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Speaker 1: The One Bills Live presented by Kalita Health.

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Speaker 2: How is everybody doing on this Friday, beautiful sun splash

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Speaker 2: day here in Western New York Man. We waited a

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Speaker 2: long time for this, but glad it's finally here. Good

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Speaker 2: to have you with us. Chris Brown, Mandy Glad with

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Speaker 2: you on an obl fan Friday Mailbag edition of One

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Speaker 2: Bills Live. So get your questions rolling in now if

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Speaker 2: you have any on the bills. The NFL got the

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Speaker 2: league meetings coming up in short order in Minnesota. I

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Speaker 2: want to say, uh, And we'll have more on that

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Speaker 2: in a little bit second hour the show. We'll tell

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Speaker 2: you in a second. But yeah, the weather is here,

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Speaker 2: and too many times, Maddie, we go from like forty

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Speaker 2: degrees to eighty there is no spring. And I feel like,

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Speaker 2: at least this morning it felt spring like it wasn't

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Speaker 2: So it'd be nice if we have a couple of

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Speaker 2: like June.

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Speaker 3: You know, I went out for a walk this morning.

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Speaker 4: It was nice outside and it wasn't too warm, and

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Speaker 4: I think part of that was because the storm that

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Speaker 4: made it feel a little bit cooler, and it was great.

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Speaker 4: I tell people all the time, Buffalo does not have

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Speaker 4: much of a spring. We have a fake spring where

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Speaker 5: A couple of days where it's a little bit nice.

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Speaker 4: And then maybe they're still in the forecast a week later,

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Speaker 4: or it's back down in the forties. But I'm happy

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Speaker 4: warm weather is here. I want to know, Chris, how

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Speaker 4: are you feeling about the Knicks game tonight.

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm actually feeling pretty good. I want to maybe

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Speaker 2: I've convinced myself of this because this is how I'm thinking.

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Speaker 2: I'm thinking that the Celtics kind of shot their emotional

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Speaker 2: shot in Game five, first game without Tatum, who, as

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Speaker 2: we know, is out for the season with the achilles,

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Speaker 2: which you didn't you know, nobody's wishing that on anybody.

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Speaker 2: So I kind of felt like they summoned up all

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Speaker 2: was an elimination game for them at home, crowd behind you,

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Speaker 2: shoot the lights out, win the game. I was like, okay, fine,

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Speaker 2: so now I'm thinking. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm

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Speaker 2: not going to say I'm not nervous because it's the Knicks.

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Speaker 2: They find a way to disappoint all the time. But

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Speaker 2: in any event, I feel on their home court and

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Speaker 2: now with an eye idea of how the Celtics are

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Speaker 2: going to play without Tatum in the lineup, which they

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Speaker 2: had no roadmap for in Game five, I feel like

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Speaker 2: the team will be able to play better defense because

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Speaker 2: they use Jalen Brown is like a point forward. You know,

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Speaker 2: he's handling the ball. He's dish. I think he had

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Speaker 2: like nine assists or something. So because of all of that,

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Speaker 2: I think they'll now have a game plan for how

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Speaker 2: the Celtics are going to play without Tatum. They'll be

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Speaker 2: at home, it should be better. Hopefully the Celtics don't

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Speaker 2: shoot the lights out again. Another fifteen to sixty performance

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Speaker 2: from three would be nice. Yeah. So I want to

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Speaker 2: believe the Knicks can get it done tonight because if

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Speaker 4: Then Game seven gets scary. I haven't watched too much

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Speaker 4: NBA this year. I've turned it on the playoffs. Of course,

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Speaker 4: I usually root for the Chicago Bulls because I'm from Chicago.

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Speaker 3: They haven't had the.

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Speaker 4: Best little goings on the last few years hasn't been

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Speaker 4: the most fun to watch. But anyways, turning the TV

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Speaker 2: Bles fan saying that is pretty rare.

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Speaker 3: I know, I enjoyed the characters on the team.

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Speaker 2: You were a young kid in the nineties when Jordan

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Speaker 2: still surprising because I would find it hard. I bet

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Speaker 2: Yeah, because there are times in the regular season where

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Speaker 2: some reason, the League, which usually hands out the League

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Speaker 4: There's gonna be a lot of things to watch on

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Speaker 2: headed back to Saint John Fisher University for the twenty

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Speaker 4: Now those guys whip around in electric scooters at Saint

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Speaker 2: We should tell you that times, dates and ticket information

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Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills. The forty nine ers are working to

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Speaker 2: complete the sale of more than six percent of the

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Speaker 2: everybody's clear, they're not paying eight point five billion for

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Speaker 3: It is what it is.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to one of the best leagues that you can

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Speaker 3: Now that's a whole story.

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Speaker 2: Now, well, Bengals, Browns, let's go, and I believe, I

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Speaker 2: So the clock is ticking and what they decide there

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Speaker 3: We'll see how this is.

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Speaker 2: They don't accept losing.

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Speaker 2: I'm really curious, Like how far how ugly is this

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Speaker 2: Like, are we going all the way? Are we going

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Speaker 2: by a Kaleida Healthy, official healthcare system of the Buffalo Bills.

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Speaker 2: As you know, it is an obl fan Friday mailbag,

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Speaker 2: meetings next week, or you're still thinking about some schedule

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Speaker 2: questions and such. We saw Warren sharp Uh, one of

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Speaker 2: the analytics people out there, and he just put his

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Speaker 2: net rest day five together. I saw that the Lions

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Speaker 2: are going to have the most net days of rest

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Speaker 2: with their schedule plus fourteen days.

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Speaker 3: That's pretty nice.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the Raiders are in bad shape minus nineteen day

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Speaker 2: rest disadvantage. Based on how the schedule plays out for them,

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Speaker 2: it can make a difference sometimes.

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Speaker 3: So tell us where the bills are.

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Speaker 2: The Bills were minus seven days, Okay, they were near

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Speaker 2: the bottom. I think there are a lot of things

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Speaker 2: that are favorable about the bill schedule, as we have discussed,

451
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Speaker 2: not only on the Instant Reaction show the other night,

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Speaker 2: but just looking at it and talking here in the office.

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Speaker 2: There are a lot of favorable things about the bill schedule.

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Speaker 2: That's one thing that is not. I don't think it's egregious,

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Speaker 2: but it can add up sometimes, especially if you're a

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Speaker 2: team that's maybe got a few more injuries than you anticipated.

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Speaker 2: So we'll see. Hopefully it doesn't come back to bite

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Speaker 2: them in any way, shape or form.

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Speaker 4: Tod Tasker have anything fun to say about the schedule

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Speaker 4: that we didn't pick apart in our show, Well.

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Speaker 2: He said he proudly died on the Christmas Day hill

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Speaker 2: because there are no hard.

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Speaker 4: He probably died on the hill that he said we

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Speaker 4: were going to move up in the draft or back.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he died on two hills.

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Speaker 2: We're not picking thirty, but we're moving up or we're

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Speaker 2: moving back. We're playing on Christmas, eh And you know,

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Speaker 2: as we know, things usually happen in three So there's

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Speaker 2: probably one more that Steve has up his sleep. So

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Speaker 2: I'll keep you posted on what that is when it happens,

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Speaker 2: because it will probably be happening in the not too

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Speaker 2: distant future. Eight oh three, five point fifty one eighty eight,

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Speaker 2: five fifty two, five fifty those are the numbers to

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Speaker 2: join us with any question you have under the sun

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Speaker 2: about the Bill schedule, some of the other team's schedules.

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Speaker 2: I read you that Giant schedule yes on yesterday's show,

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Speaker 2: talk about the road to Hell. Oh my gosh. I

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Speaker 2: feel so bad for the Giants. And I know there's

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Speaker 2: probably not a whole lot of sympathy around these parts

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Speaker 2: for the Giants, but it's hard not to feel bad

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Speaker 2: for those poor guys with the schedule they have in

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Speaker 2: front of him. It is a gauntlet from from the

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Speaker 2: word go, and it does not let up. I think

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Speaker 2: I saw the odds makers know they're favored in one game,

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Speaker 2: in one of their seventeen games. Meanwhile, I don't know

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Speaker 2: if you saw this. The Bills have favored in every

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Speaker 2: single game they're playing, which is just whacky, Like you

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Speaker 2: almost never see that. And I don't know how to

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Speaker 2: feel about that. I don't know if I should be

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Speaker 2: excited or be like terrible, you know, start throwing salt

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Speaker 2: over my left shoulder, you know, avoid black cats. I

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Speaker 2: don't know what to do after seeing that. But I

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Speaker 2: don't know whether to be excited or concerned. But you

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Speaker 2: let us know what's on your mind. At eight oh

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Speaker 2: three oh five point fifty one, eighty eight, five fifty two,

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Speaker 2: five fifty those are the numbers to join us, and

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Speaker 2: we do have open lines for you don't have time

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Speaker 2: to give us a call, no problem, hit us up

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Speaker 2: with your question on the tweet sheet at one Bill's Live.

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Speaker 2: But we go to the phones and we lead off

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Speaker 2: today with Butch on the east Side, how you doing?

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Speaker 8: Butch well?

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Speaker 6: Good.

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Speaker 7: First of all, I want to say to my sister

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Speaker 7: from another mister, the queens of w WGR and MSGE

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Speaker 7: Bill is Madic Glabus honor to hear your voices. And

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Speaker 7: Chris Brownie, my brother from another mother.

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Speaker 8: I love you.

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Speaker 7: I love members of g I love wr DE fans

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Speaker 7: who listen and watch What's from the east Side. Love you'all.

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Speaker 7: Got a few things. I want to just piggyback on

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Speaker 7: something you guys are just thinking about. You were talking

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Speaker 7: about Cleveland Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals, you know, and

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Speaker 7: a lot of people, especially the young people that's coming

515
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Speaker 7: up that's running the world now, who are applaud is

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Speaker 7: doing out standing job. They might not understand who Mike

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Speaker 7: Brown was. Mike Brown was the co founder and also

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Speaker 7: the coach of the Cleveland Browns, who the Browns were

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Speaker 7: named after. That's one. Then he came and co founded

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Speaker 7: and purchased the Cincinnati Bengals and coach the Cincinnati Bengals,

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Speaker 7: who his son, Mike Brown bought the team from. So

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Speaker 7: that's very interesting that they both teams are both on

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Speaker 7: the city lines in their cities and they're talking about

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Speaker 7: getting new stadiums. And the picture of the Cleveland Browns

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Speaker 7: Dome Stadium is outstanding. And if Cincinnati, because you just

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Speaker 7: guys were laughing, I was laughing with you about walking

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Speaker 7: across the street. Still in twenty twenty five, if they

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Speaker 7: do get a new stadium way out two dumbstads will

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Speaker 7: be outstanding.

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Speaker 6: But that's put that on the show.

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Speaker 7: Secondly, I'm just what he wanted to just say about

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Speaker 7: Josh Allen. Josh Allen, you know, sometime and Brownie and Maddy,

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Speaker 7: you guys understand if it went to a restaurant and

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Speaker 7: you never tried something, and so why don't you try this,

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Speaker 7: and you tried and you get a good taste for something,

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Speaker 7: and every time you go back to that restaurant, you

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Speaker 7: always want to have a peace or slice or whoever it

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Speaker 7: may be. I really believe Josh Allen in this case.

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Speaker 7: You know, beforehand, before this last season, he was al

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Speaker 7: raised in the running for MVP. And you'll ask Josh,

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Speaker 7: you know, humble as Josh was as the class actors,

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Speaker 7: Josh was, Josh will say, you know, if I get it,

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Speaker 7: I get it. If I don't, I don't. This year

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Speaker 7: he actually has accomplished that mission that he should have

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Speaker 7: had made a couple of years ago. I believe Josh

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Speaker 7: has a taste of that now he doesn't want.

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Speaker 8: To let it go.

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Speaker 7: I really believe that this season will be better than last.

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Speaker 7: I really believe that he would try to keep that

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Speaker 7: focus on that, not just winning the MVP, but playing

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Speaker 7: at that level to be in the consideration to win MVP.

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Speaker 7: That's two last, but not least. And I got told,

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Speaker 7: I told my calf who answer to the phone, is

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Speaker 7: that the competition on this team this coming training camp.

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Speaker 7: To me personally, this is my opinion, I respect others,

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Speaker 7: is that I believe it's going to be the most

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Speaker 7: thickest competition on the d line of the machieving room.

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Speaker 7: I just think overall as a team, because you got

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Speaker 7: a lot of older players, but you've got a lot

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Speaker 7: of younger players. Undrafted free agents and everybody who are

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Speaker 7: ready to play. Now, that's going to turn up the gas,

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Speaker 7: to turn up the heat in that training camp room.

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Speaker 7: And when at fifty three and that practice squad is

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Speaker 7: made at the end of August, I think it's gonna

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Speaker 7: be something very special. Thanks so much for taking my call.

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Speaker 7: I love both of you, I love everybody. I just

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Speaker 7: have a great day, all right.

