920
Speaker 8: with Shakit, I mean a couple of years ago. Yeah,

1372
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:11,479
Speaker 8: I think he'll be special, So I hope they give

1373
01:12:11,560 --> 01:12:12,040
Speaker 8: him a chance.

1374
01:12:12,200 --> 01:12:15,400
Speaker 2: Okay, Milton. Yeah, we'll put him on the radar. I mean,

1375
01:12:15,920 --> 01:12:18,320
Speaker 2: Pray there is you could do a lot worse for

1376
01:12:18,320 --> 01:12:22,240
Speaker 2: a seventh round pick than Kayden Prather. There are some

1377
01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:26,880
Speaker 2: some skills there that are attractive. And you know, runs well,

1378
01:12:27,040 --> 01:12:30,599
Speaker 2: although he's more build up speed than sudden explosiveness off

1379
01:12:30,600 --> 01:12:32,800
Speaker 2: the line, but he runs four four to six. He's

1380
01:12:32,800 --> 01:12:38,639
Speaker 2: got plenty of size, good catch radius, so let's see.

1381
01:12:38,840 --> 01:12:40,800
Speaker 2: I think I think the part of his game and

1382
01:12:40,840 --> 01:12:43,760
Speaker 2: the reason he fell to the seventh round is route

1383
01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 2: running polish. I think if he can polish his route

1384
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:49,559
Speaker 2: running up and get sharper and more precise and more

1385
01:12:49,600 --> 01:12:52,400
Speaker 2: consistent with that part of his game, I think he

1386
01:12:52,439 --> 01:12:54,920
Speaker 2: gives himself a much better chance to at least be

1387
01:12:54,960 --> 01:12:57,879
Speaker 2: in the conversation for one of those last receiver spots.

1388
01:12:59,560 --> 01:13:01,880
Speaker 2: And I think if he shows enough progress, even if

1389
01:13:01,880 --> 01:13:03,840
Speaker 2: he doesn't put it all together between now and the

1390
01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:06,960
Speaker 2: end of training camp in the preseason, if he demonstrates

1391
01:13:07,040 --> 01:13:10,599
Speaker 2: enough progress, he could find himself on the practice squad

1392
01:13:10,600 --> 01:13:13,240
Speaker 2: because if you at least demonstrate progress in this setting,

1393
01:13:13,800 --> 01:13:17,160
Speaker 2: the coaching staff here, the way they develop players, they

1394
01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:19,360
Speaker 2: want to see how much more they can get out

1395
01:13:19,360 --> 01:13:21,559
Speaker 2: of you. If you already make strides on your own,

1396
01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:24,280
Speaker 2: especially in your first training camp as a rookie.

1397
01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:26,519
Speaker 4: It remains to be seen, and we've seen, you know,

1398
01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:29,720
Speaker 4: I like where your head's at, Milton. I mean, we've

1399
01:13:29,760 --> 01:13:33,479
Speaker 4: seen other low round draft picks, mid round draft picks succeed,

1400
01:13:34,479 --> 01:13:36,800
Speaker 4: and we're starting, I think, like you, a lot of

1401
01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:39,559
Speaker 4: people are starting to expect it in every draft class.

1402
01:13:39,560 --> 01:13:42,000
Speaker 4: So you look at those guys everywhere from you know,

1403
01:13:42,080 --> 01:13:44,040
Speaker 4: Dion Walker all the way down to Prayther, and you

1404
01:13:44,080 --> 01:13:49,760
Speaker 4: think one of these guys probably gonna hit. It's a

1405
01:13:49,840 --> 01:13:54,360
Speaker 4: testament to Brandon Bean and their staff. They grab guys

1406
01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:56,040
Speaker 4: who can make it and it's fun to watch.

1407
01:13:56,760 --> 01:13:59,040
Speaker 2: Let's go to Dave in earringex what's up, Dave?

1408
01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:05,200
Speaker 6: Hey, Hey Chris, and hey Brownie, how you doing. I'm

1409
01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:10,160
Speaker 6: just calling about Trey Henderson. It's getting really ugly there

1410
01:14:10,200 --> 01:14:11,000
Speaker 6: in Cincinnati.

1411
01:14:11,720 --> 01:14:11,920
Speaker 18: Now.

1412
01:14:11,960 --> 01:14:16,000
Speaker 6: I know, you know Brandon being said there's no money.