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Speaker 2: Thanks. But yeah, I think Josh is just that way.

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Speaker 2: I don't think winning the MVP is going to propel

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Speaker 2: him to do anything differently than he's already done every year.

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Speaker 2: I just think he's wired that way to begin with.

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Speaker 2: If there's a competitive situation, he's in it and he's

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Speaker 2: looking to win it. That's just who he is. The

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Speaker 2: other part, you know that he was talking about there

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Speaker 2: with the competition in training camp. I remember the last

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Speaker 2: night of the draft, Mattie I was asking Brandon Bean,

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Speaker 2: I said, what you've assembled on the defensive line so

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Speaker 2: far this offseason? I mean, you only have so many

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Speaker 2: jobs to hand out for a fifty three man roster.

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Speaker 2: For a defensive line. They've carried ten at times last

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Speaker 2: year I think it was nine and they would dress

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Speaker 2: eight every week. Go down the list, like, I don't

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Speaker 2: know if you have enough spots right now. So the

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Speaker 2: competition is going to be fierce on that defensive line

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Speaker 2: and in some other places too. I would agree with Butch.

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Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a hotly can tested

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Speaker 2: training camp. We know this is a difficult roster to make.

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Speaker 2: It has been for the last couple of years, but

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Speaker 2: this year especially, it's gonna be People are gonna be

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Speaker 2: laying it on the line in training camp.

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Speaker 4: They've infused a lot of youth inside of a lot

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Speaker 4: of these position groups, and you're gonna get younger players

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Speaker 4: who are hungry, who are ready to roll, and who

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Speaker 4: are ready.

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Speaker 3: To push the rest of the competition.

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Speaker 4: I think about a sixth round pick in defensive back

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Speaker 4: Dorian Strong and what he's gonna do for the cornerbacks.

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm really excited to see him on the

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Speaker 4: field and how he pushes other players. He's known for

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Speaker 4: being a really good press man corner. I'm excited to

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Speaker 4: see how some of these draft picks, undrafted free agents,

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Speaker 4: free agent pickups are going to push the rest of

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Speaker 4: the roster that's been in this building for several years.

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Speaker 4: I love that about training camp and like Sean McDermott says,

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Speaker 4: we put that together so we can get the best

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Speaker 4: out of these guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we have to take a break here, but more

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Speaker 2: of your phone calls when we get back. We'll lead

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Speaker 2: off with Ricky in California, and if you're holding an

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Speaker 2: ATO three oh five fifty, we'll get to you when

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Speaker 2: we return. On an OBL Fan Friday mail Bag edition

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Speaker 2: of One Bill's Live, Stay with Us all right back

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Speaker 2: here on Want Bills Live on an OBL Friday Fan

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Speaker 2: mail Bag edition. Chris Brown, Matty glad with you and

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Speaker 2: any of your questions are fair game here, so chime

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Speaker 2: in at ATO three oh five fifty one eight eight

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Speaker 2: eight five fifty two five fifty as we have open

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Speaker 2: lines for you there. But we go to the phones

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Speaker 2: and to Rick in California first this segment, What do

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Speaker 2: you got for us? Rick?

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Speaker 6: Hey there, Chris Maddie, thank you so much for taking

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Speaker 6: my call. Sure, I really like these Friday fan mail

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Speaker 6: bag days because I got a couple off the wall

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Speaker 6: questions I want to throw at you first. Uh, But

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Speaker 6: first of before I do that, I just want to

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Speaker 6: say with the scheduling, I love it. The schedule. I

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Speaker 6: think can't be really any better. The only thing I

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Speaker 6: would tweak if I could, is I like to take

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Speaker 6: our bye week and stretch that out, maybe to match

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Speaker 6: the Chiefs have it in week twelve, right, So I

631
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Speaker 6: like to match wherever the Chiefs had as far as

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Speaker 6: the bye week and the latest of the year. That's

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Speaker 6: the only thing I'd really changed. And maybe a couple

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Speaker 6: more one o'clock games two on that matter. But that

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Speaker 6: being said, I got a couple off the wall questions

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Speaker 6: for you. When the Houston team came back to the

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Speaker 6: league and after they moved from Houston to Tennessee, became

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Speaker 6: the Titans, and then they revised the team again and

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Speaker 6: changed it to the Texans. I'm wondering why didn't they

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Speaker 6: keep the Oiler name because it was so established and

641
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Speaker 6: everybody had so many, you know, fans with that team

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Speaker 6: already Steve and I know Steve was a part of

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Speaker 6: that team, and that's that. And the reason I'm asking

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Speaker 6: as well is because of the Cleveland situation, they have

645
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Speaker 6: to move their team to Baltimore. But then they came

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Speaker 6: back to Cleveland and still renamed the team the Browns,

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Speaker 6: you know, So I'm wondering how come the Oilers got

648
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Speaker 6: snubbed number one. Now my second question, I really wish

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Speaker 6: Steve was here today because I like to ask him

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Speaker 6: this question personally. A few like a couple months ago,

651
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Speaker 6: there was a question stating, if we can go back

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Speaker 6: to the nineties teams and pluck a player from that

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Speaker 6: team to bring to today, who would we pick? And

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Speaker 6: I'm wondering the reverse question. If Steve had a time

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Speaker 6: machine back in the nineties and came up to today,

656
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Speaker 6: who would he pluck from the mcderah era to go

657
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Speaker 6: back to the nineties and help them with the Super

658
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Speaker 6: Bowl teams? You know, I was just wondering off the

659
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Speaker 6: wall questions. What were you going to think about those

660
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Speaker 6: and go bills?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, those are pretty doozy ones. First of all, I

662
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,480
Speaker 2: know that Bud Adams, who was the owner of the

663
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Speaker 2: Houston Oilers before moving them to Tennessee, kept the team

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Speaker 2: name and the rights to the team name as owner

665
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Speaker 2: of the franchise. So that's why the new Houston franchise

666
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 2: couldn't use the Oiler's name. As a matter of fact,

667
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,959
Speaker 2: the first year they moved to Tennessee, they were still

668
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Speaker 2: called the Oilers. They were the Tennessee Oilers before they

669
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Speaker 2: finally rebranded themselves as the Tennessee Titans come of years later.

670
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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, the first year they played

671
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Speaker 2: in Tennessee, they played in Memphis at the Liberty Bowl,

672
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Speaker 2: not in Nashville, and the Bills actually played, uh the

673
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Speaker 2: Tennessee Oilers in the Liberty Bowl.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 2: And I went to that game. That was a that

676
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 2: was crazy. I was. I was. That was the first

677
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 2: year I was covering the team full time, and it

678
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 2: was just wild seeing an NFL game in a college stadium.

679
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 2: Wacky game. Two Bills lost the game, but I had

680
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,160
Speaker 2: a that was a blast of a road trip we went.

681
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 2: I went to Graceland, like saw on Saturday. I saw

682
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 2: Elvis's house and it was wild. And I went to

683
00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 2: We went to Beal Street that night Saturday night, which

684
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 2: is like the main strip for all the blues places,

685
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,239
Speaker 2: and went to BB King's, had a full rack of

686
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:54,280
Speaker 2: delicious ribs and then watched like seven or eight bands.

687
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 2: That was great. That was a great trip, might be

688
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 2: my greatest road trip. It was. It was unbelievable. I'm

689
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:00,920
Speaker 2: big BB king fan, so that was really cool to

690
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 2: go there too. But yeah, I can't use the Oilers

691
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 2: name because that franchise still owns the rights to it.

692
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:10,759
Speaker 2: You got a player from this Bills team, Maddie, that

693
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 2: you would put back on that nineties team. I mean,

694
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,720
Speaker 2: there weren't a lot of things that that nineties team.

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Speaker 6: Know.

696
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 2: They had a premiere pass rushing obviously in Bruce Smith

697
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,239
Speaker 2: and Cornelius Bennett. I mean, my god, Darryl Talley like

698
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 2: run down the list of people that they had. I'm

699
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 2: trying to think, like, I suppose Nate Odoms was a

700
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 2: good corner too. I was trying to think of, like

701
00:36:34,960 --> 00:36:38,920
Speaker 2: maybe you put a corner there. Their offense was loaded,

702
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 2: their offensive line was great, Thurman in the backfield, receivers galore,

703
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 2: Maybe a better pass catching tight end maybe like Kincaid.

704
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 2: I mean, metz Lars was good. He was huge, not

705
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Speaker 2: the athlete that Kincaid is in terms of speed. So

706
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 2: maybe if you wanted to add a little more speed

707
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Speaker 2: to tight end. But they had m Keller too. Yeah,

708
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Speaker 2: that's a good question. I don't know. I mean, I'm

709
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 2: not benching a Hall of Fame quarterback and Jim Kelly,

710
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Speaker 2: but I guess if you wanted a better athletic quarterback

711
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,319
Speaker 2: that could run some I guess Josh would be a consideration.

712
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 4: Can you run a two QB system there? Because I'm interested.

713
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, that might be because I think even Jim would

714
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 2: admit that Josh is a superior athlete to him, So

715
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 2: that might be a consideration there. But I know a

716
00:37:30,120 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 2: lot of Bills fans would say it's possamous.

717
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 3: Throw a healthy Matt Mlano in there.

718
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:41,560
Speaker 2: Maybe Milano, Yeah, yeah, maybe Dan a good linebacker crew

719
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Speaker 2: though man, Darryl Talley, Cornelius Bennett. I think Conlin was

720
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:47,920
Speaker 2: on the ninety team. I don't think he played. He

721
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:52,240
Speaker 2: did not play on all four Super Bowl teams. That's tough,

722
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:53,879
Speaker 2: tough one, Rick.

723
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Speaker 4: And when you talk to these players now as they

724
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Speaker 4: reflect on those years, it seemed like they had so

725
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 4: many pieces and I just, you know, having conversations with

726
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 4: somebody like Darryl Talley just reflecting on what it was

727
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 4: like to play back then and how just how fierce

728
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Speaker 4: they were as a defense.

729
00:38:18,080 --> 00:38:23,919
Speaker 2: Yeah and yeah, and look when you cross different eras too.

730
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 2: That's what also makes it difficult because I think, you know,

731
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Speaker 2: with advances and technology and training and all of that stuff,

732
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 2: the athletes today are bigger, faster, stronger for a reason

733
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Speaker 2: because the training methods and the dietary you know, regimens

734
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 2: and all of that stuff is more advanced now, even

735
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 2: the medical advances to get players back on the field

736
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 2: sooner after surgeries like knee injuries. ACL knee injuries were

737
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 2: at least a season. Now you get guys coming back

738
00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:58,000
Speaker 2: six seven months, like Adrian Peterson did it in seven months.

739
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Speaker 2: And I mean it's crazy so well. I think that's

740
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 2: what makes it challenging too. But good questions, Rick, I

741
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 2: like him. I don't have a definitive answer, but it

742
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:12,360
Speaker 2: might be Josh as crazy as that is. Let's go

743
00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 2: to Aaron in Oregon next. What's up Aeron.

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00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 9: Hey, good to talk to you guys, Chris and Maddie.

745
00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:21,720
Speaker 9: Before I get in, what I wanted to talk about,

746
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Speaker 9: just since we were on the subject, I would choose

747
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Speaker 9: probably either o Cyrus Torrance or Christian ben For to

748
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Speaker 9: go back in time, just to plug a couple of

749
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Speaker 9: small little holes. Not like we had any holes in

750
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 9: the nineties, but I think those two guys would farewell

751
00:39:39,000 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 9: in any era.

752
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 2: I like that.

753
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Speaker 9: And yeah, and then I wanted to talk a little

754
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 9: bit of schedule. I think that Baltimore game is going

755
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 9: to be a huge test and they're going to be,

756
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 9: you know, ready to prove to the world that they

757
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 9: deserve to be in the FC Championship game. So I

758
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 9: think that's going to be a really tough one. But

759
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 9: after that, if we can win that one being the

760
00:40:03,840 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 9: Bills homewhere that I am I'm like, could we go

761
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Speaker 9: seventeen and oh here? Because like I'm you know, doing

762
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Speaker 9: the WL thing next to each game, and I'm like,

763
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Speaker 9: we can win, you know, like we could win them all.

764
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Speaker 9: So I just wondered, you know what you guys think

765
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Speaker 9: about that if if you think, you know, after Baltimore

766
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:28,160
Speaker 9: we have a pretty good row. And then a little

767
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,240
Speaker 9: bit getting ahead of myself, if if we are sixteen

768
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Speaker 9: and oh going into the last week and have the

769
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Speaker 9: first seed wrapped up, would we try to try to

770
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Speaker 9: get that perfect record and shut up to Miami Dolphins?

771
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Speaker 9: So let me know when those.

772
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Speaker 2: Wow, Aaron is bullish on the schedule. I don't know

773
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Speaker 2: if I'm ready to go that far. I kind of

774
00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 2: envision a you know, a thirteen and four season. I think,

775
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Speaker 2: if everything goes right, fourteen and three because it's very

776
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Speaker 2: hard for teams to play at their peak for eighteen weeks.