1413
01:14:16,120 --> 01:14:18,280
Speaker 6: I believe him, you know, I get that. But you know,

1414
01:14:19,479 --> 01:14:23,760
Speaker 6: years ago that's how we got von Miller, and I

1415
01:14:23,800 --> 01:14:28,719
Speaker 6: don't know somehow someway Man. Can you imagine this guy

1416
01:14:28,880 --> 01:14:34,160
Speaker 6: in Buffalo Blue? You know, I know they'd have to

1417
01:14:34,160 --> 01:14:36,519
Speaker 6: get him like you'll probably a three or four year deal.

1418
01:14:36,960 --> 01:14:41,800
Speaker 6: I get that for big money, but man, you know

1419
01:14:42,040 --> 01:14:45,360
Speaker 6: it's getting ugly there, and maybe somehow Someway pull him

1420
01:14:45,360 --> 01:14:48,759
Speaker 6: out of there. As far as the schedule, excellent, great

1421
01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:52,080
Speaker 6: if we can get by that first game, man, there's

1422
01:14:52,120 --> 01:14:53,880
Speaker 6: no reason this team couldn't be seven or oh or

1423
01:14:53,920 --> 01:14:54,439
Speaker 6: six and one.

1424
01:14:55,280 --> 01:14:56,639
Speaker 7: Okay, thanks guys.

1425
01:14:56,479 --> 01:15:00,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure thing, Dave, you kind of provided my own

1426
01:15:00,840 --> 01:15:05,439
Speaker 2: response in your own commentary there, because that's the rub.

1427
01:15:05,439 --> 01:15:07,920
Speaker 2: Would you love to have Trey Hendrickson on your roster? Absolutely,

1428
01:15:08,520 --> 01:15:10,640
Speaker 2: but there's going to be a cost that comes with it.

1429
01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:13,000
Speaker 2: He wants to be paid, you know, like a top

1430
01:15:13,040 --> 01:15:16,679
Speaker 2: five pass rusher because that's what his production has been,

1431
01:15:17,160 --> 01:15:20,320
Speaker 2: top five in the league back to back seventeen sax seasons.

1432
01:15:20,680 --> 01:15:23,759
Speaker 2: So sure it'd be great to have him, But where's

1433
01:15:23,800 --> 01:15:27,280
Speaker 2: the money coming from to pay twenty eighty year? So

1434
01:15:28,400 --> 01:15:31,760
Speaker 2: because that's what he's looking for, and twenty eighty year

1435
01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:37,760
Speaker 2: over three seasons. So that to me, that is that's

1436
01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:39,880
Speaker 2: the fly in the ointment. If the Bills had not

1437
01:15:40,040 --> 01:15:43,080
Speaker 2: made a one year investment in Joey Bosa for twelve

1438
01:15:43,080 --> 01:15:48,040
Speaker 2: point six and had not drafted three defensive linemen you know,

1439
01:15:48,160 --> 01:15:52,120
Speaker 2: there's a reason the Bills drafted three defensive linemen because

1440
01:15:52,840 --> 01:15:56,040
Speaker 2: people on their rookie contracts are the most affordable labor

1441
01:15:56,439 --> 01:16:00,479
Speaker 2: money can buy. So I think once they made the

1442
01:16:00,560 --> 01:16:03,280
Speaker 2: veteran investment on a one year deal in Joey Bosa,

1443
01:16:04,479 --> 01:16:09,320
Speaker 2: the focus then flipped to acquiring talented but cost effective

1444
01:16:09,400 --> 01:16:13,760
Speaker 2: labor in the draft. And I'd be very surprised if

1445
01:16:13,800 --> 01:16:17,200
Speaker 2: the Bills became part of a conversation to try to

1446
01:16:17,240 --> 01:16:20,320
Speaker 2: acquire Hendrickson based on where their roster sits right now

1447
01:16:20,640 --> 01:16:23,639
Speaker 2: and the depth of it, particularly on the defensive front.

1448
01:16:24,560 --> 01:16:27,000
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised if he moved somewhere else right

1449
01:16:28,439 --> 01:16:30,719
Speaker 3: a team with cap room, but it's not gonna be Buffalo.

1450
01:16:30,760 --> 01:16:34,080
Speaker 4: I'm needing help on the I mean, they could jump

1451
01:16:34,120 --> 01:16:37,120
Speaker 4: through the fiery hoops and maybe make it happen, but

1452
01:16:37,200 --> 01:16:37,840
Speaker 4: I don't see it.

1453
01:16:38,040 --> 01:16:40,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, break time for us here more of your phone calls.

1454
01:16:40,760 --> 01:16:42,720
Speaker 2: When we come back, Lee and Marylynd's gonna lead us

1455
01:16:42,760 --> 01:16:45,280
Speaker 2: off as we're asking for your takeaways from the bills

1456
01:16:45,320 --> 01:16:48,320
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five regular season schedule.

1457
01:16:48,360 --> 01:16:49,400
Speaker 3: What do you like? What do you not like?

1458
01:16:49,479 --> 01:16:51,080
Speaker 2: Let us know next year. On One Bill's Live stay

1459
01:16:51,120 --> 01:17:06,800
Speaker 2: with us all right back here, I want Bills live

1460
01:17:07,240 --> 01:17:10,160
Speaker 2: after the schedule has been released. It's less than twenty

1461
01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:13,320
Speaker 2: four hours ago, and we want your biggest takeaways as

1462
01:17:13,360 --> 01:17:16,280
Speaker 2: to how it lays out. What do you like? What

1463
01:17:16,320 --> 01:17:18,160
Speaker 2: do you not like? Eight o three to five fifty

1464
01:17:18,439 --> 01:17:20,360
Speaker 2: back to the phones, and has promised to lead down

1465
01:17:20,400 --> 01:17:21,600
Speaker 2: in Maryland. What do you got for us?

1466
01:17:21,680 --> 01:17:21,960
Speaker 3: League?

1467
01:17:23,040 --> 01:17:25,040
Speaker 10: Well, thank you very much for taking my call. Can

1468
01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:25,679
Speaker 10: you hear me? Okay?

1469
01:17:25,800 --> 01:17:27,439
Speaker 3: Yeah, great.

1470
01:17:28,680 --> 01:17:31,160
Speaker 10: As far as the schedule goes, my son and I

1471
01:17:31,240 --> 01:17:34,599
Speaker 10: actually looked at it yesterday and the eight OA games,

1472
01:17:35,800 --> 01:17:39,000
Speaker 10: oh my gosh, it's like handing us something on a

1473
01:17:39,040 --> 01:17:41,439
Speaker 10: silver platter, if you know what I mean, except for

1474
01:17:41,479 --> 01:17:44,760
Speaker 10: the Texans game, because obviously we know what happened last

1475
01:17:44,840 --> 01:17:50,519
Speaker 10: year with the Texans and it wasn't pretty. But my

1476
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:54,360
Speaker 10: question is, you know we're talking about the farewell season

1477
01:17:54,720 --> 01:17:57,160
Speaker 10: moving to the new stadium. Do you happen to know

1478
01:17:57,479 --> 01:18:01,920
Speaker 10: is their plans for the new stadium of a corridor,

1479
01:18:02,080 --> 01:18:06,920
Speaker 10: a section that's going to honor the history of the Bills.

1480
01:18:07,640 --> 01:18:11,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, no details on that yet, Lee, but I will

1481
01:18:11,200 --> 01:18:17,160
Speaker 2: say that I think every possible detail that could be

1482
01:18:17,240 --> 01:18:23,160
Speaker 2: incorporated into the new stadium has been discussed, thought about,

1483
01:18:23,200 --> 01:18:26,559
Speaker 2: and planned for. There is literally no rock that they

1484
01:18:26,560 --> 01:18:31,360
Speaker 2: have not turned over to try to properly be as

1485
01:18:31,439 --> 01:18:35,479
Speaker 2: inclusive as possible with the history of this team as

1486
01:18:35,560 --> 01:18:38,120
Speaker 2: much as they have planned for the future of this

1487
01:18:38,160 --> 01:18:39,080
Speaker 2: team in this building.

1488
01:18:39,640 --> 01:18:40,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's going.

1489
01:18:40,280 --> 01:18:44,760
Speaker 4: To be an area outside the stadium that's going to

1490
01:18:44,760 --> 01:18:48,280
Speaker 4: be shaped like a giant bison's footprint out front where

1491
01:18:48,320 --> 01:18:53,080
Speaker 4: the tall thirty foot buffalo bison or statue is going

1492
01:18:53,120 --> 01:18:54,760
Speaker 4: to be. And it's going to be a commemorative thing

1493
01:18:54,800 --> 01:18:58,240
Speaker 4: with plaques and things and a place to walk and

1494
01:18:58,320 --> 01:19:01,160
Speaker 4: go and visit in the eye off season or any point.

1495
01:19:01,439 --> 01:19:03,840
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's all been thought of. It's going to

1496
01:19:03,880 --> 01:19:06,880
Speaker 4: be all part of the kitten kaboodle of the whole thing.

1497
01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:07,960
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's all been.