777
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,359
Speaker 2: I mean, we saw it last year. The Bills come

778
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 2: out of the shoot like a house on fire. After

779
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:13,399
Speaker 2: three games. They're the highest scoring team in football and

780
00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:18,400
Speaker 2: killing teams like killing teams. Forty seven to ten was

781
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 2: the Jaguars score right on Monday Night Football, thirty one

782
00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 2: to ten over the Dolphins the week before. And then

783
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 2: they were in a shootout with the Cardinals when they

784
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:30,480
Speaker 2: didn't play their best football, certainly defensively and even offensively,

785
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 2: and they won that one like thirty four to twenty

786
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:36,959
Speaker 2: six or something. So highest scoring team in football after

787
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:39,399
Speaker 2: three games. And then they lay an egg in Week

788
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 2: four on the road at Baltimore and lose thirty five

789
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:45,280
Speaker 2: to ten. I mean, they got steam rolled in that game.

790
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 2: And look, I'll be the first to tell people they

791
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 2: didn't have Matt Milano, Terrell Bernard, or tarn Johnson in

792
00:41:51,280 --> 00:41:55,120
Speaker 2: that game, but their offense didn't do a whole lot.

793
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Speaker 2: So because of you know, the ebbs and flows of

794
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 2: team perform. I mean, as hard as teams work to

795
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:04,759
Speaker 2: be consistent, and believe me, the Bills have been one

796
00:42:04,760 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 2: of the most consistent teams in playing at a certain

797
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:09,919
Speaker 2: level every single week. There are going to be down

798
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:11,959
Speaker 2: weeks you want to talk to me about the next

799
00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 2: five games after Baltimore and the Bills winning those, I'll

800
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:18,400
Speaker 2: listen to that. Yeah, yeah, that's very favorable. But sixteen

801
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 2: and oh, I hope they have that problem of do

802
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 2: we go for the undefeated record or wait for the playoffs.

803
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:27,440
Speaker 2: I hope that's their problem. I just don't think it

804
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:27,840
Speaker 2: will be.

805
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:30,319
Speaker 3: That would be amazing, But there's some tough games in there.

806
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 4: Starting the season against the Ravens, then you hit the

807
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 4: Chiefs soon after your bye week, a couple weeks after

808
00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 4: your bye week, and then you see the Eagles toward

809
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 4: the end of the season when everybody is going to

810
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:44,239
Speaker 4: be if they haven't already locked it up at that point, Yeah,

811
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:48,000
Speaker 4: trying to fight as hard as they can to either

812
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 4: prove hey we can contend with a team like the

813
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:53,640
Speaker 4: Philadelphia Eagles, or hey we need to pick up a

814
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:54,560
Speaker 4: couple more wins here.

815
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Cincinnati's been a bugaboo team for the Bills.

816
00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 2: I mean, Sean McDermott against the Bengals is one in

817
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 2: three counting playoffs, and so is Josh Allen for that matter.

818
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:09,919
Speaker 2: So there are little places in the schedule that could

819
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:13,600
Speaker 2: get challenging. And look, I'm glad you're that optimistic, but

820
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 2: I'm trying to be a little bit more of a

821
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:19,279
Speaker 2: realist here and not get too overly excited, especially in May.

822
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 2: I'll never make it to September. We got to take

823
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:23,319
Speaker 2: a break here, but more of your phone calls when

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844
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845
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 3: I just bite into it, so.

846
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Speaker 2: You just you want the whole experience. I don't know

847
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Speaker 2: why I started doing that as a kid, and I

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00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:44,640
Speaker 2: still eat it the same way. I peel all the

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Speaker 2: mailbag edition of One Bill's Live. Any question you've got

852
00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 2: under the sun about the Bills, the league? Maybe the

853
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,839
Speaker 2: schedule release fired away at us at eight oh three,

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Speaker 2: five point fifty and we go to Carl on a

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Speaker 2: sale next. What do you got for us? Carl?

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Speaker 6: I'd like to talk about the new stadium.

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00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,400
Speaker 8: Okay, are they gonna have like a wall of fame

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Speaker 8: or something like that.

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00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:19,279
Speaker 2: I would anticipate, Yes. I believe that they're going to,

860
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 2: you know, take all of the as much history from

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Speaker 2: the old building as possible and reincorporate it into the

862
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 2: new facility. I don't I can't guarantee that it's going

863
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 2: to look exactly the same. I would imagine it would

864
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 2: be modernized to some degree. I don't know if you

865
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 2: have any information on that, but I'm I'm fully expecting

866
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,439
Speaker 2: the Wall of Fame to exist in some form or

867
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Speaker 2: fashion in the new stadium.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, And we know the guys who are helping with

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Speaker 4: design and all that stuff, and you better believe they

870
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:52,640
Speaker 4: want to respect the eras before us and the players

871
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 4: that came before this current roster and the rosters to come.

872
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:58,560
Speaker 4: So there's going to be something. I don't know exactly what,

873
00:45:58,760 --> 00:45:59,880
Speaker 4: but I'm excited to see.

874
00:46:00,120 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, And look with the detail focus that the designers

875
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 2: have had from the jump, you know, kind of led

876
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 2: by Frank Cravanna and John Polkin. You know, in our

877
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:19,040
Speaker 2: office over here, there is no way right that the

878
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:22,120
Speaker 2: Wall of Fame has been overlooked in any way, shape

879
00:46:22,200 --> 00:46:26,239
Speaker 2: or form. It will exist in some way in the

880
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,560
Speaker 2: new building. And you know, it's interesting there's been a

881
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 2: little bit of a hiatus in Wall of Fame inductees,

882
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 2: and I wouldn't be surprised if it's because they want

883
00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 2: to get to the new stadium before they kind of

884
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 2: fire that back up again, because we haven't had a

885
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame inductee in a little bit of time here,

886
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 2: so it'll be interesting. I would anticipate once they're in

887
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:50,959
Speaker 2: the new stadium that that'll probably ramp back up again

888
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 2: and we'll probably get some deserving Hall of Fame inductees

889
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 2: in there in the not too distant future. Eric Moles

890
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 2: comes to mind other players of that ILK that are

891
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 2: not yet up on the Wall of Fame. Eight oh three,

892
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 2: five point fifty one eight eight five fifty two, five

893
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:09,879
Speaker 2: fifty the numbers to get on board. But let's take

894
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,680
Speaker 2: a look at a question from the mailbag tweet sheet.

895
00:47:14,120 --> 00:47:17,640
Speaker 2: Ron asks, I don't understand three of the six teams

896
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 2: playing on Thanksgiving and Christmas are the same. Can't dispute

897
00:47:22,719 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 2: their high draw teams, but there are certainly a few

898
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 2: more worthy of the spotlight, not to mention giving up

899
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 2: two major holidays with their families. Yeah, I get it.

900
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 2: I know why you feel that way, because it's the

901
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 2: Chiefs that are playing on both holidays.

902
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 3: And then with the Lions.

903
00:47:40,520 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 2: The Lions, Yes, well, the Lions are a fixture on

904
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving anyway, which we knew, but yeah, they also did

905
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 2: put them on Christmas, so yeah, I mean, should could

906
00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 2: they have spread the wealth out a little bit more

907
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:54,520
Speaker 2: for the holiday games.

908
00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is interesting.

909
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 2: I mean we did. We did. You asked Mike North

910
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 2: about that in our Instant Reaction show, and we reracked

911
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 2: that interview on the show yesterday so people could hear

912
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 2: some of the insight he provided. And he was explaining

913
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 2: that you have the Thursday night schedule, which belongs to Amazon,

914
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 2: but then the holiday schedule has Thanksgiving and Christmas both

915
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,800
Speaker 2: on a Thursday this year, and only one of the

916
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 2: Christmas Day games goes to Amazon. The other two go

917
00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:23,799
Speaker 2: to Netflix. And he was telling us how Amazon is

918
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:28,120
Speaker 2: very adamant about the teams they are given for their

919
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 2: Thursday Night slate, and because Dallas and Kansas City are

920
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:37,240
Speaker 2: such ratings magnets, they put them in the holiday slots.

921
00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 2: And you can only think have a maximum of two

922
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 2: Thursday Night games a year, although I think there's one

923
00:48:43,160 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 2: team with more than that. Anyway, basically, the league could

924
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:50,799
Speaker 2: not give them Dallas in Kansas City Amazon when they

925
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 2: wanted them, so they said, well, what's the next best thing,

926
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:59,320
Speaker 2: and it became Philadelphia and Buffalo. And that's why Buffalo

927
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 2: has two Thursday Night games in different places than the holidays.

928
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 2: And it's why Philadelphia has some Thursday night games in

929
00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:10,880
Speaker 2: different spots as well, because he told us he said

930
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 2: Buffalo Philly was a consideration for Christmas Day. So was

931
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 2: Buffalo Cincinnati, he said in some iterations of the schedule,

932
00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 2: so or drafts. I guess you would say about the schedule.

933
00:49:23,560 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 2: So do with that what you will. It didn't turn

934
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 2: out that way, but that's part of the reasoning that

935
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 2: at least Mike North gave us. And that's the guy

936
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:34,239
Speaker 2: in the room where it happens, so he would know.

937
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 2: So hopefully that helps explain it at least a little bit.

938
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 2: I know there were some people that were disappointed that

939
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 2: the bills were not on either of the holidays. I

940
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:46,160
Speaker 2: think I was pretty convinced we were gonna be on Christmas.

941
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 2: Christmas movie about the bills coming out this year. You know,

942
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 2: it snows here. We have a lot of great home opponents.

943
00:49:54,400 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 2: I thought we were isshoeing, and as we know, Steve

944
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 2: Tasker was ready to write it in stone and it

945
00:49:59,640 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 2: didn't happen.

946
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:02,640
Speaker 4: So it's been a couple of years since the bills

947
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 4: were on holidays.

948
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 3: Not this year. We'll see what next year.

949
00:50:05,640 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 2: Yes, twenty twenty two was the last time was the

950
00:50:07,640 --> 00:50:11,399
Speaker 2: Thanksgiving game in Detroit. We have to take a break here,

951
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,400
Speaker 2: but when we come back, we're going to be joined

952
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:18,839
Speaker 2: by NFL Media senior national columnist Judy Bautista. She's going

953
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:21,279
Speaker 2: to be headed up to the owners meetings in Minneapolis

954
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 2: next week. We want the low down from Judy on

955
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 2: the ground that's going to be covered and what else

956
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 2: of major importance will be on the agenda. To start

957
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,279
Speaker 2: our number two here on One Bill's Live presented by

958
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:34,800
Speaker 2: Colida Health. It's Buffalo Bills.

959
00:50:34,640 --> 00:51:24,240
Speaker 1: Radio, the One Bill's Live presented by Calllia Health.

960
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:26,839
Speaker 2: All right, our number two here on a Friday, Chris Brown,

961
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,880
Speaker 2: Matti lab with you on One Bill's Live and please

962
00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:33,960
Speaker 2: to welcome in now NFL Media senior national columnist Judy Battista,

963
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 2: who will be taking in owners' meetings in Minneapolis next week,

964
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 2: and we wanted to kind of get the lowdown from

965
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:45,240
Speaker 2: Judy as to what's going to be crossing owners desks

966
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 2: and what's going to be voted on, what's going to

967
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:50,239
Speaker 2: be approved, what might get tabled all over again, Judy,

968
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 2: thanks for the time. First and foremost, it was interesting

969
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:57,359
Speaker 2: that earlier this week it kind of the story kind

970
00:51:57,360 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 2: of popped a little bit. But the twenty twenty eight

971
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:05,560
Speaker 2: Olympic flag football the language that's being poured over by

972
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 2: probably an innumerable amount of attorneys for players, and obviously

973
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 2: the players union is going to be involved. Here are

974
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 2: we just in the very very preliminary stages of this

975
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 2: getting properly adjudicated by all lawyers involved.

976
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 8: I think so. I think everybody's on the same page

977
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:27,360
Speaker 8: that they want NFL players to be able to play

978
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 8: in the Olympics. First of all, the players want to

979
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:31,959
Speaker 8: play in the Olympics, so that means the union wants

980
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:34,279
Speaker 8: them to be able to play. The league definitely wants

981
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:37,520
Speaker 8: them to be able to play. It's fantastic promotion for

982
00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 8: football and flag football, but it's going to come down

983
00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:45,319
Speaker 8: to the language. I mean, obviously teams. I would think

984
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,440
Speaker 8: the only people who don't want an NFL players playing

985
00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:51,280
Speaker 8: in the Olympics is probably team owners and general managers

986
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 8: and coaches, who of course are worried about injuries. And

987
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 8: so it's all going to come down to how they

988
00:52:57,200 --> 00:53:01,920
Speaker 8: write the language protecting teams. If there's God forbid, a

989
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:05,839
Speaker 8: very big injury, you know, I know, people probably say, well,

990
00:53:06,000 --> 00:53:08,759
Speaker 8: black football you know they're not going to listen. We've

991
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:12,240
Speaker 8: seen this happen in the World Baseball Classic. Non contact injuries,

992
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:16,839
Speaker 8: just freak injuries knock players out. So I they will

993
00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 8: get it done though, because everybody wants the players to

994
00:53:19,600 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 8: be able to play. I mean, as soon as they

995
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:24,400
Speaker 8: announced that flag was going to be in the Olympics

996
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 8: in twenty eight, you saw current players, you know, raising

997
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:31,760
Speaker 8: their hands saying they wanted in. So I am sure

998
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 8: it's going to get worked out. It's probably going to

999
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:35,839
Speaker 8: take an awful lot of work from the lawyers, though.