1498
01:19:07,880 --> 01:19:09,479
Speaker 2: And I would imagine the Wall of Fame will be

1499
01:19:09,520 --> 01:19:13,040
Speaker 2: reincarnated in some form, whether it looks exactly the same

1500
01:19:13,160 --> 01:19:17,040
Speaker 2: or different, might look more modern. I would anticipate that

1501
01:19:17,040 --> 01:19:19,439
Speaker 2: that's going to have some presence as well in the

1502
01:19:19,479 --> 01:19:22,160
Speaker 2: new stadium. I don't pretend to know the details of it,

1503
01:19:22,200 --> 01:19:25,080
Speaker 2: but I would be shocked if it's not included in

1504
01:19:25,160 --> 01:19:30,040
Speaker 2: some form in the new place. Knowing how much this team,

1505
01:19:30,120 --> 01:19:34,400
Speaker 2: and this organization cares about its history. We have a

1506
01:19:34,439 --> 01:19:37,559
Speaker 2: minute here, so I thought we would have a little

1507
01:19:37,560 --> 01:19:41,519
Speaker 2: bit of fun at the expense of the New York Giants.

1508
01:19:41,520 --> 01:19:44,800
Speaker 2: For those that do not know, the Giants have the

1509
01:19:44,840 --> 01:19:49,439
Speaker 2: hardest strength of schedule this year. It's just the way

1510
01:19:49,439 --> 01:19:52,160
Speaker 2: it worked out. Certainly they did not deserve it based

1511
01:19:52,200 --> 01:19:54,760
Speaker 2: on the season they had last year. But I am

1512
01:19:54,800 --> 01:19:58,280
Speaker 2: going to read it to you in order and you'll cringe.

1513
01:19:58,479 --> 01:20:02,720
Speaker 2: With each passing week. The Giants lead off at Washington

1514
01:20:03,560 --> 01:20:08,600
Speaker 2: at Dallas home against Kansas City home against the Chargers

1515
01:20:09,200 --> 01:20:13,759
Speaker 2: at New Orleans, home against Philadelphia at Denver at Philly,

1516
01:20:14,080 --> 01:20:20,040
Speaker 2: San Fran at Chicago, Green Bay at Detroit at New England,

1517
01:20:20,600 --> 01:20:27,800
Speaker 2: by Washington at home, Minnesota at home at Las Vegas Dallas.

1518
01:20:28,600 --> 01:20:32,519
Speaker 2: I call it the Road to Hell. I feel so

1519
01:20:32,640 --> 01:20:36,240
Speaker 2: bad for Brian Dable and Joe Shane. I love those guys.

1520
01:20:36,760 --> 01:20:40,679
Speaker 2: But if you want a chuckle, go to the Giants

1521
01:20:41,040 --> 01:20:44,559
Speaker 2: social media account where they posted the schedule last night

1522
01:20:45,080 --> 01:20:49,200
Speaker 2: and read the comments from Giants fans. If you do

1523
01:20:49,360 --> 01:20:52,240
Speaker 2: not come close to wetting your pants from the comments,

1524
01:20:52,680 --> 01:20:54,120
Speaker 2: you have no sense of humor.

1525
01:20:54,240 --> 01:21:01,160
Speaker 3: It is yeah, that's all they get. What the Saints

1526
01:21:01,360 --> 01:21:02,280
Speaker 3: in Week five.

1527
01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:03,240
Speaker 2: That's the breather.

1528
01:21:03,560 --> 01:21:06,040
Speaker 3: They may they may be favored in that game.

1529
01:21:06,560 --> 01:21:08,080
Speaker 2: I think that's the only game in which they are

1530
01:21:08,120 --> 01:21:09,799
Speaker 2: favored right now on the early line.

1531
01:21:10,200 --> 01:21:12,880
Speaker 3: That is it. They won't be favored even late in

1532
01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:14,400
Speaker 3: the season when they're playing the Raiders.

1533
01:21:14,520 --> 01:21:17,519
Speaker 2: So the Giants are the only team to start the

1534
01:21:17,640 --> 01:21:22,240
Speaker 2: season with back to back divisional road games at Washington

1535
01:21:22,280 --> 01:21:26,320
Speaker 2: and Dallas. They start the season with three of their

1536
01:21:26,360 --> 01:21:30,080
Speaker 2: first four games against playoff teams from last year, and

1537
01:21:30,120 --> 01:21:32,800
Speaker 2: they're the only team to start the season with six

1538
01:21:32,840 --> 01:21:36,280
Speaker 2: of their first eight games against playoff clubs from a

1539
01:21:36,320 --> 01:21:39,320
Speaker 2: year ago. They have two home games.

1540
01:21:39,400 --> 01:21:40,000
Speaker 3: Looks bad.

1541
01:21:40,200 --> 01:21:43,439
Speaker 2: They have two home games Steve in an eight week

1542
01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:47,080
Speaker 2: stretch from Week seven to fourteen. Two home games.

1543
01:21:47,880 --> 01:21:48,599
Speaker 3: It looks bad.

1544
01:21:48,920 --> 01:21:52,759
Speaker 2: And they also have the latest bye week in the league.

1545
01:21:53,040 --> 01:21:56,840
Speaker 4: We finish fourteen after their bye week fourteen. They get

1546
01:21:56,920 --> 01:22:00,000
Speaker 4: three or four after that at home. But it's Washington, Minnesota,

1547
01:22:00,600 --> 01:22:02,360
Speaker 4: cow Raiders, the Cowboys.

1548
01:22:02,600 --> 01:22:05,920
Speaker 2: This is the road to hell. It's a holy cow.

1549
01:22:06,120 --> 01:22:08,439
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't want to make light of it

1550
01:22:08,560 --> 01:22:10,799
Speaker 4: or anything like, because I you know, we got friends

1551
01:22:10,800 --> 01:22:11,280
Speaker 4: and stuff, but.

1552
01:22:13,479 --> 01:22:15,839
Speaker 3: That's a that's a crusher of a schedule.

1553
01:22:17,200 --> 01:22:22,320
Speaker 2: My favorite comment from Giants fans on the social media account.

1554
01:22:22,360 --> 01:22:24,280
Speaker 2: So they post the schedule and me and my son

1555
01:22:24,320 --> 01:22:26,360
Speaker 2: are reading through the comments last night, and we could

1556
01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:30,000
Speaker 2: not stop laughing because they like, you know, when Giants

1557
01:22:30,080 --> 01:22:33,120
Speaker 2: fans get turned up, they get they get really sarcastic,

1558
01:22:33,520 --> 01:22:36,280
Speaker 2: or they get really annoyed, or they get really belligerent,

1559
01:22:36,760 --> 01:22:40,040
Speaker 2: or profanity starts flowing in, and it was all there.

1560
01:22:40,280 --> 01:22:42,680
Speaker 2: All of it was there. But my favorite comment was

1561
01:22:43,240 --> 01:22:45,880
Speaker 2: because the schedule, as you know, they got to play

1562
01:22:45,960 --> 01:22:50,880
Speaker 2: Philly twice in three weeks, and my favorite comment was,

1563
01:22:51,560 --> 01:22:53,960
Speaker 2: can't we just play them both times in one week

1564
01:22:54,040 --> 01:22:55,080
Speaker 2: to get it over with?

1565
01:22:57,640 --> 01:22:59,960
Speaker 3: It was just playing play eight quarters.

1566
01:23:00,120 --> 01:23:04,320
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's so bad. And look, the league's

1567
01:23:04,320 --> 01:23:06,760
Speaker 2: schedule makers didn't do the Jets any favors either. The

1568
01:23:06,880 --> 01:23:09,120
Speaker 2: Jets are the only team to start the season with

1569
01:23:09,200 --> 01:23:14,080
Speaker 2: three straight games against playoff teams from last year, and

1570
01:23:14,120 --> 01:23:17,439
Speaker 2: they finished the season the Jets do with three of

1571
01:23:17,479 --> 01:23:21,320
Speaker 2: their last four games on the road. Now, they're not

1572
01:23:21,600 --> 01:23:24,400
Speaker 2: difficult games per se, but the end of the year

1573
01:23:25,080 --> 01:23:27,880
Speaker 2: at Jacksonville, at the Saints, home against the Pats, and

1574
01:23:27,920 --> 01:23:30,240
Speaker 2: then at the Bills, like yeah.

1575
01:23:31,240 --> 01:23:33,559
Speaker 4: Yeah, they finish up with the Bills in here in

1576
01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:36,800
Speaker 4: Buffalo in the final game of this regular season game

1577
01:23:36,800 --> 01:23:40,479
Speaker 4: in the stadium. That'll be a I would think it's

1578
01:23:40,479 --> 01:23:45,519
Speaker 4: going to be pretty buzzed. And but that Giants schedule, man,

1579
01:23:45,720 --> 01:23:47,280
Speaker 4: the Giants has just forget it.

1580
01:23:47,360 --> 01:23:51,600
Speaker 2: I mean just lighted on fire. I mean there is

1581
01:23:51,640 --> 01:23:57,560
Speaker 2: a chance Steve at Washington at Dallas Kansas City Chargers,

1582
01:23:57,600 --> 01:23:58,719
Speaker 2: they could be zero to.