1000
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 4: I know it'll take a lot of work from a

1001
00:53:38,040 --> 00:53:40,000
Speaker 4: lot of people, you know, on the outside, but with

1002
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 4: in the inside.

1003
00:53:41,239 --> 00:53:42,200
Speaker 3: Think about the players.

1004
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:44,400
Speaker 4: A lot of kids dream about being a part of

1005
00:53:44,440 --> 00:53:47,680
Speaker 4: the Olympics, and maybe NFL players will get to do

1006
00:53:47,719 --> 00:53:49,799
Speaker 4: that as well. I think that's awesome and something that

1007
00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:52,120
Speaker 4: could draw a lot more attention to the Olympics as

1008
00:53:52,160 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 4: well in twenty twenty eight. But moving on to other

1009
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:56,959
Speaker 4: things that are going to be discussed at the owner

1010
00:53:57,160 --> 00:54:00,200
Speaker 4: owners meetings. We think about the last owners meetings and

1011
00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 4: discussions were about playoff seeding and about the Tush push.

1012
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 4: What are your expectations for those types of discussions.

1013
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:13,560
Speaker 8: Well, they're both going to happen in Minneapolis. The playoff

1014
00:54:14,040 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 8: receding is basically they the Detroit proposal is that you

1015
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 8: would just take the you know, the four division winners

1016
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:23,720
Speaker 8: and the three wildcards from each conference, and you would

1017
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:27,440
Speaker 8: seed them according to record. The fact that you're a

1018
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 8: division champion would not matter, so you would just go,

1019
00:54:31,440 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 8: you know, one through seven according to record, which is

1020
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:38,280
Speaker 8: obviously a huge change from the way things have always

1021
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 8: been done in the NFL, where the division winners are

1022
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:44,359
Speaker 8: the top seeds, and then you have the wild card

1023
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 8: teams and you would get those the division winners would

1024
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 8: get the home game. I don't know. I was surprised

1025
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:54,279
Speaker 8: that there was as much interest in this as there

1026
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 8: was at the March meeting, and that Roger Goodell was

1027
00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:00,000
Speaker 8: actually one of the people who was sort of interested

1028
00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:04,760
Speaker 8: and exploring it further. The concern is, this is why

1029
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:08,000
Speaker 8: there's this proposal, is we see this every year A

1030
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 8: few teams, Buffalo is one of them, right, A few

1031
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:12,839
Speaker 8: teams they pull away in the division and so they

1032
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:15,280
Speaker 8: have the opportunity to rest their players in the final

1033
00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:18,759
Speaker 8: game or even two games of the season. You know,

1034
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 8: that makes for bad games and competitive imbalance, and you know,

1035
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 8: the networks don't want meaningless games. You know, if they

1036
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:29,759
Speaker 8: have the Buffalo Bills on the schedule, they want Josh

1037
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 8: Allen playing the game, playing the whole game. And you

1038
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:36,000
Speaker 8: certainly understand the interests of the teams wanting to rest

1039
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:40,000
Speaker 8: their players to have them at peak condition for January,

1040
00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:43,480
Speaker 8: but there's a competitive equity situation there too, because if

1041
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 8: you have a team that's trying to get into the

1042
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:49,000
Speaker 8: playoffs that has to win a game, you know, in

1043
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:52,479
Speaker 8: week eighteen, and Josh Allen is resting because the Bills

1044
00:55:52,520 --> 00:55:55,560
Speaker 8: have already locked up their seating. Well, obviously that's a

1045
00:55:55,680 --> 00:55:59,120
Speaker 8: huge difference from playing a Buffalo Bills team at full strength,

1046
00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 8: So that's what they're weighing. But there has always been

1047
00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 8: a traditional group of owners who felt very strongly that

1048
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:12,200
Speaker 8: division winning a division should be rewarded and that those

1049
00:56:12,239 --> 00:56:14,680
Speaker 8: teams should have the higher seeds and those teams should

1050
00:56:14,680 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 8: host playoff games. So I would think this is going

1051
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:21,120
Speaker 8: to be a very long conversation if it even comes

1052
00:56:21,160 --> 00:56:24,520
Speaker 8: to a vote this go around. And as for the

1053
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:28,719
Speaker 8: Tush push, we will see. I mean, what happened in

1054
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 8: March was they tabled it. There was when they sort

1055
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 8: of did a you know, raise your hand. What do

1056
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:37,239
Speaker 8: you think There were like sixteen teams who wanted it out.

1057
00:56:37,840 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 8: You need twenty four, so there's still quite a ways

1058
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,880
Speaker 8: to go. But one of the things that came up was,

1059
00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:45,000
Speaker 8: like back in like two thousand and five, they got

1060
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:47,880
Speaker 8: language out of the rule book that prohibited at that

1061
00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 8: time pushing or pulling a runner to a system, and

1062
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:53,279
Speaker 8: so sort of the question was like, well, why'd you

1063
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 8: get rid of that language in the first place, and

1064
00:56:55,840 --> 00:56:58,279
Speaker 8: could you just go back and put that language into

1065
00:56:58,280 --> 00:57:01,200
Speaker 8: the playbook. It wouldn't necessarily just be goal line situation,

1066
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:04,200
Speaker 8: and it wouldn't necessarily just be you know, pushing our quarterback.

1067
00:57:04,239 --> 00:57:07,640
Speaker 8: It would be any player anywhere on the field pushing

1068
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:11,080
Speaker 8: or pulling would be prohibited to gain yardage. So we

1069
00:57:11,120 --> 00:57:14,560
Speaker 8: will see there's also a safety element there. You know,

1070
00:57:14,640 --> 00:57:16,800
Speaker 8: there's there's a whole bunch of elements. A lot of

1071
00:57:16,840 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 8: people say like, this just doesn't look like a football play,

1072
00:57:19,160 --> 00:57:21,960
Speaker 8: This looks too much like a rugby play. And then

1073
00:57:22,000 --> 00:57:25,080
Speaker 8: the safety element is, you know, the owners, the competition

1074
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 8: committee had heard from doctor Allen Sills, the chief Medical Officer,

1075
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 8: would basically warn them and said, you know, you don't

1076
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 8: have any injury data now, and that is fortunate, but

1077
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:38,520
Speaker 8: this is rife for a catastrophic injury, and do you

1078
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:41,240
Speaker 8: really want to wait for that to happen before you act?

1079
00:57:41,480 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 8: So we'll see which way goes again. You know, if

1080
00:57:45,320 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 8: you had sixteen before, you've had a few months here

1081
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:50,800
Speaker 8: to do some arm twisting. But you know, getting another

1082
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 8: eight is still a long way to go, so we'll see.

1083
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 2: Yeah. And the interesting part about that, Judy is the

1084
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Speaker 2: talk about putting the two thousand and five language back

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Speaker 2: in to the rule book. It seems a little counterintuitive

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00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 2: when you're trying to get more people to agree to,

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00:58:07,160 --> 00:58:10,160
Speaker 2: you know, voting on something, you don't expand it to

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00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:13,360
Speaker 2: every play that would involve pushing of another player. You

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00:58:13,400 --> 00:58:16,080
Speaker 2: would think you would fine tune it and maybe narrow

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Speaker 2: the scope a little bit. Here they're windening it to

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Speaker 2: every play that would include a push. Do you understand

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Speaker 2: the logic behind perhaps taking that angle to this to

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Speaker 2: get the necessary votes?

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Speaker 8: I do, because I think that that it was a

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00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 8: familiar rule that was already on the books, and so

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Speaker 8: they can say, like, listen, we took that out for reasons,

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Speaker 8: you know, it sort of had this unintended consequence that

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Speaker 8: opened the door to this play that we need to

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Speaker 8: get out of the game. And so let's just put

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Speaker 8: that language in maybe, you know, you know, like edit

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Speaker 8: that language a little bit, but basically put it in again.

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Speaker 8: It would be anywhere on the field, because again, what

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Speaker 8: they don't want is this play. You know, if you're

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Speaker 8: in a four inches at the fifty yard line, they

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00:59:02,800 --> 00:59:05,920
Speaker 8: also don't want you running a tush push at that

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00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 8: point because it's still a dangerous play and it's still

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Speaker 8: a play that they feel doesn't really look like football.

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Speaker 8: And I think if you broaden it and take out

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00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:18,040
Speaker 8: all plays pushing or pulling, you know, it doesn't feel

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Speaker 8: as much like you're penalizing one team that just happens

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00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 8: to execute that play extremely well and nobody has been

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Speaker 8: able to stop it, which is what it has felt like, right.

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Speaker 8: It feels like you're just penalizing the Eagles, and they

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Speaker 8: don't want that. So I think that's why, you you know,

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Speaker 8: you sort of broad in the language instead.

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Speaker 4: What other big ticket items are you expecting to be

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Speaker 4: talked about at the owner's meetings next week?

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Speaker 8: Well, you know, you always get a review of the season. Certainly,

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Speaker 8: you always hear a lot of scuttle butt about the

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Speaker 8: schedule because the schedule just came out a few days ago.

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Speaker 8: You know, you hear from a lot of owners talking

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Speaker 8: in the hallways about what they like and don't like

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Speaker 8: about their schedule. And we can get into that. But

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Speaker 8: the you know, the rules are the two big things,

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Speaker 8: and then the Olympics are you know, are going to

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Speaker 8: be a very big thing.

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Speaker 2: I do want to kind of talk about that playoff

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Speaker 2: seating thing a little bit more here because to your

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Speaker 2: point about you know, old school owners and the value

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Speaker 2: of having a division title, I think the counter argument

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01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 2: to one through sevens one through seven seating based solely

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Speaker 2: on record, is well, then why have divisions at all?

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Speaker 2: Don't have divisions at all? Then if that's the way

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Speaker 2: you're going to do it, here's here's a Chris Brown proposal.

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Speaker 8: And by the way, and I don't think they want

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Speaker 8: to get rid of divisions because everybody loves division rivalries.

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Speaker 8: I don't want to decrease the importance of like, you know, Buffalo,

1138
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Speaker 8: New England, like you don't want to do that. So

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Speaker 8: that's the you know, that's what they're weighing.

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Speaker 2: I want to kind of take it a step further

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Speaker 2: because I was wondering if you could put like a

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Speaker 2: provision in there that basically a team with a better

1143
01:00:57,520 --> 01:01:00,600
Speaker 2: record than a division winner that is sub five, because

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Speaker 2: I think that's those are the ones that really rankle teams.

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01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:06,360
Speaker 2: I remember Seattle a few years ago was seven and

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01:01:06,560 --> 01:01:09,439
Speaker 2: nine and won the division. I'm wondering if you could

1147
01:01:09,440 --> 01:01:11,760
Speaker 2: put language in there that if a division winner has

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01:01:11,760 --> 01:01:14,320
Speaker 2: a record under five hundred, well then they moved to

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Speaker 2: the back of the line. They still make the playoffs

1150
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:18,680
Speaker 2: because they won their division, but they're the seven seed

1151
01:01:18,720 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 2: because they only won seven dang.

1152
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Speaker 8: Games, right. That was actually something that was sort of

1153
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:27,120
Speaker 8: discussed on the side in March was could you do

1154
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:29,640
Speaker 8: that if you're a sub five hundred team? Would you

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01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:32,560
Speaker 8: play the first round so the wildcard round with the

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01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:35,600
Speaker 8: normal seedings, and then could you receed going into the

1157
01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:38,800
Speaker 8: second round? Like, there's all kinds of things they can

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01:01:38,880 --> 01:01:41,240
Speaker 8: do if they want to do it. The question is

1159
01:01:42,200 --> 01:01:45,000
Speaker 8: could they reach a consensus quickly enough to put it

1160
01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:48,320
Speaker 8: in place? Yeah this season, I mean you're already in

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Speaker 8: mid May, you know, do you have enough votes to

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01:01:51,880 --> 01:01:55,040
Speaker 8: change it that dramatically? But again, what they're The thing

1163
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:59,360
Speaker 8: that hangs over this is they hate those late season games, right,

1164
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:03,480
Speaker 8: and everybody understands why teams rest their players, but you

1165
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:07,480
Speaker 8: know the optics of it, you're just getting non competitive

1166
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Speaker 8: games and nobody wants that.

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Speaker 4: Oh, that's a lot to work through because you think

1168
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:15,360
Speaker 4: about it from an owner's perspective, the TV perspective, and

1169
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:18,880
Speaker 4: understanding very much that the end of the season games

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Speaker 4: resting players is no fun to watch. But then you

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Speaker 4: think about it from the team perspective and you think, no, no, no,

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Speaker 4: no no, do not take those couple of weeks away

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Speaker 4: from me if I can rest my starters, because well.

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Speaker 8: It's also it's also a reward if you're a team

1175
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Speaker 8: that's good enough that you have put your foot on

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01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:37,400
Speaker 8: the gals all season and have pulled so far ahead

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Speaker 8: in your division and have locked up your seating and

1178
01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:42,440
Speaker 8: locked up your division and locked up your seating, like

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01:02:43,600 --> 01:02:45,919
Speaker 8: you know, that's sort of your reward. You get to sit,

1180
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Speaker 8: Josh Allen if that's what you want to do, like

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01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:50,920
Speaker 8: you know. So there's a lot to work through. And

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Speaker 8: again it's already mid May. Can they possibly work through

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Speaker 8: this in time for the upcoming season? I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was going to be my last question for you, Judy,

1185
01:02:59,040 --> 01:03:01,760
Speaker 2: like handy cap that for us. You've seen a lot

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Speaker 2: of these things get this far and the season is

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01:03:05,840 --> 01:03:09,800
Speaker 2: on the horizon already as we know, what how could

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01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:13,600
Speaker 2: how would you handicap that one, specifically the playoff seating,

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Speaker 2: the chances of it meeting a resolution now or at

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Speaker 2: least somewhere in this offseason in time for the regular season.

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Speaker 8: I don't know. As I said, I was surprised that

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01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:32,920
Speaker 8: it had any legs in March. And certainly if the

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01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:36,400
Speaker 8: commissioner puts his weight behind it, that you know, that

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01:03:36,560 --> 01:03:40,160
Speaker 8: changes the course of things. If he wants it, and

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Speaker 8: if he says to them, like, look, our network partners,

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01:03:43,200 --> 01:03:45,080
Speaker 8: which of course is where so much of the revenue

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Speaker 8: comes from. Our network partners are concerned about this. This

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Speaker 8: is not good. We need to think about it. Like

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Speaker 8: you know, if he pushes it, well.

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Speaker 6: That changes things.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, So I think a lot depends on how much

1202
01:03:57,360 --> 01:04:01,040
Speaker 8: resistance there is to it, and how much weight Roger

1203
01:04:01,080 --> 01:04:04,240
Speaker 8: Goodell puts into this right now, and if he thinks

1204
01:04:04,280 --> 01:04:07,000
Speaker 8: it's a problem that needs to be solved immediately, or

1205
01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:10,840
Speaker 8: can they go another year and work on it and

1206
01:04:11,000 --> 01:04:14,640
Speaker 8: figure it out. We'll see again in March. When this

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01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:16,440
Speaker 8: first came up, I think most of us who have

1208
01:04:16,520 --> 01:04:18,480
Speaker 8: covered the league for a long time thought, this has

1209
01:04:18,760 --> 01:04:21,560
Speaker 8: no prayer because you know that there are owners who say,

1210
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:25,320
Speaker 8: no way, the divisions need to be rewarded. So the

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01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 8: fact that it had any life at the end of

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01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:29,720
Speaker 8: that meeting was a surprise. So we'll see.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, as we look at the schedule, I mean,

1214
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Speaker 4: Week seventeen, the Bills have a big game against the

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Speaker 4: Philadelphia Eagles.

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Speaker 3: December twenty eighth.

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Speaker 4: You've gotten to dissect all of these schedules. What were

1218
01:04:41,040 --> 01:04:43,840
Speaker 4: your biggest takeaways from Buffalo's as well as the AFC

1219
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:44,760
Speaker 4: East at large.

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Speaker 8: I actually think Buffalo's schedule is pretty pretty manageable given

1221
01:04:51,160 --> 01:04:53,040
Speaker 8: where they are right I believe six I'm looking at

1222
01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:54,480
Speaker 8: it right now, but I believe it's six of their

1223
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:56,920
Speaker 8: first seven games are against teams that did not make

1224
01:04:56,960 --> 01:04:59,360
Speaker 8: the playoffs last year, and then the back part of

1225
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:02,080
Speaker 8: the schedule too, the last month of the schedules against

1226
01:05:02,120 --> 01:05:04,880
Speaker 8: teams that did not make the playoffs, except for that

1227
01:05:04,920 --> 01:05:10,400
Speaker 8: game obviously against the Eagles. That's that's pretty sweet, you know,

1228
01:05:10,880 --> 01:05:12,600
Speaker 8: when you look at strength of schedule, And I know

1229
01:05:12,640 --> 01:05:14,320
Speaker 8: strength of schedule you have to take with a grain

1230
01:05:14,360 --> 01:05:18,000
Speaker 8: of salt because teams changed so much during the off season.

1231
01:05:18,280 --> 01:05:20,720
Speaker 8: But if you're looking at strength of schedule, of the

1232
01:05:20,800 --> 01:05:24,520
Speaker 8: teams that are the likely challengers to the Chiefs for

1233
01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:28,760
Speaker 8: the AFC crown, the Bills have by quite a bit

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01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:32,240
Speaker 8: the easiest strength of schedule, you know, Like I think

1235
01:05:32,280 --> 01:05:34,760
Speaker 8: the next closest team and strength of schedule the ease

1236
01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:37,920
Speaker 8: of strength of schedule is the Texans. But you know,

1237
01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:40,760
Speaker 8: the Ravens have a much more difficult strength of schedule

1238
01:05:40,800 --> 01:05:43,080
Speaker 8: the Bengals have. You know, all of those teams that

1239
01:05:43,200 --> 01:05:46,000
Speaker 8: you would think are the ones that might push the

1240
01:05:46,080 --> 01:05:51,280
Speaker 8: Chiefs have more difficult schedules than the Bills have, you know.

1241
01:05:51,320 --> 01:05:53,280
Speaker 8: And part of that is because, of course the AFC

1242
01:05:53,400 --> 01:05:56,600
Speaker 8: East was weak last year and so their opponents had

1243
01:05:56,640 --> 01:06:00,280
Speaker 8: were records, especially in New England and the Jets. So

1244
01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:04,560
Speaker 8: even if those two teams are improved, are they improved

1245
01:06:04,680 --> 01:06:07,520
Speaker 8: enough to make the schedule that much more difficult for

1246
01:06:07,560 --> 01:06:09,560
Speaker 8: the Bills? I kind of doubted. I think the Bills

1247
01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:10,480
Speaker 8: are in a pretty good spot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Meanwhile, the Giants are on the other end of

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01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:16,960
Speaker 2: the spectrum. My God, the NFC North and the AFC West. Like,

1250
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:21,880
Speaker 2: holy cow. I've dubbed that schedule the road to It's unbelievable.

1251
01:06:21,960 --> 01:06:24,160
Speaker 8: It's not only you know, you knew that they had

1252
01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:26,919
Speaker 8: the hardest strength of schedule even before the schedule was enounced,

1253
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:29,640
Speaker 8: but then the way the schedule was laid out even

1254
01:06:30,080 --> 01:06:33,760
Speaker 8: more brutal. Like they start out just it's just terrible.

1255
01:06:33,800 --> 01:06:36,480
Speaker 8: The way it starts, it's very very difficult. And then

1256
01:06:36,480 --> 01:06:39,200
Speaker 8: they have a very late by week fourteen, so there's

1257
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:43,080
Speaker 8: not even you know, like a natural opening there where

1258
01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:45,000
Speaker 8: if you want to make the quarterback switch where you

1259
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:47,040
Speaker 8: could say, okay, well it's a week gate bye, that

1260
01:06:47,080 --> 01:06:49,280
Speaker 8: would be when they would go to the quarterback. Well,

1261
01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:51,919
Speaker 8: I mean, you know, who knows. It's a very very

1262
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:54,320
Speaker 8: tough schedule for the Giants in a year that they've

1263
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:55,320
Speaker 8: got to show improvement.

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01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:58,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's holy cow. Like I think, not that the

1265
01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:00,240
Speaker 2: odds makers are the end all be all, but I

1266
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:02,800
Speaker 2: think they have them currently the Giants currently favorite in

1267
01:07:02,920 --> 01:07:07,480
Speaker 2: one of their seventeen games. That is crazy. Judy, thanks

1268
01:07:07,480 --> 01:07:11,000
Speaker 2: for the time, We appreciate it. We'll be surely watching

1269
01:07:11,240 --> 01:07:13,880
Speaker 2: your coverage on NFL Network. Of the Owners meetings next week.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for the time.

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Speaker 8: Great to see both of you.

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01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:21,520
Speaker 2: Thanks all right. That's Judy Batista, NFL senior, NFL Senior

1273
01:07:21,520 --> 01:07:25,720
Speaker 2: correspondent for the NFL Network, and she covers those owners

1274
01:07:25,760 --> 01:07:28,400
Speaker 2: meetings left, right and center. She's plugged in and has

1275
01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:32,240
Speaker 2: a lot of contacts within the league hierarchy, so we'll

1276
01:07:32,240 --> 01:07:35,800
Speaker 2: be looking for her coverage of all the goings on

1277
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:40,520
Speaker 2: in Minneapolis. I'm not convinced that playoff seating is going

1278
01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:41,720
Speaker 2: to get ironed out.

1279
01:07:42,160 --> 01:07:45,640
Speaker 4: It would be so wild if it did and things change,

1280
01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:48,840
Speaker 4: I can't well, that would be it would be crazy.

1281
01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:51,400
Speaker 2: Let me be the first to tell you the last

1282
01:07:51,480 --> 01:07:53,880
Speaker 2: time they changed playoff seating was when they added the

1283
01:07:53,920 --> 01:07:57,400
Speaker 2: seventeen right and had and that was the first year

1284
01:07:57,440 --> 01:07:59,200
Speaker 2: that the Bills were the second seed and it was

1285
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:01,240
Speaker 2: the first year that the second seed in the playoffs

1286
01:08:01,240 --> 01:08:04,880
Speaker 2: did not get a buye. Just saying, okay, all right,

1287
01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:09,960
Speaker 2: just saying so you know, I don't think the proposed

1288
01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:13,720
Speaker 2: changes are going to impact the Bills this year if

1289
01:08:13,760 --> 01:08:15,040
Speaker 2: it does come to pass.

1290
01:08:15,720 --> 01:08:19,120
Speaker 4: But one thing that in the light bulb moment went

1291
01:08:19,120 --> 01:08:21,960
Speaker 4: off in my head. I maybe late to the party here,

1292
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:25,719
Speaker 4: but the week seventeen slating of the Eagles game. It'll

1293
01:08:25,760 --> 01:08:28,519
Speaker 4: be so interesting to see where both teams are at

1294
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:28,960
Speaker 4: by that.

1295
01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:29,799
Speaker 3: Point in the season.

1296
01:08:29,840 --> 01:08:32,400
Speaker 4: What if the Eagles and the Bills just blow through

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Speaker 4: the season and have an incredible record at that point,

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Speaker 4: then that game becomes.

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Speaker 3: A dude, what's going a little look like relevant?

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Speaker 2: A little less relevant? Right? So, and here's the other

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Speaker 2: part of that. That's it's not even a conference opponent

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Speaker 2: for either team. You know that tiebreaker of conference records. Yes,

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Speaker 2: that's the second tiebreaker when you're competing with non division

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01:08:55,720 --> 01:09:01,040
Speaker 2: teams for playoff seating. It's not even a conference to

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01:09:01,080 --> 01:09:04,719
Speaker 2: be worried about. So, yeah, you could have a thirteen

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Speaker 2: win Eagles team and a thirteen win Bills team and

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Speaker 2: they could have seeds locked up, and it's like, well, okay,

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Speaker 2: you know.

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Speaker 3: Maybe this should have been a Week nine game.

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Speaker 2: Here's Mike White, you know again, I mean you could

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Speaker 2: have it.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I guess we would be you know, if

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Speaker 4: the Bills are at a point where they are not

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Speaker 4: seed locked up.

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Speaker 3: We're not complaining, not at all, but I'm excited in

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Speaker 3: that game.

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Speaker 2: We would not be happy. A fox would not be happy. Yeah,

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01:09:36,640 --> 01:09:39,599
Speaker 2: which is part of the reason why more often than

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01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:42,080
Speaker 2: not the league. And that was one of the first

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Speaker 2: things the league did to try to fix these throwaway

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01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:49,720
Speaker 2: end of season games is they started putting division games

1322
01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:52,000
Speaker 2: stacked at the end and stacked at the front of

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01:09:52,040 --> 01:09:56,040
Speaker 2: the schedule. And this year, for the Bills, that got

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01:09:56,080 --> 01:10:00,439
Speaker 2: interrupted a little bit because they put Philly in in there.