1583
01:23:58,760 --> 01:24:03,400
Speaker 4: Four if they get zero and four, or if they

1584
01:24:03,400 --> 01:24:05,720
Speaker 4: go like for instance, if they go they could be

1585
01:24:05,840 --> 01:24:07,160
Speaker 4: one one and if they.

1586
01:24:07,080 --> 01:24:09,160
Speaker 3: Beat the Saints they're one and four, they could be

1587
01:24:09,160 --> 01:24:09,840
Speaker 3: one and seven.

1588
01:24:10,560 --> 01:24:12,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, beat the Saints to go one and four. Then

1589
01:24:12,880 --> 01:24:18,920
Speaker 2: you got Philly at Denver at Philly San France. Holy cow.

1590
01:24:20,040 --> 01:24:23,160
Speaker 2: I mean that is that is rough.

1591
01:24:23,280 --> 01:24:26,800
Speaker 3: It's so bad. That is so hard, that's so bad.

1592
01:24:26,880 --> 01:24:30,439
Speaker 2: So let's look at this so clearly. The Giants, you know,

1593
01:24:30,560 --> 01:24:33,920
Speaker 2: who had a horrible season last year, just based on

1594
01:24:33,920 --> 01:24:37,479
Speaker 2: the rotational schedule. They unfortunately draw the AFC West based

1595
01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:42,680
Speaker 2: on rotational schedule, and they draw the what is that

1596
01:24:42,800 --> 01:24:50,719
Speaker 2: the NFC North, I mean, yeah, got and they've got Yeah,

1597
01:24:50,840 --> 01:24:53,280
Speaker 2: that's why it's so bad. Plus they play in the NFC.

1598
01:24:53,560 --> 01:24:56,080
Speaker 4: Plus they've got these teams that were finished that are

1599
01:24:56,200 --> 01:24:58,879
Speaker 4: kind of on the rise, like New England and Denver,

1600
01:24:59,640 --> 01:25:01,479
Speaker 4: these two teams that are kind of rising up, that

1601
01:25:01,560 --> 01:25:03,800
Speaker 4: are kind of getting out of it, right, So they

1602
01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:06,800
Speaker 4: draw those teams as well. The Yeah, the only team

1603
01:25:06,840 --> 01:25:09,559
Speaker 4: on there that look to have a down year.

1604
01:25:11,200 --> 01:25:11,919
Speaker 3: Is the Saints.

1605
01:25:12,400 --> 01:25:14,559
Speaker 4: Everybody else team wants to be getting better, thinks they're

1606
01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:15,160
Speaker 4: getting better.

1607
01:25:15,280 --> 01:25:16,679
Speaker 3: Yeah, and their division.

1608
01:25:16,920 --> 01:25:19,680
Speaker 4: Most of these strength of schedule stuff reflects on the

1609
01:25:19,720 --> 01:25:22,440
Speaker 4: division that whatever team plays on. You got the Commanders

1610
01:25:22,920 --> 01:25:26,479
Speaker 4: who were surprise emergence last year. They're looking to do it.

1611
01:25:27,120 --> 01:25:30,960
Speaker 4: The of course the Eagles are the world champions in

1612
01:25:30,960 --> 01:25:33,880
Speaker 4: case you didn't know. And of course the Cowboys who

1613
01:25:33,920 --> 01:25:35,559
Speaker 4: are you know.

1614
01:25:35,840 --> 01:25:37,479
Speaker 2: Well, they're better at home than on the road, so

1615
01:25:37,520 --> 01:25:38,799
Speaker 2: if you got to play them down there.

1616
01:25:38,640 --> 01:25:42,600
Speaker 3: It's tricky, which they do one of the two matchups.

1617
01:25:42,920 --> 01:25:45,200
Speaker 2: So it did have some blowout home losses last year.

1618
01:25:45,240 --> 01:25:47,240
Speaker 2: Now that I think about it, they actually better on

1619
01:25:47,280 --> 01:25:49,400
Speaker 2: the road last year, so why they could get that.

1620
01:25:49,840 --> 01:25:53,599
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Giants are that's an uphill battle.

1621
01:25:54,160 --> 01:25:56,160
Speaker 2: I was looking at some of the other team schedules.

1622
01:25:56,160 --> 01:25:58,920
Speaker 2: Steve that had some tough starts. Baltimore has a pretty

1623
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:01,479
Speaker 2: challenging opening few weeks. Let me read them off to you,

1624
01:26:01,960 --> 01:26:05,800
Speaker 2: as you know, at Buffalo week one home against Cleveland, Okay,

1625
01:26:05,800 --> 01:26:09,400
Speaker 2: they should win that, but then Detroit at home at

1626
01:26:09,479 --> 01:26:14,160
Speaker 2: Kansas City Houston Rams. That's not an easy stretch to

1627
01:26:14,200 --> 01:26:18,160
Speaker 2: start the year. Cleveland home against Cincinnati and the opener,

1628
01:26:18,200 --> 01:26:23,040
Speaker 2: then at Baltimore, Green Bay at Detroit Minnesota. That's a

1629
01:26:23,080 --> 01:26:27,400
Speaker 2: tough one for Cleveland, and even Kansas City has a

1630
01:26:27,439 --> 01:26:31,120
Speaker 2: little tougher ro to ho Chargers at home, Philly at

1631
01:26:31,120 --> 01:26:35,479
Speaker 2: home at Giants should be a win. Then Baltimore at

1632
01:26:35,560 --> 01:26:38,720
Speaker 2: Jacksonville Detroit, so they got some you know, we were

1633
01:26:38,720 --> 01:26:41,840
Speaker 2: talking about how nicely Buffalo's three toughest games are spread

1634
01:26:41,840 --> 01:26:44,960
Speaker 2: out on the schedule. Baltimore at the front, Kansas City

1635
01:26:44,960 --> 01:26:47,280
Speaker 2: in the middle, Philly at the back. Kansas City does

1636
01:26:47,320 --> 01:26:50,960
Speaker 2: not have that. They have Philly week two, Baltimore Week four,

1637
01:26:51,320 --> 01:26:54,320
Speaker 2: Detroit week six. I mean that's all in the first

1638
01:26:54,360 --> 01:26:57,080
Speaker 2: six weeks of the season, like they got clumped together.

1639
01:26:57,120 --> 01:27:00,680
Speaker 2: They're tough games. That was That's something Bills have a

1640
01:27:00,800 --> 01:27:03,640
Speaker 2: very very favorable schedule, especially when you compare it to

1641
01:27:03,680 --> 01:27:05,840
Speaker 2: some of the other teams. We are up against the

1642
01:27:05,840 --> 01:27:07,800
Speaker 2: break here, got one segment to go, we'll see what

1643
01:27:07,800 --> 01:27:09,280
Speaker 2: the tweet sheeet has in store and see if we

1644
01:27:09,320 --> 01:27:11,000
Speaker 2: can squeeze in a phone call. Next here on One

1645
01:27:11,000 --> 01:27:11,400
Speaker 2: Bill's Live.

1646
01:27:11,439 --> 01:27:29,240
Speaker 19: Stay with us all right.

1647
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:30,960
Speaker 2: Back here on one Bill's Live. We want to try

1648
01:27:30,960 --> 01:27:32,800
Speaker 2: to take a quick phone call before we're done for

1649
01:27:32,840 --> 01:27:34,960
Speaker 2: the day, and we go to Frank in Buffalo.

1650
01:27:35,000 --> 01:27:35,200
Speaker 3: Next.

1651
01:27:35,200 --> 01:27:37,640
Speaker 2: What's up Frank? Hello, Yeah, Frank, you're on. What do

1652
01:27:37,680 --> 01:27:38,200
Speaker 2: you got for us?

1653
01:27:38,360 --> 01:27:41,400
Speaker 18: Hey, first time call a long time listener? Real quick?

1654
01:27:41,640 --> 01:27:41,880
Speaker 2: YEP.

1655
01:27:41,960 --> 01:27:46,600
Speaker 18: I noticed that most NFL stadiums have separate interests and

1656
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:49,719
Speaker 18: exits for players going in and out of the locker

1657
01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:54,800
Speaker 18: room and field. Does this new stadium have separate interests

1658
01:27:54,920 --> 01:27:55,640
Speaker 18: and exits?

1659
01:27:56,400 --> 01:27:58,439
Speaker 3: Yes? Yes it does, Yes it does.

1660
01:27:59,479 --> 01:28:02,920
Speaker 18: You know Okay, Yeah, that's all I needed to know.

1661
01:28:03,000 --> 01:28:04,080
Speaker 18: We've been discussing that.

1662
01:28:04,320 --> 01:28:06,599
Speaker 2: Okay, happy to help you, Frank, Thanks for the phone call.