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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, the Bills only have one

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Speaker 2: Division game the last three weeks of the season. It's

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Speaker 2: the Jets in Week eighteen, where usually you see two

1328
01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:12,960
Speaker 2: in the last three weeks at the very least, sometimes

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01:10:13,000 --> 01:10:15,760
Speaker 2: three in a row. I mean, think about last year,

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Speaker 2: the Bills had the Patriots twice in the last three weeks,

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01:10:19,240 --> 01:10:21,920
Speaker 2: and I think the Jets were in between. So when

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Speaker 2: Patriots Jets Patriots at the end of the year last year,

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Speaker 2: Now it's Jets and nobody else.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 2: So it's in stark contrast to the way it laid

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Speaker 2: out last year. As we noted on the Instant Reaction

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Speaker 2: Show on Wednesday Night, last year, you had that ending

1338
01:10:40,680 --> 01:10:42,479
Speaker 2: to the season you did. You don't have that now.

1339
01:10:42,840 --> 01:10:45,840
Speaker 2: And then the other crazy thing is the Bills have

1340
01:10:46,280 --> 01:10:50,200
Speaker 2: all three division opponents within a month of each other.

1341
01:10:50,320 --> 01:10:53,200
Speaker 2: From Week two to Week five, and then in the

1342
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Speaker 2: back half of the schedule they're all separated by a month.

1343
01:10:56,840 --> 01:10:59,280
Speaker 2: There's a month between playing each of them in the

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01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:02,360
Speaker 2: second half of the schedule. It's an interesting quirk that

1345
01:11:02,520 --> 01:11:06,559
Speaker 2: surfaced there. But it's it's interesting too to see that

1346
01:11:06,680 --> 01:11:11,160
Speaker 2: even the national media people see how favorable this schedule

1347
01:11:11,200 --> 01:11:13,400
Speaker 2: has laid out for the Bills, And I think it

1348
01:11:13,479 --> 01:11:15,720
Speaker 2: was important to note the point that Judy brought up,

1349
01:11:15,760 --> 01:11:21,400
Speaker 2: which was some of the other quote unquote contenders their

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01:11:21,400 --> 01:11:25,080
Speaker 2: schedules do not lay out as favorably as that of

1351
01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:27,479
Speaker 2: the Bills. You can even say Kansas City schedule.

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01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:30,920
Speaker 4: That's what I was is looking at Kansas City schedule

1353
01:11:31,040 --> 01:11:33,760
Speaker 4: that because is better them.

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Speaker 2: Their division is better. I mean, Steve pointed it out

1355
01:11:35,760 --> 01:11:37,400
Speaker 2: the other day when we were talking about it, and

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01:11:37,439 --> 01:11:41,639
Speaker 2: he said, look, yes, the AFC West is improved. He goes,

1357
01:11:41,680 --> 01:11:44,000
Speaker 2: think about the coaches in the AFC West. They all

1358
01:11:44,080 --> 01:11:45,639
Speaker 2: might be in the Hall of Fame by the time

1359
01:11:45,640 --> 01:11:50,519
Speaker 2: they're done. Pete Carroll, Sean Payton, Jim Harbaugh, and Andy Reid,

1360
01:11:50,640 --> 01:11:53,599
Speaker 2: like those are the coaches in the AFC West. I mean,

1361
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:57,200
Speaker 2: that's I'm not necessarily terribly worried about the Raiders, but

1362
01:11:57,280 --> 01:11:59,680
Speaker 2: you know, Pete Carroll's gonna get Hall of Fame consideration

1363
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:03,519
Speaker 2: at So if you're in the AFC West, yeah, you

1364
01:12:03,560 --> 01:12:05,040
Speaker 2: got to play each of those teams twice.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, first six weeks for the Chiefs, Chargers, Eagles, Ravens, Lions,

1366
01:12:11,479 --> 01:12:14,400
Speaker 4: and then you see Commander's Week eight, Bills Week nine,

1367
01:12:14,800 --> 01:12:16,439
Speaker 4: and then you get your bye week week ten.

1368
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Speaker 3: That's not the easiest start to the season.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the best thing for the chief schedule is

1370
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Speaker 2: they play the AFC South this year. That's the best

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Speaker 2: part of their schedule. That's the only soft underbelly of

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01:12:28,560 --> 01:12:32,479
Speaker 2: what they have in front of them, you know, the Bills.

1373
01:12:32,840 --> 01:12:36,920
Speaker 2: They have the NFC South, which is an improving division,

1374
01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:40,920
Speaker 2: but still I think most people would agree substandard, Yeah,

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01:12:41,520 --> 01:12:43,439
Speaker 2: by comparison to some of the other divisions, like the

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01:12:43,520 --> 01:12:46,800
Speaker 2: NFC North, which is strong top to bottom, even with

1377
01:12:46,840 --> 01:12:49,599
Speaker 2: the Chicago team that everybody's expecting to be better this year.

1378
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:53,759
Speaker 2: So you know, make of it what you will. So yeah,

1379
01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:58,760
Speaker 2: it's it is something to say the least. And I

1380
01:12:58,800 --> 01:13:01,400
Speaker 2: don't know, maybe there's some to get the Bills to

1381
01:13:01,439 --> 01:13:05,599
Speaker 2: the Promise landing. Anyway you can help. We appreciate that's

1382
01:13:05,720 --> 01:13:09,240
Speaker 2: kind of what we're looking at here. Let's jump back

1383
01:13:09,320 --> 01:13:12,720
Speaker 2: into the mail bag to answer some other questions here

1384
01:13:13,400 --> 01:13:16,160
Speaker 2: where Greg asks if the Bills were fifteen to oh

1385
01:13:16,280 --> 01:13:19,320
Speaker 2: in week sixteen, would you pull starters knowing you locked

1386
01:13:19,400 --> 01:13:21,120
Speaker 2: up the number one seed or try and size up

1387
01:13:21,160 --> 01:13:24,640
Speaker 2: our team against Philadelphia and possibly going undefeated. Personally, I

1388
01:13:24,720 --> 01:13:28,360
Speaker 2: think we'll win fourteen games at the most, Mattie. First

1389
01:13:28,360 --> 01:13:31,600
Speaker 2: of all, before we answer this question, I have to say,

1390
01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:35,879
Speaker 2: we're only two days removed from the release of the schedule,

1391
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:43,280
Speaker 2: and we've got Bills fans that are supremely bullish, supremely

1392
01:13:43,400 --> 01:13:47,799
Speaker 2: bullish on the win total for this team. And while

1393
01:13:47,840 --> 01:13:51,599
Speaker 2: I'm as optimistic as the next person, some have gone

1394
01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:53,720
Speaker 2: cuckoo for cocoa puffs. We had a person call on

1395
01:13:53,760 --> 01:13:56,280
Speaker 2: the other day. We had a caller today that just said, Hey,

1396
01:13:56,320 --> 01:13:59,799
Speaker 2: can we get Miami to shut up about their perfect season?

1397
01:14:00,080 --> 01:14:03,000
Speaker 2: Run the table. I'm like, run the table, let's go

1398
01:14:03,320 --> 01:14:05,920
Speaker 2: and sixteen and oh, you know what are we doing

1399
01:14:05,960 --> 01:14:09,400
Speaker 2: with the Eagles game? Like okay, Like, let's just let's

1400
01:14:09,439 --> 01:14:12,000
Speaker 2: hold on a second here. That is not the way

1401
01:14:12,040 --> 01:14:15,479
Speaker 2: this league works typically, and it's why there hasn't been

1402
01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:21,880
Speaker 2: an undefeated team since nineteen seventy two. So what do

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01:14:21,920 --> 01:14:23,760
Speaker 2: you do if you get all right, let's let's play

1404
01:14:23,760 --> 01:14:24,040
Speaker 2: the game.

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01:14:24,040 --> 01:14:24,439
Speaker 3: Play the game.

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01:14:24,560 --> 01:14:27,160
Speaker 2: Let's play the game. Here we go. Bills are sixteen

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01:14:27,200 --> 01:14:30,040
Speaker 2: and oh and or fifteen, and I think they'd be

1408
01:14:30,040 --> 01:14:34,479
Speaker 2: fifteen and ohh and they got to play Philadelphia here

1409
01:14:35,280 --> 01:14:37,360
Speaker 2: if they have the number one seed locked up in

1410
01:14:37,400 --> 01:14:40,000
Speaker 2: the playoffs. I am not playing some of my best

1411
01:14:40,040 --> 01:14:44,320
Speaker 2: players against the biggest, arguably most physical football team in

1412
01:14:44,400 --> 01:14:49,160
Speaker 2: the NFL. I'm not doing it. Why expose yourself to injury?

1413
01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:50,799
Speaker 3: What is the game up and rest?

1414
01:14:52,280 --> 01:14:55,559
Speaker 2: I don't care about the perfect regular season. I really don't.

1415
01:14:56,200 --> 01:15:00,400
Speaker 2: I care about the Super Bowl because, yeah, you might

1416
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:03,479
Speaker 2: be remembered for the perfect season. But here's the perfect example.

1417
01:15:03,800 --> 01:15:06,960
Speaker 2: Think about the Patriots. Okay, they ran the table in

1418
01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:10,400
Speaker 2: the regular season in two thousand and seven, and they

1419
01:15:10,400 --> 01:15:12,280
Speaker 2: couldn't close the deal in the Super Bowl. They lose

1420
01:15:12,320 --> 01:15:18,160
Speaker 2: to the Giants, and the perfect, imperfect team is, you know,

1421
01:15:19,280 --> 01:15:21,640
Speaker 2: relegated to the other also rans. I don't know that

1422
01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:23,880
Speaker 2: that's necessarily fair because that's one of the most dominant

1423
01:15:23,920 --> 01:15:26,519
Speaker 2: teams I've ever seen in person in my life. But

1424
01:15:27,120 --> 01:15:29,800
Speaker 2: they didn't win the last game, and so they're not

1425
01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:33,000
Speaker 2: thought of in the same vein as other Super Bowl champions.

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Speaker 4: I go back to last year and listening to our

1427
01:15:36,439 --> 01:15:39,400
Speaker 4: starters talk about the way they were entering the playoffs

1428
01:15:39,920 --> 01:15:43,080
Speaker 4: having a week of rest. Yeah, you heard so many

1429
01:15:43,080 --> 01:15:45,600
Speaker 4: guys say, we feel ready to go. We feel like

1430
01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:49,000
Speaker 4: we have fresh legs, a fresh mindset. A week off

1431
01:15:49,040 --> 01:15:52,960
Speaker 4: really does something good for you. I would want that.

1432
01:15:53,040 --> 01:15:55,759
Speaker 4: I want my starters to be at their best heading

1433
01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:58,160
Speaker 4: into the games that matter most.

1434
01:15:58,439 --> 01:16:01,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean even back in the nineties, Marv

1435
01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:07,200
Speaker 2: Levy would sit starters pretty regularly. So there are different

1436
01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:09,559
Speaker 2: schools of thought on it, and there might be some.

1437
01:16:10,080 --> 01:16:12,400
Speaker 2: And the biggest problem that head coaches run into is

1438
01:16:12,400 --> 01:16:13,920
Speaker 2: there are players in the locker room saying, hey man,

1439
01:16:13,920 --> 01:16:15,439
Speaker 2: we got to go for the undefeated mark. We we

1440
01:16:15,479 --> 01:16:19,080
Speaker 2: gotta go for that, we got to make history. And

1441
01:16:19,120 --> 01:16:22,080
Speaker 2: there's a push and pull there that's very difficult to discern.

1442
01:16:22,960 --> 01:16:24,880
Speaker 2: But I think ultimately you have to do what's best

1443
01:16:24,920 --> 01:16:27,479
Speaker 2: for your football team and the ultimate goal, which is

1444
01:16:27,479 --> 01:16:29,880
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, and I would sit guys, got to

1445
01:16:29,920 --> 01:16:32,200
Speaker 2: take a break. Here more of your questions at eight

1446
01:16:32,200 --> 01:16:34,080
Speaker 2: oh three oh five point fifty one eight eight eight,

1447
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Speaker 2: five point fifty two five point fifty Here on a

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Speaker 2: Friday fan mail bag edition of One Bill's Live, presented

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Speaker 2: by Colid of Health, it's Buffalo Bills Radio. All right,

1450
01:16:55,680 --> 01:16:57,840
Speaker 2: welcome back to One Bill's Live. Chris Brown, Maddy Glad

1451
01:16:57,840 --> 01:17:00,360
Speaker 2: with you obl Friday fan mail bag edition. We're gonna

1452
01:17:00,360 --> 01:17:02,799
Speaker 2: get to some of your other questions here. Jack asks,

1453
01:17:02,920 --> 01:17:06,800
Speaker 2: what about the defensive back battles? The Bills have a

1454
01:17:06,800 --> 01:17:13,200
Speaker 2: good problem too many guys who sticks? Who's out? If healthy? Benford, Johnson,

1455
01:17:13,680 --> 01:17:18,280
Speaker 2: Harriston all safe. I'd assume Hancock makes it at safety,

1456
01:17:18,360 --> 01:17:24,840
Speaker 2: Bishop and Rappers safe, but others Dane, Trey, Damar, Forrest,

1457
01:17:24,880 --> 01:17:30,040
Speaker 2: strong Ingram Lewis all question marks. Yeah. I think that's

1458
01:17:30,080 --> 01:17:34,280
Speaker 2: a fair assessment for the most part there. Yeah, there

1459
01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:37,759
Speaker 2: aren't a lot of sure things on the back end there,

1460
01:17:38,439 --> 01:17:41,919
Speaker 2: and you wonder which way the coaching staff leans. Obviously

1461
01:17:41,960 --> 01:17:43,680
Speaker 2: performance is going to have a lot to do with it.

1462
01:17:44,760 --> 01:17:48,640
Speaker 2: But what about the mix between veteran and youth? What

1463
01:17:48,800 --> 01:17:53,120
Speaker 2: about how many at safety as opposed to how many

1464
01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:56,120
Speaker 2: at corner do you? How many hybrid players are you

1465
01:17:56,200 --> 01:17:59,280
Speaker 2: going to keep? So I think it's more than just

1466
01:17:59,360 --> 01:18:03,120
Speaker 2: the pure talent level and the consistency of play that

1467
01:18:03,160 --> 01:18:05,519
Speaker 2: the players demonstrate on the field. I think those other

1468
01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:07,280
Speaker 2: factors are going to come into play too.

1469
01:18:08,320 --> 01:18:12,080
Speaker 4: Speaking about hybrid players and how that comes into factor,

1470
01:18:12,160 --> 01:18:14,200
Speaker 4: I think about JaMarcus Ingram in the role that he

1471
01:18:14,240 --> 01:18:17,519
Speaker 4: played on defense last year, and how coaches spoke about

1472
01:18:17,560 --> 01:18:21,040
Speaker 4: how proud of him they were because he was able

1473
01:18:21,120 --> 01:18:23,800
Speaker 4: to switch in and out of different position groups and

1474
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:27,240
Speaker 4: practiced in multiple position groups leading up to a week

1475
01:18:27,280 --> 01:18:30,160
Speaker 4: and could be thrown in if needed if a player

1476
01:18:30,200 --> 01:18:32,439
Speaker 4: came off the field. I think about how valuable that

1477
01:18:32,640 --> 01:18:36,080
Speaker 4: is for Buffalo's defense, knowing that they do sometimes switch

1478
01:18:36,120 --> 01:18:38,679
Speaker 4: them things up on the back end. And then there's

1479
01:18:38,760 --> 01:18:42,000
Speaker 4: this special team's piece of it that is super important

1480
01:18:42,360 --> 01:18:45,200
Speaker 4: to this roster, to this coaching staff. You have a

1481
01:18:45,240 --> 01:18:48,639
Speaker 4: new special teams coordinator and Chris Taber. It'll be interesting

1482
01:18:48,680 --> 01:18:52,040
Speaker 4: to see what he prefers, what he wants on that.

1483
01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:52,879
Speaker 3: Side of the football.

1484
01:18:53,040 --> 01:18:55,519
Speaker 4: So all those guys who may be in the mix

1485
01:18:55,640 --> 01:18:58,200
Speaker 4: of are you going to be the last one in

1486
01:18:58,360 --> 01:19:00,600
Speaker 4: or the first one out? Well, what can you do

1487
01:19:00,640 --> 01:19:01,519
Speaker 4: on special teams?

1488
01:19:01,560 --> 01:19:02,439
Speaker 3: That's a big factor.

1489
01:19:02,560 --> 01:19:06,920
Speaker 2: Cuz aar Jack who questioned us didn't even mention Brandon Codrington,

1490
01:19:07,400 --> 01:19:09,800
Speaker 2: and that was the team's number one return man last year.

1491
01:19:09,840 --> 01:19:11,840
Speaker 2: Now that might shift and change to some degree with

1492
01:19:11,920 --> 01:19:15,519
Speaker 2: Leaviska Shechanalt here, but you know that's that's part of

1493
01:19:15,520 --> 01:19:18,400
Speaker 2: the Special Team's equation that you're talking about. And I'll

1494
01:19:18,400 --> 01:19:21,400
Speaker 2: throw even another name out there, last year's seventh round

1495
01:19:21,439 --> 01:19:23,639
Speaker 2: pick day Kwon Hardy, who did not make the active

1496
01:19:23,720 --> 01:19:27,679
Speaker 2: roster and was effectively replaced by Codrington as the Special

1497
01:19:27,760 --> 01:19:32,479
Speaker 2: team's corner. I saw him out on the field and

1498
01:19:32,520 --> 01:19:35,160
Speaker 2: that guy hit the weight room last year. Day Kwon

1499
01:19:35,240 --> 01:19:38,719
Speaker 2: Shoulder or Da Kwon Hardy has shoulders now and big ones,

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Speaker 2: and they.

1501
01:19:40,479 --> 01:19:41,639
Speaker 3: Weren't wearing pads.

1502
01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:44,240
Speaker 2: They had lean musky. He's added some lean muscle mass

1503
01:19:44,280 --> 01:19:46,240
Speaker 2: through his chest and his shoulders. So it's gonna be

1504
01:19:46,320 --> 01:19:48,400
Speaker 2: interesting to see if because I thought Dai Kwon Hardy

1505
01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:51,080
Speaker 2: was in a hair's breadth yes of making the fifty

1506
01:19:51,120 --> 01:19:55,479
Speaker 2: three man roster last year, and maybe that tips the

1507
01:19:55,520 --> 01:19:57,120
Speaker 2: scales in his favor. If he can play a little

1508
01:19:57,120 --> 01:20:02,040
Speaker 2: bit more physical demonstrate and ability to play outside, he

1509
01:20:02,160 --> 01:20:05,040
Speaker 2: might afford himself an even better opportunity than he had

1510
01:20:05,640 --> 01:20:08,439
Speaker 2: last season. Let's go back on the phone lines here

1511
01:20:08,439 --> 01:20:10,760
Speaker 2: because we've got Dennis in North Carolina waiting for us.

1512
01:20:10,800 --> 01:20:11,759
Speaker 2: What do you got first? Dennis?

1513
01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:13,599
Speaker 7: Hey?

1514
01:20:13,680 --> 01:20:17,920
Speaker 10: Hey, Chris, Hey, Maddie, how a y'all doing the hei.

1515
01:20:18,120 --> 01:20:23,800
Speaker 10: So a friend of mine from Tennessee sent me something

1516
01:20:23,920 --> 01:20:28,080
Speaker 10: like a post from Facebook and because of the stadium

1517
01:20:28,120 --> 01:20:31,280
Speaker 10: being closed out, let's be the last yer of the stadium.

1518
01:20:31,760 --> 01:20:35,439
Speaker 10: There was a conspiracy that Buffalo's going to win the

1519
01:20:35,479 --> 01:20:38,559
Speaker 10: Super Bowl this year, and I like what I thought

1520
01:20:38,600 --> 01:20:43,320
Speaker 10: that was pretty cool and act I want to ask out, like,

1521
01:20:43,760 --> 01:20:47,360
Speaker 10: is there a free agent that you think could come

1522
01:20:47,400 --> 01:20:52,000
Speaker 10: in and help Buffalo any position and while other player

1523
01:20:52,240 --> 01:20:55,559
Speaker 10: in the draft or was you hoping to get that

1524
01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:56,479
Speaker 10: we did not get?

1525
01:20:57,000 --> 01:21:03,200
Speaker 2: Okay, I would say the roster is it's pretty set

1526
01:21:03,360 --> 01:21:05,559
Speaker 2: right now. I kind of get that feeling now, that's

1527
01:21:06,280 --> 01:21:10,600
Speaker 2: believe me. Brandon Bean has signed players as late as June,

1528
01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:14,840
Speaker 2: even August at times June. Let's not forget two years ago.

1529
01:21:14,920 --> 01:21:18,000
Speaker 2: Leonard Floyd was a June signing and then went on

1530
01:21:18,080 --> 01:21:20,320
Speaker 2: to have ten and a half sacks for the team. Yeah,

1531
01:21:21,800 --> 01:21:24,400
Speaker 2: and you know was instrumental with Vaughan you know, not

1532
01:21:24,520 --> 01:21:28,920
Speaker 2: really ready in Floyd's only year here, so he kind

1533
01:21:28,920 --> 01:21:32,960
Speaker 2: of took up the mantle there and performed admirably, So

1534
01:21:33,200 --> 01:21:36,200
Speaker 2: I don't think you can rule anything like that out.

1535
01:21:36,240 --> 01:21:37,760
Speaker 2: But I don't know about you. I kind of get

1536
01:21:37,760 --> 01:21:40,719
Speaker 2: the sense that they kind of feel pretty good about

1537
01:21:40,720 --> 01:21:43,400
Speaker 2: this group. Maybe something changes, maybe they don't see some

1538
01:21:43,520 --> 01:21:46,479
Speaker 2: progress here in OTA's in mini camps, say ah, I

1539
01:21:46,479 --> 01:21:49,240
Speaker 2: think we're gonna need a little more there. So maybe

1540
01:21:49,240 --> 01:21:53,000
Speaker 2: after these assessments they add somebody. But I don't know.

1541
01:21:53,040 --> 01:21:55,800
Speaker 2: There are a lot of veteran dbs drifting around out

1542
01:21:55,800 --> 01:21:59,120
Speaker 2: there right now, but to our previous questioner, they got

1543
01:21:59,120 --> 01:22:01,840
Speaker 2: a ton of them also, so I don't know.

1544
01:22:01,960 --> 01:22:04,400
Speaker 4: A lot of youth at that position group. I like

1545
01:22:04,479 --> 01:22:06,360
Speaker 4: where the roster is at right now. And this is

1546
01:22:06,400 --> 01:22:10,080
Speaker 4: an interesting time for people covering the team because we

1547
01:22:10,120 --> 01:22:12,439
Speaker 4: make it through the draft. Do you see a little

1548
01:22:12,479 --> 01:22:14,639
Speaker 4: bit of rookie mini camp to just kind of see

1549
01:22:14,640 --> 01:22:16,920
Speaker 4: what these guys look like out on the field, not

1550
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:19,960
Speaker 4: even in a uniform. It's it's a T shirt and

1551
01:22:20,040 --> 01:22:25,120
Speaker 4: shorts and helmets and OTAs are quickly coming soon and

1552
01:22:25,160 --> 01:22:27,760
Speaker 4: we'll get another taste of what this team looks like.

1553
01:22:27,800 --> 01:22:31,200
Speaker 4: But the opinions really don't start to form for us

1554
01:22:31,240 --> 01:22:35,080
Speaker 4: in terms of what this team looks like together until

1555
01:22:35,120 --> 01:22:37,599
Speaker 4: we hit mandatory mini camp, and that's really just a

1556
01:22:37,720 --> 01:22:39,400
Speaker 4: day that we get to look at these guys, a

1557
01:22:39,439 --> 01:22:41,759
Speaker 4: couple of days that we get to look at at

1558
01:22:41,840 --> 01:22:44,320
Speaker 4: the team, and it's really in training camp where you

1559
01:22:44,360 --> 01:22:47,439
Speaker 4: can start to see it coming together and then you

1560
01:22:47,520 --> 01:22:50,640
Speaker 4: start to realize maybe they need a little bit of

1561
01:22:50,640 --> 01:22:52,160
Speaker 4: this here, or actually.

1562
01:22:51,880 --> 01:22:54,080
Speaker 2: They're a real football.

1563
01:22:54,280 --> 01:22:57,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't really see real football leading up to

1564
01:22:57,360 --> 01:23:00,840
Speaker 4: training camps. It's a lot of rules and we'restrictions about

1565
01:23:00,880 --> 01:23:03,439
Speaker 4: what you can do and what you can't do. I

1566
01:23:03,479 --> 01:23:06,000
Speaker 4: know you guys had that question weeks ago about where

1567
01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:08,160
Speaker 4: would you fill in the roster if you could, And

1568
01:23:08,200 --> 01:23:10,519
Speaker 4: I remember discussing it with you guys before the show,

1569
01:23:10,560 --> 01:23:12,479
Speaker 4: and one of the points that you had made was

1570
01:23:12,880 --> 01:23:17,479
Speaker 4: linebacker depth and that being a position of not need,

1571
01:23:17,520 --> 01:23:19,400
Speaker 4: but maybe you could fill in some depth there. I

1572
01:23:19,439 --> 01:23:23,160
Speaker 4: don't think they're lacking any starters if anything. Yeah, it's

1573
01:23:23,280 --> 01:23:24,360
Speaker 4: just death here and there.

1574
01:23:24,520 --> 01:23:27,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, experience, because they don't really have that right now

1575
01:23:27,640 --> 01:23:30,080
Speaker 2: at that position. So yeah, that could be a possibility.