1663
01:28:07,200 --> 01:28:09,479
Speaker 2: A couple of final thoughts here from the tweet sheet,

1664
01:28:09,520 --> 01:28:11,800
Speaker 2: brought to you by Corgan Moving Systems, official equipment moving

1665
01:28:11,840 --> 01:28:14,599
Speaker 2: company in the Buffalo Bills. Biggest takeaways from the schedule.

1666
01:28:14,920 --> 01:28:18,720
Speaker 2: The bust says one seed or bust, no excuses, so

1667
01:28:18,760 --> 01:28:22,040
Speaker 2: he clearly feels it's laying out favorably. Andrew says, we

1668
01:28:22,120 --> 01:28:26,000
Speaker 2: play in Miami later, less chance of heat exhaustion, and

1669
01:28:26,040 --> 01:28:29,280
Speaker 2: then Capozi says, if the Jets are mediocre as usual,

1670
01:28:29,320 --> 01:28:32,120
Speaker 2: the Bills can sit their starters in Week eighteen. Whether

1671
01:28:32,200 --> 01:28:34,840
Speaker 2: or not the other three AFCAST teams have improved as

1672
01:28:34,880 --> 01:28:36,720
Speaker 2: a big factor, It's been a soft division the last

1673
01:28:36,760 --> 01:28:39,679
Speaker 2: few years. Change is the only constant, though. Sean says,

1674
01:28:39,680 --> 01:28:41,800
Speaker 2: I'm glad there's no holiday games. Wish there were more

1675
01:28:41,840 --> 01:28:43,920
Speaker 2: one pm home games. Should be able to string some

1676
01:28:43,960 --> 01:28:46,120
Speaker 2: wins together early on before it gets a little tougher

1677
01:28:46,200 --> 01:28:48,680
Speaker 2: over the back half. One of the easier schedules we've

1678
01:28:48,720 --> 01:28:52,519
Speaker 2: had with this group. One seed or bust. Joey says,

1679
01:28:52,600 --> 01:28:55,320
Speaker 2: I love it. Everyone's home for the holidays, and we

1680
01:28:55,360 --> 01:28:57,120
Speaker 2: have the second lowest mileage in the league as far

1681
01:28:57,160 --> 01:28:59,240
Speaker 2: as travel goes, and no jet lag because we're not

1682
01:28:59,320 --> 01:29:04,320
Speaker 2: going overseas go bells. So it seems like people are

1683
01:29:04,360 --> 01:29:07,880
Speaker 2: pretty bullish on the schedule and on the team's prospects

1684
01:29:07,920 --> 01:29:08,559
Speaker 2: because of it.

1685
01:29:08,600 --> 01:29:11,639
Speaker 4: You always get some who like the Sunday one o'clock games,

1686
01:29:11,640 --> 01:29:14,120
Speaker 4: that routine. They love it and they kind of build

1687
01:29:14,120 --> 01:29:17,000
Speaker 4: their week around it. As long as you're playing good

1688
01:29:17,040 --> 01:29:19,200
Speaker 4: like the Bills are. With Josh and these guys, you're

1689
01:29:19,240 --> 01:29:21,680
Speaker 4: gonna get a ton of you know, a ton of

1690
01:29:22,160 --> 01:29:24,960
Speaker 4: four thirty games and primetime games, so you're gonna have

1691
01:29:25,000 --> 01:29:25,479
Speaker 4: to live with that.

1692
01:29:25,760 --> 01:29:27,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, Jack finely says it's gonna be a fun season.

1693
01:29:27,840 --> 01:29:29,720
Speaker 2: Don't love the litmus test that is the Ravens in

1694
01:29:29,720 --> 01:29:31,439
Speaker 2: front of the whole darn country to start with, But

1695
01:29:31,520 --> 01:29:33,920
Speaker 2: due to some tough opponents later on, Bills will need

1696
01:29:33,960 --> 01:29:36,679
Speaker 2: to make Hay early love. Four home games in September

1697
01:29:36,680 --> 01:29:39,240
Speaker 2: and early October for nice weather tailgates.

1698
01:29:39,360 --> 01:29:39,800
Speaker 3: Very nice.

1699
01:29:39,800 --> 01:29:43,000
Speaker 2: Amen to that one. Brother. Thanks for all your comments

1700
01:29:43,120 --> 01:29:45,920
Speaker 2: on the schedule. We appreciate it. We'll catch up with

1701
01:29:45,960 --> 01:29:49,320
Speaker 2: you tomorrow for an obl Friday fan mail bag. Get

1702
01:29:49,360 --> 01:29:51,759
Speaker 2: your questions in now at one Bill's Live on Twitter.

1703
01:30:01,400 --> 01:30:01,519
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