1576
01:23:30,280 --> 01:23:34,759
Speaker 2: And as for a player in the draft, I really

1577
01:23:34,880 --> 01:23:39,240
Speaker 2: loved Jacob Parrish, the corner from Kansas State who I

1578
01:23:39,240 --> 01:23:41,960
Speaker 2: thought could play outside or inside in the slot. I

1579
01:23:41,960 --> 01:23:44,679
Speaker 2: thought he was a tough as nails player. I would

1580
01:23:44,720 --> 01:23:46,840
Speaker 2: have loved if the Bills got him. He went eighty

1581
01:23:46,880 --> 01:23:50,040
Speaker 2: fourth overall to the Bucks, so you know, about a

1582
01:23:50,120 --> 01:23:52,920
Speaker 2: dozen picks after Land and Jackson. I actually liked Land

1583
01:23:52,920 --> 01:23:56,559
Speaker 2: and Jackson as a prospect better than Parish overall, so

1584
01:23:56,840 --> 01:23:59,680
Speaker 2: I wasn't bothered by it. I guess secretly, I was

1585
01:23:59,760 --> 01:24:01,920
Speaker 2: kind of hoping he would slide to the fourth round

1586
01:24:01,960 --> 01:24:04,320
Speaker 2: and the Bills could scoop him up there. But he

1587
01:24:04,360 --> 01:24:07,320
Speaker 2: didn't last long enough. And the other kid I really

1588
01:24:07,360 --> 01:24:10,240
Speaker 2: liked was Jalen Reed, the safety from Penn State, who

1589
01:24:10,360 --> 01:24:11,720
Speaker 2: was going to be a Day three pick. I think

1590
01:24:11,720 --> 01:24:15,400
Speaker 2: he went in the sixth round somewhere, but they had

1591
01:24:15,439 --> 01:24:18,479
Speaker 2: already taken Hancock, who, as we know, is going to

1592
01:24:18,479 --> 01:24:21,559
Speaker 2: be a safety nickel hybrid, so I knew he would

1593
01:24:21,600 --> 01:24:23,800
Speaker 2: be off the table too. But I really liked his game,

1594
01:24:24,600 --> 01:24:28,720
Speaker 2: little inconsistent, sometimes throwing his body around and you know,

1595
01:24:28,760 --> 01:24:31,519
Speaker 2: whiffing on a tackle here or there. But once they

1596
01:24:31,520 --> 01:24:34,639
Speaker 2: took Hancock, I knew Reid wasn't gonna happen. So those

1597
01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:36,120
Speaker 2: were two guys I liked in the draft.

1598
01:24:36,360 --> 01:24:39,080
Speaker 4: That's they did speaking of safeties, do you have anybody, Yeah,

1599
01:24:39,120 --> 01:24:42,000
Speaker 4: some safeties. One of the safeties that I really liked

1600
01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:43,920
Speaker 4: that I thought they could have gotten in later rounds

1601
01:24:43,920 --> 01:24:46,840
Speaker 4: if they didn't address that position group early on, which

1602
01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:50,200
Speaker 4: they didn't, was Exavier Watts out of Notarame.

1603
01:24:50,280 --> 01:24:52,040
Speaker 3: I really liked the way that he played the game.

1604
01:24:52,439 --> 01:24:52,880
Speaker 2: Round pick.

1605
01:24:52,960 --> 01:24:56,559
Speaker 4: I think so third fourth round pick. It's escaping me

1606
01:24:56,720 --> 01:24:58,439
Speaker 4: right now. But I love the way that he played

1607
01:24:58,439 --> 01:25:01,679
Speaker 4: the game with a lot of confidence. That effort was there,

1608
01:25:02,200 --> 01:25:04,200
Speaker 4: but similar to what you said, you know, kind of

1609
01:25:04,200 --> 01:25:07,639
Speaker 4: throws his body at some things sometimes. But his film

1610
01:25:07,680 --> 01:25:10,000
Speaker 4: was a lot of fun to watch. Another player that

1611
01:25:10,040 --> 01:25:12,960
Speaker 4: I was interested in, but once he came off the board,

1612
01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:15,680
Speaker 4: I was like, Oh, this is obviously not going to

1613
01:25:15,760 --> 01:25:20,160
Speaker 4: happen was Tyleek Williams. I thought Tyleek Williams was somehow

1614
01:25:20,200 --> 01:25:22,840
Speaker 4: going to get into the second round. That's where he

1615
01:25:22,920 --> 01:25:26,160
Speaker 4: was being projected. But then he was drafted by the

1616
01:25:26,240 --> 01:25:28,880
Speaker 4: Lions in the first round. So after he went off

1617
01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:31,080
Speaker 4: the board, I was like, Ah, that dream is no

1618
01:25:31,160 --> 01:25:34,599
Speaker 4: longer going to happen. But I'm really excited about TJ. Sanders,

1619
01:25:34,680 --> 01:25:38,200
Speaker 4: and it seems like the scouting department really fell in

1620
01:25:38,240 --> 01:25:40,920
Speaker 4: love with his tape and the ceiling that he has

1621
01:25:41,640 --> 01:25:45,040
Speaker 4: just digging into his basketball background and how that really

1622
01:25:45,080 --> 01:25:47,560
Speaker 4: helps him on the field with his moves.

1623
01:25:47,240 --> 01:25:50,320
Speaker 3: With his footwork. So I can't wait to see what TJ.

1624
01:25:50,439 --> 01:25:53,640
Speaker 4: Sanders turns into a part when he's a part of

1625
01:25:53,720 --> 01:25:56,600
Speaker 4: this defensive line unit once they really get going in OTAs.

1626
01:25:56,800 --> 01:26:00,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, Watts was a third round pick at the end

1627
01:26:00,680 --> 01:26:02,960
Speaker 2: ninety sixth overall. Near the end of the third round,

1628
01:26:02,960 --> 01:26:06,960
Speaker 2: there Caposi asks, since other teams study the Bills on tape,

1629
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:09,599
Speaker 2: do the Bills change their offensive and defensive schemes every

1630
01:26:09,600 --> 01:26:14,320
Speaker 2: season to keep teams guessing. They don't change it wholesale.

1631
01:26:15,760 --> 01:26:21,880
Speaker 2: It's more of tweaking. They'll change formations, alignments, player assignments,

1632
01:26:21,920 --> 01:26:26,439
Speaker 2: things of that nature. But to throw everything out, No,

1633
01:26:26,600 --> 01:26:30,400
Speaker 2: they don't do that. They'll change the language because especially

1634
01:26:30,439 --> 01:26:33,719
Speaker 2: division teams get a handle on what you call plays,

1635
01:26:33,800 --> 01:26:37,680
Speaker 2: hearing players on the field like Josh and others communicating

1636
01:26:37,880 --> 01:26:41,600
Speaker 2: or on defense communicating. Offensive lineman will hear that and

1637
01:26:41,720 --> 01:26:45,040
Speaker 2: know what's coming. So they will change the language. But

1638
01:26:45,280 --> 01:26:47,479
Speaker 2: I think a lot of what they do best they

1639
01:26:47,600 --> 01:26:50,120
Speaker 2: keep in there. They just either call it something different

1640
01:26:50,240 --> 01:26:53,280
Speaker 2: or run a variation of it. And these days there

1641
01:26:53,320 --> 01:26:56,360
Speaker 2: seem to be so many variations of the same play

1642
01:26:56,960 --> 01:26:59,519
Speaker 2: that they can often pivot to those things and change

1643
01:26:59,520 --> 01:27:05,080
Speaker 2: in that without forcing their team, their own team to

1644
01:27:05,160 --> 01:27:07,800
Speaker 2: have a whole new study guide to learn from.

1645
01:27:07,800 --> 01:27:08,320
Speaker 3: Soy.

1646
01:27:08,560 --> 01:27:11,080
Speaker 4: And then the variations also come with what you add

1647
01:27:11,120 --> 01:27:14,639
Speaker 4: to your roster that's different from previous seasons you may have,

1648
01:27:15,439 --> 01:27:18,400
Speaker 4: you know, the addition of Dalton Concaid to this roster.

1649
01:27:18,520 --> 01:27:21,880
Speaker 4: That had to change things for this offense. And oh,

1650
01:27:22,080 --> 01:27:24,719
Speaker 4: now we have a true pass catching tight end. Let's

1651
01:27:24,720 --> 01:27:27,920
Speaker 4: see how we can work him into different things. The

1652
01:27:27,920 --> 01:27:31,519
Speaker 4: addition of Josh Palmer, how does he add to this offense?

1653
01:27:31,520 --> 01:27:33,800
Speaker 4: So different wrinkles here and there as you as you

1654
01:27:33,960 --> 01:27:34,880
Speaker 4: change year to year.

1655
01:27:35,520 --> 01:27:38,200
Speaker 2: Break time for us. We'll get some final questions from

1656
01:27:38,200 --> 01:27:40,320
Speaker 2: the mail bag when we return here on One Bill's Live.

1657
01:27:40,360 --> 01:27:59,280
Speaker 2: Stay with us all right back here on One Bill's Live.

1658
01:27:59,360 --> 01:28:02,240
Speaker 2: Chris Brown made glad with you final segment here and

1659
01:28:02,439 --> 01:28:07,440
Speaker 2: in the mailbag, Andrew asks, my question surrounds James Cook's contract.

1660
01:28:07,680 --> 01:28:10,560
Speaker 2: So say he does what Trey Hendrickson is doing in Cincinnati,

1661
01:28:10,640 --> 01:28:13,840
Speaker 2: how would that work with Cook's contract? Well, he would

1662
01:28:14,280 --> 01:28:17,439
Speaker 2: he would be getting fined for every day he would miss,

1663
01:28:17,720 --> 01:28:22,280
Speaker 2: much like I would anticipate Hendrickson will be. You have

1664
01:28:22,360 --> 01:28:26,920
Speaker 2: to basically play. Now, since they've gone to seventeen games,

1665
01:28:26,920 --> 01:28:29,120
Speaker 2: this may have changed, But back when it was a

1666
01:28:29,160 --> 01:28:32,679
Speaker 2: sixteen game schedule, if you were a holdout, a player

1667
01:28:32,720 --> 01:28:35,320
Speaker 2: would have to play at least six games or be

1668
01:28:35,400 --> 01:28:38,720
Speaker 2: dressed and active for six games to get credit for

1669
01:28:38,800 --> 01:28:43,160
Speaker 2: an accrude season. If they do not do that, that

1670
01:28:43,320 --> 01:28:46,599
Speaker 2: last season of their contract does not toll, meaning they

1671
01:28:46,640 --> 01:28:51,240
Speaker 2: would not become a free agent after this year. I

1672
01:28:51,280 --> 01:28:54,559
Speaker 2: think that's what the Bills have Overcook and probably what

1673
01:28:54,600 --> 01:28:57,599
Speaker 2: the Bengals have over Hendrickson. They know that those guys

1674
01:28:57,680 --> 01:29:01,200
Speaker 2: have to play to get an accrude season credited and

1675
01:29:01,280 --> 01:29:04,479
Speaker 2: more importantly, sustain their value for a new contract.

1676
01:29:04,520 --> 01:29:07,400
Speaker 4: And those fine start to ramp up once yeah starts, well,

1677
01:29:07,400 --> 01:29:08,840
Speaker 4: they get big numbers.

1678
01:29:09,320 --> 01:29:12,120
Speaker 2: I know in training camp it's like fifty thousand to

1679
01:29:12,240 --> 01:29:16,160
Speaker 2: go up to so uh, it's that's that's the rub,

1680
01:29:16,160 --> 01:29:19,240
Speaker 2: and that's the problem for players. Quickly, Jacob Ass, should

1681
01:29:19,280 --> 01:29:21,519
Speaker 2: the Bills hire a full time advanced scout to prepare

1682
01:29:21,560 --> 01:29:24,120
Speaker 2: the team for the playoffs that deep dive into plays

1683
01:29:24,160 --> 01:29:26,519
Speaker 2: that worked well against the Bills during the season. Fine

1684
01:29:26,520 --> 01:29:28,679
Speaker 2: plays that worked for worked well against the Ravens, Chiefs,

1685
01:29:28,720 --> 01:29:30,800
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. Worth the investment. They already do that.

1686
01:29:31,760 --> 01:29:34,000
Speaker 2: They have a whole advanced scouting team. They do it

1687
01:29:34,040 --> 01:29:36,639
Speaker 2: all year long in the regular season, and they're put

1688
01:29:36,640 --> 01:29:40,320
Speaker 2: on task in the postseason as well. So good idea,

1689
01:29:40,560 --> 01:29:41,680
Speaker 2: but they've already done it.

1690
01:29:41,880 --> 01:29:43,720
Speaker 3: Got a lot of smart guys in that department, that's

1691
01:29:43,720 --> 01:29:44,000
Speaker 3: for sure.

1692
01:29:44,120 --> 01:29:47,960
Speaker 2: Pready covered. That's it for us. Enjoy the weekend, everybody.

1693
01:29:48,000 --> 01:29:50,679
Speaker 2: We'll see you back here on Monday at one o'clock

1694
01:29:50,840 --> 01:29:53,479
Speaker 2: for more to discuss here in the Bills off season.

1695
01:29:53,520 --> 01:29:54,040
Speaker 2: We'll see you that